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The people pretending to run the world’s financial affairs do. The more layers of abstract game-playing they add to the existing armatures of unreality they’ve already constructed, the more certain it becomes that they will blow up all the support systems of a sunsetting hyper-tech economy that now has no safe lane to continue running in.
Virtually all the big nations are doing this now in desperation because they don’t understand that the hyper-tech economy is hostage to the deteriorating economics of energy, basically fossil fuels, and oil especially. The macro mega-system can’t grow anymore. We’re now in the de-growth phase of a dynamic that pulsates through history, as everything in the universe pulsates. We attempted to compensate for de-growth with debt, borrowing from the future.
But debt only works in the youthful growth phases of economic pulsation, when the prospect of being paid back is statistically favorable. Now in the elder de-growth phase, the prospect of paying back debts, or even servicing the interest, is statistically dismal. The amount of racked-up debt worldwide has entered the realm of the laughable. So, the roughly twenty-year experiment in Central Bank credit magic, as a replacement for true capital formation, has come to its grievous end.
Hence, America under the pretend leadership of Joe Biden ventures into the final act of this melodrama, which will end badly and probably pretty quickly. They are about to call in the financial four horsemen of apocalypse: 1) Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), 2) a command economy, 3) Universal Basic Income (UBI, “helicopter” money for the people), and 4) the “Build Back Better” infrastructure scheme.
MMT is the idea that a nation which claims a monopoly on issuing money can “create” new money ad infinitum with no negative consequences. That is, we can “lend” ourselves money (borrow it into existence) without having to worry about paying it back. The theory caught on only because that’s what we’ve done for two decades and, so far, it hasn’t destroyed the banking system — though debt turned exponential, which is to say ruinous, only recently — so we won’t have to stand by long to see how this experiment works out. Note this: MMT completes the divorce between productive activity and capital formation, that is, prosperity without wealth.
A command economy means that government increasingly attempts to take over economic enterprise, to replace x-million individual economic choices of freely-acting people in a society with bureaucratic central planning. (Have you already said ha-ha-ha, knowing how that has worked out through history?)
UBI is the primary feature of that because, in a command economy, production is mostly pretend, so you just have to give people money (for nothing). Remember the old basic operating system of the Soviet Union, stated succinctly as: We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. Got that?
The idea behind “Build Back Better” is to renovate the infrastructure of a hyper-tech economy that actually no longer exists because we are in the contraction phase of an historic pulsation or cycle, leaving us with lots of tech and less production, tending toward zero. Nobody flogging this slogan actually knows what it ought to mean under the circumstances, which is to go with the flow of the reality of this contraction: to downsize, downscale, and re-localize all our activities to bring them back into sync with actual productivity — that is, raising food, making real stuff, and trading it. Again, it’s the energy dynamic, stupid.
To get to that point, we’re going to shed the massive over-burden of financial game-playing that has pretended to represent our economy. That means stock valuations and bond prices will vaporize along with the derivative activities concocted for trading gainfully in these now-phantom representations of capital. If that happens sooner rather than later, we won’t even be able to pretend to Build Back Better the interstate highways, the electric grid, airports, and all the other stuff in the “infrastructure” folder.
Indeed, a lot of that would be malinvestment folly now because we’re nearing the end of mass motoring and commercial aviation as we’ve known them. If we even have electricity twenty-five years from now, it will come from much-reduced grids on a much more regional basis. The bottom line for all this is that pretty soon every corner of the country will be on its own amid quite a bit of social disorder and financial wreckage. So, whatever energy you actually can marshal to Build Back Better, save it for your town or your local community. And remember, all of the attempts by a national government to control these events, and coerce its citizens in the service of that, will only lead to a more ineffectual and impotent national government that nobody has faith in, confirming the fact that you are on your own.
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TPTB are taking us down thru an invasion.
JHK mentioned deforestation, with oil gone. how about de deer estestation?
II found this,
However, 330 million is a LOT of people. Even if 3/4 of the people die in six months, all the game out there is toast. 82.5 million hungry people will ravage the countryside, killing every animal in sight. They’ll figure it out. Nets, chasing them toward pits, whatever. There’s about 30 million deer in the US.
How long will they last? A lot will be wasted due to inept processing and lack of refrigeration. If you’re right, even those who are knowledgeable survivors may have to travel extremely long distance into areas where the remaining game have migrated. Hunting is difficult enough. Competing with 82 million others, who are desperate, isn’t going to make it any easier. But, anyway, I don’t know any more than you. You may be right. I don’t wanna find out! LOL : )
…where I live there are around 10 million people…. it’s definitely a hunting state and even here they only issued less than 570000 licenses. But people buy multiple licenses so actual hunters is more like 300000. Let’s say 1 million people here are equipped and able to hunt but not all of them do . If most people are dead in 6 months that leaves a maximum of 1 million people left here….probably less.
All of those urban deer will quickly return to the country when people start shooting them there so my country deer population is going to increase greatly.
We have almost 2 million deer here in my state alone…6 months after SHTF there would still be more deer left here than people to hunt them.
The population would definitely take an immediate hit but I think it would bounce back to epic numbers within 2 years because there simply won’t be enough people alive and equipped and skilled left to damage the herd . To me the biggest issue is other humans . During the depression EVERYONE knew how to hunt and people had skills to survive even if they worked an office job. People weren’t near as reliant on grocery stores. So of course the animal population took a hit. Don’t forget about the huge abundance of squirrels and rabbits and other small game ……it doesn’t have to just be deer
Funny, family member and a close friend both declare they will not discuss politics but both have yard sign that reads “No human is illegal” and other Left slogans.
Here in North Florida, “Blue” yard signs that sprung up – “Hate has no home here”, indicating the virtue-signaling useful idiots that voted for Biden – have all disappeared. Out of embarrassment one would guess.
These people are so fucked up, The inference was that if you did not have such a sign in your yard, that hate certainly had a home at your house. Did I mention that these people are fucked up?
Ron-
At least the immediate visual pollution is gone in your area.
In these parts there are still upper-middle class areas with several Burn Loot Murder signs along the roadway that visually pollute my drive to a great nature reserve in this area.
Tacky irony, from the people who all believe in the Green New Deal.
Yep TCL, the visual pollution gone – the invisible blue pollution remains.
Have cousins – better than upper-middle class, by virtue of sucking up to a 101 year old great aunt who married well, was widowed young, but worked hard, lived well within her means, saved and invested, building millions in wealth (concepts completely foreign to my cousins), passing it to them – that are very visual & vocal supporters of BLM, but are also apologetic for their “white privilege”, failing to understand how that wealth was built.
Famous virtual-signalers – you may see them in your nature preserve with a BLM bumper sticker – they’re very crunchy and they’ll be the ones dressed head-to-toe in Patagonia gear.
I want to see more NO FEAR LIVES HERE yard signs.
Perfect Druid – here’s another suggestion “Help Eradicate Blue Cancer”, blue bow & all.
I was watching the Lionel Nation livestream this morning and he mentioned that his hero is now Mohammed Anwar, the 66 year old Pakistani immigrant Uber Eats driver who was killed by two “teen girls” in D.C. during a planned carjacking.
Lionel was wondering, as am I, had the Uber driver been Black and the teen girls white, would the race of the girls be listed therefore making this a white supremacy hate crime?
I guess the race of the perps if they are teens is not mentionable in D.C.?
It was interesting though when I typed into the Google bar, “two Black teen girls carjack and kill 66 year old Pakistani Uber driver in D.C.” all the articles about it came up.
Mohammed Anwar: 2021’s George Floyd?
Up here in Canada the national media and proxies acting on behalf of the Chinese government have whipped up progressives with reports of Anti-Asian hate. The hashtag #StopAsianHate has caught on like a virus with the left and if the CCP-backed national fraternal organizations are to be believed there are more Asian hate crimes per capita in Canada than anywhere else in the world. Even our idiot leader Justin Trudeau has got into the act promising to make reparations for all decades of anti-Asian discrimination. Apparently none of these progressives seem to care that the price of gas is heading to new historic highs, or that Canada has fallen to 55th place on the global vaccination list or that a housing crises brought on by our own government’s money printing has driven the price of homes beyond the reach of anyone who isn’t a hedge fund manager or Hong Kong billionaire ex-pat. Have a great Monday morning everyone,
They’re trying to get it going here in the US, too. Notice most of these social justice warrior wokiness goes global pretty quickly? Campaigns created and distributed world-wide within a matter of hours or days?
Back when I was pretty green [ out of date metaphor alert ] young army volunteer sent to Ft Lewis, I happened thru SeaTac and heard unknown languages over the speakers while riding from my gate. Being from Muskogee I expected Spanish, but turned out to be Chinese maybe Japanese, I wouldnt swear either way. Lots of vacationers
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Let me guess,Gainesville area perhaps. You may guess from my name my location,and you’re right,they are fucked up, also stupid as grandads clawhammer.
Opie – actually an hour & a half east, very near the ocean Crescent Beach in St. John’s County – 10 miles south of St. Augustine proper.
Very fair guess on Gainesville though – Alachua a blue county by virtue of UF. I graduated UF in the early eighties, and forty years ago, the culture was much different.
Have two sons going to college in the next 2 years – sad thing is, they’d be 4th generation at UF, but not really sure I want them going there.
They are resolute in their common sense, conservative views, so that’s no concern, only that they’d be pariahs there now.
They don’t back down from anything, it’s just tough sometimes, always swimming upstream.
My guess on your locale is rural N FL, if Alachua, Newberry maybe. If not, Mt. Airy, NC? Tell Aunt Bea I said hello.
Ron Anselmo: Crescent Beach, very nice area.
I love the area around St. Augustine.
I have friends in South St. Augustine.
Above the Mangrove Line.
The beautiful stretches of Atlantic Ocean beaches.
But I think there are a lot of snowbirds or whatever they are called from the blue North (such as Mass.) in St. Augustine—I expect also in your area. They spend the winter down there.
Ron,
LOL! Not sure exactly what you were getting at here, but just let me add that those people are certainly fucked up!
D – I was getting at, not only their virtue-signaling, but their ridiculous insinuations. So if they have a yard sign that says, “Murder is wrong”, if I don’t have one in my yard, the inference is that I’m OK with murder. Dumbasses.
Ron, that’s it exactly.
The sin of omission. How dare you not virtue signal exactly the same as they do? It’s like basically admitting your pro-murder, a racist, and literal Hitler.
Mary, have you been talking with some of my neighbors? I haven’t admitted it for the obvious reasons, but nevertheless, they assume it’s so. Sad for them, there’s no vaccine for stupid.
How can you not hate? Such people are either saints or sickos. And the latter out numbers the former. But in general, I just don’t believe them. They have a lot of hate – for Trump and Whites who don’t follow their cult.
Yes Janos, their hate for both is visceral. So bad that they can’t even see how bad Biden, Ho’ Harris and their handlers are screwing everything up. Blind with hate, in addition to ignorance.
Cult is exactly the right word for these drones. Hell, the old Hare Krishna’s from the 1970’s weren’t even as totally brain dead as the Wokesters are.
When they finally bring on the long dreaded Second Civil War I fully expect that millions of thoroughly disgusted gun owners will declare an open season with no bag limit on these assholes.
Fortunately there is a cure for Wrong Thought. The Cure has been tested for centuries during the Inquisition and by countless regimes on all sides of various Curtains. It doesn’t work very well for it’s intended purpose but is quite effective in population control.
So here we go with an American example of Re-Education.
Clear Water High School—Florida
“A call for re-education or expulsion of students who fail or refuse to wear a face covering”. (In a state where the Governor never approved a mask mandate and has lifted all previous closures and restrictions,
https://summit.news/2021/04/01/students-at-florida-high-school-warned-they-will-be-re-educated-if-caught-not-wearing-a-mask/)
If the term re-education is familiar it usually refers to the methods of compliance in totalitarian regimes like North Korea or the Gulag during Stalinist Soviet Union.
A few facts for those who spent the past year meditating in a cave and thus have not had their connection to logic permanently severed.
1- The incidence of death from the Corvid19 virus among school age children is so minute as to resemble that from lighting strike.
2- Masks have no medical benefit in preventing the transmission of Corvid19. Simple logic. The virus is so small that it passes straight through the openings in all masks . Minus 4x in the case of a perfectly fitted n95 mask to minus 1,000x for a cloth balaclava.
Wearing a face covering to prevent Corvid19 transmission is about as effective as nailing chicken wire over your windows to keep the mosquitos out. But it certainly works in signaling that you are willing to follow almost any order of the State, whether it be accepting transparent fraud in the place of an election or marching straight over Lemming Cliff into a nuclear fireball because of Putin Bad.
Ron, you must be in a different corner of N FL than me. Where I’m at, there were never any “blue” signs to start with. And dig this: over half of residents still have their “Trump 2020” signage up.
That’s a strong message right there. “Here’s another one who will not accept the new order of things, who sees the current regime as illegitimate”.
And they don’t work in the financial sector, or in the “smart” home automation sector, or advertising, or academia. They raise food: cattle and poultry, peanuts, produce. Not sure how those two observations are related, but I think they are.
Rulo, I remember seeing a post of yours, saying you split time in S FL & N FL. We have much in common, I was born & raised in Broward County, when the western half of the county was mainly cattle & citrus groves – familiar also with then agricultural communities of Homestead & western Palm Beach County. All unrecognizable to me now.
Now live in St. John’s County – generally heaven on earth – and was hoping you might land here – 37K acres under agricultural production of one sort or another. We live on the very eastern coast, 300 yards from the ocean.
SJC is heavily conservative – about 120K (R) & maybe 35K (D), and as you say, many do not recognize Biden as President and still fly Trump flags.
There are two small enclaves (the only 2 municipalities in the county) City of St. Augustine proper (pop. 15K) and City of St. Augustine Beach (pop. 8K) – both riddled with blue cancer. The balance of the county, rural & conservative.
Retired Boomers, riding bikes with matching helmets, going to local farmer’s markets, being seen, being trendy, but looking down on the local farmers – some families here since the 1600’s.
They all need to go back where they came from, ideologically speaking. Like-minded immigrants welcome as long as we don’t have to hear about how they “do it up north”. If so, I remind them that I-95 North is only about 10 minutes away.
Travel the N FL backroads occasionally, and would love to see your place. If you favor music, listen to J.J. Grey – some of the best Southern soul music ever – bona fide Florida native with unmatched talent. If you get over to St. Augustine, by all means, look me up – local beer & local lunch on me.
Hello again, Ron. JJ Grey, brilliant. Wife is a FL cracker and into John Prine, Merle Haggard. I come from punk rock, but for a long time now can only tolerate Brahms & Chopin; however, my wife’s tastes are influencing me, and we both liked your suggestion. That road on one of the videos we watched looks just like our country roads that take us home in NCFL.
We’re a stone’s throw from the banks of the historic Suwannee river. Minutes from a number of breathtaking natural springs. We’ll take your offer seriously, as we’ve heard good things about St John’s but haven’t visited yet. And we offer the same in return. Incl a cabin to crash & some Argie BBQ & wine. I’m sure there’s a way to make contact privately when the time comes.
SWFL has been our bread and butter for decades, but it’s toast. Gone. Same as what you mention, people from elsewhere pouring in a thousand a minute and bringing their ways and their ideologies without even knowing that you wear light color clothes and a hat in the sun, not black slacks & Gucci & perfume, and never flip flops if you’re in real FL w snakes & fireants, and please know that that fish you’re dining on for top $ as fresh and local is not snook but tilapia from Thailand, by the way. Our clam & oyster farmer friends tell us the stories… nothing you buy is what you think you’re buying nowadays. Above all, the development. Constant and pervasive, maddening and polluting, toxic mushrooms of strip mall and golf, gated community and high rise replacing everything. The groves are but a distant memory, and farming only remains in Immokalee & Homestead, all done by slave, excuse me, migrant labor. Every resource is exhausted except $. There’s always new $ pouring in to ruin the place some more.
Anyway, we still need the $ that’s here, but our plan is almost complete. It will be hard to start fresh at our age, but we’ll be up North permanently within a year, we hope. Right now we spend a little time there every month and get it ready, make some contacts. One foot in each end of the state right now, hoping reality doesn’t kick me in the balls while spread out in such an uncomfortable position. Meaning things don’t go too crazy this summer and we have time to complete our move. Maybe too much to ask, but if the SHTF we’re ready to move on a moment’s notice. The mega-development of the South will be no place to weather a storm.
family member and a close friend both declare they will not discuss politics–presumably will not discuss WITH YOU for fear of being outclassed.
with BLM folks, they will discuss.
That is correct — “no human is illegal” in their own country.
We’ve got more than a few of those holier-than-thou signs up here as well. When I see tents popping up on those people’s lawns I’ll actually take that sentiment seriously. Until then, I consider it to be nothing more than more cheap virtue signaling.
All of those signs are prolific in my neighborhood, and the BLM signs too.
Indeed they are putting their money where their mouth is now, as this is San Diego and the San Diego Convention Center is now housing those illegal kids you hear about at the border.
San Diego Unified School District is desperately seeking substitute teachers at $200 a day to work at the Convention Center presumably to “teach” the children.
One of the largest nonprofit agencies in San Diego got one of the contracts to staff it…..they are hiring 40 full time workers this week, 21 and over, high school diploma, no arrest record, Spanish speaking a plus. $25 per hour.
All the kids are applying for asylum and curiously, many of the kids will be placed with families and host families, but more will be coming in and they leave.
This reminds me of one of President (cough) Biden’s most recent edicts on the border crises: No criminal background checks needed for social workers coming to visit children.
“No human is illegal”
I wonder if they would say that after someone broke into their home.
Water will be key. 1 week.
Hey malthuss – do you want a depression era recipe for roasted coon?…
roast tofu and wild greens.
Interestingly, there has been a lunatic veterinarian running around campaigning on killing off all the white-tailed deer to eliminate Lyme disease.
Many people e that Lyme Disease escaped from a laboratory on an island near Lyme, Connecticut.
Many communities heavily affected by the tick-borne illness are in favor of hunting and killing off the deer, and many more are in favor of eradicating deer because of the hazard of automobile/deer collisions.
People move into the areas where the deer are numerous, and then object to the way the animals interfere with their commutes, and also how they come into their yards to forage in times of drought.
Nelson DeMille wrote a novel which advanced that Plum Island Disease theory.
He abruptly switched publishers when his The Cuban Affair book came out, he didn’t elaborate but I wondered if he was finally running up against woke media.
All these things tie in with topics Mr. Kunstler has been writing about.
Lyme Disease, I used to wonder about that, my New York Senators didn’t get as concerned about an increasing health hazard in my state as they did about Ebola and Zika.
Does that mean we can eradicate “Legionnaire’s Disease” by killing all members of the American Legion? I sense the left wingers would embrace the idea.
Haven’t they died off by now?
BTW, Legionnaire’s Disease still crops up now and then, after all this time, and frequently in the places where you are likely to find all your “public health experts”.
Hospitals, for instance.
According to this article I read years ago, it’s the people who are the problem and not the deer.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/01/the-lyme-wars
(Saratoga Springs gets a mention in the first paragraph!)
“Deer are not Ixodes’s most important host, but they have come to symbolize the spread of Lyme, and represent an ecology that has changed dramatically in the past thirty-five years. “Once you have Lyme disease in the area, and once you start to carve up the forest into little bits, and especially when the fragmentation is done by suburban development, you get an increase in Lyme risk,” Richard Ostfeld told me recently when I met with him at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, in Millbrook, New York. Ostfeld, a senior scientist there, has studied Ixodes for more than a decade.
“The best host for the tick and pathogens is not deer but white-footed mice,” he said. “And they do beautifully when you chop the forest into bits. They thrive. And competitors do not.”
Interesting, we are already “at war” with each other around a disease, just on a smaller scale than with the COVID.
So after the deer, they can kill all the mice. (Good luck finding them all). Really, the solutions some people come up with. Like worldwide house arrest for healthy people. Since new strains of Covid keep popping up (or so they say) the vaccinations and quarantines can go on until the end of time.
By the way, GA, are they really limiting foreign travel from the UK to people who have “a good enough reason” to travel abroad?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/its-officially-now-offense-leave-england-other-absurdities
Did they suggest killing the mice? I haven’t read the article since 2013 so I can’t comment on whether anyone offered that solution. I certainly don’t recall it. I can’t fault them for coming to a conclusion about the cause of the problem though.
This seems to me, hm, the same sort of mentality that says because the ‘solutions’ proposed for climate change aren’t practical/feasible etc. etc. that I’m supposed to belief AGW isn’t a thing. My brain can cope with the notion that people chopped up woods to build houses, allowing white-footed mice to thrive and spread Lyme disease, and still believe that the only ‘solution’ is to check yourself over every time you come into the house.
Since you’ve added an extraneous bit about travel restrictions from England, I assume you’re just in attack mode generally, so I’ll leave you to ask someone English (Slugoon will give you just the diatribe you want). I said quite a lot about Covid restrictions/vaccines and so on on the previous thread, so I’ll give it a miss, thanks.
Believe it or not, I was not in “attack mode”. I was wondering if the article cited exaggerated the travel restrictions or not. It’s rare, but slanted reporting has been known to happen with the alt-right news media.
Just a couple of points, hm, since I don’t want to get into another long Covid back-and-forth …
It seems it’s only been since 12 March that UK travellers have been allowed into France (for example) for anything other than what the French consider a very valid reason, so I’m not sure why the UK is to be the particular butt of criticism/sarcasm or whatever on this and related matters. And you need a negative test to get into France. This is an international problem.
And I’m sure you’re aware that France currently has more people hospitalised and more people on ventilators than at any time since the start of the pandemic. Other countries, e.g. Poland, find themselves in a similar position, with the British (Kent) variant mostly being the cause of the increase in cases.
I have no solutions to offer for the dual imperatives for countries to manage their hospitals and for people to do whatever they want. No solutions at all.
Re your article, it’s a bit bitty, but this bit stuck out for me, because it’s typical of the way journos on both or all sides trade in half truths:
“By the way, these new rules come despite Members of Parliament acknowledging in debate yesterday that 95% of Brits over the age of 60 have been vaccinated.
This means that the most vulnerable population has been administered a vaccine that they insist is safe and effective.
So… why the harsh lockdown rules?”
The number of Brits fully vaccinated is around 3.5 million. It is the number of partially vaccinated Brits that is around 10 times that. The public health authorities famously decided that it would be better if more people had some immunity as quickly as possible than that a smaller number of people had total immunity. Hence most people are like me, my husband and other members of my family (the seniors, anyway) in being only partially vaccinated, with a likely gap of up to 12 weeks between doses. And while I feel better partially vaccinated than not vaccinated at all, I guess maybe that’s at least one reason for the gradual nature of the release from lockdowns.
Not that I am endorsing anything at all – just sayin …
Thank you, GA, although your answer was less than crystal clear. I’m not interested in quibbling over how many Brits are fully or partially vaccinated.
My interest is in the human rights aspect of travel. Here’s how I see it. Maybe I want to go visit Switzerland. The Swiss are under no obligation to let me in. It’s their country; their rules. I’m an outsider.
But the American authorities sure the hell don’t have the right to keep me here. The Communist countries during the cold war reserved the right to hold their populations in bondage. We condemned it then. I fear we are embracing the concept now. To me that’s a very big step towards a totalitarian dystopia.
I hope you can see the fundamental difference between denying entry visas to outsiders and forbidding your own citizens to leave.
But the American authorities sure the hell don’t have the right to keep me here. The Communist countries during the cold war reserved the right to hold their populations in bondage.
That is quite a poor analogy … you are not being prevented from leaving a country for punitive or political reasons – it’s a public health issue. I appreciate the lunar right doesn’t accept there is a public health issue, but most of the people do.
It would be good to jump down from the “freedom” high-horse for a while (it doesn’t float anyway), and look at a community-driven public health solution. What real men & women do.
I do see the difference, hm, and in principle I quite agree with you, if we take any annoying facts out of the way.
I’m guessing the annoying facts would include infections people might bring back in with them. I believe there is provision now for people to stay in quarantine hotels when they get back to the UK, at their own expense (as has been the case all along in e.g. Singapore). Previously (i.e. for an entire year) people were just asked to quarantine and many of them didn’t bother, as is the British way, because it wasn’t followed up in any way.
Anyway, I’m guessing there are enough managed quarantine hotels near airports to cater for those currently able to travel for ‘approved’ reasons, but maybe not enough for the entire population if they decided to all go on holiday at once.
Just guessing.
Remind me, what was the point of the vaccines again?
“That is quite a poor analogy … you are not being prevented from leaving a country for punitive or political reasons – it’s a public health issue”.
Tekapo,
If I leave the USA, how am I a health problem to American authorities? I may become a health problem for the country I enter, but it’s their decision to let me in or not.
I wasn’t aware of any clause in the Constitution that says a flu bug terminates our rights and freedoms. Even if everything THEY say about Covid is true (a truth which changes constantly) our rights come from God, not Doctor Faust, I mean Fauci. Infectious diseases were a much bigger problem 100, 200 years ago. But no one imposed defacto martial law on America and threw out the Bill of Rights.
Shame on you, Tekapo!
It’s truly sad how many obedient mental zombies will do whatever they are told, believe whatever they are told. Your critical discernment is in deep hibernation or possibly missing entirely.
But by all means deride us as crazy conspiracy theorists because we see a world run by cynical liars, kleptocrats, psychopaths, and generally villainous pustules of evil..
“Remind me, what was the point of the vaccines again?”
C’mon, Slugoon, I promised hm a diatribe. You’re not even trying!
Seriously, though, I think I’m far nearer to you than I am to Boris on the ‘have vaccine – will travel’ issue, even if not on other issues. (Maybe you’re too young for that cultural reference. 🙂 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Gun_%E2%80%93_Will_Travel
As if I’d engage in speculative attacks on my government. No, I’m sitting this one out.
I don’t think we are too far apart on most things. Apart from the B-word there haven’t been many quarrels.
And you’re right, I had to follow the link!
Yes, that is exactly it. Britain is quickly devolving into a police state. The ghoulishly grinning Tony Blair states: “A vaccine passport will bring you freedom” (paraphrase–very similar words).
This is a very worthwhile site that I just discovered:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
The three main reporters/presenters are intelligent, no earrings or ridiculous goth clothing, well-spoken and passionate in the best low-key limey way.
On their newscast yesterday (actually from March 29) they had plenty of into on the spread of the police state in the UK and also on adverse reactions to the mRNA jabs
. They have a new livestream at 1:00 today there, so that is about now here.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
One of their reporters/analysts is David Scott, of Northern Exposure—excelllent!
https://www.ukcolumn.org/northern-exposure
Highly recommended to all who visit here.
Our nephew in semi-rural Maryland contracted Lyme Disease and it wasn’t nice – quite debilitating, ending a promising sports career. Twenty years later his face still shows slight signs of Bell’s Palsy.
Even though I live in a burb near Boston, we have deer on our property. They stroll through our back yard. They ate our arbor vitae.
But you know what? People here love them. We have to drive carefully because the deer jump suddenly onto the road from the surrounding woods.
Advocating extermination is such an idiotic idea.
We have a diverse wildlife here, only a few miles from Boston. There’re also coyotes (very brazen), lots of birds, ‘possums, turtles, groundhogs, snakes and pets like dogs and cats outside, and others I forget. Very pleasant, except for the biggest pests: humans.
Most communities embrace their wildlife, or try to. When it goes south is when some big mouths with money or connections decides to make a stink, then you get what Beryl of Oyl is talking about… it doesn’t take much to get the nature-haters feeling some power, and then the tide turns.
Communities really need to fight against this. I’m in Boise, and so far, even during unprecedented development (I can’t believe how fast I’m seeing new neighborhoods/subdivisions popping up), the neighbors all appreciate and want to protect the wildlife.
I’m in Boise, and so far, even during unprecedented development (I can’t believe how fast I’m seeing new neighborhoods/subdivisions popping up), the neighbors all appreciate and want to protect the wildlife.
How do all these new residents make a living?
We stayed at Red Fish Lake Lodge for a few nights – it was lovely.
People are working remotely, so they move out of their expensive home in CA and buy a much cheaper one here. Probably live off the profit…
Or they work for themselves, etc.
California hemhorraged probably millions of people, and a LOT of them are here.
An enormous Black Bear appeared on my property on Sat., lumbering around like he owned the place, which, in a way, he does.
Wow, fantastic!
We saw news footage of a black bear yesterday – in some snowy New England neighborhood – strolling on to a rear deck and getting into a nice hit spa. Impressive.
Ha ha!
Me, south of Boston. I live in a tick-infested area but so far (AFAIK) I have dodged the Lyme bullet. Maybe getting so disguested with the Dems that I voted for Trump is a sign of Lyme! Seriously, there are serious hypotheses that the virus or whatever it is escaped from Plum Island. It is such a shame that the name Plum Island no longer refers to beach plums in many people’s minds.
One of the problems with deer is that their predators have been eliminated—mainly wolves. I don’t think a coyote can take on a deer. Although I hear that some coyotes have interbred with wolves (maybe in New Hampshire?) and so may be working up to going for deer and working their way south, toward Mass. They do keep down the rabbit population. Also I read that because the herd is too big, individuals are small.
Too many deer is not good for deciduous forests. So there is definitely an imbalance there. So I think it is a good idea to increase the annual take by hunters. The meat can be distributed to elderly or community soup kitchens or kept in a communally supported freezer.
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People move out to farm country where we live, then complain about the way cows smell.
The government-engineered real estate bubbles exacerbate their at problem.
We had a lovely small working farm in a suburban area near me.
A man bought a formerly wooded piece of property across from the farm, and had a mini-villa constructed on it.
He then took the woman who owned the farm to court over the noise her rooster made, and he won.
Schoolchildren used to make field trips to that farm, where they learned history and self-reliance lessons.
I don’t know where “their at” came from, it should be “the”.
Oh this chaps my hide… so typical too.
Several years ago, there was a suggestion to import packs of wolves into the Baltimore Metro area– but it didn’t get much traction. Shame really–Wolves can solve SO many urban problems. Here’s a link:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/ph-ho-cf-letters-tschirgi-20150423-story.html
All the wolves I’ve known (working with wild animal rescue, etc) are extremely shy of humans.
In that disturbing, post-apocalyptic movie “The Road” people were bar-bee-qued and eaten. I guess they had just about hunted to depletion all the forest critters.
Human prey would be much easier to kill or catch: slower, more stupid, noisier, less elusive, easily tricked.
You’re right. I’d just put a sign in front of my house, “Mail-in Ballots Available Here”. LOL
LOL!
“Get your free “This House Hates Hate” lawn sign here. Details inside!”
HMuller, thank you (and BornToKill) for the “American Gods” suggestion a couple weeks ago. Reading it now. Very good.
In “The Road”, a nuclear exchange has happened a few years back. That’s how it begins. A new glacial era has begun caused by the massive amounts of smoke and dust gone into the atmosphere. Vegetation and animal life are extinct, at least in the Northern Hemisphere where the story happens. That’s how I read it.
Anything by Cormac McCarthy is worth reading. “The Road” is his only dystopian novel, an oddity. He’s an author that uses only the required words, no more, no less. He says more in one sentence than most can in a whole book. “Blood Meridian” is a good place to start.
Wouldn’t it be easier to raise chickens for eggs and rabbits for meat than to venture out into the wild with weapons that one barely knows how to use?
Without energy, we become hunters in loincloths chasing rabbits with sticks.
It worked for Tarzan, although he liked the airier mode of travel from vine to vine.
I could see myself in a loin cloth. The rabbits would die laughing and be easier to catch.
The smart ones will rediscover the art of making snares.
You will not catch a jackrabbit chasing it w a stick, guaranteed. But livestock rabbits, like Flemish & New Zealands, are easy to raise and very productive. If you do it right, just a couple bucks and a half dozen females will produce more protein than you know what to do with.
Rulo, do you process your own rabbits?
Yes we do. In new batches we are adding pelt processing and meat preserving w/o freezer (jerky salted rabbit meat… not bad)
Exactly! and rabbit stew is really very delicious.
It is very funny to me to recollect that when I lived in Germany a number of decades ago, a friend of mine who was a traveling salesman for a textile company dreamed of getting out of the rat race by setting up a Kaninchen (rabbit) farm;/operation for raising Kaninchen. You used to seem the dressed hares hanging in the meat stalls on the Viktualienmarkt in Munich. So, definitely part of the European meat offering.
On hindsight I have to admit that it actually was a great idea! But his wife and everyone else laughed in his face.
Funny, you mentioned about everything I was about to cover. My father would tell me stories about hunting with his uncles in 1938 Iowa. being born in 1929, that put him at about 8-9 years old. He almost died of starvation in 1933. A lot of people actually did, which history has white-washed pretty nicely. To make a long story short, by the time he was old enough to hunt, even squirrels and rabbits were hard to come by and he didn’t miss when the opportunity presented itself because bullets were unaffordable (that poor). Suffice it to say, the father I came to know could hit a quarter from 50 yards away with his .22. A skill that also served him well in Korea.
Anciano Loco, impressive. I like the .22 LR too, but can barely hit a can from half that distance.
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Good Morning,
What Jim meant to say was “Atlas Shrugged for the win!”
Of all the dystopian futures predicted, it would appear that the winner will be Atlas Shrugged with a bit of Farehneit 451 thrown in as a sick joke.
I still think Brave New World has a lot of relevance – at least for the moment. People are being softly lulled into tyranny because it makes life more “convenient” and “safer” for them. And social media and iPhones are Soma. I’m sure the plebs will submit to a fatally intrusive global currency because it makes life so much easier for them.
Jim, do you think then that a) this is a good time to install solar panels? and b) should a battery be included in case the electrical grid is down for a long time?
Solar panels and batteries all require fossil fuels. You might have them now but will the resources be available in the future for maintenance and repairs?
Don’t forget the inverters. Can be the weak link with the shortest warranty. I wonder how production of them is faring, given the shortage of chips?
You can still have lights and other items run on DC, which still works when the inverter clicks off.
I have a freezer that will run on 12volt DC. You can plug a solar panel or battery directly into it.
It won’t last the entire long emergency, but might make the trip down a little easier.
Thanks for the interesting DC option suggestion.
This is starting to sound like one of those Women’s World agony columns! Jim, I think my husband’s playing fast and loose. Will kinky lingerie win him back? Not laughing at your, BoR – it’s been a long day.
“Build back better,” is forced de-industrialization imposed by the Greenie utopians in charge, who are actually watermelons.
They don’t care if they genocide 90% of the human population, as long as they can flit about in their private jets and Teslas.
The watermelons and their experts have no real scientific or technical knowledge, so they don’t realize their flitting about requires enormous amounts infrastructure in its own right.
Notice how quiet, Greta Thunberg has gotten since Klaus Schwab is now looking to bring about her dystopian world? She thinks it will usher in a world free of fossil fuels but she along with the other green idiots don’t realize that our current existing world came about because of fossil fuels.
What she is likely to get is a world where the few left go looking for her and Klaus along with the other WEF members who turned the current world into a nightmare.
She also got caught having a car full of plastic.
MaryV, I always thought the plastic apocalypse is a problem orders of magnitude bigger than global climate change. Very little is said about it, though.
I agree, it’s huge. And in 1 day, all these “green new deal” Dems like Gavin Newsom destroyed a 10-year fight in CA to get rid of plastic bags in stores… without any science backing it up whatsoever. The impact will be huge.
Agreed. Plastic waste has also struck me as a bigger issue than climate change. Thanks to covid, a year ago most stores banned reusable bags, and coffee places stopped taking reusable cups. With indoor dining banned or reduced, curbside and carry out meals became huge. More styrofoam and plastic waste generated.
Then add the arrival of sheep droppings everywhere. Pretty sure those things are not biodegradable.
Covid19 has basically destroyed the gains made over a decade or more to reduce the plastic and wastage in our daily use.
Nuts. The amount of plastic debris littering the roadways has now been amplified by throw-away masks.
Old Klaus should’ve gotten his ass in a major jam with his utterance that “by 2030, you’ll have nothing — and you’ll like it!” Instead, the country that “makes the world safe for democracy” was busy with mental masturbation over ORANGE MAN BAD, social scores proving they’re good people (how ironic, given the “good people hoax,” and “Joe Biden is a genius.”
What are the big employers in the US?
1/ Government mafia/do nothing industry
2/ Weapons industry
3/ Auto industry
3/ “Health” industry
4/ Paper-shuffling insurance/finance industry
5/ Restaurant industry
6/ Retail sales industry
7/ Travel industry
Do you see a healthy future for any of these with the end of the petrodollar and $800 bil/yr the US spends on the upkeep of globalization? I don’t.
So what happens next? Countries without oil die off and disappear. That would be mostly Europe Japan China India North Africa Australia.
Australia has an ass-ton of coal. They’ll be a useful Chinese colony, supplying the Middle Kingdom with fuel, grain and chubby blonde concubines.
Coal even low Sulphur coal is all but outlawed in the wicked western world.
Even laws will be outlawed in the coming western world.
By which I mean if there is coal there it will be mined, assuming it can be reached by whatever technology and/or energy is available.
Ass-ton…is that a metric system valuation?
I presume it’s roughly equivalent to the American “fuckload”?
It’s part of the new Woke system.
Clearly you don’t know your metric system.
A fuckload is ten times a shitload.
A shitload is ten times a buttload.
Yes, yes, but what about an ass-ton? That was the original question.
Clarification is needed, for sure.
I’d venture to guess that an ass-ton would be 2,000 shitloads.
I think so, but both are lesser quantities than a metric fuckton.
so does UK but are they allowed to mine it?
Yes, but how long do they remain English speaking and are still called the UK? I’m sure Mr Green will be updating us on their defence budget numbers.
MS Green
She be in Singapore
Well, I would, Mr Mofo, but you’ve just asked upthread how long we thought the weapons industry would last, so I’ll wait until you give me figures before I wonder what it is you think the UK’s defence budget (Boris has come over all defence-spendy – have you not been following?) is going to keep people from turning up in small boats in the dead of night to our 18,000 miles of coast. Should we nuke ’em, do you think? Or just conventionally bomb them?
BTW, it’s Ms Alba to you. 🙂
I don’t know who Mr Green in but he seems to have got under your skin.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-outlines-2030-vision-for-the-armed-forces
So, while small export businesses are crashing right, left and centre because of Brexit regulations, and we were £2 trillion in debt before Covid – and we’re splurging on HS2 because big shiny project – and we’re getting a third runway at Heathrow to move goods to the other side of the world because we’ve shot ourselves in the foot with our nearest and biggest market – why wouldn’t we have money to spend on ‘defence’?
Should we nuke ’em, do you think? Or just conventionally bomb them?
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I would follow Dr Shiva’s whole system health approach and deploy them as slave labour. Saves on the transportations costs and the long distance maritime logistics.
BTW, it’s Ms Alba to you.
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I be using the gender neutral from now on. Don’t want to offend my betters. Ok, Green?
“Born with the moon in cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her … ”
🙂
Applause, applause, life is our cause
Alba: Name of poem?
it’s a song from Joni Mitchell’s album Blue.
https://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=146
She was writing/singing about the baby she had and kept secret. Little girl who was adopted but reappeared in adulthood, I believe.
I doubt the human species depends on fossil fuel for its survival.
At this level of human habitation?
Last time I looked not a lot of farms use oxen and horse power to pull the plow, plant the fields or even pick most of the crops.
When is the last time big Aggra used manure instead of petro distillates to fertilize the fields?
Can you get your avocado/oranges/apples/pears from California or Chile where ever you happen to live right now by horse and buggy?
Even steam powered supply deliveries stopped using wood to heat the water.
Most of the world uses petroleum to power the grid and heat/cool their homes.
Yeah going to be a hungry world when the bullshit renewables all rolled out as the only way to power the world.
“When is the last time big Aggra used manure instead of petro distillates to fertilize the fields?”
Take a drive through rural Wisconsin in the early spring and late fall…may not be Big Aggra (great rapper name, btw), but big farms nonetheless. And its…noticecable.
I love the smell of manure and farms.
You get used to it, yes. And it beats having a nearby petroleum refinery by far.
Cows, in the dairy state??? Astonishing!
‘Yeah going to be a hungry world when the bullshit renewables all rolled out as the only way to power the world.’
I run a small greenhouse with a solar power system. Thought I would look into running my whole house with solar. Brought in a electrical consultant, not a solar sales agent, to assess. He basically told me that with high efficiency panels, we could run the whole house with solar but we would have no yard left at all due to having solar panels all over the roof and the WHOLE YARD (3/4 acre). That tells the story of solar; wind is even less reliable and efficient in most areas. Solar power is a hobby; nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps I could find one of those dilithium crystals they used to talk about on star trek; now that would do the trick!!!
I have lived in a truck camper for 3 and 1/2 years. My solar consists of :
1) 2 Battle Born 100 amp/hr lithium batteries
2) 1 310 watt solar panel on the roof
3) a 30 amp Victron charge controller
4) a 2000 watt inverter
I have used it that whole time with minimal down time due to low charging. Of course, I winter in the extreme desert Southwest. But….
I believe the mistake people make with trying to set up a home system is not making any accommodation to cutting back usage. That’s the key, I believe, to getting a feasible working system in place. Sacrifices have to be made.
Depends on where you are located and the sunlight available there. I live off grid in Colorado and so do all my neighbors with the space of half their roof used for panels, the south-facing side, as it were. I have much less than that, but I don’t use much electricity.
In response to an above component concerning solar components with no oil or limited energy in general and possible supply issues in the future. We re now considering purchasing a whole new system (somewhat larger) to have in storage for future use when the need to replace comes. SInce they are devaluing the dollar so rapidly, we may as well get something usefull with what we have while there is supply and also while our dollar is still able to buy something valuable.
I lived off-grid in Hawaii for 5 years. We just had 24 panels on our garage and 16 batteries. We did have to run the generator a couple times a year when a 2 week storm came through.
The weak link with using solar on a house are still the batteries. But we were also living a 21st century life. We could have used the 10th of the power if we really wanted to. But we had computers, routers, and TV running all the time.
@feralandroid Very true about batteries being the weak link. We have had solar at our off grid farm for 11 years and have recently begun to replace the original batteries. Our only problem is running the well pump. We used to have a high amp cranking battery but the locals saw fit to break in and steal the inverter. Generator does the trick for now. Also spot on about making the effort to reduce use. We run lights, computers and tv in the evenings and that’s about it.
Oswe
Like a “character” from Bruder’s ‘Nomadland’?
Unless you are using an abnormal amount of electricity and are located way, way north, what you are saying makes no sense. I have easily covered by electrical load with around half of my roof. I am located in the middle of the country.
“Bullshit renewables” – I’m getting tired of all the Cassandras of our energy future. The key element in successful distributed electrical energy systems is battery storage. Lithium-Ion is pretty limited and difficult to manage, especially the end-of-life challenges.
There’s another answer now – Liquid Metal Batteries:
https://ambri.com/
Here’s an interview with one of the main developers (a scientist = magician?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRyo0Nr7CrY
Yes, I believe in ‘magic’, in the Arthur C. Clarke sense.
It will definitely be a much more seasonal world. But it really hasn’t been that long ago that such was the case. When I was a kid in Atlanta oranges were a treat at Christmas and we weren’t even that far from Florida. In a WMBH every waking moment will be spent in the cultivation of enough calories to last one more day. I see the results of my quarter acre garden each year and marvel that the food produced might last a month or two at the most and that is only for two or us.
u r delirious.
Shotho – Historically? No. But as benr points out, historically there have never been 7+ billion souls trying to get by.
7.7 billion people now exist. The reason why there are 7.7 billion is oil. If there was no petroleum based world, such as 1880s, there will be 1 billion people able to be supported. We do not even have room in the traditional sense to bury all 6.7 billion folks. The remainder will live at the lifestyle of the 1880s, farming particularly. I do not believe that the people of today, even 1 billion of them can survive. Without the goodness of today’s world, what is the point, anyway?
John AZ, spot on.
shotho,
If starting tomorrow there were no fossil fuels at all, humanity would not perish. Probably, well over 90% of humans would die off, but our species would survive and enter a kind of “dark ages”.
But what concerns me now is that for the financial institutions to survive, oil must not get too cheap. So by pure coincidence (we must not be conspiracy theorists) events keep happening to prop up the oil price.
1) Those technologically savvy Houthi tribesmen launch intermediate range missiles 500 miles into the Saudi capital.
