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7.31.2024
12.27.2017
2017: The year of the whiney little bitch
I'm not sure what happened to America - it has certainly continued heading in directions unforeseen. The other day a girl said to me, regarding our present situation in the nation: "We're winning!" I wasn't sure what she was actually talking about - who "we" are and what we are winning when we are on a path to losing more of our rights. The "right" to freedom of speech has taken some dangerous hits lately I thought she was probably not aware of.
There was an article in the news notifying the public that this past year after hurricanes had hit Houston, TX USA that no relief funds would be given to families that participated in boycotts of products made in Israel. These boycotts are organized as protests to cut off funding for the abuses that are inflicted on the Palestinians by the Israelis who have helped themselves to the Palestinian lands. Here in America freedom of speech used to be a given - but now it seems that freedom of speech is for those more equal than others, as Orwell would say. Check out this link to see how money talks in America louder than the Bill of Rights:
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I mentioned that Cynthia McKinney, former member of the House of Representatives had explained how Israeli influence in our congress is powerful enough to unseat anyone who does not toe the line on the demands Israel makes on America. Perhaps you would like to watch this short video - make up your own mind:
Reader I already know what you are thinking: "Jack Rabbit is anti-Semetic !" After all isn't that what you've been trained to reflexively say as soon as you hear the chosen people criticized for excessive influence in America?
Let me explain myself - I don't really know what a "Semite" is and I don't care - at all. I'm not interested in Semites one way or another and I know very little about Israeli politics. What I do know is that the American people are supposed to have some form of representation in Washington, D.C. and that representation is supposed to be concentrated in the House of Representatives. Do you feel represented?
But representation is not a gift from above and it will not automatically be granted to the sports-muddled and prescription-drugged minds of the US population - it must be fought for - and the Israelis are known to be good fighters. Indeed they are much better presently at fighting for power in Washington, DC than Americans are. How do I know? Easy - "the proof is in the pudding" - the results are there to see. What other interest group can push around the US government with such great ease as the Israeli lobby? Who can blame them for being smart, organized, and highly effective - isn't that what we are supposed to be teaching our kids?
Who's job is it to remind the parents and the kids about their duty to their nation and the difference between right and wrong in America?
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Yes I am at my local coffee shop once again - the place is busy enough with music in the background so low that it is really hard to identify what exactly is playing - female vocalist is all I can make out. Some guy just came in to talk to the girl sitting in one of the booths on the far wall just to my left as I sit with my back to the street window at one of the tables. The sun here in the Bible belt is hot even in December although the temperature last time I checked was 26F outside. I got a bit hot when the sun was shining directly on my back half an hour ago but now the sun has moved and the pillar behind me is providing some shade.
The couple in the other booth along the far wall just left leaving the table empty with no takers. The place has cleared out with a two customers standing thinking about their orders over at the counter to my right by the register. The crowd has left taking the voices with it - now I can make out the music a bit more clearly - but it's still too low to identify the music...
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I just returned from a Christmas holiday with family which gave me reason to think that there is a chance that this country can be put back on track somehow - perhaps when the kids finally wake up from the stupidworld their parents have allowed to be erected around them. But can we really blame the parents who spend all of their time providing for the family and working or is it more accurate and useful to look to their leadership? Who is the leadership? At work? I think not that is private property where we don't have free speech really.
The radio, here in Bibleville, continues spewing lots and lots of nothingness - with no subject matter that has any relevance to my life making me turn the radio off. There is one station that plays "oldies" and I will listen to that once in a while - but that took four years living in this backwater - it will probably be four more till I go up and down the dial to see if there is anything other than church-lady stuff.
Today I tried to listen to something on the radio to relieve the boredom of sitting at the interminable traffic lights along the pike I frequent here near where I live. The first station was a "preacher" or something resembling that - I could tell by the snake-oil vocal inflections with which he dolled up the drivel he vomited to the poor listeners. I can't remember any specifics as it was more of the same stuff they've been saying for hundreds of years - keeping the flock of sheep at full-guilt-tilt - perhaps another donation to the church will buy them a ticket to heaven? I scanned the dial only to find another of the many "preachers" - and did indeed - this time female - and as full of shit as the first one I heard - this one broadcasting more "inspirational" messages to the listeners about making the best use of time and not "idling." I wondered if she considered looking at the stars "idling" or just sitting around doing nothing as somehow shameful.
I have been invited to attend church by some of the kind folks around me who go out of their way to look out for me in so many ways - those who do things for me to make up for my own deficiencies and lack of social grace. My reply is always the same: "I'm not setting foot in another church as long as I live since there have been seventeen years of bloodshed and these churches stand by saying nothing." I am met with eye-rolls many times and silence others - they leave me alone and nicely allow me to walk the road to hell I suppose. I am in no way criticizing anyone for going to church as I think the church reinforced the values I've hung onto all these years that I learned first from my family. Alas the church is worthless now as they are nothing more than cheerleaders for military adventures and competitors with their neighboring churches for the tallest steeple.
The sons and daughters of the families I reconnected with never fail to impress me with the goodness in their hearts and their best of intentions. The time, effort, and money the parents have spent raising their kids "the right way" is obvious - especially the ones that have avoided all the problems with controlled substances like heroin. I suppose the perspective of my present age makes them still look like kids although they are in or graduating or recently finished with college. Because they are so young they are products of the influence of their family and the institutions they've attended or joined. The question becomes: "What are they doing for their new masters?"
We all like to think of ourselves as our own masters but this is almost never the case unless you exist in the elite club that seems to run our nation. New technologies are being used both in an attempt to further enslave us by some groups and to further free us from our chains by other groups. This battle will probably never end - what seems to be contested is what we are striving for - what we should be working towards.
...to be continued
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12-29-2017
As the year concludes we can read in the "news" various recaps of the year - events that stand out that we should remember for some reason or another according to the corporate media. That the corporate media draws ones attention to something is almost always a red flag to me to look around to see what we are missing.
This year may be remembered for a stock market rise, which in past weeks has shown signs of slowing - at least in my opinion. There have been days recently where the major stock market indices were in the red - something many, including myself, have been watching for the inevitable day of reckoning when an adjustment must occur. Many corporations have been engaged in stock buybacks - a factor I've mentioned in previous blog posts as a factor that seems to have maintained stock prices at higher than expected levels.
I am not an "economist" whatever that is. If economists are valuable of what value have they been to the average joe like myself. I'm still rebuilding after the last crisis I had where medical problems and market busts created a perfect storm to torpedo my original plans for some sort of retirement. Since I've been rebuilding I take a very conservative approach to financial moves since the years left on the horizon diminish every day for earning.
Right before Trump got elected I expected the next war to start since Trump appears to be somehow in league with the Neocons and therefore their agenda - an agenda pursued by both the Bush and Obama administrations. Both administrations' fixation on the middle east have maintained the US entanglement in foreign quagmires resulting in great expenditures of US money.
