...for you and yours. All is well in the (still snowy) holler.
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Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
Getting so much better all the time

Not a bad mantra...

Thank you for publishing a platform to discuss all the vagaries of our current condition.

vagary : an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion

Can relate to your feelings of depression. It has become more manifest in these waning
days of social cohesion. There is also despondency ..

: the state of being despondent or extremely low in spirits :

: feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression :

The dangerous emotional reaction is to isolate, which the authorities are
not only encouraging, but in some places demanding. This is not healthy.

Hope your spirits improve

Edit Good morning CCtMS? Can't Continue or ...? wtf sry! Start Tuesday over again...

Good morning CStMS, I am sending out some peaceful loving vibration signals to surround you and lift your spirits. Gotta crank the viber up to eleventy, you're way down in FL right? Coast to coast. Om. I feel better and want the same for you and your family too. {hugs}

Remember that time I biffed a PM and sent my diagnoses out to "ALL" who were signed up here at the time? LOL! I forgot about it until just now, oops! It could be worse, I just don't know how. If my life could be remastered, it would definitely be more articulate and colorful and happy. It's never finished.

Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered!
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Bob Marley - Keep On Moving (Remastered Video)
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Peace and Love

Disney’s Hall Of Presidents Opens Exhibit Of Historic Shadow Leaders Who Really Ran Country

ORLANDO, FL—Eschewing its typical round of publicity, Disney World quietly opened a side exhibit within its Hall Of Presidents attraction Wednesday featuring the historic shadow leaders who have really run the country since its founding. “The show takes place in a narrow hallway, which is only accessible via an unmarked door off a side antechamber, and begins with a slideshow showing the history of cabinet officials, members of national security, and foreign business leaders controlling the direction of our nation,” said Disney blogger Carol Flannigan, confirming that the presentation concluded with lifelike animatronic figures of the dozens of industrialists and decision makers who have always wielded influence behind the scenes. “It was a really fun way to learn about history—there’s a whole section about Edith Wilson secretly taking power when her husband was in a coma, and I don’t want to spoil Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld’s big speech about 9/11, but it was pretty amazing.” At press time, rumors remained unconfirmed of an even more difficult-to-access side display within the exhibit featuring the lizard people who, in actuality, really control everything.

https://www.theonion.com/disney-s-hall-of-presidents-opens-exhibit-of-hi...

According to the lizard people theory, bloodthirsty reptilian aliens first arrived on earth in ancient times. Since then, these beings have been merging with humans through the manipulation of DNA, as well as interbreeding with the human population. The goal of this process was to gain control of the world by obtaining positions of power and influence: royalty, politicians, popular entertainers, etc.

https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/02/12/behind-the-belief-lizard-people/co...

Just for fun

CStMS,
Here’s hoping Nick is on the mend and the rest of you are doing well.

We ended up with a foot of snow at our elevation over the holidays, been rain for three days now, most of it’s gone.

Nothing much to add, the crazies are everywhere trying to fud shit up by not allowing discourse. SMDH.

Me? I’m Still an asswhole on the hill.
Later

of MR. Sunshine, I am somewhat ill prepared to provide cheer, uplifting inspirations and all that, but I do have some gimmickry that may be just what the doktor guru ordered.

1) Don some earphones
2) Use search engine to find Binaural Meditation Music / Relax meditation music
(other keywords: serotonin, happiness, soundscapes,dopamine:
"Happiness Frequency" seems to come up a lot.)
3) pick one, fire it up and listen while going about your business or affairs

The soundscapes include paired disparate frequencies (one per ear) that have beat frequencies in the alpha and delta wave range and which tend to induce the brain/mind to follow suit.

Other good news is that DC is somewhat paralyzed and hence cannot too greatly burden us with any further harm for a few hours.

try to be well and have a good one

They keep telling us the economy is booming, Also that people are quitting good safe jobs. Frankly, I remain unconvinced. I think its a big lie to cover up the massive outsourcing they promised other countries in the GATS.

