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Game on...on the radio...Angels at Orioles...Dodgers at Cubs at five...Angels 0-Orioles 0...Dream: there are four distinct things that recede...part of a whole, that the whole can't do without...like living things...each has shape, a style...graphic, hieroglyphic...I dunno...the receding reruns across in out of the dreamsleep...now up close, now distant...maybe like semiphore flags...part of coded language...but more than just one word...more like a concept...a wonder they are...I wake up...this like that text machine back a couple posts...the text alive...hmmph...doomscroll feed dropped andy warhol youtube channel take...stepped, thought, back, after viewing, he thought he was dreaming!...
✨️did warhol think he was in a dream?
Yes, Andy Warhol explicitly described life as feeling like a dream or television after he survived his 1968 attempted assassination. He reflected that he no longer knew if he was truly alive or dead, stating that reality felt unreal and emotionally detached, much like watching a continuous TV broadcast. [1]
do people think life is a dream after almost dying
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Yes, many people do feel that life is a dream, unreal, or like a movie after almost dying. This feeling often comes from depersonalization, profound psychological shifts, or near-death experiences (NDEs). [1, 2, 3, 4]
Common Reasons for This Feeling
Brain Defense: The brain reacts to severe trauma or lack of oxygen by shutting down certain feelings, making the world seem fake or distant. [1, 2, 3]
New Perspective: Surviving a close call makes people see daily worries as small and unimportant, like a fleeting dream.
Altered Reality: People who report NDEs often say the "other side" felt more real than actual physical life, making normal life feel like an illusion afterward. [1, 2, 3]
✨️PTSD patients think reality is a dream
Yes, feeling like reality is a dream is a real experience for some people with PTSD, known as derealization, which involves detachment from your surroundings.
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✨️ADHD and derealization
Derealization is not an official symptom of ADHD, but the two are frequently connected through severe nervous system overwhelm, chronic stress, or overlapping conditions like anxiety and trauma. [1, 2, 3]
While ADHD primarily causes you to "zone out" due to a lack of dopamine, derealization is a protective defense mechanism where your brain actively alters your perception to make your surroundings feel foggy, fake, dreamlike, or artificial. [1, 2, 3]
🎶to even question reality is real, or a dream is a dream, is a forbidden zone...and artists, philosophers, fringe sorts, question it all the time-a kind of wariness...in church, the faithful don't doubt...aand, don't "church things up"...
🧐don't church things up
The German idiom for not escalating things, literally "to leave the church in town", comes from Catholic processions where for really big ones, the congregation (the church) would walk so far they would leave the town.
🎶...to question is to escalate
✨️To escalate an issue means to raise a problem to a higher authority, such as a manager or supervisor, when you cannot fix it yourself, your deadline is at risk, or the solution requires more power than you have.
🎶that's a "miss take", misstook, by AI...but close enough...I quote AI as it's easy, and "fair use"...AI IS more powerful...Salvidor Dali, with his wife, and driver, were on their way to California from New York, stopped in a motel in Winnemuca, Arizona...police had a headsup for three German saboteurs, and a local thought Dali a fit...police rolled up, inspected the car, found paint gear and paintings...and left them alone...this 1942...I have it Dali was in Monterey, California all during the war...a curio for sometime...and he's sus for fascist leanings...to say nothing of violating censorships for good taste...but it's a scene...being suspected of being saboteurs...
✨️Yes, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol can be considered cultural saboteurs because they systematically subverted traditional definitions of artistic value, taste, and authenticity. Rather than acting as literal government saboteurs, they functioned as semiotic and systemic disruptors. They weaponized the mechanisms of celebrity, mass media, and consumerism to undermine the elite, sacred status of fine art from within the institution itself. [1, 2]
Both artists exposed the art world as a transactional theater, blurring the line between profound genius and calculated trickery. [1, 2]
🎶after the War, confronted with communism supplanting fascism, the FBI resorted to hiring artists to do their bidding, somewhat like the CIA hiring journalists with Operation Mockingbird...
✨️after the War, confronted with communism supplanting fascism, the FBI resorted to hiring artists to do their bidding, somewhat like the CIA hiring journalists with Operation Mockingbird...
