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    Leonardo da Vinci Lady with an Ermine c. 1489-91   • Peace Plans Are ‘Absolutely Wrong’ – UK PM (RT) • Austria Calls For Dialogue With Russia (TA
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 23 2023]

    #135628
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    I’m greatly amused by the nonplussed reaction by so many normies to Russia capturing Bakhmut/Artyomovsk.

    From the perspective of an unfortunate recipient of exclusively MSM reporting, what’s happened there is the equivalent of:

    15 – Love to Ukraine
    30 – Love to Ukraine
    45 – Love to Ukraine
    Game set and Match to Russia

    Total misalignment between what they have been told is going on and what has actually happened – which is causing all sorts of cognitive pain – mostly manifesting in anger and denial. Strangely many seem to have doubled down on their credulity of Pro-Ukie propaganda.

    Like Hitler supposedly moving imaginary Panzer divisions around his maps just before the fall of Berlin, many people seem to genuinely believe that The Ukies have lured Russia into Artyomovsk in order to surround and destroy them – with massive forces that, it hardly needs to be said, show no signs of actually existing. I guess the half-dozen UAF squaddies still holed up in some derelict shed on the outskirts of town are about to spring into action any minute now and push Wagner back via a ‘Flanking manoeuvre’ that Zelensky and his mob are now touting. Or something like that.

    #135631
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “I could not disagree with him more,” Sunak replied. “A ceasefire is not a just and lasting peace for Ukraine. Russia has conducted an illegal and unprovoked invasion … and the right and only response to that is for Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine.”

    The way Britain handed back all the goodies they stole from the world and put in their museaums? The UK is so full of shite they need an Indian curry to get rid of it.

    #135632
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Austria: News is Austria and Germany also very moderate to cold this year. Not outrageous, but enough to matter and breaks the trend, just like here. Like no tomatoes, everything slow, need to get infrastructure (greenhouses) to cope, delayed a month in planting them, etc. Wow, no headline news for that? You’d think it would be 30-point type since it would mean we’re all saved! From becoming Venus. And also from dying trying to transform the world to Green to avoid becoming Venus.

    Cooling: it’s a thing that never, ever happens. Just like everything else in the world. Yeah, just yesterday Algorythm post says “We didn’t really lose Bakhmut”. AYFKM? Already? All-rightie, then.

    For help, look to this item. https://lanternnet.com/product/dietz-2500-jupiter-cold-blast-lantern/ 75-hour kerosene lantern, which were lit to take the chill off greenhouses. It’s a safe, pleasant, and mild way to cope with temperatures returning to average (or worse). It’s because you can’t get manure for cold frames like you really need.

    CJ Hopkins, being depressed, talks about the infinite atomization of “reality” that is, people’s belief systems. That’s the opposite of culture, which has coherent beliefs about things, but to me just the hallmark of infinite work and effort and expense to create “Three World Wars” where this one is all against all, and then they roll out their pre-planned “Man” and saviour who can fix everything. So easy! We were making all the problems, and the day we roll him out all the problems stop! Wot a coincidence! Now we can all agree on and get together behind the Angel of Light.

    But it’s reality a la carte. I don’t know what I would do now as creating a solid belief system took much of my life and nearly killed me as everything said, read, available, were all lies. That was back in the good times, what would we do now? But that doesn’t make one’s religion not the Rock, or that such a Rock isn’t equally available now. It’s just chilling to think what kids have to go through now with less help than ever. Nor can I help them. I’m not as interesting as Tiktok.

    “If there’s a war criminal in the world of imperial posture, it’s the US”

    It’s very lucky that we the People are against our own government widely. Not only will we take it back, but the rest of the world can understand we’re a captured operation and feel more safe about America when the present occupation is shoved out.

    “”they do not control the narrative”

    Who are these two irrelevant dum-dums? My IQ is dropping.

    “Warmonger midget Sunaka.”

    They need a Macron-sized portrait of him on the wall.

    “British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak”

    Who?

    “has shot down calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine”

    Well I’m glad to know that Ukraine is a province of Britain…or something. What the Actual? What makes munchkins like him get on a stool and pipe up? So Ukraine is in control (they say) but “British and Americans reject calls for peace and negotiations.” …Concerning the war we’re not in, but totally in. Which Ukraine controls, be we control. Because they’re independent, but we’re funding every paper clip from border to border, including free health care, pensions, and salaries.

    “However, American military officials have publicly stated that retaking Crimea is beyond Ukraine’s capability,”

    Taking a town of 70,000 is beyond their capability. War commentators pointed out that Ukraine says they have counter-offensives, it’s not that bad. Number of towns above 50 men re-captured by Ukraine: Zero. But Reality is whatever is in my mind right now. Before I have another thought flip across and it all changes again.

