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If you take a nap in the open
Make sure you keep both cantaloupe in
If one should fall out
There isn’t a doubt
Some Biden will soon come a’ gropin’* Politics
– J6 Trial: A circus with a cast of thousands; You can win any case if you choose the witnesses
– Ukraine war is the opening act for the Four Horsemen
– Democrats to change mascot from donkey to mule claiming their mascot slept with each of the four horses in 1967 but it was kept secret because of white supremacy
– Soros: “Overpopulation is not a quantity problem, but a quality problem; I have seen the future and it works for me”
– Which is worse?
— The US didn’t factor in food shortages
—The US did factor in food shortages
– The west is not ready to confront the consequences of its actions; Consequences are for other peoples
– Orlov is an untrustworthy bastard
– China rattles sabers as if to say “Look, we have a sabers!”
– People cannot recognize lying, hateful sycophants* Economics
– The US is the four pirates of the apocalypse; Them that dies be the lucky ones
– The New Fed Mandates: Table employment and full prices
– WEF plans are today’s iron dice
– We need parallel economic structures that don’t touch, ever
– Pay cash and buy phys; If you can’t hold it you can’t hold it* Medicine
– We are all going to die in a few years unless we don’t
– Grass fed beef causes depression, especially in cows
– What’s good for Pfizer is bad for kids; Unfortunately fewer and fewer Americans have stock in kids
– Monkeypox: Scarerists are terrorists
– Drag queens are the one organism that can change their bodies by volition
– Vaccines don’t stop transmission but they do stop manumission so that’s something
– Masking cures all ills* Life
– Rubik’s Cube Savant: An exquisitely trained neural network
– Ethanol is a solvent that damages economic engines
– Taylor Lorenz: Proven expert on strange chaotic attraction
– Rational people are superstitious
– Theories can be extended ad absurdum and most are* I must hate. Hate is my ego-expander. Hate is the mind-death that brings total power. I will love my hate. I will permit it to pass near me and into me. And when it is a part of me I will turn blind eye to its effects. Where the hate has lodged it will be everything. Nothing of me will remain.
@ veracious poet
Not a transgenic fan. Humans have neural networks (networks of neurons). AI’s have artificial neural networks. I can’t say how similar the human neural network is to the artificial ones. My guess is not that similar. I understand AI neural networks pretty well but not human neural networks but even so I believe that when we learn we are training our neural network. Properly training a child’s neural network is one of the main responsibilities of parents.
* Most humans are prejudiced because their neural nets have been trained; The best humans are unbiased with untrained nets and absolutely no experience
* Gold is hard to ship, especially virtual gold
* Gas prices haven’t spiked under Biden; A spike has a pointy top
* Useless eaters unite; You have nothing to lose but your food; Let them eat cake; Insulin resistance if futile
* The Biden Administration: Kakikleptogerintocracy
* If you meet Buddha on the road kill him
– If you meet Lao Tzu on the road ignore him
– If you meet Jesus on the road don’t touch his robe
– If you meet Balaam on the road, whoop his chatty assThere may or may not be free will but there is pain and there is moral responsibility. If you injure another person “But I have no free will” is not a defense. Guilt and consequences can be corrective, free will or not.
* Deplorabilities:
– Going anywhere without your smart phone.
– Using the terms man, woman, husband, wife, boy or girl.
– Not obeying authority.
– Not hating Russia and China.
– Getting any treatment for disease outside the accepted standard of care.
– Eating food grown outside the system.* Janet Yellen was wrong but it could have been worse, she could have been misinformed.
* You can’t trust the FBI, but so what. There are bigger things that affect the nation than being lied to by the FBI.
* The petroleum rule: He who owns the petroleum makes the rules.
*Fairest and freest
– Safe and effective
– And now
– More compelling and sharper* Sudden Adult Death Syndrome – mRNA vaccines kill a person slowly, then all at once.
* TPTB – The Powers that Butcher
* The Great Reset is a computer metaphor. You press a button and the machine shuts down and restarts. It frees up the memory and all the programs are closed and you can selectively restart them. This doesn’t work with living systems. Restarting your cat won’t work. The question is, is the economy more like a machine or a living thing?
