Just for fun, who thinks this will actually happen? Even with the crazy "restrictions" Biden is setting up with "MSM Only", I cannot believe they will let him actually debate.

If... big IF it actually happens (which I doubt), I assume it will only be allowed to go with pre scripted questions to Biden that he will read the answer, no Trump rebuttal, muting his microphone constantly and the "moderator" will try to crush Trump with gotcha questions on January 6th, abortion, court cases, etc.

The "Rules" the Biden team is setting....

1) President Biden's team does not want former President Trump to be able to interrupt the president

2) President Biden's team is demanding that there be no audience at any debate with former President Donald Trump.

3)  Must take place in a television studio with just the candidates and the moderator present.

4) No RFK Jr. or any other 3rd-party candidates

5) Biden's demands limit the number of major news outlets that can host a 2024 presidential debate.

6) Microphones be muted once their allotted speaking time expires. I am sure they won't mute anything they don't like as "inappropriate". 

Quote:May 10, 2024 / Joseph P. Farrell

But why do I say stories? Very simple: today's blog started out as a blog about a fire at a German firm in Belin-Lichterfelde named Diehl, but the story quickly morphed into something else.  When I first heard of the story of the fire at the Diehl Metal Applications plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde, my ears perked up because of the general location. Berlin-Lichterfelde was the home prior to and during the war of self-taught Nazi nuclear physicist Baron Manfred von Ardenne, who managed to build for himself a functioning cyclotron underneath his (rather large) house, and with that cyclotron he devised an ingenious means of uranium enrichment very similar to E.O. Lawrence's beta calutrons in the American Manhattan project. And of course, von Ardenne was doing so for the same reason.  Intriguingly, it was von Ardenne that alone of Germany's nuclear scientists, we know that Adolf Hitler personally visited, and on a regular basis. After the war, von Ardenne, unlike most high-ranking Nazi scientists, opted to cooperate with the Soviet Union, presumably on its atom bomb project. Whatever von Ardenne did, he gained the considerable appreciation and gratitude of the Soviets, for he was the only foreign scientist ever to win the "Stalin Prize" for science, the Soviet Union's equivalent of a Nobel prize, for the work he had done, "whatever" that was. He returned to East Germany and Berlin-Lichterfelde, and the Soviets shocked the world by detonating their bomb well ahead of western predictions.

So, a fire at a German metallurgical plant located in Berlin-Lichterfelde grabbed my attention, and sure enough, it soon came out that the firm of Diehl Metal Applications was connected to the German defense industry infrascture... and more:

https://www.defensemirror.com/news/36714...ens_Berlin

The "and more" part of the story is this:

Quote:Diehl Metal Applications is a subsidiary of Diehl, known for its involvement in the defense industry, including the production of IRIS-T air defense systems supplied to (the) Ukraine.

Now, when I first heard the story, my immediate thought was that this fire was perhaps an example of what I've been warning about: increased use of active covert operations measures by Russia against the West in response to the West's insistence that it is allowed to meddle in the Ukraine and that that Russians should be nice boys and girls and let them do so, and sit there and be quiet. The direct Ukrainian connection here only served to intensify my speculation.

But no sooner had this fire occurred than a few days later we got this encyclical from the cardinals at NATO:

Hybrid war: NATO sounds alarm over 'hostile' Russian activity across Europe



Now note what this "hybrid war" consists of, according to the article:

Quote:NATO has issued a sharp warning over "hostile" Russian activity across Europe.

In a statement released on Thursday, the 32-member military alliance said it was "deeply concerned about recent malign activities" by Moscow, which it called a threat to Western security.

It pointed to "disinformation, sabotage, acts of violence, cyber and electronic interference... and other hybrid operations."

Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the UK have all been affected, according to NATO.

So it has finally happened folks. For years I've been warning that the West's and NATO's actions would eventually provoke a Russian response in kind, and that "two can play the covert operations game." And now NATO is confirming that, indeed, Russia has begun to respond in kind.

