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It appears the worst may be coming true, Santa’s gifts not arriving until after the new year, then needing to be stored during a worker and wearhouse shortage, for the rest of the year, what if all the holidays were backed up, can you economic nightmare?? Reverse efficiency at its best, and the mental toll on the already traumatized kids.
It may be worse, really worse.
It is said that the truck driver license (I used to have one) now is subject to random drug tests, and the mandarin lackeys of Uncle transmit an order to license holders “at random” (?!!) to report to a drug testing lab they designate immediately or their license and livelihood will be cancelled, more or less instantly. They obey, of course – some might say “in servitude” – anyway the labs say they don’t have materials and so forth, or personnel (the old blame the magic decoy routine) and the consequence is the incremental elimination of drivers and more or less no new drivers…
So, for big quiz ask if anybody would buy the old innocence routine…
Ah recall FDR (some say he was poisoned) said that ” there are no coincidences in politics ”
Withal, “supply chain” is – can it be said? No. It’s a tired gag. Dark winter? Didn’t that good man and celestial intellect, Joe, blab about that some time ago…
You get the gvt you deserve, they should go test those 3rd shift nurses and get that industry to collapse.
I’m enjoying the show, but staying far away.
The worst possible may begin to unfold when the tide of Christmas consumerism and misery is aborted ? Now this sounds promising….
Stock up, buy up, get it while you can….
Shortages and empty shelves ahead……
More fear porn.
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I can’t be sure when I began to really detest Christmas.
Not “Christmas”, but the fake charade and necessity to consume consume consume.
Christmas as a kid was of course exciting and novel.
Huge fun. But nothing like now, with the seeming obligation to buy and acquire. Tables groaning with food, decorations and novelty items…. I can’t recall that kind of excess as a kid.
We got one gift from mum n dad, one gift from Santa, and a “back to school” item like a set of coloring pens or blank writing books, or similar. These school items were unwrapped and then relinquished until school started at the end of January.
That was it.
And all I remember is the fun and excitement of cousins, swimming, skinned knees and general mayhem.
When did it become this burdensome chore to buy buy buy; Griswald your house; require a second and third fridge for all the food and drinks. ? Madness.
I know for years we’ve been trying to cut back, reduce and limit the insanity. Opt out.
It’s not a matter of being tight, or stingy, or The Grinch. (As we’ve been libeled). But trying to retain balance and proportion.
My niece is nudging 30, so my revulsion at the excess extends back almost that long.
Her first Christmas, she was still in that pupae stage. Where you have zero control of any of your bodily functions… can’t even lift your head. She had no clue, but as the newest addition she was the Christmas cutie.
Next year, at not yet two, she was not too sure what Christmas was all about, but she thought she approved. Again she was the youngest and cutest.
The next year we have a giant “everyone” Christmas, and after lunch it’s presents. I watch from the sidelines.
Miss Almost Three, as she is now, has a huge haul.
I watch as she rips half the wrapping away from one gift, sees what it is… grimaces in contempt, throws it back in the pile and reaches and rips into another. And another.
She was not alone, all the cousins were buried deep in wrapping and toys, and none seemed particularly thrilled or excited with their treasure.
I sat and wondered how, at just three, – her first “real” Christmas where she was cognisant enough to understand why she was being given presents- … how the hell did she already know what was “worth” having? What was a highly prized gift, and what was to be dismissed as dross?
How had she already acquired a consumer mindset and appraising eye?
Not even three, and already …. all these gifts, and it wasn’t enough, still sought to wrestle a “better” toy from a cousin. The tantrum was heroic.
I wasn’t the only one noticing, and appalled. The next year we introduced “secret Santa”, and gift buying and receiving was severely reduced … but even with this attempt to restrain and curtail, the excesses just keep creeping in.
And that’s why now I seethe and resent “Christmas”…. this hollow orgy of consuming and focusing on stuff.
Last year was great, because of lock down. Things got pared right back, and it was more like childhood Christmas, with the emphasis on sitting around talking and enjoying company.
If shelves are empty for Christmas 2021, I for one, will be delighted.
But I’m a grinch, apparently.
I never buy presents for my loved ones at Christmas time. I give them pots of jam that I have made from plums and service berries from my garden. I also gift them paintings that I have created. They seem pretty happy with that, most of the time.
Hi Whale,
I’m a Grinch too – I agree with everything you wrote. I believe we are all subjected to various forms of entrainment from birth – so that your niece had already acquired covetousness / become a good consumer at the age of three. Psychologists working for advertisers target / manipulate children the same as adults – it’s not a multi billon dollar industry for nothing.
I’ve been thinking about how we’re all subjected to constant psychological manipulation – watching UK TV, you would believe that this was a majority black county – and majority gay / transgender too. It’s hardly an accident. I’ve seen an advert recently where a young child / boy is prancing around wearing lipstick / acting over-the-top gay / trans. What the hell is it about ?
I look with dismay at all institutions that have been corrupted or are at least not fit for purpose :
– the medical profession – have gone along with all the LGBTQ BS ; have instructed doctors they cannot call pregnant women mothers / must not refer to breast feeding but chest feeding; women are referred to as birthers or menstruators – only men who have decided to be women can be called women – or else !. The constant automatic refrain on any drug ” the benefits outweigh the risks ” / the faith in the regulating authorities – which have been captured – the subservience to authority at the expense of care.
