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    “Flora” (Roman Goddess of Spring), Villa di Arianna 1st Century A.D.   • Ukraine Isn’t Ready For Its Big Offensive, But It Has No Choice (Sunday
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 1 2023]

    #134434
    Veracious Poet
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    #134435
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukraine Isn’t Ready For Its Big Offensive, But It Has No Choice (Sunday Times) “

    Bonfire of the Vanities. There’s NO reason, none, to make an offensive that won’t win. That’s only Ego. What you’d do is change tactics, which they should have done by June 2022. Fall back and be more insurgent, for example.

    Now none of these would have worked, which is why they didn’t use them. Why? Russia’s 1st run was merely to stop the Russian genocide in the places clearly siding with Russia. That’s the four Oblasts they have now, because the next ones over who could have, who voted Russian since Ukraine was a country, didn’t push hard that way. The only way for Ukraine to keep those four would be to uphold Russian language, culture, trade, and give a fair and equal deal to all citizens, which was the Minsk agreement. So Ukraine can ONLY hold Donbas+ with murder and raw force, enslaving those Russians to extract them for the service of Kiev and the West Ukr like Lviv.

    But you can’t do that, can you? because they do not have the consent of the governed and never will. So an insurgency there would never work, the “insurgents” would join Russia, turn around and shoot Kiev. That’s what a “Referendum” is.

    Now Ukraine could probably let them go and still join NATO, God knows what would happen, but the Ukr areas could before Russia could prevent it. But you see, they don’t WANT that. They WANT human slavery. The Eastern Russians, 20% of the population, 50% of the GDP, have the wealth, which not only do they need to steal but have the slaves do the work of stealing for them. Get in those coal mines, pay your taxes, be dirt poor, have your kids daily abused at school. Like here.

    So the tactics are a consequence, radiate upward from their root problem of violence, slavery, oppression, and therefore they cannot win in those Oblasts. Nor perhaps the next ones over. Suppose the 4 become Russia, more years pass. They are peaceful and prosper being less corrupt than the most corrupt nation in Europe. Ukraine has 50% less GDP and is even poorer. Now Poltava and Mykolaiv want to join Russia to become at least as stable and uncorrupt as Kharkov. Same issue plays out all over again: they agitate, are repressed, have a referendum during some crisis and request to be Russia. Before too long, Ukraine is Kiev to Lviv, and the size and power of Moldova.

    I can’t solve their internal grass-roots problem for them. But if they’re not actually a country – and they’re not – then any stress will merely demonstrate the existing reality. At the same time, you can’t just go oppress the people of your own nation, as that causes expensive and counterproductive blowback. Like here. They’re not fighting Russia, they’re fighting #Reality.

    Anyway, that’s why they “Have” to have a “big” offensive that will fail. Because they are a failed state run by failed, oppressive leaders. Or they could align with the Tao and #Logos and let my people go, not have to have an offensive at all, and become the nation they actually are without lies and violence.

    “..CNN described the Russian defenses as “elaborate” and spanning “hundreds of miles.”

    The important part is that CNN, who has never reported the truth in their life, now reports this.

    ““Ukraine’s rightful place is in the Euro-Atlantic family.”

    Sure. Because they’re so close to the Atlantic. Like Taiwan is.

    Tucker: Hero or Quisling? Both. Like we all are. Somewhere between the perfect Good and Bad. He had to play a strategy and played it. Would it have been better to be fired first day in 2002 like so many others were? Have no fame, no audience, no influence, and no fortune to apply to today? Then he could be a poor, honest, unknown blogger washing dishes at IHOP and not have his name floated for VP. Is that what you want?

    “Blinken Lied Under Oath To Senate About Hunter Biden – Sen. Ron Johnson (RT) “

    No one’s been reprimanded, much less arrested for that felony since the last Steroids in Baseball distraction 20 years ago. Why start now? They’re Republicans, so you have nothing to fear. They will never uphold the law if they can avoid it.

    “Hunter Forced to Appear in Arkansas Over His Child’s Name and Support (Turley)

    Agree totally. On paternity, I can see the point in resisting before it’s proven, but afterwards it’s just a harm and liability, for some useless money they clearly have. Yet they continue to grind women and children. Specifically. Personally. Is it just because they’re Democrats? I don’t want to say that, but what is this? Some fixation of mind that requires you to do what is strategically harmful? Merely because you’re fundamentally anti-family and anti-life? The problem is I can’t understand it.

    He doesn’t have to live with her. Thanks to the total lack of morality and accountability, he takes no harm for being a remote father, providing only modest support. She doesn’t have to written in on Biden family mafia deals. Navy doesn’t have to become a family Capo. You write a check the size of your travel expense account and have a nice day. Yet they can’t do that. For a child. BECAUSE she’s a child? Theories: I have none.

    How about: if I were blackmailing and controlling the Bidens, I’d order them to do this for the bad public P.R. But even that seems a bridge too far.

