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[Gio]

Christmas time is here ...
Happiness and cheer
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year ...

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiZ-4EKaiR4


Charlie Brown Christmas Mashup // Vince Guaraldi // POMPLAMOOSE

[Gio]

I think we can do without that, Gio.

[Gio]

Trump’s Gone, So What’s Next for
the Democrats?

The party needs to find another message besides: “We are not Trump”

By Matt Taibb

December 10, 2020


The Democrats need to find another message besides “We are not Trump.”

"Now what? After four years of manias and catastrophizing, with constant warnings about the “existential threat” posed by Donald Trump, the monster is dead. Trump, the democratic Saddam, has lost, and his metaphorical statue will soon be dragged out of the White House, to the cheers of nearly every pundit in the land.

From there, the hard part begins. We know who Joe Biden is, but what is the Democratic Party in the post-Trump era? At the national level anyway, a combination of good and bad luck has allowed the party to avoid defining itself for nearly two decades.

For the past two presidential election cycles, the Democrats campaigned as the party of not-Trump. In the two cycles before that, the Democrats mostly ran on the skill and personal dynamism of Barack Obama. They won three of those four elections. But anyone looking back at the chronology will quickly realize that the accident of those two unique personalities, both media supernovas — the brilliantly marketable Obama and the monster-pig shipwreck act that was Trump — allowed the Democrats to delay confounding internal dilemmas.

The 2008 primary campaign is mostly forgotten now, but the referendum on the party mainstream’s stance on the Iraq War was extraordinary in its bitterness. Hillary Clinton had voted for the war, as had the previous Democratic candidate, John Kerry, who stressed his military credentials and opened his convention with a video showing him with John McCain. Democrats in 2004 seemed to want to market themselves as Republican-lite, and unsurprisingly lost when voters chose the real thing.

The conceit of the first Obama campaign was a rebrand of a party that was going nowhere fast as the not-quite-as-for-war opposition to George W. Bush. Obama became a star running as an economic populist and anti-interventionist, someone willing to smash party conventions. Obama’s “change” slogan and all those gazillions of Shepard Fairey posters were as much about a symbolic withdrawal from the Democrats’ own recent militarist tradition as they were about beating George W. Bush.

The ecstasy shown in the Chicago night in November 2008 wasn’t just that it felt like historical demons were being purged through the election of the first black president. It was also the sense that Obama was taking the party to a new place, building a government in his own intelligent, humane image.

Then he took office. Obama’s three major acts as president were absolute continuity with Bush’s financial bailouts, a similar continuation (and in some cases expansion) of the War on Terror, and a new, hard-won health care program. The crash response inspired the Occupy movement, while Obamacare was flawed enough that it inspired a new movement on the party’s left flank. Bernie Sanders was to Obama what Obama had been to Hillary. Sanders spent 2016 and 2020 running on an implied critique of the Obama years, with Medicare for All a central plank.

The failure of Obama to live up to the progressive hype didn’t prevent him from winning a second term, but it might have inspired a down-ballot collapse. Democrats famously lost about 1,000 seats nationwide during his presidency, suffering historic defeats in state legislatures and governorships across the country.

Obama’s personal magnetism concealed the fact that something was not quite working with the party’s overall message. The emergence of Trump as a new archenemy drove that controversy further underground. Watching Trump campaign in 2016, it seemed clear that the Democrats’ decision to nominate Hillary Clinton, a politician with ties to Wall Street, the Iraq War, and (through her husband) NAFTA, created an opening Trump was anxious to exploit, even if insincerely.

Rather than address those potential issues, Democrats ran more or less entirely on Trump’s negatives. In 2016, Clinton spent nearly a billion dollars on advertising, about twice what Trump spent. One study even showed that 90 percent of Clinton’s anti-Trump ads were based on personality. They rarely mentioned policy. Then the Dems lost and spent the next four years insisting that (choose one) racism/Russia/the media was the reason, not any long-developing issue with voters that might have arisen over a decade of war and widening inequality.

The implicit promise of the 2020 campaign of Obama’s former vice president was a return to the happy before-time of the pre-Trump era. Vox compared Biden’s launch to Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy” campaign in 1920, which was essentially a referendum on Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations plan. Harding promised “not heroics, but healing . . . not surgery, but serenity,” and won the White House. Biden used similar language, preaching “unity” and chiding candidates who believed winning required being “angrier,” a seeming reference to both Trump and Sanders.

