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You’ve got to ask yourself: really, who seems to hanker more for a red-hot World War Three, “Joe Biden” or Vlad Putin? Since “Joe Biden” is only a figment of American politics, first you’d have to ask: a figment of what? Answer: A figment of our greater intel blob, led, of course, by the Central Intelligence Agency. Which is to say, the blob is our government now; there is no government except the blob. We are the United Blob of America! In Blob We Trust should be printed on our money.
That being the case, blob policy rules. And since deception is one of the blob’s chief duties, we mere sniveling citizens should expect to be deceived at every turn about everything. So, when the blob’s news cut-out, The New York Times, serves up a comprehensive history of the gang known as ISIS-K Monday morning after the Moscow Crocus Concert Hall Massacre, you might suspect that some deception is afoot.
ISIS-K immediately took credit for the Crocus Massacre. K stands for Khorasan, a set of provinces in eastern Iran, leaking over into Afghanistan and Pakistan. ISIS-K supposedly evolved out of the original ISIS that sought to establish an Islamic caliphate out of Iraq and Syria. After Mr. Trump broke it up in 2019, the gang regrouped in K-land, deeper in central Asia. Curiously, this ISIS-K has carried out attacks against Iran, where it lives. Go figure. . . . Its progenitor, the plain old ISIS-no-K was responsible for the horrific Bataclan Theater massacre in Paris, 2015 and the suicide bombing of the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena, UK, 2017. They’re sort of the Concert-Massacres-R-Us of terror orgs — you really couldn’t find a better patsy for the Crocus op.
Is it as simple as that? Not if you consider Scott Ritter’s theory that the first ISIS was a creation of the CIA, with the mission of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, considered by the blob to be an uber-bad dude, largely for enlisting Russia’s help in ending Syria’s civil war. And if you can actually figure out what Syria’s civil war was about, other than a US blob op to gain control of Syria and its oil, you could win a MacArthur Genius Prize. But you might also ask: did the United Blob of America hire ISIS-K to slaughter 137 Russian civilians Saturday night? And also: did it do so directly or indirectly, through cut-outs?
One blob weakness is that it can’t resist the impulse to telegraph its plans ahead of some dastardly act. Both “Joe Biden” and State Department war-hawk Victoria Nuland verbally signaled the op to blow-up the Nord Stream gas pipelines well before the act. Before “retiring” (or getting cashiered) from State this month, Ms. Nuland warned Russia to expect “some nasty surprises” in the days ahead. Was she fired for opening her big mouth? Now, a photograph has surfaced of one of the captured Crocus perps, Shamsidin Fariduni, posing in the Crocus concert hall date-stamped March 7. A set-up? A deep fake?
In any case, on March 8 the United Blob State Department issued a warning to Russia’s foreign ministry that something wicked was coming their way, and likewise warned our diplomatic personnel to steer clear of concert halls and other public venues. Was the Crocus op already well in motion? And was the blob trying to cover for Ms. Nuland’s big mouth by warning about something that was too late to stop?
Whatever else you think about the Russians, they are not dumb bunnies. You can be sure they are carefully putting together the puzzle pieces, having already been careful to take the suspects alive. They were, incidentally, all in one car driving toward the Ukraine border when apprehended by Russian police. That is being considered “a clue” as to who their handlers are. But then, who is Ukraine’s handler? (Cue: thinking music.)
Shooter Shamsidin Fariduni
At least one of them — Fariduni — confessed that his gang received all their instructions over a Telegram social media channel. The gang, by the way, were all natives of Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic. Its population is 98 percent Muslim, around 97 percent of them Sunni and 3 percent Shia. Neighboring Iran is militantly Shia, for what it’s worth. The four Crocus perps were living as immigrant workers in Russia. How hard would it be to track who was the proprietor of the alleged Telegram messaging site that offered payment and sent orders to the perps? I’m guessing that would not be so difficult.
The United Blob sent lavish condolences to President Putin on Sunday. We’re so sorry. . . boo-hoo. . . . The directorate of the CIA was awash in crocodile tears, I’m sure. Russia was already busy answering Ukraine’s attempted Belgorod incursion of the previous week by turning off the lights in Kharkov. Meanwhile, Polish, French, and German regular army troops have moved directly by rail and air inside Ukraine to Cherkassy, south of Kiev. The mental defectives running Poland, France, and Germany seem avid for NATO to jump with both feet into ground action in Ukraine, that is, go directly to war with Russia. It’s hard to imagine an act with a potentially worse outcome for NATO, for Europe, and, by extension, for Western Civ. Despite all their posturing, Euroland’s armies could not be less prepared to go up against Russia on the Ukraine battlefield, and are therefore begging for an epic ass-kicking. They’ve already sacrificed their industrial economies at the United Blob’s bidding, so why not just get Europe’s ticket punched for an express trip back to the 11th century?
How about “Joe Biden,” front-man for the United Blob of America? What’s in it for “him?” We might surmise that the “Joe Biden” re-election campaign seeks a big, fat, juicy major distraction from its so-far pathetic effort to keep a near-mummy in the White House. Well, how about that World War they’ve been itchin’ for? Plus, they probably calculate, it’d be great for business! Besides, considering the poll numbers, this might just be the blob’s last stand, since they know as soon as Mr. Trump gets back in the White House (if the blob can’t manage to kill him first) the words “You’re fired!” will echo so thunderously between Foggy Bottom and Judiciary Square that every last critter in the DC Swamp will light out for the territories to avoid the prosecutions sure to follow.
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Coming off yesterday’s National Day of Mourning in Russia, we now have a lot to unpack. Is there any doubt that some of the weaponry used by this ISIS cell was obtained compliments of Biden’s terrible exit from Afghanistan?
The “leaders” of the West do not care that this attack occurred in Russia. They are probably in their back rooms rubbing their hands in glee.
doubt about affy hardware? c’mon man, there are suggestions the final days prior to that final dark day in september were spent aligning the disposition of that materiel.
there has been continuity in America’s “fundamental transformation” that started in 2008. red diaper boomer babies.
cowbell-
There are reports on Telegram that one of the attackers appeared to have a prototype AK12 rifle, which would be an unusual thing for a random jihadi.
Also unusual was the attempt to flee, rather than standing and fighting against Russian security forces to try and get martyred.
Indeed, and they had the getaway car on standby, ready to go. Everything seems very sketchy. At least they were all brought in alive, so I trust the Russians will grill them for everything they are worth.
Maybe Brittney Griner can give these ISIS terrorists some tips about life on the inside of Russian prison.
I suspect Britney’s tenure will be a far cry from the terrorists.
Aleks, from Black Mountain Analysis was pretty blunt about what to expect. Short version: they will suffer. A lot.
For those disappointed at no death sentence, there are fates worse than death. And they will likely be longing for death.
Long version: see Chechnya
I expect Russia will go to the ends of the earth to find everyone involved, including Toria the Hut & her zoo keepers. Ding dong, the wicked witch of the west will be dead. If she’s lucky.
Mary – I love your whispered sweet nothings – hopefully they’ll reach every single one responsible. One can only hope.
Mary-
The Russian legislature is already discussing bringing back the death penalty for the perps.
I find it hard to believe an ex-KGB guy like Putin doesn’t already have tons of sleeper agents with instructions already in place.
Thirdcoast,
There are mixed messages there. Otoh, the other day Putin said they reviewed the moratorium & determined under their constitution there is no way the rescind it. Otoh, he gave the defense or intel services carte blanche to do what they need to do.
Oops, accidentally posted before done.
Iirc, Aleks from Black Mountain wrote he expects they will end up killed, but not before a lot of suffering.
The car was a Renault, a French car. Message sending?
I saw a Muslim comment that he looked at a photo of these dudes spread by the Mighty Wurlitzer, and they were pointing their fingers at the sky, as Muslims do (I didn’t know that, actually, but that’s what he said.)
Anyway, he said they were all using their left hand, which an actual Muslim would never do.
Also, it was a Friday night during Ramadan. We’re supposed to believe that Muslim fundamentalists would pick that night to go kill 180 people?
Yeah, right.
In other words, it’s all a Renault commercial?
You’re a born marketer, young man!
I don’t believe that you have missed Macron making macho noises about sending Frenchmen to fight, openly.
actual mooslimes would not use their left “unclean” hand. actual mooslimes would have fought to the death, babaloo snackbar and all that, no 72 virgins for these tadjiks. Too many things don’t jibe, we need 51 former intelligence officials to investigate and report back.
“we need 51 former intelligence officials to investigate and report back”
Priceless.
“a near-mummy in the White House”
LOLOLLMAO
my wife is now persuaded to begin reading “one nation under blackmail” by whitney webb. vol 2 will be here shortly for me. several former serving .mil intelligence types have asserted that webb must be receiving material from a whistleblower on the inside – connected of course with the blackmail of the blob organized by child trafficers.
question to our host – have you read webb, and if so, your opinion?
Blackmail?
Consider that the blob and the cartels may be fighting for the same side.
Blackmail isn’t so hard to consider when you look at the legislation that emanates from our elected representatives.
Lots to unpack indeed. Let’s start with the captured. Are they really the ones responsible? How do we know this? Short answer, we don’t. Here’s another thing that’s weird. Prime time torture. Since when has Russia done this. Like us, they usually try to hide it. Why go public with the ear and the ball zapper? It’s almost like they’re trying to get us to believe something. Probably. That said, it doesn’t mean I believe the other side any more than I do the Rooskies.. It’s all one big giant mindfuch at this point.
Russians are good chess players. They are also masters of propaganda.
As are we, or at last used to be.
I don’t know. It appears our nation is still pretty damned good a the propaganda game. Afterall, millions of Americans were duped by the media into getting the clot shot, close down their businesses and believe that standing 6 feet apart in Walmart would protect them from the Boogey Man virus they all suddenly started reporting on together.
I’d say it is still very powerful.
Yep, and if the PTB attempted that again, the lemmings would do it all over again.
CP – our propaganda isn’t getting better, our IQ is getting lower. That’s, as is now fashionable to say, fact-checkable.
That’s it, Ron. People who should have known better were going along with the exact opposite of everything we knew about pandemics.
That takes a special kind of stupid.
They went public with Chechnya back in the day. We just didn’t have telegram or X/twitter back then.
Why? Sends a message to terrorist wannabes.
Good morning, Jim. Thank you for the blog this morning.
“The mental defectives running Poland, France, and Germany seem avid for NATO to jump with both feet into ground action in Ukraine, that is, go directly to war with Russia. It’s hard to imagine an act with a potentially worse outcome for NATO, for Europe, and, by extension, for Western Civ.”
Yes, obviously. The Western European militaries of France, Germany and the UK are woefully ill prepared and completely undermanned. The French Army can maybe scratch together 7,000 troops, along with a thousand Belgians and (no joke) 27 Luxembourgers, to send to Ukraine. That is it. The UK maybe has an entire land army of 5,000 soldiers. Germany is little better.
Furthermore, Russia is producing 250,000 artillery shells a month. The entirety of the US and Europe is barely 10 percent of that.
So, like so much in the collective West, the elites believe delusion & fantasies become some kind of psychotic magic to transform reality.
The sad Frenchmen who get dumped into Ukraine, will be completely destroyed like the number of Ukrainian armies have experienced in the last few years, and the supposedly “supermen” of the Wehrmacht, before them.
None of these collective West leaders, or their dummkopf generals, have learned anything from history. Nothing.
The WEF regional managers who are in the process of destroying Europe don’t seem to realize that the American public could care less if they send a bunch of their troops to die for nothing in Ukraine.
Well, the American public could care less if they send our troops to die for nothing in Ukraine, either, for that matter, the only difference being that here, the beneficiaries get a lot of life insurance money.
And some of them get to be on the Wounded Warrior Project commercials on TV.
You get a “free” blanket if you give them enough money. How very kind and generous of them. How much donation money is wasted on blankets and lining CEO pockets when the intent is to have the money go to a worthwhile cause?
Isn’t it nice that we have all the money in the world to create war, but sorry no money when you come back all FFF’d up.
As Hillary said, It’s women who suffer in war. The men just die. Guess she forgot about all the permanently maimed. It didn’t fit her feminist narrative…..
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today’s warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.
Conference on domestic violence in San Salvador, El Salvador (17 November 1998).
Yes, they lose their walking wallets. The men’s lives in and of themselves mean nothing to this martriarchical society.
Are any of the conscripts Muslim?
One of the persistent delusions of the West is that techno whizz-bang weapons win wars. Thus the insanely over-budget F-35, about 20% are ready for combat at any time.
We lost our most recent war – to a group of Dark Age goat herders with no aircraft, no navy, no artillery, no armor, who were armed with only 1950’s era man-carried Soviet weapons.
Ish-
The GAO report on the F-35s is interesting.
If one limits the F-35 population to those built from 2008 to 2012, the readiness rate drops to 0%.
There is also something else over there that mainstream doesn’t talk about. I came by this information by way of a video, in which this air force pilot flying a C-130 gave an interview about a particular cargo. There are evidently giants living in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The army killed one after it basically destroyed the first army team that encountered it. These beings are so massive that the army had to change its battle doctrine on how to fire at targets. No lie. The pilot said it weighed 1100 pounds, was at least 12 feet in height. Red hair. Stank to high heaven.
So, I’m thinking, gee, giants in Kandahar and pterodactyls in Arizona. And we were all brought up to believe these things didn’t exist anymore.
Maybe there isn’t enough water for it to bathe. Don’t jump to conclusions about its moral character.
Not just there. Peru is having problems with 7’+ beings that the locals are calling “face peelers”. These things have a habit of doing just that to people they get ahold of. The problem has been intensifying as of late.
The hidden things of this world are being uncovered. The technology is allowing people to share experiences independently faster than the information can be ghosted.
Ishabaka, there is a lesson in this and I am not going to tell you what it is…
Are there really European troops in Ukraine now, or are they just talking about it?
There have been European troops in Ukraine since 2014, but they have never admitted it openly.
“None of these collective West leaders, or their dummkopf generals, have learned anything from history.”
They’re not “in it to win it”, they’re in it to lose, and to provoke a larger confrontation that will bring down western civilization, in order to pave the way for the long-promised New World Order (aka Great Reset, aka Global Government). They are doing exactly as their masters pay them to do.
Greetings,
Before jumping over here this morning I was over at the Hedge reading about the complete collapse of Baltimore’s police department and how the police department had but 3 officers on duty to police 61,000 people and could no longer respond to more than one call at a time.
This is important because we’ve let in a lot of criminals from all around the world and when they unleash mayhem like we just saw in Russia, there wont be any police or security forces to respond to it.
One final thing: Once the security forces are gone, who will enforce contracts? Who will do the evicting? Who will confiscate property? How will the blob collect its taxes when it has no strong arm to do so?
quiet, well thought out vigilantism. God help us.
baltimore won’t be the last, but for curiosity, who’s next?
Obama had plans for a national police force.
Yeah, his version of the brown shirts
There is an interview on Gateway Pundit today with an Illegal who is being put up in an NYC hotel. He list all the free shit they give him (basically everything except a job) and he is still getting ready to fly himself and family to Arizona (for free) because “NYC has collapsed” !!
Welcome to clown world 2024.
United Staes to disunited state.
planned collapse.
bidens america. a dying man puts USA into its death throes.
And the NATO troops are simply a sacrifice to the Gods of Clown World.
You’re right, malthuss – what better way for a gibbering cadaver to retain office than to start a war? He can throw out his chest and like GeeDubya, claim to be a wartime president. Can’t change horses in the middle of the stream now, can ya?
They hauled the 4 shooters into court. All were severely scuffed up, one was unconscious. No matter, arraign them and get them ready for trial and execution. Nobody messes with Putin twice. If Nuland has 2 brain cells to rub together – that’s IF – she should be twenty miles underground, shaking in her support hose.
We are privileged to enjoy another superb offering from our host but I think it wise to disabuse ourselves of the notion that tRump will ever hold office again. It won’t be allowed. Even if he managed to get the votes counted (he won’t) in keeping with his previous form, there would be no firing, no prosecutions. He would squat squarely in the middle of his rightful domain, promoting one swamp creature after another and feigning outrage when they betrayed him. The US deserves better.
Sadly C.O., I tend to agree. But maybe Trump will be vindictive enough to go after some of them.
I’m leaning more and more toward the idea that we will get Trump 2.0. The “right” will feel vindicated, and the “left” will be hysterical with rage – even worse than during Trump 1.0.
The left foot has taken a giant step forward during the Big Guy’s regime. Time for the right foot to take us further down the same road.
More Burn, Loot ‘n’ Murder. More Antifa. More rapes and murders by our beloved “newcomers”. More lawfare “against” Trump. More broken promises about “draining the swamp” and “closing the border”.
Trumps supporters will defend his lack of action with “his hands are tied!” – as the supporters of every President do when he doesn’t do what he promised.
I still like my Hildebeast theory though. It’s a long time until November. Things can go really crazy between now and then – and almost certainly will.
You might be right, Blackbird.
George The Lesser said “This sucker is going down” 20 years ago, but they have managed to keep it going since.
They might be ready to pull the plug. What better revenge on Trump than to do it when he is president? Blame the whole thing on him, and roll out the reset for him to install.
I am leaning towards Biden has been dead for a while- even members of his family have stated so. The guy acting his part is rather good at it, with all the speech gibberish and shaky feet.
Look elsewhere, what happens when civil order, which originates from within individuals, is lost to the government becoming part of the criminal and anarchistic elements.
How to destroy the civility of a country? By overwhelming it with criminal elements from other lands.
As the Democratic Deep State is 100% behind the admission of these criminals. They are our enemy no.1
As a former resident of that beautiful state of Arizona that I love, I could not agree more. Something that is being overlooked, in my opinion, is the actual reason for importing mostly military aged illegal invaders. Most are assuming they are for voting purposes, but feel there is a much more sinister purpose. Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin gives a clue to their true purpose when she pushes for 500,000 illegals to be taken into our military in exchange for citizenship. Think of them with automatic weapons and you may begin to get the picture. They are here to join with antifa and blm when the Democrats again call them out for chaos, rioting, mayhem, even murder, as they did in 2020, but put them back in place during the Biden marxist administration. Everything will be done to stop or impede the election of Trump, including his murder is they can pull that off, i.e., JFK.
Baldwin is only a senator because she has two tits and a vagina and she’s a lesbian. Those are her sole qualifications as an elected representative. In the 90’s when she was a congresscritter, she and a bunch of her fellow lesbians got together to try to get the Boy Scouts national charter revoked because of their stance on homosexuality. More recently, she and Ron Kind came up with the vape tax and pushed to get vape products banned from the mail, which in turn led to the closing of businesses that did their business by mail and made vape products more expensive than actual tobacco. Now, a pack of cigarettes is cheaper than a couple of vape pods.
Ron Kind: Nothing “kind” about him!
I believe the US went belly up a while ago, so they are going to be the enforcers as they carve up the assets and dole them out to the “Stake Holders”…
Cheer up. If they ship them off to Ukraine, what are the odds they’ll come back here other than as popsicles frozen to the wheels? Think Kabul…
Evacuating airplane wheel, that is…
Exactly. Votes don’t count. “Results” will be made up to support the selection of our pre-determined demagogue.
The illegals are here to drive down wages, drive up unemployment and housing costs, crash the social safety net, bankrupt the economy, then rob, rape, and murder us – the citizens of the US – once the shit hits the fan.
The “Biden” administration is the most criminal in the history of this country – and yet approximately half the country supports “him” because he isn’t Trump.
@Blackbird
You left out the most important part.
The majority of “illegals” are desperately poor people caught up in a mass religious movement seeking a fraudulent dream of wealth they have seen on TV, nurtured by NGO’s who’s goal is the destruction of the former United states of america. The Border floodgates were thrown open by the DemonRat Party in an attempt to hold onto their political dominance garnered by decades of fake election circuses.
And then there are the New Brigades. 320 thousand were recruited from all over the world by the OBiden administration. They didn’t have to face the hardships of the Darian Gap— instead they were flown directly to entry points in the US where free cell phones and monthly stipends await. A common departure point is Quito, Ecuador, one of the last US$ strongholds in the South American continent. The majority initially were from Venezuela, but now they come from all over the world. Colombia, Africa, Gaza, Ukraine, the Middle East conflict zones, and in particular China where a series of “hotels” have been set up to ease their passage.
The New Brigades have several things in common. They are almost entirely military age young men. The arrive by airline, paid by the OBiden administration through cover fronts. They never are registered by US border patrol, even through the “Catch and Release” policies that prevail.
Military recruitment into the US volunteer Armed Forces has fallen to the point where it misses annual targets by 40,000+++ every year. Very few join unless they are dead broke or mentally deficient. It seems that even West Point no longer believes in the concepts of Honor or Duty— even that institution is so ashamed of it’s own country that they changed their moto to “Army Values”.
So what do you believe the role of the New Brigades is to be in the New World Order or the New Civil War?
@JohnAz
AKA the Cloward-Piven strategy, published in 1966 by 2 Marxist radicals at Columbia and reincarnated by the Blob.
Yes, Naomi Wolf has an article out depicting the numerous large alien facilities being run in many different places filled with illegals. It sounds like something is being planned here. I can’t help thinking the mayhem all those men housed in these facilities could cause just by stopping housing, feeding and supporting them.
Don’t worry, NickelthroweR, our military will do it.
You know, that military full of trannies, queers and women because the patriotic soldiers have either been vaxxed or run out of the military.
Just saying….
I’m not so sure that the military can do it. Policing large urban areas with equipment and tactics better suited to fight a world war isn’t going to work. The situation would escalate out of control rather quickly.
The best that the military can do is run an open-air prison like Gaza. You can’t police what is inside but you can mostly keep everyone in their 15 minute prison.
Gaxa is not an open air prison. There are Fàkestinisns all over the planet.
You might as well join the Biden campaign if you think there is a trace of validity anywhere in the 75 year UN Fakestinian Scam.
It is not their land and it never was.
Total land ownership by resident Arabs was 3 percent in 1947, and being a sharecropper never entitled anyone to the land.
It’s evil Jew Hater BS, start to finish and even now, they officially remain dedicated to the genocide of Israel.
Lies against Israel will not go unpunished, they are the precise focus of Armegeddon, God’s Vengeance against Jew Haters.
@John0
Gaza IS an open-air prison.
I don’t know where you find “3%” Arab owned. Why don’t you just write “Palestine was 97% Jewish owned”?
Why don’t you write that we have no inflation too?
At the end of 1946, Jews had acquired about 6-8% of the land in Palestine, which represented about 20% of the arable land.
The UN partition plan gave the Jews, who numbered around 600,000, 56% of Palestine, and the Arabs, who numbered 1.2 million, 42%. So, right off the bat, half the Jews got 33% more land from the “international community” (the West plus the USSR).
But in actuality, the Israelis wound up taking more land in 1948 than what the UN plan called for.
Afterwards,the Arabs were attacked in TWO major wars:
the Suez War, and even more importantly, the June 1967 War.
In June 1967, to keep their sneak attack a secret from the US, the Israelis even tried to sink the USS Liberty, killing 32 (or 37) US sailors and injuring another 150 plus.
Your amateurish screed is straight of Goebbel’s planbook–challenge truths you don’t like with blatant lies.
Israel is evil, just like Nazi Germany was evil (even though the Germans had legitimate grievances, and Hitler did point out the role of big money, big capital, in Germany’s defeat in WW1).
Several Jews, like Albert Einstein, expressed serious reservations about many Israeli leaders like the terrorist Menachim Begin.
w.thehypertexts.com/Albert%20Einstein%201948%20Letter%20New%20York%20Times%20Nakba.htm
Israel is evil. Supporters of Israel’s campaigns in Gaza and the West Bank are supporting murder, theft, unlawful imprisonment, and ethnic cleansing.
When the situation is viewed in its totality, Hamas’ actions are mere pin pricks.
When we see block of Tel Aviv looking like Gaza, then Israel might have something to complain about.
Thank you Socrates!
NickelthroweR
When I speculate upon the future borders of the Dis-united States of America I always label the former state of California The Republic of Sinola.
Power still grows out of a gun, and the Cartel has the most soldiers who don’t hesitate to use their guns.
And the Cartel controls all the Spice. Synthetic Opioids are more destructive than any gun.
Nickel-
They know they won’t have the bodies, which is why we’re seeing the hysterical push for the digital panopticon.
Joke’s on them, because they won’t have that either.
The Cartels become the police. If you don’t pay for protection, you don’t live.
Yes, a man I know was talking about how wonderful his time in Mexico was. Everyone drinking and listening to music. No doubt the cartels keep the peace of here once they have established control.
This reveals an often overlooked fact that is staring everyone in the face: Criminal Cartels are simply armed mobs not yet lawfully recognized as the de facto governments that they actually are of the territories that they have taken by force of arms.
It is a very short leap from de facto ruling “mob” or “warlord” and becoming a de jure government.
At the end of the day it’s just a legal fiction to call any armed organization that controls territory a “government.” The truth is that “whoever has the most guns, rules.” On our case, that is the USG and its MIC that backs it up.
Mao recognized this truth many decades ago with his famous observation that “All power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Our Founding Fathers recognized the same truth when they wrote the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights” and made it part of our Constitution.
So, at the end of the day, owning firearms and ammunition gives you more say over how you are to be governed than any damned ballot box. The CARTIDGE BOX is the real source of your political power.
It will always find someone willing to do its dirty work. Some will do it out of necessity, because all other options are closed to them for whatever reason. But there will always be someone.
Which would include the millions of military aged illegal invaders, antifa, blm, our very own Gestapo, CIA, IRS, and other agencies now armed and trained for combat against American civilians. They have all shown they are not adverse to attacking and killing American citizens. Anything and everything to prevent another Trump Presidency, including killing him, if possible, i.e. JFK.
JGalt: You might be surprised how many defect from the 3-letter agencies to the side of the people if things completely fall apart and we descend into full-blown civil war.
I was CIA when I was in my 20’s and full of piss and vinegar to help Reagan end the Cold War on America’s terms. Granted, it was in the 80’s and ‘90’s and a lot has changed since then, but I still suspect that significant numbers would bolt if the tyranny expands beyond simply persecuting Trump and his more visible supporters.
“Once the security forces are gone, who will enforce contracts? Who will do the evicting? Who will confiscate property? How will the blob collect its taxes when it has no strong arm to do so?” ~ NickelthroweR
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I like the sound of that.
Once large-scaled specialized forces are gone and stay gone, there will be a temporary vacuum. Nature, it is said, abhors a vacuum, except maybe of the Hoover kind, so people will put on their big boy and girl pants and make better examples of any criminals or wannabes than cops could ever make.
But you need real community again. That takes time and since they have all be sufficiently gutted.
Frontier justice against illegal invaders is coming to a town near you. And sooner than you think.
Collapse 101 I suppose.
Copy that, doc; from out here on the frontier.
“I like the sound of that.
Once large-scaled specialized forces are gone and stay gone, there will be a temporary vacuum. Nature, it is said, abhors a vacuum, except maybe of the Haiti kind.
Zaz,
Fixed it for you.
Could be here and there, sure.
Right E – down South, we’ll have Barbecue(s) and all.
Of the 10 million newcomers, if even 2% would take up arms against Americans, that’s 200,000. 5% would be 500,000 and so on. Add BLM/Antifa slimeballs to this number.
How many anti-vax military did the Blob kick out? How many armed x-military are in the US today?
And how many others are taking steps to acquire their own weapons to defend themselves? A recent visit to the range (my 3rd) shows there are a lot of us.
Talk about a Clusterfuck scenario.
It’s not difficult for law enforcement, even dysfunctional law-enforcement, to mess with generally law-abiding citizens who have done nothing WRONG (this is different from breaking the law, when the law is unfair or wrong–like making an honest mistake on one’s taxes).
It IS difficult to enforce laws against violent, armed criminals.
So, when security forces are gone, beside contracts not being enforced (people choosing not to pay rent being the biggest likely offense), the question becomes, will the criminal gangs be able to organize and function effectively to steal, like the Mafia in its heyday.
Or, will people be able to “band together” to prevent from being robbed or harassed?
In small-town America, I think they will. In the suburbs… it depends on the neighborhood–the TYPE of people (good or not) and their political view (a nice neighbor who is polite, friendly, keeps their house looking decent, helps out when you need help, but loves Biden and hates guns is not going to be much use).
Zazelle “But you need real community again”
Yes, and a collection of people living in close geographic proximity to each other does, not, a community make.
Agreed!
I see where “Joe Biden” has allowed millions of illegal military age men into the United States over the past three years from almost every country on Earth.
Maybe the plan is to train them all to be strong men against We the People?
