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    René Magritte The conquerer 1926   • Top US Officials To Meet Zelensky On First Wartime Visit To Kyiv (F24) • A West-mandated Russian “Default”:
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 24 2022]

    #106698
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    (against Mr. fixit; deleveraging the positive self)
    (To whom it may concern)

    The tragedy of mankind is that even highly intelligent people like yourself can’t seem to understand the Basic Universal Principle: there’s no positive(good;pleasure) without negative(evil;pain).
    I’m quite convinced you can easily accept that the atom is formed by both positive and negative particles (among other), and you can also readily entertain the prospect that messing around with the bond between them is not usually a neatly sound idea.
    Nevertheless, you wake up every single day with the fierce determination to separate your negative self from your positive self.
    How do you cope with that?
    By projecting the negative onto the other, then proceeding to destroy the other and voilà: negative’s gone. Next, with the negative irreparably enmeshed within the self, you will keep on projecting, and off you go, into the never-ending quest for the negative other.

    (‘I get “all” the “main” things “right”. Why can’t everybody trip like I do? Why can’t you be like me?’)
    (Tip of the hat to Richard Patrick, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland)

    And then there are some, even clever than you are, who deftly use this generalized blindness (meaning, they are using you) to serve their own knavish intents.

    All in all, it’s not a big deal: we all live in The Unavoidable; some will be willing and sometimes, able to slow down The Dualistic Engine, some can only crank it up.
    There’s no universal peace of mind; only
    The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.

    (I got it “wrong”, of course; otherwise, how could you have it “right”?)

    Can you answer the following:
    What are we building civilization (culture, knowledge, technology, science) for?

    Do you have an answer? And if you do, what place does it have for “free will”?

    I can answer it for you:
    We build civilization for the greater comfort of the flesh. There you have it: body over mind – that’s “free will” for you.

    Civilization: the triumph of the Flesh.

    (This is not against or for civilization, just a simple reminder to not bother to chastise everyone else with any “good & evil” puffery, “priestly” flackery.)

    #106699
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    René Magritte The conquerer 1926

    Wonderful Magritte; me thinks there’s (obviously) a connection between the tree roots in the background and this wooden figure in our face………..
    I just can’t devine exactly what that is……..

    #106700
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Living art, created by the greatest artist…

    #106702
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the rebel news link has an extra “s” at the end.

    i loaded a 404, and thought, oh know, the prime miniature has taken them out.

    thankfully not yet.. just drop the extra “s” from “mortalitys” and the page loads.

    https://www.rebelnews.com/disquieting_death_toll_dissecting_canadas_all_cause_mortality

    #106703
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Armenio. I appreciate what you offered. The final comment re civilisation is accurate. The offering of this world is for the body. The other offering is that of a class room where we can learn to find we need nothing in it. We have what we need in us.

    #106704
    Kassandra
    Participant

    I work at a University and have since 2017, 2 different ones. One a “top” university with 35k students in a well known urban area, now a mid-level university of 10k students in a small town in a red state. Both state land-grant universities founded in the late 1800s.

    At both, starting before covd, but radically accelerating since the lock downs and insanity, the students were and are losing their minds. I ran into a grad student yesterday at the park and she said that half her undergrad class is failing. This is being echoed by faculty and admin all over campus. At the faculty senate meetings the faculty are going crazy too. Many are just quitting, unable to cope.

    What’s going on? Nobody is talking about it. Besides the little bit of chatter about “mass psychosis” where are the conversations about the fact that half of the kids are losing their minds?

    #106705
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    The word’s famous bankster, “chief architect of the finance industry’s biggest climate coalition” chimes!

    Speaking from Washington, Carney said one of the next goals is to expand GFANZ [Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero] membership, which currently includes giants such as BlackRock Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and HSBC Holdings Plc. He said the $130 trillion alliance hasn’t given up on Asia, where Chinese banks are the world’s biggest contributors to coal finance. And GFANZ is now developing a framework to help signatories cope with stranded assets, to track how much firms are doing to move to a low-carbon world, and to measure the level of global warming implied by investor portfolios.

    Mark Carney Questions the Critics of Bankers’ Climate Record
    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/mark-carney-questions-the-critics-of-bankers-climate-record-1.1756235

    … in banksters we place our trust.

    F.S.

    #106706
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Empire of Big Lies Wrap Up

    Number One:

    The Empire of Big Lies economy is a giant Ponzi Scheme.

    The US economy is as hollow a cheap chocolate Easter Bunny.

    Printing “money” never “creates” actually “wealth”.

    Inflation in the Empire of Big Lies does not include gas and food.

    What an outrageous lie for the budget of most working people.

    Not to mention housing and rental prices, truly insane unaffordable valuations.

    And adding insult to injury, commercial real estate space is cratering due to ‘work from home’ for the Zoom Smart Set so business gets to shift the cost of square foot ’office space’ to the individual household and pocket the savings.

    How many people do you know who had to carve out a section of their house to make a home office?

