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Dr. John the Texas Bicycle Tripper may i have your thought for a moment. Another of the happiest days of my life was when i read, “he that knows enough is enough will always have enough”. That line comes twenty three verses after perhaps the most important discovery of my young adult life. I do not believe there is any end point or plan to that which we are experiencing. Concurret to the seed of your path it was noted, the greatest sin is desire. Who have you worked with that put any limit on the advancement of their career? What is being done is simply being done because it can be done, it is desired. I am yet to find a soothing tone or word selection to smooth over the brutality of our culture. Hopefully there will be a moment when nothing is done.
i’m workin at being nice
improvement is marginalDr. D Rich – my thought is not the tres amigos are furthering any agenda. What i see are men who have pursued and are currently pursuing the world view and career advancement agenda recently reviewed favorably here. Men who have been as close to the inside as they know what can be said and what cannot be said just as their wives do. Seppuku on international internet or a white hat are two things i do not see. What i measure is a garden hose at Maui, inconsequential. emoji – I only use my foil hat for physics! – emoji
waiting on a engineer to respond to an RFI.
Dr. D my sense is tres amigos want wars that are deemed winnable and a narrative of invincibility. That does not equate to anti war. i can remember Reagan and Thatcher and their glorious triumphs. Where was the voice of the tres amigos when “we came, we saw, he died”? The CIA guy advertises for financial services on his site. The judge’s site is all slick media aimed at a certain demographic. The LIberty Nation website and thought synomous crowd seems to be the target of the judge.
My mother in total disgust once said to me “You are the most cynical person I have ever known”. My parents named me after a man who would betray our family before i was five. I smiled and quietly accepted the compliment. I am well acquainted the touch of corruption, “the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane”.
i wasn’t being facetious about your hope. people do read what you write.perhaps most have seen the video compilations of talking heads using the exact same phrase across the entire media sphere as if in sync. Does anyone remember the decade of Greed is Good? There does not seem to be any video compilations of talking heads uttering that phrase in sync that have a popular following. A decade of non-stop advertising for deregulation and greed.
” All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
Marshall McLuhan“Oh, people, look around you
The signs are everywhere
You’ve left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care” Jackson Brownei have clients who want a barndominium, a modeling i shall go
Dr. D Rich – Ritter, Colonel Doug, CIA Larry and the judge all speak to a known group, with a known mindset. They are all company men pushing the might makes right agenda. My guess is ninety percent of their audience will vote status quo every time. What i hear from them is, once we dispose of these usurpers we can get back to business as usual. Those thoughts are not unpopular in Congress.
Dr. D i admire your hope. i paused for a minute in the television room of the home where i stay last night. The channel was set to Dancing with the Stars. i realize i should have abandoned hope when McCain chose Palin. i wonder what the ninth circle is like, i know the seventh too well.
jb-hb are you old enough to remember Dizzy Dean? Keep leaning out over the plate.
amorality is not a working class value, sportjust ignore my posts. if you see tboc do what Dionne Warwick suggested, “Walk on By”. The intellects that gather here do not require your protection or affirmation. My position is that of Evelyn Beatrice Hall when it comes to speech. No more than a common courtesy. Ignore me bro, please. No one reads what i write, go along to get along. Just ignore me, please.
“We can just re-imagine things into their opposite with a little imagery, a little parable like reference – just so, just so”
or we can just continue to imagine ourselves noble as we go along to get along and protect our shared wealth
from the book of Charlie Brown, “Good Grief”!
Everyone, continue moving along nothing to see here just another character from one of Aesop’s fables.went to a Disney venue ONCE. To enter one had to have their fingerprints scanned. Fingerprints scanned while a video camera time stamps their image. Ever hear of face recognition video analysis? Remembering all of the smiling happy people in the queue waiting to have their privacy invaded knowing they would return to the scene of the crime is terrifying. Ever been to a bank where you are not an account holder and put your thumb print on the back of a check to have it cashed? Ever had your finger prints scanned and recorded to participate within some institution? Do you feel safe now?
A nation prostrating itself and worshipping at the feet of a fictional mouse. When the worship service is over paying interest on the debt incurred for the privilege begins.“Why has western society been so supine, so unreflectively supportive to the sheering away of its civilisational ethos?” Crooke
well, we do it for the children
“The unanswered question: Why has western society been so supine, so unreflectively supportive to the sheering away of its civilisational ethos?” – Crooke
The first question the majority in western civilization ask is what’s in it for me. A civilization of Joseph McCarthy clones.
