It’s pouring rain out today. I mean that it is a deluge. The weather, as of late, has been very unusual. But we are all fine. I hear that this May it snowed a few feet in Colorado. Indeed that is odd, but between the Monkey-pox, and Joe Biden deciding to start world war 3 with China and Russia simultaneously, and the lack of baby formula, I mean… what are you going to do?
Perhaps a giant strawberry is what you need right now.
Howdy. Buckle up and enjoy yourself here today.
FLASH: BELARUS PRESIDENTIAL ORDER — UKRAINE
Something very unusual, big, and serious, is happening . . .
President Viktor Lukashenko of Belarus has ordered the armed forces of Belarus to immediately create an operational command to handle “the Ukrainian direction.”
Appearing on national television in his full military uniform, Lukashenko told the nation trouble is coming.
The fact that he put on his uniform for this says it all.
UPDATE 3:11 PM EDT —
Lukashenko also saying that Belarus expects “pressure” from Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, in particular, with the help of NATO troops stationed there.
Hal Turner Remarks
As readers of this site will recall, it was just Tuesday into Wednesday of this week that the country of Hungary, enacted a “WARTIME EMERGENCY” declaration despite no hostilities in or near Hungary. (Story Here)
Now, we have Belarus ordering its military to stand-up a new Ukrainian Command . . . .
Something wicked this way comes . . . .
Slow-Cooker Pork Ragu
This slow-cooked pasta sauce goes well beyond the average spaghetti topper with all-day slow-cooked flavor. Pork shoulder, bacon and aromatic vegetables cook in a crushed tomato sauce and thicken to a hearty, rich consistency that pairs well with rigatoni pasta in particular. Make it a day ahead when you have some extra time, and let the flavors mellow and meld—or just be sure to save some leftovers! This take on a classic Italian sauce is sure to impress your dinner table regulars and special guests alike.
Ingredients
- 8 slices applewood smoked bacon, chopped (half of a 12-oz package)
- 1 1/2 lb boneless pork shoulder, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onions
- 2 cups chopped carrots
- 5 cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves
- 1/2 cup Progresso™ chicken broth (from 32-oz carton)
- 1 can (28 oz) Muir Glen™ organic fire roasted crushed tomatoes, undrained
- 6 cups cooked rigatoni pasta (about 4 1/2 cups uncooked)
- Shredded Parmesan cheese, if desired
- Chopped fresh oregano leaves, basil or Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, if desired
One Toke Over the Line
Welcome to the 1970s.
- Written by Vladimir Platov
The United States has long demonstrated to the global community its disregard for international regulations, along with its readiness to unleash a war with the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) anywhere in the world. This is what the Americans did in Japan, when they dropped nuclear bombs on civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
There have subsequently been many other incidents documented and reported to the UN which involved the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons by the United States against its opponents not only in Korea, but also in other regions of the world. Thus, in the period from 1949 to 1988 the Soviet Union submitted to the UN evidence about 13 facts of large- and small-scale use of WMDs with the US involvement. Here are just some of them.
- – In 1951-1953, the USSR forwarded to the UN the documented evidence about the US’s use of bioweapons against North Korea and China during the Korean War. Those crimes garnered broad media coverage even in the US itself, and were proved by declassified documentary information;
- – in 1948-1960, the UN received some documented evidence of the application of “scorched earth” tactics by the British army, backed by the United States, with the use of chemical and bioweapons against civilians in Malaya;
- – in 1961-1971, the UN received evidence of the use of the same policy by the US Armed Forces in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand;
- – In 1982, Moscow forwarded to the UN documentary evidence of CIA’s financial support to breeding and proliferation of genetically modified malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Afghanistan. The biolabs in Pakistan were used for these R&D activities;
- – in 1985, the USSR submitted to the UN evidence of the activities of US secret biolabs in South Africa and Israel, studying the impact of certain biological agents on certain racial (Negroid) and ethnic (Arab) groups;
- – at the same period, the Soviet Union submitted to the UN incriminating evidence, supported by 25 countries, about the possible involvement of the US military laboratory at Fort Detrick (Maryland, USA) in the development of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as well as in deliberate distribution of this virus in Africa;
- – in the 1990s and 2000s, the UN agencies had already been investigating the “leak” of dangerous pathogens from the US military bases in Spain and Kenya, following which it was proved that the above “leaks” were clearly purposeful and planned.
All materials on these war crimes have been registered with the UN and are at the disposal of this organization!
Most recently, The Exposé, a British publication, published the results of its investigation into the direct involvement of the United States and Ukraine in the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Recently, new documentary evidence of the US criminal activities aimed at unleashing a global biological war has been obtained by the Russian Ministry of Defense during the special military operation in Ukraine.
In particular, Igor Kirillov, the Head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces of the Russian Armed Forces (RCBPF), has disclosed new information revealing the details of the Pentagon’s inhumane experiments on Ukrainian citizens in a psychiatric hospital in Kharkov region (Strelechye village). The test subjects included a group of male patients aged 40-60 with a high stage of physical exhaustion. “The received information proved the fact that the United States was launching an offensive military biological program in Ukraine, the purpose of which was to study the possibility of initiating controlled outbreaks of diseases on particular territories,” Kirillov said.
Documented evidence was received about an attempt to infect the residents of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) with tuberculosis by means of fake banknotes contaminated with the tuberculosis causative agent. The infected notes were distributed among the minors in the village of Stepovoye in 2020. “The criminal masterminds exploited the behavior of children who are prone to tasting everything and eating without washing their hands,” Kirillov said. Aside from this, some additional information about the incidents associated with the use of bioweapons in Ukraine was obtained during the special military operation: documentary evidence was studied about the deliberate use of a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis pathogen in 2020 to infect the population of Slavyanoserbsky district in the LPR.
According to Igor Kirillov, the results of bacteriological tests proved the resistance of extracted bacteria to Tier 1 and Tier 2 anti-tuberculosis drugs. The disease caused by them would be much more difficult to treat, and the cost of such treatment would be much higher. The Lugansk Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Service made a conclusion about the artificial nature of infection found on the banknotes, as extremely dangerous strains were found and their “concentration capable of guaranteeing infection and development of the tuberculosis process.”