    According to Shadowstats.com, which is a site that tracks things like the real inflation numbers and the real unemployment rate, inflation hit 17.1% in March 2022

    Lordy, lordy.

    Did your salary and income go up 17.5%?

    Well, at this rate just about everyone will be screwed, blued and tattooed by years end, don’t ya think?

    Number Two:

    The Empire of Big Lies lies about Vax Deaths and is getting any with it.

    The Sheeple don’t notice or care if their friends, neighbors and family members die from ‘vaccine’ side effects that the drug pushers of Big Pharma have pulled off.

    Do you see an serious investigations or successful court cases about vaccine fraud?

    Oh, I can’t hear you, what was that?

    Aside from a fringe element like TAE, it’s nothing but crickets.

    So sad, :>(

    Just a bit sound and fury signifying Nothing.

    And The Empire of Big Lies has let their children be murdered on a mass medical scale but be extra sure the kids attend the Transgender Rainbow Transvestite Grooming reading hour or you’re a nazi racist.

    Number Three

    The Empire of Big Lies loves it’s Military Industry Mafia to pieces.

    Love, love, love……Big Wet Kiss {} smoochsmoochsmooch!

    They make horseshit weapons for ten times the cost of the Russian weapons, which actually work quite well thank you very much.

    NATO and their proxy nazis are being bitch slapped purple as we speak. Ouch

    Sending ‘weapons’, if you can even called what we’re sending weapons, are being immediately destroyed as they arrive in Ukraine.

    What, you don’t think the Russians have satellite photography that can tell what brand of cigarette a Ukronazi is smoking?

    Think again. The Russian satellite surveillance for the pass eight years has watched and mapped out to the last excruciating detail every Ukronazi move on the Ukraine terrain.

    Sending weapons to Ukraine at this point in history parallels the money laundering the Empire of Big Lies has been using the Ukraine for the last eight years.

    Have all the NATO Euro-rodent Lemmings send all their junk military crap to Ukraine to ‘empty’ the storage lockers so the Military Industrial Mafia gets new orders to replenish inventory.

    Hurrah, hurrah, new orders, High Fives!

    .

    “..America’s biggest liberal news outlets have avoided reporting on the latest Hunter Biden scandal, amid claims he inadvertently used his father’s credit card to accidentally overpay an escort $25,000….”

    the Empire of Big Lies is destined for Greatness!

    Russia just has all the resources and a sane competent leader

    #106707
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Re: Rebel News, … BREAKING: Trudeau’s Censors Deny Rebel News a ‘Journalism Licence’

    F.S.

    #106708
    Sam Birch
    Participant

    Armenio Pereira you make good points.

    You are correct in that the Everlasting Dissatisfaction will continue (hence its name)  All Sacred Cows exist for the purpose of being exhalted by their worshippers. I merely play my role in defending them.

    People take their rightful place in the universe according to their role in the Cosmic Play. Some play a villain, some play a saint, others the hero, another the victim. We often play multiple roles. No offence is intended to those in real pain, who do not see this as “a game”.

    We are all wheels and cogs in the machine. I would also argue that the same pattern would play out regardless of civilisation or century.

    May peace be upon you as we continue to exist in the cosmos in the Eternal Dissatisfaction.

    “One of our greatest fears is to be ourselves, to accept ourselves as we are. You have to be honest, and not set up high standards, as this can be a form of arrogance. To be yourself is to be alone with what you are, looking at it and at your own reactions to yourself, free from beliefs and objectives. If you say ‘It is terrible to be like me. I cannot be like that’ you are attempting to escape what is. Reality is not something mysterious and inaccessible – it is what it is.”

    “When each one of us looks after ourselves the world will take care of itself; we do not need to change the world. The world will change if the world of individuals is changed, but without changing individuals there is no hope for change in the world. We try to change the world by building up new ideas; but that it not real change.

    So if we would like to have radical change we must look into ourselves, into all the conditions connected with us. In that way, we have to criticise ourselves and we have to be in constant revolt against ourselves. You may say you do not like to do that, but life is war and peace at the same time, and by being in revolt against oneself,  one knows where one is going. One is wrong, not because of conventions or traditions, not because of religious teachings, but because we do not see clearly. When there is such seeing you don’t make war against yourself, but you make peace with yourself. You have more peace when your see where you are wrong and why. Without seeing where you are wrong you can never come to the right. If you try hard to conform to the right action, to the right ideas, you have more and more resistance without seeing where you are wrong.

    Life is not so difficult, but it is not easy either. It is wonderful to have life and we have both the negative and positive things in living. We become rich because of going through, but we become very poor if we build a small room to live in, a small room protected by four walls. We may think we are free living in this small room and that the strong walls protect us. But someone else may say that we are living in a prison and ask how we think we are free. And they may say “Break the walls and come out and see how wonderful life is!”

    Dhiravamsa – The Middle Path of Life

    #106709
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #106710
    zerosum
    Participant

    Disgusting hypocrisy of our leaders.
    Our leaders teach/promote the 10 commandments but they ignore the 10 commandments.
    Our leaders claim to be on the side of god.