    If I were Hunter, I’d marry her and stay with my daughter. She’s a hottie and they’re like peas in a pod; it might help stabilize and reform him which he seems to realize he needs.

    “Fitch Downgrades France’s Credit Rating (RT) “

    Since Fitch hasn’t been honest since long before ‘08 (See “The Big Short”), this is the U.S. attacking France for not being adequately compliant.

    “The measure raised the retirement age from 62 to 64.”

    There we go again. Lies by misdirection and omission. No. They just transferred the French Pension wealth to bailout BlackRock from bankruptcy, and did it by erasing all government process and representation, openly pissing on the people.

    That’s like saying the U.S. Civil War was because the South didn’t like the Post Office.

    “”If we ban fossil fuels, agricultural production would collapse. People will begin to starve, and half the population will die in a very short period of time.”

    I mean, okay. That’s a statement. But now that he’s said it, THEY KNOW. And now that they know, and we know they know, THEY WANT TO DO IT ANYWAY. That’s the part that’s disturbing and revealing. We must kill half the population to save them? From what? Save them from being alive anymore?

    The description yesterday is just a thought experiment. I can’t really prove such a hidden agenda and program. However, what we are told makes no sense, and therefore need to move up a level to attempt to explain it.

    “Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

    #134436
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Event in Chicago celebrated by the Entire World. For uppity American worker, “soon-to-be-millionaire”, is way too “red” to even acknowledge 8 hour work day won and enjoyed, let alone celebrated.
    Talking about good splash of Ajax self-.rinse through the skull.

    #134437
    Red
    Participant

    We are witnessing epochal changes in the global economy with the independent states, centred around the BRIC’s nations, now trading oil in their own currencies.
    This development represents an existential threat not ‘just’ for US Dollar hegemony but for US military and industrial hegemony in what has rapidly become a multi-polar world.
    China and to a lesser extent Russia are masters of “Soft Power”. The controlled demolition of US dollar hegemony is clearly underway.

    Let’s take a field trip to the frontlines. Batton down the hatches, it’s going to be one hell of a transition, let’s hope we survive it!

    World War Three Chronicles, Part 2

    #134438
    Red
    Participant

    Although most people, who got used to receiving a stable supply of power from the magic wall socket, don’t realize this as an immediate danger, the stability of the grid depends on the availability of fossil fuel (mainly natural gas) power plants ready to fill in the gaps during peak consumption hours. Contrary to the magical thinking pouring in on all channels, we are lacking the infrastructure to switch to a grid powered by ‘renewable’ electricity alone. As ecologist William E. Rees has pointed out:

    The U.S. consumes about 4000 terawatt-hours of electricity every year, or 563 times the existing battery storage capacity…

    An entire year of battery production from the multi-billion Gigafactory could only store a mere three minutes’ worth of annual U.S. electric demand…

    Storing only 24 hours’ worth of U.S. electricity generation in lithium batteries would thus cost $11.9 trillion, take up 345 square miles and weigh 74 million tonnes…

    …and would take 10 years for 48 Nevada sized Gigafactories to produce the battery cells… For storing one, single day worth of electricity. One day, not months needed to cover the supply and demand gap in the winter. All this would come at an enormous ecological as well as resource cost (lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper and their resulting toxic waste streams). Not to mention the fact that we simply neither have these resources at hand nor the mining capacity to get them (if would find them).

    Now, factor in things like: seasonality (the Sun shines much weaker during the winter, and the sky is covered by clouds much more often than in the summer), battery drain (which is much faster during the colder months),

    https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/stable-electricity-a-long-slow-goodbye-b06041a2a1dc

    #134439
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Jacob Nordangård discusses how he got into researching the global elite and their diabolical plans for us all. It’s a billionaires club which has greatly expanded through foundations and now Silicon Valley elites are taking over from the earlier industrialists. Their principle goal has always been world government, the UN’s “Common Agenda” today openly describes these goals. He describes how the EU is the blueprint for world government. He comments on the absolute insanity of the “Al-Gore-Rithm Ghetto” and how people don’t want to grasp it because it’s so scary. He also gets into the occult and esoteric nature of the globalists. All countries are on board with the program, multipolarity is what globalism is all about, the Ukraine War is about re-structuring.

    Jacob Nordangård: Elites Seek Tyrannical World Government, We’re Living In A Bond Movie

    #134440
    poppie
    Participant

    Happy May Day

    #134441
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Mary Harrington discusses how the sexual revolution was not the beginning of feminism but the end of it. She traces the history of feminism which was women’s aggregate response to the Industrial Revolution. We’ve been living under an order that calls itself feminist but is really transhumanist or bio-libertarian, the cyborg era, underwritten by tech, which valorizes freedom above all else. The birth control pill was really the first transhumanist technology, followed by gender ideology. The whole world will at some point have to grapple with the cyborg theocracy because it is spreading. She wonders why it is so often women who are the advocates for abolishing biological sex and blames the “laptop class”. She also believes social media cucked everybody.

