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Re: War is Over

Post Sat Apr 28, 2018 10:46 am

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Mike from Boston wrote:Looks like the Korean War is over.

Not to be churlish, but no. No it's not. The leaders of North and South Korea have announced that they want to "within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare an official end to the Korean War."

So - Yay! It's a step forward, and a substantial one at that. I genuinely hope that Trump's incompetent buffoonery actually results in some good for the world. Even a broken clock can be right twice a day.


It's striking how the poses in the photos of the two Korean leaders at the previous two summits in 2000 and 2007 look so similar. So let's wait. And hope this time it's more productive.

Actually if there is progress I reckon it's down to the Winter Olympics. Kim had a look at what was going on down there and thought, "Hey, this looks cool. Let's have some of that."

But that's only a theory. :wink:
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Sat Apr 28, 2018 2:13 pm

left wrote:I think his approach is one rarely seen (at his level). So much that it could lead to some unpredictable results. Not necessarily negative ones.


Yeah, we'll all get to lie about our weight and physical health, dye ourselves orange, have awesome military parades, charge taxpayers for a Great Wall of Mexico and eat pizza backwards!

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I'll tell you what, he makes John McCain look like a genius, that's for sure.
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Sat Apr 28, 2018 6:36 pm

Well, I always try to look at the bright side of things...
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Tue Jan 08, 2019 5:51 pm

I learned this thread exists.

And I recently learned that Kim Jong Un went to a CIA-run boarding school in Switzerland for 16 years, so there's a good chance that North Korea is a fake CIA state and possibly has been along with South Korea since the Korean War. That would explain a lot of things. And that doesn't mean that people in those countries don't suffer.

A funny video for anyone open to this sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH19w9TVB9Y
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:57 pm

Moreover, there’s a good chance I met him in Bern during one of my wanderings!
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Tue Jan 08, 2019 11:07 pm

leadshoes wrote:I learned this thread exists.

And I recently learned that Kim Jong Un went to a CIA-run boarding school in Switzerland for 16 years, so there's a good chance that North Korea is a fake CIA state and possibly has been along with South Korea since the Korean War. That would explain a lot of things. And that doesn't mean that people in those countries don't suffer.

A funny video for anyone open to this sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH19w9TVB9Y



Now, what the hell was going on at the Bush funeral with the little note cards? :shock:
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:38 am

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leadshoes wrote:I learned this thread exists.

And I recently learned that Kim Jong Un went to a CIA-run boarding school in Switzerland for 16 years, so there's a good chance that North Korea is a fake CIA state and possibly has been along with South Korea since the Korean War. That would explain a lot of things. And that doesn't mean that people in those countries don't suffer.

A funny video for anyone open to this sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH19w9TVB9Y



Now, what the hell was going on at the Bush funeral with the little note cards? :shock:


Oh I couldn't stand evil Bush Sr. so I didn't pay attention, but I looked it up briefly and people noticed that the ones who opened the envelopes seemed stunned in a possibly frightened sort of way, so I'll have to see more about it. I haven't really kept up with stuff since I ironically got banned from a conspiracy theory forum for a post (and repost when it was inexplicably deleted) recommending that people try to eat organic fruits and vegetables because they contain naturally occurring salvestrols that help or prevent cancer. I should've known things were fishy when one of the first replies to the post weirdly accused me of selling supplements. It's too bad because there were some nice people there, even if it was a free-for-all and I was regularly insulted by Trump supporters. There were rumors that the site was actually run by government intelligence agencies, and I wouldn't be surprised since it doesn't look good that all you need to do is eat organic to help with most health problems. I had also found buried deep in a long thread (on that very site) a quoted message from an English researcher Professor Potter who was persecuted for making the discovery that it really was that simple. I'll repost it here.