Since I expected the next war to get going I thought there would be a stock market dip so I took half of my money out of the S&P 500 and left the other half in there to ride. The stock market continued to rise. As luck would have it the market continued heading positive - I waited and the market continued massive gains. In May I took the remaining half out and put it into money market fund which earns low interest but is supposed to hold up during a stock market crash. Again - the year continued up to this point with gains.
I am satisfied with the gains but my money is languishing - sorrowful sometimes but better than taking a hit on a tanked market. Was I right or wrong? I took some gains and await future opportunities - I'm hoping to buy the dip when it happens with those funds.
General Electric stock took a nosedive losing 40%? of its value (a lot who knows what numbers to calculate and what time frame) Perhaps in January or maybe a little later that will be a "buy" for some of the money I have idling in the coming year?
What about real estate? Housing prices are so high in this area it makes one wonder if the whole city is rich and I'm the only one thinking that there is a housing bubble. This city of music has many businesses and people moving in daily keeping the people that own properties here in the black. But are there really that may high salaries to support the bank loans that will be necessary to sustain these prices?
I've seen this movie before - older homes are bought by builders/flippers - they bulldoze the old house, put up two or three in its place and sell them. The roads get more and more crowded but nobody seems to mind too much. The houses look like some of the cheapest construction I've ever seen - and the houses are quite tall since the builders are trying to cram a larger living space into a smaller footprint. Maintenance nightmares if you ask me and expensive. In a real rat-hole part of town down the street I see new houses in a development advertised as starting in the "low 300's." Geez OK as long as the banks are willing to loan money on these properties maybe supply and demand can explain it - or is it a bubble?
I will have to wait this year to see what to do about property. Rents are extremely high and hardly a bargain. As far as bang for your buck this town ain't so hot. I moved here for the job and its the job that keeps me here.
So why is everyone flocking to areas like this place? Low taxes. It really is simple as that. There is no other great attraction - and with low taxes people are drawn because they will tolerate a lot of crappy roads and miserable people and homeless crawling all over the streets and starting at you as you order your food at the drive-thru. Who cares? Let me keep my money and I'll figure it out - that seems to be the sentiment and it is enriching property owners in this area. But the area is no bargain at all.
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Yup I'm back at the coffee house - just an excuse to fire up the keyboard. Steady crowd mostly buying coffee and heading out the door rather than staying.
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So reminiscing about the past year ... the year of the whiney little bitch.
2017 saw mobs of what appeared to be paid losers defacing statues of past Americans - and cities cowering to these idiots to wipe out Americas past - I suppose - so we can forget it and doom ourselves to repeat it. Everyone is so easily offended. I've found an easy way to avoid offending these pathetic little minds - stay alone. Their company is a waste of time.
America is presently run by entertainment experts who are in league with the media which was complicit in ramming the phony narrative of the war on terror on the American public. The American public reacted with the primal fear of a mob under attack - as planned - and remains in a state of slow boil. Every day or so someone is "murdered" (at least on the telescreen) and we are supposed to log that as proof that we must shovel more money over to the "security" industry.
I recently had the displeasure to fly interstate a few days ago - what a horrible experience. The airlines - if they weren't simply the only show in town would be out of business if their income depended on customer satisfaction. When I fly I feel like a prisoner going to a camp. I do not feel very much like an American. Flying with dignity is reserved for the rich and those with private aircraft - the rest of us are cattle to be fleeced.
Getting back to the mobs of angry children defacing statues - and the colleges and cities bending to their whining that our history is just too much for them to take... while these "demonstrations" and fake events were going on it struck me how most of us have to go to work to earn our keep during the day - but somehow the whiney little bitches all have the time and money to travel on a business day to erase our past. I guess many of those working deserve to be screwed since they take no responsibility to educate themselves as to the whys of what America is doing.
to be continued...
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There was an article in the news notifying the public that this past year after hurricanes had hit Houston, TX USA that no relief funds would be given to families that participated in boycotts of products made in Israel. These boycotts are organized as protests to cut off funding for the abuses that are inflicted on the Palestinians by the Israelis who have helped themselves to the Palestinian lands. Here in America freedom of speech used to be a given - but now it seems that freedom of speech is for those more equal than others, as Orwell would say. Check out this link to see how money talks in America louder than the Bill of Rights:
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In the Houston suburb of Dickinson, residents are struggling to get their lives back on track. Hurricane Harvey devastated the city, destroying scores of homes and businesses. The city, fortunately, has a plan to help. Officials there are accepting applications for relief grants "from funds that were generously donated to the Dickinson Harvey Relief Fund."
But there's a catch.
The application, recently posted online, includes a provision requiring Dickinson residents to vow in writing that they will not boycott Israel. The relevant section, titled "Verification not to Boycott Israel," reads:
By executing this Agreement below, the Applicant verifies that the Applicant: (1) does not boycott Israel; and (2) will not boycott Israel during the term of this Agreement.
The city attorney, David Olson, said Dickinson officials are following a Texas law that blocks state agencies from contracting with or investing in companies that boycott Israel."
I mentioned this to several people I know and they didn't believe me. There weren't interested enough to look it up and probably forgot a few minutes after I mentioned it. I mentioned that Cynthia McKinney, former member of the House of Representatives had explained how Israeli influence in our congress is powerful enough to unseat anyone who does not toe the line on the demands Israel makes on America. Perhaps you would like to watch this short video - make up your own mind:
Reader I already know what you are thinking: "Jack Rabbit is anti-Semetic !" After all isn't that what you've been trained to reflexively say as soon as you hear the chosen people criticized for excessive influence in America?
Let me explain myself - I don't really know what a "Semite" is and I don't care - at all. I'm not interested in Semites one way or another and I know very little about Israeli politics. What I do know is that the American people are supposed to have some form of representation in Washington, D.C. and that representation is supposed to be concentrated in the House of Representatives. Do you feel represented?
But representation is not a gift from above and it will not automatically be granted to the sports-muddled and prescription-drugged minds of the US population - it must be fought for - and the Israelis are known to be good fighters. Indeed they are much better presently at fighting for power in Washington, DC than Americans are. How do I know? Easy - "the proof is in the pudding" - the results are there to see. What other interest group can push around the US government with such great ease as the Israeli lobby? Who can blame them for being smart, organized, and highly effective - isn't that what we are supposed to be teaching our kids?
Who's job is it to remind the parents and the kids about their duty to their nation and the difference between right and wrong in America?
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Yes I am at my local coffee shop once again - the place is busy enough with music in the background so low that it is really hard to identify what exactly is playing - female vocalist is all I can make out. Some guy just came in to talk to the girl sitting in one of the booths on the far wall just to my left as I sit with my back to the street window at one of the tables. The sun here in the Bible belt is hot even in December although the temperature last time I checked was 26F outside. I got a bit hot when the sun was shining directly on my back half an hour ago but now the sun has moved and the pillar behind me is providing some shade.
