Fickle Finger of Fate

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:21am

H/T Rowan and Martin
Will be in transit to the farm this morning, so will be in-n-out (ooh now I want a burger) with responses.
Family have a lot of trees and limbs down from the latest storms and I'm on my way to get the equipment needed to get them cleaned up this weekend as it is supposed to be clear and dry.
We've had a couple of unusual days of 60+ degree weather coming from just 12 degrees a couple of weeks ago. A lot of rain in between though.
I know the weather can be fickle and unpredictable at times.
So can our government.
The recent attack on the US base that left 3 dead soldiers has put pressure on the Big Guy with Ten% brains to do something stupid (which he was installed to do) and retaliate.
Some warmongers in Congress want him to mimic the Gaza response and kill 30k of someone somewhere just to let everyone know we mean business. Sock it to 'em.
And that's in a literal and philosophical sense. All wars are bankers wars.
I sense the end of something is near. I just don't know what.
Apparently, I'm over-reacting in my fears as the Dow continues to climb to heights never seen before (over 38k). It's as if the big investors see a big bounce in something coming.
What are the markers? Gold and silver are steady, but food continues to go up. Gas is wavering up and down but still widely available. Our military continues to spend outrageous amounts of taxpayer money with stupid war exercises where there are always accidental injuries and deaths.
All we can do is stock up and keep close watch I would guess.
Does anyone of you have a good tripwire? I'd like to hear it.
The thread is open.

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Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 10:45am

be prepared

to lose internet/power
then it’s On
like donkey kong

if you’re not short waving w/backup
how would we know?
no comms no info

what to do?

best be reaching out to
help neighbors
not much else to do

careful with the
implements of destruction
go ahead ask me
how I know

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 11:08am

Morning TBU

@Tall Bald and Ugly
Yeah, got some battery shortwave radio and some walki talkis that reach across the river to family over there. Have an antenna setup to reach over 9 miles plus it has Ham radio capabilities.
Four family members have the same setup (Baofeng) and we have pre coordinated times and channels to use in case of emergencies.
We are all up and running on personal safety equipment and also have a small 2000 watt generator that sips gas.
Have both gas and electric cars, so good there. And power boats/kayaks for ferrying stuff across the Columbia should it be needed.
It's still a crap shoot though.
You still getting a lot of rain?

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:25pm

Last 2 1/2

days have @earthling1 been righteous
mid 60s to low70s bright sun

sky river returns 2nite
four/five inches due the
next couple of days
snow @elevation

making bee food
do not boil

later

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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:05pm

Keep your snorkel handy

@Tall Bald and Ugly

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:09pm

PSA

I was contacted by an individual through the State Bar website. The person needs an attorney to defend a terrorist charge stemming from an alleged threat to a government official on Facebook. Both state and the Feds are involved.
Please be mindful of your remarks about elected officials. Lots of eyes are upon you.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:32pm

we are all terrorists now

@on the cusp

since 9/11 with the unpatriotic act
fortunately the courts can't process
all the cases, b/c you can't find a public defender
and the jails are backed up to overflow levels

thanks for the PSA!

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:07pm

Duly noted

@on the cusp
Thanks for the reminder.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:15pm

I got the impression

@earthling1 the man is a political activist and a veteran.
Sometimes all of us get pretty damned rankled by a politician, and in anger, may spout off something that could be construed as a criminal act.
I have temper tantrums occasionally. I just try to keep them as private as possible.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by Lookout on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:12pm

All we can do is prep best we can....

...and live our lives. Most folks in my community depend on actually being with one another rather than using com devices.

No doubt we're going into something weird. Don't know what and can't out guess TPTB. The notion they want us as serfs is certain to my mind, but their big plan still deludes me.

Hang on as we slide into 2024. It may prove to be the inflection point we've been expecting.

Thanks for the OT and good luck with what we call 5,6 pick up sticks...A common game here.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:26pm

Chain saw massacre

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dag burn monsters bite
just slit my hand from palm to finger tip
on a piece of mica while blissfully sanding
a piece of wood
real pain to bandage the damage
be careful!

