OT WE 14 MAY 25 ~ Post Enlightenment
Most of us here may remember the optimism shared around 55 years ago.
And most would agree things have not progressed in favorable terms for us.
Improvements in technology seems to have only complicated our lives more.
Communication devices are more sophisticated, although less secure.
Health, longevity and fertility are all on a downward trend.
Financially, fewer are seeing better conditions. Working longer for less.
Most people I know worry for the future of their offspring or are relived
they are child free and getting closer to suffering no more. Aging-out.
Sorry this is not an uplifting thread. Perhaps you can bring some sunshine?
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Open thread so share whatever nuggets you have.
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Hello, good morning
Old news you don't need to know department -
In 2018 the successful memory transfer in snails achieved by scientists from University of California
published in journal "eNeuro".
What's up?
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning...
No sunshine here. It's been raining for a week...about 6".
However, as we go into summer having good soil moisture helps mitigate the heat of the coming summer. Looks like next week we push 90F. The down side is I'm behind on mowing, and now need to drop the brush hog and put on the box scrape to touch up the roads. Then put the mower back on and get set for summer mowing. Always something, but I'm glad I have things to do. Staying active is key to staying young to my mind.
I remember the hope of my youth. I thought we were headed into the "age of Aquarius", peace, and love. How naive, but I'm glad I lived in a time when we were hopeful.
Have a good one, and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Staying active is key
Keeps us from seizing up.
Off to finish a job, renters coming in tomorrow.
Cheers!
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning, Cap'n!
Another day, another dollar.
I ran across a headline that some think tank is upset at young workers. He says they are not shoring up their retirement savings, choosing to spend their wages on groceries and vacations.
The author did not say which category they should give up.
Feeling pretty damn pessimistic equals being pretty damn realistic, imho.
Must go to work.
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
Ahh, the hopeful, optimistic 70s
I remember it well.
All the great rock bands were doing extravagant concerts with incredible light shows, for under a hundred bucks.
We were ferrying men back and forth to the moon regularly.
We had the safe feeling of detente.
And 70 million teenagers were coming of age and looking for a party.
Yes, the good ole days, as the old timers from previous generations used to say.
The car culture was ripe and rolling. Gas was leaded and two bits a gallon.
Yeah, good times.
What the hell happened?
Thanks for the OT.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
The same thought was running across my brain
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shoeless and clueless.
If the rulers run on coke
and feed the masses fentanyl
what does that say about society?
Blame it on China and Mexico.
Nothing wrong here.
Zionism is a social disease
I was doing my
usual morning glance across other sites, and I was struck by one thing- the majority of the people who post articles to Zerohedge are positively giddy with how wonderfully the markets are doing, and how they've erased all the losses caused by Trump's bloviations, and everything is peachy now, and there's never been a better time to dump money into the casino.
Or something to that effect.
I'm more glad than ever that I have no money with which to gamble. Anyone who thinks that Trump is done bloviating and creating chaos is a few sandwiches short of a picnic, IMNSHO. And I suppose that some of them are wealthy enough that they can take a few haircuts, or even short the world the next time the bottom falls out.
And fall out, it will. This temporary calm is simply the eye of the storm. Anyone who believes that the market numbers have any relationship to the foundational health (or more realistically, the systemic rot that will result in the end) of this country is either utterly deluded, or rich enough that they believe that they can manipulate it to their benefit.
https://archive.ph/sCvzI
This bubble of all bubbles will not last. I've already written off the tiny amount I still have in my 401K, mentally- it most assuredly won't be there when I need it. The US has become the Fyre Festival of nation-states: nothing more than a fictional fantasy pitched by sociopathic charlatans, with a huge military and little else. Not a fan.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Heh, good morning Cap'n Q. Not so optimistic here back then.
Different strokes type of thing. For a bunch of us Hair was one of those "what the hell are they talking about?" phenomena. It was off broadway in 67 and woo hoo, big hit on Broadway around 68 .
1967 was the Oakland "stop the Draft" week and accompanying police riots, followed by UC berkeley reverting to political suspensions in 68 and the fracas over that. 1068 Was the Democratic Party convention in Chicago with the associated police riot. 1969 was People's OPark and the National Guard occupation of Berkeley preceeded by cops firing on student protesters, wounding many and killing James Rector. Cointelpro was in full swing and though it wasn't officially known or named, everybody had it figured out and knew it was going on. Meanwhile we were all discussing whether to expatriate, and if so where to, or to stay and keep fighting. That is, we who had not already headed for Canada. The second pressing of the first Buffalo Springfield album got a ton of air time and private play. 1970 brought Kent State and police/sheriffs shooting at students at a couple of other schools. Optimistic we were not.
