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It’s not too late to jump ship, until it’s too late.
Tick . . . tick . . . tick . . .
In its frantic search for a new straw man CNN could save a lot of time effort and money by cutting out the middleman and going straight to the World Economic Forum. I’m sure their little club could provide a graduate more than eager for the job. I hear that Justin Trudeau, for example, is quietly exploring options for a new position.
Thanks for giving me yet another opportunity to share some pictures.
The fundamental mistake that authoritarians make ( Commies and Fascists alike ) is their bonkers idea that they can legitimately make other peoples’ decisions for them. These “authorities” think that they are not just able make other peoples’ choices for them, but that they SHOULD make enforceable decisions for them.
There is a serious problem with their notion. The problem is that it is literally, scientifically and factually IMPOSSIBLE to make a decision as anyone other than oneself. Your decisions are yours and other peoples’ decisions are theirs. If you are the one who does it . . . then it’s yours, and not the other guy’s.
Someone can make a decision INSTEAD of letting the other person decide. They can even enforce that decree by various coercive means to force that other person to obey. But that doesn’t mean that the decider is somehow not the sole and only originator and owner of that decision.
It’s not a morality thing. It’s a logic thing. It’s simply the way that the Universe is built. The causer of an effect is, indeed, the cause of that effect. The decider of a decision is, indeed, the one who decided.
So the time has come. Are you going to continue letting others delusionally decide things for you? Or will you regain the awareness that ONLY you can actually make decisions for you.
Is a datum true or is it false ? Is an action good or is it bad? Am I aware or am I hiding? Only you can decide the answers to those questions.
Authoritarians are unaware of this axiomatic truth and the error puts them in conflict with the Universe itself (God, if you will). That’s why the mistake always ends badly.
Everything (science, religion, logic & reasoning, and everything) ultimately goes back to an awareness, who decides.
That happens to be you, at the moment.
@those darned kids
A few of the shills are now doing that (jumping ship, distancing themselves, rolling it back, going dark, etc.) but time is running out and escape routes close as the hard evidence mounts. I don’t think anything like this his has never happened to them before. Even Nuremburg cut the Nazis a lot of slack (legally speaking) , but this time the victims of genocide are not a minority group, and no court can control what a vengeful populace will do when the lid comes off.
Having deflationista around increases the opportunity to point out stuff like that. Maybe a few of the smarter ones will get the truth before the truth gets them.
Contrary to what you might think (and yes, I concede that you might still be able to think) I do not want you to go away. You serve as a very useful foil, to whom important truths can be directed . . . not so that you might understand them, but so that others of your cohort can. Your “ilk” so to speak.
You and your ilk are very very seriously misreading and underestimating the situation. You believe that, win or lose, this whole crisis is going to eventually blow over and that conditions will return to a balance of power that is at most only moderately changed from what it used to be.
That is not what’s going to happen. What is going to happen is continued exponential growth of irrefutable evidence which leaves no stone unturned, and no significantly guilty party unprosecuted. The killers are going down, and that outcome is way to late to stop. The phenomenon is not running on momentum. It’s running on truth.
Only the oblivious fail to see what is inescapable, inevitable and upon us : Justice.
Time to search your soul and do the right thing. Even if your motive is simply to save yourself, it’s still the right thing. Stop lying.
Latest public statement from Vladimir Putin:
We have decided not to invade Ukraine because the only things there worth having we’ve already got.. If someone else launches a war in Ukrain in the hopes that we will show up at the party we have decided to win it by not selling you any more gas.
It’s fun, watching the world wake up. Not everyone awakens with the same cheery attitude, however, so be a little careful around the ones who are not what you might call “Morning Persons.”
China is by no measure the only mad dog out there, but I think it’s fair to say that they opportunistically (and successfully) hijacked the existing psychopathy of our brittle system and are now top dog in the rabid pack.
The thing of it is, though (and with an overdose of irony) it is still very fresh in the memory of the Chinese Communist Party that an oppressed general population fighting for their lives can rise up and overthrow an entrenched central government pretty damn quick. That is why, of course, the CCP is so insanely, obsessively, a p o p l e c t i c a l l y, terrified of dissenters communicating with other dissenters.
Dissenters capable of mobility, communications and self defense is their fevered nightmare. Seeking to neutralize such imagined (potential) dissenters way too early, way too fast and way too brutally is what is causing the ranks of dissenters to grow so quickly. In a peculiar, reflexive way, the Commies are terrified by the very nature of their own strategy.