    Mary Harrington: The Battle vs Feminist Transhumanism, Cyborg Theocracy & Meat Lego Gnosticism!

    #134442
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Iain Davis discusses the global governance policies that are set regardless of who occupies any office and how we are steadily moving forward on their trajectory. Accelerationists like Peter Thiel are leading the way in building the new utopia/dystopia. The U.S. financial system is insolvent and they’re keeping it on life support until they bring CBDCs online. The key to CBDCs is their interoperability and instant international settlement. Everything (e.g. pandemic, war) is leading up to this transition of the international monetary system. We have never faced a control system as all-pervasive and totalitarian in scope as what is coming. We also discuss multipolarity.

    Iain Davis: They’re Keeping the System on Life Support Until They Can Bring in CBDCs

    #134443
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    When I shared that three-year-old outcry and song this morning, I kind of assumed that it’s obvious that we are not meat bags, and that we exist in many places besides the visible, three-dimensional world. What I meant by saying that the physical world is the only one we have is that life is lived in person, face to face, skin to skin. It’s not a screen affair, that life of ours.

    With that out of the way…

    Venom, COVID, and Neanderthal Genes: Conversation with Dr. Tau Braun
    A delightful conversation and a non-sensationalist take.
    TESSA LENA
    MAY 1

    First, a clarification about the article I sent this morning. That article was written on this day three years ago. It was my first “COVID dissident” post— and my step into the unknown. When I was clicking “Publish” three years ago, I had no idea what would happen once I go public with my views. But I had to go public because a coward, I am not. I am not a coward. I am many things but a coward, I am not.

    And also, that article talks about the physical world because it was the very beginning of the war on touch, the very beginning of the military-grade psychological operation to make as many people as possible love and trust Our Dear Leaders more than those in their lives who remained unaffected by the propaganda and unhypnotized.

    When I shared that three-year-old outcry and song this morning, I kind of assumed that it’s obvious that we are not meat bags, and that we exist in many places besides the visible, three-dimensional world. What I meant by saying that the physical world is the only one we have is that life is lived in person, face to face, skin to skin. It’s not a screen affair, that life of ours.

    With that out of the way…

    This story is a conversation with Dr. Tau Braun, and you just have to watch it since it’s impossible to pin our conversation down to any one talking point. Dr. Braun’s brain goes at fifteen hundred thousand miles an hour, which I greatly enjoyed because my mind kind of works the same way. So to me, it was just intellectual delight.

    Venom, COVID, and Neanderthal Genes: Conversation with Dr. Tau Braun
    A delightful conversation and a non-sensationalist take.

    https://tessa.substack.com/p/dr-tau-braun

    #134444
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Blinken Lied Under Oath To Senate About Hunter Biden

    So where’s the ‘judicial’ system

    Judges and prosecutors are flat out whores.

    Lying to Congress is not even a misDUHmeanor unless you’re Steve Bannon

    The Congress of Cowards

    Check this out

    Bannon’s indictment for contempt of Congress swims against the historical tide

    WASHINGTON —

    “Stephen K. Bannon’s indictment on contempt of Congress charges is the nation’s first since 1983, and his appearance in federal court Monday provided a rare glimpse of one of U.S. lawmakers’ politically messiest and least-used powers.

    The last successful prosecution on contempt charges reaches all the way back to Watergate and its aftermath, when G. Gordon Liddy was convicted of and Richard Kleindienst pleaded guilty to refusing to answer congressional questions.”

    “The last indictment (for contempt of Congress) three decades ago was less historic: Rita M. Lavelle, a federal environmental official under President Reagan, failed to heed a House subpoena.

    Lavelle, who headed the Superfund, would go on to be acquitted of the contempt charge but later was convicted of lying to Congress. She was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $10,000.

    Prior to that case, the majority of contempt of Congress cases were in connection with the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was formed in 1938 to investigate individuals and organizations for subversive activities, particularly those related to the Communist Party.

    A number of contempt cases from HUAC were eventually overturned because of procedural failures. But its widely publicized hearings beginning in 1947, focusing on the film industry, led to prison sentences for several screenwriters and directors, the so-called Hollywood Ten. They refused to answer questions about their political activities or identify like-minded colleagues, and were jailed for up to a year as well as blacklisted in the industry.

    Blinken and Garland should be dancing on the end of a rope for Treason, not just lying and contempt of Congress.

    #134445

    Navy Joan doesn’t know it, but she has $250,000,000 in a secret Ukrainian bank account. /s

    #134446
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Congress could impeach Pedo Joe’s cabinet officers Blinken and Garland

    But being the Uni-party, only Trump gets impeached twice

    And only Trump officials get Contempt of Congress charges

    That dickless twat Kevin McCarthy would rather act as a War Whore provoking China by going to Taiwan than charging Blinken with contempt.

    The Mommy and Daddy Parties in Congress make a perfect couple for crime

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    #134447
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Reach for the Sky Children

    Cause this is a stick up

    #134448
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Bret speaks with Mary Harrington in the leadup to the launch of her new book, Feminism Against Progress.

