@lotlizard
We could use that money here for the homeless. Right? It just doesn't stop.

Is the rest for Hunter’s hookers and blow? Beau’s mausoleum and Cancer Center?

Nothing did change, did it?

oy

Thanks. Take good care.

of the highest, VIP tier! Or $1 million to be a corporate VIP sponsor!

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1339264210325413890

https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20428535-joe-bidens-inaugural-c...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/200pm-water-cooler-12-16-2020.ht...

[Commenter with handle edmondo:] Just out of curiosity, why does Joe Biden need $100 million for an inauguration? Doesn’t the government pay for the Chief Justice to show up and swear him in? Isn’t the whole thing virtual? A hundred million for what? A Zoom subscription costs $59.95 a month. Is the rest for Hunter’s hookers and blow? Beau’s mausoleum and Cancer Center?

Nothing did change, did it?

@Lookout
the great reset... a lot to unpack. Worth reading.

Plant more food. Folks, best advise around. Best to get started now bc there will be a learning curve no matter how much you know bc we will need to plant more grains (amaranth? etc.) and sources of protein. The climate is changing as well.

So lo, I just planted some self sowed celery starts. They are about the third generation growing in my yard. I use the leaves for flavoring and save the seeds for the same. Celery is a bit of a remedy and maybe will go into that later. Question. ? How far apart should they be at their closest as in vertical gardening? I planted them about 8" apart and that may be to close. Could still thin them out.

Thanks for the Great Reset links.

from the second link - The ‘Great Reset’ for dummies…

Traditional America, now, is very much in the way of this. Its habit of generous consumption and free expression, its self-centered foreign policies, its sense of entitlement, and its big suburban houses are a no-go. A traditional, independent, strong America is an obstacle. In that light—and with a disclaimer that I don’t think that there is such a thing as a just empire, I feel like there is an active effort to “even America out,” to co-opt its government, to destroy farms and small businesses—especially the ones that are not consistent with this all-digital future—and to bring down the entitled middle class, especially in “outdated” career paths. It feels like we are currently in the middle of a “color revolution,” a soft coup. Usually, American elites do it to other nations—but now it’s happening on the domestic soil. It feels like the Great Reset agenda, through its messengers and through its money, is shaping both the schizophrenic “COVID response” and the suddenly mainstream and well-funded, super corporate “social justice / climate” movement, which are all at this point intertwined in terms of messaging. Both pretend to promote pubic good, and both skillfully weaponize real issues and get a rise out of people who have a real love of fairness in their hearts—all to clear the way for the financial goals of the “great resetters”—such as a complete erosion of privacy (see contact tracing), moving all human activities online (see, well, everything), AI-based law enforcement and precrime (see “defund the police”), and so on. And yes, America has many honest problems. But it’s not like the current structures are being replaced with a council of spiritually grounded, wise indigenous elders who are deeply connected to Earth and who will not hurt any innocent life. What’s being attempted—however fuzzy the marketing coverup—is far worse, far less humane, and far more destructive than what we have today. I don’t like it.

from WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ‘THE GREAT RESET’

By now, you’ve probably started hearing world leaders speak of “the Great Reset,”1 “the Fourth Industrial Revolution”2 and the call to “Build Back Better.”
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But what do the terms “Great Reset,” “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Build Back Better” actually mean? What do they refer to? In the October 16, 2020, Corbett Report5 above, journalist James Corbett breaks down the new social contract planned for the world, otherwise known as “the great reset.”

“The Great Reset not only ties you to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, but even gives you a “social credit” ID that can run every facet of your life.”
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But what do the terms “Great Reset,” “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Build Back Better” actually mean? What do they refer to? In the October 16, 2020, Corbett Report5 above, journalist James Corbett breaks down the new social contract planned for the world, otherwise known as “the great reset.”

“The Great Reset not only ties you to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, but even gives you a “social credit” ID that can run every facet of your life.”
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The Great Reset is NOT the end of globalization — On the contrary, it is globalization turbo-charged. As noted by Schwab in the policy book, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” co-written with Thierry Malleret and cited in Corbett’s report:

“If no one power can enforce order, our world will suffer from a ‘global order deficit.’ Unless individual nations and international organizations succeed in finding solutions to better collaborate at the global level, we risk entering an ‘age of entropy’ in which retrenchment, fragmentation, anger and parochialism will increasingly define our global landscape, making it less intelligible and more disorderly.”

Thanks lo! Take good care

I keep wondering what the elites are planning for "the great reset". I'm betting it will extend their control and domination. They are currently pairing AI with the surveillance machinery that has been accelerating with the spread of COVID.

