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Strange doings at a strange time in a strange land. Videos of widespread military vehicle maneuvers around our nation popped up on the Web at mid-weekend while the American citizenry went about its holiday weekend business (including Father’s Day revels and “Juneteenth” celebration mass shootings): Scenes of armored personnel carriers rolling down Walnut Street in downtown Philly; B2 bomber wings over Minnesota; Tank columns galumphing along an Idaho highway… leading to widespread suspicions that something untoward is up. Durned if I know what it is.
Tanks on highway, Great Falls, Idaho
Among things one can know: The “Joe Biden” presidency is whirling around the drain in plain sight, and with it, likely, the Globalist hopes and dreams of making everybody eat bugs while they take away everything you own. Last week, audiotapes surfaced of the main parties to the Ukraine grift (Biden and Poroshenko) working things out in 2016 over the phone in “JB’s” final days as vice-president. Meanwhile, the House Oversight Committee has got its mitts on Biden family bank records galore detailing the abstruse money-laundering activities that were run through obscure European banks and innumerable Biden shell companies. Well, sonofabitch…!
It’s getting hard even for Democrats to ignore the accumulating evidence of the Biden family’s global grift operation, and “JB’s” obvious advancing mental deterioration, provoking moves that should lead to his ejection from office. Last week, their captive mainstream news media broadcast a cavalcade of embarrassing public idiocies committed by the Commander in Chief — declaring “God save the Queen” incongruously at the end of a Gun Safety Summit in Connecticut; groping actress Eva Longoria’s boobs after a White House movie screening; cracking a weird joke about the “Philadelphia girl” in his bed (Dr. Jill Biden); being introduced at an I-95 bridge collapse event by brain-damaged PA Senator John Fetterman who tossed up a word salad about the federal “delegadation” aiming to fix “infructure,” while dressed-up looking like Uncle Fester out of The Addams Family. The indignity of it all was really something to behold.
You understand, “Joe Biden’s” reelection campaign is another rank hoax, yet another trip laid on the American public by a desperate, degenerate Democratic Party that doesn’t know what to do next with public opinion souring on it. There’s no way this gibbering near-corpse can run again. He can’t even perform as a puppet anymore. He’s a broke-down engine pulling a train of failure, perfidy, and treason five miles long behind him. The Ukraine war project he presides over looks more and more like an effort to conceal and cover-up his family’s bribery schemes by laying waste to the pitiful chump of a foreign land that went along with the grift — and which, anyway, is winding up as yet another American military humiliation with the Russians finishing off what’s left of Ukraine’s army in the failed “spring offensive.”
Do you suppose that all these military vehicle movements around the country in recent days signal a constitutional crisis in the offing, necessitating martial law? Let me lay it out: Absolutely no one believes that Vice-president Kamala Harris is up to the job of stepping-in when “Joe Biden” gets bum-rushed out of the White House. Nor, I’m sure, are they willing to force her to resign hastily without a substitute vice-president (say, Gavin Newsom) in place — a cumbersome process that requires approval by both the House and Senate. But if Harris were flat-out forced to resign, then Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) would automatically become president.
Mr. McCarthy is, arguably, just another houseboy of the now-heinous administrative state (or deep state, or permanent bureaucracy, or blob, as it’s sometimes called). But he is not a Democrat, and is subject to the fractious pressures in the Republican Party, and could plausibly be induced to fire-and-replace post-haste the whole honking host of seditious rogues running the executive agencies — from AG Merrick Garland, to FBI Director Chris Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, Treasury Secretary Yellen… every last one of them — which could even lead to prosecutions of these scoundrels.
Any way you cut it, it looks like the sudden catastrophic downfall of the Democratic Party, an existential crisis that would amount ineluctably to one possible outcome: nominate Bobby Kennedy, Jr. or die. But then, what would Mr. Kennedy do about all the remaining bad actors in the Party of Chaos? My guess is that almost all of them down to the rank-and-file would snap out of the mass formation psychosis they’ve been locked in for seven years and completely flip, denouncing the tyrannical madness that their deposed leadership inflicted on our country. They might even believe it never happened, or that they were not responsible for it, like the whole thing was no more than a bad dream.
Or maybe, what we’re seeing in all these military movements is the prelude to a real live military coup d’état? Just sayin’….
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Our military in drag couldn’t win in Afghanistan and was stupid enough to provide cover for the grifter in chief in Ukraine. I don’t like their chances in Chicago, Memphis, Detroit or even Minneapolis.
The U.S. military excels at killing civilians.
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They would do really bad in Philly…?
Couldn’t is the wrong language.
The US military was not allowed to win if they had fought Afghanistan like the Nazis there would likely be no military aged men left alive and the entire country would be rubble.
…Rules of engagement.
Your results may differ….
Fighting to win means hurting people and hurting people is bad.
Still believe in letting women vote? You have no one to blame but yourself then. Rectify yourself first, then others.
Most, if not all wars are bankster wars, totally unjust and unwarranted. So if you fight to win, what are you winning exactly?
Enter 5th and 6th gen warfare. At some point we will need to take out the globalist satan-trash and that will be bloody and messy, but not really a war in the traditional sense. It will probably be over in 48 hours if we can get our schitt together and pre-identify the fam members vs. the legion of apparatchiks or useful idiots. My guess is the groundwork is being laid for this very scenario as we speak.
Hopefully.
Was the conquest of this Continent a bankster war? If so, then leave if you are all so very moral.
There were wars before bankers. There will be war when they are no more. The life of Man is War, of some kind or other.
After the conquest of Arabia, Mohammad said, No the greater war begins (the struggle against self).
Jarek, the founders had it right. Only taxpaying land owners had the right to vote. No women. No poor. No welfare recipients. Only those who had a financial stake were permitted to vote. Women are emotional creatures who react based upon their emotional output. They are not logical voters.
You continue to amaze me with your utter stupidity.
Or Los Angeles. Lots of guns here.
Or maybe this is their way of being “already deployed” so they won’t have to go to help Zelensky?
I hear that sort of thing a lot. I believe it is foolish thinking.
In the Irish Genocides, without Night Vision, Thermal Imaging, GPS or any tech tricks, the British Army was able to keep starving Irish locked down at night, terrified to even try to harvest a bit of seaweed at 3 AM.
Just being out after dark could subject you to Transportation, where you could slave until your inevitable death, providing future Leftys with grist for pretending Irish were White Supremacists for nothing their own history of enslavement.
If these Patriots are at all serious, ttey need to study military tactics and teach them to their children.
There’s a lot more to it than just having a gun in the house.
“Do you suppose that all these military vehicle movements around the country in recent days signal a constitutional crisis in the offing, necessitating martial law? ”
Rehearsal for 2024
In October 2001, 100 Green Berets on horseback and aligned with the Northern Alliance under air support provided by the USAF defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan in 30 days, How did this happen? The Afghans viewed the Americans as friends and liberators and not invaders!
Subsequent to this victory, into Afghanistan came State Department staff, US intelligence agencies, civilian contractors, military personnel of every branch led by officers coveting battle ribbons and promotions, etc. As a result, the Afghan people soon saw us as invaders.The rest is history!
In a recent speech Putin said “I don’t care who the Americans anoint as their next President as long as he isn’t senile._
There you go again Putin, interfering with the American electoral system.
10% for the Big Guy
But nobody really asks who the Big Guy is.
How did a half breed beach bum kidnapped while stoned on a beach in Hawail and groomed as a community organizer acquire a billion dollars in mansions and financial assets?
Almost all of it after he left the Presidency?
The Audacity of Hope or the Payoff of Power?
LOL, great first comment.
What is hyperinflation versus bad USA 2023 inflation?
Same thing only worse. Hyperinflation happens when you can’t possibly spend what you have fast enough to keep up with the currency’s plummeting devaluation. Ex: Bread’s $10(0…) in the morning and $15(0…) by noon.
One of the mouthpieces was on TV the other day stating that inflation this month was down to 5%. Of course what they fail to mention is that’s on top of the 12% already in place and it’s going nowhere.
There’s more and more articles about the excess office space and malls emptying out leaving retail space. One I read said the company owing the note just walked away.
Damn statistics. Inflation has been here for a long time. due to wars and the federal reserve.
It’s always been a lot worse than the government admitted b/c if the true inflation numbers were published, social security would go up. It’s part of the law to keep up with inflation for people on fixed incomes.
One of the pieces of the impending bankruptcy is student debt. It’s over a trillion dollars and defaults will start coming this fall as all the postponements will expire.
SW.. postponements will expire.
The postponement has ended, loans are to be repaid.
Student loan debt-
“If Biden really wanted to help the people who need help most with student loans, he would just push congress to make student loans forgivable in bankruptcy proceedings”.
https://twitter.com/WR4NYGov/status/1664952572434685953?cxt=HHwWgoC9_eLijJsuAAAA
Biden was instrumental in making sure student loan debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy proceedings.
Malthuss,
Student debt…and over one Trillion of commercial Real Estate paper to roll over later in the early fall….
Yes, endless word games. When the rate of increase slows, they’ll act like inflation is down.
And Federal Counterfeiting, including giving plates to ” enemies”, like Russia.
True annual inflation, as measured by the Chapwood Index over the last 15 years or so, for the top 50 cities in the US, ranges from about 8%, to about 13%.
Using The Rule of 72, at 8% inflation, prices double every 9 years, and at 12% inflation, prices double every 6 years. Worse, the progression is geometric, not linear.
For example, in a 12% inflation environment, the reason a college football game hot dog now costs $16, is that in 1999, it cost $1.
In 2005, it cost $2, in 2011, it cost $4, and in 2017, it cost $8. So, today, in 2023, viola! We have the $16 hotdog.
The Chapwood Index metrics are sound, with no adjustments, no substitutions, and no sleight-of-hand bullshit.
A basket of 500 consumer items is tracked, in the top 50 US cities, by population, and measured every 6 months, to determine real inflation – a sobering exercise.
By adjustments & substitution, CPI has always been a lie. Imagine that.
Yes. In a spiraling economy of rapidly increasing unpayable debts it begins to make sense to just walk away from them and trust that enforcing the obligation will just be too onerous to bother with. The 2008 mortgage fiasco writ large. At some point even the Fed and its magic money machine will no longer be able to paper over all this malfeasance.
Hence, the Great Reset.
I believe it’s called ” force majeure”, an act of god or in this case the international banksters…
Bullshit. The Great Reset is far broader than this. This is just theater.
The financial crisis is a game. The owners of our societies could fix the problems in the financial system overnight if they wanted.
They print fucking money out of thin air.
This is the planned destruction of the previous system to replace it with something no one would ever agree to.
Night Owl – you’re exactly right.
On CBDC the current polling (can’t remember which) is:
50% No opinion
16% For
34% Against
So, to summarize, 66% (50+16) will take the bait, 24% will acquiesce, and the remaining 10% will be ground into the dirt.
Me? Never been a 1%er in any way, shape or form, but I’m a 10%er all day long. Fuck them. It’ll be a hard way around, but there’s always a way.
NO – A new film, ‘State of Control’, on CBDCs, digital ID etc. – mostly European (so you’ll have to listen to Ursula) but includes Catherine Austin Fitts, Edward Snowden, James Corbett and others. It covers the BIS (and its Fat Controller). It’s about an hour and 15 mninutes.
debunkproductions.com
At some point I will send it to my benighted brother (can’t do it now as we’re visiting them at the weekend for their 50th wedding anniversary and don’t want to fall out!). However, I’m sure they will be among the dozy demographic who will think it’s all fine and convenient and only dangerous if you live in China (or Russia!).
The excuse for sending the link will be that my sister-in-law was complaining (again) about Brexiters destroying the economy – any mention of lockdown destroying the economy was met with blank incomprehension – and asking what does sovereignty mean anyway in the modern world? This film shows what sovereignty means and why it matters.
Thanks for the link, GA.
Collapse begets cannibalization of infrastructure…
Empty office space –> Homeless shelters.
Empty malls –> Evangelical roller rinks.
Empty Malls = PICKLEBALL!
I’m in the business. This PB fad is spreading amazingly fast! And I’m 100% sure it won’t last much longer. Plenty of installers are gonna get stiffed, no doubt.
And in Ct, empty office & manufacturing space converted into Weed Shops, Needle Exchange Centers, & Abortion Clinics (the 3 pillars upon which a Great Nation rests)
5% ? It’s unbelievable how they lie. Example: the dog food I buy used to be $1/can on sale, $1.27 normally. Now, less than 2 years later, it is $2.27/can, and NEVER on sale. And the ingredients have changed, too. All flavors are now mostly chicken.
Cactus,
Higher prices, cheaper ingredients, don’t forget the other path of inflation: smaller package sizes. Those cans could start to shrink. All of it should go into the calculation of inflation.
The government will never publish (or calculate) the real numbers.
Cactus,
You have a WallyWorld close by? Chicken Hindquarters, in ten pound bags, usually under $8.00…80 cents a pound. I just bought some for 67 cents a pound, and the dogs seem to like it…I seem to like it also..
You feed your dogs boiled chicken, and they’ll love you long time….
elysianfield
Your dogs will get sick eating so much chicken. There is some protein that doesn’t agree with dogs.
iflawse,
Thank you for your concern, but a quick internet search seems to indicate that, if cooked and deboned, it can be served at regular intervals….
If you can provide a source for your claim, I’d like to see it.
Every time I buy convenience foods–frozen dinners, canned chili or ravioli or soup or some such–I am horrified by how disgusting it is. It’s pretty obvious that that the quality has declined drastically. Some of it actually makes me ill. Every item that presumably contains tomato sauce has no tomato taste at all. Apparently they have substituted red food coloring. Seasonings (assuming there ever were any) have been replaced by a hint of cayenne–or perhaps just a chemical facsimile of cayenne. Even the Marie Calendar”s pot pies, which I used to like, are now mostly crust. Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, which used to be okay, is now inedible.
I don’t buy things like this unless I am too sick to cook, of course.
In recent years I’ve tried to make it a policy to make home-canned soupls, chili, etc., for times of illness or if I’m in a time crunch. Just chicken broth or beef broth is good to have on hand. You can make a nourishing soup just by adding vegetables–or just use it to make egg-drop soup.
Store-bought chicken and beef broth has deteriorated to where it’s like buying canned water. No flavor. The bone broths you can buy at health food stores are good, though, if you don’t mind the price.
@ elysianfield:
My experience with Walmart chicken is that it is REALLY bad. I like to make chicken broth for canning or to make soups. Broth made from Walmart chickens tastes like water. Actually, I think almost all the meat and produce from Walmart is crap. It’s a good place to buy canned goods, dairy, and things like bacon and hot dogs. Maybe cheese, if you aren’t too picky.
When I buy chickens and most other meats, I get them from Sprouts and buy the organic or grass fed meats, if I can afford them at any given time. Maybe too expensive for the dog, but my dog is satisfied with dry dog food, plus a can of dog food every two or three days, or table scraps of meat and bones. This evening he got a can of dog food and a bit of leftover corned beef from my dinner. (I wish he would kill rabbits.)
Feed them dogs to much chicken and they will get the squirts.
I live in a small valley (population +- 12,000) with one large supermarket and no other alternatives within 50 miles. They re-stock weekly and add 5-10% to most new items going on the shelves. A good quality steak is $27.00 per pound, up from $12.00 a year ago.
But there is no inflation—-.
Hyperinflation is defined as a rise in CPI exceeding 50 percent per month. Compounded, 50 percent per month equates to about 13,000 percent annual inflation ( a 130 fold rise in prices).
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Thanks for the “heads-up” Anon1970 !
The self confidence of Anon1970 is breathtaking. Are Archie used to sing:
Didn’t need no welfare state
Everybody pulled their weight
Gee, our own LaSalle ran great
Those were the days.
Are Archie used to sing:
Gee, our own LaSalle ran great – Jarek
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You are mistaken. AS Archie used to sing.
Your loosing you’re edj, Q
The Q Tard strikes again.
Now, now. I thought the misquote of the song was irritating.
Forgive me for the discord my errors have caused. It is all my fault.
Inflation solved!
… Soylent Green Paula?
Nope, just everyone get that sweet job that Foreweet is pushing.
…30K a month? With hyperinflation in the offing, I would want at least one thousand billion a month…no, TWO thousand billions…and reparations, too….
Can I do this weird trick out of my car? My sister says she does tricks all the time in cars, and she has plenty of money….
See now? That’s some forward thinking right’chere.
German women were reduced to selling themselves for food – and often the “Allies” didn’t pay up.
Damn Hun bastards deserved what they got. Those were the days!
The Big Guy tried to bring those good times back and the weaklings turned on him. You don’t deserve him.
God save the Queen (Bill Clinton).
Why does ADMIN allow such blatant crap to be posted?
Because he doesn’t spend all day hanging in the comment section.
Foreweet:
It that were true everyone would be doing it an we’d all be some rich mofos.
JK, you never cease to amaze me with your amazing talent at forming perfect descriptive sentences.
“He can’t even perform as a puppet anymore. He’s a broke-down engine pulling a train of failure, perfidy, and treason five miles long behind him.”
Thank you!
The 1964 movie Seven Days in May comes to mind
Except I can’t imagine plugging the current Joint Chiefs of Staff into that scenario.
Frankly, a military coup, at this point, would be a relief. Hopefully, they can keep the lights and heat on and maybe even keep us fed. Unfortunately, I can see them fighting running battles with 87,000 armed IRS agents, as well as the FBI and even the armed forestry service. Maybe even the local cop shops.
General Berger,USMC, has made comments he will be there for the american people when the time comes–nobody and i mean nobody will take on the Marine Corp–they are not woke,did not take the clot shot–they are our only hope…
I have a few questions for the JCS.
1. Why are our troops in Peru now?
2. Why is the militay rolling their armored stuff into our cities?
3. Will there be a Cost of Living Allowance for retired Military Vets come 2024?
Re Bobby Jr- I have been seeing sentiments similar to this one around the web:
“I’m glad he’s in the race. You run to elevate a message. But reminding y’all that the lesson of the last few years is a shitlib is ALWAYS going to side with the Bolsheviks, or at least look the other way. Stay smart out there.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1670293503912599552?s=20
There are trust issues out there.
Why yes! What do people think Liberalism is? They always talk about “moving” or the journey? Where do people think they’re going? To the right? Back? Upwards? No always forward, always to the Left. Downwards in other words, into the slime pits.
Beryl and Mr. Kunstler,
The cleanest exit out of this mess, for the DNC, is to keep FJB hidden as much as possible until the election, while they surreptitiously get dirt on Bobby Kennedy Jr. AND promote his (Bobby’s) candidacy. Having to sort through the 25th amendment AND get Kamala out of office is too much. They may be stuck with a (hopefully compromised) Kennedy for four years, but so what. They have painted themselves into a corner with Joe and God forbid that he dies suddenly before election day and they are forced to elevate Kamala; a scenario that might just be handing the race to the republicans. They need a viable democrat to surge in the polls; this solves both the FJB and Kamala problems.
On the republican side of things, DeSantis seems to be so far out of first place that he’s polling down with Haley, Pence, etc, but this legal mess with Trump could go any which way. I think that is why DeSantis ran. The legal overhang on Trump was too tempting and he doesn’t have to give up his governorship to run.
I don’t pretend to know what will happen, but I am sharing with all of you that, in my opinion, the odds of a Kennedy versus DeSantis face off in 2024 are growing.
‘Legal mess’? Entirely concocted from nothing. We are Pakistan or Brazil now, where the regime attempts to imprison their opposition.
Steve,
I agree it’s been concocted and I’ve voted for Trump twice. But yes, being indicted federally on 34 felonies, is a legal mess. It’s expensive, time consuming, and a distraction, exactly as it’s intended to be. And in my mind that changes the odds on the outcome of the election.
It’s not that complicated – everyone just needs to vote harder.
Because we know our elections are fair, accurate and infallible. All votes are counted exactly as they were cast and counted only once. Voting is the way to fix this mess.
(note sarcasm).
“Voting is the way to fix this mess.” ~ Cankerpuss
Yes! But only if we vote harder! To date, that has been the problem. We’re not voting hard enough, damn it!
Almost any moderate Democrat or Non RINO Republican would be way better than the Village Idiot we have freeloading in the White House at the moment.
I haven’t seen the military vehicles getting as much notice as you think they would in the “conservative” media.
The Q nutjobs are in full spate, Beryl. Military in control, don’t you know! It’s probably use the usual June military manoeuvres or, at the most conspiratorial, a show of force in case the MAGA folks get uppity about the upcoming Trump show.
My first thought too Hereward, however, what would account for Mexico’s military massing at the U. S. border?
see:
halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/video-mexico-military-massing-near-u-s-border
Didn’t the US threaten to invade Mexico, again?
More lamentations on the decline of Uncle’s grip on Latinoamerica:
httpX://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/06/19/the_monroe_doctrine_is_dying_941524.html?mc_cid=6ee5babd2b&mc_eid=c2babcfeb8
China China China boo hoo, how dare they presume to do business with OUR pet continent…
Take EVERYTHING you find on Hal Turner’s site with a factory of salt.
The Q nutjobs…
Yeah? How do you know this, Hereward? Do you check out the Q site on the chans? Just curious.
Long trains of military vehicles sitting in the rail yard or rolling on their way to or from BAE as proof of impending martial law, lol.
Summertime is the time reservists and national guard do their two weeks of duty and practice maneuvers. Every summer we go thru these ominous sightings of troop movements.
Yes, it could be a coup. But more likely it’s routine summer military exercises.
The National Guard is so understrength now who cares if they are on maneuvers?
You’re not counting the 6 million military-aged men ushered across the border in the last 2 years.
The army vet and anti-jab lawyer, Anna de Buisseret, claims to have been contacted by members of the Black Watch regiment deployed in Turkey to train bands of young men (UN recruits?) who are then sent to the UK via the migrant routes through Europe to Calais, then across the Channel.
In the early days they can apparently be recognised by their army haircuts. There is apparently usually one older man with them. Since ‘asylum seekers’ here are now being housed in hotels requisitioned for the purpose (they just need to offer them more than they’d get from holidaymakers) it seems we have covert regiments in waiting in many of our towns and cities. John O’Looney has talked about this, as has Mike Yeadon, although they are both in contact with Anna de B. so the source is likely the same.
So it’s not just the US. Possibly they are waiting until the plug is pulled on the financial system, then they will be needed to quell the citizenry. As John O’Looney suggested, British soldiers aren’t going to want to go door to door persecuting British citizens (one hopes, but who knows …).
Since when does the National Guard roll through city streets on maneuver, though?
Just think of the money needed to repair the street damage, for one.
Did they roll down Kensington Ave, I wonder.
I agree that there will not be a military coup, though.
The Deep State already pulled off their coup, in the 2020 election and then the Jan. 6th psy op.
Whatever happens next will be part of the plan.
Using training exercises as a cover for all kinds of misdeeds is an intrinsic part of their repetoire.
Yes Janos: See the multiple US military aviation “War Games” scenarios in progress on September 11, 2021, just as an example.
Mea culpa – that would be 2001. Jeez…
Thanks Q, you could have ripped me a new ass on that one.
Q only does grammar.
jarek, you mean like the “training exercise” that took place over the Nordstream pipes?
check out monkeywerx channel on youtube. He does analysis of world wide military air traffic on a bi-weekly basis. He has a special episode where he shows in detail, the nordstream op, using actual 3D traffic control maps, in real time.
The Boston Marathon too – militarized police were walking around with large backpacks.
Add the July 7th, 2005 (7/7 Bombings) – simultaneous bombings on three London underground trains.
As luck would have it – the Brits were in the middle of conducting a live-training exercise on Muslim terrorists bombing trains – so response was almost immediate.
It was good for shock value anyhow – those bad Muslims.
And the San Bernadino Dept. of Rehab. workers had recently done a live exercise terrorism drill.
My sister worked for the same department in San Jose, so I asked her if it was statewide, and if she had done the same thing.
Nope.
There was also some interesting trading activity – heavy short positions for no apparent reason – on July 6th.
We know for certain that it wasn’t Sargent Schultz, because he knew nothing, but somebody knew something. Same as 9/11.
As Jim would say, today’s markets are so janky, and there’s so much white noise, it’s hard to discern something unusual.
In times past, if there were unusually large shorts positions – that seemed to come out of nowhere, for no discernable reason – it was time to duck-and-cover, because something was going to blow up somewhere real soon.
Nowadays, the telegraphing trades are still there, but they’ve become better at camouflaging them, as they front run the “unexpected” events. There’s no end to their evil.
Complicated funding & ownership on Nord Stream because it was jointly developed by a few countries, but I can guarantee you that some people with advance knowledge placed their bets on a big bang & made money on the event.
Sometimes, it’s a movie set. In the summer of 94, while driving into the picturesque No-Cal town of Ferndale, I noticed an inordinate number of military vehicles lining the road. I thought it was a National Guard exercise.
Turns out, they were filming the movie, ‘Outbreak’; a film about an airborne virus that threatens a small town, where the hero is, ahem, a contagious disease expert played by Dustin Hoffman, (who, incidentally, wasn’t on set that day).
When I was in the Guard back in the 70’s we would always do our stuff on a military base large enough for war games, never in a town or city.
Back in the days of the Student Revolution against the Vietnam draft the students at my university had the administration so cowed that they instigated a program called Search. Search courses were for credit, but graded pass-no-pass. Anybody could organize a Search course by simply posting it. The professors loved it because it meant that they didn’t have to bother to teach courses but still were paid. In my university I taught a Search course called History of WAR with over 1,000 students that was held in the basketball stadium.
My favorite Search course was called Markisim. A flaming radical (who also set fire to the ROTC building) organized his followers to take their deer rifles out on maneuvers and shadow ROTC students while they were learning guerilla tactics. Scared the shit out of the wanta be officers!
Those who survived being the targets of Markisim were later the real targets of fragging in Vietnam if they were foolish enough to lead their platoon into the jungle instead of passing the J among the soldiers.
The History of War doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
I was an Infantryman in the 10th MTN Division from 1990 to 1994. About 1/2 of the time we trained in actual cities. We used civilian roads and infrastructure all the time. We were told to evade civilian authorities. We landed Helicopters in parks, large parking lots, and abandoned industrial facilities. We “attacked” and took over a municipal airport once. All over the place…
Strange days indeed! The kettle’s on the boil and summer hasn’t even officially begun yet! What new delights of excess can the upcoming 4th of July holiday hold in store?
Around this time last year a wealthy woman (from Texas ? ) took $50 million from her apparently substantial resources and purchased US sovereign silver coins ($35 million) and US sovereign gold coins with the remainder ($15 million). Drained the retail US silver coin market for weeks.
One major stipulation was it had to be completed before July 4th weekend (2022), on the chance things went really sour, as the best time for such a move would be a long weekend.
Better to be a year early than a day late.
My opinion is a person with such an amount of funds also has access to information at some level above most of the citizens of what is left of the US.
but there are many billionaires.
so some own gold, so what.
Seems to be working well for the past five thousand years or so.
Paper holders are counting vaporous assets in a ledger.
The very big banks go for the PM ETFs. The retail purchaser chooses coins…
Some estimates are less than 1% of US citizens hold Ag, not as much attention going to calculate holders of Au.
It is portable. Someone will accept it in trade for goods (like food? ) and then use it to trade with someone else for some other commodity.
Been going on for thousands of years.
“Seems to be working well for the past five thousand years or so.”
NGT,
As were mounted cavalry charges until the advent of the machine gun.’