2) A super container ship gets stuck in the Suez canal.like a fat lady dancing the macarena in a phone booth. (If you’re too young to remember phone booths or the macarena, never mind)
3) Today, we read the headline “Massive fire engulfs Indonesian oil refinery after explosion”
I promise you in the days ahead more events will occur which shore up the oil price.
4) Power outage in Texas a few weeks back – shut-in the refineries.
Forgot Trafficking. https://www.wgbh.org/news/post/human-trafficking-outpaces-drugs-guns-worlds-fastest-growing-criminal-industry
So, “Stunning and brave sex workers”, or “Victims of human trafficking” – which one is it today?
There are many nearly failed states around the world. There will be people wanting to migrate until the whole world is equally third world. Human trafficking is a growth industry.
Half of Israel is a desert. Ya’ll cool if your neighbors were chill?
All we have as reference is the past. The Roman Empire died because of a loss of centralizing and generally agreed values (sound familiar?) and an increasingly powerful bureaucracy that combined totalitarian instincts with gross incompetence. I think we see there from here. What came afterwards, and is probably our best bet, was a fragmentation into smaller groupings. The only problem is that this kind of metamorphosis is almost never peaceful. I don’t see the NWO psychopaths pulling this off, but their failure will not be peaceful.
Revolutionary France is a great example of what happens when a small group of “elites” seize power and attempt to govern with their nutty ideas. Yeah, the “woke’ of their time.
Hereward, my son is a smart one, he got a scholarship, and he was telling me the other day of what he’s been studying with a British professor that surely will see his days in academia end soon in view of what he teaches: that every civilization that collapsed got obsessed in the final 50 yrs w sex and gender issues, sexual perversions, etc… all of them, incl Rome…
We walk merrily down the path to sweet & sour socialism. To give evidence to JHKs predictions. McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendys all accept EBT cards as payment. They have in effect become the cafeteria of the poor who already receive UBI. It is called Welfare and it comes with a host of other programs. SNAP, WIC, ECT.
In the movie Demolition Man. Taco Bell won the franchise wars. So everyone ate ate Taco Bell for every meal.
how many federal gibs me dat programs are there? 500?
And we wonder why children are getting diabetes, high blood pressure and obese at younger and younger ages. Where did we go wrong?!
From what I’ve been told, these fast food franchises are set up in some cafeterias and all schools I’ve seen have vending machines with soft drinks. Dietitians have known for a long time soft drinks are directly implicated in diabetes.
Dietitians have known for a long time soft drinks are directly implicated in diabetes.
How so? I think you are wrong, having spoken to one. the link is not direct. sugar does not cause diabetes.
“A case-cohort study from 2013 investigating the relationship between sugar-sweetened drinks and diabetes compared data about the soda consumption habits of 11,684 people with type 2 diabetes to those of 15,374 people who did not have diabetes.
The team found that people who consumed one or more sugar-sweetened drinks every day had a higher risk for diabetes than those who drank less than one a month. Even when energy intake and body mass index (BMI) were accounted for, the high soda drinkers still had a higher risk for type 2 diabetes.”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/259604#causes
Most soft drinks do not contain what we think of as sugar.
We are all pretty much aware of the fact that diabetics have to avoid sugar, but from a friend of mine getting that diagnosis I also became aware of just how much diabetics have to watch their consumption of all carbohydrates.
A low fat, high carbohydrate diet like the government tells you to eat, is not as “healthy” as people think.
I heard from a relative recently, he just had emergency surgery for his heart.
He was astonished that he had a condition associated with poor habits, as he eats the right foods, doesn’t smoke, gets plenty of outdoor exercise, and hardly consumes any alcohol.
I could have told him what the problem was, but he would not have believed me.
Yep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRH6sv9rnA
Sugar causes high insulin leading to insulin resistance, obesity, metabolic syndrome and….wait for it … diabetes.
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Refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup are two of the very worst things you can put in your body.
And yes, that plus bad fats and carbos such as in white bread will definitely lead to horrible health issues, including diabetes.
From my experience, you’re wrong on this one Malthuss.
My ex-wife had to see a dietician when she was pregnant with our first son. This dietician was over-weight and telling us how to eat? I have been eating low-carb for 15 years and I am in great shape. I got in a argument with her when she tried to tell me the .gov sponsored food pyramid was the correct way to eat.
Dieticians are just regurgitating what they learned in government schools.
Yep. The word “expert” is becoming a perjorative term. Ask Fauci.
“This dietician was over-weight and telling us how to eat?”
Lol. Sounds about right, Kind of like the line of doctors and nurses smoking out the back door at most every clinic in the nation.
If I’m seeing a dietician and he’s fat…I’m not taking their word for much.
They suck.
Holistic is the way to go. Real nutritionists don’t become doctors. Allopathic medicine is battle ground dressing. It’s not medicine.
Food is medicine.
@MrMango – one of my friends on FB just posted, he lost a close friend to the vaxx.
Said friend got his second jab, got sick, went to sleep, never woke up. He only got it because his doctor talked him into it. Are all these doctors who convince people to get the jab and it kills them even remorseful? In this day and age, I doubt it. They seem to be drug pushers and Big Pharma minions rather than healers.
The Hyppocratic oath seems to have gone out the window along with their morals.
Cutting out carbs, especially sugar has reversed my type Ii diabetes completely. But that is just anecdotal evidence. i still feel confident enough not to take you at your word either.
Greetings,
Back when I was a high school teacher, I had students that ate at Jack in the Box for every meal without exception. French fries and pickles are vegetables so what could go wrong?
BTW, someone that eats fast food for every mean will soon find themselves on a lifetime (however short that may be) of prescription medications. Luckily, the taxpayer gets to foot that bill.
Finally, it was common for the welfare moms to give their 6 and 7 year old children Redbull and Donuts before sending them off to school so that the child would be labeled bi-polar, attention deficit or hyperactive. It was not uncommon to walk into a classroom where 80% of the kids were labeled as such and it was a win win for the school because those children were excluded from the standardized testing (at that time), the school received more $$ and the welfare mom received more benefits.
These are the real crimes against humanity.
so that the child would be labeled bi-polar, attention deficit or hyperactive. SO THEY GET A FATTER CHECK FOR A DISABLED CHILD.
When I hear talk of “racial reparations”, I think ‘what the hell!?’ We’ve been paying racial reparations for over 60 years thru many programs, handouts, free food, subsidized housing, special set asides, affirmative action, etc.
The fruit of all this effort? Prisons stuffed to capacity, no-father wild kids, and ever greater demands for hand-outs. But if you ask Sleepy Joe and Kamala-toe; the only problem is we haven’t done it on a big enough scale yet.
Easily a dozen Marshall Plans. Blood will tell. Es la Vida!
At least $21 trillion by some estimates. Jokes on us. Most of that went to “administrators” much like any new infrastructure bill will line more pockets than actually build things.
“Two teenage girls have been charged with murder after allegedly assaulting a man with a taser and killing him during an attempted car robbery in Washington, D.C., police said last week.”
The assailants were only 13 and 15 – and you guessed it – black.The victim a 66 yr old Pakistani immigrant and Uber driver. If the killers had been white, this would be called a hate crime. Of course, this crime is getting very little attention. It doesn’t fit the MSM narrative where Neo-Nazi white people are running wild thru the streets of America.
Well, what do others do? Give the kids Cap’n Crunch for breakfast (pure sugar and milk), send them off to school where they get a nice chocolate milk, and make them sit down for a coupla hours. Not sure how common it is nowadays to get milk at school in the morning, but most “cereal” cannot call itself cereal because that implies that it is grains, when, in reality, it’s mostly sugar. Just type cereal lawsuit into Google and look at the class action lawsuits.
Eugenics, perhaps? McD’s, BK, Wendys use will shorten your life, that’s proven. It’s not even “food” in the way we understand it when we are in the kitchen figuring out what to cook for dinner. It’s grease, salt and sugar combined with flavorings and chemicals to make it addictive.
Nailed it.
And the addictive part of it keeps people sick, and dependent on big pharma, to live, eventually. What a racket.
Mary, the model you & Rulo describe for humans, has been so wildly profitable, that it has been stepped down to domestic pets with the same incredible profits – exact same model.
Think about it. In the old days, there was no such thing as veterinarians on every corner – only large livestock vets – delivering foals, calves, tending to herd sicknesses, helping maintain herd health, etc.
Dogs & cats ate table scraps & leftovers, scavenged or hunted their food – no processed pet foods. Enter Purina & Alpo and other processed foods for domestic pets.
Now they all have sicknesses of one sort or another, enriching the cottage industry of neighborhood vets. In addition, we now have PetMeds delivered by mail & pet health insurance.
Genius. Predatory & evil, but genius nonetheless.
Mary, additionally, from a GDP standpoint, neither you, Rulo, nor myself are nearly as economically “valuable” as a diabetic on dialysis.
Same ol’, same ol’ – follow the money – sickness is valuable (profitable), health & wellness are not.
Yes, genius… now dogs need specialists because their immune systems are breaking down from running around on RoundUp lawns, much like kids crammed with sugar and fried foods are getting diabetes, etc.
Predatory and evil as it gets.
Our health is a threat to the system, that feeds up on illness and demands patients for life, yes.
Which is why I do my research, and I eat accordingly…
But our immune system challenges weren’t enough for big pharma, so they got behind the trans agenda – saw great potential there. Surgeries, hormones for life, etc. what a racket. No wonder Gilead donated 4 million to boost the trans agenda!
And now they have the mother of all profit-making: Covid19 forever. Covid 20, 21, 22, etc. They’ve already nearly doubled their fortunes (Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.).
Scientism and technology have contributed to bring us to this point. Our faith in these ideas is boundless and every ‘solution’ to this dire forecast is based on more science and technology. These are not the solutions, they are the problem. They have given us a society that is loaded with people who are weak in body and low in character. Now, that is, admittedly, a core condition of humanity,, but history shows that those who can overcome lethargy and dependence are the ones who survive and, even, thrive.
Says the person typing on computer connected to the internet. Darn that doggone science and technology!
Ishabaka, I agree with what shotho says here. It seems to me that science & tech has become a form of religion. It can do no wrong. If it can be done, it should be done. Thus, radioactive waste, plastic pollution, a dumbing down of us via “smart” devices, etc.
Your reaction is fairly typical of those unwilling to question the statu quo re this issue. “Go back to a cave”, in a word. If it only was so easy. Life is rarely black or white. We all have to find the point where we can function in society to some degree without being completely dependent on systems of addiction and control and dependency.
Yes, we’re reading and writing here, which surely is better than being zombified in front of a TV screen. Yes, most of my reading is via books, but some is done here and in a couple other blogs I follow. There’s many levels of engagement with the way the world works, from the Tibetan lama to the instagram addict.
I think the question is not whether we are wearing homespun and eating homegrown. The question is if we could. If we can maintain a sliver of independence and know how that we could go back to if we needed to. The idol that “all tech is good tech” rules supreme, and that’s not a good thing. My 2¢.
A sensible response to that cynical critique, and one that I embrace and practice daily.
Amassinfrastructure plan to insulate houses might have been a better use of the$4trillion we blew in Iraq. Building infra to preserve fossil fuels isn’t a bad idea, but we won’t do that.
And the best thing about home insulation is that once it’s done, it’s done – less energy is needed to heat/cool the home for as long as the home lasts.
There’s actually a real return on the investment, exactly. But not if oil and natgas are cheap.
JHK presumes the national security state will whither and become impotent. I don’t see that. The feds will Sovietize the economy and “liquidate the kulaks” in the process. Energy shortages, if they indeed come to pass, do spell game over for a big chunk of humanity. But there are still a lotta hydrocarbons out there, even if we have to start gasifying coal.
“…lotta hydrocarbons out there…” ~ bluekayak
At what extraction cost?
“At what extraction cost?”
Ron,
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. There are many that can.
Problem is, $70 oil tanks the economy & extractors need $70 oil to survive.
Ron,
Exactly the point. They can make a profit at a higher cost? The wealthy will still buy. $200 per barrel? $300?
Fill er up….
When/if oil is at $200-$300 there will be nowhere safe to drive.
Someone driving their convertible Lamborghini around on a bright sunny spring day?
Not happening.
The answer is obvious: When the current F.I.R.E. economy finally collapses as oil rises above $70/barrel and stays there, a new economy will evolve that will fully adapt itself to the new energy reality.
For most people, this will mean a BIG dial-down of an overly electrified modern lifestyle. Oil will still be produced, but only for more limited uses where higher extraction costs can still be recouped with much higher pricing.
We will, most likely, move on to a slower and more sustainable lifestyle that may somewhat resemble a Steampunk world but with some residual digital world technology glaze on topography it.
As a result, mankind will never exhaust all of the world’s petroleum reserves. Most will remain in the ground as the amount we pull out annually consistently drops with every passing year.
I believe that the think tanks run by all of the political / social / economic elites of this world have already reached this conclusion. This is why they are all busily working to monopolize as much wealth and power as they can so that they and their offspring will be best positioned to survive the worldwide turmoil that humanity must now pass through as we rush headlong into the abyss of a global human population collapse of epic proportions.
When all is said and done I believe that humanity will be reduced to about 500 million souls total by the time the year 2100 rolls around.
EROEI approaching 1.
I disagree. You could 100% render the US military impotent if you took away oil and batteries. A bunch of sick obese feminized “victims” is not going to march around on foot doing harm to anyone.
It is 1943. FDR’s generals have told him that the US oil industry is incapable of providing enough oil to fuel two theater war. Germany is producing coal gas, to make up the difference that losing the Ploesti oil fields have made. FDR and England too go to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia to make a deal. We want their oil, unfettered, and we will defend them from invasion. This was the beginning of the alliance that continues to today. Remember Desert Storm? Why do we back SA over Iran, or at least we did?
The point is, the folks, even under Trump, that said we were independent under Trump, are foolish. Fracking is break even, any newer technology to remove oil will be a negative economy. The ME will supply us oil forever and at an increasing rate when the fracking starts running out.
War is do or die. No one will care about how many MPG the military gets. A good sized world war could drop us into the depths of the pit of the Long Emergency. Every single gallon consumed means that it is gone, forever.
Just like death.
Well, Bedpan Biden is recruiting pregnant women to serve on aircrews, and has ordered maternity flight suits — from China!
I don’t know about fossil fuels, but there is something I can predict 100% that has no future: satire.
The only comedian I know who hasn’t yet caved is Ricky Gervais.
Perhaps Biden has a secret plan to provide in-utero military training to the babies growing in their pregnant Air Force pilot Top Gun mamma’s wombs?
Think of the great “force multiplier” effect when these newborn, kamikazi, Wokester, Ninja babies are ejected from their combat pilot mamma’s vaginas during mid-flight – plummeting towards the Earth at terminal velocity………raining screaming infantile death from above as they deliver massive dumps of baby poop on the heads of America’s enemies around the globe!
Pure fucking genius.
Who knew?
Well all the obese Americans could be rendered to make a form of biodiesels in a pinch.
/Sarcasm off
Well, one thing that is working against the controllers’ desire to roll out a massively expanded digital surveillance web tied to vaxports is the growing semiconductor shortage.
That semiconductor shortage has already idled parts of the auto and smartphone industries. Reportedly, the shortage is worsening. The Suez blockage has not helped, and any conflict in the Western Pacific will only exacerbate things.
The typical lifespan of a server under average to above average load is only 2 to 3 years prior to replacement. So all these Internet and cloud businesses need to schedule regular replacements while they attempt to expand their platforms.
So, on top of this, the controllers think they will roll out all these massive new databases that require servers, links between them and existing databases, and additional scanning and tracking devices into the teeth of a growing global semiconductor shortage?
Sorry, I’m not seeing it.
When is someone going to come out with a no frils car devoid of all these bells and whistles? A blue collar Elon Musk?
Right?
A simple example of excess technology and parts that are not required are the brake pad wear sensors in modern cars, BMW being the brand I am most familiar with.
Well, if you look at one of the good YouTube videos about BMW brake pad replacement, you will quickly realize that the brake pad wear sensor system adds over one dozen varied parts to each wheel and wheel well.
That’s over fifty additional parts per vehicle with all the extra costs, complexity, and potential points of failure those add.
All that could be removed and replaced with simple, old-school squeal tabs tomorrow.
“That’s over fifty additional parts per vehicle with all the extra costs, complexity, and potential points of failure those add.” ~thirdcoastlegend
There’s your answer – margins much higher & more money made on repairs after market.
Money on cars is made on 1) dealer financing 2) after market repairs, not on the initial sale.
Never. See just below.
Just above, I mean.
Mahindra in India is manufacturing jeeps based on a license they bought from Wyllis Motors in 1947. It’s pretty much identical to the original jeeps made for the armed forces in WW2. It was available in the US until recently for off road use only; now, for reasons I know not, it is not available at all. The price I believe was around $15,000 per unit.
Brh
Ever hear of India’s Tata Motors?
The latest Tata Nano costs a mere $3,338.87. The Nano cut as many costs as it could get away with for that low base price tag. It’s a compact car with four seats and a very simple dashboard.
See image: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tata+nano+price
Of course the car is illegal in the USA due to a few safety and environmental standards not met.
The best selling EV in China is the GM produced Wuling Mini. Only costs less than 6K. Illegal to sell in the US and probably anywhere but China.
My company is on its now fifth year of a four year Dell workstation lease.
Yikes.
Let’s hope the planned obsolescence doesn’t kick in.
I hope you have duplicates of all the critical data on tape off-site!
Who are the Kulaks this time around? Us?
Working class self-reliant types who just want to be left the frig alone. The yeomanry.
I thought they were loose, breezy trousers?!
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=kulaks+pants
“Who are the Kulaks this time around…?”
BRH,
You know.
Yikes! Things are going down the drain faster than I expected. But, if it means our military can’t murder foreign civilians at the same rate as in the past, then it’s a good thing. I suppose that the vast training of terrorists program will continue at Al-Tanf, as well as the stealing of Syrian oil. Maybe Syria will take courage and start to bomb the convoys of US oil tanker trucks leaving for Iraq… One can hope.
Things are going down the drain faster than I expected..you had low expectations. with J Biden, USA is finished.
Would’ve been better off with J Crew. Or J Peterman.
In Africa, Mozambique I believe, ISIS is being reborn. Funny how that happens when Biden, the fool, is elected.
BTW, is there any difference, in the world, between ISIS and the cartels in Mexico? Or the mob? Or the Deep State? Are they all just competing for the spoils of the illicit trades?
BRH,
Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up To
$392,000 In 2019
Forbes, by Adam Andrzejewski Original Article
Being a lifeguard in California can be unbelievably lucrative. If we had only known, many of us would have packed our bags and headed west for a career on the California beach. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com found that lifeguards make a fortune in Los Angeles County.
Seven lifeguards made more than $300,000 and 82 lifeguards had total earnings that exceed $200,000 in 2019, the latest year available. Fernando Boiteux was the most highly paid and earned $391,971.
As the “acting chief lifeguard,” he out-earned 1,000 of his peers: salary ($205,619), perks ($60,452), and benefits ($125,900).
–I knew a lifeguard, lower level, part time, at a school pool. He mentioned the boss just sat at a desk and did the bookings of guards. easiest high paying job.
My guess is those lifeguard jobs are only open to those who have the right connections.
Yep. Yaleys. Bonesmen, all.
Yeah, and the right physiques!
Pretty low achievers with a background like that, though. Maybe they do grooming as well?
In accordance with today’s prevailing ideology, we must hire lifeguards with due regard for race, ethnicity, and gender identification, etc. And we must never allow white patriarchal constructs – like the ability to swim – stand in the way of hiring the lesbian midget from El Salvador with chronic respiratory illness.
Equality, diversity, inclusiveness, yeah baby!
Swimming is racist.
I prefer racis’. Got a nice ring to it.
$392,000, wow! That’s almost as much as a retired State of Ct Union honcho gets for a pension. Of course, that’s for the top, well connected Dem Party Activists (who are interested in public service and willing to sacrifice for THE PEOPLE)
Brh
Kunstler is at his best today, with his rare talent for framing our present predicament in a coherent narrative. We’re like some aging boxer getting pummeled in the middle rounds who failed to recognize the end of the glory days. Next stop is a face-down nap on the canvas. If there were a consensus that globalism is defunct, and our future is smaller and local we’d have a shot at a course change. But the system is geared only for accelerating growth. As Kunstler often points out, reality overrides fantasy and few will adjust without debilitating trauma. There would be cause for optimism if there were evidence of altruism. Based on the track record of human behavior and our inability to overcome tribalism, we are more likely to descend into barbarism and savagery.
They are counting on that. Better we turn on each other, than on “them”.
There are so many more of us.
Years ago, at the height of “the troubles”, I met an Irishman working in this country, and I asked him for his take on that.
He only said, “when people are very poor, it is very easy to get them to fight”.
James, with all due respect, you’re failing to recognize what’s coming.
Your future is not smaller and local.
Not at all.
“Globalism” has its foot to the metal.
The higher orders, the higher powers, realize that the future of the planet requires a reset that only a unified approach can bring.
The borders are open.
The vaccine passport trumps the national passport.
A society that must not only obey, but depend, on a central government for safety, income, and treatment, are societies that can be controlled.
And they must be controlled.
The US has finally transitioned from a crypto uniparty to a totalitarian uniparty unleashed.
Not everyone believes it’s salvageable.
So you’re in good company there.
With a caveat.
Bezos, Musk, Branson, et. al, believe your future looks better on a dead rock with an atmosphere of 95% CO2.
The lines are clearly drawn, that’s for sure! Remains to be seen which side will win.
Right you are, 100th Avatar. We have the throttle wide open. But physics trumps philosophy. Our inability to maintain 8,000-mile supply chains and rapid depletion of raw materials are going to put a stop to our global orgy of consumerism. The US is likely to break up into smaller regional units, as described in “The Nine Nations of North America,” an insightful a 1981 book by Joel Garreau. What today’s power brokers want won’t mean a damn thing when the house of cards they are on collapses.
I think you are right about an aging populace losing their drive. I would like to add that the younger folk, who are supposed to be adding energy to the group are lazy, entitled, they think, uneducated, and as a consequence, stupid. They are an addition to the gimme crowd every graduation.
John, are you referring to
Generation Solipsistic?
It’s all about them
You never existed
Wow. Cool word.
Yes! Each generation takes from the prior. Confrontational!
Today’s generations seem to have lost the fire though, they want everything handed to them.
You mean the kids I see everyday who all wear the standard Woke Drone uniform? Baseball hat, sunglasses, ear buds, phone in hand and of course, our beloved Face Diaper. I’m sure there are great kids out there too, but it’s a lovely, sunny springtime, and the masked kids give me the creeps.
My primary field of interest for the past 60 years has been motorcycling. I watched the rise of the Japanese industry and how it simply took over the market when the British industry went belly-up. Then the Japanese, led by Honda, generated a brand-new market for their products in the early to mid-1960s. Harley was never in play (except to lobby the government to screw around with the Nips).
In the past couple of decades I’ve noted how the formerly energetic, experimental Japanese companies have become cautious, conservative bean-counters, intent on keeping costs down while generally makng as few (expensive) new models as they can while marketing heavily to their core consumers.
Now the Chinese have introduced a cheap (and not very fancy) set of electric motorbikes – Sur Ron and Segway (same difference). It’s exactly the sort of move the Japanese made in the 1960s, or the American car industry did in the 1930s.
How does Japan respond? They have put together a consortium of the Big Four to decide on battery standards. Smart and logical but conservative. When this new bureaucracy figures out standards the various makers may or may not introduce electric models.
It’s kind of eerie watching Honda / Yamaha / Suzuki / Kawasaki emulate the fossilization of both the British industries and the American “Big Three” auto industry. But it makes sense: the organization has become far more important than the product. It’s making money so screw the consumer. And ignore the competition.
I have forgotten whether I have said this before, but it looks like the places where the locally sourced foods movement really gained traction had the most draconian shutdowns and restrictions, and in some cases even riots.
Occupancy limits destroy small business.
You’re definitely correct. The big box stores never shut down but local government made sure those petri-dish small stores locked up.
Destroy the self-supporting middle class. Make the masses poor and dependent for crumbs from big brother. Gee, could they be that evil? I don’t know; somehow I’ve gotten too dumbed down to see it. I’m used to hearing the truth from Lester Holt.
It is amazing how both UBI and reparations (both ridiculous concepts for decades) are now pushing their way into our lives as reality.
Now they are actually happening, under cover of night at first. In a few years they will be understood by most to be a cornerstone of our society.
In a few years UBI and ongoing reparations may be the primary source of income for many people. It’s a scary thought but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened.
I just saw another sign up in a local supermarket, urging people not to pay in cash, due to the coin shortage.
There is no coin shortage.
A brain shortage certainly.
“There is no coin shortage.”
I know…wtf is up with that? No one can possibly believe that story, but they keep saying it while trying to get us all to go cashless.
Over and over, do you think that just printing money and handing it to people will sell itself to the population as legitimate. Will faith in the value of the dollar continue?
These little experiments, like Stockton, prove nothing, nothing. What is the basis for the dollar? Heck, just skip the money part altogether, open the stores up and just let people come in and take whatever they want directly. It will provide real incentive to the producers to stock the stores. IOW, folks will go to the stores to get stuff that is not there. Remember TP, paper towels and sanitary-wipes.
The money will be digital and it will be conditional, based on all sorts of performance and allegiance measures. As such, it will hardly be “free.” And rest assured, it will be minimal, with the constant threat of revocation as well.
What are folks going to do to “earn” the value of their money? What will give value to people, ego wise, when there is nothing to accomplish?
How did I get through my entire life without sanitary wipes?
I mean, really, if ever there was a product that doesn’t need to exist and causes so many problems with the way people don’t dispose of it properly …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-15/what-s-a-fatberg-nyc-goes-to-war-against-flushable-toilet-wipes
I thought it was just us!
Don’t forget spaghetti burgs.
There are tons of undigested balls of pasta in the sewers per Mike Rowes dirty jobs the episode made top five dirtiest job.
You can do that now at some Whole Foods.
Walk in and get what you want and walk out.
But you will notice your debit card is $200 lighter when you get home.
It was coming in any case. Industrialism takes jobs. Automation accelerates the trend.
As said up threat, early and mid industrialism causes a population surge. Now put the two thoughts together – and think.
It’s either UBI or Oh Calcutta, with the streets littered with the indigent and dying.
Choose.
Y
You know how you say that Capitalism creates communism as a result.
Well, UBI will create Oh Calcutta everywhere it touches as the value of the payment falls.
Capitalism runs out and creates socialism/communism as a remedy to the narrowing of wealth. Socialism/communism creates increasing poverty as the value of the welfare provided drops like a rock.
Same results.
No, because you control the price of necessities. Let men compete for luxuries, positions, and honors – and leave the basics fucking alone.
Note: I’m not dismissing overpopulation and resource scarcity. That’s a constant and also something Capitalism can’t deal with – or State Capitalism. Both systems are ultimately the same after all.
“UBI will create Oh Calcutta everywhere”
I don’t support Universal Basic Income; but I fail to see how it will lead to a revival of a 50 year old stage production – best known for its naked dancing..
It has been going on for two generations already.
It has a pretty new name, it used to be called welfare.
Yes, but they’re actually calling it by its name now.
Is it Oakland (?) that just announced $25,000 handouts to a small number of BIPOC families as a “test run”? The media is actually billing it as a form a reparations. St. Paul is doing something similar. And the taxpayers cover the bill, therefore, de facto reparations.
And welfare has been around a long time, yes. But now they’re going to take those who ARE working and disincentivize them to do so…take your scraps, buy some weed and Pringles, don’t question authority.
This is happening in liberal ‘holes. Maybe, on the brighter side, this and gun control attempts will finally push Red States into secession.
I saw today where human trafficking (slavery) has now overtaken illegal drug sales worldwide.
Use the drugs and you need to buy more. Pick up a young girl from a foreign country, seize her passport and you can make her work and work and work.
With the little kids who are sexually trafficked they can be “used” over and over and possibly/probably just killed if they become “useless”.
In this scenario of modern day slavery, who will pay all these slaves from all over the world reparations??
I feel like putting a sign in my yard “Tired of living in this nightmare”.
Yeah, that’s what Sleepy Joe’s opening up the border is all about. Biden is complicit.
How many of Mr Kunstler’s past predictions have come true in the last twenty plus years? Maybe all you Chicken Little’s should live on his exurban farmette. His blog has become one echo chamber with a pissing contest side show. Help your children and grandchildren if any of you grizzly buzzards have any, and help your friends and neighbors as well.
Not sure where your hostility is coming from.
DJIA 3000, peak oil soon[18 years later no crisis] etc.
History is a long, long time.
He hates this:
? The Viking Prayer
“Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother,
and my sisters, and my brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people,
Back to the beginning!
Lo, they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them,
In the halls of Valhalla!
Where the brave may live forever!”
Quite a bit. Oil is $3 a gallon and going up, inflation has destroyed the purchasing power of the dollar, electric cars are becoming more prevalent but not nearly enough, like he predicted, wind and solar are already being shown to be ineffective and are causing political earthquakes everywhere, there have been pandemics, which he predicted, his predictions on Peak oil were made for the end of the century, not next year, I believe even with fracking, we are seeing the end of cheap oil starting now. I would say that JHK has been right on about just about everything he has said. BTW, with the inflation that has already occurred and will occur with the Biden boys, that the actual value of the markets, taking away inflation, does show significant declines in value through time.
I will continue reading JHK as a legitimate prophet of what is going on in the future.
Electric cars are becoming more prevalent but I believe we are putting the cart before the horse. The grid is already stretched to capacity in many areas of the country. What will happen when everybody wants to charge an electric car? They suck up a ton of juice and the present grid will never handle it. If electrics are to be feasible the batteries must be standerdized. Pull into a station and your battery is pulled and a new one is slipped in. Just like filling your tank with gas. Probably even quicker. Long trips no problem. Battery life would be optimized as the charging would be much more controlled. Batteries could be charged close to the electric sources. No transmission losses. Trucks and trains carrying batteries around instead of oil.
China’s railroads are being built with electricity. Surprise?
Yes, much to be learned from the East. At the time, for the price of starting Saturn, GM could have bought Toyota. They would’ve probably run it into the ground, but still!
Lithium is not a rare earth element and all our trains are already electric. powered by electric traction motors on each axle. The locomotive generates the electricity with a diesel engine.
@saintelmosfire
Lithium is everywhere except that it is in trace amounts like gold dust so yes it is actually rare in easy useable to acquire amounts.
One major problem
The rare earths required for the batteries are going to go to peak rare earths, just like oil.
I am waiting for more info on solid State batteries.
Not only are they “rare” but getting to them is every bit as dirty as going after OIL, gold or any other in the ground resource.
What rare earths are in a battery?
@stlemo
Lithium for one off the top of my head.
Its demand has gone up its starting to affect people who need to take lithium for mental health issues.
Rare earth metals and alloys that contain them are used in many devices that people use every day such as computer memory, DVDs, rechargeable batteries, cell phones, catalytic converters, magnets, fluorescent lighting and much more.
These elements include: Scandium, Yttrium, Lanathanum, Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Promethium, Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium, Terbium, Holmium, Dysprosium, Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium. Rare earth elements work best when they are added in small doses to composites and alloys.
Google is such a useful tool.
Looks peak lithium mining will happen and be outstripped on demand soon after.
As you can see, by 2025 swelling lithium demand will most likely outgrow the supply of all the known lithium projec
Lithium, for one.
Good idea. And as I said above, can we not have cars without computer chips and such? Why not?
And why have exercise treadmills? Why not hamster wheels for people that generate electricity?
Still don’t get it. Where does the electricity come from? And the the infrastructure to distribute it? How do the batteries get built and how are their materials sourced?
Most of the car’s life-cycle energy is embodied in the vehicle itself, the glass, steel, rubber etc. What is powering the factories to mine, refine, manufacture, assemble and transport the car itself?
It seems to me that the electric vehicle, its power source, the ongoing maintenance requirements and the whole infrastructure (they still run on tarmac roads) are just as dependant on fossil fuels as IC cars. Possibly worse, since it would make more environmental sense to keep an old banger (US: clunker) running on hydrocarbons than scrap it before time and replace it with something new.
There may be many reasons to prefer electric vehicles but I remain thoroughly unconvinced of the environmental argument.
I have seen a number of calculations that show that the current crop of electric vehicles tend to be more environmentally damaging than an average diesel commuter/family vehicle.
This may change at some point, but the biggest issue will always be the costs of producing the energy, and the costs of both producing and disposing of the batteries.
The batteries are destroying an area in Canada, I believe.
Exactly. That’s always been the key question: where does the leccy come from? In these paranoia-is-truth times that the NWO creeps have known all along that there will never be enough juice to power all those electric vehicles. It’s just their way of making sure the smelly masses stay in one place while they sashay around the planet in their Teslas and converted Lear Jets.
Gas is $5.89 a gallon at the Mobil station at LaCienega and Beverly in Los Angeles. High 4s at most other stations though
Thank the Climate Czar and Sleepy Joe for the $5,89 per gal. gas.
You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire
Magic is illusion
Slight of hand
I believe in it.
Like global energy demand declining by a record percentage because of the effects of Covid.
As too have CO2 emissions.
The planet is in an irreversible death spiral.
The seas will be dead within 2 decades.
The farmlands degraded and desertified.
By 2025 2/3 of planet will be H2O stressed.
Too many people chasing too few resources.
Money will be the least of the world’s problems.
Covid is magic
A desperate attempt at it.
Reengineered strains every few years?
More lockdowns, er, planet wide conservation programs?
I hate to post this but, its for depopulation.
It’s for both. Lock you down in misery first, then kill you off after they’re tired of torturing you. Or you kill yourself. That’s fine too.
It’s for so many nefarious purposes, the people in on one subscam have no idea it’s for anything else.
Those Georgia Guidestones are starting to make a lot of sense.
no–they are outdated. with AI they dont need half a billion.
Covid IS magic. It cured the common flu and a host of other more deadly diseases. It also killed millions without altering the overall mortality rate. Oh, and it destroyed the economy and democracy too. Far better than pulling rabbits out of a hat.
No way, broseph. I was told by the television and some CFN Interweb MDs that the mask was responsible for that.
The only thing it can’t seem to stop is the Coroneau.
Interesting, your statement is accurate.
When impossible problems have no solutions, politics and the blame game takes over.
I have noticed that absolutely no progress has been made against any of the important problems of today. As the situation declines, competition becomes more pronounced, producing the idiotic situations that exist today.
There are no solutions!!!
Yes, if you were of the Elite, you would do the same thing. Late is the Hour!
We rejected Eugenics because of Hitler, so now an alien form of it, based on money, is being forced on us.
Strike or be struck. Trump refused to strike – to defend the Republic – so he was struck and the Republic ended.
A World Made by Hand? Eugenics based on Nature – the usual. You thought you could abrogate Eugenics? Permanently suspend the Laws of Nature? She bats last. “Eugenics” was just working with Her, in a more efficient and compassionate way. But the Christianized softies and sillies were too sentimental to see it. They still need primeval brutality – which they call the Devil. Outsourcing.
I’m guessing one day you’ll just bite the bullet and shuffle off that Catholic carapace that’s holding you back from pure pagan pragmatism.
Am I turning into Tucson?
Upvotes for alluring alliteration. And a rhetorical question to finish! Man Booker prize in the post.
Hereward the Wake
Mechanisms
Born amongst the asteroids, Hereward by name
A child, he of noble stock, a belter born and raised
Held up a holy man who chose to flash his wealth around
But for his crime was exiled, sent out into the wild
Watch out into the black, Hereward is coming through
All his hounds at his back, ruin in his wake
He’ll spare you from his attack, if you’re belt born and bred
But those born planetside should all fear for their lives
Watch out into the shade, Hereward is coming through
Fire up the barricades and sleep by your knife
No one comes to your aid when you’re stood face to face with
Hereward the wake
Along his way he came across a princess duty bound
And saved her from betrothal to the master of the hounds
She asked that he would stay a while and she would be his bride
But he loved his servant Martin, so they left her far behind
Watch out into the black, Hereward is coming through
All his hounds at his back, ruin in his wake
He’ll spare you from his attack, if you’re belt born and bred
But those born planetside should all fear for their lives
Watch out into the shade, Hereward is coming through
Fire up the barricades and sleep by your knife
No one comes to your aid when you’re stood face to face with
Hereward the wake
On every station, men and dogs, they rallied to his band
They joined him on an asteroid, where they could make their stand
Outside a treacherous minefield, inside his savage hounds
They staked their independence from the tyrants planet bound
Watch out into the black, Hereward is coming through
All his hounds at his back, ruin in his wake
He’ll spare you from his attack, if you’re belt born and bred
But those born planetside should all fear for their lives
Watch out into the shade, Hereward is coming through
Fire up the barricades and sleep by your knife
No one comes to your aid when you’re stood face to face with
Hereward the wake
Before too long they were besieged but firmly held their ground
Until at last a holy man betrayed the safe way down
Both man and beast fought bravely, though they knew the fight was lost
They say that Hereward escaped, for his corpse was never found
Watch out into the black, Hereward is coming through
All his hounds at his back, ruin in his wake
He’ll spare you from his attack, if you’re belt born and bred
But those born planetside should all fear for their lives
Watch out into the shade, Hereward is coming through
Fire up the barricades and sleep by your knife
No one comes to your aid when you’re stood face to face with
Hereward the wake
Watch out into the black, Hereward is coming through
All his hounds at his back, ruin in his wake
He’ll spare you from his attack, if you’re belt born and bred
But those born planetside should all fear for their lives
Watch out into the shade, Hereward is coming through
Fire up the barricades and sleep by your knife
No one comes to your aid when you’re stood face to face with
Hereward the wake
Also he fought a bear
Source: Musixmatch
You must do better, Hereward, with a name like that. Booger men end up in the Bog.
Also you fought a bear? But Beowulf fought Grendel and tore off his arm.
Why? The soul exists and has its laws of health. And the body exists with its laws. The Social body depends on the health of both in the aggregate.
How much I can say in just a few words, eh? Think that’s common or easily attained?
If you want to hear compassion from a Leader, listen to Hitler tell women why he doesn’t want them in the army. How he has seen too many men destroyed in body or in mind or both. His expletive, Nein, Nein, will haunt you forever.
We need Mothers for the Fatherland, Alba.
Substitute plaintive for expletive or plaintive expletive?
Reminds me of the American health “care” system: The insurance companies pretend to cover us and we pretend we can afford it.
Another impossible problem with no solution. Putting in government controls destroys the good service available in the US,
So far.
Jim, magic is everywhere at the moment
Over 50 years ago, I calculated that each week I did 500ft.lbs. of physical work and yet at the w/e my hobby (orientering all over the UK) used up 6×10^9 ft.lbs. 500 in/ 6 billion out. Is that magical enough?
I’m not getting your figures Frank. 500 ft. lb. wouldn’t even get you up one flight of stairs. Do that 10 foot staircase in one second and you’d be putting out about a 1 horsepower.
“MMT is the idea that a nation which claims a monopoly on issuing money can “create” new money ad infinitum with no negative consequences. That is, we can “lend” ourselves money (borrow it into existence) without having to worry about paying it back.”
No, that is not what MT is about. Instead of listening to the so called “critics|” of MT who never seem to actually have read what the theory is about, why not read those who understand nd developed it?
https://gimms.org.uk/mmtbasics/
“1) A government with its own currency (eg sterling), its own central bank (eg Bank of England), floating exchange rate, and no foreign currency debt, faces no financial budget constraint at all.”
2) Such a government faces real and ecological constraints. As a society, we cannot run out of pounds, but we can run out of – or misuse – people, skills, technology, infrastructure, natural and ecological resources. There are limits, but the limits are ‘real’ and not financial. Governments should therefore focus their policies on human and ecological resources, not the deficit.”
The problem is that the creation of new money was to a large extent transferred from the Government to the banks, and instead the govt. creating money (at volumes that do not cause inflation, i.e. there is still unused labour and economic capacity left) money is created by banks against interest payments.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/the-use-and-abuse-of-mmt.html
“If governments do not provide enough purchasing power by running budget deficits to enable the economy to grow, the role of providing money and credit will have to be relinquished to banks – at interest, and for purposes that the banks decide on (mainly, loans to buy real estate, stocks and bonds). In this respect banks are competitors with government over who will provide the economy’s money and credit – and for what purposes.”
Thing is, there’s MMT the academic theory on the one hand, and there’s MMT the way it is and always will be implemented – to favor the already wealthy who control the purse strings. We’ve been implementing it for 40-50 years now. How’s that been working out so far? And even MMT acknowledges that the funny money must be used for productive purposes, rather than just poured into the financial casino economy in bailout after bailout. Therefore, as a practical matter, MMT is less than worthless; it’s actually a perfect recipe for eventual hyperinflation and economic ruin, just as we’re seeing now. There’s no free lunch!
Yes, some men studied Blackjack and learned to count – enabling them to beat the house by a small margin. The Casino’s response? To call them cheaters and ban them. They didn’t cheat, they learned the game. It takes a lot of concentration. Very few are ever going to do it. Their massive profits were safe. But losing even a penny is unbearable to people like this.
I knew someone taken into the back room and was beaten up.
i knew someone else who hired [famous casino owners] italian hit man to do a job.
I heard Donald Trump once caught Rosie O’Donnell counting cards at the Taj Mahal and had her brutally beaten. Then he peed on her bed. I believe everything Democrats say.
Blackjack is an amusement, not a productive activity. It can be a very costly amusement. Casinos are providers of this amusement. It is perhaps not a viable economic plan to, by means of the monetary system, make everyone in the world an involuntary participant in a scheme that will beggar them.
Are such schemes (casino-type enterprises) criminal in nature? I would say no, as long as they are voluntary. When participation becomes involuntary, they are a mechanism to cheat entire populations.
Your reference to the skill, hard work, and concentration required for such an enterprise is irrelevant to both the Blackjack player (a person who is skilled in a voluntary amusement) and to banking and finance. It takes skill, hard work, and concentration to successfully engage in murder, burglary, robbery, confidence games, drug dealing, human trafficking, etc. Diligence in the pursuit of some activity does not alter the fact that it is criminal activity, or does it mean that the resulting profits are justly earned and deserved.
Truly the outlook of an ant. You hate those Aesopian grasshoppers.
“If governments do not provide enough purchasing power…,” etc. This is an absurd on its’ face.
It is the role of neither the government nor the banks to provide “purchasing power,” nor does either have the ability to do so. The emission of fiat money and credit (and fiat money IS credit; i.e., debt) is NOT the creation of “purchasing power.” In fact, it dilutes purchasing power by the debasement of the currency.
“Purchasing power” is real wealth created through real productivity: goods and services. Government and banks do no do this, and in fact do the opposite. Both are an economic drain and overhead expense–most of it an unnecessary (to put it mildly) and parasitic drain on and repression of productivity in the form of rentier demands–which merely siphon off a portion of production and transfer it to rentiers as unearned wealth.
One of the primary tenets of fundamental economics is that when rentier extractions from the productive economy exceed a certain level (the “margin of cultivation”), production ceases. The reason is ceases is because it becomes unprofitable. This should be obvious. No one will go to work every day to grow wheat or bake bread if the entirety of the livelihood they had hoped to thus obtain is confiscated, be it by taxes, interest, rent, or currency devaluation. They find they are working and not making any money, so they go out of business.
The unbacked emission of money and credit are both, in essence, means of rentier extractions, but of which act to devalue the currency.
“MMT is the idea that a nation which claims a monopoly on issuing money can “create” new money ad infinitum with no negative consequences.”
That’s an outright lie Kunstler. You should know better.
There is no economic field more concerned with inflation and the importance of HOW federal funds are spent than MMTers.
Do yourself a big favor and read (with comprehension) “The Deficit Myth” by Stephanie Kelton.
In a perfect world Kelton is right. Last time I looked, that’s not the world we’re living in. MMT enables the crooks – who have known all about and been actively practicing MMT for decades now already – to be bigger and better crooks. It’s been a respounding success for that purpose!
We disagree Disaffected. MMT describes how money works whether or not the crooks are in charge or not, wether we are in a perfect world or not.
In the neoliberal era we’ve been in the ruling class grifters in charge use it to obscenely enrich themselves, wage endless wars and bail out Wall Street infinitely. The bastards do this endlessly while simultaneously cutting any spending on the Common Good (like Healthcare or Education) with the goddamm “how you gonna pay for it” question.
