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Accepting Defeat

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Richard M Nixon

‘The time has come’: Melania Trump tells husband to accept defeat, report says

Fox News host Laura Ingraham advised President Trump on Friday to "accept defeat" with "grace and composure" in an extraordinary shift in messaging.

By repeatedly denouncing the accuracy of the outcome, even before it has been confirmed, he is giving his supporters a green light to spend the next four years blatantly defying a Biden government, and generally causing public mayhem, on the grounds that the Democrats “stole” the election from Trump, and that the new government thus has no democratic authority of mandate.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/the-dangers-of-trump-not...

It reminds me of the Obummer DNC CIA plot, the Russiagate conspiracy designed to thwart the Trump presidency.

Russiagate has three purposes.

One is to prevent President Trump from endangering the vast budget and power of the military/security complex by normalizing relations with Russia.

Another, in the words of James Howard Kunstler, is “to conceal the criminal conduct of US government officials meddling in the 2016 election in collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign,” by focusing all public and political attention on a hoax distraction.

The third is to obstruct Trump’s campaign and distract him from his agenda when he won the election.

Despite the inability of Mueller to find any evidence that Trump or Trump officials colluded with Russia to steal the US presidential election, and the inability of Mueller to find evidence with which to accuse Trump of obstruction of justice, Russiagate has achieved all of its purposes.

Russiagate continues to be a lie that most dims espouse. The Russiagate lie continues to be damaging

So I guess turn about is fair play. Plan on at least four years of an "election fraud" scam.

Chanting “This isn’t over!” and “Stop the steal,” supporters of President Donald Trump protested at state capitols across the country Saturday, refusing to accept defeat and echoing Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations that the Democrats won by fraud.

From Atlanta and Tallahassee to Austin, Bismarck, Boise and Phoenix, crowds ranging in size from a few dozen to a few thousand — some of them openly carrying guns — decried the news of Joe Biden’s victory after more than three suspense-filled days of vote-counting put the Democrat over the top. Skirmishes broke out in some cities.

In Atlanta, outside the state Capitol in the longtime Republican stronghold of Georgia, chants of “Lock him up!” rang out among an estimated 1,000 Trump supporters. Others chanted, “This isn’t over! This isn’t over!” and “Fake news!” The streets were awash with American flags and Trump banners.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/08/trump-supporters-refuse-to-accept-defeat-s...

Yesterday in DC thousands gathered and marched for Trump...
https://straightlinelogic.com/2020/11/14/massive-crowds-march-in-dc-to-s...

WASHINGTON—Throngs of people converged at Freedom Plaza in Washington on Saturday, joining other rallies around the country to show support for President Donald Trump and ask for fairness in the election process.

Marching towards the Supreme Court, participants held signs that read “Stop the Steal,” “Make America Fair Again,” and “Trump 2020.” Before the start of the march, the crowd heard speeches from prominent Trump supporters including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, and several other activists.

Freedom Plaza and other parts of central D.C. seemed heavily crowded. Ed Martin, one of the event co-organizers, said he estimates 500 thousand people took part, though he says some media are falsely claiming only a few hundred participated.

Will (can) the court overrule the election results?
Constitutional rights lawyer talks to Abby Martin about the potential for the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in Trump's favor, and analyzes the basis of voter fraud allegations. They also discuss the impact of Trump's judge appointments, the progressive demand to "pack the court," and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6EK8zx7kKo (18 min)

We'll just have to see if any of the fraud claims gain traction.

At the very least, doubt about the election has taken root. Unfortunately I doubt a better system will emerge. I like the vote by mail approach in CO, WA, and a few other states.
Joseph Stalin said some version of "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."

John Adams was our first one term president. He and Jefferson had a bitter election in 1800. Adams had difficulty accepting his loss too.

Adams might have been more gracious. He did not attend the formal handoff to Jefferson, although it is un­clear whether he was invited. It would be years before the two men resumed cordial relations.

Adams did not shrink from using the legitimate powers of his office to en­trench the Federalist Party’s power on the way out the door. Together with the also-defeated Federalist majority in the Senate, he used the post-election lame-duck session to make John Mar­sh­all the chief justice, expand the circuit courts, and stock them with Federalist “midnight judges.”

So this sabotage of the next administration goes pretty deep in our history.


When you wish upon a star...

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So who won the election? I suggest the CIA war machine...

As President Trump refuses to concede over baseless allegations of widespread fraud, the Biden team has sent signals that there will be little to no transition away from US regime change abroad. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discusses Trump’s rejection of democracy at home, and the records of the likely Biden cabinet members who have adopted the same attitude to governments around the world.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/13/as-trump-rejects-us-election-biden-si...

Jimmy explains...Biden's Cabinet Of WAR! (8 min)

Jimmy also calls out the AOC insinuation that the repugs are the party of war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldX8t63iMAQ (9 min)

On veterans day Jimmy hosted an anti-war message from a veteran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS51-q-aDH8 (34 min)
Below the clip was a great comment...
"We used to manufacture weapons to fight wars. Now we manufacture wars to sell weapons!"

Wendy also discussed the war cabinet in her recent post.

A glance at the Biden-Harris agency review teams should provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration could be “pushed to the left” An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the United States government when Barack Obama was president.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/14/bidens-transition-team-war-profiteers...