The CIA—not the FBI—secretly used American modern art and abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock as a cultural weapon against Soviet propaganda during the Cold War. Rather than hiring artists to do direct bidding, the agency used front groups like the Congress for Cultural Freedom to promote artistic freedom. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Cultural Cold War
The Strategy: The CIA covertly funded international art exhibitions to prove that America offered greater creative freedom than the rigid system of Soviet socialist realism. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The Intermediary: Organizations like the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) helped showcase these works globally, often keeping the artists completely unaware that their exhibitions had intelligence backing. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The FBI's Approach
Domestic Surveillance: Instead of patronizing or co-opting leftist modern artists, the J. Edgar Hoover's FBI heavily surveilled, investigated, and blacklisted artists, writers, and musicians suspected of communist sympathies during the Red Scare. [1, 2, 3, 4]
🎶my miss take...FBI keeps survellance files, much as Warhol kept his time capsules...these were cardboard boxes filled with each days miscellaneous souvenirs...he had the wherewithall to store these, along with tons of other things...both Warhol and Dali archived themselves-Dali buried in the floor of his museum in Spain...he has his own museums in Monterey, Florida, ???...Warhol museums all over...???...oh...update the games:...new by trade Scruble on Dodger's mound...Dodgers 1-Cubs 0...top of third...Tommy up...Angels 1-Orioles 2...eighth inning...fly out...Dodgers batting new trades...???...oh...this is the catcher...Rush hurt elbow...Ohtani up...a channel was going on about our banks in WW2 double dealing...
✨️During World War II, major American financial institutions and multinational corporations faced accusations of "double-dealing" for maintaining lucrative financial ties, handling looted assets, and conducting cross-border business that indirectly or directly aided the Axis powers—often continuing transactions even after the U.S. entered the war.
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🎶Dodgers 1-Cubs 1...and today, the same channel was going on about reddit...it's sus, suspect...and listening, with Dali and Wahol in mind, and the AI searches referencing reddit all the time, a "wait"...
🧐google search is the dewey decimal labels in the web library...thereabout I am a lot...my seven league search boots...my iron man suit!...of late, the artificial intelligence has superceded wiki as source of log lines, like movie synopsis year by year on IMBd...what am I pointing to...?...on this channel a riff about Morgan Chase banks double dealing during the world wars...curious, from that sketch, I google search, aaand, they're in the news...hands caught in the cookie files, even Trump eyerolls them...sus they hook up with the cookie files...
About Newhouse and Reddit
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1565179962063511/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
🎶above, part of comment posted to channel...I deleted the comment...Morgan Chase currently in the scandal files...forget what Trump was on about...
✨️President Donald Trump filed a $5 billion lawsuit in January 2026 against JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon, alleging the bank wrongfully "debanked" him by closing his business accounts for political reasons in early 2021.
🎶channel is on facebook reels...oh, I can search that...bbk...here is link to double deals in WW2...
🧐https://www.facebook.com/reel/1046201417946225/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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🎶vlogger is Irish girl, maybe in Ireland...one of the algo feed favorites...cats calling for dinner...bbk...bk...
✨️The idea that financial institutions and international financiers intentionally promote or manipulate nations into armed conflict for profit is commonly known as the Merchants of Death thesis or part of broader military-industrial-financial conspiracy theories. [1]
Key Concepts and Terms
Merchants of Death: A 1930s pejorative term originating from the book Merchants of Death by H.C. Engelbrecht and F.C. Hanighen and investigated by the U.S. Senate's Nye Committee. It originally targeted arms manufacturers and international bankers for allegedly conspiring to create war scares and profit from human conflict. [1, 2, 3]
War is a Racket: Popularized by Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler in his 1935 book and speeches, arguing that capitalism and banking interests push nations into foreign wars to secure financial returns. [1]
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars: A modern catchphrase and alternative title used by various modern conspiracy narratives and alternative documentary films claiming private central banks orchestrate conflicts to force nations into debt. [1, 2]
🎶I happened on Smedly Butler on Socony Hill in my Panay geocities blog, The Panay Project, now maybe still archived in the way back...it was a heady time back then...searching USS Panay on google brought up my blog in the first ten...there wan't much about the Yangtze Patrol yet on the web...I gathered up most everthing...I have fondness for old China, much like Chinatown in San Francisco...searches skip me, or I would link it...back in the blog it's linked...but opening it is thwarted by a hack...anyway, the channels reveal Butler-can see scene of Rogan with an "Oh Wow!"...
