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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2022]Incredible photograph today.
Also a croc floats by. Raul – the news may make us clench a fist sometimes or breathe a heavy sigh but some of the shit you put up either side really lifts the mood.
Also – I think Chris Hedges may be becoming useful again. He has been so admirable for so long then got stuck in the same riff. This riff although similar is shareable and not to be easily argued against in the attempt to educate and enlighten minds.
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” ~ Thomas Sowell
“Christmas dinner could get awkward for crypto advocates who were adamant about their families investing last year…”
Hahahaha. Yes. But I guess we’ll see.
Ritchie Torres: So the officials – in that article referred – literally said they don’t know who did it. But Torres will believe the implication in order to attack another man, rather than what was directly said. This is a good summary of the situation.
I wonder will the Right ever try tactics that work, or are there no tactics that work? Tucker, like us, is repeating official talking points, in this case WaPo, to make a rational, well-sourced argument which is so generous it is even and only using sourcing believed by the other side. That is, instead of reporting what is happening, and creating their own media on their own side.
This method of generous, reasonable argument has had no noticeable effect after 25 years of trying. I think it’s because, thoughtlessly, without looking too much at it, the Right would be persuaded by this and believes therefore the Left must not have heard it properly, or thought it wasn’t sourced by WaPo but by Q-Anon. This is false. They know perfectly well, as NY Times for example, was the major source of how crappy and corrupt Ukraine was for decades, including Nazism, racism, and sucking in corrupt Federal officials for blackmail and money laundering. We’ve essentially always used the other side’s news and data because our case and proof is so clear there’s actually no need to go generate our own. …It’s just that it doesn’t matter.
Since agreed-on data has no effect, why refer to it? What would you prefer to do instead that works? Note: this has to be an emotional attack. One that causes embarrassment and makes them feel alienated from the group, as it appears to be adherence to the group, the clan, that encourages support despite all even death.
Oh, takeaway? Apparently Republicans are very stupid. Doing the same thing over and over? Insane even.
“U.S. Doctors warn the world to stop taking the Covid Vaccines, they are toxic, lethal, ineffective. CDC, FDA misinformation causing death and injury.”
…Even to death.
Catastrophic sea level. As I say every day, and point to the proven lies said with equal fervor that were all proven false, every time, every day, all my life. That doesn’t mean it WON’T happen. Unlike the other side, I’m capable of considering that I’m wrong. It just means they now have less than zero credibility. Their official prediction: Sea levels would rise dangerously in ~10 years. “We have only 12 years left.” That was 35 years ago. You made a falsifiable prediction. That thesis was proven false. The Theory is therefore discarded: the literal definition of Science. We the People are doing the Science, the Scientists are making up new excuses about why the experiment they screamed would show us all, has failed. …Along with a bunch of others, like no hurricanes and snow in Miami and Riyadh.
I think if you had a Science career and did this, your professional reputation would be severely injured. It doesn’t mean we throw you away, expel your tenure, but you’d be taking a non-stop pile of s—t from your peers. Rightfully so. And many have come back from such fiascos to do good work. That is exactly what’s happening now, as the People understand Science and express its values, while we can’t find a dozen Scientists who uphold Science. The rest are a teen mob, desperate to sit with the cool kids, at least so it seems to us.
Again, when Nascar, beer-case a week lawn-mowers are out-sciencing you at every turn, aren’t you ashamed of yourself yet? Is this what you dreamed of, going to school?
Again: falsifiable experiment, falsified. Where do we go from here? “I’m the Mommy.” “Do what you’re told!”
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia as “absolute evil” on Saturday following the deadly strikes, which he said were for “the sake of intimidation and pleasure.”
Who? Why do we quote coke-snorting comedians who aren’t in charge of anything? Did you get a quote from John Belushi as well?
“Zelensky has laid out a series of 10 conditions that must be met for peace to be achieved, including total Russian withdrawal from [Crimea].”
Officer: arrest this man! He is negotiating peace that only last week they made a federal crime. I’m not kidding, WHY can he do this again? Because he outlawed every other party and is a dictatorship? Why pass a law then? Entertainment value? Dictatorships don’t follow laws, they do what they like. Which says a lot about America.
“ Putin “Ready” to Negotiate, But West Wants to “Tear Apart” Russia (ZH)”
That’s ridiculous, just because they say that is their goal just about every time they open their mouths, and talk about nuking someone (Miss Truss) the other half, doesn’t mean they’re out to get you. We both DO want you dead, and are at war with you and are NOT at war with you and want peace. See who’s the crazy person now?
“Only One Nation Benefits From Sanctions On Russia – Minister (RT)”
Not exactly, Both Russia and America are coming out ahead, which is what you might expect if they are both at war with Davos. However, this could be Europe’s strategy. They believe the world is ending (so to speak) and that society needs the most radical transformation in the history of man. Whoever accomplishes this transformation first, and emerges in their new WEF world will be ahead of the pack and win the game. Therefore “You must own nothing”, and the German middle class needs to be destroyed with all food being controlled in Brussels, which is happening right now.
Now we know what techno-tyranny they believe is best and puts Kim Il to shame, but that’s not the point right now. They WANT to destroy their continent and rebuild it on what they feel is a better, stronger basis. And to blame others for what they “just had to” do. That’s why we’re all on the same page and Germany “just can’t figure out’ who blew NordStream despite owning the pipes in a warehouse right now. …Like the D.C. bomber talking on his cell phone they didn’t look for for a year.
