Debt Rattle December 8 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 8 2022]Re: Extradition proceedings of Julian Assange.
The English language is notoriously flexible, new words are made, other names are substituted or new meanings are added to existing. e.g. Oh! the dog Priti Patelled on the yard; I need to take a Priti Patel; That’s a large pile of Priti Patel; the late queen’s seventy year reign amounts to a Priti Patel for not pardoning Julian Assange. Being has consequences!
Japan is off to the races – again!
Notice how the baseline deaths are higher than previous baselines.
Not good.“Secondly, let’s not kid ourselves. The very reason the Russian government opted to release convict volunteers into the custody of Wagner rather than form penal units ran by the state is so that erring convicts could be dealt with in the legal grayzone with informal, ad-hoc measures by Wagner, rather than them having the full protection of Russian citizenship and the rule of law. It’s a similar situation as when during GWOT the CIA outsourced its torture to Third World client states.”
https://antiempire.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-wagner-team-up-in-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email“Germany Arrests Dozens Accused of Plotting to Overthrow Government”
So are 13 of 15 of them German police?
“G-7 Offers $15 Billion To Vietnam, Up from $2 Billion, to Transition to Renewables Months atfter Country Snubbed Climate Ambassadors”
WTH? With MY money? And after Sri Lanka, they have the gall and cheek to open their gobs to anyone? Well at least Sri Lanka — 99% ESG rating — shows why they want the same end for Vietnam. Murder, death, and misery spread widely. Btw, what’s been happening over there? Collapse into cannibalism, or just muddling through like Argentina?
“End of an Era: Final Boeing 747 Rolls off Assembly Line”
Again with all our planes being 50 years old. All things get old. But where’s the new one? A plane a generation, a revolution ahead in technology? At the same time as Russia has supersonic vehicles underwater? Nowhere? Then what is the Space Plane that was in orbit for a year? Does that exist today or is that only on odd-numbered days that it exists?
“Merkel Confirms Ukraine Ceasefire Was a Ploy (RT)”
Free Speech. Never stop it. So we’ve heard Putin has called off peace after the U.S. bombing of Russian Nuclear Bases. How do you think this will end now?
When one side NEEDS a broad nuclear exchange to burn the robbed casino and hide the evidence? Surely you exaggerate, Herr Docktor. Why bother? Hillary said she would start WWIII by Jan 2017 as soon as she was elected. They’re off schedule. When they’ve written for 30 years they DO? However, if you are Russia, and all the goal of the West is to nuke, cause nukes, make you defend yourself with nukes, how do you de-escalate from a literal madman? Out on the street you put the attacking madman down, to the extent of homicide in self-defense. However, nations are not people and cannot be killed, along with their corresponding ideologies.
So what do you do?
Okay, put another way, Nuland is part of a tiny minority and unlike Ukraine, Americans do not support her war. So Who acts here? Some half of the Pentagon? NSA Rogers? The Supreme Court? Ex-Presidents? Since some of those power-blocks certainly don’t support it, how do they respond, they being much closer and better suited to attack the madman and de-escalate?
“the Cold War never really ended because Russia was basically not at peace,”
So: from 1991 to 2001 in the colonial murder and dismantle era Russia was both subject to Hermitage Capital, no Russian Army, pocket nukes were being sold daily, WMD bases were dismantled and unsecured, East Germany was being absorbed without resistance, yet Russia was ALSO attacking Germany and Poland? Uh-huh.
You know who really was NOT at peace? The United States. Anyone want to count the wars we started from 1990 to 2010, because I don’t have enough hours to name them all this morning.
She also said “NATO “should have reacted more quickly to Russia’s aggressiveness” in 2014.”
Cheney said the same thing. If they didn’t pro-actively nuke Russia in the 90’s, they would lose their chance. Cheney may be insane, but he wasn’t wrong. Every day since the Berlin Airlift has been a day to position first-strike nukes on Russia’s border to get position enough to push the button. Speaking of the Berlin Airlift’s President, that’s why Russia moved into Cuba, and the concession JFK gave to prevent it: removing our first-strike nukes from Turkey and Italy. Then he went after the madman, Dr. Strangelove, in the CIA and Pentagon who had arranged it all. We know how that went.
Not long after, they attempted the same thing with K-129 in 1968. Either accidentally or intentionally, that nuclear attack sank the sub instead, and recovered with a fake Howard Hughes Glamar Explorer “Magnesium Nodule” project. Yes, an official conspiracy theory for the largest, most expensive secret effort ever. (or ever yet revealed). Fun fact: at this time Russia had cracked the code of the Pacific fleet and knew everything about the U.S. Navy, and would for 10 more years.
