Better Than Zero

Shot these yesterday.

I occurred to me yesterday how important most of you are to me. This happened when I ran on Facebook a photo of my American flag flying upside down, explained that this signifies distress (not disrespect), and suggested that anyone who agrees should hit the ‘like’ button, no matter their personal reason for the distress we are under. (A bad example might be that no one has yet done in our former president, Donald Trump. Still, that would at least be an agreement that we’re in serious trouble.)

I got less than 20 ‘likes’ out of at least 200 (maybe a lot more) who see each post. There were more stupid comments than intelligent ones: Like ‘If you think the election was stolen you are the problem.’ As if stolen elections were anything new or are our main problem. 

And so forth.

To make a list of just the obvious reasons why all American flags should be flying upside down would be ridiculous, given the over all critical thinking skills of those that show up here. 

There seems to be no end to it. No limits, although one out of ten is at least better than zero. 

Anyway, my point is only to thank most of you for your critical thinking abilities and for expressing them here. 

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I sent Bill Engdahl a Tucker Carlson podcast and asked his opinion of it, given his European residency. Here is his reply:

I like this one, a memorial to the local fishermen lost at sea. Quite a few for such a small town.

‘Allan, very useful video from Carlson. I share your caution but given his large platform it is highly useful for a portion of the public who begins to realize all is not as promised. Everything he says about Germany and Europe is accurate. I just finished a piece on the EU gas manipulation since 2010 to destroy cheap gas for Green Energy. They know what they do. He presents a complex situation in a simplified but IMO useful way that many uninformed Americans can grasp. That’s useful even if he may not be perfect. I am not enamored for example by his praise for DJ Trump. But that’s minor. Here things are unimaginably horrible and all is set to explode in September-November, including more covid insanity from German Govt. Without cheap gas German industry is dead. Homes cannot afford the energy costs.: One example a small homeowner near here got a letter from his gas provider. In 2022 he prepaid circa $5000 for yearly gas to heat the house. Now he must immediately prepay $12,000 for next year.

 

The German Govt is Davos on Steroids. The Green Party controls all key posts and they are more lunatic than even AOC. The Green Foreign Minister Baerbock, a total amateur, was a Davos Young Leader. France Macron is a banker boy who is destroying France. Dutch Govt is Davos, documented, are killing their productive farmers for a fake nitrogen agenda from Davos. All this is no accident. They all use Russia as a convenient scapegoat to blame. The Greens are deliberately destroying what ten years ago was the world’s most advanced productive industrial economy by hitting the Achilles Heel—energy. Living here and seeing the decline which began after 2011 with Merkel is depressing to put it mildly. Add to this the insanity of supporting Ukraine when NATO has controlled that corrupt state since the 2014 Maidan coup d’ etat.. They know Zelensky is a fraud.

 

The scary thing is that there is not even a Tucker Carlson on mainstream  media here. It is dominated by taxpayer paid state TV. And the trains in Germany do not even run on time 50% of the time.  A month ago the Scholz regime began messaging that come winter many people will make protests about high energy prices etc and said these were the “same people” who protested covid jabs. They are ultra right hate groups and must be prohibited. This from the government. This country is becoming Germany 1933 again but worse. I think Tucker’s “reality light” serves a useful purpose if a limited one.

Best,

Bill’ [end quote]

He also sent this link, which fleshes out his view on the issue.

These guys risk their lives every day to keep us fed.

Yes, evidence that it’s not just the U.S.A. that is in distress…

One more time: Thank you for being here.

Allan

Yesterday I was parked at a nearby post office and found a note on my windshield. It was from one of you, a very smart lady who offered me an ocean view place to camp and who is as awake as any of us. Really made my day. 

 

  43 comments for “Better Than Zero

  1. Horst
    September 10, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    German here. Public broadcasting is not financed by taxes. This would make it dependent from politics, they tell us. Because many people abolished their TVs, it’s now a fee every household has to pay. It’s mocking. No matter how disgusted you are, you have to pay it, wire it. They collect some 8000 000 000 Euro every year. After the ‘rona, one current distraction are corruption scandals regarding said system. It’s all scripted. Topic here, energy crisis. We got that green commerce secretary. The ministry is for commerce and climate protection. We get blackout warnings in the media. The minister is known to be a former childrens book author. He has books out, how a family lives through a blackout, there are quotes around, everybody shall know. Collecting wood, such adventures. His books are on amazon, Robert Habeck. You can’t make this up, they did. Meanwhile, the media is warning, autumn of anger! It’s constant mocking, psycho terror, revolution in the making. The real reset.