Russia has oil, the don’t need to transform. The U.S. probably does, that remains to be seen, but we certainly will collapse if we don’t re-establish ourselves on a stable basis. For us, probably the one we’ve always had: a Federalism with strong(er) states, and broad Human Rights we aspire to but never approach. That’s probably our base state in that other, forgotten part of “Geopolitics”: that is, that the land informs and creates the people. The geography creates the nations, the culture. The U.S. is too large and too various to be centrally controlled. Yet we don’t need to be run under a tyrannical bureaucracy the way China does. We’re just fine if you leave us alone.
“West Issues Ultimatum to Serbia – Media (RT)”
It’s the Hitler model: when you’re losing, open another front. Speaking of, how’s the ground freeze in Ukr? I heard it was very moderate weather there so far.
“December 26, at around 01:35 Moscow time (2235 GMT), a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude while approaching the Engels military airfield”
They attack ONLY nuclear bases and nuclear plants. Crickets from the West. It’s Putin’s fault! Why’s he so belligerent just because we bomb his nuclear bases every week?
“Our party leadership turned on Republican voters, turned on the Republican base, turned on most Republican senators,”
Hahahaaha! What are we, 5 years old? They’ve done nothing but that for decades, but certainly since Newt Gingrich in 1994. “Mr. Speaker, just what size majority do we need to do what the America people sent us here for?” “Sit down and shut up. We’re not done giving Clinton everything he wants yet.”
So, a whole lifetime? And Republican voters learned nothing yet? But that’s on Jimmy Dore each day too: the whole premise of his show is that Democrats will NEVER help the poor, oppressed, or working class, so you need a new party to do that. A Worker’s Party perhaps. And thus spends the majority of his time roasting the DNC for some new betrayal of their ideals and base each day – not hard to find. Just saying this is equal opportunity, as it’s all The Government: Them; against the People, Us. That’s how long cycles go, especially in Republics. But only we can take our power back but not looking to them, withdrawing our consent. The first step of that is honesty, identifying the problem, which is going slowly but progressing.
“We need to halt everything with the FBI, all funding, until they come forward and explain to Congress exactly what they were doing..”
Yes, the White Hats tested the FBI, and far too few good men appeared. So they re-positioned not to clean and reform it, but erase and replace it. This is disruptive, but a good thing.
“The Democrats are Now the War Party (Chris Hedges)”
Yes but only for 15 years, thanks for noticing. Actually, I can’t let that stand. ALL American wars were started by Democrats except Iraq. Recency bias makes us feel otherwise. But it’s not all bad: they’re also the Party of Slavery and the KKK!
“such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, unhinged conspiracy theorists.”
Elon Musk, “Actually, every conspiracy said about Twitter turned out to be true.”
“ Soros Behind Twitter Operation to Shut Down Hunter Biden Laptop Story (BN)”
Yeah, yeah, we all know, except when Tucker quotes the NYT, then we suddenly forgot and don’t know again. But why is this guy still alive? Like Kissinger? It reminds me these dinosaurs roaming the earth and won’t leave, never allow children to own and control anything ever again, like Housing in Australia, NZ, and Canada. They’re like Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader combined, like Cheney put on life support with an un-beating heart simply so they can repress and rule a day longer.
But anyway, that reminds me of the other dottering Dinosaur, “God save the Queen / The fascist regime”, QEII. Nothing is known, and trying to get a read, but I think The super-big structure was that America got it all, we had the knowledge and the leverage, and Trump visited to drop the folder of Steele MI6 files on her desk…but far, far more. Not this trollop for us public nobodies, but the real goods. Things like Powell raising rates to split our banking systems, sink Libor, collapse the UK, which also has no gas or oil to save them.The queen – although a shark in a shark tank, with a pedo husband looking and acting like the emperor since his youth, AND a pedo son, best friends with Jimmy Saville, another “conspiracy theory” I’m sure even after long-confirmed by the BBC – the Queen uncharacteristically and embarrassingly actually wants to promote and protect England and her people – I mean in a relative sense to all the other leaders, and considering what she’s surrounded by and can get away with. Props to her I guess, although it’s a sliding scale she’s only on the 90th percentile of being a Bond Villain, that’s 90% better than the rest!
So in the same way the U.S. has lost our 3rd World War of global domination by Mr. Bush – going for 100 years as McCain said – and we are now retreating to our nationalist borders to survive, she was also cutting a deal to salvage what she could out of the remains of England and position the island to survive as it also had lost its colonies in D.C. and other places. These are very high-level realizations and take a long time to play out. Generations even. 10-20 years. She probably knew their foray into Russia was already lost when Trump took office. But it’s hard to convince the minions 5 levels below of this, and they keep marching regardless.
Anyway, that’s what the meeting was, and as a courtesy all this would be mostly delayed until her death. Some Prince Andrew stuff she certainly knew about and we released anyway to make our point, etc, but mostly holding action as the U.S. drifted on in inertia, still boating over many English chess pieces in our way.
So here we are. 100 year old, “The Queen is Dead.” The White Hats started pulling levers like releasing Epstein’s flight list. Charles III is being called a pedo and egged in the streets. No one respects him and he doesn’t run anything.
The City of London, having no counterweight in the Queen, gallops forward with the idiotic losing plans they were blaming her for and…losing. Losing in Russia. Losing the People, etc. Truss is voted in, City of London Bankers vote her right back out and install their own as dictator for life. Okay man, good luck: England has seen this show before, of London vs Everyone, including Robin Hood and King John. Spoiler: London “loses”. “London’s” home country is the Ukraine it is revealed, and perhaps always has been.