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 --
Recent Asian news items
The judge for the Yoon Seok-yeol insurrection trial has ruled that the trial of principal conspirators and actors, the former minister of defense Kim Yong-hyun and the retired Defense Intelligence Command commander, Noh Sang-won, will be held in secret, for national security reasons no press or public allowed. How convenient. This is the same judge who released Yoon from pretrial confinement. Critics from military human rights organization, and People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy say that this is not necessary and obstructs the public's right to know. The judge said something like "you don't burn down the house to kill a flea," which I think shows his attitude toward the public. The critics assert that the martial law declaration had nothing to do with national security. In fact, this is merely Yoon's theory of the case asserted at his impeachment trial, which is unsupported. This way, "secret evidence" can be adduced to support acquittals without the public ever knowing what that alleged evidence is purported to be. The judge specifically referred to the locations of military command infrastructure as an example of national security concern.
(재판장, 이의있소!" 손 번쩍, "나가라"던 지귀연 급당황? (2025.05.14/MBC뉴스))
I recommend this article Tim S linked to from Korea Times, English language edition-
The only distortion in this article is reflected in the claim that North Korea provoked the failure of 9.19.2018 Military Agreement between North and South Korea by sending "trash balloons" over the DMZ into South Korea. Conservatives in the South and the US objected to the agreement from 2018, because it restricted military air operations near the DMZ. The collapse of the agreement was provoked by the south sending propaganda balloons over the DMZ, and firing artillery into the West Sea buffer zone, both Military Agreement violations. Then came the trash balloons. The strategic nuclear issues are well outlined. The conservatives want nuclear weapons in South Korea.
This is a 5,400 mile military movement by the US, not just the 250 miles movement within Luzon toward the north side of the island (close to Taiwan). I assume it's round trip for the exercise, but you never know. Round trip is 10,800 miles. Wonder how much that costs. The article seems to imply it will be a brigade level movement.
Thanks for the OT QMS.
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語必忠信 行必正直
Is Trump ushering in the global digital reset?
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I don’t know much about this author, but I see lots of people link to him.
Trump announces big 'deal' with Saudi Crown Prince: What does it mean for us little people?
I’m not concerned about the $600 billion weapons sale because they might not ever get them because we have to supply Israel and Ukraine and it takes defense companies too long to make just one. Plus we have to build them for our upcoming war with China. China and Russia are running rings around our outputs. I am concerned about the push for AI and huge data centers that will take a lot of water and energy to run which will be at the expense of we the people. The parasites are already talking about water wars and how water will need to be privatized.
Anyone doubt that if Biden was doing this that MAGA would revolt? But since they worship everything Trump does they will cheer this on.
The right wing site I read is authored by a lawyer. He cheers the arrest of the ‘pro Hamas’ protesters (no free speech for them) and Miller’s idea of canceling habeas corpus. I’ve called him out on this and his minions call me a troll.
The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”
Vox Day; Ron Unz / “Unz Review”; Les Visible; Tatsuya Ishida …
Caitlin Johnstone of course; Josh Mitteldorf’s “Daily Inspiration” blog …
Vox Day (Theodore Beale) currently posts to two blogs called “Vox Popoli” and “Sigma Game.”
Les Visible maintains three loose, wildly rambling, often spiritually themed blogs called “Visible Origami”, “Smoking Mirrors”, and “Reflections in a Petri Dish.”
Tatsuya Ishida is a comic artist who publishes the “Sinfest.xyz” webcomic.
Those are some websites and creators I go to when I seek genuinely out-of-the-box, perhaps totally off-the-wall anti-mainstream opinion. Upon first contact, I originally thought they all were quite extreme, anti-Semitic, or just crazy but as the years went by, regarding many topics and situations they have turned out to be accurate predictors of long-term developments and/or reflectors of realities that very few others are courageous enough to state as clearly as they do.
I have dropped all of the usual “right-wing” news aggregators, be they “classically ‘conservative’ / pre-Trump GOP” or (post-)Trumpian. Among other things, in almost all cases their proprietors’ clear anti-Palestinian bias means they fail this moment in history’s Gaza genocide moral litmus test. I only read them when some other aggregator I trust grudgingly links to them, for instance, Naked Capitalism or The Automatic Earth.
Oh My! Quite the journey from a head chopper to a new allie.
Imagine if the U.S. had done that with Castro or the Sandinistas
“We’ll give your government a chance to stabilize your country” — instead of embargo, Bay of Pigs invasion, arming Contras, mining the harbor, etc.
The enlightenment
in my experience was about finding faith in friends, desiring peace in every way, connecting with the earth as had our ancestors, and coming to terms that our government would kill us if they wanted us dead. Personal freedom became a badge of honor.
Maybe as boomers moved up on the economic ladder, they left much of their appreciation for truth and freedom in the dust in favor of their bank account balance.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yeah, that makes total sense
some is lost with time, but the original impressions
live on and still guide us. Thanks for commenting.
With you on this.
Zionism is a social disease