Debt Rattle December 19 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 19 2022]Think it’s over.
No way …Push for regular Covid testing of school students without symptoms
Check this shit out
In this brief video with @WHO I highlight how 200,000 Americans needlessly lost their lives in the last half of 2021 and into early 2022 because they refused a Covid vaccine during our terrible delta wave. And how they = victims of antivaccine activism, antiscience aggression https://t.co/Iikvd4lkt7
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) December 14, 2022
That’s right – A MAJOR KILLING FORCE. GLOBALLY.
I didn’t realise I was so effective but there you have it. The WHO has worked out I am a killing guy just like native peoples the world over. My body – your choice – to get killed by me and my mind powers. Your Vaccine will not stand a chance against the power of my Anti-Science witchcraft.
Stand and fear me and my army of dumb-dumbs who will kill you with a thought.Bodies breathe in, bodies breathe out.
Expanded with oxygen, bodies continue.
Bodies have limited numbers of breaths
And the last exhalation’s the one that brings death.It sure feels like cheyne-stokes is happening now.
Musk better dump the covid files before he goes.You really should not post things like the Dam Schiff rumors. It really hurts your brand and site as you have no idea if it is true.
Does anyone else think that the face of Adam Schiff has that above-mentioned incident written all over it?
Was that a typo, Positive Dennis? or a Freudian slip?
I agree with you- it’s just a rumor- but Schiff has a really dodgy demeanor and lies just as Turley says.Germ’s input much appreciated. To add to the anecdota evidence: one fully vaccinated friend felt ‘really awful’, left work early to take a nap on the couch and never woke. Recently, another active neighbor has been diagnosed with GI cancer, but his treatment has been suspended because of embolisms in both lungs and one leg.
Does anyone here follow Jessica Rose? With doctoral, and post-doctoral work in computational biology and immunology, she seems a natural to be able to sift something out of the “noise” (IF data is provided in relatively good faith)
That’s interesting, and perhaps even useful. Adam Schiff publicly states that he does not know what criminal is [quote: “if that’s not criminal then I don’t know what is.”]. That moral and cognitive disability goes a long way toward explaining his habitually antisocial behaviors.
“DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried for Running out of Bribery Money” –BBee
Truth.
“Spain Advances ‘Menstrual Leave’ Legislation for Women Experiencing Period Cramps”
Thanks Spain. You are demonstrating that women are more expensive and more absent workers that companies should avoid however possible. Setting back women’s rights by decades. That’s what companies said in the 40’s and you’re making them right.
“Was what happened inevitable? The argument that “we had no choice,” often heard at the highest level in Moscow, is problematic because it effectively means that Russia’s previous policies were wrong.”
I certainly understand this principle in the sense of Sun Tzu, if they had appropriate genius, they could have played so no war would be apparent. However, that’s not plausible on earth. Russia started from a position of almost total defeat back in Clinton’s Bill Browder – Hermitage Capital era. Removing the Western parasites was almost superhuman act, and keeping them out for decades was required and yet unlikely. Then sacrificing everything to build everything. Year after year. Decades. To pry political power back from oligarchs, like Gazprom, most who were agents of the West, Russian but living in London. To slowly stop street violence, general crime and mafia. Years. Even now set back decades thanks to the West.
So what exactly did Sun Tzu have planned in the Russian position: no civil order, no troops, no payroll, no weapons? Something, I’m sure, but we are mortal men.
Second approach: so your deranged neighbor comes over every week with a gun trying to kill you. Yes, you are clever and de-escalate regularly, but at some point, measures will fail. You live with this every day, years and years as he has more dementia and more violence. So what are you supposed to do with a violent, unhinged neighbor completely separated from reality? Who because of non-stop delusions means and intends to kill you, your family, and your whole house?
There ISN’T much solution to that. Lacking policemen as we do, most probably what will happen is, he will come over some time, you can’t de-escalate, and you kill him. Then people who never lifted a finger to help you before will be all judgey and mad. Telling us all how somebody else should have done it, somebody else should have done work, somebody else should have acted differently, while I sit on my yoga ball and sip lattes. While the people we extracted free hard work from: Russia, sit in houses from 1970 with the standard of living of 1949 some places. We’re only headed there at NASCAR speed: they’ve already arrived.
