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Wondering about who the Harvard Board of Trustees might consider for president of that august outfit once Claudine Gay moves to her new professorship in the graduate program for creative writing? The no-brainer, in more ways than one, has got to be Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, launched in 2020, then un-launched in September, 2023, after BU auditors disclosed that $43-million in donations, endowments, and grants to the center could not be accounted for.
Mistakes were made, BU conceded, mostly by white people seeking to discredit the antiracism movement, proving the persistence of structural racism. Dr. Kendi explained to The New York Times that critics were using the situation “to settle old scores and demonstrate that I’m a problem or that antiracism is a problem,” because blaming the victim is one of the core techniques of those behind structural racism. “Unfortunately, we live in such a polarized, spiteful sort of reactionary moment,” he said.
Surely, the firing of President Gay at Harvard was just such a case of spitefully settling old scores, and Dr. Kendi is the best-qualified candidate to root out the remaining reactionary racists on Harvard’s payroll, who pose the gravest threat to democracy, hate-speech elimination, and equity in academia. We could expect President Kendi to double-down on the institution’s commitment to advancing marginalized people at all costs. Also, consider: Boston U is less than a mile across the Charles River from Harvard, so at least no moving costs to get Dr. Kendi on-board — what with some of the school’s biggest donors (e.g., Wall Street’s Bill Ackman) threatening to withhold future giftings to Harvard’s hedge fund, a.k.a., its endowment.
Perhaps a shrewder hire would be Admiral Rachel (née Richard) Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, one of the chief overseers (whoops), I mean, administrators of America’s official Covid-19 policies, and chief promoter of mRNA vaccine mandates. Wikipedia tells us: “Levine was commissioned as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, becoming the first openly transgender four-star officer in any of the United States uniformed services as well as the first female four-star admiral in the Commissioned Corps,” evading the fact that s/he is not actually a female, but rather a male pretending to be a female, with scrupulous attention to hair and costume.
Readers can argue as to whether female is interchangeable with the word woman and whether imagining oneself to be a woman is the same as being a woman. But you see this would be exactly the advantage of putting Dr. (pediatrician) Levine in the president’s chair at Harvard: the nation’s attention would shift dramatically from the quandaries of racism and anti-racism to the even richer perplexities of gender identity, while exposing the baleful influence of men who remain on the Harvard faculty in promoting intransigent patriarchy, often tinged with toxic whiteness.
As president of Harvard, Dr. Levine could elevate and emphasize the importance of pretending in higher education. Of course, pretending is already well-established in academic journals and publishing, and especially lately in the medical science surrounding one of Dr. Levine’s specialties, Covid-19 (and its remedies). One can only hope that the admiral will recruit Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Chief of the Covid Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute, as her chief of staff. As recently as three days ago, Dr. Feigl-Ding tweeted (or X’ed): “Anti-vax campaigns are fueled by disinformation army. Your friends and family are pummeled with disinfo to the point they start to believe it — but don’t fall for it!” Meaning: for goodness sake, go out and get more mRNA booster shots! Especially because, as Dr. F-D also declares on X, “a raging inferno of Covid is surging nationwide.”
One is tempted to ask: if Harvard renewed its Covid vaccine mandate, would Harvard students be intelligent enough to decline the injections? Granted, Harvard’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging policy (DEIB) has front-loaded matters beside intelligence in its admissions procedures. Parents might ask: in the case of a student’s death from myocarditis before the end of a semester, would Harvard refund any or all of the $55,000 tuition? These are some of the perplexities that Dr. (Admiral) Levine is well-equipped to resolve.
Anyone else have some nominations? (hints: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? Mika Brzezinski? Ilhan Omar, Megan Rapinoe. . .?)
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The largest cell in the human body is the Ova, exclusively found in the reproductive tracts of females, got Ovum?, you’re female.
The only cell in the human body that is classified as a Flagellate is Sperm, exclusively found in the reproductive tracts of males, got Sperm?, you’re male.
Sorry Admiral Levine, squatting to pee does not make you a girl. Pass it on.
Some people can get all those male and female elements removed though. And then I have heard that come former men are getting their penis all diced up and cut into an incision to make it look like they have a vagina. Some women have undergone reconstruction to pull out the inside lady parts and construct a penis.
This is all just so much insanity. The time and money involved in such an endeavor is ridiculous. But there you go, people have done this and they think they can play God with their bodies. Our society is sick and needs a major reboot.
Yes, I’ve read the descriptions of those operations, and the resultant problems people have afterwards. Horrible.
To say nothing of the problems they had beforehand, which drove them to insane acts of self-mutilation. Fortunately they have also (most likely) removed themselves from the gene pool.
A penis is not a flagellate. A vagina is not an ova.
Slicing, dicing and chopping your external genitals does not change your sex. Removing body parts does not change your sex.
You can’t ever change your chromosomal makeup or the gametes your body is arranged to produce.
Genitals are only a small part of the differences between male and females.
Men have larger lungs than women.
Muscle structure.
Men have longer eye lashes than women.
Women have larger stomachs and livers than men.
Women have a different pelvic structure than men.
Women have longer necks than men.
Women have fuller lips and wider eyes.
Women have more fat on their bodies.
Men gain weight in their bellies, women on their hips.
I could go on and on and on.
Seinfeld had a great episode where Jerry dates a beautiful women who has “man hands.” Just look that the hands of a man and a woman. There is a difference there that no surgeon can ever change.
That pelvic structure and the difference in the center of gravity make women’s sports an entirely different thing from men’s sports.
Men simply are not playing with the same equipment women are.
Yes, Cankerpuss, men and women have very different bodies and abilities.
I was just responding to Cowbell’s assertion that surgery can change someone’s sex, by further riffing on badberries major point.
Paul, I know. I was actually attempting to add to your points.
Not to mention the thinking.
My son has hands and fingernails almost identical to mine, but mostly smaller, except for the size of the palm. I call him “doll hands.” Otherwise, he is a big moose compared to me.
OK, Cankerpuss, I misunderstood you. If we all made lists, we could come up with a whole lot of differences, for sure.
kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/replacement-theory/#comment-849775
Cowbell, have you heard or read what these sorry saps who turn their “member” into a “memberette” have to do to keep the hole open and flexible? It ain’t pleasant. I have also heard that these fake vaginas often bleed, they can’t control their urination and have issues with fecal matter entering the new hole leading to constant stench and infections.
I have not read much about what these new penises are like but I can only assume they don’t function the way the Gods intended nor do they provide the sensations an intact male organ would provide. They also do not have prostate or other male organs and no surgeon can make one. They might be able to remove a blob of flesh from the thigh, shape it into a mass that might resemble one but it will never function the way a god given penis would function.
These people are so sick and deranged, they belong in mental institutions where they can get the help they need. Very sad.
Get the help they need.
“have issues with fecal matter entering the new hole leading to constant stench and infections.”
CP,
It is obvious to me that they were not instructed, at their mother’s knee, to wipe front to back….
The public isn’t privy to the realities of transgenderism. They’re only shown the polished final image, the fake smile about how supposedly “happy” the “new” person is with their new persona.
Dylan Mulvaney “100 days of being a girl.”
That sh#t got old fast.
Yes, the differences in men’s and women’s bodies was the basis for army’s PT test; 2-mile run, so many pushups and sit-ups within a specified time according to your age bracket. So men had to do more pushups than women did because they have greater upper body strength and different musculature. They have greater lung capacity, so they had less time to do a 2-mile run than a female did, etc.
It used to be that way. Now, though, they have a PT test 80% of women can’t pass because they’ve thrown out those physical differences between men and women and now expect the women to perform as though they have the upper body strength of a man.
No, the man-made penises don’t function the way God’s do. I’ve read that they can’t orgasm anymore. What a way to live, huh?
“No, the man-made penises don’t function…”
Tuco,
Just wait until you get old….
Cank, apparently, they denude then embed the native clitoris in the base of the constructed phallus, then sometimes connect one of the pudendal nerv bundles to nerves found in the tissue used for the phallus. I don’t know how well this works, but it sounds like hell. Meatcanyon the cartoonist could not have thought up a more appalling story.
And, assuming this works okay, who is going to tell these new trans men that they are going to have one heck of a time finding a girl and settling down to a happily ever after? We don’t want frankenhusbands.
The really creepy part about the phalloplasties, imo, is not the lump of flesh they sew onto the woman’s genitals, it’s the mutilation of the body part from which they remove the flesh.
I have seen photos of forearms stripped of skin, like a major 3rd degree burn.
The women complain of nerve pain and inability to use their hand.
What did they think having themselves skinned would do?
The lump of displaced flesh is obviously not anything like a functioning penis.
As I understand it, these women are largely lesbians, though.
They have been convinced by the propaganda that they will have better luck with other lesbians if they have a lump on flesh sewn onto their vulvas.
I’ll just leave it there, and let Jarek make any assumptions about their reasoning ability.
Like I mentioned below, these Mephistolean gender surgeries were cooked up by Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz; you can’t expect sweetness & light, peaches & cream, and happy outcomes.
Cowbell81
Yep, Both “procedures” result in open wounds that never really “heal”. The “alterations” will require constant surgical interventions and other treatments ie; cocktails of the newest and priciest big Pharma alchemy “done-up” in a pretty little package and given a sweet, lyrical name. Tragic really.
What have we become?
“…require constant surgical interventions…” Fortunately, this need for constant surgery is most likely paid for by the rest of us through higher insurance premiums, or in the case of trannies in the military, through increasingly bloated Pentagon budgets.
Most of our military is fodder for the slaughter at this point, and our enemies know it.
I think trannies are exempt from combat. They are exempt from all physical requirements, as I understand it – but suitable for “gender-reassignment surgery” at tax-payer expense.
They are our “Strategic Reserve”.
Yes, Trannies are exempt from deployment, also, they are exempt from PT. One wonders, what use are they in the armed forces?
cowbell correctly said “playing God.”
The underlying premise of this whole travesty is that God made a mistake and I’m going to put it right.
That makes the transgender movement a mass spiritual affliction.
These people are to be prayed for which is much easier to do if they are not in your face demanding preferential treatment.
That’s what Satan did in the garden with Adam and Eve, was convince them that God was keeping something better from them than what they already had.
Elliot nee Ellen Page had pectoral surgery so as to look more like a fit man.
I baked another cheesecake– chocolate marble, with a cocoa crust. This time, I didn’t run the crust up the sides, I just put it on the bottom, so there’s more cheesecake and less crust. Turned out fabulously. If you were here, I’d invite you over for some cheesecake and some cold milk and we could talk about women. <3
Cowbell: LOL , and you thought the medica /pharmafia industries were all about healing and helping humanity. Once a sex change is performed you have a good cu$tomer for life (their life). It’s why this $pecialty is in such a growth mode.
Yeah, really, they have to take those drugs for life, otherwise they’ll “revert.”
Dr. Levine is in for a surprise when he comes before the Lord.
Amen. Dr. Levine went to the Pearly Gates and God left a note posted outside that read, “Closed Go Away”.
I was a student at Johns Hopkins Medical School 1980-84. One of the professors who lectured us was the psychologist John Money, PhD, who pioneered the idea that the way to handle patients with gender dysphoria (then considered a mental illness) was to allow them to live as the gender they weren’t, but thought themselves to be. Prior to that time, therapy was directed at getting them to accept the anatomically and genetically determined sex with which they were born.
It had been noted that patients with gender dysphoria historically had a number of difficulties with life, such as illicit drug use, depression, suicide, and arrests and imprisonments in greater numbers than normal controls. Money asserted these problems could be resolved if society and the medical system assisted these individuals in transitioning to their preferred sexual identity.
He was not a surgeon, (nor a medical doctor), but he enlisted surgeons to carry out gender reassignment surgeries. A candidate for such surgery was required to live a full year as their desired gender, during which time they received hormone treatments. If they still wanted to proceed after this year (called, “the real-life test”) they could undergo “surgical reassignment.” You know, turning a penis into a vagina or vice versa; removing or installing breasts, etc. A cakewalk surgically. (Not!)
After 10 years of following John Money’s ideas, Johns Hopkins undertook an institutional review of the results. They found that in follow up, there seemed to be no improvement in the surgically treated patients’ lives; the rates of illicit drug use, depression, suicide, and problems with the law were not improved, and in many cases, they were worsened. As an institution, they discontinued the sex-change surgery program.
However, that did not end the surgeries. The surgeries could no longer be performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The surgeons who performed the surgeries for Dr. Money’s patients simply carried them out at different hospitals in Baltimore.
How things have changed. Now Johns Hopkins has a “Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health,” and offers a “Complex Gender Microsurgery Fellowship.”
I don’t know when the institution flipped on this issue, but I have watched my Alma Mater spiral downward for over 10 years into wokeism, gender nonsense, political correctness of the most extreme kind, and most recently, pandemic nonsense. I have long since quit supporting them financially. Most of the medical schools in the country have done the same thing as far as I can tell.
I can’t imagine how they are now teaching anatomy or physiology, let alone disease conditions while pretending that male/female differences don’t exist or are irrelevant. God help patients of the future. Things are bad enough already and will only get worse.
UR,
“(then considered a mental illness) ”
…Still is….
Village- Remember the case of John/Joan- an article in Rolling Stone years ago? John lost his penis during a botched circumcision at birth, so they cut the rest of him off and called him Joan. Things didn’t turn out well for Joan. She was a tomboy (because she had a male brain), and eventually she found out what had happened and identified as “trans,” which is to say her real biological sex. Now John, he later confronted the now elderly doctor who botched him, intending to kill him with the gun in his pocket, but the old doctor wept and apologized and saved his own life. I read that John eventually killed himself. I want to say he was seen at Hopkins, but I can’t be sure.
Mac – re: John/Joan – that was a John Money patient.
You may be referring to a tragedy thats in a book called
RAISED AS A GIRL.
He n his brother were molested by the doc and I believe both boys are dead, at their own hands….they were canadians.
This new gender confusion is coming from the top, and it is being pushed onto everyone, especially the children. Did anyone care about the mental illness of gender confusion, especially when it was carried out mainly in the minds of the insane, and behind closed doors?
It is having to declare your pronouns, and having the use of the “wrong” (correct) pronoun outlawed, and Drag Queen Story Hour, and teaching children that they might be in the wrong body, which requires drugs and surgery, having boys and men competing in girl’s and women’s sports, and having the media, the courts, the prisons, the military, the government, the corporations, all united in referring to clearly male people as “she”, (even in court cases involving rape, when a woman sworn to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, is coerced into referring to her attacker as “she”) that is pissing people off, although they are cancelled if they say so.
They are turning an entire society insane. Why?
There is clearly an agenda in motion, pushing people into submitting to an insane ideology, but what is the point of that?
They already have people believing absurdities and committing atrocities, so why take this extra step?
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Well it will cut down on the birthrate. Of course the Vax is also doing that. Can’t be too careful.
Planned Parenthood is getting reamed. They should sue.
Jarek, PP is also in the business of HRT now. So they’re profiting from the madness also.
Ultimately to destroy humanity and prevent as many people as possible from coming to God.
It’s where the money is. Money was on the right track. That’s what America is all about. Anything else would be “fascism”…..
What % of the population suffers from gender dysphoria? I’ve read .06%. Statistically, they hardly exist.
It’s more now, since the propaganda started younger and younger.
”The number of teen girls transitioning is increasing exponentially. In the UK, for instance, there has been a 4,400 percent increase in girls referred for transitioning treatment in the past decade.”
//spectator.org/silenced-whole-friend-groups-of-teen-girls-are-transitioning/
Yes, but if you can convince the masses there’s an enormous problem under the surface that causes the majority of kids to want to be desexed, as is happening, and your goal is to destroy a culture, then you’ll succeed.
The goal of the Establishment seems to be to destroy the middle class and turn us into beggars, thieves, thugs, and addicts. They’ve largely succeeded. And we’ve gone along with it because of team politics, cults of personality, and near-universal dependence on government money. There’s no hope of draining the Swamp as long as we look to the Great White Motherfucker in Washington to provide for our every need and whim — including killing or castrating our kids.
“There is a difference there that no surgeon can ever change”-Cankerpuss Oh yeah? What if your name is Dr. Fankenstein. He works miracles with his scalpel.
Oh, happy day! MediCal now proposes to cover tranny surgery (only the “medically necessary” sort) for illegal aliens.
Do you suppose Newsom is just fucking with us now?
As I said, this is a topdown agenda.
Fake it til you make it: Dick Levine would fit in that role.
Everyone of these mentally ill fucks needs to be sent somewhere far away and clustered together. Start with nearly every fucking Democrat.
Don’t look at the pharmaceuticals in the drinking water, or any influence of profligate attitude adjusting prescribed medications for youthful rebelliousness.
Thanks JHK. I hope that you are successful in getting RFK Jr on the ballot. America deserves a better choice than those currently on the menu
Agree…dress warm and wear your snow boots.
However. It is a step backwards for folks that think that fiscal integrity is key to stopping the descent into hell the country is approaching quickly.
He is still a Democrat with the basic tenet that spending money is the way you solve social issues.
I do not give a damn about Trump’s personality or how many females he had chasing him last century, I want his conservative, “You are fired’ mentality at the helm. No more Deep State appointments, pull people in who are going to dis enfranchise the Deep State. Destroy the Deep State and with it the Leftist MSM. That has got to be the goal to set the ship of state back on course.
Trump was fantastic on getting rid of regulatory red tape, but he was no fiscal conservative. Austerity is not in his vocab. It’s been guns AND butter on the federal level for as long as I can remember.
He also permitted many of Obama’s appointees to remain in their cushy positions…..to undermine his efforts. I admire Trump, I really do. He’s a masculine man and as a man myself I admire men like this. However, I don’t trust him. I don’t trust him to do what it would take to “drain the swam” which he said he would do but failed to do.
Cpuss: “Draining the swamp” is the equivalent of asking Congre$$ to vote for their own term limits. Ain’t gonna happen. It’s why many pundits / futurists are predicting a new form of governance by the early 2030s and not just for the U.S. The current kleptocracy has about 8 -9 more years, perhaps even less, before it self-destructs.
it helped that his dad was very rich.
Trump reminds of my dad, my first boss, indeed, of a lot of important men in my life. I don’t mind that his first term was imperfect, and he’s my guy for ’24. I think he will have had 4 more years to be even warier of the oligarchy. He’s my cutthroat! He’s my junkyard dog!
Canker-
Totally agree.
I was always mystified by Trump’s seeming inability to surround himself with his people.
After so many years in business, you’d think Trump would keenly understand the value of having loyal staff around.
Trump’s supporters make the same excuses that the supporters of every traitor to occupy the White House always make: “He tried to do the right thing, but he was obstructed by the Democrats/Republicans in Congress.
No, Trump did what he was paid to do: increase division, bankrupt the country, rob the poor to enrich the rich, and be Israel’s bitch.
No one will ever occupy the White House who deviates – even slightly – from these objectives.
I disagree. There is quite a bit of evidence that he was simply stymied.
There are things I don’t like about him, but most of them superficial. His policies both foreign and domestic were good (generally), but he made the mistake of thinking he could appeal to common sense and the self-interest of those he worked with.
What I think he now understands is that there is a global coup underway, and the participants have gone too far to stop.
Yeah, but what would Joe do without those millionaires paying thayer fayer shayer?
I disagree Owl.
But, I’m not going to try to convince you.
You are not going to convince me.
We are both armed with nothing but opinion – derived from (what we each consider to be) objective analysis… Ultimately, I think we are on the same side: Truth, Justice, and the American Way. I can accept difference of opinion, in fact I find it necessary, sometimes I even learn from it. The Scientific Method and all that…
I don’t plan to vote this year. I don’t expect to have the opportunity to vote this year. And even if I am allowed to vote, I am certain that the fraud machine will make my vote irrelevant.
But I don’t plan to give up the fight before the ravens tear the cold flesh from my lifeless bones.
I have no issue with disagreement.
Same as it ever was.
I will also not be voting.
Beth- Developers are always way too comfortable with debt.
Good observation! On the other hand, nobody has the stomach for austerity. Nobody, that is, who could lose his office.
Trump was a Democrat for most of his life. He’s also from New York, which has never been home to fiscal sanity. At best, he’s a Nixon who doesn’t know when to shut up. At worst, he’s controlled opposition who’s in bed with the madmen who are succeeding in finishing off America the Good and turning it into Mystery, Babylon the Great.
Until he completely denounces the current climate change madness (as opposed to everyone needs clean air and water), he’s a no-go.
We have two major candidates, one cannot believe he was conned about the vaxx, the other cannot believe he was conned about climate.
Each man can see for himself, the junky state of what passes for The Science today, but for some reason cannot apply that knowledge to their own passion.
I believe DeSantis will do a good job as he did in Florida. If Trump is the nominee, I will vote for him but with a great deal of reservation.
De Santis is backed by the Bush family. Expect more war mongering for Israel in the Middle East. Trump was great on foreign policy. Everything else, not so much.
Organist, thank you for seeing RFK as he is. Anyone who believes Carbon Dioxide, aka plant food, is detrimental to the planet does not deserve trust in leadership. I will never be able to pull the lever for this guy, not that my vote means anything as the PTB have already selected the next “president,” whatever the hell that means.
Speaking of RFK Jr., he has just been the recipient of savage attacks on Twitter.
As many know by now, Twitter invents the ‘trends’, and throws them out there for people to have at it.
Someone with RFK’s campaign put out an announcement that mentioned a couple of entertainers were going to show up to support Junior at an event.
This was false.
One of the celebrities, Martin Sheen took it even further, not only announcing that he does not support RFK Jr., but that he supports Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Well of course he supports Biden. His son Charlie is almost interchangeable with Hunter. Hunter does not have the propensity to beat up on women that Charlie does, however.
This got me thinking, where does all the wrath against RFK Jr. come from, among celebutard types?
He more than supports all their alleged cherished libtarded ideas, without the destructiveness that they must see coming from the Biden administration.
You’d think they’d be grateful, giving them an easy out to having to support something like Biden, or else go Republican.
As a renegade academic (Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Fresno State College for the Criminally Inane, 1967 ~ 1969) I have to say it is accelerating toward an institutional suicide, likely unstoppable at this point.
Who’s Sorry Now?
Is this how these behemoths always end up? Government Motors (aka General Motors), Google (said to be beset with virtual institutional paralysis derived from siloed fiefdoms)? The US military?
Should “TBTF” not really read “too big to survive”?
But of course I’m a bitter loser (by choice) and will take pleasure in seeing them come apart at the seams like a wet cardboard box.
This is an excellent point. Too big to manage is how I look at it. The organization grows to the point where it cannot really be managed. It’s imperceptible, but that’s when the pretending starts. Overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of things under management, individuals responsible for managing start to fake it. Eventually the system collapses from it’s own weight.
Yes, I agree.