“It is portable. Someone will accept it in trade for goods…”
Hmmm, not cigarettes, liquor, food, sex, or lead? I think you have figured out how to profit during the hard times a-coming.
Elysian, gold and silver are better barter items than the ones you named. For one thing they store forever, never spoil, appeal to everyone, require little storage space.
Liquor, food, cigarettes are good but all have their drawbacks. As far as selling my body for sex, I shudder to think who would be on the buying end of that transaction.
hmuller,
Yes, both gold and silver will be barter items, but not primary in the market, in my opinion. The primacy of gold as a barter item requires a safe haven where gold is recognized as a store of value, and can then be sold to regain the wealth it supposedly represents. Where will this safe haven be? In the oft stated thousands of years of human history, there was always some place to bug out to when things got sporty. Where will the gold bugs bug out to when life in the good old USSA becomes untenable? Bribe the border guards to slip into Mexico? Canada? I expect that the next outrage will be a world wide event.
1st in Human history.
P.S. Who on the other end of the transaction? Dunno. Got any naked pics?
Not portable in the sense that you can carry it around from A to B, portable as in you can store it and keep it until the bad times pass and it is redeemable again. The wealth the AU represents is portable through the hard times. Does that make sense?
I think it will be a bad idea to try and use AU or AG for day to day transaction. Eventually, some knuckle dragger will get it in their head that you have something that they want. They will come at you, maybe ten of them, and overwhelm your defense. Better to remain anon…
IMHO I wouldn’t flash any gold, silver etc around post grid down. Someone will come try to take it. Most likely at a very inopportune time for you. Keep that shit on the down low (even before grid down).
Beans and bullets will be #1 trade item. Cigarettes can and probably will be replaced with vape pens as you can make your own juice and they are solar rechargeable. Hippy Lettuce will be a big commodity as will moonshine and bio-diesel fuel. Intact and working firearms will be priceless. Plan accordingly…
malthus:
And those who own paper assets will be shit out of luck when the Country goes full Weimar. And in times like these it could happen overnight.
I think the conventional wisdom is that you should have about 10% of your portfolio (if you have one) in gold and silver. I’d say 20% is better, but that depends on your need for cash on hand.
Yes Anthea – better 80% of your portfolio goes to zero value than 90%.
I asked an oldtimer who had survived the great depression a question once. I asked him about the 10% gold/silver/PM’s we are supposed to have in our portfolio. Specifically, I asked when are you supposed to cash it out and what are you supposed to buy with it? His reply was to wait until the price of a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom ranch house with a 2 car garage is affordable using that gold/silver/pm’s as the majority (or better, all) of the funds for the purchase.
Qwib – what the oldtimer describes is/was cashing out & purchasing *his vision, at the time*, of The American Dream – 3/2/2. The dream has changed.
Forward looking, the dream may be finally understanding what freedom really means – that becoming the dream. PM’s may not be enough to buy the new dream of true freedom – but hopefully buy some time toward that end. We’ll see.
PS – your comment on vapor pens vs. cigarettes was well thought out & illuminating. Thanks.
Believed to be Alice Walton.
Yes, I didn’t know the first name, but an heiress to the Walton fortune was the story as it unfolded. She knew others of her mindset conemplating the same type of purchase..
she who built a museum. status symbol.
if I recall its ‘crystal bridges’?
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Upstate Adirondack Mtns, NY here. We had a serious fly-over of Airforce fighter jets the other day. They kept circling the area at tree-top levels for over 15 minutes. Never saw or heard anything come close in the past.
That’s the Sound Of Freedom as put to me by my German girlfriend who visited one year when I was living near Oceana Naval Air Station, VirginiaBeach,
The USA is nothing more than a schoolyard bully. Now that the Russians have made it a full time job to show the world the failure of our weapons, the MIC must be in a panic. We’ve thrown everything that we have at the Russians and all it did was gain Ukraine a few hundred meters at the cost of 10,000 dead, wounded or missing.
I’m guessing that all our military has left in it is the ability to parade around Philadelphia to frighten the locals.
Finally, I can’t entirely agree with Kunstler in that I believe that Joe will undoubtedly run again and win another contested election. After all, 75% of African Americans said they’d vote for him again and aren’t we celebrating their most special day today???
DNC has already stated there’d be no debates for the primary but there’s no way they can avoid debates for the presidency. I can’t see how that confused, deteriorating old man can stand up to even another year of appearances.
This summer may prove to be a watershed for the Democrats. They don’t want Kennedy any more than they did Sanders and they’re stuck with Kamala. The war in Ukraine is falling on its’ face just like Joe. What to do?
They need a boogeyman as a “threat to democracy.” My guess is a false flag event.
This country could justifiably have a Department of False Flags for the countless times they’ve used such both home and abroad.
It probably does have a Department of False Flags, complete with Film Production of Atrocities division.
My bet is on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
They have been shelling it for months, and they have tried commando attacks, also.
They probably have some plan to go past Russian defenses and damage it enough to release radiation, at which point the Mighty Wurlitzer will pull out all the stops, accuse Russia, and demand “justice”.
It is absurd to think that Russia would bomb their own nuclear power plant, in Russian territory, with Russians guarding it, but no absurdity is too stupid for the western public to swallow.
The UN “inspection team” has gone along with the dumbass narrative so far, as they are stationed there. They are probably passing the plans to the US/NATO all along, the way the OSCE team did in Donbass.
If they suddenly leave the ship, we’ll know the time is nigh.
Or maybe they won’t be warned. That would be priceless.
Concur
The ZNPP has been shut down.
But there are still cooling pools being tended. That is why when the Ukies blew up the dam, there was concern about the cooling pools at the NPP.
Paula D. ..
The ‘cooling pool’ issue was on the top of the list of issues requiring remediation; this having been likewise successfully handled — thank God!
@tuco22. Did they ever find all that missing ammonium nitrate?
This former kuntry is a FF event.
There were almost no debates for the presidency in 2020. What makes you think they won’t do it again?
It is exactly what they will do with any candidate that is not RFK–who they will do anything to stop.
Yes the incoming pandemic will cause yet another lockdown with rolling blackouts to boot.
I went gold panning this weekend up in Laguna mountains and noticed dead birds all over the place as I was happily motoring along.
Not a mass die off but enough dead birds along the side of the road to start really wondering.
Anyone else seeing dead birds all over the place?
There were reports of bird flu a couple of months ago and had the thought here we go again.
Why not just get a metal detector and troll Laguna Beach at the break of dawn?
“Imaaaagine ze fvrightening szenario uff a compwehinsive gloobal cyber attack!”
*Laughs in WEF*
@jarek,
I have a metal detector, Minelab Gold Monster 1000 but Laguna beach is a long drive and there are already plenty of people looking around the beaches for coins and missing rings.
This time of year the California beaches are groaning under the endless people at times literally fighting over parking spots.
Flopping around a local creek is soothing the beach is no longer soothing.
Just before covid started I had some clown pull a little Saturday night special .38 on me because he said I took his parking spot. He came in the lot after me and was behind me so delusional.
It just so happened I was going shooting a bit later so I picked up my glock 21sf and told him mine is bigger and I can actually hit what I aim at.
The surf ghetto of Mission beach has always been a bit rough but that moment I realized how many people were losing their minds.
I saw a letter in a local weekly that serves a community becoming more and more “woke”.
Fairly high income people, very few black people.
The letter listed, amongBiden’s accomplishments, working with McCarthy and McConnell to get our debt ceiling lifted and having NATO help Ukraine fight for its sovereignty.
It also stated that the economy is doing well.
Well there you have it! Ignore grocery store prices, the cost of prescriptions, or higher rents (if you can afford an apartment) and read the community newsletter.
Cummunity news rags: in which for every photo of a male face there are 5 to 10 female faces?
I’m sick of those photo ops of all those women (and pseudo-women and the testosterone-challenged, sexually confused biological males). I’m sick of hearing them speak of all their feelings (I don’t care). I’m sick of inclusion and diversity (I don’t care about that, either). I’m sick of them running the show by commitee. I don’t believe that equal opportunity equates to equal outcome It’s going to be a real mother when the pendulum swings back the other way.
Well said, Draup. White Men must rule again. So many women will pretend to hate it but inwardly feel relieved.
Yes. Women haven’t done well by themselves over the past few decades of female empowerment and sexual liberation and male debasement. All they’ve gotten themselves is a whole lot of poverty, absent fathers, teenage sons they can’t control and welfare and the women in politics are nuttier than a jar of chunky peanut butter. Yes, some male politicians are quacks but it seems like ALL the females are lost causes. AT one time women demanded more of their men and got better treatment from them. Today? They hop in the sack with any dude who will have them and then bitch about them after the dude gets them pregnant and bolts.
Wake up ladies. Get your heads on straight. This whole movement isn’t working out well for you.
The job market has not rebounded yet either.
This time four years ago I had over 300 jobs a week hitting my crawler barely getting two dozen now.
Beryl,
The newspaper you speak of is doing me a great service. First, I hope they castrate themselves and their children as quickly as possible in the name of diversity. Frankly, they can not castrate themselves fast enough.
Second, I hope each and every one of them leaves their money and retirement accounts in the banks to the bitter end. No need to take that money out now when it can still purchase useful preps and PMs.
Finally, when the time comes, each and every one of the people you speak of can be given an armband and a panzerfaust and shipped over to Ukraine to do their part. They can fight building to building in Kiev while Zelensky puts on his best dress and attempts to set a new cocaine snorting record.
WWI was only supposed to last a few months in 1914. The troops on both sides were told that they would be home for Christmas. Not on your nelly. The war dragged on to Nov. 1918. So far, Ukraine’s war with Russia has created around 12 million Ukrainian refugees, acording to news reports.
Instead they had Christmas in the trenches, with German and Allied troops celebrating together.
The Elite vowed never again. This was a failure of propaganda. Thus the Germans became “Huns” or non-European hate objects.
Two weeks to flatten t. . .
According to fake ballot totals, Biden got more black votes than Obummer. The same Obummer that gave free phones to said citizens in order to call them when it was time to board the pizza party bus to the polls.
No way Biden got even half of those voters. There are so many compromised grifters in government that even the dozens of cities who had more votes cast than voters simply blamed human error and resubmitted newly redacted forms.
Unfortunately a lot of folks would jump off a cliff if JOE Biden told them to…
It’s not about votes, it’s about ballots.
NGT,
It’s not about ballots, it is about who counts them.
Actually, it’s about, “Anything goes, and nothing matters any more”, to quote our host, Jim.
WHAT counts them?
“It’s not about ballots, it is about who counts them.”…
yes, considered adding it, attributed to J. Stalin
Can someone erudite explain this: if, as Mr Kunstler says, the Dominion vote-counting devices were logging on-line, in contravention of the law, why couldn’t that, or another similar computer-fiddling argument, be raised by the Fox News defense team during the recent trial?
I was honestly surprised to read that the Dominion machines were as honest as Honest Abe. What? Oh.
Slight correction here: Joe or a “reasonable facsimile” of Joe will run again. B.O. has too much invested in his puppet to let him pass…
B.O. is himself a puppet.
Insiders claimed he spent most of his time in the East Wing getting high and watching ESPN.
Who was really running the country?
Team Reptilian – Valerie Jarrett, Condi Rice & Susan Rice, with Big Mike as their mascot.
But Team Reptilian was coached by others, who in turn answer to Owners.
Lest we forget Ron; Donna Brazile & Deborah Wasserman Schultz.
Speaking of “…the failure of our weapons…” the [heavily-armed, criminal] elephant in the room is finally receiving belated recognition. Not from Congress, which is simply interested in shoveling more money to the annoying Mitteleuropa problem, hoping it will go away.
Nope, even the “defense” types are ringing the alarm.
httpsXX://www.federaltimes.com/opinions/2023/06/16/us-failure-to-track-weapons-for-ukraine-has-consequences/?mc_cid=a4e3f3dd39&mc_eid=c2babcfeb8
I recall a panic when our brave boys skedaddled outta Afghanishit, leaving behind Stinger missiles.
Originally designed for prankster Taliban soldiers to shoot down Hind helicopters and kill a few more Russkies, the notion suddenly arose in the happy-go-lucky military minds that the shoulder-mounted Stinger could be easily repurposed to knock an airliner taking off into not taking off.
The narrow escape from that panic was that Stingers don’t run on Eveready alkalines: they require an extremely specialized battery, one which your determined jihadi warrior is not going to find at Walmart. No replacement battery? No airmen need worry. Well, at least until something else falls into their cash-rich criminal hands.
As we were fond of saying in the military, “They don’t know whether to shave, shine, shit or salute”.
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Reverse déjà vu Anon1970?
Fun article, as usual. “…fire-and-replace post-haste the whole honking host of seditious rogues running the executive agencies — from AG Merrick Garland, to FBI Director Chris Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, Treasury Secretary Yellen…” You forgot our DOS, Mr Blinkers [as in racehorse attire] over in China acting like he’s going to teach his Mother-in-Law how to cook.
Women love Mayor Pete. He’s one of the few good White men. They have the maternity picture of him, his husband, and their baby on their desks and walls.
Perhaps, but I was referencing the Secretary of State and his entourage of nanny-bots from his Department proselytizing in China.
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JHK: Your screening program is much better at picking out prohibited (?) wars like N*zi, than deleting pure spam.
words not wars
Not to be impudent — by any stretch of the imagination, Anon1970, but, I can’t help but ask; do you ever comment on anything that is *actually* of relevance?
“An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed;
A senate, Time’s worst statute, unrepealed—
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day”
-Shelley, “England in 1819”
Excellent poem and perfect for what’s going on now —
” Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;”
Like father, like son.
Murph, Wow, Thanks for that.
I ‘ll have to check out what was going on in the Old Country in 1819. Seems like it was connected to Peterloo. Must find that film and watch.
Meanwhile, I’ll raise you one!
Re “My name is Joe Biden”:
“Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
And this from Robinson Jeffers:
“We have geared the machines and locked all together
into interdependence.
We have built the great cities; now
There is no escape.
We have gathered vast populations incapable
of free survival, insulated
From the strong earth,
each person in himself helpless,
on alldependent.
The circle is closed, and the net
Is being hauled in.”
Gulp. And it was one in less than a decade. My grandparents were self-sufficient growing up in rural Kentucky. My parents had a lot of practical skills, I have a few, my children have cell phones.
done
I made many mistakes — less than a century.
Nigel, another wow.
Yep, independent in the hills of wherever.
Just reading Graham Robb’s The Discovery of France.
There is much of interest along the way (marvelous book, BTW), including that many small communities had zero interest in connections with the outside world, which often came after them for one thing or another to control some new aspect of their lives after ructions of one sort or another had occurred in the political center.
They would actually destroy bridges into their towns, just to make it harder for tax collectors and all sorts of others to reach them, or even know that they were there.
“Or maybe, what we’re seeing in all these military movements is the prelude to a real live military coup d’é·tat? Just sayin’….”
Or maybe, WW3 and a “hot” war with Russia ?
Just say’n.
Nothing would surprise me anymore. But I’d be more inclined to think that they were in response to possible and actual Juneteenth “celebrations,” though. Chicago, in particular, racked up quite the body count. Freaking show offs!
Disaffected,
I want to point out something significant regarding the “Juneteenth” celebration mass shootings that JHK referenced.
The 23 shot and 1 killed shooting did not take place in Chicago. In fact it did not take place in Cook County. It took place in unincorporated Willowbrook, which is DuPage County, just west of Burr Ridge, an affluent suburb which straddles DuPage and Cook Counties.
This is important because the Chicago/Cook County violence is fanning out. This shooting will not be included in the heyjackass dot com website’s crime statistics.
Haven’t seen the video but let me submit a WAG (wild-ass guess). White supremacists. They are the greatest threat to democracy, don’t you know?
The neocons are poking stick after stick in the Russian bears eye, e.g. sending fighter-bombers with nuclear capabilities to the Nazis in Uke. If they get a really big war (i.e. WWIII) soon, before brandom completely disintegrates, then they may be able to prevent a change in ‘leadership’ based on the precedent of no pres changes during war. Just thinking.
I was thinking the same thing. Emergency War Powers Act and all that hooey.
I don’t know. Starting a nuclear war to keep a senile, corrupted, Sniffer-n-Chief in office seems kind of excessive.
… were we not in a parallel universe.
Good point.
I’d like to believe you, Jim, that the Dems and Deep State are on their last legs here, but I don’t see it. They have elections in the bag from now on, what with vote cheating, and anyway, which Repug Prez is going to take on the Nomenklature? Trump? Desantis? Pence, God help us? Nothing good can be done at the DC level. If things do change for the better, it will come from the periphery, like it did with the collapse of the USSR. Martin Armstrong, no slouch at predictions, says the US will collapse by 2032. I see nothing to make me believe he is wrong.
If it collapses in 8 1/2 years we’re going to have a lot of mad illegal immigrants on our hands.
Not sure they would be mad.
Collapse in USA is probably better than collapse in, say, Guatemala.
If not, they can just go back where they came from . . . with some Yanqui grift in their backpacks. Maybe a few guns . . . .
I’ve seen the military vehicle story on a couple of different websites. Is this click bait? This is the time of the year when National Guard and Army Reserve units convoy to various posts for annual training. On the other hand, it would be nice to know why the military is riding around the streets and highways.
If there is something going on it doesn’t surprise me. Biden and the Democrats are being backed into a corner. This will not have a pretty ending. Don’t look for a Kennedy to fix things. Remember Kennedy’s are Democrats. Bobby would be fighting the RINO-LIKE Democrats.
With the 4th of July coming up maybe there will be more fireworks than expected. Sooner or later the Real Americans will say that they have had enough! We are all sick of LGBTQ, PRIDE, Diversity, pronouns, crimes by the 13% and the absolute lack of honesty and integrity of our elected leaders!
I haven’t been much on July 4th celebrations ever since I found out 20 years or so ago that all the fireworks are made in CHINA. And often in horrific sweatshops with child slaves. It was reading about an explosion or fire in one of those factories that killed a bunch of children that permanently soured me on fireworks. My own kids were still at home then, and I tried to be creative with alternative ways of celebrating the holiday without fireworks.
Of course, during the last three years, as I’ve grieved the death of freedom and the ever-more-obvious betrayal of the Founders’ and Framers’ ideas, I just haven’t had the heart to celebrate Independence Day at all, even without the Chinese-made fireworks. It has become a day of mourning for me. If invited to a family gathering, I put on a happy face for the sake of the children there. But it all feels very phony and pathetic.
Operation Jade Helm 2.0
Fireworks have been made in China since the 13th century when Chinese alchemists wipped up the first batch of black powder. Chinese invented gunpowder, didn’t make its way to Europe until about the year 1250, when Francis Bacon began experimenting with it in London.
Fireworks is a Chinese invention. For this we owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude.
Heartlander, exactly my feelings. I wish we could get people to stop buying this unnecessary CCP crap. There’s a certain type that celebrates every holiday with crap made in China, bought at the dollar store.
I know. Whenever I see a particularly silly little gewgaw, I can’t help imagining the Chinese slave worker in the factory that made it, wondering “what the hell is the meaning of THIS?”
I said that to my son one time at Halloween. Don’t you wonder what the Chinese slaves think about this?
And he answered, the Chinese dress up for their parades on Chinese New Year. Maybe they don’t think it’s weird.
Who knows?
Word is the National Guard maneuvers are regularly scheduled events for this hour of the year, but I believe our collective response represents the edginess of the moment quite well.
I think we’re all rightfully rattled at this point, the uncertainties surrounding the validity of the competence of our governance beginning with the doddering old dotard/dictator-‘wannabe’ with his reckless and feckless contingent—family-wise and his freak show appointees both—has left we the sentient wondering which shoe is next to drop and what size in kilotons that drop may be.
Coming on the heels of our last three years of travail, and watching this generation’s iteration of the “best and brightest” effect its irrational policies ranging from an open streaming-thru southern border, to a neocon near-rabid commitment to Ukraine that nobody in their right mind would condone in that it has all of the hallmarks of our Vietnam experience of the 1960s-70s, yeah, we’re a bit jumpy.
Oh, and then being on the cusp of an economic implosion of a likely megatonnage scale along with a thoroughly discredited, fully politicized snoop agency panoply, now topped off with an international hornets’ nest of pissed-off allies and contrived enemies both who recognize rabies when they see it.
And just where is Sam Brinton when we truly need him to re-instill our sense of Pride with the Fourth of July so near at hand?
Nice synopsis, Dave.
I you wan to feel really edgy then go for a nice Sunday drive in the country and literally have a face-to-muzzle encounter with a Nat Guard tank squatting in the middle of the road. A 120mm bore is a big gun to have pointing at your vehicle. Happened a few years ago on RT 12S headed towards Bethel VT. They were just out for a ride too.
Those buffoons drove one of those tanks down the main street in a small town near me and broke every sewer and water line along the way.
None of the Democrats will ever face any charges against them. Don’t forget, our wonderful country brought over high ranking Nazis after WW2 to teach us the ways of psychopaths during Operation Paperclip. The malignant bureaucracy has always run the country with puppets on top.
Speaking of puppets, here’s some more commentary on Ukraine:
Imagine you bet the future of your country on the US Govt, you become a puppet regime, you do as you are told and provoke a war with your powerful nuclear armed neighbor, half your citizens flee, your country gets wrecked, you are now hundreds of billions in debt and get NOTHING.
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1670278679547752448?s=20
As Jim said: “Well, sonofabitch, they fired him!” (Laughter all around.)
The thing about that grifters’ paradise is the amounts of loot that have been thrown into that black hole have rebounded right back to the perps after a peremptory laundering and the sheer scale of the corruption guarantees opacity for most of the miscreants. The U.S. prominent political families getting in on the rape besides the bidens include Pelosi, Kerry, Romney, and how many others that will never see the light of day.
And don’t forget the Sam Bankman-Fried money to Ukraine that did its own loop de loop that like a boomerang ended back up in the Beltway unscathed and electronically dry cleaned for Democratic campaign contributions. That this all ties into SEC head Gary Gensler in near-intimate fashion as a friend of the “Family” is just more icing on an already top-heavy cake. But it’s likely ballasted by the jailhouse files included in the recipe. Those tools will make sure any prison time will be of short duration.
Yes. After the War Between the States, Prussian mercenaries lectured the Southern leadership on what it meant to be a “good American.” One of the Prussians was explaining to Richard Taylor the qualities of a “good American” without realizing he was the son of a President.
Oh, God.
Meanwhile, let’s have a chuckle.
This line pops out for me:
“He’s a broke-down engine pulling a train of failure, perfidy, and treason five miles long behind him.”
Worse that the aborted boob grab at the Longoria event was his rambling, utterly vulgar self-presentation at the podium. He speaks like a teenage godfather wannabe, what we used to call “drugstore cowboys.” Hangin’ out at the drugstore after school actin’ and talkin’ tough, yeah!
Pretty telling wasn’t it that the event they chose to celebrate on the WH lawn was not Father’s Day (Hunter could have supplied all the children — at least the ones he knows about) or Juneteenth but a Pride Fiesta. I wonder if our NATO “allies” are awake at night wondering what they’ve gotten themselves into?
Why didn’t he say “God save the queens” at the Pride Fest, instead of a gun control rally?
It would have made more sense.
Ha ha! Good one!
“Why didn’t he say ‘God save the queens’ at the Pride Fest.” ~ Paula D
Nyuk nyuk… maybe that’s what he meant but it came out wrong.
youtu.be/FbjiKIKzY3c
He could be in his teens in his own mind, we don’t know.
Nah! There is no mind!
ABC News. They must teach how to write misleading headlines in journalism school now.
Westchester County DA ends probe of Trump golf course without filing charges
https://abcnews.go.com/US/westchester-county-da-ends-probe-trump-golf-filing/story?id=100126265
They didn’t file charges because they found out there was nothing to file charges over, which somehow took them years to do.
Which means he was innocent of any wrongdoing, but they won’t say that because he is Trump.
Look at how they scream “There was no evidence” every time we bring up the stolen election (now illegal to do.)
Odd that they forgot that line now.
“… fire-and-replace post-haste the whole honking host of seditious rogues running the executive agencies — from AG Merrick Garland, to FBI Director Chris Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, Treasury Secretary Yellen”
3 of these 4 have something in common.
Yes, even here in Buzzard’s Breath, Arkansas (pop 49) we’ve witnessed the military on the move – 2 convoys seen in the past 7 days. It’s no coup though. The explanation is far more simple:
NATO is moving to a full wartime footing.
Special attention to the last sentence… One can only hope.
Seriously? Do you think the U.S. military is our friend? After Obama sacked all the decent leadership? After Biden finished off the job by turning it into a nest of drag queens and gangbangers?
The current military leadership hates normal American people. And the average military recruit will follow the orders they are given. Including shoot-to-kill civilians.
“Including shoot-to-kill civilians.”
Yep. Most cops will do so as well.
Disown all of them in your family and circle.
Ok, now its 1977. Whats next?
Disco, also known as community policing. Think CHOP. Did Za enjoy CHOP? It was anarchist……
That is why they threw the Oathkeepers founder into prison for so long, to make sure they all break their oaths and turn on the population.
latest Tibet scandal, OSHO says
The Dalai Lama is not enlightened.
He still has the great desire to be the political head of Tibet. That desire is preventing his enlightenment.
I feel sorry for him — a nice man — but any desire is going to become a tremendous obstacle. I had sent him the message that, “It is time you dropped the very idea of being the political head of Tibet.”* He is in tremendous anguish.
OSHO? Rajneesh? Isn’t he dead? Did he say it in a seance?
he said that long ago, I guess…1970s or 1980s.
Dalai Lama — the “nice man” — was caught on camera a couple of months ago, video and audio, of pressuring a boy of about 8 years-old to suck his (Dalai Lama’s) tongue. His followers tried to poo-poo it by saying it’s Tibetan culture, as if culture is always divorced from morality.
The late Jean Klein said it best: never trust the popular gurus.
Soul Pigeon
Even Buddha, Christ, Krishna? Sivananda or Ramana?
There are exceptions to Klein’s dictum.
Of course. But there are also many gurus who were contemporaneous to them that were more popular. And many of the best fade away. Look at J. Krishnamurti. He’s a punching bag for that wildly popular condescending prick, Sadhguru.
Anyone following the RFK Jr./Joe Rogan/Peter Hotez debate story?
If not, you are missing some fine entertainment.
Elon Musk has gotten involved as well.
I’ve seen a little. Dr. Hotez wants to repeat how he was “just trying to protect children!” by pushing gene-therapy shot off on 6 months old babies with no idea of long term effects. He’ll never debate anyone.
Oh yeah:
Hotez =Hotep = Whadda Weasel
zerohedge.com/political/double-talking-vaccine-scientist-refuses-debate-rfk-jr-despite-15-million-charity-pot
Here’s a partial post:
“This weekend, Joe Rogan offered to donate $100,000 to charity if Dr. Peter Hotez, a loud vaccine supporter, would debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., probably the most prominent vaccine skeptic, on his podcast.
Rogan’s challenge generated national and even international attention.
But Hotez wouldn’t touch it, even after other people added pledges and the charity pool rose over $1 million. This morning, he whined that debating Kennedy was beneath him. “One typically doesn’t debate science,” Hotez said.
One doesn’t?”
A bowtie guy – never trust them. Add to that the face of a weasel and you are confronting a human nightmare.