We are about to see presently unimaginable persecution of those who follow the dictates of their conscience (the voice of God to them) in all things.
Those who will follow their conscience will find themselves facing the loss of many things, including their reputations, jobs, their homes, family members, health, food, freedoms, and, in many more cases than most believe, their lives.From First comes reconciliation to conscience, then persecution for doing so
A little math:
Suppose a tank of gas costs ⅓ of a month’s work, so around 60 hours of human labor.
A tank holds about 15 gallons of gas.
One gallon of gas has the energy of about 400 hours of human labor.
So for 60 hours of labor you get the energy of 6000 hours of labor.
Someday we will appreciate that this was a great deal and we shouldn’t have wasted that energy on driving a 3000 pound vehicle to pick up fast food.May 21, 2024
The deposition of the Christ is sad
2000 mules delivered one big ass
Now monkeypox arrives and oh, it’s bad
The Finns soon won’t get any Russian gasThe fighting in Ukraine might not have been
The Ruble hits a 7 year rebound
Mark Zuckerberg is Psaki’s evil twin
Or maybe it’s the other way aroundIf Trump returns the swamp will lose its mind
And Elon Musk declares there will be blood
In Kyiv abuse of pow’r is all you’ll find
Our foreign aid is anti-Robin HoodSo write your MP now, he just might care
Forgiveness is divine, but human’s errCovid Treatment Summary
I tested positive for Covid yesterday. The most likely source was a triple vaxxed person at work. I am treating it with following:
* Things I was taking regularly but have now increased
– Vitamin C
– Vitamin D
– Zinc with Quercetin
– Lecithin
– L-Lysine* Additional things I am taking now
– Lactoferrin
– Diphenhydramine
– Ivermectin
– Nattokinase
– Nebulized hydrogen peroxide and iodine in saline solutionI am interested to see how this regimen works. So far I have a lessening of symptoms since last night.
One question: how often and for how long should one nebulize? I am using a 0.1% hydrogen peroxide solution currently for 5 minutes every hour.
* Today’s Euphemisms
– Inventory Deficit
– Purchasing Power
– Large Scale Exercises
– Front Lines of Freedom
– Paused
– Excess Mortality
– Tinkering with Bird Flu
– Stable on an Annual Basis* “I trust the government to make decisions about their citizens and when relevant consult their medical practitioner”
* If gambling on stock’s what you like
Now is the time you should strike
Stop buying the dip
The new thing that’s hip
Is all-in on shorting the spike* Peak Oil is back with a vengeance
It seems to be Joe’s firm intentions
To get rid of gas
Except out his a$$
A power source he never mentions* We’re watching the death of the dollar
It’s purchasing power getting smaller
If you got some cash
You’ll dump in the trash
I’ll take it away, please just holler* For hot-dogs you once paid a nickel
Including some chips and a pickle
We’ll have that again
Joe Biden says “When
Our flag has a hammer and sickle”With F-holes adorning her back
She’s modest and hiding her rack
So chaste and demure
So nubile and pure
Except that she’s flaunting her crackAs Azov surrenders en masse
They’re Nazis, but still get a pass
Because they’ve been shootin’
The armies of Putin
Their racism’s pretty high classSo formula’s milkified sweets
Addicting a baby to treats
An infant’s still learning
For what food it’s yearning
It’s got to have milks before meatsUkrainian troops got the order
To high tail it out to the border
Their ultimate goal
Was picts with a pole
Thus highlighting Russian disorder* Man Ray photo original title: Sex and Violins
* The Azov Principle: Azov yesterday we’re never giving up but Azov today we’re surrendering
* The Peter Doocy Principle: People in government tend to be promoted to their level of incompetence at which point they become White House Press Secretary until they can get promoted to CNN or NBC
* New polls shows that 67% of Americans say both Kamala and Joe Fail the Turing Test. They both need more advanced programming to convince people they’re human.
* The West no longer has strategy, only tactics.
* Biden’s Ukraine Policy: Bribe Back Better
* Biden’s Energy Policy: Dribble, Baby Dribble!