You would think as a CEO or board member, you could see it coming, or even LOOK for it coming. But the chaos that ensues does cover the looting…
The law of entropy. All things deteriorate. Most exemplified by Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of a man made of metal except his feet, and the metals debased as they went down from the head to the feet, beginning with gold and ending up as miry clay at the feet.
Rooting around in my Archive, I came across a Tyler Durden ZERO HEDGE essay from 2014, with an analysis relevant to what is expostulated above:
‘The State is threatened by a decline. Generally it moves into full pretend mode. Three behavioral traits characterize its behavior. The State must convince citizens:
1. things are not as bad as they seem.
2. the State is not responsible for the situation.
3. the State must do more (grow bigger) in order to solve the problems.
‘Statistics issued by the State are fudged to convey a false image of well-being. Government spending soars in an effort to juice reported economic activity. Much of the spending is unproductive in terms of providing things that would have otherwise been bought. It is also counterproductive to a proper functioning economy as price discovery is disrupted and consumer and investment decisions are based on false signals.
‘Incentives are provided to encourage people to live beyond their means. Debt appears nearly free and readily available. Bubbles occur and then burst. New bubbles are necessary to replace old bubbles. People and businesses are encouraged to make imprudent decisions, all in the attempt to make the economy appear better.
‘The State has one objective and that is to remain in power. Laws and regulations multiply at ever faster rates. Tyrannical rules and legislation are passed under the pretense of protecting the people against some threat. In reality, these laws are passed to protect the leaders against the public when they finally understand what has been done to them.
‘“Bread and circuses” increase to divert people’s attention from the developing problems.
‘Dependency increases, reflecting an attempt to placate the masses.
‘A “wag the dog” war or crisis is often used as a means to rally the public against some phony enemy.’
From afar (12 time zones away) I’d suggest he’s pretty much on the money.
Naw, I don’t think so. Nothing collapses in this Country. Every perversion, every massive institution, every Government agency, every professional sporting team, they just continue on and on and on. Nothing ever collapses.
Don’t be so black pilled. Decency, common sense, personal responsibility, prudence, patriotism, and normality have all collapsed. Now that they are gone, everything else will soon follow. Stock up on champagne and enjoy the ride to the bottom.
Speedy, I can relate to that “bitter loser” claim. But when the wet cardboard box collapses, it’s good to know you still have your integrity, if not riches and fame.
Oh, the irony of giving an accused plagiarist a professorship in CREATIVE writing. . . .
As for Kendi, I saw him speak at a conference hosted by my employer a few years ago. I remember squirming through most of it, especially his assertion that “study after study proves” Trump was elected by racists.
I thought he was elected by Nazis.
You must have read a different study 🙂
Damned racist Nazis AKA deplorables.
These Leftists are insane, period. Any one who believes the continuous banter of lies that they put out belongs in the nut house too.
Just one quick example, Leftists, who is right?
City mayors strapped with the responsibility to feed, house and medicate millions of immigrants that the National Democrats refuse to try to limit.
Or Mayorkas, the most incompetent Dir. of Home Security yet. His brazen lies, falsehoods and pandering of Congress is infuriating. The Biden Mob is making it impossible for the cities to take care of business.
Think Soros et all are enjoying all this, I wonder how much cash is flowing to Mayorkas from the boys and girls of WEF?
It’s also a nifty way to force those communities to build housing for them, thus implementing Obama’s “your neighborhood is too white” program.
Our government funds the NGOs that are facilitating these illegal entrants.
This is one of the accomplishments of W’s faith-based initiatives.
Conservatives fell for it.
My guess is that you can probably tell which houses of worship get government money, by which ones hung and now regularly that commie rainbow flag, which by the way no longer resembles a rainbow.
There is no real left and right, John.
As so often, you revert to old and rather simplistic explanations for situations that are far more complex.
There are many shades of grey, and even on what you might call the right, there are camps that simply pretend to want freedom, because they can grift off of it.
The reality is that we live under a beast system, and the beastmasters have infiltrated all levels of society that matter for control.
If you want to break the battle down in very simple terms, there are people who will stop at nothing to remain free, and there are people who will stop at nothing to destroy freedom if they are getting paid enough to do it.
He was asked to define racism. He couldn’t, saying something to the effect that it was what racists do. He’s a Black moron.
Pretending is so vogue these days….right from the “Big Guy”……on down….
If I had been placed in suspended animation as recently as twenty years ago and awakened to read today’s column I would naturally conclude that Jim is a comedian – making up outlandish tales about such an august institution as Harvard becoming a farcical hotbed of ludicrous identity politics at the apparently insouciant expense of its reputation as an elite university.
By the time I got to the exquisite name Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding I would check the calendar to confirm that I had been awakened on April First.
Can’t make this shit up.
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is a hilarious name, and he looks Chinese to boot. Gee, wonder if he has some kind of inside agenda there?
Ding-Dong, Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is in the house!
“If it Feigls good then Ding it!”
Does FEIGL-DING live in DINGOLFING?
That’s a town an hour east of Munich airport where BMW has its largest European factory.
DING means THING in German.
(sorry for my silliness today, but Jim’s blog tickled my funny bone)
Hilarious? Can’t beat “Joe Buy Dung?”
Dr. F-D can kiss my ass. Disinformation my foot. Everyone knows my history by now and I will tell you flat out that my immunity was severely altered by probably he combination of the three initial shots and getting Covid two years later.
Want some sequelae? Vertigo associated with ear infection for a year, Pertussis for 3 months, a real joy, continued to today waits ear infection, TMJ pain, jaw pain and today, joy, back to a stuffy nose. It is like my immunity took a holiday.
Ding is a nutritionist which means he’s been a purveyor of the misinformation about what constitutes a healthy diet for Americans, which is a large part of what is making Americans fat as hell.
Wikipedia says he is “currently” an epidemiologist. I guess that’s like being trans. You are if you say you are.
If he’s an epidemiologist, then so am I. I decided.
Beryl
All these “scientists” have their political bias affecting their opinions. How many of these opinions are based on any semblance of fact?
Hint: None. The USA knows nothing about the workings of the VAxx or the disease itself after three years of it being around.
Epidemiologist, my butt. Like Fauci is a virologist, right?
A politician is an individual who has failed at everything else except bullshitting. These “scientists” fit the mold.
“The USA knows nothing about the workings of the VAxx or the disease itself after three years of it being around.” ~ JohnAZ
In case you have not seen it, you should add this to your encyclopedia of covid information.
Ep. 60 Is the lesson of the Covid disaster that we should give its architects more power? Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s plans for you.
twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1743405833667371329
I go to a local gym daily to burn calories and try to fight back the ravages of old age. The gym is extremely crowded right now as all of the fatties have begun their new years resolutions. As usual, within two weeks these fatties will gradually disappear and the gym will return to moderate levels thus permitting we regulars the opportunity to use the weight machines again.
And yes, there are a lot of fatties in this Country. I wouldn’t blame it entirely on what people are eating. I blame it entirely on the fact that people eat way too much of it and spend the majority of their time sitting on their fat rumps watching the tee vee or eye-fone. I maintain my weight by just being cognizant of what I am shoving into my piehole and how many calories I burn.
january effect…new years revolutions.
There is a good argument that your “fatties” are way behind the eight ball in terms of stress. Try not to mock them too much–it’ll only cause their cortisol to rise further if they hear your disdain and care that you have it.
Google. MARK TWAIN on New Year resolutions!
Calories-in / Calories Out is a weigh loss myth that has failed for the last five decades. You want to lose weight and get rid of chronic diseases? Eat a strictly carnivore diet. It works for me and lots of others. There is a reason why no cave man ever painted a picture of a salad on any cave wall ever. Meat is our ancestrally appropriate diet. It is the proper human diet. Go on YouTube. Look up Dr. Anthony Chaffee; Dr. Ken Berry; and Dr. Shawn Baker and start learning how to be healthy and fit simply by abandoning the Standard American Diet (SAD) and processed “foods” and eating instead all-natural, organically raised animal foods.
Do it, and you can thank me here in 6 months.
Why would we have canine teeth if we we weren’t intended to eat meat?
JAZ-
Dr. F-D is just practicing the standard Marxist projection and inversion.
Thus, the best thing to do is reject his, “advice,” entirely.
Yup!!!
dear johnaz,
Sounds like the lease agreement you have on the body you’re renting, is nearing expiry (me too) time to start shopping for a newer model.
There’s only so much that “routine maintenance” can do for these older models.
Not without a fight.
sorry–none it matters–your vote,opinion,the facts,etc–the nukes are going to fly,no iffs or butts,gonna happen..when? who knows but it will happen–crash and burn and then the 200 million or so who are left in world 5 years after the initial nuke event can start over….. but go ahead and blather on if it makes you feel better….
Uh, I am just referring to my health.
No, nukes are not going to fly. Even the nut jobs are too scared to use them knowing what will be unleashed upon them if they do. I’ve been living in this world for 50 years and my entire life I have been hearing about nukes flying and unleashing a nuclear winter. Hasn’t happened since the good ole USA dropped a few nukes on Japan in the 1940s.
I agree Cank. Every leader of a country that has nukes is owned by the same puppet masters. The current conflict between the Great Satan and the “BRICS” is meant to destroy economies, kill and enslave populations, and pave the way to a global dictatorship. The Masters of the Universe are not about to flash fry their assets.
Just one more in an extremely long series of predictions of disaster & doom that didn’t come true. Whatever will happen, will most likely come as a big surprise.
Cank, BB,
I’m sorry but agree with happiface.
The Jim Jones disciples controlling DC have no reverse gear.
This mess is going nuclear. It’s merely a question of when.
I wish I was wrong, believe me.
What always amused me, in a perverse manner (as a perverse sort), is the account of those most intimately involved in deploying, handling and controlling nuclear weapons. They tend to be the ones most aghast at what they are doing and what might result from what they have done.
“The sorcerer’s apprentice” effect.
A wise old Bengali once remarked to me “No weapon has ever been invented that was not used in battle” and I could think of no example to prove him wrong.
It is as though the two “wake-up calls” of August 1945 are long forgotten. we are rather far from the two instances when the attention of the soporific Hirohito was forcibly aroused by the annihilation of two of his cities.
The fanatic, warlike Muslims (“faces insane with purpose” – pace Wm. Burroughs) would have no qualms about launching one – even against fellow believers.
Quite impressed with the fact that it has not happened yet, although we have come close (Cuba 1962 … Okinawa as well…) It is as though a higher force dampens the urge to launch at a critical moment.
I put my money on UFOs as opposed to religious conviction), as described in the 2010 National Press Club UFO Conference by elderly retired USAF officers: “…an entire flight of missiles shut down, just like that…”
Frank Sinatra’s last words, I’m losing.
I thought they were: “Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye…”*
*From This Town, in my opinion, Ol’ Blue Eyes’ best song – although My Way, the Sid Vicious version – plowed through This Town like a disgruntled Muslim in a SUV at a Christmas celebration – in a good way!
Freak shows galore! All around us are perverts and misfits, mostly of the Demoncrap persuasion. As relatively normal homo sapiens, it often seems too much to bear. Add in the corruption of our federal agencies like the FBI and CIA, among many, and life seems very harsh and threatening. How to defeat our foreign enemies when we cannot even defeat the marxists and their useful idiots here, is a mystery.
Yes!!!!
Unfortunately, it is going to take the total failure of the federal government to right the course. That means the abdication of the Deep State as the No. 1 of the world.
That could be a very good thing.
I’d go a little further to say that it is going to take divine intervention to correct the ship. This world is so effed up right now. No political party, no Donald Trump or RFK Jr are going to get people to think right. The God or Gods of this world will need to “cull” the herd eventually to right the ship. People have just lost their minds and nobody trusts anything……or anyone.
I saw a 3/4 ton pickup that identifies as a Prius.
Not the world. Just the West. Actually, mostly just the US.
I call it the party of the misbegotten.
Labeling them as Marxists is facile and incorrect. These plucks are FASCISTS.
Can we please get it right. Words and meaning are I.portant.
Important
We’re facing another battle of the soul 2 0….and it’s very hard to have a soul after the education system is finishes with you…
Greetings,
The Ivy League schools have jumped the shark and it is there for all to see.
What information is locked up in any university such that I can not find it online, in ten seconds, and for free?
Failing that, if pretending to be a woman or a cat makes me one then pretending to have Harvard credentials means that I have them. Right?
I dare anyone to say otherwise.
Sounds fair to me.
You know, Nicklethrower, you may have something there. Does the advent of so much information on the internet and the educational outlets there make it so that the only thing to do in University is the BS programs they have now.
Michael Douglas in The American President had a line that was wonderful. When Martin Sheen asked him about his grades in school, he said he only had one C. Women’s studies, because it wasn’t what he thought it was.
I’m sure you can get the printed documents proving your pretended education. I have a license frame “Alumni, Fighter Pilot University” so I are one.
When people ask what university is that? I answer “FU”.
But do you really desire Harvard credentials nowadays?
JFK, speaking at a Yale commencement, having received an honorary degree, said (words to the effect),
“You are looking at a man who has the best of everything, a Harvard education and a Yale degree).
Life and experience working with those who can do what you cannot is the best education.
At 46, I have yet to understand why I even have a college degree.
Harvard is going to keep known plagiarist, Claudine Gaye on as a professor, earning 900,000 a year.
She should be allowed to teach only one class: How Black women can scam Academia like I did.
do you recall here 10-15 years back eluth hero and his tale of
‘mistre bation’?
Higher education is so far gone, there is no hope in salvaging it. Case in point from last week, Chancellor Joe Gow of University Wisconsin La Crosse has been terminated for making porno videos online with his wife, under the guise of a vegan cooking theme. Totally sick and twisted people out there.
httpsXX://www.cnn.com/2023/12/29/us/wisconsin-la-crosse-joe-gow-terminated/index.html
Is DEI now becoming DEIB, and maybe they will add even more letters onto it much like LGBTQIA++++?
Cowbell81, now you know why there has to be a tribulation.
Former Chancellor Gow should sue UWLC for flagrantly violating their DEI policy. Discrimination against pornographers, how Victorian.
Oops, just checked – Gow is an evil racist white man. Unless he married a man, or his wife is one of the protected species, ha should be happy he was spared burning at the stake.
He will probably make more money via Pornhub anyway – where he can play a college chancellor.
Porn, a multi-billion dollar industry in America today. Tells you the state of our people, doesn’t it.
our men not people…wimmen arent paying much.
“…wimmen arent paying much.”
No, they are making money from selling themselves on OnlyFans.
Porn is now being made in the Capitol. Soon that will be its main purpose I imagine. Certainly more honest than what goes on there now.
The country is a perverted purgatory.
DEIB – Devil Encouraging Indecent Behavior?
They’ll need to add to that to complete the subliminal message:
DEIBN :BIDEN
Well the timing of this brouhaha couldn’t be better for anyone other than Kamala Harris. Mrs Harris has been the recipient of one of those DC tell -all story books, entitled “Amateur Hour” by Charlie Spiering. It seems that everyone in the WH (and I mean EVERYONE) loathes the VP.
Harvard seems to be the best place to dump someone like Harris who can then wallow in the waves of pity she so richly deserves.
The trash taken out for the contender to the Obama legacy, which of course would be Michelle (aka Big Mike).
Laissez le bon temps rouler!
Great idea! That way the Ho won’t have to be assassinated by “Russia-loving white-supremacists” in order to slide the Hildebeast into the Number 2 position.
Then again, Big Mike checks all the necessary boxes – and then some! – for the Harvard position.
I don’t think Kamala has enough brains to plagiarize.
I’m grateful to Vivek for getting that “bend the knee” expression out there.
Does anybody know who the reporter was, the one he gave the drubbing to when she tried to get him to denounce White Supremacy?
That was a masterful comeback he had, but it occurs to me that we don’t know whether or not the person he was replying to was a plant unless we know her identity.
I can’t find her name but she is with the Washington Post. Generally any reporter from the Washington Post is a plant. Any journalist with an agenda is a plant.
Thank you. Yes, she would be a plant, but my concern is that she could have been a plant by Vivek’s people, to tee up his wonderful lecture.
Now I know it was off the cuff, so to speak.
Oh ok, I didn’t get that part. Anything is possible for sure. But I think that Vivek must be somewhat genuine because he is clearly disliked by corporate media.
He’s for hundreds of thousands of more Indians coming to here to take our jobs. A genuine phony.
What’s phony about being in favor of what everybody knows you are in favor of?
Well if he is, then he is obviously not for Traditional America – which was White I remind you.
People can’t think any more. Even the simplest things baffle them. You too, Ber.
I still don’t understand what’s happening. I think Vivek wants to reduce immigration completely and has said he will use the military to seal the border. A stronger stand than any other white Democrat or Republican has taken except Trump, who unfortunately re-negged on many of his immigration promises.
Maybe he will stop immigration and enable millions of refugees. One of our posters used that trick on us. We were talking about immigration and they pretended to agree with us, all the while arguing for massive refugee programs. The legalistic mind delights in differences that don’t make a difference, and fool their opponents.
As it is, Vivek has come out in favor of a massive visa program for Indian workers that we simply do not need. Utterly destructive to OUR Nation and OUR People. He has no loyalty to these.
In Britain, people noticed how many of the refugees decided to go home for the holidays. Wait – weren’t they in danger? Isn’t that why they were let in? We’re so easily fooled…..
“One of our posters used that trick on us.”
Please stop lying, toad. That was straight out of your own head.
Refugees are, legally, different from immigrants. Recognising that clear legal distinction does not in any way imply approval of either mass immigration or mass refugee influx, except in your gaslighting brain, which I realise will never, ever stop gaslighting and lying, sadly.
You were for mass refugees. If you deny it, you are lying. If you against it now, great. You’ve grown, no doubt thanks to our help. But you can’t admit that, being too proud.
Find any post where I said I was for mass refugee influx, you appalling liar.
Something weird on Next door here.
A woman and her dog. I will try to make it short.
Her dog was behaving abnormally, Panting, pacing, nervous, ears pinned back, tail tucked, refused to eat. She gave him a trazodone which helped a little for a while.
She took him to the vet. Bloodwork good, X-ray negative.
She took him for a walk, and he was better but did not want to enter the house on return,
The vet came up with the solution. He asked if they had any Smart Outlets in the house which I believe are the appliances that are used to turn lights out or whatever when used with Alexa.
They unplugged them all, he stopped the pacing and panting and ate a meal. When the outlets were plugged back in, the behavior repeated. The husband used an app to test the frequency of the outlets and it was “off the charts”. The outlets were disconnected and lo and behold, the dog returned to normal.
FYI!
That is good to know.
There is a new disease going around in dogs, just at a time when it is extremely hard to get a veterinary appointment.
Some kind of cough.
It’s strange, we keep seeing announcements from various “world” bodies, that we are going to have to give up owning pets, and now there is a mysterious new disease, right on the heels of a bat flu.
I wonder if it’s caused by dog vaccinations.
Before I moved outside of town, I had to get a rabies shot for my dog, but he hasn’t had any shots since.
My daughter says she has stopped taking her dog to the dog park because of this new disease. Apparently there has been an outbreak in her area.
Wow, enough said.
Yep, those frequencies that the devices operate on are suspected to cause things like this. This is why so many people were worried about 5G. Perhaps many of the health problems suspected to be associated with the jabs are actually due to the fact that the air is jammed up with all of these competing frequencies that are transforming the cells within our bodies as well as our pets, etc. It makes sense that it gets worse once the entire home is “smart”.
Synergy is in play, my opinion, and the list is likely longer than ‘jab’ and ‘5G’.
What does this mean?
Such an open-ended question… can you be a bit more specific?
I put synergy into play, referring to jab and 5G, opining the list would likely be much longer (longer = include many more parts).
back to SSL
David Icke has a good video about the effects of 5G on the body.
David Icke is a fascinating guy.
A brilliant mind.
Agree!!
Yeah, most of the medical experts on RF issues say that 5G needs more study as to it’s safety. It’s not like the cell phone/WiFi drama of the 90’s which turned out to be more of a learned allergic reaction than anything else.
However most of the smart outlet tech uses low power low data rate at close proximity. This is not 5G by any stretch.
Oh ok. Well then what is it?
Most of these devices use something based on a radio protocol known as Zigbee (IEEE 802.15.4). At some level it is essentially WiFi but using 2.4GHz, 90MHz, and 800-900MHz frequencies, has a range of 10-20 meters indoors, 75-300 outdoors and supports mesh networking.
These frequencies have been used for quite a while (like 900 MHz garage door openers) and their effects on living organisms are well known. This could be what was upsetting the dog especially if it was using a cheap leaky knockoff. Normally dogs can’t hear much above 100,000 Hz, while humans are limited to around 20,000 Hz.
Oh. Wow that is interesting.
Yirgach – early on, the “vaccines” were determined to have graphene oxide as a component. As I understand it, the molecular structure of graphene oxide has an antennae-like structure.
Does it make sense that cells could then conduct frequencies (be maliciously manipulated) at a cellular level? By 5G for example?
During “Covid” there was no slowdown in rolling out 5G. On the contrary, there was some curious sense of urgency, to keep installations moving forward as quickly as possible.
I may not have asked the question properly. I’m an idiot when it comes to frequencies and their effects.
Ron,
There is a lot of communication in the body which uses the nervous and endocrine systems. While they are both regulatory mechanisms, the nervous system uses electricity to communicate very quickly while the endocrine system uses hormones which act more slowly. Both systems can be affected by external environmental forces.
When it comes to RF or EMF frequencies it takes quite a bit to disrupt these systems. When microwaves started to be used for communications the US Navy built a room sized microwave oven to test the effect of microwaves on human volunteers.Other than a need for hydration (they got sweaty) and eye protection (the eyeball has capillaries very close to the surface) there were no other short or long term effects observed.
These were frequencies in the GHz range which could cook a potato but not a living human with a circulatory system to dissipate the additional energy. They also found no DNA damage because DNA transcription occurs in pico second frequencies (trillionth of a second) as opposed to the much slower microwaves (millionth of a second). It is similar to a model-T trying to intercept an F16.
As yet there is no known mechanism for graphene oxide to act as an antenna to charge a capacitor or flip a transistor gate.
At very short distances (several meters) 5G cells can use millimeter wavelengths to communicate. These shorter wavelengths have trouble passing through walls and human bodies and the health issues are unknown. That is one reason why more study of 5G is recommended.
Another related area is the use of nano machines within the human body. There have been more than a few SciFi stories written about future possibilities, but at the moment that’s all there is…
I’m not a doctor (engineer actually) but I’ve had to research some of these issues for professional reasons. Hope that answered at least part of your question.
Yirgach – thanks for the lengthy reply, I appreciate your taking the time. Engineer by education also (structural), but skated through some pre-req electrical by the skin of my teeth. The Model-T/F-16 analogy helped. Thanks again, your answer was clarifying for me.
