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    Leonardo da Vinci Saint John the Baptist 1513-16   • The Passing and Lessons of Jimmy Carter (Turley) • Trump Endorses Mike Johnson For House Spe
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle December 31 2024]

    #178137
    tboc
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    “It will be a big chore for Trump to rescue us from this predicament.” – PCR
    it will be impossible

    “Threescore men and threescore more,
    Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before.”

    the whole Trump movement is an effort to rewind the reel and play the movie again

    “grab em by the pussy” that ought to do it

    #178138
    John Day
    Participant

    Need A Much Bigger Lie https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/need-a-much-bigger-lie

    Gail Tverberg, the World Economy Needs to Simplify
    Economic growth and added complexity sound like they would be good, but at some point, the combination gets to be too much–simplification is needed.
    Too much of the world’s income starts going to non-working individuals and to high-earning workers in privileged fields. Ordinary working citizens start to say, “Wait a minute, there is not enough left for my everyday expenses. The system needs to change.” Elections lead to the selection of politicians who want war, or who want to overturn the current system…
    ..In this post, I will try to explain a bit of the underlying problem and give some hints at what the simplification might look like. Part of the problem is too little energy supply. This is a problem that cannot be told to the public; it would be too distressing. In this post, I present the result of a recent academic study that has attempted to recalibrate the findings of the 1972 Limits to Growth study with updated data. https://ourfiniteworld.com/2024/12/04/the-world-economy-needs-to-simplify/
    BAU

    I think 2024 was the new 2019, myself. The Honest Sorcerer, What A Year 2024 Was
    Simply put: there is no such thing as an “energy transition”. It’s a myth. All proposals, from wind and solar to hydrogen, depend on minerals mined, delivered and refined by using these polluting fuels in copious amounts. As soon as the extraction of fossil fuels begin to decline, you can bet that the production of solar panels and wind turbines will eventually follow suit. And since diesel fuel is also used to grow and deliver crops, the question whether to burn it to mine minerals for EV batteries, or use it to grow food to prevent hunger will resolve itself rather quickly. And only when you add our propensity for war whenever resources grow thin, you start to really appreciate the relative peace and calm we have today. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/what-a-year-2024-was

    #178139
    John Day
    Participant

    So I have to guess that nuking the inauguration on January 20, 2025 would get rid of Trump, Vance, Musk and all the rabble-rousers against the “deep state”? Jeffrey Prather: Drone sightings a DISTRACTION from the Deep State’s plan to use suitcase nukes
    Former Soviet Lt. Gen. Alexander Lebed’s claims in 1997, stating that around 250 suitcase nukes were created by the Soviet Union with 100 missing, still resonate through intelligence circles. The potential for these devices to be used to destabilize the new administration is a serious security concern. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-27-prather-drones-distraction-deep-state-suitcase-nukes.html

    This is the case, which I have posted before, in the context of Gaza findings, for a novel and small neutron-bomb type device using deuterium-doped enriched-uranium. Is ‘Israel’ using small nuclear weapons in Gaza and South Lebanon? Dr. Christopher Busby is part a mixed crew of investigative reporters and commentators from Lebanon and some film-makers investigating “Israel’s” use of enriched uranium in strikes on Gaza on Lebanon, and aim to follow up on the strange illnesses that are appearing on the battlefield… ..’Israel’ in Gaza: ‘Red Mercury’. Dr. Christopher Busby
    In 2021, a scientific report in the prestigious journal Nature confirmed what I had been saying since 2006. “Israel” has, since its attacks on Lebanon in 2006 and those on Gaza in 2008 and 2014, used a new nuclear weapon, one which kills with a high temperature radiation flash and with neutrons. This weapon, which leaves an identification footprint, but no fission products like Caesium-137, we now know was also employed by the USA in Fallujah, Iraq in 2003, and previously in Kosovo also.
    The residues, inhalable Uranium aerosol dust, together with the neutron damage to tissues, cause a range of serious and often fatal health effects that puzzle doctors and defy treatment. Without knowing what caused such effects, which often mimic other illnesses or result in fungal infections that kill, doctors are powerless to help and just watch the exposed individuals die. https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/is–israel–using-small-nuclear-weapons-in-gaza-and-south-le

