VOCABULARY: Murmurations

Saturday, October 8, 2022

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/photographer-captures-mesmerizing-murmurations-2022/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=29-09-2022

What is the purpose of murmuration?

Grouping together offers safety in numbers – predators such as peregrine falcons find it hard to target one bird in the middle of a hypnotising flock of thousands. They also gather to keep warm at night and to exchange information, such as good feeding areas.

“When the early light catches thousands of wings simultaneously, combined with the haunting rustle of countless wingbeats, it is pretty close to avian witchcraft.”

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Interesting behavior that humans really don’t understand why.

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VOCABULARY: Federal Reserve and Debt — interest versus usury?

Thursday, October 6, 2022

https://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-federal-reserve-and-debt/

The Federal Reserve and Debt
Michael Hudson • September 17, 2022 

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Well, the question is, why do people go into debt? And there are two kinds of credit. And this goes all the way back to the church theologians in the 14th century. Ancient societies didn’t have any different word for interest and usury. All that was developed to overcome the church’s banning of interest for a 1,000 years, certainly among the clergy. And then the European takeoff began. And after the Crusades it was obvious that some kind of credit was necessary to finance foreign trade. And some people benefited from credit, so the church said, all right, if you’re making a loan, the debtor gains from it, then it’s interest, then its mutual gain. And usury is when the borrower doesn’t really receive a gain but has to pay the interest out of income that they earned elsewhere.

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Interesting distinction?

So what is our current scenario?  

Taxes are theft. And, they are usury to the extent we don’t benefit from them.

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VOCABULARY: new definition of “Democracy” — rule by a self-identified elite, or people endorsed by that elite

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/denew definitimocracymeaning?e=39307912ab

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This is how their modern counterparts can say, in all seriousness, that they’re “saving democracy” even when they’re sabotaging officials who won democratic elections. In case it sounds like they’re contradicting themselves, they’re really not. They are democracy. They and their colleagues and cronies and so-called experts are democracy, and the stupid rubes who won’t just bend the knee to them and do as they say are the enemies of democracy.

Have a future in mind that doesn’t involve crippling energy prices, eating bugs, having your kids brainwashed, and watching central banks siphon away your wealth? Why, you may be a danger to “democracy,” citizen.

As Sam Francis wrote back in 2004, “What they mean by ‘democracy’ is nothing more than the system of dominance that came to prevail in the United States and the Western world in the last half of the last century. That system has nothing to do with elections, opposition parties, civil and political rights, or ‘liberty,’ nor does it have anything to do with political theory, ancient or modern. ‘Democracy,’ as the neocons and the President and most others who are enthusiastic about it use the word, means the centralized leviathan state under the firm and unqualified control of the managerial bureaucracy and those political forces able to influence it.”

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Certainly not the old definition of “democracy” which was basically mob rule.

Argh!

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VOCABULARY:’Migrant’ and how it has been politically redefined

Sunday, October 2, 2022

https://sharylattkisson.com/2022/09/how-propagandists-redefined-migrant-and-got-the-media-to-go-along-podcast/

How Propagandists Redefined ‘Migrant’ (and got The Media to go along) (Podcast)
Dated: September 21, 2022 by Sharyl Attkisson

A case study in how propagandists redefined the word “migrant” –and got The Media to go along.

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I really like how Sharyl Attkisson took apart the whole “scam”.  And, indicted Wikipedia and Dictionary as be “captured” by the Dark Side.

I’ll never contribute to Wikipedia again … ever.

There’s no transcript to quite from but it’s well worth a listen.

Everything is an ASTROTURF!

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VOCABULARY: “Presentism” judging the past by the standards of today

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/09/no_author/new-rule-a-unified-theory-of-wokeness-real-time-with-bill-maher/

In an eight minute video, Bill Mahr destroys “wokeness”.

Wish there was a transcript so I could capture some of the pearls.

“Merrill Streep should play Sea Biscuit so every girl can grow up believing she can be a race horse.”

I’m not a fan of Liberals, but in this case, I agree with him.

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VOCABULARY: ‘Little League’ homer

Thursday, September 15, 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/09/14/yankees-nip-red-sox-thanks-to-review-overturn-little-league-hr/

Yankees hold off Red Sox thanks to overturned call, ‘Little League’ homer
By Dan Martin September 14, 2022 10:49pm Updated

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The second baseman’s resurgence continued with his RBI single in the fifth inning that turned into a Keystone Kops home run thanks to some inept defense by the Red Sox, who made three errors on the night that led to four unearned runs.