We don’t disagree at all. MMT is the best of both worlds for those who know how to use it. All the money they want for their pet projects (all conveniently branded as necessary and essential) and no money whatsoever for those that aren’t. MMT people attempt to remain neutral in these conversations, but since money issuance (or at least the authority for same) is a government function, it’s inherently political, and thus neutrality is not an option. The “how you gonna pay for it” dodge is indeed a convenient ruse, but the fact of the matter is, there is a limit somewhere less than infinity to how much worthless money you can issue. Exactly what that number is might be open to debate, but the fact that it does indeed exist is not. Not to rational people anyway.
Better to leave MMT out of it altogether then and simply focus on where all that money goes right now. Claw that back and invest it productively and we might get somewhere. Fail to do that – as we most certainly will – and the results will be all too predictable, since it’s already happened many times before.
Federal spending limits, or rather constraints, have been well defined by MMTers. Those constraints are inflation and the availability of real goods and services.
If anyone doesn’t believe MMTers on this I suggest they look up the video of Alan Greenspan explaining it to that shitty austerian lickspittle Paul Ryan.
You are spot on about the critical importance of focusing on where the money is going right now.
That’s what FDR did and what made him the most popular POTUS ever. What he did, on the back of cheap energy, was usher in the most productive economic run ever raising the quality of life of more Americans than ever.
If the crooks are a small percentage of the economy, it can be written off.
Today, there are just too many crooks, and they are in charge. The Deep State with their globalist ghouls create more dollars to fund the increasing international debt load.
It will fail, when the defaults start. When?
When the increasing train of retirees want their money as they age.
Sounds like a new and improved version of the invisible hand. And those that “believe” in it are jackoffs. There’s no getting around morality and value judgements – and the enforcement thereof.
I listened to Kelton on MacroVoices podcast and she said herself that the big problem for MMT is inflation. But she said its not a problem because they will just raise taxes.
So who are they going to tax and at what rate? If everyone is just getting .gov checks and not producing anything? Right now, over 60% of the population is living off the taxes of the 40% and that includes cap gains from the stock market. And the taxes don’t even cover 50% of .gov spending.
Its going to end in tears, I’m afraid.
the debt mney is made by FR. it is mostly not printed.
when Stocks collapse, it will go into other markets and create more inflation.
In LA gas is 4.50. now.
Here come the MMT evangelists, just like on Facebook.
Swarm, swarm.
You are twiddling with theory and accusations while Rome burns.
Canal’s open. TP is on the way
https://www.vesselfinder.com/
How do we not know how to do canals anymore?
Container ships have grown to gargantuan proportions, BoO.
Well, Biden intends to GO BIG in his infrastructure spending, at least $2 trillion. What happened to the Infrastructure schwag George Bush spent, or the Pelosi’s Shovel Ready infracture cash from 12 years ago? The infrastructure seems even more decrepit than it was back then.
‘All the big nations are doing this now because they don’t understand that the hyper tech economy is hostage to the deteriorating economies of energy, basically fossil fuel.’ – Jim
I read every single day in Rueters, the Guardian, Oil Price.com, and so on, that fossil fuels are a relic, no longer necessary, and will be completely gone by 2030. We are assured that the technology exists to make this happen, and a bright, green world awaits, just a few years away.
Also, it seems like once a week an ‘Battery Breakthrough!’ is announced, a battery that will power a semi truck for 1000 miles, a Tesla 500 miles without recharge, that are cheap and last years, that can store enough energy captured from windmills to light up NYC for a month. Great! Our problems are solved. Then you don’t hear anymore about it, until the next breakthrough is announced.
Brh
When the solar roof panels started to be a thing, I was surprised to learn that the batteries wear out.
I started asking a lot of younger people, more into environmental and tech issues than I am, if they were aware of that, and none of them knew that either.
I have 2 Battle Born lithiums in my rig. They are supposed to last about 10 years or 5000 cycles. Buy a couple sets of what you need and there’s 20 years coverage.
I think a lot of people were under the impression that solar runs strictly off of sunlight.
My father-in-law, an educated, well-read, knowledgable ex-company finance director, couldn’t understand why you couldn’t have a street-lamp, say, with a solar panel on it that captures part of the emitted light and in turn powers the lamp. In other words, a perpetual motion machine.
My explanations around the basic physical laws as to why that couldn’t happen were met with incredulity. Do not underestimate people’s ability to believe in magic (or techno-narcissism as our esteemed host sometimes says).
slug–we do have similar, in el ay.
Slugoon:
You mean, solar-powered street lamps, like this?
https://www.intefly.com/product/product_all_In_solar_street_light_inh_series/50W_Ultra_thin_Design_Solar_Street_Light_565934.html
Sure seems sensible to me, but there’s not much information in the ‘marketing brochure’ about how it performs when light is scarce (British winter, for example).
No. He (not me) was talking about a light where a solar panel sits under a bulb, so that the solar panel would power the bulb, which would shine on the solar panel, to power the bulb… all without the sun being required. A perpetual motion machine, which I’ll hope you agree is funny for an educated man to believe in.
Regarding the light you linked to, I always doubt the environmental benefit of such things. How much energy has been expended in its life, all those hours the computers ran in designing it, the workers driving to their office to do so, the extraction of raw materials, the prototypes, the factories making them… surely it’s just better to use the energy to just power a traditional bulb. At least the light would stay on in the winter, too.
I don’t know if there’s a law that states ‘the more you try to reduce energy usage (by designing new fancy things) the more energy you end up using{, but if there isn’t I’d like to claim it as my own.
Ah. That wasn’t clear on first reading…
Meanwhile, my C63 gets 7.0 l/100km or about 34 mpg in the combined cycle and it has a thundering V8 with nearly 500 horsepower.
If I do lots of highway miles (when on vacation, for example), the fuel economy is so good that I forget it is using the stuff.
That is true progress. 🙂
Night Owl, wow great gas mileage for an upside down bathtub. Too bad it’s not a pillar less hardtop like my 560SEC. Then you would have a real car.
https://www.car-revs-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/old/1989-Mercedes-Benz-560SEC-6.0-AMG-Widebody-5-1-1600×954.jpg
Sweet, but more of a land yacht. Not fit for the track or a back road in the Eifel.
I was just pokin’ ya Night,. I’ve had of all sorts of Mercedes over the years. Talk about land yachts. I’ve got a 280SEL 4.5 in the garage now. I like the classics.
Oh, I know. I like it. I am a fan of the classics, particularly the late-80s/early 90s stuff. I like the wide look.
I’d love an ’88 300 CE 6.0.
The cost of filling it up here in Germany would probably bankrupt me though.
“C63 gets 7.0 l/100km or about 34 mpg in the combined cycle and it has a thundering V8 with nearly 500 horsepower.”
Owl,
Leave it to those good German boys to violate the laws of physics.
VW already did that with the 40mpg Jetta.
The point being that the C63 has an AMG V8, while the Jetta is the furthest thing from a driver’s car that one can imagine.
40MPG wow! My Suburban got 3-4 MPG on the last tankful. Course half of that was backing up so probably more like 6-7 mpg. It was all in low range snow plowing though.
And…published Specs:
Fuel Economy and Real-World MPG
There’s no difference in EPA fuel economy between the C63 and C63 S, but there are differences among the body styles. The sedan is rated at 18 mpg city and 27 mpg highway ratings. The coupe and cabriolet are both EPA-rated at 17 mpg in the city, but the coupe has a 26-mpg highway rating versus 24 for the convertible.
You had mentioned my ‘anti semitism’ and Im reluctant to post facts here. Im not sure I want to risk a ban.
The West is destroying itself with the lunacy of woke-ism and over-regulation. This century will be China’s and India’s, lest a war breaks out. Companies fail when management becomes detached from what really goes on on the floor. The same will be true for the USA with a government completely in denial of reality.
It’s reinventing itself.
To compete with China.
A hyper-regulated, centralized, top-down authoritarian society with a dollar pegged to whatever the regime dictates.
With cheap disposable labor pouring in.
Be it programmers or pro moppers.
Just like China, the corporations will be inextricably linked with bureaucracy. We already see it here with defense, aeronautic, and now, the tech industry.
Did you see that China and Iran have signed an economic pact lasting 25 years.
Put that together with the Silk Road infrastructure project that China is putting together to connect to Europe, Africa and the ME and I see that the US carrying its $26 trillion debt load cannot compete any more. 2 trillion in infrastructure is a joke, what are they going to do to compete with China who is connecting itself to the world.
Guess that attack on Iran is off the table. Sorry Neo. You’re not the One. You too Zio.
neo? zio?
2 trillion infrastructure work = 500 billion actual stuff done and 1.5 trillion payoffs, permits, useless management etc. etc. Also these greenies would shit if they knew how much CO2 is produced from cement production. They can repave our new roads 3 feet higher. All with bitumen (petroleum). Slo Jo and crew don’t have a clue.
Go to this link. Maybe China and India won’t be as big as you think. I admit there are cities in the U.S. that are comparable, but China and India still have a long way to go. When war breaks out, depending on where and the scale and if it is a world war then all bets are off.https://thoughtcatalog.com/lorenzo-jensen-iii/2017/07/the-30-shttiest-cities-in-the-world-according-to-30-travelers/
Wow that’s pretty sobering. I guess I take a lot of granted, that’s for sure.
I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion, cbeard. Perhaps these are the future of all cities on all continents in the post-market crash neoFeudalism. Perhaps they are decades ahead of us.
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Hey @akmofo – Chk out #21!
“Jerusalem, Egypt”
That may be the worst published fact-error ever for you, Right?
21. JERUSALEM, EGYPT
“Jerusalem. Dirty, broken-down, and too much underlying tension..
Yup, the high tension just crackles through the air
– https://youtu.be/Kt62vuCC0C8?t=602
Might be the electricity flowing through them pharaonic pyramids right near by.
Another high tension dive, the Jerusalem Bazar:
– https://youtu.be/Kg81nU0Vt64
“21. JERUSALEM, EGYPT”
Mofo,
Reminds me of the old joke…Morrie sees Jacob and waves him over…”Congratulations on the fire says Morrie”… Shhh, says Jacob “…it’s not until tomorrow!”
Another tension filled walk in a dirty and unkept Jerusalem
– https://youtu.be/P1HwzAFsMzY
This one is from today.
I was referring to Jerusalem, Egypt instead of the correct Jerusalem, Israel.
But, thx. This is enjoyable footage of life on the strrets there.
Yup, I caught that.
I posted a good travel tour for you at the end of the thread.
That’s what our big cities are turning into here in the US.
Do You Believe in Magic?
Having make-believe money works in an economy where we “buy” make-believe goods and services and pay rents and mortgages and invoices on make-believe homes and apartments and service providers and we eat make-believe food to fill our make-believe hunger while drinking make-believe designer coffee to satisfy our make-believe thirst and need for a caffeine fix.
Even so, what’s a little more Make-Believe on top of a foundation of make-believe, smoke, mirrors, narrative management, propaganda, lies, distortions, omissions, slight-of-hand, tomfoolery, censorship, Karen-ing, shaming, Cancel-ing, and copious amount of horse manure and pasture wreckage and destruction?
Do you hear it?…
‘Do You Believe in Magic?’
And it’s magic if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie
Do you believe like I believe? Do you believe in magic?’
How deep does the ‘make believe’ go?
There’s a story that long ago God tasked his archangels with constructing a physical universe.
They were unable to do it. Instead, they built a universe where conscious minds experience the perception of a physical universe. But it’s all energetic quantum flux fields creating a delusion in the mind. Sort of like some perfected virtual reality environment, Curiously, both worlds are pixelated with respect to time and space.
How deep does the ‘make believe’ go?
The Emperor Julian, the leader of the Pagan Renaissance and a sworn enemy of the Christian Cult, tried to rebuild the Temple so as to thwart Christianity. The workers were continually injured and killed by great bolts of electricity flashing about the ruins.
Julian tried to thwart abrahamic cults infecting the occident.
The wokesterism movement of his age.
He failed. And the dark ages fell upon the west.
Until a few courageous polymaths refused to stop thinking.
“The end goal of the Cynic is happiness that consists of living in accordance with nature, and not according to the opinions of the multitude”
Celsus on the Gods: These are things that never were but always are.
“The end goal of the Cynic is happiness that consists of living in accordance with nature, and not accodring to the opinions of the multitude.”
Brilliant! I have never heard that quote before. That’s me! That quote is me!
Thank you, 100th Avatar.
“The resemblances between the Christians and the New Cynics had already been pointed out by Aristides, and while in Julian’s eyes they were equally impious, he has an additional grievance against the New Cynics in that they brought discredit on philosophy.
Like the Christians they were unlettered, they were disrespectful to the gods whom Julian was trying to restore, they had flattered and fawned on Constantius, and far from practising the austerities of Diogenes they were no better than parasites on society.”
The Lightning of Julian’s gods:
“The gift of the gods sent down to mankind with the glowing flame of fire from the sun through the agency of Prometheus along with the blessings that we owe to Hermes is no other than the bestowal of reason and mind. For Prometheus, the Forethought that guides all things mortal using a fiery breath to serve as an operative cause, gave to all things a share in incorporeal reason. And each thing took what share it could; lifeless bodies only a state of existence; plants received life besides, and animals soul, and man a reasoning soul. Now some think that a single substance is the basis of all these, and others that they differ essentially according to their species. But this question we must not discuss as yet, or rather not at all in the present discourse, and we need only say that whether one regards philosophy, as some people do, as the art of arts and the science of sciences or as an effort to become like God, as far as one may, or whether, as the Pythian oracle said, it means “Know thyself,” will make no difference to my argument. For all these definitions are evidently very closely related to one another.”
Sounds like a big bunch of First World Problems … for those with too much time on their hands. Go for a long walk in the park, go fishing, volunteer at a charity, toughen up.
The poor people of the world (80%) know they live in a real space.
The biggest questions man can ask about his universe and himself may seem like a waste of time to you, Tekapo. But that just proves you are a soulless non-character player created and controlled by the Artificial Intelligence (Archons) who run this simulation. Sorry, you’re not real.
Tekapo looks as Real to me as do you, hmuller.
Am I Real?
Tekapo is a Media Matters NPC. Whether he qualifies as a human or a bot is a matter of perspective.
Thx, Night Owl. I am as disoriented and lost as Alice or Dorothy. I don’t even know what a Media Matters NPC is or does.
Tekapo is the resident Blue Anon.
Are you down with Rob Ford nationalism?
An NPC (or Non Player Character) is a clone or shell of a human being, symbolized by a grey face and a sharp beaky nose, like an angry parrot. Obviously they all believe the same things. All the news media are NPC’s.
If Rob Ford had invaded America, millions of us would have risen to his standard.
O. G. Hawkins, I was speaking tongue in cheek. I’m not even sure I’m real, despite Descartes’ famous quotation, which looks like a non-sequitur to me.
There’s one meme I can’t get out of my head. It’s appeared in TV shows like the Twilight Zone and in many movies (Truman Show, The Matrix).
That meme – awakening to realize the world around you is a false construct.created to deceive you. You realize you are someone or something else as the amnesia begins to slowly fade away. The enslavers of humanity fear such an awakening more than any simple armed resistance which never questions the metaphysical consensus reality.
Tekapo is the resident Blue Anon.
The Blue Badge of Courage! And I believe “Media Matters NPC” means I take daily instructions straight from the commies … I wish I could be so esteemed! But sadly I write all my own material.
O.G. ,
It is probably better that way, TBH.
A few examples of NPC’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ARpvsAPsg
It was a meme developed early in the Trump years.
Oh, man. Some Rick Astley, too.
This video is gold.
I don’t like to sound a discordant note just for the heck of it but the Operating System of the USSR was essentially a command economy that was trapped in a war footing it was ill equipped to sustain. When the short lived Republic decided to continue the war against Germany against all reason (let’s all jump off this cliff to make sure the Bank of Englan stays solvent!”) the Bolsheviks took over, promising peace. A war weary public then got years of civil war fomented largely by said BoE as well as American and French financial interests. Russia was then subject to invasions by first Germany then the ‘allies’ including Japan. Then despite desperate deal-making with Hitler and General Tojo, twenty years later, Germany attacked by Germany again. We may be right in saying the Soviet eoonomy was over bureaucratized and badly mismanaged, but they never felt safe switching over to a peacetime economy because they feared the next invasion was always just around the corner. The US has been relentless in its subversion against any country that even goes so far as tro introduce the simplest regulations on US ‘investors’ or reign in the local quisling elites. The genius of Putin and Xi is delivering on promises of stability while keeping the City of London and Wall Street at arm’s length.
“All wars are bankers’ wars.”
I am unfamiliar of the Rothschilds’ … er … Bank of England … or do I repeat myself? … angle on the Czar extending WWI but I am most certainly not surprised.
Can you please provide more detail, Mr B?
Thx
“….a command economy that was trapped in a war footing it was ill equipped to sustain.”
Uh, isn’t this basically the USSA now?
Yes … but with World Reserve Currency printing press go: “Brrrrrrrrr”
A bit of pushback. Thank God for small mercies.
https://dailystormer.su/cnn-faces-backlash-after-referring-to-black-car-jacking-that-killed-old-pakistan-guy-as-an-accident/
We don’t know if it was an accident or if the girl behind the wheel tried to kill him. Or did he grab the wheel and there was a struggle? But the word “accident” puts a bad taste in people’s mouth in on this one. It’s the beginning of trying to go soft on these two delinquents.
I saw the video, and well after they should have given up (people were videoing them, FFS), the girls kept attacking the guy and trying to take the car.
Not only was it stupid, it was violent as hell. I don’t think a jury is going to smile on the one who was worried about what happened to her phone while stepping over a twitching, dying man who she just tried to steal a car from.
I was also really happy to see the backlash against CNN for calling it an ‘accident’.
And, I still have not seen any article mention the two teens were black.
CNN is a joke.
Beyond a joke. I literally can’t believe anyone watches it and yet…
It’s so much easier than reading and thinking.
black block jury voting.
“Debt only works in youthful growth phases of economic pulsation, when prospects of getting paid back are statistically favorable.”
Imagine a world in which something this obvious needed to be said… Oh wait, laugh my butt implants off, we livin innit
What really makes me cross is that because of huge debt levels – and still a sluggish economy – interest rates are close to zero. Money has become valueless. So those of us who save and which to live off the earnings of capital no longer can do so.
Interest. Isn’t that part of the reason why there are huge debt levels in the first place?
You deposit $1000 in a bank and in twelve months they turn it into $1050. You think you’re entitled to that $50. But where did it come from? You didn’t earn it nor create its equivalent value.
Somewhere along the line the bank has to take that $50, plus a skim for itself, from another party by charging even more interest on a loan or such. That other party in turn recovers it from someone else and so on.
Creating money out of thin air in the form of interest is why the total debt grows and like a Ponzi scheme, as long as things keep expanding, the debt just moves down the pyramid. Until it doesn’t. Then you don’t get to live off your capital earnings.
If interest rates were allowed to find their free market level, the whole economic edifice would collapse tomorrow in cascading bankruptcies under higher interest rates.
Zero and near zero interest rates are the life support by which THEY keep this rotten, corrupt system going a bit longer. By the way, THEY are buying gold and silver with little publicity. THEY know how this ends.
Gold, silver, gated communities, hidden infrastructure, Rembrandts, uzis.
THEY get loaned free US$ and turn it into Real wealth knowing that THEY will be able to easily repay US$-denominated debt once it is completely worthless. Like a snake eating its own tail – an evil self-fulfilling scheme.
“Things ought to get interesting
Right about now.”
– Bob Dylan
Gold, silver, gated communities, hidden infrastructure, Rembrandts, uzis.
You forgot bug-out farms in Uruguay and New Zealand.
Good point.
Ammo, Liquor, and Whores
Yoh, after the “World Made by Hand ” starts I’m goin’ to open a bar selling my homemade hooch. I’ll be sittin’ in a rocking chair on the front porch with a sawed-off 12 gauge on my lap under the flashing neon. ” St’ Elmos Saloon” “Liquor in the Front, Poker in the rear”
Just for El’ I’m going to have a snake dance on the hour.
Saint,
…Do not toy with my emotions….
Interest. Isn’t that part of the reason why there are huge debt levels in the first place?
Near zero interest breeds more borrowing, yes.
You deposit $1000 in a bank and in twelve months they turn it into $1050. You think you’re entitled to that $50. But where did it come from? You didn’t earn it nor create its equivalent value.
I can’t agree with that theory of money, or how investment works. I worked productively to save that $1,000, and probably paid 25% tax along the way. By forgoing consumption in the present I could live more comfortably in the future.
I wish to invest it somewhere that pays me 5%, and the party that borrows it from me does something productive or useful with it (builds a plane or a school), and makes 6%.
How it works … what is the alternative? Long queues for food in communist Romania, or bartering seashells in the South Pacific?
Tekapo’s Right. Interest measures the time-value of money. Nixon Admin started this fiat experiment in 1971. It had ups and downs but ran fine until it died in 2008. Everything since 2008 has been completely against nature. Zero interest forever with Quantitative stock & bond inflation.
They have lost control. Interest rates can never be decided by free market forces. US$ is worthless. Everybody knows that. They are positioning themselves for the post-market crash neoFeudalism. Feudalism with kick-ass technology.
I think you misunderstand my point, go back to your fractional reserve banking lessons. The fact that you ‘worked productively’ or paid tax is irrelevant. I’m simply pointing out that the charging of interest on loans requires infinite growth to keep repaying those loans, and you can’t have growth without debt, which is why there is massive debt, and why, as hmuller points out, the interest rates are near zero to try and keep the system going a bit longer.
Tekapo is bemoaning the fact that he can’t live off earnings from his capital and I’m asking why he should expect to.
OG, things were only running fine until 2008 in the same sense that any Ponzi scheme runs fine until it collapses.
The alternative was to have never decoupled money, as a medium of exchange, from tangible goods.
You’ve got me there, Sugoon. Indeed, “any Ponzi scheme runs fine until it collapses.”
What I meant was that pre-2008, interests rates were still, at least partially, set by market forces while ever since market-determined interest rates would bankrupt the USA Federal Government [like they’re not anyway!].
You are correct – 1971 through 2008 was hurtling towards this messy train wreck.
Well ideally they are paying for the use of your money – just as you pay when you take credit. But since all the money is loaned into its very existence, it’s just bullshit on top of bullshit. Interest on Savings accounts is all but gone. Yet they keep charging interest on their end. Interesting, no?
Yes, the central banks are certainly working overtime now! In the end it won’t matter. The writing is on the wall. Two ways to go broke…
Tekapo is bemoaning the fact that he can’t live off earnings from his capital and I’m asking why he should expect to.
Because of the classic reasons: I worked hard all my life and I saved money so that I would have a capital base from which to earn a monthly income in retirement … I am no oligarch – I am like millions of other middle-class who saved for their retirement!
But the system was premised on “market forces” (along with some regulatory control) that balanced equities, cash, bonds, and property – and all glued together with decent interest rates.
As it is there are no capital-guaranteed investments anywhere that pay more than about 2.5% – the whole market economy is totally distorted. Geared to (and owned by) the already wealthy.
“The people pretending to run the world’s financial affairs do. The more layers of abstract game-playing they add to the existing armatures of unreality they’ve already constructed, the more certain it becomes that they will blow up all the support systems of a sunsetting hyper-tech economy that now has no safe lane to continue running in.”
I distinctly remember having a discussion with a Bay Street stock analyst with several other Bay Streeters at the table. The topic turned to High Frequency Trading. [HFT deploys faster and faster hardware and software to day-trade by the millisecond the whole time the market (NYSE, Nasdaq, TSX, etc.) is open. This is done to make pennies per share on upside blips while statistically minimizing the downside. The result is a nice daily profit from market movement every day.]
Everyone at the table was licking their lips at such a wonderful business model. I then explained that stock markets exist to pool-invest capital into capital projects. I even explained its origins: financing potentially lucrative but also expensive and very risky shipping expeditions around Cape Horn from the City of London.
I then explained that HFT is, therefore, nothing more than leeching the worth of capital from economic productive activities.
Jaws dropped and there was silence.
22 years there but I never did fit in on Bay Street.
I then explained that stock markets exist to pool-invest capital into capital projects.
You old-fashioned romantic hippie you! Even uniformed moms & dads out in the vinyl-sided burbs understand the stock-market is a Las Vegas sportsbook – pork bellies rather than Green Bay Packers.
Speaking of which have there been any really high-profile IPOs in the pandemic era? Where’s Airbnb?
“You old-fashioned romantic hippie you.”
BINGO! Guilty as charged.
I have always thought that I made an impression that day with some movers & shakers (I was a over-worked techie merely rubbing elbows with the elite) but now you got me thinking that the jaw-dropping silence maybe was from seeing a live, Real hippie on Bay St. like a wolly mammoth or a Sasquatch.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/29/french-pharma-firm-found-guilty-over-medical-scandal-in-which-up-to-2000-died?fbclid=IwAR25x8nsj6LkoIPkeVe2gZ9sQBRwcir-VfN43ynop76SWa_27uaZ5HJW6a8
“Build back better”. I have been amusing myself imagining all of the impractical boondoggle projects that will be proposed and approved by the committee of wokester jokesters who will be in charge of approving which are worthy projects. The title, build back better, says it all, that there will be value judgments made and those judgments will all made to cater to every fruitcake who sneers at the “low brow’ nature of past infrastructure. So, look forward to lots of nutball projects, and, along with that, epic fraud. It will be amusing in a tragicomic way to see how fast all that money will evaporate with nothing worthwhile to show.
“Never in the field of human endeavor has so much been stolen from so many by so few”
Excellent synopsis! Whenever I hear the phrase “build back better” I always think of Prince Harry. That says it all, really.
IOW, a tremendous waste of capital.
Of course, they’re doing the important work of ‘Saving Planet Earth’, especially as it effects “Black, Brown, Marginalized, and LGBQT communities.
brh
Marvel is playing up the loafer-lightened Cap to great effect, as if it’s the first comics company to pander to gays. Which it isn’t. To this day, nothing matches the magnificent poofery of 2010’s Foreskin Man. California-based artist Matthew Hess created that character because, according to a 2011 Vice profile, “gay men love a good foreskin.”
Foreskin Man traveled the globe fighting doctors, rabbis, African tribal leaders, and Muslim clerics in a never-ending quest to prevent circumcision so that all gays worldwide would have the opportunity to “love a good foreskin.”
“Gays have more experience with different kinds of penises than heterosexual men,” Hess told Vice. “They’ve seen intact penises in an intimate way so they are one step ahead of the next guy.”
Or “behind.” Get it?
Foreskin Man was discontinued after the ADL sounded the alarm over the foreskinverse’s supervillain character “Monster Mohel,” who steals children’s foreskins in a quest to deprive gay Jews of penis pride.
Now, that was a gay comic!
Yeesh!
Postwar English music-hall – afternoon performance.
Tired paunchy comic with songs like “Run Rabbit Run” and naughty humor plays to an audience of plump matrons.
He whips out a banana and ostentaciously begins to peel it.
“One skin – two skin – three skin – five skin”.
An appreciative titter echoes from the ladies in their starched lace bodices.
IOW, a tremendous waste of capital.
Hang on – everyone’s telling us it’s just funny-money – debt created out of thin air for free! Maybe gluten free!
As someone said up thread, the real limits are human and environmental … the money ain’t the constraining factor. Somebody can’t be right.
If I were designing the program, and I didn’t want it to come back and bite me on the butt, I would have categories:
(1) Genuine urgent physical (worst roads, bridges, ports, runways)
(2) Genuine environmental (clean up rivers, contamination, preserves, etc)
(3) Identified economic outcomes (better X here leads to far better Y over there)
(4) Identified social outcomes (let’s give every school a new gym, because it would be swell)
(5) Identity Politics (targeted LGBTQI projects, because they’re people too)
(6) Make-Work on Steroids (create 500 jobs that last until the next election)
(7) Seriously Political (it’s in a Congressman’s district, so let’s roll!)
Projects are prioritised from Cat (1) down to Cat (7), but if the past is any guide to future performance, they will in fact be ranked from Cat (7) through to Cat (1).
The government has never created a legitimate job outside of DC.
Make work never solved the Depression. WW2 did. An economy needs a reason, a stimulus to grow and create jobs. Everything the Dems do constricts the economy. Taxes, spending on BS projects does not expand anything.
I wasn’t trying to be very serious in my analysis, JAZ.
The Suez Canal & Montreal …
https://youtu.be/oTWj26pXgyU
Cheap year long tour that shatters FAKE NEWS prejudices
– https://youtu.be/xjLt1DBDeSg
AstraZeneca paused in Canada for anyone younger than 55 …
https://youtu.be/EzcDQa11QJw
I’m 56 so I guess it’s ok to have them shoot that shit into me, Right?
I had the flu mist shot up my nose at age 54 and it was recommended for 16-49yo. Gave me a monster cold. Only reason I couldn’t call it the flu was no fever or chills….
Aylmer, Ontario (2h 17m from Detroit) is having a high-profile mask battle:
https://youtu.be/dNskfQpjsag
A good argument to bury your television set at the local garage dump. That town doesn’t look much better.
garbage
“Indeed, a lot of that would be malinvestment folly now because we’re nearing the end of mass motoring and commercial aviation as we’ve known them.”
And how we do know them?
As an option?
An economical means of travel?
An affordable means of travel?
An expectation?
A right?
That’s how “we” know them.
However, a small percentage know it as luxury, not because they cannot afford it, but because they have their own planes, their own drivers. Their own jet-share. And if not, the majordomo only orders 1st class.
Butiegig is drawing up a mileage tax.
Driving will soon be a privilege of the wealthy, as certainly will be air travel.
As certainly is inhabiting Manhattan and downtown San Francisco.
Getting between the playgrounds of the rich.
But the rabble are stuck believing privilege is skin color.
While they are made to be content at home.
Door-dash and Netflix and tele-work and virtual school.
Why have that expensive car sitting in your driveway?
Just order up an uber.
Freedom dependent upon social credit, and if not, your your ability to run a 1/2 marathon, or ride a few hours on a road bike, or just sit at home, venting on Twatter.
We will know them as a lost luxury. An expensive once every 5 years kind of splurge. A freedom lost to time.
Remember the horse you simpleton? Times are changing.
Remember when you could leave your house?
Remember when you wanted to?
Home from nowhere
to
Home or nowhere
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/03/28/vaccine-passports-for-work/
The regime admits the obvious. It’s coming at us like a freight train. “But developing it won’t be easy” the headline says – Oh those poor developers!
Above all, it must not seem like a Government mandate, a “your papers please”. As Zeke Emmanuel says, It has to be framed as something you can get. Your choice as it were. Indeed Zeke, as it were. You know it’s bad when this guy gets involved.
For work? For everything. Will they even be willing to deliver food to our door? Travel – why? Everywhere is just more Beast.
One thing people COULD DO is go with the motor scooter option.
Last time I checked , you can still get a motor scooter for less than 3 thousand dollars. Not uncommonly , for less than 1,500 , and still in decent shape.
The engineering with motor scooters is so spartan you can fix it yourself with less than a thousand dollars worth of tools. And if you cannot figure out the engineering in a motor scooter , then you are simply hopeless . It isn’t rocket science.
Because , apparently , motor scooters are so common and so popular in the third world , they must have huge warehouses full of spare parts , and they manufacture the same models for decades on end.
So , yeah , spare parts , even brand new spare parts , are not a problem.
I live in a very rural area , which means a trip to pretty much anywhere is a minimum 25 or 30 minute one – way commute.
Never the less , my fuel bill never exceeds 75 dollars a month , but is usually less than 60 dollars a month.
Granted , they do have drawbacks.
Cargo space ? What cargo space ? You will need a backpack.
And since a motor scooter has trifling horsepower , then if you already weigh 250 lbs then you already have a cargo capacity problem.
On the other hand , while it sure beats walking , and a bicycle requires being 14 years old or an Olympic athlete , that is , the motor does all the work ,
never the less , taking a motor scooter anywhere requires roughly as much physical exertion as going for a leisurely one mile walk everyday.
Which is to say that , even with the motor doing all the work , you will lose weight , you will become hardier.
Top speed on a motor scooter is usually 65 or 75 mph.
But that’s like top speed on an automobile being 120 mph.
It isn’t reality. ( unless you want your car in the shop every three weeks. )
No , the real average mph on a motor scooter is 35 mph.
So , a commute of one hour is going to take you three or four on a motor scooter.
That’s impractical if you live in a genuinely rural area .
But I doubt many people actually live in the wilderness like I do.
Finally , if you live in an area where , truth be told , the police are jerks , a motor scooter makes you look like a Third – Worlder or some sort of deviant , and so can draw police attention.
Which IS STILL a problem even if you are the Virgin Mary.
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So , cars are for the well – to – do or the spendthrift , and bicycles require Olympic athletes.
So why isn’t the United States absolutely flooded with motor scooters like so many other countries ?
Again , like I said , I suspect it is because it makes you LOOK LIKE a Third – Worlder.
Again , yet another example that America is drowning in the most idiotic ideological bullshit , having nothing to do with reason , or practicality , and late – stage capitalists are apparently just as dismissive of dollars and cents as are Marxist – Leninists.
Indeed , I suspect, far more so. .
* Finally , if you live in an area where , truth be told , the police are jerks , a motor scooter makes you look like a Third – Worlder or some sort of deviant , and so can draw police attention.
Which IS STILL a problem even if you are the Virgin Mary.
For the record , one of the things I love about the backward , impoverished , wilderness I live in is that the police seem genuinely , actually , quite reasonable.
I suppose one reason for that is because , while the population is 95 % white , it is also 95 % dirt poor.
So , yeah , around here if the police hassled all the poor people …… well …… that would simply be impossible.
American urban planning is a disaster. I live in a city of 200,000 people. That’s the norm in the country. You don’t see this kind of scale in the US. It’s either some rural shithole in the boonies of 10,000 people and no urban density, or some alienating urban monstrosity with a 1,000,000 plus population. Really fscked up. And all because of the automobile.
Example to emulate:
– https://youtu.be/cby4wegk1Js
Israel sucks on uncle Sams tits.
MaltAss, you don’t?
What was it that you contributed to your town? Did you contribute your time? Did you contribute your money? Did you organize anything? Did you participate in anything in your town? Did you even vote in the municipal elections? No, you’re just a bum living in an alien landscape. You might as well be living on mars, that how connected you are to where you live.
What’s your excuse to just plain suck? Again Israel and the Jews are at fault for your pathetic non performance?
American urban planning is a disaster. I live in a city of 200,000 people. That’s the norm in the country. You don’t see this kind of scale in the US.
I agree that American devotion to the private car has made many places urban hellscapes, however your assertion can be challenged – there are 300 cities in the US between 100K and 800K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population
Personally I like about 750,000 or so – big enough to be interesting, with a university or two and a self-sustaining economy. Places of 200,000 are too dominated by the mundanities of life – and have dull shopping precincts. Not always, but often. And young people want to leave as soon as they can.
In my city, Haifa, we have 3 university campuses, multiple museums, art galleries, multiple sprawling streets with boutiques shops, coffee shops, amazing street food and restaurants that people want to come and enjoy from all over the world.
The secret is mixed scale buildings and lots pedestrian spaces for people to be. In short, make it human.
The Technion technology institute in Haifa
– https://youtu.be/387ZBCAJats
The Technion International Beach Volleyball Tournament
– https://youtu.be/zGr6Yz_wwfw
Remember, this is an institution that has produced MULTIPLE Nobel Prize winners in chemistry biology and physics.
Cities like Haifa are absent from North America – even its closest matches (Santa Barbara, St Petersburg, Savanna, etc) are nowhere nearly as important to the national economy as Haifa is to Israel. Being a tourist city on the Med helps rather a lot.
Anyway … I was just making the point that there are lot of liveable cities of less than 750K in North America.
You don’t need more than 200,000 for that. Haifa has a sport stadium, bars, dance clubs, shopping malls, pedestrian malls, walking promenades, gorgeous parks, flea markets, food bazaars, surfing clubs, a subway line, a sea port, a rail line, variety of light and heavy industries, high tech industrial parks (IBM, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, Philips, Elbit) military bases. But everything is in human proportions. They don’t dominate and satanically distort the human space of the city. There is a harmony there, with large amounts of green space, forests with picnic areas, etc.
– https://youtu.be/bGG52YQMGOU
LIVING IN A TOWN THAT YOU FEEL IS YOURS !!!
– https://youtu.be/tTsc-ldX7ak?t=448
Here you’re not an tiny miserable ant slaving and wasting your life for the corporations, or made to feel like an ant whose whole existence and living space is to serve the fascist corporations. Here you are family with everyone else and EVERYTHING belongs to you!
That’s the difference!
Haifa Stadium
– https://youtu.be/R8cPPDjNrV4
A town of just 200,000 where everyone is family and everyone practically knows everyone else.
I wrote a fun blog for a German-style restaurant in Jakarta for a couple of years, in exchange for grub’n’grog.
One of my pieces was an advisory, derived from personal travel experience, to try and stick with second- or third-tier cities when visiting another country, particularly for the first time.
https://www.yaudahbistro.com/blog-updates/traveler/travelers-tip/
If you’re a food tourist, Tel Aviv is your spot. But in Haifa we have a sizable community of Lebanese Christian refugees, so we probably have the best falafel humus and shawarma in the country if not the ME. Bambino restaurant is my favorite, but they’re all good, and all within a stone throw of each other in the lower city or downtown Haifa.
I wrote a fun blog for a German-style restaurant in Jakarta for a couple of years, in exchange for grub’n’grog.
Well written, and a fun read. It’s such a hard thing to get really right … many of the smaller cities and towns throughout Italy are beautiful, but at one level, you really shouldn’t miss the stunning beauty of the unique sights in Rome, Venice, etc.
One compromise is to get in the low season … you might not be able to walk over the Rialto Bridge in the most brilliant sunshine, but on 25 April we couldn’t at all – it was simply packed beyond capacity. Same with Ponte Vecchio in Rome.
In about 2000 there were confident estimates that tourist numbers would double by 2030 … it’s hard to imagine. JHK notes that there is real likelihood that much infrastructure funding will be blown on physical assets that will not be fit for anything useful by 2030. I trust the fix small rural roads, and not super-size urban freeways.
I expect huge amounts of tourist investment is being re-thought in the light of Covid-19. The third runway at Heathrow has been scrapped. And I’m pleased I don’t hold any cruise-line shares.
Not only the automobile.
Also a result of impoverished city populations caused by uncontrolled illegal immigration. The city governments thrive on these immigrants and try to be a magnet to them, think sanctuary cities. Overgrown cities are killing this country.
The key driver for all of this nonsense is fascism. The corporations in the US are completely out of control and are dictating the social cultural political and economic agenda. They need to be brought under strict control and be drastically shrank down in size, but I’m sure that’s even possible. They now own everything and everybody.
but I’m NOT sure that’s even possible
Yeah Akmo, that’s Plutocracy. Fascism is the opposite – the State controlling, guiding, and regulating the Corporations. You don’t get it cuz you don’t to get it.
Yes, Vlad, tell me more about how the fascist aristocracy kept themselves and their financial scams and corruption in check in ancient Rome. Tell me again how many people/slaves voted for this corrupt aristocracy and their gov mafia money to lord over them. Plutocracy is exactly what fascism is.
Yup, it got away from them in old Rome too. And many of the slaves were from the Levant – Syria, etc. When they won their freedom, they began to gain economic power along with you folks. And of course the Romans themselves like the Greeks before them were really into trade. So it all went bad. Men returning from the Legionary service used to get some acres of land. In other words, they could be someone not just a drunk with a lot of good stories. But the rich bought up all the land and the solider stopped coming home to Rome, intermarrying in the lands in which they served instead. Soon there were very few Romans left in Rome, just the Mob of mongrels from everywhere. How like our cities today, eh?
Funny how it always goes bad. Funny how it always involves imperialism tyranny and depraved thieving from others until there is nothing more to thieve and the system eats itself.
It never occurs to that this whole process is built into the system you advocate. What was the first thing the Nazis did? They stole everything they could from the Jews. Then they invaded and stole from Europe. Then they invaded and stole from Russia and the Middle East.
Everything that you advocate for is just thievery tyranny and mass murder.
It never occurs to you that this whole process is built into the system
:
“It never occurs to that this whole process is built into the system you advocate. What was the first thing the Nazis did? They stole everything they could from the Jews. Then they invaded and stole from Europe. Then they invaded and stole from Russia and the Middle East.”
Mofo,
…The first thing the Jews did? They stole everything they could from the Palestinians…Then they invaded the Gaza Strip….
Of course, the Nazi’s didn’t have a book giving them the moral authority….
You need Mo Wisdom, Mofo.
Lame humor, Elysia. Really lame.
Nesher Park, Haifa.
– https://youtu.be/QsiX_wPWdYI
Pine forest planted by Israelis. Enjoyed by everyone.
That the collective Israeli genome is the being used as a template for the Covid vaccine suggest two lines of thought:
That Israel is as you say, a high trust society. And th compliant to authority. That’s why it was picked and the people abused and betrayed.
Secondly, a significant percentage of the Global Elite are of Jewish descent and thus they wanted a template that matched themselves. But obviously they don’t care much about the Jewish people per se – since this is a vast experiment. At this point they would seem to be more alligned with their non-Jewish Elite brethren, the Satanists and the Masons.
The very first to be vaxxxed in the country was our Prime Minister and all members of Parliament including the Arab ones.
“Lame humor, Elysia. Really lame.”
Mofo,
Not Humor…History.
Your own statement paraphrased, and you cannot own up to the obvious?
It’s not history. It’s false propaganda. There is not a single home in Israel where a Jew resides from which a non-Jew was expelled from. Not one!
Everything that we have, we built ourselves from nothing and complete desolation. If it wasn’t for us there would be no jobs for the foreign Arab migrants that were propagandized by the Vatican to call themselves Palistani, a word they can’t even pronounce in Arabic because the letter P does not exist in Arabic. These people don’t even intermarry with each other because they are all strangers to each other, strangers from different clans and different countries.
But good that you found a noble calling at your late age to get up in the morning for. You certainly don’t give a shit about anything else. Anyhow, I’m glad it’s not just lame humour.
I wouldn’t want there to be any misunderstandings later on when you be rewarded for your noble actions by God, whether you believe in him or in Caesar-Jebus and his Vatican Greek statues.
“There is not a single home in Israel where a Jew resides from which a non-Jew was expelled from. Not one!”
Well, Mofo, can we then agree that there are no Nazi’s living in homes stolen in Poland, or Russia? Or any land resided upon?
Cool.
Regarding my eventual comeuppance, I am beginning to lean towards “The Great JUJU under the Sea”.
Praise Him.
Sure, Elysia, in your reptilian greed you were racing to take over Russia and the ME. You lost and were repelled back to Germany.
How does that compare to our situation in Israel? It’s been over 140 years of Zionist Israeli resettlement of Israel. Everything that was built in Israel was built by our hands with our toil and knowhow.
Your Vatican Jihadistani pirates will eventually fade from the scene. Their usefulness has been outlived. Arabs are getting wise and immune to your Vatican propaganda incitement and are getting in line to establish diplomatic economic and military ties with Israel. Soon there will be a rail link from the Gulf through Saudia to Israel and the Med, bypassing and supplanting the Suez. Trade traffic from India and China will pass through that rail line. Your made up Paliwood propaganda narrative will be dropped like a hot potato, along with your FAKE NEWS outlets that promoted this Vatican propaganda. They are already dying, having lost all credibility.
“police seem genuinely , actually , quite reasonable.”
Kesa,
Consider that the majority are, if allowed to be.
“Finally , if you live in an area where , truth be told , the police are jerks , a motor scooter makes you look like a Third – Worlder or some sort of deviant , and so can draw police attention.”
Mine didn’t, thankfully.
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Yamaha Passola, 49cc, £340 new in 1983.
I had the basket and the box, so with backpack and a decent-sized bag between my feet I could do a reasonable shop for a family of four. I don’t suppose the bag between the feet would have got police approval on safety grounds, but I never had any problems.
It was really not good at holding the road if it was icy though. Had it for about five years and it was quicker than walking to/from bus stops. These days I’m much nearer the bus stops.
But even now I think it’s cute.
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Why so rural? Cheaper or because you hate people or both?
You must have guns too! If Rob Ford’s brother makes a bid for the throne, can we count on you?
My parents were an interracial couple , both from the South , in the 1960’s.
Though not Communist or atheist , or even left – leaning , they went to live and work in the Soviet Bloc.
Does that give you some hints about their personalities ?
When they came back to the U.S. we lived in a city the first five years .
After that , though , in the most rural , out – of – the – way places my parents could find ( could find in the east at least. ) . Deliberately so.
