Saturday, April 8, 2023

Happy Easter

 

Musical Interlude: Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Jesus Christ Superstar"
Play on YouTube so songs automatically play sequentially.
"Overture" 4:00
"Heaven on Their Minds" 4:23
"What's the Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying" 4:13
"Everything's Alright" 4:36
"This Jesus Must Die" 5:11
"Hosanna" 2:09
"Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem" 4:49
"Pilate's Dream" 1:28
"The Temple" 4:43
"Everything's Alright (reprise)" 0:34
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" 3:41
"Damned for All Time/Blood Money" 4:36
"The Last Supper" 7:10
"Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say)" 5:33
"The Arrest" 3:24
"Peter's Denial" 1:27
"Pilate and Christ" 2:46
"King Herod's Song" 3:02
"Judas' Death" 4:17
"Trial Before Pilate (Including the 39 Lashes)" 5:13
"Superstar" 4:16
"The Crucifixion" 4:04
"John Nineteen Forty-One"

"China Surrounds Taiwan; USA on Alert; Russia Moves Nukes Toward Finland; US Nuke Subs"

Full screen recommended.
Canadian Prepper, 4/8/23
"China Surrounds Taiwan; USA on Alert; 
Russia Moves Nukes Toward Finland; US Nuke Subs"
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"Buying A New BMW With 22 Cents In The Bank; Fast Food Becomes A Luxury; Banks Are In Survival Mode"

Jeremiah Babe, 4/8/23
"Buying A New BMW With 22 Cents In The Bank; 
Fast Food Becomes A Luxury; Banks Are In Survival Mode"
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Musical Interlude: 2002, "We Meet Again"

Full screen recommended.
2002, "We Meet Again"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round?
Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star visible above at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds that the central star's own spin and magnetic field are channeling the gas. Since the central star appears to be so similar to our own Sun, astronomers hope that increased understanding of the history of this giant space ant can provide useful insight into the likely future of our own Sun and Earth.”

"We Must Not Forget..."

 

"Huxley vs. Orwell"

"Huxley vs. Orwell"
by Neil Postman

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one...

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism...

Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us.
Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance...

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we 
would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent
 of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy...

As Huxley remarked in 'Brave New World Revisited', the civil libertarians and the rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.” In '1984,' Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In 'Brave New World,' they are controlled by inflicting pleasure...In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us."

Huxley was quite obviously correct...

The Poet: David Whyte, "The Opening of Eyes"

"The Opening of Eyes"

"That day I saw beneath dark clouds
The passing light over the water,
And I heard the voice of the world speak out.
I knew then as I have before,
Life is no passing memory of what has been,
Nor the remaining pages of a great book
Waiting to be read.
It is the opening of eyes long closed.
It is the vision of far off things,
Seen for the silence they hold.
It is the heart after years of secret conversing
Speaking out loud in the clear air.
It is Moses in the desert fallen to his knees
Before the lit bush.
It is the man throwing away his shoes
As if to enter heaven and finding himself astonished,
Opened at last,
Fallen in love
With Solid Ground."

~ David Whyte

The Daily "Near You?"

Collinsville, Oklahoma, USA. Thanks for stopping by!

"Fear Is A Child's Vice..."

“I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.”
- Ernest Hemingway, "True at First Light”

"The Condition Of Our Society Has Never Been This Bad, And It Is Only Going To Get Worse…" (Excerpt)

"The Condition Of Our Society Has Never Been This Bad, 
And It Is Only Going To Get Worse…"
by Michael Snyder

Excerpt: "A lot of people seem shocked that the fabric of our society is steadily unraveling all around us, but the truth is that this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. What we are witnessing is simply the law of cause and effect in action. We have discarded the values that this nation was founded upon, and we have replaced them with new “values” that are diametrically opposed to the old values. So now we live in a hellhole of our own making. Just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding in our society, and crime rates have been rapidly rising all over the nation."
Full, highly recommended article is here:

