Wednesday Mind Bender 10/23/24 ~ FWIW
Perhaps the biggest news going on right now is the summit of BRICS attendees in
Russia. This could very well be a major game changer. A civilizational realignment.
Whenever the global majority combine to throw-off the colonizers and act together
to establish a just world, it signals a change is going to come. One way or another.
historical events on this day ~
1819 1st ship sails through the Erie Canal from Rome, New York to Utica, New York
~ (used to live in Rome but not that long ago)
1915 An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave,
~ led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters
1942 All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner killed when it is struck by a U.S. Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Amongst the victims is composer Ralph Rainger ("Thanks for the Memory")
2019 Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy, performing calculation in 3 mins that wold take a supercomputer 10,000 years (or so they say)
Trying to keep this open to all comers. Speak your piece and add it below the fold.
Credits ~
pasta faucet by Vanessa Mckeown
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/12/vanessa-mckeown-unexpected-photos/
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Hey, good morning
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About 36 countries have sent delegates to attend the BRICS Summit.
Hammering out issues like financial cooperation, commodity markets
and security agreements.
What is the western response? The IMF and World Bank Group are
meeting in NYC to discuss "pressing global development concerns".
HA. Like spiraling debt? I feel their days of influence are waning.
What is on your agenda today?
question everything
What is my agenda today oh, if I would know, it were nice
I am struggling with my books. I have a horror to throw books away, It makes me feel like a Nazi. Some of them I just have because Meteor Blades once recommended them.
I wished I would know what has become of him. Is he still there, where he once was ...
Can not find the question mark on the keyboard. So no more questions.
Many thanks, good health and peace amongst all of you.
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greetings mimi
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books are funny that way
used to collect cook books
mostly never used them
can't eat them, so give them
to the groups holding book fairs
to raise funds for their cause
no idea about meteor blades
so many have disappeared
Viel Glück!
question everything
mimi
check your pms. I am sending you a message in a few minutes.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We have little mailbox like stands
all over surrounding neighborhoods to trade and drop off books and magazines. They are mounted on wooden posts and are large enough to hold a couple dozen books out of the rain.
Lately, I've seen a couple of veggie stands where local neighbors give away their excess produce.
This is what America used to be about everywhere. It helps me keep my faith in this country.
Nice to hear from you, Mimi.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
We donate books to a Senior Citizen's center
or the Community Center for resale. 25 cents is the selling price, and the proceeds go to either feed seniors free lunches, or to fund the town public library.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning...
Working today on a ford across the stream on the back 40. Laying out forms and wire today and pouring on Friday. Always something.
Cabbage, collards, broccoli, kale, etc are growing nicely. About time to dig sweet potatoes. Still very dry here. Cool mornings and afternoons in the 80's, so the weather is pleasant...just dry.
Amazin' what you can find on the innertubes
How Dry I Am / Boufetzis (American & Greek Folklore / New Arrangement) - The Greek Nubian Collective
Interesting version of Irving Berlin's song
This one is more like my music...
Dry And Dusty · Bob Carlin · John Hartford
Have a good day. Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
guess you will cross that bridge
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whenever you get to it
sorry about the dry wit
thanks for stopping by
question everything
This needs a thought bubble…
Liz has to be thinking that she’s the biggest ditz ever. Can’t imagine what Maria thinks of her.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
she needs to work on her laughing style ...
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BRICS is largely on the mind. Some articles:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20241023/brics-summit-adopts-final-declaration-...
https://sputnikglobe.com/20241023/live-updates-16th-brics-summit-in-russ...
https://www.rt.com/africa/606017-brics-counter-western-sanctions/
https://www.rt.com/russia/606263-putin-proposes-brics-based-grain-exchange/
The top one is very important and very well done. There are a ton more in Sputnik and rt, often on very specific narrow points.
There is a lot of pushback against specific behaviors of the Western Rogue States and their criminal behavior and calls for golbal refornms as well as reforming the UN.
Beyond that, of course, I have all my personal to-dos and such, but no bridges for brooks to babble on
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hell, I would join Brics
if I knew the goons wouldn't arrest me for terrorism or antisemitism or some such. Or, God forbid, install me as Transportation Secretary.
Have to agree Brics changes everything. It's a Brave new world. Dozens of sovereign countries are beating feet to join as a whole new kind of "woke' takes hold. Now, there is a way out from under the western cabal's boot.
I feel sorry for all of us in the western world when the collapse begins. It's going to be brutal, and the ruling oligarchs are going to turn what screws they have left to hold us under their power at all costs.
We should all start to figure out now how to take those screws away from them right at their most weak moment.
Seize our country back.
