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EDELWEISS
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- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXXVII.

“People ask for justice upon the lawlessness of the earth, but most of them partake in crimes, in ways that they don’t even imagine, until they are placed in front of a large mirror to show the facts, the deeds, the actions, the reactions, and then, they start to hate the truth shown plain and clear in front of their eyes, up to the point on which to take anything they can into their hands to break that reflection in thousands of pieces which even more, would show why they deserve such a world in which each of them to reap what they’ve sown. Even more, there is a different Justice, happening all over the earth, who could shock most of those trying to comprehend; that is because it enters in conflict with human ways of life, those things happening does not belong to the world and it is even beyond human capacity of thinking. One can not know and should not dare to find why one is in a wheelchair for life, although did no harm to others around, while those inflicting as much harm as they can to this world, are safe and prospering in madness and evil deeds. It is even harder to comprehend for a common human being why a tyrant is beset on power and under its command a whole city is erased from the map once with thousands of people dead along burnt alive, and nothing seems to count, there is no one to apply a proper punishment for such extreme evil. Quite extraordinary, to even see people complaining of how the elites of this world rule them from the shadow, with their edicts, naming them as psychopathic elements of society, while for these royalty faces they – the accusers – are nothing more than rats, bugs and worms, if not better calling them as worthless, waste of society, ready to crush the heap of ants under their boots, with just an order or a wave of hand. It is the same like tyrants edicts mentioning: you all shall know your place, under the whip or the sword, under the chains or mining a quarry, in a deep dungeon or a pit with garbage, confessing that slaves are as many types as they have been trained since childhood, to serve their purpose. But the angry crowd, pointing out the fingers to their elected leaders, are drawn in a strategy game of world dominion, and slowly by slowly face the times when in order to protest, needs approval, and even that, being counted by a timer; they are to face even worst, coming down the pipe, as whatever the govern will say it is allowed, and when it is permitted, under what terms and conditions, as long as for the parties are secured for the next railway to change and the train move to the next track in tightening the mechanism of ruling state, with new decrees, orders and declarations, with new stamps, signature and deals; and such a world, indeed, who raise monsters so that later be cheered by the crowds under an order, or just the escaping goat ready to face the trial and the sentence, to satisfy the beasts sneaked among the masses, - such a world, indeed, who worship the ego of man, sinking in darkness and evil, in wandering and confusion, in oblivion and ignorance, in lies and deceit!.. In this world, people ask for justice, but Justice already happens beyond their comprehension; in this world, people searching for a savior, and the salvation coming only from God, is as much as denied as the modern society is clearly against all what truly comes from God, shown by edifying sin, partaking in crimes against humanity; the earth is filled by ignorance, pride, vanity, rebellion, in the new age of deceit.“


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- Shall be continued…

2022 © Th3Mirr0r
EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM

My cat was giant sized and terrorizing the community destroying houses and eating people. I kept chasing her saying "no Darcy, no Darcy, no Darcy"

From Reuters:

"Oct 2 (Reuters) - Defence spending will account for almost one third of Russia's total budget expenditure in 2024, the government's draft plans show, as Moscow diverts ever more resources towards prosecuting its war in Ukraine.

Russia also plans to ramp up state borrowing to help fund what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine in the coming years and is counting on a recovery in oil and gas revenues to pre-invasion levels to do so.

Spending under the "national defence" section of Russia's budget will total 10.78 trillion roubles ($109 billion) next year, or 29.4% of total planned expenditure of 36.66 trillion roubles, according to the finance ministry's budget documents that outline the government's fiscal plans for 2024-2026.

In 2021, the year before Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, defence spending totalled 3.57 trillion roubles, 14.4% of total spending. In 2022, the share of defence spending rose to 17.7%, data on Russia's electronic budget page showed earlier this year.

Spending figures for 2022 were subsequently removed from the online budget portal. The most up-to-date data for 2023 was published as part of the finance ministry's 2024-26 budget plans.

The finance ministry has allocated 6.41 trillion roubles to defence in 2023, or 21.2% of total budget expenditure of 30.27 trillion roubles, but Finance Minister Anton Siluanov last week said total spending would be above plan at around 33.5 trillion roubles.

That may mean that defence spending will also be significantly higher than first envisaged.

Moscow doubled its target for defence spending in 2023 to 9.7 trillion roubles, Reuters reported exclusively in August, citing a government document.

