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In a confab of friends on a warm evening this weekend, someone asked: Do you think what’s going on is due to incompetence or malevolence? The USA is certainly skidding into a great and traumatic re-set featuring a much lower standard of living for most citizens amidst a junkyard of broken institutions. But so are all the other nations of Western Civ. If it’s not being managed by malign forces, such as der Schwabenklaus and his WEF myrmidons, then it sure looks like some sort of controlled demolition. The big question hanging over the 2022 election, then, is: Must America commit suicide?
What provoked the mental illness of the Left? What turned the Democratic Party into the Party of Chaos? It seemed pretty sane in 1996 when President Bill Clinton declared — to much surprise — in his State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.” Of course, few understood back then how cravenly corrupt the Clintons were, even especially as Hillary launched her own political career once Bill’s turn was over. Few, I daresay, thought at the time that Hillary would come to eclipse Bill in influence — though more came to suspect that the first lady operated as the demented megalomaniac she has proved to be.
Gawd knows what went on in that Shakespearean marriage… but the Democratic Party in the post-2000 Hillary years discovered that its very existence required the government to get ever-bigger because the American economy — the real, on-the-ground economy outside Wall Street’s financialization hall of mirrors — was withering away with the off-shoring of industry and something was needed to replace it. And, by the way, let’s stipulate that the Republican Party mostly abetted all that, even despite transient rumblings from its Tea Party renegades.
Forgive me at this juncture for repeating my oft-stated theory of history: Things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time. Fob off all those filthy, polluting factories onto other countries, and pay the natives three bucks a day to make all the stuff we needed. Plus, pay for the stuff with US treasuries (IOUs). What a racket! But then every activity in America was turning into a racket — which is to say, making money dishonestly — until it became the immersive economic milieu of the land. Even the two most noble endeavors in our society, education and medicine, disgraced themselves with shameless moneygrubbing.
Something weird happened starting in 2004 when one Barack Obama came onstage at the Democratic convention that nominated the haircut-in-search-of-a-brain called John Kerry. The new star lit up the joint posing as a Great Uniter. And four years later he made a fool of Hillary, cutting her off at the pass from seizing her supposedly ineluctable turn — and supreme glass-ceiling-breakthrough triumph — as president. Where’d he come from? This pavement-pounding community organizer with the 1000-watt smile?
In retrospect, Barack Obama appears to have been manufactured out of some misty Marxist cabal of the Far Left that infested a sub-basement of the Democratic Party. He came on-board in 2009, just as all that skeezy financialization blew up the banks and launched the era of government rescue operations that heaped previously unimaginable quantities of debt on the USA’s already unmanageable burden. Republican George Bush II got the blame for all that and Mr. Obama proceeded to make it a lot worse.
Barack Obama served as liberalism’s bowling trophy, the capstone of the great civil rights crusade: a black president, proof of America’s moral uprightness. He managed to do next to nothing to change the conditions that had wrecked black America — namely, the paternalistic policies that shattered families — but he put up a good front while the country teetered economically. And notice that his DOJ, under Attorney General Eric Holder, managed to avoid prosecuting anyone but mortgage vampire Angelo Mozilo for all the banking crimes of the day. Meanwhile, President Obama took care of Hillary by anointing her Secretary of State, from which perch she grifted tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the janky Clinton Foundation. Smooth moves there. In the end, Mr. Obama remained an enigma, passing the baton to Her Inevitableness in 2016 — which she commenced to blow utterly in overestimating her own political charm — she had none — and underestimating the appeal of her opponent, the Golden Golem of Greatness, Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump’s astonishing victory apparently disordered Hillary’s mind. She was reportedly too drunk late that election night to even appear at the podium to make the excruciating concession speech. But her Russian Collusion operation ginned up months earlier had already set in motion a great vengeance machine which partisans in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and State Department ran with through the whole of Mr. Trump’s term in the White House, climaxing in the orchestrated election frauds of 2020, which installed Barack Obama’s empty vessel of a stand-in “Joe Biden” as president.
The amalgamated pathologies of Barack Obama’s reign — which includes the birth of Wokery, the Jacobin-Marxist crusade to trash culture and economy — and Hillary Clinton’s psychotic thirst for revenge has transformed the Democrats into the Party of Chaos, presiding over the suicide of America, and Western Civ with it. Which, of course, prompts the question: Who exactly is running Barack Obama? I don’t pretend to know at this point. Many people I know are sure it is an international banking claque. The part that doesn’t add up is the supposed banking claque’s utter lack of political charm. Nobody in Western Civ is for them, in the sense that they offer any salvation program from either the disorders of Woke culture or the disorders of crumbling economic globalism.
Mysteries abound now, and they are disconcerting to an extreme. How did the polite and rational society called Canada fall under the punishing sway of Justin Trudeau? Ditto the apparently insane Australia and New Zealand? Ditto the Europeans, who followed America’s absurd campaign to make Ukraine a war zone, and who now face a winter with no fuel for industry or home heating — and possibly a descent into new medievalism. Perhaps the Covid bamboozle did that, just drove them over the edge. (And they will soon learn what a deadly con that was, especially the “vaccine” feature.)
Personally, I think we under-appreciate the tendings of history per se, and that tending these days is the set of circumstances adding up to a Long Emergency, a.k.a. the Fourth Turning, a.k.a, Mr. J.M. Greer’s Long Descent. In plain English, we’re exiting the techno-industrial fiesta of the past 200-odd years and entering the uncharted territory of what-comes-next, and that is driving the immense anxiety of the age. Our business model for everything is broken, mostly because the fossil fuel situation has become so uncertain, and it is driving us nuts. Understand that and you will have enough mental equipment operating correctly to stay sane.
Suicide is hardly the only option. Resist those who want to drag you into it. We are going to carry on one way or another. We’re going to make it through this bottleneck. Let the insane bury the insane. Keep your eyes peeled, keep your hearts open, and keep your powder dry.
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ast Thursday, the 18th of August, a fuse was lit by China’s Foreign Minister Zhao Lijian that has the possibility of destroying the last vestiges of any confidence the American people still have in their government. He tweeted that “Everyone needs a clear understanding of himself. So does a nation” along with a graphic that shows what the victim countries of our reign of terror think of us, what we think of us, and what we actually do. Our victims see the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and the destruction of the many countries that we have mauled since then. We see ourselves as Superman on a mission. What we actually do is illustrated by the collapsing WTC towers. The reports of this tweet claim that it “suggests” that 911 was an inside job but it is far worse than that, it is an indictment of that fact.
I know and have spoken with people who were in foreign countries on that day and who saw and heard how other nations reported on what was happening and what their citizens believe happened. America has been doing what is does best for over twenty years now, living in denial. Colonel Jessup was right, they cannot handle the truth and if the fuse that was lit by this tweet somehow manages to find its way to the powder keg it is intended to set off, America is going to explode. The Deep State is hoping that it will so it can loose its wrath on the American people just as it is doing now to the Orange Man. If the masses are wise enough to refrain from a violent reaction, they will still suffer from the resulting total loss of confidence in our “leaders” and our failed system. The “Under New Management” flag will soon be raised over the US capitol when the CCP moves in to take over and probably without firing a single shot. Why conquer us when you can simply buy us out which they have already done through the current administration.
Optimism is not repeating to yourself that everything is fine and will only get better and nothing can ever happen here to screw up the unending parties, holidays, and entertainment. Optimism is getting yourself as prepared as you can be for a rainy day and knowing that whatever happens next that you will face it as best as you can. It is not the strongest nor the smartest that survive, but those that are best able to adapt to change.
thanks for that news Walt. I hadn’t come across it yet.
I searched with Duckduckgo using “china foreign minister tweet” and it comes up on a site called National Review. Of course, these days who can know what is real and what is not, but real or not, it’s still out there. How long before it is official? We will just have to wait and see.
I just searched for the name and he has it as a pinned tweet
twitter.com/zlj517 there it is plain as day
I scrolled down and noticed that he also had a tweet about Xinxiang in which he points out that Muslim countries have no complaints about the treatment of Muslims there, but the US, which has killed a million Muslims in the last 20 years, is quite concerned.
Very concerned. Because they care.
I forget who was talking about the Muslims in Xinxiang a couple of threads ago, but that tweet is instructive.
I’ve just read two brilliant analyses of the overall global situation in particular and the Ukraine debacle in particle by Paul Craig Roberts and Egon von Greyerz. James’s latest missive is as good as both of them. Sheer brilliance. Thank you, James, for the privilege of reading you. Oh, and God help us all!
Jim is my main source of news and intelligence (in both senses of the term) along with Greg Hunter of USA Watchdog.com who frequently interviews Dr. Roberts, Egon, and many other excellent people. Thank you, Jim, we owe you big time! (That’s why I support your site on Patreon and encourage all to do so too).
“It is not the strongest nor the smartest that survive, but those that are best able to adapt to change.” True.
Around the 2016 election I discovered the story of WTC7 and swallowed that red pill, stunned.
Thanks for the info, Walter.
Great article as always Mr. JHK!
It’s amazing how they managed to disappear that building, and its demolition, isn’t it.
Same as the anthrax attacks that started a week after 9-11 and scared the entire country far more than 9-11.
Right down the Memory Hole.
One of the most telling pieces of evidence that we engineers seem to be the only ones that truly understand is the principle of “free-fall”. Free-fall is minimum time it takes for an object that is dropped from a height to hit the ground when there is nothing between it and the ground to slow it down. If there are any objects between the object and the ground, it takes longer than free-fall to impact because the fall is slowed down when every object is encountered.
In order to achieve free fall, if there are any objects in between the falling object and the ground, they must be removed before the object strikes them which would slow the falling object down. Hence controlled demolition remains as THE ONLY explanation. Period, end of story.
Thinking about this, Walter.
What are the effects of, say, a large floor of a building falling and impacting subsequent floors below it?
Could not the potential shockwaves of collapsing floors transfer enormous amounts of destructive energy vertically down the structure at a much faster rate than would a free-falling object?
I’m not an engineer but I still don’t understand which bits of the WTC collapsed impossibly.
Good explanation Walter.
Slugoon asks if the impact of the top floors could somehow destroy the bottom floors also, which was the first Official Explanation put out. Of course, as you say, even if a floor falling on another floor could somehow collapse 110 floors, it would not happen at free fall speed.
I dropped an iron pan on the floor and amazingly enough, that heavy object falling at free fall speed did NOT go through the floor, although there was a lot of energy involved, and I’m glad it didn’t hit my foot.
Bravo, Walter.
This is exactly what Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has been saying for 21 years now.
Richard Gage used to make public appearances with a ball and a set of building blocks to help the cud-chewers understand.
In order for those three towers to have fallen at or near FF speed (which they all did) ALL supporting elements needed to be blown to smithereens.
Now what does that? It is unreal how blind people are.
Not wanting to pick a fight, and I know it’s all been discussed to death before, but everyone is just asserting that all buildings fell at free-fall speed.
I’ve been reading explanations from both sides and both make convincing arguments but in the case of 7 WTC I’m reading that free-fall was calculated to have occurred for only 2.25 seconds. Calculations seem to be relying on low-resolution video to determine the change in pixel colour at various points, not to mention the arc-length error associated with said low-resolution.
In fairness to the average person, how are they, or indeed we, really in a position to state with certainty the speed at which the Towers fell?
I have a healthy dose of skepticism with this because I’ve seen several armchair pilot ‘experts’ make claims about the airliners themselves that were laughable.
And Paula’s ‘pan’ argument, I mean, come on?!
IIRC, NIST’s own report was corrected after A&E pointed out that their calculated speeds were false.
There is a video of them challenging the NIST spokesman before the correction.
There is also the clear video evidence of the towers being literally pulverized.
I also feel compelled to add: if by “armchair experts” on the flight path you are referring to me and our previous discussions, the path the Pentagon plane took was tested by Pilots for Truth in a simulator and none of them could come close to recreating it.
Quite impressive that a cave dweller who could barely fly a Cessna was able to pull it off in a jetliner. But hey, what do I know?
Off to get my 5th booster now.
Walter
There is free fall and then there is FEE Fall. FEE fall is when someone is paid to place an undamaged passport allegedly belonging to a hijacker aboard an airliner vaporized by hitting a building on top of a pile of rubble and then leading the “authorities” to it so the crime can be rapidly unraveled.
Yes, the pan argument is every bit as stupid as the “potential shockwaves transferring enormous amounts of destructive energy vertically….faster than a free-falling object”.
Odd that you can only see it in my example. I see it in both.
but everyone is just asserting that all buildings fell at free-fall speed.
Slugoon – no, he was specifically referring to WTC7, which did.
Mango, the other two towers fell at near-freefall speeds.
So close that it hardly matters. They were pulverized.
Paula, if I place a steel pole next to your head and smash the other end with a hammer, does it take the energy 9.8m/s/s to travel down the pole or would you feel it instantly?
You’re right, the pan argument was stupid.
No, Owl, I wasn’t referring to our previous discussions per se, but yes to some of the links you referred me to.
And Mango, yes, all three buildings were asserted to have fallen freely above.
What unnecessarily violent and appalling imagery, Slugoon.
Apparently you react strongly to someone pointing out that your reasoning is flawed.
But to carry through on your preferred method, would you hitting me on the head with an iron rod cause me to explode and collapse?
Because as it happens, bits of human bones and flesh were found on the tops of surrounding skyscrapers. It is obvious to me that only explosives would be capable of ripping humans to shreds and flinging them up and out so far.
But do go on and further explain how your pancake theory makes it possible for that to happen.
Be sure to include ”potential energy” and ”gravity” in your explanation.
My original question was just that, a question. As far as I can tell, progressive collapse/implosion remains a valid possibility and merely reasoning over it appears to have triggered your own sensibilities.
Since you know what happened I guess the case is closed. It’s just a shame you don’t have any convincing explanations you could share.
I just like to examine the evidence from both sides and eliminate BS like bone and flesh being found atop adjacent skyscrapers. And that flying a plane into a skyscraper is impossible.
Stand under the pole if you like, we can test the theory.
Still fantasizing about violence I see.
Your question was not an innocent question, it was a recital of the Official Narrative that you cling to even though it is no longer the Official Official Narrative.
Sad.
I did not invent the bone fragments found on neighboring roofs.
It is obvious that you don’t allow information to enter your belief system, but here is an article about that anyway….
.ae911truth.org/faqs/596-wtc-bone-fragments-still-surface-a-decade-after-911.html
Slugo told me that he didn’t want to ever stand out. He doesn’t want to know things other people don’t know. Thus the official narrative is always his default position. It’s comforting! And hates anyone who would interfere in his warm/fuzzy.
Well Slugoon, it may have been possible for the section of the buildings above the fire to have collapsed onto the floor below them which could have caused some form of collapse of that floor underneath. However, the steel below the fire remained at room temperature and therefore was unweakened in any fashion. At some point in a continuing collapse, the uncompromised structures would have caused the falling sections to either slide off to the side or plop down precariously on top of the remaining building.
In order to pancake as perfectly as they did, the incongruous load of the falling sections would have to had remained completely and evenly distributed across the cross section, which is mathematically impossible without the aid of explosives.
And then there is Building 7 which had no contact from any aircraft or jet fuel, and if the fires were started on the roof from falling debris, disregarding the total lack of enough temperature to even weaken the steel slightly, how the hell did the fires at the bottom collapse the structure without burning down the rest of the building from the top on their way down?
The 911 Commission, much like the Warren Commission, refused to even talk about Building 7, just as the Warren Commission ignored the reports of activity on the Grassy Knoll.
As long as criminal Deep Staters see that the American public is totally clueless, easily deceived and distracted, and not really giving a damn about anything they cannot drink, smoke, eat, or formicate with, we are going to continued to be treated like the dimwits that we have become.
Thanks, Walter, for giving your explanation of things, unlike the Jareks and Paulas of the forum who seem unable to tolerate people even asking questions never mind holding other views.
All true But it begs the question “What is the object or objects that Engineers have identified and measured for free fall along the entire height of tower?”
An even more powerful model or argument is Energetics – where we calculate the energy required to turn solid concrete, furniture and all solids objects in the twin towers into fine powdered dust.
In my view, there were 2 big ones, 2 big explosions, in the basement with energy focussed and directed vertically upwards. A horrible day – with the stench of burning metal reaching all the way to midtown Manhattan.
Amman —
From A&E:
https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/near-free-fall-acceleration
Tower 7 was ofc in freefall, but the other two were so close it hardly matters. This is from the group that got NIST to change its own report on the collapse times.
Also Amman —
here is the north tower being pulverized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDoGuLpirc&t=8s
I don’t think I even need to comment further.
Well Amman, as an engineer who studied strength of materials and structural steel design and spent a number of years designing structures out of steel beams and columns, I understand that it is a lot easier for me to understand this all than for the average citizen.
I think the best way to show that the towers and Building 7 fell at free fall was that as you watch the videos over and over as we all did, you must pay attention to absolutely ALL of the falling debris mass as it plunged earthward. There is absolutely ZERO occurrences where ANY of the mass is slowed down or made to change direction in even the slightest fashion which would absolutely have happened if ANY part of the structures below put up even a little bit of resistance at all.
Everything below failed to even slow down the downward trajectory of the falling mass. If you study the wide flange beams and rectangular steel columns that comprised the vertical support structure, especially around the central core elevator cluster and understood how steel structures fail in compression and have any professional knowledge of the physic involved, you could not come up with any opinion other than controlled demolition.
There is a reason that engineers are nowhere near as popular as politicians because most folk prefer a bright and shiny lie over an unpleasant truth.
Funnily enough, this popped up in a Twitter feed today:
China demolishing multiple highrise buildings. The demolitions look like amateur hour, ofc, but the key here is that we see how nearly the entire building holds its structure as it falls.
This further emphasizes the point that to have a free-fall collapse ALL supporting structures must be destroyed/pulverized. Dust.
Compare these demos with what happened on 9/11. The idea that a plane on the upper floors and some fire pulverized the towers is beyond hilarious.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1561012114965557249
I see solid matter crushed and turned into ‘baking powder’ i.e. dust. Period. 90 percent of Concrete is turned to powder by a controlled demolition and by a massive Energetic blast or force (Translation: An extremely hot, fast moving pressure wave.) This explains is what is strong enough to expel beams structures horizontally out at high speed a long distance. 90 percent of that building was destroyed in place and descended as dust that billowed and spread itself out over downtown NY. Freefall ideas do not apply to this dust. Principles of Thermodynamics/Energetics do.
Well, Amman, you at least belive your lying eyes, and that puts you ahead of most people 🙂
It’s freefall regardless. There is nothing to stop the downward trajectory of the larger contents, as everything else is pulverized.
But I’m sure everyone remembers that all 7 buildings of the World Trade Center eventually came down. And Mohammad Atta’s Flying Circus did it all.
From Wikipedia: “Falling debris from the towers, combined with fires that the debris initiated in several surrounding buildings, led to the partial or complete collapse of all the WTC complex’s buildings including 7 World Trade Center, and caused catastrophic damage to 10 other large structures in the surrounding area.” (Italics mine – nice spin Wiki.)
Did the other 10 large buildings come down too? At least 2 did – including the Deutsche Bank Building. It would be nice to know the final score. “2 airliners, 17 buildings”?
Airmen of whom would Curtis B. LeMay
would have been proud.
Hap Arnold, too.
As if American MSM is going to distribute that bit of foreign opinion. We’re a perfectly automatic censoring machine at the highest levels of the national media.
BAM!
It’s a machine made up of intertwined organizations. Many of them. And each org is made up of people. The censoring also exists at the lower and middle levels as well.
“How did the polite and rational society and rational society of Canada fall under the punishing sway of Justin Trudeau?” The same way the United States fell under the punishing sway of Barack Obama, Namely, a well-orchestrated campaign by the mainstream media that fed into voters’ nostalgia for a time when the middle class was broad and healthy and could be easily accessed through nothing more than hard work and institutions could be relied upon to do what they were set up to do. I voted twice for Justin because my parents’ were dyed-in-the-wool Liberal voters who venerated Justin’s father and because I’m old enough to remember a time when this country functioned like a Swiss timepiece.
I can easily see how Canada elected Justine just like the US elected Obama. I voted for him the first time and was actually excited for him to become President. But what I didn’t realize until four years had passed was I voted for a persona — not an actual person — but a series of campaign slogans, empty promises and slick packaging. It looks like Canada did too.
From what I remember, he cancelled a national holiday b/c “remains” were found at an old site of an Indigenous Peoples school. Tree roots. As if Canada was stood for nothing else and the people alive today must grovel.
Walter B,
Thanks for another great post, Walter. I’m not on twitter, but I will try to find coverage of that tweet. I do not pretend to know what happened on 9/11, but after the last two and a half years, nothing would surprise me anymore. I’ve read about too many people being absent from work that day, very unusual stock trades taking place before 9/11 that were highly profitable, and claims that jet fuel cannot create an explosion hot enough to melt structural steel (I hope I’m restating that correctly). Even with an engineering degree, I do not have any certainty about what happened that day. However, I would not suffer from any disbelief if the insider job theory were proven to be true.
The American public, however, is not ready to hear this or to confront this possibility. Jim wrote today, “Let the insane bury the insane.” It accurately reflects my mindset right now. A mindset that it has taken almost two years to attain. People cannot be convinced of anything they don’t want to believe, whether the fact is obvious or not, provable or not, etc. I regularly go to Yahoo to see what the normies are talking about. Yahoo conveniently disabled their comments section for the bulk of the 2020 and 2021, but now that its back on, and its fascinating. An article today about the next booster had a number of commenters crowing about the people who refused the ‘vaccines’ being future Darwin award winners. Its breathtaking in its willful blindness and presumptuousness. Darwin award winners do dumb things, usually dumb things that get them killed. Forgoing EUA ‘vaccines’ that neither provide immunity nor prevent transmission of a virus that the organizations pushing the ‘vaccines’ say is 99.7% survivable is not dumb. Could it be wrong-headed? Sure. Could I be wrong to have forgone the ‘vaccines’. Sure. And time will tell.
But I have no anticipation of America en mass waking up to the truth (of 9/11 or Covid or the Party of Chaos). What they will wake up to is reality; elevated rates of all cause death (they won’t call it that, but they will unnecessarily lose a loved one), continued supply chain disruptions, continued economic dislocations, continued out of control crime, continued trampling of American rights, and on and on.
This is what I love about the JHK forum, we can talk about these things here. Because out in my real life, I am no longer trying to convince anyone of anything. Let the insane bury the insane.
Mrs_SAJ
Mrs SAJ,
Actually, I don’t really want to disagree, but I think you are a pretty decent writer!! Keep it up!
9/11 is the gaping wound in the collective modern American psyche.
Some “conservatives” were upset recently that they are closing the museum in NYC
Good riddance, I say. One monument to fake news destroyed.
I disagree. People will see the carnage and blame — the sane people. Why? Because they ALWAYS blame the sane people, and then they kill the sane people because they naturally can’t blame themselves.
You don’t need to pretend. All you need to do is consider the amount of red flags and inconsistencies with the official story and you are off to the races.
There are so many that I can’t recall even half of them.
To add to this bit of a thread, I was aware of and saw the tweet last week.
I of the ‘banned from twitter’ brigade got to it through some construct of links where I didn’t need to sign in. All I needed for myself was to view it. Why I’m banned… baffled but I don’t give a shit.
Point is, it doesn’t appear to be going viral yet.
Nothing is allowed out of that CCP prison without permission. Pot stirring along with putting out something on the Taiwan table?
Hasn’t gone viral, possibly a Russian Federation counterpart should call attention to it.
In the US, I expect it will be met with the same cognitive dissonance prevalent since not only the events of 11 September 2001, but a number of warm up events in the preceding decade.
lol, do you realize what you just said?
Banned from Twitter, like millions of other people, including the US president, understanding that if the US media doesn’t publicize something it doesn’t get discussed, but still thinking that the CPC is somehow more censorious.
I’m not defending the CPC, I’m just pointing out to you that you have firsthand knowledge of US censorship and it still isn’t the “red pill” everyone seems to think most people will stumble into.
I don’t think that people are going to “wake up”.
I do think the CCP is way ahead in the censorship event.
I was never a tweeter, thus the being baffled part.
I have spoken with a number of Chinese immigrants, to a person they say the last hope is here in the USA as there is nowhere else to go. These are people who were able to escape the CCP. They chose to come here.
What they would show me regarding media clips unfavorable to the power elite here would never happen in the land of the CCP. This they told me and demonstrated by bringing up various examples. They could not do this there.
They see it happening here in various settings, a huge warning bell, their concern being people here aren’t seeing what they are both seeing develop here and experienced back there. They are fearful.
The message was it has to be stopped before it fully takes over.
They could be worse, I don’t know.
But that reminds me of the people who get covid and then swear that if they hadn’t had the magic potion it would have been worse.
I’m not at all surprised to learn the CCP is leading the way for American liberals when it comes to censorship. After all, aren’t a lot of sensitivity training courses nothing more than updated CCP public “shaming” meetings where one group was designated the “oppressor” and had to remain silent while another group designated the “oppressed” hurled endless streams of verbal abuse? CNN seems to be pretty good at that. If you’re a white, heterosexual male you can be sure CNN will paint you as the oppressor in nearly every news story involving race, gender, economics or sexual preference.
If only Americans had resisted the urge to violence against the British back in 1776! If they had, none of this would have happened.
Not on your nelly. If the Americans had failed to revolt in 1776, there would have been a crisis in 1833 when the British abolished slavery. That would not have gone over well in the Old South.
Jarek
Re the American revolt, let me know what you think of this. It’s all news to me, but then almost everything I’ve discovered in the last year was news to me.
truthcontrol.com/articles/how-crown-rules-world
For example:
“At least five Templar Bar Attorneys under solemn oath to the Crown, signed the American Declaration of Independence. This means that both parties were agents of the Crown. There is no lawful effect when a party signs as both the first and second parties. The Declaration was simply an internal memo circulating among private members of the Crown.
Most Americans believe that they own their own land, but they have merely purchased real estate by contract. Upon fulfillment of the contract, control of the land is transferred by Warranty Deed. The Warranty Deed is only a ‘color of title.’ Color of Title is a semblance or appearance of title, but not title in fact or in law. The Warranty Deed cannot stand against the Land Patent.”
We’re not talking about ‘the British’ here, we’re talking about something that didn’t originate in Britain, just planted itself here, and oppresses and extracts wealth from Brits in exactly the same way that it oppresses and extracts wealth from everyone else.
Just came across it when I was looking up the Black Guelphs (ancestors of the Windsors).You know all that stuff already, presumably, but the legal arrangements with regard to the US are interesting (not in a good way).
Finca used to talk about stuff related to this (how the City of London was not part of the UK) and I thought he was away with the fairies, but it seems not.
Interesting talk by Alex Thomson here (UK Column and Eastern Approaches). He’s extremely erudite but wears his erudition lightly (mitchellc could take a few character lessons, not that I’m suggesting he’s erudite).
youtube.com/watch?v=2aaDr6joUdc
About the fiefdoms and how they evolved. There’s a follow-up lecture called ‘An infernal convergence’:
youtube.com/watch?v=mtKO13o_HZQ
Likely you know all this stuff already. Lots of evil networking going on in Scotland, it appears.
Checking it out now, thank you, it looks to be excellent. The first PowerPoint screen that states that “failing lords are sacrificed” will be interesting to hear and hopefully able to impart some hope of that happening here. So far in our system, failing lords seem to rise even further to the top and live forever, even though their brains and abilities have long ago left the building.
It clearly was something that existed long before even the Roman Empire stepped foot on the island.
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Methinks the Satanic Mills won out in the end and spread across the seas as well.
You might like Alex’s lecture, Walter. Either in this lecture or elsewhere he claims that the misery of the satanic mills wasn’t a necessary evil while capitalism developed, but was very deliberately imposed by people who hate humanity and delight in its misery.
“Either in this lecture or elsewhere he claims that the misery of the satanic mills wasn’t a necessary evil while capitalism developed, but was very deliberately imposed by people who hate humanity and delight in its misery.”
I see another pattern.
On a sort of similar topic, UK Column have created a new topic called ‘Mind’ (under the Topics drop-down menu). All things behavioural, nudgy, social engineering etc.
I’ve just read a short article, written by Mike Robinson way back in 2010, about George Bernard Shaw and the NWO. These people are exactly the same, no matter when they were active. Your mention of a ‘pattern’ just reminded me.
ukcolumn.org/article/bertrand-russell-impact-science-society
Also a very short one from 2012 saying what we’re saying now – that everything is being done to nudge people away from travelling by making the experience miserable. And that was 10 years ago.
There are some great articles on UKC on the Series and Topics drop-downs. Just reading a fresh one from Iain Davis on ‘Why was the conspiracy theory created?’ It’s quite useful to tell people who talk about conspiracy theories where the term came from (MCM says from the CIA after the Warren Report, but I’ll see what Iain says!
Deep waters. Some people literally believe that America is governed by mercantile law, also known as the Law of the Sea. And further, that the Constitution has a coded language that refers to us as basically, a Corporation. I’ll find a link for you at some point. Well above my understanding of these things, since I’m a back to basics man. But they were all lawyers, and educated people back then used language more precisely than we do now to begin with – what to speak of these trained and brilliant men.
Interestingly, I remember Astrid Stuckelberger, the former WHO whistleblower (you can find her on the Planet Lockdown site and sometimes on the Doctors for Covid Ethics symposia) saying that the countries that are signed up to WHO treaties and protocols are signed up as corporations. I guess, from the point of view of the ‘owners’, that’s what countries are.
maritime law is the term used, j.
the notion of the u.s. as a corporation dates back to 1871 – connected with the notion that congress was never properly recessed, as the civil war commenced, and therefore never properly re-convened after.
one telling: youhavetheright.com/tour1/
good post walter on jk article, as always, excellent–russia has absolute proof who kill the russian girl with a car bomb–ukraine assassin- the gloves are coming off,russia is going to unleash-they already killed the head of ukraine security
Buy us out with our own counterfeited money, what goes around comes around.
“… a fuse was lit by China’s Foreign Minister Zhao Lijian that has the possibility of destroying the last vestiges of any confidence the American people still have in their government.”
Walt, no disrespect intended, but a “fuse” leading to a blowup on the part of the American people? Seriously?
The only thing that will ever wake up that bunch is facing cold and starvation and police/army repression in the streets.
That said, I saw that meme in a couple of places and it is great.
What _is_ earth shattering was that a Chinese official put out a cool meme. Next pigs will fly!
Good point. You will get no argument from me.
Does this fellow have a lot of US followers?
How many are bots?
I think the answer to “who” is behind this, is first, a media that has been usurper by crazed wokesters and Democratic partisans and second, an educational establishment that has been taken over by the same.
Maybe the Russians were behind this decades ago and it has been like a weapon (or a salt mill) that never got turned off. Look up a guy named Bezmenov on youtube.
Look up “FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)” on youtube
The Left has spent sixty years putting Left control over just about every power control spot in America. Media is just one.
Control of the cities, the prime population centers, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, on and on.
Here is why. During the Dems time in control they built up manning in everything in the Deep State. The GOP, contrary to its credo, never removes the surplus. Both support the growth of the Deep State, So the Left influence has grown with each rotation. Add on that Bush 1 was a DC bureaucrat and Bush 2, Cheney, was as liberal about the number one issue, the border as the Dems.
Immigrants, think, huge numbers of people, and not just the 2 million reported, flooding the US, requiring assistance in all ways, flooding the money market with excess unearned cash, firing up much of the idiocy JHK describes.
They are here already, unlikely to be removed and the downturn, caused by their contribution to the redistribution of the wealth, is oncoming like a high speed train. Will they go home when they find out that the American dream is a myth.
Nope! It is worse where they came from. They already destroyed their homeland.
Dan Bongino (sp) hit the nail on the head when he said, “There are some Republicans who are Democrats, but there are no Democrats who are Republicans.”
The GOP is totally complicit. Cocaine Mitch is already conceding the Senate for the midterms. Assuming elections still matter (bear with me), the midterms are probably the last chance to put the breaks on the Bolsheviks destroying the US. Yet, apart from about 3 honourable exceptions, the GOP is doing NOTHING! They should be screaming the roof off in Congress about the voter fraud that will be even greater than 2020, about maniacs like Pelosi pushing us into war with China, about illegal immigration, about the American Gestapo raiding an innocent ex-Prez’s house, etc. Yet what do we hear? Silence! This one is down to us. I hope the Dems cheat so badly in Nov that it finally forces some kind of split.
Me too, but the fact that it hasn’t happened yet indicates that it will not happen soon. UNLESS the white upper middle class sorts get hurt and hurt really badly financially – to the point where they have to sell their Benz SUVs, cannot afford the soccer team for their kids and lose their jobs, home, and 401ks.
Think Marie Antoinette here – these people will not “get it” until they have been hurt enough.
Penelope Dreadful,
Yes! See my comment above, but we are speaking the same language. People can’t see truth. But they can see reality (as it impacts them). So the white upper middle class sorts (and American normies as a group) will not wake up until they have personally been hurt very badly. You were mentioning financial examples and I was mentioning vaccine deaths of loved ones, loss of personal liberties, supply chain pain, exploding crime rates, etc.
Every coin has two sides, every time it flips you lose.
I know where you are coming from, Hereward.
But this isn’t going to be solved by politics. The system is far too corrupt.
Networking and the creation of parallel structures is the answer. It will still end in a fight of some sort, but the system as we know it is done.
Nope! It is worse where they came from. They already destroyed their homeland. That is why America will never be America again unless we have mass deportations or make life such an unwelcome hell for them that they go home with a new resolve to straighten out their own shithole countries. All of our institutions, military, education, health care, politics, big business in general, need to be completely reformed.
It wasn’t the “Left”. Both your parties are controlled by the SAME ENTITY, the “Cabal”. Once you, Americans, clearly understand that. it will be the first step to free yourself. Once again!
Thank you, Katerina. It needs to be said. Decadent narcissists living off the fat of finance capitalism and supporting every new depredation of the US military behemoth do not a “Left” make.
Agree completely.
The Capitalists fund Communism. And the ultimate Capitalists are the International Bankers, those being the Rothschild and Co, at least in the West.
No mystery except for those who can’t accept the Truth: The whole Capitalist vs Communist narrative was always a lie. The real battle is between Finance and Nations, between Capitalism/Communism and Fascism/National Socialism, between the love of Mammon and the love of Man, and yes, between Matter and Spirit.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Love Ephesians 🙂
I like that part in Romans??? – where it says some people will go out of their way to screw you up.
From the Revised Standard Urban version. 🙂
1) Demoralization – 15 to 20 years and already completed.
2) Destabilization Up to 5 years and well underway as far as our economic system and a Big Brother dictatorship in DC populated by the old hippies that were the first generation to be programmed.
3) Crisis – Right in the middle of this aren’t we?
4) Normalization – The Woke movement in action.
Great video PD thank you.
Glad you like it! I transcribed part of it, or rather my Legal Asst did, if you want a copy, here it is:
Yuri Bezmenov Transcript (Partial)
In entertaining and concise language, KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov – who was a foreign correspondent for Soviet media in the West and a KGB officer who defected to Canada- lays out the process of ideological subversion using Marxist ideas that the United States has gone through over the last 50 years. This transcript is from 1984:
Bezmenov: Ideological subversion is the process, which is legitimate, overt, and open; you can see it with your own eyes. All you have to do, all American mass media has to do, is to unplug their bananas from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it. There is no mystery. [It has] nothing to do with espionage. I know that espionage intelligence-gathering looks more romantic. It sells more deodorants through the advertising, probably. That’s why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond-type of thrillers.
But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all. According to my opinion and [the] opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower [are] spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process, which we call either ‘ideological subversion,’ or ‘active measures’— in the language of the KGB—or ‘psychological warfare.’ What it basically means is, to change the perception of reality, of every American, to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country.
It’s a great brainwashing process, which goes very slow[ly] and is divided [into] four basic stages. The first one [is] demoralization; it takes from 15-20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which [is required] to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxist-Leninist ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged, or counter-balanced by the basic values of Americanism (American patriotism).
The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the sixties (drop-outs or half-baked intellectuals) are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, [and the] educational system. You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind[s], even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words, these people… the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To [rid] society of these people, you need another twenty or fifteen years to educate a new generation of patriotically-minded and common sense people, who would be acting in favor and in the interests of United States society.
Griffin: And yet these people who have been ‘programmed,’ and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept… these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?
Bezmenov: Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of ‘equality’ and ‘social justice’ means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy, frustrated people, and the Marxist-Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the leagues of dissenters (dissidents).
Unlike in [the] present United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America. Here you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy-rich like Jane Fonda for being ‘dissident,’ for criticizing your Pentagon. In [the] future these people will be simply [squashing sound] squashed like cockroaches. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful, noble ideas of equality. This they don’t understand and it will be [the] greatest shock for them, of course.
The demoralization process in [the] United States is basically completed already. For the last 25 years… actually, it’s over-fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where previously not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans, thanks to [a] lack of moral standards.
As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fat-bottom. When a military boot crashes his… then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.
So basically America is stuck with demoralization and unless… even if you start right now, here, this minute, you start educating [a] new generation of American[s], it will still take you fifteen to twenty years to turn the tide of ideological perception of reality back to normalcy and patriotism.
The next stage is destabilization. This time [the] subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption; whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn’t matter any more. This time—and it takes only from two to five years to destabilize a nation—what matters [are] essentials: economy, foreign relations, [and] defense systems. And you can see it quite clearly that in some areas, in such sensitive areas as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in [the] United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it fourteen years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process [would have gone] that fast.
The next stage, of course, is crisis. It may take only up to six weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis…
You have just described what your country is doing to others and now it seems, doing it to their own!
As Yuri clearly stated, once the movement has firmly taken hold, the minions that brought it about must be eliminated lest they see what they have done and turn against it from the inside. Empire always collapses from the inside.
My experience with Nurse ‘practitioner’.
I went to a cheap walk in place and got to see a female nigerian nurse.
She didnt have a clue and the prescription didnt fix my skin problem.
sometimes you get what you pay for.
So Gilbert and Sullivan would not sing her praises?
“She is the very model of a modern nurse practitioner,
She has practiced her art from Toronto to Kitchener,”
Los angeles.
I paid big money and went to a dermatologist. I go an ‘omar’ [muslim?] he didnt know. he brought in a chinaman who knew what to prescribe.
Don’t want to buck the trend here, but an Indian doctor in the UK saved my wife’s life and a muslim doctor here in Switzerland was the only one who called BS on the Covid stuff.
A Pakistani (I think) surgeon did my cancer op. He was lovely and did a really neat job! At my subsequent check-up he let me go – to their pharma section that was in another building entirely – without giving me some leaflet or other that I should have had. Instead of giving it to a minion to post out, he left his office and went to the other building to look for me. I was a bit embarrassed to have a surgeon chasing around the hospital to find me. All a free service too. 🙂
“sometimes you get what you pay for.”
Sometimes that is true. Always true : you don’t get what you don’t pay for.
Cut your losses & seek a naturopath.
Jim, you’re writing is poetic and prophetic!
….please enjoy this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-Bd8lahJA&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW60XfXP-Hy2IOSGmRt5Db1b&index=1
….the rebirthing of the New is led by individuals who delight in attaining and sustaining the highest levels of consciousness, in a hyper-localized existence.
GODSPEED!
Carpe Diem!
Sola Vertus Invicta!
I was drivin a sola vertus invicte to the gun store for more ammo and the wheels fell off.
The banksters that pull the strings may be despised and not trusted by anybody Jim, but their ability and willingness to shovel mega-wealth out of thin air into the pockets of sellouts in leadership roles (are there any other kind) will always keep the greedy bastards doing their bidding.