The head of the Joe Biden transition team for the US Agency for Global Media, Richard Stengel, has branded himself the “chief propagandist,” urged the government to use propaganda against its “own population,” and called to “rethink” the First Amendment.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/11/richard-stengel-propaganda-usagm-biden/

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says get ready for a second Trump term. Who should run the State and Defense Departments for President-Elect Biden? Will there be a Trump provocation against Iran? Phyllis Bennis on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUpYrgSpOA (33 min)
Transcript here

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In a wide-ranging discussion, Matt Taibbi and Paul Jay discuss why the Democratic Party is losing large sections of the working class and how politics has become a religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbW5oZsaKv4 (1 hour)
Transcript here.


Last week
I explained my thoughts on the loss of our demockrazy (if we ever had one). I'm not happy about our complete corporate capture, but I'm forced to accept the reality of it. Someone asked in a comment this week if this community hated the US. Personally I try not to hate anything or anybody. I certainly don't hate the people nor nature of our country ...just the opposite. However I'm thoroughly disgusted by our promotion of war around the the world I think America is arrogant and aggressive, and that applies equally to both parties. Danny Sjursen asks the question about loving a country that does so many evil things. The following excerpt from Maj. Danny Sjursen’s new book, “Patriotic Dissent”
https://scheerpost.com/2020/11/11/what-patriotism-means-to-a-veteran-of-...

For the moment, however, let us allow the dictionary to speak for itself. It defines nationalism as “loyalty and devotion to a nation.” Loyalty, as opposed to love for its definition of patriotism. These are not the same sentiments. Is it not possible to love something or someone yet, due to its or their bad behavior, not demonstrate blind or reflexive loyalty to that entity? For example, if I love the US Army but it adopts illegal and immoral torture as its official policy towards prisoners, might I not feel bound to loyally serve in that cause? Couldn’t I conclude that true love for the institution demands that I adhere to its former, presumably authentic values? Indeed, since leaders of armies regularly change, to whom or what should the lover channel his or her loyalty? Perhaps love even dictates temporary disloyalty while the loving soldier attempts to reform, reframe, or redefine—whether backwards or forwards—the values of the organization in question. Might not love sometimes trump loyalty or, at least, redefine it? And, while this discussion has thus far centered, theoretically (or perhaps not so), on the army, it stands to reason that the same could be said of the interconnection of love and loyalty to the country itself.

The truth is the corporate overlords remain the same (for now), and I have no loyalty to them at all. Just the opposite. I have disdain and disrespect.

Most Americans have been raised thinking America is the greatest country on earth. However they know nothing about life in other countries. If they understood how workers around the world were treated they might have a different view of how great America is. (13 min clip)

We're taught to believe that America is the greatest country on earth and that it couldn't possibly get any better. Let's put that claim to the test. In this episode, we'll compare the US to other wealthy nations using several key metrics: "low-skilled" job compensation, vacation time, length of the work week, and paid parental leave. The results may surprise you.

Let's forget politics and get back to the garden...
I discovered a small market farm operation in France this week. (6 min)

Watch how Moreno de Meijere and his family built a beautiful small-scale farm in eastern France completely from scratch in just 12 months! Learn even more in our full interview with Moreno here: https://youtu.be/TnyrG6P4ngE

I've been enjoying a Taoism series...
The gentle, but effective philosophy of Taoism/Daoism takes a unique approach to living and dealing with the world. In this video, we cover Taoism's origins, some of its key ideas, and why it might or might not be worth considering in our lives. (The founder, Lao Tzu, is often also known as Loazi or Lao Tze.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtGVnyRBVo4 (12 min)

The last clip I want to include this week is long at 2 plus hours, however once I started I watched/listened to the end as I cooked and cleaned and busied about.

In the dusts of Iraq, the ruins of the world's first civilization lie buried.
This episode, we travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and built some of the largest cities that the world had ever seen. Find out about the mystery of their origins, and learn how they rose from humble beginnings to form the foundation of all our modern societies. With myths, proverbs and even some recreated Sumerian music, travel back to where it all began, and find out how humanity's first civilization fell.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Be careful friends. Over the next few weeks the pandemic will be spreading. Holiday gatherings will accelerate the spread. The evidence for masks and Vitamin D are overwhelming. I hope you are all using both.

Take care and be well!

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of zinc, vita D and C, and iodine gargle when needed. May not prevent the covid, but have been lead to understand this regime may well lessen the effects. Cheap insurance.

Also just secured a copy of Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching a rendition by Ursula Le Guin (1997).

Glad to have this community (mostly) supporting each other, especially in these strange times.

Thanks for thew WW Lookout!

inner peace

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@QMS

How do you make your Iodine wash?

I'm wearing my KN95 mask when out and about others. Still distancing as best s possible. Hand washing upon return. On the D, C, Zn routine too. I also take Mg and mix a vinegar drink most days as well. I typically only go out twice/week.

I'm tired of it all, but I'm staying the course. Not going to visit family over the holidays. Hoping that things are better next spring.

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@Lookout

(fortunately?) I work alone most of the time and mostly outdoors.
The gargle is a couple drops of Iodine tincture to about a cup
of water. Seems to help when I get croaky. The raspiness leaves.

Good Luck!

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@QMS
do you have a brand you reccomend for your tincture.? I've been looking around. ths. be well.

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has on the shelf
one ounce bottle 2%
is enough for several months
about $6
makes a good nasal spray
as well if sinus is an issue

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@Lookout
Although at this time of year you may be eating enough squash, pumpkin, and sweet potatoes to get enough.