    John Helmer had this story, mostly introducing the documentary and analytical work of nuclear scientist Christopher Busby.
    NEW EVIDENCE THAT ISRAEL IS USING A NEW URANIUM WEAPON – MAKE THAT THE NEUTRON BOMB
    The neutron bomb was invented in 1958 by Samuel Cohen of the Livermore Laboratory of California and then RAND…
    Abstract
    Since 2003 measurements made by Green Audit in Fallujah, Iraq 2003, Lebanon 2006 and Gaza 2008 have provided unequivocal evidence of Uranium residues which show anomalous Uranium U-238/U235 isotope signature ratios. Results from independent laboratories in Europe and the UK, using different techniques, revealed the presence of enriched Uranium in biological materials and environmental samples including soil, bomb craters and air (as recorded in vehicle air filter dust). More recently, 2021 results published in the journal Nature, show that Uranium enrichment levels in background samples from Gaza have been increasing markedly since 2008. Since enriched Uranium is an anthropogenic substance which does not exist in nature, the question arises as to the source, in the weapons employed by the USA (Fallujah) and Israel (Lebanon, Gaza). It is proposed that the only logical answer is that a Uranium-based weapon exists that produces U-235 by neutron activation and has been deployed. Such a weapon must be some kind of neutron bomb…
    ..Conclusion and further investigation.
    An inevitable deduction from the consistent findings of enriched Uranium in samples from Gaza, Lebanon and Iraq, is that a neutron weapon of some kind has been employed since the second Gulf War, and possible before then. This is an Israeli (and US) secret weapon, as was reported by Robert Fisk in The Independent in 2006 [7]. The increases in congenital effects seen in the Fallujah population [8,9,10] and also in Gaza [20,21] can plausibly have resulted from exposure to neutrons as well as to the Uranium particulate aerosols. The weapon is ideal for armies employed in methodological destruction both of fighters hidden in urban environments (where neutrons pass through walls) and for any state which has the aim of destroying the civilian population using a genetic mutation weapon (cancer, fertility loss, birth defects). It is, however, a nuclear weapon, and those deploying it are using a nuclear weapon against civilian populations as part of a project to destroy an enemy state population without acknowledging this. This is a war crime. https://johnhelmer.net/new-evidence-that-israel-is-using-a-new-uranium-weapon-make-that-the-neutron-bomb/#more-89018

    ​ Yellen Says US Will Hit Debt Ceiling Mid-January, Forcing Treasury To Employ ‘Extraordinary Measures’
    “Treasury currently expects to reach the new limit between January 14 and January 23, at which time it will be necessary for Treasury to start taking extraordinary measures.” Yellen wrote.​ Extraordinary measures, often described as accounting maneuvers, allow the Treasury to free up cash and delay default.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/yellen-says-us-will-hit-debt-ceiling-mid-january-forcing-treasury-employ-extraordinary

    ​ Yeah? Sez Who? New York to Tax Fossil Fuel Producers $75 Billion for Climate Change Damages
    ​ Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed legislation that will require fossil-fuel producers to pay $75 billion to supposedly help the state adapt to climate change. “This landmark legislation shifts the cost of climate adaptation from everyday New Yorkers to the fossil fuel companies most responsible for the pollution,” Ms. Hochul’s office declared.​.. ..The top implied admission is New York is both broke and desperate.​ https://mishtalk.com/economics/new-york-to-tax-fossil-fuel-producers-75-billion-for-climate-change-damages/

    #178140
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Sasha Latypova, A. Toynbee “Universal States: Ends or Means?” Excerpts from “A Study of History”, abridged, illustrated, chapters 32-33. There is a misunderstanding, usually divided along political party lines, about the United States and other nominally sovereign independent countries of the world. Typically the “leftists” call them “democracies”, while the conservatives in the US counter this with “we are a constitutional republic, not a democracy”. Other groups decry the corporate form of the US government. I think trying to pinpoint the ill invariably misses the point, as any state will undergo all of these forms before a given civilization ends.
    According to Toynbee, a “universal state” is the last phase of a society before extinction. This doesn’t mean people go extinct: they don’t disappear as a group, however they may be reduced in numbers. We are talking about the concept of a “state” in this case​. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/a-toynbee-universal-states-ends-or

    ​Simplicius has a lot of good information and perspective. Provocation Pressure Against Russia Heats Up in Both Air and Sea https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-122824-provocation-pressure

    Cutting out Russia makes Soviet-era pipelines a target, does it not? Ukraine Receives First Ever Natural Gas Shipment From US As It Cuts Energy Ties With Russia https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/ukraine-receives-first-ever-natural-gas-shipment-us-it-cuts-energy-ties-russia

