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Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 – -6˚C / +23˚F & Snowing @ 5 pm Atlantic Time –

– 5 pm today – first significant snow warning of the season –

— Looks like we will start the new year testing out our new { bought it on sale } snow blower – The ‘snowfall warning’ says we can expect 15 to 25 Centimeters { 6 to 10 inches? }

— We are expecting the unexpected this year – holding our breath to see if election thieves in the U$A get away with any major Communist +/or  Fascist coupe d’etat { I don’t know whether the thieves I’m talking about here are ones who are accusing the other side of stealing the election? Or the ones that the apparent losers believe stole the election by somehow padding the vote. }

—> & In the great name-calling debate  —> One side believes that calling the other side “Communists” should render their more ‘Liberal’ opponents unable to do anything but wag their mouths with no words coming out —> While the other side believes that calling their opponents ‘Corporate Fascists’ should cause their opponents to fall down on the ground in the middle of acute cardiac arrest.

—> I don’t know – but no matter what happens – half of the population of the United States will be hopping mad – thinking that the other side didn’t just cheat, but they’re plotting to rape and kill their babies —> body , mind and Spirit… & then institute economic slavery.

—> I also believe that people are throwing words around where nobody agrees what they actually mean –

—> “Communists?”—> I think the only real commune-ists are spiritually centgered people who model themselves on what we’ve been taught is what the early Christians believed in and pracitcied—> “If you have two coats and you see somebody shivering in the cold because he or she doesn’t have a coat – give them one of yours.” : “Love! And do as thou wilt!” { I am not 1,000% sure of ancient spelling and/or grammatic rules … but I do remember that I had a grammar school teacher tell my class that back in ‘George Washington’s day’ – there was no standardized spelling. }

— But what about the golden rule? – ‘Do unto others as you would [ hopefully ] have them do unto you.” – If everybody acted that way we wouldn’t need to have a government pass any welfare or social security laws. In a world like that Donald J Trump would be a completely different, and probably much happier, person.

—> The USSR’s government was NOT commune-ist. If a small number of power hungry people want to control everything everybody else says, does and thinks – they are not commune-ists – The USSR’s ruling elite were Fascists trying to get their people to believe the fantasy that their government existed to insure that the workers who they said were the backbone of their ‘socialist state’ – were protected so they could not be exploited exploited by any evil capitalists.{ While the ruling elite in the USA was busy selling the fiction that they were in power to make sure that those evil commies didn’t conquer and enslave the good people of the good old U-S of A. – } Neither side in the cold war acted in a way that might fit into what Christian, or Jewish, or Islamic, or Hindu, or Taoist, Shinto, Confucian, Jainist, Sikh, Zoarastrian, Buddhist; or any other ‘religious’ philosophy teaches.

—> Another step back —> All the True Great Prophets who came down into this Material Universe to help us find our way through the various levels of spiritual ignorance and social and legal darkness – if they got together for a conference, they would be in total agreement on what the Divine is, and what we’re here for. They all basically gave us the same message. The confusion began to set in when The Great Ones had to translate Their message to fit into the linguistic and cultural climate they were surrounded by during their incarnations.

—> BUT – Power hungry men { almost always men } edited and warped Their messages so they could grab power and force their countries’ populations to serve them – and pay them taxes – and bow down and kiss their feet. Mohammed { God Bless Him Eternally } wanted his daughter, Jasmine, to inherit His property and be a powerful voice in spreading His message. Manipulative – Power-Hungry { Ice-Holes } men quickly seized control and forced women into subjugation and took away every right the Prophet, { God Bless Him Eternally } wanted women { and children } to have.

—> “Fascists” – If only for the sake of argument, let me define Fascists as ‘Anyone who believes they have the right to elevate themselves above the general population of their area and era’. { That would include and/or apply to anyone who smugly defines any group of their contemporaries as ‘The Great Unwashed’. —> ‘Corporate Fascists’ believe they have the right to control the news media to make sure nobody gets a chance to show them or their corporations in anything but a glowingly brilliant light that misses any possible flaws or short comings or even outright illegal, immoral, unethical, and/or ‘not very nice’ thing they do.