    Minsk II: Two Words You’ll Never Hear on Mainstream News


    Minsk II: Two Words You’ll Never Hear on Mainstream News
    by Walt Zlotow Posted on April 23, 2022

    If the US and the EU had truly supported the Minsk Agreements, this war would not be happening now.
    ——-
    Our leaders lied. Africa realized that without the vaccination, they didn’t die,

    ———-
    half her undergrad class is failing.
    Think positive ….. When you die, your future leaders/your replacements are going to be lead by the majority
    ——-

    #106711
    John Day
    Participant

    @D Benton Smith, VP Gary and Dr. D from last night, and Armenio Pereira this morning.

    I model what we species go through as evolution, and not gradual, but in spurts of change, genetic bottlenecks, selection-events.
    Yes, this can also exist within universal mind. Chittamatra is the “mind only” school of Tibetan Buddhism.
    It’s not feasible, within our world, to prove the existence of material existence. It would appear the same modeled in universal-mind.
    Is there “intent” in universal-mind? Doe we have “free will” or merely the experience of “free will”?
    Are “good” and “evil” discernable, except by intention?
    If I intend to help others, then it is good-intent.
    If I intend to help my physical wealth, comforts and power, at the expense of others, or without regard to their needs/desires, then it is evil, right?
    Does God “use evil men to his purposes”? How might that look in an evolutionary context?
    If a species dies out it stops evolving.
    If predatory human elites keep the human herd thinned, then evolution can proceed.
    This does not need to be their intention.
    A predator kills the weaker members of a herd of deer, with a programming that may benefit the gene-pool of the herd of deer in the long term, but the predator does so for hunger.
    We would not model this as “good” or “evil”, as it is the evolutionary state of affairs.
    It is apparent that we humans are in a situation of rapid environmental change, which has seen our species numbers multiply by 10 – 20 times in a few centuries, because of mineral resources.
    We might presume that our numbers will fall rapidly as these resources decline rapidly.
    There has been much evidence of this going back to the 1950s, and Admiral Hyman Rickover of the nuclear navy taught Jimmy Carter just that as a young officer.
    The Bushes and Cheney’s of the world are no less informed, but decided to keep it to themselves and control the oil going into it.
    The implications for the predators-upon-humans is that they need to thin the herd 90%, gradually, while maintaining their power to control the herd as their life-support system
    That will require a LOT of cooperation from the herd. We may be seeing a lot of cooperation from the herd with this mass self-culling, refusing to see it for what it is, and complying with it.
    Does that selectively cull the herd members who believe and follow without analysis of the situation?
    That’s how it seems to me. Analytical skill, the ability and drive to act upon analysis, not herd-movement, and psychic-premonitions and guidance can all lead to selective survival in this selection-event.
    With these traits more in evidence, will our offspring be able to evolve beyond the predator-prey model, evolve into stewards of life on earth? Ever? Now, at this critical historical moment of opportunity (a century, perhaps)?
    What would the change of direction look like? We can see that there appear to have always been some humans who saw bad times coming, and gave good warnings.
    We, here, are of that general constitution…
    Action upon valid analysis is different from valid analysis with inaction. What are the reasons for inaction? We do have social settings, which differ from our cognitive settings. We may see what is correct action, but be inhibited from taking it by our social programs, inherited and trained.
    I foresee a big decrement in elite apex-predators, also. What will be the selection criteria among their numbers? They cannot really trust each other as a system breaks down, though they can sort of trust each other to maintain class-interests in a system that is declining in function.
    They don’t seem to be able to act together to reform an economic system for the better, except, maybe after a wartime capitulation, when there is selfish gain to also be had, and losses have already happened.
    I’m going out to do some mowing before breakfast, having already gardened…
    I’ll try to keep y’all up on how this is going. I am the oddball critter that I am.
    I hope I have good survival traits, but it remains speculative.
    My kids all got “the shot”, for instance…
    We shall see this play out. It’s accelerating downhill now.
    Is there life-after-death? Is there just a perceptual phase-change? Is their reincarnation?
    Is there work to do as we await answers?

    #106712

    Mark Carney Questions the Critics of Bankers’ Climate Record

    Ah, Carney!

    From 2016 Automatic Earth:

    Heal the Planet for Profit

    From 2019 Automatic Earth:

    Globalization Just Peaked

    #106713
    Noirette
    Participant

    Ukraine is winning this war .. the W – MSM – Gvmts. message.

    Multiple reasons,

    —-Wishful thinking, reassurance, sending out a positive message.

    Standard for upholding any tricky venture, just stick with it, and RIGHT will prevail. When the narrative collapses, one can soften the defeat in many ways, by lying about the outcome, spinning many aspects, etc. and playing the VALIANT sob-sob sorta failed yet righteous opposition role, which works when nobody at home is affected – the impacts are hidden.