Along with this, the Russian Armed Forces have discovered more than a dozen unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with tanks and nozzles for spraying bioweapon agents. In particular, on March 9, in the territory of Kherson region, three UAVs were detected with 30-liter tanks and equipment for spraying malicious agents. In late April, ten more similar UAVs were detected near the settlement of Kakhovka. At the same time, Igor Kirillov, the Head of RCBPF, added that, as a result of the special military operation in Ukraine, facts came to light evidencing the work carried out with pathogens that are potential agents of bioweapons.
At the same time, not only the United States, but also a number of its NATO allies, such as Germany, Poland and 10 other Western allies of Washington, are running their military biological projects in Ukraine. Thus, the Polish Institute of Veterinary Medicine took part in the studies of rabies virus in Ukraine together with the Battelle Institute, one of the Pentagon contractors, said the Head of the RCBPF.
According to Kirillov, the ideologists of American military biological operations in Ukraine are the leaders of the US Democratic Party who “formed the legislative framework for funding military biological research directly from the federal budget.” “Non-governmental organizations controlled by the leadership of the US Democratic Party, submitted their funds including the investment funds owned by the Clintons, Rockefellers, Soros, Biden, under the state guarantees,” the representative of the Ministry of Defense said. Major pharma companies, such as Pfizer, Moderna, Merck, as well as Gilead, a Pentagon-affiliated company, were also involved in this scheme. “US specialists are testing new medicines bypassing the international safety standards,” Kirillov added.
It should be noted that Washington has been involved in those activities for many decades, with the obvious connivance of the UN and other international organizations who were submitted incriminating evidence of the criminal use of bioweapons by the US. Instead of ensuring compliance with the international regulations and international conventions signed by the United States to combat the development and use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, Washington regularly arranges fake news campaigns accusing other countries of alleged use of prohibited WMDs. And these campaigns, unfortunately, are actively promoted and supported by the US-funded media and representatives of a number of Western political parties and governments around the world, thereby shielding official revelations of the US criminal activities.
Today, US military biolabs are located not only in Ukraine, but also in many other countries of the world that are facing a similar danger of Washington using bioweapons. And the US does not seem to be ashamed telling the global community about its “right” to make plans for changing political regimes “in authoritarian countries if they pose a threat to US security.” In particular, Henry Kissinger, one of the most respected veterans of the US politics, the former US Secretary of State and national Security Adviser to the US President, recently made this statement in his interview to the Financial Times.
Given all of the above, every country in the world should be asking one question today: Why is the United States getting away with unleashing a global biological war?
周杰倫 Jay Chou【千里之外 Far Away (feat.費玉清 Fei Yu-ching)】-Official Music Video
A classic Jay Chou movie out of China. All these videos date from his first album around 2002 or so. And they are videos that tell a story. You don’t need to understand the lyrics to figure out what is happening…
Dollar is dying there is no question about it
A great talk.
Texas School Shooter May Have Been ARRESTED in 2018 for “Terror Attack Plot in 2022” at SCHOOL, Years before Shooting that Left 21 Dead!
An active shooter situation in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, left 19 children and two adults dead. Now, however, we find the shooter may have been one of two juveniles arrested in 2018 for plotting such an attack . . . . to be carried out in the year 2022!
A hospital report from the area states that in addition to 19 kids and two adults who were killed, 14 other children and at least one other adult are being treated by hospitals in Uvalde and San Antonio.
The shooter was killed by responding police, according to Texas Governor Abbott.
The Hal Turner Radio Show has now found that in 2018 two teens were arrested for planning a mass shouting at their school in Uvalde Texas.
Their plan was to carry out the shooting in their senior year which would be 2022.
The teens were 13 and 14 years old when they were arrested. The youth were evaluated by mental health professionals and the older of the children was released to his mother. Here is the statement made by the Uvalde school system back in 2018:
Our school district is committed to the safety and education of all our students and we want to clearly communicate about safety issues when they arise. One of our Morales Junior High students was experiencing a crisis. Upon rendering aid and support, the student revealed a future plan to conduct a school shooting in the year of 2022. With the type of detailed information that was revealed by the student to law enforcement and confirmed in their investigation, the student has been arrested and will not be returning to our school. Our school district has a strong partnership with our local law enforcement agencies and emergency responders. They share our commitment to student safety, and we are working closely with them to ensure all information is thoroughly evaluated and our school is as safe as possible. We ask our parents to assist us in reminding their child/children of the importance of telling a staff member if they ever become aware of a plan to harm individuals or of a weapon at school. The STOPit app may be utilized by parents or students to inform administration of any inappropriate behavior. In this way, we are all working together to keep our schools safe.
A press release obtained by TV Station KENS-5 thoroughly chronicles events leading up to an investigation performed by the Uvalde Police Department and the Texas Rangers.
<p”>In the press release, Uvalde Chief of Police Daniel Rodriguez said that a Morales Junior High School student,14, and a former Morales student, 13, had specifically targeted numerous students in what they described as a plan to perform a “mass casualty event against the school.”
Authorities said the students were motivated in large part by the Columbine shootings:
The investigation revealed that the students were infatuated with the Columbine High School shootings and identified themselves to the shooters. The investigation uncovered that the students even referred to themselves using the Columbine shooter’s names.”
Investigators also believe the students were planning to hold the attacks years from now during their senior year, on the anniversary of the Columbine shooting. However, one of the students began to convince the other that they should move the attacks up to this year.
“One of the students had numerous writings and drawings which depicted weapons capable of causing mass destruction. He wrote about being “God-like” and killing police and other persons. He had an academic analysis of one of the Columbine shooter’s journals,” the release stated.
According to the release, the teens were also planning on detonating IED’s before killing students from a list ‘ranked by priority.’
After that, the release states the pair were going to kill at random before eventually turning the guns on themselves.
“Any kids that had talked bad about them or said anything they did not like, basically, they said they were going to go and kill them,” one student said. You just felt unsafe. And teachers have been bringing it to our attention that you can’t be saying those things anymore. We can’t do that. It is wrong.”
“It was scary. We hear it everywhere else, but you don’t expect for it to happen in your town,” one parent said. “I am glad they were able to control the situation before anything does happen. And that they actually did something about it. Sometimes you think they’re just going to hear it, and say it won’t happen and dust it under the rug, and they actually did something.”
