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I was at a stop light in front of the local high school by the name of Oakmont when a teenager on his bicycle road slowly by the high school cursing it and raising his middle finger–he did this over and over at the top of his voice.
Very strange. Very unsettling. My reaction is more than an elder tsk-tsking about the wayward new customs of the young. Something is very, very wrong. There is a miasm which has settled over everyone. Collective insanity? Yes, but it is more. It is stoked by evil at the top levels of the society.
terranem, I notice something similar: rage and anger and outright hostility has spread to many places and people. It’s almost as though the endless torment on the psyche and soul brought by exposure to violence, war, propaganda, corruption, etc. and one’s seeming inability to do anything to end the torment is rushing out as explosive acts of viciousness, spite and cruelty.
And of course, it may also be “stoked” on purpose by adding “fuel”.
I have been thinking in the last few days – having watched the ridiculous “show” over the last months in US and world politics – how there seems to be some kind of choreographed drama playing out. Our “audience’s” (I.e. everyday person) emotions and attention are high-jacked by the plot turns and the suspense, there are tragic heroes and villains, dastardly acts, suspense, even a score of endless media hysteria… the playwrites are in power and it is not entirely sure to what purpose this is being directed – certainly it seems a negative one for everyday people.
Conversations I have had with people who experienced something tormenting with no resolution or catharsis (eg. a bootcamp in the army, a prolonged civil war, etc.) lead me to conclude that the results of such torment are:
* shared stronger bonds between those who experience the torment together (doesn’t seem to be happening in our increasingly atomized society and when it does it is quickly squashed or subverted)
* discarding / suppression of the softer and kinder aspects of one’s nature – formation of a harder, tougher, less empathetic character (lots of cruel, rude comments and antagonism online might be evidence for this)
* compliance – in actions first and then thinking – to “get along” (certainly there are many who have adopted the group think and religiously parrot the propaganda or political correctness rules; many seem to believe it too)
* resignation, apathy and withdrawal, avoidance (this is everywhere displayed in many social issues)
I have come to think that the most important things to do are
(1) to see and somehow acknowledge the humanity each person encountered and
(2) to continue to be kind as one meets situations that offer the chance to do this.
To me, these are a sort of antidote. Not that I expect far reaching results (or even acceptance of the offer of kindness) but it still seems important.
right you are
I would ad:
3) to ‘pray’ for to be placed at “your place” in universe and to become ready for it.
to me ( sorry don’t want to offend any suffering brothers)
but to me, since rap took over, the ‘muslimification of the hood’
occupied the culture with the gestus of upbraiding, sponsored by
more or less big money.
“since rap took over, the ‘muslimification of the hood’
occupied the culture with the gestus of upbraiding”
This sounds like a demonization of Muslim people and their religion, an attempt to portray them as evil and something negative, as a people, their culture and their religion.
https://www.sikhnet.com/news/islamic-india-biggest-holocaust-world-history
On the other hand I guess Islam is non white mostly so it gets a pass on mass genocide?
The israelis/zionazis very much approve of Islamophobia in India and are doing everything they can to increase it. Along with tension with Pakistan. Just like they are working to increase Indian hostility towards China. To get India fighting both Pakistan and China in a low intensity, non-nuclear war would be an israeli wet dream come true.
I noticed the link posted by this Islamophobe (a label based upon this and other comments written under this same nick, btw), claims to be from a Sikh pov. Interesting. The Islamophobic pindo UN ambassador nikki haley also comes from a Sikh background. I wonder how much influence Mizrahi have among Sikhs, since lately what I’ve seen regarding Sikhs has a strong israeli connection. It would make a useful subject for further investigation, this Sikh-zionazi connection, to see how much zionazi corruption has been an influence.
“There is a miasm which has settled over everyone”
terra right you are I’m finding it between my former
‘red comrades’ in Hamburg’s north and me now close to the southern
border. They, the northern left, seem to be ‘Gutmenschen’-clay
in the hand of satan.
Verry bizarre,
Quick, call the police. Obviously this is a future school shooter. And these days, just even thinking about committing such a crime is enough to land a long term in prison. After all, we now see headlines often that someone is convicted of ‘planning’ a terrorist attack. So, this teenager who obviously hates high school is obviously planning horrendous murders and needs to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Get real. These kids are being wrecked, especialy young men. This teenage boy was only expressing frustration, a normal response to the war fought by zionist elites and our children.
As for shooters, it ain’t gonna be this kid that grabs a gun and starts a shoot up. It’ll be someone bred by intelligence and sent for the purpose. Normal kids might talk about it, because it’s fed to them as a ‘common’ response from multiple directions in an intelligence manipulated culture, but without the drugs and systematic abuse from multiple angles it’s never gonna happened.
Defund all intelligence and give culture back to sane people. That’s the only response that could eventually make a difference.
The phenomenon is hardly new. A psychopathic elite can do anything to maintain it’s primacy, including the destruction of our children.
Note the outake at the second link. This is a representation of modern web sayanim, stirring the pot, or frightened people making thoughtless remarks, having the same effect. Unless you mean to be one of those, it’s time to stop assisting these demonic intelligence projects.
Saturn Devouring One of his Children
https://www.franciscodegoya.net/Saturn-Devouring-One-Of-His-Children.html
https://youseeeyes.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/goya-old-men-eating-soup.jpg
someone has a hard time recognizing sarcasm.