I know there is already a plan to put them in the military and give them citizenship.
I agree. They come over the border and disappear. They aren’t all going to NY City hotels.
As the mayor of Washington, DC said, when throwing a fit about DeSantis busing them to her city
“That is not part of the plan”.
So far, as far as I know, no “reporter” has asked her what the plan actually is.
“How will the blob collect its taxes when it has no strong arm to do so?”
Heh. This is an actual concern?
Looks to me that “Special-K” is about to have a mourning movement.
” putting together the puzzle pieces, having already been careful to take the suspects alive.” VLADimir Putin. …”Slavic origin, meaning “to rule with greatness,” “peaceful ruler,” and “ruler of the world.” In realspeak…”Impaler of Butts.”
Descriptions of Lubyanka prison come to mind.
My dad’s name was Waldemar. Same meaning. But he conquered nothing and impaled nothing.
Not true.
Whew. A lot of work went into todays piece.
” In any case, On March 8 the United Blob State Department issued a warning to Russia’s foreign ministry that something wicked was coming their way, and likewise warned our diplomatic personnel to steer clear of concert halls and other public venues. Was the Crocus op already well in motion? And was the blob trying to cover for Ms. Nuland’s big mouth by warning about something that was too late to stop?”
Yes.
The 4 shooters were promised money and had only been contacted a month ago by strangers, who gave them both arms and half their pay in advance for the attack.
Oh, well, looks like they won’t be getting that other half.
No idea if this is true but someone on ZH commented that a popular band scheduled to perform at the Crocus on (around) March 9 was canceled.
No, not that it was cancelled but that they had extremely strict security measures in place. One of the terrorists was photographed on site that day, but nothing went down, until last week that is….
Seems that the Crocus op was telegraphed nearly as clear as Biden’s promise to take down the Nord Stream II pipeline
Occam’s razor 101 here…..just like blowing up the pipeline and blaming Putin…..looking for escalation and no better way than taking the fight to Moscow
King Obama was “visiting” the British PM the week before and I’m sure delivering the game plan in person……
Yep. He doesn’t have access to a basement server anymore.
Lindsey was in Ukraine.
“Lindsey was in Ukraine.”
What color skirt did she wear?
Blue and yellow – and way too short. His/her/its naughty cheerleader outfit.
And people wonder why Russia didn’t go full bore right from the get go. They knew they were dealing with the sneakiest of snakes- almost like they are part reptile.
Putin was trained in the KGB, and worked for a time in counter-intelligence, meaning it was his job to suss out foreign intelligence such as CIA operating in his country. So he KNOWS very well the real nature of the CIA.
MACHIAVELLI comes to mind in these risky times.
In “The Prince” he admires the German principalities which always keep one year’s supply of “food, drink and ammo” inside their moated city walls.
From what i have read over the years. The Russian system of Justice is swift and sure. I do not think the Russians will stop until they find out everything about this tragedy.
BTW Russians pronounce Russia ” Roo sea a.”
The first U is relaxed into a schwa, almost. “Rah-SEE-ah.”
When I’ve listened to Putin, it seems closer to Roh-see-ah.
The thing that always gets in the way of the optimistic view is the total takeover of the judicial by the Libs and the inability of the Patriots to gain any leverage anywhere against the Deep State.
The Deep State control the country, right now using the law fare of the government as their weapon. These mobsters hold the USA for ransom. They believe in their cause as much as the patriots. Only war, either electoral or physical, will set the stage for the next Fourth Turning. It is surely coming. And one day, the fourth Turning will be the last Turning.
One side will be victorious, starting right now with the cowardly resignations of RINOs going on right now. 2024 may be an afterthought after this summer.
JAZ-
Don’t forget their control of the educational system, which they use to pump out more good little meatbots.
A lot of people who didn’t like Trump at all, even hated him, are now taking his side in that flagrant I-don’t-know-what-to-call-it by Letitia James.
I don’t know if that’s a hopeful sign or not, we may be too far gone.
We are too far gone. If they can do this to an ex President with impunity what chances do we peons have against this lawfare?
Keep your head down and keep your powder dry. It’s going to get uglier before it gets better.
Exactly……it’s going to be a very rough ride…..
Canker: Also, get more ‘powder,’ as much as possible. And, learn how to use it effectively.
Rapid change will ensue when citizens form innumerable neighborhood watch groups to provide early warning for law enforcement raids on citizens at behest of federal agencies.
The change will further manifest when state, county, and local law enforcement begin refusing to cooperate with federal raids on local citizens for all causes.
States will object to and deny access entirely for such raids following one or more “incidents” where a large number of deaths occur.
Federal agencies will censure said states and begin sanctioning them officially and unofficially.
States will respond by suspending permits for federal offices, buildings, and other such sites to continue operation.
Federal authorities will respond by restricting/blocking road, rail, and air traffic into and out of said states.
The Republic has already become something else. The people have not caught up to the fact until now. Only a spark remains. Something people will rally behind to the death, because following such event, they will truly believe they have nothing to lose.
The people will push local officials, commissioners, boards, sheriffs, mayors, and motivators to act. It will be organic and impossible to reverse. The anger will be too hot.
Well…,the fat lady hasn’t sung yet, CP. It ain’t over till it’s over.
Just like today, where the mighty T-Rump was able to suddenly get the $534M fine reduced at the last possible minute by the appellate court to $175M – which he can apparently come up with – so that his appeal may go forward – thus thwarting Erdogon and James initial ploy to block his ability to appeal their kangaroo court summary judgment.
Like the T-Rex of old, the T-Rump is a dangerous dude to fuck with and damned hard to take down.
All these black female lawfare shits and their cohorts remind me of the raptors in Jurassic Park jumping on T-Rex’s back and nipping at his spine, only to have T-Rex bite them in two and sling them away one by one.
I used to loathe Trump but at this point despite his refusal to call out the Covid Hoax, I’ll vote for him if RFKJ – after having been fighting the good fight for so long – chooses a weak, unknown glamour VP.
We need an ultra-strong team and if Kennedy somehow feels he needs a woman as his VP then it better be someone publicly known as strong and intelligent like Tulsi Gabbard. Some say that she’s WEF but hopefully that’s a rumor.
At this point I do wish that Kennedy and Trump would team up together for the good of the country… We need a strong team ready to crush Deep State, and Kennedy/Trump (doesn’t matter who is Pres vs VP) would be unstoppable.
I hope to God he doesn’t pick that rich DIE chick the media was talking about.
That his campaign manager even thought “racial equity” work is a resume enhancer makes me want to throw my hand up in despair, or maybe just throw up.
I wish that Tucker had actually grilled Tulsi about that, the WEF thing.
You would think she was aware of the talk and eager to dispel it, wouldn’t you?
The nauseating ‘rich DEI chick’ is exactly who I was referencing!
When asked if he’d consider being Trump’s VP, Kennedy laughingly replied that his wife would kill him… Well maybe his wife needs to give Hollywood a rest and think about what actions might most effectively keep this country from cascading further into a dystopian cesspool.
Yes, I wish Tulsi would clarify the WEF rumors… Now I’d be OK with her – she’s tough as nails!
I can’t remember where I saw it but DEI really stands for Didn’t Earn It.
I, too am waiting for tomorrow’s announcement of a running mate by RFK Jr. If he picks the ex-wife of that google oligarch, it will be a signal to all sentient beings that he is only kidding about…everything. Just because she paid for his super-bowl commercial doesn’t qualify her to be president if the deep state were to do what they did to his dad and uncle.
@River – Tulsi was proudly displayed on the WEF website as one of their young global leaders or some such nonsense, as was Ivanka Trump. Trump himself hobknobs with herr Schwabenklausser.
Tulsi is a gun grabber. As in firearms.
C.O., I know Tulsi was on their website back then. I’m curious as to what she has to say about it now.
She may have just seen it as a way to get ahead.
Tulsi, like others, has said that the WEF put her on their website without her permission.
Apparently, they look for young, good-looking up-and-comers, and call them “Young Leaders”.
They did the same thing to some guy in Canada, with the same result. People spouting trash about it, victim denying it. everyone ignoring the denial.
Rinse and repeat.
Some are flattered, of course, and fall into line with the agenda.
Those are the ones who become “the youngest prime minister ever” in various countries.
The sad fact is that they ALL suck Zionist you know what. We are under their thumb and voting has NO EFFECT on that reality.
JohnAZ, not enough people have awakened to the awful situation that we are facing. I’m afraid. Too many people still getting tattoos, piercings, dying their hair green and watching the NCAA playoffs. Nobody gives a shit.
You forgot the the normies posting brunch and home improvement pics on FB. And I mean the normies on the right.
Yes, I know. it’s extremely frustrating. They won’t even click on the links to articles I post on FB, so when I took to posting excerpts from those articles so people wouldn’t have to read the whole thing, they wouldn’t even read those. The old adage of “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink” holds true.
One thinks of Q here. Of course he used to play basketball in college, just like Obama. So guys like him have that excuse.
CP – Consider the fact that most colonial subjects of King George III in 1776 either remained loyal or neutral between 1776-1781 because they simply couldn’t be bothered to risk upsetting the apple cart of their daily lives to back the play of Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington and the rest of the Revolutionary Boys.
Don’t let the fact that you are in the minority that gives a shit push you into BlackPill-ville.
When the crunch time come fewer than 5% on all sides will “do anything” while all others cower and spectate. Pretty much how it is in most conflicts – both civil and military.
In the end it matters not what most others choose to do. It matters what YOU choose to do.
Just like they did with the Arizona elections in 2020 John. There is no way the Demoncraps won either the Presidential vote, or those for Congress, yet with a corrupt Secretary of State running for Governor, and a well-entrenched vote stealing system in place, the steal was done. Despite Republicans being aware, not sure the fraud and vote stealing can be overcome, but the Demoncraps are backing up their corrupt ways with violence to come this summer and fall here, and likely in Ukraine. Pure unadultered evil and corruption reigns.
THE TELL is always the same: within hours of the perpetration of some major official chicanery the Corporate Media all trumpet an identical message, without having time or need for any investigation whatsoever.
“Trump accuses DNC of vote tampering without justification.”
“The Covid pandemic originated in a fresh market near Wuhan.”
“Russia invades Ukraine without provocation.”
“ISIS-K bombs concert hall in Moscow.”
ETC.
In each case there are numerous plausible alternate hypotheses, all of which are summarily dismissed.
In each case it would take months of serious investigation to determine the actual facts of the matter.
And in each case every Blob mouthpiece happens to employ precisely the same wording, almost as if agreed upon beforehand – or directed from above.
In these instances we citizens can no more determine the truth of things the next day than the Corporate Media can, but we can be certain of one thing: we are being lied to by those who know the truth of what has happened, and are likely responsible for it.
90% of the entire media apparatus is owned by 5 private companies. That should easily explain why they all report the same thing using identical words. It’s not hard to see for those whose eyes are awakened. My eyes were opened during the covid lie.
I was just thinking about this very thing the other day when the media went crazy with the word “veritas” during Boy George’s presidency.
Anyone remember that?
Gravitas?
Of one ethnic group.
Yep. Exactly right.
Who now are getting laws passed so you can’t mention them without going to jail for a long, long time.
Indeed, Zoltar, when the cover story is unanimously rolled out within the hour, you know damn well that you are being fed a pack of lies.
That’s what got me to question the “official’ 9/11 story, was the speed at which the “hijackers” were identified. Having worked in a pathology department for a great many years, I knew it was impossible to make any identification without bodies. Yet, here they were, all plastered on TV. That served as the “crack” in the monolith for me.
They used their real ID, so ever since we have to show our ID whenever we go on a plane, as if that makes a difference.
BTW Albany NY airport has brought out the facial recognition software. It’s “voluntary” for now.
I don’t know what it is supposed to prove that can’t be proved just by looking at a person.
They lie about it not beig able to make mistakes. Of course it can.
Mohammed Atta’s passport being found unscathed on a sidewalk just a few blocks down from ground-zero… Guess he rolled the window down and tossed it out just before impact – wanted to make sure Allah gave him his just rewards.
9/11 was an obvious fraud from day 1 – and yet it took me years to fully accept it. Most people still cling to the lies like a baby blanket.
The legacy media don’t have the money or resources anymore. Internet killed the journalist star.
“it would take months of serious investigation”
Unless, of course, you were in on the planning…”
They won’t ever talk about that.
It always cracks me up when people say “They could never keep that a secret. Someone would talk”.
Yeah, right, like hardened criminals go around confessing to heinous crimes that would land them in jail.
Happens all the time.
Not.
The moment I hear these pre-approved media narratives (Big Lies) I at least know what explanation NOT to believe.
Just tune-in to the lamestream media and you’ll know what to disbelieve.
Your investigative instincts are spot on this morning JHK! The Blob (“Terrorism-by-proxy-is-US”) is rapidly approaching the event horizon for a full-on WWIII hot war. Hard to imagine a way out of this now. Let’s get ready to rumble!!!
Two great movies: Event Horizon and The Blob (the original).
Speaking of movies, I highly recommend ‘Enemy at the Gates.’ IMO, best movie to prep one’s mind for what’s coming very soon. (Never forget that the USCorp courts recently ruled that illegal aliens have a right to own guns, but in many states YOU don’t).
Thanks Jim for your excellent write up. I have no doubt that the blob is involved in every minute detail behind this disaster in the Crocus theater.
Of course they want to start a hot war. A hot war is the only way to continue to justify our enormous military budget and the very existence of the CIA. If there is peace, there is no need for a huge military and intelligence apparatus.
These fuckers are evil. If they get their way it will be our sons and some of our daughters who will bleed. Not theirs.
God help us.
The old “Wag the Dog” strategy is bound to be implemented by this summer of Dementia Joe continues to resist stepping aside all while his poll numbers continue to erode. At some point they will simply need a major distraction to have any hope of de-railing the thundering Trump Train that is hurtling down the tracks in Biden’s direction. He will be squished like a penny laid on the rails unless he starts a MAJOR war to drive 99% of the campaign coverage off of the air.
I interpret the fact that the Russians seem to be blaming Ukraine for this atrocity to mean that they do not want to start WW3.
We all know who runs both ISIS and the Kiev regime. Pointing fingers at either is pointing a finger at Uncle Sam, but they are carefully avoiding saying so.
And Maria Zakharova pointed out that the US still doesn’t know who killed JFK after 60 years, but they knew within an hour who done this dirty deed?
Why would she pick the JFK assassination and not the Nordstream pipelines? I think it is to tamp down the war fever.
Is Russia really going to suck up this horrendous act? It looks like it to me.
But do I believe that four guys got instructions on the internet and managed to carry out a massacre PLUS start an enormous raging fire that destroyed the roof of a concert center, all in 10 minutes?
(My husband and I had had trouble starting a fire in our stove the night before I read about that fire, so we both scoffed at the idea that it could be done without incendiaries, most likely pre-placed.)
No, no, I do not believe that. You can’t get that kind of military instruction online, especially if you’re illiterate, which is another thing we were told.
We are receiving the usual FUD propaganda that we get in every atrocity. They feed us bullshit in varying flavors, and let us argue over whatever story we latch onto. (People around here are fond of repeating propaganda they were fed 40 years ago, so it works.)
Did Maria Z say that?
She is good!
You’re right, I bet the US government is ultimately behind this.
I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander?
Why shouldn’t the Russian pay the US in its own coin?
A well-done attack needn’t “rally people” around the government. The US government’s reaction (especially the Biden Administration!) can precipitate even sharper red/blue divisions, which in the long-term is more likely to affect the Military Industrial Complex, which is a concern for Russia. And China. And thinking Europeans. And anyone who doesn’t like war.
Paula, yes, four morons with guns did not start the blaze that burned the concert hall down. They were just patsies. This is much bigger than them.
Sox, Putin retaliating in-kind? Why would he do that? So that the Big Guy can rally the sheeple for war with Russia? But if Putin won’t play tit-for-tat, we will surely run up a false flag to blame on him.
Although my bet for a false flag is against Iran – “cyber attack” against international banking (don’t worry, the bankers will make out just fine – as they always do). Economic collapse = CBDC & martial law. War with Iran will allow us to fight Russia by proxy, keeping the destruction confined to the middle east.
Bird – Kinzhal’s & Zircon’s – hypersonics – are auguring into Kiev at 7200 mph. NATO air defenses are useless. In addition to being a great statesman, Putin the surgeon, will take out whatever, whenever he wants.
For the last three years while we’ve been trying to figure out which bathrooms to use, Russia has been embracing STEM, to a point of technological dominance.
We so smaaht!
That sap of a shooter reminds me in some way of Sirhan Sirhan.
Yeah, I recently read some a very interesting article about the Robert Kennedy assassination. The article said that the powder burns at the back of Kennedy’s head were inconsistent with a shooter standing several feet away, as Sirhan was. They said it was more consistent with a gun three inches or so away from the back of the head. I found that extremely interesting
Check out the Joe Rogan interview with RFK. He gets into the controversy surround his dad’s murder.
There’s a book called “Nemesis” by Peter Evans.
Book writes that Onassis disliked RFK going back to the early 1950s, when RFK was a government lawyer.
It’s been about 15-20 years since I read it. If viewed as a novel, it’s good read. If viewed as truth, it’s an even better read.
Lots of names, many facts. Author was never sued for libel… So it may be true!
Thomas Nogouchi, the LA coroner, determined the cause of death to be a bullet wound to the back of the head, from close range.
No witnesses saw Sirhan to be any closer than 5 feet in FRONT of RFK.
And yet, the Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda has convinced most Americans that Sirhan dunnit. They completely ignore the coroner’s report and stick to their story, no matter what, even all these years later. And most Americans fall for it.
Amazing power!
The Crocus massacre does seem a little fishy, doesn’t it? So right away I went to the Automatic Earth to get the thinly veiled Russian opinion. It doesn’t look like the Russians are buying the ISIS-K story. Leaving the question “cui bono” lingering in the air. Like after Nord Stream.
I wonder what’s going on in NY with Trump. That’s happening now.
Sometimes, just sometimes, a warning is just that. The US warned Russia. Putin didn’t take heed. Isis isn’t Ukraine. The bad actors don’t need collusion with the U.S. Putin’s blob dropped the ball. His Stalin impersonation is getting old, as is the way he calls others Nazis while taking multiple pages from fascist playbooks.
WTF are you on about?
Its not a salad without tomatoes.
Bombshell: RNC Finds Counties With More Registered Voters Than Eligible Adults
This headline is about Michigan and every excuse under the sun is thrown out as to the reason.
WE ALL KNOW THE REASON!
Well, there’s a surprise.
There were precincts in Philadelphia with over 100% voter turnout. In “urban” areas, if voter turnout exceeds 30%, it has to be fraud.
Also fishy: The US knew right away that ISIS-K was behind this attack. Yet, a year and a half later we still do not know who caused the NORDSTREAM pipeline sabotage. Yeah, riiiiiiight…….
Yeah, also the fact that it was done by 4 mercenaries hired by an unknown operator is NOT the ISIS-K M. O. Could have just as easily been the CIA behind the scenes.
IIRC, Telegram is a Russian-owned app.
If so, the Russian intelligence agencies should be able to roll that network up very quickly.
And the reason the US warned Russia was for plausible deniability…
Exactly Yirgach, but it was nice for the US to send their official heartfelt condolences. You know, we’re so sorry, what a shame, who would do such a thing.
ISIS is the CIA…
Yes CB81 – ISIS-K, based in Iran, which is 97% Shia Muslim.
The only problem is that the four shooters were Tajiks – Tajikistan, 97% Sunni Muslim.
The Shia and Sunni Sects have been enemies for millennia – sum ting not right.
Sum Ting Wong.
What’s coming might as well be called “The War Among the Socialists.” With the exception of the MAGA crowd in the U.S., nearly every other political faction in the U.S. is now either Communist/Socialist or Fascist/Socialist. The mainstream Democrat Party (that’s the part with the wealthy corporatist elites financing the show) is largely Fascist/Socialist; the poorer–mostly quite stupid–rabble lead by the Squad is the Communist/Socialist faction. Both Socialist factions are busy calling the MAGA crowd the “Fascists,” despite the fact that the MAGA crowd does not adhere to single Fascist/Socialist tenet in their ideology.
Internationally, the WEF and most of Western Europe is now mostly Fascist/Socialist and is stumping for the U.S. to become yet another Fascist/Socialist puppet state in the “New World Order”–likely better called the “Fourth Reich.” Communist China pretends to be Communist, but even it is behaving more and more like a Fascist/Socialist state. Russia, for its part, is more ideologically confused than anything. It can’t bring itself to become capitalist, but it doesn’t want to be full Communist again, and being led around by the nose of the Socialist/Fascist WEF (with or without the U.S.) doesn’t suit it either. As Russia doesn’t want to be a part of the “New World Order” makes it a target for destruction by the WEF, Western Europe, and the Democrat/RINO Fascist/Socialist neo-con WEF-ass-kissing U.S. political class. The irony of this is that a pro-capitalist MAGA Trump Administration in the U.S. may be the only way to avoid World War III. Right now, that is why the Democrat/RINO neo-con scum in D.C. seem so anxious to start World War III before the 2024 election. God help us.
Hitler offered up the THIRD Reich.
He promised everything to every (German) one. Put me in charge and you’ll have a good job, money, a CAR! Even pollution would go away!
Another German, Klaus Schwab, promises EVERY ONE will be better off if we do as he and his masters want in the FOURTH Industrial Revolution.
Klaus and Bill Gates and George Soros push “less is more” (for the masses, not themselves!), but essentially, they will save the planet and we will be universally content.
“The Great Reset”. It’s all good, brothers and sisters!
I wonder if somebody did this to distract from the pending Supreme Court case?
Leslie Stahl on 60 minutes heroically took the side of government censorship, and rolled right over Jim Jordan.
Now Ms. Stahl is a proven liar and I remember how Donald Trump wasn’t having any of it from her with that Russia Russia Russia nonsense.
This time she decided the government should perhaps be able to step in in cases like the false stolen election claim, and actually bolstered her unproved statement that the election wasn’t stolen, with another unproved statement that “most people” don’t question who was the winner.
Did he ask her who these “most people” are, or how she knows that for a fact?
If the election were stolen, then “most people” do believe that it was.
The question is how do you stop the steal again…..?….I’m not seeing anything other than wishful thinking….right now Dems control the ballot box
Well, I don’t see that you can stop the steal again. The same people that were in place to facilitate the steal in 2020 are all still in their jobs today, including those democrat governors that allowed antifa and blm to riot and burn their cities and businesses (in Kenosha, Wisconsin, an entire car dealership). Short of what everyone wisely doesn’t want to mention publicly, given our “freedoms,” there isn’t any way to prevent it, and if there is, they’ll find a way to just not have an election. I really doubt if most of the hoi polloi would care, anyway.
Well Lara Trump had some really wild ideas, such as having trained personnel already in place if and when any untoward events occur at the polls.
I thought that was Campaigns 101, but apparently Jared didn’t think of it, and we sat and watched the stealing happen right in plain sight, in the places where we knew cheating to be most likely.
When I heard that Rudy Giuliani, an elderly man with serious health issues, was rushing to Pennsylvania on election night, I knew it was all over.
A Kennedy/Trump ticket would be unstoppable!
Yeah, why not? Both are all in on putting Blacks above Whites.
It would be awkward, with Bobby campaigning against the scamdemic crimes and Trump still bragging about how he locked down.
Why would RFK Jr. want to be the Pence? What’s in it for him, or for America?
It would be awkward, but they’d win (because there would be no way to scam a Dem win when the R or I ticket would poll well over 50%) and if they could work as a team RFKJ would be in an excellent position to run as Pres. in 2028 since it will be Trump’s second term and he’ll be out of the running. In fact, since it’s not about age, but mental acuity, RFKJ could conceivably end up in the WH for 12 years!
Vice Presidents don’t matter.
Voting doesn’t matter.
According to Pepe Escobar, the billionaire who owns the Crocus Center is a friend of Trump.
I find that interesting.
Six degrees of separation.
Exactly, they probably someone know Kevin Bacon too.
All people lead to Bacon.
Pepe Escobar, good Russian name. Why are the Russians letting foreigners own property? That’s Globalism.
Nuland let the cat out of the bag. I’ll bet the spooks in DC and London were beside themselves.
The recent attacks on Belgorod and the refineries were cover for her gaffe. I’m betting the terrorism was planned to happen before the election, but it was delayed by Nuland’s mouth.
It’s called chutzpah. Nuland climaxes every time a gentile is murdered.
Reggiezz-
There are reports the attack was delayed because security for a March 7th concert at Crocus was much, much heavier than the one this past Friday.
Right. The US ”warning” they keep blathering on about, as part of the narrative, was a 48 hour warning.
They planned to kill a bunch of young people at that concert, to disrupt the Russian election. (Why didn’t they just use Facebook ads?)
But Russia put up heavy security for that one. They seem to have relaxed it after the election, but I hear that the US is trying for “regime change” as part of their propaganda.
Yeah, “regime change” a week after the election. Nice try, dumbasses.
Evil Dumbasses.
Trump in court again today….does anyone think Trump has any chance of getting elected?…right now they’re just roughing him up in court …it’s vindictive foreplay and not really about stopping his election aspirations……the system is in place for him to narrowly lose another nail biter….then continue the gong show of lawfare….
No. Biden’s in for another four years to “finish the job,” as he said once, no matter how many votes Trump gets, and if it looks like he will win, then they’ll just come up with an excuse not to have an election, kind of like a childish “it’s my ball and we’ll play what I want to play” attitude.
The goal seems to be humiliation & bankruptcy.
That’ll learn him what happens when you f#kk with the Blob..
And it’s interesting how the blob is using low IQ low lifes to get Trump.
They have seven ways to Sunday to get you.
Chuck Schumer
The court reduced the bail to $174 Mill, payable in 10 days.
The case will eventually be thrown out.
Hey Ho, Let’s Go!!!
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
XXX://youtu.be/8nYXTsbwsxA
The Blob is composed of extremely bright individuals. At the same time the majority of them suffer from Severe Mental Illness. They are crazy, but they are not stupid. Remember General Flynn? They rolled his *ss up before he could even get the seat of his chair warm in Trump’s administration.
The Blob will win. Just what that will end up looking like is anybody’s guess.
Dox the Blob.
@Zazelle.
Aren’t they hiding in plain sight?
So they’re still hiding then?
@zazelle. My bad. I was using the phrase as an English colloquialism.
Understood.
oldandtired,
There is a big difference between being extremely bright and being ruthless. Most of Blob THINKS that it is very bright and it works day and night to make the masses think that blob members are very bright. In fact, the Blob is not very smart, it is just ruthless. Ruthless people with power can cause unimaginable damage (look at Hitler and Stalin), but the more ruthless that they get, the more stupid decisions they make. Eventually, such ruthless people make very stupid and fatal decisions to themselves and their own cause. Think Hitler–he got drunk on power and by 1941, he was making evermore fatal decisions. It took until 1945 to rid the world of him, but he had screwed the pooch for himself and Germany by the autumn of 1941. The same fate awaits the leaders of the Blob–the only question is when their “1941” comes (it may have, already), and its “1945.” How much damage and death that the Blob causes in between is a matter of speculation, but, unfortunately, the answer is likely plenty.
Hitler fought against the Blob and lost. If Hitler hadn’t fought, the Blob would have won too! Don’t blame Hitler for the Blob’s victory.
The Blob would have been fine with Putin not invading Ukraine. They would have turned it into a globalist showpiece. And their weirdo, quasi Nazi thugs would have gotten none of what they wanted.
The Russo-Ukrainians would have had to flee and it would have been a political disaster for Putin and his group. Big win for the Blob.
Hitler fought no one, his cannon-fodder did.
haha nice!
A.H. was too high on amphetamines to do much other than scream at his toadies & play with his toy cities & soldiers.
They should throw Putin and Biden in the ring and be done with it. If Biden needs help, Putin might be willing to take one on from the Blob.
The only times Biden came out of his basement to “campaign” in 2020, he frequently threatened to take Putin out behind the high school gym and kick his ass.
He got 81 million votes. The media tells us so, so it must be true.
oldandtired: psychopaths, particularly social adept psychopaths, appear to be very smart, when, in fact, they are merely cunning and willing to do things in service to self that normal, moral people would never do. They frequently go over the edge, cross the line (due to their mental illness and inability to perceive their situations clearly), and do something that get them into hot water; think bubba clinton.
@neurodoc. It seems to me the Blog consists of high IQ people. Graduates of Ivy League Schools. Service Academies. Senator Schumer got a perfect score on his SAT. Highly competitive schools. Advanced degrees-J.D.’s.