    “The Germans are not ready to declare war on Russia.
    • Ukraine Won’t Join NATO Anytime Soon – Scholz (RT)

    They already did. They already double-crossed themselves. They already proved they are not negotiable. Therefore Russia must ignore them, and every thing they ever say again, forever. Why report it? Who cares? Russia doesn’t. And if Russia doesn’t, it has no effect on the war, or reality anymore.

    This is like the headline yesterday, “We’re going to arrange a peace deal without Russia.” Uh…whut?

    “• No One Knows Who Blew Up Nord Stream – German Intel Chief (TASS)
    No intelligence agency is currently able to clearly name those responsible

    Great! I believe you. …You’re all fired. We totally defund you, and save a BIG chunk o’ money. Oh wait, you DO know? You’re just not “Currently able to NAME those responsible” although you KNOW who that is perfectly? Okay, I believe you. …You’re all fired for being cowards and complete, treasonous dereliction of duty. It’s your one and only JOB to gather AND TRANSMIT this information to government. If you don’t, you have no use or purpose.

    Have fun learning to code.

    Yes, P.S., that’s why they phrased it this way, in Diplo-speak, because they’re lying by misdirection. To the public. Who is this double-talk meant to send a secret code to? (We know who did it, now keep us quiet…with mo’ money.)

    Grayvoron District”

    They got one mile into Russia? Be still my heart. The seen and the unseen. How in the HECK is Russia not covered in terror attacks right now? So they win every gold medal for national security I can imagine. Is that what happens when you have National Borders? I wouldn’t know, we’ve never had any in my lifetime.

    Just think: How hard is it to get into a nation of 12 time zones and cut a few wires or bomb a church? I think shopping on Black Friday would be harder. And no attacks after a year? Like 3?

    “• US ‘Highly Likely’ To Default – Yellen (RT)

    Yellen has never been right about anything in her whole tenure. “There’s no inflation” “subprime is contained” “The banks have never been stronger”. However, I feel like they’re up to something. (Congress)

    “discard the separation of powers and unilaterally borrow and spend federal money.”

    Yes, one side wants complete dictatorial power enshrined in the Executive branch, with no appeal or oversight. And the other side…wants the same thing. Always. That’s why it always becomes The Government vs The People.

    “senators are suggesting that a president does not need congressional approval to borrow and spend trillions of dollars,”

    That would be a pleasantly impeachable offense. One the American Public could understand and discuss.

    “Does the WHO really think it can push this through?”

    The NeoCons, who are more or less identical with “the Mafia”, have no choice. They pulled the trigger on this plan, and have to win or lose by it or they will all be rounded up and hung while the people cheer.

    Speaking of: Bill Gates essentially proven to be blackmailed by Epstein. I highly doubt it was merely over a Russian Bridge Player, although his wife left him. Here’s the thing: there’s a TV interview defusing all this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRSK05f2EXI where they ask, “Have you learned anything? Is there a lesson here?” Bill smiles and says:

    “Well, he’s dead.”

    Now do that in a Soprano’s accent.

    “I guess the lesson here is…people who mess with me should be more careful.” Badda-bing. he says it on national TV. Nobody thinks a thing, everyone defends him. No wonder they have contempt for people for being stupid, useless sheep and cattle.

    Would $100 Billion dollars…which he has no other earthly use for…to hide what he’s been doing, and he IS doing, right now, being blackmailed to support vaccines that ALSO kill 100 million people…is that enough money to buy off a few guards? $6 Billion. $1 BILLLLLLLLLLLLION dollars each for each guard, each warden, each Medical Examiner, knowing full well he can have you Whack’d for 1/10th of that. …Ask McAfee. Is that enough to get into MCC and still have $94 Billion dollars left over for fun?

    Okay, if Epstein was DEFINITELY blackmailing Gates, and DEFINITELY owning and directing the Gates fortune to any end they want it to, WHO was Epstein and what are his goals?

    Don’t make me laugh. Epstein is a MATH TEACHER. He has no money and never did. He has no skills or connections. Ghislane is straight-up Mossad from birth. THAT is who now owns and directs Gate’s fortune into pharmaceuticals that kill 100 million people.

    Some commenter says, “I don’t remember voting Bill Gates into a position of power.” No, the power comes from Mossad, a wing of the Davos Derp State, the Mafia.

    Hate to bring it up though: It’s BORING. BOOOOOORRR—RING.

    NAACP Advises Against Travel To Florida, Saying State ‘Openly Hostile’ To Blacks”

    Chicago and Baltimore, who run open rendition sites on Black people for decades: perfectly okay! Never better! Maybe they don’t want Blacks to find out there are states were they are safe.

    “Former US Marine Charged In Death Of Homeless Man Breaks Silence
    “I’m not a white supremacist…”

    First of all, never defend, never apologize.