I don’t use any of that crap. No Alexa in my house. I rely upon good old fingers and hands to turn the lights on and off.
You’re so analog lol 😉
“I rely upon good old fingers and hands to turn the lights on and off.” I go further than that. If I want light after sundown, I rub 2 sticks together until they catch fire.
lol
I thought you were supposed to rub two Boy Scouts together.
Actually, I am very “digit”al. Get it? Digits? Digital?
Sorry. It’s bad, I know.
lol it’s clever. It’s actually a great retort.
One law could be passed that would stop a lot of the BS we see today.
Libel law. You must prove the lies or truths you say in campaigns or in the media. Falsehoods by the media are included. The affected party has the legal right to sue for defamation.
That is exactly what New York is trying to do to Trump right now. When he is exonerated I hope he sues every one of the SOBs, starting with Jack Smith and the rotten RINOs that have made their way by excoriating Trump.
At least let them pay court costs.
The Trump name was worth its weight in gold. They have desecrated that name and ruined all the value it had. Good character in the public eye is not something easily regained. They have ruined him to an irredeemable degree. Someone should definitely be made to pay, and pay dearly.
Oh, they’ll pay, alright.
JohnAZ, that sounds good, but, you are assuming the law would be obeyed and enforced. I, personally, am wearied about using the legislature to create more laws to resolve the ills of society. Doesn’t work anymore. People need to correct themselves inwardly and stop using politicians and laws to fix our problems.
More laws. I saw a good example of that the other day. We were at a convenience store and the prices of cigarettes and vape products were advertised in the window. The vape products were actually more expensive than the cigarettes. This is the result of Tammy Baldwin’s and Ron Kind’s vape tax that’s supposed to “discourage” teen smoking.
I have seen young people start with vaping and graduate to cigarettes.
Well, now they can start with cigarettes and graduate to vaping.
John,
Yes! Excellent! What we really need are more lawyers….
EF
Maybe if the fear of retribution would keep many mouths shut and decrease the Lawyer population?
.” fear of retribution”
..Hasn’t worked so far….
Whe. I am elected Dictator, on the first night of the long knives, the lawyers go first.
I expect to be elected almost unanimously
We already have libel laws.
“A presiding Nevada judge was attacked Wednesday by an aggrieved defendant in a felony battery case who flung himself at the judge’s bench, landing on top of her with swinging arms sparking a bloody brawl involving court officials and attorneys.”
*Deobra Delone Redden, 30,* volunteered for America!…and Harvard. Community service in lieu of internment. $20/hr plus overtime and expenses sum to $900K/anum, er annum.
I saw that video. That dude flew over the dyess. Impressive.
It was meant to impress those back home in the ‘hood.
It is unfortunate that Deobra (ghetto for “holder of God’s boobs” – deo = God, bra = boob holder) was not assassinated by racist white security.
We have gone far too long without a “mostly peaceful celebration” of the wondrous life and tragic martyrdom of some dangerous criminal POCPOS.
yes shocking. why wasnt the perp handcuffed before that?
he has a long rap sheet.
I hereby nominate Sam Brinton for the next vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States.
You remember Sam – the Biden appointed transvestite formerly in charge of nuclear waste. I’m not casting aspersions but instead stating facts.
I think it’s a crime against humanity that the Supreme Court has ZERO non-binary justices who have felt the angst of being sought as a fugitive from justice for ripping off luggage from airport baggage carousels. Only someone who has felt that sort of persecution is fit to serve on the Supreme Court.
They give them robes, so he won’t have to worry about not having a thing to wear.
Whenever Sammy “Leg-Humper” Brinton has wardrobe anxiety, it just takes a trip to the nearest airport.
It needs to do its shopping in Commiefornia where it is a civil right to relieve others of up to $950 in merchandise.
(Try not to imagine what Sammy “Butt-Sniffer” Brinton has on underneath that robe… I know – too late!)
What would someone like that do for a living without a neo-Marxist administration in power?
And Doctor Levine for President of Harvard or the United States. Not only female but Jewish. The ultimate two fer. Trans makes three! And the Jews are the most oppressed of all, more than the Blacks or Trans.
So-called higher education really has become one of our society’s more gangrenous appendages, hasn’t it?
I’m stunned by the sizes of the endowments of many of these “institutions of higher learning.” Harvard, Stanford, Princeton are over $40 billion dollars. University of Texas, Michigan and California are over $10 billion dollars. Most other large public universities are overing around $1 billion dollars with smaller universities containing endowments under $500 million.
Why are they even charging tuition when these endowments make enough to cover the tuition of every student. Oh wait, I forgot, they have to pay idiots like Claudine Gay a salary of $800 – $900 thousand dollars a year to “teach.”
Nobody cares. Nobody gives a damn.
I saw someplace just how much money universities waste on DIE.
Enough to significantly lower the cost of tuition so students would not end up mired in forever debt because they wanted an education which would open doors otherwise closed to them.
You can’t offer a product no one can afford to buy, and still stay in business.
Universities did not have to lower their prices, because the government stepped in to help entice Americans to keep buying their product.
The political class benefits greatly from this arrangement, in myriad ways.
It’s a racket, deserving of a RICO investigation.
Her’s what somebody called i/o has said on X about the cost of DIE:
i/o
@eyeslasho
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DEI divisions at large state universities are often huge. At Michigan, for example, DEI is so big that if its payroll were converted to a scholarship fund for in-state students, nearly 900 people could attend Michigan tuition-free.
Consider instead shuttering a majority of these money laundromats.
The value of a degree has been greatly diluted by ‘degree creep’ in many occupations.
I am living proof that one can have a successful career and a good life with “just” a Bachelor’s degree from a small, conservative college. For several years, I worked in management where attorneys and advanced degreed people worked for and answered to me. Life and work experience is far more important that how much “wallpaper” one has in degrees.
Now that there’s a big push for “degree-less” hiring, and the outright removal of a degree requirement for government jobs in some states, that may just happen.
Not_GeorgeT – My work experience has led me to the conclusion that anyone who keeps showing up and keeps paying the bill can get a master’s degree.
I know far too many idiots who possess master’s degrees.
My dad is the smartest guy I’ve ever known and one of his sayings went: Everyone knows what BS is. MS is more of the same. A PHD is piled higher and deeper.
25 years ago, I had to work my backside off to get a 4 year degree in computer science. They are now offering a master’s in 10 weeks at some online colleges. Part of building a team is recognizing and weeding out these degree holders.
C.O. I think we are in agreement regarding this topic.
I have a graduate degree. I also have pocket cash to purchase items such as a cup of coffee. The pocket cash exchanges for the cup of coffee.
None of the occupations which contributed to my ‘earning a living’ required a degree.
The degree … a personal achievement and a satisfying experience, it was definitely an individual choice. I’d do it again.
I kept my ‘day job’ while going to grad school. It was never about career advancement. It did give me some options for future use which otherwise would not have been available.
The afore-mentioned personal achievement and satisfaction are internal motivators.
I lived well with the ‘day job’ for decades.
What you just wrote infuriates me to no end. The fact that a place like Harvard charges $55,000 a year to a young moneyless student with an endowment fund of $46 billion is incredibly immoral and heinous. But, they have a waiting list and reject most of the applicants who want to attend using student loans to pay the exorbitant tuition so the Claudine Gay’s of the world can make all of that money.
Like I said before, nobody cares. Nobody gives a damn. Nobody in power, that is. Those of us who do are powerless to do anything about it.
Yeah, but that’s not going to last for very much longer, Cankerpuss, so bide your time.
It’s a racket, deserving of a RICO investigation.
I agree, however the DOJ is too busy using RICO to prosecute Trump.
Just make Real After Tax (RAT rates) interest rates significantly positive for SAVINGS. That is something like 22% about now. A lot of BS jobs and spending will disappear post haste.
Well that’s a start – after getting rid of the lawyers
They kept on referring to it as the “Harvard Corporation” in one of the articles I read. Seems pretty straightforward to me that these universities are all about the money, education and the truth take a very far back seat.
Canker-
The real problem with university endowments is that they are now so large it is as if each university has its very own money printer.
I have been anti-school for a long time, so when my son dropped out of college after his first semester, I only did a pro forma objection.
After bouncing around for a while, he took some online test that measured his ability, and landed a nice job that he likes.
Apparently there is a move among some corporations to look for ability instead of degrees.
Paula – an oft overlooked trade/career – power company linemen.
Have a friend in Florida, over 30 years with the power company. He always says they struggle with a shortage of personnel – most lacking work ethic.
They have started a 2-year apprentice program, where trainees make $35/hour, ~ $73K annually. After graduation, pay goes to $55/hour, ~ $114K annually. Both based on straight time, Overtime is time and a half – $82.50/hour.
Storm work – hurricanes in NOLA or forest fires in Paradise, CA are triple time, $165/hour or $6.600/week. Storm work is never 8’s – 10’s, 12’s & 14’s – so overtime as well.
He has a few youngsters under his wing, 21-23 years old – that want to work – making upwards of $250K/year.
Essential workers? Yep. When they lose their jobs, we’ll be back in the 1800’s.
No doubt, it’s hard work, and the union gets their pound of flesh, but it’s still good money with plenty of job security in economic times both good and bad.
I have great respect for lineman. I put a sign up on my fence when I got my power back in only 3 days after the derecho-
“Thank you linemen.”
But damn! I think I’d rather wait for the electricity to come back on rather than have those guys out there in the middle of a storm. What’s the hurry? The wind is blowing, the thunder and lightening are roaring, and my electricity comes back on?
All power to the men who do it, but I’d freak out if my son joined them.
Some of their concern, is obviously hospitals on that same leg, but hospitals usually have sufficient emergency power backup.
Some homeowners though, have medical devices that require electricity to operate – thus, potentially life-saving timing.
In Florida, I think the wind threshold is 35 mph winds or less, before they can start repairs – simply for their safety.
These guys (and girls) are unsung heroes throughout most of the year, but in Florida – after the hurricanes – they are heroes, like the calvary and appreciatively treated as such.
No power (electricity) limits movement. The gas and diesel won’t flow out of the pump w/out electricity.
Dialysis patients need to be brought to the kidney center, usually by ambulance. It is normally a scheduled routine trip which requires diesel to power the vehicle.
At day three without power those routine transports become emergencies and further strain a fragile system.
Let Barry Soetoro be president of The Howard of the North. He be the original uppity black grifter.
When the oceans turn to blood, all that beachfront property will become worthless overnight. There go all those millions. There goes all that wealth. There goes all that influence.
My late parents were friends with a couple who lived in a house built on pilings, at Seal Beach. We stayed overnight there once. It was quite a thrill, and kind of startling, to feel the ocean waves slamming in under the house regularly.
I was thus quite amused that after the 2004 Phuket tsunami, many of these elite owners of ritzy beachfront houses began to get nervous when it dawned on them that they could be wiped clean away with little notice.
He has been the de facto president for quite some time.
In our rush for justice and reconciliation I do hope that we aren’t also rushing to tar and feather suspected scapegoats
Man had a chance to overcome the “I am better than you, so shut up” syndrome, the United States of America, where all have protected Rights and can express opinions.
Not so much anymore.
War is approaching as localized infighting like bombing State Capitols is starting. Local breakdown or even state to state breakdown will be the hallmark of the the end of the US.
Did you see what the protestors did at the State Capitol in Sacramento? They shut down the Democrat session. The Capitol police just stood by with their thumbs up their asses and did nothing. The chamber was cleared and the protestors just stayed in there and sang. The lights were turned off and they stayed in there. No charges were levied against these people who disrupted an actual legislative session. Yet, the people who walked into the National Capitol for a free tour provided by the capitol police are still rotting in DC jails.
You may be right, JohnAZ.
Who bombs state capitals? The FBI, that’s who. The same criminal organization that pretended to attempt to kidnap Governor Bitchin’ Witless (damned spellchecker…).
What were they protesting against?
Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Perhaps it was very important to keep it. And complaining after the fact only goes so far. Why are we here?
No, that’s the mistake people keep making, is thinking that we’re still a representative republic that operates on a constitution and bill of rights, and that’s why they’re so flummoxed when their elected representatives or their minions flagrantly break those laws or abrogate those rights. That was yesterday. The reality today is that we’re no longer a representative republic with a constitution and a bill of rights. We are now a neo-Marxist oligarchy. Congress is at this point little more than an American politburo consisting of Inner Party (Senate) and Outer Party (House) members. Every bit of legislation they put out reflects this. Biden basically governs by executive order.
The dollar is on its way to occupying the place held by the ruble in the Soviet Union.
Most if not all of the legislation emitted by CONgress has been written and promoted by the DC lobbyists who are busy buying the next election. The CONs get their skim off the top and it the rest trickles down to other feckless grifters. The peons (taxpayers) foot the bill.
When the Hildebeast lost all those $billions in new regulations and armaments had to be canned and the work had to be redone. This is one of the major reasons they hate Trump.
PLEASE! it’s FASCIST not Marxist.
‘Biden basically governs by executive order’.
My opinion: “Biden” is an avatar created to mask the next levels above the executive as written in Article II of the ancient document. The avatar is an empty suit.
Governing by executive order shows how far the republic, as designed, has relegated checks and balances to history’s dustbin.
Is it perhaps the FBI or CIA secretly behind all these state capitol building threats? They are trying to gin something up in order to get everyone scared and in fear of “White Supremacists”.
Was reading the Biden is going to use tomorrow’s Patriot Day of Jan. 6th to paint Trump as an overzealous threat to democracy.
Yes, he keeps harping on the same old song, no doubt telling the faithful that if Trump becomes president he’ll put black people back on the plantations, the illegals in cages, execute gays and transgenders, and swastikas will be flying from every building.
“…if Trump becomes president…”
Nice try tuco, but I’m still not voting for Trump.
Everything and everyone not democrat is a threat to democracy.
As per Leftist logic, calling Whites racist over and over will make them more racist. But it doesn’t matter. The most ancient Rule of governance is: You need an enemy. That’s the role we have been assigned. We better get ready to play it.
Are there still people in jail without a trial, or have they all gone through the kangaroo court system?
Fear has been working rather well for the past few years. It has been, and continues to be, a great tool for dismantling the Republic.
Jim, I nominate Marilyn Mosely, that gorgeous black woman who was formerly a District Attorney in Baltimore. She is, I believe, being convicted of mortgage fraud to fund two vacation homes in Florida. She’s wonderful and would make a great Harvard President.
She’s black. She’s a woman. She’s corrupt as fuck. Perfect fit for the shit cesspool that has become Harvard.
Well, there’s their answer to finding a replacement for Claudine. Whew! That was a close one! God forbid they couldn’t find anyone black, not to mention female and/or gay.
She’s too American for Harvard.
Oddly enough, she comes from a police family, yet she tried to send cops to prison over a case that couldn’t have amounted to more than simple negligence.
She wanted to make a name for herself.
What about the former Mayor of Baltimore, Ms. What Her Name? She’s black, she’s under indictment ~ what other qualifications do you need?
That’s some Ivy League material right there.
I think you also need to be gay.
Gay has a husband, some white dude. I don’t know why she dresses like a man.
I thought I read somewhere that she was gay.
That short Wakanda haircut really sends me. And those big “problem” glasses! Her husband is a very lucky maan.
Maybe “her” “husband” dresses like a woman?
tuco, (Why can’t you capitalize your name, like a real American? Instead you force me to violate the immutable laws of grammar. Damn you, you fake Mexican!), she is “Gay”! You read that everywhere you read about her/him/it.
I was reading someplace about people not understanding just how stupid these DEI folk can be. I’m beginning to see that for myself.
I’m beginning to understand some things about the difference between Affirmative Action and DIE.
RFK Jr, has come out solidly in favor of continuing Affirmative Action forever because reasons, but he does not understand that DIE is the new Affirmative Action, and it does not benefit black Americans it benefits mostly black female morons who are the children of immigrants, because for some reason American institutions of higher learning owe some sort of debt to everybody else in the world.
I was just reading some really stupid things that former Surgeon General Jerome Adams was saying, and I have to conclude that he was the beneficiary of Affirmative Action at some point, because he
Couldn’t have gotten where he is on merit.
Dr. Adams has said some things that prove that he is not completely stupid in the past.
I think that may be because, even with help from AA you still had to master the course work to become an MD.
Under DIE it is unfair that you can’t be in high places just because you are stupid, because white people used up all the smartness because of their privilege.
Wow there are so many racial undertones to this i’m not even sure how to respond. Basically there is no daylight at all between DEI and AA. Maybe a progression or a degree but essentially they’re the same thing dressed in new terminologies. A lot of people are stupid. And in many cases, whether they are white men or black women they are able to secure positions of power within society. Society rewards stupid if it benefits enough people. That is why it’s better to ask “What kinda stupid are you?” rather than “Are you stupid?”.
Biden is so stupid that he was able to become President of the United States. As commonly mentioned, never underestimate his ability to fuck things up.
Biden was never presidential material. But he was willing to sell out his country to be president. Because that’s the only way he could attain that office. And I know he’s just the latest in a long line.
Bingo, Tuco.
The Bidens are the real exemplars of white privilege. Most people don’t understand that white privilege must correspond to party privilege to truly manifest. That is why Trump does not have white privilege. His whiteness is disassociated from the party and is therefore fair game for attack. Biden’s whiteness is unquestioned because he is the “leader” of the party. At least that is the image they put out there. So he is just a good ole white granddaddy given the kids all the candy they want.
The Bidens are examples of privilege, period, as are the Obamas.
Nothing to do with skin color. It comes from a willingness to be corrupt.
What the heck is a racial undertone and why would it require a response?
There is an underlying anti-black tone within the text of your post. It felt very close to something potentially racist. And so it was difficult for me to focus on responding when I was also dealing with incorporating these harsh realities into my thought processes. But essentially my explanation is clarifying. I think it is incumbent on folks to be responsible in their race discussions. Therefore a response is actually necessary.
I’m glad you reviewed my post for racism. You could go to work for Facebook, or qualify for a job at Harvard.
Softie, I think you are being too soft.
Beryl said, “…DIE is the new Affirmative Action, and it does not benefit black Americans “. Potentially racist?!
Thinking that blacks are so inferior that they need to cheat in order to succeed (i.e., AA, DIE…), seems much more “racist” to me.
And putting people in positions of authority because they check the right boxes (race, gender, species of gender confusion…), is about as racist (“sexist”, “gender identity-ist”) as you can get.
You’re welcome, Beryl.
I’m not supportive of either of those platforms, BB. But some people do need additional support compared to others.
SoftStarLight, your light may be lovely but it’s not very bright.
For one thing, you don’t know how to express your points effectively. It doesn’t help to hedge and qualify your words constantly:
“underlying anti-black tone … very close … potentially racist … essentially my explanation is clarifying … a response is actually necessary.”
Do you really believe this stuff? It sounds like you’re regurgitating talking points from BLM but in the back of your mind you have doubts so you unconsciously soften them (or softstarlight) them.
Admission standards for Black applicants to American medical schools have been lower than those for Asians and Whites for decades. There is now serious discussion in academic medicine about having lower med school graduation standards for Blacks.
You’re right, Beryl.
I darn near cried when Bobby Kennedy said he was “in favor of a market based solution to the carbon crisis…like carbon taxes.” That is a tax on breathing.
He walked back his support of reparations saying he would create ‘economic opportunity zones’ or something to that effect.
I thought I had found a candidate to support but…silly me. Silly melanin deficient me. Excuse me while I go engage in self-flagellation. I’ve got it coming to me.
Those opportunity zones have been done, and they are a racket.
If they worked, they would have worked.
Kennedy needs to quit thinking it is still 1977.
Yeah, economic opportunity zones.
I have seen every generation of politician since 1960 bring up this albatross.
You want the minorities to self-improve. To better themselves, you need to get to the kids, tell them they are worthwhile and the future of their ethnic group. IOW, undo the damage that has happened to them since their birth by their parents’ culture.
Much controversy has arisen of Michael Ohr, the Blind Side and his adoptive family deriving benefit from the story. They accepted Michael for himself, recognized his talent, built his self image, and created a decent human being. Now how can we build that nurturing into the Black community?
Certainly not by listening to Al Sharpton, who has done more to destroy the Black population in the country than anyone else.
New definition. What is it when a person is supposed to be an academician but achieves it through plagiarism, and promotes anti-sematism on a prime university campus and brags about it to Congress, then is fired for non- or even evil performance.
All together now. RACISM!!!!!!!!!
Eff you, Sharpton.
JAZ, you nasty Nazi.
“What is it when a person is supposed to be an academician but achieves it through plagiarism…?”
Say it with me: “PROGRESS!!!”
Ber, you still believe the races are equal in all ways, right?
Sad!
I must not, Jarek. There is a racial undertone to my posts or something.
I need reeducation.
Good, Beryl. Classes may not be enough. You may need summer camp, a kind of inward bound program held in remote wilderness locations.
And you need repentance
Whites are smarter than Blacks. Is that racist or just simply true? Can the Truth be racist? Does it cease to be the Truth if it is? Perhaps you should retrace your steps and define racist.
Here’s picture of me flinging poo at Rev. Al Sharpton. Giving the one-finger peace sign to DEI.
Why is your name green? It doesn’t go anywhere. You need to be black.
Father Divine: Black is beautiful, but green is better.
Well. Then I want to be green too, Father
He meant money.
We all need to be black, Softie. Unfortunately, most of us never can be.
Is green the new black? Maybe once they rid themselves of their self-hating white base.
Thirty years ago I was ridiculing Rush Limbaugh for saying, “Green is the new red.” Well, he may have been wrong on a lot of things, but in regard to that chromatic transformation – I think he got it right.
Your comment reminds me that I heard just the other day a discussion about that book “Behind the Green Mask”. I don’t recall who wrote it. But it addresses this issue. Essentially the green movement is nothing more than cover for the greatest corporate theft of natural resources that has ever taken place in known history. Many people who think they are green are only green because of their love of money.
Author was the late Rosa Koire. It’s about the local implementation of Agenda 21.
Yes, we went from Tree Huggers, Earth First (who spiked trees endangering loggers), and Julia Butterfly (who lived up in a tree for a year) to just thinking of forests as “biomass” – as if GOING BACK TO WOOD was going to save the planet or us.
It will destroy the forests though – and they help keep the biosphere going.
They love money, but they like to control people too, what they eat, how they travel, where they live.
Liberator,
Do not throw feces at Al Sharpton. He would receive it as a sacrament, and wear it as a vestment.
As a creative writer, I’m offended that Gay is called such. But if Jim Kunstler can pretend life-saving vaccines are death rays, why can’t Harvard call her a creative writer?
The preponderance of evidence on the vaxxes is too great. Check out Mike Adams’ (the Health Ranger) video on the vaxxes and 5G.
Don’t feed the trolls!
