Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Transubstantiation of Human Biology in the New Religion



Transubstantiation is the Catholic belief that the bread and wine they consume during Mass is actually the body and blood of Christ. For some centuries in Europe, the Catholic Church had the power to force the population into believing this, using torture and murder to enforce their decree. Eventually, people rebelled and during the Enlightenment the principles of freedom of thought, religion and speech spread widely among the population.

When England was ruled by autocratic monarchs, the entire population was forced to convert religions when the throne changed hands. I have always found this fascinating. One day you're a Catholic and the next you're a Protestant? Didn't that cause consternation? Did no one rebel?

Here we are in the 21st century, and England, as well as her former colonies, are being forced into a new religion in an audacious and Orwellian grab for our minds by our new ruling overlords. As Orwell, Arendt and others have pointed out, forcing people to chant something that is clearly not true is the ultimate in power. It seems that our rulers have become very confident in their abilities to control the citizens and our beliefs and behavior.

How is it possible that entire sections of the population now profess to believe that sex is not real, as demanded by the Establishment? Is there anything more basic to human life than the division of the sexes into male and female? Is there anything more basic to the diversity of life on this planet than sexual reproduction among most life forms, from plant life to animal life? How can our opinion makers be so audacious as to set for themselves the task of forcing humans to deny the most basic facts and reality?

A heretic named Maya Forester, in England, stood up to the new religion, tweeting out her opposition to a new law which would allow anyone in the UK to "self ID" and gain the backing of the government to declare themselves a different sex than the one determined at conception, or, as the new doctrine chants "the doctor assigns at birth". Yes, the new scripture tells us that the age old maternal question, when a woman delivers a child, "Is it a boy or a girl?" is now randomly decided by the birth attendant, not noted by everyone in the delivery area.

This you must believe. Maya does not, and was fired by her employer for stating so, not while she was at work, doing her job that has absolutely nothing to do with religion, but on her non-paid hours of life. In other words, wage slaves are now considered to be slaves on their off hours, as well as the hours they put in working for their employer.

Maya appealed to the court which is set up to protect the beliefs of UK citizens from the whims of their employers, but the court ruled that her belief that sex is immutable and cannot be changed by plastic surgery, hormones, or "self declaration" is such a horrendous belief that she is too horrible a heretic to be allowed to continue to work on tax policy for the foundation.

The entire Establishment, as shown by this ruling, is firmly behind the new religion. The government, the courts, the media, the schools and universities, the medical industrial complex, the military, the prisons, the police, social workers and librarians are all pushing the agenda and enforcing the decrees.

Transgender is the new transubstantiation, belief in biology is the new heresy and speaking the truth that every one on the planet knew to be true until a couple of years ago, is the new blasphemy. The English language is being forcibly changed, and the newly invented blasphemies of "misgendering" and "deadnaming" (both still unknown by Spellcheck) are strictly enforced. Firing and banning are the new methods of the Inquisitors, and the frothing mobs of the Woke are the new villagers, eager to attend the hangings and burnings at the stake.

JK Rowling, a popular author of fantasy books for children, made the mistake of standing up for reality, and the torch-wielding mobs turned on her with fury.

She tweeted into the public square this mild stand for freedom....
and the howling has not stopped.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Background on Ukrainian Coup and Grifter Corruption



A concise history of the coup in Ukraine and the ties to the impeachment of Trump, told from a right wing point of view, but accurate in the facts.