Have they no decency? NONE
will someone please stuff a sock in Carlson’s mouth? That which Blind Willie McTell suggested for infidelity would be more pleasing. Do i repeat myself? Ahh, innuendo the dissident’s friend!
Trump/Carlson, supine IS the proper position for that. BOHICA
the people get the government they deserve. Not entirely true, if we had the government we deserve things would really be FUBAR.
ask not what you can do for your country ask what your country can do for you.
Come on now!! gimme a tax breakpassive observers
when i have listened i always here it this way “None so blind as they who WILL not to see.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaE_HCMimQ – Have a cookie…….you’ll feel right as rain.
once the current debacle gets memory holed things can get back to The Status Quo. You know, Kolbe has some clarifying insights into discomfort and pain.
D there is a mid size building boom here on the Emerald Coast. Commercial vacancies are apace with the creation of new commercial space. When the sub-prime disaster was devastating the economy those who could no longer afford offshore destinations came here and this economy with the military base survived intact. Considering the time lapse between loan origination and the completion of construction the trajectory of interest rates would seem to doom much of the boom to bust. Another bailout appears unavoidable. How a rash of margin calls in the commercial real estate sector is to be avoided is the question. Looks like some type of bail in will have to accompany the bailout.
my experience this weekend was of being in the movie The Sixth Sense. The novelty is wondering if i am dead or those encountered along the way. The callous indifference to suffering touches me like a Muhammad Ali left jab.
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
“I am leaving, I am leaving”, but the fighter still remains – Paul Simon, The BoxerAustin – The Very Model of a Modern Major General
Kirby – Tsetse fly – obligate parasiteThe question is not where civilization began, but when will it.
attended a concert of chorus and small orchestra expressing Part I of Handel’s Messiah Sunday afternoon. The young lady who was the alto soloist has the most beautiful voice i have ever heard. A light shines in the darkness. The darkness does not understand.when THEY, whoever they are, have plans to do something really stupid Pyatts “our guy”
“Washington is aiming to halve Russia’s oil and gas revenues by the end of this decade, Geoffrey Pyatt, US assistant secretary of state for energy resources, told the Financial Times.”
China and Venezuela are making out in the coat closet. The Saudi’s and Iran are preparing for a tag team cage match. OPEC+ are looking closely at production quotas. Inflation is making mark to market in the fracking industry a possibility for the near future. Guess we better send “Toria” to insure success in our endeavor.
to paraphrase Mr. Ron White
if you come down here and hate me I’ll hate you backwill leave you to your peace for the day
D from your post: “For I Am God”. As western minds turned to Eastern religion and mysticism western finance and management turned to TQM. The girl and boy genius could not fathom either. The concept of a drop in the ocean of consciousness, that the individual is a facet of the divine, was just a little too deep for western intelligentsia. This same strata of western intelligence could no more grasp TQM than they could grasp Eastern mysticism. The idea that the entire organization had to improve every moment as an organism is out of their ken. How does one improve perfection? Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says I am God, so there you have it, improvement is for you. There really is delicious irony in watching would be monotheists worshiping at the feet of the pantheon of intelligentsia.
“The highest good is like water, it flows in places men reject” – Lao Tzu. There are some who consider that the Colorado River did not cut through the terrain but stayed in place as faulting and folding progressed. Try to explain to anyone you know “nothing is done and yet nothing is left undone”. I bet you the God you are speaking to does not have the power to process that thought. “Destroyer of worlds” is the work of lesser gods.
“You will own nothing” almost everyone i speak to who has heard that phrase considers themself happy. Divide the value of your debt by the value of your free and clear assets (true net worth). Are you happy?
“Useless eaters”, a happy term spread by the Wicked Messenger, might easily be one of the most misunderstood phrases since it came upon the stage. Almost everyone i know thinks the laborers and the poor are the “useless eaters”. In a deindustrialized world just exactly what is it the lower through lower upper level managers manage? A world driven by financializtion and digital wealth extraction has no need for main street managers. Most of those “will not work” people are unemployed managers. They have never actually worked and they have no commercial potential. There is a point, at which time all of the collateral that has been the basis for the debt of the middle class will be captured. Superfluous is a nice way to say “useless eater”.
