Vote every other Repukelican out. https://t.co/i6DwjwgtlW— servant (@serveishwar) May 14, 2022
Posted on 05/06/2022 5:20:04 AM PDT by ransomnote
This is very interesting. The list of Presidents can be seen around the 11:00 mark. Until then it’s a stroll around DC.
Have they updated the Trump and Biden pictures at the White House Visitor Center?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsG8T6X4OTY
***How do you find someone with good tasting milk and cheese (no goat buck)?
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Milk a different critter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPKYgHtnMJQ
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Vote every other Repukelican out. https://t.co/i6DwjwgtlW— servant (@serveishwar) May 14, 2022
You’re welcome. It was a bit of an effort but looking at the receipt(55.50) was a real treat.
I don’t want to slide the thread too much but I agree about having our differences.
When we duke it out here in the battle place of ideas it’s less likely to result in actual violence and if we are genuine, helps us come to a meeting of the minds.
too bad there are many very clever disingenuous disruptors that want to prevent that from happening.
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Ukraine bio labs
55 wasn’t a federal mandate. They couldn’t mandate to the states. What they did do, instead was,
threaten to withhold road funds if the state didn’t lower their speed limit to 55.
It was in response to the 1973 oil crises. Nixon signed it into law.
I think a couple a states told the feds to take a hike.
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study materials on the implementation of military biological programs of the United States and its NATO allies on the territory of Ukraine.
We have already mentioned Robert Pope, director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Programme and author of the idea of the Central Depository of Highly Dangerous Microorganisms in Kiev.
In his statement of April 10, 2022, Pope said that "...there is no reason to claim that research related to the development of biological weapons is taking place in Ukraine...". He previously claimed that "...the Americans did not find biological weapons when they first started working with Ukraine, and they still haven't. In addition, Ukraine lacks the infrastructure to develop and produce biological weapons...".
I would like to recall that the term "biological weapons" includes biological formulations that contain pathogenic micro-organisms and toxins, as well as the means of delivery and use of said formulations.
While the priority for Ukrainian healthcare is socially significant diseases such as HIV, poliomyelitis, measles and hepatitis, US customers are interested in a completely different nomenclature: cholera, tularemia, plague and hantaviruses.
As a result of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, facts of work with the specified pathogens, which are potential agents of biological weapons, have been revealed. At the same time, it was noted that Ukraine had sent a request to the manufacturing company regarding the possibility of equipping the Bayraktar drones with aerosol equipment. ..." snip.
More at link
I don’t know what the final resolution was. It was in *our* news for a while, but then nothing. If I ever hear that ad again, “Wayfair - you’ve got just what I need,” I think I’ll barf. Corruption disguised as innocence.
That Mach E I drove would be fine as a commuter, but even a two hour trip is nuts. Makes it a four hour trip.
Electric cars will only be practical for trips when pubs have charging stations.
A ticket in Montana was $2 and you couldn’t be issued one more than once a day…
Nathang Nepal; Annapura in back ground.
Perhaps MS-13 wet operators were assigned the Donald Young hit which had the same earmarks as Seth Rich. Did Eric Holder do anything to eradicate MS-13?
The Abolition of the Soul
https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/die-abschaffung-der-seele
Translated Excerpt:
In their publications, the World Economic Forum and its chairman Klaus Schwab state with astonishing frankness that they intend to intervene in human nature and in humans’ relationships with others using all the technical means at their disposal. People, animals and plants are to be completely redesigned. Human nature is at stake.
“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.” — Hannah Arendt, 1951
As one of the most influential institutions in the Western World[1], the WEF has been putting its plans into practice with overwhelming speed since 2020, working title: The Great Reset, gateway: the Pandemic.[2] It has often been pointed out that the World Economic Forum pursues totalitarian goals with its transhumanism. Despite this, a majority still seems to have faith that the global business elites are, by and large, acting for the good of humanity. This is a mistake — regardless of whether these elites themselves are convinced that they are doing good or not.
A fashionable term such as “transhumanism” may leave you fairly unmoved if you don’t shy away from considering what it means. Misleadingly, he suggests that the project it describes has anything to do with ‘humane’, humanity or humanism; it hasn’t. It would be more accurate to speak of anti-humanism — for the transhumanist, concern amounts to abolishing all living things altogether. In its presumptuousness, this project is certainly doomed to failure. But it could cause living garbage, misery and great suffering.