While the current pandemic is being used as a justification for the movement, the agenda has nothing to do with health and everything to do with a long-term plan to monitor and control the world through technical surveillance. In other words, the world will be reset to depend on digital technocracy run by self-appointed elitists.

It’s a power grab of unprecedented magnitude, and involves the restructuring of social classes to dismantle democracy, erase national borders and allow for the governing of communities from a distance by a group of unelected leaders. What was in the past referred to as the “new world order” is now known as “the Great Reset.”

This Great Reset not only ties you to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, but even gives you a “social credit” ID that can run every facet of your life. This isn’t a lofty conspiracy theory — it’s real. It’s happening now.

More here

The Great Reset is a massively funded, desperately ambitious, internationally coordinated project led by some of the biggest multinational corporations and financial players on the planet and carried out by cooperating state bodies and NGOs. Its soul is a combination of early 20th century science fiction, idyllic Soviet posters, the obsessiveness of a deranged accountant with a gambling addiction—and an upgraded, digital version of “Manifest Destiny.”

They know capitalism has failed and are desperate to hang on to control.

Like my old buddy used to say, "It ain't gonna get better, cuz."

Sorry about the homeless situation in CA and across the nation. Thanks for the OT. Everyone take care. Think about growing some food - word is our crops are going to China.

@Raggedy Ann
I for one am on the same page. I think it's going to be rough ride for many. As you say power doesn't give up easily. Raising vibrations and digging the Earth, literally. Moving forward into the light as we are grounded in dharma. Chop wood carry water.

Peace.

I know it doesn't mean much to anyone here, but let me just say that we are going into air. We are moving out of earth and going into air. We are going to move toward a more unity consciousness, but this is going to take time. Until Pluto moves into air, in 2024, we will be in the struggle.

The great reset that Lookout refers to is real, but the universe is in charge and its will will be done via the people on earth who are raising their vibration. The people will overcome but not without a struggle. Power doesn't give up easily.

Keep the faith. Be present, be grateful for all, recognize humanity and become/live the love that you are. We are all love, so let's exude it.

Enjoy the day!

@snoopydawg
It's a power struggle at the top and we ain't part of it, just collateral damage.

Yesterday a report came out that the Trump admin was going for herd immunity because big businesses told them to get people back to work regardless the toll it took on our lives. We do not matter. Cannon Fodder.

Thanks for all you do. Take good care and give your new pup a hug for me.

Biden's cabinet picks are exposing Washington's total decent into corruption. We have known that politics is a way for wealth to transfer hands once again at the our expense. Obama's tenure started lifting the lid for me on this, Trump's added to it and now Biden has put the finishing touches on the swamp. The author asks: "If the DC swamp was drained what would be left of it?" Total corruption. Here's one except.

With nothing left to do but plunder, Biden administration embraces loyalty over competence... just like Trump

Without competence, though, even the most unquestioning loyalty is all but meaningless. Mining his former boss’ personnel files to fill important roles may seem like the noble thing for Biden to do now, given Obama’s central role in getting his former vice president elected commander-in-chief, but when it comes time for these nepotism beneficiaries and glorified back-benchers to actually govern, the country will be effectively screwed.

In a country still wrestling with the Covid-19 pandemic, one wonders how the Biden campaign can justify appointing California Attorney General Xavier Becerra – a man with no expertise in medical matters – as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. The bar for “medical expert” has been disastrously lowered with the enthusiastic tongue-baths given to Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates by the media establishment, but Gates is paying his worshipers handsomely – Becerra’s sole credential seems to be his performative courtroom “resistance” to the Trump administration, whose own HHS director hails from one of the most corrupt pharmaceutical firms in the US.

Yesterday a report came out that the Trump admin was going for herd immunity because big businesses told them to get people back to work regardless the toll it took on our lives. We do not matter. Cannon Fodder.

Plunder indeed.

@enhydra lutris
Good solid soaking. Nice for it to come in batches and hopefully not wash out the fire zones. We got about .5 inch.

don't know when it stopped but everything is very wet.

@QMS
lots to triage.

onward, bc why not and what else. heh. Take good care and thanks for the tunes.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V92OBNsQgxU]

big time in the nor' east
the wet, heavy stuff
took a lot of work to get a path dug to the road
so the wife could go to work?
temps are dropping, so will give a crust of ice
on top. gotta go back out and make some paths
before it all turns to ice scream

thanks for the OT
triage the report all injuries

holy moly

@NYCVG

Unreal. Eat the rich. Right?

