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Startling fact of the week: Twitter’s senior ranks of content moderators included over a dozen former FBI and CIA agents and analysts who let child porn run loose all over the app while surgically removing any utterance contradicting the government’s claim that mRNA “vaccines” are “safe and effective” — not to mention the effort this elite crew expended against anyone objecting to the Woke-Left’s race and gender hustles. Wouldn’t you like to know how much they were paid? Probably more than government work.
Here’s another awful reality (better fasten your seatbelts): What also emerged in the tweet record of Yoel Roth, the company’s chief censor (former “Head of Trust and Safety”), begins to look like a gay mafia assault on the collective American psyche. Having gained official federal government sanction and protection, a statistically tiny homosexual demographic left in charge of the country’s main public forum has been out for revenge against their perceived enemy, political conservatives — Americans disinclined to join the cheerleading for drag queen story hours, “minor-attracted persons,” transsexuals in the military, and other LBGTQ cultural pranks.
In the process, that gay mafia running the public dialogue supported every lie that the government, its protector, put out, to keep the Deep State happy and well-fed. Shocking, I’m sure… but there it is. That means the gay mafia also helped promote the most-deadly psy-op in world history: the Covid-19 scare and the mass “vaccination” crusade that will end up killing many millions world-wide, after destroying the economies of the Western Civ nations. The whole package looks like an attempt to turn the world upside down and inside out. Is it any wonder that so many feel the USA has gone crazy?
Of course, these revelations aroused the widespread suspicion that these now-exposed nefarious operators in social media were merely tools for some murky plutocrat elite led by the likes of the WEF, Bill Gates, and George Soros. Could that be the greatest “conspiracy theory” of all? More likely, I hesitate to suggest, all these characters in one way or another are merely tools of history itself, as the world enters the darkest days of a Fourth Turning secular winter. As T.S. Eliot observed: “Humankind cannot bear too much reality.”
Thus, so many sense we live in dangerous times. Everything appears to be veering out-of-control, including thought itself. Disorder incites more disorder. While all this madness is going on in-country, the US government, led by the phantom president “Joe Biden,” continues to prosecute its insane proxy war in Ukraine in order to antagonize Russia. Lately the US has sent drones hundreds of miles inside Russia to blow up military airfields. How is that not an escalation of hostilities, and exactly how far do the American people want their government to take this crazy project?
Not a goshdarn inch further, the opinion polls indicate. We are apparently not quite so insane as to welcome nuclear annihilation, and we seem to recognize what might bring it on. And so, the dreadful realities of our time still stand before us, unmoved by all the mental illness they provoke, uninterested in our excuses for behaving so badly. Is there any way to face the hard facts? To incorporate them into a truth-based narrative that Western Civ can use to rescue itself from something that looks like suicide?
Elon Musk, alone, apart from, and in defiance of all the cowards running things in America —the corporate sell-outs, the craven college presidents, the bought-off politicians, the bad-faith media fabulists, the vindictive denizens of Hollywood — is moving to inject some therapeutic truth into the American lunatic asylum. He came out pretty hot over the weekend, branding Dr. Anthony Fauci as a criminal, calling for his prosecution, and promising the release of Twitter files that will demonstrate just how deceitfully the old Twitter acted in all the medical melodrama surrounding Covid-19 and the “vaccines.” On Sunday, Elon tweeted, “Now things get spicy.” Will the reveal of all that wickedness make any impression on half the people of this country still deranged by the many previous salvos of official propaganda? Maybe not all of them. Maybe only twenty percent. But that should be enough to tip the consensus of opinion in the right direction: a recognition of the harm that has been done… and the will to quit doing more of it.
Beyond that, even, Elon has put the basic question to America: Are you in favor of free speech or not? Especially now that you know that “moderating” free speech is an invitation to live in lies. And lying all the time really does bend that old arc of history toward evil.
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While the Musk/Twitter Truth Dumps are a joy to see unfolding, if you observe the smug and uncaring response from the Biden Crime Family and the Loonie Leftists that serve them, it is apparent, at least to me that none of them care the slightest about the matter for they know that there is no one in any position of power that will take them to task for the evil they perpetrate. And the American public, having embraced theft and corruption as the best way of getting wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice, remains impressed at such “success”, bowing down before them as man-gods. After all, “celebrities” are not constrained by any of those pesky laws, rules or moral standards that the rest of us poor dumbs bastards are. All is good, back to entertainment!
On the genocide front, after viewing a 2-1/2 hour zoom cast hosted by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich and ex-Phizer executive Dr. Michael Yeadon posted on theglobalresearch.ca website, it should be clear to any and everyone that the “devices” implanted into some 5 billion human beings over the course of the last two years is a brilliant global population reduction program that is doing what it was implemented to do to perfection. The self-assembling entities injected into the human hosts are growing slowly or quickly depending upon the individual situations and stimuli present, and total denial by the executioners is still working well. How the hell they ever coerced so many humans into accepting that so many young people dying so “quickly and suddenly” from heart attacks and other out of nowhere deaths is amazing. It clearly shows not only the power of mass and social media, but also that far too many people are far too stupid to be allowed to have a life anyway, at least in their opinions.
A lovely lady going by the name of Sorelle Amore on You Tube has posted a very interesting video titled “How Politicians Really Get Rich” which is well worth the viewing. In it, she notes how Warren Buffet, top earning private sector investor manages to profit 20% on his investments and trades while the “2021 Investor of the Year”, Nancy Pelosi somehow managed to gain 69% profits on the $50 million dollars that she and her husband manipulated on Wall Street trading. Martha Stewart must be pissed. Oh well, money has no true value anyway and neither do the pieces of human garbage that rule us, no matter what they promote to the contrary. You are all the most valuable persons in your lives. Do not let them take that from you. Be well and live well.
I’ve stacked silver, I’ve “prepped” since 2010 and honestly it’s left me far more behind than if I had just been a normies and took out a loan for a house, invested in stocks etc. This stuff will all collapse one day, but I realize now it’s not going to be wake up one day and it’s over, it’ll be a long drag down, and you are missing out on gains if you don’t play.
“I realize now it’s not going to be wake up one day and it’s over, it’ll be a long drag down”
Decades ago I realized that the vast majority of predictions like yours don’t come true.
Don’t let the current mood in Washington and Ottawa fool you. It looks pretty static from the outside, but things will change rapidly once the new year begins. All the major investments made by the auto industry in clean energy electric vehicles will prove to be an anvil around the industry’s neck as auto executives come to the realization that people can’t even afford to keep the vehicles they got on the road. The money to build the infrastructure to support millions of new electric vehicles won’t be coming as hallucinated wealth on Wall Street evaporates and financially strapped taxpayers balk at funding an energy infrastructure that only benefits those who can afford the pricey cars. Governments will implode as years of mind-fuckery and bad faith investments in education, health care and green energy conspire to bankrupt them. Everyday people will be driven to the brink of insanity by the rising cost of living and crushing tax burdens and revolt. Russia will emerge triumphant in Ukraine while the west is left to foot the bill for a war of its’ own making. Happy holidays.
The money to build the infrastructure to support millions of new electric vehicles won’t be coming as hallucinated wealth on Wall Street evaporates and financially strapped taxpayers balk at funding an energy infrastructure that only benefits those who can afford the pricey cars.
My two Hyundais date from model years 2007 and 2013. That was near the end of the era when a car was a means of transportation and pleasure, not a government-dictated social engineering experiment. I feel like a millionaire.
2 Months ago the Economy was going to get crushed by a Diesel shortage and disappearance…. Any news on that yet?
Interestingly, Toyota has refused to go all in on electrified cars. They should continue to do very well.
Agreed, Hortenz. Despite all the white noise (is that racist now?), 2023 is going to see some spectacular changes. This really can’t continue.
The vast majority of anyone’s predictions don’t come true. Most of the articles you read online–especially about finance and the stock market–are intended to manipulate you or deceive you at some level. Often they are a pump-and-dump schemes–and sometimes very elaborate ones–where you are the designated bagholder.
Agreed, but one day, the gloomsters will be correct.
@ Hereward the Woke:
Oh, yeah! They’ll be right about the gloom part, but the way it happens will be completely unexpected. That’s my prediction, which I make mainly because that’s the way I’ve experienced the world.
Have ever read H.G. Wells’ “In the Days of the Comet?” While I don’t expect anything quite that felicitous, I do expect something about equally weird.
Hi, Anthea. Yes, I loved In the Days of the Comet. I read it again last year. HG Wells was a great short story writer – witness The Time Machine. I also agree with your point about the doom coming from a direction we won’t expect. Conversely, good things might happen that way too. I love in hope that the Forces of Good will triumph.
PM’s are a safe and prudent asset and will increase in value after fiat currencies fail, but after a short period, lead will bring the best return on investment. Never made any money on stocks but did buy a small home on acreage and paid it off 20 years ago. It can be done by those who have been blessed with the ability to manage money and who realize that the marketing people are not out there to serve us, but to screw us.
What are PMs?
Precious metals…..
precious metals
TG for PMS
What is TG?
Oh, and “How to do you get peanut butter off the roof of your mouth?”
watching a dog get the generously applied and gratefully received peanut butter off its mouth is… well just say both parties, human with slimy finger and dog with *very* busy tongue, fully appreciate the event.
What is PMS?
lead is the third precious metal
Remember something about the government buying up ammunition, during the Obama administration?
Now why would they do that?
True, but most transactions are one way.
Walter: 99% of the readers here did not get ur PM meaning. Pls. maintain ur credibility, and not stoop so lo to deploy meaningless jargon as PM.
As I noted below, I try to avoid such abbreviations, so yes me bad. Your suggestion is appreciated. Thank you.
Yes, it’s cultic. Rawl’s book has a glossary of patriot prepper abbreviated argot.
Nothing against this of course, in the right time and place as you say.
‘Maintain *ur* credibility’. I like a bit of irony with my cuppa. 🙂
99% of the readers here did not get ur PM meaning. – Kashub
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Kash, 99% of readers here do not know what “ur” means.
Seriously though, you are probably too new on this board to recognize an abbreviation that has been used and defined hundreds of times.
I beg to differ. PM as a shorthand acronym for Precious Metals has been around for many years and is well know by investors, numismatists, economists, and preppers. Any reasonably well-read person will have encountered this shorthand.
Also, if you don’t know something you can always GOOGLE it. You are sitting here in the friggin’ Internet after all. Why must others here spoon feed you?
Q-Sh+t: U r one deprecating commentator unlike Walter who has some credibility and who I digest because of his clarity, unlike u who I dismiss as a mama dweller in her basement. BTW: I have survived as a Pro. in the real world as a nuclear physicist and if u want to exhibit your acronym prowess let’s get into Lanthanide/Actinoid Metal: where u would probably interpret #64 Gd as Gold instead of Au. Maybe U have time to google every abbreviation for interpretation as probably it is a respite from ur Game boy rituals.
That’s one nasty hissy fit for fairly mild remark by Q. Are all you nuke guys on such a psychological hair trigger? That would explain the mess you all made of Fukushima. LOL
Walter B,
Truer words were never spoken. PMs, lead, paid for real estate, acreage for a garden, physical skills, and a healthy cynicism gland are all must haves for what is coming.
Mrs. SAJ
I think it’s a good idea to own at least a small stash of gold and silver–or as much as you can without leaving you strapped for cash in the event of an emergency or in case need to buy a new car or replace your roof or some such.
I am also getting uneasy about leaving any serious amount of money in the bank. It might be best to keep no more money in the bank than you need to pay bills.
I expect the dollar to lose significant value in 2023-2024. There is also a banking crisis (among many other possible crises) brewing, so it might be a good idea to have cash on hand, just in case.
For one thing, you might need cash to buy groceries, if there were a power outage. (I guess you could write a check. But if the problem were a banking crisis, probably no one would take your check.)
If the dollar were to seriously go tits-up, I think you could probably use gold and silver to transact for some of your needs–maybe to buy eggs or pork from your neighbor who has chickens or pigs. You might even find that that Pakistani-owned gas station would be happy to accept your silver eagles.
They will. The only reason real money (gold and silver) does not circulate is because of Gresham’s Law. Bad money (federal reserve notes) drones out good money (gold and silver).
FRN’s only circulate because that’s how people get paid and it’s what they are used to and because legal tender laws force everyone to accept them as money.
But if and when our fiat money system collapses and FRN’s become artistic toilet paper, watch how fast people switch to using gold and silver to facilitate commerce. It’ll make your head spin when it happens.
Wizard, bad money drives out good money. Not “drones out”.
Although, if money could speak, those federal reserve notes would sound like a bunch of social justice mind zombies droning out the free speech rights of truth tellers.
Long term investors are supposed to be ok with Buy and Hold.
Gold and Silver, and platinum if you used to play D&D, are not going to be losing value anytime soon, whatever the official price says.
I would suggest that a credible explanation for “…the smug and uncaring response from the Biden Crime Family…” as well as outlandish actions like blowing up undersea pipelines and sending drones to attack military facilities inside Russia is that at this point, after being beaten down and buffaloed for so many years, there is a profound sense of baffled helplessness among the masses.
And for good reason. We saw what our valiant antiwar efforts in the late 1960s came to: nada, essentially zero. Brown & Root, to whom “Landslide Lyndon” owed a huge favor, along with the MIC and their contractors, made out like bandits. So did the media. So did Japan, whose economy was jump-started by American war contracts (without the cost of even one Japanese life).
Where are the Jane Fondas and David Harrises today? Where is the mass resistance? I do not regret sacrificing an easy career at a two-bit college in the Cali educational system, although I could have retired in 1987 with a fat pension, instead of having to scratch out a bare living nine time zones away. But it would be foolish of me to not conclude that our efforts were essentially fruitless, even for a fruity fruit fruit like l’il ole me.
Thus the current mood, well-defined on this website, of truly having no power to slow them down or deflect them from the evil.
Well spoken, well done indeed. Good to hear from those that see behind the curtain. The anti-war movement of the ’60’s may or may not have facilitated the end of the Vietnam War, but it certainly did educate the now ancient Hippies who rule over us today in how to prevent public outcry from bringing about change.
What I miss from those times?
“Question Authority!”
Mary is right: It was all a psy-op to bring down the Establishment – in order to create an even worse one.
They control the vertical and the horizontal. The so called left and the so called right.
They controlled the old one too – but not as well as they control this one. But it’s nothing compared to the next one. Enjoy your Bug McMac.
Yes, the BucMacs seem increasingly likely to arrive and be celebrated by dunces far and wide.
Jarek, those things aren’t kosher.
Draupnir:
An excellent point.
And another smidge of evidence, IMMHO.
@ Beryl of Oyl:
I’m re-thinking, “Never trust anyone over 30.”
@Walter and Speedy — Jane Fonda (empty vessel for any and all trendy causes to land in) has discovered that racism and misogyny are the real causes of climate change! Finally, an answer we can trust. So now you know who to blame for all the problems so more diversity (minus “certain people”) will do the trick.
jane fonda is an idiot. I had the misfortune to be exposed to her for a minute or two on some piece of crap she was “hosting” a few months ago, and she started by listing the women she most admired. The first two were greta thunberg and aoc. It was all I could do to slam the tv off in a rage. if i recall, that was a netflix far left contribution, and it was not the first one that spiked my blood pressure. i quit cable twenty odd years ago and it is painfully apparent to me that the internet tv that has replaced it is no different. there is no truth to be found on the idiot box…
last straw with netflix for us was the pedo crap program “cuties”.
lamp posts and rope. meditate with me.
A good explanation. My hope for the afterlife is a good explanation for all the bullshit that has passed before my consciousness, and by my reckoning, that’s nearly all of it.
Walter points out the hypocrisy of the 60’s activists come of age, and on full display as today’s establishment darlings. I hadn’t thought of it the way you did, “nada,” but that works. It would actually be an improvement at nada.
The reason Biden and his crew are smug and uncaring is that they are actually smug and uncaring. he’s an octogenarian king pin of an international crime syndicate, and he’s holding the Presidency of the United States hostage to his whim. Yeah, he cares.
#FJB
king pin? king puppet. no criminal cartel in its right mind would have anything but a set of puppets playing the idiot diversions. the real king pin(s) is not subject to the whims and breezes of any morality…
At least you tried , buddy; and I bet you can sleep at night.
And that’s it, 100%.
Live a life of authenticity.
.” We saw what our valiant antiwar efforts in the late 1960s came to: nada”
What it came to was your generation and mine installing New Left Marxists at top positions in Education Colleges and pumping out generations of leftist educators top to bottom to bring us to this point of societal dissolution. Antonio Gramsci and Paul Freire were the architects of the educational Trojan Horse.
Obama’s buddy, Bill Ayers, back in the day set off a bomb at the Pentagon. Then walked free due to a legal technicality. I call bullshit. No one who’s an actual threat to the PTB walks away free.
Wheels spinning within wheels. THEY may present themselves as revolutionaries, but their ultimate agenda is a slave planet.
Well, speaking of the precious metals, it was fragging that did a great deal to stop the war and it definitely put an end to the draft.
Just saying…….
Yes, one remembers that great scene in Dr Zhivago where the Communist frags a Russian officer during WW1.
Thank God Putin has distanced himself from these kind of people.
I remember that scene well. What I found amusing was when the aristocratic officer tries to rally the deserting, beat to hell, Russian soldiers to go back to the front. “The Germans are coming for your women!” The oldest bullshit motivator in the book
I only wish some little guy resembling Woody Allen had spoken up, “have they seen our women?”
Instead they shoot the officer. I can’t blame them. Great movie Dr Zhivago. Too few people have seen it.
That’s how they brought the Boers to heel: Threatened to give their women and kids (already in concentration camps) to the Blacks. Do you really think they wouldn’t have done that? The Boers knew the English better than you do perhaps.
Did the Russian conquerors not rape the defeated German women? They were ordered to do just that.
Dr. Zhivago.
What an exceptional motion picture, on every level!
I remember the scene with the officer. One of many memorable scenes.
For those of you who have not seen it, you must see it! It may be harbinger of our future in the West.
It is right up there with Gone with the Wind.
This past Thursday, in the US, was a one-night only presentation of another period movie, which I feel is in the same league as the other two:
“Smyrna (my beloved)”
It’s a Greek movie, that is set in Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) starting in 1916 and ending in 1922.
The drama is not as sophisticated as Zhivago, but on par with GWTW.
But the historical backdrop is exceptionally well done, and juxtaposition of real, historical figures with Smyrna’s “high society” is very well done.
The dialog of the Greek, Turkish, and Western characters and the narrator give a very good history lesson, without being boring.
Zhivago is a preview of what is in store for us, unless the evil cabal implodes, since I don’t see us stopping it. Zhivago is a MUST SEE.
But Smyrna is exceptional also, it is supposed to come out on DVD/Blue Ray next year.
If you still have electricity and a DVD player, try to watch it.
@ Socrates-Detroit:
Gone with the Wind may be more of a harbinger of our future than Dr. Zhivago. The scene that gave me chills was the one with about an acre of wounded soldiers lying on the ground.
But there were quite a few other scenes like that: Scarlett O’Hara waving a bunch of radishes over her head and swearing, “As God as my witness, I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over, I’ll never be hungry again! No, nor any of my folks!” And the scene where the horse drops dead as they approach Tara.
That’s what civil war looks like–and that’s probably not the half of it.
the bronze age collapse, where everything goes truly dark, is the real nightmare scenario.
in our time, the first months would look something like “the road”, which ends on a small hopeful note, and no indication whatsoever that civilization would wheeze up even one more act.
orthosphere.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/the-catastrophe-part-i/
I have attempted to read as much as I can find about the violent resistance that came to be known as “fragging”, as it was such a rarity, a novelty, particularly in a military thought to be patriotic, gung-ho, all red, white & blue. Fascinating.
It was a very graphic and effective move to keep over-ambitious second louies in line. The idea that some redneck or black activist would roll a grenade under your bunk was hard to dismiss – and likely instilled a rare prudence in the West Pointers, where recklessness with the lives of others, in search of personal glory, might have been a temptation.
The Vietnam adventure was likely the last American military action where the majority of participants had become enraptured by the propaganda… “My country, right or wrong.”
All the foreign military adventures since then have been seen for what they are: a job.
Jane Fonda is the kind of person who is always wrong about everything. She repented of being in bed with the North Vietmanese only after it became politically incorrect to hold such views openly. She was meeting with them several miles away from where Americans were being held in torment.
If you ever find yourself on the same side as her, think again. You’re probably in the wrong.
Yes, Jarek, you are 100% right on Jane who never met a stupid cause she didn’t espouse. Her manic exercise tapes (and practice of bulimia to keep in shape) helped fuel the eating disorder plague that hit young girls within a decade.
Yep. And that is why she is very useful to us. If you are unsure about an issue, just see what trash like her, Whoopi Oldbag and AOC are saying about it and believe the opposite.
That’s my approach to political yard signs. Why bother doing your homework? Lefties always put signs for all of their candidates in their yards, telling you who not to vote for.
Yeah, the American army was in Vietnam to help people.
Come on!!
If you want to see how the soldiers felt about it, watch the Fuck The Army documentary.
They played to large crowds of soldiers who roared with approval when they said “Fuck the Army”.
Not exactly the story we were told here by the Mighty Wurlitzer of the time (and since).
So if your country is wrong (and it was), go over to the enemy’s side? That’s just a mechanical as “My country right or wrong” – and morally far worse.
The corrected version:
My country right or wrong
If right, to be kept right.
If wrong, to be put right.
The Vietnamese people had the right to their own country.
The Army was to a large extent, draftees who certainly did not want to be in Vietnam. So the ‘Fuck The Army’ flick mentioned here actually meant something to those serving there.
Yeah, the Communists really cared and wanted to help!
Just ask South Africa how well that went.
They have helped turned the North Koreans into real life hobbits and the Cubans have the world’s best medical system.
/rolls eyes
benr, what I found intriguing about the Vietnamese Communist Party was an internal revolt, carried out by young party firebrands in the mid-1980s, when the country was desperate, broke and on life support.
They campaigned to open ‘er up, like Dung Shopping did in the PRC, and because the movement was from within the ranks, the old guard could not successfully argue against it. Not to mention the clear failure of communism (Hello Cuba, hello Venezuela).
Presto, Vietnam has been a peppy growing economy, GDP steadily riding upwards, since the 1990s. Mixed economy but mostly capitalist in action.
And if they ever get serious about controlling porn, it will only be as a means to shut down all free speech.
They’ve played us like a fiddle. The Pit and the Pendulem. It sweeps left and right. No matter – with each sweep the huge blade lowers and comes closer to our chest.
Censorship is civilization. And free speech is Western Civilization. We must find the higher third: The censoring of the right things. The pornographers got us to conflate and confuse porn and free speech.
The head of the Taliban showed great clarity in response to a Western journalist: We never promised free speech, but rather Islamic Law. That’s their civilization. Ours is on a higher turn of the spiral, but we still have to maintain the basics of decency and order – and that means some censorship.
The taliban still like little boys and hate kites.
Don’t look for a muse there Jarek she might just have a beginning five O clock shadow and a bigger dick than you.
The new armed IRS employees will be there there to hinder any attempts to create an underground economy after they make us go cashless and then cut off the funding of anyone who gets out of line.
Elon Musk could find himself penniless overnight.
Speaking of penniless, the mint decided to stop making them because it costs more that they are worth.
So? Apply that to everything else government does.
We can keep pouring money into black holes like Ukraine and biolabs in China, can’t we?
They will never be able to stop a cash and barter black market. The government is too dependent on their lucrative drug trade anyway.
In Canada. Not in the U.S. Congress has repeatedly refused to do away with the one cent coin. The US Mint continues to crank them out by the hundreds of billions.
I try to pay with exact change, not just cash. That requires pennies.
It’s my way of resisting the CBCD.
Do a web search — the Mint will stop minting CENTS in April 2023. Pretty amazing considering they kept spitting them out for as long as they did. Given our central banks propensity for depreciated our currency, within the next decade there won’t be a need for any coinage, unless, of course, they get realistic and creat denominations that actually reflect market realities.
They will change course at the last minute. The 2024 cents will have Michelle Obama on them.
Safe for us, effective on them. Beginning to appreciate us ordinary men.
Well said, Walter B!
Elon knows better than anyone that nothing can or will be done about all of this. I see his unearthing of it as something akin to rubbing our faces in it. His chosen avatar is himself as “Devil’s Champion” after all.
Oh, how the elites much enjoy laughing at us, as we scramble to erect a savior that will surely turn things around THIS TIME.
They must get an extra kick that people have chosen one of their own as current savior.
The stuff that is getting exposed are things millions already knew about, as it was reported well over a year ago that Twitter had a contract with the government. Just no one wanted to write about it.
To many of us, this isn’t so much an expose but just someone more famous repeating all of it. I suppose that’s fine, but it will make it all the more infuriating when (again) no one has to answer for it except low-level dupes/scapegoats like that idiot Yoel guy.
Mary — I understand your skepticism about Musk but I think it’s too soon to know if this is some kind of bait and switch or if he is sincere in exposing all the corruption and collusion between social media and the government. I doubt anyone will ever be brought to trial — including Fauci — but if nothing else, it deprived a sizable number of shrill wokesters of their jobs.
Yoel has an unexpected defender in Alex Bereson who sounded like that whiny Taylor Lorenz in his defense:
“Musk has targeted Roth in a very dangerous way. For the last several days, Musk has repeatedly said that old Twitter didn’t do enough to end child pornography and sexual exploitation. Indeed, this article and this lawsuit raise serious questions about how well Twitter’s former management handled users posting sexual images of minors.”
If Mr. Safety Yoel had gone after child porn with the enthusiasm he had for covid “disinformation” maybe there wouldn’t have quite so much of it on Twitter. But Bereson wen to to wail:
“Musk’s fit this weekend has endangered Yoel Roth…If blood flows, it will be on Elon Musk’s hands.”
Anyone remember the Podesta brothers’ art collection, hanging in plain view and posted on the internet? Children in bondage, sado masochist crap. Their emails full of known pedophilia codewords.
They rubbed our faces in it and anyone who expressed suspicion was mocked, reviled, insulted, and ignored. Nothing to see here, you MAGA nutcases! As Redneck Liberal would arrogantly trumpet. There’s a special place in hell for those who enable the pedophiles.
They’re rubbing our faces in it even more now.
Balenciaga, for starters… the movies and TV shows they are making, etc.
Speaking of redneck lunatic my guess is with the reality of the laptop from hell as well as twitter drops proving all of us right he could not handle the amount of crow he was going to eat about Trump and covid death shots.
We always knew he was weak but he proved it by running away and NEVER answering any question he knew he could not answer without looking like a fool.
Which is kind of odd because he looked like a fool every week for years.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and for the tribe Happy Hannukah.
There is zero percent I am wrong about Musk and that he is only playing his part in the shit show.
Elon Musk is not anyone’s savior.
And when people all realize that they’ve been bamboozled again, I will be here to laugh at them.
And that’s really all that matters to Mary. Her personal little victory.
Thanks for making that clear, Mare.
Zealot.
Nope. A zealot is the opposite. It’s someone who follows a cause or person without question.
You two are the zealots. But of course, zealots never know themselves. As you don’t.
I have zero percent of being wrong on this.
It does not take a genius to figure it out. I hope you two also think for 5 mins and figure out why it is I can be sure of it.
Even Bourla was less arrogant since he only said the Pfizer vaccine was 95% effective.
Mary is 100% sure that Elon Musk is 100% evil.
Yes, I am 100% sure.
I base it on history, where 100% of these people are 100% conning you 24/7.
I’m sure Musk is different, though – lol.
SW:
Commenters’ responses to Berenson’s ridiculous hysteria were what I referred to up-thread.
Many of them very articulate.
Mary, you don’t have to be a true believer where EM is concerned. But surely even you appreciate the humor of the situation. His personal pronoun choices are golden. And he is the only “main stream” figure saying what millions believe should happen to Fauci. Musk is like China: you might not be sure of their motives, but it’s wonderful seeing them laugh at the globalists.
I don’t think it’s that funny.
It’s just another limited hangout, where various people pull the wool over the eyes of the populace while entertaining them.
well said
The Ukrainian conflict is interesting to the degree that it clearly rhymes with history. When the Soviet Union collapsed, American spooks led businessmen in an assault on the pilferage of as many Russian assets that they could steal while the chaos still ruled. I recall a catalog of Russian valuable for purchase here in the US that ran the gamut from gold lined, silver shot glasses to massive Russian samovars, all at bargain basement prices. A neighbor headed over there to secure lucrative aluminum commodity contracts and pocketed a fortune. Yes, I still have a pair of those shot glasses. This pillaging of the Motherland was, from what I understand, the catalyst that would bring Vlad Putin to power.
So, we have a similar situation here today with so many Ukrainians hating and carrying out civil war on the Russians in that country, perhaps a precursor of what may soon happen here between the Looney Leftists and the rest of us that do not want to be told what to say or think of have sex with. Interesting that so many emails are going out touting Ukranian brides. Another rape and pillage for wealthy American business thugs and criminal Ukranian oligarchs? Yup, you betcha.
They were teaching Ukrainian children to hate Russians in school and in summer camps. There were schoolbooks written to teach them to hate.
If there is anything the US is good at, it’s divide and conquer.
Hence, CRT and Drag Queen Story Hour.
I remember the media writing volumes on the suddenly wealthy oligarchs, but they never bothered to explain exactly how these people obtained their wealth.
All you got to do is split the take with The Big Guy.
I forget who it was who stated that at the base of every great forture is a great crime.
Balzac.
No need to be rude, Wade!
Ha,ha, Hereward.
I used to work with a Syrian who went to a high class college somewhere in Europe.
He said that his classmate was an Indian who stated matter-of-factly that his family was rich because his grandfather had murdered a rich man and taken his property.
It rather shocked the Syrian to hear it stated so openly, but then he did quote Balzac.
I believe this to be true more often than it is not. The greater the greed, the less ethical the person. Especially the “get rich quick” types.
@ Beryl of Oyl:
The called the oligarchs who gained their wealth from pillaging Russia, “self-made billionaires.”
LOL. So true.
Yeah….lol….,they’re self-made alright. Just like Capone.
” gold lined, silver shot glasses”
I wish you could post a picture of those. I’d love to see them.
We don’t have the Russian Army to come to our aid in the US…
And the government is going after the Oathkeepers.
“And you don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction”
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Galatians 6:7
Greetings,
The most vaaaxed demographic in the USA is the LGBTQ crowd followed by the purple-haired folks. They were told that every time a Maoist got vaaaaxed, a Conservative cried onto the linoleum floor of his doublewide.
By kicking conservatives off of the platform, twitter was preaching to the choir. In my own small private poll, the people I know that are active on twitter have all taken the poison while the people I know that do not frequent twitter have not taken it.
Given what we know now, one of those two groups made a terrible terrible decision.
There’s a shit-ton of vax resistance on Twitter. People who were perfect strangers until recently but who in many cases are now connected. Takes balls, if you ask me, to put yourself out there in that manner, but they’re doing it every single day. They will be the ones to lead us out of this wilderness. If you don’t know these people exist and the courage they’ve exhibited, you’re part of the problem.
I call bs on you. Anyone that spoke out against the vaaaaax was banned outright or shadowbanned as I was. Sure, it is easy to come out now. . . . when it is safe.
As far as being part of the problem, you’ve got no clue what-so-ever who I am or who you are talking to. Stop acting like the Maoists.
Actually, I never got banned for speaking out against the quacksines or calling covid19 a plandemic and hoax. But that’s because I didn’t have a lot of followers, and/or no one reported me.
That seems to be why most people are suspended. If you get a big enough following, then you aren’t allowed any smack talk.
@ MaryQueen:
I was permanently banned from the Hub Pages forums for speaking out about covid. (That was before they came out with the vaccines.)
Probably. I forget the exact figure, but Alex Berenson was getting an astonishing number of ‘impressions’ just before they lowered the boom.
I was permanently banned from my family.
Someone I know who was recently under threat of possibly being forced to take the shot or lose her job, just saw coworkers who were vaxxed get fired right before Christmas.
They didn’t actually owe anyone the employment that they could make you get vaxxed to keep.
That’s actually pretty funny when you think about it. But at least it undermines one of the key reasons to get vaxxed in the first place. Business will do what it’s gonna do – its “most precious resource,” its people – be damned.
They forced them to get injected and then they fired them?
That doesn’t make me laugh, it makes me mad.
No, they were getting ready to force them while cases went through the courts. Some of these people who weren’t following too closely assumed they had to do it eventually.
Of course that assumption was based on the premise that the vaccine was a vaccine, and that you could catch covid and sprad it to others without actually being sick, but if you took the vaccine you were immune.