    Second, despite non-stop lies “We make s—t up!” you can’t BE a White supremacist in the Military. It’s half colored. It’s the most integrated organization around, and they have no tolerance for it. If you’re from the military, I’m betting you’re the #Opposite. Only if you’re a Mayor from Baltimore, Chicago, SF, LA, and NY are you a supremacist. Institutional racism! By the Blue institutions against everyone equally…except for the exceptions, which is every group with a checkmark. And that leaves only one group. Or two: they hate Asians too. Any race who is successful MUST be stopped! They are RUINING our Narrative! Damn you Yeezy and Owens!!! We hates successful Black people like Sowell, Nixon, and Thomas forever and ever!

    “NY Mayor Declares Texas to be an Sanctuary State.” –BBee Sends all his immigrants there. Along with Martha’s Vineyard, who so far has won the world’s speed record in discarding good people into the garbage heap for “somebody else” to help.

    “To [decapitation] strike from Romanian airspace in the south and the Baltic states in the north, in camouflage of the NATO exercise called “Air Defender 23”, and under cover of US F-16 fighter aircraft purportedly operated by Ukrainian pilots but fuelled, directed, and guarded by more than two hundred US and NATO aircraft, including the most advanced US air war fighter, the F-35.”

    That makes sense and is very disturbing. I have never gotten the hang of thinking like a spineless weasel. However, this “needs to happen”, some THING “needs to happen” as an Event to end this nonsense. Since their superpower is violent psychosis, ignoring all reality, some event is needed to puncture it. Then some realization causes capital flow shifts, and crisis in America, their present barricaded control room on the capture ship.

    #135633
    oxymoron
    Participant
    #135634
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #135636
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Not sure if I’d go with Deutsche Bank on anything, they bare such Losers, but what he says about the direction of the economy is basically true.

    Also, if things are as phucked as the M2 money supply suggests, we are barreling toward Depression not recession.

    There seems to be a universal phobia against using the word Depression.

    With 25% of the Empire of Lies on anti-anxiety, anti-depression Big Pharma meds it fits rather nicely together, an economy reflecting the core Depression of the Sheeple People.

    It will be far worse this time than the 1930’s for many reasons but at least be a little honest for once.

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    #135638
    Henry
    Participant
    #135639
    Oroboros
    Participant

    In keeping with the War on Reality soap opera series we call ‘life’.

    Nobel Laureate: “Climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience”

    Nobel Laureate: “Climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience” 


    “Dr. John F. Clauser, joint recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, has criticized the climate emergency narrative calling it “a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.”

    So John here got the big prize in a ‘hard science’, not like in economics which is basically Astrology

    More from John:

    “Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists.”

    Is this a .“tell” as they say in poker?

    #135640
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Party on!

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    #135641
    zerosum
    Participant

    Pick/send your headline to A.I. to write about
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    Different and Together
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    Zelensky …. hiding? …. from? …. Blackmail? …. Bitcoin?
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    Roll Me Over In the Clover and do it again

    …. bonds maturing in June …
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    Peace …… My way or the highway ….. Political Interference ….. War ….
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    Depopulation tool – Climate Exstream
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    #135642
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    (O deus d’)A Eterna Insatisfação acordou, para realizar que não voltaria a’dormecer.
    “Que fazer?”
    Luz e Dor, Sombra e Prazer.

    (The God of) The Everlasting Dissatisfaction woke up to realize falling asleep was forever out of reach.
    “What to do?”
    Pleasure & Shadow, Light and Pain.
    (Accepting with a certain bonhomie was the gift bestowed upon me; God bless you and yours,)

    #135643
    The Markster
    Participant

    Started the Obama video up top, but had to stop after about ten seconds. Slick lies delivered calmly and with self-assurance by a butcher, a gangster, a war criminal who sees himself as a savior. The man literally makes me want to vomit.

    #135644
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    This technology seems to provide a mechanism to inject mRNA into people from eating biologically contaminated food


    So many Americans want to put mRNA out of their minds after the COVID-19 vaccine debacle. Dreams of injections gone bad with side effects including heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and nerve damage have so many people around the world fearful of the next technological step. On cue with a bad dream Tao and coworkers from Harvard published on a “mechanical pill” to directly inject the stomach lining. If this was a sci-fi movie, people would be heading for the exits!

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/robotic-pills-for-gastrointestinal

    #135645

    The material world seemed all ashes and dirt
    So they made up a fake one, instead.
    It’s skittles, it’s nuts, but it sure doesn’t hurt
    Like the demons that dance in their heads.

    #135646
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    body language/footwork

    at: 30 Check out the leg/feet position.

    Young man ascendant; old man descendant.

    Angry Young Man

    Obama’s attempt at damage control remind me of a phenomenon that perhaps even has a specific name. The phenom is: the person too stupid to know when they’re getting their ass kicked. As displayed well in the USA first; China last meme posted above.