Both students were reportedly evaluated by mental health services on April 19, when the investigation led officials to the pair. The older of the two was released on April 23 into his mother’s care.
On April 25, the pair were taken into custody again, and this time arrested for Conspiracy to Commit Murder.
Because Juvenile Arrest records are SEALED, it is not yet known if Tuesday’s shooter in that same town, was one of the Juveniles arrested for such a plot back in 2018.
Hal Turner Editorial Opinion
This is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions.
The children shot and killed on Tuesday, were in the Second, Third, and Fourth grade. That would make most of them between the ages 7 and 9 years old.
What kind of a monster deliberately chooses to kill such helpless, innocent, children? Who created this monster, and who didn’t report him before he killed so many?
If Tuesday’s gunman WAS, in fact, one of the two arrested in 2018, what was he doing out of custody and what kind of mental health “professionals” turned this beast loose?
If, however, Tuesday’s shooter was NOT one of the kids arrested back in 2018, then what the hell is going on in the schools of that town, that so many kids are having fantasies of – and now actually becoming – mass shooters?
There are an awful lot of questions to be answered here.
One such question is this: If the threat back in 2018 was for an attack to be done in April or May of 2022, where was the extra security at schools to guard against such an attack?
Seems to me the local Board of Education has a lot of explaining to do about that.
My bet, and this is just personal opinion and conjecture: I think this shooter WAS one of the kids arrested in 2018. After all, what are the odds it would be someone else?
- Written by James Howard Kunstler
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When I wrote The Long Emergency nearly twenty years ago, I never thought that, once it got going, our government would work so hard to make it worse. My theory then was just that government would become increasingly bloated, ineffectual, impotent, and uncomprehending of the forces converging to undermine our advanced techno-industrial societies. What I didn’t imagine was that government would bring such ostentatious stupidity to all that.
Obviously, there was some recognition that ominous changes are coming down. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have heard so much chatter about alt energy, “sustainable growth,” “green” this-and-that. But the chatter was more symptomatic of wishful thinking for at least a couple of reasons:
1) mostly it ignored the laws of physics, despite the fact that so many people involved in enterprises such as wind and solar energy were science-and-tech mavens; and
2) there was a dumb assumption that the general shape and scale of daily life would remain as it had been — in other words, that we could still run suburbia, the giant cities, Disney World, WalMart, the US military, and the Interstate highway system just the way they were already set-up, only by other means than oil and gas.
Now, we’re finding out the hard way how much daily life must change, and is changing, and how disorderly that process is in every way from the imperative personal adjustments to our spiritual attitudes about them. As with so many things in history, this disorder expresses itself strangely, even prankishly, as if God were a practical joker. Who would’ve imagined that our politics would become so deranged? That there would be battles over teaching oral sex in the fifth-grade? That the CDC would keep pushing vaccines that obviously don’t work (and that so many people would still take them)? That stealing stuff under a thousand dollars in value wouldn’t merit prosecution? That riots featuring arson and looting are “mostly peaceful?” That we’d send $50-billion halfway around the world to defend the borders of another country while ignoring the defense of our own borders? That financially beset Americans would spend their dwindling spare cash on… tattoos?
Notice that all of these strange behaviors have really nothing to do with making practical adjustments to the way we live. The collective psychology of all this is bizarre. Of course, mass formation psychosis accounts for a lot of it. Groups of people under duress, suffering from loneliness, purposelessness, helplessness, and anxiety will fall into coordinated thought-and-action if presented with some object or someone to fixate their ill feelings upon.
Donald Trump was such an object. He galvanized about half the country into an intoxicated fury aimed at destroying him. It actually managed to drive him off the scene via a fraud-laced election which many in-power (local officials, judges) deemed a means justifying the desired end. That success reinforced their mass formation psychosis. Alas, having succeeded against Mr. Trump, they were left without a galvanizing object to focus on. So, they adopted one of the devices of Trump-riddance, Covid-19, as the next object of all their distress and anxiety, adopting the mRNA vaccinations as their next savior du jour.
Unfortunately, the vaccination scheme has gone very much awry, and now millions face a future with damaged immune systems. The horror of that is too awful to comprehend, especially by government, which caused the problem in the first place and can’t possibly admit it without demolishing its legitimacy… so it presses on stupidly and heinously with the vaccine program. Already all-causes deaths are substantially up, and in time the recognition of how-and-why this happened will reach a point of criticality.
It will be too obvious to ignore. But by that time (probably not far away), the economy will be so wrecked, the people of America so deranged, and our circumstances so desperate, that the government will resort to a supremely stupid act of national suicide, say, starting a nuclear war. The government under “Joe Biden” seems perfectly disposed to that possible outcome. Which brings us to the spiritual part of the story: those unused to consorting with alleged “higher powers” might consider getting used to prayer.
Lately, a new derangement is overtaking Western Civ, for the excellent reason that Western Civ gave birth to techno industrial societies and is now first to undergo the alarming demise of that system. I speak of the World Economic Forum (under one Klaus Schwab) and its stated ambition to Build Back Better — based on its unstated premise that the current system must be nudged to its death sooner rather than later, and on-purpose. All the governments of Western Civ nations seem coordinated on this.
But it’s not going to happen as Mr. Schwab and his followers hoped, for at least a couple of reasons. First, as already stated, God is a prankster and likes to throw knuckleballs at the human race. Anyway, the “better” that Mr. Schwab expects is an ultra-techno-industrial “trans-human” scheme that is unlikely to come about if the support system of the older techno-industrial system is no longer available to support it. As currently conceived, BBB depends on electric power, and that is one of the major sub-systems of our system that already looks like it’s going janky.
You get the idea, I’m sure, so I’ll cut to the chase for now. About a year ago I had my French easel set up on a country road nearby and was busy painting a motif at-hand when along came a horse-drawn wagon filled with four men in severe black-and-white clothing, wearing beards. They were apparently a bit surprised by the strange sight of me painting a picture and they stopped to chat. They were Amish and had lately moved to the county from down in Pennsylvania, which was running out of farmland for their fruitful people. Not a half-hour later a second horse-drawn wagon passed by. I admit, the incident gave me a thrill — not just the sensory pleasure of the horses’ ripe animal smell, and the gentle rhythm of their clip-clopping along. But since I had lately been writing a bunch of novels about life in a post-economic collapse town like my own (the World Made by Hand series), I enjoyed the strange delight of being transported briefly into a scene of my own imagining — the prequel of my own books.
