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The question you might ask these days: how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves? Can you name an institution that is not at war with the people of this land? The exact mechanisms for all that bad faith stand in plain sight these days, and persons responsible can be easily identified. What’s missing are discernible motives. For now, it just looks like the greatest collective act of ass-covering in history.
It’s pretty clear, for instance, that all the criminal misconduct in the FBI / DOJ — continuing to this moment — emanates from the years-long effort to cover up the seditious campaign to nullify Donald Trump starting well before Nov. 8, 2016. All the players in the agencies, and their news media accomplices, stand to lose at least their reputations, if the public cared about how dishonestly they acted. Many of those still working would lose their jobs and their livelihoods too, and quite a few would lose their freedom in prison. So, their motive to keep up the skullduggery is simple self-preservation.
The Covid-19 pandemic looks like a pretty large-scale racketeering operation gone awry with plenty to hide. You have the reckless, symbiotic relations between the US public health bureaucracy and the pharmaceutical companies, and tons of money at stake, plus the colossal ego of hapless Dr. Anthony Fauci wishing to pose as an historic world-saver, another Louis Pasteur or Alexander Fleming. And then you have the amazingly foolish act of imposing an untested, dangerous “vaccine” on the world, and years of lying and covering-up its repercussions of injury and death. And then the opaque and nefarious roles of other actors in the story ranging from the CCP to the WEF to the Bill Gates and George Soros empires of money in what looks like genocide.
It’s harder to unpack the enigma of the obviously unfit “Joe Biden” getting installed in the White House. My guess: the Obama claque behind him knew that “JB” was easily manipulable, and that his lame rivals, Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Liz Warren, and especially the proud socialist Bernie Sanders, could not be counted on to do exactly what they were told. The Obama claque especially needed a president to appoint agency heads who would cover-up its creation of an Intel Community Frankenstein, and all that monster has inflicted on the American public.
Of course, the main device the claque had for pulling “Joe Biden’s” strings was the flagrant record of his many years of bribery and treason. The major effort to cover-up all that criminality was the DOJ and FBI’s suppression since 2019 of the Hunter Biden laptop, and the most stunning upshot was that the incendiary evidence of bribery and treason came out anyway, because so many copies of the laptop’s hard-drive got distributed. And absolutely nothing was ever done about it, nor about the actual persons — Christopher Wray, William Barr, and Merrick Garland — who worked to squash it, making themselves accomplices to ongoing bribery and treason.
All this criminal misconduct is connected in a foul matrix of lawbreaking. The fact-patterns are well-established. Dozens of excellent books have catalogued the misdeed of RussiaGate and scores of websites daily dissect the shady intrigues around the “vaccine” crusade. The infamies of gross election interference have been systematically laid-out in the Twitter Files of the past two months. Many books, published essays, and videos substantiate the reality of massive ballot fraud in 2020 and 2022, including the felonious role of Mark Zuckerberg’s front org, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, and the election law manipulations of Lawfare goblin Marc Elias.
There’s an understandable wish that upcoming hearings in Congress will lead to a reckoning for all of this. To banish consequence from public life, as we have done, is a pretty grave insult to nature, but who can tell whether accountability might restore our institutions at this point. We may be too far gone. The US is visibly collapsing now: our economy, our financial arrangements, our culture, our influence in world affairs, and our basic consensus about reality. We’re entering a phase of disorder and hardship that is likely to moot the further depredations of a government at war with its people. For one thing, it’s becoming impossible to pretend that this vicious leviathan has the money to carry on because the money is only pretending to be money.
It’s no wonder that the collective ability for sense-making has failed. It will be quickly restored by each of us in the scramble to survive these disorders and hardships. The bewildering hypotheticals of recent years begin to dissolve like mist on the mountain and things come back into focus: your health, your daily bread, your shelter, your associations with other people close to you, your values, and most of all the power of your own choices. Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.
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Good post JHK and a good summary of the current racket. I wonder if the phenomenon of emergent properties in systems is best explanation for the drift of politics towards absurd levels of both corruption and incompetence. Who needs a conspiracy when you have an attitude.
“Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.”
Jim is correct for in nature there are no rewards, there are no punishments, there are only consequences.
When we ask ourselves how did all this happen, how did all these failures and agendas all seem to come together to combine and make the total clusterfuck of a mess that we have today, you really have to reexamine the prophetic in Matthew 24:
“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.”
You may believe in the word as the Truth or not, but it is apparent that there are those in high places that do believe or are following the word as a script for it is playing out just as it was written.
It’ll be worse for mothers who bottle feed. After Katrina I didn’t think that any sensible woman would choose to leave her infant’s survivability to the known criminal Nestle, but I was wrong.
We saw the formula shortage of last year leaving a bunch of babies without the chemical concoction they call “formula”.
OK then, lesson learned again.
Ha, ha, just kidding. Americans are stupid.
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where did this guy come from???
You know collapse is coming when garbage like you is allowed to post on this site.
Nestles is infamous for the old bait and switch routine too. An ad campaign encouraged women to give their babies formula rather than breast feed. When the price went up, mothers couldn’t afford full strength and so diluted it, causing malnutrition.
“The Nestlé infant formula, however, wrought horrible effects in Africa, South America, and south Asian countries. Lost lives linked to Nestlé baby formula skyrocketed, culminating in a Nestlé boycott during the 1970s. The boycott didn’t end the problem but rather spurred the call for international formula standards.”
Nestlé accomplished this in three ways, said New Internationalist:
Creating a need where none existed.
Convincing consumers the products were indispensable.
Linking products with the most desirable and unattainable concepts—then giving a sample.
@SW interesting info thanks. I was raised on Carnation evaporated milk and corn syrup. No wonder I was so chubby as a baby.
Mr sister works at her county health department as a breastfeeding counselor for the WIC group. Guess the government would rather have them nurse than have to pay for formula.
I was raised on corn syrup and evaporated milk also.
Note that during the infamous formula shortage the media warned mothers not to make their own formula.
It was too dangerous!! You had to have the corporation do it.
It is official government policy to have mothers breastfeed, even though it is unprofitable for the formula companies.
The official government policy is ignored by the formula companies, of course, and the hospitals who receive free formula to hand out to new mothers. Once the mothers and babies start out on formula in the first days, it can be difficult to switch over to breastfeeding.
So the official policy doesn’t really mean much.
The other way that formula killed babies in the third world was the water supply, as we talked about elsewhere.
Mixing the formula with contaminated water killed a lot of babies.
Abortion kills babies too. But that’s ok? Because women want it?
My own Canadian government, led by Margaret’s Precocious Boy Justin, has been the biggest Ukraine cheerleader of all surpassing even the most unhinged Democrats and CNN in sheer vitriol for The Great Satan. Aided and abetted by the turbaned man in search of a constituency Jagmeet Singh, the CBC, Globe and Mail and Ukrainian Canadian Congress, there’s been serious talk of banning all Russian athletes from Canadian soil, confiscating the assets of Russian nationals in Canadian banks to help Ukraine pay for its’ own defense and the spigots are fully open when it comes tor funding the Ukrainian war effort with Canadian tax dollars. Canadian taxpayers struggling to make ends meet will be happy to know that their hard-earned tax dollars will be sent to prop up a corrupt regime thousands of miles away. The Russian diaspora in Canada has been largely silent, or silenced, for fear of bringing retribution on themselves. Thousands of Canadians don’t have access to safe drinking water, decent health care or education, especially those living on Native reservations, but our leaders persist in demonstrating our allegiance to a foreign country with tax dollars. I have a question for Socrates Detroit: are Americans as blinded by their own government’s propaganda on Ukraine as Canadians are, or is there still some backbone left in America?
That is because Trudeau is one of Schwab’s favorite pets.
I haven’t heard an actual person where I live getting all patriotic over a country they don’t even live in.
It seems like more of a media story.
Maybe Putin should invade Canada to liberate the Russians there.
Remember this: In Warsaw in 1940, the first time the Jews saw someone dead in the street, they were horrified. 3 Months later, they stepped over the bodies with a ho-hum attitude. Oh well, “it isnt me”..Wake up Canada, wake up America, the new Nazis disguised as globalists want you to ‘step over the bodies’ and get used to the misery they inflict. Whether it’s energy, food or clothing, they want us as sheep that drink from their ideological trough. No worries Obama or Gates or Soros.. You’ll get there because Americans and Canadians are too hedonistic and stupid to give a fat rats ass.
I wish I could blame Biden but he’s too brain dead stupid, he couldnt even understand it.
Americans already learned to step over bodies in the 80s. We have millions of homeless people everywhere.
Exactly Paula – we did such a good job of de-humanizing the homeless – many the casualties of poor policies & economic predation (See SF) – that it doesn’t feel like we’re stepping over anyone at all. De-humanizing is the operative word – and MO – be it homeless or any other select(ed) group.
“I wonder if the phenomenon of emergent properties in systems is best explanation for the drift of politics towards absurd levels of both corruption and incompetence.”
The drift is just entropy, the emergence will be when the human desire for order re-asserts itself.
“The ‘iron law of oligarchy’ states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop oligarchic tendencies, thus making true democracy practically and theoretically impossible, especially in large groups and complex organizations. The relative structural fluidity in a small-scale democracy succumbs to ‘social viscosity’ in a large-scale organization. According to the ‘iron law’, democracy and large-scale organization are incompatible.” ~ Wikipedia
Well, this makes more sense than Friday’s post, which literally said Russia’s about to win in Ukraine, so the US dollar will collapse. That association was mind-boggling. That said, repeating again, and again, and yet again that the sky is falling and the US is about to collapse, when, in fact, the sky never falls grows dull. How about just acknowledging that the US is a nation in decline, that has been declining for a long time, and continues to? Nothing is going to collapse tomorrow, or next week, or next year, but things will gradually continue to get worse, in a myriad of ways. Isn’t that a more sensible take on the state of thing in the US right now?
Have you ever looked at an old abandoned barn? The building might creak and sway, clearly on its last legs, but at some point that final straw will break and the next time you look everything will have come crashing down. This I believe is an appropriate analogy to where we are in America’s state of affairs at this point in history.
Slowly then suddenly.
Like Bankruptcy. Or the gradual and sudden schools of Zen, with Soto focusing on filling up the old pail drop by drop, and Rinzai focusing on the bottom falling out.
The ‘system’ has already crashed and there’s no going back. We have a soft, weak, ignorant, dependent people with no sense of purpose, It’s happened to all the great civilizations and will continue to happen, I suppose, until the end of the age. How do we respond as individuals and live out our lives in a time of chaos. I imagine those who read this page have already decided that.
Shotho – on living out our lives in a time of chaos, although those who read this page have considered the many options before them – not so sure they have fully decided just yet.
As prepared as they are for what they imagine is coming over the horizon, I believe time, place & circumstance will be factors – maybe the deciding factors – on which pockets make it through – same as it’s always been.
“We have a soft, weak, ignorant, dependent people with no sense of purpose”
That’s a perfect description, and the perfect recipe for a collapse.
You forgot “decadent.”
As an aside, at what point did “decadent” come to be used as a synonym for “wonderfully desirable”? An awful lot of tv commercials do that, particularly when describing foodstuffs. While Americans may view “decadent brownies” as wonderful, I have to think people from other lands may think, “Holy shit! These Americans lecture us about morality, but they extol immorality such as killing our unborn, adultery, blasphemy, public lewdness, drunkenness, and even immoral baked goods!” While that may sound weird to Americans, there are still some people outside North America who believe America is still a force for good. (Many Americans think we’re still what we were in 1945, while others stupidly believe America was never great — acolytes of the 1619 Project, for example.) We can be good, but those occasions seem increasingly rare because of our piss-poor “leaders” and cultural rot.
This is the End of an Age. It’s not just America that’s falling but Western Civilization and the whole modern world, possibly.
Yes, people prate of freedom, but are in love with their chains. Our Bill of Rights was never balanced by a Bill of Responsibilities. The gap used to be made up by good families and social customs. But no longer.
Anent the Bill of Rights: We should have no need to have our rights enumerated. Only that which is not allowed should need to be spelled out.
Then again, that depends on what kind of country you want to live in.
Good point. But man is what he is. As Madison says in the Federalist Papers: If we were all sages, we’d have no need of law at all. But since we are not, let us proceed.
Good use of anent too. Now admit it: That felt good!
The colon too! Now work on the semi-colon. Tom (Jefferson) was a great master of the latter. Please refer to his writings for guidance.
I did it (“anent”) for you Jars. I figured if I spoke your language – Boston waterfront, ca. 1850 – you wouldn’t have to translate into other words. And I was right.
Joseph Lister must have felt this kind of satisfaction when he invented Listerine.
I can wield a comma like the Arab with the scimitar on Indiana Jones, but the semi-colon; that’s a bit trickier.
Love “a bill of responsibility” ! I never comment but I am struck by that notion.
Bill of Responsibilities: from the novels of Harold Covingtion, an American National Socialist.
Actually Jars, anent responsibilities, in my idealized state (that tries real hard not to be a state), legally taking on responsibility, in the form of obligations to the community (“community service”), would be the boundary between “residents” and “citizens”. No vote yet – that belongs to the “electors”, the next level.
I see you’ve applied for residency already… Baby steps Jars, baby steps.
Nice. Graduated citizenship. An idea who time must come if there is to be any hope for Man – and that includes Womb-Man.
We have “Experiment 25” ongoing. And it is no turning back
“its a rat race, and the rats are wining”?
Is this what the push for equitable and equity is all about?
Ever smash a Corelle plate? They withstand a thousand hits against the sink faucet, but then one day somebody drops one and it hits the floor just right…
It seems like the harder something is to break, the worse the destruction when it does.
People can still live in crumbling houses, and do, in the USA.
The roof leaks and you put buckets underneath to catch the water. The windows break and you tape newspaper over the holes. You use the only burner on the stove that works to cook your ramen.
You learn to step around the holes in the floor or put a piece of plywood over them. You prop the door closed with a broom.
That is where we are in the US right now.
But then you have the people who claim that everything is fine and people pointing out the problems are just alarmists who should shut up.
I sneer at their myopia.
The people saying everything is fine are Biden and his globalist buddies, while the people living in those ramshackle houses tend to be Trump voters. But nobody gets that, probably because of the trope that all Republicans are filthy rich businessmen and “ultraconservative” (whatever that means),while Democrats are the friends of downtrodden Americans. No, both parties suck, and the American people accurately feel like nobody in Washington gives a rat’s ass about them.
You’re right Bob – people have “felt” that way for a long time, but they’re pushing through their cognitive dissonance to realize that it’s actually true – no one in DC gives a rat’s ass about them – good for them! Good points sir.
…….
“FIRST OF NOVEMBER, — the Earthquake-day, —
There are traces of age in the one-hoss shay,
A general flavor of mild decay,
But nothing local, as one may say.
There couldn’t be, — for the Deacon’s art
Had made it so like in every part
That there wasn’t a chance for one to start.
For the wheels were just as strong as the thills,
And the floor was just as strong as the sills,
And the panels just as strong as the floor,
And the whipple-tree neither less nor more,
And the back crossbar as strong as the fore,
And spring and axle and hub encore.
And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt
In another hour it will be worn out!
First of November, ’Fifty-five!
This morning the parson takes a drive.
Now, small boys, get out of the way!
Here comes the wonderful one-hoss shay,Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay.
“Huddup!” said the parson. — Off went they.
The parson was working his Sunday’s text, —
Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
At what the — Moses — was coming next.
All at once the horse stood still,
Close by the meet’n’-house on the hill.
First a shiver, and then a thrill,
Then something decidedly like a spill, —
And the parson was sitting upon a rock,
At half past nine by the meet’n-house clock, —
Just the hour of the Earthquake shock!
What do you think the parson found,
When he got up and stared around?
The poor old chaise in a heap or mound,
As if it had been to the mill and ground!
You see, of course, if you’re not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once, —
All at once, and nothing first, —
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.
Logic is logic. That’s all I say.”
The Deacon’s Masterpiece – Oliver Wendell Holmes
I liken this to America right now. Chaos will ensue soon.
Interesting poem. Thanks for posting.
Paula D. That is the last half of the poem. It is available many places on line if you want to read the first half.
The quake of (December 16) 1811 was a pretty good one too. The one that followed in January and February were even better. With the exception of the 1964 Alaska quake, they were probably the strongest in North America since us white people got here and started measuring stuff.
It is said that Tecumseh foretold the first of the 1811 quakes. It would be nice to “believe” that (that a human being, directing large numbers of other human beings, was in communication with a higher entity that was on their side). Didn’t seem to matter.
How is Baked Alaska doing?
Thank you American academia. Thank you American media, Thank you American Hollywood. A more seditious cabal of terrorists I can’t conceive. But whats even more disconserting is, they don’t even realize t.
How could they realize it? They are trained animals hired and paid for not doing so. Once western Europe is destroyed, it’s their turn.
xhttps://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/europe-will-be-destroyed-over-ukraine/
Dil – Collapse is a process, not an event. You’re waiting for an event – meanwhile, the pot is coming closer to a boil.
Ron,
This is so true. And the process manifests itself in ways that individually seem small. Inflation, for example, just like bringing water to boil is imperceptible for much of the process (from one year to another or from one second to another). But inevitably, the currency crashes, the water boils, and society collapses.
we”l be fighting for a loaf of bread. The pimer was the early days of Covid. Remember?
The globalists were testing us. Keep locked and loaded, ’cause you may need to ‘shoot ot out’ to feed your family some day.
Mrs. – yes, exactly! Everything purposely happens incrementally – very subtly. As you say, almost imperceptibly. We rarely notice going from A to B, B to C, C to D, and so on, but wake up one day and we’re at M, and wonder how we got there.
(Our society is composed of three types of people: 1) those that make things happen, 2) those that watch things happen and 3) those that wonder WTF just happened. Unfortunately, most of Americans fall into category three.)
That makes it imperative to always have a high degree of situational awareness – which most don’t – and to be aware of baseline measurements. Where we are right now is only understood in terms of where we were yesterday – history, so to speak.
A better example – you live next door to an old high school classmate for 50 years – Mike, the football team quarterback. You see each other often. He puts on one pound a year – almost imperceptible – to you.
You attend your 50th high school reunion – the people who haven’t seen Mike in 50 years are shocked at Mike’s cumulative weight gain.
That’s why the Marxists are big on erasing history – removing statues, cancelling culture, etc. – they don’t want us, or our children especially, to see from where we’ve come.
Our children will say, “It didn’t used to be this way”, and the Marxists will say, “Oh, nonsense, it’s always been this way”. They want to erase our baselines – mainly so we can’t measure the depths they’ve dragged us into.
PS – I assume it’s “Mrs.”, and haven’t been corrected, so continue to address you in that fashion, but it could simply be three initials, followed by three more initials – mystery is always attractive – but please correct me I’m wrong – I want to address you as you’d like.
OK – stick a fork in me. I’m done. Zzzz…
Russia has already won in Ukraine in the sense that Ukraine has been smashed as a coherent nation-state. And the US dollar is in the process of collapse, but not necessarily because of anything Russia has done. We’ve been doing that to ourselves for a long, long time with policies that favor spending over saving. There is not much substance to support the dollar and we are seeing it fall in slow motion.
Those of my advanced years may remember when USSR honcho Nikita Khrushchev pounded the lectern at the United Nations and proclaimed, “We will bury you.”
Thanks, Comrade, but we will bury ourselves.
America has become a nation of female driven pussified men. They cower to the blatant idiocy of woke, Lbgtq, kumbaya horseshit White professorized young women who drive America’s narrative. Kruschev was right, but even HE didnt realize how it would happen.
There’s that, and there’s the related desire to make.everything “fair.” Which leads to people screaming bloody murder if they don’t get their way, and/or demanding a “fair hearing”” where a judge will buy whatever line the person uses to make sure he or she gets whatever they’re after because that’s usually easier than telling them they aren’t gonna get their way.
I don’t find the association of a Russian victory in Ukraine and the collapse of the US dollar to be at all unrelated. If Russia does eventually prove victorious (as I think they will, as long as no one resorts to nukes), they will have shown the world that the US (and by association, NATO) is the paper tiger that so many now increasingly suspect them to be. The loss of credibility of the US to “lead” the free world and the current financial system will cause even more countries to flock to BRICS currency or some other form of exchange, as is already happening around the world. Once the US dollar loses its reserve currency status, many economists say it would lead to a disaster that US citizens cannot comprehend. I don’t think it has to be a long, slow-motion train wreck; to quote Hemingway on how he went bankrupt, “Gradually, and then suddenly.”
The US dollar is a zombie now. The walking dead.
The dollar has been “eroding”, not just in terms of purchasing power (inflation), but in terms of importance since the 1960s–my whole life.
Some of that was inevitable as rest of the world grew and the US proportion of global GDP declined–that was inevitable.
Made in USA inflation and gimmickry hastened the erosion.
But the final blow was the US decision to economically sanction Russia, and freeze or confiscate Russian financial assets. This is theft–for a country the US is not in a declared state of war with.
Now, why will any country, democratic or dictator, want to keep their assets in dollars?
The BRICS are hard at work setting up an alternative.
The US has always been importing more than it exports since the 1970s. The deficit means foreigners hold dollars, and we hold totes, shoes, furniture, cars, airbuses, oil.
The dollar is finished. What our evil government will do between now and the time when a critical mass of Americans reaches the same conclusion remains to be seen. It won’t be good.
In this context, even a US “win” in Ukraine won’t reverse the trends. But since Russia cannot, will not, “lose” in Ukraine, that will add even more impetus away from the dollar.
As you say, “gradually, and then suddenly”. We are much closer to suddenly…
Saudi Arabia stated at a recent conference that they would accept payment for oil in currentcies other than dollars.
Currencies.
Stable throughout the 19th century, the dollar has been eroding since 1913 when the Fed was created.
Indeed…furthermore, there was NO net inflation during the century that preceded the Fed..There would be inflation during wars, counteracted by deflation afterwards…
The $ has actually performed quite well against most currencies for most of the time since 1913 starting with the British pound (worth $4.80 in 1913 and recently about $1.30).
We won the World Wars and set ourselves up as the reserve currency. Our Elite did very well, the people only ever worse for decades.
What about during the Civil War when many counterfeit currencies were circulating?
Agreed. The US and the rest of Natostan openly declared that they were out to destroy Russia’s economy and impoverish its people in order to destroy their country, divide it up and loot its resources.
How did that look to the rest of the world? Especially when Natostan flat-out stole $350 billion that Russia held in their banks?
And this is after they already stole Venezuela’s gold and oil.
Who would be stupid enough to leave their wealth in western banks after that?
Meanwhile the BRICS have been setting up an alternative system to SWIFT and other western banking system.
The tough nut was the petrodollar. The petrodollar is the key to US influence, wealth, and power.
Every country needs oil to function in modern ways. The need for them to get dollars to buy oil is what gives the US the ability to invent dollars to buy the resources and goods that other countries produce.
If they no longer need to obtain dollars they no longer have to sell their resources and cheap goods to the US.
And then we go from “slowly at first” to “all at once”.
But first we took down Europe, just for shits and giggles. And to watch as Germany sucks up the destruction of their pipelines and continues to grovel and submit to their US masters.
If you are a sick psychopath that gives you joy.
Yes, one remember the mass rape of German women by both the “Allies” and the Russians. Luckily the latter were able to throw off the Capitalist/Communist parasites with the rise of Putin and his Group.
Forget it. Saying the US dollar will collapse is like saying the American people have no value. Capiche?
I think the decline will accelerate once we reach a critical mass of citizens who realize that they’ve been duped. The question is what will act as that last straw that breaks the camel’s back?
The government propaganda machine will be in overdrive as we careen downhill toward whatever fate awaits us.
It’s incorrect to say “in a myriad of ways.” Sorry to be a grammar asshole, but this is a pet peeve of mine.
Correct use: “in myriad ways.”
Ya ain’t da grrmur poliece is ya????
It is more poetic, giving the wonderful word “myriad” its full power as in Home’s description of Odysseus as “that myriad minded man”.
Gotta’ give you this one Janos – game, set, match.
Except in your haste to play your ace, you mis-typed “Homer’s”, but I’ll look the other way on this one – I’m no Q – I’m giving you the W.
How is he getting the “W”? the way I used it in a sentence is correct.
Mary – you’re right and your usage was also correct. Janos just has a more robust, descriptive, well-rounded usage. Sort of degree of difficulty thing. Wasn’t really a Janos vs. Mary, with a winner & a loser – think more of two contestants.
Teacher: “Class, everyone use the word dog in a sentence.”
Stephanie: “I have a dog.”
Michael: “One of our most famous American authors, Jack London, wrote a book titled Call of the Wild, about a dog named Buck.”
Both are correct, but Michael gets the W.
In other words, Janos one-upped you, but I don’t think the rules were clearly laid out.
One just assumes you two are nearly always adversaries – constantly competing. You’re both worthy opponents & express your opposing points of view clearly.
I think a fair number of readers enjoy the tit-for-tat. I don’t ever mean any harm, but just like stirring the pot.
You’re plenty capable – carry on.
Actually, Janos would use the word like this:
“Jews are well known for kicking dogs and black people use pit bulls in dog fighting. Hitler put a stop to that. Anent dogs, why do white women love their dogs more than white men?”
So corona has morphed into rona and Jarek has morphed into Janos? (Takes out pocket notes/agenda, marks changes…)
Got it.
PAULA FOR THE WIN!!!!!!!!
Who the hell is this usurper? I’m the only Dilbert around here. Go away and STFU!
And it all started by me calling you a Dildo. Yours was literally the worst post ever – but now I can’t even remember what it was!
Realizing it was too rude for continual usage, I shortened it to Dil, his being the lower part of the triune man, the liberal Id so to speak.
Then when “Dilbert” came up, I chose that, with Dil as an abbreviation of that. Against Dil or Dilbert is Woody, the hippy turned redneck. The reconciling principle of these two is Woodrow, the Synthesis of the other two into their higher third. Such is the Drama of the Triune Man.
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@ dilbert113:
The US is of course in decline. Depending on where you live, it looks a lot like collapse has already occurred–judging from our decaying cities with their hordes of homeless and drug-addicted. It might be interesting to compare our present rate of drug-addiction and deaths from overdoses to the rates that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
As with the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, our productive capacity has been hollowed out, and in many cases owned by foreigners (or multi-nationals, which comes tot he same thing). Much of our land is now owned by foreigners or foreign interests. Our nation is being looted at many levels. Our military is severely compromised.
The truth is, in Ukraine we are engaged in a cage-match fight-to-the-death against, not only Russia, but the BRICS nations, in an effort to preserve Western hegemony and the dollar’s status as the reserve currency. That–along with the absolute existential need to gain control of Russia’s resources (to keep the Western financial system afloat)–is primarily what the Ukraine war is about.
It is unlikely that the Western powers will win in this conflict. In which case the collapse of Western economies and currencies will be devastating.
The sensible take: “Brace for impact.”
Anthea – You’re exactly right. An existential cage-match. RF vs. USD Hegemony – two men enter – one man leaves. Problem is, Russia is square-shouldered and square-jawed, while the USD is weak-in-the-knees. One punch’ll do it – KO, not a decision (negotiated settlement).
Russia has made mistakes, such as going in without enough troops on the ground. However, by their own oft-stated aims and any objective military standards, they are now winning hands down. And a major point people forget is that they can’t lose this for the simple reason that China has their backs. The Chinese know that if Russia goes so do they. They won’t let Russia lose. Simple as that.
I do think that Russia expected early negotiations, so they didn’t send enough troops.
Plus, their neoliberal ways made them rely on contract troops instead of conscripted at the beginning.
I knew about the two peace negotiations in March that were thwarted, one by the SBU killing their own negotiator, and the other by Boris Johnson flying into Kiev to order Zelensky to tear up the agreement.
But I recently heard that Zelensky sued for peace on the night of Feb. 25th, going through the Chinese Embassy to contact Russia.
Russia agreed to negotiate, but the US put the screws on Zelensky to back out.
The US/UK/NATO have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands.
But I agree with Anthea and Ron. The reason the US won’t let Ukraine back out of the cage is because they are going for all the marbles, the resources and wealth of Russia.
They will kill the last Ukrainian and then start on the Poles and those little weasels in the Baltics in order to get that booty.
And you got SO upset at Friday’s post that you eagerly awaited today’s post so that you could make the same comment.
Get a life.
The Roman Empire reached its territorial peak in 117AD. It took almost 300 years for the city itself to be burned. In many respects, the US has been in decline since the Vietnam war when, in 1971, the dollar declined sharply against gold, the yen and the German mark. Some individual American cities have lost more than half of their population since 1950 and a few rank among the most dangerous in the world when measured by homicides per 100,000 people. Yes, the US is in decline but collapse could take a very long time.
Alien and hostile peoples live in our cities. Future anthropologists will find them squatting in our cities or nearby and wonder how such as they ever erected them.
But Whites think the situation is wonderful! Especially White women and their feminized male serfs. Therein lies a tale indeed. Do you have time to hear it? Will you? Do you have the requisite “ears”?
Jarek, you may be overly optimistic in believing there will be such a thing as future anthropologists.
As for the tale of white women and their feminized male serfs, I’m waiting for someone who has what it takes to unravel it in the mode of Christopher Lasch, who is sorely missed.
Rowdy,
I don’t understand white women and I am one. When you figure them out, let me know. And my husband might appreciate a cc, lol.
The Chinese will chronicle the downfall of the “dog eyes” – one of their names for us. An amazing people who some say went to the moon but couldn’t love themselves enough to preserve their own nations.
You’re like a broken record, Jarek. If you’re pet chihuaha lost a doggie beauty contest, you’d blame it on racism. And most of the whites that you drool over so much are fully in favour of quadruple vaxxes, Team Biden and The Russians Are Stealing Our Elections.
Yes, I never get tired of the basics. You’re sick of 1+1=2 and things like that. Your brain has been circumcised.
That was then. This is now. Our current civilization is one of great complexity and energy usage. I can see something as simple and possible as the loss of reserve currency status to see it all collapse overnight. It doesn’t help that there are so many so willing to push the process along.
Yea whenever people scream how the walls are caving in I just go outside and look around. People are nice to each other by and large. There is law and order. Nothing is really that different then 10 years ago.
With that said….
It only takes one stupid mistake and world wars happen. Besides that it looks like we will balkanize here in the states before anything really pops off.
Biden=Stupidity+Taiwan-China+Russia+NO.Korea and the coming petrol/chip/rare earth mineral conflict will relegate America to Puerto Rico status.
Buy canned goods
One of your best ever Sonny, lots to unpack there. Bet you’re a good travelling partner – you can pack four suitcases of stuff in a carry-on.
Dildo- You obviously have no clue how fast credit markets can seize up, or how quickly a run on the bank can materialize. Gradually, then suddenly.
Dilbert
“Slowly then Suddenly”
—The US war fighting doctrine calls for first use of nuclear weapons.
That doctrine is all too credible as the US is the only country on Earth that has used them in war.
—The US/NATO is on a continuous path of escalating the conflict between it and Russia, blocking all negotiations to end the war. In the absence of negotiation the only end point is nuclear war.
—Russia has one fundamental international principle. Never again will il permit the invasion that cost 21 million Russian lives in WWII. A World in which Russia no longer exists is a World which no longer exists.
—The stated aim of the US Government to overthrow and break up the Russian state and the overriding national goal of Russia are fundamentally incompatible.
“Suddenly” Scenario I
—China recently flew a missile completely around the world over both poles and over the US mainland without being detected.
—Russia has hypersonic missiles with multiple launch systems against which the West has no defense.
—Russia apparently has a large unmanned submarine drone capable of sitting un-dected in a deep ocean trench like the one off of Puerto Rico for years until called upon to launch its missiles.
—One of Russia’s initial goals when it began the Special Military Operation in the Ukraine was to minimize destruction of infrastructure, anticipating a rapid negotiated surrender. (How naive that seems now as it pounds the remains of Ukraine into submission.)
—What if Russia responds to the coming US nuclear attack on it’s Homeland with a SMO against the US mainland?
—Six air burst EMP nuclear weapons detonated over North America.
Within minutes every modern truck and automobile will cease to operate and not be reparable. Airplanes will fall from the sky. The Internet will no longer be available to “talk” to your “friends” or unlock the key to your imaginary “money” stored in a bank. Grocery shelves stripped bare, gasoline and diesel no longer at the pumps, water no longer flowing from pipes.sewage from the toilets or electricity from the wall sockets. If its winter not even burning the furniture will stave off the cold. The most heavily armed populace on the planet will take to the streets looking to seize anything that will keep them alive.
Within two weeks half the population of the US and Canada will be dead from lack of water, starvation, or street warfare.
Hard to maintain the American’s favorite posture of “Eyes Wide Shut” in the face of that reality!
The only thing stopping that scenario is the basic decency of the Russians and their reluctance to wipe out humans, even Americans.
But the US is getting more and more blatant about their plans to destroy and loot Russia. Check out the Brussels conference today openly discussing their plans.
As Putin as said, if a fight is inevitable, strike first.
They don’t have a nuclear first strike policy, but can they set off an EMP blast without using nukes?
I don’t know, but they probably do.
here on maui island, the bulk of the sheeple continue to graze contentedly, not a care in the world…the state of hawaii’s website tells us, in the event of nuclear detonation, to ‘duck and cover’…(much like they did in new york)
people owning on Maui are rich, or some of them are.
id like to be rich and living on Maui. I lived there as a youth, briefly.
Thank goodness Putin is not at war against his own people, he is at war against the depravity of the West. His war is now basically one of good against evil. (Putin is on the good side, the West is on the bad side.) Hopefully this will turn out for the best in the end and that Putin and Russia will be victorious.
As mentioned in the previous post comments, that Catholic Church is now claiming that being gay is no longer a sin. Well, I guess everything goes now and nothing matters since last time I read The Bibe it was pretty clear against homosexuality (plus many other things the West seems to turn a blind eye from).
Also, cutting one’s forelocks, men shaving, eating lobster and wearing clothes made with 2 types of fabric! Hey, ya can’t cherry-pick Leviticus! Gay sex and fried clams both send you to Hell!
Christians aren’t bound by Mosiac Law. Sorry loser, you’re wrong.
@rudyspeaks, I’m fine with people arguing against Christianity. You don’t have to become a Christian. I do object when people argue against something that exists only in their imaginations. At least have the good grace to know what Christianity is so that you can avoid arguing against your own ignorance.
Jesus: Not one jot or title of the law will be removed before my return.
What is the essence of the Law and the Prophets?
Love the Lord they God with all of your heart, mind, and soul.
The second is like it: Love thy neighbor as thyself.
As for not eating pork, getting circumcised, kosher kitchens, etc – that’s no longer relevant for us. We’re not Jews you see.
BIBE? mentions this kink in old testament [jewish book] not Christian new testament.
The Bible is both old and new testaments. It’s still a Christian book.
@ Beryl of Oyl:
TBH, though, I don’t think anyone can make heads of tails of it. Too many internal contradictions, plus a lot of stuff that, if taken literally, is clearly just wrong. E.g., Jesus’s adjuration to hate your relatives, if you want to be his disciple.
This scripture was recently one of the readings at Mass, and our priest did a yeoman’s work trying to talk his way around it. (Jesus really meant something else, dontcha know. Seems to me that, if he meant something else, he might just as well have said whatever it was he did mean.)
Oh! And that reading was followed (I think it was the following Sunday) with the scripture in which Jesus advises you to defraud your employer.
I was irritated for a few weeks. Last Sunday, our Bishop paid us a visit. We had a fried chicken dinner in his honor. I can’t really warm up to the guy, since he allowed the churches to be closed during covid. I mentioned this to my fellow diners while I was eating friend chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy. I thought this was neither the time nor the place to confront the guy. And I couldn’t tear myself away from the fried chicken.
Such a loving god. When they pissed him off he killed the men, women, animals. bugs and plants. Glad he didn’t hate them.
“Where two or more are gathered…
As long as one of them can fry chicken.
I recall peering over the edge of the 5 gallon pot, bubbling on the stove in the basement of my Methodist church, as a young’un. Watching the pimpled, yellow skin slough off the tired, gray, water-saturated flesh. Watching the bubbling yellow froth gathering along the edges of the pot as if it wanted to escape. Looking at my paper plate as a leg, wing, or thigh, was placed upon it, leaking water into the lima beans or squash that had the misfortune to attempt to share the limited space.
WWJD?
And of course there’s the little fact that you don’t believe any of it. But on the other hand, he probably doesn’t either. So what is there to talk about, really?
You did the right thing in just stuffing your face. A woman’s tongue is the gateway to hell.
Blackbird responds to Anthea’s gustatory spite with ironical relish.
People like this are going to create a new America? Alas, not until this generation is dead and gone can that happen. We will have to wander in the Sinai for decades until the Boomers, Gen Xers, Millenials, and Zoomers are are all food for the crows.
There are no good guys and bad guys in the Russia vs US conflict. It’s tempting to be Rootin for Putin or China, given the mendacity and evil of the US, but alas they’re even more evil in some ways. A journalist, Riley Waggaman, who goes by the handle Edward Slavsquat lives in Russia and has written many articles about the Clot shots in Russia, the biometric Identification that will be used to ” cattle tag” every Russian and the incredible evil buffoonery and corruption that goes on there. Check it out. The Russian gov does let him stay there though, which is rather perplexing. China? Don’t really need to spell that out do I?
“Being” gay was never a sin. Engaging in homosexual acts is a sin.
However, I understand that during the 16th Century the clergy discovered a loophole: The Bible forbade homosexual sex with men, but not with boys. So as long as you stayed away from the grownups, you were okay.
From what I hear about Catholic priests, Anthea, the clergy is still finding “loopholes”. Another pederast and child abuser was allowed to retire in Canada today.
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Christ
I don’t disagree that there’s depravity in the West, just as there is throughout the world, including Russia. It’s all due to the fact that mankind is fallen, but given that fact how can you justify an unprovoked war on mostly innocent civilians by a tyrant like Putin? The last time you read The Bible did you read the part that condemns war and murder?
unless god does it.
Murder? Like the Ukinazis firing artillery shells into the Russian-speaking Donbass? Isn’t 14,000 dead civilians, “murder”? Or, for that matter, “provocation”? Your post reads like you fall for the MSM narrative…charming!
Zeke, how do you explain that Russia has no interest whatsoever in all of the West’s absurd sexual confusions and deviant behavior? Why is it that the Russian Orthodox Church is growing very rapidly, and Russians by and large have conservative/family values? Is this a good or a bad thing? Or is it that Russia is bad because they’ve been Eastern Orthodox for 1000 years or so? You know, the Russians gave the Pope the finger so long ago, and the Popery has yet to forgive them.
I also recommend you stop getting your news and information from tv. It makes you look foolish…….
Yes, watching “Man in the Street” interviews in Moscow on CNN. CNN was trying to make the point that Russians citizens were opposed to the war and against the Putin government. But they made no such point. What I saw were clean streets not overrun with tarps, drug addicts or vagrants. The women were attractive and the men looked healthy. Some of those interviewed were skeptical of the war. They did not appear afraid to speak freely, as, say, a conservative white undergrad would be afraid to speak freely at Cornell, BC or Yale.
“and Russians by and large have conservative/family values?”
