Debt Rattle May 9 2024
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Maybe Brugel needs to lay off the gruit beer? Or leave the nightshades out of it?
I have to kind of lay off this, the supply of stupid people is infinite, but:
“Putin Is in Big Trouble! – Denmark Just Gave Russia a Devastating Blow” –The Military Show
Denmark. Denmark??? Wow, who knew? Should have sent them in there before. Wonder how they’ll occupy all 12 time zones.
“How Ukraine’s Refinery Strikes Destabilize the Entire Russian Economy” Times Radio
Bombshell! Walls are closing in. Um, say, are any of these refineries in the center/east? Like, a LOT? Does the U.S. shut down refineries/pipes/shipping regularly for hurricanes?
“Putin’s ‘meat grinder tactics killing between 900 and 1000 Russian soldiers a day’ Philip Ingram — Times Radio
Greeeeeeat… So how many is Ukraine losing? Because to be at par they need to lose 1/10th as many.
“Why the next six years could be Putin’s last term in power | Mark Galeotti — Times Radio
Regime Change! Yeah, he’ll only be there til he’s 80. (without aging) That’s much, MUCH younger than anyone in the West. #Winning! See? We did what we said, Putin’s gone (As he dies of old age in a nursing home at 91)
“It’s all over in Crimea! 8 May: Russians Witness Power of Ukrainian Navy! Russian cruisers desperately flee”
What the…?
“Prepare for Russian COLLAPSE! General Hodges on Retaking Crimea, NATO in Ukraine and Russian Collapse | Ep. 21 Gen. Ben Hodges”
Uh-huh. A whiff of grapeshot and the whole Russian army will disperse. Trust us. Is there ANYTHING that can bring these guys back to reality, get through to them?
Oh, I bet there is, and it’s coming shortly.
A little ominous? “What happens when Ukraine Wins. Why Russia Won’t Use Nukes in Ukraine | Peter Zeihan”
And It’s the End of the World as We Know It. Oh well, that’s this world over.
“UK Moves Against Russian Diplomatic Personnel & Sites ‘Used For Intel Purposes’
Like I said. London will escalate forever until Russia nukes them. They think they’re untouchable. The people may not like it but they’re not alarmed and concerned enough to take the required risks, just like people of Ukraine haven’t. We’re “further away” but like I said, zero reaction or concern here. ZERO.
“RFK Warns That The WHO Is On The Verge Of Passing Its Pandemic Treaty
The WHO is not a government. They don’t pass treaties. Neither do they have an army. They also have no money. Make Me.
“Democrats Join Republicans To Block Greene’s Bid To Oust Speaker Johnson
There you go: Johnson is officially a Democrat, and the Speaker of the Democrats. Say it like it is.
“None of what she had to say was relevant to any of the charges”
Trying to catch both sides, I clicked this looked like “Freedom Toons”:
Great setup, nice art, cool direction, and ….nothing. Wtf is this? W.T.F is this????? They are every meme about how the Left can’t meme! Freedom Toons himself often fixes all their memes FOR them, which is funny it’s so feckless, and top reason is, they go on and on and on with words. They think a meme is a snappy short piece about the length of “Das Kapital”. That’s it: just cut-paste Das Kapital + picture = meme.
So that’s it here, the whole quote of Stormy Daniels, verbatum, unedited, which as they say is pointless and unedited, is a “Cartoon” that “Saves Democracy”. All I can think from her quote is “What’s wrong with the other guy that a guy like this has no trouble beating him????” What’s really going on here? You lost to an 80 year old game show host? Daniels, keeping up her end: She said PAY ME EXTORTION OR ELSE I’ll trash you with stupid, salacious comments on TV, andshe kept her promise.
Now I really respect that. Does it take a extortion, blackmailing, racketeering porn star these days to be the only woman who is a man of her word? Nobody else is. So yes, I don’t care, and sadly, as it’s blackmail, I’d probably have to indict and press for jail time. But I STILL appreciate her being honest! …In this weird way, the only way we have left, I guess.
Okay, not in their stuff but the direct quote, classic woman! The Matriarchy! WHYYYY do you make me say these things?? Although she’s already legally said this didn’t happen, AND legally paid penalties for it… she says he “Pressured” her. And? No – Gasp – he said he’d make her famous in a beauty show. And? No – gasp – he leaned in on her in their hotel room to convince her to sleep with him. And? And – Gasp – she said she didn’t want to BUT DID IT ANYWAY.