“Both the U.S. and Russian arsenals will become untethered from treaty-based constraint, leading to a new arms race for which there can be only one finishing line — total nuclear war.”
This is the plan: get people to fight and kill each other while we hide out on the side. Doesn’t matter who, doesn’t matter where; just: they die, we live.
“ EU Sued over Anti-Russia Sanctions (RT)”
Hilarious for a Political Union with no rule of law. But sue and make them prove it, demonstrate it to the world. So when Global South goes the other way, they’ll just equally steal all EU/London’s property? Why not?
Hey, Qatar: wasn’t that part of the people who hooked up with NATO and illegally invaded a sovereign country and murdered a couple million people to arrange a pipeline? Instead of just signing an honest transit agreement they could have for 1/10th the cost?
Yes, they are those illegal, psychopathic, child-murdering, thieving bastards.
“ Will the Fallout from “Qatargate” Splatter the European Commission? (NC)”
Well, let’s see: they had no shame murdering 1,000,000 iraqi children, no shame in causing 1,000 years of birth defects with depleted uranium, no shame in invading Syria to kill another million, no shame in funding ISIS, no shame in killing the US Diplomat to move arms from Libya through Turkey to arm human-eating ISIS soldiers, and are still supporting constant shelling of civilians and infrastructure in Damascus?
Um: my guess would be, probably not?
Omicron what? I’m seeing ads for Covid vaccines again here. For “Covid Variants” (that don’t exist) and Omicron (That doesn’t hurt you). I’ve stopped because people are just that dumb. Go ahead then. I’ve said my piece. I’ll make money on your death. Deflation + empty houses. I already told you not to as strong as I’m able.
“TWITTER FILES Supplemental (Taibbi)”
This was covered thoroughly at least once, as news and Twitter moves lightning fast. From this story detail, they collared in the FBI whistleblower who revealed the FBI was essentially fabricating fake crime numbers for political ends. In that case, widespread domestic terrorism, while at the same time the FBI had not yet looked for the DC bomber in almost a year. That Agent’s issue was that he was TAKEN OFF CHILD TRAFFICKING to fabricate said non-existent domestic danger data.
So the FBI is the same here, as proven elsewhere, regularly: they call Twitter and the rest and demand they likewise fabricate data for the Narrative. …And doesn’t that imply an “Or else”? So that’s at least two levels of Human Rights violation in 1A? Plus illegally regulating a corporation which is the jurisdiction of a different federal department? Handcuffs where? A guess the FBI is going to arrest itself now?
All of this confirms all social media is a subsidiary of the FBI and Derp State. At this point, if not all along, as we can prove elsewhere.
So why did they never need to turn a profit? Who printed the money for the “Angel Investors” that meant they are not Capitalist corporations and were under no economic pressure or risk of bankruptcy ever? Where did that $40Trillion of lost money accounted by Austin Fitts go to?
“ Musk Asks Twitter If He Should Step Down (ZH)”
Musk is only in for 2 Scaramuccis right now. So they’re going to tag-team it off to somebody else. The danger to his kids and family is too high right now although he’s very calm about it. It’s a plan as they Mob-arrange 5 minutes of hate against a Person, a Name. It’s social. Irrational. If you keep flip-flopping names they can’t do that. While the figureheads come and go, the background people stay the same and get things done. The faster you flip them the less The Narrative™ works.
“Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies (ET)”
Maybe. How would we know when we don’t let Doctors speak? Some doctors say yes, some say no: very normal. But Chad at Twitter becomes your medical provider and decides between the two doctors’ opinions. On your behalf.
“One would think that the American public should hear what the adviser to the president is saying during the pandemic of 2020. Yet Twitter decided to simply block that discussion from the public,”
But Chad is my doctor! He knows more than the paid Federal expert about this. We also are not allowed to know who Chad is or how he decides. …And he decides when the FBI look into his pro-pedophilia social media accounts. Yoel.
“ Democratic Members Warn Facebook Not to “Backslide” on Censorship (Turley)”
Says a lot of things, doesn’t it? When I ask “Who are these people working for?” Not the seated President, clearly. So…doesn’t this make Facebook by definition an illegal, unregistered PAC? Not Section 230? Aren’t all their actions illegal, unregistered like-kind campaign donations? These are each specifically addressed in Trump’s Dec speech I linked. The one he was keeping the media’s eye off by selling POGs.