A study says that overuse of mobile etc particularly saturation with social media actually “fries their brains” so to speak of younger minds
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-124179/Radiation-mobiles-lead-brain-damage.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3200693/Is-technology-rotting-brain-Heavy-mobile-phone-internet-use-linked-poor-attention-span.html
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.indy100.com/article/twitter-facebook-social-media-brain-mind-career-concentration-job-7429756%3famp
Forbes says it aint so much
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhedgecock/2017/01/11/is-your-iphone-really-frying-your-brain-five-things-you-need-to-know/amp/
Etc etc
There are literally tens of thousands of scientific studies demonstrating one form of biological harm or another from the types and levels of radiation (radiofrequency, non-ionizing, non-thermal levels) being used in modern mobile communication. Many of these studies were performed in the Soviet Union and the idea of these devices being harmful is not as ridiculed in Russia as elsewhere (though I haven’t been there in a while and cannot say if this is true recently).
The effects are most pronounced in the nervous and endocrine systems, and the mechanism involves voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs), which when activated, release calcium from cells. Some people become aware of these effects, either immediately or with a delayed response, but it is said that the effects are not limited to these people.
I’m trying to recall where I saw it earlier today, but Magda Havas, I think, said that about a third of people exhibit signs of sensitivity, but since the source is invisible and ubiquitous, they don’t know what is making them sick. Furthermore, one of the known effects is stimulation of endorphin release, and Ukrainian researchers (Kositsky, Nizhelska and Ponezha, 2001, which appears to have gotten stuck behind a paywall) noted that addiction is a possibility, and that similar parameters of radiation were used in place of anesthesia in the Soviet Union. This sort of physical addiction is part of what is driving the denial of the problem, as is of course money from the industries that profit and pressure from state security, which is interested in using it.
Word to the wise, read up on this and protect yourself. The BioInitiative Report is a good place to start.
Magda Havas has posted the Ukrainian review in pdf here: http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RFR-Russian-Ukrainian-1.pdf
Here is the BioInitiative Report: http://www.bioinitiative.org/
HF reminds me of hydrofluoric acid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipksRhISfM&t=314s
Periodic Tablle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#/media/File:Simple_Periodic_Table_Chart-en.svg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5478869/Paralyzed-drunk-driver-urges-teens-not-make-bad-decisions.html
Story of a young drunk girl who got aggravated
Yup so much anger on front pages and innocent vixtims…….
teranam – I saw a Canadian psychologist who said that its a peer thing – these guys talk about this online – and compete with each other – and he said – that its bad that they get so much coverage in the news because it fuels this group mentality
they’re watching each other – I mean – think what they thought when the Florida Shooting happened – these other guys who he had been chatting with about this – were all watching EVERYTHING –
of course there’s no doubt there was another shooter – there’s even a video of him (and his helpers) leaving the building
-https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/963879168432746496/vid/1280×720/yMHpU3vMzuRJCTWK.mp4
teranam13
It’s the same in Australia.
Rage everywhere.
Road rage over the slightest hesitation to rev off when the light turns green.
Pedestrian rage if they cross when the red light is still flashing.
Toddler rage in the supermarket when they can’t have the chocolates within reach.
Dog doo rage when owners don’t pick up their sh….
Drunken rage on the streets… the king hit ‘cowards one hit punch’ has killed too many young innocent men.
Drug rage is everywhere … day and night.
Sad and sorry state our young are in. And don’t get me started on the awful rap music that blasts from their cars.
The secret meeting that changed rap music and destroyed a generation
http://www.hiphopisread.com/2012/04/secret-meeting-that-changed-rap-music.html
Putin says that the key to Russia’s “greatness” is a strong economy and innovation:
https://www.rt.com/business/420783-putin-russia-economy-innovation/
Right? Almost. He missed out women’s power. The key to Russia’s greatness long term is a population growth rate of at least 3% sustained over 30 years.
Odd that in the context of International Women Day, he could miss this!
Russia’s greatness: ” wisdom of the ancestors – wisdom of the people”
hence: planetary wisdom at each’s place.
Culture wars USA: just to add some badly needed humor.
I just designed a tee-shirt over the phone and on line with Kelly from Custom Ink of Reno, NV . It is very cute mainly ; her design but my idea:
” Save the alpha male!!! ” with a very alpha male looking cartoon whale with a sailor’s cap. Black design on Red.
She did a good job….I had to explain to her about the “Save the Whale” movement some years back and what an alpha animal was and Tucker Carlson’s Wednesday night program about the crisis of American males etc. etc. and that I wanted to lighten up the cultural discussion a bit. She became very helpful—said I could wear the tee shirt with black tights—and jazzed up the design a bit. Gave me washing instructions etc.
Great, terra? my add:
save the alpha male +
+ = meaning, with an embraced anima within
Brilliant suggestion mundanomaniac 🌟Grasping the meaning of “integrity” – the whole person – too long denied and crushed by the PTB which pass as “authorities” in our intentionally dislocated alienated communities.
What about the female control freaks? In pindoland, standing behind almost every “alpha male” is a female with a whip in one hand and a leash, which is attached to his balls, in the other. :-D
Yes vot tak these are not whole women in the sense of ‘integrity’ implied in my comment, or, I’m assuming what mundanomaniac intended.
Sorry if I’m wrong mundanomaniac.
It’s a Jungian construct in which men must acknowledge and embrace their anima (feminine principle) and women must embrace their animus (male principle) . It is an essential part of doing our own shadow work.
The Christian counterpart is pulling the beam out of our own eye before complaining about the speck of dust in our neighbour’s eye.