The couple in the other booth along the far wall just left leaving the table empty with no takers. The place has cleared out with a two customers standing thinking about their orders over at the counter to my right by the register. The crowd has left taking the voices with it - now I can make out the music a bit more clearly - but it's still too low to identify the music...
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I just returned from a Christmas holiday with family which gave me reason to think that there is a chance that this country can be put back on track somehow - perhaps when the kids finally wake up from the stupidworld their parents have allowed to be erected around them. But can we really blame the parents who spend all of their time providing for the family and working or is it more accurate and useful to look to their leadership? Who is the leadership? At work? I think not that is private property where we don't have free speech really.
The radio, here in Bibleville, continues spewing lots and lots of nothingness - with no subject matter that has any relevance to my life making me turn the radio off. There is one station that plays "oldies" and I will listen to that once in a while - but that took four years living in this backwater - it will probably be four more till I go up and down the dial to see if there is anything other than church-lady stuff.
Today I tried to listen to something on the radio to relieve the boredom of sitting at the interminable traffic lights along the pike I frequent here near where I live. The first station was a "preacher" or something resembling that - I could tell by the snake-oil vocal inflections with which he dolled up the drivel he vomited to the poor listeners. I can't remember any specifics as it was more of the same stuff they've been saying for hundreds of years - keeping the flock of sheep at full-guilt-tilt - perhaps another donation to the church will buy them a ticket to heaven? I scanned the dial only to find another of the many "preachers" - and did indeed - this time female - and as full of shit as the first one I heard - this one broadcasting more "inspirational" messages to the listeners about making the best use of time and not "idling." I wondered if she considered looking at the stars "idling" or just sitting around doing nothing as somehow shameful.
I have been invited to attend church by some of the kind folks around me who go out of their way to look out for me in so many ways - those who do things for me to make up for my own deficiencies and lack of social grace. My reply is always the same: "I'm not setting foot in another church as long as I live since there have been seventeen years of bloodshed and these churches stand by saying nothing." I am met with eye-rolls many times and silence others - they leave me alone and nicely allow me to walk the road to hell I suppose. I am in no way criticizing anyone for going to church as I think the church reinforced the values I've hung onto all these years that I learned first from my family. Alas the church is worthless now as they are nothing more than cheerleaders for military adventures and competitors with their neighboring churches for the tallest steeple.
The sons and daughters of the families I reconnected with never fail to impress me with the goodness in their hearts and their best of intentions. The time, effort, and money the parents have spent raising their kids "the right way" is obvious - especially the ones that have avoided all the problems with controlled substances like heroin. I suppose the perspective of my present age makes them still look like kids although they are in or graduating or recently finished with college. Because they are so young they are products of the influence of their family and the institutions they've attended or joined. The question becomes: "What are they doing for their new masters?"
We all like to think of ourselves as our own masters but this is almost never the case unless you exist in the elite club that seems to run our nation. New technologies are being used both in an attempt to further enslave us by some groups and to further free us from our chains by other groups. This battle will probably never end - what seems to be contested is what we are striving for - what we should be working towards.
...to be continued
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12-29-2017
As the year concludes we can read in the "news" various recaps of the year - events that stand out that we should remember for some reason or another according to the corporate media. That the corporate media draws ones attention to something is almost always a red flag to me to look around to see what we are missing.
This year may be remembered for a stock market rise, which in past weeks has shown signs of slowing - at least in my opinion. There have been days recently where the major stock market indices were in the red - something many, including myself, have been watching for the inevitable day of reckoning when an adjustment must occur. Many corporations have been engaged in stock buybacks - a factor I've mentioned in previous blog posts as a factor that seems to have maintained stock prices at higher than expected levels.
I am not an "economist" whatever that is. If economists are valuable of what value have they been to the average joe like myself. I'm still rebuilding after the last crisis I had where medical problems and market busts created a perfect storm to torpedo my original plans for some sort of retirement. Since I've been rebuilding I take a very conservative approach to financial moves since the years left on the horizon diminish every day for earning.
Right before Trump got elected I expected the next war to start since Trump appears to be somehow in league with the Neocons and therefore their agenda - an agenda pursued by both the Bush and Obama administrations. Both administrations' fixation on the middle east have maintained the US entanglement in foreign quagmires resulting in great expenditures of US money.
Since I expected the next war to get going I thought there would be a stock market dip so I took half of my money out of the S&P 500 and left the other half in there to ride. The stock market continued to rise. As luck would have it the market continued heading positive - I waited and the market continued massive gains. In May I took the remaining half out and put it into money market fund which earns low interest but is supposed to hold up during a stock market crash. Again - the year continued up to this point with gains.
I am satisfied with the gains but my money is languishing - sorrowful sometimes but better than taking a hit on a tanked market. Was I right or wrong? I took some gains and await future opportunities - I'm hoping to buy the dip when it happens with those funds.
General Electric stock took a nosedive losing 40%? of its value (a lot who knows what numbers to calculate and what time frame) Perhaps in January or maybe a little later that will be a "buy" for some of the money I have idling in the coming year?
What about real estate? Housing prices are so high in this area it makes one wonder if the whole city is rich and I'm the only one thinking that there is a housing bubble. This city of music has many businesses and people moving in daily keeping the people that own properties here in the black. But are there really that may high salaries to support the bank loans that will be necessary to sustain these prices?
I've seen this movie before - older homes are bought by builders/flippers - they bulldoze the old house, put up two or three in its place and sell them. The roads get more and more crowded but nobody seems to mind too much. The houses look like some of the cheapest construction I've ever seen - and the houses are quite tall since the builders are trying to cram a larger living space into a smaller footprint. Maintenance nightmares if you ask me and expensive. In a real rat-hole part of town down the street I see new houses in a development advertised as starting in the "low 300's." Geez OK as long as the banks are willing to loan money on these properties maybe supply and demand can explain it - or is it a bubble?
I will have to wait this year to see what to do about property. Rents are extremely high and hardly a bargain. As far as bang for your buck this town ain't so hot. I moved here for the job and its the job that keeps me here.
So why is everyone flocking to areas like this place? Low taxes. It really is simple as that. There is no other great attraction - and with low taxes people are drawn because they will tolerate a lot of crappy roads and miserable people and homeless crawling all over the streets and starting at you as you order your food at the drive-thru. Who cares? Let me keep my money and I'll figure it out - that seems to be the sentiment and it is enriching property owners in this area. But the area is no bargain at all.
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Yup I'm back at the coffee house - just an excuse to fire up the keyboard. Steady crowd mostly buying coffee and heading out the door rather than staying.
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So reminiscing about the past year ... the year of the whiney little bitch.
2017 saw mobs of what appeared to be paid losers defacing statues of past Americans - and cities cowering to these idiots to wipe out Americas past - I suppose - so we can forget it and doom ourselves to repeat it. Everyone is so easily offended. I've found an easy way to avoid offending these pathetic little minds - stay alone. Their company is a waste of time.
