@QMS

Power over and control of the people's ideas is media's aim IMO.

Just noticed Glenn on useful idiots this week talking about censorship. I'm faceless and tweetless but they are sure powerful public attitude influencers...that censor info using the Atlantic council's (NATO based) advice.

Saw something recently on 1984 vs Brave New World...control with repression vs pleasure. It suggested the BNW pleasure hypothesis was playing out due to smart phone addiction. I personally think it is some of each...just consider Standing Rock or BLM protests for example.

Well hope you're warm and comfy. Looks like we'll just barely avoid the ice storms this week in our locale. Gray and chilly none the less. Take care everyone!

not sure the masses are so enamored
the love / hate entanglement may not be
quantifiable, but almost everyone I know
have no romantic illusions about zillionaires

Cheers.

@The Liberal Moonbat
...even though I'm a Tolkien fan.

While Morgoth doesn't appear in The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit, he plays a significant role in The Silmarillion and Tolkien's other writings, and his reign of terror had a far bigger impact on Middle-earth history than Sauron's. Originally known as Melkor, Morgoth is essentially the Lucifer of Tolkien's story. Like the devil, Morgoth was one of the first children created by the God of Tolkien's world, but succumbed to jealousy and greed, especially over the creation of other races, and was duly disowned by his fellow Valar. These events transpired before even the elves came into existence, but Morgoth's anger would rage for eons to come.

https://screenrant.com/lord-rings-morgoth-melkor-villain-explained/

Sounds like evil personified. Hope you've managed to avoid his grasp.

Have a good one!

Keep your eyes on the prize, would-be System-fighters - this is THE Big-Bad-Evil-Guy and Final Boss of History!

@eyo

All supposed hacks and accusations are suspect to my mind...

https://our.wikileaks.org/Vault_7:_CIA_Hacking_Tools_Revealed

I simply don't trust them and their BS propaganda.

SolarWinds, a major US information technology firm, was the subject of a cyberattack that spread to its clients and went undetected for months, Reuters first reported last week. Foreign hackers, who some top US officials believe are from Russia, were able to use the hack to spy on private companies like the elite cybersecurity firm FireEye and the upper echelons of the US Government, including the Department of Homeland Security and Treasury Department.

https://www.businessinsider.com/solarwinds-hack-explained-government-age...

I am posting before reading there is so much great content it will have to wait a minute. Thanks Lookout.

Blame a robot why knot.

She prior position in government was director of cybersecurity at the NSA.

Hm, someone has to keep an eyeball on the Solarwinds saga, so here is the latest released by The Biden: deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies
Her name is Anne Neuberger, and that gave an immediate Peter Sellers Steve Martin ear worm thanks a lot.
pink panther - i would like to buy a hamburger
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUCDhvbQFmU width:500]

From The Biden article link:

“The briefings we have received convey a disjointed and disorganized response to confronting the breach,” they wrote. “Taking a federated rather than a unified approach means that critical tasks that are outside the central roles of your respective agencies are likely to fall through the cracks.”

The cracks, the Biden, the Kraken! Oh my. Princess Queen Anne of The NSA is now in charge of the supply chains, so there. I am going to post one more vid over in SOE's essay about the upcoming Klamath river dam removal, it does tie in with food security. Red yarn all over my walls. lol

Peace and Love

@eyo @eyo

Hey folks, my last interview with the Ice Age Farmer and the last Unlosse the Goose episodes have been purged from YouTube. This is done intentionally and pro-actively by me to protect my channel from being compromised by censorship. At the end of the day, I am happy to be here on YouTube and hope that my farming and gardening videos can stay on this platform forever. This is why I delete all of my truther content from here. All of these videos are now up on my Odysee channel. Subscribe there if you are seeking this kind of content. https://odysee.com/@urbanfarmercstone:0 . Also, all previous Liberty on the Land episodes are on my bitchute channel. https://www.bitchute.com/channel/UycA... . Going forward, I will be favouring Odysee as my main alternative platform, outside of my own (fromthefield.tv), because it seems to be the most promising with regards to decentralization and absolute free speech. Have a great weekend.