“Dangerous and unfounded election denial content” must be kept off the platform…”
I agree. Can we arrest anyone saying “Russia” now? Mueller said that was fake 4 years ago.
“That is a far cry from overthrowing the U.S. government by force of violence.”
Overthrowing with zero weapons when statistically they own 5 guns a piece. Tricky-tricky. Their plan since the ‘90s: they just KNOW these right wing rednecks are violent inbreds. They just need them to take a swing so we can crack down. Or make it up like in Oklahoma, the only office with all the crooked Fannie Mae records in it.
We need, depends, must have, people fighting each other. Must get the right to shoot the trannies and vice versa. If they show Christian restraint, all is lost.
Suckers. Most of them aren’t even Christians and still won’t do wrong.
“US Doublespeak Will Not Stop Gold’s Imminent Surge (Von Greyerz)”
Armstrong says inflation has nothing to do with it, well-proven. Gold only goes up with loss of faith in government, that is, the normal system and currencies. Unf, he predicts terrible year starting next month, and real war starting 2023.
Bourdain. Standard Hotel. Standard was famous for this. Probably even has Family Guy jokes like Kevin Spacy. And Weinstein. And others. It was pointed out Standard had 50 barrels of acids and caustic liquids delivered to the basement to “clean up the mess”. That should be easy to prove. Were they delivered and are they in storage? 10 minute proof.
That’s the whole purpose of the Standard Hotel and the reason Schiff and Lindsay Graham say whatever they’re told to. Note little Lindsay was relieved and went straight for almost a few months after McCain died, but then couldn’t help himself and was back on the original plan since then. Doesn’t happen, fellas? WTF was all of Epstein then??? Dude: YOU’RE LOOKING AT IT. I can point your eyes for you, but I can’t make it go into your brain. That’s up to you. Denial ain’t just a river, and my Congressman never done no wrong.
Point here: so they have enough power to take Twitter and install Musk but not enough power to remove Standard Hotel or Congressmen where a single scandal should unseat them? They can remove Epstein and his Mossad handler but not the well-known, on-Federal-record Client list? Huh, sounds like their control in this secret civil war is still limited. But as said, public people now bring up Kennedy regularly and nothing happens to them. Foreign governments buck the dollar and nothing happens to them.
Rumors? You mean like we had about Iraq not having WMDs or ties to al Qaeda, about subprime not being contained, Trump winning, Epstein existing, RussiaRussia being fake, Covid being overblown, the response being dangerous and causing punishing inflation, and the vaccine not being either safe OR effective? All those were rumors at some point — and a hundred other things — but we discussed them because we are adults capable of adult human thought and not scared mouse-men. We also discussed a few things that turned out to be wrong: the banking system not going down, for instance, or the US$ not being unseated. Russia not invading. No one was harmed by our adult discussions of things that may or may not happen, may or may not be real. No one cares what we say on the Internet. So why afraid of it? If it’s false it’ll be easy to lambaste as utter nonsense.
Yesterday: Don’t be silly. Fermi’s Paradox is saying “Black Swans don’t exist because I’ve never seen one.” That’s keenly unsmart.
…I mean BESIDES all the aliens and their ships people keep reporting and have for centuries? Now with live videos? Millions of people seeing a thing and filling the internet end to end talking about it is not evidence, of course. …They’re not experts. …I guess that goes for the U.S. Navy too. Posting official live videos every scientist can see. So Science is not saying the U.S. Navy doesn’t exist? Or what? No, they #AntiScientifically remove data that is not supporting their pre-chosen conclusion. With its pre-chosen 1 Billion deaths.
Unsmart.
Here’s the essential point: Communism they used to kill 100M people and control most governments East and West has been discredited and they can’t get people to take the mind-virus like zombie ants. They don’t have a Plan B, so they merely repackage Communism as “Green New Deal” and “Global Warming.” That’s why the answer to all and every challenge, corruption, income disparity, war, food, environment, student loans, housing, is all ONE solution: the solution is de-facto Communism, where the rich live in Dachas and the poor have no meat, shoes, or cars. They only need the people to bite on one, any of the 5 fake made-up stories, religions, that all lead to the one true religion: Communism, where you have misery spread widely and I fly from Odessa to Switzerland for shopping.