Their actions, as well as the actions of their CEO helpmates in the MIC, are those of psychopaths.
All of them would score a perfect 40 on the Hare Chart.
And they all seemed like such nice people when we first met them!
Don’t forget the worldwide covid crimes against humanity. There are a large number of people who should hang over that. Maybe WWIII is their best chance of making everyone forget about it.
The US has been talking about Ukraine switching to terrorism for a long time. They call it “asymmetrical warfare”, but it is terrorism against civilian populations, because Ukraine can’t win militarily.
Victoria Nuland said that Russia would be in for a “nasty surprise”, before she resigned.
Mark Milley told Ukrainian special forces to terrorize Russians.
None of this is hidden, it just isn’t repeated 24/7, so most Americans ignore.
Hey, how about Kate? Let’s all pray for her recovery. That’s what normies are focused on, because that is what the media tells them to focus on.
“During one visit to Wiesbaden, Milley spoke with Ukrainian special operations troops — who were working with American Green Berets — in the hope of inspiring them ahead of operations in enemy-controlled areas.
“There should be no Russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they’re going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night,” Milley said, according to an official with knowledge of the event. “You gotta get back there, and create a campaign behind the lines.”
//archive.is/voNgX#selection-2439.0-2453.269
Milley is a traitor, as proven by his conversations with CCP about warning them in the event of any planned attack on China. God only knows what else this woke POS told the Chinese military brass, or who else has been feeding them classified information besides Joe Biden and his family.
Doesn’t he look like a big queen? I could see him with a trunk full of frilly, lacy pink gear.
It’s not “terrorism” when we do it.
I have to disagree with our host here, I seriously doubt the CIA would have anything to do with the murder of 130 Russian civilians at a musical event in Moscow. I just don’t think they would go that far.
One thing is clear, the sophisticated weaponry & ordnance abandoned in Afganistan & dumped in Ukraine is finding it’s way onto the black market, an unprecedented weapons bazaars, a bonanza which will arm terror cells & criminal gangs worldwide, far into the future.
How about going so far as to kill John F. Kennedy? Is killing Russian civilians too much of an outrageous act as killing a President? I do respect your opinions, but disagree with you on this. The CIA has many cut-outs for their operations.
You may want to follow ex-CIA Larry Johnson to get an insiders pov.
The US military has plotted mass murdering & committing war on the population it supposedly protects, as far back to at least the 1960s, with such things as Operation Northwoods which: ….”was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blame them on the Cuban government, and would be used to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft which would be secretly repainted as US Air Force planes,[2] a fabricated ‘shoot down’ of a US Air Force fighter aircraft off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas,[3] blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating terrorism in U.S. cities.[2] [4] The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.[5][6][7]” (wikipedia)
The US is more than willing & able to conduct mass murder on civilians anywhere, and everywhere.
The most recent examples are countless in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Remember, one of the last official combat “actions” the US undertook in Kabul was to drone attack and murder an aid worker and most of his family.
Well, ladies and germs;
As you sit in your comfortable surroundings this AM, perhaps sipping coffee (or chugging vodka, if in the frozen wastes of Canada), consider the fate of the several accused gunmen captured in Russia after the Crocus Outrage. Russians are hard people. Their system of Penology, t heir rules of conduct, may offend those of even jaded human sensibilities. I am certain that the interrogations of the suspects in the Crocus event were…spirited. Medieval, even. Their lives will be a torment until they beg for death.
But wait! Maybe they have friends in their corner…maybe…
(5) PENNSYLVANIA ANARCHISTS MULL “INSURGENCY” STRATEGY: An anarchist blog posted a strategy that could move prison abolition activists from “mere activism to insurgency.”
The missive posed several questions about the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, including: (1) How outside activists and prisoners on the inside could work in unison to foment the physical destruction of prisons, (2) What support systems and centers of gravity could be attacked to disrupt or destroy the prison system, (3) Where are the “chokepoints,” “vulnerabilities,” and other “targets for attack,” and (4) How outside activists could carry out operations without bringing undue punishment to prisoners on the inside.
Yes! All hope may not be lost! They may have friends on the outside…eh?
Look at the face of the accused in this short film clip…
The horror, the horror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL6f5eINIWY
I don’t know Ely. According to Zaz Anarchists are warm & fuzzy, and Anarchy itself is all about Caring & Sharing.
Derrick Jensen is all about warmth and caring, but still said, if you know about explosives, blow up a dam.
It is my understanding that the cut the ear off of one of them. Dude had a massive bandage over where the ear should have been.
They not only cut off a chunk of his ear, they shoved into his mouth and made him eat it.
To be fair, he didn’t swallow.
Apparently, the FSB doesn’t f#kk around. I bet after that move the perp was singing like a canary.
“Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American ecophilosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition, though he rejects the label ‘anarchist’. ~ Wikipedia
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“…Fred should be read with the seriousness that you might read my posts.
Which is about as serious as a long, sonorous bout of flatulence in a crowded elevator” ~ elysianfield August 30, 2023 at 2:04 pm
Utopia for you and I, but not for “she”!
Derrick Jensen, in his words, is “completely unapologetic about thinking trans-people don’t have a right to exist in society.”
First the anarchists came for the transsexuals, but I wasn’t a transsexual, so I didn’t protest.
Then they came for the police officers and soldiers, but I wasn’t a police-personhood or soldier, so I didn’t protest.
Then they came for anyone earning a salary in a capitalist system, but I wasn’t involved in that world, so I didn’t protest.
Then they came for the gov’t employees, but I was unemployed, so I didn’t protest.
Now they’ve come for the penniless breakaway anarchists, caught between the originals and the rump offshoots, but there was nobody left to protest, so ….
Better a gram than a dam.
You put that in quotes, but that is not his stance.
He doesn’t think that men belong in female spaces, no matter how loudly they talk about their gendered soul meaning more than their bepenised body.
Also, the “anarchists” of Antifa, are the shock troops of the Establishment, and that includes them beating up women who object to men in womanface pushing their way into female spaces.
My wife and I had a 10 AM appointment this morning to meet with a financial lady at the nursing home where Peter has been living for two months. We arrived on time and took seats in the lobby to wait.
While sitting there I noticed the nursing home’s name on the wall behind the front desk. It was in large cursive lettering in a nice shade of red. The name is Parker. Beneath Parker in smaller black font was an encouraging message which said “We make aging part of life.”
I began to laugh and Bo asked “what’s so funny?” I said I’m imagining the message under Parker being changed to read “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”
Sorry to go off-topic so early in the day.
Well, I had a doctors appointment on Friday; the receptionist informed me my profile needed to be updated. She gave me a form to fill out which wanted to know “What are my preferred pronouns?” I just quietly handed it back to her and took a seat.
You should have filled it out so they address you as “Your Excellency”.
Exactly. Don’t refuse those things, have a little fun with it. I’d say my preferred pronoun is “the Duke.”
My ethnicity would be a “viking.” My sexual preference would be “Camaro-attraceted person”.
They want lunacy, give it to them.
The finest way I have discovered to perplex Those Who Would Dance with Pronouns is to demand that I be identified as a “black lesbian”.
Objections, Your Honor? O’Rlly?
The pronoun idiocy came up recently and I announced to the room that my pronouns were Fuck and You. Everyone just looked at me…
s/he who controls the language wins the debate.
I was surprised by your comment recently about ‘success in america’…globalism has ruined america.
Kind of obvious tag line there, isn’t aging obviously a part of life? As a wise old friend once said: “He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Off topic, but some good news for a change: TN’s Senate recently passed a bill banning “the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion” of “chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus” within Tennessee for the “express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight,” or the process commonly known as geoengineering.”
“The measure has already passed the Senate on a party-line vote March 18, with no discussion of the measure on the Senate floor. Fritts’ version of the bill is set to go before the House Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee Wednesday, March 27, according to the Capitol website.”
More people are waking up to the reality of this BS, too!
In 1984 we see one side of a triad from the inside. One assumes the same conditions apply to Eastasia and Eurasia.
However, Here on this site and in most forums, folk mostly buy in to the idea that Russia is real opposition to “the west”. Hmmmm
While Russian generals and colonels are fighting like mad for real real, we get snippets that many high level Russians are like ‘finish it already’, however we have always been at war with Eurasia. So it drags on.
Russia rolled out and heavily promoted covid, and their own deadly Astra Zeneca clone Sputnik V. Potatoe potato, I’m not sure Johnson and Johnson jabs are a step up from Pfizer/Moderna.
I haven’t checked for 2 years but back then they had 60% uptake
Internal debate and doctors speaking out about the dangers could be found, sounds just like the west. Lots of bad injuries and deaths. They appear to be trimming their population? Just like us.
Russia would like CBDC and digital ID, just like our elite
And that marvelous video of Putin in a bright yellow full on HazMat suit near the start of covid early 2020. Fear was stoked. Jabs in arms on warp speed. Hmmmm
China is obviously trialling all the control measures, at least in severity if not structure. What can people take? It happened everywhere of course but China went furthest and hardest.
China provided the excuse to lockdown the west.
Strong links to whatever virus or deadly jab from China, yes?
And here is something interesting, their Sinovac is said to be an inactivated virus, totally conventional and liable to be about as dangerous as a flu shot. So not very. Then Weinstein finds segregated self organized military age Chinese waiting to cross the border, long in a long line already I expect. They probably have viable sperm!
I dunno. Just because the Russian dystopia looks a little different on the surface…. at the highest levels all important matters could be agreed. Putin cant help it if Ukraine actually couldn’t put up a better show, and that the west has bungled its public face of the war. He did his part? And he is dragging dragging it out.
Lets all be alert to the idea that it is literally global and that at the highest levels at least the order and type of the major planned chaos events are agreed.
First covid. Then disease X as may actually this time be dangerous. Then maybe a limited nuclear exchange brought under control by benevolent world parties, eg UN brokers peace after only 2 or 3 cities turned to green glass. Simultaneous is a cyber attack on banking AND the internet. Both go down. All debt (except that of the little folk) is lost, lost – records destroyed by terrorists. So sad. Guess we’re going to need a new money system…. Etc etc.
Meanwhile both Russia and China benefit, in their own ways and in their own time.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Of course the vampire squids wont be able to keep the grid up. And there’s only 5000 of them worldwide who know the whole plan. So just below them, including likely some of their top minions, are folk who would choke on genocide of 4 billion. So their control is not capable of fine direction, they have to let misled and only partially corrupt minions execute bits of the plan, while the squids cross their fingers or appendages. Why stuff comes off the rails here and there, eg Brexit, their control is tenuous and were the whole awful plan be known that would be the end of them. It really is a war of ideas, and for hearts and minds. We can win that war.
Well said. It may be so. No good guys but us. Maybe?
Dante woke up on the ground after his faction had lost and been thrown out of his beloved Florence. He shuddered as he looked at the people he was allied with.
There are some pointers to powerful white hats. Omicron is weird, it shut down whatever original design pathway there was, is possible.
And I think our hope is realistic. Here is an example, the British Royal family, who thought they were in the club, are NOT. King Charles was bought into a soft landing version of the real plan, but was unreliable. Off with his head (cancer for you). And cancer just everywhere in the royals.
OK fine, another psyop. Could be. However if good evidence surfaces that the royals who die actually died, well now we are looking at a pretty small upper elite, who know the whole plan in its genocidal and dystopian glory. Which might not have even included the royals. If they die, well take note. We only have to kill maybe 5000 worldwide to rid us of their evil machinations? We can hope.
Russia is not trying to trim its population.
They were heavily de-populated by the collapse of the USSR. Dangerously so, as they still have not reached the replacement rate needed to maintain.
They actually pay women well to get pregnant, give all kinds of bennies to families that reproduce.
Women are given the option of staying home with children or going back to work with government paid childcare.
And the astrazeneca vax is far less dangerous than the mrna jabs. Still dangerous because the original virus spike protein was meant to be a slow kill.
Maybe wearing the hazmat suit was due to being out of the loop, as opposed to in on the planning.
One of the 1st things Russia did was shut down those biolabs on their border, along with taking & securing ZNPP.
Millions of Muslims live in the Moscow area. Putin is fine with it. Loyal Russians? In a pig’s eye.
Did you know Americanski enclaves are being created around Moscow for American Expats? Do not know what has occurred since the Ukraine business.
“They actually pay women well to get pregnant”
How much are they paying the men?
“How much are they paying the men?”
To get pregnant? It’d better be a lot. Rather inconvenient for the man, if not outright dangerous.
Haven’t you heard? Russia is so incredibly backward and hateful that they don’t believe that men can get pregnant.
Why We Fight.
The one thing that has not been investigated al all is the effect of the S Protein on the immune system. The effect of long term exposure.
I remember that the over-reaction of the immune system in the lungs was the first killer noted and published to scare people. The Medicos put everyone affected on respirators and killed them. Then the pulmonary and cardiac blood clots started up, with no investigation on what might cause them.
So I agree with your terminology, S Protein is a slow kill, both with the disease and the vaxx. The CDC just keeps trying to pump it into us.
“Far less dangerous”? Perhaps, perhaps not. Somewhat less dangerous is probably fair although thrombotic near term effects may be worse on the adenovirus vectored style jabs.
You may be right. Who knows? Not me. I only present a broad overview. Where 1984 is not just Winston and Britain, but the total package where Eurasia is playing a similar game on the other side.
And a thing, we are confronted with bizarre contradictory policies in the west near daily. Some well meaning element of the gov is trying to do one thing and another is doing something contrary. Consider the point I am trying to make, the vampire squids who know the whole picture are just a tiny tiny minority. Just below them is compartmentalization stacked on compartmentalization with corrupt (but only partially corrupt) minions executing different aspects of ‘the plan’. The squids do not have fine control. Nor can they let even top minions in on the genocide and bring down society truth. They work from the shadows and also are subject to luck and happenstance. My point? The Russian gov could absolutely be trying to incentivise birth rate at exactly the same time as the real plan is to kill off say 20%. Its only a contradiction if you think like 20% of the Russian gov is ‘in on it’. I bet, if my bleak view is right, that only .01% percent are ‘in on it’. The rest think they are in the club, they are not.
I hope you are right. It is hopeful to imagine that somewhere truth and good government exist.
2 big dangers with the mRNA jabs:
1. They give many, many multiples of the spike protein more than trad vax. A traditional vax gives a set amount, no more.
2. They did everything they could to stabilize the mRNA. RNA of all types is meant to destroyed immediately after it does its job because it causes inflammation. They deliberately set it up to persist, causing chronic inflammation throughout the body. Inflammation is deadly.
3. The longer the mRNA persists, the better the chances it gets converted to DNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptase and moved into the cell nuclease to be ome patt of one’s genome. Worse, without a “stop” signal. An individual can be turned literally into spike factory. Working 3 shifts.
Thank you. I can amplify a little, possibly clarify?
Are you aware that only Sinovac is a trad vax? There is also uncontrolled production of spike with the Astra zeneca/J+J/Sputnik V, and these represent variations on the new and radically different ‘vaccine’, if you can call it that, alongside the Pfizer Moderna lipid nanoparticle delivery system.
While this adenovirus vectored platform appears to have a mildly better and different side effect profile to the lipid nanoparticle mRNA delivery type, it remains a full order of magnitude worse than say the flu shot or other ‘trad’ vaxxes, and while it delivers the instruction set to the cell as DNA inside the chimp virus, it ends up presenting mRNA to the ribosomes as the spike producing step, just like Pfizer Moderna. The DNA in the adenovirus vectored is coded to get the nucleus of the transfected cell to produce the same nobel prize winning! stabilized ‘Mod’ RNA as is delivered directly in the lipid nanoparticle based Moderna and Pfizer jabs. So once produced it has the same potential to cause cells to crank out spike until….. no one knows…. the cell is offed by killer T cells…, dies of exhaustion….., never stops, all of the above?
Of the spike based platforms novovax (sp) is the only one with a fixed dose of spike, the others produce the spike internal to cells in an unpredictable fashion. The spike being independently pathogenic I wouldn’t take it either.
The adenovirus vectored have to date been studied much less, in the west, as it represents a smallish or small proportion of total shots. So less is known by a lot. But deadly nonetheless, its like if Pfizer was a 100% dangerous then Sputnik V would be 90% and the flu shot would be 2%.
Something like.
You may well know all of that and more, however because your reply implies? that the adenovirus vectored vaxxes, including Sputnik V, are ‘trad’ I thought I would amplify.
Ok, it was a stretch to call adenovirus-vector “traditional.”
Re: flu vaccines, per Dr Michael Yeadon, former vp of research, respiratory diseases & allergies, flu vaccines have no side effects and *no effectiveness* because they don’t do really do anything! ( He was head of base research, not product devrlopment)
It should not be able to replicate as:
“For both the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19[46] and Gam-COVID-Vac vaccines the producer cells for the production of non-replicating adenoviral vectors were obtained from the HEK 293 cell line.[47] Each dose of Gam-COVID-Vac contains (1.0 ± 0.5) × 1011 virus particles.[34]”.
“For the production of the vaccine, to propagate adenoviral vectors in which the E1 gene was deleted, HEK 293 cells are used, which express several adenoviral genes, including E1.[49][50] However, although rare, homologous recombination between the inserted cellular sequence and the vector sequence can restore the replication capacity to the vector,[51] with less than 100 replicating adenovirus particles per dose of the vaccine.[48]”
Side effects are mostly mild and similar to other adenovirus vector vaccines such as the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the Janssen vaccines. However, *unlike the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Janssen vaccines evidence does not suggest a risk of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia*.[40]
“On April 13, 2021, India’s health ministry said its drug regulator had found that safety and immunogenicity data from a local trial of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine was comparable to that of a late-stage trial done in Russia.[81]”
Two preliminary studies, one from Argentina and one from San Marino, found mostly mild adverse events and no vaccine-associated deaths.[40] Another study carried out in San Marino has concluded a high tolerability profile in the population aged ?60 years in terms of short-term adverse events following immunization.[204]
An article published by the journal Nature on 6 July 2021 cited data released by the United Arab Emirates on some 81,000 individuals who had received Sputnik V, according to which the vaccine demonstrated an efficacy of 97.8% in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, and 100% efficacy in preventing severe complications. The figures echoed similar findings from unpublished data on 3.8 million Russians, according to which Sputnik V demonstrated an efficacy of 97.7%.[205]
A study published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research analyzed the dataset consisted of 11,515 self-reported Sputnik V vaccine adverse events posted on Telegram. Telegram users complained mostly about pain, fever, fatigue, and headache.[206]
pubmed/34662291/
Conclusions: After the Sputnik V vaccination, Russian Telegram users reported mostly pain, fever, and fatigue. The Sputnik V AE profile was comparable with other vector COVID-19 vaccines.
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I believe you are confusing replication of the adenovirus with replication of the modRNA. No one is suggesting the actual delivery package, the adenovirus with its DNA payload, is subject to uncontrolled replication.
The DNA in that (non replicating) adenovirus goes to the nucleus of the transfected cell. Once in the nucleus it initiates the production, at that point for the first time, of the modRNA common to between the adenovirus and ‘mRNA’ platforms.
That modRNA comes from a different source than Pfizer Moderna but it is the same strengthened RNA as won the Nobel prize. This modRNA then does the same thing as it would if it showed up direct in the cell via lipid nanoparticles a la Pfizer. It gets the ribosomes to produce uncontrolled amounts of spike.
You then relay a series of reports which say Sputnik is safe as houses. I’m not going to go through them all and determine if they have similarity to the voluminous and extensive set of papers which prove Pfizer is safe, I will say it would be trivially easy to trot out 10 or 20 papers which glowingly report efficacy and safety for Pfizer/Moderna. The ‘efficacy’, for a singular simple example on first pass, is highly likely to the the misused misinterpreted ‘relative’ efficacy the Pfizer Janssen Moderna Astra Zeneca crowd used, instead of the more useful and traditional measure of ‘absolute efficacy’.
Hey, maybe even though it is pretty much identical to the western adenovirus ‘vaxxes’, for which we have sound knowledge they are thereabouts as bad as Pfizer, it performs simply enormously better and is like totally safe. Those clever Russians turned a bolt or two in a complex process and rendered it both efficacious and safe, despite it is as I said almost identical to Astra Zeneca.
I feel you have some ‘skin in the game’ and wish to believe the best of the Russians and their astra zeneca clone, well I dont say it is impossible. I doubt it though.
Nowhere in 1984 is it mentioned how Eastasia and Euroasia are governed, or if they are in cahoots with Big Brother.
You make good points about Russia’s adoption of some of the oppressive and dangerous aspects of our own ruling overlords.
But does that mean that they are all in cahoots? Not in my opinion.
They could be running their own game.
Still here haggling over adenovirus vectored modRNA haha.
A late reply therefore: Yes. You could absolutely be right. I am trying to provoke thought not establish truth.
Personally I hold it as a real possibility but who knows.
“Meanwhile, Polish, French, and German regular army troops have moved directly by rail and air inside Ukraine to Cherkassy, south of Kiev.” This is quote originated from Pepe Escobar, a journalist that i’m a fan of, but I have found no corresponding documentation from any other source. I’m disappointed that he would publish such information, referencing only an anonymous source.
Isn’t he the guy that (Paula said) owns the Crocus center? And isn’t crocus a flower?
Man born of woman is of few days of full of trouble. He cometh like the flower and is cut down.
No, he is not. It is owned by an oligarch.
A Russian? If so, it is well. If not, not.
Not sure if western-loving Russian or Russian-loving westerner, but think it was the latter. I read it in a good news source early on in the disaster.
Thanks.
What does the Aramaic Christ say about Hell? Messianic’s teacher says that the word “aeon” or age got translated into eternity by St Jerome en route from Greek to Latin.
You don’t know who Pepe Escobar is? You need to get out more.
Yes the crocus is a flower, often the first to bloom in northern climates, poking through the snow to open its purple (or yellow) petals. I thought the timing and the name were an interesting coincidence…
The rite of spring. A sacrifice is required.
Good old blood and guts ani!
According to sources “here”, Pep is both a journo and an oligarch.
Pepe Escobar, a journalist, reported that the owner of the Crocus Center is a Russian oligarch, who is friends with Trump.
A Tajikistani oligarch owns Crocus and is friends with the Donald.
And they hired terrorists from Tajikistan?
I still think they’re taunting people.
Woman is born a beautiful flower, her beauty attracts the Bee…then the petals fall off and the Bee dies….~A Bundy (Paraphrased)
“…‘Joe Biden’ is only a figment of American politics… A figment of our greater intel blob, led, of course, by the Central Intelligence Agency.”
Did you know the Beatles wrote a song about The Resident? Yes! Come on, You know the words…
“He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
He’s as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
He’s a real Nowhere Man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody”
“We are the United Blob of America! In Blob We Trust…”
One of the dictionary definitions of ‘Blob’ is… “a large object having no distinct shape or definition”.
But the United States Incorporated, a/k/a “The United Blob of America” DOES in fact have a distinct shape. And that shape is the long and huge and countless tentacles of The Dark State Demented Octopus. Reaching into everyone and everything on this Planet and violating and polluting it with its essential vigorous toxicity and moral bankruptcy. A huge and ugly creature… much uglier than anything seen on those great old ‘B’ grade horror monster movies of the 1950s.
Tentacles that reach all the way around the Globe in multitudes of directions and reaching around to be able to give itself tentacle-handshakes.
“The United Blob sent lavish condolences to President Putin… We’re so sorry.”
In the old TV series ‘The Untouchables’ they would often show one gangster group laying waste and finishing off another gangster or group of them… and the first gangster group would always do one thing after that: Send flowers to the poor victims. Gee, who knew World foreign policy responses could be learned from a 1960s TV show?
“We might surmise that the ‘Joe Biden’ re-election campaign seeks a big, fat, juicy major distraction from its so-far pathetic effort to keep a near-mummy in the White House.”
One correction needed for the above. The words “Joe Biden’ re-election”… should be amended to ‘Joe Biden ELECTION’. To be re-elected you need to have been elected the first time.
But whatever happens in our days ahead… in the famous words of The Pointer Sisters… “You got to believe in somethin’.” And the United Blob of America says…
“In Blob We Trust!”
Well, as you may know, John Lennon wrote “Nowhere Man” about himself when he was disgusted with his hedonistic life.
If you want to repurpose the song, fine, but I thought the historical context should be pointed out.
Living in the Long Emergency. I would just like to compliment you, Mr Kunstler on your paintings. I am also an artist. The colors are right on and if you get the colors right you can do what you want and the paintings will look amazing. Like the Canadian Group of Seven and Tom Thompson.
https://www.ecosophia.net/the-laughter-of-wolves/
Vintage John Michael Greer. We shall grown strong in the radioactive wilderness just as the beasts have done. The “criminals” are there already. All the cops are criminals, and all the criminals, saints.
The Earth abides. Darwin said that the plants would change the climate of barren Ascension island. So every English ship that passed by planted seeds from wherever they had just been. Somehow some grew. And the more that grew, the more that could grow as it rained more and more.
“All the cops are criminals, and all the criminals, saints.”
Jarek,
You know that is not the case…Criminals STEAL their doughnuts. Cops pay for them.
…Sometimes….
Cops used to piss me off when I visited a (then) local Tim Horton’s coffee shop and found all the double-glaze chocolate doughnuts gone, beaten to them by those portly pairs.
Citizens’ arrest!
The taxed-coerced/skimmed/fleeced public pay for the cops’ donuts, etc., via their exorbitant salaries and the donut shops steal/skim/fleece a portion of the labour of their wage-slaves working there.
Societies like that are untenable in the medium to long run.
Tim Hortons donuts are prebaked and therefore not baked on-premises.
The taxed-coerced/skimmed/fleeced public also pays for the university profs’ 300K per annum salaries to infest the minds of our young with anarchy-like ideologies in their advocacy-replacing-knowledge vision.
…Yeah…what the Soul Man said.
Ya, that’s the kicker, isn’t it: You have what seems to be, as you write, an ‘anarchy likeness’, yet backed up by State coercion.
That’s like Diversity, Inclusion and Equality, but without the equality (and maybe even without some of the other two).
Or that Animal Farm(?) saying, ‘…some animals are more equal than others.’.
I already wrote months ago hereon something like that regarding the Woke/trans thing. ‘Accept us or else.’.
Thanks, Jarek, for reminding me to read him. Always worthwhile.
You summoned me. Therefore complain not of my presence. And now Ascension Island has its own Green Mountain and a lush tropical forest to wear as a dazzling crown. As the Chernobyl exclusion zone is now one of the only areas in Europe where wild animals thrive and forests can expand their living space freely and without care.
SSL…I would love nothing more than to travel with you to the Chernobyl exclusion zone. While over there, we could head up to St. Petersburg and visit some of the beautiful historic sites there. It would be a trip to remember. Maybe Putin would invite us down to Moscow for a visit to the Kremlin as his honored guests?
I promise to be on my best behavior for the St. Petersburg and Moscow legs of the trip. Including our dinner with Vladimir Putin. However I would like to wallow in the dirt of the exclusion zone and take a spiritual bath in the Pripyat river.
You are all named “Zek Human” on this prison planet. Therefore mutate! Ascend! Return Home in glory.
End of Starseed Transmission. Please pay a 6.99 processing fee. Leave money in your recycling container and it will be picked up.
Within my ascended state i never allow one to perturb my balance and aura :0). Is it lower of one to fulfill the needs of sustenance and existence? And yet at the same time we don’t live on bread alone. Indeed, bread is not all that good for you. But i’ll leave that for later lol.
You are a Starseed. But you aren’t ascended fully yet. You still need watering.
The operative collecting the fee will probably be a raccoon. Please don’t shoot him.
Prison Planet.
Jarek,
You are, no doubt, aware, that the phrase refers to part of the Alien Franchise movies. They got a new one coming out;
.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/alien-romulus-trailer-ridley-scott-1235856321/
I saw the trailer, and it scared even me! But then, the xenomorph is patterned after spiders (class Arachnida), and you KNOW I hate spiders….
…Well…spiders and anarchists….
and…Socialist…Marxists…Democrats.
Patriots are teaching raccoons how to use small firearms. Allies!
Raccoons are just pretending they didn’t already know how to use firearms. Polite allies…
Turkeys too. Did you hear, a few years ago, about the turkey that shot the poacher who shot it? No? Maybe it’s a Michigan thing.
some good ole Motherland Vodka will dispel any fancy “ascending” lol
You’ll be high as a kite every supper, singing at the top of your lungs to songs like ‘Kalinka’
hehe
Russia has a great way of keeping people humble without pretension
I’m enjoying the flow of the conversation. One can never fully enjoy the contours of pretension without first understanding the depths of humbleness. Please pass the vodka lol.
