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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
The Poet: Theodore Roethke, “The Geranium”
“The Geranium”
“When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,
She looked so limp and bedraggled,
So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,
Or a wizened aster in late September,
I brought her back in again
For a new routine -
Vitamins, water, and whatever
Sustenance seemed sensible
At the time: she’d lived
So long on gin, bobbie pins, half-smoked cigars, dead beer,
Her shriveled petals falling
On the faded carpet, the stale
Steak grease stuck to her fuzzy leaves.
(Dried-out, she creaked like a tulip.)
The things she endured!
The dumb dames shrieking half the night
Or the two of us, alone, both seedy,
Me breathing booze at her,
She leaning out of her pot toward the window.
Near the end, she seemed almost to hear me -
And that was scary -
So when that snuffling cretin of a maid
Threw her, pot and all, into the trash-can,
I said nothing.
But I sacked the presumptuous hag the next week,
I was that lonely.”
- Theodore Roethke
"I Can't Convince Myself..."
“I can’t convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.”
- Kenneth Smith
“If you want to tell people the truth,
make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
- Oscar Wilde
"Fate. Luck. Chance."
“That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics. Fate. Luck. Chance.”
- Kelseyleigh Reber
“Unless, of course, there’s no such thing as chance… in which case, we should either - optimistically - get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might - as pessimists - give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought-decision-action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?”
- Salman Rushdie
Gregory Mannarino, "US Dollar Tumbles! 10-Year Yield Falls! Inflation Continues To Rise"
Gregory Mannarino, 11/15/22:
"US Dollar Tumbles! 10-Year Yield Falls!
Inflation Continues To Rise"
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"Strange Prices At Meijer! Get It Before It's Gone!"
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Adventures with Danno, 11/15/22:
"Strange Prices At Meijer! Get It Before It's Gone!"
"In today's vlog we are at Meijer, and are noticing some strange price increases! We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"
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"Fourth Turning Winter Of Death" (Excerpt)
"Fourth Turning Winter Of Death"
by Jim Quinn
Excerpt: “Reflect on what happens when a terrible winter blizzard strikes. You hear the weather warning but probably fail to act on it. The sky darkens. Then the storm hits with full fury, and the air is a howling whiteness. One by one, your links to the machine age break down. Electricity flickers out, cutting off the TV. Batteries fade, cutting off the radio. Phones go dead. Roads become impossible, and cars get stuck. Food supplies dwindle. Day to day vestiges of modern civilization – bank machines, mutual funds, mass retailers, computers, satellites, airplanes, governments – all recede into irrelevance.
Picture yourself and your loved ones in the midst of a howling blizzard that lasts several years. Think about what you would need, who could help you, and why your fate might matter to anybody other than yourself. That is how to plan for a saecular winter. Don’t think you can escape the Fourth Turning. History warns that a Crisis will reshape the basic social and economic environment that you now take for granted.”
– Strauss & Howe, "The Fourth Turning"
"It was less than a year ago on December 16, 2021 when our dementia patient in chief was instructed by his handlers to lie, obfuscate and demonize critical thinking Americans who refused to become victims of the Big Pharma, Fauci promoted, untested, unsafe, ineffective gene therapy by declaring “we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated — for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm”. Biden’s vaccine mandates were overturned in the courts. The unvaccinated did not die from Covid. Very few people died from Covid. Some really old and infirm people on death’s doorstep died with Covid. Some very unhealthy obese people died with Covid. But even 95% of the old and unhealthy survived Covid.
Virtually no one under 70 years old died from Covid. Biden was lying. Fauci was lying. Walensky was lying. Gates was lying. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was lying. Their paid-off medical industry was lying. Their highly compensated corporate legacy media talking heads were lying. Captured politicians were lying. The entire Covid scheme was nothing more than weaponizing the annual flu through fear propaganda, a billion-dollar advertising campaign, and enacting totalitarian measures on the world as part of the Great Reset Build Back Better New World Order plot orchestrated by our globalist oligarch overlords.
Every Fourth Turning has its own dynamics, chaotic current, political nuances, general confusion, antagonists, and event driven upheaval. We are currently in the 14th year of this Crisis and Biden’s predicted winter of death for the unvaccinated didn’t happen and death and illness is striking down the vaxxed in far greater numbers than the unvaxxed. The perpetrators of the pandemic exercise to see how far people of the developed world could be pushed, abused, and turned into subservient vassals of the state are now demanding amnesty for themselves and their co-conspirators, as the consequences of their murderous escapades become impossible to cover-up and conceal.
Real data from the real world, not from their skewed manipulated models, is piling up, and despite the media’s tireless efforts to ignore, censor, and misinform, the truth is seeping out through the diligent digging of those who were right from the very outset of this scamdemic.
The complete and utter failure of these so-called vaccines has been evident from the very outset, as infections, hospitalizations, and deaths increased after the vaccines were rolled out as the savior of all mankind. The vaccines performed so atrociously the CDC had to change the definition of vaccine in order to obscure what a failure they proved to be. The narrative police can obfuscate and attempt to revise history, but the lies are all documented and available for anyone to see and hear."