By voting in yet another ex-senator with a pro-Iraq, pro-NAFTA vote, the party is essentially turning the clock back not to 2012 or 2008, but more like 2004. Biden ran not so much on a return to normalcy but a return to pre-Obama norms and an end to fist-shaking rhetoric. But the party’s poor down-ballot performance in 2020 already has the Pelosi wing blaming progressives and tempering expectations.

A return to norms had tremendous appeal so long as Hurricane Trump was in office. But Biden inherits a country besotted with severe structural and economic problems, a country whose Democratic base overwhelmingly supports changes like debt forgiveness and Medicare for All, and whose rural and suburban population was angry enough to elect Donald Trump once, almost twice. If the Democrats don’t remember how much failing to deliver real change cost them before, if they don’t soon find an identity more ambitious than not being Trump, they will find themselves right back where they were four years ago — vulnerable to revolts on both sides."

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[Gio]

For those inclined ...

Conflict Radio - Episode 51
Are There UFOs or Alien Bases on Mars

OLAV PHILLIPS is conspiracy researcher, writer, author, and publisher, specialized in the Secret Space Program, Exotic Aircraft, High Technology, Foreign Policy, Pre-History and Mysterious Civilizations. He is a regular contributor to several magazines and newspapers as well as publishing the legendary Paranoia Magazine. In addition to writing and publishing, Olav has also been featured on Beyond Belief with George Noory, America Unearthed with Scott Wolter, UFO Hunters, Voyager (RAI) and the upcoming season of What On Earth? Olav also served as an Executive Producer and Principle Researcher for Ground Zero Radio with Clyde Lewis (Nationally Syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks) as well as having contributed several books and authored The Secret Space Age and The Secret Cold War in Space (Paranoia Publishing). Olav has also been featured on Coast To Coast AM.
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/

Jared Murphy is a Self-experimenter and field researcher of ancient technologies and lost history, Jared has traveled the world searching for evidence of advanced ancestors and high technology.
https://www.notaliens.com/

Today we will Discuss the idea that there are Alien Bases on Mars and the US Government knows about it.

Premiered 12/10/2020

58:14 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5DuQn3bFx0

[Gio]

Dave Chappelle Discusses the Philosophical
Implications of COVID, Lockdowns

JliRE Cps

Podcast #1567 w/Donnell Rawlings & Dave Chappelle

Nov 19, 2020

13:31 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wz7KvLFgYQ

[Gio]

Infrared video shows the risks of airborne coronavirus spread

Washington Post

As winter approaches, the United States is grappling with a jaw-dropping surge in the number of novel coronavirus infections. More than 288,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that public health officials now say can be spread through airborne transmission. The virus spreads most commonly through close contact, scientists say. But under certain conditions, people farther than six feet apart can become infected by exposure to tiny droplets and particles exhaled by an infected person, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in October. Those droplets and particles can linger in the air for minutes to hours.

To visually illustrate the risk of airborne transmission in real time, The Washington Post used a military-grade infrared camera capable of detecting exhaled breath. Numerous experts — epidemiologists, virologists and engineers — supported the notion of using exhalation as a conservative proxy to show potential transmission risk in various settings. The highly sensitive camera system detects variations in infrared radiation that are not visible to the naked eye. The technology is more typically used in military and industrial settings, such as detecting methane gas leaks in pipelines. In 2013, it was deployed by law enforcement during the 20-hour manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. But fitted with a filter that specifically targets the infrared signature of carbon dioxide, the camera can be used to map in real time the partial path of the nearly invisible particles we exhale. Watch the video to learn more.

Dec 11, 2020

6:12 minutes

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEp-Sdgl9AU

[Emil El Zapato]

What a cute smile on blondie ...

[Emil El Zapato]

Aragorn, did you watch Mars base video? The guy mentions blue chickens ... I'm serious ... and it seems that an Israeli official did say there are bases there and that the U.S. is working with aliens.

really ... I think however, that it is an Israeli political gambit to bolster Trump's status because he figures prominently in the discussion ...

[Emil El Zapato]

Interesting thought ... the Akashic analogue ... information, call it quantum reality can and does exist on less than 3 dimensions... 2 even 1 ... it could be tapped on a non 3-d consciousness level.