Right now, London is feverishly trying to re-join with WEF/Davos, and Un-Brexit without being too obvious about it, in a panic to trample and keep up with killing as many as the EU. At the same time, as said elsewhere, all Euro-Banking is going down, and that means London banking goes down too no doubt, nowhere to hide. As said, the combo of Powell/NY and Putin/Russia is attacking and crushing them on all sides. As Queenie knew, only re-nationalizing would save England from this, but she can’t stop Charles and that will happen later on. As London is nearly their world headquarters, some level of this would always have to happen. Without her, it’s worse and more messy than ever. Charles may be a useless, child-screwing fascist, but he can still make quite a mess in his ineffectiveness.
Not like he runs things anyway as we see worldwide, what started all this with Soros being 199 years old, but even he’s just a waterboy for someone. Who?
“Present-day Russia is almost the only major Christian country in the world where New Year festivities are more prominent than those of Christmas.”
Strange headline. Like “favorite cereals of red-haired people”. Huh? New Year’s is the largest holiday in Asia and probably worldwide. Russia is and always has been, half-Asian. It’s the most expected thing in the world, especially as the remaining 10 real Christians, in all the no-longer-Christian nations (see how that has no meaning anymore either?) say every year that Christmas was never in December, and Easter is the real holiday to support.
I don’t understand the calendar thing here either. The year doesn’t start or end anywhere. There’s no finish line in space the planet crosses. So for historical reasons the planet – including the West, but all of Asia especially – counts the “New” year as being a few days after the Winter solstice as they are in the northern hemisphere. Why a few days and not 22nd? Who knows? But not like it matters a bit. You can pick July 7th and be equally accurate as it’s entirely arbitrary. Same with which month, which is misnamed, DECA-cember, #10, but that hardly matters any more than there’s no Thor, so the naming of Thor’s Day is arbitrary too and we don’t bother about that. You could name it by moons, but the moons are no less arbitrary and would throw out your “what moon does winter start in” in no time, like 2 years it would already be no use.
So the calendar we have, with picking an arbitrary New Year we have, is equally arbitrary as anything else. And therefore equally valid as anything else. Let’s pick Canada Day for the 1st of the Year, I could care less. The seasons go on unaccounting of any names of Man.
So I appreciate the Russian form, but it’s not that strange. The U.S. was down on Christmas and up on Easter for centuries I think it didn’t flip until almost 1900. As Christ wasn’t born on December, but we don’t know what day it actually was (Sept 11??) it makes practical sense to both pick a random day for the story and to make Easter the greater holiday. …But as I said, no Christians in the West, there are no Christian nations and haven’t been in 50 years, so there you are. Proof in the Christmas Pudding. If they are ever Christian again you’ll be able to tell by the demotion of Christmas — especially shopping as there were no Wise Men at the Manger either — and the year’s major holiday being Easter again.
Away in the manger. I probably said this last year, but there’s a lot in the Bible – most of it – we don’t understand. WHY is it important they were traveling for snap census? WHY does tit matter they were in a stable (a barn)? Was a barn considered that bad at that time, or was it fairly normal overflow? Did they overpay for it? And no wise men, they were a long way after, although it points out that Mary wasn’t a nobody, remember her cousin Liz and husband were high priests of Israel, that is, not poor, not nobodies, pretty far up the food chain. The Wise man came from Iran, now they may be thinking that Israel is going to have a coup, that is, to politically toss the old dreadfuls like Herod, and if you could get the right alignment of forces, set up a new King or even throw off Rome in that area, so this affects Iran directly in a big way. They may have been thinking that, and there is some speculation Mary’s mother had been in Iran and their lineage, so that King was just keeping track of various eligibles to the throne. —But like 1-3 years later, as I said.
But why in a “manger”? To us, that just means he’s a poor guy, an immigrant, on the down-low, we feel for that. But I just pointed out he wasn’t poor on the downlow, or no more than any other Palestinian. His close family contained high priests. Yes it’s funny for a “King” to do this, just as it’s funny for a king to burn the local housewife’s biscuits while she’s out milking the cow(Alfred). But that’s US. The writers didn’t put it in there for US – they didn’t know us – they wrote it in there for THEM. And it’s using a lot of valuable space that was better used for what Josh was doing from 8yo to 33yo. So why add it?
The point of getting around to it, was that Joshua that the Greeks call Jesus, was born and laid in a COFFIN. The mangers of the time were solid stone square cutouts. For reason we don’t need to get into, this keeps ground parasites out of the sheep feed. So the metaphor they were trying to communicate using all this space was prophetic: Joshua was born, from the very first moment, to die for our sins. Which is yet another complication, in that he didn’t “Die for our sins” but to rend the veil and re-open the direct path between man and heaven. The one that had been shut after the Garden, and could only be pried open with constant animal sacrifices since then. – Don’t ask me why: magical, too complicated. Y’all claim to be Christians but aren’t because you don’t believe in magic which is its very foundation.
But he was laid in a manger as his first act because although it appeared he was born to be King, and throw off the Romans, he was actually born to die, and to throw off a far greater, more vital oppression – that of the separation between man and God.
All you have to do is ask. Knock and keep knocking. Ask and keep asking. Things might seem stupid, so maybe you should ask about them from people who know rather than just getting more arrogant in our ignorance? Christianity may be true or false, but is not so simple or intuitive to understand.
“We need to halt everything with the FBI, all funding, until they come forward and explain to Congress exactly what they were doing..”