"Dazed Lemmings Can't Bridge The Reality Gap"

"Dazed Lemmings Can't Bridge The Reality Gap"
by Zen Gardner

"Ever wonder why people can't make the leap to real awareness of what's going on? Why do so few people seem to care about the dangers of the unreported Fukushima radiation levels and toxic debris washing across the pacific? As the Orwellian American police state sweeps into place, the economy crumbles, Americans celebrated their entry into a brave new 2020 with minimal awareness of the true dangers already dissolving their health, wealth and chances for survival in an engineered conflagration of mythic proportions that is already descending on their heads.

As the gap between reality and manipulated public perception grows, it may just be too big a leap for many at this point. Having been dumbed-down and unresponsive for so long, it's too much for them to take in. Sad, but again, that's reality. Hey, why wake up when everything's such a bummer? That's the underlying mentality. The thing is, this is a conditioned response. Overload and recoil. And it's been going on a long, long time.

Why? Like the dumbing down effect of fluoride and chemtrails and adulterated food, it eventually suppresses natural responses. When the real alert presents itself, the subject will not be able to react and protect himself. Why all the dramatic end of the world sci-fi movies? Why the emphasis on violence and horror movies and graphic, destructive wars? Why does the news major on the bad events of the day? Why the combative gladiator sports, emphasis on technology instead of humanity, and mind-numbing crass consumerism and sexualization of society? This is deliberate social engineering, and that's the biggie. It's all engineered...and that's the last thing most people want to realize. And it usually is.

The Power of Cognitive Dissonance: The world has become essentially schizophrenic in outlook. Being told one thing while the exact opposite is happening before their eyes for so long, the "dissonance" created by this conflict causes humanity to shut down. America is the perfect example. Ostensibly fighting for "freedom and liberty" we commit genocide and destroy nation after nation. To protect our liberties the government has overturned the Bill of Rights and made the Constitution a mockery. Yet the populace sits and takes it. Why? Too big of a leap. If it turned out they've been completely conned by a massive manipulated agenda they may just completely break down. And subconsciously the horror of that reality is therefore a "no". Even if it were true they're at the point they'd rather not know.

I'll Take Conscious Reality. "Why all the negativity?" is what you'll hear a lot of the time when you bring these things up. The answer, as David Icke often says, is that ignorance is negative. Truth is empowering, no matter how awful it may be sometimes. And at this point in history the more you learn the more negative it may seem, with the Controllers' agenda in full final-phase swing. But so what. Things haven't changed all that much. The purpose of life is to rediscover who you truly are, and that wonderful awakening makes everything else pale in comparison. Our mission then becomes to inform and empower, share and encourage. The same one it always has been. That it's taking this kind of extreme compression to awaken the slumbering masses is really no surprise, and ultimately a gift from the Universe to help people back into the real world...that of conscious loving awareness."
"Awaken from slumber, one and all..."

"Perpetual Cognitive Dissonance"

"Perpetual Cognitive Dissonance"
by Todd Hayen

"There’s a clinical term in psychology, which in the vernacular would be described with the phrase, “I think I am going crazy.” This is “cognitive dissonance.” I have actually seen this term show up in casual reading more often in the past couple of years than in all the years before. It seems to have become a rather common utterance.

I am not sure if I will be using the term correctly in this article because in its purest form it describes a cognitive malfunction which occurs when a person creates a story in their mind that doesn’t match reality.

There is an assumption in this definition that there is an objective reality to compare it to, and that reality, as defined here, is stable and not subject to multiple interpretations. Although this isn’t really important because you can still experience cognitive dissonance if both the “story” and what is perceived as “reality” is illusory. Thus cognitive dissonance verges on another clinical term, psychosis.

Despite these nuances in definitions, cognitive dissonance, as well as psychosis, supposedly (according to the folks in white coats) causes internal psychic problems. I don’t necessarily have a problem with this assumption, although if left alone I am not sure if psychotic people really have psychic problems. It is more likely that the people around them have the problems.