It is a long and painful process which most avoid. And so we live in a world in which those who do not reflectively transform their wounds, transmit them: the people you describe so well.
I’m constantly fascinated by what is and is not called a terrorist attack. It seems to have much more to do with the political needs of the government than evidence and reality.
For instance, just a few years ago, would not the headlines have been screaming about those evil terrorists launching a nerve agent attack on a British shopping mall?
We are being told that no one but the Russians might have done this. But, we are also told that any chemical weapons attacks in Syria must be by Assad because the good terrorists like Al-Qaeda and ISIS wouldn’t possibly use such weapons.
So, why is it at least not possible that this attack in Britain might have been a terrorist attack which just happened to hit an ex-Russian/British double agent?
Latest thinking is this happened at the guys home…..although media has video of two “unknown persons” near a restaurant where the victims went and illogically touting them as perpetrators possibly probably hoping they have some kind of connection to Russia( my mums uncle Eddy married a white Russian refugee daughter of some general after the Russian revolution or other in the 1920’s probably so maybe I had better watch out)..meanwhile
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5481713/Calls-grow-UK-freeze-assets-London-based-Russian-oligarchs.html
Rio Carnival 2018 [HD] – Floats & Dancers | Brazilian Carnival | The Samba Schools Parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJYVxXk22I
The US military raped male children in front of their mothers in Abu Ghraib prison, and female soldiers filmed it. The video is coming out, despite the US attempts to suppress it:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/classified-evidence-us-soldiers-raped-boys-in-front-of-their-mothers/200160/#.WqKaJEhSBqW.facebook
The US military like a gigantic spider
The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worldwide-network-of-us-military-bases/5564
This cracked me up:
“OUR POTUS wears mom jeans & rides a girls bicycle. Putin rides a Grizzly Bear & whips it with a live Rattlesnake 😄 pic.twitter.com/J0zDFJQVja
— Sarge (@X_USAF_E7) 31 декабря 2016 г.”
Written at the end of the obama regime, so about obama. Trump never advanced beyond a tricycle, and it has been many years since he last rode one.
Kings and Fools
by ioan
The kings are pretty sure
Human beings are mostly fools
Defensive weapons, what for ?
Surely, just in case of war
With a trick they changed the name
From “War Ministry” to “Defense”
And all this, without shame
Cause as such, it makes sense
From afar, it looks peaceful
For the crowds, for the fools,
Everyone has done the same,
Who has not, to put the blame ?
But the kings are also humans,
And as such, they’re also fools
Between them are many Trumans
Willing soon to use their tools.
Thinking people, are too few
If they speak and tell the truth,
For the mass, they are the fools
Who don’t know the rules.
Let it be , point your fingers
From the crown, till the ground
Anyway, there are some stinkers
Who pollute the air, around.
They want something, something more
They want chaos, with some war
By defending their “human values”
Every trick they dare to use.
Kept between, as beef in sandwich
What can do a thinking man ?
Either has the craft of witch
Or survive as he/she can.
Anglo Color Revolution attempt under way….
The Empire wishes wish to overthrow the governments of Hungary and Slovakia, which are seen as pro Russian, Hungary is building a nuclear power plant with Russia, Slovakia uses the MiG 29 … Today there was a mass demonstration in Bratislava against the government, based on the murder of a journalist who exposed ‘corruption’. The anglo methods do not change. Always against ‘corruption’ and ‘russian puppets’. Its not hard to start a Color Revolution, when anglo control all the media….Yet still the students and so called intellectuals fall for it. No doubt there will be a neoliberal government there soon. It is too late, because Hungary and Slovakia signed up to the NATO and EU prison, and will not be allowed out. That is why Serbia and Moldova are not joining, they know what it means.
The fulltranscript of this interview is now available:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-10/putin-megyn-kelly-maybe-us-paid-hackers-maybe-they-were-ukrainians-or-jews
Here’s the reality of life for most in the USA:
The Nightmare Kingdom: 73% of Disneyland’s (Anaheim, California) employees can’t afford basic necessities of life – 11% are homeless.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-study-20180228-story.html
UK Police Say Identified Hundreds of Witnesses in Russian ex-Spy Poisoning Case
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201803111062408037-uk-police-collects-evidence-russia-spy/
“”Counterterrorism police, investigating the Salisbury suspected nerve agent attack, have identified over 240 witnesses and are looking at more than 200 pieces of evidence,” Rudd said.
The secretary pointed out that police were carrying out a massive and substantial investigation.
“This is a serious, substantial investigation. We need to give the police and the investigators the space to get on with that… I want to stress that they are proceeding with speed and professionalism. We are putting in enormous resources to ensure that they have all the support that they need to do that,” Rudd added.”
This is what is known as zionazi/Jew-nazi theater for the goy hosts in the colonies. The similarity with the hit on the brother of the DPRK Leader last year is a dead giveaway. Even down to the israeli nerve agent used.
It should, perhaps, be noted here that the targeted victim has been said to be currently employed by MI6, reportedly as a “consultant.” Ex-spy? Also keep in mind that Porton Down is near where he lives, certainly convenient for commuting. Right away I can come up with several different scenarios that make way more sense than “Putin did it.” Stay alert for more clues buried within the “if Putin-did-it,” crazy-conspiracy-theory hysteria.
(Have we heard from the hoax folks yet?)
