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I think that what “they” want and their strategy for achieving it is best demonstrated by countless chase scenes where the escapee running away throws everything they pass or are willing to jettison from their possessions behind them to trip up and slop down their pursuers. They want to “get away with it”, “it” being ill-gotten gains and their personal living hide.
It amuses me to watch us claim to know what “they” want or how “they” deal with violence or lack thereof. But I think that Gandhi’s famous dictum (probably a quite Gandhi borrowed?) has a clue:
I think we might make more sense of this if we substituted ‘engagement’ for “violence”, and consider it this way: perhaps what they can’t understand is people ignoring them, walking away — consequences be damned — and building their own reality. (Like one of my personal mottos says: ‘Don’t ask favors, don’t ask permission.’ I baked it myself, but it’s based on “Don’t complain; don’t explain.”)
Also: the fact that “they” feature violence as their foundational method doesn’t mean they know dickelly-squint about dealing with violence applied to them. Not that I believe that violence will repair the situation nor that “they” will mean or have much of anything anything in ten years, just sayin the obvious, something Dr. D said once about Johnny Jerk McBillybob and his myriad cousins’ burger wrappers.
They know how to deal with non-violence just fine, which is why the cardinal cornerstones of statehood are Monopoly on Violence under Rule of Law. We call non-violence ‘submission’ when it is being bludgeoned to bits.
But, to be clear, I don’t think that violence is the answer, nor do I believe that anything is the answer. I think that the delusion/illusion of control — of self, others, nature, overall reality — is the problem, and accepting this truth is, as Lao Tzu said, the answer: “Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs…”
We build large societies because we can’t control our personal breeding impulses not because we’ve ever built a large society that worked for more than just a little bit for a little while. (By work, I don’t mean how long an empire exists. Pharaonic dynasties, for all their longevity, were constantly falling apart and being rebuilt.)
P.S. “A quarter of all human suffering is toothache.” Thomas DeQuincey (I will insert ‘modern’ between “all” and “human” because archeological evidence indicates that tooth decay was not nearly so much a problem before agriculture and all that.)
P.S.S. Meanwhile, I could swear I hear the call of a black swan amid the current frenzy of confused hysteria. Black Swan Big Disaster (I don’t think the music’s good, per se, but the band name, song title, and release date tie up neatly, methinks.
Modern humanity is like a “generation ship” whose inhabitants can scarcely remember why they’re on a giant interstellar ark, or even what stars are.
The gen-ship trope usually has people lapsing into barbarism. On our 21st century “gen-ship”, we’ve laxed into surreal hyper-civilized couch potatoes unable to remember much less imagine life without couches.
Let’s hear it for Joe-Jim!
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The Plains Indians were done in mostly by pathogenic microbes. If it weren’t for them itty bugs, European culture/military would’ve bounced off American culture/military with quills in its hide, and never returned.
For survival tech I suggest real friends who really care about each other’s survival. WIthout that, even the biggest military industrial complex won’t do squat.
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Joan Rivers, acting from the beyond, has arranged a peace conference between Vlad and Zelensky:
An older article by Dmitry (“I’m a writer not a hockey star!”) Orlov in which his genius for analysis that reveals a situation’s fundamental factors, his hilarious if brutal sense of humor, and some kind of black streak in his soul that reminds me of Rod Steiger in that ancient movie, “Dr. Zhivago”:
“My daughter was pleased to see that Percy, a local black squirrel with a white tail, white feet, and a white nose had successfully survived the winter O.K. One neighbor said they had seen what first looked like a hopping skunk. Only Hollywood has a hopping shunk!”
🙂 🙂 🙂
John Day:
No need to get defensive unless you enjoy feeling insecure. I meant, plant the rest of the dirt in garden. I’ve resumed posting a bit here but on a ‘no parley with the natives’ basis. I made an exception for you but I’ll rescind it now and stick to just sharing a bit of data or relevant ideas sans discussion.
“I’m puttering along, blogging, cutting 0.8 acre of grass with a nice little Honda mower every 1-2 weeks.
How would I live without gasoline?”Put that gas in a rototiller and turn it all into a garden based on permaculture methods?
Or, put goats/sheep/cattle and let them munch it down for you and turn it into meat/milk? Not everyone is a vegetarian, and anything is better than starvation<>cannibalism.
Scott Ritter as a “limited hangout” seems likely — his track record appears to be self-contradictory — but ambiguity is ambiguity.