Thanks for the heads up. Guess he felt revealing the plans of the oligarchs would cause him to be deplatformed.

Edit to add:

I found it at his https://odysee.com/@urbanfarmercstone link if you have an interest. I included their main issues in the other link if you can't manage the 1.7 hours to listen.

"This video has been removed by the uploader."

This link gave the error:

Here's a detailed 1 hour 40 min conversation about food and farming and the influence of the oligarchs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deOqjcNl6hY

Which makes today's playlist only 4 hours and 56 minutes total. Whew! Cheers.

@enhydra lutris

I don't see electoral politics as a solution. Also like you I continue to participate despite the lack of results. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Prefer finding productivity in the garden. Taste better than sour politics too.

Good luck with the rain and aquifer recharge! Have a good one.

That is to say, that I do not believe it is or can be efficacious to bring serious beneficial change for the ordinary people except for a few minor fiddles around the edges of the great cesspit. That said, I do believe that inaction on that front is guaranteed to accomplish nothing and that there is some sort of vague probability matrix wherein we may estimate that the negligible but non-zero probability of any serious program, project or law for our benefit being spawned by the corporate uniparty, either wing or bipartisanly, is less than that which would exist for a multiparty system. I worked in the sixties to get Peace and Freedom on the ballot in CA for exactly that reason. They're still on the ballot here, but generally make no serious impact.

My confirmation affidavit postcard of my latest voter registration arrived yestidday:

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Just sayin'

For what it's worth, I was very tight with multiple members of the working press at various times over the years, and over the last several decades they also werre uniformly decrying the state of the "news" media in this country and its devolution into stenographers and a propaganda repeater system.

it was 38 degrees at 6:11 today, and has rained for a day or two every few days, and will again tonight, but the Bay Area, like all of California is still very deep into water deficit and still falling even further behind.

be well and have a good one

@magiamma @magiamma

whichever we can find. ($4-5/bale)

lots cheaper than Alfalfa...which is useful as a nitrogen source. So reuse it in a different application. Put it in beds where you plan to grow summer feeders like corn, tomatoes, peppers and so on. Too much N will promote vegetative rather than tuber growth of potatoes.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/potato/tips-for-growi...

https://www.bettervegetablegardening.com/growing-potatoes-in-straw.html

I like this fellow's approach to potatoes...
Smother weeds for a potato harvest followed by abundant leeks within one year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhKxC7oZQuo (29 min)

I plant lightly (shallow) in soil and cover with straw. Best of luck!

Edit to add:
When getting straw in a car (trunk) first place a tarp in it. Put bales on tarp. After removing the straw bale(s) remove and shake out tarp over garden. I sometimes get two bales in the back of my little Geo Tracker. Makes a mess without a tarp.

And y’all.

Boy howdy. Howdy Doody time. Hee haw. K, then. All good or goo depending.

Lo , quick question. Got loads of taters growing and need to put some straw around them. But what kind? Used alfalfa straw. Bad idea. Molded. Ak. So please I need your advice. ( I had no idea that bales were so big. Last one barely fit into my car and made a mess, such a mess. )

Back later after the farmers market. Yahoo!!!

@randtntx

Been a leader in the dangers of corporate seed for decades.

Wow, have you seen the ongoing farmer strikes in India?

Indian farmworkers are continuing to take to the streets to demand Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeal three highly contested agricultural laws. Farmworkers say the laws, which seek to deregulate markets and allow large corporations to set prices, threaten their livelihoods. Dozens have died since the start of the protests, with many deaths caused by the harsh winter as tens of thousands of farmers have camped out in the cold on the outskirts of New Delhi and other parts of the country. The Modi government has come under harsh criticism for its response to the uprising as it raided the offices of the progressive news site NewsClick and demanded that Twitter remove hundreds of accounts as part of a crackdown on information about the protests. “The main idea of doing this is to send a warning and a message to the rest of us, the independent media, to say that you guys are not immune,” says P. Sainath, award-winning Indian journalist and founder of the People’s Archive of Rural India. “Independent media is having it as hard as it gets just now.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/11/india_farmworker_protests_media_c...

the DN piece continues continues...

