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Medicare (and S.S.) bar graph. Scary!
After 65 of age entire population jumps to fix medical problems that were accumulated prior.
My mother in law had a “house visit service” by some, I assume, “non profit” shit business. Twice a month temperature and blood pressure measurement by the “nurse” and thumbs up assurance by her that old bird is in good shape. She’s driving large Lexus electrical, so once she had to cancel the visit because her battery was low..
Ask for anything on Earth that you feel like having: diapers, cane, walker, vitamins….all promptly delivered to the door. Insurance had to pay $4,000 monthly for what I had seen as a scam and told my wife right away to cancel the crap, which she did.
Just in case if one wonders where the money goes.I love dogs as any guy next door, however some owners are deeply offended if you do not see their dog as their child. Entire homes were designed to accommodate Fido.
Mundane as i is, every bit counts and trickles to the madness that were in.Peter Schweizer talks Durham report on 77WABC radio.
I found troubling that blow-fish-face Alan Dershowitz is legitimate commentator, here and elsewhere, on the issues of equal application of law. The guy who exonerated himself by claiming that he had his underwear on while given the massage on Epstein’s premises, thus not a “real client”, like others I presume, for the service rendered. Talking about backstabbing partners in crime, that 2% is famous for.
As for the Soros being top evil, he’s got the formidable competition in the likes of Larry Silverstein.State of the Union (from today’s Unz review):
The city of Baltimore has filed a federal lawsuit against car manufacturers Kia and Hyundai, joining a number of cities who say the companies created a public nuisance by making cars that can be easily stolen.
I was almost to use similar to Germ’s sign-off.
Other than quality, Picasso’s work has a pristine provenance, thus allows for comfortable hike in bidding race. Usually bought by the people as investment rather than love of art. Such art “donated” to a local museum shields the owner from myriad of tax liabilities that may arose from other “fun adventures” that moneyed engage and are allowed by the system that many on this site call as a “glitch” or “bad apple” in otherwise great contraption.
https://www.unz.com/article/the-post-george-floyd-revolution/
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-united-states-moves-its-capital-to-jerusalem/
Both top articles at Unz review are to be read and wept after.@Oro
There is Jim’s “Eyesore of the month” (true) and there is a Masterpiece – TWA airport.The TWA Flight Center: Eero Saarinen’s Masterpiece at JFK Airport
Building technology and trades of the past are not available now days or, more likely, they are cost prohibitive – unless one is in favor of “pastiche architecture” .That “Media lies about Covid” video clip seems like distant nightmare.
Not so fast with the sigh of relief.
I think that, at this moment, we are subjected to “Good cop” treatment to ease build-up tension that arose from the fact that more people realized absurd contradictions and danger in the narrative promoted.
Rest assured that “they” are diligently working on the next step in this “time of calm”.
Complete societal break-down is their “full proof ace in the sleeve” if softer method does not work.From Dr D’s post yesterday:
“False Claims About
RussiaEverything. Continue To Cloud The ‘West’s’ Vision (MoA)And here I am, my face turning blue arguing in the comment section. People back in Europe had a quite a chuckle when I told them as what was a “theme” of my back-and-fourth with some TAE regulars. Mind boggling for them too.
“Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid”
-Ernest Hemingway, 1942I was to say something…..but newer mind!
Last week, Wednesday, in Serbia:
First was school shooting where 13 y/o killed eight students and security guard. Six wounded.
Second mass shooting, eight killed and fourteen injured.Event in Chicago celebrated by the Entire World. For uppity American worker, “soon-to-be-millionaire”, is way too “red” to even acknowledge 8 hour work day won and enjoyed, let alone celebrated.
Talking about good splash of Ajax self-.rinse through the skull.Six days a week Serbian cable channel “happy” features one and a half hour long program where three knowledgeable guests discuss and share their opinion about current geo-political issues of today. Evening, eight PM, it covers mainly war in Ukraine, then new alliances, digital currency, vaxx, all of interest from countries in the world especially the US – in
another word all that we at TAE are interested in, Commercial free, no stone is left unturned. What a concept and what a treat with the real cold cuts,cheese, home made brandy and good company.There is an idea that the public is to blame for the products being sold, because the public is purchasing the products — if the public didn’t desire them, the corporations wouldn’t produce them.
I remember the push back against an onslaught of telemarketing. In defense of the practice their “key man” described the business model as: Potential buyer does not know that he/she may need the product (long pause) yet!