(“Seymour Hersh of The New York Times uncovered some of the details of Project Azorian in 1974, but was kept from publication by the action of the Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby.” –Wikipedia That is, both a Conspiracy Theory, totally true, and a NY Times-Government merger cover up)
The point here is that maniacs are always trying to nuke each other and kill all of us, and we need to both expose them with appropriate oversight, and halt Dr. Strangelove back to reason. We have all abdicated our responsibility. Both to our nations, our children, to ourselves, but also to such mentally ill so they don’t harm themselves and others.
“Germany Says Ukraine Can Strike Inside Russia (RT)”
Again: Who? Is this where the U.S. is running things and Europe is a poor wee wictim, or does it make sense that the EU — which is German, the 4th Reich (ask Greece) – is the one really attacking Russia using a “NATO” which has no Europeans in it, but is a free bully on paid contract from America? Which makes more sense? America gives $100B in 9 months to collapse themselves for no reason? Or Europe needs to attack and conquer Russia or die trying? Sounds like Europe is the only motive, so I look for the crime from there, even if they hire muscle to do the dirty work. Germany’s actions here suggest this.
“the US distanced itself from Ukraine’s drone strike at two – Nuclear – air bases”
Yes, but guess what? They did the distancing 2 days BEFORE the nuclear attacks. “Redacted” has a good presentation: WaPo (I think) has a video “We’ve been permitted rare access to Ukrainian military…” Rare? Really? Why? It’s all my money and your whole war is run exclusively as a PR campaign. But TODAY, this ONE day, you give international access. Go on…
“With U.S. HIMARS. These HIMARs have been de-tuned so they cannot go more than 80km…” Huh. And you publish that you don’t trust the Ukrainians, your allies, and you know better than them, so give them the kiddie toys because they are but untrustworthy children, Slavs, Untermenschen really, and won’t give them real bombs? You DO know they will watch this “rare” international news video, right? That insults them all to their face?
So…why you do that? Tell them and the world it’s impossible U.S. missiles can reach Russia? …A DAY before two missiles strike DEEEEP inside Russia?
…Yeah, it’s because you knew, they knew, we all knew, it was all pre-planned and given the express okay by Victoria Nuland on her visit. …But we’re not in the war.
In general point of law, though, Germany is correct: Ukraine was invaded and (presumably having declared war) can attack anything they like anywhere in Russia. The U.S. can’t. Because we never declare war, so our every action since 1960 is painfully illegal under international law and a human rights violation. Including our present embargo of Russia, which is also an act of war. And impeachable without Congress signing it.
“Washington and its allies insist they are not a party to the hostilities, but continue arming Kiev.” Huh?
“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged to invest much more into his military, so that Berlin can become “the guarantor of European security that our allies expect us to be, a bridge builder within the European Union.” Bridges are generally built using bombs. And Germany is in charge of those poor other European peoples who aren’t really people, can’t be trusted, and don’t know any better. Like Greece.
“However, German media have noted that it will take until 2026 to hit the NATO-mandated goal of spending 2% of the GDP on the armed forces.” So you’ll barely have an army even 4 years from now. By using the Trump Plan. Got it.
“Putin: Risk of Nuclear War Rising, Ukraine Operation to Be “Long Process” (ZH)”
This is dangerous, as the above. By the time Russia reaches the Polish border, Poland and Germany actually WILL have an army? I don’t like the sound of that.
““Russia does not have tactical nuclear weapons in other countries”
This was one of Infographics’ categorical signs of weakness. Russia only uses rail, and can only defend itself. Um, isn’t that a GOOD thing? And shows you are the aggressor? 6,000 miles away? And that Russia is INCAPABLE of being Offensive? Offensive = Good, Defender = Bad.
“This British volunteer fighting for the Ukrainian army reports of truckloads of military aid going missing because of rampant corruption in Ukraine.”
But all the corruption is on the Russian side! Ukraine is a squeaky-clean, multi-cultural LGBT-loving free-speech Democracy! So says the NY Times, a week after also reporting the #Opposite.
(P.S. there is NO corruption in the U.S. Military, their contractors, or Congress. None. We are also a squeaky-clean, multi-cultural LGBT-loving free-speech Democracy and D.C. is the cleanest, most crime-free city in America.)
“the European Union will be able to participate in these processes on an equal footing when it realizes that it doesn’t have to say 100% ‘yes, sir’ to the United States.”
Hmmm. Russia is driving a wedge between the U.S. and Europe, but wouldn’t that have different meaning if it’s the EU/Davos who is the senior partner? But are lying about it? Publicly being forced to reject the U.S. will gravely complicate and injure the control of the U.S., Neocons, who control the U.S. CIA/Army against the will of the American people. AND their own, European citizens. Notice how long it’s been, but Europe/Germany/Davos won’t give up, back up on it even a little? Even after they’ve been bombed? Are being frozen and bombed? What does that tell you?