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"The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the
greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world."
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"Genocide Is Their End Game“
Excerpt: "In a nutshell, they are to cull a large percentage of the human race and to turn the survivors into a completely controlled army of slaves who own nothing and are dictated to and tracked, traced and monitored 24/7 everywhere, even inside their own homes, which of course they will no longer own. It only starts to make sense when you understand that everything that has happened and is happening is due to a meticulously planned and sinister plot being implemented by the narrow clique of gangsters who now control our world.”
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You do want to at least know how and why you and everyone
else who took the "vaccine" bioweapon will die, don't you?
George Galloway, Gonzalo Lira, “After Kherson”
George Galloway, Gonzalo Lira, 11/15/22:
“After Kherson”
"For the optics and the propadanda Kherson is a loss, but militarily speaking it isn’t, says Gonzalo Lira. The Russians need fewer troops to defend the new line on the Dnieper. It allows Russia to redeploy its crack troops from just holding empty ground."
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“One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Ukraine's walking into the mother of all cauldrons...
Once the ground's frozen in a few weeks this will end very rapidly.
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Little does he want to know, but he will...
Monday, November 14, 2022
Canadian Prepper, "Holy S$!%@, He Just Confirmed WW3, Prepare For Chaos!"
Canadian Prepper, 11/14/22:
"Holy S$!%@, He Just Confirmed WW3,
Prepare For Chaos!"
"Well, Biden just confirmed that war with China is right around the corner."
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"Empty Shelves, Severe Shortages And Explosive Prices Are Ahead In The Winter Of 2022"
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"Empty Shelves, Severe Shortages And Explosive
Prices Are Ahead In The Winter Of 2022"
by Epic Economist
"Winter is only a few weeks away and the overall mood of the nation is already becoming increasingly sour. It feels like food supply chain problems never seem to end. Unfortunately, millions of Americans will soon have even more reasons to be stressed about. As we head into the colder months, a historically bad harvest season means that our store shelves will become emptier than they already are, shortages will become more widespread, and prices of many food products are about to explode in many supermarkets all across the country. We must take this crisis seriously, folks. More disruptions continue to emerge in our food systems, and this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering for our population.
This holiday season is expected to significantly exacerbate the shortages we’re seeing at grocery stores. According to the Wall Street Journal, new disruptions are popping up every week as grocers battle supply chain challenges that some executives said are “as bad as what they saw in spring 2020 when hoarding left holes in stocks of some staples”.
“Industry insiders say new problems are arising weekly, driven by shortages of labor and commodities. Groceries remain scarce as some food companies anticipate product stockouts lasting into 2023. The supply of a wide range of goods is running short and logistical challenges are compounding for many retailers,” the report exposed.
At this point, grocery stores are rushing to ensure supplies and ordering more food like crazy. But there are so many companies trying to do the same at the same time that even the largest U.S. food distributors simply cannot fulfill all of the orders. A recent Bloomberg report reveals that distribution giant Sysco, North America’s largest wholesale food distributor, is turning away customers in some areas where demand is exceeding capacity. The company is “reporting difficulties in fulfilling orders as shortages weigh on the supply chain.”
Sysco CEO Kevin Hourican says people should brace for another round of price increases and that food inflation is about to soar even higher: “The prices for key goods such as chicken, pork and meat are climbing amid tight supplies. And if intermediate and final wholesale prices are rising, just wait until they emerge on the consumer side,” he said.
The problem of widespread food shortages is a result of many failures in the chain of supply, and one of the most recent catalysts to this crisis is the ongoing diesel crisis, which has prices soaring and reserves rapidly drying up.
The executive director of the Soy Transportation Coalition, Mike Steenhoek, says that after visiting a number of farmers, the consensus is that diesel costs are hurting their profit margins, as well as their day-to-day operations, and they also warn that our domestic agricultural production has been particularly hard hit by this crisis over the past year, causing harvests to fall well below expectations.
In fact, the USDA just reported that levels of corn, wheat, and soybeans hit their lowest level in almost a decade. Similarly, a new exposé released by The Guardian uncovered that U.S. farmers experienced some of the toughest farming conditions in decades as a once-in-a-millennium megadrought combined with higher fertilizer and diesel prices, and resulted in losses exceeding $2 billion.
On top of all that, food inflation is predicted to hit between 15% and 20% this winter. Data from the American Farm Bureau Federation shows grocery bills are rising at a much faster pace than what consumers can pay, with 76% of Americans saying their family has changed how they buy food due to the relentless rise in prices.
The era that is ahead of us is going to be devastating for our nation. If you don’t have a plan yet to survive the challenges we’re about to face, you should probably make one now because, as the experts said, more problems “are arising weekly”."
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Musical Interlude: 2002, “Challenge From Heaven”
Full screen mode recommended.
2002, “Challenge From Heaven”
"A Very Deep Look to the Heavens"
"The Hubble Deep Field:
The Most Important Image Ever Taken"
"In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it."- YouTube/NASA
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"It helps to put things in perspective here on our frenetic little planet with a look at this extraordinarily powerful and moving video of the Hubble Space Telescope mapping of the Universe, whose known size is 78 billion light years across. The video of the images is the equivalent of using a "time machine" to look into the past to witness the early formation of galaxies, perhaps less than one billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang.