Others - the above is a tasty way to increase your vitamin A, don't take more than 100% of the RDA. Vitamin A can build up and be toxic (fat soluble, right, Lookout?). You can drink gallons of orange juice for C while chewing tablets to your hearts content. Vitamin C is water soluble, your body will rid itself of excess, but be careful with A & D. Too little is bad, too much is bad. Women need more D than men, especially after menopause. Testosterone protects against bone loss and vitamin D loss.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

Most recommendations are too low IMO.

Despite its importance, roughly 42% of people in the US have a vitamin D deficiency. This number rises to a staggering 82.1% of black people and 69.2% of Hispanic people

Research also shows that consuming 1,000 IU (25 mcg) daily would help 50% of people reach a vitamin D blood level of 33 ng/ml (82.4 nmol/l). Consuming 2,000 IU (50 mcg) daily would help nearly everyone reach a blood level of 33 ng/ml (82.4 nmol/l)

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-dosage#TOC_TITLE_HDR_3

I take 5000 IU most days.

I don't supplement with A. When the pandemic subsides, I'm going to get a thorough blood test, because that is really the only way to know if you have good nutrient levels.

Good to see you. Color here is fading and leaves falling...past mid-autumn for sure. Still not cold. Next week is due to be cooler 60s and 40s and dry.

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@Lookout I've been taking 1000IU daily but will increase to 2000. I'll also run this increase by my doctor next visit I have.

Thanks!

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To see where your levels are. As you may remember I'm a soil scientist not a doctor, so understand this is my best understanding.

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@Lookout
She was taking 5000 plus lots of milk plus multivitamin.

Her bone doctor (after test) said her levels were way to high and to stop supplements. She didn't want to do it so I suggested she drop to 1000 until her levels are okay then go to 2000. Doctor wanted her to stop entirely but she wasn't going to do it.

Doctors aren't always right. We had a GP who insisted we got all the vitamins we needed from our food. He NEVER asked us any questions about our diet! So how did he know? He assumed! The internist we see now is big on all sorts of annual blood tests. I concur. I want to see data!

In my experience, most US adults live on fatty meat and potatoes, either fried potatoes or mashed full of greasy gravy. No veggies, no fruit. I always eat both. My mother fed us lots of backyard grown veggies and fresh fruit. Reminds me of my daughter saying that cats pretty much eat what they had as kittens and don't want anything else. I always thought men were more like dogs that eat anything remotely meat-like, but maybe we are more like cats. She has six cats but has a mouse problem! I was surprised, but she said her cats readily catch mice but don't kill them. They play with them. "Cat and Mouse"? She says they have to be taught to kill and eat mice by their mother. She had a good mouser but one day it came home, vomited green fluid and died. Sounds like ethylene glycol to me.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

I don't count, but will only eat carbs like sweet potatoes and beans once or twice a week. We eat lots of garden veggies and local grown meats. I'll eat (and ferment) more fruit as my trees come into production.

What has helped me most is eating in a 4-6 hour window and fasting most of the time. Insulin is the key hormone IMO, and most people are hyperinsulinemic. We've been misled about diet.

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This number rises to a staggering 82.1% of black people and 69.2% of Hispanic people

Although those two groups are the ones I see mostly wearing their mask on mouth only. Whites generally don't wear it at all in lieu of wearing it wrong.
Starting to see clerks wearing it off the nose. They don't like being told to cover up either. I tend to not go back to those stores/restaurants.

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@Lookout Are intended for single use. The emergency back in March when supplies were critically low caused the PTB to decide you could disinfect and re-use them. Supplies are available now although at inflated prices. I would recommend a new mask for each outing or if unable to do that tracking and limiting number of uses.

Here is alink to the place I've been purchasing from they have many brands available

If you read the information carefully you can see that some of the NIOSH N-95 masks are made for medical use and some do not say that.
The expensive 3-M surgical masks they have for sale are the real thing.
I'm in the "mortal danger" if infected group and I use those when required.

FYI

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@jbob

They are pretty expensive at less than $20 each. My first one got so dirty I'm now using my second one (repeatedly) I hang it on my rear view mirror ready for outings. If we have visitors we stay outside and distanced.

https://n95maskco.com/collections/n95-masks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cVsWBfupE (10 min)

Just like a regular N95, such as this one that we use in the hospital, made by the company 3M, this mask will filter out particles as small as 0.3 microns. It’s also listed on the CDC’s website of NIOSH-Approved N95 Respirators. It’s also FDA approved. So what sets this mask apart from a regular N95 mask? Several things, actually. For one, it's much more comfortable to wear. You’ve probably seen pictures of health care workers with marks and lines and even bruising on their faces as a result of wearing N95s. And from my personal experience, they’re just not comfortable, especially for more than an hour or two of use. The company also claims that it can “inactivate up to 99.9% of particles within minutes,” So not only trapping viruses and bacteria but destroying them too.
This new KN95 Respokare mask has 4 layers, and the innermost layer is built of soft materials to ensure comfort during periods of long-wear, and is also water-resistant, which is also nice. On top of that are 3 more layers, that serve to not only trap fine particles, but one of the layers contains copper and zinc ions which serve to destruct viruses and bacteria. Also, the outermost layer has an acidic coating, creating a low pH environment, which helps to destroy viral and bacterial proteins.

