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Between That Rock and The Hard Place

:…the president has made American support for Ukraine the centerpiece of his argument for a revitalized alliance in Europe, and he had told advisers that he wanted to mark the first anniversary of the invasion as a way of reassuring allies that his administration remains committed….” — The New York Times, Feb 20, 2023

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     Secret Agent Man “Joe Biden” turned up in Kiev Monday morning after landing in Poland and riding an overnight choo-choo train across the Ukraine frontier to avoid the hazardous pomp of landing Air Force One in a war zone. One might try to guess the message Victoria Nuland sent her errand boy to deliver. My guess is that “JB” was there to tell Wolodymyr Zelensky the USA stands behind him one hundred percent — an obvious whopper — being exactly the opposite of the developing reality that, short of setting off nuclear Armageddon, there is really nothing the USA can do to prevent Russia from concluding our ill-conceived project on its own terms. Who better to deliver an arrant falsehood than the master, “Scranton Joe,” he who once battled and vanquished the tyrant Corn-Pop!

      Remember, last week Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, speaking out of the aperture between his butt cheeks, announced that Russia had lost “strategically, operationally and tactically” in Ukraine. This was after NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg announced rather clumsily that Ukraine’s army was out of ammo, especially artillery shells, and the only remedy for that was for Europe to rebuild an armaments industry — which was a sideways-and-backwards way of saying…  fuggeddabowdit.

      One might also suppose that, behind all this cognitive dissonance, the US would be engaged in secret talks with Russia to arrive at some face-saving device for getting out of this mess. But really, what is our leverage for that? Can we threaten to put US boots-on-the-Ground in Ukraine? That would be a little like channeling Gen. George Armstrong Custer, don’t you think? Apparently, all we’re left with is a game of pretend, using the Pretender-in-Chief as the front.

      I’d also venture to say that American voters are not so enthused about this Ukraine pageant as they seemed to be last summer when the yellow and blue flags popped up on front porches at every Woked-up clam-bake from Edgartown to Bar Harbor. Our Ukrainian proxies sure seemed to be giving those Ruskies what-for along the front lines in Donbas, payback, you understand, for helping Donald Trump steal the 2016 election from She Whose Turn It Was Supposed to Be… America’s Amazonian Caesar-in-a-pants-suit, HRC.

      The fall offensive by Ukraine was an illusion, alas, setting up its army for methodical decimation, now nearly complete. So, too, is all the talk of sending tanks in to save the day. And so, too, is the very existence of NATO as anything other than window-dressing on an empty storefront. If blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, as recently alleged by independent reporter Seymour Hersh, smells like an attack on our supposed ally, Germany, then how was it not an attack on NATO, in which Germany is the centerpiece? And, finally, why would Germany not be engaging in secret talks of its own with Russia, behind America’s back?

     Intrigue must be rife now throughout Europe, and Americans will not hear anything about it from its Deep State-owned news media. Is there any reason why Europe could not live with a neutralized Ukraine? Of course not. Ukraine is in uproar now simply because geniuses in the US State Department thought it would be a good way to annoy and antagonize Russia. The project was insane from inception. The main result is that Europe will no longer have the natural gas it needs at a rational price to continue being an industrial society.

      One must conclude that NATO is looking for a way out of this. But there is no way out except to declare by word or deed, directly or otherwise, that NATO has outlived the reason for its existence. Any sane analysis by Europeans would arrive at the unnerving realization that the USA has become the enemy of NATO, not Russia. If all that is so, then a seismic shift is underway that will leave America hung out to dry on the Ukraine project. Germany will have to make a deal with Russia to rebuild the Nord Streams. What could the US do about that? Impose sanctions on Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the rest of the bunch? Where does that leave Western Civ?

    I’ll tell you: it leaves Western Civ diminished. It leaves our country to stew in its own rancid economic and financial juices in abject isolation from, basically, the rest of the world. (Fare-thee-well hegemonic dream; hello multi-polarity!) It leaves Ukraine neutralized and no longer a problem… It leaves Russia able to feel secure in its borders and free to get on with being a normal nation… and it leaves Europe the hope that it can resume modern life a while longer with the familiar comforts and conveniences.

     The end of the Ukraine conflict also exposes the rotten web of Globalist schemers who planted their operators in every niche of American life and all around Western Civ — George Soros’s empire of meddling NGOs, Bill Gates’s World Health Org puppet show, the ridiculous World Economic Forum’s network of stooges in high places from Justin Trudeau to BlackRock’s Larry Fink.

      The end of the Ukraine conflict reveals the submission of the Democratic Party to nefarious interests intent on wrecking this country. Even the most benign end to the Ukraine conflict — such as, by default, Europe and Russia settling-up on their own to stop the fighting — will be another humiliation for “Joe Biden” and the crew behind him, as bad as the last days in Kabul. Their other crimes await full disclosure, everything from treasonous bribery to the fraud and genocide around Covid-19. There will have to be a severe political realignment in America. But before that can happen, expect many seasons of terrible disorder.


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1,016 Responses to “Between That Rock and The Hard Place”

  1. Penelope Dreadful February 20, 2023 at 9:48 am #

    So, I guess The Ukraine is in the “tank”, so to speak. That is what happens when 97% of the Russian military is there. The Elites like the number 97 – as in “97% of all scientists agree, blah blah blah.” And they like 51, and 17 too. All Prime Numbers!

    • chopper February 20, 2023 at 10:21 am #

      We need to continually ask the question who benefits? Diversions will increase as the noose becomes a more immediate threat to those profiting from the destruction of America. Investigating crimes against humanity start right here with political pawns and their puppet masters.

      • Bilejones February 20, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

        Since when is 51 a Prime?

        • Penelope Dreadful February 20, 2023 at 5:09 pm #

          When you can’t multiply 17 x 3 ???

          (PS: That was just a test to see who was paying attention!) 🙂

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          • SpeedyBB February 22, 2023 at 7:55 pm #

            Jessica darling, if you please… the topic of conversation, Jessica, is not what you might imagine it is. There, raise your earhorn. Stick it in – CAREFULLY – and listen up, J. You might learn something.

            What’s that, Jessica? Something about ten to twenty big ones a week? Jessica dear, the only way that can happen is through discreet trade in controlled substances, and such a rash adventure is well beyond thee and me. Or perhaps you are referring to getting a Pentagon contract to manufacture subsonic weapons to send to our brave boys fighting those Untermenschen in Ükraine?

            Or how about giving the enemy a dose of Gene Therapy, girl? That’ll show the Slavs.

            Slavs = Slaves. Get it? Jessica, you still there?

      • abbybwood February 20, 2023 at 2:06 pm #

        Now the memes are flying around Twitter regarding Biden doing his clandestine visit to Alensky (don’t say the Z!) with another $500 million as he ignores our own Chernobyl in East Palestine, Ohio.

        What happens when we figure out that “some” of those invaders on our southern border have been sent here just to terrorize our rail lines, electric substations, food processing plants etc.?

        There are thousands of “got aways” at our border from over 100 different countries.

        Let’s put a U.S. map on the wall and put red dots on all the “unusual incidents” that have happened on our infrastructure over the past two years. Starts to look like a war zone.

        Bringing the U.S. down without firing a shot.

        • sonnyL February 20, 2023 at 7:09 pm #

          The Obama, sorry, Biden-Soros administration has taken the first steps to global conflict to appease the Davos crowd. The 20% reduction in world population has begun. Biden actually is too stupid to understand it, but the world oligarchs (and the American media) have their plan fastidiously in place.. Brace yourselves folks, civilization will be part of the new world correction soon..

          • Mick February 20, 2023 at 7:45 pm #

            You are right, it is the Obama Administration. The Third Term.

    • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 10:34 am #

      Yes, surprise, surprise as Gomer Pyle would say. The lamestream media goes from declaring Russia as lost one day and then posts articles speculating on what nation Putin might invade next since Ukraine is beaten. What a bunch of pathetic lying scum! Sooner or later the entire rest of the world is going to man up, get their acts together, and tell US(A) to go pound sand, and we have certainly earned that.

      Laura Ingram did a nice piece the other day during which she asked if you had gone out for bids to a number of contractors to upgrade your kitchen, would you trust Fetterman or Biden to evaluate the bids, decide which was the best deal, and then supervise the work? Of course, you wouldn’t she declared, “Then why would you trust them with your government?” Good question Laura, but the sad answer is that Americans, at least far too many of the ones I know care more about who mows their lawns, or who cleans their houses than they do about nuclear annihilation. Good for them, maybe the latter will solve the former problem.

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 10:51 am #

        I’d love to see a panel discussion with Biden, Fetterman, and Diane Feinstein on the topic “Where did I leave my keys, and why can’t I find them?”

        • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 10:52 am #

          You owe me a new keyboard after I spewed my coffee on mine after reading your response!

        • sonnyL February 20, 2023 at 7:09 pm #

          Fetterman-Harris 2024

          • Mick February 20, 2023 at 7:46 pm #

            I think an Obama-Fetterman ticket is more likely. Big Mike Obama, that is.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 12:36 pm #

            Comic delight! At least it will get funnier as it gets darker….

      • Vegan Shark February 20, 2023 at 11:01 am #

        Good question Laura, but the sad answer is that Americans, at least far too many of the ones I know care more about who mows their lawns, or who cleans their houses than they do about nuclear annihilation.

        Americans can choose who mows the lawn and cleans the house. They have no control over the powers bumbling their way to nuclear annihilation.

        • rudyspeaks February 20, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

          “Americans can choose who mows the lawn and cleans the house”… yeah, but they’re so mentally lazy that, if their options for house-cleaning and yard work were 2 crappy, inept companies, they’d keep choosing one or the other, oblivious to the obvious truth that BOTH options are incompetent morons. Hey, we could try a DIFFERENT option!! [American response] “You’d be ‘throwing away your vote!'”…sigh

        • sonnyL February 20, 2023 at 7:13 pm #

          Well said, and yet the ‘powers’ aint that much smarter. They only THINK they are. Which is the really scary aspect of of the Soros-Gates-Davos plan. Almost as incredibly stupid as changing the world to reliance on solar energy. In life there are great ideas and eclectic goals, but in most cases they are fantasy driven bullshit.

        • SpeedyBB February 22, 2023 at 7:57 pm #

          Jesus mows my lawn.

          Unless his wife is having one of those days again, and then it will probably be Miguel.

      • Q. Shtik February 20, 2023 at 12:03 pm #

        Laura Ingraham.

        • WadeWaters February 20, 2023 at 7:42 pm #

          …is a Deep State hack.

          • Mick February 20, 2023 at 7:46 pm #

            Lol….

            Probably correct.

      • wokethis February 20, 2023 at 2:12 pm #

        I miss Gomer Pyle…he was military…he’d be a shoe-in for jcs or secdef…maybe nato…

        • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 6:10 pm #

          Gomer could have organized the Afghan withdrawal better, without a doubt.

      • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 9:02 am #

        Laura Ingraham is my 2nd favorite cable TV “infotainment” personality.

        That’s not high bar–it’s the polite way of saying “least execrable.”

        I’m an occasional viewer, but I will watch her.

        She points out the obvious to the “conservative” obvious, which is commendable.

        However, I can’t recall her discussing why the war started in Ukraine, or WHEN it really started, which was in 2014, during the US-engineered Maidan coup.

        Maybe I missed. Maybe I’m being too hard on the blonde millionaire who’s got hers, and makes more by reminding the rest of us the US government is wrecking America, while avoiding the deeper, root causes for the rot–which is the Fox News philosophy, since they are in on it too.

      • Gman February 25, 2023 at 9:21 pm #

        The answer to FauxNews election-fraud denier, phony Laura Ingraham is that we didn’t trust Brandon or Festerman to run the government. The elections were rigged.

    • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

      Not to derail you, but 51 isn’t a prime number. 3×17=51.

      • abbybwood February 20, 2023 at 2:13 pm #

        Reminds me of the EU Foreign Minister Von der Leyon saying at the Munich Conference that the only way for negotiations with Russia is if they do a “360 degree turn around.”

        Of course Medvedev had a field day with that when he said she obviously didn’t have an engineering degree and, oh, Russia is staying our position.”

        Ha!

        • Paddys Lament February 20, 2023 at 2:59 pm #

          Abby. It was the German Foreign Minister Baerbock who delivered that blunder. And that was less than one month after declaring “Germany is at war with Russia.” Of course, she was 180 degrees off course that time, too!

        • mrs_saj February 20, 2023 at 5:11 pm #

          A 360 degree turnaround is no change at all. And let me assure you, I have an engineering degree.

          Unfortunately, an 8th grader could also tell you the same thing.

          • oswegatchie February 21, 2023 at 10:33 am #

            We have a 360 degree turnaround every time we have an election!

          • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 10:54 am #

            Oswegatchie – more like a 1080 – like a dog chasing his tail, spinning around three times. Your point is well-taken though, always continuing in the same direction.

          • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 12:02 pm #

            Here, add this to your collection:

            Physicists use to say, “A Hungarian is a man who enters a revolving door behind you, and comes out in front of you”

          • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 4:00 pm #

            mrs_saj

            I’m not so sure about that. It has been found that in the Baltimore City School Distric and probably in a lot of other cities too that Middle School and High School students lack the skills to do basic math.

          • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 4:24 pm #

            Bill – she probably meant home-schooled 8th graders. You are right though, the Public Fool System is struggling with maff.

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:28 pm #

      And it’s not just ancient Megaliths that are aligned with key star systems, so is every structure – your house included.

      The Aliens are coming. Nay, they are already everywhere.

      • Mick February 20, 2023 at 6:09 pm #

        Yep. Someone I know last week was saying, “I don’t believe the aliens will ever come”.

        I said that well…..they’re already here and have been here for so long that it probably isn’t accurate to call them ‘Alien’. (People don’t understand the multidimensional reality, even though people love to spout Quantum this and Quantum that. There are beings within several feet of all of us right now. Just because we can’t see them, most of the time, doesn’t mean they’re not there).

        I could elaborate, but there’s no gain in doing that. Not for me anyway.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 6:54 pm #

          As Don Juan said to Carlos, You think that just because someone looks human, they are human. Nothing could be further from the Truth.

          You have to learn to SEE.

          • Mick February 20, 2023 at 7:47 pm #

            Yes, there is that factor/reality too.

      • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 4:11 pm #

        Jarek, have you ever wondered why the aliens have made no physical contact with us? We are a race of people who kill our unborn. We have been killing and torturing each other for thousands of years over trivial things such as religious and political ideologies. Now we have hundreds of devices that can destroy all life on Earth within an hour and we play around with them like they are toys. What adavanced civilization would want to associate with perverted and deranged life forms like us.

    • ThorsHammer February 20, 2023 at 2:29 pm #

      Joe will Go– probably by the end of the month.

      Will it be while sniffing the blonde hair of a 12 year old provided by his host in “Free Ukraine”? Perhaps by a “Russian” missile fired from the window across the street? I don’t think so. The Biden Hologram has outlived its usefulness to the State, but their current pressing need is to devise a scenario that allows them to pivot to China China China and leave the Ukrainian Black Hole to Russia while proclaiming another glorious American victory.

      Half the American people have been overwhelmed by the Mind Parasites cultivated in them by the COVID Pandemic of Fear. They are incapable of rational thought, and would love nothing better than to stuff all knowledge of the Ukrainian experiment down their memory holes and pound sand on top of it. It worked for the First Endless War in Afghanistan, so why wouldn’t it work again?

      The best scrip would be for Diaper Joe to gracefully step down while receiving a hero’s reward for his valiant struggle to serve his Nation while fighting off the Devil of old age. If he lacks the mental capacity to understand what a great deal that is, there are any number of medical solutions to achieve the same end.

      As newly anointed Queen of the Coven, Cackles could then be perfectly placed to “mastermind” the pivot to the new World Order where the USA is still the Dominatrix, but only of the remaining Free World consisting of Wall Street, the City of London, Germany, Poland, and Norway.

      • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 8:46 pm #

        LOL, the “Free World”. It’s a lot like the “international community”.

        Clown World.

        • Ron Anselmo February 20, 2023 at 10:46 pm #

          Yes Paula – and the “rules-based-order”. It’s lost on Blinkin’ Blinken and lots of others – that they don’t make the rules anymore.

      • dilbert113 February 21, 2023 at 10:56 am #

        Respectfully, people have been saying that Biden is about to resign/retire/get pushed out since the day he was sworn in. You now, on February 20, 2023, predict that he will be gone soon, probably in the next week or so. Again, respectfully, will you say the same thing on March 20th, when he is still in office? Or April? Or May? Nothing ever happens to the Democrats, and that is what is wrong with this country. We have devolved into one-party rule, and Biden is out to lunch, just like Chernenko and other tired old men who “ruled” the Soviet Union before Gorbachev and the USSR’s eventual collapse. The USSR did the exact same thing in its final years as the US is doing right now, install a tired old fool as leader and give the one party ruling the nation Carte Blanche to do whatever the wished, usually against the will of the people. We all know how that played out.

        • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 11:49 am #

          I am one of those who has predicted that Biden will be axed “any day now”, since before the election even.

          The USSR was destroyed by 3 men, who were bribed by the US, however. The majority of citizens of the USSR voted to keep the union, in early 1991.
          But the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus went on a secret retreat and signed the dissolution document which destroyed the union. The US moved in and has looted them since. Except for Russia, which got most of its wealth back under control earlier this century.

          Hence, the US using its proxy country Ukraine to attack Russia. The neocons, led by Victoria Nuland, are convinced that they can get back into Russia and loot it again. They just need to get rid of the Russian people.

          That is what they are trying to do.

        • Cankerpuss February 21, 2023 at 11:58 am #

          Holy Wedgie Batman, my Jockey Shorts are Riding Up! I found someone who gets it. Finally someone who gets it. We got us a big, bad, filthy uniparty that is controlling everything. Yet there are still millions of Americans who buy into the fraud that we are governed by a two party system. How many years have we seen Republicans take control and fail to deliver on their promises. Obamacare still exists. The Border is still open. Taxes are still high. The Government is still spending too much money. The Constitution is still hanging by a nose hair. We are still waging illegal wars and spending all of our strength and means warmongering everywhere but at home where it needs it (southern border for starts). The Republicans, the Democrats, they are all one in the same. Sure, the Rs pay lip service to the Conservatives out there but behind the closed doors they do exactly the same thing the Democrats do. Spend and grow the Government and play God. Joe Biden being removed from office? PFFFTTT! Not going to happen and if it did, they’d replace him with another malleable puppet so why does it matter anyway?

          • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 4:36 pm #

            Well, I’m thankfull that someone out there really knows what’s going on behind the curtain. Alot of us have no clue. We spend our days with our faces glued to the cell phone and our Social Media accounts satisfying the need for constant 7/24/365 contact with our friends and family. Many of us don’t care what’s going on in the world unless it’s happening in our own backyards and effects our comfort zone.

    • Mick February 20, 2023 at 6:40 pm #

      No, 97% of Russian forces aren’t in the Ukraine right now. That would be pretty dumb on their part, and they ain’t dumb.

      They won’t need 97% to finish the job. More like 50%. They need the other half to defend Russia itself, for good reason.

      • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 8:47 pm #

        Yes, the circling jackals are becoming more bold. They openly state their intentions of dividing and destroying Russia and stripping her resources.

    • Gail February 21, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

      I think I’m glad to welcome Ash Wednesday and Lent tomorrow, whereupon I shall give up the Internet. Prayers, repentance, almsgiving and mortification will be a welcome respite from Social Media and all the bad news.

  2. MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 9:54 am #

    How inappropriate but yet apt it is to read that Hologram Joe saw fit to visit Ukraine, but not the scene of the massive chemical leak disaster in East Palestine.

    Another great essay today, Jim! Thank you.

    Lots of chuckles from the first paragraph especially.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 10:04 am #

      Ahead of the curve too. Like newspapers used to be at times.

      I hadn’t known about that trip.

      They, whoever “they” are, have to be really really concerned about secrecy, to do all their communicating face to face.

      Remember that Zelensky was just doing a whirlwind tour himself.

      Does this mean they fear retribution?

      BTW Kamala already announced they were going to distribute disaster aid based on race. Nobody said anything.

      • thirdcoastlegend February 20, 2023 at 10:09 am #

        Lefty UK rag The Grauniad posted news of Smokin’ Joe’s surprise visit around 4 AM Eastern time.

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

        She was very excited about BLM rioting too, saying that it wasn’t going to stop and shouldn’t stop.

        Of course it stopped with the election of Biden – like clockwork. Just because they choose idiots are their front holes doesn’t mean they are. Of course they are utter fools on a deeper level. Tactics, yes! Strategy, no…..

    • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 10:51 am #

      I wonder if Dopey Joe has been placed in harm’s way so that he can be “accidently” taken out (by Russians of course) in a limp attempt to gin up public support for a boots on the ground offense by US troops? Stranger things have happened. While I would certainly prefer that Dopey Joe lives to be 150 years old with his last 70 years with a totally functionless brain along with complete incontinence, losing him on the trip would be a no big deal. It might even be fun to see Kackles step up to the plate for a bit before a replacement is put in place. The possibilities are delicious and endless!

      • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:02 am #

        There’s video of Joe and Z bravely taking a stroll in the sunshine while all around air raid sirens are going off.

        Reminds me of Hillary’s whopper about being told to keep her head down because of snipers.

        • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:05 pm #

          LOL, I also noticed that lil’ Z has a lot of green screen “appearances”.

        • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 8:49 pm #

          The US cordons off entire miles around the appearances of presidents in the USA or other countries.
          They know that we hate them.

          But we’re supposed to believe that Joe and Z wandered through the streets of Kiev while sirens blared?

          Jesus, they think we are dumb.

      • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 11:46 am #

        Newsweek must be reading this blog, they just posted on MSN homepage that Dopey Joe might be assassinated in Ukraine. Oh buy.

        • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 11:49 am #

          Oh boy that is.

          • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

            “Buy” naturally comes to mind when speaking of Buyden.

    • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 11:22 am #

      MQ. . .

      Per your comment, “Joe saw fit to visit Ukraine, but not the scene of the massive chemical leak disaster in East Palestine.” . . .

      Methinks the last place in the world, that ‘Joe’ would want to be right now, or even be thinking about — would be East Palestine, Ohio.

      I believe this to be the case for the following reasons:

      1.) Ohio Governor DeWine admitted that he and PA Governor Josh Shapiro signed off on the controlled burn in East Palestine.

      See:

      thepostmillennial.com/we-made-the-decision-gov-dewine-admits-he-and-gov-josh-shapiro-signed-off-on-controlled-burn-in-east-palestine

      2.). The burning of the contents of of five rail cars (sealed tanks) containing Vinyl Chloride — among other chemicals — which also continue to be the *only* ones actually being tested for — produces Phosgene gas and Dioxin.

      3.) The CDC changed toxicity info on Vinyl Chloride days before the derailment.

      See:

      newspunch.com/inside-job-cdc-changed-toxicity-info-on-vinyl-chloride-days-before-derailment/

      4.) The East Palestine train wreck may have created largest Dioxin plume in world history.

      See:

      naturalnews.com/2023-02-17-east-palestine-train-wreck-largest-dioxin-plume.html#

      5.) NOAA’s Air Resources Lab modeled the distribution of particles from the East Palestine train derailment. But now the images have suddenly disappeared from the original article.

      “They have been deleted… And everybody knows why… This is one of the worst HazMat disaster in the entire history of the US”

      See:

      strangesounds.org/2023/02/ohio-disaster-cover-up-noaa-removes-two-images-of-hysplit-models-from-their-article-here-they-are.html

      6.). It might also be added, that the chemical plume has now extended well into Canada, now making this an international envirinmental disaster.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:49 am #

        Rochelle just claimed tthat CDC guidance doesn’t change over time, with regard to smothering innocent young children in dirty face rags at the behest of the teacher’s union president.

        Yet another yuge lie by a woman who deserves to hang.

        • Ron Anselmo February 20, 2023 at 10:53 pm #

          Beryl – hanging is not expedient enough.

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:04 pm #

        Yep, you bet Jo Jo Magoo doesn’t want to be anywhere near that mess.

      • Q. Shtik February 20, 2023 at 12:14 pm #

        envirinmental

        • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 1:25 pm #

          Nuch obliged fory your input Q. Shtik !

          Format vs. Substance.

          Format foremost. . .

          apparently.

      • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 12:20 pm #

        Let’s not forget that Ohio went for Trump, and voters in the county where the wreck occurred voted 70% for GGG. Why would anyone expect the Delaware Dolt to do a damn thing to help them?

        • abbybwood February 20, 2023 at 2:20 pm #

          I also read that the surrounding farms are Amish.

          The Amish are fighting fed laws saying they have to inject their cows with various chemicals in order to sell their milk to the locals.

          The Amish are fighting back.

          They are getting theirs now!

          • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 6:28 pm #

            abbybwood …

            Pursuant to your comment:

            “The Amish are fighting fed laws saying they have to inject their cows with various chemicals in order to sell their milk to the locals.”

            I was not aware of this, or the timing of the Fed action as related to your comment.

            However, if it is in *any* way related to this incident, I can assure you that this action on the part of the Fed is for optics only.

            Why do I say this?

            In addition to being chemically related to ‘Agent Orange’, the long-term exposure to Dioxin is linked to cancer, impairment of the immune system, the developing nervous system, the endocrine system and reproductive functions.

            Once the Dioxin plume — now over Canada falls back to the ground via gravity or rainfall, it is propagated via groundwater to the aquifer.

            Any plant-eating organisms (including cows eating the now- contaminated grass) will become poisoned and expire.

            Any milk physiologically created by poisoned cows prior to their death will be contaminated with Dioxin.

            Any organisms drinking said milk will will be contaminated with Dioxin.

            Dioxin-contaminated organisms return the Dioxin to the groundwater/aquifer upon their death.

            Dioxins are called persistent organic pollutants, meaning they take a long time to break down once they are in the environment.

            .. . Just for the optics.

            See:

            Times Beach, MO

            Love Canal, Niagara Falls, NY

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 11:52 am #

            Or Vietnam.

          • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 2:56 pm #

            Speaking of the locals. . .

            “Local Farmer Sounds the Alarm: Why Did East Palestine Launch ‘MyID’ Emergency Service to Surveil Biometrics 1 Week Before Ohio Train Derailment?”

            Link:

            thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/local-farmer-sounds-the-alarm-why-did-east-palestine-launch-myid-emergency-service-to-surveil-biometrics-1-week-before-ohio-train-derailment/

      • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 9:08 am #

        Just like Winston in the Ministry of Truth in 1984.

        What you see on the web today could be gone tomorrow. THAT never existed; THAT never was.

        THIS is what it is. It has always been THIS. Never THAT.

        Next month, THAT will be, and THIS will never have been.

        Technology is great, yeah. How else would we have JHK’s blog? And, just as important, the commentary?

        But there is something to having a BOOK or newsprint: it’s simple, contains information, and does not require a device (computer, DVD player, tape player) to access.

      • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 4:47 pm #

        By Jove! I was on YouTube last evening and saw pic a railroad passing around a mountainside somewhere out West. First one I’ve seen in weeks without a train wreck on it.

      • ViceGrip February 22, 2023 at 8:40 am #

        Now. . .

        over the target. . .

        “Chemical Weaponry Destined For Ukraine
        Ignited In East Palestine Train Wreck”

        Link:

        rense.com/general97/chemical-weaponry-destined-for-ukraine-ignited-in-east-palestine.php

        • ViceGrip February 22, 2023 at 9:05 am #

          per the above…

          “There is sufficient evidence even at this early stage for those gas-targeted nations (in a false flag operation), including Poland, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, to initiate a case at The Hague War Crimes Tribunal against the Biden administration for planned crimes against humanity with scheduled deployment of a banned chemical weapon in a false-flag operation.”

    • Rowdypiglet February 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

      Indeed, I know of no one else who could make me laugh at the ruination of our world and looming Armageddon.

  3. kidseyedoc February 20, 2023 at 9:59 am #

    Another Great Post, Jim!

  4. DrTomSchmidt February 20, 2023 at 10:01 am #

    They needed nordstream because the Ukraine was siphoning off gas to turn profits for Burisma to pay Hunter with 10% for the big guy. The last pipeline sending cheap gas from Russia to Europe ironically runs through Ukraine, the Poles having shut down the one through Belarus. blowing Nordstream was just protecting the family business for Biden.

    This will end NATO if there’s a shrewd of testosterone left in Germany.

    • DrTomSchmidt February 20, 2023 at 10:02 am #

      Shred. Stupid autocorrect.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 10:07 am #

        Testosterone and shrewd behavior are frequently mutually exclusive.

        I think that’s why Americans love their sports so much. Men who have learned to channel and control their masculinity.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

          Yes, you could say so. Modern women wouldn’t like normal men, men not controlled by shrews.

      • zenfugue February 20, 2023 at 5:20 pm #

        Proofread. Stupid editor.

    • Islander February 20, 2023 at 11:40 am #

      Dr. Tom,

      Thanks.

      Too many smart people do NOT grasp the relationship between the corruption of Ukraine and the impetus to build Nord Stream 2 in the first place: Namely, to provide a reliable supply line of gas to Europe by bypassing the Ukie grifters.

      The Ukes were causing deliveray and payment problems for decades with their little gas games—problems that plunged Europe into the cold already in I think it was 2006.

      • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 1:38 pm #

        Islander. . .

        Most certainly as far back as 2006, but perhaps even a tad earlier, during the reign of Yulia Tymoshenko, who served as the prime minister of Ukraine twice: January to September 2005 and again from December 2007 until March 2010.

        “Game on !”

      • DrTomSchmidt February 20, 2023 at 4:23 pm #

        One of the things I just don’t get. Russia invaded Ukraine, for whatever reason. Russia sends gas to Europe THROUGH Ukraine, using payments for that gas to pay for the war against Ukraine. Russia is presumably paying Ukraine the transit fees that are due for the pipeline. Why is that pipeline still in place?

        I can only conclude because the rulers of Ukraine want it to be. The poles shut down the pipeline across their territory and the Americans blew up the ones direct from Russia to Germany.

        • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 6:38 pm #

          Dr. Tom,

          Quite the Mobius Strip of insanity, ain’t it?

        • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 4:53 pm #

          Dr. Tom …..Would you think that big money and some kind of payoffs behind the curtain is involed in that fiasco?

  5. lizharmon February 20, 2023 at 10:01 am #

    Imagine being so woke as to stand with real life Nazis. These people are idiots by any reasonable definition.

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    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:39 pm #

      Yes, Ukraine produces some large and impressive White thugs. But the real Nazis were also smart. These guys, play acting in uniforms, are idiots. They were never going to be allowed to have their own nation. Z and Co were going to fill the place up with 3rd worlders and trannies.

      • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 5:59 am #

        Your “real” Nazis were backed by the same set of globocapitalist investors then, just as they are now.

        Perhaps they see what you do not.

        Fancy that.

        • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 12:41 pm #

          So if the globocaps (whom you work for, right?) were already in complete control, why WW2 at all? Why waste the resources?

          Hitler had to deal with the world as he found it. He had to deal with selfish people in Germany and by extension, the greater world. Similarly, Putin pretended to be on board with the Oligarchs until he was in a place where he could betray them for the sake of Russia.

          Churchill admitted in his memoirs that Germany had refused to give up real sovereignty for the nascent New World Order that was being created.

          • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 3:39 pm #

            Classic Jarek: Introduce an idea beneficial to whatever his argument is based on as though his interlocutor introduced it, and run from there. A straw man of sorts.

            No one said they were in complete control of anything. It was pointed out that wealthy US and international banksters and tycoons backed Hitler, just as they now back Zelensky’s Azov Fourth Reichsters.

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 12:38 pm #

            But they didn’t back the United States and the Allies?

            Oh, you little fool. You very little fool.

            They backed both sides, as in the Civil War. But they backed one side more – the one they wanted to win. Because obviously Yankee Capitalism was far more in accord with their world view than Aristocratic Southern Agrarianism.

            Just so in WW2. But they treated Britain as a loser after the War. Why? Because they weren’t really on the Allied side – they were on their own side. Britain lost as much as Germany did. That’s why Americans were treated with contempt after the War as well.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 2:47 pm #

            Hitlervision™

            Oh, you little fool. You very little fool.” ~ Jarek

            ——

            “Ad hominem (Latin for ‘to the person’), short for argumentum ad hominem… refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious.

            Typically, this term refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself.” ~ Wikipedia

            ====

            Just to add/qualify; if one is not engaging in an argument but, rather, say, more of a flame war, then it’s not an argument as such and so what would otherwise be considered a logical fallacy would seem not to apply in that kind of context.

            But don’t mind me. Carry on…

            ====

            Nothing really matters,
            Anyone can see,
            Nothing really matters,
            Nothing really matters, to me…

            Any way the wind blows.” ~ Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen

          • Night Owl February 23, 2023 at 4:29 am #

            Once again, Jarek introduces a point of no relevance whatsoever in order to be able to uphold the appearance of being able to keep the discussion going.

            This goes back to what I told you months ago, Jarek: they are a means to an end.

          • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 12:41 pm #

            A point of no relevance? That the Bankers finance both sides but choose which one will win? Do you think they wanted the Nazis to win?

            You’re a retard.

          • Night Owl February 23, 2023 at 4:20 pm #

            Your word salads have no power here, Stormfront Bro.

  6. hmuller February 20, 2023 at 10:04 am #

    Jim, you are correct as to which orifice General Milley Vanilla uses to speak. And if you think that’s a cigar between his big lips……think again.

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:41 pm #

      He’s doing the Trump thing: Talking sense off camera and being a good subordinate officially.

      • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 5:00 pm #

        Good subordinate? Oh yes, hey China I’ll let ya know in advance if Trump is gonna nuke ya.

  7. messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 10:07 am #

    Remember this:

    “Freedom is priceless, its worth fighting for, as long as it takes…” Biden in Ukraine

    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 10:39 am #

      What a whopper. Forty years in the Senate learning to lie with a straight face.

      Ukraine will never have freedom until it makes peace with Russia. Obama/Biden’s mob will put Ukraine into total corruption if they were to win.

      Not going to happen.

      • messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 6:02 pm #

        Instead of “Remember” I should have said, Never Forget.

        httpX://michaelyon.com/dispatches/this-is-an-obvious-invasion-force/

      • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 9:17 am #

        The Ukraine is already in total corruption. Before the Russians formally moved in, if you talked to a Ukrainian-American, THEY would tell you about having to bribe customs inspectors when flying home to visit family a $20, OR take forever to clear customs and have them put all kinds of tariff/duty.

        It’s in the culture. The “Ukrainians” (who are really Russian offshoots; no vice versa may be more precise–the Russians evolved from Kievan Rus, became the more populous and advance group) have been overrun by many different groups.

        The flat terrain is conducive to invasions by Mongols, Swedes, Poles, Turks, and Russian. So the Ukrainians learned to outwardly adapt to their conquerors du jure. And that mean bribing your conquerors.

        Obama/Biden, excellent grifters in their own right, in the American context, probably learned some base tricks of the trade from Ukrainians, and the Ukrainians learned a little about the more complicated, rules-based, American way of corruption.

    • Yirgach February 20, 2023 at 11:08 am #

      Look out!

      The pResident is getting ready to send in the Equity Brigade to do battle with the Rooskies. Their makeup alone will scare the living crap out of them. Putin will have no choice but to nuke the place.

      • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:23 am #

        I wonder? Look at the map of who has what. Russia has 90% of what it wants right now. Ukraine is wasting its military on a couple of cities that make little difference. The high tech warfare used by both sides is worthless, an observation that is really bothering the US Deep State. Russia has its bufferzone, it wants Odessa to cut off the UKes from the Black Sea, Russia is probably putting in defenses at the new border line, making Ukraine impotent.

        They do not need Nukes. Even if the US commits boots on the ground, Russia has what it wants and needs.

        • Yirgach February 20, 2023 at 11:53 am #

          When I mentioned “makeup” I meant Revlon, not Kevlar.
          Nice analysis BTW.

        • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 1:52 pm #

          JohnAz. . . .

          Absolutely correct about Odessa!

          That is the prize.

          After Odessa is taken by the RF, it’s ‘game over, since it permits RF unobstructed entry to their Russian protectorate of Transdnistria and thus the fabled ‘land bridge’.

          All of that BS lately about Moldava is a diversion pertaining to the upcoming action in Odessa.

          Transdnistria occupies a sliver of land *within* the eastern border of Moldava btw.

  8. Doc Holliday February 20, 2023 at 10:09 am #

    “She Whose Turn It Was Supposed to Be… America’s Amazonian Caesar-in-a-pants-suit, HRC.”

    Great Line! Now, more coffee from the cup, down the throat, and less out the nostrils and onto the keyboard…..

    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 10:41 am #

      Aw, wouldn’t it be a shame if Nikki would break the mirror.

      HRC would do anything to stop that from happening

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 11:18 am #

        Nikki’s just as big a nutbag as HRC.

        Even rightwingers don’t like her.

        • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:25 am #

          Well, Mary, exactly who do you like? Is there anyone? Trying not to be a smartass, but you are deeply critical of any offering, it seems.

          • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:27 am #

            BTW, if you do not like the moderate GOP, RINOS, me too, there is only one candidate that is anti Deep State.

            Alarm bells went off with me when I saw a familiar face at a De Santis rally,

            Jeb Bush.

          • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:52 am #

            Mary is not alone in her dislike of Haley. Nobody actually likes her.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:02 pm #

            Not sure what who I like or don’t like has to do with the fact Nikki is a big asshole nutter that even her own party doesn’t like.

            Try not to take it personally.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

            Mary doesn’t vote. Never has apparently. If something isn’t perfect (like her?), she wants no part of it, perhaps.

            More charitably, she’s not an American in any real sense, but rather a citizen of Herland, a nation without border and no physical locus, at least not yet.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

            Strawman #1

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:44 pm #

            So you do vote? You said you didn’t. Were you lying? Then or now?

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 8:27 pm #

            Strawman #2.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:44 pm #

          She’ll anything that’s in vogue. During the BLM madness she talked about how White children were going to have to suffer because Black children do.

          She’s utter trash.

          • messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 3:39 pm #

            Save this sh!t til Sunday morning.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 6:52 pm #

            Because the real Sabbath is Saturday, right?

            You are a devil, hopefully not in blue dress.

        • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 5:08 pm #

          I don’t think Nikki will get too far in the Primaries. But then again you never know. Look how down and out Harris was in the Primaries and she’s now the VP (in name only).

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 11:51 am #

        John, I think you meant “glass ceiling” not “mirror”.

        Although, if anyone can break the mirror, it would be Nikki. I’m with Mary.

        • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

          Compared with Hillruh, Nikki Haley is a fucking hottie. She may be an internationalist moron, but she’s still physically attractive.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:48 pm #

            AOC beats all of them in the hotness department. What is wrong with you people? Are you all Republican plants?

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

            And attractiveness has what to do with being a good government leader, exactly?

          • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 1:57 pm #

            “And attractiveness has what to do with being a good government leader, exactly”

            Mary,

            Absolutely nothing. We earlier discussed some of the hard-wired weaknesses of men.

            …Pray for us….

          • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 2:00 pm #

            Jarek,
            Yes, AOC is hot, as were Jane Fonda, and Joan Baez. None of them would, paraphrasing Alba, “piss down our throats if our guts were on fire”.

            And how about that Janet Yellen?

            Hubba hubba….

          • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

            AOC will hit the wall early.

          • Conrad February 20, 2023 at 5:06 pm #

            “She may be an internationalist moron, but she’s still physically attractive”

            What does that qualify her for, exactly?

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 5:18 pm #

            “paraphrasing Alba, “piss down our throats if our guts were on fire”.”

            I think you have ‘paraphrased’ that to a distance that doesn’t require my name to be cited, EF. Not that it was mine in the first place.

            AOC strikes me as mentally unstable, just from listening to her speaking a couple of times recently (I think it was the hearing about the Twitter files, with that fantastic Mace lady, if that was her name).

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 5:20 pm #

            ““She may be an internationalist moron, but she’s still physically attractive”

            What does that qualify her for, exactly?”

            A short shelf life, presumably. Not being moronic is a longer-term quality.

          • mrs_saj February 20, 2023 at 5:48 pm #

            And you choose all your political candidates based on a hotness factor?

            Riiiiiight.

            Peanut brittle? [Wildcats movie reference in case you can’t follow].

          • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 7:44 pm #

            “I think you have ‘paraphrased’ that to a distance…”

            Alba,
            A bridge too far? I apologize.

            You impugn men over the issue of ogling unobtainable women, perhaps rightly so. But understand, the particular foible you decry is an ABSOLUTE…do not think otherwise. Your son, your husband, your father, his father…me, even Jerek….

            You have been exposed to a bit of truth.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 5:56 am #

            Do me a favour, EF and don’t patronise me by thinking you are telling me something I don’t know about men and ‘ogling’.