Wednesday, December 18, 2019


   Women were once centered in family, tribal and village life, as well as in actual old time religion.
The breaking of these traditions was brutal, and involved mass torture and murder over centuries. We learn nothing of this in school or the media, with only cultural references to ''witch trials'' and ''witch burnings'' remaining, as ''knocking on wood'' is the only remnant of the pagan religion of the Brits.
  "We have all heard of Europe’s 400 years of witch persecutions, from the 14th to the 18th centuries, but few are aware of the enormous extent of the holocaust. The church likes to pretend that “only a few hundred thousand” innocents were murdered, but secular sources estimate as many as nine million. (Four centuries of killing can dispose of a good many people.) Over 85% of them were female: grandmothers, mothers, maidens, even children, mostly illiterate peasants who couldn’t even understand the questions their torturers asked, and in their agony begged to be told what to confess to. Local chroniclers spoke of stakes set up as thick as a forest, and hundreds slaughtered in a single day. At the height of the frenzy, we read of villages in Germany and France where only one or two women were left alive. In some places, whole villages were destroyed altogether."
   And now women speaking is once again considered to be blasphemy and heresy. And the MOPEs use the images of the past, barely remembered, in their attempt to stomp out the gains women have made in the last 50 years, with images of women tied to stakes and burned, or hanged. Coincidence? I think not.
    ''The Greeks’ principal Goddess of oracular powers, magic, and midwifery was Hecate, derived from the Egyptian pre-dynastic term for a tribal matriarch, hek, which meant a wise-woman versed in the hekau or “words of power.”[6] This was a woman having the authority of the logos, the creative word. She could make things happen just by speaking—as witches, centuries later, were supposed to make things happen by speaking their curses or spells''.
    As women now are said to have the power of ''erasing'' people, just by speaking.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Impeachment Farce


The impeachment hearings are predicated on the same faulty logic as Russiagate- the assertion that Dems will refuse to vote for a candidate who is corrupt or has a corrupt family member.
This is clearly nonsense. Dems showed us in 2016 that they will vote for a corrupt candidate, even a war mongering corrupt candidate.
Therefore, Joe Biden having a corrupt son, and Joe Biden interfering in another country's judicial system to protect that son, are not a deal breaker for Dems, and it is absurd to pretend otherwise.
So even if the Dems can manage to twist Trump's words enough to convince people that he was trying to dig up proof that Biden is corrupt, it is impossible to get from that to the assertion that Dems would refuse to vote for Biden because of his corruption. We already know they don't care.
Lyndon Johnson had a corrupt associate, Bobby Baker. (Back in those days, it was considered quite a scandal, unlike today. He even went to prison, which no one does anymore). Democrats voted for him anyway.
Jimmy Carter had Billy and Bill Clinton had Roger. Hillary has two corrupt brothers, Hugh and Tony.
None of this makes any difference to Americans. (Reps have their own corrupt candidates, and it also makes no difference to them).
Therefore, the entire premise of the impeachment hearings are laughably ludicrous.
It seems that the actual point of the hearings is to throw out more disinformation about Russia and to beat the war drums more loudly.
Same as Russiagate.

Sunday, October 20, 2019

Why Did Hillary Tweet Such Nonsense?


  Americans are furiously posting their opinions on the Hillary vs Tulsi vs Jill Twitter throwdowns.

   Why on Earth would Hillary post such an inflammatory and obviously false tweet?  There seems to be no motive for such a thing to be done.  Or is there?

    Well, could it be that on October 17th, the State Dept. released the results of a three year study which showed that the emails that were the subject of Republican interest in 2016 have been proven to have been improperly handled at least 588 times.

   Well, my, my, isn't that interesting?  And isn't it interesting that the State Dept. weasels out of recommending prosecution because maybe those people (and their boss) didn't actually realize they were doing anything illegal?   This young man was sentenced to prison for taking pictures of the inside of his submarine, so that he could show his future children where he had served.  His lawyers tried to point out that Hillary Clinton was not charged for much worse crimes, but the judge was unmoved by the obvious travesty of two-tier justice.

   But this is not a conversation anyone seems to be having.  Instead, we are treated to WWF-type smackdowns, with much hysteria over the motivations of the wrestlers.

   Well played, Hillary Clinton, well played.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

US Propaganda Strikes Again- Russian War Crimes in Syria


   After a week of bipartisan hysteria about Trump's surprise withdrawal of US troops from part of NE Syria,  complete with tears for "we're abandoning our allies, the Kurds'' (the US is in Syria illegally, and has no right to make "allies" with any ethnic group in any country trying to overthrow any government), the Russians brokered a deal between the Kurds and the Syrian Arab Army to work together to fight ISIS and push back the Turks.


   Now what, imperial media, who were united as one in their anti-peace propaganda?   What a major disappointment to the talking heads, who were eagerly awaiting footage of dead Kurds and instead got the Kurds joining the SAA.   Quite a blow.  Ordinary people who hate war celebrated the hopeful stride forward, but the psychopaths who run our country were very, very mad and sad.

