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Always keep in mind that the so-called “foreign aid” 100 $Billion to Ukraine was actually 10 $Billion to Ukraine’s mob and 90 $Billion to our own Military Industrial complex (which is more far-flung and diverse in goods & services than you imagine). That money goes to places like Departments of Agriculture, Education and even Social Services, all of whom have 10 or 20 percent of their funding earmarked for “Defense” purposes. It’s really nothing more than a system of money funneling and has
fuck-all to do with the Defense of anything other than the recipients personal wealth.But even that sort of hidden under the table carte blanche bribe pumping is not sufficient when one is tasked with sending exponentially increasing MORE money, faster, with each passing year. Eventually it drives them to transparently irremediable criminal scams like FTX and vaccines induced pandemics. Yet even those are soon not sufficient to feed the maw of exponential increase. Eventually the amount of fresh money that the pump demands hits infinity, the consequence of which suggests that even infinity has it’s limits.
We are there. The financial endgame is now happening, so fast that I’m tempted to say “Don’t blink or you might miss it!” , except there ain’t NOBODY gonna miss the collapse over the next 6 or 8 weeks of everything that operationally depends on funny money.
And don’t worry about missing the bottom, because the bottom is precisely zero for “pseudo dollars” which exist only as entries in accounting books/data bases. Paper and coin will last much longer, but who’s got any of those?
God has not forsaken us. Quite the contrary. He is honoring his promise of our true sovereignty. Rather it is us who have chosen, of our own free will, to act in ways that are destructive (even willfully evil) which might very well kill us, and certainly do cause immeasurable pain and grief in any case. Because we are truly sovereign, and because we do have real and actual free will, we can choose to be wrong and because God has granted us true sovereignty He will let us do it.
As God is the Creator and ultimate proprietor of the Universe, for that Universe to exist for us He must willingly experiences every single bit of every intolerable agony that we inflict upon ourselves and others. So if you’ve any doubt that God loves you, consider what He voluntarily endures in order for you to have life.
@aspnaz “They don’t care about the people who want to keep living.”
And so the key question becomes, “Why ?”
I do not mean that facetiously or trivially. I mean it earnestly and sincerely. WHY do so many of our fellow citizens want to die at the hands of others? And WHY are so many of those others intent upon crushing the spirit of those who want to live?
These are not unanswerable questions. They are merely unconfrontable in the starkly tragic error which must be confronted in order to answer them.
The elite cabal ‘s primary error is no great mystery and no surprise at all. Their error , to put things as succinctly as possible, is that they are simply wrong. About everything, including the calculated outcome that robots (which they themselves have no slightest idea of how to build, repair or fuel) will provide the luxurious lifestyle they envisage for themselves once those dirty and deplorable useless eaters are dead. Picture a corpulent infant demanding provisions from on unseen slave , neither of which exist.
The fools even believe that there are two Gods (of which they believe the lesser to be the greater, and so worship Lucifer). How stupid can one get? Two PRIME creators of the Universe?. No wonder the silly bastards think 2 + 2 = 5. They can’t tell the difference between 1 and 2.
At any given moment (and this fact does go up or down from moment to moment, depending on many factors), at any given moment the point at which an individual stops resisting efforts to criminally harm them is the point at which they become either enslaved or dead.
The general tendency for how this plays out in the real world is that if one stops resisting then the chances are better that one will be subjugated rather than immediately murdered or imprisoned. It’s not always the case, but the TENDENCY is that if one submits to force or threat then the perpetrator would prefer using your enslaved services to their own benefit, rather than simply rob and kill you on the spot.
When a slave is worth more alive than they are worth dead (i.e. the cost/benefit calculation of keeping the slave alive) then that slave will probably be kept alive. But when the cost of keeping them gets too high, or if the slaves start causing serious trouble for the owner(s), then the owner(s) will dispose of them like a used condom.
Once the decision is made then the decision has been made, and that decision will be carried out by the entire chain of command in lock step compliance (lest THEY become more trouble than they’re worth, and be added to the discarded heap in the mass grave.) If the the decision by the “owner/ruler class” is to reduce the population by 95%, then so be it. Compliance with that decision will be carried out. Those who resist will be either or enslaved or killed, largely dependent upon the point at which they stop resisting. Those who comply will usually be allowed to live for a while longer, and those who continue to resist will be either imprisoned or killed immediately.
In a different world (which is not the one we are in) it might make sense to comply with the apparatus of business and government, especially if that business or government meant you no harm. Alas, that it is not the case. It is the case that the owner/ruler class (in large part) has decided to reduce its slave holdings by 95%.
At what stage of criminal trespass upon body and soul will people stop resisting?
