The coming "crisis" and American totalitarianism

[Colonel Kurtz]

No I haven't stocked in bulk, prefer to just buy weekly, I've bought stuff out of cash n carrys a few years ago without being a retailer. Just go in and say you're starting a stall or something they are usually relaxed about the rules.

There was an interesting article in the Daily Mail today about growing your own veg and it recommended a website but I can't remember the name of it, part of it was allotments.net, just can't remember the first part.

I'm also looking into growing veg as well. Also I done a lot of research about soil remineralisation a few years ago and would highly recommend remineralising your soil using rockdust or seaweed dust. Most soils are seriously depleted in minerals and only 3 are added by farmers and growers NPK. A lot of health problems are caused by mineral defficiency because of soil depletion, if it's not in the soil then it won't be in the food. Even organic growers don't add enough to the soil or understand the health benefits. The minerals help restore bone density, repair blood vessels, restore tissue elasticity, organ functions etc there are literally hundreds of health benefits. It's not quackery either it's based on science and studies done by researchers and medical experts.

If you want to buy in bulk just go to an Asian market. They are set up to sell in bulk - much cheaper for the basics like rice. You can buy a 20kg bad of basmati rice for about 45 euro. That's more than 200 servings of rice per bag.

If you are growing your own it might be worthwhile investigating making your own earthbox. I am building my own at the moment - it will be fun to grow my own tomatoes for my vindaloos.

Oh, I also want to grow my own dorest naga chillies too, of course.

[Colonel Kurtz]

Astronomy Ireland has an interesting article on the Christmas star

"The planet Venus came to prominence over the Christmas period and now it dominates the evening sky, blazing in the south from sunset until about 9pm"

" What was the Star of Bethlehem? This video looks at the astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem that guided the Three Wise Men to the birthplace of Christ. The video establishes that Christ was born in 7BC and that the Three Wise Men were Zoroastrian priests who observed an astronomical event that occurs once every 800 years."

[rhonda15]

It is in the nature of most Conspiraloons to be glass half empty kind of people

And I, and a few folks who have commented on this blog, and a few folks who have written to me directly, have recently expressed a sense of despair about what's going on in the world

There's a sense that global events are heading towards some kind of ghastly, unstoppable climax

Well, yes, I think they might be

But, looking on the bright side...

No, there really is one, honest

It's really quite easy to forget that the last six months or so have been a terrible time for official narratives and the interests that control the US, UK and other governments...
Famous for 15 megapixels: That tired old cacca just isn't working any more

Somehow, in spite of all the nonsense, all the disinfo, misinfo, sabotage and bullsh*t, the people I'm running into on-line are better informed, better focused and more savvy than they were five years ago. They are also more restless and trying to figure out how they can apply their new consciousness and understanding to the 'real' world

This is good news and a (small) reason to be optimistic

Honestly

[Lthse]

It is in the nature of most Conspiraloons to be glass half empty kind of people

And I, and a few folks who have commented on this blog, and a few folks who have written to me directly, have recently expressed a sense of despair about what's going on in the world

There's a sense that global events are heading towards some kind of ghastly, unstoppable climax

Well, yes, I think they might be

But, looking on the bright side...

No, there really is one, honest

It's really quite easy to forget that the last six months or so have been a terrible time for official narratives and the interests that control the US, UK and other governments...
Famous for 15 megapixels: That tired old cacca just isn't working any more

Somehow, in spite of all the nonsense, all the disinfo, misinfo, sabotage and bullsh*t, the people I'm running into on-line are better informed, better focused and more savvy than they were five years ago. They are also more restless and trying to figure out how they can apply their new consciousness and understanding to the 'real' world

This is good news and a (small) reason to be optimistic

Honestly

Nice post Rhonda, it's good to hear good news amid all the gloom. I would add Lisbon to the list, that must have been a real shocker!

It was supposed to come in this month as well so their plans must be all over the place at the moment.

[Colonel Kurtz]

It is in the nature of most Conspiraloons to be glass half empty kind of people

And I, and a few folks who have commented on this blog, and a few folks who have written to me directly, have recently expressed a sense of despair about what's going on in the world

There's a sense that global events are heading towards some kind of ghastly, unstoppable climax

Well, yes, I think they might be

But, looking on the bright side...

No, there really is one, honest

It's really quite easy to forget that the last six months or so have been a terrible time for official narratives and the interests that control the US, UK and other governments...
Famous for 15 megapixels: That tired old cacca just isn't working any more

Somehow, in spite of all the nonsense, all the disinfo, misinfo, sabotage and bullsh*t, the people I'm running into on-line are better informed, better focused and more savvy than they were five years ago. They are also more restless and trying to figure out how they can apply their new consciousness and understanding to the 'real' world

This is good news and a (small) reason to be optimistic

Honestly

I think it is darkest before the dawn kind of stuff for sure.
That seems to be the only way we learn unfortunately...
I agree Lisbon was a bright spot. Our future is assured.

[rhonda15]

To all you liberty-loving, original-thinkers (and conspiraloons) - I salute you!

YouTube - Human - The Killers (Official Video)

The Killers latest song "Human" was inspired by the Hunter S. Thompson quote that 'America was raising a generation of dancers.' But what exactly did he mean??! Was he saying literally that people were dancing and avoiding bigger problems in life? Is 'dancer' a euphemism for something else?