They’re not mad about it at all. It’s their plan too. Or since the U.S. people also oppose it, it’s their plan exclusively.
““The East Route is part of a $400 billion, 30-year agreement between Russia’s Gazprom and the China National Petroleum”
Apparently we have 30 years of Carbon. There are many other pipes and contracts. No peak oil. “We” being the Human Race, as in Asia, not “The Anglo Countries”. Therefore “We hates it forever and ever”
“On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed that important data in the Twitter Files releases was “hidden” and “deleted,”
Yes, by FBI-Plant Baker. Almost certain this was allowed to happen exactly for this reason, to demonstrate FBI interference in real time. Undeniable. And also make it too tempting, too necessary for Baker/FBI not to try.
“Something Flipped in 2021 by 8 points’: Ed Dowd”
2021, not 2020. 8 Points, that’s 6-Sigma. But I’m sure 100,000 year anomalies happen all the time for no reason.
“Rod Stewart lost his 2 brothers within 2 months earlier this year. He’s a vaccine promoter.”
And he always will be. There is no end. How can I know? It ALREADY happened. For a year.
“Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Warns Assange May Be Extradited “Within Weeks” (WSWS)”
“Can’t we just drone this guy?” –HRC
It’s not safe for Julian to be extradited until Republicans own Congress and some other levers of power like his transportation. That’s what’s taking so long, esp having to back up and “concede” the ‘20 election to be firmly over the 80% support level. Now is he really in Belmarsh as advertised? (Probably) Or is he being given the “Goodfellas” treatment? (Probably not, Britain is the head of the snake and our main enemy)
““this idea that we owe reparations is a total injustice.”
It’s just an extortion racket. If saying these mouth-sounds makes you give me money, I make the mouth-sounds. This isn’t hard.
Generally I just say, “So if a guy is half and half, does he pay reparations to himself? How does this work, exactly?”
There is no logic in them. Only fee-fees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIspfWvkgzg
As the man says: “Ow, Ow, Ow, Feeeeelings….“
Poll, from the Internets: “Years ago, in what feels like another life-line (a.k.a “Before Covid”), I was supposed to be writing a book”
What the h—l is he talking about? It’s the same bulls—t as always. Do other people feel this way? Proving I can learn something, I thought/felt the same thing about that building fire in NY and needed to respect that other people can be made irrational about nothing sometimes.
So what’s the feeling here? Have we left the normal? We can’t go back? Is this because, although it’s been there all along, this is the first time they’ve been knocked upside their heads hard enough to notice?
I thought this was some advertising slogan for their stupid goals (of the person paying for the ad, who wishes to topple/alter government, etc) but like ‘01 seems to be getting internalized, right on command.
Here we go folks: NEW YORK, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Blackstone Inc Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman said on Wednesday that redemptions in his firm’s $69 billion non-traded real estate income trust (REIT) were driven by investors roiled by market volatility rather than dissatisfaction with the fund.
Yes, Blackstone Inc. :… https://www.blackstone.com/
… it’s a beginning, “Accelerating Growth” no more. Financial crisis imminent, …F.S.
Post Death Vaxx.
“Celine Dion has revealed she been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological disorder with features of an autoimmune disease.”
“…the condition makes her muscles spasm uncontrollably.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63904242
We’ve all seen those vids of folks exhibiting uncontrollable spasms post vaxx.
Play stupid games ….. win stupid prizes.TVASF
If this is the first week, just imagine what’s coming!
This is EXACTLY what one would expect with an immune-wrecked population.Flu and other viruses pile pressure on NHS as waiting lists hit new high
“Viruses including flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the winter vomiting bug are putting extra pressure on the NHS in England in the first week of winter while waiting lists reached another record high in October.”
“…data showing another jump in the number of beds required for flu patients last week, up 49% on the previous seven days.”
“…772 general and critical care beds were occupied by flu patients in the week to 4 December compared with just 34 beds in the first week of December 2021, a 22-fold increase.”
“Every day we hear horror stories of patients dying whilst they wait for help to arrive or to be admitted into hospital. The public are left asking: how has it come to this?”
How indeed!
We know how.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/08/nhs-england-waiting-lists-flu-rsv-norovirus
TVASF
You may be aware that our food industry is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, to the point that it takes about 10 kcal of energy input to deliver 1 kcal of consumed food. The enormous energy multiplier is due to extensively mechanized plowing, harvesting, processing, and delivery of food; fossil-fueled fertilization (via methane feedstock); refrigeration and preparation; then of course food waste. In olden times, when all agricultural energy came from muscle power that needed to be fed, the system would collapse (i.e., starve and fail) if energy inputs exceeded energy ingested.[…]”
Finite Feeding Frenzy
F.S.