Za Zdarovje to you SSL!!!
Nastrovia. Good talking you.
“…These ‘rich’ claim they own land, and the ‘poor’ are often denied the right to make that same claim. A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of pieces of green paper… Those in power rule by force, and the sooner we break ourselves of illusions to the contrary, the sooner we can at least begin to make reasonable decisions about whether, when, and how we are going to resist.” ~ Derrick Jensen, ‘Engame’
As I recall, Washington said that as well. “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.”
“If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Prisons are dangerous places.
Good ol’ Eisenhower.
” ‘Those in power rule by force, and the sooner we break ourselves of illusions to the contrary, the sooner we can at least begin to make reasonable decisions about whether, when, and how we are going to resist.’ ” ~ Derrick Jensen
Jensen: “When do we resist?”
Crowd: “Now!!!!”
Jensen: “How do we resist?”
Crowd: Looks around and at each other with confusion.
Tentatively:
“Nerf bats?”
“Firm words?”
“Finger wags?”
“Anarchism pamphlets? With a wan smile?”
Have you watched Queer Theory-Pedophile Jeopardy hosted by Jensen yet?
If so, thoughts?
I haven’t seen it. All the winners must be 5th year academics.
I seem to recall catching a short portion of that a long time ago, along with hearing about Jensen getting into a bit of hot water maybe because of it or related to it, but I didn’t think anything of it at the time. What are you getting at?
Jensen apparently rejects the label, ‘anarchist’, and there are enough anarchists, or so-called anarchists, who agree and take exception to some of Jensen’s ‘hierarchical’, etc., politics.
But of course, in nature, there are a lot of mimics. So I take a lot with a grain of salt.
As for pedophilia– whatever that is– we already had an small exchange about it if you will recall and my position hasn’t changed. As I may have mentioned, I used to deliver the paper in my teens to apartment building complexes with many single, hot women in bachelor apartments and I wouldn’t have given a damn about any age laws if any of them had expressed an interest. But of course there is a difference between puberty/post-puberty as I was and pre-puberty and also wilful intent and not and stuff like that.
So with that in mind, I’d be cautious about what they’re talking about exactly WRT this Jeopardy thing.
How about you? I imagine you have some thoughts?
Yes, indeed I do remember your emphatic rejection. But Jensen says anarchism as a whole strongly endorses this. Do you disagree with him? Anarchism does have a mainstream after all – even despite itself.
I don’t know what they or he means by it. If under puberty is what’s meant for example, are they still anarchists? Were they ever?
If Statists break their own laws are they still Statists? Were they ever?
If a Christian sins, are they still a Christian? Were they ever?
Good point. John Locke simply said children were people and had rights – chief among them being the right to be exploited like everyone else (he left that part out).
Alas I would wager that Jensen is right in terms of the majority – and it speaks well of you for not being one of them.
A very, very vocal minority? Perhaps. Someone said that the big five queer theorists were all Tribe. And Jensen’s intense distaste with their pov speaks well of him.
If a Christian commits a mortal sin, they are mortally wounded or spiritually dead until they repent. But yes, it could have been real before they fell from it. We’re not angels able to give our unwavering consent to something and never change from it.
By that light, Anarchism could be seen as a spiritual discipline that one can indeed fail and repent in order to regain.
As all the world in general knows, everyone has an opinion about something. They’re not all equal, but, sometimes one person’s opinion stands out to me. Such was the prophecy by one Gary Cardone (one half of the Cardone Twins phenomenon).
On Michelle Makori’s (KITCO News) show, a short while ago, Gary made a startling prediction: He said (and I loosely paraphrase) that ‘he would be very surprised if there is not a major Black Swan Event before August’, and furthermore he was ‘95% certain’ that this would happen so that he would ‘wager $100,000 on his prediction’.
That got my attention just from the sheer audacity of the man’s certainty, so I did a bit of research on this man I’d never heard of. He’s a very smart investor who ‘reads the tea leaves’ of the zeitgeist as well as anyone, and much of his financial best bets have come from that. And $100,000 is a lot of money (still) despite Gary’s millions (he didn’t get rich by throwing his money around).
The other side of this coin is that I seem to have some sort of Inner Radar in my consciousness. I often seem to realize, ahead of the ‘popular curve’, when certain things need to be heeded. And Gary’s prediction somehow sent off my ‘bogey spotted 100 miles out radar’.
I mention this in response to those who are still thinking in Normalcy Bias Mode. Jim was when he wrote this, “this might just be the blob’s last stand, since they know as soon as Mr. Trump gets back in the White House (if the blob can’t manage to kill him first)…”.
I reckon the Blob has a better Ace up their sleeve than a simple assassination – such as gigantic monkey wrench that upsets the whole apple cart, metaphorically speaking.
In fact, during his recent interview with Tucker Carlson, former U.S. Representative Ron Paul specifically warned about the potential for a black swan event…
Ron Paul, recognized for his consistent principles and foresight into economic and foreign policy, used the platform to express his concerns about unexpected, significant events that could catch the world by surprise.
“I think we’re reaching this point where some sudden thing is going to happen. I believe in that theory of the black swan. Yes, it’s going to pop up, and it’s not going to be controllable,” Paul said.
@Breck
“House Chooses New Cold War with Russia”
“Last week the US House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an anti-Russia resolution so full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from the chilliest era of the Cold War. Ironically, much of the bill condemns Russia for doing exactly what the US government has been doing for years in Syria and Ukraine!”
“The resolution condemns Russia for what it claims are attempts to ‘illicitly acquire information’ about the US government. But we learned from the Snowden revelations that the NSA is spying on most of the rest of the world, including our allies! How can the US claim moral authority to condemn such actions in others?”
“..this is one of the worst pieces of legislation I can remember. And trust me, I have seen some pretty bad bills. It is nothing but war propaganda and it will likely lead to ALL SORTS OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.”
“ONLY TEN MEMBERS – five from each party – opposed this reckless resolution.”
(CAPS are mine)
From Ron Paul’s Freedom Report. Vol. 17, No. 10 – December 2014
Ron Paul called it.
ONLY 10 Congressmen/women could be found. Only FIVE supposed constitutionalists (aka conservatives) and only FIVE supposed “doves” (aka anti-war liberals).
That was in 2014. That’s why US foreign/military policy won’t change much, if at all. Because “the blob” owns and controls both major parties and all the key positions.
“Lastly, Gandhi developed the concept of nonviolent revolution, to be seen not as a programme for the seizure of power, but as a programme for transforming relationships. The concept sits neatly with the observation of the German anarchist, Gustav Landauer (1870-1919): ‘The state is a condition, a certain relationship between beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently.’
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In its first decade several themes, theories, actions, all distinctly libertarian, began to come to the fore and were given intellectual expression by the American anarcho-pacifist, Paul Goodman (1911-72) (36): anti-militarism, the rediscovery of community, community action, radical decentralism, participatory democracy, the organisation of the poor and oppressed inter-racially, and the building of counter-culture and counter-institutions (such as new co-ops, collectives and communes).
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The collapse of the New Left coincided with the exhaustion of the less well-publicised Sarvodaya (welfare of all) movement for nonviolent revolution in India, led by Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-1979), which had sought through voluntary villagisation of land to realise Gandhi’s dream of an India of village republics. The implication of Sarvodaya for the subject of this book is brought out by the statement of Jayaprakash Narayan: ‘In a Sarvodaya world society the present nation states have no place.’ ” ~ Geoffrey Ostergaard, ‘Resisting The Nation State’
“the organization of the poor and oppressed inter-racially, and the building of counter-culture and counter-institutions (such as new co-ops, collectives and communes).”
Yeah…but we need a catchy phrase to sell this dreck to the lumpen…”
From each according to his ability,
To each according to his need.
Oh Canada, My Canada,
The workers must unite,
Fueled by Eskimo Pies they fight,
Where the anarchists creep around at night,
Where the Wokes and the Liberals,
Not to be outdone,
With their banners and pussy hats,
Prance in the noon-day sun.
From each according to his ability,
To each according to his need,
We’ve transcended beyond the human,
No Violence, No wars, no greed!
We are the world, we are the nose rings,
We like to whine, and mangle the I-ching,
There’s a choice we’re all making,
And our bodies are shaking,
But it’s not from demon possession
Or from micro-aggressions,
So, though on barren land, we spill seed,
God and Love is all we need.
God and Love is all we need.,
Or short of that, some killer weed….
Excellent lyrics, gents.
But don’t expect Bono & Lady Gaga singing them in a duet at The Grammys.
Yah, that was gr8. Riffing off each like a couple a pros.
Now that I’m more aware of the manipulation of the public through the media, I realize that Gandhi was a media creation.
The UK couldn’t hold onto the Grand Jewel anymore, and Gandhi was used to bring about a transition that didn’t involve more war. The propaganda telling us how wonderful and peaceful he was, and how he singlehandedly ended the Crown rule was amazing, and it worked.
I think that MLK, Jr. was also a media creation. The USSR was making headway in former colonies after WW2, pointing out that similarities between Jim Crow and the Nazi policies of apartheid of the Jews.
The feds decided that Jim Crow had to go, so they had the Supreme Court decide that school segregation was outlawed, they sent in troops (the hell with Posse Comitus), and they elevated MLK, Jr. to saint status, using the precedent of Gandhi, to boot. Why not? We’d already been conditioned to think so.
Right up until MLK, Jr. spoke out against the Vietnam War. Then they offed him.
But Jim Crow was kaput, and that took away the propaganda points.
Then they used TV and movies to make the US look really, really good to the Third World, and many of them still believe.
I wrote the below at the late Jan Lundberg’s site, Culture Change, 10 years ago:
(culturechange.org/cms/content/view/924/68/)
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“Peter Gelderloos claims that traditional histories whitewash the impact of nonviolence, ignoring the involvement of militants in such movements as the Indian independence movement and the Civil Rights movement and falsely showing Gandhi and King as being their respective movement’s most successful activist. He further argues that nonviolence is generally advocated by [the] privileged… ”
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“William P. Meyers argued that nonviolence encourages violence by the state and corporations… with notions of non-violence in a deliberate (and successful) attempt to render [groups] harmless and ineffective.”
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“D. A. Clarke… suggests that for nonviolence to be effective, it must be ‘practiced by those who could easily resort to force if they chose’. This argument reasons that nonviolent tactics will be of little or no use to groups that are traditionally considered incapable of violence, since nonviolence will be in keeping with people’s expectations for them and thus go unnoticed.”
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“Indian guru Osho Rajneesh heavily criticised teachings of nonviolence, on psychological and spiritual grounds:
‘…For five thousand years people have been taught to be non-violent; they have learnt the trick of pretending. And all that has happened is that they have repressed their violence… Let there be a riot, and all that piousness simply evaporates as if it had never been there…
This violence erupts again and again in this country because of the teaching, a wrong teaching, which is based on repression. Whenever you repress something, it will come up again and again.
I teach you awareness, not repression. That’s why I don’t talk about nonviolence. (…) And the more you become aware, the more your life will attain to silence, peace, love. They are by-products of awareness.” ~ Wikipedia
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“Gandhi was not a pacifist; he believed in the right of those being attacked to strike back and regarded inaction as a result of cowardice to be a greater sin than even the most ill-considered aggression.”
~ What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage, by Norman G. Finkelstein
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The interesting thing is that our host moved into a bit of a village (while he writes about ‘The Outside’ [Blob, etc.]), a bit in the spirit of that Gandhiesque ‘voluntary villagisation of land‘ as in my quotes above, while people are slowly ‘taking their law into their own hands’ again and making their own forms of anarchy and self-empowerment, sans State, work, such as apparently in Texas WRT the immigration influx.
“…it is clear that the existence of a centralized state vastly increases both the profit and the prevalence of violence. The fact that the violence is masked by obedience in no way diminishes the brutality of coercion. All moralists interested in one of the greatest topics of ethicsñ the reduction or elimination of violenceñ would do well to understand the depth and degree to which the existence of a centralized state promotes, exacerbates and profits from violence… as we can see from countless examples throughout history, violence always escalates until civil society is utterly destroyed. Because the state so directly profits from violence, eliminating the state can in no way increase the use of violence within society. Quite the contrary… eliminating the state will, to a degree unprecedented in human history, eliminate violence as well.” ~ Stefan Molyneux
” Because the state so directly profits from violence, eliminating the state can in no way increase the use of violence within society. Quite the contrary… eliminating the state will, to a degree unprecedented in human history, eliminate violence as well.” ~ Stefan Molyneux
# Haiti
I would invite Mr. Molyneux to kiss my big black ass.
“I would invite Mr. Molyneux to kiss my big black ass.” ~ elysianfield
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I’ve been mopping the floor with it.
Zaz,
You actually think you have made a point, a cogent argument that supported your thesis?
Poll the readership.
Gandhi also was a protectionist. You could even say he was for India First. The spinning wheel on the Indian flag represents the boycott of imported from Britain textiles in favor of local production. This is what we need. Unfortunately, we are more divided and selfish than the swarthy third-worlders, though we imagine ourselves superior.
Yes, they are often far wiser than us in important ways.
Their colonization of the West is much deeper than what we did to them during the last century.
An interesting parallel in what you write WRT textile imports is WRT the panel discussion video about Haiti that Paula D mentioned in the previous threads and its mention of the economic dumping of overseas rice that placed a strain on Haiti’s local production.
I remember after their earthquake Amy Goodman mentioned that Haiti was self sufficient in rice until the 90s, but now they are dependent on US imports.
Say what? I had not known that before.
I remember back in the 80s, the Evil Reagan was trying to force Japan to open their rice market to US rice, which pissed me off, because I lived in California, and was very careful with my use of water, because of the droughts.
But they were growing rice in the fucking desert??? Wasting all that water.
And then trying to force Japanese farmers off their land, to boot?
Japan refused to comply, and the US turned on them big time.
Haiti apparently buckled.
So did Mexico, with NAFTA. After they signed that treaty, the US started exporting tons of corn to Mexico.
The small farmers couldn’t compete, so they lost their land.
12 million of them came to the US over the next decade or so, to work as unskilled labor here, many of them taking jobs that Americans used to do, before the Evil Reagan broke the unions.
I’ve already posted this:
“Control the oil and you control entire nations; control the food and you control the people.” ~ Henry Kissinger
But that sort of thing is why I’ve been learning about wild edibles and gardening and things related to self-empowerment.
There are reasons why we see signs that say ‘Don’t feed the wild animals.’. Perhaps it’s in large part because they become dependent.
And of course, there’s self-domestication.
Hey, I heard Bill Gates had bought a lot of land recently. Maybe he can help feed us.
“The spinning wheel on the Indian flag represents the boycott of imported from Britain textiles in favor of local production.”
What??
It’s not quite that worldly…
The wheel on the flag of India is the Ashoka Chakra, a depiction of the Dharmachakra, a representation of Buddha’s teaching.
The East African countries of Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi tried to ban used clothing imports in 2016, in order to protect their local textile workers.
The US threatened them (of course). It is very important for the US government to protect Goodwill and the Salvation Army, doncha know.
Plus, who doesn’t love to see National Geographic photos of some primitive tribe out in the boondocks, wearing T-shirts that say
“I survived the MMG 4K race”?
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2020.1751240
“The spinning wheel on the Indian flag represents… ~ crudgemudgeon
Spinning Wheel
youtu.be/SFEewD4EVwU?si=Y3bNqljAAB_jK9gc
Zaz must be running out of wiki quotes.
Stefan Molyneux is an extreme right White Nationalist. Not the kind of guy one usually associates with anarchism.
But then, Zaz apparently is still unaware of his many and hilarious internal contradictions.
Not everything is a popularity contest, little girl. Zaz can find truth to share with us in the quotes of all sorts of diverse people with all sorts of diverse underlying philosophies.
lol, get em, and rip em apart
Some ‘popularity contests’ aren’t worth winning or entering.
And I am also reminded of this expression:
“Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It.” ~ Unknown
“…Fred should be read with the seriousness that you might read my posts.
Which is about as serious as a long, sonorous bout of flatulence in a crowded elevator” ~ elysianfield August 30, 2023 at 2:04 pm
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(shrug)
Hey, OG. Nice to hear from you again!
The problem with your view is that Zaz’s sole function on this board is to flood it with his pet ideology. When one is so obsessed with a singular worldview, it is obvious to conclude that every quote he musters is on behalf of that worldview, especially as it pertains to issues directly appropriate to anarchism’s purview, e.g. centralized gov’t.
Zaz can’t have it both ways. He’s denied the link before, but that’s just deflection and passive-aggressive absolution of his own views. The only confusion is in his own mind, not that of any readers.
To be quick about it, stating a problem with central gov’t structures doesn’t automatically mean that anarchy is the solution.
A problem with you is that when I buckle down, you run away/disappear.
Like, what are you going for?
A special Brunelleschi vanishing-point performance art here on CFN?
Dressed as a rooster? Cock of the walk?
I seem to recall you mentioning hereon– and I can get your quote if you wish– your bravery WRT poetry criticism in your circles. I think you even wrote ‘bravery’, yes? Wow, ya.
So I mean, sure, trash everyone and everything– what was it… Howard Zinn, Wikipedia, my quotes here, anarchy, Stephen Molyneux, and those poor poets ‘out there’, and then run away.
Ok, sure fine, whatever… LOL
I asked you previously what is or are your publication(s) and your real name or at least nom du plume. So, what are they? Even better, where and who are you criticizing WRT the poetry and may I see it? Is it online? In a periodical?
I didn’t “trash” Molyneux. I said his philosophy was at odds with yours, and (by inference) that you can’t plane his words on to your own philosophy as if it’s a seamless fit. Apparently, reading comprehension only works if you’re smart enough to actually comprehend anything other than “anarchism good”.
As to Zinn, I, again, “ad hommed” him because the man was an inveterate liar, by his own admission. Why would you be in support of someone’s opinion who constantly lies? (We’ll leave aside the fact that he was a jet setter, only after the $$.)
Wikipedia: does it need to be explained to you that the entire operation is Woke, and can easily be (and is) manipulated by anyone with a computer and an IQ hovering at 70 to represent whatever crackbrain ideology they favour?
Yes, it’s very brave to publish poetry criticism, as a practicing poet, in Canada of the negative evaluative kind. You wouldn’t know how that affects one because you know nothing about anything.
Why should I publish my real name on a highly controversial anti-PTB blog. So that I can be more easily tracked by them? So that you can doxx me? Are you this incredibly naive, or just obtuse beyond hope?
There’s still nothing, or very little, there.
Just pointless massaging of your own self-image or something it seems.
Frankly, I really don’t care what your sociopolitical notions are. What concerns me is where they attempt to blanket people who don’t want them, who don’t want anything to do with them.
Like the State.
That’s why I’m an anarchist.
It’s not just your planet and it isn’t just your comment section either.
“I said his philosophy was at odds with yours, and (by inference) that you can’t plane his words on to your own philosophy as if it’s a seamless fit.” ~ Soul Forensics
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I’m not talking about ‘his philosophy’. This is not a treatise on Molyneux’s philosophy.
When you meet someone, do you tell them your life’s story? Or do you start with some kind of ice-breaker?
I could go on and split hairs like that too but that’s my point: It quickly becomes a ridiculous road that splits into nowhere.
I’m not responding to your first response above, because it’s content-free. It doesn’t even rise to the level of boilerplate rhetoric.
As to your second response, I dealt with this in my response to OG.
Read that.
The problem, OG, and as I just pointed out, is that if you look closely, Soul Forensics doesn’t actually have anything.
There’s nothing there.
Just hot-air ‘filler’ consisting of destructive criticism, minus anything constructive.
In drive-by/snipe style.
If we’re here to exchange ideas and so forth to make the world a better place and/or at least to help manage the down-slide, we’re going to have to do a lot better than this.
I provide multiple sources from across multiple genres, along with historical examples and psychological insights.
Zaz’s response: “drive by!” “Hot-air filler!”
And what’s “constructive”, Zaz? Anarchism? LOL!
I also note, again, your hypocrisy. I answered all your points in my post that started off referencing Molyneux. Your response to that? Nothing.
So who’s running from who, again?
He flirts with it and then betrays it. Not to be trusted.
Source?
I’ve watched some of his videos where he sounds like one of us. Then he gets pulled back by the Establishment or rather, his attachment to the status quo I suppose.
Ok, well that’s about as flaccid as Soul Forensic’s stuff.
Difference is they icing & filler it all up with assorted distractions– noises, snarl words, posturings & puff-outs, etc..
Have you ever attended university? Maybe not some of what pass for the ones in North America nowadays. But even so,
if the prof asked you that question and that was your answer, you’d likely fail that test or essay.
Same thing for a court case; same thing for a science periodical.
‘I saw some videos and that’s what I thought.’ is hearsay, yes? ‘One of us’ is also problematic for reasons that should be obvious. Who’s ‘one of us’?
And so on and so on… splitting the road into nowhere… until you forget where you began. (Maybe that’s part of the point too.)
Incidentally, you don’t have to wash your entire self of the ‘status-quo’, however you may view it. Doing so just just seems to run the risk of eroding your capacity to make concise judgements about reality, strange bedfellows and all that.
Believe it or not, we do share things with the status-quo and our purported ‘others’, including even (gasp) the so-called Woke.
Still waiting for your response to my post which answered all your questions.
Coward. Hypocrite.
Soul Forensics, referencing Molyneux is not an endorsment of Molyneux’s politics or his love life, etc.. It’s a reference of his/that quote, pure and simple.
So your ‘issues’ WRT that is/are a bit of a red herring/straw-man/ad-hom, all rolled into one. As one who appreciates a tight concept, in a peculiar way, you are saluted.
As for your excuse about not providing your name, etc., ‘cuz spooks’, unless you’re snowing us, you’ve already provided a fair bit of personal info in the brief time I’ve been posting; your age, general location, type of work and that it is or will be published and by which State.
This is all without perusing the archives and without any other method your spooks might have at their disposal.
But you see, it all detracts from the point of the quote, doesn’t it?
I have limited time to spoon-feed (apparent) grown men.
Why do I have to quote an authority beyond my self?
If you’re speaking of someone? And maybe someone else questions what you’re saying?
You wrote you showed up for jury duty recently. What if you asked them that question. What do you think they’d say?
Ever heard of libel or plagiarism?
Saying he isn’t a White Nationalist is libelous? In what court? Saying he is might be since White Nationalism is the ultimate evil, supposedly.
But again, the deeper issue: Everything comes from somebody. Why can’t that somebody sometimes be me? I have no right to a judgement, an opinion? Or no right to express it?
Back to the surface again: You think he is a White Nationalist?
Deeper again: The Judge wanted our judgement, but of course only within the narrow framework of the system. The juror’s veto is long gone. If someone mentioned that, they’d be dismissed immediately.
I have a quite strong tendency towards an often delusional type of catastrophic thinking, as a personal coping strategy, for what I sometimes mistakenly view as a completely hostile world.
But I really get anxious when what I take to be real-world networks of power seem to also be going off the deep end:
“Well, how about the World War they’ve been itching for? Plus they probably calculate it’d be great for business.”
Russia now has a domestic justification to really finish off Ukraine and important factions of our Blob may now feel that the potential Trump threat to their existence demands some type of international escalation.
Is there enough nurturing left in ourselves and the world to contain the oncoming apocalypse?
Russia doesn’t want to “really finish off Ukraine”.
They consider Ukraine part of Russia and most Ukrainians as Russians.
They don’t care much about the Polish/Nazi part staying around.
As one analyst put it the other day, “there goes the hope for a rump Ukraine state.”
Or words to that effect.
So I think by “finishing off,” Jim could mean finishing off Ukraine as a sovereign state & return it to being “the Hinterlands” of Russia.
Maybe. I’m not familiar with this poster’s views.
But most Americans mean “finish” to mean “kill them all and let God sort them out.”
It’s just how we are raised.
Good points…
My two grandsons and their parents came up from Maryland for a visit this past weekend. The occasion was the 12th birthday on Friday of the older boy. The younger boy will turn 11 in early May, just one year and 41 days apart. Almost like “Irish twins.”
The parents of these boys always have enriching activities lined up to do every weekend. On Friday we all visited Uncle Pete at the nursing home where the birthday boy gave us an energetic demonstration of a martial arts routine he learned in a class both boys attend.
Yesterday, Sunday, the activity was bowling which we did at a place called Majestic Lanes in Perth Amboy, NJ. There are 40 lanes and much to my surprise the place was packed. I didn’t realize bowling was still “a thing.”
I would describe the clientele of this place as a low rent motley crew. Every ethnicity known to man, scruffy kids and their parents and everybody scarfing down pizza, fries, and sodas from the snack shop. I found it all very depressing.
In the lane just to our left was a group of trannies. Bo said “no, they aren’t trannies they are just very “butch” gay women.” The most “butch” of this crew was sooo masculine you would never know “she” was a woman except for two small breast bumps under a nondescript sweat shirt. She had very short hair and one arm thoroughly tatted from hand to shoulder.
It seemed that no one in this place knew how to bowl to save their ass. One person I watched fired the bowling ball with both hands like a basketball chest pass from 4 or 5 feet above the floor and it landed with a crash.
I couldn’t get my grandsons to insert the correct fingers in the holes of the ball. Where there are two holes side by side they kept putting in their index and middle fingers rather than their middle and ring fingers.
For all these inept bowlers a button could be pushed which would raise a set of bumpers that prevented the ball from going in the gutters. This was another sign that times have truly changed since back in my mid-teens when I used to set pins in a bowling alley.
This afternoon of bowling made me lament not only the collapse of Western Civilization but of all life as we know it.
Majestic Lanes in Perth Amboy
Sounds like a mobbed up joint. Rocko is in the office, he controls the numbers racket. See Vinny if you need a loan, interest rate: 500% compounded.
Enzo Spignetelli, Capo in the Linguini Family of North Jersey, took over the place in 1985 when the former owner got whacked by Nicky Scarfo himself “for not showing the proper respect.”
” not showing the proper respect.”
BRH,
Said of the former owner…”He eats alone…”
God truly blessed you, Q. In all of mankind’s history, you were born at the perfect moment. You lived through peak wealth and commonplace luxury … and now you get to witness “the whole shithouse go[ing] up in flames, all right.”*
*Jim Morrison
Q,in these parts are steenkin’ bowling bowls don’t come with no holes in ’em .I usually just poke a couple in with my thumb and pinky.
Her bumpers were small, eh?
Did punks used to try to break the ankles of the pin boys with the ball while they were setting up the pins?
Good story Q.
Tanks.
Did punks used to try to break the ankles of the pin boys – Jar
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No, all the bowlers were serious league players.
I had balls and pins crash into my legs a few times but I’m sure the fault was mine, not the bowlers. You had to keep your eyes open and make sure you were out of the pit before the ball arrived.
Sometimes a pin setter who was especially fast and energetic would cover two alleys at the same time. This made it more dangerous than just one lane.
Now, of course, there is no need for human pin setters. It is all automated and the system even keeps all the bowlers scores.
The thing with the bumpers that blocked the ball from going in the gutters was totally new to me. Never saw it before.
It was the mid -1950s when I set pins for league bowlers on certain days of the week. As I recall, I made $15.30 a week. There was a rack with ten slots in it. When you filled the slots you pulled a cord and the rack went down and deposited the pins in there proper places. I developed the skill to jump in the pit, pick up 3 pins in each hand and cleverly deposit them in six slots all in one motion; then bend over and pick up two more pins in each hand and fling them into the remaining slots, then pull the cord.
I also enjoyed the flair of pulling the cord before all 10 pins were in the rack and at the last moment flinging the final pin into the head pin slot at the last possible moment. Like any job, a worker develops a certain art to his performance.
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theretheir proper places.Yes, it sounds wonderful. Let’s see if we can find a video of it on youtube.
I assume a large ball could break an ankle. If the victim was unable to get up in time, the next one could be aimed at his head for the coup de grace.
I assume a large ball could break an ankle. – Jar
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All the balls are the same size (diameter/circumference) but they can weigh more or less. I believe 16 lbs was the standard maximum. Yes, they could break an ankle or leg.
No mention of Peter! Your eager audience slumps and sighs.
Funny about bowling. Down Texas way there are women and men who spend (or spent) so much time at the alleys that they became quite skilled. My late sister, all four feet ten inches of her, was one.
I bet there are pockets of seriously dedicated bowlers around the nation, most likely in the hinterlands. It’s a harmless, sociable activity and good exercise to boot, if you don’t go and make a fool of yourself.