Some of them thought they had a duty to others, based on outright lies by our government.
Well don’t forget the “hero nurses” making angry masked faces against anti-lockdown protestors. Or anyone who questioned the madness. And of course the tic tok dances.
I assume most of these self righteous types were the first to get vaxed – their just deserts.
The medical profession is filled with quacks, never forget that.
Just to add to this, can we once and for all stop this “people were forced” BS. NO-ONE can force you to take the Vaxx.
Coercion is a powerful weapon. Without a job in this country you are screwed.
It doesn’t take long until you’re living under a bridge.
A case of some people “looking at one another and realizing they need to work together or die.”
I don’t rejoice in anyone’s downfall, injury, or death. But it has to be said that after those who were most zealous in promoting the vax meet the early ends that are their likely fate, the world will be a better place. I feel sorry for those who just took it in trust and whose trust was betrayed. I won’t ever forget or forgive that. But those who tormented others, tattled on them, got them fired, refused them medical treatment, pursued them with their idiotic mask mania – I won’t mourn them.
@ Rowdypiglet:
There was only one person (store manager at Sprouts) who pursued me around the store to tell me to put my mask on. There was also a cashier at Sprouts who refused to check me out because I refused to put on a mask, so one of the store managers checked me out.
I don’t even think that those to deserve to die, necessarily. They just need their asses kicked.
But the people who fired employees and the people who refused medical treatment need to do jail time. Like five or ten years.
And the Faucis, Bourlas, Walenskys and all political leaders in the US, NZ, Can and Aus who pushed them need to be on trial for their lives.
Hey! I have a purple streak (covers the grey) and I didn’t take it!
No offense, but don’t you know that putting clown colored dye on your hair has become a major “Red Flag” to normal folks that there just might be something majorly wrong with you?
Yeah – you’ll get attention darlin’, but it will all be of the wrong kind.
You should lose the purple if you want to be taken seriously.
Just sayin’ – take it or leave it – but it’s the truth.
Lots of tattoos and body piercings don’t make anyone more attractive in my humble opinion. Why some women want to look like penitentiary alumni is beyond my understanding.
Wizard is 100 per cent on this. In this climate, any woman, girl, females, wearing unnaturally colored hair, or having a nose ring, or anything that is self mutilating or on the edge of that, is regarded by all Chads everywhere, as mentally unstable, to be avoided.
(“Chads” are men of good blood genes and character. Chad generally goes with Stacy but is not always so discriminating.)
The actual science word in ethology, for unnatural coloring which serves as a warning to the other animals, is Aposematism and the smart set, the intellectuals and the Chads, knows this word, as in the idea that unnatural color and nose rings is bad news, is well understood enough that Aposematism is a smart set zoomer meme.
tldr- lose the Aposematism and lure in a Chad, or as close as you can get, while there is still time
So how would you describe “the hanging Chads?”
Where exactly is your purple street, Cactus girl, if one is allowed to ask such questions in this day and age?
Yes, unnatural colored hair indicates a rebellion against the natural order. This is now basic knowledge among the better class of men.
in the rainforest, nothing eats the brightly colored little frogs. they do make arrow poison after toasting their little bodies over the fire.
very effective warning, that bright color. jus sayin
Just my usual reminder that the “Woke Left” (sic) is, like a rainbow, eye-catching and obvious, but devoid of actual substance. If you wanna see power, look where it’s always been: The Super-wealthy. THEY are where 20% of the Middle Class’s income went over the last 50 years (Rand Study), THEY control US government policies (Gilens & Page, Princeton Press). The cross-dressing gender-f-cks are simply intel agency diversion.
The Fed study says that $50 Trillion was syphoned away from the middle and working classes since 1970, to make the wealthy much wealthier…We see the effects of that robbery everywhere…
They are the Mob.
The same mob that ripped off middle America in Las Vegas and with drugs for decades and then went for it all taking over Washington DC. Note that their targets have not changed one iota,
It is us.
I’ve thought for well over a decade now that the old Dons (circa Kefauver hearings) had indeed ‘wised up’ and were quite capable of reading the writings on the wall. They knew their blackmail would die with J Edgar Hoover so they upped their game by sending their scions to Wharton and easily greased them into power positions on Wall Street and other ‘legit’ professions that involved legally sanctioned larceny and other gross felonies. Having long since cemented their ties with the CIA/FBI, it had to have been a breeze of a transition. I see the U.S. as an extension of the Middle Ages Italian states in all of the pertinent and pernicious halls and corridors of power.
What a massive and pernicious game they’ve (the Real Owners) played on so many generations of American rubes…
I say that having been one such for most of my life.
Exactly what Jack and Bobby Kennedy feared and fought to their demise.
“so they upped their game by sending their scions to Wharton and easily greased them into power positions on Wall Street and other ‘legit’ professions t”
Yep.
Including the law and then judgeships.
This is the basic dynamic described and documented so well by Gus Russo. Sorry for cracked-record effect, but he really dug into this, with the Pritzker family as a poster child.
The Jewish mob were best at the going-legit gambit.
Thank you, Islander. Let’s not let the blame be shifted onto the Italians, the Chinese, or the Gays.
The real Mob is the one that owns the Media and the Banks. The others work for them as individuals.
It was fairly easy for them to rise since they were already on top in Europe.
Well, capitalism is a winner take all game. They’re playing it for keeps.
using that word, applied to this mess, renders it void of meaning.
Exactly, the criminals are in charge now, in congress, the FBI, NSA anyone with boots on the ground and a fist in your face.
And the majority of the public are the marks. It is hilarously sad to see that it takes a guy like Elon Musk or someone of the level of notoriety and position in society to get some of the bleaters among us to begin to wake up.
And even those semi-conscious bleaters likely have no idea that Musk may have an agenda all his own that is not necessarily in our best interests.
Perhaps society deserves WEF slavery.
Yes, he is neither all good or all bad. People who can only think in absolutes will never be able to see him. That’s not to say there are no absolutes. Fauci is an absolute liar and thus absolutely evil, at least in terms of common humanity. He may be a fine friend, brother, or husband of course. Many Mafioso were fine family men.
As were many Naxi’s.
And many good family men are good men overall.
I know. Now you’re confused.
Slippery slopes being what they are, there can be no middle ground between free speech absolutism and effectively abrogating the First Amendment.
Yes, uninhibited free speech does open a Pandora’s box, and impressionable people will become convinced of many things that are false, more than a few of which are malicious.
But that is also true of today’s Corporate-State-managed “reality.” What makes this far worse is that much of the truth is kept from those wise enough to discern it, unavailable as an option for belief.
At least in an environment in which all positions can be expressed, that which is true is given a fighting chance of competing with falsehood. And that would be a huge improvement over today’s arrangement, in which the ignorance of the credulous is not nearly as much of a problem as the things they “know” that just ain’t true.
You said it, Zoltar! The only defense against false speech is free speech.
And no one puts out bullshit like our ruling overlords. They have the Mighty Wurlitzer to make their buillshit stick. All we have is social media.
“All we have is social media.”
I was just thinking, what arena do we have other than social media (private property) and newspapers to write letters to (private property.).
What we do still have is the public square. Literally, publicaly owned property. The post office, other public property.
This thought may be pointless at this point in history, but we used to be able to hold up a sign on public property.
Or, take to the streets.
Yes, unless children are given I phones and access to pornography, the Republic will be lost!
Once Paula and her peeps take over, free speech is immediately cancelled. They know their business far more than “conservatives” do. They conserve nothing and sell the rope that will be used to hang them – and us.
It is quite astounding to observe the very foundations of Western Civilization crumbling from so many different sectors. Along with the hysteria accompanying it.
The Ship is sinking, the rats have broken into the purser’s safe and are loading up their already stuffed pockets, but don’t seem to realize the pirates that have been so busy pilfering away via the politicians for all these decades have already stolen the lifeboats and punched holes in the remaining rafts. Nowhere to go but down, rats. Repeat after me: “He who dies with the most toys, wins.”
For reference just read the comments section of MSNBC and see the absolute insanity on display.
Sorry, but that would hurt too much. I cannot view anything that MySmallNonfunctioningBrainComplies spews out.
Or for a view from the other side of the fence, look at some of the Q sites and see how all this bad stuff is just “optics” and “comms” by the “white hats” in charge of the military as they get ready to take over DC.
Ah yes, but it IS entertaining to watch the show when the wealth hoarder croak and their silver-spooner spawn rip each other’s lungs out fighting over the spoils. Might explain why the Pharaohs buried they hoards with them.
Walter B: the first pyramid scheme?
Dave — they’ve stolen all the life boats is right but what they failed to notice is no one knows where to go. Bill Gates owns the most farm land in America but has he hired anyone who actually knows how to farm? I don’t know. My guess is no — he probably has some goofy idea that technology is superior to experience.
What seems to be ignored is the fact that skills have to be taught to the next generation or they completely disappear. And not just Youtube videos but day to day practice under the supervision of elders. Even simple skills like cooking or household repairs. I could count on one had the number of young women I know who can prepare a full meal. And that includes my daughters who had no interest in learning. Take out and frozen stuff is easy.
Nice essay, as usual, but not great.
It carries a fatal weakness:
“More likely, I hesitate to suggest, all these characters in one way or another are merely tools of history itself, as the world enters the darkest days of a Fourth Turning secular winter. As TS Eliot observed: “Humankind cannot bear too much reality.”
No. This wishy-washy stuff is far below your intellectual acumen.
This is not truth seeking but truth avoiding.
Invoking “history” as a player is anti-intellectual. Feels like a copout. I was shocked when I read your now shopworn contention:
“Of course, that aroused the widespread suspicion that these now-exposed nefarious operators in social media were merely tools for some murky plutocrat elite led by the likes of the WEF, Bill Gates, and George Soros. Could that be the greatest “conspiracy theory’ of all?”
Shame on you for using the “conspiracy theory” phrase. At all. That phrase in an embarrassment.
The fact is that there is a huge amount of evidence to support the theory that the WEF is a supranational organization with a one world government agenda.
You decry the covid psy-op but apparently you think “history” planned it.
Hmmmm.
Hard to believe, coming from the author of The Long Emergency!!
Invoking T. S. Eliot as an authority on what is going on today on Planet Earth just makes it worse.
Islander– The point of The Long Emergency was that epochal trends were underway that were going to plunge Western Civ into disorder and decay. Especially energy resource and capital scarcity. What you’re trying to argue against is really a chicken-and-egg theory… did Schwab-Soros-WEF fuckery bring on a long emergency, or did a long emergency enable the former Apparently, you didn’t understand that argument… or the use of “conspiracy theory” as an ironic trope. — JHK Admin
History woke up this morning, smoked a cigarette, took a shit, touched base with Davos, yawned, rolled over & got out of bed.
History took a shit before getting out of bed?
Actually, that sounds about right…
LOL!
History took a shit before getting out of bed? – Blackbird
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LMFAO!! Very observant. But, believe it or not that is exactly what Peter did this morning. Bo was furious! One thing about Peter though, he’s never been a smoker.
Threw out the sheets I hope? Did she rub his nose in it first?
History according to Amber Heard, maybe.
I love you guys
& got out of bed – In that order.
Yes, T.S.Eliot being from the immensely wealthy Eliot clan, centered around Boston and Harvard….
IMHO, Eliot was not much of a poet–just a pretentious bore–and just about ideal to present to young people, if you’d like them to learn to despise poetry. Compare Eliot to Tennyson, Burns, or Yeats–or Coleridge.
He was Apollonian, not Dionysian as classically poets are. Thus Plato said to crown them and drive them out of the city. Beautiful drunks telling beautiful lies.
Eliot was into telling the Truth in a beautiful way. America was far too crude for him – an Anglophile thru and thru. He never felt comfortable until he was established there.
He was no hero of course. He told the Truth about the growing Jewish power, but he shut up when it that was no longer acceptable – after they had triumphed.
That’s where you are wrong, Islander-Soros, Gates, Schwab they are but messenger boys, they are not ‘leaders’.
The reptiles they work for will remain nameless-but that’s the info we so desperately need.
I agree. Yet to say there are evil, non human players in all this, gets one labelled as a bit eccentric in this forum.
I think it was Terence McKenna who said the UFO narrative is a fiction to hide a far more disturbing truth.
the info is worthless, because we can guess , and
it won’t matter until their heads can be made to roll freely.
PM = Precious Metal
Not sure how a reference to a well-known phrase of TS Eliot’s amounts to citing him as an authority on what’s going on today on planet earth.
Nevertheless his Four Quartets stands as the distilled wisdom of one who was at the height of his poetic powers. In my humble opinion of course. Yes, one might argue that he was positioning himself as an authority.
It does take a certain amount of ego just to get out of bed in the morning.
Also, his ancestors were indeed “those” Eliots. His immediate family was comfortably middle class, and he was born in St Louis, MO. Yes, he attended Harvard College during what might be described as a high point in American liberal arts education. A biographer points out “…Eliot not only read the contemporary philosopher Henri in French, but “he also read Patanjali in the original Pali, the ‘Upanishads’ in Sanskrit, Heraclitus in Greek, Kant in German, Dante in Italian” and Spinoza in Latin.
Now I suppose the above accomplishments still do not confer Authority-to-opine-and be respected but in my again humble view it ain’t a bad start.
“Now I suppose the above accomplishments still do not confer Authority-to-opine-and be respected but in my again humble view it ain’t a bad start.”
My beef is not with Eliot, nor with the idea of citing him (or any great poet or writer), nor, actually, with this particular quote, but with the use to which the quote is put—the truth-burying “don’t-look-here-it’s-all-murky” proposition it is used to support.
BTW, there is nothing “murky” about the WEF agenda.
JHK seems to don special “murkifying’ glasses when it comes to the WEF.
I tend to agree. It is globocap (banks and corporations) working in unison to write history. It is that simple.
The agenda must be implemented, as they desire a centralized system of control.
There is little evidence for resource scarcity that cannot be overcome through ingenuity, population overshoot (the most comical idea of all), or climate change that is out of the ordinary.
There is however mountains of evidence that these narratives are used to usher in tyranny.
Yes, the union of which are the Four Great Funds which own mostly everything. One Fund owns the controlling interest in the key industries. And that one is controlled by the one that is not transparent and does not list its shareholders. Who could they be but the Rothschilds and other old banking families?
I did miss that “conspiracy theory” was used ironically. Mea culpa.
However, despite the scare quos, you do seem to be using the phrase straight, namely, you do label as a conspiracy theory ” the widespread suspicion that these now-exposed nefarious operators in social media were merely tools for some murky plutocrat elite led by the likes of the WEF, Bill Gates, and George Soros.”
The words/phrases “nefarious,” “some murky plutocrat elite,” “the likes of,” and others you chose IMHO clearly signal your actual attitude, that this whole Klaus Schwab/”elites” thing is a joke.
Furthermore, any use of this CIA-concocted phrase reinforces the intended framing and for that reason alone IMHO it should be avoided. It is designed to misdirect, mislead, and, worst, ridicule serious inquiry.
Re “What you’re trying to argue against is really a chicken-and-egg theory… did Schwab-Soros-WEF fuckery bring on a long emergency, or did a long emergency enable the former.”
I did and do not argue against this.
The interplay between historic and natural forces and individuals and groups made up of individuals, including intergenerational groups, is a classic theme. That is exactly what truth seekers are trying to understand.
The personified character History has no interest in hiding the machinery.
Well said. You are on fire this morning. Conspiracy Theory – yeah, like the “theory” of gravity. It’s a Fact.
And once the Conspirators are known, then all of the 20th century (and even earlier) must be reevaluated – especially WW2. The National Socialists fought the Conspirators, we fought for them. It’s as simple as that.
If I may, in addition to Islander’s comment that it is designed to misdirect, mislead and ridicule serious inquiry I will add:
Conspiracy Theory is a phrase used when the truth starts to poke through the lies. They call it that so that you do not look too closely. The intent is to intimidate critical thought. People also use this phrase when confronted with an issue that frightens them or that they do not understand.
I’m with JHK. The One World Order, WEF agenda is overemphasized by many today, especially by those who wish to ignore fundamental environmental and resource causes for contemporary events… though I know that’s not you particularly, Islander.
For me, WEF stuff is merely another facet of, wrinkle in the wide playing field. If every WEF player died tomorrow (which would be great, it’s true)… not a whole lot would change in the macro picture. Biodiversity loss, trespasses on population and resource extraction limits… limits to growth generally.. would still be in full effect as before, just without the Right’s favorite scapegoat/escapism totem.
There’s such a thing as WEF Derangement Syndrome.
The WEF agenda is the one that needs to be resisted most urgently at the moment. If they get their way you won’t even be able to discuss any of the issues in the very near future.
The WEF agenda probably won’t affect me much. I live in the middle of nowhere. There’s fishing and local ag. I work off the books. Not to say I don’t care what happens in the cities, or to those more tied to corporate careers, banking, etc. But, the idea is to get free of these things. The best way to counterract the WEF is to get free of these things.
Longer term, some of these WEF policies may be inevitable. If they don’t do it, any other govt will eventually themselves. The drivers of these things aren’t going away. The thing to do is get as clear of the worst problem areas as possible, and, in my opinion, try to encourage consciousness of the bigger picture, and promote localized resources.
OK, I’ll rephrase that, GR. For us lesser mortals without precious metals/land/country property/youth and strength/personal weaponry, resisting the WEF agenda is the most urgent thing.
I hear you.
I’m not sure there can be any monumental changes in a decade, say. There’s a lot of inertia and momentum for the status quo, WEF or no WEF.
When things do shift, nobody will have it made, anywhere. Not in the cities, or the country, or in the hallowed WEF halls, my opinion..
The WEF agenda is what they allow us to see and hear. Are they so emboldened that they openly reveal their intentions to the masses?
As far as the long emergency goes, there can be to truths. 1) The world is running out of resources and the EROI is shrinking further each year. 2) We are be told that we must abandon the remainder of our resources or risk catastrophic climate change.
We will be forced into resource poverty while our the PTB build a riggged block chain settlement ledger of carbon credits and then force fire sales of credits around the world to keep their yachts and jets
WEEAAD:
I’m suggesting people should worry more about themselves and less about these ultimately impotent (if your eyes are open and you don’t walk blindly into traps) rich people and their silly dreams of endless yachting.
Ok Gustafson, you are a rock, you are an island. You are untouchable out there in your mini-Xanadu.
That’s what Dr Zhivago thought in his little cabin in the middle of Siberia. But the Bolshevik cavalry found him nonetheless.
Naw, muller, I didn’t say that. I said it’s simply the best way to counter WEFism—exiting the system—not that anyone’s (certainly not mine) setup is very impenetrable.
But, I’m more worried about general collapse issues than WEF specifically.
“Ok Gustafson, you are a rock, you are an island. ”
You don’t post much these days, hmuller, but you often cause me a quiet giggle when you do.
And now I have a vision of Rod Steiger arriving at my front door, sporting a mean face and a syringe.
@Islander
History is today tomorrow, a continuum, and as per Burnt Norton we are where the dance is.
Switching poets, in this moment in time we are the inheritors
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit…
It is us and our passage through time that gives rise to everything including our leaders and our circumstances. They are the collective product of our our succeeding generations and as per all turnings, not just the Fourth, we nurtured them into existence.
Never did a Trump or Gandhi or a Gates or a Soros arise from nothing and exist in some sort of vacuum. They are mathematical vectors, they have a magnitude and direction that is the product of us!
Half of Twitter is appalled that Musk is even attempting to allow free speech (which is now universally termed “hate speech” if it isn’t in the NYT) on the platform.
“We need that regulation for our safety!”
“Govern me harder, Daddy!”
The other half finds the whole thing hilarious. Really an interesting dichotomy in the country right now. The strangest part to me is that some of the supposed smartest among us are the least mentally malleable when it comes to forming their own actual opinion.
Overnight, the name Musk has become synonymous with Trump in a large part of my peer circle. No matter what the story is about him, he’s an alt-right, racist, homophobic POS now. I have no expectation that these folks will ever change that stance, until the NYT tells them to. Or until their cush jobs dwindle and they have worry for things the real world historically poses as a problem to humanity.
Most of these ‘smartest among us’ are employees, bribed. and/or blackmailed so they ‘go along to get along’.
“Overnight, the name Musk has become synonymous with Trump in a large part of my peer circle. No matter what the story is about him, he’s an alt-right, racist, homophobic POS now. ”
Yep. And we have some victims of MDS right there at CFN!!
Musk got booed at a Dave Chapelle show.
Evidently if you are for the First Amendment you automatically become a White Supremacist.
Yeah, ol’ Dave knows the problem, but he doesn’t like the solution. He just want more Big Government Gibs for his Peeps, but a good Big Government like in the old days.
He doesn’t have Ye’s spiritual purity that allows Ye to know that everything must change.
Long before the world went insane, I’d noticed that as most people grew older, no matter how smart they were, they became less and less able to change their minds about anything that was fundamental to their world view. They’d acknowledge they were wrong, but would still keep on with their usual mode of thinking because it was comfortable and they seemed unable to give it up. After a certain age, a Democrat never became a Republican nor the other way round.
I suspect that inclination is doubly true for the highly indoctrinated, the people who have CNN turned on in their homes 24/7 and believe in Rachel Maddow like they used to believe in what the priest told them. The admission that they’ve been lied to would bring every aspect of their world tumbling down around them. And then there’s the realization that they’ve allowed themselves to be injected with poison and can now do nothing but wait to see how it will manifest in their bodies.
It’s truly hilarious hearing all these beardy beta guy lefties telling us how democracy can only be saved by crushing free speech.
Nobody who matters thinks degree-havers with plush urban/semi-urban housing and Christmas-card families are “smartest among us”; in fact mainly its only these suburban drones who do think this, of themselves..
I was merely referring to level of education. Those with doctorates are ‘supposed’ to be the smartest among us. And I was pointing out that they are not streetwise…merely book-educated. If they read it in school, it’s true. If they remember it, they’re smahhht. According to them.
“Overnight, the name Musk has become synonymous with Trump in a large part of my peer circle.”
Are they cursing the day they purchased their Tesla?
Not the ones I know. They love giving people a ribbing about gas prices, and the fact that they have no catalytic converter to steal. I can handle the ribbing…their situation makes the Tesla viable for now. It’s a neat toy.
But with MDS, surely it takes the joy out of the commute?
I’ve decided to call the comment section the piggyback blog section. How pathetic that comments are as long or even longer than Mr Kunstler’s blog . It’s time for you frustrated and narcissistic essay writers to write your own blog.
Kunstler: 765 words
Longest comment: 441 words
Average comment: 150 words (approx)
are you doing the work Qstik wont?
Ha, no sir. Just did a quick copy and paste of what I saw above in the thread to grab a word count.
Perhaps you would prefer a Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down comment system instead?
Personally, I come here for the roast, but stay for the pie and coffee.
Good pie and coffee today.
In my long career of writing contracts, specifications, and all forms of other documentation, I developed the belief that conveying information or even just a point is far better accomplished by using enough words to do so and avoiding shortcuts such as LOL, IMHO, and WTF.
“Sorry Majesty if there are too many notes. Which notes do you suggest I cut out?”
I find the comments, for the most part, informative with diverse views. I find the same at the Zerohedge comment section-some talented smart people, it is much the same here if not better. the ZH.
If you don’t find the ‘comments’ interesting then don’t read them.
“If you don’t find the ‘comments’ interesting then don’t read them.”
What an original thought!!! 🙂
Thanks, bro
@canuk – I’ve been at Zero Hedge since forever and the quality of commenters has decreased dramatically, especially over the last five or six years. It’s like a thrust and parry contest of who can be the snarkiest. Occasionally I run across some good ones but they are the exception.
And, I might add, the quality of articles has suffered as well. During the Fukashima crisis ZH was my go to site even before the news. Those days pretty much ceased when Tyler was bought out by ABC, I think. But old habits die hard and it’s still my first visit of the day
Tyler is ABC, it’s a different company.
My recollection is that Zerohedge was suddenly flooded with liberal posters during Trump’s first run for president. It was as if every liberal in the US suddenly discovered it and felt obliged to attack this basically conservative bastion.
While the quality of a great many of the comments on Zerohedge is really shitty (ungrammatical, misspelled, subliterate, and often just silly), there are still many worthwhile comments. I’m interested in knowing what’s going on in other parts of the country, as I live in a kind of rural bubble where almost everyone I know is on the same page with JHK and most of the commenters here, and most are deeply involved with their church. When they’re not talking about their favorite devotions or some upcoming church event, they’re talking about firewood and next year’s garden, or planning to swing by I. Donnelly’s the next time they are “up in the city” to pick out a new rosary. This is also true of literally all of my Facebook friends–except most of them are Protestants–and they are much occupied with recipes, the home business, the kids and grandkids, renovating their house on their 40-acre property, and bagging a deer or three.
So I am often dumbfounded to read comments about what’s going on “up in the city,” or in the land of liberals in general.
I still like Tickerforum, which still has some good commenters, but it’s not like it used to be when it was still a forum of gargantuan size, where you could have long conversations with hundreds of intelligent, knowledgeable people. (Karl got tired of managing it after ten or fifteen years.) Most of the people still commenting there, while still often quite knowledgeable, tend to be ass-kissers.
You also used to get first-hand reports of current events. During the California wildfires, which must have been in 2006 or 2007-ish (I forget when exactly), many people who were on the ground there posted personal accounts of what was going on in their area, along with pictures. It was fascinating.
That’s a lot of what you get from reading comments: There are people who are right in the thick of some current event and can tell you about it.
The raging firestorm at least in San Diego was 2008.
First hand knowledge of current events is what Twitter used to be for.
I don’t remember when the fires were, but I had a fb friend who was a prepper. Had big stashes of food and water, a garden, etc.
And then the fires came and made her homeless and stashless.
Doc, Jim doesn’t seem to mind. He’s been known to kick people out if they piss him off or get out of control. I for one find this comment section pretty interesting; lot of smart people posting in here. The fact that I don’t agree with everyone’s perspective makes it even better.
Amen
So when you throw a party, you demand everyone stay in separate rooms? What a wet blanket.
If you like it short, try twitter. Attention spans ain’t what they used to be. People are busy! Lincoln and Douglas debated for hours – on the level of a high school graduate. Now we elect actual retards.
It’s time for you frustrated and narcissistic essay writers to write your own blog.
I do, click on my name on top of this comment. Green names are links. I have free speech with no third party blogspot BS between my keyboard and your eyes.
“It’s time for you frustrated and narcissistic essay writers to write your own blog.”
Why, Doc Grinch?
When the essays on this blog are so thought-provoking?
@ docmartin:
I read the comments with great enjoyment. They often “flesh out” or elucidate JHK’s blog. Most of us here want to know what other people are thinking and experiencing.
Yet here you are. Your comments are longer than mine.
“Once 8 billion people figure out that it’s 2 000 people making the world a shitplace
– what do you think is gonna happen?”
https://twitter.com/MichaelBurea/status/1599492846049931265?s=20&t=toPJmO3dm3krxu9rAotx9Q
I don’t know, people have been so conditioned to believe they have to ask permission for everything they want to do in life, and that the authorities are whoever the government says they are, that they will endure almost any injury and just wish it will be over soon.
Maybe the WEF wanting to kill all our pets over fake climate change will be the trigger, I don’t know.
That would definitely be the 3d rail…Choosing between these WEF criminals and their dupes vs our pets would be a very easy decision…
They’ve never seen John Wicke, then.
Back in 2020 they ran that one up the flagpole to see if it would fly.
“Your dog or cat can give you covid!”
The most common reaction I saw from the proles was “Anyone who tries to kill my dog will become dog food”.
They dropped that one pretty quickly. Do they think they can bring it back now that the proles are even more brainwashed?
Let me say again that anyone that tries to kill my dogs will become dog food.
They have been warned.
I’m wondering now if that Canadian brand of pet food that was made in China and killed pets was a trial run.
Uh oh. What if those who become dog food are vaxed?
I hope they are safe for my dogs to eat.
Our dog eats a mixture of tinned food and dry kibble. It’s been about 2 years since the supply of kibble started drying up at Sainsbury’s, from whom I get a delivery every 6 weeks or so because it’s so damned heavy and we don’t have a car.
First the Pedigree stuff for big dogs disappeared (the dog doesn’t care in the slightest what size the pieces are) so we had to buy ‘small dog’ kibble. Then the Pedigree brand disappeared altogether so we changed to a more ‘niche’ one (Sainsbury’s own brand was cheaper but affected her gut in a way that made picking up after her not pleasant). Then the niche brand disappeared too and there is no kibble apart from Sainsbury’s own, so my husband has taken to getting anything that the local shops happen to stock, one small bag at a time.
I’m wondering if there’s something going on. I know kibble is pretty shite anyway but could they be closing down one brand after another so that all that is left is supermarkets’ own brands that are easier to mess with, to do the dogs harm?
Costco brand kibble and they deliver.
Fed my dog that stuff for 14 years she was healthy and active till her hips gave out and they have pallets of it stacked to the moon.
Thanks, ben. A long, long time ago, I used to have a Costco card. Before I ditched the car.
That is scary, Green Alba. Maybe they are cutting off the dog food to force people to kill their dogs.
Hopefully, it will blow back on them when people turn to other sources.
Fauci Kibble has a certain ring to it.
The slogan can be: “This one’s for the beagles!”
Yes, one for the beagles, indeed. What an absolute psychopath.
I used to feed Pedigree, but I started buying dog food at Sam’s Club about a year ago, and I don’t think they carry it. Walmart has always had Pedigree, whenever I’ve needed a bag to tide me over till I can get to Sam’s Club. My dog also gets a lot of pretty choice leftovers–because, as I am an old person who doesn’t eat much, there is often stuff in the fridge (like the last of a meatloaf) that has been in there too long.
I buy only human-grade dog food because I want them to feel great and have less vet bills (win/win). Sometimes I just prepare their food myself.
It is a big production when I do that, but it’s so much better for them.
So basically, they eat as well as any human would. Meat, veggies, fish oil supplement, pumpkin, cheese, etc.
Wasn’t Neil Ferguson the same dude who ordered the killing of farmer’s sheep?
I remember reading about a farmer trying to stop a soldier from methodically shooting his sheep.
Ferguson Kibble sounds like a tasty and nutritious addition to your dog’s diet.
Probably, Paula. His MO is creating scares, whether re humans or livestock.
I don’t believe any of this bird flu stuff just now – it just fits too well with the overall agenda of having people permanently concerned about epidemics and pandemics (as well as suppressing the food supply). Soon people will have forgotten that life wasn’t a permanent public health issue.
We used to get great duck eggs from our corner shop. They were supplied by fairly local poulty farmer who supplied all the duck eggs in Edinburgh – to butchers’ and small shops, rather than supermarkets. Near the start of covid, she lost her entire duck flock for the second time and gave up ducks entirely. At the time I just thought it was a shame (primarily for her) but now I wonder if it was the Neil Ferguson strain of bird flu that they had and if they were just culled according to the programme.
We need to cull the ones who use their power for evil, not the animals.
They are contaminating our lives and attacking our children. It boggles the mind that we allow these demons to continue.
There was an outcry in the UK and NZ in 2009 when the architects Robert and Brenda Vale (formerly UK, emigrated to NZ 20 yrs ago) wrote a book ‘Now is the Time to Kill the Dog’.
I looked online and there seems to be a UK legal right to keep up to 50 chickens in your back garden. I think there must have been court cases many years ago that went in favour of ‘the little people’, so the authorities tried to limit the ‘damage’ by picking a number.
Once in a while, I disagree with the gist of the blog. Today is one.
We are not being busted by the Left Deep State in the electorate by social media. We are being busted by the ever changing demographics as more and more socialists, people who will vote for the enhancement of the government, people who believe the government is the replacement for decency and morality and the government will always be there to give them resources. These people are too stupid to understand what this blog is even talking about. The will not even pay attention to what Musk is disclosing because they have witnessed much worse. Musk is decrying what he has witnessed in this country, but only as,all minority is listening.
The Leftist program of dumping socialists into this country is a tremendous success. Two sources, kids and immigrants, with floods of both. Both because they are too dumb and inexperienced to know the difference and they take their freedoms for granted. They are willing to give away their liberty for loans paid off or a gimme state for illegals. California wants UBI, a Silicon Valley conceived nightmare, the end of fiscal integrity.
The Mob has always fed upon the misfortunes of others. That will just increase in the future as the Deep State is nothing but East Coast Mob. One person, one, has indicated that she is done with the agents of the Mob. Kyrsten better be watching her butt over the next two years.
