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For the Progressive Democratic “Resistance” (PDR), post-Modernism is in full flower. They have ruled objective reality inadmissible. There are only stories — his story, her story, they’s story, zhe’s story, and you must believe them because they come out of lived experience — for instance the lived experience of having lost a sure-thing presidential election to a cartoon character with zero political experience, and then having lost the grand inquisition to oust him. For the PDRs, the metaphysical concept of reality refers to some land of dark make-believe over a distant horizon where numbers supposedly add up (ha!) and the actions of persons are said to entail a strange cosmic condition known as consequence.
Now that the Mueller Investigation has concluded empty of charges — despite two-plus-years of sedulous effort by fiercely dedicated antagonists of its target — everything about it, including the sacred Mueller Report, begins to emit odious vapors like unto a rump roast that has laid uncovered in a pantry for three weeks, attracting the attention of flies. The PDRs might think twice about a closer examination of all that festering material. What they’re liable to find is evidence of how slovenly and dishonest it was and how the revered legal maestro in charge of composing it may well be subject to charges himself of obstructing justice and malicious prosecution.
Information emerged over the weeks since the Mueller Report’s release that Mr. Mueller and his team knew unequivocally that the Special Counsel’s mission and the FBI operations that preceded it were based on concocted political bullshit supplied by Mrs. Clinton and her network of flunkies and fixers, ranging throughout the permanent DC bureacuracy (a.k.a. the Swamp), to outposts in foreign intel services and the political kitty-litter box known as Ukraine. Mr. Mueller must have suspected this from the outset, but knew for sure by the summer of 2017, and omitted to advise the American public that he had uncovered a fraud. Rather, he rode on the back of that fraud for two years, as if touring a political landfill on a donkey, leaving the public to stew in anxious hallucinations.
What else did Mr. Mueller do, or omit to do? He never engaged US government forensic computer analysts to examine the DNC servers at the heart of RussiaGate story. Rather, he allowed the conclusions to stand of a company called CrowdStrike, hired by the DNC itself to supposedly investigate the theft of emails, especially those of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. (See Craig Murray’s commentary on all this.) Mr. Mueller never bothered to interview the one person who might have known exactly who supplied the purloined emails to Wikileaks, namely Julian Assange. Mr. Mueller also did not bother to interview several dozen retired Intel Community computer experts, led by William Binney, former Technical Director of the NSA, who determined that the hack was accomplished by direct download by an insider onto a flash drive.
What could possibly be the explanation for these blunders. Well, we’re going to find out in the months ahead. The DPR chairs of various House committees have threatened to ask Mr. Mueller to testify. Bring it on, I say. He sure has some ‘splainin’ to do, if not in those venues, then in a more than a few grand juries that will be convened to assess the actions of his confederates-at-law from every hummock and gator pool in the Swamp. These various parties may also seek to understand why Mr. Mueller omitted to mention the now reeking Steele Dossier in his 444-page report, and why in his 20-plus page recounting of the oh-so-crucial Trump Tower meeting he never disclosed that the two Russians present were on the payroll of Hillary contractor FusionGPS, and met with its principal, Glenn Simpson before and after the meeting. It does give off a scent of “colluding with Russians,” except obviously the odor came from the wrong direction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared yesterday that we are in a constitutional crisis. You’re darn tootin’ we are, but it’s not coming from the flaccid threats of legal imbecile Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who wants to prosecute the Attorney General, Mr. Barr, for refusing to make public grand jury records in the Mueller report — since the law requires Mr. Barr to not disclose the material. The crisis she mis-identifies is the coming indictment of so many supposedly untouchable and hallowed public figures, up to and including the former president, Mr. Obama, and the former head of CIA, Mr. Brennan, and Director of National Security, Mr. Clapper, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the sainted Mr. Mueller, a whole posse of former Intel Community subalterns, and an unholy host of creeping, crawling, and flying swamp creatures from Glenn Simpson to the shyster lawyers at DNC law firm Perkins Coie, to the errand boys at the Cable News Networks, Wash-Po and The New York Times who trafficked in leaked perfidious documents — that the cumulative institutional damage will destroy public confidence in constitutional government per se.
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An adept liar is not a cartoon character with zero political experience. CrowdStrike an interesting name for a comapoany, personally interesting because this visits all the time. Lviv L’vivs’ka Oblast’ UA 46-118-153-33.broadband.kyivstar.net. I wonder if it is them.
K-Dog: I understood the first sentence, but then it kinda fell apart after that.
TraffickingInDivinity.com
Go to K-Dog’s website, Occam. Check out his ‘Chew Toy’ — you can view url info from anyone visiting his site at that moment. What he’s referring to here is a Russian, maybe Ukrainian originated visitor that shows up a lot and stays connected for extended periods. I have observed it and commented to him about it. Check out his homemade globe.
Link again?
As I write this, K-Dog has a visitor from Belgrade, RU.
Funny, Belgrade used to be in Yugoslavia (or Serbia, if you prefer). Who moved it, and when?
Error on my part: the ping was from “Belgrade, RS”, wherever ‘RS’ is — I tried without success to follow the url. It is no longer active on the dog’s site.
the ping was from “Belgrade, RS”, wherever ‘RS’ is – Farmer M
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RS = the Republic of Serbia.
Very good. Thanks.
Yeah, Problem with writing here is that it is all clear to you, but when you hit submit there are no second chances.
Lviv L’vivs’ka Oblast’
Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine
UA is the country code for Ukraine and an Oblast is a type of administrative division, like a state in the U.S.
kyivstar denotes a company. Comapoany above was a happy accident. 46-118-153-33 is the web address of the computer connecting to my website fifty times last week. I wonder if it is them should have had a question mark.
What is more difficult to get across is my amusement because the ping may or may not be coming from the Ukraine if it has truly deep origins. But field offices can be anywhere! My bemusement comes from wondering how deep the Russian Narrative goes in our alphabet soup labyrinth of bureaucracies.
Yeah, people in the old Soviet block have computers and surf the net, even people at work who should be working. Maybe it’s even an intelligence agency or subcontractor. The world is infested with people monitoring other people.
K-Dog, aren’t you the one who thought nefarious people were following you around?
I used to work at NSA HQ, Now I denounce the deep state and globalists every chance I get. So far, nobody has taken notice or followed me around. It sucks to be so insignificant. That’s why some of us need to invent stories of intrigue..
GFU
K-Dog, I would avoid telling him that. He might like it too much.
As for our host’s topic of crises, it turns out that there is no crisis so big it can’t be made into entertainment, like John Oliver on opioids. That written, I think the Resistance would rather watch “Knock Down the House,” a Netflix documentary about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other women running for Congress.
Dog,
GFU? Totally out of character and uncalled for.
Interesting, it takes give-or-take a dozen lines to explain three! A quick proofread with the awareness that we don’t live in your head before ‘hitting submit’ would go a long way towards facilitating comprehension.
Still can’t see the forest because of the trees, K-Dog?!
The U is you. But curiously for all readers to see. Why would you need to point such a thing out? Anybody with a rational mind will be asking that very question themselves and when they respond with indignation at realizing your manipulation of them they will next ask: What is your point to themselves. As we don’t know each other the idea that it is a personal issue will be dismissed. So you are motivated by what?
Not to piss me off because several hundred people read all this so that you wrote to mess with their heads not mine is obvious. To me it is an opportunity so I thank you.
But perhaps the revisions to my article of Wednesday that I just made are your only motivation?
If so that leads us back to where we were with a little less wondering.
But if you want an explanation to your suggestions of crazy the answer is very simple.
“First rule of Fight Club is—you do not talk about Fight Club.”
I did.
The only thing I disagree with is that the PDR even gives a hoot about honesty. They don’t. The whole party is about POWER, and they will lie and crawl upon their bellies like a reptile to get POWER, and keep POWER. Nothing whatsoever will happen to them. The main reason is, that the Main Stream Press is in the tank for the Democrats, and only a few honest and intrepid people will even talk about this stuff.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Indeed. Look how they did Bernie Sanders in 2016.
True. I was watching a video this morning, and the guy asked “Which is more detrimental to democracy – Putin leaking a document about the DNC screwing over Bernie, or the DNC screwing over Bernie?
Yeah, what he said!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Yes, I saw that video, and I was very glad I was not the only person to whom that question occurred.
A mutual follower of mine on Twitter who is a fellow Bernie-Bro is having a “discussion” with a bunch of Hillary Clinton partisans of which he occasionally retweets choice bits and pieces, and the sheer level of cognitive dissonance I see from the Hillary-Bots just makes my vision blur. It’s like they’re Reagan-Republicans from 1983 minus the religious-right-boosterism!
The “right wing” part may not apply, but the “religious boosterism” is certainly in full swing among Democrats. The whole Democratic Party narrative has become their religion. I think maybe the Dems are where all the goody-two-shoes Christians went when the whole God/Jesus/Ten Commandments thing became passe in the late 50’s and early 60’s. You know, the kind of people who were “good” simply because they dressed up and went to church on Sunday. The heck with they thought or acted the rest of the week, they were moral because they were Presbyterians, or Catholics, or Episcopalians, whatever. Now, these people, and people with that same mindset are good and moral because they are Democrats.
I mean just look at some of the Democratic Theology. You have Original Sin in White Privilege. The Great Flood in Global Warming. You even have excommunication and shunning like when James Woods is booted off Twitter, or designers refuse to do dresses for Melania. You have all the tolerance of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, in Antifa. Just instead of busting up saloons with axe-handles, they bust up people with baseball bats.
I am telling you, the Democrats have become totally bat shit crazy insane, and I expect them any minute to start blabbering in Tongues.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
BOTH PARTIES are about POWER, and they will lie and crawl upon their bellies like a reptile to get POWER, and keep POWER.
Fixed it for you.
HUMAN BEINGS are about power, and they will lie and crawl upon their bellies like a reptile to get power and keep power.
Fixed it for YOU.
Hey Squeeks: I totally agree about The Mainstream Press. We can only get something approaching the truth from sites like Kunstler’s.
Yes, maybe we should stop asking, “If a tree falls in the forest. . .” and start asking, “Does a crime occur if the Main Stream Press refuses to cover it?” (Or, something like that.)
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Craig Murray, eh? So you’re mostly getting this stuff from Zero Hedge then, it would appear. Fair enough. 🙂
Craig Murray is a well established talented peer. Craig is not popular with the factotums of empire. Expect various comments intended to disparage him authored by such to show up. They have the budget for such things.
Well then, he just earned some points in my book! 😉
How does one discern between paid trolls and useful idiots, k?
It helps to have a brain. Is there a difference? I think not! NBut having a brain one could even say it makes all the difference.
The aggravating thing about useful idiots and others is that they actually stimulate substantive discussion about 10% of the time. Such contribution is totally cancelled out by their trolling but left to their own devices the public does not ask the hard questions.
Yet.
And discernment is not always necessary.
…Omnipresence and volume. Useful idiots: just a bit less so. 😉
…Omnipresence and volume.
Thank you Ozone. A most excellent point.
Super powers too when push comes to shove. Unless you are in the thick of battle yourself, who would notice your ‘adversary’ has not slept for 48 hours and is still as fresh as the morning sun.
Perhaps “Farmer Joe’s Law” could become a corollary to Poe’s Law? 😉
I suspect it’s a paid troll when they repeatedly and consistently hit all the “talking points”. When you do something for a paycheck, you make sure you do it the way the boss tells you to do it if you want to keep that paycheck coming!
Are you suggesting that I’m a paid troll?
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. -Andrew Klavan
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. <== G. Orwell
George knew what was coming.
“The crisis she mis-identifies is the coming indictment of so many supposedly untouchable and hallowed public figures, up to and including the former president, Mr. Obama, and the former heads of CIA, Mr. Brennan, and Director of National Security, Mr. Clapper, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the sainted Mr. Mueller, a whole posse of former Intel Community subalterns, and an unholy host of creeping, crawling, and flying swamp creatures from Glenn Simpson to the shyster lawyers at DNC law firm Perkins Coie, to the errand boys at the Cable News Networks, Wash-Po and The New York Times who trafficked in leaked perfidious documents…” – JHK
Such a range represented here! From president to errand boy. It’s hard to capture the breadth of the crisis in one sentence, but I think you did.
Let’s not leave out Susan Rice, Obama’s National Security Advisor and the “memo” she sent herself January 20th, 2017:
Ambassador Rice appears to have used this email to document a January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting between President Obama, former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election. In particular, Ambassador Rice wrote:
“President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who is now President of The London Center for Policy Research, did a recent interview regarding The Mueller Report and one of his main questions is, “How can there be NO MENTION of “The Steele Dossier” in the report, especially considering it was used to gain a broad FISA document to spy on an American citizen?”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ITvnDtuRIgM
Another great post.
Sadly, there probably isn’t a critter in that marsh with the balls to actually push forward on the necessary prosecutions you discuss. The whole lot of them, with very few exceptions, have their own skeletons to keep hidden — getting aggressive against other creatures is a good way to get eaten. Witness the wake of bodies trailing behind Queen Hillary’s swamp buggy. It’s in the nature of slithering things to be spineless.
Perhaps it will be a critter without balls? Someone with a great dragon at her back. Sadly, even if she dismissed all the congress-critters and senators and replaced them with randomly chosen citizens, we would still be stuck with all the embedded, un-elected critters in all the various intel/spook orgs who are not planning to go gently into the night.
Even if she hung all the heads of the K-street lobbyist critters on the wrought-iron fences outside their offices, others would rush in to fill the void. I don’t even think a military coup would help. They would still want to maintain the gravy train. Cutting out some of the intermediaries might even make it more profitable.
In short, this only has one direction going for it: down. And it is going to be a sweet grind all the way. Remember, our host doesn’t call it the ‘Long Emergency’ for nothing. We are just getting started.
Do you have someone in mind?
Otherwise, I must agree: there really isn’t much hope for good outcomes.
I was thinking of something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpHvhjUzAI
So yea, not much hope.
Where, in this floundering nation do we find the ‘twelve honest men’ to do the necessary? The swamp waters are wide but shallow around the edges and the muck is sticky.
You think it’s crazy NOW.
The next 18 months run up to the 2020 election
will make the last 12 months look like Polyanna’s dream.
It’s going to get very insane.
I fully expect to get blisters on my fingers from going “bleeble-bleeble-bleeble”.
It’ll be wild just based on where things are right now. Add in the shaky stock market, trade war with China, misguided military adventures in Iran, Venezuela and who knows where else, the daily building odds of a major economic downturn/collapse, and the 2020 election coild include several unimaginable insanities. Meanwhile, the insane PDR left and insane MAGA right will double down on their insane positions.
It appears us Peak Oil collapsers didn’t give enough weight to the insane humans variable in our collapse predictions and considerations. Oil may play much less of a role in the rush to the bottom than simple human egos and our own stupidity, both of which are time-honored elements for destruction.
True, but the factor of less overall available energy remains the critical precipitant of the insanity and the egos.
So true. Without cheap energy, all the nonsense we suffer through each day will be a thing of the past. Of course, we will have a different type of suffering, but at least it won’t be nonsense. It will be real. Plan on a 75% population reduction as a start.
Yes, I agree. I fully expect to see people burst into flames and heads explode because they are so angry and frustrated. I’m also expecting sadly to see the number of suicides by drug-overdose go off the charts.
Jim, do you really believe the higher-ups will be indicted? I don’t think so, but I hope that you are right and I am wrong.
Remember Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon for the good of the country? Maybe Trump isn’t that generous, but this country is ruled by the Swamp, a one-party outfit with overarching influence. I’ll lay my money we’ll end up being unhappy at the end result.
As I’ve commented here in the past, accountability is for poor people! 🙁
Not for poor people, but the middle class, or the relatively poor and poor in power.
The middle does the work. The important work.
The poor, are usually useless. The working poor are unskilled and easily replaceable.
But the middle classes?
They do the heavy lifting. A lot of time and money invested in them.
They need to be kept on straight and narrow.
Anchors of the system. Indebted and paying.
And made to be afraid to fall off the ladder. You don’t want to become one of ‘them’ do you? Great, I thought so. Keep up the good work and keep your nose down.
I once read a great article about how “Superstars” in both Corporations and Government go here and there, always shaking things up to make themselves seem important and then leaving after a couple of years to do the same elsewhere – always leaving destruction in their wake in the form of a savaged middle management. The article shyly suggested not letting them do this as much and maybe valuing long term employees a bit more.
Having worked management staff jobs for the past 20 + years, I can personally attest to that fact. Fucking things up solely for personal career advancement and quickly moving on (job hopping) is pretty much the one single characteristic of all these shysters.
It’s become so ingrained in the culture now that all the new B-School grads come straight out of school having already embraced it. The single greatest career killer these days at any level is good old fashioned job stability – two years and out is the rule – and no amount of competence bullets on your resume will cover for that fact. Any would be employer after that figures that you’re either too timid and/or socially awkward to play the game, or you’re otherwise deficient in some way. Either way, you’ll never even get an interview, not even as an internal/lateral hire at most places. It’s a “brave new world” out there these days.
Au Contraire !
No such thing as unskilled workers.
Every single goddamned task to be accomplished requires some level of skill to discharge.
You are falling for the fallacy of equating remuneration with viability, and thus expose yourself, and those and those like you, to be a big part of one of the larger problems with our society.
I dispense myself from the justification and/or explanation that you will ask for; this is a comment , not a fucking term paper.
Eoin? Irish?
A great unskilled labor force.
Don’t take it so personal.
You are not in control of your lot in this life.
I’m with Eoin…
The ‘navvies’ of Ireland are considered to be the exemplar of ‘unskilled labor’, yet they built the canals and then the railroads of Britain – no mean feat. “Navvie” is a shortening of ‘navigator’.
accountability is for poor people! indeed.
I’m living in absolute abject poverty whereby I live on less than $10k per year and I am accountable to no one except myself.
Accountability is for the uneducated.
RW
Robert, do you CHOOSE poverty so there is no accountability or is that merely a happy but unwitting outcome?
Justice REQUIRES that some higher-ups are publicly humiliated and permanently incarcerated. However, the good of the country may require that Trump pardon some people. Selecting who to prosecute and who to pardon could be a delicate operation.
If the indictments were handed down to all guilty parties, the Left would rage and riot (they aren’t far from that point now). Many of us live or work in close proximity to urban areas. When the Resistance is defeated, they’re gonna turn on us in their rage.
“the cumulative institutional damage will destroy public confidence in constitutional government per se.”
No, that’s already gone.
The popular expression currently being: ‘That ship has sailed.
The Wash-Po and The New York Times are traditional means by which our government introduces new propaganda into the system. It is similar to them using banks to put new money into circulation. Calling the NYT the newspaper of record is an accurate term not to be confused with truithiness.
Agreed. The corporate media is just part of the marketing division of Wall Street and the MIC. It’s also the distraction/entertainment tool to help keep the peons brainwashed and docile.
The Patriot Act and Citizens United pretty much threw out that Constitutional stuff some years ago.
Paws up on that!
Initially I supported the Patriot Act.
Who knew it would be used the way it was.
On the other hand maybe it was predictable.
Brh
The siren song of power that sweet technology has sung could not be resisted. It is not in the nature of humans to question technology until they encounter it’s limits. To do so would be inefficient and that is the psychological reason why this blindness exists.
Having limits pointed out works just fine but when political and social machinery lies and politicians are not characters who’s first instinct is to put the public’s interest before their own; the outcome became predictable, tragic, sad, and fatal.
Strong dogs of leadership could have led our dog pack to a different place. That did not happen.
Yes, Zuck has too much power. He was always going to misuse that to make money – and he is always about to do more of the same. Anti-Trust legislation is needed. But those who would do it benefit from people like Zuck so they aren’t going to even consider it.
Tired,
Yessir, that pretty well got ‘er done.
Lest we forget, all these small, obscuring fogs that lead to human world-shaking are just a continuance of the evil spookery that always ends in mass death and enforced misery.
Mueller, heading the eff bee eye at the time, toe’d the line during the Cheney administration’s propaganda campaign to get the Iraq invasion cast in concrete. Colleen Rowley tried to warn him, but pleadings to trusted minions fall on purposely deafened ears.
The man is not to be respected, unless it’s as a semi-artful water carrier for TPTB.
Who eats good food.
Pam Anderson still looks pretty good. How old is she now, must be at least 50?
Brh
Pamela Anderson born July 01, 1967; so she turns 52 in a couple months.
Three things impress me about Pamela Anderson……and the third thing is her intelligence. She’s not some air head. I saw her in court on the witness stand once; she was correcting the attorney on some point and sounded like she really knew her shit.
“No, that’s already gone.”
You beat me to that.
Human laws cannot overcome human nature. Reality is far more harsh than we will willingly accept, so we build on foundations of sand.
I go about my daily routine trying to figure out what reality do I really live in. It is obviously not what other folks live in. Personally, I don’t care what gender you want to portray yourself as, but I am always that person who needs to point out your DNA is what it is. How inconvenient. It must be because I am an accountant.
It is my deepest hope that matriarch of the crime family known as the Clinton;s gets exactly what she deserves. She and her alleged rapist of a husband refuse to go
It really is sort of amazing, isn’t it? I’ve lived in Arkansas since before the Clinton’s took over this State and their machinations here were a wonder to behold. But, to take over the world as they have done is indicative of how far into madness we have descended.
“I go about my daily routine trying to figure out what reality do I really live in.”
Unfortunately there IS NO reality left anymore.
We are ALL in the matrix now.
Let’s pull the plug.
Odd that science is science until it comes to the question of gender then it turns out it’s how you feel and not xx or xy and in very rare cases xyy or xxyy.
Again we come to the understanding that people are just crazy after all.
It really harms no one to let them have their little fantasy as long as the taxpayers don’t have to pay to convert their genitalia into something appearing to them more suitable. Like any other purely cosmetic procedure, they must pay for that themselves. Let the guys tuck it in and the girls strap it on. Let them prance around in the clothing of their choice looking sad and ridiculous. I’ve known people like that, and they are so deeply in thrall to that fantasy they can hardly think of anything else. Remember, also, that there is a difference in a man who enjoys dressing up in women’s clothes, which is a harmless fetish, and the man who believes himself to be a woman.
If one reads 18th century pre-scientific medical theorists like Barron Richard Von Kraft Ebbing and his research into sexual psychopathology you will encounter _Psychopathia Sexualis_ which historically brings the advent of Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory whereby psychosexual development was systematized for the first time in the whole historiography.
18th century sexual psychopathology ran the same gamut as we see today with the overall distribution of psychosocialsexual-psychopathology delineated via Internet porn which is ubiquitous.
Modern day contemporary theorists in Developmental Psychology are still tasked to deal with the gamut of identity and self perception for youth that transition the psychosocialsexual developmental phase of youth. Part of their task to assess and help youth with gender identity crisis or body dysmorphic disorder et cetera. is to address personal anxiety that youth cohorts express developmentally in real time.
If a human being expresses enough objective anxiety to warrant a further look into their difficulties it then becomes a matter of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology whereby specialization often leads ‘clients/patients’/’Subjects=Ss’ into treatment whether psychotherapeutic or medical.
Developmental Psychologists specialize in childhood normalcy & psychopathology. Most outside of Developmental Psychology don’t have much of a clue why contemporary theorists in the field advocate for the myriad types of personalities and their spectrum of self-referenced identities that are part of the distribution of people that make up a normal distribution of population on average across continents & cultural divides.
Sexual psychopathology today is quite qualitatively different from the time of Kraft-Ebbing et al. Heck, even Freud’s era of Psychoanalytic Theory has been quietly pushed over to the Psychiatry wing of Developmental Psychology now that the Cognitive/Behavioural era has eclipsed them both.
Read Kraft-Ebbings research and you will see that society has not changed much at all.
RW
So much of the social [not] sciences is being destroyed. It was a bunch of crap.
I imagine the whole thing displays a gaussian distribution and always has. I never believed it was a modern disorder, but it has only been in modern times that sexual reassignment surgery could even be contemplated. I contend that such surgery is entirely cosmetic and must be paid for by those who seek it out.
Draupnir, am I reading your name correctly? Is it Dr. Aupnir, or Dr. A Upnir?
Just curious if you have a professional medical opinion.
Also, consider the frescoes in the Minoan palace at Knossos, ca. 2000 B.C., lots of “trivestas”(sic) depicted. As an archetypal ideal, O.K., in real life, maybe not so much.
Draupnir was a treasure of Odin’s, made for him by the Dwarves, Brokkr and Sindri on a bet. Loki bet his head that they could not surpass the gifts he had made for the Gods by the sons of Ivaldi. He lost that bet, but when the dwarves came to collect his head. Loki appealed to Odin who ruled that they were welcome to his head, but could not damage his neck. One of the gifts of the dwarves was Draupnir, a golden ring given to Odin. Every nine nights it dripped eight more rings of the same size and weight. It was the treasure Odin laid on the pyre of his son, Baldr the Beautiful.
I have my hopes, but faint ones. This boat takes on heavy damage if IG Horowitz says that he finds no evidence that anyone did anything wrong. It will be hard for Barr to dig much deeper if Horowitz and Huber’s dead letter office clear all of the guilty parties.
When will that news drop? Does anyone know?
” the political kitty-litter box known as Ukraine.” A good one, Jim.
The detestable Trump slithered off to Panama City (never NYC – his home town curiously) to gloat and Hyuck, Hyuck about shooting border crossers with his tattooed ilk. How at home he seems with these low-lifes. All of a single simpering mind – ‘Murica! ‘Murica Forever!
Meanwhile the real problems metastasize like the Thing that Ate Pittsburgh – however considering the utter incompetence of the Commander in Chief, perhaps it is best that he stays away.
What we are witnessing is the setting up of Trump’s refusal to leave in 2020 if he loses the ‘election’ – then chickens really come home to roost and you won’t be able to buy a pitchfork or torch at Home Depot for any price.
rotflol are you writing a book of fiction?
After all GWBush left and so did Obama.
Trump will leave after he does his 8 years as well and oh how the leftist anarchists/communist/prograsseive/socialist scum will howl when they lose again.
Trying to remember… wasn’t it Obama that set up a OFA office a few blocks from the White House just after he moved out?
What’s an ‘OFA’ office?
That Organizing for America thing that he set up to continue promoting his agenda as the ex-president.
Later moved to Chicago.
They will either lose fair and square at the ballot box, or ignominiously in the street should they try any more of that Antifa shit.
What we are witnessing is the setting up of Trump’s refusal to leave in 2020 if he loses the ‘election’ –DEFCON1
Utter nonsense. I have heard EXACTLY the same prediction about the last five presidents: that somehow they would suspend elections, declare martial law, or whatever other fantasy so that they could stay in office despite being elected out.
Total idiocy, there Defcon. Get over it.
The standard answer is this is America it can’t happen here.
If it happened elsewhere it can and probably will happen here in our representative Republic at some point.