Most of those products purchased went straight to the dumpster, never fulfilling the promise.
Most people want the quality appliance or device that lasts longer but it is not offered for the most part.
Most people would love cheap car with bare bone basics. Again not offered. I suspect that myriad of gadgets that new cars are equipped with (and buyer forced purchase in the package) is to keep the expansion of jobs for the jobs sake – which are entering the realm of “bullshit jobs”.
Anybody remembers the “Music club” from the three decades ago? Club that kept one’s mailbox staffed with unwanted cassettes and close to impossible to unsubscribe from.
I could go on….Biden Energy Secretary Wants All US Military Vehicles To Be Electric By 2030
No wonder. It is amazing as how many people think that by turning on the heat in the car one is actually using the “excess” energy that is above 100% that they think gas is utilized – thus “free”.
Those guys are my idea of the “Left”.
More on RFK Jr.
Today’s Picasso is one of the best samples of his cubist phase.
Recent Mondrian posted on 04-22 was five decades ahead of it’s time, while the one on 04-25 takes the crown.Complicated Ukraine. Movie is themed at the time before and during the WWII.
English subs denote in parenthesis which language is spoken (POL), (UK) or (RUS).
Interesting folk tradition depicted among the clusterf**k.Placing, say, three mirrors behind the candle one gets “for candles for the price of one”.
That’s what keeps me confused in terms of energy expenditure.
So I better stick on commenting social dynamics and art that TAE offers, when the mood strikes.Brilliant Whitney Webb on Jimmy Dore’s show.
If one feels like being depressed at the end.
It’s that bad – the theme and overall summary reached on the interview, that is.
Week from now, next Saturday I’ll be at the Munich airport. Few hours overlay is just enough to slip into Airbräu and have taste of liquid piece of art – Bavarian beer
Kunstler’s bravura with the words, as always is impeccable.
Interesting that Aron Mate’s quote crowns the post, given that he, just like me, cringes on excessive use of “cultural Marxism” contraption that Jim is not in shortage of.
World is much more complex than hard ideological divide into B&W.Next thing someone here will propose is that the Peloponnesian War was nothing more than communism and socialism steeped in Marx’s dialect at work. Dunno could a been fascism
There you go.
because unless I see people goose-stepping down the street, surely there is no fascism. That’s how you can tell when there is fascism.
I am a simple man, who also knows thing or two about living in socialism/communism.
Let’s call it off. You’re fighting on two fronts,with AFKTT and me. Must be tiresome.jb-hb
Yep, all 4.
At #3 I would not call you a conspiracy nut job but would think that, more likely, you were fed with McCarthy brand baby formula.
Call me when flags with hammer and sickle are on the Capitol building, crowned with Kremlin-like huge red star.Dr D
Ten Men, 1 Trillion… tells the story.
You think that “Marx” will take away your retirement.
I think that “10 men” will take mine.
Whos’ pocket is emptier?Ten Men, 1 Trillion…
Great article and somehow the right follow-up to my parting sentences on my last post yesterday.
I think that wast majority of people are realistic enough to view “American dream” as: Sure it would be nice to be a millionaire but I am content to work hard and get payed that offers me comfortable life of a quintessential middle class. However even that little has been siphoned from them by the massive wealth transfer starting somewhere in the 70’s.
Even the people that we bought the house from were more rich by the prudent finances and shifted priorities.They purchased the house 5-6 times cheaper than what they could have afforded, by the prevailing standards as what others wold have done and settled in ordinary middle class neighborhood. Otherwise we would have never known them. Prudence, I think,is something that their generation learned by living through the Economic Depression, but in their case it paid off in many ways.
Clicking on the article link gets one greeted with the dead eyes of a psychopath.jb-hb
Since you touched generational divide.
I have not experienced “American dream” personally (far from it), but pretty close in this way:
When we bought our house in 2003, previous owners left, among old tools, a box with the house paperwork that included their mortgage application in 1975. Three sheets of paper revealed that they were born 1918 and 1923, respectively. Could not guess as what happened during the great depression and WWII. Back to the papers, he was a hi-ranking manager in the Co. making actual products – building material. She was a housewife. They had a saving account of $145,000. His monthly income was about $3,000 (I think) in addition to $2,000+ on bonds and dividends. House was purchased for $51,000, with @25,000 down + (realtors fee?) of $500 and $26,000 was mortgaged. It was the life of world travels and house was overflowing with native sculptures and artifact from exotic places like So Pacific and Africa. Most of it they donated to the local museum before living CA .