It’s not going well for them, people hate all five stories, but that’s why all fabricated, clearly generated non-problems like Dutch Fertilizer, all have the same answer: More power for ME, no power for YOU. Eeeet ze bugs!!! Eeet zem!
Fermi’s Paradox is just another un-smart basis — and open logical fallacy — to attain the same end: All for me, None for you!
My Dad had quite a few secrets. Some of which I can only suspect (from snippets and deductions), but a few others he admitted freely at the end of his very interesting and eventful life, before taking the remainder to his grave.
Here’s one. For a number of good and valid reasons he was Oppy’s driver and body guard during the time just prior to and during the actual testing of the bomb. On one occasion as they were walking back out to the car after lunch at the Officers Club, Oppy turns to Dad and in a deeply earnest manner asks, “Have I eaten ?” .
Here’s another few of G.W. Smith’s interesting stories (this must be reminiscence day):
He was first and foremost a pilot (15,000 logged flight hours) and according to him ALL long-hour combat pilots had encounters with so-called “UFO s (which back in that day were called “Foo Fighters”). The thing of it was, though, that military fliers knew for damned certain that to even HINT of such an encounter to anyone other than another pilot was GUARANTEED to end your promotions and flying career in general. So they only talked about it amongst themselves. Lots of nervous jokes and laughter, but no official reports.
Edward Dowd.
“In 2021 I figured out the plan was quarterly boosters for life and calculated Pfizer’s revenue would be $350 billion a year if that came to fruition. This MP from the UK confirms this. Luckily we have put a crimp in this plan.”
I find it amusing that Positive Dennis advises Ilargi against posting certain items because they can’t be proven and so hurts Ilargi’s “brand” – PD must be new. Ilargi’s “brand” IS the unproven (Covid, Ukraine, Politics, and banal evil). I support this site, do you? If Ilargi ever hesitated to express himself then that is unfortunate as I appreciate him for it. I have no idea if the child trafficking is true but you have to admit there are enough coincidences to ask questions.
Two people I know did not kill themselves are Chris Cornell and Anthony Bourdain.
I saw a UFO once, late at night, in Scotland, about an hour outside Aberdeen. It was 1997. I was with a friend, who saw it too. Back then I kept a journal and I still have that journal entry, so it’s one of those things I know happened, I documented it. It looked exactly like you’d expect a flying saucer to look in the sky at night. Now, it could have been some sort of secret aircraft, I’ll certainly never know exactly what it was. But it was definitely an “Unidentified flying object” the likes I have never seen, flying in a pattern nothing else flies in.
Another thing about Bourdain, something weird definitely happened to him around the time he moved to CNN. His show changed a lot, became pretty obvious propaganda. Perhaps it always was, but this was blatant. All you have to do is watch his episode on Libya to see it in your face. Sometimes I wonder if he did see too much, got too close, and needed to be dealt with.
Xmas music. Deal with it. Mavericks
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Today’s Yogi tea tag secret decoder ring message: Drink your Ovaltine. Life is best lived by focusing on your goals and dancing through all other distractions.Relevant song: Say Ladeo
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Today’s Superspreader:
Today’s “SuperspreaderEspecially relevant, I feel, is this:
“U.S. Department of Defense issued a ‘COVID-19 Research’ contract 3 Months before COVID-19 was known to officially exist”
But uniquely saddening to me is this:
“Famous Church Displays Nativity Scene Promoting Fifth Dose of Covid ‘Vaccine’
Musk Asks Twitter If He Should Step Down (ZH)
I double-down on my assessment of Musk: a very high-functioning Trump. The man knows how to play the media.
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We can dance. Just get us drunk enough:
Repeat after me: We Are SO Fucked, or WASF. C’mon, kids, rage with me! it’ll be fun! Shout it loud until you’re proud! Fucked! Fucked! Fucked! Paint the world a depressing sheen of cockroach turd brown. It won’t change a thing, won’t help you deal with the consequences of the many things fucking with us, will just make you angrier and grumpier and more depressed and (“science says”) trigger incurable erectile dysfunction and/or unrepentant dry twat syndrome, but it will give you a brief buzz followed by icky feelings. You know, like tobacco!