You need to learn to allow people to have space for their lived experiences. For some people life saving vaccines are death rays. But apparently you don’t respect those experiences. When you don’t have time for someone don’t expect them to have time for you either.
Yes. Everybody gets a prize, no matter how dumb. Who is to say they aren’t the smartest of all – if there even was such a thing as intelligence. Equality is all that matters. Amoebas throw part of themselves out in front and then pull themselves forward with that part.
They have to stop doing that.
Not all of the vaccines are death rays, but none of them are ”life saving”.
That’s where he goes really wrong.
Exactly. Pfizer claimed 95% efficacy. That was a fraudulent claim as it referred to relative efficacy (and wasn’t true anyway). Absolute efficacy was 0.86%.
And after 2 shots plus a booster, you’re into negative efficacy.
Define efficacy/
Prevent the disease? It did not.
Provide T cell long term protection? It did not.
Provide protection from complications that require hospitalization, the one claim to fame they have hung onto, but now it looks like even that is a falsehood.
So what does it do, nothing except feed big bucks into the pharma group and cause oodles of sequelae when the eventual covid finally hits.
For me, I think it will take time, I hope that my immune system “heals”. I really hope that it has maintained all my lifetime history in it, and not just covid, and now pertussis.
In the meantime, do not get within a mile of a covid needle if you value your immunity.
As I understand it, they measured circulating antibodies to the spike protein, in the blood.
Did the antibodies provide protection from the virus? No.
Plus, the virus was gone by summer, 2020, when they started releasing subsequent “variants”.
Do antibodies circulate in your blood forever? No, the T and B cells take over to provide lifelong immunity.
Meanwhile, the GMO protein factories were shown to still be functioning in 20% of people 6 months after they were injected.
Very dangerous for those people.
Actually, the first variant released was the UK one, and that wasn’t in summer, it was in Dec. 2020, right on time for the release of the GMO injectable.
And that was done deliberately, as we know from the email stating so from the news reader.
In the meantime, I checked on a former friend to see if he is still crazy. Yep. Here’s his post about contracting “covid”.
“I’m bummed that I may have been a transmission vector. I’m also bummed that this may be my first roll of the dice for Long COVID.
I’m grateful, though, that years of masking delayed it this long. I’m grateful that G and B have tested negative so far. And I’m grateful that the vaccine and boosters have made this case so mild that I didn’t even know I had it. A bit of a runny nose and throat congestion is much better than what this virus has brought to so many others. And I have science to thank for that.”
His wife quit her teaching job because the principal refused to force the students to mask, and she thought that the kids were going to kill her with covid.
They both were never seen without masks, until she showed up one day with no mask, but a mask-shaped fungal infection around her mouth.
Hmmm, guess that taught her, but not him.
I nominate Sam Brinton; he has a PhD & he’s out of jail. He’ll look absolutely fabulous at graduation ceremonies in his heavy eyeshadow, red pumps, satin dress, & fishnet stockings. (Ok all those fashion accroutemonts might be stolen from airport luggage, but that’s another matter)
What are you folks, Transphobes?
What’s Ibram X Kendi’s real name? Willie Brown? Frank Jackson? I’ve read black Africans laugh at Americans who adopt a tribal appellation and wear leopard skins draped around their necks. They find it funny, and ridiculous.
Real Africans don’t have a high opinion of American blacks.
You are right, I saw it in 1972 in Mombasa, Kenya on a port visit. The Blacks on the ship were considered uppity.
brh – What’s Ibram X Kendi’s real name? Willie Brown? Frank Jackson?
Close. Ibram Henry Rogers.
An old school physician that I know–that is, one that believes in actual biology–opined some new names for surgical genital mutilation in the name of self-delusion of pretending to be a different sex than what a person is biologically. He calls removal and mutilation of male genitalia to “become” a woman “pussification.” As for female genitalia being surgically modified into a something resembling a penis, he calls it an “addadictomy.”
In the Socialist dictatorship utopia that the Democrat scum are working day and night to establish permanently in the U.S., such self-delusion is a central part of the ideology: the Socialists who do nothing but destroy wealth will be in charge of running the economy; criminals who are nothing but evil parasites will run free, while productive Americans are harassed and persecuted; American military power will be squandered on propping up corrupt Nazi-loving dictatorships in Ukraine while an endless invasion of foreigners–many of them sworn enemies of the United States–invade the country unfettered across the southern border; the government will literally use policies that will lead to millions of Americans starving to death or freezing in the dark within a few years, supposedly to save them from the remote to non-existent possibility of dying from climate change 50-75 years or more from now; all while the Socialist elites, who profess “equality” are making sure that they are immune to their own evil, and everyone else can just take one for the team.
The Democrat scum elites are evil to the core, just like Hitler and Stalin, and must be stopped, period. I’m not really caring, anymore, about how that will be done. The Democrat elites have made their own bed of evil–how they are made to sleep in it is now in the realm of “whatever works” in my book.
You’re onto something, my friend.This experimental ‘Gender Reassignment Surgery’ was pioneered 80 years ago by SS Doctors Coburg, Schumann & Mengele in the Treblinka, Auschwitz & Bergen-Belsen death camps in Poland. Children were cut up & mutilated to fit various crank & perverse theories, just like what’s happening at Vanderbilt and in Boston today. It’s the same evil pricks, just a different century.
No, it was started by the Institute of Sexology in Weimar. The Nazis burned that evil place and overthrew Weimar.
Maybe it was a German thing then, Jarek. Altho the Soviet Union had something similar in their Gulags which I think was called Dept. X. Their experiments were mostly geared to how much work could be gotten out of a gulag prisoner on how little food, how many hours a prisoner could last at -50°F temps logging in the forest, and the amount of mosquito bites a worker could sustain before dying.
Fun stuff like that, maximizing labor on a strictly economical basis.
While National Socialism dreamed of created Men like unto the Gods, Stalin dreamed of creating the perfect worker by crossing humans and gorillas.
There are the people you allied with.
“While National Socialism dreamed of created Men like unto the Gods […]’.
By sterilising and/or murdering anyone who didn’t fit their sick, blasphemous ideology. Yeah, we know.
And the Nazi supermen got their asses kicked by ordinary American GIs.
And yeah now Europe is being turned Black and Brown. Good work, Zogbots.
You prefer Stalin’s gorilloid workers…..
People who create false dichotomies are people who argue in bad faith. Not that anyone is surprised, from a genocide apologist. It must be difficult to live with all that cognitive dissonance.
The blasphemy of your pagan idols remains.
Corporations (the end process of free enterprise) are against nations. Money has no loyalty – but you think it next to God.
Freedom too, right? Wrong. Freedom doesn’t stand by itself. Freedom to do what? Good things or bad things? Right or Wrong? It’s not morally neutral. Not a blank check!
For all the folks hesitant about Trump:
1. Close your eyes.
2. Picture yourself on January 21st, Biden has been sworn in for the next four years, four more years of corrupt DOJ, four more years of open border, four more years of phony climate change shit, four more years of inflation, reducing real wages, oncoming UBI in answer, real estate in the tank from high interest rates, the Yuan becoming the base monetary unit, the cities continuing to deteriorate, the cabinet composed of members of the WEF, He is a lame duck demented insane president.
3. Now open your eyes and if you voted for Biden, kick yourself.
That’s why some people are backing Ron DeSantis or RFK Jr.
Who do not have a chance unless Trump is convicted. If he is, Katie bar the door, as he commands almost half the US vote. I do not see any candidate that can pull off the unification of the country that is needed. Trump included, but at least he will not sell us out to the highest political bidder.
Could it be that the next president may face the dissolution of the country and how to do it?
My choices Trump, then DeSantis, then Ramaswamy. Haley, too Neocon.
My fears, Any Democrat, including the wolf in sheep’s clothing, RFK, Jr., and Christie. Throw in Romney too.
“My choices…”
You don’t have a choice JAZ, none of us do. We will be given the overlord that has been chosen for us.
Trump – like everyone else to occupy the Oval Office – gave us nothing but excuses for why he betrayed us.
But I’m glad you are not getting re-boosted. Live and learn…
Live and learn. You got that right.
Too much faith in the fraudulent charade called the US election process, JohnAZ, my friend. The ailments you mentioned so ably will not be resolved by an election. Justice must be paid by the evildoers, the scum known as the deep state. They control the voting machines and the major cities. The Republican scum do nothing to change this.
As of today we are mere spectators hitching a ride on a runaway train. Enjoy the view while you can.
You forgot some things, JohnAZ. CBDC’s, elimination of the 2nd amendment, I’m even thinking possibly making Christmas a non-national holiday, like Eid or Rosh Hashana. You know, to be fair. After all, Obama said we’re not a Christian nation. And it’s not equitable to have a Christian national holiday with so many non-Christians in the country.
Tuco. Here are some facts about Christmas.
According to the 2020 census:
64% of Americans are Christian,
30% are non-affiliated with a religion
6% are Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist.
Now January we have MLK Monday for 16%
May. Memorial Day for the Dead veterans, July 4th for the entire nation minus the malcontents, September for the working people, etc.
Christmas is not just a religious holiday as most of the unaffiliated love Santa Claus and the sweetness of the season. 64% of the country makes Christmas the most people celebrated holiday except maybe the 4th.
Obama said we are not a Christian nation?
Delusional as usual. The Left’s hero was an idiot and history will remember him as such.
AZ: Personally, I think history will remember him as a gay Kenyan who was married to a man, Mike Robinson, who changed his name to Michelle and cross dressed. Most of the rest of the world already knows this and laughs at americanus boobus for its’ gullibility and ignorance. Check out the St. Louis U forensics dept analysis of Mike/Michelle’s anatomic ratios; its a BOY!!!
What do you think of Kratom?
“History” will “remember” Barry-O as the savior of the USSA from white supremacy, and set us back on the path of becoming a mongrelized collection of rabid, intolerant, gender-confused race-hustling idiots – and that is a good thing!
It’s a boy Mrs. Robinson. It’s a boy…
Check out the smirks on the faces of Barry-O and Big Mike in the photos in which Big Mike’s yuge! “clitoris” – what else could it be? – is making tents underneath his dress. Watch that BBC swing on the Ellen Degenerate Show!
A son. A son.. A son…
Uh-huh sure neurodoc. You’re more insane than I thought.
‘Most of the world already knows this…’ the batshit insanity that passes for commentary here at CFN is truly nuts.
@neurodoc
Michelle is more manly than Barry we can all agree on that and it is fun to dish out abuse to drive the progressive rabble nuts but until there is a gene sample one can’t actually comment on this with serious authority.
@jarek
Kratom is open to abuse and in low doses useful but at higher doses can cause mental issues.
@jr
Another dose of serious projection.
Look at your posts all of them unhinged.
The other day on the topic of reporting, I was commenting on the fact that reporters today do not seem to understand what their job is, and musing that perhaps these people are learning something in journalism school that differs from what we always thought of as journalism.
Come to find out, that is exactly what is happening.
Jan Jekielek
@JanJekielek
Top tier journalism schools are in fact teaching this sort of “journalism”, dubbed activist journalism, which is in essence propaganda creation.
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
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Jan 3
There’s a certain type of journalist with an increasingly utilitarian outlook, i.e. it’s so important the Good Guys win that the ends justify the means and fairness and accurately are subservient to that. This was subtext for a long time but is now being said explicitly.
10:29 AM · Jan 4, 2024
from Washington, DC
So, is there any form of higher education left that hasn’t been commiefied?
Remember Superman, Christopher Reeves version?
Lois Lane saying:
“ If there is no news to report, it is our job to create the news”.
The news has always been fake. It’s like history. The people who are on top make it and write it.
The same Nate Silver who created the map of America if only men voted?
The media’s raison d’être SHOULD be presenting the unadorned facts, i.e. , the truth as far as can be determined. This SHOULD be their default position; otherwise, they become propagandists, and apparently the mainstream are and have been mostly propagandists my entire life and then some.
Unfortunately, as in Orwell’s prophetic “1984,” mainstream media pronouncements default to “all lies,” because they are.
It is the job of the press to keep an eye on the government to prevent the slide into totalitarianism. Instead right now, the press is supporting every drive into a dictatorship it can, in the name of “saving democracy”. Indeed, the press is insuring the descent into communism.
We do not have a press in this country just a duplicate of Russia’s Tass.
The press is as evil as the Biden Mob.
Press just prints what they are paid to print. The Biden Mob (corporations) are paying them so we have the dreck they churn out for profit regardless of facts.
Agreed JohnAZ – we are sinking into fascism flavored communism.
“Scientists” find what they are paid to find. If you’ve got the money, you can hire a team of “research scientists” to prove conclusively that water is not wet, fire is not hot.
It’s up to sentient beings to smell the BS…now I just wish I could convince my CNN loving family. Not gonna happen.
Max Blumenthal, Grayzone, said it very well and very succinctly:
The people who report the news today lack two important attributes:
First, many are not very intelligent.
Second, very few are critical thinkers.
My take has been that the people reporting the news prioritize keeping their “contacts” and “access”–because without them, they can’t report the news. Consequently, they try to avoid reports that will embarrass or anger powerful people.
When the vast majority of powerful people hold a certain position, the mainstream media is sure to report it: vaccines are good, the economy is good, Israel is not deliberately killing civilians, and so forth.
But Blumenthal says it better and more succinctly: since most MSM reporters are NOT CRITICAL THINKERS, the parrot the official line.
I’m glad they’re telling the truth about the war in the Ukraine, how the Russian Army is on the verge of mutiny, how the clever Ukranian David is taking out the Russian Goliath’s tanks, how Putin is almost out of time because the economic sanctions have decimated Russia. NOT!
That’s what the US government and the Republicrats want the public to think, but that’s not reality.
They are clever about it. There are few real details. Unlike Vietnam, or even the Iraq, there are very few American reporters covering real action.
Even with the data showing the COVID mRNA shots are bad news, even with people individually connecting the dots and noticing that more of their family/friends/acquaintances seem to have odd or unexpected diseases, including unexpected death, the reporters appear to not be curious enough to investigate this turn of events.
Independent thinkers are few–outside of CFN, of course. JHK is an independent thinker on many issues. Hopefully he can have Max Blumenthal as a guest on one of his podcasts.
“The people who report the news today lack two important attributes:
First, many are not very intelligent.
Second, very few are critical thinkers.”
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“Psychologist Stanley Milgram found that 80% of the population do not have the psychological or moral resources to defy an authority’s order, no matter how illegitimate the order is.
Therefore, only 20% have critical thinking capacity.”
armstrongeconomics.com/behavioral-economics/stanley-milgram-the-reality-of-society/
I am coming to the conclusion that critical thinking capacity and an open mind equate, and find that you can not reason with people that do not have an open mind.
The underlying trend to which JHK alludes will result in 1) lawyers that don’t know anything about the law (making it easier for them to simply follow orders from ‘above’), and 2) doctors who can’t pass a year of real biochemistry and anatomy, but can ‘pass’ an affirmative action version of thereof. These doctors won’t need to have the ability to reason out diagnostic issues and plan treatments; they’ll just follow the directives of big pharma and the Rockefeller ‘health’ care model. Think, your doctor and lawyer as meat robots.
Many of our current doctors passed their exams and spent the last few years poisoning people around the globe.
I am not sure the education matters as much as you think it does.
“I am not sure the education matters as much as you think it does.”
I think it does, and I think that is what neurodoc is saying.
Modern day “education” strips the individual of the capacity for reason, and replaces it with a rabid adherence to the Narrative. Gotta pay that mortgage and maintain that social status!
One does not get that stupid (i.e., pushing the Vaxx despite the obvious red flags) without a lot of help.
Blackbird: You are exactly correct. The trends I mention in medicine are WHY the Cov hysteria and the vaxx hoaxes were allowed to happen BY DOCTORS. Some were simply greedy, some were just scared of losing their stable hospital/clinic salaries and kept their mouths shut, and others, e.g. AAPS doctors tried to speak out to their patients in private, if not in public (in fear of losing med licenses).
The medicine residents I taught until a few years ago, when I retired from academic teaching, were 90% what we, in the 80’s, called PDR docs. They practiced strictly from guidelines from big pharma. PERIOD!! That’s the link between the watering down of medical education and the rising role of Rockefeller/Big pharma guidelines. Any MD that could reason beyond the Rocky/BigPharma mandates (less than ~10% of residents, and less than 30% of full Doctors) questioned the testing, questioned the viral agent, and refused the vaxx). I wont even get into the staggering number of strange deaths among relatively young MDs and PhD immunologists/virologists who, in public, questioned the hoax.
Blackbirds’ ‘NARRATIVE’ is run by Big pharma which is owned by Rockefeller corporate entities in large part.
Of course it matters. I was highlighting the point that “educated” types are murdering the masses.
Many of the ‘educated’ types were simply greedy; many, many others were educated after around the mid 90’s when Big Pharma gained control of medical education AND medical practice via Rockefeller agencies (e.g. the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, LCME, funded in large part by the Rockefeller Foundation, and Big Pharma). The latter group tends to practice by mandates from ‘above.’ By above I mean hospital and clinic medical directors who benefitted financially from the cov/vaxx hoax.
Yes, ND, I know much of this.
I always appreciate your contributions.
Gee, you mean the term Differential Diagnosis is a thing of the past. The descent of medicine into Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants as the gateway is catastrophic. Primary Care is now totally cookbook, just check off the boxes. Senior MDs at the specialist level are saving what is left. But for how long?
Seeing as how Ms Gay aped a lot of Dr. Carol Swain’s work, and it was found to be with enough gravitas(?) for the thief to land the job she has recently been removed from, then I humbly suggest Dr Carol Swain replace the likely right now, not so Gay.
That would make sense, but I think too many at Harvard are afraid of what Dr. Swain might do if she were to be in charge.
She seems to be a no-nonsense sort of woman.
Aped..is she a gorilla?
One you firmly and enthusiastically believe all people are the same, you will have no interest in your nation at all, in a deep sense. Indeed, you will “find yourself” trying to enact diversity or make it happen. Trying to increase the amount of minorities to prove that they are just as good. Putting them in key positions since they are the same. Favoring them over your own kind to show your own virtue. It’s a pseudo religion for many. Plus there’s a lot of money in the dispossession of Whites. You can be both holy and esteemed for being holy, and get rich all the while. You can set out to be good and end up doing well. No contradiction for the ladies and the soft laddies who are like them and who love them.
‘It’s a pseudo religion for many. ‘
And delusionality for most. Socially sanctioned delusions are very strongly held and impossible to argue against by the deluded person. For many, the delusion becomes their identity.
Worse is that many (most) whites think that pox are not just equal, but better. They repeat the rhetoric about how great the world will be when non-whites are running it.
Here is the problem, RD3, the Non-Whites will never run the world. Collectively, they do not have a clue what to do.
Of course they won’t really be running anything, but the masters of the universe will continue to turn over nominal “control” to the primitives so they can exact their brutal revenge on the people who attempted to raise them out of their savagery. Its already happening all over what used to be known as Christendom.
If you told John who those people were, he would be for them and against you.
RD3
In the Israeli war, who do you consider to be the primitives and which the Masters of the Universe?
Jarek
Same question. You think I would favor the primitives, you sure have not been reading my posts accurately. I favor whoever is willing to work for their futures.
We appreciate your racist honesty, you pos.
We control America – Netanyahu, Ariel, etc
Are you calling them liars? If not, how do you feel about being a golem?
You can always, always count on the racist thugs to drop a line or two here at CFN.
Where are you on the genocide in Gaza?
“Wondering about who the Harvard Board of Trustees might consider for president of that august outfit once Claudine Gay moves to her new professorship in the graduate program for creative writing?”
Bozo the Clown would be an improvement and a major upgrade in that position. Or – said another way – replacing one over-woke and under-qualified Clown with a much better and actually qualified Clown. And as far as we know, Bozo never plagiarized anything in his life… except perhaps his big red nose. Lots of people probably had that long before he did.
“We could expect President Kendi to double-down on the institution’s commitment to advancing marginalized people at all costs.”
Or as said another way… double-down on the institution’s commitment to advancing incompetent people who like to look arrogant and angry and who seem to not like lighter-skin-toned people one damn bit. A torch-bearer for today’s extremist religion of worshiping the god of Wokeness and erasing all vestiges of merit, fairness, honesty, ethics, and beneficial legacy values. Crazed Woke People who are piloting bulldozers all over America to totally level all things good and decent. Destroyers, not builders. Conflict-sowers, not cooperation mentors. Self-seeking egoists and not those who honestly seek to salvage and build up formerly respected institutions.
“… whether imagining oneself to be a woman is the same as being a woman.”
Sort of like when you’re hungry. You can imagine yourself as being fed. Or, you can actually eat something. Let’s see which of these truly satisfies.
“…if Harvard renewed its Covid vaccine mandate, would Harvard students be intelligent enough to decline the injections?”
‘Intelligence’ is now viewed as racist and not-being ‘Inclusive’ and generally being in just plain bad taste in our Woked Up, Effed Up, Spirit of Insanity of our Times World. Intelligence is not required to get into higher education these days. In fact, having intelligence just about guarantees you won’t even be admitted in… and if by some mistake you are… you will be promptly dispatched out the door while being called all kinds of names you won’t like.
Try being a smart kid in school in these days. Try showing the slightest bit of independence from the Hive Mind. See what the teacher does to you – and then the rabid mob of Woke-ettes that will descent upon you in a New York Second like vultures feasting on a freshly-dead carcass. It is not a pretty picture.
Being smart these days in most life circles is a sure and quick ticket to ruining your life.
It’s sad… it’s pathetic… it’s wrong… and it sucks. But remember. We not only live in Bizarro World. We are living in Bozo’s World. Where Clowns rule. Where when any of us steps out of line… someone will give a fat red nose and muss-up our hair and pull chairs out from under us. And then when you finally cry ‘Uncle’ to make it stop… they will offer you a new high position at Harvard University.
Intelligence NOT required.
CFN’rs
The protracted lack of comment by “Q” is vaguely ominous….
And Kesa too.
OG,
I do not worry about Kesa…Too mean to die….
I know…
I hope Q (I call him “the ‘Stick”) did not run into Night Owl in some dark alley.
Some of us are already taking up the ‘Stick’s fallen banner. Long live the American-English language!
It’s so weird that you simp for a guy that gets pleasure out of abusing people.
I only make fun of it because he is an asshole who can’t do what he claims.
If he could do it, I would at least respect him a smidgen.
“Simp”? Ouch – that’s a low blow. You could have called me an “apologist” and been more accurate and less insulting. But, no harm. You are entitled to your opinion.
“…a guy that gets pleasure out of abusing people.” I don’t interpret the Stick’s comments that way at all.
I appreciate Q Shtik’s attempts to defend the American-English language. As we all know, language is upstream of culture, and culture is upstream of nationhood, and a nation is something we in the USSA don’t have, but seem to have been on track to developing – until the recent (post-1964) past.