– academia – we see the spectacle of professors fired for transgressing woke diktat. A recent case of a professor showing a 60 year old film of Othello with a white actor. So, a white actor cannot act a fictional black character but a black actress can play a historical figure who was definitely white, as in the recent Ann Bolyn series ? It doesn’t even make the remotest sense. (But then that’s another tactic deployed to impose psychological control ). Are we to go into prisons and recruit murderers to act murderers / rapists to act rapists / child molesters to act child molesters ?
– the Lancet, once revered, now publishes obviously fraudulent reports and published a report recently referring to women as ” bodies with vaginas “. They issued a non apology apology – something like “..I’m sorry you were offended, but we have to do better for the transgender blah …”
– Politicians exude wokeness – the wooden top Tony Blair tribute act that is Keir Starmer recently intoned ” it is wrong to say a man does not have a cervix “. Look at the standard of leaders today : the demented Bidet, pretty boy Turdeau, Bojo the clown, Scott-the-moron Morrison and a whole band of charlatans down under – all fantastically woke.
– the corrupt judiciary colluding across countries to detain and torture Julian Assange for ten years and counting – the exposure of the fraudulent nature of the charges / evidence and the bugging / abuses – no revelation is enough to make any difference.
– the banking business model of total fraud – exposed – no consequences – regulatory capture again, ( there’s been a very good doc on RT ‘ Banksters ‘ , showing how the banks systematically targeted viable business / produced fraudulent documents / destroyed and asset stripped – insisted on personal guarantees throwing victims and families out of their homes and more. )
– the media – peddling every lie, integrity surgically removed – the level of depravity we see around us would not be possible without their considerable efforts.
– social media with unlimited power censoring all dissenting thought / presuming to fact check experts across all disciplines, fake ‘ whistle blowers ‘ produced to further the censorship agenda.
– NIST and OPCW willing to present nonsense on demand.
What to do when there is no recourse in law, when all institutions have been captured, are worse than useless or even weaponised ? I’m reminded of the JFK quote, something like ” when peaceful revolution is not possible, violent revolution becomes inevitable “, ( I used to think it was ” when peaceful reform…..which I actually think is better ! ).
I think of the Milgram experiment from about 60 years ago. He found that most people, across the board, educated and professional too, will submit to authority – even to apply electric shocks and kill. All it took was the appeal to authority / a white coat and instructions. We’ve been watching a worldwide Milgram experiment for some time – the results appear to be the same. Confused, frightened and seemingly suffering the amputation of all instinct and intuition, the people look to authority.
The entrainment from an early age seems to be :
– don’t think
– watch,
– absorb,
– conform – because I say so.
– don’t think
– listen
– repeat
– obey – – but most of all Don’t Think !
We are bombarded with psy op techniques. Fear, carrot and stick strategies, the re writing of history, the denial of historical, national and even sexual identity. the deliberate inducement of confusion. We are trained to fear everyone and everything – even our own speech. Paul Craig Roberts refers to the ‘ Rape of the Mind . ‘ The end goal is, I believe, to drive us to learned helplessness. Detachment is vital for survival – not an end to caring, but an ability to stand back / to resist the descent into despair / the succumbing to learned helplessness – at which point, all is lost.
Sorry Whale, I rambled on and veered away from your post ! :-)
SandinEd, an absolutely amazingly good ramble as far as I’m concerned, thanks!
Hi Sandra,
You hit it on the head; Entrainment is the secret sauce!
If I remember correctly from “They Live,” other key entrainment messages were
– Consume or Buy
– Sleep
– Play 8 hours etc
The protagonist recently said this was a documentary.
One of key solutions is to throw away the TV and severely limit all smaller screens to children (up to puberty).
NB in process of rollout of health passports, every human is being forced to constantly keep and use a smartphone…
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Mr P,
Re: contrived supply chain disruption.
As you know the American food supply logistics is highly dependent on truckers.
A cousin of mine used to haul long distance (E to W coast N. America) and they used to have good lifestyle in old days, and some really acquired a good education putting all that time to use.
Recent years has seen an insidious and silent way to sever supply chains by over-regulating truckers, lowering their QoL, and the coup de grâce was to mandate to guarantee a truckers exodus..
Lastly, and relevantly, the timeline of Simpsons 4 Horseman episode projects after the Plague year will be the (2022) year of Famine.
I’m thinking 7 years of famine around here, starting just like you said.
Yes indeed. I posted recently the class A license depends on “random” drug tests, and the testing sites are fubard – thus fewer and fewer drivers and few new ones.
At the Los Angeles Container Terminal the only trucks permitted are the CARB Certified – and there are very few… Implication obvious – LA wants to ruin the port, or maybe Newzzom’s bosses…who can say? Maybe they’re saboteurs running the State? (I didn’t suggest which State, did I?)