@MyParentsSaidKnow
Seriously, if you don’t already have a small volume of verse ready for publication then you should get cracking on it.
So “Science” is beginning (early stages) to grok that in order to remain relevant to the society upon whom it depends for being recognized as relevant (and thus worthy of respect & a paycheck), it must finally recognize , assimilate and incorporate the factual reality of God/Supreme Creator.
This is good news, of course, but the period of “recalibration” of Science is just naturally going to be a little disorderly, and ain’t gonna happen overnight.
Pretty much all of the “factual” information that we more or les try to think with comes to us 2nd, 3rd, 4th, (etc. ad infinitum) hand and only roughly translated into our inadequate language. That includes the information we more or less objectively try to use to verify whether the other received info is true or not.
Combined with our human propensity for a myriad of errors this makes it pretty hard to get much of anything right, especially if we depend wholly upon “thinking” to get us there.
Tossing a coin would probably work better.
There are two things about all governments everywhere that can always be counted upon with 100% certainty, and two things about all governed populations as well.
The first thing is that governments consider themselves (with an absolute certainty equivalent to the zealous fanatic obsession of religious belief) that they are the final arbiter of rule and command. What they say goes. They’re the Boss. Period, full stop and end of sentence.
And the second thing is that they are entitled to secrets which no one else is entitled to know or even ask about , upon pain of death.
Oh, yeah, and what about the two things that are absolutely true regarding governed populations ?
That’s simple. Governed populations agree with the government on those two points.
Which of the two are you? Take your pick.
The US midterms seem to have deftly circumvented and postponed kinetic ‘blood-in-the-streets’ open revolt for the time being. The new date for the dust up will be announced as long from now as humanly possible, but in the meantime everyone has plenty of time to do what they do best: being hopeful, afraid or unconscious. Only three more wars to go and survivors should be in the clear to get back to hunting and gathering.
Individual humans can be astonishingly capable of astounding feats of competency. We see this evidenced quite visibly in special cases such as child prodigies and savants (Rain Man stuff) but it is also highly apparent in moderately talented people who apply specialization, focus and sheer dedication to heroic levels of practice practice practice.
But the downside of this innate human capacity for cooperation is that the mundane requirements of living life requires hundreds or even thousands of other skills, and too much devotion to too narrow a range of skill sets can leave the specialist, savant or prodigy tragically lacking in what it takes to stay alive and be reasonably competent in other things.
The solution has been for us to evolve as SOCIAL beings who can work out ways for distributing the work load so that individuals can collaborate and share in complex ways that benefit the collective. This capacity is literally programmed into our DNA, and with wisdom it can also be programmed into our wholly contrived and created social systems and home-grown culture.
But that same DNA, societal rules and culture can also (and all too easily) make us sitting ducks for those who “game the system” for evil purposes, such as has obviously happened in the present situation.
It’s not the fault of the cooperative sheep. It is the fault of criminally evil psychopaths who think themselves to be wolves, when in truth they are merely defective sheep. We are one species, not two.
So the next time you call someone a “sheep” because they graciously behave in a SOCIAL manner, give it a second thought. Ask how this old life would be if everyone was a pathologically predatory loner.
How “advanced” would we be as a species (or as individuals, for that matter) if the Mozarts, Einsteins and Shakespeares among us had been required to spend 99% of their time and effort into just staying alive in the jungle?
We could do that (or at least a few of us could) but wouldn’t it be a lot nicer if we just identified and killed those wolves?
I think a lot of the current geopolitical prognosticating owes a lot of its content to the hypoxic delirium of “advanced” hyper-technologized civilization running on fumes and starved for air.
I mean, how in the hell can ANY of the main players go on pulling hyper-advanced weaponry of every possible description out of their bums when the civilization ITSELF (ya know, the civilization that is hypothetically PRODUCING all of that magic) has been categorically wrecked 6 ways from Sunday?
The whole ludicrous situation makes me think about how the word “sabotage” refers to throwing a shoe into the machinery.
Is that televised map with all the red colored territory an outline of the Erdogan Caliphate , or of the upcoming Iranian-Turkish War?
You’re not belaboring the point, you’re nailing it. The logical fallacy you’re talking about and exampling is called “begging the question” and it’s gotta be the number one favorite of deceivers everywhere, followed in close second-place with the fallacy called “equivocation” that consists of alternately using DIFFERENT frames of reference or word meanings as if they were the SAME, and jumping back and forth between the “false equivalents” depending upon which one serves best at the moment.
Oops. I was stuck in the distant past (all the way back to yesterday, in fact) and accidentally posted this on the wrong day. It refers to aspnaz’ observation about not-so-civil servants.