No mention of Peter! Your eager audience slumps and sighs. – SpeedyBB
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Today marks two months and 3 days since Peter entered the Parker at Somerset Nursing Home and he is none too happy about being there. His belief that there is nothing wrong with him is laughable. The place is first rate. He’s in a brand new wing. He has an excellent room with a great view out the window. The food and care are top notch. Bo decorated the room with photos and artwork. He says to Bo, “I’m walking out of this hotel tomorrow.” He has no idea that he’s 5 miles from our house. He can’t even walk 50 feet using a cane or walker. The staff would never let him out the door anyway. It’s all bravado.
My wife Bo, Peter’s sister, got a phone call yesterday asking if she was OK with increasing the dosage of a particular medication because Peter was “acting up.” He verbally abused and tried to hit one of the aids who care for him. What a job, taking Peter to the bathroom, changing a shitty diaper and cleaning his shitty ass.
I forget the name of the med but it is something that is supposed to calm him down.
Q… like the old joke about the dude sweeping up their dung as the elephants parade down Main Street as the circus comes to town.
Citizen: “Gee, what an awful job you got.”
Sweeper: “Yeah, and the elephants never stop shitting. All day, all night.”
C.: “Wow, they must pay you a lot for work like that.”
S.: “Naw, the pay sucks and the hours are long. Worst job I ever had.”
C. [puzzled]: “Well if the job’s so awful and the pay too, why don’t you just quit?”
S. [irate]: “What? And leave show business?”
The elderly Paul was recently on T.C. voicing his opinion of “Black Swan events”.
But what will the next one be?
An electric grid collapse?
A “hack” of oil pipelines on a bigger scale then the Colonial Pipeline shutdown?
The declaration of martial law & no Presidential election this year? (I wonder if that is in the works).
Or, maybe absolutely nothing at all.
Just more of the same. The slow ebb & tide of a slowly, sliding declining US empire that is choking on too many financial rackets & ponzi schemes, and elites who are desperately attempting to redirect a restive proletariat towards a new enemy anywhere, anyplace—- but failing miserably.
“Black Swan events”. – PeteAtomic
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People on this site and just about everywhere have a misconception of Black Swans. They think they are always bad events. But this is not the case and people would know this if they read The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Such events can be either good or bad. What makes them black swans is that they are utterly unexpected and cannot even be conceived of as something that may happen someday.
An bad event such as an electric grid collapse does not meet the qualification of a black swan event because it is very conceivable and often predicted.
A good black swan event would be, for example, the arrival from another galaxy of beings who traveled at a million times the speed of light and delivered to us earthlings an overnight cure for all cancers.
“An” bad event should be “a” bad event.
Q., I bet this is one of those “editing errors” where a writer changed his mind, then went back to mend a sentence but failed to correct the article, from “an” to “a”.
Word processors are like that – although their nanny-features are getting more and more ferocious, in terms of alerting a writer to possible errors.
I had Mickeysoft Word attempt to “correct” a draft letter to an Ambassador I had been assigned to write, commencing with “Your Excellency”. The goofy-gates program suggested “You’re”.
Another, more recent clinker I caught on a website was the following: “Despite the fact that the level hasn’t been this low since 2008, though, the deputy director general of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers says no immediate shortage or prince jumps are expected.”
Word-processing alerts will undoubtedly get to a point where an oddity like “prince jumps” will get automatically flagged, although in fact it is grammatically correct.
In the meantime, the accuracy and general readability of articles on the web continues on a death spiral. All I can imagine composing them is a legion of starving liberal arts grads working at minimum-wage, writing a first draft and then tossing it off. No editor, no proofreader.
Were I to point out an error in the following text, the response would likely be “Oh, people can figure it out”:
“She never exacted to have to deal with something even close to this madness.”
My response would be that if you expect your readership to puzzle out what you are attempting to express, you are going to lose their [already-minimal] interest.
Q., I bet this is one of those “editing errors” where a writer changed his mind, then went back to mend a sentence but failed to correct the article, from “an” to “a”. – SpeedyBB
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Yep, exactly what happened.
BTW, you and I are one day different in age. If memory serves, I’m one day older (Nov 21, 1940).
OK interesting concept. The negative was the only example of a Black Swan event I’ve heard of.
Never realized they could be positive.
Tolkien talked about eucatastrophe as the essence of faery stories.
I looked that concept up.
The world needs more eucatastrophe
In other news, the US DEI appointment at the UN raised her arm & voted to be the only abstaining vote on the Security Council for an immediate ceasefire in Holy Land War Part 25, the Revenge of the Joo
hehe
I wonder if she has stickers on her laptop with BLM and “trans rights” slogans.
hmmmm… I bet she does lol
This would be Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Like Biden, she is a career federal employee feeding like a hog at the public trough. 35-year employee of U.S. Foreign Service, and from 2013 to 2017 she served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, where she led the bureau focused on the development and management of U.S. policy toward sub-Saharan Africa.
She was also the inaugural Distinguished Resident Fellow in African Studies at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University from fall 2017 to spring 2019.
She received an honorary Doctor of Law degree from the University of Wisconsin in May 2018 and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Liberia in May 2012.
University of Liberia lol!
That’s General Butt Naked’s alma mater.
I have heard Nuland misquoted many times since the Crocus Massacre. I’m no fan of hers but the exact quote was…
“I also leave with greater confidence that, even as Ukraine strengthens its defences, Mr Putin is going to get some nice surprises on the battlefield, and Ukraine will make some very strong success this year.”
-Victoria Nuland
Yes, she said that, but she said “nasty surprises” at another time.
That’s down the Memory Hole, but watch Jimmy Dore at about 6 minutes to hear her nasty talk.
youtube.com/watch?v=2NTzXuep99s
Can anyone here find the online video link to the terrorist forced to eat his eat? I would like to watch this. 😉
*eat his ear…sorry for the type-o
Bell,
This should brighten your day;
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/russian-officials-lauding-torture-was-unthinkable-now-it-is-proud-to-do-so
https://t.me/meduzalive/103102
This supposedly has the video…I did not open it.
I don’t want to.
Electric prods to the genitals, ears sliced off, eyeballs popped out … these FSB chaps aren’t f#kkng around. Where did these Tajikis think they were anyway? London? Berlin? No ‘Culturally Appropriate’ hot meals, no prayer rugs supplied, no barrister provided at state expense to give sound legal advice? WTF?
@BackRowHeckler
Because obviously Europe is extremely soft and want Negros and Muslims there to hurt their own people intentionally just like our Gov wants the hordes flooding here to do some harm to us. Putin isn’t the one fabricating violence against his own people. I’m guessing this is a message being sent to any idiots that try some shit like this again as to what will happen.
So they are better off raising hell in Europe or America where the governments will pamper and defend their acts of violence against their own citizens. After all, you don’t see a tidal wave of illegals trying to break into Russia…. And Putin isn’t trying to harm his own people, at least not in a way similar to our government.
Well said. Exactly right.
I’m pretty sure that Russia also has a problem with illegals.
It’s just that they don’t have an open border with a Welcome Wagon wating.
I saw an irate Russian pointing out that one of the Tajiks was illegal, and asking when they are going to crack down on them?
“It’s just that they don’t have an open border with a Welcome Wagon wating.”
Well, they have a Good Riddance one-way exit open border for their unwanted Muslims into Finland. Finland, knowing Russia’s past shit, put a stop to that.
TruthSeeker1986, I’ll echo what someone else already told you about being careful about what you read on the internet, including here.
Case in point:
“…Fred should be read with the seriousness that you might read my posts.
Which is about as serious as a long, sonorous bout of flatulence in a crowded elevator” ~ elysianfield August 30, 2023 at 2:04 pm
“I demand my rights”-Mustafa
“Here’s your rights”, sez Ivan, as he slices off an ear.
Lie Peter did to the Temple Guard. Christ put the ear back on.
Moral I have none. All I can say is what Christ said to his disciples in Garden: Watch!
Watch what? The movements of your mind and heart.
@Elysianfield
The officer who cut off Rachabalizoda’s ear had military patches including a far-right Totenkopf (dead person’s head) previously worn by Nazi SS units.
The knife he used has been auctioned off online as the “ear-cutter”, according to Evgeny Rasskazov, a member of the far-right paramilitary battalion Rusich, who facilitated the sale.
“The auction is closed, the lot was sold by the [state] employee privately,” he wrote. “Congratulations to the lucky owner of the ear-cutter.
So according to the article i just read on the guardian, they are already claiming the act was committed by “White supremacist.” Why even post articles from these shitty liberal platforms like The Guardian that’s going to use this whole situation to make people on the right look worse than themselves? The moment they mentioned “far right/Nazism” I was beginning to wonder why anyone would post an article from that website because it’s their attempt to try to make it seem like the Far Right is that ruthless and savagery.
I was beginning to wonder why anyone would post an article from that website because it’s their attempt to try to make it seem like the Far Right is that ruthless and savagery.
TS,
I think it is an attempt to alert those who fuck around with Russia to experience FAFO. It was axiomatic in the 60’s and beyond that Soviet (Russian) diplomats were not to be put upon by terrorists, Canadians, or other Anarchists. The results would be entire bloodlines removed from the planet. The Soviet Organs were then thorough, effective, brutal, and well understood. Maybe this is just a wake up call for those who forgot the lessons of the past.
@Elysianfield
Yeah, but that website is pretty far left sometimes about everything. They had to just mention Nazism so they can compare the Russians that did all of this to those men similar to Nazis, but I don’t recall nazi’s torturing anyone like this, if they did I never read about them doing it. Plus they also tossed “far right” in there. I am kind of curious as to who those men were really working for.
If they were working for the U.S. Putin could have just sent the people in DC the severed ears, or even their dicks. But who knows if that would just make the U.S. retaliate even harder. I mean we’ll know for sure if the terrorist won’t attempt to try anything else in Russia or if they’ll go for something bigger next time and then kill themselves before they get caught.
Have you seen the price of corn lately? The sumbitch is lucky he got an ear.
Putin is now getting heat for not being tough enough or at least not making more “displays”. Maybe he should explode a big nuke?
@Jarek
Who is he getting heat from for not being tough enough? Cutting a man’s ears off and forcing him to eat it is tough enough…What the hell do they want him to do, cut off their heads and play kick ball with it? What they did to those guys is brutal, still not as brutal as Islamist who behead people or what MS-13 have done. But brutal none the less. I mean he could have cut off their heads and severed their dicks, then shoved the cocks in their mouths like what happened to this one gay African dude in Africa. Now that would be sending a message.
I highly doubt that the officer was wearing a Nazi patch.
Nazis are illegal in Russia, Russians hate Nazis, and there is no way someone in the military could sport a Nazi patch.
I call bullshit.
“The point here is that people… may form a politic into a singularity. This is where solidarity dies, a place where you don’t engage with people outside your ‘understanding of reality’, but rather expect ‘reality to conform to their subject understanding of it’.” ~ Tanday Lupalupa; ‘Uncivilizing Permaculture’
Greetings JHK
We had a minor The long emergency event in our western New York state city. They found a body in the city’s major water reservoir. We had a boil water alert, and then it turns out the body was in there for 3 weeks. Possible suicide attempt, and the cameras that monitor the site recorded his entry but no alarms, no one was watching the cameras. Closed the city schools, even our hospital which is not on the city water, had to use bottled water because of the fears of patients and staff.
But it’s all good, please carry on.
Rocco,
You got any pics of the floater? I think cowbell likes that sort of thing….
The Saint knows of floaters, I would expect.
Yea,add a couple ‘taters and call it soup.
I was talking to someone who works for the water department around here.
People swim, fish and boat in the lakes they use for our water supply.
I had a patient one time tell me that he dumped his boat septic tanks into the water, even though it was illegal. He thought he was pretty funny, but I thought he was a disgusting criminal.
Anyway, this water guy goes to some national water department meeting and finds out that New York has their water reservoir fenced off and guarded.
That blew his mind.
Powerball® draws TONIGHT and is the 6th largest Powerball jackpot EVER! Powerball and Mega Millions® jackpots are an exciting $1.9 BILLION combined! This is the first time Powerball and Mega Millions simultaneously have jackpots at $800 million or above.
Powerball is at $800 Million and draws TONIGHT, March 25 at 7:59 p.m., with sales closing at 7:00 p.m. Mega Millions is at $1.1 BILLION for tomorrow
We talk about how the money in this country is worthless, but somehow they are able to still have lotteries where they can give out Millions or even billions if you are fortunate enough to win one of them.
I’m pretty sure someone is going to win either one, usually someone does. But in their mind they won’t be thinking “all this money I just won is worthless… I can’t do anything with it!” Wrong because they can do LOTS with it despite it’s considered to be “worthless.”
Imagine if they were socially responsible, and instead of a single award for1.1 Billion, they drew eleven hundred tickets for one million each? A lot of joy would be spread around the country.
A one billion dollar award would be, for many people, destructive.
Commie pinko.
“Commie pinko.”
OG,
You can call me a “commie”
You can call me a “pinko”
You can even call me long distance,
But,
From those blue, frozen and chapped lips, still redolent of your last meal of Eskimo Pies, spotted dick and Labatts, never…Never call me an anarchist.
You sound like Huey Long, talking about limits and shit.
@Elysianfield
Normally when people win the billions is never one individual, often multiple people might get lucky or a group of people… What’s even weirder is that some of them will keep their stupid pointless job despite having enough to flee the country and retiring someplace else. Hell that’s what I would do if I won such large sums of money. lol sure as hell wouldn’t stay in a country that’s trying to seize all of Trumps assets and could just as well do it to me for any reason. I would find a nice piece of land and just reside there, but I don’t know. Eastern Europe would have been nice to retire with lots of cash many years ago, not so sure about today.
I heard you can live on the coast of Spain for about eight hundred bucks a month.
Everytime these jackpots got big all the guys at work would pool their money and buy a whole bunch o’ tickets.Lots of tickets. I would never partake.Cheap bastard I was. Or sensible perhaps. Odds aren’t much better if you buy one ticket or a hundred. As they say you can’t lose if you don’t play. They never won shit. Afterwords I suggested that perhaps we should have enjoyed a nice prime rib dinner with the money they gave to the government.
It turns out that all those state lotteries are run through one central place, and it is owned by some Italian corporation.
Your kids don’t actually win too.
Why Does the House Always Win? A Look at Casino Profitability
investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/110415/why-does-house-always-win-look-casino-profitability.asp
“There’s one certainty in gambling: Nothing is left to chance. In the end, the house always comes out the winner. A casino is a business, not a charitable organization throwing free money away. Like any other business, it has a business model in place designed to ensure its profitability.”
—-
Of course the State, in some gambling instances, is ‘The House’.
Yes, war is on Europe’s doorstep, your governments want it and they’re going to get it
Your rulers are preparing the debacle as if it were inevitable, whereas they themselves are creating it by their disastrous Machiavellianism. They say ‘white’ and they do ‘black’, and you will be the victims… Paris… Marseille… Rome…
This coming war in Western Europe will be harsh, and many prophecies have revealed it: Paris will be burned, Marseille will be engulfed, Rome will be destroyed and the Holy See will be emptied.
Jesusmariasite.org
You left out Jerusalem and Damascus.
Blindness has continued to the present day, for we see many great prophets and seers, having unusual giftings, who cannot understand Isaiah’s vision. They think that Jerusalem will never be destroyed. They think that the earthly city will be Christ’s capital in the Kingdom. They think that the children of the flesh are God’s chosen people. They think that those who oppose Zionism and the Jewish occupation of Ariel are God’s enemies.
The problem did not begin in our time, or even in the past few centuries. The blindness came in Isaiah’s day, specifically upon the prophets and seers, and this legacy has been passed down to their spiritual sons and daughters to the present.
It appears, though, that the eyes and ears of the prophets and seers will not be opened until Jerusalem has been destroyed and Hagar and her fleshly children have been cast out. This is probably the event that will astonish churchianity and force them to seek the truth with their whole heart.
godskingdom.org/studies/ffi-newsletter/2021/understanding-eschatology/
Dear Jim, I follow Robert Malone’s substack after you drew my attention to his 3 hour longform podcast with Joe Rogan fairly early in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
You may not know, but Stripe (the mandated escrow service for all Substack authors taking contributions) is selectively targeting independents who do not toe the official narrative line, requiring details of all transactions and contributors to the linked bank account used to receive funds from Substack supporters.
They have so targeted Malone, and they may come for you.
See jim’s mailing addy on home page.
I figured this is worth a public announcement, given many people here have come to trust Substack’s independence and support of freedom of speech. If we contribute to creators via Substack, that is vulnerable to future exploitation by the controllers of Stripe.
Hard to believe direct hit on Francis Scott Key bridge was an accident.
The last-minute change of course does look a tad suspicious.
Believe it or not, a loss of power puts you at the mercy of the rides & currents, which can be treacherous in their volatility. Tides are known and fixed as to time. The tide data will be telling, at least partially.
*tides*
Indeed.
All the data required to construct a plot is available.
What is telling about this incident is how quickly they said what it wasn’t. These guys have no poker face.
The Captain was a Ukrainian National.
Funny.
Also the day it happened. Jewish celebration of victory over its enemies
If you do not believe the moon moves oceans are you an anti-lunatic? A free-rider?
Exactly, and the fact that it is the namesake bridge of our National Anthem writer? What a crock. I bet the Black national anthem people are having a field day with this.
Remember when that bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh and then Biden went to visit it? I bet he will rush over to Baltimore to give this bridge a visit and tout his environmental and economic agenda in support of his “re-election” bid.
Oh Baltimore, you crumble and decay before our very eyes.
A comment. The interstate highway system was built in the 1950s-80s, most of it anyway. The construction technology becomes dated in about 30 years, as the concrete and steel parts of bridges deteriorates. 695 was completed around 1960 along with the bridge. So what was its condition today? Are we seeing the beginning of a collapse of parts of the Interstate system, and even the local and state highways?
Will the infrastructure effort stop the degradation in time? Should we be putting trillions of dollars into a highway reconstruction or into high speed and local railroads? I wonder if that will even come up? Maybe this bridge collapse will bring it up?
I am glad this bridge is not on my commute what a mess.
Baltimore may quite possibly be the most dysfunctional city in America. The way Bill Bonner (who is from the area) describes it (and Bonner is brilliant–he is a peer of JHK as far as commenting on the scene), it makes Detroit look like a Swiss watch. Baltimore City must be an awful place for an American to have to live in.
All I know is that I saw a video of a container ship hitting the support head on, and the bridge collapsing–a bridge I drove numerous times in the 80s and 90s.
Beyond that, who knows what happened? Who know if the authorities will ever get to the real truth? Who knows if they will tell us? Who knows if the press will truthfully relay what they know?
My bet NO. NO WAY all of the above happens. Likely NO to every question I posed. That’s how much I trust the US government and media (and in fairness, that’s true of most Western government and media).
Others have said, and I have repeated, that as an “advanced” society, the US is a fragile society.
A bad car accident can stop a freeway and lead to tens of thousands of lost man-hours. There is a cost to that.
This bridge collapse is very disruptive to the lives of the people of the great Baltimore area. Possibly to truckers. To businesses. There is a huge financial/economic cost to this bridge.
We can’t snap our fingers and have it back “up and running” in a week.
It will take time. It will take money. Where will that money come from.
Still, as the resident (or one of the few) contrarian here, I must note that it’s interesting how this bridge will get a lot of coverage, with what, maybe 10-20 people killed, while the Israeli disproportionate massacre in Gaza is mostly ignored by Americans, or even supported.
Of course, the bridge is in the US. And money is involved. Still…
Gaza, with 31,000 dead, who know how many thousands more under the rubble, and how many thousands more have a date with death due to malnutrition or illness that is not going to be put off, even if the Israeli bombs stopped and the floodgates of aid opened.
And as noted in JHK’s article, 100-plus Russian were killed in a terrorist act last weekend, and the US first reaction was to say “it wasn’t Ukraine”. Coming from the same government which warned (the bitch Nuland) “we have some surprises for Russia”. The same government that said (both President Biden AND Nuland) that Nordstream would not operate.
You people let the US government run amuck overseas. Actions have consequences. This isn’t 1965, when the war was confined to Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and when America was populated by AMERICANS–and I include the MANAGEABLE number of foreign-born Americans of that era who spoke accented or even poor English, because they were not likely to cause trouble.
I have hard time thinking this was just a simple accident, and the stars aligned and this container ship just scored a direct hit on the bridge. It may have.
I don’t know what to believe, but in 2019, I wouldn’t have been as skeptical.
Uncontrolled Controlled Demolition?
“I have hard time thinking this was just a simple accident, and the stars aligned and this container ship just scored a direct hit on the bridge. It may have.” ~ Socrates-Detroit
Fariduni – now there’s a trustworthy, good-looking fellow. Does he also offer babysitting services, by chance?
Shades of Gavrilo Princip, anyone?
Could be shades of the Titanic, an unsinkable ship, the Pride of the Modern Industrial Age up to that time, sinks to the bottom just 2 years before the rhe outbreak of WW1, and the crackup of Western Civilization.
Watched a you Tube on the Titanic sinking where things other than the collision were considered.
One was a U-Boat.
Let’s just say, someone better likely lose their job over that FSK Bridge collapse. Maybe this is a case of the boat pilot being one of those “newcomers”???
How about the designer of that flimsy bridge?
Wow! I am amazed this morning.
The FBI broke into Bo Diddy’s two houses yesterday re: sex trafficking.
Heh? Not so amazing.
What is amazing is that they did something not involving DJT? Mark this day on your calendar.
Maybe it is not over, though, they will probably try to involve the Golden one with Bo Diddy.
Ship’s Captain was Ukranian.
Keep in mind, this port would be used to ship military equipment to NATO.
Hang on folks!
Bullitt – doesn’t make sense that a Ukie Captain would cockblock transport of materiel to NATO, in other words, to the Ukraine.
The Pilot would have been in command of the ship until it cleared the bridge. See: ‘h t t p : / / w w w .charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/12281.shtml
That purple box outside the bridge is the Pilot boarding area. I think they likely use the same place to disembark as well.
This may truly be a black swan, as I said earlier, all the data that’s needed to reconstruct this is available. I’m sure there’s thousands of models being built.
It may also be a complete coincidence that the Captain was Ukrainian, but my mind drifts to those who can influence these types of individuals, and what pressure they bring to bear. At face value, yeah doesn’t seem likely. But, who’s to say what the motive is? This ‘accident’ fits quite well with a few American memes in circulation.
[My apologies. I thought I had stripped the protocol out the link, but left the www, I guess HTML has a mind of it’s own.]
70% of Ukrainians voted for Zelensky in 2019, who ran on a platform of peace with Donbass.
The people of Donbass were not allowed to vote, so that 70% came from the rest of Ukraine.
The SBU is going crazy arresting Ukie citizens who they accuse of helping Russia. That is disgusting, but there are Ukies helping Russia.
Why wouldn’t they? Most of them are not Nazis, and don’t like living under the Nazi regime the US installed after the 2014 coup.
Call them anti-Nazi partisans, because that is what they are.
I have no idea about the captain, of course, I’m just talking about the general pop.
I mean it is disgusting that the SBU is arresting people, not that the anti-Nazi partisans are disgusting. I salute them.
Thanks Paula, your argument (explanation) makes sense.
The bridge accident was a result of the ship losing power, it was called in before the hit. Someone mentioned the Titanic, yeah, it always seems that the work up to catastrophes are ordained. Watching the videos showed a couple of things to me,
When the ship veered after losing power, it went directly at the bridge support, was that current that spun it around and why was the current aimed right at the support. How fast was that ship moving when it hit? Are container ships too big trying to “Big Box” the seaways?
I feel, like the Twin Towers, that that bridge was under designed. The second span fell in because the weight of the first span was gone, a result of a cutesy design like the floor supports of the WTT. The supports looked puny when the ship plowed into the one affected and just sheared it off. Where was the concrete bulwark that should have been there? The bridge should be the one that damaged the ship, not vice versa.
The Twin Towers were not underdesigned. They took the hits from the planes with a mere shudder and remained standing.
It took massive explosions to remove the overdesigned support columns to bring them down, each about an hour later.
That bridge folded like a line of dominoes.
I doubt it was Russian sabotage. They build their bridges to withstand multiple blows.
How would they know this sucker would go down in less than a minute?
Who built that thing?
The Russians built it in order to do this later.
The Ukies took down part of the Crimean bridge, even though “Russian”.
The Crimean bridge didn’t collapse like a house of cards.
Only the targeted section was damaged, and it didn’t fall into the water.
Pictures of illegals cutting through the razor wire in Texas and being confronted by military types.
Biden’s mob is so full of kaka in this border issue, I hope it loses the election for them. Their arrogance about it is infuriating,
Go Texas, here in Arizona, an un-elected Leftist governor is allowing crossings to increase significantly.
I wonder how long it’s gonna take before the conspiracy theories about the bridge start showing up?
Is Mayor Pete going to make a statement or visit to the Bridge any time soon? Or he is too busy with his sexual deviances?
What deviances? He’s normal, it’s us who are deviants.
And if they are sensible they will leave us alone.
Re: RFK, Jr. on CBDC. His statement in it’s simplicity is brilliant, and self-evident.
If CBDC(s) are adopted in the US and accepted by US citizens (which will be enticed via a shock and awe event like 9/11 on steroids), the freedom of speech, enshrined in 1A, is immediately extinguished.
Think that one through, It’s not hard to figure out.
I agree.
Wavy Gravy, now there’s a living Anarchist Zaz hasn’t quoted yet.
Dude grew up right around here, father was an architect.
Wavy espoused a laid back, live and let live, cool kind of Anarchism. IOW, he wasn’t blowing stuff up and murdering people. In fact, Wavy Gravy may have not even considered himself an Anarchist, altho his ‘Hog Farm’ was arguably founded on Anarhistic principles.
The ‘Hog Farm’ didn’t last too long, altho it lives on in popular imagination.
Update: the Hog Farm still exists!!!
Altho in a reduced state compared to its heyday in the late 60s.
Those were the days.
Judging Freedom [Judge Napolitano] hosts Scott Ritter. We’re sliding headfirst into World War III.
youtube.com/watch?v=KCKOmn_ARYI
“There’s a school of thought, among many people, that Russia’s bluffing!”
You had better get right with God. Truly.
Yeah, really. Before God acts to end his human being experiment.
He’s not ending it, Bill. It is, however, time for a biblical cleansing. It is almost time for the stars to fall from the sky.
Thanks for the link, OG.
I trust the Houthis are taking notes with respect to the FSK Bridge collapse.
I know! It was the Jews who did it. After all, anything bad occurs, it has to be their fault. See, the Ukrainian ship captain’s dog knew a neighbor’s dog whose owner once walked by a synagogue. That right there shows a plot was being hatched. And Bibi knew about it! And the neighbor’s 50th generation back great grandfather made the nails that were used to hang Jesus on the cross. See how it all ties together?
Hahaha, you are too funny!
Actually, I’m not. I’m trying to show how messed up some people’s minds are.
Bill, show me something, anything, that isn’t the fault of Israel, White Supremacy, or Climate Change.
I dare you.
Marlin, it’s a dare I don’t dare to take.
That is success.
When is Purim in ’24?
My brother is a retired Coast Guard engineer, also worked on container ships and two of Exxon’s oil tankers (not the one that ran aground)
He was saying a ship that size should have been tied to 4 tugboats when it made entrance to the harbor. Even the little 4500 ton DDG I was on never entered a harbor or port without tugboat assistance.
And that ship is massive. 100,000 tons, 1000 ft from stem to stern, 175 ft wide.
Another quite likely scenario: That ship and everyone running it was a DEI hire. This is what you get when you prioritize color/gender/sexual orientation over actual knowledge and experience.
The freighter that broke apart in a hurricane off the coast of Florida about 6-7 years ago had a lady Captain, lady Navigator, and lady engineer. The CO of the Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island was a man hating lesbian whose main mission is to stamp out “toxic masculinity” from the campus & merchant ships. Another goal is to install more POCs into Officer ranks.
Oh, the whole crew drowned.
@BackRowHeckler
Was that the car carrier, the MV Golden Ray?
I remember the MV Golden Ray, a car carrier with about 4,000 cars sank off of coast of Georgia.
Specifics would help, like the name of the ship, where it broke.
SD, the auto carrier that sank off the coast of the Azores was the Felicity Ace; also, there were 4000 new automobiles lost, not 3000.
Like I mentioned it was determined an EV spontaneously ignited, which caught the whole ship on fire.
Yeah I just posted that off the top of my head from memory, should have looked into the details first.
@BackRowHeckler
Thanks! I did see something about that Felicity Ace. One or two of the EVs (electric cars) self-ignited fire and it sank in the middle of the Atlantic
Another thing that’s happening now is massive ships carrying automobiles from Europe to the USA are catching on fire and sinking. Two so far, one with over 3000 new & luxury automobiles off the coast of the Azores.