It seems that 203,000 members of the 500 locals of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Union (SMART) are making preliminary demands over a certain “medical” matter, and when the employers refuse to negotiate (they are refusing and now in violation) the Union will probably strike. ergo no trains and no airplanes…
https://www.eastonspectator.com/2021/10/15/boom-sheet-metal-air-rail-and-transportation-union-smart-with-203000-members-announces-stand-against-forced-vaccines/
I found a video https://twitter.com/i/status/1448463287918682123 (rough language) I myself have led walkouts over unannounced contract-violating drug tests that ended with the engineer – superintendent apologizing and saying “Oh, I was only kidding.” (some of the young fellas smoked pot – (and were the best welders too!)) – so we all picked up and walked, with the fool running after us, begging. And over the misclassification of emergency turbine repair as “maintenance” (which paid far less) Works every time. I’ve worked with guys just like the fella in the video. Operating Engineers are solid, IMHO and experience.
Mercours @ duran and/or duran locals recently alluded to what seems to be a general strike forming against the fascist beast across the 4th Reich (he’s less frank than I and uses carefully mild terms)
https://youtu.be/bGxjp2E0B4g (I will not obey, Utah Phillips).
https://youtu.be/mok_2xZ8iLU (solidarity forever)
I always enjoyed the strikes. Thrilling. Back in the day some even brought their rifles to the picket, since they were going hunting, later on. There were accidents, and cops. And once a light-bulb “exploded” when a 30.30 round hit it. That was in Ohio, maybe, and maybe at Goodyear, I don’t quite recall when, but longlong time ago. Most of those fellas are dead by now…and that’s all I knew even then.
I recall when Tri State Dynamite was running scabs, and the interstate turned into a crater – a terrible crime, but crime happens sometimes – you can look that one up. Those fellas are either gone or in prison.
When I was young any “scab” was very close to a fist-fight, or worse. Even rich people were afraid to cross a picket.
Simpsons… and X-file seem to be programming, don’t they indeed!
The anode/cathode couple always forms. Any time the potential is raised in a circuit a counter potential occurs (this is a law of nature, and inescapable. There is also what Marx called hysteresis, and what I would call latency, during which people swap information and sentiment and create the counter force. Our Celestial Leaders ignore this fact when they apply force and threats, and lies.
I enjoyed Martyanov’s latest, which aligns with what we see.
Best to All and let us hope for a peaceful resolution and return to the basic law of the USC and Magna Carta, and virtue over vice.
sandinED,
thank you for your thought provoking post, after all, every aspect of life is being or has become subverted. Perceived reality is in dissonance with projected reality, the unreal is presented as real. A deviant libertine values system of the ruling class is being imposed upon the whole society, through micro-managing every individuals thoughts, values, norms, assets, ability to consume and freedom. The ‘simulacra’ is the new reality.
Without understanding with detachment how the unreality is passed of as reality by the powers that be it will be difficult to move forward and can only lead to adverse affects upon our minds. Which is why we need to take a look at Jean Baudrillard’s – “Simulacra and Simulation”.
A simulacrum (plural: simulacra, from Latin ‘simulacrum’, which means “likeness, semblance”) is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.
Simulacra have long been of interest to philosophers. In his Sophist, Plato speaks of two kinds of image-making. The first is a faithful reproduction, attempted to copy precisely the original. The second is intentionally distorted in order to make the copy appear correct to viewers. He gives the example of Greek statuary, which was crafted larger on the top than on the bottom so that viewers on the ground would see it correctly. If they could view it in scale, they would realise it was malformed.
French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the ‘hyperreal’. According to Baudrillard, what the simulacrum copies either had no original or no longer has an original, since a simulacrum signifies something it is not, and therefore leaves the original unable to be located. Where Plato saw two types of representation—faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum)—Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which “bears no relation to any reality whatsoever”.
Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is a simulation of reality. Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality; they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that nothing like reality is relevant to our current understanding of our lives. The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are the significations and symbolism of culture and media that construct perceived reality, the acquired understanding by which our lives and shared existence are rendered legible. Baudrillard believed that society had become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was becoming meaningless by being infinitely mutable; he called this phenomenon the “precession of simulacra”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
– George Orwell
Sudhi,
I have read something on these concepts before – although I have definitely never read Baudrillard – I’ll look him up.
I’ve noticed that more and more when talking to people ( on any subject beyond small talk /pleasantries ), I come away with the feeing that I haven’t had a conversation at all – but rather an encounter with a recorded message. Soundbites and thought-terminating mantras reproduced and repeated amid rising discomfort – as if there’s un unspoken entreaty along the lines of, ” I can’t think – I won’t think and you can’t make me – stop ! ” I suppose there is a certain comfort in not thinking, relying on others to tell you what to think – a sort of return to care- free childhood.
Thanks Sudhi, for taking the time to write a detailed reply – it’s much appreciated – I do appreciate all your posts.
We, myself and Mrs P, tend to agree that the present consumptive ritual “Christmas” is more or less offensive to Christianity and we observe the solstice-re-birth symbolism with a ritual prayer, some alcohol, and a day of reflection and reading, generally reading aloud to one-another from our library.
When the children were little they got winter clothes and books – not much of these, either, as we rejected wealth and rente ambitions. A lot! We lived by our skills and the trades, which were and are honest means, and preferred to be in the decent working class. And we paid for that honor. There was a large inheritance, and we rejected it as a corruption of the man and his soul. Several millions…
I suppose it’s “ma korrupt Quaker blood” as they might say – We prefer to follow the inner light of Christ. And to remember the Law that man must speak truth to power, and listen to God.
