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Everyone’s coffee must be slow acting this morning. Either that or we’re all stuck in a Mexican Standoff, just waiting for someone to make the first incautious move. If the latter is the case, please allow me the honors (or foolhardiness).
How’s this for starters? I will make a bold statement, and then y’all have a go at it. The future is unknown even to God, because if it were known (even to God) then it wouldn’t be the future. It would be the present, merely awaiting confirmation. Personally, I don’t think that God is doing that. I believe He’s keeping His options open and is just as curious as we are about what happens next.
What a way to spend your 80th birthday! He did it! Hats off. So many people wanted him to fail even if it was against their own interests, just to spite him.
I’m grateful that our host (wisely) chose not to attach his name directly to the above statement. It’s embarrassing enough just to read it and realize that our beloved TAE has fallen to such depths.
For Gawdsake, Ilargi! It’s only like, what, the 39th time Trump has repeated the same ridiculous lie, and yet you still choose to believe it?
What’s wrong with you, man? Are you non compos mentis or something?
The only “Deal” is that the US and Israel started an unprovoked and ill-considered illegal war of aggression against Iran and used the excuse of war to murder tens of thousands of innocent civilians, and then Iran won it. Israel lost it, as usual, and the United States lost it even more than usual.
By this time tomorrow everyone else (except the US and its conjoined twin) will be saying what I just said, and within the week Trump will spout some other equal or greater nonsense or bomb somebody to distract attention from the OBVIOUS, and move on to instance #40.
You were born in 1948 and Truman signed the CIA into existence in 1947. Kennedy wanted to smash it to bits, but Alan Dulles and George HW Bush blew his brains out for having that rash impulse…
He was able (as a mere temporarily elected executive under the Constitution) to sign CIA into existence because the National Security Act (which was itself outrageously illegal in every aspect) gave him legal cover to commit such a crime (and crime it was and is!).
Those jerks, in turn, were able to pass the horrendously foul National Security Act of 1947 because, at the direction of the ruling elites, Churchill, Roosevelt and their respective spy chiefs were in full voluntary collaboration with the powers-behind-the-powers that turned WW2 into a MASSIVE victory FOR THE BAD GUYS, giving them hegemonic control of nearly the whole world for nearly a century… and it still ain’t over.
There is only ONE true Intelligence in the world, and it’s the one that is running the world. That’s what intelligence actually is, in the final analysis. It is the world running. Consciousness of those goings on, and sovereign agency to effect them, is a different way of looking at that. That’s the point.
System Fragility Loop
That’s the nicest way of saying Headed To Hell In A Handbasket that I have ever heard.
If there were a Noble Prize for best euphemism then that one would be a leading contender. Too bad that the prize would have to go to an AI.
The complexities that arise from the fact that I share in the next statement are beyond my capability to adequately describe, but the fact remains.
I am now quite old (78) and have not seen my government act with honor in my entire lifetime.
Well said. We must accomplish all of our sensible responsibilities at once, don’t we? And one of those responsibilities (perhaps the biggest one, or near to it) is to lead a good and successful REAL life at this immediate and ongoing moment of forever.
Incidentally, my trained eye sees that Hancock has been rather ham fistedly “AI Enhanced” in the video while the interviewer was not. My best guess is that Hancock’s bad health was too graphically obvious to the camera’s unflinching eye so they prettied him up a little for the audience (and his legacy, should medical events go badly.)
Such matters have no bearing on the accuracy and legitimacy of the data and cognitive content of the video in question.
Sorry if this induces any cognitive whiplash injuries, but the following video (on a topic that is moderately familiar to all of us here) inadvertently introduces a whole new subject that practically no one is talking about.
They should be doing a lot more than just talking about it. Because their very lives are at stake.
Our governing elites are intent upon killing us “lower” echelon of the general population. They are not just fully aware of what they’re doing (intentional democide/genocide), they are fully intent on doing it. (all in!)