Many more Amish are landing in the county these days. I hear they go around to the failing or inactive farms with bundles of cash and make an offer, just like that. Evidently the method works. It’s given me a business idea: to start an Amish skills school, buy a few acres with a barn and hire some Amish men to teach all us non-Amish how to do a few things that might be good to know in the years ahead, like how to harness horses to a cart or a mule to a plow. (The Amish like to make a bit of cash-money when they can.) That’s my idea of how to build back better. What do you think?
I’d Love to Change the World – Alvin Lee & Ten Years After
1970s. We all wish to return to those days; to be freed from the craziness of the 2020s.
- Written by Vladimir Platov
- The results of Russia’s ongoing special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine reveal with each passing day more and more documentary evidence of the criminal activities of the US and its allies in that country. One of its activities, as the information received has shown, is the development and creation by Washington of biological weapons in closed US biolabs in Ukraine, in close cooperation with Britain and Germany.
In particular, in addition to the facts of the joint development of bioweapons by Britain and the US, which have already become internationally known, the involvement of Germany in intensive bioweapons activities in Ukraine, along with the US, has also come to light. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this, citing documents obtained by the Russian Ministry of Defense during a military special operation to protect Donbass. It has been revealed that the German government was implementing the German Biosecurity Program (GBP) since 2013, including in Ukraine, where the US has set up a network of at least 30 biolabs and where dangerous research has been carried out, among other things. On the German side, practical work in this program is carried out, similarly to the US, by military specialists, in particular from the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces (Munich), as well as from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Greifswald – Riems Island), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg) and the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin).
It is quite understandable that it is precisely the fear of more and more evidence of said criminal activity in Russian hands as a result of Moscow’s special operation in Ukraine to denazify it that motivates the current German authorities to show increased willingness, compared to other EU countries, to pump the Kiev authorities with more and more weapons and encourage Kiev to continue its military action against Russia. The same reasons explain the activity of German authorities in recent days in attempting to falsely attribute to Russia alleged plans to use biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine and in maintaining an active phase of information warfare against Moscow.
It is also noteworthy that the current German authorities are actively collaborating with the US in the development of bioweapons not only in Ukraine, but also in Central Asia, clearly becoming Washington’s accomplices in the confrontation with both Russia and China.
A study conducted by journalists from the Russian newspaper Izvestia, including by analyzing open scientific publications, revealed that German military biologists carried out research into vectors of dangerous diseases in Mongolia. In particular, wild birds capable of migrating long distances (usually from north to south and back again, so it is easy to guess the reason for this “interest”). At the end of 2012, they published a study on the presence of Escherichia Coli producing the enzyme extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) in birds. This study was carried out by employees of the Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Free University of Berlin, the Institute of Biology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and the German company Vet Med Labor GmbH (Ludwigsburg).
The increased interest of Western bioweapons “experts” in Mongolia can be explained quite simply: the Mongols are closer to the Chinese, so the diseases that affect the Mongols are very likely to affect the Chinese as well. Incidentally, it cannot be ruled out that the key to the Asian genome has already been found by the US and its “allies”, since the Stealth-Omicron that has been raging in China lately seems to be mainly designed to attack Asians. And, as is well-known, this round of epidemic started in South Korea, also full of American biolabs and where more than 70 thousand people have died in the last 3 months, which is very impressive for this country.
In Mongolia, which rarely makes the news but shares borders with Russia and China, “experts” from the United States and Germany have been collecting biomaterial samples for years. Of particular interest for military specialists are endemic diseases spread by blood-sucking insects, as well as diseases transmitted from animals to humans.
Some published studies conducted in Mongolia often report on the need for “additional research” on vector-borne and zoonotic diseases in this country, and recommend training for staff of local biological organizations. And it cannot be ruled out that this “necessity” can then be used as a justification for expanding cooperation or building US/NATO special laboratories in Mongolia to deal with dangerous vector-borne and zoonotic diseases.
Given that Mongolia is positioned between the “national adversaries” already designated by Washington and NATO more than once – Russia, China and Iran – this country is identified in Pentagon documents as a very promising destination to cut this geopolitical alliance that is already in the making. In addition, Mongolia has many natural and very dangerous hotbeds of various bacteria and viruses: plague, tularaemia, Crimean-Congo fever, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, pseudotuberculosis and a dozen others. Moreover, it is already known that German “specialists” in Ukraine have been working together with the Anglo-Saxons on some of these viruses and bacteria, in particular on Crimean-Congo fever, which, incidentally, was in the hands of the notorious Dr. Mengele at Dachau concentration camp.
As for the United States’ military use of bioweapons, it is worth remembering how during the Korean War it used such weapons against North Korean forces on several occasions, in particular porcelain balloon bombs filled with plague-carrying fleas. That’s what they were called – “balloons”, “Ishii bombs”. There have been several serious outbreaks there, resulting in several thousand deaths.
It has already been reported in a number of media outlets that the US, together with its Western European allies, plans to open another biolab in Mongolia. The main customer for biological programs there would presumably be a unit of the US Medical Directorate of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (USAMD-AFRIMS). The Pentagon plans to set up this biological laboratory at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, which is based in Ulaanbaatar and is allegedly planning to “research” such particularly dangerous diseases as plague, cholera, malaria, hepatitis, coronavirus and encephalitis there. At the same time, there have been reports that the US “research” activities would include the collection of biological material from Mongolians in areas that are in close proximity to Russia and China. In doing so, the United States and its NATO allies expect Mongolia to agree to study dangerous pathogens in that country, which are often found in areas bordering Russia and China. In this regard, a major focus of US biolabs in Mongolia could be to study the effects of dangerous viruses on people of Asian origin.
周杰倫 Jay Chou【我不配 Not Good Enough For You】-Official Music Video
This is a classic out of China. It depicts the sacrifices that Jay had to make for his fame. True story.
America’s Crumbling Infrastructure | 60 Minutes Archive
This is reality.
China Builds World’s First AI-Powered Drone Carrier For Maritime Operations
The latest observation of how China aims to use artificial intelligence to conquer the Pacific is the launching of the world’s first autonomous drone carrier.
