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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 6:13am

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“Protect What You Love” by Antonio Segura (aka Dulk); Valencia, Spain; March 2022

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Welcome to today's C99% open thread. A mixed bag of news and views or what have you.

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This is a rather odd annual display called the Falles Festival wherein sculptures are built, only to be burned down at the end. One part art and one part pyrotechnics.

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We have the mother polar bear in the main square for falles, her fur melting like a candle as other animals take refuge on and around her. They are lost and they are all in search of a new habitat…

.. explains Dulk of his works

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https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/falles-valencia-dulk/

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 6:51am

240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1822 - Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida Territory

1856 - The Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Great Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Paris ending the Crimean War

1867 - Alaska Purchase: US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 ($109 million in 2018), roughly 2 cents an acre

1949 - Riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO

1959 - Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in India

1981 - US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by John Hinckley, three others are also wounded

2012 - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers

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Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 7:12am
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Thanks for the festival art...sounds a bit like "Burning Man".
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbC3GPW1HI]

Finishing up the last of the bush hogging. I always like to leave cover during winter for all the critters, but with spring coming on strong it is best to clean it up and then let it regrow. Summer seeds are growing in flats ready to go out in a month or so. Always busy this time of year as the plant explosion occurs.

It is the time of the green man
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Round and round we go.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 8:41am

@Lookout @Lookout

Reminds me of discovering a woman made up to be a vine tree at Disney World in the Animal Kingdom exhibit. She was about 12 foot high and blended into the surrounding greenery. Only spotted her when it moved. Freaky!

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Speaking of green ..

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A small village here in RI figured out a way to have local power.

https://ecori.org/rhode-islands-first-battery-storage-facility-set-to-op...

That's one big battery!

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 8:26am

@Lookout

psychedelic expressions
creativity on steroids
a newish subculture being birthed
and expressed in the desert
there is hope for our collective
imaginations after all

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Submitted by lotlizard on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 9:03am
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@QMS  
Makes my ge-ge-generation’s Woodstock thingy seem pitiful and kinda stoopid in comparison…

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Submitted by Enchantress on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 7:58am

There were some spring breakers misbehaving down at the Beach last week, but it wasn't a riot. Riots don't happen in Beach towns because that would be too much bad publicity. Now the Sheriff's in the three counties, (Bay, Okaloosa, Walton) are preparing for Take Over Destin and Take Over Crab Island next week. They have been having extra SWAT training. They are making it out like the Russians are invading Ukraine. As someone pointed out, don't spring breakers go home after a week.

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 8:33am

@Enchantress

pretty sleepy with Air Force prop heads and lots of rednecks
that was so long ago, doubt I would recognize it now
Riots?

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Submitted by Enchantress on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 3:19pm

@QMS You wouldn't recognize it. I barely do. It's been overdeveloped from Navarre in Santa Rosa County to Miramar Beach, just outside of Bay. You can't even drive on Hwy 98 anymore. The traffic is so heavy that you will be stopped for at least 3 times for the same light. When I was tied up with the cancer doctors 3 or 4 years ago, it was less time for me to drive to Sacred Heart in Pensacola, three counties over than to drive to the one in the south of the county. And yesterday they approved building another 82 unit condo. What I can't figure out is why anyone wants to go to the beach when you have to sit in car to car traffic just to get there. Not my idea of fun. But then again, I have not been to the beach since that oil spill and Obama came down for a day and never even stuck his toe in the water.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 11:16am
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...by Errol Morris on the quantum effects of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle on history.

The Umbrella Man is a hypothesis that states that when one focuses with great intensity on a particular moment in history. everything surrounding that moment starts to look very weird and unlikely to exist. The Umbrella man was spotted in Dallas, Texas at the same moment that JFK was assassinated.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 12:28pm
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@Pluto's Republic

We know who else was in Dallas that fateful day and here’s another interesting tale about him and his family.

In Memoriam: George H. Scherff Jr. aka George HW Bush Sr.

Deathbed confessed as Nikola Tesla’s murderer and, by all indications, one of those who plotted the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 41st US President George HW Bush died at 94 last November 30, 2018, effectively ending a long career of mass murder and genocide, and high profile assassinations, around the world.

George HW Bush’s true identity was uncovered through the perseverance of one investigative journalist Michael Nicoloff and the deathbed confession of Hitler’s close-in bodyguard, Otto Skorzeny.

