The Weekly Watch
The Years Just Flow By Like a Broken Down Dam
From John Prine's song Angel from Montgomery
We're all caught in the ebb and flow of time as the years come and go. The month of January is named for the Roman God Janus who looks forward toward the future and back at the past. His image often appeared on doorways, arches, and gates. This time of year is a good opportunity to look at what has happened, and think about what will come.
Neil offers his New Year's rant...
‘…so here’s my prediction, 2024 is going to be quite something and not at all what the anti-human clowns expect!’
I hope he's correct that the people have learned from the scamdemic and won't be manipulated like that again. However, as the quote attributed incorrectly to Albert suggests, Human Stupidity is Infinite.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe!
I was talking to an acquaintance at a Christmas party who accused Tucker of being a Putinist. I said, "Well, I guess I am too, after all the US engineered the Maidan coup to install a pro-western president."
He replied, "No, it was an organic revolution from the people." I suggested he watch "Ukraine on Fire", Oliver Stone's excellent documentary on Rumble. My bet is he won't, sticking to his propaganda filled perception.
Like another misattributed quote, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled”.
Jeffery Sachs was on Dialogue Works this week explaining the background of the Ukraine proxy war with Russia. Ukraine War Primer | Jeffrey Sachs (1 hour) Nima had this note under the clip: This video was removed from my YouTube channel because of a false claim of copyright. Some people didn't like it, so they claimed that this video was stolen from them to stop it from being watched! This was one of the most ridiculous issues that I've ever dealt with in my entire life. After sending a counter-notification to YouTube, I finally got it back.
Color revolutions are the modus operandi of The National Endowment for Democracy and all their various NGO's. It is the way we depose leaders who serve their people instead of the US. The Duran discusses the Failed Color Revolution in Serbia (14 min) that happened just last week.
The US pushes these uprisings all over the world.
"...power does its work by stealth, and the powerful can subsequently deny that their strength was ever used at all." Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown (2005)
PROF. MICHAEL HUDSON, WORLD PREDICTIONS FOR 2024 (USA, UN, PALESTINE, RUSSIA AND BRICS) 1 hour Michael's website here.
The entire interview is good but if you don't have time try to catch the last 15-20 min. He also discusses color revolutions early on in the clip.
TPTB plan to exert ever more control over we the people as well as over other countries.
Wall Street Is Coming For Your Digital Money! -With Whitney Webb (24 min)
Jimmy interviews security expert and writer Whitney Webb about the prospects for a centralized digital currency and why Wall Street would prefer to force a currency controlled by the banks rather than a decentralized version like Bitcoin.
Whitney always provides insights. In this interview she discusses the likelihood of false flag cyberattacks on the banks as a ruse to instigate a digital currency on us all. She suggests it won't be the Fed who creates the CBDC, but Wall Street Banks because the Fed would need to value one coin at one dollar, but banks will use fractional reserve like they do with our account deposits... meaning that a one dollar digital coin will only have 10 cents of backing. Another banking scam on the way? We'll see.
Leave The World Behind and Build a New One with Whitney Webb. In this hour interview, Whitney rehashes much of the material she discusses with Jimmy with some additional methods of ever more digital (AI) control. She suggest it is time to create our own platforms much like JtC has done here.
No doubt we should expect more censorship and cancelling next year. The west is all about narrative creation and control as evidenced by my Christmas party conversation about Ukraine.
Empires come and go just like the years...
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order (5-minute Version) by Ray Dalio
The world is changing in big ways that haven’t happened before in our lifetimes but have many times in history, so I studied past changes to understand what is happening now and anticipate what is likely to happen. (44 min version here)
Yesterday's OT by SoE focuses on the rise of the East and decline of the West. This discussion gives more concrete examples. China and Vietnam Carl Zha with Danny Haiphong and Ben Norton. (25 min) 1st 15 min is quite informative.
Carl Zha talks with Danny Haiphong @geopoliticshaiphong and Ben Norton @GeopoliticalEconomyReport about China and Vietnam as US tries to destabilize Asia.
Max Blumenthal speaks with the Judge about the situation in Gaza and Israel.