My parents are Back – to – the – Land types.
Somewhere in my parents house is an Issue No. 1 , Volume No. 1 , of The Mother Earth News.
Or my parents are Doomsday — preppers.
However you want to look at it.
( From my own experience , Left – wing and Right – wing are more fluid or interchangeable than is advertised. )
In my own life I have been back and forth from wilderness to city , but got used to the wilderness in the process.
And now , yes , in old age I prefer trees and cows as neighbors.
Perhaps a good easy way , though simplistic , to understand my outlook is to watch the movie , ” Jeremiah Johnson , ” or , ” Dances with Wolves. ”
As far as people go ? Well , as I think I have said before , where I live today , ” The Andy Griffith Show ” is reality , not just TV bullshit.
Hey , 15 years ago I would not have believed that myself. But that is the reality here.
No . I have no guns.
I suppose that sounds paradoxical , or unbelievable , considering I advocate handing out AK – 47’s to 12 year olds ?
My thinking on it is that you can falsely paint me as a monster , you can manufacture evidence to ” prove ” I’m a monster , but at least I know damn well that I don’t even have a Blunderbuss.
And in this police state pretending to be something else that is the most you can do ; Satisfy your own conscience.
Besides , I really doubt I could shoot anyone anyway.
Not because I ‘m such a wonderful person either. You already know better than that.
A few times in my life I have seen violence. The real thing.
It isn’t pretty at all.
I have some inkling why some people who come back from war don’t want to talk about it AT ALL.
It bothers you a hell of a lot , even just to see it.
Like Nietzsche said , ( paraphrasing )
The abyss looks into you , too.
I met a guy yesterday who was strictly Mayberry RFD. They exist. One must respect the true goodness and of course, realize that there is hypocrisy and human lusts and weaknesses lying beneath the veneer as well. But that’s too negative – underneath the persona or veneer is real goodness too, not just ugliness. So I’m fine with people putting their best foot forward, that’s good for a nation and culture.
Of course his consensus reality is too narrow for me. But that’s even more true for Liberals and Libertines. One bookstore I go into sometimes (while waiting for the bus) is all Liberal women and one or two gay men. Saccharine and pastel consciousness needless to say. Everything must be Perfect. I caught the clerk looking in horror at some blemishes on my hands….
My all time favorite song , and my all time favorite music video.
My guess is that at least 6,000 of the views of this video are mine. Lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xud3fRg2XFQ
Trivial stuff.
But Because I seem to interest you so much.
She cares for him in her own way – a little. He’s an accoutrement to her life, like her brand name handbag.
I was in a club once, in Ft Lauderdale, me and my shipmates when the Doobie Bros. came in, it must have been after one of their concerts. Of course all the girls in the place immediately flocked around them at the bar. They turned out to be pretty good guys, buying rounds of drinks for everybody, didn’t act like big Rock Stars like one would expect.
“I’m a monster…”
Dealing with reality will do that to you.
” who falls in
love with the God is washed clean
Of death desired and of death dreaded.
… he is monstrous, but not
To the measure of the God…. ”
https://allpoetry.com/Birth-Dues
I live in a very rural area , which means a trip to pretty much anywhere is a minimum 25 or 30 minute one – way commute.
I love the country, but can’t stand all the driving, which is why we have never lived out in a rural area.
About 3-5 miles from town, far enough out for a bit of greenery, but near shopping, and a 15-minute train or bus into the center if I want it. Hardly need to use a car. Very nice.
Some form of souped-up EV golf cart would suit me better than a motor scooter.
” Some form of souped-up EV golf cart would suit me better than a motor scooter. ”
Actually I like golf carts too.
But that’s another essay.
https://www.amren.com/news/2021/03/she-brought-diverse-skin-tones-emoji-to-the-iphone-now-shes-suing-apple/
Emoji race war. POC emojis are attacking yellow Chinese emojis.
If we are going to have knock – down drag – out fights about trivial shit ,
then why not go back to woefully impractical and archaic warfare ?
That is , go back to really pretty and colorful uniforms. Flags flying . white gloves.
12 year old drummers.
Pikes and matchlocks , and officers carry utterly useless swords because their job actually is to manage and lead after all.
Of course its best to stage that kind of war in manicured cow pastures , so typically the only civilian casualties are chickens and cows.
( And horses of course. Horses and 12 year old musicians ? Well , we gotta abuse somebody right ? )
And no more conscription , or the entire civilian population being a target. The only people who need fight in these wars being the crazy or desperate folks that volunteer for that sort of thing.
How about going back to trial by ordeal , for those actually crazy enough or stupid enough to seriously buy that shit .
But still leading, not pushing like officers do now. Alexander the Great would fight in the thick of battle, of course surrounded by his picked men but still it’s something. He despised Darius for running from him. He wouldn’t marry into his family since he was afraid the cowardice might be congenital.
Yes, we must bring back dueling. Assholes. might check their assholery if they could be called on it.
Well, we are about to be duped as a population by the Biden gang.
Biden is trying to get the governors to put mask laws on everybody again because another surge is coming. The CDC director is echoing him along with Fauci.
This is a blatant LIE! Tekapo, you should be ashamed of this blatant grab for power.
I just reviewed the forty eight states new cases and with the exception of about four or five east coast states plus Michigan, the rates are level or declining. You can probably guess number one, New York. The southern states where the rules are lifted are the best, we have states with zero new cases daily.
It is amazing me that the Dem scumbags in DC cannot let this huge control item go. They will be shoving Covid down our throats for awhile yet trying to create the Uniparty.
These people lie for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Their entire protocol and program is based on falsehoods.
Patriot Party, where are you?
And by the way, all you folks that try to equate the GOP with the Dem scumbags, there is almost no GOP influence in DC right now and yet the Dem lies and falsehoods continue, their entire program of power is based on Bulls*&t. Watch the border, they are even blocking our own senators from observing the fiasco going on there.
And by the way, all you folks that try to equate the GOP with the Dem scumbags, there is almost no GOP influence in DC right now
So a legislation-blocking 50 Senate seats, and a super-majority on the Supreme Court … these are chopped liver?
What legislation?
The House presents a Ult Left agenda to the process that cannot pass the bipartisan 60 point.
So the Dictator writes an Executive Order instead.
Remember when Trump did it. The ink was not dry on the order before a federal judge cancelled it. If the GOP had any real influence anywhere, why aren’t the EOs by Biden being cancelled out?
Reb states are trying to stop the Leftward plunge but not much so far.
The Supreme Court is a joke, the super majority that Trump wanted disappeared with his presidency. They just wink and smile at Biden’s actions. Their handling of the election fraud possibility was atrocious and really shows the totality of the GOP demise.
Not one affidavit was investigated, of thousands.
Gotta hand it to the Biden gang, they are in control.
Control by liars and cheats, a good descriptor of where this country is right now.
Does the existence of Tekapo, a Communist who practiced Capitalism and is fine with it, weaken or strengthen my argument that the two are in reality One system?
He understand Us and American History far better than you or Tucker do. He knows America was founded by Whites for Whites. He sees the same facts as White Nationalists do – and interprets them differently ( completely negatively). He hates us for not disavowing our Tradition and Nation.
He will always be frustrated because the Corporations and Banks that funded Communism will never relinquish control and become egalitarian. The “State” will never fade away as per Marx into a multi brown/grey skinned paradise where everyone looks like Kamala Harris. That’s happening for the hoi polloi but not for them. Woe to Tek and his peeps if they push the issue.
This is a blatant LIE! Tekapo, you should be ashamed of this blatant grab for power.
Hey JAZ … why target me? I haven’t mentioned Covid-19 numbers or politics hardly ever!
But since you implicate me as a perp – my view is that there is NO politician or party that wants to keep the mask / lockdown / pandemic thing going one day longer than they have to, because there is NO political upside.
And all the conspiracy theories about social control and population control are horseradish.
I heard a funny joke about Ted Cruz and the boys going down the Rio Grande, “Hey, they’ve remade Deliverance, but this time they put all the inbred hillbillies in the boat!”.
Who said lefties have no sense of humor 🙂
“Who said lefties have no sense of humor”
Anyone who watches late night TV comedians and their angry political manifestos presented as “entertainment”.
You think Ted Cruz is white trash and Hunter Biden with his crack pipe and teenage whore is not?
Finally, you know nothing about conspiracy theories or horseradish.
Finally, you know nothing about conspiracy theories or horseradish.
I at least know I am very allergic to both. 🙂
Both can certainly be true numbnuts.
Why its even true of you seadolt.
The battle is between state and federal control of the populace. The Dems want central control. The tenth amendment blocks that. Which is when they get around to it, that amendment will be endangered also.
The media has destroyed the function of the press, thus its freedom is gone. Freedom of speech is a joke thanks to cancel culture. Freedom of assembly and protest is now confined to rioting. The second amendment is under assault.
The right to vote is being destroyed by ballot stuffing enabled by untraceable mail in ballots.
The destitute of other nations is becoming America’s mainstream.
Yes, America is coming to an end, with nary a whimper.
” The government has never created a legitimate job outside of DC. ”
I think that is absolutely true.
But I also suspect it has a hell of a lot to do with culture , and philosophy , not really so much to do with what is claimed as practicality or good sense , and not at all patriotic.
For example , I think we could build , maintain , and keep clean a good number of our roads with simple manual labor.
Far more wheelbarrows and hoes , fewer trucks and such.
But that would mean a very large menial workforce , being paid a wage that actually pays the grocery bill.
Somewhere along the way , though , America went from being a mass of lower middle class and very proud of it ,
to now the ideal is Nero or Caligula. ( But not described that way of course. )
I doubt the average American is really that lazy.
I think it is much more that they fear — for good reason — that getting your hands dirty is shameful.
Because it IS seen as such.
And as far as practicality goes ;
We have to compete —- with Chinese concentration camp labor.
I WOULD be all for competition , supply and demand , and Free Trade , except it doesn’t fucking exist.
The Bolsheviks had to isolate themselves from the rest of the world because their system is fundamentally evil.
But I am afraid that a system which is fundamentally good has the exact same problem.
” Come out from among them , and be ye separate . ”
That would be the better , or the true , patriotism.
You’re right, the average American is not lazy, does not need replacement by docile, desperate, semi-literate, cheap foreign labor. Especially illegal foreign labor.
The system as the great thinkers thought it up on behalf of billionaire Oligarchs does not work, cannot work and cannot be fixed. The world as the theorists envisaged does not exist except in economics text books.
There are many of us whose intelligence isn’t expressed in cleverness with words or mathematical symbols but rather in manipulating tools and making those tools do their bidding. These people may not be articulate but they’re intelligent in ways the alleged and self-proclaimed intelligentsia have no clue about.
robots, 3d printing. workers?????
Labor is dollars, wealth is labor. Wealth is profit, and profit is the mechanism that enables growth and increasing capital. Increasing capital means higher interest rates and dividends. More return on dollars invested creates wealth. Wealth should not be just bid up with federal printed money, it needs to be earned with performance.
All things that have been destroyed in this fiscal fiasco the US has become. 2008 s performance in the real estate slot machine was just the start.
kesaanna said, “The Bolsheviks had to isolate themselves from the rest of the world because their system is fundamentally evil.”
How do parasites maintain themselves separated from their prey? Bloodsuckers.
Yep, there’s the problem with depleting oil, and also its inconvenient placement in some dusty locales run by some bearded and robed fellas with some truly retrograde ideas. But we have other problems, mainly those of our own making, for example, a multi-decade head-long charge away from reason and common sense.
And not only that but a whole-hearted embrace of the most howling fool-assery, some truly preposterous notions dressed up with jargon and abstruse terminology to sound like wisdom. Apparently the smartest among us forgot that if something sounds like gobbledegook, then that’s what it really is.
Every day you can see folly coming from the bastions of what we laughingly refer to as “higher education”, which by any realistic assessment don’t produce anything resembling “education” never mind “higher”. One outcome was this stretch of sheer lunacy where the “elite” consensus – with academic backing – was that financial markets needed de-regulation.
So, Horn-dog Bill saw to it, that is, when he could find the time, when he could get away from indulging a sharp and refined (sarcasm) taste for sin, listening to a small coterie representing views of monied interests.
Well, Wall Street had its way, Wall Street has been having it way for a long time now, having bought and paid for those same bastions previously referred to and also both factions of the ruling Party. And, lest Republicans think that we don’t know, it was largely their thinking, if you can call it that, that underpinned much of this foolhardiness. So far be it from Dubya to get in the way.
And so Wall Street insisted on playing Russian Roulette. Despite warnings that those pistols had real ammo, Wall Street kept at it. Inevitably, Wall Street blew its brains out. Remember?
And then Barry and his administration, also in tight with Wall Streeters, came running, putting Wall Street into intensive care, finding no lack of time nor money.
Nor lack of justifications either for turning a blind-eye to the most egregious criminality no matter the abundance of evidence. “Too big to jail” they said. Me, in my touching innocence, thought “too big to NOT jail”. Then Barry O hired Mary Jo. Truly remarkable, this astounding silliness, a real side-splitter, hiring former counsel for Wall Street financial firms as regulator of those same firms. You could be forgiven for thinking, what’s next, mob lawyers as police commissioners?
You don’t have to look too hard. The ruinous results are right under your nose, and if you can’t see it, then you’re willfully blind, or maybe in the pay of those same monied interests. I think it’s trite but true, that old saying, people won’t see things if their paycheck depends on their not seeing them.
“Too big to jail” they said. Me, in my touching innocence, thought “too big to NOT jail”.
My favorite English king was Richard III.
Not because he was a wonderful person , apparently he was anything but.
But because he actually went out on a battlefield , and got himself actually killed.
In many ways I do not think we have progressed at all , but have shockingly regressed.
They found his remains under a parking lot not long ago and identified them using DNA, carbon dating etc. The last English king to die in battle. Shockingly regressed is right and in many ways. I think that 20,000 years ago the average hunter had a far larger repertoire of skills and knowledge than the average person has got nowadays.
While much of what you have written is likely to come to pass, you are either misstating or misunderstanding MMT.
The US has NOT had MMT at all in no way–so far.
MMT is the theory that a country with its own sovereign currency can supply money TO THE PEOPLE in order to JUMPSTART money VELOCITY. The people, who need money to live, spend that money on goods and services, which promotes job growth, commerce, and thus GOOSES the economy. There are other aspects to it regarding debt, which answers any other issues raised by those who have no idea what they are talking about.
Go to Ellen Brown’s Web of Debt blog for all you need to know about MMT.
What you think is MMT is when a government that has its own sovereign currency (the US), prints up a bunch of money and gives it to banks, who then loan it at zero interest to a few rich people. All that gets you is stagnation, increased disparity, and asset bubbles.
That is NOT MMT THEORY. Please educate yourself. Thanks.
And keeps Chinese factories humming. Chinese workers, and especially their billionaire CCP masters, send their most humble thanks.
Print money and hand it out to banks and billionaires; you get asset price inflation.
Print money and hand it out to ordinary people; you get consumer price inflation.
Our “leaders” seem intent on doing both.
Restless, if you think prosperity issues from a printing press, you are in good company with Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Argentina, Weimar Germany, Paul Krugman and all his faithful cats.
I know, I know, we are the stupid ones. But there’s such a thing as being educated to the point of losing all common sense.
Once again, what a government could do in theory is all well and nice. University curricula and small fortunes of student debt are built on it. What governments actually do with those theories is entirely another. What you see all around you in the actual world in which you live is an example of the latter. The former, alas, still exists only in textbooks and in the students’ bank accounts, or lack thereof. You’re welcome.
In a lighter vein ,
A hit from the year I came to the United States.
I really do think times were better then .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4b3w6a9cSk
They certainly were good … but that could be a function of our being 45 years younger than we are now?
One reason I will never understand , ” non – religious ” ;
Life must be lived forward , but can only be appreciated or understood backwards.
And youth is wasted on the young.
When you have the means , you don’t know.
When you know , you don’t have the means.
Very good observation. I wonder what the effect that all this Deep State BS is having on the folks that are 45 years younger now.
I do not think they are very happy. Their discord comes from forty years of Liberal Deep State governance and not from four years of Orangeman trying to give economic power back to them.
” She cares for him in her own way – a little. He’s an accoutrement to her life, like her brand name handbag. ”
Well …… that’s one way of looking at it. 🙁
A friend of mine who actually saw my house said it looked like a museum.
I used my last stimulus check , the 6oo dollar one , to buy the complete Brownie Girl Scout uniform of the 1970’s.
The whole thing ; Beanie , orange tie , blouse , jumper , knee socks , button – down sweater , alternate shorts or slacks.
And because I had to buy everything in pieces , I wound up with five beanies , and two jumpers , and three blouses. 😛
I was never in the Brownies ; too old when I got here.
But the year after I came to America , I went to Girl Scout camp for two weeks.
Saw Brownie uniforms there. Prettiest uniform ever.
Anyways , the point being I tend to prefer hoarders.
People that hang on to stuff , tend to hang on to people.
An alternate theory / and way of looking at it.
Read “The Creature from Jekyll Island”. The Banks took over our money system generations ago. In a deeps sense, we lost the Republic then and there. Since then it has just been a matter of time until the process was complete. Instead of printing our money *backed by gold and silver), the Banks loan it to us and then charge interest on it. By definition, we can never pay back the debt since it is greater than the money supply. Where do they get the money? They create it our of nothing, in blasphemous imitation of God. The notes inscribed with “In God We Trust” is the purest mockery. It’s like buying a Monopoly Game for twenty bucks and being able to use all the thousands of dollars of game money inside as real money – except more so.
*Note: The part about being backed by gold and silver is in the Constitution. Many have qualms about this as it is not necessary and gives financial speculators another “in” to the most fundamental part of our economy. The Nazis hand no gold or silver, it being all stolen by the Allies after WW1. Yet they created an economic miracle nonetheless. How? By the most fundamental capital: brains and brawn united in a great purpose, the resurrection of Germany. What they didn’t have, they bartered for directly without the usurious interference of the International Bankers.
In simple terms , given a choice between American / British Plutocratic social Darwinism , Bolshevik Equality of the lowest denominator social Darwinism , or National Socialst racial Social Darwinism , I would pick the last one.
Why would a mixed – race girl pick racial Social Darwinism ?
As I have said before , I strongly suspect that , like Bonapartism , the NSDAP would not have long out – lived its rock star.
In the meantime though , perhaps , the original fundamental premises of Volksgemeinshaft , and a strong animus against interest slavery , would have reasserted themselves and taken hold.
And we ALL would have been better off.
( Except maybe Jews and Gypsies. )
And as I have said , the best outcome for East Asia would have been a strong Japan.
Germany couldn’t have done much about that , and the Japanese had already gone a long way toward fucking themselves , but with a real loser in Europe , perhaps the U.S. would have backed off in Asia .
Africa ? Already seriously fucked anyway on account of colonialism.
Primarily the fault of the British and French . But since they have to be covered for , that is white – washed.
Not on account of racism actually , but on account of needing to make the Western Allied narrative look good , when it’s actually fucking awful.
Pretty much the same story in the Middle East as applies to Africa.
Central and South America ?
100 years of the United States playing pirates and off – shoring the plantation economy.
On second thought , it woulda been better if we won Jutland in 1916.
“Africa ? Already seriously fucked anyway on account of colonialism.”
Kesa,
Yeah…seriously fucked on account of…colonialism…yeah.
That
Does
Fit
The
Narrative
Africa was fucked before COLONIAL expansionism and will be fucked long after every resource is depleted and the animals are all dead.
China is the next colonial power exploiting the resources of Africa and the people.
Makes sense. The Pope Pius during the time of the Confederacy preferred the South to the North – privately admitting as much to Jefferson David in correspondence. Not that he endorsed slavery, but that it was a known evil and probably coming to an end in any case. But the horror of Yankee Industrialism was without measure.
Africa? As if Africa was great or much of anything before White colonialism? Anything good anyway. That part doesn’t make sense.
It’s a great book about the Fed’s beginnings at the J.P. Morgan resort on Jekyll Island. Paul Warburg, with connections to the Rothschilds, was there, along with five others who the author says represented 25% of the world’s wealth.
As the book says, Warburg’s simple plan, in certain ways, got the American people to work for Wall Street.
Also, Warburg’s brother Max was financial advisor to the Kaiser and became Director of the Reichsbank.
As an aside, there’s a great picture of the Russian ship ‘Osliaba’ and its crew, dispatched by Alexander II to Alexandria, Virginia to help the Union blockade the South.
Those shrewd people. making trillions and hiding it.
Trump said that one of his greatest accomplishments as President was to eliminate all of the safety protocols and legal checks and balances imposed on vaccine development to ensure that vaccines are safe and effective before being administered to the public.
Almost 90% of Democrats are fervent advocates for Trump’s rushed, experimental Covid 19 vaccines.
New and Improved
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/new-covid-vaccines-needed-within-year-say-scientists
When repubs like something Lefty , alarm bells should go off.
When Lefties like something Capitalist / war hawk / “patriotic ” , alarm bells should go off.
“Also concerning is the fact that more than 20 European countries have halted use of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine due to a possible link to blood clot disorders and strokes. Even the New York Times has questioned if the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is a viable candidate, particularly for Africa. According to a Times article from February, South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine after evidence emerged that the vaccine did not protect clinical trial volunteers from mild or moderate illness.”
There are also gearing up mRNA malaria shot for Africa, etc. As Blondie says, One way or another they’re gonna get ya.
I do believe in Magic. Although real Magic is actually more a matter of intricate math, elaborate formulas, and the precise reading of rhythms. Rather than throwing spaghetti on the wall to see if it sticks. It takes a lot of time and dedication. Perhaps there isn’t generally the attention span for such things among most people. And unfortunately it sounds like the super important are particularly bereft of attentiveness. And historical perspective. And empathy. And common sense? If only we had Magic. Its all about the Mechanics it seems in the current order. At least from my view. A tweak here and a fix there and the gigantc machine will just keep humming right along goes the theory. Except that theory never really pans out in the arena called real life. A fix just creates a new problem that needs fixin. Now that Math is racist how much of a leap will it be to the conclusion that money is racist? Or perhaps that is already a thing. No doubt its distribution is and they are gonna fix that! But even if the hypertech society can be maintained in a physics type sense will the apparent prevailing superstitions of the day allow such an outcome? Deconstruction is the downhill side. Once it snowballs and accelerates its an avalanche. Is that really what all of these do gooder enlightened souls want? How will they be able to monitor everyone’s thoughts and words to ensure a safe, anti-racist, non binary, non thinking, ultra vaccinated new normal?
Here’s a variation for you , since I’m on a musical nostalgia kick .
I think it fits you , anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Z3BAW7o3c
And that’s it for this evening. Gotta go do other stuff.
One of my most favorite songs in the whole wide universe! Here is another one of my favorites I would like to share since we are on the topic. It’s from around the same general era. But I still haven’t made up my mind yet which is my favorite lol. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YbBHVF4g
I have that “album”. More hits per square inch than any other ever.
The question for you: Do you want to do magic or be magic?
I remember that song but never paid it any attention.
Now that I’ve looked up the lyrics I have to agree with the comments underneath!
Perhaps by making it impossible for us to think bad thoughts, or pretty much any thoughts except the ones they pump into our heads with the nano-particle antenna.
Ah sort of like once they have access they can wipe the hard drive. That would make sense if their goal is to change vaccine recipients into obedient drones. That way even if the system crashes and doesn’t work anymore the damage is already done and the drones won’t suddenly become independent thinkers. I was thinking maybe that is another reason that they are going to keep making or trying to make people take the vaccines as different ones roll out. Because they are actually like software updates or maybe they are even adding new hardware with each shot. Maybe its transhumanism undercover and under the radar..for most you know.
I’d guess cumulative hardware. The fine tuning or updates will come later.
How’s the Chauvin trial going, so far? No, I didn’t watch Day 1, as I find televised court proceedings pretty boring. Besides, I had work to do out in the woodlot, which today was not easy due to high winds and biting cold. At any rate, according to network news, the whole world is hoping and expecting a guilty verdict. David Muir from ABC suggested that the trial is just a formality, a nicety; everybody knows Chauvin is a racist and guilty of murdering St. George, the Gentle Giant. There’s the video of Chauvin kneeling on St. George’s neck for nearly 9 minutes, what more do you need to see? Yes, the entire elite class is agitating for a guilty verdict, as well as the menacing rabble already gathering in the streets. Mayors and police chiefs are hoping for a guilty verdict too but for a different reason. You know what it is, I don’t have to spell it out. Well, jury trials are tricky. Some comrades say the fix is in, Chauvin needs to get convicted regardless of guilt or innocence, that this is just a show trial with a predetermined verdict like the Soviet show trials in Moscow in 1937, only diff being our court has a jury, which gives the whole proceeding an aura of legitimacy. Well, an acquittal will set off more intense rioting and looting, if there’s anything left to loot. Are sneaker stores stocked back up after the looting from last year? Cities will burn, let the lefty sh#tholes burn. I’m worried the mobs will head out here into the rural areas. We saw some of that last year. And they have allies here too; I still see BLM lawn signs posted out front of the larger, more stately homes down on Main Street. As if that’s gonna save them when Homey shows up.
Brh
On second thought , I’ll make one more comment.
ONCE AGAIN I’m reminded of the movie , ” To Kill a Mockingbird ”
At the end of the movie , the lawyers nine year old son Jim , Bob Yule ( the bad guy ) and Bo Radley get into some kind of altercation nobody sees , but the result of which is that Bob Yule winds up stabbed to death with his own knife.
So , afterward , the lawyer Atticus Finch is saying , ” Well I suppose it will have to go before the Magistrate , and Jim will need a lawyer , and …. ”
And the sheriff interrupts him.
Are you nuts ?
You want to send a 9 year old boy who never meant any harm through the criminal justice wringer ?
Or , alternatively , a mental defective , but good – hearted soul , who never did anybody any harm ?
No.
Bod Yule fell on his knife , and that’s that.
Now to this case —
I’m no fan of the police , but it really doesn’t look to me like the cop intended murder.
And the way I hear it , this Floyd character could just as well have dropped dead five minutes later.
Whatever happened to the old idea ; ” Shit happens. ” ?
It all kinda reminds me of Jonestown Guyana on the large scale.
All these , ” Make Love , Not War ” Hippie types turned into witch – hunting totalitarians.
I can just hear the Defense in closing. ‘Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please, if nothing else remember this, Shit Happens!’
Or, maybe something like, ‘If it’s shit, you must acquit!’
Or how about “If HE was a piece of shit, you must acquit”
“Whatever happened to the old idea ; ‘ Shit happens. ‘ ?”
It was exchanged for the widespread delusion that shit ain’t supposed to happen, and further, when shit does happen it is the fault of “society”.
We will keep running with that delusion until enough damage is done that we shitcan it.
“Whatever happened to the old idea ; ” Shit happens. ” ?”
Kesa,
It
Doesn’t
Fit
The
Narrative.
Thwack’s threat was hidden under the homey and hokey, Dance with the one that brought ya.
Everything I don’t agree with is just one big PsyOp.
Everything is sullied and corrupt save one Donald J Trump.
Well at least you know reality now.
Congrats on joining the human race instead of being an angry demented fool.
What meds did they put you on to get you out of that horrible angry window licking head space you have been in for decades?
OOps I see now that was you weak attempt at sarcasm.
Seek medication for what ails you.
Speaking of magic it looks like the American left will have the Orangeman bad o focus on again.
https://www.oann.com/president-trump-launches-website-to-advance-america-first-agenda/
Proving he ain’t gone away.
Four years of actual chaos under Biden which the media will do its best to cover up compared to four years of anything to make Trump look bad what a stark contrast in realities.
The real problem here is the total domination of the communication and entertainment world by the Left. The country has lurched Left because it is all the people hear and see, Democratic Deep State propaganda. It is constant, every hour of the day, 24/7.
The Left has used the Chinese approach, insert bad apples and watch the barrel rot from within. It has worked well.
You watch those arrogant SOBs on CNN and MSNBC lie and you want to do them bodily harm.
I don’t watch that trash because the Teevee bears the brunt of my rage.
As far as GBH goes they are not worth the time or hassle.
Looks like the CDC Director is letting us know ahead of time that they plan on releasing a new, more virulent strain of whatever they’ve cooked up at Ft Detrick to kill off a few more people and make the rest scared as shit. Nice to see that good manners and style haven’t gone completely out of fashion these days. Mask lovers, relax and rejoice, you’ll be wearing these things for the rest of your lives. I imagine they’ll come up with surgically implanted filtration devices eventually to go with the daily vaccinations and individual isolation cells. But don’t worry, they’ll deduct it from your UBI, so you’ll never see an inconvenient bill for any of it. Thank god for that at least!
https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-director-covid-induced-impending-doom-rise-cases-hospitalizations
Yep, her melodramatic performance was laid on a tad thick.
Since when do doctors tell people to be afraid of next year’s cold?
Since 2020.
As The Fly said, “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–hMJPUBwMc
“A man who was among onlookers shouting at a Minneapolis police officer to get off George Floyd last May was to continue testifying Tuesday, a day after he described seeing Floyd struggle for air and his eyes rolling back into his head, saying he saw Floyd “slowly fade away … like a fish in a bag.”
What in the hell kind of an analogy is that?
Not sure what that is supposed to make me envision. Apparently, a fish…in…a bag? For some reason?
There I was, choking for air, fighting fatal suffocation like a fish in a bag… except no water in that fish’s bag, just air, which I desperately need right now, coincidentally…
ha-ha
Don’t you wish Rush was still alive ?
He’d tell us what to do, broadcasting from his G4 in mid flight while schlepping down to the DR with a bottle full of Viagra and gett’n ready for some more latin teen poontang.
Was Rush Limbaugh frequenting the Dominican Republic, or Haiti?
Its been reported he liked the Viking club,
What is the “Viking Club”?
Viking Club – Wikipedia
Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Clubhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Club
The Viking Club was a club for philologists and historians specializing in Germanic and Scandinavian studies. It was founded by E.V. Gordon and J. R. R. Tolkien when the two were professors at Leeds University in the 1920s.
Home | Moline Vikings Club
High end erotic club on the Island of Dominica.
You asked so I actually looked it up having never been curious wowsers some of them young ladies are drop dead gorgeous.
https://vikingsexoticresort.com/
“You don’t need to be extremely wealthy but you must have a desire to experience only the best in life and committed to dating some of Europe’s most beautiful escort models.”
This is perfect for me. I’m not extremely wealthy, I have the desire, and I am committed to “dating” some of Europe’s most beautiful escort models. I will convert them to White Nationalism with hypnotic suggestions while they are in the throes of passion.
If that’s the case, at least they’re female and over the age of 21.
Yoho, you stud! You are like 007.
Trump said that one of his biggest accomplishments as President was to repeal the rigorous FDA clinical trial safeguards originally put in place to ensure vaccine safety and efficacy so that drug companies can rashly and recklessly rush through half ass dodgy vaccines to experiment on the population as guinea pigs without any liability. Trump said that he doesn’t think that it’s fair that the MSM didn’t give him any credit for this and that Biden is getting all of the credit for the potentially dangerous, half-ass vaccines. 90% of Democrats support Trump’s much ballyhooed Covid 19 vaccines.
No one seems to notice where the pea went in the shell game.
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/goochland-county-man-suffers-rare-severe-reaction-to-covid-19-vaccine/
Astra Zeneca renames its poison.
https://www.rt.com/news/519574-astrazeneca-name-change-vaccine-vaxzevria/
LOL.
“However, it’s not clear whether the ‘Vaxzevria’ name change was motivated by the bad publicity, as the trademark application for the drug dates back to December. ”
Right, so in fact it’s perfectly clear, not ‘not clear’. Given that the drug wasn’t approved till the end of December and no members of the public had even tried it when the application was made to call it ‘Vaxzevria’
Perhaps they could have been more honest and just said it had been, you know, ‘named’, ‘Astra Zenica Covid 19 Vaccine’ being more of a working title than a name.
Journalism. LOL.
Vaxzevria
What a truly dreadful tongue-twister! Sounds like a beach resort in Albania.
These drug companies can afford professional PR hacks, who would come up with something with a bit of zing … “Covakilla” maybe.
It looks like they just give a bunch of junior chemists a carton of beer to go have a brain-storming session.
It’s a pretty awful name but the fact remains it’s not a name change. It’s the name they applied for around the time it was approved.
Nobody calls a medication ‘GlaxoSmithKline Breast Cancer Remedy’ or Hoffman LaRoche Diabetes Medicine’ except when it’s still in development/trials.
The ‘article’ was a non-article, based on a dishonest insinuation.
If they’d wanted to simply write an article about a tiny number of people getting a very rare kind of blood clot, they’d have found themselves in more demanding territory involving mentioning how many people have died from blood clots with actual Covid. Which would have meant adding lots of zeros.
So they did some half-baked ‘journalism’ instead.
Why is it currently banned in over 20 countries?
Name change appropriate.
LOL.
Can you imagine? Canada bans AstraZeneca for people 55 & under. I turned 56 in February. It’s unsafe for people born in 1966 to take it but fine for us 1965ers!
You can’t make this shit up!
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/goochland-county-man-suffers-rare-severe-reaction-to-covid-19-vaccine/
Nah, man. It is good for you. The name change was all part of the plan and no one of any age needs to worry about this fine product that was not all all rushed to the market and does not at all not protect you for a disease that is mildly dangerous at best.
So many straw men there you could fill a barn.
It’s not a name change. It’s getting its name, applied for in December before anyone beyond trial volunteers had even had it.
And by the way there are only two possibilities for anyone reading that sentence I quoted – which is deceit on legs – and not picking up the deceit, because it isn’t even internally consistent. One is exceedingly low IQ and the other is bad faith, visible from another universe to the same degree that theirs is.
I don’t care if Astra Zenica’s vaccine is taken off the market and fed to Martians. I don’t have shares in it and I didn’t develop it. But I wouldn’t want to be you. Because there’s probably no cure for what ails you.
“Mildly dangerous at best.” “At best …”
“I’m straight as an arrow.”
Yeah …
And here’s the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines *cough* new name:
https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/pfizer-biontech-select-comirnaty-as-brand-name-for-covid-19-vaccine
You only had to look.
Bad faith. Visible from another universe.
But low IQ if you prefer, obviously.
“Three men in Michigan who were arrested by the FBI as “Domestic Terrorists” and accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmere, are free today after a Judge DISMISSED the charges against them.
It turned out that the ring leader in the alleged plot to kidnap wretched Governor Gretchen Whitmer was an FBI informant who was planted into the group and was the one who pushed the entire plan.”
Another shameful episode of mattoids.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/remember-those-domestic-terrorists-in-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-charges-dismissed
Well it seems like basically most things are schemes, rackets, and industries. So if following that line of thinking to its logical conclusions it would seem as if the FBI, or law enforcement, may have an incentive to generate law breaking to reinforce and create a need for law enforcement. Perhaps this was one of Gretchen’s schemes? She appears to enjoy tyrannical absolute authority so why not build reasons to consolidate? But in a way too I don’t think all Mattoids are equal. If you look back through the pages of history you will likely find that whole nations have followed Mattoids off cliffs. And Mattoids have served up lots of kool aid that lots of people did drink happily and enthusiastically. So who really should feel shame?
“Perhaps this was one of Gretchen’s schemes?”
Wouldn’t be surprised.
Kind of like an up and coming rapper trying to go to jail to get street cred for the future.
Except in her case it would be to make herself a victim forever…and, importantly, she was able to “overcome” the horrific terror plotted against her. By herself and our very own FBI.
Narcissism and the unquenchable lust for power are legitimate APA diagnoses.
They ARE crazy.
Gretchen looks evil! Anyone contesting what she says better watch their six.
I’m shocked.
Hey MD. We were gonna talk about:
“A 16 hear-old Sioux boy in 1522 had a feeling of being alive that you & I can’t possibly imagine.”
I know a guy, I should say I know about a guy, that lives a pretty remote lifestyle. He showed us you could eat those little three-sided seeds of sticker bushes that grow out here on the Great Plains.
Got me to thinking about the proposal, years ago, of rounding up a big chunk of the Lousiana Purchase and turning it into a tech free wilderness.
Then your idea about the young fellows outlook and my alleged lack of imagination took over.
World made by hand.
Let me show you the world at hand:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/global-treaty-needed-to-protect-states-from-pandemics-say-world-leaders
A new era!
Solidarity!
An end to isolationism!
I know the plan
Why don’t you?
The plan?
Will that pandemic plan fall into the domain of the WHO?
You know?
WHO is in the pocket of the Chinese?
WHO produces BS for the world on the origin of Covid and shoves it down the throat of the world?
WHO is now being funded again by the US in spite of being an enemy of this country and an advocate for the globalist community? Thank you Biden gang.
WHO?
Are you blaming this on Pete Townshend?
Ha!
WHO?
Wrong WHO!
That fucking Daltrey had a hand in this as well! And don’t even get me started on that damn Entwistle!
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Sounds like a plan Bedpan Biden/Heels Up Harris might be down for.
It’s almost a waste of time mentioning Sleepy Joe at this point; he’s not in control anything, even his own faculties, and all signs point to him getting the hook by Memorial Day.
We got played.
Brh
“Weekend at Biden’s”
They’ll keep that charade going for as long as they like. Harris will become POTUS at a time of their choosing.
What makes you think before Memorial Day, brh?
To Tekapo
It has been said many times that the Democratic Party has deserted its moderate base over the past forty years and now represents the Progressives and crazy anarchists. Do you agree? Do you agree with the neo liberal crowd that the US should exist under one man rule? Do you think the Constitution should be scrapped and a Uniparty form of socialistic government should be installed? I know you side with the current PTB that want this level of power.
And if you agree with this, why? Do you hate your own independence from those trying to control your life? Make your case, please.
And yes, I am sorta targeting you to try to understand why half this country has gone insane.
John – If other long-time posters are correct, he doesn’t live in the US. I believe New Zealand…
So he couldn’t give half a shit about American freedoms. But he sure likes to talk turkey for some reason.
He likes flapping his gums and trolling which is why he is on his 20th name.
And yes, I am sorta targeting you to try to understand why half this country has gone insane.
LOL – I should put that on my résumé, or perhaps my gravestone!
I hold these truths to be self-evident:
1. I am a firm centrist (a moderate leftie)
2. Which means capitalism requires a LOT of controlling
3. Republicans only care about the rich and eliminating any controls
4. They care about money and power more than the country
5. They win elections by owning the rural base, and cheating in cities
6. They are in-your-face racist and don’t apologise for it
7. OTOH, the Democrats are schizophrenic and incoherent, with disunited factions
8. They should get 80% of the vote but barely make 50%, and why?
9. They are as dependent on big corporate money as the GOP are
10. They are extremely conservative compared to almost all social democratic | labor parties in other democracies
11. The US is immensely complicated by the African-American history and legacy, and more recently, Latinx immigration.
But mostly I don’t see a huge difference between the two parties – there are differences, but not a yawning civil-war gulf. The political system is a thing to behold! Something that inefficient, unworkable, and prone to corruption – is either the greatness of America, or an unending tragedy.
I disliked Donald Trump intensely, and have little time for Joe Biden (he is a hack with baggage, and too old). I think any one of Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, or indeed Kamala Harris, would be a far better President than either of them.
There is strong federal structure, and it’s been there a long time – call it the unelected “Deep State” if you wish, but I don’t buy most of the conspiracies that are ascribed tp it … I certainly don’t believe stuff without substantial evidence, and nor do I believe it is a pro-Democratic cabal.
That is ludicrous …it has been working for the capitalist class – the corporations and the elite – for generations, especially through the Cold War. Pockets of it might have been anti-Trump (not without cause), but that did not and does not make it pro-Democrat.
And globalism isn’t a conspiracy – it is how capitalism works! The same forces sent jobs from Gary Indiana to Guangdong.
And to the crucial issue – there are tens and tens of millions of people out there (a lot of them young) who can’t get a job, or won’t ever get a job. Not many people love working 48 weeks a year for 45 years, but we do it because we want to live in some comfort, want to keep our minds occupied and challenged, and we wish to contribute.
How people can lived in mired poverty, for years, even generations, and not be bored and angry – is totally outside my experience and understanding … I’m white, educated, middle-class and motivated.
I agree that the “gimme” culture and uncontrolled immigration are huge issues, and getting worse. JHK cautions every week or two how the superstructure cannot support the American economy (and society) for much longer. It is burdened by debt, hyper-complexity, energy prices, and resource crises.
I won’t attack the victims, but I don’t have any answers (and Trump didn’t either), and nor are they problems caused or owned by the Dems … I think that is unsupportable.
Very “moderate leftie” viewpoints, indeed.
Lol.
Tekapo might be a “centrist” on a university faculty. He doesn’t really recognize how the world’s elite (Globalists) are the enemies of humanity. The deep state are their enforcers, herding us into our slave camps of intellectual and spiritual destitution. The MSM is Joseph Goebbels telling us how our lives just keep getting better. And “ignore that man behind the curtain.”
All is a tissue of lies and bullshit. But anyone questioning the official narrative and thinking for himself is dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist”. Better to believe, obey, and comply like Tekapo.
All is a tissue of lies and bullshit. But anyone questioning the official narrative and thinking for himself is dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist”. Better to believe, obey, and comply like Tekapo.
I obey and comply for the same reason as I expect 90% of the posters on here do – I’m comfortable, and I did pretty-well out of the system, can enjoy well-funded free time, and if it were not for the plague, indulge myself in more travel.
But I do not “believe” at all. I agree with you – the ideological structures of the capitalist state are enormous, and serve their purposes well. The MSM has done it for a century, and more lately so has film, television, and now the Internet.
And of course I agree that the global elites are in it for the prestige, power, and wealth – they will crush the working class for as much as they can, while sending their jobs to China or Bangladesh. But the Republicans are the unashamed party of these elites, not the Dems.
If the working class gets sufficiently motivated they can throw off their chains – and it can go two ways – towards fascism or socialism … I would prefer the latter myself.
But what I do find puzzling is that so many posters are really angry at the global elites but can’t bring themselves to take the next mental step – it requires a revolution through class struggle.
It’s not all that rallying around the flag, hyper-patriotism, and constitution stuff – that is dodging the issue, and letting the real enemy right off the hook.
You had me until the last sentence. Believe, obey and comply is a horrible waste of a life, imho. Better to be crucified for The Truth than to be corn-syrup fed and comfy on the couch, imho.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) shows us how political bullshit never ends:
“Happy to announce that NC-11 was awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Appalachian Mountain Community Health Centers was given $2,458,000
Western North Carolina Community Health Services Inc. was given $4,622,375
Bakersville Community Medical Clinic Inc. was given $1,771,125
Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc. was given $10,473,250
Proud to see tax-payer dollars returned to NC-11. “
A pity he failed to mention that he voted AGAINST the Stimulus Bill – if it were left to Republicans these community organisations wouldn’t have received a nickel.
Not much shame in the GOP, and they treat the rubes like idiots.
We see the results of your ilk in charge in China, Tekapo. Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss.
But you seem stuck in the old way of seeing things, i.e. the left-right paradigm. Bolsheviks versus Bankers. What if they were merged onto the same team? Are the wealthy moguls of China and Chinese Communist Party elite enemies? Not hardly. Our globalist-deep state system is modelling itself on the Chinese pattern, a marriage of money with power, happy together at last.
But you seem stuck in the old way of seeing things, i.e. the left-right paradigm. Bolsheviks versus Bankers. What if they were merged onto the same team? Are the wealthy moguls of China and Chinese Communist Party elite enemies? Not hardly. Our globalist-deep state system is modelling itself on the Chinese pattern, a marriage of money with power, happy together at last.
This type of ahistorical, illogical and “non-material” thinking is exactly what everyone from Karl Marx to George Orwell warned us against. Look for dark mysterious forces across oceans.
The absolute obsession with :China” by the /MAGA Right is a thing to behold!
Americans – the vast masses of working and middle class – will only throw off their chains and lose their addiction to WalMart when they understand they are in a class war. It looks like all the power is held by the elites forever, but mass movements can be unstoppable.
But sadly the MAGA crowd with their feral militias fight with BLM and their Antifa louts … the elites laugh at them. The elites laughed at Trump too, because he didn’t have a fucking clue.
@tekap
The best part is you think you do and you don’t.
“The absolute obsession with :China” by the /MAGA Right is a thing to behold!”
See: Four years of Russia hysteria.
The funny part is both countries are undoubtedly trying to hose us every day, just like our government is trying to do to them.
