“For legend has it that after the bloody battle of Thermopylae, the victor Xerxes prepared to spread a purple cloak over the body of his vanquished enemy Leonidas, out of admiration for his valor. But as he was about to lower the cloak, a strange voice out of nowhere called out: “No. Take that cloak from me. I will accept no favor from the Persians.” And Xerxes knew that it was Leonidas, speaking to him from the other world. And he called out into space: “But thou art dead, Leonidas. Why hate the Persians even in death?” And, according to the legend, back came the stirring reply: “The passion for freedom dieth not.”
JFK, 1960 Al Smith Dinner
Giant Sucking Sound, Don’t Get fooled again. #MAGA
A strong theme emerges from the 1928, the 1960 and the 1992 elections as they do form the stages of the US republic along with the 3 catastrophic US Wars. Governments rule by consent and ignore the plight of the people at their peril. Now is one of those times.
I have struggled with this Broad sweep of historical Narrative, usually when confronted with so many interlocking and symbiotic themes , (each of which deserves much study in its own right), I write a Poem in the epic tradition. Time does not allow for such a poem to be written ahead of the US Election so I offer up this inadequate smorgasbord of half complete ideas hopefully some coherence will emerge in the minds of readers who can add their own colour and probably better grasp of all the historical facts.
APRIL 15, 2011
“If I run, my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms“.
ANALYSIS: Is the US about to produce a real challenge to More of the Same?
“none of these confection opposition parties is going to open the closed shop of Establishment duality, because the British voter is nowhere near convinced as yet that such a giant leap into the Unknown is necessary.”
And there endeth the lesson!
57 Posts in April 2017
https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/2017/04/
From Giant Sucking sound to a sharp Intake of breath, All our April Fools Come at once. 3 Degrees Of Separation Digital Gulag divide and rule.
I think that 2017 was a pivotal Year, Trump and Brexit 2016 and then the accelerated Digital crackdown which continues. 2017 was also the year that the Post GFC, ZIRP began to show signs of failing and by the repo spike of September 2019 , EVENT 201 as a monetary event was the starting pistol to the current cycle. The US election cycle and UK party politics the divide and rule circuses all serve to distract from the Real tangible failings in the system.
I was talking to my sister earlier about the collapse of the NHS, it has effectively been skuttled by the “Scamdemic”, Backlogs and also the deliberate running down and sabotage of its own bureaucracy. The Trade Talk leaks in the run up to Brexit between the US and UK trade delegations showed quite clearly that the NHS was to be broken up into profit streams for the US big health insurance conglomerates and yet… Party Politics and in the US the new Great White hope in RFK Junior or, the Trump/ RFKjr , dream ticket all serve to stress the bewitchment that the digital gulag offers as a distraction from Boots on the Ground Organisation and Mass mobilisation against the Globalist Borg.
Hawkeye, the Forensic Statistician , wrote a number of guest blog posts on the Golem XIV blog , I had some exchanges with him about Peak Oil and AGW theory , he tried to convince me with various appeals to “The Science” I remained and remain skeptical. I think he is an example of how a certain anti establishment, Establishment type, will fall in behind a plausibly deniable trope if promoted sufficiently by ” The Government” appealing to “The Greater Good”. This is not a criticism but an observation of the problem of distraction and divide and rule . The point is a subtle one, that is to say the Masters of division and the tools and filters of promoting opposition between “Narcissistic Small differences” seem equally adept at uniting the moral outrage of polarised herds against strays from the “Greater Good” narrative? We are all in this together after all.
“Smaken är som baken” ( Taste is like the arse divided) is winning out over an “Each to their own” pragmatic entertainment of dissenting voices. A reversal of this tendency is paramount if we are to solve the present problem. The repeated rituals of cyclical narrative events like the Debt Ceiling the Presidential primary process etc. will lead further into the stockade, the comfort of the familiar the rehearsal of old memes and rehearsed party pieces does not substitute for practical measures taken to throw a wrench into the machine as Savio entreated his fellow protesters to do on Sproul steps all those years ago.
December 2, 1964 Sproul Hall speech
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels … upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/passion-mario-savio-berkeley-free-speech-movement
https://wikitacticalvoting.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
THE SUNDAY ESSAY: how and why only we the People can block the anti-Brexit barbarians
THE SUNDAY ESSAY: how and why only we the People can block the anti-Brexit barbarians
In a longer than normal essay today, The Slog analyses Brexit realities and likely developments in the short to medium-term future. The main thrust of the piece is that rebel Tory Remainers may be in triumphalist mode for the time being, but there is a fatal flaw in their programme of sabotage. Not too far away now is a genuine opportunity for intelligent Brexiteers to target, trap and turf out those who would defy the People. “It won’t make any difference” is no longer a viable position. Stand up and be counted now, or be counted out by the élite controllers.