(I was shocked by the displays I saw at local bigbox emporium last Monday – fake trees fake junk and fake “Xmas”.)
had a cousin
He was the coolest cat
I wanted to grow
Up to be just like that
To swing from the tree
As high as could be
I wanted to see as far as he
By the river, the rope he would ride
From a high wide branch, precariously tied.
And whoa, way way out to the middle he did glide
With the horses, down to the far back creek,
we would sneak
A quick contraband puff of his smoke
Compelling myself not to choke.
Quick to chortle though, at his dirty joke
Conceal the blank look, or my ribs he would poke
For Christmas year after year
The only thing I really held dear
Was to orbit Big Cuz
Happy to play “spotto”, while he slyly gulped uncle’s beer.
I guess – I know – I was a pest
So often told to “give it a rest”
But like a moth to a flame or a fly to a turd,
My admiration for him could not be deterred
Then in a moment the magic was gone.
The music had stopped, but I still sang along
He was older at once, a man, even if, still technically a teen
To school he’d given the flick, got a job, what a trick
Did Christmas lunch, but he needed to be quick
Sped away in his car, he and his girl, ever so slick.
Down to the creek, we still went of course
I was the Big Kid now, and thus assigned the stubborn horse
I tried to remember the things he had said
I learned the Grail of charisma cannot be force fed.
For years past my prime, I still wanted to climb
Sway and ride the rope by the river’s slope,
Compelled to run, full face to the sun
Seeking that fading, elusive Christmas fun
Skip some years and Big Cuz has moved overseas
He has a Big Job, he is a Big Cheese
I thought I’d visit, talk nonsense about That Time when we skinned our knees
A week I planned to stay, but in less than a day, we realised we really had little to say.
I too had made a life, with job, car, house and wife
But he cut me down, without recourse to a knife
Remember Ole Fartbum? Plinker? Piecart and OutOneBall?
But none of our homegrown games, nor any of the names,
Could he recall
He went so far to make ME wonder
if any of it even happened at all.
I thought we’d shoot the breeze,
From mutual memories reconstitute the fun
Of so many Christmas’s spent in the sun
But for him those times were long, long gone
And now here was I, that dim forgotten cousin,
forever a Would Be, a “hanger-on”
I wished him the best, as I said goodbye
He said “we’ll keep in touch”.
I made no pretence of believing his lie.
And so it has been, across the years
So many friends and family have receded away
And for fewer and fewer do I expend any tears
I’ve learnt to hold close those I hold dear
Let the rest fade, phantom, …disappear
Looking For A Friend
I’m looking for a friend, I’m feeling the pinch,
Been on the job since a quarter to four.
That thing won’t budge, not even an inch,
The night’s undone and I’m down on the floor.
I’m looking for a friend in which to confide,
The wife’s in bed and the kids are too.
When there’s just no way to be satisfied,
And when everything else just won’t do.
I’m looking for a friend both far and wide,
Someone to listen and someone to hear.
Someone free and unpreoccupied,
Someone that loves me and holds me dear.
I’m looking for a friend; where to begin?
Someone to help me heal the breach.
When the world of sleep won’t take me in
And the stars are still way out of reach…
Dimitar – I’m your friend ! :-)
Meanwhile, you may like this old Rolling Stones song, ‘ I’m just waiting for a Friend ‘
https://youtu.be/MKLVmBOOqVU
Dear sand; yes, and I’m grateful for your friendship. The poem is a mood piece, set off by Whale’s musings, about how one invests everything in one’s work, which doesn’t always pay off with a result. But when it does, well that’s a different story. Best, D. PS Thanks for the song, I thought of that song as I was writing last night, and so I’ll find time to catch up with it during the course of my day.
A recent success; Bust of a Young Woman.
http://valenis.net/gallery1.php#image-2
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide,
let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you
should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need but
not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship
let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart
finds its morning and is refreshed.
– Kahlil Gibran
Very nice, Sudhi, and I’d like to second sand, and say thank you for everything you bring to the MFC.
PS… I am ‘still journeying’, but found time yesterday to visit Saker, and even come up with a short poem. Best, D.
It sounds like your cousin has adopted the persona of Mr Big Shot and has immersed himself in it like a method actor and in the process has lost touch with himself. The games people play.
I stumbled onto a very interesting essay.
from web>”BORN SECRET Howard Morland* At the heart of the 1979 case United States v. Progressive, Inc.1 is the “born secret” doctrine of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, a permanent gag order affecting all public discussion of an entire subject matter. There is nothing like it anywhere else in American law.”
https://sgp.fas.org/eprint/cardozo.pdf
It’s gripping, I’d say.
excerpt>
At the heart of the 1979 case United States v. Progressive, Inc.1 is
the “born secret” doctrine of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, a
permanent gag order affecting all public discussion of an entire subject
matter. There is nothing like it anywhere else in American law.
Before the Manhattan Project, government secrets were temporary…
from tiny acorns things run large…
A new stand up Café
Comedy show where
Nobody eats but smirks
And gets slimmer daily.
That sounds a bit Tuppence-esque :-)
I believe there are many knowledgable people in this forum when comes to mobile/PC security.
I would love to hear your opinion regarding “Keepass2Android” application.
Can we assume that this software is 99.9% secure if I keep the “key file” on external USB stick, which is inserted into my mobile each time when needed only.
Thank you for your input.
I believe that the mathematicians have established that the only true crypto is the One Time Pad, when it is used without leaving any “cribs”.