Or at least, that is what we're being told. Bear with me, for I have two wildly different high octane speculations to advance. Let's assume that Russia is responding and is conducting such covert operations. Just how, and when, they will escalate to include what the west has already done to the Ukraine and Russia - such as an actual coup d'etat against a foreign government (the Ukraine), or assassination attempts (remember Putin's chauffeur and the strange car accident in Moscow? or blowing up Alexander Dugin's daughter?) - remains to be seen. But it should be obvious that, when those types of actions are considered, Russia has only begun to horizontally "escalate". When western leaders' chauffeurs start having accidents on Trafalgar Square or in the traffic circle at the Arc de Triomphe or in front of the Kanzleramt or drones start dropping on Davos  or there are sudden outbreaks of "turbocancers" in the NATO College of Cardinals, we'll know something is definitely afoot.  My point in advancing this is simply this: my long-predicted "two can play this game" response has arrived, and NATO is officially acknowledging that it has arrived, and that the covert wars have begun in earnest. But my main point is that, while NATO and the West have been playing this vicious war against Russia for years, Russia has only just begun to respond. In other words, expect matters to escalate dramatically, and that escalation I predict will include actual "wet works" against western leadership. After all, as far as the Russians are concerned, they have made themselves targets.

And this bring me to my second concern, which is the opportunity for false flags, and indeed, we need to ask the question: are we looking at a Russian response at all, or only at something being blamed on Russia, but actually perpetrated by the West to further its own escalation agenda? Answer: I don't know, and no one does, but we have to maintain the possibility because every institution in the west is co-opted, has proven itself capable of bottomless corruption, endless lying, and blatantly murderous deeds.  The whole Ukrainian fiasco has been a tale precisely of bottomless corruption, endless lying, and blatantly murderous deeds.   In fact, I am bold to suggest that until specific western leaders or their chauffeurs start experiencing curious accidents, sudden onset cancers, or accidental explosions, there's really not much to suggest that "Putin did it."  And that should give everyone a bit of pause before buying any narrative from the swamps of the West, be they Brussels, Paris, London, Berlin, or Swampington DC.

I live in the woods with the the quickest route to what most would call civilization being about 20 miles away.

Civilization is quickly closing in on us and our remoteness will be history in a blink of an eye, very soon. So being presented with a two hour video is not daunting in the least, if it is worth my time. Which I already admitted is comes at a variable price.

I am sortf of glad this video @"VioletDove"#12  has suggested to us, is so long, because it requires it to be viewed when you have time available. It really needs to be viewed when you have the time to not just watch it but to process it.

At it's face value alone, it needs to be viewed to separate the wheat from the chaff, but considering it was taped seven years ago, opens up a whole new door for consideration, and it needs to be viewed from a completely new perspective.

I think this is a must watch.

Thanks @"VioletDove"#12. It got me through my daily exercises, I am still watching, and it has given me a lot to reexamine.

About a month ago, I was looking at a live feed from a camera.  The time was a bit after midnight.

The camera's view looked over some bushes.

I saw what appeared to be two reflective dots on or near the ground by a bush.  Now, it is common for the camera, at night, to see insects as white blobs or dots.  But then, the dots moved ... and not individually.

The dots rose slowly (maintaining their distance and orientation to one another) to a height about twice that of the bush (which itself is about 9 feet high) and then slowly floated down to ground level again.  This happened about three times.  I had the impression that whatever it was, it was reacting to the spotlight of the camera and was disturbed by the illumination.

The odd part of the spectacle is that the dots, based on the width of the bush, were something like two to three feet apart from one another.  Reflection of eyes ?

After watching for a while, I was very tired at that point and called it a night.  Haven't seen the "dots" since then.  No idea what it was.  This took place in Europe and I am familiar with the fauna of this area.  Kind of wish I had gone out with a flashlight, but had no desire due to fatigue.

Cheers

There is only "we"

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As regular readers here know, I have a sort of love/hate relationship with the concept and practice of corporations. I laud the creative power behind collective efforts. Many hands make light work, as they say. At the same time, there has been an effort over the past few centuries to create “paper entities,” with rights and obligations much like a living human being in a society.

I have spent my entire career working in theatre, film and television. These art forms and media would be impossible without the coordinated integration of humans and machines to create a unique experience.

Theatre is an especially fascinating art form, in that the collective synchronization of numerous humans and advanced technology must operate flawlessly for 2 to 3 hours straight, with no ability to break and reset to try again.

Despite my love affair with collective art forms, the use of corporations as tools of social, economic and political manipulation to achieve mass population control through interlocking transnational corporate entities is deeply concerning.

We are well down the road to having artificial legal entities take over the functions of government, charities, regulatory agencies, and economic generators. In other words, they are replacing the classic nation-state with borderless organizations functioning similarly to mafia families, with both alliances and rivalries among competing entities.

In a casual conversation with an associate of mine the other day, I learned that Indonesia has launched a program with a 3- to 5-year horizon to place the country’s many State-Owned Enterprises (SEOs) under industry-specific holding companies. The holding companies would then be placed under a national “super” holding company in a fully integrated pyramidal structure.