    #135647
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    The material world seemed all ashes and dirt
    So they made up a fake one, instead.
    It’s skittles, it’s nuts, but it sure doesn’t hurt
    Like the demons that dance in their heads.

    standing silent ovation

    #135648
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MyParentsSaidKnow

    If you’re not careful you’re going to wind up being an actual poet who gets printed up in books and anthologies and everything.

    #135649
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Veils have been used in various capacities throughout human history in various cultures, usually in connection with religion or ritual, often in rituals involving transition

    This transition can often involve some sort of privation: fasting, abstinence from specified things, seclusion.

    The most obvious remaining ritual in the West is the wedding veil. The bride should abstain from being seen by the husband at certain times, diets leading up to the ceremony, the veil is lifted upon the transformational transition to a new life.

    What did we do during the pandemic? Secluded ourselves, denied ourselves various “non essential” things, tried to purify and stay away from that which was unclean, wore masks/veils. Used sanitizing gel in much the way one wets one’s hands upon entering a church (where required upon entrance, I made sure to very obviously cross myself in front of the sanitizer dispenser)

    Once we did a particular sanctifying, purifying thing, then the masks could come off, was the general idea. A worldwide induction ritual.

    #135650
    boscohorowitz
    Participant
    #135651
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    #135652
    boscohorowitz
    Participant
    #135653
    jb-hb
    Participant

    It was interesting awhile back, there was a Tim Pool video about ideological shifts in Republicans and Democrats, citing a survey in which respondents were asked about specific ideological beliefs.

    There were a few snapshots of different time frames.

    The red Republican hump moved a bit towards the center over the course of time, with a slight hump to the right popping up in the latest surveys.

    The Democrat hump moved WAY to the left with a very, VERY sizeable huge hump over on the far left side OF the main hump.

    So the takeaway was that for specific, objectively observable tenets, the Republicans hadn’t moved much except to become more moderate overall, but with a very slight increase over on the right as well.

    Meanwhile the Dems had gone way, way over to the left. Far less intersection of the red and blue humps than ever before. This gives some tangible visual representation of the complaint that anyone right of Mao is getting screeched at for being “far right”

    Interestingly, search results in various search engines no longer want to show me that one. They want to show me a NEW chart in which the red and blue humps both move away from the center, with the red republican hump getting decidedly lumped into the far right side of their hump.

    I drilled down on this survey. They didn’t question on where people stood on various ideological points.

    Instead, they asked how much people agreed with each other. The result was that Republicans show as going far-right on the graph due to disagreement with Democrat tenets. They are far right radical as defined in Democrat terms. While having ACTUALLY moderated over the years.

    #135654
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @Dr D re: the lantern

    Here in Sinkist-Ville (SoCal) they used ‘smudge pots’ – a short length of pipe, usually concrete or clay, installed end-up in the middle of an orchard. If frost is forecast, the smudge pot gets a fire, and the smoke blankets the orchard. Slight rise in temp, but also more moisture precipitates onto the ground, rather than blanketing the oranges and freezing.

    It’s been outlawed for a while, 30 years?

    #135655
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    They were very excited about it, because for the first time in history, they found a wild bat coronavirus that would bind with a human ACE2 receptor—a protein (enzyme) on the surface of many cell types.

    With this important discovery, Baric commenced work with his Chinese colleagues to fashion these two viruses into two new chimeric viruses that would infect the human respiratory tract. They reported their results in papers published in 2015 and 2016.

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-great-sars-cov-2-charade-chapter-e1e

    #135656
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    @bosco
    “As displayed well in the USA first; China last meme posted above.”

    So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen
    – Jesus

    #135658
    jb-hb
    Participant

    another survey I just recalled – republicans and democrats were asked questions to see if they could accurately sum up the other side’s beliefs

    Republicans, despite not agreeing, were fairly accurate about Democrats

    Democrats were off in lala land, just deranged from reality, in what they insisted the Republicans believed.

    I’m no republican. I like stuff like Bob Black’s Abolition of Work. And republicans are far from perfect. But at least the republicans stayed normal useless assholes.

    #135659
    Mr. House
    Participant
    #135661
    John Day
    Participant

    “Fox Needs To Get The Full Bud Light Treatment” (Let’s Go, Brandon!)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-05-22/fox-news-falls-deeper-bud-light-territory

    #135662
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Democrats were off in lala land, just deranged from reality, in what they insisted the Republicans believed.”

    Sadly, this is the base of “We make s–t up!” and I deal with it a lot. How are you supposed to deal with people who just … make stuff up … about you? Just make it up? Have no idea, don’t ask? Worse, think they already know and can’t be told?