But it amuses me that a few months of China talk and suddenly we forget about the *years* of Russian Interference BS that dominated the airwaves with the masses nodding approvingly, without nary a shred of proof (except for Biden and his boy’s interference, which has been shrugged off even with a bemused video admission by Joey NoPulse himself).
Now it’s those wacky conservatives and China. Still exploitable, true. And some take it too far without evidence. But I believe you were railing on whataboutism earlier today.
Mirror – look. See?
*with nary
Oops
I don’t get it, MrMango. It reads pretty “moderate leftie” to me.
I do agree that US Left (Dems) is Right of most any other major political party in Western democracies. US spectrum is Right in the corporate pocket and 550k die (or so we’re told) in your corrupt, profit-driven medical sham system.
Personally, I think Dems & Reps are Frick & Frack. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Yin & Yang. Abbott & Costello. Harlem Globetrotters & Washington Generals. US democracy is a charade.
I thought that everyone knew that.
Sure, after his 11 platform statements, he goes into moderate mode. His list, however, is “everything is the right’s fault and they’re evil (unlike the left, naturally).”
Nothing moderate about that.
But then that’s our buddy Tekapo. Illegal scuffballs to start the game, then a handful of softballs to try to pretend that he’s on the straight and narrow.
Or reverse order. Same game. Same pitcher being ejected.
“I thought that everyone knew that.”
Not to sound trite, OG, but…derr. Of course. That’s why this shit pisses me off when someone tries to pass it off as legit thought.
Mr. Mango has won the Interwebz.
Earlier I objected to the UK policy of prohibiting its citizens from leaving the country unless they have a really good reason which meets official approval (or pay a 5,000 pound fee). I compared this to Soviet Communism holding its population in bondage..
Tekapo responded “That is quite a poor analogy … you are not being prevented from leaving a country for punitive or political reasons – it’s a public health issue”.
But Tekapo,never answered my very simple question. Maybe he can’t, because there is no rational answer.
If I leave the USA, how am I a health problem to American authorities? I may become a health problem for the country I enter, but it’s their decision to let me in or not.
Pease answer, if you’re out there Tekapo!
Well … I’m not backing the UK here … but the logical answer, hmuller, is that you become a health concern roaming around elsewhere before returning to your home country with some new variant.
They are not prohibiting people from leaving UK permanently like CCCP did. They are prohibitting people from sunning in Spain or Greece for a week or two before jumping on the tube at Paddington or Piccadilly Circus.
OGH beat me to it – and I think his answer is right.
The UK is very close to a lot of places where there are still high Covid-19 rates. Without a very strong financial disincentive, hundreds of thousands if not millions of Brits would go to mainland Europe this summer, and return with the plague.
The more cynical part of me also thinks it is a policy to keep a lot of discretionary holiday money within the UK. Perhaps a twofer.
Then the solution is don’t allow me to come back into the country. Tell me goodbye is forever. Like I keep repeating, a country can legitimately control who enters it’s borders. (despite the Democrats’ belief in open borders for any diseased illegals)
But telling people you can’t leave turns the country into a roach trap, a prison, the Hotel California, – take your pick.
Under that crackpot Newsom, California has indeed become the kind of Hotel Kafka could write about – and no one would take him literally.
How easily the sheep give up any aspiration to live in freedom. All the guys in authority need is an excuse believed by the gullible, the docile, the testicle deprived.
I don’t know what to say. You can’t grasp that what you want & what it is are one and the same?
Anywho, beyond the whole you can leave the UK permanently if you like thing, I do agree that TPTB are goofing on the testicularly deprived sheeple.
“Then the solution is don’t allow me to come back into the country. Tell me goodbye is forever.”
HM, have you been following the saga of the young Brits who went off to fight in Syria, or to get married at age 15 to the local ISIS dreamboats who were offered such young flesh as one of the interim rewards of combat while trying for the 72 virgins?
Look up Shamima Begum. She is not alone (well, only in the sense that she has about four dead ISIS babies). She’s currently stateless. As are a whole lot of others in a similar position. Currently stateless and living in a camp.
Now extrapolate, internationally-legally speaking, to thousands of people who just can’t manage without a fortnight trying to give themselves melanoma on a Greek beach. Before you work out the court costs of sorting it all out with whatever other country doesn’t want to keep them. Because the British taxpayer was just looking for some more things to throw money at.
I’m not endorsing anything of Boris’s or Nicola’s, but you asked me if I couldn’t see the difference between being allowed to leave England and not allowed to enter the territory of another sovereign nation, while you can’t see the difference between being imprisoned in your own country for half a century and being told not to go on a beach trip for part of one summer.
People on all sides need to calm down.
Tekapo – “The UK is very close to a lot of places where there are still high Covid-19 rates. Without a very strong financial disincentive, hundreds of thousands if not millions of Brits would go to mainland Europe this summer, and return with the plague.”
And yet they are letting migrants in by the thousands every day.
That negates any moral/logical high ground they could have had with their travel policy for their own citizens.
“And yet they are letting migrants in by the thousands every day”
Which migrants are your talking about, specifically, Mr Mango?
Where are they arriving and how are they avoiding quarantine?
Not saying it’s not happening but I’m wondering how they’re doing it and where they are?
Alba –
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2020/05/11/arrivals-via-deadly-and-illegal-channel-crossing-from-safe-countries
Granted, this is just migrants arriving illegally in (usually) unsafe boats…not those coming by plane into Heathrow with govt welcome each day.
But indeed, my numbers were off…by a bawbag-load. I didn’t mean to exaggerate, but hey – it happens.
Not sure what the total would be combining the two. But let’s assume most of those arriving in boats are not properly quarantined and/or vaccinated, shall we?
And yet they are letting migrants in by the thousands every day.
I’m not a huge fan of what-aboutism at all- either way. One instance of ludicrous policy, hypocrisy, or even evil, is not explained away by claiming “the other side” does it too.
See Green Alba’s comments above regarding UK travel restrictions, for a good example of rejecting what-aboutism.
Green Alba, I expect MrMango is referring to the illegal immigrants that are entering from Mexico. They aren’t exactly being “let in” – thousands are turned around and sent back too.
“Green Alba, I expect MrMango is referring to the illegal immigrants that are entering from Mexico. They aren’t exactly being “let in” – thousands are turned around and sent back too.”
Nope. Talking about the UK.
Mr Mango
“Not sure what the total would be combining the two. But let’s assume most of those arriving in boats are not properly quarantined and/or vaccinated, shall we?”
Well indeed. I mentioned the problem of our unofficial boat people earlier. I don’t know how you stop them coming when whichever other safe country they just came from doesn’t want them either.
But I thought you meant thousands of people arriving at our airports and bypassing the queues where returning Brits were being sent to airport hotels for a fortnight, so I’m relieved about that.
And -1 point for actually using the “term” Latinx.
Moderate compared to whom?
STALIN, mAO,POL POT , KARL MARX, cHE?
Perspective and yours is seriously wacked out of reality.
Serious? Tekapo is a moderate leftie compared to Pol Pot!
Would it not be more productive to discuss these topics while making sense?
No smarten up or we’re gonna make you wear your keyboard as a hat.
Another insipid threat you can’t even remotely begin to make good on virtually or in person.
I am now believing as some have already stated your mysterious arrival is yet another version of legion.
The very policies of the Democrat party are the problem.
Simply because you don’t or can’t see it is of no consequence you simply have no clue and why should you.
You live in a country that has less people than some of our small states.
You really should quit commenting on shit you have zero inkling or understanding about and that is American politics.
Surely you are not saying that you need live in a country to understand its politics, benr.
If so, the USA should get the fuck out of … what? … 100+ countries. No?
Indeed!
Bring all the troops home so China can move right on in.
Yet you want us to have to compete for scarce jobs with desperate 3rd World immigrants. If you are our friend, I’d hate to meet you as an enemy.
You are no friend to America or the West.
O M G
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/03/29/oxford-university-considers-scraping-sheet-music-for-being-complicit-in-white-supremacy/
This shit has got to stop.
Indeed. A chicken can flap its wings in a flight motion that does, actually, lessen free fall … but chickens can’y fly.
One way or another, this shit will stop.
Some chickens sure as hell can fly just not the genetically engineered huge breasted ones.
My next door neighbor had a polish type hen that could fly when she wanted to. she defied the odds as she got broody every spring as well.
As a kid I had to clip all the wings of our backyard laying hens – they could certainly fly well enough to escape the pen.
“but chickens can’y fly.”
OG,
Really? They must be great tree-climbers then….
And…the probative link;
https://www.google.com/search?q=pics+of+chickens+in+trees&sxsrf=ALeKk00VLP3lH8H-_1ICrbDctFUUZMiv9w:1617204305061&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=fGI4oajixoQrpM%252CNVWqzgmsxxVQIM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSvBskpaQrBx_xMxhT55aRjo3vySA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5gYfB69rvAhVGtZ4KHQvWDc8Q9QF6BAgPEAE#imgrc=zujfJ4VkCK6dBM
Just another day in clown world. We are gonna enter Salem Witch Trial territory in a year or so.
You don’t have to go back that far … your beloved Republican Party ran the Commie Witch Trials under Tail-Gunner Joe, for purely cynical political purposes. You oughtta be proud.
Oh yeah, Oxford University is scrapping Mozart and Beethoven from the canon because they composed their masterpieces during the European slave trade period.
L’ll Wayne and Cardi B will be moving into their slot,
What this tells me is that colleges and universities, even the most prestigious, are worthless and irrelevant.Endgame will come when they end up cancelling themselves.
Brh
lil nas x and his satan shoes. 666 pairs.
you wonder about my anti semitism.
Those Satan shoes have human blood in their souls. How sick is that?
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/nike-sues-over-lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-human-blood-n1262406
It reminds me of KISS giving their blood to be mixed with the red ink for the printing of their comic book when they were Knights In Satan’s Service acting as a bridge from childhood superheroes to adult Satanism.
God and Satan are stretching their hamstrings. It’s damn near game time.
KISS= Jews.
Oh quit with the fucking histrionics.
You think those shoes contain more human misery and sin than any of the hundreds of sweatshop and Chinese-factory owned items in your house?
You would have fallen for the old backmasking heavy metal ‘scandal’ back in the 80s you utter rube.
Here we go more mass hysteria!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-s-fourth-wave-is-hitting-the-us-hard/ar-BB1f8a2s?ocid=msnews
The old PsyOp getting fired up again!
CDC director Rochelle Walensky warns of “impending doom” amid COVID-19 spikes
“We are not powerless. We can change this trajectory of the pandemic,” she said. “But it will take all of us recommitting to following the public health prevention strategies consistently while we work to get the American public vaccinated.”
The bitch later added privately, “If the useless eaters refuse to comply they will be eliminated and that’s all there is too it! That said, the new variants we’re about to release are impervious to the silly masks and worthless vaccines either way, so I don’t really care what they do, other than I take great pleasure in the fact that I can scare the little shits to death before we kill them outright.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rochelle-walensky-cdc-chief-covid-concern/
Whats her definition of a pandemic? what percent of population dying?
In the UK 0.8% of the population dies every year. Since March last year that’s gone up to 0.95%. The majority of those extra deaths are now not going to feature in next year’s statistics, thus it should be lower than average to balance things out.
It may be a pandemic but it’s hardly a threat to humanity, is it?
Yeesh! I’m afraid that you are Bang On!
They are getting really nervous that so many people are figuring out that COVID is a hoax.
I have been pleasantly surprised recently. Have chatted with a number of friends here who have slowly begun to understand what is going on.
Denninger links to a 2015 article in Nat’s Geo.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241902
The link didn’t allow me to read the full article, YMMV. Going to Wikipedia, it has this to say about Marek’s disease:
“The evolution of Marek’s disease due to vaccination has had a profound effect on the poultry industry. All chickens across the globe are now vaccinated against Marek’s disease (birds hatched in private flocks for laying or exhibition are rarely vaccinated). Highly virulent strains have been selected to the point that any chicken that is unvaccinated will die if infected [citation needed.]”
Is this what will happen with Covid19 vaccines? Note the contradiction in saying that all chickens across the globe are vaccinated but that birds hatched in private flocks are rarely vaccinated. Maybe it means that all birds in industrial conditions are vaccinated because they are at high risk but that birds in nonindustrial conditions are not at high risk?
In any event, it looks like we may be damned if we do, & damned if we don’t.
Left unsaid: the vaccinations created the problem of widespread virulence in the first place.
Years before the COVID, everyone looked at me like I had 2 heads when I always refused hand sanitizer explainng that it will only make Super Bugs. To me that is so obvious while sheep sheep.
I know. Same with antibiotics. People use them indiscriminately, even for viruses. Note to sheep: antibiotics don’t kill viruses.
When I was a child, dirt was part of daily existence. It strengthened us against the natural world. Never had a problem with allergies either.
When I was a kid, I loved a little dirt on my garden-fresh carrots. They tasted better than washed ones.
That connection has been made for awhile. Allergies develop because folks are not exposed to enough outdoor “dirt” as kids while their thymus is identifying and neutralizing antigens.
Behind the breast bone, until puberty, dwells the thymus gland. It is a immunity cell factory so kids can rapidly react to antigens and develop a huge repertoire of memory cells to guard themselves with. This is why kids younger than puberty are asymptomatic with Covid. It probably educates the body relative to foreign vs. self identity, which would affect allergies and autoimmune disease.
Remember that superbugs are bacteria, not viruses.
Overuse of antibiotics causes superbugs. Over cleaning with antibiotic cleaners does the same.
Two things “breed” superbugs. Note that most cleaners say 99% kill rate. That means 1% survives and thrives with little competition. They reproduce rapidly. Bacteria have the capability to pass genetic information to others. So they can pass immunity to fellows.
The number one defense in our bodies are good bacteria which kill the bad ones and keep them below toxic levels.
Cleaning house, certain areas build up bacteria concentrations to toxic invasive levels. Disinfect them to be clean, that is it.
I had a brilliant biomedical colleague at a university where I worked in the 1980s … he advised way back then that in 30 years time (a) superbugs would be rife – so far not quite true, and (b) that women would suffer higher rates of cancer, especially breast cancer. This one is pretty true.
He said one cause would be wide range of nasty carcinogens in so many home “disinfectant” and other cleaning products.
I noticed that to, Tate. It occurred that it could mean what you suggest but that it dould also mean that even those chickens are never vaxed are vaxed for this on an exceptional basis. It’s poorly written and ambiguous.
Turns out the Border Czar, Heels Up Harris, has yet to visit the border. Ahahahahaha ahahahaha!!!
Heard today that the responsibility was taken away from her. Gee, Joe I really do not want to deal with the unwashed minions.
That is okay, Kamala, just take the rest of the year off.
DERIVATIVES COLLAPSE at Archegos.
I just love the deadpan language of the business press:
Analysts and investors are trying to figure out the final losses to banks exposed to the Archegos implosion, with the task made harder by the opaque nature of the leveraged trading involved. JPMorgan had previously estimated losses in the range of $US2 billion to $US5 billion.
“We are still puzzled why Credit Suisse and Nomura have been unable to unwind all their positions at this point,” the analysts wrote, adding that they expect to see full disclosures from lenders by the end of this week.
The analysts advised investors to keep an eye on credit agencies’ statements as they expect poor risk management to be an issue.
LOL – a bit fucking late to check the credit agencies, don’t you think?
They’re essentially worse than useless in most cases anyway.
Remember that in The Big Short, the credit rating agencies were on the take and rated all those CDO mortgage bonds higher than they should have been. Nothing tears things up faster than when the regulatory agencies cheat.
It tends to allow unsafe aircraft to crash as well.
As I stated before about our system “It’s all lies and bullshit” Nothing is priced according to its true value. All our markets are managed and distorted. Those in charge tell us so many blatant, provably ludicrous lies every day. Unemployment is low, inflation is low, the economy is booming into a recovery.
Why would anyone automatically believe all that these clowns say about covid? Consider what doctors and scientists not on the corruption payroll say.
There’s an article which addresses how openly they lie to us. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/populism-isnt-dead-its-stunned
“Everywhere I look I see Michael Palins doing their best to convince us of the most absurd lies to hide the rank incompetence at every level of our society’s power structure.
And it doesn’t matter what issue we’re discussing: masks, vaccines, election fraud, racism, Joe Biden’s health, climate change, the sovereign bond markets, lockdowns.
No matter the issue or the question Biden’s Press Secretary, the uniquely incompetent Jenn Psaki, will be happy to ‘circle back to that later’ but never doing so hoping to just get through the next news cycle without a revolt.
Everyone’s doing the ‘believe me’ look that body language experts talk about all the time. It’s all so tiresome and exhausting. And you can feel the level of frustration building like John Cleese’s anger in the sketch.
It even looks to me like the people in the media are getting fed up with having to disseminate the lies. But, since their access to power and livelihoods depend on playing along with the charade even the best ones act out on the stage prepared for them.
We all know they are lying. They know we know they are lying. We know they know that we know they are lying.
And yet the lying continues.”……
Uh oh
In Manhattan yesterday … brutal assault on an elderly Asian woman WALKING TO CHURCH. Poor lady was taken by surprise … punched, kicked and stomped. Nobody came to her aid. She’s alive but in bad shape; at that age she’ll never recover. The assailant — a community member– added insult to injury by shouting at injured lady “You don’t belong here”. This was a big dude, well dressed, who probably didn’t hear Mayor DiBlassio and President Biden inveighing against Asian Hate Crime on Sunday.
He was blaque.
He was a disgusting coward, whatever his colour.
The majority of Asian attacks are by Blacks.
Why? They do not like the economic competition of an aggressive ethnic group that is smarter and more ambitious than they are as a group. Asians outdo Whites.
The Black ethnicity is their worst enemy, and without modification, they will never compete in a free market. BLM will fight Whites, Asians and eventually Latinos as they sink into their own economic morass. The Democrats fuel the procedure by patronizing the lousy behavior.
Remember Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition in the 60’s and 70’s? He wanted Blacks to get aggressive and run with the two new equal rights laws of the mid sixties. It failed leading JJ to be just another Black apologist.
Asians outdo Whites. really?
Well Whites have pathologic altruism.
If yellows are so wonderful, why do they move to USA, Canada etc?
If yellows are better, why is their asian lands often shyte?
The attacks are just more media driven bullshit. They want race war across the board.
The focus needs to be on anything but the economic destruction being caused via the Great Reset and the Covid hoax.
Earlier that day there was an even more brutal attack in NY, on the subway, looks like a Chinese student assaulted by 3 Community Members, I mean he was pounded mercilessly, then choked into unconsciousness.
New York, New York. These attacks on Asian people is real. What’s causing it?
How does Mayor DiBlassio explain this.
BLM has called the video in these 2 incidents ‘anti black propaganda.’
Brh
DiBlasio can’t explain it; he’s a coal-burner. How weird is it for a white guy who’s 6′ 8″ who had plenty of options to marry a Nubian?
And an ugly one at that.
Well, he pulled strings to honeymoon in Cuba and was Castro’s special guest.
“Anti-black propaganda.” The Truth is rarely even considered nkw as everything is spun. You used to have to contort to spin a story in your favour. Now, Truth & Logic are immaterial.
“Go Team Go!”
“Ref, You Suck!”
Yeesh!
yellows have ruined San Francisco, a once nice town.
they vote democrat.
now their ‘chickens’ come home to roost. chickens or bullies.
yellows are ruining USA.
WRT– ‘anti black propaganda.’????????????? Black ‘logic’?
Virginia man is grateful to literally lose his skin!
https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/goochland-county-man-suffers-rare-severe-reaction-to-covid-19-vaccine/
“You can please some of he sheep ridiculously all of the time.”
Tekapo
Here is the problem with your logic.
Capitalism is a problem when it is regulated. Free capitalism exists at all levels, small, medium and large. The real problem is when the government gets involved favoring certain industries, or certain individuals with the tax code. They shape the economy instead of letting it free wheel. Competition amongst many small businesses to control price setting disappears. Yohannon is right, government regulated capitalism is what leads to socialism and communism.
In a perfect world, larger companies and corporations should be going bankrupt continuously being replaced by intermediate sized companies and the same with small businesses. The problem is that government regulation takes the competition out of capitalism. The standard state of affairs should be chaos, with actually few corporations existing. Young aggressive companies should be allowed to deep six the older companies. Economies of scale is no excuse for favoring Big Box economies over pure capitalism. Big Box economies are socialistic by nature.
If government control is so good, why is the US 29 trillion dollars in debt? Those idiots in DC could not run a race against a turtle.
Socialism is the enemy of the world.
Don’t bring me into this. I think you position is insane. Government regulation is the only reason we have any wildlife or forests left. The Corporations fund BLM and Communism in general. Fascism prevents them from doing that by being in charge.
The two spheres cannot be separated. One must dominate. You want the one that is faceless and not beholden to citizens to be in charge. I want the one that is elected and can be recalled in charge.
Walmart and Amazon won fair and square. Capital centralizes as Marx said. You want them controlled or even broken up? That means Big Government. Do you see how silly you’re being?
Now it’s too late to peacefully break up Big Tech. They own the Government. Only a stronger and wiser Government could have stopped them before it got to this stage. Anglin begged Trump to strike. He did not. Instead they helped to strike him down.
A vote for Big Business is a vote for Globalism. And Communism. A vote for Big Government (Fascist style) is a vote Nationalism and MAGA.
Here we may agree? Could it be that the fact that too many people on Earth and the poverty that it causes has obsoleted the free market system and that only government control will solve issues in the future? Corporate big box control also.
If so, I am glad that I am 73 and will not have to put with this much longer.
I vote to boycott them both. Big business and big government should be voted extinct. They both exist on account of the other.
Vlad, who has the money to run for big government? Only people who are sponsored by big business. Hitler was bankrolled by the German chemical industrials aka bomb makers. Surprise surprise, Germany soon had a war and two and three wars on its hands. Guess who made out like bandits?
As I said, the two spheres cannot be separated. They’re dancing. The question is, Who leads? The Government must lead. Putin pretended to go along with the Oligarchs and then betrayed them. A great Man. And he is willing to kill to keep power. Absolutely necessary. No problem with any of that. My problem with him is his dream of Empire and recreating the Soviet Union – against the will of free Eastern Europe.
Is not preserving Russia and the Russian people – and not the Chechens, Kalmucks, Tartars, Mongolians etc, not enough? He could have been the leader of the Slavs, the Eastern White Race. He has chosen to be a Threat to them and even to the White Russian people by pandering to Muslim and Mongoloid minorities.
Capitalists (and that includes you folks) will do business with anyone. Anyone. And that includes Hitler. But that doesn’t mean they have no viewpoint about who they want to win. They wanted the Allies to win. But they definitely kept a foot in the door just in case it didn’t turn out that way. Ditto the American Civil War. They wanted the industrial North to win, obviously. But they did business with the South and would have continued to do so if the South had won its independence.
That’s the paradox Akmo: Get small and get taken over by those who didn’t stay small. National Socialism actually addressed this issue directly, and strove to protect the beloved rural and small town ways of life. American Capitalism has never addressed this.
To you credit, your Nation has addressed this as well.
You’re basically justifying corruption, and then you wonder why it ALWAYS goes bad.
You defeat imperialists and imperialism by exposing it. Exposing its vile history and exposing it in real time whether it be of friend or foe.
It like said, you’re not a nationalist. You’re a lying imperialist engaged in Nazi Vatican deceit.
“To you credit, your Nation has addressed this as well.”
Yo,
Makes you wonder where they learned it….
We have to agree to disagree.
Your fascism model? At what level? State, Federal, or global. Who do you trust to be the dictator in charge? You better get someone really sharp because once installed, you cannot get rid of them.
How to control the hated corporations? The US? China? Europe?
Elected? By whom? Recalled, not a chance, how do you recall a Xi, Or Putin or Hitler.
The basis of America is to prevent central power from getting too powerful. I will stand with that credo.
Well that was fine back then. But things have centralized. A weak Government can not reign in Global corporations. America needed to change but instead it let itself be changed by Big Business.
Even back then, people chose the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation. Why? Too weak and decentralized. This time we refused to step up and now we are ruled by Biden and the Satanists behind him.
In the end, Kristi Noem listened to Capitalist lobbies like the Chamber of Commerce, whose viciousness is simply beyond description, and not her own constituents anent keeping woman’s sports for women. All political contributions must be made illegal, to send or receive. Politicians must only receive a salary commensurate with say, an upper middle class life at the State and Federal level. Every penny above that must be justified during their term of office.
All campaigns are funded by the Government. Early polls narrow the field and then again until it’s down to two – if we want to keep the biparty system which has no Constitutional mandate, unlike the disastrous bimetallic clause to back our dollar bills.
link to Family Research Council article about the corruption of Kristi Noem. If money is the basis of winning, how can anyone not become corrupt?
https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA21C69&f=WU21C22
“Who do you trust to be the dictator in charge? You better get someone really sharp because once installed, you cannot get rid of them.”
This is a major point, and spot on. Who among our current crop of “leaders” has the vision or charisma to shoulder such a task? None. We have a cartoon show.
Capitalism is a problem when it is regulated. Free capitalism exists at all levels, small, medium and large. The real problem is when the government gets involved
Unfettered capitalism leads to disgusting results – check out the 19thC.
In a perfect world, larger companies and corporations should be going bankrupt continuously being replaced by intermediate sized companies and the same with small businesses.
The problem with all this is does not describe the real world. I get the sense that so many of you here who are so angry with the modern world, DC, and the globalists*, want some time machine (or mystical leader) to take the country back to a cute Main Street, where all the stores are locally owned, all the products are Made in the USA, and all the customers are white and prosperous-looking.
Even if (or when) we follow JHK’s arc into a Long Emergency – and current global complexities are no longer in play – I doubt it’s going to look like Mayberry.
* I’m discounting the more extreme posters, who see the pandemic as part of the New World Order reset agenda, and satanic baby-eating.
I agree, I am describing the Adam Smith ideal. But that is the real world, a contest between free economies and government controlled ones. Right now, the government controlled ones are winning. We are changing in their direction to counter their power.
It will not work.
Will it cause CW2 or WW3? ???
Europe impresses me with its smaller scale capitalism. In many area, the big box concepts are rejected to the small shop. Could the US evolve to that? Doubtful.
Europe impresses me with its smaller scale capitalism.
I haven’t got any stats in front of me, but you certainly get a very pleasant feeling of being in a much older, much more diverse, and much more local market system.
We’ve travelled extensively in Western Europe, and there are three factors that sort of counter that positive impression:
1. After you’ve been to a succession of French or Italian towns, you realise how pervasive the chain-stores are – we would run a competition, seeing who could first spot the Zara or H&M or Carrefour in every city and town.
2. As tourist we stick almost exclusively to the historical centers, but outside that (in Paris, Berlin, Rome, etc) there are vast rings of suburbs, with plenty of BigBoxStores, BurgerKings, and muffler shops … all the flotsam of modern existence.
3. The people – average working families – tend to pay more for the things they buy than we in the Anglo World do … mind you, it could easily be argued that they eat and dress far far better than we do.
I expect Italians are the most stylish dressers on the planet.
You know, the robber baron days of the 19th century were really big box businesses. One man or one group cornered a market and destroyed the smaller competition. Sorta like Sam Walton and Jeff Bezos.
How to stop this ?
Ready?
Progressive income tax to be used to foster small business entrepreneurship?
When a corporation takes over say 40% of a market, break it up.
Two good government ideas that will never happen. Limit, do not control.
How about break up all public corporations… The corporate form of business organization is not necessary in business & commerce.
Who is higher on the pecking order here, the corporations or the government? Especially the social media. Who is going to break who up?
Nobody is going to break up anything on purpose. Our rulers have too much invested in the present system. That system will have to collapse before any reforms are possible.
It would be advisable at least to dissolve those engaged in ordinary commerce however, the Big Box retailers, & the Amazons.
But “everyday low
job-killerprices”, doncha know lol.* I’m discounting the more extreme posters, who see the pandemic as part of the New World Order reset agenda, and satanic baby-eating.
The WEF elites who convene at Davos don’t have to “conspire” in a sinister Machiavellian plot to control the entire world (*cough Russia China Iran*). They know a few things that are common knowledge even among many of the great unwashed.
There are too many useless eaters on planet Earth, most of these U.E. are hopelessly ignorant, popular rule as advertised doesn’t work, people are not equal, colonizing Mars is a pipe dream, biological diversity is being destroyed at an alarming rate, Green Energy is a con, & central banking is a Ponzi scheme that is about to meet its expiration date after which the SHTF. Their solution however, one-world government, is a cure worse than the to-be-redressed ills.
Oh, & satanic or not, whether they actually eat babies or not, is beside the point — a sizable number of them are psychopaths &/or sexual deviants, whose “advice” we would do well to avoid.
look at podestas 540 emails, look at his ‘art’ and get back to me.
If Dahmer had played his cards right & picked the right parents, why man, he could have written his own tickets amongst elite gourmands.
“* I’m discounting the more extreme posters, who see the pandemic as part of the New World Order reset agenda, and satanic baby-eating.”
You are a complete baiting jackass, Tekapo.
You and yours always seem to be the first to cast possible every sin on the other side for having one belief that differs from your narrative. One thing apparently means all things must be true.
Strawmen all day long. I’m sure you’re aware of that, it’s in your handbook. You’re wrist-deep in that department. (i.e. “You don’t trust the un-tested vaccine? Then you must not believe in science or that viruses even exist! That’s just crazy!”)
Also, do you write for the NYT by chance? They published an OpEd a few weeks back that actually posits Critical Thinking is dangerous, because it can lead people “down rabbit holes” into investigating conspiracy theories (which, of course, are bunk, because no one has ever conspired against others in this perfect world). Might’ve been your writing?
I remember reading it, and found it again:
“We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” Mr. Caulfield told me recently. He suggested that the dominant mode of media literacy (if kids get taught any at all) is that “you’ll get imperfect information and then use reasoning to fix that somehow. But in reality, that strategy can completely backfire.”
In other words: Resist the lure of rabbit holes, in part, by reimagining media literacy for the internet hellscape we occupy.
It’s often counterproductive to engage directly with content from an unknown source, and people can be led astray by false information. Influenced by the research of Sam Wineburg, a professor at Stanford, and Sarah McGrew, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Mr. Caulfield argued that the best way to learn about a source of information is to leave it and look elsewhere, a concept called lateral reading.
For instance, imagine you were to visit Stormfront, a white supremacist message board, to try to understand racist claims in order to debunk them. “Even if you see through the horrible rhetoric, at the end of the day you gave that place however many minutes of your time,” Mr. Caulfield said.
“Even with good intentions, you run the risk of misunderstanding something, because Stormfront users are way better at propaganda than you. You won’t get less racist reading Stormfront critically, but you might be overloaded by information and overwhelmed.”
I didn’t write it, but it makes a lot of sense. Yoho is always putting up great slabs of Nazi shit like they are received wisdom and biblical truths … but I can’t read it and get engaged … the bullshit component is just so great.
Good idea. Never investigate anything that challenges your current beliefs. It may confuse you, especially if you are mentally weak and poorly educated
In fact, let’s go one step further, deleting, banning, censoring opinions which are outside the acceptable parameters. Why should anyone be confused with an alternate false point of view which denies the truth? Thank goodness, trusted, responsible people will let us know what is true.
Sound about right to you, Tekapo?
“I didn’t write it, but it makes a lot of sense.”
In what way?
Does not critical thinking play the primary role in choosing to seek out other sources (or “lateral reading”)?
I remind you of the benevolent NYT headline:
“Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole – Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.”
Given headlines are created to guide the reader before even reading one fact, don’t you think that’s a tad over the top? And counterintuitive?
Then again, Eric Blair would point out counterintuitive programming is literally the leadership’s goal in creating a senseless, weak society.
You are a complete baiting jackass, Tekapo.
Don’t take me too seriously! 🙂
Just making a light-hearted distinction between those who have genuine concerns about the impacts of globalism, political failure, job loss, and economic crises – such as JAZ – and the more crazy, who call the pandemic a hoax, or heaven forbid, buy into the QAnon tinfoil.
The vaccine issue is a good one … at 68 I might do well to get it, and probably will, but the conflicting information is overwhelming.
I certainly don’t think it should be compulsory, but whether it should be a requirement for certain activities (flying, cruising, etc) is a much more contentious debate.
Tekapo. You must support your President’s agenda! Get vaccinated and get vaccinated often because you know there are new strains popping up every week. Soon the varieties of Covid may outnumber all the different human genders out there.
Pay no attention to those right wing nut-job conspiracy theorists talking about “side-effects”. Real liberals have no fear of side-effects or rewriting their DNA. Trust those in authority. They love you so much. Like an invading army loves farm girls.
Tekapo. You must support your President’s agenda!
One’s position on vaccine is not a political loyalty test … those days are over – the Dear Orange Leader has been shunted out.
Getting the vaccine is the responsible thing that mature citizens do … we just have to deal with (and hopefully avoid) the fruit-loop fringe …
https://dailystormer.su/world-needs-global-treaty-because-nobody-is-safe-until-everybody-is-safe-24-world-leaders-say/
Merkel calls for World Government, basically. Because Covid. A while back Gates called for a Global Pandemic Police Force. So I guess it has to be. It was either this or using holograms of Aliens.
I would have preferred the Aliens.
I’d like some more reassurance from Jim in a future post as to why this won’t be doable on a global scale. I need some hope! This is madness!
“I would have preferred the Aliens.”
Indeed, the show would’ve been interesting at least.
And the fans on rooftops opening their arms to the sky would be the “nutty ones”, which would be marvelous entertainment for all…
…as opposed to the current plot choice, where otherwise rational people who don’t trust a world-changing rollout of draconian measures (including immediate un-tested vaccines) are the “nutty ones”.
We’re in a Choose Your Own Adventure book, and I don’t like the chapter we entered a while back. Do we get a mulligan? Or do we have to finish the chapter as is and start over? Don’t remember the rules…
brilliant insight
Anglin points out why Republicans can never win and why America is doomed. If in order to win, you become the other party, your victory is meaningless. You’ve lost. But of course if you just want to get elected, then you’ve won and “only” America has lost. He focuses on Lyin Ted. But they all do it, more or less.
Ted Cruz: “Democrats are the Real Child-Cagers”
Andrew Anglin March 31, 2021
The Democrats are hypocrites, and it is fair enough for right-wing politicians and pundits to point out that they don’t follow the moral code they claim to follow. However, there is a difference between pointing out that the left doesn’t really follow its own morals, and embracing the morals of the left.
Ted Cruz is someone who consistently crosses the line from pointing out Democrat hypocrisy and embracing Democrat morality.
Earlier this year, Cruz pointed out that the Biden Administration’s decision to shut down the Keystone Pipeline would actually increase carbon emissions, given that all of the oil we use now has to be shipped on boats from the Middle East, instead of piped in from Alaska and Canada. This is true, and it is worth pointing out that they claim to care about lowering carbon emissions, but are willing to increase carbon emissions in order to reinforce a globalist economic order and harm the right-wing agenda for American energy independence.
However, when speaking about what should have been an issue of leftwing hypocrisy and lies, Cruz actually embraced the global warming narrative, and argued that “Democrats are the real global warmers.”
Related: Ted Cruz: “Democrats are the Real Global Warmers”
The overwhelming majority of Ted Cruz’ voters do not believe in global warming at all, and believe it is a science hoax invented by the United Nations for the purpose of promoting a global government. That has been the consistent position of the right-wing for decades, and as their predictions of warming apocalypse continue to fail to materialize, the evidence that global warming is a hoax continues to pile up.
Cruz deciding to embrace the belief in global warming in order to enhance a gotcha is truly a despicable move, and demonstrates a total lack of character characteristic of Republican politicians and pundits.
This same thing happened with Republicans embracing the “racism” narrative, then claiming that Democrats were actually the racists, and embracing the homosexuality narrative, and claiming that Democrats were the real homophobes. They have also embraced feminism, and bragged about increasing the number of women in Congress.
If you allow your enemies to decide your morality for you, you’ve lost the game. Hence the continual losing that the Republican Party has done over the last 60 years.
Now, Cruz has gone down to the border to film the “children in cages.”
Once again: it is notable that the Democrats and media flipped out over Donald Trump detaining children at the border, and that they now support Joe Biden doing the same thing. This is hypocritical. However, that does not mean that right-wingers care or should care about people who are illegally invading our country having an uncomfortable living situation while in detention.
Once again: Ted Cruz confused the issue, and feigned moral outrage over the containment facility.
He then went on TV and cried about it.
Aside from just being a shill, the reason Cruz is doing this is to enhance the drama of the situation. It’s just a cheap trick. It’s actually disgusting, and it’s retarded.
It makes it so you can’t win. If Ted Cruz is opposed to Biden border policy because he’s concerned about the wellbeing of illegal Mexican invaders, then surely he will agree with Joe Biden that we need to get them out of the detention facility and into hotel rooms, no? Because that’s what Biden is doing, right now. He’s moving these people to hotels.
Ted Cruz has already said that his chief concern here is the safety and comfort of these people coming into our country, so now he just needs to work with Biden to figure out a way to make them more comfortable. If he’s worried about the “dangerous journey” that they go on to get here, well then, he should support Biden’s plan to fly them in straight from Guatemala and El Salvador, and put them on taxis from the airport to their hotel rooms.
Ted Cruz cannot argue that a person is going to be more comfortable living in a shack in El Salvador than they would be living in a tax-payer funded hotel room in America. And again: he’s already said that his chief concern is their comfort, which is why he was so outraged by their uncomfortable situation in the border detention facility.
It’s just so frustrating, when these politics stop being about ideas and become team sports, and it’s considered a great gotcha to adopt the enemy’s morality in order to get a cheap shot in.
Remember, this thinking led to Donald Trump releasing a bunch of black drug lords out of prison. Before that, it led to waves of legal immigration much more devastating than illegal immigration has ever been, because Republicans said they’re not racist, they just want immigration to be legal.
To this point, the left has never given any right-winger credit for adopting their morality. All they’ve done is used it to up the ante. When Republicans accepted homosexuality, they went to gay marriage. When Republicans accepted gay marriage, they went to trannies and child trannies.
It never ends.
Here’s Fox’s “The Five” segment on Ted Cruz’ border visit, if you want to see more gay bullshit.
Tucker Carlson is in it. How embarrassing.
Yoho: Mexican kids need to be in cages. How can anyone not see that? Putting them in hotels just means you’re weak and even more Madres will send their chalupas here. Barnhardt raves about how having lots of kids is the natural order (it is) and the real way to have a secure old age. They take care of you in other words. What about over-population? Well Aquinas never talked about that nor any of the other Church Fathers so it’s not a thing in her book.
Her book is too small. And as the alchemists say, Nature unaided, fails.
Well written. I watch Fox and turn it off quickly because of the yammer yammer with no real ideas of how to counter the liberalization occurring.
If you keep importing Spanish speaking impoverished Latinos for years on end, does it not figure that you are going to become a Latino country. If you welcome the cartels with open arms, does it not follow you will become a drug addicted society?
The Dems are just accelerating what has been happening all along for decades.
Tucker, Hannity, Ingraham, and the rest of the gang do not have a clue what to do except bitch, and that is becoming boring.
The only counter current is in Mar a Lago and I do not believe he is interested any more.
He’s not saying anything really interesting. So his new media platforms aren’t likely to be important. At this rate, he won’t even remain as a gadfly much less a King Maker or future candidate.
He had a chance at CPAC to go with a new Party. But he said, “Why would I leave the Republican Party”? Inane and Insane.
He could talk about the Covid Tyranny and the vaccine passports. But that would mean public repentance about his role in all that. He’s not going to do that so he’s not going to go there.
Yup!
He had a chance at CPAC to go with a new Party. But he said, “Why would I leave the Republican Party”? Inane and Insane.
If he formed a new party he would split the conservative vote and Democrats would rule for a generation … presumably Trump was advised it was a losing play.
If you keep importing Spanish speaking impoverished Latinos for years on end, does it not figure that you are going to become a Latino country.
–Only because they cannot or will not assimilate. [IQ being one factor]
and they [browns] breed like rats, I mean blacks.
Only because they cannot or will not assimilate. [IQ being one factor]
Yes – they have a lot of pride, so they don’t want to drop down to the deplorable level of the MAGA crowd.
The only counter current is in Mar a Lago and I do not believe he is interested any more.
I’d say he’s got rather bigger issues to worry about: a business model that’s failing, and keeping himself and his spawn out of jail.
But cheer up! The MyPillowGuy says he’s going to the Supremes, and OrangeManGood will re re-coronated in August.
It’s not fair that the loopy right has all the truly crazy, colorful characters!
“It’s not fair that the loopy right has all the truly crazy, colorful characters!”
Amazing how perspective distorts.
Duckworth, Omar, Schumer, Pelosi, Swalwell…can you get much more cartoonish than them?
Duckworth, Omar, Schumer, Pelosi, Swalwell…can you get much more cartoonish than them?
Nah … compared to Javanka and Eric the Werewolf, Sidney Kraken, Rudy Hair-Dye, and the Pillow Guy, the Dem list looks like the starting five for the YMCA Basketball Team in Peoria!
Haven’t seen Michelle Obama doing a gig yet on the Four Seasons Total Landscaping forecourt, sadly.
And I can add Matt Gaetz as Exhibit F. What is it with Republicans from the Confederacy, and under-age girls?
It will be interesting to see whether Our Matt stays out of an orange jumpsuit.
“yammer yammer”
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For real. Pointing out their hypocrisy doesn’t mean Republicans should adopt their morality. It’s a suckers’ game which they never learn from.
The reason the right is eroding us the same reason immigration is out of control… Republicans have had no consistent moral center ever. Big business drove immigration policy for the last 60 years and Republicans were on board all along
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You are in danger. Get out before it’s too late. Attn Alba. Call your nephew.
Bojangles says, No more Inquisition or Conversion therapy. Is he lying?
😀
Eagerly awaiting GA’s response! You bored again, Yo?
I just want to help her. The C of E is a giant death cult that wants to reprogram Gays. That’s why most of their clergy are fags.
Did you see Olympic opening ceremony a few years ago? It was all about the coming Covidian takeover, with a giant puppet of Bojo coughing.
I didn’t see the ceremony, nor watch the Games so it’s the first time I’ve heard of the link between Covid and this evidently sinister sporting event acting as cover. I’m even more looking forward to GA’s reply now!
I’m not sure you’re going to get much joy with the religious angle though. She and I are ‘unbelievers’.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnmQ7Rif6Y
I liked the Gerald Scarfe-esque Reaper. I’m not sure whether that was a portent for a global scamdemic or more just a tribute to our National Health Service. In the case of the former they failed, missing the part where Brits stand outside their front doors every Thursday night clapping to the sky like demented seals.
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“The C of E is a giant death cult that wants to reprogram Gays. That’s why most of their clergy are fags.”
“Mofo,
Is that you? What have you done to Yo?
Thirty percent of their clergy are women, many of whom are married, just like the male vicars. I’ve been trying to find out percentages but 30% women ordained was all I could get.
When I think C of E vicar, I think bloke with a wife who’s expected to do flower arranging and visiting people because of her husband’s job, and children wearing their cousins’ clothes, because the stipend’s not impressive.
But admittedly I’m a bit behind the times. And not an Anglican.
“Mofo,
Is that you? What have you done to Yo?
==
Ze’ev (Wolf), the story of the lone Texas soldier
– https://youtu.be/wWu1xcp9bog
Oh gawd, not this again. Do you people just have short memories?
Artistic celebration of the history of the NHS. End of.
And I agree with Slugoon about the clapping business (we’ve also discussed that before). My livingroom is overlooked, since I live in on the ground floor of a not particularly wide street of Victorian flats, so I had to move myself sharpish on a few occasions when 8 o’clock struck and there was I sitting there in a goldfish bowl, looking churlish, and not outside clapping like afore-mentioned seals. And me married to one of their saints, no less.
One time they were at it when he was on a patient visit and the driver parked the car – with its NHS Lothian transfers/stickers – outside someone’s house, and he refused to get out the car until they’d all pissed off back inside. Very many doctors just thought eff off with your clapping – we’ve had decades of Daily Mail articles about how we are all paid like premier league footballers and spend our time on the golf course, so you can shove your pots and pans where the sun don’t shine.
I think we were meant to do it for Boris too, when he emerged from the ICU – I thought Boris was probably capable of getting the clap all by himself, personally.