Other possibilities
http://theduran.com/the-poisoning-of-sergei-skripal-reads-right-to-hillary-clinton-and-the-dnc/
The zionazi-gay theater continues:
Dead or not? The Times breaks news of ex-Russian spy death on its front page… but it isn’t true
https://www.rt.com/uk/421017-russian-times-spy-fake/
“It’s either fake news or The Times knows something we don’t – the paper’s first edition ran emblazoned with the shocking – and untrue – headline: “May set to hit back at Russia over spy death.” Except he’s not dead… oops.
In light of the aforementioned survival of the Skripals, the Murdoch-owned Times has an urgent correction to their front-page headline. To reflect the facts, they have replaced the word “death,” with “attack.”
So, all is well again in the fake news corner once more… until you remember that The Times, other British media outlets, and senior MPs seem more than happy to point the finger of suspicion back at the Kremlin, despite having no proof of Russian involvement.”
One wonders if FSB are doing any investigations in Russia and “elsewheres” to discover motives…other assassination groups operatives agendas etc etc hope so…
What would they be investigating???
There’s been absolutely no evidence at all that leads back to Russia, so, what exactly are they supposed to be doing? Seems like it would be a giant waste of time searching for mythical assasination cells based only to the imagination of british tabloid writers?
Well maybe they might have information helpful to Russian Ambassadeurs response as required by PM May on Wednesday……or could be facing a declaration of “war” of some kind….considering the complete and total demonisation of VVP and Russian state for everything at UK parliament just now that Rusdia is guilty and must( but cannot they hope) prove itself innocent…. Magnitsky…remove veto UN…ukraine…Crimea…state sponsored murders…breaking down international law and order .. shut Rt ..russiam mafia walking on our streets..Russian agression expansion….repression of Russian peoples…protect Baltics…etc etc…I suspect larger agenda is to claim Russia as an enactor of “chemical warfare itself”….then Russians worth as a supporter of non use of chemical weapons by Assad is also totally denigrated… hence now will be claimed Assad has used chemical weapons not rebels( remembering UN will not accept that)….so USA is “prepared to act again ” says Hayley with missiles against Assad and his government and SAA at UN today……blaming Russia too for supporting Assad and permitting chemical attacks… so does it still come down to is Syria a Russian ally to protect with the new weaponry?
Just an example of how highly surveiled the US and UK citizens are. In other words, the police have the pervasive security camera footage that records everything and everyone almost everywhere outside the home, and now they’ve run it through facial recognition and are thus identifying everyone who went shopping that day.
That’s life in the west. Go shopping, get interrogated. Undoubtedly with the police shoving pictures of ‘known Russians’ in your face and wanting you to be a witness against them if you want this interrogation to end anytime soon.
Makes one almost long for the ‘good ole days’ when all one had to do was to stand and sing the national anthem when required and make sure to say the right things to the local informers.
‘Sort this out for yourselves first, then come talk to us’ – Putin to BBC journalist on Skripal case
https://www.rt.com/news/421050-putin-skripal-agent-reaction/
“Sort this out for yourselves first, then come talk to us,” said the Russian president, when asked about the case by a BBC journalist during a visit to the southern region of Krasnodar. Putin then emphasized that he was in the region to deal with matters related to agriculture, not international espionage.
Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK said that its citizens in the country had been experiencing “psychological pressure” and “anxiety,” while several journalists “have been receiving threats.” It stated that the “anti-Russian campaign” was also prejudicing the investigation.”
The zionazification of britain is now total.
‘Start Making Babies Or You’ll Be Cleaning Chinese Boots’ – Top Russian Priest (Smirnov) to a Dying Nation (Video)
https://russia-insider.com/en/start-making-babies-or-youll-be-cleaning-chinese-boots-top-russian-priest-smirnov-dying-nation-video
Removed. Please stick to facts not untruthful speculations. Mod
After twitter removed or censored tweets about Israeli behaviour toward Palestinians that were not approved by the Empire, users have been migrating to a new twitter-like platform devoted to liberty and freedom of political expression, something that is long overdue.
https://gab.ai/Canthama
Turkish media reports that the US drawing down its forces at Incirlik airbase in Turkey:
https://ahvalnews.com/turkey/us-military-reducing-presence-turkeys-incirlik-air-base
Attn: Vot Tak… Yes, as one noted male –probably an English homosexual-once said archly and wittily enough, “the female of the species is more deadly than the male” no doubt referring to female lions who hunt for the pride and some insects like spiders. It does not cover the human species, however .
That said…let it be clear that everyone is at risk for dismemberment and social alienation by the powers that be in the Western world. Women can be very nasty but since at this point in time they produce all members of society both male and female it is important their well being. Hitler knew that. Stalin and his gold star mothers knew that. The social re programmers ( i.e. black magicians) of Hollywood also know that: Have Afro American men running around mouthing songs about their own women as “ho”s and watch them self destruct with their communities, the women and their children following with the poison seeping into the vulnerable ones in the community at large.
Thanks must go to the grandmothers for the continued survival of the Afro American under class!
By the way, the universal intelligence really does have a sense of humor: A very drunk old geezer driving into the park nearly took himself and a utility shed completely out the other night. Ol’ -Save the Alpha Male” here intervened to marshal forces . He followed my friend who slowly lead him home in her car and there was Bill an ex prison guard whose upper body strength was needed to pick him up off the front stairs ( darn, I nearly got him to the door upright) and his 92 year old mother opened the door to receive him.
We need each other. No one makes it alone. Growth requires forgiveness and willing to see everything with the eyes of a child but not the mentation of one.
t13
Well, since this is the “cafe”, why not…
“no doubt referring to female lions who hunt for the pride and some insects like spiders.”