America is presently run by entertainment experts who are in league with the media which was complicit in ramming the phony narrative of the war on terror on the American public. The American public reacted with the primal fear of a mob under attack - as planned - and remains in a state of slow boil. Every day or so someone is "murdered" (at least on the telescreen) and we are supposed to log that as proof that we must shovel more money over to the "security" industry.
I recently had the displeasure to fly interstate a few days ago - what a horrible experience. The airlines - if they weren't simply the only show in town would be out of business if their income depended on customer satisfaction. When I fly I feel like a prisoner going to a camp. I do not feel very much like an American. Flying with dignity is reserved for the rich and those with private aircraft - the rest of us are cattle to be fleeced.
Getting back to the mobs of angry children defacing statues - and the colleges and cities bending to their whining that our history is just too much for them to take... while these "demonstrations" and fake events were going on it struck me how most of us have to go to work to earn our keep during the day - but somehow the whiney little bitches all have the time and money to travel on a business day to erase our past. I guess many of those working deserve to be screwed since they take no responsibility to educate themselves as to the whys of what America is doing.
to be continued...
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10.08.2017
The circus continues
It took me a while to get going today - to write anything here. I'm back at my hangout coffee shop here up the street from my rental. It is raining and overcast today which made it the perfect day to do nothing. No exercise - zero. Just sit around and loaf but why not get out at least to the coffee shop and play the keyboard?
The usual sounds of coffee grinders continue - the folks behind the counter busy - never seeming to run out of things to do.
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The most recent event in the news - just like all the other recent events in the news is a "mass shooting" in Las Vegas. Should I believe it? Probably not. It's not like I don't believe nothing happened - it's just a matter of how much of what has been presented to me that I should consider as fact. But let's take a step back for a minute and think about this whole thing from the beginning.
When was the beginning of this so-called news event? It seems like it was a few days ago but I cannot tell for sure as I've been really busy and absorbed at work. I just remember waking up one day and checking the nooz online to find out what seems like hundreds of people were supposedly shot. Since this has become such common nooz these days I didn't react - and I cared even less. I registered the information somewhere in my mind and got going to work. I heard a coupla' the guys mention it had happened and some speculation about some rather obvious problems with the story.
From what I'd heard some independently wealthy gambler had stockpiled a small arsenal of "assault-style" weapons (meaning non fully automatic) in a hotel room and a bunch of ammo and fired away at a bunch of people at a concert. OK fine. I was already wondering about the distances and trajectories etc... Also why would this guy have so many guns? The whole thing already looked pretty stupid to me - so I started asking myself who would benefit from this crime? As usual the guy who did all the work was already dead so the public will never hear that person's side of the story.
I have no real facts or information beyond this. Observations: First is that the war on terror is and will continue to be a complete waste of time since at any moment any lone gunman can shoot anyone anywhere at any time and there is no way to stop them. So why even try? Are we all going to spend the rest of our lives and fortunes feeding the feckless "security" companies when they cannot do anything about the problem? The evidence is that the problem seems to be getting worse. With each of these attacks more and more casualties result which tells me we are trending higher - a fact that I am sure has not escaped other observers.
The so-called "War on Terror" is being lost just like all of the other "wars" American heroes have been losing for decades. The "War on Drugs" is being lost and worsening by the day. (click here) I read a statistic :
"With 64,000 overdose deaths last year nationwide — a staggering 22 percent jump over the previous year — it is little wonder that overdoses, the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, are reducing life expectancy. They are also straining the staffs and resources of morgues, and causing major backlogs.
This is especially true in New Hampshire, which has more deaths per capita from synthetic opioids like fentanyl than any other state. Last year the overdose death toll here reached nearly 500, almost 10 times the number in 2000."
The story above - which you can read by clicking on the link describes an overloaded coroner who is quitting his job to seek a solution in some way to try to stop the epidemic. Another coroner quit in Los Angeles due to the overwork and backlog of bodies - you can read that one by clicking HERE.
It is ironic that the public is being decimated by a drug epidemic while their tax money is spent fattening the asses of those tasked with eradicating these issues. But since the war on drugs was a stupid prohibition-based plan in the first place its architects knew it would fail. But that's not the point. The point was always to make more money while using drugs as an excuse to forever expand police powers - police powers incapable of solving the problem - EVER.
That's America I suppose. The "War on Terror" is just more of the same. As far as I am concerned America is losing every war they engage in - more and more money spent on fireworks thrown down a rathole - more lives destroyed - another generation jaded before their years.
I don't have to wonder where failure will end up - especially since history repeats - this latest cash cow for the gunslingers and power-mad will end up the way prohibition ended the first time - with loosening of laws that never should have been enacted in the first place.
I don't hear a lot of sympathy or empathy from my fellow Americans regarding those ensnared in the brutal quagmire that is the war on drugs. The attitude is that if these folks had just stayed off drugs they wouldn't be in the situation they are in now. I am not going to go out and start doing heroin just because somebody legalized it - are you? I am not promoting its use - unless it is for medical reasons. But how did things get this bad?
If anyone cares to fix this problem it begins with strategy and can only be ended with a strategy that works. The present strategy is an abysmal failure and will continue to be a failure.
Where the War on Terror meets the War on Drugs - Afghanistan?
I've seen pictures and spoke to several guys I've met who have confirmed to me that America is a big player in the Opium production in Afghanistan. They've told me the pictures I've seen are true - that the US really is a powerful drug dealer. Year after year part of the taxes I pay into this system are used to perpetuate a system of greed that preys on those who for some reason or another cannot get off these drugs.
The U.S. is being drowned in these social problems - is it by design? One has to wonder. Is it only greed that keeps these druglords going? One must wonder if any druglords have ever had a loved one hooked on morphine or heroin. It's hard to watch - and it shortens their life.
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Coffee shop has quieted down somewhat. I hear what sounds possibly like Tom Petty playing low - with coffee grinder sounds superimposed atop the chords. Tom Petty passed away recently - maybe that called the song up in the queue. I keep getting whiffs of freshly ground coffee. I'm on my third cup which will be my last. This blog post sucks I know but why not right?
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Getting back to the latest "shooting" in Las Vegas - it seems that there is funding out there for both the "shooting reallyhappened" side of things and the "shooting is a fraud" on the other. The video productions of the "deniers" are getting more sophisticated and are up on You Tube fast enough the counter the so-called "mainstream" nooz which was complicit in selling the big one - 911 attacks - to the public despite the laws of physics being to the contrary of what is possible.
THE VALUE OF LIES ?
I've learned not to react too much to these nooz events - and I've really cut out mainstream media as a source of anything. There is way too much agreement between the "mainstream" organizations to take them seriously - and they are all victims of their own past lies - as the all worked together on the 911 caper. Since they cannot backtrack on that lie they are doomed forever as being complicit in that crime. Why would they not be complicit in the follow-up crimes - or in the next big one?