Join investigative journalist Max Blumenthal and me as we peel back the layers of one of the most contentious issues in modern geopolitics: the Israeli Defense Forces' alleged human rights violations against Palestinians. Max, with his sharp analytical skills, unveils the chilling realities of Gaza, including accounts of torture and claims of organ theft, that stir a profound reaction internationally. Our candid conversation probes into the heart of these accusations, the difficulties faced in reporting such incidents, and the psychological impact they have on all involved—from the Palestinian community to the Israeli soldiers caught in the cycle of violence. These narratives weave a complex tapestry of suffering and societal perceptions that are rarely brought to light.
The discussion takes an even darker turn as we examine the targeting of journalists in Gaza, an issue that has captured global headlines and elicited responses from political figures such as U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken. This episode does not shy away from hard truths, dissecting the intertwining of U.S.-Israel relations and the military strategies that shape the conflict. From scrutinizing the most recent military deals to interpreting Prime Minister Netanyahu's strategic maneuvers, we lay bare the multifaceted nature of warfare and diplomacy. Closing on a note of international jurisprudence, we explore South Africa's unprecedented steps toward seeking justice at the International Court of Justice, presenting a glimmer of hope for accountability amidst the turmoil.
South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention Against Israel
South Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention against Israel in a statement that accuses the nation of violating its obligations under the 1948 treaty. The appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asks to issue measures to stop Israel’s attack on Palestinians in Gaza.
How The Hell Did We Get Here?
Caitlin Johnstone (h/t QMS)
We could have been so much more. We have the ability to create a healthy and harmonious world and collaborate to give everyone on earth everything they need, and instead we’re killing the biosphere while arguing about whether or not it’s anti-semitic to oppose an active genocide.
We could have peace on earth and move from competition-based systems to collaboration-based ones to maximize our creative and innovative potential and spend our existence exploring the outer universe and the universes within ourselves, and instead we’re ramping up brinkmanship between nuclear-armed states and arguing about whether or not it’s ethical to rain military explosives on a giant concentration camp full of children.
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So here we are. That’s why we now find ourselves in this profoundly dysfunctional civilization where the biosphere is treated like an enemy and human beings are treated like fuel and minds are being marinated in an increasingly vapid mainstream culture where everything is fake and stupid. That’s why we don’t have paradise on earth, and that’s why the bombs are falling on Gaza today.
We still could create a better world, but first we must rid ourselves of the globalist class who intend to rule over us.
(4 min)
Hard Times Come Again No More is an American parlor song written by Stephen Foster.
Written in 1854, it was likely inspired by the growing political divisions and rising tensions in the United States at the time; the issue of slavery was poised to rip the nation apart in the Civil War, and the nation’s economy was rapidly transforming thanks to the rise of factories in the North and growing infrastructure. The nation would soon find itself falling on hard times if ever there were hard times.
The song survives to the present day as a folk song, as does much of Foster’s work.
Here's a New Years Eve story...The Little Match Girl (6.5 min)
Fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen if you prefer reading. First published in 1845.
The New Year's Eve song, explained (6.5 min)
Auld Lang Syne -Dougie MacLean (With Lyrics-English Translation)
Auld Lang Syne has stayed in our collective consciousness for over 200 years because it is about connection with others. The kind of connection that binds you to someone forever: loyalty, friendship, kindness, love; even though that person might not be with you anymore. Auld Lang Syne is also about the human spirit’s ability to hope for the future while enduring rough times by remembering the precious human attributes of friendship, connection with our fellow humans, kindness, and love.
So my Friends take a cup of kindness and have a wonderful 2024.
The thread is open...
Comments
Hey good morning
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The future seems ominous. I hope more people awaken to the potential for positive change.
Accept that rational discourse on issues that effect us all is healthy. And courage to confront
subtle misdirections.
Today's date in numerical format: 123123.
Thanks for the watch!
see comment below....
forgot to hit reply.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yes, it is waltz day...123123
As we've discussed several times, the hope is with the BRICS+ cooperative model instead of the Western war based economy model.
The other hopeful aspect rarely mentioned is a focus on nature and our place in the biosphere. There are ways we could produce food and improve the system. At the same time there's plenty of jobs in both the conversion to sustainable agriculture and the production of food, forests, etc.