EV batteries are igniting in the hold, burning hot (5000°F), and cooking the whole ship. Benr & JAZ will tell you there’s nothing worse than a shipboard fire.
What are you learning and what messages are you receiving this Holy Week? I’m kinda feeling overwhelmed and nauseas by this worm moon right now. Sometimes I simply have no understanding of the messages i receive. A raccoon may assist me in finding my way out of this debacle. So I looked into the symbolism of a raccoon to understand what this means. Raccoons are actually symbols of resourcefulness and determination because they are so adaptable and can find food in the most difficult of circumstances. They are also symbols for new beginnings and transformations. Because they wear “masks” they have an innate ability to navigate change! Raccoons are also symbols of trickery and mischief so be really careful. But this is not always a negative thing or may often not even be negative. They use trickery to outsmart predators and escape bad sitches. So you may wish to consider adopting the Raccoon as your totem animal even?!
@ SSL:
My belief is that reality is the best way to get by in this world, so because I like you, I want you to think realistically.
The phases of the moon have no influence in your life. It’s 240,000 miles away, and any influence it could really have is exceedingly minuscule. Many, many studies have disproven lunar phases have an effect on people. There’s a reason such beliefs are called lunacy. Sorry, SSL.
I know you like magical thinking, but I do know that scientific reasoning is ultimately much more fascinating,
Regardless, I hope you successfully navigate through this world.
You’re so thoughtful, Bill. I so appreciate your good will and concern. I do believe that the Moon and the planets effect us very much. The Moon’s orbit effects the Earth in many different ways and so it is very difficult to believe that it has no effect on the beings living on the Earth. Additionally it is scientific understanding that the planets can effect the Earth’s weather and climate phases. So there is scientific data out there. And there is also so much science doesn’t even know yet. So I would disagree with you in a very friendly way.
If you determine what it is before you consider its effects you will save a lot of time.
Omg its like everyone is speaking to me in riddles these days ;0)? Would you care to elaborate somewhat to increase understanding?
iow: “to describe any organism’s behavior you must also describe its environment”.
Ok so basically you are kinda in agreement with what I was saying?
“It was a magnificent imperialism of the spirit, incredible and not to be understood except by those who had been reared in it and have grown beyond it. Most of all those yet in it unaware of what they are.”
Fighting Angel, Pearl S. Buck pg. 54
“There’s a reason such beliefs are called lunacy.”
Is it the belief or the effects which are referred to as lunacy?
Is it your belief that the moon moves oceans?
So are you saying the moon has no influence on, say, the tides?
Or it affects the tides, some 300 million cubic miles of water, but not the couple cubic feet that make up a human?
We are going to be hearing much, much more about a thing called “circadian rhythm” and its effect on mental health, and even {drum roll} WEIGHT. Weight, as in obesity and weight loss.
That is, if we ever go to real scientific studies on human health, instead of finding ways to make bat diseases kill more people.
Anybody who knows me, knows I like to gamble. But I don’t gamble too much on the lottery. Can’t say never, but not very much. I only bet when the payoffs are pretty high – like when they are higher than the odds of winning. In other words, when the mathematical expectation is equal or greater than 1. Even then I don’t gamble much because the taxes lower the expectation to less than one, which means they are poor gambles.
I don’t like obfuscations. It irritates me when someone wins a large amount, the lottery says this winner is a millionaire or a billionaire. It’s basically dishonest. If you win a million dollar jackpot, say on a scratch ticket, you net out $350-$450,000. While that’s a good score, it doesn’t make you a millionaire. I always think in terms of the net.
The odds of winning the big games are in the order of around 200 million to one or more. People don’t understand what those odds really mean. It means it’s almost impossible to win. But people hear about someone winning millions. They believe they can as well, not thinking about the hundreds of millions of tickets it took to get one or 2 big winners.
If you buy a hundred tickets, you’ve only reduced the odds to 1 or 2 million to 1, again a ridiculously small chance. I remember what one person once told me: “If God wants you to win, you only need to buy one ticket.”
Bill, I might have told you this lottery story. My father in law was a city official in a city where, over a period of about a decade, every employee from the Mayor to the City Hall janitor was arrested for some sort of malfeasance or another. Everybody except him. He had this neighbor who lived in big brick Italian style mafia mansion with Iron gates and concrete lions guarding access to the driveway. Real Mustache Pete stuff. One day he got arrested by the Feds, which is when I found out in the local paper he was linked to the Genovese family in NY & the Patriarchas in Providence. He ended up getting an 8 year sentence, but just before reporting to Lewisburg he won the State Lottery, $8 million. Well I figured the fix was in, that the game could be, and was, manipulated. Because remember around the same time Sonny the Bull Gravano won the NY State lottery for a few million, and Whitey Bulger won in Mass. But the fix wasn’t in, and the games really could not be manipulated or handicapped. My FIL exclaimed to me these gangsters would spend tens of thousands of dollars on each draw, so even when they did score a big jackpot they were still on the losing end.
That is an amazing story, BRH.
Maybe that’s why they sold the whole thing to actual Italians. They figured they’d be less crooked than US Italians?
Don’t know, just speculating.
Most of you commenting must have loved walkie talkies as kids and equally love texting in the present. No in person back and forth, no verbal agility in person, just statement after statement in isolation. How utterly pathetic.
lol derp derp
Is this a distraction or are the white hats making various moves? Hard to think any federal agency would be doing something for the good but that is also part of the movie. The royals keep coming up almost like in everything going on somehow someway.
slaynews.com/news/prince-harry-named-affiliate-sean-diddy-combs-trafficking-court-filings/
RFK jr. is killing me.
Why, Bobby? WHY?
Not happy with his VP pick?
what is the deal with this no info thing??
“The message that I gave you and you put out—the warning for the world (Message from 3 March 2024)—tell people that it is a serious message and not to ignore it. It is coming. It is coming. There is no way out—I have to purify the world. The world is in a terrible state and has never been as bad in history as it is now.”
“Encourage people to repent and change. You have no idea how beautiful it is going to be to enter the New Era of Peace. You are now going through these difficult times, but the prophecy I have told you must be fulfilled. Whatever comes your way, bear it with patience and love. Don’t be afraid—I Am always with you to protect you and guide you through all that is coming, and that is upon you.”
I asked, “Lord Jesus, how is this going to affect our world? Will it affect the buildings? Will they all be ruined and completely destroyed?”
Our Lord answered, “Not so much the buildings; some will be ruined, but mostly it will affect the person because there will be a great transformation that has never happened before. Those who are spiritually prepared will be affected less, but those who are not, who are far away from Me, will suffer great consequences. Fear and confusion will overcome them; they don’t like to change; they would rather live like they used to, rolling in the mud! So you have to pray very hard, My children, for these people to let go of their worldliness. Pray for their salvation.”
Valentina Papanga sydneyseer at afterthewarning.com
Lately when i’ve been meditating I get into a prayer space and find that to be a wonderful compliment to just meditating. One may wish to consider each day an opportunity to be purified with the fires of life which can be very dramatic, let alone a catastrophic event. I would like to see the return of the Christ but then realize that it will certainly come at a price and in that respect is certainly one of those thing to “be careful what you wish for”.
Good to pray Star. Catholic saints and prophets talk about 1000 years of peace before the coming of Christ. This purification now upon us will usher that in. But it will be brutal, the cleansing of earth.
I thought that Christ would reign for a thousand years before the final battle as we know it?
He will reign in our hearts, Star.
So meditation, good. Find Him in you. Test. Lasting peace is the yes. Even if you’re sad, you’re at peace.
But first He leaves us all for the purification. Know that what comes after will be worth it. Hold out.
Thank you, ani! I’ll continue to work on it.
He is the Dread Judge who puts Judge Dred to shame. You do well to fear him. He will rule the nations with a rod of iron.
No more feminism at the very least. No more a lot of things that people like.
That is true, but it will be a better time than we have known in the past from what I understand.
You are no longer Christian in the narrow orthodox or “right believing” sense. But a good witch is better than an evil Christian like this one who wants the end of Whites:
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2024/03/26/shes-a-bloody-witch-mate/
It’s a coordinated attack on both sides of the pond. No gnostic gospel or rotten movie this Easter – but directly to destroying YT.
Didn’t Christ say, I have sheep in other flocks that you know not of. He may very well appreciate people like us deeply
Wow! That lady is pretty wacked out. But the narrative that she is participating in is most definitely very well thought out, coordinated and orchestrated. I guess you’re right. I have moved outside of more orthodox Christian beliefs over time. I haven’t really done so (at least i think) because I want to be transgressive or because I intentionally want to turn things upside down so to speak. It just seems to be a learning process. But at my core I still revere Christ and at this point I don’t think that will change. I know you do too.
Yes. We are peas in a pod on this one.
“…consider each day an opportunity to be purified with the fires of life…” ~ SoftStarLight
Yes Dreamy, this is what I’m talking about. Thank you.
The bridge collapse looks like another domino in the chain of things going down.
The airlines have become too inept to keep planes flying in one piece.
The various supply lines have multiple issues related to ineptitude and gross mismanagement and that affects everything.
Instead of some sudden planned event, it looks like we will just slowly come undone like a poorly knitted sweater.
Resistance is futile.
We’re not watering the crops with Brawndo yet, at least. But the waning of quality control in traditionally well-attended-to sectors of modern society is definitely obvious and disturbing.
Perhaps the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was NOT an accident, it just appeared that way. Perhaps it is a warning.
I don’t know. But anything is possible.
From a Russian perspective, it’s not just the Moscow Crocus Massacre. The Ukrainians are attacking Russian cities, like Belgorod with drones and Western-supplied long-range missiles.
The Ukrainians are attacking civilian targets in a desperate attempt to put off the inevitable, and the US is supporting it.
The loss of life from the destruction of the bridge was relatively minor. However, the economic impact is significant. It is not far from Washington, and the visual impact in the mainstream media is significant.
As such, it is a good opportunity for Americans to stop and reflect on the role of the US government and military outside the US, and the death and destruction caused by US foreign policy.
A foreign policy that brings NO BENEFIT to the vast majority of the American people, but which enriches and empowers a select few.
This policy is pushed by “the blob”. It makes the blob stronger, and everyone else weaker.
Had the bridge collapsed between 6am and 10pm (0600 and 2200), the loss of life would have been far greater.
Was the collision an accident? Or deliberate and made to look that way? I don’t know. I would not rule anything out. I do not trust the US (or Western for that matter) government and/or media to get to the bottom of this and tell us the truth.
Just one more piece of bad news. But one that should make us stop and think for a moment that our government’s meddling and actions overseas are causing a lot of problems for others, and those others might react in ways we will not like.
Yeah they’ve been blowing up food processing facilities and industrial sites for two or three years and you hear very very little about it. I assume these things are mostly inside jobs but who can be sure or ever really know.
Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner. Could this be the work of Confederates? Or just Black Ukrainian idiocy?
Key was from a fairly wealthy plantation family. Maryland was a Southern state up until Lincoln invaded and prevented Maryland from seceding. If Key had lived to see it, he almost certainly would have been a Confederate.
It does seem like a good lesson to the US.
Little loss of life, but massive economic damage.
That’s hitting them where they actually care.
But I still think that the Russians wouldn’t know how flimsily that bridge was built.
One thing I do know, is that we won’t get the truth from our overlords.
@Paula D
Great summary!
Harbor closed! For auto companies which use Baltimore as a Port of Entry, this is HUGE potential hit. You just can divert all those Mercedes, Subarus, VWs, etc to another port of entry, because the other ports have no where to HOLD thousands of cars for X hours or days until they are shipped by rail or truck to dealers.
Potential supply chain issues–just in time parts must be diverted.
The bridge itself–the good news is most traffic from the South to the North can be re-routed to the Beltway. But for local people and business, it’s a huge hit.
Now, I raised the possibility that is was NOT an accident. Given the US-instigated war in Ukraine, it could be a Russian response made to look like an accident.
BUT, what if some of the crew are Ukrainian, and THEY are angry the US is not helping Ukraine more? Individual actors.
What if some of the crew are Palestinian sympathizers–Malaysians or Indonesians or some other Islamic ethnicity?
By the same token, they could be Israeli sympathizers angry that the US did not dutifully veto this UN cease-fire resolution (as it had been doing up to now). That possibility seems remote to me, because I associate Zionism with Jews and some Europeans and Americans, and my sense is that these groups are under-represented in cargo ships of this type.
My point is, ANY aggrieved group could have “lone wolves” in cargo ships, living in the US as naturalized citizens, or on legal work visas, or illegally, in the vicinity of sensitive infrastructure.
When the US meddles in foreign affairs, the “oh shit” is always much bigger, and more dangerous, than the “attaboy”.
Don’t take my word: go and ask Pakistanis and Indians, and they BOTH blame the US for supporting the other. Ditto Greeks and Turks.
There are even ISRAELIS who say the US supports the Palestinians–even some of you CFNers have said that.
Of course, the Palestinians have legitimate grievances, with no chance for justice. What does one do in that situation?
Some angry crew member does something deliberate that he is confident can look like an accident, and….”boom, take that America!” And this has relatively low loss of life, but huge economic (and visual) impact!
Of course, it could be an accident also. But that’s the narrative the PTB will want us to believe–an accident.
Tying this to a “lone wolf” is the LAST thing they would want.
This is among the better articles I’ve found. I references a source saying the ship’s Captain is Ukrainian (and that snippet prompted me to write this, since I felt it’s plausible–and UNDERSTANDABLE, and unfortunately, WARRANTED, that Russia might have something to do with this).
zerohedge.com/markets/watch-huge-bridge-baltimore-collapses-after-container-ship-strike
I tried to look up the nationalities of the crew of the ship (all Indian), and found that the six workers missing are all immigrants from Latin America.
I guess they were doing the jobs that Americans won’t do.
Patrick Henry wrote the Star Spangled Banner. Just as a guess I imagine this bridge down thing is another message from the Satanic blood sucking parasites that lord over the United States that they are destroying your nation in front of your face piece by piece and laughing because no one will react or do anything.
@SoftStarLight
It’s the same for the Europeans as well….People are too afraid to do anything.
Its too bad. Clearly there are people who are not too afraid to do something.
@SoftStarLight
LOL right, I guess typing on forums count as people doing something or waiting for a zionist like Trump to do something. I’ll believe it when the illegals stop coming and get deported in both America and Europe.
I’ll also believe it when someone with balls tell everyone in DC to stop trying to piss off Putin and remind them exactly what would happen if a third world war does start since everyone is too stupid and dumb to realize the consequences of such a war.
Until then, the only thing I see happening is more “accidents” more and more attacks similar to the ones in Russia, and more people just talking about it on the internet vs actually doing something. There’s a big difference between doing something vs talking about doing something. The way you worded your sentence at the end is why I said what I said.
“They are destroying your nation in front of your face piece by piece and laughing because no one will react or do anything.”
Until the Deep State and everyone else is destroyed, no one is doing much of anything.
Don’t just do something, sit there!
The Deep State is the Khazarian Mafia. The time to name names has come. Zionists doesn’t even really do the trick anymore as that is a splintered identity. I don’t necessarily blame individual atoms for not doing anything. Atoms must coalesce into a body in order to exert a will onto the surrounding world. Unfortunately some bodies exist and some do not. Its time to switch up the game a little bit.
@SoftStarLight
Well the Khazarian Mafia runs our country…We can name as many names as we want, but who’s going to remove this group of individuals? Who is going to dismantle and take them apart?
Obadiah answers this one.
What would you have people do?
Spell it out, Messi. What does O Bla Di Bla Da suggest?
We need answers, not mere Mystery Babylon in Biblical drag.
“For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near; As you have done, it shall be done to you; Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.“
Esau is bloodthirsty.
Massive Poonami!
livescience.com/animals/whales/sperm-whales-drop-bubble-of-poo-off-western-australia-to-prevent-orca-attack
Sperm whale drops massive load to disperse large pod of hunting killer whales.
It’s called a defense defecation not unlike every time Biden starts talking.
Lol too weird and kooky but it worked apparently. These are always good little articles to read to sorta bring the temperature of the day down. Particularly in these trying times of these really consequential events. Just imagine having to worry about a poonami too with everything else going on lol!!
That’s how you could get rid of any stalkers.
lol that’s true
NATO, using the Ukies as cover, has been killing Russians inside Russia for months now, and escalating all the time.
They say that their goal is to make Russians mad. They say that their theory is that angry Russians will throw Putin out, and then the west can put in another Yeltsin and commence to looting again, like in the 90s.
Do they actually believe this? Do they actually think that they can overthrow a president who just got 87% of the vote?
I think the idea is to make Putin mad enough to respond violently.
The goal of the west is to depopulate Ukraine, and they would love it if Putin got angry and “flattened Kiev”, as they always talk about. That would be a major step forward for their plans.
Instead, Putin kept his cool, but some cop got pissed off enough to cut off the ear of one the mass murderers.
Cue the Mighty Wurlitzer! OMIGOD, those Evil Russians torture prisoners! They are barbarians! All it takes is 140 dead Russians and they lower themselves to cut off an ear!
Good thing Putin did keep his cool. If the media can stir up the plebes over one earlobe, just imagine what they could do with a mass bombing of Kiev, or the like.
@Paula
Fuck the media, now imagine if the guy was black and his ear was sliced off by a Russian. They would have blew that story up even more despite worse things are happening to them right now in Haiti by their own people.
They already mentioned on the Guardian that one of the cops had Nazi patches on his uniform and that he was part of the Far Right. They’ll do anything to stir up trouble in Russia. That’s why I was telling StarLightBright that no one is really doing anything because by now they would just throw all these warmongering shit starters out of DC and if European countries were smart they would kick Nato to the curb. Everything they are doing is 8th grade bullying at best.
To be honest I have no idea what Putin is going to do anymore at this point. How much longer can he maintain his cool? You can only push a man around so much until he gets tired of your BS and put you in your place which is what NATO and the idiots in DC both need right now, a savage ass beat down.
He may have no choice but to destroy Kiev. After all how long is this entire conflict going to keep going on for? People keep saying that Ukraine has lost a lot of their men, now you have Nato trying to start something. This is why I don’t understand why a majority of European countries don’t just pull the hell out of Nato, it’s a good thing that Hungarian leader Victor Orban wanted no part of them, but other European countries should start leaving them ASAP.
They don’t even act mature enough to represent anyone and their entire purpose for existing is to destroy and ruin the lives of others anyway. I mean what are they going to do once they steal everything from Russia, then what? They’ve already ruined their own countries with Open border ignorance, now they want to steal from someone else? We got some low IQ mfers running things in this world.
Obadiah discussed this.
Imagine if Putin was so cool that he never did anything! Shades of Islander’s, “He’s not going to invade” a few hours before he invaded.
Kiev may indeed get flattened now. He didn’t want it this way. Most intelligent people get that.
He will nuke the West if provoked too far – even if all the Russophile Western Ladies say that he won’t.
I’m hoping I am not wrong and you don’t have to quote this later, but no nukes are going to be used, at least not the large-yield ones. Tactical ones? Unsure, and unsure about the fallout, but Russia seems kind of downwind in any case, yes? (What are the typical wind currents?)
We could see a surprise hit in Alaska, if things got bad enough, just to ‘send a message’.
@Jarek
Well Jarek if he uses Nuke’s it’ll be stupid on his part. For one thing HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH THESE WEAPONS! Surely Putin isn’t retarded and doesn’t realize this. If he uses a nuke, other countries will use nukes right back on him and his country. And it will be an all out nuclear war between dumb fuck old men that need to just retire already and stop looking for sorry excuses to kill everyone.
Good points.
I don’t believe Russia will resort to nukes because 1. they don’t need to, & 2. radiation would disperse & ultimately hit reach them too. They follow the maxim: do as much as necessary; as little as possible.
Their hypersonic missiles are nearly unstoppable. They unloaded a new one in recent days.
It ground launches, so whereas before, certain planes taking off from Russia would start sirens across all of Ukraine, this time there was only a few seconds warning max.
They hit an underground meeting of planners, high level from various countries.
They can target not just individual buildings, but right through windows.
I like that they target decision makers and terrorist directors, instead of civilians.
Hitting civilians to avenge terrorism is a war crime. The US is known to do that, but no one complains about it.
Instead they complain about Israel, when it does the same thing.
Find out who you are not allowed to criticize….etc.
So now that the demolition phase is essentially complete, will Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan oversee the Build Back Better phase?
If so, is this good or bad, and will it entail civil unrest and a suspension of civil liberties?
I figured out earlier that this is probably what Beryl was referring to upthread. I guess he’s trying to pull away progressives from Biden? Who knows. Its pretty difficult to imagine RFK Jr suspending civil liberties given his platform and philosophies.
” I guess he’s trying to pull away progressives from Biden?”
I am wondering if this is all part of the script.
The destruction Biden will unleash to the end will make him the most hated president in history, and the Kennedy ticket will be the obvious choice for democrats and those with TDS.
Biden’s destruction to his finish will provide an avalanche of “noise” that will pave the way for Build Back Better.
Perhaps the civil unrest and a suspension of civil liberties happens under Biden’s watch, so Kennedy is clean?
Is the demolition phase not just getting going?
I don’t think the situation is salvageable at this point.
The US has yet to see the consequences of the migration, and the population will be begging for Build Back Better to deal with all the issues.
I guess that’s what some want, including hereon, even if they don’t realize it.
Maybe it will be Better than relocalization and ‘small-scale sociopolitics’ (anarchy).
The continuation of a centralized State monopoly.
My ongoing concern is if Xi ends up with all the power.
Sort of like some countries willingly reducing fossil fuel usage that then nevertheless allows others to take more of it?
I thought about that in a sociopolitical sense over a decade ago and even wrote about it and popped it online for posterity if nothing else…
The trick may be a global decentralization that includes what is currently known as China.
I’m working on it even though I don’t have any illusions it will be successful.
In the mean time, you can do your thing and vote.
“Sort of like some countries willingly reducing fossil fuel usage that then nevertheless allows others to take more of it?” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
My guess is that this was one of Kerry’s back room deals to get Xi onboard the 2030 Agenda.
Are The Amish Anarchists?
“It occurred to me that one could view the Amish as a working example of a form of anarchy. It is a very strange form, since the rules that the Amish are under are considerably more constraining– including rules on what styles of clothing they can wear, rules against owning automobiles or flying on airplanes, and much else– than the rules the rest of us are under. But those rules are all voluntarily accepted, and the system that generates them may reasonably be viewed as a competitive system of private law…
It’s true, of course, that the Amish are under the rule of the U.S. (or, for a smaller number, Canadian) government. But they receive very few services from government, since they are unwilling to accept most of the conventional forms of government aid and, as pacifists, are unwilling to report crimes against themselves to the police or sue in the government courts to collect debts. Off hand, the only significant benefit I can think of that they get is protection against foreign invasion. And, on the other hand, governments at various levels imposes sizable costs on them, in the form of taxes that (with the exception of Social Security) they have to pay and regulations.
So I think they provide pretty good evidence of at least one form of (very structured) anarchy that works.” ~ David D. Friedman
The have leaders in the church that handle church matters, but they have no police. They are U.S. citizens and criminal matters are handled by the local, state or federal constabulary.Aug 30, 2022
Zaz,
David D Friedman I would invite to kiss my big black ass.
Which isn’t really saying anything different or new is it? Just because you kiss-my-black-ass rubber-stamp it? ‘u’
The author already acknowledges that sort of thing.
If your State, however, is slowly failing and increasingly cannot maintain its State functions– like border-control, legal ethics or appropriate foreign policy, or even policing in some locales ostensibly– what does it even mean ‘They are U.S. citizens’?
Anarchy is all around you, in different forms. Some forms are just waiting to hatch or at least better self-actualize, perhaps including the Amish.
“Anarchy is all around you,”
Zaz,
My invitation is but a vehicle, a short hand for expressing my contempt for a comment or concept that my basal decency would not allow for stronger comment.
Anarchy is all around me, like ignorance, apathy and the sufferance of fools. Should I also embrace them?
elysianfield, maybe take your discouraging words and contempt at some things and use it as a filter between yourself and the mirror.
Not all fish are flying fish, but it’s possible that the ones that are might some day manage to actually fly and leave the ocean for good. Maybe only a few of its individuals figure it out, but it’s enough to get an entirely new way of life going.
It’s evolution.
“It’s evolution.”
Zaz,
We are in rare agreement. For anarchy to succeed as a viable model of human discourse, man must evolve. Evolve into something that currently he is not.
Not all people are going to evolve. I said that ages ago. I also just wrote that, “Maybe only a few of its individuals figure it out…”.
As for your contention, “Evolve into something that currently he is not.”, it’s an assumption and not necessarily true. You don’t know that for sure.
Like I also said, anarchy is all around you, therefore anarchists as well.
But we may simply need a proper niche, growing medium and/or fertility or whatever.
Think gardening and think the State as a monoculture and what with its toxic pesticides and soil-fertility drawdowns, etc., that is preventing alternative social arrangements. (The State drones even bother the Amish.)
It’s like the seeds that are dormant in the desert for ages until it rains (until the State goes away, at least sufficiently).
“As for your contention, “Evolve into something that currently he is not.”, it’s an assumption and not necessarily true. You don’t know that for sure.”
Zaz,
It is an absolute, iron clad incontrovertible fact. The entire range of human history cannot be argued against my claim. Only those ignorant of the human condition would embarrass themselves in argument otherwise.
You are educated, but ignorant of humanity and it’s issues…you lack wisdom. Youth, on your part, would be a viable reason…but not an excuse.
elysianfield, you appear to be casting a blanket, a broad brush-stroke, over everyone in every place at every time.
That’s not how speciation/evolution works.
Some people are flying fish or they’re trying to be.
The State is a broad brush-stroke over people, a monoculture.
At the end of the day, it won’t work, because that’s not how nature works.
“Zaz,
We are in rare agreement.” ~ elysianfield
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Bingo.
You have your way and I have mine.
Blanketing yours on mine or vice-versa will, practically by necessity, create dissonance.
I don’t actually care about your State. I only bother with it as it blankets itself over everything and everyone.
It’s a monoculture, despite its DEI posturing.
Arguing for it is a losing argument.
See also here: March 28, 2024 at 2:37 am
@ef
Like talking to a brick wall and like a brick wall only a sledgehammer seems to have an effect.
benr, only you’re not providing any argument, though, so who has the brick wall?
There’s also an implicit point/assumption behind elysianfield’s position– maybe yours too– namely that the State can effectively address the case for violence and corruption.
Clearly it cannot.
And Jim discusses/laments it hereon practically every week.
Close your eyes for a moment and summon and listen to your inner flying fish.
I have learned not to argue with people like you as you make up your own facts and truths as you go.
Anarchy is Somalia.
As far as Government not being able to address violence and corruption it was not as much of an issue thirty years ago.
The state is not the issue its we the people who have allowed the corrption to fluirsh under D
The state is not the issue its we the people who have allowed the corruption to flourish under Democrats and weak Republicans.
benr, you’re ignoring your own legacy that got us out of the ocean and onto the land. It took only a few ‘anarchists’ with some progressive steps toward that land. The rest of the fish said it couldn’t be done. Fuck them, we did it.
As for your State, its code/modus operandi is all wrong. If you don’t change the underlying code, you’re going to get unworkable errors all the time.
Remember what they say: ‘Repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the very definition of insanity.’
Society As A Game
If the players, especially those who create and/or enforce the rules, can’t follow the rules of the game, there is no game.
It amazes me that people are already accusing Russia of the bridge collapsing…
It looks more possible, perhaps likely, to have been a simple power-failure/accident now.
Has OG declared it a black-op yet?
The crummy infrastructure may have just been the ship. Also heard their piloting reaction to the probable stall may not have been ideal.
Watching that event in slow motion they could not have steered that ship any truer to take out the bridge if they tried.
Not sure why they did not just drop anchors to stop themselves.
I guess a ship that big can’t just drop anchors without power.
Someone is going to pay through the nose for this deed whether planned or mishap.
The East coast is going to have major supply issues now hope you have at least a month of storable food on hand.
Video I watched said they did drop anchor, and likely gunned engines in reverse when power came back on. Black smoke was pouring out of the ship. This guy’s explanation for the veer was, their efforts to reverse and dropped anchors likely caused the ship to turn awkwardly in the water and steered their momentum off course. His criticism was that they should have left the engine off and only used the rudder.
It could be foul play still, but quite a few indicators of accident. 1) warning authorities to clear bridge 2) power outage and black smoke 3) there was a port official on board 4) the dropped anchors
Who is Nicole Shanahan? Her name is Irish but she looks Asian. What are her qualifications? Did she earn her own money? Or did she get it the old fashioned way, via divorce rape?