Some readers may not be aware that many governments operate SEOs, in which the government is the only or majority shareholder. In Indonesia, the SEOs dominate key strategic economic sectors, such as energy, mining, transportation, and agriculture. In some cases, they are granted monopolies on certain industries, such as oil and gas, or electricity generation/distribution.

To my mind, the folding of multiple SEOs into a hierarchy of holding companies, where a single entity dominates the national economy is simply an effort to bring all aspects of society under corporate control. These national entities are then merged into what are known as Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs), such as EU, ASEAN, ECOWAS, and others.

The IGOs are further integrated with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), which are currently formulating and dictating national policy in a great many nations, especially in the so-called “developing” world.

It’s but a bit of paperwork to bring all these entities under a central entity. The most likly candidate would be the UN, which itself is an IGO, but it could be any entity set up for that purpose.

Similar to the merging of governance and social entities are corporations like Vanguard and BlackRock, which have already established controlling interests in many of the world’s major holding companies. This effectively centralizes the economic aspect of civilization, so that the final move would be to simply merge the central IGO with, for lack of a better term, the Global Economic Organization (GEO).

Ultimately, with little more than a bunch of paperwork, we end up with a single global entity controlling every aspect of society. It would have different divisions — industrial, humanitarian, regulatory — but they would all report to and receive orders from a single controlling entity. The world would essentially become a global company store.

All the pieces already exist, and they are being merged in an ongoing effort to centralize everything.
The International Standards Organization (ISO) is the regulatory division. The World Health Organization (WHO) is the social and health care division. The World Bank is the de facto finance division. The United Nations (UN) is the governance and deliberative division — let’s think of it as the global Board of Directors.

Corporations around the world are being mandated to institute Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices. Hiring practices are dictated by Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies.
Shareholders have been subsumed into “stakeholders,” which essentially puts corporations in the position of providing charitable social services — building schools, places of worship, hospitals, civil infrastructure — as part of their duty to “stakeholders”.

Entities like the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Open Society Foundations (OSFs) have unprecedented power to fund political campaigns and lobby for specific legislation that grants them ever more power to manipulate mass populations, within a legally authorized framework.

There is no room for an individual human being in all this. No one person could hope to have the political and financial resources to compete with global collectives. With global resources under centralized control, the individual human can be excommunicated with the tap of a button for stepping outside the boundaries of regulated propriety.

All of this exists now. This is not some wild conspiracy theory or mezcal-induced flight of fantasy. The target is to “flip the switch” by 2030, with full integration and 100% coverage by 2050. It has been in the works for centuries, and now the technology has advanced to the point that the final pieces can be activated.

If you find any of this repulsive or alarming, not to worry. We are anachronists and we will be gone sooner or later. The latest crop of Human Capital Economic Units (HCEU), also known as children, have been fully indoctrinated and infantilized. They will never know what it means to be an individual human being, with things like private property and rights.

Welcome to the ant pile.

Anyone familiar with Voice id? I know that soon voice and implanted chips are going to be unavoidable, and it seems to be moving forward much faster than I expected.

Got this in the mail and I just don't feel good about it.

https://www.usaa.com/support/security/bi...irect=true

If you're looking for the latest colorful WWII fun action film and killin Nazis with the added bonus of a story that's based on actual events, and a Guy Ritchie kind of James Bond movie, this is it:




Based on the 2014 book "Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII" by Damien Lewis. Billed as a true story about a secret British World War II organization; the Special Operations Executive. Founded by Winston Churchill, their irregular warfare against the Germans helped to change the course of the war, and gave birth to modern black operations.

BTW, Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is a super badass with bow & arrow & knives.

As I sit here and write this it is a dreary rainy day. I can hear the pitter patter from my bedroom window as a cool breeze blows in and through the room, ever so gently. I am reminded of my childhood as I sit and smell the fresh rain in the air.

When I was a young lad, about 3 years old, I remember a rainy day like this one day at my granny's house. Me and my older sister, who is 5 at this time, are sitting on her open porch on one of her couches. Screened in porch that wrapped around the front of her house. There were couches and chairs, tables and lamps in this nice L shaped porch. We had a nice view of the garden and a couple of fig trees in the front yard. As me and my sister sit there with the thoughts of playing in the rain dancing about our heads our granny enters into the room. "You kids wanna go out there and play in that there rain, don't ya? My granny was a southern Georgia lady. She could farm and grow anything. We ate from her many gardens growing up. As soon as my sister and I heard this we jumped for joy and shouted at the same time, "Yes, granny...can we please?" She says with that ol crooked grin, "Well, I reckon. Yall dont be tellin your momma now." We laughed as we ran for the door. Screen door opens and me and my sister blast outside like two little rockets. We run and jump and turn cart wheels as we play our little hearts out. We wore ourselves out chasing each other and spinning in the rain as we fell dizzy to the ground. Splash.