Therefore, the following should make it clear that the plans of the WEF are deeply totalitarian, and why. Klaus Schwab’s book The Fourth Industrial Revolution serves as the main source of information, because this WEF publication describes its plans particularly bluntly, and, although it was published in 2016, still agrees with the statements made by the extremely influential Davos Forum.[3] Hannah Arendt’s famous work “Elements and Origins of Total Domination” serves as the background and standard for this assessment.[4]
The totalitarian claim to power: rule people from within
In her analysis of the totalitarian systems of her time, Stalinism and National Socialism, Hannah Arendt discovered a striving for control that goes far beyond the power ambitions of dictators, despots and tyrants of all kinds:
“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”[5]
What unites the totalitarian elites is “…the conviction of man’s omnipotence. They first gave the moral nihilism of ‘anything goes’ its real basis through the much more radical nihilism of ‘everything is possible’… The hubris of really believing that everything can be done, that everything given is only temporary, is enough for them. The obstacle is that it can be overcome by superior organization.”[6]
Substituting ‘superior engineering’ for ‘superior organization’ pretty much describes the beliefs of the World Economic Forum.
The transformation of human nature
Already in the first sentence of his book, Klaus Schwab says that the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which in his description “…entails nothing less than the transformation of mankind.”[7] The technologies driving this revolution will be “…fundamentally changing our human identity.”[8] They will change “…what it means to be human.”[9] The Fourth Industrial Revolution “…changes who we are.”
These ideas are indeed revolutionary: If they were realized, humans — and other living beings as well — would finally become objects of industrial production. Nature would no longer be something given that as such has a right to exist and a dignity.
Biological organisms that do not occur in nature
According to Schwab, synthetic biology and neurotechnology make the profound changes in human nature possible. Synthetic biology “… will allow us to tailor organisms by writing DNA.”[10] This, in turn, “… enables the creation of genetically modified plants or animals, as well as the modification of cells of adult organisms, including humans .”[11] All living organisms and all organisms not yet born are now objects of design: “We are confronted with new questions about what it means to be human when it comes to changing the genetic codes of future generations.[12]
Advances in medicine made possible by this are often mentioned, but the whole genome is clearly at stake: “…it’s much easier now to precisely manipulate the human genome in viable embryos… we will in the future probably see designer babies…”[13] Wikipedia clarifies once again that synthetic biology is about “…creating biological systems that do not occur in nature.” And note: “These systems are subject to evolution.”[14] The WEF not only welcomes these prospects, it also considers science capable of implementing them at any time:
“Imagine a world where we can create the bodies we want. In this world we can also design and redesign the plants and animals that live with us. We can change organisms and shape them the way we want them to be. … And this is not the world of tomorrow. You don’t need any imagination. This is the world of today.”[15]
The whole human being becomes the object of technical design — and so are his relationships to other people and things.
Neurotechnology: Mind Control, Emotion Control, Relationship Control
Neurotechnology “…includes any process or device in which electronics interface with the nervous system to monitor or regulate neural activity.”[16] The ways to do this are so varied, according to the World Economic Forum that they “transform the human body into a new technology platform.”[17]
The WEF has no objection to that — we are entering “…the era of the ‘internet of bodies’: We collect our physical data through a range of devices that can be implanted, swallowed or worn. The result is a vast amount of health-related data that improves the well-being of people all over the world…”[18] But not only that: “At the same time, the data from the ‘Internet of Bodies’ can be used to predict and to make inferences that may affect an individual’s or group’s access to resources such as health care, insurance and employment.”[19]
Many citizens have already experienced that “influencing” can also mean “blocking”: Until recently, for example, we had no access to public facilities such as libraries, theaters or swimming pools without a vaccination certificate. During the trucker protests in Canada, Prime Minister and “Young Global Leader” of the WEF Justin Trudeau[20] had the accounts of the 50,000 truckers and their supporters blocked without further ado. In view of such arbitrary encroachments on the simplest rights of unwelcome citizens, it is not surprising that many see it more as a threat: “If we do not like your behavior, we will block your access to vital resources.” But you don’t have to see everything so negatively, because:
“Neurofeedback—the ability to monitor brain activity in real time — offers countless opportunities to combat addiction, regulate eating behaviors, and improve performance from sports to school.”[21]
That sounds good: no more fat people, no more addicts, and nothing but well-supervised school kids who never fidget, fall asleep from boredom, dream absent-mindedly while looking out the window, or engage in nonsense. No more Pippi Longstocking, no more Tom Sawyer, no more Alice in Wonderland. Pupils like Winston Churchill, who refused to learn, or Alexander von Humboldt, who is also said to have had poor comprehension as a child, would be made into inconspicuous, well-adjusted pupils by the WEF’s brain programmers (assuming that neurotechnology actually works). Such a monitoring system would inevitably find the pupil or student deviating from the “correct” learning behavior to be wrong and the teaching and learning system to be correct.