Barry O certainly was a Trojan Horse, a Dirty Dick Cheney reprise that even had me wondering if he was as bad as I thought until he promised to repeal the un-Patriot Act but strengthened it instead. True scumbags will never let you down. He’s still screwing us all although I was seriously entertained when he chose to ignore Dopey Joe at that gathering a while ago. That was priceless. Guess he could tell Dopey Joe was near by the stench of his dirty diaper.
What a shit-show. Hope it doesn’t end badly though I know it must. Hold on tight there are hairpin curves up ahead and we are moving way too fast to negotiate them safely. Wheeeeee!
Speaking of banksters, in Australia a bank announced it will no longer be making auto loans for conventional ICE vehicles, only for EVs.
A car loan for an EV, average price for the sh#tbox, golf cart model: $67,500. (Not including $15,000 proprietary delivery fee, payable over 5 years) $10,000 down, $1,200 per month — FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Can’t wait to see what happens to the “grid” (and electric bills) once enough electric vehicles are plugged into it considering how shabby the old systems today. I think Jim’s ideas about peak oil and a growing scarcity of it is accurate and happening behind the scenes right now they are just not telling us. That would go a long way to explain the seemingly insane changes they are pushing right now.
Yeah, can you imagine where Germany would be right now, if say, 75% of their cars and trucks were electric??? The Autobahn would be a big long bike trail.
The whole EV switch was never supposed to work. The globalists knew that only a select few would be able to afford them and that the grid wouldn’t support them in the same numbers as petrol driven cars. The whole point is too kill mobility and stop the peasants moving around.
Exactly, Hereward.
They are conveyances for the richest. They are anything but green, and they are part of the plan to ensure that you never venture more than about 10 miles from your doorstep.
Owl – you’re right, planes, yachts & automobiles will not be for us – only for the elite overlords.
In a larger sense, mobility also will be limited. Heard it said that wherever we live this fall, is where we’ll live the rest of our lives.
Truth in that I think – meaning relocating for “golden years” retirements is a thing of the past. Many just don’t know it yet.
Yes Ron, I have accepted that I will likely never go back to the States, or at least not for a long time.
If they get the SSI passports in place, the next step is geofencing. Same concept as in China.
But if you want more detail, you can simply read their own writings about it. No point in me repeating it.
Not so sure about the banksters. I’ve often read that the main threat to the Davos scum are the US east coast commercial banks like JPM, etc. If Davos succeeds, they will be history. They are the ones who are backing Powell at the Fed to increase rates to fight inflation.
Agree. I’m not comfortable with the idea of Jamie Dimon as the savior of the West but there’s some truth to it.
Bad people can do good things – if it coincides with their interests. Can you imagine Warren Buffett and Co taking orders from Schlob?
htw, agree about bad people / good things.
understanding the motivations makes it clear we won’t occupy the lifeboats together for long.
the problem with the “small b” banksters, is they are not going to be the nexus of control. power, just like orwell said, is what this is all about.
the incentives to preserve the dollar is that for many near the top here in the us, not only is it about being in the us because there is no where else to go, its that the whole dollar system, and every lever surrounding it, like the imf / world bank, ngos, corporate rentorship – all of it, means there is no substitute, no where else to go.
i’d like to see the internationalistas and our powdered princes have it out – there – lets you and him fight.
the dollar system is not dead by a long shot.
Links to worthwhile reading? Sounds odd on the face of it, but I am open to learning.
I don’t think he was a Trojan Horse. He made it quite clear his goal was to ‘fundamentally change the United States’.
So far it’s working, just off by about 4 years.
True. It wasn’t his fault that Whites projected all kinds crap onto him. He’s a destroyer and they were too stupid to see it – or wanted to be destroyed.
Obama had a seething hatred of his country of adoption and wanted to destroy it. Simples.
He did. I didn’t really recognize it at the time, but I also never voted for him.
The bizarre campaign that put him in office was a major red flag. Ditto his origin story.
Good point NGT. Barry the Impaler certainly thumped us hard and continues to do so as the American public begs for more.
Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad
Indeed.
Da prius dementat makes me madd. Only lebben mile to the gallon and too miles on a 100 whats plugged in
Never ascribe to mere happenstance or ineptitude that which can be much more accurately explained by willful planning and ill-intent among a powerful few. You’ve put together all the pieces, Jim, now you just have to refocus to see the big picture it presents. It’s a little hard at first – kinda like one of those 3-D pics that were all the rage a few years back – but I know you have it in you!
Hanlon’s razor in reverse.
Agree 100%, Dis.
This has been coming for a long time.
Everything is planned, reviewed and replanned.
It is the “job” of the Left.
A secret society, which all aspects of the Left are, needs secrecy to quietly expand while keeping the natives under control. The entire Left is excellent at this. Everyone setting off alarms is a conspirator.
The real answer, the Left, is a conspiracy.
Dis, the real question is, why? Why has the American people turned from the winners of WW2 and the 50s to the losers they are now?
See also, immigration and federal control of education. Period!
The why part is easy, JAZ. They’re winding it all down and consolidating assets. Too many useless people around now to share their riches with and not enough resources remaining to go around.
Dis, exactly – ail squarely on the head, my friend – redistribution of wealth in reverse, consolidation if you will.
*nail*
Dis,
“…They’ve got too much already, and besides, we got the cops”~P. Ochs
Yeppers Big D, the American public may be foolish enough to believe that welfare recipients and the homeless are costing them too much to maintain they are fools. It is the American middle class that is far more costly for the wealthy to maintain and too dangerous to keep around once their cover is blown. The American public needs fancy homes, expensive vacations, costly automobiles and that biggest loser of all, the highway system with its infrastructure that cannot be afforded to maintain. Who actually pays for all of that, why the wealthy, of course. Those are funds that could be lining their pockets and not ours. It’s called greed and it destroys everything it touches.
The mega-wealthy do not need such primitive devices for they have private jets and helicopters in which to get around. They have slaves to maintain their estates and goons with paychecks and pensions to protect them from a lot of us, though not all of us.
The time has come to thin the herd, open the borders to let those that have far less needs in to do the dirty work. Once enough robots and AI have been put into place to allow for the elimination of US(A), they will do exactly that. If our nation can demonize rich, old white people and tolerate rich, old, brain-dead white people to rule over them like kings and queens, perhaps elimination won’t be such a bad idea.
Controlled demolition. The system is crashing anyway because it is unsustainable. They want to avoid being under the rubble like the rest of us so that they can keep their power.
I don’t buy it. The whole thing is just a game where high finance is concerned.
If they wanted to sustain the system, they could do a soft reset of the currency and debt, and make any economic adjustments needed over time.
Instead, what they want is to institute the WEF Build Back Better plan, which is the digitized global plantation.
The whole thing is about resetting the system so that the globocapitalists get the whole pie.
They have been planning this for 50 odd fucking years.
“The Left”. You’re being left behind because you can’t let go of that silly terminology. The Capitalists are behind all this. They fund “the Left”.
Yes
Never under-estimate the power of ideology and the insanity of ideologues. For an ideologue – whether the Davos variety or their precursors from history – when reality clashes with their beliefs, it’s reality that must be changed.
in paragraph nine (9) you say:
“Which, of course, prompts the question: Who exactly is running Barack Obama?”
Did you mean his empty vessel replacement – namely, Joe Biden?
No, I don’t think Jim meant that.
I think he meant: Who is running Barack Obama?
Who is behind Obama?
Banksters?
WEFers? This would include the international medical/agricultural cabal: Big Ag, Bill Gates/Big Pharma/international “private-public” NGOs/digital ID-niks.
My vote goes to Banksters/financial powers running Obama.
But I don’t think that is the top level.
Putin has identified the “Western globalist elite.”
Perhaps he has in mind the same grouping.
Put it this way, I think Obama is level 3
Someone is running Obama. He is just a “governor,” as Macron is a “governor” within the EU (see Ramin Mazaheri’s excellent interview on this at The Saker blog)
And someone is running those who are running Obama. The WEF cabal?
Just my 2/ worth!!
BTW, another great essay, Mr. Kunstler!!
1.) Rothschilds who owns – every central bank in the west, who owns-
2.) Blackrock who owns –
3.) Everything else
100%
Mary – it’s getting late in August, are we there yet? You know.
LOL, Ron, it’s the last day of August 😉
So a week and a bit.
Thanks for remembering. 🙂
payseur
Of course. They don’t want to know because then they’d have to do something about it.
Walter said above the we should do nothing and just quietly accept our new Chinese Masters.
The real question: What is the relation between the Chinese and the Rothschilds?
Just as Jesus did not call for a revolution against the Romans, I cannot call for an attack on our next masters because the real evil ones are the scumbags in DC that sold us out are the real criminals. Can we revolt against them? I don’t see how or why because we asked for it by continuing to vote them in and have accepted the corruption that they are mired in. We are the problem, NOT the solution. We are getting what we deserve.
In the end there will always be some garbage bag that will do whatever they want to us, but they can only take your soul if you give it to them.
And BTW, the Chinese represent the perfect one world government and the WEF has openly praised them for being that. The perfect world government in their estimation crushes the peasants underfoot allowing the mega-wealthy elite to live in dreamland without worry. That is what they want.
Yes, Christianity is an other worldly religion. As Christ said, My Kingdom is not of this world. Thank God most people didn’t follow this to the letter or we’d all be speaking Arabic, Turkish, Berber, or Mongolian by now.
And of course there would be no United States or White race either
Even with the fighting Jarek the white race is going away, defeated by the wombs or their enemies just as Yasser Arafat predicted.
Thx for clarification.
No, he meant what he said, who is running Bill Ayer’s prize student, Barry O. Barry was clearly a puppet that did not climb his way to the top by collecting loose change on the Chicago streets. He was hand-picked for his ability to read a teleprompter (unlike his demented vice president), and his hatred for America and its people.
He used to show up late for his daily briefings, not pay attention and joke with his buddies and leave early to play golf. Don’t ask me how I know, it’s a fact. He is still the smiling face and the back slapping party guy who gets by on his good looks and partying abilities, a Bill Clinton in a darker shade. Put a smile on it and America swallows the hook. Works every time.
Obama was the prototype and test run for the current WEF Young Global Leaders who run nearly all western nations: a completely vacuous, superficial personality, never held a real job, lived his whole life in a bubble. Ring a bell?
Hereward:
Interesting idea.
You’re completely right.
These people were groomed for their positions and were paid handsomely for doing their time.
I think he meant that Obama is calling the shots. We all know Joe Biden isn’t making decisions, someone else is pulling the strings.
For oojai.
Rice and Valjar maybe, but not Obama. He’s too stupid and lazy. It would be interesting to get a peak at those two harridans’ daily agendas to see what they are up to these days.
Thx for clarification.
It is astonishing to see the endurance of faith, trust and hope in what is plainly a dying Empire. People who are aware of the filth, danger and expense of living in a big American city are still lining up at the US Embassies around the world, documents in their hot little hand. The sense that ‘…all is not as it should be…’ is resisted strongly. I have given up on proferring unsolicited advice to people holding their life savings in Zimbamerican dollars. The notion that we are really and truly living in an era of ‘Sic transit gloria mundi’ has really not sunk in, except for a very few.
Among those are the elite Chinese scientists and researchers who, nose firmly held, move back to the PRC and buckle under to totalitarian control. A number of them had very munificent, stable, prestigious positions in the USA. What happened?
Those orbiting Mr. Kunstler’s blog and contributing comments think they know, and I think they think correctly.
” I have given up on proferring unsolicited advice to people holding their life savings in Zimbamerican dollars”
Unless one is some kind of accomplished money speculator or is smart about juggling domestic and foreign bank accounts, I don’t think it is that easy to hold a different currency than the home currency in an American bank account. And AFAIK you can’t hold a foreign bank account if you are not a resident or citizen of the country.
Correct me if I am wrong!!
More practical info is certainly welcome.
My own solution is to convert my dollars into real assets ASAP.
Agreed!
….the only currency that counts is that of peace, in building out a hyper-localized sustainable, regenerative, collaborative, defended existence.
The 10% emerging relatively unharmed from the human-induced accelerating waves of calamity are hyper-focused in building out the New, NOT fighting the old!
Keyword is going to be “Defended”. Too many think that they can just opt out à la Amish and Big Government will just leave them alone.
And that is what the US is doing in Ukraine – turning money into real estate.
Ukraine has the best farmland in Europe, along with other resources.
Since the Orange Revolution (US-backed soft coup) of 2004 and especially after the violent US-backed coup of 2014, US corporations have been moving into Ukraine and buying up their land, using corrupt shell corporations and poverty-stricken Ukrainians to do so, since under Ukraine law, it is illegal to sell Ukrainian farmland to foreigners.
But the Donbass resistors, now backed by the Russian military, put a damper on the process.
What to do? Lindsey Graham spelled it out clearly a few weeks ago.
He said that if the US keeps supplying weapons, ammo and spy intelligence to Ukraine, they will fight to the ”last Ukrainian”.
The last Ukrainian?
Well, that makes it easier to loot and steal, if the inhabitants have all been slaughtered, doesn’t it?
And then after the US moves into Ukraine, they will continue their “Last Russian” project.
You are wrong.
I was actually thinking of the ethnic Chinese with whom I have been associated in a business context, or the families of the students I taught at a communications school in Jakarta.
In East Asia people frequently hold foreign accounts, primarily in US dollars for the convenience and relative predictability of the currency. If you choose to hold money, what about Norwegian krone, for instance? Very small population of sober Protestants, nearly a trillion bucks in the bank and no foreign debt.
My other choise would be Japanese Yen, for the stability of the governing forces and a careful economic policy – although they are holding a very large debt.
Just some thought from someone who has never had to face the problem (to say the least).
…the last illusion-spectacle to fall is that of the adaptability, benevolence, and capability of corporations to hold the fabric of modernity-civilization together.
Gaslighting is part of the macro-reality entertainment show.
The veneer of corporation kumbaya Diversity and Inclusion fades faster than financial market collapse.
Those ignorant of the resolve of Xi, Vlad, and Kim to engage in scorched earth, rather than endure domestic democratic uprisings, are the very same afflicted with normalcy bias, cognitive dissonance, and record prescriptions of antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
Pattern recognition necessitates girding, maneuvering, reacting, and adapting to a vast array of civilizations-at-large outcomes.
Those ignorant of the resolve of Xi, Vlad, and Kim to engage in scorched earth – wwg
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Kardashian??
Oh wait…
Nehh verr mind.
thats:
never mind.
You know the truth, yet you can’t convey it – who’s to blame?
Them, because they’re not clever enough to understand, or you, who steadily fail to make ’em understand?
No one’s to blame.
No reality, no illusion, no truth, no lies, only the many faces of The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.
After two-and-a-half years of the Covid mess and all its satellite wrongdoings, the online comment sections are lit up with either “the narrative is falling apart” or “the WEF reset is going exactly according to plan.” Though I lean toward the former, what if the current chaos IS part of the plan? Just how tightly do Klaus and company still hold the reigns? Thoughts?
Sorry, REINS.
both are appropriate.
both work in the hegelian dialectic framework.
The creation, sharing, and extending of halcyon moments, for the many, at peace, IS the moral imperative.
The wise gird, maneuver, react, and adapt, in building out the hyper-localized regenerative, sustainable, collaborative, defended New, NOT fighting the old.
Same as it ever was, only the technology of catapults and swords has far outpaced the level of human thinking required to attain and sustain durable peace.
The good news is humanity is not the only experiment, and Mother Nature bats last in driving the biome to homeostasis.
“The planet is fine. It’s not going anywhere. WE are!” –George Carlin
That is very much the question?
I think the chaos is part of the plan but I also think they are nowhere near as smart as they think they are.
Tell me what part of the plan emanating from these putrid bodies functions without an electricity grid.
If you have ever dived down the blackout rabbit warren online you’ll see plenty to suggest that once it goes down on a broad scale, it’s going to stay down.
seen plenty of suggestions online about ways that that process could be helped along when the time is right.
What use are their smartphone surveillance devices once the grid is down? Ten hours later the last of that will fail too.
Maybe part of the infrastructure makes it longer, but once we work out that the power isn’t coming back on, well..
Of course we are here commenting on the clusterfuck nation blog so almost all of us must think the same on this one.
They are sociopaths and psychopaths trying to destroy humanity, without understanding the human spirit at all. This is why I agree with you, I think it will fail. But it will also inflict incredible damage on us all.
If they can’t understand that all humans are not the same, they can’t replace us with AI. They don’t get that. I loved watching a YT by this guy named Jerry that I posted a link to in Friday’s blog comments. He says the billionaires attempting technofeudalism will be destroyed by the AI they create, if their plan comes to its logical conclusion.
Mother Nature bats last – always.
Yes and then Men will rule again – as Mother Nature always intended.
[Insert Paula-styled eyeroll here]
How about the Great Spirit of the New World, the one in the Northern continent? Of course, one can assign gender depending on your totem experience…
Correct, Mary. It’s rather touching how they seem to think that they can burn down the world and then jet off to NZ and live out the rest of their days in their luxury bunkers.
Yeah, that’s laughable. Who will wait on them? And then if they servants, doesn’t that compromise their safety? And then how long can they stay down there? And then how long before infighting starts? So many questions they probably haven’t considered.
I think that Schwab and his scurvy crew are the same as all deranged psychopaths: they are excellent at unleashing chaos, but have no control over the consequences. As Hitler et al found, starting the ball rolling is one thing; controlling it’s course is quite another. The globalists will fail. In fact, they already have because at least half the world is telling them to get lost. However, for we poor plebs, the cost will be high. ‘Twas ever thus!
I believe Klaus and Company’s “reins” are in fact whips. At least that is what President Potatohead told me. The better to control the useless eaters like the myself. Well I’ve got some news for them .I’ve never been much for authority.
Despite not being reported by the ‘MSM’ or the legacy media, is the fact that somewhere near 60% of countries on the planet are now members of or affiliates of the BRICS system which has aligned itself with the OneBelt OneRoad system. These are systems that directly oppose and challenge the SWIFT system run by the US Corporation for years, and is based entirely on the $USD per the Bretton Woods agreement (which is now torn to shreds). The $USD is dead but it doesn’t know it and it is being rejected worldwide, hence the many shortages of goods, particularly medicines.
The fda sent out a memo to doctors and clinics about 3 weeks ago warning of extreme shortages of all meds and equipment, and inability to obtain over 150 ‘critical’ medications such as steroids, phenergan, iv fluids and meds, and a myriad of others. Our clinic put in an order to the largest medical supplier in the world several weeks ago, and received about 1/8th of what we ordered; everything else was on indeterminate back order. Perhaps the universe is about to put some karma on the medical establishment for its covid sins. Unfortunately there will be much collateral damage. And that’s just one field facing the fallout from the disintegration of the $USD. There are MANY.
OneBelt OneRoad system. whats it?
planned depopulation, cull the herd.
get rid of the old and sick first.
It is the Chinese plan for Eurasian trade and its massive in planning and execution. Many rail roads built to/from China and elsewhere, inc., India, Middle East, Central and Southern Europe.
The Silk Road, read up on it in You Tube. The Chinese know what they are doing.
Neurodoc, right on about BRICS versus the West.
The real question is
Who are the globalist financial empire, WEF, going to support? They destroyed the last super power, Great Britain, so who is next.
I know who Vegas is betting on. I know who I am betting on, just do not know yet what to do about it.
Watch Ukraine. The deciding war between the BRICS and the West.
How can we invest in BRICS while living in the belly of Schwabian malfeasance?
There goes Swifty…..
“The real question is
Who are the globalist financial empire, WEF, going to support?” JohnAZ
The real question is: what remaining outpost is NOT going to support the WEF/financial cabal? (Sound of crickets.)
To wit, money talks, BS walks.
Friend of mine for months has been saying that the unsustainable medical industrial complex will collapse. I believe they have foreseen this, thus the billions (trillions?) they have raked in using the vaxx scams.
Not a problem, they will simply stop treating the herd and concentrate on extending the lives of the ruling elite.
Ha! With what? The vaxxes? Schwab et al wouldn’t have that shit injected into them unless they were pinned to the mat by four sumo wrestlers.
There are no miracle drugs, for us or for the elite. Despite all the techno fantasies of Zuckerberg, Musk, the AI and medical engineers and others, Nature still triumphs over technology re health fates, both on an individual and on a planetary level.
It appears that we are watching the removal of medication(s) from the pipeline originating in Asia. fda says (in a recent private letter to clinics, hospitals, and doctors) that 90% of ALL medications used in the US are from CHINA!!!! That, in and of itself, will nullify the medical system. Why go to a doctor unless you need medication: if they can’t prescribe due to non-availability, they why go? This will teach everyone with an IQ over 105 to treat themselves and their own family via herbal and homeopathic systems.
Our clinic is moving heavily toward electromedicine.
India also has a huge pharmaceutical industry. Lots of meds manufactured there.
Google summary:
“The pharmaceutical industry in India is currently valued at $41.7 bn. India is a major exporter of Pharmaceuticals, with over 200+ countries served by Indian pharma exports. India supplies over 50% of Africa’s requirement for generics, ~40% of generic demand in the US and ~25% of all medicine in the UK .”
I wonder whether it is the brand-name meds that are made in China?
Just a thought.
Yes they want digital medicine.
I switched to homeopathic and naturopath practitioners. I have no use for health insurance or doctors.
Islander – I read a year or two ago that the active ingredients for the Indian pharma industry come mostly from China.
they used to be supplied mostly by plants along i-95 in new jersey. those bad smells were way more than landfill. related by a friend who’s been a pharmacist for 40 years.
making those precursors is not pretty, but strategically… i think no one has any doubt about the downside of outsourced strategic materials of any kind.
autarchy, baby.
Correct, Neurodoc. This is what most Europeans and Yanks never hear. They believe Russia is isolated, that China has been tamed by that Strong and Independent women, Pelosi, and that the mud people around the world are desperate for America’s approval. They don’t realise that 85% of the world is still trading with Russia as normal, that Saudi Arabia is now accepting payments in yuan from China for oil. In short, the unipolar world that emerged in 1991 is being shattered. We are living in truly momentous times, but most will never learn about it until they have no food or heating.
Saudi trading with China via yuan is a major major shift, of century level significance. It literally shreds the Bretton Woods Agreement. Meaning its over for the $USD
doc, with respect,
there are just too many powerful people with everything at stake in the dollar system for them to just give up.
the dollar world reserve has been the behemoth driving world events for so long, i think its easy to take for granted that slipping even a bit looks like the end of that world.
simple fact at the moment is that nothing exists that is even remotely capable of direct substitution.
when, prior to ww2 the pound’s place as world reserve ended, keep in mind that the uk economy had been subject to 100 years of financialization since the repeal of the corn laws.
it took 2 world wars and britian becoming literally impoverished, since is has little beyond influence and its natural strategic place as a naval power, as a natural resource – the kind of resources russia enjoys now.
the us, compared the uk after the repeal of the corn laws in 1846, is about at 1895.
Slightly off topic- One thing I am noticing more and more is the horrible physical condition of US citizens. Black, caucasian, hispanic with impunity but less so for Asians. Children seem to just follow their “parents?” into a maze of obesity and seemingly disguise their condition with weird hair colors and body/face mutilation. I take pride in my appearance, I’m in good shape, I work out and eat clean. I notice people staring at me like I’m the weirdo. Very underrated in the stigma of the Long Emergency and then we can add in the cardiac/neurology/immune degradation of the jabs.
Good point I’ve noticed the same thing.
Flabby, shabby people walking around everywhere, the oddball haircuts, pasty skin, wearing t-shirts featuring offensive or woke messages, wool hats in summer, and shocking face tattoos.
clown world. people of walmart.
search for a picture of the guy that was recently busted for selling body parts on fakebook. He even has a tat on the whites of the eyes.he must have spent a fortune on the ugly shit. The NY Post has the story.
Been there.
old classic – for 12 minutes, a hilarious tour of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…
youtube.com/watch?v=VohyMXB4FLo
I am taken aback at the ubiquity of tattoos.
What a waste of money.
I simply do not understand this desire to permanently alter one’s appearance.
In a way it is like surgery that cannot be undone.
Aboriginal peoples did and still do a lot of body art.
Some or most of it pretty painful.
Much of it inflicted on children at puberty.
Some Plains Indian tribes colored their skin with ashes that were pressed into scarified skin.
Weird.
Now we have colorful jewelry, so . . .
Why would someone pay good money to have their appearance ruined forever?
My nephew is covered with tattoos, and I have to be really careful not to let an incautious word slip if the subject of tattoos comes up when I am in his presence.
I don’t get tattoos either. I saw this dude laying out at the pool today, covered in them. I was wondering if they hinder the absorption of vitamin D. In any case, what does dudebro need with a tan when he’s covered in so many other colors?
Proof he is his own man and not a follower.
Huh? Everyone gets tattoos now. It’s more of a rebellious act NOT to get one.
Everyone gets tattoos now. – MQ
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I am pleased to report that no one in our family has a tattoo unless maybe someone has a tatt hidden in the crack of their ass. “Our family” comprises me, wife, our 3 kids, their respective spouses, 2 grand kids and Peter. Not one tatt.
I don’t mind seeing people who are heavily tattooed, though I have never thought it was attractive, plus it seems like a huge waste of money. One of my daughters has two small tattoos and probably sees them as her generational bona fides–though I’ve never asked her why she got them.
I actually have one small tattoo that a college friend did for me one summer in the park in 1974. This was one of those “jailhouse tattoos” done with a bottle of India ink and a sewing needle. You can’t even tell what it is any more. The reason for this? I think we just had too much time on our hands.
We fled California and moved to Rust-Belt Land. This weekend, I took my gal to her first ever Demolition Derby which was held at the county fair. What we witnessed was beyond words.
For starters, my gal was the ONLY woman at the event wearing a dress. The women we saw were mostly dressed in tank tops so that we could see all of their tasteless tattoos and their rolls upon rolls of fat. The men and the children were equally fat and I spent much of my time looking around to see how many teenagers would be eligible for military service and I’d put that number at ~15%.
I worked in media and entertainment for decades so the last thing you’d ever find in my home is a TV or a radio tuned to some local station. I know that nothing but poison emanates from those devices. When I am in someone’s home and a TV is on, I’m always shocked by the endless advertising by the food & drug companies. I can see every single tool of manipulation as if it were writ large – sadly, they can not see it.
….the good news is, in a recent clinical study, Doctors report no adverse effects from Chesterfields:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTdYWjuugY&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=37
Big Pharma enjoys profiting from maladies introduced by Big Tobacco and Big Food.
The Shakespearean-tragic-comedy-horror-dystopian-Pavlovian-B.F. Skinner-Huxleyisn-Madison Avenue-CULLING reality show is BEST viewed, while taking a break from picking grapes, in an Epicurean-Walden 2.0 existence!
I hear what you’re saying Nickelthrower (see my above post) but after all you weren’t attending a wine and cheese fine arts soiree at MOMA.
I hear you as well but yoga pants and a tank top on a 400lb woman is not something I wish to see. They wouldn’t dress this way without big media giving them permission to do so. In the past, women in this condition would be ashamed to be seen in public looking this way but the word has gone out that being morbidly obese and flaunting it is okay. Ask yourself why.
We have very little actual control over things in this world. I can not control what happens in Ukraine. I can not control the ridiculous march towards a “green” economy. The one thing we all can control is what we shovel into our mouths.
People with such low impulse control are probably up to their eyeballs in debt. Being overweight and in debt makes you little more than a slave.
The MSM tells me kids are overweight because of climate change. Apparently it is too hot to play outside and the kids are forced to stay indoors playing video games and shoveling cheesedoodles into their pieholes all day. Um., OK.
“but yoga pants and a tank top on a 400lb woman is not something I wish to see. They wouldn’t dress this way without big media giving them permission to do so. In the past, women in this condition would be ashamed to be seen in public looking this way but the word has gone out that being morbidly obese and flaunting it is okay. Ask yourself why.”
I was similarly grossed out at the beach yesterday. I saw a couple of incredibly ugly very obese women with extremely skimpy suits, the thong type, buried in a few crevices in their mountains of flesh. I realize it is a bit cruel, as everyone has a right to enjoy the beach—but it seems that there is a total lack of modesty or awareness of being a disgusting spectacle. There are plenty of suits for fat people. But these people almost seem to be challenging the world to accept their obesity by also being practically buck naked.
So, yes, “someone” is giving these people permission to feel good about and even flaunt choices that are bad, unhealthy, and affect all of society (big percentage of those who died of covid were obese), etc.
in fact, recently I saw a photo of a Calvin Klein ad on a billboard showing an obese woman and the legend “I speak truth in my Calvins” (Just do a search for “Calvin Klein ad with fat woman”). So, being obese is her “truth.” A pretty sad commentary.
WHen it was 100+ degrees in NYC in the past they just opened up the fire hydrants. I suppose that’s no longer possible because it’s better to sit around roasting and eating potato chips and donuts. Good lord.
In spite of themselves, those fat pig face proles, quite often they have big impressive, upright and robust frames.
Some of the shoulders on those women..
I am on utube.
I see ads with wonderful blacks.
Today I saw a black family [dad present] at their mansion.
The ad pushed hersheys but wasnt a hersheys ad. confusing.
The other was a tire ad w a black dad and his mixed child.
LOL! Really hitting a fresh raw nerve with me here in NM with that one.
Just had a freshly minted PhD and her newly announced fiancé (just proposed and accepted this past weekend) move in next door. Talk about an odd couple.
She: Thirty, Chemistry PhD from UCF, originally from CA, quite fat for 30 y/o (I’m guessing 5’6″, 250 lb or so, but she’s still young and just getting started), but otherwise almost normal for a typical 30 y/o these days. Which is to say, woke, lazy and stupid.
He: Same age give or take. HS education (allegedly), originally from and just relocated from OK, a bonafide fucking walrus (I’m guessing 5’10”, 350 pounds at least), hasn’t come out of the house other than to waddle to the car since arriving one week ago and doesn’t work, a so-called “house husband.” (More like pet walrus) First sign of worthlessness? Drove SUV up on the grass (which I had been taking care of) to unload worthless shit upon arrival, rather than unload shit at the curb and walk the 50 feet or so to the front door like a normal human might. Got full blown ham shot for all to see while he was at it. Not just plumbers crack, the whole fucking ham!
At homeowners meeting this weekend, she had already colluded with idiot crazy lady next door to her (fired lab employee, now riding the government “disability” scam rolls), and first action item for the two crazy bitches was to install heated sidewalks, so that neither of their fat asses would have to shovel snow in the winter, which we don’t normally get a terribly lot of anyway. This in a 70 year old building that’s been crying out for the most basic of maintenance for at least half of its life already. I had to swallow hard to contain myself.
Wow, Dis, there’s a novel in there somewhere. Great description! Hope they mellow as you get to know them more!
I tell ya, the longer I live, the crazier it gets!
Dis, you have a gift. You need to get together with KesaAnna …
write something like “Comedy & Tragedy: Tales from the Heartland”
Respectfully, NM is not the Heartland. The Heartland generally suggests the Midwest and the Rustbelt. Maybe the Bible Belt, or the Mid South, parts of.
It’s a lot better here in the mountains of Spain, but you can see the thing advancing.
@Jerrydylan – I attended my brother in law’s 40th birthday bash this weekend and I can attest to the fact that most folks don’t give one damn about personal appearance or health. Men and women both tatted to the extreme and these people were in their late 30’s to mid 40’s.
And I think we touched on this in last week’s blog, the obesity of American’s is something to behold, especially women. I doubt there were only 3 or 4 out of a group of 12 that weighed less than 200 pounds. Can we blame the food or do these people just not have any dignity?
This trend started some time ago as I remember fighting with my son (also 40) about tucking his shirt in before going to school, or my daughter (43) who attended college classes in pajamas. Thank goodness they have upped their game and have responsible professional jobs, but they still tend towards sloppiness that drives me crazy!
Spot on. I mentioned before, my lawn guy got 2 jabs and both nearly killed him, and now he looks like he’s aged about 10 years. He’s fatter and has a grey tinge to his skin. It’s really sad. He’s probably 12 years younger than me and looks older.
I have seen the degradation and mutilation of the young to their bodies. They’ve just surrendered to what the social media and TV tells them. IT’s all part of the move to transhumanism, to get people to hate their bodies and natural healing.
he went back for more. I have heard similar.
In one case the MD told him not to take second as he got blood clots from jab.
Hey, Mary. Have you ever considered that it might be your lawn that’s killing him? Seriously, everyone thinks transhumanism is a physical thing, but it begins with a spiritual collapse. What gets me about our obsession with phones is not just the junk that is on them, but everyday walking past people glued to their mini screens with that horrible vacant look on their faces. Last week, I was in a theme park with my kids near where we live. Suddenly, a mum starts going ballistic because she can’t find her two year old. We were the only ones to help her look. Everyone else was glued to their phones. Really, really effing depressing.
He was telling me what happened to him after BOTH shots and yeah he still went back for no. 2 – which I consider to be crazy.
His reasoning was that his wife is immunocompromised so he did it for her.
Both times got a high fever, horrible headaches and body aches. Legs turned purple and blew up. Second time, he got delirious and walked into a wall and cracked it.
I just can’t understand these people.
And if his wife also took it, she’s even more immunocompromised than she was before.
YES G.A.!!!!
That’s why I was eyerolling and SMDH after he told me this. And this is a guy in a militia who doesn’t trust gov’t!
They get to everyone.
You should come to the UK, Jerry. The Brits make most Yanks look like Jerry Hall.
One shocking thing I’ve noticed recently is how many fat — not just chunky, but fat — kids there are around. Pudgy faces and arms and guts, with the invariable slurpee in one fist, immobile and stupefied. Of course, their parents are just bigger versions, buying for their kids the same shit (masquerading as food) they do for themselves.
Back in the day, there were zero overweight kids I grew up with in large schools. Zero. One overweight (not morbidly obese) kid I remember in high school, and he was ridiculed mercilessly because he was so rare.
There was one fat boy in our (small) school, and he actually had some kind of heart condition and some mental problems. He was something of a trial to his two younger sisters. People did tease him, and the two sisters were alternately embarrassed and felt protective. Sad for them. He died quite young. Both parents were alcoholics.
Everyone else was fit and ran around outside constantly during recess in cowboy and Indian games, or played red rover.
Our mothers packed our lunches.
“Everyone else was fit and ran around outside constantly during recess in cowboy and Indian games, or played red rover.
Our mothers packed our lunches.”
Same here. Two recesses and a lunch hour.
I understand that recess has been cancelled in many schools, from last year or two and ongoing, because of ‘Covid’. Is that true pretty well across the board, or is it more of an isolated thing?
When schools are actually open of course.
Just a little historical reminder that it was Mr. Clinton that repealed Glass-Stegall in 1996 making it A-Okay for consumer and investment banks to play casino. See what happened after that? All intentional as the adults were no longer going to be allowed in govt – ever again. We The People have consented to @ss raping after @ss raping so we apparently luv it!
Exactimundo.
And, as for “it looked like a good idea at the time,” No, most of what Clinton brought into being—such as NAFTA, repeal of Glass-Steagall, merging of media giants, and more—did NOT look good at the time to those who were paying attention.
However, it took many more shocks to the system to bring us to the abject situation in which this country finds itself.
Most obviously:
##Dodgy uetsionable 2000 election
##9/11
##2008 Financial meltdown
##Obama interregnum
##Trump apotheosis
##Covid op
##Democrats’ total mental meltdown
Rachel Maddow actually said on national TV that Clinton did not sign Glass-Steagall. She openly and blatantly lied about it. I remember just being gobsmacked. That’s how they do it, they blame it on Republicans even when it is easily checked in 2 seconds with a google search that Clinton did indeed sign it.
Wow, is she still a feature, Mary? Or has she gone the way of Toobin and Stelter?
I believe so although I haven’t watched her since 2012. The said Glass-Steagal denial was a clip I ran across on Twitter or something.
“it is easily checked in 2 seconds”
and there’s one of the issues, no research no questioning only blind acceptance
Quite so. Things look random but if so, why do they always end so badly?
Because they’re not random at all. The apparent randomness is a function of not looking carefully.
Conspiracy is the way the world works. Liberals and “conservatives” can’t get that. Thus they were trounced.
The law of self-organized criticality prevails across all known dimensions of existence.
As it appears the human race is not ameliorating the percolating variables leading to waves of destruction-extinction, but rather exacerbating them, the outcome of the macro-human-earth project is becoming increasingly clear…..to the few who have girded, maneuvered, reacted, and adapted, to a hyper-localized collaborative existence, in anticipation thereof.
….the good news is the earth-universe project continues, independent of the outcome of the human-earth experiment.
The problem is that when you say “conspiracy”, most normies think you mean ten evil guys plotting away in a room full of cigar smoke and laughing like hyenas. They don’t get that a conspiracy can be quite diffuse, with many different players, each of whom have slightly different aims. The Great Reset is the perfect example. Schwab, Gates, Fuckerberg, the ecofascists and all the other outriders, probably have slightly different targets. But they all agree on the final result.
While Clinton signed the legislation, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 was sponsored by
the three Republican senators it was named after. The bill passed by a veto proof majority. Whatever the many character defects possessed by Clinton, he did not repeal Glass-Stegall; the U.S. Congress did. He could have vetoed Gramm-Leach-Bliley and been overridden ( an honest and courageous person would have ) but he was already in trouble with the Lewinsky affair, not to mention the various other financial and sex scandals, and didn’t want to rock the boat. If he had had any integrity, he would have gone down fighting, but the fact is the Congress was more responsible than Clinton for this atrocity of a bill.
“Clinton signed the legislation”
end of story.
The “fix” is what is to blame. We’ve allowed the fix to permeate all of our institutions to our detriment. The fix is in with politics, healthcare, education, the markets, banking, and even home ownership.
When the wealthy are given subsidies to purchase Earth-destroying electric vehicles then you know the fix is in. When students are told that they no longer need to pay their student loans – loans they used to acquire Gender Studies degrees, you know the fix is in.
Show me any institution that hasn’t become a soul-crushing racket. Show me the hill to die on.
Nickel-
Thanks for this comment.
I saw a very similar sentiment in this morning’s Zerohedge comments.
The commenter stated that it is almost impossible not to work for the forces of evil running the collective West (and globe) into the ground.
These days, I live off of royalties from the hard work I did earlier in life. That said, I have the credentials to teach and there is a teacher shortage where I live. I’ve given thought to returning to public education because I’m in a position to resist monetary threats. Plus, it never hurts to be in a position to be able to hire a team of lawyers the first time someone demands I adhere to woke bs.
But, is that what I really want to do? After all, I will not call anyone by their preferred pronoun nor recognize gender choice. Given that, how long would I last? A month? A semester?
The commenter was correct – it is almost impossible to not work for the forces of evil.
If you could return to teaching, I’d encourage you to do so. You’re right in that you wouldn’t last long, but you’d leave with the ammunition with which to subject them to a long, expensive, and well deserved legal harassment which might actually cost them in the long run. Most of what they’re doing to people would be very hard to legally justify in a court of law (of which there must be a few left). There was just a big award from a lawsuit by the employees of a hospital who were forced to take the vax. This whole thing is a big, money generating industry, and we should hurt their pocketbooks whenever we can; it’s the only thing that might give them pause.
play the game and get on the inside and throw some sand in the gears.
you might actually give a few worthy kids a fixed star and some hope. the last 50 years have been a me, me, me wasteland of fu*k the yunguns, i’m going to bounce the check to the undertaker. results evident.
the irish have made an art of the big f.u. with all their years under the uk boot.
irish democracy, its a real thing.
Nickelthrower,
You’d never get hired. Academic institutions now require study sessions and the correct yes-or-no answers on screening questionnaires just to pre-qualify. Also, even if you pretend you’re a true advocacy warrior (which you aren’t), you’d still have an uphill battle if you’re White. Acceptance of White applicants, even in the hard sciences, are anywhere between 7 to 30 times less than minorities (soon to be majorities) when similar merit-based comparisons are put side-to-side.