In Florida, they purchased two corner units in luxury senior complex where their cat had a better medical care than most of Americans. They were staunch Republicans so their Christmas cards were photo-ops with Bush and Laura and later were in the form of, then popular, Family Journal with the photos of many happy faces.
They departed the Earth, him 2009 and her at 2015, just in time before all the mess that we’re in while, in general, their all lives were without “troubles” in a sense as what we think the troubles are.
I am mentioning this story because they were, in many ways, still an “ordinary Americans” – aka not filthy multi-multi-million dollar rich but rich enough that they had life that many kings and queens of the past would have envied.Well, that kind of opportunity and life is forever closed for many.
Blame the Marx if that makes you feel better.Film masterpiece, bit long so is divided into four parts and may be too slow at the moments for the Western sensibilities. Chasing Russian names and figuring out as who is who could be a problem too, so knowing the Tolstoy’s book may me a big help.
I have to admit that when it comes to scenes of large cavalry clashes Hollywood is at the top.
Dr D
The only thing people like better than denial is being stupid, I guess. I thought private people weren’t supposed to have rockets, warships, nuclear materials?
If I am not mistaken arm industry, or better yet – the entire MIC, is in the private hands – all the way to the last maker of non-combat military supply, be it cereal and of olive-green shoe laces.
The system where all natural resources, even of a strategic importance, are also in the hands of a private citizens, is also “defined”, as I do recall your rumblings, as enabling the two people to shake hands in mutual exchange agreement and walk away in win-win sound of dog bark and laughter.If you mean specifically CO2 will destroy the planet via cars, welcome to the party, make the case.
As I’ve said I know nothing about AFKTT’s assertion, so CO2 back-and-forth is not in my equation, but I am certain that we simply do not know how to clean after ourselves. Earth is not yet, but on a way to become one large toxic garbage can.
I can not approve or disapprove AFKTT‘s assertions since I know next to nothing on the subject.
However, I think, that I am pretty much in tune with Red‘s post few scrolls up. At one point shit has to stop.
His opponents are using so many words and go on and on just to express one single (proverbial) sentence: “I want to drive my car forever” or better yet, Dick Cheneys’s crooked mouth rumble: “American lifestyle is not negotiable”.
Well, I don’t know about that.jb-hb
As for the “Marx themed”, I still stick to my hypothetical image of you and Dr D preaching “your shtick” somewhere in the former communist block countries and being laughed-off by the people who actually lived in that system.
Tyranny existed in many forms before 1917 and is evolving into something different and new post 1990.
otherwise what were the Korean and Vietnam wars for? Or the destruction of Easter block. Why destroy the ” good stuff”
that is already secured in place?
I could go on but is getting tiresome.jb-hb
Thanks for the “Capricornia”. Great tune while I never heard of the band before.
One think that I may add that all (8 mm) films are proverbial footage of their parents if not grandparents.Negative connotation, as reaction to this new lunatic plan, is on 15 minutes instead being clear that problem is restricted or forbidden movement beyond 15 minutes range. In addition to a small comment that I placed yesterday, one more time: there is nothing wrong and it is actually beneficial to have most of the basic needs covered within that range.
To crank a car, again, just you forgot the carton of milk is becoming evidently more and more ridiculous.15 minute city
Every ancient city in Europe that we “fall in love with” is “15 minute city”. All the basic groceries shopping is at walking distance. That may include local barber/hair dresser, baker and meat, pastry and coffee shops. Which, by the way, is not too different than concept that Ottomans had in Balkans and elsewhere, where smallest residential district in order to have it’s own name must have a Mesdžid (modestly built mosque), bakery and the barber shop. Homes with the walled courts and gardens provided the basic vegetables and fruits and means to keep poultry. All other major shopping took place in the city center market place and is associated as being “special event”. Pretty much in tune with current thinking of what the meaningful life is, expressed in the comment sections.
Being forbidden to venture beyond the 15 minute range is a new concept and totally different story.Graph of correlation between GDP and population income in the US, from 1900 to present is telling story of the “theft”. It started in the 70’s where, unlike before where the two appeared pretty congruent, the former took at almost 45 degree upward trajectory while the latter barely budged at about 7-8 degrees. We are talking about “38 degrees” , if you will, of massive theft from the workers.
In it’s late-stage accumulated contradictions of capitalism (Marx again), which is NOW, it is becoming more apparent and the working class in the USA are going: “Wha….who…what!!!”