” Now, it could have been some sort of secret aircraft, I’ll certainly never know exactly what it was. But it was definitely an “Unidentified flying object” the likes I have never seen, flying in a pattern nothing else flies in.”
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“Here’s another few of G.W. Smith’s interesting stories (this must be reminiscence day):”I love first-hand accounts of weirdness. Thank you. Very much. 🙂
And now, to probably confuse and/or piss people off at me even more, I’ll comment on this:
If they’d posse-d up and used the data they had to go kill some traffickers, they might still be alive and so might some kids. As it is, they made some media for media consumers (that’s us, btw) to consume and feel feelings about and therefore send some paypal $%$ to some worthy cause.
Rage is a very powerful tool. I’m all for using it… when the enemy is available and can be pounded into bloody concrete pulp.
bosco’s Moral Mantra: The Good Samaritan helps his fellow man where he finds it needing help, then and there. The Good Samaritan smites evil where he finds it, then and there.
Anything else is just talk-talk and imaginary action-at-a-distance, a powerful illusion provided by the entrancing hypnotic power of talk-talk and the magic of media.
“It looks like the mRNA is transferring from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated”
Dr Peter McCullough
Don’t date the vaccinated
Don’t shake their hands, and for God’s sake don’t kiss them, much as marry them.
Like ever
Dr Christiane Northrup is starting a dating service for the unvaccinated.
She says the unvaccinated have the “golden DNA” while the vaccinated’s blood (and DNA) is tainted.
You can’t even have a chance at starting a family and having relatively health children with the vaccinated.
It like they have the Mark of Cain
“Don’t be silly. Fermi’s Paradox is saying “Black Swans don’t exist because I’ve never seen one.” That’s keenly unsmart.”
No, you’re wrong. Fermi’s Paradox says this: “Having never seen an ET black swan, here is/are a/several reason(s) why this may be so.”
What political hay-makers make of it is something altogether different… just as what political hay-makers make of anthropogenic global climate disruption is something altogether (and I use that absolute here because it is accurate) different.
You’re a brilliant man, Dr. D. There is much I admire and enjoy about you. I often learn from you. But your tolerance for bullshit when it serves your agenda does not recommend itself to me as something to enjoy or admire, and I only learn from it negatively: behavior NOT to emulate.
But egos are like that. Humanity’s favorite blinders. I recommend you inform yourself on a thing before speaking on how “keenly unsmart” it is. It will prevent you from making an ass of yourself on that topic. I also recommend you learn to acknowledge when you’ve made a simple mistake: it will prevent you from making an unrepentant ass of yourself.
“Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi’s name is associated with the paradox because of a casual conversation in the summer of 1950 with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil Konopinski. While walking to lunch, the men discussed recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moved on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi blurted out, “But where is everybody?” (although the exact quote is uncertain).[3][4]
“There have been many attempts to resolve the Fermi paradox,[5][6] such as suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial beings are extremely rare, that the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or that they exist but (for various reasons) humans see no evidence.”
We can do better than this? Are we curious independent thinkers who share and study (often difficult) data, or are we just another echo chamber full of OOC: Opinionated Old Cranks? I fear I will soon have to abandon online discourse like this for lack of quality interlocutors. But then, it has to be that way, because any club that will tolerate the likes of me isn’t good enough for the likes of me. (bosco’s paradox, stolen from Groucho Marx)
Now you’ve REALLY pissed me off. I’m so mad, I’ma share this link of charming images from my dreadful blog:
Speaking of solstice stuff:
SATURDAY NIGHTS IN FAT CITY
Still, all things considered, Saturnalia rightly belongs to Saturn. During solsticial Saturnalia, a temporary Golden Age was enacted. (It is only fair to mention that Cronus’s reign was also considered a Golden Age for mankind – if not for His kids.) Again quoting EB’47 :
“All business, public and private, was at a standstill; schools were closed, executions and military operations did not take place, slaves were temporarily free, feasting with and even waited on by their masters and saying what they chose. All and sundry were greeted with ‘io Saturnalia’ (i.e. ‘yeah Saturn!’), and presents were freely exchanged, the traditional ones being wax candles and little clay dolls.