Unfortunately it isn't a priority, and in the west would even be suppressed to maintain big foods profit which feeds junk food which makes people sick filling big pharmas coffers too.
Here's hoping we all get more exposure to nature in the coming year. In fact my sister is visiting and we're getting out on the mountain to appreciate what it has to offer later today.
Thanks for coming by! Have a good day.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
“There’s nothing like your first love”
… says retired engineer Ed Thelen, referring to the vintage IBM 1401 he helped rebuild at the Computer History Museum.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rebuilding-the-ibm-1401
https://computerhistory.org/blog/about-the-computer-history-museums-ibm-...
Seems as old as them there cuneiform clay tablets in Messy-po-tame-ya, don’t it?
That was the first computer I ever got to use too, sixty years ago in college. Now, like vacuum tubes, it’s such ancient history it feels like trying to explain to kids how I helped quarry rock for the Parthenon or the Egyptian pyramids.
As quickly as the changes occur with time
It feels like we are on a greased slide.
Yesterdays tech and morals may as well
have been a generation ago. Like the quarry
story you tell the kids. HNY!
I also remember using punch cards...
to enter computer data. I don't remember the 1400 per se, but I do remember those room sized computers (perhaps they were the 1400?)
Hope you are bringing in the new year happy and in good health. Thanks for the trip down the digital memory hole!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The world has lost John Pilger
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He died yesterday at the age of 84. Tributes are pouring in from all over the globe. I enjoyed his work and I will miss his true journalism.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I'm so sorry to hear that...
Thanks for the news. We lost another treasure.
He has done great work since Vietnam. Here's what I think is his latest 2 hour documentary
The Coming War on China?
The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
Nuclear war is not only imaginable but planned. The greatest build-up of NATO military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China is viewed in Washington as a threat to American dominance.
To counter this, President Obama announced a ‘pivot to Asia’, which meant that almost two-thirds of all US naval forces would be transferred to Asia and the Pacific, their weapons aimed at China. A policy which has been taken up by his successor Donald Trump, who during his election campaign said “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country and that’s what they’re doing”.
Filmed on five possible front-lines across Asia and the Pacific over two years, the 2016 documentary is told in chapters that connect a secret and ‘forgotten’ past to the rapacious actions of great power today and to a resistance, of which little is known in the West.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
R I P
Thanks for the X posts...
Nice to see John and Julian. Perhaps the future will prove better for Julian in 2024. All the best to John's family.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for all the informative stuff and things
you gathered and presented to us today, LO.
The critical problem here in Texas is the flood of illegals that just so happen to pack guns and fentanyl as they wade the Rio Grande.
Someone is making really big money on this system, and it ain't we hoi polloi. We never seem to be on the inside.
Women can't bitch about being singled out for discrimination on the abortion issue. The government squelched their argument by demanding the term, "pregnant persons".
Enjoy the mountains, the scenery, and the wildlife. Have a pleasant time with your sister.
Thanks for your enormous effort here, my dear friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
stuff and thangs
house moving music
HNY!
I didn't know BB did a prison concert!
Prisoners are people, too!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Redacted has been shedding some light...
...on all the migration which looks to me like is being aided and promoted by our own gov't.
A massive caravan of 4 million illegal migrants is inching closer to the U.S. border as we speak. Independent Journalist Ryan Matta has been tracking their movements and shares unbelievable video evidence of this mass migration into the United States.
"AMERICA is about change FOREVER by mid-January" 14 min
Edit to add:
just noticed this recent post from them too...
"This is how they will CANCEL the 2024 election" Whitney Webb exposes the WEF plan
Beautiful 50 degree day here. Hope the atmosphere is treating y'all well.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I keep forgtting about Redacted.
I need to book mark it. It is always great stuff.
I am cooking pinto beans, the videos will be good timers between stirring, AND will enlighten me at the same time. Doesn't get any better than that.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
did the pintos in the pressure cooker
this morning
hopefully they don't make the heart burn
QMS,
I remember that song playing on the radio when I was a kid. Danced to it. mb mb mb
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Infuriating if true
They already get cellphones and debit cards with who knows how much money each month and now they are being flown to wherever they want after illegally crossing the border. Anyone who doesn’t present themselves at the border crossing should be expelled from the country.