According to a recent study from the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University, nearly 40 percent of active-duty families had food and nutrition support needs since the pandemic hit.

While rent forgiveness and unemployment insurance claims covered other basic costs, food has leapt to the front of the line of needs. “In nearly six years of supporting coordinated care networks around the country, food assistance has never cracked the top three requested services over all,” said Nick Armstrong, the senior director of research and data for the institute.

On a recent Wednesday, the food pantry at Fort Bragg was buzzing with business. “It’s been eye-opening to see the families that do struggle in the military,” said Rachel Szabo, who was recently laid off from her job in industrial design.

Her husband, who is stationed at Fort Bragg and is on the lower end of the pay scale, and Ms. Szabo, who is pregnant, have been getting help from the Y.M.C.A. at the base, which began its food program a year ago and has seen explosive growth in need. “I had never needed to reach out for assistance,” Ms. Szabo said. “When I did lose my job, we still had bills. I have a lot of student loans still, so being able to reach out to the Y to make ends meet has really been a lifesaver.”

Thanks. Take good care.

https://dnyuz.com/2020/12/16/pandemic-leaves-more-military-families-seek...

instant approval for huge Military spending while military families are food insecure

Collapse of empire becomes evident when the money to pay soldiers who are deployed runs out and they return home to nothing.

@lotlizard

pend there, how many friends we are allowed to meet there, whether and when we can spend time with our families, what we are allowed to say to each other, who we can have sex with, where we have to stand, how we are allowed to eat and drink, etc. The list goes on and on.
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From now on, when the GloboCap Intelligence Community and their mouthpieces in the corporate media tell you something happened, that thing will have happened, exactly as they say it happened, regardless of whether it actually happened, and anyone who says it didn’t will be labeled an “extremist,” a “conspiracy theorist,” a “denier,” or some other meaningless epithet. Such un-persons will be dealt with ruthlessly. They will be censored, deplatformed, demonetized, decertified, rendered unemployable, banned from traveling, socially ostracized, hospitalized, imprisoned, or otherwise erased from “normal” society.

his conclusion

Or … I don’t know, this is just a crazy idea, you could turn off the fucking corporate media, do a little fucking research on your own, grow a backbone and some fucking guts, and join the rest of us “dangerous extremists” who are trying to fight back against the New Normal. Yes, it will cost you, and we probably won’t win, but you won’t have to torture your kids on airplanes, and you don’t even have to “deny” the virus!

https://www.unz.com/chopkins/year-zero/

The point of the lesson is that GloboCap — the entire global-capitalist system acting as a single global entity — can, virtually any time it wants, suspend the Simulation of Democracy, and crack down on us with despotic force. It can (a) declare a “global pandemic” or some other type of “global emergency,” (b) cancel our so-called “rights,” (c) have the corporate media bombard us with lies and propaganda for months, (d) have the Internet companies censor any and all forms of dissent and evidence challenging said propaganda, (e) implement all kinds of new intrusive “safety” and “security” measures, including but not limited to the physical violation of our bodies … and so on. I think you get the picture. (The violation of our bodies is important, which is why they love “cavity searches” in prison, and why the torture-happy troops at Abu Ghraib were obsessed with sexually violating their victims.)

And the “pandemic” is only one part of the lesson. The other part is being forced to watch (or permitted to watch, depending on your perspective) as GloboCap makes an example of Trump, as they made examples of Corbyn and Sanders, as they made examples of Saddam and Gaddafi, and other “uncooperative” foreign leaders, as they will make an example of any political figurehead that challenges their power. It does not matter to GloboCap that such political figureheads pose no real threat. The people who rally around them do. Nor does it make the slightest difference whether these figureheads or the folks who support them identify as “left” or “right.” GloboCap could not possibly care less. The figureheads are just the teaching materials in the lesson that they are teaching us.

And now, here we are, at the end of the lesson … not the end of the War on Populism, just the end of this critical Trumpian part of it. Once the usurper has been driven out of office, the War on Populism will be folded back into the War on Terror, or the War on Extremism, or whatever GloboCap decides to call it … the name hardly matters. It is all the same war.

Whatever they decide to call it, this is GloboCap Year Zero. It is time for reeducation, my friends. It is time for cultural revolution. No, not communist cultural revolution … global capitalist cultural revolution. It is time to flush the aberration of the last four years down the memory hole, and implement global “New Normal” Gleichschaltung, to make sure that this never happens again.