The gist of the message broadcasted on most channels these days is very similar: Harder, louder, faster, scarier, weirder, richer, smarter, exacter & more more more. Given this hyped up environment, doing the exact opposite is a revolutionary act: Striving to be softer, quieter, slower, and generally doing less.
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"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." - Bernard Avishai
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"Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions." - Thomas Sowell
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Today in the fall of western civilization: 🤡 Warning! Gardening 'increases risk of killer heart disease'
🤡 "Bicycle is the slow death of the planet." A banker made the economists think this when he said:
“A cyclist is a disaster for the country’s economy: he doesn’t buy cars and doesn’t borrow money to buy. He doesn't pay insurance policies. He doesn't buy fuel, doesn't pay to have the car serviced, and no repairs needed. He doesn't use paid parking. Doesn't cause any major accidents. No need for multi-lane highways. He is not getting obese. Healthy people are not necessary or useful to the economy. They are not buying the medicine. They don't go to hospitals or doctors. They add nothing to the country's GDP. On the contrary, each new McDonald’s store creates at least 30 jobs—actually 10 cardiologists, 10 dentists, 10 dietitians and nutritionists—obviously as well as the people who work in the store itself." Choose wisely: a bike or a McDonald's? It's something to think about. PS: walking is even worse. Pedestrians don't even buy a bicycle!"
Germany’s Union Head Warns of Collapse of Entire Industries
After the US killed the Nordstream 2 pipeline & forced Europe to take less Russian gas, Germany's top union official warns that "entire industries are in danger of permanently collapsing: aluminum, glass, the chemical industry."
🤡 German "leadership": While the linage claims in the first image might be half true, the others are all to real and the spirit of the "Tausendjähriges Reich" clearly continues. All hail emperor of holy roman empire!
Latest photos captured by paparazzis of the previous reichs chancellor ...
🤡 American "leadership": The avatar Elon Musk partying with his masters in Venice & Rome (Venice = Venus = Vesper = Lucifer) - the avatar 🤡 Bill Gates, Spurned by Venice, Seeks to Conquer Rome - 🤡 The avatar Jeff Bezos riding Space Mountain at Disneyland alone
🤡 And many other comedic stories coming from the collapsing warring factions of the cult of Baal
🤡 ‘We want it to come alive’: landscape architect Bas Smets plan to transform Notre Dame area (Talk by Bas Smets: Atmosphere 2019: Adaptation)
🤡 Related Cryptocracy Classic: On the day when the Notre-Dame was on Fire in 2019, Michelle Obama was in Paris on a boat directly next to the cathedral, wearing a necklace on which it is written "BURNING". And in 2022 still no official report from the French gov as to what caused the fire.
🤡 The cultural program of NATO leaders at their recent summit in Madrid
🤡 And yet, the (shit) show must continue
Symbol photo of the week: Dutch farmers spraying shit on politicians
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Michael Parenti on Politics
“Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.” - Michael Parenti
“The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.” - Michael Parenti
“The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.” - Michael Parenti
“When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.” - Michael Parenti
Talks by Michael Parenti: Understanding Deep Politics - The 1% Pathology and the Myth of Capitalism
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Master Nan Huai-ch’in Performs Tai Chi Ch’uan (1969) - More about Nan Huai-Chin (1918-2012)
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Zhàn zhuāng is a remarkable practice. The experience is impossible to put in words but truly magical.
