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Looks like The New York Times will have to recalibrate its president-o-meter. For five months they’ve been styling Joe Biden as the reincarnation of FDR, but he’s looking more and more like the second coming of Millard Fillmore — who came to leadership of the dominant Whig Party at exactly the moment it flew up the wazoo of history and vanished, ushering in a civil war.
FDR, you remember, was faced with a momentous systems failure, a crisis we came to call the Great Depression. I’m not sure we actually learned the lesson of that, despite thousands of books and PhD dissertations on the subject. The lesson: financial systems tend to expand and complexify at a more rapid rate than the larger economic systems of which they are a component. Their abstract operations seek to hide risk in hyper-complexity until hazard comes a’callin’ and then you discover that the actual money is not there.
The difference then (1929 – 1941) was that the greater US economy was fully outfitted for industrial production when its finance sector blew up. There was something solid underneath all that financial abstraction. We were all set up to manufacture products of value, many of them based on inventions developed here: cars, movies, airplanes, radios, you-name-it, new and exciting things that people wanted to buy. Our factories were all pretty much up-to-date and state-of-the-art then, too. Our oil supply, including the industry that pumped it out of the ground and moved it from points A to B, was the envy of the world. We had raw materials up the ying-yang. The whole kit was humming magnificently when Wall Street blew up, and next thing you know unemployment goes to twenty-five percent and nobody has any money and the luckless are building cardboard shanties in Central Park.
Of course, that was then and this is now. If you’re saying “boo-hoo,” I think you get the picture. That whole kit of industrial production is long gone, and we’re left in an economic slum of Chinese product “welfare” (stuff for treasury bonds) juiced on computer-driven hyper-complexity, decorated with junk enterprise like social media, streaming pornography, crypto-currency mining, and chicken nuggets — with a lot of deceptive and useless motion in the form of mass motoring to provide the illusion that this country is actually going somewhere… all with a poison Chinese Covid-19 cherry-on-top. This is the outfit that Joe Biden is ostensibly the president of.
Now along comes the curious case of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. It’s especially interesting because the pipeline itself, while big (5,500 miles long, from refineries in Texas clear up to gas stations in New York), is itself not that complicated. It’s a tube that a few volatile liquids move through: gasoline, aviation fuel, diesel oil. It has a bunch of valves to regulate the flows of these liquids. Plus, some storage tank-farms. The valves are computerized. That seems to be the problem. There was no physical damage to the pipeline and its components. The software that runs it got hacked, reportedly a “ransom-ware” sting, where unknown actors get control of the software and won’t relinquish it unless a whole lot of cash gets forked over by some non-traceable electronic means of transfer. I imagine it’s this last point that Colonial and its hackers are haggling over now, which explains the failure to restart the otherwise undamaged pipeline. I also imagine, meanwhile, all kinds of private and government computer savants are trying like hell to hack the hack behind the scenes.
The Colonial Pipeline is easy-peasy compared to the financial system and the electric grid. If the first one gets hacked, the nation’s nominal wealth might disappear (yours included), and, anyway, the financial system itself is not just enormous and hyper-complex, but much of its complexity conceals the massive misrepresentation of vaporous entities for “money” and any stoppage of the flows of that “money,” and things purporting to derive from it, will reveal the black hole at the center of all that activity. Hear that giant sucking sound? That was your livelihood, your pension, and your legacy rushing by en route to zero.
The electric grid is sometimes referred to as “the biggest machine in the world.” Unlike the financial system, it’s not largely stoked on hyper-complex dishonesty, it’s just really old, and jerry-rigged, and held together with duct-tape and baling wire. Probably a few kids in a basement somewhere — not even enemies of the republic, necessarily — could initiate a software attack that causes a whole lot of damage to transformers and other vital components and starts a process that wrecks the whole darn thing. Taking down the grid would be, effectively, the end of civilization, at least for a while, maybe a long while, maybe for good.
The various voting systems that states such as Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan employ are child’s play compared to those monsters. And the funny part is: there was no good reason to over-complexify them except to queer elections. Dominion machines and Smartmatic software were hardly needed to tally votes and only invited opportunity to cheat. Paper ballots, pen-and-ink voter registration ledgers (like the ones still used in New York state precincts), and some dedicated board-of-election workers will get’er done in a straightforward manner that can be regulated easily. But, no-o-o-o, we had to heap unnecessary complexity on that, too, and look where it’s left us. We may find out soon.
So, the Colonial Pipeline breakdown should send a kind of grim message. The creatures who run the Federal Reserve, the banks, and the markets are standing by along with the poor souls who run the electric grid, chewing their fingernails down to the nubbins. It’s too late to simplify any of it. We’ve just got to roll with it, until it stops rolling.
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Of course Mr Buffet and other billionaires love this as fuel is now being tankered across the nation. They have a lot of money invested in the trucking and rail industries. Naturally gas prices will spike making extra profits for the refiners and for the government in taxes. A win win for everyone but the consumers, again.
Nauturally president Houseplant tells us that we have to just get used to hacking attacks. Clueless old retard.
Well, that would be your classic Problem/Reaction/Solution scheme in a nutshell.
Of course they probably did this to themselves to gain on the other side of the table.
They’ll probably get their soon-to-be-paid “ransom money” back from the insurance companies too, as well as receiving most of it back indirectly when they pay the “ransom” to their friend Bob Sacamano and his nephews in a Torrance basement.
Wondering where the drivers for tanker trucks will come from? Supply was tight before covid, now around 1 in 8 OTR loads are delayed due to driver shortage.
No idea what the current rail situation is.
Good point. Guessing Warren B doesn’t have a Class A with hazardous materials certification.
Actually probably hasn’t driven a car in forty years.
There’s a distributed information system called “The Internet”
https://www.hotcars.com/heres-what-warren-buffett-drives/
Eh, that car is parked.
And it is also not a tanker truck. Or if it is, a very compact model…
Colonial pipeline hack is a ruse…
Got this…
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/ncdeq-colonial-pipeline-spill-huntersville/275-70e16fb6-c945-4634-b933-3975d0573f2e
Apparently this pipeline is leaking.
How convenient is it that they can shut it down for some other reason?
Brilliant! Hadn’t seen this anywhere else.
I remember when the pipeline from up north ruptured below a suburb of St. Paul back in the ’80s. A wall of flame raced through a residential area. It looked like a scene from Hell. A woman trying to flee with her three-year-old child couldn’t run fast enough and was caught in it. She went out the front door, while her husband and another child went out the back and lived. The worst of it was that they didn’t die right away. This was in the days before HIPPA, and journalists being what they are, reported that the child became hysterical in the emergency room when the nurses wanted to take out her earrings, because they were new and her daddy told her not to take them out or the holes would close. The child has been dead for over thirty years and I still get choked up about it.
Good lord, thanks for that, um…uplifting story.
Which St Paul suburb?
It was Mounds View. Not too far from where I lived at the time. It was 1986. A 50-foot wall of flame erupted from the pipeline. The child who died was actually seven.
Ah, found it…Mounds View
Insane! Biggest spill in NC’s history and no coverage, and a cover-up?
Complexity is also a ruse.
Do you really understand your phone bill?
Ever argue with an auto mechanic?
Medical – pullllleease.
These are the diminishing returns of technology. A world so complex, only the high priests of technology (the current fascists) can understand and explain it all. Only the high priests of medicine can understand and explain it all. Only the high priests of government can understand and explain it all.
It’s how they pull the wool over our eyes, every single time.
At this point, a world made by hand is more a prayer than a novel.
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve been saying much the same things for years – the technology is not only out running us, it’s out running the engineers.
Several months ago I had a problem with my phone as I traveled. Called T-Mobile and the tech desk gave me a story and a solution.
Didn’t work. Another call to the tech desk gave me a completely different story and ANOTHER solution.
Didn’t work…need I go on?
Besides the obvious designed obsolescence, the tech is changing so rapidly and so often – needlessly I must add – that no techie knows what the hell they’re talking about.
WMBH.
I graduated in 1976 in electrical engineering. It lasted ten years and I was obsolete. After being laid off, getting a new job is difficult.
To the kids, it seems exciting, it is not, it has short term pay back, but plan on continuous re-education on your own. Engineering is short term gratification.
New Mercedes Benz cars are too complex to be repaired by factory trained mechanics; electronics and computer experts often must be consulted or brought in to assist.
So are F-150’s
Overly complex “systems” are bad enough, but sometimes they’re made worse by time, politics, and other human failings. My brother, a successful attorney (and shadetree mechanic), has been running all over Upstate New York and Northeast Pennsyltucky for months because his prized 7-series BMW is running on one bank of cylinders and nobody can find the proper software patch to get his baby running at full efficiency. One dealer told him no dealership in the United States can help him because they believe BMW deleted software for said car because it’s over 10 years old. Another of his cars is constantly being shopped because Petra Kelly and her Greens successfully changed laws so that certain parts in cooling systems that had been made of exotic alloys must be made of plastics instead. Guess what happens to plastics that are exposed to hot engine coolant?
One of my clients sells parts for older Land Rover trucks. Some of his customers’ trucks are over 50 years old and are still running. They are simple enough machines that owners can perform their own repairs and maintenance. They are indispensable vehicles in places like the Australian outback and the Canadian north where repair shops are non-existent.
Even continuous re-education doesn’t always help. I trained as a COBOL mainframe programmer in the 80’s, and seeing the writing on the wall I spent much of the 90’s taking classes in newer technology. I remained employed with my old skills through the Y2K process, but after that I couldn’t find any companies that wanted to hire a 40+ programmer with no hands-on experience with coding for PCs. The years of classroom training were worthless.
DB2, CICS and COBOL aren’t dead yet. Lot’s of F500 firms have big dependency on those mainframe systems. Hang in there, there’s work to be had in these systems.
rubbish, there are plenty of cobol jobs out there. i~m still programming in a language I was told was a dead end….in 1995!
jeez, just do a search on any job site and lots of cobol db2 etc comes up.
there~s a huge shortage of programmers, if you~re not up to speed on new languages just take a code bootcamp, some are even free if you don~t get a job offer for at least $50k following the 2-3 month course
Profession of yours that phased out together with slide rule.
Architects and engineers of today are literary slaves of Autodesk
and their for ever “new update” AutoCAD.
Comic anecdotes in hi-tech firms where engineers could not figure out how to use microwave in the lunch room.
Tire pressure sensor light on our Ford. Me:no intention of paying to fix it. My wife: nervous breakdown watching it despite tires
being in perfect order since I check it every fourth or fifth gas fill.
So much to list.
To this day amazed with “twisted logic’ of my engineering colleague’s with no shortage of “watch and learn” attitude, through most of my career, so…. no wonder.
Just cover up that sensor light with a piece of camo tape and she’ll forget all about it.
SvrzoH
I’ve managed several projects in Jackson Hole just downstream from where the deciders meet every year to plan the world’s future.
Try to find an architect— especially one associated with the most prestigious firms— that understands that water runs downhill.
Case in point: New 16 million dollar home just completed a few hundred yards from the base of the ski lifts. Crawl space basement with all the complex machinery to run the palace installed in it. Gravel floor placed a foot below the winter water table. $27,000 in mold remediation before the walls were even framed including an attempt to waterproof the basement from the inside that is a guaranteed fail.
Or another: 18 million dollar house on a 32 acre plot south of town. Features a million dollar +++ in glass with sliding glass doors to open the entire Great Room to the outside. Except that the mosquitos are so ferocious that the sliding walls can never be opened in the summer. When the owners come up from Texas for Christmas the aren’t likely to open them because it is 30 below zero. And the roof is an inverted V with the rain and snow melt water running down through the walls. Leaks at the slightest sign of rain or ice damming.
The project architect calls it “pushing the envelope.” I guess the envelope was too heavy to carry without a fork lift since their design fee pushed well past a million dollars.
I’ve built megayacht engine rooms with more system complexity in them than a small city. Once I have the Autocad drawings I always build full scale mock-ups of all the actual machinery that I have to accommodate and shuffle them around until I know they will fit. Positively Neanderthal.
“I graduated in 1976 in electrical engineering.”
Somewhat similarly, I graduated in a minerals associated program after falling for the oil scare in the ’70s. I had to totally re-invent my career in the ’80s using my basic engineering education as a foundation. I still make part of my income from mineral businesses, but more from others.
“…plan on continuous re-education…”
For sure.
Here’s where you’re wrong, I daresay–mostly, the Priests *don’t* actually understand or explain any of those things you mention, including those within their own specialty.
Take the priestliest of preisthoods, medicine. When is the last time a doctor actually gave you a really useful and non-obvious diagnosis or treatment, rather than simply feeding you through the System and collecting some absurd fee for ordering unnecessary tests and procedures? Also, the rate of death by medical errors in the country, while not a recent development, is still a clear indicator of breathtaking dysfunction.
No–the Priests’ function is simply to 1) confuse you with an ink-cloud of custom-made jargonwhich they understand little more than you do, yet which somehow magically projects *auctoritas*. Then: 2) profit.
There are a few genuine Wizards out there, I think, who actually understand how the Machine works, and do their part to keep it humming. But I do think their numbers are declining, especially with Woke hiring practices that maniacally sieve out any signs of real comprehension in the workforce.
It’s a mixed blessing, if true. The Machine is our prison, but also our life-support. And while the Wizards are basically evil, we also forgot how to live without them after they are wholly replaced by impostors.
I agree with this post. The hyper-complexity of our vast bureaucratic system is the most damaging aspect of our society. Do you really trust any transaction today to be done correctly and efficiently? How much time do you spend having to correct a deal that should have been straightforward and simple? The only way to rationalize what we are dealing with now is to tear it down and start over. The tearing down will have to be done with implosion and the results should be impressive. It’s only a matter of time and, probably, not much of that.
The Colonial Pipeline breakdown should send a kind of grim message.
A few months ago there was a breakdown in food supply in the USA.
I do not know the name of the distribution company. It supplied or moved the frozen food in USA.
Anyone have a link?
HECKLER
These copy pastes are for you,
Aphreikah Duhaney-West, CEO of Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport”
At least we got a new nickname for Louisiana out of this story: Africa West.
Just in the past few weeks in occupied New Orleans: A black street performer in a Chewbacca suit stabbed a rival in the French Quarter; seven teens of color (5 boys, 2 girls) carjacked & then crashed a pickup; an ambulance was ambulancejacked from a hospital; a white coffee shop franchisee in the French Quarter had his store ownership revoked for criticizing LeBron (“TheBrown”) James on Twitter;
a white Alabama grandmother was fatally punched by a brotha in (guess where?) the French Quarter; [she spent her time caring for a mulatto grandchild], Nike moved its store from a crime-ridden section of Mid City to the leafy Elmwood suburb;
Joe Biden wants to spend billions to remove a major section of I-10 that was built through (meaning over) a not-so-historic “historic Black neighborhood” just above the (yup) French Quarter.
This list only scratches the surface of the never-ending crime wave in the Big Easy. (Melanated persons commit about 97% of NOLA’s annual homicides.) This website ought to open a New Orleans bureau just to cover it.
And as SBPDL reported last week, nine black children were shot at a birthday party in nearby enriched city LaPlace, and none of the 60 adults snitched on the shooter.
THIS. is there a week that goes by that a white person is not murdered by an african-american? there are 45 million black people in the u.s. and proportionately speaking, the murders represent a small percentage of them, yet, it all comes down to this very thing, the proportions.
Whites are not killing anyone in this amount of numbers, especially blacks.
we are being lied to constantly, repeatedly, day after day, by the irrational and insane method of reporting as represented by the so called establishment media reporters, none of whom can be any longer taken as being servants of the truth. propagandists yes, servants of the truth.
…Any comments? Then theres the case of the White gal who biked cross USA for Obama [I forget what year, she campaigned for barry].
She was killed in the Lower Ninth and her body lay on the sidewalk as blacks ignored it.
The San Fran media did a bit of a cover up [she was from the bay area].
I’m glad I got to see New Orleans years ago while it still had charm, great restaurants and beautiful residential neighborhoods. And the people who lived there were happy to see tourists. Two LVNs I worked with were from the ninth ward and had to leave b/c of the damage by Katrina. What they described to me was an interconnected neighborhood with a lot of visiting, sharing food and extended family.
Malthus
@ re: eliminating section of I-10 in New Orleans
What a coincidence! Just about and hour ago the Mayor of Hartford and Senator Blumenthal held a news conference announcing efforts to abandon I-84 & I-91 thru the city (which they claim are racist) and replace them with a massive tunnel system underneath the Connecticut River. Estimated cost: $50 billion. Turns out interstates running thru Hartford wasn’t such a good idea after all. Problem is, previous costly projects that required massive amounts of concrete and money, Constitution Plaza in the 50s and the Civic Center in the 70s all turned out to be colossal failures, and are now largely abandoned. This latest megalomaniacal fantasy, we are assured, is solid, and will lead to a bright and prosperous future.
Brh
Too bad Robert Moses wasn’t around today. He could condemn the Cross Bronx Expressway that connects the GW Bridge from NJ to the New England Thruway and replace it with a tunnel – across the entire width of the borough of The Bronx at the cost of only $1 trillion!
Don’t worry. They’ probably won’t even get it started before the end of such things is upon us. It’s probably not even intended. They simply need to sell bonds.
I suspect you are correct. These “infrastructure projects” are largely going to be all talk, no tangible results – but a whole lot of spending. Whatever the Big Guy vomits, his disciples will eagerly lap up. After all they don’t live there, they won’t know nothing changed on the ground – and if you showed them the empty promises, they would still see a rainbow-colored wonderland. Tater Tot speaks reality into existence, his followers scurry into this fantasy world to watch the shadow show.
spent to what end. stadiums, malls, etc.
I recently met a young man driving a fancy car. His job is developing malls. ‘not here, next one will be in Arizona.’
I didnt tell him malls are mauled. due to amazon and USA financial collapse.
Haha, well he must be sitting precariously atop that niche foodchain for the moment…might as well be going into movie theaters or pagers.
I’m picturing Michael Scott.
Stadiums and malls exactly. All publicly funded, all failures.
@BRH — but of course they won’t use a fraction of that $50 billion to renovate the plaza and civic center and have them functioning public spaces.
So Connecticut didnt learn from Boston’s Big Dig? Or maybe they did, and just want some graft for themselves?
Turns out interstates running thru Hartford wasn’t such a good idea after all.
It really depends on the city, and the planning, eh? Some cities work fairly seamlessly, with interstates running through them, both for intra-city commuters, and those just heading straight through, while in others it is a nightmare, and they have really messed with traffic flow, residential living and commercial activity.
The spaghetti junctions in East Hartford look very “impressive” – that’s an awful lot of sunk investment (let alone concrete) that would have to be abandoned!
Map view: https://goo.gl/maps/X2NkRA2AgLRMqNH87
The late Tom Metzger (White Nationalist) said that it took eight White deaths to wake up one White person. And you know what? I have no idea if he was being ironic about that or if the precise number was part of the joke.
With a ratio like that, whites will be a minority smaller than transgendered Muslim Eskimos by the time we all wake up. Maybe we will be preserved as a curiosity in a fenced Potemkin Trailer Park somewhere in Kansas.
At the rate our replacements are arriving from south of the border, I suspect most of us are on the schedule to be genocided.
I’m sure they’ll keep a few of us around – but only the blonde and female. And they will dispose of them once they are used up…
Wendy Magrinat, tourist from RI shot on Times Square, along with her 4 yo daughter, also shot
“I was shot, nobody would help me. I thought I’d never see my daughter again.”
PUT THAT ON YOUR GLOSSY PROMOTIONAL NYC TOURIST BROCHURE, Mayor Diblassio!
Include on the brochure a pic of the distinguished assailant running up 42nd street.
Blakattak!
The Civil Rights movement was highjacked in 1964 by democrats.
Today, they are using black people to divide all people. Because systemic racism in America is a false premise, this effort will fail, and they will cause a backlash against the very people they pretend to care about.
We need to socially distance ourselves from socialists.
An intended backlash.
Nah, the Blacks love being on top. And they are being given the right to attack Whites. Think they don’t love that too?
You’re fantasizing about some imaginary period of racial harmony. They behaved better because they knew what happened if they didn’t. We were on top in other words.
This is correct. No use pretending it was ever otherwise. Examples to the contrary are merely outliers and posers – nothing more. There is no tolerance, just a raw competition for supremacy and dominance.
Many of the carboniferous hard core unemployables cause problems for the decent members of that race, but they will not or cannot stop it.
The lesson from the Colonial Pipeline hack is simple and easily seen by America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic. Watch for more of these incidents as failed policies, both foreign and domestic, come home to roost.
And so it begins
Thanks JHK
I would suggest that America’s and the West’s enemies (global capitalists) already planned this out to start up post-Covid Hoax.
Just as Great Reset criminal Klaus Schwab said in a recent speech posted here. Now we are on the cyber attack phase and the empty store shelves and gas stations.
A headline from WSJ a few minutes ago “oil prices to surge after Colonial Pipeline Breakdown”.
It’s hard to know what to believe is true, what’s fabricated on the spot as situations arise and what’s been planned and is going according to plan.
Lumber prices have skyrocketed and are undermining independent builders’ profit margin — and that’s if they can even locate sufficient supplies.
You are Right again, NO.
“…(global capitalists) …”
And, best of all, does not make you a commie by saying it.
Food prices already soaring suddenly in the past 2 weeks.
People in my neighborhood wondering why so many break-ins to cars are starting to happen (they never really did before).
No one understands the big pic of what’s going on. Or very few.
Most are created simply to move up the profit, we own a framing company and the cost has gone through the roof for materials, went to every stores that sell building material to buy nails to get enough to even put some tin on, the answer was always the same “can’t get them” the cost of lumber to frame a 2,000 sq. foot house has increased $25,000 that is if you can get it while lumber mills have shut down, the whole thing s a scam to push the prices up and increase the profit.
I saw a photo the other day that purported to be a lumbar yard full of lumber being held off the market.
Yes – here is a detailed article on lumber prices: https://www.vox.com/22410713/lumber-prices-shortage
Wondering how much one of the Bidens got for the sale of the password to the CCP to shut down Colonial.
A report on Fox last night reported the hack came from Eastern Europe.
It maybe for money alone.
The intimidation it does to this feckless government though is palpable, the world is seeing us now as the hollow shell we really are.
Just think, about the time the USA loses its integrity, it will be well prepared for the Brown takeover, ie no one will even notice.
JAZ, Fox & MSNBC are like Coke & Pepsi. While differing slightly in flavour, they both serve sugary bull shit to the populace. One makes ya fat. The other makes you stupid.
Turn off your TV.
I gotta admit, I PVR pro sports to watch pro atletes compete.
But Fox, MSNBC et al are no more than propaganda arms of The Beast. Fox will tell you what The Beast wants you to think. MSNBC will do the same for RL. You’ll both think that you’re smarter than those darn dunderheads watching the Wrong network.
Online Research, while still available, is your only Hope at gleaning Truth.
“Turn off your TV” indeed. But also turn off your social media, and participation on online fora like this one, (with all due respect to JHK). “Wake up from your electronic hallucination”, as CHRIS HEDGES has written.
It is time for North America to stop partying like it’s 1945 and to turn instead to more serious pursuits, such as picking stones and planting potatoes.
Yup. Get out of the Tower before it falls. Run far enough away that it doesn’t land on you. And, don’t look back!
Lot’s wife looked back at the destruction of Sodom & Gamorah and was turned to a pillar of salt.
I’m doing both. On social media for the support of like-minded people which I don’t yet know in my new community, and growing a garden (a fairly large one).
Fox, MSNBC,(et al) is it really news (or just a scheme to sell advertising to targeted audiences by playing to the demographic groups?
This isn’t exactly the link I was looking for, but close enough.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/how-reading-the-news-is-like-smoking
He went to Substack as an escape to freedom. Agree sometimes, disagree at others, but consider he’s making a serious go at journalism.
He is, indeed. I truly respect him for moving to substack where he won’t be censored (yet).
Reading the mainstream news is like smoking.
So is watching TV.
So is hanging out on social media.
I don’t have the 3d one licked yet but eventually I am assuming that decision will be made for me. Twitter’s already given me the heave-ho.
Good article — it’s a preview of things to come, like it or not.
And inflation is right around the corner too. Anyone who shops for food has seen the prices rise steadily and as gas prices go up, those will too. I was in a discount store the other day and saw a wicker rocker I bought 2 years ago for $60 now for $160 — exact same one. But we can live without those things but not necessities of course.
When is the stock market going to nose-dive?
The stock market will not tank. It will follow the increased money supply, as it is a measure of the profits of the corporations. Many people became wealthy during the 70s inflation.
The prices increasing does not mean much if the prices track the money being supplied, ie. Prices equal raises. The problem is fixed income folks, especially retirees. Hyper inflation can cause a significant portion of the population to stop spending, from which Depressions occur. COLA payments help here.
Balance is required to stop surges in inflation from happening. That is the job of the Fed and interest rates. Interest rates are near zero and inconsequential, the Fed disappears. A little more money starving and deflation takes over. We live in dangerous times.
Any body consider that this is all planned by our globalist PTB and that Biden is just a patsy to take us down, in all ways possible?
But how can value of stocks keep rising when there’s no asset behind them? Taibbi wrote an article about a deli that valued at more than $1 million that only sold (if I remember correctly) $36,000 annually in sales. Surely this can’t go on forever.
Biden the Man Holding the Bag is the perfect patsy. He’s been a compliant player for 50+years and can’t last much longer so he can take the fall while others are shielded.
Corporations provide goods and services that are necessities for people. The capital base that provides this is intact and will remain. The Profit base remains the same. The market may level off or decline sharply but as long as people need things, markets will exist. The market operated during the Depression and made some, not as many rich.
The biggest problem during the Depression was technical. Progress in manufacturing technology allowed the country to supply itself with 25% fewer people. How to fix that? Make expendable! Bullets, tanks, planes. Then find a place to blow them all up so next month we need more. Them knock off a big portion of the folks who are not working.
Voila, problem solved. Sounds horrific, but at those levels, it is the way people in charge think.
Thus The Covids.
Hawkins, the COVID is a major disappointment, at least as far as virulence is concerned. Perhaps the vaccinations with be more effective
BINGO!
Stocks keep rising because that is where all the money we have been printing for the last 12 years goes. The asset backing those stocks is the Federal Government – wicker rockers would be more secure.
Yup
Exactly, BB. The Capstone will continue to attract the Stupid Money (i.e. the financial holdings of 99.99% of the people including pension and other retirement plans). They will then slowly bleed off their profits selling into the Stupid Money. I suspect that they may have already started. Why, they even control most of the Stupid Money and will not blink to do the equivalent of paying $2.5mm for that deli if it is –your retirement buying it and their deli for sale.
Once the Rothschild’s like their positions, JAZ is Wrong:
There will be a stock market crash.
They know what they’re doing.
Didn’t the stock market crash last year, just before Covid19?
Why is everyone ignoring that?
The stock market will not tank.
– JAZ, May 10, 2021
On May first, I purchased an item for $10.00, It was exactly what I wanted and I planned to by a few more, but when I went to buy it, the price had risen to $16.99, more than half again as much. Luckily, I found the item at another site for under $10.00 and ordered from them.
The pipeline is full of $10 units. When that runs dry, it will cost 16.99.
If you need them buy them now.
I’ve been stocking up on items I would find it inconvenient to do without for some time now.
Many things that I purchased from the Dollar Store ten or fifteen years ago look like high-quality items, and of course are no longer available there. The folding bookcase I sent my daughter off to college with was $15 at the time. Last time I looked online they were about $75. When I take the glass candle-holder that I paid a dollar for to outdoor craft events (as a paperweight), people swoon over it and ask me where I got it.
Things you thought were makeshift items for poor people now look like quality stuff.
Hellooooooo….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_stock_market_crash
The pipeline hack is a puzzle. Ordinarily, one would think that an attack on part of America’s critical infrastructure would mean it’s black helicopter time, but our response seems almost tepid. Maybe there’s a note: “This is a test; this is only a test; had it been an actual attack, we would have brought down your electrical grid or your financial system – or both.”
As JHK documents, we are a paper tiger so I guess it is just a little pulling of the eagle’s tailfeathers. Our competitors can safely work through their proxies: the North Koreans for the Chinese and the freelance East European hacker syndicates for the Russians.
The Germans sank the Lusitania, we clobbered them in WW1.
The Japanese did Pearl Harbor, we do WW2.
The Spanish sank the Maine, ???, we did the Spanish American War.
Face it , we are cowards now unable to defend ourselves.
Orlov said our military reminded him of the former Soviet Union’s military before the fall. The term he used was ‘flaccid.’ With our military now full of girly-men are they fit for war? My guess is they enlisted to get reassignment surgery, and are probably not otherwise invested. After all, someone might break a nail! Where are they going to plug in their curling irons? Are their estrogen pills going to arrive on time? What abut sanitary supplies? Some of them have bought used uteruses and ovaries and are planning on having periods–maybe babies. How are they going to run in size 10 high heels. How are they going to face Russian troops? Is the plan to whine at those men until they give up all will to live and fall to the ground curled in the fetal position? The Russians look like they’ve still got testosterone, the hairy brutes.
I always remember the WWII casuaties in Russia were 20 million. That population absorbed a lot of hardship. I see no reason to think anything has changed. If I were Mr. Potato Head Biden, I would refrain from poking the bear.
Well, the biggest shutter downer of fuel pipelines in the US is Gina McCarthy, Joe Biden, and the Climate Czar, John Kerry.
Jim, as far as our electric grid goes, plans are in the works to scrap it right now, and replace it with a new, even more hyper complex system of giant windmills coast to coast, storage batteries, and transformers to convert AC power to DC power, and back to AC power.
Baseload nuclear, natgas and coal fired generating plants are being decommissioned across the country, especially in NY and California. Biden states the process of ‘Decarbonization’ will be completed by 2030, a short 8 1/2 years from now.
By then a whole new Clean Grid will have been installed, freeing us from our “fossil fuel addiction.” We’re kicking the habit. And oh yes, we’ll all be happily driving EVs by then, too.
Brh
I’ll be happily riding a bike! Back to basics as the complexities of things gets more and more insane.
The steps one has to go through to do anything now is crazy. Liabilities, insurance, legalese, etc.
Who needs it? I think I will start the Simplicity movement. Something like the Luddite movement.
Back to basics.
Amish.
Without the religion part I guess, yes.
Yes, and of course, your own dress code. You needn’t dress like the Amish girls. Unless you like that look, of course.
Mmm…. I’d say that the undermining of every standard, whether moral and religious, or academic, or social is the greatest danger of all.
You are either a being of immeasurable dignity and glory (and this is the inwardness of religion), or you are a commodity.
Anthea, that sure is a lot of assumption and black and white thinking.
Lighten up Francis:))
Doc said he would write a scrip. Told him to keep it. To much chemical warfare. To complicated everywhere.
I went to a bike shop a week ago. I could get the model I wanted, the waiting time was only 15 months.
BRH
Hey, how many new wind farms or solar fields are on the books. Nuclear wise NY just shut down their last Nuke plant.
What the heck is going on here? We think that shutting down pipelines and FF generators will just miraculously, poof, create all this infrastructure? Never!!
So what is our illiterate Dem government doing about a coming disaster?
Nothing, because it does not have a clue what to do. TDS is removing FF day to day.
Oh yeah, we are very concerned on the number one issue of our country,
Whether people should wear masks after they are vaccinated.
Lord, no wonder China and Russia just laugh us off now.
I look at the doddering old fool play acting as our president and realize he is just a reflection of the USA populace now. When will people realize how badly we are being played?
As a result of the Stupidification program, probably never.
I’m sort of obsessed with that crazy pic of the Giant Bidens with the pygmy Carters.
Why did they do that? It’s obviously horribly photoshopped. They had to know that. So what in the hell is the purpose for releasing it? Is it to prove they can tell us not to believe our lying eyes? Is it to mock the office of the presidency?
It’s rather insane.
And at a time where Biden is covid-obsessed, none of them are wearing masks in close quarters, to boot.
Mary that was a creepy picture. Was it legit, or photoshopped as you say. And if photoshopped, to what end?
The Carter’s looked like Hobbits.
Why would the Carters, if they have any decency, even pose for such a ridiculous “portrait”? The Carters look tiny and frail, as if they were carefully removed from their storage cabinets and posed by the mighty Bidens. Close quarters, no masks, all ancient…
I think the terrible Photoshop work (over the past several years) is meant to rub our noses in it. More divide and conquer. One-third of the country laughs at poor Photoshop work, one-third gushes, “Oh, aren’t the Bidens wonderful!!”, and one-third is on X-box.
It looks to have been taken with quite a wide-angle lens, which exaggerates the foreground compared to the background. Look at Jimmy’s shoes, they’re the most exaggerated object of all, being closest to the camera. Little Ros is sitting the farthest away.
It was photoshopped. They tried to walk it back by saying it was a wide-angle lens. That’s a lie.
1. I’m a photographer. You would never ever ever choose a wide angle lens to take a portrait in a small room (or any room really).
2. If it were wide angle, then the part of the Bidens closest to the Carters would gradually slope down to their size. But it’s not gradual. There is just BIG BIDEN and little Carters.
SO they put the pic out then lied about why it’s obviously photoshopped. I noticed it in 1 second.
So, the question remains, why?
@Slugoon, I explained why there is no way it’s a wide-angle lens and why no photographer in their right mind would use one to do a portrait. It just isn’t done because it distorts people.
They aren’t distorted, they’re just big and little.
Is that photo even legit? Was it presented as legit by the MSM? If so, they are being severely trolled.
Also, I came across an update where someone further photoshopped the entire Munchkin cast from “The Wizard of Oz” next to, behind, and between the Carters with a portrait of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, on the wall!
I think someone is sending a not too subtle message there: the maskless Bidens are much bigger than the Carters – bigger failures, bigger scammers, bigger frauds, bigger criminals, or maybe just bigger Munchkins.
I also have a couple of wide angle lenses. The best reason to use them is not to ‘fit everything in’ but to exaggerate distance and the foreground/background relationship for effect.
I wouldn’t choose to use one for portraiture either but if that tight room is all you’ve got then it’s that or no photo. The photographer could have arranged them in a better way to minimise it.
Look at the convergence of verticals at the edges and picture frames. It’s a wide-angle lens.
Also, look at the difference in height between the left side of Carter’s chair to the right side, which is closer to the camera and therefore much taller, as you’d expect with a wide angle lens.
No.
If it were a wide angle lens (again no pro would use one for that) then the distortion would be gradual. It isn’t. There are simply big bidens and little carters. There is no gradual changing in size which is what wide angle lenses do.
It’s clear as day, but you know how people now don’t trust their own lyin’ eyes if the media tells you not to.
@KappaJoe yes it’s legit.
Then after they put it out, people started asking questions, so the ‘wide angle lens’ story came out.
Saw many other photogs including me debunk that straight out.
Slugoon still believes (as he does in the official story of 9/11). So I am guessing he trusts the White House and press, whereas I always question them.
Again, if you can’t back up then you’ve got no choice, it’s that or no photo. I guess you see what you want to see but it’s not ‘clear as day’ at all. I’ve pointed out several characteristics of wide angle lenses that are visible in this photo.
But yeah, Biden’s official photographer is just out to punk you.
For clarification, I wouldn’t automatically trust anything that comes out of Biden’s or Psaki’s mouth. I’d have voted for Donnie were I an American citizen and I’ve got no doubt that your government is neck-deep in shady business but sometimes the evidence just doesn’t stack up. Not everything is a conspiracy against you.
I’ve just had Night Owl telling me how impossible it was for a Saudi to fly a commercial jet and turn it in a circle. The guy had a commercial pilot’s licence with an instrument rating, Boeing simulator time, and the bird was turned in a circle within the normal operating envelope of any commercial airplane. The Towers were easy targets. No amount of evidence seems to get through. It’s very thick tin foil.
Slugoon, anyone could have taken a better photo than that with their cell phone.
You continue to drink the kool-aide, I can’t help you.
The only time you would use a wide angle lens for a group of people is if you were outside or in a LARGE space. It makes zero sense in a small indoor space. And again, this wasn’t that.
Slug, post your evidence.
And it wasn’t a circle. it was a near 180 turn of a jetliner. The pilots who could not complete it in the simulator are the ones who said it is impossible.
Did you even go to the site?
Or were they just too shitty?
LOL.
Looks like Slug is going full McMedia on us.
“It looks to have been taken with quite a wide-angle lens,”
This is literally the media line being printed far and wide.
By all means, share your hard evidence.
It would make sense if it was the only focal length you could use given the space available.
I think it’s a decent photo. The white balance is good, looks like some off-camera flash has been used, poor choice of lens for sure but may have been the only option without turfing the Carters out of their chairs into another room, and I don’t think the keystone verticals are too distracting.
Most camera phones are 28mm equivalent. That’s wide angle. They distort faces too but they’re good for scenery.
White balance is good, kids.
Nothing to see here.
Jesus wept.
Here’s the radar plot from the NTSB. I don’t see any fighter jet manoeuvres here. If you do please point them out.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/doc02.pdf
So what is this disproving?
I see a difficult maneuver to execute at speed in a commercial airliner. And I watched a group of pro pilots at Pilots for Truth fail to complete the maneuver and call it impossible.
And let us examine your claim that Hanjour was a pro pilot with good skills:
“Mr. Hanjour, who investigators contend piloted the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, was reported to the aviation agency in February 2001 after instructors at his flight school in Phoenix had found his piloting skills so shoddy and his grasp of English so inadequate that they questioned whether his pilot’s license was genuine.
Records show a Hani Hanjour obtained a license in 1999 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Previous and sometimes contradictory reports said he failed in 1996 and 1997 to obtain a license at other schools.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html
I even went McMedia for you. This report seems a departure from your claim.
BTW, if you have any video evidence of what hit the Pentagon that was not shot from a potatocam, I would also be most interested to view it.
I am openminded, you see.
“Staff members characterized Mr. Hanjour as polite, meek and very quiet. But most of all, the former employee said, they considered him a very bad pilot.
”I’m still to this day amazed that he could have flown into the Pentagon,” the former employee said. ”He could not fly at all.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/a-trainee-noted-for-incompetence.html
Hahahahaha.
First of all it disproves your claim of a 180° turn. It was a 330° turn.
Secondly you claim it was a ‘difficult’ manoeuvre based on… what exactly? Your incredulity? The plot shows a circle of some 5nm in diameter. Go look up the formula for the turn radius of an aircraft. It’s a function of speed and bank angle. Plug some numbers in.
Thirdly, I didn’t say he was a professional pilot nor that he had good skills. I said he had a commercial pilot’s licence with an instrument rating and simulator experience. There are many ways to be an incompetent pilot. There are lots of them out there right now. Take PIA8303 for example. But just about the easiest thing you could do in an aeroplane is turn and point it somewhere. You don’t need good skills to do that. I’ll agree with you that his landing was bad.
Oooh Sluggoon’s doubling down and now calling the Giant Bidens and Pygmy Carter pic (which is now a laughingstock) a ‘good photo’.
But nice white balance. Hahahahaha!
White balance and the fact you like it is not a very good argument against it being photoshopped.
I don’t like the photo because I can’t stand looking at your joke of a President but apart from the choice of lens I think it’s technically sound and better than one could get on a phone, which is what you argued.
I bet they were thinking of you when applying the mask brush in Photoshop. How dastardly of them!
@Blackbird, we are of like mind there. Rubbing our noses in it.
Joe Joe’s hand moves right through a microphone and if we notice it we’re conspiracy theorists.
This is why they do it.
Mary, that’s straw. I agree with you on that one. We were talking about this photo, not that video.
1. No the claim is from PFT. Actual professional pilots. The actual paraphrased quote was (excuse my earlier memory from 2001): “It required making a tight 320-degree turn while descending seven thousand feet, then leveling out so as to fly low enough over the highway just west of the Pentagon to knock down lamp posts. After crossing the highway the pilot had to take the plane to within inches of the ground so as to crash into the Pentagon at the first-floor level and at such a shallow angle that an engine penetrated three rings of the building, while managing to avoid touching the lawn”
2. You claimed he had a professional pilot’s license and used this to bolster the claim that he successfully completed an extremely difficult maneuver (that according to pro pilots is seemingly impossible in an commercial airliner) and that he controlled said airliner in a manner sufficient to fly it into a low wall at the most heavily guarded building in the country.
3. Provide us footage of what hit the Pentagon not shot from a potato cam. Or is there none available? Odd that.
Mary, one of my old jobs required me to learn photography with a pro, and to serve as his assistant when doing editorial coverage of some big conferences at an organization I used to work at in DC.
The proportions are completely out of whack in that photo. I don’t understand why the photo was edited, other than to reinforce this idea that the Bidens are competent, but the whole thing is certainly bizarre. I am sure there are some deep state psychologists who have it all mapped out.
LOL.
Apologies to all CFNers for all the excessive scrolling to get past this tin foil but I’m keen to engage Owl on 9/11 and learn more about what drives him and other pilots to belief the ‘impossibility’ of AA77 and maybe I can learn something about my own profession in the process.
1. No the claim is from PFT. Actual professional pilots. The actual paraphrased quote was (excuse my earlier memory from 2001): “It required making a tight 320-degree turn while descending seven thousand feet, then leveling out so as to fly low enough over the highway just west of the Pentagon to knock down lamp posts. After crossing the highway the pilot had to take the plane to within inches of the ground so as to crash into the Pentagon at the first-floor level and at such a shallow angle that an engine penetrated three rings of the building, while managing to avoid touching the lawn”
2. You claimed he had a professional pilot’s license and used this to bolster the claim that he successfully completed an extremely difficult maneuver (that according to pro pilots is seemingly impossible in an commercial airliner) and that he controlled said airliner in a manner sufficient to fly it into a low wall at the most heavily guarded building in the country.
Owl, please read my words carefully and do not misinterpret them to mean what you want them to mean. He did not have a professional pilot’s licence, he had a commercial pilot’s licence. He was not a professional pilot, he did not earn money from flying aeroplanes. He was issued with a commercial pilot’s licence and therefore was signed off by an FAA examiner as having met a particular standard.
I do not claim he was a good pilot in any sense. There are some shocking commercial pilots out there. Almost every major hull loss in recent times has been down to pilots not doing basic pilot stuff. This was not an Immelmann turn or a Cuban Eight, it was a basic descending turn. How can you believe that someone with a commercial pilot’s licence, no matter how bad the guy might have been through his training, could not make such a basic turn?
The ‘impossible turn’ that you claimed was 180º was a mundane turn of 330º so I’m already wondering what else you and your sources are wrong about. I previously linked you to the NTSB radar ground plot. It shows an orbit of around 5nm diameter. An aircraft at 300kts (fast) can turn a circle of 4.6nm using 30º angle of bank in still air. Your concept of ‘extremely difficult’ must be different to mine.
Fying level at low altitude in good, daylight VMC is not difficult either, particularly if your intention is to hit something. If you go to any airport you will notice that any lampposts on the approach path are shortened. I’m guessing the Arlington County urban planners didn’t think to put those around the Pentagon for some reason. Is it so hard to believe a few got hit near the target? The approach slope for normal aircraft is 3º – remarkably shallow when you visualise it. Plenty of aircraft who have come in too low on their approach have clipped localiser aerials in the undershoot.
I’ve searched for the Pilots for Truth website and pilotsfor911truth.org does not seem to exist any longer. All I can find is one ‘press release’ that makes some pretty ambiguous and unsupported claims about knocking down lampposts and altitude discrepancies. Perhaps you could link me to their official analysis and sources of data so I can learn how the physics of AA77 is different to that of my aeroplane.
Now Hani was not a “good pilot,” but you are certain he accomplished a near-impossible maneuver. How the goalposts shift after the NYT article.
LOL.
It appears Pilots for Truth has been suspended. Link still available on Yandex, but site suspended.
Here is a video where the experiment is discussed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEQtxTnDusk
And here is a much more detailed vid. for which YouTube wants credit card verification of your age in order to watch (all normal, right Slugo?).
When you are finished, do post non-potatocam footage of the “plane.” Do educate us Foilers.
Link to second vid. You need to log in to Youtube for age verification, and then provide your credit card number to watch.
I trust this is acceptable for someone with an honest interest in the subject matter.
I look forward to your detailed thoughts.
https://yandex.com/video/preview/?text=pilots%20for%20truth&path=wizard&parent-reqid=1620725989188562-1650753919555101140500243-production-app-host-man-web-yp-215&wiz_type=v4thumbs&filmId=5199850427254899064
I never claimed he was a good pilot, he probably wasn’t judging by the comments of people that knew him, but he was more than capable of making a simple turn. It was not a near-impossible turn, how many times does that need spelling out? I’ve linked you to the radar plot and demonstrated how an aeroplane could easily turn in that airspace.
That video is hilarious. Are you serious? This is your evidence? Wow. Nothing but straw man arguments and arguments from incredulity. They sound like weekend armchair flight simmers, talking about Dutch roll, which is a high altitude phenomenon. Talking about needing to turn the jet so tight it would break up due to structural failure. The instructors at our outfit, indeed any professional pilot, would laugh this guy and that video right out of town.
I think you need to get in a flight simulator and educate yourself. When I was in one two nights ago we didn’t practise descending turns. That’s something you learn in Lesson 9 of basic flight training.
No offense, but I am not interested in hearing a rehash of agitprop tinfoil.
The claim that Hajour took out the Pentagon remains specious at best, and this discussion has done nothing to bolster that level of nutcrockery.
I remain open to the idea that it perhaps, somehow, could have happened, but I have yet to see any convincing evidence and his own flight instructors said he could not fly.
I realize you may be a hobby pilot and that your learnings there may make you feel qualified to determine fact from fiction, but I will continue to file this in the drawer of unsubstantiated agit prop.
In the legal realm, the claim must be substantiated by the claimant, and to date the claimaints encoutered never seem to be able to provide any hard evidence, yet the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming that the claim is not just highly unlikely to have occured, but that it is the stuff BlueAnon.
See ya around.
We can leave it to others to judge who is wearing the industrial grade foil. I have countered all of your whack-job theories of impossible turns with verifiable evidence. I had high hopes for your ‘professional pilots’ giving me something to go on, and then you produced that video.
People who can’t conduct a simple turn don’t get issued with commercial licenses by the FAA. I sort of know what I’m talking about as I work for a major UK airline but I suppose it is a hobby of sorts. Easy money, especially when you have to make it go left or right.
Fly away, little Owl.
I don’t have a theory. I simply provided circumstantial evidence to the industrial grade foil that you provided.
Your hard (flaccid?) evidence that Hanjour carried out the attack was that you looked at a flight log and that you claim you are an amateur pilot.
Wings of tinfoil.
Do you have that video, BTW? No?
LOL.
Slugoon, you’re wasting your time arguing facts with tin foil hats. There is an unemployed commenter on these pages who claims to be a neuro doctor with expertise on epidemiology and Covid-19 vaccines. Ok, we believe you and now take your meds.
Kicking the “life habit” more likely.
Dog comm, hussein’s mutt boxed, follow-on = peanut farmer pic. No certainty; open for public speculation; see what transpires; assessment might be both plentiful and bountiful after the fact. Who didn’t receive a note at the state spectacle for 41?
Uh huh. Why does it have to be “somebody else” who shut Colonial down. Seems most if not all of the big events in this country are caused by our government, but blamed on someone else.
Because it is too regular and organized to be little people making it happen
Our Deep State likes to self-sabotage ,or haven’t you noticed that, JAZ?
Do Ya think?
And we’ll kill all our birds in the process.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the idiots deliberately place the turbines in the middle of migratory pathways.
Even Trump once said about the wind turbines: “But think about all those millions of dead little birdies.”
Maybe the birds use high wind pathways as an express lane.
Just where we will put windmills.
Bingo. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the, ummm, windmill…
That’s Alba’s phrase! (Not the windmill bit.)
I had to tweak it a bit to get around the copyright protection.
The proverb is old and in the public domain. Rather like me. 🙂
I hear the phrase “what’s good for the goose…” used, albeit rarely, but because you invoke the word “sauce” I hereby bestow ownership upon you.
If only I were a proper narcissist, Slugoon, I would be able to sit back and take the credit. 🙂
But I cannot.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/what%27s_sauce_for_the_goose_is_sauce_for_the_gander#:~:text=Etymology,the%20bull%E2%80%9D%20(1549).
Seems it has roots way back in the 16th century, thankfully unlike me.
Adolf Hitler also wanted to put windmills in windy areas where birds flew.
How dare U.
Needless invented complexities, planned obsolescence, a power grid held together with string and band-aids, what could go wrong?
They told us the tech age would simplify things and make them easier. Not at all. Just on the office-level, I have never seen so many different software applications necessary to do ones’ job. I worked in IT for 15 years and now do project management and even for this techie it’s gotten laugh-out-loud crazy. I probably work with around 20+ apps. Back in the 1980s, it was 1-2. And somehow we got everything done.
If all of the software spoke to each other it would be one thing; but they all only relate to other specific ones. So it has grown into quite the quagmire. Along the way, actual GREAT software was acquired and destroyed or just destroyed (Word Perfect and Macromedia Flash for example).
We are left with only cloud-based junk. And what happens when the cloud goes down and we lose our life’s work? Oh well. Sorry!
I just bought an 8 tetrabyte drive and I am moving everything from dropbox to it. Because we can’t trust these silicon valley billionaires even a little bit.
MaryV
It is the key to profitability in the tech industry.
Just like cars, the reliability of solid state control removes planned obsolescence. So replacement of generations of cars, or computers on a regular basis is not required.
Right?
Unless the manufacturer makes design changes to the software of both that makes former units too slow or non responsive. Welcome to Microsoft and Bill Gates who created this quagmire.
Same thing happens to big computer users, like the gubment or pipeline controllers. Spend spend spend every so many years or your security becomes non-existent.
For every new creation by Man, evil and good both happen. Evil is rapidly taking over hi tech.
They probably have a Plan for that, but I doubt we will like it very much. Something like:
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them.
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them.
My wife has to change from home peritoneal dialisis to hemo dialisis which involves a catheter. Well the one they put in last Wednesday quit working so we are back at the hospital having it replaced.
They want us to do home hemo but after this fiasco I fully recognize this is above my pay grade.
Now they come in and want to do another covid swab up her nose because they can’t find a fooking record from last wednesday!
This is why I question the Great Reset.
Our future is tech-controlled? Where are they going to get all the requisite raw materials to make this happen? They can’t even keep our internet connections from dropping.
This seems like a deal-breaker, and yet it continues apace.
The Great Reset is that the common average Jill or Joe no longer are in control of their destiny because they do not really understand what controls their lives.
Look at the previous post where people are being affected by medical changes they do not understand. The skyrocketing cost of insulin is being caused by progressive elegance.
Think about how few people actually control your life right now. The PTB have us right where they want us.
Ever consider that FF is a business where brawn and smarts still count to a large degree. Can’t have that in a society of sheep.
The Great Reset is already here, it started Jan 20, no really Nov. 3.
Join the troops celebrating the GR, get on welfare, become a gimme.
Become mediocre, just like your Deep State.
BTW, has Congress done anything at all?
You are correct, JAZ.
Now. Take another 2 steps back and look:
The 330mm Americans are approximately 4.4% of Earth’s population and what is happening is Global.
And those Americans used to be the leader of the innovative world.
Used to be? Look around, China is replacing us.
The Capstone does not give a shit about nations, JAZ. The World is their oyster and almost all 7.5B are “useless eaters.”
“USA! USA!”
That means something to you but it is merely another way to exploit you for them. You are correct, the USA was the World leader through the Cold War through to now being in hawk.
China owns USA now. They bought it for cheap microwave ovens and even cheaper flat screen TVs. Manhattan Indians’ revenge?
The elite are in on it. The Capstone will be fine while USA dies off to an equilibrium whereby all eaters are useful.
USA and the other 95.6% of Humanity. Globally.
The Great Reset isn’t for us, it is for them. We will lose the internet, then the grid, then our lives. Resource problems solved.
They can’t take your soul, BB. That’s what they want. They will harvest the multitudes but you’re Better than that.
Been through the combine. The winnowing process always spits me out with the chaff.
Ye shall reap what ye has sewn. Start plantin.’
I had often wondered how the Medicare and Social Security funding problems were to be resolved – now we know. It’s the Great Resetting New Build it Back Better World Order Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and you ain’t in it.
Funny, but only partially right, methinks.
For one, they have told you they want to create an ID system based off of the vaxx rollout.
I have personally worked on a few documents (editing) about the European ID card.
You can visit the WEF Website and login. They have documents showing more or less the same things that I saw in the document I mentioned. You can see exactly what kind of data the card-linked database will store, and that is pretty much everything about your med. history, who you are, what you do both on and offline, insurance, etc.
The WEF folks very much want you in it.
“They want us to do home hemo but after this fiasco I fully recognize this is above my pay grade.”
Druid,
You have my sympathy.
Gentlemen,
This comment is not meant to be sarcastic.
elysianfield‘s comment just reminded me of this, perhaps a great allegorical summation of what we are about to face.
Best regards.
imo, learn how do it at home.
Your comfort level, based on your comment, is having others do it.
This should work in normal times. In less-than-normal times your ability to do it at home could be lifesaving.
3 days is somewhere near average for being on/off machine. Toss in any aberrant situation, 4+ days could become critical. Pt’s such as your wife, not usually emergent, become a system overload around day 4 due to the sudden influx.
In such circumstance, you would be competing for already scarce resources.
If you were not competing for a suddenly scare resource, an emergent situation would likely not be in play.
There is a small learning curve, it really is not difficult, put aside thoughts of “above my pay grade”. Consider the issue and the goal.
Bonus points: learn a little about ECG and peaked T waves.
Used/refurbished monitor/defibrillator 3-lead machines a few years out of production are not terribly expensive.
Maybe I’m overstepping here. Feedback from other CFNers quite welcome.
The content is thought provoking as always. The first paragraph is especially wonderfully written as well. Thanks, JHK!
but the messages he offers are grim.
The truth ain’t always pretty.
I was the last man on the gravy train [ government job] . All i do is show my drivers license and medicare card and everything is taken care of. I do my banking online it is all on autopay. This is all very convenient but it is all out of my control too. welcome my son to the machine.
what type of work?
Floyd?
Pink, not George.
Ha!
Lucky man.
Picked the right financial generation to be born into and apparently made the proper choices, you did nothing wrong by punching the right series of tickets at the right time.
I’d recommend dropping off a bag or two at your local food bank when you can though, but enjoy the freedom. Most won’t. Like the generation right below you.
I feel so awful for the young. My 23 year-old son is getting jabbed.
“What choice do I have? I wanna live.”
At least we had a Good run.
Hey tom clark!
——
I remember being at AAC (home of Leafs & Raptors in Toronto) for Neil Young circa 2008ish.
All us Boomers got our $15 beers & $50 T-shirts and Neiler comes out.
A few rows down from us are about 5 or 6 teenagers all hippied-up like Hollywood wardrobe went over the top producing a Woodstock scene. So excited!
“Sit down!”
“Sit down!”
Boomers all comfy for Neiler live. The kids looked so dejected.
I couldn’t help but tell them, loud enough for all around to hear:
“Too bad you missed Rock and Roll. It was a lot of fun.”
Sorry to hear your son bought the fear.
I hope he will be OK.
One of my sons was coerced, this is after being out on covid sick time until negative x2 in succession achieved Was symptomatic, eventually resolved.
Put aside discussion of the pcr, he had very real in-fact consequences presented if he did not get the jabs (plural).
My stress level is through the roof. Multiple post-jab issues have emerged, starting within minutes of jab #1.
Your job, your income, your health benefits, your ability to provide for your family, your ability to maintain your house, the roof over your head for you and your family is all on the table.
Be jabbed or else. Science and established medical standards including informed consent be damned.
Swept away in a moment.
Fear. Control established by fear. Fear of the unknown? Fear of death?
Rational thinking: death is an inevitable part of life. There is no true safe place. Life is a risk. Embrace the risk, live life to the fullest as means allow. Be reasonable regarding risk-taking. Reasonable is a very personal place, what risk:reward ratio is acceptable?
They (Nuremberg Tribunal) executed by hanging 7 physicians on 2 June 1948 at Landsburg Prison.
The black and white ( oh, how racially insensitive, should have been in color, but color might be a banned word? ) video is rather grim.
So are the stills of death after life. The braided noose around the neck.
A companion in the coffin.
My thanks to JHK for a place to express a few thoughts.
Thanks for that, George. Sorry for what you are going through.
We all hope that we are not put in that situation.
Thank you, Mary. I pray every day that my son will be ok after he takes their evil kool-aid.
I did not properly frame his quote. He wasn’t saying that he doesn’t have a choice out of fear of dying from the virus. Rather, he was resigning to the fact that the unjabbed will have no “life” to live. He’s 23 and wants to take his GF to restaurants and bars and concerts (like we did at that age) and he knows that you’ll need your Sheeple Card for any activity in “life.”