I digress.

Most definitions of cognitive dissonance describe it as a “tension” felt if a person behaves differently from a belief system they resonate with, such as an overweight person who eats cookies all day but believes they would be happier if healthier and at a lower weight. I would venture to extend this description to a person who fundamentally believes that a government of smiling, sweet-talking, elected politicians should be honest and caring but end up being liars and willfully hurtful toward their constituents.

The official definition also states that when someone encounters cognitive dissonance they will adjust whatever they have access to adjust in order to relieve the discomfort. In the above examples, a person eating cookies might deny that they are doing something that isn’t conducive to good health and weight loss, saying things like, “I didn’t eat that many!” or “these cookies are not really fattening.” The latter example might find those experiencing cognitive dissonance denying completely the lies of their smooth talking politicians, or justify them in some odd way: “he didn’t really mean it” or “she is only human, she just made a mistake.”

That, though, is “sheep side cognitive dissonance” and I am not as concerned about that in this article - (in general I am personally very concerned about it). Sheep do seem to be in a perpetual form of cognitive dissonance, but I am not sure if many of them know it yet. Their “beliefs” seem to match up with their perceived reality for the most part, so they don’t, at the moment, experience any dissonance. Possibly unconsciously they may, but have plunged themselves into a deep denial. But clinically, to this particular clinician, it doesn’t seem that way. I see no obvious resulting tension - not yet.

Those of us on this side of the fence, however, grapple with this every day because we are more conscious. Everyone’s world has been turned upside down. In fact, the world has basically been upside down, from what most of us perceived as being “right side up,” for quite some time - maybe even the chief dude Neanderthal king was a lying son-of-a-bitch, who knows. Depending on what particular time in history you “woke up” - meaning when did you first see through the fog and understand you had been fed a story your whole life - you are either a “long time truther,” or a rather “short time truther.” Fact is you were not born seeing the truth, unless you were born a soothsayer. Yes, there probably are a few outliers out there who popped out of the womb totally impervious to brainwashing - if you are one of these then more power to you.

However, it is human nature to believe the world, and other humans in it, are benevolent. What I mean by “human nature” is that babies are born to trust. They have to be taught otherwise, and if they grow up in the West, which in the past was fundamentally benign (compared to other rather traumatic areas of the world) they can easily live a life believing, for example, that their government is not going to intentionally hurt them. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, but as we see, most people seem to believe this.)

It is all part of our indoctrination to remain loyal to this “human nature” sort of benevolence. Since it is fundamentally our nature to believe in the benevolence of our world, when we learn that it is essentially false and a fabrication, then we will begin to experience this cognitive dissonance. This comes when we begin seeing that our experiences just don’t fit the story we were born believing.

Each time something crazy happens we have to shake our head…much like characters do in a cartoon, along with that “booooiiinnng” sound. “What the f—k???” Even though we know intellectually that nothing is really as it seems, most of the time when we actually experience an example of this insanity it takes a second for it to sink in, “Are you kidding? Really???”

Now, I know some of you out there are hard-core veterans and don’t shake your head, and don’t hear that “booooiiinnng” sound when something fishy happens. You may instead give a little smirk and think, “here we go again.” Well, I am not one of you, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of people out there reading this are not in your group either.

And when we see things like Universities still demanding their students wear masks, or places of employment still demanding vaccinations to be employed, or hear the talk of digital IDs and a no cash world, and 15 minute cities, and leaders telling their constituents they will hunt down the unvaccinated and make sure they get jabbed, we shake our head and hear “boooiiinnng.” I know I do.

This is the sort of cognitive dissonance I am talking about, and it is pretty much constant. I know for me a day doesn’t go by that I am not shaking my head. It truly is the Chicken Little story, the sky perpetually falling on our melons and all of us running around screaming about the impending doom, “Can’t you see it!? Can’t you see it!?” Nothing ever seems right; nothing ever seems to be properly aligned with basic human expectations. If we were all literal prisoners in the gulag, we would at least match up our internal beliefs with our external reality. We would know we were in prison. Right now, we have little literal reason to believe what we believe, other than pretty clear signs of it being planned.