Why all the new IRS agents? Here’s a utube video that helps explain it.
Today’s rattle has finally got to me. It seems we are just ignoring what’s happened, what’s been done to us, with this virus and these vaccines. Isn’t it obvious at this time how harmful it’s all been? I know a lot of people, and don’t know anyone who died from covid. I am 2 degrees away from many people who either died suddenly or unexpectedly (all under the age of 60) or have died or have become suddenly very sick from cancer or other “unknown” problems, again all under the age of 60. It seems people really are very sick, a lot.
And wtf is going on with Russia/Ukraine? And this FTX fiasco. And The Twitter insanity?
But no one really cares. Everyone seems to be in a fog. Including me I suppose.
My wonderful little town that I love has been rocked by a horrific multiple murder recently. The world is crazy, it’s now cold and dark, and there’s a dark cloud hanging over us. But what can you do but just keep going? Be grateful for health, friends, pets, being safe and warm, for now. While I appreciate the ranting and raving and anger, I miss the more philosophical posts. I come here every day to see what’s going on, sometimes I don’t know why or what the point is, but this is my morning routine now. I guess I’m just waiting to see the tide turn, to see all the articles about people waking up. Unfortunately it looks like today is not that day.
This interests me. Worries me a bit too:
News about oil ships, Oil tankers
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Today’s Yogi tea tag says: Sometimes a perfect blessing will arrive in the disguise of a mischievous intruder.
Relevant song: But it just may be a lunatic you’re looking for
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.” R.W. Emerson
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The Xmas floggings will continue until morale improves:
Mormons Do Symmetry Extremely Well
Gotta love it when the organist floors the pedal to the pipe organ at 2:37.
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Mother Christmas:
I read references to the “violent” Jan 6 riot, and the thousands of Capitol police officers “assaulted” and I think…hunh? Is there something about the Jan 6 event that I missed?
So I do a quick search on Google — knowing that the result will be propaganda — but I’m looking for actual video footage from Jan 6, footage that will briefly explain to me why the words “violent” and “assault” and “heavily armed” are being used. I found this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/capitol-riot-hearings-prime-time-1.6483847, I turn off the sound, and there is a warning about graphic language and scenes.
As I watch I think: this is some type of sick joke, right?
What violence? I mean, sure, I can see how viewing that great mass of people marching towards the Capitol would induce anxiety. Yes, as the crowd pressed towards the Capitol, it did resemble — towards the front, where the people were determined, rather than sightseeing — a military assault upon a fortified place…except that the crowd had no weapons. The only actual weapons displayed were in the hands of Capitol police: a gun at an officer’s hip, batons being used to beat on protestors, and use of pepper spray. The closest thing to a weapon in the hands of protesters was a baseball bat. Yes, there were protesters with flag poles and walking sticks and sign posts and selfie-sticks, and water bottles, and phones, etc. — when Capitol police obstructed protesters and hit them with batons, the protesters used what they had and hit back. (…Because the protesters had no actual weapons with them…suggesting that they didn’t intend to attack anyone.). There was a protester group with clear plastic shields, which suggests that there may have been a few protesters with prior thought about disobeying Capitol officers, expecting baton blows, and preparing for them.
Violent? The BLM riots in the summer of ‘20 were more violent. There is more violence on the shows streaming into televisions and devices every minute of every day in the US.
Officers assaulted? A few protesters technically assaulted officers with sticks and fisticuffs and the like. Such things happen at protests sometimes, there would be bruises to nurse, maybe a broken nose or broken bone. So…prosecute those who committed the assaults, just like would be done at any other protest.
Protesters heavily armed? Were the protesters’ own arms “heavy” with thick coats and all the water bottles and signs that they carried? I saw no formal weapons in the hands of any protesters — they only questionable item was a baseball bat (no legitimate reason to bring it to a protest,) but there was no footage of it being used as a club.
This was specially compiled footage, designed to make me feel outrage at what happened. They wanted to convince me that the protesters committed violence, and this was ALL that they could come up with?? I’ve been watching The Witcher with my daughter lately — we like the fantasy storyline, but we dislike the graphic violence, looking away during those scenes — which is much more violent that the cited 11 minute video. Instead, the Jan 6 video compilation makes me feel like the people pushing the Jan 6 narrative are a bunch of pansies, and that most of those in the crowd were essentially duped into participating in something that was not what they thought it would be.
For Kassandra:
I think that one of the most reliable forms of happiness is pondering the miracle that creature experience felicity in the first place. If one believes that life is something designed by a god, this turns emotions into biosoftware artifacts. Comforting to think this way in some respects, and it’s my favorite model for interpreting reality. But if one believes it’s something that arose through the undirected meanderings of evolution, it’s proof positive that the violent struggle, through which inconceivable numbers of creatures — from microbes to blue whales — have eaten each other, typically alive, with little if any regard for the other, can also produce states of emotions so fine that this struggle seems worth it to beings with reflective consciousness: humans. That’s also mighty divine, imo.
