In Part 1 of this article I examined previous Fourth Turnings and the Gray Champions who won and lost, but made a difference in the course of history. Now I will try to peer through the fog of disinformation, lies, and false narratives to try and determine which Gray Champions will make a difference in this Fourth Turning.
The U.S. and NATO are playing with fire by poking the bear. This is no longer a limited conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. In the early days of the conflict, there were constant talks between both sides, with the possibility of a negotiated resolution. The American Empire nixed those talks. The neo-cons, representing the interests of the military industrial complex uni-party, see an opportunity to further enrich themselves, while believing they can bleed and weaken Putin. But who is really being weakened in the long run?
Putin’s military operation began on February 24. Oil was $93 a barrel. It is up 13% and despite economic sanctions, Russian oil revenue is higher, and the ruble is at a two year high versus the USD and Euro. Natural gas prices are up 69%. Diesel prices are up 89%. Gasoline prices are up 29%. Wheat prices are up 31%. The stock market is down 5% and at a one year low. As an exporter of oil, natural gas, and wheat, is Russia really suffering from these price increases, or are the citizens of the EU and U.S. bearing the brunt of the pain? Russians are paying $2.80 a gallon for gasoline, while Americans are paying $4.65 per gallon. Who’s winning this proxy war?
Russian oil exports are up 50% in 2022. The Biden administration is amateur hour on steroids. The State Department and Defense Department are led by inept woke lightweights who are stumbling and bumbling our country into World War 3. They keep pushing Putin, attempting to instigate him into an action they can use as a basis for officially declaring war against Russia.
Make no mistake about it, the U.S. is already at war with Russia and Putin knows it. Economic sanctions, even though they have backfired and hurt Europe and the U.S. far more than Russia, are an act of war. Providing the Ukraine with tactical information so they can target generals and naval ships is an act of war. Shipping high tech military weaponry, in addition to enriching U.S. arms makers, to the Ukraine is an act of war.
Sending $54 billion, printed out of thin air by Powell and his cronies and exacerbating our already 40-year high inflation, to the corrupt Zelensky so he can buy U.S. arms, is an act of war. I wonder if the “Big Guy” will get his 10%. Calling for the overthrow of a world leader, who has 6,000 nuclear weapons at his disposal, is a reckless act of war. This isn’t a video game, where you get to start over if you make the wrong move. This game of Risk could end life on this planet as we know it if someone makes the wrong move.
Fourth Turnings have a life of their own, with the generational juxtaposition driving events towards conflict rather than towards a negotiated resolution. The Prophet Generation leaders are sure of themselves, even when the facts argue against their plans. They will plunge forward, as their arrogance and self-absurdness convince them they are destined to achieve immortality in history books as the leader who changed or saved the world.
We are in the midst of an era where events are being orchestrated by evil men whose agendas, while not totally coordinated, all coalesce around a future world of authoritarian domination by the few and passive subjugation by the many. It is clear Gates and Clinton are active conspirators in the Great Reset scheme being implemented by the billionaire global oligarchs.
Trump is an enigma, as his rhetoric appears to be against these forces of evil, but his actions speak otherwise. His assessment and selection of key personnel, endorsement of candidates, and continued full throated support of the blood clot inducing Big Pharma experimental gene therapies that don’t keep you from catching or transmitting a low-risk flu, classifies him as either a clueless dupe or just controlled opposition, paid to keep half the masses distracted from their conspiracy to implement their Build Back Better New World Order.
His actions in not doing everything in his power to free the January 6 hostages, rotting in government dungeons, passive support for Biden’s reckless Ukraine provocations, and endorsement of left wing lunatics like Oprah talk show host and Turkish citizen Mehmet Oz for Senate in a state where he doesn’t reside, prove his true colors. A Trump victory in the 2024 presidential election would ensure a chaotic whirlwind of domestic violence as a likely global conflict would already be underway.
Is Putin the world’s last hope in derailing the WEF Great Reset agenda or is he just playing his part in enslaving the global population in squalor and debt within a techno-gulag dystopian surveillance federation, where you will own nothing and be happy while your overlords own everything and dole out your rations depending upon your level of subservience? Even though there have been tenuous links between Putin and the WEF globalist cabal, the reaction of these globalists to his military operation reveals he is not on their side.
The U.S. controlled NATO has been slowly encircling Russia with missiles and the imminent admission of Sweden and Finland will put their missiles on Putin’s doorstep. Putin and his closest advisors are clear headed and understand the stakes, as stated by Dimitry Medvedev:
“The pumping of Ukraine by NATO countries with weapons, the training of its troops to use Western equipment, the dispatch of mercenaries and the conduct of exercises by the countries of the Alliance near our borders increase the likelihood of a direct and open conflict between NATO and Russia instead of their ‘war by proxy. Such a conflict always has the risk of turning into a full-fledged nuclear war. This will be a disastrous scenario for everyone.” – Dimitry Medvedev – Former Russian President
It appears this showdown between the failing and flailing American Empire and Putin will be the existential clash of this Fourth Turning. There is one certainty. Putin will not accept defeat in Ukraine. He plans to attain his objectives, whatever the cost. If the U.S. and NATO are foolish enough to directly intervene, they risk confirming Robert Oppenheimer’s lament – “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”. Putin has seen the writing on the wall since the 2014 U.S. orchestrated coup d’état and has shown tremendous restraint in his response.
His Ukraine invasion has been targeted on military objectives, making all efforts to avoid civilian casualties. The Russian military is methodical, efficient, and boring, as opposed to the Shock & Awe U.S. military that has failed miserably at achieving their objectives for 20 years. The false flag Ukrainian attempts to create atrocity narratives have failed pathetically. But Putin’s restraint should not be mistaken for weakness. He is a man of his word, not one of Biden’s bloviating apparatchiks who got their job based on race, sex, or wokeness credentials. He means what he says and is willing to back up his words with actions.
“If someone intends to intervene in the ongoing events from the outside and create strategic threats for Russia that are unacceptable to us, they should know that our retaliatory strikes will be lightning-fast. We have all the tools for this, and we will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know that.” – Vladimir Putin – April 28, 2022
There is no doubt in my mind Putin will be the most impactful of the Gray Champions over the last several years of this Crisis. The other Gray Champion who has been biding his time and generally keeping a low profile is Xi Jinping. Like Putin, a dictator for life, he can play the long game, while the U.S. fiddles and burns. He has refused to condemn Putin’s invasion and is tacitly supporting Russia by purchasing their oil and wheat, sanctioned by the West.
He is also learning the U.S. and the EU are paper tigers, bogged down by immense levels of debt, vacuous leadership, a willfully ignorant populace, and militaries focused on wokeness rather than preparation for war. He continues to rattle his sword towards Taiwan, probing and testing the U.S. reaction. Xi’s aspiration is for China to dominate the 21st Century and he is applauding the foolishness of the American Empire in its death throes as it accelerates its fall by seeing its currency and military domination degraded rapidly.
Xi is a serious man, on par with Putin, when it comes to tenaciously implementing his agenda. Both Russia and China have major demographic issues and as dictators, they always have the possibility of being overthrown by an internal adversary. Human rights, gender inclusivity, and choosing preferred pronouns are not high priorities for these men. Xi has been rapidly building up his military, using the hundreds of billions the U.S. has supplied buying their cheap crap for decades.
China’s CCP has infiltrated American universities and stolen our technological innovations, bribing corrupt politicians, greedy corporate CEOs, spineless college administrators, and our dishonest whore media, to gain control over key aspects of our economic system. They are truly the enemy within. And the Biden crime family is beholden to both China and Ukraine. Xi played Trump like a fiddle, pretending they were personal friends and making promises he never intended to keep, as shown by our trade deficit with China up 30% from 2021 and on-track to reach an all-time high over $450 billion in 2022.
Both Putin and Xi see the deterioration, degradation, and unseriousness of those steering the American ship of state into a sea of icebergs. They witness the bumbling fool of a president on a daily basis and the dimwitted sycophants running his administration behind the curtain. It would be comical if these amateurs weren’t in the process of tearing the fabric of American society to shreds, while simultaneously pushing the world into a global conflict in which the likelihood of nuclear confrontation grows by the day.
Xi most certainly plans to enact a takeover of Taiwan when he believes the U.S. is too distracted, militarily stretched and bogged down in their European misadventure. Biden has already pushed Russia and China closer, along with India, while the majority of the world supports Russia in this conflict. You will not hear that from the U.S. media, but it is a fact.
The U.S. Empire is not loved by the rest of the world. It has been feared, because if you stepped out of line in honoring the USD for all obligations you were summarily bombed into oblivion or cut off from the billions in “foreign aid” (aka bribes) doled out by American politicians. None of the foreign aid ever aids the people of those countries. It aids corrupt foreign leaders, arms dealers, and politicians who have a portion of the funds funneled back into their pockets. It has worked like a charm for decades, but these arrogant psychopaths went too far this time with their Covid scheme, unleashing a tsunami of inflation and destroying the just in time global supply chain they created when they sold off our manufacturing to China.
The horrific reported inflation of 8.3% is really 17%, if measured as it was during Paul Volcker’s reign as Federal Reserve Chairman. Of course, he took the courageous action of raising rates to 20% in order to crush it and succeeded. The cowardly Powell has rates under 1% and will do as he is told by his globalist overlords, destroying our economy so the Great Reset can move forward unabated.