I realize your situation is a bit different, since you’re not just fresh from graduation into your first academic job, but the ideological framework is still the same. But you probably know all or most of this.
If you are a white, Christian, hetero male, forget it. You’ll never get hired.
The way it works in teaching is, you will have job security regardless of your abilities and regardless of what you say or do, under one of two conditions: either you are “connected” (meaning you are the town banker’s neice or similar), or you have some serious dirt on the principal or others making hiring decisions.
Back in my teaching days, one of my teacher friends accepted a job in a small town in Kansas. He was gay, so he was probably selected for the job because this meant the principal automatically had some dirt on him–and he would thus be likely to keep his mouth shut about others, and could even be counted on to be their accomplice. Anyway, my friend told me that one of his main jobs was to keep the principal (who could not be seen purchasing alcohol in that community) supplied with booze. Since my friend was gay, his habit was to spend most weekends in Kansas City, where he would pick up a good supply of booze for the principal. My friend had great job security.
I’ve sometimes wondered if a lot of hiring decisions are made this way.
As far a losing your job goes, you will be out of a job as soon as some “connected” person graduates from college with a degree in your subject. Any excuse will do. Nowadays, I suppose pronouns will suffice. I’ve seen people fired because two kids of the opposite sex were in the cloakroom together–and the teacher should have somehow prevented kids of the opposite sex being in the cloakroom at the same time–or because the history teacher was “and old man talking about old times,” or because the kids in the classroom were not achieving (in some inner-city shithole school where none of the kids achieve), etc. Any excuse will do.
Heck, I was once told that I would not be allow to return to a particular school to substitute because I put a kid out for talking filthy. I was also once called on the carpet to have a conference with the principal, a parent, and a student, because I told a class that Anno Domini was Latin for “year of our Lord.” The student told her mother I was teaching religion.
If you are a “connected” person, on the other hand, you can do and say just about anything.
The public schools are pretty much a cross between sinecure jobs for connected people and crazy town. But you might enjoy it for awhile if you’re really, really bored.
I’m afraid they are all that way, NickelthroweR. All have been usurped. If they haven’t by wokieness then they have been by uber-religious mores.
It’s VERY hard to find anyone who hasn’t been tainted. I filled out an application for a job and it asked for my preferred pronouns and race. The fix is everywhere.
“f they haven’t by wokieness then they have been by uber-religious mores”
hypocrisy – of the flavor of “the only thing just right is that little slice in the middle that *i* occupy.”
poster child of the world where fashion displaced actual morals.
standing by for your cutting ad hom and pointless denial – or ignore, even better.
Well, Mr. Smartypants, I also looked at a job description from a Christian owned company who said to work there you had to adhere to every facet of Christiandom.
So what’s the difference?
I suppose you see that as an ad-hominem. Because you ain’t that bright judging by your other retarded comments.
they don’t want people like you around?
link? i’d like to thank them personally.
troll
Dummy.
“It seemed pretty sane in 1996 when President Bill Clinton declared — to much surprise — in his State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.” Of course, few understood back then how cravenly corrupt the Clintons were, even especially as Hillary launched her own political career once Bill’s turn was over.”
Umm, I would dare to say I as well as many others knew but it was washed over by the MSM, the same MSM that has white washed the Covid1984 scandal.
Back in the 90’s conservatives such as Ann Coulter, Radio Talk Show Hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, G Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingram, and others were screaming from their lungs how corrupt the Clintons were. No one bothered to listen and just hated what they had to say because they were conservatives and they just had to be lying.
Sorry Jim but you were part of the Left at the time and did not heed the warnings or hated any of those that exposed the criminal Clinton family. I was all too aware of the shenanigans with regards to the Clintons.
The Clintons really did change the game.
They had lots of practice managing all the Deep State shenanigans in and around Mena, AR. The White House was their reward for a job well done.
They were the administration that began selling truly game changing technologies to China.
Two examples that come to mind are precision navigation and nuclear warhead technologies.
“Two examples that come to mind are precision navigation and nuclear warhead technologies.”
That so many people shrugged off, and continue to shrug off the LORAL deal is proof of how clueless the majority of the population is.
Clinton was probably provably guilty of treason, but the Congress Creeps didn’t want to cause a ruckus that might make them unpopular and threaten their cushy sinecures.
The res publica is doomed, plan accordingly.
Epicur-
Yes, the whole Loral disaster is the deal that advanced China’s ability to target their ICBMs by decades.
I think it also helped them jump-start their GPS-clone known as Beidou.
Talk about selling the commies the rope they will use to hang us!
I worked briefly with a project to give the Communist Chinese LANDSAT ground stations and the computer technology to interpret the data. The Chinese scientists that came over were smart but computer illiterate. This was during the Reagan years. So the process of handing over the technology began well before the Clintons. The part I worked on was explaining the algorithms to perform digital image enhancement and some automatic multi-dimensional pattern recognition. No one could explain to me why there were people dressed in PLA uniforms visiting at the same time. Still seems fishy to me.
Clinton and HW Bush were close. That’s all I needed to learn to understand everything from then on going forward. Bill gets his chance, then shrub got his, then it was supposed to be Shillary, but then along came CIA-connected/groomed Obomba, and then along came Trump.
We all make mistakes. Jim has the grace to admit his errors. FFS, I thought Trump was playing 4D chess, that Bill Barr was honest and Hertz Van Rental was a Dutch painter.
HTW – beauty on the Hertz Van Rental! Beauty!
hey Rid,yeah it kinda bugs me about jim–his endless rants about peak oil–i am in the oil business and would write him and tell him there is endless oil but not endless cheap oil–he gave me shit–and his leftist leanings always bothered me–and now he has come full circle–i love his writing style,bought a couple of his books years ago…
Yes, the oil is endless. It then becomes a two part question.
1) How much are the energy producers willing to pay to extract it out of the ground?
2) How much is the consumer willing to pay for it?
If the price becomes too HIGH for the consumer, then it’s not worth extracting it. The cheap oil is gone and that was decades ago. Now we have moved to the more expensive stuff. We are at the point in time where the price of oil is too low for the energy producers and too high for the consumer. We see what happens when the price of oil spikes too high, the economy begins to tank. Then demand slows and the price drops and consumers begin to buy it.
We will eventually get to a point in the future where both lines between the producers and consumers will meet in the middle. At that point the oil will probably stay in the ground, sands or sea.
Michael Ruppert in his movie Collapse explained it very well in layman’s terms.
the thing hiding behind price is the reduced equation of EROEI. energy returned on energy invested.
they considered breaking this equation by putting a nucular plant at the athabaska tar sands to liquify the goo and render it useful. that is one example of how to fix an unfavorable balance of energy in ~= energy out.
as for reaching oil in extreme locations, technology has been advancing slower than oil has been depleting. that will likely not improve as a trend.
an example of the counter is corn ethanol. its been shown, in total that on this energy out < energy input. politics once again in the way of rational decisions…
I think what’s going on and what went down the past 2 years is now above and beyond oil supply considerations. One line that comes to mind is from the movie No Country for Old Men said by the character Sheriff Ed Tom Bell….
– “IT’S JUST ALL OUT WAR.”
Excellent article today and I wanted to add one point to the paragraph on Obama. During his 8 years in office he prosecuted more whistle blowers than all his predecessors put together and carried out overseas assassinations on US citizens who had not even been charged with a crime. This laid the foundation for the extremes of censorship we’re battling today. Truth tellers can be attacked and people’s lives destroyed, whistle blowers in the CDC or pharmaceutical companies are denied a platform or painted as crazy conspiracy nuts which effectively silences them.
Unless they are whistle blowing against Trump, then they are deified.
Remember, everyone, Trump is the spiritual leader of the bloc of Americans that want their Constitutional country back. If he did not represent such a huge bloc of folks, no one would pay attention to him. As it is, one guy representing this many voters, can cancel out the total control the Deep State exerts. If he is eliminated, in all ways possible, the Uniparty is in control.
Yes, eliminate Trump, the political situation shifts totally to the Left, The Left knows it.
Yes, they clearly want to shut him down and if he’s a true patriot he’ll put his power behind a viable candidate for the the 2024 election. As big as his ego is, the issues we face as a nation are bigger and I’m more concerned about getting someone in the WH who doesn’t have his baggage. I’m not saying his resentment and outrage at the treatment he endured at the hands of his enemies is not justified. Dragging the country back from the ledge will be hard enough without the focus being on him as a man (or businessman, or “Russian agent” or whatever).
If the left manages to eliminate Trump or he bows out, it leaves an opening for DeSantis or Abbot or someone else with a backbone. The left have no one who fits this description and they know it. The best they’ve got is that slick-backed hair Gavin who’s totally incompetent.
Two comments, SW
First, the next nominee from the Right must take it away from Trump. No one yet shows the intestinal fortitude plus bluster that Trump has to keep the Leftist dogs at bay.
Second, only one entity that has shown itself to be more incompetent than Gavin and his Mob,
The American electorate.
But the primary weapon the left has is its attack on Trump and it’s used as a bludgeon to dominate the news and split the Republicans and unite the Democrats.
As long as they can keep Trump front and center, they don’t have to provide a viable candidate (as was proven with Biden).
The Democrats can’t stand on their record of inflation, forced vaccines, nonexistent borders, school-system collapse (teachers are bailing out and there’s no one to replace them) and medical care that gets worse every year. And there’s no one with the charisma and speaking skills of Obama to sweet talk the voters into believing the Democrats can solve these failures.
The Bushes, Kristols, and Cheney types are behind De Santis. No doubt Abbot would be little better.
Trump is hated because he’s not completely on board.
i hadn’t heard that j. at first glance, it seems counter to the neocon way, unless they are trying to co-opt him?
It’s naive to think that they won’t manufacture and attach as much baggage to DeSantis as they have to Trump. He’ll get exactly the same treatment, including some fake mess they’ll tangle him up in from which he’ll spend most of his time trying to extricate himself. You can see them preparing it now with their idiotic “don’t say gay” nonsense. I’d be happy if either one could get elected, which would at least slow the rate of dissolution a bit if nothing else.
Of course the politics would be vicious and DeSantis would have a tough fight ahead of him. But it would be ahead — not behind — like it would be with Trump. And the Democrats might be unpleasantly surprised to find out lots of people (including gays) are more worried about their apartment rent than social issues.
maybe trump as candidate with desantis as vice. trump is the lightning rod until 6 weeks prior, then withdraws for reasons. full bore support for now pres candidate rick, dems have used up all their dirty tricks and are left to an obvious replay of something already discredited by the lightning rod.
“…eliminate Trump, the political situation shifts totally to the Left.”
Come on JohnAZ! There will be a more polished and slicker grifter will arise in his place to continue to lead you all down the garden path.
Another thing Obama did very well was purge the military officer corps of patriots and install his people.
My gut says that Trump did not attempt to use the Insurrection Act in 2020 because he understood how many military officers were Barry’s guys and unlikely to follow Trump’s orders in that scenario.
Trump had the same power as Obama to eliminate the Leftists from every US agency, including the military. He didn’t, and here we are. I hate the Dems and the Left in general, but they know how to get things done and go for the jugular. Until we learn to do that, we are chasing the game.
HoW-
To this day I’m completely mystified as to why Trump did not clean house as much as possible from day one.
That is the standard, accepted operating procedure for every leader that has taken over any organization for hundreds, if not thousands of years – get people loyal to you and your program in place, then figure out the rest along the way.
A guy like Trump that managed to survive the NYC and international real estate game for so long should have intuitively understood this principle.
It was even worse. He failed to get rid of the traitors AND appointed deep state creeps to the top jobs. Trump did the US and inestimable service by flushing out the Deep State psychopaths among us, but at the end of the day, maybe he is just not that clever.
its the permanent bureaucracy.
they changed the laws regarding cleaning house long ago to “fix” the problem of the nepotistic spoils system.
“The term was used particularly in politics of the United States, where the federal government operated on a spoils system until the Pendleton Act was passed in 1883 due to a civil service reform movement.”
Andrew Jackson – hero of mine, was a strong advocate. oh for another like him.
Because there is no more left and right anymore – just the Uniparty which has a left and right hand.
Who funded Communism after all? McCarthy was right about everything except one thing: he underestimated how deep the rot had gone.
you said or posted ‘nothing by accident’.
In the 1980s I went to a Bircher presentation and was told, ‘if USA treaties / accords were accidental, sometimes they would favor the US.
mal, that one is a nugget to remember, thanks.
Whole-cloth bullshit!
Change your wardrobe, then.
“Another thing Obama did very well was purge the military officer corps of patriots and install his people.
My gut says that Trump did not attempt to use the Insurrection Act in 2020 because he understood how many military officers were Barry’s guys and unlikely to follow Trump’s orders in that scenario.”
As I said, whole-cloth bullshit.
@RL
Just because you only view news sources that agree with your flawed world view does not make it so.
There are literally hundreds of news articles describing Obama firing people who did not support his dislike of the American military.
investors.com/politics/editorials/197-military-officers-purged-by-obama/
prescottenews.com/index.php/2021/10/04/biden-continues-obama-purge-of-patriotic-officers-now-lt-col-scheller/
washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/12/gordon-transforming-the-us-military/
Again, are you a complete liar or just ignorant?
Is it possible the cloth you speak of is the bag you put over your head to ignore anything that you don’t like about the party of insanity aka the Democrats?
No say it’s not so!
He sure did. And upped the spying on us. Also tried to pass TPP. He was a disaster.
(@thirdcoast)
Having no inside source of information in the DNC whatsoever, I nonetheless have a theory about the recent history of the Party of Chaos which seems to me to cover the observable facts pretty well.
Although the madness of Wokeness did not really emerge until Obama was in office, it seems clear that the movement’s advanced scouts were charting the territory a good bit before that. My guess is that they conjectured that white liberal guilt over the historic treatment of African Americans might assure that a candidate from that demographic would stand a good chance at winning the Oval Office as long as he was only superficially black and could fit in comfortably at an elite (i.e. formerly all-white) country club. Recalling that Obama’s mentor in the Chicago political machine was Joe Lieberman, there was actually never any reason to expect that Obama would do anything other than betray the constituency that voted him into office.
As soon as champagne corks started to pop for Barack and liberals were high-fiving each other over their electoral virtue the foot soldiers of Wokeness were likely extrapolating from that political triumph: “If electing a sort-of-black guy thrills liberal voters that much, surely they are ready to go all-in on electing the first female president. Beyond that: the first blackish female, the first gay guy, and so forth…
Since political parties never remember that after a term or two the country always whipsaws back in the other direction, I don’t doubt that this grand scenario seemed quite plausible to the long-range party planners.
Of course, Obama possessed once-in-a-generation political skills (a sort of Bill Clinton of Color) and the Dems have since found that spectacularly un-gifted candidates such as Hillary, Kamala, and Mayor Pete (the latter two synthesized in the DNC lab) only remind most voters of what a mistake it was to vote for Obama.
I doubt that even now the DNC’s mad political scientists have learned the error of their ways, or understand that they have completely failed to nurture authentic political talent for the party’s future.
And I would bet money that in ’24 one of those three, running for POTUS, will get drubbed, whether the Republican Party runs Trump, DeSantis, or Hitler’s dog.
Obama possessed once-in-a-generation political skills
You were fooled. Mr teleprompter did not fool us. 57 states. gulf coast.
Malthuss:
Not at all. In fact, in September of 2008 I expressed concern in this forum that Obama seemed to be running on nothing more than a couple of empty slogans: “Yes, we can” ; “Hope & Change.
But it does undeniably take extraordinary political skills to get yourself elected as POTUS with so little to offer.
As for possessing skills of governance, since none were required for him to break every major campaign promise he ever made, we may never know.
I’m sorry if that distinction is too subtle for you to grasp.
I’m not sure it does take extraordinary political skills to get yourself elected Potus if you have the whole political establishment, the MSM and every corrupt fixer in the US behind you. There is no evidence that Obama was anything other than a lazy midwit. Shame we can see his educational qualifications to confirm this.
He had the machine behind him.
As a Chicagoan said ‘I knew he was crooked, you dont rise up like he did without the power of the machine.’
Shame we can ..u mean can’t.
lazy midwit / crook/ muslim /closet gay/ etc.
H the W
Since you have evidently been living in a cave for the past twenty years, let me inform you that both Hillary and Kamala had every bit of the resources behind their candidacies that you enumerate. Hillary still lost to Trump and Kamala did not win a single delegate.
White liberal guilt?
I disagree,
If guilt was the motivator, they would do something for the Browns and Blacks they exploit.
They, the Deep State, does nothing except dole out unearned money that destroys their independence, just what the DS wants.
Whites, with the exception of a few extremist nuts, do not give a damn. They want to be left alone, to go about their business without interference from anyone, especially a government. If alternative ethnicities cannot keep up, they should just accept where they are or go elsewhere.
The penalization of the mostly benign majority of this control by a bunch of traitorous power driven White a holes will destroy the country.
As it has every powerful country in history.
JAZ-
The money printer truly is the coal-black, pulsating, evil source of the Deep State’s power.
Yes.
And the Dominion voting machine, with all those serpentine wires plugged into the mains…
So, what should Republicans run on, balancing the budget? The American Right will never win in the future with old school Conservatives running the show. The Left isn’t afraid to use the State and the power of the purse, and neither should a Nationalist Right. Conservatives will probably never accept that notion.
Well, they’re hypocrites who know at some level that these groups aren’t as gifted. But they can be paid to be a weapon against their fellow White enemies. So that is what they do, all while feeling morally superior.
To Zoltar above. Maybe you should join me in the cave, Zolt. HRC was/is hated by almost everyone and has baggage that Pol Pot would be ashamed of. Harris was a none starter and there is no there there. Obama back in 2008 had the perfectly manufactured image: fresh and new, unspoilt, modest, articulate and just an ordinary guy wanting to change things for the better after all those nasty career pols. But it was only an image. He was completely manufactured.
Well said
Morning Jim – excellent today, another fine recap of where we are, and surmising potential causes.
Here’s what I don’t understand. The Clinton’s rise to power from Arkansas to DC, is littered with bodies from Vince Foster to Seth Rich, and many in between.
No one ever seems to care, nor ask the hard questions. As long as we continue to look the other way, we get what we deserve. Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.
Absolutely and it was a comment I made. Many Radio Talk Show Hosts in the early 90’s raised the alarm about both Bill and Hillary. Ann Coulter took a lot of heat although I think she loved the engagement from the Left.
Welcome to the zeitgeist: nothing matters and nobody cares.
And TWELVE of the bodies in the Clintons’ wake are former body guards.
That number is way to high to be coinkydink.
Yep, they knew too much, saw too much, time to go.
Also, none of them that old.
I had this stats whiz FB friend before my account was whacked a couple of years ago. He crunched the numbers/odds/etc. So the odds that the Clintons didn’t have anything to do with the bodyguards’ deaths was like 1 trillion to 1.
I vividly remember those same conservatives talking at length about the Clintons involvement in the Whitewater Scandal. Back then it was just all conservatives pushing out conspiracy theories. Then there was the mysterious murders of James McDougal, Vince Foster, Mary Mahoney who was about to go public with her sexual harassment story about the White House. And those are just a few because there were other mysterious deaths while Clinton was President.
There were plenty of allegations towards the Clintons back in the early 90’s but each time it was either ignored or swept under the rug.
Rodster, I agree with you.
Democrats were sooooo relieved to get the Repugs out of DC, that they didn’t look under the Clinton carpet. And even if they had—-who else was there?
I was one of those. I was furious with the impeachment circus—and it was a circus, all because of the blue dress. So what!! Blue- dress-ery was better than having more of the Repugs!!
People like me didn’t take Perot seriously. In 1996, the same sentiment held sway—better any Dem than Dole or Perot (not so sure now—Dole might have been better . . .). Even though I personally agreed with Perot regarding the “whooshing” sound of jobs going to Mexico . . . NAFTA and the US becoming a “service economy” made zero sense to me. Still I remained loyal to the Dem. Party.
“Cultural marxism,” when it was written about, was an interesting idea, but as a live political factor seemed totally loony!
Now, with 20/20 hindsight, a lot of things look a lot different.
The tragedy for the USA is that our system simply does not lift really good people to the top echelons of our terrible two-party system.
Now, real-life reasons for anxiety are taking a huge toll and people are grasping at straws.
I suggest, instead, that young people learn Russian as a college minor–along with chemistry, accounting, whatever . . . .
The American people truly lack effective political representation.
Yes, Perot was a nationalist. You were not, at least not back then.
You’re late to the Party too, but welcome aboard.
At this stage in any empire’s shelf life, it is virtually impossible than any decent, patriotic people can reach the top. Mr Smith not only won’t be going to Washington this time out, but he’ll probably find the IRS smashing down his door at 4 in the morning.
The issues being debated here have caused large scale wars killing millions in the past.
What are a few murders?
“There were plenty of allegations towards the Clintons back in the early 90’s but each time it was either ignored or swept under the rug.”
= controlled media
with the ‘program’ screen sitting in numerous rooms throughout houses.
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It can’t happen here
I’m telling you, my dear
That it can’t happen here
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I checked it out a couple a times
But I’m telling you
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Oh darling, it’s important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can’t happen here
Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere
in Kansas…
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(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas, la la la)
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas)
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota…
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Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi…)
(Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota,
Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota)
Who could imagine…
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Washington, D.C.
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
(AC/DC do-do-do-dun, AC/DC
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, AC/DC)
But it can’t happen here
Oh baby, it can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Oh baby, it can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can’t happen here
Everybody’s safe and it can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
No freaks for us
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Everybody’s clean and it can’t happen here
No, no, it won’t happen here
(No, no, it won’t happen here)
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
I’m telling you it can’t
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
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Bop-bop-ditty-bop
(I’m not worried at all, I’m not worried at all)
Ditty-bop-bop-bop
Plastic folks, you know
It won’t happen here
You’re safe, mama
(No no no)
You’re safe, baby
(No no no)
You just cook a tv dinner
(No no no)
And you make it
Bop bop bop
(No no no)
Oh, we’re gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
(No no no no no no no!)
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Cook it up
Oh, and it won’t happen here
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!
(No no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything’s cool)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
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And they thought it couldn’t happen here
(duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn’t happen here
They were so sure it couldn’t happen here
But…
Suzy…
Yes yes, oh yes-I’ve always felt that
Yes, I agree man, it really makes it… yeah…
It’s a real THING, man, it really makes it
[FZ:] Suzy, you just got to town, and we’ve been… we’ve been very interested in your development
[Suzy:] Forget it!
Hmmmmmmmmm
(It can’t happen here)
Written by Frank Zappa way back when, how prescient !!!
yet frank said there is no left media bias.
he also said AIDS seemed to be from a test tube.
Janey’s got a gun now.
This is a rifle
This is a gun
This is for shooting
This is for fun.
Frank was also CIA/Military connected, so he knew what he was talking about.
Speaking of insanity:
Alan Dershowitz (on the Michael Savage podcast) gave extensive proof of how the democrats, fbi, et al, have violated the civil liberties of innocent Americans and he defended Donald Trump in strong terms.
But he goes on to say he will vote for the democrats in the next election.
waah, that is insane, seems like a workable definition thereof
Yeah, inanity
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Good description of the minor ethnicities of the US with their voting.
Insanity!
BTW, Those minor ethnicities fared better under Trump than any damn Democrat.
he also wanted it to be legal to kill unwanted infants. no birth certificate until day 3 or whenever.
Dershowwitz was also a frequent flier to Epstien’s island and his politics have always seemed to me to be self-serving and mean-spirited. The poster child for someone unfettered by morals, blessed with a high IQ and willing to change course if needed for advancement. In other words — a shining example of A Successful Man.
LOL, the same guy who said that vaccination should be mandatory. Some ‘civil liberties’ expert.
He’s also a garbage pedo, I don’t know how he survived the Epstein connection.
Probably the same way Epstein did if he did: the right genes on his mother’s side. It’s a Brotherhood, and Masonry is just a poor imitation of it.
maybe he has dirt of Hitlery or Donald, thats like a bullet proof vest.
He was/is in favor of vaccinating people by force.
And he rode on the Lolita Express.
Expect nothing but lies from such as he.
and he is…….well I cant post it here.
Left-handed?
no tribe
Jim, I only recently found about the documentary “Abacus; Small enough to Jail” which in their own words
“Abacus: Small Enough to Jail tells the incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves – and their bank’s legacy in the Chinatown community – over the course of a five-year legal battle.”
Unfortunately for this comment, I have received the DVD but I haven’t watched it yet.
It’s apparently on US Prime, but it’s not on here where I am so I found a DVD.
Jim,
You probably know this. The Son of Man said “let the (spiritually) dead bury the dead”.
Your writings make a lot of sense to me and many others. I presume you fear God and that is the source of your wisdom and common sense.
These strange times constantly remind me of the prophet Daniel who interpreted the king of Babylon’s dream. We are likely at the bottom (feet) where clay and iron are mixed together for the ultimate failure of man’s government (Daniel 2:40-45).
Yeah,
James (Daniel) Kunstler. A prophet of the next fourth, and maybe last Turning.
Wealth. Slavery. Religion. War.
War. Famine. Pestilence. Death.
Growth. Maturation. Entropy. Rebirth.
The cycles of the human-earth project continue, same as it ever was…. only the advances in catapults and swords have far outpaced the level of thinking required to attain and sustain durable peace, for the many.
GODSPEED!
Carpe Diem!
Sola Vertus Invicta!
Christ is the Conquering Sun AND a Son of God in the metaphorical sense.
What the Koran said remains true: Allah has no consort or offspring.
Yes, metal can be melded with metal and civilization can continue, with say, the Germans taking up the baton from the Greco-Romans, as they had taken the baton from earlier Caucasian civilizations.
But who can take the baton from us now? The Chinese and the Indians can, but it won’t be a meld – they are simply too alien. And the other groups are lacking in ability and are also alien.
Thus shall we crumble. We didn’t love ourselves enough or to put it differently, in the right way. We loved ourselves foolishly like an addict or a small child, without wisdom in other words.
I’ve just read two brilliant analyses of the overall global situation in particular and the Ukraine debacle in particle by Paul Craig Roberts and Egon von Greyerz. James’s latest missive is as good as both of them. Sheer brilliance. Thank you, James, for the privilege of reading you. Oh, and God help us all!
I recall Camille Paglia, who got majorly stomped by the LGBT-etc crowd over the past few years and has now largely disappeared, writing that all civilizations as they collapse go through a stage of marked androgyny and gender crossover and confusion. She did not offer an explanation for this, she simply pointed out that this is a repeated phenomenon. I have not seen this written about elsewhere, and she has been so totally cancelled that you won’t find her anywhere expounding upon it.
All of us are wondering about the same overall topic of whether the observed insanity in all aspects of our society is engineered or is somehow spontaneous. In wondering about this, the thought has come to me that maybe this is just what societies do as they collapse; they go crazy.
Imagine you are a lower-rung aristocrat in 310 AD living on the outskirts of Rome. Life seemed great for a long time, then gradually, things stop working. At one time you could hire a courier to reliably take a message to a business associate in Pompei and come back with a response. Recently you hired a courier, and he simply disappeared with your money. Not that long ago, when a group of Vandals or Ostrogoths showed up and attacked a neighbor’s villa, you could count on some Roman soldiers or gendarmes showing up to slaughter them all. Now shit just gets stolen and women get raped and the invaders disappear back into the woods and nothing happens. You’ve even heard a rumor that the Emperor is thinking about moving to Byzantium.
As the norms of your world crumble and all of your prior assumptions are proven obsolete, maybe you and everyone else just starts to go insane.
Just a thought.
Wow, nice narrative.
Is it my imagination, or does today, especially in thee cities, seem like an replay of 310 Rome?
UR
Re Camille Paglia, I think it was this talk with Jordan Peterson:
youtube.com/watch?v=v-hIVnmUdXM
Still there!
GA,
It’s a great interview. Two intellectuals who can navigate complex subjects with the requisite subtlety.
I remember leftists howling about one particular (about) three minute segment in it from Peterson where he says that women have power over men in a heated argument because men can’t resort to hitting them. He went on to expound on this, using his point by contrast that when arguments get heated between two men, the reptilian reaction is to escalate and eventually fight physically. He then said that with women, a man has to tamp down aggression, and not get triggered by bullshit tactics. It was an explanation, not a complaint that men couldn’t beat up women.
But of course the Woke and the feminists just passed around the three minute clip, without context, didn’t watch the rest of it, and then proceeded to vilify Peterson as a misogynistic wife beater.
How far do we go with determinism? Are we fated to follow the course of all previous civilisations or can we fight against the tide of history? We are undoubtedly in the Fourth Turning of our civilisation. I don’t believe any civilisation or empire can avoid this. Okay, the Western Roman Empire fell apart, but it’s Eastern component survived another 1000 years in a desiccated and debauched form, and many empires devolved into fairly successful nation states (Sweden, the UK). Can the US do that? I think we are about to find out.
Yes, she nails it on the LGBTQWERTYUIOP insanity and she has been canceled but you’ll find videos of interviews with her and appearances if you look.
She is unapologetically standing her ground and for that I truly admire her.
She is far from the only one comparing this behavior to that of the population in Rome before their fall, though. Even I’ve been saying it for a few years now. The comparisions are glaring.
Also, the callous disregard for human life in general which is also going on here and ramping up daily. First they are allowing rampant crime, soon rampant murder will follow.
The Romans with their gladiator shows… brutal. Killing animals and human for spectator sport. Let’s see if we go that far.
Well MQ, there is the megahit “The Squid Game” on Netflix for those that want their human death games. I hear it is very popular.
Wolfenstein is still tops in my book.
Yes, she also despises radical feminists and their endless war against Masculinity, queering generations of girls on “college” campuses.
She admits being a screwed up bisexual who only sleeps with women because of her issues.
I’m aware of that. I agree with her on some things, others not so much.
In other words, as a Radical Feminist you agree with the Jihad against the Masculinity and the queering of generations of innocent girls by the denizens of Women Studies Departments.
[Insert Paula-styled eyeroll here]
Absolutely. I love hearing my liberal colleagues gloating about how all the ABC stuff is supposedly a sign of our progressiveness. As any student of history knows, it’s rather a key sign of a civilisation on the point of collapse.
The cultural anthropologist Marvin Harris (on of my heroes) posited that the overlay of culture on H. sapiens means that many of the actions he/she takes for apparently “cultural” reasons are actuallyl responses to environmental and selection pressures.
Here is a Google summary:
“What was Marvin Harris theory?
Harris’s theory of cultural materialism posits that socio-cultural systems consist of an “infrastructure” of production and reproduction, a culture-based “structure” for economics and politics, and a “superstructure” of mental and behavioural expressions.”
Overpopulation/overshoot/inadequate carrying capacity are certainly environmental pressures on H. sapiens today.
It is very possible that all of this anti-reproductive “personal decisions” and “identity crises” are actually cultural responses to the deeply buried yet active “knowledge” that we must reduce fertility.
Many of Harris’s books in which he lays out his thesis and cites numerous examples are intended for lay readers and are very entertaining and highly recommended by me:
See here:
https://www.amazon.com/Marvin-Harris/e/B000AP9FTW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
I also see a Youtube vid in which he discusses homosexuality. Hmmm, gonna watch that right now!
“Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Kind of like the girls looking better at closing time – one must drink a lot of beer, cock your head and squint just right.
The last time our goobermint made a choice that was not under duress was in the 60’s when LBJ launched the Great Society and the immigration reform of ’65 was passed. Those were done in some sort of moral panic after the JFK assassination.
After that our fate was sealed by “going off the gold standard” (actually refusing to defend the dollar) and the Humphrey-Hawkins Act.
There is no turning back, there is no democratic solution, one must look to one’s own survival as this disaster plays out.
The Manson girls were the hottest crew of girls of all time. Truly they were death!
It was a good idea, for them.
For us, not so much.
But according to Catherine Austin Fitts, our ruling overlords had already written us off back in the 90s.
Wow, this blog community is finally pointed in the right direction. Excellent!
Now that everybody seems to be on the same page, how about we begin to dial it back a bit? (That is, it appears Clinton is the limit right now.)
OK, WW2 is going to be too big of stretch, but what about WW1? Likewise, the CW is still favorably entrenched, but what about either the Mexican or Spanish wars?
Both resulted in massive territory gains, and are perhaps only bested by WW2 in terms of magnitude changing economic effects.
A secondary question is, why are media doubts only going back to 9-11, Clinton, Obama and covid? Again, I would suggest looking deeper; WW1 and Bernays are obvious.
But what about the Mexican War? How was it justified that a nation with legalized slavery defeated a country where slavery was abolished, and by so doing allowed it to greatly expand, driving the Missouri compromise?
You see, it has *always* been this way. It is only your select experience and intense brainwashing that allows on to hold two divergent views: we were once “good” before the chaos came.
No, all species/civilizations have always been aggressive predatory states. This is just the latest iteration. So, what comes next?
Again, overshoot, depletion & degradation. This is the playing field, and the thinkers who hope to be winners are putting in place every facet of control to be positioned to survive and rule.
WWI ? The Corbett Report has an excellent three part series on the origins. Seems like the usual suspects in The City influencing things then are repeating them now. Tom Luongo has some excellent analysis of that as long a s two years ago in his podcasts.
We can go back to time immemorial – every single war has been a resource war. Every single one.
War is a racket + war is a rich man’s game.
And women consume the plunder along with the men.
You’ll get no argument from me there.
Back to the Olduvai Gorge when the first two bipedals fought over the wild sisal.
I wonder who won that one?
It seemed evident a decade ago, Michelle Obama certainly has followed the lead of many First Ladies in the role of influencing hubby. Credit where credit is due- -Melanin harnessed by the DNC!
A significant passing this week: Peter Pry, for many years a voice in the wilderness warning of ways and means Electro Magnetic Pulse shall be employed against America, See also books “CYBERWARFARE” by Richard Clarke, and “ONE SECOND AFTER” William Forstchen. Forstchen writes with authority, going into the after story including famine & cannibalism.
A follower of Christ looks at the full foundation of Scripture, beginning in Genesis; Daniel Chapter 4 “Great Tree” is a type of America. Daniel 4 v15 certainly might allude to the strategic and existential role of the USA railway network, particularly as exemplified in the full matrix seen prior to WWII, America a “Lending Not A Borrowing Nation”.
Thanks for the book suggestions, HAMP. Perhaps a good precursor to those would be “Going Somewhere” by biophysicist and lawyer Andrew Marino. Highly recommended.
Just listened to the audio of the first hour of Forstchen’s One Second After, but had to stop. The characters were blandly stereotypical, and the writing jingoistic and pedestrian. Too bad, the author clearly knows his stuff. Would’ve been much better, I’m sure, as a non-fictional revelation.
Yep, the Long Emergency and Long Descent are well underway. Think contraction, not infinite growth. Think shrinking pie, and the scramble for keeping your slice the same size. Think more and more people are figuring out the theater is on fire, and the exits are beginning to clog.
As far as the jinxsters like Biden, Obama, Hillary (Flying Rodan), Trump, the Fed, Fauci, Wolensky, and all the rest of the bureaucrats and “public figures” – I don’t waste too much time on their actions, thoughts, statements and motivations.
They are all puppets.
Who was the only one criticized for not being a politician.
Just a dirty businessman.
Dynasties were something the FF tried to stop with the Constitution. Dynasties are what are tearing the country down.
Stupid leaders and nepotism.
“… someone asked: Do you think what’s going on is due to incompetence or malevolence?”
It’s both. Utter Malevolence at the highest levels of the Dark State… and incompetence splashed with a bit of malevolence at the lower levels of Dark State stench.
“ The USA is certainly skidding into a great and traumatic re-set featuring a much lower standard of living for most citizens amidst a junkyard of broken institutions.”
It’s not written in any holy book that the USA had to always have a high standard of living. But it’s also not written anywhere that the Great Middle Class and decent standard of living for so many Americans had to be destroyed by those who deliberately killed it off for personal gain and a hatred for other people to get ahead in life.
“Must America commit suicide?”
America didn’t commit suicide. It was murdered.
“What turned the Democratic Party into the Party of Chaos?”
After the utter failure of the Johnson and Carter presidencies, Americans turned to the Other Side of the Two-Headed-Monster-With-One-Body. The Hollywood B-Actor sold America a bill of goods and a story without substance that Americans were eager to swallow. And Republicans then had pretty solid National control for a good while. Democrats were largely totally irrelevant and in danger of becoming extinct on the National stage. So They decided to go rogue… go Way Left… go Nuts. And many Americans — now sick of the Party-Of-The-Rich Republicans – decided to follow them to Crazy Town.
Now America has two major Parties — Partially Nuts… and Totally Wacko.
“Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time.”
For millions of American workers in factory towns that lived and died in pursuit of that dependable pay check… they never thought that off-shoring was a good idea. They saw right away what it meant to their jobs and families and futures — They were being Cancelled. They put up with those filthy, polluting factories because all that smoke and dust meant that they and their families could have a decent home and their kids could have real futures still in pursuit of that shaky American Dream.
Now we have less smoke and dust… and also much less of the future we used to count on. This was not a good trade.
“Barack Obama served as liberalism’s bowling trophy, the capstone of the great civil rights crusade: a black president, proof of America’s moral uprightness.”
He quickly turned out to be none of these things. Just another slick con man who has been largely given a pass because of his skin pigmentation shade. He single-handedly turned millions of Americans away from politics because they fell for his nice suits and nice talk and nice smile and empty promises and now know they were made fools of.
“… we’re exiting the techno-industrial fiesta of the past 200-odd years and entering the uncharted territory of what-comes-next, and that is driving the immense anxiety of the age.
One of the great things about human beings is that we love to not learn from the past. We like to just plod along in our stumbling way and not take the great wisdom from those like ourselves who have already gone through things and learned from them. We prefer to stay dumb – happy — and dumb. In other words, ‘You Will Be Dumb And You Will Like It!…’
“Our business model for everything is broken, mostly because the fossil fuel situation…”
Our business model is broken because Those who run Business are broken. Empty selfish people without conscience who believe the American Economy is just a carcass meant for their picking and misuse.
It’s possible to fix our fuel problem. It’s much less likely to fix broken people without conscience.
More than a con man, Obama was groomed for his position. His family were CIA assets.
“Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time.”
He’s correct; he just doesn’t say to whom it seemed like a good idea. I’d guess that people who are greedy and thoughtless (and there are certainly many of those) couldn’t look beyond cheap stuff. It’s been remarkably corrupting, besides all the other obvious disasters it’s brought about.
If your memory goes back as far as mine (and I’m not exactly ancient) you can recall people’s houses that weren’t stuffed with flimsy, cheap junk and their yards strewn with plastic toys. I’ve read the wills of my ancestors, some of whom owned hundreds of acres of prime farm land and were rich by any standard. They had one suit, a few changes of everyday clothing, a kitchen table and chairs, cutlery for the number of people in the house, a few books, a few beds. Everything they owned could be described on a page or two at most, and every small domestic item was accounted for and left to someone who would value it.
Off shoring was the startup of the AGW movement. Get those polluting industries out of here. NIMBY.
Like everything today, Power is the primary motivation.
Boy, want an example, just pay attention to Liz.
Holy cow, what an ego. All you folks that think Trump is an egomaniac, just listen to Liz.
Elizabeth Lincoln!
Yes, murdered – just like the South and Nazi Germany. Yankee Capitalism was and is a profound danger to humanity.
The German Economic miracle was a result of cutting out the parasite International Bankers. Of course they had to be destroyed before other nations copied it.
I wonder if finally this will begin to dawn on more and more people as this latest fiasco plays out. It seems like it to me.
Re: “… the birth of Wokery, the Jacobin-Marxist crusade to trash culture and economy …”
Bezmenov was boring.
So thank you Allan Dulles!