    And the stuff they make up is eye-watering and jaw-dropping. You can say “No, actually…” don’t care! Don’t care what you say, I. MADE. STUFF. UP. And it’s going to stay that way. Until anyone but YOU, who knows, says otherwise. Until only my In-Group all agrees otherwise, immaculately, miraculously. Which they will somehow do without asking, listening, or knowing.

    This is deeply aggravated by ANYTHING you say or are. Like, you…drive a pickup truck. For work. Without asking, you’re a far-right White Supremacist, gun-toting, gay killing MAGA person. Because maybe other Democrats want to have heavy equipment dig in-ground pools at their house and the pickup delivers them? Jump to conclusions about ANY. THING. You like steaks. Boom, you’re a far-right White Supremacist, gun-toting, gay killing MAGA person. You understand the engineering challenges of solar, having installed them, and begin to bring it up. You’re a far-right White Supremacist, gun-toting, gay killing MAGA person.

    What do you do? Nod and smile. That’s being polite, which we are. No one learns anything, so oh well. Nod an smile. They’re good people. The only problem is that they’re going to kill everyone alive.

    #135663
    John Day
    Participant

    Hunter Biden IRS Whistleblower Alleges Retaliation After He Made Protected Disclosures
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-irs-whistleblower-alleges-retaliation-after-he-made-protected-disclosures

    #135664
    John Day
    Participant

    The Great Degrowth https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/the-great-degrowth

    Thanks Christine. Yes, the Gamma Radiation can be from DU, because the breakdown products of uranium fission break down further, emitting gamma rays.
    ​ ​Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned on Friday that a radioactive cloud was heading towards Western Europe following the destruction of a Ukrainian warehouse storing British-supplied depleted uranium ammunition.
    ​ ​Sputnik News spoke with Dr. Chris Busby, physical chemist and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, about how the West’s decision to provide depleted uranium (DU) ammunition to Ukraine has potentially caused a continent-wide ecological disaster. Below is his answer in full.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230519/ukraines-depleted-uranium-blast-europe-on-brink-of-environmental-disaster-1110462939.html

    ​Fade To Black In Ukraine: Jim Kunstler​
    ​ ​After two-plus years of “Joe Biden” — well, our country is bypassing the banana republic stage of dissolution and depravity and steaming quickly into a Hieronymus Bosch dystopia of financial, social, psychological and moral ruin. Every official utterance is a lie. Everything’s broken or breaking. And seemingly, on-purpose. The nagging question, of course, is on whose purposes?
    And why is Mr. Zelensky flitting from one country to another the past month? Because the game of Let’s You and Him Fight is drawing to a close and Mr. Z may find himself fatally unpopular back on the home-front. He has managed to send upward of a hundred-thousand young Ukrainian men to their deaths in the meat-grinder, and perhaps a million more have hightailed it for other countries.