History seems to be accelerating, with major developments and sudden turns every few weeks. False narratives and engineered distractions (Ukraine war, leaked abortion ruling, covid variant of the month) are designed to divert your attention from the collapse of our economy and financial markets. No one is really in control, though there are many egomaniacal self-absorbed despots who believe they can alter the course of history in the direction they choose.
Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and the rest of the World Economic Forum authoritarian evil globalist purveyors of real disinformation want to destroy our way of life so they can implement the way of life they want us to have – owning nothing, eating bugs, obeying their commands, under constant technological surveillance, and in constant fear of being turned in if they voice dissent. Essentially, they want to impose a techno-fascist global regime upon the masses.
Those pulling the strings know the jig is up. They’ve played the debt card to the hilt. It began to unravel in September 2019 when the repo market cracked. Everything since has been part of their exit strategy plan. They know the house of cards is about to come crashing down and are attempting to pull off a controlled demolition in which they retain their wealth, power, and control. Of course, their hubris will ultimately lead to their downfall, as the world is too complex, has too many variables to control, and their malevolent machinations will blow up in their faces and possibly blow up the entire world.
As we see shortages of baby formula, eggs, wheat, fertilizer, diesel fuel, high tech equipment, vehicles, along with open borders allowing hordes of illegals to pour into the country, and Democrat run urban enclaves encouraging murder and mayhem, all created by purposeful decisions made at the highest levels of government and funded by the likes of Soros and Gates, you can’t help but recognize their real goal is to destroy this country. We’ve reached the point Frank Zappa warned us about a few decades ago.
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” – Frank Zappa
I understand what they are trying to accomplish. With little food or fuel, and less than 1% of the population able to grow their own food to sustain themselves, the Build Back Better oligarchs expect the masses to beg them to be saved. This is where the WEF slogan, “You will own nothing and be happy” comes to fruition. You will be doled out a food ration, work menial jobs, live a squalid existence, use their global digital currency, and try to maintain a high social credit score so you are not ostracized and condemned to the gulag, or worse.
The world is highly complex, and the best laid plans of these psychopaths are likely to go awry. I don’t believe they can pull off this controlled demolition without unleashing a myriad of unintended consequences. There is a pugnacious, heavily armed minority who will refuse to bend the knee to the arrogant, soft, egg head billionaires like Gates. His man boobs and pot belly don’t inspire admiration from average hard working blue collar man. A motivated minority of skilled freedom minded patriots can cause a multitude of problems for globalist totalitarians.
I also believe Putin and Xi are roadblocks to the WEF agenda, explaining the fawning over failed comedic actor Zelensky and his invitation to speak at Schwab’s annual World Economic Forum. The course of this Fourth Turning now hinges upon the actions of Putin and Xi in response to the threats and warlike actions being taken by an American Empire desperately clinging to the mantle as the dominant world power.
In theory I understood this Fourth Turning would ultimately lead to a bloody global conflict, but a few years into this Crisis I didn’t visualize a scenario which would lead to such an outcome. Each Fourth Turning has seen an exponential increase in deaths, as the killing technology has improved. There were approximately 65 million deaths during World War II, with Russia incurring 27 million of those deaths. That means approximately 3% of the global population were killed during the last Fourth Turning.
Over 4% of the U.S. male population was killed during the Civil War. A similar death toll percentage today would exceed 250 million people. With the killing technology available today to men of dubious intellect and malicious motives, the potential loss of life could exceed our worst nightmares. I hoped for a less dismal route for this inevitable Crisis, but we are now careening towards our own rendezvous with destiny. On the current trajectory, we are running out of time on the Doomsday Clock.
Strauss and Howe laid out four potential outcomes, which I have presented many times before in previous articles. Three of the four are not positive. If you asked me a few years ago, I would have selected outcome three as the most likely, as the American Empire died with a whimper, much like the British Empire after World War II. Now I realize outcomes three and four are highly unlikely.
I believe outcome two is inevitable, as the dominant nation (America) has chosen to take a course which will engulf the planet in a war with an unknowable outcome. Once war starts on a grand scale, it could spin out of control and result in outcome number one. We can only hope cooler heads will prevail, but observing what is considered leadership in this day and age, I’m not optimistic.
- This Fourth Turning could mark the end of man. It could be an omnicidal Armageddon, destroying everything, leaving nothing. If mankind ever extinguishes itself, this will probably happen when its dominant civilization triggers a Fourth Turning that ends horribly. For this Fourth Turning to put an end to all this would require an extremely unlikely blend of social disaster, human malevolence, technological perfection, and bad luck.
- The Fourth Turning could mark the end of modernity. The Western saecular rhythm – which began in the mid-fifteenth century with the Renaissance – could come to an abrupt terminus. The seventh modern saeculum would be the last. This too could come from total war, terrible but not final. There could be a complete collapse of science, culture, politics, and society. Such a dire result would probably happen only when a dominant nation (like today’s America) lets a Fourth Turning ekpyrosis engulf the planet. But this outcome is well within the reach of foreseeable technology and malevolence.
- The Fourth Turning could spare modernity but mark the end of our nation. It could close the book on the political constitution, popular culture, and moral standing that the word America has come to signify. The nation has endured for three saecula; Rome lasted twelve, the Soviet Union only one. Fourth Turnings are critical thresholds for national survival. Each of the last three American Crises produced moments of extreme danger: In the Revolution, the very birth of the republic hung by a thread in more than one battle. In the Civil War, the union barely survived a four-year slaughter that in its own time was regarded as the most lethal war in history. In World War II, the nation destroyed an enemy of democracy that for a time was winning; had the enemy won, America might have itself been destroyed. In all likelihood, the next Crisis will present the nation with a threat and a consequence on a similar scale.
- Or the Fourth Turning could simply mark the end of the Millennial Saeculum. Mankind, modernity, and America would all persevere. Afterward, there would be a new mood, a new High, and a new saeculum. America would be reborn. But, reborn, it would not be the same.
I’ve always preached preparedness and combining forces with like-minded people, but can you really prepare for a world where outcome one or two is the climax of this Fourth Turning? I know many bloggers make money off of doom, but I simply cannot conceive of a positive outcome based on the current dynamics driving the world towards war.
I’d love to give a Knute Rockne speech to inspire the team to rally around someone who can lead us to victory. But all I see are monkeys with matches in a room full of dynamite. It’s only a matter of time until it explodes. The decline of an empire is awful to watch and even worse to live through. I wish you Godspeed and thank you for reading my ramblings. I hope I’m wrong.
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My neighbors and I have created a pact in case of EOTWAWKI. Some will supply meat. I will supply booze and veggies. We will jointly defend the farms. I have advised everyone to get some basic foodstuffs to survive a year. If we make it a year, we will be able to figure out a plan. Maybe we will even figure out a way to survive. The key bit is to survive until the hordes die off.
They asked if I really think this will happen. No, I really don’t. But I told them I would rather be ready and not need to be, than need to be and not be ready. And it really doesn’t cost much, given we are on farms, are water independent, have hundreds of livestock and enough raised beds, etc among us to provide table veggies. Carbs will be much harder to get going quickly, but we have loads of critters between us, so will be fine in the short term.
Reminds me, need to stock up on some more ammo.
Loop, have you been practicing Mandarin like I told you. …might be useful in the camp to know the language of your guards…just sayin’ .
Yup, I am holding my breath. How is your Mexican? You studying? The US is under siege every day, and hasn’t done dick to stop it, so within a decade whites will be a minority. Between the Mexicans and the Africans, you are going to have a great time. China is about 5000 miles from us. Mexicans wade into the US. Wonder who is most under threat.
I am more concerned about Indonesia in the long run. They are the most populous Muslim nation on earth. Might be an issue eventually.
The US is a failed state, a carcass being picked clean, a weapon to be used against the non-central bank countries, crates of baby formula left for the illegals while stores are empty. Fuel prices destroy the economy, diesel prices and freight movement, product movement, soon all will grind to a halt and the liars in the media, doing their master’s bidding, blame it all on any and everything but where the true perpetrators lie. Biden is an animated corpse they drag around to prop up their pretense that the government is legitimate.
In Texas and the Southwest the drought worsens and soon the water sources will dry up as the onslaught of the masses moving away from liberal states continues unabated and the illegals come in by the thousands every day. The drug cartels are buying up property and businesses, huge quantities, they are everywhere, and the populace in general is too drugged up and complacent to comprehend their peril, too stupid to see their replacements being installed. Mexico? All of central and southern and Latin America coupled with every country on the globe is pouring in from across the border.
If the times determined it necessary, you would be welcomed here. Is about 24 hours driving time. Texarkana is about halfway.
I truly appreciate than Miss Maggie, you are a great lady.
Any friend of what’s his name and all that… and you are obviously tough as nails.
Countries without central banks? Which ones are those?
follow the death and destruction, generally
Astute observation.
I submitted a proposal to Congress in 2008 that a wall be constructed along the northern ROW of I-8 beginning in San Diego, Ca, extending easterly to the the intersection of I-8 and I-10 then continuing easterly along the northern ROW of I-10 passing Tuscon, Az, El Paso , Tx, San Antonio , Tx, Houston, Tx, continuing easterly along said northern ROW of I-10 passing Baton Rogue , La, Mobile , Al , Tallahassee, Fl, continuing along said northern ROW of I-10 to its end at Jacksonville , Fl.