    USA + Canada’s one main aim, Eurotrash following along, is for the war to continue, on and on, to the last Ukrainian, etc., to HARM Russia as much as possible.

    So, Ukraine has to be seen as winning, but needing help and support to maintain the upper hand and emerge TRIUMPHANT.

    This entails, for the moment, weapons of all kinds, tremendous piles of cash, and nice-soft attitudes to Ukr. whatever. (Blue-yellow media blitz, refugees, etc.)

    So the scammers, oligarchs, traders, MIC participants (in the EU, US. +), and on the ground vendors come into play, from countries all over the world (I hear that Isr. arms traders are in Kiev offering best price..) all of them make money and want the longest continuation possible.

    The W knows perfectly well that anything sent into Ukr. is either *gone* stolen, or *sold off* (via oligarchs), or is trickling down to biz. / gvmt / local potentates, the minions they then have to pay off, who then dole out small sums to ppl on the street.

    I am very ignorant about arms but I doubt very much that the piles of ‘arms’ sent by the W to Ukr. actually end up reaching the supposed destination and are used as they were intended to be by the Ukr. army.

    ? are … Escaping destruction by Russians -> in working order -> can move (fuel), be transported -> ammunition and service ok -> useful in the present context, are at the right place, etc. ?

    Ukr. will lose against the Russians, the outcome was never in any doubt.

    What the end-point re. territorial control = another topic. In a failed state blowing up in multiple-party proxy war, the qu. of winning/loosing is kinda moot. It often breaks up, e.g. Galicia could go to the Poles.

    The unwillingness of NATO-USA to engage or ‘join the war’ for Ukr. will be excused by ‘not part of NATO/EU’, ‘no escalation desired’, ‘did what we could’ (and maybe Zelensky is druggie, etc.) but the real reason is that the W cannot face Russia directly, that the MIC (EU_USA) to continue to profit massively and maintain influence and sales (ME +, ..) has to uphold its clout and tout the superiority of its products. Can’t be shown to sell shitty no-win crap.

    Another way the way failure to fight for Ukr. and win will be used in Europe is to convince ppl. that Russia is mega-evil and so sacrifices must be made “to defeat it” or “to help Ukrainians” etc., i.e. Europeans should think about getting really cold and hungry and having little babies die (incubators turn off when there are no electrics, no need for Saddam nasties..), stand up for morals and make sacrifices…

    #106714
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    John Mearsheimer responds to criticism of his Ukraine theory:

    “Peace is not at sight at all.”

    F.S.

    #106715
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Kassandra

    Hear, hear!
    Or is it…Here, here!
    Perhaps this time is the right time to abandon legalisms and managerialisms for your expression of medical logic and a U-turn back to the scientific method.
    As you adduced, “something is wrong” with the students at the universities. Without keen powers of observation and equally potent diagnostic acumen similsr to yours, Kassandra, there are no Fauci’s, no Walenskies, no medicines, no mRNA technologies or interventions to justify the effort, time and cost to combat a disease or threat that even the best diagnostician cannot recognize.

    Even on the pages of this blog, two facts were recognized long before the mainstream in one case (shared psychosis) and Kirsch/The Acturials (more ppl were dying and dying from something other than enhanced COVID-19 counting could account for). Yet, genuinely learned minds on this blog shied away from acknowledging the ugliness beneath the thinly veneered masks of my nation’s leaders.
    The Mask of Sanity

    It’s not too late except Medicine writ large is overrun by Nurses obsessed with being managers, pharmacists obsessed with being pseudo-MDs and Doctors focused on playing well in the sandbox in legitimate fear of losing their sumptuously appointed C-suite offices, well, to Nurses, Pharmacists, Administrators, Nursing assistants and Navy corpsmen.

    #106716
    Dora
    Participant

    What is happening in China? Long thread.

    #106717
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “they just parrot whatever -extravagant- claims Zelensky et al make. Lazy? You bet. Journalism? Hell, no.”

    Except there are some journalists there and they are assiduously ignored. Or picked up to be (nearly) shot.

    “a missile strike on the southern city of Odessa that Ukraine said killed eight people,”

    A war killed eight people? Stop the presses! When did this start? We killed more than eight people in one helicopter on one day alone…that’s the leak they’re locking up Assange about. As Cait Johnstone says, it’s really, truly amazing, breathtaking, that a country can tut-tut about war crimes, when they are the top purveyor of war crimes and civilian deaths 20 years in a row. Then at the same time, imprison, arrest, and extradite anyone who reports on their war crimes. Side-by-side articles in the same paper.

    Poof. No one notices, no wheels turn. 24/7/365 minutes of hate. Eight people? Really? More people than that are killed in Chicago every weekend, with a 90% no-catch rate. They’re all black, Biden is in charge of it, and no one cares.

    Fix your own house, sir.

    ““I think that whoever started this war will be able to end it,” Zelensky said, adding he was “not afraid” to meet the Russian leader, … Kyiv would abandon talks with Moscow if its troops in Mariupol were killed.”