He’d much prefer not getting jabbed but cannot see that as a viable option.
Fuck you, Bill Gates! This is my son’s life and fuck you to Hell!
“…right financial generation…”
Wonder how many are aware that there is a such a thing?”
Those that aren’t in it.
A new fear-based system is being sold to businesses by celebs.
Paul presents it in his low-key but hilarious fashion: https://youtu.be/UvMpeiZVnu4
The carpet bagging continues.
All they have to do now is market ‘double plus safety’.
Ya, I had trouble believing that this obvious extortion racket was advertising during pro sports telecasts this past month, Mary.
“Nice shop ya got here. Looks like you’ve put a lot of work into it. It’d sure be a shame if anything were to happen to such a fine establishment. Guido & I can put our sign in your window for reasonable weekly payments. Think of it as insurance. It sure is a nice place.”
Ha!
Do you think the computer operating system used to run the pipeline will be revealed to “News for Dummies”? Would the most recent OS updates and patches hold any interest or relevance to the matter at hand?
When those masters of intellectual capacity in DC and Brussels remove the Russian Federation from the SWIFT system how will the contracts for heavy crude be settled and in which currency? Do you suppose that there will be a need to justify an increase in the cost of gasoline? Them groceries ain’t gonna be delivered using tite-lite from Bakken or Eagle Ford. it don’t mean a thing if ain’t got that zing
Perhaps a look at Ralph Baric and his chimera would be more informing and result in a more informed perspective than:
“a poison Chinese Covid-19 cherry-on-top” JHK
perhaps the knowledge that, as one perspective has it, creating a seamless cut and paste virus with modern tools is a graduate level endeavor
there is an abundance of published papers, instructional manuals if you will, on genentic engineering of viruses. A paper published in 2002 described “creating a synthetic clone of a natural murine coronavirus”
Mike Pompeo “It’s a live exercise” cherry on top.
i know, i know, they are telling the truth this time
https://tinyurl.com/32k5e6rs The Covid Origins Report just out
Oh, another one?
The Vax Madness has hit a true fever pitch.
Warning: The most insidious pap you’ve ever witnessed at this link:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ireland2020/status/1387705730380226561
The PTB are openly mocking us now. Why would anyone in their right mind do what they tell us to?
Mary,
I saw four different commercials on the Tee Vee yesterday alone, pandering the Vax. Free rides to inoculation sites, Visit Grandma! The foul race baiting Spike Lee one of the spokespersons.
They are now using Disney song melodies with loose lyrics changed to make sense of vaccinations.
The worst was one of the little mermaid songs.
They wan t your children with this nasty crap in them even though much of the evidence shows they don’t get sick and mostly don’t pass it on.
This is about money and control.
Roll your sleeves up human resources and do what your overlords demand or else.
Bars in Miami Beach offering shots for shots. Get it? Shots for shots! Maybe with that Moderna baby….
Sounds SO healthy! They really do care about our health, after all!
Well, they say sex sells….
I bailed after seeing the photo of Fauci. Couldn’t stomach anymore.
I couldn’t get through the entire thing, either.
CNN says anyone refusing the jabs should be shunned and abused by family and friends:
https://newspunch.com/cnn-people-who-refuse-the-vaccine-should-be-abused-by-friends-family/
Some non-woke producer should make a “Twilight Zone-ish” episode showing a couple refusing the jabs then the shunning and abuse drives them to suicide.
Good times!
They are marching towards The Mark of the Beast.
I know that more and more of non-believers in CFN Land are starting to see. The prophesies are unfolding and all will be revealed.
Get Right with God. Ask His forgiveness for all the sins that you’ve committed. Try your very Best to keep His Ten Commandments. Pray daily for Strength, Perseverance and Wisdom.
And CNN dictates everything these cultists think and do, so we can probably look forward to more shaming, shunning and abuse.
Smerconish was always a total asshat douchebag.
Mary, you say the sweetest things! Don’t sugarcoat it. How do you really feel about Smerconish?
Horrifying video!
Right? On so many levels.
So insulting to anyone’s intelligence for starters…
Well, ladies and germs;
Al Gore…you remember the Honorable Climate Chronicler? Well, an interesting aside…he politics for the removal of cows as detrimental to the Climate, and at the same time invests HEAVILY on a future without them.
Apparently, he heads a cabal of investors in a company that makes plant based “meat”.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/05/07/gores-fake-meat-business-hits-tough-times-beyond-meat-loss-exceeds-forecasts-on-higher-costs-slow-restaurant-sales/
Apparently, he will lose his ass in the effort. Why? Because plant based meat tastes like the Devil’s cock (Or so I’ve been told). I’ve tried several variants…Chorizo, Hamburger, a bit of patty sausage….all not recommended. The Texture cannot be even remotely referenced as “meat-like”…the flavor wanting.
I HAVE been successful, however, in feeding these products to my dogs…the big Anatolian will eat anything, but the Weiner dogs require much coaxing…usually mixing the effluvia with real meat.
I guess, in Gore’s favor, that it is nice that he has recognized a problem, and further tries to help with a solution…but….
The most efficient (and environmentally friendly) meat will always be actual meat. Same for gas… plant-based gas is a sink. Plant-based meat is an energy sink. Talk about “solutions” that simply add pointless complexity to a system.
and taste bad too
Part of the new Climate Corps. duty will be to crack down on meat consumption, which is destroying Planet Earth. The Climate Czar at this moment is recruiting BLM & Antifa cadre who have experience harassing outdoor restaurant diners — overturning tables, beating people up, vandalizing restaurants. That’s the kind of zeal, enthusiasm and determination that will get you recruited and promoted in The Climate Corps.
Brh
Time to eat out more often – but bring a little friend.
Yes Blackbird, “Say hello to my little friend”. And there’s always the Columbian necktie, but a little more messy.
The necktie operation is a bit hard to perform when surrounded by two clips worth of hostiles. Then again, I’m kinda partial to the cold, impersonal touch.
You know, we haven’t had any of that in Florida – the first state to pass “shall issue” concealed carry permit laws.
Had some small BLM protests last year – all peaceful & well-behaved. No Antifa at all – I wonder why?
Yes, it’s that Evil Elsie the Cow that has caused all the problems! I knew it. What next? — chickens? innocent-looking little lambs?
So there were no cows or animals on earth before 1970 when someone noticed the planet was heating up? Maybe — just maybe — the increase methane is from the permafrost thawing and the leaks due to fracking. I admit I don’t know much about this argument but its always seemed strange to me.
It’s not really about Elsie, though.
I’ve seen lots of people declare scepticism about climate change, but I’ve never actually heard anyone say they think destroying three football pitches’ worth of Amazon rainforest every minute is in any way a good idea.
https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/news/big-meat-big-bucks-bigger-harm-how-uk-banks-are-funding-amazon-rainforest-destruction?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrKiEysO_8AIVBoBQBh0X3ggEEAAYASAAEgLmkfD_BwE
I eat meat, but I recognise most of us eat too much of it. And far more than we need for our weekly protein requirements.
One of the things that happened post-1970 was that a country with a quarter of the world’s population started developing a middle class. And middle classes include meat consumption in their new habits.
Used to be that Chinese people chucked a tiny bit of meat in whatever they were cooking in their wok (low-energy cooking method too, compared to keeping an oven going for three hours cooking a slow roast) just to give their ‘bulk food’ flavour. Then they started consuming meat like everyone else’s middle class.
I don’t intend to eat insect burgers and I’m not a fan of pretend meat*, but I know current consumption isn’t sustainable.
*Legend has it that the tastiest thing in a pack of Linda McCartney veggie sausages, if they still make them, is the packaging. Old joke, but true story. 🙂
Oops, italics apology!
“[…] destroying three football pitches’ worth of Amazon rainforest every minute is in any way a good idea”
Utter fantasy. More scare porn. And like the Big Lie, it isn’t even superficially believable to anyone with an IQ above that of a houseplant.
Environmental solutions that do not include population reduction and slowed reproduction rates are categorically empty, false
The Covids include population reduction a-plenty.
GA you’ll have to take up the rain forest problem (aka known as the jungle) with the President of Brazil. He’ll be a hard man to convince.
I doubt I have ever convinced anyone of anything, brh, outside of my family, perhaps.
And Bolsonaro is what he is. But facts are facts. And once the Amazon reaches a tipping point and reverts to savannah, it will be noticed.
The whole fake meat thing is crazy. If you don’t want to eat meat, why would you want to eat a “meat-flaovred” concoction of soy curd, high fructose corn syrup, and repurposed paper? (Just guessing at the ingredients.) Reminds me of rich Muslims buying beef bacon – do you really think Allah thinks that’s cute?
But, where there is crazy, there is opportunity. I think the time is right for the launch of a vegetable rights movement. We all know it’s evil to kill a cute little bunny and eat it, but how many realize the brutal genocide being inflicted upon the vegetable world?
“How dare you!”
Vegetarians are cruel, unthinking people.
Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated.
That a peach bleeds when torn apart.
Do you believe an orange insensitive
to thumbs gouging out its flesh?
The tomatoes spill their brains painlessly?
Potatoes, skinned alive and boiled,
the soil’s little lobsters.
Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt
when peas are ripped from the scrotum,
the hide flayed off sprouts,
cabbage shredded, onions beheaded.
Throw in the trowel
and lay down the hoe.
Mow no more
let my people go!
(Roger McGough)
Every good idea I have, someone else has already done something with it…
But not to despair, the next stage is already in progress: Mineral Rights. Our days of brutalizing vegetables may be in the past, yet we turn a blind eye to the rape and murder of simple, harmless dirt and gravel.
Peak Stupid – It’s almost here!
Still don’t get the Great Chain of Being I see. Plants are higher than minerals. Animals are higher than plants. Man is higher than animals. Angels are higher than Man.
Among animals, “those that have faces” (the Talmud) are higher than those that don’t. Thus mammals are higher than reptiles. The “aquatics” are very low. So eat fish!
Stop being a Tofurkey in any case.
Huh?
I happen to like Beyond burgers. I loved real burgers, but years ago I decided to be a vegetarian, so Beyond burgers are a good substitute for me. Your ingredient list is not accurate. Yes, soy isn’t really good for you, but Beyond is pea-based, with no soy, no corn syrup and natural ingredients.
To each his own, I guess.
I like the Morning Star burgers. Also a vegetarian.
I don’t eat much fake meat though. It’s fun to have something to grill at a cookout, besides veggie kabobs.
Fat and salt content are super high.
Low carb – high fat.
Way to go.
Belly fat and Pre-diabetes gone in a few months.
Exercise included, of course.
Bad carbs are indeed the enemy.
I try to get mine via vegetables, grains and fruit mostly.
Yep.
Shockingly, the diet most conducive to human health mimics the pre-agricultural diet. Whoodda thunk
Dr Oz as a floor mop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeWTqCLatQo
SvrzoH loved that. I already knew most of it (why I’ve never been overweight) but it’s good to see the misconceptions stomped upon.
Beyond is nasty tasting; the Impossible burgers actually taste decent. But the afterburn for me was not fun. Tried ’em twice to make sure the first time wasn’t just an odd reaction. An hour after eating, the acid indigestion kicked in. A whole new experience, as I am not prone to digestive issues.
My system handles real food just fine; but this lab created junk tends to hit my stomach like a rock. No thanks.
My granddaughter’s mother is a hard-core vegan and her daughter was brought up that way. I used to give the poor little girl a scrambled egg once in awhile until she could talk. At age four, chunks of her teeth began falling off. She had seventeen crowns put in. Ok, the teeth were one thing, but it made me wonder what was going on with her bones. Her Mother told me she didn’t eat sugar so she didn’t understand what happened to the teeth. Hello, fruit is sugar, my dear. She said the girl was tested and she wasn’t missing any nutrients. Yeah, like we all know ever single nutrient a child needs and can test accordingly. I decided it was a battle I couldn’t fight since her pediatrician was on board with the whole sorry mess.
I haven’t tried fake meat, but I am the person who eats a fiber one bar and feels like steel wool is going through my digestive tract.
I didn’t like either of those. And the ‘pink’ thing grossed me out. When I did eat meat, I had to have everything done well done or it repulsed me. I guess I was never meant to eat meat.
My fundamental rule of nutrition is: “If you don’t have the stomach to kill it, you don’t have the stomach to eat it”.
Nice rule. I def don’t have the stomach to kill OR eat it.
Seriously…
What is the actual deal with trying to strip meat from the general public’s diet?
We know it’s not the climate (as that argument is complete bullshit…pun intended upon typing)…we know it’s not truly health-oriented (even though yes, many many unhealthy people eat bacon with every meal), as meat provides massive benefits like muscle-retention and iron and minerals…
Is the goal to make everyone on earth even more unhappy?
Or is it part of – as the prophet Carlin once more plainly said – “the pussification of the American male”?
And why on earth do they want us to eat bugs??!
My half baked hunch/theory is this whole demonization of meat, and animal foods in general, is to create a sicker, weaker population.
Humans don’t necessarily need a lot of animal food, but eating some makes it much easier to get adequate nutrition. Some of the healthiest people I know are the people who eat grass fed/pastured animal meats, eggs and dairy, with lots of home grown or farmers market veggies and seasonal fruit. A little grain in the form of bread or rice to till things out.
While i believe climate change is the real deal, I have hard time believing cows are a major cause. I suppose mammoths and saber tooth tigers ended the last glacial advance by pooping.
It’s not just about cow farts. It’s about gazillions of square miles of rainforest chopped down to grow soya to feed them in horrendous meat-rearing plants, where they’re not called Elsie or Daisy, but probably ‘Bov3290762’.
GA,
What about seven billion people farts?
Well, they count too, I guess, but we only have one stomach and don’t chew the cud!
But yes, it all comes down to too many people eating too many animals. And chopping down too many trees to grow too much cattle feed. (The UK used to be rainforest too – pretty pictures of sheep in the English Lake District aren’t ‘natural’, pace Beatrix Potter).
Lots of people in the world can’t afford meat at all, just like they’ve never been inside a plane or driven a car, so we’ve had a good innings.
GA – “Lots of people in the world can’t afford meat at all, just like they’ve never been inside a plane or driven a car…”
Hate to be this guy again…but I’m curious, do you then agree that because of the above truths, those that can currently afford meat, flights or cars should be disavowed of them because many people can’t have them?
Sounds a bit like “equity of outcomes”, which is a disgustingly simplisic and impossible view of the world’s population that is being rammed down our throats at the moment, a la critical race theory, etc.
No one is guaranteed a positive outcome on this earth (just ask any jolly lil’ chipmunk when there is a hawk circling overhead).
So their solution is to make sure no one gets one? At least not the lumpen and/or the rapidly-shrinking middle class.
“but I’m curious, do you then agree that because of the above truths, those that can currently afford meat, flights or cars should be disavowed of them because many people can’t have them?”
I don’t want anyone disavowed of anything. You’re free to use up resources as quickly as you want. I was mainly thinking in terms of ‘gratitude’ as against ‘entitlement’.
“I was mainly thinking in terms of ‘gratitude’ as against ‘entitlement’.”
Gratitude is a given, and hey, didja know that actually used to be a celebrated virtue in the Western world? No more, as most people don’t expect to be held accountable to any higher power. As a matter of fact, they’re taught to laugh at that concept and any who place value in it.
But I think there’s something in-between gratitude and entitlement, no? How about effort leading to expectation of reward?
Not that that applies to the caravans of folks in the Wendy’s drive-thru getting a Baconator Double on the way home from work each day before going home to eat whatever moderately healthy slop the missus decided to cook up for the family…but still. That’s their problem, and they know it.
If it’s available, humans will exploit it one way or another. Taking it away implies we are all essentially children and cannot know any better. That’s what pisses me off…
They see us all as children.
MrMango
I think you are seeing something I didn’t say.
i haven’t advocated anyone taking anything away. And I don’t have any problem with people earning money. I’m sitting, warm and dry, in a home I earned. But I’m aware, when I drink my cuppa (redbush, since you ask), that it costs peanuts because someone far away gets paid peanuts for breaking their back picking it every day.
“Gratitude is a given, and hey, didja know that actually used to be a celebrated virtue in the Western world? No more, as most people don’t expect to be held accountable to any higher power. As a matter of fact, they’re taught to laugh at that concept and any who place value in it.”
My attachment to ‘gratitude’ has survived my evolution towards agnosticism. I’m grateful every time I turn a tap on that clean water comes out of it. And aware that I may see a time when it doesn’t. That will be about a week before I pop my clogs.
All this talk about meat, I think I’ll grill up a steak tonight.
GA – I just enjoy your discourse, so I engage you. I’m pretty sure we see eye to eye on most things.
brh – lol exactly. Beautiful weather to grill up some amazing beef, pork or chicken.
And it’s about draining the aquifers to grow the corn to force down Elsie’s throat. And it’s about the topsoil washing off the fields and into the Gulf of Mexico. And it’s about getting us reliant upon a complex but profitable food distribution system, and confused about where food really comes from – or what it really is.
But the only thing to be concerned about is carbon dioxide. So we need to freeze in the dark eating bugs. I’m glad the experts have this under control, too complicated for me.
Well, in the long run (leaving aside the prognostications of Mr Keynes) we’ll be freezing anyway. The only thing we get to choose is how quickly everything runs out.
I’m a natural frugalist, having been born to parents who lived through the privations of the war, and brought up in a house where you only heated the living room. A long way from the hair-shirt variety, though, so still a way to fall.
But when I was married the first time, and we didn’t have much to live on, I kept the heating off for the kids and me during the day, so that Moaning Minnie French husband wouldn’t moan about it being cold in the evening, so my standards are different, maybe. When my flat feels warm, I feel guilty – can’t help it, it’s ingrained!
Seems I read something on this blog over the weekend about “sexist thermostat settings”. Glad to see it works in both directions!
Yes, this pleasant interglacial warm period is coming to an end. Don’t know when but I expect most of us (the non-sociopaths) will be gone by then. Until then, it’s cold enough. My thermostat is set at 60 F, and yet it costs over $400/month to fill the propane tank. I’m sure the Green New Deal will put an end to that frivolous waste of resources, and give us plenty of opportunity to practice living in the next ice age.
BB – I don’t believe in the NGD as a solution to anything much.
But energy prices will rise regardless.
But that is one heck of a heating bill.
$400 to keep your house at 15-16°C? Ouch! We pay about £85/month ($120) for gas and electric with the house around 19-20°C. Alba’s is probably double, based on my sole experience visiting her northern tundra.
And I expect next winter to be even more expensive. Time to reconnect the wood stove to the chimney – but don’t tell the insurance company.
Slugoon
I’m ashamed to say I had to check my online banking D/Ds, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the differential is less than I thought (compared to you, I mean) – £58 and £56 for gas and electricity.
And I’ll never need air conditioning or even a fan because it’s nice and cool inside in the summer. I really dislike hot weather, so am perfectly acclimatised to where I live. Anything over 25 degrees C and I wilt and dream of autumn. Even a hot Scottish summer is something I endure rather than really enjoy!
That’s not bad really. I know people moan about the cost of energy but when you think about what you get, it’s pretty cheap. Fresh water at the turn of a tap, hot or cold, the flick of a switch to juice anything with a reliable source of leccy. First world problems!
Surely you don’t get hot summers up there? (Can you see how Thurso scarred me for life?)
When I said ‘hot Scottish summers’, Slugoon, what I meant was ‘summers that are considered hot for Scotland’.
Like ‘Normal For Norfolk’. 🙂
Which in these parts is ‘Normal For Fife’.
I took some friends of mine for a week to one of my favourite Scottish places (haven’t been to Thurso, but I’m sure it compares well).
https://www.goldsmith-estates.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Glenelg-Bay-NikPanorama-1024×459.jpg
The temperature didn’t go below 24 degrees C all week, which is hot for Scotland, and too hot for me for any more than a week!
A human population problem, and an intensive-agriculture-based civilization problem. Not a meat problem in any way
Look in the ingredients before feeding to dogs and make sure there is no onion powder in there.
I have been reading Mr. Kunstler regularly for years. For a good couple of years now I noted with dismay how often his entire articles would be elaborations on fantasies he has of the revelations that Mr Barr surely must be about to unleash on Democratic Party officials any time now, or imagining panicked secret conversations between highest-ranking Democrat party officials. None of which ever came to happen.
Today I am happy to see Mr. Kunstler return to writing the type of columns that brought me to his blog: a grim analysis of american society.
Now Mr. Kunstler speaks of the lessons of the Great Depression. He skips over one episode: the Crisis of 2008. The lesson: if ever “hazard comes a’callin’”, authorities will not allow the financial system to blow up. They will simply conjure a trillion dollar, and bail out any player.
“But surely, this cannot go on forever” you would say, and I tend to agree. Yet it probably can for longer than we think.
JHK has performed a much needed service by reporting objectively on what is actually going on vis a vis our country, a veneer of a republic over a reality of elite/deep state control. He is trained professional reporter, and his past writings about the “Golden Golem of Greatness”, and the fact that he holds Democrats to the same standards to which they held Nixon 50 years ago establishes JHK as one of the most impartial observers of what is a coup against a duly elected President.
What is it about the facts that you find so dismaying?
The crisis of 2008 made Wall St whole, yes. I bet most of us concede your point.
This orgy of complexification is simply hastening the the great unraveling. If financial systems are hacked, good luck finding a human to talk to… “please visit us a http://www.noservice.com” won’t work either (not that it works now)
JHK’s post this week makes me think of a book I just read.
The most difficult science fiction to write, or at least the most difficult good science fiction to write, is that which is set in the near term. It has to have a plausible segue from the present to the setting depicted in the book, and even then the societal changes being depicted have to be believable. Science fiction “amongst the stars” or in a far distant future on earth don’t have these constraints.
In recent years I have primarily read history books but being “historied out” for the moment I recently thought I’d go back to science fiction which I used to read a lot. Not feeling like going into town to the bookstore I went perusing my bookshelves looking for something to catch my attention. I have at least a couple thousand books in my personal library.
I spotted “Parable of the Sower” written by Octavia Butler and published in 1993. It apparently hadn’t passed my “good science fiction” filter when I read it decades ago as I couldn’t really remember it in the way I remember many well written books I’ve read. Still, it caught my attention and I decided to read it. This time I found the book very intriguing, and sadly the setting and plot as feasible.
The setting is California 2023 – 2027. It doesn’t tell the reader how society got to the point it was at nor does it tell you what is going on elsewhere in the US or world. People still able to cling to some semblance of their former middle class lives are living in walled and fortified neighborhoods. Police protection is non-existent, neighborhoods are getting burned out by drug crazed criminals, fuel for private vehicles is a thing of the past, much of the underclass hasn’t received any education, and life has become very cheap.
In 1993, the changes didn’t pass the plausible test being I couldn’t see how society could descend to the level it did 30 years out absent some defined catastrophe. Reading it this time, what the author depicted captured a world that is frighteningly plausible if current trends continue and there is a triggering event. Never did I imagine in 1993 the extent of homelessness and their presence in cities we have today nor the autonomous zones of anarchy that have sprouted up over the past couple years, let alone the inability of govt. to deal with it. I never imagined we’d be at a point where people are allowed to riot, loot, and burn with impunity night after night, including attacking govt. facilities. The uncontrolled wildfires year after year out west and lack of water. California’s all too frequent brownouts and blackouts, and even the mess in Texas this past winter. Texas not being able to keep the power flowing? I’d of said that was impossible. I guess not. We’ve come a long way towards Butler’s 2020’s world of haves and have nots (mostly have nots), and though we’re nowhere near the world she depicted in the book, we’ve moved in that direction in ways I couldn’t envision in 1993.
Clearly in 1993 it was me suffering from lack of imagination, not Octavia Butler taking unfounded liberties in creating the California depicted in the book. California and elsewhere has sunk so far in little more than a generation and the failure of that society is accelerating. Despite all the technology out there, the cracks in the system are getting wider.
I’ll be sure and read that. I’d like to recommend one to you also — Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles. It’s set in the near future in NYC as it deteriorates. An old book that’s hard to find but can be ordered online is The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. It’s a strange book but worth sticking with. He wrote it 50 years ago about the effects of a degraded enviornment and correctly saw an increase in gated communities, boutique grocery stores and wearing masks for pollution.
Thanks. I ordered a copy of The Mandibles. Just as reading history books helps me understand how the world came to be as it is, reading these apocalyptic or dystopian kinds of books helps me to think through where it might be going.
The hyper-complexity today’s JHK missive speaks of is terrifying in our utter reliance upon technology most of us can’t begin to comprehend. Just yesterday my son was trying to explain to me the nature of how he and the team he works on go about their tech engineering and I struggled to grasp it. I asked him to explain what it was about his background that caused them to go to the lengths they did to recruit him, and again I struggled to understand the explanation. And dear old Dad is not stupid. I have a master’s degree and had a high level corporate career, albeit non-tech in nature.
I try to see where things are headed In hopes that I might somehow maintain a safe haven for my kids that are out there currently succeeding in the modern economy, but an economy and society far more fragile than they see. I also see the children of my friends falling into one of two very divergent worlds; the high tech & professional world of the haves, or the diminishing prospects world of the have nots whose lifestyles won’t equal that of their parents. Upwardly mobile or downwardly with few in the middle.
I hope you’ll enjoy the book but “enjoy” may be the wrong word. Shriver has no sentimentality about her but I like that.
Well educated kids in sought-after fields will do well for a while, I’m inclined to believe, but what I tried to impress upon mine with not too much success, is simply learning basic life skills and understanding the wisdom of frugality and simplicity. Not stinginess or hoarding, afraid there won’t be enough, but they’ve been raised in a world that never runs out of anything and can’t imagine it’s good to know how to make your own chicken broth instead of opening a can.
I agree. My son chose to stay here in the countryside and is very aware of the state of the country and world. My daughter on the other hand is in the suburbs of a major city too far away to have any assurance of being able to get up here in a rapidly unfolding or sudden emergency. She & her hubby think I worry too much about these things so I tread softly and slowly trying to increase their awareness.
A more recent approach I have taken is planting the seed with my kids to hold onto my property after I am gone. I see it as a place where they’d at least have a chance of making a go of it if things fall apart.
Another vote for “The Mandibles”. Also, Shriver’s book “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is the best fictional depiction of psychopathic personality disorder that I have read.
I’ve heard Octavia Butler is amazing, so thanks for the recommend. Wow that is pretty prescient. I am wondering at all these people who saw this coming. I wonder if they didn’t have an ‘in’ somehow, given what is going on now was planned for decades.
I have a book by her I haven’t read, bought for a class I ended up dropping. I know she is quite celebrated. Thanks for the reminder.
I also would not have imagined anything that is going on now would happen, although back in the 1990s I was seriously worried about the fallout from overpopulation. It’s one of the reasons I decided not to have kids, actually.
It is amazing that what is so routine now as concerns the societal breakdown in our cities that it hardly warrants media mentions anymore. It wasn’t all that long ago that it would have been deemed fear mongering to suggest this is where we are headed.
People know however. Many are leaving the cities for what they see as safer and better functioning locales.
I think some of the authors of dystopian novels are just better at seeing what might be headed our way. We’re nowhere at the level of the reality depicted in Parable of the Sower but whereas I couldn’t conceive of any of it decades ago, now we have the beginnings of some of it.
John Brunner in an interview before he died, said that everything in his dystopian, futuristic novels had been suggested by a newspaper article he had read. The armed, gated communities, grocery stores that sold organic food at high prices to the wealthy but to name a few. I guess some people have an ability to see trends and extrapolate into the future. As the educated, solvent, and responsible decamp from cities, what will be left could look eerily like the old Blade Runner movie.
Where I live pretty much any home that comes onto the market sells instantly. Many 2nd homes are now occupied fulltime by their city dweller owners. I was talking to a realtor today who told me one of her clients said to put in an offer on a home saying they’d pay $25,000 more than whatever the highest bid the home owner received. It is that crazy. People want out of the cities, in my area it is Metro NYC they want out of.
Chippenhook, I fled to Idaho from CA, and 90% of the people I have met here so far are from CA.
So I’ll probably get priced out here, too. It’s a rich man’s game going forward.
I have it better than many, but the future does not look bright.
John Updike never appealed to me but he certainly did the dystopian well with TOWARD THE END OF TIME.
There has been a small nuclear exchange with the PRC; Washington is there but pretty much ignored. Here is a short description: “Set in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasy depicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, and its natural resources tainted.”
I am one of those people. I saw the bad trend lines and got the hell out of Houston, Texas in 2017, just after Harris County flipped to Blue and a host of wild-eyed, multikulti lunatics took over the city and county governments lock, stock, and barrel.
I now live in a rural area on acreage, surrounded by horses, cats, dogs, wildlife, and vegetable gardens, but not many people.
Population here is about 1/100th or less than what is was back home in the Lone Star Republic.
It hurt like hell to leave my native Texas, but I think the place is doomed to resume its’ former status as a Mexican State and I didn’t want to be anywhere near there when the Mexican drug cartels move their operations across the Rio Grande to take up new positions along the Red River and the Sabine River.
Wow – thanks for sharing that comment. And the wildfires where all the houses burn down but the trees are still standing. Funny how that works.
I thought that was curious too. Also the strange matter of white, rather than black ash. And what about the houses left un-singed while surrounded by destruction? Maybe they didn’t have smart meters?
Anyone interested in near future fiction might like John Michael Greer’s “Twilight’s Last Gleaming.” It is set in 2025, and opens with the discovery of a large oil patch off the Tanzanian coast. The US decides it wants that patch; China who is an ally of Tanzania says nope and that sets off a whole chain of events that I could totally see happening given our current circumstances.
He also has two other future novels, “Retrotopia” and “Star’s Reach.” Retrotopia was my favorite.
The comical irony is that Joseph Tainter wrote a very good, well sourced and very academic book about all this years ago. From appearances, the only people who read it were proles and contrarian agitators like us-who cite it constantly.
I inherited a Mercedes Benz entry level SUV. The entire thing is so insanely over computerized that a ‘SAM’ failure can mean your steering goes out or all your back lights. And on it goes. Being old fashioned, I bought a replacement part on Ebay and installed it with thre help of some YouTube vids. But looking at it, none of this was necessary.
A computerized throttle mechanism to get you better fuel eonomy makes a lot of sense, but controlling evry aspect of the vehicle in this way is really just forcng the kind of folks who drive a car like this to go drop a grand at the dealer on a quarterly basis. From Naked Capitalism a few years back, I learned that John Deer took this hustle even further by combining it with the rentier model, tellling buyers they really didn’t ‘own’ their farm machinery. Just a perpetual lease. And they were not permitted to fix the things themselves. Auto manufacturers were watching closely as this was contested in courts.
I don’t know how our host is on link posting but just look up “Farmers Fight John Deere Over Who Gets to Fix an $800,000 Tractor”
Or Kindle. Do you own those books or do they belong to the Cloud, your ownership just a cloud that has touched the earth (fog) and may lift at any moment, leaving you bookless in Babylon, at the mills with the slaves.
I’ve had some Kindle “books” disappear. Used to bother me. Now I have accepted that my entire Kindle collection will disappear in the not too distant future. Physical books from now on. (And spare sets of glasses to avoid becoming “the Obsolete Man”.)
Yeah, that was the same actor who played both those episodes, right? Not so Beemishy in that one though, eh?
The Obsolete Man and Time Enough to Last were both Twilight Zone episodes starring Burgess Meredith as a literate old man in an illiterate world. I think my memory merged those episodes into a single episode – efficiency!
I have a large collection of books, both physical and Kindle. In recent years I find that I buy 10 Kindle books for every 1 physical book. It is simply a matter of cost and convenience. Since I almost never re-read books I could care less if the Kindle books disappear one day.
It also saves me the problem of disposal. Most books depreciate to worthlessness. Very few prove popular enough and rare enough to gain in value, unless they are long out-of-print works for which demand remains high. So there is not much point in hanging on to the physical books, most of which I either sell, give away, or toss in the trash after I’m done with them.
Once upon a time I had the Jeffersonian urge to amass a great library, but after a time I realized that I was not going to become wealthy enough to afford to build a library room in my home to house a massive book collection, so I gave up on that idea.
Good thing, too. I’ve read thousands of books over the past 50+ years. If I’d have kept them all they would have all fallen over by now in a massive collapse, burying me in my place like one of those pathetic hoarders you see on the reality shows.
Like the DMV and other “authorities” don’t already have total control of any computerized vehicle.
Maybe this is total BS but I read where if we were all seriously quarantined if no vaccine etc., that the DMV could simply turn your car OFF if you were to venture past your five mile limit.
My mechanic might look under the hood but he also puts a stick somewhere in the car and voila!, there is a computerized readout of a light out or the brake pads having a problem etc. That VIN doesn’t lie!
And my car is a 2007 Subaru Outback!
Nothing the government has up their dirty, fraudulent, corrupt sleeves would shock me at this point.
Wow, I had no idea.
It gets worse. Most newer cars have an equivalent of an airline “black box” computer recording everything going on with your car as you drive it, including how fast you are going, use of brakes, go’s location, etc. Lawyers now routinely ask for this data to obtain evidence to use in civil and criminal actions where automobile usage by the defendant is under scrutiny.
So, yes, you paid for a car alright……a car tha5 spies on you and that will rat you out to the authorities. In em huh?
When I retire, I’m gonna buy a nice old Chevy Impala from the 1960’s, or something similar that I can maintain myself and that has no computer electronics of any kind. I’m done with the gee-whiz, high-tech cars.
Damn. So many typos. Wish this blog had a function to let users go back and edit.
For new cars with internet connection this could be a concern, but a 2007 Outback should cause you no worry.
That stick you refer to is just an OBD diagnostics tool. The dealer does the same thing to read error codes from your car’s computer system. If you were so inclined, you could buy a cheap one yourself and avoid getting bilked at the garage.
Anything built after about 2015 could be questionable as far as unwanted intervention, and I would never buy an EV.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9561273/Vaccinated-Britons-catch-Covid-milder-form-disease-study-warns.html
Wait, they said we wouldn’t catch it. Then that we would but wouldn’t feel anything. Now we have symptoms too? What the hell is going on over there and here?
Can’t they give us something so that we don’t feel our symptoms? Or not know if we’re still alive or not?
There’s one pain killed that doesn’t kill the pain, but makes you simply not mind it at all Something like that! You could still “function” – almost like the sacred machine does….
Covid is a religion now, Yo. We all have to sit through the daily sermons, and interpretation of the text changes from time to time to suit the agenda.
I find it amusing that you read the Daily Mail!
How else could we catch the deck on the beach in Malibu collapsing with scores of maskless non-social distancing drunk people “watching the sunset”?
Or see Kim Kardashian’s latest photoshopped picture wearing her SLIMS!
Come on man!
LOL, there is no way to prove their symptoms are lesser because they are vaxxed. The vast majority had NO symptoms at all.
But now young people are dying from the vaccine for a virus that didn’t
kill any young people.
Insane.
In France, mail-in voting was made illegal in 1975 because it made electoral fraud easy. That was 46 years ago. Meanwhile, this year, the Biden administration has taken measures to generalize mail-in voting all over the US.The Biden administration knows very well that mail-in voting makes electoral fraud easy. And yet…
Some people have neither scruples nor shame.
I will take this opportunity to recommend an essay I recently read: https://joelkotkin.com/the-coming-of-neo-feudalism/
It is not exactly Peak Oil related but I think readers of this blog would appreciate. How after decades of economic improvements for all, social mobility, access to homeownership, all these trends are reversing in the western world towards something like a new feudalism. Extreme income disparities, ever greater wealth for a dwindling number, social opportunities disappearing for most others, concentrations of great-paying jobs in a few blessed global cities, increasing precarity for a large number of formerly middle class people, breadown of the nuclear family, all while a new clerisy of mainstream media and academics sings the praise of the new economic and social order.
I WILL note that he is on at least one point anti-Kunstlerian: he likes the suburbs, thinks most people do in spite of what urban planners tell everyone they ought to want.
urban, suburban… just two flavors of getto these days
Chris Hedges (who can be somewhat shrill) has been sounding a warning about the coming feudal era for a while. Reading the blog posts, it’s easy to see that it’s here. And it won’t be sparing anyone according to race, religion or sexual orientation either. Want your plumbing fixed? New fixtures in your bathroom? A roof that doesn’t leak? I’ll cost ya.
There’s potential in the suburbs even though it may be unpredictable if it can be realized or not. I think we’re in uncharted waters now in many ways and a lot of skills have been lost that kept the working class poor afloat, simply because they knew how to do things like fix a car, cook a meal, replace a piece of broken glass. The more we’re at the mercy of “experts and semi-experts”, the more difficult it will be for those who don’t qualify to live “in a few blessed global city”.
Hedges is a smart guy, but he has not evolved any of his positions that I can tell.
I have several of his books and still occasionally read sections from Empire of Illusion, which is one of his best.
He kind of lost me in the Trump era though, choosing like so many to focus on superficialities rather than policy and realpolitik.
An off-topic, random thought that keeps coming to me. The occupant of the White House needs to lose the Ray-Ban’s, especially the aviator style. They went out with sword fighting & nickel beers. OK, I said it.
I disagree. Keep the Ray-Bans. Ditch Potatohead. And bring back nickel beers and sword fighting!
HELL NO! I LOVE MY PRESCRIPTION AVIATORS!
Ron Anselmo, hands off the Aviators, or you might just find yourself banned by our host, JHK, whose pic on the top of this website shows him wearing a pair!
Instead of dissing Aviator-style sunglasses, I would suggest getting rid of the wearing of sox & sandals. Hell of a fashion-crime that.
Paul,
My husband (aged 78) wears socks and sandals. It makes him fit in when we walk around our golf retirement community. Bahahaha.
Few years back I got lectured about wearing socks with sandals by a snooty little sales clerk. “It’s just not done,” she insisted. It convinced me that I really didn’t need sandals anyway, so I left without buying any & I haven’t bought any since.
If ya gotta wear socks with your sandals, you should probably be wearing shoes.
Believe it or not, my feet are my best assets. But not in the ‘jogger’ sense.
At 78 he can wear socks with sandals good for him.
@Paul – Jim wears them well though. Jo(k)e wears them trying to be a tough guy. He’s not one now, and I’m sure Corn Pop never was one. Now Jim can and will play rough, if need be.
Macron and his boyfriend Trudeau may be quaking in their des chaussures, but I can assure you Putin & Xi are not.
Biden has already been tried by both, and he reacts like the pussy he is, running to “Dr.” Biden so she can hold his hand. Embarrassing.
And lastly, how in the world did you know I wear sox & sandals? Did my wife & kids rat me out?
I’d rather fight than switch. Bring back dueling!
Yo, I think you’d rather fight than breathe.
I have to disagree. RayBan aviators are timeless classics. It’s mounting a cool pair on the face of a fucking corpse that is the real crime here.
Keep the shades. Lose the Crypt Keeper.
My great grandfather born 1856 was named for Millard. Ted Koppel wrote Lights Out in 2015 warning of electricity grid failure within 10 years. Times getting short…the environmental movement blocked a Colonial pipeline 15 years ago that was to go under Tennessee River through Fighting Joe Wheeler wildlife refuge. We said it might leak and wasn’t worth the risk.
Complexity is the strategy for minimizing responsibility. Can’t talk to a human, can’t find anyone who knows anything. My internet (Comcast) goes off until it decides to come back on. If I happen to talk to someone there is just one solution reset it and call back if it doesn’t work. Put down a deposit to have a technician come look into it.
Stopped up my toilet on Mother’s Day. Tech said he could run the line for $448. I asked if he would be spending the night and he said no it would only take 30 minutes. I said I’ll use the other bathroom for a few days and see if I can find a better offer on a work day.
The people who are actually working are charging for it. Inflation is rolling in. If you need it, you will pay.
where do you live? what town or city? 448??
Alabama. Not the big city. Met another plumber during lunch…$179. Life is going to get more and more expensive…
food means life.
My son is a plumber. Crazy busy.
I got to chatting with a lady about a week ago in the check-out line. She still hasn’t been able to get a plumber out to fix her broken pipes from the artic blast, way back when.
Construction contractors of all kinds are booked up three months out. My daughter needs mudding and taping done on a house she is rehabbing. Every bid she has gotten is for $10,000, and the drywall is already hung. And more recently, contractors don’t even return her calls.
I’m hearing this from everyone who needs work done.
Taping and mudding is easy.
Sand with damp abrasive sponge and its fairly clean.
Only construction that is not easy is the concrete work and the framing.
Add roofing as well God I hate roofing.
Concrete/stonework is terrible. Did the exterior portion of the “sockel”/plinth myself on our 1930’s house last year and the time and mess are just not worth it.
It did come out well, however, but I will just pay for it next time.
Ben, what’s easier than framing? I’ll do the roofing too – nothing steeper than 4/12 please. You can do the drywall and mudding. I agree, sub out the concrete work.
@blackbird
I should have added stairs.
Framing in stairs, walking joists.
I saw journeyman still screwing up stairs.
Ok Ben, got me there. Never framed-in stairs, but math and I are good friends. I’ll cover the extra lumber…
I hear you Rocket Doc. I’m about an hour down the road from you and have been repeatedly stunned by just how “proud” some of our local North Alabama tradesmen are of their blue collar skill sets.
The days of service calls that only set you back $50 to $80 are a distant memory now.
We are redoing our bathroom this year in the wake of a waterline break (1930s house).
Just got the estimate. EUR 20k. Room ain’t really all that large either.
Night Owl,
We needed to replace a shower and existing double vanity. The bid came in at $28k. No fixtures, lighting, change in plumbing etc.
Not six years ago, we completely redid a 10×12 bathroom (way bigger project) with custom cabinets on double vanities, custom tile shower, custom tile floor, glass shower door, Moen fixtures, and new lighting for less than $25k. It is insane.
Hahahaha. Highway robbery.
For shame.
This is from inflation!
80% of all dollars ever created in American history were created in the last 18 months.
20K to redo a bathroom?! For the same amount you can snag a four room house on a slab, off a dirt road, about half an hour north of here. Your neighbors will be well-armed and spoiling for a fight. Make sure you put your trashcan in a bear-proof cage.
Yeah. The problem is that here in Europe, land is at a premium, and homeowners are considered rich, so they are bilked for any and all projects. A mild garden renovation can cost 20k, too. We do many things ourselves, but I ain’t doing a bathroom.
One of the many eye-openers I have had here is that the class system is far worse than in the States. The States has its own problems, but for what we paid for our 1300 sq ft house, I could be living in a mansion almost anywhere else.
INterestingly enough, there are some “mansions” by Euro standard two blocks from us. About 1800 to 2800 sq ft, and cost between 2 and 3 million. Most also need at least a 50% renovation.
Unless you like hanging at the beach with Herr Schwab, it sounds like it might be time to migrate to that Promised Land across the sea. Lotsa land and guns over here.
It’s the USA or Switzerland I think.
Switzerland seems to have been sitting this one out and it has the wife’s vote. We also have friends there. That said, it is the land of DAVOS, and can’t imagine it remaining a haven of any sort for much longer.
A move to the US OTOH seems equally risky, and the effort required is far greater.
I really don’t know what the answer is right now, but nearly every fiber of me is saying that we should get out.
I consider Switzerland to be the (or at least, one of the) Belly of the Beast. The US is the gun hand. Bigger population to suppress over here. I would expect most Swiss to compliantly board the cattle cars (but so will about half of the US). In my rosy worldview, I think it’s mostly a matter of where, and how, you want to die.
@Night Owl, listen to your fibers. 😉
The gut is rarely wrong.
I had uneasy feelings living where I was in CA too, and then when Covid19 came along, the decision to bail came pretty quickly.
Much better to be in a suburb at some distance to a city or in the country now I think.
Black, I tend to agree, but it ain’t that cut and dry. Historically speaking Switzerland has been spared the ravages of global capitalism as does not consider itself in the system.
This has not changed. One interesting example is that the kids have not been kept out of school and there is no masking in public. They are also the only example of a direct democracy I can think of.
That said, they are home to DAVOS and international banking.
As so often, things are not black and white. In contrast Federalism still seems to work in the US, to a degree (unlike Germany), but whether states like Florida and co. can remain independently governed is the question. I’d almost feel safer going to Switzerland.
Owl, yes I agree there is a lot of nuance involved in a decision like this. The end to this story is: you die. Probably best to do this surrounded by family, friends, and like-minded people. If you can do that in a nice place, great. If you end up cold, miserable and arm-wrestling with bears, well, check out time might be a relief.
Good luck whatever your decisions.
We are going to wait it out a bit more. It is hard to leave when one has invested so much.
Bleh.
It used to be like that around here. You could buy a stick-built 2-bedroom fixer-upper for under $20,000–with an owner finance. I know one kid who paid $9,000 cash for a stick built house, and another who paid $10,000, just a few years ago. One of them raised the cash by taking out title loans on several junk cars.
Going back about 15 years, a young couple bought a trailer on a one-acre lot for $4,500. Owner finance, with a payout. The seller was an old friend of mine.
You can still buy a single-wide in good condition on a large lot for under $20,000, with owner financing. Finding out about them is by word-of-mouth. No realtor is interested in such a listing.
The wildlife is intrusive, but the neighbors are quite pleasant–as you would expect when everyone is well armed.
Reminds of Kurt Saxon bragging about being surrounded for 150 miles on every direction by hillbillies with guns.
Nice. Whereabouts in general?
Amm, looking for the cheap housing I described? If so, pull up a map of the distribution of Kirtland’s warbler, you’ll get the general area. Want to get more specific, add a layer of crime statistics to your map. Where high crime (but low by urban standards – mostly meth labs) meets Kirtland warbler, there you have your Boogaloo Bugout. Ironically, not too far from a sizable Amish community (a rare case where I don’t use the term “community” in an ironic sense). Winter 8 months of the year… Propane expected to go through the roof in the coming winter, but plenty of dead wood (ash and oak). Interested? Come on up! And bring a crowbar – got a Governator that needs help “transitioning” (to unemployment).
Winter Weapon Wonderland!
I live in a poor rural area. Almost everyone who lives around here has always done their own plumbing. The neighbor lady, a plumber’s daughter, taught me to do plumbing twenty years ago. It really isn’t that hard–basically Tinker Toys. My daughter has completely re-plumbed two houses.
When she was 16, our pump burned up, and I was unable to replace it in a timely way, because of work. So she decided to do it herself–and did a great job.
I have never learned to sweat in copper plumbing, but PEX is better anyway–and easier.
Haven’t sweated a joint in a long time. But it’s not that hard.
Agree to disagree. Copper is harder to work with but vastly superior.
COVID vaccine deaths: the numbers point to a catastrophe
by Jon Rappoport
A new May 4 report by independent researcher, Virginia Stoner, reveals US vaccine-death figures. The report is titled, “The Deadly Covid-19 Vaccine Coverup.”
Stoner uses the US government’s own numbers.
Here are key quotes from her report:
“There has been a massive increase in deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) this year. That’s not a ‘conspiracy theory’, that’s an indisputable fact.”
“We’re talking about a huge and unprecedented increase—so massive that in the last 4 months alone, VAERS has received over 40% of all death reports it has ever received in its entire 30+year history.”
“The increase in VAERS death reports is not due to more vaccination.”
I don’t understand what she means here, misprint?
“The increase in VAERS death reports is not due to more vaccination.”
what are the death reports reflecting if not vaccination?
Bacterial pneumonia from masking.
There are many games we can play with the psychopaths.
Ah yes we can’t forget the disease from masking.
Or suicides, which I’m guessing they’ve been counting as Covid19 too.
I thought that a bizarre statement too, Mary.
Unless she knows that this shit is not a vax. That would square-up that statement.
I thought it meant “the increase of reports is far out of proportion to any comparatively minimal increase in total vaccinations”
It’s not minimal jabs. It’s well into 9 figures of jabs over and above a normal year’s vax shots.
The statements only makes logical sense if these 100,000,000+ jabs were not actually vaccines.
It’s not from the total number of vaccination, it’s from the mix – Covid
http://www.virginiastoner.com/writing/2021/5/4/the-deadly-covid-19-vaccine-coverup
I’ve the same question.
Stoner uses the US government’s own numbers.
The VAERS “forum” is not the government’s own numbers. It is place for citizens to post their experience with adverse reactions to vaccinations (and not just COVID-19 vaccinations).
The website clearly states that the information posted has not been checked, corroborated, verified, confirmed, etc. There isn’t full follow-up of all those posts, to see whether there is a causal relationship between a vaccination and the negative outcome (up to and including deaths).
“The increase in VAERS death reports is not due to more vaccination.”
It would be good to have some verification of this statement.
Is the implication of this that the deaths reported on VAERS are a real increase, rather than as a result of many more jabs for Covid-19? I guess the only way to ascertain that would be see what the increase in jabs has occurred in the last x months, compared to 2020 or previous recent years.
Has there been a massive decrease in flu vaccination, to be replaced by Covid-19 vaccination? I would be surprised if that were the case. There are about 190m US flu vaccinations a year, and so far about 150m have received at least one Covid-19 jab.
But it is still reasonable to state that the number of adverse reactions (including deaths) is still a tiny proportion of the total number of vaccinations that have been administered. Especially as many of the reported deaths have not been confirmed as being caused by the COvid-19 vaccination.
You should own and explain the last statement in context. Otherwise, a disservice.
What on earth is a disservice? I’m not a charity.
Use the search engine of your choice – you can find the tiny proportion of adverse reactions, relative to total vaccines administered. And further, many of those adverse reactions (including deaths) might well have occurred after a jab, but it’s not necessarily proven that it was because of the jab.
Science is forensic and very picky.
That whole kit of industrial production is long gone, and we’re left in an economic slum of Chinese product “welfare” (stuff for treasury bonds) juiced on computer-driven hyper-complexity, decorated with junk enterprise like social media, streaming pornography, crypto-currency mining, and chicken nuggets
This is a wonderful line, Jim. The industrial revolution facilitated five billion surplus humans (me included) who are now left with the unenviable task of finding our way back to a carrying capacity of two billion or so. Everything else is just a symptom of this basic problem in my view.
Richard Heinberg’s book Powerdown looks at some likely options:
1. Last man standing – competition for remaining resources (this is how the natural world works and deals with such things)
2. Waiting for a magic elixir – wishful thinking, false hope and denial (see JHK’s Too Much Magic – a lot of this going on right now)
3. Powerdown – cooperation, conservation and sharing (I’m guessing this is the ‘Klaus Schwab’ approach – sounds great in theory but would end up being a miserable Brave New World)
No good choices are there, really?
4. Fortress America. America First? No, America Only.
At least you’ve learned to say “America” instead of united states. 😉
4. Fortress America. America First? No, America Only.
But I think that is one of the key thrusts of the JHK essay.
If the financial system (or the gas or electricity system) goes all bloooey – and everyone goes and camps on an LA beach – America is not in a position to supply all the stuff it needs or wants, from inside the Fortress.
Them days are gone … even food, water, clothing, heat, shelter and transport would be in very short supply, let alone all the plastic electronic gimcracks that keep us sort of sane.
Will you be happy when that happens? Everything you support is pushing us Into the toilet faster and faster.
One crucial question for you.
Bottom line
Why should our government give one dime beyond sustenance to non-productive people? Corollary. Why should have-nots be given the ability to steal from the haves with the government as the middle man.
Welfare for votes should be illegal!
Will you be happy when that happens? Everything you support is pushing us Into the toilet faster and faster.
Of course I don’t support societal collapse – or any sort of collapse. I would like an articulation of “everything” I support that might lead to such an outcome.
I could provide an extensive list of things that should be implemented to prevent any sort of collapse.
Why should our government give one dime beyond sustenance to non-productive people? Corollary. Why should have-nots be given the ability to steal from the haves with the government as the middle man.
JHK has talked about this often enough … how do we address the fact that really huge numbers of Americans either will not or cannot obtain useful employment?
A higher minimum wage would be a good start I think. Ensure that huge numbers of minimum-wage jobs are at least attractive enough to bring workers to them.
And let’s not forget that a lot of the “haves” have their snouts in the government trough just as thoroughly … lots of generous subsidies go to farmers, miners, oilmen, and a whole swathe of others.
Maybe create a civilian corp – get lots of people into productive activity, so that national parks and public lands are well maintained, highways and other infrastructure are looked after and kept clean, get more people into aged care and child care … there are lots of areas where there are dire needs.
A little creativity might be required. BTW President Biden came out today and said if someone rejects suitable work, they lose unemployment benefits – that’s okay in my book, so long as it’s not applied too harshly.
I’m good with Last Man Standing. Very Darwinian, Great way to weed out the lazy, the stupid, the unfit, etc. Mother Nature knows what she is doing.
That’s what I said a few blogs ago, better than Brave New World in my opinion. As you say, that’s natures way, so it’s inevitable in one way or another whether we like it or not.
I think we’ll lurch across all three scenarios for some time first.
Heckler, just responding to your post a few hours ago and wanted to look up the article about the bike rider for Obama murdered in N. Orleans but could not find anything.
Also had trouble with SBPDL or the initials for Stuff Black People Don’t Like , I guess I’m a lttle out of the loop when it comes to conservative media outlets. (At first I was thinking Shreveport bourough Police Dept. Liason or something like that)
Can you illuminate me regarding the compaigner?
CG
UNZ.com
Paul Kersey.
I had found stories about the female bicyclist, years back. I cant find them now.
here
To Kirsten Brydum, a passionate 25-year-old community activist from San Francisco, one person’s junk was another’s treasure.
BUT IT WAS NOT A ROBBERY, IMO…Her bike was left by killer.
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-activist-slain-in-New-Orleans-robbery-3192134.php
The bike rider being killed happened in 2008.
Her murderer just confessed recently.
Did someone mention a fiction book from long ago, with an Elon?
A 1952 sci-fi book by Wernher von Braun had the leader of Mars colonization named Elon.
Please forgive my trip down this rabbit hole but…
“The name Wernher Von Braun is well-known for two primary reasons: his ground-breaking work on rocketry that landed man on the moon, and his work at a concentration camp as a Nazi under Adolf Hitler. But he’s also known for a third reason – his work with Walt Disney himself. But how did a former Nazi rocket scientist end up working with Walt Disney, and what did they work on?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_yOXQ1Bd9Y&t=31s
AND
The man on the beach has an extraordinary and unexplained resemblance to Virgil Ivan Grisson of NASA. It is a resemblance so remarkable that an inference could be made that it is Grissom and not Gramps (Stanley Armour Dunham).
https://mindcontrolblackassassins.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/obama401.jpg
Just Sayin’
Good to hear from ya, jim e. I Hope that you are well. God bless.
Well thanks!
It is Grissom or so it appears, Doesn’t mean it was.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/a-quiet-hawaii-hero-stanley-armour-dunham-had-chest-full-of-bravery-medals-and-a-grandson-who-became-president/
I’ll simplify all of this complexity for you.
Jews, Rednecks, Blacks, Mexicans. Pick one that will take over the remnants of America.
The rich, the middle class, the workers. Pick one that will take over the remnants of America.
My answer: Jews, and the rich.
There. Complexity simplified.
Won’t be jews they don’t have enough kids to take anything over.
mug shot of serial killer of Kristen.
https://www.nola.com/news/courts/article_19877806-af80-11eb-ab39-5b7efd2d146c.html
thanks for the time and effort, Malthuss
CG
buried away, since I could not remember the year and her name.
murder in the lower 9th. rather often.
This paragraph should be framed:
“FDR, you remember, was faced with a momentous systems failure, a crisis we came to call the Great Depression. I’m not sure we actually learned the lesson of that, despite thousands of books and PhD dissertations on the subject. The lesson: financial systems tend to expand and complexify at a more rapid rate than the larger economic systems of which they are a component. Their abstract operations seek to hide risk in hyper-complexity until hazard comes a’callin’ and then you discover that the actual money is not there.”
The Depression was not just a failure of the stock market. It was a transition due to technological change. It was also the result of demographic shifts as a result of the changes.
Probably the biggest was the invention of the tractor, the internal combustion engine. Sharecropping had become the basis of agriculture and the tractor undid the fabric in very few years. See The Grapes of Wrath.
The dislocated ended up going to the cities to survive, all they knew was farming. They were long term unemployed.
The history of technological change in the US has caused much dislocation of the economy. Tech change is first order and an early indicator which means the market, also an early indicator is a reflection of tech change.
We are currently going through significant tech change being aggravated by a completely stupid foreign economic policy. It does not make sense what the Deep State has been doing at all. Trump did the right thing, America First. How much of the American economy will the government give away before the public wises up? If it ever does.
Jim Kunstler, in the 00s had predicted DJIA 3000.
Dow pares gains after topping 35,000.