Miscreant civil servants are merely the most visible of a wider class of people known as greedy selfish stupid evil bastards , but perhaps my description is too mildly worded to really make the point. The point is that it is very very short sighted and stupid to selfishly do bad things to other people at the behest of a TRULY evil (but high paying) boss who wants to steal from and abuse those hapless victims but does not want to be found out and hung from a lamppost and so hires civil servants to do the dirty work for them, while they hide in the shadows.
(Un- ?) civil servants are merely the most visible of a wider class of people known as greedy selfish stupid evil bastards , but perhaps my description is too mildly worded to really make the point. The point is that it is very very short sighted and stupid to selfishly do bad things to other people at the behest of a TRULY evil (but high paying) boss who wants to steal from and abuse those hapless victims but does not want to be found out and hung from a lamppost and so hires civil servants to do the dirty work for them, while they hide in the shadows.
That’s good to know. And they spell things funny, too.
@V.Arnold
In England and the Commonwealth the term “Public” Education has the opposite meaning to what those words would mean in the USA . We Yanks would call it “Private Schooling”, and it is typically reserved for the wealthy and those with generational experience and expectation that they will go to the same privately paid for school that their family has always gone to (at their own expense, not on the taxpayer’s dime.)
The world (and especially the Western World) is caught in a Monkey Trap. You know what a monkey trap is, right? It’s a hole through which a monkey can just barely squeeze its empty hand to grasp bait inside the trap, but which is too small to let the monkey withdraw its fist clutching the bait. The monkey can’t bring itself to releasing the bait from its grip, and thus cannot get its hand out of the hole, and is thus trapped.
The bait for us is money (and especially the Yankee dollar). We could free ourselves in an instant by letting go of the money which the elites (who have by far and away most of the money) use to hire as many “dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap” as they need or want to keep their boot on our neck . . . or even kill us if they feel like it.
It’s the money, folks. Plain and simple and ain’t NOBODY gonna let go of their “money” until that money (especially the Yankee dollar) is so fuckin’ worthless that not even the dumbest monkey would want it.
Oh, the irony! We’re gonna go free in the same moment that we go broke.
Say, here’s an idea ! Swap your dollars for something (ANYTHING) of real value, and then avoid dollars as though your life depended on it.
Because it does.
Reading through the first 20 comments I get a strong sense that the commentariat is hot on the trail of a group epiphany.
Yup: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 50
Nope: 2, 11, 17, 18, 22* (*they didn’t want me for some reason. Maybe it’s because I told the court that the charges were not a crime and so I would never vote to convict), 26, 28, 33, 35, 38, 39, 41, 44, 48, 49
Left entirely to their own devices people do remarkably well at practically everything. Sure, they misbehave selfishly from time to time, as with any family or tribe, but the bad action tends to be small scale and gets sorted out “small scale” before spreading very far or getting out of hand.
It’s only when they gang up that they get into serious trouble, and when gangs do create serious trouble the trouble will always contain the element ( in some form or other) of person A getting person B to do something bad to person C, for the benefit of person A.
Russia has never done anything remarkably bad to America, but the Spy Cops at the top of America are doing their damnedest to obliterate Russia and salt the earth it stands upon. That makes no sense.
What makes sense is that America ( as person ‘B’) has been influenced to do something bad to Russia (the hapless victim, Person ‘C) at the behest of a very nasty cabal that has been pushing a very nasty agenda for very nasty reasons using very nasty methods.
Trying to save the world without identifying and neutralizing that “Person A” cabal is like trying to save the Titanic by bailing it’s bilges.
“Are there any ugly marsupials?”
I dunno for sure, but I do know that the beauty contest for Opossums was very sparsely attended.
A short imaginary conversation with God.
A man is sitting alone and lost in thought, trying to come to grips with the sometimes terrible things going on in the world around him, both distant and very close. He feels profoundly confused and hopelessly distraught, and in the depths of that despair he has the thought, “If I believed in a God of some kind then the way forward through this living hell would be much easier, or at least bearable with the belief that better things were ahead. But how can I believe in such a miraculous invention when there are no miracles or Divine Signs to verify the theory? If I saw some real confirmation with my own two eyes this problem would not be so difficult. If I could just see or touch some unambiguous sign or miracle then that would do it. I would know it was true instead of depending on a vague faith or adopted and perhaps delusional ‘belief’ . So, God, if you’re there, give me a miracle, show me a sign.”