The video includes mankind's deepest, most detailed optical view of the universe called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). One of the stunning images was assembled from 342 separate exposures taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) for ten consecutive days. Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the HDF image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime located 75 feet away. Though the field is a very small sample of the heavens, it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space because the universe, statistically, looks largely the same in all directions. Gazing into this small field, Hubble uncovered a bewildering assortment of at least 1,500 galaxies at various stages of evolution.
Most of the galaxies are so faint (nearly 30th magnitude or about four-billion times fainter than can be seen by the human eye) they have never before been seen by even the largest telescopes. Some fraction of the galaxies in this menagerie probably date back to nearly the beginning of the universe. "The variety of galaxies we see is amazing. In time these Hubble data could turn out to be the double helix of galaxy formation. We are clearly seeing some of the galaxies as they were more than ten billion years ago, in the process of formation," said Robert Williams, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland. "As the images have come up on our screens, we have not been able to keep from wondering if we might somehow be seeing our own origins in all of this."
- http://www.dailygalaxy.com/
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"A Universe of 2 Trillion Galaxies"
"In 2016, a study published in The Astrophysical Journal and led by Christopher Conselice of the University of Nottingham using 3D modeling of images collected over 20 years by the Hubble Space Telescope concluded that there are more than two trillion galaxies in the observable universe."
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"In this galaxy, there's a mathematical probability of three billion Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe, 2 trillion galaxies like this. And in all of that... and perhaps more, only one of each of us."
- "Dr. Leonard McCoy"
Gregory Mannarino, "Alert: Three Things Are About To Happen, And It's Already Starting!"
Gregory Mannarino, PM 11/14/22:
"Alert: Three Things Are About To Happen,
And It's Already Starting!"
Douglas Macgregor, "War in Ukraine: Quiet Before the Storm?"
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Douglas Macgregor, 11/14/22:
"War in Ukraine: Quiet Before the Storm?"
"Seventeen-Year Locusts and Eighty-Year Wokists"
"Seventeen-Year Locusts and Eighty-Year Wokists"
by Jeff Thomas
"The critter in the photo above is an entomologic marvel. The seventeen-year locust (or cicada) appears on the American continent like clockwork every seventeen years. As soon as a locust is born, it burrows in the ground and appears to hibernate for seventeen years. When it emerges, it lives only four to six weeks – just long enough to devastate crops, lay a new batch of eggs, and start the cycle again.
But, whilst underground, they’re not actually hibernating. They are, in fact, active in a wingless nymph form, feeding on sap and tree roots. They’re building their strength for their periodic devastation. The danger that they present to humanity is that, when they emerge, they do so collectively, and their cumulative damage is often epic.
But enough of entomologic lessons. Those who read this publication are more concerned with a destruction created by mankind – the rise of a class of humans that seeks to destroy all that has been achieved in the last several generations.
We call them the Elites, the Globalists, the Deep State, etc. The moniker we give them matters little; it’s their nature that’s of significance. They‘ve been building their power base for generations and are now powerful enough to transform the world. They are a class of parasite that has now managed to take over entire governments. And along the way, they’ve sought to take over the minds of the peoples of the world. "Woke" consciousness has become the mindset of a significant percentage of First Worlders that defies all logic.
"War is peace; Freedom is slavery; Ignorance is strength." So spoke George Orwell in 1948, in his predictive novel, "1984." And so it is with wokeism. Whatever was perceived as truth only a few years ago is being presented as falsehood and is being replaced by a new "truth"- the opposite of the old truth. As Orwell observed, the purpose is to create so much confusion amongst the hoi polloi that they literally no longer know which way is up. They’d fear pointing to the "up" that they once accepted, as they’re unsure whether a swarm of wokeists might descend upon them, regaling them… removing their freedoms as punishment.
But interestingly, this is nothing new. Mankind has experienced similar plagues of sociopathic behaviour for millennia. The last one took place in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It began in Germany, which was hopelessly broke at that time, with no hope of economic recovery, as they had an oppressive hundred-year reparation bill hanging over them – a bill that had been handed to them under the Treaty of Versailles.
Yet, somehow, this economically-devastated country suddenly received a massive infusion of wealth – countless armament factories were built, producing state-of-the-art airplanes, howitzers, tanks, and all other items of military use. Although this has not been noted in the history books, the massive funding necessary for this military buildup came from Wall Street and the City of London – from the globalists of the day, who sought to rule, first Europe, through German might, then Asia, then beyond.
The effort failed. The globalists had spent decades building up their wealth and power and had set in motion their bid for world domination, but they overestimated their own power, and they underestimated the likelihood that the rest of the world’s population would turn on them in a unified way. They were beaten, but not destroyed. They threw a few German generals to the dogs at the Nuremberg show trials, and the world, satisfied that "justice" had been done, moved on. The world then turned its attention to normal productivity.