The first thing to do right now is rescind all the "continuity of government" legislation that has been passed around state governments across the nation.
This legislation gives state governors broad dictatorial powers in the event of catastrophe, nuclear devastation, or civil collapse. And the power moves in descending order down to the lowliest elected official.
Thanks for hosting this Open Thread.
PS. Do you have a version of "How to calm a bear" in the key of Russian?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
screw them before they screw you
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seems apt in consideration of the loose screws
running the US
experimentmysterysounds in the key of life springs to mind
poke the bear at your own risk
the Neo-clowns are not risk adverse
thanks for dropping in
question everything
The Demoncrats aren't just getting desperate
They are getting nasty. Earthling2 has been getting messages from DNC or someone at 202-571-8856 wanting her to commit to voting for Harris. She has refused to respond. Today she got another that said: "We've asked 6 times if you support VP Harris__________"
We don't know what the rest of the message reads because we don't want to open the message. But this only shows how profoundly panicked and desperate they have become.
Just when you thought the Harris campaign couldn't become more cringeworthy, they go and out do themselves.
Ugh!
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
yeah, same bs here
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my local email provider (cox) handed the whole mess
over to yahoo. every day the mail server features the
giggling fool appealing for some damn thing or another
desperate is a good word for it
not sure who is more mentally bankrupt
the camel or her handlers
swirling down the drain of history
question everything
Don't know how
they got her phone #. Unless from the elections office. In this state they ask for a phone # on your ballot return envelop but indicate it is optional. She may have inadvertently included it last election season.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
@earthling1
I received a hand-written postcard from a volunteer for the local Democrats telling me that although who I vote for is private, whether I vote is public information. When did threats become a chosen incentive to vote in this country?
Well, it wasn't a threat exactly
But the wording was condescending and rude, as though there was something wrong with her. How dare she refuse to commit!
I wanted to reply it's none of their damn business who we are voting for, so STFU.
But we would have to open the message to do that and who knows what danger lurks with that.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
DK has been pushing members to look at an app
that tells you if your friends or family have voted yet. Apparently lots of states have the app this year. Dunno if it’s new, but I’m seeing lots of
diarrheadiaries on it.I don’t think it’s anyone’s business whether people vote or not, but then it’s no one’s business whether people are vaxxed or not and we saw what happened with that. People decided that yes indeed other people’s medical issues were their business. Pffft!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Today, my trash folder
hit 50 political spam messages in a single day. My political dreck filter puts them into the trash automatically, so I don't have to read them, or even see anything beyond the headline.
Even that is too much. There were over 3k messages in there since about August, and that tears it. I've now changed the filter to automatically trash everything that even *smells* like political crap, so that I never see them at all. I used to think that there was a chance of a false positive that might possibly trash something important.
I no longer think that way.
6 calls today, but I never even turn my ringer on on the phone anymore, so they just fell directly through to the voice mailbox- that I carefully and deliberately keep full, for election season. I voted already- there's no reason to keep sending that stuff, or calling me, or annoying me further. Enough.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Quite the Zinger!
Good evening, QMS!
I had a good chat with a friend today about the upcoming economic crash. He is one of the few locals who grasp the BRICS summit's importance.
He is planning on retiring in a year from the District Attorney's office, and ex-pat to his family's property in Honduras. Might not be a bad idea.
If we ex-pat, it will be to a BRICS member country.
I might purchase the sheet music for that nice piece about calming a bear. On crazy court days, I would be the bear in need of calming...
My mind was bent by the spaghetti faucet drip!
Thanks for the OT, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
glad you made it thru
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things are getting a bit crazy all around
yes, that is a nice piano piece, very calming
getting out before the crash sounds sensible
unfortunately, my spouse just ain't into that
been advocating for many years to no avail
cheers!
question everything
25 years ago
I explored Costa Rica, Australia, and New Zealand with the thought of moving there when I retired 5 years later.
But grandkids come along and they are such an anchor!
But we love em' too much to abandon here.
Sigh.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I checked out
Mexico, Costa Rico, Panama, Trinidad, Guatemala, Honduras, Columbia, and Ecuador. Austria requires you be very rich, so forget that.
Panama and Trinidad are stable, as is Costa Rico. Mexico is heading that direction.
The most likely place I would choose is Panama.
sigh...I dream...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I was thinking today about the worst thingy there is these days
and came to the conclusion it is the mobile phone. I am just amazed what kind od shit these phones have thrown on mankind.
Oh well, I just wonder where I will end up dying and if I ever see my son again.
Be well all of you good people. I have seen enough shit, no need to add on top of that one more shitty connment. Consider this a no comment comment.
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agree, the mobile phone is a mind virus
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hope you get to visit with your son again
question everything