According to the South China Morning Post, the intelligent, unmanned 88-meter drone carrier named Zhu Hai Yun will bring revolutionary changes to ocean surveillance, deploying a swarm of aerial, sea, and or submersible drones.
The Zhu Hai Yun is powered by an artificial intelligence system called the Intelligent Mobile Ocean Stereo Observing System (IMOSOS). The vessel can navigate autonomously in open water and or be controlled remotely while releasing various types of drones.
"The intelligent, unmanned ship is a beautiful, new 'marine species' that will bring revolutionary changes for ocean observation," Chen Dake, director of the laboratory responsible for the ship, was quoted as saying by the Science and Technology Daily in 2021 when the shipbuilding began.
The ship was built by Guangzhou of the Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard, a subsidiary of China’s top shipbuilding company, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation. Sea trials will happen in the second half of the year.
Aside from these civilian uses, the drone carrier could be used for military operations.
Suppose the autonomous drone carrier is transferred to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). In that case, it could be used as a surveillance craft to patrol the country’s militarized islands in the South China Sea.
China’s primary strategy is to defeat the US by expanding its artificial intelligence military capabilities. So this could be the beginning of the world’s second-largest superpower building out a fleet of intelligent drone carriers to patrol highly contested waters.
Meanwhile, the US Navy has piloted drone ships in the Pacific, though only equipped for anti-submarine warfare.
- Written by Charles Hugh Smith
- So sorry, but “you’ll own nothing and be miserable–oops, we mean happy, yes, deliriously happy” doesn’t count as a solution.
The global economy is perched on the edge of an abyss, and averting our gaze doesn’t actually lessen the risk, it increases it because problems which aren’t faced directly and addressed directly fester and rot the system from within.
This is why we’re collectively staring into the abyss: all the big problems have been dismissed, ignored or papered over with PR-happy-talk “solutions” that only make the problem worse. There are three basic techniques that our “leadership” (public and private) have used to avoid dealing directly with our pressing problems:
1. Appear to address the problems by doing more of what’s failed spectacularly.
2. Propose magical-thinking happy-happy technological “solutions” that are appealing but impractical.
3. Keep the status quo glued together to maximize quick-buck gains for the elite while guaranteeing long-term catastrophe for the entire society / economy.
Doing more of what’s failed spectacularly is one of the phrases you’ve seen here over the years. This generates an illusion of control because the tried-and-true Band-Aid makes it look like the problem is being addressed. Since doing more of what’s failed spectacularly doesn’t break the system immediately, everyone incorrectly assumes it’s benign or actually helping.
The Federal Reserve’s blowing of serial speculative credit-asset bubbles is a good example. With the bogus goal of generating a “wealth effect” that only rewards the already-rich, the Fed has exacerbated socially fatal neofeudal inequality and created guaranteed-to-pop bubbles that each collapsed with devastating consequences for the credulous who believed the Fed’s poisonous assurances that a) this isn’t a bubble and b) bubbles never pop.
The Fed’s “solution”–blowing an even bigger bubble to paper over the catastrophic losses when the previous bubble popped–has finally reached the endgame: three bubbles and you’re out (2000, 2008-09 and 2021-22). Sorry to disappoint the beneficiaries of the three Fed bubbles, but there won’t be a fourth bubble. Bubbles don’t inflate at the bottom of the abyss.
Magical thinking abounds in finance, energy and and economic policy. Examples include substituting nuclear power for hydrocarbons, conveniently sidestepping the reality that we’d need to build a new reactor a week for years to make a difference, and the really inconvenient reality that the U.S. has built a grand total of two new reactors in the past 25 years and the world has a few dozen under construction–a scale roughly 1/100th of what’s needed.
In finance, magical thinking appears across the entire spectrum from the fanciful delusions of Modern Monetary Theory (we can’t go broke because we can always print more money–uh, sure, that will work just fine, guaranteed) to the Fed’s “if we just make the already-rich even richer while bankrupting the bottom 90%, everything will work out just peachy.” Peachy for whom? That question is never answered because the billionaires are so charmingly bashful.
The New Nobility elites reckon that if they can keep the crumbling cliff edge from collapsing for a few more years, they can maximize their private gains and then escape to their New Zealand bunkers when the consequences of their plunder send the global economy into the abyss.
The elites are in effect selling seats in the Titanic’s lifeboats to the highest bidders. The ship is doomed and they see this tragedy as a terrifically profitable opportunity.
Another analogy is polluting your nation and people so a handful of industrialists and party hacks can get super-rich. The land, water and air are all poisoned and the people sick and dying, but who cares once you’re secure in your fortified villa?
None of humanity’s most pressing problems have been addressed by any elite, any where. So sorry, but “you’ll own nothing and be miserable–oops, we mean happy, yes, deliriously happy” doesn’t count as a solution.
Every elite is pursuing the same self-serving agenda of maximizing their private plunder and hoping–perhaps vainly–to escape the consequences of their obsession with short-term gains at the expense of the planet and its people.
Watch your step while peering into the abyss. The cliff edge is crumbling faster than we realize.
Photos of America today
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop The Rain
- Written by Richard Reese
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Once upon a time, North America was home to an estimated five to eight billion passenger pigeons. They may have been the most numerous bird species in the world. My father was in diapers when the last one died in 1914.
I was born in Michigan, where immense flocks had once thrived, prior to the invasion of farmers and loggers in the early 1800s. Today, our culture has largely forgotten the saga of the passenger pigeons. We still remember the war on bison, which is somehow seen as more heroic and dignified.
Lately, some genetic engineers have been talking about resurrecting the extinct birds. Huh? Would that make any sense? Their natural habitat is long gone, and their return would not be appreciated by farmers, airline pilots, and many others. Curiosity forced me to read two pigeon books. It was an illuminating and disturbing experience.
A. W. Schorger (1884-1972) wrote The Passenger Pigeon, which especially impressed me, because he was totally obsessed with this subject. He devoted 15 years to research, exploring over ten thousand sources — books, journal articles, newspaper clippings. He actively sought informants, and corresponded with many old-timers who had been near the front lines in the war on birds. Passenger pigeons inhabited the eastern U.S., and southeastern Canada. Wikipedia provides a good overview, and a map of their habitat [HERE].