In essence, the globalists went underground and, for eighty years, built up their strength for the next attempt at world dominance. Those who are students of history shake their heads and ask, "How can it be that this is happening again? How is it possible that the globalists have been allowed to once again assume power? How did we forget the lesson of World War II?
Well, the answer is that we’ve passed through a historic saeculum – a periodically recurring problem that even Plato and Aristotle argued over. Most likely, others did, for countless generations, long before those philosophers were born.
Unfortunately, following a great debacle such as World War II, the population is eager to put aside the painful times, forget the recent past and move on with life. The objective becomes simplistic and admirable: an affordable home, a family, a peaceful community, and a productive job to make those goals possible. Such a generation then tends to raise a fairly spoiled generation of children, who in turn raise a generation of complacent people, who in turn raise a generation of apathetic children. This pattern has played out endlessly for millennia.
In any generation, in any community, it’s the norm for roughly 4% of the population to be born or become sociopathic – obsessive with their own importance and without any emotional concern for the good of their fellow man.
After a great debacle, they tend to go "underground" as it were. They’re quickly recognized as being of the same stuff as the defeated dictators. During the next generation, they remain underground but gain strength and, in political and military spheres, begin to form alliances. Then, In the complacent generation, they begin to rise to prominence. In the apathetic generation, they tend to rise to dominance. In the latter half of the final fourth generation – the one that we have now entered - they begin to impose the dominance they’ve gained on the people they now rule.
Once again, the principles that Mister Orwell outlined above become the policies of the Elite. The apathetic populace slides evermore into a state of confusion, which is then converted to compliance through coercion and then force.
We are now in that final stage: we are now seeing the first evidence of a series of Kristallnachts, as occurred in Germany in November of 1938 – the confiscation of assets by globalist governmental leaders in Canada, Netherlands, etc., the unnecessary warfare in Ukraine, the proliferation of freedom-removing laws. In short, an overwhelming wave of oppression in every sphere of human endeavor.
We see one act of dominance after another whilst the hoi polloi stare like deer in headlights, unable to understand where their once-pleasant world has gone, or at best, to make half-hearted protests against the sudden, increased level of force.
The reason that such a takeover can occur is that it is ubiquitous – a plague of locusts – or in modern-day nomenclature, wokeists – go into action all at once. Were they have done this piecemeal, in one country at a time, they would surely be suppressed, but just as the locusts suddenly leave the ground together, in their billions, sociopaths tend to seek to be all-encompassing in their bid for dominance – to make their bid for power truly global – a relatively small number of people intending to subjugate a far larger one. As Vladimir Lenin observed, "one man with a machine gun can dominate one hundred men without one."
So, is that it? Are we toast? Well, not if history is an indicator. Again, going back as far as Plato and Aristotle, those who had been complacent and even apathetic, realize at some point that their only choices are to fight back or die. Eventually, they choose to fight back.
To stick with the Lenin concept for a moment, a few lose their lives in the attempt to wrest the machine gun from the soldier, but the others succeed through sheer numbers. (In 1940, the Nazis easily defeated an apathetic French army but then failed when going against the sheer tenacity of the French underground.)
We have not yet reached the peak of the oppression in this saeculum. It will get quite a bit worse and will do so quickly. And the reversal will be neither quick nor easy. It’s likely that the reversal will take several years to get into full swing and may not bring about substantive change before the end of the decade.
We’re in for a long and painful period, as in all wars in which humanity itself is the intended victim. The outcome will depend upon how soon an awakening takes place in the hearts and minds of average people and how much they’re prepared to tolerate before they collectively retaliate. From then on, it will be a process of slow attrition until the evil is once more driven underground."
"The Chief Obstacle..."
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
- Don Marquis
"In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves,
who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected,
though they are by no means respectable."
- Philip Stanhope
The Poet: Edward Hirsch, "I Was Never Able To Pray"
"I Was Never Able To Pray"
"Wheel me down to the shore
where the lighthouse was abandoned
and the moon tolls in the rafters.
Let me hear the wind paging through the trees,
and see the stars flaring out, one by one,
like the forgotten faces of the dead.
I was never able to pray,
but let me inscribe my name
in the book of waves,
and then stare into the dome
of a sky that never ends,
and see my voice sail into the night."
- Edward Hirsch
“Urgent: Stock Up On Food Before It’s Too Late; Economy Imploding; The Ponzi Schemes Are Collapsing”
Jeremiah Babe, 11/14/22:
“Urgent: Stock Up On Food Before It’s Too Late;
Economy Imploding; The Ponzi Schemes Are Collapsing”
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A horrifying must view! Be afraid, be very afraid...
"The Limits of Our Freedom"
"The Limits of Our Freedom"
by Mark Harrison
"Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, wrote in "Man's Search for Meaning", "Between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies all our freedom."In the most extreme conditions of privation imaginable, Frankl discovered that he was, remarkably, free to choose his response to any situation. I love this quote because it sums up the essence of my philosophy. I believe it is the cornerstone of a happy and effective life. A real, experiential understanding of this radical freedom is life changing, liberating and empowering. To suddenly come upon the realization that we have always been free, not in some abstract sense, but in a real, personal and imminent way, is like being let out of prison.