Not sure why anyone would even want to be the resident in the Whitehouse anymore no matter how good or bad you are half the country will loath you, lie about you and misrepresent what you say and or are doing.
Yeah, that really is something that goes into the “I’ll believe it when I see it” file. I don’t think Trump would do that because any President who would appoint themselves “El Commanante-For-Life” would need the backing of both the military and his power-base in the civilian government. Trump doesn’t really have such a power-base. The Wisconsin-faction of the Republican Party and the dwindling Religious Right are letting him temporarily borrow theirs as a matter of convenience.
The dwindling Religious Right, indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMzQA1p0lA
I had decided to take a bit of a hiatus from posting here as the petty personal sniping and catcalling was starting to bug me, but I must chime in on this one. That is EXACTLY right Farmer McGregor, that line of crap has been spewed out since the Bill Clinton presidency to be sure. That martial law would be called and elections would be suspended and that the dictator for life would now take over. It is utter horse shit and I think most of us are tired of see it tossed about. I have even told by simple people that they honestly believe that the US does not hold elections during World Wars. FDR mislead them I do believe.
And benr, the “It can’t happen here” line is another phrase that makes me vomit as well. It is a statement of idiocy hidden behind by the cowards and the idiots of the world who cannot and will not face up to the possibility that bad stuff happens all over, all the time. It is part of the new movement of ” There can be no consequences for my bad actions” that only fools and corrupt politicians can even mutter and still keep down their lunch.
Sooner or later bad choices lead to bad consequences and this is coming soon to a municipality near you. Prepare.
Yes sir.
I can hunt, skin a buck, run a trout line, and know how to farm.
I won’t starve.
I also have family in the heart of Michigan with a large amount of unused farmland if the crap hits the fan out of California I go at a high rate of speed.
Nothing but zombies here in Southern California now as it is.
ICE is apparently dumping the illegal border crossers into all those sanctuary cities in the south west and they are apparently now begging for donations and screaming for federal assistance to cope with them all, 100,000 destitute people in April alone. The border patrol can no longer deal with the influx and so are not bothering with families. They are only able to detain people who cross alone. I read that they recently had to drill into a sealed container to release several hundred peopled packed into it and some of the children were sick with measles. They had to feed and water them and provide medical attention. I sure hope they quarantined them, but I have my doubts. I’ve read that several college students in Tampa have died from something suspected to be some strain of untreatable, galloping TB, and the department of health and the media aren’t saying a word. If you think I’m going to feel the slightest twinge of guilt over the shooting of a few illegals trying to cross the border, you are mistaken. My own preference would be to mine it and install backup automated machine gun nests set for motion detection. What do you think is going to happen in all of those overwhelmed sanctuary cities when those desperate people start rioting and breaking into stores for food and water, breaking into peoples homes to rob, raping the wives and daughters of the citizens? Would you stand for that? It’s easy to be compassionate about an abstraction when your own aren’t threatened and its someone else’s problem.
In another note they found a young female detained in the trunk of a car in a cage and a young boy stuck in a similar cage hidden inside the front seat of the driver. They heard the girl screaming and pounding on the cage to be let out.
The insanity of get here at all costs is almost to much to deal with and yet the Democrats say there is no crisis with immigration.
Damn liars.
https://www.businessinsider.com/man-attempts-to-illegally-enter-us-by-disguising-himself-as-a-car-seat-2016-7
No meaning to sit in my lap or a lap dance.
Sorry that was bad.
Those two were being trafficked, and that’s another problem that I understand is protected at high levels of our government.
Imagine how horrible their own countries must be if they are so desperate to get away – exactly what they will turn their neighborhoods into or entire cities and regions.
“My own preference would be to mine it and install backup automated machine gun nests set for motion detection.”
Draupnir,
I cannot believe you posted the above…only a heartless commie would suggest such a thing. We have perfectly good machine gunners who can do the job…and they would receive a living wage….
“only a heartless commie would suggest such a thing”
Or an intelligent capitalist.
“Or an intelligent capitalist.
Farmer Joe,
But…did you factor in liability insurance? The premiums would be a bitch….
My mother says I’m cold hearted. I think I’m just realistic. The situation south of the border is unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future, is in fact likely to worsen.
Yet you people are the ones who refuse to accept the results of the last election. You’re projecting your own obstinacy onto others. Ditto when Bush beat Gore, but it’s gotten much worse and it’s going to get even worse again. You simply refuse to let other Parties win or perhaps even White Men of any Party.
Beantown said: “Remember Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon…”
Nixon was not facing both federal and state charges. Trump can receive a presidential pardon for federal crimes, but a presidential pardon will not shield Trump from NY state crimes.
Kabuki theater for the masses.
More about revving up the base than actual prosecution of alleged crimes.
Scary that we have descended into guilty till proven innocent times.
What crimes is Trump facing? Be sure to back your claims with hard evidence.
40% of our fellows do not have the means to weather a four Franklin road bump
what crisis?
measles and whooping cough resurgent
what crisis?
the FBI and Justice Department are in business to fabricate a view of the United States from whole cloth and distribute the talking points through a system of private / personal networks to shape the society to the benefit of one particular group / financial network.
Just as the market and private industry will regulate themselves into social responsibility the current legal system will self-regulate itself into a socially responsible protector of rights and equal protection under the law.
what crisis?
The current administration will make an attempt to ferret out the truth and resurect the our legal system and insure it will be strong and independant in the role of third branch of government and platform for Justice.
Do you believe that? what crisis?
The flag will be picked up and after a short conference at mid-field a referee will turn to the camera check his mike switch and announce “There was no foul, the clock will be reset and the down will remain the same”. A short time after a dramatic wave of an arm to restart the clock the game will continue.
“the metaphysical concept of reality refers to some land of dark make-believe over a distant horizon where numbers supposedly add up (ha!) and the actions of persons are said to entail a strange cosmic condition known as consequence……” JHK
“quote is out of context, please see JHK above” wm
Thank you again, Mr. K.
Also, don’t be surprised when reports of Ebola start coming in.
Its resurgent in the Congo, and Congo migrants being intercepted at the US Mexico border.
Some will get thru unimpeded.
MSM: “No border crisis. Everything is under control”.
Brh
The genie is out of the bottle on this one.
So they are reduced to doubling-down on manufactured consent.
Mainstream media to social media are ramping-up their efforts to stymie dissent and any speculation directed towards the official narrative.
So many actions by them and the politicians are pregnant with ulterior motives, but needless to say, they go unreported, and consequently, unchallenged.
Groupthink with Pelosi as drum major.
That used to scare people.
It should.
The banality of ignorance
With all of these accusations about the behavior of Mueller, it makes me wonder. Was he just standing around back in 2017 waiting for a chance to blast Trump? What would his motivation have been at that point, or did he just suddenly decide to become evil because he was given the chance? If he was such a bad guy, why would Rosenstein have appointed him over all of the other qualified, supposedly neutral people in DC. There must have been some motivation for Rosenstein to appoint him. What about Mueller’s reputation up to that point, was he a complete sleeper, whose nefarious deeds were unknown up to that point?
Did the Republicans appoint him just so they could turn around and attack him? Were they that stupid, that they didn’t know what an unsavory character he was? Why would they appoint the fox to guard the hen house? It seems to me that the motives of his accusers should be questioned rather than the other way around.
This is so naive it almost deserves to be ignored.
Do you have an understanding of RM’s past?
His career path, in and out of public service?
What agency he served as director?
Under who?
And continued under?
What new spying program was born under his tenure?
His breeding?
His family?
His military past.
What and for who was he doing in the private sector?
Then ask your questions.
If this was all known, and considered to be bad, why, of all people, was he appointed? That’s all I want to know. Naive or not, I await your wisdom.
Bad for whom? He serves the System – and for those who enjoy its benefits it is not only good, but the only Good. He doesn’t ask those kind of questions – a soldier not a Warrior. And a good one as you pointed out. And that tends to out weigh everything for you guys – and then you wonder why we’re in the state we’re in.
If Mueller serves the system and wants to bring down Trump, he hasn’t done a very good job of it. One would think that his membership in the deep state would be well known to the people who appointed him, which would disqualify him. That’s what I don’t understand. Were they looking to appoint somebody that they could go ahead and attack? Which they did almost from day one. What would have been the benefit of that? Were they trying to make Trump look like a martyr? The idea that Trump’s own people appointed somebody who was aligned with the deep state, and would try to bring Trump down, is crazy. They should have known that he was an enemy, and if they didn’t, then they were simply incompetent and should have never been in the positions they occupied. It makes no sense.
This website has changed greatly over the last couple of years. It used to be more concerned about energy, and the depletion of oil, and the effects of the use of non renewable energy. It’s been a long time since i’ve read the name Hubbert here. The thing that was noticeable was the flood of right wingers who showed up after Trump won, up to and including nazis. After we tanked in 2008, I remember thinking about the Great Depression, and the aftereffects of that, which included among other things, the rise of fascism. I wondered if history would repeat itself, and it appears to be trying. When Trump was campaigning, I noticed that the way he stood on his platform was eerily similar to exactly the way that Mussolini used to stand. Call up images of Il Duce, and compare them to Trump. There’s really no difference. We are in a fight for the soul of the country, and maybe only the history readers are aware of it. I’ll just stop here, and prepare for the broadsides now.
“I wondered if history would repeat itself, and it appears to be trying.”
Bingo!
Many of “Trump’s People” hate him. He picked from the Deep Swamp so what did he expect? He’s not sincere, and even if he was, he’d have trouble finding enough “winners” that shared his vision I’m afraid.
Mussolini was sincere in his love for Italy and his People. Trump is not – otherwise the border would be shut down by now and the enemy within would be at least a little cowed.
And long before peak oil it was Suburban Sprawl and Duncan Crary podcasts.
All those that oppose a coup that merely serves the leviathan are not right wing.
Spare me the melodrama of history repeating and Mussolini.
People not paying attention is not cyclical.
It is a constant.
Now get out of your partisan induced slumber and wake the **** up.
Wait I thought Trump was Hitler?
The wokesters were sure of that, right?
Il Duce now?
If you can’t see the similarity in photos, I don’t know what to tell you. The only way you could miss it is if you do so deliberately.
Il Duce, Hitler, do you have trouble equating the two? Maybe some grownup will sit down & explain it to you.
Lächerlich.
Remember all the folks in the GOP fighting Trump and saying what an upstanding investigator RM was and Trump better not try to fire him or there would be hell to pay. That was the Right side of your friendly neighborhood Deep State speaking up.
Make up your minds, rather you are for the socialism of the Deep State, not just the Left, or you are for individual discretion. And yes, that is Deep State vs. Trump!!
Pence in 2024!
Although it sounds rather conspiratorial. It is not.
It is a “deep state” for lack of a less loaded term where elected and appointed do not even have the need to know clearances to see what is going on under the hood.
The goal is to keep it all going.
National Security.
The system.
Protections are in place to keep some elected politician coming in and disrupting the state. If the politician came up through the system, had already been vetted and indoctrinated, and earned its trust like say, HW Bush, he already knows some, maybe much. Obviously.
If not. He will not know, but he will be forced to take counsel, cabinet and staff appointments, from many who do.
Mueller knows.
He is entrusted with protecting the order.
Too many truths revealed upsets it.
One must remember that this isn’t some flagrant despotic regime where everyone knows what families and what people wield power and influence.
Here it tends toward the discreet. Many certainly have the old patrician lineage and connections. Right families. Right schools. Right fraternal orders.
Many do not, but their loyalty has been accepted by their work inside and through the ranks.
Military. Agencies. Corporations. Law firms. In and out.. This is perhaps the egalitarian component, albeit not something that comes easily. RM has both, but again, this is common within this class. The public service and trust component as an avenue to power and eventually wealth if even needed.
As I’ve said previously, there is something a little too neat and pat about the Mueller Report. Things are never that simple in politics. Mueller surely had the power to bring Trump down. Note, I say power, not legal precedent. If he could conduct and inquiry and never look at the Clinton doings in this situation, then he could brazen out some outrageous setup. I speculate that a deal was made and we now have President Pompeo and vice president Bolton. Trump doesn’t even get to respond when Kim says — Pompeo’s gotta go. And of course the wars continue, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, etc, etc.
You mean to tell me that you don’t trust high-powered and well connected lawyers billing by the hour for 2 years?
“Pence in 2024!”
Ha. If Trump has an unlikely win in 2020, there’ll be nothing left in 2024 to be President of for Mikey Pence…unless viz. “Idiocracy”
Will there be grand juries? Will people be called to testify? Maybe. But I doubt, that any of the questions that JHK and others have raised will have been dealt with, or that we’ll be any the wiser, or, if there was official misbehavior, that anyone will be called to account.
If the multitude of uncomfortable issues get raised in a judicial or investigative proceeding, I think that what we’ll get is jut-jawed, elliptical non-answers. People will get lawyered up, will suffer severe deficits in their powers of recall, or even take the fifth. Or they’ll lie like absolute hell, confident that nothing will come of it.
You can see it now, if investigations happen to take shape, Sunday morning punditry pouring scorn on the mere notion of malfeasance or negligence, or investigative bias. They’ll proclaim that Mueller and Comey are the best of the best, that any suggestion otherwise is to impugn the reputations of fine men. Or, alternatively, they’ll tell us in their most serious manner, with furrowed brows, that the greater interests of the country and of world peace and of international stability were at stake, what with Russian interference and obvious signs of collusion and all that, and so more than justified any questionable measures.
And late night talk shows, with the usual exemplars of progressive enlightenment as guests, will put on their PDR faces, you seen it, the wide-eyed smirkiness, professing disbelief that not only is Trump still stinking up the Oval Office, but that he’s mounting a campaign against those that acted with the purest of motives. I mean, wasn’t Putin behind it all? It will all be unbelievable, jokes will be made, guests and audience alike will be in on it, and all will laugh.
What about hard evidence? Well, that can be made to go away. Paper records can get misfiled, they can get shredded, and it will have been a result of normal operational house-keeping, and if it wasn’t that, then it was clerical error. Electronic records may be degraded by means of technical malfunction, they can be accidentally over-written or erased, or they can get lost in storage. And anything that does still exist can be excruciatingly slow-marched through the mire of intelligence agency and FBI bureaucracy while they consider what can be redacted to the point of meaninglessness or made to disappear.
Can you say cover-up? The Deep State stands resolutely, shoulder-to-shoulder, against Trump. Trump is the bacillus that must be purged from the body politic and the people taking anti-bacterial action were, to a man or woman, patriots. It would be a dreadful miscarriage of justice to allow persecution of such individuals who were acting with the highest ideals at heart of public service and self-sacrifice, who were the best that the USA has to offer.
More dangerous than the bacillus is the toxin it spewed, an ideology that conferred validity and legitimacy to the interests of a societal class that all educated and well-informed people can agree has no valid gripes and is unworthy in character, that just wants to live off the efforts of those that take the trouble and expense of acquiring knowledge and skills required in the modern digital economy.
There’s a multitude of problems should be investigated. But, in my view, it will all come to nothing.
V
What the heck will Congress have to do without the foolishness we have seen during the last two years.
Hell, they can’t do their jobs per the Constitution. In a bureaucracy, when your job is obsoleted, you invent a new one. We are witnessing that process.
What the heck will Congress have to do without the foolishness we have seen during the last two years. – John
Beats me. I think you see its parallel in the business world where the CEO class decided that it’s more fun to do mergers and acquisitions than actually run the businesses they were hired to run.
Congress seems to feel that inter-factional rivalry and all but open civil war is more fun than mere governing. What greater feeling of fulfillment or satisfaction can one get than by upending an election, or barring that, ruining the life of an army general or some low level campaign schmuck?
You invent a new job? I guess the new job category is Tribal Chieftain in the case of people like Mitch McConnell or Nancy Pelosi. I don’t know what you’d call a mere representative or senator. Or the president (shaman?)
Hear, hear.
More frothing at the mouth insanity from JHK……
@kris2244
Cognitive dissonance much?
Benr – that’s rich, coming form you.
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LOL! Nice reference!
Reference?
To Red Skelton?
(Thanks, Admin)
The original post was deleted. Good catch on Skelton. I had to think a minute or two about where I’d heard that name before.
Cap’n
The whole deal here is that this is not Dem vs. GOP. It is Federal government versus the rest of us. It is collectivism vs. individual responsibility. It is security vs. liberty. It is socialism vs. capitalism. When Trump goes anti-Deep State, even the GOP Deep Staters, the establishment GOP, goes after him.
If you believe that DC and its bureaucracy should make collective decisions for you and society in general, then by all means, back the Deep State. If you believe in individual control of your destiny, liberty of decision making, the supremacy of the family as the social unit, vote against these progressives every opportunity you have. As mentioned many times, they are POWER animals, they do not care about you, all they want is the power of your vote.
I hope the minorities of this country finally figure out that the Dems are the antithesis of why they came here is the first place. The Libs are the enemy of everything you want.
You anti-Trumpers are by definition socialist sympathizers as he is the only game in town that is fighting the SOBs.
Pence in 2024.
Maybe well get luck and NASA will be proven wrong about this bad boy striking Earth:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/science/nasas-excited-about-the-god-of-chaos-asteroid-heading-toward-earth/vi-AABasf6
It may be the only workable solution to our problems.
Vote God of Chaos asteroid for POTUS in 2020.
RW
Do you just make this up as you type relying on a stratum of conservative sound-bites from last century’s National Review archives?
Pence in 2024? Please, anything, but spare us the holy roller of Indiana for g_ds sake!
They came here to suck off what We have built. The Dems help them do that. Ergo, you are confused.
NOTHING of any consequence will happen to ANY of the democrats and their operatives in their effort to overthrow a legally elected president. There are too many progressive judges to allow that to happen. Too many RINOS. A hostile MSM. Further, the New York Attorney General is free to make Trump’s life miserable without any help from the federal level cabal. There is nowhere he can run and hide.
The nation is ungovernable at this point and it will only get much worse. Hell, we have an active invasion from Latin America and there is nothing to be done evidently. Government has collapsed in a large sense. No one has any confidence in it.
There are so many danger, crisis points. Hormuz? Trade war? Some are so dangerous that the nation could be brought to its international knees very quickly. That isn’t doom and gloom, that is simply seeing reality instead of the fiction we so want to live in.
Yup!
Second that: Yup!
Reality isn’t something anybody wants to know about. I agree, nothing of consequence will happen as a result of this attempted coup.
Heh, the only problem is that reality has a way of making itself known, desired or not. There are a lot of people heading toward that experience.
Yeah, I’m cynical as well that the guilty will get what they deserve. That is the mark of a profoundly corrupted society, no matter how prettily it speaks or is dressed up.
Cheers
One of the few causes I have for optimism is how little it took to kick the legs out from under the GOP. The ideology they touted was preposterous, and all it took was a spewing, spouting baffoon to mouth just a few of the required words, to say a little of what everyone actually thought, and the Jebs and Flakes and Ryans and Romneys, to a man rock-ribbed Republicans, true believers all, paid-up members of the Establishment, found themselves floundering.
Tucker Carlson, on the other hand, re-invented himself as a man of the people. Who’d a thunk it? I guess everybody’s gotta earn a living and so, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
What’s the matter with Kansas? Nothing, the good and worthy people of that place did what they ought. They stopped buying Republican bullshit. The question should be rather, what’s the matter with California? And New York State?
If only the Democrats could have such a Trumpian moment. I don’t think it will take a whole lot of persuasion to convince Mr and Mrs Lopez and also Blacks, that the Democrats are playing them for fools. Does anyone seriously think that the Party of Davos, with its college educated supporting clerisy, gives a shit about Latinos and Blacks, especially women? I don’t think that these folk that reliably vote Democrat on the basis of some impassioned speeches are such boneheads that they can’t eventually suss things out. When that happens, and I expect it someday will, bye-bye Democrats. I think all it will take is for someone, a credible candidate or even a not so credible candidate, to mount the podium and SAY it.
Like you said, people are heading towards that experience, and I think the least well-off will be at the forefront.
There’s an economic & financial cataclysm waiting in the wings & there’s only so many hours in the news cycle. Guess which wins out, Russiagate or the impending resumption of the GFC?
You are partially correct amigo.
“From” being the operative word.
Many are coming FROM Latin America.
And many are coming from by way of fill in the blank.
Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Libya, various African countries.
Simple as a ticket to Mexico and a drive to the U.S. Port of Entry.
Many more are coming by way of your local airport… if it’s an international airport.
Nigeria, Romania, India, etc.
It’s as easy as walking off the jetway and claiming asylum.
These numbers are seldom reported because it’s bad for airline business.
And there’s nothing Donald can, and as it appears, wants, to do about it.
The judges run asylum and they want everyone able to claim it, and to be free within the United States during its adjudication.
And you’re fine with it too, right? I mean basically? Any time I say it’s a National Emergency, people (even conservatives) start hemming and hawing like “Let’s not get hasty here”. Utterly ridiculous. We’re past the sweat and tears stage and into the blood. Only Martial Law can save us now because that’s not something you have to get thru Congress.
But the very idea of that chills you blood because you don’t want us to survive because there is no “us” in your book.
Janos, as I told you ages ago, you must stop projecting.
This is how you become really irrational.
Every idea, every conception, every assumption inside your head about me/us is a projection from your mind.
And they are wrong.
I merely present the case as is.
And you don’t like as is.
As I don’t like as is.
But by merely pointing the reality out.
The present and the trajectory, I’m the enemy.
And your enemy is:
The Jew
The brown
The Asian
The non-white
And they are all wrong
All this simply because we affirm our own existence? But yes, anyone who tries to negate our existence is an Enemy. You do and you are. You fight with your mind. So do I. Ozone thinks that’s meaningless and the Captain thinks it’s mere sissy stuff. You know better. So do I. Both Muslims and Communists – the absolute pros on subversion of Cultures and Nations – kill those who fight with their minds against them.
Reality…. What a concept!
Take LSD and see.
“that the cumulative institutional damage will destroy public confidence in constitutional government per se.” Too late, already destroyed. And I think the chances of Barr going after the guilty swamp creatures are not promising. A deal will be struck. After all, swamp creatures reside on both sides of the isle and want to keep the power structure just as it is.
What’s occurring politically seems more akin to those “Great Awakenings” of stirred religious zeal that have punctuated US history, birthing any number of new denominations of Protestant spin-off. This time though the spin-off is not of religiosity but rather secular Utopians, in which case government (of whatever “ism”) is to bring us to the promised land.
In other words, supplication for relief from all grievance (deliverance) is to be made to government as the secular equivalent of God head. Walking around neighborhoods I view the vacuously banal yard signs bearing phrases to be taken in vein no less seriously than Biblical quotes – certainly not to be questioned for contextual relevance. Hence, “No human is Illegal”.
Funny, how many of such residences have posted “security protected” signs as well.
Glenn Beck just did an interesting podcast on some of the above.
https://acu.libsyn.com/banned-by-facebook-instagram-and-socialism-a-warning-from-the-dead-glenn-tv-special
Is he still around? I thought that Levin crackpot bought him out or something.
Is Asoka still around?
Is Asoka still around? – BRH
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Possibly pkrugman may be Asoka.
Paraphrasing Andrew Sullivan’s contention, humans require the “safe space” afforded by religion (Utopian-isms for the secular) and the dogmatism of either stance increases proportionate to one’s intolerance for the uncertainty inherent in reality.
Thats right. The dooshes with a sign out front ‘No human is illegal”, are the first ones to call the cops when an illegal shows up at their front door and asks to use the bathroom.
Brh
So true. The gentrifier set. I knew many of them in Washington, DC.
But what counts is that they “feel guilty” about their economic status and actions.
Gosh darn GOP senators, always looking at the dark side of things.
“The announcement from the White House that talks with China have fallen apart is not good news for American consumers,” GOP Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) said in a statement, adding that the increased tariffs on Chinese goods will “continue to harm American workers, American consumers, and American companies.”
What about American citizens? Are there any still around?
Catch 22 amigo.
If you believe that there is something called an “American Citizen” then by golly, you consumed the myth. The lie.
As I said above. You’re a stalking horse or something like that. A painted mule.
Janos, it comes off as smug and terribly cynical, but as I explained above, I am pointing out the reality that you refuse to see.
I was very young when I entered. Naive to an extent, but open minded to a fault. Yet even I went through a period of intense cognitive dissonance. The process of reconciliation between what you believed to what is reality is vexing, trying, and very literally painful. As years went on and my exposure and fluency gained, the more I understood.
What you believe, what you were taught, is not true.
This is simply a fact.
The people you expect to believe and that you want to believe
Don’t
You can choose to stay on your fairytale plane
Or you can think your way to the raw-ality
Avatar, you wrote:” I was very young when I entered.”
Entered what?
Gosh dang democrat senators, always trying to sound truthie…
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Friday that Democratic presidential candidates need to make the point that everything President Trump has done on the international front “has gone to crap.”
Yeah, that’s the problem with Democratic Senators – such devoted truth tellers. LOL
But the Republican Senators are truly devoted to the whole Trump, er truth, and nothing but the truth! Ha!
Asoka/Janet… Welcome back!
Rep Jim Jordan (R Ohio) goes off on epic rant on House Judiciary Committee hearing:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-10/i-will-not-yield-epic-rant-jim-jordan-accuses-dems-sweeping-spygate-coverup
That was amazing!!
Indeed. Thanks for posting.
Lots of reason for hope to be taken from his rant – can hardly wait until he is shown to be correct – out of the six ways to rid ourselves of the shit ball in the whitehouse only two have been used up so far – can’t ask for any better reason for hope than that from a republican.
Those dang truthtellers…fake news is good enough for the great unwashed (i.e. Trump lovers)
“Trump’s pompous promises during his presidential campaign have proved to be a cowardly distraction. He claimed he would take on the drug companies and their price gouging. The hyper-profiteering pharmaceutical goliaths are quietly laughing at him. Worse, Trump continues their tax credits and allows them to use new drugs developed with taxpayer money through the National Institute of Health free of charge—no royalties. Even though he talks tough, Trump lets these companies sell imported medicines manufactured in China and India with inadequate FDA inspections of foreign plants.
Torrents of Trump tweets somehow overlooked H.P. Acthar Gel, a drug produced by Mallinckrodt to treat a rare infant seizure disorder, which increased in price from $40 per vial to $39,000 per vial! Other drug prices are booming cruelly upward, while Trump blusters, but fails to deliver on his campaign promises.”
Oh Evelyn dearest, if you were to discover that Democrats attacking Trump were heavily funded by BIG PHARMA, you’d be the first to tell us. Wouldn’t you?
We all know that falsehood would never fly her Democrat party is nothing but love and fairness.
They would never resort to lying cheating and taking dirty big business money.
Never enrich themselves on the backs of the working class!