The vote has been compromised. Their is no way to prove it in a judicial society based on supporting the Liberal Deep State. IMHO, it is easy to understand what is happening in the close elections that Dems win consistently. Get the illegals and legals to fill out ballots in large numbers. Track the elections until late in the day, find out what it will take to win and in the cities, release enough illegal ballots to win. Doable? Very, and pretty untraceable in a judicial society that refuses to investigate the possibility. People who think that the border is being kept wide open by DC for future votes better think again, they are voting now under Dem control.
The only answer is secession, Balkanization. The Blue Mob and their corruption is in control of this country and no force is strong enough to counter their power. The only one that seemed able to fight them has been compromised to the point of ineffectivity. Politically leaving this Mob led corrupted mess is the only solution for any one giving a damn about the dreams of the founding fathers.
I agree with your premise but you miss one crucial function: the Left are brainwashing our kids from Kindergarten to Grad school-and they print/graduate 10 MM or so every year.
That , in my humble opinion, is a greater factor than immigration.
I figure the first chance that it could ‘turn blue’ may be around the end of the next decade. But my bet would be well into the 2040s. The leftist brainwashing in public schools is mostly effective in the largest cities and their suburbs. All of the other places I mentioned? As in 90 percent of the 252 counties….. Nope. Parents are watching schools there more closely, and they are not tolerating leftist woke BS. Even the suburban school districts are getting an earful from parents these days.
Edit to add….Sorry canuk. I thought you were replying to me below. Doh!
No probs, bud
I do not disagree. As I said, kids are too dumb and impressionable to made good decisions. Their loan status makes them suckers for gimme artists.
How about a double whammy, the DACA kids?
“Their loan status makes them suckers for gimme artists” to a point. Hussein and his handlers set up a situation, sold the need for higher education (for most learning a trade would have been better) and removed the possibility of legal dissolution of the particular debt system they created to redistribute wealth while essentially instituting indentured servitude by a different name. Result is a manner of enslavement of an undereducated young generation.
My offspring chose trades. They can actually build useful stuff.
Debt peonage is an effective way of managing the young population. Notice with the Biden’s proposal to “forgive” part of the student debt there was nothing said about reducing tuition — the root cause of this debt. So the problem will just roll on and keep every graduation class strapped for cash.
You have smart offspring 🙂
The Leftists will never be defeated politically. What will destroy them is that their belief system is at odds with reality. Their system will continue until it no longer can. Then it will collapse and other forces more attuned to reality will take over.
Yes John, it started with the Feds making a deal with Lucky Luciano to police the Port of New York during World War II went full bore with Santo Trafficante, Carlos Marcello, and Sam Giancana in the plots to murder Castro. It has resulted in the predictions that Bobby Kennedy made in “The Enemy Within” coming to pass.
Having grown up in places where organized crime flourished, those of us who avoided illicit activities had no cause to fear the organized crime faction because they left most ordinary people alone. Now that they have taken over the government, I am concerned that forcing compliance on everyone, as with the vaccine and shutdown mandates, indicates that this is changing for the worst. The enforcement of compliance on all is not so much criminal as it is demonic. Frankly I fear a far more sinister Master behind all of this than some mere human criminal.
And it is not Joe Blow.
There it is. Once you start using the word, “Mob” you get people to focus on the Italians – who are largely now out of business in favor of the Columbians, Mexicans, Russians, etc.
Misses the point completely. Who is “legit” and really running things?
In terms of the weekend commentary: Any government or administration of a White nation that allows its capital city to be turned Brown, is not legit. They are criminals, be they Labor or Conservatives, or anything else.
London is now Londonistan. Maybe the Hindus can turn it into Calcutta. But it’s not English any more in any case.
In a Whitney Webb interview by Jimmy Dore, she explains how the various mobs joined forces then became “legit” by working with the deep state and people in power. Note that there aren’t ‘turf wars’ like there used to be in the 1930s, 1940s, etc. Because they do all their dirty work as legitimate white-collar businesses.
“The only answer is secession, Balkanization” (JAZ)
I see these as two separate items.
Years back I figured Balkanization was in play as ‘the plan’ to destroy the country. Defining terms, can we agree ‘Balkanization’ as: balkanize: [verb] to break up (a region, a group, etc.) into smaller and often hostile units. This is from Mirriam-Webster. Defining terms and agreeing on the definition is a step along the way for free (just) discussion.
Would it be correct to offer ‘Balkanization’ as being well along, following its line of progress? In general terms we have the ‘Coasts’: an East Coast old-line establishment and a ‘Left’ Coast socialism/communism becoming more ‘progressive’, ‘woke’ or (fill in the blank___) which runs against the system put in place by the Founders as authors of the Constitution.
Then we have ‘fly-over country’ which is sparser in population and tremendously larger by land mass. Defined as the vast area between the coasts clearly bounded by two oceans on one side, and far less clever regarding boundary as the attempt to define leads towards the ‘fly-over’ area.
If Balkanization is well-developed, is it like Humpty Dumpty after the fall from the wall? If yes, does this offer a different course from secession? If the Union of States agrees to subdivide in some manner is this secession?
Secession: [noun] formal withdrawal from an organization; also from Mirriam-Webster to maintain source consistency.
In the 1860’s secession was settled by force of arms. It was a Constitutional Crisis settled outside the courts, which were at inception purposed with settling disputes between the States.
If the Union of States agrees to subdivide in some manner is a ‘settled by force of arms’ condition averted?
If uncontrolled Balkanization occurs, does it devolve spontaneously with violence?
Where is the line between secession and balkanization drawn? Certainly the secession lines are not so clear in 2022-2023 as might have been the case in the late 1850’s through the 1860’s.
Food for thought, thanks for your post which sparked mine.
It is abundantly clear the what is the difference between ‘Balkanization and secession”
Balkanizatiuon occurs when a larger power fragments (politically, militarily) a smaller power into pieces to the greater power’s benefit (see East and West Germany; Yugoslavia).
Secession is when a state within a state wants to secede from the larger entity; (see Crimea; US Civil war; Donbass)
And then there are the troubles right now in the Balkans, where the US is trying to get Kosovo to be a separate country, by seceding from Serbia.
The US has a giant military base in Kosovo. They stole the land from a farmer, built the base, and use it to run drugs, train terrorists and traffic humans and human organs.
They obviously have a great deal of influence there.
Russia has stated that they will not put up with more US bombing of Serbia.
Troubles in the Balkans…
They do (airbase), I’m working from memory here, it was under Clinton of the blue dress stains.
Primarily it is a giant helicopter base (big base with lots of helicopters, some big some not so big). It might (memory here) be the largest US base in Europe.
Stolen from a farmer? I don’t know, but it fits the usual narrative. I’m with it it until shown otherwise. Built from scratch, as the saying goes. The mere thought gives me pain in the wallet.
All the goings-on listed I’ll consider correct. Again, it’s SOP for the empire run by 3-letter agencies.
Moving a bit in reverse, the only two organizations to successfully mount resistance in Balkans during WW2 were the christian (Catholic?) Church and the communists led by Tito. Tito, much more of a partisan force leader than a ‘communist’.
Two groups with strong belief systems.
“Eastern Approaches’ by Fitzroy MacLean has a significant portion of his book recounting his time with Tito and his partisans. I highly recommend the book.
The Catholics were the Utashe, such nasty people that they made the Nazis blanch, although they were allies, not enemies.
Much like the OUN, in Ukraine.
Yeah, Camp Bondsteel is the biggest US base in Europe and I think it’s up there for the rest of the world also.
”Even the German Nazis noticed the brutality of the Ustase. A Gestapo report to Heinrich Himmler from 1942 stated, “The Ustaše committed their deeds in a bestial manner not only against males of conscript age but especially against helpless old people, women and children.”
From this link, because it was the first one I found, even though it expresses amazement that the US allied with Croatia in the 90s. How could that possibly happen?
//borgenproject.org/facts-about-the-ustase-genocide/
When I was looking up the most notorious Catholic Archbishop Stepinac, in Croatia, I kept getting hits for a Catholic boy’s school in New York named after him. Pope John Paul 2, the one installed after the quick disposal of Pope John Paul 1 when he started looking into the affairs of the Vatican Bank, beatified the archbishop.
How special.
://allthatsinteresting.com/ustase
”After Pavelic took power, the Catholic archbishop Aloysius Stepinac held a banquet for the dictator, proclaiming him “God’s hand at work.” Pavelic was also received by Pope Pius XII himself. Four days before Pavelic met the Pope, the Utashe had locked hundreds of Serbians inside an Orthodox church and burned it to the ground. Yugoslav diplomats warned the Pope of the atrocities and asked him not to meet with the fascist dictator, but Pope Pius XII refused their request……
Such genocidal ambitions soon became a horrifying reality. Concentration camps were set up across the country, including one of the largest camps in Europe at Jasenovac, where as many as 800,000 Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, and political dissidents were killed. Croatian Catholic clergymen served as guards and even executioners in the camps. At Jasenovac camp, a former student priest named Petar Vrzica won a contest by slitting 1,350 throats in a single night..”
//theinfong.com/2018/10/10-dirty-secrets-catholic-church-doesnt-want-world-know-photos/6/
Paula,
You put a bunch of info out in the replies. Don’t know if this reply will land up or down stream regarding Balkans.
Thanks
‘Bondsteel’ knew it began with letter B. brain cramps….
I read the MacLean book x2. loaded with info he had quite the career/life in Brit foreign service. Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, made it through Afghanistan on one of his journeys.
Balkanization, the fragmentation part, from my perspective is all these diverse groups which, instead of working in some manner towards a common result, are splintered into islands of self interest.
Secession is moving away, a disassociation. Different from fragmentation by diverse groups, it is a wholesale separation by a more or less cohesive group to form a new entity.
BTW, if the US Red side loses Texas politically, there is no recovery. The government of Texas is the primary target of the Mob, near term and needs to be the leader of the secession. Watch Texas.
Well, this explains Sam Brinton & Admiral Rachel Levine (Stunning & Brave). I’d always wondered where those Side Show Freaks came from, now I know.
Didn’t see Levine at the game Saturday. She must have been ogling her boys in private from up in the press box. But you just can’t beat that Brinton character for weird tranny sex appeal. That boy just oozes perversion from every pore.
I wonder if he picked up a little too much radiation at one of the labs somewhere along the way?
Briton apparently has a stealing fetish for expensive things feminine.
Good news: He faces felony charges in Nevada since the amount he stole now exceeds 3500 dollars or some amount in that range.
That’s a possible ten years in prison. Of course he’s not going to do that, but the felony charges make it harder to sweep under the rug. That this even made the news indicates that they’re not going to go to bat for him too much.
Brinton’s ‘Cellie’ — Bubba — who hasn’t seen a woman in 17 years, will be happy to accommodate ‘Sam”.
Apparently, he has lots of baggage. Literally.
Levine is a man, too. Using the pronoun “she” is inappropriate 🙂
Absolutely. Stop playing their game. He is Richard Levine and Jenner is Bruce.
I do watch Texas, and have been for decades. (My whole life). From within Texas. And for the last thirty plus years from within its capital city.
I can safely say that Texas will not be turning blue any time soon. I know the left has been predicting that it will turn blue since around 2000, yet it is red, red, red still. This last election in November crushed the left again. And they are blue, but Texas is not. Yes, little Beto almost upset Ted Cruz in 2018. Cruz is the only Republican Beto can ‘almost’ beat, because nobody likes Ted. Not even his own party. But, Beto still lost. And he just got his ass kicked a few weeks ago.
What has shocked the left is that more hispanics are voting conservative. Why? Because they ARE conservative, and they know a bunch of deviant moronic marxists when they see them. And that is what today’s Democrat party is and they know it.
Hispanics in Texas are among the MOST concerned about border security too. Another inconvenient truth that rankles the lib elite. “Don’t they want to be joined by more of ‘their kind’?”, the elites condescendingly say. Well, no. They don’t. They came here to get away from them in the first place.
The big urban islands in Texas are blue. That’s for sure. But there are 252 counties in the state and most of them are deep red. And there are many, many small cities like Waco, Lubbock, Longview, Tyler, San Angelo, Midland, Abilene, etc….that are also very red, and they vote reliably. They overwhelm the urban vote.
“The big urban islands in Texas are blue. That’s for sure. But there are 252 counties in the state and most of them are deep red. And there are many, many small cities like Waco, Lubbock, Longview, Tyler, San Angelo, Midland, Abilene, etc….that are also very red, and they vote reliably. They overwhelm the urban vote.”
Mick,
Yes, overwhelm, until they don’t.
#Ore-Gun
Oregon does not have a large population outside of it’s one “big city”. Most of eastern Oregon is a desert with very low population. Apples and Oranges comparison.
Again, Texas has 252 counties and many, many small cites of around 100K. All of them reliably red. They even go to church still!
Yes, people don’t realize what an utter wasteland much of this huge state is. Ditto Washington. Eastern Oregon is colder because much higher.
In the far East, the rain shadow of the Cascades begins to less and you get some nice countryside, especially up in the Eastern mountains near the Idaho border.
Hence the invasion of illegals, and the government’s intention to legalize them all.
Right, Beryl.
And a new immigrant is not the same as a Latino family present in the US multigenerationally. The recent immigrants are ALL socialist born and raised. They have NO concept of American freedom and minimal government.
Also, the number one target for people leaving California is Texas. They are not Reds. Even Abbott has voiced concern about this influx.
You like to hear yourself pontificate don’t you John?
ALL are born socialist? You’re full of shit. No one is born socialist, cupcake. It is indoctrinated over years.
I know you get off on wringing your hands and issuing your Jeremiads, but my experience in TX is that many, many Hispanics are conservative. Even the recently arrived. They are escaping socialism and tyranny.
Mick: There is such a thing as social conservatism (against gays and feminism) and fiscal liberalism – as much gibs as they can git.
They are an intensely practical people: Willing to both work hard and take us much from us as we are stupid enough to give them.
Apart from John’s awkward phrasing, he is right and you are wrong.
Mick, I also have that same experience, that hispanics and latinos are conservative.
I saw this in California, as well.
To start with, they are religious (Catholic). They are not into the wokieness. They are family-oriented and fiscally conservative as well.
They also don’t like the fact that they went through all of the legal channels to become legit citizens and others just come on in and compete for jobs without doing that.
“they”? So huge numbers of Hispanic Catholics aren’t crossing our borders illegally?
You meet the legal ones or the ones who have been here a long time. So you base your opinion on your own (very) limited experience – a complete error.
It won’t happen here. Abbott is sending them to northern sanctuary cities weekly now.
Plus, no one in Texas can vote unless he is a true citizen. Born or naturalized. Naturalization takes years.
Sure, some blue states can change the rules to allow non-citizens to vote. It will not happen in Texas for the next several decades.
If worse comes to worse Texas will truly secede. I’m not saying that to be dramatic either. If DC ever says that “aliens must be allowed to vote”, Texas will give the finger and say “Buh Bye”……and we’re keeping the bases. Come and get them if you feel lucky.
But, in reality, the Supreme Court as it is now will not go along with DC interfering with how individual states conduct elections and voting. The constitution allows states to regulate their own election rules. And we’ve going back in that direction with some of the leftist decisions in the 60s and 70s being overturned lately.
So you are in Austin? I have lived there. Is it unbearably wokie these days? It seems it was the only place the hippies really liked in the state – lol. But I was there a looooong time ago.
Mick,
When I arrived in Oregon in 1972, it was relatively conservative. The post was meant to highlight the obvious…that things change.
#BetoORourke….
I think most Texans have a strangely inflated view of the state’s “redness”.
Watching from away, all I see is a state led by a fake conservative who is doing nothing to stop an endless flow of invaders. Oh, there’s lots of blustering, but nothing meaningful has, or will be done about it.
Texas is already blue. You just haven’t realized it yet.
Greg Abbot is doing a good job and I have yet to talk to a fellow Texan who doesn’t love that he’s filling up buses with illegal immigrants and shipping them to DC. The last load was in front of Kamala’s house. No joke.
The day after the Trump election I was talking to the Hispanic custodian (who was born and raised in Austin) and he had voted for Trump. He said he wanted the illegals sent back since they were undercutting his wages. And Hispanic men are not interested in pretending they’re women or women who pretend they’re men.
JAZ,
Re Texas, correct.
The crucial power of Texas, also in wielding/leveraging power in DC, is very well explained and documented here:
httpxx://www.amazon.com/Cronies-Bushes-Texas-Americas-Superstate/dp/1586481886
Per Bryce, Nixon sent Bush to Texas to run the political operation of clawing it away from the Dems.
Now we have to hope that the sutures do not open!
Pardon the mixed-metaphor!
Of course, other major power centers have developed since that book was written (e.g., Silicon Valley eclipsing or competing with oil interests).
But I think Texas is still crucial.
To add to my newly found and consistently used response regarding “matters of the day” which is “I don’t know for sure” comes this interesting and pertinent factoid:
Elon Musk is the grandson of one Joshua Haldeman, the Canadian messiah of Technocracy. Forced out of Canada for his socio-political leanings, he migrated to South Africa. And the rest is history. Or perhaps, the future foretold?
Those who are not aware of Canadian Polly St George, “Amazing Polly,” are in for a new experience here. A regular Whitney Webb (Polly has been going a lot longer than W.W.,) so that’s not exactly fair, but you get my point, I hope.
The connections Polly establishes in this representative of her work video, as ever astounding to me as the first one of hers I experienced, left me astounded, if not amazed. As usual.
Her body of work includes much graphic detail of Canadian politicians like Chrystia Freeland, whose rise to power (now Deputy PM,) was decided at the highest levels of what are perceived by me to be the Principalities of Darkness, a creature of NATO/Atlantic Council and the Unnamed Directors. On her way she wrote the authorized biography of George Soros, spending much time with the man, and is now a director at WEF.
I’ll conclude by remarking on her own grandfather having been ratlined from Europe to the Alberta prairies after being the chief Ukrainian Nazi propagandist during WW II. Chrystia grew up on grandpa’s knee. And has had an apartment on Maidan Square for decades.
hxxps://odysee.com/@Amazing_Polly_Bck:8/K9UNzmF4JPtb_640x360:f
Freeland was also a Rhodes Scholar which is also a mark of the NWO.
As a Canadian I find it a disgrace that she can be our Finance Minister and our deputy PM while serving on the WEF board , a blatant conflict of interest.
Ah yes….Billy Blythe, aka William J. Clinton, was a Rhodes Scholar. While over there in England he organized an anti-War protest or two, and got to make a trip to the Soviet Union by train through Europe at a time when an American had to have very special permission from the KGB!
Huh. I just reminded myself that two of our NWO affiliated presidents, terms separated by only eight years, went all through their respective childhoods with names other than the names they “chose” politically.
Billy Blythe and Barry Soetero. And both have sketchy backgrounds with regards to their “father”. Or, true father.
Both of course have Langley’s fingerprints all over them.
Amen, canuck. As a lifelong Alaskan growing up on the border I always found it in my best interest to stay apprised of Canadian doings. She didn’t exactly come out of nowhere; she’s been on my radar for over a decade. What a ‘well-connected’ career path. Rumors have it they next want to make her the next NATO chief.
Yes I have heard that BOJO or Freeland are the candidates; Stoltenberg is a career NWOer so ti wouldn’t change much.
Bojo in charge of Nato. The thought makes me shudder. That idiot will get us into WW3.
she is gone from utube
Find her on Bitchute.
httpX://www.amazingpolly.net/
The comparison with Whitney Webb is appropriate.
Thx for the backup. She is something else!
I agree.
Her new vid, “Freeing the Jews,” is IMO quite extraordinary.
Sure, she might be “wrong” about a few things—but fear of being wrong goes along with the need to be right. And this kind of person is intellectually hampered (and very hard to live with).,
Polly’s new video “Freeing the Jews” is quite extraordinary in her deconstruction of cult creation, the role of retraumatizing, triggering, and more.
She is an exceptional thinker.
Plus, easy on both the eyes and ears.
As Professor MacDonald said, they allowed the Elite to hide behind them because they benefitted from that relationship. But given the savaging they have received via Israel’s vax program, they might not be benefitting anymore.
Now I’m suspicious. Is it possible that Gay Twitter Execs rigged the vote that made Admiral Rachel Levine (Stunning & Brave) 2021 Woman of the Year? I wouldn’t put anything past those sonsabitches!
I must have misunderstood… according to the Babylon Bee ‘the Admiral’ was ‘Man of the Year’.
So much confusion these days…….
Excellent essay and intriguing final question.
Do Americans care about free speech?
I think that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real mental illness and it causes disordered thinking, including the firm belief that information should only be allowed to come from the top, and the only views that should be allowed to be expressed are those approved by our rulers.
It is odd that it is those who were liberal who got infected so badly, but…..there it is.
“Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real mental illness”
but…..there it is.
It’s been a struggle getting this far, but that one line made it worth it.
Thanks.
Brittney Griner is not a Trans-lesbian but a hermaphrodite.
Final answer.
That’s a rare specimen.
Like a White Lobster.
So then, if you told him/her to go fuck him/herself, he/she might just take you up on it. A career on PornHub awaits!
His name is Brett, he was so bad at basketball in high school he joined the girl’s team in his sophomore year.
A pioneer, an early adopter, a leader of the future!
griner was brett?
That’s a touching modern American story! I hope Netflix makes the biopic. (You know they will).
I can’t wait for the new American Doll celebrating this stunningly brave individual.
Alzaebo – as far as I understand things, that’s simply not accurate.
More importantly, why does it even matter to you, to the point where you’d knowingly spread lies?
And Jacinda Arden (that ardent soul!) was a beautiful girl who became a man who became a tranny.
Jacinda would call you, as she did yesterday to the leader (David Seynour) of a minor right-wing-wanna-be party (ACT), an ‘arrogant prick’.
Like Big Mike?
Brittney puts the UG in ugly just saying.
I don’t know what you mean by hermaphodite, but here is a little something I saved for the confusion sown by the Establishment about human biology.
“Sex is biological and 99.98 percent of humans are either straight up male or female with no ambiguities. It’s determined at conception and fertilization, and is observable in every cell, every system, all our hormones, every organ, and in our entire biology. Sex is not assigned, it’s observed as a physical, material, and biological fact. Ultimately it’s all about the gametes. If you produce sperm you are male. If you produce ova you are female. No human was ever born without the haploid contribution of both male and female gametes.
And as regards intersex, this occurs in about 0.017 percent of humans and every case is a disorder of sexual development of either a male or a female. We have a ton of good data and the DSD categories are well understood genetically. These are the six biological karyotype sex disorders that do not result in immediate death to the fetus:
X – Roughly 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 5,000 people (Turner’s )
XX – Most common form of female
XXY – Roughly 1 in 500 to 1 in 1,000 people (Klinefelter)
XY – Most common form of male
XYY – Roughly 1 out of 1,000 people
XXXY – Roughly 1 in 18,000 to 1 in 50,000 births
“If you are 46, XX, you are female. If you are 45, XO, you are still female, but with Turner syndrome. 47 XXX, 48XXXX and 49XXXXX, aren’t a spectrum of femaleness, they are classified as female chromosomal disorders. If you are 46, XY, you are male. If you are 47, XXY, you are male, but with Kleinfelter syndrome. If you are 48, XXYY, you are male, but with XXYY syndrome. 48,XXXY, 49,XXXXY. All are still male. These aren’t on a spectrum – they are categorized as male genetic disorders. They aren’t considered intersex conditions, but a lot of trans activists like to claim they are.
If someone had trisonomy 21, we don’t say they are on a human spectrum of any sort, we classify them as having Down syndrome.
Intersex conditions by themselves can exist in a spectrum, but only in relation to the severity of that specific condition. But even over that spectrum they have clearly defined categories. Androgen insensitivity syndrome is someone who is genetically male, but their reproductive organs don’t masculinize. It has 3 categories of severity.
There is no spectrum gradient between male and male with androgen insensitivity syndrome. These are clearly defined categories. There is no spectrum gradient between female and androgen insensitivity syndrome. You are either in the category female or category male with androgen insensitivity syndrome. There is no spectrum gradient between having an intersex condition and not.
If you have all the typical indicators of your sex, you are that sex, you are in that category. If you are born with the number and type of sex chromosomes off from your external genitalia, with unmatching or mixed type of gonads, with ambiguous internal reproductive anatomy; and/or ambiguous external genitalia, then you are in the intersex category. There is NO spectrum gradient or overlap between being typical male and having an intersex condition.”
Bottom line: Intersex is a specific set of individual genetic disorders of sexual development – not a third sex or a collection of different sexes.
Gender on the other hand is a set of trivial characteristics associated with the performance of masculine or feminine behaviors. These are entirely cultural constructs and are widely varied culture to culture. Typically gender is the box constructed to limit the power of females. And if you don’t understand the ways that male transactivists are consciously and intentionally infringing on the rights of women then you have not been paying attention. Either that or you are purposely blind to the intensely violent misogyny directed at women from that population.
Bottom line is there are two sexes, three orientations, and 7.6 billion genders. Rocks are hard. Water is wet. Men are not women. Women are not men. Nobody is ever born into the wrong body.”.
Another false statement. This blog is stacked knee-deep in false statements…
(Replying to the jerk upthread who decided Britney is a hermaphrodite.)
Suzin,
When Frank Buttitch emphatically stated that Griner was/is a hermaphrodite, can you tell me who he was responding to? I try to work backwards, i.e. scroll upwards from Buttitch’s comment to see who he was talking to but without success.
I do t know if anyone mentioned this yet, but Chris Plante (formerly of CNN) reported that Michael, er Michelle Obama demanded to have Trump removed from Twitter, and the little fascists complied. Nice.
Do you catch the difference since Clinton?
The Left Mob feels they own this country now. They feel that the Reds are their enemies to be cut down and destroyed. Mob mentality.
Definitely not fellow Americans.
The mindset of the current Left is of a dictatorial state with only one party, theirs. Anything else is an mortal enemy.
It’s been that way since Ronald Raegan.
Possibly even since Nixon it just gets a little more extreme and bizarre every year.
Benr, it’s been that way since FDR, perhaps even Thomas Woodrow Wilson or before. Wilson believed that the point of education is to make a man as unlike his father as possible, meaning overthrow social norms through what is taught in school and remake society in whatever image he and his allies wanted. Wilson was so humble that he thought he could create the Kingdom of God on Earth. He forgot that a) that wasn’t his job, b) God is quite capable of establishing his kingdom, thank you, and c) Wilson’s vision involved ungodly things such as overregulation, bigotry, and turning the Klan loose on the country to keep uppity people in line. This may be sinful for me to say, but he kind of got what he deserved when he had a debilitating stroke. The downside, of course, was his wife then ran the country as a dictatrix, and forged Wilson’s name on bills. Yet another case of Democrats ignoring laws and the Constitution so their agenda was advanced.
The Reds? The Republicans aren’t red, the Left is the Reds. We’re probably the only place on Earth where the fascists socialist Left has managed to steal the color blue from the traditionalists, probably so they can pretend that they are defending America from the revolutionaries. And unfortunately, as you state, they’re mostly successful.
It’s sort of amazing – a testament to psychology really – that regardless of intelligence or education, so many continue to ignore the essential point made by marx.
That The class struggle is the fundamental human condition. Of course what Marx didn’t spell out, but rather implied, is this dynamic is none other than the classic predator prey relationship.
Now I understand some like to label their foes as psychopaths, demons, what have you. As if imaging self righteous superioriority confers some kind of claim to moral authority to the loser.
Thought experiment: consider the zebras judgment as it lies prone on the savanah while a lion tears its guts out. Is it the ‘winner’ in this conflict?
Now, if you can transcend your deeply programmed beliefs in agency, free will and self determination, you will find yourself no longer sad, depressed, angry or complaining, but actually able to observe the world around you in a calm and rationale manner.
And what do you conclude? That what is occurring is perfectly logical, in fact, in actuality a well very thought out rational plan towards conquest, power and control.
It’s so so very simple. Merely gain control of media, security and finance, and you can push, shove and coerce the sheep in any direction you might wish.
what direction might that be today? Well, let’s consider population overshoot, resource depletion and environmental degradation: what would YOU do?
That’s right, every event you see, hear, read and discuss covers the obvious truth standing naked out in the open. You just have to free yourself of the (self) imposed mental shackles preventing you from understanding the truth.
Media, security, finance, government and judiciary, for anyone else their is no alternate path.
Secession or capitulation.
What would be the demographic composition of your secessionist state and would it be viable economically and from a capacity to defend itself
“Well, let’s consider population overshoot, resource depletion and environmental degradation: what would YOU do?”
Turn off the television.
It would appear you cannot take your own advice.
It’s not that hard to do since their opponents compete as individuals while they fight as a group. Competition as Americans understand it is for suckers. Our ancestors would have been amazed at our gullibility. They fought as a group against the ignoble red man. If they hadn’t, they wouldn’t have been able to defeat the Indians – who did fight as groups.
Zebras are actually pretty tough. There’s one video of a lion and a zebra wrestling in the water. The lion has a grip on the zebras throat, but the zebra pushes its head under water so the lion has to release its grip or drown.
And they sometimes stand as a herd against the lions.
“Overall, Plains Zebras number around 750,000, but there are only an estimated 1,200-1,500 Cape Mountain Zebras, 13,000 Hartmann’s Mountain Zebras, and 2,500 Grevy’s zebras remaining today.
Zebras are hunted for their skins and meat, both of which are still in demand. Sometimes they are killed by humans in order to eliminate grazing competition for livestock in a given area. Plains zebras suffer from drought and a lack of natural resources. Currently, the Grevy’s zebra is classified as endangered.
Today, lions are extinct in 26 African countries, have vanished from over 95 percent of their historic range, and experts estimate that there are only about 20,000 left in the wild.
Under a million zebras, 20 thousand lions remain, but Night Owl says all is well on Planet Earth. He also seems too dim to notice that acknowledging these facts doesn’t mean an endorsement of genocide. Or to be on mitchell’s wavelength of “our superior rulers will save the Earth, so I applaud them, the end justifies the means”
Us? 8,000,000,000 and counting.
This is my same argument, well said, Rulo.
The decimation of so many species in such a short time is directly tied to humans. So is the destruction of our environment. Currently, we are in trouble because of pesticides decimating insects which we need for pollination and other purposes. They go, we go. Simple as that.
And claiming that there are too many people does not at all mean you endorse genocide, or getting rid of anyone, or agree with the Green New Deal or Gates or any of the insane psychopaths.
“Says all is well”
Translated
“I cannot prove my statement that the earth is at ‘carrying capacity'”
Such a little bitch. Be a man and admit what you are.
Night Owl, did you just call me a little bitch?
He’s into name-calling these days
I did two things. Pointing out that you again put words in my mouth. And then calling you a bitch.
Now you ask whether I called you a bitch, when anyone who likes can scroll up and see it.
You are weak and you fight like a bitch.
I’ve been struggling as to the “why” regarding the Ukrainian war. From my perspective it goes like this.
1. We’ve been marching on Russia for the last twenty years because we need an enemy to justify not only massive amounts of dollars to the MIC, but to justify the continued existence of NATO.
2. Why do we need NATO? As a means to bring other country’s into the US sphere of influence, or to expand our empire. A natural inclination.
3. Of course bringing the war, both on the battle field and economically, to a powerful and dead serious Russia, with it’s allies, could have such massive consequences.
4. But the sticker is, what kind of “out-of-their-mind” frame of mind among our leaders could possibly throw down a wager like this, recklessly betting this once magnificent country for a few personal nickels. My guess is this comes in large part from a drunk fired up by arrogance. The same arrogant drunken players that we see brought us the mirror image covid response.
What do you think endgame is for Ukraine? With no Navy or Airforce left to speak of, their Army being ground up into fine dust at Bakhmut, and the country’s energy & transportation infrastructure smashed to bits, armageddon has arrived. No amount of US dollars or fragile, sophisticated weapons systems can save the day. Sleepy Joe is going to have to explain to America where the $100 billion went (beyond “Our Values”) Or maybe he won’t have to explain anything at all, just move one to something else, like what happened after the debacle in Afghanistan. The MSM won’t be asking any questions and will be more than happy to provide cover.
The endgame is a wider war between NATO and Russia. The endgame is taking Putin out of power and neutralizing Russia forever.
I didn’t say this is a sane endgame. But I think it is what “they” want. Hence, the greenlight given to Ukraine to drone targets in Russia. They want Russia to respond with an escalation that will be matched with a response that will…..
Right now Poland is conscripting 200K new troops. Of course they ‘ve been told to do this. Poland is all too willing. They’re down for war.
Why didn’t Ukraine get angry when *Biden released a Russian arms dealer?
The US war plans have envisioned a war “Over There” in Europe, same as the last two times, with the US profiting from the destruction, same as the last two times.