We are not free to control others: The point is that we are free. And so is everyone else. That means we cannot impinge on the freedom of others. This is not some moral statement. I'm not saying we should not interfere with other people's freedom - it is simply impossible to do so. You cannot make another person do anything. Even putting a gun to someone's head cannot make them do anything. If someone is threatened to the extent that they fear for their life, they are likely to comply with whatever is being demanded of them, but this compliance is not a result of the threat, it is still a choice they make. If you doubt it, think about the people who have been threatened and not complied, think about people who have died for what they believe in rather than comply with an external demand.
The belief that we can control and coerce others, bending them to our will, is the cause of a great deal the misery in the world. This belief, springing from the external control psychology that we have overwhelmingly been conditioned to accept, is the cause of much of our pain. To let go of our belief that we can control others is astonishingly liberating. To accept other people as they are, to make no demands on them, simply to dance our own dance, as Anthony de Mello would have put it, and to accept that we cannot but allow everyone else to do the same, is not only the only choice that makes any sense, but is also the only way we can make any difference in the world.
We have a choice: In every situation, there is a choice. Accept that we cannot control other people or try to force, coerce, manipulate and bully to get our own way. The latter course of action damages relationships and, in the end, leads to pain and dysfunction. Or, we can accept people as they are, accept they are utterly free agents, accept that we cannot force them, and concentrate instead on building relationships with them and on building the inner world which echoes back to us as our experience. When we have good relationships, things work. Perhaps not in the way we might have expected, or even in the way we would have preferred, but things will work. The world is not ours to control, so let it go, and let it work in its own miraculous way. This is the effortlessness to which Lao Tzu alluded when he wrote, "The world is a mysterious instrument, not meant to be handled." Those who act on it never, I notice, succeed.
We are responsible: We are responsible for ourselves. We make our choices and then we must live with them, not blaming others or circumstances, and not cowardly abdicating responsibility to some external forces. We are not victims! We are in control. By the same token, we are not responsible for other people. Their fear, their anger, their pain, their misery - it's all a choice they make, as freely as we make ours, and they need to shoulder the consequences of these choices, they are not our crosses to bear. Their happiness, their success, their joy - it's all their doing, not ours.
Being proactive: So here lies our freedom, it is inside us every moment and we can recognize it and live our lives according to the truth of this freedom, or we can continue to behave in the way we have been conditioned by society and try to force our way through life, pushing and coercing others into doing our will. One way is peace and happiness, the other way is pain and madness. Being proactive is the first of Steven Covey's "Seven Habits" and is the cornerstone of a truly effective life. I believe that living a proactive life, centered in the self, accepting that we can change nothing but ourselves, and choosing to focus on the good in our life and seeking to attract more it to ourselves is the purpose of our existence."
"Free Download: Viktor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning"
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual…
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man’s attitude to his existence, an existence restricted by external forces. When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden…
What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment…
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way…
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
- Viktor E. Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning”
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"Man's Search for Meaning"
by Viktor Frankl
"Some details of a particular man's inner greatness may have come to one's mind, like the story of a young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but to me it seems like a poem.
This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. 'I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard,' she told me. 'In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.' Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, 'This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness.' Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. 'I often talk to this tree,' she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. 'Yes.' What did it say to her? She answered, 'It said to me, "I am here - I am here - I am life, eternal life."
Freely download "Man's Search for Meaning", by Viktor Frankl, here:
"We Are Entering A New Dark Ages"
"We Are Entering A New Dark Ages"
by Chris Black
"It began at the beginning of this century. Add fifty years to today and everything that happened in the 20th century will be forgotten. People living in the Dark Ages didn’t even know there was a Roman civilization far more advanced than the kingdom they inhabited under their oppressive lords. The Renaissance was just a reversion to a level already reached a thousand years before by the Romans. Children today are being taught falsehoods about things that happened twenty years ago. Pretty soon they’ll be taught that the World Wars of the 20th Century were fought to liberate transsexuals and other LGBTQWTFs from persecution. They’ll lap it up like impressionable puppies.
The only real innovation over the last twenty years is unprecedented fraud and corruption. You don’t build a lasting society on that. I’m sure that it took a few years for the Bolshevik takeover of Russia to sink in. People probably thought the Tsars would return and conquer Lenin and Stalin. The same thing played out in China. Millions of Chinese left and fled to Taiwan. They were supposed to come back and retake the mainland. Instead, Communism took hold with brutal regimes lasting entire lifetimes. China is still under Communist control.
Two years ago there was a Bolshevik coup in the United States. There will never be a true election again, and we are living in a Communist dictatorship. The proof was the Dark Biden speech. It was the crowning event of a dictator, demanding that all follow the state or be destroyed.
Did you not listen to the words? Did you not listen when they said that Republicans would win overwhelmingly on Election Day, but that it would all disappear weeks after as they find more votes?
After the installation of Biden, the Capital of the United States was militarized. The People’s House was surrounded by fences and access was blocked. Political prisoners were thrown in federal prison, without charge, legal representation, or trial. They are subjected to torture and live in conditions thought to be illegal, against international law governing the treatment of prisoners. They were then given extreme sentences, far beyond the supposed crimes, even greater than first degree murder in some states.