That “cyber pandemic” is going to happen at some point, and I’m noticing more and more cyber attacks in the MSM. They orchestrate a crash of the banking system, and or the power grid, blame it on Russia (or China) it doesn’t matter. The central banks absolves themselves of any blame, and they can now introduce CBDC. Perhaps all of the military noise in the USA is because the economic system is getting so fragile, they gotta collapse it soon. “This suckers going down Brownie.”
“You’re doing a great job, Brownie.” ~ Dubya, 2005 Re: Katrina
response.
“This sucker might go down.” ~ Dubya, 2007 Re: TARP for TBTF Banks
This is like a eulogy! It belongs being aired, in spoken word at the podium–whether it be Hyde Park, et al, but it’s just brilliant!
My favorite lines from today’s piece:
“There’s no way this gibbering near-corpse can run again. He can’t even perform as a puppet anymore. He’s a broke-down engine pulling a train of failure, perfidy, and treason five miles long behind him.”
And Happy Juneteenth to one and all. Hope all those Federal employees out there are enjoying this paid holiday off while the rank and file continue to toil away under Bidenflation!
Just another day w/o US Mail delivery…nothing new from Louie DeJoy’s post office.
O.K. now the African-Americans have two paid holidays. I think that there should be a George Floyd Day to celebrate his birthday and the major accomplishments for his race.
As an American Veteran of Italian descent, I’m waiting for another Columbus Day.
Isn’t this a pure load of bullshit!
I’m proud of my heritage, proud of my grandparents who came to this Country through Ellis Island and worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. They never asked for welfare or a paid holiday. They made America great by working hard and educating their families.
Maybe our 13% should take a hint!
It’s character, not the color of your skin my friends!
Columbus Day has been all but cancelled. The beautiful Christopher Columbus monuments in New Haven & Hartford, each 125 years old, have been removed.
That’s nothing. New York’s capital just removed Philip Schuyler.
It is something.
I is something different.
And, IMHO, worse.
Because Columbus and his name is such an integral element of American culture, and names of not only places but institutions and scientific designations.
Such as pre-Columbian; Columbian Exchange, and others. Also, Portuguese and Spanish culture.
Like it or not.
When do we rename Columbia University?
I used to be sympathetic to Native Americans’ p.o.v. regarding Thanksgiving, and many other cultural manifestations. Some revision was definitely in order.
But at this point I think I have arrived at “enuff already,” Just like with the “Pride” nonsense. Gone too far. Too many counterproductive incursions into the shared space and culture.
And just as with the 1619 project, a lot of history, and anthropology, is left out of the “new revision.”
No, think about it: They said our being here was wrong. What’s the median in that? It’s them or us.
Since you’re too proud to be with us, you keep finding yourself with them. Keep going and you’ll find yourself living in a hogan or teepee without a pot too pee in.
Everything you have is because of the Conquest. Do you honor that? No, you won’t even admit it. You’re not alone. That’s the lady pov – which is why you all won’t get to vote in any America 2.0.
WTF are you blathering about now?
Take your meds.
Jarek and sockpuppets don’t need meds, see, if they can redefine their reality for everyone else.
— As you say; MUS (make up shit).
Is talking about Rachel, “Nazi”? Because she was killed by an Israeli – who is now a folk hero?
What was in the time capsule under the statue?
I’m surprised they haven’t renamed the capital city of Ohio yet.
Good thing my Viking forbearers never got any renown to be torn down.
Neither did the Portuguese who beat Columbus over thisaway as well.
Come to think of it, neither did the Chinese who came at it from the west, likely beating all of us.
Somebody had to eventually run into North and South America.
Dave:
Exactly.
The eventual encounter between technologically advanced cultures and the (basically) Stone Age people of North America was inevitable.
The encounters with the more advanced civilizations of Central and South America are fascinating for the mutual political calculations that occurred (this was also true to some extent in North America).
The best account that I (as a nonspecialist) know of, of *all* the backstories, is John K. Thornton, A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820. Including the backstories in Africa, concerning the slave states there. It is highly readable. One of my all-time favorite books.
(So much better than Simon Winchester )
Why haven’t you give your home back to the native Wampanoags?
Colonist!
Starting to notice more than a few black friends are getting fed up with St. Floyd. They know a thug and a drug addict when they see one. More than a few said it should have happened to him a few years earlier. They certainly don’t like BLM squirreling away all the money they extorted from the “peaceful protests” into mansions around the world.
Also it seems like a growing number of the gay community are really getting pissed at the trans weirdos pushing the “Pride” movement and latching onto the gay community as if it was their own.
The lesson is you get too greedy and it comes back to bite you in the butt. Are you listening “Joe Biden” ?
It’s not that greed doesn’t pay — it certainly does, throughout history. It’s that resources are shrinking, and the pressures for the fractionating victim groups pits each with the others. Currently, in the U.S., Blacks and trans are on the top of the totem pole; in Canada, it’s the Native groups and trans.
It’s hilarious. I’ve seen a few people in the news (not mainstream, of course) switch victim allegiances in an attempt to keep up with the grift.
Thank you Mr. K!! I hope you are having a good Monday and looking forward to an amazing week ahead. These are certainly very strange days indeed. It always seems like things become really strange when the weather gets hot. Almost as if the sultry weather invokes a dream-like misty state of being. So the mirage of “Joe Biden” or “Kamala Harris” is naturally a bizarre summer spectacle in a way. Though I would really love to see “Joe” debate RFK Jr.! Now that would be a spectacle indeed lol!
In a June 16th, 2023 speech, Biden announced that an amazing construction effort is being considered: “We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean.” President Biden eventually concluded his rambling, incoherent speech to the National Safer Communities Summit with this: “Alright? God save the Queen, man.” Obviously, Biden went totally off script with this insanity. Finally, someone helped the confused leader of the free world exit the stage so he wouldn’t fall down again.
My guess is that Our Chief Executive thought he was in England, when he was actually in NEW England. Attending Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in September of 2022 may not have left a lasting impression on what little remains of Joe Biden’s mind. Or maybe Biden thinks that King Charles is now identifying as a woman, therefore calling him Queen-man.
King Charles as a “Queen Man”. That is one way to cover all your bases.
President Biden is now creating way too many bases to cover. His rapidly increasing mental deterioration is now impossible to ignore. There are rumors that the FBI and other government agencies may actually start doing something about the Biden crime family. The only thing that appears to be restraining them is the horrible possibility that their efforts may result in Kamala Harris becoming president.
I don’t think they let Biden go to the Queen’s funeral. It was just Jill and a granddaughter, IIRC.
Or maybe that was the coronation. I know that Biden went to one event and refused to get on the dignitary bus, so he showed up late and got put in the back, and got mad about it. Maybe that was the funeral.
It looks like Biden showed up at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral. Put the following into the YouTube search box to see a dozen videos:
President Biden and First Lady Arrive at Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
OK, I misremembered. It was the coronation he didn’t attend.
But then it was the funeral where he was seated in the back because he came late.
That’s an SP gun in the picture.
On June 16th, President Biden revealed to the National Safer Communities Summit the dangers of pistol stabilizing braces: “Put a pistol on a brace, and it turns into a gun. Makes them where you can have a higher-caliber weapon — a higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun.”
There are two major problems with this analysis: Joe Biden claimed that a brace turns a pistol into a gun. A pistol is already a gun. Biden further claimed that a brace somehow changes the diameter of the pistol barrel, allowing it to accommodate a higher-caliber bullet. This is an impossibility.
pResident “Joe Biden” is an impossibility, yet there “he” is.
Most people believe that using the 25th amendment provision to replace totally incompetent President Biden with Kamala (giggle, giggle) Harris would only make things worse. In the meantime, at least Joe Biden is fun to watch.
Prospero,
It would not surprise me if there were fears by the handlers that Harris, once put into office, might go rogue..
That is, decide that she actually is the president!
Watch out!!
Loose cannon on board.
Biden v. Harris puts all previous “least bad options” to shame.
Sounds like a movie script. Or a reprise of the Cheney-Bush power dynamic in reverse, although Georgie boy was pretty good about staying in his lane with regard to letting Cheney handle all the serious decision making.
Disaffected:
Would make a great script!
Let’s do some casting right here!
Who plays “Kami”?
Kim Kardashian?
Naw, not smart enough, actually.
She might not be able to learn her lines.
Wait! Hmmn, that might just work . . .
Believe it or not, you’d have to square Kamala’s IQ to equal Kim Kardashian’s IQ. Kim is no genius, but not an idiot either. I think you can see where I’m going with this – Kamala is an idiot.
Kim broke the internet and Kamala bumped her head under Willie Brown’s desk so many times, she probably suffers more from CTE then the entire ’49er’s football team.
*than*
Sen Fetterman leaves something to be desired with his oratorical skills, but with his trademark hoodie, baggie shorts & sneakers, he certainly epitomizes the idea of the ‘Sharp Dressed Man’.
Don’t more than 50% of the voting population shop at Walmart? He should run for President.
Yeah, sharply cukoo.
Hip Hop Fetterman. The thug.
Jim, One of your best satires in your role as a True Conservative, whose first line of rhetoric seems to be that if you repeat BS enough times, folks will believe it.
Well, we’ll all have to ponder on that, to try to think of something positive to say about liberalism.
Inflation: nope.
Forever wars: nope.
Decaying inner cities: nope.
Homelessness: nope.
Drug abuse: nope.
Transgenderism being taught to school children: nope.
Transgener surgies and puberty blockers given to young children: nope.
Blacks shooting and killing each other: nope.
Failed public education: nope.
Failure of the Rule of Law: nope.
Abortion: nope.
I guess there’s no accounting for tastes, but some people view such things in a negative light.
Perhaps you can think of a liberal value that we could support. Please enlighten us.
I’m afraid the Democrats will remain nominally in control for the foreseeable future because of demographic, cultural and generational change that has coalesced in recent years. The republicans are just permanently smaller in numbers and there is not a dimes worth of difference between many republicans and the Democrats. The question is, how can things keep on going until it can’t?
Actually, how “long” can thing keep on going until they actually can’t? The year 2035 is the benchmark for most people in the USSA.
Sadly Prospero, our leader doesn’t know his butt from a shotgun barrel!
I suggest everyone stock up on water, canned items, and don’t let your gas tank get below 1/2!
Keep your eye on the ball!
Indeed, I once had a girlfriend that thought I was odd for always getting paranoid when my gas tank was below 1/2 full. I have been that way ever since running out of gas between stretches on I-80 in remote western Iowa. Best to keep the larders full and be overly prepared in these trying times.
I rescued an elderly Mormon couple on the side of the road in rural eastern Oregon. They had run out of gas and it was 100 degrees outside that day. The nearest gas station was 30 minutes away. They said I was the first person to drive by in an hour. I’m pretty sure they would not have made it.
“Remote western Iowa.” LOL! Try moving one state over, CB, where remote western Nebraska meets remote eastern Colorado and remote eastern Wyoming. Now that’s remote! Truly the wild, wild, west!
That’s funny, cb, because I’m the same way. When my gas tank gets to 1/2 full, I buy gas. A full tank in my car gets me about 560 miles, far enough to get out of developed areas. Since I’m about 220 miles to NYC, when I get to under a round trip where, I begin to get antsy.
Bill, you’re old enough to remember the gasoline lines of 1973 & 1979. The maxim then if you were at 1/2 tank you were in trouble (potentially)
I never had a lot of trouble with gasoline back then, although I was always conscious of my gas situation. Just prior to that I remember filling my tank in Boston @.35/gal, then soon after wondering what the hell happened.
To see how the dollar has deteriorated over the years, I remember when the 1979 problems began, there was a guy named Glenn somebody who had a station on Cambridge St. near Beacon Hill and sold gas for $5.25+ per gallon. Some people went there to just buy gas and be able to tell their friends they paid $5/ gal.
What’s really ironic is that now that doesn’t seem to be an outrageous price.
During the Days of Elvis (1956) gas was a quarter a gallon. But now, if you have a silver quarter its value will still get you a gallon and a bit more.
Precious metals hold their value.
Keep some silver dimes, quarters, and halves around.
Change you can believe in.
You can always melt them into bullets in case of werewolves.
With regards to my Senator Fetterman…
My Mother would say if you dressed like Sunday, you act like Sunday.
Remember, that’s when people wore a suit and tie to church.
I like that saying, I always dress the part and tend to get treated better and with more respect when out in the general population.
I attended Catholic school and had to wear a uniform. Several of the teachers told me that the behavior in school was always worst on a dress-down day.
Part of the uniform in Catholic schools was gum-soled shoes, which are relatively silent. What I remember about dress-down days was the loud clatter of kids walking in hard-soled shoes.
I did a few years of Catholic school and what I liked about the Sisters of Mercy in our school was their outfits had these huge clanking rosary beads and crosses on them. They clattered if the nuns were moving along at a decent speed. It was loud enough to serve the same purpose as having a bell on a cat. Some of these nuns had no mercy at all on us and it was cool that we could sometimes hear an incoming nun when we were up to no good.
Americans dress like slobs.
It wouldn’t be so bad if 75% of them weren’t overweight.
That is probably one of the reasons why they dress like slobs. Slobby clothing is all that they can pull up over their bulging masses of flesh.
Yes, compare the drag queens of Weimar with our ones. Horror added to horror.
“Strange doings at a strange time in a strange land.”
We humans seem to like ‘Normal’ – whatever normal happens to be for each of us. Many of us simply crave normal and not ‘strange’ and we hate anything that pushes us out of our own comfort zone.
The thing is… nobody ever promised us ‘Normal’ when we got here. In fact, ‘normal’ could hardly even be thought of when one thinks about the bizarre entry point and way each of us ‘arrives’ upon the Earth in a wet and painful and weepy mess. Actually when you think about it… we each arrive here in a wet and painful and weepy mess and we spend many of our remaining days in that uneasy and anxious condition.
But there again.. that’s how the Dark State wants us to be. A planet of wet and painful and weepy populations who spend their days always looking for Mommy and Daddy to make everything OK. And our dear Deep Dark State steps right up to fill the bill… ‘Yes, WE are the answer you seek! Surrender your soul to us and be happy forever!’.
And be careful to hold on to your lunch and watch where you step any time the Dark Ones have anything to tell us.
“Biden… He’s a broke-down engine pulling a train of failure, perfidy, and treason five miles long behind him.”
He is the perfect ‘Resident’ President for Our Times. As confused, empty, bewildered, attention-craving, and bereft of classiness as the days in which we live. If there were any doubts before, he has laid to rest the quaint notion that the ‘President’ actually runs anything in this Nation.
If you look for outer signs and portents of inner decay… note this: America had a massive and useful passenger rail system until the 1950s when it began a rapid decline into the skeleton Amtrak system we have today. The ethical heart of our Nation was mostly intact until those same 1950s — and the decline and decimation of our Nation’s values and morals and ethics also declined rapidly after those same 1950s. So, as our Nation’s passenger rail system goes… so it seems goes the spirit of the Nation itself.
A good rail system does more than just haul people and goods to all corners of America. It also represent’s our Nation’s very soul. Oh we desperately need a new Super Chief and Empire Builder and Daylight and Southern Belle and Eagle. This might not solve all our problems… but it’s a start to find our way back to sanity.
Certainly more so than any broke-down engine pulling a train of failure five miles long behind him.
I would like to see the return of steam powered engines of old, engines that run off the combustion of good old-fashioned wood. My what a sight that would be. And talk about a “green revolution” – wood is just about one of the most regenerative eco-friendly energy sources that could be imagined.
There are you tube videos out there of ancient steam powered sawmills in action. Running one of these engines is probably a miserable job in summer, those engines make a lot of heat. They also need constant attention, there are guages everywhere that must be monitored continually. The worst mishap that can happen with a steam engine is the boiler blows up and scalds everyone to death around it. The one I saw featured a steam engine that was partly fueled by sawdust. The old mill didn’t look very safe either.with giant sawblades and spinning machine parts out in the open and lacking guards and shields that kept human flesh from getting tangled up in there.
Mark Twain tells about the explosion of the boiler on a steamboat in “Life on the Mississippi.” His brother died from rescuing people from the sinking boat.
Those were the days when we actually got shit done and didn’t care about the process, as long as the end result was satisfactory. Living in the days without OSHA, child labor laws, social security, etc. would have certainly been great.
Not much fun for the people who actually ran those contraptions. I had a boyfriend who loved steam. He had a collection of really beautiful old steam engine models.
Kind of like models in a bottle from the “days of sail.”
Much more fun to look at than handling sails in a gale while clinging to yards 100 feet up was “no place for old men.”
Check out the remarkable footage in “Around Cape Horn (1929)—around the Horn in a four-masted cargo barque with no engine:
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tuTKhqWZso
@ Islander:
Great video!
The use of the automobile, the interstate highway system, and the airlines was growing rapidly in the’50’s. America was once in love with trains, evidenced by the proliferation of American Flyer and Lionel trainsets all across the nation.
Trains were also a part of many movies, not so much anymore.
I don’t know about them representing our ‘Nation’s very soul’, but they do have that air of nostalgia about them, when times seemed to be so much better.
Is it still true?
‘People get ready
There’s a train a-coming
You don’t need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don’t need no ticket
You just thank the Lord
So people get ready
For the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers’ coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board ’em
There’s hope for all
Among those loved the most
There ain’t no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just to save his own (believe me now)
Have pity on those
Whose chances grow thinner
For there’s no hiding place against the Kingdom’s Throne
So people get ready
There’s a train a-comin’
You don’t need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don’t need no ticket
You just thank the Lord’
The building of the nation’s railroad was (at that time) the biggest boondoggle the US had ever seen.
The glorifying of the railroads was one of the things that I found annoying about “Atlas Shrugged.”
There are popular songs that have been written about jets and planes… (‘All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go’…). There have been many songs written about sailing the Sea. Songs have been written about space travel… even UFOs (‘I’ve Seen The Saucers’…).
But nothing compares to the volume of songs written about Trains and traveling every corner of the Nation. From the old Blues songs of the South to the Folk songs of the 60s (‘I gotta Ramble!…’) and up to today in most every kind of music style… there are deep connections to traveling the true Veins of America… the rails from big cities to small towns and long empty stretches of parched deserts.
Why? Because deep in our spirit we sense something about this form of travel that is not just nostalgia or a corny silly desire to return to a simpler time of relative innocence. Train travel is in our National blood and DNA. The rails are our Nation’s bloodlines that deliver what the National Body needs to survive and prosper.
I choose ‘The Rails’ as our National symbol of finding our collective way back to National Sanity and good purpose… not the National erasure and endless and senseless and damaging pursuits into social waste and pain path we have been on since the late 1960s.
Whether those rails are filled with steam power or the once-fancied atomic engines of 1950s dreamers (which fortunately did not come to reality)… we need to restore our National Bloodline and with that a rejuvenated and healing National Bloodstream.
That sound we hear in the distance is our National train system begging us… imploring us… calling us… demanding us… to restore it — and ourselves – back to health.
Or we can all just be stuck at the Station forever with nowhere to go and no way to get there anyway.
Agree, Roundball. And country songs are full of train tales, also.
Most people love trains. Something about that lonely whistle!
Love to hear that lonely whistle blow.
Sound of freedom.
The last scene in “Picnic” sez it all.
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOj48iR19Y
How about being at the railway station – One Toke Over the Line? The Lawrence Welk Show did a hilarious version of this song, apparently Mr. Welk was clueless about the meaning of “toke”.
Xttps://youtu.be/t8tdmaEhMHE
trains are part of the local landscape here.
like the whistles late in the evening into the night.
they run on time most evenings, a side benefit of the whistles
One of the most haunting and vivid lyrics ever packed into a sentence—- “In a lonely shack by a railroad track, he spent his younger days….
And I guess the sound of the outward bound, made him a slave…. to his wandering ways.”
I live close enough to the railroad to hear Amtrak coming in and leaving twice a day.
It helps me keep track of the time if I’m outdoors.
The US rail system and its trains were one of the most important elements in the Great Migration of Southern blacks to northern cities and also a very important factor in economic improvement for hundreds of thousands of black Americans who staffed the trains.
Lots of interesting scenes in Malcolm X’s autobiography take place on trains. And then, there were all the hobos.
The importance of the rail system can be measured by the magnitude of the fight to destroy it, along with the urban mass transit rail systems.
I remember being quite enamored with trains growing up. Union Pacific had a few of their giant Centennial locomotives, the DD40X, around in those days, and the future looked bright for such super haulers. Alas, technology rolls on and they’re all relegated to museums and various other public displays these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_DDA40X
Pfft! You call that a train engine? Those diesel electrics are like overblown hybrid cars. 260 tons? that’s nothin’. The “Big Boy” was an engine!. What a fine piece of machinery. 604 tons of it. Check out this video at about the 4:15 mark when they start “pourin’ on the coal”
youtube.com/watch?v=UYYzhjUzCOU
Up the road a bit is a place called The “Pioneer Valley Live Steamers” . They just had their annual open house. Every Fathers Day they do it. Bunch of train nuts who build scale model steam engines. The machine work is crazy. These guys are a dying bread.
pioneervalleylivesteamers.org/gallery?pgid=k4s9scsc-632930f8-063c-444b-90ee-0cf7aa9d5663
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She’s a monster! Better video:
https://youtu.be/-KlU745GzUQ
Fuh-fuh-fuh-friggin’ Awesome!
Stelmo you have an actual operating short line RR in your town.
Yep, the Pioneer Valley Railroad. They have about 30 miles of track I think and hook up with CSX. They are solely freight but I think they have an old Pullman car in the shed they take out once in a while. They are part of what’s left of the Canal Line which pretty much made Farmington Canal obsolete.
I remember the National Geographics in the 1950s, loaded with ads for the wonderful cross-continent train trips that families could take.
“A good rail system does more than just haul people and goods to all corners of America. It also represent’s our Nation’s very soul. Oh we desperately need a new Super Chief…………………”
If we manage to clusterfuck the USA bad enough, and my predictions of the death of the car culture and the birth of the motorbike culture take place, then here is a vision of our new rail system. This will be simple, affordable, and practical rail travel for the 3rd world peeps living in the former USA in the Long Emergency. It might just be all we’ll be able to afford for a while. Here ya go, riding the cheapest train in Columbia!
Xttps://youtu.be/oKeW355u4Do?t=233
That is absolutely ingenious. I wonder what the fare is to ride something like that. Also, I wonder how often the motorcycle needs the clutch and rear tire replaced. The tire simply looked to be the old rubber one. I wonder how often it slips from off the track?
With a motorcycle, one thing you don’t want to skimp on is tires. Even if they don’t show much wear, after about 5 years the rubber gets brittle, and they need to be replaced.
“There ain’t half been some clever bastards”…
youtube.com/watch?v=PPvRsLWlDXw&list=RDPPvRsLWlDXw&start_radio=1
No offense intended, but I think throwing off the shackles, and towing our national police and spy forces to some Stoney Lonesome will have to take precedence if we are to realistically reacquaint ourselves with any romantic notions of recouping days of yore gone by. There is oh so much work to do first removing the cancers from the body politic, and the monsters have a near hundred year head start on us already.
If we can’t acknowledge and deal with their odious primacy first, all the will power in the world will be for naught.
And yes, they take note every time I bring this up again and again and again.
For we live in an electronic box canyon resplendent with cattle chutes with an express lane to the abattoir any time they feel we are kicking up too much of a fuss.
November 22, 1963.
I don’t think there’s a coup in process…the National Guard used to do convoy practice on the highways every summer in my youth. This program may have started up again, if it had been stopped at some point, or just gone on unremarked.
The total lack of leaks make it extremely unlikely. And even UFO propaganda wouldn’t be able to blot that kind of rumor out.
Wake up everybody!!! The reason these troops have been deployed is that the Feds are picking up Trump this week to detain him without bail for J6.
The feds are anticipating an armed response to their Tyranny. I think you are not seeing the obvious in your own article….
How do you know that Trump is going to be detained this week without bail? Are you an insider?
“…the tyrannical madness that their deposed leadership inflicted on our country. ” ~ JHK
LOL…
Don’t worry, it’s a global affliction, just that it’s the so-called USA’s turn…
Up here in so-called Canada, with my buttery stovetop-popped popcorn and home-brewed hard apple cider, I’m really enjoying this laughable excuse-for-a-culture, that I never really accepted and always had a low opinion of, excruciatingly continue to come apart in slow motion.
A big happy joyous middle finger and a smile to all my fellow naked apes who would uphold such sewage.
LOL…
I relate to this in some ways. Though I am not flipping off anyone.
“Though I am not flipping off anyone.” ~ SoftStarLight
Except online. You appear to have selective memory.
How are those man-made “climate” fear fires doing up dere in the Canook lands these days?
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill and die for…
And no religion, too.
“Imagine”–John Lennon
Zaz…meet you at the nearest Tim Horton’s and we’ll duke it out.
Lol. You’re so bizarre tom.
That’s a good one coming from you.
Wow, really? And you Zazelle are the epitome of “normal”?
Unsure I’ve ever called anyone ‘so bizarre’, cowbell81.
…Oh ya that’s right, you’re the one who offered some cheesy pickup lines in public here to SoftStarLight and apparently shared your email with our host so that he could then send it to SoftStarLight. This, to no avail, yes?
When that ostensibly didn’t happen, you declined my suggestion to simply post your contact hereon because you didn’t want any spam or something like that, right?
Love or attraction, for some people at least, would seem to override that concern– especially from someone who expressed an obvious interest– and it would be quite trivial to create a temp email account anyway.
I didn’t realize that calling someone bizarre was a considered to be an insult. I didn’t say it was negative or anything. Simply bizarre. I’m definitely worth an email. But I ‘m not going to allow anyone to devastate my emotions. My fortuneteller said Mr. Right is right around the corner. So i’m feeling very good and positive.
“I didn’t realize that calling someone bizarre was a considered to be an insult.” ~ SoftStarLight
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^^ That sounds like the sort of ‘extension’ ‘Jarek’ would ‘run with’.
Strange Days ~ JHK
youtu.be/cuuhsqA95iA?t=70
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Tim Hortons was bought out by Burger King, an American company, at least last I heard.
Relative anarchy, or more of it– thus perhaps more sanity– appears right around the corner now & maybe more ‘Dunbar Number’-level relocalized communities.
But, alas, the State will fight to survive and squash people in the course of its writhings, if that’s proper English…
Hey Lennon, if you’re listening, you think your days were strange? Have you spoken with Yoko? She still around?
Joe Biden– and Hunter Biden for that matter– should have been rock stars. They probably would have gotten away with far more of those kinds of things and what with their devilishly-handsome smiles that hide their dark corners that inevitably seem to come to light anyway.
Is anyone here aware that around 1973, Joe Biden lost a wife, a baby girl and almost a son or two in a car crash?
That might explain some things.
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Working Class Hero (Anthology Version)
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Yeah, but Joe was a Richard Cranium-type before he suffered that tragedy. The lies just came rolling off of his tongue effortlessly.
A naturally gifted politician. Not a Clinton or Obama class, but sufficient to grab the Big Ring eventually, albeit too late to be able to inflict greater damage without the help of his minyan of minions..
I’m not suggesting that his tragedy completely morphed the guy, but it quite possibly didn’t do him, his family or the general captive American population any favors either.
Who’s Richard Cranium? (resisting the urge to add a LOL here)
Oh yes: Yoko is still around … She is … undead …
Sweet.
Who was driving?
Don’t know. The wife maybe?