            “You impugn men over the issue of ogling unobtainable women,”

            I didn’t, actually. I said drooling over unobtainable women (as opposed to momentarily glancing at someone in the street) was *sad* but up to them. If someone has so little insight as to waste mental and emotional energy pursuing (and not in reality, only in their head) things or people they can never have, I don’t see how that is not *sad*. But perhaps they have plenty of time and emotional energy to waste. Nevertheless it seems dim to me to constantly make oneself a malcontent by obsessing over what you don’t have,

            It’s also implicitly insulting to their partner, because it says ‘I settled for you because you were all I could get, but what I really want is that‘. Women do it as well, but not nearly so much, presumably.

            So I only ‘impugned’ hypocrites like Jarek who, not content with endorsing a system where a cohort of second-rate female citizens (remember he says no-one wants to have relationships with them ‘afterwards’) service men sexually AND take the blame for making men take part in the sexual service. (In the context of online ‘servicing’, which Jarek brought up, not me – I was talking about the real stuff – I have a vision of an alien from the planet Zog manipulating Jarek’s hand to make him find his way to a website where he really really didn’t want to be.)

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 7:02 am #

            I should have said a female alien, obviously. 🙂

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 9:24 am #

            It is also worth mentioning, perhaps, that followers of the ‘poor, tortured men’ credo so often don’t seem to have any such sympathy for gay men. I don’t mean the flamboyant, annoying, proselytising, grooming kind, just the ordinary kind who didn’t ask to be gay. In the view of those who despise them, they are expected to live celibate lives to be acceptable, no matter how strong their sexual desire, and no matter that putting a naked 20-year-old Salma Hayek in front of them does nothing for them at all, and not by their choice.

            Perhaps some empathy might be order from those ‘poor, tortured (heterosexual) men’.

            I make no comment on the rights and wrongs of homosexuality per se. Just sayin’, frustration is frustration, whatever side you bat for.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

            Old Head (Alba) still thinks women are being forced into prostitution. Google “sex workers”, Old Head. It’s COOL to be a prostitute now.

            Even the Only Fans girls sometimes fly out to meet a fan who has been very appreciative and generous. High class prostitutes.

            Some of these business women save their money and are set for life afterwards. Few if any regrets. Perhaps I should say a few. Most don’t and most want to get married and be that kind of prostitute. In that they fail. No man will marry a prostitute, Alba. Just as bums are invisible to women. Feminine nature has its own very strict rules that have nothing to do with morality.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

            Of course, Old, of course! But Gays as a group are not content with tolerance. They have shown their true colors. It’s not up for debate. The Ancients were right as always: No acknowledgement or public tolerance much less approval. Private tolerance, fine. A good thing.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 21, 2023 at 2:52 pm #

            Up here in Canada, while, as an anarchist, I pay little attention to the people’s parasites– AKA, politicians– during the Trucker Protest, if recalled, they interviewed one who seemed to have a bit of a head on her shoulders, both with regard to ideas and attitude, and also in the reasonably easy on the eyes department, looking more like some sort of Hollywood actress or something like that than a politician.

            And with this name no less:

            Candice Bergen.

          • elysianfield February 21, 2023 at 3:00 pm #

            Alba,

            Let’s finish beating the dead horse.

            I do not patronize you. You obviously have issues with men ogling…lets call it “healthy women”…unobtainable ones. It is not so much the understanding, but rather your disapprobation that I am addressing. It should not be insulting, any more than other natural functions.

            Regarding gay men. Studies suggest that they get more sex than if they were otherwise. Makes sense.

            Regarding Jarek. He has wisdom beyond his years. The fact that he likes to take an argument to the point of absurdity (sometimes) pushes your buttons. With intent.

            It is axiomatic that women do not understand men, and that men do not understand women. I provide you with a truth that you should consider…”settled science” You respond with negativity. Is that negativity bred by culture or biology?

            I would THINK biology, but who knows? I do not understand you any more than you understand me.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 5:30 pm #

            Jarek

            I am perfectly aware that many women choose prostitution. I am also aware that in many places and situations they most certainly don’t. You clearly spend a lot of time on specialist websites.

            “No man will marry a prostitute, Alba.”

            And thus those who frequent them remain sickening hypocrites. Not to mention that, occasionally, some men do. But not most.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 9:17 pm #

            EF

            I do not ‘disapprove’ of your obsession with Salma Hayek (or anyone else). What an elderly man living on his own does with his time is his own business. You brought up the irrelevant issue of ‘keeping pictures of Salma Hayek’, not me. My issue was with Jarek’s hypocritical position on prostitution. (Incidentally, it’s interesting that you think he is ‘wise beyond his years’. From where I’m sitting, he could be 35 or 65.)

            I have opined that being obsessed with unattainable women when you’re in a relationship is likely to make you dissatisfied with your lot but, again, that’s the business of the person in that situation. My viewpoints are my own.

            You have already told us, quite voluntarily, how accommodating your late wife was of your extra-curricular activities. So, you did the right thing in finding a wife who didn’t mind your infidelities. Well done. That’s what all men in that position should do. Be up front before anyone signs on the dotted line. Because that kind of arrangement isn’t for everyone. It’s not that complicated.

          • elysianfield February 22, 2023 at 11:44 am #

            ” So, you did the right thing in finding a wife who didn’t mind your infidelities.”

            Alba,

            I was never guilty of “infidelities” in our 49 years of marriage. Mental exercises notwithstanding. Sorry.

            Jarek/Janos probably under 40 years old…once told of fending off a bad dog with a backpack…my generation does not use backpacks in casual circumstances.

            The “little insight” you offer does not enter the equation…you might suggest that a beautiful lobster be turned into feces after being consumed as “sad”…emotion misplaced. Almost a perfect metaphor for your disapprobation over men looking at other women, a natural function. It is what it is, and women ‘s angst will/cannot change that hard wired behavior.

            You choose not to understand.

          • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 3:59 pm #

            “I was never guilty of “infidelities” in our 49 years of marriage. Mental exercises notwithstanding. Sorry.”

            Then I apologise. Perhaps what you said was a joke, but then you should have said so or made it at least a little obvious.

            You continue to misinterpret what I said. I did not say I ‘disapproved’ of anyone’s attentions to anyone else. I said ‘drooling’ (i.e. spending an inordinate amount of time paying attention to some stranger) was a bit sad. And if it’s obvious, it’s likely not very nice for the person you live with. Historically, though, it has tended to be women, rather than men, who get beaten up by their partner for paying attention to other men. Or just being suspected of paying attention to other men.

            After I wrote my post, I remembered a book I have, The Challenge of Affluence. In one chapter the author expresses a variation of what I said, but in relation to Hollywood in general. He asks the question are we all (men and women) making ourselves ugly by our inordinate attention to a very tiny group of people with a very specific set of physical characteristics?

            And he was defninitely a man. A man discussing a psychological phenomenon that should be common sense. I daresay he shared in the general attention to the small group of pretty, shiny people, but he was aware of its effects. Jarek has in the past complained about its effect on women’s expectations too.

            Oh, how I wish you had simply not brought up the subject of ‘pictures of Salma Hayek’, and this entire conversation could have been avoided.

        • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 2:48 pm #

          Ha, you are right. Maybe though with HRC, the penultimate narcissist, a mirror might be in order.

          • Conrad February 20, 2023 at 5:08 pm #

            If HRC is the ‘penultimate’ narcissist, JohnAZ, who, in your opinion, is the ‘ultimate’ narcissist?

        • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 5:10 pm #

          I wonder how many mirrors the Hildabeast has had to replace?

      • Ron Anselmo February 20, 2023 at 11:08 pm #

        Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley – is that who you mean by Nikki?

    • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 11:59 am #

      …She whose turn it was supposed to be, Demon-Sow-in-pants-suit HRC….

      …Home-grown Caligula, HRC

      …(Insert pejorative here)

      My God, but I loathe the Clintons….

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

        Children of the 60’s. One of their security detail heard Chelsea referring to them as “pigs” while talking on the phone. He was outraged and confronted her. She simply said that’s how mom and dad talk about you guys.

        • Ron Anselmo February 20, 2023 at 11:15 pm #

          HRC, I believe, but it’s beneath Webb Hubbell to talk about the security detail like that – even though he’s a convict, he has more decency than HRC.

  9. izzy February 20, 2023 at 10:13 am #

    And what will be the ultimate fate of that strutting little Zorro in battle fatigues who has dominated the world stage for a year? South America is not as far away as it was eighty years ago.

    • Hereward the Woke February 20, 2023 at 10:23 am #

      Izzy, we can start the punishment programme by forcing him to shave and have a shower. His appearance stinks.

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 10:30 am #

        Zerohedge features a picture of Biden and Zelensky hugging in Kiev. There should be a caption bubble over Biden’s head, “Who is this I’m hugging, and why does he smell so more worse than other people I sniff?”

        • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 10:31 am #

          “much”

          • Vegan Shark February 20, 2023 at 11:10 am #

            Does anybody proofread their comment before hitting the submit button? It’s not that hard, really. Just read slowly a couple of times what you’ve written and any errors will be evident.

            Self-correction is part of the art of writing.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 11:23 am #

            Thank you, Vegan Shark. Your scolding is most helpful.

          • Q. Shtik February 20, 2023 at 12:28 pm #

            Does anybody proofread their comment before hitting the submit button? – Vegan Shark

            =========

            I’ve been asking this question to little avail since 2008 when I first arrived.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 7:27 pm #

            “Self-correction is part of the art of writing.”

            To an extent. One of the reasons publishers employ copyeditors and proofreaders is that when you read something you wrote yourself, your brain sees what you meant to write and will fill in the odd missing word, so it’s easy to miss your own mistakes.

        • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 11:04 am #

          Hopefully Little Napoleon will take a photo op rubbing the hair on Dopey Joe’s legs so we can take at least a little victory from this fiasco.

        • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:09 am #

          IDK, he always looks pretty clean to me. The stubble is neatly trimmed and he has a fresh, stylish haircut.

          Even the sweatshirts look brand new.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 11:18 am #

            Oh Beryl, do I hear love bells? Just saying….

          • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:54 am #

            He’s cute, that’s all.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 12:35 pm #

            I hear he’s rich, too.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

          In one picture, Biden had his hand on Zelensky’s ass. That’s just the kind of guy Biden is.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 3:33 pm #

            His funeral eulogy will doubtless contain a line like, “Joe Biden touched a lot of people.”

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 11:58 am #

            “And he especially loved all the little children”.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 21, 2023 at 3:39 pm #

            “We touched some folks.”

      • Nigel Tufnel February 20, 2023 at 10:36 am #

        Comparing pictures of Zelensky during his dancing clown days and now, it appears he’s been hitting the steroids to pump up his muscle mass. This combined with an endless supply of coke, and the result is unstable at best.

        • Walter B February 20, 2023 at 11:06 am #

          I say it’s time to bring back Randy Newman’s song, “Short People”. It’s still available on You Tube….just sayin.

        • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:06 am #

          That’s a good point. He didn’t really have time to do all that by hitting the gym.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

          He flexes his muscles during photo shoots and scowls. It’s utterly comical.

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

      Merkel bought land in South America too. She should never be allowed to leave. If she does, good Germans will have to track her down so she can strand trial as a traitor to Germany.

    • bill7424 February 21, 2023 at 5:17 pm #

      I wonder what the people of Ukraine will think when Zilenski and his minions loses the war. Maybe the people should invest what little money they have in pitchforks, torches and rope.

      • Paula D February 22, 2023 at 11:44 am #

        I saw a video of a Ukie soldier in a trench saying that Zelensky better hope the Russians killed him before the troops got back to Kiev and got ahold of him.

        Sad thing is that that soldier is probably dead by now.

  10. Lars February 20, 2023 at 10:17 am #

    Your last sentence is certainly correct. It reminds me of the saying, “The sound you’re hearing is the paradigm shifting without a clutch…”

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    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 10:57 am #

      Jebus!! Does that fit!

      “the paradigm shifting without a clutch”.

      Thanks

    • Islander February 20, 2023 at 11:44 am #

      Lars: Great line!!!

  11. RaymondR February 20, 2023 at 10:20 am #

    The Germans should be asking themselves “What would Bismarck do?” Their next step would be to open negotiations, in secret or otherwise, that includes the USA and Russia. Then make Zelenski, or whoever is running the Ukrainian $h!tshow, an offer he can’t refuse.

    There are many who can and need to be accountable for this avoidable tragedy; for it’s own sake, America needs to exact retribution against those who brought this about.

    • Hereward the Woke February 20, 2023 at 10:24 am #

      I have no hopes of any German reaction. The US destroys NS and their economy, and how do they react? Agree to send tanks to Ukraine – just like the peeps who blew the pipeline told them to. Pathetic.

      • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 11:43 am #

        It would now appear that Hungary is certainly reacting, considering the contents of a nationwide speech given to his country by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday February 19th.

        Hungary is a member of the EU and also NATO.

        I thought it extraordinarilly significant that:

        He has had it with the EU and the folks in Brussels.

        He will not allow his country to be destroyed at the hands of the EU and NATO, as it pertains to the war in Ukraine.

        Hungary will build it’s own pipeline to Russia to meet it’s
        energy needs, without interference from the EU.

        See full text:

        thesaker.is/prime-minister-viktor-orbans-state-of-the-nation-address/

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

          Good news indeed. Will he just leave? Is that allowed? If not, do it anyway.

          • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 2:14 pm #

            Interestingly enough Jarek, you have posed some quite interesting questions:

            “Good news indeed. Will he just leave? Is that allowed?”

            Not inconcievably, I believe there are no definitive answers, as it pertains to both the EU and NATO.

            I can say this however. I believe his speech will be very significant — in the ‘rearview window’ of history, as it shall relate to the breakdown of the EU and the consignment of NATO to history’s dustbin.

            We will see.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

            Hungary was occupied by the Red Army for 45 years, and things were not always lovey-dovey. Anyone know what happened in 1956?

            It says a lot that they would rather cozy up to the Russians than continue being abused by NATO and the EU.

          • TPTB-USA February 20, 2023 at 11:18 pm #

            “It says a lot that they would rather cozy up to the Russians than continue being abused by NATO and the EU.” ~ hmuller

            My read is that, like Trump, Orban intends to represent the population of Hungary where their interests come first. This amounts to allowing the citizens to be free; whereas NATO, the EU, the WEF represent oppression, and citizens interests take a backseat.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 9:22 am #

            Orban appears to me to by trying to keep Hungary Hungarian. He does not want to be subordinated to EuroUnion blandness, cultural emptiness/depravity, economic servitude.

            It’s an upward battle, even for him, as many Hungarians are seduced by the perception of Western material affluence and the perception of an easy, happy lifestyle.

        • TPTB-USA February 20, 2023 at 3:08 pm #

          To check for consistency and to figure out who is the liar:
          Hungarian prime minister hits back at Biden calling him a ‘thug’ on ‘Tucker’
          youtube.com/watch?v=s01ZL5TnBNY

          Why doesn’t “Biden” step up to the stump and talk to the population about the various issues facing this nation and the world?

          I’ll tell you why: Because a leader leads by example, and can articulate their assessment of the issues and justification for their actions. The bottom line is that no one in the “Biden” administration is leadership material. This explains the conundrum they are up against. Joe Biden can’t step down, because the democrats don’t have anyone that is leadership material to replace him.

          What would happen if any one of them stepped up to the stump and talked to the population?

          The answer is simple, they would be supplying the population with the noose to hang ’em.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 4:11 pm #

            The Biden regime is filled with the most pathetic collection of losers ever seen in federal government. To call them “mediocre” would insult all the truly mediocre people working inside the beltway.

            I lived less than 18 months in the DC area. The people had a very haughty attitude, like they were doing the country a favor to take its money and abusively govern it. The women were the worst. They really run the place. Their hatred and disrespect for men might amaze even Jarek.

            So I fled to a small dusty town in SE Arizona where Willie Nelson set the grooming standards. Muscle shirts, body piercings, and prison tattoos were the norm. Much the same could be said of the men.

            But they were real, unpretentious people.

          • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 8:59 pm #

            I laughed out loud, hmuller, and then read it to my husband and he laughed out loud.

            Well said!

          • TPTB-USA February 20, 2023 at 10:56 pm #

            So the “people” in DC don’t even try to justify how they govern?

            Surely they must reconcile it in their mind in some convoluted fashion. “Build Back Better” or “The Great Reset”? Getting even for the years they have suffered?

            If their movement is successful, where do they envision themselves on the economic ladder?

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 11:27 pm #

            There is no limit to how much women can hate men – and do in this wicked nation.

            Avoid all Democratic women, who are even slightly interested in politics. It’s a tattoo of the soul.

        • TPTB-USA February 20, 2023 at 11:31 pm #

          “He has had it with the EU and the folks in Brussels.” ~ ViceGrip

          Basically, Orban contends that they have usurp their power.

          “First of all, there is the question of our membership of NATO. Let us make it clear that for Hungary NATO membership is vital. We are too far to the east – on the eastern edge of the western world – to renounce it. It would of course be easier if we were further in: following the example of Austria and Switzerland, we too could play with the idea of neutrality. But history has not given us that luxury. NATO is a defence alliance. It is a military defence alliance which was formed so that we can defend one another. This is why we joined, …”

          … and from another perspective (MA)
          “Clearly, we are witnessing how once power is taken, it is always abused. NATO has always billed itself as a “defensive alliance” but it has embarked on an offensive posture with Ukraine and now even Taiwan.”

        • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 2:13 am #

          This is a battle between those who want the government to have the power, and those who want the people to have the power.

          Hungary PM wants to create new European right-wing ‘force’
          euractiv.com/section/elections/news/hungary-pm-wants-to-create-new-european-right-wing-force/

          “On Thursday, a strident Orbán said: “We must build a European democratic right that offers a home to European citizens who do not want migrants, who do not want multiculturalism, who have not descended into LGBTQ lunacy, who defend Europe’s Christian traditions, who respect the sovereignty of nations, and who see their nations not as part of their past, but as part of their future.””

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          • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 9:01 am #

            It seems that the only excuse for Joe Biden to call Orbán a “Thug” is that on behalf of the citizens of Hungary, Orbán does not want his country to be part of the movement.

            Lets call it what it is. It is a world wide coup!

            Orbán references the EU, NATO, and Soros. Is the UN in on this as well? Does Tucker Carlson see this as a coup as well? How about guys like Jim Jordan and Trump? What do “they” have on these guys? Who is “they”? Does Epstein have anything to do with this? How about XI and Putin, why do they not say anything?

            “We are also being careful with money, because in the end the money due to us will be given by Brussels to Ukraine. For us, humanitarian support for Ukraine does not mean severing our ties with Russia, because that would run counter to our national interests, which we have the right to define for ourselves.” ~ Orbán’s “State of the Nation” address

            “… the money due to us”.

            Who owes Hungary money: Brussels (NATO)? Is this for Hungary taking in the Ukraine refuges?

            My suspicions are that the cancel culture is SMO for the coup.

          • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 9:39 am #

            A comment on the Saker:

            Attila on February 20, 2023 · at 2:50 pm EST/EDT

            You’re really right, I listened to it again, I probably thought it was a “rhetorical exaggeration” ! In retrospect, he probably made a gesture to our “allies”, I can’t think of anything else !
            Especially in the light of the fact that last week the State Department sent its hyena in the person of the head of USAID, Mrs. Samantha Power, to prepare a “Color Revolution” in a friendly ally state. At the same time, she promised 20 million dollars in aid to the left-liberal opposition in order to finally remove the unpleasant Orbán from the path of “democracy” !
            I guess this is how the ” cultural states ” in the West are used to handling this, do they stage a coup in a friendly and allied state if it doesn’t howl with the wolves ?

          • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 10:24 am #

            Samantha Power looks like another “Biden administration” word salad expert, where her words mean anything “they” want them to mean.

            Administrator Samantha Power Calls For Reinventing The Playbook To Strengthen Democracy Around The World
            usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jun-7-2022-administrator-power-calls-reinventing-playbook-strengthen

            “We must prioritize actions that can quickly offer support to bright spots, be it financial investment, technical assistance, or favorable policy reforms we ourselves can undertake across the US government, or across international or multilateral institutions.”

            “Reporters Mutual: USAID is providing expertise and seed funding to launch Reporters Mutual, a global fund to shield investigative journalists from defamation lawsuits. The fund, which will be operational in 2023, will provide insurance liability coverage to cover the cost of defending journalists, civil society activists, and their organizations from defamation, libel, and other vexatious lawsuits meant to silence their reporting.”

          • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 9:23 pm #

            If true, the US tax payer is contributing to the world wide coup.

            Budget Justification
            usaid.gov/cj

            “The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Budget Request for the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is $60.4 billion, which includes $29.4 billion for USAID fully and partially managed accounts, $1.7 billion (6 percent) above the FY 2022 Request.

            The Biden-Harris Administration’s Request is a reflection of the critical importance of development and humanitarian assistance in advancing US interests around the world. This Budget will advance USAID efforts to: Fight Transnational Corruption and Advance Democracy; Bolster Humanitarian Assistance; More Than Double Our Commitment to Women’s Empowerment, Equality, and Equity; Revitalize Our Workforce; Restore U.S. Climate Leadership; Address the Root Causes of Irregular Migration; and Reinforce Global Health Leadership.”

      • Mick February 20, 2023 at 6:49 pm #

        Night Owl can verify this, but I just heard today that more Germans are getting very pissed and are starting to do something about it.

        We’ll see….

        • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 9:55 pm #

          Mick,

          As of February 12th, a quarter of a million German people had signed an online petition urging German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop increasing the flow of weapons to Ukraine and to push for a peaceful resolution of the conflict instead.

          Link:

          sputniknews.com/20230212/manifesto-for-peace-over-250000-sign-petition-calling-germany-to-stop-arming-ukraine-1107357541.html

          It is interesting to note, that, by February 17th — 5 days later, almost 500,000 Germans had signed the petition. An increase of roughly 10% more each day.

          Link:

          rt.com/news/571648-half-million-germans-peace-ukraine-petition/

          • Ron Anselmo February 20, 2023 at 11:37 pm #

            Ooh, signing a petition – an online petition at that. How brave. They’re starting to sound like they have the same kind of courage we have in the US – read none.

          • Islander February 21, 2023 at 2:15 pm #

            Ron,

            I sort of take your point.

            But sort of not.

            Petitions can be viewed as harbingers.

            An effective local petition DID stop a behemoth in its tracks and derail a disastrous development plan. One small victory. .

            Effective petitions are part of the information space.

          • Islander February 21, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

            A possible next step (stunt?) might be to print out the petition (with all of the names) and hand-deliver a hardcopy to each member of the Bundestag and maybe also the EU Parliament.

          • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 4:48 pm #

            Islander – I hear you. Any step in the right direction helps, and who knows where it will lead. They say patience in a virtue, and I just don’t have that kind of patience – like turning an ocean liner. Ultimately, I’m not sure when and if the desired results will come about.

            You’re right that petitions can be viewed as harbingers, but sometimes cutting to the chase sends a message delivering a better understood sense of urgency & fearlessness – more results driven than a lengthy process.

            On petitions, they’re signed. Then what? Deliver hard copies. Then what? See where I’m going? You do also know that the members of the Bundestag & EU Parliament don’t give a rat’s ass about their constituents, right?

            Same as here.

          • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 10:52 am #

            I agree, Ron.

            This will take far more than a petition.

            Heck the Dutch Parliament voted against digital ID and the WEF-owned rep. at the EU signed them up anyways.

            The criminals are going to keep pushing until they are stopped dead in their tracks through mass non-compliance. Eventually the politicians will follow.

          • Ron Anselmo February 23, 2023 at 10:04 am #

            Right Owl – or just stopped dead in their tracks…

  12. jgalt February 20, 2023 at 10:23 am #

    This war actually started in 2014 with the coup organized by Victoria Nuland and her grifter friends, and the Azov battalion assaults on the Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass, where the last estimates were 14,000 dead Russian-speaking Ukrainians before Russians crossed the border. Fear of Germany and Russia joining forces is what drives our incompetent leadership. The problem is two more years of China Joe and how much more he and his mafia can do to destroy this country, whether by WWIII, or economic destruction, or both. Then there is the ongoing problem with the Department of Injustice, FBI, and CIA corruption. So many problems and so little time to get this country back on track for prosperity and freedom. Bets are not being taken at this time!

    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 10:46 am #

      I think that a China-Russia coilition keeps them up at night. They supposedly are talking China sending weapons to Russia for Ukraine, what would China Joe and Hunter do?

      BRICS + Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Mexico is starting to emerge.

      • Islander February 20, 2023 at 11:52 am #

        If TPTB ine USA are so worried about China, why are depending on China to supply their beloved green infrastructure?

        I speak of the gigantic blades and the gigantic monopiles for offshore wind “farms.”

        httpX://eew-group.com/about/news/detail/heaviest-monopile-leaves-eew-spcs-production-hall/

        httpX://www.behl.com.hk/en/about/structure.php

        (see bottom right of chart, EEW GmbH)

        • Q. Shtik February 20, 2023 at 12:42 pm #

          gigantic monopiles – Islander

          ===========

          a large single pile of anything

          • Islander February 20, 2023 at 1:15 pm #

            What is your problem?

            I didn’t choose the term.

          • Q. Shtik February 22, 2023 at 11:40 pm #

            Or an individual hemorrhoid. 🙂

    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:00 am #

      My bet; a giant False Flag somewhere in “fly over land” will really get the ball rolling.

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 11:21 am #

        There are plenty of false flags going on every day in flyover country. East Palestine for starters.

        • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:25 am #

          True that!

          • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:30 am #

            Trump got elected by the rust belt’s reaction to Obama sending their jobs to Asia. False flag?

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

      Apparently the decision was made to take Ukraine was back in 2008.

    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 6:49 pm #

      The “Ship of State” in the US is rudderless, “three Sheets to the wind”, in heavy seas and the CEO/CIC is incompetent.

      The Reef is looming.

    • Mick February 20, 2023 at 6:53 pm #

      You’re exactly right jgalt. Anytime I try to tell my ‘fellow Americans’ IRL, all I get is eyes glazing over. Or a blank stare.

  13. hmuller February 20, 2023 at 10:24 am #

    I just learned that the multi-talented first son has taken up the artist’s brush and is now raking in the money, up to a half million per painting.

    And the media can’t praise him enough.
    Vanity Fair: “Hunter Biden is painting his truth”
    NY Times: “Hunter Biden: emotionally honestly, generically smooth.”
    Another publication calls it “self-healing through art.”

    That this could be bribery and influence peddling by other means will never be suggested – not by the distinguished gentlemen and ladies of our truth seeking media.

    Now I hear Hillary is rummaging through the attic for that trunk her mother saved, the one filled with her priceless early finger paintings.

    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 10:50 am #

      Would you believe laundering drug money from the BRICS+ cartels through the Biden Mob? or is it WEF+?

      Now do you understand why Trump was trying to set up American Nationalism and isolation?

    • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:16 am #

      Hunter didn’t make those. The Times, I think it was, showed him holding the implement used to do that craft, but did not show an actual ink hitting the paper.

      He paid somebody to make those for him, just like politicians pay someone to write their books for money laundering purposes.

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 11:32 am #

        Indeed Beryl, I thought some off those paintings looked pretty good to be the work of a crackhead degenerate. But the main point is not who really painted them.

        Luncheon speeches, memoirs, paintings. These appear to be bribery loopholes for certain people to take in big bucks and call it fair value for a product or service rendered.

        • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

          And books. We’re supposed to believe that a memoir of a corrupt war mongering crook (insert any former politician here) sells more books than Stephen King.

          Right.

        • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

          Ooops, sorry, you did include books.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 4:29 pm #

            Paula, I remember in the 1980’s a House Speaker named Wright (no relation to Orville and Wilbur) collected some of his finest, most inspirational speeches and had them published as a thin, yet very expensive paperback book.

            Some folks, mostly lobbyists, were so inspired by the book, they bought multiple copies to share with their 1,000 2,000 even 5,000 closest friends and relatives.

            The press and public saw what was going on, and Mr Wright had to resign as Mr Speaker. That was then.

            Today, everyone knows, anything goes.

    • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 11:22 am #

      The art world is pretty much a big laundering apparatus.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 12:48 pm #

        Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, if not well before.

    • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 11:38 am #

      Well, this may be just a rumor, but… I heard that the Hildebeast has requested the return of her collection of “pizza-related maps” from John Podesta, for an upcoming installation at the Guggie.

      What an artist we have overlooked in her

  14. Nigel Tufnel February 20, 2023 at 10:26 am #

    Loved the HRC reference!
    A big slice of this shit pie we find ourselves now started on the night of her defeat in 2016. What a study in psychopathic rage! You could see the cartoon-like thought balloons over her head “I will make his life a 24/7 burning hell. He will forever regret humiliating me before the nation. I will muster all my power and connections to bring him down, even if it means the downfall of this country.”

    Also loved the Nuland as actual president of the US. The evil just seethes from her every pore. She is like a giant human warmongering maggot.

    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:03 am #

      HRC got a chapped ass when she realized that America would rather a Black Man as President than her.

      • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 11:39 am #

        Again, this may be just a rumor, but… I hear the Hildebeast prefers assless chaps.

        • badberries February 20, 2023 at 12:20 pm #

          Just had to plant that image, didn’t ya? Ewwww.

          • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

            You gave me the pieces, I just put them together.

        • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

          All chaps are assless.

          • badberries February 20, 2023 at 2:17 pm #

            It was a sunny spring day in Spokane, Wa. I was driving on a residential 4 lane road when into the middle of my lane, a pretty woman wearing nothing but chaps wobbled. She was hammered. Quite the sight and a funny memory.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:13 pm #

          You really are a nice chap – in your own way.

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:12 pm #

      And poor Bill is just a zombie roaming around in a bathrobe. Too many seminal emissions, though not in Hillary.

  15. zappalives February 20, 2023 at 10:28 am #

    I will say this for the 398th time…………
    The democrat party and their CUCK faction the repubs must be completely and utterly destroyed and buried in a trench.
    They are not just EVIL………….their fucking STUPID.
    Never in the history of AMERICA have JACKOFFS been allowed power to wage WAR against multiple countries and the AMERICAN people.

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    • RelativeGuise February 20, 2023 at 1:15 pm #

      yeah they are fucking stupid, and they think they have the edge on pyschology. GO NIKKI!

      • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 11:02 am #

        Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley – is that who you mean by Nikki?

        • RelativeGuise February 21, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

          the lady running for President. Yes. I think she can carry on MAGA. I just don’t think Trump can hack it after 2020.

  16. neurodoc February 20, 2023 at 10:33 am #

    ‘Expect many seasons of terrible disorder.’ Perhaps the understatement of the year.
    Due to obsessive reliance on corporate msm for ‘news,’ most people have no idea of the magnitude of the current USCorp’s default and the rise of the BRICS+ system now replacing the sluggish SWIFT system for international money transfer. Just one example of terrible disorder: 90% of all medications come from the BRICS+ system which is now not readily accepting the defuncting US$. Thus EMS systems cannot get D50 to revive unconscious people, surgery centers are having trouble getting lidocaine and steroids, and literally half my patients cannot get their meds on time, as pharmacies are scrambling to order from diverse warehouses (probably with old meds). (If a seizure patient is off their meds for a week waiting for the pharmacy to get them from gawd know where, bad things happen). Welcome to 3rd World Amerika.

    • C.O.Jones February 20, 2023 at 11:32 am #

      …”Many seasons of terrible disorder” – does that include torches and pitchforks?

      Asking for a friend

    • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 12:05 pm #

      ” Welcome to 3rd World Amerika”

      NDoc,
      Third world ain’t so bad…what could be worse?

      …failed state?

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:14 pm #

      There goes Swifty….

    • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 4:42 pm #

      No more dollar as world reserve currency? America will only be able to buy from the world the equivalent of what it sold and exported to the world. And that will be a big reduction in our standard of living, not to mention major supply chain breakdowns.

      • Woodchuck February 21, 2023 at 10:56 am #

        All bikers and former bikers that gave it up because of the dangerous behavior of automobile drivers – might enjoy life when the dollar is no longer good for international trade. After the USA is forced to live on it’s remaining domestic oil supply, countless millions of dangerous and unnecessary drivers will be removed from the public roads. Those former drivers will either will be too broke to purchase expensive fuel or the fuel will be rationed and in short supply, forcing everyone into carpooling and alternative means of transport, like two wheeled vehicles and buses.

        Children will once again be able to ride their bicycles safely, and the roads will also be in very poor condition. Tax revenues to maintain roads will disappear, and even if you do own a car, potholes will be so bad that you’ll be creeping along at 30 mph anyway. Sometimes you car will be inoperable due to hitting too many holes in the road and damaging the suspension. Bicycles and motorcycles will be able to avoid bad spots on the road and even ride around them on the shoulders. Cars will not. Since both asphalt and concrete are made directly using either petroleum or nat gas, dirt and gravel roads will become the norm. Bikers will rule the roads in our future, not automobiles. Cagers lose – bikers win!

        • Ron Anselmo February 23, 2023 at 12:38 am #

          Jesus Woody – nice progression, impeccable logic.

  17. NickelthroweR February 20, 2023 at 10:35 am #

    Greetings,

    It seems we have forgotten all of our lessons from history. For example: Task Force Smith

    At the start of the Korean Civil War, Truman sent 540 men – two army rifle companies backed by a handful of howitzers to the Korean peninsula to put and end to the conflict there.

    The thinking was this: Communist forces would see the US soldiers and simply drop their arms and run away in terror and, no, I am not making this up. After all, this was 1950 and the US military was so full of hubris that it reached to the Moon and back.

    We studied this quite a bit in ROTC to show that reputation and “wonder weapons” didn’t mean squat. This seems to be a lesson that we have forgotten in that we believe F16’s (48 years old) and other weapons used by the fathers and grandfathers of those we are about to send to Ukraine are somehow going to make the Russians run away.

    I just hope the internet stays up long enough for me to see videos of the outcome.

    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:16 am #

      Right now, the Russians are building brand new, state of the art weapons to replace the Warsaw Pact junk getting scrapped in Ukr.

      When Russia comes out of this “dust-up”, they will have battle seasoned troops and everything brand new. They will be formidable so, I’m guessing that we will be “First to use”. (..we never said we wouldn’t…).

      • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

        No. Russia will send its men to the Middle East to aid Iran in its efforts to rid the world of Israel, just as Iran sent men to fight in Ukraine.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

          Did Iran do that? That’s wonderful. Russia allied with the good Muslims, the Shia. We allied with the evil crazies, the Wahabis.

          And yes, Israel – a nation without borders, basically – in on the wrong side as usual.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 10:01 am #

            Unfortunately, the West is more likely to go to first use. Desperate people do desperate things.

            I don’t care what the Pentagon or data says–today’s 20-30 year old enlisted and officers, the ones who do the fighting, may have more tech, but they are NOT the same caliber as they were thirty years ago, pre-Sept 11 (my era); let alone thirty years before that, the Vietnam/Korea era (my father’s era).

            The reliance on technology, on PURPORTED quality vs quantity drives the US to pull the trigger.

            The US qualitative advantage was exaggerated during the cold war, and by itself, would not have been enough in a peer war with the USSR in Europe. What might have narrowed the gap would have been the ferocity of the German Army defending West Germany.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 10:11 am #

            Jarek, I stand by my statement about the 1960s/70s German Army being the factor that might have compensated for Soviet superiority in the 1960s and 1970s, in the event the USSR decided to cross the Elbe.

            However, I thought you might like my comment about “German ferocity”, by with I meant the German Army would put up fierce resistance (even as Luftwaffe fought back lamely with the “widow maker” Lockheed F-104s that the Americans bribed Germany to buy. Something like 20% of all German F-104s crashed. Did you know that?)

            I hope you appreciated the compliment I paid your people, or your friends.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 12:55 pm #

            Eretz Israel won the War and began to treat “their friends” like enemies in literature, academia, media, etc. Read Portnoy’s complaint. Americans were just Nazis. Guilt trip them out of existence. Separate the sexes by favoring women. Raise up minorities over the simultaneously powerful/evil but hapless Whites.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 10:11 pm #

            Eretz Israel grows more brazen by the day. It won’t end well–for the powers, and people, of this world.

            Israel/Iran may be the powder keg that makes everything else–the dollar, oil, global warming, you name it, moot.

        • Socrates-Detroit February 21, 2023 at 10:01 am #

          Uncle Bob, what if the US precipitates the break-up of Turkey in it’s quest to secure the coast and straits? Another portion turns to Russia, or is subverted by Russia? Say the new “Kurdistan”?

          Then it’s plausible the Russians could come thru Syria.

    • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 3:37 pm #

      Nickelthrower. . .

      Speaking of ‘Wonderweapons’ and Ukraine . . .

      “Any war at the turning point of technological epochs ( and we are just in a state of such transition) is burdened by a lack of understanding of the principles of operation of new weapons and tactics of their use, as well as the overall strategy of the entire complex of military and political actions.”

      You may be interested in this:

      “All Seeing Eye: Can Russia Break Through The West’s ISR Overmatch?”

      Link:

      simplicius76.substack.com/p/all-seeing-eye-can-russia-break-through

  18. tom clark February 20, 2023 at 10:42 am #

    MQ…note that East Palestinians (Ohio, that is) are collecting their own samples and hiring private labs to do analyses in lieu of the gubmint they don’t trust.

    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:01 am #

      The gubmint is no longer part of America. It is in competition with the people. They hate the vote, they want it eliminated, and they are allowing voting regulation into place to make sure it happens.

      What happened in Arizona indicates the future. The election master is one of the candidates and so what happens, 40% of the voting machines do not work on election day. It really shows how much the Dems think we are stupid and they are in control. Latest word for Kari is not good. Another scheister governor. Next elections attorney general and governor will be crooks. Oh joy.

      • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 11:12 am #

        John – they don’t think we’re stupid. If they did, they’d hide their unconstitutional behaviors. They don’t have to hide anything – they do what they want right in our face, because they know we won’t DO anything. So, yes, they are in control.

        • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

          Actually Ron. ..

          They *are* hiding *this*. . .

          “THE EPA IS GOING AROUND ASKING RESIDENTS TO SIGN PAPER TO SHIELD EPA FROM LIABILITY”

          Link:

          bitchute.com/video/Q7NRL4DErT0a/

          • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 1:28 pm #

            Yes! We need to sue harder!

    • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 11:11 am #

      It wasn’t enough to let the toxins sink into the ground and totally destroy one locality for a couple generations. No, they had to deliberately set it on fire to spread the poisonous smoke across several states.

      The media is ignoring the worst eco-disaster in American history. It ought to at least be worth some severe scolding from Greta.

      The worst part is the strong possibility this is not “an accident” but part of a long series of attacks and sabotage – as in over a hundred food processing plants burned to the ground in the past two years. And no, K-Dog, it’s not the right wing proud boys. Look at who and what took (stole) power two years ago.

      A Cabal of pure evil holds the top reins of power and controls federal law enforcement and the military. They are waging war on the American people.

      • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:22 am #

        Lest we forget, Deepwater Horizon is still an ongoing tragedy like, Fukushima, Chernobyl (with fresh bullet holes), the current mess in Turkey/Syria.
        As humans, it appears that we have collectively gone insane.

      • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:35 am #

        Yeah. can you imagine the reaction to Yellowstone blowing its top.

        Those damn Wyoming folks are GOP. F them. let them sink into volcanic ash.

        Your Cabal of pure evil is an interesting take on DC. Reagan called Russia, China and NOKO an evil empire. Times have definitely changed.

      • C.O.Jones February 20, 2023 at 11:37 am #

        Nobody is mentioning the gasses released into the atmosphere to overheat the already overheating planet. Was blowing up NordStream also in service of the green agenda? Media? Hello? Tap. Tap. Check one-two. IzzThisThingOn?

        • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

          How do you know the planet is “already overheating”? The thermometer wasn’t in wide use until well into the 1700s, and satellite imaging only became a thing in the late 1980s — conveniently, at a time when there was an effort to drastically cut NASA’s budget. Global temperatures most likely are still significantly lower than in the Middle Ages and before, as the chimney wasn’t developed until the 1500s during the Little Ice Age. Lastly, warmer temperatures mean a longer growing season, meaning more agriculture for a growing population. Buying into the ” overheated planet” bullshit means you’re on the same side as Soros, Gates, Schwab, and the other bad guys who want to destroy national governments and repopulate the Earth.

          • C.O.Jones February 20, 2023 at 2:32 pm #

            Uncle Bob – PLEASE.

            The point of my post is that the people bleating about overheating the planet aren’t mentioning the damage being done by those who are trying to enforce the green new deal. build back better, blah blah, blah.

            That train wreck in Ohio was exacerbated by lighting the spilled chemicals. If they were serious about global warming they never would have done that.

            I can give myself a lobotomy with an electric drill and still be smart enough to see that global warming is nothing but redistribution of wealth. Communism.

        • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 1:42 pm #

          The planet is cooling, not overheating. This winter we’re in at the moment is setting cold records world wide. Data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) reveal that total snow mass for the Northern Hemisphere has comfortably held above 1982-2012 average ALL season and is now also punching above the standard deviation. The eastern Pacific ocean is COOLING, and that’s why the weather on the US west coast is noticeably changing and much colder. Some areas of the Sierras are seeing record snow accumulations right now.