    Ukraine won’t renew the gas-transit contract with Russia. Russia’s Gazprom says it will stop supplying Moldova with gas next week
    Gazprom said Moldovagaz “regularly fails to fulfill its payment obligations under the existing contract, which is a significant breach of its terms.”​…
    ..Russian energy giant Gazprom supplies the gas-operated Kuciurgan plant, which generates electricity that powers a significant portion of Moldova proper. The plant was privatized in 2004 by Transnistrian officials and later sold to a Russian state-owned company. Moldova doesn’t recognise the privatisation…​ ..Transnistria, which broke away after a short war in 1992 and is not recognised by most countries, also declared its own state of emergency in mid-December in case the region does not receive gas supplies.
    When Russia fully invaded Ukraine in 2022, Moldova, a former Soviet republic of about 2.5 million people, was entirely dependent on Moscow for natural gas but has since pushed to diversify and expand its energy sources.​ https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/28/russias-gazprom-says-it-will-stop-supplying-moldova-with-gas-next-week

    Biden Unveils $5.9BN In Military & Budget Aid To Ukraine As Pre-Trump Surge Continues​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-unveils-59bn-military-budget-aid-ukraine-pre-trump-surge-continues

    #178141
    John Day
    Participant

    Church of England Tells Clergy to Censor “Problematic” Christmas Carols Mentioning Jesus​
    ​ The Church of England is now instructing clergy to remove “problematic words” in Christmas carols which imply that Jesus Christ is the “true Messiah” because some people might be “offended.”
    ​ In an email sent to Birmingham diocese clergy, obtained by The Daily Mail, it said:
    “Try to use language that won’t add further confusion or tension or take away anything from the good news of the Nativity.”​ https://www.dailyfetched.com/church-of-england-tells-clergy-to-censor-problematic-christmas-carols-mentioning-jesus/

    ​Ugo Bardi presents the case that Syria became dependent upon $5 billion per year from Captagon production after oil-production fell off, and was captured by enemy forces. When that came under attack, military officers couldn’t be paid. The Syrian Disease: Death of a Petrostate https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-syrian-disease-death-of-a-petrostate

    ​ Not yet confirmed, but makes sense if factual: Al-Jawlani, Head of HTS That Overthrew Syria President, is Jewish
    The Head of HTS, a.k.a. “ISIS,” a.k.a. “Al Qaeda,” which overthrew Syrian President Bashar Assad, is Jewish, and graduated from the Islamic School of Jurisprudence, in Tel Aviv.​… According to Israel’s YNET News, Abu Muhammed Al-Jawlani was born Yonatan Avi-David, and is a Mossad Mole.​ https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/al-jawlani-head-of-hts-that-overthrew-syria-president-is-jewish

    ​ Turkish occupation mercenaries behead displaced person in Tal Rifaat
    Turkish occupation mercenaries killed the young Kurdish man, Djwar Bato, by “beheading” near the town of Tal Rifaat, according to his family, adding another crime to the series of violations committed against the people of Afrin and Shahba.​ https://hawarnews.com/en/turkish-occupation-mercenaries-behead-displaced-person-in-tal-rifaat

    #178142
    John Day
    Participant

    All contact lost with Kamal Adwan Hospital staff and patients as Israel raids north Gaza hospital
    The Israeli army raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, with more than 350 people inside at the time of the attack.
    Female staff told journalists that they were forced to strip off their clothes by soldiers and were beaten if they refused.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/all-contact-lost-with-kamal-adwan-hospital-staff-and-patients-as-israel-raids-north-gaza-hospital/

    ​ Palestinian Health Ministry slams Israeli army for moving patients to destroyed Indonesian Hospital
    In a statement, the ministry said: “A harrowing night has passed for the forcibly evacuated patients, who are now in critical conditions at the Indonesian Hospital without access to water, electricity, food, or medical supplies.”​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241219-can-north-gaza-survive-after-israel-destroyed-its-only-icu-killed-its-last-doctors/

    ​ Yemen’s Houthis targeted Israeli air base with hypersonic missile
    ​The Yemeni Houthi group said Saturday that it had launched a hypersonic ballistic missile targeting Nevatim Air Base in Israel’s southern Negev region, Anadolu Agency reports.​ Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a recorded address that the operation involved a Palestine 2 hypersonic missile, which he claimed successfully hit its target.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241228-yemens-houthis-targeted-israeli-air-base-with-hypersonic-missile-spokesperson/