Thanks for the tip and mask link... those are sure reasonably priced.

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the Devil's Brew, which is apple cider vinegar--Big Lots frequently has organic apple cider vinegar, with the mother in the bottle, in stock for prices under $10.--poured over chopped up one each of onion, jalapeno or other hot pepper, ginger root, at least one garlic clove, and spiked with your choice of herbs. I like oregano and rosemary. I also keep elderberry syrup on hand. One glug on mornings when you wake up with flueish symptoms can knock out an incipient cold for me.

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@Nastarana

elderberry tincture with similar effect. I tried the devils brew, but didn't stick with it. I'm using 2 Tsp vinegar, 1 Tsp pomegranate juice and 6+ oz water which is palatable to me.

Thanks for the visit and recipe!

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@Lookout to mention one chopped up lemon.

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@Nastarana

especially when fasting.

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@Nastarana

sounds like it would scare the devil out of your GI tract.
Also making ferments of cabbage, cukes, carrots and
whatever is available. Lot's of probiotics. No vinegar,
just salt and whey. Honey sometimes.

Airborne seems to keep the sniffles at bay.

Heal thyself

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@QMS to make fermenting work. I even bought a fancy German crock and still no luck.

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@Nastarana

i make sauerkraut.
https://homesteadandchill.com/super-simple-sauerkraut-recipe/

Tips, best to pick heavy and hard cabbages if possible, they make more brine, have more water content. Have read it's best to ferment for three weeks for ultimate probiodic creation.

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found it too much of a hassle
now do it in quart sized jars
1 head cabbage to 1/4 cup whey and 2 TBS salt
crushed down to make a couple quarts
fill with water and let set on counter 3 - 4 days
burp as needed, then refrigerate
good stuff

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@Nastarana It is likely to be either your water (chlorinated) or salt (iodized). The bugs don't like those ions so much. So, either filter your water or boil it and let sit, and use noniodized salt. The fermentation book I picked up highly recommends Redmond brand salt (mined in Utah). Best of luck.

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I'd like to add the behavior around, "Hillary won the Popular Vote by 3 million" to your list.

That endless refrain was another de-legitimizing tactic along with Russia Russia Russia.

On another topic, I removed the last flowerpot from my balcony on Sunday November 1. This is almost unbelievable if you've grown up and planted in the NE where floral bloom of annuals was usually from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Don't need a scientist to know which way the climate's going...

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@NYCVG

Climate chaos has arrived. The Arctic ice has been showing the case for years. No need for charts nor data tables. Just use your lying eyes.
2.5 min
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MhcPvX7enA]

I like this 6 min time lapse of glacial melt too.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzhT_7g0qpA]

I also agree with your "Hillary won the popular vote" meme.

Glad you came by this morning!

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@Lookout @Lookout
was a PBS radio interview with a biologist working for the City of Chicago. he was talking about parkway trees and mentioned that for a century at least the advice was to plant certain Northern tree species and not popular Southern varieties because of survivability, but now the long recommended varieties are doing poorly and the more southerly varieties are doing better. Also, amphibian and insect pests from Southern Illinois, hitherto unknown in Northern Illinois are becoming invasive.

I was trained as a physicist. Measurements of tenth's of a degree over centuries from weather stations all over the world of unknown accuracy leave me cold. Too much chance of experimental error. I remember one of my professors telling the class, "For years the standard way to get a grant from the Office of weights and measures was to do yet another measurement of the speed of light. Everyone got the accepted answer to great precision. Then an electrical engineer in great Britain came up with a better method using wave guides that was slightly different. he was opposed for a long time because he was "only an engineer", but now that is the accepted value and every lab applying for a grant finds that value to great precision." i.e. scientists are human beings. they lie. But bugs and frogs and trees know nothing about climate change or human controversy. Nature reacts to reality. The Northward march of species is incontrovertible evidence for climate change. Whether anthropomorphic or not, is another question, but to deny change is stupid and or venal.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

And when they are disproved have a hard time admitting it. As you say they are human.

I had an ag engineering prof who claimed there was no way humans could effect climate. It was too big a system and we were too puny in our abilities. If he was still alive, I believe he would reconsider his erroneous position.

I did learn a good deal of water management from him. Good and bad in us all. Look for the good. Minimize the bad.

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@Lookout for a very juicy and important discussion.

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pressured to accept defeat had the results gone the other way?

Why should Trump concede any sooner?

Oh the hypocrisy!

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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@TheOtherMaven

For one thing our need to impose democracy on democratic countries like Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc. while buddying up with dictatorships like Saudi Arabia as one of the more obvious ones.

Didn't the $hill tell Byedone not to concede?

Thanks for taking time to add your valid comment!

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He'd have conceded by Thursday, the 6th, 9 days ago.

I understand that we all hate the Dems but sometimes, I think, it gets to the point where we wish the worst for them, ignoring how horrifying the Repubs are. The D and R candidates are pretty much all monsters. Personally I think the Rs are worse, thus get rid of Trump, then get rid of Biden. I have no more use for Biden. I'm looking into the People's Party. I don't know if that's the answer but it deserves a look.

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@Shahryar

Unfortunately, it is the dim way. And, I agree the repugs are more caustic.

Why did the dims approve all the RW judges? Same reason they passed all the MIC inflated budgets. To make more money...I'm sad to say.