* Edrogan, the NATO Nazi: No NATO for you!
* Infant Formula Logic: Formula is mostly corn syrup, corn is grass, cows eat grass, cows give milk, babies need milk. We’re just streamlining the process. It’s all good.
* World Health Organization to change name to World Health Autocratic Tyrant; WTF
* In the beginning was the work and the work was with Kamala and the work was Kamala and the work became Kamala and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.
* The world is a circle without a beginning and nobody knows where it really ends
* The Great Reset: You will buy less, own less and be happy.
– How to thwart the Great Reset: Buy less, own less and be happy.* There are invisible elephants in every room now.
– What you see is likely to be less Black Swannish than what you do not see – Nassim Taleb* Finland’s rush to join NATO and thwart Putin: The Finnish are rushin’ to finish the Russians.
* Getting the nation to go to war is now so easy the Military Industrial Complex is changing its name to The Military Industrial Simplicity
* Store a neighbor. Ride some food. Grow a bike. Be a vegetable.
@Boogaloo -” There are plenty of examples from history of conflicts settled by truce without fighting to total capitulation.”
I agree. The ominous similarity is with the west’s refusal to negotiate. People compare Zelensky to Churchill and the comparison is apt but not for the reason people think.“Rolla”
I wondered about the expression on the young man’s face, clicked the the picture and the descriptive text says this:Gervex found his inspiration in a long poem by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), published in 1833. The text recounts the destiny of a young bourgeois, Jacques Rolla, falling into a life of idleness and debauchery. He meets with Marie, a teenager who found in prostitution an escape from misery. Rolla is seen here ruined, standing by the window, his eyes turned to the girl sleeping. He is about to commit suicide by poison.
The poem can be found here and is, as it says, quite long. It tells how Rolla was raised by his father to be a gentleman but only inherited enough money to last three years.
Here is some of the poem (abridged), translated from French by Google Translate:She is asleep, look: — what a noble and candid forehead!
Everywhere, like pure milk on a clear wave,
Heaven over beauty spread modesty.
She sleeps naked and her hand on her heart.
Doesn’t the night make it even more beautiful?
That these soft lights quiver around her,
As if, in spite of himself, the dark evening spirit
Spreads his black cloak quivering over this beautiful body?
Rolla considered with a melancholy eye
The beautiful Marie sleeping
Marie was expensive. —
To pay her for his night with her
He had spent his last pistole.
His friends knew it.
He had given his word
That no one, in broad daylight, would see him alive.
Three years, the three most beautiful of beautiful youth.
Three years of voluptuousness, delirium and drunkenness,
Were going to vanish like a light dream,
Rolla turned to look at Marie.
She felt tired, and had gone back to sleep.
Thus both fled from the cruelties of fate,
The child in sleep, and the man in death!
Rolla so pale beside her,
That she remained mute and paler than him.
Rolla got into bed, slowly, gently, next to Marie.
His drowsy gaze on her blue eyes, their fresh breath united,
Floated, then rose, then died in spite of itself.
Marie with a sigh half-opened her eyes and looked at Rolla.
Ah! she said, trembling, what’s the matter with you today?
Said Rolla, you don’t know, my beautiful,
That I’ve been ruined since last night?
I came to see you to say goodbye.
Everyone knows it, I have to kill myself.
So you gambled? —
No, I’m ruined.
Ruined ?” said Marie
And, like a statue she stared at the ground with big astonished eyes.
Ruined? ruined? you don’t have a mother?
No friends? or parents?
Why are you killing yourself?
She rolled over on the edge of her bed.
His gentle gaze had never been so gentle.
Two or three questions floated on his mouth;
But, not daring to ask them, she came to him
Her head on his and took a kiss.
She finally whispered: I don’t have any money,
And, as soon as I have some, my mother takes it from me.
But I have my golden necklace, do you want me to sell it?
You can keep what it’s worth.
Rolla replied with a slight smile.
He took a black bottle which he emptied without saying a word;
Then, leaning over her, he kissed her necklace.
When she raised her heavy head,
He was already nothing more than an inanimate being.