   An ABC "news" channel ran footage they claimed was of Turkey blowing up Kurds, but it turned out to be footage from a gun range in Kentucky.  

    And the NY Times decided to run an article claiming that Russia bombed four hospitals last May, which Democracy Now eagerly "reported", also.

     Americans who go bankrupt  from medical bills may envy the Syrians, who apparently have a hospital on every corner in every town.  Such luxury!   Even with  hundreds of them being bombed by either Syria or Russia  (according to US media over the last 7 years), they still manage to take care of their citizens' health needs.  Except for the shortages of medicines caused by the US embargo, of course.

    But how interesting that the hysterical predictions of genocide were thwarted, but instead of following up on the last week's "reporting", the imperial media decides to ignore the follow-up and publish lurid (and no doubt false) reports from last May.  How transparently desperate of them.

    Americans abandoned by their government in Flint, (where the water is still contaminated),  LA (where cholera has reappeared in homeless encampments), as well hungry and homeless Americans all over the country, may be a little jealous of the overwhelming propaganda talking about loyalty and commitment to allies.   If only their government showed loyalty and commitment to providing basic services to our own citizens, the way we are told that we must provide support and  ammo to rebels in other countries.  That would be lovely.

   

Friday, October 11, 2019

Kurds "Homeland" on Syrian Oil Fields?


And just like that, Americans are loudly demanding that the Kurds in Syria be given a piece of Syria for their very own, so that they may have a ''Homeland".

The Kurds, a nomadic group of people who originated from the mountains of Iran and speak a language derived from Persian,  who "have no friends but the mountains", are being offered a piece of flat Syria land by the Americans.  Why?

Says Khaled Bizri:

"
The SDF was formed precisely to divide Syria from Iraqi, Turkish and some Syrian Kurds. Their location today is the oil region - which never saw a Kurd in its history. But the US does not care a damn who manages the oil and gas extraction so long as they are delivered free into the hands of its oil and gas monopolies - to which sane observers would remark, "Some hope."


Monday, October 7, 2019

Trump Tweets About Syria


The US ruling class has a habit of issuing unpopular edicts on Friday night or the eve of major holidays, under the assumption that Americans pay no attention to the "weekend news cycle".
Trump issued his withdrawal notice last night, late on Sunday. Was that under the assumption that it would take until Monday morning for Lindsey Graham and the rest of the neocons to sober up from the weekend?

It certainly seems that way to me. Trump's original declaration focused mostly on ISIS troops. He pointed out that Europe didn't want it's ISIS citizens back, so he was leaving them for Turkey to deal with. I took that to mean that Turkey could go ahead and slaughter them, without any outcry from the US/NATO occupiers. I wasn't going to shed any tears over them, either.

But, once Congress and the media woke up and sobered up Monday morning, the attacks started. They ignored ISIS and focused on the Kurds. "Think of the Kurdish children", blah, blah, blah. 

Then Trump backed down, as usual, issuing a bizarre tweet threatening Turkey and throwing in a line about his great and unmatched wisdom.
Say what? What was that about? Was it red meat to distract TDS sufferers, sending them barking off on a red herring path? 

Apparently, the troops have actually started pulling back. Will the Deep State have time to organize a "chemical weapons attack" to stop the withdrawal?

No wonder they're so furious.

Harris/Stephens- Another Step Towards Totalitarism



   9-11 served multiple functions, from enriching a small circle of well-placed wealthy friends, to providing justification for endless wars for oil to setting up a repressive bureaucratic apparatus in the US, (including the TSA, Homeland Security and NORTHCOM.)

   The trans agenda also serves multiple functions, from rolling back the rights and privileges gained by women in the last 50 years in the US, to enriching drug companies and plastic surgeons, to allowing the government to take control of people's perceptions and language.

   The Harris/Stephens case before the Supreme Court is presented by the self proclaimed Legitimate Media as a woman's rights issue, that is, whether women can be forced to wear skirts.
    This is a lie.