• Rep. James Comer Calls For Defunding the FBI (DCE)
FBI ‘undercover’ thugs BEFORE insertion as ‘agent provocateurs’
FBI ‘undercover’ thugs AFTER insertion as ‘agent provocateurs’
Just ask ChatGBT. I’ve been wondering what’s going on at goggle, which has been returning curious responses to my queries. Looking for a person’s bio, and I get recipes. Looking for something about planets, and the sidebar tells me about aphids. As the commenters from seeking alpha say- garbage in, garbage out. Hey- ChatGBT even writes bad poetry, and I know something about that!
We are doooooomed, DOOOOMED, I tell you!At the end of 12/23/22 comments, Polemos closed an essay about not being trapped in the control-narrative with this:
“So, you cannot win a war by refusing to fight it, much less a Total War by limiting where you exchange fire. You must unthink that the goal of living is to win wars. The Dream Machine stays on because we’re not yet through with the War Machine, because we’re not not yet through with Power. And he’s not yet through with us.”Slowly trying to catch-up…
https://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
Will 2023 Be “Just an Average Recession in an Average Year” or Will It Be Transformational?
December 26, 2022It shouldn’t surprise us if 2023 turns out to be atypical and disruptively transformational in ways few believe possible.
It seems expectations about 2023 cleave neatly into two camps: the dominant mainstream view is that 2023 will be economically difficult due to a mild recession, but this will be nothing more than a run-of-the-mill recession.
Inflation will likely moderate but remain higher than recent averages. Everything else–politics, social issues, entertainment, fashion, social media, etc.–will continue on whatever path it is currently on.
In other words, 2023 will be much like any other year.
The implicit assumption in the mainstream view is that historical cycles are figments of fevered imaginations. The flow of human history is entirely contingent and follows no pattern or cycle.
The much smaller “outlier” camp sees the potential for a disruptive transformational year.
Those of us who conclude cycles are based on the ebb-and-flow dynamics of credit, energy and human nature and are therefore not just real but consequential despite their predictive imprecision see 2023 as a potential pivot in cycles which entered a new phase in the 2020-2021 time frame.
This cyclical shift isn’t a result of Covid or the response to Covid. It’s the result of diminishing returns and the exhaustion of the dynamics which powered the previous era: hyper-financialization, hyper-globalization and low-cost, abundant energy.
In terms of human nature, confidence and complacency rise and fall, euphoric greed and panicky fear ebb and flow and as Peter Turchin has demonstrated, order and disorder take turns as reasons to cooperate decay into reasons not to cooperate.
As David Hackett Fischer demonstrated in The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History, systemic increases in price–what we call inflation–sow the seeds of economic, social and political disunity, conflict and collapse.
In his book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, Thomas Homer-Dixon proposes a cyclical dynamic powered by the relative costs and rewards of participation in the status quo:
Once the costs exceed the rewards, people lose the incentive to support the status quo with their labor and participation. They drift away (what I term opting out) or reduce their effort to align with the diminished rewards and opportunities to advance their own interests.
The Russian economist Kondratieff famously observed how credit cycles between expansion and contraction, and this cycle powers economic expansion or contraction.
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter outlines a dynamic in which the advantages of adding complexity to a social / economic system are substantial at the beginning but as the returns from additional complexity diminish, the costs eventually outweigh any gains and the system decays.
The success of adding complexity is institutionalized by the status quo, which then clings to this strategy even as the returns on adding complexity become negative and thus destructive.
I call this “doing more of what’s failed.”
Other systems analysts (Donella Meadows et al.) have illuminated the nonlinear character of systemic transformations. Ugo Bardi calls this “The Seneca Cliff”: systems which expanded slowly and steadily can decay and collapse quite suddenly and violently, surprising everyone who took the previous stability as permanent.
Systems follow their own rules, and so unlike politics, our opinions don’t change the results.
All of these dynamics are (in my analysis) clearly visible in the global status quo. The rational conclusion is the risks of disruption, disorder and conflict as things decay and fall apart are relatively high.
While some trends and conflicts can last for decades (the Thirty Years War in Europe, the Cold War between the US and the USSR), diminishing returns on status quo “solutions” that no longer work as anticipated tend to unravel on the periphery which then spreads quickly to the core.
Those economies and societies which are hidebound / centralized politically and economically are brittle because they lack the systemic means to adapt quickly and successfully to diminishing returns and seismic shifts in price and the availability of essentials.
Brittle systems that lack the structural means to adapt decay and collapse. This is scale-invariant, which means this is equally true of households, small businesses, global enterprises, nations and empires.
There are many such brittle systems in the global status quo, and to expect all of them to remain stable as diminishing returns start yielding negative returns (i.e. cost more than they produce in gains) and scarcities drive prices higher than the bottom 90% can afford as inflation reduces the purchasing power of their earnings–this expectation is based on a confidence that past trends are essentially permanent and every system in the world today will adapt successfully to scarcity, disorder and the reversal of financialization and globalization.
Maybe this will be the case, but given all the dynamics that are so readily visible, it would be prudent to consider the potential for dominoes falling on the periphery (i.e. in “places that don’t matter”) will soon be toppling dominoes in the core centers of power and control.
In my analysis, the dominant dynamic is always natural selection. Our opinions and projections don’t change anything. What divides the systems that endure and become stronger and those that decay and collapse is their evolutionary vigor, which is a function of decentralized competition, transparency, sharing of information and experimentation that is rewarded rather than punished.
I cover these dynamics in my book Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States.
Simply put: systems that view dissent and disorderly churn as threats will decay and collapse because the most powerful forces of adaptability are dissent and disorderly churn.
It shouldn’t surprise us if 2023 turns out to be atypical and disruptively transformational in ways few believe possible.