And the whole damn story is right there in the heavily suppressed historical record. As that historical record gets revealed one bloody piece at a time through staunch scientifically inclined historians like Graham Hancock and others, the more is revealed about the actual intent and activities of our so-called “Ruling Elites”.
It will not go well for them. When truth comes in lies get thrown out… and the liars with them.
The battle will be internecine. Truth and lies don’t coexist very peacefully, as a general rule.
So if the old leadership is shown up (to everyone) as murderous demented thugs then who is going to supervise the outfit in their absence?
That’s an important new subject to think about. The thinking will probably do us some good.
Trump doesn’t seem to be bothered by how long the “peacefire” lasts,
One possible explanation is that Trump (and the many many many others who are just like him in regard to not caring how badly, blatantly or often they are shown up to be murderous power-mad and totally untrustworthy liars and scoundrels) is that they are STILL in charge of everything, which for them is simply SUCCESS. Why be worried about the stray dogs and riff raff yapping at your treads when your battle tank is still operating, you’re still in the driver’s seat, and the money is rolling in like never before.
To people like that (and there are MANY) the howling of victims is no more cause for concern (or worthy of notice) than the roar of the surf on the beach of your private island.
Dear me, so many people are lying that I hardly know who to believe any more. Wait! I’ve got it! Believe the ones who report whatever they claim to be true, and leave it up to the good sense and personal autonomy of the listener to be the FINAL judge of whether it’s true enough to personally believe, or not.
Feel free to argue, disagree, or persuade to your hearts content, but no one has the right to tell you what you have to believe. What you must or must not believe is between you and God to work out between just the two of you. Those who do not want you to do that behave otherwise. I encourage and persuade you to not believe those authoritarian types very much.
“peacefire”
Excellent. If that meme-word doesn’t enter the international vocabulary then I need to have my brain revoked.
And if all of what you just reported on wasn’t enough to put the wobble in the colly of your deepest fears, then let me present you with the following video: WARNING ! The following video is for Geeks only, especially geeks with trust issues that borders on paranoia (because they’re not wrong).
I will cut to the chase and then paste the link: for the situation described in this video to even exist AT ALL (and it verifiably exists A LOT!) then it can be confidently concluded that the “Tech Bros” branch of the Blobulist Cabal has been open-field running with no significant opposition whatsoever. Free rein for several decades, and only the best and brightest of our suspicious geeks have even discovered what the Tech Bros have actually been up to. Hint: they’re practically finished with the build-out. It remains only for the switch to be flipped for it to be turned on.
Using the term “opaque strategies” to replace the more starkly descriptive term “criminal conspiracy” is one of the slickest little slight-of-hand euphemisms that I’ve ever witnessed. Somebody deserves credit (or blame!) for it.
“AI-powered trading systems could enable collusion between autonomous agents and create unfair insider advantages through opaque strategies.”
Wowser! That’s one helluva good quote. Where did you get it from (who said it?) With a very small adjustment the same brilliant thing could be said of our government and entire civilization.
A legally secretive violence enforced governance system could enable collusion between autonomous agents and create unfair insider advantages through opaque strategies.
Understood. In my defense I will say that I was trying to keep the terminology within the genre of what one might call a well known theatrical routine. If we broaden the rules to allow suggested names for movies I suggest, “Slime Maggots From Outer Space”, or even, “Demons From Hell”
To describe Trump and Netanyahu for what the really and truly are would be far too clinical and depressing to have much appeal to the General Viewing Audience that we’re trying to reach.
Calling those jerks the “Douch Bag Duo” sells more tickets than a multi-page diagnosis based on the DSM of Psychiatry or the libraries of Statutory Law.• Trump-Netanyahu “Differences”: A Good Cop-Bad Cop Routine
I suppose that with a big enough stretch of the imagination you could characterize the Trump-Netanyahu schtick as a good cop bad routine, but there are other better choices of nomenclature.
For example, “Bad Cop – Worse Cop”, or “Dumb and Dumber”. I know these billings are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, but the basic problem is that we need a deeper dirtier barrel to scrape the bottom of to acquire dregs that are disgusting enough to be sufficiently descriptive.