Subproject 58 made the Boomers Boom and made them – and their 4th Turning successors, especially GenX – who they are today. Excellent presentation on that a decade ago by Jan Irvin and Joe Atwill. Worth a look – or listen if you can find it.
Seems to me that there was plenty of evidence also that Obama is gay, and that was going to be something that had to be overcome in order for him to get where he did. I think his grooming started early, but Barack proved to be a druggie and sexual deviant so they couldn’t have that. I never liked Dinesh D’Sousa much but I do believe he was correct about Obama’s past.
The solution seems to have been to get him into a tranny marriage. We’ve all seen the video of Big MIke’s package. Just sayin’.
Interesting. I agree that he is third generation CIA and groomed from birth, but the drugs and gayness being a problem? You are right.
Behold the power of the media that never once let on that Michael is a man.
As for the drugs, looking at the presidents of Ukraine and Finland it appears that that is no longer an issue.
And looking at Hunter Biden, too.
Yes, indeed.
All of a sudden, in that one debate, Joe Lock ’em Up Biden commiserated with the parents of America whose children had somehow had access to the drugs the CIA/Pentagon is running into the country.
He felt their pain and wanted them to feel his.
And while they were feeling his pain, he was feeling up their wives and children.
I mean, I don’t really care if a president’s relatives are messed up but when they are his bagman- then it’s game on.
Do we have to?
“Amalgamated pathologies.” It’s for language like this, as well as his discernment, that I’ve read our host’s blog for years and would never miss it. He’s also of my own generation and has trod pretty much the same path of increasing awareness and disillusion that I stepped onto in about 2015.
People who live ordinary decent lives and come in contact only with other people of the same sort find it very hard to believe that the picture of our actions on an international scale is as much of a lie as it really is. To accept that would make them wonder if all the nice, reasonable, trustworthy people they know are really, if they REALLY knew them, vile monsters lurking behind pleasant faces. How can we possibly reconcile the difference between what we think of ourselves as a people and what we are beginning to understand as the actions of our government done in our names?
I think of it in the same way that I think of the Catholic church, which is utterly corrupt at the top. That corruption is unknown and unbelievable to the monks and friars who feed people at soup kitchens, toil in the proverbial shithole countries, and live a blameless life of service to others, owning nothing. They’re too decent themselves to be able to believe in evil on this scale. If they admitted or discovered the truth, life as they’ve known it would be over. Is it possible to “drain the swamp” and recover any of these institutions or have they been corrupted beyond that possibility?
I wonder if any of you recall the story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne? I think it has something profound to say about our present situation.
Yes, life could go on, but always and only with doubts about his beloved wife, Faith. Was she a Devil worshiper?
The Minister’s Black Veil cuts even deeper. Are you are a devil worshiper? Never mind, am I one myself?
I read it as a kid and it made a huge impression on me. What could be worse than to have that suspicion, about everyone, and never to know for certain? And to also know that it could be worse to know for certain. I’ve reread it over the years, but it seems to speak particularly to this moment. And yes, Heckler, there’s something very puritanical, in the worst possible way, about cancel culture. Think Purity Spiral, to begin with.
Hawthorne also has something profound to say about our present situation in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ regarding Shame & Guilt — similar to our own ‘Cancel Culture’ phenomena employed by the Woke Left to bludgeon people into submission. There is something very Puritanical about modern lefties (primarily Climate Change Cranks & Race Hustlers) — whose main concern is that within the US, somebody, somewhere maybe enjoying themselves.
Just read the Hawthorne title you referenced, very good allegory to our present state in society. Thanks for the recommendation!
@Rowdy – my daughter is always telling me I suffer from normalcy bias. I suppose she is correct to a certain extent – I live in a small resort/college town in the mountains of Georgia and during the whole covid debacle things were pretty “normal”. Most people who live here are older and I would estimate 75% are conservative.
That being said, I do my due diligence each day in an effort to educate myself to the world’s ills .Ignorance is treatable unlike stupidity, Visiting this blog and sharing comments with other posters is one of the most enlightening things I can do. If Donald Trump accomplished nothing else he forced the hypocrites to reveal themselves and for this I thank him.
As to Young Goodman Brown I had not read that particular story. Cheater that I am I found the summary notes on the internet. I am a pretty cynical and skeptical individual but it would truly be awful being completely surrounded by those you couldn’t trust.
@ farmgal:
One of the interesting things about getting old is that you get to watch other people’s lives unfold over years and decades. Often what you see is their negative tendencies growing ever more magnified. The envy they nurtured in childhood gradually becomes a powerful, destructive force in adulthood. Lassitude in the face of troubles turns into complete immobility (often achieved through alcohol or drugs). The entitled turn to gambling, certain that Lady Luck shares their belief that they are destined to be rich. The “victims” of social cruelty (gays, mainly) get more and more vocal–or in some cases more and more paranoid. The unrealistic drift ever further from shore.
Luckily, there are others who never go down these negative paths, and still others who do a 180 at some point and get their shit together.
Sometimes, when you’re watching others’ lives unfold, you don’t realize how completely they are ruled by envy and resentment (or lassitude or entitlement or delusion) until it’s grown to monumental proportions. Which it will, if you don’t root it out.
@Rowdy – my daughter is always telling me I suffer from normalcy bias. I suppose she is correct to a certain extent – I live in a small resort/college town in the mountains of Georgia and during the whole covid debacle things were pretty “normal”. Most people who live here are older and I would estimate 75% are conservative.
That being said, I do my due diligence each day in an effort to educate myself to the world’s ills .Ignorance is treatable unlike stupidity, Visiting this blog and sharing comments with other posters is one of the most enlightening things I can do. If Donald Trump accomplished nothing else he forced the hypocrites to reveal themselves and for this I thank him.
As to Young Goodman Brown I had not read that particular story. Cheater that I am I found the summary notes on the internet. I am a pretty cynical and skeptical individual but it would truly be awful being completely surrounded by those you couldn’t trust.
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I’ve always considered “Young Goodman Brown” to be a “coming of age” novel–and a timeless one.
While most people remain “too decent themselves to be able to believe in evil on this scale,” young adults are always in for a shock when they reach the age of understanding and their eyes are opened (at least partially) to the way things really work.
People continue to meet with these shocking revelations well into old age. The covid divide is an excellent example of this.
Yes, people cannot believe that the nunneries are full of Wiccans and Female Supremacists, you know, people like you. Too decent and too narrow. Thus you can and do fool them.
Ditto for the Priests and even more so for the Bishops.
I haven’t been around many nuns, but, judging from the few I have known, my bet is that nuns have always been “female supremecists.” They have always seemed very unimpressed with priests, to the point where you can see they’re thinking, “I guess I have to tolerate this asshole.” But I think that may have been a reflection on that particular priest. Most are very fine men. It just so happened that the priest in question was kind of a jerk.
The history I think we’re repeating is the Enclosure Acts, when millions of peasants were thrown off their land by greedy men with hired thugs, ignoring their lawful rights to the land and the commons.
The law was ignored, the rights were trampled and they lost their way of making a living and were forced into slums to provide cheap labor for the rising capitalists.
Our current overlords have no need for teeming masses willing to work, and to send their children to work, for slave wages. The relatively few they need for that can be supplied by the immigrants with no history of hard fought employment rights.
So it’s a new form of the Enclosure Act. You’ll lose your rights and your property, but they’re also going after your life.
One recalls Stalin smirking about the genocide of the the Ukrainians by starvation. A State Capitalist, right Paula?
You can repeat Big Lies all you want, Jarek.
I just roll my eyes and move on.
Just a little girl covering her ears and screaming la, la, la.
And we’re off!
Same. So much eye-rolling, so little time.
“The history I think we’re repeating is the Enclosure Acts,”
very good point, Paula!
Per Wiki:
“Between 1604 and 1914, over 5,200 individual enclosure acts were passed, affecting 28,000 km2.[1]”
Interesting segue there from the beginning of Enclosure Acts in Britain and the beginning of the colonial project in North America (and elsewhere, but just staying with North America).
Suddenly a whole “new world” was discovered, in the sense that almost a whole new resource and land was suddenly available for European, especially English and French, exploitation.
No wonder English men who had been small farmers etc. streamed to the candy store, the so-called new world (of resources).
Suddenly hundreds of thousands of Europeans went from “overshoot” in their homelands to extreme **excess carrying capacity* in the new world, as William Catton (Overshoot) and other ecological historians would put it.
Europeans were suddenly in Schlaraffensland! All they had to do was buy land at cheapest prices from the Natives.
Most of whom were hunter-gatherers—oops.
The continent was already at carrying capacity for the Indians who were pure hunter-gatherers. There is a body of literature examining evidence that most of the continent was at or beyond carrying capacity for the hunter-gatherer way of life. Many tribes and subgroups were already feeling the stresses of tap-out of and dangerous, intense competition for resources and were being pushed to the margins, or into outright starvation. They were delighted when the White Man showed up with tins of biscuits, etc. .
It didn’t help that the Spanish had showed up a few generations before with horses and a few shooting sticks.
Anyhow, I think the history of enclosures is very instructive and a good “thinking model,” as it shows clearly that there is no “rule of law” when a genuine shortage looms: the powerful will find any excuse to grab land from everyone else.
This is already occurring with farmland (one of the underlying motivations in the NATA/Big Ag war on Ukraine, not to mention the Netherlands—“they” are of course going after the most productive farmlands first). It may well stretch to other land and property.
Interesting about the overshoot among the natives.
For all who think that 323 million people can just start “living off the land” that might be an eye-opener.
Agree completely about Ukraine and even wrote a thing about that upthread, in answer to one of your comments.
I don’t know about tins of biscuits though.
It seems that what really destroyed the natives (other than pure mass murder) was the introduction of rum.
The colonies that were far more important to the Brits than the 13 hard scrabble colonies clinging to the East Coast were the islands they owned in the Caribbean.
There they grew sugar cane. Sugar was very popular among the English (look at their teeth for confirmation).
A by-product of sugar production is molasses, which is not as popular and not easy to sell.
So they turned it into rum, and then it was very, very popular, both in England and among the natives.
The trappers traded rum for beaver pelts and other items of value. (Not beads, the way we were always told and always seemed unlikely to me).
The elders were dismayed at the drunken youth, and pleaded with the trappers to stop the rum trading, but of course they didn’t.
Same as in China when the emperor tried to stop the opium being pumped into the country. They got two Opium Wars out of that.
Anyway, rum played a part in the destruction of native life on this continent.
Well, Nathaniel Philbrick, in his book about the Plymouth Colony, claims the Wampanoags were pretty fascinated by the things the English brought with them, but what they liked best were 1) Firearms 2) Rum 3) Pork.
The Indians liked guns so much that within a decade they could outshoot the English and make major repairs on damaged weapons. The only thing was, how to make gunpowder? The English made selling gunpowder to Indians a major felony. No problemo, Mass. indians sent parties north into Canada, where French colonists sold them all the gunpowder they wanted — which was put to good use during King Phillip’s War.
I can see that, BackRow.
Guns, rum and pork.
By the way, did you see that I answered your question about corn harvesting on the other thread?
Yes I did go back and check that out Paula. I had missed it initially. Thank you.
You’re welcome.
As much as you love machinery I think you’d be impressed as hell with those machines.
Enormous, noisy and somehow able to separate stalks from cobs from kernels. And they do it so fast it’s unbelievable.
One day I was out in the garden trying to harvest soybeans, which was ripping up my hands and taking forever. In the time I was out there the farmer next door harvested 10 acres of soybeans with his combine.
Is this thread now about Indians?
I would like to explore the idea of overshoot, frankly,
But if it must now be Indians, I loved Philbrick’s book, Mayflower. He is very good at what he does!
(In fact, I have read all of his except the one about the Essex. Too gruesome!)
It seems to me that relations between the Indians and whites are often oversimplified, and the reality of Native life is idealized by a lot of Americans because ow their thinking about Native Americans is dominated by guilt. I think Philbrick does a pretty good job of showing the complexities in the Wampanoag neck of the woods in the 17th c.
The situation of the Wampanoags and other Northeastern Indians was quite different from that of Indians of the Upper Midwest, or the Southwest, or the Pacific Northwest. Nevertheless I have read that in the Northeast, too, the country was approaching or beyond carrying capacity for the hunter-gatherer way of life by the time the English arrived. For instance, evidence from middens is that game was becoming scarce, and Indians were eating more and more shellfish. But the arrival of the English, plus small pox, derailed what might have been a natural reduction of the native population.
As for the attractions of white culture, many Indians were attracted to the religion and longed to get out from under the control of shamans etc.
Once they saw the “magic” of being able to send messages via written marks on a surface, many of them yearned to be able to read and write
Many of them wanted to learn to weave cloth etc.
An interesting source on this is Ola Elizabeth Winslow, “John Eliot: Apostle to the Indians.” On p. 87 she notes: “Had there been strong unity among these numerous Indian groups, an earlier peril than King Philip’s War might have completely wiped out the English settlements, but these tribes were enmeshed in mutual hatreds generations long. They had fought a succession of wars against each other. . . .” That was why they wanted the guns. Very likely, on some level these were also resource wars.
Well said. Paradise tends to have some serpents and roses, thorns.
In the Amazon, one tribe converted to Christianity because their religion was killing them. They believed that birds were spirits and if you saw your totem bird, you had to stop hunting. As the Chief explained, they converted because there were “too many birds”.
One assumed the religion was more moderate at some point. As John Fire Lame Deer explains, animals should only be considered ambassadors from the spirit world when they behave strangely. Otherwise, they’re just normal animals, and part of the natural world.
Some Yanamamo (the “fierce people” of the Amazon) converted because they said the same thing as you said above. The shamans had too much power and always wanted more warfare, as they were controlled by evil spirits.
One has only to read Frazier’s The Golden Bough, a relentless and exhaustive study on superstitions and religions among ancient cultures, to realize the entire Romantic narrative of the Noble Savage or revered and god-powered elder is laughable.
“I don’t know about tins of biscuits, though.”
I think perhaps you missed my point.
If you are starving—or starving by the time March rolls around—tins of biscuits (hardtack) or a sack of flour can look pretty good. This is what drew many tribes of the upper Midwest to seek friendship with the palefaces: starvation and the need for protection from more powerful tribes.
Your post was about enclosures 1.0.
My post was about the Enclosures 2.0 and a pattern. Not about the affect of alcohol on Indians. The story of the encounter of a technologically advanced society with a Stone Age society on the North American continent is pretty complicated for all parties. But a detour.
My point being that once again, because our culture grew in a context of “no limits,” we are again facing Overshoot. And so we may also again be facing “enclosures”–Enclosures 2.0. As you seemed to suggest.
I agree that we are facing Overshoot. And I think that the GMO injectable is meant to take care of that.
I don’t know enough about Indian life to discuss it properly, so I’ll take your word for it that the English had more food than they did.
I just remembered that the English had even more appealing enticements.
The indigenous Americans were mostly hunter-farmers, not hunter-gatherers.
See for example Mississippian culture.
Better:
Hunter-gatherer-farmers.
Things were very up and down, depending on local conditions and climate changes (amount of rain) in pre-Contact North America.
This was an excellent thread!
They are already yanking children away from their parents, mostly in Canada and Australia, over the trans ideology garbage. If they can remove your kids for misgendering or not allowing them to be mutilated by doctors and sterilized by big pharma, without hardly any pushback, imagine what’s next.
Lest people think it can’t happen in the US, it already is… setting a precedent where males can ogle little girls while they change in the YMCA women’s locker rooms with their blessing is already happening.
“Our current overlords have no need for teeming masses willing to work, and to send their children to work, for slave wages.”
They have a temporary need for them to recycle the money they print while our overlords make their percentage off the churn. This will be true as long as the credit expansion continues, but we are nearing the end of that cycle. Once the credit cycle ends the teeming masses will not be so popular – no matter which political side wins.
Big difference today, most high tolerance fabrication and assembly work, long a job of people, is being done with machines. Fossil fuels has been another huge employer of hands on people.
So we grow a service economy that does not pay more than subsistence. Then the “experts” scratch their heads to try to figure out what is wrong.
A big part of the Great Depression was farmers that the ICE tractors shoved away from their sharecropper lands. Until the descendants of those folks were employed or killed in WW2, the Depression just hung on.
BTW, if you want to get rid of the hands on people problem, the last thing you want to do is have an open border to allow millions more in.
It’s a madhouse, a madhouse!!!!
US policy is precisely to create madhouses in countries so that they cannot be government effectively.
Pepe Escobar calls the US The Empire of Chaos.
Of course they will use the same tactics at home.
I also have no idea what an ICE tractor is.
Internal Combustion Engine.
tractorbrandsinfo.com/ford-jubilee/
I understand that some victims of the enclosure act were able to come to the Americas and start a new life. Maybe as indentured servants? Do we have also a new form of the “New World”? I hope so.
Vernon agrees, no more houses for us!
https://expose-news.com/2022/08/22/dr-vernon-coleman-they-dont-want-you-to-own-a-home/
Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson and Karl Denninger. Wisdom without the hysterics.
“Truth and beauty are fled to heaven.” – TRUE LINES for CRAZYLAND
Obama is third generation CIA I am persuaded. He didn’t appear out of nowhere he was moved into place.
I mentioned before how shocked I was when the Illinois Republicans kicked Jack Ryan off the ballot in 2004 and replaced him with Allen Keyes!!!
But now I realize that it was all part of the plan.
And the Democrats were coarsened by Obama and the Woke project.
Remember when Obama blew up a 16 y.o. US citizen, his cousin and a bunch of innocent bystanders at an outdoor restaurant in Yemen?
Robert Gibbs, a former Obama White House press secretary, blew off the mass murder by saying “he should have had a more responsible father”.
Now you have liberals en masse saying about the blowing up of Darya Dugina “serves her right for having a Wrong Think father”.
They are despicable.
The CIA was described as the hit squad for Wall Street.
Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner and many of the founders were straight from Wall Street and the CIA recruited at Ivy League colleges.
Their coups and assassinations invariably benefitted top corporations, from Big Oil to Big Banana.
And then they killed JFK when he fired Allen Dulles and threatened to destroy the CIA into a thousand pieces.
Now? They have changed their recruitment strategy, for sure.
And it seems the corporations they now work for are big banks and Big Pharma.
I think you’re almost certainly right. Much more to Nobama than meets the eye.
So tiring; again, so what?
Oh, you’re showing off to a small group that you’ve figured out what 10s of thousands, maybe millions already know.
Suggestion: stop complaining. Use your knowledge to leverage your advantage. This is a game, with many playing for keeps.
PS the CIA is just the latest iteration of the age old technique of using ‘private’ military to advance commercial/state interests.
Look up Drake – a hero to Britain, a pirate to Spain. The ROI on his caper was only surpassed by Columbus, Cortez, Pizzaro … huh, the Spanish were doing the same thing?
Wait a second, what drove the Assyria, Egyptians, Greeks, Roman’s, Han (chinese), etc? The same motives as the US setting up the CIA.
So, stop complaining, stop playing back the fairy tales you were fed in school. This is how life actually works, has always worked, and is about to get very interesting going forward.
Oh, you have some sort of constructive suggestion in mind?
I haven’t noticed you make one yet. Maybe today will be the day.
Seriously, another eye-roller.
That’s Mitch’s shtick. He’s here to tear us down, but other than reciting history, he doesn’t really know what to do either, other than suggesting piling up a stack of riches to ride it out on. Even for the select few for whom that’s attainable, that’s probably not going to work either.
And mitchc doesn’t seem to realize that the news and history you and others here present are NOT what “millions already know”. Before one can try to do something positive to avoid the shitshow and survive, one has to know what they’re fighting, which, to no small measure, involves knowing how we got here.
Many others, besides actual commenters, read the comments, as difficult as that may be to believe. It’s useful to state what may seem obvious to some, but it’s not so to many others.
Also, there’s this thing called letting off steam, or just enjoying oneself in creative satire. Mitch’s Olympian demeanor isn’t any better or useful, but worse, he’s just a broken record and a bore. Perhaps he could tell us which southern Russian state is the best for relocation and, while he’s at it, other alternate sites to escape nuclear strikes which he maintains are coming.
“So tiring; again, so what?
Oh, you’re showing off to a small group …”
Someone has had an irony bybass, on top of everything else.
No love for James Forrestal, or Patton?
“And the Democrats were coarsened by Obama and the Woke project.
Remember when Obama blew up a 16 y.o. US citizen, his cousin and a bunch of innocent bystanders at an outdoor restaurant in Yemen?”
Yes, it was all OK because Obama looked good in a suit (although Michelle just couldn’t get it right with her clothing choices; mainly she dressed like a little girl, with those ridiculous sweaters from J Crew).
Very soon I couldn’t stand to listen to a word Obama said. So plastic. Why did intelligent people fall for it?
The same reason they hated Trump – the media told them to.
I remember that Dennis Kucinich was in the 2008 primaries and the media told us that he looked like a troll, but the Obama was dreamily handsome.
And I was like, what? I can see the photos, dipshits.
And then they told us that he was such a great orator that ”we all love Obama”.
Well, I didn’t fall for their “We all loved Reagan” so I recognized that bullshit when they served it up again.
He sounded like William Shatner to me. The “ums” and pauses in his speech drive me nuts.
Spit it out!
I worked on Dennis’ campaign in LA. I went to hear him speak and was helping a friend sell T-shirts and Dennis came up to say hi and we had a short convo. Really nice guy. I was not happy when he lost the primary.
The pregnant pauses irritated me.
Everything scripted to sound “deep” and weighty.
Actually, though, the guy had no affect.
In fact, he often came across like a Manchurian candidate or a robot.
He comes alive when he plays basket ball, I guess.
So maybe he isn’t calling the shots in the Dem party after all.
Maybe the shot caller is some actual normal live human being, albeit a very flawed one!!
Or, perhaps the whole show is being run from Tel Aviv. Via Blinken and Nuland in the State Department.
Nah, Tel Aviv has nothing to do with it. I’m kind of glad some people think that’s the case because if people knew how precarious Israel’s situation really is, Jew-haters would wipe it out in an instant. In actuality the one running things is this little old man in a cave on a mountain hidden somewhere.
Yes, the Jews were offered Madagascar but their hubris wouldn’t let them take it. Caveat Emptor!
We all need to get together and throw Fauci one big retirement party this December. Let’s make it one he won’t soon forget! Maybe the Kennedy Center will televise an overly dramatic ceremony in his honor.
“There is little Governments can do. And little else people can. This baby’s on glide.” – LINES in THE LE, 2022
We should inject some excitement into it. Pun intended.
Hey JHK why only Patreon?
I watched those clowns cancel too many good people to ever use it.
Why not set up on Subscribestar and/or Substack or whatever else is still untainted?
Would be ideal if we could just throw some bills in an envelope and mail them to Jim. Better yet, would be great if he accepted commodities as payment – people could send him things like goats, chickens, pigs, freshly churned butter, a dozen eggs, etc.
Can we mail livestock now too?
I can just see it now.
“Mr. Kunstler? We have fourteen pigs and three chickens addressed to you sitting out here in the van. Do you have enough space in a backyard pen for them?”
Says Mr. Haney after pulling up in his junk truck with the delivery.
Mr. K to trusty hand Eb: “Go out and take a look, Eb. But for heaven’s sake, don’t tell Arnold about the pigs or he’ll have a fit.”
Eb: “You’ve got it Mr. K! Can I have one of the chickens?”
Mr. K with typically annoyed look: “A chicken! What in the world for?”
Eb: “For a pet of course! You and mom have never let me have a pet!”
Mr. K with an even more annoyed look: “Oh for heaven’s sake! For the last time, we’re NOT your parents!”
Eb: “That really hurts, dad! Does mom feel that way too?”
Hilarity ensues.
LOL, I loved Green Acres.
“Would be ideal if we could just throw some bills in an envelope and mail them to Jim.”
CB, feel free to. His PO box is at the top of the page.
I received 2 brand new one dollar bills in the mail just today addressed to resident. The Neilson Company sent me a TV survey to fill out along with 2 FRN. Thank you very much. Filled out the circular filing cabinet is what it did.
Geez, you get the $, and I get just bills. What am I doing wrong?
JHK have you ever interviewed The Zman guy?
I think the two of you in a confab would be pert near sublime.
who’s the Zman guy?
I feel confident you aren’t talking about Zedcucation.
Zeducation* sorry
Speaking of “demented megalomaniacs” like Hillary Clinton, how about Donald Trump??? Ah, but then, I digress. Silly me.
Tsk tsk, the Trumpster has the best interests of America at heart, unlike the slithering beast that is known as Hillary Rodham.
We should all watch out, their spawn Chelsea might rise to the ranks of stardom one of these days soon. You don’t hear too much about her these days for some reason or another.
She’s building her war chest after marrying a bankster. I’m guessing mere money will probably scratch her primeval itches. She doesn’t seem to have enough mental horsepower or ambition to aspire to truly great evil like her two deranged parents, but you never know. They are both decidedly skeezy “new money,” so in all likelihood the old money maneuvered to neutralize her so as to eliminate them from the elite jet set in the future. They’re pretty selective about who they grant permanent membership to.
Isn’t it fascinating, tom clark, just how enamoured the Trumpistas are, and how their sainted hero can do no wrong?
This argument that it’s the left that suffers from ‘mass formation psychosis’ is easily debunked when you read comments like these.
@ Redneck Liberal:
You and Tom do seem to have a lot in common. But Tom is more advanced than you. He has thrown off the chains of consecutive thought altogether.
You have much to learn from Tom. You are still at the stage of your spiritual growth where you believe that repeating falsehoods is sufficient. You are not yet completely oblivious to objective reality, floating around, unmoored, repeating weird incantations about echoes (or something) to comfort yourself.
But if you wish to follow Tom’s lead, I suggest that you get on antidepressants, as Tom has so wisely done.
Nailed it.
Anthem
.that’s very amusing…highly inaccurate but funny.
“There is little Governments can do. And little else people can. This baby’s on glide.” – LINES of a LONG EMERGENCY
Jarek will like this one only dismissing the part where it’s satire:
https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1561775180489408512
anyone who hasn’t seen Titania McGrath live at Comedy Unleashed should probably drop what they are doing and give it a go .
youtube.com/watch?v=BTbXjksvsbI
prepare to cry laughing
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seems to sometimes add the http and other times it goes straight through
I deleted it but left the www, maybe that’s the problem.
Oh THANK YOU!! I’m sure I’ll enjoy that!
Blacks are being denied access to the land by White racists like Mary. They want their 40 acres and a mule. Mary won’t give it to them. She’s like the She Hulk!
Titania McGrath: sounds like the heroine of a Thomas Hardy novel.
So Fauci is stepping down effective December 2022? I never understood the breadth of his global reach overseeing drug development until I read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s book The Real Anthony Fauci. This man should not be replaced by a single successor to similarly oversee multiple US organizations all while he/she sits on the Gates Foundation board. Fauci should be replaced by three people each to be assigned to separate departments of the government. And any one of them that is invited to sit on the board of the Gates Foundation should have to resign their government position immediately.
This isn’t horribly complicated. It is however only one of the many restructurings that should be done within the US government healthcare organizations. Here’s another piece of low hanging fruit: if you work for the FDA or CDC, you cannot accept income or stock from any other entity. And here’s another; as a director, you cannot vote on anything where you have a conflict of interest (including existing patents you earned before hiring in with the government).
Kennedy’s book is an eye opener on many levels
follow it up with Ginger and Peter Breggin’s book “Covid19 and the Global Predators” subtitled “We are the Prey”
You will find it opens up an aspect that RFKjr doesn’t seem to touch but the mesh together seamlessly
they* mesh…
Let the materialists burn or freeze in their self-created separate Hells. I’m listening to Glazunov while marking the huge heaven-pointing pines planted like sentinels underneath which roots stretch and clasp one to another.
Cherchez la femme—or les femmes!
TASS reports:
“MOSCOW, August 22. /TASS/. The murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina has been solved, Russia’s federal security service FSB has said. It was prepared by Ukrainian secret services. The perpetrator – a citizen of Ukraine identified as Natalia Vovk – escaped to Estonia, the FSB’s public relations center stated.
“As a result of urgent detective measures, the federal security service has solved the murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, born in 1992,” the FSB stressed. The special service found that “the crime was prepared and committed by Ukrainian secret services.” Its perpetrator was identified as a citizen of Ukraine, Natalia Vovk, born in 1979.
She had arrived in Russia on July 23, 2022, together with her daughter Sofya Shaban, born in 2010. “On the day of the murder, Vovk and Shaban attended the literary and music festival Tradition, where Dugina was present as an honorary guest.
On August 21, after a remote-controlled explosion of the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado car Dugina was driving, Vovk and her daughter left through the Pskov Region to Estonia,” the FSB said.
To plot the murder and gather information about Dugina’s lifestyle, Vovk and her daughter rented an apartment in Moscow in the same building where the victim lived. To spy on the journalist, the criminal used a Mini Cooper car. When entering Russia, the vehicle carried a license plate of the Donetsk People’s Republic – E982XH DPR, in Moscow – a license plate of Kazakhstan 172AJD02, and when leaving – a Ukrainian license plate AH7771IP. “The materials of the investigation have been handed over to the Investigative Committee,” the FSB said.”
This doesn’t clarify how the perps knew that Darya would end up driving her father’s car. Perhaps that was a gamble. If Dugin had gotten into the car, the perps would not have triggered the bomb.
They had to have seen who got into the car, because they were within a close enough distance to push the trigger.
They did it deliberately.
That bitch took her daughter with her to murder someone else’s daughter while he was right behind her in another car. He saw her die in a fiery explosion.
I hope that both of the women are found and prosecuted.
Vovk was Azoz and lived in Mariupol, the headquarters of that group.
“They had to have seen who got into the car, because they were within a close enough distance to push the trigger.”
Obviously.
So far we don’t know when they loaded it; how they got access to it.
My point was that they must have gone ahead and put the bomb on the car beforehand without knowing who was going to get into it.
That was the gamble: loading the bomb on Dugin’s car on the off chance that the daughter would drive it.
If Dugin had gotten in, presumably the perps would have had to figure out a way to remove it. Or, perhaps it was there for a long time and the perps just waited for an opportunity to trigger it.
I hope this mom and daughter face justice in Russia in an open trial.
They had better be verrry careful, because they could easily be kidnapped and taken to Russia. Like Eichmann. Who could complain?
OTOHr, they might just be Skripaled by Estonia .
Why would they want the daughter and not the MAN himself, the great theorist of Russian Nationalism?
Is this your brain on Feminism?
“Murder someone else’s daughter. In other words, Dugina should be just as precious to her as her own daughter?
Hardcore secular Christianity here. A dissolver of nations…..
Also Walter above: Whites are finished because they’ve lost the “war of the womb”. Of course, but it didn’t have to be this way. We were never going to be able to outbreed them, but we could have kept them from coming in and doing it here.
Hardcore classical Christianity here. Also a dissolver of nations. Everyone is a soul and has the right to go anywhere. They all have equal rights…..
Oh, you think that she was the target?
Most people assume that it was him, but they were cold blooded enough to kill her instead.
If she was the target then we need to find out why Dugin was persuaded to ride with someone else. He was supposed to have ridden with her but changed at the last minute.
Why? Who?
“Oh, you think that she was the target?”
See the TASS article, up-thread.
Yes, but it is possible that they were scoping her out because it would be less obvious than scoping him out, and they knew that she was close to him.
I still want to know who talked him into getting into another car.
There could be many normal reasons for them to switch cars. Maybe she wanted to pick something up at the drycleaner’s.
Fact is, Dugina was a journalist and an outspoken personality in her own right.
Her name was also on some kind of “verboten” list in Ukraine, or London, or somewhere.
It’s all theater.
Look at what the killing of Khadafi’s granddaughter did.
He went from Terrorist supporter to very quiet for his last twenty years.
Then needing another enemy, they went ahead and killed him.
A day later the cackle heard round the world.
We came, we saw, he died. (insert evil cackle here). -Hildabeast.
youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=6DXDU48RHLU
The evil demonic chuckle and strange behavior.
Just speculating, but this could be the 21st Century’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand moment. We are about due.
No telling what this assassination will lead to. Who could have predicted, in Rwanda c1992, that the death of the Prime Minister would lead to the systematic slaughter of 800,000 human beings — by machetes shipped in from China for the occasion?
Who dug the trenches used in WW1?
The question had never occurred to me. I only recently found out that was even a thing to question.
I suppose I always assumed the soldiers dug them.
Maybe it started that way, but quickly 140 000 chinese workers were brought in.
clb.org.hk/content/remembering-chinese-labourers-behind-trenches-world-war-one
“China never sent troops to fight in Europe during the First World War. However, an estimated 135,000 young rural labourers were sent halfway around the world to work in French munitions factories, dig trenches, lay railway lines and remove dead bodies and unexploded ordnance from the battlefields. Thousands died and thousands more returned to China traumatized and deeply scared by what they had seen.
A new book by Mark O’Neill, published by Penguin to mark the one hundredth anniversary of World War One, outlines the remarkable and vital contribution made by these workers to the British and French war effort and describes how they were forgotten about as soon as they were no longer needed.”
I am sure it was here that someone linked to a comedy routine called the history of oil, which made the claim that WW1 really was fought over Oil, in the form of stopping the Germans from finishing a Berlin to Bagdad Railway to bring oil.
Robert Newman’s History of Oil
youtube.com/watch?v=sehmmzbi3UI
I found it worth the watch, slightly woke, because it is a decade old. I would like to see something more recent from the bloke, who seems very aware, but might have lost his mind in 2020 like so many did.
Yeah that’s why “we” won: Chinese trench diggers.
Don’t forget about the African troops put in to guard the Sudentland after outbreak of “peace”. Rape brigades.
They raped your mother, did they??
So you admit the Black penchant for rape?
You’re free to ask them about it if you’re half a man or more.
Well criminals tend to lie – except when boasting to their friends. Crime statistics are more accurate and affirm what I said.
I think the MAL raid was the FF moment, BRH. Most conservatives seem to think that the FBI is still blushing and licking its wounds in the HQ basement after a mother of all cock-ups. I think that, behind the scenes, they are ginning up a nice case and warrant against Trump. They are THAT crazy and stupid. However, things are so gaga at present that there are many other contenders for the FF prize: Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, the 2014 Ukraine colour “revolution”, the Covid lockdowns…Feel free to add to the list.
Speaking of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, last I heard the assassin was spotted in a hotel in Austria.
She might think she’s safer in the West, but the West has a big incentive to kill her, to shut her up and blame it on Russia.
If her name is known, her days are numbered.
There were obviously others involved. She just pulled the trigger, in front of her 12 y.o. daughter.
Of course, the daughter has probably already been through years of Nazi training day camp. I’ve seen them as young as 7, spewing hate and practicing their gun skills.
No doubt, Paula.
What a horror to be born to these psychopathic monsters.
“Mysteries abound now, and they are disconcerting to an extreme. How did the polite and rational society called Canada fall under the punishing sway of Justin Trudeau? Ditto the apparently insane Australia and New Zealand? Ditto the Europeans […]”
No mysteries. Election fraud. All of these people come from the same source.
The source telling you that you will “own nothing and be happy.”
Still not there, I guess.
I agree 100%
they have total narrative control but I don’t trust any elections anymore. Scytl and Smartmatic and Dominion need to go.
I mean it was probably twenty years ago that BlackBoxVoting was being talked about.
just had a look
Bev Harris stated blackboxvoting.org in 2003
not an active website though, unfortunately. The latest post seems to be 2021.
“2006. 2016. 2021. As you can see, we’re still in the same boat.We’ve revamped this site for 2021. BlackBoxVoting 2.0 will combine legacy research from Bev Harris, who developed the original BlackBoxVoting.org in 2003, with current work by a growing citizen talent pool. The site is now jointly administered by Bennie Smith, a computer programmer and election commissioner for Shelby County, TN, and Bev Harris. The site will provide expert content to publicize important, durable information to expose problems and improve process. All contributors have front-line experience in attempting to verify elections.
This site focuses on process, because it is the breakdown of these processes that make our elections vulnerable. The core problem for our fragile elections framework is secrecy: withholding from the public the evidence needed to authenticate whether results are true.”
Have to agree.
Lyndon Larouche was warning about this since the 90’s if not earlier.
Left unsaid; The biology of race is the driving force in the modern world, as dark-skinned R-selected people propagate past their environments and move towards easy resources. This is what will destroy the world not economic theory.
All Wrong. With heads like yours, good riddance.
Tell us about all the great African Civilizations – like Egypt.
Or about the script you’re working on – something about Blacks, right? There is nothing else to talk about for Blacks.
Well, you know what you can do to yourself, cheapskate.
Are you implying this is not happening? Are you blind or on their side?
I meant that reply for Amman.
Not blind, just Black. So he’s dependent of those who have raised him up.
I can shoot straight and not imply anything. For example, are you aware that the African Middle class is larger than in the entire US in 2022? Good enough for you?
That was for @Rodulf, not that POS women fighter.
And how large is the African underclass? Larger still, right – even if what you say is true which I doubt. Otherwise, why would they be coming to a dying land like the United States except for the welfare benefits?
Woman fighter? Like Achilles? Thank you! Btw, there are many great Black Men’s Rights Activists. Black men awakened early, given the nature of Black women and the welfare culture.
Jim and commenters, search YT for ‘science rules the rouge’ (1939).
Ford put out a few of these historiographic films that highlighted how much humanity changed in just a few generations.
Another really good one is ‘the American road’ (1935), a great recreation bio of how Henry created ford, starting with his escape from the farm.
Note the absolutely incredible mfg tech advances made across the board during the 10s & 20s. The movies emphasize this point over and over again in a self congratulatory manner, marveling at how far humans had come in just decades.
But they never mention the retracing arc after peak and then scarcity …
I remember all those agitprop documentaries growing up in the 60’s. And yep, we fell for it all hook, line, and sinker. Anything and everything seemed possible back then. Now we know better, having learned it all the hard way, with the toughest lessons of all still to come.
Great video profiling UK cartoonist Bob Moran (just under the masthead).
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/
Oh thanks! He is quite a talent.
Wow, thanks.
I had never heard of him.
Although I had seen one of his, “Give me anuzzer one.” Ha ha.
Great documentary—very entertaining.
Watched this a couple of days ago – I’ve finally seen Bernie Spofforth properly outside of Bernie’s Tweets!
I was thinking that, too.
Heh.
“Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time.”JHK.
the impulse to respond to that statement with a torrent of profanity has been overcome.
No it did not. Took a certain style of arrogance to believe that bullshit to begin with. Those of us left in the wake of Sherman’s march knew what reconstruction was and knew the north was in store for a taste of their medicine so liberally applied from Appalachia to Ocala.
“We’re going to make it through this bottleneck.”JHK
a mouse in your pocket?
So did hula hoops.
One recalls Ross Perot’s prophetic “Giant sucking sound” quote from 1992:
“We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It’s pretty simple: If you’re paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, … have no health care—that’s the most expensive single element in making a car— have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don’t care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south.”
We should have paid attention then.
Sorry, the news was in the way.
Yes, and who can forget Perot’s (I) running mate Adm James Stockdale’s opening line in that year’s VP debate in Atlanta GA: “Who am I and why am I hear?” A line he let hang in the air a little too long and never recovered from, which combined with his generally confused manner and speaking style, made him appear to be Joe Biden thirty years before Joe Biden became “the Joe Biden.”
So refreshing! The last truly honest politician who never was.
Perot was a political thorn in the side of the GOP. He was a populist, representing the people. He was a businessman. He was condemned by not being part of the DC Club, now known as the Deep State.
The first Tea Party member?
Sound familiar?
Pat Buchanan ran for President and chose a Black woman as his VP. His followers were confused and sickened at his capitulation to the zeitgeist. What was the point of moving forward? It all collapsed.