This protocol is, of course, quite awkward and requires rare periodic face to face exchange of the OTP set. This may compromise the parties, as they may be surveilled.
It’s fair to say that the procedure used in “Our Man in Havana” is pretty solid. But encrypted material, or even fake encryption, will make the transmission suspect and bring focus by the dark force upon the sender. And that’s what happens.
see> Simon Singh “The Code Book” for some overview.
When Malcolm was a criminal, early in his brief life, his principle was to memorize everything, ie nothing in writing. Never use the telephone, never make records.
OTP is used to send radio instructions, now, today, by “number stations” on HF radio. The position of the receiver, obviously, is nearly impossible to discover, as is the message traffic content, other than a list of random numbers, to listening stations that do not possess the correct OTP page, which is never, never, used more than once.
There’s no free lunch. And I never use any encryption…as it attracts said surveillance. For practical security the only safe communication is verbal with zero electronic gadgets – perhaps in a small boat far from shore, in whispers…
…………
I see today, in another matter, that Brother Linh says (delusionally?) “Mass Death Ahead” Of course no one should read such obvious propaganda, should they?
The only one threatening anyone lately is the weatherman so aside from that,(and the long covid labor shortage) it should be easy sailing from here on out.
An interesting tale of a reactor fire most people never heard of…https://thebulletin.org/2019/02/a-failure-of-governmental-candor-the-fire-at-the-contaminated-santa-susana-field-laboratory/ (recent fire spread the “poot” even more, and they speak to that)
When the story changes…
“…Like all the reactors at the Santa Susana site, the Sodium Reactor Experiment had no containment structure. During and after the accident, radioactive gases were pumped from the reactor into the atmosphere. Even so, leakage into the reactor room was so severe that the building’s loading doors were opened to vent the contamination outside, according to John Pace, one of the workers at the time…”
Of course, now is now, and they don’t lie about anything, do they? Not about anything at all. They’re saints.
https://thebulletin.org/2019/02/a-failure-of-governmental-candor-the-fire-at-the-contaminated-santa-susana-field-laboratory/
There is currently fierce fighting in northeastern Afghanistan
By TOC On Oct 15, 2021
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afghanistan,_administrative_divisions_-_sv_-_colored.png
This would possibly involve Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. If they need help and are not satisfied with Russia’s response they could turn to the US. Convenient uprising and who is behind it?
MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. Russia sees as extremely dangerous US pressure on the Central Asian countries, being exerted with the aim of making them accommodate military and intelligence facilities, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s third department of the CIS countries, Alexander Sternik, told a conference entitled Afghanistan in the System of Regional Relations at the MGIMO University on Friday.
https://tass.com/politics/1350127
There is currently fierce fighting in northeastern Afghanistan
By TOC On Oct 15, 2021
KABUL, ($1=90.12 Afghan Afghanis) – Several sources close to the National Front for Resistance against the Taliban reported ongoing clashes on Friday morning [October 15] in the Andarab Valley in Balk province in northeastern Afghanistan, learned BulgarianMilitary.com.
BulgarianMilitary.com 24/7 – What is happening in Afghanistan?
“There is currently a fierce battle between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front in Andarab. There are casualties on both sides, the exact number of casualties is unknown,” the Twitter message said.
According to sources, clashes are taking place in the districts of Puli-Hisar and Dih-Salah in the province of Baglan, the Taliban, which suffered more than 60 casualties, are withdrawing, there are losses among the fighters of the Front and the death of two of their field commanders.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident, but videos have been posted on social media showing columns of Taliban fighters heading for the Andarab Valley.
Meanwhile, the Taliban Ministry of Defense announced on Twitter that Ataula Omari has been appointed commander of the Mazar-e-Sharif Corps. The corps headquarters is located at the base of the former 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army “Shahin” in the suburbs of Mazar-e-Sharif, the center of Balkh province, and is responsible for security in the northern part of the country.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2021/10/15/there-is-currently-fierce-fighting-in-northeastern-afghanistan/https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2021/10/15/there-is-currently-fierce-fighting-in-northeastern-afghanistan/
Just learned that Mr Castro, Canada’s PM, is a major share holder in a Canadian company, Acuitas, they makes ‘lipid nanoparticles’ that are used worldwide in the m ribonucleic acid pokey thingy. Explains much.
Been laying low, watching the neighbours chickens and ducks, retirement offers such luxeries. Meanwhile storm clouds on all fronts here. Forced civil divisions, like sheep would notice.
Was joking with the wife, in six months, God willin’, the cellar dweller will be off to Japan. First time in over thirty years we’ll have the house to ourselves.
Just heard from sis, no pokey thingy ‘Q code’ (pokey thingy passport) not allowed on work premises. No pokey thingy code, can’t be retrained, nor hired elsewhere.
Making room for Mom and sis in our house, they likely will have to sell theirs.
Must go watch the ducks…..a kinder gentler world awaits…..
Cheers M
Good on you M – and kudos to your sister for standing her ground. Great that you have the space – and the decency – to accommodate your sister and mum.
Thanks Sandra, nice to see you back in the Cafe, hopefully doing well…all things considered.
Yes, having the space may well turn out to be
a God send….’moves in mysterious ways’, I’ll say.
