3/23 Open Thread- Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal and JtC Birthdays
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These kids get a bit older each day; it is what it is.
Adapted from 3/23/2020 OT, so here we go --
On this day in history:
1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau was signed, momentarily pausing the French Wars of Religion.
1806 – Lewis and Clark began their return trip.
1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator was installed
1868 – The University of California was founded
1919 – Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement which still lives on in spirit
1933 – The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933 making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1982 – Guatemala's government was overthrown by CIA tool and School of Assassins grad General Efraín Ríos Montt.
1983 – President Ronald Reagan mades his initial proposal for star wars.
Some people who were born on this day:
1514 – Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin
1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and astronomer
1838 – Marie Adam-Doerrer, women's rights activist and unionist.
1842 – Susan Jane Cunningham, mathematician
1881 – Hermann Staudinger, chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1882 – Emmy Noether, mathematician, physicist and academic (
1887 – Josef Capek, painter, author, and poet
1887 – Sidney Hillman, labor leader
1900 – Erich Fromm, psychologist and sociologist
1910 – Akira Kurosawa, director, producer and screenwriter
1912 – Wernher von Braun, physicist and engineer
1921 – Donald Campbell, race car driver
1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, inventor, invented Liquid Paper
1924 – Olga Kennard, crystallographer and academic
1929 – Roger Bannister, runner, neurologist and academic
1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, mathematician and physicist
1942 – Jimmy Miller, record producer and musician (winwood, spencer davis, traffic, stones)
1944 – Michael Nyman, composer of minimalist music and pianist
1945 – David Grisman, American mandolin player and composer
1949 – Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer-songwriter
1954 - Johnny the Conqueroo aka JtC, putative responsible adult
1961 – Roger Crisp, English philosopher and academic
UNK - CSTMS
Some people who died on this day:
1842 – Stendhal, novelist
1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, journalist and author
1968 – Edwin O'Connor, journalist and author
2011 – Jean Bartik, computer scientist and engineer (
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Meteorological Day
Today's Tunes
Mr Otis' Elevator
Miss Otis' Regrets
Josef Capek
Werner von Braun
Donald Campbell
Jimmy Miller
Michael Nyman
David Grisman
Ric Ocasek
Chaka Khan
So, Party On
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Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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Open Thread, Birthday Party, JtC, CSTMS
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Hiya, good morning
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Birthday wishes for JtC and CSTMS.
Thanks for posting today EL!
Heya QMS, my pleasure. This was in the archives, just
needed tweaking. Maybe I'll remember to refine it further for next year, who knows.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks Q...
I like the cut of your jib!
Good morning...
A wet and poorly attended trade day, but I got to see my buddies and catch up a bit. It was a light 0.5" rain last night...should help with the soil moisture.
Another year older and the decades slip by. Make the best of the time you've got. Enjoy your life!
Thanks for covering the OT today, el. Hope all is well in your world.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Morning Lookout. Rain started here late yesterdat
afternoon. The rain seems to have paused overnight sometime but is supposed to resume no later than 8 am, with our farmers' market officially starting at 9 am, so, a wet one. We also have to hit the Post Office, which is only open from 9 am to 1 pm, and one of the grocery stores for a couple of things.
I'm still on cooking duty and have a gopher trap to repair (parts came yesterday) and some OTs to write and queue up before our next trip down to Pismo/SLO, so I'm not gonna be "bored staying indoors due to rain".
Thanks for reading.
Good advice you give there.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
So true...
We hope to make it up to the mountain again this year, or maybe to Gulf Shores for a reunion.
Thanks brother.
Thank you...
Thanks el and everybody! I just got up at 10:30, had too much fun last night celebrating the last day of my 60s.
Thanks again!!
Thank you so much for your passion
Even now it means so much to me, perhaps even more now. For example, this post shows me and reminds me even tho it is really painful, how much I missed in those years when my personal events overshadowed what I should have experienced.
That time offered so much and I'm finally seeing it. Your invitation to this site has added so much for me.
Thanks again, have a most happy birthday.
Thanks exindy...
very kind of you, sir.
Well, my pleasure, boss. I heard from confidential
sources that you had a great time last night indeed!
be well, have a great one, and many, many returns
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Yep...
'tis true mi hermano!
Many Happy Returns
責帝慈 祝你生日快樂 Zé dì cí Zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè JtC Wishing you a happy birthday!
I hope you don't mind, I tried to make up a colorful Mandarin equivalent for your handle: 責帝慈 phonetically maybe I could have found a better match, but the meaning is good: Duty Emperor kindness. ( Zé dì cí ).
생일 축하해요
語必忠信 行必正直
Many thanks soryang...
the Mrs. and I loved the video and thanks for the new handle!
Great to have you with us, my friend.
Happy Birthday to yall!