Putin already warned us that Russia will not sacrifice 27 million people to enrich the US again.
But so far he is falling into their game. The war is on Ukrainian soil and mostly Russians are dying, on both sides.
The Kiev regime is conscripting ethnic Russians and sending them to the front to be killed.
At what point will Russia quit playing homie’s game? I guess we’ll find out.
” mostly Russians are dying, on both sides.”
Where did you get this idea?
Or, what exactly do you mean?
I got it from a commenter on MoA who posted a breakdown of where the conscripted soldiers are coming from.
They mostly come from Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine.
Kiev and Liov are practically untouched. I had wondered why I saw so many photos of young men in Kiev, when I knew that men up to 60 years old had been snatched from the streets and sent to the front. It turns out that those men are not coming from Kiev.
There was also that division of Hungarian-speaking Ukrainians that was so heavily damaged.
If history has anything to say about it, NATO is not going to be winning any wars against Russia. Let one British or Dutch Tranny soldier set foot on Russian soil and there will be hell to pay. “We will never again be invaded from the West”- VPutin. The French are a little more formidable, but they were formidable in 1812 when Napoleon invaded Russia with 660,000 troops. Sure, they made it to Moscow, but quickly retreated; about 8000 troops made it back out of the original 660,000. The French govt was sending delegations into Russia trying to find the remains of Napoleon’s Army for the next 100 years, at least until WW1 started.
Never forget the impregnable Maginot Line. Never against would Germany invade France!
The Nazis just went around it to invade France.
The US wants the rest of NATO to be destroyed, just like the last two times.
If the US cared about Europe they wouldn’t have blown up their pipelines.
Michael Hudson and others have pointed out that the real target of the USA—or one of them–is actually Europe, not Russia.
His essays on this are available at the Unz Review.
Macron is starting to get the picture.
The USA is ramping up shell production for the long haul. New munitions plants being built. Tripling production and then doubling that. These plants don’t grow like turnips. Building takes time. Seems like as always artillery is the king of the battlefield. We’re planning for something big “over there”.
ussanews.com/2022/12/08/the-us-army-is-planning-something-big-dramatic-increase-in-artillery-shell-production-needed/
They are delusional. We aren’t safe beyond the oceans any more.
They are playing with fire, literally. They hand over shells to Ukraine and Ukraine uses them on civilians.
This pisses the Russian population off.
I’m pretty sure they agree with Putin that they aren’t saving the world all by themselves again.
Yes, the US govt appears to want to goad Putin into escalation. The drone targets in Russia.
And now, the US/EU/NATO (aka the US govt) is pushing to open another “front” in Kosovo, by prodding the “Kosovars” (ie, the Albanians in Kosovo) to harass the few remaining Serbs.
Serbia has two choices: watch as their kin, in what was (and is) THEIR country, are pushed around, harassed, and eventually killed or forced out (like the “protected” Greek minority in Istanbul/Constantinople was), or they can send their army in to protect the what’s left of the Serb minority, which is in the northern part of Kosovo.
NATO and KFOR were supposed to protect the Serb minority after the NATO war. NATO and KFOR did not.
Most Albanians may be decent people. However, if you look at organized crime, heroin, the sex trade and human trafficking, invariably one finds a disproportionate number of Albanians engaged in these activities. These are the type of people whom the remaining Serbs in Kosovo must contend with. Not nice, understand only one thing–force.
Serbia has not joined the sanctions against Russia. Serbia and Russia are traditionally close. The “West” (aka the US govt) wants to subjugate Serbia, both to punish and humiliate the Serbs, as well as their Russian allies.
We will see how Russia reacts to any US/NATO action.
To me, any Russian reaction implies escalation.
As for Poland, many Poles are blind with hatred of the Russians.
Historically, these nations have been going at it. Poland’s apogee was in the 1500s/1600s. They even made it to Moscow.
In 1792, Poland ceased to exist as separate nation until 1918. Today’s Poland is not that of the 1500s. While I applaud the Polish government for standing up to the EU’s political correctness agenda, this eagerness to be a willing tool of the US against Russia may not end well for them.
The Poles are also seeking war reparations from Germany. A touchy subject, given that Western Poland was German until the Soviets moved the border and expelled millions (4-6, I think) of Germans from what used to be Eastern Prussia. It won’t end well. But I digress–sorry, but these things are all intertwined.
Exactly. Russia is the most resource rich nation on Earth and the neocons want those resources. They also have an inbred hatred of Russia and all things Russian. The globalists also want Russia destroyed because it is a thorn in the WEF flesh. Russia is white, religious and doesn’t take any globalist crap. However, the neocons/globalists have already lost. Not only is Putin a much better leader than any of them put together, but China is backing Russia. And China won’t let Russia fail militarily or economically because it knows that, if it does, they will be next. And that’s left now is a) to see how much of the rest of Ukraine Russia destroys, and b) what other acts of evil the globalist/neoncons will unleash in their insane desire to double down at all costs.
All that’s left now…
Yep, they want those resources.
And Russia is Orthodox. The Catholics hate the Orthodox church.
Russia, Serbia, Syria, the west goes after Orthodox countries viciously.
People who blame the Rothchilds for all ills in the world should look at who they banked for, instead, and point the finger there.
Well said Paula.
The “West”, the offspring of Roman Catholicism, goes after Orthodox countries.
There have only been two major Orthodox powers in history:
The Byzantine Empire, which the West went after, viciously in 1204, which essentially paved the way for 1453, when Constantinople, the capital of a what was left of the Byzantine Empire (not much), fell to the Turks
and Russia.
I’ve seen, per Google, that “Smyrna, My Beloved” will be on DVD in February 2023.
PaulaD, and everyone here for that matter, I hope you watch it.
It is in the same league Gone With the Wind and Dr. Zhivago.
It is closer to a Greek “Gone With the Wind”, because in both movies, the old way of life is permanently swept away, but it does a much better job of weaving in the history of the situation.
It’s a 2-hour history overview.
BRH
What was the end game for Korea, for VietNam, for Afghanistan?
Easy, there wasn’t one.
The US government, MIC, does not want or need an endgame, just conflict that is never ending and eats troops and weapons.
What a marvelous deal going on now. No political problems AKA boots on the ground, but lots of proxies shooting our weapons against our enemy. What a great deal.
The Ukes are going to figure this out someday and figure out their best option is allying with Russia. The US and Europe are going to take it in the shorts when that happens.
At some point, the USA will fail entirely and collapse. And because of all the bombs we’ve been dropping on everyone for decades, the rest of the world might likely celebrate our demise and do much better without us.
After the death of the dollar and the end of the USA, we’ll be back to where we started before Columbus showed up here.
Tribal warfare and multiple nations.
That’s never going to happen as the conflict is centuries old. It’s just not the one we supposedly see
BRH,
I subscribe to the WSJ (not for much longer, although their Review section is generally good, and they have a couple of very sharp columnists), and the madness I see when browsing the comment section on anything Ukraine related (“Kill Russians!”) is a bad omen.
Nothing allowed there that opposes the official narrative, “Ukraine good, Russia bad, US and NATO will prevail” which is why I don’t comment and will cancel my subscription when I have a minute (they make it hard, or course)
I do comment on the World Cup section, and recently the AI in charge started censoring what I had to say there for violating some vague “community standards”.
And WSJ is one of the more pro-free speech of the MSM, supposedly.
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for your suggestion to send an old comment I wrote here a while ago, about running a farmers market, to Mother Earth News for possible publication. Turns out they did. If you are still a subscriber, it’s in the current issue. Thanks!
Very nice…well done.
Thank you, ladies and germs. I’d have never thought of it had BRH not suggested it.
That’s great, Rulo. Congrats!
Also, I just signed my wife up for a one-year print subscription for Christmas this year. Her thumb is much greener than mine.
A green thumb is more nurture than nature, strangely. One learns every day, so don’t let the wife do all the work, try a few simple things…
Wonderful news, congratulations!
Oh wow, that’s great. Mother Earth News is one of the few print magazines I still subscribe to.
Will look for your article.
I just realized that my newest issue is Oct/Nov.
Either the Dec/Jan is in the mail or I have an unpaid bill in the stack somewhere.
Paula, Dec/Jan… it was “moderated” and clipped though, so not as candid as my old comment here. And thanks.
Russia has been an enemy since the East Europe takeover after WW2. In 1992, the Soviet Union enemy collapsed asking the US for assistance. True to form, the US MIC could not allow this to happen, China was not a threat yet, and the possible “friendship” never formed. Quite the contrary, the US became a scavenger.
NATO was the product of a surge of globalism led by the US and UK at the end of the war and included Bretton Woods, The UN and NATO. This globalism was probably the precursor for the big tome global surges going on today. They could be a good thing if it weren’t for the fact that they are power drives for globalist parties and not the benign peacekeepers they pretend to be.
The suckers in Ukraine will soon find out how evil their US taskmasters really are.
Ukraine has the best farmland in Europe. That land has been the target of thieves for a long time.
The US is clearly serious when they say they want to fight to “the last Ukrainian”. Emptying all that land of the men leaves the women and the land to exploit.
Hence: the Ukrainian wives for sale.
Ukrainian law forbids the sale of their land to foreigners, but Cargill, Bayer/Monsanto, ADM, etc. have already bought up thousands of acres using proxies. If the US can keep control of the Ukrainian government it can change the laws.
And then on to Russia, the biggest country in the world, with farmland and oil and gas and minerals and a lot more.
Our overlords think that if they get rid of Putin they can move in and loot the way they did in the 90s.
They are risking nuclear war to get their greedy hands on Russian wealth.
thanks
For generations, Slavic girls have been lured out of their nations to become sex slaves in the United States, Israel, etc.
At least the Muslims were more “honest” about their thievery – which Islamic law says they have the right to do.
Holomodor
‘work in Israel’–disgusting. 100s of whorehouses in Tel Aviv.
In USA at least the slave maybe can escape.
Still? I thought I heard that the Israeli government had cracked down on that, but I’m not asserting that. Maybe it was just window dressing or just for the moment.
my news is old so maybe u r right.
They are risking nuclear (or NBC war) to get their greedy hands on Russian wealth.
Well put! And concise (unlike me).
Ha, ha. Check out my comment on intersex mutations. It is rather long.
But I copied and pasted.
I copied and pasted. – Paula
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That entire comment, all but the first sentence, is in quotes. Does that mean that everything within the quotes was copied and pasted? If so, kindly tell us who you are quoting. Source, attribution.
I got some family members all stirred up over this and they want to know.
Why are they stirred up? Can they not use a search engine?
They can either look up each abnormality separately or just google Disorders of Sexual Development, which is what they now call intersex.
I got it from a biologist who wrote it specifically to answer those who are confused about human biology.
As you can see by the comments here, and apparently your relatives, some people think that humans can be both male and female. This is not true, but it is being pushed all over from the Establishment so a lot of people believe it.
Children are now being taught in school that there are more than two sexes, that humans are not a sexually dimorphic species.
So again, this guy wrote the explanation to clarify human biology for the confused.
I used to know his name, but I forgot and I’m not inclined to spend an hour looking to calm down your relatives, since I’m not sure just what part of the comment they are in an uproar about. It’s just genetic science.
Paula, regarding your comment on Dec 15 @ 11:48 am:
I give up.
I Googled Disorders of Sexual Development and got 61 paragraphs to choose from.
Further you say “I used to know his name, but I forgot and I’m not inclined to spend an hour looking to calm down your relatives,”
You copy and pasted a long quotation from someone whose name you don’t remember.
I have always felt that it is the duty of the writer (or copy and paste-r) to do the grunt work of identifying a source rather than foisting the work on to the reader.
I don’t understand why they need the name of the author to fact check his work, is my point.
And last week I spent over an hour trying to find a source for Islander, who promptly dismissed it as not credible, even though it was from the NIH.
So you can see my point, I hope.
Also, Q, you did not identify what part of the information got your relatives in an uproar.
@ 333333:
“recklessly betting this once magnificent country for a few personal nickels….”
How often have you seen people do or say things that are spiteful and destructive for no apparent reason at all, and when you can see that there is no advantage to them at all–and likely a great disadvantage? You see this is families all the time. Sometimes it’s just casual meanness, but other times it’s very calculated.
So, what causes people to do this? Maybe just to assert dominance? The impulse to do this kind of thing is obviously very strong, even though the outcomes are pure poison.
Someone told me a long time ago that Freud, towards the end of his life, said that people have only two drives: sex and aggression. I never bothered looking into this until just now, but what Freud ACTUALLY said was that the two drives are Eros and Thanatos: sex and death. So he posited an actual “death drive.”
I don’t think much of Freud in general, but maybe he had something there.
Eros and Tanathos… love (life) and death (hatred)…
Freud wasn’t into anything new there. Not a fan of the man myself, either, Anthea.
A small anecdote of ongoing collapse.
So, I spent the weekend hauling my crap from China up three flights of stairs at the self-store because the ThyssenKrupp elevator is busted.
The storage lady said they have to bid the job out and it may cost $20-40k. They don’t know if they have the budget to fix it, and they have no ETA on parts.
This is not their only site with a busted elevator. They also struggle to keep people around at $14/hour.
I’m also seeing a lot of busted automatic doors at the big boxes and supermarkets around here. One of the supermarkets had someone drive into the outer wall of the front entryway.
Speaking of supermarkets, I read someone’s comment online that their local supermarket didn’t sell Christmas trees this year, as did in years past.
That’s when it struck me, what was different at my local market- no trees!
I think we are going to be seeing an increase in driving into buildings.
Yeah, that’ s funny. I haven’t noticed them here yet either. They’ve got a display of little fake trees over at Smith’s, but that’s all I’ve seen. But of course we’re surrounded by a Ponderosa Pine forest. Anyone with a chain saw and a truck to haul it off with just goes and cuts their own.
As to the automatic doors, the local hospital complex in Santa Fe, which is undergoing massive new construction, has electric doors everywhere now, even at the individual clinic entrances. Never saw so many in my life!
Peak clown world
3rd coast, I’d add my observation about the declining quality in all mass produced food, along with increasing genetically modified ingredients. Higher prices and lower quality/availability across the board.
Beside Cuba, how many nations are in food and energy crisis?
USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) tracks food security trends in 77 low- and middle-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.
This year, with commodity prices rising in 2022 global food insecurity also. The number of food-insecure people is 1.3 billion, an increase of 118.7 million people, or 10 percent, from 2021 data.
I’ll guess that the average typist here has it made in the shade compared to an average sod live between LA and New York who have a food and energy crisis. An average wage does not buy what it used to buy. Good food costs and someone has to drive to get it..
They ain’t eating too good in Lebanon right now.
Malthuss, that’s an easy one: any nation that the globalists decide is in a “food and energy crisis” is in a food and energy crisis.
The US continues to supply missiles to the Ukie nazis. They continue to use them to kill civilians.
?? The enemy militants continue intense shelling of the #Donetsk agglomeration with strikes on the centre of #Donetsk and other settlements, civilians killed.
?? Ukrainian militants shelled #Melitopol with HIMARS MLRS. The shells hit the Hunters’ Rest Base and killed civilians. Despite the massive strike, not a single military facility was hit. There were no casualties among the military personnel.
Jaz, your comments are on point, but I need to ask, why do you care?
After all, who’s more at fault, the criminals who simply do what they’re programmed to do, or the idiot sheep that against all forewarning still allowed the situation to occur?
Why align with these masses? Why do they deserve anything other than contempt? That’s why I say (mentally) walk away. The country is done; perhaps it never actually existed other than in our fantasies.
Rather, if any are looking for possible salvation, look abroad. Look to a country brimming with natural resources along with the most extreme low population to land ratio on the planet.
Look to a country culturally unified, one with a thousand year history, one with a record of not one nor two existential battles for survival, but three and currently undergoing a fourth test.
And when they prevail, when the dollar standard is upset, as the reality of resource depletion dawns on ‘muricans, what then?
What then indeed as your predicted balknization, secession and dissolution take place, first recognized as the present mental construct, then actual physical boundaries?
So again I ask, why do you care?
Probably because I do not want the bastards to win.
How come every other “patriot” on this blog wants to see the bastards get theirs? Am I so different?
If I am, I am glad I am.
I am 75, the changes coming will probably not affect me much.
But I have a daughter and a grandson.
Call it Apple Pie, Mother, Patriotism, USA,USA,USA, pride to start the list. The lack of ‘caring’ is part of the problem.
I asked mitch his ethnic group. He didn’t respond. That may be a clue to his identity. We assume he has no group allegiance since he argues against OUR having any. Eric Hoffer did the same thing to much acclaim – from his countrymen in the media.
I could have been – probably still be – an Aryan poster boy.
Mom’s side has been here since Plymouth, dad’s more recent from the 1848 revolutions
I’m like garlic to the demons; they instinctively react. And it’s mutual – I can spot them a mile away.
( I shit you not, I’ve had strangers stop me and either ask if I’m a kennedy or simply blurt out I look like royalty. I know cringe but there it is)
At some point the Germans had to accept their loss, and get on with it, whether in s America or homeland. They got outplayed and didn’t think it through.
Same here – the idiot masses completely, utterly defeated & humiliated. You keep stating the obvious as if it will have any impact or bearing
It’s over and the sooner people figure it out and stop playing maybe just maybe history can proceed apace with what many here may think but can never say out loud
Thanks for all the good reasons to take what you say with a grain of salt, esp. the cringe-worthy Kennedy self-image.
And the ueber-cynical nonsense, totally predictable, ill-concealed gratuitous hostility toward other commenters, IMHO.
Good grief!!! You look like royalty? Let’s hope you don’t look like the Hapsburgs with their inbred inherited facial abnormalities. I’d keep stuff like that quiet if I was you………
In my senior year in high school, I had a few people ask me if I was German. Newer students who I had never seen (all non-white; I am not making any kind of statement, but it was that way). They thought I was an exchange student or something.
Good times.
Perhaps another Rulo type, with Dad being one of those Germans who thought Marx was a superstar.
They love not lying but not telling the Truth either – thus lying since they know the hapless Europids will assume something they didn’t say. Their response? A huge grin and, “Well that’s on them.”
“with Dad being one of those Germans who thought Marx was a superstar”
Jarek, you’re quite mad. I’m sure I’m not the first one who tells you that.
He has you mixed up with another commenter.
Can’t stop laughing.
& yeah he’s quite mad.
This sub- thread is trending more Groucho than Karl.
Crazy? Sure I’m crazy – like a fox! Or as the Bard said, only when the wind is north northwest.
Rulo wants to believe he just woke up one morning in an Israeli work camp (kibbutz). No reason given. He just signed himself up zombie style.
No, Jarek.
You are not crazy like a fox.
A fox is sly, you’re just obnoxious.
Jarek, I am not Jewish. I wouldn’t mind or resent being Jewish, but I’m not, I’m Catholic, born and raised. Some of my ancestors were non religious Jews from the Balkans, most of my genes however come from Christian Spaniards, Belgians and Italians as far as I know.
Why do I bother to explain you this. You’d still hate me and wish me death because of an abstraction and a lie – the abstraction of race, the lie of us not being, ultimately, mutts.
And you refuse to do your research about the heyday of the kibbutz socialist farming experiment in Israel. Yes, Jewish boys and girls volunteered, but there were large numbers of Gentiles attracted to the experience, the sun, the chance to get laid, perhaps even in Jerusalem. During my experience there, ALL the other volunteers (around 50) were from the UK, Denmark, Spain and a single Argie, now very happy to be in the World Cup final again, against France this year.
Ok, thanks. One last question: Is you dad Jewish, thus making you not Jewish since the descent is through the mother? Like Bill Maher, who obviously identifies with his Jewish side? I cam even understand: As Osama Bin Ladin said, If you see a strong horse and a weak horse, you will like the strong one better.
The Kibbutz movement is interesting. Maybe someday you could write another article about the whole experience and its influence of you and your ideas of farming.
Jarek, the few kike genes I carry come through my dad, yes, who is not Jewish himself. Happy? Add a note to your database. When the pogroms come, you know…
An article, maybe, but their methods worked in the past, wouldn’t work today, I think. In the late 90s when I was there no Israeli youth wanted to farm. The work was done by Danes and Canadians volunteering for a summer or so, hired Thai workers, and hired Palestinians.
Hahahahahhaa!
Maybe he’s not as obsessed by ethnicity as you are. Not many are.
Truer words were never spoken, Wokey. And then they are amazed to find their cities turning to shit and their capital city no longer their own. Not just London, Washington too!
We tried to save the West. No one can say that we didn’t. But you all were too stupid. And you will realize it before the End.
Maybe in my next incarnation, I will be as wise and all-knowing as you, Jarek. Now off you go and trim your toothbrush moustache!
Hereward, Jarek is hopeless. Hatred blinds his judgement.
So again I ask, why do you care?
Cursed with the breath of life and aware of it, I’d like my life to count for something.
K-Dog
That ‘Tools Section’ is a nice addition to your site. I was pleasantly surprised, not something one often sees on a blog dedicated to environmental & political issues.
Pretty sad if you are however old you are now and you still think your life does not count.
Better to help people around you who need it.
Pay it forward.
Hold the door open and wish people a good day.
Buy someone a cup of coffee or breakfast without them knowing who did it.
Small things can really brighten someone’s day.
Good one, Dog. Thank you.
Yes indeed! Move to Russia, brimming with natural resources and low population. Get busy learning that new alphabet and those new sounds, It’s a hard language to learn.
Now after the fall of the Soviet Union, there were some people with your attitude in Russia, they called ’em “oligarchs”. Putin has kicked their asses good, and kicked a lot of ’em out of Russia. You still sure you want to move there?
Putin’s achievements in Russia – and I know he’s no saint, either – give hope that even a nation as screwed as the US can be pulled back from the brink by a determined and competent leader. And no, I don’t mean Trump.
@ Hereward the Woke:
The US could be pulled back from the brink by communities of good people.
The reason the US is in this fix is because the people and their communities have become degraded. They have long been under attack from outside forces seeking to degrade them, so maybe they are not so much to blame.
Anthea, I don’t believe that a Putin-like character could save America. I no longer believe that someone in DC can do this. The DS is too deep. It will have to come from the ground level. I’m not American, so I don’t pretend to know, but I’m sure there are still some very strong ground-level communities out there who can be springboards for a new kind of America. We live in hope!
Woodchuck, yes, the resources, and the endless profit from the military industrial complex.
Russia has a lot of BTU of energy still easily accesible, thus cheap. That cannot stand.
mitch – The country is done; perhaps it never actually existed other than in our fantasies.
Okay. Interesting mind game if we were all in freshman pysch class, but overall a bridge too far.
Of course it did. And of course not in the way we and our grandparents pretended it did. But it was better then than it is now. We actually thought we were together. Now all people can think about is how we’re apart. That is what exists, and it did not come about randomly. We did, in some cohesive form, exist. And what used to be was far superior to the nonsense we are forced to ingest today. Minus GPS.
Yes, Mango. We used to be taught that we were one country, bound by our fondness for freedom and justice.
Now we are taught that we were conceived in white evil and dedicated to genocide and that free speech is dangerous.
Very different.
I remember when twitter was introduced on the internets. They called it a microblogging platform. I thought it was stupid. Now I read it quite often, but only when writers that I follow embed tweets on their websites. I never visit twitter directly. Is this not the first time Kunstler embedded a tweet? I cringed when Facebook appeared. It was a walled off ecosystem in wwwhat was primarily free and open. Why would I want to go to facebook when I could visit writers I liked directly, I have said with Kunstler on my mind. Social media is only a way to herd people. I’d like to see vaccination rates in social media users, compared with people who use RSS readers.
So the Tesla guy is not a total moron. But he obviously has not read “The Geography of Nowhere”. I am just waiting for the day I can’t just boot up + read the Monday Kunstler bcuz the grid went down charging all the stupid cars.
Here’s a thread about some of the goings-on at Twitter, pre-Musk, if anyone is interested.
“The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the “Twitter files” but it’s much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1602127460677844993.html
Dilbert is a documentary.
so true, Lyndy.
The widescale lack of backups at Twitter is a felony-tier non-compliance issue, compounded by the execs’ decision to leave it be.
I’m so not surprised. Good stuff here, thanks, BoO.
“minor-attracted persons,” – JHK
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Hahaha lol, similar to calling the poor “under resourced.”
Reading the article my brain slipped ‘predecessor’ in where it was supposed to read ‘protector’ and the following sentence appeared. I found it to be revealing:
“In the process, that gay mafia running the public dialogue supported every lie that the government, its predecessor, put out.”
excuse me for breaking in on this enjoyable r/K selection debate,
but Mr. Kunstler has done a fine and courageous service, again:
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In the process, that gay mafia running the public dialogue supported every lie that the government, its protector, put out,
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some objection was made that there are other named groups who are more obvious as the powers that be.
however, consider the venn diagram. it is the overlapping middle between the two circles where there is the point of power.
Is Yoel gay? That’s not why he is powerful. It’s the other part of his identity that did that. All other things being equal of course. I think Tucker said he had no background in this, but of course he is smart and of all the right persuasions.
Niner,
Re Venn diagrams, a sage observation and the right image, IMO.
JHK I think implied a presumed (by others; not by him) direct connection between this gay mafia and “murky” elites. He then quashed that idea.
I don’t presume such a direct connection.
But I would like to know how WEF power “rippling” outward and downward intersects with other groups pushing agendas that end up serving the same end, such as that of the Gay Mafia:
Namely, suppression of inconvenient narrative-busting information of multiple sorts (and, it appears, pushing grotesque info/images that erode accepted social norms).
I don’t know what the connections are between Soros and the WEF. But I do know that Soros has funded campaigns for many local DAs and these DAs have allowed agendas that encourage social chaos, and this social chaos seems to be an enabling precondition of achieving the WEF agenda.
My personal view/question/inquiry: How do these circles of power intersect? That is what I think we need to delve into. Whitney Webb is doing that kind of work. Her Dore interview was mainly confined to the Venn diagram of USA power structures, but in her interview with Glenn Beck she went much, much further.
“How Elites Will Create a New Class of Slaves”
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-d3jFIGxdQ
thank you Islander, for your fine explication of the overlapping middle. (also called the vesica pisces, in the perfect case).
yes, these little blobs of conspirators who are like-minded in 2 or 3 or more directions.
and who may circulate in all those defined groups.
i don’t usually read W.Webb but will look at your cite.
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-d3jFIGxdQ ;
i’ve long wondered about the communication systems available to these groups. the twitter business, in the open like that protected only by personal password is amazingly stupid and careless.
they never seem to understand that the internet is like the newspapers used to be, and it’s merely a question of who wants to take it further.
they never seem to understand that they too can be outed and the subject of intense criticism.
woke for one, woke for all.
you made a very nice image: the power of WEF rippling out — through how many other self-identifying groups and institutions.
we only seem to see them after they attack us.
that’s why i say, escape, escape. and watch their slow motion fall from afar.
we could beat them in the streets like the brazilians and chinese, but alas, that is not our way. we no longer have the habit of the streets. and the streets have been taken from us by the druggers and muggers.
it isn’t enough to know; we must position ourselves.
“Twitter’s chief censors were deranged ideologues abusing their power over our discourse to silence dissent. —Glenn Greenwald”
Doesn’t Glenn know? One MUST be a deranged ideologue of some kind to be allowed to sit in ANY position of power in today’s Modern Age of Terminal Wokeness.
Loyalty to the Country? Competence? Ability? Morals? Bah! Hah! None of that (stuff) matters today. Only one question needs to be answered for one to have a bright future in our World of the Deranged Woke: ARE YOU ONE OF US?
“Twitter’s senior ranks of content moderators included over a dozen former FBI and CIA agents and analysts…”
People have talked about the ‘Revolving Door’ of folks who cycle between Government and Private Interests with the ease of someone going in and out of the big New York City Macy’s store doors.
But again… this ease of movement is only for those who suffer from ‘TWD’. Yes, that dreadful disease that is a TRUE pandemic in this World as opposed to the Phony One shoved down our throats the past three years by bad script writers and sick men and women in lab coats and deranged social manipulators.
Yes… the horrid affliction of ‘TWD’ — Terminal Wokeness Disease. For which there is no cure. And there never will be. When one allows TWD to take over their body and mind… there is no coming back, ever. All you can be is an highly-infectious carrier out there to infect others.
“… they also promoted the most-deadly psy-op in world history: the Covid-19 scare and the mass ‘vaccination’ crusade that will end up killing many millions world-wide, after destroying the economies of the Western Civ nations.”
And those who perpetrated these horrendous atrocities… handshakes and high-fives all around and lots and lots and lots of money and benefits for Them for the rest of their unnatural lives. Which actually shouldn’t be that long since They all suffer from TWD and very dark and twisted humanity-hating psyche impulses.
“As TS Eliot observed: ‘Humankind cannot bear too much reality’.”
And these days, humankind can’t seem to tolerate ANY reality.
“… Elon has put the basic question to America: Are you in favor of free speech or not?”
The whole notion of needing to ask such a question during times that were sane would be considered nonsensical and laughable. But yes, here we are… needing to ask questions that are fundamentally ridiculous for a Nation that still laughingly purports to be about Freedom.
But this IS a Nation that still promotes Freedom. Freedom to ‘Follow Orders!’ that is.
“Vox populi, Vox dei”. The voice of the people is the voice of God. Thus does Loki (Elon) mock us. But what he himself believes, who can say? Not that in any case!
My point? You don’t have to believe in democracy to not want these monsters to rule the Earth. Part of doing that is to stifle all other voices but their own. So Elon Loki opposes them because – well maybe because he just hates assholes. What are you against? What have you got? It could be as simple as that. But that, even if a bit twisted, is a a desire for freedom. Not unmixed with license of course. We were once better than that, but no longer. Once upon a time, he would have no moral message for us, but he does now, alas.
ok, so they want us to walk in circles until we drop, like the sheep, the rheindeer, earthworms, and other species never seen doing this before.
but we can choose other schemes of movement and action. we can mill about inside the fence like a disturbed ant hill, we can lie down and refuse to get up, we can form a phalanx and charge the gates.
but the one most likely to succeed, is — we can each jump the fence and scatter, furiously fast.
and find a small friendly manageable group with our same ideas and intent.
and end up forming small defensible and hidden little herds, like the free sheep in the rocky mountains do.
and the free wild horses.
Instead of jumping fences there are other options. One choice among us herd animals is to have a stampede and to suddenly destroy everything in our way like a hotrod steamroller. Saw that happen once on a farm when the cows were all lined up at the feedlot, waiting outside the gate to get in, Something spooked the herd real bad and they all moved at once. They torn down fencing and gates like the stuff was made of tinkertoys. If the cowboys had been in the way at that moment they could have been trampled and killed.
Hmm. Have you seen The Walking Dead? Minus the zombies, a pretty realistic view of what happens to the like-minded “normies” who set up communal shop in the outlands. We all have a set period of peace in our lives. The rest is up to whoever is trying to fuck that up, and how organized they are.
i’ll go along with musk, as long as he is going in my direction.
and be grateful for a fighter on my flank.
trump wasn’t choosy enough in his choice of comrades in arms. and he did not keep them under watch for loyalty and for following his orders.
we will keep watch. but let’s remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. until proven otherwise.
@niner, I agree completely. If someone is going to help, accept the help unless it has strings attached – and it’s up to you to make sure there are none. If they later begin to sow treachery in the ranks, they’re out. We’re not in a position to scorn the assistance of the powerful.
exactly, Rowdy.
Niner,
I’m OK with Musk qua benevolent dictator, as long as the benevolence outweighs malevolence.
He may not even know the difference . . .
But at the moment the visible benevolence locus is at the nexus of power: communication and freedom of speech.
So we’re down to people being OK with a billionaire being a dictator, taking on the role of government without being elected, and fooling folks into believing he’s benevolent to boot.
The biggest part of the psyops is checking to see if people are so desperate to be done with the wokies that they’ll accept a dictator.
It worked!
Ironically, the same people who are whining elections aren’t fair don’t care what Musk does as long as he outs the perversions of the ruling class (as if!). Even though all of that was already known to most of us who were paying attention.
Okay, Mary.
Let’s explore Elon’s motivation.
Cannot be President.
Has more influence where he is than in Congress.
Obviously likes to compete with other richees by exposing their shenanigans.
Hates the Mob, especially the DC group.
Loves to innovate, to create options that other say are impossible. He and Trump enjoy exposing PTB blowhards for what they are.
Controlling Twitter output may make him a major player on who does run for president, both sides.
The man has power, and lots of it.
I’ve never argued that he doesn’t have power.
I am 100% sure he is a transhumanist and WEF puppet.
I have proof of what I claim. You have only wishes and fairy tales.