Do take care,
Brother Karl Sanchez @ vk https://vk.com/@580896205-aukus-and-the-fallout-for-europe discussing matter of US occupying forces exiting EU and more.
Excerpt>” “There may be a heavy price to pay though further down the line – the US security establishment are really pushing the Taiwan ‘envelope’ to the limit (possibly to weaken the CCP). It is extremely high risk. China may decide ‘enough is enough’, and crush the AUKUS maritime venture, which it can do. ”
Mr Sanchez often posts @ MoA and on his vk space.
When I say “Seth Rich”, you say:
John Durham & The Amazing Disappearing DNC Hack
Authored by George Parry via Spectator.org,
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/john-durham-amazing-disappearing-dnc-hack
Tidbits:
§|. … Got that? With no evidence that the emails were actually hacked, CrowdStrike nevertheless concluded that the Russians hacked the emails.
§|. … But the problem with this line of questioning is that it failed to consider the fact that CrowdStrike was working for Perkins Coie. Consequently, the questions should have focused on what information Perkins Coie allowed to be transmitted to the FBI.
§|. … Wait. What? Redacted? Restriction? Does this mean that the DNC withheld some of CrowdStrike’s findings and work product from the FBI?
The answer to that question can be found lurking in the pre-trial pleadings in the case of United States v. Roger Stone. In an effort to debunk the DNC hack story, Stone’s lawyers requested that the Department of Justice produce the full, unredacted CrowdStrike investigative report.
And that’s when the cowpie hit the fan. It turned out that, in addition to not examining the DNC server, neither the FBI nor the DOJ actually saw the full, final CrowdStrike report.
WW. 2016 was such a long time ago. Practically ancient history. Move on folks, Seth Rich is still dead and Julian Assange is (who?) still in legal limbo, languishing in prison.
But the real tragedy is supermarket shelves may be empty of cheap plastic one-step-from-landfill items ahead of Christmas, 2021.
Mr P,
thanks so much – yes, it was your initial comment on truck drivers’ licensing shenanigans which prompted my thought on derived supply chains issues.
Virtue will indeed triumph, but let’s tally the carnage first. The SOBs will not go gentle into that good night.
In fact, I wonder, per Rockefeller’s 2010 screed, we are being transitioned from (stage 1) Lockstep to (stage 2) Hack Attack? i.e. these rolling walk-outs/strikes/anticipated reactions were gamed and built-in? To let the proles (voluntarily) finish off what remains of the economy and their own food supply.
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-tNG7MjZUicS-wiJb/page/n9/mode/2up
In the 19 June 2020 entry of my journal, I wrote these over-simplified definitions of the 4 stages:
1. 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥: tighter control by governments in response to the pandemic; the people start to revolt from the abuse, lack of jobs/money/food and curfews
2. 𝙃𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠: as economies are destroyed and trust is lost, the rulers become weak, and crime increases and cities become dangerous
3. 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚: as economies do not improve and rulers now not trusted at all, people start to solve their own local problems
4. 𝘾𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧: a global power rises above the level of governments to solve all people’s problems
Another indication I saw recently of Hack Attack stage being unrolled:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-holds-30-nation-ransomware-summit-but-without-russia-or-china/ar-AAPwmeN
Remember Russians, for months, asking Americans to work together on cyber-security, and being duly ignored. Aren’t Russians arguably most capable nation on cyber-defense? So why exclude them (and China)? ‘What malice lurketh in the bosom?’
PS – I have pavlovian reaction when I hear about the X-files, and long had nightmares about their theme song!
To whit, I had a war vet roommate during college who grew mushrooms and pot and other exotics I was afraid to ask under the lights in his room, blow-torched exquisite multicolored glass bongs for a living for the psychedelic scenes, and 14 hours per day stood swaying in our common space binge-watching X-files in the dark with only the bluish CRT TV light illuminating the room. The Lord put him into my life to convince me to stay away from drugs – he had this permanent ecstatic paranoia on his face (although just because he was paranoid didn’t mean they weren’t out to get him, Lol!)
But the X-files joke may have been on me; is anything from Hollywierd without programming?
PPS – thanks for Solidarity Forever song!!! What a howl. A clever adaptation of one of my favorites, a Civil War hymn.
https://youtu.be/PsQbgnQEZGE
Yes, AHH. And Thanks. Granny used to sing the civil war songs to me. Here’s John Brown’s Body>
https://youtu.be/i2zcH97cXig
I had a great grandfather who went with the Ohio Volunteers all the way to the sea under Sherman – after his release from Libby Prison… he was 15 when he got out of Libby…we learned his stories as toddlers and later played with the old percussion-cap black powder rifles Granny still kept..
It is indeed a remarkable coincidence that Great Leaders die just when Victory is achieved, Lincoln’s death by the conspiracy just in time to ruin the plan to repatriate on an absolutely voluntary basis the Negros – they were chartering the ships… and then establish a tyranny in the South (which remains occupied to-day by many federal bases). FDR just in time for pliable Truman to turn on our Communist allies, JFK by conspiracy after the Change (they say he did some LSD with his sweetheart and saw Reality – thus the American University Speech). What a coincidence! (A U Speech> https://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40 )
Your room-mate’s situation sounds like a manifestation of transient stress psychosis being self-medicated. Combat does that. “Anoxia” is a military family region, and old fellas like me are everywhere still living their experience, though at this time, of course, the matter is far less than it was. So far as I can say they all used heroin in Vietnam, and most still smoke pot even now. Then there’s alcohol…and cigarettes.