    Find Mary on Substack: https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/

    Find Mary on Twitter: https://twitter.com/moveincircles

    #134449
    zerosum
    Participant

    Russia has a secret
    “Pretending that it cannot see you when you are good or bad.”.

    • Ukraine Isn’t Ready For Its Big Offensive, But It Has No Choice (Sunday Times)
    • CNN: Russia Not Ready For Counterattack From Ukraine (Az.)
    • Russian Defenses Will Be Tough Task For Ukrainians – CNN (RT)

    ———–
    Changes, are happening that are not in your control
    ——-
    Its too late, Somebody on the web knows the truth and is telling the truth

    ————-
    At 80 years old, dementia simplifies complexity and makes you believe that you found the truth/right answer.
    Unfortunately, nobody is listening to you.

    #134450
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Certainly CBDCs are The Plan. I think The Plan’s going nowhere though. Maybe Western Europe and Israel exclusively and not for long.

    They can’t if no Russia, no China, therefore no 3rd world, therefore no America because we can leak out. The End. But they’ll sure smash a lot of things and kill a lot of people trying.

    #134451
    Polemos
    Participant

    On killing them to save them:

    My girlfriend told me how a coworker started asking her about her vegetarian decision, grounded in an ethical rejection of factory farming, exploitation of the animals, cruel and abusive treatment of livestock. The coworker pulled out this statistical argument: “Did you know that if we stopped eating cows, their population would drop 90%? So by you not eating meat, you’re contributing to the extinction of cows!”

    From the coworker’s perspective, it is better to live as a species doomed to each individual becoming ground up than for the collective to go freely into the abyss, never to return.

    Maybe some people really do think that killing 90% of a species one by one under exploitative circumstances is better for the whole species, especially when those people from the exploiting species are the ones doing the calculations.

    Shal’kek nem’ron.

    #134452
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Hunter Biden daughter in Arkansas

    I suspect that the reason for Hunter & family denying the existence of this little girl is because for decades they have broken social rules and gotten away with it, all the while increasing their wealth and social status. They have reached a point where, to them, no lie is too extreme. They believe their own lies, in a sense, they believe that they have the power to form the world the way that they say it is, with little regard of actuality.

    The little girl is caught in the crossfire. I hope that her mother raises her well. The money will help. It takes a tremendous amount of care and attention to raise a child well, and it is very difficult for a single parent to provide *double* the care and attention AND the money needed for all of the physical things (shelter, food, clothing, etc.). If the money is in place to put a floor under them both, then the mother can shower the girl with the needed parental care and attention, and can give “making a living” second-place priority. For me, an inheritance from my grandmother, and when that was gone, assistance from my parents, as well as SNAP, put that “floor” under our feet until I was able to stabilize my income and had my extreme frugality habits in place.

    #134453
    Germ
    Participant

    Ladies and Gentlemen – you shall be “Germ Free” for a while.

    I’m cycling Le Canals des Deux Mets with friends for 17 days.
    So no posting.

    Vive la France!

    https://en.canaldes2mersavelo.com/

    Stay well all!

    #134456

    Lucky YOU!
    I wish you good weather, Germ!

    #134458
    WES
    Participant

    Germ:

    Happy cycling Germ! May your tires never go flat!

    #134460
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Filed under: It’s worse than you think:

    https://reduxx.info/category/news/

    I kind of assumed that it’s obvious that we are not meat bags, and that we exist in many places besides the visible, three-dimensional world.

    Apparently, as recently illustrated by many appeals for a Call To Spiritual Sanity that were met with silence and/or white noise, *that* is an assumption that is *not* obvious to the current crop of humanity…

    All blessings upon widows, orphans, mothers & children in these perilous, dark times.

    EOT.

    #134461
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    @Polemos
    Your comment needs to be read with coworker pronounced cow-orker

    #134462
    John Day
    Participant

    Protect your hands, face, neck and ears from bad sunburns, Germ.

    Tally Ho!

    🙂

    #134464
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Polemos said

    Maybe some people really do think that killing 90% of a species one by one under exploitative circumstances is better for the whole species, especially when those people from the exploiting species are the ones doing the calculations.

    I wonder what percentage of grass feeding animals on the Serengeti get to live to a ripe old age and live in retirement. From what I saw, living in Kenya as a child, the predators would pick off the weak and slow before they had a chance to retire. Should those grass feeding animals be denied life to satisfy your “feelings” about their deaths?

    Your “feelings” are anti-nature. You are wanting to change the way that nature works, as anti-nature as sex changes and all the woke shite. Sometimes you have to just accept that it is not your choice, it is not your world, you should work with nature and not against it.

    Where does this leave us when it comes to chickens in barns? Well, all gardeners know that ants farm aphids, so are the ants bad people too in your eyes? Anti-nature, not a clever position, it is bad education.