It’s a real thing, this happiness. For beings with above-cited reflective consciousness, with mirror neuron structures that allow most of us (sorry, psychopaths) to experience rough simulations of the emotional states of other beings, the meaning is obvious: he is happiest who does as much to increase the happiness of others as himself.
Politically, this is expressed in the concept of socialism, in which All For One and One For All is he defining principle. Capitalism, uh, not so much. Capitalism is each man for himself. As an economic method, capitalism is awesome. Capital must be acquired and employed to generate prosperity. But as a political system, it fails from the onset, since politics is a group struggle to produce harmony and group prosperity, and capitalism is the opposite: an individual struggle to produce personal wealth regardless of its effect on group harmony. It’s a miracle modern political capitalism has gone so far as it has, but the answer is largely found in the enormous amount of resources this planet offers tool-making monkeys like ourselves. We’ve about used up the fattest portion, whose uber-abundance lets so many live so lavishly compared to the conditions most humans have lived in throughout history. But that fat is about burnt up and then we’ll be forced to cooperate and care for each other as *part* of each other, because politically and economically, that is exactly what we are.
But no political -ism works on a large scale. Socialism is a disaster on scales larger than Dunbar’s Number, likewise capitalism or any -ism you apply. (Anarchy at least has the decency to end with a ‘y’ not an ‘ism’.) What works is you and the person next door looking out for each other.
Also, my son sent me this link last night. The music itself isn’t exceptional but the attitude of humble participation between the musicians is a joy. Like watching your parents and grandparents play cards on a Saturday night back when families still lived nearby:
The Covid scam is gone
Now its Flu + 2
(respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Omicron)
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New normal
• Analysis Shows 26% Worse Mortality Among the Vaccinated (RVM)
higher vaccine-induced mortality
Compromised Immunity System – Immunodeficiency, also known as immunocompromisation, is a state in which the immune system’s ability to fight infectious diseases and cancer is compromised or entirely absent.
Further reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunodeficiencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system#Layered_defense
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Pain travels slowly in idiots. Pain is coming.
So far more than 1,200 individuals and 118 entities connected to Russia have been sanctioned, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
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“But no one really cares. Everyone seems to be in a fog. Including me I suppose.” – Kassandra
——-@ Bosco
I don’t know if you can hear the difference, but Mack Wilberg is an amazing conductor and has vastly improved the tabernacle choir….“But no one really cares. Everyone seems to be in a fog. Including me I suppose.”
If you are inebriated, but consider what a reasonable sober person would do, you can still model that and then do it, which is weird, because if you JUST made a decision while inebriated, it would be an inebriated decision, but you can model sober behavior while inebriated and do that instead.
Imagine yourself at your non-foggiest, your canniest, your shrewdest. What does your sharper, braver, more ruthlessly principled, confident self do, if you ask yourself, what would I do if I were that?
8 Dec, 2022 06:45
https://www.rt.com/russia/567872-ukraine-energy-system-zelensky/
Restoring energy system ‘impossible’ – Zelensky
Ukrainians should accept rolling blackouts as part of their lives, the president suggestsIt is also impossible to restore Ukraine as it was before.
Live with it until the war ends.
Military are foreigners,
Ukrainians have emigrated or gone on extended vacations.
Their air force is decimated, every Soviet-era tank Ukraine has been destroyed.
Their “mechanized” infantry travel around in Hondas!
Request to NATO. Forget the guns, send diesel generators and don’t forget the diesel fuel.“The Witcher with my daughter lately”
Check out the books, much better in my opinion. I tried to watch the 1st season and thought it was god awful television.
… just trying to post – once again – Keen’s latest interview to no avail. Perhaps following will work: Blockworks Macro guy interviews Steve
https://www.google.com/search?q=This+Is+How+The+Government+Prints+Money+%7C+Steve+Keen&rlz=1C9BKJA_enCA921CA922&oq=This+Is+How+The+Government+Prints+Money+%7C+Steve+Keen&aqs=chrome..69i57.2690j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8F.S.
Yesterday afternoon finally got my head around the current name of the land mass I was born on and the current name of the land mass I am living on.
Airstrip One and Airstrip Five.
Airstrip One: Angle-land -invaded, conquered and established as a base for global looting and murder in 1066.
Airstrip Two: The Trans-Atlantic Colonies, invaded in the early seventeenth century, and where most of the indigenous population was murdered to facilitate looting and establishment of slave-camps. Re-incorporated a few decades after a portion of the populace had rebelled.