Propagandists seem to understand that the public must be kept at a medium level of anxiety - and pulsed and the proper frequency in order to get them to react when the next "big event" happens.
At the present time the public is so saturated with bullshit nooz, lies, "shootings" etc... that they are not really reacting too much - they are starting to analyze the event - and asking questions now about why there are descrepancies. That is a large step in the direction of truth and understanding. Little cracks are starting to appear in the facade we are all being fed.
I am not taking a position on how many were killed, or even if anyone was killed in the last event - all I got were some lousy videos and some horrible pictures that are impossible to deduce much from other than that I am being lied to. But isn't it a fact in itself to know we are being lied to? Knowing that one is lied to is useful information because we know who NOT to trust and who to suspect. Once we are aware that a nooz source is lying to us - and that their "competitors" are telling us the same lies - this leads us to ask whether or not they talked before they lied to us - since they agree in the same lies.
Since they are all telling the same lies it becomes logical to ask if there is a larger plan afoot - and that they are all part of the same plan. This is just logic. To not ask ourselves such questions is to be foolish - as all possibilities must be considered before discarding anything. Only consideration of all possibilities can ensure that a broad enough spectrum of possibilities are analyzed.
We shall see if the public wakes up more - and where it will all end.
I knew this blog post would suck but what the heck here it is.
The usual sounds of coffee grinders continue - the folks behind the counter busy - never seeming to run out of things to do.
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The most recent event in the news - just like all the other recent events in the news is a "mass shooting" in Las Vegas. Should I believe it? Probably not. It's not like I don't believe nothing happened - it's just a matter of how much of what has been presented to me that I should consider as fact. But let's take a step back for a minute and think about this whole thing from the beginning.
When was the beginning of this so-called news event? It seems like it was a few days ago but I cannot tell for sure as I've been really busy and absorbed at work. I just remember waking up one day and checking the nooz online to find out what seems like hundreds of people were supposedly shot. Since this has become such common nooz these days I didn't react - and I cared even less. I registered the information somewhere in my mind and got going to work. I heard a coupla' the guys mention it had happened and some speculation about some rather obvious problems with the story.
From what I'd heard some independently wealthy gambler had stockpiled a small arsenal of "assault-style" weapons (meaning non fully automatic) in a hotel room and a bunch of ammo and fired away at a bunch of people at a concert. OK fine. I was already wondering about the distances and trajectories etc... Also why would this guy have so many guns? The whole thing already looked pretty stupid to me - so I started asking myself who would benefit from this crime? As usual the guy who did all the work was already dead so the public will never hear that person's side of the story.
I have no real facts or information beyond this. Observations: First is that the war on terror is and will continue to be a complete waste of time since at any moment any lone gunman can shoot anyone anywhere at any time and there is no way to stop them. So why even try? Are we all going to spend the rest of our lives and fortunes feeding the feckless "security" companies when they cannot do anything about the problem? The evidence is that the problem seems to be getting worse. With each of these attacks more and more casualties result which tells me we are trending higher - a fact that I am sure has not escaped other observers.
The so-called "War on Terror" is being lost just like all of the other "wars" American heroes have been losing for decades. The "War on Drugs" is being lost and worsening by the day. (click here) I read a statistic :
"With 64,000 overdose deaths last year nationwide — a staggering 22 percent jump over the previous year — it is little wonder that overdoses, the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, are reducing life expectancy. They are also straining the staffs and resources of morgues, and causing major backlogs.
This is especially true in New Hampshire, which has more deaths per capita from synthetic opioids like fentanyl than any other state. Last year the overdose death toll here reached nearly 500, almost 10 times the number in 2000."
The story above - which you can read by clicking on the link describes an overloaded coroner who is quitting his job to seek a solution in some way to try to stop the epidemic. Another coroner quit in Los Angeles due to the overwork and backlog of bodies - you can read that one by clicking HERE.
It is ironic that the public is being decimated by a drug epidemic while their tax money is spent fattening the asses of those tasked with eradicating these issues. But since the war on drugs was a stupid prohibition-based plan in the first place its architects knew it would fail. But that's not the point. The point was always to make more money while using drugs as an excuse to forever expand police powers - police powers incapable of solving the problem - EVER.
That's America I suppose. The "War on Terror" is just more of the same. As far as I am concerned America is losing every war they engage in - more and more money spent on fireworks thrown down a rathole - more lives destroyed - another generation jaded before their years.
I don't have to wonder where failure will end up - especially since history repeats - this latest cash cow for the gunslingers and power-mad will end up the way prohibition ended the first time - with loosening of laws that never should have been enacted in the first place.
I don't hear a lot of sympathy or empathy from my fellow Americans regarding those ensnared in the brutal quagmire that is the war on drugs. The attitude is that if these folks had just stayed off drugs they wouldn't be in the situation they are in now. I am not going to go out and start doing heroin just because somebody legalized it - are you? I am not promoting its use - unless it is for medical reasons. But how did things get this bad?
If anyone cares to fix this problem it begins with strategy and can only be ended with a strategy that works. The present strategy is an abysmal failure and will continue to be a failure.
Where the War on Terror meets the War on Drugs - Afghanistan?
I've seen pictures and spoke to several guys I've met who have confirmed to me that America is a big player in the Opium production in Afghanistan. They've told me the pictures I've seen are true - that the US really is a powerful drug dealer. Year after year part of the taxes I pay into this system are used to perpetuate a system of greed that preys on those who for some reason or another cannot get off these drugs.
The U.S. is being drowned in these social problems - is it by design? One has to wonder. Is it only greed that keeps these druglords going? One must wonder if any druglords have ever had a loved one hooked on morphine or heroin. It's hard to watch - and it shortens their life.
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Coffee shop has quieted down somewhat. I hear what sounds possibly like Tom Petty playing low - with coffee grinder sounds superimposed atop the chords. Tom Petty passed away recently - maybe that called the song up in the queue. I keep getting whiffs of freshly ground coffee. I'm on my third cup which will be my last. This blog post sucks I know but why not right?
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Getting back to the latest "shooting" in Las Vegas - it seems that there is funding out there for both the "shooting reallyhappened" side of things and the "shooting is a fraud" on the other. The video productions of the "deniers" are getting more sophisticated and are up on You Tube fast enough the counter the so-called "mainstream" nooz which was complicit in selling the big one - 911 attacks - to the public despite the laws of physics being to the contrary of what is possible.
THE VALUE OF LIES ?
I've learned not to react too much to these nooz events - and I've really cut out mainstream media as a source of anything. There is way too much agreement between the "mainstream" organizations to take them seriously - and they are all victims of their own past lies - as the all worked together on the 911 caper. Since they cannot backtrack on that lie they are doomed forever as being complicit in that crime. Why would they not be complicit in the follow-up crimes - or in the next big one?