You think spiders are brutal, check out the courtship ritual practiced by praying mantis. Talk about losing one’s head for love. ;-)
But looking at animal social skills from a somewhat different area, though still bug, there is the infamous bedbugs:
http://www.crome.org/wp/2009/02/procreation-by-homosexual-rape/
Gotta laugh at the link title below the short write up there:
“Click to read about the bedbugs and other terrifying penises.”
I guess that’s one of those “click at your own risk” sort of warnings. ;-D
“It does not cover the human species, however .”
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. Humans, and their mutant relations are part of the same biosphere, and though the bs merchants endlessly proclaim their superiority, humans, and especially their right-wing off-shoots, are only a variation of this world we live in.
“powers that be”
This is a term that literally implies these “powers that be” are in position by some sort of natural state of affairs. It also implies that one must submit to these “powers that be”, that resistance is futile.
The right-wing plague running the conformist, dumbed down “west” is not some normal human condition, but an extremely warpo state where power rests in the hands of a very few, while the majority wallow in self absorbed govno, reinforced by a very effective zionazi devised form of psywar, which can be condensed to sowing division where none needs to be and keep the marks chasing their own tails and denouncing others for not running in circles fast enough, chasing their own tails.
“Women can be very nasty but since at this point in time they produce all members of society”
You forgot something here. You left out the role the male has. We are not amoebas, even though the right wishes it to be so, like most of their other nonsense devised to keep the status quo in zionazia intact. You also expressed your bias. A bias whole heartedly reinforced by the psywar used on us by the zionazis and their capitalist cohorts. Especially in pindoland, and I should add, which especially provides a fertile atmosphere there to work with.
“Have Afro American men running around mouthing songs about their own women as “ho”s and watch them self destruct with their communities, the women and their children following with the poison seeping into the vulnerable ones in the community at large.
Thanks must go to the grandmothers for the continued survival of the Afro American under class!”
Yes, Black people are undoing society at large, especially those “black men”. This is the standard zionazi refrain from the white supremacist half of the zionazi pindo media. Gotta promote those zionazi black vs white psywar memes.
Your account of the drunk was a good example of “We need each other”, helping each other out, despite your prejudicial description. Problem is what happens next time. It has to be taken further. Or serious tragedy will ensue.
Drunk driving is one of those societal issues where I think very few are dealing with in a way that could stop the problem. This is because they go at it from a right-wing pov, rather than an intelligent weighing of options that would actually solve the problem – since those corrective options would entail a leftwing solution, based upon individual support and input, and not upon the “one size fits all” conform and forget, and above all, reinforce authority, shorthand of right-wing, monkey see, monkey do.
I’ve noticed that quite a few people on here have passed the age of fifty. Some by a considerable number of years,
A cane, and/or umbrella is a very good companion, and can be helpful in many ways, not just for support on uneven and slippery surfaces or weather conditions, but also for self defense.
Series of educational videos, starting with this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en2nLkUdrWg might be of interest?
Rest of this series is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgzvIHVEgmXmQXu4YqjVHFg
Relatively new martial art in our western societies. Read about it here:
http://www.nycsteampunk.com/bartitsu/manuals/TheWalkingStickMethodOfSelfDefence1923.pdf
A cane (walking stick) or an umbrella does not resemble a weapon in most peoples minds, especially if the one carrying it is a senior.
Consider “The unbreakable umbrella” as a choice for rainy days.
Here: https://unbreakableumbrella.com/unbreakable-walking-stick-umbrella-standard/
Regards
Kent
Good stuff , Kent. Myself, I will be 71 in June.
In 1966′ my Infantry training included “Pugil Sticks” which resembled BIG “qtips”.It was a wooden dowel approx 1-1-1/4″ dia x approx 60″ long with tight padded canvas on each end. It was used in place of a rifle with bayonet in “thrust and parry” training. It was great training and quite competitive in a sawdust “pit”, one on one. You could use it any way to your advantage as we wore mitts and helmets, including like a baseball bat. We were destined for Nam so this training got rough. We had a Drill Sgt Fujikawa who’s name gives a clue to his expertise. None of us could lay a stick on him. I was good but no match for him. If you defeated 3 or 4 in a row the Sgts added opponents till you lost. I beat 2 but got ko’d by 3!
In close quarters with a VC I had captured, I reacted to a move he made with a blow from the stock of my M16. I was as surprised as he.
When someone asks me “what is the best self defense weapon?” My reply is always “the one you have on you”.
My best,
Steve
Call off the search party!
I was close by, all along, skirmishing with red-baiting vera who panned Putin’s speech and some dude that was not nearly as decentralized as she……….But I severely doubt I will find any congeniality with her in the crypto-sphere of decentralized peer to peer open ledger transactions.
You might send one (search party) for Dennis, though. He disappeared.
That’s a pity. He and vera might hit it off. He panned the Putin speech too, you know.
My wife gloated about the military technology for a few hours and then talked for days with her pro-Putin mom about how Vlad shouldn’t scare people. I guess if I was a Russo-American I might be a lot more nicey-nicey, as well.
But since I am only married to one, I can be 10 times more openly pro-Putin and not give a damn what some brainwashed Californian might say about the speech. So far, not one word from anyone I know!
You might think I’m enjoying my break from pasta critiques, but absence makes the heart grow fonder.and that’s my niche: trying to make sense and order out of a heaping chaotic plate of the stuff. Ah, the art of culinary criticism!