    • September 10, 2022 at 11:38 pm

      Yep. It’s all about MIND CONTROL, in every way, shape, and form…..and fleecing your hard earned $coffers$ in every different, sneaky way they can.
      If they can kill you too, that’s even better – especially seen for a fact over this last 2 3/4 years, and counting.

  2. philipski
    September 9, 2022 at 12:55 am

    Good to “hear” from you again, Allan, after your last blogpost got derailed in the comments by “climate change” crazies.

    I guess MilesTM has written something about our favorite bow-tied commentator, Tucker Carlson, because… Henry Makow’s site (out of CAnada) advertises it upfront now. Makow I’ve always suspected of some deceptive intents, have never exactly cared with all the good links he daily provides. The only thing I’d respond to so far is the “Carlson HATES Trump” bit… um, they hang out together on golf courses. I hardly ADMIRE Tucker or anything, of course he has a writing staff (no one can be completely relied on to tell his own jokes daily):

    https://henrymakow.com/2022/09/miles-mathis–who-is.html

    That may not be all of it… probably a mini book…!

    • Ea
      September 9, 2022 at 1:17 pm

      Mathis (July 23, reposted in part on Makow’s site Thursday) tells us :
      “In 1999 Tucker called Trump ‘the single most repulsive person on the planet,’ with his Reform Party being run ‘by a bunch of whackos.’
      By this and other examples Mathis shows that Carlson is hardly the conservative hero many now take him to be. if he and Trump do “hang out together on golf courses,” that may be because, as Mathis says, “by 2016 Tucker’s script was to promote Trump, and to keep quiet otherwise.”

      Neither Mathis nor Makow say that “Carlson hates Trump.” Note, though, that in 1964 James Bond was seen on a golf course with Auric Goldfinger, and they were not best buds.

    • Bill Blaise
      September 9, 2022 at 9:28 pm

      How about everybody you mentioned is out there save for Allan.
      Go ahead and leave a paypal contribution for MM. Your info is out there
      for everybody. Not in any way trying to say you support MM. The fact he doesn’t
      in any way protect your privacy says it all for me.

    • September 10, 2022 at 4:39 am

      Tucker is what he is, i.e., controlled op, but if you know how to listen, you can learn something. He is not as full of shit as MM, which is not saying much but there you have it.

      • Bill
        September 15, 2022 at 12:41 am

        IMHO, Tucker Carlson is a right wing TWIT.

        • September 15, 2022 at 8:03 pm

          I bet you are also one of those fake friends, insulting Allan at FB.

          • Bill
            September 16, 2022 at 11:47 pm

            Brett, have you ever been right about anything?

            You are certainly way off track when it comes to accusations directed at me.

            BTW, have you found any real scientific evidence (crackpots on YouTube do not count) to support your view that our biosphere is cooling rather than warming?

          • September 17, 2022 at 2:29 am

            Yes.
            And yes, I told you weeks ago, – my own thermometers where they have been observed in exactly the same place and position for 25 years.
            We are missing 2 or 3 degrees C (getting colder).

  3. lamont cranston
    September 6, 2022 at 12:57 am

    And…China & Taiwan “reach an agreement”. The US blusters and gets scolded, “Oh so solly. We no send the 90%+ pharmceuticals the US uses unless you stay out of Chinese business”.

    Karens w/out their meds??? Woohoo!!!!

  4. Jack
    September 5, 2022 at 11:31 pm

    Reminder social media is 80% to 90% bots. Most likely you are talking to preprogrammed computer algos.

    Another reminder over half of USians have under a 6th grade reading level with a compression of an 11 year old child https://www.independentsentinel.com/over-half-of-american-adults-read-on-a-6th-grade-level/.

    So out of the 10% remainder of real people more than half are intellectually invalid and cannot understand any high level concepts at all. You are literally talking to immature little bratty children in adult bodies greater than 50% of the time on average in person and online you are talking to literal bots.

    Dead internet theory is real in my opinion. USA and EU is doomed. Civilizational and societal suicide by Bankster controlled government.