    ​ Yemen downs its 13th US-made MQ-9 Reaper UAV
    The Yemeni Armed Forces target Nevatim air base in al-Naqab with a hypersonic missile and down an American MQ-9 drone over al-Bayda, continuing their support for Gaza and responding to the Israeli and US-UK aggression.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-downs-its-13th-us-made-mq-9-reaper-uav

    Court Blocks Biden From Selling Off Portions Of Southern Border Wall​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/court-blocks-biden-selling-portions-southern-border-wall

    #178143
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Stomach virus lasts 2 days; is going around: Norovirus surge in the US: Symptoms, transmission, who’s at risk, preventive measures
    A sharp increase in norovirus outbreaks has been reported in the US this winter, with 91 outbreaks in the week of December 5, up from 69 the previous week.​ https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/norovirus-surge-in-the-us-symptoms-transmission-whos-at-risk-preventive-measures-11735474306884.html

    ​For your reference: Vast mRNA ‘Vaccine’ Biodistribution, Persistence, and Adjuvant Toxicity Research Library Published
    Over 100 peer-reviewed studies demonstrate serious safety concerns.​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/vast-mrna-vaccine-biodistribution

    ​The South Atlantic Anomaly won’t stay still: NASA Is Watching a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-watching-a-vast-growing-anomaly-in-earths-magnetic-field

    ​Picture worth 1000 words: Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News​ https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-december-28-2024/

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    #178144
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Lavrov: Russia’s ‘Not Satisfied’ With Trump’s Ukraine Proposals

    Trump either has bullshit intelligence or he knows what’s going on in Ukronaziland or is in ‘deal mode’ making word salads and is detached from Reality

    Enough said.

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    #178145
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #178146
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #178147
    zerosum
    Participant

    Different times, different meanings
    https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John_the_Baptist_(Leonardo)
    Saint John the Baptist is a High Renaissance oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo da Vinci. Likely to have been completed between 1513 and 1516, it is believed to be his final painting. Its original size was 69 by 57 centimetres (27 in × 22 in).

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    Following the hints
    H-1B, nepotism, “Brahmins” caste, tribes
    (Remove the space after https: to activate the links

    https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin#:~:text=The%20traditional%20occupation%20of%20Brahmins,wedding%20with%20hymns%20and%20prayers

    https: //www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Main_Page

    https: //www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/India_Genealogy

    https: //www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/India_Naming_Customs#:~:text=It%20is%20easy%20to%20track,denote%20the%20caste%20they%20belong

    https: //www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/India_Cultural_Groups

    There are some 573 communities recognized by the government as Scheduled Tribes and, therefore, are eligible to receive special benefits and to compete for reserved seats in legislatures and schools. They range in size from the Gonds (roughly 7.4 million) and the Santals (approximately 4.2 million) to only eighteen Chaimals in the Andaman Islands. Central Indian states have the country’s largest tribes, and taken as a whole, roughly 75 percent of the total tribal population live there.

    Unlike castes, which are part of a complex and interrelated local economic exchange system, tribes tend to form self-sufficient economic units.
    Tribes typically consist of segmentary lineages whose extended families provide the basis for social organization and control. Unlike caste religion, which recognizes the hegemony of Brahman priests, tribal religion recognizes no authority outside the tribe.
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    #178148
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Something has changed, like, the stars, astrology? The very way in which we approach things and each other has flipped, which I find hard to define right now, but roots in the problems of everything being infinitely complicated right now, doubled by the difficulty of knowing what a fact is, what is true.

    I can explain Bitcoin, for instance, but it would take a long, intensive line, that undoes a dozen misperceptions, some that are true, some true only by name and should be divided to understand properly, and some that are simply false. Who has time? Even should I take heroic measures, no one would listen. How do I know? I already listed 4-5 in plain form and was neither heard nor taken up as a “I’ll look into that.”

    That isn’t Bitcoin, or just them and me, that’s happening everywhere about everything. I read things on say man-woman relations, and you raise a finger to add something and it’s like no: anything said would have to re-write 90% swaths of the other person’s perception or data set. No one wants that. Even to say the first word is an an affront, where the very question or correction can only be read as “Oh my God you’re stupid.” How does that help? But if, say, the person thinks Tiny Tyke cars are real and people drive around on highways in them, how on earth CAN you correct them without them being (rightfully) embarrassed. This is only doubled by them saying you’re a Tiny Tyke car denier. An I-want-to-shut-all-highways person, who hates children, or hates muscle cars, or hates America, or like 20 more non sequiturs. No. And I’m not mad, nor should they need to be embarrassed (much). I just need them to know that Tiny Tyke cars are 24 inches wide, are powered by your feet, and would crowd out a 9-year-old. CO2 has been 6 times higher with no effects and we’re only now coming off the LOWEST temperature. That domestic abuse of women on men is now officially higher than vice versa. That only 9 unarmed black men were shot, according to the FBI official numbers. That doctors kill +10x more people than guns. I’m not surprised they didn’t know, but if you take up the discussion, you’re going to make a fool of yourself otherwise and somebody needs to tell you.