Dr.D wrote:
“England has seen this show before, of London vs Everyone, including Robin Hood and King John. Spoiler: London “loses”. “London’s” home country is the Ukraine it is revealed, and perhaps always has been.”
Ya’mean “Khazars”, Bro?Also Dr. D posted a picture of a carved stone “manger” and explained it as the image of a sarcophagus, a forew=shadowing, perhaps inserted in the library of Alexandria a century after the crucifixion. Interesting imagery, to which I had not been introduced until just now.
Bad space weather hits hard and strips away our shields, shaking our spaceship this decade?
Is that what the elites know Dr. D, or is it just “Seneca’s Cliff” as the cheap oil supply drops hard and the financial system collapses.I can’t tell. Both?
The Bhadrakumar piece above is very insightful, about the US trying to tear Russia down for useful body-parts. India, Russia, Greece and Turkey are all capable of dealing with “Byzantine” levels of complexity, while still moving forward. Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. This is one of his better pieces of work.
Time to wake up.
Time to do the right thing.
The mediator role was formed with the forming of the United Nation.https://www.un.org/en/our-work/maintain-international-peace-and-security
Maintain International Peace and Security
Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planetThe UN accomplishes this by working to prevent conflict, helping parties in conflict make peace, deploying peacekeepers, and creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish. These activities often overlap and should reinforce one another, to be effective.
Under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the Security Council can take enforcement measures to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such measures range from economic sanctions to international military action. The Council also establishes UN Peacekeeping Operations and Special Political Missions.
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Truth:
War is a destroyer of everything
$1.7 TRILLION gone up in smoke
What goes up comes will come down, kills and destroys.
Even, the debris from a downed drone can kill and destroy.
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It’s worth repeating
“The Senators were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of pork danced in their heads. No budget was found, just mischief and debt.”• Rand Paul Savages DC Elites With Epic “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” (DCE)
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Rand Paul Savages the Washington Elites With Epic “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” Parody
Rand Paul Savages the Washington Elites With Epic “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” Parody
—————-https://www.kusi.com/rand-paul-night-before-christmas-parody-slams-omnibus-spending-bill/
Rand Paul ‘Night Before Christmas’ parody slams omnibus spending bill
Posted: December 22, 2022 KUSI Newsroom
———-Dr D: “But why is this guy still alive? Like Kissinger? It reminds me these dinosaurs roaming the earth and won’t leave, never allow children to own and control anything ever again …”
The “children” need to get off their asses and do something. Blathering on every day on Twitter, FB, and Tiktok does not equate with *doing something*.
Can’t blame everything on the *establishment old folks*. Some of the blame lands squarely on the shoulders of the 20s, 30s, and 40 year olds who are too lazy to take action.
I’m getting pretty old, but I’m damned tired of seeing 80 year olds sitting around deciding things for the rest of us. When I mention it to young people, they shrug. They share blame for the situation and it’s time to stop absolving them by placing all the blame on boomers (not to mention, didn’t notice any of these young people whining and complaining when mom and pop were buying each of them a TV for their bedrooms when they were growing up … just saying …).
Idk, oxy, about this: “Also – I think Chris Hedges may be becoming useful again”
First he needs to give up this kind of judgement: “such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, unhinged conspiracy theorist”
I’ve watched Greene in several longish interviews. That’s not who she is. She’s intelligent and passionate. That she calls it likes she sees it (whether right or wrong) does not make her a conspiracy theorist.
If Chris Hedges can get beyond his arrogant, elitist attitude I’ll consider reading him again.
Helmer:
“The new concept is the neutering bomb. This has been designed to destroy the minds of Americans, Germans, other Europeans, British, Canadians and Australians, but leave them at work to keep paying their taxes, voting for their members of parliament, and paying subscriptions to keep reading newspapers and magazines which warn against suspecting this scheme of things is a grand fraud and a big lie.”
THE NEUTERING BOMB PARALYSES MILLIONS OF MINDS FASTER THAN NOVICHOK, LEAVES HANDS FREE
THE NEUTERING BOMB PARALYSES MILLIONS OF MINDS FASTER THAN NOVICHOK, LEAVES HANDS FREE
F.S.
@ John Day.
About bad space weather, here’s a provocative youtube about space weather. I don’t know if this is something creating a real human effect or not, but it’s an interesting idea, outside the box thinking.
@ red
The success of adding complexity is institutionalized by the status quo, which then clings to this strategy even as the returns on adding complexity become negative and thus destructive.I call this “doing more of what’s failed.”
I rephrase, in a few words, ” Limit to growth”
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/chatgpt-what-is-openai-s-chatbot-and-what-is-it-used-for-1.6200591
Updated Dec. 19, 2022 7:12 a.m. PST
Published Dec. 19, 2022 6:24 a.m. PSTThe use of artificial intelligence (AI) in emerging technologies continues to advance rapidly. San Francisco-based OpenAI made its latest creation, the ChatGPT chatbot, available for free public testing on Nov. 30. A chatbot is a software application designed to mimic human-like conversation based on user prompts/(questions).
Within a week of ChatGPT being unveiled, over a million users had tried to make the tool talk, according to Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.
OpenAI, a research and development firm, was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 by Silicon Valley investor Sam Altman and billionaire Elon Musk and attracted funding from several others, including venture capitalist Peter Thiel. In 2019, the group created a related for-profit entity to take in outside investment.
OpenAI has acknowledged the tool’s tendency to respond with “plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers,” an issue it considers challenging to fix.