In that chaste kiss her soul was gone,
And, for a while, both had loved.*
Russia has superior engineers
– Russian weapons are designed by their military with the goal to keep Russia safe
– US weapons are designed by corporation with the goal to make obscene profits
– Both are good at what they do*
Poland will take a bite out of Ukraine
– Poland remembers Barbarossa but wants to be on the right side of history
– Where the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered*
Putin has no reason to contemplate losing
– Putin does analysis of potential outcomes and consequences and acts
– Biden does analysis of potential profits and optics and reacts*
If Russia does not win, the Russian Federation will be humiliated and dismantled and become just another group of colonies for Western asset-strippers and slavers
– …and that great pit which hath been digged for the destruction of men shall be filled by those who digged it, unto their utter destruction…
* US 2023: A winter of severe poverty and chaos
– Bread: $25 a loaf
– Hamburger: $35 a pound
– Gasoline: $15 gallon
– Electricity: $0.50 a kwh
– Natural gas: $30 per 1000 cubic feet
– Riots: Priceless* Your lights are on, but you’re not home
Your mind is not your own
Your heart sweats, your body shakes
Another false flag is what it takes
You like to think that you’re immune to the stuff
It’s closer to the truth to say you can’t get enough
Might as well face it you’re addicted to rage
Gonna have to face it you’re addicted to rage* Mr. Jones, there’s nothing wrong with you that an expensive operation can’t prolong indefinitely
– Monty Python* Safe and Effective
– We’re All in This Together
– My Body, My Choice
– Black Lives Matter
– Most Secure in History
– Putin Price Hike
– Ukrainian Democracy
– The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
– Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf* 1984 Ministries
– The Ministry of Truth
– The Ministry of Peace
– The Ministry of Love
– The Ministry of Plenty
– And now The Ministry of Health* Prop up May then go away
* Mayorkas: The fact is that disinformation that creates a threat to the security of the homeland is our responsibility to address
– Translation: We claim that ideas we don’t like are a threat to our power and we will use any means necessary to suppress them* The US helps Ukraine to target Russian generals. Imagine if Russia paid a foreign power to target American soldiers. Oh yeah, they did. Whoops, that was misinformation. Well not exactly mis-information, more like fed-information which is OK.
* The First Three Words You See Are Our Future
k p a D R A W D O W N i a f m o l q
n t h a m q O V E R S H O O T h i j
p k w D I E O F F k l z y w m q f y* The National Day of Prayer/Support for Ukraine
Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle—be Thou near them! With them—in spirit—we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it—
For our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimmage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!
We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
— Mark Twain
* The accepted wisdom: Being unvaccinated is evil and abortion is OK because:
– Your vaccination status affects everyone
– Abortion only affects the woman involved
– We’re all in this together* People choosing a different language and culture should have self-determination including
– Donbass
– Hawaii
– Quebec
– US inner cities* Russel’s Paradox: In a world where eugenicists genetically engineer everyone, who genetically engineers the eugenicists?
* “Lead, follow or get me an ice cream cone”
– Joe Biden* Now come the days of the tyrant. They will be cursed. This day does not belong to one man but to all. Let us together wreck this world that we may share in the days of chaos.
* Joe Biden spends $46 billion to help Ukraine when he could have bought Twitter and have $2 billion left over.
* Information is power. Misinformation is an abuse of power … and power really dislikes being abused.
* When thinking of investing I used to ask myself “What will Americans value in 10 years?” Now I ask myself “What will the Russians and Chinese value in 10 years?”
Where is Disney in the Hero Cycle?
– Departure
— The Call to Adventure
— Refusal of the Call
— Supernatural Aid
— The Crossing of the First Threshold
— Belly of the Whale
– Initiation
— The Road of Trials
— The Meeting with the Goddess
— Woman as the Temptress
— Atonement with the Father/Abyss
— Apotheosis
— The Ultimate Boon
– Return
— Refusal of the Return
— The Magic Flight
— Rescue from Without
— The Crossing of the Return Threshold
— Master of the Two Worlds
— Freedom to Live* Today I learned that living in Oregon undermines: Oxygenation, Vitamin D, Immune System, Circadian Rhythm, Blood Pressure, Energy, Sleep and Mood
* The Hillary/Palpatine comparison is unfair. One is an old, gnarled, evil ex-senator kept alive by the black arts who seeks diabolical, unlimited power over the entire known universe and the other was just a Sith Lord.