What’s your point? Do most people making bold predictions run at 100% accuracy or are you Just providing one random data point?
Better to be 17 years early than to be 17 hours late.
So? Armstrong predicted 40,000. And YOU chose the wrong predicton.
Hear that giant sucking sound? That was your livelihood, your pension, and your legacy rushing by en route to zero.
– JHK
The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
– Matt Tiabbi
I’m not sure we actually learned the lesson of that, despite thousands of books and PhD dissertations on the subject.
– JHK
The Capstone learnt. The Capstone learnt a lot. One thing that they always knew is:
Do not loot too regularly. Spread up Big Paydays.
1987 Crash, 2000 DotCom Bubble, 2008 Hank Paulson Heist, 202x End Game.
Small children alive for the 1929 Crash are now in their 90s. Old stale academic works gather dust in Libraries while Facebook has the most adorable puppy videos that you ever saw!
They turned us into children and now we are lambs to slaughter.
Well said, OG.
I am wondering why everyone is ignoring the market crash of 2020? It’s like it never happened.
It occurred just before Covid19 hit, one month’s worth, so I first figured Covid19 was a distraction (and what a distraction it’s become).
But I do think the 2 are related. It’s odd to me that no one ever talks about the crash though.
Hear the sucking sound?
Remember Ross Perot? He warned about the sucking sound of jobs going to Mexico as NAFTA came on board. He was an earlier prophet, that is for sure.
Yes, JAZ. I admit that I bought into “Free Trade” in the 1980s. I was idealistic and an Econ major. “Free Trade” would “raise all boats” we were told and I bought it.
Of course, “Free Trade” was Really “a race to the bottom” for wages and workers’ Rights as well as a complete gutting of North American production of anything but wheat, corn, soy, scrap metal and increasingly complex Enron-style house-of-cards financial instruments and products.
https://dailystormer.su/us-79-of-people-who-refuse-coronavirus-vaccine-say-nothing-can-change-their-minds/
That’s percent. This life is nothing. As Ramakrishna put, seeds and skin. Spit it out. Eternity awaits us. I’m in charge of our Cell Block.
In a recent utube interview with Doug Casey JHK referenced the chip shortage. This article expanded on it somewhat and amply explains JHKs reference to hypercomplexity. Yes I know its the New York Slimes but it is relatively well written. I did have chuckle at the reference to president Houseplant wanting to bring chip production back home. Wasn’t that a MAGA policy? Suddenly dopey Joe wants to throw $50 billion at it. If only he’d wanted that 4 years ago those factories would be up an running now….
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/business/auto-semiconductors-general-motors-mercedes.html
“If only he’d wanted that 4 years ago those factories would be up an (sic) running now…”
…except that, four years ago, the president was the big-talkin’ do-nuttin’ Orange Man.
Indeed – four years ago (May 2017) the Republicans had the presidency, senate, and house … they had ample opportunity at that time to activate something. They found time for tax breaks for the wealthiest.
Odd I got a tax break and I am no where NEAR the 1%.
Seems your tired old Democrat lie I mean meme has run its propagandized course.
Except for the past 4 year you and your fellow mentally deficient friends spent every waking minute opposing those policies. Even taking the Trump administration to court. Not to mention of course blathering on about how bringing those jobs back to the USA wants just another racist policy. But hey Ho keep living in your bubble it still won’t change the fact that Trump was right in wanting to return production back to the USA.
Except for the past 4 year you and your fellow mentally deficient friends spent every waking minute opposing those policies.
And the Republicans aren’t opposing every good policy today? It’s DC politics – grubby and pointless … everything is about getting re-elected. They adore the black cars, panelled offices, the best seats in restaurants, and luscious interns fresh from Nebraska.
Indeed, Trean. Globalism is the bane of national sovereignty and freedom.
Globalism is the bane of national sovereignty and freedom.
Don’t you work for a multinational outfit, based in Germany?
The internationalisation of business | corporations has been going on since at least the 16th Century at least. And in fact back in those days the “sovereign nations” created the laws and conditions for the growth of that globalisation.
Globalisation is an almost inevitable consequence of capitalism – and national borders are just a cost of doing business for any major corporation. Parts for a plane or a car come from dozens of countries.
If Boeing could effectively make planes in Cambodia or Uruguay they would do it tomorrow. It’s just how it works.
America (and much of the West) have traded away their national “sovereignty” in return for cheap goods and the free movement of investment capital and credit around the world.
As JHK talks about regularly, the export of manufacturing has gouged out a vast swathe of the working population, and wreck cities and factories from New Jersey to Wisconsin, and many other places.
There are very serious headwinds in the future, as hyper-complexity and technical wizardry show their vulnerabilities, and stall in terms of return on investment.
What I can’t buy is the freedom argument, and as part of that, that Gates, Schwab, WEF, SMERSH, the Rothschilds, and the Illuminati are running things just how they want, using a “hoax” pandemic as a weapon.
Mostly because events are too big and too chaotic for anyone to effectively control them, but mostly on the logical point that it is not necessary to have big conspiracy theories to explain what is happening and what might happen in the future.
Economic analysis of the movement of money, debt, labour, raw materials, energy, and products around the world … that is sufficient to explain things.
I don’t think “globalisation” is the evil here – it is very large (and often monopolistic) corporations having more power than the governments that are supposed to be running things.
No need to blame poor Bill Gates … not at this difficult time with his missus doing a runner because he was a buddy of Epstein.
From Tom Woods (click link below to see the whole thing & graphs)
“On ABC’s This Week yesterday, Dr. Fauci said we could get “close” to normal by next Mother’s Day, but that there were “some conditions to that” (e.g., the overwhelming majority of people getting vaccinated).
In state after state, life has returned to something close to normal, and if I show you the graphs you can’t tell which states are which.
And yet Fauci still talks like this, and some people still listen.
If you’re waiting for next Mother’s Day to go back to normal, you’re beyond hope.
I’ve been saying for a while that what we need is a quiz: here, everyone, try to guess on this graph which of these Midwestern states lifted their restrictions at the beginning of February.
Or: without any dates printed on the graph, can you tell me where Thanksgiving (which was supposed to be followed by a massive surge) is on this graph of Midwestern states?
Or: one of these two lines represents hospitalizations in the 25 strictest states, and the other represents hospitalizations in the 25 least strict states. Can you tell me which is which?
Or: where on this chart for such-and-such European country do you thinks masks started being widely used?
Nobody will get the answers right, because none of this did any good and the charts reflect that.
Well, I’ll be launching that quiz this week. It’s interactive, so you can click on your choice and the system will tell you if you’re right or wrong.
If you can’t clearly see a difference in case after case after case, can we start admitting that it’s all been pointless?”
https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/backnormal
Fauci went from 60-70% last summer to achieve “herd immunity” to 85% this winter. Apparently the science changes month-to-month to support the overall goal. 2/3 has been established vaccine science for decades in that regard. Not in this case, this is apparently different. Pull up that mask!
Fauci has more stories that you can count. I automatically discount anything he says. If you wait a day or two, he will change his story again. What a POS he is!
Where’s akmofo when you need him?
Beantownbill, you’re up.
Maybe mofo is locked up in The Hague?
Big trouble in Jerusalem.
Gee, who’d’ve ever saw that coming?
Looks like the whole Middle East + Iran poised for some kind of conflagration, OG. Incidents occurring almost every day — unexplained, massive fires in Iran, tankers blown up in the Gulf, Israeli airstrikes inside Syria, Hamas missiles landing near Tel Aviv. For some reason not covered in American media; being covered pretty well by sky news out of Australia and Al Jazeera.
Brh
I knew of the Iranian fire but not of the rest. Thank you for that timely info & direction, Heckler. Much appreciated!
I must say that few segments that I have seen from Sky News out of Australia seem to cut through the bull shit.
Never mind Colonial Pipeline. This ‘dust up’ is still in the news as well. Good thing summer has arrived and BackRow Heckler won’t have to pull on his long johns due to temperature drops!
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/05/10/explainer/what-happens-if-line-5-pipeline-shuts-down
Don’t think the ‘Gov’ of Michigan has applied for the court order just yet, but I sure wish she would stop being such an ‘old meanie’ to Canada.
35°F the other nite, snagglepuss.
Sun’s declination today is 17°N 48′, same as Aug.1. So I would like to ask the Climate Czar — John Kerry — why is it so goddam cold?
“Cuz climate change. Now get out of my way, I need to get on this private jet to Phuket for a summit to save the world.”
I’m loving every minute of it.
I once watched , ” 30 days of Night ” and , ” Whiteout ” every evening for an entire month.
Not because I love those movies particularly , but because the setting in both is arctic.
I really fucking hate hot weather.
With ya there! My favorite time of year is when we get so snowed in or iced in (-15 to -30F) that no one can do a damn thing for a few weeks.
Going to get the mail is an exhilarating experience.
Then spring comes and I get a bit seasonally depressed…and then I come around to the joys of warmth. Kind of. Fuck the beach. But okay, it’s got its charms.
We are an odd stock, I guess.
I like spring, summer and fall much better, but I also do enjoy the winter (for the most part). One of my friends here loves the winter, too, and is not happy that it’s spring.
I’m with you.
I utterly and completely detest hot weather. Pretty much everything above 55 degrees Fahrenheit pisses me off.
Looks like that massacre in Colorado was a Mexican affair, a family wiped out at a birthday party by some unhappy boyfriend. Apparently this sort of thing is not uncommon in Mexico, where the rate of violent crime is many degrees higher than in the US, except for cities like Baltimore, St Louis and Chicago.
Brh
Well that can’t be mentioned then.
That’s discriminatory.
It’s a cultural difference, not a massacre, unless you want to be insensitive.
Now, if the bad guy’s name was Earl…then you’ve got a story.
Not surprising. My first suspicion was that it would prove to be Mexicans. Something about the way the story was written. No mention of race or surnames. Those two red flags tell you pretty quickly that you are dealing with foreign nationals and most likely from south if the border.
I wouldn’t point fingers about crime.Tex-Mex or otherwise.
Ah !
Another JHK essay that is pure gold.
I knew it was gonna be delicious when I saw , ” Hyper – Complexity ” in the title.
I’m biased though. The subject matter , in all cases , was right up my alley.
I suspect JHK’s Lawfare essays are every bit as good. Certainly , his knowledge of Lawfare trivia is very impressive.
But unfortunately Lawfare doesn’t turn my crank.
” Very diplomatic of you, OG, compared to your repetitive and insistent responses elsewhere.
Predictions:
You will not insist Kesa accept Santa Claus postnominals, despite not accepting your hypothesis.
Big Brain will not call Kesa low-IQ for not accepting the hypothesis he insists only the low-IQ do not accept.
The interpersonal dynamics on here are always interesting ”
— GreenAlba
Well , if it is any consolation , in real life Leftists hate my guts.
AND Right – wingers hate my guts.
Whites hate my guts , and Blacks hate my guts.
There were several reasons I dropped out of high school , but the number one reason , believe it or not , was I feared that I might get lynched.
( Another reason I just don’t buy the conventional wisdom regarding the innocence and purity of children. )
Indeed , Homogeneity was only one of the reasons I moved to Appalachia , but 15 + years later , Homogeneity is THE reason you could not pry me out of Appalachia with a crowbar.
My experience has shown that living in an area that is 95% one race — even if it isn’t your race , and 95% one culture — even if it isn’t your culture , is simply regardless a less stressful , more tranquil , LESS THREATENING OR FRIGHTENING environment.
Anyway , it does seem to me that , in marked contrast ,
people tend to go very easy on me in CFN.
Why ?? I can’t guess !
Well , I do have two guesses ;
Some people have been here long enough , and some are perceptive enough to intuit , that I will go after ANYBODY.
And regardless of politics , demographics , or culture , the NORM on CFN is eccentricity. So I reckon that on CFN I’m less like a cockroach on a wedding cake , it’s more like I merely make the place incrementally more colorful.
KesaAnna, Northern New England (Vermont-New Hampshire-Maine) has that homogeneity you like…..95% white and unsurprisingly the lowest violent crime rate in the nation. It is a polite and peaceful society.
That’s because racially homogenous societies are inherently high trust societies. Also, no culture wars to cause folks to rub up against one another like two pieces of sandpaper.
Ask the Japanese. It works for them too.
You have interesting things to say, KesaAnna, which is why, as you put it, “people tend to go easy on me here at CFN”.
You never mentioned you dropped out of HS, KA. It’s hard to believe. Your knowledge of history and literature belies that. However, if its true, and I don’t have any reason to doubt you, then I was into something when I called you the consummate auto-didact.
Brh
First off, I don’t hate anyone. I’ve known several people who have earned my hate but I refuse to give them any.
After that, it is always fun proving GA Wrong so now I gotta give you a hard time, KA.
But also … We all agree that we have covered that Tuesday thoroughly enough.
I believe that it is the perfect litmus test as this case turns the usual upside down. In this case, to believe the official story of that Tuesday is to believe the most ludicrous conspiracy theory ever … complete with magic, explosion-proof paper passports, a madman having US Air Defence stand down from a cave in Afghanistan and FEMA coincidentally running many exercises for very similar occurances on the very same day in the very same city blocks.
All people, including KA, who believe the official story (which doesn’t even try to explain why the PATRIOT Act was already written, printed and ready to roll), cannot be trusted as a source for anything Science.
Other than that, by all means, KA, Let you Freak-flag fly!
—–
Cheers, GA!
The USA is now an irrelevant polity in that the world is now hip to its actual role as the worlds terrorist, not the worlds policeman. The world knows the US is a murderer and a thief, a liar and a terrorist. The world has decided to work together to exclude the US from its alliances and partnerships, because it is obvious now that the US is not capable of playing nice, of being considerate, of honoring agreements.
It’s time for clusterfuck nation and its rabid redneck followers to take a look around and see that there is a world out there beyond the exceptional US borders, and that they are more important than the minor population of the USA, simply because they outnumber the US by a score of 8 billion to 350 million. Also, the world is more than capable of ending the USA threat against the worlds existence.
Does anyone here at CFN realize that the US had to back down from Russia two weeks ago when Russia moved a quarter million troops to its border with the Ukraine after the US ordered the Ukraine to mount an offensive against half s million Russian citizens in eastern Ukraine? If the Us Hadn’t backed off, the resultant destruction of the Ukraine by Russia could have resulted in a nuclear war.
It’s time for CFN to start expanding its horizon to include the world because we all know that the US government is corrupt and it will never bring justice to its own kind. The US is irrelevant, but the world is what’s happening now. It’s time to start paying attention to it.
Actually, all that is discussed quite often, by JHK and the commenters here.
The only ‘redneck’ commenting up here is a brainwashed liberal.
Many folks up here are very up on international situations, and understand the US’s place in the world.
So perhaps, just can the condescension?
It’s time for you to read the entire comments sections before passing judgment.
Brainwashed? Hahaha…
https://imgur.com/gallery/VgIyl1p
https://slate.com/technology/2017/11/why-conservatives-are-more-susceptible-to-believing-in-lies.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brainwashing_of_My_Dad
More science from our Maj/Redneck.
Us against them.
Low IQ.
only thing i’m interested in is the few pockets of truly primitive living left.
great wide world out there is full to brim with sprawling, parasitic mono-civilization.
Have you read Ted Kaczynsky? He had deep insights about your pov. That small groups of people living together close to the Earth, trying to survive, will experience greater “aliveness” than any others. What OG said about the Sioux boy circa the year 1300.
Kim quoted some of his later writings that have been published, apparently. Good stuff.
You guys may be right about this, though you will still be wrong if you think it will be peaceful or without prejudice towards other groups. War is the natural state of man, be it big or very, very small.
Yeah im kinda a ted fan
Absolutely think violence will and should be a part of changes in the world. Also think enlightened perspectives will benefit successful future groups competing for influence and power… maybe even motivate violence in a constructive way, towards something worthwhile
In the primitive world, there are typically three levels of violence:
That of play such as counting coup (touching another rider with a coup stick) among the Plains Indians. Or the throwing of spears by lines of men from warring villages in New Guinea. The men jump out of the way, enjoying their own agility. Injuries common, fatalities rare. Very rough Lacrosse by the Indians of the Northeast, etc.
Raids for women, horses, or cattle.
All out War to drive the other group out or genocide them.
A fourth could be included, namely hunting the other as game to eat as per the Aborigines or certain tribes in Africa. This may be part of the previous or a its own thing.
Imagine being hunted as game, Gustaf. Or hunting someone to eat them! How cool are you?
I’m a fan of jared diamond’s studies of new guinea. Lot of wildness in new guinea. Headhunting, unpunished killings. In a sense its a culture that legalizes murder. Yet the cultures, the intertribal relations have stability. The violence does evolve to a balance. A natural justice emerges. Most energy is spent acquring food and culture-objects peacefully. Is it a perfect template? Not necessarily. Is new-guinea highlander tribal life ancient, balanced, sustainable and often beautiful? Yes.
Could i see myself possibly comfortable in a society in which murder was essentially legalized? Yes.
I prefer the vision presented in the some of the Star Trek episodes and sporadically in other science fiction as well. An advanced Civilization realizes that simple living is the most joyous, so it lives that way – without losing all access to the great knowledge and technology that it has acquired.
The Enterprise shows up some place and sees them as primitive. Then they gradually come to realize that the medievals are more advanced than they are.
Some people wouldn’t be satisfied with just going backwards as if this never happened or as if it was without any value at all. Those who love knowledge for example. Or say you when your child needed advanced medical care.
Primitives are always eager for conveniences. It would all start again unless the Civilization kept the knowledge and simply chose to live differently on a day to day basis.
I’m not comfortable with crime, but I am with dueling. And war will come whether one is comfortable with it or not. Those who have beaten their swords into ploughshares will do the plowing for those who have not. Another reason not to give it all up.
“Only the dead have seen the end of war” – George Santayana
I agree. Complex, short-lived, resource-intensive civilizations will always start again unless consciously rejected. The height of human cultural development might be consciously rejecting these civilization-building side-tracks, or keeping them in check by some means.
I will add a footnote to your interesting conversation, gentlemen.
Lacrosse, is the Anglophied way of saying the original Iroquois word. The game of lacrosse played by the Great Lake natives translates as:
Little Brother of War
Ah, I was right. Thanks Og.
Still the best country in which to live, warts and all.
Mr M, where else have you lived?
Lived? Just here in the US, both coasts and the midwest. You got me, RL.
Traveled? I’ve seen a little bit. Plenty of Europe, UK, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, SE Asia, Japan.
Fun to visit, but I always preferred coming home.
For example, it’s nice not to have forty children swarm you and ask you to buy a bracelet every time you walk to your car. Also nice to not see soldiers with massive, almost cartoonish machine guns patrolling city streets or standing guard at the train station (this past year’s Nat. Guard call-ups notwithstanding). Nice to not have to sweat through your clothes each day for nine months out of the year. And in the case of the UK, nice to have hamburgers that don’t taste like they’re made from horsemeat mixed with oatmeal.
Probably Japan came the closest to feeling like a place I’d actually want to live if for some reason we chose to leave the US. Except for the whole language thing, of course.
Why not Canada, Mr M? Too Police Statey?
Eh, I suppose you’re right, OG. Canada just seems like North Minnesota to me. Probably the first choice. Then Asahikawa.
Dunno. Europe is comparable, but different. Some things are much better, some are much worse.
One thing that I would agree on, however, is that in terms of quality of life and security, the West is the best.
Unless we allow it to become China. Which we seem to be doing.
Couple of things:
The US remains, for now, the most powerful nation in the world.
The US continues to be the most indebted nation in the world.
The US is for from irrelevant. The US is making life difficult to very difficult for some; and other nations (China mainly, but also Japan, even the Saudis, hold a lot of US debt that they need to maintain the fiction that it will be… paid back–some much needed humor in this space, HA-HA!)
While we (I count myself as an American) may only be 330,000,000 of 8 billion, since we won’t be leaving America, it behooves us to try to make America work, or absent that, find a space in America that can work for us.
Hyper-complexity is not only making life more frustrating, but, as if the future was not fraught enough already, it is teeing us up, for even more failure in the future
If we still have reliable electricity, all these new appliances are not serviceable–the modules are remove and replace, and they are pricey. As people are poorer, how will they replace essential items?
As to the pipeline, perhaps it was hacked, perhaps it’s something else. Maybe the hack is a real story.
Some pundits (like Sean Hannity on Fox) are implying “Russia did it”, and asking “President Biden, if Russia did it, how will America respond?” This is totally bogus.
If Russia did it (and I cannot know), it would be a warranted RESPONSE to America’s belligerent foreign policy toward the Russians. But it could be any entity, or China, or maybe Iran, or NK.
Our leaders will tell us when they want us to know, what they want us to believe. If the truth doesn’t serve them, they won’t say.
America’s military today is the ultimate example of “leveraging technology”–hyper-complexity. To paraphrase a South Vietnamese, “it’s a rich man’s army. It needs a lot of stuff to fight”. What happens when the money to keep it running isn’t there? And the US military isn’t just living on borrowed (literally) time–it’s doubling down on ever more expensive systems! In one, two, or five years, we will be broke.
Basically, the collusion of ‘everyone’ to ‘stop Trump’ has replaced him with a Biden and Democratic Congress that are FAST FORWARDING every negative trend JHK so articulately describes.
If the Deep State choose to play the military card, while we still can, for whatever reason
(to secure resources or capital, to keep our society going, since we can no longer survive without massive imports, from this laptop to my cellphone to my TV, etc–after all, this isn’t 1929-1960, or even 1970),
beside the obvious concern of things spinning out of control, it will make other countries (China, Russia, EU) set aside their difficulties and work to ‘contain’ us. One does not need a PhD or even a college degree to figure this out….
And if during some stupid war, our military unravels, or if it fails in a big way, if a major ship is sunk, or if the F-35 proves to be in 2021 what the Maginot Line was in 1940, in the “conventional” view of the Matrix, we are done.
In the “real view”, I think mankind is in over our head anyway.
But with so much to worry about, distracting the public by ‘pivoting’ from the moronic wars of SW/Central Asia to confrontations with Russia and/or China is really stupid.
Excellent comment.
PatrickDickhead – You are welcome to move to India, Somalia, Honduras, or any other shit hole country of your choice.
That way you won’t have to share this country with all of us “rabid rednecks.”
Hell, CFN’ers might even start a GoFundMe page to offset the cost of launching you into your 3rd World Hellhole of Choice. Just say the word!
O.G. Hawkins, just a little something I came across….
https://mobile.twitter.com/POTFW_/status/1391303871675486208
Sometimes following these links pays off .
I thought this was really cute and funny ;
https://mobile.twitter.com/numlungzthe1/status/1391567199630987264/photo/1
LOL!
Thx, Mary. Unfortunately my old iPad 2.0 is not compatible with Twitter so I can’t see what it is.
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-document-reveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465
This is probably the next one, maybe the one labelled “Spars” by John Hopkins scheduled for 2025. The one of which Gates said, “The next one will make them take notice.”
I’m not convinced “covid19” is really anything at all. The reaction to it, both the lockdown and the vaccine, are major killers of course.
Same. As you know, I believe they just rebranded the naturally occurring one and wreaked havoc with clever marketing campaigns and mass hysteria through the politicians and mainstream media.
Who knows what’s coming next. I do know they won’t stop.
They were raving tonight about how the next Flu season might be terrible because we’ve lost immunity because this one was so light, lol. What’s next? How about mRna flu shots, in addition to Covid boosters Of Course!
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I smell the government’s stench on this statement. Sowing fear for control
My point all along is the unknown aspects of all this Covid business. I am 73, I never got it, I wore a mask only in close quarters to stop people from spitting on me, and I got vaxxed twice.
The flu is not near as contagious as Covid. So when most people protect themselves from Covid, Lo and behold, flu is affected.
So? One thing that pisses me of more than anything is the way the government health agencies have ignored their job for a long time. Your flu question should already be answered, if we limit transmission of the flu, does our immunity to it affected? Will next year be worse? Who the heck knows, and we should know. SARS1 gave us a preview of Covid. What did we learn from it?
Nothing. What the heck is the CDC even there for?
Covid boosters? I know you are being sarcastic, but my point is that we should already know, with 44000 test candidates nearing a year since their first shots whether the memory cells are generated or whether the immune event only produces antibodies. Is this a MMR style immunity, life long or a flu shot seasonal. I know that Moderna is gearing up for a fall vaxx event and I will bet Pfizer is the same.
I think that the flu shot will always be as it is, injection of pieces of dead flu viruses. Why mRNA was used as the catalyst for the Covid shot, I do not know? My best guess is it is a precursor for the treatment of immunity assisted cancer treatment. Does the transmission of mRNA into cells for the expression of antigens for the immune system to attack and develop immunity.
What can we pick off of cancer cells that can be made into mRNA injections to alarm the immune system of the presence of cancer sells? Are we heading this way? Where are the spokesmen for the industry to explain all this stuff? Do not say a word! Shhhh!
Let the fear arise, gain control, be a Democrat.
Is the transmission of mRNA into cells to express antigens for the immune system to attack, a new technology to help the immune system identify and amplify new antigens? Cancer?
“My best guess is it is a precursor for the treatment of immunity assisted cancer treatment.”
JohnAZ – that’s a fair assumption (and this new technology has been hailed by many scientists). However, the whole idea of TPTB trying to ASSIST the human race rather than invoke a genocidal event will not get much traction round here.
This process is amendable to mass production, since it is essentially a computer code. And it enables to a mechanical process to commence in the body, unrelated to the body’s own mechanism of homeostasis.
I keep revisiting the machinations of Mr. McBean, the Fix-It-Up Chappie, in Dr. Seuss’s “Sneetches on Beaches”.
They will have us going round and round from virus to vaxx until our money’s gone (and our health too).
Sneetches has a good ending when their money runs out, and that ends the bigotry and stupidity and they just have a laugh.
If only that would happen among humans.
I think some of you will find this interesting, and find some things you can use on your doubting friends.
It’s a long read, but the author has some credentials:
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
“I believe they just rebranded the naturally occurring one””
Oh? So, it’s NOT a gain-of-function bioweapon, developed by the evil Dr. Fauxi and distributed by the Chinese to destroy the West?
The diversity of conspiracies is mind-boggling. No wonder no one can figure out which one is real…
Yes, Fauci signed off on using tax payer dollars to develop gain of function bioweapons. The scumbags put a loophole in the law to allow for this.
Better have Mary get her story straight with yours, Yoyo…
Poor RL doesn’t understand that both things can be true. It’s that black/white IDPol limited thinking thing that results from TDS and other brainwashing.
Why would anyone here need to get their stories straight with anyone else here, RL?
No, I don’t believe this nothingburger is a gain of function bioweapon. So please stop attributing other peoples’ opinion to me. If you can’t keep track of who says what, maybe use post-its?
I actually don’t care which nutjob holds & espouses which nutjob theory, MaryQ. The irony was lost on you, clearly.
Anyway…
“A poll today by the Associated Press (AP) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) shows that President Joe Biden’s administration is gaining positive traction. Sixty-three percent of Americans approve of how he is handling his job as president. Seventy-one percent approve of how he is handling the coronavirus pandemic; 62% percent approve of how he is handling health care. Fifty-seven percent approve of how he is handling the economy; 54% approve of how he is handling foreign affairs.
Fifty-four percent of Americans think the country is going in the right direction. This is the highest number since 2017, but it is split by party: 84% of Democrats like the country’s direction, while only 20% of Republicans do.“
“Fifty-four percent of Americans think the country is going in the right direction. This is the highest number since 2017, but it is split by party: 84% of Democrats like the country’s direction, while only 20% of Republicans do.“
What puzzles me, is why the Republican leadership is still so beholden to the Trump aura.
I appreciate that a large number of Republican voters still fervently believe in the goodness and power of Trump, but you would think it is far more important to work through policies for 2022, rather than have internecine battles over Liz Cheney, and cancel-culture distractions.
They look very self-destructive at the moment.
It’s also a requirement – if they wish to win elections – for the Republicans to win over independent | swing | floating voters. It seems that support from these groups have really dropped since Jan 6, and the GOP has to work hard to get them back – their solid base of 40-45% is not enough to win a wide range of critical races in the House and Senate.
Interesting times ahead, but President Biden’s overall popularity, and Republican disarray doesn’t look too healthy for the GOP at the moment.
Oh lookie, it’s 2 of the Troll Triumvirate who think I care what they post.
LMAO, flattered anew. Yap, yap, little doggies.
The TDS-addled who fell for Bleachgate, Russiagate and Capitol Stormgate are too low in debate skills to have adult convos with.
Sorry boys.
LMAO, flattered anew. Yap, yap, little doggies.
How are your in-depth conversations with Jack Daniels tonight? Productive?
Projection noted. 😉
Jack Daniels acts like your friend.
The diversity of conspiracies is mind-boggling. No wonder no one can figure out which one is real…
Yes – it can be hard to keep up. Not that I concern myself too much … I stick with the real world.
“Donald Trump wants to usher in a White Ethnostate”
–Tekapo
What real world?
The one msnbc and cnn tells you to believe in?
You are as stuck in the matrix as anyone has ever been in human history.
Tinfoil Russiagater says what? LOL.
It is a GoF bioweapon released by Putin to stop the Resistance.
Redneck Liberal told me.
Spot the Narc Troll in this video:
https://youtu.be/htPBiuebbxc
LOL.
This is a guy with actual talent:
https://rumble.com/vgtd1n-this-fauci-impersonation-is-hilarious.html
“Oh, shit no, Justin. You ain’t ANTIFA! They’re skinny.”
Hahaha
I could only take about 15 seconds of this low-T ensemble, but if you want to include me, you need to find a dude who is about 6 ft tall/185, fit and sporting a band related t-shirt (Smiths, SDRE or anything postpunk will do), a pair of dark skinnyish jeans with New Balance 996s, and a beat Rolex Explorer II on his wrist.
I also have a very full beard right now.
Look forward to your production.
Natural New, Ethan Huff
An Israeli organization made up of health experts has published a report outlining how the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injection from Pfizer causes damage to nearly every system in the human body.
The Israeli People Committee (IPC) says that Pfizer’s Chinese Virus jab is causing catastrophic damage to people’s bodies – so much so, in fact, that there are more people dying from it in Israel than there are people in all of Europe who are dying from the AstraZeneca jab.
You know things are bad when the bar has been so lowered that it is now considered a privilege to have a jab that causes just a wee-bit fewer deaths than the one your own government is mandating.
According to IPC, “there has never been a vaccine that has harmed as many people” as the Pfizer vaccine has. The group published a full report detailing its eye-opening findings.
“We received 288 death reports in proximity to vaccination (90% up to 10 days after the vaccination),” one part of the report explains. “64% of those were men.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s official Ministry of Health is claiming that “only 45 deaths in Israel were vaccine related.”
Assuming these figures are accurate, the Israeli government is blatantly lying about the number of Israelis who are being injured or killed by the Pfizer injection, which appears to be the jab of choice for the Israeli people.
All Covid-19 injections are dangerous and deadly
All of this is even more concerning when considering the fact that the only jabs governments around the world have been focusing on as dangerous are the ones from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
Both of these just so happen to be the only two that are not loaded with DNA-reprogramming mRNA chemicals. The J&J and AstraZeneca injections are considered to be more “traditional” in terms of the technology used.
Meanwhile, Pfizer’s jab is killing people left and right in Israel, and Moderna’s is not much better, and we have not heard so much as a peep from the government about “pausing” either of those.
In Europe, where AstraZeneca’s injection is being widely used, numerous countries have suspended its use entirely, citing a pandemic of deadly blood clots and other adverse effects.
German scientists recently discovered the two-step process by which AstraZeneca injections cause blood clots in recipients. There is a series of events that must first take place inside the body before the blood clots form.
Still, AstraZeneca’s injection is reportedly causing far fewer deaths than Pfizer’s, and yet neither Israel nor the United States has hit the pause button on its administration.
Not only that, but the J&J jab, which causes deadly blood clots just like AstraZeneca’s jab, is now being actively recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in American patients, albeit with a tiny safety warning on the package.
“According to Central Bureau of Statistics data during January-February 2021, at the peak of the Israeli mass vaccination campaign, there was a 22% increase in overall mortality in Israel compared with the previous year,” the Israeli report further explains about what is happening over there.
“In fact, January-February 2021 have been the deadliest months in the last decade, with the highest overall mortality rates compared to corresponding months in the last 10 years.”
The most dramatic increases in death are occurring among Israelis between the ages of 20 and 29. This group has seen an overall increase in mortality of 32 percent ever since the Pfizer vaccine was introduced.
“According to this estimate, it is possible to estimate the number of deaths in Israel in proximity of the vaccine, as of today, at about 1000-1100 people.”
The latest news about Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) injections can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.
Sources for this article include:
GreatGameIndia.com
NaturalNews
Yoho: But focusing on the damage done by the lesser vaccines, the slow boats to China as it were, are they attempting to stampede the herd to the two deadly ones, the fast boats to the Grave or Transhumanist Golemhood?
“We received 288 death reports in proximity to vaccination (90% up to 10 days after the vaccination),” one part of the report explains. “64% of those were men.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s official Ministry of Health is claiming that “only 45 deaths in Israel were vaccine related.”
It’s hard sometimes to determine where to look to see what the real picture is.
But if push comes to shove, I’d tend to follow the government figures. Other outfits always seem to have an agenda, or their data is faulty (someone dies after being vaccinated, so the vaccine “must” have caused the death, and so on).
Both of these just so happen to be the only two that are not loaded with DNA-reprogramming mRNA chemicals.
This is crazy stuff … the vaccines do not “re-program” anyone’s DNA – it’s simply not possible. The article is essentially science and medical knowledge free. But believe it if you wish … there is no vaccine for credulous.
Good article. Inline with what Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg and others over at Stiftung Corona-Ausschuss have been reporting.
Their international class action lawsuit is being pieced together and they have about 1,000 lawyers working on it and some 10,000 medical professionals.
Wooo!
That is exciting, indeed.
Today, Peggy Hall and Leigh Dundas are going to deliver some reality to the Orange County city council who’s attempting to start requiring vaxx passports. Those two have a 2-0 winning streak dealing with these psychos. I can’t wait to see the video.
New Zealand is only using Pfizer. Deaths to date caused by Pfizer vaccine = zero.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-tracker-how-many-kiwis-have-been-vaccinated-and-how-do-we-compare-with-the-rest-of-the-world/ENMCOHM5QW6W3UN6MRMCOQKO2U/
LMAO, New Zealanders are the only people immune to injuries and death from the vaxx. Wonder how long this coverup will last?
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine-safety-and-approval/covid-19-vaccine-side-effects-and-reactions
Great link, MaryQ. Sorry for you that there are no reported deaths from Pfizer vaccine, as it gums up your narrative, I know. So, naturally (you just cannot help yourself, huh…) you simply imply that they’re being “covered up”. Tinfoil nutjobbery, but at least you’re consistent! And so very, very predictable.
Yawn.
You clearly didn’t even look at the data in the link you posted. Predictable intellectual laziness.
It didn’t show what you claimed.
Fail.
Very sensible government in New Zealand.
NZ is led by a Leftwing lunatic fembot moron. I seriously doubt that her government could recognize truth if it slapped them square in the face.
Our Jacinda is much loved by the people … you’re just so jealous 🙂
BOOM!! The evil Disney corp. is exposed for their insane ‘diversity’ CRT/anti-racism/pro-trans agenda indoctrination. It’s not just in higher learning. In fact, it seems even more insidious in the corporate world.
“The Walt Disney Corporation famously bills its amusement parks as “the happiest place on Earth,” but inside the company’s headquarters in Burbank, California, a conflict is brewing. In the past year, Disney executives have elevated the ideology of critical race theory into a new corporate dogma, bombarded employees with trainings on “systemic racism,” “white privilege,” “white fragility,” and “white saviors,” and launched racially segregated “affinity groups” at the company’s headquarters.
I have obtained a trove of whistleblower documents related to Disney’s “diversity and inclusion” program, called “Reimagine Tomorrow,” which paints a disturbing picture of the company’s embrace of racial politics. Multiple Disney employees, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisals, told me that the Reimagine Tomorrow program, though perhaps noble in intent, has become deeply politicized and engulfed parts of the company in racial conflict.
The core of Disney’s racial program is a series of training modules on “antiracism.” In one, called “Allyship for Race Consciousness,” the company tells employees that they must “take ownership of educating [themselves] about structural anti-Black racism” and that they should “not rely on [their] Black colleagues to educate [them],” because it is “emotionally taxing.” The United States, the document claims, has a “long history of systemic racism and transphobia,” and white employees, in particular, must “work through feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness to understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed.” Disney recommends that employees atone by “challeng[ing] colorblind ideologies and rhetoric” such as “All Lives Matter” and “I don’t see color”; they must “listen with empathy [to] Black colleagues” and must “not question or debate Black colleagues’ lived experience.”
In another module, called “What Can I Do About Racism?,” Disney tells employees that they should reject “equality,” with a focus on “equal treatment and access to opportunities,” and instead strive for “equity,” with a focus on “the equality of outcome.” The training also includes a series of lessons on “implicit biases,” “microaggressions,” and “becoming an antiracist.” The company tells employees that they must “reflect” on America’s “racist infrastructure” and “think carefully about whether or not your wealth, income, treatment by the criminal justice system, employment, access to housing, health care, political power, and education might be different if you were of a different race.”
In order to put these ideas into action, Disney sponsored the creation of the “21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge” in partnership with the YWCA and included the program in its recommended resources for employees. The challenge begins with information on “systemic racism” and asks participants to accept that they have “all been raised in a society that elevates white culture over others.” Participants then learn about their “white privilege” and are asked to fill out a white privilege “checklist,” with options including: “I am white,” I am heterosexual,” “I am a man,” “I still identity as the gender I was born in,” “I have never been raped,” “I don’t rely on public transportation,” and “I have never been called a terrorist.”
Next, participants learn about “white fragility” and are asked to complete an exercise called “How to Tell If You Have White Fragility.” The program interprets beliefs such as “I am a good person, I can’t be racist” and “I was taught to treat everyone the same” as evidence of the participant’s internalized racism and white fragility. Finally, at the conclusion of the 21-day challenge, participants are told that they must learn how to “pivot” from “white dominant culture” to “something different.” The document claims that “competition,” power hoarding,” “comfort with predominantly white leadership,” “individualism,” “timeliness,” and “comprehensiveness” are “white dominant” values that “perpetuate white supremacy culture”—and must be rejected.
In the same collection of resources, Disney also recommends that employees read a series of how-to guides, including “75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice” and “Your Kids Are Not Too Young to Talk About Race.” The first article suggests that white employees should “defund the police,” “participate in reparations,” “decolonize your bookshelf,” “don’t gentrify neighborhoods,” “find and join a local ‘white space,’” and “donate to anti-white supremacy work such as your local Black Lives Matter Chapter.” The second article encourages parents to commit to “raising race-consciousness in children” and argues that “even babies discriminate” against members of other races. A graphic claims that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old, and that white children become “strongly biased in favor whiteness” by age four.
Finally, as part of an initiative labeled “CEO sponsored priorities,” Disney has launched racially segregated “affinity groups” for minority employees, with the goal of achieving “culturally-authentic insights.” In the original launch, the Latino affinity group was called “Hola,” the Asian affinity group was called “Compass,” and the black affinity group was called “Wakanda.” The racial affinity groups, also called Business Employee Resource Groups (BERGs), are technically open to all employees but in practice have become almost entirely segregated by race, with the occasional exception for white “executive champions” who attend on behalf of corporate leadership. “The thing that this company does very well is they know politics, so they leave many things unspoken,” said one employee, a racial minority, who also claimed the affinity groups are intended to be racially segregated spaces. “I don’t think anyone has necessarily even tried to attend something that they would discover that they’re not welcome at.”
Multiple Disney employees told me the political environment at the company has intensified in recent months. There are “almost daily memos, suggested readings, panels, and seminars that [are] all centered around antiracism,” said one employee. The company is “completely ideologically one-sided” and actively discourages conservative and Christian employees from expressing their views. “I attended several [training sessions] at the beginning just to see what the temperature of the discussion would be and to gauge if I would be able to bring up my own objections in a safe way—safe meaning for my career. And I’ve continually gotten the unspoken answer: ‘no,’” said the employee. “It’s been very stifling to feel like everyone keeps talking about having open dialogue and compassionate conversations, but when it comes down to it, I know if I said one thing that was truthful, based on data, or even just based on my own personal experience, it would actually be rather unwelcomed.”
Despite these internal warnings, there is no sign that Disney is slowing down its efforts to achieve ideological purity. The company recently fired actress Gina Carano for expressing a conservative viewpoint. Content managers have modified and added “content advisories” to films such as Dumbo, Aladdin, and Fantasia, which, according to an internal video I have obtained, executives have denounced as “racist content.” In the same video, executive chairman Bob Iger pledged that the company “should be taking a stand” on political controversies and will no longer “shy away from politics” in the future.
Disney’s premise has always been to provide an escape for middle Americans, but its executives seem to harbor growing contempt for the very people who visit their amusement parks, watch their films, and buy their merchandise. Once known as the “Happiest Place on Earth,” Disney has now committed to becoming the “wokest place on Earth”—whatever the cost.”
Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
https://www.city-journal.org/racial-politics-at-disney
FWIW, this is what I am now experiencing at the college I work at, as well. It is like a disease.
Good luck having an independent opinion or thought. Out the door with your ass if you do.
I thought the purpose of having a job was to do some work and get paid for it. Guess I missed the memo.
Disney made some great animated films before they went woke and perved. Hope you all save them to an external hard drive before they get censored or cancelled. As they say, “Power corrupts”.
I always thought their movies were super emotionally manipulating. Not my bag.
I find Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Pink Floyd emotionally manipulative, I think that’s what I like about them. Heart strings, the hidden instrument in the symphony.
Nicknames for their place of employment, by the animation slaves at Disney: “Mouseschwitz” and “Duckau”.
“Heart strings, the hidden instrument in the symphony.”
Nice one. I remember crying to Bruch’s 1st Violin concerto when I was a student. After a night out, not a few drinks, and fancying someone. But still. 🙂
Call it sentimental pap if you will (not you), I still have my Nigel Kennedy rendition and it still tugs the heart strings.
I read maybe a decade ago that it’s the UK’s favourite bit of classical music. Bunch of sentimental saps we are.
MaryV
I remember that the purpose of every corporation is to make profit, right?
What the heck is going on? Where is all this self glorification coming from? Why the heck do all these jerky corporate boards even care what disparate groups of the country think anyway?
Does the location of the corporate offices have anything to do with it, ie are blue state corporations Blue?
What happened to e pluribus unum? What a thought. A system where everyone fits into places where their talents and gifts entitle them to.
Just the opposite of what the woke crowd wants.
Their purpose is no longer to make a profit. They’re getting Covid19 money out the whazoo.
So the customer can go to hell, so can the employees. They probably want to get rid of all independent thinkers so they can have compliant serfs.
All this CRT bullshit is just a means to an end – technofeudal serfdom. It’s playing its part.
Agreed!
Yet, with this scheme in motion, you still trust them with your health.
I remember when CRT just meant a TV.
I miss those days.
Me too. Oh for the 1970s before people were glued to screens 24/7.
I liked making it to the Star-Spangled Banner. Felt like an accomplishment for a grade schooler.
I remember reading The Exorcist and being scared shitless and nothing but snow on both channels.
And, ya, Mr M, I also think Cathode Ray Tube everytime I read CRT.
What the heck is going on? Where is all this self glorification coming from? Why the heck do all these jerky corporate boards even care what disparate groups of the country think anyway?
Presumably because they feel that’s where the Zeitgeist is, and where it’s headed.
As I have said previously, all corporations are there to maximise shareholder profits, and if they are heavily customer-focused (like Disney or Coke), they will take these steps to be “good”, and to reinforce their social license to operate.
In the past (to use a broad brush) most corporations were in lock-step with the Republican Party, and supported every policy that was pro-business and squashing consumer rights.
Things changed with consumer rights, the women’s liberation movement, and then the environment movement – so this embracing of socially acceptable “wokism” is not out of line with a past history of strategic shifts.
The “triple bottom line” is nothing new … big corporations are strategic in real time – it’s why they remain successful.
JAZ “I remember that the purpose of every corporation is to make profit, right? What the heck is going on?”
This is exactly what some people having been talking aobut of late, or in Matthew R Johnson’s case, for years.
I think the argument goes that the division between politics and big business has vanished, with top personnel moving back and forth between the two. I get the feeling that the corporations are dictating what happens during this so-called ‘covid crisis’, where your freedom to live a free life will not be constrained so much by government as by business.
I remember when Ireland went through an insane property bubble which burst in 2008. Our government guaranteed the banks, all bust but in turn the EU did not bail our government out but rather insisted that we dealt with the IMF. I think essentially we were being forced to deal with the private owners of money.
Another example would be a week or so ago, when Russia offered to supply its own cheap vaccine to Europe. I think Austria ordered 10m doses. (By the way, I do not see it as necessary as there is nothing to vaccinate against and the drug companies are only guessing at what they think is pathogen, SARSCov2 having never been isolated and shown to cause the disease Covid19, which itself is wholly imaginary and indistinguishable from existing diseases. but I digress.) The EU indignantly rejected Russian assistance and Putin mocked them. Why so? Had they been taken prisoner of the pharmaceutical lobby?
If you look back in history you can see it has always been going on, only it is worse now and harder to hide. Or they cannot be bothered trying too hard to hide it, relying on the blunt instrument of internet censorship.
Johnson and E Michael Jones consider the present time to be a full-blown Oligarchy. They are quite willing to lose money (eg I understand Hollywood has lost out heavily to online films), at least in the short term as long as their political objectives are met, which will in any case ensure their long-term economic interests anyway.
But why are the corporations so left-wing and multi-cultural. There you have to look at the history of the Jews. A hundred years ago wealthy NY banker Jacob Schiff, for example, was hailed by the Bolsheviks (almost all Jews at the highest level, according to Solzhenitsyn) as a ‘proletarian’ while a poor Ukranian priest would be shot as a ‘class enemy’.
If you accept the surface definitions of left and right, rich and poor, at face value it makes no sense at all. if you look at the Jewish role then it does make sense, at least to a degree. Sorry to be so blunt. But at least most people will not make it to the end of this post so they will not be triggered.
You can find Johnson’s podcasts via the Orthodox Russian Nationalist website (via Radio Albion website) where he mainly talks about geopolitics. I am not Russian Orthodox myself, by the way, but RC.
This is a nice short summary on YouTube of Antony Sutton’s work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaJ-k4AB7M0&list=PLpUAbNK9GAkH3msOJ0q1j_782vs_oHsuI&index=22
Sutton’s research showed that the USA had built the Soviet Union, literally. GE built their electricity grid, for example. Even their five-year plans were written in America. There is a good lecture (or two) by Sutton on YT but I do not have the link to hand. Really, it is just one example followed by another of this happening, over and over again, until n the end you submit and accept his thesis, strange as it may seem.
Which is where you came in: “What the heck is going on?”
An interesting exercise would be to list the corporations who made lavish donations to BLM and Antifa so that they could destroy American cities. I understand there are many. I seem to recall Apple being one. It makes no sense on the surface.
Nike’s another. I’m sure there are 100s.
Others have already done the work for us Sean. There are many lists out there. I did a quick search just for fun. Picked what I assumed was a pro-Burn, Loot, Murder site: Elle. I wasn’t disappointed.
A few of the courageous corporations:
Lipslut, Boy Smells, Pretty Little Thing.
And of course some heavy hitters:
Amazon, YouTube.
Plus there as an added bonus you get to read a “statement” by non other than Big Mike! Bitching about evil whitey killing off all these wonderful Community Members.
The things I do for you people…
Thanks Blackbird. Some of those I have heard of. The thing to note for anyone reading it is that Boy George (Soroa) is not really an exception. I remember the Fox infobabe telling a open0mouthed Gingrich that George’s name was not to be mentioned.
That short clip I link to above about Antony Sutton, from Didymus’s YT channel, is outstanding. He expresses his continued astonishment and shock every time he thinks about the sheer scale of Western aid to the Soviets. Like so much, everything else, conventional history is a mile wide of the mark.
Carrol Quigley is another one to look at.
I remember Mad Mike now. Colin Flaherty used to quote him all the time. When you ringers get united kill the po-leece mother-huggers.
Every time I read Tragedy and Hope, I learn something new. Sutton is informative too, but I’ve barely scratched the surface of his work.
The more i dig into the story of WWII, the more it looks like a set up to polarize the world into communist vs. capitalist (left hand and right hand). During the Chamberlain years, the UK seemed to be building up Germany to take on the Soviet Union. The UK even bullied the French into joining them in an expeditionary force to fight the USSR in Finland. Unfortunately (maybe), the Finns signed a ceasefire with the USSR before the Brits could get there. Could have been a whole different war if the UK and France were fighting the USSR. Armistice with Germany? Alliance against the Soviet Union? Guess we’ll never know.
Once Churchill took Chamberlain’s seat, the UK went pro-Soviet, fighting the Huns with one hand while giving aid to the Ruskies with the other. (Where was the USSR during the Battle of Britain? Playing footsie with the Third Reich – while also, it appears, planning to invade western Europe.) Of course Roosevelt was pro-Soviet to the core. They gave eastern Europe to the USSR at Yalta (in fact probably long before), then cried that an “Iron Curtain” had descended.
WWII was also a war of US vs. UK. (Battle of Bretton Woods)
The winners of WWII: The US, the USSR, and Israel.
The losers: UK, Germany, and just about everybody else.
Blackbird
That is interesting. I only just heard about Quigley let alone read him. I think it was the book you mention that the publishers (MacMillan) pulled out of issuing the second edition, much to Quigley’s disappointment, seeing as it was all ready to go.
And then Finland. As if it was not already confusing enough. Definitely I get the impression that Churchill wanted war against Germany, come what may. Hitchens believes this was the one(?) great thing Churchill did, but he also believes in the Holocaust. David Irving, as I recall, argued that Chruchill wanted war come what may9, and not for any particularly good reason. I think it is E Michael Jones who said that Chruchill was personally in hock up to his neck with the Jewish banks.
Sean, I think Churchill was a willing tool of the City of London who set up the bipolar cold war world to benefit them and himself. If it had been me in the Honkey Chateau instead of Barry-O, I’d have returned the bust of Winnie too – but after busting his nose off.
And I hear his behaviour at his pubic (ie posh private) school was so bad it was almost beyond belief.
It is counter-intuitive as in the unlikely formulas used in statistics or steering into a skid to correct it rather than the way which comes naturally. Unless he disciplines himself to learn the basic history a man (I use the word to cover all people) will simply forget it after a week or too and return to being puzzled.
I think the information was simply suppressed in the past. It did not have to be blatant censorship, as happened behind the Iron Curtain, but rather the subject was avoided in polite society.
Well said, Sean. Capitalism/Communism are one system, opposite sides of the one coin with Capitalism as the heads. In its mature form, Capitalism is trans-national and ultimately anti-national just like Communism. The Banks are the “elder brothers” who got there first. Or they always were there, for ages and ages.
Solzhenitsyn wasn’t for any pogroms but rather for charity. But that doesn’t mean we let the Bankers continue to hurt us and our nations.
No pogroms? Whatever happened to “Tradition!”?
You’re batting zero lately. You people have your own sick little traditions of White guilt, and putting Women in charge of the Armed Forces. You should be living in Sweden.
In Christian terms, you have left the fleshpots of Egypt, but refuse to keep on moving into the Promised Land. You are wandering around the barren no man’s land of the Sinai desert.
You are racially conscious, at least to some degree. But you don’t have the clarity to understand the implications of that. You still want things to be like they were in your youth – forgetting that that was a rapidly dying culture. You weren’t aware of that. You were a kid and then a teenager. Life was good.
If we somehow (but how?) could go back to the 70’s or 80’s we’d just end up back here in a few short years. Likewise, if one part of Red America managed to breakaway, unless it controlled its borders, it would be inundated by minorities in a few short years.
You need to shock yourself somehow. Maybe play with electricity? Or buy a rubber hammer and hit yourself in the head with it. And of course there are the traditional methods of fasting, hairshirts, and scourging.
“You talkin’ to me?”
Reading sideways again Yo. Careful, those paper cuts to the eye are painful.
I can see you on the beach in the desert, plopped down on your lawn chair with the big umbrella. Now and then you go for a dip in the sea of sand, doing the breast stroke.
I do a little remote viewing too…
Time to put some air in that left front tire, don’t ya think? Wash it off first, the neighbor’s dog just peed on it.
You know about Blacks, but would be outraged at the idea of us doing anything it.
You know about Churchill and the Evil he represented, but are outraged that the Germans tried to save themsleves.
You need to quite the Dark and seek the Light.
Yoho, I don’t know whose mind you’re spelunking, but it ain’t mine.
And since we’re here…
I would be curious to read your solution to the race problem in the US, but I don’t want you to have to change your nom de guerre again. You seem to be near the bottom of that barrel. (Gotta admit, I’m also curious to know what war crime led to the execution of Feldwebel Skorzeny…)
“My” solution? I desire what the great Statesmen have desired. I follow in their train. My solution indeed. You are going in the wrong direction.
Here, take this golden threat: Monticello.org
So the only conclusion I is that we cannot believe anything we read.
Great. The first order item, the transmission of new cases in the US is dropping like a rock. Make your own conclusions why? The CDC is no help.
Jesus. How many times do we have to say the number of cases is bullshit?
The PCR test does not work.
There are no cases. There are people with a cold or the flu like always.
More in the winter, goes away in the summer.
Not rocket science.
But when a massive global marketing scheme is attached – suddenly natural laws no longer matter.
Ridiculous!
Regardless, no ‘cases’ will go up (e.g. flawed test bullshit to begin with), but actual people sick and dead from the jab.
Mission accomplished.
Sorry, MaryV. After watching the ups and downs for a year, the trends are real. Each case may not be accurate, but the incidence of positives have definitely followed trends. You want to ignore that, fine. Not me. The good news is that the crud is being forced into a box, hopefully to disappear.
And just because you and some folks on the blog think that the crud does not exist makes absolutely no difference to the little hair balls that keeps invading and sickening folks all over the world. You are entitled to your opinion, I am mine.
Whoever said you weren’t entitled to your opinion?
I just don’t understand why you deny factual data.
I recognize there is a flu and cold season every year.
I know that the nobel-prize winning scientist who created the PCR test has said it should not be used for what it is used for, and that it returns 97% false-positives.
A ‘case’ is anyone who tests ‘false positive’ and some people test over and over every week.
So it’s bullshit.
And you say “we”? Do you have club meetings where new ways of denying the presence of Covid are made up? Is this global?
There are millions of people who know it’s bullshit and a hoax, yeah. Therefore, ‘we’.
There are no cases. There are people with a cold or the flu like always.
Good grief Mary … are you actually looking at what has happened in Brazil, and what is happening now in India? Your comment is both totally misinformed and also heartless.
In India there are four new cases a second, and a death every 3-4 minutes. Is it all fake? They are not suddenly all dying from a cold or the flu.
Cases, cases, cases, utter bs, cases based on a “test” not ever designed as a test.
Cases do not a pandemic make…. until…… the definition was changed.
Now, instead of death, as in ?hyperbole? people dropping dead in the street….. there are cases. Cases could be “you had a bout of common cold maybe ten (10) years ago. The remnants are in your body. You survived! Aha, a case has been found!
So, now you are covid+ based on a “test” which was being used as a factory to manufacture (replicate) enough HIV/AIDS lookalikes to try for a vaccine.
It found the remains of the common cold you had 10 years ago. So far a no-go?
Not so for those who swear it is proof positive.
However, the test which is not a test detected something (detected, like an investigation? ) which might resemble something akin to… what was that again?
Well, there you have it!
A test which is not a test found something.
Befuddled by it all, the only course of action is to accept the conclusion.
Despite its flaws, because, after all, the government xxx (fill in the blanks), says it is, it must be true.
Therefore, it must be accepted as fact without challenge, except from a few tinfoil hat types who, in real life, have critical thinking skills.
Besmirched people. Not likely to become an entitlement group.
Therefore, it must be accepted as fact without challenge, except from a few tinfoil hat types who, in real life, have critical thinking skills.
Over 400,000 people per day are testing positive in India, and over 4,000 per day are dying. The numbers are rapidly increasing in Nepal next door as well.
Your scepticism is not valid … you’re just pandering to a fruitloop agenda – the people who think it’s a “hoax”. Sad.
“Donald Trump is a Manchurian Candidate”
–Tekapo
What about the PCR tests not being able to detect a virus is not sinking in? Tell us, Po.
Exactly. The befuddled mind accepts the word of people who hate it.
Or to be more charitable, good people simply can’t imagine the level of deceit and malice they are up against.
“Is it all fake?”
You betcha.
