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I know it’s horribly cliche’ of me tyo say, but I’ll join the crowd saying we are more than ripe for a more-or-less October surprise.
911 went by without a notice that I could tell. I do find this gem:
“NYPD captain dies of 9/11-related illness on 21st anniversary of attacksJanelle Sanders joined the force in March 2000; she became captain in September 2021Duty Death: Janelle Sanders – [New York City, New York]End of Service: 09/11/2022Sep 12, 2022
By Elizabeth Keogh
New York Daily News“NEW YORK — A veteran NYPD captain died of a 9/11-related illness on the 21st anniversary of the terrorist strikes Sunday, according to her union.
“Capt. Janelle Sanders died of an unspecified ailment, the Captains Endowment Association said in a tweet.
“We will never forget the brave men and women who lost their lives twenty-one years ago on this sad day,” the organization said. “Today, we lost active Captain Janelle Sanders due to 9/11 illness. May she rest in peace.”
Covid got a holiday off for 911? An “unspecified… 911 related illness”?
O.mein.gott! That pilot died of Terror! (and maybe exposure to nonexistent WMDs)
Let’s replace rock paper scissors with terror covid bullshit.
“I hope I am wrong but I expect implosion of the western world and associated population shedding. If this occurs all that matters is can I survive.”
Survival is chump fodder. Price of admission to the theater of life. What matters is living like you mean it, especially the part of life call love. One can’t always survive. But until death arrives, one can live like a free being not a cultural zombie.
I think Greta’s cute. Nice frank little Nordic mug, great hair, powerful body. What’s being done to her psyche,however isn’t cute, But then, what is done to most western psyches is ugly.
“Self love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.” Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
By Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac.Global climate disruption (GCD) provides the distraction it needs to succeed. While everyone argues whether GCD is anthropogenic or not, the debate obscures the primary fact: whatever GCD is or isn’t happening, we’re rapidly depleting the fuel we need to continue debating such (at this point) nonsensical issues.
Same, btw, with planned population/economy demolition: population/economy gonna crash either way, with or without Davosian assistance. But we’d rather argue whose fault it is, as if the fault for the fate of a species, and the ecosystems it is inarguably destroying, were that of any-thing/one less than all of us.
Energy depletion/ecology devastation gonna be problems for a long time, sweethearts. QR codes and mRna alterations and all that covidiotic jazz will be gone in 5-20 years, depending upon variable cofactors. I’ll say ten, cuz I can count that high.
“Vladimir Solovyov said…So, what did Solovyov have to say? First, that Ramstein marked a new stage in the war, because of the more threatening nature of the weapons systems announced for delivery, such as missiles with accuracy of 1 to 2 meters when fired from distances of 20 or 30 kilometers thanks to their GPS-guided flight, in contrast to the laser-guided missiles delivered to Ukraine up till now. ”
But they already have GPS munitions. Nobody knows what’s going on, or if they do, won’t say it, but where’s the $$ in admitting this?
Canada gave Ukraine 4 Excalibur howitzers and and an unspecified number of rounds in April 2022. They’re precise but non-evasive, and advanced Russian (*sigh* I miss saying ‘Soviet ‘– it was so sexily Cold War) anti-missile systems are known to take out incoming ballistics.
900 Excaliburs will eat up advanced Russian missile anti-missile-missiles while giving Russia valuable field experience and combat lessons while making Raytheon etc. that much more wealthy while they still can.
“You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
Of course you can. It’s what we do. You can even avoid the consequences of reality avoidance syndrome. Happens all the time. Luck is kinky that way. I think I prefer this bastardization of Lincoln’s famous quip: “You can avoid reality some of the time, and the consequences of avoiding reality some of the time, but you can’t avoid both of them all the time.” … and it only takes one consequence to mess you up for life.
Avoiding reality is what human civilization is about. We got away from it for a good little run, although we wasted vast volumes of physical resources and life forms including homo saps; but the closure gap is on our imminent event horizon and we’ve run out of rocket fuel just as we need turbo thrust to turn around to escape black holiness.
