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A quotation from Homer

My word, how mortals take the gods to task!
All their afflictions come from us, we hear.
And what of their own failings? Greed and folly
double the suffering in the lot of man.
 
[ὢ πόποι, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται.
ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ’ ἔμμεναι· οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε’ ἔχουσιν.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 32ff (1.32) [Zeus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46564/

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‘The CIA has been secretly training anti-Russian groups in Ukraine since 2015. Everything we know points to the likelihood that includes neo-Nazis inspiring far-right terrorists across the world.’ https://jacobin.com/2022/01/cia-neo-nazi-training-ukraine-russia-putin-biden-nato

Add put options before 9/11, so is it not time for the people to end the ‘big donors’ finance of diabolical evil? I suppose they could wait until all face the very executions they take no responsibility for; the terror of their assassinations and purges as if the magicians rabbits actually appear from nowhere! #JustDeserts #911PutOptions #WW3 #TerrorNova #EcocideEmpiresEnd #BigDonors