As you know, things are likely to get very messy for a while, but the bad guys ARE about to lose everything they ever dreamed of stealing, and they are going to lose it FAST. What we’re talking about here is actual PROSECUTIONS for capital crimes accessory to premeditated murders. The shift is going to be so big so wide and so deep that it could take networked psychopathy thousands of years to swindle it back, and by then I reckon humankind will have learned how to be a little less crazy.
The world’s leaders, elites, owners, etc. have made their intentions pretty clear. They intend to get what they have plainly stated that they want, and YOU are going to do as you’re told to give it to them. Literally everything shall be directed toward the accomplishment of this noble purpose. Or else.
Supporting their plan is mandatory. Opposing it in any way is a crime punishable by death. Simple.
Their reasoned (by the very best algorithms) justification is that if we disobey then the human species is doomed to extinction from a host of natural (or decidedly unnatural) causes, and compliance will result in a Paradise of Bountiful, Whole, and Complete Peace On Earth.
Looking back over the past few years, how’s that plan of theirs been going so far?
I would like to see an aerial reconnaissance photo of the area being blacked out by the CBC Live Cams blackout. So many trucks and people down there !
When you choose to fight for Truth , Justice and Life don’t be surprised when it leads you directly into a struggle with the forces of Death, Evil and Deceit.
The Materialists may eventually answer (down to the most ultimately finest detail) the so-called “Hard Question” of consciousness. Unfortunately, according to their own precepts, there will not be anyone there in the forest to hear that tree fall.
Therefore, the only way to save a materialist is to restore their hearing. Keep speaking within their earshot, in ways that they can hear, and eventually they will start to listen. Once they know themselves to be listening they are cured.
It doesn’t matter much if Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC ) turns off all of the Live Feed news cams , because no one is in front of their video screen to watch the feeds anyway. They’re all over at the Trucker Convoy protest.
@John Day
In the previous TAE issue you wrote, “Putin might be behind the Freedom Convoy says Canadian Broadcasting Company: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/worlds-largest-truck-convoy-arrives-ottawa-protest-medical-tyranny”Well, that might explain why the convoy has been so successful.
@Maxwell Quest
Plain old day-to-day reality is so weird that personally observed material facts can make us FEEL like we’re being gaslighted. (example: Fauci publicly states that his Powers That Be fully intend to inject spike protein generating mRNA into infants and children.) When that happens then you KNOW that someone is either lying to you now ( big time ! ) or has lied to you big time in the past. Or both. Like the homicide detective said just before interviewing witnesses, “Let’s see who’s lying, who’s lying more, and who’s lying the most.”
Count the truths, count the lies, and tally it up. Then do so again just to be sure, only much more thoroughly this time. If any doubt remains then do it all yet again, but it 10 times more thoroughly yet.
Eventually you amass a model of who is lying to you the most, what are they lying about, and why they are using those particular lies. Ultimately , only you can decide for you what is really true and what is purposefully false, and why.
My own conclusion (I’m always ready to assess late breaking new “facts”) is that the top of our “civilizational” pyramid of power decided a LONG time ago that sooner or later they were going to have to kill off the bottom in order to maintain top position, and that they would need to be in charge of that hierarchical structure to be able to pull it off when the time came. I am completely certain that is what is going on now. The top of our complex hierarchy has pulled the trigger, on plans that have been developing incrementally for at least many decades, and perhaps much longer . The span of time doesn’t matter very much.
What does matter much is that the longer we err on the side of doubt, caution and the deliberate ignorance born of incredulity, then the greater is the probaability that the self proclaimed owners will largely succeed in that murderous, insane and ultimately doomed plan. We hesitate due to doubt, fear and simple cowardice, not from mercy or wisdom, because there is nothing merciful or wise in letting a billion children be slaughtered like spring lambs.
In my opinion It is time for us all to learn and increase our awareness of what is real like we have never done before. And act accordingly . And the most important part of that reality is that we are NOT inanimate material in a Godless universe.
By the way, I hear that Joni Mitchell is challenging Neil Young in a race to the bottom of artistic obilvion by nuking the last conduit of their own shrinking market access. Gotta wonder if there are any other washed up old hippie has-beens out there, eager to flush fading legacies down the suicide toilet of public humiliation and anonymity? Spotify awaits their applications. Line forms by the dumpsters out in the alley.
Too bad. I sorta liked more than a few of the songs they did half a century ago, before the vax put the finishing touches on their cognitive decline. No problem. I still have their tapes. Just gotta find that old 8-track player and we’re good to go.