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I still want to know why Putin embraces the vakzinational slaughter of his people by covidiotic crooks like Ginzburg, the Russian Fauci”. Some reason other than “he’s just another NWO stooge”; Putin practically IS the New World Order: he owns the guns and the gas to run them.What’s in it for him to hobnob with gelatinous denturians who think boinking 13-years is good clean fun? Did he sleepwalk into a trap and now has to bite his tongue? Or did he decide that if anyone gets to be Dr. Evil, it’s him? Might as well be hung for a lamb as a sheep, after all?
I haven’t heard one original thought on this topic anywhere I frequent that addresses Russia’s disastrous covid policies. I’m old and sick and might not live much longer. I want to hear an original thought on this before that happens.
Why would a man who has the world swinging from his balls like a gangsta go along with such cockamamy democidal shit of his own people? His own generals will eat him alive. He KNOWS this. He’s not stupid like Bill Gates or Elon Musk. He’s not that complacent and softened by power to believe otherwise.
What is in it for an intelligent psychopath (that’s my perception of Vald: high-functioning socially ethical psychopath) able to hold his own with post-Soviet kleptocracy, and militarily, economically, and financially kick Euromerica’s ass with definitive precision true to his severally stated reasons/goals for the Special Military Operation.
(What else could explain that hairdo?)Well, srsly, I wonder if he hasn’t been poisoned with something requiring recurrent antidote, or maybe they stuck a microchip up his nose, or… come on, people. I’m dying up here. I didn’t hardly read comix as a kid: I’m kinda crippled that way. Throw me a bone, anything other than ‘The most powerful man on the planet wants to join the loser club so badly that he’s willing to, you know, lose to get there.’ You just might brew a hot superhero action screenplay in the process. Godzilla vs Putin’s Brain.
It’s not like Vlad is some nowhere man like Charles Schwabb.
If Xi is willing to seriously even think about double-crossing Russia, he’s already way too stupid for the job. But aren’t they all?
China strikes me as being well-poised to do an internal domestic reset, especially with all the de facto war-time footing going on. (Depending, of course, on ample energy imports. Today, this seems to be a minor problem but in ten years, China could be an industrial engine sans fuel.) Technically, China can fix its economic issues, so long as it enough fuel and the other thing, popular belief that Xi et al still retain the mandate of heaven.
The latter looks especially problematic but energy scarcity will soon catch up and those two will race neck-and-neck to a state-collapse finish line, I suspect.
Mandatory public education is the most powerful (and therefore corruptible) means of mass formation in existence, altho another ten years pof kids raised by handroids should blur that line into more of the same old mental mush. School IS the box outside of which we struggle to think.
It’s a mighty fine Big River.
Big Muddy looks like a huge old oak tree while China’s big river complex looks like a dragon in its larval state:
“Weird things happen when I go to TAE”
Weird things happen when I go to the internet, period. This has been so since the Dawn of Covid, and has steadily gotten worse.
How much of it is intentional per surveillance and indoctrination, how much is just the ongoing erosion of industrial ability to produce things of a non-shit nature, how much is the erosion of supply chains and labor etc gradually avalanching through our economy…???
But it has gotten really bad of late, and cyber-warfare is surely a major part of the blend at this point too. Local internet in a major USA West Coast urban zone has been eroding slowly but surely for two years, especially the past 6 months.
We scan the skies for ominous portents but only discover cheesy gifs, alas:
Observation: China, for all its sins vis a vis covidiocy, has not outlawed ivermectin et al, nor are their prices jacked. And, for all the coercion, etc., many many Chinese have eluded vakzinazion.
Meanwhile, in dear old Russia, no horse-apple paste for you, comrade! while they do an authoritarian version of USA’s CDC/Fauci/vakzine company triad.
Velly intellesting leetle differences between each nation state.
I know someone who is looking to track both such differences but also similarities, the latter to build a NWO uberalles depop grand schematic, the former to play devil’s advocate to this. Anyone wishing to help, the fey bastard works here:
“Read or Suffer the Consequences”
Meanwhile, a sneak peek at the secret underdog dark horse alt-friendly consumer populist demagogue candidate:
“I disagree. ”
Disagreeing with “maybe” is an inherently Janusian contradiction.
Maybe I disagree with you, maybe I don’t. But then again, maybe I agree with you, maybe I don’t.
Is this thing turned on?