If the jobs are indeed more dangerous then they deserve higher pay for risking their lives, dont they. But they dont want to pay people whose work they need more, they instead want to replace them, with third world workers who have few other options. Thats the plan. Thats why all the shenanigans happened, I am sure, to create a wall of confusion.

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Also, the huge PR blitz on worker shortage is just prepping us for a huge increase in H1B and L1 and L2 work visas, in very large numbers. Hillary Clinton says that immigrants are responsible for lots of jobs, but guess what, these work visas are officially not immigrants. Those jobs are just wanted because they are cheaper, For example, the programs are killing IT. Which was not long ago our most diverse kind of workplace because back then many workers taught themselves the new field, now many of them are still employed. But the neoliberals are against all of us, and only for the ultra rich and the biggest corporations. They want the (smaller) firms that employ the most workers to fail. They say they are less efficient "zombie" companies. .

But the fact is those are the companies that employ poorer, less educated skilled workers. Who often are really good at what they do. But they are not rich. Many are American born and many are immigrants children who are US citizens. THEY ARE NOT WANTED by these foreign IT companies, because they have rights that give them options. They in theory can change jobs. The L1 and H1B workers are tied to employers, often forced to work extremely long hours. And also caste-ism is endemic, its being exported to countries like the US. "Dalits" and non-caste system Indians say so. They came here to leave STATE CAPTURE behind, but now its being exported here, largely by a single group. Why? Because they are trying to steal our future. They are not us. They have their own country and obligations to it. We and our politicians are elected by US, at least in theory.

However, we didn't, none of us voted for any of THIS. As shown by what happened in Europe when a referendum was held on the GATS-inspired Bolkelstein Directive. It was an EPIC FAILURE. Showing how unpopular neoliberal ideology is when put to a vote. (which it NEVER is, quite the opposite)

No neoliberal are extremely aggressive at using every trick in the book to hide what they do, what they are doing. Which is literally a global coup. They are trying to use COVID as a means of creating a fake 'emergency', (which likely can be prevented by improving diets and NOT insituting a repressive digital totalitarianism. Totalitarianism intended, no doubt to allow the forcing of the trade deals and their global coup against democracy to allow repressive control of everybody after the scam is exposed and billions of people are trying to bring back real democracy which we have not had in at least three decades, I am told, Bring back humanity and common sense, bring it back. Not since the first standstill which was in around 1981 have we had it. Thats why we could not have functional government. Like public healthcare system. I suspect that is the biggest thing they wanted toi prevent. So instead they set up a trade deal, GATS in 1994 to prevent it, and we were fed pablum in the form of a strategy that was guaranteed to triugger GATS lock in - trapping us in healthcare hell forever, by a cover up Pied Piper candidate.

We all know how a decent education and advanced degrees (four years degrees are losing jobs the most) are important for job seekers. Leading to millions of our young people being unable to get decent jobs. Well, By making colleges and grad school too expensive for so many given the risk of not succeeding and punishing lifetime debt for the crime of not being born riche they are making it more likely our young people fuck up, which is what they want, having turned jobs into tradable commodities a form of money they are trading other countries for trade concessions, like mkore expensive drug prices, longer patent terms. Since IP is bullshit, a legal fiction. To steal science from humanity.

Things that hurt people. A new kind of racism is being forced on business IT departments. In what was once the most diverse kind of workplace in America. (Public workers and their workplaces too are being targeted for agressive subcontracting, by this trade-deal controlled global pillage. Which is hugely wasteful of our nations resources. It makes no sense to contract out many jobs, and undermines a middle class which was the envy of the worlda few years ago. It still attracts many to come here, hoping for green cards, and even I am told many paying for the job placement here. As much as $30,000 (they "make it all back on the dowry", I am told, if they have a verified US JOB. Can somebody explain how this works? )

Anyway, US citizenship should not be sold to the rich of other countries. Thats the intent, looting everything from the taxpayers, at a huge cost to all of us. Its quite well organized, this massive global theft.