    That’s EVERY subject, every science, every news story, all history, astronomy, military, everything. It used to be you could stop and focus on the one subject – like Iraq, or Covid – but every subject? And every sub-point thereof? No.

    So…ideas on how to cope and address? I can fix in myself, but this issue deals with cooperation and social cohesion, which are critical not only to abstract larger society, but as much for each individual to accomplish needed daily tasks. Like getting permits. Spending money. Not having your family break apart and your kids get chopped up and killed. Little things like that.

    One reason I feel I’m edging away into other work right now.

    #178149
    Noirette
    Participant

    John Day, thx for the link to Tverberg, the World Economy Needs to Simplify. Yes….
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    A recent conversation with F Catholics about Notre Dame de Paris, which burned down in 2019, there are some horrible stories about all that, prompted me to watch the re-opening of this Cathedral, re-built in record time (Macron, Manu, ordered: 5 years tops), on 7 Dec. 2024.

    Manu was, to put it mildly, a headstrong child. He converted to Catholicism at the age of 12 and decided who he would marry at age 15 or 16. His wife, Brigitte, is also Catholic.

    This was a World Social Event of Symbolic Importance. Link, 2H17.

    = Imho the new interior looks like a Luxury Store of the Highest Order. Another tale for another day =

    Naturally Manu and Bibi were featured like Royalty. They greet the guests, and walk down the aisle (with them is the Mayor of Paris) — with all worshipping them — it takes ages…

    The FIRST song from the children’s choir has subtitles (not all the others do) it is a homage to Israel and Jerusalem (!)

    Onto the Social Pecking Order. The vid was professionally filmed, and certainly edited down to the minutest detail.

    One top spot goes to Zelensky. He was the FIRST to arrive, dressed in his usual dusty greenish garb. Greeted warmly and tapped on the back by Manu.

    Another goes to Jill Biden, who was accompanied by her daughter. (Not Catholic originally.) She gets the honor of being not just greeted but fondly kissed etc. and accompanied on her way into the Cathedral. Joe I guess couldn’t manage it. (Jill often represents Joe and is accepted as such, weird.)

    Another to Trump, as he is camera-followed more than others, and is at the ceremony seated between the two main ‘Royals’, Manu and Bibi. Can’t get a better seat than that! Melania I guess refused to join as she is consistently doing.

    Prince William (Kate is ill) is seated somewhere behind. Zelensky is relegated back there, along with the Prince of Monaco.

    And that is it. Nobody else gets any ‘honors’

    https://tinyurl.com/ya3feapr – I stopped watching at 1:36

    #178150
    zerosum
    Participant

    Hate, anger, revenge, impunity
    https://www.declassified.live/p/cheneys-pending-immunity-whiplash
    • Liz Cheney’s Pending Immunity Whiplash (Julie Kelly)

    … put Donald Trump behind bars … Seeking revenge for Trump’s longtime criticism of her father’s “weapons of mass destruction” lie …
    Cheney sought to settle a family score by imprisoning Trump over the events of January 6.
    “No one is above the law!,” Cheney, in her grating sanctimonious style, frequently insists.
    Well, except for her.
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    #178151
    tboc
    Participant

    Have you ever owned a red dirt road which is a permanent easement to a parcel and used as a public thoroughfare? A red diirt road of such creation is a study of transfer costs, hidden costs in transfer pricing and the inevitable refinancing of the transfer costs. At some point in time after the creation of a red dirt road the value to the public of the road warrants taking the road into the public maintenance sphere. The costs of improving and maintainng the road are transferred and become a transfer of liablity as well as a cost transfer. Some portion of the original hidden costs are transferred to the future and hidden in the public refinancing. The person who holds title to the parcel with the easement collects a profit on the hidden transferred costs, the minimum being reduced present costs and reduced liability, plus the increased value of the parcel now on a public road. A red dirt road created as part of land development and a permanent easement in the title displays the delicate balance of profitability and hidden long term costs.