He outlines misgivings he has about the lack of information the public is being given about EU military union. Blunkett interjected and made a rather bullying request to shut up – stating ‘it would be in his best interests’ (not shown in this clip) – even Adonis intervened later. The public officially knows nothing about military union and parliament wants it that way.
How the public is supposed to challenge what’s really going on is difficult given such circumstances – is there a D-notice in EU military union?? – nobody in the HoL wanted to deal with this??
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 15, 2011
Collection of Posts in the BBC News Business blog of Robert Peston And Stephanie Flanders
Do banks use billions in subsidy wisely? 07:07am on 14 Apr 2011 no 195
Its definitely time for some fresh thinking on this there is a very real need for rigorous public debate of the fundamental root of the system whilst some people have rather a lot to lose they really should have nothing to hide. Indeed those of us given to poring over report and accounts and so forth kind of know where to look but regulation is both a sword and a shield and human ingenuity will always seek to buck any system and find the loopholes, accounting and reporting is sadly not exempt from this. Investment Banks would not exist without loop holes or indeed without their Retail banks or at least a belief at large that all banks are created equal ( the public have been hoodwinked on the distinctions for too long.)
There are some very helpful explanations of all of this over at the MENSA web site. Here is the link should you be interested on a more cerebral analysis of the concepts and systems in play here
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 28, 2011
I subscribed to a new site called e gravatar the other day which allows you to put various profiles into one place I still haven’t figured out what its for exactly but heres a link it had my myspaces you tube channel and linked in profile links a link to a blog I started on 5th April, the LPA receivers sold The Mansion at my Estate and all its Land on that date at a considerable undervalue although not much of a shortfall to the mortgage debt, I felt that it was a big mile stone in my economic life so I figured i’d try and document the journey from that point in time. Part of my research on banking is to do with a constitutional approach to the Mortgage contract and the nature of physical security and its valuation and further repayment beyond security and recovery for sale of assets at undervalue. The laws of fixed charge receivership are pretty arcane and are largely drawn from the perspective of the banks for obvious reasons an irony of Common Law and the precedent system and a further failure of the state to protect the individual from vested financial interests. I am working on my approach to the question of my own banking complaints with my London Solicitors Davies Arnold Cooper and have resolved to do what I can if I am able to afford to both in terms of time and mental capacity without depriving my family of both a comfortable standard of living and the large part of my energy to be a present and loving father.
https://en.gravatar.com/rogerglewis
The Conquest of Circuses.
Come see the show, a spectacle to behold.
Laugh, gasp, and wonder, at the stories told.
Feats of strength, courage, and obedience
The bread of suspended beliefs magnificence.
Regarde les tableaux, catch it on Zoom
a trapeze sans net, a dramatic tune
Unprecedented they said since that War
enjoy the spectacle, don’t make a furore
https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/2019/03/15/brexit-disgrace-maymustgo-escaping-the-eu-egregor-matrix-assisted-by-prof-victor-efimov-every-city-or-house-divided-against-itself-shall-not-stand-matthew-1225/ “None of the manuals on Economics puts a question of how a state gets wealthy; they focus on the art of getting rich within a single corporation, a single bank, or give a piece of advice to individual wealth. Nevertheless, in real life, the corporate effect proves to be achieved at the expense of some damage done to the state and society. The Russian economy has been purposely demonetized to hit one of the bottom positions in the world rating. This ‘blood’ loss was behind the collapse of all the parts of the industrial sector, and the intentionally created ruble vacuum was designed to be filled with US dollars and other monetary substitutes. There is no need at all to talk about the banking sector” ‘development’ if we are aiming at the establishment of the financial atmosphere that would facilitate real production. Banking could ‘develop’ for the account of finance pumped out of the industry by means of the interest rate. We need to restore the functionally appropriate relation of ‘money supply to GDP’ by a ‘one-shot blood transfusion’
Etimov. prof.
Equo ne credite, Teucri.quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.auri sacra fames
(damned thirst for gold)
, a Latin reference of Virgil to the passion of money for money itself.
Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Lines 48–49; Trojan priest of Apollo warning against the wooden horse left by the Greeks.
enraptured,seduced the entertained group.
A low price of entry makes you the dupe
Those Roman circuses, coupled to Dole
if you want bread? know the circuses’ role.
Part 7 #ConquestofDough 7. The Great, “What Is”? Our Only Debt is to Nature.
“REFORMS, DEMOCRATIC”: (1) same as “market reforms”; (2) movement toward NWO’s democracy model.