Joe was having an affair with Jill, when his wife loaded up the 3 kids in the car and drove in front of a truck. The crash killed her and the baby, but the boys survived.
Joe spent the next 40 years milking the tragedy for political points, and lying that the truck driver was drunk. He was not, and the accusation caused him much grief, but Joe refused to quit lying about it.
Yeah, we know about that incident.
Correction: 50 years milking the tragedy.
By the way, he and Jill had a daughter, also. That’s the drug addict daughter who left her diary at rehab stay, telling some pretty disgusting details about her father.
Note that not many people know about that daughter. She’s pretty much constantly Memory Hole’d. They only know about the tragically dead (and hopefully not yet molested) baby girl.
Makes you wonder just why his wife drove in front of that truck.
“Joe was having an affair with Jill, when his wife loaded up the 3 kids in the car and drove in front of a truck. The crash killed her and the baby, but the boys survived.” ~ Paula D
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Ah yes, context…
As an anarchist in Canada, I don’t make a point of digging into US politics much, never mind the details of a particular politician’s and their family’s tragedy and, as such, found that one out somewhat by accident.
If that context is true, it appears to explain some things even more. And yes, I know about the second daughter and even mentioned hereon a certain part of her ostensible lost and found diary.
Hey, folks, here’s a diary and a laptop that we ‘forgot’.
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“Makes you wonder just why his wife drove in front of that truck.” ~ Paula D
Meanwhile, the nice girls and guys, say, like Jarek, remain single. /sarc.
Each to their own.
Dialogue With A Dead
Now in theaters!
Trailer:
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Dead Wife (in a flashback scene as a ghostly apparition and speaking to living husband as a metaphor for his internal dialogue…):
“You had an affair and now I am going to murder, attempt to murder, suicide, trash a few vehicles and endanger other lives, etcetera, because that is equivalent to having an affair!”
Husband: “That’s why I had an affair! It was my separation from you in spirit. You changed. You weren’t the woman I married.”
Dead Wife: “Well you weren’t the husband I married!” (dead daughter’s apparition fades in beside dead wife’s momentarily and then they both slowly disappear…)
(sons come into the kitchen and ask father who he is talking to…)
(Husband walks around for the rest of his life as a kind of living apparition, forever trying to make connections with the living, with those who reminded him of who could have been but were not to be…)
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All characters and events depicted in this film are entirely fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Every woman needs a Jarek in her life.
“Every woman needs a Jarek in her life. /sarc” ~ Jarek (edited)
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Fixed that for you.
Yes Jim, things are so strange these days that anything could be happening, but I believe that these are coincidental, normal testing and training operations. B2s over Minnesota has happened before, and tanks are often on the move.
There’s already enough to worry about with the Obama-Biden clan.
Plenty of lead being dealt during Juneteenth Celebrations in Chicago ~ 23 shot, & St.Louis ~ 11 shot. Nice to see the community coming together to celebrate this historic holiday.
My nephew: Uncle, will you help me take down this tree?
Me: No can do, its Juneteeth. I’m using this time as a day of reflection.
It is the only way they know how to celebrate, but I bet you won’t hear any calls to gun reform and restrictions as a result of it. It needs to be a mass shooting by a White man against one of the holy protected classes as recently designated by our misgoverning authorities.
We are all in modern-day slavery shackles because of the way our government and the WEF is treating us.
I’m glad the tree didn’t come down. Every day is therefore Juneteenth BRH. No more trees coming down k. 🙂
These big pine grow like weeds, SSL; they become dangerous at about 80 ft.
Well, weeds are part of the ecosystem so you shouldn’t begrudge em. If only trees were mobile they could just be moved, but alas.
There are tree moving services.
There are? Wow! That is really cray cray!! BRH those trees need to be moved. Let them live!
Do you have live oaks where you live SSL. This 100 yo oak was relocated. It was quite an operation.
youtube.com/watch?v=BFTj0hM3DHM
Wow that is completely amazing! Thank you for sharing. I never knew. Yes, live oaks are quite common around here. Some of them are super massive with branches so large that they dip back to the ground and grow on the ground. Tons of Spanish moss everywhere too!
You should if you care about having a nice garden or growing food efficiently.
Just cut down a whole slew of Chinese Elms. Absolute weed trees. After you cut em’ you have to go after the stumps every year too, as they’ll sprout new growth almost immediately and grow back within 5-10 years if you let them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus_parvifolia
And if you eat the leaves, you’re hungry again in an hour.
You’ve eaten the leaves? Who knew?
Murdering mulignans, moolies, whatever. Black power out da gun barrel.
“My nephew: Uncle, will you help me take down this tree?” ~ BackRowHeckler
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You still have your Christmas tree up?
Some people over here have their Christmas lights on all year long. If I see the owners, I like to wish them a merry Christmas in June or July and/or praise them for getting in on the season early.
Was at my brother and sister-in-law’s house last month. They still had their X-Mas tree up, fully decorated. I told them at this point they may as well just keep it up until coming December.
Abraham Maslow struggled with his feelings of hatred and contempt for his Christian students during the Christmas season.
What else do you share with Abe besides this?
I disavow your insinuation and am not ok with it and that sort of thing.
You don’t seem ok with insinuations, misrepresentations or the like either.
So we can continue down that sort of path but we both should have some idea of where it leads.
You do have a point that I often misrepresent people on here and I guess I should think twice about not doing so and to make added efforts in being fair in my discourse.
I don’t like being misrepresented either. It’s like I am being trolled, or even gossiped in plain sight, and so I should understand how it feels.
And no one likes hypocrisy after all.
I disavow the above comment. I didn’t write it. Za, seems to admit being behind it. He seems to think that impersonating someone is no “worse” than the rough and tumble of debate.
Za, why did you insinuate a few weeks ago that Israelis has the right to have their own state, but Whites do not?
What do you expect me to infer after saying something like that?
And why do you refuse to talk about Rachel Corrie?
Who’s Richard Cranium?
Are you trying to imply that you don’t know who Rachel Corrie was?
I don’t believe you!
Metaphorically speaking, she, her life and savage death, are a koan you must pass if you were go forward. The Gateless Gate!
Many stories are not really required for some people in part because they are ‘nothing new’.
UNCLE FESTER
The ad hominem attack on this great actor, this great uncle and family man —- comparing him to Fetterman of all people —- must be retracted!
lol
Whew, thank goodness the important work is getting done, and they are paying individual citizens and businesses for inconvenience to boot.
Fairfax County said Lee and Lee Jackson Memorial highways would have new names, effective July 5, after its Confederate Names Task Force identified the roadways as ones that should change their names.
Moving forward, they will be known by their route numbers: Lee Highway will become Route 29 and Lee Memorial Highway will be Route 50.
“The renaming of both roadways signifies our unwavering dedication to acknowledging the experiences of our community, especially our African American neighbors. Thanks to the dedicated work of all the community members who participated in the Confederate Names Task Force, we can put these divisive names behind us and continue to move our County in the right direction,” said Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay.
Although county-related records will be updated automatically, people who live along the highways and businesses that are located along them will have to update their addresses for several things including driver’s licenses, billing for power and gas companies, and the United States Postal Service. Additionally, business owners should update things such as business licenses, procurements with retail and/or wholesale companies, advertisement listings, and mapping.
The county said it was developing a grant program to help people affected by the name change. If the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approves the initiative, the program would provide grants to assists with expenses related to the name changes, including updating marketing materials and signage.
Fairfax County, itself, is paying the costs associated with updating Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) signage along the highways.
That stinks!
“Moving forward, they will be known by their route numbers: Lee Highway will become Route 29 and Lee Memorial Highway will be Route 50.”
When I lived there, no one called them LMH or LH anyways.
Everyone just said Route 50, etc.
So no one will even notice the virtue signal.
“no one will notice.”
Some will notice.
There are lots of places like that—people use shortcut names or don’t know the official names.
But I think these names are important. The virtue signaling agenda is to destroy local memory and cancel the people whose memories were honored by such naming.
Here, everyone refers to “the state forest.” Its actual name is the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest. Manny Correllus was a person whom living non-washashores remember. Something would be lost if that name were crossed out by fiat.
Same with “the state beach.” It has an actual name, Josephy Silva State Beach, which is on the signs and on Google Maps.
Etc.
All of these little moves are intended to push the envelope and increase the territory where no one said NO, and the pushing continues incrementally, setting new precedents.
I would normally agree, but I spent half of my live in that area, and nobody ever said Lee Memorial Highway.
It was always 50 or Rt. 50.
It isn’t the win they think it is.
“life” obviously
Happy Juneteenth to one and all (the “new” 4th of July). Note: The government needs to ensure that they deduct from the reparations “shipping and handling” and “room and board” costs that were incurred as a result of the slave trade. It is only fair:
The Juneteenth March in Newark, New Jersey, on Monday afternoon is meant to push for the study and development of proposals to address reparations for descendants of Black slaves on a national and local level, said Lawrence Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress in New Jersey.
HR 40, the bill introduced by Missouri Congressman Cori Bush, calls for establishing the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans. The commission would examine slavery and discrimination.
The New Jersey bills A938 and S386 call for the establishment of the New Jersey Reparations Task Force to conduct research and develop proposals and recommendations to address the generational harms caused by New Jersey’s role in America’s institution of slavery and its legacy of systemic racial discrimination.
New Jersey was the last state in the north to abolish slavery and has a complicated history, Hamm said. The Juneteenth March is a way to amplify the need to study how reparations should be made based on New Jersey’s history with the slave trade, Hamm added, noting that the state’s public schools are the fifth most segregated in the country.
Newark is where they built the first George Floyd monument. There are others, in Brooklyn for example.
He isn’t shown gripping the 9mm he used to invade homes in Houston.
I will tell you something scary.
What if reparations are agreed to and paid? When the people getting the money blow it gambling and doing drugs, what are they going to do next? What will be the next gimme scheme to rip off the legitimate middle class?
Do not ever believe that the Left are a group of compassionate people wanting to take care of the less fortunate.
They are a Mob of thieves ready to steal $$ from the middle class and give it to the “poor”.
Haha, I would serve as a carpetbagger to those getting the reparations, putting out ads stating that you can invest it with me and I’ll keep it really safe or double your money in 2-3 years. Then fly abroad with the loot that was an ill-gotten gained windfall to begin with and live life large in Russia.
Conversely, I could market all kinds of useless crap to purchase with the reparations, and then fail to deliver for some arcane reasons. Meanwhile I have piles of cash that was thrown around for free.
We saw this happen with the BLM donation money, we saw this happen with the COVID stimulus payouts, I guarantee we will see something like this happen if reparations are ever paid out.
What I would expect–as I have sometimes seen happen when poor people of kind of low character come into a large amount of money–is that quite a few of these benefiaries would be dead within a year or two. What often happens is that these lucky folks drink and drug themselves to death. If the PTB wanted to commit genocide against blacks, they would not only provide the money; they’d also provide many opportunities for blacks to kill themselves with it. I can think of some ways to do this: Promote wild celebratory parties and make sure that plenty of fentanyl-laced cocaine was provided. They could also promote alcohol heavily, and maybe promote the idea that burning their neighborhoods down–so that they could use their riches to rebuild–would be a great idea. Many would die in the fires and festivities.
The other thing I would expect is that it won’t be too many more years before the dollar is worthless, so the whole reparations gesture would turn out to be meaningless. And, of course, handing out shit-tons of money is highly inflationary by itself.
I don’t think they’ll really give the blacks reparations, but, if they do, we should take it as a sign that the PTB will immediately pull the plug on the dollar. If such a measure passes, I would suggest that everyone immediately convert almost all their cash into some kind of hard assets: food, guns, ammo, gold, silver, cheap vodka, a still, land, etc.
Ed Dowd said awhile back that he anticipates deflation, followed by (I think he said) hyperinflation. I think he might be right. A period of deflation would be a good time to convert your FRNs to hard assets.
I think they will give them reparations. I think this is in the bag of goodies waiting for us in Biden’s second term. I believe Biden will have a second term, because the lemmings that voted for him the first time will vote for him the second time, and he’s too perfect a conduit for the PTB to implement their plans leading up to Agenda 2030. Everything that’s been legislated has been an item in one of the treaties Biden has signed us onto.
What will be the next gimme scheme to rip off the legitimate middle class?
If they actually push through full reparations (whatever tf that means), there will be no middle class left of any color left in about two years.
Dollar Tree will be doing a brisk business though.
I arrived at the Costco pumps in my truck on fumes. Filler up with regular, $3.249/gal. Total cost $73.91.
Then I bought a cartridge of black printer ink at Walmart for $27.70. They keep this stuff behind locked glass door cases like jewelry.
Should start raising squid to use for the ink to supply as black ink cartridge refills. Don’t you know? Those ink cartridges are hot commodities on the “black” market. (Read into that quoted word any which way you desire.)
I didn’t realize that anyone was still using printers. Colossal waste of money.
What would you suggest in lieu of copiers/printers?
For the very few times I need hard copies of anything, the local UPEX store up here copies and prints at very reasonable rates. You can send the stuff over their electronically and have it printed and ready for pickup when you get there.
the local UPEX store up here copies and prints at very reasonable rates. – Disaff
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We don’t have UPEX around here. We had a UPS store that opened in town, lasted a year or two then went out of business.
Q. Man,
I’m guessing the protection money must have been too much for them. It’s a tough business environment out there!
I think the descriptions of Biden’s mental breakdown are excessive. He can walk, stand at a lectern, and read a speech from a monitor with only an occasional flub. Peter is nearly four years younger than Joe and couldn’t begin to do what Joe does.
You put a meal in front of Peter and he stares at it for awhile as if asking “what do I do next?”
Age is always just a number, and everyone is at different states in their mental decline. Still, there is no excuse for what Biden does and gets away with.
Biden’s a few snowflakes on the tip of the iceberg.
I have a tree up all year and change it up for each season. Can’t believe some people are uni-seasonal lol.
So what….like an Easter tree, a summer tree of some kind, a fall harvest tree, and then the Christmas tree?
Yep all of the above. Though the Easter tree is essentially the Spring tree too as it stays up until May 30. And there is a Halloween tree and then a Cornucopia tree which splits the fall season. I also fit in a Mardi Gras tree between Christmas and Easter/Spring. I would do Valentines too but it is so short lived I just leave Mardi Gras up lol. Come to think of it. I could do a small separate Valentines tree. I might do that this year coming up if we’re still living a sorta normal life you know.
Your southern Christmases with no snow must be strange.
Well, since we’ve never had a white Christmas since i’ve been around it’s not strange at all to me. Sometimes we do have cold Christmases. But! I would like to experience a snowy Christmas for sure. As long as there is a nice warm fire lol.
SSL
Ha. Wishing for a snowy Xmas? You would enjoy that fireside moment for one morning and then wish that white crap would go back north where it belongs.
Been in Phoenix area for almost twenty years. Seen about twenty very wet snowflakes a number of years ago, and never regretted not seeing snow.
Xmas is wonderful in Phoenix.
In my experience, no snow Christmases have become the norm throughout most of the US for quite some time now. Snow’s always fun for the first few hours, but then it’s just a mess to deal with. And I’m so fed up with the rampant commercialization of the holiday season in general that I just grit my teeth and wait for it all to be over.
At least they’re finally selling what I like to call, ‘Charlie Brown Christmas trees’ (very young and small trees, rather than the older, larger sizes that hit the ceiling).
Give me a traditional Festivus aluminum pole every time! Stores easily in the crawlspace and requires no decoration at all. I find tinsel to be distracting!
I suspect they may have outlawed tinsel over here since I never see it anymore on any of the trees thrown out after 2 weeks. In any case, it’s maybe spruce-tips season now where you can pick some new tips on the spruce trees and somehow add it to your diet.
“If you never heard ANYTHING about 9/11 and you saw this picture for the 1st time…….
Would you call this a COLLAPSE or a DISINTEGRATION?”
https://twitter.com/911Revisionist/status/1667912944049352704?cxt=HHwWgMCzpYr_zqUuAAAA
The second greatest hoax in (modern) history.
Dust. 3 towers. Millions of morons still believe.
Fountains of dust.
Owl,
With all respect, how can you believe that the picture has not been modified/enhanced/manipulated? I believe that if you did not personally take that pic yourself, you should remain suspect of what it contains..
Convince me otherwise.
Because I have seen hundreds of videos over years showing the exact same thing.
Go spend an hour or two at A&E for 9/11 Truth and get back to us.
Judy Wood calls it dustification. “Regular” fire doesn’t do that, turn things like concrete and steel to dust. Just sayin’. She maintains it was a direct energy weapon, and I agree with her. She’s got a good book out titled, What Happened to the Twin Towers? It has a lot of interesting photos.
‘Tis the season of National Guard summer exercises. We haven’t noticed them in recent memory because they were deployed to the exotic locales of the MIC’s latest fiasco. Time will tell if this is really something unusual. Tickety Toc.
Does Your City Need a Gondola?
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Urban Gondolas: Transit by Cable
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Mexico’s New Cable Cars Provide Solutions For Commuters
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Medellin’s Amazing Cable Car System for Public Transport and Equity
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Riding The Metrocable In Medellin, Colombia
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Hi Jim:
Actually Biden will be the next president. The government is allowing whistleblowers to come forth and tell us about the Aliens invading our planet from other star systems. Sometime next year, Good Old Joe will call a Friday Holiday, get on national news and tell us all that Aliens are here but we have control. That is right the Democrats are more powerful than the Aliens. Joe will become the Disclosure president and he will become the most famous president in history. This is why the democrats are finally letting us hear about the Alien Agenda. So far, we have captured alien vehicles that we are back-engineering and the aliens are dead so the Democrats have saved us. Good Old Joe will win the election as people are entranced with the most important notification in the history of the world: We are not alone and good old Joe is in charge. Swallow that one.
They started seeding the Alien narrative about two years ago. Used to bring it up when razzing our resident trolls.
Speaking of which what happened to the Rednut Liberal?
Did the clot shot do him in?
I got the impression JHK had done a clearout but I’ve really no idea. One does slightly miss the entertainment.
JHK gave him the heave-ho.
We’ve come a long way (for better or worse) since the Nixon-JFK “5 o’clock shadow” debate on black and white TV. Although it would be a hoot to watch Biden debate RFK Jr., it’ll never happen. Biden needs a cane and Prevnar and Trump needs a lobotomy.
No, anyone listening to and buying the pack of lies that have been spun by the Liberal media needs the lobotomy.
The Left sees Trump for what he is, a dirk to their throat. That is why destroying him is at the top of their priority list.
If one can’t afford a lobotomy in person, certain segments of the media are offering telepresent non-invasive lobotomies for a price you will think is free after treatment.
Thanks for today’s offering, Jim. Wouldn’t it be amazing if people rose up against the Woke Jacobins? I don’t see it happening, but it’s fun to muse about.
Just found out that our Boise city council is turning us into a “15-minute city” and people aren’t happy about it, but they have no say.
We’ll see what happens. High density new housing in downtown, less roads and more bike-friendly. Sound familiar? Boise airport also putting in facial recognition tech.
“You vill eeet zee bugz undt you vill be heppy.”
Wow even in Boise? Are the people in Idaho down with these plans?
The Left continues its advance. Why is it that when people leave an area for greener grass, they bring with them the attitudes that killed the grass where they are leaving?
All the immigration ports that the Californians are going to are moving left politically, even Texas. Boise is no different.
Mary, Idaho needs to welcome those folks from Washington and Oregon that want out from the sewers on the coast.
Oops, not out from the sewers, separation from them. You do not need any more sewer rats from those cities.
Idaho does welcome them, but they are also very nervous about recent growth.
Any news on the low income housing project for Blacks you were talking about?
I wasn’t talking about it, ever. I guess you’re imagining things again.
I meant that for BRH.
No, but as I said, they don’t care.
And who will inhabit that high density housing? You went into a rage when I said Boise will have Black gangs – as if I was blaming you personally. I only blame you in the aggregate, people like you, impersonally. You don’t vote, but your cohort votes for things like this.
I went into a rage?
Lol.
Now wait a minute, MaryQueen. It’s Jarek who determines whether you went into a rage or not.
So, MQ… the question that’s on everyone’s mind: Is it Boy’ see or Boy’ zee?
The natives say Boy-SEE.
I once went through Boise on my way to Vancouver. (Montana had great fudgecicles.)
Biden has said, twice, that he is prepared to use Nuclear weapons against the American people. Given that, as Mr Kunstler described long ago, this bloke is just ‘a thousand hair plugs in search of a brain’ Biden could not have come up with the plan on his own – it must have been discussed at some long term strategy meeting at some high level.
Meanwhile, it looks to me like they are cutting back on Biden’s meds so that he appears more and more like what he really is – a broken down totally unprincipled old grifter. The Dems are planning some damned thing – that’s for sure!
A Kennedy running for President: isn’t this where we came in on this movie ? Good Grief James; a traditional Democrat is a throwback AND a Giant Leap for Mankind.
As for Trump: he was a terrible prez who looks like a Saint compared to the Regime we have now. If Kennedy doesn’t get the nomination I’ll end up voting for Trump ~ again. Not because he might be Presidential Material but because he has those I despise lighting their hair on fire ! ! That alone makes voting worth it.
The Deep State threw their entire arsenal of perfidy at Trump to make sure he could only get a fraction of his agenda done
Why was Trump terrible?
Be detailed.
Don’t run away.
Easy answer, he wasn’t’ terrible. The media crafted his persona from the time he walked down the escalator at Trump Tower.
He treated everyone the same. What a horrible thing for a president to do. When his tax cuts hit, everyone benefitted, all groups. But all the gimmes hated him for his equal treatment because they did not get their preferential treatment they were accustomed to.
Trump wanted to treat Covid like every other communicable disease, isolate the Wuhan outbreak to China and stop flights to America. Oh no, the Libs with Biden (surprise!) in the lead, clobbered him as a racist and stopped any isolation. One million deaths later, still no answer, except a killer vaxx.
Trump was apolitical. His goal was to tear down the political old boy’s club in DC, the Deep State, by making deals with them
Reality struck, you cannot deal with a den of thieves. He was outnumbers thousands to one and never stood a chance. He could not even find a reasonable advisory board out of the scum in DC. When push came to shove, the Deep State was never going to let GGG win in 2020. The fiasco of an election was the result.
Trump is being systematically destroyed by the Deep State and its debacle of a judicial system. There is NO ONE else to take his place. We are done for by the scum of the earth, the Democratic Party and its Mob of robbers. Not a single GOP candidate has attacked the Mob as Trump did, regularly.
We are done for.
Related item, Blinken just stated that the US does not back Taiwan independence.
?????, so what have we being talking about all this time?
Anyone that believes the web of BS that the media has spun about Trump, deserves what the Left is going to do to them.
You’ve no doubt heard of the famous Indian “code talkers,” during WWII? Blinken’s a confirmed “ass talker.” He can be very confusing, not to mention that his breath stinks like shit.
Treated everyone the same, lol. Yeah, Americans and illegals. SAME. Just legalize ’em, problem solved.
White and Black? Same – just give the latter lots of money to make them same. Only treating them better can convince them that you aren’t treating them worse.
The Platinum Plan would have outdone LBJ’s Great Society. A potlach with White America as the victims.
Ok, Buddies, ok? Need more?
Sounds to me like we just threw Taiwan under the bus.
We threw ourselves under the bus when we made them into a great power at our own expense – all for the profit of a few. Now some of them want us to fight this great power? Why? For what? Who – not their sons of course!
He ignored his White base after getting elected, never even mentioning them, while he talked endlessly about Blacks and Hispanics. Midway thru his term he said anent the illegal immigrants: I want all these people here because the economy is so good – thus betraying his base. Beyond that, an utterly fatuous statement given how many jobs are being lost to automation and now to AI.
His Wall was a good idea in the abstract, but it was carefully constructed so that contraband could be passed thru the slats. Trump bloviated about how even mountain climbers said they couldn’t climb it. One famous climber asked for a name or name. No answer. A little later, athletic young Mestizos were filmed climbing it in a couple of seconds.
Laura Ingraham confronted him on his “let them all in” statement and said that’s not what you campaigned on. It was just the Bush doctrine: The solution for the illegal immigrant problem is just to legalize them.
Ok, buddy? Ok? Got it? Need more?
It appears Gypsy has run away.
Shocking, I tell you.
Operation Warp Speed is probably the worst one.
And of course the draconian, unnecessary and deadly lockdown.
I actually like hearing him speak and I can’t say that for everyone. The feel is sort of like he’s some sort of uncle or family member who just popped in for a visit and has a lot of opinions and I sit on the couch and hear about his goings on since the last time he visited. Maybe he brings some McDonalds stuff for the kids and a bottle of whiskey for the adults.
I would say that Trump, to me at least, has this odd sort of interesting visitor-in-the-living-room appeal.
That is actually a very good description of what makes him somewhat appealing, I think.
That’s possible.
Well, ladies and germs;
A real man bites dog news story out of Houston Texas. I has been reported that the rapper Milton “Big Pokey” Powell is hanging with Elvis. He collapsed and died suddenly while performing on stage. A police spokesperson said that the hospital reports that, “Big” died during a performance of a Juneteenth event, and strangely, had no bullet holes in him anywhere.
Police are baffled.
Elvis lives!
Big Pokey gone now too!?! What’s the world coming to, Ely?
Why do the great one’s always have to go so young?
Biggie Small died too, but with holes.
It’s White people’s fault for inventing bullets and jabs and shit.
“…and shit.”
Excuse me sir, I see you speak Jive. Honky be fluent fo’ a mo’fucker?
u mean MDs are baffled.
And the world is a slightly better place.
Why LA Destroyed Its World-Class Transit System
youtu.be/AwKv3_WwD4o
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“Here’s a sentence that makes you think: Los Angeles used to have one of the best mass transit systems in the world. But today, the city of Angels is known for its terrible traffic and poor public transit. In the early 20th century, LA relied on streetcars: trolleys with stops throughout Southern California. But in 1961 the last passenger streetcar took its final ride. Why? Well a popular conspiracy theory blames GM. But is that true? Cheddar explains.”
The GM “CT” is more or less conspiracy fact there, Zaz. Although they didn’t really call such things conspiracies back in the day, just “power politics.” But of course LA’s water theft from the Owen’s Valley pretty much dwarfs such petty concerns. Ol’ Wild Bill Mulholland was quite the operator back in the day.
One recalls the Cosmic Evil depicted in the movie, Mullholland Drive.
What a bunch of shit. She even admits that there was a lawsuit that found there was indeed a conspiracy, but then blows it off by saying that people preferred to sit in traffic and have their lungs destroyed by smog. Because…..freedom.
I am really pissed off right now, because I have been a week being unable to breathe, with O2 sats around 90%, and some perky dipshit Barbie comes along to tell me that my ruined lungs were inevitable?
Fuck that shit! When my mother was a child she could take the red line to the beach from LA for a nickel. That was freedom for a child. She didn’t have to depend on her parents to chauffeur her around the way children do now. Or don’t you care about freedom for children? Only those able to afford a car, gas, insurance and repairs deserve to get around?
You really think that people thought it was better to sit in traffic for 2 hours to go to the beach, like it was when I was a kid? Even worse, coming home sunburned and sand-encrusted, sitting in more traffic.
Humans who argue that cars bring freedom, and are happy to pay exorbitant taxes to build more freeways, and don’t give a shit about the children breathing in toxic fumes, or run over by cars (number one cause of death in Americans from birth to age 44 are cars), make me sick. And yeah, it’s because I’m so sick right now that I am so angry.