Dastardly damage to Empire is here and now. The precept of ‘winging it’ and ‘no moving parts’ to grey matter prognostications has seen to that. You are snared in the tangled web you weaved and subsequently sinking into the abyss of oblivion. During the War of 1812, The Sacketts Harbour NY militia and regulars decided to burn down their own naval fleet of about ten ships, stores and armoury, when the British Navy and Canadian militia showed up in port canons blazing, rather than allow capture of the above mentioned material. No moving parts to that battle. It’s going to be fun watching Empire implode, explode and everything in-between.
Well Trypillian, maybe if a large enough percentage of the US population renounces, denounces, condemns, undermines, turns against, questions the founding of, makes cultural war on the white majority and Christian majority, the country will dissolve and simply cease to exist.
What will replace it is an open question, but I doubt it will be good.
Brh
This has been the hope of dispensationalists from the time of Darby, to be removed from needing to fix their nation and simply allow the unbelievers to run things into the ground to such a degree that even God gives up and rescues His darlings.
No, repentance is the only answer. Get off your hands and on your knees and start facing the fact that churchianity abandoned the Law allowing false g-o-d-s to make up whatever rules they wanted to make God look foolish, Won’t work He is not mocked.
The Kingdom [ rulership ] of God is a form of government, not a religion [ it ain’t our say so ].
Pretty large Amen to that, MD.
Sad how few ‘christians’ understand that the Kingdom of God is not a democracy, it is a benevolent monarchy.
p.s. Are you aware of where (how, by whom) dispensationalism originated?
From my point of view, Trump’s trade war with China is not about China, but about the International Finance Capital which is Trump’s worst enemy.
The current model of Chinese trade, build in the 90s, is structured in such a way that it concentrates all profits among the financiers, which Trump cannot allow, since they are using theses resources in their war against Trump.
Trump would love to be friends with Xi, they have common enemies (Xi has Komsomol liberals, clans that are united around Hu Jintao, Trump has, as you know, transnational bankers).
How Trump himself can cope with this is a separate question, but he cannot stop the destruction of the model that provides China with a huge surplus that eventually winds up in the pockets of his opponents. Moreover, he will increase his efforts.
There is only one option to do something about it – is to develop an alternative mechanism that would take into account the interests of the United States (as oppose to the interest of international bankers) within the framework of Trump’s logic and China in the interests of Xi.
There is no such model yet.
Increase of the tariffs is a brute force solution to the problem of distribution the money flow away from the enemy – the international bankers and into the US budget, more under the administration’s control.
For China, the decline in trade surplus with the United States is not just a big problem, but an economic catastrophe, because stimulating domestic demand goes through a surplus of foreign trade, since the $400 billion surplus per year multiplied by a credit multiplicator of about 5 gives around 2 trillion dollars equivalent in domestic demand.
And this emission does not produce high inflation, since the excess money is converted into dollars and withdrawn from the country.
Finca, who are you?
To quote Malthus
“You know too much”
Brh
I’m glad someone understands him. I need a translator.
In TRUTH, I never read much of his posts nor do I know much about Russian History.
I am trying to explain (and understand myself) why Steve Bannon called the May 6 the main day of Trump’s Presidency.
Trump is playing a very clever and gutsy game.
Finca
Just a hypothesis, I can’t provide rigorous proof that the correlation is infallibly true but…
…it’s because anyone who was willing to accept service with Trump is or was bat shit crazy,
I can’t give you an answer to that question. I can say that one doesn’t participate in the NYC real estate market without learning a thing or two.
Farmer Joe,
What you say is true.
The first thing they learn is don’t make any deals with the fat guy who looks like he wears the ass end of a plague infested marmot on his head, and can barely speak a sentence that doesn’t use the word “beautiful”. The second thing is never leave your daughters alone when he’s around.
The posts where you don’t hurl insults are far more valuable, Ev.
It was a problem or the Romans too. They collapsed because of their own success. Every conquered people forced to provide Rome with all their needs until no one left in Rome who produced.
Odd in a way that we don’t just rest content that they were willing to take a lot of useless paper we produce in exchange for mountains of material goods, even if they were just salad spinners and drill bits that provided a user with a pretty good idea what a drill bit made of glass would be capable of.
China has bee weened off out tit so in the end we’ll have to see how fat and healthy the baby becomes. Not too late to try to make it into a friend willing to put up with our tantrums etc.
My understanding is that the Roman empire collapsed due to decades of largess and mismanagement by the ruling class.
Farmer Joe
You do know “largess” is you saying they were too generous, and mismanagement can be described as the blame for anything under the sun that fails, so you really aren’t saying much. Rome collapsed because it became soft, lazy, and drained of all the virtues that made them great in the first place.
Nothing particularly unique about the arc they traveled, essentially the same thing happened to numerous great civilizations. Pretty plain to see if you look around it’s precisely what is cooking for our downfall. The phenomenon is getting a supercharged boost in our case thanks to the digital addiction most people have become afflicted with.
You need to do your homework, Ev. They’re called books. You know those stacks of wordy paper you like to color in?
The fact is they drove them selves into bankruptcy. They did it through high taxes and inflation. Largess is exactly the right word. Did you know that when a farmer could no longer afford to stay on business due to high taxes that they traveled to Rome to live on the dole? They managed to keep the elites in power a while longer that way, but it ruined lives and the empire in the process.
This makes the Roman Empire reason number 5,284 why I don’t believe in big government.
I read lots of book farmer Joe.
William Durant’s book on Rome, “Caesar and Christ…” largely what I rely on for info about Rome. I doubt there is a lot of difference in what we both know about Rome, just focusing on different aspects.
I was struck by the fact Rome surrendered its manufacturing capability because they took everything they needed from the peoples who became their subjects.
Apparently you meant the largess the one percenters bestowed upon themselves. Pretty much what is happening today in our world. CEO’s that make multiples of thousands more than their lowly paid workers.
It isn’t high taxation per se that is the evil, it’s what the high taxes are used for. It this country it is used to supplement the already wealthy. Amazon pays not taxes for example while at the same time you will pay $40 for an aspirin if hospitalized, which of course comes out the taxes you or your children paid, if you are on medicare.
I read a book that suggested beyond allowing the hordes in that took over and destroyed the empire it was also the plumbing!
The roman water system had high amounts of lead in the pipes and the elite became mad as hatters.
We probably are looking at it from different angles, Ev. And I apologize for my rude comment about reading books.
Yes, largess for the elite, but also for the poor. I said before, look it up, the Romans did a lot to feed the poor after they had destroyed their economic foundation. After. It was not about compassion or doing what was right. It was about not losing elite heads. The same thing is true today. We have economically destroyed our manufacturing base through mismanagement and now people are clamoring for a super welfare state because that’s the only option they see left. Socialism won’t solve this problem. It will enable it.
Trump is playing high stakes. He believes Xi has to back down. He could be right.
Come Finca, do you really believe Trump’s mind penetrates any further than how far his face in a mirror reflects?
“Trump’s logic” a virtual oxymoron. Close to the meaning conveyed by saying something like a dog’s logic for licking it’s own ass.
He dredges up people like Bolton, Pompeo, Omarosa, Sanders, Hope, Mattis, Kelly, et al to handle the thinking duties.
That’s pretty weak K-Dog.
K-Dog, I was a little slow on the uptake. You took it a little personal I used a dog in my analogy. Sorry, I humbly bow to your better insight to why ass licking by dogs is the sensible thing for them to do. I should have used “monkey” instead. Can you ever forgive me?
” International Finance Capital which is Germany’s worst enemy….”
Komaraden Finc…(Paraphrased)
#1936
“There are only stories — his story, her story, they’s story, zhe’s story, and you must believe them because they come out of lived experience.”
Speaking of “Lived Experience”….
The Black Slavery System in the New World was a carry over from the original White Slavery System which was equally brutal in some respects. Slavery was a natural outgrowth of the lack of a wage labor market in the New World and the Plantation System. “Good” and “Bad” has nothing to do with it.
“It invites uproar to describe as slaves any of these hapless whites who were abused, beaten and sometimes killed by their masters or their masters’ overseers. To do so is thought to detract from the enormity of black suffering after racial slavery developed. However, black slavery emerged out of white servitude and was based upon it. As the African-American writer Lerone Bennett Jr has observed: When someone removes the cataracts of whiteness from our eyes, and when we look with unclouded vision on the bloody shadows of the American past, we will recognize for the first time that the Afro-American, who was so often second in freedom, was also second in slavery. 5 Of course, black slavery had hideous aspects that whites did not experience, but they suffered horrors in common, many of which were first endured by whites. In crude economic terms, indentured servants sold their labour for a set period of time; in reality they sold themselves. They discovered that they were placed under the power of masters who had more or less total control over their destiny. The indentured-servant system evolved into slavery because of the economic goals of early colonists: it was designed not so much to help would-be migrants get to America and the Caribbean as to provide a cheap and compliant workforce for the cash-crop industry. Once this was established, to keep the workforce in check it became necessary to create legal sanctions that included violence and physical restraint. This is what led to slavery: first for whites, then for blacks. It has been argued that white servants could not have been truly enslaved because there was generally a time limit to their enforced labour, whereas black slavery was for life. However, slavery is not defined by time but by the experience of its subject. To be the chattel of another, to be required by law to give absolute obedience in everything and to be subject to whippings, brandings and chaining for any show of defiance, to be these things, as were many whites, was to be enslaved. Daniel Defoe, writing in the early 1700s, described indentured servants as ‘more properly called slaves’. Taking his cue, we should call a slave a slave.“
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
Should White People whose ancestors came to America and Australia as slaves be entitled to Reparations? According to Don Jordan, we may be talking about tens of millions of ancestors of former white slaves in America. I suspect that the experience of white slaves in America was probably similar to those of convict labor in early Australia recounted in the excellent book about Australia’s founding called “Fatal Shore”.
Don Jordan
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
Elizabeth Warren would argue she is entitled to hiring preferences, being 1/1,000 descended from a white indentured servant.
The Whites often didn’t survive their servitude since their temporary Masters were eager to get the most out of them before they were freed. Thus they worked harder than the Blacks – who were valuable property. The Caribbean especially was seen as a Death Sentence for Whites because of the heat and the disease.
After one of the Irish rebellions many of the rebels were sent there AS slaves, not indentured servants.
“The Caribbean especially was seen as a Death Sentence for Whites because of the heat and the disease.”
Yet you argue that whites are racially superior. Maybe that’s true in Siberia, but throw them in the sun and they melt. We aren’t built for it.
Racial superiority is geographically specific.
According to the book “Black Jacobins”, it was the heat and Malaria which basically defeated Napoleon and the French Army in San Domingo (“Haiti).
Maybe today’s global rapid transit will be the undoing of the human species as millennia long immunological adaptation to the environment and its required isolation are overcome by a three hour plane flight. Ebola may have the same effect today as smallpox to the Indians and measles to the Hawaiians.
Biological warfare has been unbelievably successful for he survivors of the European Middle Ages with their immune systems primed against many very nasty bugs. Their takeover of much of the world was largely due to disease wipeouts of indigenous populations.
My biochem teacher in college averred that the greatest threat to human survival, the threat that kept her awake at night, is the fact of their being so many human petri dishes where crowded, filthy, impoverished conditions would one day give rise to an organism that will be so lethal and distribute through the population so quickly the human race will be gone before it can be addressed. She used nerve gas as an example of an agent that can kill instantly because it blocks an enzymic reaction in the body for which the body has no redundant back up system.
Human physiology is based on thousands of enzymic reactions that work like lock and key. When one site is blocked by an invading biologic agent (that essentially is a key fitting into a lock thereby displacing the key that belongs) the human body generally has numerous other systems for coping while the immune system handles the situation. So a person will experience sickness and whatever symptoms but the body lives on. There is no redundant system for the enzyme reaction that transmits nerve impulses. So nerve gas flips your off switch and you are finished. Sooner or later some disease will spring from a refugee camp or a ghetto or even possibly Trump’s bedroom and it will be game over.
No doubt that sickness and disease spreading from festering conditions poses a great threat on humanity as a whole Eve. I would argue however, that the greatest threat of all will come from the combination of greed and selfishness generated in places that once knew prosperity.
Oh Evelyn you were doing so well, cruising on a scientific high note – until you couldn’t resist a gratuitous dig at Trump and his bacteria infested bed.
What’s on your mattress?
Hmuller
I sleep on a stack of buffalo hides, god only knows what all those black crawly things are.
Well there is a little thing called the mind and what it produces to help it survive, namely technology. Your boys never even discovered the wheel on their own. But thanks for playing!
Why don’t you do one of those reverse slavery marches where Whites wear chains and bow down to Blacks? You’d enjoy it!
” slavery marches where Whites wear chains and bow down to Blacks? You’d enjoy it!”
Janos,
As, apparently, would the Whites…some pay substantially for the privilege of debasement.
Funny story;
Am continuing a book earlier referenced regarding black millennial accounts of their …”tribulations”. One woman, a Masters Candidate (Woman’s Studies, of course) from a prestigious university, earned her keep as a free-lance dominatrix. She charged $200 per hour for her services…always with older white men as her clients. Her business began suffering when, as part of her dominance, she required the men to write essays on the struggles of women of color. The men hated it, she said, and further she opined that they wrote poorly…some outright refused, and were…punished.
She was adamant in that she did enjoy inflicting pain on older white men.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first drive mad.
I agree with yr first sentence.
A pole or Irish might have lived 6 years in the death world, I mean New World.
Kewl story, bro.
Do you remember many years ago when the Japanese starting freaking out when an archeological excavation in Japan discovered that the ancestors of the Japanese were people who had migrated over to the Japanese Islands from China? The Japanese were so horrified by the idea that they may be related to Chinese people that the Japanese immediately terminated the excavation and permanently sealed the site and nobody ever talks about it. It’s interesting how people concoct History to support a narrative. In the US, the current narrative seems to be basically that White People invented slavery for black people.
Actually, Slavery was quite common in the ancient world. The ancient Roman plebeians were pissed off by all of the cheap Slave labor imported into Rome from the periphery of the empire, which led to the creation of large plantations of the Roman aristocracy (Optimates) manned by slave labor and which pushed the indigenous Roman farmers off their land. Sound familiar? (“Build That Wall!) The Slave Trade was not banned by the Brits under around 1833 as I recall? The Americans probably think that white Americans created slavery just for black people?
“…pushed the indigenous Roman farmers off their land.”
High taxes also did this. Look up “agri deserti.”
Yes, they were the slavers in Civilizations before ours. And they have an incredible nautical tradition – which they keep quiet about for obvious reasons.
But we didn’t have to fall back into. We had left it mostly behind once the Western Roman Empire fell. Alas we were tempted and we fell.
Slavery is still alive and well in the Middle East and all over Africa.
Go figure.
Well!
Don’t hold back!
I think that basically what JHK and other insightful commentators on this website may be saying is that the Americans may be in dire need of a thorough “Reality/ History Enema”?
You can tell that JHK hasn’t even READ the Mueller report.
Thank you DrGonzo,
My thoughts exactly. He prattles on about the report revealing Trump as squeaky clean. If that were the case Trump would have crammed the entire 400+ pages into tweets by now.
One can only obstruct a legitimate legal proceeding. It doesn’t work if the legal proceeding was initiated because of fraudulent representations and under false pretenses, right? A Party guilty of fraud cannot except the law to help to further his/her wrongdoing. Correct-amundo?
How does it go – fruit of the poisonous tree –
Forget to give the Miranda warning to a guy carrying a child’s head in the back seat of his car, him smeared in blood, carrying a knife, and the corpse filled with his semen and he gets to walk because of the technicality.
Trump walks because of a technicality perhaps but quit the pretense he’s an innocent man please.
It’s hardly a “technicality”. In fact, launching an investigation based upon fraudulent representations is probably prosecutorial misconduct that someone will go to jail for. Moreover, there was no underlying “Crime”, so it’s irrational to suggest that Trump intended to obstruct an investigation into conduct that was illusory, nonexistent, and a fabrication. It would be like suggesting that I attempted to obstruct an investigation into whether I had ever screwed by neighbor’s wife when my neighbor isn’t even married. It doesn’t make any sense.
Puck,
You can’t win with a fantasist.
JHK used to be an avowed Democrat. His slide to the right, actually his party’s slide to the Left, is caused by a genuine fear of the Power grubbing Left that you seem to favor. JHK believes that there are gigantic real problems out there that need to be addressed and that the government should stop playing politics and get down to business. When pigs fly.
Hopefully, the counter reaction to the Mueller hoax will expose the American people to the avarice and hypocrisy of the Left.
In his Playboy interview years ago when asked about his ambitions to be president, despite his at the time status as a democrat, he asserted if he ran for the presidency it would be as a republican because he knew they were more stupid and more easily manipulated.
Fake news, Ev.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1998-trump-people-quote/
So fake it’s even debunked by a fake fake-news watchdog.
Sad.
Another one of those falsehoods Democrat supporters love to roll out. How uneducated all Republicans are never taking into account some of us are forced to read even more than doctors now.
I love using snopes, salon, and huffpo to disprove liberal nonsense. 🙂
DrGonzo, are you taking the “Schrodinger’s Cat Quantum Approach” to the Mueller Report? Until one actually reads the report, it could say anything – even what you wish it said.
Admit you were wrong. Admit you are a reality-challenged, deranged Trump hater. Join a TDS therapy group. There must be some in every town for people like you.
Remember, admitting your problem is the first step to getting better.
Here, Here, hmuller. I agree.
I am regularly puzzled by statements from commenters that JHK is ‘defending’ Trump, like as if he is pro-Trump. I have never encountered any such in his posts; yes, he defends against the criminally unrighteous and hypocritical behavior of the hard left power hungry maniacs and their twisted obsessive behavior in violating the rule of law by attacking Trump the way they do. You don’t have to love the GGG — or even like him in the least — to recognize the heinous nature of what’s going on in all this.
But these Trump haters seem to think that anything short of cursing him is akin to loving him. Very binary, which BTW, is indicative of mental illness or severe lack of intelligence. Or both.
TDS it is.
No, you’re wrong. It’s because rational folks realize Trump is so vile that he is a menace to our country and just as some folks were willing to throw out the constitution to imprison Japanese Americans during the war, today it is instinctively realized sometimes when things are dire enough you bend the rules as required. Hopefully black ops has a remedy for the emergency we are facing.
She just proved your point, FM!
I know this is hard for you to believe but I know an awful lot of people that felt exactly the same thing about Obama and all his machinations to destroy this country with fundamental change into a third world country.
“She just proved your point, FM!” — Farmer Joe
Oh yes, she most certainly did.
Those “Black Ops” types are the foot soldiers of the deep state-shadow government. The people who thought they had a right to take out John F Kennedy. They have been violating the Constitution and rights of Americans for decades, preparing us for a hellish dictatorship under Globalism.
And this is what you support, Evelyn? You have stumbled into the embrace of pure evil.
Mexico wants to decriminalize all drugs and negotiate with the U.S. to do the same
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-decriminalize-drugs-negotiate-us-1421395
“Mexico’s president released a new plan last week that called for radical reform to the nation’s drug laws and negotiating with the United States to take similar steps.
“The plan put forward by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, often referred to by his initials as AMLO, calls for decriminalizing illegal drugs and transferring funding for combating the illicit substances to pay for treatment programs instead. It points to the failure of the decades-long international war on drugs, and calls for negotiating with the international community, and specifically the U.S., to ensure the new strategy’s success.
“‘The “war on drugs” has escalated the public health problem posed by currently banned substances to a public safety crisis,’ the policy proposal, which came as part of AMLO’s National Development Plan for 2019-2024, read. Mexico’s current ‘prohibitionist strategy is unsustainable,’ it argued.
“The document says that ending prohibition is ‘the only real possibility’ to address the problem. ‘This should be pursued in a negotiated manner, both in the bilateral relationship with the United States and in the multilateral sphere, within the [United Nations] U.N.,’ it explained.”
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This approach seems to have worked well where it has been tried. Who’s up for it?
Only if the presidents or whoever cam still make money from sales.
Elrond
We have living samples of what happens when drugs have been legalized, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, LA, San Diego, and Denver are prime examples.
Legalize drugs and the US turns into a government dependent, mass of inebriated society, exactly what the Communists want.
By the way, do you think the cartels think much of the Mexican presidents idea. He better be paying his secret service folks well.
The drug problem in the US is THE cause of the southern border problem and a lot of the political problems in the US. The
Left represents many areas of the US that consider intoxication with drugs as a way of life.
I, for one, want no part of legalization of drugs and the social downslide that will occur.
I just heard on the radio that the poverty line for a family of four in SF is 120k due to the high cost of living
That’s about right in Los Angeles and San Diego as well.
Low rent is $2,000 a month.
Electric bills are $200 a month, cable averaged about $150, gas is $4.00 a gallon, water is $300 every two months. Food is outrageous as well.
A bad happy meal at McDonalds is almost 9 bucks.
They are squeezing Californians right on out of the state.
The house across the street from me had six people living in it and the one to the south of me had up to twelve people all with cars over a decade old and barely running.
Won’t be long everyone will be living in hippie communes again.
This is what democrats call progress.
No way. Marijuana is a gateway drug. From the article:
“Decriminalizing all drugs is not a perspective that is widely advocated or discussed in Washington. This week though, Denver became the first city in the country to pass a ballot measure to fully decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as magic mushrooms or simply shrooms.”
What will it be next? Cocaine? Heroin? LDS? No thanks. We have enough crazy people as it is.
“What will it be next? … LDS? … We have enough crazy people as it is.”
I hate to break it to you, Tate, but mind-warping LDS is already legal.
I’m aware of that. Stuck it in for laffs.
LDS? Latter Day Saints? Why are we picking on the Mormons?
Tate meant “LSD.” The psychedelic stuff that Timothy Leary made famous.
I knew that. I just wanted to get in on the nonsense.
And I’m a bit like old Q; sloppy typos, misspellings, and bad grammar bug me so I’m inclined to pick on it.
I just like trading Mormons.
Good people, but their religion is bonkers.
Teasing*
Two farmers picking on my typos? What are you guys farming?
Colorado just decriminalized possession of Magic mushrooms.
Nope. City & County of Denver just decriminalized magic mushroom (see my post above).
But Colorado is only 10 minutes from Denver.
But Colorado is only 10 minutes from Denver.” –Tate
Spit coffee from that one! I’m 1.5 hours north of Denver and my neighbors are growing hemp for CBD oil — big money in it. The commercial pot growers are around as well, but keep a low profile since their business is done entirely in cash. The banks won’t process their money for fear of the feds (federal law still bans pot). I’m told stories of iron cargo containers parked in inconspicuous places full of cash…
I have some in my medicine cabinet. What a waste of $$! No discernible pain relief that I can detect. I get better results from acetaminaphen. You must be in Weld county.
Larimer. Quickly becoming the new Boulder County in terms of being thoroughly Californicated.
Tate
You are naive beyond redemption. I know literally hundreds of pot users, ones who have been users since the 60’s and ones who’ve only come out about their use of it since it became legal. In fact I’ve been totally amazed at how many of the latter it turns out there are.
None, zero of the people in that circle of friends and acquaintances have gone beyond the use of marijuana. Check that, a few have admitted use of cocaine for brief intervals of time back in the olden days but no one I know was ever a hard core user. Back when cocaine was apparently the hottest thing going I had the chance to sample it a few times and absolutely failed to understand why it became the rage it did for a while.
Psychedelics is a whole different animal from all the rest. It used to be commonly called a mind expanding drug and I can tell you with certainty it was precisely that and more. It is such that no one becomes or wants to become a habitual user. There is a reason why it is regarded as a sacred medicine by those who properly use it.
People who lump it in with all the other “bad” drugs are only revealing their utter and complete ignorance on the subject.
You should take a little time to find out more why it is finally beginning to find advocates in the world of medicine and psychology.
This explains SO much about your ravings and delusions!
Keeping eating that blotter its doing wonders for you.
Evie, you say you know “literally hundreds of pot users,” what are you, an educator? Politician?
Anyway, how would you know how many have gone beyond the use of marijuana? Would they tell you? Highly unlikely. Self-reporting on drug use has been shown to be seriously flawed, especially among minorities.
Many years ago, I dropped LDS, merely to see if it actually expanded my mind. It didn’t. I went around drooling making ridiculous statements to colleagues for a few days & that was about it. The funny thing is, I knew at the same time that I was making those ridiculous statements, that they were ridiculous, & yet I believed them all the same! If that’s mind-expansion, no thanks.
The state of Colorado is in serious crisis right now because of the marijuania use. I do believe that because of the semi-psychotic state it puts users in, that it had something to do with electing our current hard-core leftist governor. It ain’t funny, McGee!
And now I’d like to wish all the mothers out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! And that includes every last single one of you, regardless of race, creed, color, or religion!
Eat a lot of sugar today, Mom! It’s a drug but it’s your special day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRvEHn6fKWE
“Who’s up for it?”
Elrond, Count me in. Let’s get it over with.
#whatthehellhaveyougottolose….
The wife and I did a cruise to Alaska over the last couple of weeks. Beautiful, cold and wet. And yes, we saw whales.
I talked to a lot of folks in the dining rooms and lounges. The ship was filled with about 80% Californians, of which half were Asian. Of the folks we talked to, how many would you guess were Leftist nuts that California is known for? None! All ten or so were folks that hate to see what the Leftist have done to their state, and ALL of them are trying to get out of California. Target states, Texas, Arizona.
As I previously stated, these folks are very afraid of what their state has become, drug infested, poor, filthy and the folks in the new ghettoes are not all from Latin countries.
America, look in the mirror, you are becoming disgusting.
It’s the left that has to look in the mirror, John. Clearly, they aren’t ready.
John being a native I can attest to the fear and disappointment in California and the deep desire to find a better place to live.
My issue is I like to surf and walk trails and California has some good surf and wonderful hiking trails.
I should not be forced out by the insane policies of leftist transplants.
There’s a photo of Beto with 5 seemingly pubescent white girls wearing pink t shirts that read “I Stand with Planned Parenthood” on his Twitter Account.
The only issue that many Millennial White girls care about is the Right to an Abortion. Contrariwise, a lot of girls will try to trap the man by getting knocked up. Many young black males seem very angry because they don’t know who their fathers are. And then you have the white girls who get knocked up, but then expect the bloke to bring-home-the-bacon AND do the dishes and change the diapers. Weird…. A Stoic would say that this is unreasonable and contrary to Logos because it does not accord with Nature.
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Hope you like your new pin
@BetoORourke
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@DartmouthPPGA
is pinking out every candidate event in Hanover and I couldn’t be more proud these ? activists. #FITN #NHPolitics
Homelessness, drug addiction, high crime, inept (and likely corrupt) governance, high risk for plague, and now we can add to the list gang violence!
https://komonews.com/news/local/at-least-2-hurt-in-central-district-shooting
This is what bad government looks like.