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 1, 2012
Wow…rare Indeed! | LinkedIn. Style over Substance , Triumph or Tragedy?
W C Fields told us way back when, Never Give a Sucker and even break, well back in the 30’s the absurdities of the 1920’s were barely over and of course there followed a terrible 15 years. Similarly in an exaggerated repeat of History as tragedy? Here we are playing out similar tragedies and Guitars for some folk have become a pathetic token of some sort of reflected worth.
It’s just a reflection of a wider malaise, not really worth sweating the small stuff but Nota Bene
- Its interesting I woke up pondering the idea of How attachment of importance to ownership outside of any rational utility was absurd. And i wanted to find some parable related to the possession of anything not being an endowment of the power to produce what it produces the notion of we could own a thousand canaries but we still could not sing like a canary? Hans christian Andersons Emperors New clothes takes a lot of beating but Epictetus is a pretty shrewd character.
http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 12, 2012
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
NOTE TO SELF.
Read some philosophy from the fairer sex.
Themistoclea
Themistoclea (or Themistokleia, Greek: Θεμιστόκλεια; also Aristoclea, Theoclea; fl. 6th century BCE) was a priestess at Delphi. According to surviving sources she was Pythagoras’ teacher.[1]
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 26, 2013
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
“Whorf himself, and some of his followers, have suggested that we live in a kind of intellectual prison, a prison formed by the structural rules of our language. I am prepared to accept this metaphor, though I have to add to it that it is an odd prison as we are normally unaware of being imprisoned. We may become aware of it through culture clash. But then, this very awareness allows us to break the prison. If we try hard enough, we can transcend our prison by studying the new language and by comparing it with our own.”
“Admittedly, the result will be a new prison. But it will be a much larger and wider prison. And again, we will not suffer from it. Or rather, whenever we do suffer from it, we are free to examine it critically, and thus to break out again into a still wider prison.”
“The prisons are the frameworks. And those who do not like prisons will be opposed to the myth of the framework. They will welcome a discussion with a partner who comes from another world, from another framework, for it gives them an opportunity to discover their so far unfelt chains, to break these chains, and thus to transcend themselves. But this breaking of one’s prison is clearly not a matter of routine: it can only be the result of a critical effort and of a creative effort.”
http://leakygrammar.net/2012/07/15/karl-popper-breaking-out-of-the-prison-of-language/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130202092402/http://leakygrammar.net/2012/07/15/karl-popper-breaking-out-of-the-prison-of-language/
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 28, 2013
APRIL 11, 2014
End of the Petro Dollar and the Failure of the Carbon Currency End Game.
What else do superpacs prove Norm other than elections are bought and sold , its the new Bread and Circuses, of course the Roman Decline was characterised by ever greater and more expensive spectacles.
On the Three City States, the Washington Wall Street regime is fully bought and paid for, The City of London the second City State is up to its eyes in it to, with the debasement of money and its stake in the corrupt petro dollar.
What of the Thrid City State, sold out to Usury so long ago and , the present Pontiff on past form would be a good bet for a Hit? Remember the Smiling Pope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_I
Six point plan[edit]
After he became pope he had set six plans down which would dictate his pontificate:
To renew the church through the policies implemented by Vatican II.
To revise canon law.
To remind the church of its duty to preach the Gospel.
To promote church unity without watering down doctrine.
To promote dialogue.
To encourage world peace and social justice.7
Strangely familiar, that from 1978.
Over the past 40 years Norm the Neo Liberal metaphysics of Corrupt Economic dogma has delivered according to plan but has created havoc in the fabric of western societies and Democracy is dead all that survives is a Caricature, and a Well made up Pig it is as well, the lipstick isn’t working.
I am no defender of Putin and his brand of narrative democracy, he is though right on the Crimea and Ukraine, Kerry et.al have been caught with their imperialist pants down and should have the good grace to Man up and go back to some basic education for Morons, which they so clearly are. One trained Chimp in the White-house before Obama ( yet more proof of the buying of elections ( hanging Chads anyone)
April 2015
Brave effort Russel and Milliband, but a longer interview is needed to pin down what he stands for and what the questions and problems are. More of a benefit to Milliband I would have thought and generates rather more heat than light.
I think Russel is capable of following through on the questions but to me seems to lack confidence in his own intellectual depth and this seems to be holding him back. Might sound strange to say a narcissist lacks self confidence but if with knowledge certainty decreases it is consistent with the learning curve Russel has clearly been on. For me personally I think its worth cutting Russel some slack and offering support and encouragement I think he has what it takes to kick these issues around and Pin TPTB down on issues. His interview with Owen Jones is quite good actually.