[Aragorn]

Aragorn, did you watch Mars base video?

No, I'm sorry ─ I really don't have the time for that.

The guy mentions blue chickens ... I'm serious ..

It's not difficult to come up with a narrative involving the blue chickens anymore nowadays. It's all over the internet, and it has been picked up on, milked dry and monetized by every cuckoo on YouTube. So every once in a while you'll hear someone new come out with a blue chicken story, but it's really just a regurgitation of Corey Goode's narrative, or the narrative of whoever came up with the blue chicken story before Corey did.

and it seems that an Israeli official did say there are bases there and that the U.S. is working with aliens.

I've read about that in the mainstream news, but everything this Israeli guy says is hearsay ─ he does not have any first-hand knowledge of any of those things. Everything he says has been said before within this so-called Alternative Community™ ─ with initial capitals and a trademark symbol, because it has become a meme in its own right, and not a very laudable one ─ from both reliable and unreliable sources. He's only regurgitating, just like what Robert David Steele did on Alex Jones' show regarding the slave colony on Mars ─ which came straight out of Corey's narrative.

really ... I think however, that it is an Israeli political gambit to bolster Trump's status because he figures prominently in the discussion ...

That is a possibility, but the explanation I've read is that the guy has begun losing his marbles, considering his advanced age. Yet, it is certain that he's only parroting things that have been circulating on the internet for about 10 to 15 years already. He didn't invent any of it ─ it's not a product of a sick mind, or at least, not in his case ─ but at the same time, he also doesn't have any shred of evidence, because it's all hearsay. And that does indeed suggest that there could be an agenda behind it, but it might just as easily be a very personal one, rather than a state-sponsored one.

[Gio]

Something i put together from (and of) my favorite LP ...



Between Lexington and Third Avenues, on Murray Hill (Upper East-side) in New York City, was the iconic scene setting for The Doors 1967 second album 'Strange Days' ...

Tucked away on quiet 36th Street between Lexington and Third Avenue lies Sniffen Court - one of the city’s sweetest private alleys. Ten two-story former carriage houses, built in the 1860s, now serve as private residences (one houses a theater) that collectively look like a toy village ...

Here's the front album cover shot ...

Below the back cover photo shows the left side of the Court ...
Note the white horse and rider reliefs on each side of the back
wall still exist.

Apparently, and according to Jim Morrison there was even an artistic touch similar to Salvador Dali's works. The members of the group (and the title itself) could be seen instead only as a small poster hanged in the wall on both sides (front and back in a symmetric way) almost hidden at first sight, in a manner very far from the usual covers of the time, especially for a Californian group.

Even so, the band of circus characters on the cover of Strange Days suits the most peculiar music within. Shot on that stony walkway of the half-street, the album art was inspired by the 1954 Italian circus drama La Strada by Federico Fellini in 1954 the bizarre figures in the front of vinyl edition were so surreal for back in that time. 'Because of the subtlety of the artist and album title, most record stores put stickers across the cover to help customers identify it more clearly.'



Supposedly, the group of circus performers was hard to come by - so photographer Joel Brodsky recruited a taxi driver, doorman and his own assistant to sub in as carnival performers ... 'Brodsky's assistant stood in as a juggler while a random cab driver was paid $5 to pose playing the trumpet. Twin dwarfs were hired, with one appearing on the front cover and one appearing on the back cover.'

Today Sniffen Court still remains a private gated street, while still noting this land-marked mews has barely changed in 53 years ...

From the album the infamous ...

Love Me Two Times

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVez4RS7IJw

[Emil El Zapato]

the thing is though Aragorn, he said, "Blue Chickens" ... not "Blue Avians" ...

[Gio]

the thing is though Aragorn, he said, "Blue Chickens" ... not "Blue Avians" ...

Hey Nap ...

Take it somewhere else.

[Dreamtimer]

Joe, in his discussion with Chappelle, mentions the vaccine being developed 'really quick'. In fact, folks have been working on vaccines for coronavirus since SARS and more recently MERS came on the scene. This does't get discussed much but the research for Covid-19 didn't come out of the blue.

It's been in the works for many years. My son was in grammar school when SARS first hit.

[Emil El Zapato]

Why Gio?