The corporate media’s approach to the farmers, one, “Oh, these are all rich farmers.” By the way, I put out the figures of what these farmers earn from Punjab, the richest farmers in the country. Their monthly household — and a household has more than five people in Punjab — monthly household income is 18,059 rupees, which is about $250. OK? It’s about $250 a month, for five people, which means a per capita income for each farmer of that farm household of around $50. And look at who directors of the IMF, etc., are writing, condemning: “These are rich farmers.” Guys are writing on Twitter — I mean, these guys are writing on Twitter and Facebook. These guys earn more in an hour than an entire family household of farmers earns in a month, and they are trashing the farmers as “rich farmers.”

So, you’re looking at the greatest troll army in the world, a hostile corporate media, and a government out to crack independent media. In NewsClick, the problem — I mean, it’s always been a thorn in the side of authority. It has really angered them with its coverage of the farm protests. So, this is the media scenario. And yeah, the media, the main media or the big media, cozy up to the government.

By the way, you should know that the richest Indian in the world, the richest media owner in India, is also one of the two or three biggest beneficiaries of these farm laws: Mr. Ambani. So, how are — then those media that he does not own, he is very often the biggest advertiser. So, why do you expect better from them?

Hope you're avoiding the ice that seems to be covering TX. NW AL is getting hit over the next few days, but we look like we stay slightly above freezing. Best of luck to all facing the threat!

thanks for a great ww.

Dr. Vandana Shiva has been an advocate for small independent farms and organic farming for many years. She has been pointing out the hazards of GMOs and industrial agriculture and has participated in producing books, films, conferences, etc.. She is a good educator on this subject and makes it understandable and very clear.

I'm reading a book called Sacred Seed. It is a collection of essays by a group of spiritual leaders. "Inspired by physicist and environmental leader Dr. Vandana Shiva, each essay draws on the wisdom of ancient and modern traditions. Mystics, shamans, monastics, and priests remind us of the profound sacredness of the seed-how in its purity, is is the source and renewal of all of life."

In 1987 Shiva started Navdanya, which is a "network of seed keepers and organic producers".
She writes that:

Biodiversity and cultural diversity go hand-in-hand. When culture is eroded, biodiversity is eroded. When control over seed becomes big business, diversity disappears ever faster.

Diversity is a product of care, connection, and cultural pride. The mango breeders wanted to give us the best taste, the best quality . So they evolved the diversity of the delicious dasher, langra, alphonso...

The tribals and peasants who gave us rice diversity wanted to develop a rice for lactating mothers, a rice for babies, a rice for old people. They wanted to have rices that survive droughts and floods an cyclones, so they evolved climate-resilient rices. In the Himalaya, different rices are needed for different altitudes and different slopes. The intimacy and care that go with belonging to a place and a community allows diversity to flourish. Conserving and growing diversity comes as naturally as breathing.

Greed cannot deal with care; it promotes carelessness. Greed drives control and control is facilitated through uniformity and monocultures. You cannot control diversity, you can only co-evolve ad co-create with it.

A will to control becomes a will to destroy diversity, through what I have called the Monoculture of the Mind. And the expansion of corporate control over seed and plants is the main reason for the disappearance of diversity in our fields and in or food.

@randtntx

I like the transcript at the DN site. I can read through an interview so much faster than watch, but remember seeing that interview when it was broadcast.

with Dr. Vandana Shiva:
(about 30 min)

@lotlizard

Sorry I can't help with the lau lau.

guess you'll just have to make your own!
https://whatscookingamerica.net/Pork/Hawaiian-LauLauPork.htm

Saw in your link it is like southern bbq to folks like me. Everyone here has their own approach to prepping and serving bbq, bet the same is true for lau lau.

wishing you the best!

to hide.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/lj0zib/weve_been_correct_...