I posted two people inside India explaining what’s going on. I suppose they are tinfoil hatters too? I’m sure you just breezed by and didn’t listen since it wasn’t Rachel Madcow feeding it to you. Therefore it must be ‘fake news’.
You’re hopeless, Agent Po.
JohnAZ, you remind me of an insight that sprang up around the beginning of the Corny-19 panic.
Governments everywhere scrambled to broadcast, in great flashing colors, “We are here to support you! We won’t abandon you! We will deal with this plague!”
The subtext (for me, anyway) was more curious, and amusing. Authorities everywhere were in fact jusifiably concerned that the angst-ridden masses would see them for what they are: incompetent, hesitant, bumbling, corrupt and late-to-the-party.
In fact, their message could be read as “Please do not abandon your faith in the government. We know how to handle this and will be on top of it. Trust us to take the lead and defeat this evil”.
Governing bodies on all levels suck up so many resources, and deliver so little, that they are naturally paranoid about being sidelined. This is also, I concluded long ago, the reason they stonewall any disclosure about UFOs, smothering objective consideration with censure and ridicule.
“Say one word about this to anybody, on or off the base, and you could be looking at a long stay at Fort Leavenworth.” (Quoted in the JAL 747 event in Alaska by spooks as well as in other events.)
Now that the internet has made credible reports of sightings commonplace, and spread curiosity (and mistrust) like wildfire, Uncle is forced to grudgingly come around. “All right, all right – we have been fibbing about these whatever-they-are all along. We admit that we cannot fulfill our basic mission, which is to secure the borders and air space from unauthorized incursions. We cannot protect your livestock from mutilation or our citizens from abduction and experimentation. But you better not be thinking about monkeying with our nine hundred billion dollars a year of ‘defense budget’, or we’ll make your life hell”.
Babies discriminate? So that means Black, Brown, and Asian babies too? I note they don’t go into that, immediately jumping on “white” babies.
Join a local “white space”. So we get our own ghettoes? Can we keep Blacks out? Or are they just places to practice our walking on egg shells and our superiors can come observe at any time?
The moral: Never give write anyone a blank check. Never give away your own power. Because they will take that check and bankrupt you.
The Blacks didn’t do this all on their own by any means. Walt Disney warned us, but we didn’t listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbiZBmohGw
I have watched with interest one poster in particular, but others too, who believe that the Karl Schwab / WEF / Great Reset is a blueprint for world domination, putting all the cattle back into a paddock (or plantation), and using the pandemic “hoax” as a ruse.
I have read quite a lot – and it is in fact a blueprint for the reverse of that.
The very powerful capitalists in the world (and their partners in government) are possibly understanding that the raw capitalism of the last century is facing serious challenges, and they are looking at ways to absorb and deflect, so as to not lose their wealth – or worse – wind up with their heads on a pike.
The alternative is some form of revolt – a Bolshevik Revolution – and they don’t want that. So they are putting a human face on capitalism as best they can – calling it “stakeholder capitalism”.
I have two major issues with that:
(1) I agree with JHK that there are huge issues, challenges, and crises in the offing – if not for our generation then very likely the next one, and they include everything from financial system meltdown, environmental collapse, peak oil, and all manner of trade war conflict and supply-chain failure.
The Great Reset documents don’t really address these very compelling headwinds.
(2) The whole Great Reset agenda is not about world domination and putting us back on the plantation – it is to make the great capitalist engine more palatable to the masses – my view is that it should be rejected, and the super-wealthy should be robbed of their power, wealth, prestige, and status.
How to do that – I’m not sure – but it certainly isn’t about getting all stirred up about race, wokism, Dr Seuss, or Mr Potato Head. It’s not even about the horserace called the presidential election. It’s all far deeper than that. It’s not about conspiracy theories either.
But paranoid fears of in the Great Reset are totally unjustified in my view. It’s about the working and middle class grabbing whatever they can from the system, and creating a new world that treats them well. How to do it? That is the question!.
Our Media Matters Muppet has received his talking points.
His corporate paymasters are getting increasingly nervous.
Great Reset was even trending on Twatter yesterday.
I rest my case Your Honor – the nutters remain total nutters, and you can’t change them. Oh well – High IQ types will simply ignore them and bypass them. They stew in their own juice, and I assume they must like that.
Great Reset was even trending on Twatter yesterday.
That must make it true then
Your version was trending.
And here you are with a carefully worded post the next day.
Media Matters Muppet.
Work Putin in next time.
It’s no wonder you sought economic refuge in Deutschland.
Germany is more expensive.
There goes your narrative, BlueAnon.
LOL.
Germany is more expensive.
But culturally as dull as dishwater … you had to go there because you couldn’t make it in America. No shame in that, millions of second-rate people never can. So relax.
The new narrative is even dumber than the old.
You should leave your low-rise apartment unit and get some air out in the parking lot.
@tekapo
Look at you being all racist and shit.
There is nothing wrong with Germans they have their own culture and experience.
Looks like night owl twisted your panties in a bunch real good.
Oh no, you broke Agent Po again.
More meltdowns every week. He really should go get some fresh air in the parking lot.
Maybe it’s a double-cross Just to get me thinking this way … but would Media Matters send such an intellectual child into the ring with Yoho, Mary NO, BB, et al?
I would think that MM would, if going through that hassle, send in someone who has a brain and knows how to argue.
Of course, the possibility exists that that’s exactly what they want me to think … but to what end? Nobody will read CFN and consider Tekapo’s little temper tantrum name-calling snit-fits and then shove their own head up their own ass.
The only people who agree with Tekapo (hello RL!) … it’s amazing that they can even read CFN with their head already firmly implanted up their ass.
O.G. Agent Po works for MM for free.
Doubly pathetic, lol.
Our Media Matters Muppet has received his talking points.
I’m thinking of giving you a Media Matters link every day, you fliphead. But you can’t handle the truth.
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-claimed-dozens-people-day-are-dying-covid-19-vaccine-its-blatant-lie
LOL.
The mask drops again.
Indeed our precious lil troll is not very good at his job he keeps getting all wound up.
David Brock his hero was partnered with a known pedophile. Media Matters is an NGO owned by George Soros. It has been used to attack and lobby the public for support of Soros’ interests.
Wow their home page looks like the cheesiest of the tabloids. Even lower than RawStory.
Hahahahaha! Wow how low they’ve sunk. Thanks for the reminder.
Agree that Schwab’s Great Reset is about siphoning the last bits of wealth and resources into the pockets of the 1% of the global cap set, aka the Davos crowd. But that is a form of world domination. Some people see this, many do not.
Good piece at Medium about the source of the covid bug:
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
Wade pulls together info I’ve read in bits and pieces on other web sites over the past year. Ft Derrick used to be the location of the US research in GoF viruses. A moratorium on such was issued in 2014.
Ah, but there was a loophole that allowed funding of such research elsewhere in certain situations. That allowed the NIH and the NIAID to channel funds via the Eco Health Alliance to the Wuhan lab for bat virus research.
Guess who would have approved this. Dr Francis Collins and/or Dr Anthony Fauci. Remember Fauci saying in 2017 there would be a global pandemic during the Trump presidency?
Next question is why the hell isn’t he facing criminal charges.
It is about more than that, Tully. Schwab himself has written several books on the concept of ushering society into a highly controlled state with ID cards, mandatory vaxx, etc.
His dream is a merging of humans with technology. He is a Transhumanist. These concepts sound odd at best, until one reads his own work.
It then gets very real when one realizes he is driving the Great Reset.
Fauxi should be languishing on death row, after all of the genociding he’s been responsible for. The AIDS pandemic for starters. And instead of him being arrested and tried for engineering that, he was rewarded with fame and allowed to do it again.
Of course, it’s his behind-the-scenes directors who are the real psychos, but he has played his major part, and benefited hugely from it.
“But paranoid fears of in the Great Reset are totally unjustified in my view. It’s about the working and middle class grabbing whatever they can from the system, and creating a new world that treats them well. How to do it? That is the question!”
Tekapo – you just went in a circle to justify your view that the Great Reset is…???
In no way did you make a point there. You said it’s good, but it’s also bad, but they have to make it bad so that it does good. Also said that it’s not about world domination, but that it is about the wealthy elite retaining their wealth and elite status.
What in God’s name are you blathering about??
Good day, fellow forumite. The Media Matters brain trust is currently crafting a response to your inquiry.
Once the final draft has been approved for publication, it will be uploaded to CFN witin 24 hours.
MMFA thanks you for your patience.
Haha, ‘sabout right.
Night Owl broke his brain.
LOL!
I remember casually mentioning one time to a cousin of mine that one day all the lights are going to go out and may never come back on and she insisted that that was never going to happen and that I needed to try to focus on reality. But I still find it very curious, especially now, that many people, perhaps most, generally believe that reality as they perceive it (which includes the basically unending continuation of our hypercomplex everything in an instant society) will not be changed by an, some, or many unforeseen (and not so unforeseen) realities. And so it seems like in addition to the baked in complexification (I loved the use of complexify btw) that most of society is holding on to all the raptures, talismans, and other assorted jewels and goodies resulting from all that complexity and for dear life too. That’s why I sorta always thought that major changes won’t start happening until lots of people are hurting. And with the rapid shifting of events that seems to be an every minute thing it would seem like we are moving quickly toward a time where many people may be forced awake. Well at least into being alert. The sticker shock with fuel and food may be like morning coffee. Hopefully there can still be a critical mass of clarity after the psychic ravages of all the junk enterprise. It could’ve just been a trial run.
“The Collapse of Complex Societies” Joseph Tainter
Cambridge University Press; 1988
ISBN 978-0-521-38673–9
But I still find it very curious, especially now, that many people, perhaps most, generally believe that reality as they perceive it (which includes the basically unending continuation of our hypercomplex everything in an instant society) will not be changed by an, some, or many unforeseen (and not so unforeseen) realities.
I agree, but the problem always seems to be the boiling frog. I know there are millions of Americans (black, brown, poor white) who do it really tough – but in a sense they always have, for generations.
For the middle class – most on here I guess – life over the last four decades has mostly been pretty good, with careers, and a lot of stuff that used to be expensive now being a whole lot cheaper, and certainly a whole lot easier.
Notwithstanding the complexification, I no longer have to send faxes, my mobile phone is very useful, and 90% of my bills are paid automatically, and so on.
When I was a kid, a flight to Europe was the price of a house – now it’s a week’s wages if that. When I was 20 you bought an old clunker and you learnt how to maintain it yourself (with help from dad) – now young people buy late-model cars and barely know where the battery is.
So lots of things are very much better. It’s no wonder that vast swathes of the population believe they live in an ever-improving world.
Like JHK I am rather a doomer, and believe that the hyper-complexity we have built for ourselves is a trap for the future. But how far into the future is the question.
When I was 20 I’d saved and bought a house and thus drove a clunker and certainly couldn’t afford to fly to Europe. Today’s youth drive nice cars, buy designer clothes, go to Europe, have WiFi, Netflix, Amazon Prime and $1000 mobile phones and claim they cannot afford to save for a house….. Priorities.
Very good points.
Me, too. Only airfaire to Europe was about the same (USD 900-1400 or so).
The difference between now and 20 years ago is that I make a lot of money and don’t notice it anymore. For kids today, many of them take on debt — something I did not do in my 20s.
‘Like JHK I am rather a doomer, and believe that the hyper-complexity we have built for ourselves is a trap for the future’. Tek
Yes, our minds spin intricate webs that will ensnare us later on, and we have an arrogance not found in the arachnids. Our complex webs of sustenance will fail, far from matching the silken strength of Darwin’s bark spiders.
‘But how far into the future is the question’. Tek
Not much past the Die-Centennial, around 2076, maybe 20-30 years earlier.
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we so naively achieve and achieve’. TS
Well said. I think we have had a lot of trial runs to get to this one. But I agree, it’s yet another one for something even bigger. The frog is not yet aware that the pot is about to boil.
And I also agree that people don’t wake up until they are hurting, and our society has been conditioned for decades into magical thinking, which is, they feel they have personal control over their circumstance if they just believe it hard enough. Many great minds have warned us about this for a long time… and it’s here.
Notice how people have had things taken away from them and more rules added gradually, and they just accept it. So this past year it went into overdrive, and most still complied.
“Magical Thinking”. Our host made that point in Too Much Magic….
Among my acquaintances, this seems to be the main obstacle to a rational assessment of our current situation. (The second obstacle then would be contempt for reason and critical thinking.) They refuse to consider the possibility that “it can happen here” – no, only in so-far-off-as-to-be-imaginary third world hellholes. And with their minds split between R and D, the other side might be not good guys, but my side is nice guys and super heroes.
The Eternal Childhood of the Freshly Scrubbed Mind.
Excellent comment, Blackbird. Looks like I need to stock up on James’ books.
I concur completely. Magical thinking, the innate belief that ‘it can’t happen here’, denial of reality, the belief that the people in control ‘care’, etc.
When it ends they will not be able to deal.
If the Republican Party expunges Liz Cheney (a huge conservative in her own eight) from the GOP leadership Group for not bowing to Dear Leader, then one has to ask how any reasonable conservative person – plus everyone on here – could ever possibly vote for that clusterfuck party ever again.
Is there no position that decent Republicans can occupy, and still tell the Mar-a-Largo tub-of-lard Fat Elvis to go and get himself well and truly fucked? Enquiring minds would love to know!
typical liberal that has to resort to name calling in lieu of facts
best economy in 60 years, jobs falling off trees, peace deals in ME, oil aplenty
you are truly laffable
now, with Ds in power….a predictable energy crunch, economy in shambles…wtf is wrong with your mind
Frick v Frack. Red/Blue. GOP/Dems. They are all corrupt and have their snout as deep into the feed trough as their fat necks will allow.
best economy in 60 years, jobs falling off trees, peace deals in ME, oil aplenty
All Fox News talking points (ie, lies) – but I’ll let it pass. There is no way a decent discussion can be had.
Trump continues to live rent-free in your hollow noggin.
Osha holding employers legally responsible if “vaccines” cause adverse reactions.
https://twitter.com/raeganlady/status/1391968157921906688
Safe and effective, kids. Untested on humans and non-FDA approved.
LOL.
Was just watching Dr. Lee Merritt explaining how ludicrous it is that the gene therapy shots were put out to the public, sitting there waiting at dispensary centers, before the FDA even approved it for experimentation. And how the animals died in the tests, prior to being released to the public.
I am glad Osha has stepped up to the plate. I have seen that ACLU is actually doing some good as well.
Merritt said the danger for the jabbed comes when they encounter the virus in the wild. That’s what killed the animals.
“[…] the gene therapy shots were put out to the public, sitting there waiting at dispensary centers, before the FDA even approved it for experimentation”
Interesting. I did not know that.
I remember hearing several times of Chicago ramping up big-time for universal jabbing in, like, April or May 2020. When did FDA give Emergency Approval?
I couldn’t find Lee Merritt’s video with a URL (yet) but apparently it was common knowledge that they had warehouses full early on.
Here is what my very aware friend who works running trials for Big Pharma has to say about it:
“We already knew that (warehoused vaxxes before approval). Remember when that General (under Trump admin), in charge of distribution, said they were already sitting in a warehouse just waiting for the approval?
These jabs all employ new technology. There is no way they just developed them out of thin air and in the time they had to start their delayed phase 1 trials (remember that all clinical trials were paused from March 2020 through June 2020 due to the global lockdowns, right when they would have had to start their phase 1 trials. But to start these trials, they would have had to have the jabs developed and ready to go in March when they should have started but couldn’t have with the pause. When did they have the time to do this when they only supposedly learned of the virus in January? Hell, with the lockdowns they couldn’t even ship their product in a timely manner.
The answer is that it was developed a long time ago and production was ramped up in time for the first trials. Meaning it was part of a plan.
This is the piece that’s never discussed by anyone, and when I bring it up with my colleagues, they don’t know what to say because they know the truth of that which I speak, but they can’t reconcile it with the narrative they’ve swallowed. So they ignore it.
For some added clarity around phase 3 trials, we started the process of developing a protocol for an antibiotic trial two months ago, and are also working diligently to identify the right vendors, sites and investigators to conduct the trial for us. Our first anticipated subject will be in April of 2022.
That’s over a year’s worth of planning just to get to the start line. That’s how complex and time-consuming these trials are. It takes an army of people and lots of time to do them.”
This is the piece that’s never discussed by anyone, and when I bring it up with my colleagues, they don’t know what to say because they know the truth of that which I speak, but they can’t reconcile it with the narrative they’ve swallowed. So they ignore it.
WTC7 anyone?
Yep.
Same thing.
Too uncomfortable to take in, so they ignore it.
BTW, this same friend’s info is a lot of the reason that I was able to (fairly early) conclude the Covid19 plandemic was a big fat hoax.
Well, we came to the same conclusions, but she had more of the medicinal knowledge, and sources.
“We already knew that (warehoused vaxxes before approval). Remember when that General (under Trump admin), in charge of distribution, said they were already sitting in a warehouse just waiting for the approval?”
I can’t speak for Pfizer, as I didn’t follow their development, but for Astra Zeneca, this isn’t even contentious.
Professor Sarah Gilbert, whose team at Oxford University developed what is now called the Astra Zeneca vaccine, claimed, before it went into production, that she was 80% sure it would work. It was quite openly notified to anyone interested, including on the Nooz, that Astra Zeneca and other production partners would take a massive financial risk (and Gilbert’s team a huge reputational risk, although nothing much was made of that) in order that IF the vaccine were approved, they’d be ready to hit the ground running.
The UK still went for a belt-and-braces approach and ordered huge quantities of about 10 different vaccine front runners (also in advance of approval), to make sure that if Astra Zeneca didn’t come up trumps, there would be other options for UK citizens.
This, in itself is in no way sinister and was entirely out in the open as a policy. As a policy it worked rather better than Public Health England’s PPE and related policies, which gave us 120 dead doctors and nurses.
Also, as I explained before, trials usual carried out sequentially were carried out concurrently, and heaps of money thrown at the companies to enable them to do this. Hence the speed.
All current anxieties and yet-to-be quantified or properly analysed adverse events remain a valid issue.
But starting off with full warehouses was not, in itself, sinister.
The EU chose not to do that and has been flailing around every since, looking for vaccine supplies and blaming the UK for getting its ducks in a row early.
The number of deaths in the UK from all causes is currently falling. So that’s good news?
Someone explain to GA that you can throw all the money at a pregnant woman to speed up the birth but it will always be around 9 months.
This logic can be applied to drug trials. Minimum trial length is 5 years. Until now.
It doesn’t matter how many people are in the trial. The length of the process is the same.
The problem is, Mary, that the numbers of people involved in the trials are much higher than usual, as I understand it (happy to be corrected on that).
But if there’s going to be a rare blood clot that happens in (for the sake of argument) one in 2 million people, then it won’t matter if you follow 40,000 people for 20 years or 70 years, if none of them gets a blood clot. You still won’t see the blood clot till you’ve vaccinated millions of people.
The main point of my post, that there was nothing sinister in the strategy of the UK buying millions of doses of multiple vaccines, specifically in case some of them, including AZ, turned out to be unsafe or ineffective, still stands.
I believe President Trump’s logic and foresight was similar.
And you don’t need someone to tell GA.
You just need to say it, politely.
Saw an article this week about a man who contracted the bug, had it rough, now has decreased lung function. He worked in an essential job and had to go in to work; says the employer did not take adequate steps to protect employees. So, he is filing for workers’ comp.
I will admit, I am happy to see OSHA say they will hold employers responsible if workers suffer adverse reactions to required vaccines. This will do more to cool enthusiasm for employer mandated jabs than anything else.
Agree, very happy to see this.
[…]they will hold employers responsible if workers suffer adverse reactions to required vaccines. This will do more to cool enthusiasm for employer mandated jabs than anything else.”
Agreed, likewise.
That sounds good (that OSHA will hold employers responsible if workers suffer adverse actions due to COVID) but I can’t see OSHA doing this in the current environment.
Sorry.
Re: Biden/Carter photo
It looks to me like a wide angle lens was used, with the distortion at the edges corrected by a computer program: See this.
https://en.techrecipe.co.kr/posts/6111
I can’t imagine an inexperienced photographer would be sent out on an assignment such as this, so I think this was probably a deliberate gag to make JB look more robust than he is. However, it seems they went too far and created a controversy with something they thought would slip by un-noticed.
“Un-noticed”? It looks like a Tim Burton production.
They are completely goofing on us now.
A psyop maybe, to reinforce the base? Many will rush to defend the photo because it contains the second and third best president ever. Others will laugh at the poor Photoshop work and reveal themselves as the enemy. Evidence? Just take a look at the comments here.
It is bizarre and goofy. It is sick & demented. It is out there and in your (masked) face.
Yes, it is a psyop as Reality is melted and kool-aid addicts line-up for their their next blasphemy against God’s image.
Yes! It’s doing its work. Separating those that can see reality from those that cannot.
Yes, it’s ridiculous.
“… but much of its complexity conceals the massive misrepresentation of vaporous entities for “money” and any stoppage of the flows of that “money,” and things purporting to derive from it, will reveal the black hole at the center of all that activity”
Had someone (attempt) to explain to me why they were investing in NFT’s. Non-fungible Tokens. Certified electronic collectibles. “Y’all ever wonder why people collect baseball cards?”
I remember when a simulation game came out a long time ago. People were using real money to but homes and clothing and vehicles and pets and real estate for their virtual selves.
No, I never do wonder. People seem to agree that many things hold value, worth, defying expectations. Defying reason.
Oh say, can you see?
RE: paragraph III — Hahaha. I remember that.
This posting by JHK reminded me of a book I read recently that totally changed my world view: “Hurtling Toward Oblivion, A logical Argument for the End of the Age” by Richard A. Swenson.
He not only explains the concept of complexity from a cost/benefit analysis but also introduces the idea of ‘lethality,’ and how failure in complex systems can be total– ‘lethal.’
A must read.
Keep up the great work Jim, ’til they come for you.
“It’s too late to simplify any of it. We’ve just got to roll with it, until it stops rolling.”
Like the late great James Brown sang….
“MAKE IT FUNKY !” (“good god”)
So reading the MSM this morning and the script around the colonial pipeline is that a “Russian hacker group” is behind the disruption. The MSM also universally believes that the Russian government is responsible.
Again I think this is simply more propaganda. I don’t believe anything that the MSM is reporting on.
I find it convenient that Biden is attempting to push another big stimulus revolving around the keyword “infrastructure” and this mysterious group hacks a pipeline on the East Coast.
Now its not just another government giveaway to regime friends, but “national security”.
After FIVE years of ‘blame Russia’, one has to conclude that either 1) the US is one wimpy nation, unable to defend itself; or 2) they’re lying.
Hey Tekapo,
Now is where our discussions start getting Really interesting. Now I have been here in CFN Land long enough to have started myself a track record.
While we were all “The Covids” this and “The Lockdown” that, I said that “I expect[ed] another shoe to drop.” You laughed your ass off at how crazy I am and called me a bunch of names in this otherwise esteemed audience of brilliant people trying to figure complex shit out..
Colonial Pipeline & serious escalation towards a Middle Eastern War.
Shoe drop, shoe drop.
While we were all “The Covids” this and “The Lockdown” that, I said that “I expect[ed] another shoe to drop.” You laughed your ass off at how crazy I am and called me a bunch of names in this otherwise esteemed audience of brilliant people trying to figure complex shit out.
You’re still just as crazy, and whatever descriptors I applied the last time, please rinse and recycle.
Colonial will restore normal service soon. Just saber-rattling in the Middle east.
And how does ransomware ever work anyway? Every serious outfit backs up everything every night, don’ they? And why are their critical computers connected to the Internet?
Have you ever been hit by ransom ware, Po? If you had, you would not make the dumb statement you did.
The perp gets to your operating system and shuts it down. You have no control. Yes, they have to get your “password” but that does not seem to make much of a difference any more.
Book suggestion
Before the Davinci Code, Brown wrote Digital Fortress. I learned a lot about the futility of computer security. The only way to avoid computer malfeasance is to avoid the internet as much as possible.
Agree with your statement about avoiding the internet. The Dominion folks forgot that in the last election. A question, how do you avoid the internet when everyone uses the various Clouds for storage? I think IT is showing a lot of shortcomings right now. Allowing them any access to the election process should be banned.
Yes I read Digital Fortress.
My point is – if all your data and programs and proprietary software are backed, up then what are you buying back? Can’t you just wipe all the stuff that’s been ransomed, and reinstall everything?
There’s nothing on the laptop I’m using at the moment that I can’t replicate on a new one if I lost or destroyed this one.
Hahaha. Tekapo has his spreadsheets backed up on a thumb drive so what could possibly go Wrong with network infiltration by a hacker group into a pipeline-controlling software system serving millions of consumers with critically necessary and extremely volatile refinery products from Texas to New York and all places in between?
so what could possibly go Wrong with network infiltration by a hacker group into a pipeline-controlling software system serving millions of consumers
We don’t know that that happened at all, so far. You’re making assumptions that have not been demonstrated as factual.
Colonial said they shut down everything as a precaution – not because the hack caused it.
Anyway – I asked a basic question about how ransomware worked, but as usual the lunatic fringe wants to attack someone asking a question as “ignorant”. Good grief.
You’re still just as crazy, and whatever descriptors I applied the last time, please rinse and recycle.
Time will tell whether I am Right (God’s prophesied Word is fulfilled to the letter) or whether I’m Wrong (the similarities nothwithstanding, this is not yet that time).
Colonial will restore normal service soon. Just saber-rattling in the Middle east.
Time will tell.
I say that Colonial Pipeline is the start of supply disruptions. Long Lines. Shortages. Hyper-inflation. Black market TP.
Heckler was indicating a lot more than sabre-rattling in Israel, Iran, Syria, Yemen and the Gulf. Israel is, of course, home to Armageddon.
And how does ransomware ever work anyway? Every serious outfit backs up everything every night, don’ they?
What do think is happening to the pipeline? Do you think that they forgot to run the nightly back-up and now Louise can’t find the memo she worked on all day yesterday?
They hack into the control systems of Real infrastructure moving areal commodities to Real consumers. Ransonware, in this case, would work as they close valves and cease flow and, God-forbid, futz with pressures and destinations. A Petro-engineer can correct me if I’m Wrong but if a holding tank half full of premium gasoline were filled with diesel, you’d have a useless, volatile, need-to-be-stored mess.
That said, I do not believe their sabre-rattling blaming this on Russia or even Eastern European crime syndicate. I believe the ransomeware aspect of this outage is Really a false flag to further these goals.
And why are their critical computers connected to the Internet?
Because that’s what all the cool kids were doing!
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Like I say, time will tell and our track records will speak for themselves.
Tragedy and High Drama in The Community, which did not occur in Hartford, New Haven or Bridgeport. Timothy Settles, age 32, Club Member, allegedly set a house on fire this morning in New London, Ct. Ok, an arson case, no big deal. State Police and New London Police are on it, “black male driving a white BMW with New York plates” blah, blag, blah.
Now it turns out the 1 month old baby tore to pieces by a pitbull last night in Norwich, 20 miles north of New London was Timothy Settles son. There’s a good chance the two cases are connected.
Why do they keep those dangerous dogs around, which are nothing more than land alligators? They roam the streets of Hartford, these pitbulls, in packs, menacing people, creating a no mans land. Wild dogs, people shot every day, rampant drug abuse, an illegitimacy rate of 80%, The Community needs some work beyond ‘Defunding the Police’ IMHO.
BRH
Pitbulls are socialize-able too. You have to fuck them up
Yeah Gus, they have dog fighting down there.
These pitbulls are trained to fight, and probably the training isn’t too gentle.
the breed was created to be fearless and attack bulls. pit bull.
the generations of breeding the most aggressive has made it worse.
Pit Bull Euthanasia (And How to Put An End to It) | Kennel …
Search domain kenneltocouch.orghttps://kenneltocouch.org/2019/08/pit-bull-euthanasia-and-how-to-put-an-end-to-it/
A simple solution could be the key to reducing these numbers for good. “studies estimate that up to 1 million pits are euthanized per year, or 2,800 per day… [and] some estimates are up to double that number.”
Note: When stats like this are spoken, all us non-Americans are left wondering, “Is that for USA or for Earth?”
I assume these particular stats are 2,800/day in USA but I could be Wrong.
Regardless, my point is backing something BB said earlier, Americans generally consider the rest of the World (95.6% of people) insignificant.
Not all Americans. Far from it. But a lot. Way too many for anybody’s Good.
This is absolutely bullshit.
The breed came from Staffordshire, and are terriers, who were also known as ‘nanny dogs’ because they are so great with children.
Millions of them as pets right now have NOT bitten or attacked.
There are just as many attacks from other breeds. In fact, every person I know who was attacked by a dog were:
1) Akita
2) Doberman
3) Rottweiler
4) Cane Corso
5) German Shepherd
the press only reports pit bulls because it’s sensational.
And then yes, there are the ones raised for fighting that are dangerous. That isn’t a result of the breed, it’s a result of the training (and the abuse).
There are threads lasting weeks with thousands of entries about Pitbulls. Our Civilization simply cannot accept the role of nature. The different breeds are different by nature, by genetics.
Pitbulls are inclined to mayhem just like certain races of people.
“Regardless, my point is backing something BB said earlier, Americans generally consider the rest of the World (95.6% of people) insignificant.
Not all Americans. Far from it. But a lot. Way too many for anybody’s Good.”
Ain’t that the truth!!
no
https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/news/local/2021/05/11/father-baby-killed-dog-norwich-suspect-arson-case/5038357001/
I intended to post this prior to reading you were on it.
I forget how it was brought to my attention.
“Why do they keep those dangerous dogs around…”
BRH,
Over the years I have noticed that there have been several iterations of “bad dog” ownership by the disenfranchised…a bad dog on the mean streets is something of a status symbol.
In the 60’s, It was German Shepherds. Then Dobermans. Next Rottweilers, and currently Staffordshire Terriers (Pit Bulls).. The poor suffer little angst regarding the potential liability owning one of these ferals. “When you ain’t got nothing…you got nothing to lose…”
Sometimes…trash people will own a trash dog.
“…trash people will own a trash dog”. Ely, you’ve met my neighbors?!
” Ely, you’ve met my neighbors?”
Bird,
In one iteration or another, I’ve met them all.
Official CDC death numbers are out for 2020. They also clarified that only 5% of their recorded “covid deaths” were actually attributed to covid only. The other 95% were attached to one or more co-morbidities.
So…officially 19,000 deaths from covid in the US in 2020, according to the CDC.
Naturally, covid infection (like any infection) could very well have exacerbated or contributed to many of the other 569,000 they’ve racked up on the CNN ticker…but even the CDC isn’t trying to go there.
Mask up, everyone!
Mango, are you able to post a quick comparison of total deaths (from all causes) versus previous years? Knowing the number of excess deaths is a good starting point for analysis. I think I remember Tekapo saying that Covid has killed 588,000, so the excess deaths should reflect that sort of number, if true.
Yes. The number of Total Deaths in several countries for several years is the key raw data for a very telling story.
Who (pun intended) has those stats and who would have the resources to forsenically challenge any numbers they throw at ya? And, if they make a mistake or their story changes, that batch goes down the Memory Hole because these are the numbers for those years and those countries now.
Truth, by definition, is not pliable.
Yep, I posted the UK’s official stats last week sometime and the death rate increased by 0.16%. We fucked our economy up, locked people in their homes and turned the nation into Airstrip One, because of a 0.16% increase in the death rate.
Very curious to see how the USA got on by this metric.
I missed your posting, Slugoon. Can you quickly provide raw numbers or a link to the raw data?
I assume you are comparing 2020 to 2019.
Thx
I did better than that.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/dont-look-now/#comment-569130
Nice work, Slug!!
Yes, thx for that, Slugger.
I am not sure that we should so easily dismiss a 20.6% increase in deaths, though.
Jumping from 10-year weekly of 10,200 to new average of 12,300 is statistically significant and bringing in the 67mm base population (i.e. most people survive week after week after week for decades) merely dilutes the significance.
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GA, RL, Tekapo – Take note: I deal with The Truth regardless of where it leads and what I have said earlier.
That said, I have never called the virus a hoax. I can see arguments for and against and obviously do not know.
A 20.6% increase in deaths (in, I assume, UK) is significant and need be explained. Did they ram ventilator tubes down 2,100 throats per week? (Or 2,000 + 100 suicides?) If so, maybe the virus is a hoax. Did 2,000 die from the virus each week? If so, is the virus natural or Frankenfaucci? Are jab deaths contributing to these excess deaths? So many questions.
That’s why I want the raw data. Does anybody know of a Good source? United Nations? (Ok, not necessarily ‘Good’) Reuters or Bloomberg access at your job? DRI McGraw Hill out of New York (WTC, actually) used to sell us (Canadian bank) macro economic raw data like this but they’ve probably merged a hundred times since then.
That said, I have never called the virus a hoax. I can see arguments for and against and obviously do not know.
You’re mad as a cut snake on most things OG, but I give you credit that you don’t call the pandemic a hoax. There are only two – maybe three – on here who are deeply into the lunatic-soup of claiming a Covid “hoax” in just about every post, although they have a few less-vocal fellow-travellers.
They are so utterly twisted up by the whole insanity of their baseless position that they must live in perpetual cognitive dissonance. Sad.
OG, respect to you for being open to the data, regardless of where it may lead. Here are my thoughts on it.
Yes, it is a tangible increase although that figure is likely to be lower because some of those excess deaths will have been caused by locking down – suicides, missed diagnoses, cancelled operations etc. By how much we don’t know. Jab deaths are nothing to do with it since they only started earlier this year.
Firstly, the data clearly demonstrates that anybody under the age of 45, and even anybody under 65 who is healthy, has very little to fear from this virus. So why is the government hell-bent on sticking experimental chemicals into every man, woman and child in light of this fact? You won’t see the BBC present the data in this way during their daily fear porn broadcast.
Secondly, the overwhelming number of those deaths are over 85s who have already lived beyond the average life expectancy or pensioners in general who have multiple other conditions. I’m going to be very crass now. Why have we locked up working-age people for a year, fucked the economy, robbed our children of their futures and created a permanent state of fear and anxiety to give people dribbling down their chins in some care home an extra few months on their life? As I think Mary said before, why not isolate the vulnerable and let everybody else go about their business and build up natural immunity? Instead they’re micro-managing everyone’s lives, telling you who you can and can’t hug or screw.
Thirdly, masks… our first wave dropped off to below average death rates last May but masks were suddenly made sacrosanct in July. Those masks seemingly then did nothing to stop a second wave after Christmas but hey, keep wearing them, even if you’ve had your safe and 95% effective wonder vaccine. There’s now so much bullshit, virtue-signalling-optics and hysteria flying around that nobody knows what to believe any more.
I’m hoping GA can come along now and moderate with a more sensible and balanced view!
Globally, it was widely reported by medical staff (mostly nurses) and the CDC itself that all deaths were recorded as Covid19.
This is why the numbers can’t be trusted.
We can only go by population fatality rate. And across the board it’s less than 1%.
Take into account the skyrocketing number of suicides, and people not being able to get ‘elective’ surgeries and care, some of which were life-saving. There is a whole host of reasons people died in 2020 and very little of it was so-called covid19.
Why have we locked up working-age people for a year, fucked the economy, robbed our children of their futures and created a permanent state of fear and anxiety to give people dribbling down their chins in some care home an extra few months on their life?
It’s a good question … I think it’s because of two things: (1) there is so much social media out there now that every little thing can be sent viral, and blown out of all reasonable proportion, and (2) governments have to win elections, and they believe that they are on a hiding to nothing – so that one avoidable death is far worse than a thousand people out of work for a year or two.
It’s something like that. They are so risk averse that it is close to insanity – I agree.
Another point worthy of consideration, which I have never heard anybody mention but me, is that many of the people who have succumbed to it would probably have died anyway from their underlying conditions within the next few years, months or even weeks.
In other words, the virus has brought some deaths forward in time. The point being they will not now appear in future statistics and we may see total deaths running below average for the next few years. In five years’ time, I think we’re going to look back and find that the yearly average is the same as it ever was.
It is of course debatable whether giving 80-year-olds an arbitrary amount of extra time is worth the cost of what we’ve done to ourselves, or not, but that kind of discussion is off the table in Airstrip One.
post a quick comparison of total deaths (from all causes) versus previous years?
have they hidden this?
They sure have.
The head of the CDC was a stats man.
Good luck finding the stats you need up there.
You must have missed the fireworks the first time they did this.
The entire McMedia was in overdrive trying to tell us not to believe our lying eyes. IIRC correctly, total deaths attributed to Covid only were something like 9k.
This is the greatest hoax in history.
Who are the hoaxers? Who succeeded in putting the entire planet on hold? Who fooled the entire medical community? Why did Covid put fear in the hearts of so many people?
Schwab, Gates, and the WEF. World leaders using the phrases Build Back Better and Great Reset, which include Merkel, Trudeau, Boris, Macron, etc.
The OffGuardian piece I posted on the GR is a great primer.
The medical community is guided by the WHO and CDC, and Gates has spent decades using Gavi and other groups to buy them off.
The OSF is also a key organization here, and has organized color revolutions across the globe. The current revolution in the West is the Purple Revolution. The OSF young leader program pumps out little globalists who drive their projects and worm their way further into the power structure. In Germany they are poised to install Annalena Bärbock, just as they installed Biden. The days of the Federal Republic are numbered.
We put ourselves on hold. Self-inflicted in a country full of frit ruminants. Since we’ve already had a Pink Floyd reference on here, how about some more. Sing along now…!
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
What a surprise
The look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream
Well-played!
But remember how it ends:
Bleating and babbling we fall on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you’re told
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.
Oh man, Blackbird, what a song! Waters is my hero. Gilmour on top form too.
Gotta agree Slug. My favorite band with no close second. Animals one of my favorite albums. Excuse the cliche but they were truly one of a kind. Visual music. Glad I lived in the time of the Floyd.
“You must have missed the fireworks the first time they did this.”
Not really…I recall it from last fall as well. But now they have revised from a 94% miscalculation to a 95% miscalculation.
Bonus.
https://dailystormer.su/sweden-korean-antifa-academic-says-arabs-are-racist-to-him-because-of-americans/
Remember when people thought Internationalism would lead to peace and brotherhood between peoples?
This Korean-Swede, born in Sweden, hates Whites with a passion, teaching anti-White studies at the University. Why would a Korean be living in Sweden? Oh, he was born there. So why would he hate Swedes? Maybe he doesn’t, just Whites. But Swedes are White! Not for much longer.
Anyway, the people he thinks should be his allies despise him as a fag. East Asians have lower testosterone and it shows. High T makes men loud, impulsive, prone to violence and hyper-sexuality. So he blames “Americans”? I assume he means White Americans. Why not blame the people who hate him? Oh, they don’t have moral agency. They’re just big children. In other words, a lower race, Professor? Lol.
The low T East Asians can be big time haters though – as is the Professor himself. And combined with their high IQ’s and group think, they are mighty in the Art of War. They could crush the Brown and Black barbarians and may well do so someday. But us first probably.
Y.
What has been the basis of human relations since we walked on all fours. Competition! For sex, for resources, for ascendancy in the pecking order(power), to promote your viewpoint(ethnocentrism).
It will never change. The only problem is competition creates losers. What you do with losers defines a civilization, and so far ultimately destroys a civilization.
Capitalism is the acceptance of competition. Its problem and what leads it to failure (communism) is that government protection of the winners and over protection of losers leads to economic failure.
We are there right now. Biden himself stated that he felt that autocracy is the sole pathway to success right now. That competing with autocratic countries can only be done by an autocratic government.
We know where his heart is. Is he right? Time and only time will tell.
Well, today they’re talking about imminent gasoline shortages from here all the way down to Georgia.
That didn’t take long, not even 5 months.
Thanks Sleepy Joe!
I think we owe the Climate Czar a debt of gratitude too. After all, it’s the Climate Czar who’s flying around the world cutting secret deals, choking off our energy supply, stabbing us in the back.
No matter what the gasoline situation is on the east coast, I have a hunch there will be plenty of fuel for the Climate Czar’s 80 ft motoryacht, out on The Vineyard, when the Season begins Memorial Day Weekend?
Thanks Climate Czar! I hope you and you neighbor Obama have a splendid season on the motoryacht.
Brh
Haven’t you heard, Heckler? Russia did this to you down to Georgia.
That’s happened to me before. If I reply to the bottom thread, sometimes it appears as a reply and other times starts a new thread.
OG
Looks like a crypto group in Russia is the guilty party. They consider hijacking computer systems for ransom a legitimate enterprise. Unknown whether the government there is involved. I do sense a little nose thumbing by this group. Also, a little warning.
Assuming that the Russian government is behind everything done by its citizens makes as much sense as assuming the US government is behind everything its citizens do. We Americans have been indoctrinated to see every entity outside the US as a homogenous, monolithic structure. (And to simplify everything to this vs. that.)
Well said, BB.
BRH
This country is so stupid now. Unfortunately, the only way to expose the Liberals for the phonies they are is to let them fail. The Russian cyber group released twitters saying they are doing this for profit, that they consider holding peoples computer system up for ransom is a legitimate business. I think they are thumbing their noses at the dumbest president and his mob that the US has ever generated.
So let them fail, help them fail. Boycott Woke corporations. Stop using social media. It will hurt in the short term but if we let these jerks continue their programs, it will crush us permanently.
Right now, I wonder if you polled folks who voted for Biden how many would answer oops, I made a mistake.
Trump tried to run the government like a business. He was clobbered by the political Deep State who do not even understand what running a business means.
How about letting both parties collapse? Have the government be a group of non party individuals as it was originally conceived to be. No party caucuses, let people vote issues as individuals.
“Trump tried to run the government like a business.”
Yeah, like a personal brand business. The Zman has a lot to say about that in his column dated today, ‘Trump, a Retrospective.’ That’s why he failed. Businessmen who think that government can be run like a business are sorely mistaken.
Government is not a business. Americans don’t seem to understand that.
If the integrity of the finances of the government cannot be run like a business, the government dooms its people.
Many businesses are run with the integrity of the mafia. Maybe most of them in today’s world. On the other hand, govt can hire all the accountants & finance people it needs.
I disagree.
Government should be run more like a nonprofit.
Of course. It’s self-evident that you can’t run a nation like a profit-making enterprise. If that’s the highest vision of govt, then where does sacrifice come into play? The first time such a nation faces an existential crisis, its ‘shareholders’ melt into the bushes. With no recognition of borders, are we only a shopping mall? I’m afraid too many people believe just that.
gotta laugh at you rubes who couldn~t see the great economy trump handed you on a silver platter
jobs falling off trees, oil aplenty
you~re laughable
He turned out to be a typical Republican scamster, popping off about the greatest stock market evah, the most jobs evah, & other twaddle. He kicked the can as they used to say a little bit farther down the road, that’s about it. They all fear the day of reckoning, even the Orange Man it turned out. A real Man of Destiny is yet to appear. Or, even a ‘Transhumanist of Destiny’ /s.
“…I wonder if you polled folks who voted for Biden how many would answer oops, I made a mistake.” JohnAZ
“On Saturday, we learned that at retreats in March and April, staff for the National Republican Congressional Committee refused to tell lawmakers how badly Trump is polling in core battleground districts, where 54% see Biden favorably while only 41% still favor Trump. Vice President Kamala Harris, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, and the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan are all more popular in those districts than the former president.”
So, probably not many if any.
TDS is a helluva disorder.
Stats are sanity. You discount the COVID stats, but proffer anecdotes as ‘evidence’. Give me a break. Prehaps your own issue is BSE. ‘TDS’ is no longer an issue now that Orange Man is limited to his own blog? Mad Cow Disease is more prevalent now.
The pipeline will become a wake up call. Businesses who invest in IT to run their systems better have a way to unplug that computer and run in manual. This is really stupid
All you youngsters that never experience a oil crisis, welcome to the club. You are about to see what JHK has been talking about.
Businesses who invest in IT to run their systems better have a way to unplug that computer and run in manual.
Impossible.
If it is impossible, I do not believe that, then the hyper complexity that JHK is warning us of will eventually shut us down. To these hackers, this is a game, and they are laughing their butts off at us.
They should be.
I don’t follow your logic, JAZ. If everything has been designed and engineered with computerized, networked everything for decades … what? That has led you to believe that if it is now impossible to reverse (as I assert) then it can’t bring us down … ?
I’m not sure that I like your Police work, there JAZ.
The internet of things on 5G is their planned future. They will know how many pickles you have eaten since the previous midnight. They will be privy to your every word and action. That’s their planned future.
Oh no, that is not what I said.
If systems do not have the capability to run in manual mode, and pull the plug, they are subject to shut downs due to hacking.
If you think they cannot do that, you maybe right. If so, we are in for some tough sledding in the future as the cyber attacks get more intense. These guys are doing this for the money alone.
What happens when the attack is broad, multi-dimensional and aimed from an adversary to cripple us.
The internet of things on 5g is their planned future. Again, you may be right, However, the US seems to be a very poor user. These hacking companies keep making mincemeat of our security.
In the meantime, gas is running short, boys. Welcome to the real world.
Maybe, just maybe, the problem is not “hyper-complexity”, but human stupidity in charge of complexity. It would be really funny if it wasn’t so sad to see incredible amounts of human endeavors squandered around totally useless garbage and feeding the insane appetites of the global super-elite. At the same time, the kinds of things wiser humans have been screaming for seem hopelessly out of reach. The hack of the Colonial confirms what cyber security experts have been saying for ages – critical infrastructure is idiotically exposed even to unsophisticated hacks. The systems lack even the most rudimentary security: multilevel access, smart firewalls & VPNs, pen-testing, encryption of critical data. There are other solutions, more expensive ones that can be added, such as packet indexing, which make it very, very hard to penetrate and hack networks. But it appears that utility operators don’t care or maybe they entertain, just as teenage girls do, a peculiar mix of exhibitionism and paranoia about public nudity.
https://news.yahoo.com/melinda-gates-met-divorce-lawyers-145630377.html
Is Mel G divorcing Bill because of his association with Epstein? Anglin doubts this. Thinks it’s just the usual thing of a woman attaching a popular meme to her divorce. But getting Epstein, Lolita island, and the Temple thereon is good for us. Thank you Mel G.
It would be fun to watch the Pear-Shaped One squirm like a worm on a hook again, but he’s probably learned his lesson & will avoid depositions & sworn testimony at all costs this time.
I but none of it.
He’s an evil maniac running the Biggest genocide* in history but she’s leaving him over his sexual misdeeds?
It serves him strategically somehow. Taxes, lawsuits, whatevs.
Butch still pegs Trey as often as he demands.
*Genocide, Holocaust, Gassed, Slave Labour and Concentration Camp are Registered Trademarks of the ADL.
Billy’s itchin’ to get to Jeffy’s new club in Haifa. Mel finally said, “Fine Bill, go. But I’m buying the Chippendales!”
We still haven’t seen Kevin Kline and Melinda G in the same room at the same time, have we?
Don’t forget Bono…
Mel G – Mel Gibson?
Gates
Quit the Dark and seek the Light.
Remote viewing Yoho’s driveway, Day 2:
Yo, that left front tire ain’t gonna hold air. The steel belts are showing. Looks like you need a new carrier bearing too.
You’re welcome.
My fleet of warrior carrier pigeons are approaching your house (and car!) even now. Look out below!
From the “soldiers of France”
Mr. President of the Republic,
Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers, Members of Parliament, General Officers, in your ranks and qualities,
We no longer sing the seventh verse of the Marseillaise, known as the “children’s verse”. Yet it is rich in lessons. Let us leave it to him to lavish them on us:
“We will enter the quarry when our elders are no longer there. We will find their dust there, and the traces of their virtues. Much less jealous of surviving them than of sharing their coffin, we will have the sublime pride of avenging them or of following them ”
Our seniors are fighters who deserve to be respected. These are for example the old soldiers whose honor you have trampled on in recent weeks. It is these thousands of servants of France, signatories of a platform of common sense, soldiers who gave their best years to defend our freedom, obeying your orders, to wage your wars or to implement your budget restrictions. , which you soiled while the people of France supported them.
These people who fought against all the enemies of France, you have treated them as factious when their only fault is to love their country and to mourn its visible downfall.
Under these conditions, it is up to us, who have recently entered the career, to enter the arena simply to have the honor of telling the truth.
We are what the newspapers have called “the fire generation”. Men and women, active soldiers, of all armies and of all ranks, of all sensibilities, we love our country. These are our only claims to fame. And if we cannot, by law, express ourselves with our face uncovered, it is just as impossible for us to be silent.
Afghanistan, Mali, the Central African Republic or elsewhere, a number of us have experienced enemy fire. Some have left comrades there. They offered their skin to destroy the Islamism to which you are making concessions on our soil.
Almost all of us have known Operation Sentinel. We saw with our own eyes the abandoned suburbs, the accommodation with delinquency. We have undergone the attempts to instrumentalize several religious communities, for whom France means nothing – nothing but an object of sarcasm, contempt or even hatred.
We marched on July 14th. And this benevolent and diverse crowd, which acclaimed us because we are the emanation of it, we were asked to beware of it for months, by forbidding us to circulate in uniform, by making us potential victims, on a soil that we are nevertheless capable of defending.
Yes, our elders are right about the substance of their text, in its entirety. We see violence in our towns and villages. We see communitarianism taking hold in public space, in public debate. We see hatred for France and its history becoming the norm.
It may not be for the military to say that, you will argue. Quite the contrary: because we are apolitical in our assessments of the situation, it is a professional observation that we deliver. Because this decline, we have seen it in many countries in crisis. It precedes the collapse. It announces chaos and violence, and contrary to what you are asserting here or there, this chaos and this violence will not come from a “military pronunciamento” but from a civil insurrection.
To quibble about the shape of the forum of our elders instead of recognizing the obviousness of their findings, we have to be quite cowardly. To invoke a duty of reserve badly interpreted in order to silence French citizens, one must be very deceitful. To encourage the leading army officers to take a stand and expose themselves, before fiercely sanctioning them as soon as they write anything other than battle stories, you have to be very perverse.
Cowardice, deceit, perversion: such is not our vision of the hierarchy.
On the contrary, the army is, par excellence, the place where we speak truthfully to each other because we commit our lives. It is this confidence in the military institution that we call for.
Yes, if a civil war breaks out, the army will maintain order on its own soil, because it will be asked to. It is even the definition of civil war. No one can want such a terrible situation, our elders no more than us, but yes, again, civil war is brewing in France and you know it perfectly well.
The cry of alarm from our Elders finally refers to more distant echoes. Our elders are the resistance fighters of 1940, whom people like you very often treated as factious, and who continued the fight while the legalists, transfixed with fear, were already betting on concessions with evil to limit the damage. ; these are the hairy 14, who died for a few meters of land, while you abandon, without reacting, entire districts of our country to the law of the strongest; they are all the dead, famous or anonymous, fallen at the front or after a lifetime of service.
All our elders, those who made our country what it is, who designed its territory, defended its culture, gave or received orders in its language, did they fight for you to let France become a failed state? , who replaces his increasingly obvious sovereign powerlessness with a brutal tyranny against those of his servants who still want to warn him?
Take action, ladies and gentlemen. This time, it is not about custom emotion, ready-made formulas or media coverage. It is not a question of extending your mandates or conquering others. It is about the survival of our country, of your country.
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Yoho: The surrender monkeys have more balls than our military does now. Our military is no longer our military in any sense whatsoever.
Powerful stuff, Yoho, if that indeed was the letter just sent to Little Napoleon. Thanks for posting it.
Where is France, organizing or mobilizing? What happened to the Yellow Vests? Vive la France!
Drosten was sweating and showing the pressure at an appearance at his old school a couple of days after the comical revelations about his missing thesis. This was last autumn. Fueillmich thought his position had become untenable (I think he is still there though) but that they would only put someone else in his place.
That comment was for Night Owl below about Fauci.
Interesting. Do you have a link to a vid?
I think this is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFiIxkQ6F2I
Lots of pretty far-out anti-muslim anti-immigrant stuff in there. I’ve not been made aware that things were so extremely bad in France’s towns and villages. In the hard-scrabble outer burbs of Paris, perhaps, but there seems rather a whiff of exaggeration about it … civil war sounds a bit much.
They stripped the pensions from the retired generals who sent something similar recently. I wonder what the retaliatory punishment might be for these outspoken active military types?
I dunno, Tek. Go to Marseille. Parts of Nice. A couple of the northern towns like Lille. I think there’s greater tension than you think. It’s definitely balkanising.
Fair enough … I haven’t been to France for a couple of years, and even when I do go I don’t often take tours of the low-rent suburbs.
Wow. Fauci sweating like a pin under Paul’s questioning.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1392143160491577344
We are getting closer to the truth, kids.
A cornered rat.
“pig”
🙂
I loved Paul’s tweet last night, telling Fauxi he couldn’t wait to sweat him. Predatory, almost.
This is delicious.
Oh wow, Fauxi ended on a bald faced lie, and then added a ‘duper’s delight’.
He thinks he ‘won’ there.
He repeated the lie at the end, interjecting specifically after the segment to do so. Particularly interesting as he was forced to admit they did fund GoF research at Wuhan.
He was a wreck. We are getting very, very close to the truth in the public arena.
Never seen Faust so rattled.
Yes, the duper’s delight always follows a lie, esp. when they think they’ve gotten away with it. Some of them really make it easy to ‘spot the narcissist.’
Rand did a great job, like a pitbull with a bone, not backing down.
All Fauxi the gnome could do is repeat his lie over and over (well that’s their specialty so he’s good at it).
I wouldn’t get too excited. I thought Dr Fauci gave as good as he got, and handles himself well. America is a better place with public servants of his caliber. I think he should retire soon, at the top of his game.
Rand Paul on the other hand … shameless, and not the sharpest pollie.
LOL.
France? How are things in Australia? I understand things are heating up in regards to China. You are outnumbered 50 to 1, I suggest you give China what she wants, including all the coal you can mine.
Mary,
You’ve mentioned that the 2020 stock market crash seems to have been completely forgotten.
It has because the US Fed created Trillions of US$ out of thin air to, among other things, soak up all the stock sales and, unlike Real stock market crashes and their inevitable Bear Market, 2020 was breaking all-time highs mere months later.
The panicked sold into it, the vast majority were frozen deer-in-the-headlights while the Smart Money took their free US$ and bought the panicked’s equities at reduced prices to Better pisition themselves for the Real crash still to come.
And the sheeple go, ‘Whew!” as they simly did not open a quarterly statement or 2.
Thanks for the explanation of events. So the next crash should be even worse. Argh!
You never know with these guys. I thought 2020 was their End Game but I also thought that 2008 was. They keep ratcheting hundreds of millions of JAZ’s belief in the stock market and American corporations that gutted our continent while they sell their equities before the dips and buy more at the bottoms. Mansions in the Hamptons don’t heat and maintain themselves.
The next Real crash will, imho, include the end of national currencies. The Great Reset will be the jabbed’s New Religion.
Oh la saleem ah!
“Super Bowl and bug burgers! Ain’t life Grand?”
I see what you did there. You’re wrapping a whole bunch of conspiracy theories favorites into one chicken enchilada!
It must be hard to sleep at night, believing every correction to the stock market means TEOTWAWKI. What shares do you own?
Tell us again about your boss, David Brock, and his ex-lover, the famous Obama & Clinton-connected pedophile, or Russiagate woo woo.
Agent Tekapo is unravelling in spectactular fashion as he valiantly fights the Russian Agents in his head.
LOL!
It must be hard to sleep at night, believing every correction to the stock market means TEOTWAWKI. What shares do you own?
Strawman.
I still own shares in a major Canadian bank from my 22-year career on Bay Street. Other than that, I am out of stocks and on the sidelines so that I may minimize the effects to my measly net worth from the coming stock market crash.
Could be? I’m betting on will be.
Last I checked the “value” of the world’s stock markets is about 40 times the value of all goods and services in the world. That balloon ain’t comin’ back to Earth gently.
I didn’t know that, ouch.
I notice that Tekapo isn’t droppng one of his strawman turds on this inconvenient fact.
I think a PE Ration of 40:1 is grossly excessive – who could not?
Last I checked the “value” of the world’s stock markets is about 40 times the value of all goods and services in the world.
The stock market is not connected to the production of material things – and that has been the case for a very long time. It is a casino based on confidence, married with a game of chicken. How long do you stay in?
Nobody during Holland’s Tulip Mania thought one bulb was “worth” 5000 guilders (or whatever) – it was just a gamble.
BB, the more I read what you have to say (I read everything most weeks; don’t have anything of value to contribute most weeks), the more I’m convinced we’re brothers. What do blacks say? Same mother, different father? Viceversa? I’m not hip to that culture.