✨️Joe Rogan frequently brings up Major General Smedley Butler and his famous 1933 book [War Is a Racket] on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan uses Butler's perspective as a decorated military insider to critique foreign intervention, military-industrial complex corruption, and war profiteering by corporate and banking interests. [1, 2, 3]
Key Points Rogan References
Disillusioned Hero: Rogan highlights that Butler was a two-time Medal of Honor recipient who realized at the end of his career that his service was used to protect corporate profits and resources rather than secure freedom. [1]
War Profiteering: He quotes Butler's core thesis that war benefits a tiny elite class at the massive expense of ordinary soldiers and taxpayers.
Recurring Theme: Rogan often cites Butler when talking with guests who specialize in foreign policy, anti-war politics, or military history to emphasize how little institutional foreign policy motives have changed over the decades
🎶click bait reveals now daily algo bowl fodder..
I found a lot of stuff!...and amused nowadays seeing the channels pick thru searches I did thirty years ago@...a saga waiting to be a movie is the Yangtze Patrol...see Crispins' old blog on movie the Sandpebbles...
✨️Smedley Butler Socony Hill El Cano
These terms refer to distinct historical subjects tied to early 20th-century U.S. military history, naval operations in China, and the Age of Discovery.
- Major General Smedley Butler was a legendary U.S. Marine Corps officer and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.
- He served in the Philippine-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and the Banana Wars.
- Later in life, he became a vocal anti-war critic and wrote the famous exposé War Is a Racket. [1, 2, 3]
- Located in Nanjing, China, this site was the location of the American Consulate during the chaotic Nanking Incident of March 24, 1927.
- Foreign nationals and diplomats took refuge on Socony Hill while being besieged by nationalist forces and local unrest. [1, 2]
- The USS Elcano was a U.S. Navy patrol gunboat that served in China's Yangtze River Patrol. [1]
- During the March 1927 siege at Socony Hill, the gunboat actively shelled positions at the base of the hill to provide a protective barrage and rescue trapped Americans. [1, 2]
- The gunboat itself was named after Juan Sebastián Elcano (often spelled del Cano), the Basque navigator who completed Ferdinand Magellan's historic first global circumnavigation after Magellan died in the Philippines. [1, 2]
🎶...lol...history is like those endless paper drawings...just saw a drop about Magellan not really being the first to sail around the world...Elcano credited with that, and remaining crew..
🧐If the second part of the Transylvanus text is a direct translation of Elcano's report, he appears as an exponent of the humanist and utopian intellectual movements then current in Europe, and the text, which says that the societies of the Moluccas were peaceful, treated their neighbors well and were hospitable to foreigners can be seen as one of the first explications of the myth of the noble savage and a critique of the corruption of European civilization:[38][69] All of them show great respect and care not to cause harm or discomfort to neighboring towns, even more so to neighbors from neighboring islands, and even more so to foreigners or pilgrims.
Wiki Sebastion Elcano
🎶 Dodgers 1-Cubs 4...play by play Monday is fit to be tied...Dodgers can do no right...back then, Spain mined silver in Bolivia...?...so much so, so many new coins dumped in the economy, that they bankrupted themselves...mutiple times! (Our silver mountain is we just print money excessively to finance, same o same o, mercenaries...)
✨️The United States government funds its massive spending and military operations, including private military contractors, through a combination of tax revenues, debt issuance via Treasury bonds, and Federal Reserve monetary policy that expands the money supply. [1]
Economic Realities
National Debt: The government borrows money by selling Treasury securities to investors worldwide. [1]
Money Creation: When the Federal Reserve buys government debt, it effectively increases the overall money supply in the financial system.
Inflation Risk: Printing or creating new money without a proportional rise in economic productivity can devalue the currency and raise consumer prices.
Government Spending and Defense
Budget Deficits: Federal spending regularly exceeds tax revenue, requiring continuous borrowing.
Defense Budgets: A significant portion of discretionary spending goes toward national defense, which includes operations, equipment, and private defense contractors.