Those habitants south of said wall would pay for the wall including the country of Mexico. No reply was received.
Were you surprised? Feel for You. Virtually EVERYTHING You were taught and believed was a lie.
Take a deep breath, and wait.
I’m surprised by nothing anymore.
BTW, the reason for the proposed wall on the north side of the Interstates, if it were on the south side “get-away” vehicles would be more accessible for those climbing the wall. Those to the south could just have the Interstates. Another thought about walls , as in the Berlin Wall at one time, not only are walls intended to keep people out, in conspiratorial speak they are also intended to keep people in. With the proposed wall on the north side of the Interstate accessibility to the wall would be less from that direction for those climbing it and going south for drugs.
/s
Flash- I don’t disagree with you that Llpoh needs to master Chinese but it looks to me like THE CHINESE are the ones being held as prisoners. Xi and his yes men can only handle so much….sheesh.
I did see a guy who was hassled in Sydney for holding up a “Fuck Xi” sign in a peaceful protest so I would expect the Oz LE to back Chinese power over Oz citizens.
BL – the guy in question went into an Asian market and held up that sign. Some Chines were offended. Go figure. He wasn’t so much hassled as the cops had to intervene given he was maybe going to get his ass kicked.
How about this – go into Detroit with a sign saying “Fuck Niggers” and let us know how you get on. The guy went to stir up trouble, and damned if he didn’t manage it.
Llpoh- I listened to the guy for 30 minutes explain the situation, he was with a group of Asians that day. He and a journalist/video /film maker were the only whites and I don’t think hes full white but maybe Asian mix. A Chink girl made his sign which was printed in Chinese (He does not speak OR write Chinese) so he basically was just holding up the “Fuck Xi” sign. The Oz LE only went after him and the other white guy. That was his explanation and he had film also.
I knew a AF guy who went to a USN base “Rosy Roads?” in Puerto Rico and had a buddy write “Fuck the Navy” on his back in sunscreen and after a bit of tanning on the beach, he got the shit beat out of him.
I think “Fuck Xi” is more like “Fuck Idi Amin”. Who would be offended by that?
Xi is a nationalist whilst Morrison us a dick whistling multiculturist. My money is on Xi.
Emperor Xi is equating himself with The Motherland? That’s what it sounds like to me, and I imagine it’s treason to oppose Xi or any of his programs and plans.
I speak fluent ebonics, so I’m good for my neck of the South, Loop.
Yo!
Where’s that? I thought ebonics was only spoken in university towns…
Xi xi nin and Gracias. I think I’m ready either way. Just say’in.
Xie Xie actually
Llpoh, Easy! You are too many steps ahead worrying about all those countries and ethnic groups coming at us. What you say is true, but the time is here and now for a simpler plan: Make peace with God and make war with the one at your doorstep. They are already here.
Ni hao ma
Hǎo ba, qīn wǒ de pìgu
tào lù
As I’ve mentioned before, I landed in a good place amongst good people, but am especially thankful for your blunt and pragmatic advice over the years. I credit you with my being able to take an insult on the run.
Like you, I believe a core of people well prepared will survive. Unfortunately, scavengers and parasites will survive as well.
We decided we have a shitload of ammo and so are buying gold. I also let my neighbors know I have a great quantity of LDS canned wheat and dried goods and, of course, I got rabbits galore. (She’s not one of Bond’s bunnies, by the way, but a living 26 pound rabbit, I call Big Sis.)
And, by the way, you are to blame for my obsession with these Giants. You showed me a picture of one of them Down Under which grew to forty pounds or more!
So, now I raise dwarf lionsmanes and Giant Flemish, and, as Yojibear accused me, I am indeed planning to breed a male lionsmane to a Giant Flemish female and see what I come up with. Not versa-visa though. My male lionsmane weighs maybe two or three pounds. My smallest Giant Flemish is 15 pounds, at least. I’m going to have to plan the meeting very carefully, but the Giant Flemish doe is only six months, so has some maturing to do before breeding.
I hope to have lionsmane rabbits the size of smallish lions. I will call them See Mo’ Bootheel Bunnies.
Have a lovely TEOTWAWKI, Llpoh.
I’m settling for peace like a river.
“…We decided we have a shitload of ammo and so are buying gold…”
As I was reading this portion of your post, I expected you to write:
We decided we have a shitload of ammo and so are buying MOAR!!!
But gold is good too.
We bought shitloads when you really could buy shitloads.
We did not buy gold then because we were buying ammo and dry-packing food with the Mormons.
Now, you can’t buy shitloads of anything and the Mormons have to pack the food for you.
If you bleed them properly, domestic rabbit is quite tasty. tie their back legs together, hang ’em upside down. 2×6 with 16d nails suspended works well. By the time you are hanging the last one, the first few are basically unconscious from the blood rushing to their heads. Use to typically do 20 at a time. Pull on the ears to expose the neck. One swipe with a sharp knife, done. Don’t even twitch. do it wrong and you will hear sounds you will NEVER forget. Over sand base, or a helper to quickly move a bucket. Blood. Lots of it. Skinning and butchering is skinning and butchering. TASTY. Say a prayer for yourself and the animal.
I take my rabbits and calm them by petting them and saying a brief prayer thanking God for his provision and plan. Then I whack the medulla at the base of the neck with enough force to send the blood out its ears and you are correct, sir… if one misses and only wounds, the sad crying squeals sound most like a human baby of any animal’s squalls I’ve heard. I rarely miss the medulla.
Tomorrow, I’m going to go put decent clothes on and see the manager of the farm and ranch store where I sell my petting rabbits (little fuzzy lionsmanes) and a lot of my friend Larry’s rabbits to pay for his rabbit food.
I’m going to offer Giant Flemish rabbits for local meat rabbit breeders to add to their breeding line. They will be quite a bit more expensive but they will also be full grown, ready to breed.
Now, these hybrids that I ended up with with (one of my meat rabbits got into the pen with a Giant doe –you really have to watch the doe around the boys) produced the tester kits. We shall see how big these bunnies will get in twelve weeks and then, perhaps, I’ll try out your method. I am betting they are 5 to 7 pounds fully dressed, which in “meat rabbit” lingo means stripped of innards and skinned.
I actually can the rabbit meat. It makes wonderful chicken salad, which just sounds terrible if you call it bunny salad.
OK, I made my post before reading this, which is what I needed. Thank you, Mrs. Ghost.
Tastes like chicken?
“Everything” tastes like chicken. I’ve heard that so many times. lol
First time I tried frog legs gigged from an ole slimy pond, no way they tasted like chicken, more like fish. I really did not care for them. Could have been psychologically fishy.
My Dad and his brothers used to shoot them with .22’s. We would skin them and have a big cookout with all the cousins and grandparents. They were one of my favorite meals, but they did not taste like chicken
Quail resembled the taste of chicken very much. Psychologically I was never able to correlate the taste of fried wild rabbit with that of fried chicken. Domestic rabbit may be different…uncertain.
Oh, mourning and white wing dove and wild puddle ducks, dang good vittles yet distinctive taste from chicken IMO.
Agree completely on quail. When I was in high school, my Mom would fry up a bunch of quail, mashed potatoes, gravy and homemade biscuits for my birthday lunch. I would invite my 4 hunting buddies to come over and we would devour everything she made.
You can always invite vegans to dinner. When they ask “what’s for dinner?”…With a clear conscience you can reply ‘Rabbit Food’.
If they seem taken aback when you remove the cloche noun: a cover (as of metal or ceramic) placed over food during preparation or serving….
You can just tell them it’s the other white meat.
Wild Snowshoe rabbits are tasty and fairly large. They are also incredibly easy to snare in the winter.
Not so easy to snare here in Fla.
Swamp rabbits?
What a purty bunnie you have there Ghost. You should be in touch with my Niece who also keeps bunnies. I don’t recall if her bunnies are quite the size of yours. If you’re on Fbook you might find her, she’s in the Indy area.
What do you feed your rabbits?
Compressed Alfalfa pellets are popular.
So if you plan to use rabbits as a food source, you should stock up on bags of rabbit food while you can get it?
Garden waste, etc in season, etc. they gotta eat in the winter as well i would imagine. Need to maintain breeding stock. Seven pairs of clean animals and birds on the Ark. 2 rabbits in early spring = plenty of rabbits by late fall/early winter. Maybe look in to importing some Variety from Ethiopia for the lean times?
P.S. don’t buy online from anywhere near san francisco.
“Seven pairs of clean animals and birds on the Ark.”
Do Rabbits chew cud? They do not split the hoof. Therefore…
My wife goes squeamish every time I talk about slaughtering animals we don’t even have, but the bunnies! I am going to keep hinting until you tell me how. Or is it that your picture is the bunny, not the food? My sister had a “pet” rabbit that turned out to be a male and they can growl, SCREAM, and I am pretty sure cuss, and I think I will just stick to beef, pork, chicken, and mutton until someone can convince me otherwise.
Australia will be the next country to be the proxy war candidate in U.S. vs China.
Best of luck down under.