Professor Gerry Potter's experience in his own words:

When I worked on developing new pharmaceutical products that could be protected by patents I was the star of the show in cancer drug discovery. As soon as I found natural compounds which were actually better than anything the pharmaceutical industry has to offer, the situation changed drastically. I tried to get CRUK and EPSRC interested in salvestrols but they said they were not interested because there is no patent. These are natural compounds already known to the wider scientific world that cannot be patented for cancer therapy. Therefore they were not interested in them since the pharmaceutical indutry would not develop them. The reason that they would not develop them would be that they would have to spend millions of bucks on clinical trials, only to see a copycat version appear more cheaply. So they could not charge an inflated price for them as they do for patented medicine, and they would not be profitable enough without patent protection. So I can see where they are coming from.

But the next bit got really scarey. In 2004, shortly after salvestrols were launched on the market, two representatives from the UK national cancer charity CRUK came to see me and threatened me !!! They said "Gerry, take this salvestrol product off the market or we will ruin your reputation as a scientist" This is the absolute truth. I was gobsmacked to say the least and I muttered something about "Let me worry about my reputation and you should worry about yours".

A month later 5 police officers came to my house. I opened the door and they forced their way in pushing me up against the wall like a criminal. Two of them had riot helmets on !

They handcuffed me and bundled me into the back of a police van and kept me in a cell for 8 hours. They then transferred me to a secure unit of a psychiatric ward in a mental hospital, where they overpowered me stripped off my clothes and forcibly injected me with chlozopine! I have only recently been released so I have to watch what I say so that nobodys reputation gets tarnished ! Dont be surprised if I cant reply anymore since most of my replies are censored anyway so you probably will never read this.

So there is a bitter side to salvestrols, but not what you expected to hear. I am still under close observation and have to return for monthly depo injections to keep me "under control" from saying too much, whoops.

The powers that be include the police and the NHS so I do not trust either institution. I can hardly ring the police up and tell them I was kidnapped from my own home by police officers. I was kept in a high security unit of an NHS mental hospital in Leicester called "The Brandon Unit". Here I was kept under gaurd with no human rights of appeal. This was worse than being a political dissident and the British Government should answer to the human rights courts for political improsinment without a court. It was only after 4 years imprisonment that I was released in February 2010 and could tell anyone what had happened. My local press then ran a story published in the Leicester Mercury, about me having spent time in a mental hospital, but they would not publish my full story because it was too scarey for the public.

The NHS spends £300 per month on my depo injections and medication to keep me sedated to prevent me from stepping out of line and telling anyone about my experiences or the fact that salvestrols are curing people of cancer. The NHS would be better off spending this money by treating 5 cancer patients with salvestrol platinum. Thats the irony.

I am actually surprised that my comments on this public website hve not yet been deleted. This is the first time I have been able to truthfully tell anyone about my experiences of having been locked up in a mental hospital for over 4 years, and have been taken back by police everytime I step out of line. Even now I am scared that the next knock at the door will be the police. I just go as peacefully as possible these days because I know where they are taking me and why. So if I do not reply to these blogs you will know it is because the boys in blue have taken me back to yiddly-doo. Each time my relatives think that I have relapsed and I cannot tell them the whole truth. It is so cathartic and therapeutic for me to be able to tell someone about my experiences and I feel so much better for doing so.
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:43 am

left wrote:Moreover, there’s a good chance I met him in Bern during one of my wanderings!


Somehow I don't think you're joking. :lol:
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:29 am

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leadshoes wrote:I learned this thread exists.

And I recently learned that Kim Jong Un went to a CIA-run boarding school in Switzerland for 16 years, so there's a good chance that North Korea is a fake CIA state and possibly has been along with South Korea since the Korean War. That would explain a lot of things. And that doesn't mean that people in those countries don't suffer.

A funny video for anyone open to this sort of thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH19w9TVB9Y



Now, what the hell was going on at the Bush funeral with the little note cards? :shock:


Okay, I've looked at a few videos and it's still anyone's guess what was going on with the envelopes. The possibilities I've read are:

1. They said "you're next."
2. They were fine-tuned coded messages to each recipient that only they would understand.
3. They were from Q and said Q.
4. They said that their homes were being ransacked.
5. They said Arlington Cemetery was closed.
6. They had a photo of Bush Sr. decapitated.
7. They were gift certificates to Chick Fil-A.

