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Transcriber B's avatar

Very sorry about your mom.

Also: Many thanks for your reporting from Japan.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thank you Transcriber.

Despite coming of age in post-war Germany, she lived life on her own terms, and spent the majority of her life more comfortably than most ... until the plandemic and propaganda got her. (sigh) An international case of "out of the boiling pot and into the fire".

Still in the process of coming to terms with both parents now gone, and being the last of my blood line. Nothing remains of her except memories and a box of photographs documenting her life. I can't yet bring myself to open it, if for no other reason, I don't know what is to become of my own.

Though more of a jazz fan, can't help but to take some consolation in others struggling with the same ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ.

But to end on a couple of brighter notes ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz5DLO8fclA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6zYQPCgsc

Cheers Transcriber.

To the end.

Cheers.

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Transcriber B's avatar

Re Dust in the Wind. Oh, those hairdos!!

Our stories live on.

Cheers.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Back when men had hair, and on their chest-icles too. 😂.

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damon mcclure's avatar

Nice work mate, hooe Japan is still treating you well.

Aussie is a bloody champ as well, would love to shake his hand and tell him well done you are making a difference.

If I go to Japan again would love to say gday and shake yours as well.

Keep it up Steve

Edit- so sorry about you mum mate, no matter what it leaves a hole in your heart larger then you can imagine.

She would be proud of you that I'm sure of.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Damon, and thanks.

Yeah, I guess the death of one's parents something we all have to handle our own way, if nothing else, clarifying our values and coming to terms with our own final reckoning

I've heard rumors Aussies like their beer too. Would be great if we can knock off a couple of birds with one stone. Aussie17 is au-somely deep behind enemy lines. Hope to meet him some day, but with the info and skills he's got, maybe it is just as well he fights from the shadows. Guy Gin is a very good technical source too. And I can confirm, he likes his beer too.

Cheers mate.

Keep up the good fight.

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damon mcclure's avatar

I'm lucky whwn I lost mum I had done almost everything humanly possible so the wound while there isn't full of salt. Miss her though but thats life, it takes all it gives.

I don't drink unfortunately as I've had issues with it in the past, a happy drunk but a drunk is still a drunk.

Gladly sit and chat though. I'm sure I follow guy gin as well but tbh I'm struggling to keep up with the volume of substacks I follow and my inbox is always chockers.

ExcessdeathAu is a good man as well, haven't met but he's deep underground as well and with how crap I am at cyber security I'm happy to keep it that way as I'd hatw to be responsible whwn(hope if) it goes to shit.

Be careful mate because being stuck in a country well known for its compliance to authority may well be dangerous, more so when you can't hide.

Shifts over and I'm stuffed so off to bed.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Agree with you about that natural flow and ebb of life. And as for drinking, I become fully human after my first cup of coffee.

Thanks for the heads up abut ExcessdeathAu. Will look him up. But I am also struggling under the flood of information. I suspect some of the names I subscribe to are actually groups working under one name. Otherwise, how could they be sending out 6 or 7 'newsletters' every day? Now, unless it is a name that rarely publishes and I like, or the first three words of the title attract my attention, I file the notifcations away into a 'read later, if ever' folder. So I am grateful if anyone reads, much less responses to my occasional posts.

I also hear you about Japan. As a permanent resident, when the psychopaths in charge start really stirring the pot, I don't think my friends will be able to help me one bit. I am no Anne Frank. I imagine I will be disposed of in a mass pit burial. Oh well, ashes to ashes. Better that than those wall-to-wall asses to asses. 😂

Just waking up from a long night.

Hope you had a good sleep.

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damon mcclure's avatar

You get it then, come back to Australia mate we have a deep f you written into our genes when its unfair. Also need people with principals at your back, almost every castle fell to betrayal.

This is his substack, he has done some superb articles and they're timed like a human being not an intelligence group has written them.

https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/

Been following the sage hana for a while and its always food for thought of the potential scene behind the scene BUT he puts out a hell of a lot of posts that would take up copious amounts of time to research just one yet multiple so you have to ask.

Up until now I've spent as much time as I could manage trying to wake people up but we getting to the sharp end of the stick and have to start thinking about how to survive whats coming.

If you do give me a hoy and I'll see whats up.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Damon.

Yeah, I had followed ExcessDeathsAU the moment you recommended him. I haven't started reading him (her?) yet, but also noticed that about half of EDAU's recommendations are people I follow and read.