Uh, that means “consent”? I don’t know how else you figure that. But – gasp – she didn’t want to do it A LOT. She only said okay and wanted to a LITTLE. AND?
And – gasp — she didn’t know his STD status and didn’t want to without protection. And? AND THEN DID IT ANYWAY, without protest or further discussion, according to her. So what’s the “Classic” part here, (and it pains me to say it, please stop) she says – Quote – “But he should have known.” YOU GAVE CONSENT. HTF is he supposed to “Know”? He “Should have known” you felt not a little strongly, but slightly higher than a little strongly, but not very strongly, at which point you would have told him, said something, done anything? A: Yes. AND THAT’S A CRIME, the creep!!!
This is what I’m talking about nationwide here: you GAVE CONSENT, and It’s Still Rape. If I didn’t like it, after. Maybe I regret it in a few days, a week, a month. Let’s do it I guess, and find out, maybe I WILL like it, but probably not. I give consent but also Not-Consent. W.T.F.? Backsies! Happened but didn’t happen!
Great! Feminine-masculine aside, How does that work legally? Can I give you my old lawn mower, regret it next week and have you arrested? Is that where we are? And then un-regret it and say nevermind? Legal, logical actions follow, so legal, logical things need to start.
Anyway, EVEN what she said wasn’t a crime and make her look like a lunatic. Makes me wonder what planet she lives in that this is supposed to work.
“build +50,000 of these things when a majority thought it was a crazy endeavor since an EV future was such a distant dream”
Are you high? Government PAID him to do this which was a money loser and Government SAID they were outlawing all Combustion cars by now OR ELSE. They had non-stop PR day and night about how this wasn’t a distant dream but ready today for everyone. I remember because I had to post all the cobalt, lithium, grid, substation numbers to slow down their fantastical lies. But now nobody said that. We were always at war with Estasia.
The sad part is that there haven’t been improvements since then, esp in self-driving which is going backward but still killing everyone regularly. It seems likely there won’t be improvements, if you look at energy-density physics.
“”I can’t imagine how the Court of Appeals in New York that reversed the Harvey Weinstein conviction, which was as harder case to reverse, wouldn’t reverse this conviction if it got up there.”
You’re kidding, right? The same NY State that brought this case to begin with? And upheld all their Covid rules? And rules daily that the NYS Constitution which requires gun-rights is just reversed? There is no Rule of Law, you people. We Make S—t Up.
““providing DA Willis with the option to simply remove Wade confounds logic and is contrary to Georgia law.”No kidding, but it’s perfect as it shows the overwhelming illogic and corruption at the highest level. Thanks. Never stop talking. Couldn’t do it better myself, and don’t you find that suspicious?
“Well first of all I don’t even think they have the authority to subpoena me,”
I’d be very interesting in finding out how they wouldn’t have the ability to oversee corruption in the State of Georgia to the level at which they’re not even allowed to ask questions. I guess Fani is the Governor now! …Who the Legislature can also subpoena.
““was caused by a worm that got into my brain”
Maybe doctors want to pipe up here and tell me how it crosses the blood-brain barrier and how many such species of parasites there are.
“you are over-producing; and if you don’t stop it, we will sanction you to death.”
I say great: China, stop sending Europe anything.
“who as recently as September were already bathing in the good waters of Crimea, have now moved on to the certainty that Russian troops will not stop at the Dnepr and perhaps not even at the Danube, Rhine or Elbe.”
From the (Volga) River the Sea. ‘Cause Russia needs more land. They need some Leibensraum. 12 time zones can’t contain 100M people. Or they want the economic powerhouse and love-fest that is grenade capital of the world + the 2nd most miserable country on earth. But yes, Toss Logic right out of here. That was Yesterday, you understand? That was almost 5 minutes ago, what are you bugging me about that for? Now it’s the #OPPOSITE. Like Daniels we changed our minds without telling you. RussiaPhrenia: Russia is BOTH a 3rd world gas station with the GDP of Holland AND is controlling every election and taking over the world.
“Borrell says that the U.S. is no longer hegemonic and that China has already become a superpower, something that Brzezinski had promised would never happen again; or the statistics on the U.S. economy, which say that it grew by only 1.6% in the first quarter of 2024,”
Everything in this paragraph is relevant. I’ll just say we’ve been in stiff contraction of +1% since 2001. It could be reversed any time. We’ve been vaporizing all production and all talent and productive workers since 1971. It could be reversed any time. Too soon? Waiting for a special invitation? These things add up. What’s even 1.5% compounded 25 years? 25% drop in GDP covered by Bond-kiting?
