Debt Rattle August 3 2023

One of the most famous photos(shops). I think it just sold for millions.

Wars come and go in general, but we’re at a point where Offense is ridiculously out of line with Defense. Those are not bad tanks, bunkers, etc, but the offense is just so VERY powerful, at such incredible distances (over the horizon), that what can stop them? So the response would/should be, more offense. Hit the factories, etc. That’s also not a great thing, as we can bomb everything, worldwide, no good for humans anywhere. Wery Scary.

As we see with Biden/Obama in Africa. “Bomb ‘em all, they’re Black!”

“Since 9/11 the fabric of western civ has been unraveling at a growing pace,”

…Has been attacked and forced to unravel unnaturally, using near-limitless power and money. Hundreds, thousands or more people brought it up and stood in the way and were directly killed. Millions were economically siphoned because of non-support. It’s not an asteroid, it’s a crime, that was planned and executed by criminals.

Why is it “madness”? Because as you can tell from the sentence above, the criminals are mad, that is, insane. And since they have the power, it is used to advance their egos, beliefs, and desires in life, which are ipso fact, “mad.” We’re just along for the ride, that is, unless you want to point it out and do something about it. Like non-participation in parallel systems for instance.

“Lira perhaps detained on Ukrainian side”

Yes, and perhaps we can put an end to “He’s simply the enemy” talk when they haul him to court and shoot him? Will everyone be happy then? As Ritter, I wish him well, even if I don’t believe everything he says about his situation. There are lies by omission, but unlike the Cartoon People, as RFK says, I understand how rapidly and irreversibly things can get “complicated” when you’re in a 1,000-mile area with nothing but violent criminals and mafias with nothing to do all day but express their crooked criminality and desperation.

Just like Baltimore.

Somebody posted “The cheese is free” on a college wall? Sounds like they need some “worker solidarity” with a sock and a bar of soap. They will find you and show you their true values for “tolerance” and “the little guy.”

“Will NATO intervene?”

Eventually, yes. Apparently next summer, because otherwise, they will all die. But since they were sniffing their own farts, they LITERALLY THOUGHT Russia was the USSR, circa 1979 – STILL. They LITERALLY THOUGHT Western equipment could shoot and blow things up, at all. They LITERALLY THOUGHT the counter-attack would work and bring Russia to heel in Crimea, even though Russia already blew up their LAST two Armies like paper dolls.

So my point is, this is a biiiiiiiiig surprise to them. Since they never ask anybody nothin’, nor go get “Data” – just like Climate. “Asking” means you’d have to get within 30 feet of a “Deplorable”, that is, a man who does “work”. Brrrr. Inconceivable! If anyone DOES tell them anything, they’re fired on the spot, if not shot, from Yale 101 courses straight up to DoD and State Department.

THE PURPOSE OF MIDDLE MANAGEMENT IS TO PREVENT INFORMATION. Right, Jb? ALL these bureaucracies, are dedicated, to the death, to PREVENT the air-tight fart bubble from knowing anything, getting ANY real information, EVER.

And it worked great! This structure they painfully and laboriously built works perfectly. There was no dissent anywhere; all the data was entirely and perfectly censored.

…Such that not a single man, anywhere in NATO, had the slightest clue they weren’t on the eve of Total Victory and Unconditional Surrender. But now that they’re not, they need TIME – a thing they don’t have – to make a what, people? That’s right, “The Plan”. They love their Plans, because “Plans” always follow their rules in the script. And “Plans” never, ever allow the little people to do or decide anything. Or indeed matter at all.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Plans will get you killed. You need skills, alternatives, and a free range of weapons and techniques to throw at them hopefully from a bottomless bag of holding. That means there are no “Plans” except in the roughest parameters, and The People, the Deplorables, Violent Convicted Criminals from Tolyatti, with one ear and their teeth punched out, are deciding and running things. On the battlefield at least.