    #134465
    John Day
    Participant

    Empires Of Mortals https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/empires-of-mortals

    ​ ​All empires are mortal, the “American Empire” too​ , ​by Thierry Meyssan​ Thanks Eleni.​
    The USSR collapsed in on itself, not from the war in Afghanistan (1979-89), but from the Chernobyl disaster (April 26, 1989). The Soviets suddenly realized that the state was no longer in control. The members of the Warsaw Pact, whom Leonid Brezhnev had made vassals, revolted. The churches, the Communist Youth and the gays of East Germany brought down the Berlin Wall [1]. Not only did the USSR not react, but also it abandoned its allies outside Europe, especially Cuba. The First Secretary of the party, Mikhail Gorbachev, turned from a reformer into a liquidator. The USSR broke up, creating many new independent states. Then it was a descent into hell.​..
    ​​..Even before the dissolution of the USSR, the United States had become the hyperpower that no one contests [2]. The Straussian Paul Wolfowitz elaborated a doctrine aimed at preventing the emergence of a new competitor, which would take the place of the Soviet Union. He unhesitatingly designated the political project of François Mitterrand and Helmut Köhl, the European Union, as the enemy to be destroyed…
    ..Although no one threatens the supremacy of the US, it feels that its internal balance is fragile. Their jobs have been relocated and their economy is based more on the internationalization of their currency, the dollar, than on the wealth they produce.
    ​ ​In 2001, the Straussians organized the September 11 attacks [3] and adopted the Rusmfeld/Cebrowski doctrine [4]. They suspended fundamental freedoms at home with the USA Patriot Act and wage an “endless war” that ravaged the “wider Middle East”…
    ..In a speech given on February 11, 2007 at the Munich Security Conference [5], President Vladimir Putin denounced the Bush New World Order as “unipolar”. According to him, it would be more accurate to describe it as “monopolistic”. He notes that far from bringing peace, it sowed misfortune…
    ​ ​In the 15 years since the Munich speech, Russia’s priority has been to rebuild its power.​..
    ​..​In the 35 years since the collapse of the USSR, the United States has wrongly convinced itself that it has defeated its rival. In reality, it was the Soviets themselves who overthrew it. They believed that the Russians would need a century to recover from their mistakes. In fact, they have become the world’s leading military power. The United States has succeeded in subjugating Western and Central Europe, but today it must confront all the states it has bullied, led by Russia and China.
    ​ ​During this period, the Republicans and Democrats have given way to two new currents of thought: the Jacksonians around Donald Trump and the Wokists, puritans without God…​ [I’d like to try what’s behind Door # 3, please.]
    ​..​Moving companies report that their clients are leaving large cities for smaller ones where life is cheaper and more pleasant. However, they all note that their customers increasingly cite a new motive: they are moving to join family members. This explanation is consistent with what Colin Woodard observed a decade ago [8]: U.S. citizens are clustering by community of origin…Their clients are grouping together with people like themselves, having inherited the same culture and belonging to the same social class. They often worry about the rise of insecurity and talk about a possible civil war.
    https://www.voltairenet.org/article219196.html

    ​ Russia massively attacked Ukrainian munitions, military industry, munitions train, and the preparations for the spring offensive. Massive weapons depot explosion at night is shown in video. Further loss of remaining Ukrainian antiaircraft missiles is apparent.
    ​https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/russia-retaliates-for-attack-on-sevastopol-massive-russian-attacks