“Concerning those quaint gifts, the antiquaries had a story telling that an old prophecy bade the earliest inhabitants of Latium send ‘fota ’ to Saturn and heads to Pluto” … “that they interpreted this as meaning human sacrifices, but that Hercules advised them to use lights and not human heads” (apparently fota can mean both ‘head’ and ‘light’; the two separated only by a twist of pronunciation). “Gambling with dice, generally forbidden, was allowed, a custom which is exactly paralleled from Nepal. Saturnus himself was untied, presumably to come out and join in the fun.”
No kidding; I didn’t make any of this up (except for the part about the Chip Monks, and Kindasorta Didbutdidn’t). Strange bit of scholarly lore. Nepal? Beats me. I don’t write encyclopedias; I just read them.So Hercules possibly saved innumerable criminals and prisoners from sacrificial beheadings by suggesting a semantic sleight of hand. As shell games go, switching homonyms is subtler than swapping a stone in a blanket for a swaddling babe and, apparently, more effective; Pluto didn’t even burp. The bit about untying Saturnus’ feet alludes to the ropes of wool that were normally kept tied around the feet of Saturnus’ statues (probably to prevent Him from gadding about collecting those unspeakable “fota’s” that presumably were symbolized by little clay dolls). One can see why the term ‘pagan’ has come to have a bad rep, just as modern Christians avoid seeming too… Inquisitive?
On such Dark Nights, candles would be appropriate, of course, but “little clay dolls”? If candles replaced heads, what would dolls replace? Specifically little clay ones? Baked in ovens? Little terra cotta gingerbread people? The suggestions are grisly but the truth is unknown and I have a point to make before I finish this paragraph. I have a theory regarding gifts of candles and little clay dolls. May I suggest that this marks the start of the tradition of senseless Christmas gifts? You know: “I didn’t know what to get you, so I got this little clay doll…” One can envision false gratitude as the father of all irrational gift-giving, observing how one display of false enthusiasm (“I LOVE it!”) begets more of the same. Eventually, entire industries would be built around the mandatory giving of the unnecessary. Greeting cards, pet rocks, fruitcakes, Tickle-Me Elmoes… no wonder Cronus ate His kids.
Mythology is a strange thing. Consider the Christmas story. Camels and Zoroastrian priests (the Magi, or Wise Men), Caesarian tax rates, tinseled fir trees, Judean Messianic prophesies, virginal mothers, shepherds, stables, stars and lowing cattle – what all of these have to do with our annual passage through the Dark Days is almost as muddled in my mind as is the relationship between clay dolls and candles, or the family tree of the gods (which seems effectively symbolized in the glitteringly intertwined chaos of the modern day Yule tree).
You may note that candles get around, from Saturnalia through Channukah’s Feast of Lights (there’s a name to make a headlight-hungry god happy) to Christmas – which is certainly an highly illuminated event. A candle is to ritual pageantry what alcohol is to taverns and revelry: How else ya gonna set the place on fire?
“Ritual pageantry.” A happy mid-twentieth century American childhood ideally included a series of happy Christmases spiritually jazzed by sacred music, an abundance of shining lights, bright colors, innocent material lust and a week off from school. Many of us portrayed Wise Men or shepherds or Immaculate Virgins in Christmas pageants. To kneel onstage in front of one’s church fellows in celebration of the birth of a divine being, wearing sacred robes of bath and hoods of towel while carrying some enormous stylization of a shepherd’s crook, was one of the stranger yet more comforting events of my young life. Blue stage lights in my eyes, little Johnny Hauwiller giggling about thieving ‘shepherd crooks’, parents and parishioners before us in the darkened church’s pews: imagine Sir Laurence Olivier attempting Hamlet in pajamas. Of course he could pull it off – and so did we when I and several other prepubescent lads pulled back together in mock fright while angels in sheets, tin foil wings and jiggling haloes, appeared from the backstage heavens singing hymns to the baby Jesus. I imagine we looked more like The Three Stooges recoiling from a sudden adversary – perhaps the landlord or a man in a gorilla suit – than we resembled The Three Wise Men shrinking in fearful awe.