I do think it is unfortunate that the Stick occasionally misses true crimes against language and grammar and instead attacks what are obviously typos. In a way, I think that provides kind of a comic relief to his otherwise didactic persona.
And remember, the Stick is an old timer. Asking old folks to change their ways is like asking a battleship to do donuts in a parking lot.
JAZ is another old battleship. My responses to his comments often appear mean-spirited to me when I re-read them. That is never my intent, but on the other hand, it is so frustrating when an otherwise intelligent person (in my opinion) falls back into a long-used and comfortable rut.
Fortunately for you and I, Owl, I doubt that either of us will have the good fortune to hit 80. We will die with our minds as sharp as a switchblade. Let us use that weapon against those that deserve it.
Let’s just say I view his behavior in a very different way.
Nothing personal and not meant as a low blow.
Q said he was taking a break.
I believe he realized he had gone a bit too far in his poor attempts at corrections.
E., Q is still alive. I checked the obits in his hometown, Qs name was not listed.
Thanks.
Words of wisdom to Dr. Levine from Tyler Durden in Fight Club —
“Just because you stick feathers up your ass, doesn’t make you a chicken”
Epstein Revelation theory:
“Among them are Tom Pritzker, the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, f. . ., former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, . . . ”
Ding ding ding!
Re the Pritzker Factor, you read it here months ago.
Speaking of ding, could a name be more idiotic than Feigl-Ding?
Re Hahvard Prez pick, I say Kamala Harris.
It would check the female and “black” boxes, plus solve a major problem for the Dem. Party.
She would be no worse than Larry Summers.
Some people are saying the Epstein thing is just a shiny toy meant to distract. I don’t see how that is the case but that is a thought that is out there.
“Some people are saying the Epstein thing is just a shiny toy meant to distract.” ~ SoftStarLight
Perhaps this is what they are talking about:
Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Reveals Everything He Knows
youtube.com/watch?v=cUMX18F-ERI
The Epstein Interview
armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/conspiracy/the-epstein-interview/
“Based on where they put him, I knew he would be found dead. It was not a question of “IF” but WHEN. As I wrote before his death, “No high profile case is EVER allowed to go to trial where things the government does not want to be revealed could ever become public.” ~ Martin Armstrong
“There is NO SUCH thing as a fair trial in New York City. Trump is doomed there, and this is all about interfering in the 2024 election.” ~ Martin Armstrong
Mark Pittman & the Bankers
armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/press/mark-pittman-the-bankers/
When a real distraction is needed you’ll see the UFO stories coming out.
They’ve already come out.
To leave a response at this stage in this JHK semester borders on the absolute pointless. If collectively we have not gotten the point and realize the growth we have achieved, and with respect to the maker of this twice weekly feast haven’t gotten it through our heads that HE must be tired of beating his knuckles bloody on our behalf and has grown weary of the slog through the miasma of trying to release the Kraken asleep in all of us contrary to our
convenient excuse to carp over things which we know requires action but from the comfort of our anonymity allow someone else to carry the water and weekly express our indignation that nothing changes!
His writing is mothers milk to this scribe but I cannot ignore the weary in his voice and in a “ John the Baptist “ sense say I’ve run the course now it’s up to all of you to get up off your collective asses and impact in some way of your own to affect a change rather than watching reruns of NCIS to come knocking at your door delivering a panacea to your lack of action.
Granted this sounds like a visit to the wood shed or a latter day “ Sermon on the mount “ but I assure you that I’m no more qualified to lay claim to truth than any of the rest of us.
Im simply trying to convey that the leader of the band is growing tired and all the commenting on his prescient words does gives us nothing but carpal tunnel syndrome.
I don’t understand what this means either. Who are you? I don’t get a sense that Mr. K is tired. It seems like he has a reservoir of energy to challenge the current status quo. And he encourages his audience to effective action. Unless of course I simply dwell in some sort of alternative reality? And secondly the comment board is here and is available for us to comment. And so therefore I shall comment. If it is here and I oblige myself to participate why am I the one that is wrong? I think some people just enjoy placing people into their places and dressing people down. If you have carpal tunnel then you need to focus on ergonomics and getting yourself optimally set up.
How’s your scone? Mine’s a little dry.
That second sentence of yours JV is quite the run-on.
What if one morning JHK made a post and absolutely no one commented? Wouldn’t that be weird? If that did happen, I would be the first to suggest some kind of dark force or miasma working against us by not allowing posts to take, kind of like when you include a hyperlink and you are forever placed in “awaiting moderation” hold.
As long as The Great Swamp and Deep State persist JHK will have something to enlighten us upon. We must continue to stay sharp, keep alert, and always question/criticize everything that is going on in the world around us these days.
The final chapter has not yet been written, it has far from begun.
Yes, it’s not much more than a whole lot of church basement-hall bingo game retirees and semi-retirees scone-munching, tea-sipping and yapping while the guy in front– JHK– calls out the numbers.
I wonder what we win. Maybe free admission, tea, scones and yapping for the next game. Oh yay. Gotta mark my new calendar. Life’s good.
Alphabet soup spill in aisle 6!
“Im simply trying to convey that the leader of the band is growing tired and all the commenting on his prescient words does gives us nothing but carpal tunnel syndrome.”
If you find nothing of value here – then go away. Please. And save your sanctimonious squaking for those who wish to be berated.
Quit shitting on the birdfeeder the rest of us find so worthwhile.
Grandpa Elysianfield Spitroast
“I will get my relative anarchy one way or another.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
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“Zaz,
Go to prison, and get it both ways…and often.” ~ elysianfield January 5, 2024 at 12:32 pm
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Thanks, but I’ll leave your obvious State-enabled fantasies to you.
” State-enabled fantasies ”
Zaz,
You might not be interested in those fantasies, but those fantasies are interested in you….
That’s why some of us are anarchists, hon.
…Who do you think would fare better if they ended up in your State penitentiary?
Me, an anarchist who hates the State (and cops, if perhaps not necessarily as people), or you who, if recalled, has admitted hereon that they’ve gone after anarchists?
Perhaps you speak from direct experience by your scenario there.
Zaz,
Oh, ex cops are usually targeted and murdered. Soy Bois are kept around as catamites and traded around for favors and cigarettes. I expect you would thrive.
Elysianfield, you/we are already being fucked by your State you so seem to fellate. Prison is just its matryoshka.
You keep helping to support my case, of course, so thank you.
Zaz,
Fellation in defense of liberty is no vice…~Emma Goldwater
I guess by that logic, being fucked by the State is all about liberty.
Bend over yet again folks, cuz ‘field sez, ‘liberty’.
BTW, you seemed to sort of side-step my question about who you think would fare better if they ended up in your State penitentiary, unless you are or were a cop or something along that line? If so, what is or was it?
George Carlin – American Dream
cued at 5:49
youtu.be/l-o_XCDTyB4?si=uKU1QAXXrMzIF4yz&t=349
Zaz,
…Were/was….
Cop? What?
…Cop yes. In Mayberry.
Death, Or ‘Popo The Prison Power-Bottom’?
Mayberry? Is that a joke?
In any case, if a cop, your projections aside, in your pen scenario, they might offer you a choice between death or ‘power bottom’… while a local anarchist might manage to save your ass.
Around the world, they are trying to do so in general anyway, so probably best to lend some respect and support, because you never know when you might need one, like inside these prison States.
Mayberry? Sort of.
A serious question, Zaz;
Do you own a weed whacker?
“Around the world, they (anarchists) are trying to do so in general anyway, so probably best to lend some respect and support, because you never know when you might need one, like inside these prison States.
Zaz,
Call an Anarchist for assistance? My advice? Call Ghostbusters instead, you’ll be better off.
…I’ll bet you own a fine collection of fantasy swords, throwing stars and nun-chucks….
Al Charlatan makes morons look intelligent.
He’s right there with Rachel Madcow.
Well, ladies and germs;
Apparently Wayne LaPierre has been booted from his directorship of the NRA;
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/01/05/nra-trial-wayne-lapierre-new-york-guns/7381704258137/
Over the years, I donated thousands to the NRA, of which I am a life member since 1969. I might have contributed to several nice silk ties and maybe cuff links for his wardrobe.
…I hope he die…I hope he momma die….
Thoughts and prayers for Wayne…
E – during the Hurricane Katrina “response” in NOLA, two things were going on – well, a lot more than two, but as related to 2A – two things.
Private security contractor Blackwater Security (NKA XE) – the first boots-on-the-ground, were going door-to-door, illegally confiscating legally owned weapons from Americans.
Two things were being observed:
1) How will Americans react by being disarmed at their front door by thugs dressed in black and armed to the teeth?
2) Far more importantly, how will all other Americans react – those everywhere else, outside NOLA.
Those being disarmed, had very little choice, and capitulated, handing over their guns.
More importantly, not a fucking peep from anyone else – NRA included! That’s the day I stopped giving money to Mr. LaPierre.
Every year I get the annual call. Every year, I ask the solicitor, “Please have Mr. Lapierre give me a call, explaining why he was silent as law-abiding American citizens were being illegally disarmed after Katrina”.
“Thank you, sir, have a nice day.”
One of the many observations of the Katrina “response” psyop – Americans will give up their weapons, under enough duress and no one else will come to their defense.
The DOJ-DHS-FBI will now operate based on this trial run observation – coming door-to-door, and not expecting much resistance.
For all the big talk, many will capitulate – enough that we may not ever recover. We’ll see. I’m cautiously optimistic – very cautiously, and don’t hold out much hope.
Ron, how did Blackwater know where the guns were? There is no gun registration in LA. I believe. Even in the communist state I live in guns don’t have to be registered. Sure they might know about stuff purchased at a gun shop with a nics check. Hand those over with a thank you. About the rest of the stuff good luck with that. An extensive search would take hours if not days.
SEF – simple. All they had to do was go door-to-door.
Consider the conditions. Dark out, no power, streets wet or flooded. No food or water.
Anyone on your property or coming to your door is suspect, or worse. In those conditions, who answers their door unarmed?
“Thank you, sir, we’ll take that weapon for now. We’ll be providing security.”
The goal was not specifically gun confiscation, it was to restore and maintain civil order – gun confiscation was just part of the larger process.
However taken, it’s still egregious, unconstitutional and unacceptable – by me anyway.
More than answering their doors armed, in those circumstances, it’s generally best to advertise – show and give notice that you’re armed. Twas easy pickin’s for the “authorities”.
I posted this last time Ron talked about Katrina, but I don’t know if anyone watched it.
Only two minutes and it is msm, reporting from the streets. Worth a watch.
.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8trl69kzo&t=6s
Paula – is this the correct link? Tried a few times (as before) and can’t find anything relevant by pasting in my browser – may try typing in manually.
Odd – typing manually brings up 5 hits. Two of which are your postings in JHK’s blog. The others, N/A. (?)
Link worked for me. That is some fucked up shit right there. NG armed and willing to shoot their fellow countrymen.
SEF – that was 2005. Attitudes have changed a little since then – American citizens more at risk. /s
Goes both ways though. DJT authorized 20K NG to be present at the Capitol on J6.
Pelosi – ultimately responsible for security – refused. She was afraid they would honor their oath – defending the Constitution against domestic enemies.
When CW2.0 starts, there will be a military contingent on both sides – as always. There will be winners and there will be losers.
Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, wrote a blog – From the Wilderness.
His coverage and postings on Katrina, were updated hourly at the time. Almost real time coverage of the storm and “response”. If you have an interest and some time, read the archives.
Ruppert was an investigative genius and could digest and present complex information in layman’s terms – not unlike JHK. Mike, due to his background, just made a few more sinister enemies along the way.
He was always a step ahead of them, but they finally got him. His website was where I was introduced to Catherine Austin Fitts, many years ago.
Mike Ruppert has always been a hero in my eyes.
I, too, learned much from Mike Ruppert. He did fantastic work!
That’s why he’s dead.
It was probably a suicide because he seemed long done with what might be considered threatening to TPTB.
Murdering him then would have been way too little too late. He did mention apparent previous attempts. But who knows for sure?
I’ve said this before elsewhere but he seemed to have his heart in the right place, just in the wrong profession and/or surrounding political, as well as personal/psychological contexts.
“How will Americans react by being disarmed at their front door by thugs dressed in black and armed to the teeth?”
Ron,
If one in every one hundred gun owners resisted, the system would become stressed. I expect that the percentage would be higher than 1%.
Boston University has a long and storied history of handing out fake credentials to unqualified Negroes. The granddaddy of them all, that communist, plagiarist, adulterer, liar, fraud, deviant, and lover of orgies with under age prostitutes, the man with his own federal holiday, received a fake and plagiarized doctorate from Boston University. The “university” acknowledged that his thesis, and many of his other works, were plagiarized, but refused to rescind the doctorate.
” that communist, plagiarist, adulterer, liar, fraud, deviant, and lover of orgies with under age prostitutes, the man with his own federal holiday, received a fake and plagiarized doctorate…”
RD,
Well nobody is perfect….
Jesse Helms and John East, bravely and courageously, attempted to stall the vote on creating a holiday for that scumbag. They insisted that all of the FBI files and other government documents related to that whole sorry period of Marxist revolution be made public so a legitimate assessment of the man could be made. When that was denied, they set about to interview every then-living FBI agent involved in surveillance of that creep. Much of it was put in congressional record and/or published in Chronicles and Sam Francis columns. Still, the quisling dirtbags, gave that disgrace of a human a federal holiday as a big “fuck you” to middle America.
That low-rent scumbag fraud would be lucky for people to judge him by his skin color and not the content of his character.
I encourage every decent American to scratch that day out on your calendar and write in Lee’s birthday instead.
The day highlighted on my calendar is November 8, 2024. That’s a CFN I don’t want to miss.
What does “CFN” stand for?
Clusterfuck Nation– this blog.
What does RD3 stand for?
Rubber Duck
What about the 3?
Grandson of Rubber Duck
LOL thanks.
You’re such a classy bloke RD3.
Thanks. Maybe you’re coming around.
Spray tan and special sauce. I’m worried that your monthly expenditure on wet wipes is going to bankrupt the family.
But we have ‘Juneteenth’ now too, which is even bigger than MLK Day, and was set up to replace the 4th of July as a National Holiday.
At least the weather is nicer in June. Who the heck wants a day off in the middle of the winter? 24,000,000 government employees. All get the day off or an extra days pay ( FF, cops and other supposedly essential employees). Nobody works and I don’t notice a difference. Tells me at least 50% of the paper pushing leeches aren’t needed.
In Ct, the Gov is bragging about tremendous job growth in the State. Turns out the job growth is nearly 100% in social service programs, various welfare orgs, diversity facilitators in the schools & colleges, DEI grifters, Do Gooders assisting illegal aliens & people evicted for not paying their rent, & various needle exchange schemes. Every lefty cause from the past 50 years is govt funded and operates with a huge staff of parasites. It’s a bullsh#t economy that produces nothing of value.
There are hardly any real jobs & real businesses any longer. For example, the Main Street in the little Ct town I grew up in had a hardware store, Western Auto, a pharmacy, 2 small grocers, a bank, a few locally owned restaurants, and a barber. It’s all gone, replaced by a Federally connected welfare agency, a State office for paying people’s heating bills, the Board of Ed, and town offices. You still see people on Main Street, but they’re govt Zombies, not real people.
We’ve got Anal Pride Month & Juneteeth battling for hegemony in the Month of June.
You should have gone with Men like unto the Gods (it would have taken awhile!), instead you all fought for the Global Slave Masters.
Israel has used negative eugenics to cure many of the diseases of its population. Negative as in asking sufferers not to have children. They’re against us using eugenics of course. And most people just accept their opinion without thinking about it: It’s Bad! The sheep who have accepted the wolves as their shepherds.
The “Men like unto Gods” declared war on us 12/8/41. We had no choice but to come over & clean house.
i wonder what her name is, and her photo???
oregon-nurse-suspected-swapping-fentanyl-ivs-with-tap-water-causing-10-deaths
Good question. A number of fat, slovenly white women have been involved in actions of this type, and they immediately name them and show their picture. Must be a pox, or gay guy.
Oh goody….JHK hits all the phobic notes in what he thinks is such a witty post and the slobbering rubes pile on w glee. C’mon now admin, don’t be a wimpy coward and not post this.
I have yet to read it. LOL
@JR
Speaking about cowardice!
Why not actually refute his post point by point.
Instead, you simply do a drive by smear which literally takes next to nothing in the way of thought or discernment.
Easy, Benr.
Because he does not have a leg to stand on, no issue that makes any sense.
Name calling only is a sign of the Troll.
J6 POLITICAL PRISONERS, YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.
I wonder how this will pan out?
(Pan out a good prospector phrase)
hxxps://www.judicialwatch.org/wrongful-death-lawsuit-babbitt/
May they rot for awhile you treasonous scumbag.
What is the prognosis for your wife’s prolapsed anus?
We’re all very concerned.
Ronnie….
‘J6 cult members that have an iq of 55 that have trouble understanding reality….if you haven’t been arrested yet, your time is coming.’ Fixed it for you.
If and when they come for me, you’ll read about it, you cocksucker. You wouldn’t last two minutes with me, you pussy. Don’t mean to hurt your feelings, and I know that’s probably “hate speech” – too fucking bad. I’m sure you can find a “safe space” somewhere.
Ooh…I love it when you get all tough guy! It’s a turn on! LMAO!
Let me help you w another translation Ronnie:
‘I am a weak incellish ammosexual easily triggered by people with brains that was duped by my dear leader, a guy with a dead animal pasted to his head plastered in orange cream sauce.’ That describe you?
Don’t waste you time Ron.
As I have said ad infitum: Don’t feed the animals!
In the very near future, you will be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentence
His kind are a dime a dozen. All mouth – I tell them if they want to fuck with me, fine, get in line. Seems – no matter how many there are – no one ever wants to go first. Alligator mouths with butterfly asses.
You’re absurd Ronnie…what are we supposed to do? Meet up in some parking lot and duke it out? LMAO. I don’t think you’d like what you would see.
We can only hope BB.
Not two minutes.
Give him a swirlie Ron.
NOT hiring Joanne Chesimard to run Harvard…oh hell, the entire world(!) is racist – or something.
“We are hosting a public meet-up on Saturday, January x, (—) to organize an effort to get Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the ballot in New York state.”
Anti-gun scumbag Demonrat. Don’t fall for it
I like RFK’s position on the mRNA vaccines and Big Pharma.
I think he is pretty sincere about the environment.
Like I used to think about Trump, he is rich enough and has the name, so he may not be (or he may) beholden to those who pull the strings.
I think RFK SHOULD be on the ballot.
Would I vote for him? Based on what I know, probably not. Until he clearly explains his “environmental policy positions” (suing companies is one thing–making and enforcing policy is another), I’m inclined to NOT vote for him if he has a chance of winning.
Now you say he’s anti-gun. It makes sense, and since you’re on CFN and seem passionate about the issue, I’m inclined to take your word, until RFK explains.
Still, I’d pick RFK over a Republicrat.
But whether I pick him or not, Americans should have the right to vote for 3rd party candidates, not one variation of the Republicrat Duopoly.
So JHK did well today. Plus, it would have been a chance to meet the man.
Where is representation for the citizens of America? Leadership is AWOL!
On The Great Clarification blog, Zazelle posted details about The Cloward-Piven Strategy. Just considering issues regarding the border, “Joe Biden” has set the US up for failure in numerous regards, and it is not hard to imagine that one failure will trigger a cascade of failures. The same goes for all the other chaos crisis, and it is all just a matter of when.
America basically has a house that is on fire, a stump near the sidewalk, and the population in the street looking on.
The arsonist, just back from St. Croix, steps up on the stump and sternly warns the population that if they elect Trump that he (Trump) will destroy the house, and then heads off to his weekend retreat.
Next up is that guy that is grinning like a dog eating sh*t, telling Bret Baier and the population, in word salad fashion, that the republicans started the fire and there is nothing he can do about it.
Then, one by one, as the fire is spreading throughout the house, the republican presidential candidates step up on the stump and layout in some detail what they plan on doing about the fire IF they are elected president.
I suspect that when Vivek gets his turn on the stump, he will point out that the house is on fire and immediate action needs to be taken. He will instruct the fire department to put it out, and tell congress that the constitution gives them the authority to deal with any obstructionists, and that they have an obligation to take action.
When all is said and done, all the other wannabe leaders will be scratching their heads and wondering: Why didn’t I think of that?
The Democrats have figured out that youth plus immigration equals Democrat votes. Simple as that.
One thing I believe separates the two is Democrats think long term compared to the GOP. They are Lifers for the most part. The GOP seems to always play catch up to try to offset the Leftist lunacy. Hence, we are at where we are at.
For me, I blame the father-son Bush idiocy for most of the one sidedness we observe today.
” The GOP seems to always play catch up to try to offset the Leftist lunacy.” ~ JohnAZ
I suspect that it appears that way for 2 reasons: they don’t want to share a cell with the J-6 crowd (or be subject to the Trump treatment), and as Macgregor pointed out about DeSantis, they are mere puppets waiting for someone to pull their strings.
I think when Vivek gets his turn on the stump, that he is going to cut their strings, and they will either fold, or decide that they need to do their job and represent the population.
I also believe (know) that draft age youth see no point in the wars that are being promoted by the neocons, and potentially a silent majority that will vote for Vivek..
Why not change the population? Vivek wants more Indians. He’s Indian so that’s not strange. Only Whites have a problem with being for themselves.
I am not sure I follow you Jarek.
It appears to me that the majority of White politicians and wannabe’s have no problem with being for themselves, as they serve their donor’s first and the population is merely an afterthought in the event that anything is left over.
As Macgregor puts it, Trump surrounded himself with poor choices, and it remains to be seen if that will change. It is my understanding that he is good buddies with Lindsey Graham.
Why is it that an Indian is the only forward thinker that wants the job? Sure, it could be a WEF set-up, but if we wait for the shift change at the White House, all that will be left to preside over will be the chaos.
Who do you see as leadership material?
Jarek for President? If Trump would be your lap dog, and I’d bet on you guys being able to drain the swamp.
Being for themselves as a group. Group consciousness or loyalty, be it nationalist or racial. The racial is the rarest now – and I don’t believe than patriotism amounts to much without racial homogeneity.
JohnAZ, could it be that the GOP seems to always be playing catch up because they haven’t figured out their authority and procedure?
If “Joe Biden” can test his authority by violating the Take Care Clause, why can’t the House test their authority?
Are the rules such that the GOP has to let the “mother may I” permission run through the courts, where “Joe Biden” can bulldoze his agenda through and the GOP has to let it run through the courts before it is struck down?
If someone is in contempt of congress, there is no recourse if the AG won’t do anything about it? What is to prevent a coup?
Thank you Mr. Kunstler. Brilliant as usual. Your mocking the SOBs is both funny and profound.