Congressmen feathering their nests have very little time to rest
While taking bribes and giving favors out
Although they’re giving us the shaft
They have to cover up their graft
They know a trick to get consent real quickSaying Vlad Putin’s evil helps the thievery go down
The thievery go down, the thievery go down
Saying Vlad Putin’s evil helps the thievery go down
In a most delightful wayBecause all men were free to speak
Mis-info got so bad
We suffered under their critique
It made me feel so sadBut then one day they made me chief
With gov’rnance board control
My apprehension found relief
I’d black-out every troll, ohSuper-censor-media-pow’rs and I won’t be negotious
Even though my pers’nal record’s really quite atrocious
And my online anima is awfully braggadocious
Super-censor-media-pow’rs and I won’t be negotious* West vs. East
– The great cull is from the west; Russian default is necessary for global reset
– Russia has all the resources and a sane competent leader, the US is a hollow chocolate bunny with nasty big pointy teeth
– Support for Ukraine is based on the broken country fallacy
– Zelensky has the support of all civilized countries; Disaster awaits US puppets
– Convince your kids to support sending weapons to Ukraine with the Nuke Me Elmo doll
– Russia destroyed their biological weapons arsenal but the US claims they have mobile bio-labs they borrowed from Iraq
– Joe says: “Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat”; It’s Boris and Natasha vs Moose and Squirrel
– Take a cold shower to save Ukraine* The Daily Covid
– Double vaxxed teenagers 50x more likely to die in England
– Students are going crazy; Lockdown ruined kids
– No one is compliant until everyone is compliant
– Vaccine deaths are caused by unexamined lies; It’s crickets all the way down
– The WHO: Predict, prevent, protect, assess, respond
Translation: Model, lockdown, vaccinate, surveil, control* The Mystery of Existence
– All life is connected in awareness
– The greatest sin is to betray yourself without getting paid for it
– Nothing is not the opposite of something. They are not complementary.
– Everyone is playing a role; What e’er thou art, act well thy part
– We all fear to be ourselves five years from now* Climate change trumps the laptop from Hell; Pollution is the solution to prosecution
The Key Signs of an Empire in Decline from The Fate of Empires by John Glubb
* Intellectualism and a decline of religion
* An influx of foreigners
* Internal hatreds
* Affluence, materialism and frivolity
* The largess of the welfare state
* Selfishness, the love of money and a loss of the sense of dutyIt is sadly comforting to realize that the US collapse is just part of the natural cycle and is inevitable.
* The Artist and His Model: Picasso gives ‘stacked’ a new meaning
* Parliament was only stopped from executing bankers by British Animal Rights threatening to sue over cruelty to snakes
* Xi lent Putin his copy of The Art of War and lent Biden his copy of My Pet Goat
* Biden trains Polish troops how to lash out in anger when provoked by Russia
* The Hunter Biden Laptop: Water under the bridge ends up overwhelming the dam
* Dick Cheney said “The American way of life is non-negotiable.” He was right. There will be no negotiation. The American way of life will be terminated without input from Americans
* And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a stethoscope and glasses; and an institute was given unto him: and he went forth dispensing AZT and vaccines.
– And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him the remote control for a great drone.
– And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a debit card reader in his hand. And I heard a voice say, An order of fries for $1000, and three Big Macs for a $10,000; and see thou hurt not the soft drinks and the shakes.
– And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with lockdowns, and with myocarditis, and with food shortages, and with 50 caliber machine guns mounted on robotic dogs.The Empire As We Know It
– Electricity: cheap and available 24/7.
– Gas: cheap and always available.
– Food: cheap and always available.
– Making money: Invest in stocks, crypto or NFT’s. manual labor is for losers.
– Growing your own food: A hobby.
– Health: Live however you want and get expensive health care when you’re old…knee replacements, dialysis, bypass surgery, etc.
– Men: optional.