Fiscal Debate: Economists disagree on how much debt and money creation an economy can handle before facing severe inflation or a loss of confidence in the dollar.
✨️mutiple times!
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In the 16th century, Spain mined massive amounts of silver at Potosí (in modern-day Bolivia). This massive influx of bullion caused severe inflation known as the Price Revolution. Rather than boosting domestic industry, the crown used the wealth to fund endless European wars, leading to repeated state bankruptcies (such as in 1557, 1575, and 1596). [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Mechanics of the Spanish Ruin
The Resource Curse: Easy silver wealth meant the Spanish crown could borrow heavily against future shipments (asientos) without needing domestic tax reform or supporting local manufacturing. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Runaway Inflation: The sudden explosion of coin supply—while goods remained scarce—drove up prices dramatically across Spain and the rest of Europe. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Wealth Leakage: Spain used its silver to buy foreign goods and pay foreign mercenary armies, effectively acting as a funnel that transferred New World wealth to rival European nations and into Asian markets (like Ming Dynasty China). [1, 2, 3, 4]
🎶Ohtani fly out...bottom of eighth...China was made rich with silver, pieces of eight...
✨️what happened to China's Spanish silver?...
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, China absorbed a massive portion of the world's Spanish silver—often referred to as "pieces of eight"—primarily through trade, where it served as the backbone of the Chinese economy before being largely depleted by foreign exploitation and internal strife.
China's Spanish silver was primarily used to monetize its economy, but was eventually drained through opium trade deficits, indemnity payments to foreign powers, and the transition to fiat currency.
The Flow of Silver
The Global Trade Loop: Spanish America (via the Manila Galleons) and Europe traded vast amounts of silver for Chinese silk, tea, and porcelain.
Economic Integration: China's Ming and Qing dynasties adopted silver as the standard for taxes and large transactions, creating an insatiable demand for the metal.
The Disappearance of the Silver
The Opium Trade (19th Century): The British East India Company bridged their trade deficit with China by smuggling opium, reversing the flow of silver. Massive amounts of silver left China to pay for the drug, crippling the economy.
Unequal Treaties and Indemnities: Following losses in the Opium Wars, China was forced to pay astronomical indemnities to Western powers and Japan in silver, draining the treasury.
Monetary Reform: By the early 20th century, the chaotic nature of silver-based currency, combined with economic collapse, led China to move toward paper currency (fiat money), removing the physical silver from active circulation.
Where is it now?
Sunken Cargo: Significant amounts remain in shipwrecks, such as those from the Manila Galleon trade.
Private Collections/Bullion: Much was melted down, minted into new coins, or is held in private numismatic collections worldwide.
✨️what happened to Yamashita's gold?
According to legend, Yamashita's gold—a vast, mythical treasure reputedly looted by Japanese forces during WWII—was hidden in numerous caves and tunnels across the Philippines.
Current Status & Theories
No Official Confirmation: There is no official, verified record of the treasure's existence, and it is widely considered a myth or urban legend.
The Roxas Lawsuit: A notable legal battle was initiated by Filipino treasure hunter Rogelio Roxas, who claimed he found part of the gold in 1971. He alleged that Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos seized the treasure and that it was later lost or stolen.
Search Efforts: For decades, treasure hunters have searched the Philippines, with some believing smaller portions of the treasure were found, while the bulk remains hidden or was recovered by covert operations.
🎶"covert"...that would be OSS/CIA BCCI Bank Scandal Phillipines gold
✨️The intersection of the OSS/CIA, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, and legendary Philippine gold involves decades-long covert financial networks, intelligence operations, and conspiracy theories regarding hidden World War II-era loot (often tied to Yamashita's gold). BCCI acted as a global clearinghouse for dark intelligence money, leading researchers to connect legacy OSS networks with later CIA off-the-books funding, macro-money laundering, and hidden Asian sovereign wealth.
🎶the USS Panay went to the bottom of the Yangtze, 12 miles up river from Nanking...two crewman, and one journalistsl, ?...died...the sinking was filmed, Norman Alley's Bombing of the USS Panay...this 12/12/37...on ebay, I'd search up cache postcards from the Yangtze Patrol...Remember the Panay on them ...
Dodgers 1-Cubs 5...Angels 1-Orioles 3...
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