Yes, those of us unvaccinated see the persecution, and the aforementioned mandates still in place. What we see indicates clearly to us that what we believe is really happening, at least part of it is. But we are constantly being told, “All is fine, nothing to worry about, we love you, we will take care of you, you should be happy you live in a free country, look at my shiny white smile, relax, all is safe…”

"Booooiiinnng."
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Hat tip to The Burning Platform for this material.
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And so it is...

"How It Really Is"

 

"Things You Are Not Allowed to Know"

Full screen recommended.
Dan, iAllegedly 4/8/23
"Things You Are Not Allowed to Know"
"So much is happening right now. It’s as if we 
are not supposed to know what is happening."
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Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up"

"Weekly News Wrap-Up"
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"President Donald Trump has been indicted on 34 bogus counts of fraud by an ultra-left New York prosecutor. This was a huge turning point in American politics. It has never been done to a former President and leading candidate in the opposing party. It represents how deranged the Democrat party has become. The Lying Legacy Media (LLM) cheered on the pain for Trump this week and reported he was arrested– when he was really only indicted. CBS News (propaganda) buried what really happened. CBS said in one report “an arraignment is different than an arrest” and went on to report that Trump was arrested like all the other LLM. There was no bail, no mug shot taken and no handcuffs. There were some positive turning points for Trump. He raised $10 million and has skyrocketed in the polls. This has backfired in a big way on the Deep State Democrats and is not helping their chances in 2024.

War talk with Russia is heating up over the ongoing Ukraine war. Russia is calling it a “hot conflict with the United States.” Meanwhile, the DOD is consumed with the military being a “safe space for the non-binary.” This is a total departure from reality and a very dangerous turning point for all involved.

The sick and dying from the CV19 bioweapon vax is still trending higher - much higher. More and more are getting so sick they can no longer work. People who “died suddenly” for no apparent reason are still stacking up in greater numbers. Dr. Tony Fauci is now bragging about the next pandemic and says, “There will absolutely be an outbreak of another pandemic.” Has the public reached a turning point for the CV19 vax and plandemic lies?" There is much more in the 55-minute newscast.

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks about
 these stories and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up.

"Russia Converting AFU Soldiers Into Corpses"

Col. Douglas Macgregor, Straight Calls, 4/8/23
"Russia Converting AFU Soldiers Into Corpses"
"Interview with Stephen Gardner on April 7, 2023. Analysis of breaking news and in-depth discussion of current geopolitical events in the United States of America and the world."
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"Massive Price Increases At Kroger! The Craziness Continues! What's Next?"

Full screen recommended.
Adventures With Danno, 4/8/23
"Massive Price Increases At Kroger! 
The Craziness Continues! What's Next?"
"In today's vlog we are at Kroger, and are noticing massive price increases! This is not good! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products, and also charging extremely high prices!"
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Friday, April 7, 2023

"Bad News: It's Much Worse Than We're Being Told"

Canadian Prepper, 4/7/23
"Bad News: It's Much Worse Than We're Being Told"
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"20 Facts About Evictions That Will Make Americans Panic"

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"20 Facts About Evictions That Will Make Americans Panic"
By Epic Economist

"If you have ever experienced an eviction or know someone who did, then you know how incredibly devastating this experience can be. America is facing the worst housing affordability crisis in history, with both home and rent prices at the highest levels they have ever been. Housing is a fundamental necessity and it should be a fundamental right because, without it, we do not have the right conditions to be able to be a part of our own society. Instead, people with no access to proper housing live on the margins, and their most basic freedoms aren't guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Since the turn of the century, evictions have become a growing problem across the United States, but things have gotten exponentially worse since the pandemic when about 30% of all Americans lost their ability to pay rent due to furloughs, layoffs, and early retirements. Millions were displaced from their homes, a trend that has only accelerated when moratoriums were lifted and landlords started to file for eviction at U.S. courts once again.