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Thanks Lookout for this week’s edition of the Weekly Watch. Especially enjoyed watching the video of Aromath Farm and how this French farmer and his family took a third of an acre and joyfully turned it into a food producing farm. Most notable was his comment on how using composting instead of tilling made everything grow. Yay composting!

As far as the political stuff, well, Russiagate certainly paved the way for Republicans to turn the tables right back on the Democrats, didn’t it? Can’t say I’m all that surprised but I’m pretty sure the Dems will use this to tell us X, Y and Z can’t happen. Or what ever other narrative they make up to absolve themselves from doing nothing legislatively to improve regular people’s lives. Round and round we go.

Which curiously pivots into the next thing but not the way you might expect:

“Some thing or essence that cannot be explained by anything else other than act of doing or experiencing it. Words and ideas of intellect seem to fall short to the apparent deeper truth that is revealed by this authentic poetry in motion.”

A lot to dig into with the video on Taoism, but that quote seemed to distill it for me in a way that rings very true. Although as someone who uses their words to make a living, hopefully people needing my services don’t catch on. Lol. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the link you provided so much, I cued up a documentary about “The Art of Effortless Living” in my YouTube channel that I plan to watch later today.

Hope you all have a great Sunday!

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

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@Anja Geitz
...in that same series.

Ever since I learned about the Great Yu and his use of water I've been fascinated. After reading Siddhartha in my youth. I saw the river as a metaphor of life.

Hesse uses the potent symbol of a river to convey this sense of vibrancy and flux. The particular brilliance of this novel is the way in which its profound message is delivered through a prose that flows as naturally and shimmeringly as the surface of the river beside which Siddhartha spends the final years of his life.

However Yu the Great took it a step farther using the flow of water to shape canals, irrigation systems, flood protections that still function today thousands of years later. He is thought to have been one of the creators of Taoism.

At any rate, glad you liked them. I do too.

The no till market gardeners mostly use the compost method of bed creation. We added manure and then mulched our beds last week. It will compost over winter and be ready to plant into next spring. A minimum work approach.

Good to see you this morning. Thanks for dropping by!

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In a poll from Feb. of 2018, 67% of Democrats believed that Putin tampered with votes in the 2016 election.
☛ Matt Stoller on Twitter
This reminds me that, in 2003, 70% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.
Note that in neither case, Putin altering votes or Saddam attacking the Twin Towers, was that explicit claim made by government or media. Bush and Rumsfeld even specifically denied that Saddam was involved in the attacks. ☛ CBS News
It made no difference.
It's a lesson in how propaganda works. You just keep hammering away, mentioning "Saddam" and "9/11" or "Putin" and "meddling" in the same story again and aqain and again and the public will draw the desired conclusion by themselves.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgBxfHdb4OU&feature=emb_logo width:500 height:300]
Taibbi and Halper had Thomas Frank on Useful Idiots. I really enjoyed it. You can skip to around the 25 min. mark to get just the interview.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snF6cBPMmU4 width:500 height:300]

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

I caught Thomas last week with Paul Jay (video and transcript)

I wish Matt and Katie had transcripts too.

I re-read Aaron Mate's piece and embedded the link above but here it is easy to see.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/11/15/the_brennan_...

Whatta scam. As you say just like the Iraq WMD scam. And now like the election fraud. Set up for continuous conflict so that no one noticed the real destruction the US is leveling around the world.

Well, thanks again. Always appreciate your useful additions!

Edit to add:
Jut finished the Idiots podcast. Thanks I really enjoyed it. Great conversation.

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@Lookout
Here's the a new one from Caitlin Johnstone, very good:
This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps

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The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

Like the line about Ginger Rodgers...She wore high heels and danced backwards.

I still recall Thatcher's militarism. Too bad he didn't appoint Tulsi Sec of defense.

Thanks for the Caity link!

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@Azazello tokenism. A woman or minority allowed into the higher ranks of organizations. The unstated proviso was "be like one of the boys."

GWB's right hand was a black woman (his left hand was Cheney). Trump's CIA chief is a woman. Obama and Clinton had scads of women and minority top and close advisors. Yet, US foreign and domestic policies continue to issue from the Reagan playbook.

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@Azazello

That RS video with Tom Frank is really good. Long, but worth it. Too bad the Democrats won't listen to him. Except simply listening to him wouldn't really do any good. They'd have to change their hearts first. Not likely; the money's too good. Or so it would seem.

Always amazes me how interviews with Thomas Frank have me laughing with him the whole way through, even though the subject matter is deadly serious. Frank said it best, the only way to stay sane is to look at it as if you're just an observer.

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is scary, and will be in the judiciary for decades to come.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WEALCaOcg]

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to the Rev Mel White about the Christian Right, "a homegrown fascist movement," which has been organizing to take political power for decades, and during the Trump administration seized senior positions in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. A move violating US Constitutional powers of separation of church and state.
Hedges in his book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America states there are 70 million evangelicals in the United States, representing about 25 percent of the population, attending more than 200,000 evangelical churches. Polls indicate that about 40 percent of respondents believe in the Bible as the "actual word of God," and that it is "to be taken literally, word for word."
The Rev. Mel White, is author of Religion Gone Bad: Hidden Dangers from the Christian Right.

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Does anyone know the name of this colorful plant?

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@Anja Geitz

Especially western ones. Sorry, no help here.

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@Anja Geitz the picture taken? Also what time of year? That is colorful foliage, not flowers, am I right?