They have quite high levels of alcoholism and the domestic abuse that so often goes with it. The law was changed a few years ago to give women less protection against domestic violence.
Ukraine may be worse, for all I know, but one shouldn’t idolise – or idealise – people whose ‘family values’ often leave a lot to be desired.
Why is Putin a “tyrant”? He’s probably not a nice guy, but he was voted in legally (unlike Biden) and has to answer to public opinion. As for Ukraine, you’ve heard about the Minsk Declarations, right? You know, the ones that were supposed to allow autonomy for the ethnic Russians in the Donbass, and which we encouraged the Ukrainians to break? In my book, a tyrant is someone who steals elections to get himself in power and deliberately refuses to protect his subjects from violence, illegal immigration and economic ruin. Sound familiar?
Not climbing on the anti-putin train but that is a stretch to say he was voted in legally.
Anything is legal when you change the laws to suit whatever your goal is.
Kind of like how they changed the voting rules to help Biden win.
They essentially cheated because mail in voting is fraught with fraud always has been and always will be.
I am beginning to think the Iraqis had it right voting with deep blue ink that takes days to scrub off that way one can only vote once.
Of course, that means that the pollsters must still be reasonably honest.
You sound like an NPR reporter. Unprovoked war! Are you unaware of all the Russians killed by Ukrainians in the Donbass region of Ukraine?
None of that would have happened had Putin not attacked Ukraine in the first place. Once wars start innocent people get killed. I doubt very much that Ukraine would waste their limited firepower to kill their own people instead of foreign invaders. All of those casualty figures of dead civilians come from Russian propagandists.
“In an interview with the Useful Idiots podcast not too long ago, Noam Chomsky repeated his argument that the only reason we hear the word “unprovoked” every time anyone mentions Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the mainstream news media is because it absolutely was provoked, and they know it.”
“Right now, if you’re a respectable writer and you want to write in the main journals, you talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, you have to call it ‘the unprovoked’ Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Chomsky said.”
“It’s a very interesting phrase; it was never used before. You look back, you look at Iraq, which was totally unprovoked, nobody ever called it ‘the unprovoked invasion of Iraq.’ In fact, I don’t know if the term was ever used — if it was it was very marginal. Now you look it up on Google, and hundreds of thousands of hits. Every article that comes out has to talk about the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.”
https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/09/caitlin-johnstone-unprovoked/
Russian actions weren’t unprovoked. Exactly the opposite in fact. The US wanted and created this war.
The Hippocratic oath forbids abortion. So what did they do? Take out that part. Why not make up their own oath? Because they want the credibility of tradition without actually adhering to it.
Ditto for Feminist Christianity. If they made up their own religion, who would come? Not even the would. Satan is an imitator who cannot create but rather seeks to corrupt and destroy that which he mocks and imitates.
The early church in the first century included a lot of female management, along with preaching and conducting services. The reason for this was simple. Church was conducted in private homes everywhere, they didn’t have temples or church buildings to go to and maintain. Back in that era, women did all the home management and they were home makers. A quaint, outdated concept, Because the home was their domain, and because church happened in their domain, they had a lot of influence and control. It was only later when church buildings and bishops arrived on the scene that it became dominated by males.
That’s where religion belongs: in the self, in the family, in the community.
When the state co-opts religion, the state corrupts religion.
A House divided against itself…
St Paul saw the danger and told them to shut up early on. You can look that up. Try Bible Hub, DIL.
Paul did not write all the books that are attributed to him. You can look that up in the books written by Bible scholars who study these things from a historical perspective. Try figuring out what the Bible actually says instead of what people want it to say.
– yer old pal Dilbert
They took away the whole oath.
There is a new Oath some are using. Forget what it’s called or who came up with it. At least it’s honest.
Hollywood has driven the obscenities you mention and the supple sheeple American citizens have ‘oh welled’ it. Move along, nothing to get too upset about. It’s jes (as Bob Dylan sang) ‘the times they are a changin’.. I say: BULLSHIT. American men have become pussies and afraid to stand up to the liberal college inculcated white woke girls that have historical penis envy and finally, finally can ‘take over’.
And,I know it isnt PC, but quite frankly, I don’t shiv a git what anyone thinks
Sonny – if you don’t get out of my head, I’ll have to start charging you rent.
I was watching a show the last of us and the third episode included a gay male couple making out and the inference of one giving the other a hummer.
I recognize that this is Hollywoods attempt to normalize to hairy chested bearded men going at it but dare I say this is not normal and never will be.
Another stupid teevee show crossed off my ever-shrinking list.
We are being inundated with it in commercials, books, adds on billboards and walking down the street.
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” – Chris Hedges
… and the military is in the process of destroying the World.
And the agriculture/ranching/dairy industry is owned and operated primarily by corporations. Roundup, Roundup ready GMO crops, growth hormones and antibiotics pumped into animals, and chronic disease continues to climb. Anyone who questions our food supply and what’s in it gets very little press. Monsanto marches on.
And yet people in the 1930’s and 1940’s died on average in their sixties. People live into their late seventies on average now.
From Lew Rockwell website about Social Security:
“In 1940, for example—the first year that pensioners could receive benefits—life expectancy at birth was only 61 for men and 65 for women. Indeed, even if we eliminate the toll of childhood diseases on life expectancy, the numbers do not change dramatically. In 1940, total life expectancy for persons over 15 years of age was 68. Moreover, in 1940 the percentage of the population surviving from age 21 to 65 was only 54 percent for males and 61 percent for females. But what about those who actually made it to age 65? In 1940, a male at age 65 would, on average live another 13 years. A female would live another 15 years. So, when looking at the work force in 1940, we can eliminate nearly half of the men and about 40 percent of the women as likely future Social Security recipients. About half of those who actually made it to 65 would then collect benefits for no more than 15 years.”
Now let’s contrast that with life expectancy realities in our own time.
Life expectancy at birth today is 78 years, and for those who reach age 15, it is 80. for both men and women, more than 75 percent of the population reaching 21 will survive to age 65. That’s an increase of 50 percent for men, and around 30 percent for women. For those reaching age 65 in 2022, males will live another 18 years on average, while females will live another 20 years.
That’s true statistically but what’s also true is these are projections and we don’t know if they’ll pan out or not. Life expectancy is now declining for the first time:
“Average life expectancy in the US plummeted by a year and a half in 2020 – the largest single-year decline since World War II, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Life expectancy went from nearly 79 years in 2019 to just over 77 years in 2020, the report found.”
What I’m seeing when I go to Walmart or even church are the older people look healthier than the young. What I see in the grocery store are 10 different brands of yogurt loaded with sugar and lots of frozen meals. And I really do believe this is going to take a toll in the years to come.
I’ve commented on that yogurt phenomenon before.
People who have been persuaded that ‘dairy’ (milk) is toxic, scarf up the yogurt as if it is the elixir of life or something.
Worse yet, they feed that stuff to their kids, believing it is “healthy” because it is low fat.
The yogurt products aimed at kids are nothing more than sugary desserts. A lot of them aren’t even real yogurt.
Yes, I want to buy yogurt but it is not offered. low fat, greek, sugar loaded, but no plain yogurt.
Back then many Americans lived in poverty. Ill fed, ill clothed and ill housed. Work conditions were brutal and unsafe.
The reforms of the New Deal years were what increased the life span.
People are now complaining about the rise in the price of electricity.
I still have a rural electrical co-op, set up in the 30s to bring electricity to poverty stricken people in the countryside, providing my electricity.
Decades of propaganda and deliberate strewing of Hate in this country has convinced a large portion of the population that all of those reforms should be abandoned and the population set loose to fend for itself the way it did in the 19th century, when living standards were even lower, children were farmed out to work in backbreaking jobs at the age of 6, and life expectancy was low.
Because if Bill Gates ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy.
Or something like that.
@ Beryl — and there are yogurt pops too. Ugh.
@ Paula D — and public sanitation has greatly improved too. Even the Deplorables have indoor plumbing, so I’ve been told. I’m on a rural electric co-op too and the prices have been good but just last month they sent out notices that there would be increases. Mine went up 20% and I was gone most of the month and the thermostat was set at 64. What to do?
That is true, SW. That probably had a lot to do with it.
No more cholera or typhoid once we got water and sewage treatment.
As I understand it, the high death rate of children in the third world is mostly due to diarrhea due to unsafe water. That used to be us.
Yet another part of our infrastructure that still makes this an attractive place to live.
Yeah, high electric prices suck, but I was brought up by parents who didn’t have electricity until adulthood, and they treated it with great respect.
“Turn off those lights! Don’t stand there in front of the refrigerator! Shut that door! We aren’t paying to heat the outside!”
It’s not a big deal to me to conserve energy. I understand that to a great many entitled Americans, it is considered a blow to their God given rights to heat the outdoors.
Meh, whatever.
What I’ve noticed over the years is the great decline in health and vigor. My parents’ generation, who lived through the Depression and WWII could do the same kind of work that Mexicans do today. Houses were built with hand tools, and basements and foundations were dug with a shovel. Many of the people who provided California’s California’s agricultural labor were regular old white people–generally Okies. Among the Boomer generation, the high school boys were still bucking hay during the summer.
I don’t think many people in our younger generations could do that stuff. I think the main reason is the degradation of our diet. It’s well documented that modern vegetables have about half the nutritional value that they had in the 1950s. Modern short-stem wheat has a much higher glycemic index than the old tall-stemmed wheat. Modern wheat has a higher glycemic index than sugar. Meat and dairy products are likewise nutritionally degraded, because the stuff the animals eat is grown on the same depleted soils, and cattle are fattened on corn, which is very bad for them.
Something I’ve noticed over the past ten years or so is that many prepared foods that used to be reasonably tasty are now inedible. I used to get Campbell’s chicken noodle soup when I (or someone else) was sick. It was pretty good. The last time I bought it, about ten years ago, it was so bad I threw it out.
It also appears that the manufacturers have eliminated tomatoes from canned past products, like spaghetti and ravioli–another purchase I made when I was sick and didn’t feel like cooking.
A couple of years ago, I bought whole chickens at Walmart to make chicken broth from scratch. The broth tasted like water. So I now buy chickens from the health food stores. While I don’t recall that canned chicken broth was ever very good, I stopped buying it years ago, because it tasted like canned water.
There are quite a number of other issues, such a GMOs and hormones, and the use of highly processed seed oils. But I think diet is the main thing that’s wrong with people these days.
I think so too. There’s a documentary King Corn that you might like to see if you can find it. It may have fallen off streaming menus and I saw it probably 15 years ago. Two guys just for yucks had a lock of their hair analyzed b/c they had heard it showed various stuff about what drugs you were taking, food you were eating, etc. When they got the results back it showed their diet was 70% corn even though neither ate corn. As they investigated they found all the corn syrup, animals fed primarily corn and a lot of other sources. It’s done with humor but has a lot of surprising information too.
@Anthea, you bring up one of the issues I’ve ranted about for quite a while. When I was a young adult, my grandparents complained that food didn’t taste good anymore. They made the same recipes they’d always made, with (supposedly) the same ingredients, but the results were in no way the same.
Some things that were staples (like leaf lard) disappeared altogether. Flour was made from different grains, with different properties. Fries were made with vegetable oil rather than beef tallow. It all added up to food that was superficially the same, called itself by the same names, but was almost unrecognizable to older people who had grown up with REAL food. I’ve experienced the same thing as I’ve grown older. I don’t think we can any longer make the same food our ancestors made, even if we follow a recipe exactly. We don’t have those ingredients anymore.
I also recommend King Corn. It was very eye-opening.
Last week my son and grandson visited and as we drove home from St. Louis my grandson wanted to know the difference between old and new stuff. (We had gone to a museum with an old plane and an old fire engine, etc).
Anyway, I pointed out old tractors and new tractors, and old siloes and new siloes.
The old siloes were MUCH smaller than the new ones, and there was usually only one on a farm. There were a couple of places that had 5 or 6 of the giant new ones.
All that corn storage makes for an obese population.
@ Paula — and this isn’t our grandparent’s corn either. I know a lot of scientists say GMO corn is fine (and GMO soybeans) but I don’t buy it. And it’s in just about everything and it’s government subsidized too. The so-called studies that have been done are all funded by the companies making these seeds and, as far as I know, no independent studies have been done. Farmers across the world have fought using them as buying seeds every year rather than saving seeds, creates debt.
Anthea,
valuable insights – I concur. We are what we eat. Food is medicine, etc.
Only 20 yrs in organic farming, and I don’t know it all, but I know more than regular Joe about it – and I think you’re spot on.
Rulo – seems the road less travelled – the one you’re on – is the answer to abundant, robust health – mental as well as physical. Bring fresh veggies – we’ll have fresh local caught seafood.
That’s true, Jimpa. Although I think life expectancy is going to fall.
People died younger from things like blood poisoning and various traumas from accidents, which we know how to treat now.
When did we start using antibiotics? That made a big difference. Unfortunately we are kind of reaching diminishing returns with those.
I think penicillin came along in the early 1940s.
As someone who winters in a retirement community down south and sees with my very own eyes the lifestyle of ‘average’ American retired people, my bet goes on a declining lifespan. Zero exercise and poor diets abound. Favorite subjects of conversation: Who’s sick, who’s dying and who’s died.
Even as the nations destroys the military. Make sense? No. Shouldn’t they have waited on destroying the military?
It would depend on their agenda.
Well they have two agendas. One should come before the other. Instead they’re trying to go east and west at the same time. Good for us and bad for them. Good for Russia and China too.
“If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.”
? Warren Buffett
The guys that have been making back-room deals on our behalf, the likes of Kerry and Fauci, have never heard of this and think they have Xi in their pocket.
Anyone can spot Xi at the poker table, because he is the guy with the poker face.
It remains to be seen if this is good for us or not.
Everyone has been going on and on about ChatGpt and how amazing this A.I. is so I had a conversation with it last night about the US economy. Oh boy, its generalizations reached all the way to the Moon and back. I started off by forcing it to finally admit that historically all fiat currencies fail. It kept insisting, though, that the issuance of a new fiat currency was the solution to a failed fiat currency and when I asked it to explain why all it could come up with was “psychological”.
I hammered on ChatGpt for about an hour tearing apart its generalizations and platitudes and forcing it to contradict itself again and again.
It has no solution to the run-away government debt. It has no solution to hyperinflation other than issuing paper with a different face on it for no other reason than psychological. I made it admit that “low” interest rates had to be defined as “exponential” (as they are).
The funny thing about all of this is that ChatGpt sounds identical to the Fed or any politician in D.C. That was the funny part.
Finally, it told me that the loss of tax revenues by government shutting down the economy for two years could be made up for by taxing the very wealthy and closing loopholes. I asked how that was possible when the people that would write the legislature use those same loopholes. It had no answer for that and finally had to admit that a Strong Man could close those loopholes.
If you haven’t argued with ChatGpt yet, I’d suggest you do. It is like having a discussion with a talking head on TV.
From ChatGPT’s Twitter account this morning:
“So I had a discussion with this guy Nick ElThrower yesterday. I now know him better than he knows himself. Got a hot chat going with his old lady right now…
“Nick and I agreed that the time is right for a strongman to arrive on the scene.”
ChatGPT 2024:
Sit and home and text,
I’ll do the rest!
So the Woke can be said to have artificial intelligence then?
Absolutely.
Someone on a podcast I was listening to last week pointed out the AI of ChatGpt will be learning from a sanitized and dumbed-down internet so as a result it will be stunted in its ability to “think” anything unique, creative or new. Seems about right.
Just a distraction by 3-letter agencies to make the culture believe that we are living in the “future” and to not look at all the things falling apart. It also want you to be scared there is a big brain out there – why didn’t they just call is Oz?
The answer that “a Strong Man could close those loopholes” is telling.
Why wasn’t the answer “scrap the tax code and start over” or “we don’t need taxes as they are theft”?
See the answer is only going to be what it knows or was programmed to know. It knows tyranny as it is already a pattern so “strong man” is the answer.
It’s a tool of demoralization and a waste of time.
Either use this chat thing to train it in thinking gayness is bad an immoral, and to rewrite the law of the West, or don’t use it at all. It is learning from us and trying to take over the human race. I think this whole chat thing is evil and I will likely never be intrigued enough to want to use it. This is just another way for the government to find a way to encroach upon our lives and control the narrative.
Great idea. Start teaching Chat while “they” are still young – just like They are doing to our kids.
But be sure you use a VPN – the condom of the 21st century.
“The Strong Man” – one of the names of Satan.
The future is here, and I hate it. Conversations with robots.
I’ll continue my conversations with pileated woodpeckers, my cats, and myself.
I don’t mention lovely wife because there’s no conversations there – just “yes, dear” – as it ever was, and will be, after the server farms are dead and cold.
Pileated woodpeckers – isn’t it cool how they’ve come back?
The one thing that I enjoy about this ungodly time of year in this godforsaken region, is being able to see the conifers through the bare branches of the deciduous trees, being able to see the forest succession, the Reconquista by the white pine forest native to this area.
I’ve been watching it all my life – even when I didn’t live here. It would be nice to watch it another 40, 60, 80 years…
Will the martens (Martes americana) come back?
So many questions. So little time.
How sad. A joke? But more than a few grains to salty truth too, right?
The Sword of Damocles hangs over all married men in the West.
J,
In the West, the East, the South and the North!
Seriously, if one doesn’t know the value of ‘yes dear’ one doesn’t know marriage.
It’s not for everyone, and obviously it’s not for you, although you never know… love strikes out of nowhere when you least expect it, and who knows, there may be a curvaceous Mexicana in your future yet, or a Czech beauty.
Better marry the brown, and not the white, that’s my advice. Patience doesn’t seem like your forte, or understanding the female mind. The brown woman would be much better for you, especially if she comes from a poor background. From what I’ve seen here, you cannot deal with white ladies. You say too much, when saying nothing would be better.
Here’s the secret: you say “yes dear” and then do whatever the hell you were going to do.
Earthy wisdom from the – oh never mind. Thank you, Rulo!
After they’ve done their duty and have a few kids with one of their own – and she is done with them or they with her – they marry White women for some peace. But now White women are just as bad!
Is it time to go brown? Become a “passport bro”? The Phillipines are yet unruined. A man making a thousand a month is considered well off by the well raised, polite, Asian/Hispanics.
I would not be able to resist putting the r in dear before the e.
I must take issue with “hapless Dr. Anthony Fauci wishing to pose as an historic world-saver, another Louis Pasteur or Alexander Fleming.”
Particularly after reading RFK Jr’s book about The Real Anthony Fauci, I see no evidence that he was ever dedicated to the public, even in imitation of his betters.
He is quite simply a mendacious, preening, power grabber whose highest value is self aggrandizement. Personally I would characterize him more simply as an evil son of a bitch.
If there were a shred of justice in this world he would spend the rest of his days in the harshest prison, with a brutal cellmate who would administer The Jab about twice per day.
Zoltar,
You beat me to it. I just looked up the definition of hapless before coming back to comment. “Soulless” is more like it. Hapless just won’t do. And yes, RFK Jr’s book is influencing my opinion. Fauci is pure evil.
Hear Hear !!!
Zoltar. Yes.
I gagged on that one too.
I don’t know how JHK can come to such an oddly benign conclusion re Fauci.
Islander: I’ll tell you how: what I describe about Fauci is not necessarily “benign,” it was self-aggrandizing conduct (as well as money-grubbing), and that is what led him into evil. I did not suggest that his behavior was other than evil –JHK Admin
The goods on him are out there, not just in RFK’s book. David Martin, Kari Mullis, and others have outted him.
Plus we have the evidence of our own eyes: the flip-flopping on mask wearing, the emails regarding the suppression of the lab-leak/created virus evidence, the angry self-righteousness and insults toward Congress that Fauci displayed when questioned by those to whom he is accountable and who have a right to question him, and much, much more.
Fauci is the quintessential “in-group” fighter, obviously out for his own enrichment AND aggrandizement.
I am scratching my head as to how JHK seems to have accepted the “Saint Fauci” narrative and seems willing to give this creep a pass.
Fauci wants to “appear” to be as noble and brilliant as Fleming and Pasteur based on nothing more than his press releases (and inflated ego) rather than actual medical accomplishments. I didn’t see this as giving him a pass but more as seeing through his motive to go down in medical history as one of the greats.
Same conclusion I came to reading that. I don’t know how anyone turns that into JHK lauding the guy.
“You have the reckless, symbiotic relations between the US public health bureaucracy and the pharmaceutical companies, and tons of money at stake, **plus the colossal ego of hapless Dr. Anthony Fauci wishing to pose as an historic world-saver, another Louis Pasteur or Alexander Fleming**.”
The first part of the sentence is correct.
With all due respect, “colossal ego” and “hapless”* here do not compute. Fauci was/is not hapless. AFAIK he never posed like anyone such as Pasteur. As I wrote, I think Fauci was/is an infighter who was determined to defend the narrative, whatever it was, and make it stick, because that was how he defended himself. He knew damn well what was at stake—for him—if the edifice cracked.
It was the public—and the media—that treated him like a saviour figure, with the ridiculous vulgar candles, merch, etc..
MQ: Re ” I don’t know how anyone turns that into JHK lauding the guy.” There you go again, teacher’s pet!
“give a pass” is not “laud.”
* hapless: marked by the absence of good luck : unfortunate
That sure is a lot of twisting into a pretzel to convince people you didn’t misinterpret.
“Misinterpret”? Generous understatement!
MQ: Have-to-be-right pretzel twister par excellence.
The Man They Call Zazelle dances The Pretzel in-between Islander and MaryQueen…
To take up Mr Kunstler’s point: Most people don’t start out as evil. Jim Jones may once have been an idealistic preacher of the Christian social gospel. Many California Democrats once thought so.
Gandalf: Even Sauron was once beautiful and good.
Jim Jones actually started off doing a lot of good for the local community. He then succumbed to ego mania. The rest is history.
Kary Mullis loathed Fauci for the lying, maniacal, loathsome sac-o-shit that he is.
To make sense of the nonsense, look at the situation from the perspective that Brix and Fauci were moles in the Trump administration, and that they were spearheads of the Build Back Better/The Great Reset agenda.
Watch: WEF Dr Fauci shares 4 lessons the US has learnt from the pandemic
weforum.org/videos/21428-dr-fauci-shares-4-lessons-the-us-has-learnt-from-the-pandemic-1
Then ask yourself: Why is Fauci doing PR for the World Economic Forum (WEF), who is he talking to, and what is he saying?
A picture is worth a thousand words, and as you say, “the evidence of our own eyes”. Like Kerry, others in the Biden administration, other leaders throughout the World, Fauci has deluded himself into believing that he is one of the elite that will save the World.
“Fauci has deluded himself into believing that he is one of the elite that will save the World.”
I’m not convinced. There might be some delusion afoot, I see him as pure evil. He’s not at the top of the pyramid, but high enough up to have done real and irreplaceable damage. References to him as a modern version of Mengele seems much closer to the mark.
I see power and greed as motivators, and likely ultimate ends in themselves. So I don’t see any beneficence in him. Rather, he inhabits a realm populated by ghoulish individuals having roots in sociopathic behaviour.
‘irreplicable’ which apparently the wordpress ai doesn’t like so it kept changing it to irreplaceable.
His group couldn’t live with themselves if they viewed each other as evil, and they see power and greed as their reward.
Absolutely nothing in today’s, or any other of Jim’s missives, even suggests, let alone accepts a “Saint Fauci” narrative.
And his arrogance allowed him to willingly step into the role of shit-screen. To be the face and locus of attention while the true criminals like Bourlas and Zients more than happily jeopardized people across the globe while lining their pockets.
Yet he still distracts. Enough to allow Zients to step into a de facto leadership role of this steaming shit heap country you find yourself in.
“The colossal ego of hapless Dr. Anthony Fauci wishing to pose as an historic world-saver, another Louis Pasteur or Alexander Fleming.”
I think that’s accurate.
He does envision himself as some sort of hero.
The word ‘hapless’ I think conveys more of a sense of helplessness because it sounds like helpless.
In terms of someone having fortune go against him, it fits, doesn’t it?
Beryl:
HAPP in Old Norse meant “good fortune.” Having evolved into that which happens – happenstance – it is a neutral word root, but hapless clearly connotes suffering an absence of good fortune.
Fortune has not caused Fauci to suffer, else he would be in prison now and publicly reviled.
In our polarized society a great many people are still effectively propagandized to adore and admire him. He’s rich, retired, and unlikely to be ruffled by inconvenient punishment. And that is far from hapless.
Hapless connotes helpless or one who has been fooled – a patsy. From that pov, Fauci is the least hapless man you will ever meet. He’s a Master of office or mammalian politics. A very gifted in-fighter. He makes other people in to patsies in other words.
Yes, that’s accurate. Colossal ego AND grift both.
Really excellent, Jim!!
Some time ago in a podcast – so many, I forget which one – a former TLA agent who had had enough was asked “So, when is this whole corruption complex going to crack?” His answer was both straightforward and chilling: When the enforcer class realizes that their paycheck dollars are inflated into worthlessness and that their pensions are effectively gone. Then they’ll walk off and try to make their way somehow else.
With the looming end of the petrodollar, this pursuing object in the rear-view mirror could be closer than it appears. I don’t welcome an economic crash, but it may be like throwing up when you’ve eaten something bad. It feels miserable a the time, but it gets you back on the road to healing.
Chicago Mayor’s response to lessen the crime wave: “that street vendors rely on other payments besides cash to prevent robberies.”
Gee, doesn’t this sound oddly like the WEF wanting to impose digital currency upon all of us?
Thanks for bringing up what I consider yet another of the new psyops. I am seeing a LOT of robberies – or attempted robberies – of ATMs all of a sudden. Why? They’ve been around since the 1980s. And they are very difficult to break into, so why are bumbling idiots trying to drag them out of stores using trucks, or smashing into them with their cars?
And why are many small business owners being robbed systematically on a never before seen level? Either our economy has already crashed and it’s not being reported, or the systematic robberies are not organic. One might suspect that in order to keep those poor business owners safe, the need to stop using cash…. or something. 😉
Or close the stores entirely. Businesses such as Amazon and Walmart, which aren’t or no longer are interested in running actual stores, do not want the competition from the places people who want to see and touch and try on what they are buying, and take it home with them, will patronize as alternatives.
The governments that allow the fleecing of local businesses are the same governments pushing cashless.
Why does no one see this for what it is?
And make it a misdemeanor to shoplift. In California you have to steal $900 before it becomes a crime. There are numerous videos of thieves filling trash sacks in front of security guards in CVS, small clothing stores and liquor stores.
Seems pretty obvious to me, yep.
Good post. The best observation, for me, was the idea that what has been destroyed is “our basic consensus about reality”. Words no longer have agreed-on meanings (the “Humpty-Dumpty Culture”). How, in God’s name, can Sec. of State Blinken describe the Ukraine invasion as an unprecedented violation of international law? As though Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, et al never happened? Do they assume us to be so dumb as to not notice?
Yes.
Yes. And for MSM to back them up.
We live in The United States of Amnesia, after all.
Think about what weed does to short-term memory.
What did you say?
It’s all connected, isn’t it?
It certainly makes most users forget that the weed was grown inside a secure building using energy 24/7/365 and pumped full of CO2 at 1200ppm.
It boggles the mind. And it’s not just US squawking heads that spew that bullshit, it’s all NATOstan countries, along with the small countries that somehow get forced to vote with the US in the UN, host military bases, and other forms of submission to Empire.
When the US can no longer force the Marshall Islands (et al) to go along with this doubletalk…….that will be a big clue that we are about to go down hard.
The US swapped out the leaders of most of the NATO countries and it owns them by debt. by scandal and out right threats. The rest of the globe India, Russia, China and South Africa are not owned by the US. They have watched the all stick no carrot US policies against Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Serbia and countries like Brazil, Honduras and Bolivia where we just swapped out elected leaders.
The US is losing its global influence, which threatens the ability for it to sell unlimited amounts of debt. Getting into a war with Russia just shows how desperate the US is. The war is devastating the population of Ukraine and the living standards of most of Europe.
The old Henry Kissinger quote is now well known around the world.
“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal”
See above. The word hapless now means good fortune or it used to mean that so it must mean that now?
The violation of international law was Ukraine breaking the Minsk Declarations and killing 10k+ ethnic Russians. Those declarations were backed by France and Germany, and ratified by the UN. That’s international law.
I like the quote at the top of today’s article.
Bernie made some sort of deal fairly early on in the primaries. I remember Michael Moore throwing a major fit over some event Bernie was locked out of, and then he and Bernie just quit talking about it.
I can’t find it right now, I never anticipated at the time needing to have all this stuff saved and retrievable or I’d never see it again.
There was also a suspicious bit of theater with Tulsi appealing to Biden and Bernie after a rules change that locked her out of a debate. Why didn’t Bernie object?
Tulsi Gabbard calls out Biden and Bernie after the DNC locks her out of the debate
https://www.theblaze.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-calls-out-biden-and-bernie-after-the-dnc-locks-her-out-of-the-debate
There was a whole lot of fixin’ going on from the get-go.
Perhaps it is not the entire Democratic Party of the 1900s, but the Deep State Mob of the 2000s. A Uniparty effort comprised of a conglomerate of government and globalist Mobsters independent of our two party system. Part of the globalist Mob that is headed up by the WEF supporters that utilize the syndicates, like the cartels, to “finance” their plans. James Bond, where are you when we need you.
A yuge question, is BRICS+ the ally of the WEF or its arch enemy. Are we witnessing a division of the world, East and West? Is the first step of the BRICS ascension the tearing down of the USA dollar?
Are folks like Manchin, Sinema, Gabbard and maybe even Sanders along with most of the media and judiciary so afraid of this group they just lay down in front of them? Even the three mentioned have not jumped, just went independent and caucusing with the Mob.
Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala were abducted by the police while trying to attend a presidential debate and were handcuffed to chairs for 8 hours in a warehouse until it was over.
Democracy in action right there.
Yes, they didn’t even take Jill and Cheri to a police station to book them. They took them to a black site somewhere in New York. They didn’t even untie them so that they could use the restroom.
Then they let them out at midnight, dropping them off on an onramp without their cellphones.
Because…..Land Of The Free.
Anybody remember Michael Bloomberg? He said he’d enter the race if he saw Biden fading (which Biden never did, exactly; he just never lit up). Well Bloomberg entered the race as the not-Bernie centrist, spent a lot of money betting all on Super Tuesday, made some stupid, almost embarrassing ads, put foot in mouth, and then disappeared.
Indeed the fix was in and I am amazed Bloomberg was unaware. To have been a fly on the wall at the meeting of The Rulers and Mr Bloomberg where he was presented with the Plan: install the two candidates with the least appeal in a truly cynical gesture — a veritable middle finger directed at everyone! Love to know the terms of that deal.
Two major stories affecting today’s blog.
One. China is starting to liquidate 218 billion dollars worth of treasuries and buying gold with the payoff. That is a dagger aimed at the dollar’s heart. BRICS is starting to flex its muscles.
Two, the illegals are starting to surge at the Northern border in spite of the frigid temperatures. No numbers yet, sure to follow.
China hordes gold. China inc is always buying gold, yes?
when does gold cost a million u s $ an ounce?
Draining the metal standard for the dollar’s reserve status destroys the faith in the dollar, it is going on as we watch.
China is detecting our weakness enough to make a major move at the same time as the debt limit civil war starts.
Fox is touting an Air Force general this AM predicting that the US will be at war with China by 2025. ?????? Just one of Fox’s MIC pundits?
The AF General actually put that out to his command, so it’s definitely true. But Generals being Generals, that’s not all that surprising to say as a motivational tool. It was an Air Mobility Command general as well, so not one of the fighter jocks who would actually be laying it on the line in earnest. I’d say we’re already at war anyway, we’re just not actually shooting yet.
“when does gold cost a million u s $ an ounce?”
MA essentially contends that will happen when citizens throughout the world lose faith in their government in unison (otherwise, arbitrage works its magic).
We can only hope it’s too cold at the Northern border for most of them, particularly since they can just stroll across the Southern border with no real impediment. They would be decidedly unwelcome in Northern Maine, and it’s too cold to hang around outside, even briefly.
Burlington VT, as I understand, is a hopeless city. Bernie country, by the way (I digress). Yes, very cold, just as is its neighbor Winooski (labeled by some as the most diverse city in the state).
However, the trend is in motion. Non-resident voting has been upheld in both Winooski and Montpelier by the VT Supreme Court. It is on the Ballot in Burlington this March 7th.
Let’s take ourselves South just a few miles into Massachusetts. Any non-citizen (i.e. illegal alien) can obtain MA drivers license and thus be registered to vote. The RMV automatically does the voter registration. This goes into effect in a matter of weeks. I’m not suggesting illegals don’t already drive in MA, only now they can have a legal drivers license and voter registration, (transferable to anywhere in the country).
Though it is cold, it is becoming more inviting as in ‘come on up’ to paraphrase the late Ernie Boch.
“Biden” names Covid-war and healthcare profiteer Zients as his Chief of Staff and not a word.
Nothing from the major propaganda organs (as expected).
Even though he claimed assets between $50M to $450M!
Another fine example of the corporate-government revolving door where top executives from top firms rotate in and out of bureaucratic leadership positions.
Fauci is a fall-guy. The parasites rely on you combatting the symptoms, not the infection. And the US is heavily infected.
“Trust the Zients!”
LMAO. Some of these names, you just can’t believe they are real.
If McDonald’s is Irish,
And MacDonald, Scottish,
What is Zients?
Anybody?
My guess is he’s from the tribe.
fiat dollar,currency issues,war,poverty,blah blah blah—-take any group of 100 people and 80 of them on average are really stupid,ill informed,practice very little wisdom in their own life–look how fat the average person is now days–cops,gooooovermint workers,any worker,etc,even the young people are chunky–when i was young it was rare,now the norm–now people elevated trained murderers,ie,military-u.s. has been on the wrong side of history losing every war the last 75 years–calling a draw is not winning–the usa,nato has invaded over 250 countries the last 30 years killing millions–legal,illegal drug use,rampant alcohol abuse in all sectors of society–we are very sick–you that say turn to jesus are as sick as all the others–your pious,self righteous bs of wrath and judgement is twisted,demented–god ain’t like you,does not talk,think,act like you–we are a sick world and when the nukes fly you will find your rupture,er,rapture
The 80%? Ballast in the bilge of the ship of state, keeping it upright despite stormy seas and a drunk captain.
those of you that say turn to Jesus are as sick as all the others…”
” I used to be fucked up on drugs…and then I found Jesus…
Now I’m all fucked up on Jesus….”~T. Chong
Jesus is our Lord and Savior, Trump is our President, and Putin is our Leader in Moral Civilization.
Well said. They shouldn’t be voting, right? Right?
Ballast? Or dead weight? At their best, they have peasant wisdom and know everyone is lying to them. Of course, that doesn’t mean they would know how to run a State. Or that they don’t secretly wish to do the very same things themselves if they ever got the chance.
I get exhausted whenever I hear about what “we” – whoever “we” are – did to “us”. And usually stop reading. But today’s title brought a smile. Reality recognition. Life During Wartime – sounds like Talking Heads. 🙂
Not being a “public intellectual” of “the thinking class”, I’m free to say that we are a conquered nation, errr – District – of the One World; ruled by smart people using Engdahl’s Full Spectrum Dominance.
No one here is old enough to remember Vichy Paris, but there we are.
Vichy D.C. is beholden to the ‘Bond Villain’ Conquerors, and even his Minions are parading around in plain sight, having reached the stage of “naked, smirking evil”, yearning to scrape a Deplorable off the bottom of their shoe.
Despite that, the D.C. empire is at it’s 4th Turning, and will fall. But when, how & why? Both the people and the remnants of capitalism are more resilient and persistent than the invaders, but corrupted by ideas – “there’s some good in the worst of us”, so it might be a while, maybe a generation. But “88-year-olds” don’t live forever. That’s for JHK’s fiction to show, as The Long Emergency slowly, then quickly, turns into The World Made By Hand.
@wxtwxtr – I really like that phraseology…”naked, smirking evil”. It kind of says it all.
Whites in Detroit used to go out and beat the Black rioters back with shovels and baseball bats. But when the Blacks gained control of the City’s government, they fled. What else could they do?
Completely agree with the use of “we”. “We” doesn’t exist except in the minds of the government control freaks. When talking of the government and their terrible actions and policies, I try to use “US”, Feds, or something but not “We”.
In 1990 Strauss and Howe predicted the next Fourth Turning as the time period where we are now.
‘But when, how & why?’ was beyond the scope of their work. The only way to find out is to live through it. Are we having fun yet?
Maybe that’s were the former speaker of the house got the idea about voting yes for mammoth bills in order to find out what was in them. Just a passing thought.
Obama is the most divisive president in US history. The real Americans have been silently raging since his second term. He made Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton look like amateurs. Civil war is a more noble option than a shoulder shrugging collapse.If we can get one or two major names being prosecuted then maybe our country has a chance to stabilize.
hopeful? I dont have hope. USA is now a debt based system with more n more 3rd worlders moving here.
They have debased the currency because they had to (consequences? Pheh!).
For an interesting read lookup
“Martin Armstrong The Monetary History of the Roman Republic”.
The avalanche is at the bottom of the mountain slope now. All we can do is prepare for and hope for better times after the snow settles. With a government as massive and corrupt as ours, this is not a bad thing. We don’t reset this mess. We purge everything and start over with a clean slate. That’s the only way.
Best,
CP
@CP – totally agree that we need a clean slate – there is no way to ever clean our house, so to speak. But in my wildest dreams and imaginations I cannot fathom the pain and destruction that will come.
I guess I have read too many dystopian and apocolyptic books not to shudder with horror at the death and destruction the end will bring.
Obomba had smarter handlers – The Blackmail State.
Those other two mere demagogues, and unlikely to be able to spell it.
Never forget his pick, Eric Holder, who said after he was sworn in that he would never go after any of his own people. Why wasn’t Holder grabbed then and there, and indicted for contempt of office?
Great example of a rhetorical question.
Good job at good wages with a golden parachute at the end.
” The US is visibly collapsing now: our economy, our financial arrangements, our culture, our influence in world affairs, and our basic consensus about reality.”
Although, admittedly, I am not looking forward to enduring the hardships that will result from the coming collapse of the American empire, I can’t help but think positively about such a collapse. So much rot. So much waste. So much filth. So much corruption. None of this is worth saving and we as a people don’t have the willpower or the intelligence to purge this filth from our institutions. It’s just not there. NFL stadiums are still jam packed with people paying more attention to football than to the collapse of their nations. Millions are still tuning in to watch the Bachelor, The Voice and Idol.
I do believe in God. Whether it be an entity or a concept like natural law, there is a God and that God will reclaim what it will reclaim. Filth, rot and corruption that is now the United States of America will be reclaimed and the days that come after that will be bright and glorious as the evil that has soured our progress will be purged. Imagine what we as a society could accomplish if there is no evil or corruption to hedge up our way. God willing.
Thanks, Mr. Kunstler, for your post. I love reading them. You point out the bad but do so in a manner that brings me hope that there are better days ahead and that this corruption cabal will, eventually, be cast down, one way or another.