Airstrip Three: Canada-plus (Canda being a genuine name for a region near the large eastern river, I believe), where a competing subclan of the Normans had established their base for looting but were booted out in the mid-1700s, and where most of the indigenous population were murdered or incorporated to facilitate looting.
Airstrip Four: Uthuru/Barna/Biik/Kurrek, the Great Island Landmass, invaded in the late 1700s, and where most of the indigenous population were murdered to facilitate looting
Airstrip Five: Aotearoa, the Southern Ocean Landmasses, where the indigenous population were tricked into signing away most of their rights, and were largely exterminated when they realised, too late, what was happening to their land and culture.
Oceania is a war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia (well, it has been at war with Eurasia since the late 1700s).
Two Minutes of Hate will be delivered every day.
Party members are required to view their telescreens at dawn and during special broadcasts.
Great news, comrades! The chocolate ration has been increased from 25 grams per week to 20 grams per week
Oroboros, prev. thread. 🙂
In France Macron’s nick-names don’t make those historical comparisons, that would be too grandiose, flattering. ( -> was to Napoleon and Alexander)
Some exs., a selection,
Jupiter my favorite, it was invented by those who worked on his first campaign -> imperial, dominating..
The small powdered Marquis (by another pol, meant to be insulting)
The Mozart of Finance Odd? as Macron is v. poor at math wasn’t a successful banker …. except at convincing ppl by charm, etc.
Play on his name: Micron, ok; Macrotte (my shit ball), Macaron (sweet, sort of hard outside and soft inside), etc.
On arms sent to Ukr. Mentioned in top post.
I listened today — to Xavier Moreau, his latest bulletin, in F. from Donesk, he is mostly outraged at the bomb damage on schools, etc. but he had nothing to say about Arms though that is one of his areas of competence.
— To radio France Soir, featuring Jaques Baud (some of his pieces have been posted here, see Postil magazine, ex, link below) and Francois Martin, in F,
Where what happens to the arms sent to Ukr. was brought up.
Ukr. has since 1991 been a huge arms seller. When the USSR dissolved, all ‘atomic’ capacities were returned to Russia, but all other arms, be it stocks, manufacturing capacities, patents, etc. became the property of the new ‘regions.’
Post 1991, Ukr. sold huge amounts of arms that they had in stock, for mega profits (Oligarchs, greed.) This trading in arms is a staple of Ukr. commerce, and continues, the imports (aka gifts) from the ‘collective west’ are sold on, to Russia (in first place, unsurprising, they are close by and can pay), to Albania, W. Africa, and gangs in Finland, to quote some exs.
An estimate put forward was that light arms (including anti-tank) only 30 – 40 % reached the front line in Ukr. All the rest is sold off left and right, v. cheap.
interview with J. Baud, ex. text in eng. https://bit.ly/3Y642ZQ
If you can stand nasty images, there is an image of the Piranha-Scorpion here, sans makeup and photoshopping. (Also Fatguts)
The creature is having problems coming to terms with resistance to its evil agendas.
‘What was the most challenging? The Prime Minister can’t go past the Parliament protest.
“I think that was for me one of the most challenging parts of the year. I think if I was picking one that really stands out for me that was incredibly difficult,” she said.
“It was very volatile and obviously we all ultimately saw that it did turn to violence and you could feel that in the lead-up.”
She is used to a security detail, but no one at Parliament felt safe.
“I had to do things a bit differently. Seeing that spill over to other people was very upsetting.”
We see that it is still memorising and delivering its script quite well, though, considering that it is a psychotic sociopath actress (some say actor)..
January 6 was a political protest not that much different than the Kavanaugh nomination protests. Everybody peacefully filed out by 7pm and Congress did their business. No fires were set, no statues were pulled down and destroyed, no art was defaced, and even the Capitol Police eventually admitted that officer sicknick died of a separate heart issue. The only protest-relayed death was an unarmed white woman who was shot by a black police officer whose name was withheld for months.
Riots and armed insurrection are a description of what the Antifa and BLM organizations did in 2020+, funded with tens of millions in corporate support from the likes of Chase Manhattan Bank, Nike, Intel, and the Ford Foundation.
And 2.5 years later, the Federal Courthouse and City/County Justice Center in Portland, OR are both still boarded up or fenced as if undergoing a military coup or siege. All we have to do to see the world is use our eyes, think, and recognize that Western legacy, social and corporate media is an irredeemable tissue of hatred, destruction and lies. ☮️
“I don’t know if you can hear the difference, but Mack Wilberg is an amazing conductor and has vastly improved the tabernacle choir….”
I suppose I can, insomuch as my increasingly bad ears caught much of the finer texture. An d then, of course, are the nearly perfect acoustics of the Tabernacle. Personally, I think it is Mormondom’s finest thing-at-large/group effort. No proselytizing, just people singing their hearts out.