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Mary Bennett

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@Nastarana

In the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. It’s not a flower. Those are leaves from a plant.

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@Anja Geitz

They're bred for showy, often brightly colored, leaves.

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@Anja Geitz  
The commentariat at NC is really good at identifying plants.

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If you love your country, you will point out its flaws and work to make it better. Jingoistic exceptionalism proves nothing except the limitations of the person espousing it.

Great essay. Keep up the good work.

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@edg

if you really love your country you are willing to criticize.

Sadly I think we've gone off the cliff, but maybe there's hope with the people's party. In a similar effort in the UK they are creating a Workers party which is a good bit more socialist in nature. Both are interesting efforts though.

Glad you came by. Be well!

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That is really a great piece of art by Mr. Fish.

What is patriotism. It has been said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", but many have observed that it is more like the first. It also seems more and more conflated with Nationalism, but that is another matter.

“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”

-- Ambrose Bierce.

I tend to prefer George Bernard Shaw as more to the crux of the matter:

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I'm not sure how much it is a US thing, nor how recently it arose, nor whether the media and advertising somehow caused it, but our language and expressions have become absurdly infantile with respect certain emotion laden words; "I love ice-cream, the Yankees, Oreos, Bullwinkle, Doritos, Nikes, etc." and "I hate brocolli, the Red Sox, rye bread, Grey's Anatomy, Marcel Proust, Nikes, etc." WTF? Really? And, of course, the USA, love it or leave it, fer sure.

What is the US? 50 states? An empire? A Democracy? An Oligarchy? I submit that it is, today, almost entirely myth. There is a narrative, a mythological history and mythological basis and foundation, a mythological set of ideals and motives and the like. I really cannot speak as to the wisdom of some sort of emotional attachment to a myth, but will assert that rejection of the reality of a myth is not tantamount to "hate". One cannot learn from history if one does not first learn history, and, with that goal and aim in mind, it behooves us to expose and tear down the myth, supplanting it with historical reality to the extent that we are able to ferret out said historical reality.

be well and have a good one

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Lookout's picture

@enhydra lutris

corporate oligarchy. As I often parrot, the corporate capture is complete. Another common rant I harp on is the "pandemic managed for profit". Did you hear about the Pfizer CEO sell his stock after the vaccine announcement. I'm not happy about it. But like the title of the this weekly...I accept defeat.

I'm hiding in the holler and gardening. Well, I am helping the peoples party with little real hope. Wish I could be more proactive and positive but ....

Thanks for the visit and comment. Hope all is well with you and yours there on the left coast.

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@Lookout to suggest get your seeds ordered quickly. Baker Creek is selling out their 2021 inventory almost as soon as it gets posted on line. Many of their interesting rarities are already OOS. I got the Pinetree catalogue yesterday, ordered last night what I thought I HAD to have. MI Gardener and Fedco are not taking orders yet, MIGardener has raised prices from $.99 to $2; Luke, their proprietor, has a video up at youtube about the state of the seed market. Normally I would wait for those two, but not this year.

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@Nastarana

I like to use https://www.southernexposure.com/ They are a coop centered on a commune. I would love to visit them at some point.

Thanks for your good advice! Though we do save some seed, I almost always order new things to try. Wrote a piece on seeds awhile back for those with an interest.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/weekly-watch-110

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@Lookout but I need varieties appropriate for a cold climate.

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@Nastarana Territorial Seed company and
Nichols Garden Nursery
Search on Pacific Northwest seed companies. Lots to look at. So much fun.

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A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.

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Love the salad harvester in the French farm clip. Neat.

Take 5,000 d3, 30-50mg zinc, lots of b's, drink vinegar with mother, c on occasion plus, unfortunately, a host of prescribed meds for the comorbidities.

Did i mention alcohol, lots of that on occasion, too; like last evening, boy what a hang-over today; paying the piper for my over-indulging.

Have been fortunate to have 3m's N95's, but am running low. Don't really go out much, drive-thru for most things. No plans for the holidays. Not going to return to the ski mountain this winter; will miss playing Santa on skis and the children and my long-time students, but it's not going to be a safe environment covid-wise.

The quote below brought a smile:

For the Rev. Franklin Graham, the scathing editorial in Christianity Today last year calling his friend Donald Trump “a leader of grossly immoral character” and urging that Trump be “removed from office” was heretical.

To Graham, it was bad enough to read such an attack on Trump. But the insult was compounded by the fact that Christianity Today had been founded by his recently deceased father, Billy Graham, the revered evangelist often called America’s Pastor. So Franklin fired back at the magazine with a powerful riposte to his millions of social media followers:

"I hadn’t shared who my father @BillyGraham voted for in 2016 but because of @CTMagazine’s article, I felt it necessary share now. My father knew [Trump], believed in him & voted for him. He believed Donald J. Trump was the man for this hour in the history for our nation."

That was too much for another Billy Graham descendant, his grandson Aram Tchividjian. In a response to his uncle’s post, Tchividjian wrote with withering sarcasm:

I’ll never forget that day in 2016 when my grandfather @BillyGraham, shrugged off the symptoms of Parkinson’s and hydrocephalus, got up out of bed for the first time in a year, drove down to the polling station, and cast his vote. What a glorious memory!

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@smiley7

Hope the real estate deal is going down with ease!

I hate the COVID changes but we need to hold the course through this winter. Vaccines do loom on the horizon, perhaps becoming wide spread next summer. None the less I wonder what a "new' normal will look like. I know I'll be glad to resume our music sessions!