Propagandists seem to understand that the public must be kept at a medium level of anxiety - and pulsed and the proper frequency in order to get them to react when the next "big event" happens.
At the present time the public is so saturated with bullshit nooz, lies, "shootings" etc... that they are not really reacting too much - they are starting to analyze the event - and asking questions now about why there are descrepancies. That is a large step in the direction of truth and understanding. Little cracks are starting to appear in the facade we are all being fed.
I am not taking a position on how many were killed, or even if anyone was killed in the last event - all I got were some lousy videos and some horrible pictures that are impossible to deduce much from other than that I am being lied to. But isn't it a fact in itself to know we are being lied to? Knowing that one is lied to is useful information because we know who NOT to trust and who to suspect. Once we are aware that a nooz source is lying to us - and that their "competitors" are telling us the same lies - this leads us to ask whether or not they talked before they lied to us - since they agree in the same lies.
Since they are all telling the same lies it becomes logical to ask if there is a larger plan afoot - and that they are all part of the same plan. This is just logic. To not ask ourselves such questions is to be foolish - as all possibilities must be considered before discarding anything. Only consideration of all possibilities can ensure that a broad enough spectrum of possibilities are analyzed.
We shall see if the public wakes up more - and where it will all end.
I knew this blog post would suck but what the heck here it is.
8.08.2017
Daze Off
Since I have no television - just internet my nooz arrives as I poke around online. For the most part I have less of an idea as to what is going on in the world than I've ever had before.
I am not sure if my ignorance has multiplied as I've learned that almost everything we see, read, and hear is simply B.S.
Somewhere I heard some marketing person mention that online media is "saturated" with advertising - that's an understatement.
Trying to read news online has become a game of whack-a-mole - this was an arcade game where one held a mallet and mechanical moles would pop up from various holes and the player would whack them for points. That is what it is like reading news on the internet. It has become such a pain in the ass it stops one from digging into things too much. With this advertising there is an added dimension of disrespect for events - if those events really are happening in the first place and weren't simply made up.
There may be a news article about a child being burned alive by the babysitter - then I'll go to click on that article and an ad for diapers pops up. I must search this idiotic ad for an "X" to close the ad then the story isn't really there - I must sign up by providing a username and password to "join" the website so I can read a story possibly written by a computer.
This information wasteland does nothing to inform the public - just to sell them promises that are never intended to be kept, news about manufactured events etc...
I am not complaining - just pointing out that this is a situation that makes tough to remain informed about anything as the news is really infotainment with much of the news actually about the news characters themselves. Many news articles are about entertainers who have political aspirations or entertainers who called someone a name or entertainers behaving badly. I would imagine they are as bored as the rest of us.
My pet projects lately have been 911 and chemtrails but alas - nobody seems to care. The public is determined to let their children be poisoned quietly - they, the parents, certainly won't say anything since these crimes remain out of their sphere of perception.
There are new "theories" being spread around the internet with truth movement hijackers everywhere giving speeches and discussing new theories of how the buildings were demolished - with no end in site. There are folks saying nukes were used and others saying directed energy weapons - and the classical ones still saying it was thermite - or a combination of thermite and explosives.
The intel agencies seem to have an endless supply of money and liars to pollute the information available in what seems like a successful effort to becloud the minds of those interested in finding out what really happened - whether it is building demolitions or chemtrails - there are plenty of liars on the payroll to bite the very hands that feed them - the American public. I wonder how much they laugh at all of us as they spread their lies for public consumption.
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Coffee shop playing music that has an echo to it with dreamy sound. I had my coffee and must get on to other thing today.
I am not sure if my ignorance has multiplied as I've learned that almost everything we see, read, and hear is simply B.S.
Somewhere I heard some marketing person mention that online media is "saturated" with advertising - that's an understatement.
Trying to read news online has become a game of whack-a-mole - this was an arcade game where one held a mallet and mechanical moles would pop up from various holes and the player would whack them for points. That is what it is like reading news on the internet. It has become such a pain in the ass it stops one from digging into things too much. With this advertising there is an added dimension of disrespect for events - if those events really are happening in the first place and weren't simply made up.
There may be a news article about a child being burned alive by the babysitter - then I'll go to click on that article and an ad for diapers pops up. I must search this idiotic ad for an "X" to close the ad then the story isn't really there - I must sign up by providing a username and password to "join" the website so I can read a story possibly written by a computer.
This information wasteland does nothing to inform the public - just to sell them promises that are never intended to be kept, news about manufactured events etc...
I am not complaining - just pointing out that this is a situation that makes tough to remain informed about anything as the news is really infotainment with much of the news actually about the news characters themselves. Many news articles are about entertainers who have political aspirations or entertainers who called someone a name or entertainers behaving badly. I would imagine they are as bored as the rest of us.
My pet projects lately have been 911 and chemtrails but alas - nobody seems to care. The public is determined to let their children be poisoned quietly - they, the parents, certainly won't say anything since these crimes remain out of their sphere of perception.
There are new "theories" being spread around the internet with truth movement hijackers everywhere giving speeches and discussing new theories of how the buildings were demolished - with no end in site. There are folks saying nukes were used and others saying directed energy weapons - and the classical ones still saying it was thermite - or a combination of thermite and explosives.
The intel agencies seem to have an endless supply of money and liars to pollute the information available in what seems like a successful effort to becloud the minds of those interested in finding out what really happened - whether it is building demolitions or chemtrails - there are plenty of liars on the payroll to bite the very hands that feed them - the American public. I wonder how much they laugh at all of us as they spread their lies for public consumption.
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Coffee shop playing music that has an echo to it with dreamy sound. I had my coffee and must get on to other thing today.
8.06.2017
High Noon in Boresville
I just completed another Orwell book: Keep the Aspidistra flying.
The "hero" is Gordon Comstock - a man who likes to write poetry and sort of rebels against society by trying not to participate. One of the key features of not participating in society - like holding down a regular job is poverty - which in turn leads to isolation and loneliness for his character.
Orwell has a way of describing things accurately without insulting others - an attribute of a great writer I would say.
The setting is England in the 1930s - the experience ranges from boredom to going out with his girlfriend to suffering insult at the hands of waiters and those with more money than he has.
The character has friends that look out for him along the way.
Orwell has a way of discussing the woes of society without simply walking up to you and punching you in the face with it. For example during the story Gordon, the main character, gets into a discussion about socialism and the woes of society with his moneyed friend who publishes some of Gordon's poetry in his magazine.
In the end the poet re-joins society and happily surrenders to the system - I don't want to ruin it on you if you wish to read the book but I recommend it highly.
George Orwell remains one of my favorite authors as he was the real deal and participated in the miseries of society as they were at the time. If you've read "Homage to Catalonia" and "Down and Out in Paris and London" there is some overlap of Orwell's life in the books visible to the initated - a factor lending verisimilitude to the novel.
I've begun reading "The Road to Wigan Pier" which should take some time since I read these books free online on my phone during lunch each day - go to gutenberg.net.au .