God only knows why God would answer such a dumb prayer, but He did, and the answer was , “So you’re sitting there smack in the midst of the greatest of all possible miracles, surrounded by a myriad of completely verifiable real evidence of My existence, and you want more signs and miracles? Giving you more of the same, to be ignored the same, will not make you less blind and ignorant. You don’t need another miracle or sign. You need to wake up. Your awareness of the Universe I have created are sign and miracle enough, and the only hints you really need or are going to get. But I will give you some free advice. Start using that awareness to experience what is, and what’s going on all around you, and don’t quit just to avoid a little discomfort or outright pain from time to time. Follow this simple advice and things will work out fine, eventually, but ignore it and there can only be Hell to pay.”
Liz Truss played her role and did her part flawlessly, letter perfect to the script. The UKs sovereign bonds had to be nuked, so she and Kwartang were ordered to fall upon their swords by doing it and then dutifully taking the fall for it. Now it’s done, and the next Fall Guy For Hire (“Soul For Sale Cheap”) will take on the next insane and onerous (but VERY well paid!) task. Like a very very poorly done re-make of WW2 mighty Blighty will go to war against Russia and become either an ash heap or a trash dump, ruled over by the same indescribably depraved ruling class that ‘s been raping them all (man, woman and child) for the past thousand years.
And still no one wants to look behind the curtain to see who (or what?) could be so evil as to want to democide the entire dominant species and make it extinct.
I sure don’t know (not smart enough I guess) but I’m smart enough to know that it’s not some dweeb like Bill Gates or a cartoon Nazi like Schwab, or even he and his wife’s ancestral Hapsburg and Hohenzollern dynastic bloodlines.
There are a lot of folks ( and I mean a LOT of folks) who think that we are about to find out who (or what) the capo di tutti capo of the Bad Guys has been for the past millennia or so.
Might as well watch and find out, right? What else can you do? Certainly nothing as wacko extreme as trying to find out who the fuck is trying to kill you.
Oh, the irony! So long as dollars can buy things they will be used to continue buying your oppression and murder just as they have been and are now. What the boss wants the boss gets because he has the bucks that buy things. That particular scam will end when the dollars won’t buy anything anymore. Oops! That scenario (absolutely worthless money) doesn’t look much more appealing than being oppressed and murdered.
Whatever shall we do?
Well at least that question is a no brainer.
For out next act we shall do consequences for all preceding deeds, misdeeds, and omissions.I’m pretty sure that estimates of the future date when EU & UK (and the good old US of A, for that matter) will run out of funds to buy food and energy are based on current prices, and are not factoring in the runaway inflation on those commodities priced in “Dead Man Walking” Euros ,US$D’s and UK Pounds. Typically the estimates are a vague “some time in 2023”. I don’t think so. If they make it TO 2023 they’ll be lucky.
There is a very simple and easily understood reason that more people don’t think logically, rationally and critically.
The reason is that it hurts.
@MisterRoboto To be wary of flattery is good advice. On the other hand, accepting praise when it is due is also good advice.
I like Ms. Olive Oyle’s response when Popeye praised her great beauty, “Flatterer! You’re just saying that because it’s true!”
You’re on a roll. Go ORO!
That is one fine and righteous rant and I really, really like it
Let’s add a term to the geopolitical lexicon, that term being, “Useful Idiot-Savant”.
They are characterized by nearly impeccable reasoning skills in one zone of thought, and gob-smackingly moronic blindness in another.
The blind spot will in most cases pertain PRECISELY to the core falsehood upon which their wealth & power (such as it is) depends. In other words, they know which side of their bread the butter is on, and they are pathologically loyal to those who wield the butter knife.
There are myriad examples, and I’m sure that you know more than a few. Beware! Despite the glimpses of Heaven that can be seen in their area of expertise, their blind spot can get you literally killed, and instantly dispatched to Hell in a hand basket.
@JohnDay “The universe in space-time is fatter than it is long. Got it.”
[with acknowledgment to the late Richard Pryor for his stand up routine of two studs peeing into a creek behind the roadhouse/bar]
“This creek is COLD!”
“Yeah. And it DEEP, too.”@zerosum “The 5 Stages of Acceptance of Reality.
(If you don’t have dementia)”And for those who DO have dementia, let us not forget that there are stages BELOW the stages that start at “Denial” and count upwards.
Counting DOWNWARDS from Denial (in descending order) there are:
-1 Overwhelmed (problem too enormous to even attempt solution)
-2 Anxiety (chronic feeling that it is probably already too late)
-3 Dread (expectation of total catastrophic failure)
-4 Horror (inaccessibly vague and “unattached” sense of impending unimaginable badness)
-5 Oblivious (actual or emulated death and nonexistence of self)That emotion is part of the natural and healthy progression that is sometimes called The 5 Stages of Grief, which could just as easily and accurately be called the 5 Stages of Acceptance of Reality. Hang tough, stick with it, and eventually one can accept that there are certain realities that have been SO bad that we chose and preferred not to believe that they are , simply, real.