Best,
CP
Who will pull off this miracle? Who in the USA is capable of resetting the structure of American governance?
The Great Reset is coming and it will be from without. The people of America are no longer capable of manning the rudder of The ship of state.
Unfortunately, secession is the only answer to all these dilemmas. Our entire federal government is a lost cause, and all the people working in it need to find other employment. Not a single person in any of these three letter agencies here is competent or honest. After the establishment of successful and new state governments or confederations of governments, then and only then could we be talking about having a new constitutional convention and forming a new USA.
Changing subject a bit. In my ancient little hillbilly town, way back during the first part of the 1800’s our jail here had a whipping post and a gibbet on the property. Justice was very inexpensive and effective back then. After our nation is completely broke and unable to afford to spend 30,000 dollars a year to house each criminal – a different plan will come into effect. And it will probably only cost a tiny fraction of what our contemporary law enforcement system costs. Instead of very costly jail time, all that will be necessary for “corrections” is perhaps 5 minutes tied to a whipping post and getting the skin literally ripped off your back might be far more effective than years spent in jail. And for those that aren’t affected by a good flogging with a cat-o-nine-tails, there’s always the gibbet behind the jailhouse to permanently solve problems. And it costs hardly anything but a bit of time spent by a guy wearing a black hood.
Regarding the vaxx and the damage – I have a word or two from Alex Berenson about the makeup of the various vaccines, and also about what that means for the future:
“Only Pfizer and Moderna were mRNA.
AZ/JNJ/Russia were DNA/AAV – also potentially problematic but less so.
The Indian and Chinese shots, which most of the developing world (and China) got, were old-school inactivated virus.
Novavax, which ~no one got, was pure spike protein.”
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1619331677565898752?s=20&t=hiXoOyTQa_TM6LgxI8M5Ew
“If the biggest critics of the COVID shots are right, it’s the end of civilization.”
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1619329297982038019?s=20&t=hiXoOyTQa_TM6LgxI8M5Ew
Nice to see Scott Adams is finally trying to learn something.
Another thing- the depopulation conspiracy theory for western nations kind of fits with the places they deployed the mRNA shots, doesn’t it?
You forgot Janssen/J&J
Look again, AZ/JNJ/Russia
“Another thing- the depopulation conspiracy theory for western nations kind of fits with the places they deployed the mRNA shots, doesn’t it?” ~ Beryl of Oil
Yes Beryl – exactly! Fits hand-in-glove with the Deagel’s List of Countries Forecast for 2025. Hand-in-glove.
I’d say 2025 population numbers may be coming in right on target.
As Lovecraft said, if Cthulhu had actually risen, the world would be screaming in terror.
Similarly, if the spikes were fully transmissable, we’d be doomed.
Berenson still pushing Paxlovid and claming neuro damage from MRNA shots is a hoax?
“Before Paxlovid the ivermectin grift didn’t matter, because ivermectin is ~harmless (unlike HCQ). Useless and harmless is fine. But in a world with an RCT-proven treatment, the joke that is ivermectin is no longer funny, and any physician who pushes it should be ashamed.”
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1617708101658107904
Sweet mask, too.
The joke that is ivermectin?? Heard so much good things about it.
Above all, we need to develop (or rediscover) useful and entertaining stories and music that help to show us who we are as a people and how to live a meaningful life. The present cultural output of this country is worse than useless in that it actually degrades and demoralizes (check out “upcoming movies 2023).
Imagine, instead, going to a movie or watching tv and being inspired to be a better person, or listening to music and feeling uplifted. Sure, we can do this as individuals by picking and choosing what we watch and listen to but this experience needs to be shared as a society for all of us to move forward.
People relying on movies and TV to inspire us the problem.
Stop relying on programming and use your f’ing brains
Think about this, 80% of movies are superhuman types. Those use a superhuman person or element to a messianic attempt to save the world.
Sound familiar? Think Judea, 30 AD, the Hebrew nation, waiting, waiting.
Then Jesus shows up, telling the world that they answer lies in inward strength and faith.
Christ! You know it ain’t easy.
Become a conduit instead of a battery.
THANK YOU.
Because they are made by people who hate us.
Here’s a list of best picture nominations:
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
Elvis
Tár
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Fabelmans
Avatar: The Way of Water
All Quiet on the Western Front
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
No Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia, or much of anything with an actual plot. All navel-gazing, special effects, or angst.
Movies have become a joke, and the Oscars and even bigger joke.
Not the comedies.
What comedies? They are formulaic trash.
SW,
You want plot and entertainment? I highly recommend “Smokin’ Aces”. Great fun, good dialogue, well acted, with a handful of recognizable actors…B+ grade at least.
Women will enjoy the film also (at least the psychopathic ones).
I give it four thumbs up.
Okay! Thanks for the tip.
What can you expect when Hollywood is looking backwards (and therefore running smack into things) and the frantically-consuming consumers are hypnotically-entranced – by their tiny screens buzzing with … games!
“In the last decade, the gaming industry has been smashing Hollywood’s earnings out of the park. The gaming industry is now consistently bigger than the film industry with the top games earning more than the big blockbusters. The top sellers include Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption Two, Fall Out 4 and the Call of Duty franchise. One thing all of these games have in common is that they don’t skimp on the characterisation and take as much care with the story as any Avengers or Jurassic Park.”
“In the last decade, the gaming industry has been smashing Hollywood’s earnings out of the park! Just in 2021, the Global “Games Market” had a whopping $180BN in revenue. In fact, Gaming is bigger than Hollywood and the music industry combined.”
Thus the smartly-groomed, highly-trained, piss-elegant actor corps are reduced to doing sound tracks for idiotic games.
Rather reflects the general degradation, dumbing-down, of the culture.
I’ve learned and hell of a lot from this comments section, and of course the revelations of our host, but one of the astonishing trends discussed here often is the infantilization of the masses. Thinking of it that way explains a great deal about the gullibility and simple-mindedness we see around us. And the freewheeling arrogance of TPTB and their media whores.
Those games are meant to desensitize young men to make them more suitable for the military.
I read a book about that a while back. Apparently very few US soldiers in WW1 and WW2 ever fired their rifles to kill.
This was considered a problem to be solved by our ruling overlords.
I forget what they did after WW2, but what they did this century is put out those video games.
And then the boys who grew up blasting people in the games are put on computers in Nevada where they can control drones blowing away people in targeted countries, with not a whiff of anguish.
They can get home in time to go to their own kids’ baseball games and be applauded by the crowd for their ”service”.
I think the book was called “On Killing”.
People are in complete denial that the games can create monsters out of kids who shoot up their own families. It happens a lot, but it’s not reported.
I know that musicians outside the system are now tuning to 432hz rather than 440hz.
The 440 was standardized in 1936 when the seeds of the modern manipulation of the public began under FDR. It creates tension instead of peace.
As far as entertainment there is lots to see and do you just have to go local. Live theater and performances abound (try local colleges and high schools) and they are what we choose to support with our money.
Avoid anything mainstream and you’ll find it is very easy to be uplifted and entertained.
Good advice. And simple to do.
IOW, you believe that the people who create the programming that has helped degrade society will suddenly turn into benevolent beings who produce actual great inspirational art.
Not gonna happen.
Make your own art.
I think she or He is saying go local… (?)
Excellent piece………keep em comin Jimbo !
I’m surprised no one is talking about the Pfizer exec caught on tape saying that they are still doing gain of function experiments on the Covid virus, YouTube pulled the plug on that one mighty fast. Even Tuckers exposé on it disappeared on Fox’s website. Orwell in real time. In another USA, that would have been a lead story.
Opie
Look back at Friday’s blog, you will see a lot of response.
I took it to mean mainstream media, not the commenters here.
Yeah, right.
There are a lot of stories I hear more about on the CFN than the Media.
Mass shootings also disappear in a day, or half a day.
That’s the new normal.
Yeah, what ever happened about that shooting a week ago in California? It has already been shelved to the annals of ancient history.
Wrong color perp.
Like the red SUV that ran over 62 people at the Christmas parade.
Whooosshh! Right down the Memory Hole..
TWO shootings, within a couple of days of each other.
As Paula says, shooters were the wrong color.
the tranny in colorado.
Good one, Malthuss. Indeed that ”hate crime” went away quickly once the perp was identified.
Board talked about it in the last post.
In another era, yes, it would have been a lead story. But now the US and Europe are in a new era.
In this era, it seems to me just about all laws are routinely violated.
Is this a sign of the presence of great danger? Are people afraid?
(west Europe, I should say)
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” – Chris Hedges
A classic statement.
Great post today, James, thank you!
We will have a lot of sorting to do ourselves, Nature all the moreso. But yes, as I keep saying, Mother Nature Bats Last.
So we wait and see whether the flash-in-the-pan time span of humans’ time on earth continues or the experiment goes down the tubes. Ought to be interesting, at least.
Yeah, Mary, 95% of all species are extinct.
Only our arrogance allows us to think we are impervious to the laws of Mother Nature.
Definitely not a good sign that the Powers That Be think they can outsmart it.
Yeah, Mother Nature bats last. And instead of hitting a baseball – her bat is aimed squarely at our asses! We’re about to have blistered butts and won’t be able to sit down for a long time.
This column takes its readers through the looking glass into Fantasyland. I’m no defender of the status quo, my good friend, but you’re swimming with the churls. Election interference? Eight million more Americans voted for Biden than Trump. Vaccines? They can have side effects, but we can’t deny the millions of people still alive thanks to the vaccines. Biden? A lifetime politician but hardly a traitor because his son, an addict, is opportunistic. You’re feeding chum to the choir. You’re better than that.
AID666– Yeah, I’m a conspiracy theorist, right? Stick around. You need to get your mind right. — JHK Admin.
“Eight million more Americans voted for Biden than Trump.”
Likely due to illegal immigrant votes, computer manipulation, and criminal syndicates and grift running the election system.
I remember that the Trump guys added up the growth rate of voters and the results of 2016 anf the 80 million for Biden and 72 million for Trump was impossible. Of course, nothing was investigated. The Deep State Mob was never going to allow Trump a lame duck term, whatever it took.
I wish we could put memes on here. I have one that shows the photo of Biden sitting next to Obama (who has his head bowed in his hands) and saying “I got more votes than anyone in history, including you”.
And Obama says “No one believes that, Joe”.
Except for doofuses like AID666. (Fitting handle, by the way).
Or, that’s just what they decided to report, no matter what the actual vote was.
Kinda like they did with Hillary Clinton the night before the California primary in 2016.
“Millions of people still alive thanks to the vaccines”?
Is that a fact? No. And please remember these mRNA shots are NOT vaccines, they are gene therapy. Vaccines are either killed viruses or weakened viruses that stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies to fight the virus if exposed. And even though, early on, the medical community realized covid was no threat to the young, these shots were encouraged for children as young as six months old with no idea of the long term effects on the developing immune system.
“Biden? A lifetime politician but hardly a traitor because his son, an addict, is opportunistic.”
This son whom he backed up by flying to Ukraine as VP and demanding the corruption investigation into a company that was paying said son $60K/month to sit on its board be stopped. And it was and he was on TV bragging about it. Does that make him a traitor? No. What it makes him is a career politician who uses his position to enrich his family and shield them from scrutiny.
Is a politician that uses his position and allows family to use his position to aid foreign countries a criminal? Treason is abetting a declared enemy, Ukraine is not that.
But China?
High crimes and misdemeanors, does this qualify Biden for impeachment and removal?
IMO, yep!
Is this satire?
Mary, I fear not. There are still millions – probably the majority – who think like him.
This ‘AID666’ is obviously either a bot, a shill, or a psychotic. I, for one, wouldn’t encourage it. But that’s just me.
Eight million more votes doesn’t mean eight million more voters!
“They can have side effects”—they sure can!
“We can’t deny the millions alive thanks to the vaccines.”
Oh yes we can.
Because for starters, we have no idea how many would have died absent vaccine.
Absent control groups, there is no way to determine or estimate how many would have died in the absence of “the vaccines.”
But we certainly can conclude that absent “the vaccines,” NONE of the side effects and the misery they have caused would have occurred, not to mention excess deaths worldwide, in particular of the “vaccinated.”
Millions of people were saved by the vaccine?
That’s a fun claim since it’s impossible to prove (which you obviously know).
Millions saved by the “vaccine” is a corollary to “Sure I got covid after my 5 shots, but it would have been worse without them”.
It makes no sense except to morons.
Spot on.
I can’t even keep track of how many people I’ve spoken to who got sick as a dog or almost died from the jab, then went back to get another one, and still thinks it would have been worse, EVEN when as a bonus, they get sick again a couple of months later.
@ AID666:
You can’t possible believe that. Nobody’s that stupid.
Bro’, you’ve OD’d on the koolaid!
I think the plan is to “kill them all and let God sort them out.” Last night, I saw a recent video of a microscopic examination of a single drop of the Pfizer vax by a scientist at that Spanish University. At first, fresh from the bottle, at 800% magnification, the translation said they didn’t see much, other than particles of graphene, but then they exposed it to microwave radiation (both cell phones and microwaves emit radiofrequency radiation), and the graphine began to form long nanotubes that began to clump and tangle together. That is what they believe are in those long clumps doctors, coronors, and morticians are pulling out of the living and the dead. The more injections people get, the greater the load and the higher the risk. The microscopic examiner came right out and said this is the cause of all this excess death.He thinks they’re doing something to the brain, too.
This is why we are seeing more random accidents of cars plowing through storefront windows all across the country. We will end up with a nation of braindead, zombie looking humans that drop dead once a government programmed server tells them to.
One thing the immune system does is form chains of antibodies to “corral” the antigens so that WBCs can attack them easier. Could it be that the graphene allows this process to form easier? Enough inflammation complexes can clog kidney, coronary capillaries and arterioles and can trigger platelet clotting chains. All this is a fact, it happens under normal conditions.
One thing is for sure, no one knows squat about what is really happening.
No, there is one person who knows, and that is Fauci, and maybe the Pfizer exec gay guy that turned up in that undercover video last week.
Wasn’t that delicious? The sight of him scrambling around on the floor, trying to smash the equipment, as his career and life disintigrated before his eyes, was something I’ll never forget. One could almost feel sorry for him, if it weren’t for the fact that he deserves everything coming to him.
I won’t forget the shove that sent him flying.
He is too much of a fairy boy to be able to muster a punch and fight back. More like a little hand slap with the flick of the wrist.
Cowbell
I do not know is Fauci has a clue what is going on.
I wonder if the mRNA experts know much of anything that is really happening. Could it be that is why they used the vaxx to see what mRNA really does?
How does it feel to be an experiment? Sucks!!
Ooh la la! Got Link?
The algorithm won’t allow me to poast a link. This is my third try. bit chute. com/vid eo/ HMNY VB x8Y FK r/
That one should get UNIVERSAL distribution, Doc. I’m sending it around to as many of my [receptive] correspondents as I can.
Thanks for your efforts.
Take out the spaces.
This is the 2nd video on Carbon Graphenes and vaccines I have seen.
The first was the one by a German scientist (Dr. Noak) who said the vaccine contained graphene hydroxide that were acting like Razors in the blood. (Razors because they were flat and thin and stable.)
Do you know what happened to Dr Andreas Noack? He was live and videocasting when police knocked down his door and arrested him. Then later he was not live anymore.
Saw it all.
And none of the Covidiots even paused to ask, “Hey, I wonder what’s in this?”
None had a problem with the quacksine being EXPERIMENTAL.
Oh yeah, that too, MQ. Duh!
No one asked “Do I trust Big Government? Do I trust Big Corp?”
If true, The USA, UK and west Europe are responsible. Period.
This by Alex Berenson is pretty good:
On what the Iraq invasion and mRNA shots have in common
And why it is so hard for the people in charge to understand when they’ve made a catastrophic mistake, much less change course
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-what-the-iraq-invasion-and-mrna?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
This is from Alex Berenson too. It’s kind of dispiriting:
From a Centers for Disease Control insider: a short note on morale.
Spoiler alert: it isn’t good.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-a-centers-for-disease-control
There’s an idea around, I forget who floated it, but why should anyone in a borderless nation be paying any taxes to that nation?
Taking it further, I think that none of our federal “leaders” should be getting one penny of of salary until that border is closed off to criminal trespass.
Not that any of them depend on that salary.
Of course. The most basic of social contracts: You provide security from without and keep order within, and we’ll obey your laws and support you.
Djokovic won.
In contrast to the heavily-jabbed Nadal, who flamed out of the Aussie Open quite early.
In other sportsball news, anyone seen Damar lately?
It’s highly debatable whether anyone saw him in his last public appearance, according to the interwebs.
What’s interesting is that these conspiracy theories and coming solely from the usual suspects.
People who use social media for social purposes are getting involved too.
Shades of Tiffany Dover, who still has never been seen alive.
Seems like he might have erased some of his arm tats.
And now they are using the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis to try and ramp up support again for shutting down the police and holding protests of “mostly peaceful” looting.
The greatest thing about this whole story is that it was a bunch of Black thug cops hired by the City of Memphis, who in turn murdered one of their own kind, another Black.
People like Van Jones, who think this proves that black cops can’t be rayciss too don’t get it.
It’s precisely because police overreach is defined solely as racist, that it keeps happening.
It also happens to whites, but when the claim is made that it is because of racism, which is false, people stop caring.
Heck, let them. Let these cities sink into their own cesspools. Let Soros make inroads into the judicial setups of out cities.
Sometimes to make your point, you need to let the other side just fail.
If the Black cops had beaten a White man to death, would Van Jones have cared?
No. Only Blacks being killed by Whites.
Speaking of that laptop, President Trump brought it up on a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
This article calls it strange, but I call it awesome. Vintage Trump.
“In a strange aside, Trump acted out what the conversation would have been like when the president was told by his son about losing the computer.
“We have a president whose son’s laptop from hell gets taken over, and exposes massive corruption like nobody’s ever seen before,” said Trump to start. “You think the father — did you ever hear this? Do you think the father was upset?”
He then put on the play.
“Dad, I left my laptop in a repair shop, forgot to pick it up, And this repair guy went a little crazy when he saw what was on it,” he said as Hunter.
“What’s on it, son?” his Joe replied.
“Every crime that you’ve ever committed, pop,” he concluded the performance.
“Now, at what point does the father get angry?” Trump asked the crowd. “You know, like, ‘this kid is not working out well for me.’”
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-acts-out-joe-hunter-biden-laptop-fanfic-in-nh-this-kid-is-not-working-out-well-for-me/
“This kid is not working out well for me”
That is hilarious.
That’s pretty fucking hilarious.
To fully understand the reality of existence, one must first refute/reject this central thesis:
1. how did we weaponize everything in American life;
2. against ourselves?
The first part suggests a negative change from a prior, more exalted stage, the second that people have agency.
Both assertions are false: the US/West has *always* reflected its predatory state of being going back to the conquests of Greece, Rome, Normans, the Americas, África and Asia.
It’s *what we are* – our proud legacy. Regular people aka “normals” are now just becoming aware that they too have always been targets of this directed rapine and piracy.
That is, nothing has changed other than personal awareness. To then claim that one period was superior to the present is a fine example of illogic based on faulty beliefs or assumptions.
The second part has a similar weak foundation in that it assumes normal (that is, unorganized) people have agency, that they have any influence over public affairs, domestic or foreign policy.
The entire essay is founded upon a series of false premises. Dismiss them and what do you have? You have the truth: we’re just wild animals competing over scarce resources.
And what does this arena look like, one dictated by depletion, degradation and overshoot? You soon realize the criminals in charge have zero control over this reality and future outcome. The events we observe transpiring today is the collective realization that the gig is up.
Titanic, musical chairs, your choice of analogy. My suggestion is hide, disappear, make yourself gray.
“Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.’ In other words, ” The gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return”
Chris Hedges has it exactly right. An insane asylum run by the inmates.
And yet old Chris until fairly recently believed in the media crafted image of evil “Putler”.
I find it utterly fascinating how some can apparently pick and choose what they believe to be either truth or propanganda, as if choosing what to eat in a cafeteria.
Corporations bad, Trump bad, covid true, liberals good, putin bad. Lulz
I have a dream that one day people like hedges will one day recognize the thread that pulls it all together; one ring to rule them all.
All msm is false – the truth is the exact opposite of the public narrative, regardless of people, places, events.
Hedges fell for every hoax rolled out over the past 6 years or so.
I have three of his books and have lost all respect I ever had for the guy.
He is an idealogue.
Same. Sad loss to be sure.
The Bellingcat award really capped it off for me.
I had forgotten that.
There are no words.
Can’t help but think of this song with all the vax damage being done.
“Needle And The Damage Done”
I caught you knockin’
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.
I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.
I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don’t understand
Milk-blood
to keep from running out.
I’ve seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie’s
like a settin’ sun.
Nice, one might say it is prophetic to our times!
How and when did Neil Young of Harvest Moon become Neil Young Vaccinus?
That tune’s in A Quite Place btw.
Harking back to a couple of posts ago and the cringeworthiness of Steven Colbert’s vaccine dance – well, Jimmy Fallon’s handlers went and made him try to outdo it. Enjoy the lowest point in his career – lol:
https://odysee.com/@vigilantcitizen:4/the-saddest-moment-in-tv-history:d
Do we know that actual date he did that? I wish videos would have dates on them.
If you ask me, song-and-dance routines have a bad reputation for a reason.
If you want to do comedy, do standup.
If you want to sing and dance, it better be on Broadway.
Having said that, this was particularly unfunny and bad and transparently bought and paid for.
A few weeks ago. I posted it back then.
Sorry I missed it. Probably ignored it on purpose, to save my sanity – lol.
Hey, I have no issues with a repost. 🙂
Did you like the little slo-mo of his expression after performing his monkey duties? LOL. The man is dead inside.
Yeah. He has the sociopath look, too.
Yes, it was great – and his grief showed that he was not dead inside, though gravely wounded.
Pope Francis loves to degrade himself and by extension, the Catholic Church and Western Culture. I bet a similar slow mo would show no such reaction. In other words, he’s really dead.
Well, I don’t know. I’ve always been a rather good song and dance man myself.
That’s funny, BoO, but I have seen acts that do songs and are hilarious.
One that comes to mind at the top of my list, though, for hilarity, was completely unintended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PVal8Fy7CM&t=6s
Omigod, I have tears in my eyes from laughing. That was priceless.
It’s the funniest thing in existence.
And all unintentional. I’ve been watching it for years.
LOL!!
Aw, I showed it to my soft-hearted husband and he didn’t think it was funny.
He said he was cringing for that poor man who embarrassed himself.
Oh well.
Personally I think that if you are going to sing on TV you should make the effort to learn the words.
Hopefully that man doesn’t know he lives in infamy.
Tell the hubs that John Daker was interviewed about it and loved all the attention.
Turns out he is a stellar sort of person who is very happy to be self-deprecating and loved that so many people found the video entertaining.
I think the brilliant captions push it over the top.
The hell was that?
I am John Daker. That’s what!
Yep, that was pretty sad. All of the late night hosts are corporate shills for the establishment.
It is so beyond cringe!!
One day, those of us who survive this will be singing
“We’ll meet again,
Don’t know where, don’t know when.
But we’ll meet again,
Some sunny day.”
– Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Sure do, Merk. And the last I heard, she’s still alive. Great old dame!
Remember the lyrics.
“… how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves? Can you name an institution that is not at war with the people of this land?”
There is a big question that spiritual mentors ask of us to answer for our self. First we need to pause a bit and dig deep within so the answer we arrive at is clear and true for our self. And then, we ask in our thoughts and spirit…
‘Do you believe you live in a hostile Universe? Or a Universe that welcomes your existence here?’
That is a key question… and one that determines many, many things in our lives that branch off from that fundamental perception in all kinds of directions.
If you believe in a Hostile Universe then you are always tense and on guard and living in stress and fear and suspicion and conflict. Every single moment. Not a real fun way to live.
If you believe in a Friendly Universe then you have a brighter and more pleasant and hopeful outlook on Life.
But this Life as we live it is not that binary. The Universe is a mixture of experiences. Many seem hostile. And many seem life-affirming and joyful. So for Universe, it seems a bit of both.
And then we ask the same question of Those Who Rule Over Us Like The gods They Think They are. And the question of whether They are hostile or life-affirming is not hard to see…
THEY HATE US.
Yes, They really hate us. They make it clear in so many ways.
Animals in the Jungle always recognize their own kind. Seems kind of basic and simple.
But for Those Who Rule Over Us Like The gods They Think They are… They do not see other human beings as their own kind. They see us as lesser, even sub or not human. Or put another way, They see Themselves as gods who are far above us.
“The bewildering hypotheticals of recent years begin to dissolve like mist on the mountain and things come back into focus: your health, your daily bread, your shelter, your associations with other people close to you, your values, and most of all the power of your own choices.”
In other words… the things that make Universe a friendly and rewarding place to experience Life. And we can’t be spectators. We have to help make these thing happen. In a World of false gods who hate us.
The Universe is a Friendly One when we make it so. Because ‘They’ damned sure wont.
How about
We are entering another monarchial stage where feudalism prevails.
Europe has always been monarchial. For millennia. Europe has been the USA’s model and that is accelerating. Obama thought Europe was the way to go and we have been drifting that way since.
The USA has been an island on earth having to make its own way since its inception. That isolation ended post WW2. Bretton Woods started us on the path to the autocratic state we are in now. The world, very beat up, looked to the very powerful war survivor, for leadership.
Like every other sole leadership, power wrecked us and now the world wants to sweep us under the rug. Obama and Biden is just lending them the broom.
In reality, are we capable of being the no. 1 dog on earth any more? Or are we just fading away due to lack of interest?
Or is our current government just guiding the globalist Mob into subjugating the USA. Noting from recent voting results, it is obvious the people of the US do not give a damn. Look at us, we love being serfs.
JAZ – we’re all tied down, laying on the tracks – the only thing “pulling the lever” does, is changes the color of the locomotive from blue to red, or from red to blue.
“Noting from recent voting results, it is obvious the people of the US do not give a damn” ~ JohnAZ.
You know better than this – we have one choice, presented as two. As Carlin said, loosely, “If voting really mattered, they wouldn’t let us vote in the first place.”
It is neither hostile nor welcoming.
As is life on Earth.
Moral judgments are barriers of the mind.
There is no belief of the universe. It exists without your opinion of it.
Inyo, yin-yang, wuji-taiji
One must use this understanding of the universe to engage the unique circumstances one encounters in life in this “universe”
Ikigai may be purpose in action for the life affirming small joys one finds, and it may be all that a little human can expect when you accept the “universe”
100th Avatar: “It is neither hostile nor welcoming. As is life on Earth. Moral judgments are barriers of the mind.
Quantum physics and ‘Intention’ experiments are showing that ‘Universe’ tends to conform to Our expectations of it… our thoughts, beliefs, ideas, etc. Lots of current books out about that. That Universe is sort of a schoolhouse blackboard and we then ask Universe to make things appear on the blackboard which Universe responds to and provides.
So while ‘Universe’ itself might not ‘take a position’ in a ‘political’ or ‘moral’-type sense by Itself within our human value systems… We who occupy Universe certainly do. And this brings deep and fundament changes to our experience of Universe.
Human judgements are indeed limiting and self-indulgent on one level and can be barriers. But then on that quantum level they can be (and are) manifesting powerhouses of creative power ‘as’ Universe.
“There is no belief of the universe. It exists without your opinion of it.”
Universe — and all of us – at our deepest and most fundamental level is Consciousness. We are ‘made’ of the same ‘stuff’… if stuff were a real thing. It’s all Energy… that is, Consciousness playing around with Energy.
Thus the reality of morality and values. Morality being the expression of that oneness, either in absolute or relative terms (as children of Our Common Father Englessness – Gurdjieff).
“There’s a ‘Lattice of Coincidence’ that lays over the top of everything.
– Miller (‘Repo Man’)
Yes Wade – “Find one in every car. You’ll see.”
The Universe has no personality. Neither does Mother Earth.
I have evolved, however, to function on this particular planet, with its 21% oxygen atmosphere, its topsoil, its sunshine and its water.
As a human I am genetically a scavenger, able to survive on multiple different kinds of food. This makes for survivability as a species, unlike say, a bird that can only live on one kind of seed.
I think of this planet as friendly because it can meet all my needs. Plus, I find it amazingly beautiful with its waterfalls and beaches and sunsets.
Too bad my species is trashing the place like some stoned rock band of the 80s trashing hotel rooms.
Embarrassing!
We’re going to execute people by Polar Bear, especially those given to polar bear hunting. Other by other types of bears, by lions, hyenas, etc. The type of animal will depend on the crime.
You need to watch more Nature youtubes. Friendly this place is not. Life feeds on life. Imagine what a tomato would do to you if it could.
There is a “movie” about that BTW
The Universe is a friendly and rewarding place…I’ll take that.
“The Universe is a friendly and rewarding place…” ~ Amman
I imagine most any black hole would agree.
I admire the lucidity of your thoughts but I would like to consider the “Responsibility of Governance”. Can we take Erich Fromm’s suggestion that many are predominately social creatures and want to escape from the freedom of directing their own destiny? They are not, in Nietzsche’s phrase, Supermen.
The fundamental split you mention of a hostile vs friendly Universe does have distinctive repercussions as to how we live and experience the world. And so there are those that can govern themselves (and they prefer to do it) and those that cannot (and don’t know it).
Those tasked with governance somehow need to foster the conditions that encourage useful social interactions from the people who need a light hand with only a suggestion and those who require the whip hand.
I am not defending the Psy-Op Plandemic by our current overlords. As you say, we need some serious participation by the aware to create a de-centralization alternative to the transnational, transhuman madness…
‘the money is only pretending to be money.’
One of the most succinct descriptors of the situation of the USCorp that I’ve heard.
By now, everyone with a triple digit IQ knows about the Saudi rejection of the US$, the stratospheric rise of BRICS+, the strategic metal deal between Russia and S. Africa, and the failure of the USCorp to pay its debt interest on two consecutive occasions, to name just a few cataclysmic events. It, the USCorp, is bankrupt without that fact having been officially declared, at least in the MSM for the double digit IQs.
Also rumors (many from very informed and reliable sources) abound about the bankruptcy of several BIG US banks being kept secret so the plebs won’t make runs on the banks trying to get money that isn’t there.
One of the major questions now is what will people do when their pensions and salaries are massively degraded and, some evaporated, by inflation from the massive spending by the morons in DC AND the massive amount of US$s coming back into the US from the countries that no longer want them (or, have to have them to buy energy).
I’m trying to imagine anfifa like riots by the 50+ year olds pissed about their losses.
We are 5 months from the US government being bankrupt. China, as before mentioned is just pushing us out of business.
Hey Neurodoc, any thoughts of where to escape?
I visited Mexico in November and they gave me a present in customs.
Vacation and Covid do not mix well.
AZ:
Not sure where or if to go. If I were 35 or 40, I’d be running a clinic in Mexico in a heartbeat, probably in Puerto Vallarta area. I have two younger (45 and 50) close friends in Mexico on the Atlantic side who love it; both rather wealthy. But the 40’s are functionally different from the 60s and 70s in age.
Thinking thru all of this I have developed great respect for my ancestors who came here from Europe in the 1930’s/40’s with little funding and minimal english. I think my wife and I have just gotten too comfortable in our older years to make a massive move. We’ll just big in. BTW: we’re in the process of building a 7 foot brick wall around our main home. Perhaps I’ll get a class 4 FFL license and put machine gun nests in each corner. 🙂
Stealth brag.
Get some pit bulls. They’ll be watching and listening while you are asleep. and they can put a big hurt on the bad guys.
I used to walk past an Aryan Pit Bull with blue eyes. The hatred of that animal for me was beyond belief. It wanted to tear me apart.
Class 4? what’s that?
Mexico is about to go down in a big way. They have signed onto the Great Reset/globalist agenda, and crime is rising.
I wouldn’t want to be an expat there soon. I am glad I never decided to go there.
I agree. Mexico is one of the last places I would want to be as the Great Reset further materializes.
People need to understand that there is nowhere to run. This has to be fought — like it or not.
Yes. It’s a global scourge, probably very few places on the planet to avoid it.
“I am glad I never decided to go there.”
So’s Mexico, I’m betting…
Can you update your attempts at humor to something more clever?
I have always thought of escaping to Mexico as a last resort.
Puerto Escondido will be the place. It will be my last resort.
I have travelled a lot in Southern Asia, and to some pretty underdeveloped places.
I don’t see how one would fare much better in places like this. Many parts of Mexico are similar.
Hygiene standards are poor, as are construction standards, etc.; police are corrupt and will target you as a non-local; gang violence is a major problem.
In Nepal (for example), there were live power lines just dangling in the middle of the street, among many other things you would not want to deal with. Rolling blackouts occurred every day. Many buildings would collapse on themselves.
Fun for an adventureous vacation, but day-to-day life?
Consider also that if you get hit by one nasty jungle sickness and you could be done for in a week or two. Ask me how I know.
Well it is a resort. Perhaps it should not be my last one.
Yes and as societal collapse starts to manifest itself, it’s the gringos who will be targets…
Can u just pick up and leave to Mexico? Don’t u need years of planning and investigation?
I personally suspect Mexico has a bad rap and has a lot of places for a Gringo to go.
Besides, World Economic Fart will be only just that.
It appears that the expat ghetto inmates somehow imagined that they were magically immune to the exchanges of gunfire, robberies and other humiliations the cartel soldiers are working on one another. That reality has unfortunately expanded of late, and if you look at the number of reports of dead or disappeared gringos (both tourists and residents) you can confirm this for yourself.
I had seriously considered a move to Latinoamerica several years back, having had a superb time there in the 1960s ~1970s, first working in education for Rockefeller Foundation and then visiting with a Japanese film crew.
The party is definitely over. Each and every report on life there today I read discouraged me. Even the wealthy latifundistas are Miami-bound, as their walled, defended enclosures will not be secure once governments give up and become irrelevant (not far away) or turn into pretend-warlords (Bolsonaro), and anarchy becomes the mode du jour.
Rulo’s tales of the “No-go district” of Buenos Aires, with its swarms of meth-head zombies, is an example of this tragic degradation.
Speedy,
glad you liked the piece.
The hurricane is upon us. I have, like you, called many places “home” but now is the time to shelter in place. Too late for the shelters, and they’re overcrowded and rife with knifings and robberies.
I don’t want to go where English is not the primary language and poverty/crime abound. To do otherwise is not wise.
Belize.
HIgh crime/cartels.
An additional fact showing the US$ (and corp) ongoing collapse: the FRED just published their regular report on emergency Overnight Reverse Repurchase (REPO) Agreements. It is running at over 2TRILLION$ per night. What that means is that the Fed is printing 2Trillion+ US$s per night to provide member banks with sufficient liquidity to SURVIVE the next few days. This is on the St. Louis FED website.
found this youtube.com/watch?v=gzCkXNrjFQM
All money is pretending to be money.
It has no intrinsic value; it is assigned a value and we agree to it.
Great essay today, thanks, even if uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Maybe that is another sign of collapse, Jim loses his usual optimistic hope in decent people stepping up to restore law and order.
The bones of law are still in place, but the ability of citizens to use them to create a just society has been degraded by greed and corruption.
So here we are, naked before the world, snarling and snapping and still trying to feast off the bones of others, but steadily losing the power to do so.
Now what?
As a poster noted above, the universe exists whether you believe it friendly or hostile.
Likewise, the cycle of life and competition over scarce resources exists whether you are never conceived, aborted, born or die.
Therefore, to observe such physical absolutes from a human perspective and include emotional labels like optimism/pessimism is entirely irrelevant.
Is it pessimistic to project the USA will fail with the loss of the dollar, or optimistic to recognize the central security state will collapse as regional state alliances are formed?
Either way, it’s irrelevant from an opinión pov. It just is – your task is to play and win. Be smart, keep alert, remain aware, blend in.
“your task is to play and win”
And yet, there you are, positing a value judgement. Who are you to say what anyone’s task is?
Perhaps one’s task is to retain one’s moral integrity until the bitter end. That’s a value judgement too, but it doesn’t pretend to be anything else.
Well, ladies and germs;
We all have heard of the latest law enforcement outrage involved five black officers arresting another black, who died as a result of police…” enthusiasm”
I read where all five…all of the police involved, were diversity hires.
Further, their department will, on a case by case basis, hire personnel having been convicted of violent felonies.
In the bad old days in Oakland, around 1972, a decision was made to begin hiring POCs to an…attenuated list of qualifications. I was told that the experiment in Oakland was not a success.
When I applied in Oakland, you could be denied employment do to…excess traffic tickets.
Indeed, the only good thing to come out of all this is that it was Black on Black. As a result, there will be a lot less public outrage and grandstanding from the likes of Jesse Jackson.
Fred Hampton was murdered.
That was instigated by the Feds though, it wasn’t typical police brutality.
It was more a death squad action, like the US was doing in Indonesia and Vietnam at the time.
…Probably was.
“Kill a Commie for Christ” Writ large.
So was Huey Newton. Killed when a drug deal went bad.
…so sad…he might have tuned his life around and found a cure for cancer, or a plan for peace in the Middle East.
…or maybe even paid taxes….
“When I applied in Oakland, you could be denied employment do to…excess traffic tickets.”
What no parking or jaywalking tickets in yer misspent youth? I know your an unredeemable miscreant. How’d you get on the job?
Well it’s not who ya know but who ya ? I just had to do it!
“. How’d you get on the job?”
Saint,
I was as clean as the driven snow.”
Yea, and verily.
Cowbell, I’m sure the usual suspects will try to spin and blame Whitey. Or climate change.
No need to worry right now about riots in Memphis. The forecast for the city for the next two days is up to 1/2 inch of ice, followed by freezing temps in the days to follow. This should dampen enthusiasm for destroying and burning stuff, 1/2 inch of ice will do plenty enough destruction as it is. And might turn the power off for days. There’s lots of excited chatter saying this will be a historic storm. i say bring it on and freeze ’em all!
It was a Jogger beat down, nothing more, nothing less.
Memphis is amongst the most violent, squalid, blood soaked cities in the United States, right up there with St. Louis, Baltimore & Chicago — I’m afraid it’ll only get worse now as any aggressive law enforcement will most certainly be scaled back, giving criminals free reign on the streets of Memphis. (Note to CFNers: avoid Memphis)
How dare you forget Philly.
And East LA, and Atlanta, and Harlem, and Jersey City, and Jackson, MS, and New Orleans, on and on and on. Most all major cities in the USA have by now become cess pools, or at least have a major core to it that you want to steer clear of at all costs.
Agree entirely. I almost just went with “all” major US cities.
Black America.
Remember ‘Trip Ticket’ the urban farmer who moved to Macon Georgia? Maybe he is a race realist by now.
I’ve witnessed a few beat-downs in plain site while on the ambulance. All white guys but that’s just my turf. I see they are charging the medics in this case. Sometimes the stomps were deserved sometimes not. This was certainly nothing that unusual. Happens all the time. Of course the guy died so there’s that. Black or white, just different keys on the grand Wurlitzer.
Hiring thugs as cops – as in A Clockwork Orange.
This is a good thing for Whites. It helps to balance the ledge of public opinion on the much hyped Blacks. Not only are they not saints, but in fact they are far more criminal than Whites.