In general: It is not the workplace, not the schools, not our living conditions that need a general overhaul, but ourselves: “Imagine the many ways in which we could change the way we learn, work and live for the better.”[22] And very topical, to get rid of any possible resistance: “Imagine how we could contribute to better equipping all our brains and minds for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”[23]
Ideally, we will first be positively attuned to the Fourth Industrial Revolution by means of neurotechnology, and then we will experience what it means to be controlled from afar and — according to scientifically proven knowledge, of course — to be behaviorally optimized. It is consequently completely irrelevant what we ourselves want, think or feel:
“Our devices are becoming more and more a part of our personal ecosystem, they listen to us, anticipate our needs and help us when needed — even if we didn’t ask them to.”[24]
Psychotic people often hear voices telling them what to do — would these unsolicited interferences feel similar? As something that is in me and yet not me? In any case, the “Internet of Bodies” is obviously also an “Internet of Souls” or an “Internet of Minds”. How could it be otherwise? Nothing is left to chance in this system; nothing is left uncontrolled: all people become well-functioning parts of a well-functioning system that is controlled by well-functioning control engineers and their rules. The question remains: What is the purpose of the large control machine made of living parts? One thing is clear: it is intended to make mankind more reasonable. But is pure rationality really the ultima ratio of life?
The destruction of all human bonds
Obviously, people are the more manageable the less involved they are in social relationships. “Allein machen sie dich ein” (Alone, they can take you)[31] was the title of a song by Ton Steine Scherben in the 70s — a reformulation of “togetherness makes you strong”. It is therefore obvious that totalitarian elites must disempower political groups such as classes, trade unions, associations or religious communities that jointly represent their interests vis-à-vis other groups and the state. But their claim goes further: They want to destroy all social structures, including the private ones.
The “atomization of society” in the sense of the destruction of all social relationships is therefore also a central concept in Hannah Arendt’s analysis: for her it is one of the most important conditions of total domination. The result is what she calls “mass society”[32]: Instead of a society that consists of numerous large and small relationship structures of all kinds and draws its stability and resilience from them, their destruction creates a kind of social mush, whose fundamental nature consists of lonely, isolated individuals
.....Soviet citizens learned that “there was nothing at all so dangerous as having friends.”[34] Thus a state arose in which everyone “depended in utter helplessness and abandonment on higher powers that could judge him at any time.”[35]
......Painless totalitarianism?
The totalitarian Elites of the 20th century had to go to tremendous, murderous lengths to deprive their victims of so much human nature, that is, as much spontaneity as possible. In the meantime, the technical possibilities for intervening in the human genome and in this way controlling the human being from the inside have advanced dramatically.
Since this seems to be so easy to do, it also seems like an unspectacular process: you have a small jab, a small tattoo, a small implant injected under the skin — so what? You become more reasonable, calmer, more intelligent, you no longer have to decide everything yourself.
As long as we still believe in the dignity of human beings and their basic freedom of will, every neural or genetic intervention would be seen as an act of violence, unless it was preceded by comprehensive information and consent was given, all of which took place in absolute freedom[39] — as with any medication and any medical intervention.
It should be known, however, that in the case of mass vaccinations with mRNA particles, which are also a genetic intervention, in most cases there can be no talk of comprehensive clarification — not only because their effects in the human body according to the applicable standards of the vaccine approval have not been researched over a long enough period; that is why there are only emergency registrations to this day. The government also recently issued a regulation that overrides numerous protective paragraphs of the Medicines Act specifically for Covid-19 vaccines; for example, Corona vaccines may be placed on the market without authorization; for stem cell preparations (!) the particularly high approval thresholds are lowered; there does not have to be a package leaflet for patients and no specialist information for doctors. Less enlightenment is therefore the direction taken by the legislature, one could also call it obscurantism.[40]
.....The US journalist Whitney Webb has meticulously researched what DARPA is working on: Among other things, they are investigating how brain implants, genetic modification and biological programming can be used to create super soldiers who no longer need sleep or eat regular meals. Also, as part of its bio-design program, DARPA is striving to produce synthetic organisms (non-robot, living organisms) that are immortal but programmed with a “kill switch” with which you can switch them off at any time.[42]
Incidentally, DARPA has also generously funded Moderna’s mRNA research since 2013 with $25 million.[43] And already in 2014, spurred on by Obama’s “Brain Initiative”, they researched the possible functions of graphene in the brain. Here, too, it was or is not just about understanding the processes in the central nervous system, but about controlling them from the outside: “This technology offers the possibility of regulating neuronal functions by using programmed current or light impulses for the temporary activation of neurons.”[44]
Whitney Webb comes to this conclusion:
“…DARPA’s transhumanist vision for the military and humanity poses an unprecedented threat, not only to human liberty, but an existential threat to human existence and the building blocks of biology itself.”