EvelynV, jdhines, the above is why I don’t support democrats. We’ve had decades of deem leadership in Washington state and Seattle is the proof in the pudding. You’re nuts if you think Bernie “BS” Sanders has a solution for you.
Just nuts nothing to do with Bernie Sanders and his tired old Communist plans.
Beto….
This Week
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With his eyes on climate change, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke unveils a sweeping $5 trillion plan with significant federal action aimed at achieving net-zero emissions in the United States by 2050 and to be halfway there by 2030 (link: https://abcn.ws/2VuhJoI) abcn.ws/2VuhJoI
5 trillion, thats all?
Why not make it 500 trillion?
Brh
Mental constructs are bedrock.
The bones of existence whereupon hangs the fleshed out interpretations.
When you show one that they do not exist.
Their world collapses.
Into an abyss
Because as I said, it’s the foundation.
Without foundation is void
In the void
Where
It
Is
Homeless are often addicts.
Yet, I met one, one time, who became an addict after the loss.
Not to cope with the predicament as you would expect.
To cope with the reality.
The freedom.
He worked in Alaskan canneries in spring and
tent camped as a vagabond in the Otay scrub come winter.
Alone.
No family.
Just he and existence.
It breaks men.
He left the constructs.
It tempered him.
And it broke him
He understood the way plane.
The wavelength.’
But it caught up to him.
There is only one way to unknow
To suppress
Substance
Or death
https://www.amren.com/news/2019/05/biden-flashback-d-c-schools-worse-than-iowa-because-of-high-black-population/
Old Joe aint as dumb as he looks. And that’s gonna cost him. A few people might even refuse to vote for him if he gets the Democratic nomination just because he’s an utter hypocrite.
There’s the question of his age.
It’d be like, a century ago, a Civil War veteran was running for president in 1920.
The time for Joe Biden has come and gone. It just shows how shallow the Democratic Party bench is. Its Biden, who has gravitas from almost 50 years in the senate; behind him a bunch of nobodies and lightweights.
There was a Senator Warren from Ohio who served in the Civil War and was in the Senate when WW1 rolled around, that’s the closest correlation I could find. For God’s sake the world has moved on since Joe Biden graduated from HS in 1960 and Chubby Checker was on the radio singing ‘Doin the Twist’.
Brh
Brh, I hear you. I’m getting up there in years, but the political crew today makes me feel like a spring chicken in comparison.
But I fear those who will follow into politics. Get ready for a lot more Betos.
Cheers
You know, I never could work a hoola-hoop. If Joe Biden could, it would be the first thing about him that’s impressed me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7010867/Parents-boy-eight-sue-school-teacher-wrongly-assumed-transgender.html
Madness on steroids. Madness of the End Times. Boy was having digestive problems and had asked to be able to use the faculty restroom. His teacher went ahead and assumed he was having a gender conflict and that’s why he wasn’t using the boy’s room. So she started giving him private coaching on gender transformation, even going as far as plotting his transition process – all without informing his parents.
This is a religion as Mr Kunstler has theorized. And the transformation is a sacrament. Just as having or adopting a Black child is a sacrament of another allied, instersectional gnostic cult.
Wow. That’s something even Orwell nor Huxley thought of. Probably Huxley came the closest.
Brh
Janos! SSL! SHOTS FIRED. A BIG YouTube gun finally said, That’s it! This is WAR! Queue up your reverb sound effect and add in where applicable.
A YouTube channel named, ChuckE2009, is based on a welder and hobby farmer who started a nothing-channel and built it into a HUGE channel. He taught people how to weld, showed some of the things he made, and made great entertainment by showing his ups and downs with hobby farming.
He went off script and DARED to read the entirety of Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, since nobody else would. THAT caught the attention of YouTube’s PC Police and THEY put him on the kind of notice that his channel is going to be banned.
ChuckE2009 threw off the restraints and let loose with a full broadsides against TPTB and YouTube and called out THE ENEMY with FULL FORCE! It is GLORIOUS.
It is already been severely restricted so, download it first as an .mp3 to save and THEN WATCH IT before it goes down. It is 8:40AM EDST so, it may not be up for long. WATCH IT NOW and CELEBRATE. Shots fired! Shots fired! thoughtcrime alert!
THEY’RE DELETING MY CHANNEL
(ChuckE2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMG-YAiePU&lc=z233ed4obmmltfhrl04t1aokglvuw0saywaqqqsxuudjrk0h00410&spfreload=10&bpctr=1557579688
The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences
Where is the manifesto?
malthuss. Chuck’s reading of the full manifesto is still up at this moment.
“THEY BANNED THIS BOOK – So Let’s Read It Together!!!”
https://youtu.be/vMbGPXgbryI
Thanks Jim, but my West Coast time and late rising at that made me miss it. If you ever see it again, please post.
Janos, the glorious rant in defense of Whites is still up albeit under restriction. You may have to sign in to YouTube. Ignore the THOUGHTCRIME WARNING and click “Continue” to watch.
Here it is again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMG-YAiePU&lc=z233ed4obmmltfhrl04t1aokglvuw0saywaqqqsxuudjrk0h00410&spfreload=10&bpctr=1557612543
Reply to TPTB-USA.
Thanks for the URLs. I noted with interest his best work appeared to be the article from 1996. I wonder if his critical faculties have suffered under 20-odd years of distracto-tainment to which we have all since then been subjected. I know mine have …
His talk of finances goes over my head. But I will note this from personal experience of traveling in Europe since the Wall fell: for what is purportedly an open-borders free-trade union, there has been remarkably little cross-border “fertilization” — meaning the vast bulk of a given country’s products are not found in the other countries.
I’ll believe Europe is more integrated when I can find croissants in Poland that taste like those in France, or Polska Kielbasa in France that tastes like the genuine Polish article. I’ll believe in the EU dream when I can shop for a type of product in any country and have a selection of like products to choose from all the countries in the EU. To date, that is not the case. Such product “exporting” is limited in scope, and the privilege of only a couple of the EU players.
What has happened is that mostly German, and a few French, firms have dropped huge anchor retail establishments in the other EU countries. Thus, it is easy to find German tools and machines of various kinds in many EU countries … but the big competitor for those German machines comes not from within the EU … but China. So what should one say, “Great union, EU!” ? From my admittedly pedestrian viewpoint, it is more like a dysfunctional union.
I get the sense from Armstrong, that while he may be correct on the drift of financial issues and situations, that he is not so interested in the political, social, and historical origins driving the EU approach to business and finance. The opposite case holds for me, and I contend the EU approach to business and finance is a consequence of politics, society, and history.
IMO, the EU was meant to weaken the influence of traditional national agendas, but it has failed to do so. It has failed because this weakening of national agendas has been selectively applied, with countries like France and Germany being largely exempted. Thus, a sort of reborn continental system has emerged with the power mostly concentrated in Berlin and the remainder going to Paris.
The Euro is a topic of its own. Put briefly, while it serves valuable financial purposes, it is also a control measure, as Greece and Cyprus so painfully discovered. How curious it is that European “mainstream” media evinces so little interest in the Euro’s use as a financial cudgel.
Cheers
Reply to TPTB-USA.
Thanks for the URLs. I noted with interest his best work appeared to be the article from 1996. I wonder if his critical faculties have suffered under 20-odd years of distracto-tainment to which we have all since then been subjected. I know mine have …
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His talk of finances goes over my head. But I will note this from personal experience of traveling in Europe since the Wall fell: for what is purportedly an open-borders free-trade union, there has been remarkably little cross-border “fertilization” — meaning the vast bulk of a given country’s products are not found in the other countries.
I’ll believe Europe is more integrated when I can find croissants in Poland that taste like those in France, or Polska Kielbasa in France that tastes like the genuine Polish article. I’ll believe in the EU dream when I can shop for a type of product in any country and have a selection of like products to choose from all the countries in the EU. To date, that is not the case. Such product “exporting” is limited in scope, and the privilege of only a couple of the EU players.
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What has happened is that mostly German, and a few French, firms have dropped huge anchor retail establishments in the other EU countries. Thus, it is easy to find German tools and machines of various kinds in many EU countries … but the big competitor for those German machines comes not from within the EU … but China. So what should one say, “Great union, EU!” ? From my admittedly pedestrian viewpoint, it is more like a dysfunctional union.
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I get the sense from Armstrong, that while he may be correct on the drift of financial issues and situations, that he is not so interested in the political, social, and historical origins driving the EU approach to business and finance. The opposite case holds for me, and I contend the EU approach to business and finance is a consequence of politics, society, and history.
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IMO, the EU was meant to weaken the influence of traditional national agendas, but it has failed to do so. It has failed because this weakening of national agendas has been selectively applied, with countries like France and Germany being largely exempted. Thus, a sort of reborn continental system has emerged with the power mostly concentrated in Berlin and the remainder going to Paris.
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The Euro is a topic of its own. Put briefly, while it serves valuable financial purposes, it is also a control measure, as Greece and Cyprus so painfully discovered. How curious it is that European “mainstream” media evinces so little interest in the Euro’s use as a financial cudgel.
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Thanks for your reply.
“Thanks for the URLs. I noted with interest his best work appeared to be the article from 1996. I wonder if his critical faculties have suffered under 20-odd years of distracto-tainment to which we have all since then been subjected. I know mine have …”
[I have been loosing my marbles for a number of years as well. Concerning Armstrong, please understand that I am not here to defend him, but I suspect that the early article was for one of his conferences, whereas the others were a daily post. I just pulled those from my library list of ones I saved, as a result of interesting comments/information.]
“His talk of finances goes over my head. But I will note this from personal experience of traveling in Europe since the Wall fell: for what is purportedly an open-borders free-trade union, there has been remarkably little cross-border “fertilization” — meaning the vast bulk of a given country’s products are not found in the other countries.
I’ll believe Europe is more integrated when I can find croissants in Poland that taste like those in France, or Polska Kielbasa in France that tastes like the genuine Polish article. I’ll believe in the EU dream when I can shop for a type of product in any country and have a selection of like products to choose from all the countries in the EU. To date, that is not the case. Such product “exporting” is limited in scope, and the privilege of only a couple of the EU players.”
[Do you have a sense if it is due to restrictions, or due to lack of local demand?]
“What has happened is that mostly German, and a few French, firms have dropped huge anchor retail establishments in the other EU countries. Thus, it is easy to find German tools and machines of various kinds in many EU countries … but the big competitor for those German machines comes not from within the EU … but China. So what should one say, “Great union, EU!” ? From my admittedly pedestrian viewpoint, it is more like a dysfunctional union.”
[My experience is that the manufacturer of tools and machines is an expensive proposition, and with little demand, it is tough to start a business to compete against established manufacturers with quality products. And, when you consider the Chinese labor rate differential (I would guess the labor rate in the US might be $15 to $45/hour, and $0.40/hour for the low end in China), I would think that the economics of the situation wouldn’t allow for success.]
“I get the sense from Armstrong, that while he may be correct on the drift of financial issues and situations, that he is not so interested in the political, social, and historical origins driving the EU approach to business and finance. The opposite case holds for me, and I contend the EU approach to business and finance is a consequence of politics, society, and history.”
[I think Armstrong comes across as uncaring, because he views the situation as “it is what it is”. My understand is that when governments run into trouble, they solicit opinions/suggestions from people/entities like him, and he has learned that success is only attainable if built upon a solid foundation. My spin is that he has written a program that highlights weaknesses/disparity, and then he looks to game the system to exploit the disparity. Like Trump and his mode of operation, morality is not an ingredient required for success, but for TPTB, wishful thinking doesn’t cut it, and you have to anticipate how individuals like himself will game the system, and make allowances for it. His focus being to create a functional system that will run for some duration, and based on that foundation, it will be up to the leaders to establish and set the examples for society and morality.
I also speculate that he may be critical of the EU structure and leadership because TPTB did not implement his system.]
“IMO, the EU was meant to weaken the influence of traditional national agendas, but it has failed to do so. It has failed because this weakening of national agendas has been selectively applied, with countries like France and Germany being largely exempted. Thus, a sort of reborn continental system has emerged with the power mostly concentrated in Berlin and the remainder going to Paris.”
[My take is that he favors small groups, recognizes that the economies are different (like the “Texas/New York arbitrage”), and felt that the individual identities needed to be retained.
“They promised this would be a trade and economic union from the outset and denied there would ever be the United States of Europe with one government. In an attempt to force their dream upon everyone else, whether or not they agreed, the politicians look upon any dissenter as being too stupid to appreciate what the elite had in mind.”]
“The Euro is a topic of its own. Put briefly, while it serves valuable financial purposes, it is also a control measure, as Greece and Cyprus so painfully discovered. How curious it is that European “mainstream” media evinces so little interest in the Euro’s use as a financial cudgel.”
Over the last few years it seems that the US MSM has morphed into a biased tabloid format, and even the PBS news has become partisan.
Thanks for the reply.
Do we really have a true constitutional government here in the US? Despite all of the civic and political rituals that are acted out on a routine basis to make the masses feel “represented” it appears like most of the actual power in the country is in the hands of an oligarchy of the uber wealthy and ultra connected. The wheels of government and law enforcement turn at the direction and for the benefit of these oligarchs and robber barrons. These same people have the privilege of being above the law and thus in their view the law can simply be used as a means to an end rather than the deliberate and careful execution of justice. The corruption of the system is thorough and irreversible. Are there any other reasons a nation with a consitutional form of government would prioritize the needs and dreams of foreign nationals high above those of its own citizeny? The disorder, disunity and chaos will have to be addressed very very soon should we wish to keep any semblance of a society. The Judge, when he arrives will call martial law, suspend the constitution, commence punishment of all those who sold out their people and nation, and expel all invaders. What other way is there around it? Or we disappear into history.
SSL – This was written in response to your boo-hooing on the previous blog that no one was responding to you anymore. It sounds cruel but the first step you need to take to help yourself is to admit how messed up in the head you are so with that I make this therapeutic offering…
SSL – you come across as a vapid bimbo. Non-stop obsequious cooing to let other bigots know how wonderful they are and how you agree with whatever some recent nonsensical utterance of theirs is. Your ever presence of this board suggesting someone with not much of a life going on in her lonely trailer. Your recent self praising screed announcing your cleverness with words etc the final ingredient to produce the quickening it took to firm up of the pudding of antipathy for you.
Scratchy has his red faced Beelzebub, you should copy him with a similar image of a female Jabba the Hut with rollers in her hair.
“It sounds cruel but the first step you need to take to help yourself is to admit how messed up in the head you are…”
Wow, talk about hypocrisy. What did Jesus say, SSL? Something like don’t worry about the sliver in your neighbor’s eye, worry about the plank in your eye, then help your neighbor.
EV, you are the pot calling the kettle black.
Farmer Joe
Couldn’t agree with you more. The kettle IS black. The pot is black. In this place I’m surrounded by cast iron cookware (same as at home) and the sooner I can break myself of coming here the better off we’ll all be, especially me cuz for many of the rest of you pots and pans it seems hopeless. Maybe today is the day I can do it.
Finally two things we can agree on! I’m really looking forward to the day you get sick of me and walk away, Ev. 🙂
And, yes, I agree, Jesus is most likely fictional.
My opinion is that religion is a positive delusion. Positive in that it can help one to gain character and virtue, or provide comfort during hardship. Delusion in that it isn’t based in reality.
p.s. The Jesus story is a myth. Full of absurdities, no historical back-up. The story is a clone of numerous cockamamie stories made up before his so called story. Every goat herding cultures before the Romans had their version with practically the same particulars. I’m sure you’ve heard of the Egyptian’s Horus by now so I won’t bother giving you the details.
Leaving aside the defense of any so-called ‘christian’ religion (I’m not a fan of such), the statement that “The Jesus story is a myth” (by EvelynV) is one of the most brainlessly inaccurate piles of horseshit ever posted on this site. The historical reality of Jesus of Nazareth is orders of magnitude more verifiable than either Plato or Aristotle. He is the single most studied individual in western culture. Historical and archaeological data abound.
Do your homework, Ev. You embarrass yourself with such ignorant idiocy.
Thank you. Whether or not you believe in the divinity of Christ there is still convincing evidence of His existence.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/14/what-is-the-historical-evidence-that-jesus-christ-lived-and-died
Farmer McGregor
Notable that despite your frenzied histrionic response you couldn’t cite a single credible piece of documentation to support the Jesus myth.
Corroborative evidence of Jesus’ life outside those who had a vested interest in promoting him is so slight that most reputable scholars doubted he ever existed. The notable ‘Jesus’ document of Josephus is known to be a third century forgery and forgery in support of religious claims was very common at that time, but there are no other authentic first hand accounts which have come down from that time. Te alleged Jesus wasn’t the only charismatic preacher of his time, there were quite a number and many of them had equally impressive miracles associated with them, and that is documented BTW. If you didn’t perform, or were not believed to have performed your quota of miracles then no-one would bother with you. Historical accuracy the way we understand it to-day is itself a modern fad. People routinely wrote up first person accounts of events even if they weren’t there themselves on the basis that God wouldn’t let them lie.This is common knowledge in theological seminaries who are honest about such things.
?This view extended to the writers of the original synoptic gospels. The first of these was written in Rome by Mark in AD 70 and contains references which date it. This Mark was not the one who supposedly knew Jesus but was a follower of Paul, and he had a problem. If Jesus died on a Roman Cross how was he going to sell this to the Romans? They were hardly going to take to the supposed teachings of someone who had rebelled against the Romans, so the appalling calumny that the Jewish Sanhedrin were ultimately responsible and persuaded Pilate to crucify a man he regarded as innocent. The historical consequences have set Christian against Jew for thousands of years and yet there is no historical evidence it was true, outside the so-called synoptic gospels. they all say the same thing but there is a good reason for that. Matthew’s gospel (about AD 80 written in Alexandria) was largely copied from Mark, as was Luke’s (probably from Matthew rather than Mark but there is some scholarly dispute about this) Johns’ gospel (2nd century AD, well away from the main events) is actually an amalgamation of two documents, according to A Q Morton who, apart from being a clergyman himself and a WW2 codebreaker, was a reputable forensic examiner of documents and proved ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ in a well-publicised case in Manchester in the 1960s that a Police inspector had falsified a logbook using exactly the same methods as he applied to John. Morton can even show you where the joins are. Needless to say, historicity goes out of the window.
Have you ever even studied at a seminary EvelynV? Or better yet, have you ever gone to the original sources to confirm what you’re so certain of? Yes, modern Biblical scholarship has done a lot to undercut the narrative. We can agree on that. But if we never believed in anything greater than what we can verify within our own experience, what a poorer world this would be.
FM, I’m off the same opinion as Ev on this matter. Can you provide some hard facts that Jesus existed?
Oops, posted that before I saw your guardian article, SSL. I did read it. Most of it was review, but I was unaware of the claims that Pliny and Tacitus had written about JC. What I learned after researching those claims is that they are considered highly controversial in terms of legitimacy. Likely the accounts are either forgeries or confusion based on other messianic Jewish ideas.
Here is an excerpt from a book I found informative:
http://www.truthbeknown.com/pliny.htm
An atheist rebuttal to Jesus mythicists for your consideration Joe.
https://strangenotions.com/an-atheist-historian-examines-the-evidence-for-jesus-part-1-of-2/
https://strangenotions.com/an-atheist-historian-examines-the-evidence-for-jesus-part-2-of-2/
Wrong again, Jose. Christ came as a Suffering Servant – but He will return as a Conquering King. Mel Gibson and a guy named St John (Revelations, hello?) said so.
And His Forerunner, the Righteous King (or Kings) will be like unto Him – a Dread Judge.
Our Nation and Civilization have failed. Only radical surgery can save the patient at this point. That means Martial Law and War against all Enemies within and without. If we don’t do it first, the Communists will do it to us. And they won’t hesitate, being made of much stronger stuff than people like you.
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)
That is a beautiful verse Joe. And yes, Christ will govern the earth as a Prince of Peace. But Janos is right. When He returns He will manifest as a Man of War to remove all that prevents peace.
From Revelations 19:11-15 (KJV)
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Maybe, the problem with quoting revs is that it’s allegorical.
But Joe, whether or not it is allegory, it is still the case that Christ at the Second Coming is depicted as the Man of War. Just confirming that is the case and not something fabricated out of thin air. And you are correct in that other references depict the Prince of Peace.
Evelyn, it seems like you are kinda becoming a stalker. Perhaps you shouldn’t read my posts if they are so triggering to you. And really, I wasn’t talking to you in the first place. So please do enjoy your day and leave me out of your outbursts.
SSL! Janos! SHOTS FIRED! A BIG YouTube gun finally said, That’s it! This is WAR! Queue up your reverb sound effect and add in where applicable.
A YouTube channel named, ChuckE2009, is based on a welder and hobby farmer who started a nothing-channel and built it into a HUGE channel. He taught people how to weld, showed some of the things he made, and made great entertainment by showing his ups and downs with hobby farming.
He went off script and DARED to read the entirety of Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, since nobody else would. THAT caught the attention of YouTube’s PC Police and THEY put him on the kind of notice that his channel is going to be banned.
ChuckE2009 threw off the restraints and let loose with a full broadsides against TPTB and YouTube and called out THE ENEMY with FULL FORCE! It is GLORIOUS.
It is already been severely restricted so, download it first as an .mp3 to save and THEN WATCH IT before it goes down. It is 8:40AM EDST so, it may not be up for long. WATCH IT NOW and CELEBRATE. Shots fired! Shots fired! thoughtcrime alert!
THEY’RE DELETING MY CHANNEL
(ChuckE2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMG-YAiePU&lc=z233ed4obmmltfhrl04t1aokglvuw0saywaqqqsxuudjrk0h00410&spfreload=10&bpctr=1557579688
Looks like the web page has been taken down Jim. YouTube has been removing White Nationalists and conservatives generally at a dizzying pace as of late. Unfortunately it is only to be expected since the media and big tech are tightly controlled. So much for free speech.
They took down Chateau Heartiste last night. The Chateau has been an Oasis for years now, combining both Men’s rights and White Nationalism (the two cannot be separated) into a delightful and heady brew, served up by Heartiste, a master brewer and wordsmith.
They intend to turn the internet into a field where sheep can get fat with commercialism and canned opinions. But for the Shepherds, nothing….
Wow unbelievable! That’s why the radical surgery you mention above must happen. As if sheep can lead themselves!
Janos and SSL, the link still works. Perhaps it’s not available unless you sign in and have established that you’re over 18.
At any rate, ignore the THOUGHTCRIME WARNING and click “Continue.” Trust me, it is worth a few extra clicks to watch!
My God! You’re right. Heartiste is gone. For those who follow him, I noticed the other day that Blackpilled.com (Devon Stack) has also been taken down. Dark days.
Lax campaign finance laws/Citizens United destroyed that entirely. We are ruled by international corporations.
From Zero Hedge, that bastion of liberal propaganda…
BTW – Nice job showing us how to get it done Trump, you fat oaf. Really stuck it to China. Or was it other way around. How’s your bung hole?
“The malignant manatee threatens the planet with fire and brimstone
We have Pompeo, a malignant manatee looking to start wars in which he will not risk his flabby amorphous ass also parading his Christianity. Bolton, a mean sonofabitch who belongs in a strait jacket, at least doesn’t pose as someone having a soul. And the Golden Tufted Cockatoo, too weak to control those around him, preening and tweeting. God save us.
Fred Reed
The term “malignant manatee” is not from me, the brilliant Fred Reed came up with this one, but I can only fully endorse it because it fits. Perfectly. And our malignant manatee sure is on a roll! Just this week he managed to threaten Venezuela, Iran, and even Russia and China together. I think that it is high time to declare that Pompeo is a bona fide nutcase, a dangerous, arrogant and ignorant psychopath whose crazy statements represent a direct threat to the entire planet. Not to say that his pal Bolton is any less crazy. Now combine these two rabid thugs with the spineless “Golden Tufted Cockatoo” (to use Fred Reed’s equally hilarious but accurate characterization) and you see that the planet is in big, big trouble.”
Have to agree with all of this. Trump’s continued support of Bolton and Pompeo are indicative of his poor decision making and totally unforgivable for someone who ran on the now laughable idea of being a genuine alternative to the DC swamp. He’s flailing and out of control now – a mere puppet – just like the MICC boys like ’em. It’s also indicative, however, that in spite of all their smoke and bluster, the Dems haven’t removed him yet. As usual, they’re all bark and no bite. Call them Yellow Dogs for that big yellow stripe they’ve got running down their backs.
To steal a page from Fred’s book…….
Q. to Cease Corrections (or have his ass handed to him). CFN in Mourning, Stocks Fall
There certainly is a crisis, all right. Largely a financial crisis, I believe, and our host JHK has pointed that out rather often. All this political theater is just a smoke screen to cover the fact that we are rapidly approaching the bitter-end consequences of financialization. What I fear is that war will be the answer to this pickle of a problem. That’s usually the way it goes – certainly has been in the past. Only this time, with all the new mega-weapons, all bets are off whether anyone gets out alive. We are fast approaching the “kick over the chessboard” solution, I fear. We should all hope my fear is unfounded. I sure hope so.
Looking more and more likely that the neocons, lead by Bolton, Pompeo and company this time out, will finally get that bright shiny new war in Iran they’ve always dreamed of. Especially after getting sand rudely kicked in their face in Venezuela, the US MICC’s flagging self-esteem needs some bolstering that only a good old fashioned missile and bombing war can provide.
Communism, Red Spring and Black Spring
What is communism? Just in one phrase. Could you tell me?
Communism is the emancipation and awakening in each person of his higher creative abilities.
Put it in double frame. Communism has no any other meaning.
As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, the trouble is not whether they live poorly or richly, the problem is that Mozart is killed in each one of them.
No one can encroach on this dream. This dream inspired Marx. And no matter how much you read the classic Marx, it is clear that it inspired him, Lenin, Engels – everyone.
And all their followers.
A horrendous blow to that dream was struck by Khrushchev. His crime of exposing the personality cult of Stalin is less in character than his crime with the program of the XXII Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, when he reduced this entire communism to hamburger-communism and said that it was the satiation and abundance for each person.
Now let’s look at every word.
It is easy to liberate higher creative abilities, although it is incredibly difficult at the same time.
Because they are present in every single one of us.
And they are just being held back by something. You broke the chains – and they come to the surface. You gave a push in the form of education – and they come to the surface. It is necessary to remove the barriers between higher education (not in the sense of higher vs secondary, but in the sense of the highest quality of education given to everyone, free of charge, requiring from every one exertion to the limit of their capacity)
It is necessary to put people in a climate in which they will not constantly be hostile to each other. We need to give them some level of living. So that they can achieve to their highest capacity. And liberate their creative abilities.
Marx and Lafargue argued about what is more important: labor which could liberate these abilities, or free time. There was a dispute about this, but with emancipation everything was clear. And with awakening everything is much more complicated.
