According to some Church traditions, the Christmas season doesn´t end until...today. February 2. Candlemas. Wow!
I assumed Sweden was extreme, since we (at least traditionally) don´t remove our Christmas decorations until January 13, the day of "Christmas Tree Plunder". But somewhere - not clear where - the Xmas deco doesn´t come down until February 2.
OK, I love Christmas, so no prob from my end...
SVT tvingades ändra delar av Melodifestivalen efter en tittarstorm. Ni vet, det där med SVT Play bla-bla-bla. Okej, cool. Men till nästa vecka kan det ju ändra programledarnas manus också. Tyckte inte att skämtet om Fritzl var särskilt roligt. Nämligen. Misstänker att hans offer håller med mig...
Vad ska det skämta om nästa gång? Styckmordet i Rönninge? Folkmordet i Sudan? 764, kanske?
Vem hittar på de här jäkla dumheterna? Hjärndöda människor som kallt räknar med att de kan komma undan med vad som helst, eftersom "Mello" är det populäraste underhållningsprogrammet i svensk TV? Jag menar, det har kommit undan med sjukt dålig musik i generationer!
The Epstein-related revelations about paedophilia (hebephilia?) and wild parties involving celebrities, zillionairies and former presidents are scandalous, to be sure, but somehow we knew all that already.
The main take away from this sordid saga seems to be something else. Again, I have to return to that photo of Chomsky and Bannon, a photo probably taken by Epstein himself. The doyens of anti-Israeli leftism and the anti-Israeli far right, respectively, enjoying themselves at the same party...organized by a pro-Israeli centrist Jew with *extensive* establishment connections.
The reactions to the Epstein scandal from the Alt Right (or whatever they call themselves) are also interesting. After screaming about the Epstein files from years, they all fell in line when Trump abducted Maduro. You know, the same Trump who had denied that the files even existed. Some of these guys still promote Bannon, who was *in* the fucking Epstein files?!
It´s all fake. From right to left, including all the dissidents. *That* seems to be the really sobering revelation. That, and the fact that many seemingly ideologically driven activists don´t stand for anything at all...
Nästan lite surrealistiskt att i princip hela världen hade motiv att mörda Epstein. För att han visste för mycket, såklart. Att det norska kungahuset skulle ha skickat en lönnmördare för att fixa honom i häktet i New York låter dock inte så troligt. Vågar man gissa på Mossad, Putin eller ni-vet-vem?
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Is this the next "Donroe Doctrine" crisis? There is apparently a right-wing separatist group in Alberta demanding Albertan independence from Canada. They are currently collecting signatures to force a referendum on the issue later this year. Alberta is oil-rich and it seems the Trump administration have met with the separatists?!
Not sure how much support this movement really has, but this is nevertheless a paradigm shift in US foreign policy. Or maybe not, since they already tried it once before. Greenland, remember?
Are 4chan and /pol/ creations of Jeffrey Epstein? And what about QAnon? So who is the "controlled opposition"...really?
But sure, the leftists who gloat about this might stop now. We still remember the Soros-funded Antifa snack van, guys. Who knows, maybe Epstein was behind that, too!
And oh, what about your man Chomsky?
From the YouTube channel Formscapes:
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As of the past couple of years, science communication headlines and pop-sci rhetoric have become increasingly and blatantly arcane. Notice how often words such as "illusion" are used. We are told that such and such phenomena aren't actually, really foreal real. We are told that our experiences of space and time - or physical reality itself - are "controlled hallucinations". "Simulation" theory is just a particularly computer-science-flavored variation of a much more general trend.
Many people within the more woowoo regions of the intellectual landscape seem to be very eager to see this as a concession of some sort; "Ah yes, finally..." they declare, "the scientards are finally wising up to the realization that physical reality isn't really real and that the really real reality is actually a world of [insert consciousness, spirit, quantum energy or whatever] which isn't actually visible to human perception!" Such morons believe that it is actually a positive thing that science is so unapologetically abandoning its final pretenses of actually being **empirical**, because their own woowoo beliefs are equally non-empirical, meaningless clickbait garbage. What we are seeing is not science on the verge of reconciling itself with consciousness. What we are seeing is science on the verge of becoming a disgraceful parody of itself and religion simultaneously - which is, to be fair, a rather impressive accomplishment. The psychical world is not hiding from you, concealed by your physical senses. If science is going to ever become truly scientific, it is indeed going to need to reconcile itself with psyche, but it must do so by being (for the first time) genuinely, radically empirical, not by becoming radically non-empirical.