    • September 6, 2022 at 1:00 am

      So true in every detail Mr!!.
      FB for instance is infested with bots like flea’s, and real dumb social engineers turn up, for when the going gets tough/close to the bone of TRUTH.
      So yes, this is why it is always like, – ‘trying to push it uphill with a pointed stick’

      • September 6, 2022 at 8:48 pm

        Fake Friend/Fucked Book, has me in “3 day clink” (as from 2 days ago). For one “wrong” word I used, picked up by the bot fleas. And it wasn’t even a 4 letter word. Can’t even at least “thumbs up” Allan’s pic’s.
        Of course this is ‘big brother’ on steroids, and it’s getting worse by the day.
        And by the way, we are starting to encounter plenty more “No Cash Accepted, – Card Only” swindles out there….many of them wanting to charge an extra 2% to use your electronic money card.

        • Bill Blaise
          September 6, 2022 at 10:42 pm

          Back before our last “ELECTIOn” we tried a mass exodus from FB.
          NOBODY would get on board to send a message.

  5. Connie Knox
    September 5, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    Your European friend is dead on. I watched the Tucker Carlson program you were talking about. It surprised me that more people aren’t aware that this assault on, especially Western countries, has been planned for a very long time. I remember Khrushchev at the UN telling everyone that they (the communists) would take over America without firing a shot. They would do it by instituting socialist programs until Americans would awaken one day and realize they were now a communist country. Marxist Obama was put in place to speed things along. Didn’t anyone understand the reason he appointed Czars when in office? They didn’t have to have Senate approval, which they wouldn’t have gotten as nearly all were Marxist/socialist/communist by their own admission. If you can open this link, you will see one of the results of their plan.
    VID-20220830-WA0001.mp4
    And I would add, They vote and they breed!

  6. Voo
    September 5, 2022 at 4:13 am

    Allan, my laptops have both been in the shop then my WiFi went off so I haven’t been around much but you’ve been in my thoughts…Voo

  7. Dave65
    September 5, 2022 at 3:42 am

    You’ve got 911 followers on your FB page………9…..11.

    • September 5, 2022 at 4:35 pm

      Really? Does that mean they actually look at the posts? I thought I had like 3,000 friends. What does that mean? All bull shit?

  8. September 4, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    Lot’s of fun dealing with those trolls on FB Allan! – and yep,- yet another passive/aggressive insult to you (and me & us), from one, and two, and three, off your “friends” list.
    With friends like that, who needs enemies aye!
    You keep doing your thing Allan, you are the Best!.
    Loving your photo’s so much too!.

    • September 4, 2022 at 9:31 pm

      BTW, have you seen the excellent movie – A Perfect Storm , about the fisherman on their boat?…Awesome movie but sad, about more hero guys trying to feed us, and lost at sea.

    • Ea
      September 4, 2022 at 6:57 pm

      ‘This country is becoming Germany 1933 again but worse.’

      we all associate that date –’33– with Hitler because that January he became prime minister of a minority government following the ELECTIONS of ’32/Nov. Furthermore most or many of us have been trained to think of the rest of that decade as the heyday of nasty Rightism. Thus 33 (at least as far as Germany goes) = Hard Right. And even elsewhere in NATO-stan, e.g the US, when a politician insufficiently progressive does well in the polls we are told it’s “like 1933 again.”

      of course the problem was totalitarianism, der grosse Staat plus full-spectrum dominance. The ‘rightist’ characteristics –ethnic chauvinism, corporate influence– might have been just coincidental. 33 is an acceptable shorthand for the establishment of unflavoured totalitarism –and that is what Engdahl must mean– but that is not what plain folks take it to mean. We have watched the movies and we all know what the worst thing about the Nationalists was.

      i submit that the sustained cultural chaos now raging across NATO-stan is better symbolised by the Weimar Republic than by the Reich, by the years PRECEDING and not following that election. As for the Germany you describe, it is as if Weimar had yielded its highest offices not to the gutter patriots but to the Cabaret crowd, and then cranked the top-down control.

  9. Paul
    September 4, 2022 at 3:38 pm

    Thanks for the update on Germany from William Engdahl who provides grim insights about Germany. I fear Amerika is in bigger trouble than most of us realize because the Nosferatu can take down the grid at any time.

    Baja sounds like a reasonable plan.

    Postscript: I posted a protocol I’ve been on for the last 30 days for “long-Covid” on the One-man dog thread. Hope it helps.

  10. bmseattle
    September 4, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    When a stranger makes a gesture of kindness to me (or others), with no obvious selfish motivation at play, it makes my day, as well.
    I guess it’s an indictment of how rare those gestures have become, that they move us so much when they now occur,

    Enjoy the view, Allan!