In some regions of the country, the rate of eviction is now over 40% higher than it was before the health crisis. Every day, thousands of families are pushed out into the streets, and households with lower incomes have been particularly vulnerable, especially now that they have been financially strained for three years in a row and inflation is making the cost of everyday essentials increasingly more unaffordable for the average American. Recent reports note that 50% of all renters in the country are burdened by rent, and about 14 million households remain at risk of eviction due to non-payment of rent. This crisis is reaching proportions that are alarming many housing advocates, who use terms like "eviction tsunami" and "eviction floodgate" to describe the shocking rise in cases they're currently witnessing.

Not even federal or state-level moratoriums have actually kept evictions from happening in recent years. And now people are facing even higher risks of losing their homes. All over the nation, financial conditions are worsening for Americans, who are seeing layoff numbers skyrocket by more than 400% compared to just one year ago. According to a report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, as of 2022, there is a nationwide shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rental homes, which exacerbates the ongoing eviction crisis. Today, we actually have the lowest rental vacancy rate on record, at a mere 4% nationwide.

That gives huge leverage to corporate landlords that have all the resources to find loopholes in the law to conduct illegitimate evictions so that they can continue rising costs for their next tenants. The absurd increase in home prices is still forcing many would-be buyers to rent, and the higher demand is incredibly beneficial for those at the top of the economic chain while being completely devastating for those at the very bottom.

Although evictions have always been a reality in the U.S., the scale of the problem we're facing right now is unlike anything we have ever seen. That's why in today's video, we compiled some chilling stats and facts that expose the depth of this scary situation."
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Musical Interlude: 2002, " A Gift of Life"

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2002, " A Gift of Life"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC).

The above image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed for artistry by an amateur to win the Hubble's Hidden Treasures competition. Although the section imaged above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in LMC size only to 30 Doradus. Studying the stars in N11 has shown that it actually houses three successive generations of star formation. Compact globules of dark dust housing emerging young stars are also visible around the image.”

"It Is Common To Assume..."

"It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge."
- H. L. Mencken

"Col. Macgregor: Ukraine Is Being Obliterated"

"Col. Macgregor: Ukraine Is Being Obliterated"
"Colonel Douglas Macgregor sits down with Stephen Gardner to update us on the Ukraine/Russia war battle assessment, China, North Korea, Biden, the US dollar and de-dollarization."
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Scott Ritter: "80,000 Ukrainian Soldiers
 Wiped Out In Bakhmut, This Is Fatal"
"Scott Ritter joins us on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war, the conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how this war will end. Russia rained down over 80 missile on Ukraine last night after figuring out how to bypass their air defense systems. Scott Ritter and Stephen Gardner also discuss military predictions of Colonel Douglas Macgregor on how this war will end and Putin's next military moves.

Scott Ritter is an American author, pundit, former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector. Ritter served as a junior military analyst during Operation Desert Storm."
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"Financial System Is Overheating; Pensions Are Toast; More Rate Hikes"

Jeremiah Babe, 4/7/23
"Financial System Is Overheating; 
Pensions Are Toast; More Rate Hikes"
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The Daily "Near You?"

Borgo, Corse, France. Thanks for stopping by!

The Poet: David Whyte, "One Day"

"One Day"

"One day I will say
the gift I once had has been taken.
The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.
Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.
And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road,
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well of things as they are."

- David Whyte,
"Where Many Rivers Meet"

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see -
it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren

"Waiting..."

"We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves."
- Susane Colasanti

"Time..."

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so?
Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.
Before they know it, time runs out.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are looking backwards to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day, when we have time.”
- Charles Caleb Colton, “Lacon”
“The problem is, you believe you have time.”
- Buddha