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“Bongo bongo bongo, I wanna leave the Congo, ’cause I don’t want Ebola…”

Yes, beloved, the Words of Fear are spreading even faster than the disease is in the Congo. Stay armed and if you see any mask dealers lurking about, shoot them on the spot and help prevent the spread of the real disease, which is Fear.

Another news bit of note, or bits since the news is plainly spreading, is that this is a Super El Nino, it’s just going to cause so much hell, so much damage and devastation and blablablabla Fear.

All I can tell you is that if you want the real truth, which is frightening enough, read it here. What the Gov’t tells us is mostly lies and misdirection. Whatever they see fit to tell us is always stuff that doesn’t matter. Remember Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who escaped to Russia to keep from being killed by his employers? “I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions,” but “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”

I’ve been telling you for a long time now that the world is run by at least one cabal and I never had access to top secret NSA information, as he did. I just look at the world and what people are doing and it’s pretty damned obvious what they’re doing. Ignore what they keep saying and look at what they keep doing. It’s easy, anyone can do it.

The truth is that Ebola can’t spread in the US except among immigrants like the Somalis, Kenyans, Congolese and so forth because of their unsanitary habits, as Ebola is spread through physical contact with an infected person’s body fluids.

The truth about El Nino is that we won’t know if it’s going to get bad until it does. It’s expected to bring a lot of violent weather ranging from floods in some places to severe drought in others, and the weather being what it is, predictions are only that. So if you live in a drought area, put in a good water supply, dig a well or whatever and if you live in a flood zone, dig some drainage ditches, invest in sandbags, buy a rowboat, get some purified water, good rain gear. Just prepare, just in case, then go on about your life. Whatever happens, you’ll very likely have some time to see it coming. Remember the wise words of Muad Dib: “Fear is the mind killer”. You’re welcome. Now be strong, brave and happy, and march forward with your right middle finger raised high on the end of your arm.

Trump’s latest blurts on Iran are that they’re either 80% or 50% at a deal, depending on which blurt you read. He says they agreed to give up their uranium, they say “No, they didn’t” and then he says “Oh yes they did”.

While this public bickering goes on and everyone keeps being assured of a peaceful diplomatic solution that the Iranians will never keep even if they agree to it and sign it with their blood at the UN, any more than they ever have of any other agreements they’ve made, while this goes on the Strait continues to stay closed to shipping. Oil shipping. Trump did casually mention that the Strait may be closed for another 60 days yet.

Trump is making sure that those he wants to have oil still get it and those he doesn’t, don’t. Between the Texas oil fields and our hold on Venezuela’s oil, the US is controlling much of the world’s oil supply now instead of the Middle East producers. At the same time, as long as the Strait stays closed, market reports say that all the world’s big oil companies are reaping major fortunes from the closure. Haven’t researched that so I’ll take their word on it, it sounds reasonable if they have a lot of full reserve tanks.

My concern in all this is that Iran will keep their IRGC-controlled government and continue to be a plague on the rest of us until someone, most likely Israel, has no choice left but to nuke them to stop them.

Meantime, this is all about keeping the Strait closed, as I’ve previously ranted about. I toldja so that this is going to be prolonged and I said why. If you skipped that part, scroll down.

Stupid people think that they’re just as smart as smart people. I noticed this when I was young, they know that they’re not smart but make up for that by convincing themselves that Yes, They Are, By God. The only difference is that they can never be doctors or scientists or college professors and get mostly C’s and D’s in high school but That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Smart and they can prove they are anytime by punching someone in the face who calls them stupid, and anyway the only reason they don’t become doctors and stuff is because they don’t want to. They could if they wanted to, easy. Ayup.

Stupid people will always try a new line of stupid reasoning when the last one doesn’t get the desired results. If they’re accused of cheating at something, and the stupid reasons they give why it’s not cheating don’t work, they’ll create all new stupid reasons and when none of them work, it won’t matter, you’re just wrong, that’s all.

Stupid people can never understand why smart people see straight through their bullshit. When they get fired from a job for being too stupid, that doesn’t stop them from going right out and getting another job exactly the same as the last one. It’s the Peter Principle in action, except when stupid people rise to their level of incompetence, they usually get fired and go rise to it again somewhere else. Stupid people are the ones who will keep trying to do something the same way every time and expect a different result even though they keep failing.

There’s nothing worse in this world than a stupid Liberal. The smart Liberals are just evil, it’s the stupid ones that take the orders, follow blindly and do all the real damage. The human race needs a serious DNA cleansing. It’s not the fault of stupid people to be born stupid, but the age of ditch diggers and cabbage pickers is ending as AI machines take over, and we’ve been seeing the proof of this grow with the swelling homeless encampments spilling over the sidewalks and filling up the storm drains. Besides, stupid people are all just So Fucking Boring and the stupid Liberals are the worst, everything you say to them is Racist or Just Wrong and Offensive. You can’t even mention the fucking weather, it turns into Global Warming. Me, I’m hoping for an invasion by some otherworldly alien race to clean the place up. Or maybe a nice nuclear war?