Their primary source of food was mast — nuts, seeds, berries, and fruit produced by trees and woody brush. The two most important foods were acorns and beechnuts. Acorns were swallowed whole, and up to 17 could be stored in the bird’s crop. By morning, they would be digested. When winter grew old and tired, flocks migrated northward, as the retreating snow exposed a buried treasure of yummy nuts.
Pigeons also raided farms. In the early days, at planting time, seeds were broadcast by hand (tossed on the ground surface). Then, hungry flocks would zoom in and eagerly devour them all. They loved corn and wheat, but buckwheat was their favorite. Farmers sometimes burned thousands of acres of trees to discourage flocks from roosting close to their fields. Later, they switched to sowing devices that covered the seeds with soil.
Flocks did not visit the same areas annually, because oak and beech forests did not reliably produce nuts year after year. Birds might not return to the same place for 11 years. Nut trees were smart. By being unpredictable, hungry flocks could not become permanent parasites. This enabled enough nuts to germinate, sprout, and maintain the survival of the species. For pigeon flocks, life was a never ending search for free lunches. They followed their stomachs to delicious locations.
Observers calculated that enormous flocks zoomed across the sky at about 60 miles per hour (96 km/h). They constantly scanned the land they flew over, in search of nourishing treasures. Flocks were most vulnerable when on the ground, where they were prey for predators like wolves, foxes, lynxes, cougars, raccoons, and humans.
They were far safer when perched in trees, or flying. Airborne predators included eagles, hawks, and vultures. A solitary pigeon would have been an easy lunch. It was much safer to fly within a fast moving mob of a million friends. Large flocks were not one solid mass, they separated into multiple tiers of birds, layers maybe spaced a foot apart (30 cm). At high speed, these densely packed clusters moved fluidly in unison — swerving, diving, soaring, and bending. This made predation difficult.
Large flocks of birds required large amounts of food, so they had to keep moving. Nights were spent safely roosting in trees. In the morning, smaller groups scattered across the land to forage. They might travel 100 miles (160 km) before returning to roost for the night. If one group discovered a location that contained abundant food, the larger flock would somehow learn this, and join the feast. When a banquet concluded, the flock took wing and searched for a new place to roost for a while. Passenger pigeons were nomads, no permanent address.
In Kentucky, observers described a huge roosting site 40 miles (64 km) long, and 3 miles wide. When large flocks roosted, birds covered every limb, sometimes several layers deep, standing on the backs of others. Their weight snapped off large limbs. Sometimes entire trees fell over. Some forests looked like a tornado had passed through — thousands of acres of dead trees.
Descriptions of migrating flocks, in unbelievable numbers, strain the imagination. But millions of people saw them. Flocks often stretched as far as the eye could see, from horizon to horizon. They might block out the sun for several days. People could hear the approach of flock that was still 4 miles (6.4 km) away. The sound of a million wings was deafening, “like the roar of distant thunder.” John James Audubon, naturalist and artist, calculated that one flock had more than a billion birds. Someone else watched a flock in Kentucky that sped across the sky for 14 hours. It was a mile wide and more than 300 miles (483 km) long. The flock continued on the following day.
Roosting sites were inhabited until food in an area became scarce, then the flock moved on. Nesting sites required a longer stay, so they were located where food resources were especially abundant. They were close to water, sheltered from the wind, and often on islands. A vital process was performed at nesting sites, reproduction. Nests were built in trees, eggs laid, and squabs (chicks) hatched. Flocks nested at least once a year, and most observers reported that just one egg was laid per nest.
Nesting sites varied in size, but large colonies were typical. There was safety in numbers. Pigeon cities could have a hundred million birds or more. They might inhabit an area ten miles long and three miles wide (16 by 4.8 km). Tree limbs were crowded with nests. If a winter storm blew in, or if hunters began shooting, the entire colony might suddenly abandon their nests and squabs.
Nesting was synchronized. Colonies gathered and nests were built. Almost all of the eggs were laid on about the same day. Parents took turns keeping the squabs warm under wing, while the other parent brought back food. Squabs grew rapidly, remaining in the nest for 13 to 15 days. At this point, parents brought squabs their last meal, and then departed from the nesting area in a great mass. It was up to the squabs to learn how to fly. They were fairly helpless, and predators were happy to eat them. Their bodies were loaded with fat.
Native Americans were grateful for the pigeons. They caught birds with nets. Nesting sites were primary locations for getting birds. They used poles to knock squabs from their nests. Nesting trees were sometimes cut down to access the numerous squabs. Tribes collected the fat from squabs, stored it, and used it like butter. Pigeons played starring roles in tribal myths and legends. There were taboos against prematurely disturbing nesting sites, and scaring away the adults before the young had hatched.
Early explorers (1534) reported large passenger pigeon populations. They were the most common birds on Manhattan Island in the 1620s. In the 1800s, the tide changed. Settlers were encouraged to conquer and demolish the wild frontier. In 1849, free land was given to folks who drained wetlands (prime nesting habitat). New telegraph systems enabled social networking, announcing the location of nesting sites. New railroads enabled industrial scale pigeon hunting. Millions of birds could be quickly shipped from rural areas to big cities. Sometimes tons of squabs were dumped in the river due to spoilage. Unsold birds were fed to pigs.
Hunters used ducking guns with six foot barrels, double barrel shotguns, and large blunderbusses. A single shot might kill 132. A Wisconsin hunter shot 1,458 birds in one day. Lads skilled with nets could capture up to 6,000 birds per day. Many birds were killed for their feathers alone, which were used for bedding.
By the 1870s, bird numbers were obviously declining. Some folks suggested conservation efforts, but few really gave a <bleep>. Money makes civilized people crazy, and an ambitious lad could make big money selling squabs for 30¢ a dozen. The last wild flocks were gone by 1889. They had been massacred far faster than they could reproduce. Schorger sighed, “Persecution was unremitting until the last wild bird disappeared.”
Over and over again, natural history teaches us that genetic evolution works slowly and beautifully. When the species in an ecosystem coevolve over the course of thousands of years, the journey is far more likely to develop a sense of balance and harmony. Over and over again, reality teaches us that a society obsessed with wealth and status is a fast path to a dead end. Why don’t schools teach this? How can we see where we’re going if we don’t know where we’ve been?