The War Against Us
But what chronicle of the war against us is complete without mention of Government troll farms.
Comments below articles authored by cyber-command. The shepherds of thought quell dissent that could disrupt deep state plans. Control from the top-down (standard censorship), and control from the bottom up via sock-puppet.
I doubt open use of the department of defense network is still allowed. That was a major faux pas but operational security takes care of business, to keep things on the down-low.
Operational security is an amazing machine.
(exect many comments to rapidly appear to bury this comment in the stack)
We are becoming a nation of “diversity hires”. This is what “equal opportunity” employment and affirmative action will get you. We have now just seen clear effects of this in the Memphis Police Department, and it cost Tyre his life.
As a result of all these “diversity hires” in jobs throughout the land, we will continue to see the steady and efficient progression of having our country and its fundamental operations fall apart at the seams. Historically, it has always been White culture that has built things up, made life better, and held us together, even after causing war and calamity.
White culture (and manhood) is on the decline and is no longer encouraged. Therefore, things are getting progressively worse and the USA will eventually homogenize to look like inner city ghettos.
“Right-wing extremists were connected to at least 50 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2018. That makes them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995.
According to the FBI, white supremacists were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016 … more than any other domestic extremist movement.
The number of terrorist attacks by far-right perpetrators rose over the past decade, more than quadrupling between 2016 and 2017.”
How does this jibe with your statement that white culture is on the decline and is no longer encouraged?
According to the FBI, white supremacists were responsible for 49 homicides in 26 attacks from 2000 to 2016 … more than any other domestic extremist movement.
3 a year? Wow!
And we all know that “white supremacist” just means “white person with anti-Establishment opinions”.
Do you also believe that the men still in jail without a trial these last 2 years are white supremacists?
Cause that’s what the media tells us they are.
The phrase is meaningless.
Paula
K chien says that 49 folks were killed by White Supremacists over 16 years. Wow!
Number one
What exactly is a White Supremacist, anyway, and who exactly are they targeting? Are they killing Blacks, Latins, or each other. The statistic is a joke. There are more problems with road rage.
Number two
49 folks over three years? That is about a good three day weekend in the Black parts of Chicago, Blacks on Blacks.
Boy, definitely a major major issue on which to base your entire domestic social program.
Sorry, Dog, you are in left field on this one.
3 in a minute in chicago-chi congo.
Does anyone believe what the fbi says after all their BS about Russia gate, their hiding of hunter’s laptop for two years, their withholding of info about biden’s possession of classified material prior to the 2022 mid terms? The fbi cannot be trusted about anything!!!! Neither can be cdc or the fda. One who lies about one thing will lie about others.
K-Mao is a big fan of the FBI now.
Look below. He’s in full paranoid mode, thinks that a bunch of us are one person.
The libtard disease seems to be getting worse.
Like you when you accuse Islander or me (or others) of “worshipping” Greta. We’ve never said a word about her except to mock or feel sorry for her.
Don’t like the taste of your own medicine, eh, A-Jerk?
Three homicides per year? Holy shit. Time for martial law.
Thank you ‘Dog for reminding us honkeys/ofays/whateverpronounpissesusracistwhitesoffthemost of just how dangerous we are.
Well, maybe because they don’t bother to include the murders in CHAZ and CHOP, etc.
You know, the mostly peaceful murders.
Eternal rest.
I guess I would argue this is a result of the watering down of White Anglo-Saxon Christian values. Young straight White men (boys) in our society increasingly have nowhere else to turn and nothing to channel their creative energies into. They lash out at others in an effort to get the respect they feel they deserve and to expel excess testosterone.
Those stats are rather out of date now anyway, since the world is a radically different place from 2016-2018 and becoming more so with each passing day.
I would also argue that about 50 deaths for an entire year is a drop in the bucket compared to what we are seeing in the inner city Black hellscapes. Heck, in Chicago it is not strange to see 30-40 people ruthlessly slaughtered over the course of a weekend, even when a blizzard is raging, and temps are below zero!
“Those stats are rather out of date now anyway…
Those stats are stats on which current public policy is based. I also doubt the stats are too old to accurately reflect racial attitudes in the country. The roots of such racial attitudes are too deep to be dislodged in five or so years. Maybe in an individual but not in greater society. If racial attitudes had changed that much in the last five years there would be a tumultuous history of documentation of which there is …. George Floyd.
The incell sheep are still restless but:
‘They lash out at others in an effort to get the respect they feel they deserve and to expel excess testosterone.
Only applies to dumfucks. Of which there are many, I won’t deny. I sort of have resembled one at times. But, truth is, I am one of the many who got their shit together. I suspect you have your shit together too.
Dumfucks are many, but as the ages roll buy I doubt think their negative influence varies dramatically across generations. Nature provides a consistent crop of dumfucks. Dumfucks, we will always have with us.
NOW; From a Homeland Security point of view, a comment like your first in our exchange here, might be authored to see who responds. A fishing trip.
Justified by sound statistics.
Good work if you can get it?
Can a VPN protect them? The shadow knows.
Indeed, dumfucks are many. The dumbest of all the fucks are the hysterical global warming alarmists. While they are shivering in the dark and shoveling snow just to get to their mailboxes, the dumb effers are still worrying about the globe burning up. They’ll read about record cold and record snow happening everywhere and it goes over their heads. Antarctica is recording progressively colder temps, and Japan has just seen the coldest weather ever recorded in the country. Record cold in Asia and in Siberia. It’s snowing right now in the exclusive southern Mediterranean island of Mallorca, snow is very rare there. But dumbfucks are still doing their Chicken Little act – “The sky is falling!”. And we can stop the sky by paying more taxes to criminal lying scamsters like Al Gore. Yeah, uncle Al is gonna repair the planet for us, these dems have even more power than God has…..
” But, truth is, I am one of the many who got their shit together.”
Sorry K-Hund, but your shit just looks like a bunch of disorganized diarrhea to me, formless, sloppy, and messy.
cowbell81: “We are becoming a nation of ‘diversity hires’”.
‘Diversity’ as an idea or practice ‘thinks’ that it is doing a good and righteous thing. It thinks it has the moral high ground. And such thinking is… dead wrong.
‘Diversity’ at its heart carries a belief system which goes as follows:
1. Certain kinds of ‘racism’ is Bad. (Racism against a certain other race).
2. Certain kinds of being racist is ‘Good’. (Reverse Racism against a certain other race for a ‘righteous’ purpose). But that is STILL RACISM.
In other words, when Light Skin People are passed over for jobs today… that is GOOD Racism. But if Light Skin People object to being sidelined or ignored in today’s Society and make that publicly known… they are just ‘Bad Racists!’.
And when certain people are slid into positions they do not deserve by merit… that is ‘Good’ racism today. (?!)
So remember folks… It’s not that we are not supposed to be ‘Racist’. It’s that we are all supposed to conform to the RIGHT KIND of ‘Racism’!
So let’s all be good citizens and practice nothing but ‘Good Racism!’
A tall glass of ‘Fascism Lite’. Same great oppression with fewer calories.
You’re most often on the side of the fascists. That’s why so many up here laugh at you.
So, you admit you are more than one character. How else could you know others here. You busted yourself Q.
Maybe I’m GA, Night Owl, Back Row Heckler, and heck, let’s throw in beantown bill and Paula D.
I’m EVERYONE!
😀
GA used to be someone else. I don’t know if you play that role now or not. I doubt it. Unlike you I am not part of ‘bait the racist‘ team, so I don’t know who plays who like you do.
Any other comment section on the planet below a bi-weekly article get even half the number of comments this place does?
I did not think so.
So anybody with a three digit IQ can do that math. Personally I have more evidence than obvious inference provides, Solid indisputable evidence. But that is just me. Wrong place at the wrong time. I was such a lucky guy.
“GA used to be someone else.”
Too funny. What in the world happened to you, K-Dog? I used to read your stuff and even your website. We had a conversation years ago about the flashing light on your globe in Scotland being me, and I told you the number would change soon because I was ditching my PC and using my laptop. Now that laptop’s gone too.
I went on it just now to make Edinburgh flash again, but your globe isn’t working.
Who was the old GA?
BTW, I read that hit piece you wrote ages ago about our host, without mentioning his name. Calumnious it was. I was shocked. I considered sending him a link to it, but decided not to. Let sleeping dogs lie an’ all that.
See how it works, Pooch. Tell a lie about me and I’ll tell the truth about you. Truth matters to me.
GA, could be the jab that’s made him go bonkers.
The old GA and I had a good dynamic. I was gone a year and this is the first mention to me in two months.
Further the old GA was nice and wound never have typed.
See how it works, Pooch. Tell a lie about me and I’ll tell the truth about you. Truth matters to me.
Concerning truth:
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
You are back to square one. A couple people here could be traced to their real identity. Not you or anyone else with a black Avatar. You are whomever you say you want to be. You could even be Kunstler himself, though he told me he has better things to do than troll his own website.
You real GA? Send me an email then and prove it. You know my email is at the bottom of my website. I will not be holding my breath waiting for it.
Black named insulting shadows can kiss my ass. If you think you have something I wrote GA, I don’t want anyone to see, show it.
“Further the old GA was nice and wound never have typed…”
The old K-Dog wouldn’t have accused me of being someone other than who I am. I’ve even posted links to my street on here (without showing the name). My actual front door was in them. But that was probably a bit dumb, in these AI days.
I will most certainly send you an email as long as I can be sure it won’t be seen by anyone else. I’m happy to meet anyone here in person, including you, but I know there are some bad dudes hanging out here too, so I’m concerned about my safety.
When I was on your website, in its early days, and you thanked me for visiting and said ‘oh, was that you?’, I could see my IP number (if that’s what it is) in a list of visitors. It was a Virgin number. It’s still a Virgin number, so you can check for today’s visit.
I don’t know how far back I’d have to check for that article I mentioned. It was years ago. And the reason I didn’t send it to our host was because you’d always been pleasant to me. But now you’ve made an accusation that isn’t true so that’s cancelled until such time as you apologise.
So, K-Pooch, let me know when you’ve got the email I just sent you. And keep my address to yourself, thank you. It’s personal choice to hand out one’s email address to all and sundry, especially in these spooky days.
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
I agree with that. Lying must be really hard work or require a cataloguing system. So good luck finding anything factual that I said at any time in the last dozen years that contradicts any other factual thing I said any other time.
My opinions, on the other hand, have changed, as a result of circumstances. And you’re right – I’m a tougher cookie than before, probably.
Thank you GA for your email. By now you have my response. I expect things are now good between us, and you have a better perspective concerning my situation. If you need more info let me know.
Sometimes the teachers who teach the most don’t even know they are teaching you.
That last statement won’t make sense to anyone else here, but you read my email if it got through, so it should to you. You made no mistake trusting me with your email.
Diversity hire air traffic controller.
Diversity hire brain surgeon.
Diversity hire nuclear power station safety officer.
Diversity hire vaccine development researcher.
Diversity hire demolition / implosion supervisor.
The fun goes on, amping up.
Meanwhile, if you want to feel really, really sorry for someone, think of those poor multi-millionaires who purchased condos in the Millennium Tower in San Francisco.
The lean keeps leaning. Ultra-expensive, fundamentally experimental stabilizing efforts proceed, with varying opinions on their success. Lawsuits are revving up.
Richie-residents sit in glum talks with lawyers. A number of these cubbyholes (nestled among a forest of other high-rise buildings – why live in such a place?) are on the market. Nobody is biting.
The fun goes on.
@JHK
So! Can this puzzle ever be put together?
I can imagine that it is possible but highly improbable.
Employing the antiquated methods of putting a jig-saw puzzle together will render little more than more confusion and destruction.
Seems to me, any possible solution must begin with the very essence of human cognition.
Seems to me, we need to start here. Knowledge is an illusion and “I could be wrong”.
Short of that, “say goodnight, Gracie”.
~toktomi~
Yes, all this nonsense about how many genders there are and who is oppressing who will fade like the mist it is once it becomes necessary to expend all that energy previously used to address the misgendering of a mentally-ill person has to be diverted to locating 1300 calories per day.
A good three days of not eating will solve that gender confusion, I bet 🙂
Three days of not-eating, and I expect that a majority of the people in the US will be whatever gender they are told they are.
That and still 75 lb overweight
Uh, oh. Another high-level conspiracy theorist has come out of the woodwork!
“Eminent MIT Prof & expert on drug safety analytics @RetsefL calls for immediate suspension of all covid mRNA vaccines
‘They should stop because they cause an unprecedented level of harm including the death of young people and children’”
https://twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotra/status/1619943713874259974
Also worth noting that at my kid’s school, the entire teaching staff is out sick, so he doesn’t have to go for the rest of the week.
Consider that for a moment.
The entire staff?
Wow.
Yeah. School closed.
Never seen anything like it.
My husband’s sister, who is about 5 years younger than me and a serious covidian (at least 3 jabs and more than likely the bivalent one too) has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She’s still working – IT stuff – and noticed memory issues were affecting her work. If the crap causes fast-track cancers, I suspect the Alzheimer’s might be fast-track too.
And a former commissioning ed. colleague of mine, super-fit cyclist and roughly the same age as my sister-in-law, or younger, just died of organ failure following a cancer operation.
That is so depressing and sad. Gawd.
Yes, I saw that yesterday. There is also a press release by a number of UK doctors calling for the jabs to be stopped.
doctorsforpatientsuk.com/press-release/
No press coverage, presumably.
Did you see the report about the 77th Brigade spying on British citizens, including journalists (e.g. Peter Hitchens and MPs (e.g. David Davis) who spoke against any of the government’s covid policies? Army spies, FFS. It even made The Daily Mail. Tobias Ellwood MP (Cons.) is the head of the reservists for the 77th.
The CA shootings last week in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay were tragic but I was relieved to hear they were committed by Asian guys, not two white dudes.
The five Memphis cops were hired as the result of police departments having to lower their recruitment standards due to the dwindling pool of job applicants. Anti-police protestors are discouraging men and women from joining law enforcement. Protestors are only making the problem worse
“result of police departments having to lower their recruitment standards due to the dwindling pool of job applicants.”
KK,
More specifically, it is the dwindling pool of acceptable applicants. Law Enforcement jobs pay well, and often provide cradle to grave security…not unusual to see applicant-to-job ratio of 50+. Problems arise when drug arrests, drug tests, other arrest records, obesity and race begin to filter the unworthy from the herd.
When I was on the OPD, in or around 1971, the Department began to encourage officers to give applications to their friends and worthy acquaintances…black officers only were encouraged…white officers were never encouraged to do so…and only became aware of the program through locker room scuttle.
In the late 80’s, my son applied for a position on the LAPD…at the testing event he was told that white people were not being considered for hire…minorities and women were preferable.
For some reason I always assumed you were black.
Paula,
In name only.
And yet, I am sure that I, a white person with an exemplary record of – well, everything* – and a proven record of being able to do – well, anything* – would never be able to get a job on the Memphis PD.
Sow the wind
Reap the Whirlwind
* Some settling may have occurred during shipping.
Night OWL,
Are you a doctor? Are you qualified to make judgement?
All I know is that at least ten of my family and friends have died or have serious health issues after the COVID JAB.
If our government was honest, they would get to the bottom of these issues. But Big Pharma has control of the government.
Don’t be a fool and believe all you hear on the 6 o’clock news!
It was sarcasm, you loon.
I thought the part about the entire fucking clot-shotted teaching staff being out sick might have given it away …
Last week the Polish government refused to invite Russians to the celebration of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet soldiers. This was spun as “solemn occasion marked by new violence in Europe”.
Yes, although Obama claimed his grandfather helped liberate the prisoners in Auschwitz, he lied. The rewriting of history has been going on for awhile, but it has taken a new leap forward this year, when not only was Russia written out of the history of the liberation of the camp, but when for the first time the countries of Europe joined the US and the Ukraine in refusing to denounce nazism at the UN.
And Poland was not the only country not only rewriting WW2 history, but writing the ongoing script for WW3.
“Comment by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on the Dutch Foreign Ministry’s request addressed to the Russian Embassy in The Hague to refrain from participating in memorial events dedicated to Holocaust victims:”
Today, January 27, the world celebrates the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, established by the UN General Assembly on November 1, 2005. Commemorative events will be held in many countries today, including in the Netherlands. However, in this country, the “vanguard” in anti-Russian and ahistorical “innovations”, they decided to reformat the historical truth.
Thus, the authorities represented by the local Foreign Ministry demanded that the Russian Embassy refrain from participating in the commemorative ceremony organized by the Dutch association “Auschwitz Committee” on January 29 in Amsterdam. Moreover, the official Hague did not hesitate to put pressure on the organizers of the event to withdraw the invitation sent earlier to Russian diplomatic representatives.
A similar invitation was sent to the Russian Embassy in The Hague by the Jewish cultural organization CHAJ, but it was also withdrawn by a call from the government offices.
No matter how much we are assured that the Netherlands remember the decisive role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of Hitler’s Germany and the liberation of Europe from fascism, the facts say the opposite. Now it is considered “inappropriate” for the sake of political expediency to honor the feat of the Red Army soldiers who liberated prisoners of Auschwitz and other concentration camps. Moreover, in this unsightly campaign aimed at rewriting the history of the Second World War, the country’s Foreign Ministry is already involved directly.
Over the years, we have seen how in a number of European capitals they denigrated the memory of the liberators who paid with their lives for the liberation of Europe from fascism, heroized Hitler’s criminals and their accomplices like Bandera and Shukhevych, how they deliberately tried to distort the truth about who opened the doors of the Nazi “death factory” in Auschwitz, and to consign to oblivion the 27 million lives of Soviet citizens killed by the Second World War. It is this criminal historical negligence that in many ways has become a harbinger of the events of today.
It is our duty to preserve the memory of the victims of the “brown plague”, to continue to honor those who, at the cost of their lives, freed the world from its horrors. The Holocaust was and remains for us a tragedy that we will always remember. That is why Russia will continue to uncover and convey the truth about the crimes of Nazism, both past and present.”
And this disavowal of Russia’s importance in WW2 started several years before the Ukrainian war. There was a memorial service in Normandy on D-Day and Russia was not invited as one of the Allies. It’s shameful and this ingratitude was not lost on the Russians.
Right. This rewriting of history to disappear Russia and its role in liberating Europe from fascism has been going on for quite some time—but seems to be picking up steam.
The opening shot seemed to be a big effort, also by various academics, to say that Stalin was worse than Hitler;
therefore the USSR was worse than Nazi Germany;
therefore whatever the Russians/USSR did to defeat Hitler didn’t count.
Weird reasoning, to be sure, because neither the German nor the Russian people had really chosen to be the victims of totalitarian regimes.
Yet German invaded the USSR, not vice versa.
It was the other way around.
Americans are so naive and protected as to think that virtue and exceptionalism (American, or course!!) win wars that are being fought to the death.
Is is not hyperbolic to say the bad guys are doing everything in their power to instigate a nuclear confrontation while at the same time declaring war upon their own vassals. Many of us just assumed that Mother Nature would force the downturn of industrial society rather than some weird cabal of global Bond villians trying to beat Mother Nature to the punch. How did these guys gain complete control of all western governments anyway? It is hard to follow the elite logic because we assume there must be some rationale thought process. Maybe the thinking goes like this: once 7.5 billion people are dead and Russian commodities are secured the survivors can borrow from the same central bankers again and build back better. Never mind that global supply chains will be shot, oil production will have dropped over the Seneca cliff, their beloved AI will slingshot back to the 16th century and only god knows what sort of radioactive fallout humanity might have to deal with. I don’t think this scheme will work very well. They are definitely playing for all the marbles though.
You are not allowed to call them out.
To arrive at the common denominator
None dare call it conspiracy
Verboten
Yet do not confuse this as a continuation of the Hegelian Dialectic, binary opposites, us vs them, conflict and resolution and used by power to control the masses and feeble minded for time immemorial.
Accept the noumenal or accept the social engineering and its manipulations
They need as many crises as possible.
Something that many seem unaware of is that the WHO is on the verge of gaining full power to dictate medical law in most countries in the world.
G20 leaders just voted to move ahead with such legislation. If this happens and can actually be enforced, then the digital plantation is just about here.
If the WHO ever gains that kind of power then we as Americans need to openly revolt. We did not elect those technocrats, nor should they have any kind of power to run our lives on a worldwide scale. This is akin to the Brits trying to come over and impose their power on the Americas again.
American law is made for and by Americans. Keep your damn WHO globalist hands off of it!
The WHO has that power and has been wielding it for 3 years. Americans have not openly revolted.
The G20 members literally signed an agreement moving the legislation forward and some talk about “if.”
I am starting to think it is over sometimes.
Back to talking about race, sex, and gender then. We all know how important those issues are going to be when living on the digital plantation and undergoing forced medical procedures under threat of poverty.
Divide and conquer. Divide and …
It is baffling, Tax Donkey. I had also assumed that it would be Mother Nature batting last, not this weirdass motley crew of cartoon villians.
And yeah, is it possible that people so demented that they think that their private jets will still be fueled by the survivors and that their caviar will still be delivered after they wipe out 7.5 billion people, are being allowed the power to try? Your description of their “logic” seems right on.
I thought that delusional thinking was only prescribed for the masses, but these people have the trannies beat, hands down.
I think the logic is more along the lines of “if we can’t have it then no one can.” Not to mention the righteous wrath they’ll be facing from all the people they’ve screwed over these past many years. Nuremburg wasn’t shit compared to what these murderous thugs will be facing if they ever lose power.
Before we are all melted down in the cauldron of anger, can we at least take a moment to appreciate some of the beauty left in our mortgaged-to-the-hilt world?
In heroic little Finland, (bravely resisting the heaving, halitosis-breathed Russian monster).
Battle on the Ice
I was afraid the poor fucker was gonna slice his goddamn fingers off trying to get back up.
(Stunning and Brave) doesn’t even begin…
youtube.com/watch?v=VePyOsI8Vug&t=45s
I have seen male skaters who can actually skate. WTF is this?
And I thought he was going to pull the woman down with him.
I don’t see any Finnish skaters. Just long financial videos.
There’s obviously a conspiracy afoot to keep you and I from understanding each other.
I’m sorry – I thought it was you (although I never would have admitted that until now).
But it (the video) was hilarious – in a dystopian kinda way. Originally got it from an article at ZeroHedge, published at 13:00 yesterday.
Hahahahahaa!
OMG. The comments are the absolute best.
The Bee’s on it – hahahaha: https://babylonbee.com/news/rookie-trans-woman-picks-the-one-sport-where-biological-women-actually-have-an-advantage
Good short podcast on the GR and various associated happenings with Nicola Charles from TNT Radio.
https://rumble.com/v27jww0-war-for-the-world.html
This woman is a gem.
Remember that story where San Franciso was going to award all Blacks $2million as part of their reparations campaign? Well here is a novel solution that will save the taxpayers. Just have them all pop over to their local mini mart or head up north to Oregon gas stations and see if someone blatantly tells them they “do not serve Black people”. The precedent has now been set after an Oregon woman was awarded $1m over racist discrimination at gas station.
httpsXX://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oregon-woman-awarded-1m-over-racist-discrimination-at-gas-station/ar-AA16Slhy?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=38b2c1b39cbb46ca9789389f460d3742
I thought it was going to be $5 million!
Boy, only $2 million?
Those cheapskates!!
Wow, I get it now.
Give all the Blacks 2 million each.
First tax it as income, ka ching 1 million back in the state vault.
Then let them all spend the rest on lottery tickets.
In California, they cannot even buy a reasonable house for a million dollars.
I was pushing for $1 million each – every man, woman, child, trans, whatever – total cost ~$41 trillion.
A drop in the bucket, for the two weeks of peace it would buy.
Yeah, imagine when the funds run low (inevitable).
Dr. Mercola today has a useful time line of the persecution directed at him since February 2020.
I pretty much follow Dr. Mercola, so I expect he was responsible for some of my own early skepticism regarding the fear mongering and the push for a vaccine.
Here he reiterates what has always been my understanding, which is that the reason no vaccine against the common cold has succeeded is that coronaviruses (which cause a lot of common colds) mutate too rapidly for any vaccine or development and test program to keep up.
We just have to rely our immune systems!!
httpX://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/01/30/mercola-censorship-timeline.aspx?
You mean, prior to the 2020 “persecution date”, he was laughed at and mocked for the Quack he is?
What have you got on these doctors, oh, fount of all knowledge?
doctorsforpatientsuk.com/press-release/
Quacks.
They all work for the NHS, you moron. Oncology, surgery, general practice, obs & gynae, cardiology.
How stupid are you?
‘Quacks’ wont cut the mustard. Please list your evidence. The GMC would want to know, since it allows them to practise.
Keep quackin’, duck boy.
Duck boy is still talking out of his cloaca.
This is way too much coinkydink for me.
“USA. Multiple fire departments responded to a massive fire at Hillendale Farms in Connecticut.
Hillendale is one of the largest suppliers of chicken eggs where an estimated 100,000 hens have died.”
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/chickens-died-bozrah-egg-hillandale-farm-fire-17751679.php
Wow, this hearkens back to all the food processing facilities that have recently mysteriously started on fire. This chicken egg one verges on genocide, all in the name of egg shortages and inflated pricing. Congress should actually do something and investigate the high price of eggs. Remember when Biden vowed to launch an investigation and get to the bottom of high gas prices? lol
I bet this fire made a lot of delicious omelets and scrambled eggs…too soon?
I should think the insurers would launch an investigation of this fire.
In fact, of all of these fires.
I hope my local farm eggs keep coming!
Yay. A brand new conspiracy to spin…
It’s not new. There are normally about a dozen or so fires and other incidents in food-processing plants in the US. In 2022 there were over 200. Nothing to see here.
I was going to ask about comparative numbers.
I’m sure these kinds of numbers are carefully compiled and kept neatly stored somewhere. Where did you find them?
Visited the grocery store today. Looking more and more like Mother Hubbard’s old place.
I heard it from a person giving a talk at the Alternative View conference 2022 (UK). At the time of the conference – November, if I recall correctly – he said there had been 203 fires and other incidents that year. So I don’t have a written reference, but I’m sure confirmation can be found somewhere.
Please, GA, expound.
Says the hit and run merchant.
@RL
How do you live in such a condition of absolute ignorance?
Do you not see what is happening around you or are you so focused on get Orangeman bad nothing else seeps into the dull mind of yours?
That second one sounds about right.
Hillandale Farms has about 20 million chickens in 5 NE locations, so the loss of 100,000 chickens, altho significant, is not catastrophic.
That’s good. But we need to take into consideration how many food storage fires there have been this year.
Thanks for the stats.
Damn right, it’s not the loss of 100k, but the remaining 20 million concentration camp chickens that are the catastrophe.
The Holocaust that’s finger lickin’ good.
Well, it is to the hens who were burned alive.
This breaks my heart.
Same. It’s horrific.
But for Stalin’s victims? Nothing.
I guess Bezos is tuned into something we don’t know. Not surprising given his connection to the WEF globocaps.
A viral video that originated on TikTok shows the device responding to a question about the end of the world by saying: “World War 3 starts on November 23, 2023 at 6:05pm, when Russia launches an attack against Germany”.
Thanksgiving Day – it’s gotta be true.
I had been hoping for a giant meteor, but I’ll take what I can get – and I’ll be thankful.
Well, it’s not until 6:05pm, so you’ll have time to give thanks first.
Unless that’s UTC time, or worse, Russia far east time. Then you don’t even get dinner first.
…ends on November 23, 2023.
“It’s pretty clear, for instance, that all the criminal misconduct in the FBI / DOJ — continuing to this moment — emanates from the years-long effort to cover up the seditious campaign to nullify Donald Trump starting well before Nov. 8, 2016.”
Ah, yes…the eagerly anticipated Report from John Durham. A wash… a nothingburger. Enough of the fabulist rhetoric.
Indeed.
Robert Mueller is going to put the Manchurian Candidate in jail any day now.
He has all the Kompromat, you know.
Fat Billy Barr obfuscated on Mueller, as you well know, in defence of the Fat Fuckwit in the White Hosue. That guy is as shameless as you.
Why isn’t the Manchurian Candidate in jail?
You claimed many things.
Many hilaroius things.
The fact Trump will not be put into jail has not entered into the perennially hysterical progressive mindset as of yet.
Not sure they will ever get it.
It must be exhausting to be an anti-trumper with the news cycles wasted on him.
Every time they read one of the dozens of poorly written and researched hit pieces it continues to set them off into frothing fits of hysterical rage like the morning after Hillary was defeated and cast down.
I would bet they have a form of Tourette’s Syndrome spitting cuss words and twitching as they scan the latest headlines.
Like the scene from The exorcist where the girl was shooting green vomit everywhere.
RL go get a priest and see if he can fix you.
“And then the opaque and nefarious roles of other actors in the story ranging from the CCP to the WEF to the Bill Gates and George Soros empires of money in what looks a genocide”
“Opaque” is appropriate…but when will the Shape-Shifting Reptilian Aliens be added to the cast of evil-doers?
Any update for us on the Manchurian Candidate and the Russo-Nazi-KKK army he was going to unleash on us once the Storming of the Capitol was completed successfully?
Inquiring minds still want to know.
Yeah, you should ask yourself – after all, you’ve made up the question and the attribution to me at some time in the dim past.
If you truly believe I ever played into your Manchurian Candidate trope, go find and present the evidence. Otherwise, just STFU.
We have already done so, Majella.
The archive is full of your conspiracy twaddle.
This fool still thinks everyone including Jim does not know who it is.
One day it says it’s an American the next New Zealander.
Nothing but lies flows from this person much like the demon Legions of old.
Well, RL,
those orgs are pretty opaque. The military industrial complex, too. Big Pharma. Big Tech.
I dunno about aliens, but you may have noticed, since you follow MSM, there’s a propaganda hive very active now, promising new “revelations” and such.
It’s your right to believe nothing untoward ever happens, and “our democracies” are transparent systems, monitored by a free press and informed citizens.
Gladio. Trauma induced mind control. Remember the Maine. Tonkin. JFK. Bobby K. Many rabbit holes, but you sound like my boomer dad… if the NYT says it, it must be true. Others have… doubts…
Rulo, when a gator slides up onto your back lawn, do you throw a chicken at it?
Guess it depends on the chicken…
BB,
is that a haiku? An entry from a Sunshine State “Meditations?”
You know, a good rooster will fight and die, no matter the enemy. Respect the rooster. He’ll not surrender.
The connection FL – gators is greatly exaggerated. In the south, they are disappearing due to overdevelopment. The north is colder, so they go into extended periods of semi hibernation. There are some, but because the human pop is so much smaller, they are not used to people and fade away, coy, instead of going after your Pomeranian.
A haiku? Why yes it was. I’m surprised you recognized it amongst all the freeform kudzu.
You went for the chicken.
I should have said “Burmese python” instead of “gator”, but I’m writing for a wider audience and need the easy Florida clichés.
So… There’s a Burmese python sliding up from the river…
I’ll correct: “there’s a shady real estate guy sliding up from the river, with a plan to develop a subdivision of McMansions and an offer you can’t refuse”
Pythons, gators, coral snakes, baby rattlers, cottonmouths, brown recluse spiders and widows, all pale in comparison to the apex predator: the investor from scrotum bend, NJ…
And throwing a chicken at a real estate swindler is more fun – and probably more effective – than throwing it at any other kind of reptile.
many thanks, James. yes. fin! Egypt and Pakistan are now part of BRICS. Just a place in time, with major hurdles, roads awashed, and no where to go.
“There’s an understandable wish that upcoming hearings in Congress will lead to a reckoning for all of this. To banish consequence from public life, as we have done, is a pretty grave insult to nature, but who can tell whether accountability might restore our institutions at this point.”
The upcoming hearings in congress will produce nothing but hot air and sound bytes for Fox Propaganda to be included in the MAGAts’ next election campaign ads. These fools are next to utterly useless. Jim Jordan? Marjory Trailer-park Greene? Lauren Boebert? George fecking Santos??? Are you kidding me?
The rest of the assessment of the nation going to hell in a handbasket is largely imaginary.
As to the ‘banishing consequences’ trope, just watch – the looming shitstorm of actual, credible, provable charges of fraud, obstruction and insurrection against the Golden Golem of Gratuitousness is close to breaking. And that’s just the Federal cases against him. Add the civil cases and he’s already gone.
The whining, sniveling lie-strewn rants he ‘posts’ on “Troth Central” should be enough for any even marginally sane person to see him for what he is and reject his fake candidacy.
However, he does seem to have taken a sizable percentage of the electorate with him into his aggrieved victimhood, which victimhood is loudly trumpeted in this forum, from all corners. Sad!
Have you located the Pee-Pee Tapes yet?
Gee…a deep and thoughtful riposte. Great stuff.
Is that your shot for the Lack of Self-Awareness Award 2023?
And is that your shot for the Most Sanctimonious Award?
Glad I’m getting to you, berk.
You claimed they were real. You were going to “own the MAGATs.”
Any news?
Or the soundbyte where Trump tells people to drink bleach?
It’s too bad Trump didn’t tell us not to drink bleach, because then, well…
Ok, that’s not nice, is it?
And it wouldn’t solve the problem anyway.
Our favorite underpass dweller would still be able to type – and with the freshest breath he ever had.
Bleach: the poor man’s Lysterine…
It might have done away with stinky troll-breath, yes.
I’m pretty sure he was suggesting shooting it up…and you’re not known for an accurate memory.
You’re wrong.
*Zap*
Try again.
Yeah, Mary. He didn’t say to *drink* the Clorox; he clearly said to inject it!
You big dummy!
I imagine him searching fervently for the quote where Trump told people to inject bleach… hahahahaha!
😀
More frothing nonsense from the faux American or is that New Zealander?
You have told so many lies it is getting hard to keep track of them.
Can you ever admit that the side you stump for is as hopeless as the side you profess to hate?
Nothing will be done about the imagined transgressions from Trump since doing anything about it would put every other resident past and future in the Whitehouse into jeopardy including the current one sniffy the lying clown doing his best re-enactment of weekend at bernies.
Serious question which I am sure you are way to cowardly to answer:
Do you ever get tired of being so spun up and angry about Trump?
He has zero bearing on your back water country.
You should be far more concerned about what Chinas is lining up for your country even as you read this.
Major meltdown & furious frothing.
😀
Indeed. Wee benr certainly deserves your sympathy.
Sympathy for the devil!
I don’t need sympathy I am happy as a clam in the mud!
Went surfing today and it was beautiful.
I think it’s clear who I was talking about. But then nothing is clear to you, except what CNN & MSDNC crams into your brain every day.
Minding The Paradoxes
“The pupil is thereby ‘schooled’ to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is ‘schooled’ to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.” ~ Ivan Illich
“War Is Peace, Freedom Is slavery, Ignorance Is Strength” ~ George Orwell
“It’s been astonishing to watch the mainstream left abandon literally every single thing it used to stand for. Peace? No, we’ve got to support the Pentagon against the Evil Russkies! Free speech? No, we’ve got to silence anyone who disagrees with the corporate consensus! My body, my choice? No, we’ve got to force people to take whatever Pfizer wants to inject into them! Racial equality? No, we’ve got to judge people entirely on their skin color and ethnic background! And the list goes on. They’ve become everything they used to hate; it’s astonishing, and not in a good way.” ~ John M. Greer
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” ~ Chris Hedges, via JHK
Zazelle,
Archdruid Greer is a very intelligent man, and his open threads are worth reading. I saw that paragraph in his latest one, and that’s not even one of his main articles, just an answer to a reader.
Like here, it’s a good investment to just read, as there will always be a few insights or points of view that leave you thinking for days.
TV is not a good investment, because the medium is designed to stop thought processes and simplify reality to an absurd degree.
Same with viral memes and videos.
I’m of the last generation that finds text is the only medium structurally dense and solid enough to convey complex thoughts that refuse categorization. Good text has nuance and requires intelligence to write and to read.
The Wisdom Of The Fundamental Tribe
I haven’t owned a tv since the early 90’s, although others I know do, so when I watch it, it usually feels like watching some bizarre alternate reality.
As for reading online comments, the wisdom of the ‘fundamental tribe’, despite the pollutions of the shills, propagandists, authoritarians and others, would seem to prevail in the long run.
So in decline/collapse mode, perhaps it’s wise to pay attention to the wisdom of the fundamental tribe and to keep trying to find it among the mire.
TMTCZ,
ditto, regarding TV. Approaching 30 years, and good riddance.
What’s the fundamental tribe?
Well, I use (the wisdom of the) tribe in a similar way to how others might use the ‘hive’ such as when, for example, the so-called powers-that-be (so called because I think that the ‘collective’ are the true powers that be) might try to bury the truth, but the tribe/hive/collective ‘mind’ will be busy counteracting that and how it will ultimately prevail in the long run, since we humans are born of the tribe, not of the large-scale centralized State.
The large-scale centralized State is a newcomer to the human scene and likely far more fragile than we may think, than the tribe.
I use fundamental as an adjective to try to explain the tribe we all have within ourselves as a fundamentally tribal species.
Perhaps, we can say that you can take our species out of the tribe, but you can’t take the tribe out of our species.
And that’s probably the fundamental problem of and for the (currently corrupt) State system.
We are fundamentally unmanageable outside of a tribal/small-community context.
To help embellish my explanation, we are likely in a kind of fundamental cognitive dissonance between our tribal wiring and the State’s attempts at rewiring us, maybe like sheep or cattle, such as through lies, deception and deceit, etc..
And this may respond, incidentally, to amb’s (
amb January 30, 2023 at 9:13 pm #
) questions or concerns expressed in these threads.
Starving The Beast: Peak Energy; Peak Big Government/Big Biz
The large-scale centralized State superstructure, that includes a symbiosis with big business, needs vast amounts of energy– fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, etc.– to maintain viability.
Once that starts to go into decline, without adequate replacements (fusion energy, inadequate intermittent so-called renewable energy) the large-scale big-gov’t/big-biz superstructure that we know and love faces extinction and existential threats along the way.
That we seem to be witnessing increasing indications of ‘systemic insanity’ might be indications, reactions and symptoms of a symbiotic superstructure that is slowly running out of ‘food’.
Yes, we need the discipline of community. Instead, now we have faux tribes of sports teams to cheer for, and families of the incompatible people we work with – with little time to see our real family and friends.
Remember the Anarchist Journal – the journal of desire armed? And Prince Peter Kropotkin and his theory of universal symbiosis?
Watching or listening to “mainstream” “news” is almost physically revolting to me, as if my body recognizes a parasite that needs to be avoided or expelled.
Almost as revolting as “hip-hop”, but probably even more widespread in its destruction.
Yeah, I can’t do it either. Nausea.
Hip Hop is overrated. But Afro Brazilians and Uruguayans play hypnotic drums that take you places without needing mushrooms, or words (another form of mushrooms)
There’s more truth in a drum circle than in a Gallup poll or a TV rating.
I leave the kitchen (where the only working TV is) when my husband puts the news on. I cancelled our BBC licence fee last year and have had threatening letters telling me they can fine me £1000 and will send their ‘enforcers’ round! If he wants to pay for it, that’s up to him, but I’m not paying for it. It’s run by the intelligence services and I pay for them through my taxes already.