They claim its more efficient to outsource all our jobs to foreign services firms, "body shopping" firms, that make it their business to never hire Americans, who they call "locals" Those are the (political contributors?) foreign wealthy people who Hillary Clinton wants lots more of here, calling them "immigrants" to confuse us while knowing they are officially not.

This comes at a large danger of allowing politicians to lie very destructively to all of us that They wont change immigration laws, when they fully intend to vastly increase the offshoring of precious vanishing good entry level jobs to foreign (usually Indian) firms.

They often repeat a dishonest assertion that Indians specifically are smarter than other nations students (not true, many of them are quite average, and many tend towards a copy-paste approach to their work. Some are quite capable, especially after a few years of experience, no more and no less than other nationalities. We must realize that our own students are being intentionally starved of education and buried in debt in order to create less resistance to outsourcing their future jobs. Its easy to justify this treatment if one can claim they fucked up. Its their fault for not being rich. The existence of the huge debts and loan defaults of the millions of young people, only able to get the most marginal jobs, which are now in danger of being taken from them because of their expectation of a "gegal wage" at least, illustrates how the so called free trade system has failed the people of this country. (as well as so many others) .

Are things like the much criticized "too high" "Legal US wage" (demanded that foreign firms pay workers while here, clearly several times higher than what they pay at home and would prefer to pay workers here. They insist again and again that its an intentional trade barrier, directed at keeping them out.

But thats not true, as people who make said minimum US wage can barely afford to eat or keep a roof over their heads here.

The H1B and L1 workers, technically are not immigrants. Make a nute of this. The visas are non-immigrant visas, not immigrant visas. They are intended to be excusively for foreign firms essential workers, (only) ones who have skills essential to the operations of foreign firms, even though many here would see their skill levels as quite generic, this is the means by which the visas are justified. US forms when operating overseas, dont want foreign countries telling them who they must hire to do their work, so in order so that foreign countries cant demand they hire locals we likelewise let them bring their own staffs. We are supposed to let them bring an unlimited number of their workers, I have read. Currently, there is a quota on numbers of these intra-corporate transferees. Wich has been the only thing stopping literal;ly millions of US jobs from being offshred at minimum wage wages.. But both the quotas and the minimum wages are being challenged and it appears from Article XVI of GATS that it prohibits them. So at sometime within the next few years they may go away. Keep that in mind when you spend your money. What would happen if the "trade barriers" (minimum wage laws requiring foreign employers pay workers in the US 10-20 times more than in India, and visa quotas limiting numbers of the temp visa workers.) are struck down by WTO? That could happen any time, because there is a case challenging that pending. A rapid, immediate loss of much of the US middle class. Thats what. Suppose people can no longer get jobs teaching, or nursing, or in IT. They may switch to other trades, like meat cutting. Or criminal trades. Becuse these foreign staffing firms will staff all sorts of trades, all the low hanging fruit.

And if they outsource the jobs over a nine month period, its not treated as if it is a *sudden* loss to trade deals, so they dont need to pay any benefits or report the job loss as being due to outsourcing. So now virtually *all* the huge amount of job outsourcing (Its thus made invisible so its impossible to know how much, because its only outsourcing if its done differently, Now its all being done by paying workers to train their own replacements, over 9 months or more. So, no benefits, no problem. Slick, huh?

See this video:

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officially they are all "non-immigrant" visas. If the intra corporate transfer workers intend to immigrate here they are not supposed to come. But instead these visas have become a way of scamming both us and them, Them on the hope of being sponsored to immigrate here, which means they have to buy expensive lawyers, and often they are strung along by employers.. In fact they are officially not supposed to expect to get a green card, but in fact they do, they often pay $30,00 or more to be sent here. These are recent graduates, supposed to have an MS equivalent level of skill, (but in fact many have less) If they are from the so called least developed countries, that gives their copmpanies an edge in the Government Procurement Agreement competition. . The most unequal countries, often do not have public higher education. (Thats what we, the US want, it seems. Public subsidies are viewed by the US in its trade policcyas a trade barrier. Even in our own country. Its similarto heal;th insurance, we are against it as a matter of official US policy. Water too.