So how does Elon releasing the twitter files and calling for Fauci to be put on trial help the Elite cause?
I don’t say he couldn’t be better. So don’t go there. Just answer the above.
Jared, look up something called a ‘limited hangout.’ Where the ruling class leads the public around by the nose with tasty tidbits, designed to tittilate but never put any real monsters in jail.
Been going on for decades now. Usually run by someone like Elon.
Rinse, repeat, etc.
MaryQ, i think we are going to get a strongman, dictator, of the right or the left, no matter what we do. it is simply the next step in our political evolution.
although a smart dictator will give a gift to everyone, and a slap to everyone.
i like what armstrong says about republics- – that they are inevitably corrupted.
he seems to indicate that we have the technology now to have a true voting democracy on all important questions, and bypass the congress/parliament/lege
but there is still the issue of scale. and the efficiency of localism. he says we wont be able to work this out until 2032, after the great conflict is over.
Direct democracy is what I have been advocating for a while.
Other countries hold national referendums on matters of national interest, but we never do. We should.
This voting (in rigged elections) for candidate after candidate hoping that they will vote for the good of the people someday, instead of the good of the lobbyists wining and dining them, is ridiculous.
Lobbying, like bioweapon research labs, is also illegal, if you look at the Constitution and realize that “bribery” is the proper name for “lobbying”.
I read somewhere that there were fewer than 100 registered lobbyists in Washington, DC in the 70s and now there are at least 3 for every legislator.
And it shows.
“benevolent dictator”
LOL. As if.
Missed the point but had to respond.
There was no point except you again thinking you are clever and obvious when you’re not.
If you have to explain a joke or a bon mot, then it has failed.
Paula, I live in a direct democracy – Switzerland. It’s great because as long as we can gather 100k signatures, we can vote on anything. For example, the leftists here have passed a law giving job training for illegal immigrants. We can now get the signatures and get this stopped. We’ve recently voted down crazy green laws that would have destroyed our farming industry. That’s all good. But DD only works if you have a sensible people. The Swiss have also voted for sexual perverts to marry. Also, it’s amazing how many of the really big decisions here never get put to a vote, such as sanctions on Russia. So, it’s definitely a double edged weapon.
Better than us, but yeah, it sounds like the ruling class still gets the final say.
I personally have never seen this many comments from your readership, Mr. K. Sounding the Alarm bells is most apropos. People are finally seeing this for that it is: For Whom the Bell Tolls. About the carnage post Civil War in Spain. Feels ominous, really, to read this treatise.
As for Yoel Roth – If you’re gay you like sticking your tool up another man’s bunghole. I get that.
But it’s nothing to be proud of.
Things were better when it was a private vice.
It just came out that he wrote his dissertation on getting kids on Grinder.
These people are such freaks.
I should be shocked, but I think the shock has been worn out of me.
I think maybe some revelations about gender fluid penguins might still ruffle my feathers, but apart from that, I’m unshockable too. I wonder where the perverts among us now have to go to be “stunning and brave”?
“I wonder where the perverts among us now have to go to be ‘stunning and brave’?”
The “Biden” Administration.
Interesting comment thread at Alex Berenson’s substack.
Berenson came out with a dopey post on Roth.
His readers jumped on him bigtime.
Many good points made there regarding Roth’s VERY dubious background.
Let’s just say: RED ALERT CREEP!!!.
Berenson is a tool.
I was calling attention to the material and views expressed in the comments.
His commenters are usually none too bright either.
You mean, unusually bright like you?
No.
More Yoel:
https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/1601759305752924161
There were several twitter campaigns in the last 5 years or so by users calling for a crackdown on underage porn posting that never seemed to go anywhere…
And the lefties get soooo offended when we say “OK groomer” but they allowed and pushed for the availability of porn as a human right. And sex work as an upstanding vocation to aspire towards.
Thanks for embedding the .png of that Tweet, James.
If anyone wants a link to the actual Tweet, here you go:
https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/671833139044417537
It sure doesn’t seem to have aged well.
Interesting that he didn’t shut his account down or limit views given the sitch. He and KJP and the rest of them or hyperventilating that everyone is in grave danger because people can say different words now on one platform. It’s not a good look but it doesn’t seem like this particular crew is moved much by optics. The Biden entity approaches with ice cream cone in hand to inform all that these revelations are no biggie bcause the elections are over jack. Maybe the Biden’s new lawfare warroom will help the the Yoels of the world?
That creep is definitely not moved by optics.
He was given free rein to let his freak flag fly. And he seems to have hoisted himself on his own petard.
Just another fucking tool of the ruling class, too stupid to see the long game.
A National Treasure;
https://www.foxbangor.com/national-news/brittney-griner-dunks-in-first-workout-since-russia-arrest-wnba-future-unclear-agent-says/
Brittany Dunks! An event likened to the second coming of Christ*, Brittany conducted a work out, the first since her metaphorical walk down her Via Delarosa,.. Putin’s Gulag…and she dunks! Right in Putin’s face! This…this shows that America can never be defeated by the Evil Empire. I, personally, have tears in my eyes.
Of course, there are detractors…a comment overheard;
“What is the difference between Brittany Griner and a Canadian Ice Hockey Team?
(Answer) “The team usually takes a shower after three periods…”
.*Maybe…who knows?
She’s a honey!
Enigma Honey! No wonder she be trippin everybody out lol 🙂
We’re all wondering what she be packin’ in the junk department?
LOL don’t see much junk in the trunk huh 😀
True that. Almost indiscernible trunk on it. Clearly no junk in there.
Gold rimmed Russian crystal shot glasses a thing of beauty.
ebay.com/itm/154147482055
Or
.ebay.com/itm/265841492114?hash=item3de5634092
$32 each for two. Not terribly expensive, but I can still imagine the horror of dropping it in my steel/porcelain sink while washing and trashing it. When it comes to glasses, I stick with the cheap stuff for good reason. I have a recurring horror scene in my mind of cracking one while washing and slicing my hand to bits. Glass cuts are the worst.
I put on a glove when I unscrew a light bulb.
I know someone who got a bad cut when the light bulb broke in her hand.
Good advice. I don’t know where this preternatural fear comes from, but it’s really quite extraordinary. I physically shudder every time I think about it.
One time when the lights went out as a kid, it seemed to happen in slow motion, with the darkness visibly expanding across the room as something almost organic.
Some kind of perceptual illusion, with my mind turning it into a sequential event after the fact. The world was new to me then and I guess I wanted it to be that way for some reason.
@ Jarek:
No, actually light bulbs do not blink out; they fade out. If you will drop some acid, your perceptions will be heightened enough for you to see this.
Thanks Ant. My perception was correct. But I think the newer ones just blink out – or my perception has slowed alas, as you insinuate.
I’ve noticed that the new LED bulbs definitely fade out, and rather slowly at that.
“Glass cuts are the worst” I’ve found glass cuts to be far from the worst. Usually nice and clean with no ragged edges. Beats a chainsaw any day. Stock up on super glue. It works great for nice clean cuts/slices. Those glasses on ebay were 32 bucks for 6 glasses if you bought 2 sets. So 12 glasses 64 ballons.
Get some 3M vet bond. It’s more expensive. I prefer Gorilla Super Glue. Manly stuff.
I understand chainsaw cuts never heal. Also, I was reading about a Civil War Veteran from my town who was wounded in the Battle of Antietam who incurred a bullet wound on his upper arm, and the wound remained open & festering for the rest of his life, well into the 20th century.
My husband had a chainsaw laceration that took 19 sutures.
It has healed, but he won’t use a gas chainsaw.
He’s out now using his electric one. Maybe I should go check on him.
And my grandfather had two bullet wounds in his upper chest from the Battle of the Somne.
He was almost left for dead, but he moved as the wagon went by so they picked him up.
He was in the hospital for months, but they did heal. I think they left one inside of him.
I love them!! Is this a gift idea, secret Santa, wish list? Or are you preparing a toast to the resilient and pensive Bear?
Good commentary/”noticing” of use of mystifying terms at Armstrong Economics this a.m.:
httpX://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/population/the-hypocrisy-behind-the-vaccines/
“COMMENT: Am I just outright stupid, or is something seriously wrong with the majority of people? Bill Gates had his summit on overpopulation and how this is a serious crisis. Yet then he claims he can reduce disease and save the population with vaccines. Gates especially seems to want to save humanity which he on the other hand says is the problem. Something is just not right.”
REPLY: Look, the real problem is the media. We no longer have media organizations willing to actually report the truth on any of these political issues or ever do any serious investigation. Gates held a secret gathering to sell his agenda to reduce the world’s population. The Guardian reported that they are known as the ***“Good Club”*** which seems to be the same marketing ploy used for ensuring your death which they call life insurance. Fire, theft, and accident insurance are called by their proper name. . . .
I find it unimaginable how you can be so obsessed with overpopulation and then want to create vaccines to increase the population. . . . “+++++++
Some relevant embedded items at the site supporting the text. (Martin Armstrong’s is my first stop of the day.)
“Conspiracy theory,” like Armstrong’s examples, is a deliberating mystifying term—wherever it is used it is a dust cloud that whose purpose is to obscure reality and cancel actual hypotheses and independent thinking. To stop thought.
Or, kind of like a skunk’s spray.
Putting it in scare quos is maybe comparable to a dog that has been sprayed by a skunk: you still don’t want it in the house! The dog must be cleansed. And so must the language.
That’s pretty decent blog. I was perusing it this morning for an hour or two.
Even easier is to watch videos where he says openly that they can reduce the population by doing a “really good job on vaccines.”
The problem is that these people use the technique of putting their crazed rantings out there for all to see. The stuff is so nuts that no one can believe Gates or Schwab mean what they say.
The Schwab classic regarding the clot shot also comes to mind: “It changes YOU.”
Weak minds are not capable of sussing this out.
Weak minds are also on the Elon Musk Show bandwagon.
That one has me even more surprised than people falling for the quacksines or the covid hoax.
Presents as suffering from MDS.
Has a special “idiot savant” ability to find opportunities to express hatred of Musk and his supposed “worshippers” in any context whatsoever.
Can’t wait ’til the day Musk flips the script and you have to eat all your precious words.
It’s gonna be delicious.
Conspiracy theory
AKA Dis or mis information
By the side who is in power, who controls the media.
Note social and political trends happening over time
Try to put a handle on it, to explain what is happening, usually using scientific method, usually using KISS as a basis. Usually there are folks out there that can substantiate bits and pieces.
The folks in power spend much of their time trying to discount conspiracy theories as they have a tendency to disclose the truth with time. Liberals hate them because they undermine their lies that they base their policies on.
Like.
We are working on inflation.
Election laws are fair and unbiased.
There are no illegal votes happening in Arizona and Georgia.
Russia started the Ukraine war.
Covid came from bats, or it is a leak. Flu disappeared last year. Covid is such a killer it must be totally contained. The Vaxx stops Covid. The Vaxx does anything. The Vaxx destroys immune systems. The Vaxx changes DNA. The Vaxx causes autoimmunity. The Vaxx does no adverse reactions and works exactly as the Pharma overlords says.
Theories and misinformation everywhere. Who is right? What is the truth? Depends on who is in power. Who controls the media.
However, there is an exception right now. Elon Musk is getting his jollies exposing the crud that comprises the US Deep State.
Come on, Elon, more and more.
Notice that conspiracy theory emerge from both sides. With the side in power, it is the blessed truth, not to be doubted. Lemmings suck it up. The opposition lies, nothing they say can be the truth.
The whoppers that Biden is coming up with, however, are really stretching the literary imagination.
Well, my point is, Why do you keep using this phrase whose point is to mystify, not explain?
The piggyback blog gang continues to elucidate!
Yes, the function of the comments section.
Your opinions?
Concern troll?
You did one comment last blog that was decent and constructive, and now you’re back on your gutter-trolling..
One more this AM.
I see a lot of discussion about who the Mob is. Are they Italian, like Giancana and The Godfather. Yes. Are they Chinese, yes, Japanese, yes, Jewish, yes, Mexican, yes. Most developed countries have Mobs. Mexico has been very successful promoting the U.S. illegal Mob traffic, drugs. The existence and tolerance of the China, Mexico, US Mob connection is the prime reason, IMHO, that the Deep State is a prime contractor. The Southern border, by itself, is going to drain the US of vitality and is encouraged by the powers in control now. Literature exists saying that the illicit trades through the US border is what is keeping the IMF afloat. ???
The Mobs comprise the elements of society that prey on everyone else, using the moral weaknesses of the people. Right now, with the exception of drugs, the Mob is legal.
If you are ever in Vegas, check out the Mob Museum, a good description of the growth of the Mob way beyond the Napoli and Sicilian groups. The Godfather is fifty years old, the Mob is so much more, indeed, the Deep State is just part of it. Could be the ultimate Mob group in existence today are the globalists, the WEF, George Soros using international money control and the crime associated with it to establish the global power group they desire.
Think of their prime enemies, Putin and the Russian Mob, and Xi and the Chinese Mob, once he discovers what Schwab is up to.
Could it be? The WEF versus BRIICS+ is the ultimate picture that is approaching.
Mob seems to be a strange word to use in this case if I am understanding you correctly. I think maybe cabal, clique, or faction? Mob generally implies a disorderly grouping of riotous individuals whereas the groups that you are speaking of are very well organized with clear reporting structures and often times are under the radar and involved in elaborate, well thought out schemes.
Good point. Westerners called the Mongolian invasion, “a horde”, perhaps seeing them as inhuman like locusts. But actually the Mongolians were often out numbered by the Western armies, and they were far, far more organized, Genghis was a military genius – and his descendants were often very good as well.
Dave Chapelle: Italians create the Mob, Blacks form gangs, but Jews? Just a coincidence.
Steve Bannon says there are no conspiracies but no coincidences either. Not sure about the first but certain that there is no coincidence there.
Jarek,
how about —
Jews form a coincidence.
i like that.
I think he’s implying criminality here using the old terminology.
JAZ,
i’m not totally sure what i think of this. the WEF in china could be like the christian missionaries in japan and china hundreds of years back. there were there, but they had no lasting impact.
httxx://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-annual-summer-wef-meeting ;
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….by Jeremy Harrigan
To set the record straight, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting (“Winter Davos Forum”) is held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, at the beginning of each calendar year, bringing together the world’s academics, politicians, business, and media participants from dozens of countries. But did you know: The WEF Annual Meeting of the New Champions (“Summer Davos Forum”) has been held each year in China going back to 2007, with Tianjin and Dalian taking turns to host. WEF also holds several regional summits each year in the region.
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Well Fuzzy-head Fried under arrest the day before he was to be in front of Congress. Now the DOJ has him so no questions asked by Congress. What a coincidence. We all know the DOJ is on the up and up.
As many of us have said, Sam’s the fall guy for this gargantuan laundering/ponzi scheme. I’m sure he masterminded it and funded it all on his lonesome, since it’s obvious the guy is a workaholic and a genius. /s
Yep. He’s the designated “One bad apple in the barrel”. They’ll ring-fence the whole FTX thang by either offing him à la Epstein, or disappearing him in the penal system like Ghislaine.
Do you think he will really be in prison for 20+ years? There must have been a reason they swept him up. Perhaps he was going to turn on others more inside than he to try and redeem himself? I was pretty confident he was going to slip and slide away but that doesn’t quite seem to be the case.
I thought the delay in grabbing him might be intended for some parties—or multiple parties—to get their ducks in a row.
to have time to get their ducks in a row.
That does make sense. Yeah, it is very hard to imagine since he is an operative for the establishment that anything of consequence would occur in regards to his misdeeds. Perhaps they feel they have no other choice than to sacrifice him?
He was blabbing too much and they wanted to shut him up.
Good, Mary. Paula actually thought Epstein was working by himself, blackmailing some of the the most powerful men in the world without any organization.
He was a gifted procurer and host, with a camera system. A valuable employee, just like whatshisname of Comet Pizza.
If he was killed it was because they got word that he was going to spill the beans.
Currently -49F in Yakutsk, Rus, going down to -57F.
It sounds bone chilling Q lol
Sounds like good weather for a marathon. How do you think that cold air feels when your huffin’ and puffin’ at -47 F?
bitchute.com/video/hfA97xGgbQ8t/
No Ethiopians registered for the race.
I doubt anyone could actually tell the difference!
Are you charting this stuff for future analysis, Q.? Sounds like a good project for you.
Global Warming in action. Where’s Di Caprio when we need him?
It seems like nobody is talking about the rapidly expanding food deserts in this country
where?
I see more theft and crime. chaos ahead.
Pretty much everywhere except for in more posh areas and zip codes where organically grown foods and more fresh vegetables are available at hoity toity places. For some people the only thing close by is junk food at the Jet Food Store. Maybe if meth heads can be trained to farm lol. Yeah i understand for sure regarding the theft and crime issue. Like it’s best to bring your glock with you when you walk up the drive to check your mailbox.
word is Detroit had no new supermarket for 40 years.
it’s not surprising if that is the case. Maybe at some point soon San Francisco will be like that?
That awkward moment when you can’t tell whether your neighbor has a really loud infant or is just watching really loud porn.
Yoel, from the old account
Horrible.
Another one about how muscular, hairy bears become “inexplicably” hotter when holding a young child. Inexplicable is right. Why? Because women are completely cut out – thus increasing the transgressive excitement? A dark mystery. In any case, his pedophilic tendencies are clearly on display. What the hell is Berenson doing by defending him?
Berenson is a liberal. They stick together.
I speculate that Berenson is trying to reap the rewards of the Twitter expose while simultaneously distancing himself by showing a bit of blue hysteria.
I think he is doing some kind of positioning.
Doubt that he actually gives a s— about Roth. How could one?
As one without a real moral center is wont to do.
It looks like we are starting the ”reset” part of the Great Reset.
The BIS just announced that they ”found” $80 trillion in pension funds and other ”non-bank” funds lost in FTX.
Meanwhile, SBF is “arrested”, thereby stopping the Congressional investigation that was scheduled. He’s still in his mansion, awaiting extradition.
You know, like Julian Assange.
The Great Reset is like a global Jubilee, in which all debts will be wiped out in return for giving up your property and accepting a guaranteed income.
You will live in an apartment and own nothing, but you will be happy.
Of course the average prole will be “forgiven” for less than $100,000, adding up all their debts, student, car, house and credit card.
The ruling overlords will be forgiven $80 trillion and, by the way, will still own everything. So they will also be happy.
Once again I provide a link to the head of BIS explaining why they want a CBCD.
.youtube.com/watch?v=rpNnTuK5JJU
I read an article the other day explaining another way they will expopriate us, in addition to forgiving mortgages and other debts. The 2030 sustainability agenda involves radical changes to house-building specifications. If you can’t afford to retrofit your house – or, if, like me, you live somewhere totally unretrofittable, your home will become a ‘stranded asset’. It will have no value, as no-one will be able to get a mortgage to buy it. Possibly we won’t even be allowed to live out our days in our stranded asset, even though the most eco-friendly home – due to embedded energy and resources – is the one that’s already there and possibly has been for a couple of centuries.
*expropriate* even …
PS Carstens would fill a lot of dog food cans. 🙂
LOL, too funny 😀
He sure could.
A neckless wonder.
Actually, a good candidate for the “reptilian of the year” award.
Great idea, Green Alba. Think of the marbling that meat has.
Carstens was the role model for Jabba the Hutt.
and Cartens may think he’s got the money — *all* the money, but remember what happened to Jabba and his crew.
worm food.
LOL, Paula!
So a lawyer’s firm contacted my sister because a distant relative died, I assume in northern England, and he had no children or living siblings, so we are heirs. Along with 70 other people and counting.
Anyway, apparently his only asset was a house and the lawyer assured us that it wasn’t worth much. That surprised me because I thought that the UK is still in a housing bubble.
It’s probably an old house, but it isn’t 2030 yet, so I’m wondering.
The north of England is a mixture of very poor and quite wealthy areas, so it might not be worth much, depending on where it is. One 70th of it isn’t going to pay for a yacht anyway. 🙂
Well, my family was poor enough to leave England, even though my grandmother didn’t want to go.
I’m guessing it is in a poor area.
Also, if there are 70+ people involved as potential inheritors, the lawyer’s bill will likely be very cheeky!
I had a colleague this happened to. Some distant relative died intestate and everything was divided by 64. She got two 64ths for some reason! She probably got a few thousand out of it, though, as the property was in the Cotswolds or somewhere similarly sought after.
Separately from that, UKC have done some reporting, a while ago (I haven’t read it) of cases where old people (still living) had their properties pretty much stolen by the authorities. I’m sure it can be found on on of the dropdown menus on the site.
Yep. Half my family came from Liverpool proper; the other from The Wirral across the Mersey. Two different worlds.
Hereward – Almost a couple of decades ago, I was working on a veterinary book written by a vet from what he still called Rhodesia, who worked at the veterinary college in the Wirral. I spent a day there working with him. His house apparently backed on to Birkenhead Park (which I learned, on that occasion, was the model for NY’s Central Park).
He said he was fed up of being burgled by scallies coming across the park from Liverpool, and that if it happened again he was going to shoot them! (This is England, remember.)
My only experience of the Wirral, although I have a nephew, now in Formby, who used to live in Liverpool, so I’ve seen a little bit of the city under what must have been the heaviest winter rain in the history of the Met Office.
Wow! Is he that large due to eating bushels of insects or is he still chowing down on steaks lol? It seems like digital currency is just a completely make believe system where any amount of money can be created and subtracted as needed. Are they choosing these spokespeople and venues to seem janky so that most people don’t pay attention?
Paula,
SBF…I will be surprised if he commits suicide…although not as surprised as he would be….
LOL, only if he doesn’t know history.
Nice breakdown, Paula.
Congressional investigations are bullshit anyway nowadays, aren’t they? Do they ever produce anything or indict anyone? It seems they don’t, other than low-lying fruit.
I was already pretty sure this guy was gonna skate, or end up in luxury spa prison ala G. Maxwell.
The Reset commences!
Paula, your jubilee scenario sounds likely.
Can anyone imagine $80 trillion? What comes after a trillion? How about putting a price on everything on Earth and imagine the $ necessary to buy it all… then add the debt figure?
In spiritual terms, $ past a certain utilitarian, small scale limits, is the devil’s shit. I think this Pope, which I don’t generally agree with, said it – he’s spot on on that one.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit getmeivm.com
SSL and CFNers, a little break from the dreariness, the weariness of politics:
For this month, the journey is near completion, a journey more through space and time rather than spirit or mind, although the latter can certainly tag along.
This coming Friday, the 16th, the moon is at last quarter and this moon is highest in the sky at dawn. The experience is better if one is able to look at the moon, but it’s not necessary to do so.
Look up at the moon. You will be there in about 3-1/2 hours!
If you do so, you will be looking ahead in the direction of the Earth’s orbit, and you will be there at that point in space where the moon is now in just about 3-1/2 hours. Here you are on Earth, then in 3-1/2 hours you’re where the moon just was!
One could watch this moon from dawn ’till noon say, as it moves across the sky, facing it with your arm pointing toward it and your arm remains constant in space, pointing forward along the Earth’s orbit. The Earth’s rotation can confuse things, so don’t be distracted.
Isn’t it wonderful, we can take this journey every month!
Okay, so all isn’t revealed, but hey, it’s a start, right?
Is this what you brought to me? Omg it’s so special!! I see what you mean lol. I wish it was just for me. I hadn’t really heard of that before. It is so amazing that there are all of these little facts out there. Probably trillions and quadrillions of little facts that one could never know in full! That would be such a fun moment if someone asked “where are you going to be in 3 and a half hours?” and you could just point straight up to the moon and say “right there”. Thank you for sharing that with me. 🙂
You are most welcome, and you are so right, so much out there to know.
And yes, so many are undeserving.
Ha, ha, ‘right there’! 🙂
Actually TC we won’t be anywhere close to the moons position in space in 3.5 hours. The moon, the earth, the solar system, and our galaxy are all flying around in different directions so who knows where the fuck we’ll be in 3.5 hours. I’m gettin’ dizzy just thinking about it. Our galaxy is estimated to be moving through space at about 300 miles per second! Since I started this paragraph I’m probably about 30-50 thousand miles from where I started. Let that sink in.
Awesome comment. Space, our galaxy, the universe constantly moving, and expanding, growing bigger, as we argue debate the various woke, or right wing talking points. The extent of distance and time is too overwhelming for me sometimes, maybe that’s why we need the Kim, Joe, The Don and the gang to distract us. Imagine if a majority of USA folks start paying attention, looking at our place in the sky and began to ask questions!
One can move southwards on a train moving northwards. It’s real, but mostly relative to the train.
Vast quantities and distances are inhuman in and of themselves. Thus there is real insight in the Greek idea of creation as a limiting process, a movement away from infinity and chaos. Maybe it isn’t actual chaos, but to the human psyche it will always tend to be experience that way.
stelmosfire,
You are right about there being a lot of motion, but there is a certain orderliness to it, a certain ‘music of the spheres’.
Yes, planets go around the sun, the solar system goes around the galaxy, and the local group of galaxies is moving towards something called the Great Attractor. The velocities are astounding.
However, what I said above is absolutely correct. The Earth, in 3-1/2 hours Will be where the moon was at last quarter as described above. Remember, at that time the moon is leading the Earth.
Also, if that spot where the moon was is moving, so is the Earth along with it. Bullseye in 3-1/2.
Here are a couple of humbling astronomical trivia-bits:
Q: If the sun were reduced to the size of a period at the end of a sentence, how big would the Milky Way galaxy be?
A: The size of the continental United States.
There’s perspective for ya.
Another (from Isaac Asimov, IIRC):
Q: If the universe were reduced to a 20-mile cube (20x20x20) and you compressed all of the known visible matter (galaxies, nebulae—everything) down to a single unit, how big would that unit be?
A: The size of a grain of sand; everything else is dark-who-knows-what.
I’ve only posted here a couple of times, but I do enjoy my weekly visits to read JHK’s fine columns and see what you all are up to. Carry on!
Agitus, a different perspective. I’ve heard that if an atom was the size of Yankee Stadium the nucleus would be the pitchers mound and the electrons would be zooming around out in the parking lot. Basically nothing there. I’m surprised my hand can’t pass clear thorough this table top in front of me.
Be clear on the chicken and the egg thing. The great reset is cashing in on collapse it is not causing collapse. Don’t give your overloads so much power. Somebody wrote ‘We are going medieval‘ some years ago and some overloads read it. They thought to themselves.
‘Well shit, if the world is going medieval I am going to be among the kings.’
Then woo-hoo, the great reset comes along.
Bill Gates buys farmland. Yes. But I live in Seattle, The dude has maybe 2000 employees, I’ll guess. I worked for Paul Allen so my guess might be worth a shit. Of those 2000 I’ll guess most are as motivated as an average Twitter employee. These people are the cream of the ass kissing team, not people into work. The Gates Foundation Building is about the size of a middle school. One middle school. Only one.
The Dutch boy never put his finger in the dike but the analogy fits. The 0.01% is determined to maintain social order as it is now so they can own everything later. Latifundia’s of the rich and famous, but they are only riding out collapse to stay on top. They are not the cause of collapse. The cause looks at you in the mirror.
A deep conspiracy no. Forest Gumps with bank accounts is what you have.
Keep your eye on the ball.
Capitalism collapses. It’s what it does. It used to collapse every 20 years or so, until they invented the Federal Reserve to front them money. In the last 40 years they invented the Plunge Protection Team to keep it going longer by providing the gamblers with chips on the house, but that is no longer feasible.
The only reason it is a 80 trillion dollar collapse this time is because the gamblers were fronted that much.
But their wealth is real and their plans are real. Look up the Enclosure Acts if you don’t think they will round you up and kill you if you resist.
They haven’t changed.
We’ll see, how far they can really go.
Covid doesn’t prove much / hasn’t proved much yet, bad as it is. Hardly the first time pharma has gamed the system and played the public like lab rats…
Where is digital currency? Where are the chip implants? There’s not much to really point to yet, to verify the all-powerful nature of these demonic global WEF architects. We’ll see if they’re really capable of anything absolutely major, or if it’s just a Red red herring, really.
Line up for your next jab, rube.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, can’t you see, it’s definitely not me causing this calamity!
And keep your eye on Davos Man. Did Bezos not collapse Main Street?
Along with the Walmart billionaires.
“For[r]est Gumps with bank accounts is what you have.”
And satellites (Billy Boy has quite a lot of those). And AI that can pick you out in a football crowd in about 7 seconds.
Incidentally, at 13:48 in this presentation by Mike Yeadon, he explains exactly how CBDCs are qualitatively different from current ‘digital money’. Current technology doesn’t allow what the new system will enable.
expose-news.com/2022/12/13/mike-yeadon-depopulation-agenda-is-real/
But according to the K man, having a credit card is the same thing, so you better shut your trap!
The idiocy. It is indescribable.
It looks like the US has reversed course & will be providing Patriot Missile Systems to Ukraine. If I’m reading this right, a Patriot Battery cost $1 billion per unit, and each unit holds 4 missiles at $3 million apiece. That sounds expensive, specially for the purpose of shooting down Iranian made drones that cost about $100,000 to manufacture. What’s most alarming tho is that the Patriot is a sophisticated weapon that takes a lot of training to operate effectively, training provided to US Marines & Soldiers. This is a sobering development. These are anti aircraft missiles that don’t quite have the range to reach Moscow from Kiev, which is about 450 miles distant. Yes, this is quite an escalation, and a costly one. It’s kind of strange too since just today we are hearing that the remnants of the Ukrainian Army are being destroyed in Bakhmut. I wonder how Russia will respond to this news?
If the Saudis couldn’t shoot down the Yemeni drones with the Patriot System I doubt if the Ukrainians can.
But yeah, Russia isn’t going to like this.
Maybe the Great Reset isn’t actually a Jubilee, maybe it’s a Great Culling, and they plan to get Russia to do it just like they got Russia to clear out Ukraine’s men.
The virus didn’t work, the GMO injectables didn’t work. To really kill billions you got to go to nuclear war, I guess.
Putin postponed his annual press conference, the one where he fields all question for 4 or 5 hours.
Cue the “Putin is dying of cancer” chatter.
But I wonder what is really happening?
The Patriots are pure junk. Another case of the US depleting its inventory of old useless shit so they can buy new useless shit at an even greater markup. The US arms dealers know what they’re doing alright. It’s all about the grift.
Ron DeSantis is empaneling a grand jury in Florida to review covid vaccine crimes. Wowsers. Stuff is probably about to get pretty gnarly
“The sheep are getting nervous.”
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/1602311985382793219?cxt=HHwWhoC9wdyQx7wsAAAA
Indeed, Mr. Ramz. They can never uninject themselves, and the cattle cars didn’t take the rest of us away.
I saw this too. I wonder how many of the injected regret it % wise? It would be an interesting data point. I think maybe the true believers are still a majority.
It is an interesting question. I have been waiting for society at large to arrive at this point.
I would say popcorn time, but that seems a bit cruel as there are a few genuinely good people who are going to suffer.
NO: it’s virtually impossible to tell what the ordinary person thinks, especially in our Germanic part of the world (Ger, Switz, Aust, Licht). The impression I get is that it is business as usual. After all, it is the World Cup final this weekend!
Yes, I did not necessarily mean Germany. I know quite a few people here who refuse to turn on their heat in order to stick it to Vlad. Work colleagues working from home wearing down parkas on Zoom calls.
These people are a lost cause. Unfathomably moronic.
If anything this period in history has confirmed many things that I have thought but tried to avoid accepting about humanity.
Maybe Putin just didn’t want to field a bunch of western “reporters” asking him about how he felt about pooping his pants. Serious people want nothing to do with the western media.
Or maybe something big is coming soon and he will wait until it is done to schedule the presser.
Pooping his pants?
Another case of msm projection. They “reported” that Putin fell down the stairs and pooped his pants.
We know who really falls down stairs and who poops his pants, but they create their own reality.
Hahahahaha!
Wow, that is really some massive projection, alright.
Good lord.
Putin’s a real man. He falls UP stairs.
This is hilarious:
sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2538&f=covid-vaccine-hesitancy-traffic-accidents#
““Our study demonstrated traffic risks were 50%-70% more frequent for adults who had not been vaccinated compared to those who had,” says Dr. Redelmeier. “This does not mean COVID-19 vaccination directly prevents traffic crashes. Instead, it suggests that adults who do not follow public health advice may also neglect the rules of the road.”
““We don’t want unvaccinated people to feel persecuted and are not suggesting they stop driving; instead, we suggest they drive a bit more carefully,” says Dr. Redelmeier. “Physicians counseling patients who decline COVID-19 vaccination could consider safety reminders so their patients do not become traffic statistics.”