Again, it’s THEIR country. They are the owners and managers. If things work smoothly, productively for the factory machinists, the call center workers, the OWNERS are richer. I constantly hear “Capitalists!” “They’re in it for the money.” No. They are not. They are making LESS money than ever and getting POORER. They have LESS power than ever, less ability, control, influence. If they make THEIR country stronger and I dunno, able to produce shells, then THEY become rich and important. They’re doing the #Opposite. That’s half what we’re pissed off about down here. Suppose the country was awesome and just I wasn’t getting well-paid. Seriously I wouldn’t care nearly as much. Not like the country being invaded, burned, and ceasing to exist.
“392 year old Greenland Shark”EXACTLY 392? How can you tell? And happy birthday, I’ll get you a blunderbuss.
Snow Leopard looks hungry. But they’re always hungry in nature. As Rogan said about a bear, “Killed something yesterday, killed something this morning, kill something else tomorrow…” That’s how it works.
@dr-d
What’s even 1.5% compounded 25 years? 25% drop in GDP covered by Bond-kiting?
45% gain actually.From yesterday:
Clearly there is a very powerful, very high-level, 1st order attack on Boeing. Why or from who I don’t know, or why. Like: why??? Sure they’re douchebags, and they’ve been dropping, but not like this. This is clearly someone planting/bribing/forcing. And it’s odd there are no suspects at all.The suspects are bean counters. They only know to reduce redundancy and nothing about engineering. Redundancies are never to be tolerated. They are a waste of profit. Streamlining the corporate system is the only way to more profit and safety is a form of redundancy. Gotta cut some of it now, the share holders agree. But you’re right blame the workers not the management. Domestic travel? Will not be required in five years because we’ll all be soooo green, amirite? or fucking dead.
Caitlin Johnstone on narrative
https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/empire-managers-explain-why-this?r=nv8me&utm_medium=iosToday was a windy day, so I was out on the water windsurfing. On one run, I reached planing speed, put my front foot into the footstrap, put my back foot in to its footstrap and …. I missed the back footstrap, so my back foot fell off the back of the board, then I started to fall off the board, then my front foot came out of its strap and went under the board to be hit by the board fin.
FUCK … I screamed. The fin is sharp and it cut my foot to the bone. I sailed back to the shore before my foot expanded into a huge bloated lump. I could see that it was not a cut that would stop bleeding, so I had a warm shower, got changed then walked to the local hospital. The hospital put a bandage on it – mostly to stop me dripping blood everywhere – then the doctor told me to get an x-ray – for possible shit in the wound – then then they gave me sutres to fix the wound. All in all it took two hours, but then I was out of there and down the local bar.
It cost me I80 HKD (18 UK pounds or 22 USD). That is in Hong Kong, where I pay the flat rate 17% income tax, but only on local earnings, not on foreign earnings and no purchase tax.
Go to this website. Check out the enlil video partway down on the right. see what happens as the 10th turns into the 11th of may.
Turn off your computers and unplug everything. Better safe than sorry.
Here’s Ben discussing it. He’s going to the grocery store.
And if people don’t shield their phones, oh, well.I noticed this article on RT … https://www.swentr.site/news/597219-boy-scouts-new-name/
I then decided to look up the history of the “Boy Scouts” on wikipedia. Man, that was a job and a half, but eventually I discovered what I was looking for. Wikipedia – the reality deniers, paid for by your local oligarch – will not allow any group to be called the “Boy Scouts” so they call it The Scout Association … “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Association.
They also inform us that …
The organisation’s programmes are open to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other (LGBTQA+) young people and adults.
No wonder they don’t call it the Boy Scouts. Looks more like pedo scouts.
“Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds…
““I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.””
Near 500 years later, that painting is as apt for us as it was for them. Demonic forces running the shitshow. Pharaohs and kings to banks and corporations. Masters and slaves. Nothing really changes much…just the shadows on the cave wall.
with Icarus wanna bees flying high over the West who is Daedalus?
the quest for power has no basis in logic. making money is the carrot used to guide the gullible to relinquishing their autonomy. Some really drink deeply at the capitalist punch bowl.
put rather coarsely:
You can never have what you want and we will help you get it.you can’t serve two masters, but there is a cornucopia of ass kissers willing to give it a go
When you have the power to alter the tidal flow in the oceans get back to me.