Chronic disease, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDYDZEqh-c0 RFK points out the Data is a big, fat beacon you can see from Mars. All chronic disease, diabetes, autism, neurological disorders, allergies, immune conditions, went four-fold the day after 1989. Hmm. Now what could POSSIBLY have happened in just 1-12 months, in THAT particular year? I just can’t figure it out. And no one noticed. No medical curiosity at all as to why the U.S. is 4 times sicker than the sickest, poorest countries on the planet (for chronic diseases). NOPE! All good here the CDC says! All good here, the FDA says! All good here, the AMA says! Carry on, fellows, you’re doing God’s work being worst in the world where a hundred million lives are ruined daily.

Think of the COST of it, the IMMEASURABLE WEALTH freed up for the Middle Class – for nothing! — if we just cut chronic disease and its costs by 25%. Medicare for all? In a heartbeat. Because then it’d cost half as much.

N. O. P. E. Not gonna do it! Wouldn’t be prudent. We’re not even gonna look. So WHY did they get away with Covid? Well s—t man, they did it every day of your lives and no one cared, why WOULDN’T they do it? Just like they locked down the Indians on the Rez, fed them trash until they were all sick and died, crime rates 10x normal, AND YOU LIKED IT, so they expanded the “Federal Help” programs to YOU.

If you think it’s wrong, stop it. Whether one man or a thousand. Whether you like that guy and his race or ideas, or not. That is, have morals, have values.

Luongo said the same thing for other Regulators, “Helpers”, in this case in automobiles. The CAFE and safety standards require no cars can be built. At all, but also at a reasonable price. That’s not enough either, so they’re already saying “No cars unless they get 1,000mpg!!!” or something. Actually, that’s why American pickups are “Idiocracy” large. Nobody WANTS them. They’re REQUIRED to be that large, by law, as they are considered delivery trucks, semis, etc by category and therefore outside the “automobile” and “driver” category. Then, of course, they then make fun of what they themselves did, and required. And also at that size cost $40,000. Same with small cars. There are fine small, efficient cars worldwide, cheap. YOU CAN’T HAVE THEM. Government says, and they’re here to help.

Now that modest car from Tata might not have 10,000 extra expensive, complex, fragile parts that allow it to meet the extra-new emissions, or 20 air bags (and sensors) for safety, being both safer and cleaner than any car ever made before 2005, but YOU CAN’T HAVE IT. …And therefore drive a 18mpg, 8 x 20 foot long double-wide $40,000 pickup instead of this 40mpg modest, reasonable car, made for $14,000. Save the Planet!!! Helping!!!

So imagine the IMMEASURABLE wealth freed up for the middle class if they STOP HELPING and let them sell cars people WANT for a change, cars at $14,000, a little lighter, tinnier, simpler, more efficient, that let them get to work that they can afford on their wages. …But that would be like Disney making movies people WANT instead of movies WE FORCE YOU TO WATCH. That is, that would be “Capitalism”, voluntary free exchange, and we can’t have that. We need to burn down the earth “helping” instead. “You’ll Get Nothing And Like It!!!!!!!!”

So there are TRILLIONS of dollars (i.e. ‘effort’) waiting to be freed to make us all rich, peaceful, and happy, if only you let people behave “normally”, make affordable cars, cure diseases, and it costs TRILLIONS to prevent doing this, each year.

So can RFK do this? Sure. It pays for itself instantly.

“..it [NATO] continues to thrive, sustaining itself by constantly instigating warfare and conflicts..”

China agrees. It, ie NATO for instance, makes money by COSTING money. That’s not a good plan. It collapses, like all fascisms do. Like any disease, they only live by expanding. If they stop killing healthy tissue, they die. If they don’t stop, we all die. THEY are the bacteria in a vat they claim WE are.

“• New Trump Charges Not ‘Solid’, Criminalize Constitutional Free Speech Right (Sp.)”

Yes, it’s a crime to even ASK about whether the election was good, and whether he should call for a recount. That is, following the process of law is now an arrestable crime. Of course! What Blue city or state ISN’T already like that? Steal all you want: the only crime is STOPPING the stealing.

“Trump has argued that the newly unveiled indictment against him is the latest attempt by the “Biden crime family” and the weaponized US Justice Department to interfere in the 2024 presidential election.”