And then for Captain Tom. I’m glad to say that, by that time, my neighbours seemed to have caught up with me in my opinion of utterly naff expressions of national gratitude. I blame Tony Blair and his People’s Princess shite … people were relatively sane before that. 🙂
Getting back to the drivel about the Olympic thingy and related beliefs, are people aware that hospitals have to periodically test their preparation for significant incidents like a major road accident, a bombing, or a railway crash? If one of these things then happens do they assume it was deliberate? The world has gone mad.
“You are in danger. Get out before it’s too late. Attn Alba. Call your nephew.”
Our Cal isn’t a member of the Anglican Communion, as far as I’m aware, so you don’t need to worry. Although I know he was christened into it because I’m his godmother. (I think the C of E folks give their boy children two godfathers and one godmother and their girl children two godmothers and a godfather. But I think you can have more if you want.) Anyway, still being ‘of the faith’ at that point, albeit not Anglican, I was feeling very guilty/angsty as a divorced godmother. And I noticed his other godparents were Baptists so it was all a bit strange. Perhaps that’s what went wrong …
“Bojangles says, No more Inquisition or Conversion therapy. Is he lying?”
Is he lying? Is his mouth moving?
Seriously, I believe it is to be made illegal, but I only think I heard that in passing. Perhaps it will go underground?
Someone on here said very recently at the end of a thread that you don’t truly love someone if you want to change them fundamentally. I got no answer when I asked the obvious question. I had also asked the same person, on a previous occasion, if one of her children turned out to be gay, would she still press conversion ‘therapy’ on him, knowing that it leads to an increase in mental health issues and suicides? I got no answer to that either.
Isn’t the AstraZeneca vaccine the jab that the UK government has already given to 70% of compliant UK citizens?
“Also concerning is the fact that more than 20 European countries have halted use of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine due to a possible link to blood clot disorders and strokes. Even the New York Times has questioned if the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is a viable candidate, particularly for Africa. According to a Times article from February, South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine after evidence emerged that the vaccine did not protect clinical trial volunteers from mild or moderate illness.”
One minute it is banned, the next it is not. One minute it should only be given to over 65s, the next it should only be given to under 55s. One minute they don’t want to use it, the next they’re blocking exports.
That’s the EU for you, a uniform collection of nasty, bitter, spiteful, vindictive political nobodies desperately trying to put one over the Brits any which way they can for having the temerity to leave their little wealth-redistribution racket.
I suspect you’re a fan of Brexit. Enjoy a generation of Little Britain.
No rebuttal. Just the kind of pithy, sneering, sanctimonious comment that led 52% of us to vote out against all the odds. You know nothing about Brexit or why we voted to leave so screw you.
You know nothing about Brexit or why we voted to leave so screw you.
As it happens I know a great deal about Brexit, and have followed it closely indeed. I do hold the view that it the worst, self-inflicted wound by a civilised nation at least since the Conqueror came over, but that is not my point.
My point is that this is a wide-ranging multifaceted forum, with almost zero moderation, and nice because of that. No reason to take it so seriously … I have a lot of issues with the self-serving EU bureaucracy myself, but believe that the Yes vote was nuts.
We can have that discussion if you want, but being civil is a nice thing too.
If you want a discussion on Brexit then, as Thursday turns to Friday and we all move onto Jim’s next blog, I’m more than happy to stay here and debate it with you.
I’m rarely anything other than civil on these forums so you could start by taking your snarky Little Britain comments elsewhere. Do you say Little Switzerland or Little Morocco? It says more about your prejudice towards those who voted to leave than about your knowledge of the subject.
It would be a rare treat for somebody to actually make an argument from first principles in favour of the EU (GreenAlba has come closest) bearing in mind we never joined the EU in the first place. For the ‘worst self-inflicted wound made by any civilised nation’ we’re not doing too badly so far, although I realise people are desperate for it to go wrong so they can be ‘proven right’.
Make your opening arguments, then we’ll see where you’ve been getting your news from…
For the record, I like your contributions here. It’s good to have a range of opinions. You do take a lot of flak and always remain civil. Admirable.
Thanks for being civil.
I should start by re-stating that I agree that over 50 years there has been a very long line of greasy, self-serving, born-to-rule, anti-democratic aristocrats who have simultaneously feathered their own nests and made bewildering poor decisions in the EU (using “EU” to cover all the various bodies in the structure).
Having said that, there is a very strong argument – in a modern world of trade, commerce, people movement, money movement, and much else – for a “United States of Europe” to unify a couple of dozen nations that have been killing each other with enthusiasm for more than two millennia.
The eternal dilemma of course – is how far do you go? How strong should central government be?
The same issues have arisen in any nation that is federation of states – the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Brazil, etc. And in the case of Europe, the differences between Slovenia and Portugal are rather more than between say Kansas and Nebraska.
Personally I believe there should be a minimalist form of governance … all those mammoth overheads to run Brussels and Strasbourg, and much else, are not necessary. Small, very efficient agencies running policy and programs, overseen by a Council with three reps from each member nation, and a streamlined judiciary to manage disputes – that should do it.
Meanwhile, David Cameron (speaking of ruling-class twits) made an appalling decision to hold a referendum on this issue in the way that he did. He left it wide open for a massive mis-information campaign – from both sides certainly – but far more from the Leave crowd … you might disagree.
And on a brighter note, North Macedonia beats Deutschland 2-1 away … there is a football god!
There are usually two arguments presented in defence of the EU. One is the economic argument and the other is the political argument. I sense that you are coming from the political side with the belief that European integration is an antidote to nationalism and war. I will therefore leave the economic argument aside for the moment. We can return to that but it has been thoroughly debunked.
Was the EU a *cause* of European peace or was it a *consequence* of the peace brought about by the defeat of Nazi Germany, the spread of democracy and the NATO alliance? Most wars have ideological roots, not national roots, and in the case of Europe it has mostly been down to religious differences, e.g. the Counter-Reformation, The Thirty-Years War. This idea that patriotism is dangerous is a new one and it’s unfounded. It’s nothing more than an assertion with nothing to back it up.
Fascism and communism have wrought far more death and destruction than nationalism yet where is the EU headed with its contempt for democracy and centralised top-down organisation? It’s hard to find examples where jamming together different nationalities makes them less rather than more antagonistic but that is what the EU is attempting to do, complete with a manufactured EU identity to go along with the flag and national anthem.
What is causing the discord and chaos right now across North America and to some extent Europe? Is it nationalistic differences or is it cultural and ideological differences between disparate groups? (BLM?)
Your idea of a minimalist form of supra-national government is laudable but also incredibly quixotic. If you could get the EU to reverse its course and move in that direction then I’d be standing with you. Cameron tried a year before the referendum and he predictably got laughed out of Brussels. He was forced into the referendum because UKIP was a threat to the Conservatives’ vote share. He thought it would be a wrap, just like Hillary in 2016. Any misinformation from the Leave side (and there was some that I didn’t agree with) was vastly outweighed by the weight of pro-EU media coverage and 24/7 Project Fear. That too was unfounded.
I would be happy to go back to the precursor to the EU, the EEC, but the EU is travelling in an opposite and irreversible direction so we made our stand and are now trying to make it work. And why shouldn’t it? Is Switzerland the poorer for not being a member? The problem now is all the sore losers that are desperate for it to fail. Again, ideological problems, not national ones.
Congratulations on North Macedonia’s victory! Is that personal for you or or are you just highlighting the fact that they stuffed the Germans? We beat ’em 4-2.
I apologise again for my previous posts. I’ve re-read them and they are a little coarser than I intended. I just get triggered by Brexit!
Congratulations on North Macedonia’s victory! Is that personal for you or or are you just highlighting the fact that they stuffed the Germans? We beat ’em 4-2.
As an old-fashioned leftie-hippie I always like it when the underdog has a win … and no, the ruthlessly efficient Germans are not my favorite team!
I am a fan of Scotland and Wales … reflecting my Gaelic / Celtic ancestry!
Speaking of nationalism and its role in warfare, it certainly has quite a positive role in sport … in fact I think sport is the glue that keeps a lot of tensions at the “harmless yet still passionate ” level …
And one of the reasons why the US is always so much at odds with the rest of the civilized world is their almost complete absence from the international sports stage, Sure, they turn up at the Olympics, and the basketball world championship every four years, but they are not active participants – no football, rugby, cricket, and quite a lot else, on a regular, national-team level.
I’ll think more about the EU – why did you vote Leave … assuming you did!
Funnily enough I did vote to leave! I also did some voluntary work with Vote Leave, running street stalls and leafleting.
At the beginning I couldn’t understand why, in order to by a pair of Italian shoes or a German car, we had to surrender national competencies and hand over billions of pounds each year to an organisation that had a flag, an anthem, a parliament, a supreme court, a central bank and a currency. We don’t do that to import American guitars or Japanese cars so what gives?
It seemed like a classic definition of a racket to me: an organisation (the EU) creates an artificial problem (barriers to trade) then offers a solution (to remove said barriers providing you join the club, fork over some cash, surrender some sovereignty and commit to ‘ever closer union’).
Of course, as I learned more, it became apparent that it was always a political project, not an economic one but that was hidden from view as far as possible. We were lied to from the start and with each successive treaty, Maastricht in particular, the EEC insidiously transformed from a group of several north-west European nations with similar economies and cultures to a bureaucratic monster of 27 nations ceding ever more sovereignty in service of the ‘European dream’ with ever more diktats and control emanating from high command.
Nobody was ever asked if that’s what they wanted. Five other referendums have been held by across Europe on various treaty changes. In every case the country voted against it and in every case the result was either ignored or the country was asked to ‘try again’. It’s an anti-democratic organisation with authoritarian tendencies run by career bureaucrats and, in some cases communists, who you can’t vote in and certainly can’t vote out.
Maybe all that could be forgiven if it actually benefitted the people of Europe but the only ones benefitting are the Eurocrats sitting in their palatial offices with their special tax rates and expense accounts. I won’t go any further into the economics now, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Common Agricultural Policy etc. suffice to say they are as competent at that as they are their vaccine rollout.
Sorry to waffle on.
Ha! This appeared on Zero Hedge today. Yes I know, right-wing crackpot financials website… but it echoes some of my own opinions above.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/european-union-single-market-tragic-farce
Happy Easter! There was a nice chocolate bunny in the kitchen this morning! Stunning days – sunny and warm.
Maybe all that could be forgiven if it actually benefitted the people of Europe but the only ones benefitting are the Eurocrats sitting in their palatial offices with their special tax rates and expense accounts.
I watched the whole lead-up campaign, then the excruciating night of the referendum count – with all those naff BBC graphics. The toffs on the BBC seem to spend hours telling us that the civilised internationalist moderns of the Home Counties were being beat by the Viking-bred savages north of Birmingham.
It was then equally “entertaining” watching Theresa May then Our Boris twist themselves into pretzels trying to get out of Europe with something intact. It was like watching sausages being made.
I agree those bureaucrats are execrable – their silk suits, their smooth grey hair, their 500 years of blue-blood ancestry – I’m not envious of course!
How much did race and job-envy play a part? I’ll hold my nose and read the zerohedge article!
Common wisdom would dictate reducing the EU back to a single market, one territory without any internal borders or other regulatory obstacles to the free movement of goods and services.
The ideological hubris that animates European institutions and their ideological sponsors will push them in the opposite direction – that of ever-greater centralization – at the expense of the European people and their vital interests.
I like the last paragraph … for the subtle weasel words, dropping “people and capital” from the free-movement list.
I love the whole tone of zerohedge – American free capitalism good! European stodgy socialism – bad! 🙂
Happy Easter, Tekapo. Same here, some Spring optimism at long last!
I finished work on referendum night around 2:30am and tuned into BBC Radio 4 for the drive home. I knew immediately something was afoot by the tone of the presenters. Excruciating for you, but pure joy for me seeing the results come in and watching the talking heads explode in the hours and weeks that followed.
You obviously witnessed the following four years of self-inflicted carnage as our own politicians tried to delegitimise and overturn the result. Some dark times for Brexiteers and an embarrassment for the country I think but it’s all over now and there won’t be any going back in my lifetime, I don’t think.
I’m not sure what you mean by job envy? Race wasn’t an issue but immigration was a big talking point. Though admittedly overplayed by the Leave side, according to the Remainers, anybody voting Leave was a racist, xenophobic, swivel-eyed loon. I didn’t meet a single racist in all my campaigning (I actually haven’t in my entire adult life) and the vast majority of people just wanted a controlled Australian-style immigration system, what are your skills, what is your health, can you support yourself, your family etc.
In the major hospital near me one in every fourth births is, or was, to an immigrant mother. While I’m not opposed to that in principal isn’t it a legitimate question to ask, who is paying for it? But you couldn’t have that conversation. You were a ‘xenophobe’ right off the bat.
Regarding free movement of “people and capital”, well, that’s sort of the point of independence. Isn’t that what most countries do? Grease the wheels of commerce (goods and services) through trade agreements but not have unfettered and uncontrolled movement of people in and out of the country?
Brexit certainly exposed a faultline. It’s certainly not the UK of my grandparents’ time but things move on. I think maybe I was just born in the wrong era. I think I’d have been better off with the Victorians.
“I’m not sure what you mean by job envy?”
That cheap labour from poorer nations of Europe were heading to the UK as economic migrants (not refugees in any sense), and either taking jobs from Brits, or reducing the wages and conditions in the UK.
“Race wasn’t an issue but immigration was a big talking point. Though admittedly overplayed by the Leave side, according to the Remainers, anybody voting Leave was a racist, xenophobic, swivel-eyed loon. I didn’t meet a single racist in all my campaigning (I actually haven’t in my entire adult life) and the vast majority of people just wanted a controlled Australian-style immigration system, what are your skills, what is your health, can you support yourself, your family etc.”
Immigration, refugee intake, illegal arrivals, and the rights of a society to determine its “racial mix” are some of the really difficult questions of most Western nations – with the level of intensity varying enormously.
I come from the more liberal end of the spectrum, but I am retired, have had a good career, and now enjoy a secure retirement – so I can afford to be generous.
The US has a lot of really crazy stuff going on – but the political and ideological divide that runs deepest is all about race. The dominant white population are slowly (some say quickly) losing that dominance, and a lot of people do not like it and can very passionate about it.
I have no solutions. For the whole last generation, the middle and working class of America has been hollowed out – city after city is a shell of what it was. The problem has been clearly identified – all manufacturing jobs went to low-cost countries – but nothing was done about it.
Stuff just happens – there are so few solutions. Like the destruction of US inner cities over the last 12 months. IT just goes on and on and no solutions are available.
Australia is an isolated island and we
Australia is an isolated island and can control its immigration pretty effectively. So can New Zealand. They are both lucky in that sense, and both have established pretty good relations with the source of most of their recent immigration (Middle East, South Asia, China)..
way too dark, i’d suspect we will just do just fine, but will have to use freezed dried coffee and jam on our bread. You might have to make your own jam, ohh the bother.
Jim’s description of the 4 Horsemen sums it up perfectly….
Everything I find that goes against my worldview narrative I eventually find out is a PsyOp.
Have any of the networks picked up the dramatic video out of NYC showing Club Members brutally beating Asian people in bloody, unprovoked assaults? There are three in the past 2 days, all of them bad. Arguably the worst was the elderly woman cold cocked and stomped on her way to church in Hells Kitchen. An arrest has been made in that case. STOP ASIAN HATE was all the rage just last week, now not so much. Now its propaganda to “make black people look bad”. (BLM) Another example of the lying, mendacious, deceitful POS media.
Brh
” “Africa ? Already seriously fucked anyway on account of colonialism.”
Kesa,
Yeah…seriously fucked on account of…colonialism…yeah.
That
Does
Fit
The
Narrative ”
— Elysianfield.
I disagree.
The impression I get is that Leftists say Africa is fucked up because of racism.
Right – wingers say that Africa is fucked up because Africans are mentally retarded beasts. Which is …. well …. racist.
I SAID NEITHER OF THESE THINGS. ( Actually the same thing. )
I did not say racism , or racist world views , fucked up Africa.
I said colonialism fucked up Africa.
That’s a different species entirely.
Perhaps some elaboration is in order ?
If I remember correctly , humans , as best we can figure , have been around 50 ,000 years.
A common mis-perception is that we know much at all about 45,000 of those 50,000 years.
No ,
to make a long story short , what we know about those 45,000 years is 1%.
What we do not know is 99%.
So much for 45,000 years of human history.
5,000 years ago humans started making half – way durable stuff , and written records come along , and civilization appears.
To make a long story short , for the next 4,500 years there really isn’t much to choose between civilizations.
The two greatest civilizations of this period were the Romans and the Chinese , and I would argue that the great contribution of both was in the area of logistics , organization , and bureaucracy.
No small thing , granted …..
Except , well , for example the ROMANS THEMSELVES believed the Greeks were better thinkers , better artists , and better Physicians. And I think there is some truth to that .
EXCEPT for logistics , organization , and bureaucracy , ( and the Romans and Chinese went bankrupt despite these things anyway , albeit slowly )
What is there to choose between civilization in Nubia , or in Ceylon ?
Between Arabia , and Scandinavia , or MesoAmerica ?
It looks very much to me like it basically comes down to ; Whose costumes or art do you prefer ?
As vaunted as the Romans were , they never advanced beyond the same candle technology the Scythian’s and Picts had.
Water transport remained the cheapest and most efficient means of bulk hauling in China , the same as in Nubia , or Gaul .
This brings us up to a mere 500 years ago.
It might be pertinent at this point to note that the SAME YEAR Columbus sailed for America The Christian Spanish finally expelled the Moslems from Iberia.
— And as late as the 17th Century , only 300 years ago , the Ottoman Turks were banging on the gates of Vienna.
That is to say , a mere 500 years ago Europe , and White people , didn’t dominate shit.
White – people – world was still merely one neighborhood among many .
And EVEN THEN there were , ” Barbarians at the gates ” ( recall again , as late as the 17th Century , Rag – head Camel Jockies were laying siege to Vienna. )
Back to Columbus .
The conquest of America by Europeans was rather misleading.
From 1492 to 1800 this was pretty much European high – tech ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KTS8PQ06Qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGOLqxcbIg
If you don’t know military science , then you’ll have to take my word for it , or not , that that tech wasn’t really a decisive advantage over this ;
( 0;00 to 1: 40 )
Indeed , it is still true that you can negate a firepower advantage if you maintain cohesion and close the distance with the enemy quickly enough , ” Grab the enemy by the belt buckle ” .
Indeed , fact was ; German technology was generally superior to Soviet tech , but , using , ” Grab the enemy by the belt buckle ” the Soviets won the war.
Indeed , a little known fact is that throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s when the United States and NATO war gamed a conventional World War III with the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact the United States and NATO consistently lost .
( I just fucking love those old Fulda Gap exercises. 😀 )
So , apparently , even now any technological advantage is neutralized if you can close the distance.
Anyway , no , what was decisive in the New World was accidental biological warfare.
The exposure of an entire continent to diseases they had never encountered before.
There was genocide in the America’s , except that it was accidental .
The name of the super weapon was Smallpox.
And the New World is pretty much it for European bragging rights.
As for pretty much the entire rest of the world , Europeans never took as much as 100 acres of land that they could hold for more than three generations , but in most cases only a single generation.
And this is even when they had breach – loading rifles and machine guns , and yes , when the natives still had only spears or flintlocks.
A mere 150 years ago Africa was commonly referred to as , ” Darkest Africa. ”
This ” Darkest ” was not a reference to skin color.
The fact is , a mere 150 years ago Europeans didn’t fucking know what was in Africa.
A mere 150 years ago , European knowledge of most of Africa extended only about 50 miles inland.
That is , it is roughly comparable to if your entire knowledge of North and Central America was Connecticut and Cuba.
So , European dominance over Africa is barely 150 years.
( By the way , this period is inaugurated with Europeans having breach – loading rifles , and the Europeans having cheap coal and cheap petroleum , neither of which the natives happen to have just yet. )
Now I will suggest to you a — granted — hypothetical ;
Let’s say that Elysianfield is hanging out in California with his AK – 47 , and his 5 dollar a gallon gas , minding his own business ,
when suddenly these Chinese people show up with Star Trek Phazers and perpetual motion machines.
Well , you have already lost the war ( though in several cases the Africans in fact curb – stomped the Europeans , even despite their temporary technological disadvantages . )
even though , actually , believe it or not , I really DON’T think it’s because Elysianfield is so fucking stupid or lazy.
It’s just that , for the moment at least , they have Phazers , and stupidly cheap energy , and you don’t.
Now , for the rest of his life , these fellows run Elysianfield’s California neighborhood.
They treat Elysianfield , and his children too , like 5 year olds.
Indeed , worse , they actually sincerely believe that Elysianfield and his children are no better or more capable than five year olds.
Worse , they even go so far as to micromanage Elysianfield’s very household , they presume to order Elysianfield about in his own kitchen !
And worse , for the most part they do this from 500 miles away.
And worse , they don’t even really fucking give a shit about California , about Elysianfield’s neighborhood , about Elysianfield’s household , or Elysianfield’s children.
And this is the basic reality of things for the next 50 , or 100 years.
OK , finally , these people leave.
Ah , but that still doesn’t necessarily mean much .
Why ?
How so ?
Well , unfortunately here I would have to ask you to be honest ;
Do those people on Wall Street , in Washington , in Hollywood , not royally jerk you around , even as a puppet , even if they are 500 miles away , even if you have never even met them ?
Why then is it such a stretch to consider that the sovereignty of , say , Chad , or Sierre Leone , might in fact be a fucking joke , even 50 years after ” Independence ” ?
And do you really believe those people on Wall Street , in Washington , in Hollywood , are so much smarter and generally better than you are ?
Or is maybe something else going on there that isn’t really explained by IQ or genealogy ?
Indeed , it seems to me that what is currently happening to YOUR COUNTRY could well be described as African – style colonialism .
And , yes , in only 50 years your country has transformed into an embarrassing clusterfuck.
Well, this is ALREADY a wall of text.
I hope I have at least some what clarified what I am driving at , what I mean , when I say colonialism , NOT RACISM , fucked up Africa.
Grrr ! Left out ;
If you don’t know military science , then you’ll have to take my word for it , or not , that that tech wasn’t really a decisive advantage over this ;
( 0;00 to 1: 40 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY86SQTS_Q8
You must be referring to the Battle of Islawanda, a whole British army wiped out by the Zula nation armed with a few single shot rifles, animal hyde shields, and short spears.
Brh
No culture has survived an encounter with a higher culture [ higher technology ].
This will be next ” scare-the-hell-out-of-them ” ploy.
Amen
Today’s “colonialism” of Wall Street hinges on the proposal, almost globally accepted, that cheap energy is permanent, but in reality it is a power play by those using cheap oil to grab any and every immediate and short-term advantage they can, in the same manner as tech advantages were used in african colonialism.
The two colonialisms are connected. The hopelessly misused discovery of oil’s capabilities handed 19th-century winners of the global-musical-chairs of power an economic nuclear weapon (petroleum and the myth of infinite petroleum) in place of a gatling gun.
So you can legitimately say that 19th-century colonialism has never ended at all… it’s been increased to an exponential level by both the immediate real power and accompanying (b.s.) mythos of the petroleum economy
When something is messed up Africans have a saying.
TIA and it explains everything about Africa one needs to know.
When we’re living like pre-colonial africans over here in the americas post hydrocarbon-tech, maybe “this is america” will be a go-to phrase referencing the not-so-graceful cultural transitions we’ve undergone
” colonialism , NOT RACISM , fucked up Africa.”
“The fact is , a mere 150 years ago Europeans didn’t fucking know what was in Africa.”
Kesa,
If that be the case, and I expect it was, then you would have to further suggest that Africa, before this knowledge came to the Europeans and Colonialism began, was NOT fucked up. Other than Wakanda, which the Europeans destroyed, what were the marks of civilization that remain from that period? Who became the African equivalent of Vivaldi, or Titian? Who designed and built the great cities? Who could provide for the wheel, or steel implements, or shoes?
…Wasn’t racism, or necessarily a vaunted low IQ that caused Africa to remain a bucolic backwater to civilization. What then?
A temperate climate, perhaps? A lack of need? A lack of adversity at the basal maintenance/survival level? Perhaps. Cultural Anthropology gives this as a possibility.
I have long understood that Humans do poorly without some adversity in their lives.
…Summertime…and the livin’ is easy….
Free ebook> Negroes in Negroland.
One day accomplishments of Vivaldi, Titian, Aristotle and Einstein will be secondarily honored (if remembered at all) to accomplishments of early hunter/gatherer cultures which came close to true sustainability, for instance, the Mbuti pygmies in Africa or the Australian aborigines fresh to that continent from Africa
Or even better, the cockroach which has not changed in millions of years. Evolutionary perfection. They’ve been studied: they can live for six months without eating. Their level of activity drops, but otherwise they’re basically fine. Feed them and they’re immediately back to normal. After six months, they just suddenly die.
Or beyond that, the amoeba – unchanged for billions of years perhaps.
Are you starting to realize that your frame of reference is not just a little bit wrong, but all wrong?
This is the kind of shit I would expect from someone who would listen to his race being trashed all day long, but immediately get angry when a word is said about Blacks.
There are hundreds of examples of hunter/gatherer sustainability yoohoo, from many races and continents, and each of them accomplished something more significant than anything fruited from agro-industrial civilizations.
If you don’t like it, it’s just gonna be tough cookies for you and anyone superstitiously and nostalgically attached most (though not quite all) of what agro-industrial civilizations have “accomplished” and been about.
So you admit cockroaches are even better because they’re even more natural and leave less of a carbon footprint?
yoohoo youre stuck in the contemporary political matrix, in the cave seeing shadows
was Einstein a plagiarist and fraud?
“Evolutionary perfection.”
I caught part of a nature programme last night about animal intelligence. Dung beetles, which I guess have been around as long as cockroaches, pretty much, walk backwards pulling a big ball of dung, so they can’t see where they’re going. So I have now learned.
Turns out they navigate by the moon. But also, they navigate by the light gradient of the Milky Way in the night sky. No gradient, no can do.
A scientist who’s been studying them for years put little hats on them so they couldn’t see the sky and they just walked round in circles. Amazing.
I think the Milky Way is for when there’s no moon. Belt and braces.
A man of few words??
If you believe the “news” outlets roughly one third of Americans have taken the experimental vaccines for covid.
Well the signs are that all the companies producing these experimental vaccines are not getting he profits they thought they were going to get so now they are trying to widen the market.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/pfizer-says-its-covid-19-vaccine-protects-younger-teens/ar-BB1f9UuV?ocid=msnews
The funny part the “news” is now starting to report the bizarre reactions peoples bodies are having to these vaccines shingles being at the top of some of those lists. I have heard lines like “Well if it hurts then you know your vaccine is working….HUH?
Rashes head to toe.
Continent-sized blobs from another planet could be hiding beneath Earth’s…
China’s military preparing for US intervention in Taiwan Strait
a hand holding a toothbrush: A nurse loading a syringe with a dose of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine in Athens, Ohio. Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images© Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A nurse loading a syringe with a dose of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine in Athens, Ohio. Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Richard Terrell’s skin turned red and swelled up after he got J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine.
His doctors say they believe it was directly caused by the vaccine.
But they said the reaction was “extremely rare” and encouraged people to still get the vaccine.
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A 74-year-old Virginia man developed a severe rash that spread across his entire body after getting the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on March 6, WRIC’s Talya Cunningham reported.
Richard Terrell of Goochland, Virginia, told the news station that he started experiencing the symptoms about four days after the getting the single-shot vaccine.
“I began to feel a little discomfort in my armpit and then a few days later I began to get an itchy rash, and then after that I began to swell and my skin turned red,” Terrell told WRIC.
The rash proceeded to spread over his entire body, causing his legs and arms to swell and his skin to peel off, he said.
Insider has contacted Johnson & Johnson for comment.
“It was stinging, burning, and itching,” Terrell told WRIC. “Whenever I bent my arms or legs, like the inside of my knee, it was very painful where the skin was swollen and was rubbing against itself.””.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-virginia-man-who-got-johnson-johnson-s-covid-19-vaccine-developed-a-severe-rash-that-spread-over-his-entire-body/ar-BB1f9wG5?ocid=msnews
The article explains that Terrell was still happy he had gotten the vaccination.
File under: “Thank you sir! May I have another?”
“I’m sure looking firward to J&J’s quarterly results and can’t wait ’til this is annual!”
Continent sized blobs
Who knows, the earth may be a bunch of blobs held together by a gravity center. Maybe the continents are just the tips of blobs floating in a morass of liquid rock, the mantle. Maybe the heavier elements of all the blobs slowly diffuse to the center making the core, as the blobs become lighter, more continental land is produced. Maybe the blobs move around the rotating core causing continental drift. Maybe all the blobs moving around cause the variations in the magnetic field.
Maybe, maybe?
They desperately want to get the little kid (as in newborn baby!) market. They plan to start “testing”. No doubt the testing will prove that it’s fine.
Pfizer just released data saying that their vaccine is 100% effective at preventing the disease in the age group 12 – 15. No disease at all.
And you believe them?
Maybe because kids hardly ever get it anyway, did you consider that?
Well they say we can reach herd immunity as long as we stampede towards their objective!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/it-s-possible-to-reach-herd-immunity-then-lose-it-repeatedly-here-s-what-you-can-do-to-help-prevent-that-from-happening/ar-BB1f8znO?ocid=msnews
pun intended.
“From the first time I met him he just did not make a lot of sense. We’ve seen all of his flipflops,” Navarro said. “My new theory is that he’s simply a sociopath. He just lies to advance his own interest.” -Navarro
Navarro said Fauci first downplayed coronavirus, then said it would take years to develop a vaccine and now he’s trying to steal credit for the vaccine.
He added, in reality Fauci was helping China to create COVID-19.
“So, Fauci is a sociopath. Fauci created the Wuhan lab gain of function genetically engineered virus,” Navarro stated. “If you allow the Chinese communists working with the People’s Liberation Army to go in and screw around with a bioweapon using your gain of function, which was slipped past President Trump behind his back, guess what? You’re going to get deadly and dangerous viruses that are then going to mutate and continue to thwart our efforts to get herd immunity through things like vaccines and people who are already being infected.”
Navarro went on to add Fauci must be held accountable for all his lies.
So in other words Fauci is a politician who gets 500k a year and that is not enough and wants more money and fame. got it.
https://www.oann.com/navarro-fauci-is-a-sociopath-must-be-held-accountable/
Fauci = CIA
The whole event was/is scripted. They put the right people in the right places to choreograph their show. Navarro is a good guy, but he’s clueless to the big picture and its conspiracy/agenda of a ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
Mystery [ hidden ] Babylon would be the biblical term. Glad to see you learning some new words.
THERE IS NO PANDEMIC IN ISRAEL.
there is only a pcr testing scam reclassifying seasonal illness as “covid”. if you look at a simple graph of tests per day in israel, you can see every “wave”. 50% are still unvaccinated and the pandemic is over, because there never was a pandemic. no wave of mortality, no excess mortality, just a who testing scam.
Yes, we can now go on with our lives. How is it looking for Europe?
https://listverse.com/2018/06/20/10-craziest-things-people-have-blamed-on-the-jews/
Click bait
– https://youtu.be/WLEU7hdMbz4
Why don’t you tell us?
Be sure to use information that is verifiable.
Straight from the CIA
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data
When do you verify this data?
The floor is yours.
Check with your German government. If their figures are different, it would be interesting to find out why.
In principle I agree with you. The numbers are not to be trusted for many many reasons, but these are the numbers we have, and by which policy is decided. It’s not like it was I that made them up.
Navarro went on to add Fauci must be held accountable for all his lies.
LOL – Navarro lies every time he speaks – and he’s utterly nuts. Tony Fauci should feel proud of his work.
He added, in reality Fauci was helping China to create COVID-19.
I know Dr Fauci is getting old, is still busy, and is a pleasant guy.
But I really wish he would sue the ass of Navarro and his ilk – all these Trump psychopaths need their comeuppance! They believe they can say any lying stuff and get away with it. Trump did – until he no longer did.
How about a twice yearly dose for the rest of your life?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/why-one-dose-of-a-two-dose-vaccine-isn-t-enough/ar-BB1f8eEP?ocid=msnews
Yup. They always use incrementalism to boil the frog. That’s why, you never give up an inch, no matter how trivial or possibly “justified”.
For the ultimate irony consider this:
1. It is known that a significant portion of the population has native immunity to Covid-19, perhaps to a variety of coronaviruses.
2. What if the vaccines interfere with that natural immunity via ADE (antibody dependent enhancement)?
It could be true. We won’t know for a long time.
Better: what if that is the express purpose of the “vaccines” in the first place? Haven’t tested positive, but I believe I’ve already had whatever it is they’re labeling as CV-19. Symptoms all noticeable, but very minor. Hasn’t disrupted my day to day at all, other than I’m noticeably more tired than usual. At my age, I actually consider that a plus, as I don’t sleep all that well anymore. Either way, just say FUCK NO to the jab!
This is the biggest medical experiment ever. I will never willingly take this crap and may God forgive anyone who forces it into me.
“Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/masks-early-pulmonary-toxicity-quebec-schools-daycares-1.5966387
One of the commenters asks why stuff isn’t tested for safety before it leaves the factory. I just assume the normalcy bias strikes again. The entire episode is a mass global experiment or exercise. Remember, we have to curtail safety to get safety..or something like that. And there is already a black market developing for the vaccine passports. Criminals are the best business people so that should give you a barometer of what is to come. It’s time you spice things up. You made it to the correct conclusion but you messed up on your homework and so you won’t even get a D. Sorry, well not really, that we still have to be racist and grade you. Yes, basically you are living and breathing within a giant PsyOp. But it isn’t a PsyOp because it runs counter to your worldviews. No. Your worldviews align with the meta narrative because..it is essentially all that you know. And you definitely live by strict faith.
Hail Jebus!
Hail Pontus Maximus Jebus!
Roma Victor! Roma Victor! Roma Victor!
Sol Invictus! Sol Invictus! Sol Invictus!
The Sun of God unites all religions. And the Son of the Sun is the gift of God via Christianity to All.
$un of God. Nice business model. Thieve the people’s money and rights and tell them that the Kings that rule over them do so by Divine Right (as long as they obey Pontus Maximus Jebus!)
Better than “the Chosen People”?
You’re welcome to join in anytime, Vlad
– https://youtu.be/5p7GyQfKa4g
Yohannon, meet Yohannan
– https://youtu.be/4O0txkaygXk
One is reminded of the Janissaries, the slave soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. All non-Muslim involuntary conscripts, though many converted later, some attaining high positions.
We will still need to trim your yoyo
You’ve chosen the downward path into Globalism, Negroism, and Covidism.
https://listverse.com/2018/06/20/10-craziest-things-people-have-blamed-on-the-jews/
You’ve chosen the downward path into Globalism, Negroism, and Covidism.
==
Yeah, and I’ll be taking her home
– https://youtu.be/jCaDIBBDsPc
We are living in the days prophesized in Daniel & Revelation.
In fact, I’m Hopeful that 7 years of Trials & Tribulations started on March 11, 2020 (NBA suspended operations & President Trump halted all commercial air travel to and from Europe). If so, Year 1 is like an hors d’eurve with serious food coming.
Regardless, we are witnessing the prelim to The Mark. You must swear allegiance to receive The Mark so that you may continue to buy and sell.
Gates & Fauci & Bezos & Zuckerberg
Dontcha think the eclipse that passed through 7 towns named Salem, followed by another 7 years later crossing the US in the other direction might be a message with a little louder ring ?
Signs in heavens stuff:
https://godskingdom.org/blog/2017/08/the-seven-salems-affected-by-the-coming-eclipse
Salaam means Peace. So going the other way means War?
SH–L–M
Means:
whole, complete, tranquil, peaceful, payment, greetings
Still scared of vowels? Bad juju!
Pun not intended. I’m biting my hand right now a la Dr Strangelove.
You see, you’re already emulating a Heeb.
https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Warsaw
17 = victory
I don’t know. I think the world was still too “normal” prior to March 2020 global lockdowns to be part of the 7 years of Trials & Tribs.
I’m not sure that the 7 years are given any loud ring at its beginning.
I do know that the vax is, by far, the most mark-like thing in mankind’s history.
CFN’rs
G. Gordon LIddy died today…90 years old.
I am somewhat saddened. I enjoyed his antics.
His book “Will”, mostly fiction, was a hoot.
RIP
Indeed. A “crooks crook.” By the way, there’s a good chance that he took the fall voluntarily for what was a GOP-sponsored Deep State inside frame up job to remove Nixon. The official story of Watergate is pure bullshit. They wanted Nixon gone for capitulating on Vietnam and being soft on the Soviet Union and China, among a great many other transgressions.
I have never heard that before. He sure sounds guilty of the BS on the tapes but maybe both are True.
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064
Chapters 10 & 11. Baker makes a very compelling case.
Better: two chapters in six parts, all free.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/06/17/watergate-downing-nixon-part-1/
I’m gonna pour myself a cup of coffee and dig in. Thank you.
That is a fascinating read. Thx again.
Very compelling case indeed!
Poppy Bush was the Skull & Bonesman that was knee-deep in all of it. Bay of Pigs & JFK through 9/11 & Afghan heroin.
Nixon referred to Bohemian Grove as “faggoty,” I believe. And that was back when there was something Wrong with that.
Nixon was a pretty liberal GOPer. He also put in price controls on many goods directly interfering with the free market. He definitely was a square peg in a round hole with the Deep State ofbthe time, especially the MIC. That seems to be the key, if you mess with the MIC, watch out. Sounds like a Baldacci novel.
he warned of immigration but didnt stop it.
how could he? with emma lazarus on the other side.
Lefties hated Nixon because of his anti Communist activities in the late 40, a time when Soviet agents had indeed infiltrated the US Govt., including the outing of Carl Berstein’s father, who was a commie.
Brh
yet another anti american jew? (((berstein))).
… what was a GOP-sponsored Deep State inside frame up job to remove Nixon. The official story of Watergate is pure bullshit. They wanted Nixon gone for capitulating on Vietnam and being soft on the Soviet Union and China
LOL … one of the Big Three, along with Killing of JFK and 9/11 … there is no end to the fever dreams that are brought on by tinfoil. And faking Apollo II gets an honorable mention too.
You guys just crack me up.
I’m not saying what’s true and what isn’t. But at least some people have the curiosity and energy to get off their ass and investigate, research, and challenge what the authorities tell us.
Your mind on the other hand, Tekapo, is a docile, gullible, clean slate for the deep state propagandists to write what they will.
Au contraire, mon ami …
I go with the known facts -rather than racing off believing the last person who pitched a forkload of horseshit my way.
If Watergate had been “pure bullshit” then Richard Nixon would not have said what he said on the tapes … a 10yo can figure that out.
Oh wait! The Deep State is so devilishly clever that they faked the Nixon Tapes! See what I mean … it’s all Alice in Wonderland.
That is a ridiculous strawman argument, Tekapo. Nobody said the tapes are faked.
Skull & Bonesman running the USA is not tinfoil.
Smarten up.
Like I said, I’m not endorsing or denying any specific claims. I’m speaking to the process of going beyond “the known facts” and maybe looking for unknown facts.
I guess you just don’t get that.
Skull & Bonesman running the USA is not tinfoil.
LOL … as the old man said to the slick grad, “Don’t be so smart, it’s turtles all the way down!”
I guess you just don’t get that.
That’s the problem – I do get it very well. If Watergate was a set-up to nail Richard Nixon , then one cannot explain away what he says on the tapes.
I have an open mind – and you cannot cherry-pick the data you like, and ignore the data that is inconvenient. And people always operate illogically (ie, back-asswards) … they believe the Deep State wanted to be rid of Nixon, then go out and collect just the “evidence” that supports the conclusion they are already fixed on.
Same thing happened with those claiming 2020 election fraud. I don’t know whether it was fixed or not, but I sure know that no-one demonstrated it was.
Go back to sleep, little sheep. Clearly, your time to awaken has not yet come.
Hear, hear!
The condescending sarcasm is yet another way Blue Anons reveal their slavish devotion to the authoritarian dictate.
he and adversary Leary took to the talk circuit.
$ talks.
Is Rahm Daas still kicking? That guy was a piece of work. Altho, bizarre as he was, he wouldn’t even rate in today’s Freak Show c2021.
Brh
His dad called him rammed ass. He suffered a serious stroke some years ago and has been pretty inactive, cared to by his husband. He may have passed, not sure. Doesn’t matter. I doubt if his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba, is altogether pleased with him.
He told one funny story about how being a Holy Man was really getting him down. He felt like going to a pono movie so he did. While waiting in line, a hippy recognized him and was oohing and ahhing. The hippy asked what he was doing, and Dick felt he had to tell the Truth, so he told him he was waiting for the movie. The hippy was crushed, suffering a loss of Faith.
Was he right to tell the Truth? And destroy someone’s faith? Traditional Hinduism would condemn him for getting into that situation to begin with. If you set up yourself up as a Teacher, you have a responsibility to live up to that.
If I’m not mistaken Rham Daas’ father had been president of the New Haven RR. That reminds me, one of the weirdos in the Hale Bopp cult who committed suicide was a local who’s father was president of the state’s largest (and only) phone company, went to private school, Ivy League college and all that happy bullsh#t.
Which leaves me feeling grateful I grew up playing baseball, fishing in the river, and running around the woods with my .22 cal. Winchester rifle, ending up at State U.
Brh
Mental illness gravitates towards the wealthy. Maybe it’s all that in breeding.
not poNo..porno..the film is ‘DEEP THROAT’…Incident happened in SF in the 1970s.
He was from a wealthy family. dad was ‘an SOB who ran the NE railroad’.
RAM DAS..He died on maui.
look up his wiki.
I knew someone who knew someone who visited him, right before his ‘leaving his body’….’he looked dead already’..
another jewish writer, lecturer, into eastern religion.
Ram Dass was the fool formerly known as Richard Alpert….
The brain is subject to mutations just as is any other part of the body. The Puritans under a relaxation of selective pressure evolved into an assortment of deviants & various other mentals.
Gordon Liddy, now there was a man who liked his revolvers. No semi autos for Gordon.
I remember him mentioning that on his radio talk show.
Brh
Can’t help but think of Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson & Liddy & Steve McQueen were a type of guy that only existed in their era.
Good point OG.
Dudes who grew up in the 40s & 50s, soaking in the Hemingway mystique.
liddy was a fool
thompson allegedly made snuff films.
Just an idea.
We know that when Covid invades, the reaction of the immune system varies from person to person, some asymptomatic some die, with everthing in between. It is the variability of immune response that causes the reaction.
Could it be that when the vaccine causes replication of spike proteins that the same variability of immune response to the proteins causes these low incidence reactions. Is the action of the vaccine a mini dose of the actual disease attenuated by the fact the proteins cannot reproduce?
Just wondering.
In the meantime, let the vaccine cheerleaders contemplate the man whose skin fell off as a result of vaccination.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/reaction-covid-19-vaccine-caused-mans-skin-peel-doctors.
A reaction to Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine caused a severe rash that eventually led to a man’s skin peeling off, doctors and the man said.
“It all just happened so fast. My skin peeled off. It’s still coming off on my hands now,” Richard Terrell, 74, of Virginia, told WRIC.
….doctors determined what happened to Terrell was a reaction to the vaccine.
Covid is a Hoax.
I am starting to think that the people who believe COVID19 is a real pandemic are the ones who just can’t seem to understand just how unbelievably evil the people running the show are. How they don’t see this, I don’t know. It’s not as if they are hiding any of the horrid stuff they do.
Exactly, MaryV. The evil ones are so blatant and open about what they are doing against humanity. You and I see it clearly. Others walk around like mental zombies seeing nothing. I almost have to think that God is awakening those whom he has chosen.
I’ve always thought that the people who believe COVID19 is a hoax perpetrated by someone “running the show” are pathologically paranoid, and are so gullible that they believe any wild rumour they see on the Internet, while ignoring the facts and data that are all readily available.
These same people seem to be climate-deniers, 9/11-truthers, Biden-win-deniers, vaccine-deniers, Barack-Obama-birthers, peak-oil-deniers, renewables-scoffers, and much else.
It would be interesting to know what (of any value) they DO believe in. Santa Claus? The Tooth fairy? The Illuminati?
Who knows what are in those vaccines?
Fauxi’s last engineered pandemic for profit was AIDS. The cure was the pandemic, not the illness, according to some. From what a lot of his former colleagues (and other scientists and doctors) have said, they used a regular cold/ flu virus/pnemonia as the dreaded disease just like they’re doing now.Then the AZT they gave people destroyed their immune systems.
This is not my theory – it’s one I have run into again and again.