It interests me that his alleged sex with minors bothers people more than that he worked for the military for many years assisting in various murderous enterprises that were based on less than zero moral justification. We give our soldiers immunity via the Nuremberg Excuse: I was just following orders, but crucify anyone tainted with the pedo brush.
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In the pre-op before my last surgery, the admitting nurse’s first question was:
“What pronoun do you prefer?”
“Huh? Oh, I get it. Ummm… ‘It’.”
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This may warrant notice:
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Notice the date it went into effect:
Type Free trade agreement
Signed 15 November 2020
Location Hanoi, Vietnam (virtual host)
Effective 1 January 2022and this:
“The 15 member countries account for about 30% of the world’s population (2.2 billion people) and 30% of global GDP ($29.7 trillion), making it the largest trade bloc in history.[3] Signed in November 2020, RCEP is the first free trade agreement among the largest economies in Asia, including China, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.[4]”
It’s as if a very large star hove into the vicinity of our solar (global economic) system, discreetly affecting planetary (regional economic) orbits.
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As for talk of WWIII: if we cross Russia’s plainly drawn red line and find ourselvfes therefore being nuked, it will likely be all about these locales:
“The current ICBM force consists of Minuteman III missiles located at the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming; the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana; and the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota.”
Taking out DC would presumably trigger an all-out USA nuclear response via a ‘dead man switch’ or such. Besides, DC is busy taking itself out, and this Sun Tzu quote is becoming so popular it risks becoming a canard: “Never interfere when your enemy is busy destroying itself.”
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As for Ukraine, Russia is kindly helping the milindustrial $$$ complex make money by kindly blowing up most of the weapons we send there, requiring our defense contractors be paid more money for more moneys to give to the Russians to blow up.
A note for WES:
You enjoyed my take on Santa. I’ve finally gotten well enough to carry it forward a long ways and should have it wrapped it ere long. But if you’re interested, email me at pastmastergeneral@gmail.org, and I’ll send you the first 60 pages. It being a book about Xmas, it of course will probably be finished on July 4th, a calendric antipode away from Yuletide.
Either way, be well, old man, and kiss a maple tree for me, pls! 🙂
I’m hearing an old Elvis Costello song in my head, Watching the Detectives, sung as Tracking the Infections.
It’s the new thing to do.
Media says: pay attention. Almost everyone does. Most believe more than not (or close enough), a minority are more skeptical than not. They all tend to agree or disagree over something the media told them.
We then form opinions which are primarily defined by whether our opinion prevailingly believes media or prevailingly disbelieves media. Sort of a Janusian thing, although one side’s face (the skeptical) is usually much smaller than the other side’s face. But sometimes the polarity shifts, usually creating creating enormous transformation that makes the small face much larger than the big face, transforming it’s features. In time the old big face resumes dominant position while the huge-for-a-while face shrinks to its normal minority position.
Who You Tawkin to, WIllis? Yoself?
Skepticism is rampantly on the rise globally, much of it in response to the overwhelming credulity of the majority (something a wise lunatic I briefly knew here called “the Stockholm syndrome writ large”). Soon skepticism will be huge and enormous (and almost certainly painful) transformation will occur.
Will the WHO/Davosian New World Leaders succeed in their attempt to rule the world by medical fiat? Will Putin save us by his 5-D chess brilliance? Do I know a false dichotomy when I see one? Maybe not but I’m pretty sure that Ernest P. Worrell does:
“Choose your enemies wisely, for you shall become them.”
That is why the only real fight I wage is with myself, for I wish to become whom I am, not to mention that I can’t possibly lose except by failing to show up in the daily mirror.
“There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. It is the code and conception of life imposed from above, much more than the merely human faults and weaknesses working up from below.” Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays, by G.K.Chesterton, 1932
Some might find this useful. Basically, it’s a study alleging to demonstrate that vakzines can and sometimes DO alter an innoculatee’s DNA:
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fwiw, the notion that Eskimos have many many words for snow is a false folklorism. They have a few more than non-arctic cultures, but less than can be counted on both hands.
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NATO spent $750 million on their impressive headquarters with its Star Wars Imperial space yacht hanger vibe. Lotta money. 17 years ago, USA spent $800 million on a new embassy in Afghanistan (only $150 million over budget). It was abandoned last August.
Polder Dweller:
Monkey pox can spread through the air but very poorly. Even the CDC are telling people not to concern themselves much about airborne monkeypox. Meanwhile, by comparison, omicron had the fastest transmission rate of any disease known except measles.
I was going through some notes of mine and found a little ditty that I seem to recall writing with my parents said know in mind. I don’t recall sharing it:
The track was long but round
A closed lap just for me.