Its not as if everybody who went to college in poor countries grew up wealthy. Their families struggle to come up with a bribe to be placed here. Their families might have an income comparable to a upper middle class US family. So they say they are middle class. However, given that wages are so low in these countries that mans that having servants, bodyguards, cooks, etc. is within their reach. Kind of like many US couples hire Au Pairs from European countries to take care of their children, allowing busy couples to work.

Not all of them are fabulously wealthy in terms of their lifestyle, Thats the future the neolibersla see here, for us. Because due to supply and demand, the wages people "are worth" will fall, approaching zero because of the scarcity of jobs and the abundance of very cheap labor. All the supposedly essential workers, suddenly worth nothing? No, wages are determined, they self regulate based on supply and demand. If workers are not available as we are seeing now, the Congress and Senate will loosten up the laws so our workers can simply be replaced with others, who work for nothing. They are doing it because they want to immigrate here, to tell the truth?

But dont they realize that soon their skills will be worth almost nothing? Wont they goback home? Maybe but the chances are the value of their labor will have fallen at home too. Perhaps more than here, because the safety vlve of shipping young people off to the US will have dried up. YOu young wealthy are the ones who are most loikely to demonstrate and become politically active demanding that corrupt "most unequal countries" do more to make their economies less dysfunctional. Since they are rich, they are the ones that matter. There, politics is a luxury, because the jobs go to the well connected, only.

If the US safety valve jobs become scarcer the cost to be placed here (bribes?) will soar. The cost for a diploma will soar also. These are called "costly screens" that limit the jobs tothose with means tobuy them. Cost of the now kicked away ladders up soaring into the sky (GATS requires the privatization and monetization of most once-public services instead it frames things like public health care as a theft from the corporations. The same with Social Security, in fact if it unfairly competes with corporations it has to be ended. and indeed, public everything everywhere is under attack. ). The ones who officially are not immigrants. So many lies revolve around that misrepresentation. So they can hide their rule changes that outsource good jobs by the thousand. Its a very obvious plan when you see how its being done. The lis coveing up the untruths by politicians will be your proof.

The rich are planning this global coup out very methodically. They want it all. They want to enolave the entire country's people in debt, and then control them by making it impossible to survive without welfare of some kind. Then control them with debt. Digital debt.

zIf somebody lies to get any benefit, that will be the crime thats necessary to enslave them. Pure profit.

This is because these trade deals are stealing the countries away and ending real democracy. Globally. And they know people wont like this. They will see though all this but by then it will be too late. We voted for it, they will say.

This will drive the talented to emigrate. Especially our young people. The ultrarich are on a warpath against THEM. They will see that. So that the rich peoples children can be preferentially shoehorned into to all the decent entry level jobs. So only the rich will be somebody with a voice. Everybody else will be shut out and pushed out of their homes and out of the vote.

Where will people go? Wherever the trade deals are not.