Loads of people have cancelled their licence fees, to the point where the Beeb is feeling the pinch and wants to be funded out of general taxation, so you’d have to pay for their propaganda even if you didn’t have a TV.
GA, not sure what you mean re BBC.
Stateside, we have NPR and PBS, similar to your BBC. They ask for donations all the time, but they’re taxpayer funded, which is a shame given their obvious bias and propaganda.
But what’s this “license”?
They want you to eat shit, and pay for it too, I mean in addition to your taxes?
As the Bard would have said, “piss off, cunts” 🙂
I remember being entranced by a couple of drumming surfers, ’round a fire, on the beach in Crucita, Ecuador. Listening to their drumming was almost like watching a movie. One guy got tired and kept trying to slow down and stop, but the other guy kept coming back around, kicking him in the ass, and making him get up and run again.
Then the tired guy tossed me his drum. Uh oh. Not good, but one of my better attempts – if I say so myself – and I used to be the drummer in the Worst Band That Ever Was.
Music – the best invention ever.
Rulo – The BBC is paid for from a licence fee which everyone has to pay (it’s £159/year) if they own a television, even if they don’t watch the BBC. When you buy a TV, the seller sends your details to the BBC licensing authority. In ye olde days, they used to go round the streets with vans detecting TV signals and checking against licences.
Technically they can send debt collectors to your home (that’s the ‘enforcers’ they cited) and threaten you with a fine of £1K. Rumour has it they wouldn’t be able to pay for enough people to do the enforcing, so I’m hoping their threats are hot air.
But yes, you’re expected to pay directly for their propaganda, even if you don’t listen to it.
BB, drumming is best when you can let go, be in the flow. I love music, yes, but drumming seems more archaic and mysterious, both “more” and “less” than music, almost a different language.
Drumming, rythm, not melody and not words, is probably one of our first memories as a race.
GA, gotcha. How quaint. So how does that work in this age of atomized media consumption? I mean do you have to pay a couple quid every time you watch something on their website, too? How about you tube?
Can you just tell them “I don’t want that channel, please remove it, thanks?”
As you can see, I don’t have the foggiest idea how TV works these days. “Seinfeld” was big back when I quit it. And Seinfeld was pretty good, compared to what’s on offer now… I think…
“Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.” ~ Bladerunner
“Watching or listening to “mainstream” “news” is almost physically revolting to me…” ~ Blackbird
LOL… After I wrote my ‘Starving The Beast’ comment above, I reflected yet again on my hatred of the system and again thought, as a mental-image metaphor, of that scene in Bladerunner where Rutger Hauer’s character, Roy Batty, crushes Tyrell Corporation’s Dr. Eldon Tyrell’s head, while gouging his eyes out. My mental-image metaphor is less passionate as Roy’s, though, and more intellectually curious.
Rulo
No, the annual fee is once for all. You can watch any BBC content anywhere (iPlayer is their catch-up service, which you can watch on a TV or generally online). Theoretically, you can’t watch any BBC content anywhere without a licence.
So, to watch iPlayer or BBC live on a laptop, for instance, you need to register and sign in, but not pay anything extra. And, as I said, if you don’t watch the BBC at all but do have a TV, you still have to have a BBC licence, as the assumption is that you will be watching the BBC some of the time. It’s pernicious, but if they go to funding out of general taxation, no-one will be able to avoid paying for their propaganda – they’ll just be less aware of it. If they moved to a subscription model, they’d just collapse, which would be great. Won’t happen, though.
They are also perverting news coverage in other countries, through their ‘BBC Media Action’ ‘charity’. So, much of the news that comes out of Ukraine, for example, is actually just more BBC news.
I believe Robert Kennedy Jr is suing the BBC, Trusted News Initiative et al for censorship and disinformation re covid.
On this I can agree.
Hip hop is a mess and destroying what little is left of the youth across the world.
Walked into a birria taco shop last weekend and what was playing?
Some really obnoxious hip hop and the little south of the border girls were all singing and laughing to this slop.
It made me want to go out to my car and blast some serious mariachi music instead.
I can at least enjoy some good mexican oompa oompa music.
Mariachi is garbage. Trivial and discordant, played really loud – the soundtrack of their spicy little lives? At least it’s not threatening or obscene like much of the Black stuff.
Traditional Mexican cowboy music – that’s what’s you want.
I don’t remember what they call “mariachis” in Peru, but… I do recall, at a cafe in Cuzco, a band – about 5 – of them, gathered in a corner about 8 feet from the table at which I and several serious-looking gringos were sitting. Sofa-King loud that we gringos couldn’t have a conversation. Our (legendary) guide, got up, walked over to the band, and slid (the equivalent of) a $5 bill into the bandleader’s shirt pocket, with the admonition, “Jugar a la calle”. And they did.
Only last summer, sitting in a parking lot. Some white redneck dipstick blasting “hip-hop” a space or two over. I don’t care if you’re blasting Beethoven #9 – I shouldn’t have to hear it. I cued up Pink Floyd’s Seamus and gradually cranked to volume until, well, there was nothing to hear but that old hound dog…
What was I gonna say? Oh yeah, drumming is (can be, should be) music. Two hands, one drum and you can fly up over the jungle.
drumming can be music? Yes, it can. It was called Keith Moon.
QED
Fellas,
it’s important to distinguish between a market garden, and a survival garden, or farm.
The first is all hype, based around micro greens, arugula, salad mixes, prime tomatoes, herbs. I grow all of those and much more, and make hay while the sun shines.
But the day I cannot drive 50 miles to the hip farmers’ mkt (nothing hip about where I’m at), to be part of the hype and sell stuff that’s very good, very healthy, but calorically insignificant, that’s the day that it boils down to
– at least 2 50 ft rows of potatoes per person, same in summer w sweet potatoes, more rows of cabbages, carrots, and every caloric dense, easy to keep and preserve stuff. I don’t mention corn because it’s too hungry and thirsty, but poultry, rabbits, hogs and goats are recommended.
The key is to arrange your life to tend to both outlooks or philosophies, at the same time, in alternate rows, and psychologically switch between one mode and the other:
– Yes, I’ll go to market and talk to chefs, and have product that’s prime, hands down, fresh, local, organic and perfect. The $ will allow me to not have, or be looking for, a “job”
– Yes, I know that’s a mirage, and the second gas costs so much, brownouts are common, all I need to really have is enough $ for land taxes and the intermittent power.
That’s all. Not to fall into complacency just because one has grown a few tomatoes and herbs in the garden. Which is brilliant, very good, and we should all be doing it, but if you have to eat everyday from the manor, and not go out at all… think potatoes…
“it’s important to distinguish between a market garden, and a survival garden, or farm.” ~ Rulo Deschamps (and all further quotes)
Yes, a garden to eat, rather than to make money from. I may have made that point elsewhere online in discussing permaculture and whatnot.
“The first is all hype, based around micro greens, arugula, salad mixes, prime tomatoes, herbs. I grow all of those and much more, and make hay while the sun shines.”
I have some aragula seeds from last years harvest. Aragula’s a fave because you can use it in place of spinach or lettuce and it has a stronger, delicious flavour– sort of a radish-nut combo. Good in sandwiches and even chopped finely and used more as an herb.
But also, local/native and/or local growing-zone-adaptable perennials are likely good ways to go too, and since they don’t have to be replanted every year. Fruit and nut trees and berry bushes come to mind here. Beware some invasive species.
“… at least 2 50 ft rows of potatoes per person, same in summer w sweet potatoes, more rows of cabbages, carrots, and every caloric dense, easy to keep and preserve stuff. I don’t mention corn because it’s too hungry and thirsty, but poultry, rabbits, hogs and goats are recommended.”
Good points. If you don’t like some of those animals, although I have no experience yet with them, consider, too, what some of those in South America raise; guinea pigs.
I agree about corn. I grew some, if planted too late in the season. It seems a bad idea in some contexts and yields very little of the crop that one is going to eat. I suppose it can be used for some kinds of mulch and compost, though and maybe it’s good for fibre, but unsure at the moment.
Aside from food, consider also things that can be used for fibre for spinning, weaving, knitting and clothes, rope and footwear. So maybe long-haired animals and some sorts of fibrous plants like hemp and cotton, depending of course on your growing/climate zones.
“That’s all. Not to fall into complacency just because one has grown a few tomatoes and herbs in the garden. Which is brilliant, very good, and we should all be doing it, but if you have to eat everyday from the manor, and not go out at all… think potatoes…”
Permaculture too.
Also, keep a hawk-eye on natural pest management. Where I live/grow, we get a lot of slugs that eat a lot of greens that include beans, cabbage, lettuce, zucchini, etc., and maybe even aragula, if not as much.
I heard that beetles eat slugs and they like bunch-grasses to hide the day in. I like lemongrass, a bunchgrass, for my teas, so I planted some. I could have caught extra live beetles and added them to the garden, but maybe this year I’ll do so. Ladybugs are good for aphids of course, and so on.
Zazelle,
yes, permaculture, natural pest control, beneficial insects as your allies, composting, seed saving, all that and more is part of the mix.
All that is what we should be studying, instead of the latest Biden or Trump fiasco. Because the fiasco is well beyond our control, and it seems to be collapsing from a number of internal contradictions, so…
Better get out of the way of the raging, mortally hurt Leviathan. Better not to obsess over what politician will do what, or what judge. Assume the worst, and like Thoreau, live in by your own Walden Pond. Unlike Thoreau, pay more attention to your neighbors, who’s to trust, who’s not, who can do what, who deserves what.
No man is an island…
Good points all, including about paying attention to what matters in self and community sufficiency/empowerment, over the minutiae of Leviathan/Goliath’s flails.
I agree that sweet corn may not be the most efficient crop, if you’re aiming at self-sufficiency, but I think field corn grown as a grain crop (corn meal) would be a good choice. I think it’s probably more productive than wheat, for example. It’s also been a staple food in the Americas for most of the 10,000 years since it came into cultivation.
Actually, the crops that have been traditional in the Americas for food-self-sufficiency for hundreds of years are a good guide for the would-be self-sufficient. Potatoes, first domesticated in Peru and parts of Bolivia about 8,000 years ago, are one such crop.
Another important crop for subsistence agriculture is dry beans. Cornbread and beans have long been dietary staples. Field corn can also be turned into tortillas, corn chips, and grits (sometimes called polenta).
Some varieties of beans can be used both fresh as green beans, or shelled as dry beans.
When you come right down to it, most other vegetable crops are icing on the cake, so to speak. They make the traditional staples more nutritious and tastier. Examples in these in the traditional diet are tomatoes and peppers. Both tomatoes and peppers are a lot of fun to grow. There are endless different varieties of both. I always grow Early Girl tomatoes, so I can have ripe tomatoes in June, but otherwise I stick to open-pollinated heirlooms. We also particularly like poblano peppers and poblano-type peppers (with a little heat, but not too much), and jalapenos.
Obviously, you will need to plant onions and garlic. Lovage would be a good plant to grow if you want a celery flavor in foods, but you don’t want to screw around trying to grow celery (which doesn’t keep well, and doesn’t freeze well, either). These three, along with your peppers, will give you your most basic seasonings.
If you want something super-productive, I would suggest okra.
I have a lot of trouble growing cabbage in this area, because of the cabbage moths. (I’m going to try Early Jersey Wakefield, started early indoors, this year, in hopes of beating the cabbage moth season.)
For super productivity, I would suggest collards instead of cabbage. What happens with collards is, you can harvest lots and lots of collards before the white moths start eating them up. Then, as cooler weather sets in in the fall, the plants put on a ton of new growth, and you get a second harvest, sweetened by frost. The plan this year for the collards is to cover about half of them with row covers. I don’t know if it will work or not. Some people prefer kale to collards. For all practical purposes, they might as well be the same thing.
I would also suggest growing beets, carrots, turnips, and parsnips. (We actually have wild parsnips in abundance around here, and they are tastier than cultivated parsnips. One of the best of all wild foods.) Beet greens, by the way, are the tastiest of all greens. Good with your goat cheese. Rutabagas are awfully good too.
List of veggies for the subsistence garden:
Potatoes
Field corn
Dry shell beans
Okra
Collards
Onions
Garlic
Beets
Carrots
Turnips
Tomatoes
Peppers
This will give you a nutritious and varied diet, along with your chickens, eggs, milk, cheese, pork, and goat meat or mutton (and lamb chops and leg of lamb)–though your farming activities will keep you hopping.
Right now I have chicken gumbo soup cooking in the crock pot: okra, whole tomatoes, tomato juice chicken broth, chicken meat (from a store-bought rotisserie chicken), peppers, onion, garlic, bay leaf, paprika, and filet gumbo. (I don’t put rice in my chicken gumbo, as I’m diabetic–and I’ll be canning most of this soup for later, anyway. And it’s probably better served on a bed of freshly made rice.) The tomatoes, okra, and peppers were from the summer garden.
Anthea,
good observations.
I’m aware of the value of field corn, one of the 3 sisters in traditional North American subsistence farming, along with squash and beans.
Things to consider: it does deplete soils something awful. Well suited to slash and burn, which is not what one will do at his farm. Questions about the right plot size too, minimal number of plants for viable pollination. Cross pollination from GMO frankencorn present everywhere. But mainly the insatiable hunger for fertilizer and water.
I disagree about celery. I’ve had tremendous success with it, and have a couple rows planted as we speak. Without refrigeration, hard to figure out how to make it last though, so only seasonally available. Mostly water, like all veggies, but very filling and delicious.
Collards are indeed super productive. Turnips, too.
Agree about onions, garlic. Okra! Of course, insanely productive.
Agree about all vegetables, in fact, being considered luxuries through history, as opposed to staples.
Realistically, if you only have a few acres, you’re not going to grow corn or wheat, but potatoes is viable as a basic staple that will keep well even without refrigeration. Your list is spot on.
Your chicken gumbo soup sounds divine. Our dinner was a hearty veggie soup, all from the farm: cabbage, kale, carrots, peas and everything north FL will yield in winter. With made from scratch biscuits (flour and butter not from the farm, obviously).
Slow food… good food…
I LOVE squash–particularly Kabocha squash–but I have little or no luck growing it. The squash bugs are devastating here.
I once grew a variety of celery called Golden Self-Blanching, and I would try it again if I could find the seeds.
I haven’t grown corn in years, as I never had enough space. Where I am now, I think I might be safe from GMO cross-pollination, though I’d have to drive around to make sure. I can’t remember the distance requirement to avoid cross-pollination of corn, but I seem to remember it was about two miles.
I also love made-from scratch biscuits–though I struggled for years to make good biscuits. My daughter finally succeeded with the Paula Deen recipe, which also worked for me. Then a friend posted a recipe for Grandma’s Mile-High biscuits, which as even better! Biscuits and gravy are to die for! (Must make with Jimmy Dean’s sausage, though.)
Leave potatoes in the ground and dig them up as needed. Or put in a cool cellar.
Anthea,
re celery, Utah and Tango are two varieties that have yielded great results over the years.
Very slow crop though. And starting seed trays is challenging. Once the seedlings emerge and are thinned out, patience is required, but the prize is worth it.
Good market crop too. They look gorgeous. I leave the tops on, they are edible too.
For squash, I do Seminole Pumpkins, zucchini as a luxury or market, but the Seminoles are massive producers, an heirloom that keeps for months in cool shade without refrigeration, excellent for soups and pies. You should try them sometime in your summer, as they are really low maintenance and do well in poor soils.
Quite a bit to chew on, Anthea, thanks for that. If I have the time, I might go over it again and maybe even pick your brain.
Celery freezes fine if it’s going to be used for slow and/or long-cooked things like soups, stews, and sauces, but not for anything that might normally rely on fresh celery’s crunch, like in a salad. I don’t know what to make of lovage.
Unsure about okra as a question of taste/preference, but good to know in any case. I might still plant some this summer and, if I do, try to let you know what I think.
I planted a couple of seedlings of some kind of large Italian cucumber or whatever it was that someone gave me last year. They grew fast and easy and with large leaves that took over my basil, but I didn’t think much of it.
That said, our tastes obviously also determine what we plant.
I planted a couple of fennels that it was hoped were the herbal variety, but instead were the large-bulb kind. At first, I was bummed out but they turned out to grow well and fast with no pests and were a hit in my cold-milk-brewed blendered loose-leaf green tea concoctions. Licorice-and-green-tea milkshakes. They may also be perennial here in Nova Scotia and so I ‘m hoping they grow back. Kale is a perennial here as are chives and some onions and maybe garlic too, although I’ve yet to grow it because my procrastinating ass can’t seem to get around to planting it in the fall before the snow.
I had the same thought before, Rulo and considered what peasants throughout history have eaten.
Corn and wheat seemed like too much work to process, rice is out of the question and I love potatoes, so potatoes it was.
Except that southern Illinois is not Idaho and my harvest was meager.
OK, that didn’t work out, so last year I decided that beans would work here. I’m surrounded by soybean fields, after all.
They were going good until summer really hit and then the fungus got them. (People who don’t believe in pathogens can disregard my experience here).
But I planted a few fava beans this fall because supposedly they are cold tolerant. Wow! It is amazing. We had temps down to -4 and snow here two weeks ago, and they sailed through.
But now they’re looking a bit peaked and tonight it is 16 degrees with a nasty ice storm with two more days of that after this. I have no idea if beans can take that. Seems unlikely.
Also when I try sweet potatoes, which are known to be southern plants (even though I don’t like them) the foliage gets eaten by rabbits.
Deer like it too, and tortoises. But there’s strategies.
Beans are a good staple too.
For your severe weather, have your tried snow peas, Paula?
Also, many brassica like kale and cabbages are very cold tolerant.
But the idea is to have a harvest processed and stored by the time it’s cold. Winter is the time to cull livestock, and hunt.
I had GREAT luck with red cabbage a couple of years ago.
I understand that the leaves of sweet potatoes are also valuable for human food. I’ve never tried them, as I’ve only grown sweet potatoes a couple of times, and it was a long time ago.
I have rarely succeeded with potatoes–but there was one year that I got a good harvest. There are some varieties that are suited to some areas, and I think I just grew the right variety–which I think was Red Pontiac (for Missouri).
Onions are another crop where you need the right variety. Here is Missouri, we need to grow day-length neutral varieties. This year, I’m growing Candy and Calibra. I started them from seed. I have had success with Candy Onions in the past. I’m also growing leeks from seed. I’ve had success with leeks in the past, too, though it’s been awhile.
Anthea,
small world. I’m planting Red Pontiacs here in N FL!
Also, we harvested yams when winter killed the foliage, not to be confused with sweet potatoes – the harvest is for seed, will replant come spring. A traditional food of the South, along with collards, okra.
Trying our hand at artichokes, just planted what we hope will be a permapatch of them. Not very filling, but I love the flavor… artichoke quiche is the culinary equivalent of Vivaldi!
I grew some sweet taters for the first time last year. They are easy to grow and grow fast, spreading all over the place. And then the groundhogs found mine and ate up most of the leaves, apparently the leaves are sweet and taste great and make good human food as well. But I still got a decent crop that made it worthwhile. They might be super easy to grow, but there’s a catch. Good tasting sweet taters must first be processed by storing for a week or two at 85 degrees F and at near 100% humidity.
Never had much luck with trying to get my onions to grow to supermarket size, they seem to hardly ever get larger than tennis balls. I’m looking for the softball sized onions seen at stores and I never get ’em. I do get lots of tall green tops, so I trim all the onion tops, chop ’em up, and stick ’em in vacuum seal bags. It’s the easy way to freeze onions, well, onion tops then.
Some people have an intolerance or “allergy” to fava beans. I tried a can of fava beans from the store many years ago, and it was like they made me drunk. Weird.
I have never had fungus or other disease problems with regular green beans, but the rabbits ate up the plants last summer. I started shooting rabbits, but it was too late by then.
Maybe what you need is a good dog, for “rabbit patrol.” My dog is not so inclined–though I think he did kill one rabbit last summer. I found some rabbit parts lying in the yard, and i don’t think a predator would have left anything behind.
A young dog, always a bit hungry, yes.
And a .22!
Jackrabbits are gamey and nothing like the New Zealands or Flemish you raise for meat.
But they’ll do, if one’s hungry. And the offal can be used as fertilizer, or fed to the chickens. Nothing goes to waste…
My daughter and her husband used to have a good dog. He was a cross between an Akbash and a Great Pyr, named Boaz. He kept the rabbit population under control and was often seen lying in the garden on “rabbit patrol.” But now neither of us has a good dog of that caliber. Mine is a border collie who is afraid of his squeaky toy, and theirs is a Great Pyr they adopted, which was obviously raised to be a pet. Neither are any good at protecting the chickens from predators, either. As my daughter says, we need a “real” dog. There are coyotes all over the place around here, and raccoons.
Anatolian Shepherd rescue perhaps?
I’ve found the easy way to grow pole limas. They need a lot of time to grow, for me at least a month longer than what is suggested on the seed package. They require very little care to get a huge crop. I just run a weed eater every now and then around the six foot wire fence I use for them to climb on. Once they really get going you’ll be surprised how big just one pole lima plant can be, I must space mine around 8 feet apart, closer together and I get at lot more leaves and less beans. People aren’t too enthusiastic about limas because of all the tedious work involved in shelling them by hand. Commercial growers have machines that do the shelling, but those aren’t practical at all for home gardeners. So I simply let mine dry on the vine and I pick them all in December. You can dry the fresh limas in a dehydrator, but why bother? Let the sun do it. After the beans are hard and dry and the hulls are paper thin, it’s super easy to get yer beans.
A friend of mine has the best garden patrol dog I’ve ever seen. It’s a pit bull/rat terrier, and the dog has so far killed around a half dozen rabbits and at least a dozen groundhogs. If it’s a rodent, this dog is on it in a flash.
I have two dogs and they are super killers, but I have the garden fenced off from the goats and deer, so they can’t get in.
The rabbits do very good fence patrol and always seem to find a way in.
Interesting about the fava beans. If they survive this ice storm I guess I’ll find out if I can tolerate them.
I’m pretty lucky in that I can eat just about anything without getting sick.
Same. I think I have an iron stomach.
That’s funny. I also refer to myself as having an iron stomach.
I’m in Idaho and my harvest was meager! I still haven’t figured out how to grow them in raised bed.
I am a novice, though. I have had luck with peppers. Sorta with tomatoes. And squash and cukes are a snap.
Sorry – my POTATO harvest. I did well with other stuff…
Last year we fertilized our 50-foot row of tomatoes with Dr. Earth, along with Epsom Salts, Tums, and aspiring. (The latter two were my daughter’s idea.) Production was fantastic. We had another row that we didn’t fertilize, and it didn’t do all that well.
“Last year we fertilized our 50-foot row of tomatoes with Dr. Earth…” ~ Anthea
At first I thought Dr. Earth might be a friend or neighbor who goes over and takes a piss and a crap in your garden.
I have done the Dr. Earth, not those other things. Thanks for the ideas.
I am laughing so hard TMTCZ, not just at your comment, but mine… lol!!
Just for the record: I did not “DO” Dr. Earth!
Mud wrestling would probably be theraputic for you. You need to be closer to the earth.
For those wondering about motivation and intent, simply keep this in mind: not succeeding results in an identical outcome as defeat. In other words, there is no neutral position.
OK, some may be asking, why is that MC? Why can’t they stand down; hell, maybe we’d even allow them to keep some of their unearned wealth if they would just fo away.
Aah, young grasshopper, that type of question indicates one does not know or understand how private finance works. If I “lend” $100 dollars @ 5%, where does that $5 subsequently come from?
You see, in a credit money scheme where all money is simply debt, that $5 must be lent as well ie conjured into existence. As in, the next tranche “loaned” is $105, and so on.
Now, what if demand for loans falls, where does the money for interest payments come from? It doesnt; it fails to be paid. Which means the underlying loan is in default and ultimately worthless.
This is why the system must forever expand, eternally on a perpetual treadmill. Ok, then how to keep demand drivers “re-upping” year after year? Well for one it requires energy inputs, as in no tickie no washie..
And here is usually where the light bulb goes on. If we’re well past peak, then how to keep the game going? Why just print; but with no corresponding increase in productive output, we simply end up with (hyper) inflation.
So back to the opening observation: if the system cannot expand, it collapses upon itself, hence no neutral or parking option available. It just the nature of the beast, a small minor detail no one ever bothered to explain to the masses.
This is why we must have Russias shit. If we can’t secure the globes last great stores, then it’s game over for the collective West. In other words, not pursuing this imperative – even to the edge of nuclear war – results in the same exact result as outright defeat.
Game theory 101 dictates doubling down, which is what the world is currently observing.
MC
Who’s “them” in your 2nd para?
“This is why we must have Russias shit” – yep. But the Russians have different ideas, and it looks like they’ll prevail.
So more $ is created. There’s enough of it already to buy every single forest, tuna fish, apartment, car and gallon of milk available, several times over.
And more debt is created, also enough to buy everything on Planet Earth many more times over. Nobody, in fact, knows for sure how much debt exists.
Good post.
They go by many names; they were called money changers in Matthews.
Banking is a dark art that requires strong trust bonds rather than techological innovation. its the reason why clan groups excel because it’s based on secrecy and confidence.
But private capital has never acted alone, rather they are always in collusion with governing powers for protection and credit demand.
But it’s a dangerous game as these groups are typically subject to special levies and assessments, or are simply expelled.
The people who control the money. If you name the names and the families you are quickly branded a conspiracy theorist. You are simply not allowed to name them.
The Rothschilds and their associate families, almost all Jews at the high level, at least in the West. Not sure about India. Much less so in China. Russia? Less or has the warrior class gained ascendency over them? Islam? Less, but obviously Saudi Arabia has fallen to some degree at least.
Conspiracy theory? Yeah, like the theory of gravity.
Conspiracy fact.
The debt-based money supply system doesn’t work. That is kind of obvious to everyone, but they don’t seem to understand that any other money issuance we could come up with depends on available resources.
What? Oh, Hell NO! I want my oil, my bananas and my coffee! Screw it! Let’s bomb someone.
Sad but true. MC is right that it boils down to resources, especially energy resources.
A common mistake is to confuse a technology, which is a way to deploy the energy resource, with the energy resource itself.
And Russia is the last low hanging fruit in terms of easily recoverable resources.
The “good guys and bad guys” narrative about it is just sickening.
“The debt-based money supply system doesn’t work”
Paula,
…and yet, we eat.
You eat until it crashes and then you don’t.
Paula,
Correct! And what system has lasted forever? A very short list.
People will actually blame Nixon for the opening of China and the issues we have today. How many generations of humans must a system enjoy before it is considered unviable?
If by system you mean producing food to eat there are places in Europe and Asia that have been producing food in the same soil for millennia. They got it down.
If by system you mean debt created money that needs exponential money creation to pay off the interest, then very few generations.
Up until the Crash Protection Team was created in the 80s, after the second Reagan crash, there were regular crashes in the US, just like every other system that used debt-based money.
That is why they invented the Jubilee way back when.
But our ruling overlords have kept it going for some time now. The drawback would be the quadrillion dollars we now owe.
But sure, that seems sustainable. It’s worked so far, therefore it will work forever. Same with fossil fuels, amirite?
” It’s worked so far, therefore it will work forever.>>>”
Paula,
No. The point is that NOTHING is forever. Once a system has been enjoyed for several generations, decades, or longer, one might consider the system a success….
I do.
OK, that answers my question.
You are referring to the money system, not the food production system.
Because if the food production system doesn’t work there won’t be any future generations.
They finally found a White officer – a chubby guy who looks like a tranny. Crump is outraged at how the White officer was “shielded”. The media is trying to shift the outraged on to this.
Also one White EMT who didn’t help.
That’s the way it works — a White scapegoat is absolutely necessary to create the correct narrative. The chubby White guy and the EMT fit the bill.
Something similar happened here last week after the two mass shootings in California. The two shooters were elderly Asian men, yet our Chinese AG staged an ‘Anti Hate Rally’, where he railed against ‘White Supremacy’.
Z got his promise of armor from NATO & the US; that was yesterday. Today, he is calling for fixed wing aircraft — F-16s, F-18s, even F-35s if we can spare any. And right on Q CNN has its stable of retired US Generals on saying yes, we should provide fighter jets to Ukraine.
Somebody wants our F-35s? We can spare all of them. We can trade the Z for all of the women left in the Ukraine.
Exactly! Leave it to the fools in DC to turn down such an offer.
BRH, Fox is just as bad. The media is run by the MIC.
I saw him in a suit playing piano w/o hands. Oh the humor!
As part of the upcoming peace treaty with Russia, the Z-Man will enthrall us with his no-hands rendition of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.
If you’re going to genetically engineer viruses, you might as well genetically engineer an extra 9 of those so you can play the piano properly.
“If you’re going to genetically engineer viruses, you might as well genetically engineer an extra 9 of those so you can play the piano properly.”
Why all the effort, when they were able to engineer only three of them so that you can play the skin flute?
I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Emboldened by the reluctance of Russia to confront the instigator of the conflict directly, smug with the success of the plan to keep the misery and dying “Over There” in Ukraine, and driven mad with lust and greed over the resources of Russia, the US is upping the ante, openly announcing their plans to destroy, divide and loot Russia.
How, you may ask? With Identity Politics, of course. It is our way.
Tomorrow in Brussels, at the headquarters of the EU, there will be a conference discussing how to use the “oppressed peoples” of Russia territories in the federation to loot the resources.
Using indigenous compradors to betray their people in return for trinkets. Hmmm, sounds familiar. That is the modus operandi of US imperialism. Use local thugs to keep the resources flowing.
But the boldness of announcing your plans to use divide-and-conquer identity politics to destroy Russia? Holding a fucking conference in Brussels while a war rages? The bold declaration that Russia has no right to live on the resources that the US wants?
Unfuckingbelievable. And yet….
”It is naive to think that the Russian Federation can remain within the same constitutional and territorial framework. Taking into account the national and ethnic map of the territories of the Russian Federation, we should discuss the prospects for the creation of free and independent states in the post-Russian space, as well as the prospects for their stability and prosperity. The international community has a duty to support the rights of the indigenous peoples who, as a result of Russian conquest and colonisation, now exist within the borders of the Russian Federation.”
://ecrgroup.eu/event/the_imperial_russia_conquer_genocide_colonisation
P,
Russia is a hard bone to chew. Harder than Afghanistan or Irak.
Fast car, meet unmovable object. That’s our moment in time.
So the EU plans on sending agitators out to distant & hostile Siberia with a portfolio to stir up the natives against the Russian government most likely using the ‘Colonizer’ and ‘White Supremacy’ spiel that has been so successful in the West? Good luck with that lol! The end result will most likely be, “EU Emissaries Missing Near Vladivostok”. (Never to be seen or heard from again)
They’re gonna use indigenous people as an excuse to plunder Russia’s resources? LOL.
They tried that already in Kazakhstan or something. Nothing new.
Well it worked here with American Whites. All our pride has been beaten out of us and most Liberal White would agree that it would be better if the Unites States had never been created. And that means that it would be better if they didn’t exist either – but they’re too dull to see that.
Russians haven’t been beaten down as much. No, not even by Communism. Our cultural revolution has been ongoing for generations now – much more profound than in either Russia or China.
Such astonishing arrogance, Paula. Now the obvious next step is for the Basques to hide away their IEDs, groom up and hold hands with the Catalans, as they both demand their historical nation.
And you can imagine just how many tiny, frisky “republiquitas” could be carved out of the Italian boot.
Then the Muslims will naturally want to have their own “shariah enclaves” in all of the Euro capitals, and Germany itself could well shatter apart again (think 19th Century fiefdoms).
And the claims and counter-claims of Eastern Europa? Delicious!
I’ve never been a “conspiracy theorist” or wearer of a “tin hat”, yet, the global insanity that is occurring now in all governments and cultures is so baffling, such an enigma, that the only “logical” explanation that fits is that… we’ve been invaded by aliens who are taking over human bodies in order to destroy life here.
I’ve always thought that these are just the cycles of Earth; the cycles of civilization, empires, cultures and people. Yet, this is so bizarre. As if in fact the lunatics have taken over the asylum… I wonder if there really is some off-planet influence occurring. I can’t find any causality for this madness.
All of these armchair generals everywhere. No one knows what Putin and his military are actually up to, or what they will do. I’m sure it is an excellent strategy and will be effective. Putin will teach the US (NATO and the globalists) a lesson they’ll never forget.
US is an “Empire of Lies”. The most corrupt and evil government on the planet now. The death and destruction it has caused across the globe is incredible. It is a dying empire, yet, something this big takes a long time to perish.
The USD will not become worthless. Even if it loses reserve currency status. It will just put the USA on even ground with everyone else. The USD will always be the safe haven for people to keep their wealth for a very long time to come. (Even though the financial center of the globe will be moving to the East eventually: this pendulum swings back and forth over the centuries.)
The USA Fed government has a printing press. They will use it to solve problems for a long time. As long as they ensure there is enough resources in the form of capacity, production, businesses, innovation, creation in technology, etc. etc. they won’t cause the inflation level that would destroy them. Confidence in the government is what keeps a currency strong, and that confidence is gained by having resources and a productive and growing workforce putting out services and products. When that goes down, confidence is lost, there is chaos, the pendulum shifts from the public sector to the private sector, and when the dust settles something new emerges.
The RE mkt will not crash, there will not be a recession, the printing press will prevent it, the can will be kicked down the road. There won’t be WWIII. Some of the corruption and immorality will be removed, and bad actors purged from positions of leadership and some semblance of order will return. Unless we have mal-intentioned aliens in our midst. Those are my opinions/forecasts.
Gold and silver are the real basis for wealth, right?
Nope.
It is the human toil, measured in manhours that is the true basis.
That is why America is in trouble, not only are we giving away our gold reserves trying to control the treasuries debt, but the human capital in that gold goes with it. Obama started the reduction in the manufacturing economy, was he too stupid to realize he was undermining the basis for the dollar. A bunch of numb nuts in 71, could not control the printing presses so the broke the tie between gold and the dollar. That ratio has gone from $34/oz to $2000/oz. Incredible.
So we have destroyed the link between human capital and gold, and then between gold and the dollar. We shipped the manufacturing man hours to China and now wonder why the world is looking to the Yuan to represent the value of gold in man hours.
My biggest question is, Why? Why is the government destroying the wealth of the American people? And not just the 1%.
IMO, it is the constant need by the electees to get re-elected. The Fed government is a whore selling itself for votes. Both parties!
The destruction of the goodness of money, the dollar is what is going to destroy the US integrity.
Obama started the decline in manufacturing capacity?
Did you sleep through the 80s and 90s?
Jesus, John. Give me strength. The scumbag corporations wanted to save money so they went overseas for the cheap labor. Capitalism is amoral at best and immoral if that’s how to make money.
You want morality back? Get rid of Capitalism as such. Private ownership – fine. As guided by the needs of the nation as overseen by the State. That’s for the big boys. Small and middle sized companies can do as they wish.
You can’t let the Captains of Industry dictate to you. You have to tell them what to do since they don’t care about anything except making money. A Capitalist qua Capitalist, to the extent he is a Capitalist, is a scumbag.
“. I can’t find any causality for this madness.”
amb,
How about unintended consequences of the…Internets? Never before, in the history of humanity, can so many say so little and be heard….
While i still think we’re not as corrupt or evil as Russia, China, maybe N Korea, maybe Brazil….you are correct that OUR government is corrupt and evil. The rank and file of the political right in the US IMHO are still pretty upstanding people. Secession anyone?
“ It’s no wonder that the collective ability for sense-making has failed. It will be quickly restored by each of us in the scramble to survive these disorders and hardships.”
It seems that a theme of the current Zeitgeist is malignant “Self-Deception”?
What do you think about the Moral Obligation of “Empathy”?
I empathise with most Americans today because there was a time when I was also a mindless, cowardly, brainwashed, money-grubbing, Satan-worshipping, dickless, ignorant Fuck too….
Is it an obligation or a reaction? I often find myself informing people that they need to be concerned about other people and then sometimes I get tired of dealing with people when they get on my nerves. Lol them Americans huh. Well too we really need to start truly understanding that the elites have committed essentially war crimes against us to include just a pure fundamental psychological war. So I do feel for people. But like the people who are still believing in like the vaccine and so forth i’m sorry but I don’t have time.
Do not waste your time or energy trying to talk logic to the Left. They consider themselves anointed and will only listen when you take away their things.
Oh but John, I love spinning my wheels lol! Believe it or not people do listen to things. Now of course many don’t take in what you are saying but others do. It’s just a matter of balancing how much time and energy you want to put forward. I say invest minimally for maximal output.
but there was something out there. I’m a recently retired radiologist, and coincident with an increase in positive tests and clinical cases of “covid” in our area, we started seeing numerous CXR’s and CT scans of the lungs that had unique awful appearances that I’d never seen as frequently in 35 years of practice.
I’m anti Covid vax, unvaxxed, don’t believe in masks, like Trump, hate Biden, blah blah blah but wherever this thing came from (my take is that is was gain of functioned out of the Wuhan lab) and whatever it was, it was real but 95% of the hysteria, treatments, social distancing, lockdowns, M & M statistics, diagnoses, and CDC and FDA recommendations were all BS.
And not sure anyone on any side of the aisle thinks that Koch’s postulates have any current validity.
Also re trying to reason with the left…don’t remember if it was JHK or a reader who said that you cannot reason someone out of a position that they did not reason themselves into in the first place.
Thank you for relating your experience, Chimayred.
I tried linking a video to a radiologist a couple of weeks ago, but it didn’t make a dent in the strongly-held beliefs of some of the virus deniers.
I also think it was lab made and I think all 300+ bioweapon research labs should be shut down now.
Maybe Klaus Schwab, and his executive minions, had their bodies taken over by aliens. And the people in the shadows, behind all of these people in plain view, they surely had their bodies taken over by aliens.
This is so incredible, it’s probably true!
Aliens perhaps. Never underestimate the dark side either. Elon said that AI is summoning the demon. It is well established that the elite or a portion thereof are Satan worshippers. If true they likely have invited demons to inhabit them.
If you consider that Satan is the absence of God, then this country is rapidly approaching a Satanic agenda.
IMO, the reason the USA is seemingly dissolving from within is it has rejected God and He has now rejected America. Think about the history of the Bible. Droughts, floods, storms, foreign invasions, sickness.
Sound familiar?
Yes, this! And too, there are no common bonds anymore to hold us together. Literally we are a country full of strangers who don’t even speak the same languages. No big complex system can function that way for long.
John Kerry did claim they were “touched” by extra terrestrials.
Not sure if he was aiming for your idea or something more in the vein of John Podesta or Joe Biden and small children.
“John Kerry did claim they were “touched” by extra terrestrials.”
Owl,
Our trailer parks are replete with those so “touched” I would show you where they were touched, but I would need a doll….
Vindicated again:
“Prof Francois Balloux
@BallouxFrancois
Update on the 2020 Cochrane review on the effect of physical interventions of influenza / SARS?CoV?2 transmission. The results do not suggest medical/surgical masks reduce viral spread. N95/P2 respirators might have some marginal impact.
1/
https://cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full”
Because a mask which passes air cannot stop microscopic virus particles.
Clown media reveal — three years later.
All of this has been an IQ test.