Questions: What if THEY don’t get your piquant humor?
What if through some synchronicity the Ivy string-pullers
actually prop up one of your fearsomes as Harv-
Pres….Wow!
Civil War. Did we just witness Ft Sumter 2.0? Or Boston Tea Party 2.0?
There was a massive fire in at a warehouse in Elizabeth NJ yesterday (Jan 05) morning.
Might that be equivalent of the Boston Tea Party?
I would have thought a fire that required 100 firefighters and was “still burning, but contained” 13 hours later would have made it to drudgereport.com or the msn homepage.
It did not.
I found it on an alternative news site, a foreign “alternative version” of Drudge if you will. They pick up on OTHER news sites, plus some original stuff. They are mostly news, some exaggeration, but they are usually 85-90% accurate, as stories they pick up first usually make it to the general media if they are too big to conceal, or if they are not politically incorrect. (They are a great source for mRNA news which you are NOT going to see on the MSM ever, US or Greek for that matter).
Some examples: the Nordstream pipeline; the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan and ethnic cleansing of Armenians; the Florida Dept of Health warning about mRNA vaccines (it stops short of banning them though): the Israeli plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza (from calcatel.il, an Israeli news site, and hawkish one). So IMO these people have a good track record.
So I googled “fire in NJ”.
The NYC TV stations are on it. “Fire at an old warehouse in Elizabeth”. The NY Times is on it–it has more detail. From the once reputable paper, I learned that the warehouse was once part of a Singer Sewing Machine plant complex, which at its peak was the largest sewing machine center in the world, employing 5,000 people. During BOTH WW1 and WW2, the Singer complex made munitions, including anti-aircraft guns, cannons, and wooden propeller blades.
The NYT reports “one firefighter suffered minor injuries, and three of the attached buildings collapsed, the authorities said, affecting businesses that employed between 1,000 and 2,000 workers. The industrial complex housed companies that produced home goods, clothing, vehicle windshields and kitchen appliances, city officials said.” Also, the authorities encouraged people to keep their windows shut.
Here is the kicker though:
The pronews.gr article says the warehouse was holding munitions/weapons that were waiting to be shipped to Ukraine. NONE of the American news sources says anything about THAT.
There is a 5-15% the pronews.gr article headline is clickbait.
But many of you, many of us, seem to realize the MSM narrative is controlled.
Maybe that’s why this fire is taking so long to put out–though if it was munitions in an large quantity, I would think there would have been a huge explosion. It’s only a fire. Still, how come the fire is so big and so hard to put out? Why?
So, until proven otherwise, I would bet on the pronews account. And that would comport with many “concerns”: about all the illegals who have entered the US, and how many of them may have agendas that are dangerous, agendas other than getting a job to send money home or getting on welfare.
It also comports with common-sense: when one nation is directly involved in a war against another nation or group, that nation is a potential target.
This is one more reason it’s a good idea to NOT be involved or a participant in war, unless your country’s vital interests are threatened.
(Your COUNTRY. Not the ruling elite or the establishment)
Also, we don’t know what nefarious activities the US government is engaged in vis-a-vis Russia. As the US is fighting a proxy war against Russia, as the US is most likely directly responsible for acts of war against Russia and Russian property, like the Nordstream pipeline and who knows what else, well perhaps this is an act of retaliation… Or a warning.
As I said, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe the article is clickbait. But I don’t think so.
And of course, overlayed on the division in the US between “woke” and “awake”, between the Republicrats and Trump, between the Greens and people who work, we now have the potential of having the Zionists and their supporters go after the Palestinians and their supporters. Every time a Palestinian or Moslem is shot or killed, or a Jew is shot or killed, well, the other side would seem to be prime suspect, don’t you think?
Of course, the US government is 120% on one side, in both the Palestine/Israel and Russia/Ukraine conflicts, but the US public is not quite as firm. And every day, support public support for the US government position is eroding.
Maybe it’s just a fire, and I’m killing some time here. Maybe not.
We will see.
Or Iranians? They are enraged after the Zionists bombed the memorial of General Solemani. This is the early stages of World War and they are allied with Eurasia against Oceania.
Source for this knuckle dragger?
Bullshit, Jarek. The Zealot Sunni Islamists from Afghanistan took credit for the bombings two days ago. Islam has yet to fix its own house up yet.
“Radical Islamists” are very easy to avoid if you don’t invade their countries and don’t allow them into yours…
Do we know what was housed inside the warehouse?
It could just be the ongoing war on what we consider normal food.
Regarding the fire in Elizabeth:
In my original post, I go out of my way to state that my original source, pronews.gr is analogous to drudgereport.com (as it USED to be)
Anyone can go there. I’m fluent in Greek. However, if you look at the pictures and open the stories, often there are links to English-language URLs or YouTube clips. There was a link to a podcast of WCBS, Channel 2, NYC, covering the fire.
Most of their content emanates elsewhere.
Their coverage of the war in Ukraine seems much more objective and honest–and Ukrainians are getting slaughtered.
They do like to juice up the content to get clicks. About 5%-15% of the time, there turns out to be (probably, IMO) unfounded exaggeration.
The US sources I watched (WCBS Podcast) and read (NYT article) do NOT mention armaments or munitions currently there. The NYT article (NOT behind a pay wall) mentions there are various businesses.
Now here’s the thing: I just googled “latest on fire in Elizabeth NJ”. It’s got the same stuff it had 10 hours ago. All the stories are “old”.
Really? NOTHING has changed since 11am EST today? OK….
So, is this fire not such a big deal? Perhaps? Or is the fire still contained (literally) and but not out, and the authorities are not saying more, as they try to manage the info to the public. If that is the case, why?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s nothing. But I think it, where there is smoke, there is fire, pun intended.
My first guess, was, and remains, that if there were munitions bound for Ukraine, some one hired by Russians may have started the fire.
But if there were munitions, period, maybe some one hired by Iran.
Maybe Russians hired Iranians outside the US to hire people inside the US….
Maybe it was an electrical fire that smoldered and then was beyond control. The NYT noted “buildings of this era, 1940s, are hard to put out, once large wooden beam catch fire”. Maybe the plastics and asbestos stymie the effort.
I’ll keep an eye on the story and report back tomorrow.
I just think the source of this story is usually credible, and I think there are many elements of interest here: the potential for trained “fighters” or veteran criminals for hire to have breached the border; the potential blowback of US operations.
(ILLEGAL operations, as the Constitution explicitly gave Congress the power to declare war, and Congress has not declared war on anyone, even as the US arms Ukraine to kill Russian, even as the US illegally occupies part of Syria, even as US drones and/or aircraft attack “targets”, even as the US carries out economic war against Iran, and now Russia, via embargo).
If things get dicey, does anyone here not think the Russians are not good hackers? Or that all these smart Chinese, those computer engineers studying in China, as well as the US, while the American kids pursue gender studies, social sciences or business when they’re not following college football or basketball, might wreak havoc here?
Just some food for thought, especially for those here who think ‘Murica needs “take care of” Russia, China, and Iran.
Actions have consequences. Our society pi$$es away over $1 trillion–the waste of the military/industrial complex warfare state dwarfs the waste of suburban sprawl. But it does enrich the right people, it empowers the right Republicrats, and enables them to foist the policies that most of us here seem to vocally oppose.
And that’s why I felt compelled to share the news of the fire in Elizabeth.
The navy ships all their ordinances from the Naval Weapons Station Earle located on Sandy Hook Bay. It features a 2.9 mile pier and a 15 mile railway. Why would they use some dinky old warehouse in Elizabeth?
Genocide in Gaza
JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
JAN 4, 2024
I am writing to flag a truly important document that should be widely circulated and read carefully by anyone interested in the ongoing Gaza War.
Specifically, I am referring to the 84-page “application” that South Africa filed with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 29 December 2023, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.1 It maintains that Israel’s actions since the war began on 7 October 2023 “are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnic … group in the Gaza Strip.” (1) That charge fits clearly under the definition of genocide in the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.2
The application is a superb description of what Israel is doing in Gaza. It is comprehensive, well-written, well-argued, and thoroughly documented. The application has three main components.
First, it describes in detail the horrors that the IDF has inflicted on the Palestinians since 7 October 2023 and explains why much more death and destruction is in store for them.
Second, the application provides a substantial body of evidence showing that Israeli leaders have genocidal intent toward the Palestinians. (59-69) Indeed, the comments of Israeli leaders – all scrupulously documented – are shocking. One is reminded of how the Nazis talked about dealing with Jews when reading how Israelis in “positions of the highest responsibility” talk about dealing with the Palestinians. (59) In essence, the document argues that Israel’s actions in Gaza, combined with its leaders’ statements of intent, make it clear that Israeli policy is “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.” (39)
Third, the document goes to considerable lengths to put the Gaza war in a broader historical context, making it clear that Israel has treated the Palestinians in Gaza like caged animals for many years. It quotes from numerous UN reports detailing Israel’s cruel treatment of the Palestinians. In short, the application makes clear that what the Israelis have done in Gaza since 7 October is a more extreme version of what they were doing well before 7 October.
There is no question that many of the facts described in the South African document have previously been reported in the media. What makes the application so important, however, is that it brings all those facts together in one place and provides an overarching and thoroughly supported description of the Israeli genocide. In other words, it provides the big picture while not neglecting the details.
Unsurprisingly, the Israeli government has labelled the charges a “blood libel” that “has no factual and judicial basis.” Moreover, Israel claims that “South Africa is collaborating with a terror group that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.”3 A close reading of the document, however, makes it clear that there is no basis for these assertions. In fact, it is hard to see how Israel will be able to defend itself in a rational-legal way when the proceedings begin. After all, brute facts are hard to dispute.
Let me offer a few additional observations regarding the South African charges.
First, the document emphasizes that genocide Is distinct from other war crimes and crimes against humanity, although “there is often a close connection between all such acts.” (1) For example, targeting a civilian population to help win a war – as occurred when Britain and the United States bombed German and Japanese cities in World War II – is a war crime, but not genocide. Britain and the United States were not trying to destroy “a substantial part” of, or all the people in those targeted states. Ethnic cleansing underpinned by selective violence is also a war crime, although it is also not genocide, an action that Omer Bartov, the Israeli-born Holocaust expert, calls “the crime of all crimes.”4
For the record, I believed Israel was guilty of serious war crimes–but not genocide—during the first two months of the war, even though there was growing evidence of what Bartov has called “genocidal intent” on the part of Israeli leaders.5 But it became clear to me after the 24-30 November 2023 truce ended and Israel went back on the offensive, that Israeli leaders were in fact seeking to physically destroy a substantial portion of Gaza’s Palestinian population.
Second, even though the South African application focuses on Israel, it has huge implications for the United States, especially President Biden and his principal lieutenants. Why? Because there is little doubt that the Biden administration is complicitous in Israel’s genocide, which is also a punishable act according to the Genocide Convention. Despite his admission that Israel is engaged in “indiscriminate bombing,” President Biden has also stated that “we’re not going to do a damn thing other than protect Israel. Not a single thing.”6 He has been true to his word, going so far as to bypass Congress twice to quickly get additional armaments to Israel. Leaving aside the legal implications of his behavior, Biden’s name – and America’s name – will be forever associated with what is likely to become one of the textbook cases of attempted genocide.
Third, I never imagined I would see the day when Israel, a country filled with Holocaust survivors and their descendants, would face a serious charge of genocide. Regardless of how this case plays out in the ICJ – and here I am fully aware of the maneuvers that the United States and Israel will employ to avoid a fair trial – in the future Israel will be widely regarded as principally responsible for one of the canonical cases of genocide.
Fourth, the South African document emphasizes that there is no reason to think this genocide is going to end soon, unless the ICJ successfully intervenes. It twice quotes the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 25 December 2023 to drive that point home: “We are not stopping, we are continuing to fight, and we are deepening the fighting in the coming days, and this will be a long battle and it is not close to being over.” (8, 82) Let us hope South Africa and the IJC bring a halt to the fighting, but in the final analysis the power of international courts to coerce countries like Israel and the United States is extremely limited.
Finally, the United States is a liberal democracy that is filled with intellectuals, newspaper editors, policymakers, pundits, and scholars who routinely proclaim their deep commitment to protecting human rights around the world. They tend to be highly vocal when countries commit war crimes, especially if the United States or any of its allies are involved. In the case of Israel’s genocide, however, most of the human rights mavens in the liberal mainstream have said little about Israel’s savage actions in Gaza or the genocidal rhetoric of its leaders. Hopefully, they will explain their disturbing silence at some point. Regardless, history will not be kind to them, as they said hardly a word while their country was complicit in a horrible crime, perpetrated right out in the open for all to see.
Jarek: John knows the reason for the strange silence of the human rights folks. It’s just proof that Bibi is right in his, “We control the United States.” It’s obvious why the Jews are silent: most support it. And the non-Jews fear their jobs and losing the esteem of their Jewish colleagues.
And John, what about the Kalergi Plan or the slow, inexorable genocide of Whites? Are you ever going to talk about that?
The 2030 Agenda would be a lot easier for a Jewish elite to administer, if the population was a one size fits all homogeneous flock.
“Keeping a homogeneous flock avoids a lot of problems …”
How to Stop Chicken Pecking & Cannibalism
Dealing With Aggression Beyond The Chicken Pecking Order
July 29, 2022Author : Jeremy Chartier
backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/feed-health/stop-chicken-pecking-cannibalism/
@Jarek Thank you for posting Prof. Mearsheimer’s column.
I agree with your closing comments. Most Jews definitely support what the Israeli government is doing.
However, I admire those Jews who have donned “Not in my name” t-shirts and protested and been arrested.
There is a lot at play here. The Israeli Lobby in the US. Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons.
It takes a good writer to string it all together. Mearsheimer does not touch on the Israeli Lobby here (but he co-wrote an excellent book on the topic called “The Israel Lobby” about 15 years ago), but he IS a good writer and thinker, and he said it nicely. If I had his intellect, it would take me double the words to say the same thing.
I’m not familiar with the Kalergi plan. I googled it. Need to learn more, but it seems like another way of explaining the trend toward centralized power and control at the expense of people who work and pay taxes, which I call the New World Order/Globalism/Great Reset
Thanks again!
Your last paragraph made me wonder;
Do the WEF and BRICS++ both want serf like mongrel people to serve them in the future? Is the drive to immigrate the surplus people from “Dark” countries an attempt by the global elite to create “a thrifty working class”, Mr. Potter’s description, for the world. Will the global elites just own the mechanism of production?
Folks, that is Soviet style Communism that failed thirty years ago.
Right now, is it inevitable?
In world history, the regional elites kept control by taxing the peasants to the point of subsistence. That is how all the wonderful edifices in Europe were built.
Feudalism was destroyed by the middle class and its consequent upward mobility. No where better than right here in the USA.
THAT is what the globalists are trying to destroy, the middle class.
It’s a way of wiping our race, and thus our Civilization. You don’t think it matters. You want the scent of Western Culture without the flower, the genetic substrate, the people who created it. It cannot be.
Culture matters too in and of itself. No red bearded or blonde Muslims need apply. You believe only culture matters. Who are the fanatics, you folks or us?
Okay, I like to look at what would happen if things were in the hands of one or the.other side totally.
You favor the idea that the Israelis are committing genocide against the Gaza inhabitants.
Flip the coin, what exactly would happen if the Israelis just did not fight back against the incursions that happened in October, just let it go. What would happen if all the Iranian proxies united and did drive the Jews into the Med. Would you be as anti-genocide if it were the Jews being eliminated? I doubt it.
And BTW, South Africa, huh? Shades of BRICS showing up.
The Kalergi plan, I looked it up was interesting. Just at about the same time that Hitler was preparing to create the very White.Aryan race , this guy was preparing Europe with the idea that the mongrel race of European African hybridization was what was needed.
Well, as we have seen in the last ten years, the mongrelization is happening and no one seems to want to stop it. The effects of it which we debate here hotly, are going to happen. Western civilization is going to suffer mightily as the track record of the “Dark” part of the hybrid is not good.
Look at what is happening in schools all the way to university, what is happening to the cities, both areas where the “Darkening” has already happened. Terrible results, crime, corruption,etc.
So the USA, Canada and Europe allow themselves to be hybridized. No problems, right?
The Dragon is just licking its Asian chops waiting for the end result of the mongrels to happen as they take over.
And deservedly so.
If the USA does not give a damn about itself, well so be it.
Does Bibi control the USA or does the USA control BIbi? I believe if he had his way, the Gaza thing would be over already with the Gazans swimming in the Med.
Which war crime is bigger, what the Hamas did unprovoked in October, or what the Israelis did in return?
Your genocide argument is bullshit as is South Africa’s.
South Africa is one of the last nations on the planet to accuse anyone of ANYTHING.
THEY ARE THE CHILD RAPE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD!
Currently destroying the white population by stealing their wealth, their land and eventually their lives.
They won’t even let them flee to another country.
No SA has fallen big time.
Not many Whites remaining in SA; I believe they’re down to about 7% of the total population.
Soon they’ll be none, & the ruling party will have to look elsewhere to blame their myriad problems on.
Yes, I agree: It’s absurd. But that’s how people are. There’s no money or moral capital in White lives.
And that’s largely because people like you and BRH won’t STAND against our enemies within.
And the hypocrisy of South Africa doesn’t mean they’re wrong about what’s going on in Gaza. If Mearsheimer says the report is good, it probably is. Others on the ground are saying the same thing as him in any case.
Some will say that is ironic that South Africa is the one the nation formally accusing Israel of genocide.
After all, South Africa has many issues, and things there are not so good.
The fact the accuser is far from perfect does not in any way diminish the case South Africa has laid out.
It’s unfortunate that people give Israel a pass, for whatever reason.
The Israeli Lobby has done an excellent job.
Once, not all American politicians were Israeli lap dogs
responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/24/ronald-reagan-wasnt-afraid-to-use-leverage-to-hold-israel-to-task/
South Africa and Rhodesia were intentionally targeted and destroyed by Israel, even though the leaders of both nations strongly supported the creation of Israel. Powerful Jews will never permit a white Christian ethnostate. Ethnostate for me and not for thee.
Usual dumb ass reporter throwing a line in an attempt to hook Vivek:
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went off on a reporter Wednesday who asked him if he condemns “white supremacy and white nationalism.”
The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur schooled the reporter about his position that white supremacy is not to blame. Instead, however, “affirmative action” causes much strife and racial conflict in the country, he explained.
“Of course I condemn any form of vicious racial discrimination in this country. But I think that the presumption of your question is fundamentally based on a falsehood that really is the main form of racial discrimination we see in this country today,” he told the Washington Post reporter during a campaign event in Scott County, Iowa.
“Institutionalized racism is institutionalized racial discrimination that we see that doesn’t come from somehow discriminating against people on the basis of some tentative white supremacy. It’s based on affirmative action. It’s based on actually discriminating against people on the color of their skin in a way that’s actually institutionalized today.”
“I think that it’s, frankly, questions and framings like that, that has caused the American public to lose all trust in the mainstream media,” he went on.
The dumb ass reporter doesn’t quit:
The Washington Post reporter then jumped in, telling the GOP candidate, “You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy.”
To which, Ramaswamy fired back, “I’m not I’m not gonna recite some catechism for you,” reiterating that he’s “against vicious racial discrimination in this country.”
“I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism,” the increasingly agitated White House hopeful went on, accusing the reporter of asking a “stupid question.”
“You want to know what the best way is to end discrimination on the basis of race? Stop discriminating on the basis of race – do that and we’re going to move this country forward,” Ramaswamy argued.
This guy is an arrow aimed straight at the heart of wokeism. Sharper and more articulate than any other candidate in recent memory, and that includes the Obama clan leader, Balack himself.
But he wants two walls, goes beyond Trump:
“There was enough fentanyl that was captured just on the northern border last year to kill three million Americans,” he said. “We’ve got to just skate to where the puck is going, not just where the puck is. Don’t just build the wall, build both walls.”
The grandstanding soars along with his entrepreneurial drive. Would this son of Tamil-speaking Brahmins be good for America (out of NATO)? I think he could be, but he would eclipse Trump, wouldn’t he?
But then, notice his dancing deftness:
DES MOINES, Iowa — Vivek Ramaswamy repeatedly described former President Donald Trump as “wounded” on Wednesday and said he was the best candidate to lead the MAGA movement forward as he makes a final attempt to sway Republican voters still enthusiastic about Trump.
The comments, which Ramaswamy made in a joint interview with NBC News and The Des Moines Register, are part of a complicated balancing act the candidate is trying to strike ahead of the Iowa caucuses: praising Trump and his policies, while suggesting he could push them further or implement them better — and also saying that Trump can’t win the election because of forces lined up against him, leaving Ramaswamy as the best choice for Trump fans.
“They don’t have on me what they have on him,” Ramaswamy said when asked why he would fare better than Trump while running against the same “system.” “You can just look right now. They’ve got four different wars they’ve waged on this man,” he added, referring among other things to Trump’s indictments and the 14th Amendment challenges to his ballot access in some states.”
Ramaswamy, who has pledged to sit out of any primary race in states that are trying to have Trump removed from the ballot, including Maine and Colorado, believes he has “tried my best and gone to the fullest extent I can” to support Trump in his ballot access fight.
“I have deep concerns as an American that this system is going to take him out of contention,” he said, adding, “If we open our eyes to reality, I think that there is an unstoppable force attempting to move what they view as an unmovable object.”
So, he supports Trump but sticks the shiv in between the shoulder blades? But he’s not alone. Trump’s blood is in the water, and the ravenous, ambitious sharks go in for the kill in our deadly, ‘democratic’ waters.
Not enough loyal solidarity. Too many wannabees and too many lame, ambitious pretenders. Praise the Lord, wouldn’t it be great if Trump could trounce them all, make the miracle happen?
Vivek is a “Dark” that actually believes in the American Dream, that anyone can succeed here with talent and hard work. There is a minority of dark skinned folks who believe in the Dream and have succeeded.
Like Trump, the Democratization and consequent uniparty creation has allowed way too many people into our country that do not believe in hard work and have little to offer in talent. They, like in their own country of origin, believe the government is there to take care of them.
Vivek has a dream, I just believe that it is too late.
As peppy as Ramaswamy seems, his fundamental trip-up is Statism if he’s running for its office. He’s ‘pro-life’ too, yes?
Vivek talks a good game, but he reeks of fraud.
His pharma background doesn’t help.
You’re in Germany, but from US, yes? If so, would you ever consider returning? Maybe if/when some States secede?
Dunno. In many ways I prefer Europe, but your one’s is one’s country.
The US changed for me after 9/11. Even more critical sectors of American society still seem to have no interest in what happend that day or just how far we have fallen.
Heck, even Covid hasn’t entirely woken up many here.
If I do return, I will be heading somewhere ruralish.