What a fool Pat was. He writes great books but just doesn’t have it in the moment, in real time and life.
He knows it all, basically. About the conquest of the dopes who comprise the modern West by “communist” propaganda, produced by Madison Avenue and Hollywood. By Capitalists in other words.
As a reparation, he should go out like Yukio Mishima, leaving a White Nationalist manifesto behind to explain and apologize.
The ears and the squeaky voice made Perot appear a little clownish as well, which stood no chance whatsoever against Billy Jeff’s blow dried hillbilly charm. Little did we know…
I did pay attention. I voted for him. I think he would have won the second time around if he hadn’t dropped out. I think it scared him that he got as many votes as he did. He dropped out because he didn’t really want the job. I didn’t like the stands he took on some issues of the day, but I was 100% in agreement on the offshoring situation. Why it was not obvious to anyone with any gray matter that sending all the jobs overseas was a death knell to the country is unbelievable.
Didn’t they threaten his daughter?
The same people (more or less) who no doubt supplied the explosives that blew up Darya Dugina?
I would take them seriously.
Upton Sinclair by publishing in 1905 his “The Jungle” blew the North’s virtue-signal cover (then and now) for invading the South. Describing how in the industrializing North and Midwest — since before the Civil War — the impoverished immigrants being pushed out of Europe were being virtually enslaved in conditions much worse than chattel generally on Southern plantations. Sinclair’s ally, author Jack London, is credited with coining the term “wage slave”, but it actually originated before the Civil War among Plantation owners, appalled by what they witnessed as “labor management” on visits up North.
Cincinatti, end of the “Underground Railroad”, experienced some the worse pre–Civil War riots by Northern workers who understood the “scab” import wage floor undercutting tactics by the owners/management. Harriot Beecher Stowes’ “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was the era’s psy-op (Cincinnati was her hometown).
Jack London parted from Marxism saying, I will always believe in and support the struggle of Labor, but I am a White Man first.
The idea that the PTB who want to make serfs of all of us are our “protectors in the government” is a joke.
The real deal is that the government of, by and for is separating from the American people and joining global powers. One of the major Trump sayings that the Deep State hated was America First.
Gee, what a lousy thing to say.
Think what the saying White Nationalist is saying. Being a white person who wants to support his country first. What a concept.
“Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Our host also forgets the massive demonstrations against it. I remember the “Mobilization for Global Justice” demonstrations where Labor Unions and Environmentalists agreed on something. We didn’t just offshore jobs we off shored pollution too. 9/11 put a stop to the demonstrations against off-shoring. When I first saw the smoke rising from the pentagon my first thought was ‘i hope the anti-globalists don’t get blamed for it.” I didn’t know what was going on.
Yep. I too remember when lefties protested off-shoring and rock stars put on concerts against the WTO. They even engaged in *gasp* theorizing about people conspiring sometimes.
Niel Young did that.
Now he’s down with the whole agenda.
Not just down with it, invested in it.
Yeah, Kneel went from “heck no, we won’t GMO” to “clot shot gimme all you got.”
Lefties also said “Question Authority”. How many lefties do you know who did that over the last 2 years? The Left has become what it always fought against: fascism
Blog/Canada
Posted Aug 22, 2022 by Martin Armstrong
Mothers (also known as “birthing people” to the woke) in BC are no longer entitled to maternity leave unless they cave and take the vaccine.
TALES of CRAZYLAND
That’s so they can put both the mother and the baby’s life at risk. 2 birds with one stone as they say.
Not sure how anyone would still believe this isn’t genocide.
The word ‘genocide’ originates from a man studying the bloodbath circa 1915 against Armenians by the Turkish state.
Today, it is more like GAIACIDE – the killing and/or indiscriminate harming of vast swathes of Life on planet/Earth.
GAIACIDE …
Can’t disagree at all, Amman.
But remember: Gaia (Mother Nature) bats last!
Living in Bizarro World is analogous to W.B. Yeats’ idea of the widening gyre, made famous in his great poem, “The Second Coming”: once the loop starts spinning, it can only widen into ever greater circles of catastrophe and absurdity.
To wit: a book coming out in June 2023 (I can hardly wait!) called These Days Are Numbered: Diary of a High-Rise Lockdown which contain “personal journal entries that Rebecca kept on Facebook, day by day, since March 13, 2020, an inventory of her lockdown loneliness and her witty observations on her neighbours, husband, dreams, favourite TV shows, snacks, and her longing for community.” This, BTW, isn’t some vanity project from a no-name, but a known author at a respected literary publishing co.
One can only imagine the tone of gentle victimhood, of understated self-boasting (“we made it through the pandemic!”) and sacrifice, the glorying in mundane trivialities regarding a newfound appreciation for domestic bliss, a trumpeting of communal togetherness even through physical separation, and finally, a solemn call for vigilance and continued boosters and boosterisms.
Any sensible reviewer, pre-read, would have to empty out their spittoon to make way for an overflow of vomit.
Obama’s was the first successful identity politics campaign and presidency, successful in that it got and kept him in office for two full terms.
The same media outlets that wanted to string W up for his economic and USAPATRIOT act policies (rightly, IMO) suddenly gave Obama a pass for continuing and expanding the same policies. The pass they gave him was an identitarian one, and in an instant, the most powerful position on the planet suddenly became one more oppressed BIPOC, having to endure unreasonable expectations like providing different policies than his predecessor.
Cowbell…bull shit. Donald Trump (the Trumpster???) has his own interests at heart just as Hillary has hers. They’re politicians, dammit, and not worth the time of day. But as Kunstler has so aptly and repeatedly pointed out, the system is badly flawed, some would say broken, and the long emergency, fourth turning, whatever, is at hand. Have a nice day.
The new edgier tc! Still a work in progress.
one must admit that the donald was not and is not a politician
Yeah, no kidding.
Considering what the politicians have done to this country, I would say that that is a yuge positive.
Not related to today’s subject, but whoever posted their super-secret dill pickle recipe last spring (Draupnir?) –I made them and golly, are they good!
Okay.
All the Deep State is trying to crucify Trump for
1. Refusing to believe the election results, with plenty of reasons at the time. Illegal means were used in the important states to allow cheating. When the challenge came, the Deep State responded by shutting off all investigations at the state level. Think about that! At the state level. Even Jill Stein got recounts in 5 states in 2016. 100% of the states refused to look into the voting procedures even with hundreds of people’s affidavits saying they observed cheating.
2. Jan.6 the disenfranchised folks let the Deep State know that their actions were bullshit, starting with Pence.
The Deep State drove a gigantic wedge between itself and the people and is continuing to drive it in deeper.
Trump was dismissed by the Deep State!!! He never stood a chance of winning. His concern was legit, as no one ever showed that the concerns were not legit. Their actions against Trump are in reality actions against all of us.
Protect democracy my ass. Protect the Deep State!!!!
Today, as we approach November, how confident are you that the national elections are not fixed?
The Deep State is above the polticians. The Deep State is protected by the media and the Judiciary. They answer to the elites. Most of the polticians are disposable, the most corrupt ones are rewarded with more power.
Americans are doubting their government and their institutions, but they are disenfranchised. They have no control over who is selected to run for office, let alone who wins.
Things are excelerating, as Jim says, it could be that we are running out of cheap energy inputs or that the creation of endless debt is failing to have the effect it once did.
Is the West pushing the Great Reset narrative while BRICs have opposing plans? Can the West reset their debts under the guise of a crisis if the BRICs don’t go along.
The Party of Trump will be slaughtered in November. It’ll start a whole new “the election was stolen!” rigamarole with required pearl-clutching, and you (along with almost everyone on this board) will buy it —- again.
Ignoring the video evidence of actual voter fraud is tantamount to covering your ears, closing your eyes and screaming lal la la la la like a two year old but what ever you say.
Looking at some of these western news sites — specially out of the UK, they’re ecstatic about the assassination of Darya Dugin, “The fascist bitch got what she deserved”, characterizes most of the comments. The main criticism of her, the one that elicits the most hatred, is that she was a Russian nationalist. That they can’t abide. Many commenters hoped she suffered a little before she died. But what the influencers at BBC, or the Telegraph, or the Daily Mail don’t seem to realize, is if assassination becomes the order of the day, it might not end with Darya; the practice might spread, it might work more than one way; public figures other than Russians might get assassinated too — sad to say the genie is out of the bottle now, furies have been released and they’ll be scouring the world for victims.
Yeah, Marlin, political assassinations here will happen. We’re too violent a society for it to be any other way. The rest of 2022 and the winter of ‘23 is going to be a doozy. That’s why I’m going to Foxwoods in a couple of weeks. When the going gets tough, the tough gamble.
BTW, we finally got some rain here. It rained pretty heavily for an hour or so. I opened the sliders to my deck just so I could hear the rain – that made my day.
We got a little bit of rain here too, Bill, but not enough. I noticed today a little north of here leaves on the maples have already started to change color; already I feel a little trepidation about the upcoming winter, which the Farmers Almanac predicts will be a bad one.
As far as political assassinations go I was thinking more in terms of Russian agents operating in Ukraine and the Baltic States, not so much western Europe or the US. RT was reporting that the suspects escaped into Lithuania, which doesn’t bode well for Lithuania.
The FSB is secondly only to Mossad in the length of its reach. A few dead UK hacks might learn them that.
To me, logic, reason and science rule. I’m just not into much conspiracy theory. Except for maybe, possibly (probably) the JFK assassination; 9/11 (people in the government knew what was going to happen and look at how the Saudis got out of the country), but science can explain how floors free-fell – so no explosives; the moon landing was real, no way was so many people involved without someone in the project knowing and stating it was phony. And no, the Earth is not flat.
Now watch me get attacked by the usual suspects for stating my own opinions.
This is all old news AFAIK. I prefer living my life with peace of mind and not worrying about the future. Prepare for the worst by doing what you can and hope for the best. I’m sad that this site has degenerated into wild claims ( and I’m not talking about JHK. He’s still the best at thinking outside the box).
Palpable pablum. There’s nothing irrational about conspiracies per se.
The Serbian Black Hand assassinated Duke Ferdinand to start WW1. American conspirators sailed the Lusitania into waters controlled by the German wolfpack to get us into it. Divers have confirmed it was packed to the gills with explosives.
I’m also appreciative of Jim’s thinking outside the box. But then again, from your perspective that may not carry much weight. Admittedly, predictability is not a driver that animates me which tends to remove me to some degree away from your staples of logic, reason, and science. Personally, that is not even grounds for a disgreement in my view as I wouldn’t anticipate congruence. Having said that, I would inform you that the world is in many ways nothing more than interwoven webs of conspiracies. And yes, I can also still hope for the best and rest in zen just as easily.
Logic, reason, and science rule.
And they led Beantownbill to inject himself with an untested substance with no safety record from one of the most criminal pharmacos in world history.
Bill is very smart.
But all this doesn’t mean we don’t have serious issues. It sort of kills me that the so-called normies don’t seem to have a clue that things aren’t going well and can’t continue much longer. In that regard, I’d love to see discussions here about the real issues: resource problems, overpopulation and environmental poisoning.
In 2.5 months, the elections will occur ( I don’t think they’ll be eliminated) and there’ll be plenty of time for discussions then. I had thought the repubs were going to kick ass, but now I’m not so sure. I don’t think they’ll be able to carry both houses, but I hope at least one. If the dems win, I’m going to be sad – not that the repubs are cool.
Not to mention, the Red Sox are in last place.
“Not worry about the future”-Bill
Yeah but I wish I could see into into the future at least one day to learn what numbers came in
I’ve actually had an overwhelming sense of calm cascade over me recently in regards to the the unknown and ineludible doom that stalks unceasingly. I don’t really have an explanation as im not in a particularly advantageous space within the moment. But I also imagine that many people you refer to as normies are unwilling to discuss the real issues as you identify them. Which fortunately or unfortunately for you means that real discussions are always at the peripheries. Which also appears to indicate that even if the elections go forward the spiral can’t stop.
I’m glad you’re feeling calm. Just prepare for the worst as much as you can and hope for the best; the future will take care of itself. Calmness is the beginning of peace of mind, which ought to be everyone’s goal.
Sorry if I’m appearing pollyanna-ish. We all really have a tough road ahead of us. My main concern for you is the climate. Louisiana is too low and exposed to ocean winds and floods.
Not that you requested any, but my advice is for you to have a go-bag packed in case you have to leave in a hurry. I’d also make sure to have a little food available to pack. Keep your gas tank filled – never let it get below half-filled. And finally, try to have some physical protection. Even if you don’t want a gun, at least have a carry knife or something bigger. All this is the bare minimum, but with only a little bit of luck ought to get you through immediate danger. I usually hate to give unsolicited advice, but believe it or not, I worry about you. And if you need a place to stay if you ever make it out, I’ll make sure you have a home up here.
No, I appreciate your concern Bill. I agree with you and would actually love to get out of here. I mean, don’t get me wrong. It is very beautiful but those concerns are on my mind. I was really hoping to move to the Ozarks but things sort of fell through when my mom’s health went downhill. Thank you very much for the advice and your kindness. I do have a bug out bag but still need to get my stuff together and I have a tent lol. But it’s complicated because I am essentially a caregiver as well.
You better be saving some of that energy for the marathon, Bill. You’re carrying the banner for Team Kunstler in ’23. Jim’s a demanding boss. If you don’t break 3 hours he might be repossessing that new hip of yours.
I think the only thing many of us on here have over the ‘normies’ are an intelligence and/or interest in all this stuff. When it comes down to it, we are ‘normies’ and will be swept along with the tide.
If the shelves go bare of food we will go hungry just as sure as the next man. When IC cars are banned we will drive an EV just like the next man. And so on.
Like SSL below, I am starting to be at peace with it all. People can jab-up all they want, let them suffer any consequences. People can froth at the mouth over Ukraine, let them pay 5x for their energy bills. Labour vs Conservative, pah, who cares.
Where are you, mitchellc?!
I think we have more agency than you give us credit for, Slug. We may not be able to dodge it all, but we can prep a bit to tide us over the first shock, and also – after the last two years – we have new networks of like minded people whom we can rely on in times of trouble.
Hmmm, I’m not sure everyone is in your position in terms of prep and networks, etc. I am in simpatico with Slugoon in the sense that I am not only not struggling anymore to convince anyone regarding the jabs, ukie oligarchs, and so on and so forth. Let them enjoy the banquet of their consequences. I will survive if it is God’s will.
Sorry, SSL, my post probably sounded quite Promethean and above-it-all. We can take basic precautions, but as you say, we are in the hands of God whether we survive or not. I’m fine with either outcome. As for trying to convince other people of the truth, that bus left a long time ago.
Apology accepted 🙂
Then you are lucky (or deserving) and probably not in the ‘many of us’ category.
Unless you grow your own food, have access to potable water and can keep yourself warm you will have to queue with everybody else in the food lines or whatever and be subject to ‘their’ rules.
I hope mass revolt will stop any totalitarian, WEF-style, tracked, surveilled, one world government type scenario but don’t underestimate the willingness of a critical mass of the population to comply with anything, in return for a bit of comfort and safety, and thereby exclude you socially.
We already have totalitarianism.
It’s weird that you don’t realize it.
I guess it’s the Stockholm Syndrome.
I don’t agree that we have totalitarianism. I still have elements of freedom here in the UK that would disqualify it from being so but I agree that we’re heading that way in many areas.
Gosh, people are tetchy on here today.
And for the record, Stockholm Syndrome implies I have trust towards, or even affection for, the governments and authorities that are peddling this green agenda, hawkish wars, wokeism crap etc.
I suffered pretty badly during the scamdemic, almost lost my job, did lose my marriage, and I hold government, police, healthcare professionals, and many of my fellow citizens in the utmost contempt.
I don’t understand the snide remark.
Slugoon, totalitarian is not some comic book concept wherein every single aspect of our ‘rights’ are controlled. Sure you can speak – but then you can be fired or jailed. Sure, you can say whatever you want to a friend – until they turn you in.
Sure, you can start your own business – if you either sign on the dotted line or pay the piper.
Look at Alex Jones. What precedent was set there?
YOu can have your fortune taken away for a ‘wrong’ opinion that hurts the feelz of so-called ‘marginalized’ people.
Wake the hell up.
No, Stockholm Syndrome means you still believe that there is some sort of working government structure that actually ‘cares’ about the people and endeavors to make it all work.
But that’s not the case.
I really don’t know why you’re angry with me.
Not angry at all!
Frustrated, sure.
Hi, Slugoon. As I said to SSL, I probably came over more survivalist than I really am. I have a bit of extra food, some back up meds, oh, and I bought an extra hot water bottle last week! But that’s it. All that my keep my cheeks a bit rosier for a few weeks longer than my surrounding normies, but it is no guarantee of survival. For the rest, I’m in the lap of the gods too. The only hope is that things do get bad enough to wake the normies out of their Rip Van Winkle-like slumber. We can only hope.
You are that normie.
One of Obama’s biggest accomplishment was the purges of the military and the Federal alphabet agencies. 8 years of planting radical left operatives into hiring/firing positions and we see the results today.
As to Canada, it became too civilized, too domesticated to fight back as the chains were attached.
Barack Obama, the false prophet. Depending upon your perspective of course. He said he was calming the seas and healing the planet. And yet we are still destined for baked, desert planet wastelands according to the believers. Even now. Thus the work of the operatives is never complete.
Well, Canada has fought back more than I noticed in the USA.
The takeover there, via Trudeau and Freeland, is way more advanced than here.
I wonder how many Americans understand that Canada’s foreign minister, Christa Freeland, is a Ukrainian nationalist fascist whose granddad was a bonafide Nazi 1.0. .
She also authored a book called,
Plutocracy
Where fifteen years ago she predicted the PTB takeover we have witnessed.
Jarek said, “Yes, Christianity is an other worldly religion. As Christ said, My Kingdom is not of this world.”
I wish you could hear what I have been telling you for years.
“of” is talking about origination, NOT location.
“I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”
“I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. …
Kingdoms [ governments ] of men originate in this world. The Kingdom of God is a form of government, NOT a religion therefore it originates at the Throne in heaven. The outcome will be to eradicate all opposition to the Rule of God, which generally speaking are man-made religions originating outside heaven.
The ministry of Reconciliation is God’s Ambassadors offering terms of peace to those in rebellion before He sends armies to conquer those serving the Adversary.
So do you think that the Messiah, the God that we all worship here on Earth, is some kind of alien being sent to us from another world across the universe? I have watched enough of the Ancient Aliens programs to have a variety of thoughts on this theory.
If this is the case, then when the time is right we might again be visited by these alien beings and many would see it as the second coming.
All of us do not worship the Creator or His anointed [ christ ]. Most ignore Him or simply pretend to believe [ live-by ] His commandments. Others are offended by Him and actively oppose Him and those that do believe.
I can no longer entertain the obvious propaganda presented by the History Channel to prepare us for the presentation of antichrist agendas. ‘Anti’ has two meanings 1. in opposition to 2. in place of . A political savior believed by millions could serve as an antichrist.
Gee mister, you watch the history channel?
Like to learn stuff?
That’s hilarious
Thank God for Masonry and that many of the Founders had this rock of commonsense to fall back on against the lunacy of Christianity.
Real Christians could never have done what was necessary to take this land from the natives and make it our own.
Jacob’s name was changed to Israel after he recognized that God was using [ the fear of ] his brother Esau for his own correction [ blessing ].
“Some think that Israel means “ruling with God,” as if to say that Jacob won this wrestling match with the angel. But no man is stronger than God. That was not the lesson, nor was it the reason God rewarded Jacob with a new name. Jacob prevailed by recognizing God in his adversary. When Jacob could see the face of God in Esau, God gave him a new name. The following day, armed with this awesome revelation, Jacob-Israel met Esau and said to him, “I see your face as one sees the face of God.”
So they weren’t the enemy any more then? Oh but they were!
And did not Christ say to them, I can see you are not Jews by your face? And did they not confirm it by saying, We were never slaves. In other words, unlike the Jews.
So… you’re not aware that the level 30+ Masons are literally satanists?
OK then.
DEFINE ‘GOD’.
You schmucks already surrendered: your wits!
One thing that’s strikes me with all the pious religious servants: their desperate need to be subjugated
Probably self-loathing from who-knows-whst in their upbringing, daddy issues? Beats me but what nuchs
Ya gotta serve somebody Karen. I guess you chose the borg.
Mister, you don’t have a choice.
Do you?
You’re born into this ant hill and you’re tagged at first breath.
Sole of foot meets ink pad.
Now you may think you’re in control but i beseech you; attempt to escape your masters.
I’ll give you a head start, now scram!
One-one-thousand, two-one-thousand…
Funny you mention subjugation. I recently took a self assessment and was somewhat horrified and shocked when I reviewed my results. I actually cried a little but following the theme of the ongoing thread i arrived at a sublime peace. Of course others, especially some particular individual commentators herein will relish, perhaps. Turns out I scored lowest on the element of independence and not surprisingly, followed by predictability. According to the assessment, status is the most important thing to me. Followed by equity.
How’d you do on survival and independence?
(Sorry, on survival)
Survival was not one of the drivers being measured. I am here today so I suppose I have been ok on the survival element up to this point.
How many people in Texas prayed for rain to end the drought? Well some of those prayers have been answered unfortunately. As they say ” When it rains, it pours.”
Queue Stevie Ray Vaughn and “Texas Flood.”
the telephone lines are down.
Not much rain here so far, maybe this afternoon.
We’re dry as a bone right now.
Every once in awhile I’ll come across reference to a devastating but long forgotten storm — reading about King Phillip’s War (1675), a chronicler mentions damage from a hurricane that hit New England in 1630m Jack Kerouac writing about a massive blizzard that hit NYC in 1947
… Mississippi flooding in 1927, forest fires in Idaho & Colorado, the Dust Bowl 1931 etc.
Yet Climate Change Cranks lead us to believe that hot spells and flooding this summer of 2022 is somehow unique and unprecedented. It unique and unprecedented only if you are ignorant, have some sort of agenda, or are lying to yourself.
The climate cranks think they are the center of the world and that everything revolves around them. Hence the gravity they place on all current events pertaining to climate issues. They fail to see things in a linear, historic perspective. Nothing more than chicken littles that are always complaining about the sky falling.
I think it really rich when they consider their climate change agenda a matter of justice on the order of civil rights scale, that if we all don’t do our part now we are simply racist and harming all the “minorities”.
Please note I put “minorities” in quotes because as most of us know, the traditional “minorities” are now quickly becoming the “majority”. When this flip occurs, much like the flip they are always harping on regarding our polar north and south, then Whitey should certainly be able to make a claim for generations to come.
Just as cranky are the ones who insist that droughts in the West must certainly be a sign of weather manipulation by the authorities, not an age old phenomena, and who simultaneously insist that the authorities provide them with water no matter if it rains or not.
Either way it reeks of entitlement.
Been quite pleasant up here this summer. Unusually rainy, which for everywhere else would just me normal. Grass and gardens are loving life like never before!
Ironically, I was at a Stevie Ray concert in Austin in around ’82, and it was so muddy there because of a downpour, and people were sliding and falling in it, unintentionally. It was hilarious.
I guess you were stranded, caught in a cross-mire
Zing!
Double-Zing in tribute to “Double Trouble”!
Thanks for my biggest laugh of the day, also too.
Cross-mire hurricane.
Sounds like Bill has a persecution complex.
I am here dear readers. What you’re describing is acceptance, the adjustment of perceptions, and the release of old beliefs and expectations.
It’s especially meaningful to soldiers who must learn to treat killing and destruction as the new normal, the boring, mundane job in which they find themselves, with no possible escape or way out.
For informed civilians in our present stage, it means watching the daily pageant of ritual, the acculturated routines and habits of normies either ignorant or in denial, with a knowledge of the inevitable outcome and resulting chaos forthwith.
But wait, is there an incipient sense of interest, intrigue and daresay excitement emerging from the depression? A renewed take on life with the desire to see the play all the way through to the final act?
That’s what I don’t get about Dis saying he’d prefer to be dead within the next 5 years. With any luck and good genes, forget 50/60s, people in their 70s like jim will also be able to witness firsthand as epoch changing events transpire before their very eyes.
That to me is the appeal of intelligence and knowledge, the correct prediction of the sequence events and outcomes as you watch a grand master match.
As bette said, buckle your seatbelts.
Getting old is for some more than others. Your mileage may vary.
I’m not committed to dying or anything, I just view it as a not particularly troublesome outcome that’s likely coming sooner rather than later for many of us.
Perhaps you just need to release your old beliefs and expectations?
It’s no trouble at all. How was infinite time before you arrived here, alive?
You know, in your previous time of death?
Like I said, it was no trouble at all. Like time stood still, eh?
Wtf did you just say?
I agree. I think about it that way all the time too. We spend our whole lives in deathly fear of death, which is coming for us all, no matter how we feel about it. I think Americans, far more than any other culture, are in deep denial about their own deaths. Ernest Becker is a good read on the subject.
they’re in deep denial about their time dead previously, ’cause if you’re not alive , well, you’re dead and you were dead for infinity backwards until a few decades ago. well tell me how bad that infinity of death was.
I’ll wait. I waited this long
Philippe Aries’ “Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present”. Highly recommended.
Death, till the Industrial Age, was accepted as the natural end of a cycle that all living things experience. Stoic relatives surrounding the unlined coffin, kids looking at granny in the box, no crying or morbid Wakes. A candle or keepsake, and then back to work.
Now ….
Jeez Louise! Looking back at very recent history life was really shitty for a lot of people. Iraqis? How about Poles? Life in Syria has been really pleasant too. Even Russia. Living hell.
Americans always thinking at least it’s not happening to us. Well chickens come home to roost and Karma is a curry best served cold.
Someone call the waaambulance!
Indeed. Well-said, Karen.
Americans are finally discovering that they are not exceptional. They are the child actors in Mommy & Daddy’s big, sick Hollywood hustle.
Actually they are and were exceptional and by this I refer to their way-of-life and their national reality. It’s something many immigrants, foreigners and even some Americans never figure out.
you have to be exceptional to complain about tibet from your hollywood hillside pool & terrace
“Must America commit suicide?”
A) Um… like it’s only suicide if you’re in control, if you decide.
2) As The NY Times OpEd revealed: it’s all about murdering America and most importantly, THE CONSTITUTION
D) When someone more powerful is like totally intent on destroying your existence umm… you really don’t have an option. Believing you do IS the suicide
Yes, the interpretation is coherent. If I must go that way my constant and unceasing prayer has been that it will be as close in comparison as possible to the opening scene of Sin City with Marley Shelton and Josh Hartnett. The Customer is Always Right.
Angry Black woman Val Demings (democrat) is fighting to win the seat currently held by Republican Senator Marco Rubio. I wonder how this will play out?
Demings is a former Orlando police chief, so I’m sure there was a lot of crime and misdemeanors that occurred in Orlando under her watch.
If the State of Florida (or Texas) ever goes democrat, that will essentially be the end of America as we know it.
That’s the Dems are endeavoring to pack in as many 3rd World illegals into Florida & Texas as they possibly can while Dems still have the majority. One thing people need to realize is that Mayorkas was not appointed to stop illegal immigration, but to facilitate illegal immigration. After you accept, that everything becomes a lot more clear.
Could have fooled me.
Isn’t that ridiculous Crist guy running for something again?
For some reason YT is suggesting a few auto mfg historiographies. Another good one is ‘Ford and the American dream’.
The reason these older 30/40s documentaries are so relevant is because their memories of the pre-mass car era was only 20-30 years hence. (Like Clinton and 9/11 for us.)
So, the films express a deep confidence in man’s ability to rise above nature, a promise of further life improving tech advances, and a sheer sense of joy from escaping the shackles of the drudgery of hard physical labor, isolation and boredom.
Why is this important to us? Because if you’re attuned to current events, these films provide fantastic personal insight into how we got here, why no one wants to go back, and why elite thinkers who already know the mass psychology are moving rapidly to ensure control for the time when the average person hatefully realizes the party is well and truly over.
Oh how they will hate the truth, the resistance, the denial, surprise and shock that we weren’t on a pathway to ever greater advances, but rather like Algernon, simply tracing an arc from a high no one (normals that is) realized at the time back to the days shown in these vids as mean, brutish and short.
Watch, consider what they’re describing and saying, and try to channel the sentiment, expectations and hopes. Knowing that, you’ll really come to intimately understand just what is going on around us as the cliff nears closer.
They have said that as technology advances, and society gets that much more complex, that we are building upon these previous advancements at greater and greater speed, much like compounded interest. So that in 50-100 years we will be so technologically advanced that we will look upon the present day as closer to the Stone Age.
However, what they are leaving out of this picture, is that this increasing advance in technology does not automatically lead to a higher standard of living. Just the opposite, it seems that the more advanced we become with our technology, the more slave-like existence we have to deal with. Some things might make life easier, some things didn’t need making easier to begin with, and all technology eventually leads to a dead end wherein we destroy our human essence and give ourselves over to the machine.
It goes much deeper than this. We don’t just give ourselves over to the machine. We become the machine.
Try having random conversations with anyone under 40 years-old these days, (if you can get them to put away their smart phones for a minute). When you talk, their eyes glaze over. Their minds are turning over at an incredibly rapid rate, thoughts and images are clicking, scrolling, back-arrowing, merging, never resting on one thing, and certainly not following your own train of words. And they don’t recognize you as human, but as just another moving image that can be dispatched with, the sooner the better.
I want to be clear: I’m not talking metaphorically. People’s fears about an AI takeover are shallow. The technology won’t have to actually be implanted in us (except for the digital tracking reasons, but that’s not what I’m referring to here) to change our humanity. It’s already been changed, and it feeds on itself. And as you say, these ‘advancements’ accelerate, are exponential.
Brilliant. Exactly. Thank you.
SF what about Rednecks in the country & Proles in the city and suburbs — those not in the Matrix? Do they have to worry about AI takeover. Even in 1984 the Proles inside Airstrip 1, quite like Vonnegut’s ‘Reeks & reks’ were allowed freedom to go about their business if they didn’t make too many waves.
BRH,
Yeah, the “1984” proles were left alone because they were blissfully unaware of what was really happening. No such luck nowadays. We all know enough, or at least have the potential to know (even the thickest skulls).
“Try having random conversations with anyone under 40 years-old these days… When you talk, their eyes glaze over… People’s fears about an AI takeover are shallow. The technology won’t have to actually be implanted in us… to change our humanity. It’s already been changed…”
There are the threats we see coming. There are the threats that are rumored to happen one day. And then there are threats that suddenly are right in our face that change everything and we wonder where the hell that came from and what the eff is this thing doing to us.
People have been conditioned to fear a nuclear attack. People have been conditioned to fear a devastating earthquake or hurricane. People have joked about the arrival one day of the Big Meteor.
But the biggest threats to this point in time for most of us have been none of those things.
In America specifically… the offshoring of jobs and loss of income for millions of Americans was equal to some enemy flying over one day and bombing the hell out of all our factories. It had the same effect. It has destroyed families and lives.
And in our World at large and within the Human Family… the emergence of the extremely-dumb-Smart-Phone has had the effect of destroying people’s minds, thoughts, deeds, and futures.
The small box of dancing, devilish pixels has done more to destroy the hearts and minds of real flesh-and-blood human beings than anything else ever devised by the dark recesses of the human brain. And the dreaded ‘AI’ is going to finish the job of destroying what it means to be truly human.
Even though these days are trying and difficult, try to enjoy them anyway. As the magic box of dancing pixels continues to burrow into our brains and sap the life out of our bodies… things in coming years are going to get worse. People will be even less human than they are now.
This has nothing to do with being anti-technology. This has to do with being against anything that is trying to destroy us.
ALL THINGS, including people, are being affected by the internet and the nature of the internet. People are restless to connect, to transmit, receive a message. And then, Repeat. All this is small portions. That is the TEXT.
The CONTEXT for all this is the LE/4th.
I guess the Subtext is getting over.*
*A 70’s African American slang for getting through the hard times.
True. The first step in the transhumanist nightmare was giving people mobile phones.
The machine must have food in order to survive and run. The “food” it needs comes in the form of fossil fuels. Once there is a “famine” in the ff supply then the machine stops running. People who are physically addicted to the fossil fuel lifestyle will have extreme difficulty during the withdrawal period. As can be the case with some victims of chemical addictions, rapid withdrawal can result in bad physical distress or even death. When the electric grid gets wobbly and unreliable, and food and fuel is at times unavailable – a lot of people will get hysterical and become barking mad. I forsee huge numbers of females being totally unable to cope with sudden lifestyle changes into a third world living arrangement. If adolescent females can be prone to suicide caused by stress during the good times, the adult females might choose the same option in bad times when faced with the prospect of living for years or perhaps forever in what’s considered to be poverty under horrifying conditions. If you have the skills and practice to cope with more primitive living conditions, you might be ok or even happy.
But it means living without private cars, no ac, wood or coal heat in winter, making some of your own clothing as was common in the 50’s, being forced into backyard gardening due to food rationing, riding bicycles to get around etc. And wearing used and repaired clothing and shoes, no garbage disposal, washing clothing sometimes by hand in a bathtub, no clothes dryers, and this is just half of the list. The readers can fill the rest of them in. I’m familiar with this lifestyle because I’m old and remember how it was in southern rural Appalachia. Still some fantastic scenery to behold in the 50’s, and a real hillbilly lifestyle to go with it. No running water and a tarpaper shack on a hillside.
It’s all relative. Take a look at these goddamned phones that everyone has attached to them like some rotting parasite. My great great uncle couldn’t have been happier and more satisfied with his new phone he had in 1910. I was able to find an ancient phone book and discovered that his phone number was 67. And that was it. That’s all you needed to know to call him, and he thought this new gadget was the greatest thing since sliced bread. But something changed since then. The phone he was happy with is absolutely unacceptable now. He could be happy back then, but not now!
And yet we are told we are constantly getting better with ever more complex tech. Oh yeah, one more big institution that’s going down along with electric dishwashers and trash compactors – and that’s the modern medical establishment. We’ll be too broke to afford it in the world without machines.
“I forsee [sic] huge numbers of females being totally unable to cope with sudden lifestyle changes”
You don’t say!
I wonder how Woodchuck knows what would have made his grandpappy happy now.
It sounds like he is saying that his grandpappy would have been “totally unable to cope with sudden lifestyle changes.”
Completely logical, of course.
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Ha ha.
It sounds like you are saying you have no plans whatsoever to cope with a future that’s lacking access to fossil fuels. It seems people everywhere think their “lifestyle” is a fundamental human right – that they are entitled to it no matter what. And that mysterious cosmic forces are moving about in the background making sure we’ll never have to go back to a southern hillbilly/cracker lifestyle.
Ha ha!
Thank you Woodchuck for making the distinction: “ACCESS” to fossil fuels!!!
Exactly!!! Someone gets it.
There are plenty of fossil fuels.
Loads!! Lifetimes worth!!
Just not for everyone.
People still think we’re dealing with inflation. Hilarious.
Biden himself said it wasn’t. Because it isn’t.
It’s a carbon tax. But it’s not a tax. It’s more like a carbon price-hike, or built-in carbon offset.
Inflation isn’t making your steak more expensive.
Nor your fuel nor your car nor your lumber nor your airline tickets nor your fertilizer.
Carbon is.
The wealthy can afford it, particulalry when it affords them contnued acces and deprives you yours.
Woodchuck:
“It sound like I am saying have no plan. . .”
Weird.
Jarek 2.0.
Second prize for mind-reading and inventing other people’s thoughts.
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@ Karen. I’ve relatives working in the oil fields in North Dakota. One works around the giant pumps that provide the hydraulic pressure for fracking oil wells. He tells me the noise is horrific with a bunch of locomotive sized diesel engines running at full power continually. The process is expensive, very high tech, and uses a lot of petroleum just to make the fracking work.
When the oil age began in Pennsylvania, where they would hit that sweet spot with the drill and it came gushing out under its own hydraulic pressure – those days are gone in the US. We’ve already used up all that easy oil. At some point what we have left will be too costly to use for motor fuels. And with a dead dollar, overseas oil producers won’t be selling us oil for dollars. Instead of junk dollars they’ll want gold, real estate, rubles, ruppees etc. for their oil. And thats why we won’t be having any and will be riding bicycles.
I tried to buy a bicycle a couple of years ago and they had none, so I stuck with the one my parents bought me in 1981.
The thing about baby boomers is that we didn’t have most of the things you listed, Woodchuck, so we know we can survive without them. Or at least most do. Actually I still don’t have a dishwasher or a trash compactor or a clothes dryer. It’s not really a problem to me.
I used to make my own clothes but that involved a factory made pattern, factory made material and an electric sewing machine. I have sewn clothes by hand, but it’s slow and it doesn’t turn out as nice. Patterns that used to cost 25 cents now cost $17, to boot. I made some clothes for my grandson. I bought one pattern and made them all from that, cause I’m cheap that way. Now he’s outgrown that pattern so he gets no more from me. Baby clothes are easy to come by anyway. Mothers give them away after they grow out of them.
I haven’t disposed of any clothes since the 90s, when I read that the destruction of the Russia economy forced people to try to survive by selling their clothes. Say what? So I still have clothes that say Made In America.
Yeah, will the rich still have fossil fuels? They take a lot of fossil fuels and a lot of manpower to obtain. Without the masses buying gas, a gallon will cost hundreds of dollars, I would guess. Not the dollars we have now, as you point out, money that is actually worth something.
And the wealthy in the US don’t produce anything of actual value, they just gamble (with money the Fed fronts them) on the few things actual workers make that are actually worth something.
No wonder they are going for broke in Ukraine and then Russia. They want their oil and gas and they will kill every last Ukrainian (as they put it) to get it.
Fer shirr, and like I said there is still plenty of it for those who will afford it. Life for the peasant class is headed back to meieval times, well, we’ll share stuff like apartments and cars. The high-life blip for the middle-class, post WW2? well, yeah it was just a blip. Time to regress amiguitos
@ Paula D:
I had an old treadle sewing machine that I used for many years. I gave it to my daughter when I moved into a smaller house. The old treadle machines are wonderful. The modern electric sewing machines are probably the most finicky and temperamental of all machines, but the treadle machines just chug along reliably. They’re slower than electric machines, but you have more control–the machine doesn’t run away from you.
Treadle machines are still manufactured and sold in countries where electricity is not available to most people, or is unreliable.
I don’t think I would have much of a problem going back to the “old ways”–and certainly wouldn’t, if I were younger.
The “old ways” required much more physical work, but I find it troubling that it’s as if one of the most cherished of modern goals is physical immobility. To me, it seems like there is joy in physical exertion. It’s more fun to have a wood stove than to heat with gas or electricity. It’s fun to cut and split firewood. It’s a pleasure to light a fire and tend a fire. It’s a pleasure to smell wood smoke.
There’s joy in most of the routine chores of former times: sewing, gardening, milking, collecting eggs, baking, cooking–and maybe even doing the wash. (People only had a couple of changes of clothes back then.) There is far less joy (if any) in most modern work.
That would be nice to have a treadle machine. My sister-in-law had one but I don’t know what she did with it.
I agree that physical labor is important for well being. I’m not so sure about the washing of clothes. I have washed clothes in a bathtub but wringing them out just isn’t the same as the spin cycle. My aunt had a wringer, but that is long gone.
A lot of what we need for the world made by hand is gone. Not just the equipment, but the knowledge.
Despair merchants ‘r us!
Go pour a Chardonnay, crack a beer, light a spliff, pop a gummy, play some music, watch a sunset, snuggle with your pet, chat with a friend, appreciate NOW.
This too shall pass but probably not in your lifetime and not easily.
So what are you going to do about it, whine away into the internet? Put your faith in the next election? Or better yet, god’s plan? For crying out loud! What’s wrong with you people?
Are you the anti-Karen?
This sounds a bit like the Debby of old.