– Everyone has a cell phone. Everyone goes to college. Everyone eats out. Everyone invests. Everyone goes on cruises. Everyone has new shoes.An Empire collapses slowly … then all at once
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
Arthur PonsonbyPonsonby wrote Propaganda Lies of the First World War which provides a stunning comparison to our current situation: http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050824i/ponsonby.html
A few excerpts in which the parallels are obvious:War being established as a recognized institution to be resorted to when Governments quarrel, the people are more or less prepared. They quite willingly delude themselves in order to justify their own actions. They are anxious to find an excuse for displaying their patriotism, or they are disposed to seize the opportunity for the excitement and new life of adventure which war opens out to them. So there is a sort of national wink, everyone goes forward, and the individual, in his turn, takes up lying as a patriotic duty. In the low standard of morality which prevails in war-time, such a practice appears almost innocent.
Our prompt entry into the European War in 1914 was necessitated by our commitment to France. This commitment was not known to the people; it was not known to Parliament ; it was not even known to all the members of the Cabinet. More than this, its existence was denied. How binding the moral engagement was soon became clear. The fact that it was not a signed treaty had nothing whatever to do with the binding nature of an understanding come to as a result of military and naval conversations conducted over a number of years. .. it was referred to as “an obligation of honour”, “A compact “, “An honourable expectation “ (and) “the closest negotiations and arrangements between the two Governments “.
Whatever may have been the causes of the Great War, the German invasion of Belgium was certainly not one of them. It was one of the first consequences of war. Nor was it even the reason of our entry into the war. But the Government, realizing how doubtful it was whether they could rouse public enthusiasm over a secret obligation to France, was able, owing to Germany’s fatal blunder, to represent the invasion of Belgium and the infringement of the Treaty of Neutrality as the cause of our participation in it.
The accusation against the enemy of sole responsibility for the war is common form in every nation and in every war. So far as we are concerned, the Russians (in the Crimean War), the Afghans, the Arabs, the Zulus, and the Boers, were each in their turn unprovoked aggressors, to take only some recent instances. It is a necessary falsehood based on a momentary biased opinion of one side in a dispute, and it becomes the indispensable basis of all subsequent propaganda.
Having declared the enemy the sole culprit and originator of the war, the next step is to personify the enemy. As a nation consists of millions of people and the absurd analogy of an individual criminal and a nation may become apparent even to moderately intelligent people, it is necessary to detach an individual on whom may be concentrated all the vials of the wrath of an innocent people who are only defending themselves from “unprovoked aggression.” The sovereign is the obvious person to choose. … A Punch cartoon in 1818 depicted the Kaiser as Cain. Under it was put: “More than 14,000 non-combatants have been murdered by the Kaiser’s orders.”
Not only did the Belgian baby whose hands had been cut off by the Germans travel through the towns and villages of Great Britain, but it went through Western Europe and America, even into the Far West. No one paused to ask how long a baby would live were its hands cut off unless expert surgical aid were at hand to tie up the arteries (the answer being a very few minutes). Everyone wanted to believe the story, and many went so far as to say they had seen the baby. The lie was as universally accepted.
To the uninitiated there is something substantially reliable in a picture obviously taken from a photograph. Nothing would seem to be more authentic than a snapshot. It does not occur to anyone to question photograph, and faked pictures therefore have special value, as they get a much better start than any mere statement, which may be criticized or denied. Only long time after, if ever, can their falsity be detected. The faking of photographs must have amounted almost to an industry during the war. All countries were concerned, but the French were the most expert. Some of the originals have been collected and reproduced.
Gas warfare and submarine warfare offered instances of violent outbursts of indignation on the on the part of the Press, which events showed were gross hypocrisy. “We must expect the Germans to fight like savages who have acquired a knowledge of chemistry. This atrocious method of warfare . . . this diabolical contrivance. . . . The willful and systematic attempt to choke and poison our soldiers can have but one effect upon the British peoples and upon all the non-German peoples of the earth. It will deepen our indignation and our resolution, and it will fill all races with a horror of the German name”. But it turned out that the Germans had not been the first to use poison gas. M. Turpin”s discoveries in poison explosives had been advertised in the French Press before this date, and the French War Ministry’s official instructions with regard to the use of gas hand grenades had been issued in the autumn of 1914.