Hunter S. Thompson meant that the US (and the world at large) was making people afraid of stepping out of place and following their own beat. He was saying that people were only following the steps they were taught, and were also taught not to change them. In the song "Human" one of the lines is "Some times I get nervous when I see an open door". By this he meant that he is afraid to take different opportunities when they are presented to him, because living in the US has made us all afraid to go against what we've thought for all our lives.

By ''Dancer'' hes meaning ''puppets'' Because thats how the world has become. We are all just puppets, like dancers. Thats why he says in the song ''cut the cord'' this vision comes from Hunter S. Thompson who once said that America was raising a generation of dancers.

[Lthse]

Astronomy Ireland has an interesting article on the Christmas star

"The planet Venus came to prominence over the Christmas period and now it dominates the evening sky, blazing in the south from sunset until about 9pm"

" What was the Star of Bethlehem? This video looks at the astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem that guided the Three Wise Men to the birthplace of Christ. The video establishes that Christ was born in 7BC and that the Three Wise Men were Zoroastrian priests who observed an astronomical event that occurs once every 800 years."

If Christ was born in 7BC how could this event occur every 800 years, or am I missing the point?

[Asi-Irish]

Myself and a friend, enthused by this rising consciousness, are planning a road trip from Pakistan to Dublin, with a TV crew, during which we'll be visiting amazing places, such as the home of the founder of the Sufi Whirling Dervishes and Cappadocia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .

We plan to bridge the gap between the Muslim World and the Western World, and offer up an alternative to the Clash of Cultures narrative.

We'll be heading through Troy, on into the Balkans, spending lots of time in Sarajevo and Zagreb (artists and cultural figures living in conflict zones will be a common theme), then to Amsterdam, Paris, London, Manchester, Belfast and Dublin.

My buddy is a Pakistani Irish musician who has never been to Ireland, but fronted an Irish band in Zagreb for over a decade and is now a recording artist here in Pakistan.

We're planning on doing it in a restored Australian built Volkswagen Beetle that was found on the side of the road in Karachi...

There you go... any opinions on this concept?

[Asi-Irish]

Oh, and my favourite piece by Hunter S. Thompson. The following effort secured the position of "runner-up" in a high school essay contest. I love it. Particularly the final sentence.

Security

by Hunter S. Thompson (1955).

Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it another word for rut?

Let us visualize the secure man; and by this term, I mean a man who has settled for financial and personal security for his goal in life. In general, he is a man who has pushed ambition and initiative aside and settled down, so to speak, in a boring, but safe and comfortable rut for the rest of his life. His future is but an extension of his present, and he accepts it as such with a complacent shrug of his shoulders. His ideas and ideals are those of society in general and he is accepted as a respectable, but average and prosaic man. But is he a man? has he any self-respect or pride in himself? How could he, when he has risked nothing and gained nothing? What does he think when he sees his youthful dreams of adventure, accomplishment, travel and romance buried under the cloak of conformity? How does he feel when he realizes that he has barely tasted the meal of life; when he sees the prison he has made for himself in pursuit of the almighty dollar? If he thinks this is all well and good, fine, but think of the tragedy of a man who has sacrificed his freedom on the altar of security, and wishes he could turn back the hands of time. A man is to be pitied who lacked the courage to accept the challenge of freedom and depart from the cushion of security and see life as it is instead of living it second-hand. Life has by-passed this man and he has watched from a secure place, afraid to seek anything better What has he done except to sit and wait for the tomorrow which never comes?

Turn back the pages of history and see the men who have shaped the destiny of the world. Security was never theirs, but they lived rather than existed. Where would the world be if all men had sought security and not taken risks or gambled with their lives on the chance that, if they won, life would be different and richer? It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life is drudgery, that the ambitions of youth must he laid aside for a life which is but a painful wait for death. These are the ones who squeeze what excitement they can from life out of the imaginations and experiences of others through books and movies. These are the insignificant and forgotten men who preach conformity because it is all they know. These are the men who dream at night of what could have been, but who wake at dawn to take their places at the now-familiar rut and to merely exist through another day. For them, the romance of life is long dead and they are forced to go through the years on a treadmill, cursing their existence, yet afraid to die because of the unknown which faces them after death. They lacked the only true courage: the kind which enables men to face the unknown regardless of the consequences.

As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

[Almanac]

Myself and a friend, enthused by this rising consciousness, are planning a road trip from Pakistan to Dublin, with a TV crew, during which we'll be visiting amazing places, such as the home of the founder of the Sufi Whirling Dervishes and Cappadocia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Sounds like a great idea. All over the west people are waking up to the monstrous crimes being committed by their leaders against their own people and citizens all over the world at the behest of a diabolical elite with ambitions for global domination.

Determined not to have another Chirac repeat (opposition to the criminal invasions of sovereign countries), the CIA placed its agent in power in France. Read about this here.

We plan to bridge the gap between the Muslim World and the Western World, and offer up an alternative to the Clash of Cultures narrative.

Excellent. This narrative was invented by elite front man Huntington in order to justify the continued oppression of the East. Before him came the likes of murderer Kissinger who classified non-western development as a "security risk" and had Bhutto assassinated for non-compliance.

My buddy is a Pakistani Irish musician who has never been to Ireland, but fronted an Irish band in Zagreb for over a decade and is now a recording artist here in Pakistan.

I heard actually that there are similarities between some types of traditional Indian music and Irish traditional music. Maybe the same is true for Pakistan.

Hope to catch you on the road somewhere, assuming that the syndicate have not plunged us into a nuclear war in the meantime!