    I offer that we are not overwhelmed by the current costs of waste and mismangement but by the tsunami of hidden cost transferred to the public sphere that must be refinanced at this moment. Profit that is a harvest of transferred costs is theft. The debt, public and private, is proof that the transfer price has not covered any portion the transferred costs. Let me be ugly:

    All of the private debt, which is in essence collartorallized transfer cost, is in the process of being moved into the public maintenance sphere. Perhaps a gross generalization, the largest asset and store of value in this global economic enterprise is debt. All of the debt starting with the 1970’s corporate raiding to the prime rate mortgage swindle of the first decade of the early 2000’s has been used to maintain transfer pricing below cost. Thirty five years of theft, capitalization of debt, is this moment.

    The Dow Jones average 1/02/1970 was 809.2 and the Dow on 1/28/1979 was 838.91. At this moment the Dow is 42,675.90. What has the United States produced since 1970 that is 50 times more valuable than assets current in 1970? cover your ears – NOTHING YOU TRIBE OF EGOCENTRIC SPHINCTERS.

    Everything you have is the result of the transfer of costs to the future. Ask rocketman if we are at the threshold of the future.
    Led by a real estate baron, a master of the foundational bastion of cost transfer.

    M – mass
    A – assiduoulsly
    G – generated
    A – atrophy

    please, please, please

    #178152
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    PCR
    Showing respect for women was somehow undervaluing them and treating them unequally

    *sigh*
    Well, that is because in many, many instances, the women were being undervalued and treated unequally.

    Now, women have to earn their respect, just as men must earn respect.

    Except in narrow circles (such as the pages of Cosmopolitan), most women who brag about multitudes of sexual conquests are not respected.

    Has PCR ever wondered what it is like to be the woman sitting in the car passenger seat waiting for the man to open her door when they are both in a hurry? When she is perfectly capable of opening the damn door? It becomes ridiculous (it isn’t a carriage 3 feet off the ground, and I’m not in a corset with a tightly cinched waist.). The door thing can be nice on a formal date, but I haven’t the patience with it on a routine basis.

    When I actually could use the help, I appreciate it. (I have deliberately avoided learning wiring…at some point I seem to have decided that it was “a man’s job.” But I enjoy putting up drywall, mudding and taping, texturing and painting. I measure and mark, but I prefer to keep my hands far, far away from rapidly spinning sawblades. When something is too heavy or bulky and a man is available, I ask for help. If I am alone, I often get creative with furniture dollies, etc. And…if I am going to keep up my strength as I age, it is important to lift things that I find heavy.)

    Personally, I think what has happened to the Boy Scouts is terrible. There is room in the world for both gendered and non-gendered kids groups and sports and schools. There are advantages and disadvantages to both models.

    I read or watched Cheaper by the Dozen many years ago — maybe both? I looked up information about the actual family. The father died and the mother had to finish raising the kids alone. How difficult that must have been! Especially in a world that frowned upon women taking up the role of breadwinner, that would have told the mother that she must remarry a man to support her and the children—quick! What about the mother taking her time, remarrying only if she wished to, and to someone that she really wanted to be with?

    After I took my power back and ejected my ex from the home the last thing that I wanted was to import someone into my life who was going to tell me how to live and how to parent and to whom I would be beholden financially. Because all of that was part and parcel to the idyllic world described by PCR.

    #178153
    Noirette
    Participant

    Happy New Year to all!

    #178154
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Something has changed, like, the stars, astrology? The very way in which we approach things and each other has flipped, which I find hard to define right now, but roots in the problems of everything being infinitely complicated right now, doubled by the difficulty of knowing what a fact is, what is true.”

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    #178155
    Oroboros
    Participant

    All of History needs a rewrite, like All of it

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    #178156
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrDRich

    Regarding your comment yesterday (#178126) about Elon and Vivek promoting the H-1B trojan horse

    The reason that Elon and Vivek are so unabashedly self-certain in their promotion of the poisonous H-1B visas as a good thing is because they are not interested in building a strong NATION (that takes care of its own people first, best and most). They are interested in building a strong EMPIRE (that takes care of its “force acquisition and projection” as first, best and highest priority.)