Awakening in every person … it is generally an assault on a lot. Do you think that these higher creative abilities are in each and everyone?
Yes, the Communists believed that they are.
Communism is a society in which everyone is a genius.
And finally, what are these higher creative abilities? There is a lot of arguing. But in principle, this formula is absolute. And there will be no tomorrow’s communism outside of it.
Now let’s see how this formula of humanization (for it was believed that a person is not yet complete until all this has been done; this is only a pre-person; and here is another step beyond this threshold, and there will be complete humanization) is connected with God, where the question is not how to save the soul, so that it fits into paradise, but so that this higher energy, synergy, awakens God in man.
God knows, I apologize for the tautology, it is not very far from each other.
In Latin America, in the 60s, there was a conceptual fusion of the idea of such an awakening and the emancipation of man – the communist-Marxist idea and a Christian idea.
And it is called Liberation Theology. Like any other idea, it belongs to your time. And much can be added, changed; much is still controversial here. I just want to say that in Latin America in the 60s it became clear: the conceptualization of such a synthesis is needed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
And in Italy in 1944-43-42, during the guerrilla war waged by the communists against the Mussolini government, then against the Germans, at that moment there was no time for a conceptual synthesis of Christianity and communism.
These were tough Stalin times.
The Communist Party of Italy was in the orbit of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, i.e. Stalinist dry pragmatism. But there were too many Christians. And too willingly, these Christians recognized the brothers in the Communists and went to meet them. And there was a war. And it was impossible to refuse this incoming movement.
Therefore, there could be no prohibition of being a communist and at the same time receiving communion in the Italian Communist Party. Therefore, secular communists sang about the Red Banner, Bandiera Rossa. And the communists, who saw communism as it was seen by people talking about God, sang about Rossa Primavera, about Red Spring.
Because in the end, the Christian dream of this emancipation and revival, and the communist dream, are very close.
Bandiera Rossa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAXoGxLx6yk
Rossa Primavera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9V71oaCKyI
Rossa Primavera is Easter.
Louis Aragon, very close to the Communists, spoke of the people: “And what you mean, we will understand on Easter Day”
That liberation and awakening is the property of spring. And the fact that the emancipation and awakening occurs not of anything, but of the higher creative abilities, makes this spring Red.
Communism is largely an intellectual response to capitalist imperialism, which was already metastasizing in the early to mid-19th century. Unfortunately it appeals to man’s higher nature, which any good capitalist knows is easily bought off. Pure communism and/or socialism is probably not realistic (they’ve never actually been tried yet), but pure capitalism in its most virulent forms now appear to be inevitable; as in, once capitalism is adopted it can’t be controlled. Marx thought the way through this conundrum was to first let capitalism fail of its own accord, after which socialism would naturally flourish in the aftermath. It remains to be seen whether that idea is viable either, as good capitalists all prefer hoarding and scorched earth policies be implemented just prior to a systemic meltdown, just as we’re seeing today.
Capitalism will outlive socialism. Capitalism is naturally self reinforcing. You invest a dollar, you get two dollars. You invest two dollars, you get for, etc. Socialism is parasitic by comparison. It needs a host to feed off of and cannot survive outside of a capitalist system.
” You invest a dollar, you get two dollars. You invest two dollars, you get for, etc.”
But how long can that last, Farmer Joe, in a context of diminishing resources? Unless you have infinite growth, which is impossible, either you won’t get two dollars or you’ll get two dollars that aren’t worth what they used to be. Which is kinda the proposition of this entire website.
When it’s not dragged into the quagmire of racial obsessions, that is.
dragged into the quagmire of racial obsessions, !!!!!!
I imagine that no matter what happens people will need food. To buy that food you will have to pay a competent farmer a price that is profitable. Now it is true that his farm has limits ecologically and geographically, so that dollar multiplier can only grow so far in any given context. I’m not arguing for unlimited expansion. I am arguing for a fair ROI for doing a job. That will always happen or humanity will starve. Agriculture, even outside of the context of money is capitalistic. If you take good care of your plants, then they yield good seed and your effort is multiplied. The same is true with livestock. Capitalism is the name of the game!
That is the point I tried to make with wild horses which did not work out so well down below.
The system that we have does not fit the actual facts of our reality. It will not distribute goods and services in a equitable way as limits kick in. The foundations on which our society is build are flawed and the structure we now have will crash down if the foundation is not fixed.
Tamed capitalism is the name of the game!
I don’t disagree with you on a micro level, Farmer Joe. I just don’t know how the rapacious macro version we have can carry on much longer. It’s already based on smoke and mirrors and we can’t get off the merry go round because of the debt we’re drowning in (not me personally, thank goodness – I’m more your ‘steady-state’ kind of person 🙂 ).
Even going ‘steady state’ and building in assumptions about diminishing resources requires the creditors to be placated.
I agree with both of you, GA and K Dog.
Capitalism will lead to destruction. Its natural function is to centralize power into the hands of the few. Those who have power will subvert free societies in order to maintain and increase their wealth and power. This is the downfall of the West as we have known it. Only a system that protects the collective from the craven robber barrons can save us. Otherwise we remain expendable pawns.
You seem to be imputing base motives to the littlest Trump and others, SSL, Unless you mean robber barons 🙂 .
But who knows. He may be a chip of the old block…
Oh my thank you Alba :-)! Yes barons rather than barrons. But since Trump is ignoring his campaign promises he must be in cahoots with them. I hope he isn’t training Barron in his ways!
Capitalism is naturally self reinforcing.
Actually, capitalism always eats its seedcorn and implodes due to unbridled greed, and its own natural parasitic instincts are currently strangling what’s left of the world’s economy. The exponential growth debt equation virtually guarantees it. The better question is whether or not either system will survive for the long term. I don’t think it’s in the cards.
If I had my druthers, I would opt for laissez faire capitalism. Then one comes to discover that one man’s downstream is another man’s upstream. This discovery shows that socialism not so much a choice as a consequence, regardless of preferences, if one values fairness, of course.. Socialism certainly has its faults, no question about that. Perhaps rather than arguing about whether socialism can work, we ought to try to make it work in a social framework that demands responsibility rather than focusing so much on rights. I don’t perceive any other alternative.
I agree. Our society focuses too much on individual rights and tends to minimize the importance of social responsibilities and accountability. The problem is coming into agreement on what responsibilities citizens have. The more diverse and dispersed a society is the more difficult that task becomes it would seem.
Right left back forth up down commie running dog imperialist.
It seems to me after enduring the nonsense of these terms for decades is that people who bring these things up (present company excepted, are socially signaling and that is all. Their interest is in promoting themselves in a flipped, I’ll call, satanic, form of virtue signalling improve social standing. Deep discussion is never the intent.
It is never someone who brings up making the world a better place as is the impression received (so naturally scratch would have to be excluded, no offense, it is the natural order of things) would suggest.
The intent is always a blanket condemnation of the ‘other side’ to make the originating speaker look superior and a voice willing to claim some unearned authority. The truth is all ideological constructs concerning how people organize their affairs have merits and problems which a real substantive discussion would try and probe out. But that is not the intent.
Anyway Marx experienced the grade school bully. The bully we know is way more grown up. He have the high school dropout. The capitalist bully that Marx knew evolved so many of Marx’s criticisms which were appropriate at his time and place are no longer valid. But new criticisms of our capitalism are valid or the system is perfect and we know it is not.
Unbridled capitalism in a world of limits is not going to work. American capitalism is a wild horse galloping away with our future. As a horse imposes its moods and ways on man, dog, field, and forest, we need a trained cutter horse of a government not the wild untamed daemon of one we have now. A government trained to serve the herd.
I’ll call, satanic, form of virtue signalling <btoimprove social standing. Deep discussion is never the intent.
We have the high school dropout.
Bad typos.
to improve social standing.
The problem is that too often the shepherd becomes, or is replaced by, the wolf.
There’s a stained glass window in England that portrays wolves putting on sheep’s clothing. It’s a pilgrimage stop for Fabian Socialists. They knew what they were doing as did the later Communists of the Continent and Russia. As do our Lords of Political Correctness (our form of Communism).
Well remember, the Capitalists don’t believe in “Capitalism” per se. Adam Smith and competition are just for the droids and suckers. True believers like John Az. I’ve tried to awaken him but he won’t give up his blanket and bottle. Competition is a sin. They are profoundly organized and quite eager to create a Neo-Medieval Order with themselves as the Lords. Communism for the masses and a bit of Capitalism for them. Sure, maybe even a bit of competition – they enjoy the sport of it. But as a central feature? No, of course not. How could anyone ever believe that could be a central feature of any society? The mind reels at the idiocy of these louts (Crowley when learning that Parsons and Hubbard were trying to create a “moon child” with a “scarlet woman”. If only they had had Evie Lynn….).
I agree. We don’t have true “laissez-faire capitalism”. We have “crony capitalism” a degenerate globalist marriage of corporations and state.
Example: a true market’s function is to establish fair value where buyers and sellers voluntarily meet at a price.
Instead, we have government and central bank interference, propping up some markets (stocks, bonds); suppressing prices in other markets (precious metals).
Is it a coincidence that as the interference with the free market has grown ever more egregious, the chart of wealth accumulation looks like a hockey stick? Most people in the USA are getting poorer or treading water; the top 1% are amassing all the additional wealth.
And the MSM presstitutes are able to get away with blaming this crime on “capitalism” when it should be blamed on our perverted system of “crony capitalism”.
If we try to apply the above concept to such idea as a Universal Basic Income, we immediately could see why UBI is a Black Spring as oppose to the Red Spring – it puts a person in a hopeless welfare trap.
Amazing two Double Basses performance by Lev Weksler of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble-Bee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLvC1046t7w
Finca, finally something I understand, and that we can agree on!
Yes, far better to live on the streets as an entrepreneur selling shit cakes to other lice ridden beggars.
Joe agrees with you – the surest proof you are wrong since he gets everything wrong.
I’ll take that as a compliment, Janos.
Janos, while I don’t agree with your position, I do respect the fuck out you for having the balls to publicly defend it.
Tanks. I’m driving my tank over to your farm. Hope you have one of your own to meet me. If not, well….maybe hide in the well.
Yeats: “There’s a cure for all things in the Well at Ballykeele (sp?)”. The West Coast of Ireland and Scotland is still charged with power. The last stand of the Little People – who can manifest to any size they desire. They could destroy humanity but they don’t have that kind of hatred. They can’t be bothered and have their own business. They’re content to wait us out in any case. This Age is almost over – the last of the Four so the end of a Cycle.
That’s a long drive Janos.
He has a very comfortable tank, Farmer Joe. All mod cons. Comes with the Commission.
LOL…..”I’m driving my tank over to your farm.” It’s a good thing you have shown some respect Joe. You might be ok for now ;-).
It’s not lack of respect that keeps me from believing in white supremacy, SSL. As I’ve said before, I think we have a lot in common in terms of immigration policy. I just don’t buy into the idea that whites are genetically superior. I don’t see it, and nothing has been presented that would convince me otherwise.
Fair enough? Can we have a friendly disagreement or do I need to seriously consider acquiring a Kalashnikov and body armor, and filling a police report for death threats?
Oh Joe it was a joke! Of course we can have friendly disagreements. It keeps things interesting don’t you think? I would not argue myself that Whites are genetically superior to other races. The various races have diverse attributes including strengths and weaknesses. Whites have weaknesses and strengths as any other race. I do believe however that Whites and East Asians generally have developed the most complex societies. The most important thing to me personally is that Whites maintain our own separate homelands. Other races should have theirs too. And I do prefer peace and don’t long for war. But human history demonstrates that peace is uncommon and when it is present a fight is still required to maintain it.
Janos, where do crazy white dems fit into your white supremacy hypothesis?
white supremacy –those taboo words..when spliced together.
Whi-macy. Primacy of the whiners.
They do have a point. White even screws up bread.
Racist hatred. You think it’s alright because you’re White? No, it just makes it worse – sicker. Shame on you.
Your land faces ruin. Who are you to doubt that?
I knew someone who moved there, in 2015.
i didnt want to warn her.
I was right, as usual.
She returned here To California.
‘The potential roommate was a male muslim and ……no..etc’
Yeah cuz true strength is just letting our Nations be taken from us without “whining”. What a twisted creature u r.
Like I said, Nazis have no sense of humour.
Heaven {metaphor alert} preserve us from the humourless.
Us losing our Nations is funny? The masses of White homeless in America is funny? Just as funny as English pensioners freezing to death because they can’t afford to heat their homes. You’re damn right I have no sense of humor about any of that. But you do…..
I’m a pensioner, you moron. Just not an English one. So it’s colder.
Green Alba, if you are not a genuine Englishwoman, then what are you? Your ideology has raised suspicions for a long time but, NOW you just confirmed part of it. Out with it!
Your education seems to have included all the wrong things, mein Sturmtruppenführer.
Do they not do geography – or even joined-up reading – over your way? I guess you were too busy learning how to ‘handle the locals’.
Green Alba. The only hint you gave us was, “colder.” That can mean MANY places so, to disdain my knowledge of geography was rather pretentious of you.
Scotland? Faroes Islands? Northern Ireland?
Deep down, you fantasize about die Sturmtruppen. Admit it.
JiminBerchtesgaden
You said ‘your ideology has raised suspicions for a long time’.
That suggests you read my posts. Not knowing where I’m from, since it’s been mentioned countless times, suggests you don’t. Not being able to figure it out without reading any of them suggests something else in a general knowledge-y kinda way.
I don’t care one way or the other.
You can think what you like about the camp lot that liked camps. I don’t care one way or the other about that either.
Ok gotchya. So being sick and tired of seeing your country sold to and overrun by foreigners is considered whining. Well then you might want to invest in some ear muffs because I am about to start screaming at the top of my lungs!
Another Nazi who can’t read and has less than zero sense of humour. The lover of dead spider halves mentioned splicing two words. So I spliced them. You made up your own conclusions.
Get a ruddy grip, meine kleine Sturmtruppenführerin.
And you screaming like a banshee isn’t a pretty picture, so keep it for your own country.
The trouble is, HarshArtificialLight, that when you, Janos and JimInBerchtesgaden get your way, we’ll be answering all the ”gotchyas’, ‘in other words’ and ‘Out with it!’s under a solitary lightbulb, with two chimps playing good-Nazi/bad Nazi in the interrogation chamber.
Then a lot of people will need ear muffs. Because it will be their turn next.
Wow Alba lol really? I don’t have a sense of humor? I thought you would have enjoyed the post even an eensy teensy bit but I guess not…You still didn’t address my question to you. I will ask you again in a non-joking and sober manner. Do you consider Whites who complain against and counter their own replacement by third world imports whiners and complainers? To me it appeared that you did in your post so I was curious.
As for you calling me a Nazi. It makes me think about that controversial jacket Melania wore. What did it say?
“I really don’t care. Do U?”
I’ve written this before.
There are three kinds of internal despoilers of a nation:
1.) the unassimilated ethnics.
2.) the sexual deviants.
3.) the privileged misfits.
These categories aren’t mutually exclusive.
Number 1 is obvious. But it has to be added, sometimes this broad grouping contains subgroups who are chameleons, morphing into loyalists or despoilers as the need arises.
The damage potential of Number 2 is greatly under-estimated.
Number 3 is motivated by guilt & easily swayed by Numbers 1 & 2 (after all, THEY ARE MISFITS!)
IMHO it seems like the privileged misfits are the most immediately dangerous group. Their guilt motivations give many of them a sense that their subversion of society is a righteous moral cause. Their privileged positions in society make it easier for them to avoid the consequences of their actions altogether as well.
JHK sez:
“What could possibly be the explanation for these blunders. Well, we’re going to find out in the months ahead. The DPR chairs of various House committees have threatened to ask Mr. Mueller to testify. Bring it on, I say. He sure has some ‘splainin’ to do, if not in those venues, then in a more than a few grand juries that will be convened to assess the actions of his confederates-at-law from every hummock and gator pool in the Swamp. These various parties may also seek to understand why Mr. Mueller omitted to mention the now reeking Steele Dossier in his 444-page report, and why in his 20-plus page recounting of the oh-so-crucial Trump Tower meeting he never disclosed that the two Russians present were on the payroll of Hillary contractor FusionGPS, and met with its principal, Glenn Simpson before and after the meeting. It does give off a scent of “colluding with Russians,” except obviously the odor came from the wrong direction.”
Well, I’m thinking the first sentence in this paragraph is strictly rhetorical for those who have followed/looked into Mueller’s “public service” career. Similar to Colin Powell, he’s always been a water carrier and ass-coverer for the entrenched wealthy, powerful, and politically connected. The large difference is that Mueller managed to be more circumspect and kept to the verges between shadow and light.
Considering this, it’s easy to see why certain omissions were “necessary”. Pulling on one loose piece of yarn could unravel the whole damn sweater and the naked self-interest of parties of *all* stripes would be revealed. (“Public service”, my ass.)
In this
If the T word were to step down some proper composing of the 444 pages and other documents could be done. There would be a whole bunch of people who’s problems would go away if the T word were to step down and the reeking piles of documents worked into the soil.
Just saying.
Here collapse oil and overpopulation might get discussed with the irritating orange itchy spot gone. Collapse and oil for sure would get discussed again. People withdraw from discussing overpopulation so that might not happen.
Good point, K-Dog.
I sometimes wonder if the T-focus by all forms of media and professional liars (politicians) is deliberate distraction from what’s about to hit us all “up-side the head”.
Deliberate or not. It is working.
Hit us all “up-side the head”. Perhaps not with a 2 x 4 but with a stack of empty shipping containers blowing over in a high winds. They can do that. Consider this:
Commerce Minister Betsy Díaz Velázquez told the state-run Cuban News Agency that various forms of rationing would be employed in order to deal with shortages of staple foods. She blamed the hardening of the U.S. trade embargo by the Trump administration.
But not to worry, Despite preventing trade in food with Cuba our T-meister will do a stellar job making new trade deals with Mars.
Of course the AP article had to throw in some distraction about free oil and Venezuela. The nail that sticks up must be pounded down, that sort of thing, so the article followed some rules. That is the way it is.
During the depression crops rotted in the fields and food in the warehouses. All showing the nonsense that Capitalism is and the need for a Strong Hand to put things right.
We are blessed because we can grow everything we need right here. Just close the borders and create Fortress America.
The Filth will try to raise prices on food when things get bad. Point at the Tree Branches and Lamp Posts and they will blanch and relent.
In Musical Chairs, the music gets faster and faster as fewer children and chairs remain. They play this game to get kids used to Capitalist Tyranny. Go get an extra chair from the other room and reverse the process. Everyone gets to sit down and be happy in the end. And never play that evil game again.
This is not musical chairs. You are throwing my own analogy back at me but this is something else. This is ‘T’ fucking the pooch. This is ‘T’ ruining diplomatic relations with every country in the Caribbean, not just Cuba. This is about pissing people off so bad there will be hell to pay.
Not everything I say is directed at you. You aren’t my Centre after all. Every Man and every Woman is a Star. You are and so am I. Learn the Rules.
Know when you are in a State of Psychic Inflation. You are right now and so am I. You have to learn to watch it and not go out of your lane. You just did.
Reading William Forstchen “ONE SECOND AFTER” brings quick understanding & describes quick application of “THE LONG EMERGENCY”.
Following “38North” and “DEBKAfile” give insight to how Forstchen’s decade old narrative transpires. SF Girl Reporter comprehension of Christianity is akin to the real Squeaky Fromm’s expertise with a 1911 Colt. Most on this page cannot deal with the truth in JHK pleadings for railway rebuild seldom mentioned after many frustrating years of trying. Agriculture branch Railway matrix = Famine Hedge.
Fat Dumb & Happy Motoring drifts inexorably into automation 100% reliant on solid state controls in the vehicle and orbiting overhead. The luxury of hashing over minutiae of political and economic byways so much embodied in Mr. Kunstler’s platform vanish ONE SECOND AFTER computers melt down. If EMP not result of foreign or domestic intent, then why not by persons interested in hiding evidence? How many readers here have kitchen gardens?
Real people don’t have time for this shit so why is it here.
Having been so mean I read it again forwards and backwards five times. I did find meaning so I’m sorry.
Interesting, K-Dog. I had the same initial response.
Sometimes these commenters post such incomprehensible jibberish that I just pass over it. His post is awfully cryptic, but indeed meaningful, as it turns out.
I am sorry, it looked like a collection of random sentences at first. Squeaky Fromm set me off.
“One Second After I find out is a book by William R. Forstchen written in 2009.
The book is about an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States and how the curtain of business as usual comes crashing down on the small American town of Black Mountain NC.
An entertaining read, though a little too Captain America for my taste.
4014HAMPHEDGE’s point is that after cars are all self driving we will be more vulnerable to an EMP attack than we already are and that the railways are a better hedge against an EMP disaster.
I read When The English Fall A book about a solar flare Apocalypse by David Williams. I give the book four paws up and that is a good thing.
I’m proud of the review I found too. ‘The Mennonite World Review’. Is that sweet or what 🙂 Here is another not so mainstream place for a book review.
There’s a semi-humorous abbreviation that used to be used in e.g. doctors’ notes: NFN – Normal for Norfolk. Apparently you can’t use FLK any more either (Funny Looking Kid). Primarily because people are entitled to see their medical files these days.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3159813.stm
Bravo. They miss the forest for the trees. Economics is the Art of the Kitchen. Women must be taught how to cook and clean again. Men will teach them.
When Adam delved,
And Eve span,
Who then,
Was the Gentleman?
I said I was sorry and why do you have glee.
Not about that you didn’t. I have glee because I was born to dance in the flames. Have? I am Glee. Remember what the Book of the Law says, “If a Man is a King you cannot hurt him.”
Would you be a King? Love yourself and your Brothers. Starting with your kin, the Whites. Did I say stop there? No. What you do is up to You. You will See more clearly once you awaken. But remember, the unawakened have rights too. And as a King, you are at once a Shepherd to them. Your White sheep have your first loyalty. The Black sheep and the sheep of other colors? Leave them up to their Shepherds. They’re not your concern and you’re not going to be friends with black sheep anymore than you are with the white ones. But if you want to befriend Shepherds of other colors, again that’s up to You.
In other words, learn the Rules of the Road, the rules of Hierarchy and of proper dealings with the various classes of People and Races.
In other words, learn the Rules of the Road, the rules of Hierarchy and of proper dealings with the various classes of People and Races.
One could read in that, a threat.
Where Janos Hangs out;
Republic of Gilead.
Only by a very great stretch of disordered imagination. Remember by letting the PTSD (remember I believe your trauma was real as in based on real occurances) go unchecked, you’re giving Them a partial victory.
“How many readers here have kitchen gardens?”
I have one, inactive at the moment as focus has been on getting the house in proper shape to sell. It’s very challenging where I live with the meteorological extremes. You can’t appreciate the differences between these conditions & anywhere east of the 100th meridian until you have experienced them. No wonder back in the old days these dryland farmers on the high plains had such high rates of mental breakdown.
Kitchen Garden American Style.
Delivered by drone of course.
I’d better get outside and water mine.
You direct me with your anchor link to a commercial website selling a glorified vase with dirt on Amazon?!
For shame.
Or maybe I don’t understand what a “kitchen garden” is…
I suspect he was being sarcastic…
Forgot he’s an a**hole.
You’ve no sense of humor, Tate. I’d abhor such a fate.
You could easily convince halt of America such a thing would be going green.
Okay, I get it. And for $189, what a bargain!
This post really looks AI in nature.
Do not pray for easier lives.
Pray to be stronger men and women.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Do%20not%20pray%20for%20easier%20lives.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/07/trumps-base-mandatory-e-verify-immigration-deal/
Hiring illegals is illegal. The perps must be punished severely. Letting them vote is also illegal. The perps must be punished severely. Fucking with a kid’s head to make them have a sex change should be illegal. The perps, etc etc ad almost infinitium. We await the Righteous King and Dread Judge.
Janos
WWg1WGA
Do you know about ‘Wake Up Warriors?”
I saw an online ad. Gareth White is making millions of dollars in the ‘man osphere.’
We do await Him. He will punish the perps. But if we can get e-verify in the meantime it will be an extra bonus! Will Kushner allow it?
Here is an interesting & illuminating article by Mike Whitney at the Unz Review,
http://www.unz.com/mwhitney/judgement-day-for-john-brennan/
about the approaching RussiaGate Phase II (what happens after IG Horowitz’s report is delivered.) The author seems to think the origin of the scandal is John Brennan, CIA Director. But if that’s true, how come — as the author plainly states — Comey’s FBI was trying to go to the FISA court before the CIA intervened, getting the U.K.’s GCHQ involved in order to successfully obtain the surveillance warrants from the court?
The corruption goes much higher, folks. Wouldn’t be surprised if it reaches into dept. Justice & possibly the Obama White House itself.
Strozk texts:
“The White House is running this.”
Doesn’t take a rocket surgeon.
George Zimmerman is a very great King and Warrior. And He isn’t White. Study his Life and Teachings if you would move forward. Buy his art and support Him too. They crucified Him but they could not destroy Him. He rose up and defied the Zombies, more alive than they ever were or will be.
Apparently there’s some “cool” new Left meme that doesn’t mention Trump but just says, “T”. I don’t like him anymore but I don’t like the Left so I’m just going to continue to say “Trump”. Rhymes with Rump.
Yeah, well looks like he’s been whittled down to a “Rump.”
Satan was the first Libertarian.
https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/4461-satanists-for-religious-liberty
One of these SOBs made a point point though: We’re pikers compared to some of the Hierarchs in the Catholic Church. Quite true.
The context: The poor slob, God bless him, felt guilty after participating in a Black Mass. So to make himself feel better, he compared himself to even worse people. Great way to deaden the conscience. Grease the slids for a fast descent.
Janos. Satan was the first Libertarian but LILITH was the first feminist.
Go into the deep dark and dank caves of the Talmud and Kabbalah and you’ll find her. It doesn’t matter that her story was kept a secret and out of the Bible. All that matters is that TPTB are beholden to her, what she stands for, and that they support her servants – who are with us to this very day and we frequently see them on TV.
Diamond Lil! All diamonds are blood diamonds since the Jewelry industry made theme mandatory for marital engagements. A down payment on much more to come in many cases.
It took me a long time to realize what playbook that trickster was using.
The “poor slob” in your last paragraph, he was one of the Privileged Misfits (see my post above regarding same) on the three kinds of despoilers of a society.
Janos–when things get bad.
how bad?
when?
Easy, my Crow. Fear not, God will give you blood to drink.
Speaking of those attracted to the Dead, they’re going to introduce the California Condor into the Coastal Northwest – part of its original range.
I will post later on your question though. I saw an opening for a good punch. You can’t deny me that. You have earned it. It is your wage…,
malthuss. Chuck’s reading of the full manifesto is still up at this moment.