32 Power jockeys on the field:
We can kill every human being on earth!
golf clapbest and brightest:
best – the most salacious economy class prostitutes
brightest – the ones who know exactly what they are selected and encouraged to know and not one thing more.Darwinists, who completely disregard the depth of the micobiome, will never understand how life on earth is sustained. or how it works
The desire to be the Apex Predator has the need to eliminate competition baked in. Sapiens Sapiens, ignorance exceeded only by arrogance. There does seem to be some relationship between the number of predators and the number of prey. The Last Man Standing, who will sing the paeans of glory!
always enjoyed Lyle Lovett – BearsStormy
Debbie did Dallas – what a pikerCysticercosis, likely from eating poorly cooked pork somewhere south of Texas…
US presidential candidate had ‘dead worm’ in brain
https://swentr.site/news/597248-presidential-candidate-worm-brain/History, Memory, Associated, Ideology, Opinions, Belief, Control, Ignorance, Hate, Fear.
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There was no reason for Daniels to appear at all in the trial.
Daniels is no victim.One day after former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial was postponed indefinitely after we learned that the DOJ mishandled evidence in the case.
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Politicians “brain fog” and memory loss, Not me, Not my fault, They did it, Not in my control.was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,”
cognitive problems, including short-term and longer-term memory loss.
———-@MPSK: Yeah, could be some electrical disturbances, and should at least be internet disturbances Friday and Saturday. Quadruple-Tap 😮
Management is deranged.
I’m still in contact with someone at my former employer. She told me they went to a new ah… “business model” for customer care – let ALL inbound customer calls roll to voicemail, then call them back. (NO. God, no. Dumbest idea ever. Do you hate your customers? Hate their money?)
Her summary of this new approach: “everyone is miserable.”
I’m starting to think certain people at this employer are there purely there as sabotage? Like another version of burning their food production facility down?
Best case scenario, I see the people in charge over there as 5 year olds standing in their dad’s size12 wingtips, wearing his trenchcoat but half of it drapes on the floor, oversized fedora pushed back on their head, dad’s spare briefcase in hand, gazing at themselves in the mirror with a triumphant smirk, then turning to boss the other kids around, won’t hear a word from anyone else.
I managed a training bay of 35 people, which is over 3x their entire Care workforce. My friend who still works there was the director of an entire call center! It was reassuring to meet up with her on Zoom after work and find that we had the same horror, amazement, and bafflement at how the company was doing everything and the same best practices to fix it.
The best they could do is just #$%&ing SURRENDER. Give up for god’s sake. Go the fuck away. Put the couple competent people you already have in charge. It certainly could not be worse. Instead, your super competent people who ALSO have some humanity therefore know how to provide some actual leadership slave away at the oars deep in the bowels of the galley, watching, knowing what to do, while “leadership” does their best caricature of their parents – upgraded with the latest bossgirl stuff from Disney.
The entire time they were being jerks to us in self-contradictory, incompetent, mean-spirited 1-on-1’s and other coachings, they were WELL AWARE of our resumes. They were the ones doing the hiring, after all. Nevetheless, sitting there making random shit up on the fly, grasping for something, anything to tell us we were wrong about to keep us on the back foot while KNOWING the person they are talking to is about 1000x more competent than them.
Same fractal fuckedupness at the national and international level- the managerial class making up a whole damn new religion to lord over the poors, the working class, the competents, something, anything, no matter how self-contradictory or self-defeating, to keep them on the back-foot. I don’t know what to do and constantly fuck everything up. Oh yeah? Your very EXISTENCE is evil! See, now we are EVEN, I’ve Got Something On You too.
Aside from any evil secret societies religions or whatnot, maybe a big part of the current Troubles is what we can see, just permeating EVERYWHERE. Aging, senile leaders who will not step down and/or don’t have the energy anymore to manage, be aware of what they used to, surrounded by handlers. Nobody around that knows how to captain a ship. All competent people consigned to the oars. Sorcerers apprentice just keeps going, maybe if I “manage” even more… No. Just surrender. Stop. Go away.
“Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds…
““I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted. I could not feel greater despair over the future.””
nonoez.
We’re predicted to be headed for a LESSER warming event than 850ad.
We might ALMOST be able to grow grapes in Greenland again.
No, a temperature increase LESS THAN THAT would be horribly catastropic!
Have it your way. We’re all dead since 850. Dead people cannot post alarmist fake BS about the climate to internet forums. You claim you’re dead, so act like it.