Good ol’ thinking, mate.
“Carbs will be much harder to get going quickly”
Taters? Don’t forget to wrap them in Saran® Wrap, can’t see which way to grow with dirt in their eyes.
I suspect Bernizualian farmers where cocky at the beginning of their society’s destruction. In a short time they watched as the city and local townsman hordes stoned their farm animals and scythed their produce right out of their fields. This is also occurring now but a slower pace in South Africa.
I don’t know what the solution is. I wish we had some curious journalist who would interview the surviving farming community in Bernizualia and SA and report out how they are making do so those that that are beginning this process are better prepared at defending against it.
What is starting now has happened before and lessons can be learned at a personal level.
On thinking about this further, perhaps Mexico points the way. Mexican farmers form cartels and ship produce at competitive rates to US and other countries. With their “normal” produce they also ship other produce from the farm that earns mega $$$ but are perhaps frowned on by their customer’s governments. They have their own militias and can defend against the federalies. Indeed they are so powerfull a force they can offer Ag or Pb to their adversaries to be left alone.
Perhaps this is the neo-model and success story for the Amerikan farmer?
Thanks admin for another great essay of stomach churning Sunday morning truth.
I hate to admit it, but outside of help via Divine intervention, mankind is on a self-exterminating path that leads directly to hell on earth.
Flash – there will be no divine intervention. Free will and all that is the nature of the game. Humans have, especially in the last 100 years or so, made decisions so monumentally stupid that the loss of life will likely be in the few to many billions before it is all over. All that can be hoped is that our families survive the purge.
Oh there will be Divine intervention, just not the kind most are hoping for. Isaiah said, “man will become more rare than gold.” How many Billions will that be that die? We have around 8 Billion, my guess is about 1 Billion left.
When the dust clears, God will rule from Israel, and outside of His lands there will be “wailing and gnashing of teeth.” I believe there will be few spots with modern conveniences that still function and have access to technology *Israel primarily*. Everywhere else will be less technological with some being basically medieval.
Hell on earth indeed for many.
Another Rapture Ready ,Two Plans for Salvation ‘tard, I’m betting.
Nope…no fly away free card. Thanks for assuming I’m a tard though…reflects so well on you.
Muh chosen then…50% still makes you a Zionist tard.
One plan, one creation, one fall, one Israel, one Savior crucified and resurrected, one Church, one Rapture, one 70th Week of Daniel, one Great Tribulation and judgement, one second coming of Jesus, one separation of the sheep and the goats, one Millennial Reign of Jesus, one Great White Throne Judgement, one new heaven and new earth.
Israel is a People, not a place.
Israel is a person, a place and a people.
According to Genesis 15:18 and Joshua 1:4, the land God gave to Israel included everything from the Nile River in Egypt to Lebanon (south to north) and everything from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River (west to east). On today’s map, the land God has stated belongs to Israel includes everything modern-day Israel possesses, plus all of the territory occupied by the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Thus, Israel currently possesses only a fraction of the land God has promised; the rest of their inheritance likely awaits the return of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. God has given His word that the nation of Israel will never cease as long as the sun still shines by day and the moon and stars still shine by night (Jeremiah 31:35–37).
If you have not recognized the difference between Judahites and Israelites you will not be able to sort out prophecy.
https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/who-is-a-jew
144,000 sheep, 14 billion goats. Good luck.
Robert (QSLV)
“…and one ring to rule them all.”
How it ultimately plays out regardless of what happens to the pompous, self inflated U.S.A. is the miraculous and instant removal of the true Church of Jesus from the earth by God, then the whole world against Israel, then God against the whole world.
The Great Do Over.
Isaiah 13:12 is speaking about Babylon. Again, it is not saying what you think it is.
As long as you agree with me that Hillary is the Whore of Babylon, we’re good.
It’s a joint role starring Cumalot Harris and Hitliary.
No, she is an echo of Jezebel.
You’re right on the Babylon reference. I mixed in my overall guess with it. The survival rate for the flood was either 1 in million (population 8 million, Noah and his group were 8) or 1 in a Billion. There are some math folks who estimated that the earth had hit 8 billion way back in Noah’s day too.
Sorry for conflating the two.
Consider: What is a man? I don’t think this refers to population reduction, but it could be both.
“When the dust clears, God will rule from Israel, and outside of His lands there will be “wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
Not from Israel but over Israel.
https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/who-is-an-israelite
Sure there will, Loop. As promised, but not until the herd has been savagely thinned.
Matthew 24:22
“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
Pretty sure that doesn’t mean what you think it means. Mathew 24 was talking about the fall of the Temple, which happened in AD70. Amazing how much verse is mis-interpreted. Not to mention it needs to be read in Koine. You read Koine, right?
I love the downvotes from folks who have no idea how to research scripture and its meaning. When folks use the Bible and twist the meaning of its words, you know we are headed down a dark path indeed.
It is widely considered a sin to misinterpret scripture. It is particularly bad to intentionally twist the meaning of scripture in order to fit an individual narrative. That is God’s word people are screwing with when they do that, and if one believes that the Bible is the word of God, twisting it is a seriously bad thing to do. Some scholars even go so far as to suggest/say that the Third Commandment comes into play – that twisting scripture is in fact taking God’s name in vain.
And that is all I have to say about that.
Not taking sides between you and Flash but, yes, everyone has their own interpretation of the word of God. I try to focus on the inspiring parts of the Bible and the Book of Revelations. Again, I find it beyond interesting that, having grown up as a Christian and attending countless events/sermons/classes I have never heard a sermon or class about the Book of Revelations.
Revelations is exceedingly hard to decipher. The Isaiah/Matthew above have been heavily discussed, and there is a lot of context and commentary available about those scriptures. But Revelations is a different cat. A lot of commentary of course, but a lot less consensus as to what it means.
“Revelations is exceedingly hard to decipher.”
Doesn’t have to be. Much depends on how one views the book overall prior to deciphering individual verses. IOW, seeing the forest before inspecting the leaves. As just one example;
— is it mostly a Historical book … a telling of events that have ALREADY happened?
— is it mostly a Prophetic book … a telling of events that will happen some time in the future?
It is magnitudes easier to interpret the book as History, as opposed to events that will happen tomorrow or thousands of years from now.
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I will make no further comments regardless of questions, comments, insults or votes. I want no further part in turning this excellent article into a Bible study.
It’s all of the above as a promise a record and a remembrance of that which has happened and that which will yet happen
well done.
Well, then, Stuckenheimer of the never-ending stream of requests for novena prayers from a site I’ve come to think of as the Peter, Paul and Mary site over the past few years, how about I write a bigass comment worthy of Maggie back when that wench was around before she got knifed in the gut by a surgeon at 4 a.m. and never got back up the same way again. I’m truly lucky to be here and if it isn’t because God still has purpose for me, it must be that the devil gets to torment me for a while more, like Job.
Seriously, my old friend in Maryland had something so profoundly awful happen to her at the same time something profoundly awful happened to me, which was around the same time profoundly terrible things were happening to you and Moe and she and I embarked upon a novena praying marathon, which I joined in spirit not being Catholic. While I’ve never actually used a rosary I’m not afraid to touch them, so I wore Poppa Grooch’s down to less than twenty beads, letting Christ off that crucifix one bead at a time after I learned following the instructions in the little “how-to-pray-a-rosary” pamphlet I’d gotten at the bookstore was a waste of my limited dexterity. I broke the string and had to tie a big knot in the rosary beads to keep them from all sliding off. I still lose one once in a while, so consider myself to be letting the Lord off bit by bit. Perhaps, when the final beads drop from my clenched fist as I pray for yours and my salvation on my knees, our Lord will return to the world in a blaze of Glory.
I doubt it though.
Even though I took the trouble of having a priest bless my Poppa Grooch’s rosary, I don’t think it works correctly. Perhaps the blessing slipped off with some of the beads.
However, since I am the “finder” of the novena site and introduced the idea of a praying marathon* to my Catholic friend, I ended up with the email link that haunts my inbox every time the Peter, Paul and Mary site starts up another Novena to Mary, Undoer of Knots.
Day 1 – Mary Undoer of Knots Novena
(Audio/Video Version)Here are the prayers for today:
https://www.praymorenovenas.com/mary-undoer-knots-novena
The counting of the beads doesn’t do it for me.
However, I like the idea of ekpyrosis, which is the word Admin used in his dark and gloomy sequel to a disturbing and gloomy post that struck me most.
Ekpyrosis, in English “Cosmic Conflagration”, is a cosmological theory formulated by the ancient Stoics according to which the Universe is destined to periodically self-destruct and self-recreate itself.
In particular, as the word itself suggests, it states that the phase of destruction of material reality is characterized by a fire of such dimensions as to involve the entire Universe.
So, Stucky, since you and I know that the novena praying thing didn’t work, perhaps we should embark upon a study of the Cosmological Mythos and figure out if we always must come full circle to the destruction of the world in order to see its rebirth.
https://www.humanmastery.net/ekpyrosis/
*you know I grew up country-hick baptist and witnessed altar call prayers that lasted for hours. My cousins and I would sneak out of the church and sit outside to chat or smoke cigarettes if we had them, while our mothers were on their knees praying for us. And here I am, on my knees with a broken rosary.
and I quit smoking December 31, 2006.