The people need to see this. However, it’s still not connecting to most of them. You need to pull their 401k and their Door Dash for THAT group of people to care about anything. Even then, they will be in denial. They are statistically THE MOST fragile and the most mentally ill. By a LOT. Like 3-5x more mentally ill than the population? Every one of them on Soma, I mean drugs?

Devon Archer, etc: the Story here is he can go on TV, talk all day, get on record and nobody does anything. The Mafia, the Derp State is now expended, helpless. That means there’s a floodgate of presently-blackmailed people in government who would LOVE to get out from under these guys and take hot revenge. That’s what IRS, FBI, RFK, Trump, and Archer are illustrating to people, that is to the Laptop Class in the paragraph above.

The Derp State is POWERLESS. Do with that information what you will. RFK is completely exposed, no security at all, talking about vaccines and the borders for hours and nobody can touch him.

“the Democrats are determined to stand a candidate in 2024 whose senility has been publicly on display for the past two years and change.”

Biden was supposed to LOSE in their “Plan”, and he and Kamala would be outsiders, raging to help the little people against fascist Trump who did a Coup on government for White People. They knew they couldn’t win. Biden didn’t run, didn’t even show up from his basement.

Joke’s on them. Why give a guy what he TELLS you to do? That’s how all these rich idiots act. They write a script, and you’re supposed to follow it and say “pew pew”. Why? WHY would Russia blitz to Lviv and have to sit on a two million soldiers with the general population popping up and shooting them everywhere like Iraq? The West ORDERED them to do it. Don’t do that.

They had the candidate, and the coup, and the fences – even Nancy Pelosi’s IMAX cameras – all planned. So don’t do that. Just ask, WHAT IF…we let BIDEN run things (but not the nuclear codes)? Wouldn’t it make more sense for it all to collapse – Military, Fstan, Dow, Bonds, Inflation, Petrodollar, Oil, — under HIM? Is that worth the irritation?

Yes. Yes it is. You see what a Civil War looks like in Kerkov. Podesta had it all worked out. Do you want that here instead? I’ll take $5 eggs and crappy, useless news, thanks.

Celtic: “They” are running everything. Therefore “they” ran 160 pogroms, killing 10 million of “Them” and counting. So, according to you, problem solved, right? The longer they stay in power, the more they die! In power long enough and there’ll be none of “Them” left at all! Logic, QED.

…Unless there are two categories of “Them”, one that is a bunch of expendable fodder like us, and a special mafia class that directs and protects its own…against ALL of us.

All I can say is, Celtic likes it this way! Everything is going according to HIS plan, not “Theirs”.

For Gonzalo:

Knower – The Government Knows

Bonus

Clowncore – Computers

“Aliens are Real”

I like to think of this as her “Adult Card©” has been revoked.

Hurrah, there’s a little Darwin Award in there somewhere too.

Meanwhile back on the Steppes

Another Russian Lancet Goes Completely Through Leopard 2A6 Turret

I love the smell of burning Leopard IIs in the morning

Another ‘Wonder Weapon’ becomes a grease spot on the side of the road

Diversion: ‘EV or not to EV?’ It’s an important question! It’s all about a blow-torch in your garage, parking lot, or perhaps even on the road on your journey to drop off kids at school!

‘Stralian automotive engineer explains it all: The truth about EVs and fire risk in our cities

F.S.

THE PURPOSE OF MIDDLE MANAGEMENT IS TO PREVENT INFORMATION. Right, Jb? ALL these bureaucracies, are dedicated, to the death, to PREVENT the air-tight fart bubble from knowing anything, getting ANY real information, EVER.

The consistent rule in engagement with corporate middle management: “YOU do not tell ME things, I tell YOU things.” So you have to use Call Center Jedi Mind tricks to get them to dance properly. Pretend stupidity. Reverse psychology. Pretend to them smugly, slyly, that you are benefitting from the current (#%#ed up) state of affairs and watch them react instantaneously. (to stuff you explained rationally and they refused to fix over and over for half a year) Stuff like that.

Sitting them down and explaining will make them dig in their heels and NOT be useful. In fact, if you are kind, patient, and informative, and give them a good explanation so they can understand how something works, the factors involved, etc, you will probably make an enemy for life.