In the fifth, Torres singled to right to drive in Aaron Hicks and then catcher Connor Wong took Verdugo’s throw from right and in an attempt to get Torres who had wandered too far around first, threw the ball back into right field.

It allowed Judge to score easily and a hustling Torres circled the bases and slid home safely.

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Interesting new “word” — Little League Homer — to describe something that is often seen in Little League games where they throw the ball around allowing runners to advance.

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VOCABULARY: “Fact checker” — a hyperpartisan fanatic

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/checkers?e=39307912ab

The “fact checker” scam
Tom Woods

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One of the most laughable developments of recent years has been the rise of the “fact-checker.”

The fact-checker, in the fantasy version, is a nonpartisan, dispassionate expert who wants to prevent people from being misled.

In the planet-Earth version, the fact checker is a hyperpartisan fanatic who wants to prevent people from entertaining thoughts at odds with the narrative the regime is trying to present.

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And usually paid for by the folks that profit from the regime’s narrative.

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VOCABULARY: A “vaxxident” is an accident caused by a vaccine induced cardiac incident

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/05/a-bus-crash-in-the-bronx-and-every-other-vaxxident-in-new-york-city-should-have-heads-rolling-in-manhattan-albany-and-washington-d-c/

A bus crash in The Bronx—and every other “vaxxident” in New York City—should have heads rolling in Manhattan, Albany and Washington, D.C.
Guest Post by Mark Crispin Miller

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When will we talk about INDICTING those responsible for all those “vaccine” mandates that have caused—and are NOW causing—so much grief? (And if there’s no legal recourse, what then?)

This happened in The Bronx today. Scroll down to find out why it happened (as if you haven’t guessed), and to see who—among others—should be indicted for it. MTA bus driver crashes into pole after possible heart attack: cops

August 4, 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/mta-bus-driver-crashes-into-pole-after-medical-episode/

An MTA bus driver crashed into an elevated subway pillar in The Bronx when she suffered a possible heart attack Thursday — leaving 12 passengers with minor injuries, cops and sources said.

The 44-year-old Bx21 driver was heading south on Boston Road when the medical episode occurred and she hit the stanchion at the West Farms Road intersection around 8:25 a.m., authorities said.
The front of the MTA bus rammed into the pole, shattering the window.
The Bx21 driver careened into an elevated subway pillar at Boston Road and West Farms Road, cops said.

She suffered head trauma and was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was listed in critical but stable condition due to the medical episode, which sources said was possibly a heart attack.

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These incidents are happening too frequently to be random chance.

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VOCABULARY: What is a “right”?

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/french-president-macron-abortion-is-fundamental-right-women-2022-06-24/

r/worldnews

French President Macron: abortion is a fundamental right for women

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As a fat old white guy injineer, I struggle when people use words that make no sense. When they add adjectives, they don’t seem to help my understanding.

A “right” is a meme that humans have agreed that everyone “has” by virtue of their humanity with respect to other humans.

You can chat with a lion, bear, or tiger, about your “rights”.  “Rights” have to be backed up with or enforced by force.  In polite society, “rights” are mutually agreed after a long violent process of “adjudication”.  

Now we can discuss “positive” and “negative” rights.  If you have a “negative” right, it’s somethings others agree not to interfere with (i.e., “free speech”).  If you have a positive “right”, then who has an obligation to provide it?  

Hence, little L libertarians don’t believe there are any “positive” rights.

Now let us parse Macron’s statement: “fundamental right”.

Clearly, he is stating a case for a “positive” right.  Who pays?  Who is FORCED to provide this service?

I don’t understand what “fundamental” adds to the equation.

And, we have to understand that “abortion” is killing a living human being. Seriously, does anyone believe that life doesn’t NOT begin at conception. 

Finally, how about that human life that is being killed?  When do that young human get their “rights”?  If you have to draw lines, the ones that have been suggested are: conception, first heartbeat, end of the first trimester, when “born”.  From my pov as a fat old white guy injineer, it when that child can defend his “rights” — for sure!

Sigh!

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VOCABULARY: Chumbolone — what politicians think of us taxpayers

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2009-06-25-0906240981-story.html

Chumbolone (pronounced chum-buh-LOAN), my favorite Chicago political word that explains exactly what politicians think of us taxpayers, has finally made it to the big time, with its own listing on urbandictionary.com.

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