I believe The Answer is somewhere in quantum physics. The God Particle, and all that.
Nice story, Mags. When it comes to Novenas it’s the thought that counts.
May the blessed and perpetual Virgin watch over you today.
Perpetual? Once a virgin always a virgin?
The Higgs-Bosun just proves that matter can be created from light. We already knew that from Genesis, but I like seeing how it works.
“The God Particle” is a media creation. The Higgs Boson was the GD particle as it took something like 60 years to prove. It was real hard research to get there. The guy the postulated it in 20s or early 30s was in late 80s to early 90s when it appeared at Cern.
I think Einstein was right, the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine. “Fundamental” particles seem to keep leading to even more fundamental particles.
amen brother
Ditto
Revelation. NOT PLURAL. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John”.
Revelation, revealing, apocalypse.
Really? Jesus supposedly spouted all that disturbed nonsense?
Please don’t take it as an insult that I don’t believe that for a minute.
I don’t think it is difficult to decipher.
Ummm, there is no book of “Revelations”
However, there is a book called Revelation. SINGULAR.
Sorry for being a dick so early in the morning.
Accuracy is important. Nice catch.
No worries.
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/mark-renne/the-mystery-of-revelation-107/ebook/product-d76wwd.html?page=1&pageSize=4
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Our pastor will present his 35th session on Revelation tomorrow night. I believe we are in chapter 19 and he is going verse by verse. It has been a very interesting series.
It will be live streamed CFBCfamily.org
6:30 central
“…but, yes, everyone has their own interpretation of the word of God.”
“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.”
The scriptures interpret themselves.
https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/the-revelation-book-1
Then why do we need John Haggeeeeee and Hal Lindsey, ad infinitum?
Why do we even need preachers?
If the Bible were God’s word, surely we wouldn’t be arguing over what exactly it means.
That’s what you call a non-sequitur.
He who has ears to hear let him hear what the Spirit is saying
Take care that the spirit you hear is not Satan.
100% , bruh.
No, but Micheal Heiser does and more.
https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/podcast/naked-bible-101-jesus-the-exile-and-the-tribulation/
Michael Heiser a fake scholar. I emailed him for his testimony in which he replied that he would not tell me, the story is too long. So as far as I am concerned, he is a faker
Sadly ,Llpoh is probably right.
There is constantly divine intervention. God is constantly sustaining us, but for His grace we would have died out long ago. You will see miracles in these end times that are straight out of the Bible.
Generated by Satan, according to the Bible
The worst of the monumentally stupid actions was to create terrible forms of government, or re-create the known terrible forms of government from the past.
The line of thought that God will appear out of nowhere and solve our problems is what led us to where we are today.
Free will, bruh. The stupid is your work . Own it.
Amen. It is chief among the heresies plaguing the Church.
I hope you’re wrong too, Jim. Very perceptive, if terrifying. Now excuse me as I tend my animals and garden.
“It appears this showdown between the failing and flailing American Empire and Putin will be the existential clash of this Fourth Turning.”
The understatement of the month.
“[Putin] has shown tremendous restraint in his response.”
Someone wrote literally the same in a ZH comment, 10 years ago. That was the one that got me thinking for the first time ‘huh, maybe that Putin-guy isn’t such an entirely evil guy as the whole West is always stating?’
Thanks for bringing that up again!
“There is no doubt in my mind Putin will be the most impactful of the Gray Champions over the last several years of this Crisis.”
Nothing is written in stone, maybe he gets assassinated next week; Shoigu takes over and nukes the West in response [to the assassination]… then it will be somebody else as GC, maybe.
“Like Putin, a dictator for life”
Admin just can’t skip pulling the legs of his readers. Kind of in the Russian military approach style (“methodical and b…”)
“Both Russia and China have major demographic issues” – unlike the combined West 🙂
“they always have the possibility of being overthrown by an internal adversary”
OK now that’s really different in the West, unless you count voting machines to be “an adversary” 😀
“China’s CCP has infiltrated American universities…”
Horrific. Why weren’t there security clearances for universities, for centuries already? Should we lock down all libraries next?
“…and stolen our technological innovations”
Just like Russia, they stole their hypersonic [maneuverable missile] tech from us! That’s why we can so easily build the same ourselves tomorrow (cough, cough)
Ohh, trade deficit levels get negotiated in backroom deals! I’ve learned something new today.
Sarcasm aside:
Jim, you are still looking at this from an economic/financial [i.e. “utilitarian”] perspective mostly.
The better way is to focus on the moral perspective, where the fabric of US society has been slowly shredded for 60+ years now. That’s not the fault of Biden, or the Demoncrats, or any other identifiable small group. Everybody who lived some of his adult years in the US during that period, shares that burden. And [morally] it hadn’t been very good before 1955 to begin with, as the whole ‘Modernity’ “philosophy” is flawed and partially self-contradictory, just like Marxism (which is actually not much different from it.)
So this is a showdown between failing ‘Modernity’ and the last remaining bastion of Christianity. I personally am sure who is going to win, or “win.” The only open question is if it can be decided, i.e. the decay phase of the US empire passed through, without resorting to nukes.
(The follow-up, after a Russian victory towards a multipolar world, then potentially between RU and CN, will hopefully be one Turning later, at a minimum.)
and what brought that moral decay, the love of money!
we are a 80% loser society, the people don’t want to lose their free things period!
all the loser’s who produce nothing, are living like winner’s, who are nothing more then talking heads, those same people destroy the 20% lives, and the 20% are waking up, I have 20 years ago.
I also believe God use’s the evil and good people to fulfill what you see right now, when we are 80% evil, what you see now is what happens, the people have the love of money and do not want to give that up, so they sleep, and believe in fairy tales.
The love of money is actually just a symptom of the ‘Love of Materialism above all.’
no argument there, no I did not down vote you, I respect perspective.
Or it could be the love of ease at anothers expense , or not to get too 80s “self improvement author ” on you but the concept known as” win /lose ” up against ” win / win ” . In short it is the love of “easy money ” at anothers expense better known as” fractional reserve banking “and” quantative easing ” and or “debt backed fiat currency”. They have robbed us blind and know they want us to like it as Klaus sorta said .
Sociopathic narcissists then, effectively?
Without “fractional reserve banking” there would be no banks, until people created banks again and started loaning out part of their reserves.
The problem is banks getting greedy and loaning out too much of their reserves during boom times, a problem well documented during the Roaring 20’s and exacerbated by the FDIC.
Since what few banks are left are all backstopped by the government, and so are deposits to a very generous limit, nobody bothers to try to discover if the bank they choose is soundly managed. Of course it’s assumed that al the various regulating bureaucrats are keeping an eye on them… Hah!
Fiat currency is not actually backed by anything, by definition.
Wideguy,
I am with you on ‘Fractional reserve Bankster banking’ been warning/protesting against it since the early 90’s once I figured it out.
It is just an ancient demonic TACTIC…but it is just one of the 7 TACTICS:
(Donkey GREED has 6 blood brothers/sisters – and they are all demonic siblings).
Which ones you battle depends on the individual.
My fight was Pride…not any longer…God’s mirror ended that delusion.
You misunderstood me mark. I think banks are useful things, and they only make sense if deposits are loaned out and invested.
I also believe in a free economy, which means people who get greedy and make bad investments (which can include depositing money in a mismanaged bank) must be allowed to lose their investments, just as mismanaged banks must be allowed to fail.
Generations of government regulation of banks at the state and federal level, plus the creation of “deposit insurance” have led us to what we have today.
The idea that government regulation and “management” of banks, just like the idea that the Fed can “manage” interest rates and the supply of money, can lead to an economy where no one ever gets hurt are pernicious lies , and by now, everyone should be able to see that.
Avarice is not the same thing as greed , it is much worse…
I think you have it backwards. Moral decay leads to a love of money and material things merely for the sake of possessing them.
Scott Ritter yesterday:
Thanks!
I agree largely about Putin and given your perspective, I’m sure you’ve seen the Russian coat of arms? If not, take a look at the picture in the very centre of most versions, and you will likely smile.
No, I hadn’t.
Thanks to both of you!
Interesting paradigm to say the least. Some people will recognize Michael defeating the Devil, while others may recognize St. George slaying a dragon.
It’s worthy to note much of European royalty was inbred. The modern “Windsor” family is actually renamed, formerly of Saxe Coburg-Gothe stock of Germany. Those familiar with history will also know the cousin of England’s King George V was none other than Czar Nicholas II. Viewed side by side, these two men looked very much alike.
As much as these people were supposedly “family”, they fought wars and betrayed each other in the name of wealth and power … and still do.
It looks like a woman slaying an alligator.
Try that around here. 🤫
Not buying the Doom and Gloom. All life is cyclical and this pestilence will pass. It’s already turning. Nov of 22 is the beginning of the end of the political ruling class. Maga is the message. Trump isn’t important at this point.
Wow. That is some world-class stupid right there. Vote harder! That will fix the debt and inflation, and will silence the drums of war, I am sure.
Move to Australia and fight for the Solomon Islands instead!
I am fighting for the Solomon Islands? You off your meds again?
Llpoh moved to Australia just to get out of the way when the criminals fight. He made his decision for his best chances of survival.