I go for #7. That would explain the looks of shock and disappointment, and why Jimmy Carter was fumbling around wondering where his was.

Whatever it was, the ones who broadcasted the event must have been in on it since they made sure the viewing audience would see the reactions to the envelopes. As Frank Zappa once said: "Politics is just the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex."
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Re: A thing I learned today

Post Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:12 pm

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I go for #7. That would explain the looks of shock and disappointment, and why Jimmy Carter was fumbling around wondering where his was.



It’s interesting. Gore, Mrs. Pence, Mrs. Biden, Hillary, Michelle and Laura Bush all got handed a program with a note card or (Laura Bush) are shown something. W. passes something to his wife as the casket goes by. Laura showed Jeb, who had two seconds to process it before she moved it away. He has no game and freaks out, dropping his hand. Laura asks W. ”Is this true?” and he eloquently answers ”Yup.”

The Obamas and Hillary Clinton pay it never no mind, stoic AF, but Biden appears to freak when they (The Bidens) don’t even seem to have read it yet. Hillary doesn’t even show it to William Jefferson. Mrs. Pence just leaves hers in the funeral program unopened.


Cheney didn’t get one. Gore’s reaction isn’t recorded but he’s seen holding the note card.


I like how all the Trumpers are asking why Trump kept his magic overcoat on. They say it has special powers. He’s a fat-ass and thinks it makes him look thinner. He wore an overcoat on Celebrity Apprentice all the time. I actually watched that show because I love NYC and watching people argue. So... Also don’t own a television and I feel like NBC always had episodes available online gratis.

The consensus seems to be that W. is gonna be punished for war crimes or that Sr. already was or had a hand in JFK’s assasination. Also, that JFK Jr. is alive.

Someone online pointed out that two Secret Service are shadowing W. as if to protect Trump. That they’re acting in an unusual manner. That they would be less obtrusive normally. Trump’s just sitting there like he’s on a golden toilet, as per usual.

I dunno, the only Secret Service officer I’ve been around was running down the middle of the street with an automatic weapon screaming at a driver to get back on the sidewalk when Obama’s motorcade drove past (as we were walking to the Lincoln Memorial at 10:30 P.M.) My younger family member has a strong case of FLIGHT in fight or flight situations and I had to tell them to stand still, we were in the safest place possible and don’t run from the Secret Service when they are going ape-shit on somebody ten feet away. ’Murica.
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Post Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:04 pm

I'm sure the conspiracy forum I was on has probably been all over this, but if I were still there, I'd say it was all just for show to make people speculate and feel like something was up and I'd get called Hairy Balls or something. Over there I wouldn't attack back though, because how do you respond to being called Hairy Balls?
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leadshoes wrote:
I go for #7. That would explain the looks of shock and disappointment, and why Jimmy Carter was fumbling around wondering where his was.



The consensus seems to be that W. is gonna be punished for war crimes or that Sr. already was or had a hand in JFK’s assasination. Also, that JFK Jr. is alive.


I'm sure the conspiracy forum I was on has probably been all over this, but if I were still there, I'd say it was all just for show to make people speculate and feel like something was up and getting done and I'd get called Hairy Balls or something. Over there I wouldn't attack back though, because how do you respond to being called Hairy Balls?
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Post Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:49 pm

Indeed!

Being a girl as you said, it’ll sound even better!
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left wrote:Indeed!

Being a girl as you said, it’ll sound even better!


Yeah. it was an interesting place. I think they assumed everyone was a guy unless your name was CosmicGoddess or MAGATrumpMama or you had a girly avatar. But even then, it probably didn't matter to some of them.
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Post Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:28 pm

I learned this:

"If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human species would fit into the volume of a sugar cube."

https://www.sciencealert.com/99-9999999 ... mpty-space
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