They are literally waging a war against our working people (they have total contempt for the working man and woman. ) and especially our young people's futures. But the WTO plan we agreed to in 1994 is to exclude the bulk of our workers precisely because they make more, in other words are less efficient. They are a cult based on an evaluation of a fake 'efficiency' where we the people are guaranteed to lose. Is this what we pay our politicians to do? Spend all that time trying to think up new ways to disenfranchise and destroy the people we have today and their families and dreams and take it all, giving itto the richest and most corrupt filth in dictatorships all around the world? in all the best entry level job categories, TO LOWER WAGES, help only the rich, (The rich realize their own children are lazy, lack real talent and cant keep up with those who grew up in a economically diverse America, or anywhere else.. The scheme is intended to help them, those who can and do bribe their way into jobs in the 3rd world countries, thats how its often done. Ask them! ) Politicians are trying to fake empathy right now, on a large scale because they want to hide this scheme. As many People are wising up to it. It goes back to 1986, and a meeting in Punte Del Este, Uruguay, yes, in South America, where it was cooked up. You will see - all this is fully intended to pull the economic rug out from underneath our (allegedly) most important workers. Who want decehnt wages, because they have bills to pay -mortgages to pay. But WTO rules against Economic needs tests in all sorts of ways make foreign companies conduct lots of fake interviews, where they have no intention of hiring Americans, instead nthey are hoding them to show how they couldnt find any. But the WTO rules say that such ENTS are not alloowed. Minimum Wage Laws are also under attack in the WTO, thats right, if we demand foreign firms pay US minimum wage, we could lose it. leading to massive additional losses to working people. Now do you see whats going on. The poroof of all this is very easy to find and verify and I have posted it many times. Its right there plain as dat on the WTO site in Geneva.

The powers that be fully intend to shaft our entire nation. They see it as us or them, because they are taking almost all of the wealth thats being newly created by all these changes now. Yes, you heard me right. And their slice of the pie is rising very rapidly.

If it keeps rising like this, most of the rest of the people on the planet will quite simply be pushed off the map. Ask Oxfam, see their reports on the concentration of wealth growing exponentially. Swiss Re alsopublishes a report every year on the very rich. It analyzes this fairly recent phenomenon.

And the foreign banks are being waved the huge profits from foreclosing on Americans houses, en masse, most Americans houses are mortgaged. They are being used As BAIT! Thats bait to suck them into the neoliberals' anti-ALL-Americans agenda. Because they know that RULES COUNT. We will have to let the huge foreclosures happen. US banks might hesitate but foreign banks wont. Get the picture? The crooks all over the world are in cahoots.

Its A WAR on all of us, for the very rich alone. Thats whats going on. Both parties are working together on this theft. Using antidemocratic trade deals.Once you realize that you'll realize THEY HATE DEMOCRACY. Thats why all the oligarchs got together tomake Americans angry and confuse us all dividing our beautiful, creative country. The workers who have been keeping hospitalized Americans alive, and keeping our networks running through the pandemic, and teaching our kids, deserve to be treated and paid well, even if they didnt grow up rich. All well paid workers everywhere are in their gunsights. They want to replace them. Why? BECAUSE MANY AMERICANS ARE PAID WELL. They whine on as if they are so deprived of profits they make in south asia and africa. They are funneling their investments there. Not to the US. What about the civil rights movement, womens rights movement, equal pay for equal work? Those are all demonized as trade barriers. As discrimination! They dont want that. Its unfair to their corporations. Who want to offer services for a third of what workers demand now? Boing does it! ToysRUS did it. Disney does it. Outsource everything. Privatize everything. Then it locks in forever. Locking out everything public. You cant force corporations to lose money. They get to charge whatever they want. This is why we cannot control health insurance prices and neither will the UK be able to. This is why we cant have affordable anyti cancer drugs anti covid drugs. They are literally fighting a war against we the people. And have been for a long time. Where is the people who are supposed to protect us? Involved in this scheme, no dubt. Sucking up profits from insider trading.

They want the US to be a third world country. They want us to follow the Asian model. Hey, its perfectly legal. Trump does it. Yes, he shafts workers from other countries who have no jobs so have no choices..

This is why I wuold never ever vote for neoliberals. They are in cahoots with the right wingers. They are right wingers. The Nazis were neoliberals. Persecuting the Jews was a tactic to obscure this fact. That the Nazis were fighting a war for the oligarchs, primarily. Really.

Like the ones we have now. They are so incredibly dishonest. For them its like a drug, they get excited when they lie about these things. One can see it. Hear it in their voices. But only if you know what they really mean when they speak. Right now I know you don't.