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Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

: music, December 23 2021 ▶

The most amazing, smooth and charming voice of Nat King Cole is my Christmas choice this year. Like the one before, it is again a bit (actually a lot) sad - humanity is progressing backwards and we are living in the most dire times, of human history, after WW2.
The Christmas Song is written, almost like a joke, in the hot summer of 1945 by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. It has numerous recordings and, according to one of the producing companies, is the most-performed Christmas song ever. It finds place in many albums. My favorite one is the namesake album from 1963 - an absolutely "must-have" for a nice, cozy December evening. The black-and-white video, you will find in youtube, again 1961, is a very high-quality one. Enjoy! ...and next year, I hope, we see if reindeers really know how to fly.

Although it's been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you

Puppet master's guide - Part 3 - testing ground

: history, October 29 2021 ▶


testing ground
noun
an area or field of activity used for the testing of a product or an idea, especially a military site used for the testing of weapons.
Before you initiate the final stage of your World Domination Plan, you should test some of the elements. For example: the total control mechanism requires every human being to be biologically connected to your surveillance system. With a kill-switch of course. Chasing rebels in the jungle is so old-fashioned and boring. You have all the technology required to jump on the next level.
But the people are (yet) not stupid enough to let you install things in their bodies. Smartphones were a good start, but one can always throw away the device, regardless how difficult his life will become. So you need a way to convince everyone, that a medical procedure of some sort is urgent. To check if this approach will work, just start a pandemic! Actually, this is the solution to so many of your puppet master's problems.
You want to get rid of the old people - start a pandemic.
You want to assimilate all remaining small business - pandemic.
You want to restrict free movement - yep, pandemic.
You want to have an excuse for any face-palming moves the puppet-governments do - you guessed it - pandemic.
To show dominance and how little you care about the sheep, name one of your meetings The Great Reset. If they are still not getting it, you receive extra points in the brain-washing category.
The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future.
Prof Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
(do not ask "for whom?")

The disease does not need to be very deadly - it needs to be highly contagious so to spread slowly but surely, also to be present for quite some time. Good candidate-viruses are everywhere - just pick a flu-like one and tweak it a bit. Throw it in a random powerful country, so the rest don't dare to present any claims. The media will do the rest.
Now the virus is spreading rampant and all turn their eyes towards your scientists. Of course they are yours - you fed their lazy asses for decades already, and pretended not to notice the lack of almost any accomplishments. On their hand, they pretended not to notice how you immediately covered-up any breakthroughs, throughout the years, and leave irrelevant breadcrumbs here and there. They will stall the vaccine as long as you need. Cure? No such thing - nobody will even start working on it - worst case - put it in the "endless testing" hamster wheel. It will require a lot of money, so no self-reliant-miracle-doctor or a third-world-country could afford developing one without your consent. Change the very definition of the word "vaccine" from "provides immunity" to "significantly prevents deadly outcome" - yes, as vague as that. To achieve A+, you should also warm-up the audience some years in advance - a scientist or major businessman may "warn" the public about such pandemic threat. If a rogue country tries to release the vaccine, showing it as political success of their newly elected leader (and not because they care about their citizens), just release a new virus variant. Who will prove it is not a perfectly natural mutation? No one, of course. Even if a group of mathematicians and/or virologist provide evidence, how such plague cannot happen on its own - use the media to bash and silence them. In time they will be quickly forgotten. A sheep's memory is so short.
When enough "speed" is achieved, start distributing the "vaccine". After all - this is what the main goal is - how many people will use something, that is untested, unproven, potentially harmful, blindly trusting their corrupt government. Make them sign papers to release you from any responsibility. It is always a good practice to cut the lose ends, plus this will serve as another test - how many of them are dumb enough to sign anything, without reading it. Nobody will remember, that initially you did not say it will be a 2-jab procedure. Here is a bonus-task for you - tell them to have a 3rd one. Observe the results. Now do it again, and again ... Let's see how many "boosters" the sheep will take, before start asking some questions. The ones, already "in the loop", will just continue doing it, facing the risk of losing all "vaccination-gained-privileges". You can forfeit any constitutional/freedom rights using the immunization-requirement pretext.
"Of course it is voluntary! You need to be vaccinated only if you want to do these 5000 things."
"No, it is not mandatory, but now you can no longer work from home. You need to come to the office. To come to the office you have to be vaccinated. I repeat, it is not mandatory - else will be illegal!"
"No, it does not provide immunity, nobody said such thing. It lowers the mortality. You can still get sick and infect others"
Google - Covid Germany - From JHU CSSE COVID-19 Data
27 October 2020 (0% vaccinated) - 13 161 new cases, 30 dead
27 October 2021 (66.4% vaccinated) - 28 826 new cases, 124 dead
Basically, push people's patience any way you can, to check at what point the leash will break. Then you can adjust the real deployment scenario with the data gathered. I repeat - this is a test. Do not kill too many, else you will rule a desert!
Some extra benefits, that will come with your trials:
- due to lockdowns, small companies will be obliterated. The big ones (the ones with the billionaires) are yours anyway.
- many people will lose their jobs - a good step towards extermination of the middle class (check part one)
- basic income will gain popularity, even become adopted in some places, nailing the coffin of the capitalism. Any initiative for self-development and work will disappear.
- countries will need more money - printing will destroy whatever economic logic, safeguards and safety nets remain.
- too-big-to-fail corporations will siphon the majority of these funds, putting more fuel to the fire.
- money will be so available, they will lose their practical purpose - banks will become just vaults, property prices will pump the next bursting bubble (and this one will be spectacular).
- shady mechanisms will gain popularity - like crypto-money - thus, whenever you want, you can just play with them in any manner - all participants agree, that these are not under anyone's control (ahahah...) and even a total, unexpected shut-down is just a part of the game.
- subscription instead of ownership - for everything imaginable.
- families, forced to live with their parents or completely isolated - causing major psychological disturbances.
- mass fear and distrust.