‘Three’, by the way, is a Biblically unsubstantiated number only guessed from the three Biblically mentioned categories of gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Three gifts: three guys. Sure. The Magi were high priests of a sect, originating from Persia and beyond, thought to be the precursor of Zoroastrianism /Mithraism. This is the religion from which the mighty Zarathustra spake thusly, long before providing Richard Strauss the inspiration, via Nietsche’s book of the same name, for Thus Spake Zarathustra, Strauss’s symphonic tone poem. This is the music that provided such eerie musical accompaniment to those grisly slo-mo shots, in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, of apemen (or men in gorilla suits) discovering the mighty power of The Club as they triumphantly smashed bones and brothers into bits beside the silent and mysterious monolith. Note that this giant stone was not wrapped in a blanket – nor in wrapping paper.
The Magi were regarded as the real thing : high-tech voodoo practitioners capable of performing wondrous miracles, hence the word Magi-c. They certainly brought appropriate gifts for newlywed out-of-towners down on their luck and camped with their firstborn in a smelly stable. Gold, frankincense and myrrh: cash, room deodorizer and cologne. Clay dolls and candles wouldn’t have been nearly so thoughtful, yes?
As a time of ritual giving, the solstices of times past had certain advantages. Being at the end of harvest and before the winter planting, there was both abundance and leisure. When else would an agrarian community have both the materials and time to make, for example, candles and little dolls? It was the one time of the year when the larder was full. The term ‘larder’ derives from ‘lard’, and lard was a precious commodity in ancient, even recent, times past. Fat is one of those instable isotopes of which there is always either too much or too little.
Lard kept people warm, both through calories and insulation. Equally or even more importantly, lard made candles and oil for lamps. It was so precious a commodity that whale blubber made fortunes for any Ahab able to capitalize a whaling ship, manage it well and land a few fat whales.
Fat led humanity beyond. The quest for lard led men to Arctic waters and into oversized rowboats to harpoon Leviathan. Imagine, for comparison, taking on a grizzly bear with a Swiss army knife. Oh, I’m sure that Hercules or Sir Laurence Olivier could pull it off, at least against a man in a leviathan suit, but we’re talking about men in wooden boats playing picador/matador to the largest water buffaloes known to man. Lard was, in fact, so scarce that soap and bathing were largely ignored until recent times because of the scarcity of fat for making soap. A great perfume industry toiled to hide our stench from each other. Hence the overnight fortunes for whaler captains if they scored some ambergris, that mysterious substance (essentially whale bile) so vital to the perfumes of previous centuries.
Solstice time was dark and candles weren’t cheap. They made perfect gifts. Little clay dolls? Some mysteries remain impenetrable. Some of the harsher realities of human existence remain – not unspeakable nor unprintable but – unpalatable? Ask Cronus, or whomever you can find to answer to the name: Father Time.
One reason that a good or ‘real’ Christmas is so difficult to achieve nowadays is today’s relative absence of scarcity. A famine of abundance grips the land. How to celebrate abundance in a culture whose poorest often have more than did all but antiquity’s wealthiest? Who have little or no concept of how incredibly wealthy they are? Only one hundred and fifty years ago, December was Fat City. Early winter was when there was both a pig to roast and an apple to put in its mouth, along with time on your hands (unless you were a factory worker). Even slaves were able to take it relatively easy, which partially explains the Roman tradition of temporary manumission during solstice. Indulge a slave with time on its hands lest it plan a successful revolution. Keep it drunk and generally sated.
Anciently, there were numerous Roman festivals besides Saturnalia: Bacchanalia, Lupercalia, Liberalia and more. Other cultures and countries had theirs as well, but Roman culture is about as representative of European culture as it gets. Saturnalia was the biggie, the great survivor from antiquity. A study of Saturnalia will suffice to trace the pagan roots of today’s winter religious festivities of contemporary Christendom.
“Dr Christiane Northrup is starting a dating service for the unvaccinated. She says the unvaccinated have the “golden DNA” while the vaccinated’s blood (and DNA) is tainted.”
The future looks weirder and weirder by the hour. Netflix writers are just this morning discussing a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale integrating the above as a new plot twist.