There was a fight, between decent human beings, and the corporate-backed sell-outs who destroyed public transit and built the death highways. The decent human beings lost.
.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4&t=44s
Sorry to hear…
There were apparently many cities that got their tramway transit systems uprooted/mothballed, including here in Halifax. I guess back then they weren’t really aware of what the full costs of the automobile would be.
I’m pretty pro-gondola/-cablecar of all things, incidentally, perhaps in part because I know quite a bit about their effectiveness in many contexts, and have a familiarity with them when I used to ride them many moons ago for alpine skiing.
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World’s Longest Cable Car Ride over Ocean | 5 Miles (8KM) Long!
youtu.be/eVIhy1_2seo
Cars are freedom!
Public transit is death.
The byproduct of modern properly tuned combustion engines is mostly co2 and water vapor with minimal trace gases.
The mechanics of actual air pollution are mitigated by modern fuel blends and the miracle of catalytic converters.
A larger portion of air pollution is from oxidized rubber from tires and the process of braking.
This happens in all instances of motoring even the faux savior of electric vehicles, trucking, trains and even worse with aircraft since they just combust the fuel.
All industry also produces air pollution even the process of air conditioning is messy there are also massive out gases from carpet, plastics even food production.
My mother in law once told me a story that her doctor told her to cut down on smoking to apack a day.
She never smoked even one.
One of her jobs was in a typing pool and everyone but her smoked.
I am constantly assailed by the pungent odor of someone smoking Mary Jane.
Paula no one gets out of life alive being angry about the miles and wear on one’s body is a waste of time.
If everyone was forced into public transit it would actually be even worse.
“Satellite images from the College of DuPage Meteorology Department show that—on the 2nd of June—the fires that erupted in Quebec, Canada, all started at the exact same time.
Source: https://youtu.be/zKUkZ2oOFF0
For more content like this, visit: https://wide-awake-media.com”
https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1666753426967986176
How can this be?
😀
Those fires are lightning strikes. In that video you can plainly see the large group of storm cells that passed over the area hours early. By the time those plumes showed on that satellite image those fires had been burning for a while.
Yes, and then little green men with huge fans were seen strung out in a line from Montreal to Quebec City, blowing the smoke south toward Amerika. God save the queen!
Isn’t the new form of words ‘God save the Queen, man’?
I read that a number of arson arrests have been made.
Do a search for “Canada fires arson arrests.”
Those arrests were not in Quebec where the fires in the video that smoked out the east coast were.
The forest fires are not only in Quebec.
And the video I saw showed all of the firest in Quebec starting at once.
I didn’t see any clouds that would explain lightning strikes.
And, our friendly geoengineers can make lightning—and a lot of other things— happen.
Watch this:
zeeemedia.com/interview/uncensored-worldwide-geoengineering-lawsuits-landmark-case/
The opening ads and intro music are hell on the ears, but once the actual show starts, both presentations are excellent. Eye openers, actually.
Plenty of documentation.
Expert in video ” We get our warmest seasons when we are closest to the Sun” , Exactly 100% wrong. The other expert. “I can’t remember the last time I saw a clear blue sky”. I don’t know where she lives. Maybe Bejing? Around here we had the nicest May we’ve had in years. I sort of track the weather and rate the days. We had a bunch of clear blue, no clouds, light breeze days between 60-70 degrees. I call them top ten days. We usually only get a few a year. We’ve had a bunch already.
Precisely. It can’t be. Who else believes everything they find on the interwebz, especially if it’s too weird to actually believe?
We are in what some call a post-truth world.
Tell us again about aliens and the Manchurian Candidate, Mike.
The same boring old tropes, dripping from your nasty little gob, I see. Keep it up, boy! It’s hilarious!
Speaking of boring old tropes and nasty dripping gobs.
Irony at its finest.
Don’t keep it up legion of dunce.
The great White Rock (NM) rock saga continues out here in the radiologically induced “Land of Enchantment.” To review for those who might have missed the previous installment, the White Rock rock, is large rock normally painted white (clever, ain’t it?) displayed on a main thoroughfare as you enter the humble little burg of White Rock, NM, otherwise known as a glorified and over-priced housing development for Los Alamos National Lab employees. The “Pride Week” people evidently convinced civic leaders that it would be a good idea to paint it over with Pride Week slogans during Pride Week, and then paint it all back over again later in the day. Predictably, that led some others to add their own slogans later in the day, which has degenerated into a D vs R shitting match with the usual accusations of “Hatred!” being slung about by the usual suspects. So much ado over a fucking white rock!
https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/06/19/letter-to-the-editor-celebration-of-juneteenth-on-rock-painted-over/
Dis…go to the campus of that bastion of liberalism, Oberlin College in Ohio to learn all about rock painting as a means of “rational discourse”.
Yeah, the local HS kids are all into that too. One recent class painted a bunch of small rocks (about the size of a quarter) and placed them around town on all the hiking trails like easter eggs as a legacy project of sorts. This was a few years before all the current nuttiness, so it was harmless. I’ll bet it’s only a matter of time before they get the bright idea of making a major statement on the side of one of the local mountains by painting rock formations. And us old geezers shake our heads and wonder where all this craziness is headed.
Actually, I find all of those little painted rocks by the sides of trails to be tacky and a blot on the view.
I have no desire to see adolescents’ mental and sentimental droppings by the path every time I take a walk.
At least we’re fighting back now. Can not you not see the glass as half full?
Yes I can. I am surprised to see the amount of pushback. But I was even more surprised to see this kind of crap take hold up here in the first place. This is a pretty stoic and conservative place, what with all the suckling off the government teat and all that.
Wow, they sure nailed Hunter Biden…nailed him to the wall, I tell you!
Pleading guilty and everything! Holy shit, they did it!
Oh, wait. You mean the only crimes addressed were:
– “willfully not paying his federal taxes” for two years? And it’s a only being charged as a misdemeanor by the prosecution. Oh.
– lying about drug addiction history while buying a firearm. Also somehow not being considered a serious crime by the prosecution, and for both he will only get probation, and the charges will drop from his record once he completes said probation? Oh…
Luckily, this apparently wraps up the whole Hunter Biden investigation, so we can all breath a sigh of relief, knowing that justice has been done…
“Chris Clark, Hunter’s criminal defense lawyer, in a statement, said, “With the announcement of two agreements between my client, Hunter Biden, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, it is my understanding that the five-year investigation into Hunter is resolved.“
Phew…
Good thing the justice system treats everyone the same under the law, folks!
I wonder whether he made a deal in return for fingering higher-ups.
That is the standard DEA MO.
Not his dad, of course, but others.
Actually, maybe his dad.
Makes him that much easier to control.
Sickening, isn’t it, Mr M?
I sent JHK’s essay of Friday to my sister-in-law who has a very angry form of TDS and literally shut me down when I said the Bidens were a criminal mafia family (I improved on that in my email by adding ‘pondscum’).
I included a link to Patrick Henningsen’s piece on Trump/Biden in Friday’s UKC news, also (believe it or not) a short article in the Daily Mail that covered the allegations but put them in inverted commas, naturally.
Haven’t heard a dickie bird. Don’t know if she’s sticking pins in a voodoo doll of me or if she’s had a mental breakdown.
Dickie Bird? Is that like a Mocking Jay?
We have the Cowbird which is like the Cuckoo, a parasite who lays its eggs in other birds nests. The monster fledgling kicks the real offspring out of the nest and the poor little adopted parents work their feathers to the bone taking care of this monster.
Some birds wise up to the trick and remove the alien egg from their nests. If only Whites were as smart, eh?
‘Dickie bird’ just means ‘bird’ in the language of the nursery (like Robin Redbreast?). ‘Haven’t heard a dickie bird’ is rhyming slang, i.e haven’t heard a word. At least that’s what I assume, having never thought about it before.
On second thoughts, Robin Redbreast is not so apt, since a robin is still a robin for adults, whereas there’s no such thing as a dickie outside of the nursery. 🙂
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a speech last Friday in Finland in which he dismissed the idea of a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict and called for further transfers of high-tech weaponry and aircraft to Ukraine.
Blinken’s speech highlights once again that the Biden administration has no intention of ending this conflict peacefully. The plan, which members of the administration and foreign policy establishment have explicitly admitted on numerous occasions, is to use Ukraine to achieve the larger geopolitical goal of weakening Russia. In other words, the Ukrainians are cannon fodder in a U.S. proxy war against Russia.
Blinken’s statement is consistent with reports in Foreign Affairs magazine last September citing numerous American former security officials that Russia and Ukraine had actually reached a tentative peace agreement in April 2022. That deal was scuttled after Boris Johnson, doubtless at the behest of the Biden administration, visited Kyiv on April 9. Later, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who was trying to mediate between Putin and Zelensky, stated that the US and its allies blocked his mediation efforts.
The pattern here is clear. Not only is the administration deceiving the American people about the motives for this costly and tragic war, but by continually escalating it they put the whole world at risk of nuclear conflagration.
Even by the standards of the Neocons who engineered this war, it is not going well. The “spring counteroffensive” is a pathetic failure. I’m waiting to see how the administration will sugarcoat this calamity to shore up dwindling support for this disastrous misadventure, one in a long series of forever wars.
I call upon President Biden to issue two apologies. First, to the American people for misleading them into supporting an ugly proxy war on false pretenses. Second and more importantly, to the Ukrainian people for maneuvering them into this war and ruining their country, all for the sake of U.S. (imagined) geopolitical interests.
I also call upon President Biden and the world to heed the advice of John F. Kennedy in his 1963 Peace Speech, when he said: “Nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”
In commemoration of that speech, today I will be delivering a definitive address on peace in New Hampshire that will set a dramatically different direction for American foreign policy in my administration and, with the support of the American people, in administrations to come. That speech will be livestreamed.
YT live stream
(7pm Eastern US time)
He’s Nuland’s puppet. And she is connected to the Kagan’s, the Jewish royalty who control our foreign policy.
It’s a small club and you ain’t in it.
Apostrophe, Jarek. Tsssk.
For those interested in Ukraine being a testbed for the NWO, there’s an interesting bit from yesterday’s UKC news, by Mark Anderson (from the US). Mark has done a deep dive into 15/20-minute cities, smart cities etc. for some time now.
It starts about 14 minutes in, with Brian Gerrish’s introduction. The efforts to ‘rebuild’ and reimagine Ukraine seems to have started in 2017.
ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-19th-june-2023
There was a name of some corporation mentioned (Pritski or something a bit like that?) as having a big hand in all this. I’d have to listen to it again, but maybe someone from the US knows it?
On a separate but related topic, I read on MSN today that the first synthetic human embryo has been created.
Part of a post by Mike Yeadon on digital ID (in response to Neil Oliver’s 10-minute session on ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’.*
“I don’t think there’s much of a likelihood that we can prevent them rolling out the next stages of their plans. What each of us can decide is where we’re not willing to go. I recommend you consider the implications of mandatory digital ID & resolve not to sign up for it or not to use it if you’re simply presented with it. The reason is that it seems to be the last definitive act that the perpetrators require us to make.
They don’t need our consent to introduce CBDC. They don’t need our permission to withdraw cash or make it hard to obtain & use cash.
If those things are rolled out & widely used, no matter how much grumbling there is, we’re done. Humanity is done.
If I’m right, digital ID is the ultimate battleground.
Best wishes
Mike”
* youtube.com/watch?v=7J-_Lc-moqU
I thought Social Security Numbers were a form of digital ID, but maybe I’m hopeless 20th century. God save the queen.
I said the same thing a few weeks ago, Tom. I guess the rational is that SS numbers can be stolen. Of course the only way a national i.d. number can’t be stolen if it’s on a chip that’s implanted in either your right hand or forehead. Take heed Bible scoffers
People will be captured and killed for their chips.
Anything electronic – including chips – can and will eventually be scanned and hacked, so in the case of chips, their alleged “security” is being vastly oversold.
That’s where the number tattoos come in. They call it two step verification. No match- no food.
Do you need a social security number to access your bank account or the internet, to go to the gym or to buy groceries?
Because, once digital ID is mandated, you will need it to do all those things. But it won’t be neutral. It will show red or green, depending on your social credit. So you may well have digital ID but you won’t necessarily get those groceries, if your jabs aren’t up to date or you’ve been reading CFN.
I suggest watching the film I mentioned above:
debunkproductions.com
‘State of control’.
grave new world.
is it true UK has 1 smart city NOW?
Not that I know of, malthuss.
We dealt with this on an earlier thread.
Slow learner?
SS numbers were NEVER meant to be used as a personal ID. This has always been made absolutely clear. The SS card is NOT a personal ID card.
Do you assert that you have used your SS number as any kind of personal ID?
I don’t. I have always refused to give my SS number to any chirpy receptionist who asks for it.
I can’t believe the number of places that casually ask for your SS number and the number of people who obediently recite it.
My veterinarian wanted it!
Don’t take the national I.D. ? What if you can’t buy or sell without having it?
Then you trade. Got Stuff?
And if people have nothing to trade with…then they pillage.
Luckily, that is currently legal in many states already, so folks will have practice for when the time comes.
We might be on a mission creep path to digital IDs.
the basic ID in this country used to be the driver’s license. Then “they” said that the old DL’s were not going to be acceptable as general IDs but only as . . . a license to drive. Unh . . .
So “they” rolled out a program (in many states) whereby all DLs must, at renewal, be converted to biometric DLs if they were to be used as a general ID and not just a license to drive a car.
Much more info had to be supplied to get these new DLs.
“They” are also now trying to push digital DLs. What is the purpose of a “digital driver’s license” anyway? Are people too dumb to carry their license with them, but they carry their phone with them?
Unh . . .
Updated speculation: I heard it from a friend who, heard it from a friend who… an 03 in the MIC at a training base not assigned operational troops will be out of pocket from mid-July to the beginning of September. Seems to be a long time for someone not assigned to maneuver elements.
Explain in English, please.
An O-3 (Captain) is being temporarily reassigned, presumably to an operational unit, from mid-Jul to September. Not all that unusual at all. We got robbed for bodies like that all the time in the USAF due to lack of manning and increased operational tempo. This could be something or it could be nothing at all. Now if this was a large number of people from that base or entire units, then I might say that was indeed a smoking gun.
Thanks for the translation and explanation.
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak made a very strange statement during a 2016 forum discussing “emerging infectious diseases and the next pandemic”.
“We found other coronaviruses in bats, a whole host of them, some of them looked very similar to SARS. So we sequenced the spike protein: the protein that attaches to cells. Then we… Well, I didn’t do this work, but my colleagues in China did the work. You create pseudo particles, you insert the spike proteins from those viruses, see if they bind to human cells. At each step of this, you move closer and closer to this virus could really become pathogenic in people. You end up with a small number of viruses that really do look like killers.”
thenationalpulse.com/archive-post/daszak-reveals-chinese-colleagues-manipulating-coronaviruses/
Old news but one wonders how is this guy still “out and about”?
At this point in time, the attempted ramp up in excitement over digital ID, CBDC, Vax mandates, etc is becoming spam.
The entire WEF wet dream was predicated on continuation of the dollar standard, which in turn is based on energy surplus.
As everyone should shirley (Q) know by now, the strategic goal of the Russia-China alliance, including the regional conflict in Ukraine, is aimed squarely at defeating the hegemon.
This isn’t to say multi-polar powers may have their own long term objectives. The point is the Western versión of full spectrum dominance is dead.
People should pay attention to where our host is going. He’s focusing on how, if possible, the US socio-economic rebuilding process will look, who will lead the effort, and what the cultural fallout may entail.
The next steps are continuing inflation, dollar dollarization and perhaps regional división. Like Stalingrad some 70 years ago, the WEF war has been reversed.
Again, not peaches and cream, just the reality that Gates’ dream in the west has been quashed. [Maybe that’s why he, Musk, et al are in China, a sure sign the smart money knows the US is a spent host.]
Don’t call everyone Shirley!
What’s the over/under for the number of days before “Joe Biden” pardons “Hunter Biden”.
I say that within the next 2-3 months a pardon will be issued….Uncle Joe will accidentally issue it to Beau though!!! lol
from Occidental Observer, George Durocher on Aristotle and Immigration
Thus, immigration of different peoples was a common source of conflict, often leading to civil war and concluding with the ethnic cleansing of either the native peoples or the invaders.
Aristotle’s ideal of citizenship, entailing civic duties and group solidarity, necessarily requires a strong common identity and a sharp differentiation between citizens and foreigners. Conversely, foreign mercenaries had no solidarity with the people, and were thus frequently used by tyrants to enforce their unjust rule:
The guard of a [legitimate] king is composed of citizens: that of a tyrant is composed of foreigners. (1310B31)
It is a habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence. The tyrant claims a monopoly of such qualities for himself; he feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity, or acts with independence, is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny; he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority. It is also a habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at table and in society; citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.” (1313B29)
This passage brings to mind the Bolshevik tyranny in the early decades of the Soviet Union, when the government, and especially the secret police, was dominated by people from non-Russian ethnic groups. As Aristotle notes, under such a system any assertion of independence was ruthlessly crushed.
Aristotle also clearly expresses a related idea, that ethnic homogeneity enables the group solidarity that is needed to throw off tyrannical rule, while a diverse population with a no common identity is easier to rule. Aristotle, in order to enable leisure in the premodern era, argues for having a population of ethnically diverse slaves (something I, for reasons of civil peace and genetic integrity, would not endorse and especially not in the age of automation):
The class which farms it should, ideally, if we can choose at will, be slaves – but slaves not drawn from a single stock, or from stocks of a spirited temperament. This will at once secure the advantage of a good supply of labor and eliminate any danger of revolutionary designs. (1330A23)
Thus, a mass of mongrels without identity is easier to rule than a self-conscious people, a truth which the hostile elites who rule the West seem to instinctively understand.
Aristotle observes that foreigners were also a favorite political weapon not only of tyrants but also of egalitarian extremists. He writes: “At Amphipolis someone by the name of Cleotimus introduced Chalcidian settlers, and incited them after their settlement to make an attack on the rich” (1305B39). Aristotle says that naturalization of foreigners played a key role in founding the more extreme form of democracy found in Athens. He writes of Cleisthenes, who was said to have founded the democracy of that city: “after the expulsion of the tyrants he enrolled in the tribes a number of resident aliens, both foreigners and slaves” (1275B34).[1] Aristotle says elsewhere that democrats consolidate their regime by efforts to mix the citizenry (breaking down old identities) and stoking individualism:
Other measures which are also useful in constructing this last and most extreme type of democracy are measures like those introduced by Cleisthenes at Athens, when he sought to advance the cause of democracy, or those which were taken by the founders of popular government at Cyrene. A number of new tribes and clans should be instituted by the side of the old; private cults should be reduced in number and conducted at common centers; and every contrivance should be employed to make all the citizens mix, as much as they possibly can, and to break down their old loyalties. All the measures adopted by tyrants may equally be regarded as congenial to democracy. We may cite as examples the license allowed to slaves (which, up to a point, may be advantageous as well as congenial), the license permitted to women and children, and the policy of conniving at the practice of “living as you like.” There is much to assist a constitution of this sort, for most people find more pleasure in living without discipline than they find in a life of temperance. (1319B19)
These measures appear in line with what Samuel Francis has called “anarcho-tyranny”: by weakening traditional group identities and the authority of family fathers, the population of “liberated individuals” is paradoxically reduced to an impotent mass, which can then be ably manipulated by demagogues. Aristotle considers extreme democracy to be undesirable because it leads to lawlessness and individualism.
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Aristotle is rare among ancient thinkers in that his political theory advocates at least a kind of moderate democracy or constitutional government. He generally believes a large number of people should have citizenship, limited by service in the army and a moderate property qualification — a description that fits the Roman Republic remarkably well. He argues for a “mixed regime” featuring democratic, oligarchic, and aristocratic elements, subject to a largely unchanging basic law, the latter embodying and stipulating a way of life.
The American Founding Fathers’ (or indeed the Confederates’) vision of government strikes me as having significant overlap with Aristotle’s political thought. The greatest difference is perhaps that Aristotle argued for a moderately democratic constitutional regime, not on grounds of individual “rights” or “equality,” but because these served the interests of the community. A moderately democratic regime gave as many people as possible an interest in the preservation of that regime (“buy-in”) and allowed all citizens to include their share of wisdom, however small, in government.
Aristotle forcefully argues in favor of a community-centered notion of justice: “The good in the sphere of politics is justice; and justice consists in what tends to promote the common interest” (1282B14). How many political discussions today — whether about abortion, gay marriage, immigration, economic policy, or whatever — refer to the common good rather than to solipsistic and childish arguments about “rights” and “fairness”?
While Aristotle is decidedly more “bourgeois” than Plato, he too is contemptuous of egalitarian excesses, which manifest themselves in democratic extremism and selfish individualism. Aristotle notes that some democracies are so extreme that they actually undermine the existence of the state, and hence do not survive as long as a moderate democracy. He writes with great eloquence on that “false conception of liberty” which has so often seduced our people:
In democracies of the type which is regarded as being peculiarly democratic the policy followed is the very reverse of their real interest. The reason for this is a false conception of liberty. There are two features which are generally held to define democracy. One of them is the sovereignty of the majority; the other is the liberty of individuals. Justice is assumed to consist in equality and equality in regarding the will of the masses as sovereign; liberty is assumed to consist in “doing what one likes.” The result of such a view is that, in these extreme democracies, each individual lives as he likes — or as Euripides says,
For any end he chances to desire.
This is a mean conception [of liberty]. To live by the rule of the constitution ought not to be regarded as slavery, but rather as salvation. (1310A12)
Is this not a very neat summation of the ills of modern liberalism? I would argue that the West was already severely infected by the 1930s, before metastasizing to an absurd degree from the 1960s onwards. Thus today, liberals express only desire only for “equality” and “solidarity,” all the while destroying the very foundations for these ends through multiculturalism and open-borders, these being fanatically imposed with the most short-sighted bigotry.
Aristotle provides a powerful rationale for a moderate constitutional regime of responsible citizen-soldiers constrained by an enlightened basic law. In the coming ethnostate, the basic law will necessarily prescribe the preservation of the identity and ethnic-genetic interests of the European peoples as an inviolable imperative, to be enforced by judges and perhaps a military-spiritual order (or one of soldier-scientists) dedicated to that end.
In any event, Aristotle clearly articulates how homogeneity, a common identity, and a sense of peoplehood are social goods necessary to citizenship, solidarity, and freedom from tyrannical government. He argues for good government oriented towards the common interest as opposed to towards individual “rights,” caprice, and equality as ends in themselves. Ancient Greek politics can only seem “authoritarian” or even “totalitarian” to modern liberals. In fact, the politics of the Greek city-state is nothing more than that of the assembled paterfamilias, come together to fulfill their sacred responsibility to protect, discipline, and educate their kinsfolk towards the good.
Aristotle’s grim observations on diversity are worth repeating: unassimilable immigration can only lead to conflict, conflict which can only end through separation, separation which can only occur through the expulsion either of the invaders or the natives from their ancestral lands.
[1] This was before the reforms of Pericles, who democratized Athens further, while actually tightening citizenship qualifications to those born of two native Athenian parents.
Jarek: Want to be happy? Don’t focus on it directly but rather on doing the the things that lead to it.
Want to keep individual rights? Then don’t focus on them directly but rather on the public good, the great taboo among so called conservatives.
Individualism, so called since all such people are remarkably the same, leads to lawlessness and greed when it is lauded and extolled.
Since Americans are so poor at understanding this subtlety, and since everything that isn’t locked down ends up being appropriated, perhaps we need a Bill of Responsibilities to match our Bill of Rights. Duties. Have tos. If you choose to ignore them, well you don’t get to be a citizen.
I like it.
And collectivist types need to stop focusing on that, as if ethnic and racial homogeneity doesn’t matter, nor individual rights. Nor the mystic chords of a common culture and heritage.
It takes a lot! You know, just like growing a plant. What would you say to someone who just watered a seed? Maybe you’d mention the need for soil? And then you came back to find them keeping it in a locked box, then mentioning the need for air? Then you came back and saw it in their closet, gently mentioning the need for light too. Exasperated, they take the whole pot and throw it out the window, deciding to focus on something simple like politics instead.
is growing a society and only then a state, more or less complicated then growing a plant?
Per the Wall Street Journal, China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island, sparking alarm in Washington that it could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops and other security and intelligence operations just 100 miles off Florida’s coast, according to current and former U.S. officials.
Okay, so what’s the big deal here? America should not mind this. They set up military bases all over the world. Case in point, they set up all kinds of military right up against the Russian border in the Ukraine. USA did not seem to think this problematic.
Having a China base in Cuba is the same deal. It should not be viewed as any kind of problem, and if the USA ruffles it feathers over it this shows exactly the kind of hypocrite they are.
httpsXX://www.wsj.com/articles/beijing-plans-a-new-training-facility-in-cuba-raising-prospect-of-chinese-troops-on-americas-doorstep-e17fd5d1
US bases in South Korea, Japan, and the PI are nothing but a provocation. DC thinks their shit don’t stink, but they’re rapidly discovering otherwise.
Yup the Coen brothers made an allegorical short film about that exact thing; “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”
Great movie.
Yes, that is an excellent movie.
LInk?
But seriously tho…
Plenty of space for a joint Cuba/China training facility right next to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
I expected Gitmo to be tropical but it wasn’t; it was more like Southern California ~ arid, warm and sunny, with not much greenery due to lack of rain.
SOP for China is to move into the host country & make generous gifts to the leadership, in essence buy them off with fancy cars, mansions etc. Then they make immense loans to build infrastructure, and begin building infrastrucure themselves using Chinese labor & Chinese state construction companies; the completed projects standing as collateral for the loans. Native labor is not used, in fact, Chinese customarily show contempt for the locals. Of course, the loans can’t be paid back ~ they were never meant to be. Surprise! Suddenly China owns your seaport, your airport, the rail system, and the roads. Oops!
This was told to me by a Jamaican guy I worked with who trained as an engineer in London, and who witnessed the project take shape in his native country. He also told me “Jamaica was much better when the British ran it.”
Until the 1980s, by which time all the locals familiar with colonial times had died off, it was not uncommon for English tourists visiting Pakistan or India to be accosted, pleadingly, with a plaintive “When are the British going to come back?”
I imagine something similar happens with African basket-cases as well. Not one “success story” across the continent. Yet the natives are still told that it is all the fault of the tyrannical colonial exploiters.
The Chinese make no bones about what they’re after. But at least they are building sorely-needed infrastructure, like ports and railroads. I say let them take over Africa – they won’t make it more of the mess than the natives themselves have done in the decades following “liberation”.
Heard the same thing from a tawny resident of Jackson MS in one of those “Is this America?” car crawl You Tube videos. “Things was way better when wypipo run this place!”
Many are doing fine in Africa but it is peanuts compared to what the Afro-Saudis can do in or outside Arabia.
Many African countries were also much better off when the Brits ran them. I believe Queen Mum said something to this effect shortly before her departure from this mortal coil.
“God Save the Queen Man” ~Biden
I would like China inc to stop exporting to USA.
Let the g –damn collapse happen.
So, our Sec. of State threw in the towel with regards to Taiwan. It is reported that the people in Taiwan by majority want to join China. IMHO, the folks on that little island are between a rock and a hard place. It’s stick with the U.S. who can’t be trusted and lose a war with mass casualties and property destruction or just give in and hope for the best. Reading some the posts above, the Chinese are giving these people a deal they can’t refuse.