At the top of this page are three links to videos. The sages bringing us their deep wisdom and insight are company men. My interpretation of their message is; if this doesn’t stop it’s going to fuck up my gig. The two of them are high level assistants to murderers of the innocent. Killing children on the sly is much more profitable than killing children and having it broadcast live around the world. Ask any corporate shill about “proprietary information”. The two of them are knowledgeable men in the ways and means of terror, murder, humiliation, extortion, subjugation and wealth extraction. Do you have any doubts concerning the popularity of their videos? When you watch one of their videos you looking into the face of William Calley.
Are you sure you want to save the village?
oroboros pope master card has invited the money changers back into the temple.
signed
excommunicado cradle catholictwo of the happiest days in my life:
1. i could afford a pocket calculator with the square root function
2. the day i found out Mr. Feynman wasn’t joking and no one understands quantum mechanics. Just the thing for me.
About forty five years after #2 i watched a conversation between Mr. Fred Hoyle and Mr. Feynman. Mr Feynman said “when I heard no one understands quantum mechanics I thought that’s just the thing for me”. As close to the shoulders of giants as i will ever get.serendipity, mention the high speed terminal and Mr. Meijer posts Keiser discussing the high speed terminal. Thank you
Enzo Maiorca’s insight !!! stop grasping the world and let it touch You
Newton was an alchemistwork beckons, “come hither”
oroboros you are too generous, 7 minutes is considered the future for those connected to Bloombergs’s High Speed Terminal.
from Selma in 1965 to the Occupy protests in 2011 the “haunting cries” have been coming from the streets within the United States of America. Sinclair’s The Jungle was published in 1906 and the history of strikebreakers and union busting from that time through Ronald Reagan is quite well documented. The offshoring of industry during the forty six years from Selma through Occupy and the flat lining of wages starting in earnest in 1970 were all supported by the lower and mid-level management class. They, of course, thought of themselves as part of the elite. The jungle belonged to the laborers who were being systematically colonized by the debt mongers and their lifeblood was being extracted to advance empire. Labor and wages had to be suppressed to protect profits and the dollar.
The Rustbelt is the polite description of the destruction wrought upon the jungle in the United States. How polite it is to witness areas of desolation and opine “should have planned better”. How admiringly philosophical to turn the phrase “The one who dies with the most toys wins”. The intellectual sophistication of noting “these are all Blue cities” passes for deep economic insight. Perhaps Mr. Borrell studied twentieth century trends within the United States as a basis for his view of the “Garden”. The need to slash nutrition programs from the USDA budget was a sign of moral superiority. “The USDA is just a small percentage of the overall budget” was countered by “you must understand moral hazard”. Our standard of living must be protected was the mantra as another income bracket was drowned in the sea of growth. What a euphonius appellation given to wholesale impoverishment, “Creative Destruction”.
The whole time these things were being accomplished the majority of US citizens viewed them as necessary to protect their “money”. Now with the known data of death and destruction across the Middle East, Ukraine and the Sahel the call to protect the “money” is at the forefront once again. Once the Palestinian problem is “solved” the brutal normalcy of wealth extraction will be able to expand the sphere of influence once again.
Mr. Escobar’s essay is quite accurate but for one small item, the time frame. With the substitution of a few words the twentieth century “WASP” conquest of The United States is easily described. The brutal destruction of life and hope in the US set the precedent for the “rules based order”. The jungle has been here and it no longer creeps, it is welcomed with open arms. Make Palestine resemble Detroit, Chicago or the main street in your town. As Mr. W Bush first noted in 1992 “The American lifestyle is non-negotiable”.
The road to Damascus is not The Road Less Travelled, it is not travelled at all. One must acknowledge that five hundred years of barborous destruction of life is viewed as noble. One must also note the continuation of the process is fervently anticipated and desired. Pretending that the murder of children is a new and novel twenty first century abberation is a growth industry. Robert Hunter wrote “what a long strange trip it’s been”. That is my experience.
on a lighter note:
The revolution will not be right back after a message about a white tornado,
white lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom, the tiger in your tank,
or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seatThe revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live – Gil Scott Heron – 1970V. Arnold i believe we are friends. My debt is not to bankers but to you. I hope to fulfill my obligation.
The truth is a photon carries information. The information, as electromagnetic energy, is absorbed at the atomic level and transformed into internal energy. As energy is emitted and absorbed and emitted information flows.