Freedom in America is gone. The United States of America no longer exists. The midterm elections prove this. The status quo of communist control is upheld. They needed to allow for the appearance of a functioning Republic by giving the opposition enough seats, but not enough to give them any power. In two years the regime will end that gesture and full control will be handed over.
The left cheers centralized control. They have wanted a communist nation for over 100 years. Their dreams are realized. Did you not listen when the Democrats said that election deniers will be dealt with? That conservatives are an enemy of democracy? Do you understand, or are you just naive to the situation? Do you still think the ballot box fixes this? The only answer is a bullet box."
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Bill Bonner, "Nonsense and Fraud"
"Nonsense and Fraud"
Americans go to the polls... while their politicos rob them blind.
by Bill Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland - "Last week was marred by elections. Polls showed that 44% of the voters said they were worried about ‘democracy.’ About as many worried about inflation. Democrats said they thought Republicans posed a threat to democracy. For their part, Republicans were sure inflation was the fault of the Democrats – specifically of Joe Biden.
It was all nonsense…and fraud. Democrats and Republicans need each other – like a pair of professional wrestlers, they entertain the voters with a clumsy farce. When one punches, the other must get a bloody nose. When one hits below the belt, the other must cry foul. Together, they distract, mislead, and betray the American public.
The two parties may square off against each other. But both share the same core beliefs. They believe that government is a way to transfer wealth and power from ‘The People’ to the elite. They also believe in democracy; it gives voters the illusion of being in control, while allowing the two parties to take turns ripping them off.
They, The Other People: When Trump won the election of 2016, the Democrats insisted that democracy was broken. The Russians had taken a sledge hammer to it, they said. They spent the next four years trying to prove it. And even after a lengthy investigation showed what everyone knew in the beginning – that the Russians had probably not turned a single vote – Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats still clutched the fantasy near to their hearts…a talisman to ward off the evil MAGA spirits.
Then, when their man, Biden, won in 2020…democracy worked for the democrats again and they were keen to protect it. But not just by counting the votes more carefully. They aimed to make sure their candidates won, whether ‘The People’ wanted them or not.
Axios: "In one of the highest-profile gubernatorial battles in the country, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is leveraging a vast pool of out-of-state money. Why it matters: Abrams' fundraising profile - which consists of huge backing from wealthy coastal Democrats and a massive base of small-dollar support - is more typical of a leading national candidate than a gubernatorial contender.
By the end of June, Ms. Abrams had raised almost twice as much money as her Republican rival. ‘The People’ are supposed to elect their own representatives. But 85% of Ms. Abrams’ money came from meddlers who were not ‘The People’ of Georgia. Apparently, there were a lot of people who wanted to elect someone else’s governor.
Deny, Deny, Deny! And talk about election deniers! Ms. Abrams set the pace. She lost the last election in 2018 and refused to concede. National Review, August, 2019: "Stacey Abrams defended her refusal to concede last year’s Georgia gubernatorial election on Monday, arguing that adhering to the democratic norm of conceding to a victorious opponent would make her “complicit” in a “rigged” system."
Rigged? Of course, it’s rigged up real good. ‘The People’ are supposed to choose their own representatives. But the two parties put up the dumbest, most undesirable and scurrilous candidates…and then insist that it’s the voters’ duty to elect one of them.
Want proof? The New York Post: "Democrats have spent more than $53 million to boost far-right Republican primary candidates in nine key states as part of a controversial election strategy - despite publicly screaming about the threat posed to the US by such would-be officeholders. In some races, Democrats have spent more than 30 times what the GOP candidates were able to scrape together themselves, according to a Washington Post analysis."
What kind of democracy is this? The political elite go into the primaries with millions of dollars to support candidates nobody really wants.
Democracy for Sale: Buying votes – especially with the taxpayers’ money – is another venerable way to get your man in office. After the votes were counted last Wednesday, for example, Mr. Biden was quick to thank young people. James Bovard explains: "Biden deluged them with federal dollars to bail out his Democratic allies. His $500 billion+ student-loan forgiveness scheme was widely condemned — even The Washington Post editorial page slammed it as a “regressive, expensive mistake.”
But the handouts helped buy Democrats their biggest boost among voters — a 28% advantage over Republicans in voters age 18 to 29, improving on Dems’ 2020 performance. It won’t matter if federal courts strike down the loan forgiveness as illegal: The votes have already been delivered."
While the Democrats’ idea that Republicans are uniquely a menace to democracy is absurd, so is the Republicans’ idea that Biden is uniquely to blame for inflation. We remind readers that Donald Trump increased federal spending three times faster than Barack Obama and ten times faster than Bill Clinton. He added to the national debt twice as fast as Obama and 12 times faster than Bill Clinton. And Trump’s runaway spending and borrowing required the Fed to ‘print’ money at twice the rate of the Obama years…and almost infinitely faster than during the Clinton years. It is Trump, not Biden, who bears most of the responsibility for today’s inflation. Biden just made it worse.