They told me I could run
Fast and far but never free.I jumped the fence and walked,
Slow not fast, so I could see.“Chomsky was criticized after saying in an interview that former President Donald Trump is the “one Western statesman of stature” who laid out a “sensible” solution for Ukraine. He said Trump spoke about facilitating negotiations instead of “undermining them and moving towards establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe in which there are no military alliances and mutual accommodation.”
Chomsky must’ve gotten a brain-lift. That’s the first, or at best one of the very few, useful things he’s said since 911.
Meanwhile, this guy is notorious for getting things wrong and right at the same time. Here, I think he’s mostly right, albeit with the usual hyperbole that seems de rigeur for today’s pundits both mainstream and alternative:
Gasum may be selling biogas to Finland:
“Gasum Oy is a Finnish state-owned energy company located in Espoo, Finland which imports and sells the nation’s natural gas. Gasum owns 17 biogas refineries in Finland and Sweden, and is the largest processor of biodegradable waste in the Nordic countries.[3] In addition, Gasum sells wind power and provides various energy market services. It is in the process of building a gas filling station network that will also serve heavy-duty vehicles.”
It makes biogas, imports and sells natural gas.
Noirette:
Much graci for the Guy Debord book. The summary is seriously excellent. All I can offer as thanx is this E-Z Wider short and somewhat sensationalist overview of Putin and how Russia reached this point. It has hits and misses, like everything:
The War Against Putin copyright 2014
Oh. Just remembered. I have this to offer, too. I think I encountered it here but it’s good enough to deserve remention: Golden SIlkworms in Pandora’s Box
““Russian elections are rigged,” he (Dubya) said. “Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.””
SOme may find this a useful read:
VP:
“church lady” :
Actually, I’d decided to pay close attention ever since the other day when you smeared that Magic Johnson shit, shit that was nasty even by your standards. I was curious to see if anyone would squeak. Seeing v.arnold take you on piqued my sympathy and curiosity.
Not to mention that “I know you are but what am I”, the trope you employed via your “church lady” remark, is so junior high. But that’s a step-up for you, imo, and who am I to knock progress?
Oh. One more thing… “My! What a Big Dick… you are. Shame about your penis, though.”
I really gotta stop stooping so low. But the bigger the asshole, the lower the target. It’s like trying to kick a golf ball out of a French toilet.
That is all. Everyone return to their usual safety zones and fling poo at the usual suspects, an it please yez.
v. arnold wonders why hardly anyone calls out VP for his strange obsession with ye olde nigger dick and butt sex, not to mention the downright ludicrously bigoted implications that VP asserts as some kind of truth because, hey, VP spent a lot of time doing meaningless muscular repetitions to feed his physical vanity with a bunch who also love staring at their bodies in the mirror.
My answer, v. arnold, to your question, is this: Calling a dickhead a dickhead to his face is a job for hooligans like me. But hooligans are chronically and reliably punished for being openly honest rather than discretely disingenuous, and the pay really sucks, especially with no good deed going unpunished and bad deeds being left to flourish.
So you’re probably on your own trying to run off that weird kid running around your front lawn wearing a white hood and a black codpiece. But here’s a suggestion:
Me, I just dropped in quickly to test whether casting pearls before swine is still the same old masochistic folly that it ever was.
Standing in the ruins of another
blackman’s life
Or flying through the valley separating day and night
“I am death!” cried the vulture for the people of the light
Karon brought his raft from the sea that sails on souls
And saw the scavenger departing, taking warm hearts to the cold
He knew the ghetto was a haven for the meanest preacher ever known
In the wilderness of heartbreak and a desert of despair
Evil’s clarion of justice shrieks a cry of naked terror
Taking babies from their mamas, leaving grief beyond compare
So if you see the vulture coming, flying circles in your mind
Remember there is no escaping for he will follow close behind
Only promise me a battle, battle for your soul and mine
And mine
<end>Really. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings to see one of yez stand up for something like a real human.
P.S. I told Dr. John Day that if anyone posted here presenting as me, it was an imposter. In this case, the imposter is me wearing a ‘me’ mask. Self-imitation is the sincerest flattery.
“I am going to have to interfere in the Comments sections again soon, and I really don’t like that, a recurring thing.”
As usual, Raul, your social leadership has it backwards and is counter-productive. You did it again: “Restraint, girls.”
Now, I admire women far more than men, but I own a pair of cock’n’balls. You may have heard of those?
