OT WED 10 APR 24 ~ social unrest
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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an Oppressed People to Rise,
and assert their Natural Rights, as Human Beings
1768 - John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox
Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War in North Virginia
1916 - The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans;
Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection
1952 - Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution,
starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta
1971 - Ringo Starr releases single "It Don't Come Easy", produced by George Harrison, in the UK
Given the significant impact of the Arab Spring throughout northern Africa and the Middle East, it’s easy to forget the series of large-scale political and social movements arguably began with a single act of defiance.
The natives are getting restless. Ever since the Patriot Act we are all considered terrorists.
Under the guise of national security our civil rights are being outlawed one after the other.
I wonder what little spark will ignite the powder keg? Anyway, open thread so toss in
any convenient match.
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Buenas dias
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crawling thru the headlines this morning
couldn't find anything earth shattering
just more half-truths trickling out like
'Burisma / Biden con couched in Rus disinfo terms'
or 'China Bad proving US good' claptrap
being spoon-fed mental poison gets toxic over time
what kind of soup you sipping today?
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Not sure that this exactly fits but it at least brought a smile
to my face.
That's a good one
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The Burisma romper room.
Why not cut to the chase?
There is no counter to it.
Offensive is more to the point.
Well, it didn't work the first time
so give it another go. Definitely
worth another $60B. Just ask the
departed Ukies, umm, or not.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
If the dems' lawfare efforts
somehow succeed, and they are able to block Trump from the presidency just before the election (or worse yet, immediately afterwards after he's won it), I expect the increasing rumblings from the heavily-armed MAGA types to erupt into actual open violence. There are a great many of them just champing at the bit to go shoot some of the people that they regard as their oppressors ("liberals", LGBTLMNOP people, non-whites, cops, and so on). That seems the most likely form of civil unrest, at least to this reporter.
That is based upon the naively optimistic assumption that we still exist by the time of the election, though.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Yes, the PTB obviously screwing with the election
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would be a red line many will fight against.
I think the immigrant voting as non-citizens
could also trigger a serious backlash. I think
TX and MO are attempting that trick.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
It'll become
open season: ready, fire, aim; in the inimitable American style.
The rest of us non-MAGA, non-arsenal-owning types do constitute what they call a "target-rich environment", after all.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Continuing my reputation as a rogue or scamp...
Please do not interpret my comment as being judgemental of you but more a muddy spot in our path to improve the situation in our country. MAGA is not a bad thing unless it is being used to divide us. There are parts of the MAGA idea that I very much agree with, there are other parts that I disagree with. People are complex. They do not fit into "Little Boxes"...
Thank you....
Understand.
I can only report on the ones I know in person, and who actually wear the hat and own arsenals. I tend to believe that sort of self-sorting.
One in particular is an Air Force vet who has already told me that, because he likes me, he'd give me a 5 second head start before he started shooting- and that was after the last election. When people say things like that to me, I really do tend to believe them. And since he's a CCW carrier, I won't even be in the same room as him. I haven't spoken to him in a couple of years, for obvious reasons- but it is my assumption that he's more pissed off now than he was then.
Reading the comments on (for example) Zerohedge only reinforces that belief, in the more general case. However, having said that, my apologies to anyone I've offended.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Thank you
I'm sorry if I might have given the wrong impression. It was most certainly not intended.
S.Korea- election results coming in
So far they are looking pretty good for the aligned parties of Lee Jae-myung and Cho Guk, the democratic party and reform parties respectively. Cho-guk's party is a proportional vote party on the proportional vote ticket competing for 50 seats. At this stage of the vote counting looks like he'll get 11 seats according to projections. The projection is for the democrats to take 155 district seats out of 250. The democratic satellite party competing for proportional seats is projected to take 13 proportional seats. Total seats for the "criminal parties" (the dems and progressives) as labelled by Han Dong-hun, the prosecutor turned conservative party leader now at 179, almost exactly the same as the 180 seat blowout four years ago. These numbers could change, some of the races are quite close, unbelievably close in fact. Voter turn out a huge 67 percent.
You know the results are not good for the conservatives by their reactions- PPP conservative party (red) on upper right, their satellite proportional party lower right. Dems on left (blue) Lee, upper left in party situation room, Cho Guk's reform party lower left (in suits) watching vote counts as they come in. I hope the results are as good as they appear to be at this point in the count.
The video reactions in the party situation rooms are telling. We'll see if voting makes a difference any more in South Korea.
Thanks for the OT QMS.
語必忠信 行必正直
Thanks for sharing the election results in So. Korea
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hope the good guys make make enough of a gain to balance
the bad guys ways.
Read a report the other day about someone breaking down the
software in the Diebold counting machines. Something like 1.2
million lines of code. Makes one wonder what all of that crap is?
cheers
PS - did you receive the member list I sent?
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Yes
語必忠信 行必正直
Howdy y'all
Hi all, Hey Capt.!
Thanks for the OT! Loved It Don't Come Easy.