Actually his namesake never left me. I can’t seem to shake “al dente” Denisons for either Love….or Money!
The How to Get Rich author’s name is also Dennis! Felix Dennis and he has a poetry website!
I told you that sex and money are related in some perverse way.
And reverse way. “And the First (name of one Dennis) Shall Be Last” name of the other Dennis.
Besides pretending to appall leftists (I gently tease my wife, never appall her….) I read How to Get Rich not to get rich, by any means (too late for me!) but to study the principles as applied to the microsphere (individuals like the author/published of WIRED, MAXIM and many other magazines relating to computers, Bruce Lee and such) and counterpose those principles to the ones that order the macrosphere…OBOR…the Prosperity of Nations.
Or that’s my excuse. In reality you have a rather entertaining and complex Englishman whose humor (where there is angst…and there is plenty in both sex and money…..there is release….meaning laughter, of course.) was excellent medicine for my aches and pains. Plus, I am looking for the macrosmic application of the principles Mr Dennis outlines. Some seriousness is good for balance.
Now, out of work, and purposeless, I wander aimlessly through the Vineyard seeking completion, wholeness, and release from Sinned, the reverse of Dennis.
Which Dennis?
Whichever, no doubt, the last has not been heard….of either one! Here’s Mr Dennis:
“I have wasted vast amounts of my life ‘laying up treasure’. I have exiled myself for months at a time to plunder the riches of the USA and to bring them back to Europe. Many are the nights I lay awake in my New York apartment, listening to the eerie sirens and street sounds which define that great city, while I dreamed of spring in an English country garden thousands of miles away.
Let’s pause, just for a moment, to consider how I came to regard that trek in hindsight and in sonnet form:
Prodigal Son
Often I ventured in Babylon’s towers
Never a friend I met—never a one,
Playing the part of the prodigal son.
Many the weeks and many the hours,
Barely a moment to think of the flowers
Patiently budding in Warwickshire’s air.
Never a thought of a snapdragon there,
Or May on the hedge. All of my powers
Spent upon gilding the lilies of gain,
While blue-eyed forget-me-nots lowered their gaze,
Their beauty unmourned in an English lane.
Yet now, as I lie amidst Babylon’s maze
Decked in the trappings of fabulous dross,
By the sirens of night, I weep for their loss.
Well, I can weep all I want. Not a moment of those long, long years of worshipping Mammon can be brought back. Just as I cannot bring back the dead forget-me-nots from past spring days I never saw.
Does it matter that I nowown the lane or half the country for that matter? Or that it was purchased with treasure brought back from across the Atlantic after years of sweat? You might want to think about that.
But don’t think too long if you want to get rich.
Then he’s off on the hunt…….”for a gazelle….with diamonds in its intestines” (another business opportunity) coaching the reader on how to leave the sinews for assistants, and managers “and claim the heart and liver for yourself”.
Kind of a contrast with our Love Commander, I would say!
Note the title of this Sputnik article:
Apartheid Much? Israeli Jerusalem Residency Law Provokes Widespread Outrage
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201803111062420507-israel-palestinians-residency-bill-reaction/
“On March 7, the Israeli Parliament passed a law allowing the interior minister to revoke the residency rights of Palestinians living in Jerusalem on the vague grounds of “breach of loyalty” to Tel Aviv.
Hanan Ashrawi, a senior official of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) quickly slammed the controversial new legislation by the Israeli Knesset, calling it “extremely racist.”
“By unethically stripping the residency of Palestinians from Jerusalem and depriving the rights of those Palestinians to remain in their own city, the Israeli government is acting in defiance of international law and is violating international human rights and humanitarian laws,” he stated.
On Saturday, Turkey condemned a law passed by the Knesset, with the country’s foreign ministry department stating that Ankara rejects “this illegitimate step that reveals Israel’s intention to increase efforts to change the demography of East Jerusalem, disregarding the basic human rights of Palestinians.”
Presenting israel in media as the extremist right-wing, bigoted pariah it actually is is the first step to erradicating the israel/zionazi problem.
The American two-party system is only one party better than the old Soviet one-party system. And that was before the two parties agreed to represent only the same groups of rich people and corporations.
From Rob Urie,…
“It can’t be completely unknown by the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and the DNC (Democratic National Committee) that voters have been fleeing the Democratic Party. As a political entity, this is a catastrophe. But as a corporation that derives its revenues from duopoly control of the electoral process, it is selling access to those who have the means and desire to pay for it, and not political outcomes. In other words, even if Democrats keep losing elections, they still have access to the electoral process as their ‘product.’
This is part of what makes the ‘Russian meddling’ storyline so insidious. It is an institutional end-run around the likely impact of this widespread political disaffection. If disaffection is reframed from internal to external opposition, it becomes an external challenge to national interests as defined by those with the power to do so. That this is the desired outcome of national Democrats should end the seemingly eternal fraud that they are a less strident Left rather than the more effective friends of the reactionary right.
A quick bet is that many, if not most, on the Left who view the ‘meddling’ thesis as a sideshow would be happy to see Donald Trump and his minions brought down in flames by the charges. However, the follow-on would be that de facto control over the electoral process would from that point forward belong to profoundly anti-democratic forces in the U.S. intelligence agencies and military. Furthermore, Democrats who see the likelihood of progressive change in prospective national Democratic Party candidates deserve exactly what they have coming. Too bad for the rest of us.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/12/democrats-and-the-crisis-of-legitimacy/
The March 1st statement or RF leader was a historical moment say a game changer.