It is a tad more peaceful here. But if you eliminate Baltimore, Phillie, Detroit, Chicago and a couple others from the stats, the US is relatively peaceful. There is just a certain demographic in the US that significantly affect things.
Small town vs city.
Llpoh, I’ve always taken much human solace from the thought long ago expressed by Richard Mayberry–paraphrased thus: “War is the default condition of mankind, but in spite of that most have seemed to survive. The survivors are those that war does not actually roll over.” Your mention of the above cities refreshed that memory. This war is already starting to roll over all but the smallest of our cities so in order to survive people must leave soon. Your odds of survival are highly correlated with your neighborhood. Half the world will die in this fourth turning.
Daddy – I couldn’t begin to guess the numbers. But you are right – neighbourhood will play a big part. When things get bad enough, it will get interesting.
stoopid does seem kinda harsh. maybe recklessly optimistic…wishful thinking…agnostic, an atheist trying to hedge his bets?
Ebola- (Face plant) Would like to hear your plan to MAGA our way out of this quagmire. I’ll be looking for your reply with great anticipation.
Russia and China are allies. China owns Biden. Biden does the bidding of the W.E.F. and the extreme left.
And all of the above embrace radical Covidism, Climate Change, and the goal of global Communism.
It’s confusing.
Bingo Un.
The British Empire became terminally ill by spending its wealth in WWI. WWII finished it off. That is the least that will happen to the USA,to die with a whimper. I don’t think we will be looking at the end of time, not because of any faith in men but because of faith in God. It’s #2 or #3. We humans have screwed up to much for #4. Outlook is very grim.
Be careful what you CREATE!
Part 2 lived up to expectations. Neither of us have the answers, but at least we’re asking the right questions.
Robert – sorry to disagree with you. But I think that between you and the Admin, you do have the answers. Just not the power to implement them. You do yourself a disservice.
I wish everyone who disagreed with me was so complimentary. You are right, though. A lot of people, including yourself and others on TBP, have the right answers but no power.
So then perhaps ask a different question like how to seize power ? Common people have common sense being relegated to operating strictly in the real world as we are . Sarcasm , its actually a blessing because things will have to eventually “get real ” . Of course secure coms seem all but impossible . You can be sure you are being monitered for you opinions . Me ? probably not but maybe . It would require a reverse psyop and that would require a sufficient bullhorn in the modern electronic mediums of transmission sense of the word and that would require a techie which is something that I am not .
People who talk about ”seizing power” make me very nervous. It’s essentially an authoritarian impulse, and the people who get such impulses usually think they have the answers, and can create a wonderful world, if only they have enough power.
One of the fundamental ideas of the American plan of government was to make sure that no one could seize power.
If you think you are too small to make an impact, try sleeping in a tent with a mosquito
I don’t remember seeing you Phillis Stein, but I hope you stick around. I am enjoying most of your comments.
It is going to take a lot more of us to do our part, but you help bring people around to that realization, so that is part of your part too. None of us can do it alone, but many people here at TBP are not wallowing in the despair of doom-porn, but hardening our resolve to make ourselves and our communities better.
There are a lot of people talking about parallel systems and networking and self-sufficiency and mutual support, and I think these are worth pursuing.
Militancy is seductive because it promises quick and easy solutions which are anything but. I think the more difficult task is paving a road for what and who comes next. That comes from families and communities.
Hardscrabble said something a few weeks back about some people keeping the faith and traditions alive and I think he is right, they are there and they need to be there for people to pick up again, when their own families get lost somewhere along the way.
The things you mention are important, but wasted without having a foundation for good government. Good government is essential to keep the next “who” from seizing power.
And prepping the right foods!
a most excellent article
“There is a pugnacious, heavily armed minority who will refuse to bend the knee to the arrogant, soft, egg head billionaires like Gates.”
but they’re getting pretty old…
And recently strained a hamstring chasing a duck for a location transfer.
(Dam…I hope the apocalypse holds off until I get this hitch in my pugnacious, heavily armed giddy up healed).
There could be a complete collapse of science, culture, politics, and society.
Every time I read that S&H quote I wonder if they are aware that all of those things have already occurred. Technics long ago replaced science, degeneracy and perversion are the culture, politics is simply organized corruption at an industrial scale and society? How often do you see an approaching human being whose face is not locked in a death grip with their black mirror?
We are deep into the 4th turning and it is highly likely that the gray champion may just sit this one out.
Zhǎng zhū
For every leader willing to fight and kill the BLM/Antifuqueres and their federal goon squad protectors, who would be the most likely threat near term, there will be layers of those talking the good game while letting “you and him fight.” They are the ones hoping to knock off the weakened victors of each previous round of battle and gain control. Like the backstabbing Scottish clan leaders in “Braveheart.”
When you go from politics to “the continuation of politics by other means” there is no knowing what the result will be. Absolutely no idea, other than probably real messed up.
You’re right, and Mr. Quinn made an interesting reference to the fact in his writings. There seem to be multiple factions and individuals with a lot of material influence pushing a larger collectivist agenda, but for some reason, their efforts up to this point have been blunted by multiple factors, but one stands out for everyone to see. It’s something called nationalism and it’s something the globalists are desperately trying to wipe out with subversion, financial power, and overt warfare.
The subjugation of Russia and mainland China, financially and militarily, is of paramount importance to the people wanting to set up a global world government. Unfortunately, the nexus of this agenda is a corrupted, godless EU/NATO married to a Luciferian UN and reinforced with US military power.
We have genuinely evil people in charge and they will not stop at killing to get what they want, even if it means millions will die – so long as they get their way. We live in interesting times and clarity isn’t immediate, sometimes real facts to explain what’s happening aren’t forthcoming. It’s like predicting the future with a Magic 8-Ball …
If I didn’t see it before, it is hard to un-see it after your comment, HF.
The only gray champion saving us from the shit storm coming is God Himself… Chip
Ekpyrosis was a new term to me and now I’m hooked.
https://www.humanmastery.net/ekpyrosis/
Could be related to the transit of planet X/Nibiru?
Per the Vedas, (and how could they know?) this period of universal destruction occurs approx 311 trillion years after the creation, probably the longest cyclical destruction interval of any interest to us mortals.
If one is to believe Plato’s rendition of his ancestor Solon’s conversation with an “Egyptian priest”, then there are several major destructive cycles that occur much more frequently than Ekpyrosis. Unfortunately little detail is given in the pittance that survives of Plato’s writing. The current movement of the magnetic poles suggests we may be approaching one of these periods of destruction which seem to occur at approx 12K year intervals.
The 11 in 311 TRILLION makes it believable.
I think a lot of it NEEDS to collapse so that we can rebuild something better. Better still, we could just create a parallel society and simply choose to join that instead. If an alternative is available, it eases the way.
I think you got something there with providing an easier alternative path to the persuadable. That would make it a good prep for what is coming, in a way.
Build back better? Where have i heard that…
Has it ever happened in the real world, the creation of a “parallel society”?
It’s not Trump’s fault. The fault lies with We, the People.
“Hey, Rose. What we need here is more MAGA!!”
Yeah, it’s like that. Vote harder. MORE MAGA!!!
I went looking for a meme about Jack being a gay artist and I stumbled onto this, which has a line that cracked me up:
It is Trump’s fault that he talks one line and acts along another.
Nailed it!
Not sure what outcome I would pick. I am only certain that the outcome will result in a paradigm shift in the modern archetype e.g. America will be replaced as a World influence. If the World can endure the next few years of the lunatic fringe running things and some level of sanity takes over (not holding my breath), it’s anyone’s bet. If not, dig a hole and kiss your ass goodbye. It’s Times Up.
I pray for my Grand Children daily. That’s when the horrific reality takes hold and chills me to my very core.
Did you see my little story about the time you and I met fact to face?
No your mistaken, we never met face to face. May of been a Ghost you saw, just a shadow with no substance.
It was actually a cute story about my toddler nephew seeing the boogeyman I’d warned him about in the attic.
But, I agree about the shadow with no substance.
It was great story, I think he imagined the bogeyman. I think that children at the age of innocence are at the best stage in life a human being can ever be. Somewhere along the line we loose something. Maybe it’s the ability to imagine or marvel at the wonders all around us. Or maybe it’s just the ability not to presume.
(Inward reflection).
Hat tip to your pops service in the Navy. Not to age you, but did he serve during war time?
All the U.S. needs to do to be an influence on the world is to restore limited government and free markets under uniformly applied laws.
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Trump is gonna save murica AND the world, I repeat myself, and is gonna really really drain the swamp this time… Save murica tour coming to a city near you…
I don’t think the Ping is going to have to fire a shot at Taiwan. Their current grey war, wearing down Taiwan’s defenses thru daily attrition, knowing the US of A ain’t coming to help them or any other significant allies. Imo, Taiwan will fold when china places it military on the doorstep of Taiwan and rings the doorbell.
Which reinforces the notions of tribing up and going mostly small town rural. Cities are going to become Sarajevo redux where going for what meager food is available will mean running gauntlets of criminals and snipers. Alone, with tons of ammo and beans, it will buy some time but in the end you’ll be supplying the enemy with bullets and beans.
IMO, mankind on the verge of total destruction is when the Creator steps in and says game over. Armageddon, talks of blood running deep, from the battle field where the kings of the Earth assembled their armies. This may well be the first and second senario’s.