AI technology can also perpetuate societal biases like those around race, gender and culture. Tech giants including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Amazon.com have previously acknowledged that some of their projects that experimented with AI were “ethically dicey” and had limitations. At several companies, humans had to step in and fix AIRussia expects the US to roll back NATO’s expansion, as promised to the Soviet leadership in 1989.
– M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
_______________________I disagree with Badrakumar somewhat. Russia offered a compromise to the U.S., already. Officially. Thrice, … That is, for the U.S. to roll back NATO’s expansion as promised. That’s the red line, … and that’s the red line that is not going to be compromised any further. Period, …
F.S., … watching this whole situation with fear and wonder!
On Chris Hedges. The Dems are now the War Party.
Hedges is a 9/11 denier, that is, he endorses the official story / won’t talk about that topic at all, as many others..
He himself is a part of the war-mongering machine while cloaking himself in pretensions, penning lofty analysis, heh.
(I didn’t read the whole article, so there is that..I can’t stand that type of calculated smarmy pseudo-expert-intellecutalism…)
In the US, the War Party is whatever party is in ‘power.’
One party objects, very mildly, to the ‘Wars’ the other party instigates / supports / funds.
For ex. the Dems on occasion objected to the Iraq War (bombing another country to oblivion, killing children..) because it was Bush instigated. Later they more or less shut up.
At present we see that US support for Ukraine fighting Russia in a proxy war is hyped up by a Dem effort, the Repubs are looking a tad edgy, I read that some of them didn’t join a standing ovation for Zelensky at his show in front of Congress, and that some are demanding some ‘accounting’ of the billions sent to Ukr.
It is all political theatre designed to keep ppl guessing, uncertain, thus, joining, admiring one or another pol, faction, being staunch partisans for their tribe / side / leader, etc. And calculated to allow a very narrow window for ppl to express anti-war opinions.
It looks like the 2020 photo was taken at low tide.
________________________Tidal range at Battery Park, NY, is ~6.26 ft., … fwiw.
F.S.
Twitter Files:
Why did Jim Baker get his bloomers in a twist over such a positive and reassuring statement from President Trump, while Yoel Roth at Twitter was scratching his head thinking, “What’s the big deal?”?
It’s because Jimmy-boy was on the inside of the Covid plandemic and Yoel was on the outside. The goal in October 2020 was to ramp up the Covid fear campaign and stampede the herd toward the Gene Therapy rollout due to arrive a couple months from then. This is the reason why FBI plant Jim Baker took such umbrage at Trump’s “Don’t be afraid of Covid” statement, and wanted it scrubbed.
[Hedges] himself is a part of the war-mongering machine while cloaking himself in pretensions, penning lofty analysis, heh.
________________Hedges is a fink! Most unpleasant, … contemptible. Yes!
F.S.
The Twitter Files. New thread from David Zweig.
1. THREAD:
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022
Agreed with UpstateNYer and Noirette on Hedges. First piece of his o have read in a long time, and the same partisan dig on Greene stuck in my craw, too. Hedges is an unrepentant Russiagate and has never retracted his nauseatingly obvious lies on that topic. Hedges swallowed the Antifa-BLM propaganda whole cloth and demonized innocent US counter-protesters like Aaron J. Danielson, who was shot dead in Portland blocks away from any protest for wearing a US flag graphic on his shirt.
Chris Hedges is the NY Times on a time delay. Even in 2003 during the last hurrah of anti-war sentiment in this country, he was an establishment cheerleader selling fancy watch ads, big pharma drugs and uptown real estate. Nothing since has changed.
Canadian “independent” journo’s latest screed on COVID:
Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay
We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/
Note: it’s also worthy to peek at commentariat to that article!
F.S.
This is what catastrophic sea level rise looks like:
And if you live on a low-lying Pacific Island (or any other low-lying island) there is no higher ground to move to.
Interestingly, one of the most populated states of Airstrip Two has the same problem, as does a large portion of Airstrip One.
The reality of massive sea level rise (of the order of 7 metres when the ice on Greenland melts) does not deter agents of The Empire of Lies from issuing building permits for constructions close to current sea level on Airstrip Five: got to keep the fake money system going for just a little longer, whatever the real-world future costs.
So right 1) and also so wrong 2), Polish PM (Meloni beware!)
1) “We do not believe in a superstate of 27 EU member states. We want a return of a union of homelands,” underlined the Polish prime minister.
Morawiecki pointed out that Europe has to choose between an authentic solidarity of equal states, or a model of a single superstate in which “decisions will be made in a couple of the largest capitals, disregarding other countries.”2) Referring to Russian aggression in Ukraine, Morawiecki pointed out that the Ukraine war will end only with the defeat of Vladimir Putin.
“We have warned that Russia’s colonial ambitions are a threat to eastern European countries and the entire EU,” said Morawiecki, adding that Europe must do everything to aid Ukraine, as the fall of Kyiv would open the way for Russia to conquer Europe.A Tale of Two Americas
* The Progressive America
– Conservatives are ruining America. Their principles are opposed to what the founding fathers would want for this country.
– Conservatives are mostly white heterosexuals and hate non-whites and LGBTQ peoples. They need to be replaced as the majority.
– Conservatives are wrecking the lives of men and women everywhere. They limit the family to their narrow definition. They hate and subjugate women. They mistreat children. Because of conservatives other countries no longer respect us.
– Conservatives believe in religious fairy tales and use that belief to control the masses.
– Conservatives are anti-science and their anti-vaccine stance has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Their rejection of universal coverage is ruining health care.
– Conservatives are climate-change deniers and are responsible for the destruction of the environment.