    The sadly funny thing is that they are absolutely right about their method being the best method to build a strong Empire. The tragedy is that strong Empires are absolutely guaranteed to utterly DESTROY the Nations which host them. History is littered with their abandoned and sun-bleached bones. I suppose that provides archeologists and historians with dependably good jobs, but other than that Empires are a curse upon the Earth, and ultimately produce only tragedy and death. Hell, Empires don’t even serve as cautionary tales of what NOT to do, because people just keep on doing it anyway, because it pays so high in the short term and the perpetrators convince themselves that it will turn out differently this time and that they’ll fix all Empires built-in flaws before the flaws prove fatal. Every fucking time, Sheesh!

    #178157
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    My paranoiac prognostication for 2025 is that the United States and its assorted blob minions around the world will use drone fleets to aerosol deliver a “vaxxine” onto the heads and into the lungs of everyone who breathes as its primary response to the Dread Pirate H5-N1 Avian Flu.

    #178158
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Speech and Debate Clause trotted out in defense of Liz Cheney for her performance as Conductor of the January 6th Tribulations IS just so ripe.
    Yet, The Predicate violation of The Speech and Debate Clause took place on or about January 6th upon convening of The Electrical (sp??) College. The Manufactured Crisis of January 6th was used as The Casus Belli to prevent Speech and Debate at The Joint Session of Congress.
    The rest is projection and projective identification people.
    The popular does not elect the President of the United States.
    I wonder who mentioned that back then.
    Where were the quick thinkers?
    Perhaps they hadn’t yet immigrated selectively from India through ordinary nepotism channels.
    How about that?

    One wonders about the choice to name Liz Cheney as The Target for Retributive Justice while leaving the preening, insufferable Shits off The List namely, Jamie “toupee like a dead skunk” Raskin, Adam “Lachrymose” Kinzinger, and Adam “The Disappeared” Schiff.

    That’s deliberate folk

    Where are you (they) now?

    #178159
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
    #178160
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ D Benton Smith
    … the world will use drone fleets to aerosol …
    where crowds gather to watch drone display … such as football games

    #178161
    The Black
    Participant

    Nobody knows what is happening in Ukraine. We like to think we know. Our egos tell us we know. But nobody knows the scope and depth of what is happening there.

    Change is coming so fast in so many areas, and I think all of it intersects in Ukraine. National interests, personal interests, legal, illegal, fiat, commodity, public, private.

    Old world, new world, USA, Russia, Energy, Dollar, Bitcoin, fiat, MIC, WMD, COVID, nuclear, biological, fossil, money laundering, human trafficking.

    Ukraine is the “flux nexus”.

    Zelensky is a tool. Ukrainians are tools. Boris Johnson is a tool. Bidens were tools. EU is a tool. All are expendable, temporary.

    ALL. OF. IT. Intersects in Ukraine. Trump won’t stop it.

    Somehow, since 2022, while fighting a war against Russia, “Ukraine” (whatever that is at this point) has managed to accumulate 46,000 Bitcoin. Only USUK and China, as nation states, hold more (publicly anyway).

    Some questions:

    Is US taxpayer money, in the form of “aid” being used in Ukraine to buy Bitcoin for private entities?

    Is “Ukraine” mining Bitcoin? How is Ukraine able to mine Bitcoin with their energy grid under constant attack?

    Are Russian “frozen assets” being used to buy Bitcoin for “Ukraine”?

    What happens to the Bitcoin “held” by “Ukraine” if Ukraine ceases to exist? Will it go to BlackRock or Clinton Foundation, both of which are positioning to “rebuild” in Ukraine? Will it go to the Oligarchs? Will it be lost?

    Will Bitcoin be used to rebuild or will it be used to “re-collateralize” private parties?

    If it turns out that 1 Bitcoin is worth $13M in 20 years, 46,000 BTC ($4.6B today) would be worth $600B in 20 years.

    #178162
    John Day
    Participant

    DBS mentioned:
    Drones Spray ‘Self-Spreading’ COVID-19 Vaccine for ‘Large-Area Inoculation of Humans’ in ‘DEFUSE’ EcoHealth/DARPA Project https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/drones-to-spray-self-spreading-covid

    #178163
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Despite the overwhelming evidence….still….

    #178164
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Speaking of India…
    Once I’ve seen “The worst country in the world” I can not unseen it.
    The only piece of (if) propaganda that had a grip on me. Ever.

    #178165
    zerosum
    Participant

    Things are getting better, lenders wrote off more than $46 billion in seriously delinquent.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-credit-card-defaults-soar-highest-level-14-years

    US credit card defaults soar to highest level in 14 years
    Data shows credit card defaults jumped 50% in 2024 from the year before to the highest since 2010

    Breck Dumas By Breck Dumas

    #178166
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    Well that’s unfortunate. I was hoping that my clairvoyance was just another relapse.