Ah, the Snack-Pack Cakes!
YES! Debbie Snack Cakes.
Nice get, Anmari.
There are Karens, and then there are “Karens”.
“So what are you going to do about it, whine away into the internet? Put your faith in the next election? Or better yet, god’s plan? For crying out loud! What’s wrong with you people?”
That reminds me of Peter Finch in “Network.”
And then everybody analyzes you and who you might be … while completely ignoring your profound, necessary thoughts.
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Having said that, Repent! Satan knows that his time is short and Jesus will return unexpectantly like a thief in the night.
Then Judgement Day.
Oh, he’s definitely expected all right
I mean, they really feel bad about his last visit here… maaan was that a bad trip… even got him to blame his dad for it
You sound like an old member of the Process Church – which considered Christ and Satan to be brothers. Charlie was influenced by the process. Where you on the fringe of that scene? One of the “Now People”?
She just ain’t buyin’ the bullshit is all.
Are you mitchellc’s wife?
Go pour a Chardonnay, crack a beer, light a spliff, pop a gummy, play some music, watch a sunset, snuggle with your pet, chat with a friend, appreciate NOW.
Sage advice, K. I took a walk with my Nikon the other day. Got a bunch of images that I’m pleased with but that only I will ever see. That wasn’t really the point though. It was an excuse for a walk in the sunshine. I’ll take it while I can.
@ Karen:
There’s lots of joy in the “now,” but there’s also interest and pleasure in pursuing knowledge and developing discernment in the “plain intelligible truth of things.”
Trying to predict the future is less rewarding, but it’s still worthwhile and necessary to any kind of planning. When we decide whether to be an engineer, accountant, doctor, nurse, auto mechanic, etc., we are attempting to predict the future. When we take out a mortgage loan, we are attempting to predict the future.
Whether you’re pursuing knowledge, making decisions about the future, or putting plans in place, it is good to confer with other people. You can get valuable information and insights. Talking about things clears the mind.
Of course
But we know that is definitely not what is occurring here.
Banter, quibbles, moaning, armchair prophecy, arguing,
I mean the host is doing research but the majority of people here are throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks
@ Karen:
People here are trying to understand what’s going on in the world and casting about for solutions. They’re also people whose views contradict the views of (probably) most other people, so they need to support each other.
When the general trend of world events suggests that we are in a heck of a fix, objection and complaint is appropriate.
As for “throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks,” I would assume you mainly are talking about making predictions.
My experience in life has been one of being frequently blindsided–that the world events are wildly unpredictable. Look a the covid crapola, for example. Who could have predicted such a thing, or that at least half the population would fall for it?
Maybe the next big thing will be the MSM telling us to all stand on one foot and bark like a dog–and everyone will do it. If so, people here will talk about it.
Jarek will say that they have forgotten their white heritage, Tom Clark will be inspired to bark more than he already does, Green Alba will tell us that her husband has been bitten, and I’ll tell you that I can’t stand on one foot very long.
Such is human interaction. And it’s kind of cool.
Go pour a Chardonnay, crack a beer, light a spliff, pop a gummy, play some music, watch a sunset, snuggle with your pet, chat with a friend, appreciate NOW.
–This is SKIN DEEP.
How can you see me from such a high horse?
Half your comments are random quotes!
I guess that’s pseudo-deep
I’ll saddle down if you STOP pigeon-holing CFN people.
By golly I’m not expected to name all the culprits am I?
You’s know who the you’s are.
I listened to the Dave Gollum episode and he says he’s not interested in people without a cogent analysis or solution. He’s a chemistry nerd so he has no patience for repartee or banter
Well, I’m not interested in people who have come to god, guns, or the always next election as a solution.
Nor am I interested in people who think they have a solution.
Because if you did we wouldn’t be here whining
The solution is to enjoy time before the ankle grabbing begins in earnest
A Peter update:
Peter always wants to go out to eat. He almost always picks up the tab… gets the most expensive thing on the menu… is unconcerned about money. You’d think he was loaded which he isn’t.
So last night we went to our local Greek restaurant. Wife and I split an entree. Peter said “I’ll ‘do’ the lamb chops medium well with a couple of sides. When finished we all ordered coffee/tea and baklava for Peter. The waitress no sooner took this order and headed for the kitchen than something touched off a horrendous coughing jag in Peter. It was something to behold. Every customer in the place turned to look. The coughing went on and on.
Snot was hanging down two inches from Peter’s nostrils. He seemed oblivious to the snot. I yelled PETER!! Wife scrambled in her handbag for tissues. He COULD NOT stop coughing! He began to get up from the table and wobbled (still coughing) toward the exit with his short pants falling below his all but non-existent ass cheeks. Thank God he had on underwear. Wife said “I better check on him,” got up and exited.
Upon return she canceled Peter’s coffee and baklava. “How’s he doing?” I inquired. “He’s standing with his forehead down on the hood of your truck.”
Personal hygiene-wise, it is becoming more and more difficult to get him to shower and he has nearly given up shaving. We noticed a dime-sized scrape just below the center of his lower lip. “Did you get that from shaving?” He said “no” but there was no other plausible cause. I don’t think he can see well enough to shave himself. Why he denies the obvious is a mystery.
Also, more than once lately, Peter has had shit-explosion episodes. Wife takes him his breakfast and meds and looks into his bathroom to check on things. She sees some shit-splatter on the inside of the raised toilet seat cover and back part of the toilet seat itself. She speculates he had to go bad, got his pants down and while his non-existent ass was still 3-4 inches short of the seat suffered a “shit explosion.” He then made a half-assed attempt to clean up using toilet paper and ‘wet ones’ but… well, you get the picture.
Just about every day Peter complains to Bo that he has a headache and his stomach is bothering him. This has persisted so long that Bo took him for a visit with his PCP. The doc wants a shit test done. A plastic bag is inserted in the toilet, the patient takes a crap in it and then three vials are filled with shit from the bag and returned to the doc’s office. This is something beyond Peter’s capacity to perform and Bo is not too keen on helping him do it so as of today the shit test has not been done.
My wife is exhausted from Peter.
Could just be experiencing IBS. As long as there is no blood in the stool, that is the main thing. Too bad he never got to have the baklava – that stuff is always so amazing!
A lot of wives get exhausted from Peters
Karen, just to clarify, since you may not have been following the “Peter Saga,” Peter is my wife’s brother.
You’re a saint, Q. I would not put up with Peter in my house. No flippin’ way.
You’re a saint, Q. – Rhett
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Not really, RD, it’s my wife who’s the saint.
Q. Shtik, just to clarify,
peter
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[ pee-ter]
noun Slang: Vulgar.
penis.
Karen don’t deserve no peters.
Don’t worry Jarek, I’ll leave all the peters for you
you know, and we know, you want them
LMAO!
Old age is shitty … and men go first.
Because they can’t take care of themselves.
Something women excel at.
Because men have most of the dangerous, high-stress jobs, while women work in cushy, temp-regulated offices.
Also, the lifespan gap is closing between men and women. Only a few years difference now.
Must be the 23% of all women on psych meds who are “taking care of themselves”.
Also, women passed men in per capita obesity in 2015, and have maintained that ‘lead’ every year since.
I’d say both sides are true: Women take care of themselves better and men take or have taken the most dangerous jobs. Yes, women medicate more, but perhaps men don’t medicate when they should? As to whether there are better ways to deal with stress or mental/emotional illness other than psych meds – that’s an important and different question. If women medicate more, they may also transcend medication more with such better means.
Third pov to add into the mix: the sexes are intrinsically different and women naturally live longer lives. Just as East Asians naturally live longer than Whites and Whites longer than Blacks.
Men deal with isolation better. Women will reap what they have sown in this regard as they age.
“Men deal with isolation better.”
Hahahahahahaha!!!
You didn’t get that from any studies.
Poor bitter betties up here. Y’all are hilarious.
Perhaps it is time to get Peter placed in a facility. Sounds like fulfilled any familial obligations you might have toward him; in fact it seems you’ve gone above and beyond.
Perhaps it is time to get Peter placed in a facility. – BRH
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Yeah, but nursing homes are the kiss of death. Take for example Exhibit A. Just this past week. My son Thom and his wife had gone to Nicaragua for a 2 week vacation. They were caring for Thom’s mother-in-law (age 79) who is wasting away and her mind is worsening noticeably from week to week. They arranged for Rose (the m-i-l) to be put up in a nursing home for this 2 week period. One week there and Rose died. Thom and his spouse are continuing their vacation. They’ll be home this coming weekend. I guess they are having Rose kept on ice until they return.
Rose was in such bad shape that her death is actually a relief for all concerned. Let’s face it, we’re all going to die of something sooner or later.
Sometimes you have no choice, Q. My mom’s in one now, after damn near losing a leg due to chair sores (she could no longer sleep in a bed without assistance). She could no longer control her bladder and was unable to get up and go to the bathroom in a timely manner (needed like a twenty minute head start), so she sat in her own piss for weeks on end until her leg started to rot off. Had sores all the way to the bone. And STILL wouldn’t listen, until the emergency people finally wouldn’t give her a choice.
Same issues otherwise. Mind is seemingly ok, but her thinking is fractured. Works for some things, not for others. Stubborn as all get out about what she likes and what she doesn’t (even more than she’s always been), and is just generally a pain to be around for more than five minutes at a time.
I watch all this and THIS is why I’m not too keen on outliving my usefulness (to the insufferable knucklehead Mitchell above). The actual logistics of getting really old, especially if you don’t have the wealth to cushion all the blows that come along the way, are daunting and not very pretty to behold at all. A whole lot of Boomers are now or shortly will be finding that out for themselves the hard way – personally.
For your own peace of mind you need to institutionalize Peter and not think twice about it.
For bedsores, the Germans use some kind of cream in institutions that stops them before they get started.
Mom’s a stubborn old coot. She’d have probably refused it. But surprisingly, she’s loving the home now that she’s got used to the idea. Probably outlive me now. Which is how it usually goes, I hear. They either love it or they hate it. The ones that hate it won’t last long, but then again, they probably weren’t long for this world anyway. I look at it as the “permission to die” step. Once they’re stripped of all their possessions and responsibilities they can finally give themselves permission to die. The stubborn ones are like that. They need that extra step.
“For bedsores, the Germans use some kind of cream in institutions that stops them before they get started.”
anmari,
I doubt it. “Bed sores” are lesions that occur due to the pressure of bones remaining unmoved upon weakened flesh. They are “pressure uncers” in reality.
Indeed, Elysian, they are caused by lack of blood flow to the tissue, not a lack of cream on the skin surface.
You could probably skip the sprayed shit stuff.
You seem to like talking about that though. Whev.
Q re Peter…sounds like a classic reaction to the covid vaccine.
Jimbo…love your picture below the masthead of you standing between the rocks in the Biden aviator shades. Maybe you want to consider a new image to leave w/ your readers.
I think the picture you reference might be of Jim between some tree trunks, not rocks. It is kind of hard to tell for sure.
Has anyone tried calling Jim at the phone number he has listed on his “about” page? Wonder if he is open to simply having a chat with his regulars from time-to-time.
I didn’t realize he worked for Rolling Stone in a past life. Nice pictures of Jim through the ages.
Scylla and Charybdis?
between a rock and a hard place?
never the twain shall meet?
Or maybe it’s nature getting in man’s way?
That photo always reminds of the picture in my children’s bible of poor, blinded Samson pushing down the pillars of the temple on the heads of the elite of the time’s heads. Coincidence, I’m sure.
Always appreciate rhe Pete o rama Q.
Let the dead bury their own. “” Easier said when it’s your own. Under a forced delusion and happy to get a mark of convenience to buy and sell.
When Trudeau was first campaigning my brpther, a canny guy $$$wise said, I like that guy.
He was watching cbc of course, bought and paid for probably in advance in the case of justy.
Cowbell…I’ve never tried to call Jimbo, but I’ve written him occasionally at the Saratoga Springs address and he’s always gotten back to me with a handwriitten note.
That is impressive and very nice of him to take time out with a hand written response. I once wrote a letter to Henry Kissinger, requesting an autographed photo for my collection of “world’s greatest personalities” as I put it (pure puffery, I know, but you attract more flies with honey than vinegar as they say). Never heard a peep. Was probably added to a list of suspect individuals as a result of my request.
Jim and Henry Kissinger don’t live too far from each other.
afterthewarning.com
Latest from above. Nukes then the warning next.
Then the war really starts.
Remember, the Russians are the good guys now. Rome and Jerusalem, not to speak of London and Riyadh, are abodes of the Antichrist. Brussels too.
And New York is the great city destined to be destroyed.
Sorry, punk, NYC won’t be destroyed. But you’ll get there.
One of the latest messages says the statue of liberty will fall.
It might as well be destroyed once all the Whites are driven out by Black terrorism, aided and abetted by the Eric Adams administration.
That’s what happened to Detroit once Blacks seized power.
The cosmos exists and it needs its Creator in order to continue to exist, moment to moment. This is a cosmos as easy to create anew as it is to destroy… – A PERSPECTIVE on WAR
The warning will mark the true delineation of sides in the war. Guys like Jim, agnostics will know God exists, even though msm will try to explain it away as some stellar or solar phenom.
You will have 8 weeks to convert. Do you see the need for water storage now in light of nukes?
Actually we’ve had 3/4 of a year to convert after your last ‘8 week’ prediction which ended in December of 2021.
But I guess moving the goal posts is OK with the Almighty since He can do pretty much whatever He wants, right?
Yes, December 8. She tried to bull her way through as if the whole thing hadn’t fallen on its face.
I wanted it to be true. So did OG. But no little lights appeared to fulfill the old prayer, Lead Kindly Light.
Ani was utterly unrepentant and just went onto the the next date as if nothing had not happened.
My dear you people have some serious cognitive dissonance!
Let me try to follow. You’re all in despair over the decline in liberty and the rise of tyranny. The increased control of your lives by an unelected powerful elite, but you find solace in some revelation or return (for some people) of some omnipotent creature/essence/being who will – drum roll!- rule over your existence and rob you of your liberty and freedom of choice, because, let’s face it, can you really be you on god’s cloud? Oh you’ll be an elevated being AKA: not you.
You people are so sad and confused and contradictory, but mostly helpless.
Jumping Juminy crickets, get your thoughts and logic straight
Hi Karen, try to bring some original and constructive thoughts to the table. It’s getting boring already.
Hi Ammo
I’m not here to entertain you
v/r,
Nebuchadnezzar 2.0
There was an alternative title proposed for the Congressional report on 911. It was “Isaac Newton Takes a Holiday.”
well……yes! A pancake collapse of a massive steel framed building at near free fall speed all the way down violates a basic rule of physics. It’s called the “law of conservation of momentum”. You’ll learn about this law and how it works when you complete the first three quarters of basic engineering mechanics required for freshmen in engineering school.
Yes, that would help. But believing what your eyes see would also work.
Physics and biology are both trumped by “Science”, which is the belief that what your ruling overlords tell you is correct, no matter how unlikely it is according to the laws of science.
Epidemiology is also trumped by “Science”.
Believers in scientism scorn heretics who try to use ”facts” to debunk “Science”.
“Fauci (or Shyam Sunder or Rachel Levine) said it, I believe it, that settles it” is their mantra.
3 billion more USD to Ukraine.
Is there some hidden black or trans community we don’t know about in Ukie cuz only that type of money goes to BLM.
Reminds me of when Dick Cheney said the Iraq war would ‘only’ cost us $18 million or somesuch.
Cheney was right: $18m each.
Most of the billions get filtered back to Biden & co.
Or to overseas Chinese construction projects.
“Gasoline for everybody” (1947)
Only 35 years from which the auto age first took off. Reveling in technical wonder, but perhaps only obliquely hinting at civilizations dependence.
These films are crucial to understanding just how much of an impact fossil fuels have had on humanity, and makes clear to anyone paying attention of borh the temporary nature and the accelerated efforts to get a handle on things before civilization implodes.
Box canyon indeed …
Imploding civilisation is the inevitable trajectory, I think. Fossil fuels were just another resource. It’s the same old story of nature:
Rabbits discover a new food source. Rabbits multiply to take advantage of said food source. Rabbits overshoot the depleting resource base due to population inertia. There’s a crash and die-off while the food source recovers. The cycle repeats but the period becomes less ands less extreme, eventually reaching a stable, ‘climax’ ecosystem.
Fossil fuels were essentially ‘food’ insofar as they allowed us to grow much of it through industrial scale farming, pesticides and fertilisers, not to mention facilitating most of the jobs, careers, hobbies and interests that give our lives some meaning or purpose.
Nothing is going to stop it, not even the WEF, which is where I take some comfort.
An alternative view is that the idea that we are nearing the end of fossil fuels is simply a narrative created to allow the creators to take everything from you.
If someone lies to you a rather large porkie there is a good chance they might lie again; if they repeat this behavior, you might want to start questioning anything they have ever told you — particularly when you lack enough information about the subject to be certain that what they are telling you is true.
I bought a stack of old National Geographic magazines at garage sale for $1 — one from 1918 had an article about oil. The author’s premise was that the amount of oil remaining in the ground was unknown, and he speculated that the oil supply may be running out. His answer was what he called ‘Rock Oil’, that is, boiling oil out of coal. I think Germany used this technology during WW2.
BRH. Maybe you can use those old NG issues to heat your house if the winter is going to be as bad as everyone says it is! 🙂
“I bought ’em for the articles”
Yea, sure ya did. Before Playboy NG was the only mag with tittie pictures of the natives in New Guinea.
The old fields are drying up and the rate of finding new fields is plummeting. Do the maff. Nightie night not liking it changes nothing.
As Karen said, plenty enough for the “Thousand Points of Light” or the Global Elite. For the rest of us, no. And that’s true whether we go under their heel or topple them.
Yes Jarek it’s survival of the fittest
I’m guessing you’re not situated in the comfortable seats on the spectrum
Your ideal paradigm writ large.
You conjured it, don’t tell me you’re scared of it.
It’s entirely possible that there are plenty of FF left but something is rattling the global leaders into increasing panic, wouldn’t you say? These ‘creators’ already have all the material wealth they would need, why would they need more from me, or burn civilisation down, when they could easily live out their days peacefully on an archipelago somewhere? Much like the CEOs of large businesses who could all retire tomorrow, it is about more than just money/wealth.
As for FF, all the large conventional oil fields were discovered more than half-a-century ago and are on tertiary recovery methods. As you know, it’s not what’s left but what’s economically viable to get out of the ground.
And whether there is plenty left or not, there are many other limits to growth.
It remains that you can’t have infinite population growth in a finite world and I think the WEF-types are trying to get a head start on managing the inevitable downside of the curve. As mitch says, what would you do?
The plan for a global system of governance/the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
I would recommend reading some of the materials the nutters have put out into the public sphere.
This transition has been planned for decades, and it has very little to do with money in the pockets of the planners.
It is about the introduction of a new system of control, and with it experimentation on populations (free of legal restrictions) in pursuit of what could best be described as occultist aims.
These people (Schwab, Harari, and co.) are absolutely insane, and it sounds like you have not read much of what they themselves have written.
The globalists are making the classic errors of the Malthusians. They extrapolate current shortages and problems till they hit a timeline of doom. They don’t take into account the arrival of new methods and technologies that will solve the original problems. Whether oil is or is not running out, we can have cleaner nuclear to solve all our future energy problems, if the desire is there.
You assume that there are new technologies. Or there will be. Maybe that’s not true. Or if it is, will it be better than nuclear and terrible dangers it presents?
That requires faith, which underpins capitalism (not the corporatism we live under today)- that improvements will always be created. Socialism is underpinned by pessimism, the lack of faith some something will be created and that what we have is what we will always have.
Night, that is my take too. They are trying to panic us into accepting the Great Green Reset. Look at all the warmist hype about this current drought. Sure, it is bad and farmers are suffering, but it is within the range of usual weather patterns on Planet Earth.
Yes they are. I don’t see how a critical thinker could live through the Covid Sham, and not question the entire Peak Fossil Fuel/Climate Change narrative.
I avoided it for a long time, believing much of what I was told many years ago about resource depletion, CO2, and unsustainable population growth.
Now that I have a better understanding of how data is manipulated by the institutions pushing the narrative, as well as the extent of media control both in the United States and the West in general, I have found that much of this narrative has not only been contested by highly credentialed individuals, but that we the public have never really seen an open exchange of information/views/evidence on this matter.
That latter point is key — the narrative weavers cannot allow open debate.
It’s not all about CO2.
There are other “overshoot” issues besides CO2 and other “greenhouse” gases.
Per William Ruddiman, the real problem is not “global warming/climate change” but ecological degradation, toxificaiton, and destruction of habitat. Destruction of ecosystems robs organisms of the basis to adapt to whatever changes do occur.
Example: Right whales, a majorly endangered species, are now using the area of the continental shelf south of Cape Cod and the Islands for foraging. This is relatively recent development. Industrialization of the continental shelf via huge wind towers and turbines will very likely degrade this environment for right whales and other species. Promoters of the scheme say, “the whales can go someplace else.” Really? Very likely their moving in to the area is already an adaptation to environmental pressures elsewhere.
There are just 100 breeding females left.
Climate-change skepticism makes sense.
Peak oil/fossil skepticism is lunacy.
They are not the same.
And ecological damage is real.
As are limits to population and economic growth. 8 billion people is absurdity.
Throw it all out with the WEF bathwater and you are a fat fuckin’ moron, another version of dupe and part of the problem.
He’s an oriental. He thinks America is empty!
He loves people!
People.
Who like People.
Are the luckiest People in the world.
Roy Masters changed the last verse to “the stupidest people”.
Why the sudden interest in dogs in this world? Almost like blacks in TV ads.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu from memory ;
” In a society where one’s word is worth nothing , and reliability unknown ,
Come signed contracts, and praise of dutiful sons. ”
Well here we have a world where , ” All’s fair in love and war ” has been expanded to cover everything else.
Dogs are fair , reasonable , and reliable.
Dogs didn’t get the memo that the Middle Ages ended.
Why wouldn’t dogs be crazy – popular?
Dogs are cool. People who walk their dogs and let them crap in my yard without picking it up aren’t. Really nice young lady – can’t be more than 20 – just started walking her dog in the neighborhood regularly and I noticed her stopping to pick up her dog’s drop the other day and then walked it all the way back down the street to throw it in her trash can. I wanted to hug her. There might be hope for the youngsters yet!
You hug her, your hands taking on a life of their own for a moment. In your moment of joy, she adroitly places the poop in your pocket. The price of such pleasure is high, Dis. Consider yourself paid up.
Roy Masters changed the last verse to “the stupidest people”.
the unluckiest people, Wayne Dyer.
@ Jar:
LOL! That would be just my luck. Played for an old fool again.
Dogs are delightful for the most part. They enrich our lives. There’s a reason people organically gravitate to them. They are a lot like us, actually. We compliment each other.
nonsense.
Mastiff kills its owner [castaic cali]
akita eats childs face, rescue refuses to surrender dog.
both dogs were rescues.
Danes kill owner.
Thats the news, in a few weeks.
FATAL DOG ATTACK.COM
OK that’s 2 out of millions. What else you got?
Add how many people killed dogs during the same timeframe, please.
Yikes, Mary! I own a poodle. I hope I don’t behave like one!
“Hold everything!” (1937)
Not even 20 years after Bernays and 5 years before WW2, this film is used to inform Chevrolet dealers of the upcoming advertising campaign for the new model year.
If they knew how to use all the tools and techniques to psychologically exploit people this long ago, it’s easy to see how easily covid/Vax, Ukraine and now AGW were rolled out and sold to mass acceptance.
this film is used to inform Chevrolet dealers of the upcoming advertising campaign for the new model year. – mitch
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Speaking of Chevrolet and advertising………
A few years ago I was watching some sporting event and Brent Musburger was the talking head announcer. In a commercial break I heard him pronounce the advertiser as Shiv uh lay. The hair stood up on my arms and I have never forgotten it. OMG!! Shiv-uh-lay!
The Jewish Chevy? Who knew?
Are they bringing out an O-Vey to compete with the EV? 🙂
This stuff is only new to the Redneck Liberal.
Anyways, I would suggest this as a far more hilarious yet sad example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKLpO9qhOE
The fact that these sorts of advertisements existed should have put anyone off of blindly trusting authority. But hey, people are dumb.
Spot on. They’ve been at this for a long time.
Anyone who buys the bullshit is programmed.
@ Back Row Heckler —
— regarding a question you asked last blog post.
Yes , we owned a Traubant .
It was white , and one of the station wagon models.
The way I hear it , unless you were among the privileged , high party or Stasi , you might have to wait as much as six or seven years to get a brand new Traubant.
( I have heard the wait could be as long as ten years, but I suspect exaggeration. It seemed to me there were far too many of them on the road for that to be credible?
Though , granted , there seemed to be a heck of A LOT more people on bicycles , motorscooters , and public transit , than you ever see in America. )
In the East, buying a car was not a matter of having the money to buy one . With cars , as with pretty much everything else , prices were reasonable — except what mattered was status . If you didn’t have the status , commonly it didn’t really matter how much money you had.
Anyway , generally in the East, and East Germany WAS no exception, how you bought a new car was you went to an office and got on a waiting list.
But the waiting list wasn’t static.
Party bigwigs, police , military , star athletes, etc , etc, could bump themselves up the list , while the ordinary Joe who actually was ahead in line could get bumped down the list.
( really it’s the same in America I think , just Americans have , at least up until recently, been more subtle and diabolically clever in their propaganda. But that’s a different essay. )
Foreigners living in East Germany were also a privileged caste.
But here again I guess there are gradations within privilege , and I guess my parents weren’t privileged enough ,
Or maybe there was some other reason ,
Anyway , we got our Traubant second – hand.
Yeah , it was smaller and cruder than a comparable 1970’s American car.
Otherwise , I would say 1960’s – 1970’s automobile tech was pretty much.
… 1960’s – 1970’s automobile tech in any country.
We had to drive around with the windows rolled down in winter — which is evil fucking cold in Germany,
because gas fumes or exhaust fumes leaked into the passenger compartment.
However , coincidentally , the first car we had in America was a Ford LTD , and it , too , leaked gas fumes or exhaust fumes into the passenger compartment.
I never did get used to car AC.
To this day , summer or winter , I ride around with the windows rolled down.
( But then I smoke too , and apparently despite all these years in the South , I must be acclimated to cold. I certainly tolerate cold a lot better than heat. )
Anyway , yes , the Ford LTD was a lot roomier , high grade steel and chrome ,
But crank down windows , and fumes in the car , are crank down windows and fumes in the car.
I prefffered Traubant’s. — and I prefffered Ford LTD’s
I haven’t liked automobile tech since 1985.
High tech though modern cars may be , I still think you’re being screwed somehow.
Then again , power – wise a Traubant was like a 50cc motorcycle engine put on four wheels to fool you into thinking it was other than a 50cc motorcycle engine.
Your typical American car , like the Ford LTD , had a lot more power.
But who the fuck needs much power anyway , has always been my opinion.
What you really have are a lot of people who think they are Dale Earnhardt, when they fucking aren’t.
( and overlooking the fact that Dale Earnhardt, like so many of the best race car drivers , wound up DEAD. Skills not withstanding. )
I agreed with Jimmy Carter ; 55 mph is good enough for everybody.
My dream car would be an AMC Eagle, or a Gaz 69.
But in both cases where would you get parts now ? And both were gas – guzzlers.
KA, when I asked about the Traubant, I had a feeling you would respond with a great post — you surely didn’t disappoint.
Thank you, Dear.
KesaAnna’s a great story teller. Maybe some of that old world East German heritage coming through.
A man driving a Traubant suddenly breaks his windshield wiper. Pulling into a service station, he hails a mechanic.
“Wipers for a Trabi?” he asks.
The mechanic thinks about it for a few seconds and replies: “Yes, sounds like a fair trade.”
Trabant
“Do you think what’s going on is due to incompetence or malevolence? ”
To re- write the Unabomber’s first paragraph a little ,
I think it was plainly obvious to the average person no later than 1985 that the effects of the automobile culture on Western Civ were catastrophic,
and the automobile culture needed to be dialed waaay the fuck back.
And not for the benefit of the ruling class , who are going to roll around in limousines and Lear jets anyway ,
But for the sake of the average Joe.
But the way I remember it , any politician who preached in 1985 that we should transition to motor scooters and buses would have been committing political suicide.
Instead , in 1985 everyone voted for politicians who preached , ” You , too , can own a Lear Jet. ”
For that matter , I don’t think it’s really any different in 2022 either.
The EV – thing strikes me as just another variation on the , ” You , too , can be a chief ” – story ,
When we already have too many chiefs anyway.
Sure , the ruling class are all scumbags now ,
But it seems to me that when the average Joe these days isn’t bitching about the consequences of the scumbaggery ,
He is otherwise absolutely encouraging it.
The subject of dress got mentioned above.
Here’s a possibly fun and interesting project ;
Do a Google image search using the term , “Kim Jung Un. ”
But , first , spend a few hours looking not at Kim Jung Un ,
BUT AT THE PEOPLE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF KIM JUNG UN.
I’m confident that if you spend a few hours doing that you will come to the surprising conclusion that your typical General , top scientist , or party big shot in North Korea looks pretty damn modest compared to a typical middle class Westerner.
High class in North Korea, outside of the Kim family , means bad skin , bad teeth , and dowdy shoes.
NOW look at Kim Jung Un.
He was educated in Switzerland.
What does Kim Jung Un look like ?
Well , minus the — albeit expertly tailored — Mao jacket ,
HE looks just like a Westerner.
Another way of putting it , the average North Korean looks like an average Joe , and a decent sort.
Whereas the average Western suburbanite looks like a Stalin – wannabe.
I hate tattoos and body piercing myself , it looks like an imitation of head – hunting cannibals in Borneo.
But on second thought perhaps I shouldn’t hold their bad – attitude Nihilism against them too much.
How is one supposed to react when the very definition of success is being a pig at the trough ?
Conspiracy update, kids:
“You can take your muzzles off to eat the crickets. Viruses leave you alone when you’re gobbling down insects.”
https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1560727148180168704?cxt=HHwWgICzqc_E6KgrAAAA
The WEFers have dispatched their insect pushers, it seems. All normal, no worries.
I wonder if they’re better stir fried? Add enough olive oil and salt (maybe some mozzarella at the table) and ya never know.
Add a bunch of garlic and they’re incredible.
Can Cricket Helper be far off?
How disgusting. Glad I’m a vegetarian if this is the crap they are going to be selling as ‘meat’.
Yuck.
I’m now a pretty good shot with my .22 and have killed four rabbits, for sure( some at a pretty good distance), and one other that I’m pretty sure I killed but couldn’t find in the tall grass when I went to get it. I’ve hit many others, but they are surprisingly hard to kill with a .22. You almost need a head shot.
I’ve only butchered one. They taste good, but the hind legs are tough, as you would expect. Other portions are more tender. My son-in-law started to butcher one, but was swarmed by feral cats and had to give up. Then there was the one that just wouldn’t die until it was so full of lead that we judged it inedible.
We have so few squirrels that I don’t have the heart to shoot them. My son-in-law regularly kills raccoons that are trying to invade the chicken coop. I’m told that they make tasty hamburger if you grind up the meat, but we’re not yet up for that.
According to my old copy of “White Trash Cooking,” possums may be eaten, though I understand they are excessively fatty. The book says, “You only eat possum in the winter.” They are horrendously ugly little things. I don’t know if I could eat one.
It’s said that if you eat too much rabbit, you will sicken and die.
Rabbit starvation
What in the wabbit causes this?
High protein diet
@ Jarek:
It is my understanding that you can get “protein poisoning” from eating only rabbit, because the body requires fat, and rabbit meat is very lean.
“Rabbit starvation (fat starvation, mal de caribou, protein poisoning) is an acute type of malnutrition that develops from a diet deficient in fat and where nearly all calories come from lean meat. Rabbit meat is very lean, as can be elk or caribou (reindeer) meat at certain times of the year.”
“Protein poisoning is when the body takes in too much protein with not enough fat and carbohydrate for a long period of time. Other names for this are ‘rabbit starvation’ or ‘mal de caribou.’ These terms came about to describe only consuming very lean proteins, such as rabbit, without consuming other nutrients. So, although you may be getting enough calories from protein, your body experiences malnourishment from lack of other nutrients, like fat and carbs.”
Here’s the site’s suggestion for how proteing/fats/carbs should be balanced:
Protein intake: 10 to 35 percent of total calories
Carbohydrate intake: 45 to 65 percent of total calories
Fat intake: 20 to 35 percent of total calories
So I guess if you’re going to eat a lot of rabbit you should fry it in plenty of lard, or serve it with plenty of hot buttered bread or veggies.
Points for mentioning lard!
Lard is an excellent, healthy fat. Wonderful for frying. Beef tallow is also a good choice, though more expensive. They also make good soap.
Lard is a beautiful thing. I just purchased ten pounds of pork leaf fat and rendered it into lard a couple of days ago. It was $.99 per pound. It’s a bit of a pain but so worth it and after chopping up the fat my hands were oh so soft LOL
It’s the absolute best for frying chicken and salmon patties. Lard is a source of lauric acid which is also found in human breast milk. I also read that although lauric acid can increase total cholesterol, it mostly increases HDL also known as “good cholesterol”. Once thing for sure, before the invention of hydrogenation and vegetable oils our ancestors did pretty well using lard. There are many studies out there comparing heart attack death before and after vegetable oils.
That’s not bunny, Jarek.
“but the hind legs are tough” Anthea your not stewing them long enough. I’ve eaten many a squirrel and they can be tougher than rabbit. Just stew for a long time.
@ stelmosfire:
Yes, after my first try at cooking rabbit, I decided that the crock pot was probably the best way to go. There are plenty of hassenpfeffer recipes online–all of then surprisingly different.
Re squirrels and rabbits, you can buy squabbit pie in what I think is Edinburgh’s only game butcher (they are also good for pheasant and whatnot). Never had squirrel or squabbit, but I do like rabbit.
@ GreenAlba:
I soaked the one I cooked in brine in the fridge overnight. (This is supposed to tenderize it–which didn’t work–and maybe reduce any “gamey” flavor.) I thought the meat was quite tasty.
I use chickpea flour to bread things for frying, as it is lower in carbs than regular flour, and it tastes pretty good. So the rabbit got dredged in chickpea flour, dipped in egg, and dredged again, for a nice crispy crust.
Chickpea flour also makes good “cauliflower popcorn”–pieces of cauliflower done the same way. But you want to add seasonings, whether it’s rabbit of cauliflower.
Thanks for the tips, Anthea. My husband always slow cooks rabbit in a big cast iron casserole on a base of battuto, with plenty of thyme.
We have harvested hardly any green beans, as the rabbits were eating up the plants. They also got our fall planting of beets, and I think the turnips, carrots, and rutabagas–ate them up as soon as they germinated. I replanted the beets. I need to get some floating row cover over them–though I’m hoping I’ve significantly thinned out the rabbit population.
My daughter and son-in-law used to have a good farm dog that was also good at “rabbit patrol,” but he died last summer, and the remaining dogs “don’t hunt.”
@Anthea – this is the reason farmers killed all the “critters”. No standing around oohing and aahing about the cute little things. I will admit that I am partial to watching the deer and turkey at our farm property but no longer. This year the turkeys ate the butterbeans (fenced) and the deer ate the apples and grapes.
I might load up the old shottie and have some venison soon.
I love a nice bambi burger. 🙂
GA: It’s funny what we consider good and bad things to eat, isn’t it? Pigeons were quite a popular part of the Brit diet a long time ago. Here in Switz, we eat horse steaks. However, one of the things I miss about the UK is that great British institution, the Full English Breakfast!
Where did Natalia Vovk receive her explosives training to attach a car bomb?
So far the FSB hasn’t accused the CIA, but isn’t that in the subtext of the murder?
The CIA has the means, the motive, and the opportunity. It would be child’s play for such a malevolent, satanic organization.
Pete:
I don’t think she made and attached the bomb.
I think she was just the spotter and was given the device with the code to detonate by the people who actually made it. they must have been already inside Russia. I think the FSB would have taken notice if she had carried a bomb over the border.
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Yes, that is the subtext for sure.
We all know who is pushing this war, the ones who are eager to fight to the ”last Ukrainian”.
Because when the last Ukrainian is gone there will be open season on the best farmland in Europe, not to mention fossil fuels and virgin forests.
“Wake the hell up.” MaryQueen
“Queen Mary, she’s my friend….” tho not Just Like a Woman
“I’m not here to entertain you” Karen
that’s for effin sure – “‘Til she finally sees that she’s like all the rest” -Just Like a Woman
on the other hand:
“There are plenty of fossil fuels.
Loads!! Lifetimes worth!!
Just not for everyone.” Karen
pretty entertaining
“The wealthy can afford it, particulalry when it affords them contnued acces and deprives you yours.” Karen
more and more about less and less until nothing
Keep hoarding, keep hoarding, keep hoarding. You never know when you might need something, or when that something might have value as stock in trade to someone else. Every little bit of scrap has some value to someone for something, so keep hoarding while you can, like a squirrel getting ready for a long winter.
I kept the plastic prong that holds shoes together at the store. Surely it will same my life someday, somehow.
save not same.
I have a whole drawer of plastic bread bags, twist ties, and those little tables used in the middle of pizzas to keep the box from crushing down on it. You never know when these items might come in handy.
Those little tables might come in handy for dining mice.
Save used tin cans. They make great outdoor stoves.
Patterns that used to cost 25 cents now cost $17.
Was Simplicity Patterns taken over [by Perelman?].
Can’t you just get patterns for free online these days? Also, what about getting patterns from places like Goodwill or Salvation Army? I have seen bins of them at certain shops where they would likely just throw them away.
Well, yeah, if you are lucky enough to find what you want, in your size.
The book that informed me is ‘America What Happened’..probably printed in 1980s.
Patterns were good when women stayed at home and had time to sew.
I’ve never checked for patterns online, but it would probably cost a fortune to have them printed–if you could find a printer with the capability to print something that size. Plus the paper for patterns is a special kind of paper, almost tissue paper. I have no idea where you could buy it. The paper needs to be thin, so you can pin it to the fabric and make carbon-paper marks through it.
I checked into purchasing fancy card stock in something bigger than 8 1/2 X 11, and it’s very expensive, both for the paper and the full-color printing.
It is economical (and kind of fun) to look for art online and print it out for framing, provided 8 1/2 X 11 works for you. The card stocks with the nice metallic sheen are nice for that. Thrift stores are great places to look for frames.
You sound like an old member of the Process Church – which considered Christ and Satan to be brothers. Charlie was influenced by the process. Where you on the fringe of that scene? One of the “Now People”?
/ If all is one, then they are right.
They will ask, Who is like the Beast and who is able to make war against him?
We should answer, Quis ut Deus or Who is like God? That’s what Michael said as he threw Lucifer out of Heaven. Michael means, He who is like God, but then again Lucifer was too until he rebelled.
Mitch and Karen have stared into the Abyss and been conquered by it. Thus when they speak, It speaks. I too have peered in but I have never been conquered. Thus I can speak of higher and lower races AND the love of God who made them. Who is like me? Very few.
The existence of dark or difficult truths doesn’t mean there aren’t wonderful truths as well. But corrupted intelligences like theirs can no longer See.
Most people can’t look down or up. The little people, the muggles, the normies, the believers in narratives. Count sheep to fall asleep? No doubt sheep count the little people to do the same.
“Who is like me? Very few.”
Thank goodness for small favors. 🙂
Ohmahlawd! LMAO
Hear that boom Jarry?
Was that the mic or you hitting the floor?
I am Byss. You are Abyss. You are that which is not and the negative wisdom thereof.
That reads like a bad fortune cookie
Besides, just a few scrolls up you said I was staring into the abyss, but now I’ve become it?
That’s progress!