– Conservatives don’t believe in the democratic process and falsely accuse Progressives of interfering in elections. They want to limit those who can vote to in person paper ballots.
– Conservatives are trying to undermine government institutions like the FBI by spread lies and disinformation about them. The supreme court has taken a turn for the worse in destroying rights and the underlying principles in the constitution.
– Conservatives demonize big tech and the media and are mass purveyors of disinformation. It’s lies, lies, lies with them.
– Conservatives irrationally love Russia and Putin. Progressives stand with Ukraine as they battle for their rights and democracy. Zelensky is a great man.
– Donald Trump is surely the worst, most soulless and destructive president ever. Even with his faults Joe Biden is 1000X better.
– Conservatives believe violence is justified when it supports their cause. At their core they are power-hungry psychopaths. The progressive states and communities would be better off without the conservative states and communities.* The Conservative America
– Progressives are ruining America. Their principles are opposed to what the founding fathers would want for this country.
– Progressives hate white heterosexuals and are trying to replace them with immigrants and to convince young people to become LGBTQ.
– Progressives are wrecking the lives of men and woman. They are destroying the family. Progressives hate the unborn. They mistreat children. Because of progressives other countries no longer respect us.
– Progressives have rejected a belief in God and use satanic doctrines to control the masses.
– Progressives are anti-science and their pro-vaccine, anti-early treatment stance has cost hundreds of thousands of lives. Their attempt at universal coverage is ruining health care.
– Progressives believe in the climate-change hoax and are responsible for the destruction of the economy.
– Progressives have subverted the democratic process and elections by over-printing and harvesting mail-in ballots.
– Progressives have taken over many government institutions like the FBI and use them for political ends. The supreme court has take a turn for the better in protecting the underlying principles in the constitution.
– Progressives control the media through large corporations and are mass purveyors of disinformation. It’s lies, lies, lies with them.
– Progressives irrationally hate Russia and Putin. They prefer Ukraine to the US and do nothing to secure US rights and democracy. Zelensky is a con man.
– Joe Biden is surely the worst, most soulless and destructive president ever. Even with his faults Donald Trump was 1000X better.
– Progressives believe violence is justified when it supports their cause. At their core they are power-hungry psychopaths. Conservative states and communities would be better off without the progressive states and communities.Yes I agree that Chris Hedges sold out on 9/11 and some other topics. He is trying to re-integrate as an honest journalist, while staying within a certain Overton’s Window. He’s not succeeding, is he?
@Dora: Thanks for that specific Suspicious Observers Ben Davidson video from 4 months ago. He has done so very many short videos that it is almost impossible to find a particular needle in such a pile of needles. I have watched a fair amount of his “disaster playlist” and NASA videos on some of these astrophysics topics. This video, early on, gets into how much the Earth’s magnetic field has weakened, which has not been broadly announced since 2010, and was a lot lower than anticipated. He includes some obscure interim results from 2015, which I can no longer find in print on the internet. The 2020 magnetic field strength data was eagerly awaited, but has been kept secret, and the 2015 data hidden-away somewhere.Feel free to share other unusually good videos from Ben Davidson.
People find fault with his style and his personality traits, and accuse him of making an idol of himself as a primary goal, discounting anything he says, which is a mistake.
What he says is well founded. I keep listening and watching for him to make some gross error.
Ben appears to be working on himself, on his own ego, lately, which is a good thing to do.
Don’t wait for perfection. Assess his hypothesis about the galactic electromagnetic wave sheet approaching again being the cause of periodic terrestrial magnetic field collapses, polar shifts, and space-weather catastrophes.And if you live on a low-lying Pacific Island (or any other low-lying island) there is no higher ground to move to.
_____________________________Well, … if wish to talk to someone in the U.S. about sea level raise, just ask a question, … or three, of this guy:
His name Is Richard (Rocko), … he is a long, long time resident of Florida Keys – residence on Cudjoe Key, works in Key West (bouncer at the local strip joint). Ask him about sea level rise! Go, …
F.S.
I see that he fiction of there being a difference between Democrats and Republicans is still being promoted.
That’s like the fiction that there is a difference between Labour and Conservative.
Or the fiction of there being a difference between Labour and National.
Or the fiction that ‘Green’ parties care about the environment.
‘Big Brother’ owns them all.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery
and most important of all –Ignorance is Strength.
Sure, ‘Big Brother’ allows a tiny portion of the political establishment to offer slightly different perspectives just to make it look as though there is ‘opposition’ but anyone with a brain that functions properly can see straight through the lies.
That’s probably why ‘Big Brother’ has been so keen to force death jabs and brain-deadeners onto the populaces of the various Airstrips.
Mentioning brain-deadeners, an acquaintance has become very concerned about the effects of electromagnetic radiation on human brains and nervous systems. She currently lives in a wooden structure just over 100 metres from a recently-installed cellphone tower and suspects the deterioration in her health she has experienced could be linked to radiation emitted by that tower (not jabbed, so definitely not that).
The above video ha got me thinking a bit more about all this stuff.
We know that the Earth’s magnetic field has collapsed and reformed thousands of times, and that life has gone on during those collapses and reformations. The bodies of organisms are battlegrounds, in which the effects of external forces -whether other organisms or radiation- are constantly repaired. Death comes when the repairing processes cannot keep up with the damage done.
Humans (and all other life forms) are living in the most toxic, most radiation-infested environments to have prevailed on this planet in hundreds of millions of years. And the ‘controllers’ want to increase the level of toxicity and the level of radiation in order to protect and promote their various Ponzi schemes.
