[Susan C]

I’ve missed you too, Raul. Take all the time you need before returning.

As for the Trump/Musk slappy fight everyone already knows Epstein was an Israeli secret service asset. It’s only people’s prurient obsessions that fuel the curiosity – maybe because they were never invited.

[Susan C]

to: Mr. Carpenter

Ilargi old us several days ago he’s very ill. Didn’t you wonder why nobody else has
complained about this unusual situation?

[Susan C]

So sorry to read you’re unwell, Raul. Please take the time you need to recover.

[Susan C]

Tree Frog #185032

Saw your question late this evening but I remembered that too yet the only mentions I can find is one short note on Tass
and a longer one at Strategic Culture – always a good source.

https://tass.com/politics/1803561

Tactics, Strategy and Operations

[Susan C]

@ my parents said know #182525

oroboros?

I’ve been wondering too. His meme comments really lighten up the joint.

[Susan C]

Maybe I didn’t see the vacation notification but I’m wondering where is @oroboros?

[Susan C]

I know I’m late Raul, but I wish you good travels and a very speedy recovery.

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Dear Oroboros
Thank you for the wonderful memes. I often read the other comments but I delight in and am comforted by your wry sense of humor. Please don’t stop 🙂
~ Susan

[Susan C]

TRUMP AND KAMALA DEBATE THE ECONOMY | Shawn Farash and Estee Palti | The Alec Lace Show

🙂

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I found something yesterday that I thought to share here but before I do so I have to mention that the direct links to twitter/x (or is it x/twitter?) make TAE look awful.
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But is there profit in it?

BC has had a number of forest fires in the past couple of years. The Narwhal has been doing an investigative series about wildfires – this one was of particular interest. Here’s the introduction:

“Wildfire salvage” — an industry that’s growing as B.C.’s wildfire seasons worsen.

The B.C. government has been pushing to accelerate salvage logging.

But as Zoë details in the story, “salvage” is not always the right word. That’s because logging in wildfire zones can include living trees in old-growth forests. So long as some wood in an area is considered to be “fire damaged,” companies get salvage-logging rates for the whole area — meaning they can get premium lumber at a discounted price.

That can be a problem for the health of the forest. Left untouched, scorched and burned trees still offer benefits for wildlife, including endangered species like spotted owls, while dead or dying trees also nourish forest ecosystems.

“Is there a better way to do it? The answer is yes,” one wildlife advocate told Zoë. “Are we doing it a better way? The answer is no.”

But there is hope things are moving in the right direction: First Nations, government and industry have recently come together to map out the course for responsible wildfire salvage in B.C.

[Susan C]

To: D. Benton Smith

Glad to see you back!

I’d like to know
what this whole show
is about
before it’s out.
~ Grooks by Piet Hein

[Susan C]

To John Day

Thanks, I was aware of the opium connection but I hadn’t considered the money laundering aspect. No wonder the city council has decided to allow taller condos. Everybody gets a cut.

[Susan C]

While I see a lot of the news TAE commenters write about, every so often I come across something that many of you may not have seen. This is an article I happened across in the UK Telegraph this week about just how bad the drug crisis is in Vancouver, BC. You know, that gorgeous haven on the Pacific – Canada’s pride.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/vancouver-opioid-crisis-drug-addiction-british-columbia-canada/

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DBS – Thanks so much for the disquisition. I’m not so erudite as once I was but I thought you might be interested in meeting another blogger I visit now and then. His name is Bruce Charlton, a retired British academic:

It is striking how often the expressed Christian understanding of Heaven is extremely “minimalist”. In other words; the idea is that very little happens in Heaven. Furthermore, in such a Heaven we ourselves are simplified (by subtraction of all sin).

Heavenly life is thus described very simply; including discarding almost everything most people might most value in this mortal life; such as family and marriage; and our most cherished creative and other activities. Sometimes, indeed, Heavenly life is reduced to the single activity of communion with the divine.

This sounds, on the face of it, pretty un-appealing – except as a relief and escape from suffering. The usual answer to such objections is that we shall ourselves by-then have-been transformed… Such that what seems now to be an aetiolated existence; will, when we are actually in that situation, be wholly satisfying; indeed joyful beyond our current possibility of understanding.

It is probably clear from the above that I – by contrast – regard Heaven in a “maximalist” kind of way; as greatly enriched by more, and continuousness, of broadly the same kind of positive things that are best in this mortal life.