In the future, the people of America may get the same deal. China will have control of the semiconductor production and battery production in addition to medical prescription drugs, car parts, etc. In addition, we may get to the point where our leaders will sell us off for peace with China knowing we do not have the capability or the will to defeat China. China needs our agricultural capability. They have many people to feed. They will work to gain control. Sadly, there are people in this Country that would be willing to farm for China in exchange for the war option.
We are being sold out by our leaders and being surrounded by China.
Knock out the power grid and see how many people surrender.
As Kissinger said, It is dangerous to be the enemy of the United States, but deadly to be its friend.
They have chosen well. Even when in our sphere, the East Asians weren’t nearly as individualistic. And when they become so, it’s just in a decadent way. The future is Chinese – and now they allow Capitalism with many new millionaires, etc.
What do they have to lose but a freedom they did little with and largely don’t believe in?
“the people in Taiwan by majority want to join China.”
Little wonder. Most of them are Han Chinese from the mainland. The native Taiwanese people were overwhelmed by immigration from the mainland a long time ago.
The current (Chinese) population of Taiwan has extremely strong ties to their home communities on the mainland opposite, on the Fukien coast.
httpX://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_indigenous_peoples
Yeah, what a two edged sword immigration is, eh? Good for the victors and bad for vanquished. It’s just like war!
Whites are the underdogs now; the Indians or dark skinned Malayan Taiwanese. Those being vanquished. That should make you like us, but it doesn’t. Strange, that.
The farmers already farm for China, and they are happy for the money.
That’s how capitalism works.
is fat racist? are bike accidents racist?
American Medical Association cancelling BMI because it’s ‘racist’
Dr. Marc Siegel discusses why the American Medical Association is now telling doctors to not use the body mass index.
Doctor: We have your test results. I’m sorry to inform you that you have type 2 diabetes.
Fat Chick: OMG!!!??!! Why?
Doctor: You’re morbidly obese.
Fat Chick: Are you trying to fat shame me!?
Doctor: No. I’m simply making the elementary deduction that, by far, the leading cause of diabetes is obesity. There are many good resources you can use, though, to ameliorate, even eliminate your condition if you’d like to avail yourself of them. I can help.
Doctor: You’re sexist!
Doctor: Suit yourself. [Rises to leave.]
2nd last character tag should be “Fat Chick” of course.
Pancreas not functioning properly causes blood sugar issues which also causes weight gain.
Poorly functioning pancreas and fatty liver combined with insulin resistance is a sure shot to obesity and diabetes.
Malthuss, BMI is a highly inaccurate measure in any case. Top athletes in the harsher sports – like football – would be obese’ under BMI rules.
Mike,
You missed the larger point of malthuss’ post.
And BMI is NOT highly inaccurate. Yes, exceptions have to be made for bodybuilders and NFL linemen, but those are outliers, and easily noticeable ones at that.
I suspect that BMI as a diagnostic was introduced to help *reduce* the obloquy connected with telling a person he or she was overweight. “It’s just a number, like your height.”
I cannot fathom any reason to find a number racist.
Poor = black racist!
Black and poor = cheap food raycist!
Cheap food = low nutrition but high empty calories = obese = racist.
Poor = obese Racist!
Woke math!
I don’t think so.
I had mine measured when I was like 19 years old, and that was 40 years ago.
It’s a method for determining how much muscle people have.
2+2=5.
Fat is healthy.
Men are women.
Perversion is normal.
War is peace.
Mary, I see another quadruple murder in Idaho; looks like a family was wiped out by a neighbor. Big news there, or kept on the down low?
Huh? I haven’t looked at the news much today but I haven’t even seen anything on NextDoor!
So some guy killed a family because their 18 year old son masturbated in the window naked while looking at his (Kaylor’s) daughters outside.
Kind of an extreme reaction, but we might be seeing more of that, given the free reign of the pervs these days.
2+2=5.
Fat is healthy.
Men are women.
Perversion is normal.
War is peace.
JFK Jr. Ist Der Seig!
RFK,Jr, of course….
Valid addition.
Shakespeare still said it the best: “Fair is foul and foul is fair”
Meanwhile, this sure looks like an epidemic:
“My 600-lb Life’ cast members who have died:
Myers is one of several My 600-lb Life cast members who have died since appearing on the TLC reality show.
Henry Foots died a year after his season 1 episode aired. Sean Milliken, who appeared in season 4, died in 2019. Season 5 stars James King and James L.B. Bonner have also died, as have Lisa Fleming and Renee Biran from season 6 and Coliesa McMillian and Gina Krasley from season 8. Destinee LaShaee, who was the first transgender person to appear on the show, died at age 30 in 2022.
Kelly Mason died while filming her season 7 episode of My 600-lb Life. Robert Buchel experienced a fatal heart attack while filming a season 6 episode of the show. “
Unless you have a deadly hatred for that which threatens what you love, you love is only an empty catchword fit for hippies, liberals, and queers.
Commander George Rockwell
Women understand this. They’re good haters with us as the usual hate object. What do they think we are threatening? Themselves (they are their own love objects) and of course “their” kids.
Communists too. Liberals are interesting, a work in progress. They definitely hate those who disagree with them, and who disturb their delusional high. Step by step, stage by stage, they morph into Communists both ideologically and emotionally.
JHK said: ” Any way you cut it, it looks like the sudden catastrophic downfall of the Democratic Party, an existential crisis that would amount ineluctably to one possible outcome: nominate Bobby Kennedy, Jr. or die.”
This is yet another ‘prediction’ that will, like so many others of his in the past, prove to be an empty suit, more indicative of wishful thinking than any sensible, logical, and rational thought process.
I don’t think the point is to make pinpoint predictions. The one I like is the impending stock market crash. I’ve become convinced we’re on a permanent plateau of high prices a la Irving Fisher famous last words.
I know what you mean, Tate, but any prediction of a stock market crash WILL, most assuredly, come true…eventually.
But this “sudden catastrophic downfall of the Democratic Party” is not going to happen. The GOP, however, has imploded like a cheap submarine.
The two parties are both imploding, just in different ways.
BREAKING: BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War is Good for Business’ While Spilling Info on Asset Giant
(O’Keefe Media Group’s site)
youtu.be/tgONwXR1Uwo
Any CFNers catch Bobby Jr. live from Manchester, NH tonite on You Tube? Perhaps the swamp really can be drained sans Trump. Time will tell. God save the queen, man!
Tom,
Our freedom of speech is being attenuated…how come RFK Jr.’s aint?
Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They’re going to destroy
Our casual joys
Wiki: Hotez was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to a Jewish family.[
Mark Cuban is Jewish, and grew up in Mount Lebanon, a suburb of Pittsburgh, in a Jewish working-class family
breitbart dot com/sports/2023/06/20/mark-cuban-accuses-joe-rogan-becoming-everything-supposedly-wrong-mainstream-media/
Funny how these wagons circle
Yes, once you see it you can’t unsee it. It explains much. The best foundation on which to build a nation: An ethnic group of the same religion and culture.
The best foundation on which to overthrow a nation? An ethnic group of the same religion and culture.
Us “fellow white people” never saw it.
‘If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.’
Putin asked to join NATO. Clinton didn’t even deign to answer, just laughed.
Someone has to be othered, Za. There can be no in without an out.
What Jehovah say? You are a people who shall dwell alone.
Convert to a pork-eatin’ Jew.
Or everyone could be White. Or, ultimately, Brown. Rainbow-Brown. Once everyone’s Rainbow-Brown, We could be called The Jareks.
Rainbow brown. Now we’re getting to it. Mix everyone together to create diversity and you get dingy brown. Then you just have to imagine that the brownies are rainbow colored – you know, like nobody is.
Za, you’re a genius, but you already “knew” that, right?
“Convert to a pork-eatin’ Jew.”
I’d rather not if that means I’m less ‘Chosen.’
One Woman’s Genius Terrorist Is Another’s Genius Freedom Fighter
Jarek, you are appear to be taking and running with an apparent colour revolution, whether on purpose, such as to shill with pay for a government-cum-corporate-symbiont (maybe to supplement your disability or retirement) and/or as a kind of systemic indoctrinee.
I’ve just made an exception here for the sake of facetiousness which you may feel free to confuse with fascism. Hey why not, right?
But perhaps you would do well to imagine rainbow-brown as a kind of brown that has one of those spectral-diffraction effects over it like, say, a bird’s plumage or insect’s exoskeleton or an some sort of film across the surface of a bubble.
Your ‘White’, incidentally, and if I must, came out of ‘Brown/Black’ some aeons ago. So don’t fool yourself that your ‘White’ cannot come out of it again after we all go rainbow-brown on you.
We are all ‘genius’ in our own ways, perhaps a lot like we are all alpha males in our own ways and/or in the different ways that different females perceive. IOW, one girl’s alpha is another’s omega or whatever.
Is Bill Gates an alpha? Are you?
Hell ya.
As Jefferson said, in order to conduct law and politics, words must be kept to their ordinary meanings.
Your meta-brown is thus rejected in civilized discourse.
Where are we with those “All Cause Morality Numbers”?
“ Even if Social Security’s privatization were designed to eliminate the entire gap separating projected Social Security expenditures and receipts, it would make only a modest contribution to liberating our children from a lengthy future of tax servitude and escalating prices.
Promised but unfunded Medicare and Medicaid benefits dwarf the unfunded liabilities of Social Security. They are approximately 6 times larger. They approach, in value, the net worth of every American household, including those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, every public and privately held American corporation, including Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway, and every nonprofit American institution, including Harvard University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 2000 alone, Medicare benefits per beneficiary have grown 2.6 times faster than the wages of the workers paying these benefits.”
“The Coming Generational Storm”
Are the Amish paying their Fair Share?
“ Where are we with those “All Cause Morality Numbers”?”
Cafe Direct now sells a coffee blend dubbed “Restore Climate Action”
The package reads: “A vibrant blend assisting in the fight against climate change.”
Yes, there’s an error in your comment, Puck, but since we all know what you meant to say I’m not going to point it out.
There is an error in yours as well, Q Tard.
There are some people commenting here (who shall remain nameless) whose writing is almost undeciperable. You can’t tell what they’re saying at all half the time. I scroll past them, rather than torture my brain trying to figure out these effusions.
Yet their writing (if you take the time to decipher) contains far more meaningful content than anything Q has ever written.
Puck,
SS and MC have never been “funded” in the first place. When originally proposed, the SS & MC withholdings were always intended as symbolic gestures to make the programs politically tenable to the pols voting for it at the time. This is perfectly reflected in the fact that your contributions are not now, nor have they ever been, sequestered in some sort of imaginary “trust fund.” They go straight into the general fund ledger and are then “spent” just like any other revenue that the federal government collects, realizing that it’s ALL an uber sophisticated shell game at that level in the first place. If not for SS and MC withholding contributions, US deficits and its accrued debt would be even larger than they are now.
As to unfunded liabilities, the next time someone complains that SS and MC are untenable and must be cut, simply ask them if the same thing applies to defense spending, bank bailouts, and foreign aid, and if not, why not. They’ll hem, haw, and harumph about the US being the beacon of freedom and democracy to the world and all that hogwash, but they won’t have an actual answer, because their simply isn’t one. The US is currently (albeit, not for much longer) far and away the world’s largest monetary sovereign and it can fund anything it damn well pleases by decree. The fact that it chooses to fund death and destruction the world over and lavish lifestyles for it’s corrupt leaders and their sycophants tells you all you need to know about DC’s priorities. “Generational Storm?” Hardly. A good old fashioned multi-generational Political Corruption Storm is what we’ve got going on here.
@ Pucker:
Yes, Karl Denninger has continually harped on that. Social Security, by itself, is only slightly underfunded and could be solvent with some minor tweaks. It’s Medicare and Medicaid that are the elephants in the room. If I remember right, Karl has said that these account for most of government debt. Fix them, and the US becomes solvent. How to fix them? To do that, you’d have to put a stop to the racketeering and fraud of the health care industry and Big Pharma, which has jacked up the costs of these by five times or more. It’s to the point where these two together account for 20% of the GDP, when they should account for about 5% of the GDP. Another point Karl makes is that all these excess costs arise from practices that have LONG been against the law. It’s just that the laws against price-fixing and racketeering are not being enforced. Also, pretty much all of the excess costs are the result of added administrative layers in these fields–not additional patient care.
I have ragged on Karl’s writing a couple of times here, but the guy is brilliant–and, as I’ve also said before, he’s a great, great man, which you can see if you’ve followed him for many years.
He says a lot of sense, but he has the bloggers’ fatal flaw: he cannot accept any criticism. I got sick of his swearing and blustery threats to “ban hammer” anyone who disagreed with him.
Order me up a MATA bumper sticker: Make America THINK Again.
Today’s Peter happenings:
Bo had to be up early to get Peter to the skin doctor by 8:30 for Mohs surgery (removal of an area of skin cancer). This one was on his left thigh. Another one done a week ago was on his neck. Both were about the area of a quarter or a half dollar.
They returned home a little before 11 AM. I was sitting at the kitchen table reading the paper. Peter came dashing and stumbling and bouncing off the walls and door jams in a rush to make it to the bathroom behind where I sat. Bo entered the kitchen at a normal pace and debriefed me wordlessly on the mornings events by simply rolling her eyes back in her head.
Bo had coffee while we waited the better part of half an hour for Peter to emerge. This was a bad sign. Long story short…yep he shit himself. The shit-filled Depends adult diapers were stuffed into a small plastic bathroom waste basket. He was carrying his shoes. “Why did you take off your shoes?” Bo asked. His face registered bewilderment, then annoyance as he replied “How should I know?” And I countered with “Who would know better than you?” These kind of conversations lead nowhere with Peter.
Bo’s main concern was that Peter had not wiped his ass properly and was now inside his pants without a diaper on. Later as I thought about the unexplained removal of his shoes I came up with a working theory. “Hey Bo, maybe he pissed on or in his shoes. Next time you’re up on the third floor see if his shoes are wet.”
Next up was a call to the Medicaid office during which we learned that the application to get Peter on Medicaid had been declined because Peter has too much money, currently $13,200. That has to be spent down to no more than $2,000 to make him eligible. Once a person is declined the whole process starts over again from square one. A new long application form must be filled out and resubmitted. And by the way said Ms Pacheco, all large check and cash withdrawal amounts on bank statements must be thoroughly explained, like a cash withdrawal I saw on a statement four years ago for $5,000.” Bo complained “How do I do that when my brother can’t even remember what he had for breakfast this morning?”
There is an element of Catch 22 to the whole Medicaid application process.
What paper were you reading? Wall Street Journal? New York Times? Philadelphia Enquirer? New York Post? Or was it the Rutgers Daily Shopper?
That Ruckers Daily Shopper is a helluva read! Bargains galore too, most of it “just fell off a truck.”
Diss,
Did you see the ad where the guy is selling slivers of the true cross? I’m interested, but $50 sounds like a lot.
Hey, what’s a little increasingly worthless money when you can get in early on a treasured keepsake that your heirs will thank you for? Focus on long term value, Ely!
What paper were you reading? – BRH
========
The NYT.
A nice liberal rag if there ever was one. “All the news that’s fit to print” my foot.
I thought you said you have cancelled your subscription? Did you fall back into your addiction?
No, I prolly said I would cancel my subscription if it were left up to me but there’s my wife to consider. She would flip her wig.
Solutions: I’d start by putting Peter in a Tyvek disposable hazmat suit. $12.95 from Amazon. Buy a dozen.
https://www.amazon.com/Tyvek-Disposable-Dupont-Elastic-Extra-Large/dp/B00JZZTMGY/ref=asc_df_B00JZZTMGY?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79852149837960&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583451676407966&psc=1
Add the Depends diaper and a cheap white T Shirt underneath and you’ve got an all-purpose ensemble that’s reasonably fashionable, all things considered, and eminently practical.
Then, rather than go with shoe covers, which he probably wouldn’t wear anyway, I’d go with some cheap, easy on, easy off, easy wash and wear models like these:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08J7YDBR7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1&psc=1
I’d stick with the darker colors and the easy on and off bungee cord stretch laces. Buy 4 pairs.
Then, for major shit emergencies, the clean up would be relatively easy. Establish a location outside with access to a garden hose that’s set up for the occasion at all times, a Hazmat barrel with liner, and a wash barrel filled with water and some heavy duty laundry detergent. Strip Peter down to the buff and dispose of the diaper in the Hazmat barrel. Evaluate the Hazmat suit and place it in the wash barrel if it’s not too soiled, otherwise dispose of it in the Hazmat barrel. Same with the shoes, although they should be reusable in almost all cases. Then hose Peter down thoroughly and give him a good once over with a stiff cleaning brush and soap, prison style.
Finally, if you’ve got a garage or an outbuilding of some sort, I’d consider moving Peter’s accommodations out there, where his environmental impact can at least be isolated from your day to day. This should give him a feeling of independence and offer at least the remote possibility that he’ll assume responsibility for his plight. Of course you’ll want to furnish it with cheap plastic or vinyl covered furniture and the like. Stuff that can be likewise drug out in the yard and hosed off if need be. Hard surfaces everywhere else. No fabrics or carpets that can be soiled and ruined.
Dis, you may be on to something. Around my way we have mobile pet grooming trucks. You could have a mobile people clean-up truck for people like Peter. All the caretaker would have to do is call you up, you’d come over with the necessary equipment and clean the mess up, including the person, thus sparing the caretaker from that nasty duty. You’d make a fortune, I think. You could have a tag line that says something like, “Dis’s mobile human clean up service. We diss the shit.
There are services that clean up yards full of dog waste. So why not? Why the hell not?
It could still bear the name of pet grooming to hide the real mission. Human dignity, and all.
I like it Bill! From great adversity comes great opportunity!
Dis’s Shit, Scrub, and Shine – We’ll dis ‘dat shit for ya!
Actually, there’s similar services like that already available in big cities that specialize in murder scene cleanups and the like, but I think most are relatively low tech.
And a collar and leash for when Peter is taken outside. Ditto for Biden.
Biden would like that, identifying as a furry and all. He could call himself the Big Schnauzer.
@ Q. Shtik:
I think that Medicaid only goes back five years, as far as accounting for disappearing money and assets. E.g., if you put your house in one or more of your kids’ names more than five years ago, or gifted any substantial sum of money to someone more than five years ago, it doesn’t count. I know this doesn’t help you now, but this could be useful to know. One way I know this is that some of my more distant in-laws cleaned out Granny (of several millions) and, after waiting five years, pretty much to the day, put her in a nursing home with Medicaid paying for it.
I guess right now what you need to do is figure out a way to “spend down” what little Peter has, and do it in a way that’s acceptable to Medicaid. Maybe it would be good to consult a lawyer. I’m just guessing, but I think a person could easily spend $11,000 on medical stuff, like a pwer wheel chair. Or maybe you could remodel a ground-floor room (or bathroom) in the house so as to meet Peter’s needs.
If a person is poor enough (as in, “pretty much destitute”) they become eligible for all kinds of extra funds. E.g., he could get food stamps, which, for one person, is probably around $200/month. There is also a program through United Health Care, where they give you money that can be spent on meds, food, and utility bills. So, when you get old, your best bet is to be destitute–at least for now.
Yes, I ran into this when I applied for aid from the state to pay for my mom’s nursing home stay. At that time, they wanted bank statements going back five years. Now, it’s seven, I believe. Their literature said you could keep back $2000 for burial purposes, but when I did, they called it divestment. Any money you spend on anything they don’t consider “care related” is considered divestment.
Why Japan is Giving Away 8 Million Free Houses
youtu.be/b1AOm17ZUVI
“The summer solstice in 2023 will take place on Wednesday 21 June at precisely 3:58pm BST in the UK and 10:58am ET / 7:58am PT in the US.” ~ Science Focus website
Happy Summer everyone! It’s hotting up nicely out west here finally.
Is this going to result in a lot more inner-city gunslinging shootouts?
They’ll be hard pressed to actually increase them from their already prodigious numbers, but I have every confidence they’ll give it a go anyway.
Early Trump Ad calling for death penalty in NYC.
XXXhttps://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/18/nyregion/18nytrump1/18nytrump1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp
What a great and prescient ad.
Someone should resubmit this to run in Chicago, San Francisco, Philly, etc. Applies just as much if not more to today’s lawless society.
Unfortunately, life is not that simple. And as they say, few can handle the truth. Boom!
XXXwww.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-48609693
In Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, the Feds came in and cleaned out the ghettoes, with most of the residents ending up in concentration camps. And the navy torpedoed the reef and BELOW the reef from whence the evil sprang.
V-Lad, you remind me of a scenario I should but probably won’t get around to writing up as a screenplay.
Social / environmental collapse in all its glory, across the continental USA. Lockdowns, martial law, roundups and shoot-on-sight for naughty lads & lassies.
Prognosis is grim.
So what to do about the ~300 incarcerated at ADX Florence? These are the vilest of the vile, and should never be allowed out of stir.
Here’s a plot outline: family of guards working at ADX gets word from in-laws that a certain air base, under ultra-tight security, is planning an operation – a sort of “crop-dusting” pass by attack choppers, sprinkling and spraying fairy dust over the entire prison – which will subsequently be entombed in concrete, like a runaway nuclear facility.
Prisoners will be killed and left to rot in their cells – but what about the staff, all of whom are good ole boys from the local community? They can’t just scamper off suddenly or the prisoners, suspicious at the sudden exit, would go on a riot.
The Deep State Solution would of course be to snuff EVERYBODY, so there are no witnesses to spread “hurtful disinfo” afterwards. Nerve gas might do it, but mishaps observed from WW I make that impractical.
Or just lock ‘er up and beat it. Let them starve to death.
Here’s what life is like for guests of the state: “The prison as a whole contains a multitude of motion detectors, cameras, and 1,400 remote-controlled steel doors. Officers in the prison’s control center monitor inmates twenty-four hours a day and can activate a ‘panic button’, which immediately closes every door in the facility, should an escape attempt be suspected. Pressure pads and 12-foot (3.7 m) razor-wire fences surround the perimeter, which is patrolled by heavily armed officers.”
Box-office Boffo?
What can you do with “people” who aren’t human anymore, assuming they ever were?
The British brought the Boer War to an end by putting the Boer women and children in concentration camps and then threatening to give them to the Blacks. The Boers took this seriously – they knew their Brits.
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
Four dead after fire erupts in a NYC e-bike repair shop:
h(xx)ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoT4sToRwRE
I think I’d rather take my chances living above a meth lab.
Haha, you can’t feel too bad about this. Those libtards and their love of battery powered everything. But hey, this is saving the environment, right?
They said you cannot charge these battery powered vehicles overnight while sleeping or away from home. Well, isn’t that convenient?
I wonder how many Chinese illegals were housed there?
“Or maybe, what we’re seeing in all these military movements is the prelude to a real live military coup d’état? Just sayin’….” ~ JHK
The frequency of the nonsense is getting greater.
Try this on for size:
In spite of Solomon Wisenberg advising Comer to request a review of the deposition, the Hunter Biden Sweetheart Deal is causing the intel community “whistleblowers” to get a bit twitchy. There is no telling how much longer they are going to be able to keep the handle on the grenade depressed with the pin pulled. Odds are that one of them will have a “you crossed the line Jake” moment, and that will be the green light for “Joe Biden” to invoke martial law. And if that doesn’t happen, Ray Epps could always throw the false flag.
“Joe Biden” will still have to contend with the rank and file of the intel community, but help will be just 90 miles to the South.
If anyone knows if “Joe Biden” has committed treason, it would be Xi, and this would explain why Xi has no respect for any of them. But, I don’t think that Xi would hesitate to take action that would ultimately facilitate implementation of his agenda.
Any way you cut it, things don’t look good.
Yeah…what I said…
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/dissecting-west-point-think-tanks
By the way…whatever happened to CFN’s only West Point attendee?
Quite a read, Ely! basically says that thanks to our Ukraine misadventure, Russia is rapidly developing the next generation army and applied operational doctrines, making them even more formidable than they already are. Unless the Pentagon boys have a rabbit in their hat, they’re rapidly making themselves obsolete. If they had any sense, they’d be charging Russia for the growth opportunities they’re presenting them.
Yup, Dis, astute as usual.
Like the Spanish civil war, this is a chance for the Russians to engineer new tactics against US weapons. WW2 tactics are obsolete as well as Cold War tactics.
BTW, not only is Russia on a learning curve, so is China.
Fred at last!…Fred at last!…Thank God Almighty it’s Fred at last….
https://fredoneverything.org/the-lingering-effects-of-slavery-an-objective-analysis/
Fred’s the man.
My stab on the Titanic Sub (You can’t make this up, can you?):
• Government agitprop for a job well done: The Sub is found and all are rescued:
• True story; no government agitprop: The Sub is not found and everyone is presumed dead, or it is found and everyone is still dead or presumed dead.
The submersible used a cheap gaming console to steer with and the Company was woke.
Those poor foolish rich people were delivered into the hands of female engineers and American Indian technicians.
An anarchist victory. Sink the rich! If they float they live. If they don’t, they don’t.
I’m not quite buying it.
But, like I suggested, less than 20 hours may tell.
That’s not the spirit of anarchism, BTW.
Go read up on it better, since you seem big on books and in suggesting them to others. Of all people. Unless of course your points are often to be deliberately obtuse so as to troll and whatnot.
Submersible lives matter, but Rachel Corrie’s didn’t? Is that the spirit then?
Somewhere out there, “My Heart Will Go On’ by Celine Dion is playing in honor of this lost submarine.
Ha, Jarek, medieval judicial logic.
If the accused sank and drowned, God accepted them and they were innocent. If they lived, God rejected them and they were guilty and were executed by burning.
Talk about Catch 22.
Hmm, how about Trump?
Guilty!!!
Of what? Who cares.
The submersible used a cheap gaming console to steer with and the Company was woke.
Those poor foolish rich people were delivered into the hands of female engineers and American Indian technicians.
An anarchist victory. Sink the rich! If they float they live. If they don’t, they don’t.
Haha!
I’m in and out, but just to say that things about this story don’t seem to add up, although I haven’t done my homework about it, even if I have time, like before their oxygen runs out
Like, for one, what happened to the ship that dropped the sub there in the first place? Or why was there a supposed sound that sounded like knocking on the hull every half-hour, but then it stopped?
And so on…
Would have been easier (and safer) for those rich folk to just look at Titanic wreck pictures in a book or online. No need to see it in person.
The same could be said of international travel. That would certainly stop a lot of unnecessary travel and do wonders for the environmental issue we are allegedly facing.
Bragging rights!
What would you see from a sub that far down, through a tiny little window in cramped conditions, a spot light piercing just several metres of murky water?
I might see if there’s a Taschen book on the subject. Prolly a couple hundred pounds at most.
Students at woke schools in the UK have been identifying as neogender “furries” like horses, dinosaurs and even curse-casting moons — sparking outrage from Britain’s top leader and a government investigation.
The revelations are part of an investigation by The Telegraph, which reported this week on a now-viral video showing a teacher at a school in East Sussex blasting a girl as “despicable” for refusing to accept a classmate who identified as a cat. Now, that school, Rye College, is being probed by the government, the newspaper said.
The outlet also found a student at an unidentified school who refers to themselves as “moonself” — and wears a cape to class to express their “true self” — even though other students must wear uniforms and could be reprimanded for not adhering to the dress code.