That fact you mention keeps me up at night. It’s the key to everything. Greed supreme. Stop the presses and have JHK write about that, for a change.
Mind you, it’s not that we both wasted our childhoods building Mustangs and Panzer IV’s, inhaling glue fumes and not being invited to the cool kids’ parties. Not that at all.
Hey Rules, don’t forget the Military Book Club source of poor quality reprints of timeless classics. Cool kids – who the hell needs ’em?
I remember some cheap editions printed in Spain about WW2 uniforms, all branches, all countries, irregulars, everything. Of no use whatever, as they were B&W and no help when trying to figure out the colors of latter German camo patterns, or British Desert Rats. Still I bought them. Because I had nothing better to do on a Sat night but pore over Spanish Civil War fashions and such.
That was a bloody little war. I got it into my head to scratchbuild one of those armored buses the Spanish anarchists used, with Russian machine guns and NO PASARAN painted on it. Built many of the French and Russian planes the Republic used, the Capronis and Stukas in Franco colors of the Fascists. Again, because nobody was calling me to be at their parties on the weekend.
And now they are all balding accountants with fat bellies, and I’m a happy camper planting collards and cannabis light years away from the “winners”, after a lifetime of following my own rules. There’s a lesson there somewhere… Anyway, keep your comments and humor coming, some of us appreciate them!
The value of the stock market depends on one thing people’s faith in the future of the corporate world. It used to change about six months before economic changes because it followed interest rates. Thanks to the Fed, that is over.
The faith of these people in the dollar and the economy of the country also affect the market. The globalization of the corporations may make them more resistant to US economic stupidity. The market itself may already be more resistant to Democratic tomfoolery.
Hopefully!
Manufactured money has to go somewhere. The market used to be a crapshoot but with all savings and bond rates so low, new money goes to someplace that gets some return.
Yes … until the crash.
The value of the stock market depends on one thing people’s faith in the future of the corporate world.
Hahaha … hahaha … Oh! You’re serious?
JAZ is correct – stock markets crash when everyone loses confidence and tries to sell at the same time. What are you claiming now – that SMERSH SPECTRE THRUSH or KAOS or some other cabal of baddies and bankers just manipulate it?
If so – some substantial, verifiable, credible information to back up the claim, would be appreciated. Take your time.
Tekapo:
“Are you saying, ‘Blah blah blah?’ If so, prove it!”
Grab your blanky and go seeps, Josephine.
Investment in stock market is also affected by the quality of the total array of investment opportunities.
So if there is plenty of cash but not a whole lot of promising investment alternatives to stocks… as i believe there are not right now in the way that there have been in previous decades (competitive foreign markets, secure bonds, quality local investment, what have you)… Investors won’t pull out of stocks even if their confidence in them is low. I think stock market’s inflated for this reason… Theres so few incentives to invest outside it, people stay in
Yup!
I think stock market’s inflated for this reason… There’s so few incentives to invest outside it, people stay in
Yes – I agree. Other than property in the right areas, there is hardly any way to earn a modest (and sufficiently safe) return in other asset classes. It’s better to have shares in a bank than money in that bank.
Most small players don’t go into gold and other precious metals.
Baaaaa! Baaaaa! Baaaaaa!
Looking at East Asia, JohnAZ – my home for nearly 40 years – the ongoing faith in the US dollar is near-religious. Even those citizens who consider our politics disgusting and the foreign policy cruel and evil maintain their faith, and their holdings, in the American Rupee.
Long ago I learned to keep silent when the topic comes up – mentioning the inherent emptiness of the currency, and the blatant recklessness of the country that ‘prints’ it, evinces only raised eyebrows if not sneers.
Of course with the ethnic Chinese (by far the greatest holder of wealth in SE Asia) and Japan / Korea they don’t have anywhere else to head for. They really and truly do not trust any other currency – even the Euro.
Politics & ‘defense treaties’ are also entangled with keeping faith in the increasingly shaky dollar.
Speedy, the same in Latin America. Dollar is king, my savings need to be in dollars, etc. It’s like the French designing the Maginot Line to win last war, not considering the new war, WW2, would be completely different.
A big reason why the dollar stands: Asians, Russians, Latin Americans hoarding it under their mattresses, because of decades of trust in it against local currency.
Well, right now the market is going down a little.
Why?
Because of rumors and indications of inflation in the air.
Why?
Inflation causes the Fed to tighten up, raising interest rates.
The corporations stop spending, the expansion slows, the faith slackens.
If the interest rate rises, the gubment goes further in debt. That makes interest rates go up as the gubment vies for capital.
A real cracker of a dilemma!
Everything you said is exactly what they want you to think, JAZ. Leave your money in the stock market. There will be plenty of time to get out once the culling begins, Right?
Why are you even here? Fox has all the info you need.
I guess I am here to offset your continuous line of opinionated BS.
And yes, I have been in the stock market for fifty years and made beaucoup de bucks in it.
I have been conversing with CFNers a lot longer than you have, you do not like my input, get out.
50 years in the American stock markets, JAZ? I am impressed. There were not many stock market retail clients in 1971.
“Stocks & Bonds” the top-hat would say like he was patting small children on the head and they went back to making brake drums and mortgage payments.
50 years is exactly the length of time that it has been since Nixon detethered greenbacks from Gold and Kissinger rolled out the Petro-Dollar. The World has ran on the US Fed’s printing-press fiat nothingness ever since.
You missed 1929. J.P. Morgan. You missed London in 1815 (Battle of Waterloo). Rothschild.
If it has only been 50 years, then you will have a brand new experience when they prick this Giant bubble, JAZ. Not 1987 nor 2000 nor 2008. Those were mere profit-taking dips compared to the big ones (which you’ve never seen).
They cash out Big-Time every couple/three generations and this is the Big Kahuna Giant Reset crash. The whole enchilada with extra hot sauce.
Ya, I’m the new guy on CFN. Ya, after 56 years on this planet, I’ve figured some shit out and am opinionated. I’m also Right.
As I said to Tekapo, my track record will now grow. It’s easy Really. God wrote it out for all of us but most Just ignore it.
As I said to Tekapo, my track record will now grow. It’s easy Really. God wrote it out for all of us but most Just ignore it.
So you’re really looking forward to the The Great Heist – the Mother of All Crashes – just so you are proved Right? My goodness. Based on what – a deity speaks to you directly?
I trust you have your Idaho Compound all prepared, with a hill of beans and a stash of ammo.
Ya, then join in to the discussions and quit attacking people.
I will give you a clue, you are not right all the time. No one is.
You do sound like an ego centered person, your reputation will depend on how right you are.
FYI, most of my inputs are information only, I do not have the ego to think that I am always right and the rest of the world is wrong.
I will tell you something else too. You and I agree the majority of the time especially when it comes to the destruction of this country and its source.
Thank you, JAZ. Again, I apologize. You frustrate me more than most on CFN because you so get it looking down the pyramid from your vantage point but I keep suggesting that you look further up than directly above you on the pyramid. See the Capstone.
It’s not about me being Right. God wrote it for all of us. I am merely pointing out how today’s goings-on match God’s prophecies.
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Tekapo, you are nothing more than a sream of Strawman arguements. One after another after another.
I will be Happy when Jesus Christ of Nazareth returns and the vast majority of people are sent to their eternal damnation in burning Hell where they belong.
Agent Po doesn’t know the difference between predicting something will happen, and endorsing it/hoping for it. It’s a common thing among liberals. Hysterical knee-jerk assumptions all day every day.
Yes. It is common as the bad news seeps into conciousness for the awoken to then lash out at the messenger.
I admire confidence.
I don’t truly know if you are actually right or not, but I damn sure like seeing a man stake out his ground and defend it.
One thing I notice about CFN’ers in general is an almost universal conviction that each one of them is right.
Makes for some very lively exchanges here.
Thank you, Wiz. I appreciate you tippin’ your hat at my efforts.
I do have a major advantage over many with which I do CFN battle: God wrote what I am saying for all of us to read and understand.
Shoes will continue to drop. Jab problems. Energy shortages. Hyper-inflation. Mid East War. Race War. Volcano. Market Crash. UFO disclosure. Big Surprise.
And yes, I have been in the stock market for fifty years and made beaucoup de bucks in it.
Same here – not fifty years, but near 40. Same with our tax-friendly retirement accounts. Even the “corrections” since 1987 have been recovered from, and we move on.
Mr Hawkins talks the talk, but when asked for some credible back-up to his secret insider knowledge that The Great Heist is upon us, there is nothing.
We all understand that the stock market is a confidence game, and built on a definitely unsolid foundation, but if you purchase wisely in blue chip (or indexes), and don’t sell the dip, then it stores your wealth reasonably – providing both dividend income and capital gains.
I never said that I have secret inside knowledge. If I did, I sure the fuck wouldn’t share it with your dumb ass. I’m done with dealing with your strawmen, Tekapo. It’s a waste of time.
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Last paragraph:
Ask those who followed that advice in the summer of 1929 how long it took them to reasonably regain their store of wealth.
Oh! You can’t. They’re all dead.
The stock market will crash. Lambs to slaughter.
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For those unclear what to say to your investment guy if you want out before the crash, try this:
“Please move my money out of equities or mutual funds and into zero risk to 100% guarantee my principal.”
Of course, there is always Risk/Reward. In this case, the Reward is your $100k is still a $100k after the stock market crash (instead of $60k or $40k or less). The Risk is you make $1k on 1% safe “cash” investment while it would have been $12k or $18k with another year of bubble pumping.
Tekapo – do you have (the almost obligatory) 5% – 10% in PM (real, not paper)?
Tekapo – do you have (the almost obligatory) 5% – 10% in PM (real, not paper)?
Stacked under the bed, do you mean? No – cash deposits, property, plus banking, mining, retail, construction shares. Indexes.
Of course, there is always Risk/Reward. In this case, the Reward is your $100k is still a $100k after the stock market crash (instead of $60k or $40k or less). The Risk is you make $1k on 1% safe “cash” investment while it would have been $12k or $18k with another year of bubble pumping.
We have a mix – at our age capital preservation is more important than high returns. A big slice is parked in cash earning under 2%, but we have properties, plus a slice in shares that show fair returns, but we could afford to lose a chunk of that.
No debt – not a dollar. And all credit cards paid out monthly.
But you still don’t explain what dark forces are going to deliberately crash the stock markets of the world … that’s the part I can’t buy without some evidence.
The Capstone. The Rothschilds. The same people that brought us The Covids & its Death Jabs. The Giant Vampire Squid. Hank Paulson, Jamie Dimon and Donald Rumsfeld. The Bushes. Al Gore. Mitt Romney. Bill Gates. Melinda Gates.
It’s a Big Club and you ain’t in it.
– George Carlin
Some evidence is J.P. Morgan in 1929 and Rothschild in London in 1815.
I have watched them forward their Satanic mission for the past 40+ years. I know that God and Satan exist.
It’s Show Time and we will watch as His Word is fulfilled.
I have watched them forward their Satanic mission for the past 40+ years. I know that God and Satan exist.
Good grief – God, Satan, Bill Gates and Rothchild … how can the average punter mix it with that lot?
So I trust you’ve borrowed a million bucks (at 3% – interest only) and have gone short on one of the big indexes, yes? I bet Satan will go short too.
How many people are in on this operation? There are an awful lot of very rich people out there who will not be happy.
I tell you what – if the Dow Jones does not fall by 40% in the next 12 Months (by May 11, 2022) will you promise to fly me to my city of choice and buy me a drink? At this stage I’m thinking a Margarita at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West.
Steyer, Soros and now Wyss.
Hansjorg Wyss, Swiss born resident of Wyoming is becoming a bigger and bigger donor to Democratic infrastructure. By law, he is not a citizen, so he cannot contribute directly to campaigns. He is a big contributor through organizations contributing dark money.
Another example of who really owns the Democratic Party.
He also almost bought the Tribune communication network. Just what we need, another rag espousing the Left.
How come foreigners are setting our course? And why are Democrats being traitors to this country to accommodate them?
Remember that the only “Russian collusion” of the last 4 years was Hillary Clinton’s Russian based opposition research
The democraps don’t seem to be able to sell us out fast enough. Big paydays all around.
How come foreigners are setting our course? And why are Democrats being traitors to this country to accommodate them?
I doubt that Our Mr Wyss would have 1% of the clout in “setting our course” that Republican-friendly Rupert Murdoch has – Fox News, WSJ, NY Post.
The energy situation is veering toward collapse. What comes next? Gail Tverberg writes that, contrary to all of the fraudulent propaganda excreted by the bribe-o-crats and their media toadies, the world, including Bidenland, may soon encounter a surprise:
“A detail that most of us don’t think about is that the military of many different countries has been very much aware of the potential conflict situation that is now occurring. They are aware that a “hot war” would require huge use of fossil fuel energy, so they have been trying to find alternative approaches. One approach military groups have been working on is the use of bioweapons of various kinds. In fact, some groups might even contemplate starting a pandemic. Another approach that might be used is computer viruses to disrupt the systems of other countries.”
The recent revelation that the Commie Chinese military has for years been planning on the next world war being a biowar is congruent with Gail’s surmise, before she even knew about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sluicing of American dollars toward that military’s “gain-of-function” (human-killing) upgrading of bat viruses. So it turns out that Fauci and Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, are the operatives responsible for 3 million deaths. And the Dr. Strangeloves in the U.S. biowarfare department have been working assiduously toward the same goal. After all, it’s all in America’s “interest.”
Of course, as science writer Nicholas Wade wrote in his May 5, 2021 article, “The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?” in The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
“‘We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,’ a group of virologists and others wrote in the Lancet on February 19, 2020, when it was really far too soon for anyone to be sure what had happened. Scientists “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,” they said, with a stirring rallying call for readers to stand with Chinese colleagues on the frontline of fighting the disease.
…
“Nor have other scientists stepped forward to raise the issue. Government research funds are distributed on the advice of committees of scientific experts drawn from universities. Anyone who rocks the boat by raising awkward political issues runs the risk that their grant will not be renewed and their research career will be ended. Maybe good behavior is rewarded with the many perks that slosh around the distribution system. And if you thought that Andersen and Daszak might have blotted their reputation for scientific objectivity after their partisan attacks on the lab escape scenario, look at the second and third names on this list of recipients of an $82 million grant announced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in August 2020.
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“To these serried walls of silence must be added that of the mainstream media. To my knowledge, no major newspaper or television network has yet provided readers with an in-depth news story of the lab escape scenario, such as the one you have just read, although some have run brief editorials or opinion pieces. One might think that any plausible origin of a virus that has killed three million people would merit a serious investigation. Or that the wisdom of continuing gain-of-function research, regardless of the virus’s origin, would be worth some probing. Or that the funding of gain-of-function research by the NIH and NIAID during a moratorium on such research would bear investigation.”
Unbeknownst to the woke Left now in power, the recent hacking of Colonial Pipeline software, along with Biden’s “progressive” shutdown of the XL pipeline are yet more pushes toward total systemic collapse.
But not to worry. Importing ThirdWorlders and their organized criminals to fuse with Biden’s Mafia friends, we are told, will save the country.
For the Democrats, that is.
Other vital pipelines are being decommissioned, too.
Don’t worry our Lady Generals don’t need no stinkin’ fossil fuels we will be bolting windmills to our Panzers, running F-35s with hydrogen cells.
Would many Americans truly give a fuck when the next big war breaks out?
Seriously. Too much of the US public has already checked out of the business of citizenship, nonetheless of anything like patriotism, to march to the drums against a serious war against China or Russia.
“woke” leftists might be the only ones super aggro about any such wars, since they believe they own the future of the country.
Good points.
Most likely no big wars, bunches of little wars on the near horizon.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose ...
And other pipelines are being threatened.
Whitmer trying to shut down Enbridge Line 5 to Canada. Or is she just attempting extortion? She is now threatening to take all profits deriving from use of that pipeline if it continues in operation after her deadline of tomorrow.
And let’s not forget Nordstream 2, my vote for one of the reasons that Uncle Shitforbrains is stirring up his Ukie attack dogs.
Almost seems like someone is attempting to create an energy crisis in the West. Possibly related to that calamitous cyber attack we were warned about by our guardian angel WEF last November? Yup, definitely hooking that wood stove back up.
By the way, all the news regarding Line 5 is about its impact on Canada. Line 5 also supplies over half of Michigan’s propane. Whitmer must be pretty confident about her re-election next year.
Just finished reading Wade’s wonderful article. Fauci has become Faust, selling his soul to the Chinese devil and to his own dark desires.
He helped create the marlinspike that mauled and massacred millions. He has become Fauci the Fescennine, a feculent mite whose gain of function mortally malfunctioned.
Unbeknownst to the woke Left now in power, the recent hacking of Colonial Pipeline software, along with Biden’s “progressive” shutdown of the XL pipeline are yet more pushes toward total systemic collapse.
But not to worry. Importing ThirdWorlders and their organized criminals to fuse with Biden’s Mafia friends, we are told, will save the country.
For the Democrats, that is.
“Unbeknownst ” is a great word.
The Colonial Pipeline event was a cyberattack, not a Machiavellian plot by the forces of darkness. Read the essay up top about hyper-complexity and vulnerabilities.
The export of millions of jobs to low-cost countries, and the importation of low-cost labor into the US – have been going on for a very long time, and are a capitalist plot – resisted by Democrats far more than the pro-business Republicans.
With all due respect we are told that it was a cyber attack. Given the lamentable performance of the media, all of the media, putting one’s faith in that being the absolute truth is literally that, an act of faith.
Possibly – but those who do not believe the official story – well – they are under some pressure to establish that it was something else more dastardly … over to you.
Excellent article JHK, all valid items to ponder while eating my diet coke and eating Cheetos.
Theedrich: excellent post, and if you go to youtube and watch Sam Harris did an excellent podcast on,” Engineering the Apocalypse” Mr. Harris is a author, philosopher and neuroscientist . Truly, a horrifying session.
thanks for the heads up on that podcast
see this video showing blacks attacking 80 year-old Asian man and making monkey sounds.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/video-teens-seen-laughing-video-attacking-80-year-old-asian-man-knocking-ground/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
Dems still in denial it’s black people attacking the asians.
And this seems engineered.
Chickens home to roost. San Fran is full of them, voting democrat.
Larry Kudlow, a staunch Trumper, just opined that if the Colonial boys do not have the pipeline up by Friday, that it will start shutting down big chunks of the economy. I just hope the blame for this goes where it belongs, POTUS. Let us see.
Step one. Cripple a part of the US oil distribution system.
Step 2. Support ally no. 1 in the Middle East with proxy attack on Israel. Support Iran in Yemen.
Give Sleepy Joe and his mob a lesson in geopolitics.
Who is ally no. 1 in the Middle East?
Iran, the same Iran that supports Hezbollah, Hamas. The same Iran that is still being courted by our Climate czar because he cannot admit how FUBAR the Iran deal was. The same Iran that opposes our no.1 Islamic ally in the area, Saudi Arabia.
Kudlow – he of the “Biden will force us to drink plant-based beer” outrage? Yeah, he knows a lot of stuff, huh…
If the gas line is not fixed, we shall see.
Redneck, I hope the shortage falls on you some, so you can feel what it feels like to have your vaunted Dem government screw you over.
JAZ, you’re killing me.
We make Peace (kind of) on the stock market and now this!
Biden is supporting Iran in Yemen? Ya think?
You can’t read right.
Russia is supporting Iran. So why is the Czar over there trying to recover the Deal. It is nuts. Russia caused the gas outage.
Russia is out thinking us at every turn right now.
The Biden response?
??????
Putin is supporting Iran in Yemen? Are you sure?
Putin shutdown the Colonial Pipeline? Are you sure?
If these are True, why did Putin allow Russian purification technology to go to the dumb-asses at J&J and AZ?
Separately, what would you have Biden respond with? And how do you know that his response is not in progress?
Putin, who said anything about Putin.
Is Putin Russia? Could the hackers have nothing to do with Putin? Could it be a rebellious oligarch.
Russian support for Iran means money for fundamentalist weapons, Iran is broke, Russia is not. Yemen, Gaza Lebanon,Syria probably Afghanistan.
I don ‘t know what Biden can do right now. He definitely better make a security sweep through the key computer systems PDQ. If Putin IS involved, ie the government there, then Biden better brush up on his chess moves.
John is correct. The USN intercepted a ship containing millions of dollars of weapons bound for the Yemen,from Iran. The weapons all new and shiny Russian and Chinese made stuff. Both Russia and China will happily send them via Iran when it’s going to cause misery for the USAs allies in the region.
From the Daily Mail
https://mol.im/a/9558419
Thx Trean! I had not seen news of this seized weapons cache linking China, Russia, Iran and Yemen.
Very interesting …
I’m glad I just bought a kick-ass bicycle.
Make sure you’ve got some kick-ass spare tires and tubes, because, ironically, once that bike is your sole means of transportation, tires and tubes won’t be transported to a location near you.
BB, Mr K doesn’t think bikes are going to be a viable mode of transportation in a WMBH because of what you just said. The rubber.
Now, to be contrarian, what about those bush mechanics in the Outback and their creative ways around that? Would stuffing a tire with straw work?
Rules, I like the straw idea, hadn’t thought of that. Once my rims are bent and my chain snapped, I’ll expect to be goin’ full vegetarian.
BB, the Cubans have done incredible things to keep those Packards from the 40’s running to this day, through an embargo. We could learn from them. I met some of them in S FL over the years. Loud as hell, opinionated, gluttons, but can fix anything with a bit of baling wire and duct tape. Crafty fellows. Used to adversity. They have the advantage.
Rules, I’ve been in those ’50’s Chevy’s, no door panels, window held up by a two-by-four, in Cuba. Saw Necessity breeding a lot of Invention down there. Big difference between the Cubans in Miami and the ones in Cuba, based on my limited experience. Cuba is by far the friendliest place I’ve ever been – and not just the fake friendliness of the poor toward tourists. I’ve been to much more destitute places that were nowhere near as friendly.
We are already seeing the impact here in north Alabama. I went to the local Shell station to fill-up today and every pump handle was covered with bright red plastic bags labeled “No Gas.”
Had to drive 3 miles up the road to a Circle K to fill the tank. $2.75 / gallon and rising fast. Ugh.
Another Ulysses S. Grant liberated from my wallet by the forces of evil….
Vegetable in Chief is tanking, the world pays:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-israel-mexican-border-colonial-pipeline
Larry Kudlow, a staunch Trumper, just opined that if the Colonial boys do not have the pipeline up by Friday, that it will start shutting down big chunks of the economy. I just hope the blame for this goes where it belongs, POTUS.
Excuse me?
Can you please explain to my why President Biden is responsible for the shutting down of a gas pipeline that was subject to a cyber-attack? And further, why he’s responsible if the pipeline is shut down beyond Friday? Enquiring minds would like to know.
And I think I need one of those weird-shit plant-based beers too! I think it’s call Dem Lite. 🙂
Nothing is Bedpan Biden’s fault. Everything was Trump’s fault.
Epiphany!
Nothing is Bedpan Biden’s fault. Everything was Trump’s fault.
The truth is out!
Delusional.
All the failures of the Obama regime have come roaring back.
The buyer’s remorse is beginning. POTATUS has already proven to be a humongous failure.
Biden is at fault in the same manner that the Dems blamed Trump for anything bad that happened anywhere. Do you not want the same set of rules to apply Tekapo?
POTATUS is outright failing the country.
Well, not him, he’s a veg, but the PTB working the machinery.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/05/11/one-of-the-things-satanists-are-required-to-do-at-a-certain-point-of-advancement-is-to-start-openly-manifesting-their-satanism/
Picture of Mel wearing an inverted crucifix.
They’re really out in the open now.
Case in point, Lil Naz. He knew his base is mostly children and even claims to be a Christian. Yet in order to get a song on the charts he made his deal with the devil. Made a video where he gives satan a lap dance, then kills him and becomes satan himself. What great fare for the kiddies!
Of course Madonna’s concerts are all massive satanic rituals, etc.
They just don’t feel the need to hide it at all now.
For fuck’s sake…
Yes nothing to see here. Not satanic or anything.
https://youtu.be/6swmTBVI83k
Mary, I agree with you that there’s a strong occult element in pop culture. Can’t explain it or understand it, but realize there’s something there, so don’t be discouraged by scorn, and rather, keep thinking for yourself and connecting the dots. That ability may be key for survival at some point, pattern recognition.
Of course Madonna’s concerts are all massive satanic rituals, etc.
I’ve got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn, Mary … you might be interested.
So you haven’t seen them? You mustn’t have, or else you wouldn’t say something so ignorant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG3WkiL0d_U&ab_channel=MADONNAVEVO
No not a satanic ritual – lol.
I guess your programming doesn’t allow you to see the obvious.
This isn’t satanic either.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7z6vfq
To those with blinders on.
Lil Naz, he’s the Satan Shoes guy, right?
Yes. His song was so shitty he had to do something salacious to stir to get attention and it worked. He got the religious right in an uproar.
Now his shitty song is famous. I am guessing he’ll be a flash in the pan though, since there’s zero talent behind it.
Since he is a Chosen One, I expect that flash will light up his pan just fine.
Yes, I stand corrected. Talent no longer matters, allegiance and willing to be used for life, does.
Winner, winner – cricket dinner!
Welp, this coming weekend’s first roadtrip host just cancelled on us.
Was waiting for that, even though they just told me a few days ago that all was good. It happened.
They suggested that perhaps we could just stay for one night, and they would have their kids stay with their Grandma that night to be safe.
Told him “Don’t worry about it, I understand, we’ll just make other travel plans and see you when we can.”
I could hear the strain in his voice. Methinks his wife is calling the shots on this and he has to play the role. And that’s fine. But I’m not driving six hours out of my way to stay there for one night instead of two when they’ve sent their kids away so as not to be “infected” by us (when their kids have been exposed in preschool this entire time just like ours). The difference is their kids have to wear masks at preschool, and our kid doesn’t. Apparently that makes all the difference?
Sad state of affairs, but ’tis what ’tis.
Fuck it.
On to the next city…now to see if Grandma and Grandpa cancel on us, too.
Who says they haven’t changed society? They have.
Anyone who supports this, congrats, dickheads.
Just sad. 🙁
This is why I am hybernating. This shit is just too frustrating.
You’re not hibernating effectively, MaryQ…either that or you’re talking in your sleep (which might explain its incoherence).
Living in Idaho is sort of a very long-term hibernation … I understand fully.
Fan club arrival, right on time.
This was the best man at my wedding. Definitely frustrating and sad.
For what it’s worth, I’m sure he feels worse than I do. He knows it’s wrong. Feels like a Tarantino film?
When he asked her to marry him, did he kneel down like a slave? Thus the contract was formed. She’s in charge. That’s what they agreed to, implicitly.
People’s minds have been reprogrammed after this year-long psychological gaslighting and constant propaganda and fear porn. I honestly don’t know how long it will take to undo it.
Mark Dice’s video on Youtube this morning goes over that exact phenomenon, basically how long will people cling to their masks once no one else is wearing them. Some people are already trying to figure out their new normal, as opposed to, well, just going back to normal.
https://thebeltwayreport.com/2021/05/pfizer-vaccine-confirmed-to-cause-neurodegenerative-diseases-study-shows/
There are no words to describe the evil that these people have inflicted on us.
Absolutely.
The psychopathy is off the charts. Who do these evil freaks think they are?
There are no words to describe the evil that these people have inflicted on us.
There are no words to describe the sad fact that so many people on here get swayed by a “report” written by a quite notorious anti-vaxxer.
Don’t any of you people have a decent in-built crap detector … you just reproduce any old stuff on here as if it’s “proof” of something?
Where is your headline saying “99.99% of those receiving the Pfizer vaccine had no drama whatsoever”? I guess such news doesn’t suit your agenda – whatever that craziness might be.
I agree. Anyway, stick to a plan that worked/works out well for you.
1973…first house…9.75% interest rate…some were paying 13%…we were lucky.
Arab oil embargo…gas approaches $1/gal…gas lines were real, not something ginned up by social media.
Just sayin’…
Gas lines are real right now. Gas stations are running out right now. People are hoarding gas right now.
If they do not get it freed up, the parallels will increase. See ya Friday.
Yep! Here we gooooo!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=1970+gas+lines+&t=chromentp&atb=v107-1&iax=images&ia=images
Yep! Here we gooooo!
You catastrophic doomer-porn types just can’t wait for the return to the Olduvai Gorge, can you? Are your lives that devoid of pleasure and good things that collapse is the goal? Sad.
Trump lives rent free in your brain and always will. 🙂
I remember the awful gas lines in 1973. I was only 11, but it is a vivid memory. The whole mess damn near drove the whole country nuts. People were mad as hell and there was public sentiment at the time to drop the 82nd Airborne on Saudi Arabia and just TAKE the damn oil from them, but cooler heads prevailed.
People were mad as hell and there was public sentiment at the time to drop the 82nd Airborne on Saudi Arabia and just TAKE the damn oil from them
LOL. Always been pretty-much US foreign policy – nothing new. Three Days of the Condor captured it.
I have several nephews & nieces (once removed) who were home-schooled by a nutyt-Catholic, GOP-loving parents in Minnesota, north of Minneapolis-St Paul. At a family gathering in 2005 or thereabouts, the oldest, Patrick 9about 15 at the time) explained to me why the US had invaded Iraq: “Who do these towel-heads think they are, living on top of OUR damned oil, anyway?”. He wasn’t being ironic.
And Australia and NZ have always benefited from US foreign policy.
…and the relevance of that to my post is…?
We’ve always paid for the oil we’ve gotten from the Gulf.
Who said it hasn’t? Are you aware that, because on supply contracts and the very long supply chain, the US Military was paying an average of $200 a gallon to fuel humvees in Iraq & Afghanistan? Paid for it? Fuck yeah…
While yet other Americans were becoming filthy rich charging rhe American tax-payers those ridiculous prices.
And so it goes.
Heckler says that “we” paid. The consumers paid then the Petro-Dollars owed were funnelled through MIC for profit and R&D then Saudi Arabia got weapons. The Carlyle Group et al made the big bucks while it is all accumulated debt to “we.”
https://nojabforme.info/
Good info, very logically presented, with copious hyper-linked sources. I love the intro: Anyone who attempts to take down this site will be named as a codefendant in Nuremberg 2.0. I have no idea if they are serious about this. I hope so!
Spread it far and wide.
Very good information indeed! I also appreciated the suggestions of how to handle a work situation where your employer is mandating the jab. That is no doubt happening in a lot of places even if not by official policy. It literally is terrifying that so many people are willingly participating in this grandiose experiment and actually pretty forcefully insisting everyone else do so too. And btw, is it just me or do you find the term “jab” to be actually abrasive and discomfitting? For this whole ritual to be appealing it just doesn’t make much sense to me that the promoters are just throwing the jab word around so excitedly and happy-like. In this case words are violence. Anything would be better if they actually cared about perception and persuasion in the first place. Even “prodigy antidote” is better than jab. And they are bribing people with goodies to get the vaccine. Why would they need to do that if their benefits were so compelling and self evident?
And they are bribing people with goodies to get the vaccine. Why would they need to do that if their benefits were so compelling and self evident?
Because all the rational normal sensible people who are getting the jab want the pay-off – which is solid herd immunity and the removal of all quarantine, masks, social distancing, and restricted activity.
But while there are all the crazy anti-vaxxer types out there, it’s hard to get to herd immunity and crush the virus. So all the mad-hatters are wrecking it for all the normal people.
Clear enough?
So you’re fine with the precedent of an undertested drug being okayed because “special circumstances” by the fda for a virus that’s at least 99% non-lethal for everyone under 65 and more so if free of pre-existing conditions, meanwhile locking in subsidized profits for vaccine manufacturers?
How does any self-respecting “old school liberal” take this position?
Old school liberals have ‘evolved’ into new world totalitarians.
The pay off would be immunity, except that there is no immunity this time, so you get a Krispy Kreme.
I noticed the Troll Triumvirate is getting very feisty today. What could be causing such anxiety?
OMG the Krispy Kreme bribe LOL!! 🙂
Ya, so you get a Krispy Kreme cracked me up too!
You have been busy, NO.
Trying to herd sheeple can be exhausting. Good work, Good sir!
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Where in upstate NY did you grow up? I spent half my life across Lake Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area (the GTA or, as homeboy Drake has dubbed it: The Six).
I mentioned Lake George earlier. The Adirondacks down into the Catskills. Woodstock. Upstate NY is beautiful (Buffalo notwithstanding).
Someone pissed in their Post Toasties?
All I know is I haven’t had this big a laugh in awhile.
It’s as clear as mud Tek. Not your explanation but the alleged facts on the ground that you repeat here. The vaccine does not do anything to protect against the virus from everything I see. Apparently, even with the vaccine one can still get covid and still has to wear a mask and social distance according to some of the loudest “experts”. If that is the case I don’t really see what good the vaccine does. Kamala and her hubby are supposedly vaccinated and apparently they cannot even kiss without masks on. So yeah, I would say the vaccine does not seem to do anything to return life to an unrestricted normality.
“But while there are all the crazy anti-vaxxer types out there, it’s hard to get to herd immunity and crush the virus. So all the mad-hatters are wrecking it for all the normal people”
Tekapo,
Could you give us a precise definition of “anti-vaxxer”? Does your definition include people who take yearly flu shots, pneumonia shots…but sense that this current issue with Covid has been politicized, and poorly researched?
Asking for a friend….
Notice no response.
Good job Elysianfield.
Takeapooh can’t handle actual logic and lives in the world of ridiculous failed messaging and propaganda.
He also just unmasked himself with a reference to a certain place in Florida he posted about as Cargill just like Majella clone.
The other equally obnoxious spokeshole is damn near as ridiculous.
Along those lines, why did they need a global marketing campaign to frighten people for a whole year in order to sell a pandemic that isn’t?
They still ignore that the population fatality rate has not gone up. The 500k deaths number in the US is completely fabricated.
All of this is smoke and mirrors. I’m glad millions are waking up to it.
Yep it is very bizarre and certainly doesn’t appear to be the way public officials act when an event is actually organic and unsuspected. And what is more is all the planning that occurred actually before covid really went public. I have heard that the rate of people taking the vaccine has really slowed down and now there are stockpiles of “the jab” just sitting there waiting to be used. And they are still pushing very emphatically for mandatory vaccinations in their media bubbles but many people appear to not be having any of it.
All of this is smoke and mirrors. I’m glad millions are waking up to it.
I do wish you could spend a day or two in an overwhelmed hospital in Brazil, India, or even parts of the US. You might then understand that Covid-19 is anything but a “hoax”.
Have you heard them use the word, jab? It is very aggressive and I haven’t heard them use. If you have, maybe they’re trying to co-opt it from us, taking the sting out of it somehow.
Remember the Gom-jebar in Dune?
Oh yeah is that the thimble thingy with the poisoned needle? I almost wonder if they got the idea for the gom jabbar from like the mediaeval Italian aristocrats who were always involved in webs of assassinations via poisonings. Yeah I have heard that word jab thrown around quite a bit and often in support of the vaccine. And it doesn’t stop there. There are always new lows. So yeah, I have heard “me so vaccinated” thrown around too. It’s kinda sad really but you still can’t help a little lol here and there.
Taking my queue from information provided by a Dr. on one of the informative videos that Mary has provided, I have stopped calling it a vax because it is not a vax. It is gene therapy.
So, if I no longer us vax, vaxxed & unvaxxed, what word to use? I have switched to jab, jabbed & unjabbed but now SSL says that those words support their agenda.
What’s a fella to do? We got to call it something.
Same as O.G., I use jab because it’s not a vaccine. I also use “shot” sometimes.
I think they are using the word jab to make it seem like a walk in the park with nothing to worry about and all. It sounds hip and cool (to many) but clearly not to you.
Yup, and to take the wind out of the “negative” use of the word.
You have become a hero after this post. All is forgiven now and forever, pardner. ; )
Yoho is a stoic who thrives on adversity. Please don’t praise him, that only leads to dissipation, and a sponginess of the soul…
I love the intro: Anyone who attempts to take down this site will be named as a co-defendant in Nuremberg 2.0.
Paranoia and self-importance have no bounds it seems.
Is this the last sane Republican?
https://youtu.be/-kwtDtadJNg
Trump had the Middle East headed in the right direction, it didn’t take Bedpan long to f##k it all up,
The price gasoline has doubled in some places since last summer — THANKS SLEEPY JOE!!
Oh, right. See my recent comment up a few posts. Bah.
Even at “double the price”, it’s still the cheapest IC fuel on Earth (aside from where it’s subsidized, like SA).
US does the heavy lifting and bleeding, Australia, NZ and western European buttpounders rake the gravy off the top.
Heckler,
The Capstone doesn’t give a rat’s ass about nations. National Pride is merely an aspect to be manipulated to divide & conquer.
The US Fed creates US$ out of thin air, gives it to Bankers and MIC, holds USA citizens liable and then does the heavy lifting. The US Fed, the Bankers & MIC are all in on it and it pays very handsomely while they play The Great Chess Match.
It’s a Big Club and you ain’t in it.
– George Carlin
I think we saved your asses for the last time. When the PLA comes a calllin’ in Auckland and Sidney, don’t come to us like you did in 1942.
Huh? What’s this all about?
Agreed, RL. The PLA in Aukland or Sidney does not seem too likely an outcome from here.
talk about a pathetic attempt at an excuse.
But but its more expensive elsewhere…and elsewhere does not have huge oil reserves being with held by a power tripping old imbecile.
With toadies like you who needs foreign enemies oh wait you are a foreigner.
BRH, The Middle East actuallly doesn’t have any direction in the traditional sense of the term. Either someone is starting something there or is ending it. For example, some foreigners started a long war then ended it…. still the same old Middle East. Trump came along and cried out ‘Jerusalem is the true capital’ and then shook hands with everyone. Still the same ME.
Is this the last sane Republican?
She’s the most outspoken one, but I’m sure there are many sensible Republicans (no, not entirely an oxymoron) who agree that Trump is batshit crazy and an inveterate liar.
But they remain scared that the Fat Elvis Phase still has a bit of juice in it, and they don’t want to be primaried out of their careers. So the party has gone full tilt anti-fact, anti-science, anti-election, anti-worker, and anti-truth.
The scary thing is that there are still 40% of the populace who will vote for these people because of Orange Man. Amazing stuff. 8 November 2022 will be a watershed, I feel.
Nailed it.
I mean Liz Cheney is a reprehensible ideologue – pro-war, anti-tax, anti-environmental regulation and so on : as bad as a politician can get, but at least she’s not delusional.
My, Po.
Why do you Liberal dingbats always have to pull back to attack, attack personalities instead of worrying about real issues. Is it because you and yours do not have a clue. Notice that you and Red neck never have something constructive, creative to add. Never!
Bitch , bitch about one person or another, that is it. Your topmost power boys and girls are the same as you. No ideas, no pro action, no solutions, no action, ignore every issue.
Look at the state of the US since Biden took over. Instead of motoring along with an occasional hiccup, we are now heading straight down in all aspects.
That is what you two seem to relish ignoring. The Democrats are destroying the fabric of this country, its economic basis, its patriotism, its common sense.
We spent much money and human capital defending the world from totalitarian states. Now we do not seem to be able reject the enemy within. Lincoln wanted to send all Blacks to Liberia because he honestly believed that the two races could not integrate. He may have been right. Today, it is Leftists that cannot integrate and maybe should be shuffled off today, China. Problem is, no one wants traitors.
Y, could it be we are focusing on the wrong enemy here. I see a lot of conservative Blacks recently that seem to make a lot of sense. Is the real enemy the White Liberals who have created “war” between the people to get their precious power?
We used to be a shining light on the hill. Your cohorts are turning us into a dying ember.
His favorite site is a wall-to-wall gossip tabloid, which attacks personalities and doesn’t even really mention any actual issues, so what can you expect?
Look at the state of the US since Biden took over. Instead of motoring along with an occasional hiccup, we are now heading straight down in all aspects.
Did you read the JHK essay today on hyper-complexity and vulnerabilities? President Biden has inherited/i> a mess – not caused it in three months.
And I (and a lot of other people) believe he and his administration are doing a pretty good job trying to address some of the issues, with stimulus and relief funding, and the infrastructure program. And tax reform and election reform.
No assistance from a recalcitrant Republican Party that is torn between fealty to Trump, and needing a whole different direction. Liz Cheney is not my favorite politician, but at least she had the courage to call it for what it is.
Going forward, the problems are two: (1) things either cost huge amounts of money that cause ever bigger deficits, and (2) many of the issues (jobs lost overseas, critical energy and supply-chain weakness, race relations, southern-border immigrants, etc), are not overly prone to solutions even with big buckets of money.
We spent much money and human capital defending the world from totalitarian states.
I think you could equally say that the US installs and props up totalitarian regimes. It’s a long list.
HAHAHAHAH
Biden the idiot now sitting in the whitehouse took a controlled slow decent and turned it into a power dive straight into the rocks.
You make shitty excuse after shitty excuse and thus show you are a clueless buffoon or a terrible liar and propagandist.
Its comments like you made above why people are so critical of anything you post.
We know its all bullshit, projection and out right lies.
Piss off.
It’s comments like you made above why people are so critical of anything you post. We know its all bullshit, projection and out right lies. Piss off.
Why are you so intolerant of comments that are at variance to your own? Isn’t that basis for lively discussion? Were you bullied at school, or is there some other reason?
Enquiring minds would like to know.
I have my views on the state of everything and the cause of everything. So do you – no drama, so long as you see that all voices are allowed in the public square. Otherwise you’re just Fox News.
So you worship a warmonger, genocidal, ecocidal maniac as long as they are not “delusional”. Sounds like a personal problem to me lol. But whatever the case you are certainly not “Liberal”. And btw. Liz is basically a run of the mill Democrat in today’s climate. So that should clue you in to the agendas that you actually support despite all the words and sophistries that issue forth from your fingers.
She is actually the last remnant of the Bush-Cheney GOP liberal GOP that five years ago we complained could not be distinguished from the Liberal Democrats. It was because of the formation of the Deep State that these Liberals disguised as GOP were able to thrive.
Trump exposed them and as soon as Cheney is primaried next year, the conservative American GOP can be free of this aberration.
So basically she is a part of the controlled and designed “opposition”. She works for globalist masters. Can she be sued for fraud?
Trump exposed them and as soon as Cheney is primaried next year, the conservative American GOP can be free of this aberration.
Anyone who actually believes that Liz Cheney is a “Liberal” is committing acts of violence with the language – she is an arch-conservative on just about every issue – just like daddy.
All she did was call out The Big Lie. The Republican Party has lurched so far to the Trump Right, that even old-fashioned war-hawk Republicans are not crazy enough.
Where will this end? I can’t believe that swing voters in the burbs are going to appreciate her ousting in 2022. We’ll see.
They don’t really listen to themselves, do they?
LOL.
Sorry – did you say something?
Not to worry, ‘BIPOCs’ and The Ladies (who sound like 90s Valley Girls when they speak) are in charge now.
Sleepy Joe is titular leader, but he’s napping most of the time.
Don’t believe your lying eyes, the situation is under control, really.
BIPOCs. In reality it sounds like a terrible and debilitating disease. Hmmm that’s really weird!
It is…
@CFN’s resident Night Know-it-all
““[…] destroying three football pitches’ worth of Amazon rainforest every minute is in any way a good idea” [GA]
“Utter fantasy. More scare porn. And like the Big Lie, it isn’t even superficially believable to anyone with an IQ above that of a houseplant.”
OK, so it was interesting, from a psychological perspective at least, to observe an ‘editor’ who can’t always spell very well tell a professional pilot that he knows more than the professional pilot does about flying (and referring to him as an ‘amateur/hobby flyer’??) But not historically surprising to those familiar with the Night Bird (aka Herr I’m-rarely-wrong).
But I digress. Revenons à nos moutons’ Or in this instance, to our houseplants.
The article was British, so we will stick with yards and British football pitches.
But we may refer to an article in Nature, chosen specifically because this publication was described by CFN’s own neurodoc as ‘one of the most respected journals in the Western world’. And neurodoc calls people ‘libtards’, so his anti-woke credentials may be used in support of this endorsement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01368-x
“The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade”
And what is that rate, I hear you ask.
Well, it’s estimated at 11,088 square kilometres for the year, with the proviso that the final figure will almost certainly exceed this (because it always does).
That’s 4281.1 square miles per year.
Or 11.72904 square miles per day.
Or 0.48871 square miles per hour.
Or 0.008145 square miles per minute.
Or 25,230.47 square yards per minute.
Let’s move on to football pitches. Legally there’s a lower limit of 100×50 yards. But we’ll go for premier league and allow you a full 8510 square yards. Because, boy, do you need help.
So, you’ve got a destruction rate of 25,230.47 square yards/minute and a football pitch of 8510 square yards.
How many football pitches a minute is that, Big Brain?
It’s 2.964803 football pitches, that’s how many it is.
Let me know if you need your fertiliser topping up, shrinking violet. And if you’ve heard that hydroxychloroquine is any use for particularly virulent strains of late-stage Arrogant Tosser Syndrome, we can add a few drops of that too in your weekly watering.
You’re a fan of controlled demolition, aren’t you? Well, there you go.
Owl doesn’t do maths, GA. His response will be something along the lines of he’s not interested in agitprop tin foil and if you don’t produce hard evidence that those habitats are being destroyed then it didn’t happen; the onus is on you, not him. Something along those lines.
Well, my work is done, Slugoon. So, if he’s not happy, he can take it up with Celso H. L. Silva Junior, Ana C. M. Pessôa, Nathália S. Carvalho, João B. C. Reis, Liana O. Anderson & Luiz E. O. C. Aragão.
Their article was published in Nature on 21st December.2020. So if he contacts them now, they might be able to give him the final figure, which they expected to be revised upwards, once the final calculations are in, because it always is.
We know you are butthurt, Slugo. Just like Dr. Alfalfa before you.
The fact that you keep posting about me says it all.
Wings of Tinfoil.
LOL.
Ahahahahahaha!
We were waiting for some maths and This Is It??!!
Jesus Wept.
As someone said earlier.
And reduced to copying MaryV’s complaints that people have the fucking nerve to respond to her posts, the narcs. How very dare they?
Tooooooo funny.
Tell us about sealioning, Night Bird.
And puppies.
This thread reminds me of the Glacier National Park episode.
2020 rolled around and they pulled the signs down.
Butthurt. Sad for a woman of your age.
LOL.
Quit while you’re behind, houseplant.
You’re just attracting more attention to your public meltdown.
It’s about the maths, Night Birdy, the maths.
Yes, Dr.
The Amazon will be as far gone as those glaciers.
Another of your purloined “scientific” predictions will be swept under the rug.
Perhaps some HCQ is needed to clear the brain fog. I hear it is quite effective.
LOL.
Reduced to making shit up.
This meltdown is worse than a cheese fondue. You’ll feel at home in cuckoo-clock land.
Give us the maths on the deforestation, houseplant.
No time for people who, because many “environmental” claims are bogus, politicized and manipulated, believe they can sidestep every environmentalist issue ever brought to light. Epitome of useless ignorance
This thread reminds me of the Glacier National Park episode.
We spent three days in Glacier National Park … there are no glaciers. It looks like this (personal picture, late September 2011).
Don’t ever admit you’re just wrong (again), will you? Still, must be feeling stung if you lash out at Slugoon and, as expected, ignore entirely GA’s deconstruction of your miserable little attack.
Pot, meet kettle.
You’re wrong all the time, I don’t see you admitting it.
it wasn’t a circle. it was a near 180 turn of a jetliner…I see a difficult manoeuvre to execute at speed
LOL indeed.
Give him some time in a simulator, Slugoon.
One where he can simulate not being an arrogant tosspot.
And yes, Mary, it’s a pile-one. What’s sauce for the goose … oh, never mind.
Ahahahahaha!
I was going from memory, which I corrected. Your number was also wrong.
That NYT article, however, was the cherry on the sundae.
I noticed you still have not provided the video of the plane hitting the Pentagon.
All you have to do is back your claim. Burden of proof is such a burden.
Says 330° in the NTSB report. But you’re right, I wasn’t west of the Pentagon ready with my Super 8 on that day so I concede, Dick and Don must have done it.
Ah, so the one thing I got wrong you also got wrong.
Yet here you are emoting.
Video available yet?
Owl, you really did it this time!
The Troll Triumvirate Tag Team seem to be extra agitated this week. I have read that a possible side effect of the jab is violent mood swings, so perhaps that explains it.
Funny watching Dr. Alfalfa freaking out about the Brazilian Rain Forest but has zero problem promoting experimental medical tyranny. When ones’ moral outrage is directed by whatever the PTB dictate, I suppose this is the outcome. Green New Deal – lol.
I’m sure no resources were wasted filling up warehouses with bio weapon junk jabs.
Yes, Mary. It is just another day on CFN.
Appeals to authority and answers to complex questions scrawled out on a napkin.
So it goes.
And here comes Tweedledee right oh cue.
This it simply too funny. 🙂
“Yes, Mary. It is just another day on CFN.”
Indeed it is.
Night Bird can’t do sums.
Diddums.
The self-owning continues apace, among the Troll Triumvirate Tag Team.
Never mind the unoriginal name-calling, MaryV.
Help Night Bird out with his maths.
People who think it’s fine to experiment untested and unapproved vaccines on children and babies really don’t have any credibility, either, IMHO.
I’m not interested in your opinion. But I would point out that is never humble. So, you should stick with the shorter version, IMO.
In my opinion, you are sometimes right and sometimes ridiculous. So what? When you thunder in like the cavalry to support someone who throws ad homs around before even getting his facts right, you are ridiculous.
But being ridiculous is neither a sin nor a crime, so who cares?
And I would point out, since you clearly can’t read, that I don’t approve of pushing Covid vaccines on children.
Or pushing them on anyone.
The honest people on here know that.
Tell us more about the secret DHS electronic watermarks in the 2020 ballot papers, Trolley Boy! And how Trump was going to be inaugurated on Jan 20…who’s been rolling out all the tinfoil round here again?
The water marks were confirmed.
But perhaps they were placed by “Russian Agents.”
LOL.
RL
Leaving aside the planes, note the dynamics of the Amazon rainforest conversation.
(1) Poster (me) makes point about rate of destruction.
(2) Arrogant tosspot throws ad hom, for no reason other than arrogant tosspottery.
(3) Poster (me) patiently refutes ad hom post I mean, this is Wednesday).
(4) Arrogant tosspot responds with a hail of desperate flailings about ANYTHING at all other than the rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed an emotional meltdown like this on CFN.
Glad I tuned in this morning. 🙂
And will the arrogant tosspot learn anything from it?
Aahahahahahahaha!
Greena Thunberg has the “science.”
Eco-foil.
LOL.
I have no interest in Greta.
Stop flailing, houseplant. Your leaves will fall off.
Just back your claim, Greena.
It would seem that the problem is that like HCQ and the GNP, the claim is disputed.
And we know how HCQ and GNP turned out for you.
You must excuse me if I remain unconvinced by your hand-waving.
Keep flailing, houseplant.
Soon be just the stems.
The people crying about the destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest but still eat meat are hypocrites.
Like everywhere else, the biggest culprit behind the destruction is meat consumption.
It is also to sell the wood of course, but ranching plays a huge part.
This goes on everywhere there are forests, not just the Amazon.
Enjoy your steak.
People who are fooled into clamoring for an experimental RNA-altering bioweapon injection by slick marketing campaigns guaranteeing their protection from a cold virus lose nearly all their credibility.
I mean, if they fall for that, they’ll fall for anything.
’ The water marks were confirmed.’
…as claimed in many Facebook posts. Your Qtip is showing, Trolley Boy.
The federal government has no role in printing ballots or in the on-the-ground mechanics of elections. The responsibility lies with state and local governments.
Some states may require a watermark on ballots, but there is no evidence of a secret Trump-issued watermark on “official ballots.”
Explain to me this also, please: military personnel on overseas active duty could download a voting form, print it at leisure, complete it and then mail it back prior to Election Day. How would the electronic watermark be delivered in this circumstance?
The Jello is quivering again..
I posted a Washington Post article on it last time. You were silent thereafter.
https://twitter.com/dnajlion7/status/1325914409416286208
It doesn’t matter how many BlueAnons jump in, you all have the same fatal flaw.
Mary, you’re doing that thing that Night Bird is doing. You’re flailing about at anything other than the maths of the rainforest destruction conversation.
And it’s not even your fight. I mean, it wasn’t you who threw an ad hom, out of pure arrogance, and was unfortunate enough to be utterly, totally wrong.
All we needed, if we went back in time, to avoid this whole thread, was for the person in question not to have chucked the arrogant and ignorant ad hom.
Flailing about in other issues doesn’t change that.
It just makes you look as if you’re in meltdown too.
“All we needed […]”
Failing that, he just needed to think ‘fair cop, guv’, and keep his mouth shut.
In a ‘least said, soonest mended’ kinda way.
I’m sure you remember that from somewhere in your past.
Thank you all for the hearty chortles.
What a morning! Hahahahahaa!
Indeed, and I’m sure we all thank you likewise.
And we’ll all go away and be our offline selves and not care a whit, till the next time.
I hope your crops do well.
You didn’t “post a Washington Post article last time”. You posted a tweet.
Kevin Lee, the tweeter, declares in headline a “fact” not in existence in the actual article.
Anyway, I thought the WaPo was a toxic mess of globalist misinformation in your crazy world-view.
I posted a link to the article.
This time I posted a Tweet mentioning the same article.
Try to follow along.
Yeah, Trolley Boy. Here’s the link to the article. Please show me where it states, as the Tweeter headlined, “ Washington Post CONFIRMS Watermarked Ballots sting OP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/07/cybersecurity-202-trumps-government-is-working-protect-mail-voting-while-trump-attacks-it/
The water marks were confirmed.
Some credible evidence for this? Cyber Ninjas aren’t on the list of credible sources. Over to you, the floor is yours. Take all the time you need.
When I first came across the Night Owl, I thought he was semi-smart, working for a Fortune 500 company in Germany, etc – but with a fair bit of tinfoil, a lot of sarcasm, and fairly bitter. A troll of course.
As I have watched his posts since say September, it’s become a lot clearer … he’s pretty dumb, he believes ever conspiracy theory known to mankind, he posts links to the weirdest fringe websites, and he is still sarcastic, still bitter, and still very much a troll. Sad.
He must be huge fun at dinner parties.
WOW LOL!! Night Owl is hovering over the target for sure. Alba has been reduced to name calling. And btw, I personally know a gentleman who is in very poor health and routinely takes HCQ and he has never had covid despite being in the highest risk group imaginable and despite his remaining even some would say inappropriately active and going into public routinely without masking and social distancing and literally being exposed to people with covid. And the loss of rainforests is breathtakingly sad. But millions, probably billions, of trees are being planted around the world because more people than ever are aware of deforestation.
This pile-on was especially entertaining. As usual, Night Owl emerges unscathed.
I especially enjoy the self-owns by the Triumvirate. They can’t seem to help themselves.
MaryQ -it’s like you’re our own special Marjorie Taylor-Greene to our very own local Matt Gaetz! Such a wonderful pair of inspiring nujobs.
” As usual, Night Owl emerges unscathed.”
“We create our own reality.”
So true. 🙂
Not a very apt comparison given I’m not a Republican and neither is Night Owl, from what I can see.
Another self-own/fail.
You never seem to tire of it.
As Narc Troll often states, ‘it’s not Rep v. GOP these days”. It’s a coincidence those two currently infest the Republican Rump.
The comparison is with a QAnon crazy woman and a narcissistic troll. Apt as, I’d say.
I have never stated such a thing.
The statement is that it isn’t Rep. vs. Dem. There is only the Uniparty.
Don’t worry Red, you just aren’t built for this kind of stuff.
We planted some birches on the weekend. Took me back. As a kid we had a few in our front yard in Upstate NY. I cried when the power company cut them down.
They will rise again! 🙂
Wonderful. I have been toiling in the raised beds I built in the back yard. I can’t wait for the vines to climb.
I have an aspen in the front yard which I love. Birches are similar, yes?
Bark is slightly different, but they are very simliar.
We went with a variety called a Himalayan Birch, as they tend to spread more. Oddly enough, in the gardening scene, they also seem to be more common than regular birch trees (Birken) here, despite the preference for local stuff.
I’ve spent more or less a solid month working in the garden. Was also thinking about doing some raised beds!
Gardening is hard work but I love it. I also got a flat of pollinator plants from a local conservancy that tracks the types of critters they attract (they have us report back). Cool stuff, can’t wait for the hummies.