    So if Russia just completely surrenders, and btw gives them back Crimea, which the Crimeans don’t want to happen, then there can be peace. Ze, who is losing/has lost, just tells Putin “Submit or die”. “Obey me now, or else!” Just when you think you can’t be shocked by #OppositeLand.

    “There is no justice and no logic in this order,” Indeed.

    “And the West does not beat around the bush regarding this official policy” of forcing Russian defaults that don’t exist and stealing all of every other nation’s stuff. No, and it’s amazing to watch. What do you think the other nations will do? Sit around and let us?

    “The biological weapons programs in the USSR were completely phased out in 1972.”

    “..the Russian Federation completely destroyed its chemical arsenal on September 27, 2017, which is confirmed by an OPCW certificate..”

    I wouldn’t believe either one of these statements, but it wasn’t Russian anthrax that was mailed to the halls of Congress, nor Russian chemical weapons used against the Kurds in Iraq by Rumsfeld’s best friend.

    There IS a nation that has openly and provably used Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological weapons, used them regularly, and is using all banned weapons such as white phosphorus and cluster muntions/mines as well as open starvation campaigns specifically on civilians today. That nation is not Russia. But that nation does have an embarrassing seat on the UN Security and Ethics Councils

    Minsk II: Two Words You’ll Never Hear on Mainstream News (Antiwar)”

    I’ve been thinking about the de-nazification and annihilation of the CIA-’created’ Azovs. There aren’t enough crazies and retards in any nation to make 60,000 battalion, etc, although sure, you just make every Sergeant and Captain a Nazi as they have, and shoot whoever doesn’t go along as an example.

    But this is 2022. You think mind control was good under Bernays or Bernays-worshiping Hitler? That’s 100 years ago, having only radio. You think brainwashing was good in 1979, where two different assassins like Sirhan or Chapman seemed likely from it? Imagine what they have today after generations of such research in labs in MO and Montreal. We can be pretty sure they were “Handing out cookies” in Kiev and often comment on it only because they were filled with amphetamines, but what else? Inhibition-reducers?

    We know planeloads of such similar drugs were leaving Saudi for Syria to fuel the ISIS forces. But is that all? Like I said, that could be done in 1970 (and was, they issued such drugs in WWII) and this is 2022. How about the rumored gene therapy for ISIS that reduces morality, restraint, and conscience as we saw in Syria? Where you eat raw human hearts? What world leader commented casually on TV about that? Oman or something? How about mitochondria-enhancers that make you stronger and sleepless? Who cares if it shortens their lives, this is Super-soldier experiments and they’re cannon fodder anyway and their purpose is to die as Kissinger says.

    But none of this is being done to/by Azov? They’re straight-shooters, them, and would never break the rules, wot.

    If you’re Russia, how reversible is that medical alteration? You’d like to put them in the Russian army, or the post-war Ukrainian army, but can you? I don’t think anybody knows, and we’re certainly not going to gas the compound with the brainwashing antidote, like in some action movie (most recently seen in “Black Widow”).

    Try to keep up. Jet engines were invented in the ‘30s. The official tech we pretend to use now is from – oh golly, AK-74s are from the 90s, but the technology is essentially the 1860s. Our best jets are from 1979. I mean, really people? You think nothing has been invented since then and this seems normal to you?

    Supposing this is true, AND that criminal billionaires took some church-basement loonies and armed them just like Bosch, IBM, and Thyssen-Krupp did in 1930. Except this time with 2020 technology. What do you think Russia should do BEFORE the loonies get control of the national army and look east as they were directed and promised? Just as funny-man promised in Mein Kampf? You do you.

    “No extension of NATO”, and it’s so obvious two pothead comedians, high on camera with Jimmy Dore can figure out that it’s not “Well we never signed that assurance into a treaty, so tough tooties” but “So all the words of the whole Western world now mean nothing and nobody has a problem with that?”

    Yeah, two high tokers, the left version of NASCAR boys can figure that out, but NYTimes and all of Congress can’t. …Speaking of, they ALSO debunked Syrian gas from his garage in Pasadena on the weekend, NY Times couldn’t figure it out for two years and all their computer models. Hmmm, however could that possibly be? And how did I do it too, half asleep while working a day job? Is it because it was no incredibly obvious?

    “Italy is officially becoming the first country to start rationing energy after cutting their supply of Russian gas and oil.”

    “EU confirming all 27 member states will have to implement the Covid green pass by July 1st.”

    Just a big-ol’ coincidence. Also that their power will collapse if they don’t get both of these – oh and btw kill you and Nonna – right away. Yachts and Private jets are still tax-free.

    “Rationing energy to fight Putin is just like digging for victory”

    Except it remains illegal to “Dig for Victory” and grow a garden. You can do anything so long as it doesn’t create food security for you and yours. Don’t google “Arrested for replacing lawn with garden” because you can read 24/7/365 and never reach the end. Anything but food for the people. ANYTHING. Hey, let’s shut off that gas pipeline for fertilizer and drying, let’s blow up the fertilizer plant and not replace it, let’s shut off all trucking to Canada just to be sure no potash can get in. …But please turn off the power, so Nonna dies of heat (last year in Europe) and cold (as so often weakens and wears them down). We got a pension and medicare ledger to balance over here! Chop chop you coolies! Gramma ain’t gonna kill herself you know! …We’ve tried.