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Where are all the sugar packs? What happened to all the paper products?
I continue my study of modern American propaganda by living in it and having surrendered to the machine for the time being must hold down a regular, however, interesting job.
I like to skim through the "financial nooz" in an attempt to predict the future so as to know what in the heck to do with my investments which I've been building back up from the last crash. But the news provides not much help - as the markets seem completely manipulated to me.
Unfortunately I do NOT hold a degree in economics so my opinion has little value to anyone except for myself. So watching the stock market news I see lots of games going on but can't get a good understanding of how this system really adds up.
I went for a stroll through a car lot the other day and noted the prices on the vehicles .... 35K-50K for vehicles - just a year or two old but geez - who has the money to buy all this stuff right now? Although I was on the lot for about 20 minutes per lot and covered two dealerships not one single salesman came out to talk to me. I was there because my vehicle was having work done nearby so spent the time walking about looking at things.
The financial nooz tells us to buy buy buy while the stock market indices hit records every single morning. Perhaps we will have 300 record breaking days this year in the stock market. Perhaps for the first time in history the stock market will not come back down. In fact I read an article by a former slleW ograF leader - who said the market can continue going up forever! Great advice from one of the most ethical businesses on the planet I thought. (Joking)
The nooz tells us that the employment figures show that everyone is working and making enough money - but another article I read discussed the hiring campaign nozamA is working onwhere they are hiring 50,000 employees. These are 12 dollar an hour warehouse jobs - I'm sure those jobs will qualify those lucky enough to find employment at nozamA for a 35-50000 dollar car loan. The reporter that did the story mentioned how massive was the turnout for these 12 buck and hour jobs - and how many people needed those jobs. Hmmm - does this sound like a "great economy?"see
While browsing these financial sites I'm constantly bombarded with images of a stock market "genius" named remarC who ceaselessly discusses stocks that sell for hundreds of dollars a share. Exactly who is he directing his "show" at?
A stock I saw take a jump recently was elohW sdooF which was pushed into selling themselves to nozamA by a so-called "activist investor" who bought a boatload of their shares sending from the 30's up to 42 dollars a share. After the company was sold the investment group sold their stock and hit the road. This seems like a heck of a way to value stocks.
I read another good article about stock buybacks being used as a strategy to lift the share price so the CEO's can grab more loot when they beat feet out of a company with their pockets lined. You can read that article HERE. Supposedly this strategy is coming to an end as an option for many companies as a way to keep the stock rising when there are no gains in business activity.
So - that's some of the news we have available. Then, as if the only message out there is to buy lately a Basset Hound came out to warn us that there will be a crash in the bond markets soon - our old friend from the Federal Reserve system Alan Greenspan - you can read that HERE. So he's contradicting the others.
So we can read this news and try to understand it but it is obvious that we cannot really trust the sources - who are presenting much of this news, I think, to keep the herd entertained or befuddled while they take their money and run.
I've noticed - and this has "worsened" since the last crash around 2008 that eating establishments no longer just put napkins out on the tables and have switched from sugar packs to sugar dispensers - kept at a main coffe sugar and cream station. Why? The same reason the hotels stopped stocking spare rolls of toilet paper in the rooms as these years have dragged on - that is - unless you go to one of the ritzier places traveling on a corporate dime. People start stuffing this stuff in the pockets - sugar packs so they don't have to buy sugar. Napkins and paper towels - I've seen them doing it. So the establishments take precautions to save on those losses.
These are the signs of recession to me - when that surplus is not there anymore. These corners weren't being cut back in the late eighties early nineties.
I've looked at the prices of things and they are too high. In this town the rents seem also too high to be supported by 12 buck and hour jobs. How long can things continue this way?
Recently the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate and they claim they are going to do it one more time this year. This tells me that the pool of buyers willing to take out some stupid loan to finance one of these overpriced vehicles will become reduced as the interest rates will make the payments unaffordable.
The quality of products has dropped as corporate greed has moved the business model from producing something to be proud of that you would sell to your own kids to producing garbage that self-destructs the minute it gets out the door. Everything is buy buy buy more - hurry hurry hurry and make more money. Everything is an opportunity to rob the customer - then rob them again - of their money first - then of their time as they spend endless hours fixing broken hardware and software - endlessly running back to Asian mart. I don't care how many economists you line up with degrees from harvard - and fancy mathematical proofs - waste is bad economy PERIOD.
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The coffee shop I'm in has really picked up. There are two folks to my left apparently discussing some sort of writing or something they are working on - I can't hear well enough on that ear to make out what they are talking about. Somehow a strong coffee-grounds aroma hit me - smells great - better than coffee tastes. The clink-ring of quarter and nickels hitting the tip jar. Two girls blabbing to the order taker - then ordering something. Some big guy in black tshirt, beige sneakers fiddling with a cup lid staring blankly - now he's going outside with two ice coffees - he put the lid onto one of them.
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I took a break from looking up at the chemtrails - it kinda' hurts watching my fellow citizens being sprayed with unknown substances. I had to stop because it was killing me in a way - looking up at that wrong-headed plan - to turn a beautiful blue sky white - is sick - but who other than a poet or painter or idler gazing into the sky could care anyway? After all - scientists are always right about everything and they don't see any problem living under a synthetic sky - they don't give a crap about human lungs - and they are the ones with the skills corporate america is willing to pay for.....they are "smart" - so the poison won't hurt as much
As for the political scene it seems that the new world order agenda continues unabated. Congress remains blind to the needs, safety, and wishes of the average citizen. And who can blame them? They are well-finded by highly organized interest groups who have specific goals in mind and the power to remove any Congressperson that gets too cocky and starts asking too many questions about why we have to send to much money to weapons manufacturers, secret agencies and foreign governments when we get nothing but more and more war. It seems that no one knows what these monsters and war-mongers have in store for us next.
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Coffee grinder noise - stops - music volume seems to have dropped. Some guy and his wife to my right bouncing baby on knee - music stopped completely now. A low murmur of voices now, clip clop of shoes walking by - it seems hot in here now - maybe from the two cups of coffee I drank...reflection of yellow VeeDub goes by in the reflection in my computer screen of the street through the window behind me. The baby quacked - quacked - he hands the kid to her now.
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It's no longer high noon but it is still boresville for now....
The "hero" is Gordon Comstock - a man who likes to write poetry and sort of rebels against society by trying not to participate. One of the key features of not participating in society - like holding down a regular job is poverty - which in turn leads to isolation and loneliness for his character.
Orwell has a way of describing things accurately without insulting others - an attribute of a great writer I would say.
The setting is England in the 1930s - the experience ranges from boredom to going out with his girlfriend to suffering insult at the hands of waiters and those with more money than he has.
The character has friends that look out for him along the way.
Orwell has a way of discussing the woes of society without simply walking up to you and punching you in the face with it. For example during the story Gordon, the main character, gets into a discussion about socialism and the woes of society with his moneyed friend who publishes some of Gordon's poetry in his magazine.