“They’re actually telling us we’ll eat bugs!”
If they’re lucky. The bug population is a modest fraction of what it was 20 years ago.
Re Biden’s ‘crystallnacht’ speech:
This will of course only further movement toward conservative sentiment. What demagogue arises from Trump’s shadow is what intrigues me. Oner also presumes that civil unrest will rise as we approach the mid-terms, and that maybe some of it will be genuine grassoots momentum not the same old astroturf.
I’m gob-smacked. For once, Veracious Poet posted something that wasn’t sneeringly smug and sanctimonious, but actually honest, and meaningfully uplifting:
“The sore-beset public will take an inventory of what has been lost and begin reconstructing a scaffold of shared life that rewards fidelity to the way things actually work.
“You will not be comfortable, but you will be dauntless. You will certainly not have nothing or be happy about that. You will have, at least, a restored memory of what it was like to strive honorably for a life worth living.
“You are brothers and sisters in an enterprise worth saving and you have a history worth defending. Believe it.”
This happens sometimes. It’s a major ingredient in what keeps us alive, keeps us going. It happened to me this morning, and not just in a small bright spark of a way, but more like a small nova of the soul. I met someone and stepped into another world, one where sanity and kindness aggressively prevailed:
When it happens, we typically feel empowered to lard obnoxiously excessive encouragement onto others in our determination to convincingly remind them that it can and probably will happen to you too. Again.
But maybe this time you’ll REALLY need it, like I did.
Makes a feller feel blissfully manic.
I love it when that happens.
P.S. So we’re going through a bottleneck dieoff and many, including maybe us, will suffer horribly. Oh well. Let’s not let the future damn the present
Sadly, Russia has loaded its population with clot-shots too. USA has Fauci; Russia has Alexander Gintsburg.
Here is their most recent development in that regard:
And they bickered, reliably, over anything that could be misconstrued: noting the perils of fossil fuel toxicity is not the same as advocating what is so tiresomely called “Green Energy”. Me, I’m a huge fun of nuclear energy, although there is a (shall we say) Peak Uranium problem with that as well.
As for looming bottleneck dieoffs: some of us will live, even thrive. It’s really really hard to say whom. Some of the best preppers will die from bullets or botulism or mere old ptomaine. Some of the dullest of wit and no sense of preparation will come through unscathed. It’s quite the lottery we’re entering.
Mr. Lucky If Paul Desmond famously sounded like a “stiff well-made martini”, this music by Mancini sounds like that fellow down the bar who can’t handle his scotch.
for upstateNYer:
Having lost faith in those who claim to rule with righteous authority, we turn said faith to Cthulhu and trust it to behave in a neat, orderly, and systematically evil manner so that we can say ‘I told you so’. It’s how we got into this mess in the first place, and we’re no less compulsively and obsessively addicted to doing the same old same old as those nasty puppet masters we so very much love to loathe.
If you overesteem great men
The people become powerless
If you overvalue possessions
People begin to stealWhen people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.
When people see some things as good,
other things become bad.When the great Tao is forgotten,
goodness and piety appear.
When the body’s intelligence declines,
cleverness and (Text sourced from https://www.organism.earth/library/document/tao-te-ching) knowledge step forth.
When there is no peace in the family,
filial piety begins.
When the country falls into chaos,
patriotism is born.Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won’t be any thieves.Armenio P.
Your musical offering made my day. Lowered my dissatisfaction. I offer this counterpointing bookend:
And the possible grandparent of the song you shared:
I can’t stop seeing Dugin’s daughter as the Archduke of Ferdinand. A tenuous correlation but it fits my predictive fancy for now.
“Dr. D:
Why don’t you just get your own blog? Instead of cloging Ilargi’s Debt Rattle with your screed????”Where I come from, real men tell real men to plainly shut up when that’s what they mean, not hide behind some guy’s blog. This is Raul’s blog, best I can tell, not V. Arnold’s, and he can shut up on his blog whomever he wants. If you want to shup people up, gop start your own blog. Have a domain name on me: Damkidzoffamylawn!!
Most people here have better things to do than go around telling people to shut up. But if that’s the best you can do….