“…Who is like the Beast and who is able to make war against him? We should answer… Who is like God?”
The deep-dark secret about ‘The Beast ‘and The Divine is that They Is Us.
Each of us in the human family has and is the Devil and the Divine. The Beast and The Divine are two personifications and characterizations of the human spirit. We each have a spectrum of thoughts and deeds and behaviors within us – and those two Big Guys are the personifications of each extreme side of our existential spectrum.
‘There is but One Consciousness’… the Mystics and Sages say. That means that You and Me and Everyone is a piece of that One Mind. So each and every one of us is the Devil – and the Almighty – incarnate.
When We ‘throw Lucifer out of Heaven’ it is You that shakes off Your Negative Side (that ‘rebels’ against the ‘good’) and You re-center and energize yourself back fully on Your ‘Heavenly’ side of the midline.
When ‘Lucifer Rebels’ it is We who are working against our internal God-like nature side of the spectrum.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within You and Me. And so is the Kingdom of Hell.
You and only you decide what to do about that.
We don’t need some Old Guy In a White Robe sitting on a throne… nor do we need another Old Guy in Ghastly Red Suit and Creepy Grin laughing at us from some Pit.
Wanna meet The Devil and The Divine? Look in the mirror.
If your roots are not in Hell your branches will in nowise attain unto the Kingdom.
If climate change really is a thing, why didn’t anyone address the BP oil spill or make anyone liable for it? Why is nothing done about the Fukushima nuclear spill? Why is it all swept under the rug? Why are we still using plastic bags? Why are there still 3 layers of ‘protection’ (plastic) on everything we buy? Why do new computer parts have to be encased in thick plastic?
These are some things that something can be done about, but it isn’t.
So many other ‘tells’ that let you know the climate change claim is a hoax.
Climate change is not a hoax though I do believe there needs to be a vigorous debate and actual objective research to measure or attempt to measure what change can be attributed to human activity versus natural change. However, the hoax is the “solutions” offered by our globalist overlords and their greenie minions. They don’t want to solve problems. They want to turn problems into tools that give them more profits and power. Thus you hear “green” voices screaming day in and day out about the environmental atrocities that legitimately exist. And yet, as you note, they are not so much present or have anything to say as massive resource consumption continues, pollution continues, and toxic materials continue to be produced for consumption. They always seem to argue that only the Elites need to be continued to be allowed to destroy the environment and so forth and everyone else should simply be starved to death, etc.
The climate is changing and we are getting cooler, not hotter. That will probably become more obvious this winter. We are entering a grand solar minimum. Those who can read and understand what the solar physicists are saying – they know this. Unfortunately, most people can’t go this far and can instead only understand the watered down propaganda being offered by corrupt scientists on an agenda driven payroll.
From the site electroverse.co
“Winter 2022 in the Southern Hemisphere should serve as something of a warning shot. If you think Mother Nature is going to reward the alarmists’ planet-saving endeavors then you are sorely mistaken. Mother Nature is a no-shit-giving bitch who eats dumb ideologies for breakfast–as is only right. This is her planet, after all, why would she ever cater to the will of idiots?
Australia is on for one of its coldest and snowiest winters on record this year–another fact the legacy media is sidestepping–and the freeze Down Under isn’t set to abate anytime soon…….”
I love Electroverse and am on board with you. I do think humans can change weather for sure. Particularly in local areas where the ecology has been substantially interrupted by human activity. But climate is probably (im not a scientist) much harder to change from a human perspective, if at all.
I think this is correct, and they knew we were going into a cooling period so they’ve been using their chemical-spraying planes to do a bunch of damage, trying to hold the heat in. It causes heat domes in the summer, etc.
I watched his guy named Randy something on Joe Rogan. The dude was amazing, he used ice core studies from Iceland as a basis for a timeline which showed all the cold eras, and they all lined up with pestilence and starvation.
He also opined that we were heading into a cold era, not a hot one. And BTW, he said the eras where we were hottest were the best. NO pestilence or starvation. And of course pestilence is behind most ‘pandemics.’ People get sick when their immune systems are compromised. Starving will do that to you.
Yes. A warm (not hot!) earth is a lushly living earth. Greenland and Antarctica were covered in rich tropical rainforests in times long past. Palm tree fossils have been found in both places. In those times animals and humans were mega. That is why there used to be giants.
That is interesting that you said they are spraying to retain heat. I always assumed the chemtrails were meant to actually keep sunlight out by reflections. And also to poison us with toxic nanoparticles.
The way climate change is being represented is a hoax. I should have been clearer. And the Green New Deal is absolutely a hoax and a load of bollocks.
Why did nobody ‘green’ mind that, at the height of the ‘pandemic’ a billion plasticised and useless masks were being dumped every day in landfill, scattered to the four winds (where were the special biohazard disposal bins?), as well as ending up in our rivers and oceans, where they will choke sea creatures and take centuries to degrade into nanoparticles that will end up in fish and seafood and therefore in us? There may have been as many as a trillion of the things chucked away.
This is why I wore the same exact face mask throughout the entire charade. It was filthy and black on the outside from my touching it and sweating on it, but at least I was masked!
I burn all my plastics out back in the burn barrel, so that solves a small portion of having microplastics littering our environment.
Because the Green New Deal is bullshit.
They keep talking about storms and melting ice caps and ignore everything they do to pollute and destroy the environment.
It’s madness.
“where were the special biohazard disposal bins?”
They should have been everywhere, if it was real. It’s always in the details. The designers of the project didn’t have much real medical world experience.
It could have spawned a whole industry running parallel to the mask-makers.
There was probably more environmental damage done in the past two years through the manufacture and disposal of synthetic masks
than in the 50 prior.
Think of all that over-the-top disposable PPE too, for the medics and nurses, when a couple of ivermectin pills every week would have kept them all safe. There were mountains of it everywhere.
If CC was a real thing, why does Obama own a giant mansion a few inches from the water’s edge, why does Di Caprio own a yacht bigger than a navy destroyer, and why did the government of the supposedly sinking Maldives complete a massive extension to their airport in 2020?
Kalifornia to ban all I.C.E. cars by 2035, according to reports that claim this mandate will be publicly announced this week Thursday. As the clown state of Kalifornia goes, so goes the rest of the nation?
I don’t know why we have to be banning things and mandating that only certain choices are available, for the good of the planet you know. Let market forces dictate what the people want already! Screw this government overreach.
The ev people are primarily Democrat donors and of course California is a Democrat one party state. So simply put, they pass laws that financially benefit their donors and receive massive kickbacks via continual donations etc., for their efforts. It’s a rigged grift, scheme, and racket like every other aspect of American life at this particular point in time.
That’s exactly why the US empire will collapse in the same way the old Soviet Union did. When the people running your country are 100% criminal and 100% incompetent, then you know that the end of your republic is coming soon. The average lifespan of a republic is 250 years. Apparently after that most republics/democracies simply become unable to elect competent leaders anymore. With zero leadership you become a zero country and fall apart with no common purpose any more.
And unfortunately for us we have “leaders” who are not just incompetent but intend to intentionally harm the population. So not only is there no common purpose but there is a literal war occurring between factions but mostly in the way of the monied elite attacking those beneath them with almost total impunity.
I welcome the total collapse and erasure of such an evil and inhumane system and those who have orchestrated and operated it
It’s like when you make a copy or a copy of a copy, it keeps getting fuzzier and fuzzier until you are left with a piece of indecipherable garbage. I see our progression of US presidents in much the same way. Take Biden for example, he is pretty fuzzy…..and he likes the peach fuzz on those little boy legs.
So gross. So do you think that they installed him as a specific psychic humiliation tactic or do you think his degeneracies are simply a reflection of how degenerate the overlords are?
A few posters on here need a labotomy and an injection of this ????
“Climate-change skepticism makes sense.
Peak oil/fossil skepticism is lunacy.
They are not the same.
And ecological damage is real.
As are limits to population and economic growth. 8 billion people is absurdity.
Throw it all out with the WEF bathwater and you are a fat fuckin’ moron, another version of dupe and part of the problem.”
???? = four down arrows
The Green New Deal is bullshit and a hoax.
But the damage to the climate and poisoning of the environment is definitely something that needs to stop. Sadly, the same cabal is doing both. So, it won’t.
I don’t know if 8 billion people is overpopulation or not. No one has really proved it one way or the other to my liking.
Don’t worry, eventually we will be able to move all the excess population to Mars, so we certainly shouldn’t have anything to worry about.
I just wonder, will they move only the lower class proles to Mars, or it be reserved as a haven for the rich and powerful?
I say let them have first viewing and decide
Cowbell
Neither one!
The human body evolved on Earth. The journey to and from and the staying on Mars will be a period of dying for humans.
There is nothing there for humans. Nothing.
Humans better adapt to the environmental changes on Earth, or change them if necessary, or he is going extinct.
We are no different to any other species on Earth, of which 95% have gone extinct.
We have been given the ability to reason, at least some of us. It is our key to adaptation. We better start using it.
@ JohnAZ:
I agree on humans colonizing Mars. There are vast empty areas of the earth that are far more hospitable to human life than Mars–and that also have the advantage of having a breathable atmosphere.
Antarctica, the Sahara, the Sahel, Siberia, northern Canada, the Andes, the Rockies, the Himalayas, etc., are all much more promising for human settlement than Mars. Yet nobody is talking about moving some of our surplus human population to any of those places.
Oh, the people aren’t doing any of the damage? C’mon.
To minimize the damage caused by 8 billion, we’d need a global government to insure equitable distribution of scarce resources and and universal enforcement of environmental standards. The problem being is that any such global government would have no interest in doing this – as they’ve made abundantly clear.
Stop putting words in my mouth. Where did I say people aren’t doing any damage?
I don’t know if 8 billion people is overpopulation or not. No one has really proved it one way or the other to my liking.
You said the cabal was doing the damage. And you said you didn’t know if the 8 billion were too many – which is utterly ridiculous.
malth that isn’t saying people aren’t doing damage.
You guys sure like to reach.
No, Jared, it actually isn’t ridiculous.
The problem is the allocation and abuse of resources, it is not done right. And never will be.
Be it over population or not, it still does not justify the economic destruction of w Europe and North America.
Your economic destruction*
Gotta read the fine print in the New World Order manual
Actually yours. No fine print needed.
Let’s add nuance
How about 8 billion people trying to live like you live? Eat what you eat. Drive what you drive. Travel where you travel. Consume whst you consume.
Assuming you’re a typical middle class American/westerner.
You can verify by spotting the target on your back BTW
Even Karen disagrees with Mary! Let her argue with the large five year old with the megaphone and purple highlights.
Why thank you! Like everyone else totally calls me odd Karen ! Whatevs
I’m even-Steven. You’re sweet!
Purple highlights and a megaphone, you say.
Hahahahahaahaa, not even close.
Indeed.
As I said, it’s the allocation and waste of resources. It’s not necessarily overpopulation. It could be, it might not be, no one really knows. And yes I also realize that no one has any plan to do anything about the waste of resources.
Isn’t it funny, I didn’t make a statement either way about overpopulation and here came the little nasty trollmen to call me to task.
They are nothing if not entertaining, and always right on cue.
“The problem is the allocation and abuse of resources, it is not done right.” — MaryQ
No. Allocation just offers a ‘softer’ deterioration. Softer for some, but more long-drawn-out and painful for most.
8 billion, along with our expectation of infinite growth (the world population’s collective expectation) is insane, and means that the WEF has decided, “Fuck it! They’ll never accept one kid for every two women, so let’s just blow the whole thing up”.
Very interesting, the number of posters on CFN now that are either Peak Oil agnostic or anti-Peak Oil. Our host’s entire enterprise has been based on the horrors of Peak Oil, but the latter-day posters either don’t seem to know that, or are just picking out the political shadow play that goes with it, missing the source context.
I didn’t say anything about peak oil one way or the other.
” Allocation just offers a ‘softer’ deterioration. Softer for some, but more long-drawn-out and painful for most.”
How so “more painful for most”?
I don’t follow the logic of the “don’t bother to conserve or allocate, since we are all dead in the end.
You are in a shipwreck.
You have a choice to get into a lifeboat captained by a person who proposes to just use up all the provisions in the life boat as people desire. The other lifeboat is captained by Shackleton, who says, “We are [or, I am] going to ration the provisions so as to stretch them out as long as we can, whie we take measures to save ourselves.”
Me, I’ll jump into Shackleton’s boat.
To prolong my own life and up the chances of getting out of the mess.
And to have a better quality of life for the perhaps few days left to me.
Since all the lifeboat’s occupants will share the rations equally, the chances of becoming someone else’s meal will be reduced.
“I didn’t say anything about peak oil one way or the other.” — MaryQ
You also said this:
“I don’t know if 8 billion people is overpopulation or not. No one has really proved it one way or the other to my liking.”
It’s not my problem if you know nothing about Peak Oil. If you did, you wouldn’t have made your first statement above.
Who said anything was your problem, SF?
You come across as more self-involved even than mitchellc.
I don’t give a rat’s ass what you think of me and you obviously have the same disease as Jared wherein you imagine what people mean or say but have no actual clue.
Islander, thanks for the reminder about Shackleton. I read his book years ago and that was some harrowing stuff they lived through. Just unbelievable.
Islander,
I didn’t say resource allocation wouldn’t have effects. You’re missing my emphasis.
What happens when — as we as a society do now — we focus on ultimately inconsequential measures like preservation, reduced carbon imprint, re-establishment of rail lines and use, halting suburban build-out?
You’ll notice some of the above are happening already due to necessity. Energy = money. Lack of money means lack of resources to engender more resources.
Short term, people feel good about themselves reusing plastic or buying eco-friendly coffee or getting a car with ‘less fuel use’ (though much of green energy is worse). And once people feel good, they ramp up the baby factory. (1946 baby boom happened because of confidence in a burgeoning economy.)
Human nature. We reproduce wildly, given short-term vision — just like wild creatures — until Nature says “no more”.
@ MaryQueen:
I agree–or at least I think I do. I just mentioned above that much of our modern tech and overabundance is not only not desirable, but deleterious to human happiness.
I think that, even with 8 billion, a proper social and economic organization could allow most of them to live lives of health, happiness, and fulfillment. Most of the key to accomplishing this would be de-centralization. E.g., my area of the US would be a little paradise of abundance, if we could get the government boot off our necks. Indiviual freedom and self-determination would also produce social and cultural advancement. There’s nothing inherently wrong with cities, which should be centers of trade and manufacturing.
In Nock’s “Memoirs of a Superfluous Man,” he describes life in some European country (I think it may have been Belgium, probably in the 1920s). Your ordinary, everyday people there were particpants in highly competitive musical and theatrical presentations. The quality of the food was excellent. The people were highly cultured. This was in spite of what Nock calls “a very thin material basis.”
It would probably be over-optimistic to presume that every area in the world would be brimful of health, happiness, and high cultural attainments, if only they enjoyed personal freedom and economic self-determination, but I think there would be a great improvement. There just needs to be a little better evaluation of which technologies are really beneficial to humans and which are not (being primarily beneficial to would-be controllers). TV is one example of a very deleterious technology IMHO.
I like having a car, myself–although for most of my life I considered the internal combustion engine practically diabolical. (I mean, look at them. That is some weird shit under the hood of a car.) But cars don’t have to be high tech, with power windows all that other crap. A Model T would work for me, though I’d prefer AC and a heater in my old age.
My mother, a child of the Depression born in 1926, once told me that she and her old-lady friends concurred that life is not better now. Just different.
Once again, MaryQ “refutes” facts and logic with juvenile ad homs. You didn’t answer my assertion. Have you read JHK’s “The Long Emergency”? (Not to mention any number of other reports on energy from different angles and areas of expertise.)
“he describes life in some European country (I think it may have been Belgium, probably in the 1920s)” — Anthea
Why do you focus on the 1920s? It was the initial and noticeable period of oil use bounty. The Swinging 20s! What a future.
Roaring 20s that should be.
@ Soul Forensics:
I don’t know what the level of fossil fuel use was in Belgium in the 1920s, but I imagine it was very little. (Probably coal.)
In the US in the 1920s, my grandfather bought his first car, which I think was a Model T. I think farm work was still mostly done with horsepower–or by hand. Trips to town in the Model T were few. Shopping was for flour, salt, baking powder, and yard goods and other sewing stuff.
Grandpa did a little bootlegging during the 20s, but his customers came to him. (He did not make deliveries.)
My point was that it’s possible to have a fairly high standard of living–and, perhaps more importantly, a more humane and genuinely civilized life–with a minimal use of fossil fuels.
Humans are not made happier by being able to sit on their ass 24/7. Obviously, too much physical work (real drudgery) is also deleterious to both health and happiness. There’s a happy medium in there somewhere. Maybe the Amish, in limiting the use of technology, have this figured out.
SF, I didn’t “refute” facts and logic.
I just told you that you don’t know what I think.
Ad hominem? I guess you don’t know what those are.
Go play with Jarek in the Women Hater’s Clubhouse.
LOL.
I don’t have to read JHK’s books to have an opinion, SF.
My opinion was that I don’t know, and neither do you.
You can opine all you like, so will I.
Seethe about it, no one really cares.
SF, IMO you are not making sense, and you do not address what I said.
You are IMO just repeating yourself. I see no clarification of “emphasis.”
“What happens when . . . we focus on ultimately inconsequential measures [?????] like preservation, reduced carbon imprint, re-establishment of rail lines and use, halting suburban build-out? . . .”
Inconsequential? And you think we as a society are actually focusing on those actions? maybe theoretically, but there is little actual follow-through.
Whatever. I am not getting into your life boat.
Then this:
“Short term, people feel good about themselves reusing plastic or buying eco-friendly coffee or getting a car with ‘less fuel use’ (though much of green energy is worse). And once people feel good, they ramp up the baby factory. (1946 baby boom happened because of confidence in a burgeoning economy.)”
Hmm, combo of inconsequential and red herring as far as I can see.
Still sticking with Shackleton.
Shackleton brought all of his men home alive.
MQ: “As I said, it’s the allocation and waste of resources. It’s not necessarily overpopulation. It could be, it might not be, no one really knows. And yes I also realize that no one has any plan to do anything about the waste of resources.”
The biggest user of fossil fuels on earth is the US military.
Add to that all the minerals needed for weaponry and vehicles and aircrafte carriers and planes made of aluminum.
William Catton, in Overshoot, observes that the more resource pressure is felt by society, the more precious resources are wasted on stupid, counterproductive activities that just waste the available resources and hasten a sorry end that otherwise could have been managed.
IMO it is not just he physical resources that are wasted, but also the psychic and emotional. Cue covid craziness, Trump Derangement Syndrome, the Woke circus, failure to face reality re Ukraine, and a whole lot of other psychic drains.
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“Inconsequential? And you think we as a society are actually focusing on those actions? maybe theoretically, but there is little actual follow-through.” — Islander
My blame (much more so than it is for you) for our predicament is increasingly on the populace. Because, in 2022, no one should be in the dark about the effects of population overshoot and resource depletion. But most can’t put two and two together, and think that Climate Change is our biggest long-term problem, not realizing that weather and temp ‘abnormalities’, if they tie in to AGW at all, are just a downstream effect of Peak Oil use. (We can leave out cloud seeding for now.)
Yes, the U.S. military’s use of energy is much greater than that of citizens. But those same citizens support the “Wars for Democracy”, the “Wars on Terror”, and the “War to End All Wars” (WWI). Hard as it may be to believe, until recently, U.S. citizens had the choice to support and elect others outside the military-industrial-congressional complex. No rifle butts were sticking in their ribs to make sure the War lever was pulled in the booths.
I’m not saying that individuals reducing their energy use is inconsequential in the short term. Of course it matters. But I’m not quite following your logic here. You say “we as a society” are not focusing on those actions. Who is this “we”? Surely you mean those same individuals? Hence, citizens are just as culpable. Maybe not in total joules used, but certainly in kind.
It’s inconsequential long-term. By some tech wizardry, energy use is even more streamlined, say, with regards to fossil fuel EROEI farming. What happens then? Exports increase,developing nations experience a temporary increase in food access and wealth, and then start producing more babies.
Reproductive growth — basic biology, health, and safety provide the prerequisites.The cycle repeats, again and again, until it can’t.
SF:
” Who is this “we”? Surely you mean those same individuals? ”
No. You totally missed the point of my Shackleton metaphor.
8 billion is a lot period. 8 billion living an American lifestyle is impossible now and for all eternity.
8 billion in the absence of fossil fuels is only possible with a nuclear reactor in every county if not every home, with much bug-eating going on, and then only (in this limited-parameter hypothetical scenario, not actually) for about 1000 years give or take. Then, back to the population drawing-board.
Of course this is all just WEF implanted fiction in my brain. Everything’s just fine. Kill Bill Gates and resume the party. The Earth is spitting out oil like an eternal fountain and radioactivity is barely toxic at all, another hoax.
The Green New Deal IS BS.
Its political side is BS. Its ignoring current lifestyles is pure baloney.
Most of all, its not providing legitimate answers to substitute for today’s means of living is going to be disastrous. Be glad you are not in Europe this winter where the Green New Deal is going to be destroyed by the public freezing.
What is needed is a plan of evolving from FF energy to a combination of energy sources including FF, but less, nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, whatever is appropriate for the areas. To me, the government should be doing a fifty year plan on how to transition to appropriate sources of energy. Not shoving the Green New Deal down our throats with no real answers of how to do it. The government should be getting the people on board, explaining the changes and using its fiscal ability to transition us.
High speed trains, local light rails that make sense, less airplanes, sailing ships instead of FF powered, medium range electric hybrid combo cars, transition gas stations to hydrogen or electric “pumps”, nuclear electricity, maybe fusion, electric heating in homes and everywhere, and on and on.
We should be promoting all these things.
Peak oil approaches, we need to promote all forms of energy, not just EVs. Right now our illustrious leaders do not have a clue how to do a transition.
China will develop alternatives faster than America which is why they will win the superpower contest.
Peak Oil happened May 2005. We’re still near the top, queasy on the roller coaster.
The U.S. will never let China, Russia or the E.U. win anything. We’d rather ramp up to WW3 in that scenario. A multi-polar world is not on America’s agenda and never will be.
The US no longer has a say in the outcome, Working. They can huff and puff all they want, but it won’t work. Even as I type, Saudi is selling oil to China (the world’s biggest importer) in yuan, not dollars, and the 85% of the world still trading with Russia are falling over themselves to strengthen economic links. The US is like the UK in 1956 when it faced an “End of Empire” wake-up call, and the question for them is the same as it was for us: Do we sink into second tier mediocrity with grace, or do we go nuclear? It looks like Biden, Pelosi and Co. are going for the latter.
Exactly. Let them prove it, or let us have an open debate between qualified participants.
Anything else is just McMedia/establishment nonsense.
@ gustafson.robert.22:
Karl Denninger maintains that we have enough fossil fuels to maintain a modern lifestyle for hundreds of years, if we used our coal reserves to power thorium reactors. I don’t know anything about these matters, but he’s probably right about that, since he knows a lot about tech. He also maintains that spent fuel rods, if re-used until they’re basically used up, would be harmless after about 100 years, meaning that this is a timeframe that it’s possible to work with–unlike our present methods of dealing with spent fuel rods, which taken thousands of years to decay enough to become harmless.
This means that our overlords’ apparent desire to exterminate us is not because they believe we do not have sufficient energy resources for the earth’s population. This suggests that there must be some other reason, and this other reason might be that they really detest human life and think it should be killed off.
But you can also ask yourself whether maintaining human life at a high level of affluence and technology is even desirable. We can see that people are not better and happier now that they have I-phones, Facebook, TV, and other wonders. They are not better fed now that they have an abundance of sugar, GMO crops, and bananas and strawberries in winter.
It’s also probably worthwhile to note that the people running nuclear power plants may not be angels of scrupulosity and responsibility. Plus other things could go wrong.
But–no one ever asks what social, economic, and technological arrangements would make people happy and good, provide them with wholesome food, and encourage their personal and human development. High tech seems to have a tendency to promote the opposite.
The way people communicate does not make use of the senses we have from birth.
Eyesight for electronically produced printed words and symbols + touch. Eyesight for electronically produced printed words and symbols + voice.
Voice, no inflection; touch but not feeling, just pressing the representation of a symbol on a keypad. Eyesight limited to the screen of the electronic device.
Earbuds, another story, I don’t know what the repeated exposure to the speaker magnets has on wave function in the brain. Is there measurable radio-frequency radiation emitted?
The emerging zoomers and beyond seem to be in a world much less rich in experience than the fading boomers and soon-to-fade x-ers. The millennial types are the crossroad.
If we regress to the lifestyle of a prior time, the person who can use pen and paper will have a distinct advantage.
Karl Denninger’s expertise on energy is about on par with his expertise on nutrition: zero.
I’ll take experienced geologists’ aggregate ideas about fossil fuel projections over someone who “knows a lot about tech”.
Karl has a bit of an uneven temperament, but he’s an excellent analyst. His dietary advice is also well researched and excellent. Also, his writing seems to be improving. Whoever is helping him must be extremely tactful.
“‘said’ Denninger . . .” (:-))
Yeah, his writing could be improved.
I cannot judge his knowledge of geology, but I think he is pretty good and going into the data weeds and coming up with valuable analysis.
Correct, Anthea. His permanent bad mood and penchant for fruity language are irritating and detract something from his message. However, the guy is spot on 99% of the time.
Carnivores and other ancestral diet promoters like to pump their nutrition and health ‘advantage’ by saying that all cows should be grass-fed and grass-finished. If that were to happen for all 8 billion (and counting), even minimum-level beef-eaters would need three Earths to produce their steaks and rib-eyes. If we eat the beef of an average Westerner, we would require seven Earths. And if we were all carnivores, we would need 30-35 Earths.
I get no joy from this, since I’m not a vegan. The point is that the WEF know this intimately, which is the reason they’re brainwashing us with ‘bugz R good!” before their planned, forced digital credit food rations.
It’s also the reason for Gates’ buying up of farmland, and the crackdown on Netherlands’ farmers.
Honestly, SF, I don’t think CFNer need to have this splained to them!
The beef will also be $175 a pound.
A pittance for someone worth tens of millions, and there are millions of them … better make it $375
Indeed, Snack Pack.
Also, something no one talks about. Initially, once the useless eaters are culled by the billions and/or reduced to cricket burger bingers, ‘incentives’ can be introduced for the good and obedient girls and boys by offering them 2 oz of sirloin once a month if they pre-emptively rat-out on Joe next door for trying to go off-grid from the 2-mile city line.
capt spaulding and piltdownman,
I don’t read any “newspapers”
Yuval Harari speculates that the useless eaters will be contented with drugs, video games, and mindless entertainment.
Fleshbots don’t make more eaters
Unless in your booze and drug induced trances you begin to watch a lot of porn, after which one thing leads to another and you accidentally inseminate one of your flatmates during a raucous orgy. Then not only do you end up with more useless eaters, but developmentally disabled children to boot.
cowbell,
Another reason the WEF and their political minions want everyone jabbed. The vaxxed-up are becoming infertile.
Soul
Ever read Inferno by Dan Brown?
John,
I started The Da Vinci Code and stopped page 2. Brown (or his ghost writer — most ultra-successful fiction writers are just faces for their corporations) can’t write a grammatically correct sentence except by accident.
What was Inferno about?
@ Soul Forensics:
Interesting you say that, “most ultra-successful fiction writers are just faces for their corporations,” and their work is done by ghost writers.
I’ve noticed that many of the books supposedly written by ultra-successful fiction writers don’t seem to be written by the same person. One glaring example is Barbara Kingsolver. The person who wrote “Poisonwood Bible” CANNOT be the same person who wrote ANY of her other books.
That is what the Metaverse is for.
They are now running McMedia pieces about having digital children in the Metaverse and purchasing “luxury properties” for millions.
When I say these people are insane, I mean it.
Snack pack is back but he’s not flogging the NYTimes — why not?
They fired him for hanging out on “Tin Foil Hat” blogs like this and not even pulling his own weight.
Anthea,
James Patterson is the worst. He doesn’t write any of his books. Pumps out about 20 a year, each by different writers. He has such name recognition that it’s a fierce battle to win one of those “James Patterson” credits to your CV (and bank account).
Dan Brown is, believe it or not, a teacher of English writing at some college. Patterson looks what he is: deranged.
This is why the Earth should have been given to the Neanderthals. They knew that the walking monkeys would one day live in hive towers and eat bugs and detritus
Studies have been made of ancient Neanderthal sites, and comparisons have been made with the Homo Sapien cave man sites to find any differences between the two types of primates. What they found was no evidence of dogs being in the company of the Neanderthals. But dogs were plentiful at old Homo Sapien sites. Some scientists think that Neanderthals might have become extinct because they had to hunt without the assistance of the domestic dog. When humans and dogs formed mutual hunting packs, and dogs lived with humans – meat got a lot easier to find and kill. It’s thought that humans now have a poor sense of smell because in our ancient past, dogs were doing the smelling for us. And we were busy instead making and using deadly weapons like spears. A claim can be made that us humans might have gone extinct along with the Neanderthals without help from dogs. And now look how we treat them. Dogs and humans hunting together is still going on today, and this practice may have started as long as 100,000 years ago.
Homo sapien cave man – same as Cromagnon? Denisovan?
Frozen Cave Man Lawyer from SNL (Saturday Night Live) sketches? This role was played by Phil Hartman. Anyone else remember?
UNFROZEN CAVEMAN LAWYER!
YES!
Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t know that wow.
Is there any evidence that ancient H. sapiens ever hunted with dogs?
Are there any pictures in cave paintings of dogs along on the hunt?
I think it might be more likely that H. sapiens had more food than Neanderthals because they had better weapons. They might ven have hunted and eaten the Neanderthals.
Ironclad evidence that ancient cave men hunted with dogs? That would be difficult to come by, as they’ve left us with no written communications. Judging from what we now know about wolf, human, and dog behavior we can come up with some good guesses as to what happened. Wolves and humans are both pack animals, having family structures and always having a pack leader. When a wolf pack goes hunting it does it in an organized way and with a hunt leader. Human hunting expeditions probably followed the same general guidelines as used by wolves. Wolves got curious about the humans and a few of them, maybe some of the weaker ones that had tired of being dominated by their peers in the wolfpack pecking order – they decided it was more fun to hang out with the humans. Humans who were maybe just as curious about them. The “hang around” wolves went hunting together with the humans, had some great successes by combining skills and strategies, and all of a sudden the domesticated dog arrives on the scene.
Those first wolf/dogs probably would have been horrified had they known that hanging around with humans would many thousands of years later devolve them into silly creatures like Pugs and Poodles.
Another misfortune that happened to the original wolf line was the introduction of promiscuity. Wolves mate for life and have a tightly bound family social structure. It seems the dogs have somehow copied human sexual behavior, and a dog in heat, like some humans in heat – will go for whatever is available at the moment. No so with the wolves, or at least that’s what the biologists say – that a wolf couple remains a couple for life. No divorces in wolf land!
Woodchuck:
Love that “we,” “it is thought,” etc. These are all hypotheticals.
What makes you part of “we”?
Who is doing this “it is though” thinking?
How about citing some actual evidence, such as a paper?
Native Americans certainly ate dogs.
Per Wiki, there is one tribe that used dogs to hunt.
It looks like individual dogs were trained to hunt.
Not hunting in a pack like wolves.
I think they hunted with spears. Dogs are quite blunt.
Great post. We have been helping each other for over 10K years.
Dogs are part of our world for good reason and by design by humans.
That was fun lol
3 earths. a joke.
In lost angeles I see more east indians.
I was thinking about pre partition India, today that area has 2? billion.
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri chaos.
The Manson Women were the original Freegans. Of course in 1969 they were looked down upon as dumpster divers
This was mentioned in response to the comment from Maltthus regarding Charlie and The Process Church
It’s a strange name for a church. It sounds very tedious. Like if someone said why don’t you come to the Process Church with me you might say something like omg what all is involved with that!?
The secret was all the members, both male and female, had long gorgeous hair.
Wonder what kind of conditioner they all used? Maybe some secret Grecian formula that had placenta in it?
But does it pass Joe’s sniff test?
No doubt, Biden was down with the communal showers and helped everyone to vigorously lather up.
Hmmm, I didn’t see that anywhere when I looked it up
On this student loan deal, what if you paid yours back? Do you get a refund? Or are you just a sucker?
The joke is on you, and now we can all see where hard work and perseverance get you. The American Dream is truly dead, since there is no incentive to work towards it any more. What is the point of scrimping and saving when the government comes along to bail out a bunch of deadbeats?
At some point the gov will be bailing like mad, but their buckets will be coming up empty. Nothing will be appearing in the feed troughs, and the herds of sheeple will be wandering around in confusion. Where’s our free stuff?
With a broken down high tech agricultural system that can’t work due to lack of parts and fuel for machines – new job opportunities will be arriving. These job openings will be huge and a lot of it will be in agriculture doing stoop labor in hot fields, doing work formerly done by machines. The government will be bankrupt by that time and won’t have the ability to feed the sheeple with gov’t food. So to avoid starving you find work in a Florida tomato field. Or maybe picking cotton by hand in Alabama because the big diesel powered cotton pickin’ machines are broke down and it’s not known when parts will be available. Either pick by hand or go naked. Your choice!
What is weird to me is that a lot of jobs are out there, but are not being filled.
For instance, both the public transit authority in Berkshire County, Mass., and the Vineyard Transit authority cannot find drivers.
Many businesses are curtailing hours or services because they can’t find workers.
These are not international conglomerates but rather are small to medium local outfits.
So, where are the workers/ Seems like so far there are more jobs than workers.
As for picking the cotton for our own shirts, perhaps it will be possible to earn points in U-Pick cotton fields that can be saved up until one has enough points for a shirt. Or, better still, a length of cloth, so you can make your own shirt.
In fact, U-Pick might be a catchy new label . . .
Does anyone remember how to sew?
Or own a sewing machine? Good thing to have.
I have two.
You can get very sturdy vintage models on line or if you keep you eyes peeled in the thrift shop.
My cousin’s niece graduated from HS in June; she’s a smart kid, got accepted at UCONN, which is a decent school. She could have commuted to the branch in Hartford, tuition is reasonable, wouldn’t have required any student loans. Instead, encouraged by her crazy mother (who recently dyed her hair purple) she’s headed to some party school in Florida, which requires loans out the wazoo! OUT THE WAZOO! Their thinking seems to be “Girls just want to have fun” and “loans will be forgiven anyway”.
Used to be women would attend an institution of higher learning for just a year or two, simply to gain some skills but most importantly to find a husband. Whatever happened to those days?
Too bad the “institutions of higher learning” don’t give a pre-class on using your head when choosing an “institution of higher learning” to attend. The best school I attended during my “higher learning” ordeal was the JuCo I attended for the first two years. Should have stopped right there. Had more nice looking women closer to my age at the time as well. What’s not to love?
haha
utube, becky loves kanga channel.
she is in debt like 150k for her Florida education and thinks she has a great job waiting.
she is into make up.
A sucker, I bet, lol.
Having a dog is like having an infant. Poop bags? Check. Diapers? Check. Doggie food? Check. Baby food? Check. Bath? Once a week for sure, oh what fun. At least most dogs can feed themselves if you put it out for them. Adorable cuddliness? I leave that to dog owners to decide.
Meanwhile, black actors jump on the bandwagon! Now’s your chance to reap a fortune in TV advertising.
It seems that tc has never spent any time on farms and ranches that have working dogs on the payroll. Dogs that earn their keep and more, as well as not being cuddly. Having a dog like a pit bull or a police trained german shephard isn’t like having an infant around. It’s more like having a weapon or a dangerous machine around that needs management and control to be effective at work, whatever that work might be. From guarding your home at night to sniffing out buried bombs in Iraq. Not all dogs are poodles or boston terriers.
Exactly, good points Woodchuck. May I add that dogs are infinitely useful for a variety of reasons, some of which you mention, as well as providing much needed companionship to those that lack the human variety. I would argue that I’d rather have a dog as my trusted companion than a random human being that can stab me in the back any day.
No argument about it, dogs are infinitely better and more useful to man than cats ever will be.
Except a Maine coon cat.
Why not both? I’ve seen kittehs chase away black bears.
Cats are great. I have dogs who won’t allow one in the house, which kinda sucks.
That’s the lesson of Tom & Jerry, MQ. There is an order of ascendancy that goes Dog ~ Cat ~ Mouse. Dog (Butch) was on top.
But then came the glue traps…
BRH!!
Did you miss the epic episode entitled “Feed the Kitty”?
You may have.
Big ol’ Butch has a nervous breakdown because his owner won’t allow him to have a KITTEN.
One of my fav’s and a Chuck Jones masterpiece.
Here it is – enjoy!
https://youtu.be/mbMHxm-tKX0
Yes. Big dogs in the city, especially confined to apartments, is a problem. Big dogs need a purpose and plenty of space to do it in, just like humans, lest they both become neurotic. Cramming undisciplined and purposeless big dogs and too many likewise humans into confined city spaces is where we went wrong.
Yesterday in NFlorida, a US Postal Carrier attacked and killed by a pack of dogs after her mail truck broke down.
Condolences. They need to go after the owner(s) as if they did it. I’ve had some scrapes myself in my time. Probably pit bulls, simply because those are the dogs most often abused by the nitwits as “virility symbols,” or whatever their shtick is.
They were bred to kill. Nature trumps nurture here.
In my condo complex, an owner kept his great dane in a cage all day when he went to work. It was cruel.
You can’t have free-range chickens unless you have a good dog to keep the predators away. Got a peach tree? The raccoons will strip it of fruit literally overnight, unless you have a good dog. If you don’t have a good dog, the rabbits will eat your garden plants down to the ground some years.
A good herd dog will protect your sheep and goats (and their babies in lambing and kidding season). I think they’re also good for moving the herds around, though I have no experience with that. Some people move their herds to new paddocks on a rotation basis. If you do it right, you don’t have to buy hay, and you restore the soil.
Working dogs LOVE to work. Nothing makes them happier than having a new baby lamb or kid to guard, a few rabbits to kill, or a UPS man to intimidate. The good thing about UPS men is that your dog is always successful at chasing them away, and this builds his confidence.
I completely agree that a dog needs a job to be really happy. Like most humans . . .
And most dogs have been bred for particular jobs.
Some have been bred to be lapdogs, but I think these are genetically not that robust because things taken to extremes for “cuteness.” Just an impression.
I feel sorry for most modern dogs, forced to just hang out and do nothing. In fact, the “job” of many modern dogs seems to be to give their owner the “job” of walking them every day and cleaning up after them.
Of course, kids do love pets.
But since we were talking about allocation of resources and food shortages . . . the news from the UK is that a lot of pets are being abandoned.
In fact, the “job” of many modern dogs seems to be to give their owner the “job” of walking them every day and cleaning up after them.
LOL! That does seem to be the size of it. And not surprisingly, many of the owners don’t even do those two jobs very well either.
Woodchuckl…dogs in my neighborhood have never seen a farm, where they might be self-sufficient and earn their keep. Sad. Laboradoodle anyone?
I learned something tom and thought it was interesting. Why do you always have to be so foolish
And how about those minority actors rakin’ it in on TV advertising? Their time has cum to prostitute themselves, I guess.
Better yet, so many ads these days are trying to make every couple they feature inter-racial. Either that or they are two guys or two girls together, obviously catering to the gay segment of the population.
What’s not to love? I don’t see any personal connection to these products so will not be buying what they are so desperately peddling.
Interracial AND gay/lezzie. A twofer!
If you’re white, don’t laff too loud. The joke’s on us.
Hear, hear.
It’s on everybody, but yeah.
And to think I suggested that this place went full-retard yesterday!
Every day, all day.
