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P.S. And quite a lot is either stolen or absorbed by the black budged programs, looks like. E.g., the Pentagon has failed its 7th audit in a row and in this one, as well as the previous ones, couldn't account for sometimes hundreds of billions and sometimes for trillions. $236 billion dissolved in improper payments in federal programs in 2023. $200 billion of the pandemic relief money disappeared in fraud/abuse. And so on, a billion here, a billion there, no one knows where. Trickle up economics.

Other countries, the Federal Reserve, mutual funds, and other entities and individuals, Social Security, Military Retirement Fund, Medicare, and other retirement funds. Of the foreign countries, the most $$ is owed to Japan, next to China, then the United Kingdom and, amazingly enough, No. 4 is the Cayman Islands and No.5, Luxembourg. Apparently there's intragovernmental debt and public debt (also created by the government), and a lot of it is hard to understand because there's treasuries created when revenue exceeds spendings which lend money to other treasuries which spend more than they get, and as a result the government somehow winds up owing money to itself rather than the taxpayers. I don't think I am smart enough or lucky enough to become influential enough to figure out how to get rich off any of it in any practical terms, like creating agencies that spend money studying the impact of tequila shots on quals' and squids' promiscuity (I'm not kidding and I'm not making it up), so I don't bother getting into it in depth.

When people watch "the news" or read articles secretly and criminally infused with gain-of-function enhanced rabies virus, droplets of saliva in its virtual state fly in their face and get inhaled. This is how virtual rabies is contracted. Virtual rabies is less deadly for a period of time than the purely biological variety, but far more contagious (due to virtual human to human transmission) -- especially when one's cognitive immunity is drastically compromised by early exposure. It becomes more virulent and deadly when an epidemic breaks out, although the exact global mortality rate is hard to evaluate due to multifactorial manifestations which often include rabies-induced delusional social agendas and result, on a mass scale, in dangerous behaviors of seeking what unaffected healthy individuals normally avoid and avoiding what they seek. The single most beneficial mass vaccination -- against rabies -- could potentially solve the problem. The shots are notoriously painful and about 40 of them are required for stopping the disease, but if they were mandated, they could save countless lives and mental health of billions. Albeit the measure seems drastic, doing nothing is often conductive to even more detrimental outcomes. Psychological side effects can be severe, so qualified psychiatric help, whether voluntary or involuntary, would have to be administered on a mass scale alongside such a campaign. Yearly boosters would be a must.

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Yeah, I also thought I knew everything when I was 14. But I was not supposed to argue with adults at the holiday table, so I didn't -- except about alcohol, we had the ages old tradition of giving children small amounts of alcohol during celebrations, from whatever age they wanted it, and I usually appealed to my mom who was in favor of it against my dad who was against it, and then the guests would divide in two groups, one supporting and one opposing children's drinking habits. (I believe it's a sensible tradition in a family with no alcohol problems history, don't know about the other kind). By now the technology to repurpose nuclear waste does indeed exist (unlike that for waste from newer stuff) and it's a matter of public acceptance which in its turn is a matter of which industries gain the upper hand selling their version of what's clean and what's dirty, which is a matter of which politicians get a bigger slice of their respective pies.

We were introduced to the tradition of thanksgiving dinners by our American relatives whom we found upon arriving -- my mom's cousin, then 70, her husband and three grown children. They didn't have any other relatives by the time we arrived, so we were it, and they proceeded to invite us to their thanksgiving dinner every year. Yes, the whole family gathered at the parental home, even though two of the children lived in other states. Our relatives turned out to be those wealthy liberals (rubbing shoulders with the Clintons at Martha's Vineyard, among other things) who are presently... wait, that's exactly the topic to be avoided. But it wasn't avoided at those dinners -- my radically antiliberal parents and the hosts kept mutually shocking each other with their political stances, but no blood was spilled and the tradition lasted for many years.

Mainstream media -- which some started calling legacy media to differentiate from independent sources and social media -- and I just heard another term applied to them, deliberate media -- is a tool of destruction of the mind. The mythologies they create and maintain on a daily basis overpower normal human cognition -- as they are designed to -- and render it permanently abnormal. In the 1960s, the KGB conducted a psychological experiment. Every day in the course of the experiment, they relentlessly bombarded a group of subjects with fear-based messages none of which were true or represented the actual facts about any real threats -- they were all made up, distorted, exaggerated, and so on. Upon concluding this phase of the experiment, they then presented the debunking data, facts to the contrary of what the earlier brainwashing suggested. What they discovered was that the brainwashing was irreversible and no amount of truth could shake the subjects out of their acquired fear-based beliefs, and it only took an average of 2 1/2 months to accomplish it. Irreversible cognitive damage was done -- hardly distinguishable from any other kind of severe brain damage impairing one's ability to think outside the imposed narrative if the emotion behind it was fear. Compared to today's brainwashing capabilities and their practical outcomes which are nothing short of phenomenal in the sheer number of brain-damaged individuals they produce and the depth and breadth of the damage, those KGB ghouls were angels of mercy. After 2 1/2 months, they stopped.

Holy Fahrenheit 451!

Yalta, Soviet Union, August 1940, i.e. 10 months before the war. It wasn't yet the city where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin would be dividing the post-WWII world in 1945, just a resort on the Black Sea where fashion girls were ahead of their time. This is from someone's family album, the woman on the left is their grandmother. Like many women then and there, she could sew.

Wow. I've known Alexander Rosenbaum back in the day, he was a med school classmate of my best friend before he became famous as a "bard" (as we called a then-thriving cultural phenomenon of multitalented folks writing and performing their own songs). At the time he was best known for the songs he stylized to 1920s local counterpart of the "gangster rap" and classical Russian romance. You are amazingly open and multicultural in your musical explorations... a true polymath!

You want a downvote for this? Not from me you ain't getting it. Not just "the kingdom is within" is correct but taoist traditionalists have gods for internal organs up the yin-yang, for chrissake.

Kudos to you. Anecdotal evidence regarding a family member dying from something the pharma likes to attribute to smoking is not very reliable though. My mom started smoking at the same age and quit at 83. Now, at 91, her health is unfortunately not that great -- but nothing is wrong of the things commonly attributed to smoking. A lot of things are wrong though that are attributable to the addictive meds she's been put on by her doctors. No quitting that. Most elderly folks who would have self-medicated with smoking back then are now routinely turned into heavy drug addicts by the new paradigm. Smoking, at least, preserved the dopamine receptors (a safeguard against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, senile dementia) while the new paradigm is all about demolishing them.

There's a modern counterpart I would apply to men and women alike: if you can smell their aftershave, deodorant, perfume before you're at an intimate dancing distance, don't dance with them. They stink.