Welcome to the new Era of Corporate Feudalism.

I made a game - PlanetDrop

: tech, October 28 2021 ▶

So I made a game, thus fulfilling a dream of mine. Next one is pretty big and I will need more than a couple of months to complete. It is called "Planetdrop - a tiny space adventure" and is available for free on STEAM. All details about the game can be found on its official website and here is the link to download it. You can also support me on Patreon. If I have some (non-monetary) success in the broad audience, I may decide to expand a bit on the setting - time will tell. It was quite a ride though and this article marks the end of it.

Moussaka - unconventional

: food, October 26 2021 ▶

Greeks have invented this tasty meal, but their variant is sometimes difficult to make and a bit heavier. I read this dish is made throughout the Mediterranean and Balkans. Different tastes - different ways of cooking it - here is mine and I hope you like it.
What you need:
- 500gr potatoes
- 500gr minced meat - mix of pork and beef
- 2 carrots
- 2 onions
- 4 garlic cloves
- 200gr water
- 2 eggs
- 400gr yoghurt
- sunflower oil, salt, ground black pepper, savory

Preparation:
- clean the potatoes, dice them in a baking dish.
- take a large skillet and cook the minced meat with some sunflower oil, constantly stirring. The end result should be small, separate pieces of meat. Put it in the backing dish with the potatoes.
- put the onions and carrots with some additional oil. Cook till onions get transparent. Add the garlic. Cook 2 more minutes and place it in the baking dish (to the potatoes and meat).
- season with salt, savory, (optional - 2 bay leaves), ground black pepper and stir again. Add the water.
- mix the potatoes, the meat, the onions, carrots and garlic.
- put the baking dish into the (preheated with fan) oven for 15 minutes at 180C.
- in the meantime mix the eggs with the yoghurt and some salt.
- take the dish out, stir the mix of vegetables and meat and put it back for another 10 minutes.
- do it again. Potatoes need to be slightly tender when you poke them with a fork. If not - some more cooking time.
- take the dish out and pour (as evenly as possible) the egg-and-yoghurt mix on top. Return it to the oven for 10-12 more minutes. At the end it should look like the picture above.
- Done!

Jeff Beck - Live in the dark

: music, September 30 2021 ▶

A pure gem again. The world famous (not to the poor me, of course) guitarist, Jeff Beck, comes smashing in with hard rock-and-roll. I could not describe myself as melomane, but I have never heard of this guy. About his brilliant career, about his 7 Grammy awards and numeous nominations, no clue about his solo in Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory", or how he played in a band (The Yardbirds) with Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton...The people who know their stuff put this, almost 80 years old Legend, next to Jimmi Hendrix and the other 2 guitar Gods I already mentioned.
"Live in the dark" is part of his 15th album - "Loud Hailer". The song is ...just "wow!" - dynamic riffs, hard base, nice vocals (Rosie Bones), Autotuned though. The other album tracks are,...I do not want to say garbage, but at least light years away from this one. The lyrics are nothing to write home about - there is no hidden meaning, no metaphorical hints. Describing a life in darkness and how the protagonist is "OK" with that. Nothing remarkable, but sometimes it is just like that - a song does not necessarily have to be a "War and Peace" novel to feel good.