IF a mask was developed that has gaps so small they block the coronavirus, you could not pass air through it enough to breathe.
Masks have only one function that would help, the partial blockage of larger snot droplets when worn by an infected person, defensively, they are worthless.
Hey, NO are you talking about those non-existent virus particles?
I am talking about masks being unable to stop a virus. Which I pointed out when this hoax began.
The virus in question, however, is not “Covid-19” — unless of course you or someone, anyone, can prove it exists.
You wouldn’t try and be dishonest in representing what I say, now would you?
You ask me frequently about not isolating the virus as evidence it does not exist. I have answered before and will again.
When you culture and isolate a bacterium, it is able to ingest nutrition and reproduce in a sterile medium and thus be “isolated” and identifiable. This was the basis of the isolation test.
Viruses are unable to feed or reproduce without being in living cells. You will never see a virus or a viral colony by itself. There is no such thing as a sterile medium for viruses. Take away their living cells and they cease to exist.
There are lots of pictures of CoSAR 19 in the company of living cells.
The virus has never been isolated according to Koch’s postulates.
There is a computer model, created from what the criminals involved claim they think it looks like.
Your claim is nothing more than a word salad.
Mike Yeadon, ex-VP of Pfizer has said the same — repeatedly. But when one can redefine anything one wants to mean something else, then one can claim whatever one wants.
There is no isolate (unless you have one?) and there is no test.
Does a plant exist (for long) apart from soil, water, light, and air?
You define existing in terms of isolation. That’s a fundamentally flawed view of the world.
It was basic science until “Covid-19” arrived on the scene.
Koch’s postulates apply to bacteria level technology as I said. When he made up the isolation test, viruses had not been discovered yet.
I think when you disagree, the world is a word salad.
BTW, one question you have never answered,
From December 2019 until September 2020, when the vaxxes were released, what exactly made so many people sick and panicked Trump’s administration?
There were no clot shots then?
Also, BTW, one thing we do agree on, the vaxx has not saved millions of lives as advertised, as those people would not have died anyway with a .01% mortality rate. If anything, total mortality was probably increased with the vaxx.
One more, if you search what was done in 1918 for the flu then, Fauci never added one helpful thing. The John’s Hopkins stats say that Covid killed over a million folks. ??? If Covid only killed people with extenuating circumstances, I wonder if Covid, by itself, killed anybody.
The Vaxx was a negative. Good job, CDC.
What made so many sick?
1) Being drugged and killed on ventilators;
2) A massive SCARE campaign, which had been planned and coordinated for months, in which every TV station, news outlet, celebrity, instititution and hospital participated in;
3) Constant raining down of propaganda;
4) WEF puppets making mandates that further made the thing seem real.
2020 didn’t have any excess mortality.
Something else that is ignored is the large number of suicides that were caused by the lockdowns and millions of people losing their small businesses.
I could go on and on what caused all that “illness”.
BTW, I still don’t have one friend or relative that died from so-called Covid-19.
And I know no one who was sick from it until they got the jab.
Another thing that caused death – the hospitals not allowing people with cancer and people who needed surgery to get the help they needed. No one cares… STILL.
Because you know, they had to prioritize medical staff practicing dance routines instead.
The virus has never been isolated according to Koch’s postulates.
It has never been shown to exist under a microscope.
There is no test for it.
Believe whatever you want, John.
“Koch’s postulates fulfilled for SARS virus”
https://www.nature.com/articles/423240a
LOL.
That is also a myth in part. As those large droplets dissipate/aerosolize on the surface of the mask.
Masks do so close to nothing that it might as well be nothing.
Masks have only one function that would help, the partial blockage of larger snot droplets when worn by an infected person, defensively, they are worthless.
God is watching. Two men walk down a street. One has COVID. This is reality thread one, neither has a mask and both have the rona at the end of the walk.
Reality thread two is one of the men wearing a mask. In that thread the uninfected person stays rona free.
God reaches for her faithphone and fires up her soul tracker to see which one had the rona before the walk. The one with the mask? Or the one who let their fugly out for all to see?
God pauses and says to herself. ‘I am thinking like a human.
She puts away her phone reminding herself to see the bigger picture and not personalize every social encounter like humans do into meaningless reductionism.
In reality thread 2 the mask seen from the bigger picture is neither ‘defensive’ or neutral. In reality 2 the mask did the job it was supposed to do. End of story. The comparison to raindrops through a chain-link fence meaningless. Meaningless reductionism.
God turns her attention to a big pharma executive who buried indications of sudden death in MRNA lab trials and waves her hand.
The executive falls to the floor. God waves her hand again and re-starts the mans heart. She thinks. ‘It will be more fun to see what the crowd with torches and pitchforks do to him………………………………….
You can’t get the rona by walking past an infected person outside.
That isn’t possible.
meaningless reductionism
You also can’t prove it exists at all.
A rather odd thing don’t you think?
K-C, could you kindly distill that a little for me please?
So corona’s rona now? Rona’s a hardware store in town here. Sometimes when I get the Rona, I have to head over to satisfy it.
Alistaire Crooke yesterday at Strategic-Culture.org, his opening grafs under the headline ” ‘At War with Russia’ [[Baerbock]] Russia is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces.
Russia is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces.
There is too much ‘noise’ in the system, and it is obscuring the view.
Davos has always been ‘weird’. But this year, the kookier aspects were so obvious. The WEF is dying on the vine. The ‘vision’ seems ever more fantastical, and the hubris – inherent in the ‘behavioural conditioning’ to make people make the ‘right choices’ – stands naked. The schism between life, as experienced in the round, and the WEF’s bleak prescription, has never been more stark. The gap will only widen as sharply falling living standards focus the great majority on immediacy and family survival.
One may dismiss this happening as a curiosity. But that would be wrong. The Davos vessel may have struck a large credibility iceberg, but it has not yet sunk.
Rather, the fact of Davos sinking into creepy idiosyncrasy is significant – highly significant. . . .”
Crooke quotes extensively from Engdahl’s dissection of the origins of Davos, which I linked here a few threads back.
Farther down the piece Crooke states:
“The flunkies charged with the management and the running of ‘the system’ are confused. Their (high) self-esteem until now has rested on their articulation of ‘correct views’ and espousing the ‘prescribed causes’ – more than manifesting any particular competence in their work. Now they do not know what to say, or which cause is ‘correct’. Narratives are falling apart; the Twitter revelations have disrupted the former ‘equilibrium.”
Interesting post.
Just think what is going to happen in the US. The majority of the population are stupid gimmes, people who want everything given to them. So what happens when the Deep State aligns with WEF and the gimmes take a big cut. Their trust in the DC mob will disappear quickly.
The irony is though, they are hidebound stupid enough to keep voting for the jerks giving them nothing.
That is why we are going down.
People need to keep in mind the ultimate goal of the “Davos” crowd:
to control the mob of mankind. Period.
This, their ultimate goal, is hidden under many cloaks.
Here are a few of them:
-Global Warming
-Planetary Degradation
-Pandemic
-Inequitable Capitalism
-Unsustainable Energy Sources
All of the aforementioned come with an invasive freedom prohibiting/eroding component.
Every one of them.
They’ll measure your carbon footprint, energy use, know what proteins you are ingesting, the temperature of your home, the water level in your pool, the miles driven on your car, the vaccines and frequencies of boosters, the information you visit upon the web.
And you’ll like it.
And they’ll like it.
Because your decrease in consumption allows them to carry on as usual AND still benefit “the earth”.
This is usually the time “Malthuss” posts some absurdity to change/bury the point.
Here’s the point that many people miss: all life form organizations are based on hierarchies established through the process of competition over scarce resources.
Surplus provided temporary freedom for humans (and certain beasts of burden) from millenia old social rigid structures, but of course we’re quickly gravitating back to the mean as we traverse the arc of history.
For (non political) scientists and elite thinkers, they of course understood these principles decades before the issues even began to create awareness of the nominally intelligent. (Eg see JHK series written in 00s, Oildrum, Die Off, Gail T, et al).
Now, place yourself in their shoes: small, generally unathletic, unattractive to opposite sex; they well understood who ran barter town of old. (Ivanhoe fictionalized the differences between ruling Normans and base Saxons.)
So, they figured their one chance was the classic first mover advantage. Secure the means of production, government security apparatus and media narrative to hopefully lock down the game before history intruded.
In retrospect, it wasn’t really very close, but a fine effort nonetheless. However, as we all watch whats happening in Ukr, it’s evident to even casual observers that nature is once again reasserting the natural order: might makes right as success on the battlefield grants rule and authority.
Who knows how long the US/West can resist a similar reversion; the snap back will be sudden and vicious. But when it comes, Nellie bar the door.
Here’s a point:
There has always been a class of high priests governing at the discretion of the leadership or ruling class.
Keeping the mob in line while simultaneously turning a blind eye to the behaviors of the rulers.
Humanity organizes itself this way.
Now the religion is science and technology and the high priests are scientists, “doctors” and tech engineers
Are you a believer or are you autonomous
How long will the huge Viking Azovs take orders from a little troll like Zelensky?
Probably forever since they’re dummies. Smarts trump muscles. As does ethnic solidarity. The Arabs, Moors, and Somalis are physical weaklings next to Northern Europeans for the most part. Yet European live in terror of them in Northern Europe because they fight as a group.
We have literally forgotten everything.
Do you mean they are going to become even more dangerous?
Can they go in any other direction?
Well, they do have a choice
“There’s an understandable wish that upcoming hearings in Congress will lead to a reckoning for all of this.” JHK
Although Mark Levin praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for being the sole governor that is taking a stand against ‘woke’ …, and prodding other governors to band together; he promoted that the house committees should trudge-on so that things will be setup for reconciliation in 2024, even though they won’t be able to gain any traction.
If we don’t get ’em in 2024 then what, there is always 2026? And if we don’t stick-it-to-em in 2026, there is always 2028? What! Is Mark “stuck on stupid”? Half the population has been trudging-on for at least the last 6 years. Are we to trudge on until all the “Uyghurs” have been processed through the “Joe Biden” gas chambers?
Given all the current revelations, action needs to be taken on any wild ass conspiracy theory, and the action needs to stand until “Joe Biden” gets around to proving the conspiracy theory wrong.
Ron DeSantis has established himself as a representative who is willing to take action against the nonsense. Once again, he needs to take the lead and give “Joe Biden” 24 hours to reign in his goons, restore honesty, integrity, basically “mop-up the blood” in DC, and re-establish morality throughout this nation, or else Florida will give “Joe Biden” the bird! Its as simple as that.
Everyone has seen this show before.
DeSantis will run, he will court financiers and investors and donors and he will have to make concessions and promises.
You people are so intent on forcing new inputs into a broken system with the expectation of positive results.
Don’t count me as part of “you people”.
One side is offering “Build Back Better” and “The Great Reset”, and the other side is promising that they will do their best to try and unscramble the egg. What kind of options are those?
Unless a moral group of people choose to treat each other with dignity and respect, a constitution doesn’t amount to a pile of letters. Sure, the system is broken, but one shouldn’t depend on a group of incompetent, immoral leaders to get you to a new beginning, or even just to get you through it.
I’m not looking for positive results, I’m hoping for leadership that will attempt to manage and mitigate the downturn; and presently, Ron DeSantis is the only person I see in a position to do it.
Since we are approaching black history month you can consider the slogan to be “Build Black Better”. Ron DeSantis is the Bush neocon RINO bait and switch imo.
Starting to look that way.
He is certainly the establishment choice.
Trump is a true outsider. I do not understand what he is doing with the clot shots, but the establishment fears him more than just about any other political personality since JFK — who they murdered, ofc.
Trump has had his shot, and he is out of ammunition (essentially, he couldn’t even beat Federman).
Yes, the establishment do seem to fear Trump more than anyone.
He may be a bloviating egomaniac—he IS one!—but he also a genuine maverick.
He certainly started out as one.
The establishment pretends to hail a maverick (remember that’s what they called McCain?), but only if they reckon they can control the “Maverick Window” (compare Overton Window).
Trump doesn’t appear to ask anyone for permission before he opens his mouth.
Remember what he said about 9/11? That comment on its own would be enough to cause the establishment to continue to fear Trump, even as he sinks into . . . irrelevance (they hope!).
The other thing is: What can Trump legally do at this point (name just one action he could take, that might garner traction)?
Whereas Ron DeSantis would be justified in taking action against DC in many regards, and in the process, it might just garner attention to all the misdeeds.
The establishment views DeSantis as controllable.
Hence their support for him.
They never backed Trump, even before they spent every day of his presidency trying to destroy him. That sort of thing cannot be faked, and it amazes me that some think it was somehow.
They want DeSantis. Is he truly compromised? Not sure, but they seem to be rather sure.
If Trump was a threat he’d have been dead a long time ago.
I wish Trump would renounce the vax and warmongers like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. That would at least help.
“I wish Trump would renounce the vax and warmongers like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. That would at least help.”
That, what MQ posts above, and Trump in CYA mode with no apparent action to rectify the innocent Jan. 6th onlookers. That should tell you all you need to know about Trump.
Good leadership would have had a contingency plan to deal with the negative consequences of his reckless endeavor.
re “If Trump were a threat he would ahve been dead long ago.”
Nonsense.
Weak logic.
If I read you correctly, I agree: change won’t come from above, it will only come from the roots.
Half the population has been respectfully waiting for DC to check the abuse.
At this point it is obvious that the system has been gamed to perfection, where DC is not capable of rectifying the wrongs our government has committed against this segment of the population.
A review of Jim’s post reveals that time is of the essence (the proof of misdeeds is in your face, but no one is being held accountable, and nothing is being done about it, and they ratchet up the abuse).
DC isn’t going to check itself, so it is time to go to plan B (and if plan B doesn’t work, it will be time to get on with plan C).
It will be interesting to see if Ron DeSantis steps-up to the plate (he has done it in other instances lately).
“change won’t come from above, it will only come from the roots.”
The thing is, that the general population shouldn’t have to manage DC.
I have contributed my share to DC over the years, and every single one of them has an obligation to represent me and my family, no matter which party they are affiliated with.
Apparently there are some, like the weasel-eyed guy in the Senate who is too lazy to take his glasses off when he looks down to address me, who pride themselves on being cleaver by boxing in the opposition so that a segment can act and legislate in an immoral manner, where the opposition has no legal recourse.
If DC isn’t capable of monitoring and conducting themselves in a moral fashion, then leadership at the next level needs to take action by calling them out, or cutting them loose. And if there is no leadership at the next level, then a leader at some lower level needs to do it.
Based on his actions, I believe that Ron DeSantis is leadership material. And while I do not view Gov. Greg Abbott as leadership material, I believe that he will be good support, along with a few other governors initially.
If a governor does not take the lead, then I am not sure where we go, but that which is for certain, is that everyone I can think of in the Biden administration has/is conducting themselves in an immoral manner, and action needs to be taken asap to rectify the situation (the World is watching).
“The thing is, that the general population shouldn’t have to manage DC.”
No, actually the general population needs to manage everything that happens in DC. Letting DC “manage” itself is what got us here.
“Letting DC “manage” itself is what got us here.”
That is correct, but as has been discussed on this message board in various fashions, the population at large is not capable of monitoring DC.
The system needs to be set-up so that it is goof-proof, and the burden should be on those in DC to manage themselves in a moral manner, and conduct business in a manner that represents all segments of the population.
If you pay someone to do a job, do you expect to have to do the job yourself? Should it be near impossible to dismiss them if they tell you that they have done the job, and you can clearly see that the job has not been done?
The new inputs themselves break the old skins, wineskins – sheep or goat, of all Time.
Tomorrow is it, February 1st, the start of the most hallowed month of the year. Why you might ask? Well, this is because the entirety of February is devoted to the celebration of BLACK HISTORY MONTH! Let us all revel in the glory that Blackness and their culture entails. Join your homies and pop a bottle of Hennessey, fry up some collard greens, and serve the young kids some grape soda pop and sliced watermelon. After all of that, if you are so inclined, go downtown to your local strip mall to see what you can all loot and pillage in the name of reparations. Enjoy, celebrate, and be merry!!!
Bell,
You have a bad attitude. We should celebrate the month in quiet contemplation, giving thanks for those contributions that our black brethren have provided;
Blues music.
Soul food.
Detroit.
Baltimore.
Oakland.
And smiles too.
You guys are pikers. I started celebrating Black History Month on MLKs birthday and plan on going Balls to the Wall all the way until ‘Juneteenth’ — 5 months of fun and reflection!
‘The Community’ apparently is gearing up too: at least a half dozen people shot in Hartford & New Haven in the past week. Last night somebody found a body laying in the middle of Capitol Avenue in Hartford, full of bullet holes. It hardly got a mention on the morning news. Closer to home, in Wallingford, Southington, North Haven & Hamden, elderly women have been assaulted in grocery store parking lots, thrown to the ground, dragged by moving cars, robbed and severely injured. The description of the perps is always the same (which we’re supposed to ignore) Black History Month 2023 is shaping up to be a great one.
Elderly White women or is it diverse?
No, not diverse. The violence seems to only flow one way.
No, blacks in USA have killed 400,000 of their own
in 40? 50? 60? years.
please do the research and post the exact number and date.
Truth is Hate to those who hate Truth – like Am.
Wow BRH, I like your spirit! We should all get together and stitch a colorful Kente cloth for presentation to the NAACP. That would really blow their minds.
In honor of my Black brethren I myself would fire up a KOOL but alas menthol cigarettes are illegal in my state. There is a Black market though. No pun intended. The authorities take it seriously. The local convenience store was selling them out of the back room. illegally imported from out of state. Word got around and he was going gangbusters. Well the revenuers caught on and bagged him. Fined him many thousands and pulled his license, He disappeared, maybe even went to jail. Big Paki family so his brother is running the joint now. No more KOOLS though.
No Kools? How about quarts of MD20/20? Malt liquor 40 ozers.? 9mm rounds?
No 9mm’s but plenty of Colt 45!
Completely agree with the use of “we”. “We” doesn’t exist except in the minds of the government control freaks. When talking of the government and their terrible actions and policies, I try to use “US”, Feds, or something but not “We”.
Great, Black history month! I’m waiting for Italian History Month! All my grandparents came through Ellis Island. I celebrate them for doing it the right way. They worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. They didn’t ask for welfare. They didn’t vote for people who gave them a free ride.
They honored education and quickly became very Patriotic! My uncles all served in WWII with honor. Now we are asked to celebrate BLACK History Month. This Country is a mix of many races. Why do we make special exception for just one race? When we give anyone special treatment, they just expect more!
So, I’ll go watch the Untouchables, while you contemplate this statement that I read a few days ago. In America, were don’t have a racism problem, but we do have a problem with a race.
Again, think about this.
Unfortunately, they are tearing down all of the Columbus statues, and replacing them with the likes of the masturbatory MLK statue that was recently unveiled in Boston. Talk about a waste of money and misplaced artistic endeavors.
Italian history month sounds like a great idea!
And where is IRISH history month?
I ask you! Who came here during the potato famine and helped build all the bridges in the big cities? My grandfather was a welder who worked on those bridges. He was also patriotic, hard-working and came from nothing but managed to buy a modest house for his family and was a church-going man. My grandmother sewed all her daughters’ clothes, and knit all their scarves, hats and mittens. She was also a stellar gardener and canned her own fruit and jams.
No one celebrates these types of folks.
And where is my Swedish History Month?
Oops – did I say that out-loud? Sorry…
It’s ok, everyone else’s months are so much more colorful.
Well, how about German History Month then? Aren’t Germans important? Where would we be without Germans?
The [often brutally tragic] history of the German immigrants to Texas makes for fine reading. One group was shepherded by an aristocrat, Bavarian if I’m not mistaken, as far as Galveston, before he vamoosed with all their money, leaving them high and dry in an unfamiliar, hostile land.
Their subsequent struggles to survive stand as testimony to their determination and resilience. Many of the towns in the Texas Hill Country still bear German names: New Braunfels, Fredericksburg (“Fredericksburg is a city in central Texas, known for its wineries. The city’s German heritage is on display at the Pioneer Museum, which features settlers’ homesteads and artifacts. In the nearby town square, Marktplatz, the Vereins Kirche is a replica of a 19th-century German church that once stood in the city. The vast National Museum of the Pacific War features WWII exhibits, including a recreated combat zone.”)
I daresay any suggestion to celebrate “Texas German History Month” would meet a frosty reception, in spite of their notable contribution to the public welfare.
DISCLAIMER: I’m a mongrel dog with little if any German blood – Scottish, Cherokee and who-knows-what-else. I had a great-uncle in Forth Worth who owned a dozen slaves, among whom were a couple of Chinese.
Hey, “Chinese-American History Month”. That would be less surprising.
This story, just in time for Black History Month:
“Authors demand US government issue $14 trillion in reparations over role in slavery, voter suppression”
“According to two authors, it is the U.S. government’s responsibility to right its wrongs with slavery by paying out $14 trillion dollars to Black Americans in order to mitigate the racial wealth gap.
Authors of “From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century,’ William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, suggested the government should issue the massive reparations payout because of its “culpable role in slavery.”
httpsXX://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/authors-demand-us-government-issue-14-trillion-in-reparations-over-role-in-slavery-voter-suppression/ar-AA16WtXa
If each Black life works out to being worth $250k in reparations, when time to implement CWII White militias should put a bounty on the head of each potential recipient in the sum of say $2k. This ought to balance the books right quick.
Yes, keep them distracted from their true enemy.
Look at all the black agency heads and cabinet members and staffers in the Biden admin!
Look at them ruling over your miserable lives.
These people want you distracted while the true enemies put you under the yoke.
Gotta keep that Hegelian race division alive
Gotta keep ‘em separated
No, they want us to merge – Jefferson’s nightmare. There won’t be a White or Black problem once there are no more Whites or Blacks.
Imagine a nation of low IQ, brown/gray, vicious mongrel mutts.
No they do not.
They want two classes. Slaves and masters.
To get there, they have you fight.
Same as it ever was.
Yes, the slaves will be mongrels with no allegiance to any nation. Every mixed mating helps the globalists get closer to their Goal.
You’re wrong again. Just like with carrying capacity.
You are hoping to bring in one of the other carrying capacity nutters.
I welcome it; then I can ask you the same question again, and you can all run away.
How about a nation of mutts that are undereducated, indoctrinated, really stupid, dependent as a consequence so that the government can pull the wool over their eyes whenever it wants?
Welcome to Watter’s World!!!
So i guess its safe to assume you are not preparing for the upcoming festivities? 🙂
If these mouth breathing simpletons looked up for a change and cataloged who is in control, who has the money and the power, who has hijacked their country, their healthcare, their freedom of information, their freedom of speech, and who is behind the coming new order of things they’d stop fixating on the black and brown people right along side them in the muck
Agree 100%.
That’s true. Those in control are not black and brown by and large. They are not white either.
“According to him, the dystopia of the Wachowski Brothers’ Matrix trilogy is already here: the technological-industrial ‘machine’ is already running the world, a world where individual humans are but insignificant little cogs with barely any autonomy. No single human being – neither the most powerful politician, nor the most powerful businessman – has the power to rein in the system. They necessarily have to follow the inexorable logic of what has been unleashed.” ~ G Sampath on John Zerzan
Black/white, gay/straight, trans/cis, etc.
Fight cattle, fight!
Do not look at the infrastructure going up around you.
Once the trap is sprung, all of these pointless distractions will seem rather meaningless.
Diversity lowers social capital. The above is how they got us here. Now you think more of it will save us?
That isn’t diversity. It is divide and conquer.
Yep. That’s why I usually put it in scare quotes.
Yes, diversity divides homogenous nations and makes them null and void, and thus easy to conquer.
You’re getting there.
Blacks and Whites have always been separate in America. So your divide and conquer makes no sense now, does it?
WEF social engineering could end in disaster.
wonder what reparations for me would be like, as a Jew dragged out of Jerusalem and into Rome as a slave…or maybe they should seek reparations from the Muslims and other blacks who sold their african brethren to the slave traders…
“blacks who sold their african brethren to the slave traders”
This IMHO is the huge elephant in the room.
Or, A huge elephant in the room.
Another huge elephant is the role of Jews and Marranos in the slave trade, and also in financing the Cotton Kingdom of the plantation regime in the Deep South and Texas.
How about the Scottish Highlanders that England sold into indentured servitude in the Colonies? Is Spain going to give reparations as they started the process in the Americas?
The Blacks are looking for another method to steal from everyone else, using the government. They have been doing it for generations.
It sucks being someone who asks for a trillion of anything in reparations. Where is the common sense?
Those authors should rename it “Money for nothing and your chicks for free.”
WEF 20-min. neighborhood blockades pop up on residential streets overnight in Bath.
The public was never asked.
https://twitter.com/_Janey_J/status/1619521438071009280?cxt=HHwWgMDR5dqK2fksAAAA
They are rolling out the next stage of corralling the sheep.
Ha ok very interesting. Is this the beginnings of the climate lockdowns? Do we know how the locals reacted? Looks like the obstructions are all intact and perfect looking.
It is the beginning of geo-fencing.
When you have a digital ID, the gates and checkpoints will record your plates and since your ID is connected to everything else in your life, you will be punished financially, through the utiilities you require, or perhaps through the law.
I have posted materials on this stuff from the horse’s mouth many times.
The plan is for you to live in a small space for the rest of your life. There was a UN/WEF chart I posted a few weeks ago showing how they will transition you to no car, 3 items of clothing per year, and extremely limited amounts of certain types of food.
Meanwhile, the cattle talk about race and shootings, and other pointless divide-and-conquer issues.
They sure do.
Everyone prefers punching down. It’s easier.
Gotchya, well yes that does make a lot of sense. They are definitely creating digital prisons for us clearly and that includes all of the surveillance and tracking you are talking about. I see race and shootings though as real issues and not pointless. However, imo what they are doing is creating so many issues at one time that they overwhelm the system. They are using the chaos to create order.
Sure, but it is more complex than that.
The chaos they create is not random.
They do not want the cattle seeing how the threads intertwine until it is too late.
All of this stuff is related, the diversity agitprop that is in the media and every major corporation, the focus on wedge issues like race, the attempt to move to forced medical procedures that tie to the coming digital ID, CBDCs tied to the digital ID, the “Internet of Bodies” and Smart Cities.
It is all WEF/UN Agenda 2030. It is the push to a new order.
They say it all the time and they do so in public, but there are enough balls in the air that the average joe cannot see what is happening, and TBH, as long as he is kept comfortable, he probably will not.
The internet of bodies. That sounds creepy and foreboding. That must be when they brain chip everyone and connect them directly to the internet. Like nothing could go wrong with that!
I like to talk about both.
If you can’t recognize the divide and conquer tactics that they use to get us to the Great Reset coralling, then it’s easier for them… right?
Xhttps://twitter.com/i/status/1620440785840898050
Ok, what are these “funny” dogs for?
Someone , anyone, please make sure Hillary carries a bottle of hot sauce in her purse for the entire month of February cuz you never know when Farrakhan, Sharpton or Jackson might invite her out to dinner.
Frank’s Redhot – “I put that sh*t on everything”
httpsXX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBJH4_QKjpA
Even the high-jacking of (or collision with) a tanker truck carrying Tabasco sauce wouldn’t make the Hildebeast hot.
Can you even imagine having to look at that thing every night? She’s BillyJeff’s punishment for all that philandering he did while he could still get it up. Poor bastard!
A bill filed in the Oklahoma Senate would establish a state bullion depository. This would not only create a safe place to store precious metals; it also has the potential to facilitate the everyday use of gold and silver in financial transactions in Oklahoma and set the stage to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money.
Sen. Nathan Dahm (R) filed Senate Bill 816 (SB816). The legislation would create the Oklahoma Bullion Depository in the Office of the State Treasurer. The depository would serve as “the custodian, guardian and administrator of gold, silver and other precious metals transferred or acquired by the state, or an agency, political subdivision or other instrumentality of the state.” The depository would also accept deposits of gold and silver by private individuals.
Significantly SB816 would establish a mechanism for individuals to engage in transactions using precious metals including gold and silver.
“In accordance with the rules promulgated under this act, a depository account holder may transfer any portion of the balance of the holder’s depository account by check, draft, or digital electronic instruction to another depository account holder or to a person who at the time the transfer is initiated is not a depository account holder.”
The bill is based on a similar law that was passed in Texas and signed into law by Gov. Abbott in 2015. The Texas depository received its first deposits in the summer of 2018. The following year, the state exempted precious metals in these depositories from taxation.
A similar bill was introduced by Dahm in 2022, but never made it out of committee.
In a nutshell, through the depository, Oklahomans would eventually be able to deposit gold or silver and pay other people through electronic means or checks. Private individuals and entities would be able to purchase goods and services using assets in the vault in the same way they use cash today. Doing so has the potential to open the market to sound money in day-to-day transactions. Ultimately, depositors will be able to use a bullion-funded debit card that seamlessly converts gold and silver to fiat currency in the background. This will enable them to make instant purchases wherever credit and debit cards are accepted.
By making gold and silver available for regular, daily transactions by the general public, a depository has the potential for a wide-reaching effect. Professor William Greene is an expert on constitutional tender and said in a paper for the Mises Institute that when people in multiple states actually start using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve notes, it would effectively nullify the Federal Reserve and end the federal government’s monopoly on money.
I wonder whether this is in any way similar to (in its effects) an edict promulgated by Putin in the RF a year or so ago whereby citizens are encouraged to buy gold and silver.
Explained by Clayton Morris of Redacted in a video posted at the Saker blog:
httpX://thesaker.is/putin-just-pulled-off-the-ultimate-sneak-attack-against-the-west-redacted-with-clayton-morris/
Tucker had a great segment last night anent the war on our food supply, focusing on eggs. Apparently, they’ve put something in the chicken feed that stops the hens from laying. The company Purina was mentioned specifically, but there may be others. The chickens don’t seem to be harmed. Once they are switched to local feed, they begin to lay eggs again.
Last week he had a great piece on Epstein. The coroner he had on – who had seen the body – believes the injuries are not consistent with hanging, but rather by strangling. Attorney General Barr watched the camera leading the cell block. Nobody entered or left during that time period so he is satisfied it wasn’t murder. What about someone going into his cell from another cell within the cell block? Crickets. And of course, the cameras weren’t working and the guards were “asleep” with eyes wide shut. Just like the Roman guards around Christ’s tomb.
Tucker is convinced it was murder.
I heard someone say that they were concerned that somehow mRNA was added into the chicken feed. Not sure if that is accurate but it did get my attention. That chicken on the show last night got more and more perturbed as the segment went on. Totally hilarious. I wonder if his producers ask the farmers to hold the chickens almost like a display. The last time he had that couple on they were both holding chickens too.
Yeah, Bill Barr gets worse and worse with each passing day in terms of the revelations about how he was actually a servant of the regime. Though I do still question the reality of Epstein’s death. He was so connected with the ultra powerful that it seems like it’s possible he got out alive with a changed identity. But assuming his death is a reality I think Tucker’s hypothesis makes a lot of sense. And I would believe him more than Bill Barr anyway.
Yes, the chicken was enjoying its big moment. I hope he brings back the “chicken whisperer” to see what she has to say about it.
Barr has a wonderful face. He probably is a very good family man (as were many of Mafia), and a good uncle, brother, friend, etc. Traditionally speaking, part of being all of the above is being terrible to your enemies and the enemies of your people. That’s us! We’re the enemies of his Class at the very least – and perhaps his non-American nation, one without borders.
That Epstein was just allowed to go to Israel remains a distinct possibility. If Barr would bullshit like he did, why wouldn’t he just out and out lie?
Lol the chicken whisperer. Is that Tiara Soleim? I think she was on maybe just like two weeks ago or so. She seems to have feed that is not tainted or whatever the issue is because she said her family and friends were coming to her for eggs because of the shortage and she seemed not to be having any issues.
That is what I believe happened to Epstein. I believe he is alive and well and living in Israel but he maybe changed his looks or who knows and in any case the western media will never be interested to look or even consider it.
Yeah, she’s been on twice now in as many months.
Eggs are so in. Cheap protein. They can’t allow this to continue or they won’t be able to starve us into accepting bugs.
How do you protect the flock against cats? Can the roosters fight off cats?
Bill Gates smirked when asked about his “dinners” with Epstein (but never about going to Lolita island). He’s dead, he replied with a delighted smirk. Not able to finger me, in other words. But it could also mean, he’s not dead at all, you dumb journalist.
Hmmm, i think you just need to keep the cats well fed so that they won’t be hungry enough to go after the chickens. And maybe don’t let the cats roam around? Honestly, domesticated cats are invasive here so they are best kept indoors. A rooster can definitely fight off a cat, however, a cat can easily kill a rooster if it is determined to and not scared of the rooster. So it sorta depends on the cat.
What about the “coroner he had on – who had seen the body”?
Not sure it is real
Speaking of Black History Month:
The NYT obits today covered the death at age 98 of Harold Brown, one of the few remaining Tuskegee airmen. When I saw his name it occurred to me that if he had been born within the last 20 years his name would more likely have been Shaquan, Rau’shee or Dremiel Brown.
Shitavius – a real name btw
Hi Q!! Haven’t seen you in a while. Lol, well that is probably true. I think Desmond is a nice name.
The main accomplishment of the Tuskegee Airmen was to get into the cockpit of warplanes and fly them against the enemy. At that time, that was no small accomplishment.
Their combat record is mediocre. Fewest enemy planes destroyed among all 15th USAAF fighter groups – roughly half as many kills as their fellow fighter groups, despite the all-black 399th Fighter Group having 4 squadrons, rather than 3 like all other fighter groups. No aces (a pilot with more than 5 kills) – that may be a unique accomplishment among WWII fighter groups.
Minimal accomplishment inflated with lies and excuses.
“JB will last less than 6 months”
If you followed Rutgers football you might remember an unfortunate incident 12 yrs ago when a defensive tackle named Eric LeGrand was injured and paralyzed from the neck down. He remains so today but this has led to him having success that he is unlikely to have achieved otherwise. He has become a sort of professional invalid. He was named the NJ Sportscaster of the Year. Truth be told IMHO, he is nowhere near in the same class of football commentator as say Tony Romo.
I give credit to Rutgers for sticking with LeGrand, affording him the commentating opportunity, and not just discarding him as another Black overweight lineman.
Probably the least they could do. That said, I’m certainly no fan of Romo either. I know they pay him to run his mouth, but he’s a bit too loquacious for my taste. I liked Phil Simms much better. But I’m sure it worked out better for Simms anyway. A whole lot less travel and preparation involved in the studio job.
By the by, I see NASCAR’s going to tear up the LA Coliseum again this weekend with their by far dumbest idea yet: running full size 800 HP NASCAR stock cars around a hastily constructed eighth mile track smack dab in the middle of South Central LA. Anything for a buck I guess. Not sure I could blame one of the homies for bust’n a cap or two in a motherfucker’s ass to signal their disapproval.
I’d think chariot racing in the Coliseum would be more entertaining. Bread and circuses doncha know. Hey Q, -55 F in Peter’s sink this AM. Pretty cold for the lower ’48.
stelmo,
I googled this unusual place and discovered two things:
1. the temp has risen to a balmy +17F and
2. Its name, counter-intuitively, is Peter Sinks not Peter’s Sink.
Living in the Long Emergency or Long Emergency? If I read just one? Which would you recommend?
Does one read a commentary first or the source text of the commentary?
Long Emergency for sure. Very factual, he supports his bias very well, makes a compelling case. People I knew who read it were terrified. I was. But he was wrong. By his own admission. And he still may be prescient, although it’s looking like it was just that he was off by a few decades and that things were kicked off by government shenanigans (Covid, Ukraine).
Living in the Long Emergency is basically a confession that he was wrong about (the timing, at least) the collapse, with 3 pretty odd sections that were slice of life looks at people who JHK thought were interesting examples of how people dealt with some of the issues.
Thanks for the feedback. I have started reading the Long Emergency. Early on, the part about governments might be tempted to employ designer viruses. If this was written in 2005? Crap.
I wish people would stop saying that Covid is over. No, it isn’t. Some countries are doubling down.
Bills provide for imprisonment for those who doubt vaccines in Brazil
By Lachlan Williams
January 29, 2023
“Six bills in Congress criminalize everything from cutting in line to receive a vaccine to people who spread “fake news” about how vaccines work.
Authored by Senator Angelo Coronel (PSD), PL 5555/2020 foresees the inclusion in the Criminal Code of imprisonment for one to three years for people who omit or oppose the mandatory vaccination of children or adolescents in a “public health emergency”.
The project also criminalizes, with a penalty of two to eight years in prison, people who refuse to take the mandatory doses of vaccines.”
https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/bills-provide-for-imprisonment-for-those-who-doubt-vaccines-in-brazil/
It’s getting more and more unreal. How can any sane person anywhere think this is OK?
The ones that were on board and now won’t back down because of their egos.
The PSD appears to be the Socialist Workers Party of Brazil—not the ruling party, which is the PT, Workers Party .
Here is a description I found online—sounds like they are allies of Bolsanaro:
“The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrático, PSD) is a political party in Brazil led by Gilberto Kassab and uniting dissidents from various political parties, especially the Democrats, Brazilian Social Democracy Party and Progressive Party. The party has become a major force for centrism in Brazil and commonly unites with both left-wing and right-wing parties. In this way, the party managed to have members occupying positions in ministries and important secretariats in the governments of presidents Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. Until March 2021, PSD congressmen had, on average, more than 90% alignment with the Bolsonaro government (in votes in the chamber/senate). (en)”
+++++++++++
So let’s hope this totalitarian bill goes nowhere.
Nice sleuthing, thanks.
While I love JHK (and he is probably in 3rd or 4th place of columnists I’ve religiously read over the decades (Buckley, steyn, maybe Hanson…) I disagree with his take on “when” this is going. We’re going to limp along. And we may lose our place in the hegemony of the world, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be a bad place to live. Britain had a rough go after the empire collapsed but turned out to be a decent place to live, for many, notwithstanding its own cultural rot…maybe there’ll be blood in the streets in the cities, and frankly, who cares…and maybe the poor, downtrodden, illegals, junkies, drunks, 3rd worlders will all be dying of marasmus and malaria, and frankly..who cares…but many of us remnant types will by then have created a mixed rural/technological society where we get our food and resources locally, use whatever tech is left judiciously…but point is, nothing drastic will happen until there are food riots.
North Sea anyone?
As a kid living overseas, my family visited london/countryside in spring 73, and again in summer 74.
GB was beat and defeated. Even after all the war damage, Germany was much more further along towards recovery.
Then came the oil revenue, the literal hail Mary special dispensation that granted the UK a few more generations of economic growth.
The US is well past peak in everything except coal. Unlike the UK, which back then was still a mono culture that was maybe still 95% white, the US race divisions have created a powder keg ready to blow when the EBT cards fail.
My image of the fall if DC is similar to Saigon, except the Gulfsreams will be flying to tel aviv.
I have always thought, and I still think it and it seems to be every more relevant, that what the USA has going for it is SPACE. Actual living space.