I’m starting to suspect that the real “Silent Majority” is a collection of people left, right, and center, who are rejecting the corporate media narrative, and have lost respect for mostly all politicians. I am also starting to suspect that this “Silent Majority” is way larger than we’re led to believe.

How many people do you know personally that have lost faith in, or at the very least are now questioning the corporate media? How many of them surprised you, since you previously viewed them as the NPC-type? [NPC = gamer term for nonplayer character]

How many people do you see liking and sharing memes and posts that go against the norm?

Did you notice how much support the “Gamestonk Rebellion” got from all sides?

Do you find that the number of people who actually care about this impeachment trial is very low? How many of your friends and family see it as political theater wasting time that could be better spent on relief?

Have you noticed a lot more people turning to different forms of media?

Because of this pandemic we are basically being forced to only communicate through social media and apps. It’s no secret that they can see pretty much everything we say and see, and what we are seeing is them turning up the propaganda to 100. We are seeing them go all in with divisive distractions, while artificial trends are bullied into formation. We watch over the top hashtags get astroturfed to the top of platforms. We are seeing corporate media pushing for expanded government surveillance powers, while simultaneously trying to destroy independent media. While this is happening our president has spent his first 21 days signing an unprecedented amount of unpopular executive orders bypassing working with Congress altogether. He’s doing this surrounded by thousands of armed troops patrolling DC.

This doesn’t sound like a government that is confident in its ability to rule, this seems like the actions of people who are scared. What data are they seeing when they monitor us that’s causing them to act this way? Why does it seem like we are witnessing the elites in panic mode, flexing their muscles in fear, hoping we don’t call their bluff? As we sit quietly behind our mandated masks, it seems like theirs is slipping.

 
I sure could use some lau-lau right now. I wonder where the nearest commercial establishment able to supply Hawaiian dishes would be? Berlin? Prolly a luxury only someone in the Obamas’ orbit could afford, if any of them even ever eat Hawaiian food.

https://onolicioushawaii.com/lau-lau/

@snoopydawg

We do, but I hope it isn't needed. Enjoy your walk. Wet, gray, and about 40 F cold here. Not ideal for a walk. Guess the new companion requires a walk...one of the best reasons to have a dog. PBS is broadcasting a new version of "All Creatures Great and Small" about the Yorkshire vets. Fun for animal lovers.

Have a nice one!

Power is out after hurricane force winds came through again last night. HUNDREDS of thousands are without power throughout the western states. Guess I'll go for a walk even it's cold out. But so is the sun.

@Granma

Glad you have a warm place to be. We have propane heat with solar supplement, so we don't lose that. We also cook with propane. However, we lose internet, TV, lights, and so on without power. Had two weeks with out power after the blizzard of '93 when we had 4' drifts of snow. Had to crank the generator to have well water. We would ration out an hour or two of pumped water, filling jugs for the interim.

Please take care, and glad you're with family. Wishing you the best!

Since Friday. Portland area and surroundings have been hit hard with snow and freezing rain. Hundreds of thousands of people without power. And more losing power. Much damage to trees. Power lines and even power poles are down because of ice and trees falling on them. Impossible to describe how much damage has been done to trees. Emergency has been declared in 9 counties because roads closed or trees and branches on them. Other roads are inches deep with ice and snow in multiple layers.

And more freezing rain coming down, with a few inches more ice or snow expected overnight tonight.
One of my sons has power and an all wheel drive vehicle that can handle driving on the roads. He came and brought me to his house. So I am holed up safe and warm with him and a couple of grandkids.

It is so cold, people go out and sit in their cars, running the heater to warm up. There are no hotel rooms or generators available in the area, all long gone. I know of people, seniors with serious health issues stuck in their homes without power. But I have no way of helping. Am very thankful to be warm, fed, safe.