@aspnaz
Lord Baden-PowellProfile – Lord Baden-Powell
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, (February 22, 1857 – January 8, 1941) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world Scouting movement. He was the sixth of eight sons amongst ten children. His father served as the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford and died when Robert was just three years of age.
His first introduction to scouting skills was stalking and cooking animals, and avoiding teachers, in nearby woods, which were strictly out-of-bounds for the school that he attended. He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist of some talent, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were usually spent on yachting or canoeing expeditions with his brothers.Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boar War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. A Boer army of in excess of 8,000 men surrounded him and his troops. Although wholly outnumbered, the garrison withstood the siege for 217 days, and much of this is attributable to some of the cunning military deceptions instituted at Baden-Powell’s behest as commander of the garrison. As a result, Baden-Powell became a national hero back home.
On his return home, Baden-Powell found that his military training manual “Aids to Scouting” had become something of a best seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organizations. Following a meeting with the founder of the Boys’ Brigade, Sir William Smith, Baden-Powell decided to re-write Aids to Scouting to suit a youth readership, and in 1907 held a camp on Brownsea Island for 22 boys of mixed social background to test out some of his ideas, which is now seen as the beginning of the Scouting movement.
“Scouting for Boys” was subsequently published in 1908 in six installments. Boys spontaneously formed Scout troops and the Scouting movement had inadvertently started, first a national, and soon an international obsession.
Although he could have continued his military career, Baden-Powell decided to retire from the Army in 1910 on the advice of King Edward VII, who suggested that he could better serve his country by promoting Scouting.
Under his leadership, Baden-Powell brought Scouting to the youth of the world and the world Scouting movement grew. By the end of 1910, there were over 100,000 Scouts in England. In 1922, there were more than a million scouts in 32 countries and by 1939; the number of Scouts had grown in excess of 3.3 million.
It was the Boy Scouts in my day and it was Lord Baden Powell’s project. Try this:
Qouth TBOC:
“You can never have what you want and we will help you get it.
you can’t serve two masters, but there is a cornucopia of ass kissers willing to give it a go…
..Darwinists, who completely disregard the depth of the micobiome, will never understand how life on earth is sustained. or how it works
The desire to be the Apex Predator has the need to eliminate competition baked in. Sapiens Sapiens, ignorance exceeded only by arrogance. There does seem to be some relationship between the number of predators and the number of prey. The Last Man Standing, who will sing the paeans of glory!”Ahh, Civilizations and Empires! Such wondrously dazzling things. Of course they do come with certain costs attached.
The hidden costs (extremely high and as often as not deliberately hidden) of living by way of organized involuntary division of labor (i.e. “civilization”) that is so hyped in the history books and force fed into our brains (from cradle to grave) as the cure for human deficiency ( I guess the millions of years we survived prior to that were just a fluke) that brought us the miracles of centralized electronic surveillance and computer assisted mass murder by psychotic elites, is indeed a pretty high ticket item.
Here are some of the the things that are stolen from us at gunpoint to pay for its blessings:
Except for the small and narrow field of their own respective specialties the vast majority of civilized people don’t really know how to competently do anything else. They can’t grow their own food, make their own clothing, build their shelter or defend their families from dangerous predators. God help any of them if they are ever required to do anything important by themselves.
They don’t KNOW anything for themselves either. Ask any of them (high and low born alike) practically any materially important question that might be vitally critical to their own survival and they will either give you a ludicrously wrong answer (Such as: boys can become girls or vice versa. Epstein shot himself. Covid-19 was an accident. The vax is safe and effective.) or they will turn to another source (who they utterly depend on for everything the questioner doesn’t know for themselves, which is most things) who they trust with their lives to provide vital information. . . . . . are told by those vaunted experts a package of utter bullshit that is a blatant and knowing conspiracy of lies which might have literally FATAL consequences if believed. And all too often (meaning, most of the time) they still believe it. And consequently die.
All or most of the real, actual, technical knowledge and skills that are, in fact, vitally necessary to the survival of our selves and our kind, are all but lost because the preceding generations who had been passing them along to every new member of the next generation who was capable of being taught . . . . stopped doing so. Traditional parent-to-child transmission of knowledge about what those individual parents believed to be true, was more or less FORCIBLY terminated and the job was handed off to experts and other people who tell you that they know better than you but really don’t ( and I mean REALLY don’t.)