But this is being funded by government NGOs and guess who is spending lots of money on them? I read that Obama is one who is involved in the caravans and Bush too. And this was one of the reasons for the jab mandate. Fire health care workers for not getting jabbed and they will be replaced with foreign healthcare workers. Guv if NYC admitted that a few years ago.
But speaking of jokes….
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
A lot of righties say
this is a way for the illegals/migrants/refugees to be given voting rights to guarantee Biden wins the election, but I think that is a very superficial assessment. It is way more significan than a single election.
It doesn't take but a few minutes to read up that the i/m/rs get way, way more government assistance than American citizens who have paid taxes, obeyed the law, served in the military, or worked in government agencies, such as the post office. I had thought it was to destroy labor and wages as we know them, but I think it goes way farther. I/m/rs seem to have more value, more rights to live long, than born and bred Usians do. They are important to someone, or something, and we are not.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Lots of possible motives...
promoting migration. Durbin announced in congress the other week the young men migrating in could serve in the military (since like Ukraine we can't find enough recruits) in order to gain citizenship. Many are coming from China.
There's also the dilution of national identity in order to promote globalism. As well as the division of society...divide and rule. Plus other motives. I'm not sure of TPTB master plan, but feel certain they have an objective.
Have a good years turning. We're working on a jigsaw...a puzzle we can solve. Cheers!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
So here we are…
with who knows how many Americans who don’t have health insurance and seeing their taxes going to give it to immigrants as well as housing them while we have so many people living on the streets. I still want an investigation into where all the billions spent on housing the homeless has gone. How much money is going to pay the salaries of those in charge of the organizations?
Biden can do an executive order to send emergency bombs to Israel to continue their genocide, but he couldn’t override the parliamentarian who is unelected and has no real power and raise the minimum wage? And don’t forget…dammit I forgot what I was going to say here…maybe I’ll remember it.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Don’t forget HB1 or 2 visas
That companies import to take American jobs so that wages stay low. I remember Kamala sponsoring a bill to let 300,000 foreigners in to take American jobs and it passed with bipartisan support.
There have been more than 10 million immigrants who have come here without stopping at border control that just get lots of goodies from the government and then they go on their merry way and maybe in a decade they will have to report to court. But by then they will have anchor babies and get to stay regardless. My views on immigration have changed since Biden got elected.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Ray Dalio's edited video
...reminded me of a Kevin Phillips' book I read some years ago, along with a couple of others. He presented the rise and fall of western empires in the modern era in sequence, and attempted to develop a thesis about preventing the projected US decline by adopting more rational policies. I pretty sure this was in Wealth and Democracy, twenty years ago. I know he was a conservative political advisor, but his analysis evolved somewhat. I think it went Spain, Netherlands, England, US. There is also the Thucydides Trap which more recently was cited almost as much as the expression "bombshell."
The Carl Zha video was brilliant. I watched the last twenty minutes or so of Michael Hudson's interview above. I've been watching his videos regularly and find them worthwhile. I disagree with one point he made, that "Stalin browbeat Mao" into entering the Korean War. Historically, whenever Chinese forces entered a Korean conflict it was always to defend what they perceived as their security interests against challenges. Mao wasn't browbeaten into anything. Sometimes such interventions prove to be failures, such as the first Sino-Japanese war in the modern era which led to the Japanese domination of the peninsula until August 1945 along with their colonization of Taiwan. The Chinese intervention in the Korean conflict was to prevent the US from moving its military right up to the Chinese frontier. MacArthur was warned and he ignored the warnings. So he forced the Chinese hand. IF Stone said that MacArthur hoped to renew the communist- KMT war at the same time, but that didn't materialize. Neither Truman nor Eisenhour were inclined to expand the conflict further.
I had been anticipating a Cyrus Janssen video with a more concise evaluation of Chinese economic prospects for some time, because of his business background. Sometimes I want to post his videos but don't because of obnoxious commercials he presents. This is an economic analysis of Chinese economic conditions in this video below-
If the Chinese economy and society were about to collapse as so often projected why all the US military deployments and bases surrounding China and other "preparations for war with China?" Whenever Brian Berletic looks at trade numbers of peripheral states with China, it consistently appears as the number one trade partner.