    Fade to Black in Ukraine

    ​ C.J. Hopkins , The War On Reality (Revisited)
    ​ The War on Reality is a civil war, but it is much more than just a civil war. It is an asymmetrical, polymorphous, metastatic, multiplicitous war. An ontological free-for-all. It has no conventions or rules of engagement. There are no battle lines. The battle is everywhere. Alliances shift from day to day. It is chaos, unrelenting, inescapable chaos. An omnipresent, immaterial, omnipotent organism attacking itself. It is continual, and completely unwinnable. It is unwinnable because it has already been won. It ended in victory the moment it began, and now we’re doomed to go on fighting it forever, or until some less ethereal leviathan is born, or reborn, out of its ashes…
    ​..​Historically, we humans have not done very well in such psychotic ontological environments. When “reality” is shattered into a thousand little shards, and things fall apart, and the center does not hold, we tend to get rather scared, and confused, and agitated. We start to panic. We try to put “reality” back together again. This does not work. This worsens our panic. We start looking around for a new “reality.” We start looking for a savior, a leader, a Führer, someone with a vision, and the will, and the power, to impose a new “reality” on the ontological chaos that is making us so confused and agitated, and scared, and angry, and restore some sense of ideological cohesion so that we don’t have to think about “reality” on a moment-by-moment basis anymore.
    ​ ​This is the time of dime-store messiahs, tinpot tyrants, zealots, gurus, hustlers, hosers, scam artists, quacks, snake oil salesmen of every variety, fanatical revolutionary movements, new religions and political parties, and so on. Typically, eventually, once the hapless masses have been repeatedly duped, and bilked, and betrayed, and gaslighted and humiliated to the point where they can’t even think anymore, literally cannot think because their brains are broken, and they just want someone to make it all stop … well, to rephrase an old Buddhist platitude, “when the masses are ready, the despot will appear.”​ …
    ​..Capitalism, though it can adapt to anything, has never been inherently inclined toward fascism or any other form of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is a value-coding machine. Its objective is to completely code society with its values, its official ideology (i.e., “reality”). Every aspect of society, not just politics, culture, and so on, but the most intimate aspects of people’s lives.
    ​ ​Capitalism is a value-decoding machine. Its objective is to completely decode society of any values that impede the free flows of capital, rendering everything and everyone a de facto commodity, transforming societies into markets. It can adapt to totalitarianism and other varieties of despotism when necessary, but left to its own devices, or … you know, granted dominion over the entire Earth, and every creeping thing that creeps upon it, it sets about decoding and destabilizing values, destabilizing value and meaning itself, until, ultimately, everything means anything, or nothing, or whatever the market determines it means or is worth at any given moment.
    ​ ​The point is, the ongoing War on Reality is not a means to an end. It is the end. The official ideology (i.e., “reality”) that GloboCap, Inc. is implementing is not a set of official values or beliefs. It is the absence of any values or beliefs, any non-commodifiable values and beliefs. Values and beliefs are fine, as long as they’re just empty signs, logos, meaningless identity statements, and not principles and beliefs you are trying to live by, and that you are crazy enough to fight to preserve.​..
    ​..And, if that doesn’t sound like your kind of future, or reality, the “everything is a floating signifier” reality … no worries, you can always drop out of the “mainstream” and join the carnival of “conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, Covid deniers, Russiagate deniers, climate change deniers, disinformationists, malinformationists, transphobes, white supremacists, violent domestic extremists,” and assorted other freaks and curiosities of nature that are actively being quarantined, or are quarantining themselves, in ideological ghettos where normal consumers never have to see them and they (i.e., we, the deviants and freaks) are preyed upon by legions of charlatans, demagogues, agents provocateurs, and other such spiritual and emotional parasites, until the day comes when we find ourselves spastically tweeting about an 86-year-old Chomsky chasing naked sex slaves around Epstein’s island, ripped to the gills on Viagra and Ecstasy, and probably freshly harvested adrenochrome!
    ​ ​That, or you could withdraw from society completely, and go live in a Kaczynski cabin in Montana, or Idaho, or wherever folks are doing that these days, as several of my readers advised me recently, and forage for berries, and barbecue squirrels, and, well, you know, defecate in a hole in the ground.
    https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-war-on-reality-revisited

    #135667
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ I’m experiencing technical difficulties uploading…

    They must wait 72 hours for further debate after agreeing on a debt-ceiling increase. The Treasury is required to pay, but won’t talk about selling assets, such as gold/silver. The funds appear to run out about June 15. Which side has more to lose or gain while the federal government sits in default? Who are the “sides”?
    ​ ​GOP, White House Remain ‘Far Apart’ On Debt Deal, Treasury Asks Agencies About Delayed Payments
    ​ ​According to Punchbowl News, McCarthy says he told Biden that there would be no agreement to a ‘clean’ debt limit deal which wouldn’t include spending cuts, and that he won’t agree to raise taxes. The government needs to ‘spend less money,’ he said, telling Republican lawmakers that ‘we are nowhere near a debt ceiling deal yet.’
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gop-white-house-remain-far-apart-debt-deal-treasury-asks-agencies-about-delayed-payments

    [If inflation from supply-contraction, on top of a huge asset-bubble, can’t be beaten, then government paying high interest rates assures eventual default on the Federal debt. Nobody really expects default now, but wouldn’t it make more sense strategically?​ How about making gold run up to $10k/oz, then switching to a gold-standard?​]
    ​ The Fed Is Losing The Inflation Fight​, Peter Schiff
    ​ ​Household debt is now above $17 trillion for the first time ever. Even more concerning is the fact that credit card debt was flat in Q1. Credit card balances typically fall in the first quarter.
    ​ ​Americans are using their credit cards as a lifeline. That’s how they’re dealing with higher prices. They’re charging stuff.”
    ​ ​In March alone, revolving credit, which included credit card debt, was up 17.3% on an annual basis. Meanwhile, interest rates on credit card debt have spiked to over 20%. Peter said this indicates that the Fed really isn’t making any progress on inflation.
    ​ ​The consumer keeps spending. Where are they getting the money? They’re borrowing it. Credit continues to expand. That’s part of the inflationary dynamic. ​ ​ Inflation is an expansion of the money supply, which includes credit. So, consumers are not cutting back on their spending because of higher prices. They’re not even cutting back on their spending because of higher interest rates. They just keep on spending. So, prices are going to keep on rising, and this next quarter-point rate hike isn’t going to be any more effective than the previous rate hikes, which means they’re going to have to do it again.”
    ​ ​But Peter said no matter how much they hike, it’s not going to matter. That’s what the markets fail to understand. Everybody is thinking that since the central bank is going to fight even harder to fight inflation, it’s a good sign and the Fed is on course to slay the inflation dragon.
    ​ ​No. The Fed is losing its fight with inflation. That’s why it’s going to try harder. But it’s going to be ineffective. If they couldn’t beat inflation with 5%, they’re not going to beat it with 5.25%.”
    ​ ​It’s not just household debt that’s a problem. The federal government has a debt problem of its own. Federal revenues have collapsed even as the Biden administration keeps right on spending. And why are tax receipts going down? Because the economy is weakening.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/peter-schiff-fed-losing-inflation-fight