Well, best of luck with all your business. Stay well and be as healthy as possible. I try and fail to limit my drinking to two glasses of wine.

Edit to add: The drill driven harvester is common on market gardens here too.
https://www.farmersfriend.com/products/harvest
Ain't cheap. For home use hand harvesting is fine. Commercial production is another story.

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@smiley7

Funny story about Franklin Graham, as it, were it even true, it would mean anything whatsoever in the face of Trumps actual behavior. Billy wasn't some sort of saint or perfect judge of character, and argumentum ad hominem is still a fallacy, even for putative xtians.

Take care of yourself. Good luck on the RE front.

be well and have a good one.

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@enhydra lutris

to get a low down on all them preachers. Reminds me of this piece.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aV0d4AfEkw]

Have a good one!

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@Lookout

classic:

be wewll and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris

good to see you.

Yep as Billy Jr's headquarters is in our community, the quote from a family member is delicious. They won't allow me in the compound to do a story, but a few years back, an editor friend of mine did an interview with jr. His recollection of inside the highrise was of beautiful young women dressed to the tee waiting on jr, uzzi carrying guards, a private chef and so on; all so very out of place in the else-wise beautiful high mountain valley.

Grifter extraordinaire.

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@smiley7 be well and have a good one

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@smiley7

On social media. Hahahaha!

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and all

Thanks for the roundup. Facism and racism vs war and more war. fuckthisshit. and furthermore and moreover...

yes to d - 5k/day, c, zinc, magnesium glycinate. all good.

I would add again, shallots. I T raw w banana or pomegranate or whatever. Really takes down the mucus and temp, clears cough.

Out to the garden finishing the dispersion chamber. Adding flagstones to the edges and then planting long bladed sedge around the edge and juncus and fortnight lily on the edges where the water will flow. dayum. good stuff. thanks for all ya do buddy. really appreciate it. Take good care.

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@magiamma

After a day of teaching you have no idea what if anything you accomplished. Building and growing things gives you almost instant gratification. It drives that feedback so you do more...a lot like art too. Despite the falling empire we can have some fulfillment.

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[video:https://youtu.be/XcgS6Z8Arn0]

I am still listening to it and it deals with the voter fraud in detail, a fraud against the voters. Mass purge of votes from voters of color... may be of interest to you as you are all inside those issues.

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@mimi
I'll check that out. Nobody knows election fraud better than Greg IMO.

Embedded above is another great push back conversation with Max and Aaron that was good.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AWTYGZnkvk]

Hope you're having a nice day. Beautiful here. All the best!

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@Lookout
as Max Blumenthal looked sickly and very tired.

I just wish and hope that you all stay healthy and sheltered.

Have a good remainder of the Sunday. We had a sunny beautiful fall day here, all the leaves are almost fallen down, I raked them all and all their beautiful colors are sitting in big bags in my car waiting to be hauled away to the recycling center.

Stay sacked ...
[video:https://youtu.be/N3VDATV6dmY]

From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar
When the dawn begins to crack, it's all part of my autumn almanac
Breeze blows leaves of a musty-colored yellow
So I sweep them in my sack, yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac
Friday evenings, people get together
Hiding from the weather, tea and toasted
Buttered currant buns, can't compensate
For lack of sun because the summer's all gone
La la la la, oh my poor rheumatic back
Yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac
La la la la, oh my autumn almanac
Yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac
I like my football on a Saturday
Roast beef on Sundays, all right
I go to Blackpool for my holidays
Sit in the open sunlight
This is my street and I'm never gonna to leave it
And I'm always gonna to stay here if I live to be ninety-nine
'Cause all the people I meet, seem to come from my street
And I can't get away because it's calling me, come on home
Hear it calling me, come on home
La la la la, oh my autumn almanac
Yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac
La la la la, oh my autumn almanac
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
Bop bop bop bop bop, whoa
Bop bop bop bop bop, whoa

Smile

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@mimi

I would be tired too. Especially traveling during COVID.

Thanks for the Kinks. Used to listen to them in my youth.

Glad you had a nice day.

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researching a case for purposes of defeating a claim against my clients on a specific theory. They absolutely can.
The problem is, if my clients absolutely do not owe Party X, they will absolutely clear the way for Party Y to kick their butts.
I put the file away, explained to my client that my hands are tied, he is in real jeopardy, and we need to calmly mediate a settlement.
So, my pot roast is in the oven, time to have some beer, read up on some of these interesting links!
One good thing about gardening I managed this week is to save the last pear from an aged, heritage pear tree. The seed will be planted, I will have the sweetest pears around. The tree is approximately 75 years old, and those pears would be impossible to find now.

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@on the cusp

to preserve old varieties. Had a friend back in college that was into heritage apple varieties. Wish that we had all those different genotypes growing here. Grateful for the few varieties that I do have.

Hope all is well in your garden and your new building is progressing toward completion!

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...or the dirt clod it sits on. I cannot even imagine what that might feel like. I’m not indigenous to these lands. I felt a connection to the ground only once. I was in a garden in Paris wandering alone, when I was gripped by a sensation of profound belonging, as if I was standing on the bones of my ancestors. I felt the future, too. I wonder if Native Americans have that feeling under their feet? I hope they do.