This morning I listed an old lapidary machine on ebay. I have a few of them lying around that I’d acquired in trade back when the craft store was busy struggling to survive, and failing, and there’s a fair pile of stuff left yet just taking up space and contributing to the general clutter. I’ve been looking at it long enough, time for it to go. Now that I’ve broken the ice and navigated ebay’s current listing form, that seems to change more often than the tides, and succeeded in getting a first listing up, more will follow. This is my New Year’s Day Resolution that I committed to today, which I’ve officially declared to be the real New Year’s Day. Calendar printers, take note.

The ebay listing form has gone through a myriad of changes since I first joined up in 1995, and most of them have been confusing as hell. Then, just when you think you’ve mastered the damn thing, everything changes and you get to do it all again. If ebay isn’t the cause of the expression “If it ain’t broke, DON’T FIX IT”, then they should be.

Of course, everything they’ve done, every change they’ve made, has been for their benefit, not for those of us who use their online auction service, to make them more money, more more more money, as we watched in dismay while their rates and fees increased and more were added and the cost to us just kept on increasing in direct proportion to their hold on online auction selling. The greater their share of the market, the less competition they had, the more they charged. They called themselves ebay, but for us users, it’s Feebay.

I’m not even sure anymore. When they started out the fees were around 7% of the sale and now it’s at least 13%, maybe more. Sotheby’s Auctioneers charges less. I know, I’ve sold with them, and they have the wealthiest clientele on the planet. But for us general riffraff, it’s ebay because Sotheby’s has no interest in our cheap junk and no one forces us to use ebay. The plain truth is that they’re a lot more profitable than selling stuff at a yard sale on our front lawn.

They have refined their methods of making sure they get theirs first so exact and perfect that I don’t see any need for them to keep coders on the payroll anymore and chances are they already fired the ones who wrote them all that perfect, money-grubbing code. Less employees, more money for them. Yes, I do see ebay as being run by the living avatars of Ebeneezer Scrooge. So sue me for my opinion. I have good reason for it. Yes, I know that businesses are not charities but does ebay have to be quite so ruthless? It’s just offensive to me.

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© The Face Of A 3,500 Year Old Mycenaean Woman Has Been Revealed. Image credit: Juanjo Ortega. Dr. Emily Hauser, a historian and author, commissioned a digital facial reconstruction based on a clay mold of the woman’s skull.

Blacks do their best to come up with imaginative names for their children. Like Trayvon. It wasn’t until one named Trayvon got shot and Obama claimed him as a surrogate son that anyone had ever heard of that name, but it caused interest in black naming to greatly increase in the public mind.

In light of this wonderful imaginative naming trend, I have some suggestions to offer. Granola, Canola, Victrola and Shinola would make great names for black girls. I was thinking maybe a new TV game show modeled after Name That Tune, called Name That Coon could prove to be really popular, what do you think?

The name I’ve been saving for last is Ebola, since a lot of blacks all have it now and more are getting it, wouldn’t it make a great name for some little black infant girl? Ebola Jackson. Ebola Obama. Come on, tell me if that doesn’t really have a great ring to it, huh?

W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the very same person who backed Fauci and the Covid fraud, declared the Ebola outbreak to be a global emergency last week because the W.H.O. needs money to keep living it up in luxury. Ebola will have to spread out from Africa and into Europe and the Americas before it’s a global emergency, and that isn’t real likely since most people don’t get physical with the dead. The Africans do, someone dies of Ebola, they’re practically taking bites of the body in all the little rituals for the dead that they practice.

That’s why Ebola spreads among Africans, it’s their filthy practices. GOOGLE SAYS: Ebola spreads only through direct contact with body fluids of an infected, symptomatic, or diseased person. Google failed to mention that it’s also spread by handling a diseased corpse and then sucking on a finger, rubbing an eye or picking one’s nose or handling food and eating it without washing hands.

ANYWAY… this is the Afternoon Newsbleat Topic for today because there’s a genuine effort afoot to bring Ebola here and spread it around to start another Covid type panic scenario. Don’t go for it.

As we enter a brand new Fire Season here in sunny and Very Dry California, the two reservoirs above Los Angeles are both literally bone dry. Not a drop of water in either one, they were both completely drained shortly before the Pacific Palisades fire started and burned down the 16,000 homes that the water was supposed to be there to save. The reason the mayor gave for draining the water away is patently moronic and plainly invalid, and extremely suspicious to someone looking at land values. Fortunes may be made by opportunists because of this, and I’ll say no more about it. Not my concern.

As heavily populated as the whole Los Angeles basin is now, from the ocean to up and beyond the Hollywood Hills behind L.A., which are heavily forested with very dry and volatile brush, it will only take one idiot with a match and a westerly wind to wipe out a large portion of Southern California because there’s not enough borate powder on the planet to stop a fire that big, and there’s sure no water for it either.

All they have water for is drinking water and water rationing is coming soon as the summer comes on. Water rationing in California is a common occurrence in summertimes, people are told to flush toilets less, are fined for washing their cars in their driveways and watering their lawns.