The kid didn’t identify as the moon but as a moon — and claimed to be able to cast curses on people.
At a secondary school — the equivalent of American high school — in the southwest of England, another student insisted on identifying as a dinosaur. And The Telegraph also turned up a student who called themselves a horse.
Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson said the reports over gender identity “will be concerning for parents.”AP
Other pupils identifying as cats — or “catself” — are also allowed to wear cat ears to express their “true self,” The Telegraph said of the so-called neogender known as a “furry.”
A student at a school in Wales said a fellow classmate complains about being “discriminated against if you do not refer to them as ‘catself’” — and will “meow rather than answer a question in English.”
“And the teachers are not allowed to get annoyed about this because it’s seen as discriminating,” the other pupil said.
“It’s affecting other people and their education and everybody in their lessons. It’s distracting to sit in a lesson and have someone meow to a teacher rather than answer in English.
Sunak spoke out after now-viral video caught a teacher in Rye calling a girl “despicable” for denying a classmate’s right to identify as a cat.Google Maps
“It’s a big ask to sit there and listen to someone answer like that and not have that be the main talk of the classroom rather than the lesson going on.”
Regarding the cat incident, a rep for UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ripped the growing classroom trend, telling The Telegraph: “We understand why these reports will be concerning for parents.”
“Teachers have a responsibility to encourage their students to engage respectfully with those they disagree with,” the rep said.
At Rye College, the East Sussex school, the teacher angrily told the objecting student that she should go to another school for thinking that “if you have a vagina you’re a girl and if you have a penis you’re a boy.”
Audio of the fight caught the teacher insisting it was a “fact” that you can “be who you want to be, and how you identify is up to you.”
Sunak’s rep said teachers “should also not be teaching contested opinions as fact, shutting down valid discussions and debates.
“It’s important parents and carers are reassured that children aren’t being influenced by personal views of those teaching them,” the rep said. “Any example that strays from this would be wrong and we would expect headteachers to act.”
Tracy Shaw, of the child advocacy group Safe Schools Alliance, said that the current climate makes teachers fear taking the wrong step.
“If a child is coming to school identifying as a cat or a horse, that should immediately raise red flags,” Shaw told the UK paper.
“The problem is that teachers have a blind spot where anything involving identity comes in, because they are frightened of doing the wrong thing.
“They think they are being kind by affirming these behaviors, but they are not being kind, because they are likely to be missing all sorts of things that are going on in that child’s life.”
It makes ya just wish the teachers could wail the shit out of these non-conforming disrupters like they yoosta in the old days.
If you reassemble a rainbow, it becomes white.
Color is the crucifixion of Light. Thus Gandalf chastised Saruman for his rainbow cloak. He couldn’t bear the Weight of Glory that came with his White robe so he threw it away. And the resurrected Gandalf become Gandalf the White.
You might as well talk to me as a Jehova’s Witness. Who’s Rachel? Just like who’s Jesus. Same idea.
Who do you think Jesus was? Who do you think Rachel Corrie was? You can google them if you don’t know. Once you know, get back to me about what you think about their lives and deaths.
ATM, I don’t care, if I ever will.
…The ‘who’s Jesus’, etc. was/is rhetorical.
There are a lot of ‘historical and religious figures’ (and, by extension, books about them) I don’t give a triple-axle flying fuck about.
It’s a ruse, a colour revolution. Divide, confuse and conquer or somethings like those.
There is nothing wrong with a child wearing kitty ears, or **pretending* during play time to be a cat.
Small children love to pretend that they are animals, and also love it when grown-ups play these games with them, rearing up like a horse or hopping like a squirrel, etc. But they are GAMES/PLAY!!
Children need to be allowed to play pretend, but they must be taught/reminded that pretend is not reality. Actually, most children are perfectly aware of this. They will ask you to pretend to be a horse or announce that they are pretending to be a squirrel. My niece, when six, loved to play the game of pretending to be a little girl asleep on the doorstep (of course she WAS a little girl, just not really asleep). My role was to come around a corner and be totally surprised that a little girl was sitting on the doorstep, asleep. “Who is this little girl? Where did she come from?” etc. etc.
It would be a shame if children’s fantasy and imagination and also creativity were destroyed because their elders took it too far, or, failed to recognize actual mental or emotional disturbance if a child actually does believe it is a horse.
One really wonders at the mental and emotional stability of adults who become convinced, or act like they are convinced, that a child actually is a cat or a horse. Deranged.
you miss the point.
“My guess is that almost all of them down to the rank-and-file would snap out of the mass formation psychosis they’ve been locked in for seven years and completely flip, denouncing the tyrannical madness that their deposed leadership inflicted on our country. They might even believe it never happened, or that they were not responsible for it, like the whole thing was no more than a bad dream.”
Meanwhile, the 4th Turning turns.
REPORT: Women won’t achieve gender equity with men for another 131 years
httpsXX://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/report-women-won-t-achieve-gender-equality-with-men-for-another-131-years/vi-AA1cPgVG
Oh really? Well I suppose those women could just transition into men and then VOILA! Instant gender equity!
Or it could be argued, that come 131 years hence, there will be no such thing as an actual “man” anyway, so what more will there be to compare these “women” against?
Disagree.
The USA is the seed of the perversity movement in the world. The US is not going to last another ten years let alone 131. Hopefully the perverse movement dies with the US for the sake of humanity. BRICS++ wants no part of it.
Speaking of BRICS++, Cuba and China are talking about a bilateral military base in Cuba. Blinken is there now, any response? He has already condemned Taiwan with his words.
Doncha get it, the goal of the Mob is to destroy the US in favor of the globalist movements. The only question is which one.
As soon as people start worrying about their 2000 calories per day, this gender crap will disappear overnight.
How do they figure it’s 131 years & not 133 years? Or 125? Or any other number? Think about who reads these articles… I saw the headline earlier today & my brain filtered it out as ‘Drudge-ready.’
When some governments want a color revolution in another country, they’ll tap into pre-existing fault-lines in those countries and push/pump them to breaking points.
So folks like you and Jarek hereon for example– and even myself once and awhile– will deliberately and/or inadvertently, as cultural agents, help that dynamic along– as per exactly what those very governments want.
That’s what they’re doing with the gender, racial/ethnic and sexual rainbows.
In some anarchist’s script somewhere, Celine Dion’s pre-apparition is singing Somewhere Under The Rainbow as the Titanic sinks once again as a sub. Well that’s part of a brainstorm for a concept anyway. Feel free to augment it.
…The sub is a sub-plot, one of those false leads or false trails or something, rather perhaps a little like that kid in the maze in the film, The Shining who doubles back on his own footprints.
Hearing about the presumably lost Titanic Sub makes me remember that Jack and Rose could have actually both survived on the raft together. That part of the movie didn’t quite make sense and it actually robbed the audience of a more consequential moment that was sorta genericized for the purposes of the movie. Rose would most likely have died of hypothermia irl even if she survived for some time on the raft by herself. So her survival doesn’t make sense from an irl perspective. Both her and Jack would have had a better chance of survival if they could’ve shared body heat though. And the subsequent love story could have still stood with more interesting tapestries even if she was telling her story in the same perspective and let’s say Jack had passed away and she was just recalling their story. Alternatively, it would have been a more gripping moment in the movie if Rose and Jack both sank together, entangled and embraced, to the bottom of the ocean. Rose’s voice could have narrated the dark somewhat macabre romantic moment saying something like “even in death we did not part”. And then pan to a scene were someone finds the diamond on a beach or some such thing. But no. Those opportunities were not provided to us.
I think the gist was that he was a popsicle by that time and didn’t have the strength to get in the raft, never mind share body heat with anyone. Her going in with him and sinking to the bottom would certainly have been romantic, but then again, that would have been an entirely different movie now, wouldn’t it? Who would have narrated the story? A third person narrator of some sort? That was a pretty decent movie, though, even for us decidedly non-mushy types. No doubt a whole lot of people got laid after watching that one with their significant other.
Well the raft was actually makeshift since technically it was a door. But many people have argued that two people could have floated on it. Particularly if Rose’s life jacket could have been tied to the door underneath to provide more floating power. But apparently James Cameron was adamant that Jack had to die. And like I said. Either Rose or Jack could have narrated the floating down scene. It would have been amazing in one way but yeah I suppose it would have been a bit of a different movie. But most of the movie could’ve been preserved as it is/was.
Some movies show people kissing underwater. Is that possible? You’d have to have a pretty good seal. But there must be a split second where you take in water before the seal is solid.
Where there’s a will there’s a way lol :-). There probably is that split second though. But you know, a little salt water never hurt anybody.
The final point of the movie was that Rose came out to the site to die and give the Heart of the sea back to the Titanic.
That would have been hard if she died with Jack. If she had, the credits would have rolled then.
Also, a point of the movie was the pointing out of the cowardice of the lifeboats not going in to search for survivors. Only one did and rescued Rose and a few others. If all the boats had returned, I wonder how many folks would have been rescued.
That is true. But it is a movie so creative improvisation could be utilized.
creative improvisation could be utilized. – SSL
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I’m curious, why did you use the word utilized in stead of utilizing the word use?
I don’t really know for sure. i think because it sounds better than used
The latest news says that tapping is being heard in the water, I assume by sonobuoys. What a horrible ending this may have. These guys will never be found, the ocean is just too damn big. Maybe they can triangulate on their position? 24 more hours. What then, will they stop the search, not hazarding anyone else?
What a way to go, eh? Call it the ultimate reality experience.
Maybe James Cameron, or some other future day director, will put together a romantic love story movie about this submarine adventure?
Yes. Tony Orlando and Dawn’s 1970 hit “Knock Three Times” would be the romantic theme song.
Hey girl what ya doin’ down there
Dancin’ alone every night while I live right above you
I can hear your music playin’
I can feel your body swayin’
One floor below me you don’t even know me
I love you
Oh my darling
Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me
Twice on the pipe if the answer is no
Oh my sweetness
Means you’ll meet me in the hallway
Twice on the pipe means you ain’t gonna show
Bobby Sherman did it first!
Now we’re going waaaay back! Were you a Bobby Sherman groupie?
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip
They started out from this rocky port
Aboard a tiny ship.
Aboard a Tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailor man
The skipper brave & sure
The passengers set sail that day
For a 6 hour tour.
A 6 hour tour.
The submarine began going down
Then the lights went out
The carbon fiber hull began to implode
The Titan was toast no doubt.
The Titan was toast no doubt.
It sank 13,000 ft to the depths below
No lights & air is getting short
They sent out an urgent SOS
To the nearest port.
To the nearest port.
Stockton, Hamish & Paul Henry Nargelout
Eager to visit the Titanic
A billionaire & his son
Now they’re beginning to panic
Now they’re beginning to panic.
The movie is halfway to a soundtrack already.
My choice would be from 1979 , Anita Ward’s only hit ;
I’m glad you’re home
Now did you really miss me?
I guess you did by the look in your eye
(Look in your eye, look in your eye)
Well lay back and relax, while I put away the dishes
(Put away the dishes)
Then you and me can rock a bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
You can ring my bell, ring my bell
The night is young and full of possibilities
Well come on and let yourself be free
My love for you (Love for you, love for you)
So long I’ve been savin’
Tonight was made for me and you
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)
You can ring my bell, you can ring my bell
Ding, dong, ding, ah-ah, ring it
You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere
Ring it, ring it, ring it, ring it, oww
You can ring my bell, you can ring my bell
Ding, dong, ding, ah-ah, ring it
You can ring my bell, anytime, anywhere
Ring it, ring it
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ring-a-ling-a-ling)
You can ring my bell, ring my bell (Ring my bell, ding-dong-ding)
Lol .
Kesa,
That song’s so mindlessly stupid that it’s actually good. Truly a guilty pleasure.
“Kesa,
That song’s so mindlessly stupid that it’s actually good.” ~ Disaffected
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(chuckle…)
I suspect I know what the song is, but I have to head out again, so I’ll play the ‘guilty pleasure’ when I get back after the bike ride to water my community garden plot on the other side of the inlet.
(In a small bit of the song, she might go, ‘aahh’.)
If this was a loss of leak integrty, htey would never even feel anything. Their nervous systems would not even be able to register pain to their brains before they were crushed.
42000 lbs per square inch at that depth.
One commentator said that the sub would be the size of a coke can.
‘Ring My Bell’ a disco favorite from back in the day.
It might make a good CFN theme song.
Ring my bell. Lyrics ain’t much but it’s a catchy tune.
6000 psi pressure. You get about a half a lb. for every foot of depth underwater. 400 atmospheres deep. Good weather topside would be around 30 inches of water barometric pressure which is 1 atm or a little shy of 15 psi.
30 inches quicksilver
Yes there it is…
I cued it up right at that point and the on-screen lyrics even have the quirky ‘ahhh’ part written in, which I’d especially liked:
youtu.be/TaBLlkqx7eU?t=113
Naturally, that’s the sound some girlfriends can make when their bells are rung.
Which reminds me now of two other favorite bits from 2 others (cued):
• Rock Lobster: “ew-w-w-w”:
youtu.be/vz65vonktMA?t=58
• Amelia: “aaa-a-a-a”:
youtu.be/xL-X46Dl51c?t=86
BRH,
It can now be claimed that the Titanic has claimed the lives of TWO billionaires…John Jacob Astor, and Hamish Harding.
If I win the Lottery, I ain;t going near the goddamned thing….
Very horrifying for sure. It seems like they are putting so much resources into the search that they will continue searching beyond the next day.
Anyone else recall the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance? Even after all these years, no one still knows where it is.
Oh yeah. That was a super weird one too. Don Lemon said that it could have been swallowed by a black hole.
my guess is that is exactly what the perpetrator of that crash wanted.
There was a documentary on Netflix about it recently. Of course, one of the theories was that a Russian (who else) crept into the avionics bay, connected his laptop computer to, well, something , and sabotaged the plane.
From what I know, as an aviator, it was more likely another pilot suicide.
Yes, I watched the beginning of that doc as well. Had to turn it off when it veered off into Russia! Russia! Russia! madness. Smells like pilot suicide to me too.
People shouldn’t kill others when they kill themselves. Look at the glorious example of Sky King of Seattle. Denied the opportunity to fly the big jets by circumstance and skin color (White), he just took one out for a spin one day instead of doing his job as a baggage guy.
His life was over. But he didn’t want to hurt anyone. Just do what he wanted to do and then go out in a blaze of glory.
Pitch black inside that sub, and cold as hell.
$250,000 for a grand tour of the Titanic, which at this point can’t be more than a rusted hulk.
It reminds me of the ‘adventurers’ who pay $50,000 to climb Everest, only to end up dying of hypothermia on Everest ~ and most of the time their corpse is left behind. A local surgeon disappeared on Everest about a month ago. We won’t be hearing from him anymore.
Heaven is very close when at the top of Everest, so many probably decided to just step on a cloud and float away with some angels.
I recently saw part of a video of hikers on Everest freaking out at all the dead bodies they were encountering. What did they expect?
There are names for some of the more visible corpses who have been there awhile, such as “Green Boots,” etc.
I stopped caring when I read that the CEO and sub pilot, Mr Rush, had bragged how his company hired inexperienced diversity candidates over 50+ year-old ex-military white guys.
How you doin’ down there, Stockton? Hopefully you won’t suffer the indignity of being rescued by any middle-aged whit men.
LOL, delicious irony, yes.
This is kind of like the “justice” you’d get by removing all warning labels from products, like a friend suggested. Unfortunately, I think our country is going to suffer a lot more because of diversity hires.
I thought a few scraps of it washed up on the shores of Madagascar?
Let me see if I get your drift, Kunstler: there are military movements, and the whole thing doesn’t have a thing to do with the war in Ukraine. And if it is, the whole war is nothing but an effort to cover up for Hunter Biden. Oil and gas don’t have a thing to do with it. It’s all about American politics, and American politics have not a thing to do with oil or gas.
I gather it’s because now we know that there are reverse-engineered UFOs in possession of the Pentagon, powered by some alien technology, so we know that oil and gas are not an issue any more. The only issue is that Biden is somehow trying to keep this special alien technology for his family.
Aha.
No, Biden is somehow trying to keep the swag he scored from his China & Ukraine grifts for his family. Apparently they all got a cut, and they aim to hold onto it.
” 3. Will there be a Cost of Living Allowance for retired Military Vets come 2024? ”
I just got through reading a page from Barbara Tuchman’s , ” The March of Folly ” a few hours ago.
According to her , the Vietnam War was costing 2 Billion a month in 1966.
Presumably that is 2 Billion in 1966 dollars.
What I would like to see is 30 years of cost of living increase for the folks in the private sector.
Alas , Americans claim to be Capitalists, not Communists.
But everywhere I look , where ever the pet fetish is involved ,
the assumption is magical free lunch.
Too many Americans believe in some magical reality where success just arrives at their door, with very little effort on their part.
Kesa
Absolutely!!!!
It is the credo of the Left, the Dems. It is their ticket to power.
Promise everything to everybody, UBI for everyone.
The government has all the smart people in it, so they need to make all the decisions, right?
It has never worked in the history of humanity.
In spite of what Bernie Sanders says, the old fool.
What I would like to see is 30 years of cost of living increase for the folks in the private sector. – Kesa
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This from Google:
Beginning in 1975, Social Security started automatic annual cost-of-living allowances. The change was enacted by legislation that ties COLAs to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W). The change means that inflation no longer drains value from Social Security benefits.
This means people’s Soc Sec payments have been adjusted for 48 years running.
Are people drawing SS payments part of the “private sector?” I don’t know.
And now for those few who just can’t ever get enough, here’s one last (hopefully!) salvo in the unfolding “White Rock rock” saga, which has caused quite the kerfuffle here on the usually sleepy Pajarito Plateau among those who have a hand in manufacturing and designing your nuclear pits.
https://losalamosreporter.com/2023/06/21/timeline-of-recent-painting-of-the-rock-in-white-rock/
Several days ago (June 18th) under the prior blog essay I commented that I had begun writing a novella about Peter. At that time I had written about 2350 words and I spoke of eventually writing 50,000 words. As I continue on (I’m now at 2500 words) I realize what a daunting task 50,000 words would be. I fear running out of angles and ideas.
A year ago I read a short novel titled The House on Mango Street which is considered age appropriate for 8th graders and up including college and even adults. A Google search told me this short novel contains 17,854 words. Knowing this is a great relief and I’ve reduced my new targeted word count for the story about Peter to approximately 20,000 words. This means I will need to write about 7 times more than I’ve already written or 6 more increments of 2500 words. This seems doable.
The House on Mango Street was structured as a series of vignettes about a Hispanic girl growing up in Chicago. I like the idea of a “series of vignettes” and will use it in my tale about Peter since I can see it would be difficult to tell his story in straight chronological order.
I’ve laid out a dozen or so potential Chapter titles like:
Quintuple Bypass Heart Surgery
I Can No Longer Take Care of Myself
Peter Bolts to Florida
and, oh yeah, like
Resisting Arrest At a 4-Way Stop.
Quit worrying about word counts and just write. Lay out a loose outline up front, but don’t feel the need to stick to it religiously. Let the writing carry you on of its own accord and don’t force fit a pre-determined form on it up front. You should seriously consider a good editor for the finished draft(s) as well.
One of the questions that comes up from time to time among Hubpages bloggers is, “How long should my article be?” The answer to that question is, “It should be as long as it needs to be.” You just write until you get done covering the topic.
David Sedaris has been wildly successful writing vignettes and short stories, some of which go together, with the same characters (his family) and many without.
He’s hilarious and I adore his books.
A work of fiction at 50,000 words? Imagine how many grammatical and stylistic mistakes you will make, Q!
Yes, why not submit to Night Owl prior to publication? His red pen is sharp! And I’m sure he will work for free, a labor of love.
I prefer red pencil. Notes in the margin never fit quite as well as you think they might.
And if posts are anything to go by, editing a Q manuscript is surely no small task.
Where are we with the “All Cause Morality Numbers”?
“And the remarkable thing is that when ChatGPT does something like write an essay what it’s essentially doing is just asking over and over again “given the text so far, what should the next word be?”—and each time adding a word. (More precisely, as I’ll explain, it’s adding a “token”, which could be just a part of a word, which is why it can sometimes “make up new words”.) But, OK, at each step it gets a list of words with probabilities. But which one should it actually pick to add to the essay (or whatever) that it’s writing? One might think it should be the “highest-ranked” word (i.e. the one to which the highest “probability” was assigned). But this is where a bit of voodoo begins to creep in.”
Still running around 12% more than average here. Restrictions and coerced injections were all for our health if I remember.
The EU is just as nuts as the USA.
This video made me want to wring more than one EU bureaucratic neck—essence of Orwell!
“The EU Threatens Twitter With Censorship Demands, “You Can Run But You Can’t Hide!””
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gy78DwvK50
This is precisely why I and many others voted out in 2016. These EU bureaucrats are vile megalomaniacs who hate democracy. Half of the country doesn’t understand this and still thinks our choice was about economics or immigration. Not that I care much about my country any more but I’m still glad we’re out.
Over and over again,
Power is the antithesis of morality. Money is power, the Elite 1% control most everything now.
The Founding Fathers understood this, feared monarchial power and wrote a Constitution that framed a method to control power, three segments of government and ways for each to blunt the power of the other two.
When an educated self sufficient population has this as control over its government, it works and has worked for 240 years.
Today though, the two party system is beating up the Constitution, making it irrelavent. The Dems have successfully led a seventy year campaign to make the executive branch dominant over the other two. We are very close no to one man rule with the Congress having very little power. The way the administration and the FBI are ignoring the oversight of the Congress is appalling and scary to folks who fear an autocratic government. Even Trump fell into this trap, instead of working with a sympathetic Congress, the RINOS temed up with the DEMs to bring him down.
One more election, one more fixed election and Constitutional USA is dead. This is more than cheating. The electorate has become stupidifiedand as a consequence more dependent on the government. The Dems have convinced these folks that they. the Dems, are their champions and as long as they, the Dems, are in control, they, the people, will get their monthly checks for doing nothing. We are at the point where the majority of America fits into this category. That makes them, the Dems, impossible to get rid of.
So what happens. Everything to cement the Dems into uniparty control of all governmental institutions. AS we have hashed this out over and over, that day is close at hand or even past. Socialistic control of America is growing rapidly now.
One more election.
Biden’s approval rating is 35%. Congress’ is 11%.
Biden is an old fool trying to make an autocratic society.
What is Congress’ job today, anybody know?
Thanks for the considered response as always. Honestly, US politics makes my head spin.
These approval ratings though, they mean nothing really. Someone does a survey. The respondent is in a bad mood. Waiting for a pay slip. Their bus was late. Their shopping bill went up 5%. So they answer everything in the negative. Hey presto, the government sucks (which it does). But what changes?! They still get voted back in, usually by the people complaining.
I’ve given up entirely on politics and it’s reduced my stress levels immeasurably. We’re on some sort of trajectory, I think, that is immune from whatever the Bidens, Gateses, Soroses, WEF types or WHO types have in mind.
In the end it will come back to war. Either between nations or of the civil kind. When that happens all the peripheral BS will be forgotten in an instant. Dead wood shall be cleared and things will be bright again, though no doubt on the lower levels of complexity that Jim often refers to.
I had a lovely cigar last night, enjoying the solstice from my garden bench, savouring every wisp of smoke and watching it eddy against the background of dusk, as a helicopter flew by. Enjoying the good times for as long as I can.
“The Dems have successfully led a seventy year campaign to make the executive branch dominant over the other two. ”
And yet the executive is also controlled behind the scenes. We keep hoping that a powerful executive will right the ship. At the same time we can see clearly how easily the power of the executive is like a ghost has seized the helm of the ship of state and the pres is merely a figurehead.
IMO the biggest problem is the supine Congress. It makes the laws and has oversight. It represents most closely the will of the people. And it is has abdicated and ;made itself more or less irrelevant.
“This is how stupid they think you are”
https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1671733921506115586?cxt=HHwWhIC-5Z7JmLMuAAAA
One of the greatest Twitter posts in history.
GWHB was talking about the one world government back in the 1990s, too. No one batted an eye.
It looks like the great spring Ukrainian Counteroffensive has dropped out of the news. (I suppose at this point it should be called the great summer Counteroffensive.) What we do hear isn’t good. I think any battlefield success at all would be highly touted & exaggerated; the fact that there is an information void doesn’t bode well for NATO. For it’s part Russia is showing video of scores of destroyed German & French tanks. So, $150 billion spent so far on the Ukraine Project, what have we gotten for our money (other than smashed Ukrainian infrastructure & thousands of dead Ukrainians) All this over an ancient border dispute.
Don’t count your eggs BRH. Russia’s on it’s last legs. I saw it on the TV. When those 40 yo Pollack Falcons get there the Russians will fold up their picnic blanket and go home with their tail between their legs.
If one removes the sarcasm, this could be an actual post from Tucson Spur.
Slava Ukraini fellow dwarfs!
Russia’s economy is only the size of Texas’s. They kept saying until even they believed it.
Economics is a black art. Statistics are its spells.
Story at ZeroHedge on the Durham testimony.
Hugely frustrating, of course, because nothing will happen to anyone.
httpX://www.zerohedge.com/markets/our-findings-were-sobering-john-durham-gives-fiery-testimony-fbi-abuses-schools-schiff
One comment:
” Where is Mifsud? [[[quoting Matt Taibbi]]
This is the most important question that will never be touched, because the FBI did not start the Russiagate – British Intelligence did. This would uncover massive UK involvement in the US elections and would uncover who really runs the USA.”
“Runs the USA” is kind of extreme, but evidence of UK steering of US intelligence and foreign policy is mounting. Certainly UK intelligence was heavily involved in the golden showers BS.
Certainly there seems to be enough evidence to indict Hillary Clinton for something.
Lying to Congress. Why didn’t Durham do anything? Fear?
Because Durham is basically a Bill Barr redux. Matt Gaetz said it very well. Durham is the Washington Generals and Hillary Clinton and the rest of the demonic sewage horde are the Harlem Globetrotters.
I do not agree. I watched Durham being interrogated yesterday and literally being personally attacked by the Dems.
Barr was the worst pick that Trump did. He was a Deep Stater from the word go. He directed the final attacks on Trump before 2020. He has spent his years since trying to bring Trump down, much like Christie. Boy, what Trump must have done to them to piss them off this much. IMHO, Trump found out how they were undermining his attempt to control the Deep State and very publicly said,
“You are fired”.
Durham ha always presented only the facts, trying to keep politics out of the equation. To the Dems, his adherence to the facts is an anathema and his credibility needs to be destroyed. Hence the personal attacks.
BTW, Alito is next.
Durham had the power to marke charges and bring indictments, and he didn’t.
Or, do correct me if I am wrong.
Agree with Islander on this John. Durham didn’t charge anyone for the crimes they committed. It is inexcusable. He is a traitor to the American Republic like so many of these people. Unfortunately has act of appearing poised and balanced fools many people.
Yes, Barr is a Traditional Man, adhering to Sir Arthur Keith’s Law of Amity and Enmity, the former for your own people and the latter for enemies. His honest face is for real. He sleeps well at night having done his duty to his people.
We’re just not his people, obviously but rather, the enemies thereof.
The Elite are his people, his tribe.
“demonic sewage horde”
Nice coinage.
tinks!!