🙂 🙂
And an excellent debunk of the nonsense study by Igot Chudov.
igorchudov.substack.com/p/the-unvaccinated-had-more-car-crashes
Love this, thanks. My gawd, the idiocy.
Great shout-out for Igor. That bloke has been fighting the insanity for three years. Great blog.
The article, without any of Igor’s qualifications/debunks, is making the rounds now on MSM, generally insinuating that the selfish b**ards who won’t get jabbed will also ram you on the highway because they don’t care about anyone but themselves.
Perhaps someone will come up with a regulation that says the unvaxxed need to have a badge on their car indicating their status? And have to pay more insurance.
Robert Malone is back on Twietter, and so far he sounds like an asshole!!
Mentions his lawsuit against the WaPo, but not against Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin.
Maybe I just don’t understand.
Don’t understand Twitter.
I am a TwitRube.
This might help?
From Malone:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/twitter-is-a-weapon-not-a-business
Disclaimer: I am not in any of these peoples’ camps, necessarily, I read ’em all and figure out things as I go.
I just followed Dr Malone. I am not seeing that though so it may be that you are not understanding. Who are the Breggins?
Peter Breggin is a psychiatrist, SSL. He and his wife wrote a hefty tome called ‘Covid 19 and the global predators: we are the prey’. It’s a good partner to Kennedy’s book and was written around the same time, I think.
PG has been writing against abuses by Big Pharma, especially in the psychiatric field, all of his life. He and Desmet have been having a spat about the mass formation theory (espoused by Malone) – Breggin thinks the theory tries to lessen the guilt of the perpetrators by putting the blame on ordinary people for falling for gaslighting. Sort of.
Malone’s espousal of the Desmet theory raised red flags for me when I first heard him doing it during his Rogan interview, or a Rogan interview (he may have done more).
I don’t have time to go into detail here because I have a deadline today.
But a $25 million lawsuit against Peter and Ginger Breggin sure raises more red flags.
Then I watched Malone’s introductory remarks at a meeting/conference of an organization that he has now started. I didn’t really like the tone adn soem of the wisecracking comments, actually. Then, suddenly, he brings in Desmet close to the beginning of his remarks . . . .
Long story short, although I was so happy and relieved when he came out and criticized the covid op, now Malone makes my atennae twitch more every time I see/hear him.
I was already not on board with the Desmet thing before Peter Breggin clarified what he felt to be wrong with it. I guess Breggin criticized Malone (who is not any kind of psychologist, psychiatrist, or expert on
Breggin is the real deal . You can check him out on Wikipedia (yes, even Wikipedia!).
First graf:
“Peter Roger Breggin (born May 11, 1936)[1] is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication and Covid-19 response. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry’s use of drugs and electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services.[2] . . .
His work focused on the negative side effects of psychiatric medications, arguing that the harmful side effects typically outweigh any benefit. Breggin also argues that psychosocial interventions are almost always superior in treating mental illness. He has argued against psychoactive drugs, electroshock (ECT), psychosurgery, coercive involuntary treatment, and biological theories of psychiatry.
According to Breggin, the pharmaceutical industry propagates disinformation that is accepted by unsuspecting doctors, saying “the psychiatrist accepts the bad science that establishes the existence of all these mental diseases in the first place. From there it’s just a walk down the street to all the drugs as remedies.” He points out problems with conflicts-of-interest (such as the financial relationships between drug companies, researchers, and the American Psychiatric Association).”
He also campaigned successfully against the practice of lobotomy.
The idea that Malone would sue the 86-year-old Breggin and his wife for $25 million because Breggin criticized Desmet and Malone’s championing of Desmet’s ideas is beyond the pale. Breggin says that he has offered to have an open debate with Malone and the latter has declined.
My antennae are wondering whether Malone has some kind of political or “influencer” ambitions, and he is positioning himself in some way with this lawsuit. Maybe kind of like Berenson positioning himself with his performance of blue hysteria.
The obvious question is: What kind of danger does Breggin pose to Malone, or Malone’s plans or ambitions? Why is Malone willing to go so far to protect Desmet from criticism? Is there a plan to put Desmet’s spin on things to some kind of wider use? WTF is going on with Malone?
I do not agree with Breggin on every single thing—he is rather Judaic-centric and I am not. But as a physician who throughout his career has crusaded for patient rights, who has walked the talk, who has repeatedly gone up against Big Pharma long before this covid op, who has successfully pushed back, also legally, against Big Pharma attempts to silence and bury him, IMO he is unimpeachable and a genuine expert and medical hero. Desmet not so much.
Well, gotta go. Don’t want to say more about Malone until I have time to dig out the speech I referenced.
Hi, GA,
Re “Desmet’s subsequent response”
I haven’t seen that. Do you have a link?
I am just getting a bad feeling about Malone as a “divide and conquer” figure, sowing division and breaking up other relationships.
And also an alpha male type. I can easily imagine him as someone who wants to “take control” of a movement that he did not really create.
Not long after he came on the scene—I considered him basically a new hero!!—someone, maybe someone here, I cannot recall, majorly dissed him for his landed-gentry pretensions with his stud farm in the Virginia countryside, his riding around on his Thoroughbred horses with a Civil-War type leather hat on his head and other regalia, etc. Obviously, this person said, he has done very well for himself!
I thought that was petty.
I was delighted that he was appearing on the Joe Rogan show. “Now the world will really get a wake-up call,” I thought. And to an extent I guess it did. But then he started to go on about the Desmet theory, the Nazis, blah blah blah, and I got a twitch from my antennae . . . Why is he going there . . .? he doesn’t know what he is talking about . . . he doesn’t know jack s— about Germany and the Nazis—about that period of history—just a few of cliches. He also doesn’t know anything about social psychology, psychiatry, mental states, or anything. Why isn’t he sticking to his area of expertise to attack the covid/vaccine narrative?
Of course a person can learn. But at this point my working hypothesis is that someone has an agenda to use the Desmet theory against us, to further some agenda, and Malone is the front man. What is the point of his expanding his “brand” beyond mRNA research?
One idea that pops into my head is pretty obvious:
Will he be trying to get people to take Malone-approved jabs?
Just a crazy idea . . .
I have also never been a huge Malone fan. I’m super skeptical.
And suing 80+ year olds for disagreeing? That’s fucked up.
Islander – I saw the two episodes separately, but they seem to have juxtaposed them in this version:
rumble.com/v1kllmr-juxtaposing-peter-breggin-and-mattias-desmet-with-reiner-fuellmich-and-vivi.html
When I saw the Breggin interview, both Reiner and Viviane were present, but there was a small amount of bickering between them about the approach to Desmet (Viviane seemed to be more pro-Desmet than Reiner). Then the Desmet interview followed and Reiner wasn’t there. That was just before we got the news about the big split between Reiner and Viviane. And to complicate matters even further, Breggin had refused to take part in a joint intervivew with Desmet, which is why it had to be done separately in the first place.
I don’t know what to make of Malone. I wish he wouldn’t mumble into his beard, though, when other people are speaking clearly – the latest Ron Johnson Senate hearing update was an example. It’s almost as if he’s saying ‘I’m wise, knowledgeable and to be revered, so it’s up to you to make the effort to hear me properly, not up to me to speak clearly’.
Also, wasn’t it Malone who added ‘psychosis’ to Desmet’s ‘mass formation’, despite Desmet not liking the tweak? I agree Malone would be better sticking to his fields of expertise. I don’t know about Desmet. His theory still makes sense and I agree with SSL’s point below that the existence of mass formation as a process doesn’t remove the guilt of the perpetrators of the gaslighting. However, the ‘free-floating anxiety’ idea, or whatever it was called, doesn’t apply to a lot of people who still fell and continue to fall for the official narrative. I know plenty of happy, well balanced people who are still in thrall to the narrative, including my own brother.
Although I greatly respect Peter Breggin, I thought his attack on Desmet was a little over the top and unfortunate.
So I don’t know if Desmet has an agenda – perhaps he just has an over-academic approach to the issues. One thing that struck me as odd is that, at the start of his book on Totalitarianism, he cites Harari as if he were just another academic worthy of citation, whereas everyone else (on our side) cites him as an anti-human psychopath, which he is.
Of course Acton, a British imperialist, supported the Confederacy.
GA: I too saw that first session with Desmet.
I noticed that Viviane seemed far more receptive to Desmet than Reiner. I too wondered whether Desmet’s stepping into the middle of the covid op had something to do with tensions between Viviane and Reiner.
Peter Breggin has done a hell of a lot more than merely writing about the abuses of big pharma. With all due respect I urge you to read the whole Wiki entry. It is really quite amazing what Breggin has accomplished. Even though Breggin was an early challenger of the covid19 operation, Wiki cannot erase his incredible record of accomplishment.
Furthermore, Breggin and his wife sat down and researched and wrote the exhaustively documented “Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey” starting already in 2020—before Malone came out of the woodwork—and it was published in 2021, with intros by Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Elizabeth Vliet, and Dr. Zev Zelenko. .
The “spat” is not between Breggin and Desmet but between Breggin and Malone.
Plus, it is hardly a “spat” when Malone, who has no training in the field of psychology or psychiatry, sues a world-renowned humanitarian and expert in this (and Desmet’s) field, for $25 million.
I am quite confident that there is no one “behind” Dr. Peter Breggin.
Malone—I am not so sure. He had the jabs, and was relatively late on board as a public covid skeptic.
You can get a very clear picture of the basis of Breggin’s criticism of Desmet’s theory if you watch Breggin’s recent interview with Reiner Fuellmich.
I’ve seen the interview with Reiner Fuellmich. The content of that interview and Desmet’s subsequent response was what I was referring to as the spat, an entirely different disagreement to the distasteful one involving the lawsuit, which I would hardly describe as a spat. But the content of the spat is relevant to the disagreement between Malone and Breggin which gave rise to the ignominious lawsuit. I have lost taste of Malone as a result.
I’m aware of Peter Breggin’s credentials and I have a copy (2 copies, in fact, one hard copy and one on my Kindle) of Covid 19 and the global predators. I wasn’t aiming to write a book, just give SSL a brief idea of who Breggin is.
GA: Seems like my reply to yours ended up above yours.
[scratches head]
Thank you Alba. When I saw Dr. Breggin in the video that Islander posted below his face looked familiar. I can see why there may be reason to question Dr. Malone and will be viewing things with a more critical lens in regards to him going forward. Though I wonder if the theory of mass formation psychosis truly negates the responsibilty of those who orchestrate it? Certainly one could argue that very large segments of the population are susceptible to mass formation psychosis because they are generally low information and prone to accept narratives and contrived hysterias generated by the media. There is some amount of responsibilty that people bear to attempt to be as knowledgeable as possible of the goings on of their societies. Though that is no argument for or excuse for those who exploit ignorance and naivety in such a a sick way.
A guy who hates America (Biden)
Trades with a guy who hates America (Putin)
A guy who hates America (Bout)
For a guy who hates America (Griner).
Meme making the rounds
Lol found it!
twitter.com/prodefleague/status/1602398302883880962/photo/1
Pro-Defamation League
I create lists of my political opposition and then slander them with accusations of racism. If they donate enough money I take them off the list.
Prodo likes George Bailey!
Meanwhile, the rest of us have lives
Just watched “Died Suddenly”.
Holy shit.
twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVqbvayGb
Certainly a biased view, but it just so happens to be the bias that I’ve held since this vax crap started. Who knows if it’s the vax for sure, but the numbers stack up pretty hard with the timing.
That is one horribly-made documentary. They have great footage and interviews, but they put it together all wrong, and wrapped it up with every conspiracy theory on the planet so as to be sure to be rejected by any but the already on board.
I just did an edit of it for a friend, cutting out all the known psyops that, while real, have their own time and place, and certainly not thrown in willy-nilly into a a documentary about quacksines and what they do to you.
I hope it will be more accessible by people who would not get past minute 5 with the big foot etc. gratuitous footage.
I would have directed, edited and produced this entirely differently. I don’t think the ‘filmmakers’ knew what the fuck they were doing, or perhaps didn’t care.
But I’m glad people already in our camp (so to speak) like it. I suppose that’s something.
Points for Pink Floyd “Sheep” opening. Also, our very own malthus appears at 3:40 (wink, wink, nod, nod) so there’s that too. Looks like a pretty good watch.
Yeah, it’s quite sensationalist, but in my experience the camps are already firmly divided anyway, with the CovidCon and/or Vaxx true believers totally unwilling to be convinced no matter how much information you feed them. Time will tell how all this turns out, but it doesn’t appear that it will be favorable for anyone.
Spoke to some filmmakers and they agreed, this was made to preach to the choir, not bring in anyone who wasn’t already in the know.
Mary
We will never know for sure. The Mob has a vested interest in keeping the whole Covid thing on the QT. After getting a dose, I do not believe you have had the privilege, it is a virus, period. Some never even feel it, other get hammered, but it is a virus. Treated like the flu or a cold will deal with it it 99% of folks. Personally, I have had much worse viruses than what the PCR said was Covid. My wife, too.
Anyway, the government is going to block every effort to get a handle on the crud, to understand it or to truly treat it. They want their weapons, which Covid was a feeble attempt. They want their control over the public. They do not want their complicity with Covid exposed.
Wonder if much detail on Covid sits in Twitter. Elon could do no more good than exposing the governments involvement with Covid.
For all you folks who have not gotten the crud, you probably will in some sort of setup you cannot avoid. Nothing to fear, nothing to alter your lifestyle for, take the worst flu or cold you have had and cut it in half or less.
Not sure if you meant to reply to my comment or something else? I was talking about the documentary.
I agree they mixed up a few things, but the intent made sense (at least to me, having known of the other conspiracies for decades). I suppose in the interest of convincing a covid-head to look at things differently it may miss the mark, which is unfortunate. But to me, the references to Bush, etc, stand to show that these things can be all part of one long string of deception (which is true, no matter who you are).
It also looked a hell of a lot better than most YouTube amateur conspiracy “directors” who discredit themselves within 30 seconds with cheezy stock music and misspelled words on-screen.
That they got enough people to put their names and faces out there on record was impressive.
I thought it was well done. The opening too. I think they wanted to grab younger viewers in particular, and I found it appropriate.
The Boomer-era crowd and the “serious people” are a lost cause anyways. People are largely governed by emotion, so presenting this material in a dry or academic manner would see the whole production get swept under the carpet.
“People are largely governed by emotion, so presenting this material in a dry or academic manner would see the whole production get swept under the carpet.”
This is a false dichotomy.
Plus you make a ridiculous proposition.
You think the actual material is “dry and academic.” That tacky video effects are “emotional.” Maybe you have an affect problem!!
You don’t think the straight material, the actual videos of actual sufferers plus statements by undertakers and the actual footage of their shocking findings carries an emotional punch.
Wow.
You think that without the tacky stuff, only “baby boomers and ‘serious’ people” could see what they were seeing and be horrified?
What’s with the scare quos around “‘serious'”?
IMO this fake video-game crap cheapens the actual information in and message of the film and ends up laying a false trail that confuses all viewers.
The gratuitous jab at Baby Boomers is also Fehl am Platz.
And BTW it seems like the whole production has been swept under the carpet. Could this be a result of the tacky presentation and the conflation and association of the actual material with putative tin-foilery?
Not sure I could manage to misinterpret a post more than you have mine.
Seems to be par for the course around here lately.
Have a lie-down.
N.O.
So, what did you actually mean?
Read the post in an unemotional state.
I am tired of having to explain clearly written posts to you, and this outburst takes the cake.
N.O.
Yes, your original post was perfectly clear.
So your haughty disclaimer, your “fatigue,” and your repeated insulting putdowns do not play well.
STFU please. You read into it what you want.
No one fucking cares.
Night Owl:
“STFU please. You read into it what you want.
No one fucking cares.”
+++++++++++
You are going off the deep end.
I will not STFU, so you can forget about that.
You are unable to explain what you supposedly “meant” in your post.
Do tell me to STFU again.
Prove you are a man.
Islander, you’ve posted some good stuff here, but wtf are you picking a fight over here? Night Owl’s post is easily understandable.
If attempting to present the story and history of the Holy Grail, do you think most people would prefer to scroll through tomes on microfiche at the library to piece together the story, or would they rather read a Dan Brown novel instead?
You know the answer.
Maybe she got the clot shot and has prions eating her brain.
This is entering padded-cell territory.
It would have helped if they didn’t put unvetted footage in there that gave a lot of fodder to debunkers, as well.
The MSM does that all the time. But you are correct, it should be kept strictly on the level where every fact or image can be checked and verified. Those of us that know what they;re alluding to appreciate the nod, but it doesn’t help sway the uninitiated.
Agreed, Mary. He really blew it with all the conspiracy crap. This won’t convince any neutral person. Very annoying! In contrast, there some UK doc doing very low key posts on Youtube about how the death shots are killing people. He speaks calmly, professionally and just shows microscope slides of heart damage. Far more convincing and believable that this doc.
I wouldn’t send that to anyone I wanted to convince. That is for sure.
This reporter VANISHED after covering the Pelosi story | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris
https://youtu.be/0Gxh71XHEjM
Sounds like he was threatened and/or paid off to shut up and go away. Might have been a sweet deal for him, as the story wasn’t going away with or without him.
Just more evidence we live in a banana republic any more.
Indeed. The “third world” is coming home to roost right here at home now, where it was always destined to.
Attn Ant:
Re: The difference between truth and poetic beauty
Mencken on the Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history…the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.
Jarek: What did Keats say? Truth is beauty, and beauty, truth. That’s all you know or need to know.
Maybe in some higher world. But not in this one. In this world plain people often have better characters than the beautiful. And truth is often a very ugly thing – like the truth about the covid vax.
The South was in the right. That truth is experienced as ugliness and madness by Black and liberals, but it doesn’t cease to be true.
How wonderful when truth can be clothed in beauty, especially poetic. How terrible when ugliness or lies are so clothed.
I wonder how much truth is in “The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump”.
Whitman goes too far with his “All Is Truth”, too far with contorted philosophical abstraction. Nothing really sticks to the rib cage of the soul or melds with the mind because of the inherent conflict the poem has with reality, a reality that roars in between the unaesthetic lines. Was he trying to internally justify his homoeroticism? I’m reminded of ‘anything goes; nothing matters.’ Good for Wokesters.
‘When he published Howl and Other Poems in 1956, one hundred years after the first appearance of Leaves of Grass, Allen Ginsberg was a thirty-year old son of a schizophrenic mother, a Columbia drop out, Buddhist and Beat poet living in San Francisco. Howl and Other Poems, which had been printed in London, was seized at customs for obscenity, though it was exonerated after a long trial. Ginsberg had fallen in love with Walt Whitman while a high school student in New Jersey, and seems to have taken literally Whitman’s closing remarks in “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”: “Who knows, for all the distance, but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me,” as well as “What thought you have of me now, I had as much of you – I laid in my stores in advance.” Did Whitman’s word “stores” prompt Ginsberg’s ghostly “thoughts” of Walt Whitman in a supermarket in California? The ferry now, though, is crossing the river Styx.
Certainly Ginsberg is the closest we have to a modern Whitman. He borrowed the incantatory lines, the lists and litanies. Like Whitman, Ginsberg yokes the sacred and the profane. Ginsberg’s expansiveness, his transcendental defiance of space and time, link him to Whitman. But in Ginsberg, Whitman’s optimistic vision has been severely tested by contemporary American realities. The mood is one of alienation more than connection. Ginsberg’s America is like Dante’s hell or Blake’s London (Blake’s supernatural visions had a strong influence on Ginsberg). The unacknowledged madness of the postwar world is destroying the best minds of his generation. Whitman’s “barbaric yawp” is now a “howl” – an animal cry of pain. Whitman looked out on democratic vistas; Ginsberg on “the Western night.”
However, the scene of “A Supermarket in California” is not so hellish, even if it does reveal itself through neon lights and plastic wrapping. There are families in the supermarket and consumer capitalism is on abundant and colorful display. “A Supermarket in California” shares Whitman’s capacity for humor, though now the humor has an element of the absurd, the surreal – “wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes.” Ginsberg gives Whitman’s interrogatives a modern, comic incongruity: “who killed the pork chops? . . . Are you my Angel?” In the supermarket Whitman looks like a homeless man, but poetry, Ginsberg suggests, slips the surveillance.
The consequent emotions are mixed, then: comic and elegiac, celebratory and melancholy, reverent and parodic. Whitman’s sense of connection to everything in the American scene gives way to a profound sense of loneliness. Perhaps, Ginsberg hints, the poet is always an outsider, but Whitman is a “courage teacher.”’
In the book, Sons of Whitman (or some such title – forgive me – it’s been a long time), the author tells of Ginsburg’s mystical experience while reading Blake and masturbating. Or was it Whitman? It’s been a long time. He heard the Master’s voice…..
Don’t forget about Ferlenghetti’s Endless Light – another Son of Whitman.
Who was the major American poet who tried to warn against the Lavender Mafia taking over American poetry? I asked you before, but you did not answer.
I sense you believe that beauty is truth – the opposite of my thesis. Oh well! Outsiders? Of course. No doubt about that in this fallen age.
he has another ‘poem’ about sodomy with a blond.
I don’t remember, but apologies for not answering. Yeah, who is he?
Well, I’m not even sure the word beauty should be used to describe something as broad and slippery as the ‘truth’.
The ‘truth’ about Rembert Weakland was also ugly. There are many ‘ugly’ truths but, covid lies were ugly, why isn’t the truth about them beautiful as with Rembert? Why does the situation make the truth ugly?
I cannot tell a lie; I chopped down the tree. The truth, but is it beautiful on this level?
We must go to the higher levels to find the beauty in truth, and two of those levels are mathematics and science.
S. Chandrasekhar wrote a book titled ‘Truth and Beauty, Aesthetics and Motivations in Science’. Another is ‘The Universe and the Teacup-the Mathematics of Truth and Beauty’ by K. C. Cole, to cite two examples.
Truth on the human level is what? Honesty, the ‘facts’, what Whitman was saying ‘All’, in other words simply what is, what exists? Okay, one could argue that it’s so.
Mathematics takes truth to its purest form. In this universe it is incontrovertible, immutable and indefatigable.
Anyway, I’m more comfortable saying that beauty can be found IN truth, just as truth can also be found IN beauty.
Yes, a real experience is a real experience, no matter what the context or larger truth. As Mohammad said of a dead dog covered with maggots, What beautiful white teeth.
The evil bitch with an ugly tongue may still have a beautiful ass.
If I find out or remember, I will tell you about the attempted gay takeover of American poetry.
I’m tired of having to wait for moderation on a link, and tired of the forum software auto filling stuff I didn’t put in the address……so here’s a repeat with no link that posts immediately.
Persons wishing to know the truth about Lincoln can find it in the writings of historian Thomas DiLorenzo. Just search for him at Lew Rockwell’s website. It seems there was something seriously wrong with this man and what he did. Not only that, but numerous people have reported seeing his ghost still wandering around at night at spooking people in the White House. Whether y’all believe in spooks or not is irrelevant, still makes for interesting reading and speculation. I’m quoting DiLorenzo from one of his numerous blog posts on the Lincoln subject. In this quote we’ll see that nothing has changed in the US since the 1860’s. What’s in the newpapers was rubbish back then, and it’s still all rubbish today.
“Media opposition to the Republican Party, which was the federal government for the next several generations, was rendered prostrate. The South was under military occupation for twelve years after the war. Consequently, ministers there were ordered to deliver sermons deifying Lincoln while many Southern newspapers were forced to do the same. These editors were “installed by Union armies” in the occupied South, as Tagg explains. Southern journalists were made to understand that the penalty for challenging the newly-invented Lincoln mythology was the “terror of confiscation and imprisonment.” Not surprisingly, there were “sudden proclamations of Lincoln’s nobility” all throughout the South as well as the North. Thus were born the myths and superstitions about America’s most reviled president. ”
Yes! The south was right. Being forced to pay high import tariffs so the south had to buy manufactured goods from the north rather than from England was the whole point and issue of the civil war.
In a warm and respectful postwar letter to Robert E. Lee, Acton frankly admitted where his own sympathies had been all along:
I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization.
Jarek: Yes, the same Lord Acton who said, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Your hero was an even greater man than you thought. He supported the Confederacy!
He mentions the Confederate Constitution. Has anyone here ever read this wonderful document?
Of course Acton, a British imperialist, supported the Confederacy.
I wonder why . . .
After all, they still controlled India and all of its output of raw cotton (after destroying the very sophisticated Indian textile manufacturing industy).
So why wouldn’t they want the Confederacy to be “free” like India????? [snark alert assistance]]
That’s just your neo-Marxist conditioning talking. The real Islander is better than that.
While attending Catholic school 7th grade I was required to memorize the Gettysburg address and recite it orally in a test. A good dose of Lincoln mythology and Lincoln worship came with learning the poem as a part of history class. It’s not that hard to learn the Address, and it has catchy phrases in it, phrases of the sort Lincoln doubtless used to sway juries when he did his lawyerspeak routines. He had practice in bs’ing people.
So these soldiers perished in the service of protecting democracy? Just whose definition of what a republic or democracy should be was being threatened? It was the legitimately elected Southern state governors and Southern state legislatures that voted for secession and created a new nation. It seems that Lincoln did not accept this type of democracy in the South. Lincoln did not agree with the results of the Southern votes. Because they didn’t vote in representatives that did the North’s bidding, Southern democracy invalid. Southern votes didn’t count any more. The voices of Southerners didn’t matter. They were evil and could be discounted.
So which is it? Does democracy work or does it not work? Lincoln seems to have felt that when democracy doesn’t produce the desired results, as had happened in the South, that military action was justified. It was necessary for tens upon tens of thousands of soldiers to die for what? So the Union soldiers died to support the existence of a US federal government that had absolute power over individual US states or confederations of states? Was that it? If so, the USA is a roach trap. You can get in very easily, but you’ll be attacked and destroyed if you try to leave the arrangement. Calling this setup freedom is complete bullcrap.
@ Paula D
Re your post dated 12/13 @ 12:52 pm up thread, since I have a son (45 yrs old) in nursing school I sent him your post and I copied several other family members. One of those members came back with this question:
“Now I’m as dumb as the day is long but if i understand this medical mumbo-jumbo correctly shes saying that sex is biological and gender is a bit more ambigous and relates to self-perception/expression? Is that about right?”
I believe you said in a later post yesterday that the subject post was a cut and paste. Does that mean you got it from your own days in nursing school or other nursing literature?
In any case, how should I answer my family members question?
This might help:
https://jbilek.substack.com/p/gender-identity-a-corporate-fiction
🙂
I can answer that yes, sex is biological and gender is a social construct. So the member is not dumb as the day is long – they get it.
There are no genders outside of the Romance (Latin) languages.
In my days in nursing school the idea that there are more than two sexes would never have come up because it is as dumb as the day is long.
The pushing of the trans agenda came later.
But yeah, your family member understands what that “medical mumbo-jumbo” means.
(Medical mumbo-jumbo? A straight forward explanation of Disorders of Sexual Development? I hope that one isn’t the one in nursing school.)
The gender confusion got started with the feminist movement a century or so ago. Females were taught to be masculine, and males were feminized. This of course leads into the phenomenom of children being disconnected from themselves and their own bodies. With one’s basic identity forced into hiding very early on in life, well, these people grow up with “social constructs” ruling them. That “construct” is a false identity trained into existence and basically it’s something constructed by someone else, an abstraction urelated to reality and built by some academically based social engineer/asshole. Go back in time to past centuries, to the Middle Ages for example, and everyone knew who they were. They didn’t have dozens of gender identifications because their world was reality based, not school/academic based.
I’ve seen the mental health issues caused by feminism up close and personal, part of my family was infected by the disease going as far back as the 1920’s. It lead decades later to hen pecked males showing up in the tribe for the first time. Pudgy men with pink hands and soft skin, no scars on them anywhere to be seen. “Men” who spent all their time indoors, sitting around on their asses, talking shit, shuffling papers, and working on getting advanced academic degrees in liberal arts/humanities fields. “Men” who were taught that doing blue collar work meant that you were stupid and to be looked down upon. That the best way to grow up was indoors with your mommy and later have a white collar job. I look at all this as a bunch of engineered mental illnesses. It’s a situation that will change once the dollar is gone and men will have to get off their butts and go to work. Outside. If you’re a permanent pussy instead of a man, you might just lose your life if you can’t figure out a way to change.
This is so full of bullshit it’s hard to know where to start.
I would suggest listening to some of James Lindsay’s podcasts at New Discourses:
https://newdiscourses.com/
A man who knows his history, philosophy and the various dialectics at play for the past few hundred years.
It IS always interesting to see how much power you types think women have over men, though.
Astounding, actually.
Unless women have all power, they have no power. This is the feminist scam to guilt trip men into giving them even more undeserved power.
More delusional ranting.
To be expected, though.
So you’re saying women have no power?
Rule #1 of Misogyny:
Women are responsible for everything men do
You don’t actually know any women.
Mary’s pet chimp, Wokey, emits noise.
No, Mary. No man ever said that. You’re projecting feminine hatred of accountability onto us. What a terrible person.
Jarek continues to play the cymbal-playing performing monkey.
Here’s Jarek!
Woodchuck, it is difficult for me to believe that you haven’t noticed the big push from the top to convince the general public that sex is not real, that there are multiple sexes possible, that woman is just a feeling in a man’s head, and that it is possible to change your sex with drugs and plastic surgery.
You think that came from women????
Women managed to convince the government, the media, the schools and universities, the libraries, the medical-industrial complex, especially Big Pharma, the military, the police, courts and prisons, the corporations, social media and NGOs to change their policies and their language to accommodate men with a fetish?
Women demanded to have men in women’s prisons, barracks, locker rooms, bathrooms and sports?
Women demanded that libraries host drag queen story hours so that men could flash little children and roll around on the floor with children crawling on them?
Women demanded that men be allowed to demand that everyone else use his chosen pronouns or be banned or fired?
Women got the schools to teach children about anal sex and tell them they might be in the wrong body, but it’s OK, they can get an operation to fix it?
Just like ignoring the still operating gain-of-function bioweapon research labs while railing about the PCR test, screaming about 1920’s feminists interfering with men’s precious bodily fluids while ignoring the very real agenda to abolish reality and drug and mutilate children is misguided and unhelpful.
No, but women got the ball rolling by refusing to let men have any spaces of their own, forcing their way into male clubs, etc.
Are you actually going to deny that? Women can’t have any partial responsibility for anything? Are you as bad as Mary?
I understand that we are a class ruled society and I understand that if there is a gigantic push for an agenda, it comes from the top.
Yes, women wanted into men’s spaces. That is true. They wanted the networking opportunities the clubs provided.
Men are pushing their way into women’s spaces because of their sexual fetishes and/or an ability to rape women who are more vulnerable when partially or fully unclothed. Or in the case of sports, the opportunity to come in first place and win trophies and scholarships they couldn’t have achieved without cheating.
Surely your superior male brain and sense of logic can see the difference.
So you admit I was right, but you think it was fine for them to do it – even as they demand feminine spaces remain feminine, right?
The feminine brain on display.
Women didn’t respect men’s bathrooms either sometimes.
Ooh, Jarek, apparently your male brain is unable to understand the difference between business and sex.
Jarek is embarrassing himself again, reading what he wants to rather than what Paula actually said.
Yikes.
Gender and identity confusion very likely didn’t come from women. Instead it proceeded from the minds of some male geriatric Jacobin/billionaire social engineers who view us “common people” as inferior herd animals. These people are psychopaths and enjoy creating chaos as a way to increase their own personal power and wealth. They’ve been around for a long time and the games they play are always the same. They aren’t warriors or real males, They are soft and pathetic parasites that can’t survive without their clueless hosts to suck on.
Unfortunately it seems that women’s brains are biologically wired different and respond differently to authority figures. The Nazi psychologists discovered this and deliberately created propaganda targeted at females. They said that once you have the women on board, the men and children will follow.
I think that the propaganda is aimed at everyone.
There are just as many men as women taken in by the propaganda.
Try again.
In my opinion not quite as many men are taken in by propaganda. Men tend to be more suspicious of authority and they also have DNA that gets triggered into open revolts if you push them too far.
Also, the definition of propaganda varies depending on which group you identify with. I regard feminism as a form of propaganda. My views are based on some bad personal experiences I’ve had with feminists. Feminism first infected my extended family sometime in the 20’s. Female close relatives and ancestors became obsessed with school and academic bullcrap. Along with that they became butch and bossy. Their male children weren’t allowed to work in their forefathers machine shop and mill. No blue collar work for their boys. I didn’t like feminists a small child, and I still avoid them today socially. The school teachers I had were mostly cut out of the very same cloth, the pattern is the same. Feminism infected the government schools long ago. The disease manifests as mediocrity, blind obedience to authority, and gender confusions, with young males being encouraged to be feminine. I don’t agree with people who think this is progress and a good situation.