Mary, you haven’t met Grandfather Birch? Let me introduce you. Water-proof wigwam? Birch bark. Wanna up-grade? Vikings used it as a water-proof layer for turf roofs on their long houses – wanna go greener than that? Birch bark cooking pots to brew Nookomis Giizhik (Grandmother Cedar) so you don’t die of scurvy. Birch bark canoes to take you to Nookomis Giizhik. So light you can carry one over your head with one hand, while dragging a dead moose with the other – or for the vegans among us, to travel without footprints harvesting the wild rice.
Gotta admit, when I see European birch, planted “ornamentally”, (they tend to branch lateralIy, rather than sprouting from the root base – I know my enemy) I wanna cut those damned invaders down.
Hi Mary, yeah, me again. Do your own homework on pollinator plants. Had a discussion a couple years ago with a neighbor who worked for the agricultural extension service regarding Lupinus perennis. I was concerned with polluting local genotypes with non-local genetics. Neighbor guy suggested exotic seeds among commercial lupine seeds was the real worry. Not so.
Lupinus perennis is the only food of the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly (Plebejus melissa samuelis) first described, by the way, by Vladimir Nabokov. Domesticated varieties of lupine are toxic to this species.
Believe nothing
Trust no one
Question everything
I was not given lupine as one of my pollinators, and most are native, the others no idea.
Milkweed, Sea Holly, Borage, Nasturtium, Yarrow, Hyssop, Calendula, Salvia.
Very interesting re: Birch. I wonder about the ‘native’ thing. Isn’t pretty much the whole world now covered in not only non-native people, but non-native plants?
As is generally the case with motile life forms, in the plant kingdom the natives have had to make room for the invaders, frequently getting crowded out of prime habitat and pushed to the margins. During my days as an airboat tour guide in the Everglades, one thing I was always careful to point out to the tourists was: “If you see something doing really well in Florida, it’s from somewhere else.” Really bugs me that the agricultural extension service recommends almost exclusively non-native plants. Damn those Japanese maples. Come the day of reckoning, hear my chainsaw howl.
Wow that is very cool!! Yes, the forests will rise one day again in all their former glory!!
SSL
“Alba has been reduced to name calling. ”
So, what you take from a conversation that STARTED with Night Owl suggesting I have the IQ of a houseplant, when he was completely wrong and I was correct, is that I’ve been reduced to name calling?
Is this Opposite World?
I thought better of you, SSL.
Do you have any contribution on the arithmetic?
I’m with you on the Amazon. That’s about it though. Cheerio!
Thank you. You may sit beside me on the plant table.
I’m polite, so you may have the Miracle-Gro before me at mealtimes, in case there’s not enough.
Actually there are a number of things we agree on, but that will do for today.
Oh well I didn’t intend to upset you Alba. But I just had noted that Night Owl must have gotten under your skin because normally you don’t launch into the name calling. But hey, it’s not like I haven’t ever done that so it’s not like an attack. Just a notice that it had occurred.
I’m not remotely upset, SSL. Mildly flabbergasted I’ll grant you (at your perceptions I mean).
And Night Owl didn’t get under my skin. He told me I had the IQ of a houseplant, while being totally wrong about what he was arguing.
He hadn’t the slightest idea of the rate of rainforest depletion, but just thought it was a good opportunity for a gratuitous insult.
And you tell ME I’m name-calling.
I get that that’s how it works around here, but seriously…
Greena Thunburg asks you to remember the Glaciers That Didn’t Melt.
Dr. Larp mocks your claim that HCQ works.
Then the mask drops and it is just The Narcissist with another disputed claim.
LOL.
I repeat, I am not interested in Greta or her claims. You would know that, if you’d read my previous comments about her. But you are not honest, so why bother.
And you have not provided verifiable correct data.
You took the opportunity for a gratuitous insult because that’s the kind of person you are. And then you talk about trolls and narcissists.
Please try to grow up.
I don’t know if it’s the moral ambiguity of your professional life (which you keep telling us about) which makes you so unpleasant – maybe you should try something that causes you less psychological and emotional pain and guilt.
SSL, it’s not just about the trees. Those forests are/were climax ecosystems home to an essential variety of flora and fauna that has probably taken decades, even centuries to establish. Planting trees somewhere else, no doubt done with the best of intentions, is never going to make up for that loss.
“Decades or centuries” ??? Try millennia or eons. Courses, that won’t work with a 6000 year old Earth.
Indeed, and there are species we haven’t yet discovered.
And others we did discover that gave us life-saving medicines.
Most of the plants that have proven anti-cancer properties are only found in tropical rainforests.
Alba, isn’t it terribly sad. And it’s not just the Amazon, it’s everywhere. I was lucky enough to scuba dive in the Red Sea and Puerto Rico, the Yucatan… trash all over the sea bed. Here in FL, mangroves & panthers eliminated to make room for “more of us”, the successful ones, with their mansions… damn, too many examples, to many experiences as a lifelong environmentalist, defeated, thoroughly defeated by $ and stupidity. My only stand now is my land, which will not only provide my family with a livelihood, but be a Noah’s Ark to all wildlife in it, even if I have to have less crop because I will NOT cut that 100 year old oak. That’s all I’ve got.
It is utterly depressing, Rulo, all of it.
So I will tell you something funny instead.
There was a lovely young professional couple living upstairs from us a number of years ago.
My husband (the illiterate doctor, pace Mr Coleman) mostly does the borders of our shared garden, and clips the edges of the grass when our 80-something neighbour on the first floor cuts it.
And not long after my then partner-in-sin moved in with me, and possibly because I pestered him for it, he put in a nice double compost box setup at the bottom of the garden. So, while we were having a chat with said lovely young couple one day, we said to them please do use it, it’s not just for us.
So this lovely young couple, both graduates and in good jobs, put their next load of vegetable peelings in the compost.
Tied up in a plastic supermarket bag. Words failed me.
GA, I believe it. Spent decades starting community gardens, offering workshops. You wouldn’t believe the caliber of some of the questions. “If I want my veggies to be organic, then I should water them with bottled water, right What’s a good brand?”
I was conducting that particular workshop in the company of an old black gent, a wizard at growing greens, when the young, well dressed woman asked that. I looked at him, he looked at me, in disbelief.
The problems in France are apparently bad enough that even Michel Barnier has now said “I think we have to take the time for three or five years to suspend immigration…The problems of immigration are not moderate. I know, as the politician that I am, to see the problems how they are and how French people experience them and to find solutions.”
Funny that. After years of sneering at Brexiteers for being ‘racist’ for wanting a sensible immigration policy, after demonising Salvini who had greatly reduced the numbers of people flooding into Italy (and saving many lives of the people trying to cross) with his zero-tolerance policy, after threatening Hungary who refused to have all the dross dumped on them, we now have this cretin from the diverse and inclusive EU, with its mantra of freedom of movement, finally admitting there just might be a problem.
Hmmm, I wonder, why the change of heart? Could it be anything to do with next year’s election? These people make me sick.
All Frenchmen are now cretins. All of them.
Great interview with a French officer anent the two letters, the first from officers, both active and retired and the second, the one I posted yesterday.
Down at the very bottom, the Gallia Francais
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2021/05/11/more-from-the-french-front/
Correction: The Gallia Daily – the Voice of France
Vercingetorix surrendered to Caesar, though
Slug, Europe is a culture in terminal decline. The US will be there soon. Europe equals sadness in my memories, a spent force, an old faun cramming on viagra, pedophilia, and perversion while the hired help plot for him to have an accident in his bath.
Yes, it’s a culture war for sure, and I actually think you’re way, way ahead of us in the USA (if that’s where you are located). We have little in the way of a common identity and no unified vision or worldview. The 24/7 identity politics from government, media, NGOs and various other special interest groups serves only to drive us further apart.
I’m an atheist, I don’t believe in the supernatural and therefore I will never be religious in any sense. Yet Yoho is right when he said (somewhere in this thread) that religion kept people in check. Anything that binds people with a common identity or purpose will achieve that, whether it’s true or not. Maybe churches will be the meeting places for whatever emerges following the die-off. It might not be such a bad thing.
American Pipelines and targeted supply-chain attacks by SMERSH.
https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon
This is a Good article for JAZ. He accepted my assessment that it is impossible to extract ourselves from our evolved techno-complexity and simply re-trace our steps for the past 50 years back to manual operations but this article gives these thoughts credence.
Systems were designed to integrate into existing systems. Then they became existing systems. Then new systems integrated into those existing systems. Then more Real World things are brought under control under those systems. Then it becomes a rat’s nest of existing systems.
Have you ever been in a small retail shop when their computer goes down? Nobody has a clue what to do while you, thirsting, try to give them a loony for a cold bottle of water.
Our interdependent complexity of modern Just-in-time delivery systems was never designed. It evolved. We are completely dependent and it is our Achille’s Heel.
Gobbledy Gook.
All one word, Amman, lest you be branded a racist.
No gas where I live this morning, May 12, 2021. We have an Energy Secretary picked for her gender, rather than her competence.
Wait for Redneck and Tekapo to stop by and tell you that you’re hallucinating and that the gas is actually there.
Or there will be a word salad on why it is “much, much” better that it is not there.
Gas shortages, bread lines, and starvation are good for the earth, you see. There is simply too much carbon.
And these dropped shoes don’t count as shoes dropped, Right Tekapo?
Good grief!. Right, Charlie Brown?
Tekapo backs-up his puppy pictures and Letters to the Editor from his laptop PC to a 64Gb USB drive and, therefore, cannot understand why a hacked pipeline is even a Big deal.
Hahahahaa!
https://youtu.be/pdFl__NlOpA
Wait for Redneck and Tekapo to stop by and tell you that you’re hallucinating and that the gas is actually there.
The gas is either there or not there – but most short-term gas shortages result from panic-buying and hoarding.
I don’t know what the gender of Secretary Granholm has got to with the price of fish … just sounds like misogynist whingeing. Colonial and federal agencies would be working around the clock.
Peak BIPOC?
Not even close, sadly. They’re just ramping up. We have at least 4 more years of that insanity, too.
short two-minute video needs to be seen by every American. Please pass on to your network.
Are You as an America ready for an added 37 MILLION more immigrants imported onto America’s shores within 10 years if his amnesty-immigration plan passes Congress.?
This video shows Biden’s immigration plan for America: adding 37 million more immigrants, the highest number in history, in the next ten years. The consequences to our environment, quality of life and degraded ecology will scream off the charts.
Not only that 37 million…we will add another 10 million of our own, net gain, to make it 47 million.
From there, the immigrants’ birth rates will add at least another 10 million people. These numbers are beyond comprehension. These numbers WILL collapse our civilization.
This video will scare the daylights out of every American as to what’s coming to our country:
https://youtu.be/Z1osgoEOrdo
Thank you,
— Frosty Wooldridge
Golden, CO.
–YIKES
And yet you will not hear much in the way of a discussion about how adding so many people to our country will thoroughly result in environmental devastation, habitat destruction and extinction, and a dramatic increase in the consumption of our natural resources. Not to even begin to speak to the social consequences. How many acres of forests are being mown down to make way for the new affordable housing units that all of the illegal outlanders will be given.
All officials who are complicit with this should be charged with crimes against the environment and humanity and be treated like international murderous war criminals and genociders.
“And yet you will not hear much in the way of a discussion about how adding so many people to our country will thoroughly result in environmental devastation, habitat destruction and extinction, and a dramatic increase in the consumption of our natural resources.
Happy to totally back you up on that, despite your personal attack.
People are terribly tribal on here, aren’t they?
Kind of a microcosm of “the real world”, doncha think?
Now Alba you know that was not a personal attack. You are so dramatic just like me. But that doesn’t mean anything. Drama is not always on point. IMOPO I think even one tree being felled in the Amazon is heart wrenching and insane. But then again, I have that feeling about lots of things in this world but I can’t do anything about them but just vent. So I understand the venting. People are definitely tribal yes. And yes, they always will be as long as they stay people.
There is no drama involved in noting that you insist on pointing to me ‘name-calling’ when the conversation started with another person telling me I had the IQ of a houseplant because I pointed out, perfectly calmly and undramatically, that thousands of square miles of rainforest are being destroyed every year to grow soya so that people can eat more meat than they need.
And provided the maths to back it up.
Something to consider on that front is the mindset of said people as well.
I have travelled a lot in the developing world and the environmental destruction and waste one encounters nearly everywhere is unlike anything I have seen in the West, and there are certainly spots in the US that are already problematic. The concept of environmental stewardship would appear to be non-existent. I know the reasons for much of this, but it is one thing to read about it and another to experience it.
We were in Nepal a few years back, and I nearly threw up when we went down to the Bagmati River in Kathmandu. The banks were covered in trash 4 ft. deep as far as the eye could see, and the stench wafted out for a good half mile. It was also full of wild pigs and other animals having a jolly old time.
Thank you for reminding me why I would never want to step foot in India. I have seen a lot of photos and travel journos describing similar in many areas there.
I have no problem with people championing the environment. I’ve been doing it for years. However, the ones who chastise others for it but are neck-deep in the trappings that come from it is just too much hypocrisy for me.
If you drive a car, or use a computer, or live in a modern house, all that shit comes from 3d world cheap labor and destruction of environment. So lecturing others for not caring about the rain forest destruction, for example, is just ridiculous.
Since I pointed out that WE (not you, obviously) contribute to the loss of the Amazon rainforest through meat eating, then I presume you aren’t referring to me.
I don’t eat much meat. And when my husband is working (he works evenings) I eat none.
My flat was built in 1890 and I don’t have a car. And I don’t fly (sorry, Slugoon). So there …
i do have a laptop, which I needed for work, and without which i would never have benefited from your wisdom.
Maybe you eschew products made with palm oil too.
In which case, thank you for that too.
I should briefly point out that I do care about rainforest destruction, just as I care about melting glaciers. I was, after all, once a Green.
I do not succumb to fear porn, however. These days, the word wizards are a great source of entertainment.
@Night Owl, same.
It’s OK, we get it. You’re a GOOD person.
But the truth is fear porn if you don’t like it.
OK.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Ewwww that is a real shame
Poor GA, always the victim.
She would fit in well with the LGBTQWERTYUIOP movement who love to wallow in victimhood.
Sorry, what?
‘Sealions, puppies and narcs, oh my!.
You’re too funny.
Don’t change, Mary. If you didn’t exist we’d have to invent you.
Says the poster who believes that 2 airplanes pulverized 3 skyscrapers 1 day.
(1) I didn’t say I believed or believe that 2 airplanes pulverized 3 skyscrapers. Never. But I expect you were too lazy to scroll back to the relevant post.
(2) My point to MaryV was that every time I responded to even one or two of her hundreds of posts, she complained that she was being ‘targeted’ by narcs (a narc is someone who dares to disagree with her and is ‘looking for attention’ by, you know … posting a comment like everyone else).
And she repeatedly posted a link to ‘Sealioning’ in Wiki. And said she was being followed across the board, by adoring puppies (a bit contradictory, but it wasn’t me writing this nonsense). That makes her a silly hypocrite.
But it has nothing whatever to do with planes or skyscrapers.
You can do better, OG. You’re not that desperate, surely.
But, like I said, it’s tribal on here, so whatever.
In other words you don’t have a public opinion on it (like abortion)? Or even a private opinion either, right (perhaps unlike abortion)?
You’re willing to criticize isolated details or policies, but you’re very uncomfortable with being basically at odds with the prevailing paradigm or reigning ethos, I suspect.
You can suspect whatever you like.
Your comments on abortion are salad. No idea what you’re talking about but we’ve been here before (re abortion).
You have no idea what I’m comfortable with.
I went to church for nearly 50 years in places where most people didn’t. And none of my friends went to church. And if I wanted to go back I would.
The prevailing ethos is mostly ignored by people my age.
I don’t care about it and it doesn’t care about me.
It’s made easier, of course, by the fact that this isn’t bumper-sticker or yard-sign land and we don’t go around wearing our opinions on our sleeves.
In other words you won’t say or say why you won’t say. My theory is the best explanation methinks.
GA,
Nobody gets a Free Pass on the most important event in Western Civilization in our lifetime.
The official story is that 2 airplanes pulverized 3 skyscrapers 1 day.
Either you understand that they mean us harm or you believe their ridiculous bull shit and, therefore, these medical experiments on Earth’s entire population are on the up-and-up.
It’s weird. You seem intelligent. You’ve Just thought the pyramid Capstone ran by Satanists is so ridiculous for so long that now you cannot accept the overwhelming evidence of such so you pretend that you can Just abstain from that Tuesday. Like an cartoon ostrich with its head in the sand.
Of course, your abstention speaks volumes on whether your Science is worth considering.
“In other words you won’t say or say why you won’t say. My theory is the best explanation methinks.”
I still don’t know what you’re saying.
Please spell it out the way you would to a houseplant.
Then I will answer.
OG
Enough is enough. I’m not going to bother with your comments any more, sorry, if you carry on in this vein.
When you say ‘nobody gets a free pass’, the important thing in that notion is your insistence that YOU are the person entitled to distribute the passes. Think about that.
I find that outrageous and against all notions of free speech and mutual respect.
I do not have a ‘psychological blanky’ of the kind you keep wittering about in such a patronising fashion. I am perfectly aware that there are people in power CAPABLE of doing what you think they did.
I think they may even have done it. I certainly feel it’s likely they knew about it and deliberately didn’t stop it. And they most certainly exploited it in exactly the same way they would have if they had done it.
But I don’t know. I’m not arrogant enough to claim that I do.
My compatriot, Slugoon, seems to me an intelligent guy and he’s the only one on here who really knows what he’s talking about when it comes to passenger planes and what it takes to fly them.
He also has the advantage of being able to argue his point courteously.
So he’s going to get every bit as much of my attention on the matter as you are.
Congrats, Mary.
You, too, have injured The Narcissist.
I too don’t have a definite opinion on most things. The first question of philosophy is, “what can I know”: Nothing for sure. I’ve been wrong too many times to not learn from it. Many here have been spared that, as they KNOW everything. I like GA because she’s intelligent, inquisitive and not dogmatic, with a good sense of humor. She reminds me of a former version of my Mum (she has dementia now), too, back when she was sharp and laughed a lot. I disagree with many of her views. But it’s rather sad to see her every utterance here (she’s contributing to this forum, y’know… she’s not dead weight or the enemy) savaged and dismissed by a pack of screamers with nothing better to do. Not plant crops, not nurture their families, not volunteer in a soup kitchen, no. Scream at another who thinks differently. There, that’s it. Add me to the hit list because, unlike y’all, I admit I DON’T KNOW and I’m trying to understand. Lucky the ones that have such a certainty, to know, owners of the Truth. I prefer an aging Scottish lady who follows that most Scottish of all philosophical traditions, ask questions, think for yourself. Damn, this place could do with 500 less comments a week, the ones engaging in personal vendettas instead of intellectual exchange. I must be getting old, I miss the whole “be polite to your occasional adversary and defend your points of view with a superior argument, not screaming and throwing tantrums”. Damn.
Hear! Hear!
Logic and reason are the order of the day. Screaming accomlishes nothing.
Rulo,
Maybe you should back track a few weeks and see her first attack on me out of nowhere. In other words, everything she gets, she has dished out.
Mis-attributing peoples’ words, nonstop; judging things we’ve said that we haven’t, etc.
I don’t dialog with people like that. I know most people fall for charming narcs but I spot them a mile away, and I don’t indulge.
Mary, understood. But dig this: you make enough strong points to provide us with food for thought without engaging in useless noise about other posters. Same with Owl and same with GA. Let the reader judge you by your best arguments, and think about them. “I got you, he got you, nyak nyak” (trying to sound like Curley of the Three Stooges there) are just noise, the noise some of us detest, thus my purging 500 entries comment. For the record, I agree with you most of the times. Dunno if you consider that “groveling apology”, but it’s not. No TV here, very little internet, this is a forum I’ve been following for years, as well as JHK’s books and I’d like it to be a higher arena than “nyak, nyak” (can’t even figure out how Curley sounds in English… I used to watch him dubbed in bad Spanish)
If you’d just say what you have to say and bypass the rest, I think many of us would be grateful, that’s all.
“Maybe you should back track a few weeks and see her first attack on me out of nowhere.”
Says the person who yelled ‘smother your children, you sick mess’ at me in one of her earliest exchanges, when my ‘kids’ are 35 and 40, and when at no point did I ever advocate putting masks on children. This is the person of reason that you consider yourself to be.
You refuse to be challenged and are best ignored by anyone who dares to disagree with you..
But I’ll give it another go and we’ll see if you can respond politely and reasonably next time a post of yours gets a less than sycophantic response.
But calling someone an attention seeker (you simply copied the ‘narc’ trope from Night Owl, who is a fan of personal vendettas because it’s important to him (a) to win and (b) to insult and diminish other people) when you post more than anyone else on here is a bit rich. You lack self-awareness, sorry.
“Hear! Hear!
Logic and reason are the order of the day. Screaming accomlishes nothing.”
Neither does arriving on a forum, getting your feet under the table, and immediately advocating that people who don’t automatically swallow your view on one particular topic – which you have decided in your overarching wisdom is critical – should be referred top as Santa Claus believers.
And let me just point out again, OG, in case you missed my reply, which you claim repeatedly to do, that you destroyed your own premise.
There are people on here unconvinced by the watertight nature of your beliefs on 9/11, but who otherwise agree with you on your Covid narrative.
Like Nght Owl, you could do with cutting out the virtue signalling.
And adding ‘I know because God told me’ to things doesn’t actually add watertightness to any argument. Otherwise there would be no point in discussing anything at all, but just shouting ‘God told me, so there’ at people.
Thank you, Rulo. I appreciate you advocating that I should be allowed to say my piece even when you disagree with it, without the pack arriving every time with their ‘narcissist’ nonsense.
I miss the days when Dr. Alfalfa would insult my family. Multiple posts that would build on each other into a tower of narcissistic rage. A monument for the CFN ages.
In that regard, I suppose she has learned to collect herself a bit better when being mocked.
You’re still at it.
List the insults to your family.
These are the things I know about your family. None of them suggests any sources for insults:
Son of about six.
Wife who is a social worker, with some kind of psychiatric training. Has a surgeon who is very clever and thinks Covid is a hoax. Is a lefty but turning.
That’s it.
I do recall what you said about my husband (the illiterate doctor) for daring to have a view on HCQ. How very dare he.
How
How do you remember these details, Alba? You have a knack for it. I don’t even remember ever mentioning my occupation before you brought it up several blogs ago. You’re not in the employ of the all-seeing Capstone are you? (Whatever the hell that’s supposed to be.)
I only remember details about people who repeatedly mention those details. Night Owl has repeatedly mentioned those particular details.
So has Kesa about her own life (someone said they were amazed when I gave a potted biography – including her age* – to someone else who claimed not to know anything about her background).
You probably only mentioned your job once, but I’ve never come across a pilot so it stuck in my mind, especially since you’re almost my only compatriot on here. And my daughter lived in Manchester for years so it stuck in my mind that you fly out of there too!!
*Kesa is 14 years younger than me. We share the same birthday month. if hers is also the 7th I will have to convert to Catholicism as she has clearly been sent to me. 🙂
She has called me some awful names (primarily because I’m no longer religious), so she would be my trial, or something!
And I don’t know what the Capstone is either.
But I have heard of the Georgia Guidestones too, since being on here.
There are so many things we Brits never hear about!
But I can go to the kitchen and forget why I went there, so there’s that. 🙂
Creepy as fuck.
It’s usually the top of the stairs for me 🙂
Night Narc
I pay attention to what other people say about themselves because I am not the centre of the universe.
YMMV.
And clearly does.
And I listen to what people say. I don’t rifle through their knicker drawers.
Get a grip.
Heck no, SSL.
With HR1, and S1, those immigrants are all future Democrats.
The idiocy called AGW becomes a weak issue in that environment, no pun intended.
Alba, an awful lot of info is being published lately denying the role of CO2 in global warming. It makes as much sense as twenty years of CO2 causing info. One of the guys I saw said that plant life is suffering to recover right now because of a dearth of CO2. Historically speaking, CO2 is still at low ebb. Could it be that if we somehow shove down CO2 more, that desertification of tenuous areas will increase?
The people that care need to concentrate on two things, total combustion of every carbon reaction to pure CO2 and H2O. Particulate pollution, incomplete combustion kill many more folks than the Covid. The second IS the slow conversion of FF to something else over the next fifty years, not the next ten. Peak oil is a fact and needs to be dealt with. The resource companies will drive this as FF get harder and harder to get. Cuomo, you idiot, you are shutting down the only alternative to FF that exists.
It slays me the lack of intelligence of the Dem leaders right now.
Wind and solar will NEVER fill the bill to supply the energy equivalent of FF, even Michael Moore is sighted up to that. Instead of facing up to the truth of this conundrum, the Dems just ignore it. How long will it take to set up a France type nuclear capability in this country? Twenty, thirty years? Better hurry. Maybe the gas fiasco on the East Coast wake up a few million complacent folks.
The Squad can’t do math – they’re taking their orders from people who can, presumably. The Green stuff makes more sense in terms of a mass die off by 2030. But maybe not even then!
But isn’t it our fault that they are over-populated, under-educated, and therefore now deserve to be over-here and under-our-care. Isn’t that why the stale pales are being shunted aside for the vibrant blessings of diversity?
BB, don’t lose sight of this: we’re only about 11% of humans. We ARE a key element of diversity. Africans and Han Chinese are the ironclad majority, and mestizos and Indians. Let’s not ever be in a position that we allow ourselves to be scapegoats and victims. Let’s demand the same respect all other minorities want, even minorities that are, in fact, majorities.
Hey Rules, when I say something that sounds stupid, I would consider it a favor if you would assume that I was being sarcastic!
I don’t drive around with my sarcasm tag on. Sometimes innocent critters get hurt. Well, live and learn.
Oh, I knew it was sarcasm, friend. I’m not that dim. I guess I can never let a chance pass to point out how precarious our racial position is, in view of never ending calls to “bring us to justice” for perceived wrongs of our ancestors or whatever.
Punished for the crimes (legal at the time) of those long dead – who may not even be ancestral; while at the same time real crimes in real time are encouraged as a “celebration”. Where is that mirror and how the hell did I get on the wrong side of it?
Do not forget it means we need to add 37/2 million electric cars (2 per), and the infrastructure needed to support them. Most of these immigrants will acquire old beaters, next stimulus package should include a few trillion to give all the immigrants Tesla’s.
What do you think? And they say no one has any new ideas!
At least the East Coast is thinking. No gas, no immigrants.
My tongue is stuck in my cheek.
Which cheeks?
Ha!
The upper editions!
I’m glad that you laughed, JAZ. We’ve had some run-ins but, as you pointed out, we agree as often as not.
Have yourself a Great day, sir!
Slugger,
Both you & I seek The Truth. We analyze known facts and apply sound logic in efforts to tear-down lies and deception and Shine Light on The Truth.
I do apologize if you have answered this already. While I often have last word as few people on CFN have the dignity to say, “You’re Right” after I have proven so, I also stop scrolling further back any more than 24 hours so I believe that I miss some responses entirely.
CFN is very fortunate to have a commercial airline pilot with us. You bring Real World expertise to this discussion. I still have not seen your answer to this very important question:
Slugoon, do you Really believe that strip club-frequenting Saudi jihadis who dropped out of a Florida Flight School after being unable to land a simulated Cessna flew those commercial airliner jets into those skinny targets that Tuesday (when several of your commercial-pilot colleagues have expressed doubt that they could!) not once but 2-for-2?
If you want to scroll back I have answered all of these points but since I think you are open to reason, unlike Owl, I’m happy to go through your question line-by-line.
Firstly, let’s remove “strip-club frequenting Saudi jihadis” from the question since it says nothing about whether they did/could or didn’t/couldn’t do it.
Next point, “couldn’t land a simulated Cessna”. When I trained in AZ there were some Kuwaiti students who were just dreadful, and dangerous. (Some of them didn’t even want to be pilots but their wealthy families essentially forced them because they thought it a prestigious occupation [it isn’t at all]). With a LOT of extra training, and money, they got through. Flight schools are just businesses. No matter how awful they may have been throughout their training, an FAA examiner eventually saw fit to issue them with a commercial pilot’s licence. I think you’ll find, if you research it, it took them quite a while and a lot of falling out with one flight school or another to get their qualifications. But get them they did. On top of that they took lessons in Boeing simulators along with studying videos and cockpit mock-ups, which would give them a feel for the inertia and operation of the big jets.
Now imagine yourself standing on top of the Twin Towers. What you would see if you looked in any direction was a relatively flat landscape with no surrounding buildings reaching any higher than halfway up the Towers. (Where did those planes hit? The top half.) The day was clear with good visual conditions. Those Towers would be conspicuous from miles away with nothing stopping a fairly straight run-in.
When you want to hit a target in an aeroplane, say a runway threshold, you put it at a fixed point in the windshield. If it moves you make a small correction. If it stays in that fixed point you will eventually hit it. Given the conditions of the day and the relative experience of the hijackers (even if they were objectively bad pilots) it would not be difficult to fix those prominent Towers in the windshield from 20 miles away and hit one. They would also know the altitude of the Towers and be able to find and maintain their ‘level’ quite easily.
I don’t know who these simulator guys were that tried it but if you’ve got any links I’d like to see them. Owl sent me one, which was hilarious. I can’t really say any more. There seems to be a burden of proof here that is almost impossible to satisfy. Considering the above would you say it’s not the impossible task that some are making out?
Yes, the Kamikazi pilots never learned how to land since they weren’t coming back. But they could fly their planes into American ships. The sailors reported the look of ecstasy on their faces just before contact. Much like the Jihadis no doubt.
Point for the Defense.
Hani Hanjour flew into the Pentagon.
The link I sent you had a reference to the PFT simulation, which consisted of professional pilots running a simulator and coming up scratching their heads at how a guy who could not fly “at all” nor speak English could complete a 320-degree turn at speed in a commercial airliner, dive 7,000 feet, take out phone lines, and skim the surface of the Pentagon foregarden at nearly 5oo mph before crashing perfectly into the wall and busting through multiple layers of the most fortified building in the country.
And the video of the incident. Presented in Potatocam HD.
Most hilarious, indeed.
Perhaps you can calculate the turn again on your napkin. Your credibility is clearly far greater than the flight school instructors the NYT interviewed, or the pilots conducting the sim.
But the final LOL is the longest and hardest: You are the one with the claim. If Hanjour did what you claim he did, prove it.
Everything else is the stuff of aluminum hats.
The link asking for my credit card details? LOL.
Could not fly at all? They had an FAA-issued CPLs.
It was a 330° turn not 320° according to the NTSB, as I’ve said all along. Not that it matters. I don’t know the speed of the aircraft. Assuming 300kts and 30° AoB here’s the maths: G*tan(30)/300 = 2.273nm turn radius. That also takes 157 seconds. 7000/157 = a descent rate of 2675ft/min. We very occasionally go past 6000ft/min in the ‘bus and the display turns amber so we have to reign it in a bit. 2675ft/min happens every day.
Crashing ‘perfectly’ into a wall? How does one crash ‘perfectly’?!
Busting through a few layers of wall? Gee, who would think a speeding jet could do such a thing?
My claim that he did it? It’s not my claim. It’s your claim that he didn’t. For all I know it still could have been an inside job. Your denial of the official story rests on the sole fact that what he did was impossible. It clearly was not. But you are a child and incapable of understanding any of the above.
I’m not convinced the three towers could not have fallen from impact of two saudi-hijacker-piloted planes.
I am convinced that no matter who toppled the towers, the Bush admin took absolute advantage of the tragedy to initiate decades of poorly orchestrated military action benefitting essentially no one but private defense contractor ceo’s and shareholders.
Never forget the Sky King, who did a vertical 360, impressing the Air Traffic Controlers in Seattle. They tried to talk him down, even saying he could get a pilot’s job. The Sky King knew they were lying and that he was only going to prison and that he would never be allowed to fly again, even as a passenger.
He nose dived into a wooded island, ending his life of quiet (no one knew) desperation.
He learned from flight software alone.
No it is your claim. It is the genesis of the discussion.
You believe he did it. The official story.
The official story has not been sufficiently bolstered with hard evidence.
Scrawling out equations on your pub napkin does not suffice.
I am a very smart child, which is why you are reduced to insults for a claim you can’t back up.
Any video for us not filmed in Potatocam HD yet?
LOL.
All hail the Sky king !
Barbara Honegger and many others say it was a missile, and have good circumstantial evidence backing it.
Where were all the video cameras? the moments when something approached and hit the pentagon are gone. Why do you think that is?
Yes, all hail the Sky King! Unfortunate that he undoubtedly also took, at the very least, some lichens with him, and left scratches on the rocks that will mislead future geologists – one hell of an omelette there buddy.
Some people can learn to fly using a simulator. Some people can’t learn in a real plane with a real human holding their hand.
I have so many responses, Slugger. First of which is: Thanks! I appreciate your time and expertise. Also, don’t kid yourself, Commercial Airline Pilot is a kick-ass occupation. Everyone knows that.
Ok …
The day was clear with good visual conditions. Those Towers would be conspicuous from miles away with nothing stopping a fairly straight run-in.
Note: “[N]othing stopping” i.e. a madman in a cave in Afghanistan had the US Air Force stand down the entire Eastern seaboard of the Homeland that day. Weird, eh?
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It was commercial pilots claiming that they were not sure that they could hit those skinny towers skirting along a mere couple hundred feet above the building tops and busy streets and the tricky air currents that they causes plus the Gs required for the way that those planes approached Manhattan Island that Tuesday morning (and cajones of slamming into a building completely disregarded). I saw and heard these pilots in 2003 or 2004 on account of Michael Ruppert’s extensive investigation of that day. I do not have links for you but I know that I saw them say so.
What of the magic, explosion-proof paper passports that allowed immediate identification of the patsies … I mean terrorists?
What of the fact that several of the 19 terrorists were disclosed to be alive and well a couple years after that Tuesday? Were they, like their passports, also explosion-proof?
What of WTC7?
What of the Secret Service leaving POTUS reading My Pet Goat like a sitting duck for 10 minutes with God-knows-how-many hijacked planes roaming the skies of the inexplicably unprotected Eastern seaboard?
What of the completely unprecedented airline stock short-selling that paid hundreds of millions but was claimed by law enforcement to be untraceable in ludicrous bull shit?
What of the dancing Israeli art students?
What of the eye witnesses of “Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop?”
What of the many videos showing the same?
What of bluekayak‘s eye-witness testimony of the same from the Manhattan bridge?
What of Larry Silverstein saying that he decided to “pull it?” [It being WTC7.]
What of all the matter of 267 stories of occupied office tower (220 of which were an acre each)? Why did it all become toxic dust caking Mahattan, killing hero first-responders and pluming out to sea?
Why did President Bush refuse to testify under oath or even face any questioning at all without VP Dick Cheney there to protect him from spilling the beans?
Why did fires burn exactly like thermite for weeks without oxygen?
Why did they ship this crime scene evidence to China for recycling ASAP?
Why did Donald Rumsfeld announce $2.2T MIA from Pentagon on Sept. 10, 2001?
Why did the US gov’t have trucks and earth-movers destroying the crime scene of the Pentagon lawn that same day?
I got many, many more but that’ll do for now. If you want to keep clinging to your psychological blanky, you got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do.
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Note: I do not believe that the FAA certified anyone of these strip club-frequenting Saudi jihadis. While the CIA could obviously have the FAA do so, it is my understanding that they were Flight School drop-outs. Like I say, I did my Research 17 & 18 years ago so perhaps FAA certifications of these patsies … I mean … terrorists have surfaced since. Do you have a link?
And, yes, it does matter because it is ridiculous! Jihadis on a dearh mission for Allah do not frequent strip clubs. Tekapo says that proves their guilt because he’d go to strip clubs before his kamikaze mission. Tekapo is, of course, a moron of the worst kind: a moron that considers himself intelligent.
All sins will be forgiven them. Some of them are attracted to suicide Jihadism because they cannot give up drugs and women.
Sir Richard Burton theory was that the Southern Caucasians have stronger libidos than we, the Northern Caucasians do. Any port in a storm, eh Og? Not for gentleman like us of course.
All sins will be forgiven them. Some of them are attracted to suicide Jihadism because they cannot give up drugs and women.
Indeed – if I had been denied sex, beer, dope, and ham sandwiches when I was 19, I think I might have become a bit suicidal myself! Thank god for atheism. Religion is institutionalised insanity.
Yet God & Satan are Real.
I don’t have answers to a lot of those things, OG, and if that means I am clinging to a psychological blanky then so be it. I was hoping we wouldn’t go back to that level. A large part of your and Night Owl’s argument is based on incredulity, that it was simply impossible for these Arabs to have flown those aircraft the way they did. I’m simply pointing out to you that, from my experience and what I’ve learned having never looked into it before this thread, it is perfectly possible for them to have done it. There was nothing supernatural about the way those aircraft were handled or anything that indicates to me that great skill was required.
They were probably 1000ft above ground coming in for their target based on the height of the Towers and the location they hit. This idea that ‘tricky air currents’ and G-forces were enough to render a 767 or whatever impossible to fly, I mean, it’s just silly.
There must have been literally thousands of aircraft across ATC radar screens at the time. I believe they turned their transponders off, which would have left only a primary radar return that would also have disappeared below a certain altitude. They were no doubt also crossing many different ATC sectors in quick succession without comms. I can only imagine the utter confusion across ATC and the military air defences trying to work out what was going on and which aircraft might be compromised.
As to all the other things you mention, I don’t know, I haven’t researched them. Much of it seems as anecdotal and unsubstantiated as the official story that you are doubting and based on the arguments I’ve heard so far about ‘impossible’ piloting I suspect some of them would fall apart under closer scrutiny. But I don’t have hard proof either way. On the balance of probabilities I don’t think it was an inside job. That’s just me. I can rationalise both the flight paths of the aircraft in the hands of those guys who obviously trained for just that event and I can rationalise the building collapse. By all means file me in the group of tin foil hat wearers but I’ve got nothing more of value to add.
And the other thing is, I don’t really care either way whether it was an inside job or not. If somebody produced irrefutable evidence that what really happened wasn’t per the official story then I would not be all that surprised and would have no problem believing it.
I’m not willing it to be one way or the other. It’s just that when the likes of you or Owl maintain that it’s impossible for an aircraft to turn a circle using 30° bank and simultaneously descend at 2600ft/min, it demonstrates that you are not open to any other opinion but your own.
That isn’t even what I said. I was referring to the full maneuver as described later.
It is this kind of bad faith that makes discussion pointless.
OJ, Ruppert was a brave soul. Like so many brave souls, he was annihilated psychologically, emotionally. Killed himself after a bizarre attempt at exile in Venezuela, then under Chavez. Sad story. The cost of being brave is your life. It’s easy to claim to be brave on the internet, much harder to walk the walk like he did. RIP.
Sorry, OG. Simpson reflex.
That is a fitting tribute to Michael Ruppert. Thanks for that, Rulo.
I mentioned earlier that Ruppert was a tireless investigator of both that Tuesday and of the intricate details of the CIA running drugs for black ops budget after getting on the Wrong side of that while an LAPD detective.
Of course, like Hunter S. Thompson, if you get too close to The Truth, you kill yourself.
I am not saying that the CIA killed Michael Ruppert. I have no idea.
Regardless, he was indeed a brave man. RIP
I have a legitimate question for you OG.
You are a cheerleader for the 9/11, Deep State theory, right? Is it the government responsible for the attacks? The conflicting data says that it could be?
Why? Military industrial bravado? It wasn’t partisan, Bush and Cheney were in there.
It does bother me that the Deep State could have the power to hide such a massive “trick”.
Is our intelligence community really that corrupted? I think we all know the answer to that.
Now, if we accept the premise that the attack was internal, what do we do about it? If JFK was assassinated by the mob and CIA at the behest of the Deep State, if 9/11 was done to incite a war by our own government, what next?
OG the problem is that the American public to too stupid to realize what the Deep State is all about. Trump was a breath of fresh air against the rot of the federal government, but he did very little to counter them. He just plain was outnumbered and outgunned. Then the final blow, the American public elected the most socialistic government in history.
Maybe you should be shooting your cannons in another direction.
Slugoon seems to say that yes, the planes could’ve done the job they appeared to do.
Maybe the planes were a match to light the fuse of whatever might have been installed in the towers.
Ah, that’s a stretch, JAZ. Time to get your finest Occam’s Razor on that one.
Slug can’t even keep track of who hit what. The entire thing about the Cessna and poor flight skills concerned Hanjour.
I will state again that I have no personal opinion on whether Hanjour actually did it, but that I do not believe it was possible based on the information available.
The government’s claim like so many claims on 9/11 was never substantiated with anything of any real substance. As so often, the foil would appear to emanate from those who would purport to have all of the answers.
I have no idea where Hani Hanjour was on the morning of 9/11/2001, but I am sure it was not behind the controls of an airliner. Couldn’t legally fly without an instructor, yet managed to perform a spiral dive to ground level, evading all obstacles, and crash into the Pentagon on the best-protected of its five sides – and shed no debris! Some people are natural pilots. The others are Hani Hanjour.
Couldn’t fly (even though he had a CPL), spiral dive (330° turn with normal angle of bank and descent rate), descended to ground level (we call that landing and aim to do that each time we fly), evade all obstacles (because there are so many obstructions up in the open sky).
[Slugoon shakes head] I think you’ve been on that Mescaline Syd Barrett was taking, BB.
Syd Barrett was dosed with LSD. He was given WAY too much once and his mind never came back.
Way, way too much.
For those of us that are experienced, way, way too much LSD is terrifying to even consider.
Maybe his CPL was bogus, given the fact that two schools rejected him and the instructors in FL said he could not fly.
Mind blown.
I don’t normally jump into mud puddles – yet here I am.
The official story of 9/11 has, in my opinion, too many incredible elements, Hani Hanjour being just one. I saw many of those elements of TV that day, but it was eight years before I finally came down firmly on the contra position. But I have no need to convince anyone of anything.
I know people who accept without question the official story – on pretty much everything. I have a name for those people: friends. When the conversation strays into politics it can get real hot real quick. But if my car breaks down or they need a babysitter – who ya gonna call?
Syd Barrett? I’m pretty sure he took LSD – a lot of it – voluntarily. Did that mess him up? Maybe, but it seems he also had a fondness for Mandrax (UK ‘ludes).
I don’t know anything, but I have a lot of opinions and tend to be rather generous with them.
You are a cheerleader for the 9/11, Deep State theory, right? Is it the government responsible for the attacks?
I am not a cheerleader for anything. I never even say those 2 things. I seek The Truth.
The Truth is, yes, the US Government was involved in the false flag events in New York and Washington that Tuesday.
Why? Military industrial bravado? It wasn’t partisan, Bush and Cheney were in there.
Mainly to put fear into people. They need the people fearful to take away their Freedoms. It worked. It always does. The PATRIOT Act was already written before PNAC’s “new Pearl Habor.”
You got partisan on the brain, JAZ. The capstone runs Bushes and Clintons. Red v Blue is Frick v Frack and, when the cameras stop, all the pro rasslers drink together.
It does bother me that the Deep State could have the power to hide such a massive “trick”.
It should. Even worse, they throw in things like magic, explosion-proof paper passports to goof on you while they play their tricks on you.
Is our intelligence community really that corrupted? I think we all know the answer to that.
Indeed.
Now, if we accept the premise that the attack was internal, what do we do about it? If JFK was assassinated by the mob and CIA at the behest of the Deep State, if 9/11 was done to incite a war by our own government, what next?
Be sure that you are Right with God, JAZ. Repent your sins and pray for forgiveness for the past and for Strength, Perseverance & Wisdom for the horrific troubles ahead.
OG the problem is that the American public to too stupid to realize what the Deep State is all about.
Indeed they are but it’s only a problem if you keep fretting over this realm as we transition to the next.
Trump was a breath of fresh air against the rot of the federal government, but he did very little to counter them. He just plain was outnumbered and outgunned.
Trump is an enigma to me. A burr under their saddle or TV star with a role to play? I don’t know. Calling people to DC for weeks then telling them to meet him at the Capital Bldg then no-show the crowd-funnelled “insurection”/Guided Tour and finally leave Dr. Simone Gold and so many others out to dry?
That’s not outgunned. That’s complicit.
Then Big Tech prohibits the President of the United States of America from communicating with the American people?
We live in BizarroLand.
Then the final blow, the American public elected the most socialistic government in history.
I believe that they did not elect POTATUS (thx, MV!). I believe the truck I saw show up with boxes of Biden ballots in Detroit at 4am. I believe that Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia but who knows? Maybe they Just want half of us to think that.
Right? After watching the “death” of Ashli Babbitt, all bets are off the table. Right?
While there are indeed Socialist aspects to the Biden/Harris agenda, it more closely resembles Fascism.
Maybe you should be shooting your cannons in another direction.
Maybe. That Tuesday is the perfect litmus test though. We are trying to determine wtf they are doing shoving their kool-aid into every other arm on Earth.
People who must keep their psychological blanky believing that 2 airplanes pulverized 3 skyscrapers 1 day need be given their cookies & milk, read a bed-time story, prayers and seeps while us adults carry on with the Real World.
This video – a presentation by Barbara Honegger – explains everything about the Pentagon 9/11 hit you would want to know.
https://youtu.be/hcTQdqSDYB0
Two hours of details on a move Slugoon could make in a commercial airliner while sipping a Mint Julep.
Tell her she is a nutfudger.
That actually made me laugh, Owl! You wouldn’t believe what goes on inside the flight deck sometimes.
I have little doubt about that, Slug.
LMAO!
Wow, Biden is really failing. I’m sure it’s by design, as their ‘build back better’ first requires dismantling and destroying what we have currently. That was the part they didn’t feel it necessary to let us know about though during campaign season.
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1392440952254570500
Battered Biden under siege as crises confound the White House
What “crises confound the White House” that aren’t being analysed and responded to appropriately? A twitter feed hardly constitutes hard news.
Mary, I post this Forbes article and look forward to your assessment of its Science.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2021/01/11/covid-19-vaccines-cant-alter-your-dna-heres-why/?sh=71fb1bc12491
Thank you.
Step in here.
Why is there such a discrepancy between the two sides regarding the whole Covid business? What is getting all the contrary folks off on taking these opposing positions?
If the vaccine clobbers people beyond the expected limits, it will be done away with time. If it does not and the disease itself contracts, more people will get the shot. The crappy political side is the segregation of folks, vaccine or not. That should be illegal. In our lovely modern litigious world however, corporations will segregate to protect themselves. Not good.
JAZ
There are pockets of calm.
Yesterday I went to the hairdresser for the first time in many months. I mention this because OG says his GF, who is a hairdresser, is being extraordinarily harangued for not being vaxxed.
We talked about schools, and then her adopted son being bullied. We mentioned reinstated holidays.
Nobody mentioned vaccinations. Not her, not me, not anyone else in the shop. I don’t know if she’s vaxxed and she doesn’t know if I am.
Sanity!
GA,
Either you hit a very unique moment in time or your hairdresser is way luckier than is my GF.
Canadians are sheeple. We bitch and complain about our governments (Ottawa & Provincial) then politely get in line for the freight trains. “No budding,”
It is rare when a client in her chair does not ask about her having taken one of the kool-aids.
The vast majority of Canadians believe whatever their TVs tell them to believe and one of those beliefs is:
Anyone who doesn’t take the kool-aid is selfish &/or stupid.
Well I wish her good luck, OG.
Shame she can’t set up on her own.
My hairdresser isn’t particularly lucky, I think. She’s just sensible. And sufficiently self-aware to know instinctively, I think, that my vaxx status is none of her business. Nor hers mine.
Thanks, GA.
Setting up on her own would do no Good as it is her paying clients that want a kool-aided hairdresser.
They will make life extremely difficult for those that they cannot control.
Extremely. Think Room 101.
The place where there is no darkness.
“The place where there is no darkness.” The hairdresser? Are we getting to the roots of your resurrected paganism? If I remember correctly, among the pagan Norse, religion was the woman’s domain. Will it again be so in the Homeland? State to man, church to woman?
You’re not as inscrutable as Nostradamus – but keep trying!
No, 1984. Bested!
I’ve never heard such a thing. Half of the Gods where Men after all, divine archetypes of what a Man could and should be.
Will you not move towards the Light (not the unholy florescent light of room 101)?
To accept this unviable status quo as normal is one hell of a normalcy bias. Normies think it’s still 1970. You don’t have this excuse, right?
What’s getting us contrary folks off, JAZ, is that we believe that they mean us harm. We believe that they are jabbing their kool-aid into every arm that they can because they have engineered and are now executing a Global de-population program.
And, we have centuries of insurmountable evidence to substantiate these most serious of allegations.
Thanks for putting the suspicion plainly, O.G. If that’s true though, isn’t it simply part of God’s Great Plan, in which you’re so heavily invested?
Absolutely, RL. I believe we are now entering the events prophesized throughout the Bible and extensively in the Old Testament’s Daniel and the New Testament’s Revelation.
I believe that we must soon face 7 years of Trials & Tribulations then Armageddon then Jusgement Day then 1,000 of Jesus’ Rule on an Earth where there is no death.
Absolutely!
Yet you ‘fight’ this…or are you welcoming it?
I am not fighting to stop Gates, RL. If Dr. Simone Gold can’t do that then neither can I.
I am reminding all that read JHK’s CFN: Get Good with God! Be on His side as the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
I do look forward to the 1,000-year reign of Jesus, RL, and I Hope to “make the team.”
Right now, however, we are approaching the rapids. They are the fierest rapids in millenia. It is not a matter of fighting or welcoming the rapids. This can’t be wished away with a can-do attitude. The rapids must now be vavigated without bleeding to death on the rocks.
The mainstream media’s job is to keep you getting the jab.
As O.G. said below, once the cover of the hoax is blown, there is no reason to believe what these people in charge say.
Plus I’ve listened to 100s of doctors, scientists, epidemiologists, some major award winners, and an ex CEO of Pfizer (Dr. Yeadon) for months, explaining just what a horrible hoax it is.
I’ve posted plenty here.
You refuse to believe that they don’t care about your health, and that they want to depopulate, create chaos, and use the ensuing mayhem to shape the world how they want us, in a techno-feudalism global state.
You either understand that or you don’t.
That is my response.
Sorry. I thought it was JAZ who posted the link. My bad.
No worries, Mary. But, I guess, there is no 1 single link that you’d counter this Forbes article? I have been sent this article from someone that I love that is so far still unjabbed. They sent me this. I don’t know what to reply.
They’re going to get the jab, you will have to accept it. No matter what you send them, they will find a mainstream pro-vaxx article to ‘counter’ it, and there is no shortage of them.
Either people understand the PTB are evil psychotics killing us for profit, or they live in the Truman Show. Those are impossible to reach, as you can see up here every day.
All we like sheep have went astray
We have turned everyone to his own path
Our law-less-ness is his burden
Taken to Calvary buried at Golgotha
Laid it all down, all guilt, grief and sorrow
Still more promises so bring on tomorrow.
The same Book brings on the End of Times.
Right now, there are very few Christians left in the world, folks that have faith in the wisdom of God and put themselves in His hands.
If the celestial “train” takes away the saved souls, it will be a short one.
Yes and No, JAZ.
After 7 years of Trials & Tribulations, He will come again to judge the living and the dead. Judgement Day
I have heard estimates that we are 7.5B living but 100B souls total since Adam & Eve.
The vast majority of the living (undoubtedly way less than 7.5B) will take The Mark of the Beast to, among other things, buy and sell in today’s Satan World but how many Good people are in limbo awaiting Judgement Day? Surely there were more Good men in 1948 and in 1790 than there are in Satan’s Wicked Playground.
My point is, using your metaphor, yes, the train to Hell is longer than the train to Heaven but both are Really long trains.
He is a forgiving God and sent His only begotten son to bear the sins of the World. There is plenty of room in Heaven for anyone who repents and prays. The more the merrier!
The more the merrier?
You just told us upthread that you were HAPPY at the thought of the majority of the human race burning in hell where they belong.
You surely don’t want too many getting into heaven and spoiling your fun, especially when you’re pretty much bound to merit a front seat.
I’m sure God will overlook you being a divorced Catholic with a girlfriend. I mean, the commandments are for the little people, and you’re Tony Soprano, like you said.
Where would we be without cherry-picking Christians?
And a country which claims, more than any other in the Western world, to follow a guy who said ‘lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth’, but who are the most acquisitive and wasteful consumers on the planet.
Never mind, when you get to heaven, ‘you will own nothing and you will be happy!’
“…the train to Hell is longer than the train to Heaven but both are Really long trains.”
There’s only one train. A penny a point, no one’s keeping score.
Haha, love that song.
I know you’re very blblical, MD, but I find your Christianity more humane than some on here. Unless I’ve misunderstood it.
We’ve all misunderstood, then you [ suddenly] realize none of it was your doing, at all.
GA,
You should know by now that I am consistent.
The more the merrier!
Absolutely. That’s what I am doing here. I am reminding CFNers that there is still time to get Right with God. To repent your sins. To pray for forgiveness. To pray for Strength, Perseverance & Wisdom for the horrifically difficult days ahead.
The next realm is not a physical place like the World you know, GA. There is all the room in the universe in Jesus’ 1,000-year reign.
I wish everyone on Earth my very Best and that they “make the team.”
It is written, however, that this Satanic World that is populated by corrupt, evil, lying scumbags will have the vast majority take The Mark of the Beast so that hey may, among other things, buy & sell. The vast majority of souls living today will be sentenced to eternal damnation and Justifiable so.
That’s hardly my fault. I’m actually completely irrelevant. We all know that.
especially when you’re pretty much bound to merit a front seat
How dare you! I have only ever said that I do not deserve to “make the team” and that I repent and pray for forgiveness.
I believe that God wants soldiers who know Satan. Like an outreach program to the countless drug-addicted homeless. God’s work is not all white lillies in a meadow. His children’s souls are for battle in the pits with reptiles.
We each have our journey, GA. I am doing the Best with what is left of mine and I’ll be damned if I will apologize to you for not looking at my ex-‘s scowling puss every day for the rest of my life!
I don’t cherry pick. I don’t claim luggage stow-away let alone front seat. I look at it from a scholarly and scientific point of view.
In my analysis, I deem myself irrelevant while God’s Word is fulfilled. That’s what so many people can’t do: Stop for a minute from the constant, “What’s in it for me? What’s in it for me?”
Aquarians are Better than most at detaching our interests from analysis and I (Feb. 3) am Better than most Aquarians.
I never said that I am Tony Saprano! Man, you’re irritating sometimes, GA. I said that I was Catholic like Tony Saprano to convey, “Not a very Good one.”
Canadian politics bore me. They always have. I keep slightly abreast Just by living here but have always followed DC. The Bigs.
Anyway, I got nothing to do with any yahoo in Ottawa’s House of Parliamnet nor the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly.
After 50 years of top-percetile academic then corporate ladder-climbing performance, I turned to my gov’t for Justice and, instead, was denied my basic Rights over and over and over again while crooked lawyers snarfed my half of my life’s work.
I have as much to do with the corrupt pigs that rise to power in Canada as you have to do with Nessie.
That there is a Stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell says a lot about the anticipated traffic……
Trean, I’m not one to toss out compliments – but that was hilarious!
@GreenAlba
I really admire you resolve, perseverance, and determination … but at the end of the day, you’re trying to discuss issues with pod people.
They are captured by a world-view based on conspiracy theories, and when they buy into one conspiracy theory (whether Christianity or something more recent – JFK, 9/11, Covid-19, QAnon, whatever) they are wholly duped by every conspiracy that comes along. It’s the nature of these things.
Everything not to their liking is a lie or fake news or explained by dark forces. Or caused by the Commie Dems.
Even today we have “the watermarks have been confirmed” – absolutely no evidence whatsoever, and a huge amount of logistical procedural evidence that it’s not possible and never was – but if someone reads something on facebook or twitter, they grab it and run with it.
Amazon rainforests are being destroyed at three soccer pitches per minute or hour or whatever. Same same … total denial because they are global warming deniers as strongly as they are pandemic deniers.
It’s strange, and it’s almost impossible to argue rationally with such people, but your persistence is impressive, despite their lame ad hom slings and arrows.
They are captured by a world-view based on conspiracy theories, and when they buy into one conspiracy theory (whether Christianity or something more recent – JFK, 9/11, Covid-19, QAnon, whatever) they are wholly duped by every conspiracy that comes along. It’s the nature of these things.
Therefore?
“… … Therefore … People in Power don’t conspire!”
I am not sure that I like your Police work, there Tekapo.
You see, if the World is ran by Satanists (it is), then it stands to reason that they will pull multiple shit over time. JFK, MLK, RFK, Tonkin, Apollo/Kubrick, Watergate, Hinkley, Kuwaiti incubators, Oklahoma City, Waco, that Tuesday, WMD, Hank Paulson, The Covids.