Adam Schiff never gives proof for his accusations/statements/slurs/rumors.
Overthrowing with zero weapons when statistically they own 5 guns a piece. – J6 conclusions
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Jubilee – debts would be forgiven, rich lenders won’t collect. Poor borrower will survive Social/economic system will survive.
“$300 trillion of global debt and $2 quadrillion of quasi debt in the form of derivatives can only end in currencies going to zero..”
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No one cares what we say on the Internet. So why afraid of it? If it’s false it’ll be easy to lambaste as utter nonsense.
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“It looks like the mRNA is transferring from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated” – Dr Peter McCullough
It looks like the immune system is not strong enough to prevent the transfer of mRNA. – zerosum
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Four outcomes met the threshold for a statistical signal following BNT162b2 vaccination including pulmonary embolism (PE; RR = 1.54), acute myocardial infarction (AMI; RR = 1.42), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC; RR = 1.91), and immune thrombocytopenia (ITP; RR = 1.44). ”https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22014931
Good god! :
43 y/o: pulmonary embolism
29 y/o: pulmonary thromboembolism
60 y/: Sudden cerebral aneurysm
46 y/o: cerebral hemorrhage
I could go on and on and on ….
TVASF
Dear Prime Minister @RishiSunak,
YOU have the power to stop the ongoing unnecessary harm that is devastating individuals and families. @Keir_Starmer the Labour Party also lost one of its most decorated doctors @KailashChandOBE to this mRNA product. Please stop this roll out NOW https://t.co/SECbfK9joz
— Dr Aseem Malhotra (@DrAseemMalhotra) December 18, 2022
TVASF
When it comes to UFO’s, or just about any other subject, especially those which have been intentionally suppressed and ridiculed, one really needs to do a deep dive to get your bearings. Even then, one often encounters many side tunnels to explore which connect to the main theme. Time and interest then determine how much you invest for the level of knowledge and expertise you desire. The more puzzle pieces you successfully connect, the clearer the picture appears.
It also requires a strong mind, one that can remain grounded with reality and everyday life, so that your sanity and functionality remain intact. The Alice who pursues the rabbit is never the same one that returns to the surface. And sadly, some never find there way back.
One site I visit regularly is called Eyes On Cinema, which has a UFO channel containing many rare first-hand UFO accounts and interviews. There is nothing that compares, other than the actual experience, of hearing someone describe their encounter shortly after it occurred. Or listening to the sheer panic that often engulfs abductees under hypnosis as they describe what happened to them.
I took my mother for the Covid jab – four days later she was dead
” His exact words will haunt me for the rest of my life: ‘Mrs Kelly would be here today had she not been given the vaccine’ He was asked by the coroner to clarify his findings and he stated that it was ‘fatal for her.’ ”
I took my mother for the Covid jab – four days later she was dead
TVASF
I must have watched the Boys Keep Swinging a dozen times easily by now, and I’m still in awe of how that’s not a band, but a machine. Director is Carlos Alomar on guitar, you got the bald girl -always forget her name- on bass, the drummer I’ve ever seen, Bowie at perfect ease and confidence, and on top of that Earl Slick going fully guitar bonkers. How sure do you have to be to say: yeah, Earl, go ahead, do your thang, improvise?!
@DBS
Thanks for the snippet of Oppy’s existence.
Speaking of, last week watched beautiful documentary (on Am- prime) about Mars rowers, bearing the title “Oppy” after the longer lasting one. Reminder of the USA that I loved.Dennis,
You really should not post things like the Dam Schiff rumors. It really hurts your brand and site as you have no idea if it is true.
I sort of fundamentally disagree with this. We can’t always wait for 50 fact checkers to confirms things. In this case I posted 2 separate pics of allegations. So I run with that. Not because I know it’s true, but because I want people to think about it. If we don’t take that leap, what are the odds we will ever find the truth? I side with Kenny:
If Ilargi ever hesitated to express himself then that is unfortunate as I appreciate him for it. I have no idea if the child trafficking is true but you have to admit there are enough coincidences to ask questions.
I have the idea that child -sexuaL- abuse is such a big issue in the US -and worldwide- that we would hurt the victims if we didn’t ring the bell before we’re 100% sure.
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