Dirty cars and dead lawns have been the modest price that So. Californians have had to pay over the years because of the periodic water shortages, but things have changed. Now there’s so very many people living in all those wood houses that burn so brightly that were open land before, that will be cinders without water to put out fires when they start and which is exactly why the Pacific Palisades homes all burned down, all Sixteen Thousand of them.

I have a bad feeling about this year’s fire season.

My little garden in the early morning light. Not too bad for the middle of May, huh?

One of the cherry tomatoes is over 3 feet high and the other is close behind, the large type tomato plants are around 2 feet, those low lying plants in the raised bed are cucumber, butternut and acorn squashes for winter consumption, yellow squash and several scallop squash varieties I’m trying out for best flavor, along with some scattered lettuce plants, cilantro and a few radish varieties. In the far background in large growing pots are zucchini, which is already getting huge, and some perennials, horseradish, comfrey and peppermint.

The big green thing in the background, just right of center, on the ancient fence is a Thompson Seedless grape plant that’s been producing well. Out of view is a second raised bed, yet to be planted with starts but currently growing a crop of peas and cilantro. Also doing well are the two fig trees, and the little apricot tree I planted up on the hill in back has a nice first crop on it. Had to cover it in netting to keep the damned birds off it. I mean, if they would leave something in exchange, some old diamond rings or other trinkets they might have lying around their nests, I wouldn’t mind so much.

Soil amendments matter. That black soil has no relationship to the nearly worthless rocky clay dirt of the desert up here, it’s years in the making as I’ve added more compost and steer and chicken manures each spring along with blood and bone meal, wood ashes and Osmocote, which is a pelletized mix of lots of trace minerals. I do this every spring to replace what I’ve taken out in food.

The desert dirt at the bottom of this was tilled to a depth of about 8 inches and a few hundred pounds of rocks, large and small, removed and several cubic yards of nursery potting soil and fertilizer were tilled into it along with a couple pounds of store-bought live worms. If I remember right, that was 12 years ago. Once you have a good garden going, it’s a gift that keeps on giving only as long as you keep giving back to it.

I asked Google AI if the quality of meat has really badly degraded over just the past 2 or 3 years. Google AI responded: “It isn’t just you. Across consumer discussions and culinary circles, there is a widespread consensus that commercially available meat has changed. The shift is largely driven by industry changes prioritizing mass production and profit over traditional methods

Then it went on to describe the practices that have resulted in the truly serious degradation of the quality of meat, and not just in flavor and texture but in food value and safety. You actually might be healthier if you substituted tofu. Think on that one. They bred the cattle to mature faster to slaughter and no longer dry age the meat but pack it in bags of water to age instead, which all results in flavorless, mushy, water-soaked meat shot full of hormones and antibiotics.

Today, even the fish are all farmed, the only wild fish left in common supply at affordable prices is canned tuna, because tuna is actually a range of different related fish species that thrive in the ocean and would be nearly impossible to farm because they have such a wide feeding range.

All commercially farmed animals, pigs and chickens and fish, have been deprived of free ranging where they live off nature’s bounty, have free movement and eat a wide variety of foods. Instead they’re penned in and restricted in movement, often severely, so that they gain a lot of fat, and are fed a controlled diet designed for rapid weight gain. They’re processed solely for maximum profit with total disregard for flavor or food value, from the beginning of their lives to the weighed and sealed packages at the meat counter.

Why has it come to this for us who need good food to be healthy? It’s very simple. 8.3 billion people. 8,300,000,000 people. Eight point three times ten to the ninth people. To feed the burgeoning masses, the quality of the food must inevitably suffer in order to produce enough.

So now we have Bill Gates and others growing ersatz protein from cancer cells and farming crickets, and the specter of Soylent Green rises from the ancient archives of Hollywood films as a genuine possibility, as Planet Earth now circles a sun that’s sun-spotting and solar flaring Earth into the worst global El Nino drought in known history. Yes, it’s a fact. Food production is already way down. Shortage will empty the warehouses of what’s stored. That’s when the fun will really begin. 2026 is expected to be bad. 2027 is expected to be very bad.

The Main Stream Media isn’t going to tell you this because of the panic it would cause, but I don’t care about the panic, go ahead and panic, riot, loot and burn. You will anyway eventually, might as well get a good start on it now.

Yeah, I know, I keep harping on this crap but it’s real and valid crap, the world is way overpopulated and the tipping point has arrived when the meat tastes the same as chewing cardboard because quality NO LONGER MATTERS. Remember when taste and quality were the drivers of competition? That’s GONE! Now the stuff is crap, the price is unaffordable and fuck you if you can’t buy it, go eat the hens they slaughtered because the poor little egg factories were used up, it still tastes a little like chicken and even though it’s worthless it still puts something in your stomach, or go fill up on cheap starches. Anything for a meal.

A brand new news report states that an “explosive device” was found by workmen inspecting the dam underwater at a Mobile, Alabama water reservoir that’s designated as Critical Infrastructure.

Very little else is said about it other than it was later detonated safely. I’d like to know just exactly WHERE on that dam it was placed and how big an explosive it was, was it capable of remote detonation and are there more of these at a lot of other critical water reservoirs.

Is it time to do some intense inspections of all the nations dams?