One final try. How about, “Two Losers“?
In discussing these and related matters this morning about how everybody on Earth right now seems to be choosing sides, drawing battle lines and rallying around various flags and causes which go by a wild variety of colorful and emotionally charged names and labels, my genius daughter commented, “Yeah. Well life does tend to be a group activity.”
The way to answer the accusation that one is an antisemite is to say that it is indeed a very serious charge and therefore needs to be talked about to see if the accusation is true or not because in either case (whether the charge is true or not true) then someone needs to be corrected!
Who it happens to be who buys the 3.5 $Billion (or more) in weapons given to Israel as a “Foreign Aid”: subsidy is of little importance other than in identifying who is robbing us. What matters the most is that WE are the ones forking over the money to those weapon sellers. They get the weapons (and much of the profit from the sales), and WE get to pay the bill. Excess profits after all the graft skimming is finished is rolled back into the business of using the weapons and sale profits to pay for the henchmen who force us to pay that bill. A truly slick operation.
Episode #3 in the exciting new Daytime Television Hit Series, “Ivanka & Jerry’s Adventures on Daddy’s Fantasy Island”
More about the Fantasy Island gig that Jared and Ivanka have going there on the Albania Island they just bought. (I posted a video about it a couple days ago if you need to catch up [ #241998 ].
Here, listen to what Ivanka thinks and feels about the acquisition and remodeling project. WARNING: be sure to freshly re-take your strongest anti-nausea medications before listening. You’ll need them.
By the way, and completely disrelated to everything else on the world geopolitical, military and financial stage, that little (2.2 Square Miles) Sazan Island that Jared and Ivanka just bought commands the maritime choke point (45 miles wide at its narrowest) of the entire Adriatic Sea and AND entry to Albania’s most important port (and third largest city) of Vlore.
Just a resort mind, you, with 3,500 nuclear hardened bunkers and a nice little port of it’s own, with government built mansion. Nothing to see here, folks, a mere trinket for Jared to park his yacht off season.
Of course Zionists and Nazis aren’t the only assholes out there. The MAGA American Empire guys are just as bad, possibly worse, and are just always playing footsies with the other ones whenever they can engineer a chance to control more slaves.
Same ducks (walking and quacking and genociding wise), just with slightly reworded labels.
I gather, @citizenx , from what you write and the abusively critical words that you use to describe us, that you think that most of us here on TAE (with the exception of two or three of your friends) are hopelessly and irredeemably stupid or bad or both.
As statistically unlikely as that is (it’s highly unlikely that 95%… nearly all… of those involved with this TAE forum are hopelessly and irredeemably stupid or bad or both,) it is still within the realm of physical possibility that you are right.
There are, after all, groups large and small (Democrats, Republicans, Nazi’s, Zionists, The United States Congress, etc. in which 95% (or more!) of their membership is, indeed, hopelessly and irredeemably stupid or bad or both.
In case that’s the case here at TAE wherein most of us are mutton headed criminals and only you and your three “friends” (you do know that they are not really your friends, don’t you?) than that situation raises a VERY big question.
The question is about why, under those circumstances, you would waste your valuable time and effort to come here and talk down to us so frequently. That would be a hopeless and irredeemably stupid thing to do, wouldn’t it?
Are you trying to show and tell us that you’re as dumb as we are?
Hey there, citizenx! Where are you a citizen from, citizen?
I would really like to know, but I have roughly ZERO expectation that you will fess that up to the rest of us. Some kind of Jew, I reckon. Or Nazi.
Hard to tell the difference much of the time.
James Howard Kunstler is a big fan of GEO Group (the guys who run the 1,120 “bed” ICE detention Center there is New Jersey). The place must be a real country club resort with those guys in charge.
That makes perfect sense, because GEO Group is just the latest rename of the company G4S Security company that ran Israel’s imprisonment system that enabled the force-based elimination of Palestinians from Palestine. Without G4S the Genocide would have been impossible. It was a KEY and INSTRUMENTAL player in the operation of the Apartheid Jewish State of Israel.