It’ll be interesting to get Jimbo’s take on nuclear fusion. I’d be interested to hear what a fertile mind has to say about it as a realistic source of future energy. What’s the EROEI, for example? Alas, cynic that I am, I find it hard to believe it’ll ever be reality before humans destroy planet earth.
Destroy the planet?
Unless we blow it into little pebbles don’t fear that.
More chance of being taken out by space debris or some crazy lab created virus.
Really the sun will swallow the earth in several billion more years before going super nova and blasting a hole in space and time.
Rest assured the earth will be here long after all humans are dust.
I’m 70. Nuclear fusion has been ’40 years away’ since I learned to walk.
Ditto.
In the 70s and 80s, we had cold fusion, a total bust.
Imagine what it will take to “certify” fusion for safety, when it takes 20 years for fission.
A potential hydrogen bomb vs, fission.
The fusion story was actually reported on local news this morning as a breakthrough & a done deal.
Yahoo news reports battery breakthroughs, EV breakthroughs, solar breakthroughs, and wind turbine breakthroughs on a daily basis. Every day there is a breakthrough — which is quickly forgotten — replaced in a day or to by another wondrous energy breakthrough.
If only we could use all that hot air to power society.
What do YOU think, lil’ t? DOE’s been known to hype the shit out of every little minor success they have. It keeps the gravy flowing.
Lester cautioned that you “probably” won’t have a fusion reactor in your car per se, but rather a battery charged by fusion power. Fusion power plants? Just ten years away.
Miguel Almaguer is being brought back slowly. He was reporting up to his waist in snow on the same broadcast. As you may remember, he went off message on the Paul Pelosi story and was in disgrace.
Jarek
The number one problem with starting a star on earth is once started how do you stop it? Fission uses carbon rods to absorb fission neutrons and stop the reaction. How do you stop fusion? Better have an answer to this before lighting the reaction off.
They were afraid that the atomic bomb might set the atmosphere on fire. But they went ahead anyway. What the hell, right?
Jarek,
They considered it a very low probability.
About as probable as me being elected Pope. Or of not being mutilated by demons…or waking with “Morning Tumescence”….
JohnAridZone,
“…How do you stop fusion?”
Prayer.
And in the cosmos, a small blue green planet, third from its sun, briefly flared bright and collapsed to a small hunk of rock.
Tom, in our arrogance, we often conflate Planet Earth with the human race. Earth is actually in no danger – at least not until it collides with the Sun. It’s we humans who are emperilled. Mostly by our own stupidity.
“And yes, so many are undeserving.”
Davos Man?
“Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council,” formed in 2016, is officially dissolved
The group behind an era of some of the most impactful political and cultural censorship is gone.”
httpX://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-trust-and-safety-council-shut-down/
i have some hesitation in posting this link.
be warned, you can’t unsee it. unknow it.
just down on the border mexico way.
and we know what those children are going to be used for.
i first saw it on fulford reports this week.
httxx://telegra.ph/file/22737b3e9059e525e8ac7.mp4 ;
bannon keeps reporting on it with his reporters on the border, and many others mention this passing, so i believe this is real, a real recording of real events.
It is one thing to talk about this shit, but seeing it is another thing entirely.
There is no hell hot enough for these cockroaches.
Joe Biden’s joint – they’re all profiting, that’s why they want those open borders.
We talked about this when he got in, that the Obama/Biden/Clinton cabal & co. were going to benefit from trafficking. Just like the Clinton Foundation did after the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Maybe this visual will make it real for people and wake them the hell up.
Holy s—t!
Can anyone provide a translation of what these guys are saying?
What is Fulford Reports?
Link?
fulford is quite controversial. at the very least, he is interesting. and he does have contacts everywhere. question is, are they playing with him.
here is his monday pay site, and here is a reposting site — usually thursdays —
httxx://benjaminfulford.net/ ;
httxx://stillnessinthestorm.com/tag/benjamin-fulford/ ;
btw, Islander, thanks for the link to the Whitney Webb interview with Glenn Beck. she does put it all together as far as she knows, and is quite forthright in saying when she does not know.
and i’ll be very interested in Fuellmich’s panel with Sucharit Bhakdi.
thanks for that link as well.
Sucharit Bhakdi is one of the most impressive people in the entire anti-vaxx truther movement, IMHO.
up there with Cole and dear Peter McCullough, currently being tormented by his medical licensing board.
whatever Bhakdi or McCullouch say, i’m going to believe it.
Peter McCullough, MD
Yeadon towers over them all.
yeadon has come on very strong this year. he was more tentative in early 2021.
i really like his recent interview — inspiring and courageous.
httxx://expose-news.com/2022/12/13/mike-yeadon-depopulation-agenda-is-real/?subscribe=success#subscribe-blog-1
Yeadon has been talking like this for two years.
He remains the only person with the background to destroy the fraudsters in an open exchange of ideas who has had the balls to call out the plan for the digitized biosecurity state.
I can’t even think of one other person of his stature and experience who has come close.
Thanks, niner.
well, you could be right, Owl.
but i remember Yeadon as being stuttery and head-bobbing, unpolished.
he always had the credentials, but not so much the credibility–coming out of pfizer was a huge question mark.
alas, i just checked several of my earliest bookmarks to Yeadon. all gone, like this or 404 —
zerohedge.
com/medical/pandemic-over-former-pfizer-chief-science-officer-says-second-wave-faked-false-positive
i have 41 bkmks w/”Yeadon.” i can post them if you like.
he hasn’t had to sacrifice his career, his income, or his professional standing, like so many others.
but he is a true hero, and will be remembered in the pantheon of heroes.
we do need a Homer for this epic global battle.
it’s as big as the Mahabharata — may we be saved from the same ending.
see joebot today.
httxx//joebot.substack.com/p/demon-spawn-artificial-wombs-in-ancient
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
How come I got a 404?
Paula, if you mean fulford,
i just tested
stillnessinthestorm.
com/tag/benjamin-fulford/ ;
and
benjaminfulford.
net ;
they both work on my FF. but i often have to switch to chrome to pick up twitter and rumble clips.
I got a 404 first time, Paula. Then I took off the semi-colon at the end that isn’t part of the URL
OK, thanks. I tried the other links but just got a website with repetitive stories.
Damn, that was horrible.
BRH
I keep getting ads on utube for a Mosque that wants money.
First all Spanish mosque in USA.
In Texas.
Kevin, send them a few $$$ and wish them Buena Suerta.
It is 2451, good news the family has just finished our ten year project of reviving 120 acres of previously dead farm land. That meets the requirement of 40 acres of wood lot, 40 acres of grazing land, and 40 acres of food growing land required to get a license for having a child. As we know the penalty for having a child without a license are so severe for the family no one would ever do so.
Tomorrow the town will celebrate the successful enforcement of the World United Law of Sustainable Population on the breeders of Egypt who had over grown their allowed limit by a factor of two. Due to the valiant actions of our guardians they have been reduced to a factor of two below their allowed number giving them time to learn how to control their population.
Due to the thoughtful action of World United we have no starvation and we have peace. It makes one shudder to think back to the barbarous times at the turn of the millennium when nine billion suffered in the most awful ways. Now thanks to World United the world’s four hundred million will never know that madness.
where are you? not in 2451.
lets look at 2023.
The shaming of the “anti-microchippers” has begun.
https://twitter.com/0ctoberReignz/status/1602667493234864129?cxt=HHwWgsCjtYDm6L0sAAAA
Any bets on which of our CFNers will be lining up for the latest con? I have a few ideas.
Branch Covidians, you have found your new reason to live!
LOL.
“You probably know [Bill Gates] as that child-loving Microsoft founder and philanthropist [,,,].”
Doubtless, in the fullness of time, not wanting a ‘teeny tiny’ piece of silicon under your skin will be a marker for psychiatric illness.
That is the narrative that is already beginning to take shape.
Oh there will definitely be a few signing right up.
Chipping is going to be a harder sell than the quacksines I think. Then again, I could be wrong. It seems like the stupidity out there is growing exponentially.
I dunno, I found the expression “gay mafia” a clunker. Like adding the Yeti or UFO’s to a well reasoned argument, as Mary was explaining re. a video she edited on a different topic. You lose focus. You open yourself to easy flak.
Not saying Yetis, UFO’s or gay mafias exist, or don’t. Mafias do exist. Most garden variety homosexuals wouldn’t know where to sign up to a gay one.
There are other ways to describe the encouragement of depraved views by elites, maybe. Decadence? A jaded society harder and harder to shock? Setting up scapegoats? Wars on reality, biology, virtue signaling, Luciferian pride?
And homosexual people are not the tiny minority JHK states it is. We all know some, maybe in our own family or circle of friends. 10-20% may have that natural inclination.
As long as they sate it with other consenting adults, and not in our faces, I don’t see a problem with it, and I don’t automatically associate depravity and sin with gays.
Most gays are normal people, except maybe for bad taste in clothes and music in men, terrible haircuts in women, but what do I know… I’m a straight middle aged married man with grown children.
I do associate depravity with pedophiles, most transexuals, and those who bring perversion and scandal to young children and society at large, like crazed activist teachers, or that ghastly nuclear waste manager, or the so called “admiral”. Not the same thing.
I agree re: the gay community. I know a lot of them, and they don’t seem to have any more tendency toward depravity than heterosexuals do.
The trans, on the other hand, are a whole different kettle of fish. They are disordered, or outright pathologically ill. They are delusional, and most of them have absurd or perverted fetishes which seem to be acceptable nowadays because ‘diversity’ & ‘inclusion’ – which is just utter madness. The end goal is to normalize pedophilia. I think that was made pretty clear this past year.
This can give folks a good idea of how post-modernism/queer theory has pushed us in this direction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-NseFg2kno
“hey don’t seem to have any more tendency toward depravity than heterosexuals do.”
Mary,
How do you define “depravity”.?
You are probably correct in your observation, but could you be more precise?
elysian,
“minor attracted people”, “pregnant people”, “my pronouns are…”, consuming abuse, pedophilia, torture and murder content, corrupting young kids’ minds with stuff totally inappropriate at that age, abortions for minors without parents’ consent, hormone treatments and gender surgery for minors, zoophilia, incest are depraved, in my opinion.
Anything goes and nothing matters…
Examples of depravity to me are pedophilia, fetishes which require non-consenting and/or underage people to fulfill, hard-core porn, and a host of other pathologies in practice, such as addictions that take over someone’s life and puts them in a dangerous place, to themselves or the people around them. Criminal behavior, as well.
What’s your definition?
Mary,
I think most people would define “depravity” as involving conduct that they do not themselves enjoy. Very subjective. Some would define the term as anything other than an attempt at conception…those who practice various religions would defer to their religious teachings.
Although probably an urban myth, those who are said to screw through a hole in a sheet might consider those who forgo the sheet as highly suspect of depravity.
I don’t care what consenting adults do, sex-wise. Why would I?
I am wondering then if you think pedophilia is ‘subjective’ as well? Or forcing one’s fetishes on others?
The legal age at which a person can agree to a sexual relationship in Nigeria is 11 years.
Mary,
Cultural. The concept of pedophilia is cultural. It is subjective.
My definition? I’m comfortable with California law and it’s definitions. Menopausal, at the very least.
I knew some poly folks (poly as in “many”, believing you could have more than just one significant romantic/sexual partner – thus not “swinging”) back in Boston who were into some of the lighter forms of kink. Or at least that was what they were willing to admit to. To be fair, the ones I knew were very into ethics and not hurting anyone, and would have condemned the criminality of Mr Puppy without reservation, what to speak of messing with children.
But of course one can hurt oneself with all this, even if you are of the age of consent. And others by forcing them to acknowledge you in your madness or get fired for example.
Tucker had an ex-special forces guy who has detransitioned, feeling that he has ruined himself. That’s on him. But putting pressure on kids to do it? That’s why he’s speaking out.
Hope my old friends are standing strong against all this. I have no doubt that many of them have fallen into the non-binary and pronoun maze however.
Lesbians seem to have the highest rate of domestic violence. And Gays seem to have the highest rate of pedophilia.
Seem? Let’s see the stats.
That’s the word you used. Stats are hard to find since this is forbidden knowledge now.
Oh, so you’re just gay bashing, got it.
And you’re just simping for Gays because you hate the idea of heterosexuality.
LOL.
(the best part about the YT link to Queer Jeopardy are the wokies going bananas & throwing fits when they don’t like the answers).
The Bible forbids it, so what did they do? Take over whole churches and change the teachings. Gay mafia is entirely appropriate. Why not just go to another religion? Because they all forbid it or look down on it. Why not found their own?
Oh no. Satan cannot create, but only imitate, pervert and destroy.
The gay Satan can remodel homes with a fashion sense to die for.
Now admit it: You actually think you’ve refuted me by making a joke.
Maybe Mary will add to it by saying, Zing! Another marching moron.
Everyone should always refute you with a joke. I think I’ll take K-Chien’s lead.
I mean since you are a joke and all, it seems appropriate.
You never saw a pig pile you didn’t want to jump on and hump.
More projection. Yawn.
Jarek, maybe part of the Deep State Mob? The globalist Mob?
Dis…I don’t disagree w/ you. TC
Caps, tc? Tssk, tssk, tssk!
I am on Dr. Peter Breggin’s email list.
He just sent out the message below.
“Attorney Dr. Reiner Fuellmich
?Interviews
Dr. Naomi Wolf and Peter R. Breggin MD
by ICIC Staff – The International Crimes Investigative Committee is founded by attorney Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. The first ICIC interview includes Prof. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife Prof. Dr. Karina Reiss, Dr. Naomi Wolf, and Peter R. Breggin M.D. These internationally renowned experts are interviewed by German-American attorney Dr Reiner Fuellmich.
In this first ICIC session Prof. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife Prof. Dr. Karina Reiss report about the effects of the new mRNA-”vaccine” technology which according to the proponents’ plan – Mister Global´s plan – shall becomes the only “vaccine” available in the future and replace conventional vaccine such as for measles, the flu etc.
This episode explains how the mRNA “trans”jections do not only cause physical damage to some organs but also how they damage the small capillaries in the brain, override the blood-brain barrier and eventually, lead to massive personality changes.
The mRNA shots are literally breaking the will of some of those who received the shots.
Author and Journalist Dr. Naomi Wolf explains what this looks like in real life. Psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin magnifies the disturbing parallels of mRNA effects on the human mind to the effects of lobotomy, which leaves the “vaccination” campaign beyond any doubt to be one of the most brutal, indeed savage crimes against humanity ever committed.
Most people know lobotomy only from the movie: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest“, although the Covid-crisis has revealed that nothing remains too sinister and creepy for that BigPharma won’t design it for mass injection under the label of it being a “vaccine”.
?This session entails details and images some viewers won’t feel comfortable to watch. But it is very important for all of us to know and understand what this mRNA- Injection is doing to the body and mind of those who got the shots. Only then will we be able to understand why so many people who received these shots can no longer be reached by us – the non-mRNA contaminated – anymore.”
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Personally I have no position on whether people are really “changing” because of the jabs. There are so many other reasons for people to be “changing,” such as the constant pressure we are being put under, the need to deny the potential self-damage done with the shots, general anxiety about the economy, the Ukraine war, general What-me-worry cluelessness. . . . Time will tell . . .
The interview with Reiner Fuellmich is here:
httpX://video.icic-net.com/w/42W6eytcy6xgckk1v5vxDy
The title is “Suddenly Changed”–kind of similar to “Died Suddenly.”
Fuellmich interviews Dr. Bhakti (can never recall his first name), then Naomi Wolf, then Dr. Breggin. The Breggin segment starts at about 40:00. He compares the mRNA jab effects to lobotomy.
P.S. Heard from an acquaintance here that she knows of three sudden deaths recently in seemingly healthy young men. I’ll be seeing her on Friday and see if I can get more details.
A well known US sports journalist “died suddenly” the other day during the Qatar World Cup. Embolism, they said. Healthy guy. Rainbow activist, so likely fully vaccinated… either that, or the Qataris really disapproved of his coverage and activism. Rainbow activism has been verboten on the pitch and the stands. England and Germany tried to wear rainbows on the pitch but were promised red cards and expulsion on the spot if they did, so… they still did their stupid BLM pre match kneeling though…
That reporter died, according to an autopsy, from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. True or not who knows. They can go undetected but when they blow big trouble.
Ruptured aortic aneurysms are quite painful. I googled the dude to see if he reported pain and it doesn’t look like he did.
But then another reporter died suddenly the next day also.
foxnews.com/sports/second-world-cup-journalist-died-suddenly-grant-wahl-passes-away-report
Wow, that is a long video but very interesting. It is certainly very easy to imagine that the jabs can alter the personality and psychology of the jabbed. But is that just a result of the experiment or is it part of the program? Maybe it isn’t as simple as just straight up depopulation? Perhaps they want people who are essentially lobotomized. That does decrease resistance after all.
Regarding the potential of “Suddenly Changed” after the injection: I had a “come to Jesus” moment with that dark suspicion.
A guest on a TV panel was politely expressing reservations about the jab, when the two hosts, an attractive young woman and a handsome young man, fixed him with a stare and started hissing “Just take the shots. Just take the shots” with this broad rictus. It was most unnerving – reminiscent of hypnotic states.
From that point onward I harbored thoughts about brain enslavement. My only reservation is technical: are the chemical sorcerers that far along yet? It’s spilling over into Science Fiction Land.
Lotso peeps die suddenly…it’s part of life. Wait…I’m gasping for breath!
You really are a heartless creature, tom clark. As God is my witness i will always struggle to stave off the pitch black dark cynicism that envelopes you.
Ouch! The SSL drops the hammer on lil’ t!
His chastisement has only just begun LOL
I am very glad to have the confirmation of world class experts like Breggin and Bhakdi that the brain is impacted at a cellular level by the invasion of vaxx chemicals.
and their acceptance of a vaxx-causation for the personality changes that have now been verified in clinical settings.
there were early reports for the last year, that significant personality and physical changes were noted by various therapy providers and body workers, and self-reported by those who could sense a severe and wrenching change in their own sense of self. the greek priest who cried he had lost his connection to G-d as example.
a year ago these reports came across as woo-woo. but now they have been put on an observable medical basis.
and we don’t know what will be the further developments in wide social changes, as these dreadful vaxx personality changes fully mature.
i see no reason to keep the executives of the vaxx pharma corporations alive–except to force them to tell us exactly what they put in the vaxx and what diseases they expect will mature in the bodies of the 200,000 (2/3s of our population) millions of americans who have been infected with the vaxx. deliberately poisoned.
httxx://greenpass.news/covid-inoculation-also-attacks-the-spirit-testimony-of-a-priest-monk-the-white-rose/ ;
httxx://stateofthenation.co/?p=131175 ;
and
httxx//veilofreality.com/2022/05/24/covid-vaccines-consequences-on-the-soul-spirit-and-life-after-death/ ;
not enough zeros, 200,000,000 of us.
“French Social Media Erupts as Store Clerk on Avenue Montaigne Reports Zelenskyy’s Wife Having €40,000 Christmas Shopping Spree in Paris”
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1603242296866127876?cxt=HHwWiICymf2X7r8sAAAA
LOL. Of course.
Nope. No way to respect these people.
This right here tells me that I deserve reparations
“CLIMATE CHANGE ? – Man made climate change looks like this!
Elite humans are playing God with the weather rather than dealing with Man made environmental damage because there’s more money in it!
Eyes wide open!”
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1603351210299465729?cxt=HHwWgoC9wcnbn8AsAAAA
But I was told that the idea that governments were spraying the skies with chemicals was a conspiracy theory? Perhaps the cannisters here are filled with jellybean powder.
How can this be?
I find the denial of chemtrails to be utterly crazy. We can see them right in front of our eyes. An easy check on an airplane tracker on our phones will show that the chem sprayers are not tracked, and no they are not commercial airlines.
Then when you see a commercial airliner flying around the same altitutde at the same time as one of the chem sprayers, and you see its contrail disappearing behind it, as should happen, but the chem trail plane’s isn’t, it should be apparent. But it still isn’t. Because people live in The Truman Show.
The entity that supplies the chemtrail planes is the US military, in case anyone’s wondering.
I think a lot of countries are doing this at this point.
Surprising to me at this point — in the scamdemic — is no reference to Martin L. Gross’ 1967 publication “The Doctors”, which was prescient re the manufactured mess advance to its present point.
Hunter Biden’s Laptop and 2020’s First Big Lie – WSJ
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.
When you say a large retinue of former top intelligence officials lied when they portrayed the laptop as a Russian intelligence operation, they say there’s no evidence that Joe Biden profited from his son’s activities.
When you say Twitter censored a legitimate news story and active-duty FBI officials may have encouraged the company to do so, they insist that Twitter is a private company and that Hunter’s activities were not illegal and had already been widely reported to the public.
In other words, the defenses now filling the media evade every important question. Only one intellectually honest statement has been heard anywhere and that was offered months ago by liberal philosopher and podcaster Sam Harris: Yes, the laptop story was true and newsworthy. Yes, intelligence veterans and the press lied in suppressing it to help Joe Biden. And he supports their doing so.
At least this response owns up in healthy fashion to realities, which is more than you can say for the national media. It’s a good moment to remind ourselves: The allegory of the emperor’s new clothes is not a parable of stupidity. It’s a parable of cowardice.
When 51 ex-intelligence officials said the laptop’s emergence “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” they were lying. In the long history of Kremlin dirty tricks, there’s no precedent for so implausible a caper. The officials couldn’t even say clearly what they meant. A real laptop had been stolen by the Russians and leaked to the press? A fake laptop had been created with thousands of uncannily real-looking documents, photos, videos and emails, most of them diabolically designed to have no news or scandal value? The New York Post produced not only a complete and sufficient account of how it obtained the laptop data. It produced a dated subpoena showing the FBI was already in possession of the original laptop for months and would know if the data were fake.
The absurdity of the intelligence veterans’ claim was obvious at the time. The people who run America’s major news outlets (at least those who aren’t idiots) knew it.
So obvious was the lie that America’s biggest news organizations have to remain silent now because of their own complicity. What I wrote in week one remains true: “It ought to register with you how cravenly some in the mainstream media are trying to convince you something isn’t true that they know is true.”
So compromised are the national reporting staffs of the Washington Post, the New York Times and other outlets that they can’t be trusted on the biggest story of the day. A Jeff Bezos, say, would have to take a page from the CIA’s own history and recruit a “Team B” off-site from his Washington Post to investigate the laptop ruse, then require his newspaper to report the truth however discomfiting to its newsroom and leadership.
The laptop ruse also ought to have you rethinking the FBI’s and Robert Mueller’s dragging out of the collusion inquiry to damage a president they distrusted. It ought to have you rethinking James Comey’s convenient resolution of the Hillary Clinton email matter based on secret “Russian intelligence” that he made sure would remain hidden from you even today.
Our press would bring these stories to light if it could refute them, but it can’t so it ignores them. And no, Twitter and Substack aren’t a substitute for institutions that can deploy teams of reporters and substantial resources to investigations.
The point has long since stopped being whose ox is gored, Mr. Trump’s or Mr. Biden’s. American voters whatever their sympathies don’t want their government and media lying to them to shape their political choices. (Put aside lying in a way that falsely incriminates a nuclear-armed hostile power as trying to fix a U.S. election on behalf of one of the candidates—an element of this episode that none want to confront.) The election is over; the truth is kept from you now to protect the guilty, not to save the country from the supposed menace of Trumpism. In a different universe far, far away—that is, America pre-Donald Trump—a conscientious press would be reporting the hell out of all this.
Now House Republicans will have to do the job instead, implicitly holding the press to account in the process. Whether Joe Biden actively promoted his son’s ventures is a secondary question but will yield to further investigation. Whether active-duty officials joined in lying to news outlets about the laptop origins will become clear as the Twitter revelations are followed up. One question I think we can say is already resolved conclusively: The 51 former officials lied to the public with deliberation and premeditation to influence a presidential election, and the national press abetted them.
American voters whatever their sympathies don’t want their government and media lying to them to shape their political choices.
Since when is the American public cognizant of what they are being indoctrinated on to make an intelligent choice. Being pounded upon by same said entities total frames elections, never intelligent discourse. Goebbels would be proud.
Not to save the country from the supposed menace of Trumpism. Yes, what menace of Trumpism. Look at this country right now and compare it to pre Biden days. Only the insanely Leftist demographic would have the audacity or ignorance to say we are better off today.
Now House Republicans will have to do the job —
Too many RINOS, more concerned with protecting their DS domain that working for the people. The issues today are so defined and obvious, starting with the border, that definite activity should be getting developed to handle them. Oh, no, not in this Deep State.
The biggest laugh is that Biden Mob is promoting democracy. Never in its history has this country been closer to a dictatorship than right now, Uniparty is in place, the next vote is already in the bag for the Mob as the mechanism of creating and directing illegal votes has been demonstrated twice now.
Surprised WSJ would publish this.
Then again, people will probably ignore it. The author’s case that before Trump the press were honest and so were elections is 100% garbage, though. Or his inference that they were. This has been in the making for decades.
Still way more short-sighted than any of Jim’s articles, and saying that Sam Harris (!!!) was the only one telling the truth on Hunter Biden is just laughable.
Of all the big media, WSJ is the one that pushes the envelope most… to a point, obviously.
Good essay. I agree with most of it, but this is absolutely not true…
” In a different universe far, far away—that is, America pre-Donald Trump—a conscientious press would be reporting the hell out of all this.”
Unless the qualifying word is “conscientious”, because the press pre-Donald Trump also suppressed inconvenient truths.
Think 9-11.
Spot on, Paula. They push more than most, but they know they have limits, too.
They pushed for Gay Marriage and people like Rulo fell for it. Now children can be adopted by Gays and be denied the right to have a parent of both sexes.
nope. Never was for marriage and adoption for gays. Another fabrication of yours.
Being homosexual merits tolerance, even respect or love when earned, but they have to understand they have chosen a different life and closed the doors of a family life.
Can’t have the cake and eat it too.
I’m 100% against surrogacy, that is for sure.
I apologize. Almost everyone who raves about how wonderful gays are wants to give them everything – including things they have no right to. I say toleration – not acceptance.
Catholic adoption agencies have had to close because the law won’t let them say no to Gay couples who want to use their service.
The lack of trust and faith in the human race on this blog is palpable. Have a great day!
You are so right.
Please give us one example today of a reason to believe otherwise.
Good answer
lil’ t has become the master of the drive by comment. A terse ironic sentence or two and then out. I take it the Minnetonkans aren’t big on substance. Those Lutherans are well known for their stoicism.
As long as he’s out. That’s the important part.
It’s palpable because it is within you tom. You’ve said so here before but you count on people not remembering. But i’ve got my eye on you lol 😉
This blog spends much time talking about the plot of the Deep State and globalists to kill the population with Covid. Deniers of this need to realize that the movement of opiates across the border is killing many more folks than Covid and has not abated as Covid has. It definitely is a much more direct method of control.
GOP report today ties the creation of Covid to a bio weapons plant in Wuhan. We know the opiates come from China trafficked by the cartels.
The Deep State with its Liberal core is rotten to the core and is the adversary of the American people. The PTB want their cheap drugs. Hopefully, drug attrition will start killing the wealthy. Unfortunately, the people, as evidenced by the vote, are too dumb to realize they are being manipulated.
Its just that the drugs are old hat. They’ve been doing that for decades already. ConVid is the “new improved” model. Ya gotta love progress!
How about this for a novel concept: ConVid infested drugs! That’s assuming ConVid is legitimate of course, but the same would go for whatever bioterror agent they wanted to use. But of course that would have to be a joint project, as China might lead the world in synthetic narcotics, but the US far and away leads the world in bioterror agents.
Dis
Did you see the NYC cop that damn near died by touching fentanyl, I believe on a dollar bill. It took three doses of narcan to get her breathing again.
Covid is two slow, opiates kill right now.
Maybe putting fentanyl into common drugs like aspirin or maybe the little blue pill.
Do you remember the 80s when nuts were injecting drugs and food with poison. All the sealing and packaging today was inspired by these nuts.
Wonder who paid them?
Yes, I rail about the sealing and packaging of products everyday. If they were actually serious about all this “green” bullshit, that’s the first place I’d start. Packaging is wildly out of control across the board, from bottles that are half-filled so it appears that you getting more product than you are, to bottles inside boxes, and everything else on up. Too much, too much!
But talk about a future “pandemic” model! Contaminate the over the counter and prescription drug markets and/or food and beverages as well. Easy, peasy!
A cop nearly died by touching fentanyl on a dollar bill?
I call bullshit. I used to slap fentanyl patches onto people all the time. Never died, never stopped breathing.
Sounds like a “Cash is dangerous! It can kill you! Here, take your chip with your CBCD on it so you don’t have to touch anything” propaganda line to me.
They pulled that same shit with covid at the beginning, remember?
“Cash is dangerous and will kill you!”
Well, ladies and germs;
The morning’s Situational Awareness reports;
The West’s obsession with green energy and climate policies has left extensive fossil fuel energy resources available for capture by the China-Russia eastern alliance. Those resources could create the logistical depth needed in a future great-powers confrontation between the Eastern Alliance and what remains of U.S.- Allied partnerships. – M.M.)
China is willing and able to trade US currency for energy resources at any level…they can take it all, and afford to pay for it. Recall what we did to Japan in 1940…embargoing oil…and then…”some people did some things”..
Energy supplies can be considered a zero-sum game.
And…and also;
The Reserve Bank of India quietly rolled out a central bank digital currency from October to December. The bank segmented the currency for institutional and personal use. While the bank does not officially list de-dollarization as a motivation, it does list cross-border transactions on its website. Indian media, which the state heavily leans on, is pushing the narrative that this will lead to de-dollarization and potential for use as an international trade standard. It appears that the Reserve Bank is preparing for a collapse of the dollar.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I do not consider the Indians as stupid nor foolish. Yes, they have an almost alien culture (Alien In the Sigourney Weaver movie sense) , and their Gods may be subject to ridicule, but they are intelligent, serious, and observant. You might even refer to them as “the smart money”.
If you have loins…better gird them….
Hmm… not quite what I thought it meant.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-gird-up-your-loins-an-illustrated-guide/
And another alternative view.
https://medium.com/freelance-writing-zone/does-gird-your-loins-mean-what-you-think-it-means-a69ad8801fd4
Interesting phrase either way.
Dis, that looks like a good way to protect the jewels.
Mostly Indians run big tech here in the US. Forget China! Many if not most of the Silicon Valley workers are from India. I work currently in big tech and most of the people running the show are from India.
lousy tech workers is what I hear from people, including dot indians.
but cheap. you get what you pay for.
I am talking about high-up. CEOs, engineers, cloud architects.
E. not to worry. Just today we learn that John Podesta has been appointed by Biden to the position of ‘Transition to Renewables’ Czar, with portfolio to “end fossil fuels’. Presumably, we will be fossil fuel free by 2030, a short 7 years from now.
OMG. this is a tight club, the pedo gang takes care of its own. and if possible keeps them in the public salary trough.
Yeah, Podesta already has an office in the White House, free access to the President, a staff, $50 billion of ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ money, and a plan to choke off energy supply, dismantle the National Grid, and de industrialize the United States.
BRH, holy shit
Brain cancer in the body politic
Well, now we know where those kids in niner’s video are going.
Welcome to the Morgenthau Plan, Yankee. This is what you tried to do to Germany after the war.
And of course what you did do to the South.
Your chickens are coming home to roost. Unfortunately I’m going to get some of those eggs too.
A Congressman of German descent went after Morgenthau and FDR on the floor of the House. He used the word genocide. He won the Day for the forces of light.
What do you think of your vaunted Germany now, Jarek? Pretty pathetic, huh?
German’s section of the 3-ring circus may have outdone the US’s. They are forcing people to be vaxxed before assisted suicide!
Yes, the Allies completely broke them. Dogs without any spirit at all now. Ditto the rest of Western Europe. In other words, your people fought for the wrong side. Now what was done to Europe is going to be done to us. As Malcolm X predicted.
Clown world, redux.
That the Podestas aren’t in jail by now is proof that the rule of law is broken beyond repair.
Here is one of the abiding mysteries in life: You have a nice fire going in the outdoor fireplace out back … you’re feeling the warmness on a cold day but smoke wafts up in your face, and whichever direction you move, the smoke follows you. Even if you pull a zig zag maneuver — feint left and quickly pivot right, woodsmoke is on you — there is no fooling The Fire.