Melanie – Lay Down (Candles in the Rain (1970)
Remember this big hit from the past?
‘Go f**k yourselves’, Zelensky aide tells Western officials
Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexey Arestovich had the nerve to cuss-out the Benefactors who have given his country over $50 BILLION; because some are now saying Ukraine must cede territory to restore peace to that region. “Go f**k yourselves with such proposals, you dumb f**ks, to trade Ukrainian territory a little bit! Are you f**king crazy? Our children are dying, soldiers are stopping shells with their own bodies, and they are telling us how to sacrifice our territories. This will never happen,” he insisted in an interview on Wednesday. Arestovich criticized the logic of “bleating” voices encouraging Ukraine “to curb its appetite” and to give Russia the territories it supposedly wants, as this would allow Kiev to “establish a comprehensive peace and to return to business as usual.” Another adviser of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mikhail Podoliak, took to Telegram on Wednesday to address the “pro-Russian lobbyists in Europe.” “We do not sell our citizens, territories or sovereignty. This is a clear red line. Ukrainian society has paid a terrible price and will not allow anyone to even take a step in this direction – no government and no country,” Podoliak said. While no one wants a long military action or a food crisis, “the shortest way to end the war is with weapons, sanctions and financial assistance to Ukraine,” he argued. “The Ukrainians defended Kiev, liberated three regions and are completing the liberation of the fourth. Today, the same people offer us to give Russia the east and the south. Thanks for the advice, but we'll probably take up arms,” the adviser said. Neither man seems willing to accept the fact that Ukraine is LOSING the conflict with Russia and unless Ukraine wises-up - fast - they may not have a country left at all. The statements from Arestovich and Podoliak come after former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday. Kissinger urged Ukraine to make peace quickly, warning that if the conflict is not resolved within two months, Russia may become a “permanent ally” of China in its stand-off with the US. President Volodymyr Zelensky also criticized Kissinger, calling him out by name, while speaking in more polite terms than Arestovich, saying the American statesman “emerged” from the long gone past and spoke “as if it is 1938 and not 2022. And he thought he was talking to an audience in Munich of that time and not Davos.” He was apparently referring to the Munich Agreement, a deal that the UK and France made with Axis powers Germany and Italy in 1938, in which the Nazis were given a free hand to invade Czechoslovakia. Comparing modern Russia with Nazi Germany is a favorite rhetorical device of many Ukrainian officials. Ukraine has insisted that it will not agree to any peace proposals that do not respect its pre-2014 borders. Moscow has made it clear that the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the status of Crimea as a Russian region, are not up for discussion. Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state. The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
- Written by James Howard Kunstler
- You might ask yourself: Why is it “important” that we spend thirty, forty, fifty billion dollars pounding sand down the rat hole that is post-Maidan Ukraine, grift central for the sketchy nexus of US politicians and their sponsors in the warcraft industry? Answer: Aside from one final magnificent payday, they are producing a grand opera of distraction to direct the American public’s attention from the sinking of our own ship-of-state in the waters of Babylon.
That giant wad of money, you understand, goes mainly to the likes of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Textron, Boeing, et cetera, and a substantial portion re-circulates through the K-Street laundromat into the congressional campaign finance wishing well, while billions more get creamed off by Mr. Zelenskyy & Co. — providing self-reinforcing incentives to, how shall we say, blow more shit up on the global landscape.
It does not escape the attention, however, of some people on deck that the US ship is riding lower in the water each day, and listing at a distressing angle. Many other passengers have retreated to their staterooms, sick from the “vaccines” they were required to take to stay on-board for the voyage. Meanwhile water is streaming in below-decks, down in the stinking bilges, from many cracks in the hull. Nobody seems to know what to do, least of all the ship’s captain, who won’t come out of his quarters. (It’s whispered that he’s gone mad.) Is it time to lower the lifeboats?
In the hazy realm that is reality these days, those metaphorical cracks in our ship’s hull represent grave acts of negligence and even treasonous sabotage. Chatter over the Internet says our country, and other countries, are fixing to surrender their national sovereignty — that is, their ability to decide things for themselves — to the World Health Organization in anticipation of some as-yet-unnamed global emergency. Surrender, you say? By means of what? A vote in UN? A memo from the White House signed by the howling ghost known as “Joe Biden”? Surely not some procedure in Congresses and parliaments that would call for debate.
There is further suggestion that all this mischief is at the behest of larval would-be World Fuhrer Klaus Schwab. A more preposterous idea I have not heard in all my born days. And yet what else accounts in country after country for the bizarre super-coordination of insults to the world population such as mass lockdowns and mandated vaccination with genetic cocktails which, let’s face it, don’t look so goshdarn salubrious anymore. Rain-man and amateur immunologist Bill Gates is imputed somewhere in the mix. He’s been promising the world new-and-improved pandemic viruses. The last one was kind of a flop, like Windows 10X (code-name: Santorini). Uh, why is this man still at large?
And how, exactly, do the likes of WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WEF founder and chief Professor Klaus Schwab, and world-beating do-good wizard Bill Gates propose to enforce their plans to seize leadership of the whole wide world in their hypothesized next crisis-to-come? Again, chatter on the Web suggests that the United Nations, these days a convocation of failed states and diseased backwaters, somehow marshals the developed nations’ armies against their own citizens. Sorry, but I just don’t see it. Are there three less charismatic characters in all world history than that above-named trio of human worms? What are they going to do to make Bill Gates look like a Leader-of-Men? Dress him in the raiment of a Napoleonic hussar: gold-frogged tunic, epaulets, leopard-skin cape, knee-high boots, and plumed bear-skin shako? Nigga, please….
Meanwhile, hardships-upon-hardships pile up at bewildering volume and speed in this-here federal consortium of states. No baby formula for you, non-aborted birthing persons of America! (And yet, what bureaucrat in which Deep State burrow organized a baby formula airlift to the Mexican border for the relief of foreign interlopers of the birthing persuasion?) Diesel fuel at $6.49-a-gallon, meaning pretty soon nobody will get anything (including more diesel fuel)… gasoline at $6, plus zero inventory of new cars (R.I.P. suburbia)… no parts for anything with broken parts… big holes in those supermarket shelves… fertilizer at ruinous prices… no water out west… after-effects of “vaccines” killing folks (including from the disease they were “vaccinated” against)… hordes of foreign nationals strolling across the southern border (not a few of them males of military age with perhaps not very wholesome intentions)… financial markets trending down and real estate vortexing… and the FBI / DOJ combo looking to bash down your door and stuff you in a dungeon with neither formal charges nor bail, in violation of the constitution that they now programmatically oppose.