“THEY BANNED THIS BOOK – So Let’s Read It Together!!!”
youtu.be/vMbGPXgbryI
The glorious rant is still available albeit behind a THOUGHTCRIME WARNING. You will probably have to sign in, right-click the link below here, ignore the warning, and click Continue to view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMG-YAiePU&lc=z233ed4obmmltfhrl04t1aokglvuw0saywaqqqsxuudjrk0h00410&spfreload=10&bpctr=1557612543
Great video, added it to my favorites bar. I didn’t have to do any of those things to watch it. Maybe they have me pegged already.
Oops! Not that one. Haven’t watched it yet.
Superb. The apotheosis of a man into a God. Very clear and likable. He could go far. There is something deeply wrong with any White Man not burning with indignation. We need Leaders to be the jeweled lens that focuses it into a laser. And as the madman in the Lovecraft story said, We shall burn out way up.
As a man of almost supernatural sensitivity, I abhor violence. I once prayed for a snail whom I had stepped on inadvertently. I marveled at the subtle color and beautiful patterns of its skin and prayed for its spirit. I don’t want to step on anybody, but what needs be must be.
Are you a vegan? (Playing Malthuss here.)
Yes, very close. Good old blood and guts, Malthus. Remember the time he asked me to provide the details of everything I knew about Satanic child abuse – first thing on Monday morning.
Jim they won’t let me watch the video. It says “certain features for this video have been disabled”. When I click on the Show More button it basically says it has been disabled because it is hate speech. I am so over the censorship, silencing and psychological warfare. Fortunately a while back I downloaded the manifesto so they can’t disable that! But I wish I could see the video :-(.
Hmmm… the link should work. It worked just now. Janos was able to watch. Yes, you have to click past the thoughtcrime warning but, Continue will get you there.
Try again. It is a glorious rant; on par with Charles Martel in battle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMG-YAiePU&lc=z233ed4obmmltfhrl04t1aokglvuw0saywaqqqsxuudjrk0h00410&spfreload=10&bpctr=1557686178
Do you have a Google or YouTube account? Are you logged in? If not, perhaps that’s why you’re being blocked. You need to show that you’re over 18 and your account should have that info.
Hey this one is working!!!!!
https://youtu.be/vMbGPXgbryI
hump and chump
Said dump.
A slump from the lump.
Kdog, update your blog.
May 8 last entry.
Brh
KMD–
But while Portes (pronounced “Port-iz”) believes in open borders, he also believes in closed mouths. In other words, he’s a big fan of censorship and doesn’t like Whites discussing racial differences and the effects of mass immigration. When the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton was sacked from a government committee for alleged anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism, Portes welcomed his departure and condemned him for peddling “inflammatory nonsense,” “tabloid-level ignorance and straightforward falsity.” He then went on to peddle some inflammatory nonsen
wrt [with regard to] SRA–call for an uprisings talk this week–
marina a
and west memphis 3
Beautiful Jazz Singer
https://www.facebook.com/AmazingMusiciansPage/videos/431505680948806/UzpfSTE1Njc4NzI0MTM6MTAyMTI3ODc4MDY2NDExNjI/
Is there anything more miserable than gardening? Its embarrassing to watch.
These are the fulfillments of the analysis that suburbia is a cartoon of country living, these cartoon farmers hacking and slashing and spraying their dusty little patches. My favorite idiocy is the yard of wood chips with which they permanently reduce the fertility of their little fiefdoms.
Oddly enough, ‘Mother Earth News’ just arrived with the mail. All about gardening.
Good article in there about batteries, history of batteries, different types of batteries, how to buy batteries, their uses, their strengths, their weaknesses and so on … everything you would ever want to know about batteries, also cover story ‘Zero-Energy Home’.
Seeing as you are sometimes known as Captain Planet on this blog (as well as Little Carlos Slim) Mother Earth News seems to be right up your alley, Snacks. I think you should subscribe, and get into gardening.
Just don’t write a letter to the editor about your idea of nuking China and Russia if they don’t reduce carbon emissions, it’ll freak out the organic gardeners.
Brh
… and the hippies.
I know Janos likes it for the organic crematorium disposal articles.
Give me your ashes and I will grow a plant in them. You will be that plant, right? That’s what you think. Accordingly, I will torture you by refusing you water.
While you are digging, you can sing that old German song: “If I’da knew you were comin’ I’da baked a Kike”
MEN is a great magazine, I read the latest waiting at the Dentist. I read it for the pictures, as I love fantasy as much as the next person. The fact is that it is for dreamers, not practical people.
Much of their material is just recycled from past issues going all the way back to the 70s, updated with better pictures (of older people). From time to time you do get to see what real self-sufficiency requires… A 20 year head start and land bought when it was 5% of today’s prices.
What is truth?
As I have repeatedly noted, conspiracy theories is a reaction of the manipulators of History to the expansion of the informational capabilities of society.
Before the advent of the Internet and Wikipedia, the informational capabilities of a person were very limited and only “professional” historians could notice the above-mentioned manipulation of history for political reasons and resist it.
But because of their small numbers and dependence on the source of funding, it was easy to cope with them, and it is much harder to cope with bloggers in the Wikipedia era, and manipulators began to invent various crazy hypothesis that were obviously not able to undergo even elementary cross-analysis, and as a result when real manipulations of History are exposed through publicly available sources and become known to the general public; they end up in the “bad company” and no one checks them anymore and they turn out to be rejected by default as a conspiracy lunacies.
Moreover, the success of this method turned out to be so impressive that now no revelations of manipulations of History can attract any attention if they do not receive media coverage as editorial or receive support from official science.
And, naturally, I, referring to myself as an example, to an object of study, which I know in detail, cannot but note that your humble servant does not make any changes to official history, and does not refer to any sources known only to me, but uses well-known science facts, slightly changing their interpretation, by discarding the outright impudent lies of official historians who openly write on behalf of various analogs of the office of Dr. Goebbels.
Such as the official historian of the Fourth Crusade Saxo Grammaticus or Mr. Neklesov, who skillfully replaces the whole world history with the struggle of the Haplogroups R1a and R1b.
As a result of this situation, I cannot pay attention to such issues as the rejection of Scaliger chronology or the struggle of haplogroups, simply because their adherents do not expect to answer a simple and clear question – why do you want to make certain radical changes in the official history?
And the answer “out of love for truth” does not suit me, since as a result of all these changes Christ disappears from history, and He, as we know, IS the Truth.
And for me, this is also a fairly well-known statement that means not only the belief that Christ and his mission are the criterion of the truth of any historical theory, but also the belief that only behind a true History you can see the hand of God, and behind a slightly corrected History – never!
https://helapingsten.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/what_is.jpg?w=900
Finca, you’re losing us.
What I want to know, outside Leningrad, has the ice broke yet at Lake Legoda?
Brh
I refuse to answer your question by invoking an executive privilege and my sacred right to geographical anonymity.
Besides, it’s one thing Ozone is trying to stuff me into the sunny warm beaches of the Dominican Republic vs you constantly trying to bath me in the icy waters of Lake Ladoga!
Im thinking about the fish in Lake Lagoda, must be some lunkers in there like in the Great Lakes. In talking monster pike and sturgeon.
Brh
All I know about pikes is that they make a great gefilte-fish.
My mom was absolutely marvelous at that.
Not sure what that is, but we grilled up some salmon for lunch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefilte_fish
Now you see what I meant by Before the advent of the Internet and Wikipedia, the informational capabilities of a person were very limited
It takes an entire day to make that dish, but you’ll swallow your tongue off.
Today’s wives, even Jewish, are not up to the task, unfortunately. Mom was an old school.
“At the end of the Cold War, when Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History and the Last Man, the belief among the Western elites was that the great debates were over and liberal democracy was the winner. The days of nations competing for resources and ideologies competing for adherents were gone. Instead, liberal democracy would spread to the rest of the world and capitalism would be the universal economic model. If there was to be a debate at all, it would be over how best to distribute the great surplus…
“Fukuyama was a bit grandiose in pronouncing the end of history, but he was not wrong about the Cold War marking the end of something. It turns out that it was the end of the Enlightenment. All of the debates important to the intellectuals who emerged from the middle ages have been addressed. There’s nothing left to be said on those topics. It turns out that much of it was just a dead end. Perhaps all of it. The resulting conclusions don’t seem to have much value in this post-Enlightenment age.”
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=17320
Last year, chestnuts bloomed in Kiev.
Two of them bloomed in pink.
And this caused a scandal, since all three hundred chestnuts planted last year were to bloom in pink.
The problem is that the local mayor last year bought three hundred Italian pink chestnuts, which all had to bloom pink, but bloomed white.
That is, were not Italian. That is, someone took the local budget for a ride for a cool million.
That’s all you need to know about the “The End of History”.
A million $US or local currency? If U.S, that’s a differential of over $3,300 per tree. How do you get into that game?
Am I missing something? I need to know more.
it is nuts
What went through your mind when you saw Beto just throwing out that $5 trillion dollar figure for his Big Plan to chase windmills and to drive solar-powered cars to WalMart?
“Democracy” is a bit of a Disaster. The people are too emotional, ignorant, and easily manipulated. It reminds me a bit of those South Pacific Cargo cults. The People seem to believe that if they just create the straw effigy of the new Technology god and Believe hard enough, then the New Technology god will appear to save them.
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4h
With his eyes on climate change, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke unveils a sweeping $5 trillion plan with significant federal action aimed at achieving net-zero emissions in the United States by 2050 and to be halfway there by 2030 (link: https://abcn.ws/2VuhJoI) abcn.ws/2VuhJoI
$5 trillion, that’s all?
Why not $500 trillion, and really cool this place down, turn it into a freakin’ ice box.
Brh
Mycro:
or a couple years now, I’ve described “low intensity conflict” as the doctrine which best represents post-Obama America.
I believe very few things said about the current “civil war” but here’s what I know to be true of our current domestic conflict:
1. It’s “low intensity.” Low intensity conflict (LIC) is the doctrine of war below the threshold of conventional war (tanks, troops, planes) but above routine, peaceful competition. Anything over 1,000 deaths a year from political violence would be classified as a civil war. That’s certainly a much higher intensity than what we’re seeing now. LIC is characterized by political, economic, diplomatic, and information warfare, along with low-level politically- or ideologically-driven violence. See here for additional examples.
Another characteristic of low intensity conflict, as we’ve seen throughout history, is a relatively small percentage of the population engaged in violence. It may only be one percent of an entire country ‘at war’ while another 5-15 percent support the violence, and 75+ percent of citizens are just trying to live their lives.
Those who disagree sometimes reply, “Go to your grocery store. Go to the bank. No one is at war with each other. Everything is fine. You’re making too much of this.”
This is not 1861 where up to 10 percent of the country is fighting each other on battlefields, and the effects of conventional war are widespread and devastating.
In LIC, historically, it’s only a small fraction of a country doing the fighting, and most people live among the disruption to go on about their business. Plenty of civil wars and domestic conflicts have looked like that, and that’s exactly what I’m seeing shape up in the United States. History proves that it’s entirely possible to have two or more competing groups at war with each other without dragging every last man, woman, and child into the conflict.
2. We’re in a “hot peace.” I certainly would not characterize America in 2016-2019 as being at “peace,” other than the absolute absence of outright war. The cultural cold war has turned hot; albeit at a very low level. If you ignore this, then you ignore reality.
The latest example is yesterday’s shooting in Denver, in which a transgender male opened fire on his classmates, reportedly in “revenge and anger.” That’s an extension of the ongoing culture war, and another indicator that the decades-long cold culture war is going hot.
Attacks against Trump supporters, antifascist violence, white identitarian violence, black identitarian violence, police-involved shootings and reprisals, the assassination attempt on Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and other House Republicans during softball practice, the demonization/dehumanization of others based on race and class, which lowers the barrier to violence — ALL are examples of our multi-sided culture war going hot.
3. It’s very likely to worsen. The tectonic shifts in American culture have caused periods of political violence before. The Civil Rights movement, the race riots and unrest between 1968 and the 1970s, and abortion clinic bombings are a few key examples, but even those ‘conflicts’ eventually died down. Oftentimes, conflict is generational. One generation goes away, and future generations develop their own problems.
For current generations, I believe conditions are more likely to worsen before they get better because the culture war now includes more fronts that foment the anger and resentment that cause political violence.
The areas of every day life that have been heavily politicized, and the ways in which Americans can express identitarian anger and resentment (race, gender, class, politics, ideology; there’s plenty of overlap there), have grown over the past decade, thus leading to a higher potential for violence.
Not only has the number of cultural ‘battlefields’ grown, but identitarian anger and resentment — the desire to “get even” or exact punishment against others based on race and class — has become more acceptable. As political violence becomes more acceptable among the extremes, you’ll see more of it.
4. We could have just two to three years before we see routine, sustained political violence. For as long as I’ve been writing about LIC, I’ve warned of the effects of the next recession and financial crisis on the political and cultural climate. (I now believe that the next recession and financial crisis have an above average chance of happening simultaneously.) Class and race warfare, I believe, will worsen as we move through this period of economic and financial uncertainty.
High youth unemployment is a universal indicator of civil unrest and violence. What I’m seeing in America’s future are social bases charged by race, class, and/or politics, who also lack economic opportunity and the hope of a better life that comes with it. That may be because artificial intelligence has taken their jobs (or their parents’ jobs), or because they can’t afford higher levels of schooling (or because they lack an education altogether), or because unemployment is so high that there are just not enough jobs to go around. Maybe it will be all three.
What concerns me — and, again, I don’t see any of this as imminent, but I do believe it’s coming over the next few years — is what I see as a convergence of a ‘perfect storm’ scenario with radicalized social bases, a dim economic outlook and loss of hope, political leaders who give a green light or at least tacit approval to political violence, and a belief that violence is the preferable solution. These prerequisites for organized political violence are developing.
What a time to be alive.
Always Out Front,
Samuel Culper
JS: Mycro reminds me of Mycroft, Sherlock Holmes’ older brother, said to be far more brilliant. Mycroft is a Brahmin dedicated to the Life of the Mind whereas Sherlock is a Ksyatria, interested in what the mind can help one accomplish, in his case, bringing criminals to justice. Sherlock might have been as or even more intelligent than Mycroft. The difference is not necessarily in the IQ but rather the orientation of the inner man. Theoretical vs applied intelligence in other words.
But yes, Whites are clearly awakening and beginning to fight back in the guerilla war of the West.
As individuals, people can be expected to be restrained and sensitive to nuance. In groups, they are averaged in and take on the characteristics of the group.
The SJW phenomenon, Charlottesville, and other popular demonstrations all evince this dynamic, even if it is not obvious that they don’t all share one mind.
The problem is the group’s IQ is less than the average individual’s IQ by a wide margin. Action becomes chaos. Message and meaning become inchoate.
The problem with identitarianism is that it attempts to suppress that individualism that has been inculcated in Americans. You can gather together a bunch of the already converted as joiners, but you have to convert and convince one at a time. Even sitting behind a monitor it remains mano a mano.
Yes, all the NPCs chant in unison, We are unique individuals. Then they go to work at the networks, repeating exactly the same lines about the same stories.
We need to realize the utter hollowness of all of this. Get back to wearing uniforms. As I move around America, I keep seeing the same people again and again. Same archetype, different individuals. But essentially the same. Rituals like getting men together to chant, “His name was Robert Paulson” or “If the kitten didn’t want me, I don’t want the cat”, would help immensely. The Elite aren’t afraid of Marlboro Men but hundreds of thousands of nobodies working together? Very different story. Of course the Scots-Irish loner types could make a superb contribution, but by themselves, they’ll never put us over the top.
People who try to be creative, fail. Those with something to say have paid their dues by copying the Masters. Empty of themselves, maybe something a bit different will come thru if there is a Need. Great. Otherwise be content to serve.
Excellent summation. In recent years I have observed that civil war is under way; it’s just that the skirmishes are currently small, few, and far between. Currently.
Remember Kendrick Castillo? He was the kid at the STEM H.S. here in south Denver area who last week heroically sacrificed himself to save his friends’ lives against the tranny shooter with the grievance against the entire cis straight world.
This morning in my inbox was a comment from a nextdoor.com subscriber in my area. I could tell from the lead-in it was going to be the classic gun-grabber pleading. When I logged in to get the full content, I was told it was no longer available nor were the 70 odd comments in response. Seems it caused quite a stir. The people in charge of us are desperate to suppress any opposition to their plans. We cannot let them disarm us. At this point it’s clear they hate us & would like nothing better than to take our guns.
Read Ron Unz’s most recent essay about the Amazon censorship of the right. Some very interesting stuff there, very heterogenous mix going over the various books that are being suppressed, most of them having one thing in common which I will not mention here but only end this rant with a question: Have you ever heard of the American Destruction League? Me neither.
Don’t forget that the female was under going testosterone therapy!
They say toxic masculinity is a problem but what happens when you have toxic feminine masculinity?
Most of these mass shooting have had some common factors.
People hopped up on cocktails of SSRI’s and/or hormone therapy!
Extreme Leftist ideology or in a couple of cases Alt Right.
Way to much screen time aka social media.
I’m sure I could add to this list but this is what has been proven in many of the cases.
It explains most of it. Someone here on this thread posted that up to 10-15% of the white population has an intolerance of these drugs. Why aren’t they being test?!
The lunatic Americans must be getting ready to Drop The B..om…b?
The Chinese probably built out much of the infrastructure in I..ran and the Americans probably want the Chinese to jam the shit out of I..ran when John Bolton and the Americans Drop The B..om,,,b on I…ran, and the Chinese balked?
On his Twitter Account, Chasten Buttigieg has recently posted a picture of a blonde, white, female dwarf with big tits in a wheel chair wearing sunglasses donning her graduation cap and holding her diploma from Vanderbilt University. Her name is “Shorty Voorde”. True story…. The Society has obviously gone Insane…,.
Chasten Buttigieg:
“Huge congrats are in order for
@shortyvoorde
on her graduation from
@VanderbiltU
with a Masters of Public Policy, K-12 Education. #TeamPete can’t wait to have you back in the office but today is for celebrating!
Image
Thanks for not actually linking the image.
The idea of concierge service for every god damn thing is a hallmark of our society.
Lil Debbie. The proliferation of concierge service was predicted in, of all places, both Penthouse and Omni magazine back in 1980 if my memory serves me. I still remember the essence of the story!
In short, the story declared that America would no longer be industrial or even productive. We would be taken into what they called an Ass-Kissing Economy. Professional “helpers”, frivolous services, professional ass kissers, and busybodies would be the future. In hindsight, a future of concierges was what they saw.
The lead artwork for the story showed a suit with a face resembling a fat ass and lipstick mark. No longer the hard faced American man at work but, a soft weasel who speaks oily words of positivity and inclusion while picking your pocket.
book circa 1970, by someone who had his book banned in USA??
I forget details.
Irv schiff…’The Biggest Con’
his son has many youtube talks and is a billionaire, If I recall.
Irv predicted the ‘un economy’ or saw it in 1970.
I was being serious.
Scroll down to Chaz’s May 11th post….
https://mobile.twitter.com/chas10buttigieg
No, I was serious. Thanks for not actually linking the..
So let’s talk about that sustainable course. What are the lessons in the new book that might help us adjust our course in that way?
As far as national crises are concerned, the first step is acknowledge — the country has to acknowledge that it’s in a crisis. If the country denies that it’s in a crisis, of course if you deny you’re in a crisis, you’re not going to solve the crisis, number one. In the United States today, lots of Americans don’t acknowledge that we’re in a crisis. <– Jared Diamond
There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by 2050.
“There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know It Will End by 2050.”
Dog,
Really? Considering the age demographic of our site, I would give it a 100% chance.
elysianfield, I wouldn’t say there is a bright dividing line between a sense of normalcy and total collapse.
A dead nation and dead tree can both stand for many years. Some may fall over in classic dramatic fashion and some may stand and rot in place for a very long time.
Both dead nation and tree superficially resemble the living versions of themselves. In our case, not only have we been shedding bark and branch but, alien growth has covered us. Cat briers, spanish moss, shelf fungi, beetles, termites, carpenter ants, and maybe an owl nest.
Both dead nation and trees are so covered with alien growth that the original identity is lost yet, CERTAIN NGO’s and talking heads tell us how wonderful it looks and call it DIVERSITY. All of that DIVERSITY is only burdening the snag and hastening the rot.
All that’s left is to determine is if the snag topples over or whether we’re granted the mercy to simply rot down to the stump.
hahaha
how the fuck do you know how old ‘we’ are?
malthuss, everybody here can type and express themselves in complete sentences and in proper English. That puts the vast majority here in the Baby Boomer camp. A few Gen X’s and a few from the Great Depression era but, not enough to sway the overall demographics of CFN.
The decline in education over the past 40 years has been dramatic and shocking to say the least. Thus, it is easy to determine the generations simply by the quality of their comments.
That said, I can’t defend the Baby Boomers beyond that, for we are the ones who spawned the misfits and dysfunctional generations that will bury Western civilization. It will be two or three generations later who will comb through the ruins and be horrified to see how good we had it in the 20th century, how we died by self-inflicted, “Sepsis Of The Body Politic(TM)”, and were forbidden to treat the disease.
how very insightful. I never would have seen it as a generation gapped thing.
Jim some of us are just lazy and on boards like this sentence structure, punctuation and grammar or lack there of often are used as hammers to piss off people.
Even more those that are offended enough to point it out are often just jerks.
Common sense has dictated this for as long as there have been dial in bulletin boards.
https://www.businessinsider.com/people-who-correct-typos-may-be-jerks-study-finds-2016-3
https://www.techly.com.au/2016/04/01/if-you-correct-peoples-grammar-your-probably-a-jerk-science/
I’ve been compiling a list of common grammatical infractions to play Q. My latest gem:
“for all intensive purposes”
Malthuss,
…Just a wild-assed guess.
Diamond is an anthropologist, who is a type of scientist. Americans don’t respect science. They believe in fairy tales and can’t reason, act collectively, and have a damaged sense of ethics.
Wait, did I just sum up the book?
K-Dog,
Your prediction is corrupted by the phrase “as it we know it”. If you had bet on that ten years ago you would have already lost the best.
Cut to the chase and say “human life” at best has a 50-50 chance of existing in some form 30 years from now. 50% is an extremely optimistic prediction.
Odds are good that in 5 years it will be game over.
That there may not be people around to know anything in thirty years is splitting hairs.
I only support “Background Checks” for people who want to purchase nuclear or biological weapons.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgfj0OcHjk
Didn’t some bloke on this website mention a weapons factory in Ukraine where a bloke can purchase WMDs without a “Background Check”? What was the name of that factory? Thank you.
Well, its official. In their circumspect, nerdy science way, they’ve all but concluded the dirty air is making people’s brains literally turn to mush.
Beto’s Trillions for Electric cars, et al, will go along way to ending the endless shitshow of petroleum chemical spills, kids sucking up air from bus exhaust, and the Tsunami of Grandpas and Grandmas all of a sudden beginning to forget what day of the week it is that is about to hit.
Here the air is really clean yet people’s heads are still mush.
I’m planning my July 4th Independence Day celebration.
What does barbecued Pit Bull taste like?
One could probably slow roast a Pit Bull on a rotisserie over smoldering hickory charcoal frequently basted with tangy barbecue sauce?
Pucker,
I would guess that it would taste like chicken…everything else is so described, it seems.
A pit bull has a lot of lean meat I would say. Probably wouldn’t taste good but, I have a solution.
If it’s a male, have him castrated so he will get lazy. Also, fatten him up with plenty of table scraps and encourage him to lie around. A healthy rich diet should make the meat taste better than trying to roast a healthy pit bull.
First what a waste of a good dog.
Some of the mellowest loveable dogs I have ever come across have been this breed it’s sad people mistreat them and abuse them.
Most of them are just big teddy bears that want to sit in your lap and get scratched.
As far as dog tastes ask Obama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyD7pfYf7-c
Filling up my tank… with podcasts. Our hosts, plus J. Diamond on Mike Shermer’s Science Salon.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/polish-nationalists-protest-us-over-holocaust-claims-155531405.html
God bless Poland. May they stand strong against this unspeakable evil.
Tomorrow can you post the name of the greatest killer of all time. The guy from Holomodor?
And you have read ‘With God in Russia’–of course…reply in new thread. this one is dead.
Good old Blud and Gots, Malthus. Remember friendo, the Mice can only play when the Cat’s away. Monday morning? Is that really a good time, fiendo?
any time in next thread..am pm tuesday whenever
Ukraine as a Piece of Shit Floating in the Ice Hole Separating East and West
All the same, the main reason is the struggle between the Red, White and Black projects that has been going on in Europe and the USA since the 10th century, when Europe began to emerge from the civilizational crisis and knightly orders and the urban communes opposed to them were formed.
Of course, in addition to these subjects of history, strong royal power, Gnostic sects and professional unions of the proletariat, pirate gangs and cartels of slavers, Sirs Francis Drake and Jan Hus, Cominterns, Fininterns and Unions of Industrialists appeared and disappeared.
But all of them, one way or another, were forced to determine their place in this system of coordinates or, more correctly, of World Projects.
Moreover, it is not so easy to explain what these world projects are primarily because they are not stencils of historical events, but their genotypes or if you want archetypes, but I hope that all more or less reasonable people understand intuitively that Jack London describes the struggle of the Black and Red Project in his novel “The Iron Heel”, “The Gadfly” by Ethel Voynich of Red and White, and Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” the struggle of the Black and White world projects.
I would especially like to note that Russia in this struggle has always been an external factor or even a weapon, but not a participant due to its civilizational otherness. All these Western world projects in Russia were subject to substantial Russification similar to the one that turned Italian Fiat into a Soviet Niva.
The Second World War stands somewhat apart because Russia, represented by the Stalinist USSR, was not only the deciding factor, but also the subject, the result of the marriage of White and Red projects. But this happened only because the Second World War was a part of the Great Patriotic War, and not vice versa.
Ukraine, with its independence, found itself in the position of a piece of shit in the ice hole, since the East and West of Ukraine are not only two different and even hostile nations, supposedly speaking the same language, but also two different civilizations and two different world projects. In general, not the state, but a metal barrel with rats of two different breeds planted there for breeding two different rat kings.
You understand what kind of success awaits this venture.
Suffice to say that the current civil war began because Yanukovych wanted to save Eastern Ukraine from bankruptcy and managed to get 45 billion dollars for it in Russia and in China. Moreover, he was even ready to give 15 billion to Western and Central Ukraine, but then everything went according to the anecdote:
Lord God: Jim, I want to do something for you. But just keep in mind that I will give your brother Peter twice as much.
Jim: Tear out my left eye.
Is it any wonder that Russia, Europe and the United States are trying to use this situation for their own benefit, the difference being that Europe and the United States more or less understand the situation in Ukraine, study it with scientific methods and try to put the above-mentioned factors and trends at their service, and Russia really acts in Ukraine, you can say blindly, based on instincts and emotions.