We got so tired so quick we sat down on the porch steps in the rain. Granny opens the door and hands us both a bottled coke. "Thank you, granny," we both reply. "Ya'll already done out here?" With that same ol grin. "No way" we yelled as we set our cokes down for round 2 of playing in the rain.


This is one of my fondest memories of playing in the rain.

When I was a preteen, a buddy of mine's yard would flood up pretty good. About a good 10 yard stretch of standing water. We were lil surfer boys so we would take our skim boards and skim across that water at break neck speeds as we spun ourselves on those boards. We had a blast.


I have always loved rainy days. They always feel so peaceful.

I was standing outside in the rain the other day. I had stepped out on my back porch and just let the rain fall on me for a while. It reminded me of being a kid and playing in the rain.

Thanks, RN.

Got any good playing in the rain stories?

This should be in a spiritual forum. It doesn't fall into religion, or even faith for that matter. This is a spiritual enlightenment. This was the best forum for it though, I guess.


I have been on my own spiritual journey for quite some time. Truth be told, I've been on this journey my entire life; only just now coming to realize it. It has been like falling asleep; slowly at first, and then all at once. 

The deep spiritual awakening started in January of 2018. At first it was pure bliss, peace and joy like I've never known. Insight after insight. It was if psychic abilities started to awaken within me. I started to learn to control my environment. I was learning how giving my energy to people can affect them depending on the energy given to them. If i was charged up with a powerful energy of peace, every person around me was affected, and they too would rest in that peace. All these experiences were so wonderful and inspiring. I walked around on cloud nine, in total peace love and joy. I was spreading this around, and sharing these things with anyone and everyone. It was nirvana. 

As things progressed I started to pass along wisdom I was learning and growing in. I'm a born teacher and so I began to teach. It was always those who were down on their luck, or lost in their journey, or just needed to feel loved and important. I had many people who came to me for a comforting word, or insight into themselves or their lives and paths. Many people came to me and were blessed by the very things that were blessing me. This too was nirvana. 

As time went on a bit, and as I was seeing deeper into the truth, more and more lies were coming into the light. The curtain was being drawn back even further. I started to see the true wickedness of the world. The depravity of spirit in the world. The lack of compassion and love was becoming abundantly clear to me. My time of teaching was coming to an end. I started to see that people didn't like the truth. The more truth I spoke the more I was starting to be cast aside. Slowly at first, and then all at once. I found myself alone. The joy and peace were wavering as I became distraught by the lack of love in the human heart. I started to realize that it was not enlightenment people were looking for. 

Isolation came...


As I sat alone I started to dive deep into meditation. I started exploring deeper into my mind. I was in depression now. The darkest deepest depression I had ever known. I wept for the world....and myself. I saw the darkest parts of my mind. The evil within me. The dark shadow of my mind and my soul. I hated what I saw. I saw myself for who I truly am, down to the darkest parts of myself. I found out I was angry. Fiercely angry at the injustices of this world. I was furious at all the suffering and pain. I was angry at people for their lack of love and compassion for one another. I had relived every pain I had ever felt. I had fallen into the darkest place I had ever been. As this was at its darkest, taking my own life came to mind. It was all too much. I felt I couldn't do anything to help or stop or change any of this. I had reached this realization, and I didn't like the world I was seeing....nor did I want to be a part of it anymore. I didn't like the evil that was inside of myself. I had hurt people even without the desire to hurt anyone. I wrestled with these thoughts for months.


And then the dawn came. Like watching the sky start to turn as the sun starts to bring light back to the sky after a long dark night.


I am in the dawn at the moment. Just before the sun comes up. 

I am glad to see the Light again. I can't wait to see what this New Day brings...

Hi all.
Here I am again asking for advice 
So my son (almost 13) , needs braces. 

He hates the idea of braces, hates how he'd be struggling to eat certain foods with them, how to keep them clean etc.
What would be best ? Are braces a good idea ?
His dentist suggested he get some , actually two dentists did.

What would be some options or alternatives perhaps?
Thanks!