“Government has only one justification for its existence, which is our inability to manage our affairs without ruining those of others.”
Not to be nitpicky or anything, and being fully on board that what you wrote (above) IS a pretty good reason , but technically it is just a REASON , and not all that great as a JUSTIFICATION.
@those darned kids regarding the Pretty Bo’ Trudeau :
There is no rock big enough to hide him, and besides, the rocks are already full up, no-vacancy, with all of the other slithery slimey things trying to hide now that the day is upon them.
If there is anything more serious than purposeful mass murder on a global scale it is the following observed fact : The intelligence, military, judicial , financial, academic, communications , medical and scientific institutions across the entire planet are doing NOTHING to stop or even slow the crime. Quite the contrary. In many cases (maybe in MOST cases) these “institutional authority” people are energetically supporting and proactively committing the murders themselves !
Government has only one justification for its existance: the preservation of the lives, health and prosperity of the people it governs. Governmental monopoly over law enforcement and officially sanctioned violence has one and only one justification as well : the provision of justice and the protection of the lives and property of the population who yielded personal sovereignty in exchange for the promised and expected benefit of themselves and the group.
That agreement was and is a contract, applicable to BOTH parties. In other words, we gave up the right to physically defend ourselves and our loved ones and our property by giving that right to group-approved institutions. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It even seemed to work fairly well for a time.
But now we innocent , VOLUNTARILY submissive, citizens, are being killed (literally killed dead) en masses by the very persons we entrusted with the protection of our lives and property, and those killers are being protected from justice rather than subjected to it. Sure looks like breach of contract to me.
The solution seems pretty obvious to me, too. Take the voluntarily given authority away from lying, malfeasant, traitorous criminals . . . and give that authority back to yourself. It was never anything other than yours in the first place. The miscreant traitorous murders will probably say they have the “authority” to not let you do that, but , hey, without your personal permission the simply don’t have the “authority” to make the claim.
@oxymoron You asked, ” what the fuck ?” in reference to Melissa Harris-Perry’s astonishing video statement.
Still, ya gotta acknowledge that she didn’t equivocate, but simply made her beliefs on the issue of children crystal clear :
“Your kids belong to us. “
I playing a hunch on this one.
Several commentators have posed the question of “Where . . . geographically . . . are the factories and packaging facilities where the physical vaccine substances are manufactured, combined, put into the glass vials, numbered labeled and stacked onto the palletts for shipment.
Does anyone here know? I for one would really LIKE to know. Thhe knowledge might lead nowhere interesting, but on the other hand, selectively targeted genocide is a tricky business, and I’ve just got this hunch that they would want to run really tight control on those killer batches.
@those darned kids You asked , “What’s that smell ?”
I think the deflated one just released a little more noxious gas . But I have also noticed a subtle difference on that front recently, and not only from our local troll. I’ve noticed that some of the better known “Narrative” boosters are increasingly dissociative and even overtly self-contradictory in their written statements. Maybe it can be chalked up to them being dumb or hasty , but I think it’s something deeper. I think they are actually “losing it” , slipping into actual , clinical, mental illness. The kind that’s gonna land them in a psych ward if they don’t sort out which screw is loose. It’s not just their Narrative that’s falling apart. It’s also them personally.
Dr. Astrid Stuckleberger has pretty impressive credentials.
Here is her bio : https://www.astridstuckelberger.com/bio/
Poor Nietzsche. The most misunderstood philosopher since Socrates. Ah, well, at least he got people talking.
@Oroboros ” You can’t wake someone who’s pretending to be asleep.”
Oh, man, that is the best, most theftworthy one-liner I’ve heard in years. I’m definitely gonna use it at every opportunity, and in these times I reckon there’s gonna be plenty of opportunity.
Boscohorowitz wrote, “When irony twists too far around, it becomes mere stupidity . . . ”
Yes. Verily. That is true. And I want to add another observationa to his observation.
But first I want to make a special point, that what I’m about to say is not meant to be taken in any sort of funny, humorous or ironic way. It could easily be taken as a wise crack, but it should not be. I say this in simple earnest :
In all of the world the must difficult thing to understand is stupidity.
Anything and everything we can learn and understand about that most common of all human failings is worth the effort and warrants hard careful study. All mistakes ultimately come down to some form of stupidity, regardless of who makes them, and since we all suffer from the mistakes of ourselves and others then it would probably be in our own most enlightened best interests to figure out what the hell is really going on with all of this stupid mistake making.