    #135670
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Destroyed, Michael Snyder​
    ​ ​If you wanted to destroy the middle class, one way that you could accomplish that goal would be to flood the system with money. Of course that is precisely what we have witnessed over the past few years. Our leaders have pumped trillions of new dollars into ​(the top of)​ the system, and the wealthy have gotten much, much wealthier. But meanwhile, the rest of us have seen the cost of living rise much faster than our paychecks have. As a result, we are getting poorer and the middle class is shrinking.
    ​ ​Over time, our capitalist economy has steadily evolved into a system where almost all of the wealth and almost all of the power are concentrated in the hands of giant institutions.
    ​ ​Collectively, big government and big corporations run virtually everything, and this system of “corporate socialism” funnels tremendous amount of wealth into the pockets of a very small minority of the population.
    ​ ​If you are in that club, life is good.
    ​ ​But if you are not in that club, life can be a struggle.
    ​ ​The gap between the rich and the poor has steadily grown, and now it is larger than it has ever been before.
    http://themostimportantnews. com/archives/the-middle-class-is-being-systematically-destroyed

    ​ Charles Hugh Smith​ , 2023: Echoes of 1973
    2023 is echoing 1973 in potentially consequential ways.. It’s not just one year, of course; the entire era from 2019 echoes the era that started in 1969, when the second-order effects of postwar policies finally started kicking in.
    Consider these similarities / echoes:
    1. Major shifts in global capital and trade flows that attracted little notice start to matter in terms of currency valuations, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy and geopolitics: check.
    2. After decades of modest inflation, inflation not only rises but is sticky rather than transitory: check.
    3. Major shifts in the power structure of global oil markets: check.
    4. Cultural and social shifts become divisive, reaching destructive extremes: check.
    5. A global superpower is ensnared in a hot war in which the other side is supplied by a superpower rival: check.
    6. Political scandals upend the cozy arrangements of political elites: check.
    7. A new wave of geopolitical rivalries arise between allies and rivals alike: check.
    8. Stock and bond markets keep rallying like nothing’s changed, but since things have changed, each rally fails: check.
    ​ ​Let’s focus on #8: market participants continue assuming that the past 15 years are an accurate guide to the next 15 years, unable or unwilling to face the enormity of the changes that have already occurred in the fundamental structures of state and private-sector finance and the economy. (I discuss these in my book Global Crisis, National Renewal.)
    ​ ​These shifts guarantee the next 15 years will not follow the low-risk scripts of the past 15 years. I’ve explained here many times that systems have their own dynamics, and so they don’t respond to our desires or opinions or our policy tweaks. No matter how many policy tweaks you throw at diminishing returns, for example, returns still diminish–though you can mask this reality temporarily behind extremes of stimulus and other financial sleight of hand.
    ​ ​Tightly bound systems, i.e. highly centralized systems, unravel far more abruptly than loosely bound systems, no matter how many fiscal or monetary policy tweaks you throw at the system.
    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/05/2023-echoes-of-1973.html

    #135671
    John Day
    Participant

    It wouldn’t take the Michael Snyder most-important-news link above until I deactivated it with a space between dot and com.
    Weird…

    #135672
    John Day
    Participant

    John Campbell explains “International Health Regulations” under WHO treaty in 15 minutes, and well, crossing out the old words and showing the new words. Thanks to Meryl Nass MD for posting this.

    ​ ​Many Pregnant Women Were Forced to Get COVID Shots. Here’s What Happened to Them.​ Joseph Mercola DO​
    ​ ​COVID-19 shot contents are biodistributed into the bloodstream within hours and cross “all physiologic barriers including the maternal-placental-fetal barrier and the blood brain barriers in both the mother and the fetus,” according to maternal-fetal medicine expert Dr. James Thorp.
    ​ ​Compared to the flu vaccine, COVID-19 shots are associated with a significant increase in adverse events among women of reproductive age.
    ​ ​Data revealed a 27-fold higher risk of miscarriage and a more than two-fold increased risk of adverse fetal outcomes across six different categories following COVID-19 shots.
    ​ ​Birth rates in multiple European countries fell significantly at the end of 2021, months after COVID-19 shots became widely utilized.
    Researchers have called for the immediate suspension of COVID-19 vaccination for all persons of childbearing and reproductive age.

    Many Pregnant Women Were Forced to Get COVID Shots. Here’s What Happened to Them.