Thus I regard Heaven as a place of more, and more loving, and everlasting relationships – including family, marriage, friendship; and ultimately loving relationships of other forms with other kinds of (“non-human”) resurrected Beings such as animals, plants, and natural elemental Beings.

And I regard Heaven as a place of “work” – the best kind of work; that work which derives from creative love. Which is to say creative work, fulfilling work; work that adds-to, enhances, enriches divine creation.

It is striking how often the expressed Christian understanding of Heaven is extremely “minimalist”. In other words; the idea is that very little happens in Heaven.

Furthermore, in such a Heaven we ourselves are simplified (by subtraction of all sin).

Heavenly life is thus described very simply; including discarding almost everything most people might most value in this mortal life; such as family and marriage; and our most cherished creative and other activities.

Sometimes, indeed, Heavenly life is reduced to the single activity of communion with the divine.

This sounds, on the face of it, pretty un-appealing – except as a relief and escape from suffering.

The usual answer to such objections is that we shall ourselves by-then have-been transformed…

Such that what seems now to be an aetiolated existence; will, when we are actually in that situation, be wholly satisfying; indeed joyful beyond our current possibility of understanding.

It is probably clear from the above that I – by contrast – regard Heaven in a “maximalist” kind of way; as greatly enriched by more, and continuousness, of broadly the same kind of positive things that are best in this mortal life.

Thus I regard Heaven as a place of more, and more loving, and everlasting relationships – including family, marriage, friendship; and ultimately loving relationships of other forms with other kinds of (“non-human”) resurrected Beings such as animals, plants, and natural elemental Beings.

And I regard Heaven as a place of “work” – the best kind of work; that work which derives from creative love.

Thanks for the meat and potatoes 🙂

[Susan C]

Eurovision 2024

How about if they simply replace the whole thing with excerpts from the Ted Mack Amateur Hour?

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to: aspnaz #158736

Passengers and crew members have been evacuated from a Corendon Airlines Boeing 737-800 after one of the plane’s tyres burst during landing in Turkey.

Michelin make those tires, but the MSM would hate to miss an opportunity to blame Boeing. It is a bit like blaming Ford because your tire blew out on the road, who does that?

You’re right. The other thing never mentioned is the airlines who bought the planes not doing recommended maintenance.

[Susan C]

jb-hb #150513

Is this one of the hydro generators you mentioned?

https://twitter.com/TechInsider/status/1378921359498223617

It’s a very interesting system that’s been among my bookmarks for a long while.

[Susan C]

Every so often I’m on the point of being fooled by some piece with a dubious quote. Maybe it’s just me and everybody else recognizes these things as jokes long discounted by those in the know. If so, I apologize for noticing and mentioning that the above quote attributed to Henry Kissinger is false.

Here is the body of the speech he made that day in a transcript from The Atlantic Council: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/transcript/transcript-kissinger-s-remarks-at-2009-makins-lecture/
There are any number of legitimate reasons to despise the man for what he actually did say and do.

TAE is so valuable because we can trust the information found here. Thanks for all you do and to your knowledgeable commenters.

[Susan C]

I posted this last night but in case you missed it and are interested in seeing Strategic Culture you can find the website here:

https://strategic-culture.su/

The story about why they were disappeared most recently is here:

Cyberattack on This Journal… Proving Truth Is the First Casualty of War

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Apologies for the above nonsense posts. I’d attemted to leave a comment earlier that I’d found a new link to Strategic Culture and was blocked by the unexpected comment potection software.

Anyway, in case it hasn’t already been found and reported by someone on TAE
the new address for Strategic Culture is on an ‘su’ domain rather than ‘org’.
https://strategic-culture.su/

This editorial describing what happened is well worth a read is called Cyberattack on This Journal… Proving Truth Is the First Casualty of War

I’ll try to be more patient in future.

[Susan C]

msmm

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nnnn

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To: D. Benton Smith

I hope you didn’t mean me when you remarked about lurkers who never leave comments. I don’t usually comment but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate Raul’s site nor many of the comments left by you and others. Some people just don’t have much left to say.

I’ve been a longtime donor too.

[Susan C]

We’re going to miss the Saker.

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To: A few Know the Truth

Thanks so much for the explanation about the airstrips. It makes a lot of sense and I’m sorry I missed your earlier explanation. This time I’ve copied it to a text edit file that I’ll save for future reference.

To: Veracious Poet

Sorry about that. As a rule I read and rarely leave a comment.

