Nord Stream 2: The pipeline that was never going to be…

"There will be no longer, a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." "We will ah, I promise you, we'll be able to do it." --Joe Biden ~~~~*~~~~ The timing of Joe Biden's sober statement, of February 7, 2022, couldn't have been better, "If Russia invades uh, that means tanks and troops crossing the uh, the border of Ukraine, again. Then uh, there will be uh, we there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2, we will bring an end to it." Direct to the point and with no side step of the chosen words, no uncle Joe, or "when I was a lad" intros to a long winded story about his past, no, directed like a guided missile " [...] we will bring an end to it!"...

Adolf, Olaf…You say potatoe, I say potato.

"Hybrid warfare: is a theory of military strategy, first proposed by Frank Hoffman, which employs political warfare and blends conventional warfare, irregular warfare, and cyberwarfare with other influencing methods, such as fake news, diplomacy, lawfare and foreign electoral intervention. By combining kinetic operations with subversive efforts, the aggressor intends to avoid attribution or retribution. The concept of hybrid warfare has been criticized by a number of academics and practitioners due to its alleged vagueness, its disputed constitutive elements, and its alleged historical distortions."...

THE END 1.0

Think how it wakes the seeds- Woke once the clays of a cold star Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth’s sleep at all?

Covid something…or, first Thursday of the new year of 2023?

The new puppy is gone today, gone to work with my wife. I have a moment to reflect and think about what is ahead and behind as the new year starts. I've been preoccupied with precious Finley. Its a find name for a little dog, it means dragon slayer, fierce fighter in the old Irish. Of course I think I'm the only one left, the place is itchy and infested with Euro-trash and Wokesters..

WOMAN IN A TIGHT GREY SUIT

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

A story by Michael Burns

It was one of those, afternoons. Sitting at a small café, light diffused, not quite there — surreal.

Light waiting to happen. On the edge of waiting to happen…ready.

‘Post Truth Politics’ and the creators of reality.

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.” ― Hunter S. Thompson Who has been running the world? Who is running reality? Reality? In the last 59 years, at least. Has been running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Its a machine, An industrial technical electronic machine. Now becoming highly digital. I know this all was going on during the world wars, and rich individuals have owned newspaper empires etc. in the past... But I mean now. Who is running reality now?

YELLOW FISH

I was painting ten paintings the other day. In the music studio and lost an idea among a pile of dead poems sitting on a shelf,

it was a good idea!

It was something about the sound a bird makes after a terrible storm;

for the world is stilled and made over completely in that single solitary second.

This is not the only world…by far...

Energy Crisis by Design

"Putin knows that when I am president of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe are over..." Joe Biden, September, 2019

"Russia did it, they always do it...it's them! Every single time we try to go ahead they stop us, they stand in our way and are sowing evil and despair and hunger and rising energy prices; we need more sanctions. Sanction everything they do; Russia is an evil race bound on conquest, that must end."

The United States and the West have been at war with Russia for 106 years and what is the war about? The largest land base; some 1/8 of the world surface; the richest resource-rich nation on the planet with cheap access to markets in more than 16 countries bordering it. And after some seventy years lost in communism and waste, have learned the unique lesson as a once terrible and suppressive superpower. That it is better to get along that to try and conquer those around you. It better to be a multi-polar world than to reach for global dominance and a uni-polar ideal of democracy for all. That democracy is not really a viable solution to communism. That was a hard lesson for the Russian people...

The Real Population Bomb or Atrazine as control of the Feminine

"Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague."
-- Thomas Malthus

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Population has been on a steady decline since 1800. With a fertility rate of 7, it has sharply fell to the 1940 rate of 2.06. There was a increase in fertility from 1940 to an 1960 high point of 3.58 children. These numbers represent the average number of children per household. That number has continued to decline, since, with, minor pushes upwards to a 2010 high of 2.06, but, declining still again in those last 12 years.

The fertility rate as of 2022 in North America has dropped below 2.0; Mexico holding number one position at 2.0, the US is roughly 1.5 and Canada has dropped to 1.0 and below...

The Collapse of Empire and the ‘dick’ removal business.

"Girls who are boys, who like boys to be girls. Who do boys like they're girls, who do girls like they're boys. Always should be someone you really love." - Blur

The signs are everywhere. Written on walls by youth. Singers and playwrights warp the scenes to incorporate its passing. Its that beast that slouches.

We are in a free fall.

I am a fan of history, or I should say, I like stories about history, I like the narratives. And one I read recently reminded me of the process of the 'fall of civilizations', the process of that demise in a few generations.