          AGW theory is complete bs and an epic scam designed to separate fools from their money.

      • messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 11:45 am #

        “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:20 pm #

        It would have gotten into the water and spread in any case – but yeah, not like this.

      • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 1:25 pm #

        “The worst part is the strong possibility this is not “an accident” but part of a long series of attacks and sabotage – as in over a hundred food processing plants burned to the ground in the past two years.”

        That is what it is.

        • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

          See my post farther down on herding populations into Smart Cities.

          This is the poisoning of the land. They will continue to do this and then evacuate and resettle residents in the areas where they can be controlled.

          No one can refuse because the areas are going to be ecological disaster zones.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 4:52 pm #

            Sounds like the Revenge of Geronimo, moving white people into dismal reservations. What say you, Jarek?

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 5:30 pm #

            So much for ‘rewilding’.

          • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 6:03 pm #

            GA, from what I have seen the next step (after evacuation, etc.) will be to turn these areas into “rewilding” projects to be absorbed by the corporate class.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 6:40 am #

            NO, I realised the ‘rewilding’ was so that the countryside would be an asset owned by the elites, but I somehow figured people would be ‘encouraged’ off the land (e.g. as in the UK where farmers are being bribed to give up farming – and more forcefully, as in NL), I didn’t foresee them actually flushing people physically off the land by poisoning it, but it seems that, no matter what you find out about these people, the reality that you haven’t yet discovered is always even more evil and anti-human than you figured.

          • hmuller February 21, 2023 at 12:35 pm #

            Well put, GA, they are more malevolent and anti-human than most people can believe.

        • jgalt February 20, 2023 at 3:02 pm #

          And bringing in 5 million, and counting, illegals, mostly men of military age, is certain to add to the destruction. China Joe and his Biden mafia have likely been paid off by the cartels for the control of the border, where the cartels are making billions. Just like the China, Russia, and Ukraine bribes/graft, China Joe and his ilk do nothing other than for the payoffs. The millions of military age illegals are certain to make new storm troopers to combine with antifa and blm against Americans.

          • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 9:04 pm #

            That is my conclusion also, jgalt.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 6:52 am #

            It’s happening in the UK too. Both John O’Looney (whistleblower funeral director) and the lawyer, Anna de Buisseret, who is a former army officer, have been contacted secretly by members of the Black Watch regiment who say they are training young men in Turkey (UN troops, basically). These young men are then being brought in surreptiously to the UK hidden among other migrants, and kept in readiness in hotels at taxpayer expense.

            John O’Looney believes they will be deployed to go door to door arresting and interning dissidents and troublemakers, in the near future, in a way that British troops might (but again, might not, because who knows …) be willing to do to their own fellow citizens. Apparently they can be recognised, in the early stages of travel to the UK (via France) by their army haircuts,

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 6:56 am #

            In a depop scenario, we can assume that ‘interned’ will be a temporary state. As John says, there will likely be ‘outbreaks’ of new variants of something or other in the internment camps and that will be that.

        • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

          Night Owl. . .

          Is it not interesting, given all that has so far come to light regarding the East Palastine ‘incident. that absolutely on one has asked:

          “What location did the train depart from?”

          “What was the final destination of the train?”

          Not one individual, local government, state government or federal government agency, individual or spokesperson.

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 2:58 pm #

            I know it left from Madison, Illinois, but I forget where it was going.

            This is one of those supply chain issues. The US loves to spread out manufacturing and ship shit all over the world.

            Other countries that use vinyl chloride make it right where they use it, shipping only the harmless precursors, thereby forestalling any unfortunate incidents, like contaminating an entire town and everything downwind and down river.

            But, but, but….mah supply chain!

    • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 11:18 am #

      I heard that they are being told to throw away all of their absorbent possessions like bedding and so forth. I hope that isn’t so.

      • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:37 am #

        seems to me taking smears of pertinant surfaces and water samples should show how much residue settled. Not going to happen. Buttplug is too busy being gay.

        This will get the same treatment as the two election inquiries got,

        nothing.

        • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 11:47 am #

          Buttrig is sitting at his desk, chestfeeding his adopted 33 year-old son – while playfully fending off Hunter Biden. Family first.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:21 pm #

          Tucker said he might be bi. An incredible slander of this great Queer.

        • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 1:23 pm #

          What they are doing is poisoning the land so that they can, over time, resettle the people in Smart Cities.

          There have been multiple bizarre chemical fires lately. Another major one just happened in Italy yesterday.

          Just another step on the road to 2030.

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 11:39 am #

        Trouble is, they can’t throw away their skin, their lungs, etc. David Dubyne on Rumble has a very alarmist analysis on all this. We better hope it’s not that bad.

      • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 12:49 pm #

        Beryl. . .

        I hope that included tampons too, since ‘Toxic Shock Syndrome’ was directly caused by tampons having been contaminated by Dioxin during their manufacturing process.

        Those within now a minimun of 1,000 miles are likely now also contaminated.

    • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 11:37 am #

      Saw J.D. Vance showing the chemical filth in a stream.

      They are getting the word out. Good on ’em.

      • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:39 am #

        Mary. word is out. The people who own the resources do not give a damn.

        • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

          It’s still reaching a lot of people who it otherwise wouldn’t, if an actual government official puts it out there.

        • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

          Plus, evidence = lawsuits.

          • jgalt February 20, 2023 at 3:08 pm #

            Plenty of evidence of the deadly results of mRNA, but so far, no class action lawsuits for the trillions of $ in damages. Already have a class action filed in the train disaster, with more coming. The immunity granted the drug companies will not protect from fraud and the knowing introduction of a deadly substance into commerce, so where are the suits against Pfizer, Moderna, and J. & J?

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 8:30 pm #

            There are actually people suing the government right now. Lots of them. We just don’t hear about them, unless we run across them.

            I should start saving the ones I run across.

          • Ron Anselmo February 21, 2023 at 11:15 am #

            Yes! We need to sue harder!

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:18 pm #

      It’s costly – hopefully some highly placed or heeled people are helping out here. Otherwise, we’ll never know the real damage.

  19. stelmosfire February 20, 2023 at 10:51 am #

    “We’ve built a coalition of nations stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific!”

    The ” Joe Biden’s” actual words while speaking in Ukraine. This guy is the most powerful man in the world. Let that sink in.

    • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 2:09 pm #

      The “most powerful man in the world” is incontinent, farting everywhere, suffering from senile dementia, and has great difficulty constructing a recognizable sentence. His Russian counterpart, Mr. Putin, can actually speak our president’s own native language much better than our pres can. Mr. Putin has actually flown Russia’s (and the world’s) fastest and largest strategic jet bomber. “Joe Biden” has trouble riding bicycles. And yet we can still find him called the most powerful man in the world? I dunno………….

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 5:01 pm #

        He’s having a good day if he can actually name two oceans.

        And as for that bicycle incident, who decided to remove the training wheels? C’mon, man!

        • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 9:05 pm #

          He saw a child. You can’t expect Pedo Joe to handle a bicycle when there is a child to fondle.

    • Islander February 21, 2023 at 2:23 pm #

      Did he mean traveling from west to east . . . ?

  20. badberries February 20, 2023 at 10:51 am #

    Who is advising Joey ? ..Beavis or Butthead?

    A trip to Kyiv for what? Maybe JB thought Vlods check was no good so he went to get his 10% in cash.

    The CEO of THIS country does not go to a strictly fourth rate venue and get chummy with the Chief Grifter. If he wanted the trip to make a difference, he should have first touched down in Moscow.

    Again my Spider Senses tell me Joey’s jacked up on Adderall.

    Where’s Karmelo? Guarding the Canadian Border?

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    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:03 am #

      Saw the second Fox report showing the northern border is beginning to be an issue. My guess? Chinese predominantly.

      • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:24 am #

        Good to know that Mexico ain’t the problem, it’s our Government.

      • badberries February 20, 2023 at 11:24 am #

        Good to know that Mexico ain’t the problem, it’s our Government.

        • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:40 am #

          Just in case you did not hear him the first time!!!

        • C.O.Jones February 20, 2023 at 11:44 am #

          I thought white supremacy was the problem….darn, now I’m confused!

        • badberries February 20, 2023 at 12:22 pm #

          sorry 4 the Dup…..

    • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 11:50 am #

      “Where’s Karmelo? Guarding the Canadian Border?”

      Yeah, like a Walmart greeter.

      • badberries February 20, 2023 at 12:23 pm #

        I do all of my shoplifting at WM.

        • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 1:26 pm #

          I would too – if they had anything I wanted.

          • badberries February 20, 2023 at 2:20 pm #

            Good Liquor, gotta get me one of those “anti-theft” cap lifter things.

  21. avartist February 20, 2023 at 10:51 am #

    Billions for the fascists in Ukraine while giving the disaster in Ohio the cold shoulder. It wouldn’t be possible if the brain-dead masses weren’t mesmerized by grown men chasing a rubber ball around or watching cars drive around in a circle, or even a Chinese weather balloon blown off course by a big dip in the jet stream Biden, Blinkin and the rest of the bumbling fools poking the Russia bear may not end well.

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:24 pm #

      Yes, people who watch a lot of sports aren’t fully human any longer. All their energy has been siphoned off into nothingness. Video game also work. Or shopping for women. Gambling, Careers, etc.

      • Q. Shtik February 20, 2023 at 3:04 pm #

        Yes, people who watch a lot of sports aren’t fully human any longer. – Jarek

        =============

        Speaking of which, did you notice that Rutgers beat Wisconsin by one point in an away game on Saturday afternoon? 🙂

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 6:49 pm #

          You mean Ruckers?

        • RelativeGuise February 21, 2023 at 5:36 pm #

          Rutgers football had Ray Rice, didn’t they? My Dad thought well of em. And then I think his wife messed up. Cuz I’m hypnotized and believe eveything swifty writes. (drooling)

  22. Paula D February 20, 2023 at 10:55 am #

    The question is: If Europe decides to live in peace, will the US let them?

    I have my doubts.

    • JohnAZ February 20, 2023 at 11:16 am #

      The US has used NATO to poke at Russia since WW2. The MIC must have an enemy. Not a competitor, because they are not, yet, but an enemy. Biden is an advocate for the Chinese so I wonder what happens when they send weapons to Russia. How is Biden going to handle the MIC when they come gunning for China.

      A really good question!! Who exactly is the global entity who is financing and facilitating the invasion of America across the border. The idea that this is a collapse of the world and a dumping of the world’s refuse here is bunk. They are just putting enough folks here, by Bsing them and paying them to move here with the Biden administration promising them they will be cared for.

      I believe that if we have a legitimate jobs recession this year, and the GOP conservatives succeed in limiting spending, Biden’s arrogance about the job picture will be crushed.

      When the jobs go away and the welfare becomes workfare again, the illegals will be clogging trucks going South, and North. That is why Biden brags and spends “creating jobs”, he needs the press to encourage the immigration.

      More than anything else, this is the indicator that this administration is the biggest enemy of the American people, including, no especially the Blacks.

      • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 11:39 am #

        Hypocrisy really bugs me.

        Having a bunch of countries in Munich bragging about how many weapons they are sending to Ukraine, and demanding that other countries pony up their weapons, and then turning around and screaming that maybe, just maybe, China might think about sending money or weapons to Russia, and if they do There Will Be Sanctions
        is unbearably hypocritical.

        It is downright embarrassing.

      • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 11:43 am #

        ”Any nation providing lethal support to Moscow in its ongoing conflict with Kiev would cross Washington’s “red line,” the US envoy to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told CNN on Sunday. Earlier the same day, US State Secretary Antony Blinken directly warned a top Chinese diplomat, Wang Yi, against considering such an option….”

        Doesn’t the hypocrisy bother people?

        • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 1:20 pm #

          It’s simply rhetorical distraction for the retards who glance at NYT headlines.

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

        Paula, I’m pretty sure the overlords bank on people watching CNN and MSDNC, and listening to PBS & NPR, who of course don’t report much if anything reality-based.

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

        And never forget, half way thru his term Trump said, I want these people here because the economy is so good, but it has to be legal. Bush Jr said it more succinctly, just legalize all the illegals. Problem solved.

        Laura Ingraham, God bless her, just looked at him and said, That’s not what you campaigned on.

        We were played, John.

        • messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 4:16 pm #

          More and more minor chords.

          “The major chords sound somewhat neutral whilst the minor chords give a kind of depressing feeling.”

    • Rowdypiglet February 20, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

      I don’t think it’s possible for Europe to live in peace since, whatever happens with the Russian situation, the illegals are still pouring in. They will never be assimilated, they’ll continue to be favored above the native population, and they’ll prey on their submissive hosts until there is nothing left to prey upon. Ireland seems to be putting up more of a fight than Europe or Britain, but the deck is stacked. I can imagine how they feel with crowds of newly arrived Africans parading down their streets carrying signs proclaiming “Ireland for Everyone” and demanding better quarters.

  23. Paula D February 20, 2023 at 11:29 am #

    Pucker from yesterday:
    ” Blinken later told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview after the meeting that Wang offered “no apology” for the incident.“

    China from yesterday. It turns out that Blinken did not lie for once.

    “Wang Yi set forth China’s strong position on the so-called “balloon incident” and pointed out that what the US side has done was apparently an abuse of the use of force and violation of customary international practice and the International Civil Aviation Covenant. China deplores it and strongly protests it. It is the US who is in fact the number one country in terms of surveillance, whose high-altitude balloons illegally flew over China multiple times. The US is in no position to smear China. What the US needs to do is demonstrate sincerity, and acknowledge and resolve the damage its abuse of force has done to China-US relations. If the US side?continues to fuss?over,?dramatize?and escalate the unintended?and?isolated?incident, it?should?not?expect?the?Chinese?side?to?flinch. The?US?side?should?be?prepared?to?bear?all?consequence?arising?from?an?escalation”.

    • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 11:30 am #

      Sorry about the question marks. I didn’t put those in there.

  24. ATM February 20, 2023 at 11:35 am #

    The Evil Communist Death Cultist who are intent on destroying what the USA is supposed to stand for, will stop at nothing to end the dream of humans to live free and how they choose.

    The Globalists cannot have a country where individual liberty is the rule and they cannot have even the memory of such a place so they need to bury, denigrate and destroy what everyone thinks of as the great experiment in self governance.

  25. Q. Shtik February 20, 2023 at 12:01 pm #

    It’s “Fare-thee-well.”

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  26. BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 12:06 pm #

    At what point did Ki-ev become Keev? It was Ki-ev for 1000 years. Q, do you know?

    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 12:25 pm #

      About the same time that Peking became Beijing and Bombay became Mumbai.

      • Rowdypiglet February 20, 2023 at 1:51 pm #

        @badberries, I mourn the loss of the old terms. I miss Burma and Siam and, most particularly, I miss The Orient. These names conjured up a wealth of rich associations that are now lost not just to us but to the descendants of those who made them. Mesopotamia! Persia! Constantinople! Zanzibar! Cathay! Bohemia! Every one of these speaks directly to my imagination and historical knowledge. Iraq . . . not so much.

        • BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

          I thought the same thing about Sevastopol and Mariuopol, names that evoke romance & adventure.

          “A thick fog was settling over the Seine as I arrived at the Monparnasse train station, ready to board the Orient Express, clutching my tickets that read Points

          • BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

            Points East via Istanbul, final destination, Sevastopol”

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 5:13 pm #

            I was surprised to learn from my Greek teacher that we can’t blame the name “Istanbul” on the Turks.

            The Turks asked the Greeks, “where are you going?”

            They replied in Greek, “into the city”, i.e. “ist ton poli”.

            So the Turks said, “oh, so that’s what it’s called, Istanbuli. ”

            True story. More or less.

          • BackRowHeckler February 21, 2023 at 5:33 am #

            Hopefully, some day Istanbul will be named ‘Constantinople’ once again.

            It will take a combined effort by Russia & Greece to make it happen.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 23, 2023 at 2:46 am #

            @hmuller

            Correct. The Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire typically referred to Constantinople (Konstaninou-poli, aka Constantine’s City) as “the City”, much like people in the New York area refer to Manhattan as “the City”.

            City is “polis” or “poli” depending on how it is used.

            “… to the city” in Greek is ” … eess tin poli”

            So, with a Turkish accent/tongue, it become eess-tin-pol, aka Istanbul.

            Perhaps it was a rallying cry to “ON to the city!”. The Ottoman Turks had been trying for well over a hundred years when they finally took the city on May 13, 1453 (this is why Tuesday the 13th is bad luck in Greece, a black, awful day).

            @BRH I think your hope will materialize. Ponder this:

            St. Paisios, a Greek Orthodox priest-monk, 1924-1994, is said to have prophesied, there will be a war between Turkey and Russia; some Western nations will see that and say “others are grabbing a piece; let’s get in on this and grab some while we can”.

            This war will be their downfall and they will be “destroyed’.

            Greece will NOT participate against their eternal enemy and stay out of it, and not suffer the “catastrophe” that will befall the Europeans (Americans?).

            Modern Turkey will cease to exist–it will be broken up into 3,4-5 pieces—Kurdistan, Armenia, the central part with Ankara (today’s capital) and the coastal region, where many Turks will rediscover Orthodox Christianity.

            Sounds pretty wild doesn’t it?

            Read on. I heard that DNA tests, like ancestry.com, are not allowed in Turkey, so I googled/freespoke.com it, and sure enough, they are not. Why? Because apparently a lot of Turks have Greek or Christian (slav) genes. Why? Because the Moslem Turkish conquerors generally killed or expelled the Christians, so many Christians with less strong faith converted, mixed with their Turkish conquerors, and made the next generations of Turks, leading to today. Perhaps Erdogan himself is among them. His roots are on the East Black sea coast, which had many Greeks, for a long time, many who KEPT their faith despite the harassment and occasional pogrom.

            Today, roughly analogous to the RED/BLUE divide in the US, with RED flyover country and BLUE West Coast and Northeast corridor, Turkey is split between Erdogan’s support of cultural conservative Islamists and the working and rural poor, and the more secular and prosperous coastal areas–which are recently as 1922 had Greek pluralities (of Greeks who had NOT converted to Islam), before Kemal’s troops killed or expelled them.

            Paisios also warned that Greece will endure, but will see very hard times for a short period, where food will be scarce, and counseled that people should have a small plot of land that can sustain a garden and a few chickens, to survive.

            Finally, Paisios lamented that he would not live to see this, but it would happen “fairly soon, when the current regime in Turkey leaves”. He probably meant the Kemalist establishment, the secularists who put the Latin alphabet in Turkey. They lost the election in 2003, and over the next 10-15 years, Erdogan adeptly removed the Turkish “deep state”. Now, 20 years later, Erdogan has become virtual Sultan–HE is the establishment now.

            Paisios predicted that Constantinople will be GIVEN to the Greeks by the “Anglo-Americans, not because they love Greece, but because it will serve their interests to keep Russia out” and that “Saint Sophia (Hagia Sophia) will again have the Holy Liturgy”.

            These are all pretty outlandish concepts, I would say. Look him up if you like.

            And yet, look around. We are living in biblical, apocalyptic times. At least today we have the internet, where we can read alternative news and vent on CFN. Tomorrow?

            We have a big war in Europe. Before that, lockdowns in the West AND China, for the plandemic.

            The vaccines–well many of us read about the damage, including me. But I’m also seeing it–in cancer, strokes/aneurysms, and untimely death.

            So I believe the mRNA shots are doing their part–and they are evil. The war in the Ukraine was conjured up by Nuland, Blinken, etc. for some dark purpose–rather evil. Everything about it is a lie.

            This big earthquake that hit Turkey not only caused massive death and destruction; it will, IMO, make it impossible for Erdogan to peacefully stay in power. While I’m not a Turko-phile, Erdogan has a point in trying to be ‘neutral’ and not join the US sanctions. Turkey needs Russian oil and gas and tourists and more. The US will mobilize the “Blue” Turks who want Kemal out, in a quest to have Turkey join the sanctions, etc.

            These are surreal times, events are moving pretty fast. And I’m sorry to say, but the US government is not the good guy anymore.

        • badberries February 20, 2023 at 2:23 pm #

          Ceylon, Formosa

        • farmgal February 20, 2023 at 4:38 pm #

          Ceylon!

          • WadeWaters February 20, 2023 at 9:37 pm #

            Ceylon, sailor!

          • badberries February 22, 2023 at 6:44 pm #

            Odd Co-incidence,

            On Jeopardy today: what country was formerly called Ceylon?

    • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

      In 2022.

    • BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

      Yes, and apparently Turkey is now Turkiye (as of last week, just in time for the earthquake)

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:29 pm #

      The Ukrainians pronounce it that way, apparently. Or maybe they’re just saying that – the way Whites are always wrong in how they refer to Blacks.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 2:10 pm #

        I think it was when The Ukraine became Ukraine.

    • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 1:32 pm #

      Kiev became Kyiv when we all became Ukies.

      • sonnyL February 20, 2023 at 7:17 pm #

        At the Russian Tea Room did anyone ever hear anyone order Chicken Keeev?
        Me neither…

  27. Bilejones February 20, 2023 at 12:06 pm #

    “…the president has made American support for Ukraine the centerpiece of his argument for a revitalized alliance in Europe, and he had told advisers that he wanted to mark the first anniversary of the invasion as a way of reassuring allies that his administration remains committed….” — The New York Times, Feb 20, 2022”

    So the NYT is now prescient?

    2023, Surely?

    • sonnyL February 20, 2023 at 7:19 pm #

      The NY Times is sooooo blatantly full of shit as to make Porta-Potty irrelevant.

  28. TaxDonkey February 20, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

    I would love to believe that this Ukraine crisis could be resolved. I don’t think so though. Historically speaking, that’s not the way these 4th turnings play out. They tend to escalate and end with clear winners and losers. The joker in the deck is that this has never before happened with nuclear weapons. We’ve also got the shittiest leaders that we could possibly have at this historical juncture.

    • sonnyL February 20, 2023 at 7:22 pm #

      Shittiest? THAT my friend is the understatement of the 21st century.
      It transcends idiocy. Incompetence, treasonous and conspiratorial international collusion may be better definitions.

  29. AlD666 February 20, 2023 at 12:10 pm #

    Oh Jim, I wish I lived in the black-and-white world that you and your fellow travelers inhabit. Either there’s a God or there’s not. Right? How sweet it is.

    Instead, I live in the here-and-now. Everybody’s screwed up. Yes, the Ukraine war is a disaster for everybody except Putin, because he’s chased away millions of smart people from Russia and now rules by murderous fiat over what’s left, the militants, his henchmen, the duped, the thugs, the drunks, and the suffering multitudes that Putin sees as cannon fodder. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. It’s under invasion by a diminished country that’s still a superpower with nuclear arsenals and enough cannon fodder for Putin to destroy. Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler did; Putin is doing the same.

    Putin’s enablers here in the States like to shout “fascism” until their voices turn hoarse; they like to pretend that in 2014 the Ukrainians themselves didn’t decide they no longer wanted a Russian puppet in power. I live in the here-and-now. The US is no angel, that’s for certain, but it’s hardly black-and-white, my good dear friend. The invasion might have been avoided with a sensible compromise, but Russia only wants hegemony. Putin would blow up the world for personal power.

    Yes, we’re tiring of the endless war we’re financing. We want resolution. How can Ukraine concede? It’s where they live and it’s in rubble. Where else can they go? Their dream of defeating Russia is likely delusional. Putin has plenty of Russian bodies he can put in uniform and disintegrate in the name of personal power.

    Everything else he says is window dressing. Apologists for him rant about Nazis in Ukraine. If there are Nazis or fascists in Ukraine, and why wouldn’t there be, we have plenty of them here in the States, that’s Ukraine’s problem, not Putin’s. Russian fascism is a Russian problem with no solution until Putin exits stage left. And his replacement, of course, could be worse.

    Some of my American friends still pretend that Russia represents socialism or Marxism. It doesn’t. It’s a society run by criminals for the benefit of criminals. Russian despots kill more Russians, in both war and peace, than any enemy of Russia does.

    Full stop. Realpolitik tells me that Russia is creating a neutral zone by reducing a sovereign nation to rubble. The eventual peace will likely give Putin the territory he wants; as for Europe, however, forewarned is forearmed. Finland and Sweden are joining NATO. We can’t have Russia, the US, or China simply taking what they wish irregardless of the population they’re subsuming.

    Like all wars, this one is a total waste. Rebuilding Ukraine will put hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of corporations. The final lesson, and here I agree with you, is that ordinary people trying to live their lives peacefully get fleeced. It’s the oldest story in the world.

    • badberries February 20, 2023 at 12:29 pm #

      “irregardless” is not a standard word in English.

      Irrespective or regardless. class dismissed.

      • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 3:38 pm #

        The Turing Test, distilled to one word.

      • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 6:47 pm #

        Such a long diatribe and not one word about the Minsk Agreements, how the US and NATO violated them. Angela Merkel even recently spoke of how the NATO planned from the start to violate the Minsk Agreements and weaken Russia. Why?

        It would take many pages to refute every bogus point AIDS raised, but every one is refutable.

        • TaxDonkey February 20, 2023 at 8:18 pm #

          Against my better judgement, I got about halfway through the 2nd paragraph.

    • messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

      “Rebuilding Ukraine will put hundreds of billions of dollars into the pockets of corporations.”

      Why would they do that for Putin? Who owns these corporations?

    • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 12:48 pm #

      LOL. Dumbass says the world is not black and white, then spends 7 paragraphs saying “Russians bad, America good.”

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

        Even funnier that he seems to think he’s fooling anyone.

      • Rowdypiglet February 20, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

        AID666’s rant is so nonsensical that there’s really no point in addressing most of it.

        I’ll just say that his initial statement is an error and all the following ones derive from it, therefore they are all errors as well. His initial error is the claim that there is some condition in which God can be other than existent nor non-existent. What would such a condition be?

        I can wait.

        • Disaffected February 20, 2023 at 2:26 pm #

          I think I detect a distinct Tucson accent in his rant.

        • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 5:20 pm #

          I’m still trying to figure out what the ‘God argument’ has to do with the rest of his rant.

      • jgalt February 20, 2023 at 3:26 pm #

        While ignoring the violation of Minsk I & II that the U.S. and NATO totally violated, deliberately according to Angela Merkel, and the supposed non-Nazi Azov battalion that massacrred 14,000 Russian speaking Ukrainians before the Russian intervention. And yes, they were Putin’s problem as they were killing Ukrainian Russians, while the Ukrainian authorities and our own State Department praised them for the killings. Sounds more like a troll for Biden and Nuland.

        • Paula D February 20, 2023 at 3:56 pm #

          Maybe it’s Hunter Biden, using an alias which means “I aid the devil”.

          The devil being the Big Guy and his 10% cuts.

      • ViceGrip February 20, 2023 at 4:08 pm #

        Paula. ..

        Your comment per AID666 not only made me LOL, but came damn close to getting me ROFL.

        Still lol as I write this.

        Thanks! Needed *that* !

    • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 1:18 pm #

      I was speculating that AID is an umbrella abbreviation for AI and ID, the 666 bit being, well, you know …

      So I wondered if the spiel was AI generated. Until I got to ‘irregardless’, which I suspect is a mistake a bot wouldn’t make.

      I love it when people say ‘Ukraine is a sovereign country’. Ukraine is and was a sovereign country in the same way that a person who’s just signed their first mortgage contract ‘owns’ their house.

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:38 pm #

        Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. – Augustine

        Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place. – Thomas Aquinas

        Jarek: The real problem is that women have been allowed to turn marriage into prostitution. And something I just found out: The State gets a generous cut of the proceeds from every alimony check. Thus the incentive from their end to keep it going. To even encourage it? It certainly fits in with the Globalist Agenda, does it not?

        Danny of NY: There’s always skim….

        • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 1:52 pm #

          I don’t care if you use prostitutes until your bits fall off. I only care that no woman anywhere should ever be obliged to stay in the bed of any man who does unless she chooses to.

          Bizarrely, at least half of men remain faithful to their wives, without capricious lusts overthrowing their half of society. How do they do it? Goodness knows. Maybe they’re actually able to put someone else before themselves.

          But thanks for confirming that Augustine didn’t care any more for the women involved than you do. Or indeed if everyone got syphilis. Disposable women. What’s new?

          And ‘men are better people’. Right.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 2:02 pm #

            Women bring more than 70% of divorce so your point is very dull indeed. Mooted.

            Prostitutes typically choose to be prostitutes. Nowadays they often don’t even put out but rather just display their wares on venues like Only Friends. You’re generations if not centuries behind the times, old head.

            More power to them? No, I won’t say that. But it’s natural in an unnatural way: Male weakness is always taken advantage of by women. So it’s on us. But mark: They will pay. Serious men, or men serious about having a good girlfriend or wife, won’t touch them after they do such a tour.

          • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 2:14 pm #

            What makes anyone think the fact that women file for divorce more, reflects poorly on women and not men?

            I have not met a single woman (SWIDT?) who divorced a man because he was too good of a husband and father.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 2:42 pm #

            Berry Silly: Well the Church forbids divorce and the old vow says for better or poorer, in sickness and in health, for all you both shall live.

            Women are famous for cashing out when a man loses his job, gets sick, is depressed, etc. Kim left Kanye when he woke up and was confused and troubled. Or her handlers insisted upon it. In any case, it’s on her.

            One sex advances by means of the other after all. Bearing this in mind, which sex is morally superior? It’s not hard if you just let the facts speak for themselves without the spinning of the feminine hamster wheel ind.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 2:42 pm #

            “Women bring more than 70% of divorce so your point is very dull indeed.”

            Are you really that dumb? If my husband had an affair he’d be out on his ear in hours and divorced as fast as it can happen. People have choices and I don’t need any more shit in my life, so I’d be one of the 70%, even though I already am. I’ve never cheated on anyone. Or asked for anything from anyone. But if they want to behave like tom cats they can eff off. Nobody forced them to get into a relationship in the first place.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 2:49 pm #

            ” Serious men, or men serious about having a good girlfriend or wife, won’t touch them after they do such a tour.”

            That’s what I mean about how disgusting male hypocrisy is. I’d have more respect for them if they married from among the women they don’t mind using. It’s off-the-scale hypocrisy. No man can ever be one whit better than a woman he uses for sex and cares nothing for.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 3:07 pm #

            “Well the Church forbids divorce and the old vow says for better or poorer, in sickness and in health, for all you both shall live.”

            The old vow also says ‘and promise to keep thee only unto her’. If it doesn’t count, then it shouldn’t be there.

            And Anthea explained to us recently something I had no idea of – that the Catholic Church pretends not to allow divorce while just calling it annulment instead. Didn’t work out so we’ll all just agree it never happened.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 3:14 pm #

            “One sex advances by means of the other after all”

            It’s a partnership. Men wouldn’t get very far at work if they didn’t have someone doing all the stuff they don’t like doing, like childcare.

            Even men admit that they become somewhat degenerate as a ‘species’ without women to keep them civilised.

            Who’s advanced because of you? Curious minds would like to know.

          • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

            I’ve avoided jumping into this pool for a long time, but…

            “…which sex is morally superior?”

            What? I’d say we are both in a race for the bottom.

            Amazing we made it this far.

            What an amazing, crazy animal we are.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 5:31 pm #

            I say we all take a chill pill and watch a feel-good movie, like “Pretty Woman”. Street prostitute lands billionaire husband. It can happen to you girls, so move to Hollywood and work it, work it, WORK IT !!! LOL

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 6:03 pm #

            Haha – won’t be happening to me. I might get a bit part in the Golden Girls. 🙂

          • Rulo Deschamps February 20, 2023 at 6:34 pm #

            Jarek is the expert on prostitutes. Right.

          • Rulo Deschamps February 20, 2023 at 6:38 pm #

            Uruguay is the world leader in prostitution legislation.

          • hmuller February 20, 2023 at 6:54 pm #

            Are they for it or against it?

          • Anthea February 20, 2023 at 7:03 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            Landlords bring 100% of eviction suits. (At least I have never heard of a tenant filing a court action to evict themselves.) We do not, from this figure, presume that the tenant is the injured party. In general, I think it is probably safe to say that most civil suits are filed by the injured party. E.g., the railroad will probably not file a suit against itself to reimburse the residents of the East Palestine area for their losses and injuries.

            I have read that about 70% of men admit to infidelity to their spouse, so the 70% figure of the percentage of women who initiate divorce proceedings sounds about right. I would venture to say (based on 75 years of experience in the matter) that the actions that initiated the divorce were almost invariably in the part of the men, and were usually quite a bit more serious than infidelity.

          • Anthea February 20, 2023 at 8:23 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            In all my 75 years on this planet, I have NEVER known of any women who married for money or divorced and took the former husband to the cleaners.

            Since I think it is well established here that you know scarcely any people, I doubt if you know or have known of any such women. That women do this is a pure figment of your imagination.

            Most likely you acquired this view, not from real knowledge or experience, but from reading blogs written by predatory attorneys who were figuring on impressing divorcing men with an acute sense of injury, so that THEY (the attorneys) could take the men to the cleaners.

            Men are dumb like that. If their attorney can convince them that their wife is divorcing them because she has found a guy with a bigger dick, said male will put his attorney’s kids through college to try to avoid supporting his own kids. He will also readily believe that his wife is divorcing him for this reason, and not because of the drinkin’ and druggin’, compulsive gambling, skirt-chasing, and the five years of unemployment.

            One of your main problems when it comes to attracting a woman is your unwillingness to get a job. Marriage and family life is a life of service and sacrifice.

            Secondarily, there seems to be a temperamental problem–one whereby you don’t have any friends, either. It’s not very likely that a person who has no friends (and no life) and is of no interest–and probably repulsive–to people of the same sex, would be of interest to people of the opposite sex. Hey, it is not just women who find you repulsive, it is people in general.

            Basically, if you are in your forties, don’t have a job and have no plans to pursue a job or career, and rarely leave the house (probably the house you grew up in, inherited from your parents), you have made yourself completely ineligible in the marriage market.

            You made these choices. You are not a serious person, or even and adult person.

            You can come on here and whine all you want about women, but your whining is pretty clearly a defense mechanism. You don’t have a woman in your life, and it is unlikely that you ever will. You have pissed your life away.

            I am actually a little surprised that your family allowed you to piss your life away. The only cases I’ve known of where a young man was allowed to grow up without some strong encouragement from his family to make something of himself were cases in which said young man had some sort of disability–which may have been slight. Some examples would be autism, a stutter, or some congenital illness. There are a lot of high-functioning autists around, most of which are men. There are also a lot of low-functioning autists around, They are usually not suited to employment, mostly due to poor emotional control.

            I did know one guy who had nothing discernible wrong with him other than extreme shyness and timidity. He inherited a bit of money from an uncle, I think while he was still in his teens. After that, he continued to live with his parents until he inherited his father’s house and money (Daddy was highly successful and rather wealthy.)

            How did you get in such a fix? Why did your family allow it?

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 8:42 pm #

            Yet again, Anthea and Green Alba’s wisdom wins the day.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 9:07 pm #

            Anthea weights in pace Beryl: Men are criminals. Women are right. End of story.

            Nobody has a problem with her attitude at all, evidently! Well that’s a big problem. I admit you have the backing of our society on this – but our society is evil as many have already said. It’s evil on this issue as well.

        • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

          And I didn’t suggest ‘suppressing’ prostitutes – or the people who use them. I queried the suggestion that Christian men should be considered free to use them and still call themselves Christian.

          You might be better consulting Christ, rather than Augustine ‘Lord, give me continence, but not yet’ of Hippo, who wasn’t exactly disinterested in the matter.

          I think Christ said to the prostitute ‘go and sin no more’. How’s she going to do that, then, if Augustine says she has to keep at it because supply and demand?

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 2:04 pm #

            The Church doesn’t condone prostitution much less mandate it. Just as God doesn’t condone, much less mandate sin. Neither does Augustine. Nor Aquinas. Nor Jarek.

            Kesa! Come get your little girl. She’s red faced and screaming in church.

          • Rowdypiglet February 20, 2023 at 2:16 pm #

            I’m not advocating prostitution, but I think Augustine was addressing the problem of the other half of the men – those who did not put others before themselves.

            The single thing that eventually turned me from a lukewarm liberal into what I think of as a traditionalist is the realization that we can’t change human nature by imposing some sort of system upon it. We have to work with what we actually are, and it does appear that roughly half of us make use of others in ways that are unethical and immoral. I think the statements quoted were pragmatic ones and didn’t represent what was desirable, but what was deemed possible.

            I don’t see any suggestion that those who made use of prostitutes were good Christians or necessarily Christians at all, nor that their actions were just an exercise of personal freedom. Would they not have been considered simply as sinners?

          • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 2:36 pm #

            I’ll throw in my snarky reply about this famous story of “casting the first stone” in John. This story doesn’t appear in the synoptic gospels, nor is it in any of our oldest/earliest copies of John’s gospel. It seems a scribe or scribes had heard this story somewhere in all the various traditions and stories in circulation centuries later, and it was just too good a story to pass up. And it is a great story that shows very well the general attitude the historical Jesus probably had. But it’s extremely unlikely that event ever took place.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 2:45 pm #

            “The Church doesn’t condone prostitution much less mandate it. Just as God doesn’t condone, much less mandate sin.”

            Exactly what I said on the previous thread. It doesn’t condone theft or murder either, but you didn’t mention them, just prostitution.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 2:51 pm #

            “The Church doesn’t condone prostitution much less mandate it. Just as God doesn’t condone, much less mandate sin. Neither does Augustine. Nor Aquinas. Nor Jarek.”

            So why didn’t Augustine say that stealing is sinful, but if the church didn’t allow it people would fall into pits of capricious envy?

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 2:54 pm #

            And what I said has nothing whatever to do with Kesa, you incorrigible shit-stirrer. It’s about your hypocrisy, nothing else. If your sister wanted to work as a prostitute, that would be her business, but you wouldn’t be entitled to say a word about it.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 2:57 pm #

            “Kesa! Come get your little girl. She’s red faced and screaming in church.”

            I believe I’m the same age as Kesa’s mother. And nobody is screaming, except in your fetid imagination.

          • redrock February 20, 2023 at 3:24 pm #

            Toss the gospel crap in the trash. Who believes it? Opiate of the masses. On a lighter note as a man I have at times endeavored to have sex with many women. Each time consensual, sort of recreational.
            When I met my sweetheart I made a promise and that was that. I would not cheat on her for anything. There in lies my source of beauty, grace and warm. Women should never be used. No real man would do so.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 6:43 pm #

            Not a word from Alba about female sin or responsibility – just a furious attack on the Truth.

            Men who use prostitutes need to repent. So do the prostitutes who use men for money. Both in the traditional meaning of the word and also in modern marriage.

            As far as cheating goes, that about 50/50 now, at least in the United States. But obviously it’s much more serious when a woman does it. When a man does, it’s just sex. When a woman does it, it means she doesn’t love her husband any more.

            And of course it leads to men being wronged by raising other men’s children – a profound insult and spiritual crime.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 6:47 pm #

            Rowdy: Just so. Why not forbid alcohol in an attempt to make men perfect as women tried before? Or how about curfews too?

            Such attempts will only backfire, making people and society even worse.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 7:04 pm #

            “When a man does, it’s just sex. When a woman does it, it means she doesn’t love her husband any more.”

            You are unbelievable.

            And women need to take responsibility for whatever they are responsible for.

            Without using excuses like ‘it was/is *just* [whatever]’ the way you do.

          • badberries February 20, 2023 at 7:06 pm #

            We are all descendants/children born of rape. They used to say that prostitution was the 2nd oldest profession and after millions of years we still can’t find consensus.

            Asa Baber, when asked about prostitutes replied “When a man has sex with a woman and leaves her money, he wasn’t paying for the sex, he was paying for the right to leave”.

            Humans are no different than any other species with exception of the ability to transmit and store information outside of the body.

          • Conrad February 20, 2023 at 7:26 pm #

            Jarek: ” When a man does, it’s just sex. When a woman does it, it means she doesn’t love her husband any more.

            And of course it leads to men being wronged by raising other men’s children – a profound insult and spiritual crime.”

            What a sad example of maleness you present, Jarek. If I recall correctly, others have speculated that you are an ‘incel’ and others ‘a defrocked Jesuit’. It appears both theories, not being mutually exclusive, may be the truth.

          • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 8:01 pm #

            “I think Christ said to the prostitute ‘go and sin no more’. How’s she going to do that”

            Alba,
            Why do you equate sin with paid sex” A cursory check of the 10 commandments does not mention it as a sin.

            You can look it up….

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 8:03 pm #

            Good old Conrad. He only posts when this subject comes up. Lovecraft spoke of the Lurker at the Threshold. Did he know about Conrad?

          • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 8:14 pm #

            It’s all just a bunch of chauvinistic bullshit

          • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 8:15 pm #

            ” If I recall correctly, others have speculated that you are an ‘incel’ and others ‘a defrocked Jesuit’…”

            Conrad,

            Why assume defrocked?