And as Crimea and Slavyansk have shown, Russians are often right, in contrast to the rational West.
Most interestingly, the goals of Russia and the United States in Ukraine are the same, or rather different, but the only difference is in the plus/minus sign. Russia wanted to put to work the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, which represents an integral part of the Russian military-industrial complex, and it was for this, plus general comfort, that Putin gave money to Yanukovych.
But the United States did not want this, as they fear the results of this work, especially the products of Yuzhnoye Design Office and Yuzhmash. True, the United States prevented Putin’s plans by inertia, based on the logic of the Cold War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzhnoye_Design_Office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzhmash
Based on the same logic, they were going to pump shale gas from Slavyansk.
Not to make money, selling this gas, but to block scientific and technical cooperation between Western Europe and Russia, depriving the latter of foreign exchange reserves, as the gas from Slavyansk sold in Europe is just the gas that Gazprom will not be able to sell.
For this, Ukrainian citizens have to run wherever they can manage, Ukrainian lands will turn into a repository for poisonous chemicals, and Ukrainian girls will have to use lace panties in the EU as working uniforms.
The truth is it is likely that, after the Ukrainian girls, Ukrainian and Russian boys will show up and put such underpants on the clients of these girls that 1945 Prussia will seem to them like a child play in a sandbox.
But what do they care? The main thing is that the old parties started by the fathers during the Cold War remain not finished, and that Putin so badly needs YUZHMASH products precisely because NATO has expanded to the East and is going to expand even more, it does not matter.
And so he would not need any products, and there would be no need to build them in an expedited manner. Well, is it possible to allow such a situation that the security of Europe will be guaranteed not by strengthening NATO, but by weakening it?!
In general, the nuthouse and a complete madness, and everything would be nothing and the problems that arose could be solved even now, but in the Ukrainian Gambit besides Europe, the USA and Russia, Red, White and Black projects have penetrated the Ukraine.
And what kind of gas they are going to let loose in Ukraine is unknown. It may well be that the Red-Black project is going to let loose Zyklon B.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B
Tate, I believe in something greater to be sure. It doesn’t follow that I therefore have to believe in a concocted mythical story that defies reason. The understanding of our place in the universe and what the universe is is infinitely beyond what was believed in at the time when the silly explanations that the so called bible provides were pieced together. What so called christians believe today seldom comes even close to being manifested in how they actually live their lives. The hate and disregard for people that streams from their behavior now and through the ages is appallingly hypocritical to their alleged beliefs. The chunk that believes the world is only 6000 years old underscores the extreme to which the christian madness extends.
When humans were few, and their knowledge little, they made up stories. What formed were hypotheses about reality.
As time marched on, the collective knowledge exploded as observations arose that performed a pruning effect on the field of competing hypotheses about reality.
As time went on more and more of these hypotheses were destroyed by observation.
The lack of comparison of the conclusions of the modern theory with the experiment leads to the separation of science from reality and makes the combined opinion of the scientific experts and their so-called “qualifications” the only criterion of truth.
This process rather quickly turns science into a quasi-religion, and scientists into quasi-priests of this essentially pagan religion, usually very aggressively inclined towards monotheistic, Abrahamic religions, which actually created the epistemological basis of the scientific method of knowledge.
“This process rather quickly turns science into a quasi-religion, and scientists into quasi-priests of this essentially pagan religion, usually very aggressively inclined towards monotheistic, Abrahamic religions, which actually created the epistemological basis of the scientific method of knowledge”
Komraden Finc!
…I must have said the exact same thing at least 1000 times….
Trouble is Evelyn what will replace Christianity in the West if it is swept away or simply abandoned, because rest assured there will be a dominant religion or something that looks like a religion extant, and I doubt kumbaya secular humanism will be it?
In the 21st century Islam is waiting in the wings. In the 20th century militantly atheistic (as you appear to be) regimes — Bolshevik and Nazi — had their turn at bat and the results were disasterous to say the least. A form of both, and militant Islam, may be our fate.
Brh
Democratic totalitarianism will surpass all previous totalitarian regimes.
BRH
The ancient Greeks had the same situation. Greece was never better than when the population still believed in the gods. Belief that invisible deities kept a watch on what you did was a useful agent for keeping a population bounds to the rules of proper conduct.
If conning yourself into believing the big king in the sky is going to punish you for fucking a hooker while your wife is having a baby then by all means hang on to your beliefs.
In good ol USA we tried raising our kids to believe that what Santa brought down the chimney depended on whether or not they were naughty during the year. I don’t know if that worked very well for you but it took some kids a long time to figure out that Toys R’Us might have had a role in the con. It was useful in that it conditioned them to scale it up to believing that even though god loved them he would torture them beyond Vlad’s wildest imagination if they stepped out of line.
I guess you are saying things could get unruly if superstition doesn’t prevail.
I’m not well disposed to allowing anyone into the country who perpetuates the various myths, Jews, Muslim, and especially Christians so called. Nonetheless we’ve adopted the stance that freedom of religion is a hallmark of our culture so probably failure to adhere to our principles will bring us our greatest regrets.
Chances are if the US had just gotten the hell out of Saudi Arabia and stop allowing Israel interfere in our foreign policy 911 would have never happened and the Frankenstein monster we made of ourselves in the aftermath would not have occurred.
Of course the fact that one way or another, 911 was brought about by the anti-Christian, satanic forces and Twin Towers themselves were the symbol of Dualism, just like Notre Dame de Paris, does not bother Evelyn in the slightest.
Finca, none of your fantasies bother me.
Ev, you are an intellectual.
Christopher Hitchens couldnt’t have said it better.
Brh
P.S. 911 wouldn’t have happened because Cheney and his buds couldn’t have used Bin Laden as his pretext for engineering the scam.
The Jihad would have began again no matter what we did or didn’t do – because their religion teaches it. So when they are strong, they attack. The real and damning mystery is why we have vastly increased increased immigration from Islam since 9/11. That shows a death wish. And indeed, the Elite consider them allies against Whites and Western Civilization. The Enemy within is bringing in Allies from without.
911 would have never happened and the Frankenstein monster we made of ourselves in the aftermath would not have occurred.
Yes, America would just be fat dumb and happy.
K-Dog
Do you mean instead of fat, dumb, and unhappy?
If Islam predominates it is guaranteed that secular people and those considered to be not people “of the Book” will be in serious trouble.
That depends on the sect of Islam.
Please elaborate. The only secular Muslim society I know of is Turkey and Turkey has been moving back toward fundamentalism with Erdogan in power.
Science today is hooked on materialistic reductionism i.e. the notion if we keep breaking things down to find the ultimate tiniest building blocks that make up every material thing we will discover the true nature of reality.
Physics is running down a blind alley. Someday it will finally realize this and get real about the importance of understanding the true nature of consciousness if it wants to get to the bottom of it all.
And you think that true nature is a particle? Or an impersonal force or thing? It may be impersonal but surely it must be personal as well. It can’t be less than we are after all….
The devotees of the various religion have their piece of Reality and the Buddhist faithful replace God with the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. It’s a need. Those who don’t have it, aren’t very likely to rise above it, right? The higher steps on a ladder depend on the lower ones, right?
Janos, do you understand the concept of “blind alley”?
Has reading comprehension always been a problem for you?
Yes, by going with views like yours the West has been driven to the precipice of destruction. But instead of repenting of your doctrines of equality (there is no such thing except at the level of the soul or in Buddhist terms, “suchness”) you want to double down on them. Blind alley indeed.
Eve,
You say you believe in something greater than yourself, but what would that be? I promise you I can destroy anything you claim to believe in, even if you marshall persuasive evidence for your belief. So don’t say that we shouldn’t believe in the risen Christ because it is ridiculous, or that we are mad or hypocritical for doing so.
Has it never occurred to you that the Lord allowed his fallen one Lucifer to fill our hearts AND OUR HEADS with temptation. Thus the world we experience is a minefield of such pitfalls for the intelligent ones, who turn away with pride in their disbelief.
Tate, it has occurred to me that you are so full of shit that it runs out your ears.
Eve, check out the Church of Satan, you will find friends there. Your apple awaits.
“Tate, I believe in something greater to be sure.”
— EvelynV
Then what is it you believe that is greater than you can verify within your own experience? That was my original question. You haven’t articulated but I shall that we are talking about things that are non-falsifiable. Not whether Jesus actually existed as a historical person. Of course, Christianity is vulnerable to attack because it places special emphasis on the historicity of God, but all I’m asking is if you believe deeply in anything that you can’t verify within your own experience & if so, why? If you don’t, fine. But if you do, then how can you justify it on any rational basis?
I realize I triggered something when I went on about Satan & for that I apologize.
Tate I’ll open up a little bit to you here.
But first, your description of what your alleged “LDS” experience was (assuming you didn’t mean cannibalism) sounds to me you got scammed taking something other than LSD, perhaps PCP (animal tranquilizer maybe laced with LSD). In any case, if it turned you into a drooling gibbering confused creature it wasn’t acid.
I had several acid trips until one in particular took place when I was at a Rolling Stones concert. At that concert I became convinced I was going to be killed and arrived at the point of panic. I believed if I tried to escape from the situation it would be the thing that would trigger the death I feared. I instantly had to accept that I would die and instead of panic I fell into a state which I’ve recently read in a book on Jung that is described as a state of psychedelic psychosis. It was the most profoundly beautiful experience of my entire life. In that state I realized that all things are one and that LOVE was the answer to every question there is about the purpose of life. For a short while I experienced what that state of being feels like and know and believe to this day it is the answer to everything. I no longer am in that state and I’m quite aware of how far from it I am. But I know with certainty Love is God and God is Love and all the other cliche’s about the subject but probably virtually no one on earth TRULY realizes. It is not something that has falsifiable in the sense that physics requires but to me personally I know it is the great truth we are seeking to know. There is an all consciousness, consciousness permeates the universe and all things animate or inanimate possess it at some level. No words can properly explain it.
Evelyn, I appreciate your opening up about it. I had a similar experience once (Yes, I have experimented with drugs in an earlier phase in my life, & yes, I do know the difference between pure & adulterated LSD.) It wasn’t religious exactly, this experience, but it was revelatory. An apotheosis? I can’t go into much detail, not because I’m reticent about talking about myself but because I have a kind of ‘reverence’ for what happened & this doesn’t allow me to easily talk or even write about it without being dissatisfied with the result. More specifically, when I write it down or talk about it, it doesn’t capture what really happened, it sounds trite & mundane, that’s why I don’t want to get into it. Let me just say it shaped the entire rest of my life in important ways & leave it at that. Meaning, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be where I’m at today without having experienced it. But no, OTOH, disappointingly, it didn’t reveal to me that LOVE was the answer to every question (that happened with ANOTHER experience ;-).
Eve: You want to get back? Maybe not spitting on Christ might be a good beginning…..
You don’t have to be a Christian. But you could appreciate Him for who he was or is nonetheless.
And you were correct on the last thread. Believing he is not real actually gives him more power.
That’s what I told you about the fairies at the bottom of my garden. You don’t believe they’re real, which gives them a significant advantage. They’ll be able to trip you up and you’ll just think you’re clumsy. Double whammy 🙂 .
Ah, I didn’t recall saying I didn’t believe in the fairies :-).
Has it never occurred to you that the Lord allowed his fallen one Lucifer…etc – Tate
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I have been reading your comments for as long as you have been here but somehow it has escaped me until today that you are what we atheists would refer to as a ‘religious nut’ of the Christian variety.
I will speculate that you were not born and raised and lived your entire life in one particular Christian religion, say Catholic, or perhaps Baptist, but rather are either a convert of some stripe or “born again.” There are none so fanatical as converts or born again’s.
Three doors down the block from the house I grew up in was a kid named Fred F. We went to school together from K through 12. We both lived in little bungalows. I don’t recall ever seeing the Fred F. family leaving for church on a Sunday morning. But somewhere along the line in recent years Freddie declared that his life is wonderful ever since he “accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior.” I receive emails to this effect at least once a week. He is also very pro-Trump, anti-Muslim, pro-military and anti-immigrant. I don’t know where he stands on ‘the Jews.’ He and his wife whom he basically stole away from another kid on our block, Jim B., retired to Florida and each email will contain a picture or two in which he invariably is wearing a suit or pair of shorts in some pastel shade. Classic Florida retiree. Sort of a poor man’s Mike Pence.
Last October we had our 60th high school reunion and the organizers of the affair, having become aware of Freddie’s evangelism and acceptance of the Lord etc. asked if he would please deliver grace before the luncheon meal. He, of course, accepted and did a bang up job.
I envision you as very Fred-like. Am I right? or close?
Absolutely, Q. Your characterization of me as a “‘religious nut’ of the Christian variety” is pitch-perfect. It’s uncanny how closely I resemble your ‘Fred.’
It actually scared me as you described him in excruciating detail right down to the pastel shorts, thinking “This Fred is my doppelganger!”, & “How did Q know?!”
And Stalin starved millions of Ukrainians to death. Was that Red or Black. Oh neither because Russians are good and Stalin was a saint. Druge – Fool.
Communists and their close cousin Socialists have murdered 100 million people in the last 100 years.
The Great Russian scientist Alexander Zinoviev.
His conversation with journalist Victor Lupan took place in Berlin and was published on July 24, 1999 by the French newspaper Le Figaro, and more than a decade after the publication, the accuracy of the Zinoviev estimates and their prophetic character, became particularly obvious.
Here are some of them:
– “Contrary to the well-established opinion, Soviet communism collapsed not for internal reasons. Its collapse is undoubtedly the greatest victory in the history of the West. An unheard victory, which, I repeat, makes it possible to establish planetary power.
– The end of communism also marked the end of democracy.
– Today’s era is not just post-communist, it is also post-democratic! Today, we are witnessing the establishment of democratic totalitarianism, or, if you like, totalitarian democracy. ”
– “In the West, there is no more political force capable of protecting ordinary citizens. The existence of political parties is a mere formality. Every day there will be less and less difference between them. ”
– “All revolutionary coups once received support from outside.”
– “What conspiracy?” There is no conspiracy. The world government is governed by the leaders of well-known supranational commercial, financial and political structures. ”
– “The European Union is a weapon for the destruction of national sovereignties. It is part of projects developed by supranational organisms. ”
– “Democratic totalitarianism will surpass all previous totalitarian regimes.”
Finc, I have a theory on why the USSR collapsed and it’s based entirely on what the U.S. has done in the past and what I remember seeing as it went down. Past methods that were successfully used to destroy many countries and adapted to destroy the Soviet ruble.
My theory in a nutshell, Gorbachev was dealing with stagnation, inability to trade, and inability to borrow enough to keep up with the Star Wars fake out that the Reagan Administration cooked up. The fatal move came when certain banksters (at the behest of Washington) approached Gorbachev and told him that they could help him boost his money supply by creating financial derivatives and using them as assets to back the ruble. To do that, Gorbachev would have to loosen things up to let us “help” them. Since creating money without increasing Russian agricultural and industrial production would set off inflation, we helped Gorbachev create Fictitious Assets. Increasing Russia’s paper asset base allowed him to increase his money supply and buy the military power to meet the Star Wars threat.
BY DESIGN, those derivatives were garbage because they were backed by hostile Western banks and that backing was fake. BY DESIGN, those derivatives were demolished on cue (like the Twin Towers) and Gorbachev was left with billions in worthless paper.
That worthless paper meant that all those rubles were suddenly backed with nothing. The USSR went bankrupt and hyperinflation followed suit. The London and New York bankers swooped in (with the help of Russian OLIGARCHS and MONEY CHANGERS) and looted the public pension funds, broke up and privatized State enterprises like Aeroflot, and grabbed other valuable assets for pennies.
TPTB in London and Washington then worked with Yeltsin to set up a new Russian Federation with all kinds of rent collection schemes and financial booby traps built into the new banking system. The latter to keep Moscow in line and from interfering with the PNAC Gang’s agenda.
I know Putin managed to retire those debts and repudiate those booby traps. Hence Russia’s recovery under Putin’s leadership.
Aside from that, is my theory close on why the USSR collapsed?
USSR collapse has nothing to do with monetary reasons, it had a huge reserve of strength builtin to the system.
If anything, the huge drop in oil prices orchestrated by the West and timed to the beginning of Russian privatization – 1993 – 94 – of Soviet property left the state without any monetary reserves and Russian population without ability to participate in the privatization.
The Russian population was left with no savings due to high inflation of the ruble connected with low oil price.
My mom in 1991 had about 40,000 rubles in savings – a sizable fortune in terms of 1980s rubles, by the end it was barely enough for the loaf of bread.
Finc, I’m surprised at you. Your mom’s 40K in rubles was devalued to nothing and you say that monetary mischief had nothing to do with it???
And privatization! That is most certainly a post-collapse scavenger activity and for the benefit of the hyenas and jackals! The reserve strength you mentioned could be infrastructure and excess manufacturing capacity. HOWEVER, if Russia had to go outside the system, it had to come with assets to put up as collateral for credit. If the assets were of the derivative and fictitious type (guaranteed by Moscow’s enemies) and those assets were imploded by design, then Russia’s money supply would be garbage. Hence the loss of value in 40K of rubles.
I’m disappointed that your own examples didn’t reveal that to you.
“USSR collapse has nothing to do with monetary reasons,”
Komaraden Finc!
…You might want to rethink the above statement.
He has to disagree with everyone. And he will contradict himself to do so. Only HE understand the sacred Soviet Union, Russia, and Orthodoxy. WE are just victims of the Color Projects and are the unsaved. The only good Westerners are the Jews. He is Jewish but that’s just a coincidence…..
Janos, I’ll leave The Forbidden Reference to you… for the time being.
My privilege to comment here on CFN is on a hair trigger and a 50lb jar of Gefilte Fish (Sword of Damocles-brand) hangs over my head.
In 1988-89? a tabloid, ‘The Enquirer’ predicted the downfall, if I recall. Its been about 30 years since then. Here is what I recall….
Muslims were breeding and White women averaged 7 abortions..early miscarriages by jumping off refridge.
The main problem of the “Rational West” is that you put money and economy as a cornerstone of EVERYTHING, and in fact they are just derivatives of religious and ideological struggle – just pay attention to what is happening with the US economy now.
Hey Finca, who are the ‘Night Wolves’?
Brh
Russian bikers. Putin’s one of them.
Ok so, Green Alba, in diaries from about 1645 -1660 the last frost of the season in this area was May 12. Today is May 12; frost and light snow is predicted for early this week, May 14. My conclusion is that in north central Ct warming is not occuring, and it is not any warmer now than it was 370 years ago.
In a few weeks I’ll be taking leave of my job for the summer and headed to Newport RI to check out Goat Island, is it submerged, or still above the water level as described in the 1724 hanging of 26 pirates? By looking at Goat Island, and reading contemporary accounts from 1724, I should be able to determine how much sea level rise the has been over the past 3 centuries (in my unscientific and purely anectodal investigation of climate change for the CFNation)
Stay tuned.
Brh
In Russia, there is a legendary (or real!) city beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar in the Voskresensky District of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in central Russia.
Periodically, it surfaces above the waters of the lake.
http://www.ancientpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/kitezh2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitezh
BRH,
So this gives the yea-sayers a few weeks to develop explanations as to why the expected results are not satisfactory to their existential paradigm.
I expect that some of the convoluted explanations will be entertaining….
Interesting. Some have opined that we were leaving the Little Ice Age back then, and that New England was significantly colder. Specifically, that Plymouth MA had the climate that coastal Maine has now. And that would mean much more snow and ice since most of the storms in Plymouth and Cape Cod are rain or snow changing to rain.
Another place I’m thinking of investigating is indeed, Plymouth, Mass, reread Bradford’s ‘Of Plymouth Colony, 1620-1647, his description of the harbor (which was shallow), and compare it with what is there today.
Maybe late summer. I’m going in with an open mind.
Brh
At issue is mans ability to change large areas.
Take mission bay San Diego at one time it was a very shallow series of brackish ponds heavily populated with sand dabs and halibut.
Flash forward to early 1900 and the speckles family (sugar barons) Made some changes which were expanded years later.
Needless to say it looks nothing like it did even one hundred years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Bay_(San_Diego)
Brh, here in Louisiana we have been receiving a whole lot of rain and cloud cover. Normally it should be hot right now. But yesterday for instance it was raining with thunderstorms for most of the day and was like 75 degrees. In the last few years our annual rainfall has been way above normal and Louisiana is already the most rainiest state in the lower 48. I don’t believe its warming here either.
Louisiana 1927
What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Clouds roll in from the north and it start to rain
Rained real hard and for a real long time
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
The river rose all day, the river rose all night
Some people got lost in the flood
Some people got away alright
The river busted thru, clear down to Plaque mines
Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline
Louisiana, Louisina
They’re trying to wash us away
They’re trying to was us away
Louisiana, Louisiana
They’re trying to wash us away
They’re trying to wash us away.
— Randy Newman
I knew a limo driver who drove RN.
Said he-RN was a nice guy, unlike Weinstein and most of the Black celebs he drove.
However, 9? years ago RN sang, ‘Im dreaming of a White President’—typical bagel bs..it was Blacks who voted for BHO, due to his skin color.
Thank you for your rigorous observations, brh. If you believe they give you some sort of case I would genuinely suggest writing to the Editor of Nature or some such prestigious scientific journal and telling them so. They will be either horrified and have you shot before the news gets out or they will explain to you gently where your findings sit alongside other findings. Or there’s the website Real Climate. I think it’s just scientists discussing observations between themselves but you never know. They may be happy to hear from you.
In the meantime I would point out that the phenomenon most people are concerned about is called AGW, not GWiCT.
I’m not at all clear why you think your observations disprove the conclusions drawn so far regarding the increase in global average temperatures.
Really, brh, if you have landmark findings, I don’t know why you’d waste them on me when there are actual climate scientists out there who could benefit from your insights.
That should really be WiCT, though, shouldn’t it? Or LWiCT.
As far as your ‘experts’ go, who knows if they aren’t a bunch of goddam liars angling for the next government grant, former lefties looking for a new angle to attack the west once communism collapsed, or worse, true believers in this wierd weather cult which has taken on the trappings of a new religion.
Brh
I never pay attention to arguments that resort to the ‘religion’ accusation when their purveyor doesn’t like the evidence – they smack of desperation and gaslighting.
Do you talk to your doctor like that when you get antibiotics? Oh, no, I don’t want that, doctor. I’m fed up with your experts and their religion of believing something I can’t see wth my lyin’ eyes can get rid of something else I can’t see with my lyin’ eyes.. And all for money for those pharma scammers.
(NB the fact that pharma companies are known for greedy practices doesn’t mean that antibiotics won’t save your life.)
Is it warmer now than in the past or isn’t it?
Has there been sea level rise or hasn’t there?
I’m trying to find out for myself, ‘specially in the case of sea levels rising. For example, Plymouth Rock, certainly in a period of 400 years it should be underwater by now, but its not. There it rests behind an iron fence, same place it was in 1620.
I’m reading this book right now ‘Tropic Suns, Seadogs Aboard an English Galleon’, and the author JS Dean commenting on the English being driven to taking to the sea in the mid 16th century in search of new lands by a cooling climate and poor harvests. Well what caused that cooling, resulting in poor harvests? It seems the climate is always changing, and people adapt.
Brh
“Is it warmer now than in the past or isn’t it?”
As a global average, yes. In CT, how would I know?
Re sea levels, perhaps you are overestimating the rate of increase? I don’t know Plymouth Rock but it seems odd that you’d expect it to be under water.
Yes of course the climate is always changing. There are variables that make it change. What taking zillions of measurements does (from e.g. ice cores and tree rings to the present day) is to enable scientists to isolate the variables and say with a very strong degree of confidence that what is driving the present change is us.
But it’s OK to keep holding out, brh, if it makes you happy.
If it’s warmer globally, the seas will be higher everywhere. They connect after all. I know these things are hard for you….
Well done, Janos. I don’t see how that contradicts anything I said though. How much were you expecting sea level to have risen?
You’re not entirely right though. For example, there’s a geological tilt in the UK, with Scotland rising (at an infinitesimally slow rate) and the south east of England sinking. It’s a consequence of the ice melting after the last ice age (which compressed the land) – a bit like a spring being released. So the effects of a ‘sea-level rise’ would be less obvious in Scotland than in Kent. That’s just one example that I happen to know of. There are lots of things to be taken into account, Janos, which is why there are sooooo many scientific papers for you to read.
Enough to keep you busy for a very long time.
Green Alba, one sure way to determine whether sea levels have risen at all since the advent of industrialization in the West is to find old charts that feature low islands. New England has many such low islands that were on the charts and are still there.
If those islands were there three centuries ago and have remained on charts despite global industrialization over the past two centuries, then it’s a good probability that they will be there in the next century. That means the sea levels have remained stable and the Earth has the means to maintain that level.
Rather than worry about politically-driven pseudo-science, I’d rather see efforts made to contain the melt water coming off Greenland and ways to collect and ship to places that desperately need water. We don’t have water shortages, just water management problems and lack of political will to redirect resources to that end.
JimInFlorida
“Rather than worry about politically-driven pseudo-science, ”
I’m not worrying about politically-driven pseudo-science either, but I do worry about politically driven obstructionism in relation to valid science, which has kept us back for decades. Billions of dollars have gone into disinformation, as they did over the effects of tobacco.
So, you don’t want to limit the melting of the ice caps and glaciers but you want to try phenomenally expensive and energy-consuming ‘solutions’, such as transporting fresh water or ice across the globe?
And you’re worried about pseudo-science?!
As for the point about local observations, I would refer you to the paragraph headed ‘Changing Regional And Local Sea Levels’ in the following Smithsonian article, which puts Janos’ simplistic and trite ‘argument’ in context and makes brh’s observations of limited usefulness.
I went to Syria in 2007. I chose September because I don’t like hot weather and the information on the interwebz told me the average temperature at that time of year was 22 degrees Celsius. In the event it was 37 degrees and I suffered. Trying to hide from the sun behind a column in Palmyra is a bit of a lost cause for someone with my heat tolerances. Even the Syrians were wilting after the horribly hot summer. But by itself it meant no more than brh’s measurements of Goat Island. What matters in terms of establishing what’s happening is averages and trends.
What matters locally is how you deal with what you’re going to be dealt locally as a result.
https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-rise
Giant pipelines in the sea. Pipelines hundreds of feet wide anchored to the seabed carry fresh water from Greenland to the Sahara. Subterranean tunnels also melt from the far north to the American southwest in underground rivers.
The desert blooms as windmills pump liquid blue gold to field and forest.
I have thought about tunneling machines making underground aqueducts to move water from latitudes with high rainfall to more arid latitudes where it could irrigate. Some lakes in the far north are pretty big and they could send some of what they drain to the Arctic south where it could be used. Something like a big fire hose could be used underwater to keep fresh water from salt as it moves to a place to be harvested.