    ​ ​Michael Hudson: Debt and the Collapse of Antiquity – Part 2
    ​ ​Hudson: I think the character of early Christianity is what is in the Lord’s Prayer. “Forgive them their debts as we forgive the debtors.” Christianity, especially Roman Christianity, made a travesty of this. They used the word sins. “Forgive us our sins as we forget the sins of the debtors.” What they meant was every kind of sin except economic.​..
    ..Colin Anthes: Something I didn’t know that was in this book was that Brutus was a money lender charging 48% interest.​..
    ..Hudson: ​Yes. Let me talk about Caesar first. He was very brilliant as a political manoeuvrer as well as as a General. He borrowed a lot of money to run for office and ​re​paid the money. He was able to play the political game as a very, very intelligent manoeuvrer. What people were really frightened about with Caesar was that he was independent, and they didn’t want independent people. Just like in American democracy, the last thing you want is a president who’s independent and who’s a leader. You want a president who’s working for his campaign contributors… But here was Caesar being independent and trying to retain solvency for the economy as a whole. They didn’t want an independent head of Rome any more than you would have modern democracies wanting an independent president.
    ​ ​Caesar was accused of kingship. What did the kings do? The kings cancelled the debts and redistributed the land; that was the invective that was used against Caesar.​..
    ​..Well, when Jesus gave his first big sermon reported in Luke, he unrolled the scroll of Isaiah to the point where Isaiah was calling for the year of the Lord, meaning the Jubilee year. Jesus said that was what his destiny was, what he had come to proclaim. There was apparently wide support among the Jewish population advocating the restoration of the Jubilee year against the Rabbinical school that opposed it and repres​sed it. Luke said that the Pharisees loved money, and their leading Rabbis had their debtors sign documents. They would borrow money and waive their rights under the Jubilee year. That’s what Jesus wanted to change. So after Jesus gave his sermon, a lot of the population got very upset because they didn’t think it was fair to cancel the debts. The leading Jewish leaders went to the Roman pro-consul and said, “Well, we can’t put him to death, but you can because he’s seeking kingship.” They knew the magic word of invective that the Romans didn’t like– kingship. It was the Romans who agreed to put Jesus to death. The movement was way beyond Christianity. It was beyond Jesus. We know from the scrolls, the Dead Sea Scrolls…
    ​..​Finally, you had Constantine, who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
    ​ ​Well, there’s obviously one problem. What do you do if you’re making Christianity the official religion? The origins of Christianity were centered on the Jubilee. You cancel the debts, you liberate the debt bondage, you restore the lands to them, redistribute the land, make people independent, and you protect the poor instead of enslaving them. Well, you had to change the whole character of this…
    ​..​Under St. Augustine, it was largely sexual. All of a sudden, the focus of Augustinian Christianity became sexual egotism, not the wealth addiction of the creditors. After all, if the leaders of the Christian Church, the archbishops and the bishops, were all going to be taken from the wealthy families, you’d hardly have them criticize their own wealth. You stripped away from Roman Christianity the economic and social context that had guided early Christianity.​..The one thing that the Roman Christians hated was people who could read. If you could read, you’d read the Bible. If you read the Bible, you’d know that there was a clash. So I think the most famous person that Cyril killed was Hypatia, a woman who was a mathematician.​.. ..Cyril had a consul at Ephesus calling on the Roman military to kill all of his opponents. You had Christianity hijacked by Cyril. The wealthiest part of the Roman Empire by this time, the fourth and fifth centuries, was North Africa– Egypt and Hippo. The old Carthaginian area was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire; that’s where the grain was made. The Christians there opposed the creditors. They opposed the Romans. They said, “No, what the Romans are doing is not Christianity.” Rome wanted them to turn over all of their sacred books so that they could be destroyed.​..The North African Christians, many of them refused to turn over the sacred books, and they were killed.
    ​ ​Finally, Augustine came to power, and he sponsored the pro-Romans. There was a civil war that went on decade after decade, preventing the local Roman landowners from indebting the population, from enserfing them. Augustine called on the Romans to take away their churches and to give him their churches. So essentially, Augustine expropriated the Christian churches and made them his own deviant Christianity– I hate to even call it Christianity, it’s really Augustinianism– in a wave of violence.​.. .​.​What survived the Roman Empire was the Byzantine Empire and its church, which was Orthodox Christianity. Orthodox Christianity maintained many of the qualities of original Christianity, including debt cancellations when there was a crop failure through freezing or a frost that killed the crops and caused a loss of land and indebtedness. You had Constantinople as the main bishopric, with Antioch and Jerusalem.​.. ..​The kings of England, the kings of Sicily and southern Italy pledged fealty to the Pope, who organized armies to have new crusades with new inquisitions under the Dominicans against Christians who didn’t agree with Roman leadership, whether it was the French Cathars or ultimately the Crusades that looted Constantinople and destroyed its ability to resist what became the Ottoman takeover at the time.​ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/michael-hudson-debt-and-the-collapse-of-antiquity-part-2.html

    ​ Over half a million protesters took to the streets of France this Mayday, protesting “pension reforms”, which handed their government pensions over to BlackRock and also make them wait until age 64 to collect, instead of the long agreed age of 62. ​ “Macron is trying to move forward no matter what, but people are standing still,” said Antoine Bristielle, the head of the polling department at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès research institute. He said, “About 60 percent of the population say they don’t want to move on from the pension reform.”​ “There will be no return to normal unless the reform is withdrawn,” Sophie Binet, the head of the General Confederation of Labor, France’s second-largest labor union, told local media outlet RTL.​ ​https://www.zerohedge.com/political/may-day-protests-france-unions-fume-over-macrons-pension-reform

    #134466
    John Day
    Participant

    ​​ ​Türkiye facing the American Empire​ , by Thierry Meyssan​ Thanks Eleni. ​ ​ With three weeks to go before the Turkish presidential election, the debate is changing. From being for or against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamism, it is becoming for or against the alliance with the United States. The outgoing president is regaining points in the polls that predicted him to lose. He has gone from being an Islamist to a nationalist. Whether this will be enough to allow him to win is not yet known, but if he does win, it is to be expected that he will withdraw Türkiye from NATO.​..​Until now, he appeared to be halfway between the United States on one side and Russia and China on the other. Now, his political party presents him as the saviour of Turkish independence in the face of Washington’s darker side. In contrast, he portrays his competitor as a Yankee henchman, which he probably is not. ​The United States is thus paying the price for the assassination attempts on the Turkish president, especially the one that led to the failed coup of July 15, 2016, after Ankara decided to build a gas pipeline with Moscow and even bought weapons from it. In addition, Washington is blamed, rightly or wrongly, no one knows, for causing the recent earthquake that cost the lives of tens of thousands of Turks.​ ​https://www.voltairenet.org/article219222.html