But on the key issues – war and spending – the two parties collude seamlessly. Like heavyweight professionals, they put on a good show – pretending to maul and mangle each other. And with so much gouging and thumping on stage, the fans hardly notice when their wallets are stolen."
"This is Just the Opening Act - Plus 250K Party Footage"
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Dan, iAllegedly 11/14/22:
"This is Just the Opening Act -
Plus 250K Party Footage"
"The economy is broken and you haven’t seen anything yet. This is just the opening act. The global economy is worsening and people need to get real about this. Plus, we have more footage from the party on Saturday."
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Jim Kunstler, "The Aftermath and After That"
"The Aftermath and After That"
by Jim Kunstler
“Normally it would be considered a tell when one political party loses its mind any time someone suggests we should have basic election security procedures common in every other civilized country.”
- MartyrMade on Twitter
"Let’s get something straight: the Woked-up Jacobin Party of Chaos is not really worried about “mis-and-disinformation,” it’s just afraid of information. Only a tyrannical regime would work so hard and complain so loudly about opposing ideas entering the public arena as to brand them inadmissible. Apparently, that formula also applies to election results, an elemental kind of information bound to determine whether censorship will continue to be the order-of-the-day or not.
The stalling of election results also allows for wholesale correction of results that don’t come in as desired. At a certain threshold, the Marc Elias Lawfare-sponsored ballot-harvesting machinery kicks in and, voila, ten thousand or so mail-in ballots appear courtesy of, say, the Culinary Workers Union in Nevada, and… problem solved! The correct candidates win! My guess is that this happened in other select districts all over the USA. Will it be detected and looked into? Probably not. That would be election denial, a toxic reservoir of “disinformation.”
Which is why the Arizona governor’s race, where the dynamic Kari Lake (R) ran against the inert and corrupt Katie Hobbs (D), is so interesting. Maricopa County, the second-largest election district in the USA, has dribbled out the results all week to make sure it looked like Ms. Lake was losing, while Democratic Party activists scrambled to generate more early mail-in ballots to make sure that Ms. Lake does lose, if at all possible. Either way, it may not go down so easily. If she wins, Ms. Lake will do everything possible to reform the sketchy Arizona election laws; if she loses, she is prepared to sue the living sh*t out of Maricopa County election officials and Katie Hobbs - whose position as AZ Secretary of State left her in charge of an election she ran in, and all the machinery behind it.
The post-election mood across America is labile and incendiary. So-called Red America, the opposition to Woke Jacobin tyranny, smolders in fury facing two more years of censorship, war-mongering, FBI-DOJ-IRS persecution, “vaccine” f**kery, economic breakdown, and the WEF-inspired killing-off of Western Civilization. Blue America, personified by the smugly sclerotic “Joe Biden,” ghoulishly salivates over the dying carcass of the country it intends to devour. Between the two factions there is no space for the normal operation of politics - the contest of ideas about running human affairs - especially with the public arena of ideas in Woke lockdown.
Yet, events look like they are out-pacing whatever the mood is on any side. So many crises are already underway threatening to upend everyday life that neither Red or Blue Americans will escape hardship and damage.
The on-the-ground economy has imploded. Inflation is for-real and crushes the country’s standard-of-living. Before long, it may shift into deflation, which means instead of having a lot of money losing value, you’ll have no money at all. Rising interest rates killed off the real estate part of the Everything Bubble, and the building, selling, and remodeling of houses has been locus of the few remaining good-paying jobs. The car industry is dying under several forms of stress: steeply rising unit prices, a strapped middle-class, growing scarcity of capital for lending, broken supply lines for vehicle inventory and parts, and the insane “green” crusade to make all motoring electric. Even fixing things of value - existing houses, cars, machinery in general - becomes increasingly impossible when nobody can get the replacement parts to work with.
For a hundred years we’ve been an economy running on fossil fuels, especially oil. In America, it made for an orgy of suburban expansion and “consumerism” (buying lots and lots of stuff). The business model for getting oil out of the ground, refining it, and distributing it, is broken and unlikely to get fixed. The global relations that balanced supply between the oil-rich nations and the oil-poor ones was smashed with our stupid sanctions against Russia and the unnecessary antagonism of Saudi Arabia by “Joe Biden” & Company. America has a lot of shale oil in the ground, but it’s at best marginally economical to get at. “Joe Biden” has promised to destroy all the fossil fuel industries, and if you take him at his word, that means the natgas sector too. Half of America thinks it’s going “green.” No, it’s going broke. It also happens that America has about a three-week reserve of diesel fuel. Trucks and all other heavy vehicles have to run on diesel. Without them, nothing moves from Point A to Point B, including food, and America goes hungry.
In the background, the Covid-19 mRNA “vaccination” program goes on remorselessly, some of it still mandated, while injuries and deaths from it keep going up and fertility rates fall, and all of it goes unreported by news media bought-off by Pharma and ideologically hostage to the Woke Jacobins working tirelessly to destroy Western Civ. Excess mortality in all age groups is rising in Europe, North America, and Australia. That piece of the big picture veers into an epic global health crisis. Among the “vaccine” injuries are millions of compromised immune systems. Wait and see how that works out.