Tubes many meters wide able to move water that can irrigate several square kilometers might be economically viable if oil stayed cheap.
So never mind.
Rule of thumb: Never try to go anywhere in September to avoid the worst of the heat of summer.
Green Alba I stated my study is anecdotal and unscientific, which is the whole point. When deplorables like myself hear for 25 years straight years the world is ending because of climate change, goddamit, we want to see it ending or pretty soon we start to think we’re being lied to and there’s a political motive behind it, specially when the main proponents are celeb dooshes like George Clooney and Leanardo DiCapprio flying around the world in private jets telling us not to drive our trucks. F–k them! If your claims about the coming climate apocalypse are theoretical, or just one of many possible outcomes, or if sea levels will rise about 1″ in a century, who gives a sh#t? Don’t bother us about it.
brh
brh
The world isn’t ending. It’s just an environment that’s getting more hostile to the kind of human life we’re used to (and to other animal life as well).
If conservatives are overwhelmed with admiration for someone who says something as unoriginal as ‘clean your room’, why don’t they want to keep their planet hospitable for their kids and everyone else’s? Like they say, there’s ‘no Planet B’.
And I’m getting a bit fed up with the self-applied ‘deplorables’ label. It’s not a label I’d use myself without inverted commas because I abhor what it stands for when it comes from the mouth of the person who coined it or of anyone who admires her.
However, I think it’s being manipulated now by some (many of whom aren’t even ‘deplorables’ anyway, but want to jump on the bandwagon for their own reasons).
It’s becoming a victim word and one that is used the way teenagers use words when they’re criticised. It gives you a free pass to take no responsibility for as long as your ‘betters’ behave badly.
I don’t get a free pass to avoid responsibility just because of George Clooney or Leonardo Di Caprio or China (who’s per capita emissions are waaaay below your country’s or mine – although my country’s are waaaay below yours).
All claims about the future are theoretical – even one that says if you jump off a high building you’ll end up as gravy. But the evidence is there TODAY for your eyes to see, but you don’t want to look beyond Goat Island.
And it’s not an inch a century (now) but you can see the figures in the article I just linked to.
But even an extra inch will pack a hefty punch to the oil rigs and towns and cities along your your shoreline when it’s whipped up over hundreds of square miles and thrown at it. It’s about the volume. Six inches and you’re in a whole new territory, storm-surge-wise.
But it’s your shoreline and if you don’t care that’s up to you.
Somebody’s got to pay for the increasing damage and they’re your taxes and will be your kids’ taxes.
*whose* per capita emissions…
Jezzzuss!! Just read Catherine Ingram’s piece posted by JHK on this blog!
After that look for a YouTube on BBC’s documentary about solar dimming.
The ice is melting. Until it fully melts it serves as buffer to slow down the heating of the ocean. Once the ice is gone Katey bar the doors. The pace of global warming is going to go into twin turbo mode.
“Latent heat
When any material is heated to the temperature where it changes state, the temperature will remain the same until all the material changes state. That means ice water will remain at 0oC (32oF) until all the ice is melted. The same thing applies when cooling the materials.
The reason is that energy must be expended to change the state from solid to liquid or from liquid to gas. Likewise, energy must be withdrawn to change the state when cooling the material. The amount of energy required is call the latent heat of freezing or boiling. The chart below shows the latent heat or energy required to change the states of water.”
Bring it on I hate the cold.
Odd that every winter the sheer amount of ice seem to resurge.
bentover,
odd that there are people gullible enough to believe that idiocy in defiance of what the entire scientific world tells us. You sound like the kind of person who will drink drano if someone tells you it will save you life when your doctor informs you of your impending death.
For you the sight of a snowball is enough to convince you the planet is getting colder.
Do you think it is odd that the amount of resurgent ice is substantially less than the previous surge?
Of course you don’t, you’re stupid.
My theory in a nutshell, Gorbachev was dealing with stagnation, inability to trade == JimInFlorida
Prediction against prophecy or who is Gorbachev?
Looking through my old posts, I came across a curious article by Nikolai Starikov
USSR disaster was controlled
https://nstarikov.ru/blog/16313
about the outstanding Russian philosopher Alexander Zinoviev.
His conversation with journalist Victor Lupan took place in Berlin and was published on July 24, 1999 by the French newspaper Le Figaro. , and more than a decade after publication, the accuracy of the Zinoviev estimates, and Nikolai Starikov, who believed and possibly continues to believe their prophetic character, became particularly obvious.
And I propose to recall the more prophetic article by Alexander Zinoviev, “How to kill an elephant with a needle,” about which the Russian philosopher and logician, essentially was expelled to the West in 1978, wrote the following:
http://www.zinoviev.ru/rus/slon.html
Alexander Zinoviev:
In 1979, at one of my public speeches, which was called “How to kill an elephant with a needle”, – I was asked what place in the Soviet system is, in my opinion, the most vulnerable.
I answered: that which is considered the most reliable, namely, the Party apparatus, in it is the Central Committee, in it the Politburo, in the latter the Secretary General. “Install your man to this post,” I said, under the Homeric laughter of the audience, “and in a few months he will destroy the party apparatus, and the chain reaction of the collapse of the whole system of power and control will begin.
And as a result of this, the disintegration of the whole society will begin.” At the same time I referred to the Camille Pissarro precedent. Let the reader not think that I suggested such an idea to the strategists of the Cold War. They thought of it without me. One of the employees of “Intelligence Service” once told me that they (that is, the forces of the West) would soon put their man on the “Soviet throne”. At that time I did not believe that this was possible, and about such a “needle” of the West as a Secretary General agent of the West, I spoke of a purely hypothetical phenomenon.
Actually, after this, there is no need to talk about prophecy – it was a prediction and a guide to action, and most of all, Alexander Zinoviev was afraid that this report turned out to be a guide for action that came true, and that employees of the British secret services shared absolutely secret information with Alexander Zinoviev, and this could happen only if the great Russian scientist himself was an employee of these special services and had the appropriate clearance, and then, obviously realizing his role in the story, left, but admit it he could not, confining to hints.
And the most interesting evidence of this drama is his encounter with a man who understood his hints, and in this completely hopeless situation he broke such a well-thought out and so logical plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIn0SAW-Ao
Finc, all well and good to mention names and intentions but, the story still leaves out THE METHOD. More important than the man is the pathogen he injected with that needle. Even more important is WHO made the pathogen and how it had been used it in the past. In this case, past performance is a good indicator of future results.
I didn’t predict but, saw the effect and worked backwards to the most probable cause, based on past causes, malfeasance, and mischief.
The Method?!
I thought I, or rather Alexander Zinoviev, specifically answered that question!
“Install your man to this post[General Secretary of the CPSU]” I said, under the Homeric laughter of the audience, “and in a few months he will destroy the party apparatus, and the chain reaction of the collapse of the whole system of power and control will begin.
Finc! AZ’s quote tells me is what was intended i.e “destroy the party apparatus…”
That is a general goal and not a method. Sabotage of the currency leads to the chain reaction of collapse and concurrent discrediting of the power apparatus.
How is the currency destroyed? I specifically posited my theory on that and that theory is based on hard evidence of having been done in the past; multiple times.
It’s not enough to tell me somebody is sick. I need to know what happened prior to the symptoms and whether a 3rd party prevented him from seeking treatment or getting rid of the cause. If that same 3rd party was the cause as well as the obstruction, then we have a bonafide crime to solve and prosecute.
After all, the American decline started from a specific person installed in a high position – Hillary Clinton.
Wrong much like Trump Hillary is a symptom not a causation!
The decline was built in when the west gave away it’s means of production.
Rational West has spoken!
I will take that as an actual compliment instead of sarcasm since sarcasm is hard to detect in written form.
Without the following:
/Sarcasm
/Sarcasm off
Grotesquely stupid. We’ve been declining we “won” WW2. And in a deep sense since the Federal Reserve act was passed. On before that, we let one ethnic group buy up all the newspapers. An aware people would have Never allowed such a travesty.
Janos, I’d take it one step further and say that we started our decline when we began idolizing Israel and allowing many false beliefs to be put in God’s mouth.
The advent of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948 has created more turmoil, confusion, division, bitterness, contention and downright hatred and bloodlust among Christian people than anything in 2,000 years of Church history. It has also created more political turmoil, war deaths and destruction than anything in 2,000 years of Western Civilization.
The rot became visible when Vatican II came along. Following close behind were the liberal Scofield-infected Protestant churches – full of Modernists who crept into the pulpits and diaconates. The Religious Right of the 1980’s was a controlled antithesis that herded the gullible conservatives squarely into the Zionist synthesis. I’m sure we all know the rest of the story.
Jim, it began with Zionism as you have correctly surmised. It goes back to secret negotiations involving the house of Rothschild & high-level Jewish influence within the U.S. & British governments during the First World War which led to the Balfour Declaration in return for which Germany was sacrificed by the withdrawal of Jewish financial support. Ergo, if none of that had occurred, it’s likely Germany would not have had to prostrate itself & there would have been no Second World War.
Ah yes, Tate! How could I have left out the most crucial parts of the story? Thanks for supplying the missing pieces.
it’s likely Germany would not have had to prostrate itself – Tate
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My b-i-l, Peter, says he has an enlarged prostrate that makes it difficult to pee. We all have our crosses to bare.
Jim, I admit I’m ambivalent about Israel. I don’t know what to think about that matter. Isn’t it a done deal? But then, how much more blood has to be shed? But we should know the truth of its origins. The truth is paramount above all else.
“crosses to bare” adding to my list, Q.
My latest gem: “for all intensive purposes.”
in a deep sense – Janos
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When something is said to be understood or realized in a deep sense it has more weight or gravitas than plain old common sense.
Into the compendium with it.
“crosses to bare” adding to my list, Q. – Tate
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How could you not realize that this was deliberate?
Irregardless, Q, for all intensive purposes, you’re comment will not take president to my mind if theirs to much at steak even if we could of went down another garden path or lane or aqueduct, whichsoever you proffer.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
https://www.got-truth.com/docs/Happy%20Mothers%20Day.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
Pucker said: I only support “Background Checks” for people who want to purchase nuclear or biological weapons.
First you say you support “background checks”… next thing you know you’ll be coming to confiscate our nuclear and biological weapons.
Do you not believe in 2A? “The right to bear arms” does not prohibit possession of nuclear and biological weapons. No where in 2A does it say nuclear and biological weapons prohibited. If you want confiscation of weapons, first repeal 2A.
I’ll contend you have to be a member in good standing of a registered militia to have N or B weapons. That is how I read the 2A.
So, you think 2A says you have to be a member of a registered militia to have any type of firearm? 2A says only members of a militia can bear arms? Is that how you read the amendment?
” We’ve been declining ( since ) we “won” WW2. ”
ugh , WW2 ……….
these days whenever someone trots out the , ” We had to stop Hitler ” – routine ,
I immediately come back with , ” Oh ? And what was your compelling interest in destroying the Austro – Hungarian Empire ?
Do tell me what an evil , diabolical fuck Franz Joseph was ? ”
At that point one of three things happens —
1 . I’m talking to a Serbian , Bosnian , or Hungarian , and they might have something substantive and sassy to say in response . ……… But then who cares what Serbians , Bosnians , or Hungarians have to say anyway ?
2. Their entire narrative then quickly begins to fall apart.
3. It begins to become apparent to even the dullest that their agenda was of a Jacobin or Bolshevik type .
That is , self defense , self restraint , and peace was never their number one goal to begin with.
It never would have been their goal , Hitler , or no Hitler.
That is , the Nazis have only ever been an excuse. An excuse to pursue policies they had in mind already .
Goodwins law kicked in yesterday at 5:10 PM. You are more than a day late so it does not matter how many times you post it. This week you were not the first.
I too just read Catherine Ingram’s piece. Some of what the NTE crowd believes is wrong. Near Term Extinction being their binding belief. The rabid believers of it are very poor at math and science.
But they also are aware of facts that the status quo, media and government ignore totally. What these doomsters claim should have been studied to death by now yet much of what they claim can’t be easily dismissed because it has been ignored so the facts to dismiss it are not there. Blindly into the future mankind runs.
Will a remnant survive? Is it even relevant? Mauna Loa CO2 which we can take as representative for the total planet was up 0.91 % over this time last year. This means some people are toast beyond any shadow of any doubt. The motor scooters of Asia are kicking up a PPM number that can only go up not down. They will do their full share of the damage before curtains fall, fear not.
CO2 in the atmosphere accelerates and the concentration can’t come down even if it were not going up faster now than it ever has before. Baked in the cake tragedy beyond the nightmares of our most crazed fearful is in our future results from this quickening in pace. 0.91 % in only one year says mass death beyond any doubt and soon.
Massive disruptions of field forest and how people go about living their lives. Extinction combined with pestilence of a magnitude not yet seen.
” You are more than a day late so it does not matter how many times you post it. This week you were not the first. ”
I suppose popularity concerns you ? It does not concern me .
I suppose this is a kind of social club for you ? It is not for me.
A day late ???
According to what value , or agenda ????
Certainly not mine.
And FYI , though you DO occasionally come up with something that is pure gold , the rest of the time I’m not the slightest bit interested in your pompous , posturing , empty , horse shit.
That is i value your contributions as much as you value mine.
hoo hum.
I would suspect that is more significant to you , than to me.
I don’t know what you are talking about. I’m referring to Goodwins law. You showed up and mentioned Hitler three times but he was already mentioned yesterday. If anything I try NOT to mention him so the only competition is in your head.
Three times made my paws want to move on my keyboard, that is all. What’s to explain, three Hitlers in one comment can make even the shy type so reap what you sow.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/godwins-law
” I don’t know what you are talking about. ”
But you are in the habit of commenting on what you know not about ?
By the way , I wouldn’t know if you really know anything about meteorology or not.
But evolutionary biologists think memes are horse shit psuedo science .
So go stuff your meme crap.
not to mention that Franz Joseph is more my interest , not Hitler , if you had paid attention .
Though I suspect you did catch that .
And you’re just a sophomoric liar.
Whatever dude.
Correction: Mauna Loa CO2
April 2019: 413.32 ppm
April 2018: 410.24 ppm
Annual change in concentration: + 0.75%
Last updated: May 6, 2019
Source: NOAA
What is stunning to me is to learn the sensitivity of human cognition to CO2 concentrations, at levels we are expected to reach under business as usual by 2100.
It has become more apparent to me everyday the folly of letting businessmen and lawyers, in proceedings invocated by priests and rabbis, to run the country.
Out there on the roads of America, people know but cannot break free from the forces putting the barrel to their own heads. They are daring the younger generation to pull the steering wheel from their cold, dead fingers. In turn that generation is being bludgeoned into submission for the fleeting imperatives of establishing adulthood. So it will fall to those who are now 1-10 years old. By 2030 the order will be to shoot the white-hairs on sight. No bag limit.
” Israel ”
And whenever that subject comes up , I immediately think ;
Christian Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Antioch.
And the interesting thing about that is —
( well , it is sort of forgotten that Islam was finally stopped in the West NORTH of the Pyrenees , and in the East , Islam was only stopped at the gates of Vienna. Medievals , generally , saw the Crusades not as an aggressive , assertive, progressive course of action , but as a defensive , preservative , conservative course of action . And the Holy land was barely one -tenth of the story anyway. But never mind all of that for a moment — )
— those backward , superstitious Medievals — at least eventually — came to the understanding that the whole Holy Land project was a dumb idea.
But sophisticated , enlightened moderns , with the example of The Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem right in front of them , cannot figure out that it is a dumb idea.
It makes about as much sense as opening a Prada Boutique in Iqte Mongolia.
” anything in 2,000 years of Western Civilization. ”
Hardly.
Whatever the personal motives of Martin Luther might have been , I’m pretty God damned sure that those 16th Century German princes who backed him were not really interested in his scriptural interpretations , or mine , or yours.
THEY had something else in mind , a different agenda entirely.
Or to use a more up to date and more immediate example of the same sort of thing ;
The Gay lobby never had , does not , and never will , have any tank divisions .
So how the fuck does it turn out that some Nancy boy can kick you around ?
I rather doubt the sexual deviants are the problem.
The problem , rather , is your unwillingness to entertain the idea that your romantic notions , or your feelings , or hers , or mine , have NOTHING to do with the sexual revolution.
Again , the agenda in play in the sexual revolution has to do with ” German princes ” ( so to speak ) you don’t even know, and never will , who live far away , and who scarce ever even give you a thought.
Visiting Alaska’s panhandle, it struck me that pictures showing the retreat of the glaciers show a retreat that is enormous in scope. Miles of ice melting in a few short years. Also, historical picture show advancing glaciers developing in 130 years time. How the heck does ice melt that damn fast, or form as fast as it has in the past. Polar vortices that should be slowing down the process?
New York City was under a mile of ice in an ice pack during the last ice age. The Rockies craggy appearance comes from ice accumulation. Yosemite and the fjords of Alaska were formed from ice. But no signs of ice in California, Arizona Texas. How can a mile thick sheet of ice occur right next to no ice?
What triggers an ice age? What starts glaciers advancing? Is it global cooling? If so why are areas like Antarctica deserts with little snowfall? Is it more storminess creating more snow associated with more polar incursions? Why is Europe warmer than N. America at the same latitudes? The Gulf Stream? Right now!
Do miniscule changes in the locations of land masses make huge differences in climate? The Himalayas created the Middle East and Sahara Deserts. Is the earth heating up internally? Do we see the warming of the surface as a result of internal heat sources?
Could it be that CO2 warming is a 1 to 2% problem that is eclipsed by every other physical change that we have no control over., understand or are even aware of?
Or is AGW just another source of argument for the world politicos to argue about.
BTW, the glaciers are rapidly melting with little atmospheric stimulus to cause the melting. A lot of the melting is happening from the bottom up?? Less snow? Hotter substrate? Warmer oceans? Why would warmer oceans cause land glaciers to melt?
Maybe the whole global picture is in a warm up. Jupiter produces more heat than it gets from the Sun. Mars froze long ago because it’s internal engine cooled. Has anyone even considered internal heat as the culprit?
Probably not as it is not something we can argue about!
The Ice Age is an ultimate weapon and we have pulled the switch. We’re warming up the planet in order to set off the Global Superstorms that will bring in the Ice Age. You people forced our hand….
https://skepticalscience.com/himalayan-glaciers-growing-intermediate.htm
Yes that theory has been raised as has certain volcanoes blowing their stacks.
One type of ash spewed out causes warming and the other cooling.
John,
Well said.
https://www.nps.gov/glba/learn/nature/climate-change.htmhttps://www.nps.gov/glba/learn/nature/climate-change.htm
” I don’t know what you are talking about. ”
You replied to me , not vice – versa. So you should fucking know why you initiated the contact asshole.
the only competition is in your head.
Again ; You initiated contact , not I . And i never mentioned competition .
Try another dodge scumbag.
” What’s to explain . ”
Again , YOU showed up at MY door.
What part of that chronology is difficult ?
Are you that fucking stupid ?
Or just a really bad liar ?
” so reap what you sow. ”
— When YOU show up at MY door , asshole.
” Whatever dude ”
And that particular meme means you were full of shit , but don’t have the integrity to admit it.
But , ok , just for you , we will pretend you are an innocent snowflake , that it was not your deliberate intent to show me your ass.
And I will pretend you really are that stupid , and explain the situation to you as simply as I can ;
” Goodwins law kicked in yesterday at 5:10 PM. You are more than a day late so it does not matter how many times you post it. This week you were not the first. ”
” You showed up and mentioned Hitler three times but he was already mentioned yesterday. ”
Response :
I’m not paid to be here . I’m not in love with anyone here . I DO have other things I could be doing.
Consequently — I will post WHATever the fuck I like , on ANY TOPIC I like , WHENever I like.
You are not a god damned moderator here.
And if he who is the moderator here does not like the policy I just outlined above , he can ban me , and my response to that would be , ” good riddance ” , or , ” Cast not your pearls before swine. ”
I hope that clarifies things for you .
Say what you want but it was still three Hitlers and one Nazi in one post that had something to do with Franz Joseph. You can’t take it back.
She is angrier than you are and perhaps crazier. But you are no slouch once you get on about Blacks or Nazis.
Take what back ?
That You knocked on my door ?
And say what you like ;
There is no rule here about posting on this or that topic in a given time frame.
HOW THE FUCK would you even write such a rule ?
Give us a practical , working example ?
— That EVERYONE , including you , isn’t ignoring anyway ?
— And i’m not gonna hold my breathe waiting for you to give us an example of such a rule , when we both know it is a bullshit proposition.
Say what you like ; You wanted to take a swipe at me .
That’s it . Period.
Trying to make me out as some sort of defendant in the context is the shallowest and shoddiest of dishonest ploys.
You hit me , I’ll hit you back ( if i feel like it. )
Don’t like it ?
Fuck you .
With my luck, almost the first TV show I saw in the United States was the Sunday sermon of some television pastor that Russia is Gog and Magog, and that the battle of Bear People against the Eagle People is inevitable and that is why the country where my relatives and friends still live, should be “sprinkled with fire” (nuclear?) while it is weak.
Moreover, this preacher openly read something either from the Holy Scripture, or something from the current press about a Spotted Judas who would bring victory to the People of the Eagle.
So, apparently, information about Gorbachev’s betrayal, even in a limited form, was sufficiently widely spread in some circles of American society and awaiting the coming retribution from the People of the Bear explains the willingness with which the Trump’s betrayal to Kremlin narrative was so widely accepted.
Please note, no one much cares about Russia nor understands its history or predilection. The general sentiment toward Russia is neutral to good.
Your basic problem is you watched religious TV, an upside-down world where every event is analysed in terms of the apocalyptic worldview of Judeo-Christianity.
The current headline Religio-TV is “Trunews” which is anything but.
” Say what you want but it was still three Hitlers and one Nazi in one post that had something to do with Franz Joseph. ”
And for that matter , what does this statement even fucking mean ??
At least when Elrond , Green Witch , or any one of a dozen others here want to take a swipe at you , their criticisms , ridicules , etc , are at least fucking coherent.
Three Hitler’s ……….is bad ……..why ???
How ?
Maybe its got something to do with the fucking number three ???
one Nazi …….. signifies ….. what ???
I’m pretty sure that at one time or another half the people here , including you , have been guilty of this terrible one Nazi thing ,
Whatever this one Nazi thing is.
” …..that had something to do with Franz Joseph. ”
What the fuck do you mean,
” …..that had something to do with Franz Joseph. ” ?
You don’t know ?
Then what the fuck could possibly have been the substantive intent of your addressing me ?
You are in the habit of commenting on things when you don’t even know what those things are ?
That sounds pretty fucking stupid , or loopy , to me.
Here’s an idea ;
Try writing things that actually communicate information .
Like Elrond or GreenWitch
( Notice I did not use as examples people I like , but people I detest. )
As things stand , you aren’t on the A list pal .
You’re on the F list.
And that list is not based on my likes or dislikes , my agrees or disagrees .
As I just said , I detest Elrond , GreenWitch , and my candidate for a paid agent provocateur , Janos .
But at least they can fucking think and write.
Intellectually , or in writing , you are a fucking slacker.
You contribute to this comment section what cotton candy contributes to a diet ; a whole lot of zero.
*hat tip* At your service, ma’am.
Yeltsin and Trump – Rescuers of the Fatherland
According to my theory Trump is an American Yeltsin.
A bunch of not-so-smart people, will now decide that I predict the collapse of the United States under the leadership of the new Yeltsin.
In fact, I mean that Clinton is an American Gorbachev, and Trump will save America, just as Yeltsin saved Russia. And Clinton practically ruined the USA, just as Gorbachev practically ruined Russia together with the USSR.
Historical Russia – the USSR, was not practically, but simply ruined, but Gorbachev then wanted to sign a New Union Treaty – the so called Novogarevskiy process – and within the framework of this treaty autonomous republics, for example Tatarstan, would be equal in rights with the Union republics, that is, they would receive the right to leave the Union.
I can’t give the English link to Novogarevskiy process since the English article is missing from Wikipedia (Russian article is there).
And the New Union with such a president simply did not have the right to exist, and Yeltsin, having signed the Belovezha Accords, tore power out of Gorbachev’s hands, thereby ensuring that Russia would leave the USSR in one piece. Any state headed by such a president as Gorbachev or Clinton simply has no right to exist. And that is why the United States, if Clinton elected, are doomed.
But for Russia the breakup of the United States would not have made it any easier.
The United States would break up into at least three parts, two of which (both coasts) would be united with EU against Russia and would have finished Russia off, even at the expense of their own lives.
But for now, we both shall live!
Building monuments to Abraham Lincoln is like building monuments to Lenin .
Both men liked torching entire regions. Both men held their own people in utter contempt , both men didn’t mind signing death warrants for ten year olds.
And the real tragedy for both countries , like Solzhenitsyn said , is not that they got their asses kicked , but that they won.
Apparently it is easier for humans to disavow failure than it is to disavow a totally fucking poisonous ” success” .
But the Russians at least to their credit have the experience of being mowed down like grass , wasted like so much shit .
Even things like having to eat your own kid because the social engineers not only came and took all the food , but even anything that possibly could substitute for food , like all the shoe leather.
So , to that degree , the Russians are saner , more sober.
Imagine a really drunk , really spoiled , really cossetted , princess .
That’s the typical American.
Dangerous as fuck in other words.
“But the Russians at least to their credit have the experience of being mowed down like grass , wasted like so much shit .”
About that history of treating each other like garbage… what’s up with that?
My cousin had a baby girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a way to start the new week :-)!!!!!!!! In my circle of friends and family she is the eighth baby born in the last 12 months. So clearly some pockets of our society are not having a birth dearth lol.
Congratulations. Just wondering though, of the eight, how many have birth defects (that can be detected? Reminder, one in 2 males will die from cancer and 1 in 3 females during their lives. They will turn 18 as the atmosphere reaches 450ppm, last seen thousands of years ago and they will be just old enough to take out a full-life term loan to attend college, a 2 year program of instruction to train to become a pet companion for artificial intelligences. Their gig economy will be selling spare body parts for aging boomers and serving cocktails to the likes of brh while he rides the tourist barge around the last waves lapping at the tip of Plymouth Rock…
Holy Sh#t!!!
It looks like KDog tangled with a crazy Wild Cat, and got tore up!
Brh
Those won’t last long.
Constitutionalism….is the new counterculture.
https://www.got-truth.com/docs/Constitutionalism%20is%20the%20new%20counterculture.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
Constitution Party? The Party of “Integrity, Liberty, & Prosperity!”
Get on board, now.
Their candidate in 2016 saw 66% growth nationally in voter turnout vs. 2012.
https://www.constitutionparty.com/elections/2016-national-results/