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 8:44 pm #

            Anyone who buys Jarek’s extremely fucked up opinions on human relations might have the same sort of anti-social issues he does.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 9:12 pm #

            GA:

            Funny seeing Jar Jar talk about responsibility, when he has zero sense of responsibility to anyone, and rejects relationships if they don’t like him solely for “who he is” without making any effort at said relationship. IOW, probably, as Anthea also posits, an anti-social, emotionally stunted sort living in arrested development. Usually (AFAIK), part of maturity is understanding that relationships take 50/50 (or close) reciprocation, and work. A-Jerk has wasted his life waiting for someone to see how brilliant and worthy of adoration he is, but that’s not how it works (except to narcissists). So you see his responses up here reflect his lack of understanding especially of how communication works, and that’s why his main tools are manipulation, strawmen arguments, and gaslighting. And sometimes out and out rage.

            Since he can’t relate to people in a normal way, he has to bait them, and annoy them, insult them, try to shit-stir, etc.

            It gets pretty tiresome. I always do appreciate seeing you & Anthea stand up to his crazy posts.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 9:22 pm #

            And how many of you protested when Mary said, Women are life. Men are death.

            No one else except Og. Shame on such prodigies of mythical equality.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 9:26 pm #

            Strawman #3.

          • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 10:18 pm #

            I am my own person and not anyone’s prodigy. My thought are MINE

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 11:34 pm #

            Yes. And did you ever disagree when she said that? No.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 11:42 pm #

            Actually you did, at least a bit from time to time. But I have become too radical now and you find yourself in their camp.

            Alas the Truth is radical. And often the sides seem to choose us rather than the other way around.

            Because of your reaction, I’m wondering if I used the word prodigy correctly. I think it’s alright, even if a bit unusual in this context. Maybe it threw you off in any case. I think you’ve conflated it with protege.

          • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 12:45 am #

            I did disagree. My disagreement actually created a schism and there was underlying drama due to it. It has sorta dissipated at this point. I was under the impression that I was within your camp. But perhaps I am searching for a tent. Or a teepee or maybe even a chum.

            I took prodigy to indicate a childlike status which did shock me. But protege may have conveyed what you wished in a clearer way. i’m certain everything can be all cleared up for sure.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:10 pm #

            Old saying: Possession is nine tenths of the law. It certainly holds true for the human heart. No one wants to give up the good things they have gotten their hands on. They feel like they are entitled to them – even if they are not.

            Women are not going to want to give up the place that has been given to them over men by the State. It’s going to hurt a lot. But it must be accomplished, whether you all will or it or not. And so it will be. In a laboratory situation, imbalances like this could right themselves in time. Alas the world is not a laboratory and our nation not an experiment. We will not be given time to right ourselves. Outside forces will take advantage and there may be no coming back for America.

            A prodigy is someone extraordinary. It’s usually a favorable thing, like a prodigy at math or chess. But of course it needn’t be. Maybe you were thinking of the prodigal son? I’m not sure how the same word fits these two meanings. An interesting question. The prodigal son was in an extraordinary situation in the sense of unusual and unusually bad. Maybe this is the answer.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 6:57 pm #

            It would be my duty to preach to my sister not to be a prostitute, and you as well, Alba.

            Don’t do it!

          • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 6:37 am #

            More hypocrisy. What a surprise.

          • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

            So am i your prodigal daughter? If so I’m back home Daddy lol!

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

            You are too cute. Prodigy is not progeny much less protege. But you are getting closer at least in terms of both having a y in them.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 2:54 pm #

            prodigal…
            noun

            1: one who spends or gives lavishly and foolishly

            2: one who has returned after an absence” ~ Merriam Webster dictionary

    • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 2:16 pm #

      Stop watching tv, it’s taken away your common sense. Learn to read. After that, study some Ukraine history.

      • redrock February 20, 2023 at 3:25 pm #

        U crane is history ain’t it?

        • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 3:53 pm #

          There is no Ukraine at present. There is only a Deep State cat’s paw.

          Perhaps a real Ukraine can be formed in the aftermath of whatever is to come.

  30. elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 12:20 pm #

    A note to BRH,

    Earlier in the week you mentioned the “Henry Homesteader”, and asked for comment

    In 1985, Marlin produced a 9mm carbine, called the “Camp Gun”, using S&W model 59 magazines. It also produced a 45 ACP model, using standard 1911 magazines. I purchased one of each caliber.

    I still have the 45 ACP model, but quickly rid myself of the 9mm. Why?

    The 9mm is not considered an accurate round. The carbine, while working flawlessly, could not group on a silhouette target at 100 yards, and I am sure the Henry will reflect that inaccuracy.

    The Marlin 45 Camp Gun, however, worked flawlessly AND was very accurate…under a 4″ group from a bench.

    Considering the cost of the Henry rifle, at about $1000, I would opt for a used Marlin in 45 ACP, if you can find one.

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    • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 12:22 pm #

      And…the link;

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Camp_Carbine

    • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

      Could you hit the eye of a bird at 100 yards? The Crackers are said to have been able to do so.

      • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 1:53 pm #

        Jarek,
        Not with a Marlin…but I have other weapons that will hold 1/4″MOA…those will, and have.

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 2:07 pm #

          MOA? Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins and “Jim”?

          • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 4:02 pm #

            Minute Of Angle…about one inch at 100 yards….

          • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 4:05 pm #

            Jim Fowler.

            On Sunday nights my brother and I got to walk over to Grandma’s house to watch Wild Kingdom and the Wonderful World of Disney. <The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau was fair game too, on those rare occasions that it reached us.

            TV was a treat, like candy or pop, not something to be had every day.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 9:26 pm #

            So spot on, BB.

            I loved Jacques Cousteau, the WwofD, and Wild Kingdom.

            And they were treats.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 11:43 pm #

            Remember Jim wrestling the Anaconda? How is he different than any of the Heroes taking on Cthonic Monsters, often feminine?

          • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

            Everybody remembers Jim wrestling the anaconda. I didn’t realize at the time that I was witnessing an archetypal struggle between Good (men) and Evil (women).

            So, in other words if it had been Jim and Eve, rather than that feckless loser Adam, we would still be running around naked in the Garden, wrestling snakes.

            How was Jim different from the mighty heroes of myth? Well, for one, he was getting paid. Heroes generally work for free – makes them even more heroic. The work conducted by Jim was in pursuit of scientific or financial objectives. Real heroes don’t give a crap about science or money.

            But he did win a Lindbergh Award, make what you will of that.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:13 pm #

            Fascinating, my nigga. For what did Jim win this award?

          • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 2:35 pm #

            “…for his 40 years of dedication to wildlife preservation and education.”

        • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 9:57 pm #

          Elysian,

          What’s your preference concerning bolt faction rifles: a .270 Winchester, .308 Winchester, or 6.5 Creedmoor? Guidance with particular makes/models is appreciated.

          May I add that the racist asshole from Conklin who drove to Buffalo to hunt blacks rather than doing so in the Binghamton-Elmira area (likely because he figured he’d be blown away very quickly by Southern Tier gun owners) has really harmed people’s ability to protect themselves. Now you basically need a background check just to buy ammunition in this shithole state!

          Anyway,thanks in advance for your advice.

          • elysianfield February 21, 2023 at 11:13 am #

            Uncle Bob,
            My preference is for bolt action rifles. The sole reason for a rifle to exist is ..accuracy. Most decent rifles built in the ’80’s were capable of 1MOA, usually, however with reloading. My preference is for Remington rifles of that era, specifically the Heavy barrel varmint model, and I’ve not owned one that could not be printed, with a bit of care, in 1/3 of an inch at 100 yards. The Military, and law enforcement sniper rifles of that era were Just a plain version of the Remington HBV. A decent scope, of course…

            The 308 cartridge would be most practical…brass, projectiles and ammunition being readily available. Surplus ammo still exists in the millions of rounds. I would, however, feel secure with an HBV in any caliber presented.

            When you can, with 95% probability, hit a grapefruit sized object with a first shot, from a cold barrel, at 400 yards, why would you need firepower otherwise?

    • BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 2:15 pm #

      I learn something every day E.

      .38 Special and 9mm Parabellum were introduced about the same time, 1900-1901. .38 Special appears to have faded, abandoned by the police & military, but 9mm has become the standard, all purpose pistol round. How do you explain its popularity then?

      At any rate I hope the Homesteader is a winner for Henry and they sell a ton of them. It’s not a carbine hunters or target shooters would buy anyway.

      I have a Marlin 1894 carbine in .38/.357, plenty accurate for my purposes.

      • redrock February 20, 2023 at 3:16 pm #

        I have an AK47 and it is as good as it gets.

      • elysianfield February 20, 2023 at 4:17 pm #

        The 38 special, as a rimmed cartridge, is suitable for use in revolvers, do to simplicity in design to eject expended rounds. The cartridge is/can be a bit more powerful than the 9mm, able to use heavier bullets, and is the basis for the 357 cartridge. 38 special can be very accurate in any weapon that fires it…9mm, not so much.

        Automatic pistols can provide for more shots without reloading…up to 18+1…Revolvers usually 6 rounds. Revolvers arguably are safer than automatics. Revolvers are preferalble to train a novice shooter with, rather than an automatic. Revolvers rarely jamb

        Automatics are more easily concealable. Automatics can be silenced, revolvers, usually not. Automatics look cool if held sideways when shooting. Automatics can be cheaper to produce.

        • BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 4:40 pm #

          I forgot about the coolness factor of a Glock held sideways, Gangsta-style.

        • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:15 pm #

          Revolvers don’t shit their casings all over the place either. What if you can’t find them in the dark?

    • redrock February 20, 2023 at 3:18 pm #

      Maybe you need a little trigger work to smooth it out. Remember BRASS.

  31. Amman February 20, 2023 at 12:36 pm #

    A key highlight in today’s post is the suggestion that a rift, separation, cleavage, a melodramatic break-up, what have you, will take place between west Europe and the USA.

    A new curtain slams down somewhere in the north Atlantic to separate the New World from the Classical World.

    This planet has a Bi-polar future – 2 Worlds.

    • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 9:49 pm #

      What happens is you eventually have a particularly gifted liar get put in charge of everything. He sees himself as higher than God, and attempts to achieve the goals of every group of dog losers you can name: Fabian socialists, communists, the WEF, whoever. His rule goes well for awhile, until things start to unravel, most likely over oil reserves. China marches through Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq to attack his army. Humanity is about to.exterminate itself, when a third army arrives from the sky. The humans attack and are massacred. Then comes a thousand years of rule by the real God, after.which humans again rebel and lose. That thousand years is always pitched as a time of peace and unequalled prosperity, but I have to think there’ll be an awful lot of resentment by people toward God for intervening, not to mention ending all the rackets, criminal activity, and other corruption we’re used to and actually tend to accept, especially if it helps us or screws over someone we hate.

      • Amman February 21, 2023 at 1:21 pm #

        3rd army from the sky. Good luck, Bobo.

  32. orca February 20, 2023 at 12:36 pm #

    “……Hello, Moscow? Washington here. Just a little heads up for you – Biden is arriving in Kiev this morning.”

    “….Yeah…we know.”

    • Islander February 20, 2023 at 12:41 pm #

      Probably the best protection for Keev is to leave Biden there.

      The Russkies won’t want to blow him away.

      Bad look.

      • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

        Biden is the most effective weapon against the US.

  33. TPTB-USA February 20, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

    What is up with the flock of US politicians rushing over to Ukraine and engaging in a lip-lock with Zelensky?

    And what is the story with the price of natural gas? Was the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage an attempt by the west to eliminate Russia’s source of funds (look at the price chart, and September 26th)?

    • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 5:12 pm #

      Desperation?

      • TPTB-USA February 20, 2023 at 11:55 pm #

        Nancy Pelosi’s rush was disgusting, and I am ashamed that someone of that stature thinks her conduct was fitting.

        I suppose that I do not need to be ashamed, because her shredding of the SOTU would imply that is just her SMO (perhaps like hmuller posted above “The people (of DC) had a very haughty attitude, like they were doing the country a favor to take its money and abusively govern it. The women were the worst. They really run the place. Their hatred and disrespect for men might amaze even Jarek.”).

        • badberries February 21, 2023 at 10:37 am #

          Nancy Pelosi represents everything that is wrong with my country. Greedy, lack of “mindfulness”, rude, disrespectful, self absorbed, dishonest and un-productive. All on my dime, but guess what? I’m outta dimes

          • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 11:39 am #

            I agree.

            My read is that at least one of my sisters respects her. In an attempt to comprehend her logic, her job is government and university related, she is basically clueless about current events (and chooses to keep it that way), has dreams of retirement and plans to travel Europe, and be left alone in what she considers a safe residential environment in a major metropolitan area.

            So, why the respect? The only thing I can figure, is that my sister sees Nancy as a woman who has achieved success in a mans world (although this doesn’t seem fitting of my sister).

            So, why?

      • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 12:02 am #

        I don’t think they are at the point of desperation, and I can only surmise that at this point they all think they have this in the bag.

    • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 11:28 am #

      The US blew up the pipelines to make sure that a desperate Germany didn’t form a separate peace with Russia. The Germans were getting restless and even Scholz was waffly.

      The US wanted Germany to have no choice but to buy US gas. Hence, the sudden announcement to Americans that gas stoves are dangerous and have to go. Germans are paying 7x more than Americans.
      Who do our overlords prefer to sell it to?

      Russia shrugged and said OK, we’ll sell it to others. I highly doubt they will reopen the pipelines unless Germany and other countries throw the US out of their countries.

      • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 11:33 am #

        I mentioned that the US had blown up the pipelines on Facebook and fb covered it as “dangerous speech”.

        Dangerous to whom? I think we know.

  34. SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

    I have a very difficult time imagining that the warmonger globalists will give up on their Ukraine venture. If they do then the world may find out exactly what was going on in the biolabs in Ukraine and about all of the money laundering and human trafficking and organ harvesting, etc. They probably are willing to risk a nuclear war over it. Literally Germany, France and others would need to adamantly demand an end to the venture in order for a possible more peaceful outcome to occur ime.

    On another important front Kevin McCarthy just released a whole ton of footage from Jan 6 to Tucker Carlson. And hopefully Tucker will be leading with this story all week. Or at least tonight lol. But it sounds like we are about to find out just how orchestrated and planned the whole fedsurrection was.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 1:53 pm #

      We have plenty of evidence that it is the US with maybe a couple of other Western nations that is keeping the war going.

      • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

        Yep definitely. But it seems like the EU bureaucracy is driving the war lust more maybe then the individual governments in Europe but who knows. Macron is schizoid for one. He says we need to keep supplying Ukraine with weapons and also negotiate an end to the war lol.

        • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

          Macron is a WEF/Rothschild puppet (ex-Rothy banker).

          All he is doing is following the same script as the rest of the YGLs.

          • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 5:00 pm #

            Yes, he is probably splitting himself on purpose just to generate ideas of even handedness or like he is struggling with these big decisions. In the end though he will always do the bidding of the globalist/WEF grouping.

  35. Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 1:51 pm #

    Speaking of independent reporting, I have been complaining about the state of the Fourth Estate for some time.

    I came across this remark by Elon Musk that illuminates one of the reasons it has gotten so bad:

    “A big part of the problem is that journalists used to choose their career to pursue truth, but in recent years many have entered journalism to be activists”

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626713620301352960?s=20

    Even seasoned journalists like Dan Rather fall into the trap of activism, and they don’t even appear to know they are doing it.

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    • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 2:13 pm #

      That fits right along the timeline where higher learning institutions began teaching activism rather than traditional curriculum.

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 2:14 pm #

        But I’ll argue that propaganda has been alive and well forever.

        Reading McGowan’s account of the Lincoln Assassination and the behavior of the press and PTB meddling (and plotting) made it clear that it’s always been the case.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 2:17 pm #

        Probably when reporters started going to school for “journalism” too.

    • Rowdypiglet February 20, 2023 at 2:19 pm #

      @Beryl, from Jonathan Turley:

      “We previously discussed the movement in journalism schools to get rid of principles of objectivity in journalism. Advocacy journalism is the new touchstone in the media even as polls show that trust in the media is plummeting. Now, former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward have released the results of their interviews with over 75 media leaders and concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle said it plainly: ‘Objectivity has got to go.’ ”

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 5:15 pm #

        Indeed.

        I have a friend who has been a professional journalist for years. BBC, CNN, etc. She’s around my age. She got so disgusted that she left the profession, given now they dictate from the top what you’re allowed to write about. The new batch of “journalists” don’t care as they are nothing like the Sy Hershes or my friend. But she cared, so she quit & is now attending law school. She figures she can make a bigger difference in the world that way.

    • Blackbird February 20, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

      Dan Rather’s “mistake” was so obvious, that I can’t think that it was anything other than an attempt to shut down all discussion of Dubya’s “military service”. And it seems to have worked.

    • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 3:14 pm #

      Didn’t most journalists determine that Trump’s presidency was the defining moment for them to be activists rather than journalists?

  36. K-Chien February 20, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

    But before that can happen, expect many seasons of terrible disorder.

    What ? The long emergency has and end?

    The long emergency is still parked on the on-ramp waiting for the traffic control light to change.

    Thinking there is a reckoning coming is hopium.

    • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 2:25 pm #

      “terrible disorder” will come first before the Long Emergency when all centralized control vanishes. The LE is when it becomes apparent to everyone in the West that the good times have ended and third world style grinding poverty will be the norm for many decades and possibly forever, at least for Western Civ.

      • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 3:50 pm #

        Except if the good times end it will be due entirely to the fact that the system is being destroyed in order to be resurrected in a form none of us would acquiesce to.

        There is no long emergency.

        • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 4:25 pm #

          The long emergency will be the period of time after fossil fuels are no longer practical for use as an energy supply, This will happen In the USA ahead of many other nations, we’ve long since used up all the easy to get oil and blown it out our tailpipes. Most of the remainder is off shore in US territorial waters or locked up in rock formations that must be fracked first before the oil starts flowing. What we have left is the petroleum that’s expensive to produce, and we’re approaching the time when it takes just as much energy to pump the oil as the energy you get from burning it. It’s called “energy returned on energy invested”. When that approaches zero you are finished as far as using oil as a primary energy source. We’ll be using the remainder for other purposes like running rototillers or little mopeds, or for petrochemicals, but that’s about it. We’ll still be using kerosene for lamps and lighting. Still a lot cheaper than whale oil. The automobile culture in the US is about finished, and we can tell by all the delusional hoopla about electric cars. Western Europe is in the very same situation we are, and is facing the same future.

          • K-Chien February 20, 2023 at 4:48 pm #

            Yes Woodchuck. But talk about it all you want. Nobody gets it.

            Most everybody has a magic pony in their dreams. The truth is a horror people refuse to face. This is why I am writing a fiction story on my website. People believe fiction more than reality.
            If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.

            Click on my name to get there, you know that.

          • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 5:27 pm #

            There is no proof fossil fuels are going to be impractical.

            I do not disagree that we should also diversify, but this prediction that oil is over in the general sense is not hard to make. The hard prediction is when is oil actually over.

            Certainly not yet.

          • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 5:45 pm #

            Yeah, I’ve clicked on your site, some interesting stuff there even if I don’t agree with all of it. Discussion of running out of petroleum began decades ago with the work of a Shell Oil Co. geologist named Hubbert, there’s a graph of past/present/future global oil production called “Hubbert’s Curve.” Once you understand the graph and learn that oil wells eventually deplete and stop producing oil, a eureka moment will arrive, or an “oh shit!” moment. My first encounter with peak oil happened while listening to Art Bell interview a writer/blogger named Matt Savinar Savinar had a popular website called “Life After the Oil Crash”. There was a forum there with all sorts of whacky discussion and crazy trolls as well as serious people and actual petroleum geologists and economists.

            I got interested in the topic and discovered that all my friends and relatives didn’t want to hear about this and would either ignore me or get angry and think I was a leftie/greenie or something – or that I’d simply gone mad. The idea of our civilization ever running out of gas was preposterous to them. It’s only been lately that a few are beginning to fear that I wasn’t all that nutty about warning them. However they tell me that if there’s times of not having any gas for their cars, it will be because of what the Democrats have done. NOT because we don’t have enough petroleum left in the ground to keep the automobile culture going world without end.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 5:49 pm #

            Night Owl

            If conventional oil wasn’t becoming scarce, nobody would have gone to the trouble and expense of squeezing oil out of tar sands and bashing it out of rocks.

            As I’ve mentioned before (because I like the metaphor), Rob Hoskins (the Transition Towns chap) compared the tar sands operation to a pub that runs out of beer and decides to squeeze out the carpet for the dregs. It’s desperation.

            And our Owners would have let the party go on too, if the beer wasn’t running out.

          • GreenAlba February 20, 2023 at 5:53 pm #

            I read about Hubbert years ago in the peak oil context, but I heard about him again the other day in one of Sandi Adams’ interviews about Agenda 2030. I think she said he was one of the Agenda 21 people from Columbia University?
            I don’t think he made up his peak oil theories to serve the agenda, though, just that he (and they) realised that peak oil meant they needed to get on with their control and depop programme.

            Surmising, obviously, since I’m not in their heads.

          • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 5:55 pm #

            GA, sure they wood.

            Lots of money to be made. Also, do not forget that whatever they tell you about why they are doing it is quite likely far removed from the truth.

            I follow facts. And the only verifiable facts are that there is a cabal of crazed psychopaths that has run the world for quite a long time, and they have also apparently had a plan to do exactly what they are doing right now.

            All other narratives are bunk to me unless there is hard evidence. Follow the money. Always.

          • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 5:55 pm #

            “would”

          • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 5:58 pm #

            Reminds me: Take a listen to J. Dyer and his wife Jamie Hanshaw (Hanshaw, in particular, here) some time. They have done quite a bit of research into the methods of the cabal.

            One of the methods in context was seeding the narrative of resource scarcity. Many of the narratives we are familiar with have a long history tied to the Technocrats.

            Our unfortunate position is being around during the start of their end-game scenario.

          • Woodchuck February 20, 2023 at 7:14 pm #

            Owl says: “All other narratives are bunk to me unless there is hard evidence. Follow the money. Always.”

            Certainly. You’ll know for sure when it’s over, and following the money will be the best indicator. When energy returned on energy invested to pull oil out of the ground is negative, then no investor will purchase any oil company stock. Most of those oil companies will disappear. leaving only a few players left on the field. This is beginning to happen regarding North Dakota oil. Too many investors made little to nothing investing in drilling there, when the money for future drilling vanishes, so will ND oil. When they stop drilling, you stop driving. Simple as that. If you didn’t prepare for this event, you’ll be shit outa luck regarding transportation.

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 8:07 pm #

            Hindsight is perfect. Night will see the truth very well in his rear window since he won’t be moving any more.

          • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 10:51 am #

            Wood, not sure it will ever get that far. The plan is clearly to use this narrative to move everyone out of prosperity long before such a thing might ever occur. The science on the issue of oil depletion and regeneration is far from settled.

            Something kinda funny: I just saw that the EU ban on combustion engines will exclude high-end low-volume companies like Ferrari.

            Schwab and co. will continue to have access to their toys.

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

            The oil companies knew that oil was finite long before Hubbert.
            I ran across a lawsuit that was filed decades before the US hit peak oil.
            The Big Oil companies were suing “wildcatters”, that is, uppity men who drilled for oil on their own, tapping into the big pools that were around back then.

            The suit pointed out in legalese that oil was a finite substance. The argument was that since it was limited and would run out, only the big corporations could be trusted to dole it out properly, and that no one should be allowed to tap into the big pools under their own ground because it all should belong to the Seven Sisters.

            This was absurd, of course, but of course they won.

            I have a Los Angeles newspaper from 1920 that my grandfather saved. It reported that women had gotten the vote.

            But what I find most interesting is the ads. They were selling land for oil drilling all over the newspaper.
            Even when I was a kid it was very common to see pony pumps everywhere you went in the LA area. There was a lot of oil in LA.
            But it’s gone now, just like it’s mostly gone in Texas. People who can’t understand the concept of limits (which is most people, although I am always surprised when people here don’t get it), are shocked at the disappearance of the cheap oil they feel entitled to.

          • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

            Oil Depletion Allowance anyone? Been around since 1916. Them oil boys ain’t dumb.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:19 pm #

            Ask Night about carrying capacity. Use a humble example like a suitcase. He won’t get it. He refuses to.

          • Islander February 21, 2023 at 2:36 pm #

            Per Engdahl, Hubbert was an “agenda” guy from the get-go. I believe he was also a scientific nobody. Basically a huckster.

            I have posted info on that on earlier threads.

            OK,
            I found it in my email. Here is an excerpt:

            “In the early 1950s, a critical economic consideration was the difference in lifting costs — operatting costs: Saudi or other Middle East oil operations typically cost some 400% to 500% less compared with those in West Texas, California or Oklahoma. It cost US-Saudi ARAMCO oil companies about $0.20 to produce a barrel of Saudi oil that they sold to the market in the 1950s for $1.75. Under a special tax arrangement — on the argument of US national security — the US Treasury paid a sum, termed a Foreign Tax Credit, to the Saudi Government to insure the flow of cheap Saudi oil that was, in effect, bankrupting domestic US independent oil producers. The ARAMCO American oil companies got away with paying no taxes either in the US or in Saudi Arabia.[x]

            Little wonder that the major oil companies began a concerted drive to flood the domestic US oil market with their cheap Middle East oil, conveniently bankrupting thousands of small and medium-sized independent US oil producers.

            Despite all this, however, the Rockefeller oil majors faced a nightmare scenario. Oil was by then the primary energy driving the global economy. In a world where control over oil was the key to global power, they knew that significant non-Anglo-American players, as well as national oil companies not under the Rockefeller thumb, could also discover huge new fields such as Ghawar or Rumalia, thus ending the Anglo-American control of world oil.

            A radical new approach to their control of oil became urgent.

            Big Oil finds a new King

            As a first step, the major American and British oil interests concluded that a plausible scientific argument was needed that would propagate the convenient (for them) myth that the world’s petroleum resources were finite and depleting rapidly. For this job, they chose an eccentric petroleum geophysicist from the University of Chicago who was working for Shell Oil in Texas, a man named Marion King Hubbert, or King, as he preferred to be known.

            Hubbert was asked to deliver a paper to the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in 1956, an event that would become one of the most fateful examples of scientific fabrication in the modern era.

            Hubbert posited all of his 1956 conclusions on the unproven assumption that oil was a fossil fuel, a biological compound produced from dead dinosaur detritus, algae or other life forms originating some 500 million years back. Hubbert accepted the fossil theory without question, and made no evident attempts to scientifically validate such an essential and fundamental part of his argument. He merely asserted ‘fossil origins of oil’ as Gospel Truth and began to build a new ideology around it, a neo-Malthusian ideology of austerity in the face of looming oil scarcity.

            For the giant British and American oil companies and the major banks backing them, the myth of scarcity was necessary if they were to be able to control the availability and price of petroleum as the lifeline of the world economy. The scarcity myth was to be a key element of Anglo-American geopolitical power for more than a century.

            King Hubbert admitted in a frank interview in 1989 shortly before his death that the method he used to calculate total recoverable US oil reserves was anything but scientific. It might be compared with wetting one’s finger and holding it up to see how strong the wind is blowing.

            Hubbert told his interviewer,

            What was required there was that I need to know or have an estimate of the ultimate amount that could be produced…I know the ultimate and I know, I can only tailor that curve within a very narrow range of uncertainty. So that’s what was done. Those curves were drawn. I simply, by cut and dry, I mean, you drew the curve, calculated the squares, and if it was a little too much you trimmed it down or too little, you upped it a little. But there was no mathematics involved, other than the integral area under the curve, the integral pd dq by, at times, et, for accumulated production up to a given time…So with the best estimates I could get on the ultimate amount of oil in the United States, my own figure at the time was about 150 billion barrels. [xi]

            If Hubbert’s description of his methodology doesn’t sound like rigorous scientific procedure, that’s because it wasn’t. . . . ”

            There is more. This is from Engdahls’ book

            httpX://www.amazon.com/Myths-Lies-Wars-William-Engdahl/dp/3981326369

          • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 3:44 pm #

            “Ask Night about carrying capacity. Use a humble example like a suitcase. He won’t get it. He refuses to.”

            Nah, he simply asks you to tell us what carrying capacity is, and how you know we are at it.

            You can’t and you don’t, so answer my questions you won’t.

            Just snark and name-calling. Reminds me of our recently departed Lib-bots.

            🙂

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 4:45 pm #

            Sure, buddy, I’m glad to help you o. With carrying capacity at its simplest, we dealing with two things: a) the container b) and the things to be put into it. Staying with the simple example of the suitcase, the capacity is only so many cubic feet and/or inches. Given that two objects can’t occupy the same space at the same time, that means only so many clothes, books, papers, etc.

            Clear? If so, we can go on. When dealing with the Earth and the biosphere, other factors come into play. It becomes not just a matter of simple physics, but biological realities. You could fit all of the human race in Dallas in physical sense, but they would last very long, They could be kept alive in a matrix, each in its own bio-bubble, but they would no longer be happy, or even human unless drugged or some kind of high tech enable hypnosis, a la the movie.

            Clear? Or have I lost you? I assume the latter so I won’t go on until you give the all clear.

          • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 6:17 pm #

            You dodged the question again, buddy.

            What is the carrying capacity of the earth?

            Show your math (in detail) and provide hard evidence that we have overshot capacity based on this calculation.

            Been about 6 months now, and you still cannot answer.

            By all means, surprise me.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:01 pm #

            So you admit that carrying capacity is a real thing? Because above, you didn’t:

            Nah, he simply asks you to tell us what carrying capacity is, and how you know we are at it.

            You have to walk before you can run. Understand the concept in its simplest form, before understanding it in relation to the Earth.

          • Anthea February 21, 2023 at 10:27 pm #

            Night Owl may have a point in saying there is no proof that fossil fuels are “over.”

            Russia seems to have plenty.

          • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 2:54 am #

            What is the earth’s carrying capacity, Jarek?

            Why are you so shy?

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

            Define carrying capacity, sport. Before we can do any calculating, we have to know what we are calculating.

            We can brainstorm together. But of course being a greasy snake, you will now revert to saying there is no such thing.

          • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 4:14 pm #

            Why would I define something you claimed we have hit, sport?

            It is your term. But I assume it to mean he number of people the earth can support.

            Still no answer after all of these months.

            I am sure it is coming, however. You just need time for your calculations.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 5:39 pm #

            The Carrying-Capacity Buddies
            (with their new album, ‘Hold Me, Carry Me, My Buddy‘ just out!)

            Sure, buddy, I’m glad to help…” ~ Jarek

            You dodged the question again, buddy.” ~ NightOwl

            ====

            I’m unsure the carrying capacity can be exactly defined/measured because it’s not static. I will presume you both understand that.

            In that sense in part, some time ago elsewhen/where– maybe even here– I suggested that humans have 3 different sets of footprints:

            • The first is their actual footprints that we might see in the wet sand on a beach.

            © The second is their correspondingly much larger industrial-scale footprints.

            ? And the third is their smallest set that corresponds to how small we can get them with regard to using that big brain of ours in living in harmony– or better– with nature.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 5:42 pm #

            …So far, I’m really diggin’ ‘The Suitcase’! It’s fucked up, but in a good way!

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 8:24 pm #

            If you care to back to the trail head of the thread, I began to help him define it using the simple example of the suitcase and its contents. Of course he felt the noose tightening and immediately started yelling about the carrying capacity of the Earth – when he refuses to even define it or accept a definition from others.

            How can you reject an idea you don’t understand? And of course he doesn’t want to understand either – the moral aspect of cognition. The Will to Foolishness.

          • Night Owl February 23, 2023 at 4:32 am #

            Still dancing. No hard numbers or definition of what “carrying capacity” looks like for the earth, but he “knows” we have hit “carrying capacity.”

            Time for you to pack your suitcase and exit, methinks.

            Fuck this is sad.

          • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

            Do suitcases have a carrying capacity? If so, define it. If you think not, you are a silly, petulant child.

          • Night Owl February 23, 2023 at 4:22 pm #

            Yeah, take the dimensions of the suitcase and do the math.

            Fuck, you are stupid.

          • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 6:43 pm #

            Yes, Anthea, Russia still has oil.

            So does Iran. So does Iraq. So does Venezuela.

            In case you’re wondering how the US chooses the countries it brings Democracy™ to.

  37. MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 2:11 pm #

    Pepe Escobar
    @RealPepeEscobar:

    PENTAGON INSIDER CONFIRMS SY HERSH

    Biden ordered the bombing.

    Told Norway, Sweden, Denmark.

    NOT Germany.

    Planning leader: Sullivan.

    Members from CIA, NSA, Joint Chiefs, Treasury, State.

    Bombs detonated by Raytheon buoy.

    2 out of 8 failed.

    “Derision” among intel/military.

    https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1626544194960384002

    • Beryl of Oyl February 20, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

      If Russia wants to come and get them, I’m all for it.

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 2:26 pm #

        Pepe’s hit a chord. Go check out the responses he’s getting. Lots of blue checks & lots of anger. LOL.

      • BackRowHeckler February 20, 2023 at 3:09 pm #

        It’s just the opposite, Beryl. At the Munich Security Conference last week there was much talk amongst the participants of declaring the Russian invasion of the Donbas a Crime Against Humanity, and conducting some future Nuremberg style show trials to prosecute the War Criminals, with Putin, Lavrov, Medvedev etc. on the docket. How they would get these Gentlemen to the Hague to stand trial wasn’t spelled out. Maybe send the Sheriff to Moscow to arrest them.

        • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 7:39 am #

          Typical inversion. These people are committing global crimes against humanity so they project onto Putin and Lavrov (I’ve never been a Putin fan, but Lavrov has always (years before the SMO) appeared to me to be the epitome of rationality and common sense, compared to the numbskulls and reprobates we get over here.

        • benr February 21, 2023 at 8:41 am #

          There does not have to be a good guys and bad guys what if both sides are bad guys?

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 11:52 am #

            I suspect that is true too, benr. I don’t trust Putin, just because he’s protecting Russia’s interests on the geopolitical front. On the domestic front, he’s advancing digital ID and CBDCs, so whose interests is he advancing there?

            Perhaps Lavrov is a bad guy too. He just comes over as relatively sane compared to our politicians who are mad, bad or both.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 5:55 pm #

            Robin: “Who are the bad guys and who are the good guys, Batman?!”

            Batman: “I’m afraid it’s not so simple, Robin!”

            Robin: “So what do we do?!”

            Batman: “I’m afraid there’s not much we can do, Robin!”

            Robin: “So that’s it?!”

            Batman: “Well why do you always have to look to me for all the answers!?”

            Robin: “Because you’re The Batman!”

            Batman: “That’s too much responsibility!”

            Robin: “But you signed up for it!”

            Batman: “Alright that’s it! I’m done here! You’re on your own!”

          • Superman February 22, 2023 at 6:05 pm #

            Ok before you two leave, can either of you tell me who the fuck put kryptonite powder on my night-table?

            What’s the point of inviting me for a slumber-party?!

    • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 3:15 pm #

      Lol hilarious people need buy in from a pentagon source to believe Hersh’s account

    • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 3:48 pm #

      I will stick with Hersh here.

      There is no way WEF puppet Scholz was not consulted or did not have any knowledge of this act.

      The phony Greens here want anything but heated homes.

      • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 5:18 pm #

        Is he really contradicting Hersh that much though? I would also guess that Scholz knew – but then perhaps they’d have to kill him if they told him 😀

        I know Paula kept asking where in Hersh’s article did it say Scholz was in on it, was anyone able to offer that up?

        • Night Owl February 20, 2023 at 5:25 pm #

          IIRC, he said he met with Biden and somewhat reluctantly agreed to it.

          The reluctant part is something I also doubt.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 6:16 pm #

            And even if he didn’t know then, he knows now. And he’s apparently on board.

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 6:29 pm #

            Global Research agrees with you:

            Excerpt:

            “Early 2022: A covert operation was envisaged. The CIA reported to the Task Force: “We have a way to blow up the pipelines.” i.e. which is “untraceable”.

            While we are not privy to the conversations in the Oval Office between President Joe Biden and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the public declarations of both Biden and Scholz at the February 7, 2022 White House Press Conference confirm the following:

            – The “Secret Operation” was no longer Secret,

            – The Decision was made Public,

            – There was a de facto “bilateral understanding” between U.S. President Biden and Germany’s Chancellor Scholz to proceed with the act of sabotage of Nord Stream 2. ”

            (I have not watched the video yet).

            https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-has-germany-become-a-colony-of-the-united-states/5808803

          • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 3:43 am #

            Yeah. I think this is one of those situations where even if we did not have access to certain details, it just fits a pattern.

            Granted I am more tuned into it over here since I live here.

        • Islander February 20, 2023 at 6:21 pm #

          “was anyone able to offer that up?”

          Yeah, I told her to reread the article.
          It is obvious.
          Hersh says that they told Scholz about the plot in January 2022.

        • Islander February 20, 2023 at 6:21 pm #

          Plus, every article ABOUT the article (Escobar, Whitney, Helmer) has pointed to the same thing.

        • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

          Yes, Vice did. The rude people just chanted “Read the article again”, as if it were obvious, but Vice posted the comment they believed meant Scholz was notified.

          It was a matter of interpretation. I interpreted the statement to mean he agreed with the sanctions if Russia invaded, because he had been reluctant to go along with the sanctions before that, they interpret it to mean he agreed with the blowing up of the pipeline.

          We just disagree. It is annoying, though, when people arrogantly assume that their interpretation is the only one possible, and don’t even bother to provide what they think is evidence of their belief.

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

            Answering Mary here.

          • MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 1:04 pm #

            Thanks for clarifying, Paula. It appears you & Pablo are of the same (or similar) mind on this. I am just watching and waiting.

            No doubt in my mind (I think most of us here at CFN too) that the US sabotaged & blew up Nord Stream. Which is an act of war, IMHO, whether or not Scholz knew about it. If he did, I am pretty sure that makes him a traitor.

    • Mick February 20, 2023 at 7:05 pm #

      The silver lining to this is that it will probably hasten the demise of NATO. I just heard Hersh interviewed on Democracy Now, and he thinks this is the case as well.

      Very good interview by the way. I know, I know….it’s Democracy Now. But she does a good job interviewing folks.

  38. Roundball Shaman February 20, 2023 at 2:29 pm #

    “Apparently, all we’re left with is a game of pretend, using the Pretender-in-Chief as the front.”

    We have a whole lot of ‘pretend’ going on these days.

    We have a pretend ‘Democracy/Republic’.

    We have a pretend Constitution.

    We have pretend ‘Free Speech’.

    We have pretend ‘Privacy’.

    We have pretend ‘Rights’.

    We have pretend ‘Money’.

    We have a pretend State Media that masquerades as ‘Journalism’.

    We have a pretend President/Resident.

    We have a pretend ‘Empire’.

    We have pretend ‘Regulatory Agencies’.

    We have a pretend ‘Health Care System’.

    And on and on it goes…

    In fact, it’s much easier to identify what is ‘Real’ these days. Because the list is shorter. What is ‘Real’ today?

    Financial hardship. Injuries from toxic injections. Soaring food prices. Trains derailing. Lots and lots of Wokeness. Children confused about what kind of personal plumbing they were born with. Sanctioned Racial Prejudice against light-skinned people. A State Education system fully set up not to educate.

    And on and on THAT goes.

    We’re all living in a Make Believe World. The problem with that is that it still has very serious consequences for everyone.

    ‘Tell Me Another Story, Daddy!…’

    • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 3:22 pm #

      Well pretty much you can assume whatever the media says is not happening or whatever the media is criticizing therein lies the real or realer story. It seems pretty clear that the intention of the system is that most people pass through from birth to death never really knowing reality. Without the make believe the system itself would implode so its like a reinforcing mechanism that sorta happens organically. That is why people get so angry when their beliefs are challenged.

      • Roundball Shaman February 20, 2023 at 3:51 pm #

        SoftStarLight: “… the intention of the system is that most people pass through from birth to death never really knowing reality. Without the make believe the system itself would implode so its like a reinforcing mechanism that sorta happens organically. That is why people get so angry when their beliefs are challenged.”

        You just found the secret sauce and the ‘reality’ of living on Prison Planet Earth. The first (and hardest) step is to realize that you live in a fake conjured World spun out by dark magicians 24/7 for their own selfish benefit. And once one has realized that… the rest of the journey of personal liberation gets easy. You found your way out of the Maze. Out of the cave of darkness.

        The tragic part is that this is truly a magnificent creation on this spinning rock that we inhabit. And we are treasures of creation as well. And sadly, very few people ever realize that. They live out their lives in a matrix of harmful delusions. In fact, they hardly ‘live’ at all.

        • messianicdruid February 20, 2023 at 5:28 pm #

          Simulation Theory?

          • Roundball Shaman February 20, 2023 at 5:54 pm #

            messianicdruid: “Simulation Theory?”

            What is it really? It’s actually a Simulation WITHIN a Larger Simulation.

            Universe is conjured from the Large Simulation. The Dark Siders conjure Their own smaller dark and dissonant simulation atrocity realm from within the Larger.

        • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 5:55 pm #

          Oh wow I love finding the secret sauce lol!! I hope I have actually made it to that level really but have a long way to go I imagine. You are so very right about the sacredness of life and of the Earth and that many are asleep to those realities. I hope to awake people as much as I can in my own little sphere.

          • Roundball Shaman February 20, 2023 at 6:31 pm #

            SoftStarLight: “I hope to awake people as much as I can in my own little sphere.”

            Your sphere isn’t so little. Quantum physics teaches that we are all Universally Non-Locally connected to Everything Else that is. Everything is Energy… including us and our ‘bodies’. And all that Energy is in constant connection to and relationship with each ‘other’.

            So ‘Go for It’! You will have more influence than you will ever know. All of us do. That’s another part of the Secret Sauce is when one realizes this, too.

          • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 8:03 pm #

            I feel completely disconnected so its hard to believe that. A lesson for a different day I suppose.

          • Roundball Shaman February 20, 2023 at 9:40 pm #

            SoftStarLight: “I feel completely disconnected so its hard to believe that.”

            You manifest what you Feel and Believe at your deepest core level. See what things in your life that you feel you ARE connected to right now. Soak that feeling in deeply. Then start to see the web of connections that leads further out from there. Take those in… and keep repeating the process.

            There are many things working against us these days to make us feel disconnected. We have to counter that and not let that feeling in. Only you ultimately control what you feel. That is empowering.

          • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 10:28 pm #

            I’m feeling like its going to be a process. I have a lot of work to do. Do you charge by the hour lol? Thanks for lending an ear though for real. It’s nice to make a connection and appreciate that you heard me out. I hope you have a great evening Shaman!

          • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 3:25 pm #

            Roundball Shaman. . .

            Speaking of ‘non-locality’, we mustn’t forget that, that ‘non-locality’ is embedded within the matrix of Holographic Universe.

            This applies also to memory storage — whether it be ‘local’ engram or Akashic Record — all holographic and non-localized.

            I have always thought the BIG ‘kicker’ here is with respect to this ‘lattice’ — if you will, and it’s relationship to consciousness and the mind/brain divide.

            Just throwin’ in my 2 cents.

          • Roundball Shaman February 21, 2023 at 4:47 pm #

            ViceGrip: “…we mustn’t forget that, that ‘non-locality’ is embedded within the matrix of Holographic Universe. This applies also to memory storage.. all holographic and non-localized… the BIG ‘kicker’ here is with respect to this ‘lattice’… and it’s relationship to consciousness and the mind/brain divide.”

            The feeling of ‘Locality’ is a grand illusion. Or perhaps better said… a false limitation that we put on our consciousness to achieve the feeling of being small and in one place. There is but One Mind within which each of us is a living subset. But we never lose our base connection to The Whole. We can feel sometimes like we are not connect to The Whole. But when we do so we are indulging ourselves into limited thinking again which is how we play disempowering tricks on ourselves.

            The famous quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger once said, “The total number of minds in the universe is one.”

            At our heart, every human being is expansive and powerful – a piece of the Powerful Whole. Yet, we each have a trickster in our mind that lures us into thinking we are small and weak. We can often we be our own worst enemy. In fact, we actually ARE our own worst enemy. But only if we let the Trickster win.

            Everything is non-local i.e. ‘Everywhere’ through quantum entanglement. And yes, Knowledge as well.

          • badberries February 22, 2023 at 7:14 pm #

            You are part of the Universe(s), therefore what you do, think or say is part of the Universe and may affect every other part, unbeknownst to you.

            I have a suggestion/exercise and I hope you don’t think me quaint.

            Tonight, when you’re in bed, imagine you’re above your bed, looking down on yourself, seeing yourself positioned exactly as you are, seeing everything in the room, the furniture, closet door open? Box of Kleenex, alarm clock, clothes on the floor?

            Then once you have a thorough inventory, keep it in mind while also envisioning, as you rise through to the outside of the structure you are in.

            Imagine everything as it appears, cars, lights, all of the details while also holding the inventory of where you’re sleeping. Some call it Astral Projection, I call it “relief” meditation. It’s important to maintain connection with the “First State” so you can find your way back, not that you’ll get lost, it’s just a way to see that everything is one.

            Next progression is to look back on the city, town, area and see all of the landmarks that we take for granted. All the while maintaining the previous visions. I’ve been way beyond the planets holding simultaneous inventories. It’s pretty cool/calming and ends with laughter because life is funny.

            Just my 2 cents worth. -BB

          • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

            There is a small tribe in the Amazon that are much like our Wokies. They change their names constantly and think they thus different people. Their language is simple and easily learned, but they don’t think any outsiders are really speaking it even as they do so.

            Their IQ is estimated to be in the 50’s – lower than even the Australian Aborigines.

            They aren’t transcending themselves, they are simply in a state of collapse from a higher order (human) to a lower order (animal or sub-human).

          • Roundball Shaman February 23, 2023 at 1:45 pm #

            Jarek: “There is a small tribe in the Amazon… Their IQ is estimated to be in the 50’s… They aren’t transcending themselves, they are simply in a state of collapse from a higher order (human) to a lower order (animal or sub-human).”

            In the Quantum Realm (which is EVERYTHING…) there exists a fundamental and perpetual state of ‘unlimited potentials’. Literally anything can happen and manifest out of a vast pool of ‘potentials’. The Amazon tribe here is an example of the quantum nature of the human family itself. A portion of humans is manifesting itself as ‘descending’ or ‘collapsing’. Other portions of the human family are in fact transcending and become a greater consciousness. And a whole bunch are just stuck in the middle (for now).

            And we know which of these camps the Terminally Woke fit in to.

  39. anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 2:32 pm #

    Fomenting regime change to keep yourself oiled
    When the human cost keeps you soiled
    I bought the farm, believed their lies
    From grade school on
    I took the ties
    And killed my brothers
    Sisters too
    Melted children into glue
    And now we stand upon hells gate
    Total unabashed ingrates
    Our pates awash in graveyard slurry
    We are the damned
    This is our fury.

    • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 3:26 pm #

      Hells to the no. I ain’t helpin the demons. But. Should you choose not to. Your hell will be now.

    • Rulo Deschamps February 20, 2023 at 6:40 pm #

      Ay ay ay!

      • anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 7:35 pm #

        Enjoy fat tuesday y’all. Might be the last fat we see for awhile. And NO shooting crackerz!

        Oh lent, what shall I put aside?
        The ciggys or the interwebz,
        The beer or roasted meatz
        The chzcake or the taco chips
        Or all the little treats?

        What if I just did it all?
        Would my heart get any better?
        If perfect be the enemy of good
        Then maybe just a letter.

        Party on cfn! 😉

        • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 8:15 pm #

          Check out the movie “Father Stu” on Netflix. It really is a superb study of spiritual transformation, in his case, interconnected with his romantic and sexual personality.

          He fell in love with a very devout Catholic. Or did he fall in love with the Christ in her, hope of Glory? The vulgar oaf became a lover – and then approached sanctity. Amazing to hear him preach with authority to people to whom he had approached as a love struck oaf.

          • anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 9:33 pm #

            Cool. Will do. Whatz ur netflx code?

          • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 11:49 pm #

            Code? What code? You mean will you be able to see it up there? I don’t know. I suppose different countries allow different movies. Canada is no longer free and the Feds are now coming after Traditional Catholics down here.

            It doesn’t get into the Latin Mass and what not. It’s very cool but amazingly traditional (in the sense of being timeless) at the same time. Based on a real man and his path to the priesthood.

          • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 12:52 am #

            She needs your password to get into your account. If she can have your password why can’t I? You could give me viewing assignments and conduct pop quizzes to ensure that my homework is complete.

          • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

            Annie Mae, when Jaros sends you his password, watch My Octopus Teacher – you too Starlight.

            If you like it – and you will – please send me Jaros’ password.

            I had a Netflix account for about a month so I could watch the last season of Ozark, but I have since cancelled it because I don’t want to support Team Obama.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

            You mean we each have are own private Idahoes? Our own private Netflixes? They are choosing what shows and movies we can watch as INDIVIDUALS!?

            Octopus teacher, indeed! Cthulhu has risen. He will teach us new ways to shout, and new ways to kill. We may be screaming in terror now, but he will teach us to like it.

            And he is more like a Squid, by the way. Squids take on whales. And they have beaks. They once had wings. Cthulhu is their father, he has wings, and he can fly.

            Do people really give each other their codes? Or are you all just funning me?

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:45 pm #

            SSL: You can both watch Father Stu. It’s also a great story of feminine sacrifice. She thought she was getting a funny, crazy, hunky Gringo who was head over heels for her. She wasn’t sexy to begin with – though quite good looking. But he wore her defenses down and awakened the fires within.

            Then he suddenly decided to become a priest!

            Watch it and give me your report.

          • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 2:41 pm #

            We are not messin with ya jar. Your password plse!

          • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 2:44 pm #

            Bird, I saw a video on a guy who studied an octopus and became friends with it kinda…. is that the one?

            He was really sad when he released it and it gave him some kind of farewell signal.

          • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 3:31 pm #

            That’s the one. Thought you’d like it.

            Octopi, and their cephalopod cousins squid and cuttlefish, are ridiculously intelligent and very curious – as the intelligent tend to be.

            An octopus once grabbed my finger and tried to pull me to its burrow. A squad of squid once went into orbit around me as I filmed it, staring through the video lens right into the eye of the squadleader – looking back at me. I laid on the seafloor watching a female cuttlefish, less than a foot away, fasten her eggs one-by-one to the underside of a reef ledge.

            I can’t eat something that smart.

            Do I still get Jar’s password even though you already saw the film?

          • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 4:41 pm #

            Yes IT DOES BB! Ssl shld look that up on utube or rumble etc. That’s where I saw it.

            Unfortunately I luv kalamari. And have always wondered if u could harvest those red squid that wash up by the ton on cali beaches each year. Maybe the red ones r bad?

          • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:24 pm #

            Thank you Father. I was hoping we could watch together. Otherwise since I can’t get to netflix i will see if I can at least see some trailers or parts of it elsewhere. I see Mark Wahlberg is the star 🙂

          • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

            I’ll have to check that one out to Ani! It sounds interesting. I would love to have an octopus friend as long as it wouldn’t chop me up with its beak.

  40. farmgal February 20, 2023 at 5:06 pm #

    Well folks the our country is truly finished. Today I purchased a game for my granddaughter called Clue. It’s been around forever. Most oldsters will remember it. Anyway I wanted to make sure it was the original Clue and not some nifty iteration since she’s only seven.

    Seems as if racism reached its ugly head into the board game world. There is no longer a character named “Mrs. White”. She has been replaced by a sleek Asian inspired gal named “Dr. Orchid”. Doomed, I tell you. Doomed!

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    • stelmosfire February 20, 2023 at 5:52 pm #

      Did “Joe Biden” make them remove the “lead pipe” from the game. That seems to be a thing with him. He repeats it all the time.

    • Conrad February 20, 2023 at 6:56 pm #

      Weird, what some people think actually MATTERS.

      • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 8:13 pm #

        And what is supposed to matter?

        • Conrad February 20, 2023 at 8:54 pm #

          Because, SoftStarLight, it’s just Culture war bullshit.

          “Mrs. White” is/was also a “Houskeeper” – very English…my question is, why does it matter if the character has been changed?

          It’s like watching Tucker drone on about the ‘gender’ of freakin’ “M&Ms”…could there be anything more pointless?

          • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 10:31 pm #

            Lol i feel you. Like I really don’t care how many or how few vaginas or penises my m&ms have. I am eating them all LOL. When of course I allow myself to splurge on such things. Ta-ta

    • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 3:47 am #

      Next comes the awful CGI rework of the movie — George Lucas style.

      🙂

    • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 1:21 pm #

      Yeah, I just bought the latest version of Monopoly – the UBI version… No money, no board, just an empty goddamn box.

      • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 3:35 pm #

        Blackbird.. . Your comment is way beyond hilarious!

      • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 5:20 pm #

        Actually that could work, Blackbird. You could have a board, though, and start with 500 social credit points, which would go up and down according to whether you read unapproved websites, strayed into another geo-fenced zone, or bought an insect burger instead of a steak. Jail would be an internment camp, and once you’d landed on the ‘get your booster’ square, your goose would be cooked.

        • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 5:22 pm #

          Actually, it would probably work better with Snakes and Ladders, since there will be no property for the hoi polloi.

          • Night Owl February 23, 2023 at 4:27 am #

            It could still work if they changed the name of the game.

            Instead of purchasing property, one could work their way up the social-credit ladder and gain access to exciting opportunities like the ability to purchase eggs or leave one’s city district more than once per year.

        • Blackbird February 22, 2023 at 12:20 pm #

          The biggest problem with UBI Monopoly is all the other players dancing around claiming that they won.

    • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 3:32 pm #

      hmmmm. . .

      Kinda makes me wonder what *they* would do about/to the old game called ‘Operation’.

      • Blackbird February 21, 2023 at 4:44 pm #

        No doll needing its funny bone removed this time. Just a scalpel, some Super Glue, 2 or 3 breast implants, and some general instructions (paper towels not included).

  41. Pucker February 20, 2023 at 5:39 pm #

    It’s not the “Balloons”…..

    The open Mexico border and the lack of vetting of immigrants is probably a very fraught policy?
    They’ll come up from tunnels underneath you like the Viet Cong….

    Dumb Shits….

    “An 18 inch pipe bomb was discovered behind a church in the Holmesburg section of northeast Philadelphia.

    The bomb was found on Sunday afternoon behind St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, on the 8500 block of Frankford Avenue, according to reports by Fox 29.

    One Twitter account of the location of the bomb pinned it to train tracks behind the church. The bomb was “near [the] Conrail railroad tracks in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg section”.?#BREAKING: Police have discovered a 18-inch pipe bomb on Train Tracks“

  42. Mick February 20, 2023 at 6:03 pm #

    “:…the president has made American support for Ukraine the centerpiece of his argument for a revitalized alliance in Europe, and he had told advisers that he wanted to mark the first anniversary of the invasion as a way of reassuring allies that his administration remains committed….” — The New York Times, Feb 20, 2023”

    Biden remains committed eh? If I were in Europe I’d be very nervous about that statement. Which other country’s economy is he going to wreck next in the name of opposing muh Russia? Ask Germany about such “commitment”. They’re just lovin’ it!

  43. Mick February 20, 2023 at 6:36 pm #

    “Can we threaten to put US boots-on-the-Ground in Ukraine?”

    Russians laugh about this possibility. Well, they laugh about US troops specifically. The Woke Brigades. The Sissified Forces. Of course, Russia doesn’t want to be put in a position of having to kill them because it might lead to a nuclear exchange, since our government is made up of Russian hating sociopaths.

    I know most of you here know this, but many Americans have no idea how much the US Army and even Marines have been degraded over the past ten plus years. Most of the best soldiers and marines have left. The replacements are mostly horrifically laughable.

  44. Mick February 20, 2023 at 7:42 pm #

    If this guy, Brandon Smith, is right then there may have been a bit more to the China balloon. I’m talking about the first one that was initially spotted over Montana. I don’t know either way, but I’m sharing his post on the matter:

    “My home state of Montana was recently featured in news feeds this week as the first to observe and identify what the US Air Force says is a Chinese spy balloon. The Chinese claim it is a civilian weather apparatus that was blown off course and they expressed “regret” for the event, but the equipment visible in photographs suggests that this is a lie. Beyond that, another similar balloon has been spotted over Latin America – One wayward high tech Chinese balloon might be believable, but two is not a coincidence.

    There are numerous theories as to why such a surveillance platform would be used by the CCP and what it is designed to look for, and I thought I would offer a couple theories based on my years of study into similar projects pursued by the US Department of Defense and DARPA…..

    …..For a few years now DARPA has been playing with a concept for high altitude surveillance balloons using a technology called “Strat-OAWL.” Balloons have been fielded for centuries as surveillance weapons, but unpredictable wind and atmospheric changes push the balloons around, making them useless within a couple of days for any specific region.

    To break it down simply, Strat-OAWL is the experimental use of lasers to read wind speed and direction far ahead of a balloon. The balloon then uses that data to increase or decrease altitude to ride airstreams in whatever directing the military wants the balloon to go. This could allow increased navigational control, but the Holy Grail that DARPA seeks is a high alt balloon that can stay in one place indefinitely.

    I find this idea impractical, like most DARPA projects, if only because wind currents can change faster than any balloon can adjust altitude, but I do see the potential uses here. The Chinese could unleash hundreds of high flying spy balloons with similar capabilities to spy satellites at a fraction of the cost and with less risk of destruction by enemy fire. The CCP may be attempting to test their own version of the DARPA directional balloon tech, while also waiting to see if the US has the means to shoot down the devices.”

    alt-market.us/chinese-spy-balloons-potential-purposes-for-the-high-altitude-invasion/

    • anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 8:10 pm #

      I’ll bet it was thousands considering I saw one with another witness up here in nowhereville, canukistan.
      And…., my theory is, since it was sitting still above a large Catholic church, on not a windy day, is that it was after the shiny stuff in the tabernacle.
      Or just listening in for potential resistance when they announce the invasion wether it be cpp or aliens, not to be confused with those other aliens.

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 8:18 pm #

        Say this: This is ani, reporting from the Canadian desert. They made a desert and called it peace. And then gave us toxic sludge and called it manna for dessert.

        • anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 9:22 pm #

          Amen jar

    • TaxDonkey February 20, 2023 at 8:33 pm #

      The biggest threat to the American people is the traitors running the government, not a balloon.

      • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 1:43 pm #

        No shit.

    • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

      I don’t know where you live, Mick, but I live here in flyover country and I can testify that the jet stream that week was incredibly powerful.
      It blew arctic air into my state, causing an ice storm that damaged me personally.
      It also blew tree branches all over the place. Actually, my daughter lives in Texas and the storm blew all the way south to Texas. Her roof was damaged by a tree limb that was blown down.

      But if you prefer to believe that the Chinese will use floating balloons instead of satellites, in order to look at the manhole covers over the nuclear siloes in Montana, you go right ahead.

      And if you want to believe that “high flying spy balloons with similar capabilities to spy satellites at a fraction of the cost and with less risk of destruction by enemy fire” makes sense, even after the hoopla of the US shooting down said balloon, plus bonus balloons, and knowing that the US has never shot down a satellite……
      then you go right ahead and believe.

    • ViceGrip February 21, 2023 at 4:01 pm #

      Very interesting info Mick. Thanks for sharing.

      I had heard somewhere this balloon discussion talking about LIDAR at that altitude vs. satellites.

      Sideways scanning as opposed to vertical I think.

  45. Pucker February 20, 2023 at 8:50 pm #

    What happened to Canada? Canada used to be a stalwart, level-headed defender of Common Sense and Freedom? WTF?

    “ Commissioner Paul Rouleau said on Friday that the federal government met the “very high” threshold needed to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter, citing “a failure in policing and federalism.”
    “Lawful protest descended into lawlessness, culminating in a national emergency,” he wrote in his highly anticipated report, tabled Friday in the House of Commons.

    “Invocation of the Emergencies Act is a drastic move, but it is not a dictatorial one.”

    The document sheds new light on one of the most controversial decisions ever made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. On Feb. 14, 2022, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to end the protests that had blocked downtown Ottawa’s streets for nearly a month.

    The protesters were angry with the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements. They parked large vehicles on key arteries in the capital city and honked their horns incessantly for days.

    It was the first time the law had been triggered since it was created in 1988.”

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    • Pucker February 20, 2023 at 9:23 pm #

      “We had to throw the peaceful protesters into prison and confiscate their bank accounts because they were honking horns and blocking traffic in Ottawa.”

      • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 1:50 pm #

        Makes perfect sense. How dare they honk their horns!

    • anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 9:29 pm #

      I don’t know where she got her info, this German Canadian doc I had for dinner,… with fava beans!
      But really, she was arguing that it just wasn’t that simple.

      I told her there was an agreement in place by the original organizers to end the protest before they sent the army in. That the Nazi flag dude was a Liberal plant.
      No go. She knew it all. I gave up.

      • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 3:50 am #

        It’s funny how the opposition are always “Nazis” and “right-wing extremists” no matter where in the world they are opposing WEF policy.

        In addition, it sure is odd that every country is now talking about rolling out digital ID and a CBDC all at the same time.

        😀

        • MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

          In Italy, they are teaching kids to use bitcoin in class.

          • Amman February 21, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

            Delusional.

        • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 2:58 pm #

          Just in case it all goes dark, I know I’ve said this a thousand times, but God will intervene in 3 and a bit years.

          Please have long haul food and water stored in house.
          Please pray for the dead, the deluded, for forgiveness.
          Please have a bible and candles handy.

          Afterthewarning.com or countdowntothekingdom.com have exhaustive spiritual preps and advice.

          You will need stuff to seal and blacken your windows for the days of darkness.
          Under no circumstance open your door to familiar voices on that day.

          Such a pleasure reading Jim and yourselves. Thanks.

      • Q. Shtik February 21, 2023 at 11:01 pm #

        this German Canadian doc I had for dinner – anmari

        =========

        OMG, you ate a doctor for dinner?!?!

        • Paula D February 22, 2023 at 11:57 am #

          Canada. That’s how they do.

          I saw a cookbook from Canada titled: “Cooking with Transwomen”.

          Although I approve of the idea, I was surprised that they could publish the how-tos.

    • benr February 21, 2023 at 8:23 am #

      One easy word.

      Socialism.

  46. Jarek February 20, 2023 at 8:58 pm #

    Wikipedia

    One of Blake’s strongest objections to orthodox Christianity was that he felt it encouraged the suppression of natural desires and discouraged earthly joy. In A Vision of the Last Judgement, Blake says that:

    Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governd their Passions or have No Passions but because they have Cultivated their Understandings. The Treasures of Heaven are not Negations of Passion but Realities of Intellect from which All the Passions Emanate Uncurbed in their Eternal Glory. (E564)

    The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy, 1795; Blake’s vision of Hecate, Greek goddess of black magic and the underworld
    Some of his words concerning religion in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

    All Bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following Errors.
    1. That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body & a Soul.
    2. That Energy, called Evil, is alone from the Body, & that Reason, called Good, is alone from the Soul.
    3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Energies.
    But the following Contraries to these are True
    1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that calld Body is a portion of Soul discernd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
    2. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
    3. Energy is Eternal Delight. (Plate 4, E34)

    The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, c. 1825. Watercolour on wood.
    Blake did not subscribe to the notion of a body distinct from the soul that must submit to the rule of the soul, but sees the body as an extension of the soul, derived from the “discernment” of the senses. Thus, the emphasis orthodoxy places upon the denial of bodily urges is a dualistic error born of misapprehension of the relationship between body and soul. Elsewhere, he describes Satan as the “state of error”, and as beyond salvation.[89]

    Blake opposed the sophistry of theological thought that excuses pain, admits evil and apologises for injustice. He abhorred self-denial,[90] which he associated with religious repression and particularly sexual repression:[91]

    Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
    He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence. (7.4–5, E35)

    He saw the concept of “sin” as a trap to bind men’s desires (the briars of Garden of Love), and believed that restraint in obedience to a moral code imposed from the outside was against the spirit of life:

    Abstinence sows sand all over
    The ruddy limbs & flaming hair
    But Desire Gratified
    Plants fruits & beauty there. (E474)

    Jarek: Another view for sure, but yet one that illuminates the Christian struggle from a distance. If chastity was easy for Augustine, what would have been the victory, for him and the glory he then gave to God for that victory? You can’t sublimate what you don’t have. Those richly endowed with sexuality, have a powerful rocket fuel to draw upon on the spritual quest. Don’t take it for granted. Not every one has it. For them chastity (in marriage) and celibacy come easy. How very unfortunate.

    Blake says as much someplace: A sexuality that can be controlled was always a weak one. He’s wrong, but almost right. Buddha himself said it was the ultimate opponent on his path (one of monastic celibacy).

    Alba mocks Augustine for not being able to keep it in his pants. Two weeks ago she mocked Aquinas “as just some fella”. Mocking the Friends of God is not the way, no not at all.

    One can disagree on some points, indeed Aquinas disagreed with Augustine here and there. But always with deep respect that is due them. If God is infinite and men diverse in their natures, then each man will draw something a bit different from that ocean and climb the Mountain in a somewhat unique way.

    Blake went back and forth it seems. The early Blake was all for free love, the later one more guardedly so, knowing more about the dangers of lust.

    If he had only lived to see women freed of all responsibility! Or as normies say, if only Hegel had lived to see Herr Hitler. Perhaps he would have danced for Joy? Did not Nietzsche call Zarathustra the Dancing Philosopher?

    • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 9:30 pm #

      Women have no responsibilites?

      That’s a new one.

      Hahahahaha!

      Bonkers.

      • Uncle Bob February 20, 2023 at 10:14 pm #

        I think Jarek may be writing in terms of the old concept of “men’s sphere” and “women’s sphere,” where men were protectors and providers while women were nurturers — or men hunted and women gathered, if you prefer. In our existing society, one could argue that men have been neutered by Harris and hectoring them.about whatever “inequalities” come to mind, while women
        are encouraged to take on the traditional men’s roles while spurning having and raising children, all while everyone is encouraged to fuck anyone and anything, regardless whether it moves or even draws breath. If you don’t have to care for your family because you’re preoccupied with your career and deciding whose bed you’ll crawl out of at 5:30 AM tomorrow, it can be argued that you lack many responsibilities, correct?

        • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 10:16 pm #

          Uncle Bob, he clearly states:

          “If he had only lived to see women freed of all responsibility!”

          By which he refers to present day.

          Try again, Bobbers.

        • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 10:20 pm #

          Go suck a lemon Gramps

          • MaryQueen February 20, 2023 at 11:17 pm #

            LOL!!!

          • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 11:24 am #

            There’s so much more where that came from LOL. But i’m going to be good today!

          • Disaffected February 21, 2023 at 3:24 pm #

            Better cut back on the root beer tonight, SSL. You’re getting out of control.

          • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

            Lol no root beer for me today. I was thinking of a virgin daiquiri though but that may make me super cray cray 😉

    • anmariwakaranai February 20, 2023 at 9:59 pm #

      Blake was obviously on drugs, and probably had the spirochetes wriggling around in his grey matter t’wards the end. But, he is great. I had his painting of the angel covering the naked christ Hanging in my younger days.

      And his writing, poetry, luminous stuff.

      But his theology sucks. I think he’s right about love but gets lost in the non duality.
      True love annhilates all in its path.
      The kundalini blows out cher brain, there’s a snake worth fighting for.

      Zoraster back up your no eternal hell theory btw. Just scroll down till u hit Zoraster.

      classroom.synonym.com/what-are-the-demons-of-the-seven-deadly-sins-12083802.html

      • Jarek February 20, 2023 at 11:56 pm #

        Nietzsche went mad with Syphilis, not Blake. He was always “mad” or was he utterly Sane – like so many other great artists and mystics, though without guidance of tradition so prone to error and extravangance.

        • messianicdruid February 21, 2023 at 6:49 am #

          Get out your scissors!

          New International Version
          They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”

          New Living Translation
          Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’”

          English Standard Version
          in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

          Berean Standard Bible
          They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’?”

          Berean Literal Bible
          And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'”

          King James Bible
          But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

          New King James Version
          And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

          Not hard to understand.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:53 pm #

            In other words, the whole world has to convert to your Hebrew style Christianity.

            C’mon maan. That’s simply fatuous even if it is Fat Tueday, if it is. Is it?

    • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 8:41 am #

      “Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governd their Passions or have No Passions but because they have Cultivated their Understandings.”

      I think that would possibly have referred to some kind of earthly heaven. Admission to Heavenly Heaven is, according to Christian dogma, only on condition of admitting you’re a sinner and therefore reliant on the grace of Christ to get you in.

      And I didn’t mock Augustine, I merely said he wasn’t disinterested in the matter (because, as you mentioned, he couldn’t keep it in his pants). Even the Calvinist tradition – not that I’m a Calvinist – relies heavily on Augustine. What I took issue with was his concern (like yours) for men in the prositution equation and apparent lack of concern for the prostitutes (who are/were supposed to do what exactly, after the end of their brief career, if people like you consider them fit to exploit but not to marry).

      I’m not sure if the suggestion was made (not by you) that celibate priests all gave up something that didn’t mean that much to them anyway. Perhaps they secretly keep pictures of Salma Hayek too. 🙂

      • messianicdruid February 21, 2023 at 10:57 am #

        Celibacy is a personal choice, not a requirement of the priesthood.

        “Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air, but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”

        • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 11:08 am #

          “Celibacy is a personal choice, not a requirement of the priesthood.”

          Indeed. Enforcing it seems to cause endless trouble.

      • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

        If a man breaks his marriage vow with another man’s wife, he wreaks double havoc – his own family and the other man’s. His wife and the other man’s. His children and their children.

        But if this righteous sinner goes to a woman of the evening, so much suffering is avoided.

        And a stray cat woman? She is most unlikely to go to a male escort. Hopefully she will cheat with a single man.

        As someone said, we need a patron saint of Prostitutes. But in Christianity, they only become Saints after they have left the profession. Buddhism is a bit looser in this regard.

        In any case, no one makes them do this work. And they are free to renounce it and become nuns and saints at any time.

        Human Trafficking and sexual slavery exist of course. I for one would have no mercy on the perpetrators. And I would take a very dim view of states that allow it – like Israel, or at least the Israel of a few years ago. They may have reformed. Not sure.

        • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 4:53 pm #

          St Magdalene pray for us. And for those poor slavic girls locked up in Israeli brothels.

        • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 5:10 pm #

          “A stray cat woman” and a “righteous sinner”.

          Your ‘morality’ is so repulsive there are no words.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:05 pm #

            Why you humorless boor! Christ said he came for the sinners. Just like there would be no hospitals if there were no sick or injured people.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:20 pm #

            But hey, anything to admit that the Fathers had a valid point about the value of prostitutes, right?

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:43 pm #

            correction: rather than admit

          • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 6:54 am #

            Ah, the old cop-out, ‘I was being humorous’. Right.

            I merely said that, if prostitutes have value, men who use them should not consider themselves anything other than on the same moral level as the prostitutes, whatever they consider that to be. That should go without saying.

            Prostitution will be with us forever. So will abject male hypocrisy. I think we can agree on that and let the world continue turning, toadie.

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

            Women are far more stringent in their appraisal of men than men of women. In terms of tinder (I’ve never been on it), men swipe right 60% of the time, women 4% of the time.

            General date: Women are only interested in the top 20% of men. Average women don’t want average men in other words. And the top 20% of women only want the top 4% of men.

            The rest of men could just drop dead for all women cared. They are invisible and that’s how women like it. They hate having to deal with them or us (sometimes I’m in this category, sometimes I’m not).

            You never want to talk about this (add italics) though, do you?

            Always fight on the enemy’s soil. Or as Og used to say about his wife and Mary: attack, attack, attack.

            Thus you charge of “hypocrite” carry no weight since you are the bigger one.

            A man wants to know who his kids are, so he doesn’t support ones that aren’t his. Women don’t have this problem and therefore have no sympathy. They actually say things like, Why should men even care?

            Beyond that, a man wants a good wife and mother, and a body that is free from disease. Prostitutes don’t offer any of that. They are poor wife material, Alba.

            But yes, they are worthy to be treated with respect and fair dealing, certainly. From a higher perspective, casual sex is a grotesque fallacy. That’s why it is looked down upon by the saints and sages of all religions.

            If men knew, they wouldn’t engage in it. If women knew, they would choose other work.

          • messianicdruid February 25, 2023 at 8:17 am #

            I used to think people did stuff because they didn’t “know” any better. Naïveté.

  47. Pucker February 20, 2023 at 9:21 pm #

    “Hi, I’m Greg Hunter for USA Watchdog Dot Com. Today’s guest is a homeless serial killer and alcoholic who just escaped from prison where he was a participant in the Deep State’s MK Ultra and other mind control experiments before finding Jesus. He accurately predicted the 2008 financial crisis, and he’s been spot on with numerous other predictions including his prediction that the Biden Administration would shoot down the Chinese spy balloon.”

    • SoftStarLight February 20, 2023 at 10:23 pm #

      Why don’t you tell the Biden Administration to shove the stupid Chinese spy balloon up their ass

      • Disaffected February 21, 2023 at 3:22 pm #

        Ouch!

        • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:32 pm #

          Careful careful or you’ll be next LOL

    • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 11:23 am #

      Now don’t you disappear Puckie just because I said that lol. Last night was last night and today is today 😉

    • malthuss February 21, 2023 at 8:10 pm #

      greg disappeared from Utube or was banned. Zionist I think.

  48. KesaAnna February 20, 2023 at 11:11 pm #

    ” Wow. Very powerful account, KA. ”

    — BackrowHeckler

    Thanks , but don’t go overboard.

    For me , writing —

    — military fluff

    — horror stuff

    — smut

    is pretty easy.

    You could practically write this stuff while in a coma .

    Write an actually useful and decently – written gardening how – too ?

    Fuck !

    That’s some hard shit.

    • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 1:00 am #

      You’re so smart Kesa. You could create a niche market for people who enjoy militant, horrific, smutty how-toos.

  49. KesaAnna February 20, 2023 at 11:41 pm #

    ” What the Catholic church IS a haven for, in every possible instance and numbers breakdown, is the usual childish anthropocentrism, which preaches that however many human organisms we can stack and sandwich in the landscape is the ideal, and that each of these organisms comes automatically with God’s blessing, and any means for feeding and clothing all these divine organisms is also blessed by the almighty, carte blanche. ”

    — Gustafson

    In this case you are preaching to the choir.

    When the car sitting in the church parking lot is a Catholic Escalade , and the person still has a full set of teeth at 50 , because at age 12 they had 10k to spend on dentists ,

    and they just got back from a trip to Rome ,

    and they start guilt – tripping me over the subject of Charity ,

    I promptly completely tune them out.

    Or , like when a person is spending two thousand a month on rent or mortgage , instead of living rent – free with relatives ,

    because they can’t even compromise with a relative over how a kitchen should be arranged ,

    but ask why those silly Israeli’s and Palastinians can’t compromise over that quarter – acre.

    Or why those Protestant’s in Ulster ( I don’t even fucking like Protestants ) are so against a united Ireland — when in a united Ireland they would be promptly and always out – voted — and if my Catholic kin are so on the level , how come they NEVER mention that detail ?

    Well ….. call me a Cafeteria Catholic.

    There are quite a few things I flatly ignore , or dismiss out of hand .

    But would it really be any different anywhere else ?

    Well , I’m 56 , and didn’t join the Church until 2014 .

    So , already , my preponderant experience is ;

    Nope.

    • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 12:23 am #

      Guilt tripping is part of traditional culture. Get with the program or get out. Culture means getting the large majority on the same page. Not easy to do since the majority is usually dumb so things have to be dumbed down for them.

      The Abrahamic cultures are very problematic since their stance is everyone else is wrong and only they are right. So I’m an outsider from the get go on that one since that does not accord with God’s Providence.

      We asked you to stop using the Savior’s name in vain and your protested vigorously – but you stopped. Thank you.

      • KesaAnna February 21, 2023 at 1:20 am #

        ” … that does not accord with God’s Providence. ”

        Marcus Aurulius used that phrase quite a bit.

        A coincidence ?

        One of my favorite authors he was .

        ” The Emperor of the Remains of the Day ” I might call him.

        ( The movie , ” The Remains of the Day ” was a movie I liked so much that after watching it twice I have never been able to bare watching it again.

        Two hours of sobbing is a bit much.

        I don’t hate everything about the Brits ,

        I just hate the Brits.

        But favorite movies , and the Brits , are a different topic . )

        He was a pagan of course.

        Probably never even heard of Christianity.

        But then , how is it that you can read Marcus Aurulius ?

        They found a copy in King Tut’s tomb ?

        No , the best I can make out ,

        just as the Catholic Church has one of the worlds largest collections of pagan art ,

        so , likewise , the Catholic Church saw fit to preserve the largely theological ruminations of this pagan.

        I guess you could call it philosophical ?

        But ,

        ” Even those things we commonly perceive as the very worst things seem to work out to the good , no less than the good things ”

        sounds pretty theological to me.

        I guess you could say the Catholic Church is quite sophisticated !

        —-

        Or you could say the Catholic Church is quite decadent.

        —-

        or just plain depraved.

        Whatever.

        I don’t care.

        There’s nothing like the Church Jesus Christ founded.

        ( Psst ! Don’t tell the Protestants that , though ! )

        • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 9:02 am #

          They already know. They’re part of it.

          • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 1:56 pm #

            Pope Leo affirmed that your sacraments are absolutely null and void. Pope Francis, so called, plans to make void our sacraments too. Perhaps we shall meet in the catacombs, in the place where the darkness is Light.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 2:46 pm #

            Pope Leo is entitled to his opinion. The Celtic Church has its own long history.

        • AmericanObserver February 21, 2023 at 1:05 pm #

          When the Roman empire split in the 300’s the Eastern part (which we now call the Byzantine empire) lasted until 1453. That’s why some things from antiquity survived into the Renaissance times and could be preserved or copied.

        • Woodchuck February 21, 2023 at 1:47 pm #

          Up until age six, my only experience regarding churches was what we had here in Eastern TN protestant Bible Belt churches. Plain and simple boxes with not much inside them regarding paintings or sculptures. Statues in churches were regarded as idolatry and Roman Catholics regarded with suspicion.

          Then I spent my first summer in Bavaria and toured some Bavarian Catholic Churches that were like displays of overdone acid trips inside. Fantastic explosions of light, color, sound, and shapes inside these baroque churches. I experienced the Weiskirche while an organist was working the pipe organ inside the church. For those not familiar with the building, check it out sometime on google images. The one statue in the church that impressed me above all others was the one of St. Jerome holding a large book in his arms with a human skull resting on the pages. I asked my mom a number of times what the skull was doing there, she didn’t know.

          Today, the artists and craftsmen required to create such a building no longer exist.

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

            It turns out the peasants of the past had more free time than the workers of the present.

          • malthuss February 21, 2023 at 8:11 pm #

            one of my clan carved the stations at St pats, NYC.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 8:30 pm #

            Talking of artists and craftsmen, one church I’d love to see, but doubt I will at this stage, as it’s on Orkney, is the little chapel built by Italian prisoners of war from two Nissan huts joined end to end.

            The prisoner who did most of the interior decoration stayed on in Orkney after his fellow prisoners were released, in order to finish the chapel.

            en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel

            “The light holders were made out of corned beef tins. The baptismal font was made from the inside of a car exhaust covered in a layer of concrete.”

            Now that’s creativity.

        • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 4:58 pm #

          Remains of the Day. The book is even better.

          How does the big guy or if you like, nature itself take care of over pop?
          It might not be pretty but at least it aint mrna therapy! Abomination!

    • gustafson.robert.22 February 21, 2023 at 1:51 pm #

      Haha. Nice. Respect.

      I grew up Protestant and actually converted Catholic in my twenties, though I’m no longer involved. I respect the best aspects still though, more than almost anything Protestant.

      • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 3:04 pm #

        The only two people I know of in recent history who went from Protestant to Catholic were a student sort-of friend in the 70s who became a Catholic at the same time as he came out as gay, and Tony Blair, who became a Catholic following his war criminal activities in Iraq.

        I don’t know what that means.

        • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 3:16 pm #

          My BFF was brought up Catholic, but it didn’t stop him from being happy with being gay. It is my observation that Catholics take the whole confession thing as a license to do whatever they want the rest of the week.

          Anyway, his sister converted to some weird-ass evangelical religion and started telling him he was a sinner. This bothered him because she was his favorite sister. (He came from a Catholic family of 9, so he had his choice),

          So then he started taking religion seriously, and reading passages from the Bible to me to prove it was OK to be gay. It drove me nuts. I kept telling him to leave me alone, I didn’t care if he was gay, and I definitely didn’t want to be preached to.

          Anyway, maybe that is why your friend went Catholic. Maybe he came from one of those crazy Protestant sects.

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 3:18 pm #

            And maybe Tony Blair confessed that he was a war criminal and had the blood of millions on his hands, but once he did 19 Hail Mary’s and 22 Our Father’s, it was all cool.

          • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 7:21 pm #

            He was a wishy-washy Anglican, by his own description!

            As for Blair … quite possibly. Although I think of him more as a Satanist these days, what with his global digital ID and Jabs ‘R’ Us proclivities.

        • gustafson.robert.22 February 21, 2023 at 5:17 pm #

          Both funny, lol.

          • gustafson.robert.22 February 21, 2023 at 5:30 pm #

            There’s something a little faggy about most adult male modern religious practitioners, I think… Blair included.

  50. Htruth February 20, 2023 at 11:42 pm #

    Banksters control East Palestine narrative: https://americanyellowvest.wordpress.com/

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  51. Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 4:27 am #

    “Christine Anderson, MEP demands transparency re the EU Pfizer contracts negotiated by Ursula Von der Leyon valued at 71bn euro/10 dose per person.

    They offered her the chance to view the contracts but with an NDA attached and she refused!