Jtc, when you start a conversation with 'When I look back on the 60s', you will have to clarify.
Prost!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good one! n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Well, to clarify...
technically my 60s aren't over yet. I was born at 4:54 PM on the 23rd. So I have a few hours left.
After 4:54 PM I start on my path to my 80s.
oh, yeah?
Heh...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The same...
time zone you're in. Double dog heh!
Hokay
"I sawwy Lawd."
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Happy Birthday JtC
I have sunny weather so my solar batteries are charged. I hope y'all have a great day and fun evening.
Formerly, RantingRooster
Thanks old buddy...
we hope to make it out your way sometime later this year for a visit. It's beautiful country.
Have a great one, Clinton!
Happy Birthday!!
I’m eating a piece of chocolate cake with cherries to celebrate. Here’s to many more. We need you.
Anya
Thanks Anya...
that sounds delicious! Yum!
Hauʻoli lā hānau — happy birthday, JtC and CStMS!
After returning from the Netherlands, I came down with Covid for a couple of weeks.
Feeling much better now, but talk about reminders of mortality and “It is later than you think.”
Thanks old friend...
sorry to hear about your sickness but glad you kicked it.
It's funny how the mind lies about one's age but the body tells the truth.
Thanks for hanging with us all these years.
Aloha lotl, thanks for the specials.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
FDA Agrees to Stop Lying about Ivermectin
Although I am loathe to source anything from The Epoch Times, it appears to be truthful unlike most of their fake, war mongering, propaganda articles.
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There is a huge volume of first-rate clinical data from around the world demonstrating Ivermectin's effectiveness outstanding in stopping the infection when taken within the first few days of a Covid-19 invention.
None of us sane, intelligent people with critical-thinking skills were politically powerful enough to protect human lives from the FDA's political and corporate corruption that sent Americans to their death. If you or a loved one died from Covid-19 because you were not offered the medication — which is, today, the most widely used treatment (and preventative) for Covid-19 in the world — we deeply regret that your government deliberately withheld the drug and let you die.
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Many happy birthdays for those who survived.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
You note that they do not concede that it might be
an effective treatment. The existence of any effective treatment would force them to withdraw the emergency authorization for the Pfizer jab. That, btw, raises the issue of why Paxlovid is highly recommended and advertised on TV as a treatment.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
At $5000 per treatment
....there are few people of modest means who can afford it. Ivermectin costs about $13 per treatment. Yep, I noted all the weaseling in the decision. I also noticed that the doctors who paid for the lawsuit will not be reimbursed for legal fees, even though they dropped the damages suit.
The FDA should be shut down and all employees should be barred from ever again working in Public Health. Their private for-profit labs and factories should be bulldozed. A new agency should be formed and any conversations or correspondence with corporations, universities, and members of Congress should be recorded and posted for public review. The agency should be monitored by a citizen's watchdog group, to make certain that they are working on behalf of the people and not on behalf of commercial interests.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Hear! Hear!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thanks for the info P...
I've been seeing articles about its effectiveness with certain cancers as well.
Thanks for the birthday wishes!
Kishore v. old cold warrior "China expert"
This is the new world perspective, Asia, contrasted with the old world, North America.
Kishore's discussion of the attitude of SE Asians and ASEAN to US exceptionalism and hegemony is brilliant. His discussion of the Philippines back and forth movement from the US toward China and back again, as a cycle is insightful.
Not that Kishore needs any help from me, but the old finger wagging US ideologue Schell prompted a rant on my part. Here goes:
It is the US and Japan that have upset the status quo in East Asia. The Chinese were fine with the three communiques with three US presidents, but recently the US began changing its relationship with Taiwan. The US says one thing and does another. The US was condescending and ignorant at Anchorage. Does the US have any diplomats? I've heard repeatedly for several years now from US military representatives that Taiwan is an indispensable part of the so called first island chain strategy necessary to contain China. The US openly discusses its strategy to "strangle China" at the Malacca Straits. There was a US carrier strike group there just within the last few days. This is the old gunboat diplomacy of yesteryear, which is unnecessarily provocative. The US is opening new military bases in the northern Philippines so that it can strike China more easily. These are all old cold war pre-Deng, pre-three communiques, geopolitical moves intending to assert US-Japanese hegemony over Taiwan. For years, the US has also been encouraging Japan to rearm with offensive strike weapons so it can participate in wars with allies. It's finally succeeded. Like that's a good thing? In case people are not aware of it, prior cold war confrontations with China, were accompanied by US threats of nuclear war.