But don’t think of GEO Group as mere opportunistically corrupt and brutal “Dirty Cops”. Think of them as the most savagely perverted killers the world has seen since the methamphetamine fueled Gestapo of the good old Death Camp Days of WW2.
Bad guys don’t get much worse. They are so bad that they have changed their name at least THREE times to avoid recognition. They are MONSTERS, and that’s putting it nicely.
Of course Kunstler loves them. They torture, rape, beat and sado-murder the people that Howard doesn’t like.
Before G4S Security renamed themselves as GEO Group , the outfit went by the name Wackenhut (for their founder, George Wackenhut, multi-billionaire ex-FBI agent and all around demonic nightmare made famous by being the guy whose company PERSONALLY and PHYSICALLY delivered the totally ILLEGAL Chemical and Biological Weapons equipment and materials to Saddam Hussein as a well paid favor to the CIA back in the day when Saddam Hussein worked for them too. Before he got uppity and HANGED.
You remember those weapons don’t you? They’re the ones Saddam used to kill about a million Irani’s as a favor to Uncle Sam and ISRAEL.
Where do you find these guys, Ilargi? Has Satan himself opened a store-front where you can just waltz in and rent a psychopath like Kunstler for an afternoon of care-free genocide promotion?
Here is the kind of Law Enforcement and Security Services that Wackenhut/G4S/GEO Group/Israel provide.
I hope they provide such services to you and James one day soon. I think you might both become wiser from the experience.
US government prepares to print $250 note featuring Trump’s face
Make that a $3 bill and I’m all for it.
To the best of my knowledge of the historical record (and I’ve sure studied heaps of that) there is no case, ever, in which making something illegal eliminated or even reduced the amount of that type of behavior being “haved”.
But it sure has created a lot of jobs in the Cops & Robbers sector of the economy, ALL paid for by the people who (ultimately) NOT protected by those legal laws in any way whatsoever. Quite the contrary, in fact, historically speaking.
Basically, the more cops, prisons, laws and courts a society has then the more crime and criminal consequences that society suffers.
Maybe that should give us pause to think about what REALLY needs to be fixed, and it ain’t more and more laws, spy-cops and enforcement.
Forgive me for asking, but was the AJ Christopher piece included in today’s Debt Rattles as satire?
Sorrowfully, no. It was farce.
Go for it. Write it all out into a long form book. The premise of the story is so amazingly logical that it may very well be literally actually true! If it doesn’t generate instant conspiracy theories (that are mostly true!) then I’m a monkey’s Uncle. You’ll sell a million copies. I want a signed, original, first edition.
@Dr_D
Every time you get into a tussle with that straw many you create in your mind you just kick the shit out of him. I guess that explains why you do it so much. It feels good to win and that’s the only way you can win (in your mind).
I don’t mean to be overly enigmatic in making such a statement (just entertainingly funny) and would be completely happy to expand on it and explain how and why it is true. Absolutely true.
In order to improve “something” (in other words, make it “better” in the opinion of the one wanting the improvement) one has to make it different than it is now, and that difference is called change. That might sound insultingly self-obvious simple, and perhaps it is, but the amazing evidence of its veracity is that even when someone gets exactly what asked for the very first thing they do is express angry and ungrateful outrage at all of damage that had to be done in order bring that “improvement” about and make it actually happen.
In other words, to get the change that they wanted they had to make changes that they didn’t want, and now they have to change all of those things back to the way that they previously were. That causal chain reaction just never ends.
By the time all is said and done they’ve had to change practically everything and it STILLL ain’t over yet! They are more adamant than ever that all sorts of stuff has to change practically overnight in order for them to get the changes they now want.
It just drives them absolutely crazy.
I think that what drives Control Freaks (Greedy Bastards and Blobsters in general) the craziest is the immutable Law of Nature (and physics!) that in order for anything to get better first everything has to change.
Peace must be close
Nice thought, but not quite yet. First there must come the realignments, and those are usually messy and not especially peaceful.