I anticipate real estate reform debate in political circles beginning with the mid-term sound-bite frenzies. A reformatory shitshow like Obamacare ten years ago.
What I love best about the concept of “fighting climate change” is that everything we would do to fight it requires burning that much more fossil fuel, since we can’t do anything without machines using fossil fuel energy.
The idea of conservation, of course, is forbidden, because that reduces profits. Carter practiced conservation, and it worked really well to pu some gradual brakes on our lifestyles and begin moving us toward less energy-dependent/indulgent lifestyles, but that reduces oil consumption and that is forbidden.
It’s a reliable argument starter, and we homo saps love to argue almost as much as we love to leave the lights on all day.
The climate might well turn frigid in 50 years, Ocean currents and such can create interesting rebound effects. Lotta thermal mass in our ocean. There are “332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet”. THat’s an awful lot of freely flowing fluid thermal mass.
Global Climate Disruption is the proper scientifically neutral term for anthropogenic climate models, says me in a white lab coat and a sexy pushup clipboard. But it is nonetheless based on greenhouse effect initial warming of our atmosphere.
Any dumb fuck who disagrees with me needs to go form their own dumbfuck club and get outta my dumbfuck club treehouse.
This dumb fuck has looked at the science for a long time and sees that we are clearly adding to the wobbles of an already exacerbated global climate. I can’t speak for my fellow dumb fucks.
Now, the idea that we can do anything to stop it is to assume something far more ludicrous than merely the idea that human industry can impact the weather in a large discernible pattern; it is to assume that humanity has the ability to significantly affect humanity in a manner resembling control.
Control. An opposably-thumbed, technologized hominid’s favorite fetish. We’re like this enormous murmuration of dingbats flying around in ever greater numbers at ever faster speeds in ever more directions at once, thinking that just because we always find ourselves following some kind of group pattern that someone must be in control of all this. Some guy in a Palpatine costume, maybe.
Culling must happen; one way or another, whole bunches of us gonna die. Nonetheless, I can sympathize with Don’t Cull Us; We’ll Cull You. It’s functionally meaningless/useless at best and the stuff of which reigns of terror are made at worst (politics being a fool’s diversion), but attitudinally, it’s my favorite sweet spot on the existential plane. Even after all these too often tiresome and worrisome years, I’d still rather eat than be eaten.
Re: who has felt the excess deaths effects of covidiotic vakzination, and who hasn’t: this is as prone to chaos as everything else. Clusters here, voids there. A woman who lives in Ukraine wrote this yesterday:
“The other day a friend asked me what I’d choose if I could, living in a country at war or living under covid lockdown. I hate to admit it but I chose war… maybe because I’m not in an actual war zone now, but still.”
Germany liked WWII until it came to their front door. Death from covidiotic vakzination and complications therefrom is invisible until it comes to someone near you. The illusion of prosperity that is modern life is being replaced by reality, the procession led by Herr Death, as is usually how reality reintroduces itself to our deluded noggins.
“Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceding generation (…) When someone says, “Science teaches such and such,” he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, “Science has shown such and such,” you might ask, “How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?” It should not be “science has shown” but “this experiment, this effect, has shown.” And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments–but be patient and listen to all the evidence–to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at. (…) The experts who are leading you may be wrong. (…) I think we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television-words, books, and so on-are unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable amount of intellectual tyranny in the name of science.” R. Feynman
“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” C. Sagan
1,200 scientists on this side, 1,200 scientists on that side… comme ci, comme ca… neither camp is especially good at perceiving or telling the truth, from my perspective, and they are as bad or worse at lying.
You can play games like this with something aa vague as a water-laden planetary atmosphere, but as we see in other, less ambiguously perceptible areas, our ability to majorly alter global environments and ecologies is well demonstrated, as this image from TAE a few days ago shows:
Yeah, carbon tax credits and green energy solutions are hokum. That doesn’t mean the weather isn’t currently kicking our asses. Man-made vs nature-made is a majorly false dichotomy: we are part of nature. The problem is that we no longer perceive ourselves living in a real natural world but rather, in a media-sphere of illusions and their derivative delusions.
As for the abundant doom’n’gloom:
It helps that the tranny weight-lifter pushing the autistic gunslinger looks like Hunter Biden wearing a beefcake suit.