  11. Ron Robi
    September 4, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    Al, tho I may not follow you as much as others I do appreciate your insights and think the last is an indicator of our present “distress”. Perhaps All flags should be inverted… Stay Well
    Ron

  12. Saverio
    September 4, 2022 at 1:13 pm

    Writing from Italy.

    Bill is right and accurate 100%. All over Europe there are no dissident voices.
    Right now in Italy we have nearly six million people livining below the poverty line plus those who work can barely afford rent and bills are now getting out of proportion.

    • September 4, 2022 at 8:01 pm

      thanks for the update, depressing as it it. Amazing we don’t hear more about it… actually, not amazing…

    • Opinionist
      September 5, 2022 at 4:27 pm

      I second this! I’m not a native Italian, but have been a citizen since 1981 and lived in Milano since 1997. There are only two people I know who have the slightest idea about what’s going on in general. They’re interested in politics and what corporate media tells them to be concerned about, only! My own electric bill has gone through the roof and our grocery bill, for the same items we always buy, has gone up by anywhere from 15 to 20 euro per week. I don’t even want to imagine what’s coming down the pike this winter!!

  13. Dave65
    September 4, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Hi Allen,

    I’d been discussing our present situation with some fellow Brits who blame Brexit solely for their situation. Like many Yanks, they think they are uniquely suffering in the world and everyone else is fine. I tried to tweet William’s article as an example of how wrong they are, but Twatter wouldn’t allow it. Said it was ‘potentially harmful’.
    A sign of success for Mr Endgahl, there.

    • September 4, 2022 at 8:04 pm

      Jesus. that sort of thing (censorship) is the worst sign of all. You would think the FB idiots would be the first to realize it.

      • Dave65
        September 4, 2022 at 8:18 pm

        Idiots be idiots. There’s nothing we can do about it.

    • Krustysurfer
      September 4, 2022 at 8:22 pm

      Hegelian Dialectics…
      Divide and Conquer…
      Order out of Chaos….
      The Great Reset…
      WEF Klaus Schwab Bozos with their
      Bread and Circuses………….
      Remember that God owns the theater that this troup of miscreants misanthropes despots and Megalomaniacal cult of personalities ply their trade in. God will only let the show go on for so long before dropping the curtain on the psycho circus!
      Allan and guests it’s why I’m not sweating all of this too badly, I have my own worries for the day to deal with why be worried about the future?I’ll deal with the future when it comes, no ones going to stop whats going to happen till Jesus and his angels return for Armageddon.(too late for the old world order at that point)
      It sucks that people suffer starve and perish at the hands of those breaking a few eggs to make an omelette.
      In creating THEIR heaven on earth they make it hell on others, THEIR price to pay will be the destruction of THEIR souls… THEY could repent but its not likely… will THEY shake THEIR fists at God gasping for breath whilst laying on THEIR burning death beds?- (I heard Stalin didn’t check out too peacefully)
      The point I’m trying to make is we need to quit fighting them by conventional means (for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places) its a spiritual fight! prayers are your/our offensive weapons in that battle… To succumb to games of survival just play into the whole demonic narrative where hate anger and fear dwell and its almost impossible to make good decisions once stuck in that trench… just do the best we can in our personal lives being kind, peacemakers, helpers, living out the ‘Law of Love’ in our lives… Vengeance is in Gods hands when that curtain drops.
      God is good God is just and thank God he is merciful and patient with the ape men wielding nukes plagues pestilence… THEY will get their just desert after feasting on humanity… The vampire elite will not escape judgment.
      Its in the hands of God.
      Winter surf is coming….. Aloha

      • Chris
        September 5, 2022 at 1:42 pm

        What if the theater created the god? What theater is owned by god but churches? Maybe the waves and beach.

        • Chris
          September 5, 2022 at 1:44 pm

          *owned by god, but not churches*.

          • brian
            September 5, 2022 at 2:57 pm

            spiritual church as opposed to the physical church. One is in your heart, the latter is down the street on the corner.

        • Bill
          September 13, 2022 at 12:43 am

          “Surfing puts you in the greatest church of all, the open sea and the open sky.” – Tom Blake

  14. Ray
    September 4, 2022 at 12:20 pm

    The triangle is forming . FAMINE

    MASS MIGRATION CIVIL WAR

    • September 4, 2022 at 8:04 pm

      I fear you are exactly right and that is exactly what they want.

      • Krustysurfer
        September 4, 2022 at 8:25 pm

        None of us can stop them…
        Do you have an exit strategy?
        Blessings and aloha

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