@John Day
” There is a good picture of the attic-room taking shape with a nice strong, screwed-in plywood ceiling.”Good tidy work. Gives one a great feeling just to look at it.
The Three Laws of Plumbing are wonderful aphorism. They are true and funny at every level of the metaphor, and the levels extend all the way down to Hell and up to Heaven.
I love it when you talk philosophical!
Here’s my two and half cents’ worth :
The axiom “Power corrupts” is almost true, but it stops just short of the mark. The full truth is that power IS corruption. Power (the ability to enforce one’s will upon another person, against that person’s will) is both neccessary in order to survive, and the biggest existential threat to one’s own survival when the power lays in the hands of another.
In the past couple of years how many times have you thought to yourself (or said out loud) that the current world wide wacko would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic ? Well, what if that were literally true ? What if the joke is on us, and we are the ones telling it? I do believe that’s the case.
We all more or less “collectively” (or at least interactively) construct a MACHINE ( let’s call it “Civilization”) that is essentially a hierarchically authoritative mechanism that produces all of the cool and convenient stuff we love so much. Stuff like electricity, flushing toilets, cool cars and cell phones. Owners hire bosses, bosses give orders, employed slaves comply, products ship, and everybody’s happy.
We expect and insist that this patchwork contraption runs like a Swiss watch. It doesn’t actually run that well , but we keep trying anyway. We try and try again to patch and modify and adjust (and sharply rap it against hard surfaces) to get it to run more and more and more “perfectly”.
The problem is, however, that Swiss watches and other machines only run perfectly when all of the parts actually do what they are meant to do ( or are told to do, or are FORCED to do.) That’s fine with us as long as we are the ones giving the orders (enforcing obedience and pulling down the bucks) , but it’s not so much fun things are the other way around. When the master tells us to do something stupid (or criminal) OR ELSE! And gives us shit wages and high taxes in exchange, then we really don’t like it so much. The shit end of the stick is not the same as the other end ! It’s like the First Law of Plumbing : “ Shit flows downhill”. [Second Law is : “Payday’s on Friday,” and the Third : “Don’t chew your fingernails.”]
So what’s the solution ? Why, enforce more AUTHORITY of course ! FORCE those greedy bastards (Masters and Slaves alike. Main Springs and Wheel Cogs alike. ) to do their jobs, do what it is NECCESSARY for them to do for this machine (civilization) to run like that Swiss watch I keep metaphorizing.
You see the problem here, right ? We want to have our cake and eat it too ! We believe that having full compliance and total freedom simultaneously is our birthright! If that Master or that Flunky or that Slave would just DO what they are bloody TOLD to do . . . then everything would be just peachy.
Like I said, it could be hilarious if it were not so tragic. So, The Universe, Life & Everything is a “Tragi-Comedy” ? Crikey! That takes us right back to the Lord Of The Rings analogy !
You have probably noticed that the AMAZING, ASTOUNDING & ALTOGETHER STUNNINGLY OBVIOUS STUPID MISTAKES being made by the adversaries of humankind recently are becoming increasingly stupid and obvious. Well, there’s a perfectly sensible reason for that , and here’s what it is:
There is literally NO incentive for them to be competent.
No matter how well they might do their jobs at this point, the simple fact is that any honest and truthful examination of their zones of responsibility will result in them being dragged into the street and summarily beaten to death by the ever increasing number of awakened victims.
They firmly believe (for good obvious reasons) that the only hope of personal survival is to prevent that honest and truthful examination from ever taking place. Therefore, the ONLY job they need to be good at is THAT job. . . protect the lie at all costs. Forestall truth, at all costs.
It’s an existential sort of showdown, and everybody on both sides either knows it outright or feels it in their bones.
Don’t worry. Become more and more aware of any truthful fact that you can find anywhere, and use that enlightenment to become even more aware of even more .
Acceptance of Reality is not that far away. You’ll make it. And so will they.
“Hanlon’s Razor: Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.”
Smith’s Corollary to Hanlon’s Razor : Never assume that stupidity isn’t caused by malice.
It occurred to me that there are two ways to “connect dots.”
One method is to draw a line of logical connection from one factual “dot” to another, related, point of fact. (This is called rational , logical or sane by the majority of people, and conspiracy theory by a few others.)
