The Economist - 2025 cover
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Good catch, I did not realized about the Mahjong representation.
For the record, the 2024 one, it was more light:
For the record, the 2024 one, it was more light:
It is interesting to make the comparison of both covers. The first thing that caught my attention is the representation of the ballot boxes.
This is what happened in 2024
This is what happened in 2024
Thus, on the cover of 2024 we see a ballot box receiving votes. As I mentioned in the corresponding thread, we see the silhouette of the now president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum and on the other side the silhouette of the now president Trump. The strange thing back then was that Trump appeared with a question mark in the ear where he was wounded. This reminds me of the Cs comment regarding the Quorum meeting and the change of program.
Below the ballot box we see the symbol of the "all-seeing eye" with a question mark but now inside the cornea. Was Trump allowed to be president? Out of all patriotism and wishful thinking I think so, as he will be allowed to drain the swamp to some extent unless he wants JFK therapy.
Now, on the 2025 cover we see the empty, but cracked ballot box. In my opinion this is a representation that democracy is undermined. What would cause people in 2025 to stop believing in democracy?
Below the ballot box we see the symbol of the "all-seeing eye" with a question mark but now inside the cornea. Was Trump allowed to be president? Out of all patriotism and wishful thinking I think so, as he will be allowed to drain the swamp to some extent unless he wants JFK therapy.
Now, on the 2025 cover we see the empty, but cracked ballot box. In my opinion this is a representation that democracy is undermined. What would cause people in 2025 to stop believing in democracy?
Many people know today that we are not in a democracy, and let's not talk about young people who don't know the definition of what a democracy is. The voting box looks like a shattered cardboard box, you can't even see the voters' papers anymore, it's just a box as if picked up in a dustbin and the message is clear to me: voting is fake and it could have something to do with the crazy woman la Van Deer (I never remember her name) that is very near this absolutely disgusting box, the one who represents the future totalitarianism in Europe.
Perhaps it is not the belief per se, it could relate to something that 'may' happen that reduces... a globalist dog whistle sign to prepare for their one world thing, where voting becomes a non essential reality. A reset being still in their deck of cards.
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Here's an article published on the website of: profession gendarme, which matches your doubts Puma about people's respect for democracy as far as the French are concerned. Fertile ground for the PTB...
Article from profession gendarme:
It's a real upheaval in French opinion.
It's easy to see why the government and the press are muzzling this “hidden poll”,
The publication of the results of the annual survey in Le Monde, conducted by the Opinionway Institute and the Centre de Recherche Politique de Sciences Po, entitled “Baromètre de la confiance politique”.
This is the 5th edition, but for the first time this year, on February 13, the press revealed only 41 pages out of 84.
Valeurs actuelles wondered what they were trying to hide from us and obtained the results of the survey, which are published in issue no. 4026.
The results are astonishing - a veritable political earthquake!
Here's a faithful summary:
1. 75% of French people no longer trust the State or the Republic.
2. 88% categorically reject political parties.
3. 87% think MACRON is not fit to be president . (that's less surprising).
4. 61% are ready to demonstrate, compared with 30% in 2010.
5. 71% no longer trust trade unions, especially left-wing ones...
But the shocker:
1 . 50% no longer believe in democracy, and would like to see a man with strong personal power at the head of the country.
2 . 42% even want the army to run the country!
This is unprecedented in 200 years, and shows the crisis into which this government of enarques cut off from the realities of the country, have plunged the country.
Unsurprisingly:
1. 56% put Fillon, the most competent in their eyes, in the lead to turn France around.
2. 77% think there are too many immigrants in France,
3. 50% are in favor of reinstating the death penalty (down from 35% in 2011).
Whatever thoughts these results may suggest,
at any rate, we can clearly see the degree of deep crisis and disaffection with the ruling class that the politics (and our politics) of recent decades have led us to.
The French no longer want to be governed by enarques or civil servants,
It's fantastic: FRANCE is finally reacting.
It restores morale and hope!
It's unacceptable and regrettable that the media doesn't broadcast this kind of information.
It just goes to show that they are “in the pocket of power”, on which they depend for their many subsidies...!
As far as I can tell, every nation, always, has been a plutocracy, but I virtually never see the word used (except when I do). Regardless if political leaders are being paid (and/or coerced/blackmailed) by domestic corporations or foreign or transnational, or from other sources, no matter where, it's those with big money who rule. When younger, I knew loads peers who basically knew "corporations control everything" and since then most became leftists and forgot all they once knew about that control over politicians, science, education, law, media (all institutions really), and now go on and on about a fantasy called democracy with an almost Pavlovian response and gravitation to the word.
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The Force is Strong With This One
Its rings will be briefly "disappearing" from our perspective due to an alignment between its axial tilt and earth's vantage point.
The rings of Saturn will disappear in 2025
From March to November, one of the most distinctive features of the solar system will vanish. The reason is simple, but the symbolism is profound
Why won’t Saturn’s rings be visible?
In reality, it all has to do with planetary alignment. Saturn’s rings are so thin that they seemingly vanish when viewed edge-on. And as Earth and Saturn travel around the sun on their respective orbital paths, our planet reaches this particular vantage point like clockwork, roughly every 13 to 16 years.
As Saturn completes its orbit over approximately 29.4 Earth years, it leans at an angle of 26.7 degrees. This means that our view of Saturn toggles between the upper side of its rings when it’s tilted toward us and the lower side when it’s tilted away. We get the special, ringless view of the planet when Earth transitions between each of these perspectives and passes through Saturn’s “ring plane,” essentially, any area of space that’s in line with the edge of its rings.
From that angle, “they reflect very little light and are very difficult to see, making them essentially invisible,” Vahe Peroomian, a physicist and astronomer at the University of Southern California, tells CBS News’ Caitlin O’Kane.
Saturn "with" and "without" its rings, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994 and 1995. The dark band across the planet in each image is the rings' shadow cast by the sun. Reta Beebe (New Mexico State University), D. Gilmore, L. Bergeron (STScI), NASA/ESA, Amanda S. Bosh (Lowell Observatory), Andrew S. Rivkin (Univ. of Arizona/LPL), the HST High Speed Photometer Instrument Team (R.C. Bless, PI), and NASA/ESA
In May 1995, Earth crossed through Saturn’s ring plane, and the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the gas giant with its rings looking paper-thin. Then, the phenomenon happened again in 2009.
This time, the rings will disappear from sight in March 2025. “They’ll gradually come back into view as seen through large telescopes, before sliding out of view again in November 2025,” writes Horner. “Thereafter, the rings will gradually get more and more obvious.”
Saturn's Rings Will Temporarily Disappear From View in 2025
From Earth’s perspective, we’ll be looking at the gas giant’s rings edge-on, making them nearly impossible to seewww.smithsonianmag.com