What will avail in the face of these treacheries and hardships? Oppose. Refuse. Resist. This is getting personal. How many of you not fully entranced by media psy-ops are willing to just say “no, and no more”?
Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork
Bring out your inner BBQ master with this Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork recipe. Just 10 easy minutes of prep, and then let the slow cooker do most of the work for you. Once the pork roast is cooked and tender, shred it up and choose your level of spice by adding in your family’s favorite BBQ sauce for delicious smoky or spicy pulled pork that makes you the kitchen hero.
China Responds to Joe Biden’s Declaration of War
周杰倫 Jay Chou【青花瓷 Blue and White Porcelain】-Official Music Video
Another classic Jay Chou music video story. This shows and illustrates the Chinese belief in cycles, and reincarnation, as well as the yin / yang.
A Giant Abandoned Stawberry Is Becoming More And More Popular Among Urban Explorers In Poland
Have you ever seen “James and the Giant Peach”? Ok, so now it’s the time for a Polish version – Alex and the Giant Strawberry. Traveling from Modlin to Warsaw you can find this amazing object. The strawberry lies next road and it’s easy to find. Actually, it’s hard not to see the strawberry, because it’s giant.
Probably you have a lot of questions now…
Well, you know, the fruit was the symbol of a huge farm called Sadpol.
The Sadpol’s owner had a 700-hectares field and he grew there strawberries, of course. That was big business.
He sold thousands of kilograms of strawberries each year. His clients came not only from Poland but also from other European countries. It may have been the most powerful strawberry business. Unfortunately, the farm’s owner lost his employees.
They quit their jobs and they didn’t want to return.
What happened? We don’t know.
We cannot judge him as an employer. Maybe people choose social security benefits instead of honest work. No one really knows.
The farm had to be closed and only the giant strawberry remains.
It is a relic of the glory days of Sadpol.
Nowadays, the strawberry is abandoned so it’s a nice goal for urban explorers. It’s not a building but it’s special in its own way.
Traveling there you can have interesting urbex photos.
In the summertime, you can take colorful photos. If you prefer to have gloomy photos of the abandoned strawberry, you can visit this place in winter.
S1E7 A B and C – Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner
We continue with the the adventure known as “The Prisoner”. This is episode 7 from series 1.
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Dearest brothers and sisters, MM and OTHERS, you know I come here everyday without fail. Always something new to read, learn and of course, snark abut! Especilly the food – and wonderful things, I’d never in a billion years discover by myself. But it’s a gloomy rainy day, and I just saw a very good documentary on the Russian-Ukraine War that just came out on RT on Odysee. If you’d like to see more real pictures and moving people, on top of all the words and concepts you read in articles, well, I found this documentary extremely helpful in understanding the issues. And it’s about foreign fighters on the side of the Donbass. Really worth your time if you are deeply interested in the Russia-Ukraine War. The end is extremely revealing. And it does reveal, whose side the Supreme Commander is on, and which side is simply “soulless and inhumane.” Link:
May the Supreme Commander bless us all as we navigate through these perilous times….
Hi, I have signed to your Patreon. It is strange, trying to follow you on your various platforms.
I only wish you leave all the essential material free to all, it is too important, for all people, for humanity, it shouldn’t be restricted by a pay wall. some people have, some don’t. I prefer to pay, so others who can’t, for any reason, will get the message.
You can bonus your avid subscribers with the beauty of Chinese Han women..
I wanted to purchase your books, but I know I have limited time to read them all now, so I was wondering about which one, here we have taxes even on imported books, go figure, and Amazon is the only way. I am familiar with many of your writings, and your story, so I was wondering if going strait to Volume 3 is making any sense? maybe 2 then 3?
Thanks
Thank you for this. My publisher bailed out due to personal reasons, and I have to reconfigure and find another publisher for the books. So they are on hold now. Temporary hopefully.
As far as patrion goes, my donations for MM over the last four months totaled $35. Do you have any idea how many articles I put out in that time? 120 articles, and roughly 50 videos. I average around 5000 visits a day. There is a great disconnect between the perceived value of my work and the effort put into it. So, obviously the donations were not sufficient to compensate for my time, and the expenses. I had to come up with another system.
MM is a work in process, and things are changing rapidly on the public and private side of MM. Change is important, we must move like water. Hopefully, the $5 min / month membership in Patreon is low enough for most people to afford. Especially as a cup of coffee at my nearby starbucks is $7.50.
I agree, the work you do here, has a lot of value that is far more then you can ask for in terms of paper money. Regarding the books, I saw volume II and III are still available on Amazon, is it safe then to order it from there? As I do not fully understand the bailing out term you mentioned, regarding the publisher.
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As for Starbucks, I wouldn’t pay a dollar for their coffee, but I live in coffeeholic countries so that’s easy.. I still have nightmares from American so called coffee. but that is probably the least of America’s problems.
Perhaps you overlooked my donation! I checked my banking history on 4/18/2022 to make certain, and yep, there it was! For privacy purposes, I won’t state what it was, but it sure wasn’t a measly $35.
I got it man, and a big thank you!!!!!
I guess the point is that aside from you and one or two others, the 5000 visits x 30 days x 4 months only generated a trivial amount of money, and I have been in deep self contemplation as to how to handle this situation. Which is why I set up Patreon. It’s not that I want to become rich, or that I am greedy, but it seems like most visitors to MM treat the site as if one would treat a man-hole cover. “It’s in the road, you drive over it, so what’s the deal?” No one like to be taken for granted, and unappreciated. Not me. That’s for certain.
In fact, I want to tell you that you are one of my biggest fans, and one of my most important contributors. In fact, words cannot describe my affection for you and the way that you have (often) brightened up my day by your comments and very kind words. You Sir! Are a true and real Rufus in not just words, but deeds as well. I feel honored to know you and consider you a great friend. -MM
Well….gosh! Back at you man! You’re the best! I mean that.
It’s really important to me that you get “the message”. Have a good one!