—> The corporate vice president of General Motors who showed a select group of award winning mechanics and ‘Mr GoodWrench’ executives who’d been personally invited to an event where their brand new product line for that year and futuristic concept cars were on display. The Vice President smiled and invited them all to come up and get their first look at their ‘brilliant new innovations’ —> When a mechanic pointed something out and asked that vice president, “Isn’t that made of plastic?” the V.P. smiled and said, “Of course it is.” – When that mechanic followed up with, “But those parts have always been metal – this looks like you’re deliberately putting something in there that is  guaranteed to break down-” —> The V.P. got angry and nasty – asked, “Do you like your job? I’m paying somebody two million dollars a year to come up with ideas like this so you can keep your job!” That V.P. is/was a Corporate Fascist.

—> Fascists seek to gain, consolidate and hold on to power by using “divide and conquer” tactics. Fascists have learned that if they can keep everyone they can manipulate in a state of constant anxiety, fear, insecurity and confusion – they can easily control those people, and get them to agree to give up their rights, privileges and freedoms in exchange for ‘a little bit of security’.

—> I don’t know if Benjamin Franklin actually said this, but he is usually credited with saying – “Anyone who will give up a little freedom for a little security will deserve neither and lose them both.”

—> More quotes – “I have learned this through philosophy: that I do out of choice what others do only out of fear of the law.” – Socrates?

—> “Banking Establishments are more dangerous than standing armies,” – Thomas Jefferson.

—> { One rallying cry during the US Revolutionary War was “No Taxation without Representation,” { I’m pretending I can ignore the fact that many of those revolutionaries did not believe that “African savages” were fully human – or deserved equal rights of any kind of equality with their ‘owners’. } —> The real issue was – after land owning colonists had been allowed to pay their taxes to the ‘Crown’ using agreed upon gold, silver or currency – and/or barter – handing over goods that the ‘Royal’ tax collectors agreed were of equal value to the tax the ‘Crown’ assessed that they owed —> ‘NEW RULES’ came along – and the Crown demanded that the colonists pay their taxes only in English Bank Notes. English Bank notes were close to impossible to obtain in the colonies, and if they could get them the colonists had to pay something like ten times their face value for them.

—> The ‘Great Experiment’ that was the Unites States of America outlawed corporations from the beginning – and then allowed corporations to form only for a short – fixed period of time – that was agreed upon by law and/or the State/County/Municipal level of government which would pass a law allowing that corporation to exist for the agreed upon – limited –  time. When that time was up, all corporate assets would be returned to the state, county, municipality or community where that corporation had been allowed to exist. The Founding Fathers did not want their fledgling democracy to be undermined by any form of Corporate Fascism.

—> The fledgling Democracy that was the USA then managed for almost two hundred years to resist the evils of the British Centralized Banking system that came to be known as the Federal Reserve Banking System – also known as the ‘Fiat Economy’ { and they don’t mean it belongs to anybody who owns a ‘Fiat Automobile’ }. As far as I’ve been able to find out – FDR had to compromise to get something he believed was THAT IMPORTANT accomplished during World War II by allowing the Federal Reserve System to come into being – and thereby infect the US economic system from then on. The Federal Reserve Banking System is not a Federal agency or branch of the US government – it is a veritable Mafia of Corporate Fascists.

—> Corporate Fascists control almost every media outlet in the USA, and probably Canada, and probably just about every country that suffers under the illusion that they are still a part of the ‘Western Model of the Free World’.

—> There’s an ex- investment counselor in the USA who will gladly bend your ear and explain how every level of government from the Federal level on down to the municipal level learned from the Nazis how to cook their books and effectively hide income streams and make assets look like liabilities and lie to make you believe that the only income they have comes to them through taxes. This guy says that every level of government in the Western ‘Free World’ could stop charging and collecting taxes today and provide more and better services than they currently over-charge everybody for. He also said, “If Al Capone studied law and politics he would have been the President.” And went on to add —> What does organized crime do? They charge businesses ‘protection money’ for the privilege of doing business in an area they control. What do all levels of government do? They call their ‘protection money’ —> “Taxes and licensing fees”.  – I keep asking people to go to —> CAFR1.com <— Check that guy’s arguments out and please tell me where he might be ‘half a bubble off’ –  if he is – or look at me and say “Holy Bull-Chips! He’s telling it like it is.” { Lately some of his blog messages sound too much like he drank the DJ Trump followers’  Kool-aid – and believes we’ll end up in hand baskets on January twenty first and wonder where we’re going and what we’re doing in those hand baskets… }