Much of the “drug problem” can be seen as taking a line from Tacitus (and the Rockefeller drug laws) which can be used to disenfranchise or blackmail, or seduce, and make piles of off-book money by “licensing” criminal gangs to import/sell. (Some may expect the dope to be spiked with some “medical” agents as Operation T-4 2.0 goes on) >
“Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude.” (for our dear “elite” it seems that sexual abuse of children is used for blackmail and discipline)
One may remember Sodom, and Lot.
The Chinese Drama, Crossing the Yalu, is addressed to-day in Washington Post. https://washingtonlatest.com/crossing-the-yalu-river-china-drama-series-revives-u-s-biological-weapons-disinformation/ (The biowar denial is BS, see Jeff Kaye @ medium and his 1000 pages of proof)
I well remember the shell-shocked young men returning from Korea, and heard certain stories from those who survived Chosin – one was my twice wounded ROTC Commander – who spoke quite frankly about it and privately advised me to drop out from the program for associated reasons. I did, and managed to avoid Vietnam. They wanted me as a sniper.. Thanks to God I avoided that!
It’s being said that todays youth think a lot, and thinking they say take energy, lots of energy.
So much energy that once it comes time for doing, they say they have no energy left b/c it was all spent on thinking.
So how soon before we ask, can anyone do anything anymore. Or are we thinking too much?
The propaganda and the action from the dark side telegraph to the world what the “solution” or “Endlösung” goal is that the dark force aims at. Yes, some people have the power to do, to act. But these peoples, the classical civilizational States, can, and in time, must. Their big problem is at present devouring it’s power all by it’s self.
They’re at war, and they know it, and they’re waiting for the correct disposition of forces to form such that they can do what they must. You know, never bother the enemy when he’s making a mistake…
Imagine how the landscape is changing to their advantage. Recall Comrade VVP “We know everything”… I bet they do, and now, as in WW2, it’s obvious that the spies from the civilizational States must be having an easy time finding cooperative persons to tell whatever they know. One imagines there’s a que. Same for Comrade Xi. In time, they’ll land armies, unless “it” goes “nuke” – in which case perhaps they’ll land medics and MPs, if anybody’s left alive.
The “trick” is to outlive this moment in history, or run away, so you can avoid defeat and return under favorable circumstances.
………..
Washington Post article I mentioned, by the way, fails in rhetoric with their articles on “Yalu” movie. It’s aimed at the Chinese, not at Americans. But these articles actually show that the Chinese won, and the fellas coming back all knew that. And for the Chinese it represents gleichschaltung in preparation for a gung ho war. It’s melodramatic but pretty accurate. The germ stuff was no secret – I heard about it when I was a kid, from some people who were involved. Then also, btw, gas was used in Vietnam. And given as well to Saddam. And in Syria…well it’s obvious.
Seyed Mohhamad Marandi (Iran vet & professor in Tehran) was a survivor of mustard gas, twice, I think he says… There are no secrets, except the list of what’s secret. Nearly everything is a “public secret”, ie in plain sight but not generally known. He’s got a twitter going…
The ROTC fellas were quite enthusiastic about going to occupied South Korea, where beautiful whores and off base servants (her family) were abundant and cheap – “one case (of liquor) per month up to the very best girls and housing for 3 cases…from a corrupt PX system…sounds like the lobbyists gangs in DC….Mrs P used to be in journalism and cover Friday nights at the Capitol – whole battalions of whores, er… “lobbyists”…but not for a mere 3 cases…
Cuba was like that too, 10 cent blxo jobs from little kids while waiting for the narrow gauge outside the Gitmo gate. There were holes in the plank fence…
Must is a tough nut to crack, and if history is any guide, you are right, the same energy that the system relies to survive on, say financially, is the same physical (or lack of it) energy destroying the system.
Is it using its self up in a desperate attempt to stay alive, rather than addressing the troubles plaguing the industries?
Mercouris very recently published a critique of the Chinese-Russian combined fleet exercise in the Sea of Japan and Peter the Great Bay “US Fails to Gatecrash Giant China-Russia Naval Exercise, Russian Navy Drives US Warship Away” This is a manifestation of cathodic response to the dark force – and precisely relevant and important so far as implications of strategic design and direction.
Some might say that the dark force “using itself up” is analogous to ketosis in a living organism. So, I expect, the answer to the question is yes.
Re: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯” 𝘰𝘳 “𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘰̈𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘨” 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘵. 𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰, 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘢𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵.
You are right Mr. P,
The checkers players have already lost to the chess/go team. Or sold out the farm, and most of what we see is theatrics. Events will run their (ever faster) course. One of their last prerogatives will be to repaint the deck of the USS Titanic a manly black fascist hue.
Did you hear the shocking views from Duran team yesterday (China trade surplus with US hits record numbers (Part 2)) ? US projected to have $700+ billion trade w China this year, and already buying oil from Russia + LNG soon too. This is not behavior of a sovereign nation much less empire. What were terms of Yalta 2 in June?! What a price is being extracted. And meanwhile, officially, the pigeon struts and defecates all over the chessboard. Talk about parallel realities.