This earned a chuckle from me. Nonetheless, even then those boys had perfect pitch:
In the prison cell row apartment complex where I reside (and some days, while watering our tomato monster in the early morning wearing one of my wife’s night gowns, resemble someone you might call madamski, depending on what you’re looking for in a man), there’s a bity of a common area by the mailboxes where we leave stuff out free for the taking.
In this donation center, I encountered the items featured in the images in this link.
Rushing home to get my cellcam, I returned to find a late teens/early 20-ish woman almost as tall as me, weighing an easy 350 lbs.
She was ecstatic to find that these pedal torture implements were “just my size!” and scooped them up, ensuring some pediatric surgeon will make a bit of money this year. I thought of that sandwich wrapper “we’re not going to make it” meme posted here the other day.
And she also had a very barge lust
Hey, he just said she’s too fat for him, not too fat for everybody. I hate for anyone to feel bad about their physical vehicle. I told the young woman those, um, shoes would look too cute on her.
A quick look leads me to think that chitin is not the scary awful thing some people claim.
We eat shrimp, and they’re just bugs. (Yes, I know, we remove the chitinous shell when eating shrimp.) But still: we’ve been eating bugs for megamillennia.
But needing to eat is a real thing, you know, and we can’t continue depending on factory livestock protein provision paradigms for they are ecologically disastrous and economically unsustainable.
I worked with a Viet Namese man who’d lived through the Nam war and its aftermath. He said: “Very bad time, R-r-robin.” (He rolled his r’s in a funny way.) “Very hungry. No bugs.”
I usually share this tale to point out how totally we devastated Nam with Agent Orange, turning tropical forests ionto desert wasteland. No food for the bugs thus no bugs. But I share it here to remind us that, yes, bugs are a viable food source. I highly doubt that chitin is more toxic than oleomargarine.
Whether we like it or not, I see insect protein becoming very important for a period in time, that period in which our environmental survival platform has been disintegrated to a hunter-gatherer basis. Coming to a hole in the ground near you soon.
And that smug UK bloke with the Gandalf aspect warning us about chitin strikes me as someone who gets high smoking his own brain cells. Plus, I inherently mistrust info presented by someone talking while someone films him.
Meanwhile, we clever hominids may find a way to remove the chitin issue:
Abiotic oil is a weak theory that has failed to produce experimental support. For example, this:
“Siljan Ring crater
The Siljan Ring meteorite crater, Sweden, was proposed by Thomas Gold as the most likely place to test the hypothesis because it was one of the few places in the world where the granite basement was cracked sufficiently (by meteorite impact) to allow oil to seep up from the mantle; furthermore it is infilled with a relatively thin veneer of sediment, which was sufficient to trap any abiogenic oil, but was modelled as not having been subjected to the heat and pressure conditions (known as the “oil window”) normally required to create biogenic oil. However, some geochemists concluded by geochemical analysis that the oil in the seeps came from the organic-rich Ordovician Tretaspis shale, where it was heated by the meteorite impact.[48]In 1986–1990 The Gravberg-1 borehole was drilled through the deepest rock in the Siljan Ring in which proponents had hoped to find hydrocarbon reservoirs. It stopped at the depth of 6,800 metres (22,300 ft) due to drilling problems, after private investors spent $40 million.[32] Some eighty barrels of magnetite paste and hydrocarbon-bearing sludge were recovered from the well; Gold maintained that the hydrocarbons were chemically different from, and not derived from, those added to the borehole, but analyses showed that the hydrocarbons were derived from the diesel fuel-based drilling fluid used in the drilling.[32][33][34][35] This well also sampled over 13,000 feet (4,000 m) of methane-bearing inclusions.[49]
“In 1991–1992, a second borehole, Stenberg-1, was drilled a few miles away to a depth of 6,500 metres (21,300 ft), finding similar results.”
Just as 500 years ago few in Christendom wanted to believe that maybe earth wasn’t the center of the universe and God’s favorite rock, we moderns raised on utopian scientism simply won’t accept that we can’t continue turning the planet into a giant dipshit condominium with moving sidewalks and summer vacations on the moon. We insist there is always not only enough energy but more and MORE and MORE………..