What we are taught about history in American schools is not history, but a fairy tale. Better yet, it is propaganda designed to hoodwink an unsuspecting society about its true heritage and the treasonous acts and sabotage that were conceived in order to bring about a New World Order. You are about to learn the real identities of those who have infiltrated your nation on behalf of secret societies intent on bringing about the total slavery of mankind. In the past, others have written about the numerous conspiracies to control natural resources, energy, food and our sovereign right to live on planet Earth — not as slaves of a wealthy few — but as free men, women, and children exercising the free will given to them by God.

We know that Prescott Bush helped Hitler do what he did and that was guilty of collaborating with the enemy, but mostly escaped punishment for it. But was he really who we thought he was? I dunno what to make of this tale, but thought why not? Most of the things I was taught in school was grade A BS so who knows what the truth actually is? There are lots of links included. Would love to hear others thoughts on it.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 2:24pm
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@snoopydawg  
were TLA / Deep State ops, and many of the movers and shakers whom the counterculture coalesced around were TLA / Deep State protégés:

http://mileswmathis.com/

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 4:23pm
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@lotlizard

he uses profoundly undefined and undefinable phrases like

the movers and shakers whom the counterculture coalesced around

, but I will note that the sixties were almost half over when he was born in 1964, so his first hand knowledge is likely to be minimal. Also that he got a masters in politics from the LBJ Institute of something or other, which just might have had a narrative to push.

be well and have a good one

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 1:57pm

I love it.

You appear to be mindlessly promoting the end of the US theory even though you claim to be American. Why is that? Are you a racist Trump supporter or are the checks still clearing from your paymasters?

Here's an update:

I'm also glad you admit to being a Trump supporter. You don't have to admit direct support to confirm you are a traitor but it is good you did.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 11:25am
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@gjohnsit

They don't process. Their brains are fried.

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Submitted by lotlizard on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 2:35pm
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@Pluto's Republic  
have been totally blown by HRC and DNC.

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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Submitted by CB on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 11:29am
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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 12:30pm

Print more money!

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Submitted by CB on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 2:16pm
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Michael Hudson: US Dollar Hegemony Ended Abruptly Last Wednesday
By Margaret Flowers

On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the United States announced that it would freeze Russia’s access to its gold. Russia has the fifth highest amount of gold in the world. Economist Michael Hudson explains that this action, which follows the US seizing Venezuela and Afghanistan’s gold and assets, has effectively ended dollar hegemony, which has been in decline in recent years, and the free ride that the US has enjoyed abroad. Hudson states that we are now in uncharted territory as nothing like this has occurred in modern history. Sanctions on Russia are driving a shortage of fertilizer, which will lower food production and bring famine. Hudson predicts greater inflation, particularly for food and fuel, and shortages, which are all good for Wall Street profits, and more businesses being forced to close.

Listen here:

(you can fast forward to 27:30 to listen to Hudson. It is a VERY informative talk about how the US has misused and weaponized the dollar hegemony and is now starting to backfire on it.)

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 7:08pm
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@CB

If others can see what would happen to the dollar if we kept pushing sanctions and stealing country’s money then the ones doing can too. That the ruble is gaining on the dollar because of them and the
Biden A holes doubling down and saying that eve n if Russia leaves Ukraine the sanctions stay tells me that it’s deliberate. I could be wrong though.

Dumb autocorrect!

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 5:15pm

@snoopydawg

even after withdrawing said sanctions
the damage has been done and will not
lessen, once the other countries use their own
currencies to trade, which was forced upon them,
then there is no bandaid big enough to stanch the
bleeding of the petrodollar. We will suffer the consequence.
Thanks walrus street or walmart creeps

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 6:03pm
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@QMS

This isn’t just being targeted at Russia. The parasite class isn’t happy with all the people insisting on being paid a living wage and striking. Inflation is one way for them to eat into any higher wages they get.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 1:59pm
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be well and have a good one

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Submitted by humphrey on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 2:04pm

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Submitted by QMS on Wed, 03/30/2022 - 3:38pm

@humphrey

Kinda doing a work-around to get back to business.
The currency war the west has been using to attack
their enemies is not working out so well. The sooner the
vassal states of the empire realize this, the less hardship
they will have to endure.

Power sharing is scary to the global elites.

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