"The budget's structure shows that the main emphasis is on ensuring our victory - the army, defence capability, armed forces, fighters - everything needed for the front, everything needed for victory is in the budget," Siluanov said last week.

"This is a big strain for the budget, not a small one, but it is our absolute priority."

EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE FREEZE
As defense spending in 2024 triples from pre-invasion levels, the share of spending on "national security", which covers funding for law enforcement agencies, is also rising, set to reach 9.2% in 2024, the documents showed.

To compensate for those increases, Moscow will effectively freeze spending on education and healthcare. The share of spending on "national economy", encompassing roads, infrastructure and construction, will decrease to 10.6% in 2024, the lowest share since 2011.

"Social policy", traditionally the leading spending area on state salaries, pensions and benefits, will account for less spending than defence at 7.73 trillion roubles in 2024, and with its lowest share of spending since 2011 of 21.4%.

Spending on those areas will nominally rise, but below inflation, meaning real-term cuts.

Chief Economist, Russia and CIS, at Renaissance Capital Sofya Donets said that taking defence and national security spending to almost 40% of all Russia's expenditure pending may have a strong short-term impact, but will contribute little to growth in the long-term due to their minimal impact on tax revenues.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov last week said increasing defence spending was "absolutely necessary" for the budget because Russia is living "in a state of hybrid war".

Russia argues that the West is fighting a hybrid war against it to sow discord and ultimately carve up its vast natural resources, allegations that Western leaders deny, saying Moscow's decision to invade Ukraine was unprovoked.

Ukraine vows to eject every last Russian soldier from its territory, and casts the invasion as an imperial-style land grab by Russia.

See the whole article at


The final budget has yet to be released.

You know, one of those days where you've wanted to quit on the spot.

Today was one of those days.

We have something at work called innight. It's where all the next-day orders are packed and shipped at around 5 pm. It's separate from the other orders we process, and they usually being picked after noon. There are two types of orders: Customer orders and stock-orders. Customer orders are self explanatory. The stock orders are for overflow or just for stocking up at the various garages. On a busy day, we get perhaps 40 innight orders, however today was different. We had 40 orders by 10 am, and they just kept coming. My boss is on holiday this week, so I run the innight show. Sometimes I wish I didn't.

It got so bad, that we only focused on the orders for customers - stock orders had to wait. If we had the time to pack stock orders, we would pack those as well. Spoiler alert: We didn't have time for those, so they are waiting for the morning shift.

We have been told time and time again, that stock orders would stop coming - but they are still coming in. I will give credit to the new hire. He did a fantastic job. I just hope tomorrow and Friday will be different.

And just to clarify: No, I am not quitting my job anytime soon. They will have to fire me, which isn't going to happen any time soon, thankfully.

At 2:20 Eastern Daylight Time today, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) will be conducting an test of the wireless emergency system over the cellphones and TV's across America. This way, when there's an actual emergency, you will be notified.

It will happen across time zones:
2:20 p.m. EDT
1:20 p.m. CDT
12:20 p.m. MDT
11:20 a.m. PDT
10:20 a.m. ADT
8:20 a.m. HST

When I was a kid, we had 'duck & cover' tests in school. This is the modern version.

Crouching down and putting your head between your legs is optional!






Link:

I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was bought and sold a long time ago. The shit they shovel around every 4 years *pfff* doesn't mean a f*cking thing. Secondly, I believe if you vote, you have no right to complain. People like to twist that around – they say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain', but where's the logic in that? If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing to do with.”


“The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election”"Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. f*ck Hope.'"


"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created."

George Carlin

EDELWEISS
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- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXXVI.