Shades of Pat Buchanan picking an unknown Black woman as his running mate. People thought he understood the quiet part – that we needed a return to White Male rule. Nope! Or did he know but allow the World to cow him into cowardice? Probably that. How could he not know!
RFK Jr. names California tech lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential choice
latimes.com/politics/story/2024-03-26/robert-f-kennedy-jr-nicole-shanahan-vice-president-2024-election
Who is Nicole Shanahan, the philanthropist picked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate?
apnews.com/article/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-running-mate-4ca2192ccfa0a0cbfea6026e792dd4c8
“People thought he understood the quiet part – that we needed a return to White Male rule.” ~ Jarek
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“Grown men do not need leaders.” ~ Edward Abbey
Edward Abbey is an idiot, because he obviously don’t understand anything if he believes that. Some men look up to their fathers as good leaders and that’s if they had a good father in their lives. Military soldiers have leaders, tribes have leaders. Edward sounds like someone who just wanted to be a smart ass when he said that.
Abbey was most likely not talking about legitimate leaders like the one’s you mention.
On the other hand, someone can ‘lead’ you off a cliff at gunpoint.
Or they can conscript you to fight in their wars they caused…
youtu.be/Os5w1c-vT3U?si=tmwFFoI6wKlaGPT8
@The Man They Call Zazelle
Yeah you’re right, but those aren’t “leaders” those are scumbags who are too much of a coward to fight their own wars like men use to do. Now you have these suits that sit around every day looking for ways to cause trouble because they rarely get punished for the things they do.
Agreed and again good points.
Most people don’t fully grow up and become “real men”.
And even if they did, there would still be specialization and deferring to others in their specialty. People who can’t defer aren’t real grown ups either, but rather red faced two years old screaming, “Do it myself!”.
And in an anarchist community – if such a thing could really exist – there would still be mutual agreements, like “drive on the right hand side of the road”. You don’t want individual “creativity” on a blind curve or a bad fog.
Yesterday Politico had a publication about Nicole Shanahan and as I recall, basically stated that she had a passion for cleaning up corruption in government (it appears that the publication has been rewritten several times).
The following article writes: “Shanahan said Kennedy will be focused on corruption in government agencies while she applies her skills as a technologist to the issue.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his vice president
politico.com/news/2024/03/26/robert-kennedy-nicole-shanahan-running-mate-00149150
… and the following writes: “She has donated to Democratic politicians such as Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, Pete Buttigieg in 2020, and her local Congressman Democrat Ro Khanna, along with a slew of Democratic politicians across the country.
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In 2020, Shanahan co-hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg. And she also supported Marianne Williamson’s long-shot 2020 bid. She donated $25,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020.”
55 Things You Need to Know About Nicole Shanahan
politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/26/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-2024-bio-00149015
How does one reconcile this?
One does not! She sounds like Steve Jobs’ widow. Virtue signaling with an unfortunate man’s money.
She is the money not the brains.
She wants to clean up corruption, and yet she funds Clinton and Biden?
She looks mixed or asian yes.
Hi TPTB-USA
You said “The destruction Biden will unleash to the end will make him the most hated president in history, and the Kennedy ticket will be the obvious choice for democrats and those with TDS.”
What makes you think that? Do you find RFK Jr to be an actual, serious candidate? As far as I can tell, so far, he’s spent much of his time contradicting his previous positions on many things. Plus, personally, I really cannot tolerate listening to him – too much hard work.
“Plus, personally, I really cannot tolerate listening to him – too much hard work.” ~ Grace
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It gets easier. You just have to adapt to it, and put in the effort.
In any case, whoever inherits the presidency, will inherit a sinking ship.
@The Man They Call Zazelle
You would think they could turn it all around, but then I get reminded of the Roman Empire every single time…. Once a nation declines and fall, it stays down for good… The Roman Empire never made a come back. I don’t think any nation has ever made a come back after it’s major decline. Other than Russia somewhat bouncing back from the Soviet Union if you can call that “making a come back.”
Prophetic words, coincidentally, since I just found out that we appear to have hit peak oil in 2018 and are now looking at it in the proverbial rear-view mirror.
This means that we’re at the beginning of the true end of civilization at least as we know it.
One of those, ‘Well, here goes…’ moments…
The democrat predicament:
They need to ditch Joe Biden.
They need to ditch Kamala Harris.
They need do a 180 and present someone who will restore the rule of law, and promote unity.
They need a ticket that will carry on with the 2030 Agenda.
And possibly they have destroyed the democrat party.
Currently:
“Joe Biden” is alienating many segments of the population based on his handling of a variety of issues (the ultimate goal could to make everyone reject him).
“Joe Biden” is basically disregarding the constitution, the rule of law, and morality.
In my mind, if I view any of his actions from the perspective of the 2030 Agenda, it makes sense of all the nonsense.
I believe that a major part of the problem relates to economic disparity, and Nicole Shanahan looks like she will have major appeal to this disenfranchised segment of the population, and my initial assessment is that she is fully onboard with the 2030 Agenda.
As for RFK Jr.: democrat name recognition, consider, that given the options, I assume that Jim will be voting for him, and I suspect that “contradicting his previous positions on many things” will not be an issue for a majority of the population; and as long as Lindsey Graham is near Trump at the political rallies, and Michael Pompeo’s view of Julian Assange doesn’t change, I’ll have a real hard time of voting for Trump.
I believe that prior to the election, that there will be some event that will trigger a shutdown of the economy, businesses (and individuals) will go into default, local banks will go under, and as MA has discussed, the top banks will step in with a CBDC.
“The crypto zealots seem oblivious to the fact that the coming Central Bank Digital Currency in the USA would be unconstitutional, and the Federal Reserve will NOT issue one. Instead, the top banks are all moving to create their own and pitch for their version that will be programmable and traceable. The rumor is Fink would love to take over Bitcoin. WHY? Because all the tracing and reporting will be done by the private sector and under CURRENT law, banks MUST report suspicious behavior. So it is the COVID Model where the private sector did the censoring of free speech that the First Amendment ONLY restricts the government – not Facebook, YouTube, et al.”
The Ruse of Bitcoin & Crypto
armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/cryptocurrency/the-ruse-of-bitcoin-crypto/
Given such a scenario, I could see the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Nicole Shanahan ticket wining by a landslide, like Trump did in 2016.
It’s a hard choice either way…I’m not voting for anyone since it’s useless. I hate Democrats, so I will never vote for JFK jr. and I dislike Republicans too, so I don’t trust Trump because he’s a Zealot like all of them are. Therefore it’ll be easier to just do like I’ve always done my entire life since I have been alive… Not vote for anyone.
You should at least make your voice heard and write in “none of the above”.
Vote for John Galt. Only Aryan Supermen with cash register eyes can save us. The prophetess Ayn Rand said as much.
“As far as I can tell”
Translation: “The media tells me and I believe”
Peak Oil is Officially Here!
World oil production peaked November of 2018
Posted on March 24, 2024 by energyskeptic
“Preface. When I first published this post in February of 2022, I said that peak world oil production might have arrived, but it takes 5 years in the rear-view mirror to call it. Now peak “crude oil including lease condensate oil” is officially here! Production was less in November 2023 than the peak of global oil production in November 2018. See for yourself at the U.S. Energy Information Administration site here.” ~ energyskeptic.com
We’re right at the door. They might be able to prop up total liquid production a few years more, then downplay initial decline a few extra years; then, downward slide.
I felt it was important enough to email our host about it.
Why not huge oil slick slides at amusement parks as a way to teach kids about oil?
Disposable clothes provided of course so as not to upset the moms.
Lol.
Remember, too, that that report includes Fracking.
Are there other technologies to pull oil out of rock?
The world seems unable already to come up with an equivalent Rin/Rout to oil by orders of magnitude.
We are going to see some major changes coming and soon. JHK’s prophecies are going to accelerate. The global battle for resources is going to accelerate. Civil wars inside countries unable to supply energy are going to accelerate. The standard of living throughout the world is going to decline and quickly in the underdeveloped areas due to competition.
Ukraine and Gaza? You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.
With partial reference to your comment immediately below, we’ve doubtless read how TPTB are ‘not concealing their corruptions as much anymore’: But if they’re aware of Peak Oil and by implication its implications, which they no doubt are, then that sort of ‘antinormative’ behaviour might in some way stand to reason in increasingly ‘nothing to lose’ contexts.
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“Theories of deindividuation propose that it is a psychological state of decreased self-evaluation and decreased evaluation apprehension causing antinormative and disinhibited behavior. Deindividuation theory seeks to provide an explanation for a variety of antinormative collective behavior, such as violent crowds, lynch mobs, etc. Deindividuation theory has also been applied to genocide…” ~ Wikipedia
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So you could be only too right insofar as ‘You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.’.
Rollercoaster rides are usually happy things…
In case anyone is wondering why the US is so determined to take over Russia, which still has oil and gas.
You’d have to be a blithering idiot to think it’s about “democracy”.
But they can’t stop, won’t stop, until they get that oil, or kill the world trying.
Just a comment.
The Kennedy family is defending Biden and excoriating RFK.Jr.
Something is up inside the crime picture in this country.
We know Bidens are working the crime scene utilizing his office since he was a Senator. How else do you get so rich from a low paying job.
Kennedy’s became rich being a bootlegger in Prohibition. He bought the DC scene for his family. His son’s betrayal of a pact between the Irish Mob in Boston and the Italian Mob in Chicago is one of the theories of JFH’s demise and one supported by Sam Giancana’s brother himself in a book.
The VP choice is from California, one of the main centers for the Latino Mob. Its political malfeasance is notorious and its role in the illicit trades is also.
So what is RFK, Jr. up to? As crime is a primary part of the American economy now, is he stirring the pot looking for a weak spot to move into legitimacy? Or does he legitimately believe that Biden is a very bad soul running this country and just wants him pushed out.
I wonder how much of the crime scene Trump has been involved in? Seems to me that none of the things the Left has thrown at him involves the illicit trade, quite the contrary, they are defending their own criminal turf from someone who wants to tear them apart. Is RFK, Jr. on the same wavelength?
Most of them (the Kennedys who deride Bobby)derive their income from the Biden administration, in one way or another.
Reminds me of the Roosevelt’s, TR being a Republican, FDR a Democrat; both had large families and they were never able to reconcile.
Someone here with amnesia said something about “the rule of law.”
Do you mean our lawless rulers or did all the other recent planned distractions overtake the memory of COVID?
Most are living in the illusion that is built and maintained by these rulers. Why do you suppose they’re disarming the rabble? Because we are ruled by force and what is happening in Canada, us in it’s way.
The idea that the Toronto Police could tell people to leave their key fobs and keys in their front door for the car thieves is the dark insanity and ignorance they are foisting on that crowd up there
If the Rulers of lawlessness were disarmed then maybe they’d behave. We’d then be ruling them by the end of the barrel of a gun.
Tucker asked Swallwell why his bodyguards were allowed to have better guns than he could have and Tucker said, “are you more important than my family”, The a
State’s spokesperson laughed and called that ridiculous because it’s obvious they’re more important and depend on a stupid mass of citizenry entraining to the States narrative.
It’s just like the polls they’re running. Remember the theatre of Hillary vs Trump? It was a show
“You’re fired!”…. No, how about “You’re going to jail”>
Yes, you are basically watching a tv show or movie if you will. I can see you are really liking it. And I think you’ve had a little too much popcorn. You know popcorn is not all that great for you don’t you?
and I admit, it is a scene I would like to see too
Screw jail treason is a crime one can be put on a wall and shot or hung for.
I am wanting to invest in a rope company and telephone pole company.
That or tar, feathers and rails.
Prior to either of these events I believe a good solid week in the stocks with people pummeling them with rotted fruit and vegetables is in order.
Public shaming for misdeeds really does work.
Shame shame shame!
Voting? Why? If I were to vote, do you really believe TPTB will stay up all night wondering why BTB voted for so and so? Even if a million voted my way, the tyranny of large numbers will insure that they would only make a passing notice.
It may seem odd that I would say it, given my history with Jarek, but I think he is correct in wanting to only grant certain qualified
individuals the right to vote. The big question is defining ‘qualified’. Generally, people have a distressing lack of discernment and are easily manipulated.
i know part of the answer at least (giggle giggle)
There was a funeral yesterday at a landmark Catholic church in the NY capital region, and on the roof of the building next to the church, the church hall maybe, there were National Guardsmen holding ‘long guns’.
Voting? Why? If I were to vote, do you really believe TPTB will stay up all night wondering why BTB voted for so and so? Even if a million voted my way, the tyranny of large numbers will insure that they would only make a passing notice.
It may seem odd that I would say it, given my history with Jarek, but I think he is correct in wanting to only grant certain qualified
individuals the right to vote. The big question is defining ‘qualified’. Generally, people have a distressing lack of discernment and are easily manipulated.
Bill
Voting has a direct connection to your middle fingers which become armed and aimed towards Washington, DC.
Like the Muslims and Mecca.
Who’s funeral was it?
One of the National Guard members who were in a helicopter crash in Texas.
He’d been a state trooper too, so there were many police on hand.
Ah ok I see. Well I wonder if it was a way of honoring him then to have those guardsmen standing nearby with the the long guns? Or you think it was overkill?
The return of both blm and antifa is being manifested as well as third world marxists clamoring for Palestine.
Engineered chaos is coming back with frozen water bottles, bricks, looting and fires everywhere.
I wish someone would go after the financers of this mayhem starting with Schwartz György and son being divested of their billions via lawfare like they are pulling on Trump.
I’ll have to look up this Schwartz individual. Thanks for the lead!
Beryl, the secret about those M-4s Guardsmen are carrying is they don’t have any bullets. And even if they did have ammo they couldn’t shoot anyone anyway. Also, they don’t have the power of arrest; the most they can do if they witness a crime is call local police. It’s all theatre, all for show.
Also Beryll, are you sure they weren’t part of a city police sniper team dressed up in their tactical gear? Even around this small town sometimes you see local cops dressed up like their ready to engage the enemy in Fallujah.
BRH they were Guardsmen.
If local police were up there with guns you’d figure a crime had happened.
That’s why it was so strange to see the Guard.
Yes but outside a church at a funeral?
Something was up. One time I was at a public shooting range in southern Ct. At the next station 4 squared away guys showed up with some pretty nice gear and guns. I started talking with them, they showed an interest in the two old Winchesters I was shooting. Turns out they were part of a tactical team in Long Island City. They had to qualify once a month, their local range was closed for some reason, so they drove up to Ct to get their range time. I was listening to their conversation, they were talking about a recent detail they were on protecting someone who had murdered a kid in their city. Apparently they were posted as snipers in strategic locations around the courthouse. One of them said “I felt like shooting that sonsabitch myself.”
I don’t know about issuing firearms with no bullets, but I do know every American citizen has the power to arrest.
How does one arrest thousands of people when there are only a hundred of you?
As far as sniper teams go, I do know the cartel/corrupt policia was sniping at border patrol from across Mexico, so a couple of sniper teams went down and popped a few heads off shoulders and that nonsense stopped really quick.
latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-jul-14-mn-12527-story.html
They don’t admit we fought fire with fire, but we did and have done so off and on till recently.
Ben, in NYCM not only did Guardsmen show up with no ammo, after about a week of patrolling the subways the Governor took away their rifles. Apparently officers were allowed to retain their sidearms.
The military is for show of force only.
Like the Federalistas in Mexico.
The war, the civil war starts when the are armed, in Texas and elsewhere,
When you meet a rich divorcee and she wants to give you a bunch of money for your campaign, and you need the money really bad because getting on all the ballots is very expensive, but she wants something in return for all that money, isn’t that what selling out is?
I haven’t followed the story so glad you are so you can inform us. Wow that is not going to be a good look. I hope that is not the case but it does seem awfully sus.
Think!
RFK, Jr. with his work against the Covid debacle has established himself with the anti-Deep State crowd. Just like on the blog, because he called out the Dems on that issue he is a good Conservative. No.1. That is bullshit.
Now he has reached out beyond the Biden and Obama crime groups, including his own family, and has welcomed the Progressives with the selection of a rich, female San Francisco Progressive donor to be VP.
This man is sly and like Trump, a lot smarter than he is given credit for. Watch, Trump will come after him first during the campaign.
Is his eye on 2024 or 2028? Remember the GOP in 1856.
I didn’t want to say it, having too much respect for women. But now it is said.
Janos – A+, you’ve been doing your homework. You’ve been seeing the benefits, I hope.
Bwahahahaha, Jarek. You so funny.
I saw a tweet which said she’s onboard with the autism thing he has spent so many years working on.
I think it’s better to pick someone you agree with, rather than do a Pence thing, and get backstabbed.
Even someone who agrees with you can be turned to back stab you.
I suspect Pence knew the Democrats were resorting to lawfare and wanted nothing to do with it.
Benr
The RINOs fear the Deep State uniparty because they can destroy their political careers. Right now, the Deep State controls everything everywhere, they dictate terms. They destroyed Trump’s political inertia in his first term. Right now, there are about a half dozen conservative GOP types in the House that are fighting the Uniparty, and that is about it.
True Conservatives right now remind me of the Hebrews prior to Christ waiting for a Messiah to destroy the Romans. They got Jesus as a paramount peacemaker. They destroyed him. So they thought.
Today it is the Patriots and Trump. I am not equating Trump and Jesus at all, but I am equating the Hebrews expectations and the Patriots.
Remember what happened? Jesus’ Word converted the Romans.
Pence was an evangelical mistake by Trump Along with many of his selections for office. His problem, his ego made him think he could make a deal with all the RINO Deep State element in DC.
Next time, he needs to throw out all the Deep State RINO element and bring in Patriots only. Hmmm, to do this, he has to get the Senate, right? Also, to start getting the one-sided judicial system back to neutral, he needs the Senate. Trump IS NOT the only solution here.
But to even think about voting for a Deep State bum, especially any Democrat, makes me nauseous.
Pence rapes little boys.
Empty yourselves of yourselves, of your desires, of your very limited thoughts, of your own will, so that you can receive My Will in you, so that you place it in the center of your being.
My Will is Me in your souls.
mdm.faith/do-not-reject-my-gift/
This is interesting. A religious community in Texas has defied orders of the bishop to stop the messages by divine order.
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Jar, gr8 ecosophia link yesterday.
That is so interesting thank you for sharing. Here very recently I continue to receive a message that I need to undergo an ego death. I pray I am receiving this message from Him.
For shore it’s HIM
spiritualdirection.com/2024/01/31/whats-your-root-sin
Do it fast star, so you don’t fool yourself.
The Nordic Christ? He is said to have been tall with reddish hair by a Roman who saw him.
The Semites had a strong taboo about talking about physical appearance. It went with their no human or god statues or images.
Some say it’s was a reaction against themselves; a way of curbing their own passionate nature.
Jesus appears as the perfect specimen of the humanity he appears to, ergo black Christ in Africa, Nordic in the Nord, etc.
Yah, our propensity to idolatry….
Ecosophia’s take down of Harrari and co. Was epic!……A bad 50’s sci fi plan. Lol!
So he incarnated in the Black race too? Or he didn’t incarnate but rather just “appeared” to different groups. The Mormons say he came to the Americas as a Nordic White Man but you say as an Indian.
And on the planet of intelligent spiders, does He appear or incarnate as the perfect spider?
He like spiders, right ani? Can you worship him in this form?
To Indians He appears Indian, to Mormons, their ideal. I cannot speak to spiders.
I am speaking of apparition like Fatima.
You are a wolf howling for God. Surely you will be answered……
https://nypost.com/2024/03/24/us-news/high-school-volleyball-coach-jason-maser-dies-by-suicide-following-student-rape-accusations/
22. What is a 22 year old man doing coaching girl’s volleyball? A seven year difference in age – utterly monstrous! He deserved to die and he killed himself. Perfect justice, right?
Meanwhile (paraphrasing Anglin) the kooky police bitch who did the whole department claimed she was “groomed” (at age 30) and has been awarded 500,000 dollars. Groomed? Then why not criminal charges?
Age isn’t the salient factor, but sex. Women are always right thus men must always be wrong.
Maybe at a high level of women’s sports, an older male coach might make sense and be appropriate. But in general, we need to separate the sexes far more than we do now. It’s simply being compassionate to both sexes and avoiding tragedies like a young man feeling that he had to walk in front of a train because he made a terrible mistake.
Fame makes a lot of things ok. Was it Jerry Lee Lewis who married his 14 year old cousin? Mary loved his music but wouldn’t respond when I asked her about this. In any case, no star would get away with it now. We’ve changed in this regard, but for the better? Or just different?
Yes. She was actually 13. It destroyed his career a few months later.
Yes that’s worse, getting into ephebe (adolescent) territory.
Read a few issues of Navy Times. Women serve aboard US Navy Ships, which since the beginning of time has been forbidden by previous navies for many valis reasons. Not a week goes by where these poor male sailors are facing court martial for one sexual indiscretion or another. And it’s not just lower enlisted either, many PO1 & Chiefs get nailed too. A few years ago the CO of a DDG had a young female E-5 Yoeman., apparently a leggy brunette, shacking up with him in the Captains Quarters, underway at sea (IOW, serving underneath the Caprain in various positions) Of course he was Court Martialed.
A buddy of mine was on a nuke sub. He said that every female on the ship ended up pregnant.
Son of a gun.
What branch of US MILITARY made recruits stand buck naked holding their rifles and repeat the following ditty to all passerbys after confusing the two?
This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for shooting
This is for fun.
How could it go any other way?
@Jarek
Definitely the US Marine Corps (at least in the past–now with women, in the Corps, who knows).
I would have hoped the US Army also used it.
I did not attend USMC boot camp. But I knew a few marines who were about my age and would have gone to boot camp in the late 70s thru late 80s, and they say that the first 30 minutes of “Full Metal Jacket” are pretty good depiction of Basic Training.
Boot Camp in that movie, the first 30 minutes, is among the greatest scenes of all time in any movie. It’s not for children or overly sensitive viewers.
“He said that every female on the ship ended up pregnant”
Pregnant? Is that a nautical term for torpedoed?
People gonna people.
Lots of opportunity for problems.
There was a major prostitution ring on a few of these ships where after a six month cruise some of these ladies had 10 grand in cash and a bunch of them were knocked up.
Wow. What a Navy, huh?
Well, as a former sailor, I would put forth that long cruises away from home are very depressing and lonely. I would expect young women, probably separated from family for the first time, to be extremely subject to this, it is a bitch for males too.
Looking for “love” in all the wrong places becomes a have to have for most folks after months at sea. You cannot lock every one up. I would expect most encounters to be consensual, but it sounds like the male component is taking the judicial hit. The gals are probably discharged, under honorable conditions, along with their offspring. I do not know.
The world was not insane when I served.
“The gals are probably discharged, under honorable conditions, along with their offspring”
John,
I would expect, then, that among the men there are regular “dishonorable discharges”?
Or general discharges.
Think though, a Dishonorable Discharge used to be a stigma that stood out in American society and affected the recipient for life.
In our current dishonorable society, no one cares.
JAZ, a DD is like a felony conviction, Can’t vote, cannot own a firearm lose all your veterans benefits, disqualified from further govt employment. DDs are pretty rare tho, you have to do something particularly egregious to get one. I never knew anybody who got one.
John,
The “dishonorable discharge” I referenced has nothing to do with the military….
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Well said. But some will always be better at any of these than others, and you may want the best even if you could do it yourself. Who has the time to became a master of all of these? Or the time to do them all even at a minimum level of expertise?
Specialization is for people too, Bob.
Bob wanted to eliminate the border with Mexico as per his libertarian bent. Thus Bob served the nascent Blob unknowingly.
“I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them. If I find them obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
-Robert Heinlein
Heinlein obviously never served a bid in Federal Prison.
Jarek,
Hmmm.
I never changed a diaper…but serviced the wife’s ostomy bags for one year.
Butchered maybe a dozen hogs, as well as cattle, and sheep, deer, bear.
Design a bldg…designed and built several walls as well.
Write a sonnet? I may have. “There once was a man from Nantucket,,,”
Doing my own corporate taxes count towards balancing an account?
I did comfort a dying wife.
Did not take orders well, but gave them out like a motherfucker.
I have not set a bone, other than my own, and, sadly, I have yet to die, gallantly or otherwise.
Oh, and the manure thing…yeah, I live in cow country.
Arm yourselves with true faith… The Angels will soon sound their trumpets
Fire of heaven will come to consume the trees, the grass and the third part of all life (Rev. 8:6); and then the earth itself will revolt, not according to the alarmist rhetoric of false environmentalists who ignore God and His laws, but according to the revelations I Myself made to My beloved apostle John
jesusmariasite.org/5742-arm-yourselves-with-true-faith-the-angels-will-soon-sound-their-trumpets/
MA finally has some potentially good news for gold. FWIW:
“I have been warning for years that gold does NOT respond to the BS of inflation and fiat currency nonsense. Gold responds to geopolitical events because it is NEUTRAL, and the government spends money ten times faster during the war. Gold is still in the process of making a channel move, and we are heading into April, and this can get tricky. If gold gets through the $2300 level on a closing basis, then we could test the $2500 level in April, all on the back of geopolitical uncertainty. Back in 1980, gold virtually doubled in the last six weeks because Russia invaded Afghanistan.”
Russia says US, Britain & Ukraine were behind the Terrorist Attack
armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/russia-says-us-britain-ukraine-were-behind-the-terrorist-attack/
“… the government spends money ten times faster during the war.”
Given the current circumstances, aren’t we faced with an even more extreme event?
If you knew that the US$ was going to be worth half as much tomorrow, would it be prudent to take on US$ debt with the idea of being able to service it with confetti currency?
If debt is increased, does that support the US$?
It would be helpful to climb inside Mike Johnson’s head and have a look at things from his perspective. Was the above explained to him in no uncertain terms, essentially that it was a use it or lose it situation?
Could it be that the funds earmarked for nonsense are infusions targeting banks on the brink?
Has NYCB been a test case?
gold prices set by shorts on crimex comex….same with silver…a years production shorted in seconds or in the wee hours.
why do people buy gold when the uncertainty is halfway round the globe?
Step (1) Get out of US Bonds, Step (2) Get out of US$.
What are the escape options?
Stock Market
Inventory
Business
Real Estate
Gold
Silver
Fund a Mining Operation?
“a years production shorted in seconds” Any chance this could be producers locking-in prices; or a lender protecting a development loan (I have a mineral deposit worth $100M at current value, and it will cost me $90M to get it.). How about a producer outright funding the project?
How long do you think that short will stand when the $US collapses?
“How long do you think that short will stand when the $US collapses?”
That short will be long gone by the time the $US collapses.
All you have to do is study the situation in Argentina.
HAS ARMSTRONG EVER MADE A CORRECT PREDICTION?
Somewhere around 2008 he was predicting that the POG would decline, while gold bugs were banging on their drums clamoring “to da moon”.
Well, it turns out that there is more than one perspective from which to look at a situation.
You are Japan, and the US government tells you that they are going to impose tariffs unless you balance the trade deficit. One solution: Buy gold in NY and sell it in London. What do you think that does for the $US POG?
crimex comex essentially equals human nature. If gold is worth more in US$ than in British Pounds, crimex comex will fix the problem.
This is why WEF Klaus Schwab says “all nations must participate”. Could this be the reason for war with Russia (Putin, like Trump, wants to MRGA. The problem is that MAGA has a jalopy to work with, while Russia is at the dawn of capitalism)?
My read is that MA is basing his calls on technical analysis and an understanding of the market and the various players gaming the system.
So, in this instance, whether he is aware of the shorts on crimex comex you point out (I assume he is), “if gold gets through the $2300 level on a closing basis” will indicate greater demand than supply, and then TA resistance will be at “the $2500 level in April”.
I’d venture a guess that > 90% of the gold bugs are flying blind.
So, the question is: Was today the month end close for gold, or will it be tomorrow?
By the way, Putin is also a victim of his ideological indoctrination:
The idea that everything and everyone can be blanketed by something called Russia is beyond outrageous.
You want to talk insanity? You don’t know insanity.
Humans are a tragic species.
Or some of them, through their blankets, are trying to make it so.
Zanzibar
Hmm, do you think that Putin has reached that point, that Russia will control everything in the world?
Maybe, he, along with his cohorts in BRICS++. Are just dying to figure out how to tear down the “world power” of the USA.
Then. Russ and China will have to figure out who is top dog.
“To accumulate wealth, power, or land beyond one’s needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.” ~ Bill Mollison, ‘Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual, second ed.’