    Moscow entitled to sever ties with Warsaw, but that would harm Russians — diplomat
    However, she noted that, in this case, “very many aspects of the work will become blocked”
    https://tass.com/politics/1611753

    M. K. BHADRAKUMAR​ ,​ Sudan: Alignment of forces, players
    ​ ​President Biden lent credence to the alarmist perception by confirming that on his orders, the US military conducted an operation “to extract government personnel from Khartoum.”
    ​ ​According to the US Department of State, about 16,000 American nationals are currently in Sudan. The US embassy in Khartoum had an excessive staff strength — on par with its Mission in Kiev — which was unwarranted by the scale and volume of US-Sudanese bilateral ties, leading to speculation that it was a key intelligence outpost…​
    ​ ..In Sudan, Saudi and Emirati efforts to shape the political transition after Omar al-Bashir’s ousting in April 2019 led to partial successes but also significant difficulties, as they came at severe reputational cost under scrutiny from both the Sudanese population and the international community.
    ​ ​The US and the EU saw GCC countries as useful partners in the Horn in terms of their surplus capital to invest that Western powers lacked, as well as their good personal networks. The Faustian deal between the Trump administration, Israel and the Gulf states to lure the Sudanese military leadership into the Abraham Accord in 2020 was a defining moment.
    ​ ​However, this dalliance proved short-lived an​d​ the Western powers’ game plan to ride on the wings of the Gulf states to counter the growing influence of Russia and China in the Red Sea met a sudden death too, as the ground beneath the feet of the US-Saudi alliance shifted dramatically under the Biden presidency and Riyadh began strengthening its ties with Moscow and Beijing.​..
    ​..In a nutshell, the crux of the matter is that the Western understanding of stability and sustainable development in Sudan through the prism of the neocon ideology that permeates the Biden administration lies at the core of the aggravation of the sluggish internal political crisis in Sudan that has been brewing since 2019 between the army led by the de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and armed formations led by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo…
    ​..The immature, unrealistic political settlements promoted by the Western liberal democracies significantly fuelled the military’s infighting.​..
    ​..Lest it be forgotten, Sudan is a vast country of great ethnic and regional diversity — inhabited by something like 400-500 tribes. The country’s stability depends critically on an optimal model of interaction between the elites and clans.
    ​ ​Basically, what drives the special forces in the current conflict is their expectation to increase their importance in the domestic political process of the country. It must be understood that the current strife is not about access to some military resource, but about control over the economy and the distribution of power.​..
    ​..The countries of the region can help resolve the conflict. A comprehensive settlement may not happen soon, since the internal contradictions that accumulated over time require compromises, and so far at least, the parties are not ready for this…
    ​..​In addition, other external partners, especially Russia and China, will make efforts to prevent a prolonged open conflict. By the way, Sudan has an external debt under $ 60 billion, and most of it falls on China —​ ​Russia, on the other hand, is well-placed to foster rapprochement between al-Burhan and Dagalo.
    ​ ​Russia takes a balanced position. During his visit to Sudan in February, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with the leaders of both opposing sides. Russia is a stakeholder in Sudan’s stability.​..
    ​..However, the Anglo-American agenda remains dubious. Their focus is on internationalising the crisis, injecting big power rivalries into the Sudanese situation and willy-nilly create pretexts for western intervention.

    Sudan: Alignment of forces, players

    ​ Professor Anthony Hall, ​ Making the Shift from Fighting “Muslim Terrorists” to Fighting “Domestic Terrorists”
    Tracing the Growing Corruption of Society Away from the Rule of Law Towards the Rule of Unbridled Savagery at the Top
    https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/making-the-shift-from-fighting-muslim

    Lawyer Testifies That Canadian Military Doctors Were Told Not to Report Vaccine Injuries
    “They were told to diagnose them as other things, such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome [GBS], when young men were collapsing in the shower after injections. … They were vaccine injured.”
    https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/lawyer-testifies-that-canadian-military

    #134467
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Sasha Latypova has more on the Moderna contracts with the co-owning DoD, for the R&D and production of vaccine-products​. Profit sharing and liability protection were assured, but all routine pharmaceutical quality controls were made optional.
    Part 2 Moderna Contracts​ ​https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/part-2-moderna-contracts

    #134468
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Everyone knows who prints the money, everyone knows who calls the shots. Everyone knows who pimps the media. Try to speak of it, you get beat down like a bag dog. I should know, happens everywhere I go., Truth is a bitch, it can only be ignored for so long before it busts open like a broken dam.

    #134469
    Polemos
    Participant

    aspnaz, who are you arguing with? You quote me, but you are engaged in a debate with someone else.