“In a world where greed rules, is no difference between poor and rich; the rich get richer for people indulge slavery, while poor getting poorer for people chain eachother; mass compliance to the edicts of lawlessness turn the world up-side-down, and with a twist of a tide, each ruler has the potential of a tyrant, as much as people facilitate the empowering; each designated and elected representative actor on the stage, dictating to the crowds what to eat and how to do it, when it’s allowed and what is permissive, is the same hand of the state who feed the hungry beasts trained already to act upon command, as it is a well known fact how people were subdued along history through hunger or better said, starvation. There is the hand of the state acting upon the benevolent masters commands, ruling with a whip on a hand and a sword in the other! There is the rule of law, upon the domesticated jungle of modern age, where the new religion of worshipping the ego of man has become a common habit, where the actual schemes of dominion follow the old republic!.. There is the stage where the actors meet to seal new edicts of ruling in the same prison where all partake in crimes, - the timer ticks in the tribunes for each newbie in geopolitics, strategy and engineering of the crowds, to uptake a speech ready to be transmitted to the eyes and ears of the order-followers who blindly search a representative to be herded!.. There are the honorable etiquettes and sealed ties wearing the sigils of the triangle of law of order out of chaos, wearing proudly the banners of the double headed eagle awaiting the masters to seat at the table of nations, - there are the benevolent hands from which the innocents blood flows while their gestures resemble an opera en vogue, in the same place where the puppets come together to bring forth new ways of exploiting the general, public madness who conquered their globe!.. There are the heads of ministries where lies works best with dreams of hopes for the future of nations embalmed with promises to be fulfilled, first with cheers and then with tears, - there are the voices to be heard loudly so that the reign to come while new regimes change in mass confusion, while those against, reduced to silence in memorandum of the alleged wars, trials and tribulations to come in the new experimentations following until reducing the human beings to just numbers in a list with numbers!.. There are the demagogues that people love to have, like masters to follow, while the ones with potential of intelligence be used in scrupulous attempts of changing sides in a cunning plan or drawing new borders on the map of the world, for each one is expendable, but not until its purpose or assigned role has been attained, ordained to the cult where they belong; none out there is clean and everyone is faithful to the cause, willingly or coerced for the creed, none of them is there without credentials or acquired merits, for the treaties to be signed, deals to be decided, bargains to be aligned, each with duties to the masters hands, so like a glove washing the other, under oaths of fraternities and pacts within the entities, ruling over the crowds. Entertainment. To enter in each one’s mind, to tame each one’s heart, to shape each one’s behavior. Backing mirrors, in screening, manipulation, control, authority and ruling, in foundation of the new, modern society of future. It is all there. Nothing really missing from this theatre, where the actors spin among the spectators. All are at their right place, all come at the right time.“


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- Shall be continued…

2022 © Th3Mirr0r
EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM



P.S:Two more postings,till taking a break, for some time, which means for a period, I will not be here posting.

Warning Trump and his attorneys about what he says in public or posts on social media had no effect. He's not one to actually listen to advice, In the middle of the night he's texting things that are 'over the top' and now Judge Engoron made clear with a formal gag order that could include fines, more restrictions and possibly 30 days in jail for violating his order.

He's been warned so cries of repression of his first amendment rights or the political witch hunt will be over.

My blog today is about vinyl LP's. It's been 40 years since digital CD's hit the market. I remember they professed it would be the kiss of death to vinyl LP's. CD's are the best and the worst in the music industry all in the same breath. When first released around 1982, people were forced to switch gears and buy new players. People weren't happy. They went through upgrades in 8-track tapes, cassettes and digital cassettes.

The good thing about CD's is you could fit more music on a CD than an LP. I knew a DJ who used to carry boxes and boxes of LP's to his gigs. When he switched to CD's it was only 2 cases.
Play a CD a thousand times and have no loss of quality. No scratching, no skipping. Physically, taking less space for storage, easy to send in the mail. Yet some people hated them.

CD's were easy to rip and download to a hard disk or digital storage. Now, DJ's only need a portable drive... or an iPhone with extended memory for hundreds of songs in their library.
Oh, if you don't have that special request, you can easily down load it from an online library through your cellphone data plan!

All these great things about CD's, but the 2 major drawbacks (that I can think of) is all the visual media is now compressed from 12" to 5" so albums selling merely because they have a cool looking cover has diminished and that warm analog sound of vinyl was replaced by a cold sterile digital representation.
Some people can hear the difference between the same music on an LP compared to a CD. For the most part, it's not important to 95% of the music listeners, so it is what it is.

That said, some artists actually have a small number of vinyl albums pressed and available for the music purists.

I know rap DJ's have CD digital turntables and emulate the 'scratch' sounds they popularized using old turntables.

I had forgotten about vinyl records for a while. Moving storage boxes last weekend I found my collection and oddly while walking through Walmart today, I found a rack of vinyl LP's as proof... vinyl ain't dead!

President can have ten years in office, two usually from the proceedings death or resignation then two four year terms.
If elected again he has four years.
He could become someones VP and they may resign allowing him his extra two years.
After all this I would pull a stunt like that.