“one’s country is one’s country”
Trump didn’t do enough to try and stop the influx? Yeah, “it’s always darkest before the dawn” will be changed to “it’ll get darker and darker with the black man’s spawn.”
Compare Vivek to Charles Payne. Payne advises investors in “Unstoppable Prosperity” to look inside a company, look at charts, and don’t make rash decisions. Genius galore.
His new book is “Unbreakable Investor”, the same old hawker hustle.
Vivek has a more sophisticated hustle, getting about a $100 million from investors and hedge funds to set up Roivant. He’s ‘self-made’, unlike Trump.
Look up Axovant, the Alzheimer’s drug interpirdine, Soft Bank, how Vivek made his money.
Yes, a ‘Dark’ who played the US financial system like a Vivek violin.
Yeah, too late. Not sure I trust a hedge fund hustler anyway.
Ramaswamy is good for the State Brand. It says, ‘multinatinal’ and/or ‘multiethnic’ and/or ‘cosmopolitan’ and/or something like that.
It says, ‘Look, we are/represent the world.’
‘Why bomb/sabotage us? We are You. We let you in. See? No borders.’
He had his web presence scrubbed. But photo shots remain of his WEF affiliation. It’s not conspiracy theory but a simple fact. As is his plan to bring hundreds of thousands of his real people into America.
Yes, a very smart fellow. No more American than Barack Obama in terms of loyalty and feeling.
I think it’s long past due kissing goodbye some notions or ‘antiquated’ notions of ‘America’ or perhaps even Europe for that matter. What do you think?
What do you think of secession and what State might you like to ‘cede’ yourself into and/or out of?
Uh, ok JAZ…go spend some time wit hispanics picking your fruits and veggies or wiping your ass in a hospital and then say they don’t want to work. Gawd, you’re a moron.
Eventually, no matter where our ancestors came from, some of us realize that the work we’re doing is not for us and/or is for the plutarchy and/or is slavery– that kind of thing– and where ‘hard work’ is really just an echo of ideological indoctrination for tax-/profit-skimming by said plutarchy.
Then society declines/collapses and we all pick our own fruit again from the trees of Eden & relative anarchy and allow our aged to die with dignity rather than, say, keeping them plugged into an AI robot spoon-feeder-cum-ass-wiper.
I think the real issue is to define exactly what is meant by “white supremacy.” Since I’ve never seen this concept defined, I turned to Wikipedia, which says, “White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people….As a political ideology, it imposes and maintains cultural, social, political, historical or institutional domination by white people and non-white supporters.”
There may very well be a general belief among white people that they are superior to those of other races. In fact, it’s hard to see how it could be otherwise, since this is manifestly true in relation to some (but not all) other races, in terms of both culture and accomplishments. In actual practice, the only other race that whites (probably) believe they are superior to is blacks. I.e., there appears to be no accusation of “white supremacy” on the part of the Chinese or Japanese or other Asians–or, really, anyone other than blacks. Heck, the Chinese and Japanese believe they are superior to other races, including whites.
The whole concept of “white privilege” exists only vis-a-vis blacks.
Now, re the complaint that white supremacy, “favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people,” I’d like an enumeration of what, exactly, these “powers and privileges” are.
According to The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History, the “whiteness” that confers such “powers and privileges” and that disadvantages blacks, consists of things like, “Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more.” Some of the other things listed are: planning for the future, following “rigid” time schedules, correct English, written language, and good manners. Whites, notably, tend to believe in the Rule of Law (as opposed to the Rule of Men).
Um…. These are not “powers and privileges.” This is the necessary framework for productivity and prosperity and a stable society–the very basis for a decent and dignified life. Sheesh!
Apparently the black point of view is that the existence of the minimal standards of civilization is an institutionalized and cruel imposition. They’re oppressed by being expected to read, write, cipher, obey the law, show up for work (on time), do your job, and treat others respectfully and courteously.
So apparently these “institutions of white domination” that enforce “white supremacy” are nothing more than a handful of minimal standards–attainable for everyone but blacks.
Oh yes, almost forgot; Ramaswamy is another Obama. He came out of nowhere and has this ‘ideal quality’ for that cultural thing that might sit well with all those new immigrants.
My prediction: He’s the next president or at least VP and maybe president later.
Vote Trump/Schwab 2024!! https://americanyellowvest.wordpress.com/2024/01/04/trump-and-klaus-schwab/
“Vote for me and I’ll set you free!”
Ball Of Confusion
youtu.be/NcfXWtI7ML0?si=UVg8CcvM-s_i3EnN
“People moving out
People moving in
Why? Because of
The color of their skin…”
“Elysianfield, you/we are already being fucked by your State you so seem to fellate. Prison is just its matryoshka.
You keep helping to support my case, of course, so thank you.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
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“Zaz,
Fellation in defense of liberty is no vice…~ Emma Goldwater” ~ elysianfield
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“I guess by that logic, being fucked by the State is all about liberty.
Bend over yet again folks, cuz ‘field sez, ‘liberty’.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
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George Carlin – American Dream
cued at 5:49
youtu.be/l-o_XCDTyB4?si=uKU1QAXXrMzIF4yz&t=349
“General Kluster (AKA The Man They Call Zazelle) October 14, 2016 at 7:55 am:
It’s a nice town in a way, FUCKYOUJIM, but your nickname kind of says it all for me.
Not you personally, just a big fuck you by humans in general to community, each other and planet and all that good stuff, and a big suckup to so-called governments and their laws and weapons and indoctrinates to uphold the whole shit/racket.”
…Sounds like somebody needed a hug….
May I help? A few words of encouragement? Of empathy?
“…Forget it Zaz…it’s human history….”
…Utopia come soon….
Plato’s Cavesque Technomedia-Extensions & Failing The Sniff Tests
We are a small scale species, relatively anarchic– like all species,’field.
As we play pretend.
JHK doing his RFK Jr. (whovever he is because most if not all of us have never sniffed him) Fed thing is at odds with that, with scale, and the human, but even at odds with relocalization, peak oil, Geography Of Nowhere, etc., as he does his Big-Country United States Of America Fed thing, no less in/from a small, halfway-to-ghost town.
Doesn’t pass the sniff test. But the irony is delicious.
Relative anarchy’s our ‘utopia’ and always has been. <– My 'words of encouragement', if you will, are right there in that sentence.
Mark them.
…And you might find your sense of smell again, or sense in general.
Annotations
“There are 2000-year-old Roman bridges in Europe in better shape (and still usable!) today.” ~ JHK, kunstler.com/my-town/a-winter-tour-of-the-hidden-corners-of-a-little-town-in-upstate-ny/
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After decline and/or collapse, places, localities formerly known as ‘America’, if there is enough long-term survival of the population , are likely going to start making infrastructure that lasts as long.
Annotations: CFN Readership Relocation
“Back in the late 1970s I bought some used office furniture out of this old factory.
The building, with some quietly graceful features, has been abandoned about fifteen years.
It’s still a candidate for adaptice [sic] re-use… but not for long.” ~ JHK, kunstler.com/my-town/a-winter-tour-of-the-hidden-corners-of-a-little-town-in-upstate-ny/
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You/JHK wrote that 11 years ago. Life is short, ay?
…I wonder if any of the CFN readership could be interested in relocating to/investing in Greenwich, NY.
JHK helps set it up.
It’s a ball that one might have played in another lifetime/universe I suppose.
Any single women/men over there, looking? Abandoned houses and business buildings still in good enough shape?
How large is CFN/Kunstler’s readership? What are its interests/skills/financial situations?
Annotations: Comment Samples Under ‘A Winter Tour of the Hidden Corners of a Little Town in Upstate NY’
May 15, 2013, kunstler.com/my-town/a-winter-tour-of-the-hidden-corners-of-a-little-town-in-upstate-ny/
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FUCKYOUJIM July 18, 2013 at 8:01 am:
“Jim, I do not know where you get off calling Greenwich ‘Your Town’. You have pissed a lot of people off that are born and raised here in Greenwich. You might be looking at old mills that yes are run down but you fail to look at the community as a whole! We all love this town that is why we are still here. If you do not like it then LEAVE! We do not want you here talking bad about us! You really have pissed a lot of people off with this article I suggest you keep it to yourself! Have a great life! Watch out for them hoodlums of Greenwich they might get you!”
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General Kluster (AKA The Man They Call Zazelle) October 14, 2016 at 7:55 am:
It’s a nice town in a way, FUCKYOUJIM, but your nickname kind of says it all for me.
Not you personally, just a big fuck you by humans in general to community, each other and planet and all that good stuff, and a big suckup to so-called governments and their laws and weapons and indoctrinates to uphold the whole shit/racket.
It is part of the whole global setup now. Your town declined, cities sucked the people up from it and towns like it like vacuum cleaners and now, cities are in trouble as the whole thing starts teetering.
Then maybe, just maybe, it’s a mass exodus away and back to places like Greenwich. I’d be quite pleased I think to have James in my town, as it is imagined he’d have a lot of suggestions for those who were willing to give him a listen.”
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bartdawg37 July 18, 2013 at 8:05 am:
“Hello. This article was shared on facebook by some of the town’s 20 somethings. Some of them seem a little angered by your critique of the town we grew up in. While some of your comments have merit, the article in itself seems slightly one-sided and offensive to those who call the town home. I am just curious what you are putting into the community? I can see that you made a garden in your back yard, but why not make a community garden for the town to share? Hopefully, after living in Greenwich and seeing a town that is hurt, you are putting substantial capital and development in the area. I am sure some of the towns youth would love to join in to revitalize with your backing and direction. Please give back to the community instead of solely criticizing, if not you are no better than all those community members that let it (and the community’s youth) go to waste
-Sincerely a former furtive teenager that burned down one of those factories on the river”
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Cindy Lemaire August 9, 2014 at 6:51 pm:
“Criticism is Step One to giving back. You can’t improve a situation unless problems are identified to be avoided in the future.
I have been reviewing the historic resources inventory of my city, done some 30 years ago. It’s remarkable how much damage has been done in that time: fully 28 percent of the historic buildings have been demolished and another 25 percent have been remodeled to the point that they are no longer recognizable.
These photos illustrate a city in a better period in its recent past. The mistakes that have been made since have badly degraded the quality of life. Defending those mistakes neither fixes them nor prevents them from happening again–it’s more excuses. We need to acknowledge the problems and chart a better course.”
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WD July 18, 2013 at 9:03 am:
“First things first, I just wanted to say that this article is a bit insulting to those of us who call this town home and especially to those of us who grew up there.
You made some decent points, but most of it just sounded like you were ragging on our town for being what it is. The part that gets me most is that you don’t talk about any of the good locations we have in town. You say you live in Greenwich now, so certainly you must know Greenwich has some beautiful scenery and very nice areas to offer. Why did you choose to straight up bash the town with your article? What do you have against Greenwich? And lastly, if you don’t like it, I hope that you just leave and go back to whatever smug town you came from, maybe somewhere that has a little more ‘decorative decorum’ for your tastes.
We love our town how it is. Those small business’ on Main St. and those rundown factories are a part of our history. Most of us grew up with them around and it was a big part of our lives, aesthetically. It may seem like an eye sore to an out of towner like you, but to us, this is what we call ‘Home’.
Go find another town if you don’t like it, because I have news for you buddy, Greenwich is just ‘A small town on a Saturday night’, and we will stay that way until we are swallowed whole by something bigger than you, me, or any of us.
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RB August 5, 2013 at 11:44 am:
“The photos are mesmerizing and could be in so many places across the fruited plain. Comments from the locals are also, I think, representative of most people who call America home. They are content with slovenly living; with just getting by; with their latest hit of meth. There is no sense of shame anymore. No pride in anything except our tattoos. You won’t find this sort of crap in much of Europe though it isn’t without problems. But Americans raise the standard of crappiness and wallowing in slop to a new level. We are doomed. Further, we deserve it.
Get out Jim while you can before the bunch with pitchforks show up and burn you after lynching you.”
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craig August 19, 2013 at 11:54 am:
“This article is meaningless, it is written by a guy that has never lived here he has no connection or ties to the area. JIm’s entire career has been built around this make believe, we’re running out of oil, everything sucks fear mongering bull shit.
In a 2001 you wrote that in the wake of 9/11 the ‘age of skyscrapers is at an end’, that no new mega-towers would be built, and that existing tall buildings are destined to be dismantled.
Then the Freedom tower was built. And just 48 such mega towers have been completed since 2001.
So Jim was only wrong about 49 times but i am sure his statement in 2001 annoyed some people and got him a couple clicks on his website.
Don’t fret Greenwich this is just another sci-fi writing flatlander trying to be cool in the country.”
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General Kluster October 14, 2016 at 8:11 am:
“It is likely that others may move into Greenwich as cities begin their decay. And if Greenwich is fortunate and its people– new and old– are motivated, it may take on a new quality and glory, perhaps including its former.”
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routersurfer February 16, 2017 at 10:04 am:
“I am sorry JHK made you so mad. Many of us look a bit further down the road. Six years? In sixty JHK will be spot on. Be careful reading about oil. So much written today about oil is PR and religious dogma. As someone that started playing in the Sciences many decades ago JHK is correct in his outlook on oil. Since most of us are not trained to think in what I call Long Time Outlook, the peak oil threat is very hard to understand. I came to terms with Peak Oil in the 1960’s. I am worried for the people born after the 1970’s. Those of us before that MAY miss the fall into savage lawlessness. Compared to my outlook JHK is very upbeat and positive. Good luck with the future. The future does not care about our dreams, hopes and prayers.”
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DanielOney August 28, 2013 at 12:40 am:
“Beautiful and haunting photos. I grew up in a declining railroad town sixty miles north of Dallas. The ruins are very similar but now the downtown has apparently become an artist colony. Close enough to the Metroplex to attract patrons. When I Ieft there was not much for young people unless you were going to work in dad’s law firm or a medical worker in the regional hospital. Katy railroad once employed thousands. I remember falling asleep to the sounds of the workers in the boxcar repair barn. Boom, boom, boom.”
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eafinct December 8, 2013 at 10:51 am:
There is a real language issue here, I think. Those of us who admire the architecture and resources available in the small towns built in the 18th and 19th centuries read admiration for the existing infrastructure and grief and sorrow that they are not being utilized to their fullest. Those who are living the current American lifestyle in town read contempt and scorn for their very real struggles to live and raise a family. Is it possible to bridge the gap in the same blog entry? I think Mr. Kunstler believes that strong community ties to the area in which one lives are the only way to survive and thrive in the coming years. So, how to do that, and support the community in positive ways, as one poster suggests above?”
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Cindy Lemaire August 9, 2014 at 6:43 pm:
“I was through there a few years ago when I visited Saratoga Springs. It’s a bit down at heel, but there’s a lot to recommend these places. My husband is from Vermont and I hope I can convince him to retire there, where we can make a real, community-based life.”
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davidreese2 September 29, 2014 at 1:19 pm:
“Awful lot of criticism of JHK in these posts.
Recently Robert Putnam of Harvard wrote an article in the New York Times about the tragic decline in his own hometown of Port Clinton, Ohio. That’s my hometown as well. I grew up there, in the 1950s, at the same time as Robert Putnam. He was one of my classmates at Port Clinton High School; we were on the same debating team.
I took no offense at Putnam’s trenchant account of Port Clinton’s decline. Rather, Putnam’s article is an opportunity for us to take account of what is happening to small towns all across America. If we who grew up, and still live, in small towns recognize and care about what is happening to small towns in America, we have a chance to better our living environment.
Kunstler should be thanked for taking a unbiased look at his community. It is obvious that he loves his community, and his words resonate with all of us who love our small towns.”
David Reese
Weston, MA”
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jjtx March 17, 2017 at 10:29 pm:
“I moved FAR away from this state in 2001 and lived not far from this town. I could see the degredation of the small towns even back then. The commenters attacking you is one of the many reasons this state has failed. Many up there are emotionally attached to the area instead of seeking to better themselves and their standard of living. Many can’t handle criticism and simply accept their lives as is.. And they remain in a state of depression both financially and mentally. While not the only place it has happened in the US, its not a coincidence it is run by democrats. I’ll never live in any state again that is controlled by a ‘new york city’ ever again.”
The folks deriding JHKs assessment of their “home” are deniers and folks vested in the demise of their towns that cannot handle someone pointing out what has happened and what must happen in the future to stop the decline in the quality of life and co-existent economies of the towns.
Small town USA is a victim of the macroeconomic policies of the federalists, ie the Deep State. They want big cities which are easy for them to control. The White Supremacy small towns, the fly overs, are an impediment to the master plan to mongrelize America.
People who cannot handle this truth need to come up with some of their own answers to the decline of their towns and quit clinging to their pasts. Oops. Cannot do that, “I remember when——“
I remember JHKs chapter on entropy where he brought up the danger of the “Too big to fail” economy. That is what we are seeing happening to small town America. Bring in Walmart, destroy the local Main Street economy, let everyone move out to the nearest big city in order to survive. Over and over and over.
And over and over.
Small town USA is NOT a movie on LMN or Hallmark. The fantasies of these just add onto the deniers. Towns do not exist based on Christmas festivals.
@ JohnAZ:
Small-town America was prosperous in many areas in 1900-1910, and probably for quite awhile beyond that time. You can see this by looking at the old Sanborn fire insurance maps for 1900 and 1910. (I’ve mentioned these before, here.) Little towns with a population of 2,000 or fewer had bustling little business districts and enjoyed many amenities. This was mainly because they had prosperous agricultural economies made up of small family farmers. Farm families–which probably often owned small businesses in town–could afford to go into town and buy clothing, yard goods, dry goods, farm implements, housewares, furniture, and wall art–and even have their pictures taken by the local photographer and attend the town “opera.”
One of the main drivers of destruction of rural economies was the destruction of the small family farm. This was followed by an increasingly centralized economy, which decimated small businesses. My recollection is that this began in the 1960s, with the opening of the big grocery chains and shopping malls.
They, along with JHK in the past 11 years he’s apparently been there might have ‘painted the town green’– that is, turned it into a Transition Town, say, or modded ecovillage and/or intentional community. What happened? Don’t know. But I see JHK has a podcast or meeting in WV with Transition. Better late than never?
this scone is too long so I didn’t read it 😉
It’s out of scale.
Too big to shove into your pie/scone-hole, despite its fragments.
I was just reading through some anti-Trump articles where the media in Iowa are trying to crucify him with all kinds of propaganda crap.
I realized that the media is attacking Trump constantly, but some of the content is a thinly veiled slap in the face of the real target:
Us. Trump is a full fledged populist movement. Read the BS from the Leftist media, they belittle the people constantly also. The people cannot choose who run the country, we should do that. The people are too stupid to elect the government, us Lefties, the Uniparty should decide who runs the country.
IMHO, if the Demoncrats maintain control in DC this fall, the media may be right. The people of the US may no longer deserve the God given rights the Constitution and Bill of Rights gave them 230 years ago.
It would follow history, unfortunately, Most republics, populist run governments, are voted out of existence by their populations, buying the bullshit of politicians promising them security and easy street times. It never, ever works. You cannot build a legitimate system based on the lies of politicians.
That is why the American Revolution was fought and the founders created the basis for the republic. Control the antics of politicians with balance of power control.
I don’t think they are thinly veiled slaps though? They are very much in your face about things these days. Unless the widespread fraud in elections is addressed then it really doesn’t matter. The current regime franchise will ultimately remain in power. Remember how Biden says that it doesn’t matter who votes it only matters who counts the votes.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGEdF3JbUI
The poor deplorables……
Apparently Defense Secretary Austin was hospitalized for a week and nobody knew where he was. Many thought he was on vacation. Even Slo-Joe didn’t know but that’s not surprising. No worry’s though. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks was also away on vacation in Puerto Rico. A U.S. official said she had a communications setup with her while she was in control. A “Communications set-up”. What’s that a cell phone? Apparently Austin went into the hospital for some undisclosed elective surgery which he failed to tell anyone about. His head was jammed up his ass worse than expected and during removal complications developed. He ended up in intensive care. OOPSY!
lol this is funny, but I did see something about this. Hard to take any of it seriously really.
Maybe Austin is taking advantage of the Gender Reassignment Surgery initiative the US Armed Forces is offering to its members. It was Austin himself that stated Tranny soldiers — living their best life — were an important aspect of National Defense. I’ve have read those kinds of operation are not without risk. Not too worry tho, he’s most likely at Walter Reed, which has one of the best Gender Affirming Departments in the world. Nothing but the best for our boys … err girls.
He’s the new Six Million Dollar Man. Or on his honeymoon with Mark Milly.
Ha. Milley is fat old queen if I’ve ever seen one. What would Patton or LeMay think of him?
What do two power bottoms do when they get together? They probably had to call up Little Lindsey Graham, Anderson Vanderbilt, Zuckerberg… Who knows what depth of deviance was achieved?
Def obsessed with gay sex is RD3…well, we all understand where this is coming from so just liberate yourself RD and come outta the closet. It’s 2024…it’s ok lil’ buddy…
Jackrabbit is one of those gays who thinks he can turn a straight man gay–only to cry himself to sleep in a puddle of anal ooze.
They were waiting on a craniorectologist – they’re all backed up these days.
This is pathetic, even for the US Government, even for the Biden Administration.
ELECTIVE SURGERY? Really?
Wow!
Austin is an accomplished grifter who leveraged his race to get his rank, and leveraged both to get on Raytheon’s board of directors.
He mandated the COVID mRNA injections.
All kinds of massive increases in heart disease, heart failure, and related ailments.
t.me/LauraAbolichannel/50245
You can always count on a bunch of CFN’ers babbling about ‘tHe ClOt ShOt.’
Seems like he would have called in sick.
On the other hand, maybe it’s one of those no-show government jobs where he hasn’t been to work in months, so his absence went unnoticed, nor did he expect anyone to notice. If you’re never at work anyway, why use sick days?
Nothing says, “silly” quite like barricading 10,000 Americans into a kill-zone of an approaching inferno and then immediately hiding and destroying all of the evidence, eh Gus?
To even think that perhaps FBI grad, Vegas Turkey Shoot incident commander [whatever the flip that is!], Maui Police Chief/Coroner John Pelletier is obviously guilty is “silly … because otherwise my little brain would snap.”
“Our government is comprised of loveable, incompetent knuckleheads and to think that they might actually intentionally kill some of us to further their drunk-on-power evil agenda is silly.”
“In fact, I’ve twice been caught red-handed lying to this board in my seemingly inexplicable efforts to cover for crimes committed on 8/8 and to cling to my psychological blanky that they are merely completely incompetent yet mean us no physical harm.”
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A quick Google yielded:
Maui Wildfires Victims: What We Know So Far.
The source is the New York Times.
The date of the article is Nov. 14, 2023!
That’s the top-of-the-pile “news” according to Google.