As for the third and fourth I think three more likely. The US of A will no longer be and as all other past empires it will crumble to dust and never rise again to its former. Russia, imo, stands a better chance over china in being the dominant power as china’s debt is on par with the USAs.
Its going to get exciting… look up for your redemption draws near…
Great article…
The West is the only civilization to have produced, since its youth, stories about Dr Faustus/Dr Frankenstein/Dr. Moriarti/Dr No/Dr Strangelove, et al. The Mad Scientist of what Speneler called ‘Faustian Civilization’ is only conceivable in the West. He, along with Don Juan (the one who rejects social morals) and the wandering Jew 9the Other/Outsider, always persecuted) is an archetype of our civilizational DNA. The technocrats like Fauci and the University research types Eisenhower warned us against are blinded by their own seeming knowledge into believing that they can play God. The current crises are of their making and their resolution will show to everyone, except them, the limits of their latest Tower of Babel scheme.
May we all survive what they are unleashing upon the world.
No mention of Transylvania and vlad?
Thanks for your second installment, very readable to those not familiar with the turnings. It was hard to predict what could happen a few years back, but with each puzzle piece being put into place, the outcome becomes more certain. Still, there is time to enjoy life before the storm comes, love others and prepare; yet harden your heart for the realities of man’s inhumanity to man that appears just around the corner. Blessing to all, don’t lose the virtues you have built up within yourself as the world turns dark; remain the shining light and hope for a better future that will arise out of the ashes of conflict we are experiencing now.
I see this as our collective near-death experience, and if we make it through – rebirth into better times. The more we focus on what we DO want, the better. We are constantly manipulated into creating what does not serve US, because we do not understand what we CAN do if we join together to co-create consciously; so we do so unconsciously – and of course, we are manipulated at every conceivable level of our beings. However, we ARE about to have a harvest, and so the wheat is being sorted from the chaff. We are waiting for more of the chaff to join the wheat now. It’s all a process and the timing depends on us.
It does not take a rocket scientist to figure this out although it does seem like the IQ’s have become VERY low.
1. China and Russia have never been natural allies. Russia was forced into China’s arms by the Trangender U.S./WEF.
2. China has global aspirations and has their fingers in all the pies.
3. China is in bed with the WEF.
4. China, like the U.S. is a communist country.
4. Russia was kicked out of the WEF after Putin called them all out in a speech in which he said that the Big Tech censorship does not benefit 99% of people. It is the 1% that benefit.
5. Putin has been scrubbed from the WEF and demonized.
6. Russia is actively protecting their children from the child sex change/tran/homo west.
7. Russia has free elections unlike the U.S.
8. Not only is Putin the good guy but he is the worlds last hope. Period!
Can’t say anything with any degree of certainty…but if we last that long…YET ANOTHER bumper crop of poppies will come out of afghanistan, STILL guarded with american arms…But by ‘independent contractors’.
Calling Putin a dictator is nonsense…when the Russian Constitution required him to step down in favor of Medvedev, he did without complaint…Contrast that with people like Biden, Clinton and Obama, who ignored laws or court decisions they didn’t like…
Pretty sure he implemented a change to the constitution so he could remain in power. Of course he is a dictator. That isn’t in and of itself entirely bad, but he is a strongman pure and simple.
Nothing to worry about- “buydim” graduated near the top of his class- he will figure it out!
Excellent. Shared.
Damn. Monkeys with matches……great writing.
Trouble is, I believe the monkeys may be smarter and this guy is being generous.
Part 2 did NOT disappoint Jim! Great job. But if you think this was dark, you haven’t seen inside my melon… Chip
The US has a long history of giving away citizenship for military service. All these fighting age men coming across our boarder are perfect for cannon fodder that can’t complain. The victims of the slaughter are coming of their own free will. The government has plans for them in the meat grinder that is coming. We have pushed Russia onto its own porch and they have no place to run to. The Empire wants Russias resource (1/8) of the worlds land in one country with a population of 1.8 % of the worlds population. Russia has a shrinking population of about 146 million and a aging demographic. This does not bod well for a protracted war. The Empire has no intention of backing down. The Empire intends to conquer Russia. If Xi is as smart as some claim he is, he will do everything in his power to help Russia survive. Cause you better believe China will be next on the agenda.
Those people you described have not been brought here to fight a foreign war, steal your job, or engage in election fraud. They have been brought here to fight you and me. Not saying they’re being trained but when SHTF the more chaos between the proles the less time they have to look for the Elites’s bunkers. Any of the reasons i mentioned are part of a long term strategy. This isn’t long term what they have been prepping since FJB was installed is a Chinese fire drill.
If anyone wants to know what the globalists eventually intend for America one only needs to look at what evolved from the breakup of Tito’s Yugoslavia. The writings of Selco will be very illuminating as what will happen in the cities and surrounding areas if the US ends up fighting ethnic wars while the elite will move to collect the nuclear weapons.
Russia has a huge military problem. It can’t defend itself without nucs if the Empire opens a multi front war. Form a pure mercenary perspective, the Empire should be doing everything possible to challenge Russia from the East, by way of the Kiril Islands and push from the North via the Artic Ocean. It should seize all Russian Ocean going ships (Russia can not possible defend its commercial fleet. Their Navy is no where near large enough to do the job.) Russia has a huge internal problem within its own boarders called Chechnya. More Chechens hate Russia than love it and those wounds are still fresh. The Empire should be recruiting saboteurs from Chechnya to sabotage all critical Russian infrastructure in one mass operation on the scale as the resent coup in Tajikistan. Russias Ukranian problem will only get worse. Just as the Empire has repeatedly entered wars with no exit strategy,Russia has done the same with Ukraine. The longer this fight drags on the more the Russian population will push for this to end. Putin is in a corner with no exit. Putin is a man of his word and he has said the world does not deserve to exist without Russia.
Or Ukraine could give up Donbas , give up aspirations of joining NATO/E.U. , quit listening to the United States and call it a day . Putin said numerous times prior to his Feb incursion into Ukraine what his intentions were and are , clearly . Zelensky and Putin need to have a chat without chaperones , sooner rather than later .
Why do you think you need to fight Russia in the first place – that’s my question? Why does the US continually interfere with the business of others? Perhaps if the US hadn’t orchestrated a coup in Ukraine in 2014 and unseated the President the PEOPLE of Ukraine elected, then perhaps we wouldn’t be where we are today? If NATO had stood by its assurances to Russia after the break up of the USSR not to advance further east, then perhaps we wouldn’t be here now? The USA clearly has enough problems of its own that it doesn’t appear to be solving, so what makes you think it has the right to go around trying to solve everyone else’s? Just saying………………………… Anyone can come up with ideas about how to WIN, but why do you think you belong there in the first place? Ukraine is not even a member of NATO and is not an ally of the US, so what gives?
Jim-
It appears that you might be trying to convince yourself about what you intuitively know is happening but are hesitant to boldly come out of the conspiracy closet and claim that Vlad, Xi, and The Donald are working together, with their white hats, to bring down the globalists and their demonically evil plans to literally enslave the entire planet with them in charge. And we’ll be happy.
Brown Pants
You forgot your sarc tag. If serious you may want to use the name Delusionaldawg.
Could it be possible they will institute a draft in order to get as many Conservative type people out of the country and to use as cannon fodder for their money laundering operations in ukraine? Would they make them all get the covid jabs while the USA is under siege and being destabilized on purpose from within?
Are Americans stupid enough to believe the battle for freedom is in ukraine….
Are they stupid enough to believe the musical Hamilton is based on real history???
Afraid so Nancy…
“…monkeys with matches in a room full of dynamite”…I think this very succinctly sums up our current situation.
Don’t forget about the Luciferian gas leak…just saying William.
The Luciferians have very real connections, financially and ideologically, with the godless socialists they’ve put in charge of various nations within the UN infrastructure. Such a statement risks coming off as a paranoid conspiracy nut, but the circumstantial evidence of spiritual evil is hard to quantify exactly, but it does exist.
Those who do not believe in God will fill their spiritual voids with another ideology – politics, materialism, nihilist humanism, or even worse. All you have to do is look around ….
No Name,
I don’t think God will fill people’s:
“Voids with another ideology – politics, materialism, nihilist humanism, or even worse”.
I think he just steps away and turns people over to them…and then they evolve and people reap what they sow.
Like He has the United States since we started the duel process of decoupling our money from Gold 100% and legalized the murder of the unborn 50 years ago.
Looks to me like both started together and are ending together…find that duel timing fascinating.
For me the evil running the power centers are TLPTB (L=Luciferian).
Most people will get on the Train to suffer a long lingering death of… hope.
Another blood moon in the lunar eclipse last night reminded me of John Hagee and his blood moon prophecy. I won’t say what is described in Joel 2:30-31 will never come about. I will say John Hagee nor any human knows. Only the Father knows Mark 13:32.
Why didn’t Jesus return during the blood-red moon of 2015?
Wrong time. The rapture and second coming of Jesus are all about timing. God’s timing not ours.
I believe the Bible teaches the second coming will be by 2033 and the rapture at least 7 years sooner or by 2026.
All current world events seem to support that.