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:21pm

Hope it doesn't require a hospital visit

@QMS
Take care, your day is done. Unless you've got a one handed project.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:35pm

No, screw the hospital routine

@earthling1

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liquid skin and I can still paint one handed, so not too much down time
can alway stitch it up if the blood flow ever slows down
needles and pains, I'll finger it out

Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:32pm

Dammit it all!

@QMS Will you need stitches?
That's gotta hurt!
So sorry, friend.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:55pm

Just another normal day as Israel keeps its ongoing self

defence tactics despite the ICJ ruling.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/30/israel-troops-kill-three-palest...

Israeli forces disguised as medical staff and civilians have shot dead three Palestinians inside a hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

The killings were carried out by undercover operatives while the men were sleeping at Ibn Sina Hospital, according to statements issued by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Israeli army on Tuesday.

“This morning three young men were martyred by the bullets of the occupation [Israeli] forces who stormed the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin and shot them,” the Ministry of Health in Ramallah said.

The Israeli army said its troops had “neutralised” the men, who were hiding in the hospital and belonged to a “Hamas terrorist cell”.

Security camera footage circulated online appeared to show about a dozen undercover personnel, including three in women’s clothing and two dressed as medical staff, pacing through a corridor of the hospital with assault rifles.

One of the men was injured and in bed when he was killed, said the Palestinian armed group.

Hamas confirmed that Jalamneh was one of its members. The Jenin Brigade, which includes a number of Palestinian armed resistance groups, said in a statement that two of the three men were members of Islamic Jihad.

Basil was injured by missile fragments following an Israeli drone attack on October 25 targeting a group of men near the Jenin camp cemetery and had been receiving treatment at the hospital for three months, according to Al Jazeera sources.

The mother of the Ghazawi brothers said the two were loved by everyone. “The last time I saw them was yesterday night … I was in the hospital,” she said in a video shot by local media, adding that she went home as Mohammad said he would stay with Basil.

“I was still waking up this morning when I heard that special forces raided the hospital … They were killed while they were asleep.”

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 2:07pm

chickenshit tactics

@humphrey
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maybe Israel can figure out a way to kill people twice while they are at it?

Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 2:09pm

China isn't the only one contemplating which one of the

Uniparty candidates sucks less.

Isn't great to live in a democracy?

China sees two 'bowls of poison' in Biden and Trump and ponders who is the lesser of two evils https://t.co/WNzSkDGBXz

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2024

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:18pm

two bowls of poison indeed

@humphrey

damned if you do
double damned if you won't

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 01/31/2024 - 6:27pm

This goes back to the karma question.

@QMS

Who is entangled in the karmic blowback from the (democratic) unleashing of the poison?

The evildoers themselves? Or the voters who empower the evil?

In modern times (and even in Plato's time) Democracy is the governing principle that psychopaths use to escape accountability. They invest in worldwide Democracy by evil means. Democracies, however, are weak and easily corrupted. People are too easily deceived by propaganda. Democracies too easily devolve into dictatorships. These are common truths and criticisms about Democracy; philosophers have discussed them for more than two thousand years. It is certainly not a secret that if you give a man a vote, he will believe he is free. However, the absence of intellectual honesty in the West is nearly complete — and it is killing all of us.

The current leaders in the US display quite obvious frontal lobe brain damage, which would disqualify them in any other professional setting. Apart from that they share the mental characteristics of most US leaders: They have have an overarching self-interest involved in the decisions they make, and they manipulate others with pretend-empathy for the suffering humankind, which they themselves often inflict — just like the sociopaths that they are.

The People have no enlightened leaders because truth-tellers often live short, unprotected lives. The Christ story, which patterns social justice efforts, was turned into a phony-baloney religion to obscure its very message. We live in a so-called civilization that profits from the existence of the greater fools. Why else would the plutocrats in government turn Christianity into a political fetish? The idiot's promise of divine intervention overwhelms analytic thought and blurs the People's ability to see what's coming — which, by the way, is always very profitable for the few. The US population has been groomed to act as the greater fools in this enterprise — the losers who spike the profits of the insiders. Sadly, the West has no Chinese (social) characteristics, wherein the People's prosperity and happiness and the peaceful enjoyment of their environment is the key criteria for determining the success of its leadership.