Vasiliy Небензя addressing UN in very strong language singling out axes of evil. There is new sherif in town (use your favorite online translator)
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/polite_russia/jestkii-otvet-rossii-v-oon-osharashil-zapad-do-vystupleniia-putina-tak-s-nimi-esce-nikto-ne-govoril-5a9d6557868b9d01706aa406?utm_campaign=transit&utm_source=mirtesen&utm_medium=news&from=mirtesen
Putin. Documentary film of Andrey Kondrashov. Part 1 – English subtitles available
published on March 11, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RK2xmLVkDI&t=3s
Putin. Documentaryfilm of Andrey Kondrashov. Part 2 – English subtitles avaiable
published on March 15, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrDJbA5n9s
Britain gives Moscow two days to explain alleged use of nerve agent from Russia
https://www.rt.com/uk/421078-may-skripal-russia-parliament/
Do I detect a logical fallacy of the ‘Have you stopped beating your wife -yes or no” variety?
“Either this was a direct act by the Russian State against our country, or the Russian government lost control of this potentially catastrophically damaging nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others.”
And I wonder what will happen if those two days are off ? It sounds like an ultimatum but maybe is just a scream in the jungle because the days of Ghouta are counted and they cannot do anything to reverse the end game. Though, after these two days, the target may be the World Cup.
UK’s ‘bold’ accusations in Skripal case may lead to severance of diplomatic ties – Russian senators
https://www.rt.com/news/421084-uk-skripal-accusations-envoy-recall/
“There are few precedents of such political pressure and blackmail, and all of them ended in one fashion – severance of diplomatic ties or their downgrade in the form of a recall of ambassadors,” Russian Senator and intelligence veteran Igor Morozov said.
The accusations represent the “utmost disrespect” towards international law, since not even a trace of evidence, proof or fact was presented to link Skripal’s case to Russia, Morozov said.
The head of the Federal Council committee tasked with protecting Russia’s sovereignty, Senator Andrey Klimov, said that the whole situation around Skripal’s case looks like a premeditated anti-Russia provocation. While the former double agent was of “no interest” to Russia, the incident is very convenient for foreign intelligence services, he stated.
“If the UK decides to expel Russian diplomats in connection with the Skripal case, Moscow’s response will be adequate and swift, this situation as a whole looks like a well thought-out anti-Russian move,” he said.
The provocation might be politically motivated, coming as it has shortly before the presidential elections in Russia, on March 18. “It’s a serious, real plot against our country, considering our political calendar,” Klimov said, not ruling out a possibility that the incident might also be used to disrupt the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
Senator Morozov, for his part, has favored the latter version in his assessment of the UK’s actions.
“I am convinced that the goal of all this is to disrupt the 2018 FIFA World Cup. This is very similar to Great Britain’s boycott of the Olympics in Sochi,” Morozov said.”
I think after today, we need a Saker analysis of the events. The US statements in the UN and the UK over the British spy Skripal. I don’t like the feeling of the West doubling down on their negativity. People are being groomed to hate each other by the mass media. Kind of frightening.
I notice recently a possible beginning of new trend of prowest stance in Russia. I am a scientific/physics researcher and don’t research for geopolitical subject specifically so this might not be a relevant actual trend.
Recently – Pro West segment of RAS(Russian Academy of Science) Comitte to Combat Pseudoscience, for the first time officially declared following pseudoscience and lobbied that Government should change policy regarding them: Basically they said 1- Homeopathy has no effects, 2-GMO has no risk for human.
Debating actual physical effect of these effects would divert my point so I won’t go in there, but when this committee declares something, usually media doesn’t criticize this committee(except 10-15% of pro nationalist type media) – Again I am not going into their action or scientific criteria as this would divert attention.
For example: In the past the committe criticezed Governments use of psychics and psychotronic technology in 90s and 00s eventually followed by their official cancellation of project. Some TV programs were criticized for promoting same type of technologies and media later starting to back track on nonconventional scientific physical effects.
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Recently, I also notice RT was talking about Radio Liberty(US govn’t media for CIS) as if this is legitimate media entity. Also under their Most Evil Corporations talked about Apple computer but none of Western defence contractors, medial group, or monsanto type bio companies.
So the question, can this be a start of new trend of prowestern group starting to take over Russian mainstream? Or am I not reading the whole trend?
Thanks. New Nature Paradigm
No, you heard it on the grapevine, but it’s not true. Dennis did not disappear; don’t be fooled by the cheer from the peanut gallery upon his perceived absence. Dennis the Leary, not Dennis the Cat, had to take rain days to keep dry in his motor home, and to wrestle with the “hard rain” of the d/evil’s reign, in the Art of the Trump.
It was a second “rumble in the jungle”; good thing I played “rope a dope” to conserve my energy. I was down for a count of nine, but rose just in time to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” I gave the foreman a left fake and and a right double cross, and he went down like a top-heavy empire. I thought I was going to have to throw in the towel and wave a white flag, but the Love Army gave me smelling salts and a “shot of love.”
I’m at the club today but it’s rain tomorrow so I’ll do another short retreat. Love, willing I’ll be back on Wednesday. I was surprised to meet Dennis Felix, a Wired Poet in the champion ring with Inspired Bro. With these two bearing down on me, I have to train in the rain and reign in the pain.
My anima, Denise Dennis wrote the following to distract the empire’s attack on Dennis the Menace. When the going gets rough, she can be pretty tough. I was too embarrassed to post it but nothing seems to bother her.