It isn’t that middle management is inherently ineffective. Look at the German army in WW2. Their tanks were worse in the North African and Eastern theatres, they had less fuel, high command kept telling them to do stupid things, their army was mostly unmechanized, required supply logistics were physically impossible. Various disadvantages. Possibly the strongest advantage they had going for them was a middle management with great competence and integrity (measured in terms of the job they had to do, anyway)

We know USSR middle management would just follow the plan. If it didn’t work, run it again 4x. Gulag or punishment battalion if you didn’t. But the Brits had a middle management problem in North Africa too. Auchinleck sending letters to corps and divisional generals TELLING them what to expect and fatherly advice on what to do about it. Over and over. Rommel won again, must be a genius.

I suspect Monty did well when he did because his methodical plodding plans were designed to succeed despite crappy middle management.

You get a James Cameron in charge making a film and shit gets done. Unlike recent Disney directors, he is super competent. (The Thinking Man’s Micheal Bay.) You could hand him the equipment and he could do absolutely every job, do a film entirely himself. Having you do that stuff just makes him faster but technically he does not need you. So he can actually manage all the things.

Jellicoe in charge of UK’s Grand Fleet in WW1. His competence was so complete from top to bottom, you could clone Jellicoe and staff a battleship entirely with his clones. Not only would he have the skills to do everything, but a Jellicoe coal stoker would not be too proud to do his job shoveling coal. (Jellicoe was not too proud, for instance to understand the Germans had better ships and better gunnery)

….unlike Beatty, commander of the battlecruiser squadron. Continually gossiping and backstabbing even towards allies and benefactors. Doesn’t really know how things work. Doesn’t fully understand the capabilities, incapabilities, proper use of the ships he is in charge of. Never quite learned the basics of his own leadership position/level such as proper clear communications. Ended up in his position through luck and image, not competence. Defends his position in ways unrelated to competence. His personality precludes fixing him. There are no mechanisms within the organization to fix him. Can’t get rid of him.

I was middle management myself for awhile in a weird situation. As an “interim” position – no pay raise, still showing as grunt-level in outlook. Nevertheless, an “interim supervisor” but expected to manage around 4 teams worth of people – the number of teams typically under a manager, which is above a sup. So… I was a grunt with no pay raise managing people commensurate to 3 levels up. No training for this and essentially no oversight.

This gave me the luxury of figuring things out for myself. I was 120% proficient at all call center tasks and knowledge – a Jellicoe of call center monkeying, fwiw. Absent any training, oversight, or instructions, I opted to interact with my people as much as humanly possible, listen to them, and carry a notebook with me everywhere, taking notes on their troubles and concerns.

End of day, I’d review everything, compact it into a coherent review, and take it in for the end of day meeting. Everything from technical skills to how to handle crappy systems/policies to waxing philosophical about how to handle mean callers or the unpleasantness of the human condition vis a vis being a call center monkey. Then open things up for questions.

My fellow interim sup doing the same job started cutting out early every night, so they’d throw all their people my way for the end of day meeting, so I was conducting hour long meetings of 70 or so people. STILL just a grunt level inbound rep with no leadership training and an introspective, misanthropic disposition. If I saw any overarching trends long-term with that many people, then I’d make some training documents and distribute them. It was kind of hilarious when, years later, I went on to another job (tech support) in the company and was being trained side-by-side with an experienced tech rep in their cubicle, my training documents were on their wall – they were never my student and never in my dept. Somehow they circulated.

The entire thing turned out to be some kind of boondoggle. My training teams stats were ahead of 50% of the production floor teams, but management declared the project a failure, then deleted my profile in the leadership level reporting systems, which erased the performance reporting of my teams. Turns out there were 4 interim managers gunning for a single manager promotion. One sneaky manager maneuvered her 3 competitors into and out of this training project one by one. (they were kept too busy to manage it, it seems) Declaration of failure was followed shortly by her promotion. Interestingly, SHE’S the one who had the idea for the project.