You calling us girls a) confounds my gender in a world already having difficulty distinguishing the difference these days, and b) insinuates that girls are somehow less wise or prudent or what-not than men. You have, in my very earnest opinion, little if any clue about this social forum thing, and I’ll leave you to your own devices now that you’ve clearly outed yourself. (Watch how soon the chronic grumps and church ladies take over, btw.)
It’s been fun; I’ve learned a lot; and I hope others have learned or taken some respite from insanity, or received a little encouragement, from me. I thank you for the camaraderie, stimulation, commiseration, sympathy and empathy.
So, getting Huffy and all about it, thanx for all the fish but I’m very much done here.
“Why is it that we tend to focus on the short term and the local, when in fact, the fundamental solutions to these problems are long-term and far away?”
Because we live day-to-day. Our brains are wired that way. Culture/civilization creates enormous long-term problems and thereby seals its doom, and…
(music symbol for ‘return to the beginning)
“The mainstream media may ignore this. Wall Street is not.”
During the 80s, merger mania and downsizing were headline news. I was too busy — becoming a father and struggling to earn a living — to pay close attention to politics, I recall saying that it seems like Americans really vote via the stock market, not voting booths.
Point clarification: ‘Plus, the media attention about Ottawa naturally spilled over from covid mandates to general gubmint issues including money and the economy.’… which is not to their advantage that I can see.
However, I’ll note this:
“In his 1796 book, Congressman William Findley argued that Alexander Hamilton had deliberately provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.”
La plus ca something.
***And yes, Doctor Disco Doom is right about holy pogo sticks. It’s a thing:
Backup in case IMG doesn’t like .GIFs:
“The protest was fine, but comes out of nowhere at the same time? After all protests so far got no traction?”
Seems it’s impossible to get a successful meme going big these days without at least a few FBI/CIA plants. I’d say that it’s more likely that the Turdskyites just took advantage of another crisis that would have been a shame to waste. Plus, the media attention about Ottawa naturally spilled over from covid mandates to general gubmint issues including money and the economy.
I view Ottawa and the gov response more through the lens of USA’s old Whiskey Rebellion
“They had the magic viruses that could tell if you were in a restaurant or not. “
Nononononono….. I simply MUST disagree here, and strenuously!!! it was Magic Booster Seats not magic viruses! Special seats that immunize, that immediately and fully protect you when your butt is in full contact with them. I’ve experienced it myself! Tesla is reportedly working on electric robotic booster seats/recliner gyms so we can all get about safely albeit seated in order to keep us safe and in peak physical shape.
“I’d say it’s more likely that Queen Elizabeth II vacations on Mars.”
She does. She loves how the low surface gravity lifts the royal bosom, and the low atmospheric pressure brings blood to her face and smooths out her wrinkles.
Magic hand vaccinator ON! Special FX Grossness Warning
Was a time when California was a Golden Land all us youngbloods wanted to live in. I experienced it on/off between ’75-’77. Drove from Spokane to Sacramento around 2013, and didn’t recognize anything but Mt. Shasta… which I’d never seen before. The whole state has apparently been turned into a giant housing development heavy on apartment complexes.
I like and rather admire Robert Plant but not when he sings anything involving the words “my baby”. Something weird happens that I don’t like.
“I mean we know that stuff here but WOW the clarity of presentation. Stunning.”
I’ll go watch, then.
(watched)
“too busy working minimum wage” (to have time to research things) “…what they normally do is ‘outsource’ their thinking onto a trusted media…”
Aye. The completion of my sociopolital journey toward valid functioning truth increased greatly when I became Mister Mom around ’99 until ’09 (with some part-time work here and there). Time — and the internet — made a vasy difference in my already skeptical cynical thinking.
Knowledge (accurate, of course) is power.
“I mean we know that stuff here but WOW the clarity of presentation. Stunning.”
I’ll go watch, then.
Along with things like disappearing, the crypto-censorship of google seems about complete. VERY hard to get ‘unofficial’ results.
I wonder if they’ll blame Russia.
Well, back to a very early g’nite.
“I still show up as the Daibutsu of Kamakura, at least to myself.”
We see you too, Daibutsu. Well, I can.
Incidentally, the link itself reveals a site that might be a way to get your pic online here:
https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6e323dc9e6ce8d121f1c66374ae977db?s=160&d=mm&r=pg
Yup. Doc Day’s site is down. My guess is they’re taking out low-hanging fruit now, since taking down the platforms of people who’ve developed a sizable audience is by now, imo, proving counter-productive.
Doc Day’s site committed the multiple sin of a) providing very valuable useful info, and b) not having a following large enough to likely create a backdraft/backlash.
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