“Nothing to see here, folks. Move it along.”
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I’m sure that we all agree that FBI grad, Vegas Turkey Shoot incident commander [whatever the flip that is!], Maui Police Chief/Coroner John Pelletier’s barricades did far more harm than good. Of that, there is no doubt. Right?
Us “tin-foils” want investigations into this horrific top-level … error (at best). [At least two eyewitnesses claim that two different Maui cops (at different locations) told them that they were “following orders.” Their orders were to barricade Lahaina’s citizens into a gridlock traffic jam as the inferno approached and they were all trying to escape for their very lives at once.]
“Tin-foils” want the people responsible held accountable for their massive fuck-up (at best). Accountability or, at the very least, their lame-ass defence for their, at best, massive fuck up. “Tin-foils” want truth and justice.
“Blankies,” on the other hand, pay Lahaina less attention than do the NYT or Google. “Blankies” are “snug as a bug in a rug ha ha.” “Blankies,” were almost 100% jabbed. In fact, several “blankies” are still getting jabbed today! “Blankies” will proudly march right into the slaughterhouse.
Sad but true.
Lahaina 8/8.
Lest we forget.
iow, we’re gonna take that gross blankie from you. And if nobody else does, i’m gonna burn it lol. But really. It’s time to wake up people. Hello world.
Burn the Blankies!
I like it. Children are to be protected from reality while adults must face it.
There’s nothing lower than Blankie. Hello world!
Forget what? Be specific.
Dear gawd….you morons see a worldwide conspiracy behind every event.
There may be one or more who don’t believe in the moon landing either. Tough call.
We are all living a “LIE” in the USA. On a day-to-day basis we continue to listen to lies from the media, top government officials, and it doesn’t seem to bother many. Their attitude is this shall pass, and things will get back to normal.
I spoke with a friend of mine a couple of nights ago. He had just finished watching the evening news. Although he told me that he voted for TRUMP, he’s starting to buy into ORANGE MAN BAD. I asked him if he believed everything that is said on the 6 o’clock news. He didn’t say no.
He then said that he had to get off the phone because he was going to watch the Steeler game.
He’s retired ARMY. The media is doing a hell of a job promoting the big lie.
I guess when things really go to hell in this country, all those who work for ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. will all be millionaires. We are all in for a rude awakening.
Be ready to show your papers or have your chip scanned.
There was probably never any real hope for someone who religiously watches the 6 o’clock news, right. I mean that has been pure propaganda from its inception. You already have to show your papers everywhere you go. If you are actually a citizen. And if you have a debit card or credit card or use QR codes and so forth your chips are getting scanned. I don’t believe anything and I don’t think anything normal is coming back. But yeah. a lot of people are extraordinarily dumb and honestly i’m tired of it.
Bullitt – the Marxists want everyone to believe their increasingly preposterous lies.
Believing their lies without question – one of their goals – shows that you have more loyalty to authority than you do to reality – their end goal.
I’m sure you’re well-read in Marxist thought and theory Ronnie. Sigh…..
Not two minutes.
That how long you last?LMAO!
“Marxist thought” lol
KOC…thanks for revealing your ignorance.
Given the 20th century, I have a policy that anybody pimping, proselytizing or otherwise proclaiming the wonders of Marxism who is over 19 years old is to be considered as a human toilet. In other words somebody whose only value is offering their mouth to any comer as a toilet.
You’re good at alliteration KOC but I’m not sure anyone is doing those ‘p’ words. Clearly, your understanding of Marx is extremely limited.
As is your understanding of history and basic human nature. And as the underpinning of much of the progressive horseshit that is working out so well, Marx’s “thought” is at least consistent in its abjection. Like I said, toilet.
Yep…KOC, you know little….
Holy shit! I figured it out. This is Claudine Gay.
“Gibs me dat”
–Karl Marx
Well B…Orange man is bad….hard to figure out I know. What’s that? $8 million(China, Saudis) pocketed in clear violation of the constitution. Where’s the party of ‘law and order’ when you need it? Funny, Comer and his crew of clowns can’t seem to find much on the senile, or is it criminal mastermind, Uncle Joe. I can’t keep it straight w you folks.
Progressive anti-gun laws stymied yet again.
That darn Constitution keeps getting in their way.
Hey Gavin Newsome and the communist California legislature…Fuck you.
\\\https://www.oann.com/newsroom/a-california-law-barring-the-carrying-of-firearms-in-most-public-places-is-blocked-again/
A recent California legislation that prevents people from carrying firearms in the majority of public places was once again obstructed from taking effect as a court case contesting it continues.
On Saturday, a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel abolished a temporary hold on a lower court injunction which blocks the legislation.
In mid-December, a United States District judge temporarily blocked the California law that was supposed to go into effect on January 1st.
Then, on December 30th, a federal appeals court overturned the district judge’s decision, allowing the law to take effect on New Year’s Day while the legal battle raged on.
However, on Saturday, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit lifted the stay and reinstated the district judge’s decision to halt the legislation.
The law, which was signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in September, forbids people from carrying a concealed weapon in 26 locations, such as zoos, churches, playgrounds, and public parks.
Regardless of whether the person is in possession of a concealed weapon permit, the ban is in effect. Privately owned companies that post signs indicating that firearms are permitted on their property are one exception.
On Saturday evening, Daniel Villaseñor, who is a spokesperson for Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), made a statement regarding the law.
“The ruling is a dangerous decision that puts the lives of Californians on the line. We won’t stop working to defend our decades of progress on gun safety in our state,” Villaseñor said.
In April, the 9th Circuit panel will be hearing arguments regarding the case.
The law was challenged in court by the California Rifle and Pistol Association. A preliminary injunction was granted to block it on December 20th by the United States District Judge Cormac Carney, who stated that the law was “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”
Carney additionally stated that firearms rights organizations are likely to succeed in determining it as unconstitutional, which would mean that it would be permanently overturned.
In response to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which sent several states struggling to enact their own laws, the law altered California’s concealed carry permit regulations.
According to that ruling, the test for determining whether gun laws are constitutional should be whether they are “consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
The California Pistol and Rifle Association’s president, Chuck Michel, said in an earlier statement before Saturday’s ruling that under the law, “gun permit holders wouldn’t be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law.”
OANN…..lol….
And yet, states w progressive gun laws have fewer deaths by gun….go figure….
Really then explain Illinois!
I know research is hard benr…try it big boy! Love needling you dolts….
Remember when you had to learn US geography in elementary school benr….reach back into what’s left of your gray matter..you can do it….
The ellipsis is tough to master, Jacklet.
I have heard there are educational materials that can be of assistance.
Not to put to sharp a point on it.
Since you don’t know the land of Lincoln is actually a state with draconian gun laws and very high murder rates.
Cops and crooks have guns and most citizens are barred from owning them much like Mexico where murder rates are through the roof.
Everything you ever post is an insult or flat out wrong.
Once again proving leftist don’t know what they are talking about, can’t govern, and everything they touch turns to shit.
Another sad offering from the dim bulb and another name ban incoming soon.
What is this going to be the hundredth?
Take a hike you waste of oxygen.
Oh Captain, My Captain~W. Whitman (paraphrased)
Oh Zazzer, My Zazzer, No accolades for you!
Your Premise fully bankrupt, your argument seen through,
Not one convert, minion, no sympathetic response posted,
Only the smell of burning flesh, while your ass was being roasted.
But why the abject failure of your utopian scheme”
You’ve written much (too much?)…arguments by the ream!
You got nasty and testy, put people in their place,
Your race is done, it died at birth, no win, no show, no place.
Was it your fault, the inability to convince?
Or the use of “cut and paste:, enough to make one wince?
Perhaps your argument is wanting, a failure at every level?
Or the fact that CFN’rs will not accept your drivel?
America’s elementary schools are waiting for your word,
There young minds will see the punchbowl, but not the turd,
You’ll have many friends, and minions by the score,
You’ll get the Trekkies, short busses, and the ignorant galore!
Speaking of cut and paste E…..
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Yes, just wait until the average MARXIST is out there picking shit with the chickens!
They will suffer more than the average Patriotic American since they thought they be given a better life.
When the Elite Marxists own everything, the shit will hit the fan.
There’s going to be some really disappointed S.O.B.’s out there.
Technology is great but the dummies pushing the keys are the problem.
Nothing is safe and secure. IT just makes it easier for the crooks to rob you blind.
BTW…I just read that the Federal Government Parks Services will be removing the William Penn Statue in Philadelphia. Although he founded PA, he had slaves.
Philadelphia,,, the City of Brothers on Drugs!!
The National Park Service needs to make room for the George Floyd Monument which will be replacing William Penn’s
Only in your fevered imagination BRH.
What is the prognosis for your wife’s prolapsed anus?
Hey rubber ducky! You seem to have a weird fascination w anuses. Just sayin….got some ‘splainin’ to do…..
I get the sense that you spend much of your time alone. Your wife is never home. She’s out on the town, frequenting dive bars and random motor lodges. Often bent over behind dumpsters. Emerging from alleys, staggering, with only one heel, lipstick and mascara smeared across her face. Its not her fault.
Projection RD, projection….
The George Floyd Memorial should be a statue of a black criminal licking the Flaming Hot Cheetos dust off the fingers of his right hand while holding a cellophane bag in his right hand.
Think you’re a little confused about right and left there…..
Do tell…who are these ‘elite marxists’ you speak of? Name the names. Those crazy Marxists seem to be enjoying a roaring stock market.
The Kiev regime this year forced Ukrainians under their control to celebrate Christmas along with the Vatican and the rest of the west, instead of on Jan. 7th, the day they are supposed to celebrate.
That’s bad enough, but check out this video Ukrainian state TV released on Orthodox Christmas Eve.
Talk about demented! Nothing says Spirit of the Season like singing and dancing demons wishing the worst for Russians.
And I thought that Pussy Riot was deranged. They got nothing on these people.
//twitter.com/Blackrussiantv/status/1743398332230230381
Pompeo was instrumental in setting up a renegade Orthodox church in Ukraine, aligned with the Catholic church.
The Kiev regime has been persecuting the Ukrainian Orthodox practitioners and raiding and stealing their property.
They sent some of the loot west, including to the Vatican. You know, for “safe keeping”.
Sounds like the Fourth Crusade, redux, to me.
Or, Paula, you’re just spouting Russian propaganda.
Are you serious? You don’t know this?
What part?
You don’t know what Pompeo did? You don’t know there is now a western-linked pseudo Orthodox church?
Or you don’t know that the Kiev regime has been looting and burning churches and beating monks?
Or you don’t know about the Fourth Crusade and the sacking of Constantinople?
Spell out exactly what it is that you don’t know, so you call it Russian propaganda.
Paula,
Please don’t engage earnestly with this fag. He is a paid (probably not very well) plant who earns a meager income from monitoring sites frequented by normal, thinking humans and snarkily putting forth the court history of the regime.
If anything, please feel his pain. His wife is certainly in pain. Saddled with a low-T beta. Forced to garner some low level pleasure from the freaks and junkies who frequent your local Travel Lodge or Knights Inn. Every time his wife puts a quarter in the vibrating bed or is splayed out in the heart-shaped tub, her tears reduce the john to pity.
The first tip off that you really have no idea what you’re talking about….”Are you serious?’
Pompeo is an ass-hat thug of the highest order and yes I know about Constantinople but thx for the history lesson. I think you give Pompeo too much credit though. You seem pretty arrogant and sure of yourself so post some links from reputable sources about what Zelensky and crew have been doing to Orthodox churches, since you’re suddenly clutching pearls.
Uh-oh more name calling from RD…..I’m going to lose sleep over this latest one…..
Are you as concerned about Russian destruction of Ukrainian Orthodox churches?
I find it hilarious. You?
And what, pray tell, does this have to do with anything on this thread?
It’s 8:00pm. Do you know where your wife is?
“Judge not that you be not judged, for with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with the same measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” Matthew 7, 1&2
the zaniness continues….
ya’ see
He was borne twiced!!!
Unless you be born twice…
muy importante
“muy importante ~ jim e
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Buenoplastic?
Good Plastic ®
Wow, tom is invoking the Bible at this point. To let you know that you’re out of bounds. Stop what you’re doing because something is happening. Oh ok. But its okay for a constant violent escalation of judgement to be levied upon me. How effing dare you. And I particularly don’t have time for this right now. You think your a massive authority tom don’t you. Well why don’t you busy yourself practicing what you preach.
The sweetest waste of time…
Continued from January 7, 2024 at 8:32 pm…
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JHK’s Diaspora, Or JHK For Greenwich Mayor Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Local
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“What’s Up
James Howard Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation blog is updated Mondays and Fridays.
December 23, 2023 4:25 pm
Upcoming Talk by JHK: January 13, 2024 (In Person & Streaming
Transition Talks sponsored by The Arlington Institute. Berkley Springs, WV: “The Big Takeover: Surveillance, Censorship, Cancellation and Juridical Harassment…”
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So it’s WV which, from a local/relocalized standpoint seems to have little to do with Transition, except insofar perhaps as what we should all be bailing from.
But how much of that do we already know? And, fundamentally, who cares? Juridical harassment? Please.
Ultimately, we need to finally decide that, yes, the ship’s sinking, and sure-sure there’s ‘juridical harassment’, so let’s forget about the Feds and go local and think and do local:
In JHK’s case, that isn’t WV, it’s ostensibly Greenwich NY.
Who said miracles no longer exist?
A true example of an Immaculate Conception;
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/01/07/florida-woman-pregnant-jail/5451704654891/
Perhaps a new Saint in the making…a new Madonna?
As the Italians are wont to say…’MADONNE!”
Jarek take note.
Oh…and I hope I don’t lose another appendage over this post.
Well it would be a “long shot” but the article states:
“Daisy became pregnant by a male inmate passing his semen to her through an air duct.”
APOSTATE!
For those of you that are concentrating on some guy’s wife here, move over to the GatewayPundit.com where they are discussing Sec of Defense Austin and the possibility of a gerbil in his butt!
Is it Monday yet?
With luck JHK will discuss the Secretary of Defense in the morning.
Well, folks, I’m sure you’ll be disappointed but I’ve decided to bow out of this insane asylum. I need to move on with productive work and family concerns. The cycle will repeat tomorrow w JHK probably leading things off w that great wordsmith, the tangerine twatwaffle, and the usual feeding frenzy of paranoia, conspiracy theories, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, will quickly ensue. Many of you people need to get a life of reason, contemplation and purpose. You’re constant monitoring (I’ve been guilty!) of this site is disturbing and isn’t doing a thing for your mental health or life in general. Go outside and soak up some sunshine and be thankful you’re alive. 99% of everything that has ever lived has gone extinct—think about that.
+10
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
“. Go outside and soak up some sunshine and be thankful you’re alive. 99% of everything that has ever lived has gone extinct—think about that.”
Rabbit,
The one percent still alive will die also…and DOG is GOD spelled backwards.
Makes you kinda think….
It’s like a lot of different people are trying to tell you what to do this evening. Don’t listen to them. You need to enjoy your evening. I often times wonder why someone from Halifax, Nova Scotia would feel comfortable discussing in detail the role of government in life. It dawns on me that perhaps they feel a deep historical guilt for the role their government played in the displacement of peoples. Do you remember what the expulsion from Nova Scotia was like? Or what it was like to regroup your life in a swamp? I thought as much. Your full repentance requires an essay on this historical event and its importance in the cultural life of North America. Thank you.
Does anyone still have Morgellons disease? Have you ever thought that your belief system is a culture-bound syndrome?
What I am is what I am, are you what you are or what?
Oh I like that song lol
That’s b/c you’re dreamy, Dreamy.
If there was a rift in the multiverse and you happened to meet your doppleganger what would your reaction be?
Well, my New Year’s resolution was to quit lying.
Before I went to bed last night, I looked in the mirror, and said there’s no possible way I could get better looking. Woke up this morning and looked in the mirror. I lied.
So, if I saw my doppelganger, I’d probably be stricken by how handsome he was.
I know, I know, I’m working on my modesty – that’s next year.
Hits Ron, while he’s looking in the mirror, in back of head with a jet of water from a kid’s high-powered water pistol.
lol
Ecosoohia
Hey sis’, I’ve already met mine…
He came in where we worked one day and asked a question or more. I turned to my colleague and asked something like, “Hey, doesn’t he look quite a bit like me?”? And my colleague looked at him and then at me and said something like, “As a matter of fact, why yes, yes he does.”.
At which point I chuckled and said, “We’re taking over.”. Then we helped my doppleganger out with what he came in for.
Many might be dopplegangers or close on CFN because JHK looks the way he does. No real surprise there if so.
In social psychology, it might be called something like ‘the matching principle’, although perhaps they changed the term.
If you want to comment-section-shmooz with those who look more like JHK or say, Leonardo Di Caprio– smallish/bedroom eyes, wider/more square/round faces, etc., maybe try Ecosophia.
<3
The corrected header should read Ecosophia (JMG’s site).
The more doppelgangers, especially locally, the better. There’s plausible deniability.
“It wasn’t me, I was at church”, can now be expanded to, “It wasn’t me – might have looked like me – but I was at church”.
You’d have to dress the same to pull it off too. How’s your taste in clothes, handsome?
Jeans & a T-shirt, Zazzy. Sometimes for Halloween, I grow sideburns and go out as James Dean. That look.
I’m having trouble trying to visualize it… how about a link to some pics.
What a strange direction this has taken. How very interesting.
Oh ya?
Well we’re all the same species, SSL, all related.
We haven’t yet diverged significantly enough to be truly separate, alas for our half-brother Jarek.
Dopplegangers and thereabouts are in a way just the brothers and sisters we never had.
Actually, if you look at genetics, you might find that we come in ‘packages’ so to speak– I forget the proper/scientific term– and so our ‘dopplegangers’ can disappear, but then reappear much later, and then disappear again and so on over the generations.
Not to speak of the fact that genes have memories and convey ancient experiences and intuition.
Genetic memory, sure, like birds knowing how to build nests maybe or having an affinity for something you never experienced but that a long-gone relative you never knew did. And maybe you don’t know why.
I think it might be called, phenotype, but I’m unsure.
Interestingly, I don’t feel like I’m either of my parents’ ‘phenotype’ (or whatever that might be called), at least fundamentally.
I looked into this long ago so it’s foggy, so don’t quote me on this, but from what was recalled, we can actually be the result of both our parents’ recessive genes or something like that, where we are kind of not like either parent, even though we carry both of their genes.
Their genes are simply not expressed in this/my generation. I have some characteristics of my parents of course but they seem superficial and/or limited. IOW perhaps, there seems to be something fundamental in my makeup or pheno’ that is not reflected in either of my parents.
Interestingly again I used to get along very well and seemed to have a natural affinity, if that’s the right word, with an aunt who also seemed kind of different from some immediate members of the family.
Yeah I kinda know what you mean. Like that feeling you get when you feel way more related to like distant cousins than your immediate family.
Yep, and even people completely outside of your family.
One of the biggest surprises about having kids is that they are not at all like you–or either parent. It’s like they fell out of the sky or something.
My youngest daughter has very dark hair, very pale skin, green eyes, and freckles. I know of no one on either side of the family with either green eyes or freckles.
Every now and then, someone in the family turns up with a somewhat Asian appearance–dispite our supposedly 100% European lineage. (People used to ask me if my sister was part Chinese.) I have one daughter and one granddaughter with that look.
There is also a very distinct “cannot be socialized” gene that appears now and then.
Rift in the multiverse, SSL?
Reminds me of the passage where Don Juan warns Carlos that if, during an out-of-body experience, he should come across his sleeping self, waking up that sleeping self would result in his immediate death.
We are really very fragile critters (as I was reminded many times during my road racing career, when guys much quicker and braver then me got turned into mincemeat by Armco barriers, trees and stone walls).
Maybe that is the answer, Speedy. Maybe we simply aren’t meant to know or see such things because we wouldn’t be capable of understanding them or acting properly in the given circumstances. It makes one wonder though.
Yes, that might have been me in another universe. I almost raced my RD350 and my counterpart in some other universe may have done just that and has become mincemeat.
Maybe that’s what happens: We as conscious entities are essentially information that gets recycled maybe in funny ways back into other universe iterations and we get to experience other people or even creatures in other times and places. Maybe we are people in our history who got tortured to death or animals who spent their entire lives in labs to get vivisected.
Wondering not unnaturally whether some of those Wehrmacht SS worthies killed in battle did not reincarnate as … Israelis…
Attraction through attachment: hate as strong as love.
(Me’s a Hindoo.)
My ex husband often lamented that he had missed WWII, which he referred to as “the circus of the century,” by being born in 1947.
I had to correct him on that. He was a German aviator who was shot down and consequently died during WWII. I don’t know how I know that. I’m not even sure I do know it. But he was quite attached to that era in history.
I was thinking of it in a little bit of a different way. Maybe doppleganger is not the right term for the phenomenon. Maybe more like just a copy of yourself living in an alternate universe. Like that copy you discover lives a much better life than you do. So. Do you try to dispose of the copy so you can occupy their perfect life? Would it even work if you tried? So many questions. Fortunately it seems like most people have not happened upon a fissure in the space time continuum where all these alternate universes intersect so that someone could meet infinite copies of themselves all living in infinitely different realities.
What kind of chick talks like this? 😉
Seriously though, perhaps some things are not meant to be except in our imaginations.
As for ‘better lives’, maybe the universe wants/needs to experience all lives. Maybe that is its whole point; pain, loneliness, anguish, frustration, passion, love, brutality, difficulty, wonder, cruelty, pain, happiness, pleasure, confusion, amazement…
…don’t forget disillusionment, anarchist with a small “a”.
Zazzy – a dreamy chick talks like this – that’s how she got her nickname. Dreamy is the highest form of compliment – just so you know.
Look around – nothing you see wasn’t once imagined. Imagination – where everything starts. Nothing stays there forever; it just awaits actualization. Sometimes lifetimes.
“…maybe the universe wants/needs to experience all lives. Maybe that is its whole point; pain, loneliness, anguish, frustration, passion, love, brutality, difficulty, wonder, cruelty, pain, happiness, pleasure, confusion, amazement…” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle
This is so close…substitute “emotions” for “lives”…just my two cents, and that’s all it’s worth.
The headline shrieks..
Nearly Half of Recently Confirmed Influenza Cases in Hong Kong Ended in Mortality.
Yep folks it’s coming more lockdowns and face mask mandates.
benr – 50% mortality? Total cases reported? What’s the scale?
Sorry man I can only access the head line its behind a pay wall.
Epoch times.
“We are hosting a public meet-up on Saturday, January 6, (tomorrow) to organize an effort to get Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the ballot in New York state. The meet-up takes place from ten a.m. to noon at “Gather” (a storefront party space), 103 Main Street, Greenwich, New York, 12834.” ~ JHK
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Because local politics is just so-o-o boring!