    The Drive to Vaccinate the World Against Covid Is Losing Steam (NYT) “

    All the vaccinated nations are clearly and outrageously the worst. Medically catastrophic. All the nations that ignored it are the best. They can’t even vaccinate Missouri. Only NYTimes reporters are that uncurious and that dumb. And passing out on TV and on stage.

    “vaccine passports, quarantine camps, forced vaccination and lockdowns”

    Funny how all of these are Social Credit Scores and rationing in service of the Party. In fact – huh! – ALL solutions to ALL problems, meanness, racism, global warming, ALL somehow have the same solution: give more money and power to the rich. Trust us.

    “We only have 14 months” …Before the economy collapses, and our control system fails. …Unless you print a trillion more money and give it to the rich so they can increase their CCP social control control structure and rationing.

    Behold! A Pale Horse! Chloros, the Green Monster that kills as many as Plague and Famine…or causes them, that’s why they ride together.

    But srsly, was she not right? If her/their system collapses wouldn’t it kill a lot of people? And be a world-wide urgent inter/national security issue? Everyone thinks they’re the good guys. They’re the hero of their story. AOC may be trying to save lives. By locking them all in prison where they’re all perfectly safe. And do what they’re told. By her. While she defies direct orders from a judge and cries on camera someone was mean to her on the Internets.

    Armenio, you’re misunderstanding “good”. “Evil” is not the opposite of good, Satan is in no way equal (but opposite) to God. “Good” is as the Tao, a unity of flow without conflict. A chorus singing in tune. “Evil” is merely separation from Unity, it’s an illusion that we are NOT all one, united in love. As Satan wished to separate himself from God, a false expression of ego.

    I know colloquially, as people are fatally sloppy thinkers, we say this. But that’s not the actual definition. Here in the materium, as it were, we have the nameless Void giving birth to the One, which births the duality, which gives rise to the ten-thousand manifestations, but Yin and Yang, Light and Dark, are indeed opposites. But neither is evil. Like tools, they exist. That is all.

    So what is to “Fight my shadow self” and expel my sin and evil? Easy: to see Reality, the Truth, #Logos, that is, that we are not separate beings but all-one within God. And it’s very easy to see that misunderstanding among the “good”, “bad” and “religious”, particularly and especially the religion of atheistic science.

    The reason this is important is that moral relativism is most of the evil that goes on on earth, as Alister Crowley, simply that the devil is equivalent to God, good is equivalent to evil, both are necessary halves, so why bother which one you serve? Serve the more convenient one that gives you more hookers and blow, why not? But they’re not equal, there is delusion and clarity, that is all. Why would I serve delusion? “We create our own reality now…” Obviously that is not going to work out well in Iraq. Or at home. Or with my kids. Or my Tax Audit.

    Clarity, that is “Enlightenment”, seeing all-one, is indeed that “Universal peace of mind” and many have achieved it. So many you can go talk to some of them and they can tell you. They don’t have this “eternal dissatisfaction.” Nor do people returning from NDEs. They think the world is great.

    What are we building civilization for? Meh, it’s part of the “Implicate Order” that is, human-type beings, or humanoids, by their internal nature express their life force in that direction. No one knows why, or why beavers build dams or eagles fly: it’s what they do. In addition, we cannot survive in isolation any more than beavers can graze on the open prairie or eagles can walk, so we HAVE to commune in societies or die.

    This is not necessarily for the flesh at all as many societies have other goals. If Natives wanted easier flesh, they’d have cut down all the trees and burned them. That was not a priority to them, although it was for the Romans, of which we are the legacy. You can also have other goals, but if not the flesh, it must be the spirit, of things more intangible it appears you are not deep into. Or not into yet.

    WE are a grovelling, materialistic, atheistic, nihilistic culture, and therefore, seeing only ourselves and no consequences, kill everyone we find and take their things if it’s convenient for us. Most societies over all time have NOT done that. We’re the weirdos and outliers here. Don’t take the world’s weirdest, most unsustainable culture, the crescendo of all separation and evil as the human norm. We’re not, we don’t have to be, and I’m not either.

    #106718
    Noirette
    Participant
    #106719
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Ah, Carney! – RIM
    ________________

    Yes. The twerp – from Canada’s Northwest Territories, out of all the places! – incredulous still at his own phenomenal, world-wide career! Hence his frequent prattles in front of the elite crowd, …

    F.S.

    #106720
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Noted and appreciated.
    You are more forthcoming with your worldview, Brother.

    (Have you read the Dr. Bonner’s All-One soap labels?)