It is interesting that the MTChoir is perhaps the single greatest current example the old Catholic tradition of exhilarating acoustic spaces and vast choral music. But then, I think of the LDS church as the New Catholicism. Major differences, yes, but also major similarities.
From the “You Can’t Make This Shit Up” department:
Pfizer and BioNTech Receive U.S. FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Omicron BA.4/BA.5-Adapted Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccine in Children Under 5 Years
Approved in just two days.
Tested on zero babies.Read it through.
The language is unbelievable.Convicts are usually used to fight wars. Many ‘volunteers’ are convicted criminals given a choice of jail or war.
The Dirty Dozen comes to mind as a Hollywood example.
This song also resonates: Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man Letra: https://geniuslyrics.net/bruce-springsteen/born-in-the-usa/
As for using the Wagner Group: of course. One doesn’t put criminals in the same lines as citizen soldiers.
Newsflash to Redneck: this is a war Russia is fighting, not a lesson in ethics and loving kindness. Don’t like how they kill? Go kill ’em back. That’s how war works. As for propaganda and pointless blather, we’ve had ample lessons from you. Maybe you could go teach someone else?
Here we can watch people argue about the meaning of Xmas within the meaning of a song about the meaning of Xmas. THe poo, of course, gets flung.
“And 2.5 years later, the Federal Courthouse and City/County Justice Center in Portland, OR are both still boarded up or fenced as if undergoing a military coup or siege. All we have to do to see the world is use our eyes, think, and recognize that Western legacy, social and corporate media is an irredeemable tissue of hatred, destruction and lies.”
I haven’t visited downtown Portland for over three years although I live in Portland. It reminds me of this line from my fave Borges miniature:
“In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.”
@ Kassandra – “I am 2 degrees away from many people who either died suddenly or unexpectedly”
Me too.
Including dinner with my closest friend just last night.
He recounted how his sister-in-law is currently hospitalised and is receiving blood transfusions due to sudden catastrophic organ failure. SHe is not expected to survive.
Her 32 year-old daughter was found dead on the floor of her bedroom less than a year ago.My own brother’s daughter hasn’t worked for over 5 months.
They’re calling it “Long Covid” – she most likely has Amyloidosis.I know at least 10 other previously healthy people who are dead or sick.
It’s incredible.If you want to know what is really going on in Ukraine, this superb dual presentation fills in a few missing pieces.
In summary, Russia is operating a very successful ‘meat grinder’, for which the Ukos and NATO provide the ‘meat’,
Whereas at the start of the SMO Russia had a 2:1 advantage in artillery, that has now increased considerably and may be as high as 12:1 at this stage. Losses in personnel are approaching a similar ratio.
As long as Ukraine and NATO keep delivering ‘meat’ into the ‘meat grinder’, Russia needs to change nothing and is quite content to take territory at the rate of 100 metres per day, since the agenda is not to occupy large tracts of territory but to continue to deplete the enemy’s capacity to fight.
With the capacity of Ukraine-NATO to fight eliminated, Russia can take whatever territory it wants at virtually no cost.
Not hearing much about death-by-jabbing here in/on Airstrip Five but hearing a lot about people who have been jabbed getting sick with what-ever-it-is. That includes affluent rural folk who have plenty of fresh air, sunlight and good food. Heard about two more yesterday, sick with what-ever-it-is, both repeatedly jabbed.
I’m not sure what the current state of affairs is with the child taken from its parents by the corporation to ensure its [the corporation’s] fake covid and fake ‘vaccine’ narratives are upheld, whatever the consequences. The public face of the corporation needs to be maintained, whatever the cost.
It’s just another day of corruption and lies in/on Airstrip Five, really, much as it has been since 1841.
(I know, planes were invented till the early twentieth century; I’m just using the current designation for these land masses.)
Climate instability in the extreme! Overheated Artic Seas and completely buggered Jet Streams! And this is just the start of the meltdown!
Policial, military, economic, financial and social ‘apocalypse’ coming soon.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBGbegAxCjs
By the way, I hate today’s artwork. Too much blue-and-yellow. Thoroughly sick of blue-and-yellow
Hi Kassandra,
Appreciate your post. I also experience a form of “fatigue” from negative events in motion everywhere. Don’t want to run or hide from the truth of what’s happening, just acceptance and the ability to move on/through gently would be nice. Oasis anyone?
My small town pop. 3,500 was also rocked by a tragic event 2 weeks ago. An young man (born and raised up here) with a traumatic brain injury (from his youth) and unstable mental capability took the lives of 2 (also locals) and himself. Sad and tragic. The shooter struggled and his struggle was known; he slipped through the cracks. Hard to do in a small town like this. Perhaps his family was fatigued from their inability to reach/help their brother/son?