   The case is about a man who has no problem with the sex-based dress code at his place of employment.  His issue is that he wants to wear dresses, because he says that he is a woman.  His employer says that he is a man and cannot wear a dress to work.

   The Patriot Act, rolled out the week after 9-11, attacked our First Amendment rights to speak out and say what we believe to be true.

    The Supreme Court will be ruling in the Harris case on whether we can all be forced to say what we know is untrue.

     The trans agenda has been framed as a human rights issue, a liberal expansion of the rights of women to men who believe they are women.   It is mostly liberals who have adopted the cause, who vociferously defend their adoption as pure and true, and who viciously attack those people who prefer to remain Reality Based.

   Therefore, it is assumed that the conservative Supreme Court will not rule in favor of the trans-identified man.

    But this agenda is clearly fully backed and pushed by the ruling class. The media, the government,  schools,  NGOs, the medical industrial complex, sports,  the military, prisons, the police, social workers, libraries....are all onboard.   

   I predict that the Supreme Court will rule that all Americans must alter their language and their perception of reality to suit the demands of others.   And that the official media will spin this as a victory for human rights and a shocking decision for a ''conservative'' court to make.

   For a discussion with feminists who have filed an amicus brief with the Court, see here..





Friday, October 4, 2019

It Is Only Illegal and Corrupt If Trump Does It


My daughter, a good liberal on the Move On mailing list (which started after the failed impeachment of Clinton) told me that they started pushing for impeachment before Trump was even inaugurated, which even she thought was odd.
They haven’t stopped yet. It is disgusting, even if Reps say so.

If I hadn’t stopped voting, due to the unaccountable voting machines, I swear I would think about voting for Trump, just to watch the DNC minions and their Antifa Brownshirt troops lose what is left of their scrambled minds. But I know that voting is a ridiculous exercise in futility, and the talking heads on TV will tell us on Election Night next year who our ruling overlords have decided to put in the White House, so there is no point in playing their ”you get to decide” game.

The Ukrainian coup in 2014 was illegal. Putting Hunter Biden on the board of the fracking corporation was unethical and illegal.

The IMF funds to Ukraine were illegal, since IMF funds are not supposed to go to a country that is killing their own people.

Biden forcing the firing of the Prosecutor investigating his son was illegal, and using the (illegal) IMF funds to force it was unethical and corrupt, as well as illegal.

Trump withholding $10,000,000,000 in IMF from Ecuador to force them to withdraw political asylum from Julian Assange was corrupt and illegal.

The Dems were silent on that, as they were silent about the fate of that whistleblower, Julian Assange,  now being illegally held as a political prisoner in the UK, at the behest of the US, (also unremarked), while the UK leadership blathers on about condemning countries which oppress journalists. Which also goes unremarked.

The military aid which Trump supposedly held up to Ukraine is also illegal, since Ukraine is still killing their own citizens.

Neither the Dems nor the Reps oppose giving military aid to a Nazi-infested government which is shelling, torturing and murdering their own people.

We are ruled by crooks and criminals, who loot the people of the US and the world with impunity, and any talk of the law is a farce.

Don't Question Authority, Obey and Defend It


We thought that fascism would come carrying a Bible and wrapped in the American flag, but instead it is here screaming about social justice and waving a rainbow virtue flag.

   Question Authority turned into obey and hysterically defend Authority.

   If Big Brother tells you that men can be women, then, by God, men can be women, and anyone who questions that is a bigoted Hate Monger who deserves to be censored and deplatformed, if not hanged.

    "'Do you remember,' he went on, 'writing in your diary, "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four"?'

'Yes,' said Winston.

O'Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.

'How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?'

'Four.'

'And if the party says that it is not four but five -- then how many?'

'Four.'

The word ended in a gasp of pain. The needle of the dial had shot up to fifty-five. The sweat had sprung out all over Winston's body. The air tore into his lungs and issued again in deep groans which even by clenching his teeth he could not stop. O'Brien watched him, the four fingers still extended. He drew back the lever. This time the pain was only slightly eased.

'How many fingers, Winston?'

'Four.'

The needle went up to sixty.

'How many fingers, Winston?'

'Four! Four! What else can I say? Four!'