And so we find ourselves adrift in a sea of fools, led by ignoramuses who don’t even know the difference between right and wrong, much less the wisdom of the sages.
Having lost the knowledge and skills and motivation to procure survival and happiness the “old fashioned way” of insisting upon knowing and doing the steps of work that will (truthfully) produce healthy survival and the supreme happiness that only true love can provide, humanity now tries to fill the void with perverted substitutes that they think will come close to giving them those feelings that they obsessively crave, and yet can never attain because of how they are trying to attain them.(that is, by paying other people to do everything for them, rather than doing everything one possibly can to make their own loved ones truly secure and happy.)
They have become, in a word, ADDICTS, complete with all of the horribly and horrifying behaviors and consequences which addiction entails.
Imagine that. We are adrift in a sea of fools, captained by ignoramuses, and crewed by addicts
After the murdering of +35,000 Palestinians, Jewish students say they don’t feel safe from antisemitism …
Global News
https://globalnews.ca › news › jewish-students-campus-…
16 hours ago — Jewish students from major Canadian universities appeared on Parliament Hill Wednesday to raise the alarm about a rise in antisemitism on …Counter-protesters call on U of T to dismantle pro- …
Jewish students say they don’t feel safe, as MPs probe …
CityNews Vancouver
https://vancouver.citynews.ca › 2024/05/08 › jewish-stu…
20 hours ago — Students and pro-Palestinian activists have recently set up encampments at schools to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.On: At tale of 2 sovereigns, by Pepe Escobar (at top post.)
…about Xi, quote. The minute he sat at the Paris table he got the Big Picture. This was not a tete-a-tete with Le Petit Roi, Emmanuel Macron. This was a threesome because Toxic Medusa Ursula von der Leyen… (was there..)
Macron is furious, humiliated, and is lashing back, because of France losing much of its grip on parts of Africa — inevitable re. the sweep of history, + Sarkozy’s stupid moves, which Hollande didn’t / couldn’t repair.
Macron called on, or smatrly submitted to, Ursi von der Lugen (Lies) to be there because he is aiming to be the first Prez. of a ‘POWR’ EU Union with a Great Army. So he has to appear in public with her, showing there is ‘continuity’, they share a common vision, goals, but, heh, he will replace her.
She was not there to supervise him, in fact almost the opposite pertains. Ursula has no command powers over any military forces (not a head of state, not elected, poster admin role, etc.) while Macron…is still the head of heh (?) best milit. in EU.
The only EU country that has veto powers at the UN Security Council is France, a big card in the pocket. (> Brexit.) What the hopes are Idk, illusory for sure.
What is going to happen next?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/can-you-guess-what-it-costs-live-american-dream-after-3-years-inflation-under-joeCan You Guess What It Costs To Live “The American Dream” After 3 Years Of Inflation Under Joe Biden?
THURSDAY, MAY 09, 2024 – 04:45 AM
Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,If you are like most Americans, the cost of living has been going up much faster than your income has been. Right
According to a brand new report that was just released, it now takes over $100,000 a year for the typical family to live “the American Dream” in all 50 states, and in 29 of those states it actually takes over $150,000 a year…A household would have to spend more than $150,000 a year to live the dream in 29 of the 50 states, according to an analysis published in April by the personal finance site GOBankingRates.
According to the report, the optimal American lifestyle would cost $137,842 a year in Ohio, $147,535 in Texas, $159,932 in Florida, $194,067 in New York and $245,723 in California.
I had no idea that the cost of living “the American Dream” had gotten that high.
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I see I was a bit cryptic (John Day knew, however.)
Four coronal mass ejections in a very short period of time, and they are headed our way.What to do about the irrationalities, cruelties of civilization?
First, we should keep in mind that primitivism is a concept of the elites and upper middle class. Everybody from Tacitus to Rousseau. City dwelling upper classes – when it wasn’t the aristocracy – waxing poetically about the bucolic simplicity of the shepherd’s life throughout the Hellenistic period. But they never once slit an animal’s throat, midwifed a breach-born lamb, fought off a lion, etc. Yet this body of ignorant “knowledge” builds up over several thousand years to be dropped on us. Aristocrats and upper middle class copying other aristocrats and upper middle class and so on.
Perhaps the single most Holy Writ of that type for the modern West – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. A consolidation and re-marketing to the modern West of all these ideas. Now just considered to be part of assumed background knowledge for wokeists and just any blue square voter.