Nobody believes every conspiracy theory, Tekapo. The landscape is littered with limited hang-outs, ridiculous flat-Earthers, misleading misinformation and agents provocateur.
Part of making us look tinfoil is to simply show a wing-nut in tinfoil and Voila! somewhere along the line people in power stopped conspiring after millennia of constantly doing so.
OG
The country I was referring to was the US, not Canada. And I’m sorry you lost so much of your life’s work.
When I split up with my ex-husband I didn’t ask for or get a bean that wasn’t my due. I got half the equity of the house, which I had (at least) half paid for. End of. And I was awarded £25/week from the courts as a contribution to keep TWO children. Then the Child Support Agency was created to take over the role and chase up men who weren’t paying for their kids.
So, some men started whingeing that they couldn’t pay for their first and second families and some threatened suicide (I think one carried it out). And on the basis of that, the ‘protected salary’ of divorced fathers was increased and my weekly maintenance for TWO children was reduced to £3.
Yes, you read that right. £3. And he didn’t even have a second family. And it stopped at age 16, even though one went to college till 20 and the other to university and beyond.
There’s a lot of shit in the world and I’m glad I don’t owe him a bean.
*******
My original point was that you very specifically said you were HAPPY to contemplate most of humanity burning in hell where they belong.
I do not take lessons of any kind from someone who thinks like that.
I would rather see Fred and Rose West, along with Pol Pot and Dr Mengele, cleaned up and sent to heaven than see one person burning in hell.
And, while I have no difficultly in understanding how one would live in utter terror of a supposed god who burns people, I am absolutely incapable of understanding how one would love ‘him’. And that is the commandment. Even though not one single person ever asked to be born in the first place.
And, while I have no difficultly in understanding how one would live in utter terror of a supposed god who burns people, I am absolutely incapable of understanding how one would love ‘him’. And that is the commandment. Even though not one single person ever asked to be born in the first place.
Christianity is the Mother of all Conspiracies, GA, the greatest con-job in the history of humanity. Christianity has set back human progress at least 2000 years – sad!
But lots of people fall for it – hook line and sinker – and they get pretty darn cross if you call them out as feeble-minded children who can’t stand the thought that we are just intelligent mammals with clothes on.
Oh well – all we can do is avoid them, and make sure you keep your door locked at night. Or pat them on the head if they appear agitated. Offer them a blanky perhaps.
Just listened to Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast on Youtube. It’s not so fun or funny anymore. Humor is a function of distance: spacial, temporal, and relational. We’re a lot closer now…..
Heh. Virus is the song made for these times, and it isn’t even about an actual virus.
Just like the Covid Hoax!
Having Vincent Price quote Revelation 13:18 as the song’s intro is very chilling.
You should have seen my north Regina high school circa early 1980s. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Sab, Motorhead, Dio. Devils everywhere and me with my Doors shirt.
OG, are you happy about most humans burning in hell? Are you happy about those who worship a different God burning in hell? (I don’t comment much, but read everything… are you happy about an Holocaust that sent millions to, according to you, hell?)
And, what makes you think you’re not going there, too?
I always wonder about, what if the uber religious have been tricked into thinking as they do, by the devil? Whoops.
Hey Rulo,
I remember that you gave me some much needed advice & wisdom when I first joined CFN about a month ago.
I don’t Really spend time being “Happy.” It was never Really my thing. I am project-driven and laser-focused. For example, I got the Best, most organized hockey card collection that you have ever seen, probably.
God wrote the Book. I am merely trying my Best to follow it. I believe that I am more in tune with some of these manifesting prophecies on account of multiple reasons. A significant one was an LSD trip in 1981. I have been watching for these times for 40 years.
It is amazing to watch as God’s Word is fulfilled. It is not for me to Judge God. No. It is God that will Judge me.
I do not believe that people who live different lives will all be Judged as will I. Infinite God with infinite Wisdom will Judge each soul based on its performance in its own environment.
I believe that Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Jews and you name it will all be represented at the wide Gates of Hell as well as the narrow road to Heaven.
In fact, to illustrate that point, this concept is the basis of my CFN handle.
I am unclear what Holocaust* you mean. Are you speaking of the 1940s German Nazis and their treatment of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political dissidents, the insane, the deformed, etc.? I never said that those tragic victims would be sentenced to Hell by God. Not them nor victims of the many other Holocausts* and Genocides* committed repeatedly throughout mankind’s history.
Oh! I do not deserve God’s forgiveness. I repent for my many, many sins, pray for forgiveness and toe the line the Best that I can sans a Time Machine. It would be wonderful to “make the team” but I could only possibly do so with the Grace of God and do not presume that.
Regardless of me, it’s Showtime! I suggest that everyone pray to God for Strength, Perseverance & Wisdom for these horrific times ahead.
Mary, the Devil can’t trick you if you read the Word of God and give your heart to the Word of God. The Devil can’t live there.
The Devil does his damnedest to pry you away from God but cannot stand in His Light.
Mary, “Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in an unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality”
A universal Logos, unknown, unknowable, and a series of lesser and lesser factotums and employees, bumbling, incompetente, even plain evil? You decide. Or not. I haven’t yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge
OG, fair enough. That’s a religion that will let you sleep in peace, without nightmares. I respect that religion. Thank you for clarifying.
I too fear I won’t make the team. That I cannot be forgiven. I do good to offset the bad I’ve done, the harm I caused. I’ll be grateful if at the end of the day I’m allowed to disappear, vanish, become a point of light or a grain of sand, lose the “me”. That’d be good enough. Maybe if I do enough kind deeds I will be granted that mercy, to fade forever, the good, the bad and the ugly forgotten.
Your advice to pray is sound. In whatever way one can. To whoever, or to nobody in particular, to the Universe.
Thank you for your reply.
Yes but there is a lot of suffering to get to that point. Our lawlessness is our burden as well. We will have to answer for everything. The offer of mercy stands but doesn’t change the law. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And there is also the full glory of God.
https://tactical-wisdom.com/2021/05/09/self-defense-is-over/
Wait until they come to Texas. They came to Texas and no one did anything. That was just Austin. Wait till the come to the real Texas. So they went to Plano and set up a road block. Guy got out and demanded they get out of the way. The Antifa order him back into his car at gunpoint. He appealed to the COP right there. The Cop told him to get back into the car.
They may not have to defund the Police at this rate. The Cops are joining the Revolution.
More supporting evidence for the idea that the entire structure from the head to the foot is diseased
In my long struggle against the World, I’m now completely vindicated I’m afraid. The people are sheep, always were for the most part. Fallen Man. We used to have a better ruling class and we were kept in check by religion and a strong social ethos.
As I mentioned below, I truly am coming around to believe men HAVE been emasculated. I see all these women fighting the lockdowns and masking and forced jabs, but not so many men.
They won’t even fight for their own kids’ safety and sanity.
I’m afraid we are both vindicated with our predictions.
I partly agree, Mary. Men today are, in general, emasculated. Soy proteins, too much booze and TV news and free web-streamed pornography.
A few brave men and, mainly, women are fighting but most women are every bit as sheepish as all our eunichs.
“Baaaaa! Normal! Baaaaa! Week in Mexico! Baaaaa!”
Too much booze and porn? No, too few hours in the day!
No one, I think, is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low
– John Lennon
I know, Right? You see it coming like you are on a hill watching trains chugging from both directions on one track!
You go, “Look! Look!” and get ostracized while everyone around you lives in some weird Truman Show.
Then, when they finally see the other train, they get mad at you up on the hill and accuse you of being “Happy” about it all!
After a while, you can’t help but think that God is onto something. 95% of the people living today going to Hell would sure spruce the place up.
After a while, you can’t help but think that God is onto something. 95% of the people living today going to Hell would sure spruce the place up.
I don’t care whether you’re religious or not – but please keep it to yourself. No-one likes a preachy god-botherer, and many think such types are a bit soft in the head. Unable to debate properly.
And telling anyone who doesn’t agree with your prognostications, or your nutfudge superstitions and fables that they’re going to hell – is deeply offensive to the sane & rational, and quite inappropriate on a secular forum.
Please tone it down.
LOL, Agent Po decrees that the blog comments section is ‘secular’.
Hall monitor needed to make sure the religious are not allowed to speak of it.
I don’t care whether you’re religious or not – but please keep it to yourself.
No. I’ll practice Free Speech as I so choose. In fact, that’s its definition.
You don’t have to read me.
No-one likes a preachy god-botherer, and many think such types are a bit soft in the head. Unable to debate properly.
I’m not here to be liked so I don’t care and that sure is prejudice of many.
And telling anyone who doesn’t agree with your prognostications, or your nutfudge superstitions and fables that they’re going to hell – is deeply offensive to the sane & rational, and quite inappropriate on a secular forum.
God’s Holy Bible is not my prognostications or nutfudge superstitions and fables, Tekapo.
Again, if you are too sane & rational to be deepy offended by my telling you to get Good with God, then do not read me. D’uh!
And what are ya? The Appropriate Police?
Please tone it down.
Please fuck off.
Please f**k off.
So much anger and hate towards anyone who doesn’t buy what you’re selling. Not very Christian of you comrade 🙂
Indeed, Tekapo. My apologies.
“Then, when they finally see the other train, they get mad at you up on the hill and accuse you of being “Happy” about it all!”
You were not ‘accused’. You said, verbatim:
“I will be Happy when Jesus Christ of Nazareth returns and the vast majority of people are sent to their eternal damnation in burning Hell where they belong.”
No regret. Happy to see them burn.
Happy.
Happy that God’s Word is fulfilled and Jesus takes His Rightful place as King of Earth, GA.
The multitudes burning in Hell where they belong – that’s Just part of the package deal. It’s not my script.
Besides, my feelings are irrelevant as we discuss where our World is headed.
Also, as beantownbill. announced, I am emotionally unstable. It is possible for me to feel sorry for you dumb-asses one hour and you-deserve-what-you-get the next.
Btw, are you still abstaining from looking at the most important event of your lifetime (i.e. acquiesce that 3 skyscrapers were pulverized by 2 airplanes 1 Tuesday)?
“Happy that God’s Word is fulfilled and Jesus takes His Rightful place as King of Earth, GA.
The multitudes burning in Hell where they belong – that’s Just part of the package deal. It’s not my script.”
All you did there was twist your words so that it looks like you didn’t say what you said.
I’ll take messianicdruid any day of the week.
“Btw, are you still abstaining from looking at the most important event of your lifetime (i.e. acquiesce that 3 skyscrapers were pulverized by 2 airplanes 1 Tuesday)?”
I’m abstaining from letting you tell me what I shall discuss. Exercising the same rights of free speech that you are.
Feel free to scroll on by.
i wonder if you’d like those Pissy Postnominals to come with a free fabric symbol that your unfavourites could sew to their lapels.
“Besides, my feelings are irrelevant as we discuss where our World is headed.”
Your feelings of joy at the thought of people burning is relevant to me.
It tells me something about you as a person.
Free thought is allowed too.
Yoho, tell us more about your struggle against the World. Mein Kampf? Isn’t the only possible struggle the one against oneself, though? Our base instincts? Isn’t the World an illusion? Isn’t purging oneself of desire, greed and hatred the only possible philosophical struggle? I know you have things to say, both from the Catholic and the Orientalist traditions, and I’m interested.
Exactly. The World is too much with us Wordsworth said. Take to the hills to get away? But without meditation we will take it with us into the hills. Thus we must seek the high ground of the Spirit. That may or may not mean taking to the physical hills.
The Pandavas asked for only one village each to fulfill their personal dharma as rulers. But the Demon would not give them the head of needle or a point’s worth. Thus they fought.
I always knew this place was bad and these people. Time has proven me right.
Technology is only good if used well. Using it to turn people into machines is not using it well. Ignorance is far better than knowledge used so monstrously. Thus the Butlerian Jihad looms near. Thou shalt not make a machine in the form of human mind (computer). Or in the form of a human body (robot). And obviously not turning people into machines via “vaccinations”.
Yoho, if you think I’m ignorant of other massacres, perpetrated by other actors, think again. I’m a student of history, and can add to the outrages you mentioned: priests and nuns violated and shot by Republican militias during the Spanish Civil War, countless Whites enslaved, tortured and murdered by Ottoman Turks, Russian Kulaks starved to death by Stalin, I can go on for hours, and so can you. So let’s distill it into just one question:
Look at us now. All of us. The world. Did any of those massacres improve our lot, helped us in any way, made us better or wiser?
You know the answer, and so do I. To justify or advocate or celebrate massacres, both past and potential, is slavery that will keep us being reborn again and again, brought here to suffer and make others suffer.
Yoho, great truths and food for thought there. On one hand I disagree vehemently with your visions of mass murder, and on the other I admire your intellect and determined teleology. And the ability to conjure up bits of traditional lore towards that teleological end.
A couple questions. Traditional Catholicism, I believe, prioritized the humans over the mechanized autism of industrialism. My memories may be foggy, but I endured years of Catholic schooling and university so… how come the modern Church has so little to say about that? They still condemn profit and thrashing the Earth for it, but have no problem with Capitalism per se, as long as the workers get a fair share of the pie. Your take? I gather you’re a Tolkien enthusiast, so would you say the Saruman pits are justified as long as the worker Orcs get a better standard of living, or Hobbiton destroyed in the name of “progress” when the Hobbits come back to it after their adventures?
Also, do you thing the Golem myth pre-announces the current emergence of AI and wise, servant machines? As far as I know, it’s the only archetype that could be applied to what we’re seeing in that area.
Thank you
“Take to the hills to get away? But without meditation we will take it with us into the hills. Thus we must seek the high ground of the Spirit. That may or may not mean taking to the physical hills.” This is very good!
Mass murder? Millions died after the outbreak of “Peace” after WW2 had supposedly ended. Where the monuments to the Volga German civilians? To hundreds of thousand of right wing French murdered by the Communists? The millions of German POW’s who never returned from prison? As you know, Ike’s camps were just enclosed space within a barb wire perimeter. Hundreds of thousands died of exposure. Millions more went to Siberia. Few ever returned.
Bizarrely and shamefully above all was Operation Keelhaul, whereby White Russians who had fought Hitler were given over to Stalin to be executed or worked to death. More hundred of thousands.
Perhaps all this is what you meant by mass murder? But the 21st Century will put all this to shame….
Tradition is clear: The Antichrist will have two seats, Rome and Jerusalem. The current Pope is a Satanist. Thus the Church has fallen. Happy? Is this not revenge for having to wear those starchy shirts and constricting ties?
The endlessly replicating spike proteins – Is this not the embodiment of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice? But what Master will put things right? One taken, it cannot be undone. How could anyone willingly submit to this?
Yes we saw that here a little over a year ago, mobs of joggers migrating up onto the interstate, stopping major traffic headed toward NYC, accompanied by state troopers. Troopers actually got down on their knees with mob leadership, in effect, joining the mob in this illegal civil aktion.
A golden opportunity, mostly peaceful protesters circulated thru stranded traffic, robbing motorists, vandalizing cars assaulting people. That night the governor– a billionaire lefty — released a statement praising the mostly peaceful protesters.
Turns out the gentleman who confronted the mob blocking the street was arrested for assault.
https://dailystormer.su/dad-bullies-his-son-into-getting-vaxxed-son-dies/
About a month later, so maybe not. Yet it is rare for young people to just up and die. He has asthma so it’s not a perfect case.
Days of Future Passed.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Days%20of%20Future%20Passed.pdf
Major fuel pipeline to the east coast shutdown, Middle Atlantic States in crisis, and the Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm is at Howard U giving a speech about inclusivity and diversity in the new business of windmills and solar panels.
Ahahahahaha ahahahaha ahahahahaha!!!
Somebody inform The Big Guy the world is coming apart at the seams, he needs to step up and show some leadership beyond signing EOs prepared by who knows who.
Jen Psaki will circle back to you on that.
Brh
POTATUS is probably being fed his alphabet soup and preparing for a nap about now.
I suspect POTATUS shut it down.
This is the exact scenario Herr Schwab was talking about.
And we know POTATUS shut down Keystone right as it was finished.
The plan rolls on.
There were people who claimed it was Hologram Joe’s sayso that cut off Texas’ power during the freeze as well. I can’t remember who posted it.
I suspect POTATUS shut it down.
Conspiracy Theory #87 for today’s thread. There’s no end to it.
It’s ok, I am a Russian Agent.
One day soon:
POTATUS: sniff, sniff “Do I smell hash browns?”
Somebody inform The Big Guy the world is coming apart at the seams, he needs to step up and show some leadership beyond signing EOs prepared by who knows who.
What exactly would you like President Biden or Secretary Granholm to do … get out there and drive a fuel tanker?
Colonial has a problem (not yet a crisis), and federal government agencies would be working very closely with them. Any fuel shortage and long lines are caused by hoarding – there are now millions of gallons of gas and diesel being carried around that were not three days ago.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2021/05/12/jp-nails-it-once-again-covidism-is-a-religion-utterly-satanic-in-its-inversion-a-cult-of-fear-and-fear-is-antichristic/
Have you accept fear into your life? As the Muslims say, It is a very great worship.
I saw Peggy Hill (who fights city hall in Orange County) interview a woman restaurant owner from Pennsylvania. She refused to shut down and has the Dept of Agriculture goons harassing her on a regular basis. Yet she keeps winning in court, because she knows the law, and she’s grown a movement as well as having her restaurant filled nonstop. All the other restaurant owners caved immediately.
She says she enjoys the fight and has a blast whenever the goons come by. Once she said she embarrassed them in front of all the diners, and they were visibly humiliated. I wish I had that level of chutzpah.
You may be right, not sure. Tucker’s had guys on who have fought it – some of whom were crushed. One gym in New Jersey kept getting locked and they would just break the lock and go right in. He probably now owes hundreds of thousands if not millions in fines. Don’t know how it turned out. He hasn’t been on in a while.
I dreamed I saw Peggy Hill last night…..
I saw her at the laundromat this afternoon. Seems things went downhill after the series was cancelled…
Peggy HAll?
Your weak side is you seem to have to bring something or someone down in order to underline a point. Think about it.
Deep Thoughts, with Jack Handy.
Google.com now says, if you want to be free, you better get the jab.
Americans are too stupid to understand they are guaranteed freedom already, but will still barter to ‘get it back’.
What a sorry country full of wimps we’ve become. Emasculated men everywhere while the women fight back.
Knock it off.
Did Mary strike a nerve, Amman?
No, Ace.
Do you tell Yo to ‘knock it off’ when he says it or do you reserve your ire for ladies?
Look here, Miss, I am not expressing ire. Just disagreeing with your statement in this context. – “Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else… The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.”
So is a lot of humanity.
Well alrighty then.
I’ve heard that before. Who said it?
And Good thing that wasn’t a nerve.
American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else… The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.”
I wouldn’t put it in quite such blunt terms (I like much about America), but given its similar start to other Anglophone colonies, the place and its culture hugely different.
I know it was founded by religious dissidents, grifters, carpet-baggers, fortune-hunters, and millions seeking land to exploit … but still, other colonies had a lot of this as well.
There was a discussion up-thread about the humour, wit, and sarcasm that characterises the British (and I would add the Irish, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders), but there is definitely a harder edge to the US.
Even its allegedly funniest people – Jerry Seinfeld for example – have a tough edge to them. Same with many of its great comic writers.
I sometimes wonder whether it would have been much better to have avoided the Revolutionary War altogether, and over the period say 1770-1820, to negotiate self-government leading to full independence. And for the steady abolition of slavery as part of that.
Anyway – it’s too late now – they drive on the right side, and still use pounds, miles and inches, and measure the weather in Fahrenheit.
The privilege of not wearing a mask!
DJ Lawrence.
#FauciGainofFunctionWuhan
#TheCoronaHoax
Oh, yes. The news is spreading.
Good.
I wonder why Ellen Degenerate is suddenly ending her show.
I wonder why Ellen Degenerate is suddenly ending her show.
She has not done it suddenly … given a year’s notice. And she is 63, has a zillion dollars, and a mansion on a California hillside, and despite her mea culpa last year, her workplace is probably not that nice.
But I still think you’ll try to find Conspiracy Theory #88 for today’s thread. I know you’re resourceful.
Fan boi loves to assume he knows what I’m thinking. LOL.
To be honest, I don’t ever assume you’re thinking.
Bill and Mel – “Talk dirty”
https://youtu.be/ec0XZDgQ7XU
Alba, going back through some of today’s comments, you’ve made me chuckle several times. There’s nothing quite like an Alba put-down. Keep on doing. The day you go, I’m following.
I think, ultimately, I agree with GA more than any other poster here. My opinion, she thinks things through very reasonably. Slugoon, you are of the same cloth.
Beantown, it’s that old British common sense and wit. And humor. It’s an old, old culture, and wise. Always a treat to read intelligent British posters, I agree.
There’s so many posters here, that I forget some of them. Meaning you, Rulo. I think you are also one of the wiser ones. Sorry to not have included you, or any other poster who I believe is emotionally mature and clear-headed. This is one of the pleasures of being part of this community.
Agreed. While Rulo asks for less volume us, I request more from him!
That can’t be soon enough IMHO.
The Troll Triumvirate is here to make sure no discussion goes unmolested.
Well then you might be disappointed. We’re here for Jim and many of the other sane posters, not the oiks.
“The day you go, I’m following.”
Goodness, Slugoon, that’s too dramatic. Please don’t.
Apparently I’m going to be pushing up daisies as soon as the first Covid variant hits, so I could be gone any time.
But I do regret when I get caught up in threads that I didn’t intend to get caught up in. I always feel that more than 20 posts is bad manners!
Now for my other opinion. I, for one, am sick and tired of this 9/11 bullshit. I don’t care what really happened 20 years ago. I already know that TPTB lie to us, steal our wealth and only have their own interests at heart. I don’t forget that. So what’s the point of going over and over this when we know those in charge are no good, for chrissakes!
The person who keeps bringing this up is the poster, OG Hawkins. I find him emotionally unstable. He repeats all this stuff because he can’t accept someone would disagree with him. He derides those who do; he has a nasty streak a mile wide. He’s a baiter – he’s made what I consider unacceptable anti-Jew statements, like when he made sarcastic comments about the Holocaust and the JDL.
He’s stated he’s smarter than most and a better person than most, using his apocalyptic belief in God as proof. Speaking of proof, he is fast and loose with what he considers proof; I believe he doesn’t really understand the concept. He confuses agreement with proof.
Basically, he is not a nice person, someone to avoid.
Those who know me here, know I don’t often criticize people, but I’m making an exception here, obviously.
You criticize people on a regular basis because you don’t care for criticism of the Tribe.
That’s putting it mildly, Yo. You’re mellowing out in your old age. Opinions are one thing, but anti-semitism is wholly another. I know what you’ll say to that statement. But I’m not going to start in arguing with you. Really, you used to be more vituperative. Is it because you’re mellowing or because you’re concerned JHK would kick you out? Just wondering.
Oh, a bit of both. We’re all in this Antichrist Transhumanist thing together. Israel is on the tip of the spear against their own people. This effects all of humanity, both in this world and beyond. It actually transcends race – and I’ll stand with anyone against this.
Mr Kunstler is a Tower of Strength against much of this madness, if not the Covid crisis directly (as of yet at least). Once the Republic fell, he allowed me to come back since what did I matter, with these Monsters running around. When he kicked me off, he told me that I had cost him a patron. I felt kind of bad about this, so I’m trying to less abrasive this time around.
That’s a sign of maturity.
Criticizing the ADL is not anti-Semitic, Bill.
The ADL demand that US Congressmen swear an oath to Israel!
That is ridiculous and we all know it.
Bill
As a recipient of many of OGs declarations, I have learned a lot about him. He is basically a good guy who has been screwed over by the PTB sometime in his life to the point he filters everything dealing with said governments to the extreme negative.
Smart, well versed, knowledgeable, well read but bitter about something. He considers debate criticism and reacts.
I have picked up good input from him and he makes me think. If anything, he needs to return the favor, to consider other points of view.
If you don’t do that, you might as well take your football and go home.
I enjoy debating with others and I continue to be defined by the conversations on the blog, OG included.
Thank you, JAZ. I’d say that you’ve provided an accurate assessment of me.
Except, it is both: I did get screwed over by inJustice to the benefit of drooked lawyers and the World Really is ran by Satanists.
JAZ, you are one of the good guys I enjoy reading and conversing with, but I don’t think Hawkins is because of some of the hurtful things he says. Your analysis of him is well thought out, but, honestly, he’s 56, old enough to know better. I just skip over him, but the issue is, for me, he gets many others to comment on 9/11, thus hijacking the general conversation. Notice how many times JHK writes about 9/11.
I’ll do my part, bill.
Is there a list of acceptable topics here at CFN?
O.G., all conspiracies are allowed except for 9/11.
It makes Bill uncomfortable.
By all means, Bill. You exercise your Right to scroll on by while I exercise my Right to Free Speech in Mr Kunstler’s eclectic garden of intelligence.
I’m old enough to know Better than to exercise my Right to Free Speech, Bill? That’s downRight unAmerican of you, pardner.
Actually, I am old enough to have seen and heard things that you could never imagine.
You know? If I am hijacking the general conversation, that’d be the first Real hijacking vis-a-vis that Tuesday yet. Ha!
Go ahead, Bill. Try to have CFN boycott my thoughts as His Word is fulfilled. Being a voice in the wilderness is nothing new for me while events unfold far beyond the thoughts of you & I.
beantown, many of us don’t buy the official version… too many strange things, coincidences let’s call them. Loose ends, questions, cui bonos, wars started over that, convenient wars, profits made.
Many posters here are anti-semitic and holocaust deniers, as you say. In questioning what happened that morning, I find myself in strange company. Ignorant company. So be it. On the other hand, the geopolitical interests of a state, Israel in this case, are fair game. So we can speculate and have our opinions.
Having ancestors who fought in WW2, I know what happened, I don’t need books to tell me, although I’ve also read books about it, too many.
I tend to agree with Yoho: there’s freedom to criticize, question, deny facts, or justify them. Speech is not a crime. The only remedy for speech is more speech. Everything is fair game. I make sure I educate my children and friends about what happened, what my ancestors were witness to, and I make sure to oppose ignorance and hatred when I come across it, but in the end, I cannot change anyone’s mind.
For the record, I’m not Jewish and I really don’t care that much for religions. I know my grandpa didn’t lie to me when he described what he saw during those years. That’s all I need. Let the bigmouths talk. I cannot change what happened in the 40’s, but my clan and myself are vigilant that it doesn’t happen again, to anyone, for any reason. That’s the best I can do.
There was PNAC and Securing the Realm – authored by some of same people. The dancing Israelis from the Moving Company. The Wars that followed as per the two reports.
Only one group that I’ve ever met works on Kibbutzim.
In any case, you’re getting screwed now. Welcome aboard! In the end, the Satanist/UN crowd were stronger than the Neo-Cons. Bibi is bowing low before his Masters – not protecting the people of Israel against the Transhumanist Agenda. The new war is giving him a chance to look good again.
To be clear, I am neither an anti-Semite nor a Holocaust* denier.
What ruffles my feathers js when the Tribe starts claiming Monopoly Rights on Holocaust* and even suffering. It’s ridiculous!
I am, in the other hand, a critic of all countries’ foreign relations (including Israel).
*Holocaust, Gassing, Genocide, Slave Labour and Concentration Camp are Registered Trademark of the ADL.
*Holocaust, Gassing, Genocide, Slave Labour and Concentration Camp are Registered Trademark of the ADL.
This is an anti-Semitic trope in its own right … and anyway you cannot “trademark” commonly used words.
But they act that they do have a trademark and find it unbearable when the Armenians use the word. So you’re wrong.
But they act that they do have a trademark and find it unbearable when the Armenians use the word. So you’re wrong.
I am not wrong.
They might not like “The Holocaust”, or even “holocaust” being used for anything other than for the Jews of Germany, but it is not a trademarked term. Nor are the others – they are terms in everyday use.
Some jurisdictions (such as Germany itself) have some proscribed uses – “holocaust denier” for example. Anyway – I still believe it’s an anti-Semitic trope, and one has to wonder why OGH feels the need to repeat it ever day.
What is the pint of it, if it’s not a slur?
Tekapo, you are correct. Holocaust* is not Really Trademarkable. You are such a bright little boy. Now time for cookies & milk, Little Mister.
It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the ADL. The ADL demands that all US Congressman swear an oath to Israel! The ADL runs Washington and they’re rarely mentioned.
That’s not anti-Semitic. That’s Reality.
Note: I love Jewish culture. Best delis on Earth. Carnegie Deli (DOA on account of The Covids) in mid-town Manhattan. Woody Allen shot many scenes for Broadway Danny Rose there. Schwartz’s Hebrew Deli in Montreal is the Best Smoked Meat ever!
Modechai Richler. Leonard Cohen. Robert Zimmerman. Jerry Seinfeld. Abby Hoffman. What’s not to like?
*Holocaust, Gassing, Genocide, Slave Labour & Concentration Camp are Registered Trademark of the ADL.
The ADL demands that all US Congressman swear an oath to Israel!
And what happens if they tell them to politely fuck off?
That they love the PLA and Hamas, and think that Israel is a failed theocratic ethno-state propped up entirely by the US, and that has virulently persecuted Arabs for 70 years? Anything?
Rulo,
My father was a glider pilot. Visited one of the main camps soon after it’s liberation in Germany. Saw the piles of bodies and walking skeletons.
30%of the camp’s population died under the immediate care of US and British personnel within two weeks of the camp’s liberation.
Various diseases…starvation.
30%
elysian, my grandfather and his brothers were Partisan fighters with Tito in Yugoslavia. They saw firsthand the atrocities of the Ustashe Croat and German nazis against Jews and untermenschen of different types, including their own group, Serbs and Macedonians.
They later joined the British forces liberating Italy and emigrated to Argentina after the end of the war.
My grandfather told me that starvation & exposure was a preferred method of extermination, especially towards the end, as ammo became a scarce commodity. Also explained to me how people were rounded up in villages, made to dig their own mass graves, and then sparsely peppered with mg fire, just a few rounds, not making sure everyone was dead – then buried, many of them still alive.
This is firsthand experience, family lore. What my gramps told me, I told my children, and they will tell theirs. We can’t forget. I can’t happen again. Me, my family, will die fighting before seeing it happen again.
Your father was a brave man. Those glider missions were no joke, from what I’ve read, and he survived and told you what he saw. That generation is mostly gone, but us, their children and grandchildren, carry the memory and are ever awake to the danger of the Horror reawakening. Thank you for your comment.
Now for my other opinion. I, for one, am sick and tired of this 9/11 bullshit. I don’t care what really happened 20 years ago. I already know that TPTB lie to us, steal our wealth and only have their own interests at heart. I don’t forget that. So what’s the point of going over and over this when we know those in charge are no good, for chrissakes!
People keep arguing about that Tuesday so I keep providing extensive facts and analysis.
People go on and on about race relations in USA that I neither have the experience nor years of research so I scroll by. I suggest you do the same for bullshit that you don’t care about.
However, Bill, that Tuesday was the most important event for Western Civilization in your lifetime so if you don’t care well … scroll on by.
You don’t have to read me.
The person who keeps bringing this up is the poster, OG Hawkins.
As I contend, often it is GA or RL or Tekapo or Slugger that brings it up again. Regardless, CFN is for Free Speech, Right?
I find him emotionally unstable.
Join the club.
Are you prejudiced against the emotionally unstable, Bill?
He repeats all this stuff because he can’t accept someone would disagree with him.
Actually, no. Typically, when attacking someone in Public, it is Best if you allow that person to share his/her thoughts while you stick to your own.
See, I’m not going to counter, “Bill thinks that …” because that’s no way to discuss the important issues of our day.
He derides those who do;
I deride anybody who believes the official story that 2 airplanes pulverized 3 skyscrapers 1 Tuesday and then tries to share their thoughts on Science, Bill. It’s ridiculous!
he has a nasty streak a mile wide.
Darn! Their shoving their kool-aid into Earth’s population … and I have lost Bill’s consideration for Miss Congeniality.
He’s a baiter
I seek discussion vis-a-vis the most pressing matters of our day.
he’s made what I consider unacceptable anti-Jew statements, like when he made sarcastic comments about the Holocaust and the JDL.
Actually, Bill, ya had to be there.
I was telling CFN that an Alberta MLA kinda sorta let slip that they have Concentration Camps* for us Refuseniks. Then akmofo ripped me a new one with some bizarre misconception that Concentration Camp* meant German v Jew exclusively when, of course, it does not.
Call it anti-Jew if you so choose but I am sick and tired of their Holocaust* being the only sanctioned Holocaust*. It’s ridiculous!
BTW, I have a beef with the ADL not the JDL.
He’s stated he’s smarter than most and a better person than most, using his apocalyptic belief in God as proof.
I have said no such thing!
Speaking of proof, he is fast and loose with what he considers proof; I believe he doesn’t really understand the concept. He confuses agreement with proof.
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree (whatever that proves).
Basically, he is not a nice person, someone to avoid.
Wow! Not only will Bill not discuss matters with me but you should also shun me.
Those who know me here, know I don’t often criticize people, but I’m making an exception here, obviously.
God loves you, Bill.
*Holocaust, Gassing, Genocide, Slave Labour and Concentration Camp are Registered Trademark of the ADL.
People keep arguing about that Tuesday so I keep providing extensive facts and analysis.
No – you are the only one who keeps bringing it up – repeating the same tired mantras week after week. I guarantee that if you do not mention 9/11 once in the Friday thread, not one other person will either. Why not try it?
Because I keep answering different children and ostriches, Tekapo.
If were Just me … Wait. What?
You make good arguments, O.G., and you have sorted through things in a level of detail that many never will, but the issue is that, for a portion of the population, the 9/11 narrative has already been cemented by the news media.
Take solace in the fact that if tomorrow the news media reported your version of events, these extraordinarily powerful minds would lap that up, too, and your rants would be “something they all thought anyways.”
You fight an unwinnable battle. Stick to the present. There is a 9/11 level hoax occuring right now as we type.
Ya, I hear ya, NO. As you know, I’m new to CFN and that Tuesday became a litmus test to get to know some of the characters.
As I indicated, I was generally surprised at the amount of CFNers still swallowing that ridiculousness. I don’t know if I flipped a single light-switch but believe that anyone with an open mind should seek Architects & Engineers for Truth.
“I’m new to CFN and that Tuesday became a litmus test to get to know some of the characters.”
Well, I’ve been here for years, and I’ve come across a few litmus tests.
One of them is people claiming they ‘love’ a ‘loving’ being who burns people forever who never asked to be born.
Wide berth there …
Another is seeing people arrive out of the blue, wait five minutes, then tell people who’ve been here for years they shouldn’t be here or shouldn’t be listened to.
What are you talking about, GA?
You can Judge God all that you like. I know my place.
God’ll do the Judging around here.
Of course I arrived out of the blue. That where all people not here are, Right?
But, I have been on Earth for 56 years and that is far more critical for intelligent discusion.
Anybody who acquiesces to 3 skyscrapers pulverized by 2 airplanes 1 Tuesday is not qualified to speak of Science.
We all know that.
You should set OG a challenge, Tek. Ask him to link to a single post where you, Alba, Redneck or I initiated a conversation about 11/9 before he did. Be aware though, if you can’t produce video evidence of your claim his acolyte will start chirping.
Yeah, seconded.
Looking forward to OG’s list of all my posts where I’ve mentioned 11/9 other than in response to his incessant hounding.
And yes, how did any country decide that Month/Day/Year was a logical way to write a date? 🙂
Used to drive me nuts when we and our computer systems were taken over by the Yanks in Philly and St Louis.
Like writing pounds, pence, shillings (you’re probably too young …).
Ya. Ok. I’ll get Right on that.
Pointing and laughing, actually, Slug.
You feel you get free reign to call OG a “conspiracy theorist,” yet you cannot even back your own ridiculous claim.
What you want is the appearance of neutrality. The cool-headed logician. But you are clearly not above the fray. Give up the act, son.
LOL.
free *reign*
Jeez, master editors ain’t what they used to be.
I have noted your accuracy with grammar and punctuation, Alba. It’s a pleasure to see. I try my best but it’s the autocorrect that trips me up, not the brain. I typed ‘rein’ and it didn’t change, so I guess it’s just his brain.
While OG’s subordinate hoots, we await our reply.
“Not only will Bill not discuss matters with me but you should also shun me.”
Says the person who wants people to have postnominals and asterisks, applied by his worthy self, to refer people to those they should shun.
I never said to shun you, GA. I said that if people are listenng to you drone on about Science while they decide whether or not to take the experimental gene therapy, there should at least be, like on a pack of cigarettes, a warning something like:
Note: This Science commentator acquiesces that somehow 3 skyscrapers were pulverized by 2 airplanes 1 Tuesday. One can draw their own conclusions as to credibility.
Right? Why are you trying to conceal your scientific beliefs from your readers?
I had suggested SCB for Santa Claus Believer but I’m not married to it.
I haven’t concealed my ‘scientific beliefs’, although I don’t find ‘beliefs’ a particularly appropriate word for my relationship to the ongoing processes of the practice of science.
But, if you can take a break from your blustering, which actual statements I’ve made about (sorry, droned on about) who should or should not take/should or should not be coerced into taking the ‘experimental gene therapy’ can you quote?
Careful, now …
O.G. is great. He’s clever and funny and interesting.
I think he’s a very nice person, but he’ll call a spade a spade, as will I.
There are plenty topics that people up here bring up that I’m not interested in, so I scroll on by. I scroll on by some of the 9/11 discussion, because I settled long ago who was behind it so I don’t feel the need to discuss it much further.
(Agree with Night Owl that we are in the process of another 9/11 now, which is a more exigent subject).
That is very kind of you to say, Mary. Thank you.
As you know, I have come to rely on your yeoman efforts for facts and information. They are Greatly appreciated.
You are correct. The litmus test has been ran. We know which posters are children and anti-Free Speech.
Gates/Faucci are the Cheney/Rumsfeld of today.
States are being offered $20 billion or so each in Covid money to keep the scam going. Texas, and here in Idaho, the Houses want to recess for the summer and let the governors run wild with the money. Boards and city councils everywhere are trying to give businesses the right to refuse to sell to anyone they want, in short, discriminate against the non-masked or non-jabbed.
If you think this is winding down, think again. It’s just getting started.
Absolutely!
The American credo. U Pluribus Unum.
The Democrat’s credo Divide and conquer.
My adder. In every way possible.
I came to the Covid money psyops too late. I didn’t realize just how extensive the payments to continue the ruse went. Down to the people receiving higher-than-ever unemployment. Restaurants paid not to run. A friend reported, some restaurant owners she knew in NYC took the money and moved to Mexico.
So how does this benefit us? What happens when the payments stop?
Whatever remains of the mIddle class disappears, for one.
Boards and city councils everywhere …
How many of these are “Democrat controlled”?
Who cares? Both parties are in on the scam.
When it’s convenient you lump them together … when it suits, you blame the Commie Dems and President Biden. You’re not the only one on here who uses this trick. JAZ comes to mind.
Actually, this trick is employed by one poster only as far as I can tell:
Tekapo of Media Matters.
A blue no matter who such as yourself really has no room to criticize someone who is non-partisan and, therefore, objective.
And, apparently, heads of state globally and unanimously. You get all 200 agreeing on anything and that can’t be Good.
Last night I sat through 2.5 hours of our college district’s board of trustees meeting and it was surreal as it gets. I can’t hardly even describe it. They live in a world crafted by covid19 money and dictates. They were fighting over when to open the college and force all employees back.
Administration wants a gradual return.
Teachers want guaranteed safety, and rooms don’t have adequate air-flow or ventilation.
All want everyone vaccinated. Not one discussion of liability for forcing people to partake in an experiment. Not one acknowledgement that the jab is in experimental stages. Not one board member was aware that per OSHA, one can file workman’s comp if forced to take the jab and injured.
They discussed moving from 6 feet social distancing to 3 (not kidding).
One head of equity guy with a Black Lives Matter virtual background says the one demographic of students who don’t want the jab are the black students with whom he is close (having run a program esp for black students). He said he believes he can convince the skeptics among them to get jabbed.
Those that refuse to be vaxxed will be tested weekly.
That covid $$$$ sure does a lot of convincing that we’re in a massive pandemic when we aren’t (by the CDC’s own numbers).
Funniest part was when some union guy (who obvs doesn’t want to have to come back) said we’re in a pandemic 10x worse than the 1918 pandemic. LOL.
In any case, loony tunes.
You have my sympathies, Mary.
In a similar situation, I fear that the authorities would have to pry the microphone from my still-warm dead fingers after it is my turn to speak.
Tekapo,
Good grief – God, Satan, Bill Gates and Rothchild … how can the average punter mix it with that lot?
We can’t. As I keep quoting the late, Great George Carlin: “It’s a Big Club and you ain’t in it.”
So I trust you’ve borrowed a million bucks (at 3% – interest only) and have gone short on one of the big indexes, yes? I bet Satan will go short too.
No. I worked for a major Cdn Bank for 22 years and that same bank would laugh at my (necessarily masked) face if I wanted to borrow a mil to short the market.
However, for those not bothered by profiting while others are in life-changing misery, it is a Good investment idea, Tekapo.
Yes, most definitely the upper-echelon Capstone folks will have their stock short-sales in place like airline stocks on 9/10.
How many people are in on this operation?
All of us. It is a pyramid.
There are an awful lot of very rich people out there who will not be happy.
Indeed.
I tell you what – if the Dow Jones does not fall by 40% in the next 12 Months (by May 11, 2022) will you promise to fly me to my city of choice and buy me a drink? At this stage I’m thinking a Margarita at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West.
Yuck! No!
Besides, I never said that the stock market would crash in the next 12 months. To paraphrase Karl Rove, I study what they do, Judicially, but am left merely analyzing what they, history’s actors, have done as they create our new Reality.
OG
The one thing I have learned in life is that all catastrophes are unpredictable to 99% of the population. The 1% cause quite a few of them.
Well said, JAZ.
I tell you what – if the Dow Jones does not fall by 40% in the next 12 Months (by May 11, 2022) will you promise to fly me to my city of choice and buy me a drink? At this stage I’m thinking a Margarita at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West.
Yuck! No!
Okay how about a quiet aperitif on the Left Bank of the Seine – let’s say around Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in the 6th arrondissement?
Hahaha! Good one.
No. I worked for a major Cdn Bank for 22 years and that same bank would laugh at my (necessarily masked) face if I wanted to borrow a mil to short the market.
That’s a pity – I think we could borrow a mill tomorrow, no worries. But I shan’t trade on the misery of millions … I have a moral compass.
Short-selling stocks should be ilLegal.
We furiously agree on that OG. Like betting on a horse not to win … I think that’s actually possible in parts of the US too.
“A recent incident on a railroad train justly illustrates the result [of women’s ‘rights’. A solitary female entered a car where every seat was occupied, and the conductor closed the door upon her and departed. She looked in vain for a seat, and at last appealed to an elderly man near her to know if he would not ‘surrender his seat to a lady.’ He, it seems, was somewhat a humorist, and answered: ‘I will surrender it cheerfully, Madam, as I always do, but will beg leave first to ask a civil question. Are you an advocate of the modern theory of women’s rights?’ Bridling up with intense energy, she replied, “Yes, sir, emphatically; I let you know that it is my glory to be devoted to that noble cause.’ ‘Very well, Madam,’ said he, ‘then the case is altered: You may stand up like the rest of us men, until you can get a seat for yourself.’ This was exact poetic justice; and it foreshadows precisely the fate of their unnatural pretensions Men will treat them as they treat each other; it will be ‘every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost.’ … And the society which will emerge from this experiment will present women in the position which she has always held among savages, that of domestic drudge to the stronger animal…. She will reappear from this ill-starred competition defeated and despised, tolerated only to satiate the passion, to amuse the idleness, to do the drudgery, and to receive the curses and blows of her barbarized masters.”
– R. L. Dabney
Yoho: Amusing, but it didn’t turn out that way, not yet anyway. Instead women have been put over men by the Federal Government. Now minorities, especially minority women, are put over them. Fight back? We’ve been fractured down the middle by federal statutes.
I read a book a long tome ago about post WW3 Florida. A striking statement that has stuck with me was:
The moment the bombs struck, women’s liberation
Women’s lib is always one disaster away from extinction.
“Women’s lib” died.
That is ridiculous.
Any nation with laws means all people are protected from molestation against each other.
Women being ‘treated like men’ doens’t mean ‘roughing up’ on a regular basis. LOL. Is that what men do? If so, it’s illegal once someone doesn’t like it.
We are no longer a nation with laws or indeed, a nation at all. There will be a Wolf Age followed by a Sword Age and then another Wolf Age.
Woe to the vanquished! The strong will take what they will and the weak will endure what they must. Nature is red in tooth and claw. Lex Talionis! So too, Man, when under the Law of Nature.
Equality? What a terrifying thought for a woman under this reign. Nothing equal about strength or function. Thus she seeks protection and to repay that protection.
Do I endorse this? No. Wish for this? No. I merely state the reality of what is probably coming if the Lord does not return. Maranatha! Come quickly Lord Jesus!
Bet you didn’t see that coming. I didn’t either. I pulled Him out of a hat like a rabbit. Thus is his amiability to his friends.
“Nature is red in tooth and claw” I love that quote, cite it often. Tennyson. People who don’t know or understand Nature think it’s a Disney cartoon. No, no, no!
That is ridiculous.
I agree entirely … I understand the doomer-porn fantasies that are rampant on here (mostly a product of the banal ennui of modern existence in the burbs of America0 – but if push comes to shove, and there is a retreat to the Olduvai Gorge – or at least AWMBH – its survival will depend critically on women being treated very well and very well protected.
Because no doubt they will do most of the survival stuff – apart from bearing and raising children, they will do most of the labor, and most of the food growing and collecting.
As usual the men will sit around fondling their dicks, telling each other what great testosterone-fuelled hunters they are. They won’t have a dead deer strapped to their truck, but they will have the Stone Age equivalent thereof.
If survival is a reality, it’s going to take a village – or a hippie commune – it won’t be Mad Max, much to the disappointment of Yoho.
God, Satan, Bill Gates and Rothschild
Add on Tom Steyer, George Soros and Hansjorg Wyss to the list.
Without the last three, the Democratic Party would not exist.
Hawk said, “After a while, you can’t help but think that God is onto something. 95% of the people living today going to Hell would sure spruce the place up.”
God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
If hell is simply a grave it will take 100%.
We are overcome by being unable or unwilling to change [ grow ] our mind.
The Kingdom of God is a form of government, not a religion.
America will survive the united states.
America will survive the United States.
I wonder?
There is no ethnocentritic reason for the existence of the US. Our diversity is our worst liability. If Balkanization happens, foreign powers will carve this puppy up into sectors and take over. If the US ceases to exist, the two most powerful powers will divide it up for its resources.
And OG, Canada goes down with us, again diversity is your worst enemy.
Canada is a Resource pool for America, JAZ. That and a liberal petridish for rainbow parades, gay marriage, legal weed, etc.
We have the population of California across the second largest land mass on Earth (only Russia has more square miles). When push come to shove, Canadians are sheeple and will do whatever they are told to do.
Sad but True.
In the new post-plague America, Harold Lauder gained the acceptance he had never had in the old. His co-workers named him “Hawk”. But instead of accepting his new prestige, he preferred to brood on old grievances.
https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Harold_Lauder
Great Tucker tonite about the Covidian madness. The NYT actually admitted that no one gets Covid outside. And that by implication, the CDC was lying when they said “ten percent”. It’s really .01% or something. All those kids being forced to wear masks outside because of some stupid made up number.
At one point it was put as “less than ten percent”. Yeah it really is less than ten percent – much less. As Tucker says, that’s like saying that less than 20,000 people die every year from shark attacks – it’s really 150. The 20,000 is bait, implying a much higher number. Tricks of the trade! But as he asks, Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVY_4gZyt0M
Thank you for posting!
Ooh! Leigh Dundas!
Scientology fruit-loop extraordinaire!
Smart women who dare to fight the establishment really threaten you, huh?
Might be time to exchange your double-mask for a triple so you feel safer.
I can spot an utter nutter who is after nothing but the $$$ grift – through four masks!
I’ll tell you why, Yoho. Masks keep the issue alive. They are an easy visual to maintain a climate of fear. If vaccinated people were allowed to remove them, there is nothing to stop unvaccinated people also removing them. Are you going to start checking each other in the streets for proof? Of course not.
When everybody takes them off the authorities start losing control of the situation. They lose a key tool in their armoury. So the masks stay on. Same reason that quack Fauci kept shifting the goalposts on herd immunity targets. It’s all just manipulation to push people into a particular direction, nothing to do with science whatsoever.
Exactly.
Are you going to start checking each other in the streets for proof? Of course not.
“So it is written. So it shall be done.”
Nailed it.
Slug, spot on.
See CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND for statistics on vaccine deaths.
One of the facets of this hyper-complexity is the globe spanning interconnectedness of economies, trade being one of those connectors and, along with trade, the intermediators ie financial institutions. Whereas once upon a time these banks plied their services regionally or nationally they now trade in currency and instruments across the globe. And with this interconnection comes complexity and with that comes fragility.
It takes enormously intricate communications technology and electronic systems to keep these things ticking over. And also the warm bodies to keep an eye on all this. As one of the bank CEOs said in the aftermath of the last crisis, while the music is playing you have to get up and dance. OK, well, the music stopped and we saw what happened. And as sure as we sit here, given the multitude of interlocking wheels that need to turn, the music will stop again and as JHK sez you then discover that one or more of these institutions that just days or weeks ago looked in the flush of health had a few time bombs in their balance sheets that got overlooked and oops without a sufficiency of moolah.
If the counterparties were local then the financial damage might be contained to one locale. But what if the counterparties sit across the deep blue sea. When one big bank goes splat it could take down others way over yonder and so the problem becomes global. Then you need officialdom in multiple countries to actually co-operate to salvage the mess, which involves complexity. It’s complicated with varying national agendas and egos and sensitivities to account for.
What we’re learning the hard way is that in this wondrous world of no borders it isn’t only money and goods and financial contagions that move but biological contagions too. And ideologies. One that we call ISIS doesn’t actually need the physical proximity of imam al-Kaboom to do the indoctrination. You can now do all that on-line.
Volodya, good comment. Thank you for posting.
Pleasure’s mine. Glad you like it.
Indeed, Rulo. It is a nice primer on how the complexity built evolves from shiny future to Achiles’ Heel. Good job, Volo!
I know the mind-boggling complexity of hardware and software, shrink wrap and custom-built, proprietary and vendor data, in-house and consultants, real-time and time-series data, client-facing or firewall-protected, maintenance and upgrades, planned and unplanned outages of 1 Trade Floor of 1 Canadian bank.
Like most things, you got to live it to understand it. If you have not experienced a real-time major trade floor, you can only try to imagine the complexity.
As for domino failures: Yes, they have been saying it for decades: The Derivatives Market is completely out of control. Hundreds of Triilions! Any day a Black Swan could start cascading failures.
And with this interconnection comes complexity and with that comes fragility.
Indeed – good post. And I just saw that 65% of gas stations in North Carolina are out of fuel. It seems that Colonial is restarting the pipeline (so presumably the issues are resolved, or at least contained) – but after just four days of no regular supply, a critical shortage appears.
I appreciate a lot of that has been caused by panic buying rather than actual supply loss – and social media plays a big role in that – but still, we live in a just-in-time world for sure.
Will this end well?
Welcome to Biden’s America. Enjoy!
It’s been going on for decades and decades Mary – President Biden has inherited such a mess.
Extra points for not blaming only Trump!
Extra points for not blaming only Trump!
I don’t especially blame Trump, or any specific president. They only have so much power in the economy (5%?), and in the big picture, they hold very few economic levers.
You can blame capitalism in its rampant phase, and you can blame various Congress sessions over the years, who make budgetary decisions ranging from the unwise through to the utterly lunatic.
“President Biden has inherited such a mess.”
And so will his successor.
Like a tire fire that won’t go out.
Your local hospital switched to just in time supply ordering maybe 30 years ago. Hospitals used to keep about a month’s worth of supplies on hand – now it’s lucky if it’s one week’s. Imagine a real emergency…
Like a nasty corona virus for instance, let’s say a mutant from a lab, a facility maybe doing gain of function research to see how many DNA tweaks it would take to make a virus a problem for humans…
But that’s just paranoiac conspiracy theory. There’s enough barnyard fowl, carriers of flu variants, living cheek-by-jowl with pigs and people, which is a scenario in large areas of the third-world, which is the great danger.
So why go filling our pretty little haids with boogey-men and getting all scaredy?
Except this lab origin theory is pretty stubborn. It just won’t bloody die. Especially when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists publishes an article on the possibility of a lab leak.
Yes – logic, experience, and science tell us that it was a cross-species transfer from bats to something to humans. Almost all coronaviruses (and others of Asian origin) have transmitted that way.
The fact that there is a Virus Research Lab in Wuhan has muddied the waters. I expect the “lab-created, manipulated-gene virus that escaped” conspiracy theory will die a natural death soon enough, with lack of supporting evidence.
The whole Bill Gates CCP gain-of-function trope is hilarious indeed … but there is no shortage of gullible buyers when you’re selling yet another fruit-loop conspiracy theory!
Not sure how the truthers on here sleep at night … they must be so worried about everything. Do they have nightmares about Barry Obama’s birth certificate?.
I read somewhere that the Russians, those devils, in certain governmental functions like intel are using stand alone typewriters. Remember those? And file cabinets. No computers. And so no hacking. The only hacking is an on-site agent breaking into an office, opening a file drawer and using his camera to photograph documents. Good old fashioned George Smiley style spying. Do you miss the Cold War? Weren’t those the days?
… intel are using stand alone typewriters.
I remember owning an IBM golf-ball typewriter, then a Brother daisywheel typewriter. Both were outstanding, in terms of quality of output.
I hooked up both to my Commodore64 computer, and used Easy Script word processing software, and given it was 1981, the quality was great. It would still be great.
I sold my Commadore64 for 20 bucks. What a dummie.
I hear some are still in use.
You have been working with computers since 1981 but, because you back-up your personal data from your laptop, you can’t imagine how criminals hacking into a multi-State pipeline control systems is such a Big deal?
You’re goofing on us, aren’t ya?
No – I used IBM computer cards in 1969-1970 – even before they were punch cards … we had to mark the character with a pencil.
Writing in FORTRAN4. I then worked for Citibank 1978-1980 – writing in COBAL, ALGOL, and BASIC – on Burroughs 6000 machines. Those really were the days! Great fun.
Coding is one of the best jobs, outside of being a ski instructor or a football commentator.
The “return to typewriters” in Russia reportedly came to pass when it was alleged that western spooks were able to hack computer content through glass windows. What flavor of moonbeams they were using was unspecified but the snooping technology (as verified by Mr Snowden) is astonishing.
Information technology has proven to be quite a Pandora’s Box. Colonial is said to have ponied up 5 mil to the Eastern Euro blackmailers to lay off their pipeline. Quite the encouragement for others struggling to survive in shitass nations to give it a shot.
Colonial is said to have ponied up 5 mil to the Eastern Euro blackmailers to lay off their pipeline.
Source for this?
When you find yourself caught between a rock and a hard place there are many things you will accept to get to a better place. It will surprise you. The mist of civilization will confuse you but the truth is just around the corner hiding in the shadows. We hold ourselves in high esteem. In many ways these are but daydreams. Jesus won’t protect you from that and laws if not written on the heart are meaningless on dead paper.
We hold ourselves in high esteem.
Really?
I would suggest the Western World generally, and this forum in particular, suffers chronic low esteem … it wallows in white grievance, loss of superiority, the terror of the “other” (black, brown, yellow, indeterminate), and an entire Zeitgeist of victimhood and emasculation.
That’s how most of the posts run here … it’s all the fault of them Commie Dems of course.
That meditation was spoken for another and was on a separate wavelength. You have co-opted it and appropriated it for your own interpretations. Though since you insist on a dance I will grant you that the Western World suffers chronic low self esteem. But not for the reasons you suggest IMO. But rather because the Western World has been mesmerized into worshipping the Other in totality and ritualistically destroying the Self. All institutions and all parties are to blame. Some more than others.
But rather because the Western World has been mesmerized into worshipping the Other in totality and ritualistically destroying the Self. All institutions and all parties are to blame. Some more than others.
I disagree quite strongly, but of course I often do. I don’t get seduced by the White Supremacist meme that you are espousing – that this is a big zero sum game.
I think that the dominant white class can more than accommodate diversity and other cultures, and actually grow very well from that. A dominant white monoculture – even if you pine for the antebellum South with slaves on the plantation – was never viable long term.
Cultures survive when there is a diversity of many inputs – monocultures stultify inevitably, and become as interesting as a field of cotton or corn.