“Oh, me oh my, how I love this country pie.” I live in the country, not the far country, but far enough away from the big cities. There’s a village of a thousand people a mile away; and Ojai of 6000 three miles away; and I’m in the Ojai Valley of 30,000. “She’s got the pork chop, I’ve got the pie.” Miles proves that Pi=4, with simple math, and a simpler experiment with items you can get at a hardware store for under $10. The mainstream scientists hate him for it, out of jealously and self-hatred for selling their souls to the system, for way less than thirty silver pieces of silver.
I enjoy free associating like this. There’s a method in the apparent madness, which escapes the lock jaw of logic, while keeping the joy of reason. I try to keep a balance between logical and looney tune minds; philosophy and theology; science and faith; prose and poetry; and Bro the Bit-ace and Dennis the Men-ace.
It was 48 degrees in the motor home this morning, a “bit” chilly for me; which I handle by dressing for the North Pole. This moveable beast on four wheels has no heat, lights, electricity, running water or internet; but a do have a computer with battery, propane stove and two wire lifts over my couch-bed to get in and out of bed, and turning over in the same–all due to the law of cause and consequence of my stupidity, resulting in a sore back that barely allows me to get the essentials of life met with a pace slower than molasses in January running uphill.
I’ve had these lifts before for a broken collarbone, humerus bone and femur neck bone. “The back bone is connected to the neck bone and etc…” According to the holistic theory of spooky action at a distance, butterfly effect, Schrodinger’s cat, quantum leaps, black swans and crystal balls, we are all connected. I don’t know if it’s true, but it makes for excellent and entertaining poetry.
I cooked a big pot of buckwheat to warm the place up, and my core as well. At three hours from rising, I sat in the sun with my computer on my lap; nice and warm, but the glare had me squinting like a China doll, so I emptied the rat traps and garbage, took a stroll through my outdoor museum of sacred art and came back in here, opening the windows to let the warmth in.
Why am I a writing like a “rambling wreck from Ojai Tech”? I believe in the maxim: the personal is the political and the political is the personal. In other words, what I do personally affects the whole universe, according the part and whole paradigm, and the universe likewise affects me. If I want to stop the war on Russia, I must stop the war in me. I do that by participating in a vineyard that flies that banner, and marches behind that flag. I also have my own website which shares a similar, but broader, mission; so it makes an effective “marriage of true minds.”
I just had a buckwheat salad for lunch to charge up my personal battery; and walked 150 feet to the electric board to charge my political computer battery. It’s a beautiful day here: 80 degrees, cloudless sky, greenery coming up from the couple of decent rains we’re had and Nature dressed in her finest. She is so gorgeous, and when my back heals, she will be even more lovely.
I guess being a walking invalid in tolerable pain has its rewards; I think of how great I’ll feel when healed. In the meantime, I get a chance to deal with the d/evil: when I see his image, I feel love automatically activate and flow towards him. I mean who else needs it more? I work with the Devil card in tarot; kind of like with an Orthodox icon. To my left, I’m looking at my drawing of the D/evil as a naked man in a cage, with irons on this neck and ankle, which plays off the tarot “Devil” card. My openly naked rendition is part of my Sex Tarot Deck of 78 cards, matching my age, but not my sexual capacity in old age. Now I’m more into sacramental (sacred mental) spirituality.”
Denise Dennis, Anima
Life is precious, Dennis. Glad your okay.
http://jungiancenter.org/jung-and-the-new-dispensation/
“According to the holistic theory of spooky action at a distance, butterfly effect, Schrodinger’s cat, quantum leaps, black swans and crystal balls, we are all connected. I don’t know if it’s true, but it makes for excellent and entertaining poetry.”
At the haberdashery in my little mid-west town buying an iron-on racing car patch for sons ripped jacket, the young, pretty assistant says : “‘it’s been a day of selling patches, yesterday was a run on zips!” oh, that’s amazing I said. yes, she said softly, wrapping up the patch, ‘we’re all connected aren’t we?’
All of israel’s buggered quislings are lining up to play their part in the false flag.
Tillerson: Russian Ex-Spy’s Poisoning ‘Will Trigger a Response’
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201803131062461482-tillerson-russian-ex-spy-poisoning-trigger-a-response/
“United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday that the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal “clearly came from Russia,” and that it “will trigger a response.”
May, Macron Agree to Jointly Address ‘Aggressive Russian Behaviour’
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201803131062463584-russia-uk-skripal-may-macron/
“They discussed the wide pattern of aggressive Russian behaviour and agreed that it would be important to continue to act in concert with allies to address it… They agreed that the French and British governments should coordinate closely as the investigation developed and following Russia’s response,” the UK Prime Minister’s Office spokesman said.”
Stoltenberg: Former Spy Skripal’s Poisoning ‘of Great Concern to NATO’
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201803131062462515-nato-general-Skripal-poisoning-UK/
Time to confiscate the assets of israelis yet?
Re: the Brits, the USA, NATO the coming attack on Russia in Syria. Remember how the shock and awe attack on Iraq and its people was called:
Operation Infinite Justice?
How about this one coming up:
Operation Perpetual Folly?
By the way the movie, “Roman J. Israel, Esq”. is a very well made modern Christian parable which plays with the question, ” Can one live totally principled all the time in a fallen world”? There is even a hilarious take off of the Lazarus story along with a potentially deadly stand off with two very nervous white cops. The cameo performances are excellent. There is No sex and only violence as fits the plot and it is done discretely so as to serve the story.