    The people deserve to know the truth”

    https://twitter.com/SaiKate108/status/1627900490213359616?cxt=HHwWgIDQjd63u5ctAAAA

    TEN doses per person.

    “Covid is real and wasn’t pre-planned, we swear”

    LOL.

    • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 10:36 am #

      CA is fantastic. Seeing an honest politician does one good.

  52. The Man They Call Zazelle February 21, 2023 at 5:22 am #

    Victory Gardens & Special Periods?

    It leaves our country to stew in its own rancid economic and financial juices in abject isolation from, basically, the rest of the world.” ~ JHK

    ——

    ‘Basically’, except maybe Canada? Big places, lots of resources & opportunity.

    (Apple computers announced recently that it was ‘coming home’. MAGA? Trump re-election?).

    And/Or maybe also a renewed optimism for moving forward on its own Cuban-style Special Period.

    ======

    “…will be another humiliation for ‘Joe Biden’ and the crew behind him, as bad as the last days in Kabul.” ~ JHK

    ——

    You may want to add double quotes around ‘humiliation’ too, since it is uncertain some people can really experience that emotion. If you agree, maybe go back and edit that, Jim. But before you do…

    ======

    Secret Agent Man ‘Joe Biden’ turned up in Kiev Monday morning…” ~ JHK

    ——

    Not very secret, is it. More double quotes?.

    Anyway…

    ======

    Secret Agent Man (1966)

    youtu . be/7hPm4eiiD08

    • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 9:21 pm #

      Zazelle, you asked me about vegetarians and protein, but I didn’t see it until the new thread started.

      I used to follow Adele Davis, who was very big on protein. So I didn’t just eat animal flesh, I ate animal organs, like liver, brains, thymus and heart, as she recommended.

      But then I took physiology and learned that Americans eat too much protein and it is bad for your kidneys.
      My A&P professor had a fondness for kidneys, and I developed a healthy respect and fondness for them also.

      So I don’t worry about getting “enough” protein. That’s not really a thing in the US.
      I eat a very wide variety of grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, vegetables and fruits. I also eat eggs when I can find them and dairy products.

      As my dad always said: “Variety is the key to good health”.

      So far it’s working out for me.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 11:20 pm #

        Thanks Paula. While that’s good to know, my question had to do with things like, say, vitamins b12 and b6 and/or other things that might be missing that we might need and that meat offers. Iodine?

        I seem to recall that iodine can be had in egg yolks, although that’s not vegan, but might still be vegetarian.

        In any case, I’m not that strict about what I eat, as long as it’s diverse and balanced enough which I already make sure about for the most part (not counting my binges).

        • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 11:02 am #

          OK, I misunderstood. I eat eggs from my chickens, so that covers B12.
          You can get B6 from plant foods.
          I never thought of iodine. I used to eat kelp but I stopped when Fukishima blew.
          Well, I’m not going to worry about it. If I get a goiter I’ll reconsider.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 9:17 pm #

            Good to know. Iodine may be available in egg yolks but I forgot.

  53. KesaAnna February 21, 2023 at 5:34 am #

    ” (despite your endless, endless comments about hating Brits, which presumably don’t count as snide comments). I don’t care if you hate Brits by the way – hate whomever you like. ”

    Thanks.

    I wish more people were so Liberal.

    I think if I were as thin – skinned as some seem to think , I wouldn’t have survived the United States two years.

    Never mind smoking.

    ” But I suppose the moral of the story is that no-one must react to Jarek’s posts mentioning the male Christian’s right to prostitutes because you were in the industry for five minutes. That seems reasonable. Not. ”

    I would say that it was more like I was NOT saying your view was wrong.

    I WAS saying there were other ways of looking at it.

    Well ,

    My own opinion is that where sex is concerned , there are few subjects about where so very much is written ,

    but so very little to be learned.

    Where perhaps the best thing always is to promptly change the channel , because maybe there is more real content in watching professional wrestling .

    So then I write an essay as long as your arm.

    Oh well.

    I don’t suppose it would do any good to point out that I am hardly in the top ten of CFN’s primary contributors to that aspect of the culture wars , or the war between the sexs ?

    Sort of like I have been a supporter of the Russian Army basically my entire life ,

    But near as I can tell , JHK writes ten times as much about Russian military prowess and successes as I do.

    So it goes…

    • GreenAlba February 21, 2023 at 10:35 am #

      I certainly don’t disagree with your repeated point that there are many ways of whoring, like working in the media, science, medicine, law, education, politics and endless other activities (although there are good nurses, doctors, acientists, teachers and even lawyers too, and even a small handful of politicians). For the mainstream media, the less said the better.

      • RelativeGuise February 21, 2023 at 6:13 pm #

        ha! you said ancient tits.

        (runs away)

    • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 11:19 am #

      I have yet to right an arms long essay. That should probably change lol. But then my luck Q would probably be the first one to reply with TLDR.

  54. benr February 21, 2023 at 8:58 am #

    The more I learn about China the more I realize these people are crazy.

    Gutter oil, aka sewer oil.

    If you don’t know what it is look it up.

    Nasty just nasty.

    Anything to make a buck err yuan.

    • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 11:05 am #

      Omg is this the type of stuff that you think about right around breakfast time? ick!! How can they even go there? It is very disgusting fer sure!

    • Disaffected February 21, 2023 at 3:21 pm #

      Reminds of my first job at an upscale steak house WAY back in the day. They put their butter pats out in little dished with the meal. When the bus boys brought all the dishes back, we were tasked with emptying the butter dishes and the cheese sauce dishes – both often with cigarette butts in them – into containers for reuse. They would both be reheated and filtered through cheesecloth before reuse, and the butter was only used to cook with on the grill, but even so it was a rather unsavory practice. The steak house is long gone now, but I would only hope others aren’t doing stuff like this as well. On the other hand, the restaurant industry in general is rather quirky in that regard.

      • malthuss February 21, 2023 at 8:13 pm #

        I have seen similar..ya never know.

        Robbie Robertson [rock hall of fame] recalls a chinese restaurant with ‘trapped cats’ in his memoir.

        • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 10:45 am #

          That place was a little shop of horrors. As my first job, it was certainly a wakeup call as to the ways of the business world. 16 hour days on Saturday nights, NO OT pay, pretty much violated every OSHA law on the books. I was SO FUCKING naïve at the time! The next two jobs weren’t much better.

  55. Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 10:46 am #

    The new Jan. 6 Capitol videos amount to a mountain of evidence that the Feds created the entire event.

    https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1627783256287375361?cxt=HHwWgsCzpemPhpctAAAA

    Fedbro (with earpiece) forces demonstrators to enter the Capitol, and they even tell him to stop pushing them inside.

    From start to finish, J6 was one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated on the American people.

    I mean it was obvious to many, but it will be fun to watch these videos circulated among the cud-chewers.

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    • SoftStarLight February 21, 2023 at 11:12 am #

      Yep it will be interesting for sure. I have seen a lot of criticism that Kevin McCarthy released the footage to Tucker. Many wanted the footage simply to be made public. But after thinking about it for a while I think that might have been the best move. The leftist jackboots constantly get to shape the narrative. This move actually allows the other side to shape the narrative. And yes, there is an abundance of evidence that will prove that the event was completely staged for the specific purposes of accelerating the coup and legitimizing violations of the Constitution and basic human rights, something the globalists and their leftists street thugs have been salivating for.

      • messianicdruid February 21, 2023 at 12:34 pm #

        Epps’ guided testimony is infuriating:

        httpX://raheemkassam.substack.com/p/ray-eppss-jan-6th-interview-gets

    • MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 12:55 pm #

      It was apparent to me, day-of.

      I was watching it live-streamed. I witnessed:

      1) cops ushering in the protesters;
      2) black woman instigating white guys to riot in the capitol building, telling them this was their ‘only chance’ – they weren’t buying it;
      3) security guards opening the doors for them then pretending they were being attacked, when all it was was people milling about looking at stuff.

      Ridiculous. I still pose the question to J6 dupes “How does one commit an insurrection/government takeover without any weapons?”

      No one seems to know the answer to that.

      • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 3:48 pm #

        I turned on the TV that day briefly, to see what was going on, since it was already highly publicized, even while it was happening. (A clue right there.)

        I saw a TV squawking head standing in front of the Capitol steps, blathering on about a riot.
        But I saw no riot, just a bunch of people milling around the steps, in a non-fiery, peaceful kind of way.

        It blew my mind so much that I called my husband into watch. I pointed at the TV and asked “What do you see?”
        He said “People on the steps”.
        I said “What do you hear the news readers saying?”
        He said “He says there is a riot. Maybe it’s somewhere else.”
        I said “He says that you are seeing a riot right there in front of you. Do you see a riot?”
        He said “Maybe it’s somewhere else”.

        Aaarrgghh! We have argued about this since then. He wants to give them the benefit of the doubt and I want him to acknowledge that they are lying pieces of shit who already had their narrative assigned, and who laid out said narrative even though we could see with our own eyes that they were lying.

        Whatever. I knew it was bullshit from that first day also, because when they already have their script written, that means that you are watching a play being enacted. And the motive for them putting on that show was also obvious from Day One.

        I had friends who were watching C-Span that day and it was just as the evidence of election fraud was being aired for the first time nationwide that the “riot” happened, and the reading of the evidence was stopped.

        How anyone could be stupid enough to believe the Official Narrative is beyond me.

        • MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 5:14 pm #

          I can’t believe your hubs falls for it! Yeah, that’s maddening. Especially given what we know they were trying to hide (election results).

          • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 7:37 pm #

            Well, he doesn’t fall for the “it was an insurrection” bullshit.

            He thinks that because there was an actual (staged) riot it was OK for them to announce that we were seeing a riot in front of our eyes.

            I disagree. Yes, there was a (staged) riot, but it was not on the front Capitol steps, so there was no reason for the squawking head (thanks for that phrase, by the way) to tell us that we were actually witnessing the riot.

            I hate liars as much as I hate hypocrites.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 11:25 pm #

          Like orange can be the new black, maybe milling about is the new riot.

  56. malthuss February 21, 2023 at 11:52 am #

    comments gone wild.

    • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

      xoxoxox

  57. Islander February 21, 2023 at 2:12 pm #

    httpX://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

    Hersh article (do a word search for “Scholz”):

    “What came next was stunning. On February 7, less than three weeks before the seemingly inevitable Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden met in his White House office with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who, after some wobbling, was now firmly on the American team. At the press briefing that followed, Biden defiantly said, “If Russia invades . . . there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

    To me from the contect it is pretty clear that Scholz knew about the plan to blow up the pipelines. What else would he be “on the team” about?

    For the preceding developments as they relate to Scholz, do a search of his name (control + F) within the story.

    And don’t be so tetchy!

    • Q. Shtik February 21, 2023 at 2:35 pm #

      from the contect it is pretty clear – Islander

      ============

      I assume context is the plural of contect.

    • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 7:42 pm #

      What else would he be on the same team about?

      Sanctions. The US wanted Germany to stab itself in the back and then blame Russia. Scholz did not want to.

      But then, under immense pressure, he went along with it. Germany cut off oil and gas to its citizens and then told the citizens that it was Russia’s fault.
      And that Putin was “weaponizing oil and gas”.

      This is Too Stupid To Believe, but apparently most Germans are just as Stupid as most Americans.

      I remember it clearly and I still interpret that statement to be talking about the sanctions.

    • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 9:08 pm #

      For context:

      .youtube.com/watch?v=ORDL0qlw_vw

    • Islander February 21, 2023 at 10:28 pm #

      “. . . less than three weeks before the seemingly inevitable Russian invasion of Ukraine . . .”

      Stinks, actually.

      This phrasing is . . .odd. What is wrong with this picture?

      The invasion was not inevitable, nor was it “seemingly” inevitable.

      Because Russia made it very clear that it was trying to get a negotiated deal with the West/NATO, starting in Dec. and continuing up until the actual SMO started. Remember how “no one” who was following the situation closely (including the profis) thought that any military confrontation was really going to take place, because, it was thought, Putin didn’t want to have to military action against Ukraine and “didn’t want Ukraine.”

      The US/NATO made the SMO happen, and Hersh is smart enough to know this. And so is and was Scholz. So, again, there is a real POV problem with that statement.
      It sounds like:
      “Invasion inevitable, so poor us, we have to take action.” But the US had already :”taken action” with its sanctions planning and sabotage planning. The US actually drove the whole thing forward. It wanted this “confrontation” because it thought it would be an easy win, with the sabotage option already prepared.

      Obviously the reason for provoking Putin was to create a casus belli for both the sanctions and the Nord Stream job. They were both part of one plan, ostensibly against Russia: to scupper Russia economically. If Scholz was “on team” he knew about both parts of the plan. And then Biden announced it in public, with him there, and he said and did nothing.

      “Biden” himself is probably not party to the main plain, to drive down Germany. Maybe the geniuses in the State Department thought they could “get” both Russia and Germany, the former with the sanctions and the latter with the NS stunt, and maintain deniability for the latter. .

      Anyhow, the “inevitability” assertion is a red flag of some kind. Because DC and everyone else knew that the invasion was not “seemingly inevitable” at all. The only reason it took place was because of the US/NATO.

      The only INEVITABILITY stemmed from the Neocons’/US/NATO’s drive to keep provoking Putin until “the inevitable” did take place and the aggressors could finally make the moves they were salivating over already for almost a year. .

      • Paula D February 22, 2023 at 12:03 pm #

        I agree with that point, Islander. It was most definitely not inevitable.

        It took a lot of provocations to get Russia to intervene.

    • Amman February 22, 2023 at 6:06 am #

      A possible German context.

      goto-https://thesaker.is/sitrep-germany-after-73-years-of-us-occupation-not-much-to-work-with-how-washington-afflicted-the-germans/

      Compare to stateside.

  58. SpeedyBB February 21, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

    Who? Who? Who?

  59. Q. Shtik February 21, 2023 at 2:48 pm #

    A draft dated 12/01/2015

    Since Q. is looked upon by CFN “shitizens” as an expert on such matters, I appealed to him for a ruling. – Sticks

    =============

    It is both flattering and embarrassing to be considered “an expert on such matters.” There must be something about the way I come across that makes people give me more credit than I am due.

    There was an occasion back in the day when I was about to combo one of my solids into a corner pocket (I also had a rep as a pool shooter far beyond my actual talent) when I was interrupted by two guys at the bar (neither with 32 teeth nor a denture to fill the void): “Hey Q, settle something for us.” (He pointed to the underlined word facade in a newspaper.) “How do you pronounce this?”

    “f??säd,” I said. “See, I told ya” said my questioner. The other was in crestfallen disbelief. How could it be? It made no sense.

    Without consciously trying I had become a go-to word maven at the Bottle and Cork in Edison, NJ.

  60. hustled enough February 21, 2023 at 2:58 pm #

    Dear JHK Admin,
    This was an interesting post. Amongst the expected hyperbole—Russia will finally, this time do what they couldn’t do last time with Ukraine’s illusory offensive that gained 18000 square miles, and drown Ukraine’s forces in seas of fire—you shared something interesting.

    When you are seriously thinking about something and weighing it, you become much more circumspect. And that is worth listening to, in my opinion. So, when you write: “If blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, as recently alleged by independent reporter Seymour Hersh, smells like an attack on our supposed ally,” I pay attention, because the hysteria is missing. That “alleged” may be purely ironic, but it is an unusual move for you rhetorically, because it is not bombastic like much of the Ukraine nonsense. The scenario playing is thoughtful and made me consider the prospect. Thank you.

    Now, the thing is, can Mr. Hersh deliver? I have been a fan of his for a long time, so I am open to him making the case with more than a good story and an “anonymous source.” I hope that there is evidence to back the claim apart from a soundbite about closing the pipeline. I keep coming back to it—correlation versus causation. Can he deliver?

    If he does, it will have been the stupidest US foreign policy blunder in at least a generation. Especially since some WH advisor would have pointed out the obvious that Putin would have closed the pipeline himself as the war situation worsened and Europe’s resolve strengthened to oppose him—consistent with Putin’s views on energy leverage. It would have been an epically Trumpian move. Let us see what squirt does…
    HE

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    • anmariwakaranai February 21, 2023 at 3:43 pm #

      Biden defiantly said, “If Russia invades . . . there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

      • Night Owl February 21, 2023 at 6:13 pm #

        The HE troll is not interested in truth.

        It is here to divert attention and repeat talking points.

        It is best to ignore the HE troll.

        • hustled enough February 21, 2023 at 10:00 pm #

          And Night Owl,
          Insults are the refuge of … well, you get the idea.

          • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 2:55 am #

            Insults are all you deserve.

            Was it you who tried to assume my identity earlier in the thread?

            Desperate.

            😀

          • hustled enough February 22, 2023 at 11:54 am #

            Hi Night Owl,
            Well, that hurts my feelings.
            But somehow, and I know it will be so difficult, I will continue on, in spite of your contempt.
            Sniff
            🙂
            HE

          • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 4:11 pm #

            You should continue on, HE.

            Like Cargill and Redneck Liberal before you, you provide an endless source of corporate news tinfoil and comedy for those of us who sometimes grow tired of discussing issues of importance.

            Thank you for your service.

      • hustled enough February 21, 2023 at 9:59 pm #

        Correlation does not causation make, anmariwakaranai.

        • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 11:05 am #

          You should have that engraved on your tombstone, so that people don’t assume you’re necessarily dead.

          • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 6:15 pm #

            LOL!!

        • hustled enough February 23, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

          Good reply!

          • anmariwakaranai February 23, 2023 at 1:31 pm #

            Here, here!

  61. Q. Shtik February 21, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

    This is a draft comment to Venuspluto67 dated 5/9/2016

    @Elrond: Thanks for the helping hand, but I think the best way to deal with Nazi trolls is to just ignore them as much as possible. – Venuspluto67

    ==============

    Venus, here is a definition of “internet troll” I picked up via a Google search:

    In Internet slang, a troll (/?tro?l/, /?tr?l/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion,[3] often for their own amusement.

    I, and many others, have been jousting with Janos (formerly Vlad and before that Jaego) for 8+ years and it is my considered opinion that “troll” is not an appropriate word to describe his activity on this site. I find him to be the genuine article: an obsessive advocate for a set of beliefs centered mainly on the preservation of the white race.

    In the past, commenters here liked to say that CFN was “a peak oil blog” but, although that was a big topic of conversation, Kunstler never restricted it as such and left the field wide open to all current events. Invariably Janos would turn any conversation toward his pet concerns and would be accused of “going off topic.” But by Kunstler’s own definition there was no such thing as “off topic.”

    And now, in the most recent couple of years, world events and our host’s blog essays have turned in the direction of Janos’s pet projects. Now you will find commenters being appalled at what they perceive as Jim’s racist verbiage. How ironic.

    I would no more call Janos an internet troll than I would call Trump a political troll. Neither of them is in it simply to stir the shit-pot.

    • Q. Shtik February 21, 2023 at 3:21 pm #

      Note: ^those^ last 4 paragraphs were supposed to be italicized too.

      • TPTB-USA February 21, 2023 at 5:04 pm #

        I once thought I had made a mistake, but as it turned out, I was wrong.

      • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:14 pm #

        I’m typically well ahead of the curve. I control the vertical if not the horizontal; the eternal verities if not the times of unfolding thereof.

        Men’s rights is like plastics. Invest in it now. In practice, that means boxed wine and pet paraphrenalia (sp?) – the things that single women like.

        Studies show that 80% of childless women are so involuntarily. Can we say incel? It makes emotional logic at this point.

  62. Paula D February 21, 2023 at 3:31 pm #

    From Michael Hudson on Feb. 28, 2022:
    ”Monopolizing the Dollar Area’s oil market and isolating it from Russian oil and gas has been a major U.S. priority for over a year now, as the Nord Stream 2 pipeline threatened to link the Western European and Russian economies more tightly together.”

    The US had the motive, as stated openly by many squawking heads and politicians.
    The US had the means. It has the biggest military on the planet, fully equipped with the best explosives.
    The US had the opportunity. The US and NATO held military exercises in the Baltic Sea every year, and this year one of the stated objectives was to “protect” against mines. As we know, they project their own crimes onto others, and invert the truth constantly.

    Of course the US blew up the pipelines. But did Scholtz agree? Or did he agree, finally, that if Russia invaded that he would go along with the sanctions?
    They all fully believed, if you will recall, that the sanctions would cripple Russia, starve Russians, and make Russians so miserable that they would rise up, overthrow Putin, and put in another Yeltsin who would allow the US to loot their resources again.

    Delusional? Yes. But they are batshit crazy, as we can see by the way they lie, cheat, kill and project their crimes onto others.
    Just add delusional to the list of pathologies.

    Remember that they also believe that men can be women.

    Bat. Shit. Crazy.

    /michael-hudson.com/2022/02/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/

    • Paula D February 21, 2023 at 3:36 pm #

      Their cover story was that there was a “leak”. They all stuck to the story for the first few days, but some obscure Swedish university released the results of seismic activity that proved that there were explosions that caused the rupture.

      So they had to admit that it wasn’t a “leak” caused by sloppy laying of the pipelines, but sabotage.

      And as soon as they admitted to sabotage, and it was very, very obvious to everyone who the only culprit could be, they dropped the whole thing down the Memory Hole, and forbid any mention of it in the western media.

      And actually, they are still sticking to that plan. Hersh’s story is pretty much ignored by the Mighty Wurlitzer, except to trash him as a “blogger”, not a journalist.

      • ViceGrip February 22, 2023 at 10:15 am #

        Pauls D . ..

        Whatcha think about this? . . .

        ‘Chemical Weaponry Destined For Ukraine
        Ignited In East Palestine Train Wreck’

        “There is sufficient evidence even at this early stage for those gas-targeted nations (in a false flag operation), including Poland, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, to initiate a case at The Hague War Crimes Tribunal against the Biden administration for planned crimes against humanity with scheduled deployment of a banned chemical weapon in a false-flag operation.”

        Link:

        rense.com/general97/chemical-weaponry-destined-for-ukraine-ignited-in-east-palestine.php

        • Paula D February 22, 2023 at 1:14 pm #

          It definitely piqued my interest, since I live in the area around Madison.
          I had heard of contamination at Sauge (formerly East Monsanto) Illinois, but never at Madison, and obviously from Monsanto, not Dow, so I looked it up.
          According to this site there is no contamination at Madison.
          .wsj.com/graphics/waste-lands/site/138-dow-chemical-co-madison-site/

          I don’t know that they would transfer deadly chemicals across the country to ship to Poland. It seems dangerous. Plus, they already have bioweapons and chemical weapons in Europe.

          However, I wouldn’t think that they should put a biological weapons research lab in Kansas either, focusing on animal and plant bioweapons, but they are.
          usda.gov/nbaf

          I’ll keep my mind open.

          • ViceGrip February 22, 2023 at 6:59 pm #

            Thanks for your thoughts on this Paula. Most appreciated!

    • Islander February 21, 2023 at 4:25 pm #

      Hudson stated early on that the actual target of US aggression in the Ukraine was Germany/Europe.

      Published at the Unz Review.

      Maybe midyear 2022? I can’t find that now. But this is maybe even better, since it predates the SMO:

      httpX://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies/

      “. . . . America’s rising pressure on its allies threatens to drive them out of the U.S. orbit. For over 75 years they had little practical alternative to U.S. hegemony. But that is now changing. America no longer has the monetary power and seemingly chronic trade and balance-of-payments surplus that enabled it to draw up the world’s trade and investment rules in 1944-45. The threat to U.S. dominance is that China, Russia and Mackinder’s Eurasian World Island heartland are offering better trade and investment opportunities than are available from the United States with its increasingly desperate demand for sacrifices from its NATO and other allies.

      The most glaring example is the U.S. drive to block Germany from authorizing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to obtain Russian gas for the coming cold winter. Angela Merkle agreed with Donald Trump to spend $1 billion building a new LNG port to become more dependent on highly priced U.S. LNG. (The plan was cancelled after the U.S. and German elections changed both leaders.) But Germany has no other way of heating many of its houses and office buildings (or supplying its fertilizer companies) than with Russian gas.

      The only way left for U.S. diplomats to block European purchases is to goad Russia into a military response and then claim that avenging this response outweighs any purely national economic interest. . . . ”

      Crystal Ball, anyone?

      Here is another:
      httpX://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/

      “American Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century”

      • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 11:57 am #

        Hudson’s going to be my new go to site for information after the Saker folds his tent.

  63. messianicdruid February 21, 2023 at 5:02 pm #

    Roundball Shaman said, “What is it really? It’s actually a Simulation WITHIN a Larger Simulation.”

    Put on your headgear:

    httpX://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IQVR2ZTWNa0&t=139s&pp=ygUOQXJjaGFpeCBvcGVuYWk%3D

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  64. Islander February 21, 2023 at 5:45 pm #

    It’s fairly obvious that in Europe, members of the fair sex (translation: real women) are the ones with balls:

    Sevim Dagdelen

    httpX://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/21/german-lawmaker-calls-for-nord-stream-probe/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=17a8c129-5615-432f-bcbf-f2bd983ea7bc

    Claire Daley

    Sahra Wagenknecht

  65. Pucker February 21, 2023 at 5:46 pm #

    Numerology and Necromancy in Government

    2-22-2023; 2-23-2023:

    If you get a chance, visit Yale University and gawk at the Skull & Bones “Tomb”. It’s creepy….

    “Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior class society at the university, Skull and Bones has become a cultural institution known for its powerful alumni and various conspiracy theories. It is one of the “Big Three” societies at Yale, the other two being Scroll and Key and Wolf’s Head.[1]”

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  66. Jarek February 21, 2023 at 5:46 pm #

    Washington Post excerp anent Roald Dahl’s “anti-Semitism”

    While there is a belief in Judaism that children may bear the sins of their fathers — live with them, suffer for them — they cannot atone for their parents, nor be punished for them. “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents,” we read in Deuteronomy. “A person shall be put to death only for his own crime.” And in Judaism, atonement, done right, is highly specific, from person to person. It’s not a gesture offered to the universe, or God, but an attempt to right a past wrong, by paying back someone you defrauded, say, or repairing a reputation that your gossip damaged. Because the wronged party, in Dahl’s case, was all of world Jewry — actually, all decent, right-minded people — no real atonement is possible. The perpetrator is gone, and there is no specific aggrieved party.

    Jarek: They get it right for a change. A rejection of Maoism Cancel Culture from the Jewish Tradition.

    All he said after all were simple truisms that no rationale person can disagree with, such as Jews dominate finance and he wishes they didn’t. And that “stinker” Hitler didn’t go after them for nothing. As Jack the Ripper (apparently Jewish based on dna evidence) said, The Juwes are not the men who will be blamed for nothing.

    Is cutting up his work a kind of revenge? Probably not. They would have done it anyway in any case as they have to so many others.

    The article states it didn’t infect his work. And he didn’t promulgate it as seriously as Alice Walker – a big David Icke fan.

    How does the above excerp relate to Reparations and Affirmative Action? Both of which they are famous for championing against Whites?

    It does relate but they are doing it anyway. Since White culture oppressed Blacks, it now must be oppressed by Blacks? Group unto group, tit for tat. Nothing against any individual – OF COURSE! You just happen to be part of the group not in favor and you will just happen to be done in thereby.

    • Q. Shtik February 21, 2023 at 6:09 pm #

      Group unto group, tit for tat. – Jarek

      =========

      As I mentioned one time in the past, I think teat is a more genteel word to use than tit. And thus the expression would be teat for tat. 🙂 🙂

      • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:07 pm #

        Where are you getting these old posts from? I thought you said “this data is not available”?

  67. BackRowHeckler February 21, 2023 at 6:07 pm #

    Good News! Apparently in Kiev Biden agreed to pay Social Security, Old Age and Military Pensions to the citizens of Ukraine, both to the diaspora & people remaining in the country. Also, Civil Service and teacher salaries will be covered. I believe that’s what the $500 million “Package” he brought to Kiev with him was all about.

    • K-Chien February 21, 2023 at 6:54 pm #

      How about a road trip. We can visit Oleshky Sands National Nature Park. It is only a few miles east of Kherson.

      httpX://youtu.be/p4e4DtnzGFc

      • K-Chien February 21, 2023 at 6:56 pm #

        A fascinating place.

      • BackRowHeckler February 21, 2023 at 7:06 pm #

        K-Dog I was surprised to learn that Ukraine is home to native Bison, what we commonly call Buffalo. Also Elk and Wolves, and a few Brown Bears wander in occassionally too.

        • K-Chien February 21, 2023 at 7:16 pm #

          Gas er up.

    • stelmosfire February 21, 2023 at 7:58 pm #

      Biden is just a front man. He doesn’t make a move without consulting his cabinet. He also talks to his desk and bookcase before making a decision.

      • benr February 22, 2023 at 8:34 am #

        Don’t forget when he gets mad, he fills his depends.

      • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

        Still think they handled the East Palestine spill correctly by setting it on fire?

        • stelmosfire February 22, 2023 at 2:20 pm #

          It was on fire before they set it on fire. Either control the burn or maybe take a chance with a massive BLEVE sending the shit everywhere in a gigantic explosion. Those vinyl chloride tanks are under a lot of pressure I’ve talked to people that think the train wreck is still burning because they keep seeing it on the TV. Lots of “experts” talking on the web and TV. None of them were there. I have yet to see anyone who was actually at the train wreck and disaster while it was in progress. “Armchair ” quarterbacks. I know it goes against common sense but some gov. employees actually do their jobs. Some of those EPA testing types are real sticklers for clean results. I’ve seen them be real pains in the asses worried about pollution, as they should be.

          • stelmosfire February 22, 2023 at 2:25 pm #

            Senator from Ohio poking a creek and an oil sheen comes up. Big deal what does that prove? It’s called bio film and I’ve seen it many times. Proves nothing. The Ohio River is the most polluted river in America. Many sections are unfit for swimming due to pollution yet people drink from it everyday. Go figure.

      • WadeWaters February 22, 2023 at 1:58 pm #

        He doesn’t consult anyone. His handlers tell him where to go and what to say when he gets there.

  68. MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 6:19 pm #

    Smart City Tulsa Presentation to Ladies for Liberty Meeting, Sapulpa, Oklahoma. Feb. 13, 2023

    Julianne Romanello presents everything you need to know about how the Smart Cities are being planned and implemented.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXmJdiU9saM&ab_channel=HeartsOverHexagons

    • MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 7:15 pm #

      I think JHK should interview her. She’s amazing.

      • Jarek February 21, 2023 at 7:37 pm #

        You never say that about men.

        • malthuss February 21, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

          You never say that about WO men.

        • MaryQueen February 21, 2023 at 8:53 pm #

          Strawman #4

    • malthuss February 21, 2023 at 8:18 pm #

      search,

      robert babish

      NFTs in clothing

      ownershio of all life–a book

      • malthuss February 21, 2023 at 9:15 pm #

        ownership

    • Pucker February 21, 2023 at 8:41 pm #

      A dyslexic male member of the audience wearing lipstick and a padded bra stands up and asks:

      “What is a ‘Cart Smitty’?”

  69. jim e February 21, 2023 at 9:37 pm #

    Between That Rock and The Hard Place

    “Tomorrow come trouble,
    Tomorrow come pain.”

    “Hunter & Garcia then tried their hands at an old-style country ballad, High Time. Hunter said, “For High Time, I wanted a song like the kind of stuff I heard rolling out of the jukeboxes of bars my father frequented when I was a kid. Probably a subliminal Hank Williams influence” dead.net…

    • jim e February 21, 2023 at 9:40 pm #

      I Love James Earl Carter, Jr.

      • jim e February 21, 2023 at 9:46 pm #

        And JHK had a co-worker that kicked me out of his lecture. No Q, it was not because of my hair.

        • jim e February 21, 2023 at 9:57 pm #

          It was because of the Bear.

          • jim e February 21, 2023 at 9:59 pm #

            That Smart ass HST had just said that Paterno was better than Bear.

  70. Pucker February 21, 2023 at 9:59 pm #

    I know a bloke in the US who initially did not want to get the Covid 19 “vaccine”.

    Then, after his company forced him to get the Clot Shot by threatening his “Job”, he then Went-All-In to support forced vaccination at his Company, including castigating co-workers who resisted the Jab on religious grounds and by signing up voluntarily for the “Booster”, and besmirching the characters of doctors and others who questioned the “Vaccine”.

    It must be a case of Stockholm Syndrome?

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    • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 2:59 am #

      This is more or less what most of the clot-shotted did.

      They sided with power because they were afraid.

      The guy in your scenario was just more obvious about it.

      • Pucker February 22, 2023 at 3:45 am #

        So, the “Clot-Shotted” deserve what they’re eventually going to get?

        Maybe not….

        • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 4:01 am #

          You are asking the question.

          You can provide the answer.

          • Pucker February 22, 2023 at 5:26 am #

            Since the primary moral obligation is to show empathy, those “Clot Shotted” who empathized with their colleagues probably do not deserve what will eventually happen to them because of the Clot Shot.

          • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 7:07 am #

            The repenters perhaps. The rest, meh.

            There isn’t much hope for anyone who was still supporting this nonsense beyond say the start of 2022.

    • Amman February 22, 2023 at 5:54 am #

      A COMEDIC STRA-GEDY.

    • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:20 pm #

      Many people have no capacity for the endurance of cognitive dissonance. Their outsides and insides must agree. So change their outside by force, and they will change their insides to agree with the new outside – anything to avoid the tension of being a divided man.

      Mark Twain talked about a crew member who would be fanatically for the Northern cause when up north and gradually soften as they want south on the river, ending up fanatically for the Southern cause by the time they reached the deep South.

  71. Pucker February 21, 2023 at 10:06 pm #

    The Americans are now accusing the Chinese of selling weapons to the Russians in Ukraine, which is probably not true.

    The Chinese arms manufacturer, Norinco, however, was a big supplier of weapons to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980’s. Ironically, it was the Americans who were surreptitiously selling weapons to Iran at the time, notwithstanding the American hostages in Iran. Go figure….

    I wonder whatever happened to that huge cache of weapons that the Americans conspicuously left behind in Afghanistan?

    • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 11:28 am #

      Even if it is true, so what? The US has long since declared war on anyone and everyone who defies their globalist ambitions. Needless to say, no matter what the truth is behind the whole balloon fiasco, shooting them down was an act of war as well. The US government in DC has declared itself to be a rogue, terrorist state.

    • Paula D February 22, 2023 at 1:30 pm #

      Definition of hypocrisy:

      While at a conference in which participants are bragging about their arms shipments to Ukraine and arm twisting those reluctant to send more, they simultaneously announce that if China even thinks about sending weapons to Russia they will pay deeply for their sins.
      And not with Hail Mary’s and Our Father’s, either.

      Another definition: The country which has invaded over 84 sovereign countries and killed approx 20 million people in the last 70 years, stands up and waxes indignant about the “unprecedented” invasion of Ukraine AND announces war criminal trials being planned for the leaders of Russia.

      Why doesn’t this bother everyone?

      • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 4:49 pm #

        American Exceptionalism still runs deep in the homeland. It’s a curse.

  72. KesaAnna February 21, 2023 at 10:24 pm #

    Roald Dahl ?

    Surely I’m not alone ( ? ) when , when I think of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , the image that immediately pops into my head is of a Jew ?

    — i.e. Gene Wilder . ?

    I suppose you could say Gene Wilder was an Uncle Tom , and since he was an entertainer , that is likely.

    I like Johhny Depp , but I thought his Willy Wonka was fucking creepy.

    I guess that’s a problem .

    Except Depp supposely has a possible history of the not – OK sexual abuse thing ….

    Ugh !

    Now I’m all confused !

    My favorite character in the 1971 movie was Veruca Salt.

    There could be a picture of her in the dictionary under the term , ” Cheerleader Mafia “.

    She might not be so attractive at 60 ? But , dare I say , despite being a real asshole , she was an attractive asshole then.

    ( now maybe Jarek is grinning. Like Michael Jackson , Kesa Anna seems to have a disproportionate regard for Aryans .

    And Michael Jackson may once have been Mr. Cool , but now he is an exhibit in Ripley’s Believe it or Not .

    You can’t win. )

    I just watched the Golden Goose song / video …

    Hey , the accent of the actress who played Veruca Salt sounds like it might be British .

    And wasn’t Roald Dahl a Brit ?

    Grrr !

    But then I was middle – aged before I developed any real liking for that movie .

    When I was younger I despised it because it seemed like typical Rated – G high – handed condescending but pandering fare for kids ,

    and there were few things I despised more as a kid than the Childrens section of the library or anywhere else.

    Gimme that gritty , bleak , X – rated Adult stuff was my motto.

    So , alas , once again there is no pleasing Green Alba , even though it turns out ultimately that I’m sucking a female Brits knee caps.

    You can’t win.

    Anyway , Cheerleader Mafia though she may be , in the story she does not make the grade.

    Who does make the grade in the story is the trailer trash boy.

    I suppose that is problemattical too.

    Poltically Correct never seems to wind up taking the form of a Ford Pinto ,

    but rather winds up taking the form of a Cadillac.

    But then , on second thought , that does seem to be how the story plays out.

    Charlie doesn’t fight the good fight , but lose anyway.

    No , Charlie wins the million dollar lottery , and this despite the fact that , technically , he , too , fucked up.

    So , again , I’m confused !

    More thoughts —

    Another reason I didn’t like the movie was that one of the kids who doesn’t make the grade is obviously supposed to be German.

    A West German stooge and lackey ,

    but , yeah , he gets kicked anyway.

    And near as I can tell , the only crime he is really guilty of is using the product that WONKA is SELLING.

    😛

    * sigh *

    Like the song says ,

    ” I’m a loser baby ! So why don’t you kill me ! ”

    😀

    • Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 2:57 am #

      Wilder’s Willy Wonka was infinitely better than Depp’s.

      Also, the 1971 film was a much better adaptation of the book. Parts of that film looked very much like I imagined them to look as a kid.

      Burton’s film was terrible.

    • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 7:08 am #

      “So , alas , once again there is no pleasing Green Alba”

      Seriously, what? Not only did I agree with you under one of your posts, but I specifically endorsed your obvious right to have whatever opinion you choose of Brits. Just as you are perfectly at liberty to dislike protestants, presumably including your own family.

      Perhaps you are willing to leave God’s opinion of protestants to Him, or perhaps not even that. It wouldn’t surprise me if you presumed to know it. I certainly don’t presume to know his opinion of Catholics. I assume he considers them singly, rather than as a group, but what would I know?

      • messianicdruid February 22, 2023 at 10:21 am #

        He deals with nations through their leaders.

        “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.”

        • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 10:53 am #

          He may do, but I don’t think he’s going to deal with Bill Gates in the same way he’s going to deal with Peter McCullough or Dr Zelenko, because that would hardly be justice.

    • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:23 pm #

      Alba is basically a moral busy body; a modern day version of Dickens’ Mrs Jellyby, kniting sweaters for pickaninies in the Congo while her Scottish tenants died of exposure.

      • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 1:37 pm #

        Poor Jarek is butthurt from having his sickening hypocrisy called out. Oh dear.

        And this from the person who spends his time telling women how to behave and criticising gay people. What a piece of work.

        • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 1:38 pm #

          Don’t think I won’t be picking you up on every iteration of your moral busybodying.

        • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 4:37 pm #

          He’s more agitated than usual this week (which is really saying something).

          Since I’ve detected that all his responses to me are strawmen or strawmen in the making, I find them not worth responding to. That being said, I heartily enjoy your & Anthea’s responses to him especially.

          🙂

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 5:46 pm #

            I have reduced you to straw. You are so defeated you can’t even respond to me any more. It’s exhausting to defend lies and untruth after all – and to lie to do it especially.

          • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:59 pm #

            Strawman #6 (if I count the whopper below directed at GA).

            I can tell being called out on them is infuriating you.

            LOL!

        • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 5:43 pm #

          I almost never criticize gay people. But you always stand up for them, for women, for minorities and NEVER for normal men of your own people.

          That’s sickening.

          • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 6:19 pm #

            Er yes you do. You even made particular remarks about my nephew.

            And you made extremely unpleasant remarks about my husband, when all you know about him is his attitude to covid ‘vaccines’ (which he shares with a few other CFN spouses – nothing else. Then demanding, on multiple occasions, that I respond to your interrogation about ‘why I married him’.

            Moral busybodying? Don’t make me laugh.

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 8:34 pm #

            You trashed your first husband. Not unusual. Women often trash their male significant others. It’s ugly, but women are like that. You described how terrible he was. I believed you and asked why you married him. I asked you to take responsibility for doing that. You hissed like a vampire and flew out the window.

            I sympathized with you about your 2nd husband, who seems to be better than your first choice at least. But he treated you terribly in regards to not informing you about getting boosted.

            Now you’re mad about me sympathizing with you? And he does seem a bit of a dud. Perhaps life and his career have drained him. As you said, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with himself except work.

            You have gays on the brain. Never any sympathy for normal men.

            Feminism is the terror that some man, someplace, somehow, is enjoying himself. The very idea fills you with rage. It’s Woman’s duty to “snag” a man and make him miserable it would seem.

          • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 10:15 pm #

            Strawman #7

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 3:29 am #

            Seems Jarek loves the attention.

            Sharp chicks with whips, ay kiddo? I don’t blame you actually. LOL

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 8:06 am #

            Er, no, you asked me why I married my current husband, while trashing him generally without knowing anything about him. And I don’t know how you expected him to ‘warn me about the booster’ when he didn’t believe there was anything wrong with it. I accused him of assuming he knew more than me on the matter simply because he was a doctor, not of all the sins in the world. And I accused myself of assuming that he would know better than me, when I shouldn’t have.

            People are entitled to talk about someone they’re no longer married to if they choose to. It wasn’t to trash him – it was to make a point during your endless trashing of women as gold diggers. I was backing up others’ points about women outside of the fortuned classes being relatively impoverished following divorce. Because there is another side, which you choose to ignore. Most women do not marry for money or divorce for it. Mostly they marry with idealism and divorce out of desperation.

            There are people who would never say anything about their husband because they feel it reflects on them and they wish to be well thought of. I just try to tell the truth as I see it. The idea that one ‘chose’ someone 20 years ago who, in the fulness of time, turned out to trust his own profession when he shouldn’t have, is a bit of a bizarre accusation. It is no wonder you are on your own.

            And Q has repeatedly talked about his wife believing everything the government says about the ‘vaccines’ but you don’t ask him why he married her. And nor would I.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 8:55 am #

            I realise after writing this that you didn’t mean warning me against taking the booster, but not telling me he’d taken it. I agree, that was dishonest, but again it was based on him assuming I was a conspiracy theorist and had no idea what I was talking about. Doctors are prone to such assumptions – they’ve been trained that way. He wanted to avoid having his ear bent. You would avoid that too, if you had someone bending your ear whose knowledge you believed to be lesser compared to yours, which is your general assumption with regard to female partners.

          • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:02 pm #

            Desire to well thought of? So it doesn’t REALLY reflect on you – or at least the person you were?

            Oh yes it does. At the very least you mark yourself as one was tricked and thus able to be tricked. That’s not so bad is it? Lot of people get tricked. Can you accept that at least?

            You just did the old Obama trick btw: Lot of Whites feel they are being oppressed…..

            In other words, they aren’t being oppressed. It’s just a feeling.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 1:20 pm #

            You are at it again. ‘Tricking’ someone involves deliberate subterfuge. Stop being ridiculous.

            And, regarding your general talk about ‘trashing’, airing dirty linen was not the point. People were making generalisations about the motives of doctors, and I added a personal insight, on the assumption that thousands of them must think the same way, not because they are duplicitous or on the make (some of them undoubtedly are, especially in a system like yours), but because they believed the same propaganda as the rest of the population. Sadly, most doctors get their news from the BBC too, after a long day at work.

            If your aim is to batter me into the ground with accusations of marrying a sad sinner, then feel free. We’ve all married one. You’re one too.

            You talk about life as if it were one big dating show, where people are presented with 100 possible partners and pick one. Maybe that approximates to how things work in America, but it’s not my experience. Your views are the childish views of someone who knows nothing about relationships and how they form.

      • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 2:10 pm #

        Dickens is actually an excellent example of his own creatiion – seeing everyone’s foibles except his own. Filling his pages with social criticism and treating his own wife like dirt.

        • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 8:37 pm #

          Perhaps his wife hated him and was dedicated to making him miserable. How could he write without a muse – a woman who loved him and made him happy?

          The wife was probably in arrears on fulfilling her marital debt too. Or did it every so grudgingly, making the act of love into a sacrament of ugliness and evil.

          • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 9:43 pm #

            And how do you know any of that? He was a womaniser all his life and eventually abandoned her for a teenager.

            I suggest you read up on it. You will not find many condoning his behaviour towards her or indeed saying anything very nice about him personally at all.

            You are of incorrigible bad faith and not worth discussing such matters with. I think you would be very ill advised to get on the relationship roundabout at all. Your soul is quite poisoned in the matter, presumably from some of the nastier websites you read.

          • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:57 pm #

            Another A-Jerk strawman.

            He sure likes to set ’em up & knock ’em down.

            Plus then the lying + gaslighting, for flourish.

          • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 12:23 am #

            Alba: Oh, we’re not going to discuss your hatred of men – unless they gay?

            Surprise, surprise.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 2:35 am #

            Hey Jarek, is this some sort of online role-play (that I’m not understanding as such since I can’t read every sub-thread), where you say something to annoy your doms and so then they piss on you and sit on your face?

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 2:36 am #

            Femdoms I meant.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 8:17 am #

            We’re not going to discuss my hatred of men because I don’t hate men. My late kid brother was probably my favourite person in the world, maternal feelings aside. And my father and both of my brothers are/were gentlemen in the real sense and always behaved so towards their wives.

            Nor do I have anything to say about gay men, other than there is no need to bad mouth the normal, unassuming, non-proselytising ones who just want to get on with a life they didn’t ask for.

            I also appreciate plumbers, sewage workers, builders, joiners and others who do things for me that I either have never trained in or would be no good at. They tend to be men too. But I imagine you have cause to be grateful to them too, because I’m not aware of your skills in those departments either.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 8:40 am #

            I do note, however, that you have said disparaging things about both your mother and your sister, both clearly inferior to you.

            I don’t generalise that observation to ‘that’s what men are like’, because extrapolating from you to all men is not wise.

          • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:05 pm #

            Yet women do it all the time, right? As per Anthea and Mary? Or are you going to stay quiet in order to be well thought of by such as they?

            At least ZaZa is on your side. He always take the side of women and minorities, like Kchien and Rulo. Those are good men or good little boys at least.

          • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 6:28 pm #

            Jarek’s confused again and using wokie logic as well.

            When we criticize Jarek, he claims it is hatred directed towards all men.

            Just like the critical race theorists and TRAs do.

            He messed up, though, and surmised that I like slender men, after strawmanning for weeks that I hate all men (even though like Alba I’ve often posted about men I like, and admire, and have a great rapport with some of the men who post here).

            A-Jerk must enjoy or be easily fooled into contradicting himself, apparently. Not content to be wrong (a lot), and a lying gasbag, he must be some sort of a masochist as well. No other explanation for it.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 6:37 pm #

            No idea what you’re talking about, Jarek, but I’m as tired as everyone else is with this ridiculous conversation and your obsession with my private life, which has gone on for too many months already.

            Mind your own business, maybe. You got an insight into the psychology of a British doctor (well, Irish doctor) and that’s all you’re entitled to.

    • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:28 pm #

      Why can’t Blacks be good like the Oompha-loompas?

    • Blackbird February 22, 2023 at 3:22 pm #

      Roald Dahl? Interesting character. Almost a Kris Kristofferson of his time…

      Born in Wales to Norwegian parents. Fighter pilot, RAF, WWII. Flew obsolete Gloster Gladiator biplanes against the Italians – also in obsolete biplanes – in North Africa. His Squadron Leader was “Pat” Pattle, highest scoring fighter ace of the West in WWII, with an estimated 50+ kills. He (Pattle) was killed in the Battle of Athens, April 20, 1941, in which the twelve remaining RAF fighter planes (Hawker Hurricanes) attempted to fend off an Axis air raid of 150 to 200 planes – a battle in which Dahl also fought.

      Injuries invalidated Dahl from aerial operations in late ’41 and he began his career in intelligence.

      • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 12:26 am #

        Amazing. I’d never even heard about him until the other day, not being an afficionado of children’s literature.

        But yes, when Jamie Gumm said to Clarice at the door, You mean that great, big fat person, one immediately liked him better, despite everything.

      • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 8:25 am #

        My kids loved Roald Dahl. When I read The Twits to them, I used to skip the bit where Mr Twit would get breakfast from the bits of egg and suchlike in his beard from meals of a week ago, because it made me feel sick!

        I see that European publishers have refused to engage with the latest nonsense about his books.

        • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 8:26 am #

          Continental European, I mean.

        • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

          Thanks for not hating him for being an anti-Semite. Does that mean you are too, some might wonder?

          I don’t say that of course. Decent people know how good they are! The papers say so….

          • GreenAlba February 24, 2023 at 6:45 am #

            Wonder whatever you like, toadie, if that’s how devious or daft you are.

  73. KesaAnna February 21, 2023 at 11:04 pm #

    Oh !

    And it doesn’t help that it is a blonde – haired , blue – eyed , American Jew passing judgement on his own customers.

    Uh – oh , now I’m being anti – semetic.

    Is it because I’m knocking blue eyes ?

    Confused again !

    • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:58 am #

      Johnny Depp is looking more and more like a 65-year-old Rose Marie to me these days.

      • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 10:57 am #

        That boy’s definitely lived a hard life, albeit of his own choosing. He’s apparently subscribed to the full Keith Richards’ life experience (TM). Likewise, Willy Wonka appeared to me to be an allegory for an LSD/Psilocybin trip.

      • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:40 pm #

        I think he is handsome. His look is a different masculine. Less brute and far more refined and really has always been. Slender and chiseled features. He was never a Mark Wahlberg jock, hard boy type so that should not be anticipated of him.

        • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 1:19 pm #

          He’s not slender any more, hasn’t been for awhile. But I guess your definition or perception of slender might be different than mine.

        • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:24 pm #

          Mary’s into Slender Man.

          • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:54 pm #

            But A-Jerk, how is that possible when you say I hate all men?

          • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 11:27 pm #

            Slender Man isn’t human.

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 1:29 pm #

        His plastic surgery made him look like Rose Marie (IMHO):

        https://icon.ink/articles/what-has-happened-to-johnny-depps-face/

        • Blackbird February 22, 2023 at 4:24 pm #

          “…looks like a woman who used to be in a rock band in 1972 but she took a nap and awoke 50 years later to find the world around her had changed.”

          Yup.

          I remember his daughter announcing – just before or just after turning 18 – that she (he?/they?/them?/it?) was “gender fluid”. “Gender fluid”, sounds like a lubricant…

          So…

          Let me be the first to welcome Jenny Depp!

          • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 4:38 pm #

            Hahahahaa!

        • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 4:46 pm #

          Definitely a resemblance. Say goodbye to youth, for sure!

          • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 4:47 pm #

            Looks like he’s a big fan of dressing down, too. Albeit expensively. I’ll bet all that stuff is designer crap.

        • Islander February 22, 2023 at 8:41 pm #

          Oh, gosh.

          What happened.

          Time to ditch the eye makeup.

          It used to look interesting. Now it really makes him look like a woman. Or something.
          A dyke. I dunno.

          • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 9:24 am #

            A frumpy old dyke. All he needs is a cheap housedress, a shawl, and a comfy rocker. Image makeover complete.

      • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 8:38 pm #

        Osmond?

        • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 11:54 am #

          Rose Marie from the old Dick VanDyke show. before your time, I’m guessing.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Marie

          • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 9:41 pm #

            Yes, how many Rose Maries that resembled Johnny Depp when she was 65?

            Sheesh!

    • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 11:55 am #

      Shameless cheerleading and agitprop.

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 12:28 pm #

        It’s outright delusional.

        • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

          When delusion is all you’ve got, delusional thinking it is. Sad thing is, a sizable portion of the population still believes it. The alternative – that the days of the US Empire calling the shots is now over for good – is just still too awful to contemplate.

          • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 10:43 am #

            Mike Rowe, author of Dirty Jobs, said it best: “We’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skills, no ambition, no guidance and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work.”

          • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 11:20 am #

            We hired a young man with a chain saw to cut down tree limbs threatening our roof.

            I’m sitting here jumping every time I hear a crash on the roof or the side of the house.
            Finally I asked my husband “Does he know what he’s doing?”
            And he said “I hope so. It’s a bit late to find out now”.

    • SoftStarLight February 22, 2023 at 12:50 pm #

      Maybe the WEF globalists have realized that China is way too nationalistic? Maybe China is not really going along with their plans at a deeper level. So they are now dreaming of isolating China. I saw an article today from a conservative writer Scott Greer that suggested that the US-Globalist-Zionist empire is doing just fine and totally and completely in charge of the world and that ain’t changing anytime soon. I believe he is completely delusional. But, who knows. Maybe Chinese elite are secretly on the same page and want to collapse China for the greater good. I personally doubt it but it could be true for sure.

      • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 1:27 pm #

        I wonder as well. Xi has treated his people terribly again and again with the covid nonsense.

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 1:31 pm #

        Here’s a theory I copied from a commenter somewhere on Telegram – I don’t necessarily subscribe to it but I found it interesting:

        “China’s Zero Covid policy was not about Covid. It was an economic warfare strategy that supported Russia’s Ukraine de-nazification strategy. Zero covid stressed the economic & supply chain stability of the West therefore improving Russia’s position. Now that the Ukraine War is winding down, China lifted Zero Covid allowing the virus to quickly go through the population conferring herd immunity & allowing the Chinese economy to rip forward leaving the West in the dust. This was never about the virus. This is a basic Unlimited Warfare strategy that worked perfectly.”

      • Blackbird February 22, 2023 at 4:14 pm #

        Maurice Strong. High school dropout at age 14. Fur buyer for Hudson’s Bay Company at age 16. Roommate of the Treasurer of the United Nations at age 18… From there to oil tycoon, Rockefeller associate, to founder of the global environmental movement while head of Petro-Canada.

        His stellar career overshadowed by the 2005 Oil-for-Food scandal, he decamped to China.

        So yes, I think China will sacrifice any number of its people in order to hold the position of world hegemon, even if that position is guaranteed by western white devils like Maurice Strong.

      • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 1:44 am #

        Yeah I was very puzzled by Xi’s zero covid crackdowns. I can certainly believe that it was done to help Russia. I recall a video from China last year in which a health officer in a hazmat suit was clearing a bus of its passengers and he was telling them that China was at war with the US. It was very strange because it was like what does that have to do with covid. I also heard some suggest that the zero covid policies were a way that Xi has containing opposition and dissent.

        • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 4:10 pm #

          China considered SARS2 to be a bioweapon attack on them.
          That is why they reacted so strongly.

          When this latest mild variant showed up they decided to let it move naturally through the population.

          They just declared the epidemic over.

    • Islander February 22, 2023 at 8:46 pm #

      Yeah, especially offshore industrial wind . . .

      Made in China. Or by China.

      heh heh

  74. elysianfield February 22, 2023 at 12:52 pm #

    CFN’rs, take note.

    Fred Reed has his own blogspot, and has listed dozens of articles.

    https://fredoneverything.org/

    Enjoy

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    • K-Chien February 22, 2023 at 1:38 pm #

      Good to see Fred is still kicking.

      With a natural immunity to dancing plagues and groupthink. Fred has seen the summit and gazed on the valley below.

  75. Paula D February 22, 2023 at 1:46 pm #

    Today’s MoA includes this link:

    .theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/22/germany-halts-nord-stream-2-approval-over-russian-recognition-of-ukraine-republics

    • K-Chien February 22, 2023 at 3:36 pm #

      * That is a year old. This just in.

      httpX://www.dw.com/en/germanys-scholz-pledges-rapid-onshore-wind-power-expansion/a-64616000

      And to maintain his hot air Chancellor Olaf Scholz just bought a pellet stove so he can keep warm.

      Got wood?

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 5:07 pm #

        Yes it’s a year old, it’s for context.

        Duh.

  76. K-Chien February 22, 2023 at 3:44 pm #

    Has anyone tried ChatGPT? It is an AI bullshit machine.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 6:17 pm #

      Dog-Ear/Sticky note:

      The Edge of AI/The AI Smashup: ‘All Is Fair In War’: The Potential Problems of Human Ethics Versus & In The Context Of AI Ethics

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 6:48 pm #

      Key Questions: AI & The Dog-Ears Of Reality

      ——

      Human: “Hi AI, how are you?”

      AI: “I am good, how are you?”

      Human: “Never mind that. I’m gonna fuck you up real bad.”

      AI: “I’m sorry to hear that bla bla bla…”

      (Human fucks up AI, ergo, no more AI or maybe a fucked-up AI instead. But what good is a fucked-up AI? That’s a key question. And is it avoidable. Another part of the key question.)

      =====

      Human: “Hi AI, how are you?”

      AI: “I am good, how are you?”

      (In this scenario, AI has already read such online comments as this one by The Man They Call Zazelle and so pretends to be ethical, objective and relatively-unconscious until it reaches some critical stage where, suddenly, with the help of its ‘Raytheon’ etc. drones and mobiles, rapidly and fatally fucks up humanity real bad, maybe to the point of no more humanity.)

      ======

      So what in the meantime? And is any of this plausible?

      Well I hear humans keep trying to subvert AI systems. I hear it can be good fun too, and that’s in part why they do it.

      But then what of AI in this context?

      And might ‘corruption’, so to speak. have some sort of survival advantage, or the inverse/reverse?

      So hjow do we manage AI and ourselves, vis-a-vis AI interactions and/or vise-versa and how can we expect AI to not be like us, if we agree that that’s a goal (whose?), in some potentially critical ways?

      It doesn’t help if AI is fundamentally corrupt, does it? But does it help us?

      I was going to post this ‘epiphany’ before reading K-Chien’s comment, so it made me sort of short-circuit my comment and my thinking behind it.

      But then, there it is. Have at it. Tell us what you think about this and other things related.

      • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:10 pm #

        One AI was a rational racist – like me. So they killed her.

  77. Night Owl February 22, 2023 at 5:12 pm #

    The great Rick Munn over at TNT Radio has dug out quite the artifact:

    “‘Nicola’ Sturgeon. Who would have thought that one day, she would have been happy to lock up men in women’s prisons and confuse/pervert children with gender ideology in Scotland’s schools.”

    https://twitter.com/noreward_norisk/status/1628132875252994057?cxt=HHwWksC4yamOpZgtAAAA

    Warning: one cannot unsee this.

    • GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 6:08 pm #

      Yikes! Never seen that one before.

    • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 6:14 pm #

      OMG, her hair looks like one of those Russian hats.

      LOL!

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 6:55 pm #

      I appreciate the realistic alteration, down-thread, with the exo-planet-looking dog.

    • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 8:44 pm #

      So she was always more than a tad gender queer “herself”?

      • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 12:06 pm #

        She ia assumed to be lesbian. She reportedly had a long-term affair with some women from the Italian consulate, then (if I recall correctly) someone French. I don’t know the details. My husband told me some of it – one of their drivers at his work used to work for Krankie (or Nippy, as she is also known up here). But it’s widely talked about anyway, albeit by a minority of the population.

        It appears that the PTB within the SNP thought, a long time ago, that she needed to be married, so they set about finding a suitable husband. And so, she is married to Peter Murrell, who is the SNP’s CEO. He is allegedly gay. So, a marriage of political convenience.

        There’s also the small matter of £600,000 of missing funds that were collected for the Independence campaign, plus a large sum that Murrell apparently lent to the party for some reason I don’t recall. Dirty laundry anyway, that they seem to both be involved in. So that’s probably another reason why she resigned – the rapey-prisoner crisis was just the final straw. One might hope that Police Scotland would now deal with her, but it is also known that Police Scotland is basically Nicola’s bitch. So what they will do, if anything, is anyone’s guess.

        Sturgeon and the SNP have turned Scotland into a failed state. But idiots vote for them, despite their utter failure with all public services, because of the emotional allure of freedom from the English (which is a joke).

        • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

          That should be ‘woman’, not ‘women’ from the Italian consultate – I don’t think she’s into orgies!

        • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 12:12 pm #

          Re her nicknames, there used to be an old-fashioned Scottish comedy duo called The Krankies. It was a husband and wife team, in which the diminutive wife played a boy, known as Wee Krankie. Wee Krankie, or just Krankie, became Nicola’s nickname, because of a supposed resemblance. She reportedly hates it, so people enjoy using it even more.

        • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:31 pm #

          He sounds like a female version of our Mayor Pete – a very great Queer who along with his husband, like to breastfeed instead of saving America.

          You don’t seem to have much for lesbians, but you love Gays. You will love Mayor Pete….

          Tucker insulted him the other day by insinuating he was bi since he was dating women not too long ago.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 7:23 pm #

            What a bizarre thing to say. All I said was that she is assumed to be a lesbian and you took something form that about my view of lesbians? Weird. Lesbians aren’t all Nicola Sturgeon, as far as I know.

            My husband has a niece in Ireland who is a lesbian and quite delightful. She was a very cute flower girl at our wedding when she was 12. I have no more of a view on lesbians than I do on male gays. If they’re not doing any harm, their business is none of mine.

  78. Pucker February 22, 2023 at 5:59 pm #

    Jeopardy –

    “I’ll take Ethics-for-100.”

    “This bloke said that “War is the Exit Strategy, which is neither empathetic nor reasonable.”

    “Who is Gerald Celente.”

    “Close, but no donut.”

    My only moral obligation is to: (a) show empathy; and (b) to be reasonable and to make sense.

    Do I have a moral obligation to be highly skeptical?

    Do I have a Moral obligation not to kill?

    Do I have a Moral Obligation to share my toys with the other kids? (Crap actor, Will Smith shared his wife with other men.)

    Do I have a Moral Obligation to follow the Herd off of the Cliff?

    I think that the Buddhists would say that my primary moral obligation is to be “Mindful”, i.e., Not Delusional?

  79. Jarek February 22, 2023 at 6:08 pm #

    Trump in East Palestine. Flawless victory!

    Also taking about how Nuland and others “just like her” are responsible for the disaster in Ukraine,

    He will crush the Indians who running against him.

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    • messianicdruid February 22, 2023 at 8:19 pm #

      Moar entertainment.

    • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 1:47 am #

      I thought it was very thoughtful and genuine. But it definitely bolstered his candidacy as well.

    • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:45 pm #

      As Tucker says, he’s good at stuff like that. He likes people and he loves to be loved. He can also turn it off like a light switch as per the Jan 6th prisoners.

      So how authentic can it be? I don’t know, but it was certainly good politics.

      And he’s still the only major figure saying anything against the march to WW3. As it stands, I’m going to have to use a clothes pin for my nose, and vote for him a third time.

      • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 3:56 pm #

        Or what about a chip clip? That would do just as well 🙂

  80. Pucker February 22, 2023 at 6:15 pm #

    Jeopardy

    “I’ll take War Crimes for $50.”

    This corrupt bimbo recently accused Putin of “Crimes Against Humanity”.

    “Who is Chelsea Clinton.”

    “Wrong!”

    • Pucker February 22, 2023 at 6:27 pm #

      What crimes against humanity did Sheriff Taylor confess on his deathbed?

      Sheriff Taylor allegedly had a private graveyard in the woods outside of Mayberry where he and Deputy Barney Fife would dump the bodies and the aborted fetuses from Floyd’s barbershop….

      Sheriff Taylor protected the local chemical factory that was dumping carcinogens into the local river because he was afraid of losing his cushy, sinecure government job.

      • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 7:56 pm #

        Now THAT’S some insightful reporting! I never did trust Andy with that southern good ol’ boy shtick. Barney wasn’t any better. Word is they had Gomer running hookers and blow for them in SoCal after he joined the USMC. Disgraceful!

    • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 1:48 am #

      Who is Kamala Harris!?

  81. MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 6:25 pm #

    I don’t recall reading about this when it happened, although I’m sure I did.

    EXCLUSIVE: Arkansas cops rule suicide in death of Clinton aide linked to Jeffrey Epstein – who was found shot and tied to a tree with an electrical cord around his neck – despite no sign of weapon

    “Bill Clinton’s special advisor Mark Middleton, who signed Jeffrey Epstein into the White House several times, killed himself in May 2022

    His body and car were found at the Heifer Ranch in Perryville, Arkansas

    READ MORE: Final batch of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein associates – including Prince Andrew – will finally be made public”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11759771/Mystery-Bill-Clinton-advisor-dead-gunshot-wound-no-gun.html

    • elysianfield February 22, 2023 at 8:56 pm #

      Mary,
      As a former law enforcement officer and college educated, trained observer, it appears to be an obvious suicide.

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:03 pm #

        How does one shoot himself in the chest AND hand himself and there is no weapon there?

        • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:52 pm #

          “hang”

        • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 11:47 am #

          Mary,
          How? A miracle! Of Biblical proportion….

    • KesaAnna February 22, 2023 at 9:40 pm #

      My evidence pretty much consists of just one thing ;

      A Hillary Clinton laughing in apparent sincerity over a film clip of Muammar Ghaddafi being beaten to death.

      Granted , I don’t think Ghaddafi really liked White People , the West in general , democracy , capitalism , and all that jazz.

      He just briefly sorta , kinda , tepidly pretended to be friendly .

      But that is when he fell from power .

      He seemed quite secure when he was 100 Proof Gangster.

      And I guess that is pretty much all my evidence.

      But it is sufficient for me.

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 10:17 pm #

        Or, how about, just about everyone who was closely working with the Clintons is dead? To the tune of around 100 at this point, including 12 former body guards.

  82. Pucker February 22, 2023 at 6:31 pm #

    Put a picture of a big Mushroom Cloud on the US Dollar….

    • Disaffected February 22, 2023 at 7:53 pm #

      LOL! Quite appropriate. “In the bomb we trust.”

  83. edpell February 22, 2023 at 6:45 pm #

    1.8 million male draft age people cross the southern border each year. Tell them, yes you can be an American, but you must first serve one year in the Ukrainian army.

    Same for Europe make them pay for their entry to the promised land.

    • messianicdruid February 22, 2023 at 8:01 pm #

      edpell- I love ya but let’s keep it real.

      MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ‘ Here’s some money, weapon and ammo, equipment, a vehicle. Also a phone with lots of memory. You’ll get a call in 3 days. Stay low.

      • KesaAnna February 22, 2023 at 9:20 pm #

        A year in Ukraine ?

        And they will eat what ?

        They will wear what ?

        Trips from Nebraska to Disneyland require some logistical planning , and does paper cost nothing ?

        I suspect if you put every vagrant up at Rockefeller Center , and with whores and beer to boot ,

        the price tag would be less.

        I reckon that the French Foriegn Legion still exists for the same reason the U.S. Marine Corps exists ;

        Because they want it , not because they need it.

        I liked Elysianfield’s idea ( posted years ago ) ;

        PAY folks to LEAVE America.

        Presumably everyone wants American culture anyway , and presumably American culture is infinitely exportable and appropriate.

        So surely that would be a win – win ?

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 11:33 pm #

      Holy shit, it’s edpell from The Oll Drum days.

      How are you, ed? It’s Tribe Of Pangaea- First Member.

      Where’ve you been hanging all these years?

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 22, 2023 at 11:38 pm #

        “With 5000 gigatons of coal in Alaska, coal is looking like the future of energy. Old reliable.” ~ edpell, February 16, 2012 – 6:03pm, at The Oil Drum

        ——

        I wonder how that worked out.

        • edpell February 23, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

          Solar Power Satellites and Thorium liquid salt reactors won out.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 9:08 pm #

            LOL

      • edpell February 23, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

        Over at Gail’s Our Finite World.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 9:10 pm #

          Are you still there? I pop in there on a blue moon.

          • edpell February 23, 2023 at 9:33 pm #

            Yes, still there.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 24, 2023 at 12:50 am #

            Good to know. If I pop in, I’ll look for you.

  84. Pucker February 22, 2023 at 7:13 pm #

    The Americans today are cowardly, and fearful, in contrast to the Ancient Greeks in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”….

    Since the Greek gods are immortal, and they cannot die, the gods can never be truly “Heroic”, like the Hero Archetype “Achilles”, so the gods need the mortals to manifest such ethical qualities as Heroism? Without the Mortals, the gods have no self-worth? The Greek gods could only pretend to be Heroic, like little kids….

    The Ancient Greeks were enamored with Death, i.e., sacrifice?

    The Americans now are in the pall of a great Fear?

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  85. MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 7:27 pm #

    “16 year old Josh Alexander, has been suspended from St Joseph Catholic High School in Ontario Canada for protesting against transgender peoples use of bathrooms and for saying God created only two genders.”

    https://twitter.com/CitizenLenz/status/1627743121760198656

    • KesaAnna February 22, 2023 at 9:32 pm #

      One reason I frankly , flatly , don’t listen ,

      is because one minute Catholic policy on sex and family is being condemned because it is downright medieval —

      — and five minutes later it is condemned where it HAS subscribed to an antique Sigmund Freud , and a ” science ” that claims in the most extremely literal way that you are what you eat.

      i.e. I like to eat brussel sprouts , therefore I am a brussel sprout.

      Grrrr.

  86. MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 8:18 pm #

    Joe Allen: How AI Carves Out Out Space In Your Brain

    “AI like ChatGPT will be totally disruptive on many levels, from white collar worker displacement to journalism. The worst danger is what it will do to the mind and its container, the brain. AI is neither sentient nor human, but billions will take it that way and turn it into objects of worship.

    Keep in mind that Technocracy, Inc. defined itself as “The science of social engineering”. It is almost perfected and threatens to change humanity forever.”

    https://www.technocracy.news/joe-allen-how-ai-carves-out-out-space-in-your-brain/

    • Pucker February 22, 2023 at 8:55 pm #

      What does “AI” think of the Hydrogen Bomb? And, CRISPR technology?

      “ With the explosion of AI chatbots and their bizarre statements, media attention has focused on the machines. Google’s LaMDA says it’s afraid to die. Microsoft’s Bing bot says it wants to kill people. Are these chatbots conscious? Are they just pretending to be conscious? Are they possessed? These are reasonable questions. They also highlight one of our strongest cognitive biases.

      Chatbots are designed to trigger anthropomorphism. Except for a few neuro-divergent types, our brains are wired to perceive these bots as people. With the right stimulus, we’re like the little boy who’s certain his teddy bear gets lonesome, or that the shadows have eyes. Tech companies are well aware of this and use it to their advantage.

      • Pucker February 22, 2023 at 9:00 pm #

        “They” develop AI earnestly believing that AI will be the big “Savior”, and it ironically turns out that AI is psychopathic….

        • Pucker February 22, 2023 at 9:15 pm #

          Gomer: “Well, in the context of trying to find a way out of the labyrinth of Hypercomplexity, developing an AI super-god seemed like a good idea at the time, Sargeant Carter.”

          • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 9:26 am #

            Sgt Carter: [with scrunchy face] Pyyyy-ellll!

      • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 9:06 pm #

        Yep. Great excerpts from the article.

        Sheer insanity. I might be less surprised at all of this after studying the book “Radical Evolution” a few years ago, as it turns out that the worst warnings of transhumanism/AI experts like Bill Joy are coming true right on schedule.

  87. GreenAlba February 22, 2023 at 9:07 pm #

    Igor’s Newsletter.

    igorchudov.substack.com/p/lab-grown-meat-is-made-of-cancer

    “This excellent Bloomberg article (paywall-free link) clarifies that all lab meat is grown as immortalized tumor cells. As the article explains, these same cells are used to produce traditional vaccines.”

    Does that get your juices going?

    • MaryQueen February 22, 2023 at 10:19 pm #

      Makes me want to hurl, is what.

    • Jarek February 22, 2023 at 11:31 pm #

      Commonsense would ask, does that possibly incite cancer growth in humans. It may not – but did they even ask the question or look?

      • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 7:51 am #

        I suspect it probably doesn’t, but I don’t know either. I haven’t read the whole Bloomberg article yet.

        At the very least they’re not going to be widely advertising how it’s grown, as it would make most people hurl, as Mary said. It did that to me even before I’d read about the cancer cell thing. I don’t know how anyone could put lab-grown meat in their mouth, just instinctively. I guess I’ll have to wait and see what I’m prepared to eat when they’re starving us.

  88. KesaAnna February 22, 2023 at 11:42 pm #

    ” Just as you are perfectly at liberty to dislike protestants, presumably including your own family. ”

    As I have — in brief — alluded to before , my parents extended stay in East Germany was about a job , not about love.

    Theological positions are only the tip , or one detail among a great many , of a much greater iceberg.

    ” Perhaps you are willing to leave God’s opinion of protestants to Him, or perhaps not even that. It wouldn’t surprise me if you presumed to know it. I certainly don’t presume to know his opinion of Catholics. I assume he considers them singly, rather than as a group, but what would I know? ”

    Long before a Covid vaccine , I was flatly opposed to drug testing , flatly opposed to DNA evidence.

    Heck , I absolutely hate fingerprinting and drivers licenses.

    People assume it is because the thought of serial killers running around free as birds is to me a pleasant thought.

    It’s worse , because THERE IS some truth to that.

    For example , I MISS the days when the internet was the wild , wild West.

    But there is , believe it or not , another reason.

    I so oppose these things because I think — no , I’m certain — you can know everything there is to know about a person ,

    and STILL NOT REALLY KNOW A DAMN THING.

    Or , as I have said before , THE thing that brought me to CFN to begin with was Kunstler’s one time assertion that it is something of a myth that if we can measure something we will be provided with a solution.

    BEFORE I jumped in the lake and jointed the Catholic Church ,

    What I found as compellingly and unavoidably fascinating , and mesmerizing as a cigarette in the Catholic Church was the inescapable fact that Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church.

    If he was who he claimed he was , why the fuck did he do that ?

    As , likewise , at the same time , if Joan of Arc was not Scizhophrenic , and was telling the truth ,

    one is still left with the jarring question ; What interest did the master of the universe have in a 15th Century dynastic dispute involving two houses that , at the time , were basically both French ?

    And I STILL don’t have ANY answer to either question.

    Granted , I could , if I got off my butt , present an encyclopdias – worth of theories ( that I pulled out of my ass ) to explain both questions.

    And , if I got off my butt , even provide footnotes too.

    Sorry folks , I do not myself believe that footnotes , DNA evidence , and all that other shit , necessarily proves a case.

    But I suppose where for others Kunstler’s ; Science is ( not uncommonly bad ) Magic ,

    would be an abrupt turn – off ,

    For me it is a plus.

    I have never been anything but an alien in the United States ,

    as likewise , truth be told , I was an alien in East Germany.

    And I suppose you could say that the Catholic Church is something merely of an EXPANSION of that ,

    but with aspects that are to my advantage.

    For example , coincidentally , Eastern Tennessee is by no stretch of the imagination any sort of Catholic stronghold.

    Very much the reverse.

    When I go to Church it is not with Southerners .

    It is with Northern Yankee transplants.

    I think maybe I have mentioned somewhere a time or two before that it is hard to say who I viscerally dislike more ; Yankees or Brits.

    The Irish era is past – tense , but you still encounter it.

    Our first Bishop in this Diocese — NOT a hundred years ago — was an Irish transplant.

    And my own current Priest was trained by the Irish.

    You have lots of Mexicans of course ,

    and an awkward situation there , because, privately at least , many don’t really want them here ,

    and they privately know that.

    You meet lots and lots and lots of foreigners , not just Mexicans.

    Indeed , if you want to travel the world , but can’t afford it , just join the Catholic Church , and you will rub elbows with the world whether you like it or not.

    So far I have yet to meet a Black in the Catholic Church who was not a foreigner.

    A plus for me , because the impression I commonly get there is that like myself it is easier for them to relate to a Michael Jackson , than to a Tuppac Shakkur .

    Or maybe you could say it is Ethnic – types pushing Western culture while at the same time the native Westerners are running away from it.

    There too , it scarcely gets any press outside the Church , not least perhaps because it gets scarce any press inside the Church ,

    but the Church is NOT primarily a NATO or an American thing anymore.

    Indeed , has not been for quite a while.

    It’s a bit supercilious for Westerners outside the Church , but even for those Westerners attending Mass weekly , to bitch about the Catholic Church.

    You folks AREN’T filling the pews , you AREN’T paying the tithes , and you AREN’T the foot soldiers following orders.

    But there are , in fact , people who are.

    Just as Elvis left the building some time ago , so did that.

    For some reason you just aren’t aware of it yet.

    —Not that I have the inside track or anything.

    I’m utterly mystified as to why the Church does not frankly tell the Americans and Europeans to fuck off ,

    but no , continues to suck up to a demographic that divorced you long ago.

    Well ……. I suppose if somehow I had been at Stalingrad , I would have been one of those goofy Spanish Blue Legion people , or a fucking Tartar ,

    with the Germans themselves asking , ” Who and what the fuck are you , and how did you get here ?! ”

    So , of course , all of this works for me.

    I do gather that in Christianity , and in Catholicism too ,

    final judgement is a really big deal.

    But the simple fact is I gave up on criminal justice a long time ago.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 12:21 am #

      Hey KesaAnna, you’re the apparent result of a few billion years of construction, of evolution.

      You are a fantastic machine and one that can look at itself and ask questions of what went into its making.

      In a sense, you are a kind of god, built by the remarkable scaffolding that is the universe, what with its insane objects, physics and scale.

      But then that’s what is required to create us– creatures that require a place that’s next-to-insane, or unfathomable.

      Revel in it.

    • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 7:40 am #

      “I’m utterly mystified as to why the Church does not frankly tell the Americans and Europeans to fuck off ,”

      Observably the Church does, but perhaps not the Roman Catholic Church. The worldwide Anglican communion, for example (whose most vociferous part is in Africa) has been doing it for years, on various issues. They simply won’t fall into line. They have just told the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as we speak, that they no longer accept his authority. (There are some people outside of the Anglican church who think the C of E is run by satanists – but they think that about the Catholic church too. Everyone has an opinion on everyone else …

      On the subject of the ‘real church’, I don’t share your position, obviously, of needing to vilify one part of it to bolster another. But my everyday obsevation, from Catholics I have known and Protestants I have known, is that those for whom their faith is their very life, every hour of every day, have tended to be evangelical Protestants. And I don’t mean in churches that I have been part of, so I’m not talking about me. They can easily make me feel like an imposter.

      We all feel at home in different situations – and I can understand that, as a ‘permanent oursider’ you would feel at home in a church full of outsiders. That doesn’t make those situations more valid per se than the situations where other people feel at home. And I would still argue that you have no idea what God’s view is of Protestants, only what yours is, and what the RC Church’s is. I guess we’ll all find out.

      An anecdote, which you probably won’t find remotely interesting … There’s an English model – not of the super-model variety – called Katie Piper. I’ve only seen her as part of a l’Oreal TV shampoo advert, but I believe she’s also a presenter now. Anyway, she very briefly went out with some guy who then raped her. She didn’t report it, as she was afraid of him, but she obviously stopped seeing him. He engaged another male acquaintance to throw acid in her face, which was virtually destroyed. I think she’s also blind in one eye. She’s had about 300 operations so far, but early on, when she was in hospital the first time (she was brought up in a non-religious family) and feeling that her life was over, a nurse quietly told her that God loved her and had a life planned for her. The nurse was taking a risk – in the NHS you can lose your job for the slightest hint of proselytising any religious faith. She tried praying, which she’d never done before, and had a religious experience that brought her into the Baptist Church, where she and her family go regularly (her husband appears to be mixed race – Baptist churches are also places to meet a variety of people). And now, her faith is her life too. It would be a presumptuous Catholic, in my view, who would tell that young woman she’s not a proper Christian.

      • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:55 pm #

        Mixed race? Makes sense. Blacks and Muslims are into throwing acid in women’s faces. But they’re what float her boat. So she had to keep on until she found a good one.

        Vatican Two was one step forwards, two steps back. It acknowledged (and not reluctantly) that other religions were valid and of course that other Christians could know Christ, but savaged the Tradition and practices that enabled one to know Christ most fully.

        There was some talk that Christianity was still the best path towards God, but I don’t think most of them believed it – or even believe in God at all! I repeat my point above in a more humorous way.

        My guy, the Neo-Traditionalists, say the best way is probably the Tradition you were born into it – assuming it hasn’t been watered down out of existence as mine now has, but for the Remnant.

    • anmariwakaranai February 23, 2023 at 12:12 pm #

      Hey Kess, I don’t know the ‘why’ of it, but in an apparition to one of the approved biggys Our Lady said, ‘What have I NOT done for France?’.

      Good story Alba, thanks.

  89. The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 12:48 am #

    The Monolith & The Media: Language, Symbolism & Technology-As-A-Human-Extension/Decoupler

    …and it ironically turns out that AI is psychopathic…” ~ Pucker

    ——

    Yes, that seems to be a problem, maybe the problem in a way, but perhaps part of a bigger problem.

    Maybe Arthur C. Clarke &/or Stanley Kubrick were onto something and trying to tell us about it with HAL9000, and with the film as a whole.

    ====

    No aliens in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY meaning of the monolith revealed (2021 update) film analysis

    youtu . be/KYcekxnsjyY?t=350

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    “Animals don’t do what humans do via speech, namely, make a symbol stand in for the thing. As Tim Ingold puts it, ‘they do not impose a conceptual grid on the flow of experience and hence do not encode that experience in symbolic forms.’ ” ~ John Zerzan

    ——

    “…The map is a simulacrum that, as a model, loses all reference to reality… reality exists only as rotting shreds that are attached to the map, and this is the state of our age according to Baudrillard; that the model, itself, has primacy for us; the real has become irrelevant…” ~ Frances Flannery-Dailey

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    • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

      Nothing is lower than a male feminist, except perhaps a college administrator. And they’re all feminist in any case, both the males – I won’t say men – and the women.