One area I respectfully disagree – if a scenario like Red Dawn (1984) arises, IMHO it won’t be Russian MPs but strictly Chinese. Russians suffered catastrophic manpower losses in 1990s (for third time in a century) and cannot afford to lose more. They’ll defer to the other red team.
Did you see the “Dark Winter” headline running on RT now? I think the Russians are trolling! They’re helping sleepy joe push his meme, although Trump said it first (a play on “Winter is Coming” from GoT series).
Yes, I generally agree, Chinese – however for practical reasons and considering that both are doing combined force exercises on land and sea (under Chinese generals and Admirals), I would expect also at least some Russian forces. The “white” Russian might be more acceptable and less “exotic” in the eyes of the US population. IMHO better disciplined, too, as well as generally Orthodox Christian. But I do take your salient point about man-power.
It’s probably (ref Red Dawn”) not going to be an opposed landing but landing in response to regional requests and possibly UN invitation, in response to anarchy, starvation, disease (real diseases!) and gangs of roaming brigands.
One may reasonably posit a far smaller US population in the context – recall Deagle’s 53 million in 2025 – so not very much fighting, mostly trying to feed the helpless and bring some discipline and order to a chaotic land with festering nuke power plants and dangerous weapons, and leaking petrochemical machinery – eg inter alia they’ll be obliged by circumstance to regularize such global hazards
It’s expected that the rich criminals will run away to their mine-shafts, after they loot everything…everybody knows who these people are…
I know, this seems insane…but what have we seen already?
………two>
China Tests Hypersonic Glide Vehicle, Pentagon Shocked, Talks of China’s ‘Astounding Progress’
(it missed, having circled the earth, but first get it to work, then fix the details. It’s obvious that the “Asiatic” or Euroasiatic peoples avoid stupid. IMHO they’re slightly but significantly on average smarter and better educated and enculturated than the Anglosaxon, though, naturally, there is a large variation between individuals.
and>
Russia’s uncompromising stance on Ukraine. Waiting for Kiev and the US to crack (duran dot locals)
Not only Dark Winter, but that good man (and well nourished fella, Pamperz), who said “We’re in a live exercise…” Indeed!
Incredible that such men graduate from West Point. General Lee must be rolling in his grave!
(it’s been said that it might be smart to lay-in three flags – Chinese, Russian, and Soviet, and save out a bottle of vodka for welcome)
“So much energy that once it comes to doing, they say they have no energy left b/cit was all spent on thinking…”
There is a word for it, Alabama… Procrastination.
I once knew a procrastinator, I think I still might,
he is a good organic farmer, never gave him a fight,
but much beyond that, becomes foggy at night,
it was a case of procrastination, an ugly site.
Procrastinate, procrastinate,
It’s not that I am obstin-ate,
Procrastinate, procrastinate
It must be something that I ate.
Procrastinate, procrastinate,
Not quite crooked but not quite straight
Procrastinate, procrastinate…
No badder thing or sadder fate!
for your entertainment – Autonomous Killer Robots are Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTdh1cg8mr4
what your ‘freedom’ gov has been doing to our ppl… your future ‘secured’!!!
p.s can you tell the difference btwn the deities? (or the deity claimed they are to be? how?)
Will there ever be an opportunity for the USA to change its now almost seemingly genetic behaviours to the world?
RT underground interviewed John Bolton
Extract
“Bolton, who was US ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, defended the decision to strike Syria without UN backing. “I think the organization is gridlocked and its political institutions largely a failure. If we’d gone to the Security Council, we almost certainly would have faced a Russian and Chinese veto… Neither the British nor the French thought there was any need for Security Council approval, so I think we were well within our rights to conduct the strike without reference to the Security Council.”
That good man Bolton might wish to dispose himself to read the UN Charter, which is US Treaty Law. No offensive military action against another State is permitted except with UNSC permission. He is explaining that they decided to commit a war crime because they couldn’t get that. He’s admitting he himself is…
Quiz Friday
However I must say that within his delusional lawless universe he is rather impressive so far as presence and intelligence. Some might imagine that the esteemed gentleman is a fine candidate for an asylum, as only an insane man would cheerfully and willingly admit to such crimes.
U.S. Naval Institute
@NavalInstitute
Oct 15
Japan launched the second Taigei-class attack submarine today.
The advanced diesel-electric Hakugei (SS-514) will be commissioned by the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) in early 2023.
Hakugei translates in English as “white whale”.
Lets not let “Perfidious Albion” get away with their crimes,anymore than we do with the US. Shocking report on RT tells how the British actively encouraged the massacre’s of hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in Indonesia in the 1960’s. Let’s never hear again the British try to play the “moral highroad” card again.
British propaganda campaign incited mass slaughter of communists in Indonesia in 1960s, declassified papers reveal.
https://www.rt.com/uk/537711-propaganda-indonesia-communists-massacre/
Brits are the worst of the worst.
About hypersonic re-entry. The US in the 1960’s tested “dynasoar” in a 1/4 scale, firing from Vandenderg CA and hitting the lagoon at Kwajalein. This from an engineer who was directly involved. Ergo the US probably has old but relevant records relating to guidance problems – if the contractors didn’t shred them, possibly under their contracts. It may also be that Russian (Soviet?) paid close attention and do have (“we know everything…”) the records and built with those basics as a part of the development program.