There was no richer field for propaganda than the United States of America in the first years of the war. The Allied Powers and the Central Powers were both hard at work competing. The German method began by being too subtle. A wireless news agency, under German control, gave at first the best, most authentic, unbiased, and by far the cheapest war news, and thus attracted a large number of subscribers and fed the American Press. As the months passed, their news began to be ingeniously “slanted” in favour of the Central Powers. But they relied too much on argument. The cruder British methods were far more successful, and intensive work was done by the British War Mission, which comprised 500 officials with 10,000 assistants. Atrocities, Germany’s sole responsibility, the criminal Kaiser, and all the other fabrications started in Great Britain, were worked up by American liars with great effect. The Belgian baby without hands was a special favourite. There was hardly a household in which it was not discussed all over that vast continent, and even so ridiculous a scare as the concrete platforms for German guns was current in California.
Fubar Te Ching Chapter 80
If a country is governed poorly,
its inhabitants will be depressed.
They will hate working with their hands
and spend all their money on labor-saving devices.
Since their home cities are wastelands,
they are obsessed with travel.
Cars and planes and boats become their fetish,
And they go nowhere on foot.
They own many weapons,
and dream of opportunities to use them.
People eat a lot of junk food,
can’t stand their families,
spend their weekends watching sports,
and don’t know their neighbors.
And rather than pay attention to what is around them
they spend hours online watching puppies and kittens in foreign countries.
They are terrified of old age
and avoid reality by living a virtual existence.* Why do we want to wreck the world? Because it is wreckable!
* Rage is an abstract, redirectable force. Give into your anger, it will make you strong.
* The chart of military capabilities didn’t show hypersonic weapons; Only three countries have them, the US, Russia and China.
* Global Food Crisis on the way: Starving Lives Matter; American should be willing to live on 500 calories a day to support Ukraine; Patriots: Don’t tread on me; Biden Administration: Let them eat snake.
* Fifty years is a long time to pawn monopoly money off as the reserve currency but all good things must come to an end; It was fun while it lasted; Good job USA!
* We are our leaders; In Russia every man is Putin; In the US every man is Biden; In Canada every man is Trudeau; In the UK every man is BoJo.
* They lied about Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran; This time is different.
* I don’t know what kind of a person Putin really is but he is doing a better for Russia than any recent American president has done for the US. I don’t know what Russian elections are like but they couldn’t be much worse than elections in the US. I don’t know if the attack on Ukraine is dastardly and based on lies or not but it couldn’t be any more dastardly and based on lies than the attacks on Iraq and Libya.
* Russia says it doesn’t want all of Ukraine. Maybe they learned their lesson and only want people who want to be part of Russia to be part of Russia. Managing people who don’t want to be part of your country is just too bothersome. I say let people vote as to what country/state they want to be part of. Donetsk and Lugansk can be part of Russia, Mexico can have So Cal and Idaho can have half of Oregon. Democracy, self determination and all that.
* Russia seems to be still fairly homogeneous. Diversity is our strength, so uniformity must be their weakness. We will yet raise the rainbow flag over Moscow.
* The Saudi’s aren’t dummies. They will do what is best for the Saudi’s. They can smell blood in the water. Joe Biden asks them to pump more oil as a favor. They know that the full perfidy and liability of the US government will soon mean nothing. Do people really buy the bologna about supporting a democracy half way around the world and how we should sacrifice for them? Other Presidents pulled this nonsense from a position of strength. The US is no longer a bully but a whiny bystander. Joe Biden new favorite flavor is bomb pops. He plans to send a case to Zelensky.
* So bye, bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey ‘n rye
Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I dieI met an adviser from an asset fund,
Who said—“Two vast and bankrupt Pharma firms
Stand on Wall Street. . . . Near them, on the sidewalk,
Half shrunk a shattered vagrant lies, whose smirk,
And reedy lip, and whiny, high pitched voice,
Tell that well authority bred
Which yet survive, there upon that tragic being,
The cash that funded, and the ego it fed;
And on his cardboard, these words appear:
‘My name is Tony Fauci, NIAID Ex-Director;
Look on my Science, ye Mighty, and donate!