In the 1990s, the gay community despised Fauxi, because they knew what he did. But in the United States of Amnesia, instead of going to prison, he was put in another position of power. Probably because he doesn’t think twice about ending peoples’ lives or ruining their health for profit.
Reagan only reported any pain after he was thrown into the car to get away from Hinckley. Then the pain became very great. Was he actually shot by his security guard in the car?
In his documentary “The Second Gun”, Theodore Charach says that ballistic evidence shows that the shot that killed Bobby Kennedy was fired from two or three inches away. Sirhan was never that close. His security guard shot him. The guard admits he has his gun drawn, but denies firing it. A witness says it was fired.
I don’t know why anyone would shoot a dupe like Regan. He did everything he was told, starting the mass amnesties of illegals for instance and lowering taxes on the rich, etc.
But Bobby was easy to hate and hated by many. He was going after the Mob – after his Grandfather had made his fortune with them. That’s a personal insult.
Interesting Y.
George Giardino, the capos brother wrote a book where he said that a deal was inked between the Giardinos and the Kennedy’s to divide the pie so to speak.
When JFK was president, Bobby started going after the mob as attorney general. A classic conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination was supported by the book, saying that JHK was shot by a dupe from the mob sponsored by the CIA aka the Deep State.
When Bobby started his run, he was disposed of.
Who is the real power in this country?
some say the hit was arranged by farmers who were unhappy with what RFK was doing. I dunno.
I think they killed Marilyn.
The farmers killed Marilyn?
Hahaha.
Make that George Giancana, brother of Sam, capo of the Chicago mob
Father not Grandfather.
Why would anyone shoot Reagan? Maybe Old George Bush didn’t want to wait 8 years for his time in the sun. So get a close friend to send his unbalanced son to shoot Reagan. It’s worth a try; what have they got to lose?
Anyone who questions the ‘good old boy network connections’ will be dismissed as some idiot “conspiracy theorist”. For surely the universe runs only on coincidences.
“I don’t see why anybody would shoot a dupe like Reagan.”
Poppy would’ve become POTUS.
Reagan did everything he was told … after Hinckley.
Tekapo
Why is it that everybody left of center is an angel in your eyes, and anyone to the right is a conspiracy theorist. Why can’t you acknowledge that the Left has been accumulating power for fifty years using whatever means they can. They are no angels!
Why is it that all aspects of the media, except the conservatives, have the same stories with the same buzzwords twenty minutes after anything happens?
Conspiracies run the USA.
Why is it that all aspects of the media, except the conservatives, have the same stories with the same buzzwords twenty minutes after anything happens?
I’ve worked with news crews … they are mostly vapid airheads with hardly a critical bone in their body,, ruled by the herd mentality, pressure to get a scoop, but a morbid fear of missing out … by news-time all the channels look the same because the process makes it so.
Competition for dollars runs the USA.
You make me look forward to the end of the dollar.
Competition for dollars runs USA at the level that you have witnessed, Tekapo.
Conspiracies run the USA at the highest echelon.
People in power conspire. D’uh! Always have, always will.
History is nothing but people in power conspiring and other people conspiring to attain power.
And “All wars are bankers’ wars.”
People in power conspire. D’uh! Always have, always will.
They do – but they also compete with each other viciously and continually. Davos ain’t no hippie commune.
They don’t compete, Tekapo. Not at the Rothschild level. It is a pyramid and the agenda is well-defined and non-negotiable.
Davis ain’t no hippie commune. Agreed.
The ultimate goal is power. Dollars equals power.
Right. Tekapo has witnessed the 3/4 mark of the pyramid where capitalism includes competition and power is “Station Manager.”
Once you get up to Dulles & Poppy dollars are readily available beyond personal luxury. Then you weild power like having a bungled Watergate burglary.
I love Redford & Hoffman in ‘All the Prez’ Men.’ Hal Holbrook as Deepthroat. Fantastic flick. Seen it over half a dozen times, for sure.
I will never see it the same after Disaffected pointed out that reading this morning. What I read was like finding the missing pieces of the jig-saw puzzle.
Then you wield power like having a bungled Watergate burglary.
Nice (conspiracy) theory … but how do you explain what Nixon said on the tapes? Third time I’ve asked …
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/29/meet-the-new-pentagon-diversity-chief-who-compared-trump-to-hitler/
Meet Mr Torres-Estrada. A softie? Obviously. A military paper pusher? Not even – just a general bureaucrat whose last gig was urban transportation. Or maybe that’s his specialty. But he’s not military at all in any case. HIs job is obviously to ruin Special Forces in every way possible. Make it like the rest of the military in other words.
This is a classic Obama move. He hates anything that’s White and Heroic. Thus he castrated NASA and then charged them with making Muslims feel good about their contribution to science.
What’s the reason tho? That’s what I can’t figure out.
Let’s see how impressed the Russian army or the PLA is with an ‘inclusive, gender neutral’ US Special Forces.
It seems like the US is overly reliant on Special Forces anyway, but with fewer than 50,000 of them in all the services combined they would have tough go against the 7 million man NKorean army, or the 15 million soldiers China could deploy.
Last nite in Manhattan hundreds of George Floyd marchers were out — little Pol Pots shouting revolutionary slogans, each of which ended with the refrain “burn this mthrf@kjer down” … maybe when the time comes draft these experienced street fighters, throw them against the Chinese Elite Marine division; only problem is most of them looked like 19 year old college girls dressed in Radical Chic, out for a night on the town.
Brh
Apart from the pleasure this give him, I assume he got the go ahead. They aren’t needed anymore, perhaps. Maybe we’re under the protection of Red Army already. Or, if we’re not there yet: The Special Forces are notoriously independent and tend towards extreme conservatism, including White Nationalism. Breaking them down might be seen as discretion. Maybe they’ll build something up in their place, though if Whites like these guys abandon the armed services, I’m not sure they can be replaced. In any case, they’re going to be watched like hawks now in or out of the service.
Radical Chic. Ha!
These kids have no idea what they’re doing. Night on the town indeed.
This shit’s gonna get Real and these kids are going to see that this is not a Disney movie with a corn-syrup ending.
Did you know about this?:
Yep, I’ve read about it. Nine airmen escaped from their planes after being shot down during bombing raids on Chichi Jima, a tiny island 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Tokyo, in September 1944. Eight were captured. The ninth, the only one to evade capture, was future U.S. President George H. W. Bush, then a 20-year-old pilot.
After the war, it was discovered that the captured airmen had been beaten and tortured before being executed. The airmen were beheaded on the orders of Lt Gen. Yoshio Tachibana. American authorities reported that Japanese officers then ate parts of the bodies of four of the men.
“Bedford Forrest”, Amren
That’s new to me, Janos. But sometimes I do wonder about the brutality of the Japanese Imperial Army in WW2, specially in China.
Maybe it’s not true, then. I mean they were famous for their brutality and samurai sword executions, but I never heard of cannibalism before, nor George Bush escaping capture.
Cuomo Signs N.Y. Pot Bill, With Sales Due as Soon as 2022 ….
I heard that the new rope (DUPONT?) cancelled the old rope by outlawing HEMP. Cancel Culture has been here for a while…
Why was hemp made illegal in 1937, and why were all forms of cannabis added to the schedule 1 list in 1970?
I believe William Randolph Hurst was a big mover & shaker in banning hemp to make his forestry pulp & paper the de facto standard for his newspapers when hemp was easily renewable (annual versus decades) and produced a better paper. That’s my understanding.
Jim,
Little known fact, but since WWII, there have been licensed hemp farms maintained to provide rope for the Navy.
Also in NY, the man arrested for stomping and beating an elderly Asian lady on Monday, Brandon Eliot, age 38, wasn’t an Eagle Scout. In fact he was a convicted murderer on lifetime parole from when he stabbed his own mother to death in 2002.
Probably released the asshole because of the Vid. If he wanted back into the big house that bad he could have just robbed a 7-11. I was watching some of that beat down on the tube last night and the moron news anchor was bitching more about nobody helping the women and not a word about the perp. Can’t mention race of course.
AP story didn’t mention race, except that the crime occurred ‘in a white majority neighborhood.’
Well there you go. It’s the white people’s fault for not coming running to help that poor lady.
If some Asian gang in jail helped this perpetrator meet his Epstein Exit, I wouldn’t shed any tears.
I thought that odd too. The attack was so random and isolated and quick and violent that trained police or marine or blackbelt might’ve jumped in but a donut eating concierge is going, “WTF!” and it’s over.
for asians its the chickens have come home to roost.
they voted for dems. dems = soft on black crime.
Great point.
It does lower one’s sympathy level.
I thought voting was a secret process. How do you know who people voted for?
Never left data, facts, evidence, or research get in the way of an old-fashioned race trope, mofo! After all, all the Japanese Americans in California were thrown into jail after Pearl Harbor.
Yes, would you like to curse and denounce Roosevelt and California Governor (future chief justice) Earl Warren, two liberals, for that racist act?
Yeah, all the “date, facts, evidence, or research” indicates Asians were Trump voters, right. Hahaha.
Yes, would you like to curse and denounce Roosevelt and California Governor (future chief justice) Earl Warren, two liberals, for that racist act?
Yes – I hereby denounce Franklin Roosevelt and Earl Warren for their racist, xenophobic, unconstitutional act!
They’re only “liberal” in the weird spectrum the US employs. Elsewhere they would be conservative moderates.
look at the official % of yellows in San Francisco, then consider the real %.
and see how SF votes.
and look at Hawaii.
end of conversation.
Actually, on my visit to San Francisco, the majority looked to me like Ukranian Catholics. And they even sounded the same. They also likely voted like the rest of the Vatican faggots there for that thieving Satanist Catholic child molester, Biden. This Vatican tool, along with his hand picked motley crew of anti-Jewish Satanists, now re-declared Israel “Occupied Arab Territory”, as per Vatican orders. Like we didn’t know this was coming.
Actually, on my visit to San Francisco, the majority looked to me like Ukranian Catholics.
So you only visited The Castro?
was he on PCP when he killed his mom?
I had a family member who worked homicide in a black area…lots of horror stories.
NOtice how they made it about Asians, not women.
I’m guessing Brandon’s mom wasn’t Asian.
Women get beat up and killed by men every day but it’s not news unless they are Asian now.
No really tell us something we already don’t know.
https://www.oann.com/eu-analyst-biden-appears-mentally-unfit-for-office/
Biden doesn’t matter.
The Global Plantation is being prepared.
This is the only reality that matters. Call out the Covid Hoax, before it is too late.
And it probably is.
There is no Earthly way of stopping their COVID agenda. Pray and prepare for dark, dark times knowing that Jesus left as a sacrificed slain lamb but will return as a kick-butt lion weilding Truth & Justice.
Did you see Eric Schmidt talking at Davos?
Insane this level of Dr. Evil bullshit.
Right out in the open. He smirked the entire time he was talking about how illustrious the future is that they plan for us.
Duper’s delight.
They all have that same ghoulish habit. Same with Master Gates any time he talks about the vaccine.
That said, any time I see that I just recall him shuddering and shrieking after taking a pie to the face.
So weak.
Even Joe Biden’s dog, a German Shepherd named “Major”, is a psychopathic biting menace. If only he would develop a taste for “Curried Kamala” I might forgive the canine-american.
“Now Major has bitten another person who reportedly required medical attention. In the prior column, I noted that under tort law a dog is afforded (at most) “one free bite” before strict liability applies. Major could now be treated as a known vicious animal for liability purposes.
Major was adopted in November 2018 from an animal shelter.
The latest incident involved a National Park Service employee who was bitten while on the White House South Lawn on Monday afternoon.”
Maybe it is something in the White House water.
muller,
(Stifled yawn)
…Wake me up when Biden shotguns someone in the face….
Maybe the Ranger tried to put a leash on Major – and he wasn’t having it.
Are you suggesting the doggy equivalent of “I can’t breath!” Major now becomes a hero and rallying point for all oppressed Canine-Americans marching in packs under the DLM banner (Dog Lives Matter).
Ha! I like your work!
My mom loves Biden and thinks it’s funny that his dog attacks people.
MSDNC and CNN have rotted her brain. Sadly.
“So, the New Normals are discussing the Unvaccinated Question. What is to be done with us? No, not those who haven’t been “vaccinated” yet. Us. The “Covidiots.” The “Covid deniers.” The “science deniers.” The “reality deniers.” Those who refuse to get “vaccinated,” ever.
There is no place for us in New Normal society. The New Normals know this and so do we. To them, we are a suspicious, alien tribe of people. We do not share their ideological beliefs. We do not perform their loyalty rituals, or we do so only grudgingly, because they force us to do so. We traffic in arcane “conspiracy theories,” like “pre-March-2020 science,” “natural herd immunity,” “population-adjusted death rates,” “Sweden,” “Florida,” and other heresies.”
https://consentfactory.org/2021/03/29/the-unvaccinated-question/
CJ, hitting at the core again. Never mind Joe Joe, the economy, and the false political dichotomy. The Truth is that the New Normal totalitarian state is taking shape.
Let’s just keep ignoring it though. Da COVIDs is not at all a hoax designed to usher us into the Global Plantation.
No siree.
Oh but don’t you know “a medical emergency” (especially one that never ends) justifies everything they can think of doing to us?
First it was the Russians and their nuclear bombs.
Then it was the terrorists and their small arms.
Now it’s flu bug.
It seems to take ever less and less to scare the people and justify the tyranny of the Elite.
Seriously.
People are living in some sort of faerie land created by the mind programmers who write the news propaganda.
It’s incredible to witness.
Good read, thank you.
It seems so difficult! Stand & fight. Everyone I know has drank the kool-aid.
I am Happy that I went to so many concerts & pro sport events 2000-2015 as I will probably never go to another.
I don’t even want to. I am so disappointed in my fellow man that I prefer to nkt be surrounded by them anymore.
Stand & fight. More like Hope & Pray for me.
Stand and fight! Some people are starting to get it. Every time they get more draconian, someone says, ‘wait a minute….’
They’re not too far from shipping us off in cattle cars. I wonder if enough will wake up before then?
” We do not share their ideological beliefs. ”
I would describe it as their kooky quasi – religious , superstitious beliefs.
Brain-washed, engineered beliefs.
My 74 year-old father used to be intelligent. He took early retirement and now has 15 years of CNN/MSNBC. Yeesh!
Orange man bad! It was Orwellian Two-minute Hate only 24×7.
Vax. Double-mask. Russia bad. Putin Hitler. They can tell him whatever they like. The moon IS made of cheese and look at the Emperor’s new clothes!
Had a similar conversation with my mom today. She asked if we’d be vaccinated before we travel and meet up in a few months.
I said no, my wife and child have medical reasons to avoid a new vaccine, and as for me, I just don’t want the thing.
She was disappointed and confused.
Talked about it, it’s all good (I think), but she initially told me to stop watching Fox News (which i don’t). Also would like me to get a swab test before visiting. Fine.
This is the new world.
I Hope that all goes well for your visit.
Confusion. Brain-washed confusion.
You either believe everything CNN/MSNBC tells you or you believe in some guy typing in his gotch in his Mom’s basement.
Thanks OG. I’m sure it’ll work out fine.
TBH I had to look up “gotch”, though. I like it. Slang can be a fickle bitch.
Brain-washed, engineered beliefs.
That tune can play both sides of the street. A niece-in-law – educated, sensible, teacher, mother of two fully vaccinated boys. In the last two months has gone total anti-vax, and can talk of nothing else – clogging the family WhatsApp group with all manner of anti covid vax propaganda.
It’s like she’s become a pod-person … she’s captured! Sad!
Maybe you are the pod-person, Tekapo. None of your opinions are open to change thru logic and facts; sounds like you are the brainwashed one. And all your snarky remarks can’t change that.
Smart niece in law!
She’s not buying the snake oil.
Maybe you are the pod-person, Tekapo.
Well … I’m merely one of about twenty who think that Our Trish has gone completely fucking nuts. It really is squirmy and creepy.
My mom, as well.
Nothing I can do. She even said “if this is how a police state is run, I’m all for it.”
Argh. We’re doomed.
Loved this! And the lively discussion on his FB page in general. Did you see Paul Louis Street’s post that CJ reposted? Guy’s gone full fascist.
Just FYI because you share POckets of the Future (Paul Romano’s) YouTube channel… he announced that one of his estranged daughters committed suicide. Very sad news! So many young people are dying and nothing is ever reported. Of course.
This story will grow and grow and grow …
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/vaccine-passports-launched-in-las-vegas-but-privacy-choice-still-concerns-2318935/
It will become “normal.”
I will never forget getting frisked on our way into see KISS at Toronto’s Molson Amp in 2010. The only time that I have ever been frisked in my life. I thought of baling but had my son and 2 of his friends. Everyone sheeped their turn. A safe concert was enjoyed by all.
Then cops with machne guns outside a Vancouver Canucks game in 2018. Cops with machine guns in Canada! No incident, Just Gestapo presence.
“It’s a-hard rain’s gonna fall.”
– Bob Dylan
I remember seeing a couple cops with machine guns in Times Square in 2014. I was in New York a lot 1994-2014. I had never seen cops with machine guns there before.
I stood there and looked at them. The one didn’t give a shit. The young one was ashamed as well he should be.
My guess is, that as they force more and more vaccs on people, and people start losing family members and friends to it, and stop wanting it, the ‘vaccinated only’ places are going to lose so much business they will have to relent.
J’Biden released his $2.2 Trillion infrastructure plan today in which he shows he still believes in magic. We’ll see if he announces infrastructure week every two weeks like the previous prez did.
J’Biden wants to subsidize big oil and big gas industries with gimmicky subsidies for carbon capture that put money (cash not tax offsets) directly into oil and gas industry pockets. Not different from the previous prez.
It has been more than 40 years since the first Earth Day and the free market has failed to solved the environmental crisis. J’Biden fantastically thinks (wishes) that the free market will save us, and fails to take crucial and ambitious steps toward phasing out fossil fuels. Same as the previous prez.
J’Biden says he is going to run in 2024 (as does the previous prez), maybe on this infrastructure spending plan. But $2.2 Trillion is not enough, even if we tax the rich to pay for it. J’Biden’s conservative infrastructure plan is setting the stage and making it easy for a future presidential run by AOC.
“J’Biden’s conservative infrastructure plan is setting the stage and making it easy for a future presidential run by AOC.”
Take that back. Now.
What environmental crisis?
many things. crisis should be plural.
Republicans-Democrats same-same. Americans do not have a decent, structured, pro-family, pro-worker, pro-minority, light-green party to vote for. It’s a major absence.
Frick & Frack. Satisfy corporate donors and play the game. Third parties are squashed at every turn. Frick v Frack.
“And they call it ‘Democracy.'”
– Bruce Cockburn
” This is the kind of shit I would expect from someone who would listen to his race being trashed all day long, but immediately get angry when a word is said about Blacks. ”
Granted , the comment wasn’t specifically directed at me , but I really must comment.
Some guy once said that the United States is a militaristic Plutocracy that preaches peace , but practices perpetual war , that preaches human rights and the rule of law , but , like their British cousins , go around raping and looting the rest of the world .
What guy ?
Some African Leftist ?
Yes.
But , also , Adolf Hitler.
See , for example , this speech ;
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-s-speech-declaring-war-against-the-united-states
Or , for that matter , play pin the tail on the donkey and look at any one of a dozen other Hitler speeches.
So you agree with Hitler? Has the Black race produced a Hitler? The military leader of the Haitian revolt was said to be a good general. Idi Amin was too crazy and evil. The Haitian ordered the genocide of the remaining Whites though.
Last night Candace Owens was raving about the Democratic loathing for voter ID, saying they think Blacks are too stupid to get an ID. She left out the simple fact that Democratic policies work. They don’t think Blacks are that dumb, but they know Whites are hopeless with spines of silly putty. There is simply no limit to how much Whites can be guilt tripped about Blacks or how afraid they are of being called racist. And if it gets them over on clueless Whites, Blacks are Ok with being pandered to for the most part.
“Some guy once said that the United States is a militaristic Plutocracy that preaches peace , but practices perpetual war….”
Kesa,
Very topical. I saw, not two hours ago, an interview with the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Police, who stated that “…some countries have violence in their DNA…” (paraphrased)…he was speaking of the United States. Bloomberg News.
DEFINITION OF , ” USELESS EATER ;
An American college graduate , when , after all , Barbados and Pakistan are churning those out , too , now , and will work for one – fourth the wage.
Q: What does the Arts Graduate say to the Engineering Graduate?
A: Do you want fries with that?
” So you can legitimately say that 19th-century colonialism has never ended at all ”
Yes , except now Zambia and Guatamala includes Nebraska and Alabama.
And , ” The best of the best ” don’t really give a fuck that your ancestors came from Yorkshire , or what locale of birth happens to be typed out on your identity card.
The Great Unvaxxed
TE Creus
The vaccine was a resounding success. Yes, there had been a final death rate of 10% among the vaccinated, but this was mostly among the elderly or the already ill, so it was probably not the vaccine’s fault, and if it was, no one could prove it one way or another, and even if they could, well, the vaccine manufacturers were not liable to lawsuits due to the agreements they had made with the various governments.
In any case, the pandemic had ended, that was for sure.
Of course the masks and the lockdown mandates continued to be enforced; the reason was that while the pandemic had most certainly been defeated, the virus still existed in its natural form somewhere out there, and so it was vital to continue with the safety procedures to avoid any possible resurgence of the disease.
So what? People got used to it, as they had gotten used to so many other things before that. And was wearing a mask in the end much worse than wearing a helmet or a safety belt? Was being forced to stay at home for a few months every year much different than being forced to be at the office working for five days out of the seven in the week? Rules are rules, and those were not as bad as others that had been instituted in the past.
But there was something that worried the authorities. While most people had predictably complied with the mandatory vaccination campaign, there were a few groups that had refused them, alleging religious or health reasons, and found refuge in rural communities living off the grid. They had abandoned the use of mobile and network technology and so could not be traced so easily, and, since non-digital cash had been abolished, they appeared to have returned to a form of commerce based in the exchange of physical goods.
At first, the authorities ignored them; most people saw them as a minority of loser hicks, “anti-vaxxers” as they had been called in earlier pre-scientific times, and since it was unlikely that too many among the masses would opt for such a harsh lifestyle away from the comforts of modern urban life, they were not seen as a menace.
But what happened, in the end, was that rumours started to appear, even in the cities, about small communities where no one needed to wear masks, and people were dancing and smiling, and food was delicious and natural and people were even – gasp! – falling in love and procreating in natural ways.
Of course this was an obvious and mendacious falsity, but the authorities could not permit such fairy tales to gain acceptance among the people at large. So they started to persecute “the great unvaxxed”, as they called them, or the “free renegades” as they preferred to call themselves.
Their communities were dispersed. Their leaders were arrested. Planting organic, unmodified seeds became illegal.
It was dangerous, the authorities alleged. Non-genetically modified crops were unsafe and could lead to sickness or birth defects. Many of the people who lived in the previously free rural communities were arrested and forcibly vaccinated, or were killed in shootings with the police.
But in the end it was not possible to arrest or forcibly vaccinate them all. Now, hidden among the normal population, using fake certificates, there lived an undisclosed number of unvaccinated people, whom the authorities had been unable to locate or identify.
A young woman named Miranda, who was born in a barn in the literal sense, and never vaccinated, was one of them. When organic farming was prohibited and most of the land was taken over by large companies using mechanized agriculture, she was forced to move to a small village where she subsisted doing odd jobs and occasionally teaching art classes. She had learned drawing and painting sill as a child, and was quite talented; she could sing very well too.
She had a fake vaccine certificate that looked for all purposes almost identical to the real ones, and while a bio-test could determine that she had not really taken the shot, or the “jab” as it was popularly called, she was careful never to be in any position that could require any kind of test.
For a few years she and hundreds of others like her had subsisted in this manner, but it was not ideal and never easy. Because before at least the renegades could live freely in their own communities, under their own rules, but now they had to hide and wear masks and follow dictates like everyone else, so what was the point? If they could not be free in any case, why not do like all the others and just take the jab and be done with it?
Miranda thought about it sometimes. But she had promised her parents – who had died in a shootout with the police – that she would always remain faithful to their ideals. And so she refused to compromise. She knew, or hoped, that the current tyranny could not be maintained forever. She wanted to believe that it would be possible, one day, to be free again.
Finally, they got her. It was her own stupid mistake; she was outside, a routine patrol was approaching and she had left her fake certificate at home. This would not normally happen, but she had recently bought a new jacket and had forgotten the certificate in the pocket of the old one.
Walking around without a certificate was illegal, so they had to scan her arm, finding no signs of vaccination, and later a second test found no trace of antibodies in her system. Unable to explain the reason, or to produce a valid vaccine certificate – she knew now that the fake one she had at home would now be microscopically analyzed and would not be useful any longer – she was taken to the local jail, and later to a federal prison.
“There is an easy way out of this”, said Captain Antoine Huxley-Ehrlich, chief of the Vaccine Resistance Unit. “Just take the jab, and you’ll be free.”
“Never”, replied Miranda. “You’ll have to do it by force.”
That was an option, of course, and legally possible with the recent change in the constitution. But it was not what Antoine wanted. No, she had to freely choose the vaccine. Not only because otherwise she could have become a martyr and inspire other rebels, or because people could start to think that there really was something bad or sinister about the vaccine; but because he firmly believed that winning by persuasion was better than winning by force, and he was convinced of his own righteousness.
He could not understand her stubborn refusal – hadn’t he, like all others, voluntarily taken the vaccine? As a member of the upper classes, he reminded her, he was not required to do it at the time; and yet he had volunteered. Why? Because he believed in law and order, but, most of all, because he believed in the vaccine.
He was sure that sooner or later he would be able to convince her that her uneasiness with the medication had only been caused by the trauma of her childhood experiences, living in a harsh rural area and watching her parents die as criminals fighting the law.
But Miranda was indeed very stubborn. She refused all the options she was given. She preferred jail to vaccination and denial to compromise. She even refused to see a psychiatrist. So she lingered in prison for months and months.
One day, the warden brought to her cell a new book that she had requested from the prison library – Civil Disobedience, by Thoreau. As she began to read, she found a handwritten note stuck between the first pages. “When you get your dinner tonight, ask for salt”, it said. “A friend”, it was signed.
Who could that be? She was puzzled, as it was years since she last had any contact with anyone else from her former community. But later that evening, as the warden brought her dinner, she meekly asked if she could have an extra amount of salt. The warden didn’t betray any sign of recognition or suspicion; she just brought her a small white salt-shaker. There was nothing unusual about it, but when Miranda opened it, from the bottom, she found a small magnetic key and another note inside.
The note explained that the key would open her cell door, and that all the security guards had either been bribed or put out to sleep. She could safely escape. Further instructions indicated how to reach a cabin in the woods nearby where she would be able to join her colleagues from the resistance movement.
She waited until midnight; when all was silent, she tried the key. It worked. She slowly walked out of her cell, then out of the prison, undisturbed.
She followed the instructions to cover her face with a mask and her hair with a veil to avoid recognition. She was afraid a patrol would stop her as she left the city, as police presence was constant and sometimes there were curfews, but all the time she saw only a small group of policemen that she had no trouble evading.
She walked for several hours; the note had been clear that she should avoid any form of public transportation. It was already morning when she reached the destination informed, a few miles outside town.
She knocked. No one answered. But she turned the handle and realized that the door was unlocked. She entered, very quietly, as if afraid to disturb the eerie silence. Finally, she saw a man sitting in an armchair, his back turned to her. He was wearing a dark jacket and a black fedora hat.
“So you’re finally here”, he said. She seemed to recognize the voice, although she couldn’t quite locate it. Was it perhaps someone from her old community?
Then he turned towards her. It was Antoine Huxley-Ehrlich.
It had been a trap, of course. The idea was to raise her hopes only to crush them, as an additional form of torture, an elaborate cat-and-mouse game. Also, now that she had tried to escape and join a rebel movement, she could be accused of sedition and other charges. She could easily be tried by a military court and condemned to death.
And that was exactly what happened.
She was offered a full pardon in exchange for vaccination, but still she refused. If she had to die, then she might as well die on her own terms. Like Saint Joan or the early Christian martyrs, she’d rather burn at the stake or be thrown to the lions than renege.
They could not convince her to get the “jab”, but they also did not want to turn her into some sort of hero for a cause, even if a crazy and hopeless one. So they decided that the execution would be done in secret, and the official story would be that, since she had refused several times the vaccination, she was never immune to the virus and had finally contracted the disease.
Today Miranda will be shot. She refused all offers for public announcements of regret and even a last meal. She also refused the blindfold; she did not want anything to cover a single part of her face.
As the executioners raise their rifles, Miranda is not afraid. Her golden hair flutters in the wind, and she looks up at the soldiers with a confident smile. She knows that they can kill her body, but they cannot touch her soul.
And as she waits for the bullets to slowly arrive, Miranda sings a song that she remembers from her childhood, a song that her mother taught her and perhaps she also sang before she died:
And when you come and all the flowers are dying
If I am dead, as dead I well may be
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.
TE Creus is a writer, translator and filmmaker. He is the author of “Our Pets and Us: The Evolution of a Relationship” and the collection of short stories “The Sphere”. He’s the editor of Contrarium.
Yoho: The Contrarium? A forum? Why not a magazine called the Contrarian?
The Unvaxed need to create a network of blogs so we can exchange information about where to go to get food, what states or countries are safe, etc.
13 months ago, a quaint dystopian tale with some nice turns.
Now…how long before this is reality?
We may not have much time left. There are covid concentration camps in Canada. I mean that is basically what they are, though I think they refer to them as hotels. But you are in total detention and if you try not to comply they can fine you a million dollars and put you in prison for three years. Tucker talked about it tonight. And in the UK a majority of people are positively supportive of the idea and believe vaccine passports should be mandatory. So how long before that type of stuff is here? It is almost exactly like Invasion of the Body Snatchers without the alien aspect. They want to have total ownership of your body and your existence which will serve the purposes of the new hive conciousness. Except in this case the alien angle appears to, yes, be more preferable. When the alien pod replaced you with your copy the real you perished. A release from the horror and pain. But here when your self is replaced by your covid drone self your real self still exists deep down and will be a tortured prisoner and they will try to fragment the real you with vaccine updates until you dissipate and are an empty robot. The Devil doesn’t believe in boundaries and so he wants to try to kill the body and the soul.
Soppily sentimental in an unreal, fairy tale kind of way. Hallmark could be her hangout.
From the wonderfully haunting ‘Danny Boy’,
“But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say Ave there for me,
And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me”
In other words, you’re not only still wearing the mask, you’re wearing two.
Our heroes, Trump and Tucker, get the jab. Not lax, straight up Jacks, they take the vax.
Thank you! I was about to read that yesterday, and then it got lost somehow. Someone had posted it on CJ HOpkin’s timeline. He was posting about how CounterPunch’s Paul Louis Street had gone full totalitarian batshit, having posted that he is on board with concentration camp for vaxx refuseniks. He also thinks we ought to be killed outright. This is where the so-called progressive left is now.
So, someone posted a link to this piece on Off-Guardian.
Brilliant!
And I had also had the idea of a network of blogs, which we had before Facebook anyway, and which have vastly improved since those days… I do believe that is the horizontal-sharing social media of the future. We cannot trust any one big social media company.
BigSocialMedia need be boycotted en masse.
They can unilaterally deny POTUS his usual communication to the American people! Can you imagine NBC/ABC/CBS doing that to FDR or JFK or Reagan?
Well, I thought it was outrageous until I lost all doubt that Trump is controlled opposition. How better to drum up support for Trump than treat him outrageously unfairly?
Oh and it also showed everyone who runs the show.
Not the president, but the media controllers & silicon valley billionaires.
Gomer Pyle, USMC
Lou Ann Poovie wasn’t interested in lowly Marine Corps enlisted men. She wanted to bag an officer so that she could live in a bigger house and frequent the Officers Club. Sargent Carter eventually got frustrated and forced himself on Lou Anne one night. He didn’t use a condom and later apologized to Lou Anne. She forgave him, but broke off the relationship after her period arrived late. Sargent Carter then called her a “Whore” in front of the troops and started “Cruising the Internet”.
You left out the part where Gomer drives Lou Ann to the abortion clinic and gallantly pays for the procedure.
It’s International Transgender Visibility Day.
This mom and her child are our inspiration every day.
Yes, we need more awareness for this topic. It’s not like we hear about it all day every day.
The transhuman – depopulation agenda is strong.
Kinda funny, they are always claiming they’re being literally erased, but then they can still get people fired and threaten suicide…a pretty mean trick!
Vanity Fair went over the top with this headline:
“Republican Governors Celebrate COVID Anniversary With Bold Plan to Kill Another 500,000 Americans.”
Thanks to “Design & Construct” methods of infrastructure procurement, nothing ever gets “built back better”.
Forget stuff like, ‘Ayn Rand made me a communist’.
After all this Biden and Obama shit, I’m breaking out her books again.
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.” Ayn Rand
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” Ayn Rand
How timely, how true.
And don’t ask dumb questions. If you don’t know who John Galt is, you better fast find the fuck out.
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed.” Ayn Rand”
She was corrupt, psychotic, louche, and a total fraud … I didn’t think anyone older than 19 in a college dorm bull-session took her seriously at all. Pffft.
Wow, you’re on your ass with that take. This is the first article I found, and I know that there are thousands more like it.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/ayn-rand-110
Jeez, get a grip. Think my man, think.
Cato Institute? LOL – libertarian lunacy!
Just One quick example. I’m going to have you stand facing the corner wearing a funny hat.
@tusonspur
He has his own pointy paper hat corner and stool!
She was corrupt, psychotic, a total JEW.
If you don’t know who John Galt is, you better fast find the fuck out.
If you don’t know who John Galt is, then you are doing very well – not diving into that idiotic cesspool.
It is weird how a figure like Ayn Rand is either a philosopher of the highest magnitude or the worst human being that ever lived.
Divide & conquer. We’re divided and conquered.
I read The Fountainhead. Good book. Interesting premise, characters and storyline. It needed an editor to chop it in half!
Ayn Rand was a big influence on Neil Peart’s (RIP) lyrics. Peart’s drumming gets all the attention while his concepts and lyrics are often overlooked.
2112 seems far less futuristic dystopia today.
2112
‘I lie awake, staring out at the bleakness of Megadon. City and sky become one, merging
into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. The Twin Moons, just two pale orbs as
they trace their way across the steely sky. I used to think I had a pretty good life here,
just plugging into my machine for the day, then watching Templevision or reading a Temple
Paper in the evening.
‘My friend Jon always said it was nicer here than under the atmospheric domes of the Outer
Planets. We have had peace since 2062, when the surviving planets were banded together under
the Red Star of the Solar Federation. The less fortunate gave us a few new moons.
I believed what I was told. I thought it was a good life, I thought I was happy. Then I found
something that changed it all…’
[I. Overture]
And the meek shall inherit the earth…
[II. Temples of Syrinx]
…’The massive grey walls of the Temples rise from the heart of every Federation city. I
have always been awed by them, to think that every single facet of every life is regulated
and directed from within! Our books, our music, our work and play are all looked after by
the benevolent wisdom of the priests…’
We’ve taken care of everything
The words you read, the songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes
It’s one for all and all for one
We work together, common sons
Never need to wonder how or why
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls
Look around at this world we’ve made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man
Oh, what a nice, contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand
We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls
[III. Discovery]
‘…Behind my beloved waterfall, in the little room that was hidden beneath the cave, I
found it. I brushed away the dust of the years, and picked it up, holding it reverently in
my hands. I had no idea what it might be, but it was beautiful…’
‘…I learned to lay my fingers across the wires, and to turn the keys to make them sound
differently. As I struck the wires with my other hand, I produced my first harmonious sounds
and soon my own music! How different it could be from the music of the Temples! I can’t wait
to tell the priests about it!…’
What can this strange device be?
When I touch it, it gives forth a sound
It’s got wires that vibrate and give music
What can this thing be that I found?
See how it sings like a sad heart
And joyously screams out its pain
Sounds that build high like a mountain
Or notes that fall gently like rain
I can’t wait to share this new wonder
The people will all see its light
Let them all make their own music
The Priests praise my name on this night
[IV. Presentation]
‘…In the sudden silence as I finished playing, I looked up to a circle of grim,
expressionless faces. Father Brown rose to his feet, and his somnolent voice echoed
throughout the silent Temple Hall…’
‘…Instead of the grateful joy that I expected, they were words of quiet rejection!
Instead of praise, sullen dismissal. I watched in shock and horror as Father Brown ground
my precious instrument to splinters beneath his feet…’
I know it’s most unusual
To come before you so
But I’ve found an ancient miracle
I thought that you should know
Listen to my music
And hear what it can do
There’s something here as strong as life
I know that it will reach you
Yes, we know, it’s nothing new
It’s just a waste of time
We have no need for ancient ways
The world is doing fine
Another toy that helped destroy
The elder race of man
Forget about your silly whim
It doesn’t fit the plan
I can’t believe you’re saying
These things just can’t be true
Our world could use this beauty
Just think what we might do
Listen to my music
And hear what it can do
There’s something here as strong as life
I know that it will reach you
Don’t annoy us further!
We have our work to do
Just think about the average
What use have they for you?
Another toy that helped destroy
The elder race of man
Forget about your silly whim
It doesn’t fit the Plan!
[V. Oracle: The Dream]
‘…I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see
the beckoning hand of the oracle as he stood at the summit of the staircase…’
‘…I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man
revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and
understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed
by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless life had become with the loss of
all these things…’
I wandered home through the silent streets
And fell into a fitful sleep
Escape to realms beyond the night
Dream can’t you show me the light?
I stand atop a spiral stair
An oracle confronts me there
He leads me on light years away
Through astral nights, galactic days
I see the works of gifted hands
That grace this strange and wondrous land
I see the hand of man arise
With hungry mind and open eyes
They left our planets long ago
The elder race still learn and grow
Their power grows with purpose strong
To claim the home where they belong
Home to tear the Temples down…
Home to change!
[VI. Soliloquy]
‘…I have not left this cave for days now, it has become my last refuge in my total
despair. I have only the music of the waterfall to comfort me now. I can no longer live
under the control of the Federation, but there is no other place to go. My last hope is
that with my death I may pass into the world of my dream, and know peace at last.’
The sleep is still in my eyes
The dream is still in my head
I heave a sigh and sadly smile
And lie a while in bed
I wish that it might come to pass
Not fade like all my dreams…
Just think of what my life might be
In a world like I have seen!
I don’t think I can carry on
Carry on this cold and empty life
My spirits are low in the depths of despair
My lifeblood…
…Spills over…
[VII. The Grand Finale]
Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation
Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation
Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation
We have assumed control
We have assumed control
We have assumed control
—–
Neil Peart
Rush 2112
Released April 1976
She had deep insights here and there, but it fails as a viable economic or political philosophy. Most people aren’t highly individuated, and those that are might not be individuated in that way, able to make billions.
To her credit, in Atlas Shrugged, she did seem to acknowledge that her Supermen should take care of lesser beings – and would if they weren’t being harassed, vilified, and shackled. I disagree with her on that. They won and they destroyed America. They’re taking over the world and they intend to genocide it. So she was wrong.
Interesting that you can now measure her 20th century assertions with 21st century rubber meeting the road.
Rand thought Gates, Zuckerberg & Bezos would benfact the masses while they plot & scheme & execute.
The wokies are required to hate and belittle Ayn Rand. And libertarians. Without ever bothering to listen to them, and understand where their common ground is.
Even as left as I lean (real left, not this new totalitarian left), I still very much agree with many libertarians on a lot of things. And right now, they have some of the loudest voices against the plandemic atrocities and overreach of anyone else.
I have also liked many an article published by the Ron Paul Institute, and consider that a worthy site.
https://medicalkidnap.com/2021/03/26/cdc-2050-dead-following-covid-vaccines-as-300-deaths-added-this-week-16-deaths-from-new-jj-shot-producing-covid-symptoms/
Lots of people are getting “covid” after getting the shot. Covid exists for the shot not the shot for covid. And people only exist to provide arms for shots.
And it is interesting to hear media people and even Joe talking about how it is critical to get these vaccines into as many arms as possible. Always arms. Not people. Hmmm almost like the vaccine is a virus or parasite itself that must have hosts and lots of them..
It will become more and more difficult for us unvaxxed.
Praise Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. May He provide us strength, perserverence and wisdom in the battle ahead.
I’m sure your arms are beautiful, too good for any such thing. In any case, they belong to you, not the State. And you belong to God and thus your arms as well.
Our bodies are Temples of the Holy Spirit. They seek to make them a den of vipers.
Thx, Yoho. I did a lot of “curls for the girls” back in my day. You are correct, God’s Temple will not take this social engineering medical experment voodoo.
God bless you.
I expect the vernacular to get ever more detached from traditional terminology and more toward cold, distant and technical… it’s all part of the agenda.
Gotta get those cattle oops I mean people their shots!
It’s not a conspiracy.
It’s a well orchestrated campaign.
Society is being engineered to accept the new order via an engineered disease.
The social standing AKA credit begins as an inoculation record before slowly incorporating other metrics.
Social media profile.
Etc.
To get on planes.
Into schools.
Into restaurants.
Forced to comply.
Forced to reveal.
Subservience to the state.
Because opting out will be impossible.
And don’t you know? Another imbed, the head of the CDC is playing chicken little, calling shortly for more lockdowns so as to make those on the fence roll up a sleeve. Take a jab.
Choice is an illusion
As always.
You are 100% correct … except it appears that you do not understand the word “conspiracy.”
It appears you don’t know what conspiracy is in the vernacular.
I’m not speaking of a “plan between 2 or more people “ legal definition.
Obviously
Conspiracy is a cancel word
A marginalizer
A diminisher
Indeed. I am debilitatingly literal. Especially so in this Orwellian case where the word itself becomes a refutation of the existence of the concept of the world itself! It’s like a snake eating its own tail.
Anyway, apologies, 100th Avatar. Of course you understand this Orwellian word trick.
I saw at least 2 more articles claiming the same this morning.
And everyone has ignored all the elders who died after getting vaxxed.
Or the media has, and they create the narrative…
So what do you think of Sleepy Joe’s $2.5 trillion Build Back Better ‘American Jobs Plan’?
There’s something in it for everybody, including $10 billion for the new Climate Corps; think of an army of enthusiastic young Comsomols or Brownshirts under direct command of John Kerry, the Czar, spying on you, noting your energy usage, and kicking in your door to gather evidence you’re using too much energy, and charging you with a Climate Crime.
On another important note, it’s getting harder for CNN and MSNBC to blame these attacks on elderly Asians on White Supremacists, when every single video shows the assailants are black. Earlier this week a young Chinese girl in town here appeared on a local program complaining about how she is ‘oppressed’ by White Supremacists and is in fear for her life; turns out she is class president and both her parents are doctors at the local medical center. The neighborhood she lives in consists of massive 15000 sq ft mansions built in the 1980s.
Brh
Can he can build a stairway to heaven or a bridge over our troubled waters?
Another mass shooting in CA. Dems are going to win over people and beat the Repubs on guns as long as they stick to background checks and the like.
Depends what type of weapon was used, TS. If it was an ordinary, run of the mill revolver, nobody will care. On the other hand, in the Navy Yard mass shooting in DC about a decade ago, the assailant used a Remington 870 shotgun; nevertheless, Wolf Blitzer described the weapon as an AR Style shotgun.
Meanwhile, on this holiday weekend, in Baltimore and Chicago, where DAs have decided that prosecuting criminals is RACIST, there might be 50-75 people shot; nobody will blink an eye.
Actually Killing Season in our largest cities officially starts on April 1. That’s when the weather warms up and people begin to emerge from their govt subsidized apts, ready for action.
Brh
Chicago is endlessly outrageous, just a horror story. I’m wondering, where is the citizen outrage about the ‘border’? Where is the patriotic Republican protest? Why aren’t we in the streets, is it so bad that the Dems would have us immediately jailed or worse?
We seem timid and weak. Trump is doing nothing, but I guess he has concerns about being jailed himself.
And what happens if Chauvin is convicted, a couple of Proud or Boog a Loo Boys raising a little hell, end of story?
If he isn’t convicted, will we finally put a stop, a dead stop, to the rioters? Probably not.
Good points, all, TS.
I’m just an humble, anonymous observer, I don’t have any answers.
“We seem timid and weak.”
We are timid and weak. Our balls slowly shrunk from decades of Hollywood, Big Ag, Big Pharma, porn and Frick v Frack in Washington.