    #106721
    Dora
    Participant

    Carney? What if the pandemic responses – the vax, lockdowns, WHO plans, and the Climate Crisis green stuff, is in fact about the international economic system and the central banks’ financial frauds since at least the Great Financial Crisis? What if that’s what all this is all about? Whitney Webb has some good podcasts on this question. Her arguments are coherent. In a recent podcast where Carney was mentioned as the UN’s special climate crisis guy Webb laughed out loud and said something like, ‘oh, Mark Carney, right.’ She thinks the WEF is only a collection of middle managers less powerful than they claim; the BIS is the real power behind the unfolding one-world plans.

    #106722
    Dora
    Participant

    Here’s a long – 1hr, 40 minute Webb podcast (no paywall) with John Titus:

    Sanctions & the End of a Financial Era with John Titus

    https://rokfin.com/post/82706/Sanctions–the-End-of-a-Financial-Era-with-John-Titus

    #106723
    Susan C
    Participant

    Good morning Raul and all.

    Several days ago I asked if anyone other than me was having difficulty accessing the Strategic Culture website. When I mentioned that I live in BC, Canada Figmund Sreud said he does too and also hasn’t been able to link to SC. I continue to have no access to the site on either Google or DuckDuckGo, nor can I find any information about what might be going on no matter what search words I use.

    I’d appreciate hearing about it if anyone has any information.

    #106724
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Carney? – Dora
    ___________________

    That Carny, as successful as he is, … failed in his personal quest twice. Yes, he was once pencilled in to be Canada’s next Prime Minister, … but was unceremoniously punted out by Liberal elites and T2 [Justin Trudeau] was anointed instead. Poor sob, … off to climate crisis stuff for a bit, …wait out T2’s term, …

    … than, Bang! Bombshell, … Canada’s Liberal elites pencil in now Canada’s non-financial Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland – the one that is now sending four (4) pieces of field artillery (M777 155mm howitzers*) to Ukraine – as a replacement for T2. Did I say, poor sob?

    … fwiw,

    F.S.

    *) https://i.cbc.ca/1.6427859.1650650287!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/afghan-cda-20070422.jpg

    #106725
    Archie
    Participant

    @ Susan C

    The Strategic Culture website is operating normally for me today. I just finished reading an editorial and a new Pepe Escobar article an hour or so ago, 1pm EDT.

    #106726

    Water water everywhere but all of it polluted.
    There’s nothing to be done with it- it cannot be diluted
    ‘Cause water- water’s everywhere, but all of it’s polluted.

    (I’ve already forgotten whose blog I saw for the above- an eye-opener about China).

    The ballots are already printed.
    The winners are predestined, too.
    A spoiler can’t win it-
    No entries last minute-
    And that’s how they do what they do.

    The squirrel hides when the hawk flies overhead, but when the hawk is out of sight, it is out of the squirrel’s mind.
    The human who is being targeted can obsess about it endlessly.

    #106727
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Compelling and thoughtful discussion around existence (includes late comments from yesterday).

    The students Kassandra is describing appear to have hit the wall, no longer able to justify/rectify the differences between what they see/experience in daily (real) life vs. what they are being told/what the power structure has built for them. Giving up, failing is a start and not the solution. Next they will likely point fingers and blame someone else “out there”. When that doesn’t provide relief, they may arrive at the point (“the crescendo of all separation”) where they ask – what’s the f-ing point? Am assuming that the mostly-woke TPTB infrastructure surrounding them will be of zero help as they are suffering the same fate – overwhelming illusion/delusion.

    At some point, they will become aware of their ROLE in the process of living; and come to SEE and to UNDERSTAND that they have the POWER to implement, to create change – in their name. The shift, the move towards doing inner work and looking within for answers becomes the task at hand.

    I sometimes get lost in Dharma talks like the good one referenced above from Dhiravamsa – The Middle Path of Life – due to misunderstanding the meaning of certain words. I respectfully made a few insertions using [ ].

    “So if we would like to have radical change we must look into ourselves, into all the conditions connected with us. In that way, we have to criticise [be objective, be truthful with] ourselves and we have to be in constant revolt against ourselves [constantly holding ourselves accountable]. You may say you do not like to do that, but life is war and peace at the same time, and by being in revolt against oneself [constantly holding ourselves accountable], one knows where one is going. One is wrong [in illusion/delusion] , not because of conventions or traditions, not because of religious teachings, but because we do not see clearly. When there is such seeing [clarity] you don’t make war against yourself, but you make peace with yourself. You have more peace when your see where you are wrong [see where your illusions/delusions are hiding] and why. Without seeing where you are wrong [seeing your illusions/delusions] you can never come to the right [truth].”

    Excellent clarity from Dr D: “Here in the materium, as it were, we have the nameless Void giving birth to the One, which births the duality, which gives rise to the ten-thousand manifestations, but Yin and Yang, Light and Dark, are indeed opposites. But neither is evil. Like tools, they exist. That is all. ”

    And this GEM from DBS (who is surfing within) from late yesterday: “I will tell you what I found. The world (meaning the Universe itself) does not merely contain the phenomenon of consciousness of awareness. It literally IS awareness, and the consequence of that most fundamental of all truths is manifested in such extremely dependable patterns that to call the patterns “laws” would not be far from the mark”.