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 7, 2016
PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 27, 2017
I think that 2017 was a pivotal Year, Trump and Brexit 2016 and then the accelerated Digital crackdown which continues. 2017 was also the year that the Post GFC, ZIRP began to show signs of failing and by the repo spike of September 2019 , EVENT 201 as a monetary event was the starting pistol to the current cycle. The US election cycle and UK party politics the divide and rule circuses all serve to distract from the Real tangible failings in the system.
I was talking to my sister earlier about the collapse of the NHS, it has effectively been skuttled by the “Scamdemic”, Backlogs and also the deliberate running down and sabotage of its own bureaucracy. The Trade Talk leaks in the run up to Brexit between the US and UK trade delegations showed quite clearly that the NHS was to be broken u into profit streams for the US big health insurance conglomerates and yet Party Politics and in the US the new Great White hope in RFK Junior or the Trump/ RFKjr dream ticket as written about by My Friend John Ward in the Slog today all serve to stress the bewitchment that the digital gulag offers as a distraction from Boots on the Ground Organisation and Mass mobilisation against the Globalist Borg.
PATRICK CLAWSON RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS, FULL VIDEO – 9/21/2012 #FALSEFLAG #LONGLIST
Hanging on Bitchute, no change there for the good stuff.
Seymour Hersh: Obama "Cherry Picked" Intel on Syrian Chemical Attack to …
April 2018 58 Posts
Reality cannot be put on a bumper sticker and then used as a blueprint for life.
The Rise of the RussBots against the Corporate Medias Clinton Thumb
From Troy to Damascus: Seeing the Light. Bourgeois Resolution.
by Hugh O’Neill
“Up and above keeps its head while green is the wheat;
It is capable of bowing only after ripe and ready to reap.”
“People, like wheat,” my father told me, “must reach maturity in order to understand, appreciate, and accept. They must learn to see, to hear, and to behave. Behave not like the green wheat, a poorly educated man or an impolite person, but like the ripe wheat.”
PUBLISHED DATE:MAY 9, 2017
April 2019 45 posts
EXCLUSIVE: HUAWEI LEAKS, FRAMED MINISTERS & THE BREXIT CONNECTION
Desperate for some reality? Don’t look to media editorial or politics for help:
Rigs of the Time – #Plandemic #CovidT4 Kills all known useless eaters; Dead.
https://forensicstatistician.wordpress.com/2020/03/
Hawkeye, the Forensic Statistician , wrote a number of guest blog posts on the Golem XIV blog , I had some exchanges with him about Peak Oil and AGW theory. I think he is an example of how a certain anti establishment Establishment types will fall in behind a plausibly deniable trope if promoted sufficiently by ” The Government” appealing to “The Greater Good”, this is not a criticism but an observation of the problem of distraction and divide and rule . The point is a subtle one, that is to say the Masters of division and the tools and filters of promoting opposition between “Narcissistic Small differences” seem equally adept at uniting the moral outrage of polarised herds against strays from the “Greater Good narrative?
KOENIGSEGG, ENERGY DRINK. A REVIEW AND TASTING #SMAKENÄRSOMBAKENDELAD #KOENIGSEGG #ENERGYDRINK
Smaken är som baken
Each to their own and the entertainment of dissenting voices is paramount to the present problem, The repeated rituals of cyclical narrative events like the Debt Ceiling the Presidential primary process etc. will lead further into the stockade.
BERNIE SAUNDERS THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED! #TRUMP2020 #BERNIE2016
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED! 2016 MAGA BREXIT 2020MAGA MEGA ENGLISH DEMOCRATS
Peak Bullshit. Shits fucked up and bullshit. “Don’t Look Up” (Irony)
April 2023
Any amount of austerity is a self defeating prophesy as all money is currently created as debt and only enough is produced to cover the initial principal not the interest and there you have it the Western obsession with growth rates and inflation the whole partisan political farce is based on a fallacy the system is based on debt and there not being enough money to redeem it.
What is required is a return to sound and Honest money where the means of exchange is issued and regulated by Governments not private banking Companies(Institutions?).
The current system ran out of road in 2007 and stupidly we bailed it out instead of tackling the root problem a further false Golden Goose was made in the image of the old one and we were all encouraged to believe we had not been seduced. Start looking at the Means of Production and human potential and consider money as the means to an end not an end in itself and a measure of the potential of production of Nations and their populations and then consider the current means of Exchange, Debt money and ask if it is truly fit for the purpose. Governments should take the management of the means of exchange back in house these farcical bail outs and ratings agencies are all perpetuating a fundamentally flawed system that exploits Tax payers rather than providing services for them Governments and Banks should function to serve the people not the other way around.
For some solid reading on these issues I can recommend.