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PHOTOS, LIES AND CORONAMANIA Mark Oshinskie This post is rated PG-13 for crude anatomical references. Having played high school sports, I know that baseball, basketball and football teams use multiple balls for regular practices or to practice before games begin. These balls are aggregated and carried in large, typically zippered bags called “ballbags.” Though males—especially adolescents—love double  entendre,  I never heard any player or coach call a ballbag a “ballsack.” Had I heard this scrotal allusion, I would have known that the speaker was joking, just as I would while reading guestbook entries of those who scribbled names like Jim Nasium, I.P. Freeley or Ali Tabugor. Put-on and irreverence are central elements of person-to-person male comedy. I recently read about a sports fan website named  Ballsack Sports. Ballsack  often posts fake, controversial stories about, and fake quotes from, famous athletes. Credulous TV sports pundits have argued fervently about the substance of th

CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOG December 30, 2022 Forecast 2023 — Get Out of the Way if You Can’t Lend a Hand James Howard Kunstler “The powerful are panicking, and so they should. Their secrets are leaking.” —Miranda Devine “It’s all just snake oil. We want to save the planet, and the life upon it, but we’re not willing to pay the price and bear the consequences. So we make up a narrative that feels good and run with it.” — Raul Ilargi Meier “2023 could be a pivotal year for USA if the pervasive lies can be exposed, digested, and believed. All that exposure has to happen amidst continuing boondoggles toward the Great Reset agenda.” – Truman Verdun “More borrowing only ever makes sense if you are expecting a larger economy in the future.  All economic expansion is based on energy.  Countries with energy can expand, those without cannot.” —    Chris Martenson “To be an enemy to America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” —   Henry Kissinger “The incorrect narrative provided by mai

An Inconvenient Revolution Charles Hugh Smith It's inconvenient when those whose sacrifices are essential to the system get fed up and find some other way to live. Convenience isn't just about small appliances. It's also about ruling nations.  Let's start with the semantics of ruling nations. Some labels might be viewed as somewhat inflammatory (Kleptocracy, anyone?), so let's stick with the neutral  Ruling Order . Some things have been extraordinarily convenient for the Ruling Order.  Take the life and death of one Jeffrey Epstein, an intel "asset" who assembled a veritable goldmine of dirt on an astounding collection of bigwigs, and then became, well, inconvenient. Very conveniently, the security camera in his cell failed, the guards dozed off and he hung himself in this fortuitous interlude.  This was the acme of convenience. Extending the Surveillance State into Big Tech's planetary-wide social media networks was also convenient , and a bargain to