It was 2.5 million lines of code, which was done in 77 at the tweet:
https://twitter.com/PeterBernegger/status/1777008023531098242
We should not be using machines for the same reasons all the other countries in the world do not use them. A couple million lines of extra code is not pure of intent. Open source it, or outlaw it. I mean IF IF IF the results of your vote actually mattered one miniscule nanobit.
I saw this again, and think it bears repeating...
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Happy trails 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
Good morning. Thanks for the OT QMS. I fear that we may see
a coup before we see a revolution, unless they find a way to pull a color revolution here. John Q. Public is still largely dozing off in the glow of the constant false narratives and diversions and distractions. We will argue endlessly about whether, when, how and by hom the vote was fiddled and if it had a net impact without coming to realize that it is all a farce and sham ab initio.
The question, at home and abroad, is really who the cops and militaries will support if push comes to shove, and that may be anybody's guess in each and every venue where it arises.
Meanwhile spring is here, but it still isn't time to take all of one's meals outdoors, alas. The weeds have taken over the yard and garden, however, so the outdoors cannot be avoided, regardless of the bucketloads of pollen which are largely due to the idiocy of commercial landscapers, at least hereabouts.
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 --
Yeah, the idea of a coup is potential
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owing to the fact that the coup masters have their headquarters here
at Langley, although it is speculated their operational base is now in
Ukraine?
Spring is still chilly here with more wet stuff on the way.
Enjoy your weeds!
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Haiti occupation is OK'd
CARICOM
Note that there is no outgoing government except for PM Henry, who no one ever voted for.
I have to start by once again saying how much
I appreciate jtc and c99 and how close I feel to the people here. I know we are different while we are similar but I think that this little corner offers me a place of sanity in really stressful times.
Thank you so much.
So much happening that affects elderly people, so much blame being heaped upon us for our supposed greed in not sharing the meager nestegg we might have built over 4 or 5 decades of sacrifice. The latest BS is one that reminds me of the forced tenancy that happened during WW2 to provide living quarters for all homefront people to support the troops. Hmm, what was that play again.
Excellent piece in NC that linked to the Lever:
It was my experience last year with a couple of homes near me that forced me to face the requirement to change all of my estate planning and financial activity. In my research I found that my plan involving a trust offered no shelter. So I started dissolving it.
Next was finding a shelter that would provide for the LOML. Looking for legal advice was another grift and one that preys upon their clients in league with the nursing home. Each of the 3 or 4 that I approached used a scripted ploy.
The net result is that after 55 years the LOML and I have been forced to be the same as marriage partners dividing their stuff before a divorce. Hurts but necessary. Today when she hands me her credit card and says I can use it for groceries I have to explain that it is illegal.
Lately I have been following https://www.theautomaticearth.com/the-automatic-earth/ and especially the comments of https://www.theautomaticearth.com/forums/users/dr-d/. If you get the chance he offers an excellent take on our dystopic gov't, particularly his opinion of the PMC crowd and AI. It matches my experiences to a T.
I think this is enough. Thanks for listening.
In my literary project I have found Hemmigway and Islands in the Stream to be fantastic. I can most certainly identify with it.
The part where he is talking of his life in Paris came so close to our experiences there. We stayed in a small hotel just down the street from his favorite bar. LOML and I always found our own paths in the places we visited. The 6th arrondisement was one of them.
It's been a wonderful life and we still have far to go before we sleep.
Thank you all. Be well, please.
Thanks for adding to the mix
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the label 'rogue rebel' fits me to a tee (shirt).
Half jokingly I suggested we should have a
sacrificial goat at the eclipse gathering for
good luck. Even my stoner friends thought that
was bridge too far. Where is humor when you
need it? Do we really have to behave somberly
constantly? Hey, if you can't take a joke ..
BTW, Dr. D is a funny commenter at TAE.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Thanks for the report
I don’t remember the details, but during Obama he relaxed nursing home rules that put patients in danger. A few hundred thousand in fines are nothing to those places because of how much money they make. Now putting repeat offenders in prison would do a lot of good, but it will never happen because it’s the CEOs who make the laws that they get congress to pass.
Pfizer paid $2.3 billion for criminal activity but not one CEO was charged for it. Yet Pelosi says that no one is above the law. Pffft!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
The unspoken
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Pelosi says that no one is above the law.
Except for her and her ilk.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Ehh?
Not following you…
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
making light of the fact
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she does indeed operate above the law
insider trading is Ok in her rule book
other people go to jail for that
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
My attempt at humor today:
Years ago, I found a royal blue tee shirt in London. It has a white picture of the crown, and the words, "Keep calm drink beer" on its' front.
I am about to join a zoom mediation, thought that tee would be perfect for a fighting divorcing couple. Hubby said no,
Bad humor
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hey, it works for me
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people are too uptight these days
Maybe something in camo chic?
Seriously, life is but a joke anyway.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
In house polling must be really bad for Genocide Joe to put out
a whopper like this.![](https://caucus99percent.com/sites/all/modules/smiley/packs/kolobok/help.gif)
Coupled with the dismal inflation report the Dems seem to be getting desperate.
https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/4585610-heres-where-prices...
Highlights from the article:
Oh, that makes economic sense
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frozen drinks and video discs post largest increases on record.
Inflation or something else mysterious?
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security