We assume a better age of the noble savage because WE are the ones who write down and reflect on our deeds. We assume “less” bad things happening because lower populations and population density?
Like… there was the same, maybe worse, we don’t really know, per capita awfulness, but it was spread more thinly over more acreage. The DIRT was happier even if humans weren’t? Dirt is holy and the less it is sullied by human sin, the better or something? Dirt > Humans?
More and more evidence comes out all the time that these people were no better. It was various moderns with an axe to grind, inserting their ideologies and agendas on an absence of data. Wherever Europeans showed up and started writing down the awful things that were happening locally – see the corrupting influence??!?!?! Riiiight.
Idunno man. We must tend our gardens. Haven’t been able to come up with anything substantially better.
What if incompetent jerks take over the gardens? Then alternate, parallel gardening. And if they maniacally, obsessively pursue the gardeners, penetrating into every nook and cranny no matter how petty? Then gardens hidden in the forest. Or gardening tools, books, and seeds cached underground or inside cornerstones, waiting for the next change, for the antigardners to starve themselves out.
My grandmother survived the Bolsheviks as a young kid in this way: You put a stick over the hole at the top of your chimney. You tie a string to that stick and lower a bag of food to dangle inside your chimney. You can do a whole string of them and multiple strings. Even if they burn down your house, what’s the one thing that doesn’t burn? (insert picture of Richmond post-fire 1865…)
A favorite scifi series of mine by Timothy Gawne (Old Guy/Cybertank Series) solves the problem. Humanity transforms, sort of, into intelligent giant 800-metre long battle tanks. They have their own manufacturing capabilities. They can build their own networked armies, their own industrial base. If their neighbor is bugging them, they can start mining operations, build factories, make the heavy lifters they need, and blast off for some other planet.
Ultimately, some oppressor or busybody has nothing they need or want that they cannot furnish for themselves. You can try dominating them, but they are super tough, no profit in trying it. Fighting them is a nightmare, and they can always run away.
He solves the problem by making each individual human into a civilization. I enjoy that he found a specific way to make the hand-wavy post-scarcity world of Star Trek possible. The only way out is through and up, I suppose. Yeah, a savage knows everything he needs to live his life, but emphasis on HIS life. He has no Plato, no cathedrals, no Renoir, no cassette copy of Queen’s Greatest Hits, no Moon Landing, no Rousseau nor modern marxist “ethnographers” (activists) to extol the wonders of savage life to him, to meatsuit it and say “WE are that thing now. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. Your technology, biology, and culture will be adapted to service our needs.”
Johnny Tremaine, 1700’s silversmith apprentice, doesn’t know fuckall about how to reshoe your plowhorse. Nor does Shakespeare. Nor does the monk copying Ovid in 1200. Nor the Roman inkeeper in 300. Nor does the Athenian building a trireme to fight the Persians in 450bc. How far back do we need to go to make things ok? Into complete and total darkness; that is, into the absence of record keeping, where we are warm and safe; safe, from our current vantage point, from ATTAINING such a miserable-desirable state and safe from any facts to deny our assumptions. We need a golden time, a perfect way of life that we definitely, positively won’t be trying out for ourselves. It has to be sufficiently unattainable to require no effort on our part.
AFKTT understands, if you go with the Noble Savage reasoning, then you end up going ALL THE WAY back to a man standing naked in a jungle. That’s just the sort of man who will devote immense time and pro bono effort to building an airfield to bring in civilization without anyone even asking him to.
AIPAC-Funded Congressmen Push for ‘October 7th Remembrance Curriculum’ to be Taught in Schools
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64442@DBS & jb-hb: Yeah! Go for it!
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“Nobody here gets out alive.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFeUko-lQHg‘We Also Slaughtered Innocent People in Massive Numbers’: Gen. Milley Gives Bizarre Defense of Israel
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We must tend our gardens.
At 81yrs, there is not enough energy and/or time to survive from crops from your garden.
Requires at least a family unit of 12 workers sharing the work load.Pfizer to Sell Drugs Online to Consumers, Bypassing Doctors and Pharmacies
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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-online-drug-sales-direct-to-consumers/@Zerosum: Water and propane tanks, beans, rice, onions, garlic, salt, olive oil, canned tomatoes, maybe salt-pork…
Zerosum, I bet you tended your garden quite a bit – in the metaphorical sense.
The Irish got along on just potatoes uh, until the famine that is. Maybe it’s worth guerilla gardening a mass of potatoes all over the place at this point.