    Key Differences of Innate & Adaptive Immunity for Handling Pandemics​ , Dr Marian Laderoute​
    [Take vitamin-D. Don’t take vaccines. Exercise outdoors. Sleep. Eat fresh vegetables. Enjoy “a good immune system”.]
    https://hervk102.substack.com/p/key-differences-of-innate-and-adaptive

    Steve Kirsch has a vaccine questionnaire for those of us who are parents. I entered data on our four young adult “children”.
    The most important survey I’ve ever done
    Are you a parent of a child 40 and younger? Please take my survey now. It’s REALLY important. I’ll explain why soon. Just take my word for it right now.
    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-most-important-survey-ive-ever

    ​ ​How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’​ [Fossil-fuels are exquisite​;​ ​marvelous. Cherish and spare them.]
    ​ ​Residents feel trapped and choked by dust, while experts warn environmental damage is ‘solving one problem by creating others’
    ​ ​“There are so many other places we should be putting solar,” says Clarke, of the National Parks Conservation Association, from homes to warehouses to parking lots and industrial zones. He describes the current model of large-scale, centralised power generation, hundreds of miles from where the power is actually needed, as “a 20th-century business plan for a 21st-century problem”.
    ​ ​“The conversion of intact wildlife habitat should be the absolute last resort, but it’s become our first resort – just because it’s the easy fix.”
    ​ ​Vincent Battaglia, founder of Renova Energy, a rooftop solar company based in Palm Desert, agrees. “We’ve been led to believe that all solar is good solar,” he says. “But it’s not when it molests pristine land, requires hundreds of millions of dollars to transmit to city centres, and loses so much power along the way. It is simply preserving the monopoly of the big energy companies.”​ [Thanks Christine]
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/21/solar-farms-energy-power-california-mojave-desert

    #135673
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @John Day re: Thanks Christine. Yes, the Gamma Radiation can be from DU, because the breakdown products of uranium fission break down further, emitting gamma rays.

    Also, though I may be off my rocker, not a physicist, etc etc… You’ve got five metric shite-tonnes of DU stored in close proximity, getting warmer and warmer. Along comes HE warhead and does what the ignition charge inside a real nuclear warhead does, that is, compresses the fissionable material quickly with great force. Did the missile strike cause a/some criticality?

    #135674
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Free blog post by Art Berman:

    “What part of a bear market don’t oil analysts understand?”

    BEAR MARKET MATH

    Bear Market Math

    F.S.

    #135675
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    Depleted Uranium – I found this snippet :

    “One 2012 study found that more than half of the babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah between 2007 and 2010 had birth defects. Among the pregnant woman surveyed in the study, more than 45 percent experienced miscarriages in the two-year period following the 2004 U.S. assaults on Fallujah. Geiger counter readings of depleted uranium-contaminated sites in densely populated Iraqi urban areas have consistently shown radiation levels that are 1,000 to 1,900 times higher than normal.”

    But the UK has said [in effect] that dropping powdered DU from an aircraft over London would not be an issue!

    #135676
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Filed under We make s—t up! (And get rich of course):

    “The CRISPR editing application targets a specific gene that is conserved in all mammals, so this would definitely be relevant to all types of pigs,” he said.

    “We are working as well on cattle, goats, and sheep, all of which are important food-producing animals,” he said. “But the research on pigs has advanced faster compared to other livestock we work with because they bear litters and the generation interval is comparatively faster.”

    As for food safety, Oatley said there is no concern about food safety from the CRISPR edits that were made.

    New World ag on its way: FDA gives initial thumbs up to pork from gene-edited pigs

    As I have documented over my time here, the No Shame! Anything Goes! progrom against any & all constraints of morals, ethics & spiritual sanity (*now* fait accompli), where the gate keepers wield whatever contrivances are necessary to turn *essential* truths into lies, innocence into guilt, physical laws of the universe into endlessly debated nonsence, We The People into The Enemy via capricious adjudication of .GOV + economic *power*.

    And as the manifestation of Collective EG0ic Madness roils on, even those that should *know* better reamin trapped within brain-based onanisms, with most at best posting ephemeral declarations on the no-thing of the Internet (looking at you CJ), having little -to- no effect in the Reality of direct human interaction, denying We The People’s underlying connection to the implicit consciousness that unites us all, perfunctorily hemmed in by their indoctrinated militant atheism instilled during childhood disenchantment…

    Too bad, so sad, humanity utterly lacks the connectiveness to identify & rebel against TPTB/TBTF who, after designating 90% of We The People as undesirables (when peaceful coexistence, with plenty of resources to spare), are unfurling their Final Solution in broad daylight 😐

    But don’t mind me, go ahead with the self-important of transitory opinions & other such navel gazing, as Those Who Shall Not Be Named increase the mind fuckery & genocide of life of planet earth…

    Vale et deus velocitate.

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