The 3rd seal is famine. The 4th seal is famine and war that will kill 1/4th the earth. God said so.
Revelation 1:1; 6:8.
I have read over 7000 books and perhaps 100,000 articles of all genres in my 79 years but rarely have I admired and agreed so succinctly as I have with Jim’s part 1 & 2 of this series. I’ve also read every comment in existence at the time of this post. They range from opinions of this article to biblical debate to philosophy. Most of the commenters seem to know each other so I will remain aloof from the fray since I’ve never been a joiner of any “club” as defined by George Carlin. Personally, I see Russia finishing their work in the Donbas and then taking Kiev and Odessa which is the NATO red line leading to the proxy war transforming into direct conflict which is when Russia, China, North Korea, Iran & India combine to hit the US with a space-based 100 megaton neutron EMP to paralyze America and allow them to walk in and enslave our effeminate population. I am not a holy-roller but I do believe this scenario is what’s coming based on my quarter-century of observation & time with the CIA/military in the Cuban Crisis, East Berlin before the wall came down and Vietnam plus listening to the Russian series on The Master’s Voice on Rumble. Like assholes, we all have opinions and this is mine.
Thank you for de-lurking. TBP peanut gallery welcomes all.
Assuming (ikr) NATO is competently maintaining their Polaris launch capable submarine forces and space based kinetic platforms, RusFed allies would not nuke hammer. I think the next 5 years will be world populations starving from plastic food rations and succumbing to bio-warfare. Too much good genetic and psychological data was gathered during the cv19 effort. A passive warfare where no Leviathan can be precisely blamed and Malthusian proponents will lay off for three generations.
NOFORN: Putin doesn’t even have to be officially in on it.
Yup, it is the subs that are the major deterrent.
Well, there are these nuclear submariney thingies that carry these little nuclear missile thingies. I am certain if the US is nuked, those little well-hidden undersea missile carrying gizmos will shoot off some of those missile thingies and will eliminate Moscow, Beijing, etc. They may be able to EMP the mainland, but finding the nuclear subs will most likely prove impossible. Huge risk to nuke the US.
And if they invade they will find a gun behind every blade of grass. Why would they bother?
THE NEW MONEY OF THE FUTURE WON”T BE GOLD OR SILVER,..or food,BUT AMMO,if you aren’t ready for the hero’s of america to come on you by force,THE POLICE GANGS AND MILITARY..then you aren’t ready,they will be coming to take all you have,INCLUDING your young women and children into SLAVERY..THEY ALL LIED TO GOD WHEN THEY SWORE AN OATH TO OUR FATHER,THEY “NOW ALL WORK FOR THEIR DADDY SATAN”..and you best be ready “THEY WILL BE COMING,..IF THEY CATCH YOU BY SURPRISE,have a back up location to run to,where you have supplies to last a year,DO NOT ALLOW THESE DEVILS TO TAKE ANY OF YOU PRISONER,they will TORTURE YOU TILL YOU TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST TATOO,they want you to go to HELL with them,Anyone you know who has been VAXED,they are NO LONGER A HUMAN,THEIR NOW A GMO HUMAN,not really human,they belong to SATAN now too,remember you were warned…..
Nice when glowies articulate their concerns in the false flag discussion du jour.
Fallen Local #6 union rules, swear in with the left claw.
Doesn’t sound like..
The final episode of The Andy Griffith Show was titled “Mayberry RFD”
Option #3 is the one… Antichrist MUST have technology to rule… the US is not needed. Make sure your soul is prepared.
“all I see are monkeys with matches in a room full of dynamite.”
Truer words never spoken. I wish I could disagree with this article, but I can’t. May God bless us all and grant us wisdom to navigate what lies ahead.
Thanks Jim. I agree with you 100%. If none of the dire possibilities happen to disrupt it, we will end this process with a technocratic state run by sociopaths. So the outcome in any case is going to be a massive change/destruction of life as we have known it. I’m prepped, but I can’t think of any more ways to increase my ‘luck’, and a good deal of luck will be required to survive most of the possibilities.
If the techno-state arrives, I expect to die surrounded by a pile of hot brass because I will not live in such a condition.
Your writings are a blessing to the many of us who have few acquaintances who understand our situation, and so feel isolated. It helps to know there are others who see what we see.
Thanks again.
don’t see any way to send
how the banking system screws you.
This article is just intellectual masturbation. Who cares who is a “Grey Champion”? Why does it matter? What lifestyle or policy choices does this designation effect?
“OOOO look my theory was right!”
(stroke stroke stroke)
Internet lately has been overflowing with people self-aggrandizing and i for one grow tired of it.
Blow me.
Searing repartee?
Good bye and good luck as you take your nap, given your fatigue.
You cannot even spell properly.
Good grief. What’s stuck in your posterior?
Anyway…the beat goes on. Reading “news” it seems Americans are ecstatic about the prospects of Memorial Day travel. Evidently this Memorial day is like being let out of a cage in regards to the “pandemic” situation of the past two “holidays”. Lots of travelers anticipated.
Gasoline here today was “only” $4.14 at wallie world. Murphy gas is ok? Air fares are said to be up 20%. Hum, 20% seems to have a place in the scheme of inflationary things recalling increases in auto insurance renewal.
To each his own. I’ll probably do some foraging and tending the garden. Maybe take a short jaunt into town and eat Mexican food way north of the border.
I’m looking for some good Greek and Med food styles. Good moussaka and souvlaki are difficult to find in a place loaded with pizza joints and fast food.
Baton Rouge has some Greek, Med and Lebanese restaurants with Albasha my favorite and Serops second. You are probably not in that area. Should gas prices come down we are overdue a visit to family peeps there that normally includes a meal of Med and another of Italian at Monjunis.
I’d love to give a Knute Rockne speech to inspire the team to rally around someone who can lead us to victory. But all I see are monkeys with matches in a room full of dynamite. It’s only a matter of time until it explodes. The decline of an empire is awful to watch and even worse to live through. I wish you Godspeed and thank you for reading my ramblings. I hope I’m wrong.
You’re not wrong.
I believe in the Devine…but Devine intervention to protect what has become dominantly a corrupt, degenerate, child murdering and Godless western world seems a bit far fetched. There will be a remnant who survive but what form this takes is a great mystery. As they say, God works in mysterious ways.
The climax of this turning is getting closer…
That will work. Not. But makes for a nice photo op.
When you rely on other nations to feed you, the risk will always be present that they will 1) either raise their prices brutally, and you will have to do anything to pay, or 2) simply stop feeding you, and you will starve.
Sri Lanka is, once again, finding that out.
Nuclear war among the “Big Three US, Russia & CCP” would, with certainty kill all life in the Northern Hemisphere. Fallout and dust Blown high into the Stratosphere, will dim enough sunlight to have the entire hemisphere loose 1 or perhaps 2 growing seasons. Then, when this stuff eventually falls to earth it will kill, and make the land & water extremely toxic.
I am convinced, by their behavior, the CCP wishes to Colonize the west. Hence i think they would not want to destroy for centuries our fertile farmland and also our infrastructure. And certainly not commit suicide. This makes outcomes 2 & 3 most likely. BTW Outcome #2 has already started.
Option #2 mentions a collapse of Science. Well the author is right and I say it has already begun. A rule of thumb I use and would like to share: Anyone who screams “The Science is Settled” Does not know SHIT about Science. Even The Topic of Gravity is still not “Settled”.
Galileo gave way to Newton, Newton was superseded by Einstein. BUT, Einstein’s explanation of Gravity contradicts Quantum Gravity. I.E How close can two similarly charged particles approach each other resulting in The Gravitational force exceeding the Electrical Force of Repulsion. (AKA The Plank Distance UNSETTLED question)
Honest Science is NEVER Settled, One question put to bed leads to more questions.
Um, Mr Putin MAY be a fly in the (((elites))) ointment, but xi is in on it and backing it to the hilt. red china is (((their))) next stop and they have enrichened the dogeating baby raping mass murderers at our expense. red china will do anything the (((handlers))) say and enjoy doing it. Human life means nothing to them and the masses have no concept of liberty or individualism; they will do whatever the ‘immortal leader’ says. Russia aint the issue, red china is.
The other Gray Champion who has been biding his time and generally keeping a low profile is Xi Jinping. Like Putin, a dictator for life, he can play the long game, while the U.S. fiddles and burns. ”
Putin is called a lot of things by the MSM, including dictator and another Hitler, but who trusts the corporate/government propaganda networks? So is Putin really a dictator or was he elected? He certainly enjoys massive support of up to 80% of the Russian people. What we do know however is the US is no longer a democracy or a republic after the 2020 election was stolen by the Biden Regime and his Deep State/NeoCon backers. So what does that make Biden?
On topic, NATO related (goons):
Finland brewery launches NATO beer with ‘taste of security’
Got to be kidding? Evidently, no joke.
Whew! Long time procrastinator here, was hoping i could find time to comment on this article before it was inevitably ‘bumped down’ the page.
Site is always on the cutting edge of timely and relevant issues, Well written/spoken across the board. VERY much appreciated.
Both of them merely Co-Captains of the Global Synchronized Swimming Team.
china seems like it will be the only one with any conventional weapons left.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/05/20/joe-biden-is-the-equivalent-of-9-11-for-the-american-economy-n1599568