.....The elites as executors of evolution and history
Totalitarian leaders, says Hannah Arendt, always justify their goals and actions by saying that they are merely executors of natural or historical laws that will happen anyway: Stalin saw himself as the executor of the immutable laws of history and class struggle. In their name he let entire classes “die off” that were intended for this by history anyway. The National Socialists referred to Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest”: If you kill inferior peoples and races, you are only executing the will of nature, in which only the strongest have a right to survive.[46]
It is striking that the totalitarian elites of the 20th century felt compelled to accelerate the laws of nature and history . According to Schwab, these laws are “enforced on the spot, without waiting for the slower and more uncertain process of annihilation by nature or history itself.”[47] Accordingly, nature would only know how to execute its own laws with a certain lameness and clumsiness; human tutoring helps her to be more rational, faster and more efficient.
.....this is only presented to us as the latest consequence of an automatic, technological-historical process that is coming over mankind, whether they want it or not:
“The great technological innovations are about to fundamentally change the world — and inevitably.[48] …we are not yet prepared to confront the realities and consequences of the latest genetic engineering technologies, although they will come.”[49]
.....The stakeholders, the flimsy surrogate for democratic processes[56], are destined to positively attune us to our fate as unemployed, impoverished, genetically engineered beings through hopeful narratives. In other words, it’s going to hurt, but wrapped in a nice narrative, it doesn’t feel so bad anymore.
A collateral gain of the Pandemic was also the spectacular gains in wealth of the already super-rich.[57] Here, too, the historically supposedly inevitable process, the “Darwinian pressure”, is given a good start.
.....Do we seriously want techniques applied to us — more precisely: in us — that not only make half of us unemployed and superfluous, but with which our own being is declared to be completely transformed, i.e. to be abolished? What’s in it for us to become fully controlled parts of a fully controlled world? Who are we when others are constantly ruling us? What is “I” supposed to mean then?
......The result of this striving, which Hannah Arendt has recognized as the core of totalitarianism, are “walking corpses”, as she puts it; with total control, all vitality inevitably disappears. But what only disturbs the capitalist production process is precisely what helps us to have our greatest joys and strongest feelings in life: namely what we do not know, do not expect, have never heard, seen, thought or felt before.[59]
Why are we curious, why thirsty for knowledge?
Why do we laugh at a joke, why do we rejoice at a sudden idea?
Why do people like to dance?
Is dancing efficient or useful?
Why do we like music and games, why stories about strange people and strange worlds?
Why do we enjoy colors and shapes so much? Why do we like some people better than others and our children best?
All of these are things that we cannot calculate, that “make a fresh start”, as Hannah Arendt keeps saying, that have absolutely nothing to do with functioning properly. On the contrary: we are so happy about them because they have no purpose and no economic sense for us. Only with free time, free movement, free play, free thinking and feeling are we living human beings.
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https://earthsky.org/earth/dust-and-high-winds-rip-midwest-and-great-plains/?mc_cid=3ab0a4b4e1&mc_eid=16e8a93ef2
Here is one of them:
Dust storm approaching, Madison County, NE.
Looks like we are back in the 1930s.
4 year old seems young for kindergarten.
Any weight vehicle, regardless of what powers it, is going to take X amount of energy to get from point A to B. The only difference is going to be in efficiency losses.
Most of those losses, not withstanding the whole manufacturing chain, in a combustion engine are internal, while most of the electrics, which ARE higher, occur from burning it’s fuel somewhere else, then transmitting it to its “fill” destination and then converting it for the charge.
Leaving the fact that there isn’t enough lithium handy to make any appreciative dent in vehicle numbers there’s zero chance that electricity is going to be generated on a scale to charge these things. It’s ALL a control scam. Oil is always going to be pumped and if for some reason that’s tight it’s going to get made, and most of the avenues are going to have light fraction that will ALWAYS find it’s market as a fuel. If markets get to have their way, electric will fill a nice niche, but it’s never going to see 10’s of percent of the vehicle population. It’s a waste of talent and resources to subsidize the pursuit of the appearance of efficiency in electrics use-wise because by the time they achieve range and charge duration parity with gas they are going to net being less efficient overall than having a vehicle that operates on simpler proven technology that you operate by filling with a liquid fuel.
To the WEF… Is this a challenge?
Thanks for the straight line...!
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