— In the series “Our Cartoon President” the incumbent screams {about his opponent } “He’s cheating – he’s registering minority voters!” or something like that. }

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—> Where are my loyalties? I will side with Honesty, Truth, Compassion, Altruism … { “What’s so funny about Peace, Love & Understanding?” – {{ duh – was that Tom Petty? }} } … Or maybe I’ve been thinkin’ that whichever ‘lesser of two evils’ is sworn in – they just might see us through what has been forecast to be the most incredibly awful decade in the history of planet Earth – or at least the history that the evil manipulators of human consciousness have ‘allowed us’ to know about? Hints from the Spiritual grapevine indicate that whoever becomes the US president on January 20th – the chances are much too ‘good’ that either the US or its allies will rattle sabres they should leave alone and when they believe they can scare Iran into backing down – things could very well escalate into World War III.

— WAKE UP before it’s too late!

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— “A society is judged by the way it treats its least fortunate citizens.”

—> “I’ve been running from side to side / one thing’s sure – that both sides lie,”  Pete Townsend of the Who — { quoted from a slightly failing – used to be fantastic – memory }

—> There is no “We” versus “Them” —> We’re all “We” – or we’re all ‘Them” – and we need to know that -Anybody you’ve been told is your enemy has been demonized by somebody who believes that you are a disposable member of the ‘Great Unwashed’.

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—> Back to ‘Reality”? —> Hey, it’s snowing in Atlantic Canada —

— & I used to see snow as a great egalitarian event – covering all kinds of injustice and painful realities and afflicting the rich as well as the homeless and everybody in between.

—> & remembering a quote from Bridgeport, Connecticut { USA }’s Socialist Mayor { circa 1933-1957 } – Jasper McLevy – “You want to know if the city of Bridgeport will plow away the snow? Well I say, ‘The Good Lord put it there, let the Good Lord take it away.”

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—> Shrug

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-Photo of Jasper McLevy & No – we did not name our dog after this guy 🙂 –

Jasper McLevy (March 27, 1878 – November 20, 1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933–1957. He was a member of the Socialist Party, later leaving in protest to join the Social Democratic Federation.

Jasper McLevy was born to Scottish immigrants Hugh and Mary Stewart McLevy in Bridgeport on March 27, 1878. McLevy worked first as a roofer, learning the trade from his uncle after his own father died when he was 14. After reading Edward Bellamy’s futuristic, utopian novel Looking Backward, he became a socialist, and helped form the Bridgeport Socialist Party in the early 1900s. The 24-year-old idealist first ran for the Connecticut General Assembly under the Socialist banner in 1902, collecting 215 votes. He ran another 20 unsuccessful campaigns for local, city, state and federal offices over the following years, including nine tries at mayor, the last in 1931. In all these races he ran as a Socialist at a time when socialists were portrayed as anarchists and bomb-throwers.

In the early 1930s, Bridgeport, an industrial city in southern Connecticut, was plagued by corruption and hard hit by the Great Depression. In 1931, voters had ousted the incumbent Republican mayor for Democrat Edward Buckingham and McLevy only lost by a couple thousand votes. By 1933, dissatisfaction had spread to both parties and McLevy trounced the competition, bringing along a Socialist majority on the Board of Aldermen, Bridgeport’s city council. While people familiar with local politics had seen the writing on the wall in the 1931 results, the national media was astonished to find the Socialists in control in a New England city.

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—> Yay?

—> “They will try to put a wall between us – Don’t let them win -” { Duh? InXS? }

— xoxoxo – Everybody – Please have the best, most wonderful year ever – do not doubt for a nano-second that you deserve that – You may have to shoot your corporate news media delivering devices and look for honest news from something like WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, Connecticut – or dive deep inside your soul to get the news directly from the Loving Source of Everything Positive and Good in Every Universe I know of…

~~~~~ Jim