How’s “Joe Biden’s” campaign going to pit Ukraine (and NATO) against Russia? Don’t be fooled by tactical Russian moves on-the-ground that are being labeled as “retreats.” Russia is aiming to put an end to this US-provoked nonsense before the plum trees blossom over there. It will look as bad for “Joe Biden” as the dénouement in Afghanistan looked, but it will be good for the peace of the world for the struggle to end. The thing is: America might not even notice it’s happening, with everything else going on here as we careen around the year’s hard corner into winter."
Gregory Mannarino, "IMF Warns 'Global Economy Worsening'"
Gregory Mannarino, AM 11/14/22:
"IMF Warns 'Global Economy Worsening,'
Expect Central Banks To IncreaseTheir Efforts To Destroy It"
"Middle class being eliminated, exterminated..."
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"Massive Price Increases At Big Lots! Not Good! This Is Ridiculous!
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Adventures with Danno, 11/14/22:
"Massive Price Increases At Big Lots!
Not Good! This Is Ridiculous!
"In today's vlog we are at Big Lots, and are noticing massive price increases! This is not good as we are also seeing empty shelves everywhere! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"
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Greg Hunter, "We Are in End Times – Michael Snyder"
"We Are in End Times – Michael Snyder"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
Journalist and popular author Michael Snyder says in his new book we are in “End Times.” Few Christians would disagree. So, where are we and what are we facing? Snyder explains, “I believe we are living at the very end of a timeline. I believe Jesus is coming back soon. The Bible describes the End Times, the time just before Jesus comes back, as the most chaotic in all of human history. In fact, Jesus told us there has never been a time like this before, and there will never be a time like this again. Things are eventually going to get so bad that it is going to be the worst times in all of human history. I also believe it will be the best time for the people of God. There is no other time in human history that I would have rather lived than right now. God put you here, if you are watching, here for a reason. God put you here with a purpose and a destiny and a job for your to do. If you understand that, you will be really excited about the future, even though things will be chaotic and wild. Jesus said the time just before his return there would be wars and rumors of wars. A couple of years ago, I came on your program and wrote a book and said there is going to be a war with Russia. At the time, nobody was thinking about a war with Russia. People told me, Michael you are crazy. Of course, now we have a war with Russia. We are getting dangerously close to a nuclear conflict.”
Snyder also mentions war with China, war between North and South Korea and war between Iran and Israel that are all boiling up right now, all at the same time.
Snyder also brings up starvation and famines talked about in the Bible that also point to “End Times.” Snyder explains, “There have been droughts in different areas in the past. We are seeing tremendous droughts affecting agricultural production all over the northern hemisphere. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the bread basket of the world, we have seen agricultural products restricted because of war with Russia. We have this perfect storm for agricultural production. Meanwhile, we have an energy crisis that is worse than any of us have ever seen. It continues to get worse. The price of natural gas has gone haywire because of this war between Russia and NATO. Now, two thirds of all fertilizer production have already been shut down in Europe because the price of natural gas, and that is going to affect agricultural production next year. People need to realize that if we could not use fertilizer at all, we could not feed about half the world. Half the world would instantly starve if there was no fertilizer used. So, what we are facing is big-time global food shortages in 2023. It’s going to be even worse even beyond that. These things are going to intensify.”
On the economy, Snyder thinks the Fed will keep raising rates, and the real estate market will tank even further along with the economy. Snyder predicts, “I don’t think the so-called pivot is close. I think they are going to keep raising rates for now, and that is really bad news for real estate and for the economy because the economy is already being crushed right now. We are already seeing a massive slowdown all over the economy. I think the Federal Reserve is determined to get inflation down, but eventually they will be forced to pivot sometime in 2023.”
Snyder also says, “Basically, we are facing the collapse of everything. We are already seeing mass extinctions all over the globe. One study showed 32,000 species has declined by 69% over the last 50 years. So, we are already seeing mass extinctions, and they are going to accelerate in the years ahead. Natural disasters, wars and rumors of wars, pestilences and all the things we have been talking about are going to combine and create this perfect storm. People will see their lives crumble. Their lives, careers, what they planned for their future, their lives are going to crumble. People are going to plunge into depression and despair, and they are going to see no hope. Society will melt down all around them, and they won’t see any hope for the future. If you want hope for the future, you need God. You need the Lord Jesus Christ, not just to get you through what we are facing but what we have in the end. I read the book, and we win in the end. We get to be with Jesus for all of eternity, and that is a really long time. That is the most important thing beyond physical preparation.”
In closing, Snyder says, “Jesus warned us about all these things in advance so we wouldn’t be afraid. We can look forward with courage. Yes, bad things will happen, but it is when times are the darkest the greatest heroes are needed. In the years that are coming, you have the chance to be a light and make a difference. If you wanted to live in Biblical times, you are going to have that opportunity. You are going to have a chance to do a tremendous amount of good in this world if you understand what is happening and be prepared in advance if you take advantage of this, that you rise up and be the people God created you to be.” There is much more in the 43-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with
Michael Snyder, author of the new book “End Times.”
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