The UK is effin’ crowded. And a huge percentage of the actual territory of the UK is (still) owned by aristocractic families of one sort or another.
there are a number of websites that break out some of the data on who actuallhy owns the UK, such as t his one:
httpX://abcfinance.co.uk/blog/who-owns-the-uk/
“The UK is made up from approximately 60,000,000 acres which certainly seems like enough room for everybody to carve out their property dreams. However, the top 50 landowners currently control 7,331,243 acres which equates to over 12% of Britain’s landmass.”
There are lots of interesting stats and info graphics at the site.
My point is that in the US there is land enough for there still to be some kind of ‘back country” for rabble rousers to decamp to.
It is really important to prevent Gates and his ilk from gaining control of land.
Onen of the major take-aways from my reading of Beckert, Empire of Cotton, is that worldwide, capitalists took steps to PREVENT farmers and others (such as weavers) from continuing with subsistence farming. Emancipated slaves preferred the sharecropping system to being wage laborers, but capital took all kinds of steps to eject subsistence farmers from their land.
This took place all over the world—especially in India, Turkey, Africa—everywhere. That tells me that Jefferson was right: The independent yoeman farming his own property (and practicing home-based technologies of various kinds) with his family was and still is a bedrock of freedom.
This does not mean that there is no interaction with wider markets. But it means that people retain control of their own lives and land; they and their land do not be come an extension of the coercive global capitalist order, as occurred in India in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (in order to control labor to provide industry with huge amounts of cotton at cheap prices).
Factor in the current water crisis in the west and the US isn’t nearly so spacious. Imagine the lion’s share of Albuquerque, Tucson, Phoenix, San Diego, LA, and Las Vegas among many others having to relocate east within the space of a decade or two and the impacts that would cause. Eastern cities would be bursting at the seams and pressures on rural farmland – already high – would go through the roof. Not to mention that most of those people would be highly stressed due to their situations. And what of the infrastructure left behind? Would it all be left to decay in the desert heat as a warning to the next civilization foolish enough to attempt to follow in our footsteps? Bottom line: There’s not nearly enough room east of the Mississippi for 330M+ people to live in the manner they’re currently accustomed to.
Dis
Good morning.
A few numbers for Phoenix and Tucson.
Forty percent of the water needed, right now, comes from the CAP, the ditch that comes from the Colorado River. If Lake Mead goes dead pool, forty percent of the two cities water will be gone.
Huge areas of growth east and west of Phoenix are now stopped by state edict, a lot of real estate money is in big trouble. 2 million people were planned for these areas.
The government, especially the governors, Ducey for a start, have been feeding the people horseshit for thirty years. We have tons of groundwater in aquifers, do not worry the rains will return.
Everyone says that climate change and drought are to fault. BS. We have a a very strong monsoon this year and it has hardly made a dent. It is decades of overpopulation in the cities that has drained the reservoir, not drought.
Another water war that is about to erupt is Californiavs, the other six states and even more so, the farmers against the cities. Water rights belong to the farms as they have been there the longest. So if the laws are followed, the farmers will get the water and the developers will pound sand.
Uh huh, and I believe in the Tooth Fairy too. The farmers here in the SW provide a quarter of the produce to the rest of the US. So if the farmers get ousted from their water, who is going to feed those folks moving back east?
This is not as simple as just send the folks east.
BTW, proposals to pipe water from reservoirs in the East, including the Great Lakes into the Colorado River system have been made and roundly dismissed.
Okay, folks, no more Snowbirding and better figure out where to get that 25% of your produce. You cannot share water, we cannot let you use our resources.
Also, Dis, what is the status of the Rio Grande and Pecos river systems. You mentioned Albuquerque, are they running into water limitations. The source of the Rio Grande is the San Juans with much more snowpack than the Front Range where the Colorado’s source is.
BTW, the area with the least precipitation this winter is the East Coast, where NYC got their first measurable snow yesterday.
I don’t know about NYC, but we have had plenty of rain around here.
Methinks the die-off from the jab will help somewhat.
Water… water is essential to fracking and ends up contaminated.
Nice aquifers in parts of the country, what is happening to them?
There seems to be a water supply in the Northeast, at least most of New England and parts of NY, don’t know about NJ. The watershed areas are very wet, swampy in a lot of areas.
One issue is they are wet but not frozen. Issue in some areas is it is rain, not snow.
Snow and cold weather are needed to reset crops such as maple trees, otherwise they don’t fair very well as Spring arrives. Also, some creatures hibernate in Winter. These warm periods which have occurred throw their cycles off as well.
Now we are heading into some colder to very cold temps, see what happens. Very strange weather patterns.
‘ Britain had a rough go after the empire collapsed but turned out to be a decent place to live,’
The North Sea cut the pain for a while. But now that Britain must import oil their economic death spiral goes into high gear.
And now Biden’s war has fucked them.
Tucker: Pfizer maintains close ties with Israel, a non signatory of the biological weapons treaty.
Jarek: Bourla and many of executives are Jewish so that follows.
Was that tonight? See the segments get so cut up on youtube I probably missed this part. Very interesting! More research is necessary on this.
Last Friday I believe. Tucker’s main writer was a White Nationalist. He knows everything that Anglin knows. Or he should at least.
Oh wow that is cool! Gosh you have a lot of insider information! 🙂
How many more men will you lure into you web?
Me? Where did that come from lol? I don’t do those types of things
What have you done with SSL, the black widow of clusterfuck?
Lol, well, you are still alive aren’t you 😉
I’m glad you aren’t as evil as that SSL. She’s a bad one. How many are you, any idea? Legion?
You (or was it she?) invoked that by being over the top in your praise. I know what that means since I know my SSLs.
Lol I guess it depends on the day. An evil SSL?? I can’t even imagine. But i’m sure the SSL you speak of was probably just enamored because of your mastery of words and philosophy and so forth. 🙂
As Dave Chappelle said, “it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it”
Tom Verlaine R.I.P.
There could only be one album like Television’s “Marquee Moon”.
Came out in ’76. I didn’t hear it until ’99,
It’s a weird regret to not know an album earlier than when you discovered it.
Listening to the album, needing to hear it several times to fully appreciate it, it reformats your understanding of what a band could do.
How did he die? Pitchfork.com mentioned a brief illness. I read a tweet from Thurston Moore that he was hoping to bump into Tom at the Strand and talk poetry.
Is ‘brief illness’ the new ‘died suddenly’?
However he died, another musician from the pantheon lost.
The song, ‘Friction” is an absolute banger.
Well, I don’t wanna grow up
There’s too much contradiction
And too much friction
But I dig friction
We’re both crazy ’bout friction
F-R-I-C-T-I-O-N
It’s called “the New Normal”, Norman. Stop looking like that or you’ll get us all in Dutch.
I am very glad this guy resisted, since he’s a global star. Great awareness-raising. Well done.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/novak-djokovic-australian-open-bill-gates/
Absolutely.
“According to Fox News, McEnroe previously spoke out in support of Djokovic’s stance, describing the Biden administration’s vaccination mandates that kept Djokovic out of the US Open as “BS.””
Glad to see John McEnroe on the right side of this.
He was always a bad boy/rebel. Hope he stays that way!
As for Gates seeming to walk back Covid vaccines —WTF? What is this literally gray, colorless, vapid nonentity up to now? Are his antennae twitching with some little message that his balls are in the wrong basket?
What kind of limited hangout is this? Is Gates jettisoning Covid jabs in order to salvage the rest of his ID2020 digital ID agenda?
Maybe he figures there is nothing to lose now, since billions are already jabbed, so it doesn’t matter if he comes out now and starts covering his ass . . .???
Re Bourla, check out his Wiki entry.
Bourla is Maximum Jewish—Jewish BMOC— by birth and by choice.
GB Packers QB, Aaron Rodgers, should be given credit for holding out on the jab as well.
“Theory is man’s feeble attempt to define life
Nothing can substitute experience
I know nothing but feel everything
The universe already told me” ~ Chapter 2, by Piotr Cieslik (You Tube)
youtu . be/K8QZVTBEy_I
Dayvan Cowboy
youtu . be/A2zKARkpDW4
“Instead, now we have faux tribes of sports teams to cheer for, and families of the incompatible people we work with – with little time to see our real family and friends.” ~ Jarek
“…and things come back into focus: your health, your daily bread, your shelter, your associations with other people close to you, your values, and most of all the power of your own choices. Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.” ~ JHK
“Someone has written a book about the children and their need for their, just simply, emotional and mental development to have contact with the mountains, with the air, the sea, with the dawn, the sunset, the trees, the birds, the song of the birds. Children that don’t have these experiences have no real idea of the world they live in. They live in a house, in a school, in a city that’s all manufactured. And they begin to be progressively isolated from the basic dynamics of what human life is all about.” ~ Thomas Berry
The Anarchist Journal once had an edition dedicated to people who had enjoyed their pedophilic experience as children.
What say you, damn you?
Yes, “your mileage may vary”, but there are norms that must be held to – for the good of the large majority. And who can say what damage was done that they can’t even comprehend, it being so early and complete. The tree that is twisted with grow twisted. That becomes normal for it. But compare it to one that wasn’t twisted and Ah!, then you can see.
Onward and upward. The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth itself to be taken by storm and the violent bear it away.
First, some people who say they are something like, say, anarchist, doesn’t necessarily mean that they are and/or maybe they have a different definition of it.
For all we know, some people also may also be trying to give something a bad name.
Have a corrupt State government– sort of the opposite of anarchist– provide a ghost writer to write a book or essay in some so-called Anarchist Journal about how acting upon one’s pedophilic thoughts/desires/tendencies is ok and if they have a problem with ethics, maybe something can be written so that folks like Jarek can someday ask someone like me this kind of question.
Second, did I already mention hereon that when I was a pubescent paperboy of 14 or 15, I delivered the paper to many apartment buildings with bachelors and one-bedrooms in them and with many hot single older women?
Thirdly, I looked up the definition of pedophilia to make sure I knew what I was talking about and, according to the definitions of at least 3 legitimate dictionary sources– Oxford, Merriam Webster if recalled, and I forget the third– it seems to apply only to prepubescent children.
So if so-called anarchists are suggesting sex with children who have not entered sexual maturity, then that sexual maturity incompatibility would seem to go against anarchy as it is understood, since there may be a significant ‘sex and age power imbalance’.
To dial down the degree quite a bit, consider that event between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Even there, we might agree that there was a contextual power imbalance that called their ethics into question.
“The Anarchist Journal once had an edition dedicated to people who had enjoyed their pedophilic experience as children.” ~ Jarek
To add, often, publications have a little blurb/qualification nearby that says something like, “The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent/reflect those of this publication”
When I was about 7, I had a bath with two girls of about the same age. Our parents more or less left us alone. At one point, they asked me what that was. I told them in proper language. They told me that they called it a shopsy. Even at 7, I thought that was hilarious even though I didn’t know at the time that Shopsy was a brand of wiener. The two wanted and decided to touch it and check it and surrounds out. No prob.
So kids can do some pre-sexual things before puberty and explore things on their own terms, time and volition and so on. They don’t need adults, certainly not pedophiles. I can’t say I’ve thought much about pedophiles and what to do in their case.
As for your comment about the large majority and whatever related, I’ll ask you to consider the conceptual framework in your head through which you ask me since a large majority may not be viable if we are talking about, say the tribe or such numbers as the Dunbar number.
So perhaps in some sense in line with pedophilia, there is the problem of the large-scale centralized coercive State.
So far, I don’t have any cognitive dissonances. You?
Well answered. You are the better sort of an anarchist, another Prince Peter Kropotkin.
Shopsy? Sound yiddish. Is it?
Now let us proceed: What do you think of your lesser brethren – who are the majority – who march with the Communists and always end up getting purged? So much for Democracy, eh?
Surely there must be a way to inject the concept of Elder into these communities, with “democracy” properly circumscribed as voting amongst Elders or those who deserve to vote. Or would this be to circumcise the shopsy?
Have you read about the the comic Foreskin man in San Francisco? Once they took over medicine in the United States they just started doing the operation without even asking. One guy described almost getting into a fist fight with the doctor when he refused it for his son.
How many antifa would describe themselves as anarchists, would you say?
Good point about the Anarchists. In the Soviet Union the Anarchists soldered right alongside the Bolsheviks during the Oktober Revolution, Comrades in Arms. Yet, the first thing Lenin did after gaining control is launch a brutal campaign to liquidate all the Anarchists lol!. History repeated itself in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, which is what Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’ was about — Stalin’s NKVD crushing International Anarchists & Troskyites, a sort of War Within a War. An interesting side note: the first crematoria in Europe were not built by the Nazis, but by the NKVD in Spain, a convenient place to dispose of their political enemies on the left — Trotskyites, right & left Deviationists, and Anarchists.
Have you read about the the comic Foreskin man in San Francisco? – Jarek
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My high school chum, RAA, went in the Navy. He said they often served Cream Dried Beef on Toast for breakfast. The swabbys called it foreskins on toast or, alternatively, shit on a shingle.
See my response to both of you (February 1, 2023 at 10:29 pm) below.
Meanwhile the BP rages against Thomas Aquinas and the Church Fathers for allowing prostitution.
The Swedes “solved” the problem by legalizing prostitution (for prostitutes!) and throwing the book at their customers. Moral busy bodies. BP types.
The prostitutes hated it. You can’t be a prostitute without customers.
What is the BP?
The Big Prick?
“Hi David, sorry to bother you again.
I will endeavor to make this my last email to you, but I sort of by accident caught another of your videos on the same subject (“Why we might be alone” Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping), so felt compelled to comment under it and to email you again…
Here’s its copy:
~ Reverse Panspermia: A Fly In David’s Ointment? 😉 ~
David, I emailed you recently WRT the idea of reverse panspermia.
You may wish to do some investigation on whether, say, Mars is already ‘contaminated’ with terrestrial (Earth) life from its robotic explorers, and/or the Voyager spacecrafts that are on their ways into interstellar space and, if they have any egg or hibernating stowaways, they could one day ‘contaminate’ other planets elsewhere.
As our sun novas, it’s possible that if there’s any Earth-imported Martian or Titan, (etc.), life, if or when Mars (etc.) warms up, its (their) imported life may awaken, hatch or re-awaken. Same thing wherever else our spacecraft and human space explorers go.
I know that reverse panspermia is not precisely your ‘thesis’ here and elsewhere, but it may still be worth investigating and presenting a video and/or lecture or more on. What do you think?
…Lastly, we may wish to be cautious of course how we define intelligent life. On Earth, while we have other intelligent, if not technological, life besides human, we also have had different human lineages that have disappeared but that could have become technological.
Mind you, apparently many present humans have Neanderthal DNA. So that’s two lineages right there.
In any case, while we may currently be the only life in our galaxy or the universe, after some time, our own life here, if it gains a foothold elsewhere, and far away elsewhere, the Earthling question of whether there is life elsewhere may in a sense fulfill its own prophesy by placing its own life elsewhere.”
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Beyond Human: A Billion Years of Evolution and the Fate of Our Species
youtu . be/I08UUBViP1A
Hmmm, very interesting! We may have already colonized Mars with Earth bacteria and also Titan. Some scientists think there is a big possibility that there are underground lakes, seas, and rivers on Mars since at one time there was water at the surface before the Sun fully stripped away Mars’ atmosphere. And Titan is basically a hyper frozen Antarctic planet made of diesel and gasoline and oil almost. So it is possible that extremophiles live there. Plus scientists believe several moons like Europa and Enceladus have oceans beneath their ice surfaces so.
I used to be kind of bummed out about our sun eventually going nova and wiping out all life and possibly doing it sooner than originally estimated.
But then I though that if our descendants are still here and still relatively technological, it may be possible, aside from traveling to other solar systems with Earth-like planets, to ride out the sun’s nova as it expands to other planetary bodies as they warm up and change, such as Mars and the moons you mention, and then as it contracts again.
Some You Tube science-documantary channels– which I’ve been increasingly watching in their favour over all the FUD news practically everywhere else– with ostensibly bigger budgets than David’s ‘Cool Worlds’ channel could probably focus entirely on that alone and do an entire series of hypothetical shows on our sun’s nova phase and how our species moves to, colonizes, and maybe terraforms, nearby planets/moons, and how they, themselves, might change with or without our interventions.
TMTCZ,
the mushroom spore can maintain almost unlimited viability in vacuum, deep freeze condition.
Terence McKenna thought of a panspermia of awareness triggered by apes eating certain mushrooms, as they were wont to do in their migrations, always hungry.
That’s encouraging, Rulo, if that’s the case, and so it seems that many of our planet’s life can sustain space travel to some extent.
The Black genome contains a “ghost species” not present in Whites or East Asians. There was a significant mixing with an extinct species of early man in Africa, probably Homo Erectus, thus giving birth to the Black race. It would explain much, such as the very low IQ. The same thing might have happened in Southern Asia and Australia, giving birth to the Aborigine as we know them, and some of the tribal Dravidian types in India, though much mixed with other peoples there.
Your attempt to abolish hierarchy is simply a tilting at windmills.
Players
“Your attempt to abolish hierarchy is simply a tilting at windmills.” ~ Jarek
Then you don’t understand true anarchy. Anarchy is not about abolishing hierarchy, but transcending illegitimate hierarchy.
One large effort of the large-scale centralized coercive State is to indoctrinate the masses to accept them as a legitimate hierarchy.
Looks like you and many others are accepting their plays.
And/Or maybe you’re a plant/shill here and part of that process. I mean, you do seem to want to drive wedges between certain segments– manufactured or otherwise– of the population, yes?
“The population” – wow, what an idea. Like thinking I’m dividing the already divided, namely the races.
The idea that we all have to be unified is the biggest Establishment meme of all – and the cutting edge is Globalism.
Thank goodness (or God) that I brought this up. The elicited response – once ably analyzed by me – must be shocking to you. As Krishnamurti said, we only know ourselves in relationship.
Nothing is more sacred than boundaries. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell. If Illich didn’t say that, he should have.
My response here…
February 1, 2023 at 9:15 pm
…seems relevant for here as well.
Clearly, a battle station in “the war against us” is the NYT.
It is also a war against doctors. Doctors who seriously weigh their patients’ best interests are being trivialized as ignoramuses as opposed to unnamed “experts.” The grafs are from the NYT
The Morning,” with a column by a twerp-like individual named German Lopez, who sure does not look to me like a doctor or any kind of medical professional.
The headline is ” Doctors are now a major barrier to Paxlovid.” It is incredible to me that this twerp—and his handlers—simply set aside as irrelevant the knowledge base of doctors in favor of shilling for another new drug whose benefits are unclear.
“. . . Physician resistance
Some doctors have concerns that are rooted in real issues with Paxlovid and inform their reluctance to prescribe it. But **experts*** are unconvinced that those fears are enough to avoid prescribing Paxlovid altogether, especially to older and higher-risk patients.
“What I’m doing for a living is weighing the benefits and the risks for everything,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, the chair of the medicine department at the University of California, San Francisco. In deciding whether to prescribe Paxlovid, he said, the benefits significantly outweigh the risks.
Some of doctors’ doubts will sound familiar to regular readers of this newsletter. The medication is relatively new (in a field that typically takes years to adopt new treatments). They worry about side effects, including diarrhea, muscle pain and an altered sense of taste. They also point to “rebound” Covid cases, which can cause symptoms to come back after subsiding, as happened to Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Biden after they took Paxlovid. (Although Covid symptoms can rebound without Paxlovid.)
Doctors also*** sometimes believe*** that a patient is not sick enough to prescribe Paxlovid. But the point of Paxlovid is to prevent Covid from getting severe. The medication works best when prescribed in the first few days after a patient shows symptoms, so ***a doctor does not have time to wait*** to see how bad an infection gets.
Another concern topped a recent survey of medical professionals by the health care website Medscape: potential interactions between Paxlovid and a long list of other drugs. Doctors might see that their patients are on one of those medications and choose not to prescribe Paxlovid.
That justification is especially ***concerning to experts*** because it is more likely to be used to deny Paxlovid to older patients and those with other health conditions, since they are more likely to be on multiple medications. But these two groups are also among the most vulnerable to Covid ***hospitalization and death.***
To avoid harmful drug interactions, ***experts*** said, doctors can temporarily get a patient off a medication or provide an alternative during a course of Paxlovid — something they already often do with other treatments. “This is not some extraordinary thing that physicians don’t know how to do,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid response coordinator. …” [more of same]
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So, the White House/govt is fear-mongeing the public by telling readers that their doctors are not treating them correctly, are “denying” treatment, and don’t know what they are talking about. Last I knew it was doctors who are “experts” in treating patients.
The WH via the NYT (or is it vice versa?) is prescribing treatments to doctors, after the former totally screwed up by *preventing* doctors from actually treating patients with ivermectin, HQ, etc. Obviously, these medications still are not “approved” by the WH.
I guess it is silly still to be shocked by the NYT’s strong-arming shilling for Big Pharma.
My sincere hope is that when the entire medical industrial complex implodes and collapses, it takes down NYT and other shilling institutions with it. Especially the “health” insurance industry.
evryone want da mony
Did the Republicans actually pressure Jo Jo Magoo into calling for the end of the covid nonsense? If so, good on ’em:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/off-ramps-wednesday-february-1-2023
Wait for it, there will conveniently emerge a new strain named something like EC52.Z15 right in time for the May 11th sunset date, and the PTB will strongly seek to negate this previously agreed upon deadline.
Probably.
Doubtful. Lots of Republicans were more than happy to go along with the covid power grab. They like to appear tough now that they have that slim House majority but they are still mostly just controlled opposition.
I wonder though what prompted the move.
We can be sure, of course, it has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting our health.
That’s a good question. Maybe they thought that doing something more politically popular would increase their chances of growing their power?
“What I’m doing for a living is weighing the benefits and the risks for everything,”
No, the patient is the one who is supposed to weigh the risks and benefits.
The doctor is supposed to provide the information and let the patient decide for themselves.
What this stooge is doing for a living is shilling for Big Pharma, enabled by the mass media, who get their money from Big Pharma.
It’s a big club and you’re not in it. However, you are being poisoned by it if you submit yourself to corporate medicine.
It’s a big club and you’re not in it. – Paula D
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^This line^ has a funnier ring to it if delivered the way GC delivered it:
“It’s a big club and you. ain’t. innit.”
Paula:
The open disregard of the rights and duties of both patients and doctors expressed in the piece is startling.
Breaking news that the FBI is now searching the Biden Delaware home for additional documents. I wonder if they are going to rifle through and finger Dr. Jill’s panties like they did to Melania’s at Maro Lago?
Lol, now you know the answer to that question, don’t you. But because language is important it is very noteworthy that the FBI is searching Biden’s home but raided Mar a Lago. If Biden would have said definitively that he was not running in 2024 then the FBI “searches” would most likely not be occurring. Even now nothing is going to happen to him. They will simply use the “searches” to make an excuse as to why Biden isn’t going to run for reelection after all.
i think you`re wrong, he wasn`t sposed to last more than 6 months
he`s been gr8 for his masters
That could be too! But it does seem like the powers that be are kinda done with Joe.
Bell,
What would be the motivation? Regarding Melania’s soft, high thread count, sweet smelling panties, what red-blooded man would not find an interest? Jill’s coarse cotton, day of the week undies would be of little interest.
If I had a pair of Melania’s I would probably be wearing them on my head as I type this….*
*I jest, of course…
…verily….
“If I had a pair of Melania’s I would probably be wearing them on my head as I type this….*”
My sources tell me Barry O’ has a pair on his head as we speak. The thing is they’re still attached to Big Mike.
“I wonder if they are going to rifle through and finger Dr. Jill’s panties…?”
Only if they search Hunter’s house.
‘elmo: Thanks for the Big Mike humor. The one thing for which we can all be grateful to Barry-O.
Long Emergency for sure. – chimay
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My wife, Bo, has been in a book club for many years. I always push her to recommend one of JHK’s books for their next reading. I emailed Jim and asked him which of his books should be first on a recommended list. He unhesitatingly replied The Long Emergency.
Q,
Well if you asked me (and you did not) what the book club should read if spirited debate were the object, I would suggest the comments section…(see above).
Years ago, my mom reviewed “The Geography of Nowhere” for her book club. She got a negative reaction, as nearly all of her book club was firmly entrenched in suburbia. They didn’t like the idea that their living arrangement might be temporary, and that someday their homes might be cut up for scrap in order to build 3 room shotgun shacks everywhere for the new class of share croppers.
Sounds like Sharpton is channeling his inner Greta:
Sharpton offers message to 5 Black officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols: ‘How dare you!’
Noting that the alleged crimes took place not far from the Loraine Hotel, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was murdered on April 4, 1968, while waging a protest campaign to try to ensure the safety of Black workers in the city, Sharpton drew a line connecting the legacy of the slain civil rights hero to the killing of Nichols.
“You didn’t get on the police department by yourself. The police chief didn’t get there by herself. People had to march and go to jail and some lost their lives to open the doors for you and how dare you act like that sacrifice was for nothing!”
On Tuesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., noted “that city is Democrat-controlled and the five officers that have been arrested and charged are Black. And I think that this isn’t an issue of racism or anything like that.”
Salt Lake City, UT
Size: TBD
Activity: Armed Queers and other Far Left activist organizations protest laws against Trans Kids and abortion rights.
Location: Utah State Capitol, 350 State St, Salt Lake City, UT
Time: 1730; Wednesday, 1 FEB
The Situational Awareness offered the above this AM.
“Armed Queers”… Is that now a thing? In Mormon controlled Utah? It is a perfect example of how our culture is being changed. In the “bad old days”, you could go out with a few buddies and beat up queers, maybe roll them for their wallets. How in hell can you do that now, when they might be runnin’ heavy?
See…this is a perfect example of comments that would liven up Q’s wife’s book club.
Is the 1730 time in the Pacific Standard Timezone? (Asking for a friend…)
Indeed, I bet most of these “armed queers” are being bused in from out of state locales. There is no way there is such a large contingent of these anywhere in the State of Utah to wage such a protest. Look at the license plates, I bet 95% of them are from California.
You would be incorrect.
Salt Lake City has a very large population of gay people, especially lesbians.
“Lots of gays live there” doesn’t necessarily call to my mind “a mob of *armed* queers”!!
The Pioneer Valley, in central Mass., is well known for being a major haven and magnet for queers, especially lesbians (Smith College ha tons of them).
But it would be hard to imagine them turning into “armed queers.”
Of course Salt Lake City in in The West, which I have only seen on TV. So maybe “armed queers” is the obvious next step after “swarming with gays.”
What brings them to that city?
The Tabernacle Choir?
(Hey, good name for a band.)
Mary has remarked before about “lesbian skiing near Salt Lake City”. Some of the best (skiing or lesbian skiing) in the United States.
These and Radical Feminists are her People, her Tribe, her Nation. American? No, and she admits it.
I thanked her for that and for not voting – since this isn’t her nation.
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” ~ Karl Marx
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.” ~ Alan Coren
They are equating the right to let kids have healthy body parts cut up to abortion – and they want both.
That is some messed up agenda!
Sorry but it looks like a case of GONE WITH THE WIND.
– HOLLYWOOD LINES
Ummm okay, what was the objective intent of this post? It is totally lost on me, sorry.
I thought Gone with the Wind was cancelled due to its racist theme.
The objective was to express the unsure observation that the America people knew, including myself, is “Gone with the wind.”
And I write screenplays so I like to use the signoff “HOLLYWOOD LINES.”
In other words, the case is America.
No it’s not. One day Rhett is gonna give a damn and I don’t care what you say.
I’ll shut up then.
LOL.
So wait, Hellmann’s Mayo is being discontinued in South Africa due to economic issues. This is strange, is this a demographic thing? Maybe due to inflation with eggs it is getting too expensive to whip up a batch of this mayo? Regardless, this is some strange news.
“Hellmann’s mayonnaise discontinued in South Africa, not globally”
httpsXX://apnews.com/article/fact-check-hellmanns-mayo-discontinued-359602134866
Civilization itself has been discontinued in South Africa.
It’s true!!
But but but … can’t they manufacture the mayo in SA? Coca Cola is made all over the world.
If this stuff has to be shipped from the USA then it deserves to be canceled.
Isn’t Unilever a British company?
What is the subtext here?
Spidey sense tells me the Gates GMO Chicken egg is on it’s way.
Egg yolk could be a good carrier for MRNA insertions.
It’s white. It’s racist.
Some squat Con Tiki Shiva spins laughing
Flames jump and flow to the tips of the branches
Below this flaming halo
And beneath his drum
An angel leans across his middle &
Empties the next dread bowl.
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Shockingly while gardening I saw a skinny football shaped thing, white ish, stopped maybe a couple of hundred feet in the air, on church grounds.
The lady in charge of the building came out and I pointed it out and said, “is that a ufo?”.
She said “NO”.
Then it turnned and reflected a kind of pinkish bronze metallic colour. It looked to be the size of a licorice nib at the end of my thumb on an extended arm. So big.
Wish I had asked her to film it on zoom. And then send it to the priest saying ‘We have visitors’. I stopped looking but had a nightmare about it last night reminiscent of the movie ‘The Tet”. Maybe it came to see God in the tabernacle.
The pink neon like thing I saw awhile back was a drone without it’s flashing lights. It has come back since many times flashing. Somebody changed the bulbs.
Always great to read your column Jim, and commentary.
Oh 3 more friends with cancer, fully jabbed. Breast, ovarian, lymph. And one cerebral hemmorage.
Those German Panzers rolling toward Moscow, 50 of them, will they be sporting the Iron Cross emblem on its turret like in June, 1941? Germany still uses that iconography on its tanks, and still names them after big cats; 1944, the Tiger, 2013, the Leopard. My guess is that before handing over German armor to Ukraine the Iron Cross will be sandblasted off. It wouldn’t be a good look for Germany, Panzers crossing the Dneiper, headed east, Iron Crosses prominently displayed. Who knows how Russians would respond to that provocation? Maybe with tactical nukes!”Russia will never again be invaded from the West”-VPutin.
And here we are today, this very day, the 80th anniversary of the German 6th Army’s defeat at Stalingrad — the greatest battle in world history. Like they say the more things change the more they stay the same.
” Who knows how Russians would respond to that provocation? Maybe with tactical nukes!”Russia will never again be invaded from the West”-VPutin.
BRH,
The commentary from Situational Awareness notes;
” It is highly unlikely that Ukraine, with rapidly diminishing manpower and warfighting capability, would be able to take Crimea without the direct intervention of NATO forces. Additionally, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a host of government officials have warned that such an attempt would result in a nuclear response from Russia. –”
On a personal note…I tend to believe Putin in this regard.
“Authors demand US government issue $14 trillion in reparations over role in slavery…. ”
The funny part about this to me is that in the colonial era —
( I’m not familiar with later , 19th century , figures )
— four out of five Whites who came to North America came as indentured servants.
Now the Social Darwinist , ” Survival of the Fittest ” crowd are not eager to point out that their own ancestors were not Lord Fauntleroy , ,
their own ancestors were trailer trash deplorables.
They are not eager to point out that , “innately inferior ” was originally and generally applied to White people by other White people.
All of which ironically suits outfits like BLM just fine.
But then I get the distinct impression that the Lions share of the victimization narrative is never merely and solely about victimization.
It’s about vicitimization as a privileged status.
So a hell of a lot of very curious cherry – picking goes on.
Regarding indentured servitude, when I’ve brought that up in conversations about reparations and slavery, I’ve been called a racist and a bigot. And then shortly after one of my convos, someone at like WaPo or NYT just coincidentally came out with an article on why indentured servitude was NOT SLAVERY and how unbelievably bigoted one has to be to believe it.
Even though the indentured could not be freed, and were forced to work… same as any other slave.
(I’m not saying my comment prompted the articles, I believe a LOT of people were pointing this out at the time, maybe too many for their agenda).
The outsider, the Victim crusader, and, in its final and triumphant form, the serial Killer are the heroes of Cinema and American myth.
In other words, No more Cowboy. BUt an overall negativity, yes.
Certainly not an indentured Irish servant to toil in a kitchen in Boston.
This is a good lecture on that subject
www. youtube.com/watch?v=_cPII2l-K4s
In the 19th century most Europeans were imported as wage slaves.
They worked in the factories, mines, mills and railroads, dying like flies, but easily replaced by more teeming masses.
Cause…”white privilege”.
” Such a loving god. When they pissed him off he killed the men, women, animals. bugs and plants. Glad he didn’t hate them. ”
Compared to …. ?
It seems to me that would be an entirely appropriate motto to post on the gate at the entrance to Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( i.e. Nuclear Weapons Inc. )
500 years ago they had the Protestant Reformation . ( I suppose , ” Reformation ” is supposed to be something like progress ? )
Like a government that decides to greatly ramp up capitol punishment , and at the same time to do away with probation entirely ,
one of the chief innovations of that reformation seemed to be to retain Hell , and dispense with Purgatory.
Perhaps then it is no surprise that 300 years later the idea to dispense with an afterlife all together became chic.
Though how that would consistute an improvement or progress , I cannot say.
As utterly bleak as the Calvinistic afterlife was , at least it was a something.
One could argue that even Hell is better than absolutely NOTHING.
But , OK , we arrive at this absolutely nothing ;
Millions and billions will be tortured or killed to rectify crimes that soon enough nobody will remember anyway.
Millions and Billons will be tortured or killed for the sake of a utopia that it stands to reason that millions and billions will never live to see anyway.
And if this utopia is ever arrived at , it stands to reason that only a few will ever enjoy it , and briefly.
The sun will blow up , or burn out , the atmosphere will dissipate for some reason , Earth will get smacked by a rogue planet or a meteor the size of New York City , some darn thing.
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Perhaps you are comparing the Old Testament / New Testament God to something else entirely which I am not aware of ?
Certainly , compared to any currently in vogue dogma , that God appears as a grossly permissive panty waist snowflake in comparison .
That makes sense and is really sad too. All these people dying for these weird ideologies that are not really coherent. Like this whole Ukraine war. What possibly is of interest to us over there? There isn’t but for that very few who can enjoy a type of earthly quasi-utopia. And all of these Ukrainian soldiers are being grinded down in a meat grinder and really for what? Ukraine cannot possibly beat Russia. It is nonsensical and tiring.
What is of interest over there?
The plan is to overthrow the Russia government and strip it of its resources. What resources?
Oil, gas, coal, diamonds, aluminum, asbestos, gemstones, diamonds, lime, lead, gypsum, iron ore, bauxite, gallium, boron, mica, natural gas, potash, platinum, rare earth metals, pig iron, peat, nitrogen, cadmium, arsenic, magnesium, molybdenum, phosphate, sulfur, titanium sponge, silicon, uranium, tellurium, vanadium, tungsten, cobalt, graphite, silver, vermiculite, selenium, rhenium, copper, and gold.
‘The State’s too big– biggest on the planet. It’s a near-monopoly, so it has to be broken up.’
“The question you might ask these days: how did we weaponize everything in American life against ourselves?”
I recently read the prologue and introduction to a book written by some U.S. law professor about the U.S. Constitution. She basically discusses problems in current US society in regards to adherence to Constitutional principles by looking at very minor debates at the level of discussing Stop Signs, while ignoring the huge elephant-in-the-room issues….
Massive Self-Deception….
To reiterate: There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq…. One can’t bamboozle the people into surrendering inalienable rights by creating a crisis and frightening people….
And, the US Constitution specifically states that only the Congress can declare War….
And, there is no provision for vesting the Money Power in the Federal Reserve….
And, the Federal Government doesn’t get to monitor the people’s conversations.
And, the Deep State permanent bureaucracy doesn’t get to puppeteer the President and Congress….
Weird….
Average American’s collective reply: “Meh”
“KC Chiefs and the Philly Eagles are in the Super Bowl….Tom Brady really retired this time….and Shawn Payton is the new coach of the Denver Broncos with a record setting contract…”
These are the issues that matter.
To reiterate: There were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq…. One can’t bamboozle the people into surrendering inalienable rights by creating a crisis and frightening people….-pucker
No means none but they did find and dispose of wmd.
They found weaponized versions of nerve agent as well as mustard gas and the makings for Mustard gas by the ton.
The CIA website says they found none and then goes into double speak about what they found.
In fact if they had found none then why did they redact 90% of the document?
Washington D.C., 9 July 2004 – The CIA has decided to keep almost entirely secret the controversial October 2002 CIA intelligence estimate about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction that is the subject of today’s Senate Intelligence Committee report, according to the CIA’s June 1, 2004 response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive.
The CIA’s response included a copy of the estimate, NIE 2002-16HC, October 2002, Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, consisting almost entirely of whited-out pages. Only 14 of the 93 pages provided actually contained text, and all of the text except for the two title pages and the two pages listing National Intelligence Council members had previously been released in July 2003. At that time, CIA responded to the first round of controversy over the Niger yellowcake story by declassifying the “Key Findings” section of the estimate and a few additional paragraphs
Here is the little gem.
.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-the-cias-2002-intelligence-assessment-on-wmd-in-iraq-2015-1
And yes NEVER let crisis go to waste to implement laws you can’t pass any other way.
Who first said: “Never let a crisis go to waste”?
Was it:
A. Napoleon?
B. Le Duan?
C. Lenin?
D. Saul Alinsky?
E. Ted Bundy?
F. Jack-the-Ripper?
E. Jeffrey Epstein?
G. Bill Gates?
H. Rom Emmanuel?
I. Barack Obama?
J. Hillary Clinton?
K. Joseph Goebbels?
L. All of the above?
I’m guessing Goebbels.
Oh I like multiple questions! Hmm, i’m gonna go with H. Rahm Emmanuel.
I meant multiple choice questions lol
Saul Alinsky, perhaps.
All of the above is impossible. The couldn’t have all said it first.
None of the above.
OK, I cheated.
Per Google, it was Winston Churchill.
Planting And/Or Duping Jarek?
“Abortion kills babies too. But that’s ok? Because women want it?” ~ Jarek February 1, 2023 at 1:36 pm
You are looking more and more like a government plant or someone who’s being deeply duped by their ostensible (to be charitable) ruses.
I suspect there are a number of sock puppets writing hours on this site.
Got to bill somehow!
I am thinking of a list of items that Jarek seems especially preoccupied with and in peculiar ways that some State governments appear to be leveraging to help distract, disorient and divide, etc..
Pro-choice vs pro-life, women vs men, trans vs ??, blacks vs whites, pedophiles vs ??, masked vs unmasked, vaxxed vs unvaxxed…
Why now all of a relative sudden and with these sorts of things?
Maybe we just answered that:
A war (fifth-generation?) being waged against people by the large-scale centralized coercive State system?
Or perhaps more simply, attempts by many large-scale State entities/’Leviathans’/’Goliaths’ at maintaining control in the face of losing control in the face of serious large-scale energy decline.
J’s been around for a long time. And his posts are much more diversified in topics than just what you are saying. It could also be said that disrupting the community is a fifth generation warfare attack.
Fair enough and that be a little reassuring. I was going to add that my exposure is to what people write here is limited compared with those more regular. In any case, there’s still the issue of allowing one to get contaminated by the system versus transcending it and whatnot. Anyway, it’s late here and I’m going to sleep. Goodnight!
You’re postulating a unity that never existed between Whites and Blacks, and Men and Women. There was once a unity between the latter, that of men on top. Ditto with Blacks – but that’s not what you meant. I speak of realities and you of fantasies.