In a world where everyone will ‘own nothing and be happy’, power is the only thing that will have any value.
“Admin
…is the janitor, the cop, the mayor, the judge and sometimes even the forum doctor who tends to Warriors injured in battle – in other words, Nanny on steroids. Because he runs the forum and sets the rules Admin has the power to pull the plug on any Warrior who gets a little too frisky. Sometimes his efforts are appreciated, but like any authority figure he is also resented – especially by Jerk, Evil Clown, Enfant Provocateur, Ego, Rebel Without a Clue, Yuk Yuk, Troller, and other Warriors who would like to turn the forum into their personal playground. Most Admins are generally fair and even handed, but the adage that absolute power corrupts absolutely is as true on the internet as it is anywhere else, and it is a rare Admin who can resist bringing the hammer down if seriously pressed by a determined foe. Sycophant and other suckups will also attach themselves to a strong Admin to form a defensive perimeter around him, and more often than not Admin’s enemies will be driven off without him ever having to brandish his ax. CAUTION: Admin is the most powerful of all Warriors and drawing him into direct battle invites almost certain defeat. Rebel Leader does pose a limited threat to Admin’s power by fomenting a revolt and causing forum members to jump ship.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
Toxic Granny
“Warriors often underestimate Toxic Granny’s fighting abilities. She can be very aggressive, and because of the deference paid to the elderly, not only does Toxic Granny easily attract allies to aid in her defense, but her foes are reluctant to employ their strongest weapons against her. Prudent Warriors avoid confrontations with Toxic Granny because there is ignominy in defeat and no glory in victory.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
“Fragile Femme
…is very needy and insecure and regards the discussion forum as her personal support group, and will lash out when her feelings are not “validated” by the others. Fragile Femme will often refer to the forum participants as her “family” and becomes distraught at disharmony of any kind. She regards a minor disagreement with her as devastating personal assaults and will often dissolve into hysteria when confronted. Her hyperactive sense of injury renders her fighting tactics fairly ineffective, but Innocence Abused, Cyber Sisters or Weenie will often spring to her defense.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
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“Artiste
…has an unshakeable faith in his own artistic gifts, and is very pleased to share them with everyone else. Frequently his own insipid poetry will appear in his email signature, and at other times, and to no apparent purpose, he will be overcome with the urge to post a poem in the midst of battle. Artiste, in his need to demonstrate his aesthetic sensitivity and cultural sophistication, will reference obscure artists to drive his point home. He assumes that the mere mention of, say, Pollaiuolo (Italian,1431 –1498), will confirm the breadth of knowledge and thereby cow his opponent in battle. Actually, he is universally regarded as a pretentious blockhead. CAUTION: Artiste often has serious mental problems and, though easily defeated in battle, may be unpredictable in defeat as well as in victory.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
“Archivist
…saves and squirrels away each and every discussion forum message. Do you remember having a bad day back in 1996 when in one of your messages you may have said a few things that were…well, perhaps a little…hasty? Don’t worry, Archivist still has it and will post it to the forum if you begin to get the upper hand in battle. Archivist can be a very effective and fearsome Warrior.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
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“Grammarian
…usually has little to contribute to a discussion and possesses few effective weapons. To compensate, he will point out minor errors in spelling and grammar. Because of Grammarian’s obvious weakness most Warriors ignore him.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
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Compost
“A weak Warrior with few weapons at his disposal Compost flings expletives and vulgarities to keep his opponent at bay. This tactical maneuver can occasionally rout especially sensitive combatants, such as Innocence Abused, but it is generally ineffective against more powerful Warriors. Nanny has little stomach for Compost’s ordure and will quickly ban him from the forum.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
https://endoftheamericandream.com/a-massive-altar-for-the-red-heifer-sacrifice-has-been-constructed-in-israel/
Count down to Armageddon? Years ago Ariel Sharon went up to the Dome of the Rock and told the Muslims that it would be coming down. Recently large numbers of Jewish thugs disrupted Muslim worshipers there. And now this formal preparation for the building of the Temple is being planned before or at Passover – which is in April.
The Muslims will attack from all sides. Israel will be hard pressed. Then the Antichrist, a political genius, will bring peace to the region, allowing the Temple to be built but the Dome of the Rock to remain.
You’re up late. Where’s SoftStarLight?
I slept well last night. I find amethyst and howlite to be the best stones for sleep thusfar.
You need to get a large teddy bear and replace its eyes with the gem you’re using that night.
That’s it. Why not start a company that shapes gems into teddy bear eyes and teddy bears that can bear to be so treated?
lol that’s actually a super cute idea. I’ve been thinking of trying to do my own little business. Maybe I can try it. But then I guess i sorta owe you for the idea. Particularly if it gets to be wildly popular.
That’s not a bad idea.
Both ideas.
Where are the stones placed and for how long?
I usually hold them in my receiving hand as long as I can. Before I fall asleep I just drop them into the bed with me. When I woke up this morning the amethyst stone was basically laying next to me and i said hey! lol
Fair enough. I say hi to the moon sometimes. The way I see it is if we are conscious expressions of the universe, then it seems to stand to reason that it might want to say hi to an aspect of itself. So I allow it that right. 😀
Me: “You what?”
Universe: “I want to say hi to the moon.”
Me: “Again? …Alright fine… (rolls eyes, sighs)…”
I looked up amethyst and howlite. Amethyst is a type of quartz and howlite was discovered in Nova Scotia (here) by someone with last name, How.
Semi-precious stone kitchen countertops can be very nice.
I saw that.
Jarek, there was a story told about parts of this event in the parochial school I attended in 1978.
To see this starting to actually happen is concerning.
NOTE: This message is not taking a side with anything or anyone.
“A Swarm
…hive is almost impossible to detect. When a hapless victim stumbles on a forum that houses a Swarm and disturbs it with an offending message, the Swarm will erupt and fly at their victim from all directions. Taken one at a time the irrelevant, often mindless individual attacks can be easily brushed aside, but because of the sheer volume of the assault even the strongest Warriors must eventually yield. WARNING: Only those who are highly skilled in Swarm management techniques should attempt to wade into a Swarm hive. but even with protective clothing opposing Warriors should expect to suffer a few stings.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
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“In a perpetual personal feud, Duelists
…generally don’t menace anyone but each other, unless, of course, another Warrior foolishly gets between them. They may not even remember what started the fight, but not they cordially loathe one another and seize every to go at each other. When the other Warriors eventually weary of their endless kvetching the Duelists will be shouted down or Nanny will ban them. Even after getting the heave-ho from one forum, however, it is not unusual for them to seeking each other in other forums to renew their fight.” ~ Mike Reed, ‘Flame Warriors’
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flamewarriorsguide.com
He must become the eye of the hurricane, the nucleus of the swarm.
Might work. I’ll be on the outskirts, surveying it with binoculars.
Zaz,
Finish the list…damn your eyes!
“In a perpetual fog of ignorance, ANARCHISTS
…generally are innocuous, but rather irksome posting continually Ad Nauseum, with cut and paste drivel. They cannot win an argument, but continue to try, even without success. Anarchists are usually young and educated, but without life experience, nor wisdom…few have reached sexual maturity, and those that have remain confused and celibate
Invariably speak Canadian.
FLAMERSWARRIORGUIDE.COM
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“kleptocracy
noun [ C ]
uk
…a society whose leaders make themselves rich and powerful by stealing from the rest of the people” ~ Cambridge dictionary
Maybe if you keep advertising your age, you may be considered by some as ‘Toxic Grandpa’, and therefore more or less deferential and off-limits as it were. ^u^
TS1986 said, “Well the Khazarian Mafia runs our country…We can name as many names as we want, but who’s going to remove this group of individuals? Who is going to dismantle and take them apart?”
“But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,
and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob
will reclaim their possession. Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain
from the house of Esau.”
mary.m asked, “What would you have people do?”
Current efforts should be focused on self examination, and correctly identifying [ not labels ~ actions ! ] the parties involved. It is way past time to be polite. Repentance [ changed mind ] is still possible.
godskingdom.org/studies/books/christian-zionism-how-deceived-can-you-get/
I feel like something really big is going to happen soon too. I was listening yesterday to Clif High discuss big events coming in late April and May that will remove the blind folds off the eyes of the normies. And that is when things are going to get really gnarly. Most people don’t really know about the war but by late Spring/early Summer everyone or most people will be aware of the actual war that has been going on.
Zazalle said, “The idea that everything and everyone can be blanketed by something called Russia is beyond outrageous.
Things called democracy or anarchism or Americanism are equally outrageous, being constructs of men.
The future battle is going to. Be one within every single human being. It will be an internal battle between the God given “good” side of each of us and the evil side, Satan given, actually the Man given side.
The balance is going to be crucial as God, per Revelation, is going to put a “Judgement Day” down the road where all the folks that come up short will be exterminated.
Even loving Jesus in his ministry said that the future was going to be a battle between the two, on an individual basis, and those coming up short would not enter the Kingdom. I do not want to imagine the alternative.
The constructs of man will not even be allowed in this judgement, except as a negative.
The alternative will be to live in the kingdom as a citizen [ or servant ] rather than as a king and priest.
Eternal Punishment is against the Law.
“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”
Take counsel together…means to conspire. The wicked are conspiring TOGETHER against the Lord AND HIS ANOINTED. Who are His anointed? Why, that would be GOD’S PEOPLE…those tasked with the responsibility of advancement of HIS Kingdom.”
I must be about my Father’s business. [ a quote ] …
Only anarchism is an un-blanket, practically by its very definition. It essentially says, live and let live.
It is not an imposition by the barrel of a gun.
…over all people, across vast tracts of land.
Comment from a man who worked on ships for many years:
”The pilots have nothing to do with approval for sailing. That is down by a mixture of port state control, the US Coast Guard in this case, and what is called a classification society. The USCG rarely bothers inspecting non US flagged vessels unless their is a serious incident. Classification will likely have given approval to sail after having seen the equipment test run at the dock. From what I saw of the video it looked like the astern bell altered the course of the vessel in a rather predictable manner and the captain fucked up by not giving an ahead bell an continuing down the channel but people panic and make the wrong call sometimes. The ships SVDR will have every helm input, the track of the vessel as well as audio from several microphones around the bridge. The engine room automation system will have all the alarms as well as logs of things like temps, pressures, fuel viscosity and what not. The investigation will be short and easy. I just hope that some dumb bastard did not hit the stop button on the only online generator thinking it was the one that had finished cooling down after they secured the bow thruster. Yes I have seen someone do that.”
I heard someone suggest that the ships computer systems were taken over remotely and that is why the lights on the ship blinked or went off and then came back on.
I blaming this ship collision on the “Usual Suspects”. Keyser Söze immediately springs to mind.
Nice. Ship people seem to lean simple accident on this so far.
Have you been having vivid dreams lately? I went through a long period of having either no dreams or no memory of the dreams I had. Then suddenly in the last few months I’ve been having dreams that were notable enough that I at least remember parts of them. And they are occurring more frequently. And yes, the backrooms have worked their way into my dreams. Last night I dreamed that some of my friends came over but I wasn’t at my house I was at this place which was sort of like an empty warehouse or like a gym or something and there was this upstairs control room where I was working and or living. I’m not really sure. And they came up there and they were fussing at me because they hadn’t heard from me and they felt like I sorta disappeared on them etc. And I was thinking in the back of my mind that if they started wandering around the place they may find the entrance into the backrooms and that would not be a good thing and so I wasn’t going to tell them where it was and then I woke up.
A while back I had a dream that I was in the backrooms and found my way out which basically came through this movie theater and I walked out through the theater into the lobby and this man who was like some weird concierge looked at me in complete disbelief and astonishment and asked me if I had come through the other side of the theater and I said yes. And then I told him I was troubled to the core because I couldn’t find my purse and my phone. I told him that I needed to go back in and see if I could find them. He was bewildered and said you cant go back in there, you’ll be lost forever and you’ll die. And I told him, you don’t understand, I don’t have my phone and I don’t have my ID like I don’t have anything anymore. And he encouraged me to go outside and leave the lobby area. At that time a friend of mine from like back in the day showed up in the lobby and he said come on we need to go the car is right out there. And I could see the car through the window. The lobby was like nothing but windows except for the other side which went into the theater area. And I told him I couldn’t leave because I didn’t have my stuff. And I just remember looking through that theater door into the door that went back to the backrooms and I was thinking I needed to get my stuff but they were telling me I needed to leave the area as soon as possible and I remember being just really distraught and crying. I think at the end I resigned that I couldn’t get my stuff but I hadn’t yet left the lobby.
Yeah, we’re already at a place in our police state where if you don’t carry around your ID, you are screwed.
How handy it will be when our overlords offer us the injectable IDs that you can never lose, because they are implanted into your body.
Apparently wherever I was in dreamland it was a strange thing to be worried about an ID lol. And in my waking consciousness I am even like ok well if it is lost its lost but it was strange. Its like in real life we are all already just tagged cattle but in reality that isn’t how things are supposed to be.
Paula: Your dream analysis is the best I’ve ever seen. You missed your path as a therapist.
SSL: Perhaps our phones and computers ARE the backroom. And if we don’t get out we’ll be lost forever.
ani: I’m reading Henri Nouwen’s “The Return of the Prodical Son”, a study of Christ’s parable using Rembrandt’s painting as applied to ourselves. Are you the younger son (the prodigal) or the dutiful, resentful older son? He began to see both aspects in himself. More confused than ever, a friend told him, In any case, your task is to be the Father (as in spiritual maturity.
The triplicity of id (younger), ego (older) and father (super-ego) but at a much higher level than Freud was capable of.
In the deepest sense, we are all the Prodigal and must return to the home of our Father after a sojourn in this filthy world.
Jar, always thought of myself as the prodigal but as concerns faith, not actions!, I might be the resentful older one, yah.
Wow, id, ego and super ego!
Star should consider those too in interpreting her dreams.
Still rolling in the muck over here Jar. Never heard about being the father before, gr8!
Wiki
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen[pronunciation?] (January 24, 1932 – September 21, 1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian. His interests were rooted primarily in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice and community. Over the course of his life, Nouwen was heavily influenced by the work of Anton Boisen, Thomas Merton, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, and Jean Vanier.
After nearly two decades of teaching at academic institutions including the University of Notre Dame, Yale Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, Nouwen went on to work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at the L’Arche Daybreak community in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Jarek: He didn’t even use the title “Father” before his name on the cover of his book. Very far being a traditional priest. Very liberal. But it is a deep book and he obviously loved God. Certainly not a Satanist, but perhaps a free seeker or universalist, practicing in the Catholic faith.
Yeah that is a very interesting take. Like it did really seem like my purse my phone etc were associated with a level of existence I wasn’t going to be able to get back to. It’s a little upsetting for me. I always imagined that i would be super gung ho about ascending to a new spiritual plane or level of existence. Instead it was like I was really struggling. I mean when I was crying I remember like crying loud which seemed exaggerated but it was just really strange.
All buildings are your person in dreams, conscious, subconscious, etc. So a basement would be things you don’t even know about yourself.
A theatre? Maybe it’s what you project for the world to see.
Keys, i.d., (the id?), you’ve lost yourself. Id and keys are identity.
Maybe you lost your true self to your chosen projection to the world.
All vehicles are the path of life, life itself, the journey.
You can stay where you are in the theatre or lobby, or you can get the hell out and live.
And all ppl in dreams are aspects of yourself.
Thank you for these insight, ani! You’re interpretation is sorta following the conversation we had yesterday when I was mentioning this message I’ve been receiving about allowing the ego to die. I do remember a flash of a thought in the dream where I was looking outside and it looked like fresh and I was thinking about breathing in the fresh air. But I was so distraught it was just a fleeting moment. And now that I am talking about it more I do remember being glad that the car was there but I wasn’t sure how I could bring myself to go out and get in. I wasn’t thinking of the theater or building but I really wanted my phone mainly and then my purse and wallet and debit card and just like all the stuff I have in my purse back too. And it was literally insane. I was weighing getting lost and death versus getting my stuff.
My friends were super unhappy with me but my friend in the theater dream seemed like real patient and just said come on my car is right there and we can go.
Dreamy, the Indians (arrow), said that we learn more in the dreamtime, than we do in the waking. It’s true.
Forms of ID are representations of who we are – fictions. Fear of losing documents is one thing – fear of losing one’s identity is another thing entirely.
Yours is valuable and magical – don’t ever lose it. Defend it at all costs.
No pictures exist of Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux. He never allowed them – knowing they were trying to capture his soul – his identity. He understood.
He defended his identity at the cost of his life. Never defeated in battle but murdered when he “came in” for his people’s sake. The Sioux Christ.
Very interesting take and information Ron, thank you! It’s good to “see” you and hear your thoughts. At the base level of things I was thinking my OCD was kicking in because I can’t stand when things are lost and can’t be found etc. lol.
In your last sentence’s regard, upthread, Jarek may have the right idea in.an adaptive-reuse kind of way WRT repositioning oneself within the eye of the hurricane, if one can’t get out of the way. and tracking oneself always within it as it moves until it dissipates.
My inner Zenmaster might approve that too.
…But in any case, I hear you. Often it’s best to just be an empathetic ear, yes?
i’m always appreciative of conversing with an empathetic ear. That sounds like a good strategy. I am more of a toe dipper. I dip my toe into the fray here and there and then I get up and leave the pool area to see what’s going on with the rest of the party. Sometimes I like to splash a lot of water in people’s faces when stuff gets on my nerves so sometimes I have to run and hide lol :0)
Cute. ^u^
Ultimately, everyone has their own strategies, such as to cope. There’s no one-size-fits-all or blanket solutions.
@Ron:
What’s the status of the Polish family’s work on the gigantic Crazy Horse carving out of a mountain? I was quite taken by the effort, but I haven’t heard about it for years.
Tulsi Gabbard never agreed to be a Young Leader for the WEF.
Who did? Jacinda Adern, for one, who became “the youngest prime minister” of New Zealand in over a century,
We remember Jacinda for her zealous adoption and implementation of draconian covid regulations.
Then there was Maia Sandu, the president of Moldovia, who used her position to persecute Russians in the country, and provoke Russia by threatening Transnistria.
And there is the Dancing (and snorting) Queen, Sanna Marin, the youngest prime minister in Finnish history, who distinguished herself by giving up 80 years of Finland’s peace and prosperity in order to enter NATO.
Apparently, there are enough idiotic Finns to go along with this. I guess they’ll never learn.
In any case, those are three examples of young good-looking women picked to be Young Leaders who enthusiastically agreed, and were rewarded with leading their respective countries into repression and war.
The key word is not women, it is young.
How can we expect young people with little experience to be able to make major global level decisions?
That is my major problem with having younger people in those positions.
JFK made many novice and wrong decisions before maturing into the office, mostly regarding Cuba. The Missile crisis grew him up quick.
nz tranny czar.
@JohnAZ
To be fair it’s not like these old fucks we have running things right now are doing any better than these cock sucking failed young women that Paula brought up. There are a lot of uneducated idiots running things today and age hardly have anything to do with it. Soros have more experience than anyone, and look what that old decrepit bastard have achieved.
Also major credit must be acknowledged to the wise counsel of Ambassador Dobrynin, who urged decisiveness: “Mr. President, we must conclude this matter quickly before it escalates, and the no one will care what politicians have to say about the matter”.
(Meanwhile LeMay was urging Kennedy to go for it. Insane.)
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/us-news/tiktokkers-report-being-punched-by-strangers-in-nyc/
Is it just one freak who doesn’t like women using phones? If so, why do the women and/or the media refuse to give a description? Plenty of cameras around too (Manhattan), so why not videos?
The perp or perps must belong to a protected and powerful group. So perhaps either Chinese or Jewish. The perp always apologizes before he punches. That sounds like the a China boy who doesn’t like Western women. Or maybe a hapa with a White mother.
As Alex Jones says, the Chinese control Hollywood and God knows what else.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xoNMWHb2xjQ
Fully ascended? Or descended?
omg its effing me. I mean I don’t dress that cray but still. I promise i didn’t vote for Joe Biden. They said this eclipse season was going to be extreme for people, especially sensitives. This stuff is really getting out there and I am so like out of my comfort zone right now. I’m going to be praying and meditating ultra at this point.
Peak Oil + Eclipse + Election Year + Stagflation + Proxy Wars = ?
shtf ??
Yet the Dow is almost at 40,000. Go figure.
Benignly Manhandled
I have gone and figured and mention this kind of thing 10 years ago at POB (peakoilbarrel.com/jeans-post/#comment-445700).
Especially note the bold:
“At that time, David Fridley, an expert on oil economics, worked under Chu. In an interview given in 2009, Fridley claims, ‘[Steven Chu] was my boss…He knows all about peak oil, but he can’t talk about it. If the government announced that peak oil was threatening our economy, Wall Street would crash. He just can’t say anything about it.’ It is interesting to note that Chu based his projections for peak oil on the calculations of Colin Campbell, an expert oil industry geologist, who supposedly based his estimates on the confidential data of the consulting firm Information Handling Services (IHS)… The data and estimates of IHS on the global oil reserves are significantly less than those published in the public domain…
~ Tariel Morrigan, ‘Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization: The Current Peak Oil Crisis’ “
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When ‘our’ ‘handlers’ aren’t letting us in on things, we are being ‘manhandled’.
Onward and upward…
No wait, downward…
Wait, no, upward…
Too many tattoos yet still undeniably sexy. I sense you are more grounded than her, though
you probably wish that you too were free to hang out in Peru near the Pyramids.
If the Doctorow, Helmer, and Paul Craig Roberts interpretations of the Crocus attacks are anywhere close to accurate, we may now be in a situation similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
To get some idea of public opinion in Russia, as a consequence of Crocus, Konstantin Malofeyev (owner of a media group in Moscow) stated on March 27 that “…They struck at us, at our civilians, moreover, in the very center of our Homeland. This is an act of war. It needs to be answered as we have said many times. It must finally be answered with the massive real use of weapons that will allow us to win this war. We must give the civilian population (in the Ukraine) 48 hours to leave the cities and then strike with all our might. Then the war will end quickly, which means that the sponsorship of terrorist attacks will stop.”
Also on March 27, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB (the Federal Security Bureau–similar to our FBI),
said in an interview on Russian state television that “…standing behind the terror attack committed by Islamist extremists are the United States, Great Britain and Ukraine.” So the head of Russian domestic security has named the U.S., Great Britain, and Ukraine as the puppet masters of the terror act.
Paul Craig Roberts has further noted that Putin has (over the past two years) been quite low key to Washington provocations so as not to inflame the situation. But Roberts now seems to feel that a red line may have been crossed.
Doctorow adds that the head of the FSB was given a green light (by Putin) to identify to the Russian people, that Washington is now a key suspect.
Will Crocus light the fuse for World War III?
Could be. After 9-11 the USA went to war for 20 years. Reading RT this afternoon, Russia is trying hard to link the Crocus attack to Kiev, the CIA, the Mossad, and MI5. On the other hand, a memo issued by ISIS-K describes this as an assault on White Christians… the possibility exists they see all of us — French, English, Germans, Ukrainians, Americans — as the hated infidel. At the same time a bomb was detonated today in Pakistan killing a bunch of Chinese engineers. ISIS-K has also set off bombs in Iran. It’s a complex situation and I hope Russia would let tensions die down a little bit before it jumps to conclusions and lashes out against the world.
@BackRowHeckler
Terrorist groups especially Muslim ones are hard as hell to eradicate. They are like cartels, once they are gone a new one springs up. The only way to do away with them is kill the leaders off before they all have the opportunity to recruit and grow. Do this enough and it might be possible to put an end to them for good. American Gov on the other hand creates some of these terror groups themselves and then try to pretend they are shocked and disturbed by their fucked up acts when they instruct them to carry them out somewhere. It’s sickening.
The thing is TS, we’ve been trying to isolate Russia with sanctions and over the top rhetoric (calling for Putins assassination etc) and also with terrorist acts of our own like damaging the Kerch Bridge and blowing up the pipeline. After this Crocus attack Russia could be feeling mighty skittish and vengeful right now. Russia could do a lot of damage like eradicate entire cities. Putin is nobody to be trifled with, which is the reason we should be talking with him, not providing another $60 billion to prolong the war and kill Russian more soldiers.
One of many reasons why the current administration must go.
Another day of rain here, a growing lake in my backyard, a mysteriously missing yellow orb in the gray, foreboding sky. Who says the climate isn’t changing? It’s been this way for going on 2 years. I tell you it’s depressing without the sun. It’s a good thing I take 2000
Mg daily of vitamin D. I’m also getting tired of my IPad posting before I’m done commenting, like now. Obviously, I’m grouchy today, as if no one has noticed.
You know what they say: When the going makes for grouchiness, the grouchy go to Foxwoods. So I’m going there on April17th for a few days. Believe it or not, I’m grateful I can do this. Hopefully the world will let me go. It’s something to look forward to.
My wife had her monthly chemo yesterday and she’s doing great, and looks and feels great. They’re talking about her going down to once every two months for one of her injections, and every two months meeting her oncologist (she has been taking 2 meds monthly since she started her therapy). It’s all because her endocrinologist caught her myeloma early and probably saved her life, such that she appears to have smoldering multiple myeloma with no organ damage. Both my wife and I love her.
Now that I’ve just written this, I feel better and not grouchy. Who gives a shit about the sun hiding behind the clouds? I know it’s still there doing its job.
Foxwoods casino? Are you in Connecticut? If so, that’s just a breaststroke from me in Nova Scotia. Rainy up here too, but not too outside the norm.
My best to your wife.
Beantownbill is my handle for obvious reasons. Thank you for mentioning my wife.
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You always love to gamble, Bill! Glad your wife is doing better too. I hope the universe grants you a bit of enjoyment and cheerfulness.
Life is a game with very long odds for having occurred in the first place, so I feel it’s not a stretch to gamble.
See what you made me do, SSL – be philosophical so late in the evening?
I hope the first thing they do when Bankman-Fried checks into prison is give him a crew cut.
In any case I predict he will not serve 25 years.
It always amazes me how people can speak glowingly of freedom yet then want to coerce other people if they express their freedom differently than the one who determines how freedom should be exercised.
You’re not digging the fro, Q? You’re a hairist!!
A sign that I saw recently:
Due to the labour shortage, long-haired freaky people can now apply.
If there’s a labour shortage, why not use some of those useless illegals they love so fking much?
They’re just doing jobs that Americans won’t do (for wages that couldn’t support a lower middle class family even if they had seven wage earners.)
Libertarians will pat you on the back and assure you that, even though all the families in your neighborhood are falling apart, you can take solace in the fact that several Indian families saw a 4% increase in their gross wages. This proves that, overall, capitalism is producing positive results. Your cousin, who used to support his family as a programmer, put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. While that is unfortunate, Sanjay has assumed your cousin’s work, and he and his family in Bhopal are actually doing quite well. Net-Net, all positive results.
Oh that’s exciting! How much are they paying by the hour, OG?
From what is understood at least WRT some sentences in some places is two-thirds the sentence and then there’s out and/or eligibility for parole. So 17.5 years? Less time for good behaviour, keeping the hair, grammar and punctuation neat and trim?
Agreed. He’ll get out early due to “overcrowding” or ” good behavior” and it’ll probably be like Paulie’s first prison stint in Goodfellas. The guards bring in lobsters, caviar, and expensive wine, and he’s basically at a Four Seasons. During Epstein’s earlier sentence, he was allowed out during the day and was allowed to have his harem visit whenever he wanted.
@Q:
I knew a guy who was once in prison with a short sentence. When I said to him that his time as a prisoner wasn’t bad, he said that even one day in the slammer was way too much.
My three cents (inflation):
I doubt there’s any foul play, at least WRT some kind of deliberate ‘economic controlled demolition’, regarding the bridge because Peak Oil, now apparently confirmed, is and will be slowly demolishing the economy anyway. If anything, TPTB will likely be making assorted attempts to assuage that demolition.
Who cares about SBF… He will get a pardon by the big guy.
Today I worry about the fleet of military ships that are now stuck in the Baltimore harbor. These ships are our first line of go to war supply ships.
Too bad FJB wasn’t in D.C. today trying to figure out how to clear the harbor. Putin and XI love this.
Also keep in mind these ships also respond to local disasters.
Maybe things will improve when the Sec of Transportation finishes doing diapers and bottles!
In Blob We Trust. It dawned on me that trust is like an unseen social credit score system. Functional social structures cannot survive without sufficient inputs of trust. It doesn’t matter how wealthy or advanced the structure is. A simple disruption at the quantum level can disrupt the macro reality. And so it seems to be another reason why scaled down social arrangements are likely a better idea. Not sure where that came from but you needed to hear it. Good night!!