The needle must have risen again, but he did not look at it. The heavy, stern face and the four fingers filled his vision. The fingers stood up before his eyes like pillars, enormous, blurry, and seeming to vibrate, but unmistakably four.

'How many fingers, Winston?'

'Four! Stop it, stop it! How can you go on? Four! Four!'

'How many fingers, Winston?'

'Five! Five! Five!'

'No, Winston, that is no use. You are lying. You still think there are four. How many fingers, please?'

'Four! five! Four! Anything you like. Only stop it, stop the pain!' 

George Orwell,  "1984"

 

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Hypocrisy On Parade, the Dems, Biden, Trump and Assange


   The latest media frenzy is about a "whistle blower" (CIA spy) in the Trump White House who informed Congress that Trump had asked the president of Ukraine to cooperate in an investigation of Biden corruption after the US-backed coup in Ukraine in Feb 2014.

   While most media attention at that time was about the Crimeans voting to leave the neo-Nazi coup government of Ukraine, and return to Russia, or about the east part of Ukraine which also voted to refuse governance by neo-nazis, very little imperial media attention was given to the the Nazis killing opponents and burning people alive in the Trade Union hall nor to the swift US corporate takeover of Ukrainian land and resources. 

  Monsanto, Cargill and other corporations moved in to take over the rich lands of Ukraine, long known as the "breadbasket of Europe".  GMOs had been banned in Ukraine, but post-coup, the laws were changed.

   Hunter Biden was given a plum position on the board of Burisma, a natural gas corporation, as the US pushed fracking in Ukraine.   Biden received monthly payments ranging between $50,000 and $166,000, although he knew nothing about energy or management, having only recently been kicked out of the US Navy for cocaine use.

    Joe Biden bragged in 2018 that he had withheld IMF funds from Ukraine until Poroshenko fired the chief prosecutor who was investigating the corruption of Burisma.

    This is ignored by the Dems, who have actually started impeachment proceedings against Trump, for the crime of saying "though" in his transition between talking about military aid to Ukraine (illegal, since Ukraine has killed 15,000 eastern Ukrainians and continues to bomb and kill them to this day),  and asking Zelensky for his help in the investigation into the Ukrainian help to Clinton in the 2016 election.   The Dems insist that the word "though" means that Trump was making a link between the (illegal) military aid and the legal help.

    The rampant hypocrisy of the Dems is starkly shown in these proceedings.

    Just as hypocritical was their complete silence in April, when the whistleblower Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, after Ecuador revoked his asylum.
    A $10,000,000 IMF loan to Ecuador followed that atrocity.

    Where was the concern of Dems about whistleblowers and bribes to foreign countries then?

    The hypocrisy is blatant and shameful.

   

   

 

Monday, September 23, 2019

Humans As Herd Animals


   I've been around a fair amount of herd animals in my life, so I know that herd animals like to stay with the herd.     The only way you will see a herd animal alone is if the other members have bullied them out of the herd.   They won't do it voluntarily.

    So there is no point in getting upset about humans going along with the herd, or with humans happily submitting to the herd leader.  That's just how it is, as disappointing as it seems.
 
   I used to wonder about England, back when the kings and queens decreed what their religion should be.   Get a Catholic queen and everyone had to be Catholic.  The Protestant takes over, and, boom, everyone's a Protestant.     How did the subjects like that?   I would have thought that they would have resisted, or been resentful, but  looking at the present day subjects of Empire, I can see that most people just accept whatever the Emperor tells them to accept, and they don't seem to mind, as long as the rest of the herd goes along.

    The newest decree from our rulers is to tell us that
 1) there is no such thing as biological sex and (conversely),  2) people can change sexes, by thinking themselves into another sex and 3) since there is no such thing as sex, then men can enter the spaces, sports, services and provisions that used to be solely for women.

    I find all of these decrees insultingly free from Reality, but most of the herd has adopted them easily.  How is this possible?  I doubt that any rulers of the past would have had the audacity to make such  mind bogglingly absurd claims.  If there is anything that all herd animals, as well as non-herd animals, do easily, it is to differentiate between the two sexes.  Even if we humans can't tell the difference, as for instance, in geese, the geese certainly can.