    #178168
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Example of not knowing, Ukraine, point taken. But Syria.

    I’ve followed all geopolitics for 25 years into whatever 20 some camps they render into and have no idea what’s going on there. This is immediately spreading to Trump and Greenland?? Ramaswamy?? Yeah. And we’re not talking the hard stuff. Totally down with there being trafficking, harvesting, but after 10 years of such rumors, nobody shown me nothing, all that time not a clue on how you’d inject them in the transplant chain, keep it quiet under review, nothing. There are a dozen of these now, makes the oil market look transparent and simple.

    All this while there are Aliens?? In New Jersey (for the beaches, I guess) and no one can photograph one, tell me why they have rotors and FAA flight beacons? Now I know you’re taking pictures, but no one can see one, report on it with, like, facts? Good luck to us, their brains have all melted. Ack! Ack!

    #178169
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #178170
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #178171
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Urine Review

    He also saw something suspicious.

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    #178172
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    I was a math nerd who liked sports but wasn’t that good at them. Playing sports back then it was beaten into you that you had to play fair and follow the rules. Having worked in high tech for a long time with people from a lot of other countries they often don’t have that same ethic and take advantage where they can. I knew an immigrant (Celticbiker’s guess of her ethnicity would be correct) who said “You Americans are so stupid. You follow these stupid rules and get taken advantage of over and over.” Of course Americans following stupid rules is what made the working country she got to come to and take advantage of and her attitude will turn America into the hell hole she came from.

    #178173
    zerosum
    Participant

    The world economy needs to simplify


    Read 1,651 Responses to “The world economy needs to simplify” – Gail Tverberg

    #178174
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    I wonder who’s perpetrating and perpetuating this genuine antipathy toward China.
    Could it be those Kings and Queens of Nepotism?
    You know, the British-accented Seventy-Five Percenters. 75%ers.

    74.9% to be exact. The Yellow Horde only comes in at less than 1/6th of Waste-Management-Challenged, but there’s Vivek 42Toofers and The African Elongated Musk willing to wage war on behalf of a delusion in their minds.
    ConMen. Vivek had his mother’s help in that useless drug, pump n dump scam, but he’s so boyish. Btw, what happened to Rishi the midget Sunak, Stanford?

    From Statista

    https://www.statista.com/chart/9008/h1b-recipients-by-country-of-birth/

    Tell me you knew this division of the market?

    #178175
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Jews are ramping up the humiliation ritual by dumping streetshitters in their $ controlled systems of dominance and coercion. Shitten the street in Bombay 1 day, heart doctorin in the good ole jewSA the next. Stealing everything wasn’t enough. Using you to finance genocide, not enough. Jabbing you and your kids with poison, hell no, not enough. Subjugation ain’t no fun without humiliation. Ask any Gazan, who is just the future version of the present you. After the last 5 years, I don’t say happy new year anymore, sounds too fucking ridiculous.

    #178176
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    What we know about the drone swarms over New Jersey (etc) for CERTAIN.

    1. They are not imaginary or short-term temporary. It’s been two months and thousands of people have reported them.
    2. It is an absolutely certain deduction that since they ARE there (and elsewhere) then SOMEBODY put them there, and has continued to put them there on a daily ongoing basis for an extended period.
    3. THEREFORE (in reference to points 1 & 2, above) it is also a 100% dependably true conclusion that the persons responsible for putting them there are fully knowledgeable about what they are, where they came from, what they are doing there, the purpose for operating them for this extended period of time.
    4. Those same persons know that the public should be told about the who, what, when, where, how and WHY of the event, and yet is NOT being told, and also WHY the public is not being told.
    5. And yet, despite points 1 through 5 above, the persons charged with defending the personal and national security of America’s citizens and property remain totally silent, dismissive, indifferent and evasive about why they are not properly doing the job that their oaths of office (and common decency) require of them.

    There is only ONE explanation for the “drone” phenomenon that satisfactorily explains all of the above 5 incontestable facts, and that explanation is the that so-called Defense Forces of the United States are NOT defense forces. They are ENEMY forces, and they mean you no good.

    If you’re expecting some White Hat cavalry to sweep over the hill, bugles ablaring, to save your skinny white ass then you might want to rethink your positional expectations and make other plans. Happy New Year.

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