The whole thing was like the bomb pattern thing in Catch 22. An internal struggle between generals on a meaningless basis. Not even an interview process. “jb-hb, you’ve worked here awhile, want to help run a new training program?” sure, anything to help. totally unexpected responsibilities, circumstances. No training, help or oversight. A curious lack of interest from above. Deletion of data, declaration of failure. It must have been assumed that it would be a disaster. (How could something we give no attention to, do not exercise control over, do not direct, possibly succeed? Never!)

So it was a perfect success story. Neglecting me turned into empowerment – I decided #%^ it, I can do whatever I want. Then I did everything I could to competently empower my people. And these squirrely new hires ended up being better than half the center. It’s just unfortunate that it all existed inside the hologram of middle management infighting.

I’ve wondered what my takeaway should even be. It’s good to carry a load, hold up the world, and shit gets done no matter what narc idiots do? I literally WAS the actual person in charge, the actual leader, no matter their illusions, since I was the one who turned out several hundred competent reps for the call center, my imprint was the one that made the culture and everything is downstream from culture? lol yet they spoke to me at the end of it like I was a worm. I pointlessly gave years of my proficiency and integrity to evil with no personal gain, and in fact fake-shaming and firing me for refusing to take poison, these were my ultimate rewards?

People live in these systems, so they keep them going, fix them, improve them. This works ANYWHERE and ANYTIME power devolves to the lowest possible level. And you can never quite take all power away because you can’t control everything. Chuang Tzu’s bit about the Useless Tree. All that useless unmeasured therefore hidden stuff NOT monitored or directed by Big Brain Managers is what holds up the world.

There are good middle managers who understand the job they are managing and have enough sanity to know what is and is not manageable at their level, know what they are and are not supposed to be actively doing. (such as the 3 competitors who didn’t get the promotion…)

Capitalism – Individual ownership of the means of production
Socialism/Communism – State ownership of the means of production

Corporation – an artificial legal-regulatory construct of The State, publicly and communally owned, run by huge bureaucracies.

So how are the uniparty handling Joe and Hunter Biden’s corruption? Simple.

Each day that more Binden corruption is revealed, they re-indict Trump the next day!
Clearly Trump will be held responsible for all of Biden’s corruption!

Since Biden committed so much corruption, Trump will likely have collect hundreds of indictments by Nov 2024, that he will be in jail.
That is how you proactively manage corruption!
Blame your opponent and then jail him.
Sadly, this method works.

Ukraine’s minister of defense minister recently said that because Canada had one of the largest populations of Ukrainians living outside of the Ukraine, that Canada should send 30,000 men of combat age to the Ukraine! I believe Freeland is currently working on this request.

Maybe Trudeau’s separation news is just cover for rounding up the 30,000 who thought they were Canadians only to discover they are now classified as Ukrainians first!

@Germ

We also hope you will keep us informed of your adventures in Mexico!

We are about to set foot in Dover, with some trepidation!

Good luck and thanks for all your good efforts on this site.

Russian Glide-bomb Creates Massive Crater After Blowing Up Ukrainian Ammo Warehouse

Didn’t imagine those Russian glide-bombs could leave such huge impact craters

I’m reading that Human Behavioral Algorithms paper with great interest. (Thank you for posting that)

…while waiting for UPS to deliver my new work computer. Going to be working for those Christians selling non GMO organic food. (but no pork, shellfish, or alcohol…) The ones whose headquarters/warehouse/plant got burnt down under extremely mysterious circumstances. (Bags of wheat sitting passively in your warehouse overnight spontaneously ignited and burnt enough to spread the fire throughout your headquarters, leveling it. Sorry man, you know how these things happen. Cosmic Coincidence is the leading cause of all kinds of things. And Cosmic Coincidence just happens to food warehouses and plants at night. Coincidental coincidence!)

I admit I didn’t JUST run around with a notepad for my awful corporate experience. There were a couple weekends I isolated myself with a bunch of legal pads and alternately scribbled things down & paced back and forth while drinking pot after pot of coffee all day and most of the night. I got shin splints. Once I realized I was just, as a lowest-level inbound call rep-peasant-monkey, going to have to MAKE IT ALL UP, I put together a sort of syllabus for the new hires, training documents, cheat-sheets, an overall plan/agenda for myself, a list of general principles I would follow, personal character flaws I would have to somehow work around. How I would compensate for unknown unknowns. (how the #%# do I know what I am supposed to be doing anyway?)