Really enjoyed (if that is the right word) the Auld Lang Syne translation. I think that's the first time I really understood all the meaning. No wonder it's such a classic- very moving. Thanks for the OT Lookout.
Happy New Year everyone!
여러분 새해 복 많이 받으세요
新年快樂
語必忠信 行必正直
Happy new year!
Thanks for the Cyrus clip! I like him too. I also check out Reporterfy.
Can China Save The American Dream?
I've been intrigued with the friendly argument between Meirshimer and Sachs on the inevitability of a US China conflict.
As to Hudson's take, I think coming from a western background you can only hope to approach understanding the Eastern mind.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The Red Sea traffic is still being impacted by the Houthis.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/maersk-delays-red-sea-transits-again-after-s...
Here we go again...
Being defeated by some of the poorest people on Earth. Pepe warned last week, the Hoothis are bad asses.
If only our wisdom was greater than our arrogance.
Thanks again for the X posts!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I don't think that it will be a Happy New Year for the military
of the Ukraine.
I don't either...
Looking bad for 'elensky within and without. He would be smart to grab his money and run. Instead he wants to sacrifices his remaining citizens.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
In preparation for the new year
yesterday made a Russian rye loaf
today it was Boston baked beans
tomorrow will be a glazed ham
ready, set, go!
Have you stocked up on Russian Dressing? NT
not sure, but I think they changed the name
it's now called Ukie sauce?
remember freedom fries?
ETA:
North Carolina
Salisbury deli selling Reuben’s with Ukrainian dressing rather than Russian
https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ukraine-crisis/salisbury-deli-sel...
I've got collards and peas cooked...
And a smoked pork shoulder ready for a small gathering of old teaching friends and my sister tomorrow.
Got turkey, beans, squash and mashed tater for today.
Holidays are for eating? Seems so to me.
Hope your evening is fun.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
sounds yummy good
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this prep is also for a gathering tomorrow. Still working on a formula for the glaze ..
honey & mustard is the normal, but considering other combos as well
rosemary, clove, maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon or brown sugar
cooking is an experiment
Apple cider gives flavor and
is a great tenderizer and I use it for pork often.
Tonight is beef tacos. Tomorrow is cole slaw (green for greenbacks), cornbread (yellow for gold), black eyed peas and pork spare ribs for good luck. The ribs will be slathered with Stubb's barbecue sauce.
Good luck works for me.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good luck with that!
I use Stubbs as well for the barbie. Think I may stay with the apple cider / maple syrup
with a bit of clove. Just tasted the beans, enough mustard already. The cider is
wicked strong too. Still fermenting in the fridge after a year or two. Tenderize almost
anything!
fireworks in Sydney
https://x.com/JasonDasey/status/1609131202035978240?s=20
In a couple of hours,
2 miles from here, as the crow flies, a marina on a huge lake will have a fireworks display. I do not have to go there. I can stand in my yard and watch.
It drove my dogs and horses nuts, but they are all gone now, so I do not have to worry and protect them.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Aaand coming up next: Chinese New Year on February 10
… Year of the Dragon.
Perhaps this will be the year of China...
I think their idea of cooperation would be a better tack.
My sister suggest the pearl in the mouth of the dragon represents China and the Dragon is its protector.
Happy new year!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hi weekly watchers
Hi all, Hi LO
Thanks for the WW LO. Great stuff as always.
Based on trajectory, I think she's gonna blow! We simply can't continue doing what we are doing. Clearly the path of WEF and neo-lib-cons is not sustainable, led by people obsessed with control, greed, and power.
The leaders are not working on the betterment of society, just of their betterment.
Yesterday's Dr. John's (Campbell, not the Night Tripper) "Death of Science" was good, and sad for the state of science in the public, government, and media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us4N4KL7VkI
The dysfunction in our systems is as unlimited as it is unfathomable and entrenched. How can it possibly end well? No one in power gives that up willingly.
Thanks for all your work here LO! It is very appreciated.
Have a great New Year!
be well all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Happy birding year!
Meant to tell you we had the ruby crowned kinglet hanging around and putting on a show a couple of weeks ago.
Birding is a great joy, and our avian friends tell us of the future if we watch and listen. They are literally the canary in the mine.