I would not lift a finger to "fight" for it. I cannot imagine why anyone would do that. It's a delusional application. As far as I know, no other nation has bothered to come here — in the middle of nowhere — to take this dirt clod away from the white people who committed genocide to live on it. I have no idea why people have fought in US wars, other than conscription. The Ruling Class tricked them into throwing their lives away for nothing. Nobody is trying to take this cursed country away from them.

There are things about American culture that I really like. The culture is much too short and local to have any anthropoligical significance. It’s flying by the seat of its pants and improvising along the way. But it is driven by instincts that reveal an amazing spirit of decency and fellowship at its core. The diversity of the American gene pool produces an abundance of talent, although most if it is untapped and undeveloped. (In my mind, I connect this resource to the rate of incarceration in the US.) The role of the artist is to tap into the spiritual interface, and use what they find there to produce works that can transform and evolve the culture and the people in it. The "spiritual interface" — for lack of a better term — has been dormant for awhile now. New art trends toward the post modern and trite. You can hear it in the music.

Mostly, I feel terrible for Americans, stumbling around with their brain injuries, struggling to be a part of something that has meaning. American culture and politics have long been scripted virtual realities. The faux democracy is constructed like a gaming maze. People run the same commercially sponsored maze over and over again, year after year. Each time they are in the maze, people are convinced the maze is going to end in a different way. They vote over and over again thinking that it will chance the trajectory they are on. The more they interface with this process, the more their life force is diminished.

I don't want them to wake up from the trance of their daily lives, because they do not wake up with their critical faculties intact. They cannot process the parts of reality they do see, so they patch it together in a fragmented dream, glossing over the illogical gaps. Ultimately, they bind themselves to a demagogue narrative filled with demons and traitors and foreign enemies. They embrace illogical plots that seem to be working against them personally. It's so sad. They find solidarity with the psychopaths who walk amongst us, and become addicted to the intoxicating neuroproteins produced by hate.

Livestock should never be awakened into the anguish of awareness. They should never be exposed to realities that they cannot understand or accept. They are the meek and the blessed. They produce the laborers and the occasional rare talent every culture needs. They are the tiny tribes and wandering herds that carried Homo sapiens across a million years of evolution into the present.

Unfortunately, science and technology bloomed much too early in this species. This magic arrived while this species was still transiting the fantastic narratives of its own primitive religions. This was a fatal error: A half-baked species with the technology to poison the planet, who also have a profound belief in divine intervention. Their greedy reptilian brains continue to express the ancient proteins that assure them there is a god who loves them and watches over them. They are saved! They are free to surrender to god the responsibility for their horrific sins against nature. Again and again, their God forgives them.

I understand and accept this defeat

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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Lookout's picture

@Pluto's Republic

So dead on in so many ways.

I am lucky to be connected to the mountain and my little piece of it. You put yourself into building a home, barn, garden,... homestead. It has its own positive feedback loop.

During my teaching career I suggested having the kids in rows of desks was setting them up for a life in the factory line or in the case of my teaching community a life in the sock mill. I had my kids at tables in teams solving problems. Some have told me it changed their lives. Others have said they didn't like my scene. You reach those you can. We are called to play the tune we hear.

Thanks for your insightful comment!

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@Pluto's Republic give you many thumbs up for that comment.
A really well written, righteous statement.

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@Pluto's Republic

Your entire comment is appreciated.

Livestock should never be awakened into the anguish of awareness. They should never be exposed to realities that they cannot understand or accept. They are the meek and the blessed. They produce the laborers and the occasional rare talent every culture needs. They are the tiny tribes and wandering herds that carried Homo sapiens across a million years of evolution into the present.

I truly hope that we wake up to a more achievable future that presents us with more favourable opportunities.

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for balancing opposing perspectives on current events and future possibilities.

Maybe we can find comfort in unexpected places. This piece placed me in that mode ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/11/these-friends-write-h...

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great concept Janis.
Have been feeling adrift since my lifelong
friend died. It comes and goes. In tonight's dream space we were fiddling around with
wallpaper. Several other characters were doing other things.

Our emails back and forth were very strengthening, having shared so many values
while growing up. Sharing photos, music, stories, jokes and news. Sort of like here.

Thanks for the link Janis!

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@QMS

with heartfelt and fun memories.

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@QMS

let sentences go
keep the important directions
at the heart of things

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some here
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getting shy to post
encouragement helps

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@QMS

some here
find my lines disagreeable

I look forward to reading them.
Makes me think on another level.

So, thank-you.

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@janis b

but have not written one in years. The daily exchange is a great idea to keep friendships alive in this time of isolation. Thanks for the link.

Always appreciate your visit. Thanks for reading the WW.

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@Lookout

daily exchange is
what helps keep friendship alive
in isolation

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Lookout. I enjoyed the French family farm video and, as smiley noted, that is a cool machine that picks the greens. I would not be able to rationalize spending money on it but picking greens is labor intensive and time consuming. I've often thought how nice it would be to speed up the process.

I'll work my way through some of your offerings here throughout the week. Much appreciated.

I have fenugreek and calendula to plant today. I tried sowing the seeds for both earlier in September but did not have much luck, so will try again. The weather is great here although we need some of that rain you have been getting. Have a good one.

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@randtntx

very dry for November, a normally wet month. No rain due till maybe next week.

What can I say? Chaos reigns supreme?

Really doesn't matter what I say it is a chaotic future we face.

Thanks for dropping by!

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