Consider a blackbody maintaining 0° Kelvin in an energetic environment. Energy is absorbed and none would be emitted, no flow of information. Ross Perot’s great sucking sound is an apt metaphor.
Zionism is a blackbody maintaining 0° Kelvin. No light is emitted, no flow of information, no truth.
Darkness within Darkness
The Gateway to all Mystery – circa 400 BCE“Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.”
for each child lost i am the less
moral posturing is getting out of hand. No discipline – no courage – no Honor = no duty to humanity – a walking death. The measure that i use is the measure that will be used for me. The Enlightenment finds it’s home in darkness.DBS, i’m 72 and know citizens of the US my age who still believe the Gulf of Tonkin bs and have a deep sense of affection for Ronald Reagan. Anyone who has read Killing Hope and still seeks the status quo at my age has probably lived up to their potential.
DBS, no that is not what we have all done. Some have had a taste of corruption from very early in their life. My definition of IQ is usefulness to empire. My IQ is 0. i heard at least once a week for ten years, “You’re not living up to your potential”. This statement was based on the old apptitude test. Work to make yourself the most profitable employee, give the knowledge you have gained to your fellows, and walk away when there is injustice. You get an adventure and the one who learned the most gets a raise. Make em pay for violating the social contract. Always punch above your weight. Don’t get mad, get Justice
Liberal when young, radical when old. No brown spots on the handkerchief. There is more to poverty than lack of currency.The best thing about The Smartest Man In The World?
I personally know several.Stake yourself to your position and draw your sword. Stand tethered and firm atop your hill.
The archers will arrive in due time.The best thing about being the dumbest person in the world?
The quest for knowledge will never be fulfilled.for many faith is like their socks – black or white, worn out and full of holes
a little dogma here a little dogma there, next thing you know you’re talking real fantasyWhat does it feel like to know you invested your entire life in the status quo? Will you do what the leaders of the free world do? Double Down? Is that not what The Smartest Man In The World suggests?
Red, one definetly has to be quiet when their aspiration is to inject carborundum micro spheres into the gears.
15% known matter and energy, 85% dark matter and energy
15% developed nations, 85% global south (choose the description that suits you personally)the 85% dark matter and energy drive the expansion of the verse
soon the 85% global south will drive the human economic engine. A moment of discovery is on the horizon. In a manner similar to the verse the rate of expansion of the global south is increasing and will be seen to overcome the mass of the developed nations.the standard model theorists cannot accept their model is inadequate to explain the physical reality just as economists in the developed nations cannot accept their model is inadequate. The hidden overcomes what is seen. There are things which cannot be touched or measured that are real.
No store of value, no profit. A black hole deals harshly with that deemed to be indispensable. Still, information can escape a black hole.Red, hope you enjoyed the images of the thoughtful man checking his cell phone and nodding wisely as much as i. <emoji>
Today, November 23, 2023, is celebrated as a day of thanksgiving in my home, my nation. As the preparation for the thanksgiving meal begins please let me share some of the things i am thankful for. I am thankful for singularity. I am thankful for the information that created space. I am thankful for clouds of charged potential. I am thankful for fusion. I am thankful for the the stars that forge the material world. I am thankful for the curiosity and intelligence in a precious child’s eyes.
I am thankful that i am not limited to observation. I am thankful for the greatest of human blessings, the ability to measure. I am thankful for physics, logic and ethics.
I am thankful for a peace that exceeds understanding. I am thankful for those things i cannot yet understand.
I am thankful for the one thing, above all others, that I cannot understand. Why is human consciousness not enough? Why is the ability to discern beauty and loving kindness not enough?
I am thankful for hope and the knowledge that light overcomes darkness.
I am thankful for all of my sisters and brothers and their children.
I am thankful that I am blessed with the ability to speak and write. I am thankful i may say, I Love You.
don’t know why all of the angst about the money. The invisible hand of the market will straighten it all out. Well that’s the story i have heard most of my life. The market is self correcting and can not be be deterred from unerring eficiency. Laissez-faire, the only good regulation is a dead regulation! Demand for labor increasing? Let the invisible hand sort it out. What? Never tried that approach? Hell no, got to protect that efficient use of capital. Raise interest rates increase the returns on capital and starve the labor market. All of those years with a skilsaw in hand the only part of the hand i saw was the thumb pushing my sisters and brothers down.