[Susan C]

I’m a bit confused about the ‘airstrip’ numbers. If the basis is Orwell’s ‘1984’ then I understand airstrip 1 to mean the UK. That would mean the others might all relate to the 5 Eye countries – UK, USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, but what is the order if this is the case?

I come here every day and appreciate reading the links Illargi posts and I often read through the comments. This appears to be one of those circumstances where the in-crowd is talking to each other only.

Happy Christmas to All
and Best Wishes for the New Year!
🎄☀️💖☀️🎄

[Susan C]

https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1559530185686675457

Worth sharing.

[Susan C]

My own favorite Redon: Bouddha

[Susan C]

Ukrainian soldiers at the Russian border for a photo-op:
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1526146535766913025?cxt=HHwWgsCjuYeM-60qAAAA

[Susan C]

Club of Rome guy is Dennis Meadows, co-author of 1972’s Limits to Growth.

https://greattransition.org/contributor/dennis-meadows

[Susan C]

re: China

This past week I read a series of articles about China written by Eric Mertz on a new substack page called General Crisis Watch. Much of what I read there sounded realistic.

[Susan C]

@ Willem #106737

I still can’t figure out what the problem might be that won’t let me access Strategic Culture. My Firefox has adblockers and ghostery but Safari I’ve left untouched since I rarely use it and clear the cache each time I do.

But thanks for letting me know I’m not the only one.
ps: The Brave browser didn’t like either of our OS’s – sheesh..

It’s possible too that SC changed something recently that’s had a bad effect.

[Susan C]

@ Cloudhidden #106728
@ Figmund Sreud #106729

It appears to me that Strategic Culture may have been banned by my local cable carrier (Shaw). Thanks for letting me know you can access the site over VPN. That’s something I’ll have to consider. The Saker and The Cradle are places where I can continue to read Escobar’s articles.

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Good morning Raul and all.

Several days ago I asked if anyone other than me was having difficulty accessing the Strategic Culture website. When I mentioned that I live in BC, Canada Figmund Sreud said he does too and also hasn’t been able to link to SC. I continue to have no access to the site on either Google or DuckDuckGo, nor can I find any information about what might be going on no matter what search words I use.

I’d appreciate hearing about it if anyone has any information.

[Susan C]

to Archie comment 106618

So far today I haven’t been able to see that login message either – the site request simply times out. I’ll keep trying every so often.

Thanks for responding to my question.

[Susan C]

to FS comment #106602
and userzoid comment #106604

re: Strategic Culture

Thanks for responding. I’ve been having the same problem, Figmund. Having looked for other sources for Alastair Crooke’s analyses the only recent source I’ve come across has been on almayadeen.net. You can read his recent posts here.

Userzoid, I appreciate your info that SC is down for the time being. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, Robert Bridge also posts to Muck Rack.

and Matthew Ehret is on Substack.

I’ve enjoyed reading other articles there but can’t recall the names of other analysts. Yet another problem with ageing.

[Susan C]

re: Strategic Culture

Having been unable to open a link to the website for several days I’m wondering if they’ve been censored locally (I live in BC, Canada). Has anyone here had this problem?

[Susan C]

I can’t resist sending this for my friends at TAE to watch. Thanks Illargi!

Natasha From Russia With Love

[Susan C]

First, I must say how much I appreciate Raul’s Automatic Earth for helping to keep us not just informed these past two years but also for protecting our sanity. This gratitude also includes the people who comment here.

Dr. Julie Ponesse: “@JustinTrudeau’s 2021 deal with Pfizer (35M boosters in 2022 & 30M in 2023) and the option to extend vaccine delivery until 2024 up to 120M doses, means he MUST keep the mandates on pain of breaking the contract or wasting funds. This isn’t a fight he’ll give up easily.”

Acuitas Therapeutics, part of the university of BC, developed the technology and recently partnered with Pfizer.

We also watched David Martin’s update about the Trudeau government paricipating in what may well be a serious conflict of interest.

We hear the airhorns and cheers from in front of the BC parliament here in Victoria. It’s time again to go and show our support.

Thanks again.

[Susan C]

To Archie #87421

I’m in Canada too and have felt the same way about the need for the police, firefighters, and emt’s to be involved in fighting against the new regulations. I was happy to seethis video made at Queen’s Park a few days ago. We are not alone even though it often feels that way.

NOW – Canada: Police officers, firefighters and paramedics have gathered at Queen's Park, Toronto for a silent protest against mandatory #COVID19 vaccinations.pic.twitter.com/goFKNrhPwc

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 13, 2021

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