Recently, South Korea has been inveigled to participate in an openly anti China military alliance with Japan and the US which is detrimental to its long term historical national security interests substituting US and Japanese interests for its own. Schell is a basically an old cold warrior. Spent time in Taiwan during the dictatorship. He also worked for the Ford Foundation, (like Obama's mother) in Indonesia before the Jakarta solution. So his views are about what I'd expect. I'm waiting for him to exclaim "who lost China? and "unleash Chiang Kai-shek!" I was stationed in Seoul during the Tienanmen Square "massacre" and in my opinion at that time, it appeared to be a US engineered rebellion managed from the US embassy in Beijing. At that time, I wouldn't have used the phrase "color revolution" but that's what I was thinking at the time the events were ongoing. I didn't have any kind of privileged access to information, but listening to US reports on Armed Forces Television, that is exactly how I saw it. This is an impression, I don't have "proof." In subsequent years I've never read anything to disuade me from that view. Hong Kong was a similar operation orchestrated by the west, in a futile attempt to "roll back communist China," from its own sovereign territory. There has been more evidence available to analyse because of the internet allowing other reports to be heard. These operations like Maidan in Ukraine represent unlawful interference in the internal affairs of another country.
Just one more specific comment on Japanese provocative actions. Not too long ago, Defense Minister Kishi, deceased former Prime Minister Abe's brother, visited Taiwan and promised to come to the aid of Taiwan if it were attacked by China. This sort of framing of the issue, presents, in terms of history, the kind of provocation to bring about a war with China. Joe Biden said publicly the US would be committed to come to Japan's defense if their was a Japanese Chinese military conflict over the Senkakus. Incidentally, both mainland China and Taiwan claim the Senkakus. Both mainland China and Taiwan dispute the 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration UNCLOS decision held in favor of Philippine claims in the South China Sea. The latter decision is very questionable. There is more than one argument that the PCA exceeded it authority and otherwise had no jurisdiction. The judges were selected by Japan. Biden also said when questioned once by media that the US would come to the defense of Taiwan if it were attacked by China. Then other administration officials tried to walk it back.
Horrible Mike Pompeo, vain, ideological nut case, below delivering the usual US message of hegemony and world domination. If he could only recruit India. This is getting little attention, relatively speaking, but it's an indication that in the in a future administration, this may be what we will see. He hints of his willingness to serve in a new administration. I don't know where the nation could find worse leadership. It's 26 minutes long. If you don't have time, don't bother.
I saw the Pompeo had a video short on youtube where he blamed China for the US failure at Hanoi, to get North Korea to stop producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. This is an absolutely ridiculous contention. He and Bolton orchestrated a very unwise walkout from Hanoi by Trump. Because of that North Korea now has two or three times the amount of weapons grade plutonium for nuclear weapons. This guy should never be allowed near a federal public office again. The Chinese helped induce Kim to the table by cooperating with the draconian sanctions regimen against North Korea. China was by far the North's leading trade partner, and North Korea was dependent on trade with them for markets and many products as well as sources of foreign exchange. I saw Choe Son-hui chase Trump down the hallway and basically beg him to come back to the table. Trump made his grandstand play, "Sometimes you gotta walk," he said. Even Stephen Beigun, the assigned US envoy to North Korea criticized the US negotiating strategy there. Siegfried Hecker perhaps the most well informed US technical expert on North Korean nuclear weapons technology criticized the US position at Hanoi as well.
(fixed a couple of typos)
語必忠信 行必正直
Nice rant. n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
This is a fantastic interview/debate.
It's long and every part of it is enlightening because they are really discussing a crucial issue of our time. The US neocon coup government seems determined to force the world to the brink of World War III, if that's what it takes to hang on to its position of economic hegemony over all nations. Geopolitically, US power comes from its ability to deliver economic harm to reluctant countries that do not fall in line with US demands. The South China Sea is exactly where this War is planned to occur.
The US has been pushing its domestic gaslighting hard in recent years, clearly determined to transform China's President XI Jinping into an evil Demon from Hell in the American mind. Moreover, convincing the world that China has evil intensions is vital to US national security — and it has become a top priority. So the daily propaganda, lies, and accusations against China, the fake news and predictions of China's upcoming economic failure, the sabotage and the character assignations of Chinese leaders continue to flow freely out of the US boosted by the US media monopolies. (When the fact is, XI Jinping is a benevolent and caring leader. His vision is noble and reasonable; he is focused on creating the best possible opportunities and happiness for the people of China. To help other under developed countries, China has been underwriting infrastructure modernization that connects nations around the world for trade, and helps them achieve their own development goals. China aspires to make it possible for people everywhere to achieve economic security while helping to eradicating poverty.)
Below are two highlights from this very important debate, if you're interested but cannot watch it all:
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Well said
語必忠信 行必正直
Happy birthday, JtC
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I hope it was a good one, but it sounds like you got started early last night…hopefully you have recovered.
Thanks for keeping the lights on for us denizens who keep trying to find the truth in this age of lies.
Sam says hey too.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Thanks snoops...
yep, had a good day. Good weather, good company and a great ribeye.
Hey Sam.