Even a few dollars or some small change will help!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that disgraced Bureaucrat, boundless and bare
The lone and level concrete stretches clear to Yonkers.”* Allons-y Justin
* A big rig, we must make them pay.
A box cutter, automatic weapons, a tow truck, – and Thou
Beside me slashing tires along the way –
Our Terrorism is Democracy now.
— The Rubaiyat of Juliette Kayyem* GiveSendGo – Sharing Hope through CrowdFunding
ShutdownSeizeArrest – Sharing Despair through GovernmentMandates* The recombinant DNA “sneaks past” their body’s defenses.
Why would we want that? OK, it’s a rhetorical question.
— Klaus Schwab* If a tree is chopped down in the forest but you didn’t collect the data, is it still rotting on the forest floor?
* Man: (Knocks)
Expert: Come in.
Man: Ah, Is this the right room for discussing Covid treatments?
Expert: I told you once.
Man: No you haven’t.
Expert: Yes I have.
Man: When?
Expert: Just now.
Man: No you didn’t.
Expert: Yes I did.
Man: You didn’t!
Expert: I’m telling you I did!
Man: You did not!!
Expert: Oh, I’m sorry, just one moment. Is this a five minute Covid treatment discussion or the full half hour?
Man: Oh, just the five minutes.
Expert: Ah, thank you. Anyway, I did.
Man: You most certainly did not.
Expert: Look, let’s get this thing clear; I quite definitely told you.
Man: No you did not.
Expert: Yes I did.
Man: No you didn’t.
Expert: Yes I did.
Man: Oh I’ve had enough of this.
Expert: No you haven’t.
Man: Oh Shut up.THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES OF UNCIVILISATION
from The Dark Mountain Project Manifesto1. We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history. We will face this reality honestly and learn how to live with it.
2. We reject the faith which holds that the converging crises of our times can be reduced to a set of ‘problems’ in need of technological or political ‘solutions’.
3. We believe that the roots of these crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’. These myths are more dangerous for the fact that we have forgotten they are myths.
4. We will reassert the role of storytelling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories that we weave reality.
5. Humans are not the point and purpose of the planet. Our art will begin with the attempt to step outside the human bubble. By careful attention, we will reengage with the non-human world.
6. We will celebrate writing and art which is grounded in a sense of place and of time. Our literature has been dominated for too long by those who inhabit the cosmopolitan citadels.
7. We will not lose ourselves in the elaboration of theories or ideologies. Our words will be elemental. We write with dirt under our fingernails.
8. The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.The Blind Men and the Epidemic
It was six post-doc PhD’s
Credentials still were scant
Who heard about the pandemic
And hoped to get a grant
Though none of them knew medicine
But all were sycophantThe First one said of early measures
“Why this cannot be!
Such measure will not cure a soul
It’s very plain to see
A measure cannot claim success
Without an RCT!”The Second hoped to cure us all
He struggled with the task
But then he learned it spread by air
“There’s just one thing to ask
We’ll cure this virus right away
If we all wear a mask!”The Third approached the dread disease
And tried to find it’s source
He thought it likely from a lab;
They threatened him with force
He then announced “It’s plain to see
It’s from a bat, of course!”The Fourth long pondered the disease
Infecting some in town
He figured out a policy
Announcing with a frown
“This virus is unstoppable
Unless we’re all locked down!”The Fifth, was not sure what to do
And not sure where to start
It seems he wasn’t all the bright
And not so very smart
But he had an epiphany
“Just stand six feet apart!”The Sixth considered the disease
“I know what this all means
We’re suffering from infected cells
We need to change our genes
We’ll fix this issue if all get
mRNA vaccines”And so those post-doc PHD’s
All published papers long,
And each received a research grant
Their CV’s now were strong,
Though none of them were in the right,
Yes, all were in the wrongMoral:
So oft in epidemic times,
Proposals that get tweeted,
Suggest in utter ignorance
From “experts” quite conceited,
Who try to cure contagion
Not one of them has treated.