There’s a surprising amount of wild versions of edibles in the local parks here – garlic, asparagus, etc. I know there were some Life After The Oil Crash forum people here in Denver who were into the spread-out guerrilla gardening approach. I always wonder if it was one of them responsible.
I should see if there’s a potato like tuber I can add to the mix – or figure out what they would have planted, maybe it’s already out there.
Aw who am I kidding, when TEOTWAWKI, it’s the other other white meat.
The ol SHTF classic list – originally from that one guy from Bosnia in the 90’s
https://survivalcache.com/top-100-items-to-dissappear-first/How I survived a year of SHTF in 90s Bosnia
https://prephole.com/surviving-a-year-of-shtf-in-90s-bosnia-war-selco-forum-thread-6265/
Look I am no Billy Graham but sex doesn’t happen while a woman is lying in bed completely naked but still wearing her bra!
A man doesn’t become a man until he first figures out how to disconnect a woman’s bra!
And no self respecting woman would ever skip this affirmation ritual.
Ski instructors don’t decorate bra trees for nothing!Stormy was lying as usual.
No man would have sex with her while she was still 9wearing her bra.
Just saying.Look I took Accounting 101 and 201 in college and was excused from writing both final exams because I didn’t make simple math mistakes.
I clearly remember the balance sheet part about how to classify “legal protocol fees”.
It said that Stormy Daniel’s would be available to lie about having sex when you did this balance sheet maneuver!@John Day
Preparing
A good choice for gardening.
Later …
Trade good that are desired/sellable/tradeable are a must.
If you don’t have a buyer for your gold it might be the cause of your death,
Still later
Quite defenses, stealth, (arrow, fire, traps), are preferred to using noisy gunshots.Red said
Lord Baden-Powell
Thanks for the link.
Baden-Powell was still a well known name even when I was in school. Back in those days the Boy Scouts, as they were known in the UK, were considered a good, if not somewhat weird (probably because of the uniform), thing. We had the Boy Scouts for the boys and the Girl Guides for the girls.
Wikipedia tries to tell the story of the Boy Scouts yet tries to manipulate it into something that was pro LGBTA+. It was not pro PGBTQ+, it was for boys and it started in London in the days when people were not being intimidated into pretending they do not know how to define a woman. Of course, as with all such groups in the west, it now has to conform to government intimidation or die.
Wikipedia is pure nonsense, it is part of the intimidation machine, its job is to spread the government message far and wide, a message that few people want, a message that few people really believe. It is intimidation to get you to behave the way they want you to behave, to give you something to moan about while they steal your stuff.
There is certainly plenty of uncertainty in human affairs but for the larger part survival depends more on competence than it does on random events. You’ll generally get better results, more dependably, by doing things right than by doing them wrong, despite the vicissitude of good fortune or shit luck. This is especially true in human interactions with other humans, and even more especially especial in the matter of getting along with them.
The bottom line of getting along with others is that what goes around comes around, primarily because what goes around is the only thing around that CAN come around, so if you ain’t being treated as well as you would like then there is at least one thing you can always do about it for dependably immediate improved results. Do it better (if you know how) or find out how and then do it that way instead.
Zerosum:
Sadly only in Washington, DC, have people not forgotten how to set snares/traps.
Of course their specialties are honey/sex traps!Before noisy guns, natives depended on snares and traps for food.
Bows and arrows were nice but how often did the prey spot the hunter first?
And you missed breaking your best arrow?
Imagine going a week between arrow shots?In today’s world where you need permission, from on high to hunt for food, snares and traps give you plausible deniability.
The same for gorilla gardening, especially a little weed.
Afterall if you do the work of planting a big garden, you are just asking for people to steal the rewards of your efforts!
Just ask Venezuelans that tried to avoid starvation by planting gardens!
Oh, sorry you can’t ask them because they all starved to death!Ah, nice to know blueberry season is just around the corner!
And our psychopath rulers hate us when peace breaks out over the land!I was no boy scout.
Firecrackers and all.I was a cub scout though!
Up north in northern Quebec/Labrador.
We had great leaders who took us out into the bush to make real campfires with just one match!
We earned lots of useful skill badges too.
Like using a dime pay phone!Then, I moved down to Montreal.
Well, I was the only one with any badges on my arm!
Needless to say, I quickly lost interest.Montreal’s tiny wild strawberries were more interesting!
Sadly I found no pretty girls in the wild strawberry fields.
But I like nature, hence the cottage.
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