All the best in 2024!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hi LO!
Hi LO,
Yeah if people watched nature closely, the conversation on climate change would be completely different. The flowers at elevation in the Rockies blooming 18 days earlier than they used to in the 70's. Boobies, considered tropical and barely subtropical birds are being recorded off British Columbia and in the Gulf of Alaska! They can't find 5 billion king crabs FFS! Stop me anytime...
We only have one Ruby-crowned Kinglet around this winter, normally there are many. No waxwings save one day a small flock. No Robin, and so on ad. infinitum. What they call a big migration fallout nowadays is nothing compared to 50 years ago. Trees dropping like flies as desertification sets in here. Trees that lived through the 'worst ever' (until lately) ten-year drought of the 50's in Texas.
You can only remove so many pieces of the puzzle before it is no longer a puzzle. Intelligent tinkering requires saving all the parts.
Be well amigo!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Interesting to experience the ecosystem...
collapse along side the cultural /societal collapse. Perhaps a self feeding cycle? Certainly reflective...one to the other.
Happy new year my friend!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Happy new year, and for another year of lookouts!
I wish you and all the very best for yourselves and your loved ones.
I wish too that all the people of the world will find greater peace and comfort. I wish for a shift in the hearts of people toward greater understanding and kindness.
Thank you lookout for all that you and others contribute to an informative, kind, and peaceful place to be.
From down under, but ahead of you ; )
Cheers everyone
New years greeetings!
We're at about 9pm so it is arriving soon.
Had a nice day visiting the major falls on the river, eating well, and currently putting together a jigsaw puzzle and listening the music.
I hope your holidays have been renewing and fun! Always nice to "see" you.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thank you lookout
Sounds like your day has been very nourishing, and it's still going, enjoy.
Cheers to you, Janis
Sam would say that too, but she has gone to bed and she is practicing on being a bed potato.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
; )))
That's the first I've ever heard of a 'bed potato', what a funny image. Have fun.
Well being a bed potato been interrupted
GD neighbors are shooting off fireworks that are making loud BOOMS! It’s been going on for 2 hours and it’s not even midnight yet. I can’t wait for the day Utah bans all fireworks like other sane states have. I wonder if people ever think about how dawgs react to them?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
jigsaw puzzle music
Hey LO,
Here is some good jigsaw puzzle music... and some great lyrics too...
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
I just got a text from my secretary.
This is an update on my OT Friday where I mentioned I gave her my tickets to see the Mavericks in Gruene Hall, Texas.
Earlier today, she strolled around the town, met people from all over the country who came there for the history. This evening, she was at the renown dance hall, saw the Mavericks, said it was the best time ever!!! (Her number of exclamation marks)
If she managed to get some videos, I will share them.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
That's great!
So nice they had a wonderful evening. A mutual sharing ...win-win!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
She has not heretofore
been interested in much music outside the scope of 80s rock. She has no education in history beyond what public school taught.
I may retire in 2 or 3 years, and her time with me might amount to 6 or so years, but it will always be a game changer for her and her kids.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good on you...
my friend!
Let's all look to spread good will in the new year!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I had a friend who liked to end sessions with this one
Ripple - Grateful Dead cover by Toni Lindgren
Learned this tune for a friend's wedding recently and thought it'd be a good one to record while I was passing through Tahoe on the way back home. Messed up a little bit on the last verse, but it's real, y'know? Shoutout to Fallen Leaf Lake for being an absolute beauty and making the sunset look extra nice, and Elle for shooting this one for me.
—Toni
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music?
Would you hold it near as it were your own?
[Pre-Chorus 1]
It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
I don't know, don't really care
Let there be songs to fill the air
[Chorus]
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
[Verse 2]
Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men
[Pre-Chorus 2]
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And if you go, no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone
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[Chorus]
Ripple in still water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow
[Verse 3]
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home
“Ripple” is the sixth song on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. It was released as the B-side to the single “Truckin'”.
Robert Hunter wrote this song in 1970 in London in the same afternoon he wrote “Brokedown Palace” and “To Lay Me Down” (reputedly also drinking half a bottle of retsina in the process).
The song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco. Jerry Garcia wrote the music to this song.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”