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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 01/31/2024 - 5:59pm

9 out of 10 rapture believers would disagree

@Pluto's Republic

apparently this explains how it is the only way for them
to see jesus?

#6.1 Who is entangled in the karmic blowback from the (democratic) unleashing of the poison? The evildoers themselves? Or the voters who empower the evil? In modern times (and even in Plato's time) Democracy is the governing principle that psychopaths use to escape accountability. They invest in worldwide Democracy by evil means. Democracies, however, are weak and easily corrupted. People are too easily deceived by propaganda. Democracies too easily devolve into dictatorships. These are common truths and criticisms about Democracy; philosophers have discussed them for more than two thousand years. It is certainly not a secret that if you give a man a vote, he will believe he is free. However, the absence of intellectual honesty in the West is nearly complete — and it is killing all of us. The current leaders in the US display quite obvious frontal lobe brain damage, which would disqualify them in any other professional setting. Apart from that they share the mental characteristics of most US leaders: They have have an overarching self-interest involved in the decisions they make, and they manipulate others with pretend-empathy for the suffering humankind, which they themselves often inflict — just like the sociopaths that they are. The People have no enlightened leaders because truth-tellers often live short, unprotected lives. The Christ story, which patterns social justice efforts, was turned into a phony-baloney religion to obscure its very message. We live in a so-called civilization that profits from the existence of the greater fools. Why else would the plutocrats in government turn Christianity into a political fetish? The idiot's promise of divine intervention overwhelms analytic thought and blurs the People's ability to see what's coming — which, by the way, is always very profitable for the few. The US population has been groomed to act as the greater fools in this enterprise — the losers who spike the profits of the insiders. Sadly, the West has no Chinese (social) characteristics, wherein the People's prosperity and happiness and the peaceful enjoyment of their environment is the key criteria for determining the success of its leadership.

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 3:16pm

We need to reshuffle the deck

On our entire government.
They are all captured.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.

Submitted by humphrey on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 4:39pm

The "cookie monster" is up to her old tricks.

After the killings of 3 US troops, top State Dept. official Victoria Nuland declares that "the USA is not withdrawing from Syria." She adds that the US needs to stay to fight ISIS.

Pentagon documents show that this is a lie: the US is barely fighting ISIS. In fact, the US has… pic.twitter.com/KKsmbAD1Yb

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) January 30, 2024

The rest of the tweet is telling:

In fact, the US has let ISIS grow when it can threaten the Syrian government.

Which speaks to the real reason for the US occupation of Syria: as admitted quietly by a senior Biden official and other DC neocons, the US is there to steal Syria's oil and wheat in order to punish its people for successfully resisting the CIA-led regime change war. (https://aaronmate.net/p/to-keep-troops-in-syria-us-leaders)

Submitted by dystopian on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 5:05pm

Howdy y'all

Hi all, Hey E1,

Laugh-In was great. Rowan and Martin were pushing the boundries socially fairly often on the show. I have watched a bit of it on youtube and lots remains fairly funny, despite much of a political nature being dated. The Fickle Finger of Fate was a good bit too.

The funniest thing I saw was a clip showing Dan Rowan doing his 'News of the Future', TWENTY years from now. Mind you this was about 68 when Ronald Raygun just got elected governor of California. Many still in shock or disbelief a B-grade actor could act his way to being in charge.

Dan said 'Twenty years from now, President Reagan, and stopped for the laugh before proceeding with the silly punchline. Everyone broke up at 'President Reagan'. It was indeed hilarious to even think it at the time. No one could believe he was governor!

Twenty years later... well, it wasn't so funny, but instead prescient.

Hope all are well!

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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

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 6:01pm

yesterdays jokes become todays reality

@dystopian

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pay attention to the comics
like sci-fi, it is foretelling

Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 01/30/2024 - 6:48pm

Between R & M

and the Smothers Brothers, no one was funnier and more politically relevant.
With the possible exception of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. What a combo, cartoons for the kids punctuated with political digs between the lines for the adults. Genius.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.