And yeah, those sharp ends just never end. Hope to find some way to both thrive and survive.

Cheers buddy!

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damon mcclure's avatar

Better a warrior in a garden then a gardener in a war.

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Dean Scoville's avatar

My condolences to you for the loss of

your mother. The reading is sadly fascinating, and articulates what is intuited here in America but assiduously suppressed.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thanks Dean.

Yeah, so many angles and variables and social contexts for describing the elephant in the room, and as Tereza has hilariously admitted in a comment to another post ... my intuition (as an individual) is shit. But with enough triangulation, we get by with a little help from our friends.

Again, much thanks for your craftsmanship of a style I have much to learn from. Here, I am just kind of writing for to clarify things for myself. Given a beer and the right circumstances, there's plenty of gallows humor just waiting to be tapped. Where's Gary Larson when you need him?

Cheers buddy!

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

Thanks Steve for the link and anecdotes.

It's just another layer of maddening, how the ubiquity of these heart-breaking stories has the effect of lessening in impact over time. Our outrage can't sustain. (Like violence on TV desensitizes kids to violence I guess.) What we are having to integrate is just astounding.

Let's take it as progress even if evidence doesn't translate into certain camps.

Best to you.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thanks Kathleen.

Just playing a small part in soaking it up, trying to sift and share — my pleasure, my obligation, my addiction.

I hear you about the unsustainability of outrage. But looking at the grim, broad sweep of history, "progress" is a bit more difficult for me to wrap my head around. I kind of like that aboriginal concept of non-linear 'dream time'. So yeah, maybe progress emerges in piddles and puddles ... a bit like that Barbara Streisand "On a Clear Day" thingy.

Thank you again Kathleen, and keep up the good fight.

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

I like that non-linear dream time too.

'piddles and puddles' and maybe an occasional 'downpour'.

The Streisand video was fun - how did that hat/halo stay on?

Best.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Uh ... mmmm .... As with most of our heroes, maybe someone nailed it to her? 😂

Yeah, let's dance for a downpour!

Cheers Kathleen. (Headed back to your Bluebird page for a comment, though not about "Mac".) Yet another giggle and hail Mary.

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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

lol!

"hail Mary," love it.

Ahh... such a hopeful thing when poetry just will not be suppressed.

Cheers and best to you.

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Steve Martin's avatar

❤️

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BetterOffRed's avatar

Steve, Thx for the reporting, sharin' yer plight (said here in Virginia drawl).

Preemptively, I say I have no influence.BUT...

A good friend of mine is on UVA Darden's board of directors. If you want to explore this as a path and fits MBA aspirations, I will ask my bud to advise & usher your application if y'all are a good fit.

https://www.darden.virginia.edu/

You never know: they're more (academic, experience) and less (admittedly wokadope but could work Because Age-ism) discriminatory in choosing candidates.

Think up & reply.

Cheers. -BOR

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Steve Martin's avatar

Whoa ... much thanks BOR. Impressive link!

And Virginia? I grew up just outside of Greensboro, North Carolina, undergrad at UNC-W, and then dabbled in philosophy at Chapel Hill.

Just by chance, I will be headed to a local community center tomorrow to attend an open house-workshop by three Japanese interested in starting "Free University" classes in the area. Like myself, they are frustrated at how easily institutionalization of education undermines original ideals.

I had never thought of an MBA direction, and though a degree granting program is not necessary for what time I have left in my life journey, some of the resources and skills might be useful.

Will get back to you around this time tomorrow.

Cheers from Japan, BOR, and thanks again.

steve

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BetterOffRed's avatar

Seen & read!

Best regards.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Off to the Free University meeting. If you have the time and interest, a comment thread with Kathleen is revealing a lot about both of us ... https://devanneykathleen.substack.com/p/its-just-another-day/comment/47333599

Cheers BOR!

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thanks again!

And good night from Japan.

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BetterOffRed's avatar

My hope for you expressed in the other recent reply was not meant to be flip or callous (about there being other roads to choose).

I'm in my sixties, Aunt just passed 'with COVID,' everyone around me jabbed and unhealthy, so I project my own desire for detaching and finding a better path.

Sorry about your Mom.

Keep fighting & writing!

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi BetterOffRed.

No offense taken. You and I are share similar circumstances ... 68 myself, all of my family back in the states are jabbed and captured by mainstream media, and though I have the support of a couple of fully aware friends here in Japan, they are in no position to connect me with work. Meh ... will muddle through somehow.