   A few humans have objected to this new decree, but the Establishment cracks down very strongly on dissidents and heretics.   They couldn't do it, of course, without the help of the members of the herd.  As horses bite and kick, hens peck and goats butt, the little Eichmanns of the world insult and threaten the targeted creature.   There is no way that our overlords could police the thoughts and language of billions of people, but their willingly submissive minions are happy to do it for them.

    80 years ago, as fascism consolidated its power and the peoples of Europe happily adopted it,  a despairing W. H. Auden woke a poem called Sept. 1, 1939,  with these concluding words, which I dedicate to heretics, dissidents and free thinkers...

''Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.''

 

 

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Climate Rebellion and US Troops to Saudi Arabia



Oh, my.   Looks like the US made a huge PR blunder, by announcing that they are sending troops to Saudi Arabia to protect their oil wells on the same day that millions of people were in the streets protesting climate change and calling for an end to fossil fuels.

   And that's the day the US picks to say they are sending the single biggest user of fossil fuels to Saudi Arabia to make sure that the fossil fuels still flow freely?

   I'm sure that the focus of those millions of people instantly turned to denouncing the US war machine, and calling for an end to oil wars.

   Right?

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Propaganda Don't Come Cheap


The wheels of injustice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
And, as Doug Valentine points out, the laws and bureaucracy must be set up to facilitate widespread repression, for it to be effective.
It works the same with the information control apparatus.
In 2013, Obama signed a repeal of the Smith Mundt Act, which outlawed US government propaganda being directed at Americans, but it wasn't until 2017 that he signed the bill providing funding.
Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and know the reality of lack of funds limiting our activities.
Weirdly enough, though, most people never apply that to the activities of those we are taught to fear. 

How does ISIS get never-ending supplies of weapons and ammo, how do domestic shooters afford automatic weapons and ammo when they are living in their mother's basement, how do terrorists afford traveling the world?
But I digress. The propaganda machinery was funded in the 2017 budget, and we can all see the results today. It takes money and it takes personnel to put out the onslaught of nonsense with which we are inundated. That doesn't come cheap.

And the attack on RT is part of the attempt by our overlords to limit our access to conflicting information. (Conflicting with the stories they tell us).

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Bad Demagogues and Good Demagogues


We were told that Alex Jones was at fault, for continually spewing stupid conspiracy theories about organized child sex trafficking rings, thus causing a man to go into Comet Pizza and shoot up a computer. Therefore, Jones lost his access to social media.

Who got the man in Spokane so worked up about immigrants in custody that he went to try to firebomb an immigration center in Tacoma? Shouldn't they be held responsible for his actions?

I look forward to seeing CCN blamed for the attempted firebombing

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Social media, Epstein and the Missing Trillions

  • I have thought for a long time now that Facebook and Twitter are basically extremely large focus groups, for our overlords to test, in real time, how well their propaganda is selling, allowing them to tweak it immediately, if not polling well.
    I have never thought that Mark makes his billions from selling ads. That just doesn't add up.  What he sells is not ad space, but access to a 2 billion person focus group.  Who is buying it?   Not just corporations, I'm guessing.


    And  Epstein is funding ''science''? With what money???
    A guy who is never seen working is a freaking billionaire, and not only spends money on mansions, private jets, his own island and 100s of teenaged girls, he also funds scientific investigations into how people think, and how to influence large populations?

  • So, there is $20 trillion missing from the Pentagon in the last couple of decades. There is widespread speculation about where that money has gone. Catherine Fitts speculates that they are financing outer space colonies.

    But what if they are actually financing ''inner space'' colonization?

    What if that $20 trillion is going to investigate, to the cellular level, how our brains and minds work?

    What if Epstein, who is a college dropout, but funds multiple scientific research projects, is actually some incredibly efficient organizer of projects?

    What if his multiple cameras were not for blackmail, but for research on sexual kinks and vulnerabilities?
    And this whole ''you will change your perception of reality and your language, if your rulers tell you to do so'' trans agenda is actually a population-wide mind control experiment, not an exercise in liberation.
    Interestingly enough, they are going after Epstein now, and also just gave Facebook a $5 billion fine for "privacy violations."  Why now?  
    I guess we'll watch it play out.