    Exciting. LOVE to All.

    #106728
    cloudhidden
    Participant

    @ Susan C
    https://www.strategic-culture.org/
    Working for me from same province.
    Using VPN

    #106729
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    The Strategic Culture website is operating normally for me today. – Archie
    ____________

    Ditto, …

    F.S.

    #106730
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    ‘Popcorn stuff’ from Escobar: The Moskva Riddle

    One thing is certain. If the Russian Ministry of Defense finds out that NATO did it, they will let loose all the dogs from Hell on NATO, as in “asymmetrical, lethal and fast”.

    https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/23/the-moskva-riddle/

    F.S.

    #106731
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Kassandra: interesting, and I’m hearing similar concerns in my industry (write grants for nonprofits). For example, recent nonprofit client that provides well-recognized, high quality youth theatre education programs for ages 5 -18 (separated into 3 groups by age). Said the kids have come back from lockdown, etc., and are basically unmanageable. Bouncing off the walls, very short attention spans, communication skills have deteriorated. They’re trying to figure out how to deal with it – they’re thinking it will be slow going to bring the kids back to where they would have been prior.

    #106732
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Restlessness, a creator’s tools of the trade; God is the Supreme Creator: His restlessness is Eternal.
    Flowers and thorns: some praise the flower, some whine about the thorn, some accept the whole of Creation.
    God’s will trumps free will. Radical Acceptance knows no anxiety.

    Thank you all for the comments and kind words.

    #106733
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Dr D: “And the West does not beat around the bush regarding this official policy” of forcing Russian defaults that don’t exist and stealing all of every other nation’s stuff. No, and it’s amazing to watch. What do you think the other nations will do? Sit around and let us?”

    Ha ha ha ha ha … roflol. Sure, that’s what every other nation is doing. Watching the theft and thinking, no problem, nothing to see here, won’t ever impact me. (NOT). West civ went from shooting itself in the foot, to shooting itself in the head. Amazing to see in real time.

    You nailed it today: ““Evil” is not the opposite of good, Satan is in no way equal (but opposite) to God. “Good” is as the Tao, a unity of flow without conflict. A chorus singing in tune. “Evil” is merely separation from Unity, it’s an illusion that we are NOT all one, united in love. As Satan wished to separate himself from God, a false expression of ego.”

    I’ll be saving that gem. I don’t think I’ve seen it described so succinctly. Hats off. Not sure who you are, but your thinking skills are quite exceptional.

    #106734
    Susan C
    Participant

    @ Cloudhidden #106728
    @ Figmund Sreud #106729

    It appears to me that Strategic Culture may have been banned by my local cable carrier (Shaw). Thanks for letting me know you can access the site over VPN. That’s something I’ll have to consider. The Saker and The Cradle are places where I can continue to read Escobar’s articles.

    #106735
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    The René Magritte The Conquerer 1926: gives new meaning to the term “empty suits”. Agree with V.Arnold on a connection between the wood plank with black root tattoo and eerie green tree. It’s the blood red sky that has me worried….


    @Oroboros
    : oh those nasty photos (Hunter Biden). How do they find you? And the Lucky Strike ad aimed at women consumers is purely evil in so many ways. Yes, do “avoid that future shadow” Missey! Guess advertising hasn’t changed much in intention – it’s the new delivery systems that have taken us to extreme levels of TOASTINESS!! Curious, what percentage of the population were smoking in 1950 and what percentage were women?

    @mpsknow: “The squirrel hides when the hawk flies overhead, but when the hawk is out of sight, it is out of the squirrel’s mind.The human who is being targeted can obsess about it endlessly.” May the pondering begin. Now enabling my hawk eye to throw the unnecessary acorns out of my mind.

    @Sam Birch: appreciated the excerpt from Dhiravamsa – The Middle Path of Life.

    #106736
    willem
    Participant

    @Susan C: I cannot connect to Strategic Culture either, even though I use a VPN. (I am in California, usually using one of the VPN service’s servers based here in-state.) The new articles are still coming up on my RSS feed, but when I click on one, all I get is a blank page and a lot of CPU activity. I tried selecting VPN servers in several other countries besides the US, but none of them worked. Sometimes I can get to sites like RT by using servers based in non-western countries, but it didn’t work this time.

    It could be my blockers–I have ad blockers and popup blockers, and use Private windows, and some websites don’t like that. I’m kind of a security freak that way. But a couple of weeks ago I was able to access Strategic Culture content just fine with exactly the same settings.

    #106737
    willem
    Participant

    @Susan C and others: Interesting. My difficulty connecting to Strategic Culture seems tied to Mozilla Firefox. When I swapped over to Brave browser, the site loaded normally. I wonder if Mozilla has gone ahead with their censorship campaign somehow…..(I know, another ‘conspiracy theory’!)

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