In the end the poet re-joins society and happily surrenders to the system - I don't want to ruin it on you if you wish to read the book but I recommend it highly.
George Orwell remains one of my favorite authors as he was the real deal and participated in the miseries of society as they were at the time. If you've read "Homage to Catalonia" and "Down and Out in Paris and London" there is some overlap of Orwell's life in the books visible to the initated - a factor lending verisimilitude to the novel.
I've begun reading "The Road to Wigan Pier" which should take some time since I read these books free online on my phone during lunch each day - go to gutenberg.net.au .
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Where are all the sugar packs? What happened to all the paper products?
I continue my study of modern American propaganda by living in it and having surrendered to the machine for the time being must hold down a regular, however, interesting job.
I like to skim through the "financial nooz" in an attempt to predict the future so as to know what in the heck to do with my investments which I've been building back up from the last crash. But the news provides not much help - as the markets seem completely manipulated to me.
Unfortunately I do NOT hold a degree in economics so my opinion has little value to anyone except for myself. So watching the stock market news I see lots of games going on but can't get a good understanding of how this system really adds up.
I went for a stroll through a car lot the other day and noted the prices on the vehicles .... 35K-50K for vehicles - just a year or two old but geez - who has the money to buy all this stuff right now? Although I was on the lot for about 20 minutes per lot and covered two dealerships not one single salesman came out to talk to me. I was there because my vehicle was having work done nearby so spent the time walking about looking at things.
The financial nooz tells us to buy buy buy while the stock market indices hit records every single morning. Perhaps we will have 300 record breaking days this year in the stock market. Perhaps for the first time in history the stock market will not come back down. In fact I read an article by a former slleW ograF leader - who said the market can continue going up forever! Great advice from one of the most ethical businesses on the planet I thought. (Joking)
The nooz tells us that the employment figures show that everyone is working and making enough money - but another article I read discussed the hiring campaign nozamA is working onwhere they are hiring 50,000 employees. These are 12 dollar an hour warehouse jobs - I'm sure those jobs will qualify those lucky enough to find employment at nozamA for a 35-50000 dollar car loan. The reporter that did the story mentioned how massive was the turnout for these 12 buck and hour jobs - and how many people needed those jobs. Hmmm - does this sound like a "great economy?"see
While browsing these financial sites I'm constantly bombarded with images of a stock market "genius" named remarC who ceaselessly discusses stocks that sell for hundreds of dollars a share. Exactly who is he directing his "show" at?
A stock I saw take a jump recently was elohW sdooF which was pushed into selling themselves to nozamA by a so-called "activist investor" who bought a boatload of their shares sending from the 30's up to 42 dollars a share. After the company was sold the investment group sold their stock and hit the road. This seems like a heck of a way to value stocks.
I read another good article about stock buybacks being used as a strategy to lift the share price so the CEO's can grab more loot when they beat feet out of a company with their pockets lined. You can read that article HERE. Supposedly this strategy is coming to an end as an option for many companies as a way to keep the stock rising when there are no gains in business activity.
So - that's some of the news we have available. Then, as if the only message out there is to buy lately a Basset Hound came out to warn us that there will be a crash in the bond markets soon - our old friend from the Federal Reserve system Alan Greenspan - you can read that HERE. So he's contradicting the others.
So we can read this news and try to understand it but it is obvious that we cannot really trust the sources - who are presenting much of this news, I think, to keep the herd entertained or befuddled while they take their money and run.
I've noticed - and this has "worsened" since the last crash around 2008 that eating establishments no longer just put napkins out on the tables and have switched from sugar packs to sugar dispensers - kept at a main coffe sugar and cream station. Why? The same reason the hotels stopped stocking spare rolls of toilet paper in the rooms as these years have dragged on - that is - unless you go to one of the ritzier places traveling on a corporate dime. People start stuffing this stuff in the pockets - sugar packs so they don't have to buy sugar. Napkins and paper towels - I've seen them doing it. So the establishments take precautions to save on those losses.
These are the signs of recession to me - when that surplus is not there anymore. These corners weren't being cut back in the late eighties early nineties.
I've looked at the prices of things and they are too high. In this town the rents seem also too high to be supported by 12 buck and hour jobs. How long can things continue this way?
Recently the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate and they claim they are going to do it one more time this year. This tells me that the pool of buyers willing to take out some stupid loan to finance one of these overpriced vehicles will become reduced as the interest rates will make the payments unaffordable.
The quality of products has dropped as corporate greed has moved the business model from producing something to be proud of that you would sell to your own kids to producing garbage that self-destructs the minute it gets out the door. Everything is buy buy buy more - hurry hurry hurry and make more money. Everything is an opportunity to rob the customer - then rob them again - of their money first - then of their time as they spend endless hours fixing broken hardware and software - endlessly running back to Asian mart. I don't care how many economists you line up with degrees from harvard - and fancy mathematical proofs - waste is bad economy PERIOD.
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The coffee shop I'm in has really picked up. There are two folks to my left apparently discussing some sort of writing or something they are working on - I can't hear well enough on that ear to make out what they are talking about. Somehow a strong coffee-grounds aroma hit me - smells great - better than coffee tastes. The clink-ring of quarter and nickels hitting the tip jar. Two girls blabbing to the order taker - then ordering something. Some big guy in black tshirt, beige sneakers fiddling with a cup lid staring blankly - now he's going outside with two ice coffees - he put the lid onto one of them.
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I took a break from looking up at the chemtrails - it kinda' hurts watching my fellow citizens being sprayed with unknown substances. I had to stop because it was killing me in a way - looking up at that wrong-headed plan - to turn a beautiful blue sky white - is sick - but who other than a poet or painter or idler gazing into the sky could care anyway? After all - scientists are always right about everything and they don't see any problem living under a synthetic sky - they don't give a crap about human lungs - and they are the ones with the skills corporate america is willing to pay for.....they are "smart" - so the poison won't hurt as much
As for the political scene it seems that the new world order agenda continues unabated. Congress remains blind to the needs, safety, and wishes of the average citizen. And who can blame them? They are well-finded by highly organized interest groups who have specific goals in mind and the power to remove any Congressperson that gets too cocky and starts asking too many questions about why we have to send to much money to weapons manufacturers, secret agencies and foreign governments when we get nothing but more and more war. It seems that no one knows what these monsters and war-mongers have in store for us next.
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Coffee grinder noise - stops - music volume seems to have dropped. Some guy and his wife to my right bouncing baby on knee - music stopped completely now. A low murmur of voices now, clip clop of shoes walking by - it seems hot in here now - maybe from the two cups of coffee I drank...reflection of yellow VeeDub goes by in the reflection in my computer screen of the street through the window behind me. The baby quacked - quacked - he hands the kid to her now.
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It's no longer high noon but it is still boresville for now....
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