This is mostly about well-to-do, cosmopolitan Hong Kong parents, but I believe it applies to most urban Chinese:
“A growing number of wealthy Chinese families are shrugging off fears about the coronavirus pandemic and once again making plans to send their children abroad to study.”
They may have fallen for the early melodramatic scenes of The Narrative – citizens collapsing dead in the streets of Wuhan – but by now they have clearly figured out it’s a case of continuing authoritarian over-reach.
You don’t get, or stay, wealthy by being continuously fooled.
“The part that doesn’t add up is the supposed banking claque’s utter lack of political charm.”
You don’t need charm when you know how to hack humans’ subconscious minds with TV, coffee, and alcohol. Force the proles into a trance, encourage them to worship and obey the state (a natural inclination), and when the time comes, you get millions of the most gullible among them to euthanize themselves and their children with “vaccines.” (My guess is, no one will be held accountable for this; the proles have euthanized themselves.)
For the survivors, the “salvation program” is being designed and will be forthcoming. The phrase “New World Order” is a misnomer. What is being rolled out is the Satanic World Order. All the weirdness now is the buildup to a world religion and a slick world leader, signaling the final years of life on Earth before the Second Coming of Christ.
All we can do now is repent. See information by Father Seraphim Rose, an American Orthodox Christian saint for our times. And don’t put your hope in princes of the Earth (including so-called “populists” or “conservatives”).
And people think alcohol is bad, but people drink extremely concentrated coffee all day. I don’t know how they can think at all, much less control knee-jerk reactions to stuff.
It is called ‘tolerance.’ Tolerance is a well-known phenomenon in the medical and scientific communities.
“I don’t know how they can think at all, much less control knee-jerk reactions to stuff.
MaryQueenOfKneeJerks
LMAO, from you of all libtard knee-jerkers.
Priceless.
I don’t and can’t understand the purpose of God making such a cruel and inhumane world. What is the point?
“Cruel and inhuman world”-SSL
SSL, Tucker was talking about carjacking and the collapse of the rule of law, mentioned a white grandmother in New Orleans who was carjacked by a pack of Joggers, whose ARM WAS TORN OFF AT THE SHOULDER; she bled to death on the pavement with her right arm detached and laying beside her.
The story did not make National news for obvious reasons, Was this a big story in the State of Louisiana? Did you know about it?
He allows evil, He does not will it. For to mandate the good would not be love.
“God’s hand is always upon those who belong to Him, and leads them by unknown paths. The most they can do is to believe what they cannot yet manage to see but will later on, and, remaining firm in their faith, work with God in that direction.”
Cardinal Newman
Ok
The most compelling and rewarding championships are when the under-dogs prevail.
This cruel world is our test. It’s Study Week before Finals.
Good luck!
Wow I’m super excited let me tell ya lol
Perhaps He didn’t.
If you accept that God exists, it is clear that he does not intervene. If he didn’t intervene to stop the Holocaust, then he doesn’t intervene at all. I think he just made the world with its laws of physics, created us, and gave us a bag of tools (reason, a conscience, etc.) and left us to get on with it.
Soul Forensics
Inferno
Robert Langford, Brown’s protagonist, is a symbolic expert who is pulled into cases where symbols are important. He always has a gal getting involved where is is chasing the antagonist by trying to outguess him.
Inferno is about a billionaire who wants to solve the overpopulation problem by spreading a virus over the Earth. He actually is killed early in the book but his virus is hidden and is set to be released automatically in a few weeks. Langford and his gal chase it down and think they have stopped it, only to find out it was a diversion and the virus had been released two weeks before.
The target for the virus? Not killing people, but the sterilization of a large percentage of the male population.
Do not waste your time with the movie, Ron Howard ruined the book.
Gore Vidal’s “Kalki” is about how a small group of people plot to exterminate the entire population of the world–except for themselves. They succeed. In the afterword, Vidal mentions that the means exist to wipe out the entire human population of the world–and this was back in the 70s or early 80s.
Well Vidal would certainly be one to know of such things, with his manifold connections to the older power base.
Here’s one of many interesting quotes from the noted expatriate:
“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
Many people seem to feel that way about humans. I think we’re just looking at bazillionth example of population overshoot, which is self-correcting.
The earth will remain, in any case. Nature doesn’t die that easily, either. Look at Chernobyl and its environs: a regular Eden.
I suspect Gore Vidal’s view of human life is typical of how the elites view the rest of us, however. If they want to exterminate the lot of us, it’s probably just because they see us as a bunch of vermin, shitting on their beaches in India and living out our squalid lives in decaying cities. At best, we are stupid cattle to them.
Truth be told, maybe they’re the ones who are stupid cattle leading squalid lives. What do they do with their lives, I wonder? The ones who are visible to us look like an uneviable lot, in terms of both brains and meaningful lives.
Well, Gore Vidal and VP Al Gore were 3rd cousins.
Fun fact: Gore Vidal’s family and Lost Generation writer Robert McAlmon’s family were neighbors in … Deadwood, SD. From back in the day, when Deadwood was legendary.
Interesting.
Maybe I should read it.
He’s a good writer.
I loved “Burr” and “Creation.” .
Actually, his literary output was quite phenomenal. Judging by the Wiki entry.
Back when I read it in the 70s, I thought is was quite the cliff-hanger. In fact, I stayed up half the night on a work-night to finish it. I’m not sure how I’d feel about the book now.
John,
Yeah, Ron Howard is an awful director. Too bad, sounds like a great premise.
1968-74 was a warm-up act to 2022 to 2030, across the global Western Civilization projects.
It is the best of times for the few global elite, sitting on concentrated wealth, and pulling the strings of purchased sycophants who are executing the technology of CULLING, exacerbation of percolating variables, and waves of macro-civilization destruction.
It is the worst of times for the many, who are incapable of girding, maneuvering, reacting, and adapting to waves of induced and natural calamities.
….and those capable of girding, maneuvering, reacting, and adapting are devoting ALL Time and Energy building out the New, whereby New is defined as the hyper-localized means of regenerative, sustainable, resilient, collaborative, defended production, in resonant unity with illimitable-spirit and nature.
GODSPEED!
Carpe Diem!
Sola Vertus Invicta!
Whatever that means
I think it means most of us are stuffed. 🙂
Sort of what I was thinking. Like you could just say something like “enjoy the die off”.
“Have a pleasant genocide.”
As a nice addition to your day and all 🙂
So far, so good.
Hay chihuahua! War has always been 1 part greed/ambition and 1 part society’s maintenance and “spring cleaning” efforts.
Any species that is not countered by either predation or resource scarcity will soon overreach its natural, sustainable population limits.
Heavy rains and verdant fields? First zebra populations, then lion prides increase in size and scope. Drought? Ah, the long culling as once again, first zebra populations, then lion numbers rapidly fall off.
Since mankind no longer has any organically derived predators – other than ourselves – thinkers must take responsibility for imposing this natural order effect through their own efforts.
Of course it’s always obscured by subterfuge and diversion, giving rise to such cute phrases as “just cause”, “arsenal of democracy”, et al, but the reality is that the masses soon fuck themselves out of house and hearth.
So, what’s a leader to do? Well, in napoleonic times, they took the most pathetic specimens and organized them in defensive squares to be decimated by cannon fire.
Same idea but different techniques in WW1 were it was much more effective to have troops march directly into machine gun fire.
Anywayyyyy, please stop complaining, or treating our present era as uniquely evil, special or in any way different from the past 10s of thousands of years.
It’s not – what we’re jointly experiencing is called the facts of life aka “reality”. You either come to recognize this situation is the bare essence of existence, or you bitterly cling to the intentionally programmed hopes and desires little people were trained to expect.
PS a different discussion is how “democracy” came to be utilized as the most powerful control method yet devised.
Is there an award you’re aiming at for repeating the same story and the same condescension endlessly in not quite but almost the same words?
Because I think most people are ready to concede that you should have it.
Booby prize?
“Anywayyyyy, please stop complaining, or treating our present era as uniquely evil, special or in any way different from the past 10s of thousands of years.”
But our present era is, indeed, uniquely evil, special and different.
This is God’s Really Big Show!
Hang onto your hat!
@ Rhett Dawson:
Yes, our present era is uniquely evil…. Yes, some this stuff has gone on since forever, but never on this scale. And some of it has, as far as I know, never occurred before. Genocide has always been common, but genocide on a worldwide scale with governments targeting their own people is a new one. Also governments apparently actively seeking the outside conquest of their own nations.
Also at least fairly new: the absolute and deliberate moral degradation of many nations. I don’t think such a policy ever existed before the 20th Century, except during the era of the Opium Wars. And pumping the Chinese full of opium was not the policy of the Chinese government.
“Any species that is not countered by either predation or resource scarcity will soon overreach its natural, sustainable population limits.”
Feel free to explain what that limit is. Be sure to show your work.
I don’t think a limit can be defined. It is inversely proportional to quality of life. Where does one draw the line?
I really don’t know. But given the moral/ethical issues involved, I find it odd that some are so quick to tell us where that line should be drawn, or even whether it needs to be.
Don’t have to debate overpopulation, but I’ll say this:
If your morality dies not jive with the physical laws of the universe, with thermodynamics… and could potentially lead to violent collapse and a die-off of the population your “morality” governs…
then your “morality” IS NOT MORAL.
I’m not making specific judgements here; I’m just making a general statement about inner consistencies in “moral” systems.
You don’t have to debate overpopulation because you cannot debate it.
Slug’s question above is quite pertinent. Where is the line? Who are you to decide where it is?
Don’t pretend you are injecting science here.
Be forthright for a change, NO, and admit there’s no amount of scientific data or reasoning supporting any population limit that you would entertain.
Shocking/(not shocking) that you’ve never read “Overshoot.”
NO, is that from “Overshoot”?
Sounds like it.
It was from Mitchellc’s post. Dunno what you mean.
I was referring to William F. Catton’s book “Overshoot.”
Yes, but what in my post did you think was from Overshoot?
I have never read Overshoot.
Meh. People killing each other off is indeed the way of the world. But, apart from life’s inherent tragedy, there is still such a thing as good and evil. To object to evil and to oppose evil is a duty.
There is also much that a person can do–though often without the expectation of avoiding tragedy and suffering.
The “facts of life” do not prevent you from living a life of decency and honor. Prudence may help you avoid tragedy and suffering to some extent. To have prudence, you have to have knowledge.
There are those lines from William Blake that say that one may, “build a heaven in hell’s despair,” or, “build a hell in heaven’s despite.”
@ mitchellc:
Actually, you and Karen getting all upset because people here are talking about these extraordinary times is what’s weird.
Come on man err umm what was I talking about?
oann.com/biden-unable-to-coherently-justify-student-debt-forgiveness/
This man is a buffoon.
Pot, kettle, black.
Yes, you are a buffoon.
Disclose TV
NEW – German Health Minister Lauterbach says vaccination limits the COVID pandemic because vaccinated people develop symptoms quickly and stay home, while unvaccinated people develop symptoms more slowly.
A woman at work was talking like this. She felt “covid” coming on and was impatient for it stop teasing her and start ravaging her. I told her about how I had stopped colds before at an early stage by the use of Vitamin C. She didn’t have any and didn’t seem that interested. She wanted to get it on.
She had “covid” before, but not too badly because of the “vaccine”. So it was too late for her anyway. After a few jabs, you don’t have much of an immune system left.
If one is in a hurry to get sick, to get it over with, perhaps one is in a hurry to get dead, to get it over with. The vaccine can help with that too. As my Ex said, why bother to water the plants? They’re going to die anyway.
That’s some pretty damn convoluted thinking going on there. I’m on a Teams meeting at work as we speak going through the same thing with a budget rigamarole question. Talk about divine coincidence!
Oh my god, make it stop! Fifteen minute meeting tops has just gone 45!
NEVER let multiple people analyze a spreadsheet simultaneously, no matter how “expert” they might claim to be. EXCRUCIATING!!!
Gentlemen:
Let us never forget Jeffrey Toobin.
Zoom wankin’ is unacceptable behavior; plain and simple.
You really have to hand it to Jeff.
Everyone was trying to rub him out and he just jerked them off like flies.
He never really punched down either. When all the other anchors and talking heads were beating their chests he was busy beating his…
Thanks for making me throw up, Karen.
And don’t you forget when all those other chickens were choking, Jeff wasn’t afraid to grab the manual override and take it to the next gear.
Not like he’d ever blow his own horn though. He could paint the ceiling with all the names of lesser men who would have up and quit. But not Jeff. I’m sure he could stroke his ego but it’s not in his nature. On the bright side he can sit back and enjoy life and maybe go walk the dog
There was something so right about it being Toobin.
Who else jerks it to coworkers in an online meeting?
Toobin.
Quick poll:
Politicians marching and campaigning in local parades….yea or nay?
LOL! Just makes them that much easier to [fill in the blank here].
I vote “yea”, as long as they’re wearing clown suits, clown make-up, and tiny dart boards on their chests.
LOL.
“When it comes to purchasing an electric vehicle (EV), Americans are mainly concerned about charging station logistics and travel range limitations.
A reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has attested to both of these factors in a recent piece, where she writes about the major difficulties faced while taking a long road trip in an EV. To make a long story short, EVs are not suitable for long road trips, unless you plan to spend hours detouring.”
https://twitter.com/yohiobaseball/status/1562847931077885953?cxt=HHwWgoDQnbf6rLArAAAA
As said many times already, the whole point of the transition to EVs is to further dispossess the population and to limit their ability to travel.
I’ve an ancestor who used to travel around a bit as a salesman in the southeast US in the first decade of the 1900’s. He lived in a small rural town and was part owner of a small steam engine powered factory that made fine quality oak dining tables. So some 120 years ago he was very mobile. His adventures on the road would begin with him putting his horse and wagon together, tossing his luggage in the back, and somebody “drives” him 3 miles or so downtown where he climbs aboard a steam powered train that takes him to Knoxville. From there he has train access to any city in the US he desired to go – to try and sell tables to furniture stores. No doubt, keeping horses involves a lot of chores as well as the hassle of having to catch one and fit it in a wagon harness. I’ve a photo of his home a few decades later with a model A parked in front. Much easier now to get to the train station.
And that is how it’s gonna be again, but it will be called “the long emergency”, the great collapse, the Great Tribulation, take your pick. My forebears were quite happy with their living arrangement that we are about to call hell. We don’t want to be gardening or canning, keeping livestock, sewing our own clothes, and driving a primitive car like one of those early Fords. Nope, we can’t do it! Gotta have one of those EV’s!
Good point Woodchuck. I have a copy of a diary written by a local woman 1860-1911. She was a teacher in New Britain, Ct. I was surprised as to how well travelled (locally) she was — shopping in Hartford, trips to NYC, visiting relatives in Westfield, Mass. and very rural Cornwall, Ct. — all facilitated by rail and trolley.
The guy who founded Hitchcock Chair, Lambert Hitchcock, in 1841, rode a horse from Western, Ct to Chicago, carrying a catalog of his furniture, taking orders from people along the way (one of the original Yankee Peddlars)
Yes, there used to be a trolley connection from Boston down to Wrentham, Mass.
Now they haven’t yet managed to get a train connecting Boston and New Bedford).
Apparently at one time there was a Cape Cod RR that extended all the way out to Provincetown.
“Gotta have one of those EVs” -Woodchuck
Not only EVs, but super EVs. For example, the new GM Hummer EV: 10,000 lbs. 800 horsepower, 0-60 in 3 seconds — all for $135,000.
Apparently, early 1900s New York City was inundated with horse buns. Shoveling horse shit is enjoyable — good exercise, and the smell’s much better than the same effluent from a cat.
Yeah, so if I want to travel off road in a very remote wilderness area I am sure our government will have charging stations placed all over the land for me to use, right? I am sure these would really add to the landscape and be well maintained.
That’s the plan.
So far, the reality is, in urban areas, charging stations are vandalized by scrappers about a week after installation, stripped of copper and any other metals, then bound for bootleg scrap yards.
Imagine how long Charger Stations in remote areas will last? 2 days? 3 days? Lol.
Tsk-tsk!
You won’t be allowed to take the EV you’re renting into prohibited eco environs. Silly!
Your social credit and membership level will determine your travel radius and destinations. You better hope your carbon credit score is higher to gain access to the wilderness viewing area.
With a battery operated Sawzall — available at Harbor Freight for less than $100, you could lift one of those EV charger stations quicker than Homey pushing an elderly Chinese lady onto subway tracks in Manhattan.
Wouldn’t there be the possibility of getting electrocuted if you are cutting through the copper wires that carry the charge? Or is there some kind of off switch that is activated when the machine is not in use?
Help me out here, I would like to know what to expect when I break out that bolt cutters.
cowbell81 reminds me of a gruesome report from Dallas, where a couple of enterprising fellas decided to relieve whitey of buried copper cable…
…and you can guess the rest. They were reportedly cooked, through and through
Bell,
You can also ask the locals for help….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlUcUfHkdYk
More and more people are being packed in to apartments.
Into condos and townhomes.
How do they charge EV’s?
How do city dwellers in apartment high rises charge EV’s?
Well they don’t. You make them so expensive and so difficult to service that you’ll just opt for a vehicle sharing service.
You won’t own a car, and you’ll like it! Yay!
I don’t understand why anyone these days would willingly live in a half million dollar condo sited in an urban center. It is like you are just asking to be victimized and inconvenienced. With all of the once great local restaurants and unique shopping options closing their doors due to inflation, robbery, lack of sales, etc. what is the allure of living such a lifestyle in an urban core?
Makes absolutely no sense to me. I’d rather take those half million dollars and invest them in a country farmhouse where I can be more self sufficient and away from the rabble of society.
Why? Well, let’s see.. all the restaurants, cafes, and nightlife establishments within your 99% walk score where you can rub elbows with a clientele all gazing into their iPhones. A real café culture! Don’t forget the museum exhibits brought to you by the Ford Foundation where you can watch modern day Fluxus installments involving trans dolphins or something. The book shops?! Where else can you get a used signed copy of “The Earth is Flat”? The restaurants? I mean you can’t get good Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, Korean, Peruvian food outside of the city! Then there is the civic gatherings of statue tooolings and federal building bonfires! You’re such a provincial cowbell!
Yes, I’ve been watching video of ‘Cafe Culture’ in NYC, LA, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and so on. 2 days ago … an off duty cop jogging to a coffee shop, assaulted on the street, savagely beaten, now in critical condition, a cabbie beaten to death the day before — Starbucks closing up shop in ‘Problem Areas’, restaurants shutting down by the dozens in Portland and Minneapolis, needles and feces littering the streets of SF, like you say, Centers of Urban sophistication, urban paradise.
There’s a certain vitality to city life. You never feel as much alive as you do when your life may be on the line.
Am I just going to the bodega to get limes, or am I going to dodge a Rick Moranis sucker-punch? Really makes you live in the moment, you know, hyper-vigilance ?
c81 – It occurs to me that there is a natural reluctance to adapt to a shifting scenario, even when the signs are ominous. Many Jews chose to stay in Germany and continue to do business up until Kristallnacht, when the welcome mat was definitively yanked away; as I have mentioned to our host, I continue to subscribe to The New Yorker, as around 10% of the content is either amusing or insightful; nevertheless, there still seems to be an attitude of “If we pretend hard enough, we’ll still be adoring the Algonquin Round Table and listening to Fiorello La Guardia, Times Square on New Year’s Eve…” the whole shitteroux.
“Git while the gittins’ good” is always an advisable attitude.
Yes, that’s pretty much it in a nutshell, KA.
I figure about 15% of the population can afford EVs. Everybody else will be foot slogging it (a phrase from Solzhenitsyn) or riding on stinking buses with vagrants, the mentally I’ll, and criminals.
The Climate Commissar, with his $500,000 per year salary, will be blowing by you as you stand at the bus stop, driving his $189,000 Lucent Air EV, felling smug, giving you the finger and splashing mud in your direction.
When we are all forced to walk through urban areas on foot again, will the old custom return whereby the man walks closest to the street/gutter, while the woman is to the side closest the buildings or under the awnings? This was to keep slop from being thrown down on women from the upper level tenants.
Also while we’re at it, can we please bring back the fashion of top hats and ascots please? Also bonnets and corsets or the ladies would be nice. Thank you!
“Also while we’re at it, can we please bring back the fashion of top hats and ascots please? Also bonnets and corsets or the ladies would be nice. Thank you!”
🙂 A truly conservative line of thinking, that one!
Private transportation! People these days consider it a basic human need and right for each and every adult have a private automobile. Due to this popular delusion, we’ve created a society that denies children *their* rights to private transport.
My first set of wheels was a tricycle, and I was peddling up and down the sidewalks on my street on my trike. A first taste of freedom – having the power at age 3 and up to make my own decisions as to travel destinations. At age six I got my first bicycle and I was off to the races. By unusual good luck, I started biking in Pasing, a suburb of Munich. Because it was so soon after the war, traffic was very minimal. The car culture hadn’t been rebuilt yet, leaving the streets safe for bikes, mopeds, and small motorcycles. A child was safe peddling around in Pasing in ’55, mom didn’t know where I was and had no need to worry. She’d even pay me money to hop on my bike and get groceries, the bike had baskets attached for hauling stuff.
I once biked over to a fantastic place called “Blutemburg”. There was a castle and a convent there, with large open fields and ponds. From Blutemburg, if ya really wanted a hard trip and an adventure, keep biking in the same direction on the main streets and you’ll wind up at Nymphenburg Palace, a world class tourist site open to the public. Back in that day and era, the world was ok with and it was safe for six year olds to have bicycle adventures like that. Nowadays the poor kid would likely get mauled out there by some well meaning busy adult on four wheels.
There would be idignation – what’s this kid doing out here riding around in traffic? Let’s punish his parents!! Kids that age should be locked up somewhere and under 24 hour adult supervision. Imagine letting one roam about on the streets on his/her own! The horror! We adults own the roads and have sole rights to it, and due to our more advanced social setup, children have no right at all to bike about on their own.
“The Climate Commissar, with his $500,000 per year salary, will be blowing by you as you stand at the bus stop, driving his $189,000 Lucent Air EV, felling smug, giving you the finger and splashing mud in your direction.”
LOL.
“You make them so expensive and so difficult to service that you’ll just opt for a vehicle sharing service.
You won’t own a car, and you’ll like it! Yay!”
The simplest arithmetic of car ownership even now, with ICE and off-street parking at your dwelling, is fraught. Your car spends as much as 95% of the time waiting for you to use it. That’s a lot of capital and maintenance each year, just sitting around, rusting.
@ Redneck Liberal:
“Your car spends as much as 95% of the time waiting for you to use it.”
I have a lot of things like that. I have pants that I probably wear less than 95% of the time. Clearly I should share them with 20 other people.
Then there’s the cookware. How often do I really use the wok? Other people could be using that wok when I’m not.
Then there’s your home. How many people are never even home, except to sleep? That bed is only used for maybe one-third of your life. Somebody else should be using it the rest of the time.
Let me tell you, that shit adds up! All due to inefficiency!
Hey, you can park your boat at my place.
Rabbit hutches
NO…limiting population’s ability to travel sounds good to me. Might make one appreciate what’s in your own backyard.
Meanwhile, my local catbox liner includes a MSM news story about the Uvalde SCHOOL BOARD firing the local police chief! WTF??? I didn’t know school boards had the authority to fire gov’t employees. I guess in Texas, they do. Heaven help us all
He was a school police chief you BEEPing mouth breathing BEEPwad!
Karen…we don’t have school police chiefs where I live, or even much police presence in schools, that I can tell. Must be a Texas thing. Glad I don’t live there. And thank you for your kind correction of my ignorance.
Aww! You exaggerate! I’m no miracle worker! There’s no correcting your ignorance.
Hey BRH, I did hear very much about the grandmother who was cruelly murdered. It was a major story here locally. But understand that murders are second nature in NO. I haven’t been down there for like 8 years now because it has become so dangerous. I won’t be going back there again tbh with you unless maybe pale faced Yankees recapture it LOL.
On a different note should someone like a tom clark want to get a close look at what it is actually like in the camp of the Sioux I would be more than happy to risk a tour in NO East or 70805. That would be some awesome training for annoying, stupid lily white “anti-racists”.
Well SSL, we got a hometown guy buried in the village cemetery, Lt. William E. Simonds, 25th Connecticut Infantry, who got the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Irish Bend, Lousiana in 1862. He has a nice little gold plaque on his gravestone where we pay our respects every Memorial Day. That was then. Now, you don’t have much to worry about, as the military aged youngsters I see around here appear flabby, hollowed out, ashen and rather effeminate, the result of a lifetime spent in the basement playing video games.
That’s ok. The Cubans, Hondurans, and Nicaraguans appear to have their stratagems and solutions.
Was just reviewing the specs on the Lucid Air cars at their website. You need to reserve your spot to get one, plus all three models are listed at “starting” between $154k and $249k! Wowzers, talk about a car, eh?
So here’s another question. Are all of the charging ports on these different e-cars going to be standardized as the same? Or are they going to be so slightly different that you are forced to dock for charging at only certain stations that support that particular type of vehicle? I could see the auto makers pulling this kind of shenanigan. Kind of like computer software that is not interchangeable between Mac and PC.
That’s a good question CB. I know the Rivian, on top of the near $100,000 purchase price, requires a subscription that costs $15,500 (payable over 5 years) for use in only proprietary Charging Units.
Karen…up your ass w/ a ripsaw, you mother fucking bitch. And by all means, have a nice day.
Wow, are you kidding me? How can someone show such vitriol and anger towards someone else on a simple blog? Let’s all just take a step back now and simmer down please. No reason to get our blood pressure all through the roof because of some silly keyboard jockeying.
@ cowbell81:
People on meds often exhibit such behaviors. Usually this means they’re off their meds. You see it all the time in various Facebook groups. The groups about home canning often have some really snotty posts. I have even gotten some really snotty PMs–people raging at me and telling me about their disability–because of some innocuous comment. This is because so many people are on meds. Some of them are probably on meth.
The admins have to constantly kick people out of the Facebook groups because there are so many nutjobs out there.
The last time I saw someone behave this way in person, it was a guy who was mixing anti-psychotic drugs with meth and Hot Damn. Hot Damn is a cinnamon-flavored adult beverage that freshens your breath while it gets you shitfaced.
Now that I think of it, in his present mood Tom would be wise to stay home. The last time I saw someone act like this in person, he was arrested for driving around the neighborhood in his truck, throwing gravel on his enemies’ cars. This was after he stood at the end of his driveway for an hour or so, shouting threats and deprecations while brandishing a stick. (His sisters had cleared the guns out of his home, as they saw this coming on.)
Is Tom allowed to drive? I think that’s a fair question. He could be posting from a group home.
Revise “someone like a tom clark”
to
“someone like a Karen”
😉
Point of order: ‘motherfucking’ or ‘mother-fucker’ (adjective in this case, but also as an adverb) is traditionally spelled as one word or is hyphenated, rather than as two words.
As for the ass and a ripsaw, that would indeed be a unique way to approach the task of shoving something up there, so I guess tc is accorded points for creativity there, if not taste. The ‘have a nice day’ rejoinder at the end being typically passive/aggressive for this poster, thus requiring no further elaboration.
But….Tom needs new material.
Yes, he does seem to be having trouble finding his true voice here. Could be writer’s block or it could just be he has nothing to say. Can’t say which yet.
Can you believe the bots these days? Am I right? Like dial-down the sensitivity Klaus!
Good one!
The Brookings Institute estimates that about “1.2 billion Chinese people will be middle class by 2027, constituting 25% of the world’s middle class population.”
Haha! Think they’re gonna want to go green? Well, their run won’t be nearly as long as the West, but it might be boosted during the ever-labyrinthine and ever-changing economic wars. To wit:
Jim Rickards, well-known lawyer and financial analyst, is predicting a “C-Day” for Dec 13 of this year when U.S. $$ will becomes completely worthless and you’ll only be able to use CBDC Biden Bucks.
Seems a bit premature, but who knows? Hoard your crickets early before the prices go up!
Well, at least the crickets and/or other bugs will be convenient to trade once they become barter currency as well as food. “Rent’s due and I’m hungry, honey. Get off your ass, get outside, and scrounge us up a few bags of crickets!”
I dunno. Lots of studies out there showing that ingestion of bugs causes all kinds of problems with various pathogens.
It would appear people aren’t really meant to eat bugs, unless they have nothig else to eat.
It might depend on the size of the insect.
the German cockroaches in the cellar of my building in NYC were pretty big!
I think you can pull of their legs and roast the bodies.
Maybe grind the carapace to a meal and make pancakes?
Roach-kebabs. A holiday treat! Mmm, mmm, mmm!
https://www.google.com/search?q=roach-kebabs&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS882US882&sxsrf=ALiCzsYUQm2JYcsZus8oZSRP8EGkBNRlSA:1661464669183&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTgqeb_uL5AhUZkWoFHa0BDgMQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1745&bih=886&dpr=1.1#imgrc=pp1yJIzM-8qivM
Better:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/deep-fried-cockroaches-and-insects-street-food-in-royalty-free-image/1133764939?adppopup=true
The issue mentioned in many of the studies circulating are toxins in the carapace, among other things.
Now we’re going to get political bug-ingestion alarmism from the right, just like we got political covid alarmism from the left..
“And after that, make me a fruit pie”.
LOL! You had to go there, didn’t ya?
“After me the deep dish.”
A respected commentator on Things Financial, but this one seems like click-bait.
BREAKING NEWS: Former Epstein mentor and New York Post owner Steven Hoffenberg found dead
Steven Hoffenberg, a former mentor to Jeffrey Epstein and one-time owner of the New York Post, has been found dead, according to reports.
Mr Hoffenberg’s body was discovered by police as they performed a welfare check on him at his home in Derby, Connecticut, the Post reported.
The 77 year old spent 18 years in prison after being convicted of running a $500m Ponzi scheme.
The Derby Police Department said they were called to the home in Mount Pleasant St to perform a welfare check at 8pm on Tuesday, in a statement posted to Facebook that did not identify Mr Hoffenberg.
An initial autopsy found no signs of trauma, and a cause of death has not yet been released. It’s unclear when Mr Hoffenberg died, and police are checking dental records to confirm his identity.
The police department said his body was “not in a state where a visual identification could not be made”.
(Note: That last sentence is strange reading because it is a double negative. Think they are trying to hide something here?)
In Derby? Kind of a run down place, a 19th century industrial village. Area wise, the smallest town in the state. What was he doing there? He must have hit hard times.
He spent 11 years in prison, so I guess he did hit hard times. But at one period he was worth $500 million — you’d think at some point he would’ve stuffed a few duffle bags full of cash and parked them at the local storage-o-rama for rainy days ahead. But no, he thought the salad days would last forever, and he ended up in Derby, of all places.
It’s definitely a weird sentence. The bit about the dental records suggests the double negative wasn’t intended and that the author just changed his/her mind part way through the sentence and forgot to take out the extra ‘not’.
“(Note: That last sentence is strange reading because it is a double negative. Think they are trying to hide something here?)
Oooooh! Another conspiracy! Yay. Just what is needed…
Snack pack alert. This rendition says it hails from Texas, while our beloved Snack was a Seattlite. Might have been a bad call by moi.
youtu.be/cwcPRHnzyTA
extremelyamerican.com/post/unusual-toxic-components-found-in-covid-vaccines-without-exception-german-scientists
Can you believe we are living through a world wide genocide? Unbelievable.
Soul. I think I found a reason for your atheism that might apply to all atheists who are deep thinkers.
When you understand there is nothing”, maybe that is you the observer seeing all but yourself. Certainly heaven and hell are within, as is the whole of the universe, all 10? dimensions.
But it is all in all too, and out.
That’s my theory du jour.
You lost me. Of course I’m still running that budget meeting fiasco through my addled mind…
I once blurted out to a supervisor here during one of his notoriously long-winded and utterly pointless team meetings, “Is there a point anywhere remotely in sight here? I’ve got actual work to do, ya know.” (It’s in my pantheon of all-time great impromptu quips!) I think my entire “career” here pivoted on that one, singular moment. Whether that was “for worse” or not, I can’t say for sure. Monetarily, definitely. Mentally and psychologically, definitely not.
Lol dis. I lose most. A guy walks into a room and observes, ” there’s nobody here”. That’s what I was trying to say.
Ahh… of course!
I’m not an atheist, anmari.
I don’t make a distinction between God (in the esoteric tradition of Christianity) and Consciousness.
Sweeeeeet!
Go figure:
Joe Biden and several other high-profile Democrats received tens of millions of dollars from individuals and groups in the higher education sector over the last few campaign cycles before the president announced his student loan forgiveness program on Wednesday.
Biden received more than $64.5 million in contributions from people in the higher education sector during his presidential campaign in 2020, making him the top recipient by a large margin, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets. Overall, Democrats have been responsible for 70% of all political contributions from groups in the education industry since 2002.
Glad to see that all that influence peddling is finally paying off. How can you respect any corrupt politician who doesn’t deliver after being paid off? Honest quid pro quo deal making is what makes our democracy great.
Makes sense.
The Party of Trump “loves the under educated”, as stated plainly by the Grifter-in-Chief in 2016.
If if receiving campaign contributions is now a sign of corruption, would you please explain how the $1.6 billion “gift” (along with huge tax breaks all round) to that rat, Leonard Leo, who has been running the Federalist Society isn’t?
Being “under-educated” makes one semi-corrupt [ as well as semi-fascist ]?
Paragraph breaks don’t always work.
The village idiot pontificates poorly about corruption while projecting the absolute shit show values of leftist bullshit and corruption onto the Donald and Republicans in general.
RL your repeated squeals are about as worthwhile as your favorite pastime of one thumb up Yer bum and the other in your mouth and randomly rotating them.
Somewhere some village is throwing a party because their favorite court jester has left them to post on here.
Go back to biting the heads off chickens and sucking the sewage out with a straw already your comments on the Donald are way off mark.
The state of Oklahoma executed death row inmate James Coddington Thursday morning after he consumed a massive last meal of two cheeseburgers, two crunchy fish sandwiches, two large fries and a large soda.
Coddington was placed on death row after he beat 73-year-old Albert Hale to death with a hammer in 1997.
Although the article didn’t state as such, it is implied that the medical personnel that had to clean up and dispose of his corpse was rightfully pissed that he was allowed to consume such a large meal before the lethal injection.
That would make the embalming process a bit of a mess, wouldn’t it?
Future article and a title I expect to see here one day…. – “AMERICAN RESISTANCE”
How bout American Pestilence?
Or Canadian concupisence.
I recommend everyone to read Real Anthony Fauci by Bobby Kennedy Jr. On chapther 3 he explains how Ivermectin could have saved 80 percent of deaths Worldwide. This book have opened my eyes. I now know that, 90% of all medicine is not for anything else than profit for them. Low profit and effective medicines are bashed and marketed as ineffective because they go against their narrative and profit plans. One of them is wonder drug Ivermectin. I see that everyday people search for it but can’t find a place to obtain. You can get yours by visiting getmeivm.com
It’s so late in the game with this that I can’t help but think that this is basically predatory opportunism at this point. And frankly it is sickening just so you know.
It’s a Blackrock world
Well then Blackrock needs to do a way better job
Yes indeed Karen, it’s a Blackrock world. And at least there’s someone on this blog who dared to stir the pot. Good nite and good luck.
Shitting in a pot ain’t stirring but enjoy your self-aggrandizement
Just finished reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, a Pulitzer Prize winner. It’s not an easy read unless you understand Spanish and its endless slang (I don’t), yet I still recommend it. Much of it takes place a quarter mile from the side of my house.
Just in case anyone shows up here an hour before JHK releases his Friday essay, here is some of what Martin Armstrong says this morning about forgiving student loans:
“. . ..Yet, this does nothing to prevent predatory lending, albeit dismissing some interest on loans. This does not reinstate Glass Stegall, the provision that Bill Clinton erased to make student debt non-dischargeable in the case of bankruptcy. In fact, Clinton’s top financial advisor, Larry Summers, believes that this measure will increase inflation. “It consumes resources that could be better used helping those who did not, for whatever reason, have the chance to attend college. It will also tend to be inflationary by raising tuitions,” Summers wrote on his Twitter page. He also warned against continuing the moratorium of benefits expected to last until the end of the year.
Some state that we should be happy for those who are receiving relief, ****but the true culprits are the predatory lenders**** offering asinine interest rates and the universities that continually raise their fees. It also causes a disconnect between classes as those who chose trade school or blue-collar roles to avoid college fees will not be too fond of this initiative. It certainly will not help America’s plea to recruit more military personnel either. This is a temporary solution to a deeper problem.”
I still say: Young people who want to further their education should not be made prey to Shylocks and start ouit their lives with a debt stone around their necks when they hardly have the life experience to understand how this can blight their whole lives.
If they have the academic chops, then society should shoulder at least a significant portion of the cost of their advanced education. After all, institutions of learning are also basically nontaxpaying nonprofits. How come they get to turn around and screw the students? State universities must lower rates back to reasonable and taxpayers should shoulder some of the burden (which they already do because educaitonal institutions AFAIK don’t pay property and other taxes).
We continually—at least where I am—hear that the public should subsidize affordable housing so that we have nurses, teachers, etc. So why shouldn’t we subsidize the training of the same people so that we have the benefit of their services?
BTW, Harvard, with its multi-billion-dollar endowment, could easily waive tuition for all of its students.
Anger courses through me every morning it seems watching what the latest thing the DC idiots have done to destroy the integrity of the country.
Today it is student loan relief that isn’t that is bugging me.
It is the long term students, MDs, lawyers etc, that mortgage their futures with large loans, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The paltry $10000 offered is a joke.
But the real problem has been brewing for decades. Our ability to find college grad jobs has been sent overseas by, tada, our illustrious government with the cooperation of the corporations involved. I personally lost a great job to off shoring. However, look at the reason the corporations have moved, again the government with its 35% corporate tax under Obama is again the bad guy.
These people do not deserve loan relief. No more and maybe less than the folks who worked their butts off to get there degree. Also, the type of degree seems to tie into the work ethic of the graduate. The government is rewarding the gimme grads, the ones that find out that Art majors get jobs as waiters. Get by getting through school with their exobinate tuitions, find out your degree is worthless, cry to the Dems and get tuition relief. It is a slap in the face to hard working Americans, like everything else this damnable administration is doing.
Site is not allowing me to correct.
Exhorbitant.
One strange thing I been noticing is the way Russia is being depicted in the US media. For example, a story appears that the US Armed forces are not meeting recruiting goals, have to lower standards i.e. take in people with criminal records, non HS grads, lower physical standards and so on. Then about a week later you’ll see a headline “Putin Running out of Soldiers, Drafting Old Men and Boys.” Subsequently, “US Weapons Stockpiles Depleted due to losses in Afghanistan and transfers to Ukraine.” A few days later “Russia out of bullets, missiles, tanks and artillery”. Then, whenever Biden flubs a line, appears not to know where is his, and looks like an elderly man on his last legs, a story will appear in the Wapo or NYTimes stating that Putin has cancer with only days to live, or has Parkinson’s disease, or a bad heart. Its uncanny.
BRH,
What part of the truism;”The first liar doesn’t have a chance…” do you not understand?
“Uncanny”, BRH? It looks plenty canny to me, from afar, as there was much less trust in and obeisance to the party line during the Vietnam War. Many average citizens resisted what the TV and blats were telling them, or even if they knew they were being lied to, came back with “My country, right or wrong”.
I have the creepiest feeling that the clot-shots do in fact impair resistance … to truth and to authority.
Dammit. “…resistance to truth and obedience to authority”. Fixed it.
what the TV and blats were telling them – Speedy
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What are “blats?”
I had never heard of Hanlon’s Razor before, but I have always understood the concept. Hanlon’s Razor states that we should never attribute to evil what can be equally well explained by stupidity. Having walked the earth for more than 65 years, I submit that there is no limit on stupidity or evil, and what we see before us now is the synergy of them both.