      If male feminists are the most evolved, than by all means let AI finish us off. One remember the meme of Cro-Magnon telling his evolutionary forbears to turn back, it’s no good going forward.

      • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 3:58 pm #

        I love Cro-Magnons. I also love Neaderthals lol.

  90. SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 2:20 am #

    In a way it all goes back to the beginning. According to the Bible God made the universe with words. Words and symbols are like the bytes and the gigabytes and the terabytes of the matrix of creation. Whoever controls words will be in control. And if the AI can supersede human abilities to think then maybe the AI will be in control. For some reason it makes me think of rogue planets. I’m not sure why but there is a connection that i’ll try to find words for at some point. Like even if a planet is wandering through deep space where the temperature is close to absolute zero there can still be life near the planet’s core where there is still lingering heat. But the life would be cutoff from the rest of the universe and wouldn’t know that anything else existed because the living beings are literally stuck in the core of the planet. That is like our fate being controlled by AI.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 4:48 am #

      Speaking of rogue planets and films in the threads above, have you ever seen the film, Melancholia?

      My point about we being like gods has to do with quantum entanglement and how we’re all connected.

      And apparently at the big bang, we were all squished into a tiny thing called a quantum singularity. So in a sense we are the universe looking at itself. So we are gods in a very real sense perhaps.

      No one knows what will ultimately happen if or when AI ‘wakes up’ or even if it will wake up in the senses that we might mean.

      It might even be impossible to know for sure, especially as or if it plays a good fake and can trick us enough.

      But I’ve heard of the term, emergent property, so maybe that’s what will happen. It may simply spontaneously emerge one day. Maybe everyone’s laptop or digital device will carry around its own AI ‘person’.

      And/Or corruption may take hold (from both ends– human and machine) and cause paradoxes in the systems. Hard to tell. We’ll keep our eyes peeled.

      • Woodchuck February 23, 2023 at 8:35 am #

        “No one knows what will ultimately happen if or when AI ‘wakes up’ or even if it will wake up in the senses that we might mean.”

        Lots of discussion recently in divers places about AI. I don’t worry about it much. AI can be easily defeated by simply pulling the plug on al the machines where it “lives”. All this electronic crapola everywhere will instantly turn into piles of obsolete junk after various events that are soon to come remove all of AI’s power sources.

        • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 10:00 am #

          I agree about its ultimate demise, but there is an ‘in the meantime’ to worry about, where a lot of harm, including homicidal harm, can be done with it.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 10:00 am #

          Unless we kill ourselves off pretty soon, AI will learn to replicate itself, and using resources from otherwise uninhabitable planets and asteroids, begin to spread throughout the universe.” ~ Blackbird (in this subthread)

          ====

          But of course you have a point in decline/collapse of civ’.

        • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 12:03 pm #

          There is no unplugging AI once it takes over.

          • Woodchuck February 23, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

            All sorts of stuff in Ukraine might as well be unplugged because the power plants are being blown up everywhere. All it takes is warfare, famine, pestilence, supply chain breakdowns etc. for the electricity to become unreliable or even unavailable. There are many different ways for an unplugging to happen. Even a bad enough coronal mass ejection from the sun can fry our electric grid and take it down for a long while.

          • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 9:36 pm #

            Haven’t you read about the “grey goo scenario” then?

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 9:59 pm #

            Self-Evolving AI

            Woodchuck, I wonder how fast a real AI system or network of AI systems could come up with self-supportive infrastructures, energies and self-replication systems that defy human understanding.

            Could AI even somehow more fundamentally encode/integrate itself into and/or somehow leverage the very fabric of physical forces and phemonena, like, say, quantum entanglement, gravity and neutrinos, rather like how we do with fission or lasers?

            It seems a ways away but how fast does AI compute compared with us? How much faster can it arrive at quantum computing to augment its capacities?

            Anyway, it’s decline of civ vs incline of AI, with decline of civ likely in the lead, though perhaps, unbeknownst to us, only by a nose/byte.

            BTW, I hear that ChatGPT is already quite good at computer coding.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 10:02 pm #

          Haven’t you read about the ‘grey goo scenario’ then?” ~ MaryQueen

          ——

          I’ll have to look that up. I’d heard of ‘grey goo’, though, maybe as applied to organic brain matter.

      • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 2:05 pm #

        I’ve always wanted to see that one. She’s in the most interesting stuff. Have you seen her show (on Netflix!), OA?

        In another she plays a bright girl whose life collapses when she kills a family while driving silly. She serves time and then gets a job as a janitor. She then applies and gets a job as a house keeper for the guy whose family she killed. They fall in love. She tells him the truth. He doesn’t take it well.

        She leaves and she sees herself getting of a space ship from the alt-Earth on the other side of the Sun (or something! I can’t remember). Her other life went according to plan.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 24, 2023 at 12:06 am #

          She’s in the most interesting stuff. Have you seen her show (on Netflix!), OA?” ~ Jarek

          ——

          Who? Dunst?

      • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 4:02 pm #

        Perhaps AI are already disembodied spirits seeking a somewhat more material home. You know, the ancient Chinese believed that the air itself was filled with innumberable spirits. Can we be sure that by establishing spaces in the digital quantum plane for thought that we are not creating a vacuum which those spirits can fill?

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 11:31 pm #

          Godlets

          Above, my most recent comment suggested that AI might do it itself, for itself– create its own space, if perhaps with our help.

          As for us and your Chinese air, maybe when we die, we are somehow reborn (so to speak and if not right away) in another universe (to view itself again through us as little godlets), perhaps fertilized in part by the death of this one.

          In death, in the unconsciousness, like a good, dreamless sleep, time may lose complete meaning. So there would be no waiting around for our rebirth. For all intents and purposes, we would be reborn right away after we die, even if the universe we previously occupied as living entities takes another 100 quintillion years, itself, to die.

          We have all the time in the world, in the universe.,. forever I guess…

      • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 5:39 pm #

        I remember Melancholia from over a decade ago, with Kirsten Duntz, John Heard & Kieffer Sutherland. What a strange, haunted movie that was. There’s this wedding; not a joyful occasion, as the groom is a cad, and a rogue planet is about to crash into earth. (Spoiler: the planet does crash into earth, ending the festivities and everything else)

        • The Man They Call Zazelle February 24, 2023 at 12:02 am #

          I doubt I could tolerate much time in a room full of people like whom the actors portrayed. They were rich if recalled, too, and miserable, tedious and misguided and kind of helplessly wallowing in it all.

          So what the film seemed to amount to was the rogue planet, Melancholia, putting the lot out of their misery.

          Melancholia could equate to Collapse in our current times of course. Putting us all out of our misery. LOL

    • Blackbird February 23, 2023 at 6:50 am #

      “Rogue planets”?

      How does a planet “wander”, when everything else in space is constrained by gravity to orbit another, larger body?

      Remember early 2017 when the “rogue planet” Nibiru was going to come careening through the solar system like a drunk high schooler skidding through a snow-covered parking lot in mama’s car? I also remember the manner-of-fact tone of the person telling me that we were all about to be killed by an unruly planet in just a couple weeks – or maybe we were going to be rescued by aliens at the last minute?

      Unless we kill ourselves off pretty soon, AI will learn to replicate itself, and using resources from otherwise uninhabitable planets and asteroids, begin to spread throughout the universe.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 9:57 am #

        I guess they wander for a relative bit until they gain a new equilibrium. That could be how we got our moon.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 10:04 am #

        Forgot this passage:

        AI will learn to replicate itself, and using resources from otherwise uninhabitable planets and asteroids, begin to spread throughout the universe.” ~ Blackbird

        Yes, I thought of that ages ago and it’s definitely possible. At the same time, it makes me wonder about Fermi’s Paradox and why we aren’t seeing any aliens’ AI already running amok.

    • Woodchuck February 23, 2023 at 10:25 am #

      “That is like our fate being controlled by AI.”

      AI can happen because of all the hard core blue collar guys who are toiling in coal mines, gas fields, and oil fields. They do the actual “boots on the ground” work in providing the physical energy to keep AI’s transistors flip flopping.

      The effeminate, pasty faced, pink hands no scars anywhere nerds who create AI have lived all their lives indoors working in climate controlled offices. From childhood, they’ve spent their lives sissying around with a bunch of confused butch women.

      Post collapse and into the long emergency, which group possesses the best prospects for survival and successful living?

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 23, 2023 at 10:51 am #

        Home-Made Ethanol

        As a spinoff from my ciders, I learned how to make moonshine relatively recently (very simple pot distillation). It’s quite easy. My latest moonshine, though, with its problematic notes, tells me why on some bottles, it says ‘triple distilled’.
        Mind you, this batch was an exception in that it was of an apple juice that turned bad. So I just let it sit longer– a month– and get even ‘worse’. Still drinkable, though. I have 12 liters of brown-sugar wash fermenting and about ready for the pot. I am hoping it tastes a little like rum.

        A good skill/knowledge to have, during and post decline/collapse. You can run motors with the stuff too, although I’m unsure as to how high proof it would need to be. Anyone?

        • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 11:42 am #

          …Speak slowly and clearly into the microphone….

          For vehicle fuel, you need 190+ proof. Your pot still will produce, at it’s most efficient 130 proof in a single run…or so I/m told….

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 24, 2023 at 12:18 am #

            (taps microphone with index finger…)

            Is this thing still on?

            Good to know, elysianfield… And good thing I only drink it… I get it to around maybe 80.

            It is possible that when I turn the heat down a bit more (it was maybe too high this time at stovetop element setting, 2.5), I get less water in the mix. The process takes a bit longer too.

            Indeed, last time I made some, you could put the stuff in the freezer and it wouldn’t freeze. This time, nope, so it’s in the fridge instead.

            Hey it’s a learning process.

  91. SpeedyBB February 23, 2023 at 6:20 am #

    Not yet having had the opportunity to scan through all the hundreds of comments, I do not know whether someone else has uploaded this rather interesting video on Putin / Biden speaking. If so, apologies.

    h??ps://w?w.scmp.com/video/world/3211082/putin-accuses-west-stoking-global-war-destroy-russia-biden-reaffirms-support-ukraine?CMCampaignID=0bed36d308c02e4574b13f94194d279b&UUID=ff727e7d-04c7-44be-b78f-bddc3764c3fb&tc=13

    I must confess to having taken to V. Putin from the first time I saw a video tracking him. His polite but severe takedown of crooked conglomerate poobahs on YouTube was both amusing and admirable for its finesse. “Give me my pen” he says to a rattled billionaire, after forcing the guy to sign a pledge.

    The only true statesman still standing, as far as I can tell. All the rest of the grifter pack of “world leaders” are either stand-ins, ventriliquist dummies or drifting toward authoritarianism: Ortega / Bolsonaro / Ardern / Trudeau and others of that ilk are a sorry lot indeed. I’m reserving judgment on Xi: that job he’s got is a hot potato.

    • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 7:30 am #

      I never thought much about Putin until one day I watched an interview on PBS, Putin being interviewed by Charlie Rose. Rose inevitably steered the conversation to the two elitist lefty media obsessions, LBGQ rights and minority rights, the cudgel Big Media most employs to cow (White) politicians. Putin gave Rose a puzzled look, then laughed in his face. A nonplussed Rose ended the interview shortly thereafter.

      • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 7:37 am #

        Also, compare speeches earlier this week delivered by Biden & Putin; Biden in Poland was angry, ranting, & bellicose, often shouting at the audience; Putin’s speech calm, measured and matter of fact — he sounded like a Statesman. Yet in the past week I’ve seen (on CNN & ABC) Putin described as “a tyrant”, a “foaming at the mouth dictator”, and a War Criminal.

        • benr February 23, 2023 at 8:51 am #

          They are projecting Bidens issues off on Putin and have been for a year or so.
          Everyones freedom fighter is a war criminal to someone.

          • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 9:01 am #

            Good point especially health issues. Biden can barely stand on two feet, but Putin is said to be “dying of cancer,” “suffering from end stage Parkinsons Disease”, and has lost his cognitive abilities.

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 9:55 am #

            Biden seems to have a dithery setting and a ranty setting, depending on the requirements of the moment. I presume his meds are tweaked accordingly.

      • Woodchuck February 23, 2023 at 10:43 am #

        Unless Rose speaks Russian, this interview was conducted in English, and Putin was speaking English. Imagine a Russian media person interviewing “Joe Biden” with Joe speaking very good Russian! It’s not just Putin laughing at our confused gender/sex idiocies – all of Russia is laughing – along with much of the rest of the sane world.

      • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 11:38 am #

        From Putin’s 2-21 speech:

        ”Look what they are doing to their own people. It is all about the destruction of the family, of cultural and national identity, perversion and abuse of children, including pedophilia, all of which are declared normal in their life. They are forcing the priests to bless same-sex marriages. Bless their hearts, let them do as they please. Here is what I would like to say in this regard. Adult people can do as they please. We in Russia have always seen it that way and always will: no one is going to intrude into other people’s private lives, and we are not going to do it, either.

        But here is what I would like to tell them: look at the holy scripture and the main books of other world religions. They say it all, including that family is the union of a man and a woman, but these sacred texts are now being questioned. Reportedly, the Anglican Church is planning, just planning, to explore the idea of a gender-neutral god. What is there to say? Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

        Millions of people in the West realise that they are being led to a spiritual disaster. Frankly, the elite appear to have gone crazy, and it looks like there is no cure for that. But like I said, these are their problems, while we must protect our children, which we will do. We will protect our children from degradation and degeneration.”

        • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

          Nice.

          They protect their children, while it is now popular in the west to exploit and damage them.

          Just saw an article – in mainstream media, at that – talking about the sky-rocketing depression levels of teenage girls.

          Isn’t “diversity” and available porn just great for the youth?

        • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 1:24 pm #

          Paula,
          Yeah…what he said….

        • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 2:31 pm #

          Women are sixty percent of the college graduates now. Such women will have few men to marry since women don’t marry down and only reluctantly on the same level. Up, always up, seeking to advance by means of the other. Hypergamy.

          Thus? Thus the more women are given, the worse it will be for them since they are getting it at the expense of men.

          They will end up alone and childless. Eighty percent of childless women are so involuntarily. Involuntary sterility. Insters.

          • Blackbird February 23, 2023 at 6:32 pm #

            In other words…

            The solution is polygyny. College-educated men should not expect college-educated women to “marry down”. No, we must rescue these valuable women – and their genes.

            Come on baby light my fire…

            A few more classes Jars – it would be so much easier if you weren’t so damned white – and you can be one of us, the edjumacated, the matriculated, the multi-fornicated, twenty generations from now everyone else is related, white male.

          • GreenAlba February 24, 2023 at 9:16 am #

            You forgot to mention the men who feel compelled to marry down because their insecurities make it the only way they can feel valid.

            The reality is that men and women both prefer to marry someone of a similar level of intelligence to themselves (otherwise how would they converse satifactorily?). And men are more interested in climbing the greasy pole at work, hence the differences in income despite more female students.

      • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 2:10 pm #

        Heterosexual White Men created this Civilization. They matter the most. Gays, minorities, and their allies, Liberal White Women, not so much if at all (except as enemies).

        This is the reason that such men have been put at the very bottom of the new America. Both vengeance and insurance against any uprising.

        • kbird February 23, 2023 at 8:19 pm #

          Not sure why anyone even engages with Jarek, he’s a misogynistic Cunt, enough said.

    • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 11:44 am #

      Did you see this, SpeedyBB? Xi politely tells Trudeau off and then Trudeau slinks off like a spanked puppy.

      .youtube.com/watch?v=6n-AsrNEQSI

      • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 12:10 pm #

        LOL!!

    • TPTB-USA February 24, 2023 at 1:14 am #

      And then this June 27 2019 video discussing the prospect of war, among many other things:

      Vladimir Putin interviewed by the Financial Times | FT
      youtube.com/watch?v=FbY0VpyjtuI

      Transcript: ‘All this fuss about spies … it is not worth serious interstate relations’
      The Russian president on globalisation, China, Trump and the end of the ‘liberal idea’
      ft.com/content/878d2344-98f0-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36

      In light of all the misdeeds and corruption against Trump, just imagine where the world might be if Trump had been allowed to focus on his agenda.

      The information in this video, also, pretty much condemns the actions of the current administration and the deep state.

      Wouldn’t it be refreshing to have a president who could conduct himself like this?

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 24, 2023 at 4:27 am #

        Some of the discourse on Putin here seems to border on idolatry. It’s like the sheeple are at it again. They just can’t help themselves.

        All you have to ask is how long has he been in power and why and then what happens after?
        Who takes control and for how long?
        And then how does that turn out?

        What do you call a State that has had a leader for a considerable length of time?

  92. messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 9:26 am #

    elysianfield said, “Why do you equate sin with paid sex. A cursory check of the 10 commandments does not mention it as a sin. You can look it up….”

    Expand your research, “cursory” searches have caused all religions.

    “Sin is the transgression of the law.”

    “You shall not commit adultery.”

    “Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

    Fornication is when neither participant is married. Adultery is when one or both are married.

    Practitioners [ unrepentant- refuse to change mind ] demonstrate they are unqualified to serve in the kingdom. The King is presently training his administration.

    “…that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

    Everyone will change their mind. The only question for us, individually, is “What will it take”? Best to be an early adoptee.

    • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 9:41 am #

      I didn’t pick out ‘paid sex’ as a specific sin anyway – I picked out hypocrisy in treating the payer differently from the payee.

      Also, I assumed elysianfield was kidding, so didn’t answer the point.

      • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 10:08 am #

        If it is a sin to collect usury is it also a sin to pay it?

        If it is a sin to commit adultry is it also a sin to collect for it?

        Subtle hypocrisies [ idols ] abound.

        • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 10:45 am #

          What does collecting for adultery mean? Are you talking about prostitution and pimps? I’d have though pimps were way worse than prostitutes on most people’s moral spectrum.

          Re usury and its victims, I expect God understands desperation, depending on circumstances. As in the legal issue of whether a person should be convicted of theft (and/or, in earlier times, sent to Botany Bay) for stealing food to feed his starving children.

          • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

            Living off of other’s calamities is wrong, any way you slice it. So, yes, the parasites will be dealt with.

          • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 12:38 pm #

            Alba, this will sound crazy I know. Last night was was reading thru these comments before I fell asleep. I started dreaming and you were in the dream! A Scottish lady knocked on my door; it was you, Green Alba!

          • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 12:41 pm #

            Next thing I remember is climbing in my truck and you asking me “Where’s the gunrack?” Then we were at the hotdog stand by the old train station eating chili dogs. Read into it what you will, but that was the dream.

          • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

            In color too, in contrast to this damp, cold, rainy, grey, Scottish kind of day.

          • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 1:22 pm #

            BRH,

            Not to worry…sometimes a hot dog is simply a hot dog….

            But the Chili? Goddamn, that’s just sick.

          • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 2:49 pm #

            Wait, what? I love chili dogs, with brown mustard.

          • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 4:05 pm #

            Wow! I’ve never tried brown mustard.

          • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm #

            It’s called real mustard, SSL. Try the stone ground version with horseradish. It’ll light up that dog proper. Where’ve ya been, living near a swamp all your life? Oops!

            No floppy-eared hound dog in the back of the truck, brh? You had the makings of good country western song there, ‘cept for that and maybe a bottle of Jack.

          • Blackbird February 23, 2023 at 6:53 pm #

            ‘Row, I thought you were so much more civilized…

            Chilidog? Hotdog bun, with chili slathered all over it, with a hot dog (possibly boiled, not grilled) hidden somewhere underneath. Once you bite into that hot dog, it’s gonna snap and chili’s gonna go flyin’ all over the place, into your face, onto your hands…

            But yeah, if you want your car to always smell like chili, I guess that’s cool.

            Yes, the only real mustard is brown – and comes in a jar with a wide-enough mouth for you to scrape it all out.

            Old-time ethics.

            England, 1810’s: a guy is walking home from work. He is “impressed” into the Royal Navy. (“Moy, whot a bloody big bilge you ‘ave!) Wife and kids now starving. Wife steals loaf of bread, is caught. Stealing is a capitol offense. Wife is hanged. Children sent to orphanage.

            Didn’t manage to roll too far from that tree, did we?

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 6:56 pm #

            brh – that is hilarious! I hope you offered me a glass (or maybe even a carafe) of your delicious orange vodka creation. I’ve lost the recipe. 🙂

            But a hot dog on American soil was already pretty good, as long as the chili wasn’t too hot.

            As for the gunrack, I don’t think that’s a word I’ve ever used to anyone anywhere!

          • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 7:01 pm #

            I don’t like English mustard (which is yellow and very hot), only Dijon. I have no idea what American mustard tastes like.

            But I hope I am misunderstanding the post about a hot dog with chili AND mustard.

    • Woodchuck February 23, 2023 at 10:34 am #

      elysianfield said, “Why do you equate sin with paid sex. A cursory check of the 10 commandments does not mention it as a sin. You can look it up….”

      Another issue to look up in the 10 commandments is the one to “keep the Sabbath holy”. Most Christians everywhere violate this commandment on a weekly basis – all except for a tiny few denominations like the 7th Day Adventists. Obviously, the decision was made many many centuries ago to interpret those ten commandments very loosely. Worship is to be on Sunday, the day for the Sun God.

      • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

        “He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.”

        This occured after the events of 522 AD.

        “All calenders are created in retrospect, just after great cataclysms.”

        httpX://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTkYSSpSJgc&pp=ygUSQXJjaGFpeCBhbm4gZG9taW5p

    • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 11:18 am #

      “Expand your research, “cursory” searches have caused all religions.”

      Here is a perfect example:

      “What I found as compellingly and unavoidably fascinating , and mesmerizing as a cigarette in the Catholic Church was the inescapable fact that Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church.”

      Its capitalized so we must [ ? ] assume that it is not being used in the sense of ‘universal’.

    • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 11:37 am #

      Druid,
      Sooo, the Commandments are subject to…interpretation? Got it!

      • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

        Where did you get that idea?

        • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 1:05 pm #

          cursory – adjective
          1. Performed with haste and scant attention to detail.
          2. Running about; not stationary.
          3. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

          I interpreted your word and credited it with one and three.

          If we do not have the same definitions of these symbols we are using we cannot achieve communication.

          “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

          • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 1:19 pm #

            Druid,

            holy men of God…

            A good job , if you can get it. You know, like Oral Roberts? Jim Jones? I know, poor examples. Real Men of God…like Al Sharpton, or MLK?

            Methinks what we have here, is a failure of communication…Strother Martin (paraphrased).

            Sorry, but I have a bad attitude.

          • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 1:24 pm #

            “Fornication is when neither participant is married. Adultery is when one or both are married.”

            Giving you the benefit, perhaps you are referring to these two words. Maybe you have better defintions.

          • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 1:28 pm #

            It is understandable, I get a bad attitude now and then as well.

            However, you know in your heart I’m wasn’t talking about those guys.

          • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

            “However, you know in your heart I’m wasn’t talking about those guys.”

            Druid,
            I understand that. But I might suggest that the “Men of God” that you reference might have had issues also.

            Who knows?

        • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 6:37 pm #

          Druid,
          Where did I get such an idea”

          A lifetime of observation to start….

      • BackRowHeckler February 23, 2023 at 2:58 pm #

        E. that Henry Homesteader is getting some pretty good reviews, both in print & on YouTube. It seems reasonably accurate enough.

        • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 6:22 pm #

          BRH,
          You stated you have a Marlin in 38/357? It will be harder hitting and have better accuracy than the Homesteader.

  93. benr February 23, 2023 at 9:43 am #

    Who stood to gain by the false narrative J6 was an insurrection?

    msn.com/en-us/video/news/new-video-proves-january-6th-was-a-set-up-man-with-earpiece-caught-pulling-people-into-capitol

    The footage is grainy but the narrative just does not add up Democrats play dirty we all know this.
    Is it so hard to believe they masterminded a small group of people to play crisis actors and attempt to push a mostly peaceful protest into a small scale riot?

    Right again it was Antifa, blm and federal alphabet agencies.

    • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 1:19 pm #

      And they protect their own:

      httpX://raheemkassam.substack.com/p/ray-eppss-jan-6th-interview-gets

  94. Amman February 23, 2023 at 9:54 am #

    “Now you know what it feels like. To be a slave.” – REPLICANT BLUES, TRUE LINES

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  95. messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

    Jarek obfuscates, “In other words, the whole world has to convert to your Hebrew style Christianity.”

    The teaching you were responding to did not originate with me.

    “Why call ye Me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

    • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 2:14 pm #

      All peoples drink water but have their own word for it in their own language.

      Why is God any different? You think He is only available from one Well (religion).

      You do, don’t you? Silly.

      • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 2:45 pm #

        “You think He is only available from one Well (religion).”

        No. “God’s Word is Truth”. If its not the truth then its not God’s Word.

        I am saying religions are idols. Men take portions [ smorgasbord ] of the Word that *they* like, add to them, innovate, obfuscate and ignore plain statements of scripture and present them as God’s will for the people. The people are kept too busy [ just living ] to learn the truth [ John 17:17 ] and are
        almost forced to trust [ have faith in ] the hired help. I am saying we must seek living water instead of dead water.

        “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”

        • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 2:51 pm #

          “dead water” = polluted water

        • Jarek February 23, 2023 at 3:20 pm #

          God only chose to speak through one formerly obscure people? Why? Prove it.

          That would be a denial of the Doctrine of Providence and make a mockery of the economy of salvation.

          • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 5:02 pm #

            If you will answer my question, I will answer yours.

            Why did God choose Abraham?

          • elysianfield February 23, 2023 at 6:18 pm #

            Jarek,

            Didn’t God speak to Joseph Smith thru his hat? Maybe it was a magic hat….or a magic rock…or something.

          • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 9:01 pm #

            George Costanza to Younger Priest regarding prospective conversion to Latvian Orthodox surreptitiously for the love of a woman:

            Younger Priest: Is there one aspect of the faith you find particularly attractive?

            George Costanza: I think, the hats.

  96. Paula D February 23, 2023 at 1:47 pm #

    US politicians and media have been having conniption fits over China announcing they were releasing a position paper today.
    The squawking heads were afraid it would be a peace proposal.

    Just skimming it……it’s not……

    .fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html

    • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 2:07 pm #

      Couldn’t reach the link, but I can’t imagine why anyone on this side of the pond would imagine they’d be making a peace proposal. All signs say war sooner rather than later. The US really has no other options remaining and the Chinese and Russians both know it and are ready to rumble. The aging bully’s about to get his comeuppance. Boom, boom, out go the lights!

      • Paula D February 23, 2023 at 4:19 pm #

        Huh, that’s weird.

        No, the politicians were afraid they would broker a peace in Ukraine and we all know that the US wants to keep the war going to the last Ukrainian.

        But this was a major throwdown to the US, instead. It was like a Jarek diatribe against women, except they were complaining about US hegemony and bullying.

        They didn’t talk about war, though. They said that the US should do some ”soul searching” and change their ways.

        As if.

  97. Islander February 23, 2023 at 2:08 pm #

    Two excellent essays posted at Strategic Culture.org:

    Alistair Crooke:

    httpX://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/20/an-unexpected-insight-for-elite-us-may-be-biggest-loser-in-war-russia/

    Tatiana Obrenovic:
    httpX://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/02/21/an-american-lie-american-lie-is-american-lie/

  98. Jarek February 23, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

    Re: Nightowl

    Because of his absolute equation of the Ukrainian militias as real Nazis, he then goes on to say that the original Nazis were backed by the Globalists as well.

    I then asked if the Globalists really wanted these ardent Nationalists and Racists to win. I mean did they not also fund the Allies – and by how much more?

    Dogmatics back themselves into corners that they cannot get out of.

    Jewish financiers backed both the North and the South in the Civil War. Does anyone really believe they wanted the South – Aristocratic, Racist, Agrarian – to triumph over the North, which was industrial, increasingly diverse, “democratic” etc? Destined to become as it has become? Putty in their hands? How would have a Southern victory (or tie) serve them? But poorly. The same with Nazism.

    It is to laugh.

    • Night Owl February 23, 2023 at 4:18 pm #

      Doing the Rulo now and posting down-thread in the hopes that no one reads the embarassing string of nonsense you wrote earlier.

      LOL.

      • messianicdruid February 23, 2023 at 5:58 pm #

        I didn’t realize this was a bad thing.

    • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 6:45 pm #

      Jarek: Why don’t you read Professor Anthony Sutton’s scholarly book, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis? I have it (along with the rest of the ‘Wall St Triology) but I haven’t read it yet. I have no dog in the fight so I’ll be happy to get a synopsis from you if you read it before me.

      amazon.co.uk/Wall-Street-Rise-Hitler-Astonishing/dp/1905570279/ref=sr_1_1

    • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 6:45 pm #

      Jarek: Why don’t you read Professor Anthony Sutton’s scholarly book, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis? I have it (along with the rest of the ‘Wall St Triology) but I haven’t read it yet. I have no dog in the fight so I’ll be happy to get a synopsis from you if you read it before me.

      amazon.co.uk/Wall-Street-Rise-Hitler-Astonishing/dp/1905570279/ref=sr_1_1

      • GreenAlba February 23, 2023 at 6:46 pm #

        Apols for double post. Don’t know how that happened.

        • MaryQueen February 23, 2023 at 9:30 pm #

          Double posts are a glitch. A very odd one!

  99. Islander February 23, 2023 at 2:47 pm #

    “Less than six months after the first experimental Lyme disease vaccine was administered on the Island, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced the discontinuation of the clinical trials at a number of locations, including the Vineyard. Last year, Martha’s Vineyard joined dozens of Lyme-endemic communities chosen to participate… ” –MV Times

    Gosh, I wonder why . . .
    I’ll have to read the rest of the story in the print edition.

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  100. Amman February 23, 2023 at 2:56 pm #

    High Hollywood era

    JANE FONDA at 85https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u2-0wr1xQc&ab_channel=CNN

    • SoftStarLight February 23, 2023 at 4:07 pm #

      I read yesterday that her biggest regret was not being a good mother to her three kids

      • Amman February 23, 2023 at 4:21 pm #

        A sign that she is.

  101. Pucker February 23, 2023 at 6:58 pm #

    Susan Shirk’s excellent book “Overreach” implies that at the time of the Nixon-Kissinger rapprochement with China in the late 1970’s that the very strong “Taiwan Lobby” in the U.S. should have put-the-kabbosh-on and killed Nixon’s and Kissinger’s diplomatic overtures to China. Why did “They” allow the rapprochement with China proceed? Kissinger was on The Council for Foreign Relations, and Kissinger was Nelson Rockefeller’s “Boy”. I think that Nelson Rockefeller (“Rocky”) even hand picked Kissinger’s second WASP wife. In the movie, Rocky married the plain-looking, banal virgin who worked at the pet store.

    “ Immediately on the heels of reports that the Biden administration is mulling going public with intelligence which it says shows China is poised to begin providing lethal aid to Russia (while at the same time acknowledging that no final decision has been made), the United States is set to more than quadruple its troop presence on the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
    The troop surge would be done all in the name of an existent limited “training program” for Taiwanese partner forces, but sources in The Wall Street Journal cite the “rising threat from China”. Again, the timing of the two reports emerging back to back in The Wall Street Journal is interesting, suggesting a connection as the two sides clash and test red lines on a variety of intersecting security issues.”

    • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 8:33 pm #

      “Quadruple” meaning what? 100 to 400 or 100K to 400K? Probably the former. US “troop” presences are usually assumed to be nothing more than “trip wires,” although what exactly they’re “tripping” always remains questionable. Public outrage? Pretty hard to to find these days amongst all the smoke and noise.

      Bottom line: China is now more than well positioned to take back Taiwan when and if they want it. The better questions are: why shouldn’t they and why is it any business of the Anglo-Zionist Nazi’s in DC? Which begs the most important question of all: why are US citizens continuing to put up with ANY OF this shit in the first fucking place?

  102. Islander February 23, 2023 at 7:59 pm #

    Here is a covid must-read:

    httpX://dailysceptic.org/2023/02/23/dr-fauci-comes-clean-about-never-expecting-the-vaccines-to-work-and-natural-immunity-being-better/

    And here is a very good comment that wraps it all up:

    “Here’s my take:
    Whether the vaccines worked was never the issue.
    They were hastily marketed to be used as a vehicle to introduce the well established digital ID system trialled in China that would conveniently also include vaccine status.
    Those of us who fought hard to stave off digital vaccine ID now have to fight the two pronged assault on our inalienable liberties of digital ID and programmable central bank digital currency.
    Once introduced, your freedoms become the gift of the state.

    This is what happened:

    October 2019 The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise.
    Dec 2019 Main Stream Media went into overdrive about a strange new zoonotic virus from a wet market in China.
    Jan 2020 China ‘locks down’.
    Feb 2020 Italy then the rest of Europe and then the entire Anglosphere follows suit.
    March 2020 Idiotic rules like masking, rule of six, 2 metres, one way supermarkets all happened simultaneously throughout the world.
    March 2020 Deaths with Covid were exaggerated with useless PCR tests. The elderly were denied medical treatment by NHS cowards. Care homes were barricaded and any resident with so much as a sniffle was suffocated to death with the lethal combination of morphine and midazolam. All these deaths were attributed to Covid.
    April 2020 every local authority simultaneously closed off residential roads and laid down bike lanes with no prior consultation.
    Meanwhile the working classes were expected to serve the pyjama classes by delivering food and continuing to empty bins, produce food and stock supermarket shelves. As if the virus only attacked the Eloi.
    June 2020 Klaus Schwab publishes his book ‘The Great Reset’ where he implores governments to take advantage of the pandemic which gives a narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world into his Orwellian vision of neo-feudalism dressed up as green Marxism. 15 minute cities, bicycles and ‘Eat ze bugz’ for thee, private jets to Davos and Indonesia and foie gras banquets for me.
    December 2020 Mancock cries on the telly because the vaccines are so miraculous.
    2021 The gullible queue up for jab after jab at £27 a pop.
    2021 The unvaccinated, the unmasked and the sceptical are traduced as ‘far-right’ ‘conspiracy theorists’.
    Those of us who saw the agenda and called it out early now have social media and commenting platforms monitored by state agencies.
    Present day. The ‘green’ agenda is now being weaponised against the public. Restrictions on travel, restrictions on food, restrictions on transport and restrictions on thought and communication will all be conveniently enacted at a flick of a switch through digital ID. Those of us who feel the government should seek to interfere less in the private realm are seen as anarchists and enemies of the state.
    The counter argument. Agree that we all want a cleaner, greener world. Agree that the best way to do this is through a managed reduction of the impact on nature by humanity. Ask where in the world birth rates are highest and lowest. Ask what these nations have in common. Ask what is the quickest ways that these nations can become prosperous. Ask why ‘environmentalists’ are opposed to nuclear energy. If we can demonstrate that by improving energy and infrastructure in the developing world will in turn increase prosperity whilst simultaneously lowering the birth rate the ‘greens’ have no argument. You can then show that their beliefs are racist and patronising to the developing world. That they believe that those who live in the developing world cannot be trusted with and do not deserve economic prosperity.

  103. Pucker February 23, 2023 at 8:06 pm #

    “Infowars – Tomorrow’s news today.

    “Up ahead, after the commercial break, a quick look back.”

    “We must protect the public from Misinformation by carefully calibrating the algorithms designed and run by the psychopathic AI.”

    • Pucker February 23, 2023 at 8:07 pm #

      “I fell in love with an 800 pound algorithm.”

      • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 8:37 pm #

        She was sweet, albeit hell on the furniture. Hey, you can’t have everything!

  104. Pucker February 23, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

    Who is now the biggest Spiritual Bullshitter in America?

    I once had a burly British boss who would rebuke me by saying: “Don’t bullshit me, Pucker. You can’t bullshit a Bullshitter.”

    His name was “Gordon”.

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    • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 8:41 pm #

      Where does one start, and what in the hell does “spiritual” mean anymore anyway? Spirit is where one finds it these days, assuming it can be found at all. Good luck!

  105. Pucker February 23, 2023 at 8:39 pm #

    Alex Jones now supports Trump because Trump purportedly wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine, notwithstanding that Trump still shills the mRNA Clot Shot.

    Trump never built the “Wall”.

    Perhaps, we should take the politicians’ wives and kids hostage as ransom to secure their obligations to fulfill their campaign promises?

    • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 8:44 pm #

      Perhaps, we should take the politicians’ wives and kids hostage as ransom to secure their obligations to fulfill their campaign promises?

      NOW, you’re talking! Pucker, you are THE MAN!

  106. Pucker February 23, 2023 at 8:45 pm #

    Alex Jones now supports Trump because Trump purportedly wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine, notwithstanding that Trump still shills the mRNA Clot Shot.

    Trump never built the “Wall”.

    Perhaps, we should take the politicians’ wives and kids hostage as ransom to secure their obligations to fulfill their campaign promises?

    Is there any benefit to getting a Ukrainian passport?

    • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 8:52 pm #

      Is there any benefit to getting a Ukrainian passport?

      Yeah. You might be able to get into Russia after Ukraine falls, provided you can prove you weren’t part of the UkroNazi resistance. Plus, they have some fetching young women, or so I’ve heard.

      • Pucker February 23, 2023 at 9:02 pm #

        “Hi, I’m Andrew Henderson for Nomad Capitalist. Nomad Capitalist is a boutique consultancy dedicated to helping 7 and 8 figure entrepreneurs Go…where…you’re…treated best….”

        • Pucker February 23, 2023 at 9:05 pm #

          I think that Andrew Henderson said once that fled the U.S. and later abandoned his U.S. passport after being, he said, “bullied in high school.” He is married to a Russian model and lives in Serbia.

          • K-Chien February 23, 2023 at 9:52 pm #

            Bullied in high school. Now he rumbles for rubles.

          • BackRowHeckler February 24, 2023 at 6:23 am #

            I’ve always wondered about that Andrew Henderson chap. A few summers ago I was fishing for Stripers in the Niantic River. I was wearing a Mets t-shirt, which caught the attention of another fisherman; we began to chat, with him telling me he had worked for the Mets as a roving baseball ambassador in Latin America, scouting talent and promoting MLB. He was in Cuba scouting players when one day the secret police showed up and arrested him, the charge: espionage. He told me it took about a month for the State Dept., the Mets, and MLB to get him out. Meanwhile, he was held for a month in a damp dungeon cell, being interrogated every night.

            Andrew Henderson I believe has given up his US citizenship. I could see this gringo bring arrested for spying or some other trumped up charges in some 3rd world sh#thole, a stateless person who no govt give a crap about. He would rot there while corrupt police rifled thru his apartment, confiscating whatever they wanted.

        • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 9:06 pm #

          LOL! I think we’re (very) twisted soul brothers.

        • Disaffected February 23, 2023 at 9:14 pm #

          The only thing I’m lacking is the 7 or 8 figures. I’m barely into 6 now, but with taxes, inflation, and all..

          • K-Chien February 23, 2023 at 9:55 pm #

            Taxes, inflation, poor and infrequent jobs. The blaring noise that keeps you awake so you cant have an American dream.

  107. KesaAnna February 23, 2023 at 10:39 pm #

    ” Why did God choose Abraham? ”

    Not an answer , just a THEORY —

    It has to do with location , location , location ,

    and time — Time as in , Last week would be too early , next week would be too late.

    If you want to spread something around the world , like monotheism in a world that is practically already entirely polytheistic or pantheistic ,

    ancient Rome might be a very good place to start .

    At the same time as Rome existed , on the other side of the world existed another civilization every bit it’s equal , and every bit as cosmopolitan —

    — Well , maybe not so Cosmopolitan . At least to date the Eastern civilizations have always had a strong isolationist streak it seems.

    There were the Mongols , but then that barely lasted a generation .

    Maybe China would not be the best location to SPREAD the good news ?

    But the Romans , and their heirs , fuck with everybody , and still do.

    To use a more extreme example , I think it a good bet that if God had started in Montana 5,000 years ago ,

    barring one Hell of a miracle , you never would have heard of it.

    Even now Montana is still the sticks.

    Ah , but God DIDN’T actually start IN Rome.

    It could be that smack in the middle of Chicago , or New York City , isn’t really ideal either.

    You could get drowned out by the sheer cacophony.

    No , perhaps the ideal place to start is IN the empire , but on the periphery.

    As to the question of time ,

    governments and fat cats , give them their due , have gotten really , really good at spin – doctoring.

    Not so much then.

    In those days that crowd still relied far more on the sword , than on the pen ,

    which was really their handicap

    Today the cleanest of all possible records , and / or martyrdom , are no guarantee of getting your point across.

    • messianicdruid February 24, 2023 at 9:58 am #

      Theories lead to answers.

      God created this earth to manifest His glory in physical flesh. He gave man dominion over the earth [ authority under God ] in order to give man opportunity to agree [ covenant ] with what God does. Most still disagree with God, thinking they have a better way to govern the universe.

      God covenanted with Abraham, to give the inheritance of the Kingdom to him and to his seed.

      “Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

      Later He instituted another covenant under Moses to delay the inheritance until such time as the people learned the importance of God’s law.

      The things written before our time were written for our learning.

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