Maybe this is an example of creation of parallel systems/culture when the mainstream gets hollowed out. Feel like a peasant-monkey kid left in charge of the candy store, abandoned by all the adults? Ok, now make it all up.

I checked out that video userzeroid posted – Knower and started exploring their other videos ….that band is @#%ING AWESOME!!!!1!11!!!! How are they so good!!?!?!

I’m the President (Knower)
Crash the Car (Knower)

The guy beating the armed shoplifter with a stick appears to be a Sikh.
Sikhs are requirred to carry a sword. It might be a little toy sword; usually is.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/retailers-strike-back-7-eleven-workers-beat-brazen-mega-shoplifter-stick

Let me tell a Call Center story, let’s see if I can remember since it isn’t mine.

Call Center calls up, says, “Hey, you know, we can save you millions of dollars. We get a lot of turnover and it’s like $20k minimum to train people.”

Jb can go have coffee: he already knows how this is going to go.

So they start their economic case. Since there are astounding sums lost, it’s easy to take a few months in Excel and track exactly what the losses are, bring them to your manager, and Bob’s your Uncle. What’s more, new people have measurably less satisfaction, both for the caller, and for the company. So we’ve got a win-win, synergy. Millions saved, no start-up time, minor changes bordering on nothing at all.

Nope. They don’t like money. In fact they HATE it with the heat of a thousand suns. They will do ANYTHING to avoid saving money and having higher satisfaction rates. Howso? FIRST they can outsource all the calls. …Well it’s to China, right, and cheaper? Nope. To Carolina. But it’s cheaper? Nope. They get paid $15/hr yes, but they close no calls. Every call just comes back anyway, after half an hour, so the caller is pissed off.

But that’s for company reasons? Nope. We already said it costs more. The outsourcing is to unemploy people IN THEIR OWN CITY, and State, to…employ people in another state and city that can’t do the job? Que pasa? So we pay for it twice AND have pissed off customers AND lose money, AND bankrupt our own employees AND destroy our own town?

Yes. But that’s not all! If you call now, you can ALSO BREAK THE LAW. You see, the company gets incentives and regulation for KEEPING all those employees here. But it just takes the money and refuses. Does the dead opposite. …So can outsource them next door, pay for it twice, have pissed off customers, and keep the illusion they will yet close the original call center. …You know, the one if you trained and raised $2 an hour you would SAVE MILLIONS? Which we can prove in just six weeks with a steno pad?

Is there more? Of course there is. NOT ONLY are we not taking calls, NOT only are we losing money on every call, NOT ONLY are we bankrupting our employees, NOT ONLY are we bankrupting our city, NOT only are we losing tax revenue, NOT ONLY are we lowering price of our own houses as employment slumps, NOT ONLY is it all illegal…

…But they can’t go bankrupt. There’s no competition. So it doesn’t matter HOW bad they are, YOU CAN’T CHOOSE SOMEONE BETTER. Who likes money, and will do their job.

And that, good sirs, it what you call “Capitalism.”*

Every company. Every time.

* Or “Experts”.

WES
First job. I spent 2 yrs at Gagnon. Couldn’t get a raise to $400.00/mo. and left.
A few years later, high inflation, high interest rates, worse than now.

Zerosum:

Small world! Sadly Gagnon is now a ghost town. Schefferville basically suffered the exact same fate. Only some fishing/hunting lodges and natives remain nearby in a new government built townsite about 20 km north of the original town. Most of the houses were razed. You could buy a house for $1 at the time but there were very few takers!

The town of Gagnon was bigger than Schefferville. I suspect when you where there, there wasn’t a road to Labrador City like there is today. At least you know what the bloody winters were like!

Did you do any speckled trout fishing in the local rivers? We had 6 pounders!

Did they have an annual spring lottery guessing the time, a car parked on the ice would sink?

No, Benton , I’m going to focus on the problem, not the chaos created by the problem.

Humans barely qualify for lodging anywhere