    If you feel exploitation is natural, are you okay with being coerced into gene-therapeutic participation? If you are right about one’s feelings, you can’t invoke feelings against the sound policy that might makes right, especially when the mighty need you to comply for them to stay mighty and you to be one with the herd, whose collective strength matters. Only the weak and the sick die from the participation, and as you pointed out, this is natural predatory behavior.

    You are going to die anyway, so why not let your death bring happiness to the mighty exploiters, prosperity to the world they invent and sustain, and space and increased quality of life to those who outlive you? Choosing the terms of your own demise is self-centered and egotistical, not at all rational in light of who benefits, and deprives the sadist and the bureaucrats their joy in believing that you succumbed to their power, which is unbecoming of a modern citizen of the world. How could anyone think otherwise, when it is only natural to exploit or be cruel to the weaker?

    Only the foolish think they know what’s best for themselves; only fools dream of living beyond life and death. And you won’t be caught playing the fool, will you, aspnaz?

    #134473
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Polemos said

    aspnaz, who are you arguing with? You quote me, but you are engaged in a debate with someone else.

    Incorrect. You stated your position in the summary to your comment – I quoted your summary – and I countered your comment with my view of your position.

    If you feel exploitation is natural

    I gave you an example of natural exploitation: ants farming aphids. Yes, exploitation it completely natural, in animals as in humans, as is evidenced by the history of mankind.

    are you okay with being coerced into gene-therapeutic participation

    If I am being exploited then my view on whether it is okay is somewhat irrelavant, in fact totally irrelevant. That is what exploitation is. Do the ants worry about the view of the aphids?

    You are going to die anyway, so why not let your death bring happiness to the mighty exploiters, prosperity to the world they invent and sustain, and space and increased quality of life to those who outlive you?

    That is your choice and many people take that path. It is not a path that I choose to take, but as with everything in nature, you aim to stay free and have your own way, but that does not always pan out and some will be caught and have to serve the slave masters.

    Choosing the terms of your own demise is self-centered and egotistical, not at all rational in light of who benefits, and deprives the sadist and the bureaucrats their joy in believing that you succumbed to their power, which is unbecoming of a modern citizen of the world.

    No it isn’t. Why do I have to serve the others in the world? The only reason I would serve others is to either benefit myself or because I have been caught by something more powerful and forced to tail to benefit someone else rather than myself. Your argument makes no sense in nature as nature is about survival, not about sacrifice. The ones that are sacrificed do not do it to save the strongest, they are sacrificed because they are the weaker ones – yes, I know all about weird religious bollocks that people participate in, like Mayan sacrificing their fittest men to the sun, but crazy is part of what makes you weak. Mayan civilization died.

    How could anyone think otherwise, when it is only natural to exploit or be cruel to the weaker?

    Because thinking like that is natural, but holding such thoughts as the rules against which you will live your life wil just make you weaker as you will be fighting against the far more powerful force that is nature.

    Only the foolish think they know what’s best for themselves; only fools dream of living beyond life and death. And you won’t be caught playing the fool, will you, aspnaz?

    Really? Only the foolish rejected the Covid vaccine? How many examples do you need? … Your emotional ending makes you look weak Polemos.

    #134474
    Dora
    Participant

    @ Germ

    Sounds wonderful. Fair weather and tail winds to carry you along.

    #134475
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant
    #134476
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    Am I the only one who interpreted polemos’ response to aspenaz as being, in some devious and perhaps overly subtle way, a humorous and satyrical or mocking-imitative reductio ad absurdam parody? In other words, “pulling his leg”?
    With aspenaz returning the perfect literal-minded “straight-man” response? Maybe aspenaz was caught “playing the fool.”
    One of those two is taking himself way too seriously.

    #134488
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Alexander Carpenter I have great respect for Polemos, he is someone who’s comments I will always read as they are great value and make you think in different directions. He is not the only challenging commenter on this site, but one of the best, hence it is always worth my time coming here first thing in the morning to see what peoples’ brains have been cooking up overnight.

    #134494
    Polemos
    Participant

    You stated your position in the summary to your comment – I quoted your summary – and I countered your comment with my view of your position.

    —aspnaz

    What is my position?

    “If I am being exploited then my view on whether it is okay is somewhat irrelavant, in fact totally irrelevant. That is what exploitation is.”
    “Because thinking like that is natural, but holding such thoughts as the rules against which you will live your life wil just make you weaker as you will be fighting against the far more powerful force that is nature.”

    Do you think coercing people to become participants in gene therapies was natural? You chose otherwise, right? Yet clearly the mass compliance and subsequent lack of punishment on the coercing show they are powerful and dominant in the world. Thus, you are choosing the weaker path, and apparently choosing to embrace weakness is contrary to either survival or accepting nature.

    How could you rationally choose to be unnatural, aspnaz? Why do you resist the powerful and mock those who support and defend the powerful’s fully natural and world-historical programs?

    It must be you are not thinking clearly. You need to submit yourself to testing and compliance procedures immediately, or else you will no longer be one of the natural people. Don’t be like Afewknowthetruth, who resists the powerful and successful.

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