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The theme of 2024 was 'The Garden of Time', which is inspired by the J.G. Ballard short story of the same name. For those interested the story is about a 15-minute read and can be found here.See also:
Interestingly, the story is about a rich couple living in a lavish mansion surrounded by beautiful gardens with crystal flowers growing inside. When one of these flowers is picked, it turns back time for a period. A huge angry mob is seen advancing over the horizon running towards the villa, and in the evening the man picks a flower to turn back time and have the army retreat back, buying them a day or two. The number of flowers dwindles and the army gets closer and closer, until the last day when the couple spends their time cleaning and securing their material possessions. When there are no flowers left, the mob breaches the walls of the villa and time catches up on them. The villa is transported into an abandoned state, ruined and ravaged by time, and the couple are turned to stone, immortalized as statues beneath the balcony.
"Gold and silver are the only forms of currency mentioned in our Constitution and with that comes the people's ability to use it as such without penalty from the government. Saving, and using, gold and silver is our right and one of the only checks and balances to our federal government's unending devaluation of our paper currency."Taxpayers often realize 'gains' when converting the monetary metals back into Federal Reserve notes even though the 'gains' do not reflect an increase in real value but rather reflect the currency's ongoing devaluation. Despite the lack of "real" gains, the Internal Revenue Service imposes capital gains taxes on such transactions. Nebraska has now opted out at the state level, declining to carry the IRS's position into the definition of Nebraska income.
"My take is that the US is incredibly unstable right now, and could go in almost any imaginable direction between now and the election, as well as some unimaginable ones."Did you notice that it took just a little bit of internal chaos to alert the Party of Chaos that maybe chaos wasn't the greatest thing to be the party of? Something went awry the past two weeks when thousands of creamy coeds on every campus across America donned the keffiyeh and, in effect, demanded submission to history's most notorious misogynist cult. It struck a most cacophonous chord among progressives, like Kumbaya as orchestrated by Karlheinz Stockhausen. To awaken from Wokery, you see, is a brutal shock to the brain.
โ John Michael Greer
"The political rewards of grievance politics and name-calling and being negative have been so immense that nobody could give'em up. That's what this whole shebang has come down to now."
"Globally speaking, starting on May 18, when the mobilization law comes into force, first of all, the approach to this war will change. This situation [where] some people are fighting at the front lines while others are living their quiet lives, is obviously coming to an end.Ukraine has been desperate to replace nearly half a million casualties - by Moscow's estimates - since the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said last week that Ukraine has lost more than 111,000 soldiers in 2024 alone.
"Life in Kiev is 'strikingly different' from the situation in the east of the country, which is 'abnormal'. It would be normal if our enemy was weak. But with such an enemy, the whole country and the whole of society need to mobilize."
Comment: Another Trump claim verified. You'd think the MSM might start paying attention.