Little withered raisin nuts.
Remember, when we “act up” we are savaged by all – most definitely conservatives included. Protestors at Capitol storm turned in other protestors to the feds. Can you imagine Leftists doing such a thing? Being so devoid of loyalty? Instead conservatives are still loyal to a regime that hates them and intends to replace them. Utter intellectual confusion leading to divided loyalties and despicable acts against comrades.
I think Trump’s betrayal largely worked. There’s not that much about him now. That could change of course, but if he hadn’t betrayed his followers, they wouldn’t have let up at all.
Right. Trump now looks like Just another character in their sick play. He served his purpose and he can be the boogeyman in 2024.
@Yohannon, do you know that it’s conservatives who turned in their own?
I think it’s mostly lib Dems out for revenge blood.
Everything I find confusing, disagreeable or scary in the world is just a PsyOp of some sort.
Donald J Trump is only thing incorruptible, unsullied and pure.
Trump? you are joking?
Hahaha!
Looks like someone broke angry troll Democrat bot 4.0 it seems to be spitting out the same weak talking point over and over.
As the old saying goes GIGO!
Garbage in Garbage out.
“Russia stole the election”
I want my free gun!
I will take a Barret mk 22 please.
If health care is to be free because of well you know the Constitution!
If education is to be free because of well the Constitution then I want my free gun!
Speaking of guns and “gun control” can any of you imbeciles that support Democrat talking points answer a simple question.
If you defund the police who is going to disarm the American people of their Constitutional right to own, store and bear arms?
Do you think people are going to just turn them in because puddin head Biden says so or the even more out of touch Feinstein who I would like to add has a cadre of trained and armed body guards.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on CBS “60 Minutes”: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them — Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in — I would have done it.”
Talk about out of touch with reality.
Paul Craig Roberts is a brilliant man who loves his country.
Yesterday I pointed out that no facts known at this time support a Covid passport. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/03/29/new-yorks-covid-vaccine-passport-makes-no-sense/
VaxPass. Check. Your DNA manipulation on Right on schedule Just like everyone else around you, masked as they crank Ozzy during a break in the action.
“All aboard! Hahahahahaha!”
I always wondered how the whole world would be decieved. It seems so obvious now as hindsight is 20/20 (Ha! Literally!).
Is he the guy who say children are trafficked and sent to Mars?
No. I have never even heard of such a thing.
Paul Craig Roberts was an economist in the Reagan Administration. He later was an editor at The Wall Street Journal.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org
he spoke on USA watchdog, a youtube site thats been destroyed.
That is how BigSocialMedia can control what is acceptable discourse and what is censored.
You can start a USA Watchdog or Parlour to try and circumvent YouTube to exercise freedom of speech … but you are going to need cloud servers. Who runs cloud servers?
Amazon, Microsoft & Google
Good luck!
What do you know? Sing!
Have you been to Mars and seen the children? Are they in cages?
I’m appalled! It was my understanding that they’d be free-range!
Know Your Enemy:
.1%
Yet all the rubes believe the globalist billionaire class are onboard for socialism, race baiting, a UBI, and credentialed vaccine cards for everything from entry to a school to a pub…. because they
care
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/30/americans-know-your-enemy/
“ It wasn’t China that sold out generations of yet unborn Americans to feed the military Industrial complex to the tune of nearly a trillion dollars/year. It wasn’t China that bailed out the criminal bankers for trillions more dollars.”
“ It is the Wall Street model. For every winning trade, there is a counterparty that loses. It is zero sum thinking. The pie is only so big, so when I want more, someone has to do with less.
It fostered a mind-set, a callous one, one that has endured and intensified to where we find ourselves today. And it is not just Wall Street, the mindset dominates in all major U.S. companies. For an example look at how corporate America off shored its supply chain to low-cost countries. It knew it was destroying the American economy, hollowing out a once thriving manufacturing sector that built the middle class. It knew what it was doing, it just didn’t care. And of course, Wall Street loved offshoring. Any company that moved its production to China received the intended stock boost. A win for Wall Street meant a loss for Americans.”
The Capitalist dupes will then chime in that it’s not a zero sum game and that everyone can become a billionaire if they weren’t so lazy and stupid.
We live on a limited planet. That means resources are limited. And that means it is a zero sum game.
Thus? So? So that means the Government must control and guide the corporations – for the good of the Nation. Or? Or you won’t have a nation.
I believe you are projecting more evil on them than why they did it. Sure, Davos knew it was destroying the American economy. The actual off-shoring was millions of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ self-preservation management.
I witnessed it first hand when we started contracting Research Associates (the spreadsheet grunts behind Stock Market Analysts) in India rather than our previous standard of “Analyst hires Associate in same city.” So instead of a bright young Canadian or American kid in our cities (London, New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Calgary, Denver, LA), Director of Research Mike Miller was pleased as punch with himself. Mr Miller didn’t give a rat’s ass about the damage his grains of sand were doing, he was cutting-edge management and bonused accordingly.
… our cities (London, New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Calgary, Denver, LA),
Capitalism works like that … if the Indian boffins are as qualified and work for 50% of the cost, then it will happen. Plus your company is already fairly ‘globalist’ … just taking it to the next level I guess.
Have you seen Eric Schmidt speaking at Davos about their plans for all of us?
Sheer unadulterated evil.
Yes, I saw it. If anyone in modern days deserves to be pilloried in the town square, he’s at the top of the list.
Eric Schmidt? Eric Schmidt is Chairman of the Re imagine New York Commission. He’s doing a great job re imagining New York. While Schmidt is re imagining NY, old ladies are being stomped on the streets of mid town in broad daylight, young woman commuters are raped on subway platforms in full view of passersby, and high end stores are robbed and looted on a daily basis by ‘Youths’, who tell store owners and managers that if they resist they will be denounced as ‘racists’. (NY Post)
It looks like the Re imagine New York Commission consists of elitists with their heads stuck up their asses, engaging in a big do gooder circle jerk, while the city crumbles around them.
This is the dude making plans for us ahahahahaha.
Brh
Avatar, I read the linked post.
I know we Americans can be boorish and stupid (either by choice or cultural “polishing down”), but I don’t buy the benevolent Chinese “fair business” model any more than I buy the American exceptionalism model.
We are not smarter than them, and they are not more judicious than us.
It all comes down to money. That is all that the governments and businesses care about.
They have more cards on the table for the forseeable future, therefore they can afford to play the role of omnipotent patron to the world (as the US did for the better part of a century), while in reality only looking to feed and educate their arm- oops, I meant population..
Look at the state of Central America and Mexico.
The US couldn’t even tend to its own backyard.
It only accumulated debt through endless war.
I don’t believe the Chinese are acting out of altruism. They want their society to improve, as the article states, but they’re not doing it by wonton destruction and robbery by force.
Pax Americana
I hear what you’re saying. Though I do think they take things by force just like any other power who has extra arm length to wield.
But…gotta know. Was “wonton destruction” a Freudian slip regarding the Chinese angle? Or intentional?
Either way, made me laugh.
Not by robbery you say?
They are using the money gained by our ruling class off shoring our manufacturing to buy up everything not bolted down.
Once they have enough people in a country they simply begin taking over and that is the essence of robbery.
Once the locals understand they are being removed from their own country the problems will start and Chinas true face will then emerge just like hw they treat the Uighurs entire villages go up in a puff of smoke and the people that survive simply disappear into Chinese gulags to be rendered for body parts and sold off or used as chattel slaves in fab plants.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-uighur-muslims-china-tribunal-tells-un-2019-9
https://www.cato.org/blog/uyghur-genocide-shows-urgency-combatting-neo-malthusianism?gclid=CjwKCAjwgZuDBhBTEiwAXNofRCgGBTLS6ERTLJXQTRCxYaAHj-2poCNlfNUDAmac_50tgUFydHtqHxoCwXkQAvD_BwE
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
A really good read indeed … highly recommended for all those who constantly blame the Dems and the CCP and all manner of other dark leftwing forces for the nation’s ills, when the real enemy is Wall Street and corporate America.
Any other analysis is either just racially motivated or a deliberate distraction. Or ridiculous tinfoil. A bit more from the Strategic Culture article:
“It wasn’t China that sold out generations of yet unborn Americans to feed the military Industrial complex to the tune of nearly a trillion dollars/year. It wasn’t China that bailed out the criminal bankers for trillions more dollars. Money taken from the tax-payers and given to the banks to lend back to the public at interest.
Nor is China responsible for America’s crumbling infrastructure, or it’s failing school system. The culprit is a corporate culture that believes the world is full of winners and losers, and to that system, if you are not an greedy corporatist, you are just a loser.
There have been a reported 3000 attacks on Asians in America in recent months. Doubtless this has appalled the majority of decent Americans, as it has people around the world, particularly in Asia. It has been said, War is when your Government tells you who the enemy is, Revolution is when you figure it out for yourselves.
Americans, know your enemy, and it isn’t the Chinese.”
I find the article a bit too soft on the Chinese at the human-rights and strong-arm level … but in terms of the Realpolitik of international trade and development, it’s very instructive.
Do you think anyone takes these word salads seriously?
This piece of logic is my favorite part:
“There have been a reported 3000 attacks on Asians in America in recent months. Doubtless this has appalled the majority of decent Americans, as it has people around the world, particularly in Asia. It has been said, War is when your Government tells you who the enemy is, Revolution is when you figure it out for yourselves.
Americans, know your enemy, and it isn’t the Chinese.”
That is literally one of the stupidest things I have ever read on CFN. The talking point-based logic of the BlueAnon Shareblue troll back under his 21st handle.
Why is this paid shill still mucking up the comments section, one wonders?
That is literally one of the stupidest things I have ever read on CFN.
I dunno … what about “Donald Trump Shall Be Your President.” LOL
Donald Trump is one of our duly elected Presidents.
Your in idiot.
“Any other analysis is either just racially motivated or a deliberate distraction”
Lol.
No straw men here…
Good News!!!
The Mets sign shortstop Francisco Lindor to a 10 year, $341 million contract.
Sure, NYC is full of empty storefronts, weak political leadership, brutal street violence and a crumbling infrastructure, but there’s still plenty of schwag for baseball players. At some point one of these clubs won’t be able to make payroll. Then what?
That is a Great point, brh.
I’ve been wondering that with the NHL. The NHL has TV money but not like NFL, MLB & NBA. NHL normally play 41 regular season home gates at approx. US$2mm/gate. Salary Cap runs approx. US$80mm/team/year.
Now they’re playing half the games with $0/gate and multi-million dollar contracts continue unabated.
Either the owners were making out like bandits in some unknown way before or … who’s paying for this?
its their business. I do not worry about it.
You’re probably a Dodgers fan anyway.
I Don’t Care Who Wins the Chauvin Trial and I’m Not Covering It
Andrew Anglin April 1, 2021
The fact of reality is that Derek Chauvin is portrayed as a white supremacist who just killed a random black guy, but that is just a total fantasy.
There is zero proof that the cops are racist in general, and a lot of proof that they are anti-racist. They really just do whatever they’re told to do. We watched them stand by and let blacks burn down cities last summer. We also saw many of them actually kneel down and worship the blacks.
I get that one or two of them came out and said they were ordered to do this. But all across the country, cops were worshiping blacks as some kind of god-race, and there is no evidence they were mostly ordered to do this.
If they were ordered to do it, and then did it, that is even worse, as it just shows that they will do whatever they were told to do.
Obviously, this trial is completely insane, and I don’t agree with charging this guy with murder, but after the BLM riots, and the coronavirus lockdown, I have no sympathy for the police.
I’m sure there are some that are okay, but there is some of any group that are okay. On the whole, the police are a terroristic menace to society. We’ve seen them doing more than worshiping blacks – we’ve seen them beat up women for not wearing masks.
And race doesn’t matter to them.
Black cop arresting white for no mask:
White cops arresting black for no mask:
They also don’t seem to have any desire to stick up for their own. I would have thought that police would go on strike when they were being defamed as racist murderers – but they didn’t. There was no movement of active cops to defend Derek Chauvin.
I am actually disgusted by the Blue Lives Matter stuff at this point. It’s fine to say that you believe a society needs cops and you don’t agree with the movement against the cops by these blacks, but defending the current organization of the cops, as it stands, makes zero sense.
This current police order views all of us as the enemy. They’re not racist, because to them, we’re all the same – a bunch of niggers, who they have a right to abuse and dehumanize in any way they are told to abuse and dehumanize us.
We need to get rid of this entire “Blue Lives Matter” sentiment. Apparently, this was an appeal to the cops to side with the people against the left – well, that has obviously failed. Yes, I’m sure some of the cops are sympathetic to the right, again, I know they’re not all bad people – but we’re not talking about individuals here, we’re talking about a group. And as a group, these people are collectively servants of a regime that hates all of us.
Doing rallies supporting them isn’t making them stop enforcing the virus regime, it isn’t making them stop closing down our businesses and beating us up for not wearing masks.
I understand that right-wingers have an instinct to support authority, but the current governmental authority is illegitimate, and is literally trying to destroy the country, and actually kill all of us. The cops are representing that authority.
Honestly, at this point, it would be better if they did just completely abolish the cops, and let us defend ourselves with our Second Amendment rights. Conversely, they could get rid of the state police, and just let the sheriff enforce the law.
We are looking at the cops continuing to enforce this endless virus regime, while refusing to stop black crime. In the near future, blacks are going to start killing whites, and the cops will not do anything to stop it. But if the Biden people order them to come get your guns – well, they’re going to come get your guns.
The bottom line here is: I’m not covering the Derek Chauvin trial. I don’t really care enough to sit and watch all this, and I don’t have time for it. I’ll report the verdict, I’ll give basic updates, but I’m not doing daily coverage of this.
I will be doing extreme coverage of the Matt Gaetz situation, however, on top of my coverages of the coronavirus hoax, the China war, and everything else I cover every day.
If you want to follow the Chauvin trial, there are plenty of in-depth threads on the Gamer Uprising news forums. The crack team there, led by top newsman Gian, is posting the livestreams, the clips, the media response, all of it.
Furthermore, Ethan Ralph is really into it, and is doing a good job putting up all the interesting clips. You can find that on BitChute. He also broadcasts live every weeknight at 9:30 on Trovo. I’ve been following Ralph’s coverage, but I haven’t been watching the actual trial myself, and I’m not going to go through and find the clips.
If you want to watch the full trial coverage, there are many, many streams on YouTube showing the whole trial.
The mainstream media coverage of this is actually completely insane.
This is while only 28% of white people – AKA unmarried white women – still believe that George Floyd was “murdered.”
I guess they’re trying to use this trial to swing back public opinion in support of BLM?
Weird stuff.
Anyway, the best part we’ve already seen – the bodycam videos.
“I don’t know how to spell ‘George’ man.”
They did play the full bodycam video on Wednesday, with all the “mommy mommy ouchie ouchie” stuff. They had said they weren’t going to allow that, but apparently something changed.
It is so insane we have colonies of these pre-Stone Age people living in our country, at our expense, we pay for the animal control, and that white women go out there and cry about them and say we need to do more for them, because actually, they’re better than us somehow.
We Win Either Way, Basically
If Chauvin wins the trial, the blacks will definitely riot, which will not be popular at all in the second round.
If Chauvin loses the trial, then he should be considered a martyr – because he is a white man being dragged through this brutal miscarriage of justice because he is white.
I do not have a prediction. It’s clear the odds are stacked against Chauvin, but the idea of convicting a man of murder because he used standard operating procedure during an arrest and a felon he was arresting died of a drug overdose is really nuts.
The judge seems to be acting largely fair, from what I’ve seen.
So who the hell knows?
I don’t know.
I don’t care.
Whatever.
Yoho: Good roundup. Conflict between cops and patriots is inevitable now. You can’t be a patriot and a cop, not without hypocrisy or inner conflict at this point, except in deep red America, perhaps.
Michell Malkin went to a Back the Blue rally and the Antifa were out in force. The cops were ordered to stand down and the Antifa stomped the Back the Bluers. Malkin said she was reevaluating her unqualified enthusiasm for cops.
Sympathy for individual cops? Sure. They didn’t know. If they had, they might have gone another way. But now they have a mortgage, a wife, kids, an alimony, etc. It’s not easy to just leave. But it doesn’t change the above.
Please enlighten me. Have neo-nazis always been anarchists? Or is this a new development?
Seems things are about to get dangerous if even they are calling out the police en masse now.
The American Neo-Nazis were crushed at Cville. Any threat is just an imaginary Democratic talking point.
The Proud Boys were calling out the Police before Capitol Storm because they were clearly protecting the Antifa, the militia of the Establishment. The Proud Boys are Civic Nationalists, mostly White guy who follow non-White leaders because they’re afraid of being called racists. Pretty sad, really. But their hearts are in the right place up to a point. This is the difference between Fascism and National Socialism btw.
The Police serve the Establishment, right? And if that goes bad, are the Police going to be good? I’ll leave you to answer that one.
“You can’t be a patriot and a cop, not without hypocrisy or inner conflict at this point, except in deep red America, perhaps.”
And therein lies the big fault.
This is literally applying the same logic as a lefty who says “You voted for Trump? Oh, so you’re a bigoted Nazi white supremacist colonialist anti-semite who also hates women then?”
People can absolutely be both “good” and “bad”. The problem is that most are choosing to put all their chips on one table or the other, as if that makes things better. On the absolute contrary, that kind of thinking and behavior leads to war.
Which is almost always stupid.
No?
The Left understands power. The Right does not. I don’t know where on the spectrum you put yourself, but you don’t either. National Socialism (of which Nazism is just one example) is neither Right nor Left nor the Midpoint. It is both Left and Right – the high Middle. The apex of the Triangle. Hope that helps, though I doubt it.
Anyway, they were always destined to win with attitudes like yours. Culture is upstream of politics. They know what they want and who they are. The Right and the Middle do not.
You can burn the Flag, right? As long as it’s “your Flag”. Try burning the Rainbow Flag in public and see what happens. The Culture has changed. New people are in charge. You didn’t notice. Almost nobody did. Guess what? We did.
I love how not ascribing to National Socialism means I must not know if I lean right or left, or whether I’ve noticed the most obvious cultural shift in my lifetime in recent years.
You’ve likely been reading my comments for a few years now. If you haven’t figured out where I lean then I’d say you have a one-track mind that either sees “someone that I want to see” or “someone with no idea what they believe”.
You’re right about the left understanding power and the right assuming it’ll still be there “if they play by the rules”. It will not be there. It already is not.
And I was merely asking if your stormer has been supportive of authority structures up until now, or if this a new coordinated break toward anarchism. Which would oddly place them on the same overall team as BLM and Antifa.
Holy shit, I got to compare your ideology to Antifa, just as you did to me a few weeks back. The difference is I actually (kind of) have a reason to do so.
*subscribing
There is no middle anymore. That’s what you assumed in your question and the answer is, No. You have to choose: Right, Left, Middle or High Middle (google Third Way). Not to choose is to choose the status quo of Left. Don’t stay too long on the fence lest the wood enter your soul. I think I see some splinters sticking out of your “soul” already.
I’ve been reading you for years? Under what name?
This name.
Not for decades. But since 2019.
My soul is just fine, sir. We all have a splinter or two, no?
And how did I assume there is a middle via my question of whether there’s an anarchic ideological history to your Anglin?
It’s like you don’t even read what I write.
Because I don’t answer as you like.
I saw a crow trying to stand on the top of a pine tree. His legs turned into a V as it stretched. But he didn’t want to give up his middle of the road perch.
“They know what they want and who they are. The right and middle do not.”
In a way, the left has so far embraced inevitable impending forces of dissolution more successfully than the right… more in line with reality in THAT sense, though so far from reality in so many other senses
The Left understands power. The Right does not.
Hahaha! I like good stand-up … are you here all this week?
The cops are doing more standing down than standing up and doing right. A lot of internal conflict to deal with, much of it created by their leaders.
‘Virtually all the big nations are doing this now in desperation because they don’t understand that the hyper-tech economy is hostage to the deteriorating economics of energy, basically fossil fuels, and oil especially. The macro mega-system can’t grow anymore.’ JHK
Pteroplanes, triceratrucks and dinocars
Still guzzle from the Black Lagoons
Gulping them down ’till the last teaspoon
Drinking dead life formed eons ago
Shrinking the globe far as it’ll go
Pumping the rock ’till it’s dry as a bone
Sucking the lifeblood right out of the stone
A frantic world needing constant transfusion
A passive planet not minding the intrusion
But soon the Black Lagoons will stop giving
People above will fight to keep living
Civilizations’ engines will hiss and burn
The colossal industrial crankshaft unable to turn.
It does seem to be magic with money, dollar prestidigitation worthy of a David Copperfield. Maybe it’s voodoo economics , a term George H.W. Bush used referring to Reagan. Maybe he was right about Ronald, what with zombie thrifts and all, and the huge savings and loan scandal of the eighties.
Although economists say you can’t continue to just print up money, we keep on defiantly doing that magic trick with unknown consequences. A number of money mavens think that it’s not the actual level of debt or the deficit, but how that level is trending in relation to GDP that’s important. It seems to be a simple formula that makes sense, that if economic output minus borrowing costs is greater than taxes minus spending, debt as a % of GDP should decline. Thus sustainability.
These mavens also say that if there is no real growth, deficits have to be reduced or inflation has to be created by the Fed. What, it was half the price yesterday!
Anyway, at times it all seems so dreary, and I like to think that I’m riding on a magic carpet of greenbacks that can turn into gold when I navigate correctly towards the sun. Well maybe I am, but without the gold. Here we are in unchartered financial territory, already being held aloft by the ceaseless conjuring up of cash. It’s a magical mystery tour de force.
Is that a thread unraveling in the carpet? How do I get off this thing? I’m gonna have to do a D.B. Cooper. But wait, I don’t have any kind of parachute, let alone a golden one. Geez, that’s a long way down, isn’t it…..
Magic carpet of greenbacks. D.B. Cooper. Good stuff!
No parachute, indeed.
Thanks for the acknowledgement!
Should be required listening
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WzQHly9dTGA4u8ML57ieq?si=dYHxFcebStuwdRZgL8QpJg
Anididab Gaxiola Gonzalez is the name of the shooter in Orange, Cal. Apparently the victims and the killer were known to each other.
More Covid lockdown madness stalking the land. Civilization itself has been destabilized and is unravelling. Time then to cue up Country Bob and the Blood Farmers
HOG WILD!!!
I was wondering why the media was not releasing the names and details of this latest mass shooting in Orange County. Now I know.
breitbart>
Biden’s mention of the Claiborne Expressway thrilled New Orleans activist Amy Stelly who has worked to destroy the highway.
“I’m floored,” she said to the Washington Post. “I’m thrilled to hear President Biden would call out the Claiborne Expressway as a racist highway.”
The White House fact sheet plans $20 billion to “reconnect neighborhoods” suffering from current infrastructure and make sure all new projects “advance racial equity and environmental justice.”
The concept of the injustice of racist infrastructure continues spreading throughout the Biden administration as they work towards racial equity across government.
“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources,” Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on social media in December, promising to focus energy on “righting these wrongs.”
In March, Buttigieg’s department sent a letter asking Texas to pause an interstate expansion in Houston while they investigated racial justice complaints.
Hey Malthus, your new LA County Attorney General is disbanding the LAPD Gang Unit and the LAPD Drug Enforcement Units asap. And don’t worry about any downtown looting this summer, the Los Angeles Times has a new editorial policy that bans the word ‘looting’ as applied to BLM mobs breaking into stores, stealing merchandise, trashing the place, then setting it on fire. So there won’t be any more looting, just ‘expropriations’ occurring during Mostly Peaceful Protests.
Brh
I was 19 when I first read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-four.” I thought it a cautionary tale but thought changing words to control thought far-fetched. I was too young then to understand how much the English language evolves.
Orwell explained that “free” kept its core meaning (“The dog is free of fleas.”) while losing its important meaning. How can there be Freedom without Free?
Now the LA Times won’t call looting ‘looting.’ Orwell was, sadly, bang on.
“A population that is so easily manipulated and scared has no possibility of holding on to liberty. Eighteenth century Americans valued liberty—“give me liberty or give me death.” Twenty-first century Americans evidently do not. Their acceptance of lockdowns proves their readiness for the Gulag.”
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/03/30/good-bye-american-liberty/
PCR nails all these points. A population this stupid is ready for the internment camps. As long as they have their smart phones to stare at, the sheep will be fine with anything you throw at them. B-a-a-h-h! War and more is coming!
UBI is coming to Oakland for POC, nothing for poor whites. It will supposedly be financed ‘philanthropically’.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/universal-basic-income-in-oakland-is-first-program-only-for-people-of-color-133139312.html
“We were so impressed when Stockton’s demonstration showed that people receiving a guaranteed income got full employment at twice the rate as those who did not,” she said. “And it vastly improved their mental health, their capacity to care for their children and actually go out and get that certification to get a higher-paying job.”
“It actually accelerated self-sufficiency,” she added.” That’s always worked, giving handouts to generate self-sufficiency. Does the UBI ever end, and what happens when it does? Self sufficiency ends.
Hmmm. ‘Go out and get that certification…’ In what, reading and writing English? How about booze binging and dope dealing?
Blacks rise, whites fall or remain at the current level, then blacks, being much stronger can finally, really, overcome.
PCR on Liddy:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/04/01/g-gordon-liddy-r-i-p/
“Americans, not being a thinking people and easily deceived, always fall for the house explanations. Those who raise obvious questions or present hard evidence against fabricated explanations are dismissed with the term coined by the CIA—conspiracy theorist. Just think of all the wars based entirely on lies that Americans have supported in the 21st century.”
https://dailystormer.su/shampoo-commercial-shows-lesbians-raising-kidnapped-boy-as-a-girl/
Is this ok too, Mango? Do you dare to eat a peach?
I have exactly zero idea why this is directed at me.
Clearly I irk you by asking legitimate questions that you don’t like.
We agree on a good many cultural points. But the very specific things we don’t agree on make me an enemy for some reason, and you call me out on topics that have nothing to do with anything we’ve discussed, as if I weighed in on them previously.
And so it goes.
Every once in awhile Vlad likes to bust your balls. That’s how it is with me anyway.
yeah, that’s all it is. It’s not like I have a point or anything, right? Like when Uncle Sham called the Germans, “Huns”, that was fine – even though the Germans and the Romans together defeated the mounted Eastern Savages, the actual Huns. Our history might have been very, very different if they weren’t defeated. But your Grandfathers were fine with calling Germans, the Huns, so it’s good with you too. Traditions! (of folly).
I usually don’t like getting into these squabbles, but since yo has attacked me often enough I will. Yo likes to flex his mental muscle and bully the board at times. You just have to have the confidence to smack the bully down when he turns on the snide.
Don’t act confused or be apologetic. Kick him in the nuts if you have to when he deserves it. But remember, this is just a blog, a blog that yo considers his territory and that he has staked his claim to with knowledge and insight. Don’t take it too seriously.
Gotcha. So a few weeks ago after a somewhat tense back and forth when I said, “Ah. Well. Fuck you, then.”…
…that was a proper response.
And no worries, I don’t take blog comments too seriously. But I do like actual discourse that doesn’t take left turns for no reason.
Which is why I comment here, instead of infowars or breitbart.
But clearly left turns abound in cyber, even moreso than in real life.
The previous George Floyd asked, Why can’t we all get along? You think that’s a serious question. Why can’t cats all get along? Because they’re not made that way. Just so us: we’re not made that way.
Why does the scorpion bite the maiden’s breast as she carries it across the river? Because that is his nature. Even if it means he will drown with her? Even so.
You think America has a future. Your kind insured that it doesn’t. And you blame us for calling it first and best – as if we created the racial problem, or mankind and his nature. We did not. We just know it best of all in the foolish West. We are the heirs of Western Culture and its greatness.
You didn’t listen. You thought you knew better. Now you moan that sheet music is called racist. We told you this apocalypse was coming generations ago.
But I admit the dawning Global Medical Tyranny trumps even America’s racial catastrophe. I’ll stand with anyone of any race or religion against this. We didn’t see this one. This is far darker still, reminiscent of Huxley’s Brave New World. This is going to level every nation and race.
The John Birch Society also saw a lot, though they eschewed crucial racial angle completely, focusing on political tyranny. But their vision was correct as far as it went.
As was said back in that era, Liberals can’t take their own side. Now they don’t have a side anymore unless they morphed into tranny loving, racially ambiguous commies.
Yo – all of this stuff exists, for sure.
But go outside. Talk to your neighbors and friends. Life is not quite as it seems online, is it?
The sinister arc in play exists, yes. And it’s obvious and disguesting. But most people don’t think this way face-to-face. At the gas station. The grocery store. Watching a ball game on a recliner couch. At a neighborhood barbeque.
That’s what we need to focus on. Then we have people to rely on when the crazies pull their strings.
Which they are doing.
When things get real, some people will get real as well. Until then, we’re coasting. Very few can be expected to mount the soap box in reality until it means something.
It is happening nkw. The game’s afoot. We are the proverbial frog in the heating pot of water. They are jabbing everyhing with a pulse and are rolling out VaxPass to ensure only Good citizens may participate in concert tickets or public transportation. It means something NOW.
“Why can’t we all get along? You think that’s a serious question. Why can’t cats all get along? Because they’re not made that way. Just so us: we’re not made that way. ”
Humans suck. But, inherently, we were supposed to be able to get along. Read your Bible (again).
We are just conditioned to distrust that idea over time as we lose our way, forget what used to work…and therefore, evil manifests and we somehow actively find ways to not get along, due to ingrained distrust from this bias/experience or that “storied” bias/experience.
And we are right to distrust, because of the generational ripple effects from that very confusion that has been sown into our cultures over time.
But I refuse to believe that at our core we are incompatible.
We create what we need to see. Unfortunately, that is not a net positive, historically. Again, humans suck.
But the core remains. The center can and does hold on its own, even when everyone ignores it.
Of course, there will be a lot of bullshit taking place before that base point is recognized again. But it has happened. Countless times. Over countless years.
We just may be living on the shit end of a cycle.
Says the Sensible Pessimist.
Well now you’re talking. But to limit the difficulty, we should abide in organic Nations (one race at the very least if not one ethne) with organic (grown from the soil of the ages not imposed from the top yesterday or in five year plans).
We are of small caliber. Liberals reject this, and later (now), they pretend we have no intrinsic nature at all. But conservatives cherish the our godly nature, so even at their worst, their vision is more beautiful than that of Liberals, especially the later ones before the collapse.
Yes, Cycles. The Neo-Traditionalists (like Rene Guenon) say we are at the end of a Cycle of Cycles. Kali Yuga – the last of the four ages. Will we live to see the new beginning? The new Satya or Golden? Doubt it!
correction with organic cultures
“Your” permissiveness (not just you but all y’all) lead to this. I talk on the level of archetype to “you”.
Doesn’t sound archetypal. Sounded pretty directional to me.
But I’ll grant you that here, for the sake of conversation.
Like on Wheel of Fortune: “I’ll allow it”.
Well heck, why not? Who says I have to be the only god here?
Magic? As in religion (all), national identity, being “free”, “liberty”, “justice”, external forces out to control us for nefarious, evil purposes? I could ref many more categories of human stupidity but you get the drift.
Now, to get jabbed or decline. Hmmmm, no contest. NO. Too many reasons, but consider that unless an “emergency” required the release, the jab would be illegal. Big win for big pharma et al.
You religious beings out here, what if, with mandatory passports looming and such, what if this really is THE MARK of SATAN?!!!! Gotten the shot, you are now OWNED by the prince of darkness and abhorred by god. Really BAD choice. No excuses allowed, you are fucked for eternity, dumbasses.
Someone posted “toughen up” (I’ve been off the net for a bit). Excluding those seeping in, who’ve been toughen by life, I estimate that less than 1/20th of the U.S. pop has ever been exposed to really hard conditions (training or real OR both). A little too late for them to pull a David Goggins.
What? Me worry. Actually, no. I focus on my small, country, rural patch of the world, ensure I have unclouded -by fantasies (Yes you rapture clowns)- faculties enabling my prioritizing the actual skills and equipment to hide, fight or run, to thrive ( although possibly somewhat far off time wise and diminished from prior life).
Bidet will ensure the long running fraud will implode, and soon. Was a time when only Carl Sagan said trillions. When your “money” amount equals star count, you’re fourth turning’d.
As always James Howard, a tome to cause cerebral exertions in a really good way. Thank You. Nuff Said
Make that 1/20th of ONE percent pls. Domo.
” You religious beings out here, what if, with mandatory passports looming and such, what if this really is THE MARK of SATAN?!!!! Gotten the shot, you are now OWNED by the prince of darkness and abhorred by god. Really BAD choice. No excuses allowed, you are fucked for eternity, dumbasses. ”
Hmmm , let’s break this down.
” You religious beings out here, what if, with mandatory passports looming and such, what if this really is THE MARK of SATAN?!!!! Gotten the shot, you are now OWNED by the prince of darkness… ”
Lucky thing then that there is a good and loving god and an afterlife ?
Lucky thing humans don’t control things ? Lucky thing man isn’t the final judge ?
” … and abhorred by god. ”
uhhh ….. why would that logically follow ?
” Really BAD choice. ”
That would be called a Hobson’s choice , and the definition of a Hobson’s choice is no choice at all.
” … and abhorred by god. ”
Back to this. And , again , I would ask how does that logically follow ?
You mean to say that a being who creates red giant stars out of nothing , and makes life itself out of nothing ,
can’t tell the difference between compulsory and voluntary ?
Can’t tell the difference between what is freely given and what is brutally coerced ?
” No excuses allowed, you are fucked for eternity, dumbasses. ”
That would CERTAINLY BE TRUE if there is NO good and loving god and an afterlife .
But that would STILL CERTAINLY BE TRUE regardless of whether you were a genius or a dumb ass , regardless of whether you shit chocolate covered cherries , or are Jack the Ripper.
” As in religion (all), ”
This is correct , if by “all” you mean that the distinction between ” religious ” and ” non – religious ” is actually bogus.
” Nuff said ”
I would agree , at least until you start getting your definitions of “religious ” from somewhere besides Cosmopolitan Magazine or comic books.
Comic books like the Book of Revelations. Your “Catholicism” (lack of scriptural knowledge) is showing.
He tells us not to get the Mark. If this isn’t the Mark, it’s clearly a precursor to it.
How can you love the truth if you cannot recognize it ?
Your “Catholicism” (lack of scriptural knowledge) is showing.
Suggesting that a regular Mass attendee is lacking in scriptural knowledge is about as suspicious as suggesting that a person who regularly watches TV lacks knowledge of McDonald’s advertising.
Or , “suspicious” , like someone who claims they have lived in America , but then claims that an American , even an American who dislikes soda , wouldn’t be familiar with Pepsi.
A Catholic Mass is not where you sit in an uncomfortable chair and listen to some ” expert drone on and on about his interpretations , theories , and fancies on some subject .
No , a Catholic Mass is very much a participatory activity , and scripture , the entire book , is a fundamental part of that activity.
You listen to the words , you say the words , you even act out the words , and regularly , by rote.
Roughly similar to the experience that at least a few people on this board experienced in Kindergarten , where how you learned your alphabet was you were taught a song , you were taught a dance , and then you sang that song and danced that dance in collaboration with other children.
How then could your 4 year old self not be familiar with the alphabet ??
Every person who regularly attends Mass goes through this interactive participatory rote process , going through the entire Bible once every three years.
If you miss a few Masses , or a dozen ?
Then you go through the entire Bible in this interactive participatory rote fashion every 4 , 5 , or 6 years then.
True , many Catholics don’t even have a copy of the Bible in their home.
But why should they ?
Does your average 6th grader need the alphabet pasted up on the wall ?
Need I explain to an older regular TV viewer who the fuck Ronald McDonald , Captain Kirk , or Mr. Spock are ?
Either you are not Catholic , not familiar with absolutely common Catholic practice ,
Or you have just deliberately tried to misrepresent Catholic practice , albeit indirectly , to those who would not know better.
wanna try that shit again asshole ?
Bullshit
Is that why your literate masses in mass needed stained glass pictures on the Church windows to illustrate to them scenes from the book they know to read so well. How many of your literate masses in mass read and spoke Latin? How is your Latin, btw?
How high does one’s IQ has to be to swallow the kind of bullish you just did? How high does it have to be to swallow the Roman story of Jebus-Caesar-Christ? You might want to consult with Joseph Atwill on that question.
” Is that why your literate masses in mass needed stained glass pictures on the Church windows to illustrate to them scenes from the book they know to read so well.”
” How high does one’s IQ has to be to swallow the kind of bullish you just did? ”
High enough to comprehend that picture books work , and work well ?
High enough to comprehend that no doubt a great many people know the Star Wars movies by heart , but have never even seen a single page of a Star Wars movie script ?
” How is your Latin, btw? ”
How is your Phoenician ?
You say Phoenician isn’t in regular use in Jewish liturgical practice ?
Latin isn’t in regular use in Catholic liturgical practice. Except maybe in Vatican City , except commonly enough not even there.
You knew that , right ?
Right, and them Vatican cathedrals were built in your lifetime, just in time to coincidence with the public schooling people received in exchange for taxes. I suppose all the money that the Vatican earlier received from people went to higher causes, like saving their soul and absolving them of sins before they expired as penniless slaves. I mean why else would the Vatican insist on an Inquisition and a vicious blood soaked war that lasted 30 damn years on the whole of European peasantry?
My Phoenician is perfect. Same as my Biblical Hebrew. Phoenicians are ancient Hebrew traders that traded Argaman produced from murex sea shells grown at coast of Haifa, right near my home. Of course, they didn’t call themselves Phoenicians, but Vatican German sods for their anti-Jewish “scholarly” propaganda and agenda did. Same goes for the Sudanese Arabs that these same Vatican German sods call Palistani, a name these Palistani can’t even pronounce.
Again, it’s amazing how damn stupid and ignorant you can turn out to be when your schooling is Vatican education in pure deceit.
Read Joseph Atwill!
Tekapo
Just read one of your posts how the Left and China is not our enemy, it is Wall Street and Corporations.
Let’s see. The Democrats are almost 100% supported by corporate CEOs and boards. Look at the reaction to the Georgia voting rights bill. Wall Street is a reaction to the corporate world.
You know why? Because corporations want to be globalist. Instead of each country developing its own economy individually, the corporations, just like the British conglomerates in the past, are a global imperialist force.
Democrats are US analogs of the global forces. I will never believe that the idiots in the Democratic Party or the global power structure could ever run anything as well as the private free market.
Your logic makes no sense. Your favorite Dems are the basis for the Corporations, not the Right. It changed with Clinton and formed up under Obama.
Dems v Republicans. Frick v Frack.
Arguing Dems against Republicans or Republican against Dem is a waste of time. They are all corporate ran. They run around in Red or Blue to give he illusion of choice. The illusion of democracy.
Frick v Frack.
Just read one of your posts how the Left and China is not our enemy, it is Wall Street and Corporations. Let’s see. The Democrats are almost 100% supported by corporate CEOs and boards. Look at the reaction to the Georgia voting rights bill. Wall Street is a reaction to the corporate world.
That’s right! That’s what I’ve been saying forever. The problems of the US are the ravages of monopoly capitalism, and the gouging of the industrial-manufacturing base, and the elimination of labor. JHK talks of it regularly.
And the tragedy is that both the Republican and Democratic Parties are totally reliant on (and beholden to) huge funding precisely from the corporate sector who WANT America to be the way it is. Biden did it, Trump did it spades too.
I think it’s incorrect to believe that the Dems are pro-globalist, and the Republicans are pro-Main Street. To the extent that the two parties differ on this front, it’s the reverse of that. The Dems are at least partially pro-family / pro-worker … the Republicans are not.
getsome says, “Gotten the shot, you are now OWNED by the prince of darkness and abhorred by god. Really BAD choice.”
Are you promoting the patentable genetic ” enhancements ” claimed by transhumanists or warning others out of religious fervor.
” He tells us not to get the Mark. ”
If or when the day comes that the police show up at your door and say ,
” You must get this shot , or go to prison. ”
or ,
” You must get this shot , or the best job you will ever again get is job scrubbing toilets for minimum wage and no benefits. ”
or ,
” You must get this shot , or be shot. ”
And if , at that point , your answer is ;
— To go prison.
— To become a bum
— To get your head blown off.
Then your attempts to knock me down and make me feel small might cut some ice.
Until / unless , it means shit to me.
And even then , if you did do such things , it still might be a hard sell.
Granted , these days the ONLY place I ever mention my East German past is on the internet.
Otherwise , in the past twenty years ( ? ) I have only broached the subject with ONE , VERY CLOSE friend.
There was a time though when I defended East Germany to Americans IN America.
To make a long story short , I paid one hell of a very high price for it.
I paid my fucking dues , thank you very much , and at a time of life when I didn’t even qualify for a drivers license.
And I trust I will never be getting any medals , any GI Bills , or even a pat on the back , for my trouble.
You may be my equal .
But my moral superior ?
That’s a fucking joke.
As for God ?
I trust God’s good judgement and mercy a hell of a lot more than I trust any of you sons of bitches , and whether you claim to speak for God or no.
” You might want to consult with Joseph Atwill on that question. ”
Sure , and while I’m at it I’ll consult with Graham Hancock on the possibility of Martians having built the pyramids of Giza.
Hah, yes, the standard answer from a Vatican propagandized ignorant twit.
Btw, the Pyramids of Giza were massive emergency bunkers for the Egyptian royals in the event of another cataclysmic event that destroyed previous civilizations. They were not burial sites like they teach the ignorant Vatican propagandized masses, aka, general public. Just another bit of trivia for you.
Final comment for this cycle I expect.
Delta Airlines have told the far-right Republican fruits in Atlanta to get fucked, in relation to voter suppression.
Now American have told the far-right Republican fruits in Austin the same thing.
The far-right Koch-driven born-to-rule Republicans have to be careful … a bit of gerrymandering can be tolerated, but a wholesale full-court coup to stop minorities is not going to wash.
Delta and American have a LOT Of customers who are not far-right nut-fudge MAGA deplorables, and they have a LOT Of employees who are straight outta those minorities – and those states better watch themselves!
But there again – with the brains of Matt Gaetz, what should one expect? 🙂
The ravings of an out of touch fool.
Considering the entire electorate of the United States has lurched left for the last twenty or so years on most issues.
The furthest right Republican would be called a leftist by John F. Kennedy.
Which shows exactly just how far left fringe you would be if only you were an American.
During the McCarthy era you would have been watched and probably arrested for questioning as an anti-American kook.
The shame of it is McCarthy was right just look at the communist scum in the Democrat party and clamoring for the downfall of my great country.
Great comment benr. Do you know if the covid passport will be acceptable for ID on voting day ?
Considering the entire electorate of the United States has lurched left for the last twenty or so years on most issues.
I don’t know why this is a response to my comments about airlines objecting to fascist voter suppression.
Whatever, I disagree … and so do most objective commentators. The US has shifted far to the right over the last generation or so … Richard Nixon – once the bane of the left – would barely make it into the far-right Republican Party today … the execrable Newt Gingrich, the Tea Partiers, and more lately the MAGA QAnon psychos, would have thrown him out.
It is not “communist scum in the Democrat Party” that are wrecking the country, it is Wall Street, corporate power, and the 1% elites.
Know thine enemy!
Fuck! WH0’S out of touch?
’ The furthest right Republican would be called a leftist by John F. Kennedy.’
benr, read what you wrote. Try reading it aloud, so it sinks in.
The furthest right Republican would be called a leftist by John F. Kennedy.
Yes – it’s a line from the furthest reaches of the Twilight Zone. But why let reality or historical knowledge get in the way of a debate?
Even AOC would be seen as pretty conservative by JFK … that’s how far the whole field has shifted to starboard.
Uh oh
Russian tanks massing at the Ukraine border. Putin appears to be playing hardball.
We’ll see what Sleepy Joe’s response is. Altho, right now our own armed forces is in a state of flux, rooting out white men from its ranks, ordering maternity flight suits for female combat aircrews, and most important of all, ensuring any enlisted man or officer who desires to transform himself from a man to a woman gets the full treatment in military hospitals. Only when that process is complete — and I mean EVERY SINGLE SOLDIER, SAILOR AND MARINE who wants to become a woman in order to contribute to the diversity of the US armed forces — will Sleepy Joe eel confident to offer any objections to Putin mzchinization in Ukraine. Sleepy Joe’s philosophy is ‘Important matters first.’
Brh
IOW, nemesis, fostered in by harsh reality, might be at hand.