Much thanks again for the moral support.

Yes ... fighting through writing is one way to transcend this mess and at least aspire to touch the face of god.

You too, take care and keep up the good fight.

steve

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Great last line! Thanks for this, Steve. My BiL with turbo cancer can be added to the list. They've taken him off chemo and put him on hospice. He's so sad about his daughter. My SiL said she came back into the hospital room to find them in bed together, holding hands. She's in her second year of college. So sad.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Oh god. I am so sorry to hear this Tereza.

Future generations and their histories and Hollywoods, if there are any, will have their pick of tragedies we are now experiencing.

Families and communities are being crushed with cold calculation, individuals cut down, most before they even realize this is neither a war nor murder, either of which presume mutually opposing sides of the same species.

This is a completely one-sided cull. I have yet to hear of even a single politician, corporate robber baron, or member of a three letter agency being fined, jailed, or even fired for crimes against humanity. I no longer expect justice for what has been done. So why do I fight? Outrage against my aspiring masters, and love for those who would not be slaves.

Keep up the good fight Tereza.

This old corvid only wishes he could fly at your altitude. 😅

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Two people to whom I mentioned the turbo cancers were diagnosed almost immediately after. It makes me wonder, on a spiritual level, if there's something on a deeper level going on. Certainly not a conscious level and I don't mean suggestibility or something superficial. But at the same time, perhaps an agreement to be in this role. I'm speaking cautiously because this is so easy to make into what I don't mean. But maybe the dream needs this in order to wake us up, and maybe these are the exact right people who've ... chosen? ... whew. Dangerous territory.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Whoa. I had not even considered that angle or depth. But come to think of it, depending on one's relationship with the infinite mystery of it all, that makes perfect sense. Just getting to that relationship is the hard part. An arduous, dangerous Lord-of-the-Rings journey, yes. Begs fundamental questions, assumptions, and provisional definitions of 'free will' and distinction (if any) between self and other. Close to the edge stuff. I need a drink. 🥺

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Tirion's avatar

So sorry to hear about your BiL, Tereza. Does he know about the emerging information about Ivermectin and Fenbendazole in curing cancer?

https://fenbendazole.substack.com/

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-may-defeat-cancer-and-203?publication_id=400535&post_id=140671185&isFreemail=true&r=pador

The Tippens Protocol:

https://search.brave.com/search?q=Tippens+protocol&source=web

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Hi, Tirion. Too much to say to answer that in a soundbite. But this is the episode I did when his ordeal first started. Way too much water under that bridge 1.5 yrs later. Odd to think that when I first heard the phrase Turbo Cancer, it was new info I had to dig for. Now they're words paired in all our minds: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-cancer-covax-connexion.

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Tirion's avatar

Your post reminds me of another brave Japanese doctor (in August 2021):

"Tokyo's Medical Assoc. Chairman holds press conference recommending Ivermectin to all COVID patients"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkWOpFk1GGk&list=WL&index=4

When I asked my doctor to prescribe Ivermectin for me, he declined, saying that in Japan Ivermectin was only approved for use in horses! Kinda dumb, especially for a Japanese invention! Humans have been using it all over the world for decades without any adverse events/reactions.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Tirion.

Good find. I missed that one altogether, as the CNS intended (getting a cramp typing "Corporate Nation-State so many times. 😅).

Sounds like your doc was following the same marching orders my sister was so confident about back in the states. My response ... "Yeah. A Nobel Prize for 'Horse Medicine?"

Went back through a 'private' F.B. group to find this relevant little gem and post to my channel ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU8lZ5mKpic

Cheers buddy!

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Tirion's avatar

Yes, Steve, the Africans know all about Ivermectin and they knew that they neither needed nor wanted to be harvested (both in terms of lives and money) by a very expensive so-called "vaccine." Africans are tired of being harvested. That tide has turned.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=ivermectin+in+Africa&source=web

Now it is emerging that Ivermectin has a wide range of other powerful properties, including against dementia and cancer:

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-may-defeat-cancer-and-203?publication_id=400535&post_id=140671185&isFreemail=true&r=pador&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Steve Martin's avatar

LOL. The Ornette Coleman of language and thought. Prefer your Steely Dan stuff, but yeah ... you have a way of putting things in perspective.

Cheers buddy!

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Hi Paul.

Yup ... and a great example ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGCUaDbJycQ

His cup runneth over with hubris.

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