If you want to know the nitty-gritty details of how CBDC will be implemented, how the system is set up, etc., all the details are right here. I posted an excerpt, but the article is very long and detailed. After reading, you will know exactly what we’re dealing with:
CBDC Is Almost Here!
“Many of you know me from when I started warning about the dangers of crypto-currency starting back in 2016 – 2019. Back then, I was experimenting with crypto trading and more so, experimenting with crypto programmming and design and application in 3D games. As a game developer, I initially saw some benefits in using the technology for creating in-game economics and preventing fraud and hacking. It was not until later, after actually programming with crypto, that I realized that if used in the real physical world, governments and corporations could easily control or even enslave people just as easy as in a game. It was at this time I began sounding the alarm, especially against smart-contract blockchain systems such as Ethereum smart-contract network.
It so happens that I have not been wrong so-far. The Ethereum network is being used as the back-bone for a CBDC one-world currency, along with a token-based economic system for tracking all assets on earth using the Ethereum protocol that allows the creation of NFTs. All that is still missing is the actual CBDC system that is now almost in its completion.”
https://bantamjoe.com/2023/06/21/bank-of-intl-settlement-bis-and-bank-of-england-boe-testing-cbdc-system/
God save MQ, man!
Lol. tom.
Why, thank you.
Thanks, Mary – bookmarked!
Joe’s amazing, been friends with him for years. He is genius-level smart and his vast experience with this stuff (from the military) is incredible.
So I’m reading about this missing sub. Seems it will surface autonomously after a power loss. Unfortunately the hatch is locked on the outside and the aquanauts can not open it from the inside. So if they weren’t crushed like an egg (most probably) they may be bobbing around on the surface of the vast north Atlantic looking out the window as the consume each others oxygen. What a bunch of maroons.
What happened to the mother ship???
The Russians sank it.
Oh, Russia, Russia, Russia.
When will it be recognized that people like Schiff and Pelosi are much greater threats to the US republic than the Russians ever were.
Oh yes, Clinton.
LOL!
*Rimshot*
http://instantrimshot.com/
I read last night that they will likely be out of oxygen by this afternoon. That is crazy that the hatch cannot be opened from the inside. That definitely needs to be redesigned!
The possibility of a leak on the way down means instantaneous death. Running out of oxygen will put them to sleep.
The search and rescue effort needs to be stopped today. It is not only the bottom search, it is the total volume of ocean from bottom to surface, it could be bobbing on the surface or anywhere in between.
They have heard noises and are focusing effort into locating the source, that is really the only chance they have. No one has said the noises are indicative that the sub is the source.
Titanic has claimed five more victims. IMHO, the wreck should be left alone from now on.
BTW, for anyone fascinated by Titanic, there is a wonderful display of memorabilia at the Luxor resort in Las Vegas.
TheTtitanic.
The titanic tarbaby. Go down there and mess with it and be stuck on it forever. Partly responsible for all this nonsense is the movie that everybody had to see. Great drama in the movie. Perhaps they’ll make a movie about this? There’s bound to be plenty of documentaries in the making right now. Maybe there was a haunted dibukk box on the Titanic that went down with the ship, and its still got some bad mojo on it.
Never get into anything locked from the outside.
Or rather, that locks from the outside.
Stockton Rush: Is that not the ultimate asshole name?
The footage of his young female replacement filming the descent has been taken down.
Undoubtedly she was working underneath Stockton in various positions.
No, they need to do what was originally suggested, a site that will be left alone.
The logistics of doing that dive are mind boggling, the risk level really high. I saw the release form has the risk of death mentioned three times on page one.
These people knew what the risk was, making a big deal out of what happened is a mistake. Let them Rest In Peace.
I heard that the engineers hired to design and build the sub were diversity hires. No experience white males needed.
Shameful.
Wade,
Yes, they were diversity hires, but their work was reviewed and graded by a genuine MIT grad. He made several changes to the sub, removing the screen door as part of the design.
I see what you did there, Ely!
Yeah who needs Whitey and his team of trained engineers when you got the combined expertise of the Diversity Committee?
This same Diversity Committee is dismantling the US power grid designed by Westinghouse & Edison, and building a new one based upon wind mills & solar panels & other Rube Goldberg contraptions they learned about while studying Environmental Racism at Cornell.
The funniest part is that you’re not exaggerating.
What is more dangerous and difficult? 400 atmospheres or the vacuum of space? If we haven’t been in space, have we been all the way down? In Jules Verne diving suits?
Jarek, consider the record depth so far recorded for a whale is just short of 10,000 ft. She would be under pressure of about 295 atmospheres or 4350 pounds of pressure on every square inch of her body. That is a “shit ton” (physics term) of pressure! Conversely, if we shot her into space she would explode into a billion little fragments as every bit of dissolved gas in her body expanded in a flash explosion.
I believe “shit ton” can be added to Q’s list of shit phrases.
Yes, shit ton is now an internationally recognized unit of measure. It’s roughly a shit load more than a shit load.
I believe it is actually shit-load²
I believe “shit ton” can be added to Q’s list of shit phrases. – stelmo
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It’s already on my shit list.
That’s what makes it extra funny IMHO.
“A site that will be left alone”…the earth, after humankind is done w/ it.
Democrats, especially Wokesters are repugnant. I have watched the hearings with Riley Gaines and the attempted protection for women’s sports. Again, the Dem approach is to attack her personally while their attempts at justifying the progression of the Trans movement is disgusting.
Just announced by the Coast Guard, a debris field has been found in the subs search area near the Titanic.. Uh oh. No info on the vertical location or what the condition of the debris.
Will the Dems be satisfied if all rest rooms will be bisexual, that women will be exposed to and by men in their “sanctuary”? What is their ultimate aim? Do the women involved with the Trans movement realize where this might end up?
BTW, if enough Trans people exist as they want you to believe, why can’t they have their own sports leagues. Easy, because that defeats the whole purpose of men, unable to compete with men, to compete with “girls”. These men are despicable and perverts like them used to be ostracized and not praised.
Another indication of how far the journey into Hell that the USA has descended.
Forget “her’ name, but after a power lifting victory, a normal male weight lifter stepped up and casually bested “her” with a new world woman’s record.
“She” didn’t say anything but made “herself” scarce.
Imagine the inner process of these people. The inner dialogue. They must have a foretaste of hell when honesty kicks in – as it tends to do.
I’m telling you JAZ these Freaks don’t really exist, at least in numbers that would make any difference. I’ve yet to see one out an about. Trannies are a red herring. Hey Rube, look at that dude dressed up like a woman, selling beer, in drag reading to kids etc. Meanwhile, the lizards on top are dismantling your power grid, ramping up war in eastern Europe, devaluing your currency to zero, choking off the energy supply, and flooding the country with 10 million illegals. It’s a deep fake.
It’s a psyop, yes, but there are now millions of people who believe they are nonbinary and deserve special treatment, and that special treatment is being legislated. Essentially that legislation removes women’s and children’s rights and safe spaces. So, not a small thing by any means.
It also serves two primary agendas of the Satanic elite. Depopulation and child sexual exploitation.
Potential problems at the Z nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine. Zelensky claims he has intel that says the Russians are planning a terror strike on the one working reactor, which doesn’t make a lot of sense because Russia has control of the plant. More likely, Ukraine is planning a terror strike to cover for the failure of the Great Spring Offensive.
One way or the other, the nuclear demon is determined to get loose in this Russia/Ukraine border war ~ either a reactor melting down, or Russia letting go a hypersonic tactical missile on Brussels in retaliation for an assassination attempt on Putin, or some other egregious act against Russia by NATO.
BRH,
Partly I agree with you.
But, they really are getting into schools and messing with the minds of kids, teachers, and also, of course, with their parents. If that is “just” a deep fake, it is one with very real consequences. Which is, I suppose, why it might be so successful as a distraction.
Blowing up a dam might be planned as a distraction, but the downstream effects and destruction are real.
I best most of te drag queens who are shoving this sh– down our throats are not actually trannies. But they see a good thing. They are making money. Basically they are a type of cultural prostitute. And probably laughing themselves silly when they are “en famille” at how easy it is to dupe the marks and get them to make fools of themselves and their children.
Good points all, Islander.
Are you on Nantucket?
Martha’s Vineyard.
Article about the fifty (or so) year old White guy who tried to save the exec asshole and his doomed crew.
Tech Crunch
David Lochridge was terminated in January 2018 after presenting a scathing quality control report on the vessel to OceanGate’s senior management, including founder and CEO Stockton Rush, who is on board the missing vessel.
According to a court filing by Lochridge, the preamble to his report read: “Now is the time to properly address items that may pose a safety risk to personnel. Verbal communication of the key items I have addressed in my attached document have been dismissed on several occasions, so I feel now I must make this report so there is an official record in place.”
The report detailed “numerous issues that posed serious safety concerns,” according to the filing. These included Lochridge’s worry that “visible flaws” in the carbon fiber supplied to OceanGate raised the risk of small flaws expanding into larger tears during “pressure cycling.” These are the huge pressure changes that the submersible would experience as it made its way and from the deep ocean floor. He noted that a previously tested scale model of the hull had “prevalent flaws.”
Carbon fiber composites can be stronger and lighter than steel, making a submersible naturally buoyant. But they can also be prone to sudden failure under stress. The hull that Lochridge was writing about was made by Spencer Composites, the only company to have previously made a carbon fiber hull for a manned submersible. (That submersible was commissioned by explorer Steve Fossett for a record-breaking dive, but he died in a light aircraft crash before it could be used.)
Lochridge’s recommendation was that non-destructive testing of the Titan’s hull was necessary to ensure a “solid and safe product.” The filing states that Lochridge was told that such testing was impossible, and that OceanGate would instead rely on its much touted acoustic monitoring system.
The company claims this technology, developed in-house, uses acoustic sensors to listen for the tell-tale sounds of carbon fibers in the hull deteriorating to provide “early warning detection for the pilot with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.”
Lochridge, however, worried in the lawsuit that the system would not reveal flaws until the vessel was descending, and then might only provide “milliseconds” of warning before a catastrophic implosion.
Russell McDuff, a veteran oceanographer and chairman of OceanGate’s scientific and research foundation for three years, noted that contact with the Titan was lost on Sunday after only an hour and 45 minutes. “This suggests to me that they might have still been in the water column, descending to the Titanic,” told TechCrunch in a phone interview.
Lochridge also strongly encouraged OceanGate to have a classification agency, such as the American Bureau of Shipping, inspect and certify the Titan.
A day after filing his report, Lochridge was summoned to a meeting with Rush and company’s human resources, engineering and operations directors. There, the filing states, he was also informed that the manufacturer of the Titan’s forward viewport would only certify it to a depth of 1,300 meters due to OceanGate’s experimental design. The filing states that OceanGate refused to pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport that would meet the Titan’s intended depth of 4,000 meters. The Titanic lies about 3,800 meters below the surface.
The filing also claims that hazardous flammable materials were being used within the submersible.
At the end of the meeting, after saying that he would not authorize any manned tests of Titan without a scan of the hull, Lochridge was fired and escorted from the building.
Jarek: If Lockridge is right in his fears. the whole thing might have simply imploded, a mercifully quick death.
Guys like this are so uninspiring…..
One expects this kind of treatment when dyed blonde females take over. But from another man – a very successful one at that. The disease has gone “deep” indeed.
What happens when the dyed brunette females take over? 😉
It appears that they have found the wreckage of the submersible and that it likely did implode from the water pressure as it it descended. They say this would have been a quick almost instantaneous death and much “better” than suffocating over a long period of time in the dark. The whole thing is horrible. I don’t like how so many people are saying callous things. Because they are billionaires etc.
This one’s getting as much press attention as the chinese weather balloon.
Comment from another blog. Writer happened to be a submariner.
“When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour – that’s 2,200 feet per second. A modern nuclear submarine’s hull radius is about 20 feet. So the time required for complete collapse is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.
A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense?reason?act) is at best 150 milliseconds.
The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine. The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye.”
I call BS on that assesment. I get the part about the speed of the implosion. What I don’t get is where he goes off track with the hydrocarbon “vapors”. An atmosphere like that would certainly not be breathable. Also the human body is pretty much incompressible being mostly water ( except for any hollow organs) I would think there would be plenty of fish food left.
“They sleep with the fishes”
The human body has internal pressure of 1 atmosphere , 14 psi.
It would be compressed by a factor of 6000 psi divided by 14 psi. Probably the size of a thimble.
Luckily, they never felt it.
I chuckled at a question asked by our really smart media this morning. They wondered if there was going to be recovery efforts for the crew.
Yeah, let’s see how many folks sign up to recover 5 thimbles of remains. Wonder how many want to go down in the Titan’s sister ships?
A really big question!!
How are the Dems going to blame the demise of the Titan on Trump?
Not Trump.
It’s obviously Putin’s fault because he didn’t send a yacht crew to rescue the Titan.
JAZ the human body in not compressible . Pretty much the same as a whale except for the hollow organs. Does a sperm whale get compressed to the size of a thimble when diving to 8000 feet?
The submariner explained:
“Sounds gruesome but as a submariner I always wished for a quick hull-collapse death over a lengthy one like some of the crew on Kursk endured.
There are several sources of hydrocarbons inside a sub. Hydraulic oil, diesel oil from the auxiliary Diesel engine, kitchen oils, grease, rubber, plastics, etc. This stuff sublimes to make its way into the sub’s atmosphere. It permeates the crew’s clothing.”
Your talking a standard military submarine. I don’t think this submersible had a kitchen.
Well, that’s precisely correct. So one can omit the description of blobs of fat igniting in this case.
Others in the thread pointed to the use of Carbon Fiber in the hull. Strong but cracks and then Whoops! Just ask a cyclist.
I am but a messenger. Personally, my opinion is that there was a lot of hubris at work here… Vastly “successful” types who believed after a while, being smarter than everyone else in the room, they could do no wrong and indeed the laws of physics and material science were theirs for the writing.
Much like the hermit on Mt Saint Helens: If he wasn’t on his porch watching, he would have never seen, heard (the sound goes up!), or felt a thing.
If he had been on his porch, he might have had 25-30 seconds of glorious viewing.
But they doomed submariners might have heard it all starting to crack, perhaps the viewing window – or “between” the window and the metal? There was a viewing window, right? That was the whole point….
I will bet we will hear a lot about the shortcomings of that vessel.
The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is 36,000 feet deep. 3X as deep as the Titanic. The “Trieste” descended to the bottom of the trench 63 years ago. The pressure was 9 tons on every sq in of the vessel.
From the Wiki: After passing 9,000 metres (30,000 ft), one of the outer Plexiglas window panes cracked, shaking the entire vessel.
Ya’ think those two guys on board probably pooped their pants like Peter at that moment?
Saint
You DO know that the guy that drove that boat to the bottom of the trench lives two miles away from me? Very old, but I last saw him alive at a function several years ago.l
In any case, faster than you can say Tralfamadore.
yeesh
That’s exactly why I got out of Subs & went to the surface fleet.
We had a guy from our town who was on the Thresher ~~ a Cold War casualty, no memorial, no parade.
Submariners refer to the surface ships as “targets.”
Pretty accurate. Especially now.
The Thresher if I recall correctly was payback for sub 129? I may be mistaken.
In any event a journalist who interviewed many years later a Soviet admiral was told that “there are matters that our governments acknowledge but do not discuss”. or words to that effect.
There was a lot of cat-and-mouse back in the day.
As a former ASW sailor, I will tell you that the surface ASW capability is a joke and has been since the 80s. The ability of both sides to hide and shoot missiles successfully is why Detente and the de-escalation of the Cold War happened. MAD in spades, submarine style.
As the sub-launched missile ranges have expanded ASW has become rather problematic. Suddenly that’s a lot of ocean to monitor with a finite fleet of airborne and surface vessels.
The diplomats and specialists who negotiated detente were head-and-shoulders above the current crop at State and DoD. In fact there is no comparison.
Could be there is no solution. We may learn about muddling through the hard way.
Death in the deep but I do not weep.
Yes, they’re all dead. Davy Jones has grabbed them and stuffed them into his locker, turning the eternal key. Wealth voyeurs, peeping toms if you will, wanting to glimpse the Titanic’s majestic corpse.
Heroic explorers? An insult to the great ones. They should rest nowhere near the mighty one.
Give it a try, put in the y.
Hello Mr. Kunstler:
I was listening to Coast-to-Coast radio last night (Wed. June 21) and first guest (forgot name) was speaking about Putin & nuclear weapons. He said that VP just gave speech and listed all of his nuclear bombs — supposedly state-of-the-art nukes that American doesn’t have. Putin is clearly threatening war. If he is humiliated by Ukraine defeat, he just might go bonkers.
Could this be the reason why our military seems to be moving around? Maybe they’re preparing for an attack — although what can they do against nukes? Or are they transferring some high status people to shelters?
Doesn’t Putin realize that if he hits us, we’ll hit back? He may wipe us out, but we’ll return nuclear fire and take Russia with us. Or is he beyond caring?
No.1. The war is being directed by Putin and is where he wants it, the buffer is in place and puny counteroffensives by the NATO/US forces will not set it back one iota. He is not embarrassed as he has won exactly what he wanted.
Putin knows about nukes, strategic and tactical. He is saber rattling tactical nukes, battlefield varieties. But he is not using them, except as a deterrent to DC, MIC to not get involved in the quagmire.
“Putin knows about nukes, strategic and tactical.”
He must know that they do not exist. Like the moon landing … good fiction…
Who has ever used them?
No one
And It is FLAT!
prove it
Jim,
A wise man once suggested that we kill all the billionaires….
The Russkies have hypersonic missiles.
Ukraine cannot win this against Russia. If NATO/US gets further involved to try to give Ukraine some kind of win, they will be sorry. Russia will not tolerate it. .
Those are the words of Mr. Putin.
Hello Julie K. VP has given numerous speeches over the years wherein he warns about the arms gap between the flatulent corpulent West and Russia. Let me explain: The Pentagon procurement process in the US has devolved to a system wherein profits to the contractors (which are recycled into campaign donations) take precedence over weapon effectiveness. This is being graphically demonstrated on a daily basis in Ukraine. The prospect of a defeated Russia is non-existent for both this reason and the fact that Russia sees this conflict as existential. For the US, as usual, it’s just another story sandwiched between sound bites on Bud Light, Durham testimony, or the weather.
A valid concern is whether the countervailing forces in DC will prevail over the Neocon crazies at State and DoD who are hell-bent into provoking a nuclear response from Russia. They believe the US can “win.” They are the ones beyond caring. It has become obvious that the politicians in The West don’t care about their people. If they did they would not have embarked on this ridiculous adventure and pursued the Minsk accords. But these are elements of history that are likely lost on consumers of typical US corporate media, who have no clue about the accords. or the Istanbul agreement of March 2022, or where Ukraine is on a map.
Julie K . . . hmmmm
LOL!!
omg lol!! Is this supposed to be serious or what
Dreizin of the Dreizin report came to the attention of many owing to The Duran’s citing his commentary in the early days of the Ukraine war. Dreizin, being from that part of the world, shared many valuable insights.
Since then as his internet ambitions have blossomed he has shat upon those (A. Mercouris of The Duran) who helped him. Moreover, he acts like a sort of moral policemen of successful sites, dumping on Martin Armstrong and Clayton Morris (I think that’s the guy from “Redacted”). His pleas for money fell a bit flat after boasting about turning $5000 into $250,000 in The Market. After he declared The War in Ukraine over, he predicted that Covid would return with a renewed vengeance. So much for that.
My two cents. It’s still a sort of free country. He can opine as he wishes. Just don’t ask me to defend to the death his right to do so. Others can attend to that. I’ve already changed the channel.
Why do you bring Dreizin up in the first place if it is just to tell people to ignore him???!
Dreizin has plenty of interesting things to say.
I don’t think he is from the Ukraine. However, he is fluent in Russian and perhaps also Ukrainian. So he can translate things such as what Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are actually saying in their videos, and does understand more background.
Some of his analysis is good—other stuff, not so much. But he can be quite funny, and he has a pretty good from his perch as to how things go down in DC.
Key words: My Two Cents. I don’t tell people to ignore him. Adults can make their own decisions.
I became acquainted with him back at the start of the war when The Duran relied on him for commentary owing to his language competence and familiarity with the cultures. He turned on Mercouris who brought him much attention. He has denigrated just about everyone on the web who dares comment on the war (Ritter, MacGregor, and so on).
Humor is subjective. So, I suppose, is insufferable braggadocio.
I posted since our host opted to quote him.
Implosion
youtu.be/XQVoc2nIte8?t=62
“Mother lover child of wife
Taken from us in this life
My griefs is yours and yours is mine
But oh the gift of life is oh so fine – Yes
The highs and lows of every day
Laughter and screams won’t go away
But the total experience of it all
Blows me away
Blows me away
Blows me away
Implosion…”
About deep-sea terrestrial ocean pressure and the realities ‘down there’ but also ‘out there’, apparently Jupiter, for example, has an ocean of metallic hydrogen.
Unsure how many pounds per square inch it takes to compress hydrogen into a liquid metal but, once done, it seems positively delightful and something indeed to want to construct a submersible to putter around in, maybe with a few good friends, doesn’t it?
Si. It would also be really cool to see the liquid diamond ocean at the center of Neptune. But that is probably at trillions of pounds per square inch. So not really sure if a submersible would be possible to survive such pressures. But it would be really cool to actually see it if it was possible.
According to some cosmologists, we may live inside a black hole.
Put another way, our universe may be the ‘inside’ or ‘other side’ (‘quantum invert’?) of a black hole, where the pressure’s so bad it’s good.
If so, ultimately, we laugh in the face of high pressures.
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Speaking of which; Dad joke alert warning:
Titanic sub search-team member: “We’re going to get to the bottom of this!”
The creams in Forest’s box of chocolates.
‘Creamy nougat center of oil.’
Q…congrats on writing the book. I’m sure it will be on the NYT best seller list in no time. Two suggestions:
1) Hire JAZ as a proofreader;
2) Get your own blog and stay off this one.
The implosion of Titan was used as a distraction for days when they knew it was toast.
https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1672015964014084096
The only thing that doesn’t make sense about the distraction argument is that the media wouldn’t cover the Biden criminals anyway and anything actually going on. So they don’t need distractions per se. I saw some people saying that they don’t want people looking at the Titanic debris because then they would realize the ship was actually torpedoed because the people opposing the creation of the federal reserve were on it. So this accident will give them an excuse to say that no more tourists are allowed to go see the Titanic debris.
Ha! Great angle. That wouldn’t surprise me, either.
Per The Guardian:
“8am GMT/4am ET: Time the submersible originally aimed to start its descent, according to a post by Harding on Instagram. It actually started its descent later, according to the US Coast Guard.
12pm GMT/8am ET: The submersible starts what should be a two-hour descent to the Titanic wreck, nearly 4,000 metres down, according to the US Coast Guard.
1.45pm GMT/9.45am ET: Communications between the submersible and the surface vessel are lost 1 hour and 45 minutes after starting its descent.”
Presumably that is when it exploded.
Why didn’t the surface vessel immediately report loss of contact with the Titan, rather than waiting for another five hours, when it was already getting dark?
If it exploded, rather than imploded, presumably there are some human remains somewhere around there.
Not for long, the ocean is full of meat-eaters.
Is There a Difference Between an EKG and an ECG? EKG and ECG are two abbreviations for the same medical test – an electrocardiogram. There is no difference between the two.
The above is a blurb from Google.
Can any of you medical people in this comment section explain to me why electrocardiogram ever got shortened to EKG. After all “cardio” begins with the letter “c”.
In the UK we only use ECG, but ECG, if you look at it from a distance on a sign, or if a doctor’s handwriting isn’t clear, could look a bit like EEG (electroencephalogram) so maybe it’s to avoid confusion.
I had to check EKG when I first saw it, as I hadn’t seen it before, and that was what I guessed as the reason.
I realise that last sentence is tautological, before you start …
GA, thanks for responding.
People (other commenters) may wonder why I even bothered to google a question about EKG vs ECG but it would take me too long to explain so I won’t bother. Suffice it to say that I am being driven mad by the US medical system and associated medical insurance.
Early 20th century from German Elektrokardiogramm
If you want the whole thing Q:
The version with ‘-K-‘, more commonly used in American English than in British English, is an early-20th-century loanword from the German acronym EKG for Elektrokardiogramm (electrocardiogram),[1] which reflects that German physicians were pioneers in the field at the time. Today, AMA style and – under its stylistic influence – most American medical publications use ECG instead of EKG.[2] The German term Elektrokardiogramm as well as the English equivalent, electrocardiogram, consist of the Neo-Latin/international scientific vocabulary elements elektro- (cognate electro-) and kardi- (cognate ‘cardi-‘), the latter from Greek kardia (heart).[3] The ‘-K-‘ version is more often retained under circumstances where there may be verbal confusion between ECG and EEG (electroencephalography) due to similar pronunciation.
Thanks Stelmo for your very thorough answer.
My question arose when I received a bill from this huge medical organization I am associated with for the portion of a medical bill NOT covered by my insurance. The bill contained NO information as to the date of service or what service was performed.
After long calls to both the billing department and the insurance company (both of which involved long waits on hold) I learned that the service took place in Sept of LAST year and the service was mentioned as ecg (all lower case letters) but it did not say WHERE this service took place (hospital?, radiology center?, my primary care physician’s office?) and WHERE was the key to how much of the total bill would be covered by insurance. There were 4 different possible patient co-pay amounts that all rode on the question of WHERE the service was performed.
An appeal process was begun which will ultimately take 60 days to resolve.
This carbon capture idea is insane, and a huge—titanic–scam.
Of course no one pays much attention to what occurs in South Dakota . . .
I think this will shock you.
httpX://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/the-us-govt-seizing-farmland-under-eminent-domain/
By the way, go back and see what Dreizin has to say about Martin Armstrong.
I don’t have to go back to see that.
I know that Dreizin dumps on all analysts but himself.
But why do you care about what Dreizin says?
Didn’t you understand my comment on this up-thread?
You have to learn to think for yourself.
What? You have to learn to think for yourself?
That’s non-sensical. Or, taken at face value, then I have read and concluded that Dreizin is an immature boor. There. I thought that all by myself, derived from experience.
BTW I replied to your comment up thread.
No, Russia is not withdrawing from the WHO:
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/its-time-for-an-alt-media-reset
Putin is not an anti-WEF savior.
Ah, ever the optimist you are Dear. Mr. Kunstler. You also believed (and why wouldn’t you, everyone expected a massive landslide) that the 2022 elections would be fair and finally return our country to some semblance of sanity.
I can affirm that Fulton County, in Atlanta, Georgia AGAIN used Dominion machines in those elections and AGAIN rigged the vote. And they plan to use those same machines to steal our votes in the 2024 elections. If we’re not in the midst of WW3. After all, their options are: A: Be tried for treason with massive troves of evidence against them or B, Murder millions more people. Which to ‘them’ is a win win option anyway.
I for one will not bother to vote in Fulton County and so am working diligently to get my beloved home of many years ready to sell. The only thing that has slowed my progress in this endeavor is not having a clue where to go. Florida is of course is tempting, but unfortunately my aversion to palmetto bugs began when as a kid I witnessed my father standing on a chair screaming to avoid one, and hasn’t improved since.
Could someone be so kind as to suggest a smaller town with a moderate temperature and populace where I can wait for Godot in peace? TIA
My god the last audio recording from the submarine was released:
“Hey Siri, play The Hollies, All I need is the air that I breathe”