Cultures survive when their economic relation to nature, to their land, environment, is intimate, rich and sustainable… and they are not railroaded by a raping techno/agricultural war-machine cultural tornado.
Diversity is really irrelevant. It’s the economic structure. But diversity is usually associated more with short-lived complex civilizations which have to attack other cultures parasitically to survive and feed the beast
“Cultures survive when their economic relation to nature, to their land, environment, is intimate, rich and sustainable… and they are not railroaded by a raping techno/agricultural war-machine cultural tornado.” Mr Gustafson connects this debate to my ever present priorities and life’s work: working with Nature in awe and respect, for Her to grant us our daily bread.
Well done, sir. Glad I visited tonight and got to read this. That’s the path. That’s the change that has to happen. A new respect for the land, living with less, working more in more meaningful ways. If this is absent from the debate, if blue and red agree that we’re entitled to endless shelves of frankenfood and lifeforms on the verge of extinction to devour in front of the TV, then blue and red are meaningless categories. Distractions. The debate is elsewhere.
Tekapo, again, what in God’s name are you blathering about? (my keyboard almost types that sentence by itself these days)
Your whole response to SSL referred to white supremacist ideology (sorry, White Supremacist…you had to capitalize it for some reason), yet SSL neither said nor alluded to anything about that topic.
Unless you took Other and Self to mean something other than, well, “Other” and “Self”?
Clearly I must have missed something.
I do notice the strong, hearty smell of straw, though.
Tek believes that Whites are racist if they even perceive that they have an identity separate from and apart from other peoples. At the core of Tek’s ideology is a malicious notion that Whites do not have a right to exist at all. It’s not even anything necessarily native to Tek. It is the ideology which he has chosen to embrace and proselytize for.
Tek reminds me of my coworkers, obsessively working equity and diversity nonsense into every topic.
Where is the evidence? All of the world’s previous diverse civilizations have expired. The United States and Europe have embraced diversity and are in the process of dying now. China is a monoculture. China is ascendant.
Well seen. Well said!
And note the demonic cruelty: Tek mocks Whites for succumbing to the very program of guilt and emasculation that they have foisted on us as marks of health.
They are without Principle. Their only “principle” being that no matter what we do, we are wrong.
Thanks! Demonic cruelty absolutely! As Pinhead would say, “Ah, the suffering. The sweet suffering.”
You know about Pinhead and the Cenobite Philosophers? What a Woman!
China is not a monoculture by any means. What you apparently intend to signify is that the Han Chinese enforce their cultural, political and economic superiority ruthlessly over everybody else they come into contact with, as soon as they can (watch Africa to see how this develops).
Han dominance is not endowed with a Forever Guarantee either, when you consider how the PRC itself could shatter into competing states (interesting to talk to a Shanghai intellectual about how they truly feel about the dominant Beijing culture).
StarLight, low self esteem is an understatement by Tekapo. I call it a death wish. A culture bent on suicide. Worshipping the Other is part of it, as you suggest. Anything is better than us. We’re so bad, and the Others are so good, etc.
My Serbian ancestors were more likely to be enslaved (by Ottomans, for centuries, back in the Balkans) than to enslave others. My Spanish ancestors also were often captured and sold into slavery by the same Ottomans Turks. In fact Cervantes, author of the Quijote, was enslaved.
We, westerners, whites, are a minority of around 11% worldwide, give or take. Under 15% for sure. Spread out wide. Barely a majority in historically white countries, but not for long. I don’t have a lot to say about that, as demography is destiny, and part of the death wish is an ever declining birthrate.
But I have something to say about this: beware of becoming the world’s scapegoats. Beware of groveling and begging forgiveness when under attack. If humankind is a tribe of chimps, beware of being perceived as the weak one, submissively presenting our rump in hopes of being spared. We will be devoured (yes, chimpanzees practice cannibalism, infanticide, and torture). Weakness is not the answer when you’re in a weak position. Two negatives don’t make a positive here. We need to respect others, and demand respect. When a mob demands I kneel and show submission and beg forgiveness for sins my elders didn’t commit (and every culture and race has their own sins, btw), I say no. That’s my line. When they tell me that the scholarship my son won by hard work and sacrifice needs to be relinquished to a “disadvantaged minority”, I say no – everybody had the same chances, a level field. More of us need to have a line in the sand. Soon, we’ll be a people without a country. How did that work for the Jews? Pogroms, persecutions, finally an attempt at extermination. That’s when they said no more, and established a country for themselves. Perhaps we need our own 1948 moment.
Excellently stated, Rulo.
Tekapo, if I may… I don’t see Indian Lives Matter or Polish Lives Matter going around smashing up and looting cities. I don’t see fatherless Chinese boys or errant South Africans going around slicing each other up and terrorising the streets and each other with gang warfare and ‘drill musik’. I don’t see the Bangladeshis or Pakistanis going around bitching and whining about racist this and racist that.
I would welcome anybody into my home. I’m not bothered about the colour of their skin or their sexual preference. But I object to the constant implication by fake media and sanctimonious celebrities that I only got to my station in life because of my ‘white privilege’ or that I should wear some form of emotional cilice to atone for my sins because a certain group of people who never were slaves can’t stop bitching about people who never owned them.
And something else. Have you noticed how equal opportunity (equality) is now no longer a thing? How it’s yesterday’s news? It’s now equal outcome (equity). A subtle omission of two letters that the outrage industry (and Cackles) hopes will go unnoticed. Equal opportunity, where you couldn’t discriminate against an individual, has now been replaced by equal outcome, where you are required to discriminate against an individual in order to favour a particular group.
Why is this? Well, it seems all the equal opportunity in the world hasn’t changed the fortunes of one particular group. Although ‘white supremacy’ doesn’t appear to have held back the Indians or the Chinese or the Bangladeshis or the Pakistanis it is of course responsible for the inability of certain others to succeed. Same story in whichever country you choose to look. Funny that. So here we are, tip-toeing across the Scales of Justice with reparations and CRT to see if that will finally tip them.
Well said, Slugoon!
Slug is spot on again. Excellent observations, they express clearly my own views about the subject. Bravo.
I don’t see fatherless Chinese boys or errant South Africans going around slicing each other up and terrorising the streets and each other with gang warfare and ‘drill musik’.
I think you need to research more the current crime rates in Cape Town, Pretoria, and Johannesburg.
You avoided pretty much the whole argument there.
Oh, and I researched those cities you mentioned.
Cape Town, 81% black/coloured.
Pretoria, 45% black/coloured.
Johannesburg, 82% black/coloured.
I think you can work the rest out for yourself.
Bill. Are you a designated gatekeeper? Because your post made me wonder exactly who do you think you are. I actually have found O.G. to be very thoughtful and pleasant and respectful. It’s not enough for you that truth is banished to the crawl space. No. You wish truth, a double edged sword, to be butter. How offensive
Good. You and OG can discuss 9/11 to your heart’s content. Waste many of us here’s time.
Bill, I apologised to all CFNers in advance at the beginning of the thread for the foil they would have to scroll past. I had a feeling it would develop in the manner it did. Hopefully it will stay confined to this one thread.
Hey Slugger. Again, I thank you for your thoughts and opinions. It is rare that one has an opportunity to speak with a commercial airline pilot vis-a-vis that Tuesday.
It just goes to show how much attention you pay Bill. I haven’t spoken up or shared in any of the 9/11 conversations whatsoever. I could have just as easily lived in your house for the last two years without you even realizing it apparently. I just wondered if you were a moderator given your frequent posts regarding the state of the thread and the ranking of commenters based on your subjective standards of the moment.
Can you imagine dubbing yourself beantownbill. but then trying to stop another man’s Free Speech?
I’ve been to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a few times. Red Sox’ games at Fenway. They got this little balconey still hanging off a bldg in downtown Boston where they read the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the British Colonists gathered below.
The Boston Tea Party.
Numbah Foahh Bobby Ooahh
And beantownbill. with his Limited Free Speech dictates. Dictator? Dick?
How exactly is it wasting your time? You mean the half a second it takes to scroll past?
I remember hearing of when Howard Stern started climbing the dog-eat-dog radio ratings in NYC. The people that liked him listened for a portion of his show. The people who hated him listened to the whole show.
My Dad did that for years with Bill O’Reilly on Fox. [hey beantownbill.] He’d PVR every episode of The Factor and despise everything that the man said.
My musings are a waste of his time because he can’t stand me and he has to see what I say next about ADL or Israel or Hitler or Lenny Kravitz.
Thank you, SSL. As I have mentioned before, I enjoy reading your unique posts. I find interesting nuggets of Wisdom & Insight.
Thank you O.G., I enjoy your posts too and appreciate the perspective that you bring to us
“President Biden has inherited such a mess”
I don’t share your reality. “President” Biden is a part of the “mess”. But what is he if the truth is that the covid gene therapies are like timed release bioweapons? I know this is asking too much of you. But this is beyond you and me.
I don’t share your reality. “President” Biden is a part of the “mess”. But what is he if the truth is that the Covid gene therapies are like timed release bioweapons? I know this is asking too much of you. But this is beyond you and me.
Congratulations … you have managed to include, parcel, and tie with a pink bow, about four or five right-wing conspiracy theories in the one paragraph. Quite an achievement.
Anyway – your comment on the Covid-19 vaccines is not relevant – had Trump won the election the vaccine program would have continues apace … in fact he continues to endorse vax.
Whatever you think of President Biden (and I am no great fan, but his first three months have been hugely impressive) – he did not create the vaccines and he did not create the vaccine program. Like all the economic disasters and everything else going on – he inherited it from a very incompetent Trump administration. YMMV.
What was impressive about Biden’s first 3 months?
The disaster at the border?
Signing more EOs removing our rights?
Selling us out to China?
Falling up the steps of Air Force One?
Wandering around stages in a fog?
What was impressive to you, especially?
I know I was certainly impressed by his stimulus check program, of which my household never received a penny, though we were certainly eligible based on our last two years’ filings.
Money spent, disappeared into the ether, no assistance rendered…job well done, Joey NoPulse & The Gang!
Tekapo, I know, I know, that was clearly Trump’s fault. Inherited!
As if every administration doesn’t inherit the shitstorm of the previous decades of government pillage of the country’s people.
You probably threw it out. I found mine by accident. It looked like those credit card adverts you get with the fake credit card in it. I had assumed it would go into my bank account like the first one (thanks, Trump!) with no effort by me. But no, it was a debit card, that came in the mail. I had no idea that’s how they were distributing them. Think of the amount of waste of plastic!
Yeah that is a good question! What exactly is impressive other than the breathtaking pace of the the dismantling of society..and apparently critical infrastructure too?
Cross-dressing boys can now dominate girls’ high school sports, SSL. Think of all the little trannies dreaming of getting their junk removed and a WNBA career.
“Congratulations … you have managed to include, parcel, and tie with a pink bow, about four or five right-wing conspiracy theories in the one paragraph. Quite an achievement.”
Errr, I counted one.
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I suspect they are. There is an ex-NYT science writer over on Medium, probably the most respected of his kind in the States.
He just published a piece on Doktor Faust and Wuhan and a tape where a top guy at the Wuhan lab under Faust discusses the creation of a Corona bioweapon.
Am very curious to read it. After Rand Paul’s performance in the Senate the other day, I think we may be at a watershed moment. Faust admitted the NIH was funding gain of function research at the Wuhan lab through a subproject under one of his underlings.
And that is a massive piece of info. to have entered into the public spehere. Stay the course.
the next bioweapon was the vax.
As I understand it, the full package is the bioweapon. I am going to check out the piece later today.
Can you post a link to it?
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
It is pretty explosive. I posted it further down the page, too.
We are getting close. The McMedia can’t cover this up much longer. That snowball effect is, well, in effect.
Yes, it is looking as if the whole package is the bioweapon, including the restrictions and psychological torture tactics.
And, thanks for the link. I truly do hope it’s starting to snowball.
As I understand it, the full package is the bioweapon.
The full package is actually the conspiracy-porn nutters clogging up this forum, FFS, preventing reasonable and rational discussion.
I’m sure none of you even read the essay from JHK.
Yes, I would believe that and look forward to hearing what you think of this new evidence. Yohannon has said that covid was made for the vaccine and not the vaccine for covid. So it does beg the question as to whether all of this was really about initiating the gene therapy (depopulation) program. That would fit well into the narrative that the Elites are attempting to deal with the overpopulation issue in a direct but underhanded manner.
Yohannon has said that covid was made for the vaccine and not the vaccine for covid.
Must be true then.
LOL … the conspiracies just roll on out, like Mars Bars.
And I wish you’d make up your mind – first the pandemic is a “hoax”, and now it’s an evil US-Chinese bioweapon. But wait, there’s more! The vaccine is also part of the Great Plan.
Good grief you people have vivid imaginations, and are so easily swayed by the next snake-oil guy who comes along. Sad indeed.
“I think we may be at a watershed moment.”
“Donald Trump shall be your president.” Hahahaha.
Good point, Tekapo.
“It is wonky, at Best, to consider the injecting of experimental gene therapy into as many souls as quickly as possible over the entire planet to be playing a role in their plan. Can you imagine such lunacy? Nut-fudge tinfoil baaa baaaaa.”
Are you for Reals? You seem like a not-quite-there-yet AI.
Hahahahaa!
BlueAnonBot 101 launched. Gonna need a lot of calibrating.
Slugger,
I don’t have answers to a lot of those things, OG, and if that means I am clinging to a psychological blanky then so be it.
Yes, you do. This is the problem with what they have done to us. They have turned us into children. That ridiculous Tuesday need be answered by every adult on Earth.
You think that it is ok to simply abstain from facing Reality. We allow that of children. We cannot afford that of adults.
I was hoping we wouldn’t go back to that level.
Reality can be such a buzz-kill, man!
A large part of your and Night Owl’s argument is based on incredulity, that it was simply impossible for these Arabs to have flown those aircraft the way they did.
I won’t speak for NO but I have never used the word impossible once regarding these strip club-frequenting Saudi jihadis Flight School drop-outs with balls the size of Texas and magic explosion-proof paper passports.
I said that I have heard that it is highly improbable that these kids piloted these building strikes 2-for-2 from commercial airplane pilots very familiar with the airspace and maneuvers. They (2, I recall) expressed doubt that they could have done so and, further, expressed serious doubt that Flight School drop-out that couldn’t land a Cessna could have gone 2-for-2 that Tuesday.
Applying impossible to my arguments is a strawman.
I’m simply pointing out to you that, from my experience and what I’ve learned having never looked into it before this thread, it is perfectly possible for them to have done it. There was nothing supernatural about the way those aircraft were handled or anything that indicates to me that great skill was required.
They were probably 1000ft above ground coming in for their target based on the height of the Towers and the location they hit. This idea that ‘tricky air currents’ and G-forces were enough to render a 767 or whatever impossible to fly, I mean, it’s just silly.
There’s impossible again! I never said that word but am now looking at a row of strawmen.
If it is silly, the silliness is on those commercial airline pilots that I saw interviewed circa 2004ish. I am merely reporting what those experts said.
There must have been literally thousands of aircraft across ATC radar screens at the time. I believe they turned their transponders off, which would have left only a primary radar return that would also have disappeared below a certain altitude. They were no doubt also crossing many different ATC sectors in quick succession without comms. I can only imagine the utter confusion across ATC and the military air defences trying to work out what was going on and which aircraft might be compromised.
Therefore, we are to believe, USA Air Force jets were no where to be seen because … because … “Look! Osama bin Laden crouched and shooting a machine gun! Arabs swinging through an obstacle course. A beautiful, pregnant blonde lady whose husband said, ‘Let’s roll!'” [Whatever happened to her? The Bush Admin paraded her around for a week or 2 during the Anthrax Hoax.]
As to all the other things you mention, I don’t know, I haven’t researched them. Much of it seems as anecdotal and unsubstantiated as the official story that you are doubting and based on the arguments I’ve heard so far about ‘impossible’ piloting I suspect some of them would fall apart under closer scrutiny.
Ostrich & The Strawman
But I don’t have hard proof either way.
Yes you do. Goggle “Architects & Engineers Truth” and search down to approx. page 17 to read TONS of evidence and analysis that overwhelmingly prove the obvious Truth.
On the balance of probabilities I don’t think it was an inside job.
I love the way ostriches speak about The Truth like it is an upcoming football game and the outcome still uncertain.
That’s just me. I can rationalise both the flight paths of the aircraft in the hands of those guys who obviously trained for just that event and I can rationalise the building collapse.
Even WTC7 that Larry Silverstein tells us that he decided to “Pull it?”
By all means file me in the group of tin foil hat wearers but I’ve got nothing more of value to add.
Slugger, it is us that are called “tinfoil” on CFN all of the time. I call you, GA, EF, RL, Tekapo, Bill, etc. children or ostriches.
And the other thing is, I don’t really care either way whether it was an inside job or not.
You sure as Hell should! It was the most important duty of citizenship that you were assigned your whole lifetime and instead you negligently stick your head in the sand,
If somebody produced irrefutable evidence that what really happened wasn’t per the official story then I would not be all that surprised and would have no problem believing it.
They have. The evidence has been overwhelming and in Public domain for over 15 years.
I’m not willing it to be one way or the other.
Of course you’re not but the fact that you are even thinking such fairy-tale thoughts is telling.
Most people have a strong psychological blanky that will not allow them to accept that our World is ran by Satanists. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, Slugger. Now eat your milk & cookies and I’ll tuck ya in with a bed-time story and prayers.
It’s just that when the likes of you or Owl maintain that it’s impossible for an aircraft to turn a circle using 30° bank and simultaneously descend at 2600ft/min, it demonstrates that you are not open to any other opinion but your own.
Strawmen as far as the eye can see …
For the record I said several times that nothing was impossible, just that it was not believable, based on the evidence available.
The claim, as I recall, was that Mr. Hanjour did it.
The reality is that this has never been proven. Either with a napkin and pen or without.
Can you imagine not caring that your own government leaders outright killed 3000K of your fellow Americans in order to gin up support for its war on the middle east?
Oh, sure, wars in the Middle East … but don’t forget about getting the Homeland populace to willingly sacrifice their Freedoms (earned by their forefathers’ blood) for safety, a Super Bowl nip slip with extra cheezy nachos and a Bud Lite.
Yes, an utterly bizarre attitude, hopefully not genuine but rather only some desperate psychological defense against the Truth.
It was 3000, not 3000K.
But Slugger has a point. If even a tenth of all the conspiracies those with fevered minds believe in were true then 9/11 is just in a long list where TPTB have undertaken evil things for their own nefarious ends.
It was 20 years ago … and not one credible person has EVER come out – on their deathbed or whatever – and admitted that they wired a building, or programmed a plane, or guided a missile into the Pentagon … or participated in some other way in one of the million secret squirrel steps required.. Not one.
So I totally disagree with others. I think it was totally impossible for it to be anything other than the official story. A very few people might have had some prior warning – after all there were quite a few people in on the plan.
Osama bin Laden (or someone he knew) might have sunk millions of dollars into shorting the market days before – who knows?
But again – like the suicide teams heading to strip-clubs (and probably buying sex) – it is further strong evidence that the official story is the truth.
And Mr Hawkins, it is time to seriously show some respect for others. Your childish abuse of those who do not share your bizarro-world paranoid satanic beliefs does you (and the forum) no credit whatsoever.
And “strawman” is just a dodge … used and over-used by those who cannot mount an argument.
And your constant referral to 9/11 as “that Tuesday”, or “one fine Tuesday” is infantile in the extreme … use its proper name like an adult. Blanky indeed.
Now forget it – never mention 9/11 again. I dare you.
I never said it once, Tekapo. I refuse to call that Tuesday by their evil numerology.
I use strawman correctly – when someone misstates my argument and then easily destroys their version of my argument. Slugger’s whole argument was that I called it “impossible” while I never actually did. Same strawman over and over again.
You can please some of the people some of the time.
It doesn’t mean that much to me
To mean that much to you
– Neil Young
So, if they weren’t real jihadis, why did they go on kamikaze missions? I’m not sure that I like your Police work, there Tekapo.
Who knows?. We sure don’t. The official report said that those hundreds of mils made shorting the airline stocks in unprecedented market activity was “untraceable” but that was comlete bull shit. How did they cash out hundreds of mils through the NYSE but remain unknown and “untraceable?” Silly billy.
E. Howard Hunt told his son on his deathbed that he was in on the CIA assassination of JFK. It didn’t matter. MSM ignored the story like Hunter’s laptop. Down the Memory Hole it went.
No psyops experts have gone against their sworn oaths to tell you, Tekapo, The Truth therefore you know that it is impossible to be anything other than a Saudi elite boy, ex-CIA, having US Air Defences stand day from a cave in Afghanistan and 2 airplanes pulverizing 3 skyscrapers one otherwise fine Tuesday. “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
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I will respond to any and all postings about that day, Tekapo. I don’t like you and I do not like your sheeple smugness of eating MSM horseshit and telling everyone else to do the same. You daring me to do or not do something is irrelevant to me.
I am here to exercise my Freedom of Speech.
You don’t have to read me.
And, being that you are so mature, I’m sure that you have surmised:
That even includes Double-dog Dares.
That was a typo, obvious to anyone with a brain.
But then millions have followed, after using that FF to start endless wars in the ME.
Way more than 3000K
It was supposed to be 3000+
“You think that it is ok to simply abstain from facing Reality. We allow that of children. We cannot afford that of adults.”
So well said, O.G.
I concur. The magical thinking by adults living in their false reality, believing they control their futures with their minds is what got us where we are now, complete serfs with psycho overlords who aren’t even concerned that we’ll rise up.
Last night in Hell’s Kitchen
Ebony Jackson, age 37, attacks two elderly Asian woman with a claw hammer.
Submitted without comment.
brh
Look what’s been a systematic problem way before now….
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Dirty-secret-of-black-on-Asian-violence-is-out-3265760.php
When Gays moved into San Francisco in large numbers, they knew they were going to have a lot of trouble with the Blacks. So they traveled in groups, carried weapons, etc. And above all, they fought back as a group. They weren’t regular Whites in other words.
Black violence has been an unspoken scourge of American life for generations now.
“When Gays moved into San Francisco in large numbers, they knew they were going to have a lot of trouble with the Blacks. So they traveled in groups, carried weapons,”
Yo,
If you carefully inspect the pic’s of what might be considered the archetypical gays of that period, you will see that, around their necks, they all had chains with…police whistles. Purposed to call for aid when attacked.
E, I thought it was golden coke spoons hanging around their necks. Wasn’t that a thing back then?
A few countries have the Kalashnikov rifle emblazoned on their national flag. In that spirit It would be appropriate to stitch a facsimile CLAW HAMMER on the Antifa/BLM banners; the claw hammer seems to be the all purpose weapon deployed by these revolutionaries; Used for everything: smashing out plate glass at Starbucks, busting into the Nike store on a dizzying night of loot and shoot, breaking heads of elderly Asian ladies walking home after work, crashing in auto glass of cars they stop on city streets then pummeling the drivers … everything except what it was designed for, driving nails into wood doing an honest days labor. The Eastwing claw hammer, the New National Symbol. All hail the Claw Hammer.
Brh
Estwing? Say it ain’t so! Possibly the best hammers since Mjölnir – and made in the USA. Full length steel shank… Mmmm mmmm… The kind of hammer you pass on to your kids – well, your favorite kid. But put an Estwing in the hand of an idiot and it’s likely to attack him.
I’d nominate Black and Decker. Crap fiberglass shank. Mmmm mmmm, love them fiberglass splinters. I’ve never touched a Black and Decker tool without regretting it.
“Submitted without comment.”
Blakattak!
Tekapo says, “I think that the dominant white class can more than accommodate diversity and other cultures, and actually grow very well from that.”
Accommodation and growth are the prerogatives of producers not parasites. Even too many beneficial parasites, which supply something useful, will sink a boat.
Whites have been accommodating minorities for decades, and look what the result is. The biggest mess ever.
And black people don’t like it either. Would you want to be infantilized and coddled? A successful person who worked hard to get where they are doesn’t. It’s the ultimate in condescension.
I’m sure Tekapo has not studied either critical race theory or its critics, such as John McWhorter, Shelby Steele, Coleman Hughes, Matt Taibbi, or James Lindsey.
Oh my.
Parasites.
A good way to compare the incoming parasites (immigrants) storming into this country and the Covid virus.
Both are parasites. Both have forgotten the success rule of parasitism, that you do not want to kill the host, only feed on him forever.
Both of our local parasites overdo their invasions and are killing the respective hosts prematurely.
Remember Jessica Lynch? The soldier who the US brass pretended was a hero and built a big PR stunt around? Then when she countered the official story and admitted it was all bullshit everyone just crept away to their corners or smoothed it over by painting her as a liar or crazy?
“When asked about her heroine status, she stated “That wasn’t me. I’m not about to take credit for something I didn’t do … I’m just a survivor.”
This is what the PTB do. They decide who’s a hero, or who is an insurrectionist, who’s a terrorist, who is a saint, facts be damned.
It is the rare person that will call them on it. Most prefer to take the spotlight or the payoff, no matter how fake.
Psyops and false flags are surprisingly easy to pull off with a compliant gullible public.
Thx for the reminder, Mary. I had not thought of that embarassing Jessica Lynch PR campaign flop in years. Good on her! That is a Real American hero!
Indeed. Psyops with crisis actors, compliant “journalists” and a populace living the Truman Show.
She couldn’t stomach their lies, and being pushed to spread them. She has actual integrity. Unlike people like that David Hogg freak, who is still capitalizing off the FL high school shooting that he was supposedly at even though he had already graduated.
Mr. Hogg’s father was an FBI agent.
Fun fact.
An FBI agent who specialized in “crisis simulations”.
Isn’t it always the case, as soon as you do even a bit of digging?
It’s almost too easy.
“Safe and effective”
There you have it.
What the hell was Eric thinking??? Regrets getting the toxic jab:
“I recorded “stand and deliver” in 2020, and was immediately regaled with contempt and scorn…
In February this year, before I learned about the nature of the vaccines, (and being 76 with emphysema) I was in the avant garde. I took the first jab of AZ and straight away had severe reactions which lasted ten days, I recovered eventually and was told it would be twelve weeks before the second one…
About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers. Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again, (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.) But the propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone….
Then I met a member of this group, who counselled me to be careful and to have a look at what goes on with you guys…
I felt like a veil had been lifted, that I was no longer alone, that it was okay, in fact essential, to hold on to my intuition and follow my heart…”
https://tapnewswire.com/2021/05/eric-clapton-after-covid-vaccination-i-should-never-have-gone-near-the-needle/
It’s a really sad story. I hope that he will not suffer later. There are a lot of people who seem to not have the ill effects up front right after getting the jab (I don’t have a problem with that term, it’s just violent 🙂 ). It would be interesting to know if that is better or worse for them or if that makes a difference in the end. The problem is that the system has too much power and people know that it can destroy you. If you push your opposition too far they will take your kids away from you. That is how they get people to hide behind their screens and they know exactly what they are doing.
Yes, it sounds like those around him were giving him bad advice. Some people just finally give into the peer pressure or go along to get along. In this case, that’s very dangerous.
Yes they know exactly what they are doing. People are all suffering from various psychological repercussions of this 14 month assault on our sanity and health. They needed to wear us down in order to be able to move forward with their plans.
And they are all-in. Like Saddam’s WMD lie, there is no turning back. “Full steam ahead!”
The same PR firm (Hill and Knowlton) that helped create the Great Incubator Lie also worked on the Covid Hoax.
As so often, you could not make this shit up.
And finally some sort of tie to the Bush family. Ya sure don’t hear much from them any more.
Jab Jeb! Jab him Real Good!
Oh the ‘Iraqi soldiers are throwing babies out of incubators’ lie that some higher up had his 15 year old daughter perform?
Yes these people have no morals at all. None.
Yes. She was the daughter of the Kuwati ambassador in Washington, I believe.
She nailed it. She was very convincing. Crying and talking about Iraqi soldiers stealing the incubators and leaving the little premees on the floor to die.
Anybody with a heart knew that George Herbert Walker Bush was on the up-and-up after that PR campaign.
Notice how they use women and girls to sell their wars. Insidious.
Jessica Lynch
Kuwaiti Ambassador daughter
Bana, the 7 year old Syrian girl who pleads with America to bomb Assad (with her mother’s arm up her back).
And on and on it goes.
His ‘friends’ from CREAM are dead.
He is the last man standing.
In a white room with black curtains.
On utube -a docu called-Beware of Mr Baker–Ginger says
‘Peter Brown made more money off Cream than I did.’
I’d like to hear the conversation between Clapton and Jagger…
Clapton: “Last time I take a needle from you Mick.”
Jagger: “Bloody ‘ell, Eric, I wasn’t telling you to take the jab – that was for all those bloody wankers out there that buy our music!”
I won’t get no Covid Vaxxin’
This morning Bloomberg reports Colonial has paid millions to hackers. Which of these two might be more valuable in such an attack?
1. The operation of the pipeline.
2. Detailed information about graft, corruption, regulatory capture and fiduciary malfeasance.
“Psyops and false flags are surprisingly easy to pull off with a compliant gullible public.” MaryV
Regarding all fixed winged aircraft – ground effects. once the speed, surface area of the wing, angle of attack and proximity to the ground are known the outcome can be calculated allowing for wind, altitude above sea level and atmosperic conditions. Personal belief or the monkey at the controls have no bearing on the designed capability of an airframe or aerodynamics. The experience and ability of the air crew manages how big the “bump” is when the bird sets down.
ps – I have some remnants of the North Vietnamese pt boat involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident if anyone is interested – call BR-549 ask for junior
Wm,
Unless the US sends men with green faces to kill everyone involved, and make it messy and public, this incident will provide for a…moral hazard.
Instead of money, what if the demands were naked pics of your wife? Would you still comply? Are their no limits to your shame?
Wm,
I would be interested in the PT boat components…are you gonna put them up on eBay? I would be interested in the parts to go along with my slivers of the true cross.
Complexity:
2 weeks ago Granholm called out for investigation due to stake in EV corporation.
Yesterday, says gas would not be an issue if you have an EV.
The reset is coming for you.
From everywhere
Don’t forget chicken.
When meat prices rise, the hoi polloi will be forced to
RESET
eating habits.
The elite?
They’ll have their chickens
And eat them
Bug burgers for the billion that survive The Covids.
Vox
After 60 years of completely failing to defend America’s borders or protect the nation from invasion, a group of retired US military officers is… encouraging everyone to get involved in local and state politics.
More than 120 retired generals, admirals, and military officers signed a letter that warned that the United States is embroiled in an existential fight and called on “all citizens” to get involved in local and state politics.
“We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty,” stated the letter (pdf), which was signed by 124 former generals and admirals, released by “Flag Officers 4 America.”
The letter also posited that opposition to proposed bills and laws that would strengthen election initiatives has troublesome implications.
“Election integrity demands insuring there is one legal vote cast and counted per citizen. Legal votes are identified by State Legislature’s approved controls using government IDs, verified signatures, etc. Today, many are calling such commonsense controls ‘racist’ in an attempt to avoid having fair and honest elections,” the letter added.
According to the Flag Officers 4 America website, it is a group of former military leaders who “pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,” who are “domestic” and “foreign.”
Of note, signatories of the letter include retired Army Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc—a Senate candidate in New Hampshire, retired Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin, and retired Vice Adm. John Poindexter—who was the deputy national security adviser for President Ronald Reagan.
“China is the greatest external threat to America. Establishing cooperative relations with the Chinese Communist Party emboldens them to continue progress toward world domination, militarily, economically, politically, and technologically. We must impose more sanctions and restrictions to impede their world domination goal and protect America’s interests,” their letter also said.
OK, Boomers. The extent to which this letter completely misses the point and the problems is downright amusing. Civnattery and vooting harder will accomplish precisely nothing.
What a joke. With an officer class like this, no wonder the USA hasn’t been capable of defeating any foe bigger than Panama.
Yoho: Imitating the French – and then coming off as cucks in comparison? Wow, just wow.
“We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776. The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty,” stated the letter (pdf), which was signed by 124 former generals and admirals, released by “Flag Officers 4 America.”
This is sarcasm surely … at least I trust it is.
Would you say supporters of socialism and Marxism are generally producers ?
Other than, of course, producing the ” fight ” itself.
“The extent to which this letter completely misses the point and the problems is downright amusing.”
Tekapo – what is the point?
Tekapo – what is the point?
Well that is a long essay – in fact JHK has essayed for years that there are a lot of problems and turbulent waters ahead, and those who have leadership roles – are well paid to carve out solutions – mostly haven’t got a clue.
But the Vox commentator is correct in my view: solutions will not be found in civnattery, MAGA frothing, white grievance, attacking black-brown people, widespread voter suppression, and other general rightwing fucknuttery.
Nor do you go into a major trade war with by far your biggest trading partner. There is huge co-dependence between the US and China … one would upset that at one’s peril.
The retired generals were idiot neocons war-hawks when the were in active service, and nothing’s changed.
And they are the greatest socialists of the lot … big fat inflation-proof pensions, often free education, subsidised housing, free medical for life, free dental … it goes on and on. The military is the great socialist honeypot.
And “Marxism” isn’t a social system – it is a way of critically and rationally looking at the political economy of the world. It is all about class, and who controls the means of production, and who shares the profits.
Many people who think they’re conservative actually think like Marxists – which is the only one that makes real sense … everything else is just applesauce.
Many very productive people are socialists – the problems of the world come from capitalism when the ownership class has too much open slather, and a far too great slice of the pie. Those issues exist now.
The poor whites who constitute the MAGA Crowd might rant against those migrant-lovin’ libruls and Kom-you-nist tray-tors, but it is capitalism that is keeping them impoverished, lowly paid, poorly housed, and deeply alienated from life. And pissed off. Sad.
“There is huge co-dependence between the US and China … one would upset that at one’s peril.”
“Tell the sky people they cannot have what is ours!”
There are things that will not be traded, sold, leased or lost. Ever.
There are things that will not be traded, sold, leased or lost. Ever. – MD
That whole kit of industrial production is long gone, and we’re left in an economic slum of Chinese product “welfare” (stuff for treasury bonds) juiced on computer-driven hyper-complexity, decorated with junk enterprise […] – JHK essay
The unreal things of others are not ours.
“I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says YHWH
“I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says YHWH
I see what you did there.
You left out the bit about keeping dispossessed Palestinians in poverty and destitution for generations, but hey, anyone can make a mistake.
Are 19th, 20th, 21st century capitalists “producers?”
Or are they just eager beaver, protestant-work-ethic brainless consumers and manipulators of resources?
Of course socialists are not “producers.” They are apers of capitalist economics with a redistributive twist.
Who actually is a PRODUCER?
Boomer-vets want to “save constitutional america.” Po and the libs want essentially a lazy trip down a very calm dreamy stream of change curated, choreographed and powered by Elon Musk/Willy Wonka
We won’t get either pipe-dream imo
In my freshman year at uni, I wrote a term paper on China assuming the role of global hegemon. in 20 to 30 year.
Nearly there. Never thought that would happen with the help of Western traitors.
Quite the spectacle this 2021.
Night Owl,
I truly admire the Chinese as a stalwart race of survivors in the face of incessant brutality – over the centuries. I live and work with a number of ethnic SE Asian Chinese whose forebears arrived in this region with nothing more than they could carry on their back. Facing hostility and persecution they still managed to forget through and today their conglomerates float the economies of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. They were big players in Vietnam until many got chased out by the nationalist Communists.
Nevertheless my firm conviction is that the same sealed-off cultural attitude which has driven them to a pinnacle of success thus far is going to be their downfall – to their great perplexity and puzzlement – in coming decades. Africa? Good fucking luck. Latinoamerica? Ditto. The old “Silk Road”? Infested with rigid, give-no-quarter Islamist nuts.
The only question in my mind is whether China (with or without the CCP) will eventually manage to accommodate and compromise enough to become a reasonable, useful world citizen (I would count the EU countries in that category). As pragmatists they likely will, and will be able to deal with any manifestation of collapse much more adroitly than spoilt, gimme-gimme westerners.
forge through. Do your poofreading, Byron.
To your last paragraph: Not as long as the CCP remains in power. They have been positioning themselves (with the aid of the global capitalists) to assume control of this new system of centralization that they are attempting to usher in.
Interestingly enough, I read not long ago that China also petitioned the WHO to run the new vaccine ID tracking systems. This will be the West’s social credit score if it goes through.
Dudes will probably get their $150,000 per year pensions cancelled and lose privileges at the exclusive Army/Navy golf course.
Like those retired French generals who attempted to sound the alarm, eh, BRH?
Driving over to Home Depot, gonna get an Estwing Framing Hammer. About $30.
Who’s with me?
Just in case a riot breaks out, we’ll be ready. You hit the sneaker stores, Addidas, Foot Locker, Nike. For my part, I’ve had my eye on some Target merchandise. Then we’ll meet at Starbucks, but that place up good. Bring your hammer.
Brh
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someone in bev hills was wearing a 500k watch. how dumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-xfBj8Z4qI
So what’s the problem Malth?, brothas needed a watch so they’d know what time it is and wouldn’t be late for work. Punctuality is a virtue.
Gagas dogs, grabbed.
Plus the watch is ugly as sin.
Something is off in that clip WRT the police chief. He almost seems accusatory/proud of the fact that crime is surging.
Weird.
Uh, oh.
“It cannot yet be stated that Dr. Shi did or did not generate SARS2 in her lab because her records have been sealed, but it seems she was certainly on the right track to have done so. “It is clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was systematically constructing novel chimeric coronaviruses and was assessing their ability to infect human cells and human-ACE2-expressing mice,” says Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University and leading expert on biosafety.
“It is also clear,” Dr. Ebright said, “that, depending on the constant genomic contexts chosen for analysis, this work could have produced SARS-CoV-2 or a proximal progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.” “Genomic context” refers to the particular viral backbone used as the testbed for the spike protein.
The lab escape scenario for the origin of the SARS2 virus, as should by now be evident, is not mere hand-waving in the direction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It is a detailed proposal, based on the specific project being funded there by the NIAID.”
We are nearing the watershed moment. Doktor Faust may indeed have a seat at the new Nuremberg trial.
https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
The lab escape scenario for the origin of the SARS2 virus, as should by now be evident, is not mere hand-waving in the direction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It is a detailed proposal, based on the specific project being funded there by the NIAID.
It was a long read, but I read the lot. He’s a good writer, and makes a complicated subject pretty clear.
If it is true as he suggests – he certainly does not draw definitive conclusions – that Covid-19 resulted from an escape from the Wuhan Lab, then a few questions arise:
1. Was it just medical research or more military?
2. If military (bioweapon) research, why was the NIH funding it?
3. If gain-of-function research, did this breach the Moratorium?
4. Why was research undertaken at less-secure levels in the Lab?
5. How will this ever be resolved?
The most puzzling issue for me, is why the NIH was funding such research in China. Was it simply because it was considered so essential that they had to get around restrictions imposed on home soil?
The other real puzzle – if you and others believe the pandemic results from the escape (or release) of a designer virus from the lab, then why do you insist on calling it all a “hoax”?
The existence of the virus, and the resultant death and misery, are totally real. A visit to any overwhelmed covid hospital should cure anyone of any doubts.
And then we move on to the conspiracies surrounding the vaccines being a depopulation weapon … it never ends.
The Media Matters bot mixes narratives.
Low IQ.
It is going to come out. And we shall laugh at you again.
Perhaps JHK will ban you for the 20th time as well, Cargill.
He must actually work at being this obtuse. No other explanation.
“The existence of the virus, and the resultant death and misery, are totally real. A visit to any overwhelmed covid hospital should cure anyone of any doubts.”
You must have missed the intricately choreagraphed TikTok videos which took hours to perform, record and get on social media, and the 40+ hospitals that closed last year because they were empty.
As well as all the medical personnel layoffs.
Or the people chased out of empty waiting rooms for filming.
Not surprising.
Was it simply because it was considered so essential that they had to get around restrictions imposed on home soil?
Or are they owned and operated by the Chinese now? I mean, obviously “Yes” financially but perhaps our elite and their elite have come to terms vis-a-vis those Trillions of T-Bills they own.
Perhaps everything is going exactly as planned for Gates, Faucci & Xi.
It’s a Big Club and you ain’t in it.
– George Carlin
Or are they owned and operated by the Chinese now? I mean, obviously “Yes” financially but perhaps our elite and their elite have come to terms vis-à-vis those Trillions of T-Bills they own.
Like I said – they are very much co-dependents now. A trade war and sanctions would be madness. Retired generals are always fighting the last war.
Will the US Winter Olympic Team compete in Beijing next February?
The way things are going, February 2022 is a long, long way from May 2021.
A lot of shoes to be dropped between now and then.
$7 gas in VA.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/gas-hits-7-in-virginia
It’s all part of the plan.
The Climate Czar and Sleepy Joe think $7 gas is still too cheap, would like to see gas jacked up to $10.
Of course it’ll cost more to fuel up the Climate Czar’s 70 ft motor yacht out on the Vineyard, but why should he care. His wife is a billionaire.
As for Sleepy Joe, he hasn’t paid for his own gas since 1970.
Brh
Four rules :
— Don’t invade Russia , unless you are suicidal.
— Don’t invade mainland East Asia , unless you are suicidal.
— Don’t cut Social Security / entitlements unless you are suicidal.
— You better keep gas prices low , unless you are suicidal.
I’m afraid though that these Ivy League types aren’t suicidal , just fucking stupid.
Exactly the same advice Rasputin gave to the Czar anent the Balkans. If only he had listened.
Aim small, miss small. Gather in. Conserve. Take care of the problems at home.
Personal anecdote ;
Once upon a time I bought into the MSM narrative that Rasputin was a seedy , marginal , questionable con – artist or flake.
Today though ?
I think that horny , drunken , would – be priest with poor hygiene was the only person in the whole of Saint Petersburg who had a lick of fucking sense.
But then , if that is correct , then it is at least sorta true that on this occasion the wife ( The Tsarina ) was right , and the husband ( The Tsar ) was full of shit.
For all his debauchery, he had a great devotion to the Royal Family, and peasant wisdom (commonsense – which is not common, at least not in civilization it seems) to the nth degree.
Who knows? Maybe he could heal to some degree.
Remember Michael Douglas in The American President
You don’t want an airline strike before Xmas, I am heading for St. Louis
KesaAnna, I was just musing the other day about “Dugout Doug” MacArthur’s famous final warning “Never get involved in a land war in Asia” and the Vietnam adventure that not only crippled the USA, distorting its economy (and pumping up Japan fabulously, incidentially) but also ruined my budding academic career.
I would have retired with a fat pension in 1988 from the Cali State College system if my Vietnamese students hadn’t inspired me to start raising hell in Fresno against the American involvement. Fired, indicted, on the run out of the country. And what did it get me?
“We could have won in Vietnam.” – Dubya Bush
” a group of retired US military officers is… encouraging everyone to get involved in local and state politics. ”
LOCAL and STATE politics …… ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukKZIlTEDo
🙂
” This is sarcasm surely … ”
Perhaps .
It struck me as ironic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sThaCXe1eJU
😀
https://dailystormer.su/evangelical-lutheran-church-of-america-becomes-first-major-church-to-make-a-trans-man-a-bishop/
We are not simply closer to the Abyss. The Abyss has jumped up and is now chasing us, trying to suck us in.
This a denial of Feminism, almost saying that a simple woman cannot become a Bishop unless she trans-forms. The more they deny the more they affirm, yet the further they get from the Truth.
Gentlemen, in the Levant, the sh#t has hit the fan.
I think the shit hit the fan when these modern , trendy , enlightened types concluded that the Crusaders were full of shit —
— So let’s go and do the same damn thing !
Biden’s Secretary of Housing was asked what the average home price was in Brooklyn: Ninety thousand? Close – one million. He had a similar position under Obama. Guess that was the last time he looked. Way to pick ’em, Joe.
Akmo told us that Israel was all peace and love, with Arabs accepting the status quo. Guess he was wrong. Guess he was wrong about a lot of things.
Well , I would say that whole situation was the fault of Catholics.
That is , we should have been backing the Byzantines to the hilt , instead of fucking them over every chance we got.
But , then , I suppose , Akfomo would disagree with that ?
Maybe that’s why he’s not hanging around right now. What with Israel proving how evil they truly are.
Akmofo playing a minister of Israel tourism with his charming videos contrary to reality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wKxfT0URo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dbLAiEdQv4
Anti-sem sneakers are getting so worn out that toes are poking through and, let alone, baseless with video like this.
akmofo blew a gasket when I said “USS Liberty” and he has not been seen on CFN since.
I didn’t know at the time but someone said later that he had said that if anyone ever mentioned “USS Liberty” again, he’d take his football and go home.
In fairness, arguing for the actions of Israel is very challenging when confronted with facts.
Ooops. Bold on, italics off. Sorry.
I recall a discussion about a month back where he did not know Israel was forcing the death jabs and issuing the Green Pass.
Perhaps he caught up with the program.
Biden jokes about not answering questions as in he will be in trouble.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-says-i-m-not-supposed-to-be-answering-all-these-questions/ar-BB1gH6lS?ocid=msedgdhp
This guy is the biggest joke in American politics and the absolute worst resident in the whitehouse ever.
Biden not my President.
I suppose I’m a bit constrained when it comes to U.S. Presidents.
My favorites were John Tyler — future C.S.A. Senator .
And Warren Harding. — I wish more 20th Century Presidents had simply used the White House as a club house to play cards with the boys. Like Russia , America is run best when the little people are fucking left alone to do their thing. Washington , no less than Moscow , might as well be on fucking Mars.
Hey , and an opportunity to link my all – time favorite motivational !
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hHHjA6TxRrg/T7slAwAOB-I/AAAAAAAAJu8/DB41oiTFSgA/s1600/mm_greatestpresidents.png
” Remember Jessica Lynch? ”
Absolutely !
And I admired her greatly.
Though , unlike Jessica Dubroff , I didn’t manage to save that issue of Time Magazine.
I admired her greatly for doing a rather minor thing ;
Merely admitting that she was just a truck driver.
” So shines , like the sun , a good deed in a weary world .” Someone said.
Yup. She did try to fire her weapon and it jammed. That was it. Another lady soldier in the convoy died in the fire fight. An American Indian. No recognition whatsoever. Racism? Or just one of the last manifestations of the cult of the Blonde Woman?
Bush 43’s Admins’ PR was sickening. They used citizens like props.
Karl Rove is an evil genius.
let me know if you see this, as there will be a new entry tomorrow.
GOP military appreciation day,
scroll down to see image,
https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/white-men-to-the-back-of-the-bus-bidens-restaurants-revitalization-fund-rrf-priorities-federal-relief-for-restaurants-and-venues-owned-by-women-and-racial-minority-g/#new_comments
Very nicely put.
Rare to see that kind of humility and integrity today, esp. with a shit-ton of pressure to play the game by powerful people.
Woman pleads guilty to robbing bank for plastic surgery money.
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-pleads-guilty-robbing-bank-150720170.html
What I’m having trouble with is the question, is this a man or a woman? The woke media won’t tell us, but there’s bound to be an interesting back story here, I’ll warrant.
That’s got to be a man. Journalists still use preferred pronouns these days, despite the idiocy of them.
The Market Ticker Guy had something to say about the structural damage to the I-40 bridge over the Mississippi river at Memphis today,
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242382
But any “infrastructure” spending has to address racial inequities first, plus the usual corporate giveaways. It seems the Long Emergency is well underway.
The Friday, May 14th taping of Real Time with Bill Maher has been cancelled. Bill tested positive during weekly staff PCR testing for COVID. He is fully vaccinated and as a result is asymptomatic and feels fine.
https://deadline.com/2021/05/real-time-with-bill-maher-cancelled-this-week-tests-positive-covid-19-1234755973/
If they are following their AIDS model, the more jabs people get, the more their systems will break down.
If he feels fine, why isn’t he doing his show?
Good question.
It appears that they want his millions of viewers to think, “Oh thank God that Bill is vaxxed and safe!”
Heh.
One of the best reasons to get vaccinated is that if you do catch the virus, (a) it is very mild or asymptomatic, and (b) your chances of spreading it to anyone else are greatly reduced – almost to zero.
That is why the CDC has said masks can be dropped (inside and outside) for the vaccinated – their chances of being spreaders are almost nil.
The vaccines work.
your chances of spreading it to anyone else are greatly reduced – almost to zero
What is claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Unless you have some? And if (a) is true then (b) is irrelevant.
Like anybody is going to be taking any notice of decaying Joe’s Twitter ‘rule’. Are this puppet dictator’s ‘rules’ law now? No, thought not.
What is claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Unless you have some? And if (a) is true then (b) is irrelevant.
Well, the CDC types, and other front-line medicos, are getting results that show that vaccinated punters are quite asymptomatic, but more importantly, that they do not develop even viral matter to transmit – which is why the mask mandate for the vaccinated has been relaxed.
There is no mystery here … it’s totally medically obvious – unless you’re always prone to be duped by a conspiracy theory. I’m not.
It isn’t medically obvious, at all. There’s no science behind what you’ve said other than what Fauci may deem it to be on any given day. What looks obvious to me that the vast number of people are asymptomatic without having any vaccine at all.
And in any case, if the vaxxed are asymptomatic and protected, why do they care about those who aren’t? Unless of course, the idea is to continue socially shaming everybody and get them with the ID program (which funnily enough doesn’t apply to elections, where some pretty strange resistance is now being put up in AZ).
I’ll say the same to you as I did to OG and Mary. Not everything is a conspiracy. It works both ways.
And in any case, if the vaxxed are asymptomatic and protected, why do they care about those who aren’t?
I have some sympathy with that view, but it’s not how modern societies – and modern public health systems – work.
The worst-case US scenario (which has some chance of transpiring) is that 50% will be full vaccinated, and 50% refuse to be jabbed. That indeed will be a clusterfuck, and a huge issue for public health officials.
I can’t see any rational reason why a rational person would not have the vax – but being sensible and rational is never a sufficient reason to believe b you’ll be in the majority.
it’s not how modern societies – and modern public health systems – work
What a crock. It’s unprecedented. I have never known any government coerce an entire population into taking mRNA treatments that have never been approved for use prior due to their safety record, that are still on an emergency approval, for a virus that doesn’t affect most people, and doesn’t affect anybody else if they choose not to take it.
How can you look at the data I have already provided and say that somebody in the 15-44 age bracket is irrational by choosing not to take a ‘vaccine’ that has demonstrably killed healthy people, that nobody has an idea of the long-term consequences of.
You’re free to think it rational, irrational or whatever you want but it’s none of your business. Now you, in the Land of the Free, want to stick it into young kids. It’s bad enough in the UK but I’m sure glad I don’t live in Amerika.
“I can’t see any rational reason why a rational person would not have the vax – but being sensible and rational is never a sufficient reason to believe b you’ll be in the majority.”
Tekapo – You literally said the other day that you were going to hold off and see on taking the vax (due to a doctor getting sick from it in your area, if I recall correctly).
Are you not a rational or sensible person then?
Blue Anon, duped by the Covid19 hoax, and lecturing others about believing in conspiracy theories.
Priceless.
Or they want the transmissions to begin.
LOL.
Hey, JAZ…I’m BAAAAAAAK and it’s not even Friday!
100 Republicans expected to call for new party…god bless ’em.
God bless Liz…daddy was a fighter, she’s a fighter too.
Derek Chauvin…say his name…world stool pigeon…sad.
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100 Republicans expected to call for new party…god bless ’em.
If they are successful, with two conservative rumps (non-Trump and pro-Trump) they will split the overall Right vote and allow Democratic domination for a generation.
You would consider nonsense like bit-coin as a workable idea and a viable medium only after having considered where things are at now.
Because JHK’s term “misrepresentation” in reference to the criminal flim-flam hiding in webs of fraud and deception conjured by the financial system is the understatement of the decade, no entity more “vaporous” than the toxic gas producer we call the Fed which every day pumps towering clouds of economy-killing monetary zyklon.
Modern-day decentralized analogues of the Orwellian Ministry of Truth match the output of phony-baloney Deep State Ministry of Plenty financial – cough – “regulators” whose task it is to lie, deny, mislead, misdirect, and strenuously affect to not see what to simple mule-skinners like me is plainly obvious. And we’re talking about everything from bent statistical agencies whose reports I wipe my ass with to “think” tanks who do nothing of the sort, and to alleged institutions of higher education who produce nothing resembling knowledge never mind that of the higher sort. Liars one and all, all of them charlatans, all in the service of maintaining a caste system of wealth and power and privilege in defiance of anything resembling sense and logic and reason.
And if you’re not on board, well, coalescing all around you are Ministries of Love in the form of investigative agencies, intelligence operations, a judiciary whose object of interest is little ole you, whose mandate it is to enforce. Justice isn’t the objective, no, nothing anything so lofty, no, the objective is the obstruction thereof, the protection of certain interests. Nothing more.
Gays and trannies and BLM? White supremacy and CRT? Bullshit all of it, not a bit of it on the level, none of it, all of it rhetorical fog. What about this last election? Was it clean? They spent years trying to up-end the last one. So, was it honest? How likely is that? Maybe like me you were born yesterday. So you tell me. Be honest. What do your eyes tell you?
Well done.
” … all in the service of maintaining a caste system of wealth and power and privilege in defiance of anything resembling sense and logic and reason. ”
*Cheers *
” And if you’re not on board, well, coalescing all around you are Ministries of Love in the form of investigative agencies, intelligence operations, a judiciary whose object of interest is little ole you, whose mandate it is to enforce. Justice isn’t the objective, no, nothing anything so lofty, no, the objective is the obstruction thereof, the protection of certain interests. Nothing more. ”
*Cheers*
” Gays and trannies and BLM? White supremacy and CRT? Bullshit all of it, not a bit of it on the level, none of it, all of it rhetorical fog. ”
Here I must add a modified snippet from Yohannon , no less ,
( Feminism amounts to ) ” We have been fractured down the middle. ”
* Cheers *
CFN ? Of a little over a dozen regulars , roughly half of them are great writers and / or great intellects.
Great post – who could disagree (except for the fraudulent election – the jury is still well and truly out to lunch on that one). This whole process can be called “late capitalism” – how late it is might be (and always is) a subject of considerable conjecture.
But like JHK I agree entirely that the entire financial industry is a flim-flam of grift, unstable sand, and desperate wishful thinking.
But so long as gas is under three bucks a gallon, and happy motoring can occur throughout the summer, does anyone really care? The middle class have enough scrabbled wealth to keep them moderately happy, the impoverished working class can make do with jobs at $8.00 per hour – they’re not heading to Yellowstone in a Winnebago.
The thing about America, Tekapo, is that everything you can say about it is true. Every possible variant of everything is true in America. In America, all great contradictions coexist and multiply on steroids, seemingly forever.
This is why most people are optimistic on America. To most people, America is a fantasy become reality. It is everything, and you can do anything you want in it.
But this is the reason I’m pessimistic on America. To me, all things have to be limited in some way, and be internally consistent. To me, the idea of everything going to infinity in all directions is anathema.
So to me, the idea of Bezos and Musk and others making infinite money, while the multiracial population grows to infinity and everybody has infinite food, entertainments, distractions, cars, houses, and what have you, is insanity. But to Americans, this is awesome, it can’t get any better than this. They don’t want to be the village chieftain back in whatever country they came from.
But to me, the village chieftain in whatever country they came from, that is real. That is reality. America is fiction, and cannot possibly last.
Good post – the level of national delusion and crazy thinking is by far the most lunatic in America. The disconnect between cause and effect is the greatest I’ve ever seen.
Everyone is riding a pink unicorn … nobody is grounded in reality.
Missed the point entirely, and responded with projection.
A typical Blue Anon strategy.
I’ll be pithy and just say it’s the Ruptures of Hyper-Complexity that beset us now.
America is not fiction, but rather nonfiction at its wide ranging best, filled with great achievements, courage and compassion, along with great failures, cowardice and greed.
It’s often a bawdy, ballsy, boisterous and belligerent nonfiction, creating the image of the ‘ugly American’ along side the patriotic ones of ‘Uncle Sam’ and Norman Rockwell’s America.
In a sense you could say that idealization is a fiction, but it’s a fiction that can lead us to better realities.
Is the American Dream now fully a fiction? I don’t think so, I think that it’s still plausible in the usual sense, even though it may be more difficult to achieve.
Lack of the right leadership is certainly not a fiction, and if we could only get some, America could again top the list of nonfiction best sellers.
“Guess what: it’s an undeniable fact now that the 2020 election was rigged in Arizona.
Maricopa County officials deleted a directory full of election databases right before the election equipment was delivered to the audit.
And now they deny they have the router passwords”
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1392817690079866881
Put some cardboard over those passwords!
Getting out the popcorn, even though it’s still very early morning here.