Very much appreciate your remedy: “Be grateful for health, friends, pets, being safe and warm, for now.”
Grateful for every little thing….since the “oasis” is in the Heart, your act of being grateful – when practiced/lived with LOVE – makes oasis possible/accessible.
I can’t stop seeing those “off to work” sunrise/sunset soup kitchen on wheels photos from Ilargi’s weekend post. The entire submission will make your Heart sing (hope you caught it). Hit the street with purpose, joy, and LOVE – look what happens! Life on a wing and a prayer.
If you are still contemplating this one from a few weeks ago:
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
~ Khalil Gibran….here’s your opportunity.Turn down (not off) your head and turn up some heat with Heart and Hands. Be grateful, hit the streets with a giant soup pot (or find the people with a giant soup pot and put something in it), hug the dog (and or cat) on your bed, cozy up the cabin/build some mighty fine shelves/remember to pause – to watch a pair of moose, go to the garden and dig in the dirt with your hands, plant flowers, imagine/dream sharing a bottle of fine red wine with oxy, sing Phoenix style + hang at home with your kids, sing and hang with your kids at home, make a casserole/grab a hammer or garden tool and head over to Dr John Days homestead to cheer on the avocados, decorate for Christmas and channel Father/Mother Christmas, pull one of mom’s old recipes and make it, if the art moves you in any direction – say something, dance around the house, share inspiring quotes/thoughts/rhymes, make us laugh NY style, zero in on sumething, keep the stats/facts/summaries coming – they keep us honest and smart. VP/Gary call home.
Yes, no end to the possibilities. Oh and guys, promise you won’t wear those super-thin PJ bottoms out to the store and we gals will try to keep our transparent yoga pants at home or under a tunic top.
GRATEFUL for the many enlightening contributions each day. Dr D forever in my Heart, you give us yours with every post.
LOVE to ALL who drop in here.
Our planet has been cooling for 50 million years and CO2 levels have been falling in that time, probably causing that cooling trend (as in the graph above).
India did it, by impacting Asia, and driving the Himalayas up into the sky, where acid-rain from CO2 hits them, reacts with calcium, and forms calcium carbonate, which flows down to the bottom of the Indian Ocean and sits. The CO2 blanket has been pulled by India, and won’t return any time soon (except for us, for awhile, and that’s problematic in the short term, the term of our lives, but so are other things).
https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/himalaya.html#:~:text=When%20India%20rammed%20into%20Asia,rapid%20uplift%20of%20the%20Himalayas.Hi Folks,
Here’s one reason why energy systems don’t come back quickly: https://nebula.tv/videos/practical-engineering-what-is-a-black-start-of-the-power-grid – and that’s the stuff that’s relatively easy to explain, don’t even start with phase/load balancing and power factor correction, or a host of other less tangible issues: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.5.5020/full/.
Also, most likely why Russia wants to keep the nuclear plants up and running as black start primers. If they go, it’s game over, pretty much; and it’s not just in the obvious places either; any grid system that comes under pressure from raw energy material supply/demand increase will see similar issues. Welcome to the beginning of the end of hyper-complexity; all hail Kunstler et al.
L,
Sid.In no particular order
Griner for the Merchant of Death
Glomar Explorer
Mitchell & Jessen Associates were paid at least $81 million to ‘reverse engineer’ SERE and train U.S. military MEDICAL personnel to torture. That’s not quite outsourcing to another country under deep state supervision.
None other than Sy Hersh (yeah that’s how Seymour and I Are) traipsed around the country, publicist for the CIA/MIC that he is, selling the credulous proles like us all on the theory/policy that military doctors are/were not bound by the Hippocratic Oath as limit to their participation in torture because my/our duty was to the defense of the Nation.
How many of you were threatened by the likes of Hersh for exposing the illogic of what Seymour, Elspeth Ritchie, George Bush, David Tornberg, William Winkerwerder et al thought was a brilliant strategy to work around a lack of enthusiasm by physicians to torture “folk”.
It took this simple question of Hersh to rock his world and ruin mine:
How do you square your theory that the Hippocratic oath should not be a suicide pact for the nation when the Constitution says Title X U.S. Code requires military physicians and chaplains to abide by the Geneva Conventions?Hersh’s reply was swift, thorough and in keeping with the Bush administration. “Neither is the Constitution a suicide pact, but stand firm and watch your back.”
To give you an idea how this turns out. A small VA hospital here in western Pennsylvania rejected my application for an entry level job in 2018 but paid William Winkerwerder $9.6million to “run” Highmark HS out of Pittsburgh in 2014 alone. That same small VA hospital hired a Navy Chief hospital corpsman to be their CEO.
the sergeant never commands the regiment.
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