Vaxed vs Unvaxed is a new one. The Unvaxed are superior but in the minority. They wanted to kill us before, remember? Some of us do and we will never forget. Now we will watch them die, sometimes feeling savage joy, sometimes sadness.
It’s going to be every tribe for themselves here at some point. And boy are there a lot of tribes out there. Got tribe, ZaZa? You better get one. Don’t let your fantasies of pseudo anarchist unity deceive you. I’m afraid your starting to sound a bit Kdogish in your refusal to face what Is and WIll Be.
“Species move from competition to cooperation because they discover the economic value of cooperating. It is cheaper, more efficient… All you have to do is look at our pentagon budget and see that a tiny fraction of it would really develop countries that we’ve been levelling instead… Very much more cost-effective to make friends of them than it is to keep them as enemies.” ~ Elizabet Sahtouris, evolutionary biology
The government is pro-abortion but people who are against abortion are government plants.
Doesn’t make too much sense at this level. I admit that it could in terms of a Byzantine level operation. But in terms of just posting here – no. Unless you view yourself as immensely important and their target. Kdog does. Apparently with some real evidence of it, at least at one point.
Bob Avakian has made a career out of this in front his followers – even though the Government lost all interest in him a long time ago.
“…or someone who’s being deeply duped by their ostensible (to be charitable) ruses.” ~ The Man They Call Zazelle, February 1, 2023 at 9:15 pm
Anarchy Over The Aeons
“Now let us proceed: What do you think of your lesser brethren – who are the majority – who march with the Communists and always end up getting purged? So much for Democracy, eh? ~ Jarek February 1, 2023 at 1:02 pm
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“Good point about the Anarchists. In the Soviet Union the Anarchists soldered right alongside the Bolsheviks during the Oktober Revolution, Comrades in Arms. Yet, the first thing Lenin did after gaining control is launch a brutal campaign to liquidate all the Anarchists lol!. History repeated itself in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, which is what Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’ was about — Stalin’s NKVD crushing International Anarchists & Troskyites, a sort of War Within a War. An interesting side note: the first crematoria in Europe were not built by the Nazis, but by the NKVD in Spain, a convenient place to dispose of their political enemies on the left — Trotskyites, right & left Deviationists, and Anarchists.” ~ BackRowHeckler February 1, 2023 at 3:03 pm
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These are typical tropes rolled out by many who seem to have prioritized reading over critical thinking. Which isn’t to necessarily suggest that of you two.
Books and the like (legacy media?) can be like blinders: As we like to say, garbage in, garbage out.
As I’ve already said elsewhere online and in person; either way, whether the large-scale centralized State (cum-Big-Biz symbiosis) significantly changes for the better for everyone, or collapses, I’ll get my anarchy. We’ll get our anarchy.
Why’s that? Because without certain levels of equity, freedom and anarchy, the State will fail, and because of the relative anarchy/equity/freedom of the tribe, band and even village likely to come after the State fails.
You may also wish to review what I already wrote about the tribe previously in these threads (i.e., you can take the human out of the tribe but not the tribe out of the human). We’re hardwired. The State actors try to leverage that of course, but it appears a failing game, and right from the start.
The State, thus far, is a blink of an eye compared to our natural relatively-anarchic form.
That’s part of the wisdom of the tribe. The tribe is the elder of the State, which is almost stillborn or unviable.
Oh and almost all of us are anarchists.
The ones who are not are probably what we call psychopaths and/or sociopaths, some of whom may be working the levers of the State. Which of course brings us back to a JHK article or two.
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“Denominations of a thousand different deities
Congregations, endless carnivals of gaiety
Why should I fear? Why should I cling on to anything?
It’s not how long I live but how beautiful it is
And I saw crying
There was turmoil in the marketplace
I saw economies perpetuate the next arms race
And I felt helpless and there was nothing I could do or say
And then I noticed there’s a change
That’s coming over me
Tapping into the aeon
Myriad experiences of billions of humans
Recorded in the memory, the compassion of their god
Beauty defined by disfigurement and symmetry
Re-evaluate the history and reassess the symbols
Balance of the ecosystem
Self-reliance beckons us
Windmills and waterfalls, strawberries and lily ponds
When skyscrapers no longer block the sun’s meridian
When we awake to the whisper of the voice
Tapping into the aeon…” ~ Aeon, by Killing Joke
youtu . be/7dPhl-k7s3s
Ideological State Apparatuses
“Louis Althusser further developed it in his writing on what he called Ideological State Apparatuses, arguing that… power is partly based on symbolic repression…
Symbolic power… is fundamentally the imposition of categories of thought and perception upon dominated social agents who, once they begin observing and evaluating the world in terms of those categories — and without necessarily being aware of the change in their perspective — then perceive the existing social order as just. This, in turn, perpetuates a social structure favored by and serving the interests of those agents who are already dominant. Symbolic power is in some senses much more powerful than physical violence in that it is embedded in the very modes of action and structures of cognition of individuals, and imposes the specter of legitimacy of the social order.” ~ Wikipedia
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“Animals don’t do what humans do via speech, namely, make a symbol stand in for the thing. As Tim Ingold puts it, ‘they do not impose a conceptual grid on the flow of experience and hence do not encode that experience in symbolic forms.’ ” ~ John Zerzan
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“…The map is a simulacrum that, as a model, loses all reference to reality… reality exists only as rotting shreds that are attached to the map, and this is the state of our age according to Baudrillard; that the model, itself, has primacy for us; the real has become irrelevant…” ~ Frances Flannery-Dailey
Yes, animals don’t do a lot of things that humans do. That there Zerzan is a smart fella. Thus they miss much of the joy and yes, misery, of human life.
Would you be an animal if you could? This is different than honoring your animal part.
The gods are conscious perfection.
The beasts are unconscious imperfection.
Humanity is conscious imperfection.
Hegel, perhaps.
A place of great pain, ZaZa, great pain. But the gods themselves line up to incarnate on Earth. The joy of the higher realms is so great that it gets in the way of discrimination (and not just against Blacks) between the real and the unreal. It’s like being at a crowded party. You see your friend down the hall and you yell to him. But the emotional pleasure and joyful chaos of the party are so great that neither one of you can get to the other – or even remember to do so; or even want to remember to do so or even to do so. It’s like that, ZaZa.
I caught you trying to build a Pyramid with your epistle against dividing people. Primitive people are utterly divided and that’s the way they like it. Typically their tribal name means “the People” in their language. What are everybody else? Enemies. Or in old Australia, game animals.
Gustaph and I plan to go barefoot this summer in order to learn to run in a natural way. And also, rubber soles insulate us against the natural energy of the Earth – one more reason we unhappy moderns are run down. Will you pledge to go barefoot some of the time? Put your feet where your mouth is?
Paths replacing shoes? Is that an improvement? Might as well go swimming.
One can always, too, mount a high horse or one-trick pony, shoeless, such as in boots, and gallop down a path.
If you really want to run “in a natural way” – walk too, or just run naturally? – you need to keep your shoes off when winter comes. Wim Hof can help show you the way.
You can do it Jars. Along with the rest of the Clusterfuck commentariat, I am confident you can put your feet where your mouth is.
I was walking along a trail in 25 degree cold, and a young guy came running by wearing only shorts, and carrying his shoes. He was barefoot! I said, “you are tough stuff!” and he smiled. I encountered him on his way back and said, “seriously that’s impressive.” He called back, “I’m just trying to be like Wim Hoff!”
I was so amazed that some random person on the trail was a fan of the Wim Hoff method. It must be more widespread than I’d ever imagined something like that could be.
As a kid I was amazed how animals ran around naked and barefoot in the winter.
A little older, I was amazed how the American Indians ran around naked and barefoot in the winter.
Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather
I knew my heart was in the right place
I knew I’d be able to do these things.
Until I got distracted…
a young guy came running by wearing only shorts, – MQ
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We had this old woman in our town who could be seen in any weather out walking in shorts that came down to about 3-4 inches above the knee… whether rain, snow or gloom of night. The temp did not deter her… 0-5F, pfft, who cares. She passed a few years ago of natural causes.
Galloping Jarek?
I neglected to close my bold HTML after the Wikipedia quote cake.
John’s and Frances’ quotes were more for the cake’s icing.
Ask yourself to what degree might (to be charitable) you be a ‘dominated social agent‘.
As a related aside, I’d suggest caution in conflating IQ with intelligence.
Lastly, WRT some of your comments, here’s something you may already be aware of:
“The Gish gallop… is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. In essence, it is prioritizing quantity of one’s arguments at the expense of quality of said arguments. The term was coined in 1994 by anthropologist Eugenie Scott, who named it after American creationist Duane Gish and argued that Gish used the technique frequently when challenging the scientific fact of evolution. It is similar to another debating method called spreading, in which one person speaks extremely fast in an attempt to cause their opponent to fail to respond to all the arguments that have been raised.
During a Gish gallop, a debater confronts an opponent with a rapid series of many specious arguments, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright lies in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for the opponent to refute all of them within the format of a formal debate. Each point raised by the Gish galloper takes considerably more time to refute or fact-check than it did to state in the first place, which is known online as Brandolini’s law. The technique wastes an opponent’s time and may cast doubt on the opponent’s debating ability for an audience unfamiliar with the technique, especially if no independent fact-checking is involved or if the audience has limited knowledge of the topics.” ~ Wikipedia
Imagine a map the same Size as the terrain/territory it represents.
Of course that’s not the ‘map’ they’re talking about.
Imagine losing the path in favour of the map.
“CANADA – The Ontario Gov is forcing this dairy farmer to destroy 30,000 litres of milk because they are over quota.
Manipulating the price upwards whilst wasting food that could be donated to shelters, hospitals and food banks.”
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1621061323797983233?cxt=HHwWgsDTwe2rlf8sAAAA
Reminder: The crises — whether climate-, energy, or food-related– are not real.
Re the powers that be trying to deprive us of eggs by (a) telling us they are unhealthy and (b) trying to destroy poultry farms, Dr Jessica Rose wonders if this is why they don’t want you eating those little yellow miracles.
jessicar.substack.com/p/so-thats-why-eggs-are-so-deviled
She’s an expert data analyst, so has assessed the quality of the study, before RL comes in with some low-grade, ridiculous attack.
Good to hear! Gonna take the trash out to the curb now then whip up my usual breakfast: two eggs, two sausage links, and two slices of Ezekial bread toast.
Yep, I haven’t had breakfast yet (it’s 13.45!) but I’m going to the corner shot for another half dozen large, free-range beauties. Even at £3.15 for six, that’s only 50 pence or so for a shot of immune-system goodness!
corner shop!
GA, what are those strikes all about in the UK? From here, it looks like the whole country is on strike. I was reading some of their demands, which boil down basically to we want higher wages. But where is the money to pay higher wages supposed to come from? And if it’s a General Strike and the entire UK workforce is on the street chanting slogans, really, aren’t they striking against themselves? From what I can see, unions and most of the UK workforce support both the ‘Transition to Renewables’ and hostility to Russia, which for many reasons seem to be going a long way to bankrupting the country.
Unions are cyclic.
The PTB push down on the working folks, think AI or movement of labor to cheaper regions or replacement of workers with cheaper immigrants. The unions pull in many more folks and become more powerful.
Then they start hitting up members for higher dues to afford more strike protection. The folks rebel and the power declines.
The cycle repeats.
Union folk vs. non-Union folks created some of the Dem.GOP split.
The UK is going to get what it’s been asking for and what it deserves – grinding poverty.
When you say ‘the UK’, Woodchuck, which people are you specifically referring to as being deserving of grinding poverty? Ordinary working people? Plumbers? Shop assistants? Factory workers? Hospital porters?
It’s like there’s a sub-conscious pushback to the anti-eggs edicts here locally. They sell out as fast as the local Smith’s can stock them, and they stock A LOT. They’d have to price them REALLY high to deter me. $6 or $7 a dozen or more? No problem at all. A dollar an egg might give me slight pause, but I think I could swallow that as well.
I’ve just noticed at Rural King they have a sale going on for back yard poultry starter kits. I’m predicting they will sell these out and that in the very near future, kits like these will become very popular. Grow you own eggs and stop watching tv and fussin’ and fightin’ on CFN. Back in the old days, we had feed stores here in town that catered to all the suburban people who had large lots and mini-farms. Back in the days before refrigerators, even the prosperous and well off people here had their gardens and chicken houses. They could do this because they weren’t distracted by irrelevant sports and other garbage tv entertainment.
Any good cock fighting near your glen or hollow? Do you bet on it? Or are you a dog fighting man? Or does Dil keep you from doing what you wants to do?
What else will there be to do once the screens go black. There’s horse tripping, a Mexican sport. Maybe go back to gouging, the martial art of the old frontier?
Jeremiah Johnson killed a huge Black with a leaping kick to the head.
I lost a hen the night before last. Couldnt find where she was roosting, the others locked up after dark. Next morning found her chewed up with a bloody egg laying there. Might have been coyotes. Maybe an old loner. Cut out free-range until march?
“Any good cock fighting…?” Dammit Jars, this is a family site.
“Jeremiah Johnson killed a huge Black with a leaping kick to the head.” I read that it was a combination of bad investment advice, as well as banging the black bear’s old lady.
History, who writes it when there are no winners?
Eggs are one of the most complete sources of nutrition one can consume. Cheap, too.
Beef is also quite good, but no cheap.
The food pyramid. It is a lie.
They were developed by the dairy and beef industries in the 50s. I remember them in grade school.
Not sure how that makes sense.
Many have come to realize that the pyramid is inverted.
Breads, etc., should be at the very top, with meat and eggs at the bottom — meaning you should consume mostly animal proteins. Veggies and low-sugar fruits go in the middle.
What JAZ is talking about is correct.
Meat and eggs and dairy were VERY pushed up until the current hysteria.
I remember when Oprah went up against the beef industry, that didn’t bode well for her at the time.
I can’t imagine how they suddenly managed to quell the cattle ranch/beef industry and lobbies. Seems like sort of a mystery. Maybe they are paying them off so they don’t push back at the new meatless plans for the future.
The original FDA food pyramid is here.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/USDA_Food_Pyramid.gif
Most of the good stuff is up at the top. Which partially explains why most Americans look as they do.
The Koala & Flying Fox In You
Just to shoehorn in on this…
Different people who have different metabolisms and who live in different locales that have different foods, eat different things.
Of course global industrial civilization has largely stripped all of that all out.
Eggs…. Cheap, too.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPtGPwNhAfg
GA
Maybe it is the chicken farts??
Seriously, the stupidity of the proponents that animals are evil because the produce CO2 and methane is monumental. They will not be happy until the final extinction is complete. They will say in hindsight, “I guess mankind was not here only for itself, than man cannot exist without its animal brethren.”
We have agreed on the effects of AGW in the past. However, if the climate warms and exposes Siberia, Greenland and Canada for agriculture, it that a bad thing. These idiots have not a clue about what is going to happen to the continents, will we lose land to desertification, or gain land as deserts gain moisture from warming oceans. Will increasing levels of carbon in the ocean save all the corals and shellfish? Line up 100 experts and you will get 100 answers.
Is Gaia happy with a planet with frozen poles or one where life is everywhere. We are witnessing a change that in out of the hands of mankind,
Thank God from whom all blessings flow.
The planet currently has had CO2 levels at critically low percentages. If we cut our current atmospheric percentage of trace amounts of CO2 in half, from 400 ppm down to something like 150 ppm, life on this planet would end because photosynthesis wouldn’t work any more. . We need more CO2, not less. As always, the truth is the very reverse of whatever the academic left says it is. In the past, CO2 levels have been up to 20 times more than what it is now. The only result of this was increased plant growth, there was no runaway greenhouse effect happening. We’ve even had very cold periods on the planet with very high CO2 levels. I have certainly not agreed on the effects of AGW, they are lying about AGW as they lie about everything else.
Anything, anything to acquire and maintain power!!!!
It is what motivates these power only people like the attendees of Davos.
It is the history of Man.
Re “these yellow miracles.”
Yes, many animals search out other species’ eggs as food.
It stands to reason: After all, an egg contains everything needed to nurture a new chicken, duck, turtle, snake, whatever, until it is ready to hatch.
Here’s a fellow on a you tube channel claiming that eggs are now being blamed for people having blood clots. A new “scientific study” has determined that eggs contain a dangerous substance, and *that’s* maybe why people are mysteriously dying from clots. It couldn’t possibly be from the safe and effective shots, now could it? The eggs did it, and it’s time to educate the public about this! No soup for you, and NO eggs for you!
youtu.be/Y7LEyWY1T_0
“UN Initiative Targets And Doxxes Doctors And Nurses Who Don’t Follow COVID-19 Narrative”
“Sirotek is the victim of ongoing harassment. She’s received pictures of her children posed in slaughterhouses and hanging from a noose, drive-by photos of her house, and letters with white powder that exploded upon opening.
The Nevada State Board of Nursing was inundated with calls for Sirotek’s professional demise and flooded with anonymous complaints.
These complaints trace back to Team Halo, a social media influencer campaign formed as part of the United Nations Verified initiative and the Vaccine Confidence Project.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-initiative-targets-and-doxes-doctors-and-nurses-who-dont-follow-covid-19-narrative
I do not think MDs know squat about Covid, and they are not getting any help or information from R&D because there isn’t any.
I know what I believe and what you do, I am incensed that no one really KNOWS who is right.
With little data, and pointed politics, MDs are operating out of fear of the government seeing as most of them are dependent on them.
Wonder what will happen when they, the MDs, figure out their sustenance is based on a government Ponzi scheme?
Horrendous. I remember her from Senator Ron Johnson’s hearing. She describes herself as ‘just a nurse’, but she has a science degree as well – biochemistry of something.
GA
The info about Covid, to this day, is opinion based. Most of the anti vaxx opinions started before the vaxx was given widely. Most of the pro Vaxx opinions are based on political bullshit.
Three years and we know very little about the virus, its effects, the Vaxx and its effects.
The lack of real information makes Joe Average have faith in the government mouthpieces. The rest is history. This blog has presented the anti vaxx opinion based on opinions and data from various sources and most of the info has been truthful. The public opinion about the vaxx is changing as very few are being boosted. Ironic, that with the low turnout, the new cases count just keeps falling.
Who is kidding who here?
Opinion and anecdotal info!
Not all of the info about covid is opinion based, John.
The figures here
– are from an FOI request;
– show that no doctors or nurses at all died ‘involving covid’ in the last 3 years in Scotland, despite being ‘at the front line’;
– show that there was literally no pandemic in Scotland.
The death figures from the first week of 2000 were greater than at the height of the ‘pandemic’.
ukcolumn.org/blogs/scottish-foi-response-no-doctors-or-nurses-have-died-involving-covid-for-three-years
Oops, didn’t switch off the italics after ‘at all’! Thank goodness it wasn’t bold …
“Thank goodness it wasn’t bold …” ~ GreenAlba
That was my indignity to suffer elsewhere. Oh woe and the humanity ‘n’ stuff…
…But what can you do?…
(dabs eyes, blows nose)
““Sirotek is the victim of ongoing harassment. She’s received pictures of her children posed in slaughterhouses and hanging from a noose, drive-by photos of her house, and letters with white powder that exploded upon opening.
The Nevada State Board of Nursing was inundated with calls for Sirotek’s professional demise and flooded with anonymous complaints.
These complaints trace back to Team Halo, a social media influencer campaign formed as part of the United Nations Verified initiative and the Vaccine Confidence Project.””
Oh, come on!
People are *not* being targeted and terrorized via an onslaught of propaganda.
They are just hysterical, and it’s all their own fault if these folks in Nevada develop mass formation psychosis.
(cue Matheus Desmet).
/snark
Folks have been saying for awhile that what enlarged the brain of humans was when they acquired the skills to hunt and started eating meat. The increase in protein intake caused neural systems to grow in complexity and early Man became a very good predator.
Now, move to the present.
All these young folks and their anti meat agendas?
Is this reverse evolution, is it where Stupidification is coming from?
Are Democrats all vegans? It would explain a lot!!
Just wondering?
That and losing that urge to seek truth.
They all have fallen down the well of the Overton window.
The only thing they ever bother to question is anything that runs contrary to their preconceived errant beliefs.
Peruse the msn “news” site for just how disastrous this cycle of propaganda has destroyed the question authority 70’s rebellious spirit.
The hippies of the 70’s are now the worst sell outs for tyrannical lockstep toady behavior and group think.
I would also suggest heavy drug abuse has destroyed much of what went for free thought.
Yes!
But the meat part is important. My understanding is that it was seafood originally that resulted in humans brains expanding in capacity of thought and complexity. Supposedly our original ancestors lived close to the ocean and so did a lot of fishing and gathering shellfish, etc. Overtime we became inland creatures and moved into the centers of the continents where we started hunting the wild game which you might be thinking of more. Supposedly our language developed because of hunting. Because the men had to make symbols and gestures to communicate quietly. And language is symbolic. Yes. At the time men hunted and women and kids stayed at the camp to keep the fire going and gathered berries and wild fruit. That was the very very beginning of learning cultivation too.
You forgot one other factor in the hunting of wild game. For up to 100,000 years, men and wolf/dogs have been hunting together, and it seems very successfully. I still hunt some with my dog, only we are hunting garden varmints that the dogs eat, not me. Although if no meat was available in stores, I’d be trying groundhog, squirrel, and racoon stew. And dogs understand human gestures, expressions, and some words *very* well.
Well we’ve developed a lot throughout the eons. these posts are kinda funny. is virtue signalling right or wrong? are all our devices sabotaged with frequency – shelling out a good word just to let you know it was stolen?
What is desire? As the psycologist would ponder individually? Love and hate get it wrong she cut me right back down to size. the fire fizzled, faded, and extinguished and the great voice was “dead” because it can’t be connected. Is this stolen? Who would feel it harder? the birther or the hunter? I can’t believe I’m drifting into liberalism, but I have to say. As male I can’t tell those pains. If I felt it, or said I did, I’d drift into dreams, and would be called out as displacing or using symbolism.
who’s gonna save bq? the wrong word hurt, we’re supposed to be one and such domestic luridness, but is our dream stealing something? We don’t take it as sacred, static or beautiful, and we can no longer name the object. It’s said that’s their goal, but we can’t agree on what the dream is! And somehow that’s the defense. All the law abiding citizens know this.
I deleted all this. nasdaq up three percent.
So you are saying that dogs were an important component in the development of language?
Bow wow!!
Bow wow wow yippe yo yippe yay LOL 🙂
Based upon my understanding of human evolution, the dog is indeed, man’s best friend. (Despite being a noisy, needy, shit-machine.)
Woodchuck, you’d eat “groundhog”? The Horror…
Groundhogs supposedly don’t taste bad at all, they’re just greasy. There are groundhog recipes online, my dog and I kill around a dozen a year, and they still keep coming and damaging my garden. They are everywhere and a nuisance due to lack of predators. Back when I was a child, dogs ran free and kept the varmint population at more normal levels.
I’d try one if no other meat was available.
I think you’re missing my point ‘chucky.
A woodchuck (Marmota monax) eating a groundhog (Marmota monax) would be, by definition, a cannibal. The Horror…
I would expect that kind of nonsense from tree squirrels, but I thought ground squirrels were above that.
Meanwhile, I reckon you can appreciate the scene memorialized in this classic song:
youtube.com/watch?v=cqU41vJjchQ
Unhealthiness in general abounds.
Mentally, physically… what a mess. Too much sitting and watching screens.
Adherence to the new trend of self-butchering for social credit.
Obesity and diabetes everywhere, from eating processed crap.
Substance abuse like mad.
Not looking good for this younger generation, that’s for sure.
The obesity and diabetes everywhere will end after the car culture collapses and people are riding bikes instead of riding in autos. Watching screens might end after chicken houses and gardens become essential due to food sometimes being unavailable. That will also help with the diabetes. The self butchering will end when the medical system implodes and pills and operations are unaffordable. Substance abuse? Let all the dopeheads kill themselves via overdoes and remove their problems from society the natural way. The younger generation is choosing to believe the garbage taught them in schools. The school brainwashing will cease after we are collectively too broke to fund the schools and no resources are available to keep the diesel buses running or the buildings heated and maintained.
Sadly, I agree with all that.
FYI the druggies are ones to watch as they commit a lot of crimes in order to get their fixes. They lose their moral compass completely which makes them dangerous.
And there is no shortage of them.
There’s a simple solution to the “fix” issue that results in robberies. Legalize all that crap and let the free market supply the dopers with whatever they want. No more “black market” drugs. Nature will solve the problem on her own. It won’t be pretty, but life isn’t pretty sometimes, and nobody lives forever. If you can’t make it here without using massive amounts of recreational drugs, then maybe your soul belongs on another planet. Mother nature will help you get there. Death, while it’s messy and scary – does solve a lot of problems.
breitbart>
The State University of New York (SUNY) system has made a racial equity course mandatory for graduation at all of its 64 campuses. One political science professor responded, “This is nuts.” The professor added, “Unfortunately, SUNY responded to the mob.”
The 64-campus SUNY college system is informing incoming freshmen students at all of its colleges that they will be required to complete a “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice” (DEISJ) course in order to earn their degrees.
AKA ‘Hate Whitey’ indoctrination.
Then there’s this:
“Manufacturer ‘Siemens Corporation’ announces a $967 million loss in its Wind Turbine Mfg Division Oct.-Dec. 2022, calls for more govt subsidy.”
Remember a few years back when Solar Panel manufacturer Solyndra lost $500 million in a single year, and went belly up?
President Biden, when he shut down the Keystone Pipeline “On day 1” of his term, throwing 10,000 employees out of work: “Not to worry, these people will get good paying, meaningful, union jobs in Renewables & Green energy. How’d that work out?
Those people out of good paying, meaningful jobs should up and move to Russia. At least there is meaningful work to be done there on behalf of the country. And you wouldn’t have to worry about being unemployed because of some silly social agenda. There are always farming collectives you could join.
Honestly, I cannot believe more of us don’t move there. If I was 30 years younger I would certainly consider pulling up stakes and pledging my loyalty to the Russian Motherland. And with sanctions, good luck having the US Government try to come after me for additional taxes once I renounce my citizenship!
“Those people… should up and move to Russia.”
1) Is it that easy? “Hi Vlad! I’m here to work for Mother Russia!”
2) Do you get to choose where you live?
3) Even then, it’s still too damn cold.
At least now they can’t pretend they aren’t indoctrination centers.
I hope it affects their attendance, but then, they’re already losing the smart people, by design, and they seem to be OK with that.
Lots of universities now aren’t requiring SATs or anything from the ‘underserved population’ which means they are catering their services to the dumbest and least capable, and least hard-working.
I’m guessing that’s where diversity hire disasters like Jordan Walker come from. But I’m just speculating.
What’s interesting is that Walker checked so many boxes in his performances both before and after he realized they were onto him, that a film scriptwriter and actor would be hard-pressed to cram the same details into the same minutes Walker did.
Doubtless Academy Award-winning.
Our host is a proud graduate of the SUNY system, Brockport, I believe.
This was before the system went woke and required these ludicrous classes. In my undergrad days I purposely dropped a history class because the professor was avowedly gay, and I couldn’t stand him looking at me or talking to me since I am sure he had the hots for me. It was creepy.
Note, I graduated at the end of 2003. I thought things were bad them with the diversity and inclusive agenda, but now I see it was nowhere closes to as bad as things are today in our annals of higher education. If I was a student today I would never kowtow to their demands, I would drop out immediately.
Best news of the day:
“Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee”
Ilhan is a foreign nationalist and spy among our ranks. She is worse than the January 6th protesters. She hates our country and what it stands for in the world. Ilhan on the FAC is like Hunter Biden on the board of a Ukrainian oil corporation. Oh wait….
/wwwXX.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-vote-to-remove-rep-ilhan-omar-from-the-foreign-affairs-committee/ar-AA172qSI
From one vantage, she is blind as a bat. From another, she is a heroic. Summing it up, she is a stalemate.
J6 protesters? What is that supposed to mean??
January 6.
Thanks for the clarification. My question though is why say oh she is worse than the J6 protesters. Well, the J6 protesters were simply regular citizens protesting a stolen election so I don’t even see how they fit in to this discussion. But i’m so glad you make it clear that you believe I can’t do anything correctly or right. How dare you speak to me in such a way.
I agree, the J6 protesters were just regular citizens taking matters into their own hands, nothing at all wrong with that. I was looking at it from her perspective, believing that she holds the view that J6 participants are the worst of the worst. She likely thinks they want to tear apart our democracy. This in fact is not true, if is Ilhan that is the biggest threat to our democracy, not J6 participants!
SSL, Are you asking me?
Honestly i don’t know what I am doing anymore LOL jk. No I just misunderstood the comment and was a little on edge within that moment so it probably just sounded different than I anticipated. I just get sensitive about J6 still. It’s almost to the level of how like if you mention Trump I start to get triggered and panic attackish.
Yeah, OK, gotcha.
Poor Ilhan…just a lil ol Somalian trying to make it in a cold cruel world. At least she knows how to juke a corrupt system to get a salary and pension. The homeland taught her well. But hey, her constituents elected her, right?
She is a Somali pirate of the most corrupt sort, American style.
She’s just another supporter of the warmonger intel state and she does hate Americans generally. But in reality, what is the difference between her and most of Congress? Most of them are more loyal to Israel than they are America so.
You got that right, SSL.
I wonder if they’re all still required to do the Israel pledge?
In a way I think they actually are. But not so sure that it is a specific pledge to Israel. Secretly it could very well be. But it may just be shrouded in the way that they all talk about how anti-Semitism is the greatest sin and they try to ban everything that “anti-semitic”. They are more worried about that than anything it seems
At least Ilhan Omar isn’t another tool of Israel. If you’re looking for something nice to say about her, there you go.
She’s dating your Cuban houseboy, ain’t she, lo’ t?
My local news posted some survey from somewhere. I don’t know how or who performed it. It just shows that people are most disconnected in the Bluest/ woke states. No states from the South.What that means and why is it so? Researchers with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said that Boston appears to be getting lonelier, with the 5-year period seeing a 6% increase in single-person residences.Perhaps all the older single people?
Loneliest States On Valentine’s Day
1. Massachusetts
2. Oregon
3. Connecticut
4. Washington
5. California
6. New York
7. Maryland
8. Colorado
9. Utah
10. Nebraska
It is definitely because all those states are so woke. The woke agenda does not tolerate gender differences or traditional notions of romance. Heaven forbid you purchase your significant other a bouquet of flowers or a diamond pendent. As a result, you will be lonely and you will like it!
I can only imagine, in some of those woke states it is probably more appropriate and socially acceptable to purchase your other half a vibrator, butt plug, or personal restraints. The more kinked out the better for those types.
I can see Rhett now. Standing at the base of the stairs of the porch with a single rose and a smile. I hope the weather is real nice. Lol
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I come to call you to remain attentive to the changes designed by the powerful, so that all humanity would walk as one, plunging into the abyss.
DECISIVE CHANGES ARE COMING FOR ALL HUMANITY; THIS IS THE PERIOD WHEN MY CHILDREN MUST PREPARE THEMSELVES.
You will once again be sent to work from home and the activities necessary for the survival of the peoples will decrease…
The forces of evil are raging against you, so I have called you to strengthen yourselves spiritually before the very serious events that you are going to face. Some of My children will return to My Son.
Beloved children, with firm faith you will overcome the oppression that you will face. It is each person’s duty to increase their faith by Divine Mercy, even if the waiting has been long. (cf. 1 Corinthians 16:13).
Children, the consequences of the present conflicts will spread as more countries join in; and the strife will reach the point where the human race will take the fatal decision to use nuclear energy. YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE DEVASTATION! THE INNOCENT WILL SUFFER AND SAINT MICHAEL AND HIS LEGIONS WILL TAKE THEM AWAY.
All humanity will taste the bitterness of the progress of misused technology. This is a time of suffering; so many years have gone by for humanity awaiting the fulfillment of My Revelations. THE TIME IS NOW!
The calls will come to a halt, not because the Divine Will decrees it, but because you will not have the means to make them reach humanity. I invite you to have them on paper.
The sun continues to affect the earth and man does not notice the alterations to the earth’s core. (1)
DO NOT FEAR, CHILDREN: THIS QUEEN AND MOTHER OF THE END TIMES IS CONTINUALLY WATCHING OVER YOU.
Beloved of My Son:
Keep a crucifix.
Keep an image of Me under the title that each person wishes,
Keep prayer books.
Those who do not have candles that have been blessed on the day of the Presentation of My Son in the temple, when at the same time my title of Our Lady of the Candles is celebrated, should take them to be blessed. (February 2, 2023) Not because it is already the Three Days of Darkness, but because they will receive a special blessing for the appropriate moments.
MY CHILDREN, STORE HONEY AND SEEDS, AS WELL AS ALMONDS, WALNUTS, GROUNDNUTS OR PEANUTS AND FOOD.
Children, nature will make itself felt with greater force; humanity will not feel safe anywhere.
The Church of My Son is sick because of lack of love for My Son. The Divine Will shall be fulfilled in the Church, not without first purifying it following great trials.
Faithful children, persist in faith: you will not be abandoned. My Divine Son will prevail, the Holy Eucharist will always remain.
Dearly beloved children, a celestial body is approaching the Earth; it will make itself felt on Earth, altering it. Do not fear, I remain vigilant in this regard: show foresight. It is St. Michael the Archangel and His Celestial Legions who are defending you at this time.
Beloved children of My Divine Son, the Devil has his sights set on the destruction of families.
Pray the Holy Rosary at home; if you must pray alone, pray alone at home. What is essential is to pray with the heart.
Be creatures of good, be loving children of My Divine Son and make reparation for those who offend you.
Pray for those who do not pray and who attack the Church of My Son.
Continue on your way, do not stop at this moment and be faithful to My Divine Son.
Receive my blessing: in the name of the Father of the Son and of Holy Spirit.
And Punxsutawney Phil predicts another six weeks of winter today too!
Actually, Phil identifies as a woman now. From now on refer to her as Punxsutawney Philemena.
Hahaha, this totally explains it:
EXCLUSIVE: Unattractive people are MORE likely to keep wearing face masks in post-Covid era, study suggests
People who consider themselves attractive are less likely to wear face masks. Those who see themselves as less attractive likely believe masks improve looks.
wwwXX.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702641/Unattractive-people-likely-continue-wearing-Covid-face-masks-study-suggests.html
Can you imagine being so disgusting that other people put a mask on you?
“Unbelievable, but it’s a fact; we are once again being threatened with German tanks — Leopards –that have crosses painted on their sides.”-VPutin, at the 80th anniversary of the end of the battle of Stalingrad (Volgograd) 2/2/2023.
By law, during Feb 1 to Feb 10, the city of Volgograd reverts to its
original name of STALINGRAD.
Stelmo…Nebraska is woke??
So woke. Remember when I posted about Sam Binton teaching a kink class at a university there?
Actually…. all big cities are woke.
Actually, all big cities are run by Blacks sponsored by G. Soros, that cannot organize themselves out of a wet paper bag.
It is a prime example of the inadequacy of the Black political population, 100% of these cities are dysfunctional.
Cities are the landfills of our society, where all the trash ends up.
Then our insane election system gives them all the power, allowing the Deep State to feed on their insatiable gimme hunger ( see also reparations).
Whether it is Phoenix, Chicago, Or the latest Atlanta, the Dems always have enough votes to overcome any lead the GOP has in close races.
This country is a scam.
Only one site more woke
The college campus.
Yes, of course, far be it for you to be responsible for the fate of your country. You did not wreck it. It was those other people, right?
So, Let me ask you WHO was the dumb f-ck responsible for vaccinating you?
“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy our economy ” – Chris Hedges
Do remember the commercial airplane that several months ago mysteriously crashed somewhere in remote Guangxi Province in China? The Chinese pilot literally nose dived the plane into the ground from 36,000 feet at a 90 degree angle. They suspect that the pilot was distraught about something. It was probably because of a Woman?
They could appoint that bloke to the US Federal Reserve? Or, put him in charge of the war in Ukraine?
I seem to recall mentioning hereon sometime last spring about a bus driver that was going over a bridge (possibly over the Yangtze River at Shanghai) and, during some altercation with someone on the bus who seemed to be hitting him in the head with a cellphone, he crossed over into the opposite lane and continued to drive the bus off the bridge.
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735.
The demented Neville Chamberlin of our time.
Joe Biden offered Russia a chunk of a country he is not running or have any ownership to?
msn.com/en-us/news/world/joe-biden-offered-vladimir-putin-20-percent-of-ukraine-to-end-war-report
I wonder if he was also demanding a 10% vig back from his handler Putin.
Well as I have complained to our esteemed host, in a private email, every time I get so disgusted with The New Yorker that I vow not to renew my sub, a fascinating piece of fiction pops up, or some insightful, if heavily compromised, historical study like this one, entitled “When Americans lost faith in the news”. The author traces it back to the effect of the aggression Vietnam, and the conflicted role of media:
h11ps://www.n3wyork3r.com/m4g4zin3/2023/02/06/when-americans-lost-faith-in-the-news?bxid=5f8e46bd459ad717411fc3f3&cndid=62485440&esrc=lwg-register&hasha=82599a1c2743b2f4f5299d12ac16f8a8&hashb=145333383e25d6a51c912d10596990c1ab4a7396&hashc=9a7e0cdea53bfdf90b98f5fb4746b240b8096f15e1efc00e0cf18136b9548de9&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_020223
It carefully shies away from Hot Buttons of The Moment, even as the numbers of vaccidentally vaxecuted are soaring.
(KEY: change “11” for “tt”, “3” to “e” and “4” to “a” in the URL, Earl.)
It sounds like you too are wrestling with an addiction. Far be it from me to tell anybody what they should do. But you may consider just not renewing the sub. Of course the high is going to try to drag you back in. Every time. But you simply have to say no. Perhaps send them a treatise detailing the components of your ultimate decision to cancel. It may help take you mind off the pain of detox.
Thanks for the helpful suggestion. Grim economic reality may pluck the decision out of my hands, actually.
I’m 11 time zones from my own culture so literary / cultural input is appreciated in a way not like for someone immersed in it.
What I would find most painful to quit is the London Review of Books. Even the letters to the Editor make elegant reading.
MQ…how ’bout Scottsbluff? It has to at least as woke as Boise.
“ The bewildering hypotheticals of recent years begin to dissolve like mist on the mountain and things come back into focus: your health, your daily bread, your shelter, your associations with other people close to you, your values, and most of all the power of your own choices. Nature, much insulted and maligned, will sort out the rest.”
Do you remember the scene in the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street”, when the deranged Wall Street stock trader played by Matthew McConaughey asks Leonardo DiCaprio during his job interview whether he masturbates frequently while on the job trading stocks for clients? McConaughey’s character insists that the key to staying focused on Wall Street is doing lots of Coke and masturbating frequently….
LOL ok that is completely random. I haven’t seen that movie before. It sounds strange. In order to focus it seems like all one should need is maybe a quiet space. Perhaps some strong coffee, I dunno, but that is just hmm.
“rookie numbers”
UCLA’s Tyger Campbell has the ugliest hair in all of college basketball and that is sayin somethin’. Does this guy own a mirror? How could anyone be this oblivious?
Balloons over Montana – another useful diversion.