Have you read London’s “To Build a Fire”? The dog looked on stoically, knowing that the Man was doomed. He liked the man, and wanted a fire too – but he didn’t need one. He didn’t like it when the man tried to kill him in order to plunge his hands in to the dog’s body to warm them up though.
A masterpiece. I don’t recall the name of the one about the old Indian, elder of the tribe, times of famine, they are migrating to try and get caribou, he realizes he needs to die that they survive as there’s not enough food…
They leave him with a small fire as the wolves arrive. He thinks for a moment they should have left a few more faggots to keep them at bay longer
Then accepts all is well
I also feel like electricity does the same thing in a different way.
Maybe you create a sort of pull draft when you move about?
That probably explains it.
Ever hear the expression “Smoke follows beauty”, BRH?
“There is an important reason to keep Zelensky alive as long as possible. He will keep his master’s blind and deluded” to the impending chain of events.
– KOLMOGOROV, A.
Speaking of India, when talking about White self determination (of the South), Islander tried to make the conversation about non-White self determination (of India).
This is Liberalism in a nutshell. Love of the other and hatred of your own. Apparently, she’s glad the Yankee Capitalists won because Blacks – and now Browns too!
That was a good Jack London story. Another one I remember is ‘A Piece of Steak’, and the short novel ‘The Road.’
Jarek and BRH,
agree with you about London’s stories: most of them masterpieces.
The white who tricks Indians about to torture him to instead kill him quickly with an ax that wasn’t supposed to penetrate his white man’s magic power unguent.
The trader that figures will make a fortune taking eggs to a mining camp, makes it there with huge suffering, sells out in a night, realize the eggs had frozen and, now thawed, were rotting, and kills himself.
You missed the point—and you are the one making it about race.
“Liberalism” has nothing to do with it.
The British would have loved to see the Confederacy break away from the country and then become a collection of tiny sovereign states with state’s rights, easily controlled by Britain. That is what the British found in India in the 17th C and that is what enabled them eventually to take over the whole country and alienate its incredible productivity—esp. its textile industry—for its own industrial development.
You know that the textile industry drove the whole industrial revolution, right?
You know that countries that provide only raw materials get none of the economic gain of value added, right?
You know that India was “undeveloped” by the British to serve the latter’s economic aims, right?
You know that the South was totally underdeveloped and was a provider of raw materials, right?
Do some reading and educate yourself before you make silly comments about “liberal”
You can start with William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy.
You can then move on to Frederick Law Olmsted’s The Cotton Kingdom.
Then you might pick up Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Global History, Chapter 9. South Carolina senator John Henry Hammond: “England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her” if the system of slave-powered cotton growing would be threatened. “No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is king.”
And “the industrial prosperity of England appears to be intimately tied to the progress of slavery.” –comment by French geography, 1853.
British imperialists, bankers, and industrialists would have loved to step in and take over control of the South and its cotton crop. As they had done in India. Pure economics.
So, silly boy, my supposed “liberalism” (do you really have your head up your ass?) has nothing to do with it.
Islander,
Impressive and bravo.
Law Olmsted is the same architect JHK mentions often… I think in connection to Central Park in NYC, walkable communities, etc?
Yes, the same.
Olmsted was an extraordinary fellow!
I had no idea about him other than his groundbreaking work as a landscape “architect.” I didn’t know that he was also a writer and” reporter”–maybe “chronicler” is a better word.
Imagine my surprise to find in a discard pile of books lying on the thrift shop parking lot (!) both Olmsted’s “The Cotton Kingdom: The classic firsthand account of the South in the years preceding the Civil War” (Knopf,1953, ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger) and Alvin M. Josephy’s “The Civil War in the American West” (Knopf 1991). I had never heard of either book. Both are eye-openers (pretty long reads, but I read large chunks of both, esp. The Cotton Kingdom).
Olmsted had already published “Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England,” published in ca. 1851. I think on the basis of this work the New York Times commissioned him in ca. 1853 to make a series of journeys through the South and to report on what he saw. In the end these journeys resulted in a number of publications. You can check them out on Amazon. The book that I have is probably the best edition of the lot.
He was interested in everything and everyone he saw. He also integrated a lot of statistics in relation to what he observed in person (the volume of official county-by-county statistics and other data that was published by Southern states was a surprise).
Olmsted was very good at reproducing conversations and dialects—he took detailed notes every night on his encounters will all sorts of people. This has gotten him into trouble because he reproduced how both Southern whites and Southern blacks actually spoke. In our enlightened era that is a no-no! So readers get an unvarnished look at the antebellum South. There is so much detail, it is practically like a video. And for this reason, too, I think it has been kind of studiously ignored—because it is a reliable firsthand account, and lots of people don’t like that.
Olmsted traveled primarily on horseback, generally on one “track” or another, following often misleading directions as to where he might find a bed for the night and feed, water, and brushing down for his horse. Mostly he was making his way through virtually untracked woods letting his horse take charge. He also had a memorable trip on a Mississippi steamer. It is an extraordinary tour of the South.
He cast his observant and also analytical eye on each state/region of the South (but not Florida, but lots of info on Georgia). So you get a differentiated picture of the economies, manners, soils, vegetation, social and economic conditions of the different industries (cotton, rice, sugar, etc.). It is an altogether fascinating read.
If you decide to get a copy I suggest a larger older hardback, if you can find it (the thick paperback ed. is hard to hold and read; the Schlesinger ed. has a lot of ancillary contextual information).
Islander,
thank you for all this. Now I’m very curious about this fellow. I’ll start with my local library and will take it from there. I’m copying what you wrote and pasting it in a document. I do that all the time when good info I might be interested in appears, to add to my research.
Lucky find at the thrift. I frequent them too, and where I’m at, they have started dumping their books and don’t take any more, as they need the space for other goods and nobody buys them anyhow. Sadness.
Don’t forget Florida wasn’t really “The South” back then, except the north of the state. My county seat, Live Oak, was actually one of the most developed FL “cities” at one point. Tampa was important for the Cuba trade, and Fort Myers. But most of the state was a wilderness, with crackers driving huge herds of Spanish cattle to pasture, swamps, no roads.
There wasn’t a lot of action in FL in the Civil War. Biggest battle, Olustee, a few miles from my farm.
Thanks!
Olmsted was above all a writer and I think he was the founder of Nation Magazine. He was a local guy and there are still quite a few Olmsteds living around here. Some of his books are being reissued; the one describing a walking trip around Texas with his brother in the 1850s was released a few years ago. Fred Law (as he was called) had no formal training in Landscape Architecture, but the firm he created in the mid 19th century lasted until the 1980s. Really a remarkable man, a self-made native genius whose legacy you can still see in many beautiful parks that exist across the eastern half of America.
Another interesting thing about Olmsted: he had a whole bunch of careers. He was a writer, traveler (as noted) and magazine editor but he was also a farmer. He had a farm in Guilford, Ct, parts of which you can still see. He also owned a farm in Staten Island, NY of all places. At one point in his life, after the success of Central Park in NYC, Olmsted dropped landscape architecture altogether, traveled to Cal., and took a job managing a goldmine.
BRH, a larger than life character. I’m very interested now. Thanks!
My point stands: We were talking about White self determination and you hijacked it to talk about non-White self determination.
You’ve living on conquered land, Islander. Don’t sacrifice other White make good your debt, sacrifice yourself. Go back to Europe after giving all of your assets to your local tribe.
This is for Q’s relatives and any man on this blog who can’t seem to grasp what a female is….
//fondofbeetles.wordpress.com/2019/07/22/from-humans-to-asparagus-females-are-females/
Can humans identify as asparagus now too? It just gets crazier out there every day!
Justice Ketanji Jackson needs to read that.
Puala thinks men and women are almost exactly the same except women are better. No perverts. Smarter too.
So why not mix these two all but identical groups together – while retaining the privileges of the superior group?
Nobody believes you when you state what people think or do, because you don’t know, you invent, you are a fabulist and maybe a plant, a mole, a distraction, some cretin to agree he’s a nazi too to fall into some database.
Jarek, or Otto Skorzeny, or Vlad the Impaler or any of his many reincarnations is either a madman, a hardcore misanthrope and even worse misogyinist (best case) or someone who is either paid to spread mostly deranged bile (worst case), or does it voluntarily as his idea of public service and building community (probable case)
Thank you.
I’ve also said this many times. Since Jarek doesn’t ‘get’ people, he imagines all sorts of things that they think, and he’s yet to be correct about any of them.
Also a pathological liar, ofc.
In other words, gays make great parents, right Mr Natural?
Mary is Ringo – the quiet Beatle (lol).
George was the quiet Beatle.
In only you were a quiet Beatle.
eff not en. The consonants can’t speak without the vowels. They prefer certain ones in order to say their names.
If only you were a squashed beetle.
nice catch.
How long were ya’ll married?
Funny!
Why?
My bad! I’ve been married a while, and know about silly never ending marital arguments. Thought you were joking about Mad Jarek and Mary.
Oh gawd no. Why Rulo, why?
Goodness. I don’t even know what possessed me to comment in such a way here. I’m sorry.
This will interest some of you. I don’t have time to read it right now but the headline forced me to take a moment to post it here.
stevekirsch.substack.com/p/vaccinated-thailand-princess-bajrakitiyabha
6 hours ago – Steve Kirsch 4 hr ago 458 229 Vaccinated Thailand Princess Bajrakitiyabha, 44, suffered a heart attack while running on December 14, 2022. Attempts at CPR and even ECMO in the hospital were unsuccessful. This is a sign of major heart injury. It is rare for someone so young, who clearly has …
Her father is making a fortune off the “vaccines” so it’s likely there will either be no autopsy or the results will be kept on the dl. Very sick and sad but tis the state of things
Clot-shot stuff aside, they said she was in Khao Yai National Park. Surprised they found her in time.
When we were there, it was literally just miles and miles of solid jungle. The only road was a dusty old path created for that shitty Leonardo DeCaprio movie “The Beach.”
After the Warning.com
“Before I come as the just Judge, I am coming first as the King of Mercy. Before the day of justice arrives, there will be given to people a sign in the heavens of this sort:
All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be great darkness over the whole earth. Then the sign of the cross will be seen in the sky, and from the openings where the hands and the feet of the Savior were nailed will come forth great lights which will light up the earth for a period of time. This will take place shortly before the last day.”
Message given to St. Faustina
Diary of Divine Mercy, n. 83
We are living in frightful and exciting times. Never before in all of human history has evil and corruption reached to such heights as it has in our current generation. From abortion, cloning, genetic manipulation, and the complete disregard to life itself, to an apparent orchestrated implosion of virtually all of the world’s economies in an effort to consolidate all things into a single global technocratic dictatorship. The global elite are literally on the threshold of raising their iron fists to the heavens and declaring themselves to be the rulers of the universe with the rest of mankind as their slaves.
But Heaven is not remaining idle. God is warning us to prepare… not for the end of the world, but for the end of an era. Through His Son Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother He is preparing his wayward children for his ultimate act of divine intervention. He is preparing us for His final warning, an Illumination of Conscience. All light in the heavens will be extinguished, and there will be a great darkness over the whole earth. The sign of the cross will be seen in the sky, and all of mankind will see their souls as God sees them. It will be as if a judgment in miniature.
After this Illumination of Conscience occurs, all of mankind will be searching for answers as to what had just happened. Our hope for this site is that it will be a beacon to as many wondering souls as possible, and a reference to others who God is calling to be prepared ahead of time.
Our Lady of Revelation
The warning will occur in the midst of great turmoil. It will be as if the eye of a hurricane… a cone of silence in the midst of a global storm. And just as the eye of the hurricane quickly passes by before the storm continues, the time for us to reach out to as many lost souls as possible will be very short. The final test will commence, purification will be at hand, and the evil one will rise with all his hellish armies and his false messiah in a final attempt to destroy all that Jesus has accomplished.
Time is short, and many are those who will wait till it is too late. The greatest battle between Heaven and Hell is about to commence, with mankind hanging in the balance. Will you do all you can to prepare your soul and the souls of your loved ones? Or will you follow the rest of the world and wait till After the Warning?
DECEMBER 12, 2022
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Preparation of the Militant Army Before The Warning
Ned Dougherty
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Valeria Copponi
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Mary, the Immaculate Conception
Luz de Maria
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This Generation WILL Receive the Antichrist
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Eduardo Ferreira
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Be Content With What You Have
Luz de Maria
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Be Authentic in Your Inner Life
Manuela Strack
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Through My Precious Blood
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Do Not Wait for the Warning
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With Me, your Lord and God, you leap over walls
Pedro Regis
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Everything In This Life Will Pass
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Giselle Cardia
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Pray for America
Pedro Regis
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The Enemies Will Propose an Alliance
Words and Dreams
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The Flames of My Love will cause hearts to rejoice!
DECEMBER 3, 2022
Pedro Regis
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A Future of Grave Conflicts
Valeria Copponi
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Help Me Bring Them Back
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Shelley Anna
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A Sign Will Appear
Eduardo Ferreira
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Humanity is Blind
Meh
I’ve pretty much lost faith in most authority of any kind
These past 5-6 years have me nearing the same postion for most of humanity.
It’s understandable. I think that is why I understand the transhumanists. Not that I care to join them. But more and more I just see how people are generally extraordinarily hateful to one another and everything around them. Its very dark and dismal indeed. The worldviews that have been developed are horrible choices and all very depressing.
SSL, I’m in the same spot. I believe there’s been more than a psy ops, indeed an all out war on our humanity and best impulses, going on for years. Most people are descending to levels of hatred, ignorance and brutality that are truly scary to see…
Oh, well sometimes you just can’t pay attention to me lol. Well, what I mean is that this was sort of a comment made while I was in a bit of a negative moment. I have faith or i wish to at least in humanity. But individuals and groups sometimes let you down. On the flip side of things there are others who surprise you with good. I can be a million different people in a day. Perhaps that’s just one of those human quirks.
Sadly, I think these observations start to accumulate and the scale of it all starts to sink in over time as we age — if one is truly aware and willing to accept things as they are.
Many have developed powerful psychological defense mechanisms to stop this.
Wow, anmari, that material you post from BC is always enigmatic and intense. Hardcore Catholic mysticism. I dunno what to think, really.
Since it’s the end of a thread, I hope the brevity fundamentalists won’t tie their skivvies up in knots if I share something I wrote that connects the DNA double helix manipulation in genetically engineered organisms to feed an ever increasing human (& livestock) population, and the DNA double helix manipulation used for the so called c19 vaccines.
It’s amazing what I get away with writing under the guise of a weekly gardening article for the small local newspaper. Maybe I’m putting a seed of doubt in the minds of the citizens picking it up at the supermarket or library. Context: I’m in a deep red county in agricultural north FL. but I have started to see more masks where there used to be none. Our governor states drug companies and media companies can and will be sued.
Seeds of doubt
An often overlooked aspect of small scale agriculture is seed provenance. Humans started domesticating plants and animals thousands of years ago, giving birth to agriculture. This slow process gave us, for example, dogs: wolf pups brought to the village, and over many generations of breeding becoming a different animal, with desirable traits, such as loyalty, intelligence or even cuteness. In the world of plants, cereal grains such as oats or wheat were originally wild grasses. Through a painstakingly slow and laborious process, our ancestors selected the plants that produced the biggest, most nutritious seeds each season, and saved them for the next.
This accomplishment of human ingenuity, perseverance and intelligence was obtained via entirely natural methods. When we plant what’s known as a heirloom tomato seed, we know for certain that, if we’re successful, the plant will produce a certain kind of fruit. The cultivar will be at least 40 years old, eliminating the possibility of genetic reversal to earlier versions. More importantly, the seed will propagate the same exact plant reliably into the future, so it doesn’t have to be necessarily purchased: it can be saved and shared via seed exchanges (our library system offers this service for free).
In the words of Suzanne Ashworth, author of Seed to Seed, “There has always been a substantial minority of gardeners who bypass the industry completely by saving their own seeds from year to year. Some of these seed savers, remnants of a recently lost peasant agriculture which purchased nothing that could be produced at home, are still planting the same vegetable varieties that their great-grandparents once grew.”
Later, we have hybridization, that is, naturally modifying food plants using methods such as hand pollination and grafting. Hybrids are entirely safe and natural, and hybrid peppers and oranges can be grown and enjoyed with confidence. The only difference with heirloom varieties is that the seed will not reliably produce copies of the fruit desired. Hybrids may, and do, revert, thus making saving seed a lottery with bad odds. This advance is a few hundred years old.
What is not an advance, in my opinion, is the development, over the last few decades, of GMO’s. Genetically Modified Organisms use gene splicing, in high-tech laboratory settings, to overcome natural laws. “GMOs are organisms whose genetic material has been altered by modern genetic engineering techniques that cannot otherwise occur in nature, rather than by traditional cross-breeding and hybridization.” Genes from different species are combined to make them resistant to massive doses of chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides.
True, genetic engineering produces higher crop yields, which in turn can support a more numerous human population. However, the price paid is great: chemical agriculture depletes soils and pollutes water sources. A few global corporations own not just the patents but the seed itself, making it sterile or threatening farmers who attempt to save it with lawsuits. The science and research behind this massive industry (and it IS massive) are insufficiently peer-reviewed, studied and tested. There is evidence that chronic exposure to even low levels of agricultural chemicals may cause neurological and hormonal damage to children, for example. Yet, the Food and Drug Administration keeps rushing the process ahead, as an ever increasing percentage of our food incorporate GMO’s.
You may want to think about eating genetically engineered salmon, say. Created so that it continuously produces growth hormones, it’s sold after 18 months instead of 3 years. The research about long-term consequences, for us and the environment both, is just a few years old, with secret and patented research we’re not allowed to see, and any dissenting scientific opinion muzzled and ignored by the media. We wonder why girls are reaching puberty sooner, and men’s sperm counts are way down, but we’re not supposed to there may be a link here.
The whole situation reminds me of a recent mysterious virus, and the hurriedly approved experimental vaccine to combat it. Evidently we’re playing sorcerer’s apprentice here. Messing with the building block of God’s Creation, the DNA double helix, key to life on Earth, in order to sell more corn syrup or pharma products is, to say the least, greedy stupidity. Doing the same to advance even more questionable agendas, such as complete control over our food and health, by manipulating them so that both depend on corporate cartels is criminal.
Yes, genetic engineering can sustain larger populations. But is that truly desirable? We only have one Earth, after all. There’s only about 20 thousand lions left, with most of their habitat gone and veering on extinction. Other species and natural habitats, biodiversity we need and the Earth needs to function properly, is either gone or going fast.
The solution is not expanding the food supply at any cost. The solution is wisely managing both our numbers (in the Third World) and our consumption and expectations (in the Developed World).
When surprised by the mighty wizard Gandalf eavesdropping on his work, the gardener Samwise Gamgee, terrified, begged: “don’t turn me into something… unnatural!” That is our risk. The divine hand, and the natural evolution, that created the DNA double helix, were wise. Look around. We’re not very wise. Clever maybe, not wise. “The Lord of the Rings” has a happy ending. Will the love affair between a planet and its most clever inhabitants have a happy ending too?
Wow, that is amazing that they print that. You are going up against Big Pharma AND Big Ag.
We had an anti-Monsanto forum a while back, maybe over a decade, and one speaker was a seed cleaner who talked about the thugs from Monsanto physically threatening him.
His business was going to farms that saved their own seed and using a machine to clean the seeds for storage.
The thugs in the black SUVs followed him and menaced him.
There were also farmers who spoke about the thugs coming to their farms and threatening them.
We live across the river from Monsanto so maybe it is more common here, I don’t know.
But pretty scary stuff.
Monsanto owns about half the politicians and judges in my native Argentina. Which used to be a naturally fertile country – most grain growing areas have now been depleted and depend on transgenic seed, glyphosate and pesticides.
Paula, never heard about goons, not here, but lawfare is pretty efficient at enforcing their patents. I’d suspect they own a share of judges and politicians here, too.
thanks for that. nicely done. a sermon to the general public.
i don’t know what will work, but we have to keep the lamps lit.
Yes, sir, and thanks.
Nice essay Rulo. Concise and persuasive. Got me all riled up.
GMOs, I don’t know whether tinkering with a plant’s DNA will effect my DNA or me in any other way (depends on what the tinkering causes the plant to do), but it does allow the plant to be sprayed with spicy treats like glyphosate (a neurotoxin) and atrazine (an estrogen mimic). There is also the risk of loss of genetic diversity among cultivated crops due to contamination by GMOs.
I agree, the people behind the hacking of the source code of life, are not wise, but what they are doing is no accident of hubris. They are remaking the world in their own image.
That’s quite a commitment, agreeing to write one article per week. My mind would freeze up like a wood-chipper swallowing a rope. The ideas would start flowing once I got fired though.
Keep planting (and saving) those seeds.
Yes, BB, at the very least this techno wizardry is a danger to ever shrinking natural biodiversity, one of many.
Look at this, from Business Insider:
When Al Gore sat down for a chat with astrophysicist and StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson, we expected the conversation would be wide-ranging and fascinating.
We did not expect it would turn to goats.
About 14 minutes into the interview, which is part of Tech Insider’s Innovators series, Tyson asked Gore about the ethics of biotechnology.
“We all have to be prepared to engage in conversations about some of the difficult choices that will become available to us, like trait selection, like crossing species boundaries,” Gore replied.
Then the former Vice President adds: “You know about spider goats?”
Tyson’s ears perk up. “Sounds… Interesting,” Tyson replies.
“You can splice the genes from orb-weaving spiders into goats and produce spider goats,” Gore explains, “which mercifully, look like goats.”
Gore is not making this up. The goats have four legs, two eyes, and by most accounts are average-looking goats. When the BBC visited the first herd of goats at Utah State University in 2012, they even had adorable names like “Pudding” and “Freckles.”
But they are special in one, very important way: They’ve been genetically modified to produce spider silk in their milk.
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What could go wrong? Also, notice the two establishment viziers celebrating this “advance”. The new world order will be all about this kind of shit.
Mickey splicing brooms to carry water for him, to the tune of Dukas’ “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” in Fantasia… that’s us…
Neil deGrasse Tyson. I’m glad you brought him up. One of my favorite punching bags.
I watched a brief interview with him (on Joe Rogan?) regarding HAARP. I wasn’t expecting much. I wasn’t surprised. The take-away? We shouldn’t waste time thinking about HAARP, because it takes time away from the real menace: Climate Change!.
Tyson never explained how HAARP is said to work (by the “conspiracy theorists”), how it really works (according to The Narrative), and why the crazies are crazy.
Nu uh, that’d be science and L’il Neil don’t do science. He’s here to lead us away from the curtain and back to the shadow show. Well, that and get the smarter black kids beat up for takin’ maff ‘n’ stuff.
Al Gore? I won’t bother. The self-punching punching bag.
Al Gore & Neil Tyson belong in the wood chipper.
Mike Tyson has more science on a bad day than The Gas Tyson on a good year. And he’s prettier, too.
wood chipper swallowing a rope… in another life, I was one of the Mexicans in a landscaping crew (honorary Mexican) and a wood chipper did something awful to a guy that wasn’t paying attention.
No, writing once a week is no big deal. 2 hours per piece, focus and finish, select a picture to go with it, done, don’t try to make it perfect, just convey the point git er done. Struggle builds character. I think Iggy Pop said that, or maybe Marcus Aurelius.
“Honorary Mexican”. Pretty good. The best I ever accomplished was “Cheap Imitation Mexican”.
Marcus Aurelius or Iggy Pop? Have you ever seen the two of them together? I rest my case.
Hm. One and the same, you suggest, Poirot?
Excellent article, Rulo, thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Mary
Incidentally, 2 of the 5 marches I did when I lived in CA were against Monsanto!
It came to nothing but we tried…. 🙁
CFN attracts birds of a feather!
The marches against Iraq didn’t work either.
The marches against development and water pollution here in FL didn’t come to anything either.
Pattern recognition? I’m not marching again. Ever. For anything.
Same. It’s the most futile form of resistance, IMHO.
TPTB refer to those marches as “focus groups.”
Well that’s why the WEF et al are seeking depopulation. Maybe they’re not wrong after all. Because I think certainly humans will press foward extingishing life and ecosystems and will not stop unless made to stop due to resource limitations or civilizational collapse.
Add on estrogen dominance the result of a lot of agriculture techniques but involves Tupperware for Pete’s sake. Our environment is filled with estrogen and its derivatives. Way too much.
Effects? Early puberty for girls. Supercharging
Low sperm counts for boys and men
from too high levels of estrogen.
Could it be that the trans drive might be tied into the same hormonal upsets?
Lesbians have the highest rate of domestic violence.
I will guess black men for $1000.
/ did ya know Woody G was not jewish but he married one or 2 jewesses.
RE: domestic violence. Interesting.
Somehow it makes sense.
Just saw this by N Owl:
“I did two things. Pointing out that you again put words in my mouth. And then calling you a bitch.
Now you ask whether I called you a bitch, when anyone who likes can scroll up and see it.
You are weak and you fight like a bitch.”
This forum is for intelligent discussions, of which you’re incapable, Owl. Fighting? I’d bet you never fought. Calling someone a bitch on a screen, from a different continent, is not fighting. It’s being a fucking asshole. A sad sack office desk petulant, well fed, egocentric pendejo.
I was trying to have a normal conversation. Please let me know if you visit my neck of the woods. I’d like to buy you a beer, meet you personally. Now fuck off, you bourgeoise alcoholic lardass of a failure.
Indeed. You could not defend your ridiculous claim.
So now you hound me around the forum, claiming things I never said, because you cannot back up your statements.
A little bitch.
If that’s true (it helps when you show your work), it’s only because gay men don’t call the cops – until the hammer comes out.
I recall there was a cop in Village People. Maybe they call him.
Hahahahaha!
Regular ole straight people are worse on every measure than the rest. And like any other majority they are able to successfully demonize the minorities and who is really gonna stop them. Though admittedly its tougher now that the establishment is using gay, queer, and trans people as weapons of war against the majority. Though that too is simply a time limited strategy.
Just putting it out there: there’s American football to watch this Sunday, but you may want to check out the football football main event, World Cup final between France and Argentina. Promises to be a match for the ages, both teams in top form and brimming with talent.
Strange, too, because Argentina will be representing Europe, and France, Africa. Take a look at both teams and you’ll understand.
from NY Post – this has been quite the controversy this World Cup:
“The Washington Post was forced to issue a correction to an op-ed piece that lamented the absence of black players on Argentina’s national soccer team — even though the black population of the South American country is less than 1%.
The correction was attached to a Dec. 8 “Perspective” piece by author Erika Denise Edwards, who wrote an op-ed as part of the newspaper’s “Made by History” series.
“Why doesn’t Argentina have more black players in the World Cup?” read the headline of the op-ed.
Edwards, an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Texas at El Paso, wrote that the lack of black players on Argentina’s World Cup roster stood in “stark contrast” to other South American soccer powers such as Brazil.
She wrote that the “idea of Argentina as a white nation” was “inaccurate” and that attempts to portray it as such were part of a “longer history of black erasure at the heart of the country’s self-definition.”
“…history of black erasure …”
How can you erase something that was never there? White people, so ingenious in their evil.
The biggest World Cup controversy should be: Why the hell do you have people running around under the hot sun in the hottest place outside of Hell? (And I’m double-checking that jurisdictional issue…) Oh, I know, air-conditioned stadiums and stuff. And they’re modular, so they can be broken apart and shipped to poor countries.
Actually, the biggest controversy should be the number of “guest workers” (*cough* slaves *cough*) who died building the damn stadiums.
The answer is: Bullshit talks too when it has money.
Argentina, 1% black? Jaros may be offline for awhile while he packs his bags. Stay away from the warm part of the country JarJar, that’s mine.
Bird,
it was never a huge presence, but blacks were brought in small numbers as house slaves for wealthy Spaniards in the 16, 1700’s.
Slavery was abolished shortly after independence, 1813 if my schoolboy history is not foggy. Some may have migrated to Brazil in the north, some say, but I find it absurd, since Brazil only abolished slavery towards the end of the 19th.
It’s truly a mystery. But they did disappear, almost completely, their DNA soon lost in the massive waves of European immigrants (not conquistadors) that started in the early 1800’s and lasted until after WW2.
Last time I was there, I saw a few pure blooded, African blacks, selling fake bling and trinkets downtown. From Senegal, or something, but not to stay, they use Arg, like the Chinese, as a place to stay before getting access to the real first world, US or Europe.
Arg is not a white country, not anymore. But it’s not blacks displacing whites, it’s new waves of uncontrolled migration from neighboring, Indian and mestizo majority places like Bolivia and Chile.
Where’s Jarek when we need him? He’d give the floor a good dissertation about all this, full of vim and wit.
Actually, if there’s a model of racial co existence (and us palefaces accepting our diminished standing) going forward, it’s probably the Argie one. Insult everyone, don’t take offense when insulted, value soccer skill above all never mind the color of the player, drink wine, admire the new pretty women emerging from new mixes. IOW, don’t take the race thing too seriously. If the WaPo will let us…
You know Rulio, my wife’s family belonged to a Spanish Cultural Club here in Ct. I’d go go sometime, got to know people there. Odd thing, it was limited to people from Spain — Latin Americans & West Indians not really welcome (Mexicans, Puerto Ricans) EXCEPT for Argentinians. There were quite a few members from Argentina, Spanish speakers but many of them of German & Italian heritage.
I’ve been checking out the fights over the WC on a Telegram channel, it’s insane. Lots of people have died. People fighting, running people over with cars, huge brawls spilling out of pubs.
What a waste of energy, although I’m sure the games are as riveting as pro sports can get.
I guess I’m just American, as I’ve never understood the appeal of soccer, aka European football. Too much standing around waiting for something to happen for my taste. Hockey is the same game played on a smaller field at a much higher pace with much more contact and therefore toughness involved. Euro soccer feels like a true “spectator sport” in comparison; as in everyone on the “pitch” is just spectating.
And the World Cup? Just another version of the Olympics, which are now fully professionalized as well. Say what you want about American sports – and I’m more than a little fed up with them too – they sell you your violence, professionalism, and over the top hyperbolic bullshit straight up with barely a twist with no apologies whatsoever. Almost refreshing in this day and age. Almost.
Dis,
that’s the same way I feel about American football: nothing happens, bunch of fat guys in helmets talking on intercoms, constant interruptions for ads, nobody runs, nobody’s athletic except a few positions, the rest are almost obese, and wearing tight spandex for fuck’s sake.
I know soccer is a hard sale here, but when you don’t understand the sport, it’s still interesting for the geopolitical, social, racial, avenues of thought it opens.
On good days – and Sunday promises to be one – it truly earns its monicker: the beautiful game.
True that. The adverts are now so obnoxious and intrusive it makes me want to scream. Not to mention all the “strategic” stops and delays, including play reviews, during which if you’re not getting commercials, you’re getting inane “analysis” from the insipid commentators.
I kind of took another look at it a few years back. We have a Nepalese national that came onto our Fantasy Football League, so I tried to imagine it through his eyes, as he was (and remains) mostly nonplussed about the whole thing. I concluded that it really is just cultural conditioning. You get accultured to something and start making mental connections with it to certain times of the year, holidays, life events, and what not and it takes on a sort of mythic place in your life.
I renewed my driver’s license, but I no longer enjoy driving. It’s a chore.
That’s good tom that you took care of that. I feel you. Stop signs, red lights, and roundabouts can really put a damper on the day. Not to even mention those awful people who get right up on your tail basically. Oh and like if you get home and then realize you need to go back out because you forgot something and you just scream out in a desperation omg what is effing happening right now! Anyhoo. All that to say i sympathize with you. Nitey nite sleep tight don’t let the bed bugs bite 😉
Get yourself a nice handling car with an inline 6 or V8, Tom.
Life is what you make it.
Yes, lil’ t. Too many people – most of them horrendous drivers to boot – on the road these days. The good news is that we’re likely past “peak motoring” now.
“Ed Dowd with the receipts to show Australian excess mortality is now at 18% across all ages and not levelling off.
From an insurance perspective it’s ‘a disaster’.
It needs to be explained yet as usual complete radio silence from legacy media !”
https://twitter.com/SaiKate108/status/1603606146761523200?cxt=HHwWgIDUlerSk8EsAAAA
Excess mortality at nearly 20 fucking percent now. Cud-chewers just dropping dead.
NO
Crappy food, vaccines that divert immune systems, medicines that create lousy metabolic responses, polluted water, viruses that are getting ahead of us, probably engineered to do so, stress, the rise of autoimmunity, see also vaxx, drug resistant bacteria
And
democrats, local and global.