The important feature of radiation is that it follows and inverse square law. Doubling the distance from the source equates to one quarter the strength. Doubling the distance again equates to one sixteenth the strength. I live about 800 metres from the previously-mentioned tower, and in a brick house with an iron roof. Most electromagnetic radiation does not pass through metal and is attenuated by brick etc..
We are not hearing any news with respect to the health toll for people living in Iraq who were subjected to ‘depleted uranium’ a couple of decades ago. Did all the deformed babies die? Is there a higher incidence of cancer in the population that survived the onslaught of The Empire of Lies?
Arre ‘depleted uranium’ weapons now being utilised in Ukraine? By the Russians? By NATO?
We do know that ‘depleted uranium’ isn’t depleted at all -just another lie from The Empire of Lies- it’s just that is it low in content of the most unstable isotopes, used up in the nuclear reactor that generated power from them before the mix became ‘depleted’. maybe that’s not a total lie by The Empire of Lies because if there is less than there was, I supposed it has become depleted, even if a complex system of ‘enrichment’ was needed to boost the most radioactive content to make it suitable for use in a nuclear reactor.
‘Depleted uranium’ was responsible for the rapid elimination of Iraq’s military capabilities because uranium is heavy, and when alloyed, is extremely hard. Heavy and hard: ideal for piercing the hardened steel of armoured vehicles and other ‘tough’ targets.
And if you are a weapons manufacturer, you really do not care in the least what the longstanding consequences of the use of your profit-making scheme might be. Or at home, as long as it’s not the boss’s home. Quoting Carlin: “I don’t mind taking a little radiation if it means I can get a job.”
What do others think?
Or do they prefer not to think?
There sure is a lot of fighting in and around the nuclear facility on the bank of a certain river in a certain country.
Reporting: Underground warfare?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-carolina-substation-attack-raises-security-concerns-us-electric-rcna60428
North Carolina substation attack raises security concerns for U.S. electric grid
Outside of weather, suspected and confirmed physical attacks on electric grid infrastructure were the largest cause of electrical disturbance events since 2014, according to NBC News’ analysis of public Energy Department reports.https://www.zerohedge.com/political/who-purposely-sabotaging-power-plants-all-over-america
Who Is Purposely Sabotaging Power Plants All Over America?
December 8, 2022 by Michaelhttps://www.zerohedge.com/markets/three-power-substations-attacked-washington-state-christmas-day
Three Power Substations Attacked In Washington State On Christmas DayTwo of the power substations were operated by Tacoma Public Utilities and one by Puget Sound Energy. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said all three were attacked, but there are no “motives or if this was a coordinated attack on the power systems.”
The Tacoma substation attacks follow “deliberate attacks” on two power substations in North Carolina early this month. Duke Energy personnel found bullet holes in transformers.We’ve asked the question of who is intentionally sabotaging the US power grid. In the first eight months of the year, there were 106 attacks on the electrical grid, the highest number ever recorded in a single year.
@Dr. John Day, … re Poland.
______________________As a key NATO ally that shares a 332-mile border with Ukraine, Poland has been quietly bracing for the worst, … and most opportune times! Yes.
– Poland has been the main destination for U.S. troops, U.S. arms arriving in Eastern Europe since, well, … since joining NATO.
– Poland’s hate for Russia is beyond any outsiders imagination, … and love for anything and everything ‘Murican!
– Poland knows that the denazification of Poland will become the next step on Russian pallet, … as soon as Ukraine finally succumbs.
Consequently, Poland will do everything and anything to prolong Russia – Ukraine conflict, in order to continue convincing the U.S. to go after Russia together with Poland, … plus any other “willings coerced to join ( Hi, there! Canada, …) now and for the last time; finally!
Those are the facts in Poland, … all you have to do is talk to anyone stopped on Polish streets to be convinced!
Pity Poland, …
F.S.
Russia pay attention to a cheaper way of doing it.
Duke Energy personnel found bullet holes in transformers.
‘Yes I agree that Chris Hedges sold out on 9/11 and some other topics.’
The events of 9/11 are a kind of litmus test for whether a person has a logical brain or not and whether they prepared to think outside the idiotic narratives delivered by ‘the controllers’.
Attempting to mention the truth about 9/11 -the ‘official’ narrative being mathematically impossible, chemically impossible, physically impossible- is a good litmus test for the authenticity of a website or communication system and the people running that website or communication system.
I still have the sign I made for the freedom convoy of around a year ago.
LIES
CENSORSHIP
CONTROL
ADERN
Substitute the name of your local tyrant if living on a different Airstrip.
John Day: “Yes I agree that Chris Hedges sold out on 9/11 and some other topics. He is trying to re-integrate as an honest journalist, while staying within a certain Overton’s Window. He’s not succeeding, is he?”
Nope. He’s a one-trick pony. Applies the same perspective to each situation he encounters. Doesn’t matter who is involved and why.
Tyrant interviewed in the Ukrainian Backery:
A Year-End Interview with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2022)
F.S.
omg. Can’t even bother to capitalize those letters at this point.
Sea level rise!!!… and …. ?
Low lying islands. Low lying coastal areas. Low lying whatever. It’s exhausting trying to keep up with the click bait.
Lack of petro, lack of nat gas, lack of coal, lack of wind turbines, lack of solar farms, lack of whatever.
Give it a rest. Living day-to-day is tough enough without fretting over whether the tide is “in or out” in a flipping pic.
People don’t like the periodic flooding where they live? Then move.
Isn’t that what we’ve all been told for decades? Your job moved overseas? Learn to code.
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