The other way of “connecting the dots” refrains from drawing any logical lines at all. Just keep posting up more and more dots until the blank spaces between these conglomerating dots become too small to be visible under a scanning electron microscope. In other words, so damned many dots that the visually linear formation of dots is absolutely indistinguishable from a line that is drawn as a line. (This method is known as Science, or evidence based reasoning by most folks, and is called “misinformation” by the people whose misdeeds are what the dots are all about in the first place.)
@Mr. House
Jessica’s husband might insist upon chaperoning such a meet.
By the way, Jess is also the originator of my blog’s motto. When asked a couple or five years ago what people should do about the chaos that was boiling up all over the world at once, her answer was, “I don’t know about everyone else, but as for me I intend to just go on living until further notice.”
One of the more confusing attack strategies waged by the so-called “woke” mobsters in their war against humanity has been their flamboyantly wacky attack upon gender and all things which differentiate between male and female. What’s with all of that nonsense, anyway?
I just didn’t get it. It seemed pointless. I was not able to come up with a satisfactory explanation of WHY they were investing so much energy in such an apparently idiotic campaign.
I was discussing this mystery yesterday with my family when my daughter just sort of casually dropped the answer into the middle of the conversation like an illuminating star shell flare that lit up the landscape like daylight.
“They’re trying to erase from the minds of all reproduction age people their innate sense of natural sex differentiation and gender BECAUSE MACHINES DON’T HAVE GENDER. Being aware of one’s identity as a man or woman is a step toward being aware that one is not a machine. Obviously the materialists can’t have that sort of realization in people’s thinking. People who know themselves as male or female aren’t going to buy into the idea that they’re just another disposable piece of machinery, who aren’t even necessary for reproduction because genetic engineering and fetus development is better done in the laboratory anyway.”
Wowser. It’s a good thing my daughter inherited her looks AND her brains from her mother’s side of the family. Her observation was such a goodie that I just had to share it with y’all.
Apparently there are fewer math geeks and logicians in this commentariat than I had presumed. I say this because the significance was clearly missed about the hyper importance of the OFFICIALLY documented fact that the vaccine lot numbers directly correlate to dramatic differences in rates of adverse reactions and deaths in vaccine recipients.
I feel compelled to say it all again, because that very undramatic little fact is tantamount to, nay it PROVES, that the Covid vax program is . . . with no doubt whatsoever . . . and continues to be a VERY thoroughly premeditated act of mass murder on a scale nearly impossible to comprehend.
The rationale is strongly founded on the scientific (and logical) principles of sequence and causality. Cause always comes before its resultant effect and effects always comes after its causal event.
If I’m manufacturing red, blue and yellow paint and selling it in cans labeled 1,2 and 3 (respectively) and when the cans are opened it is revealed that all of the #1 cans are red, all of the #2 cans are blue, and all of the #3 cans are yellow , then it PROVES that I knew . . . BEFOREHAND . . . that #1 meant red, #2 meant blue, and #3 meant yellow OTHERWISE I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LABEL THE CANS ACCURATELY & CONSISTENTLY IN THE FIRST PLACE.
It also proves, by the same logic, that I KNEW that the effective difference between the three types of paint was their COLOR (OR, in the case of the vaccine, THEIR DEGREE OF TOXIC LETHALITY) OTHERWISE THE OPENED CANS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY AND ONLY CORRELATED BETWEEN COLOR and NUMBER. Some of the #2 cans, for example, would have had the same as the #1 cans in every other respect . . . but they would not have been blue.
Furthermore, and even more damningly, it PROVES that I was consciously aware of HOW the effective differences were devised and accomplished In the case of the paint I had to know HOW to make paint red or blue or yellow. In the case of the vaccine they had to know HOW to make them more or less or even NOT lethal. They would have to know WHAT the lethal agent was, so that they could adjust it.
The above is not sophist nit-picking over silly numbers. It is DAMNING irrefutable and inescapable PROOF. It takes balls to confront the seriousness of these facts, because that much premeditating requires collaborative cooperation between a VERY large number of people at the HIGHEST levels of authority.
Don’t look to your presidents and generals and courts to save you, because they have known for a LONG time.
@Veracious Poet
I know, I know. You’re right, of course, BUT , on the other hand, Duh!Felatio is comic relief in a seriously dramatic story. It’s healthy to laugh on occasion.
So, here’s the question : Are you an (as yet) unindicted-co conspirator to crimes against humanity, or are you just an angry asshole who likes to pick fights and argue?
I dunno. The jury is still out on that one. Sure hope you’re just an ass . You’re mean enough to be a criminal, but somehow you just don’t come across as smart enough for real bad guys to keep on the payroll.
