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Vincent van Gogh Landscape with snow 1888

 

Israeli Study Finds 94% Drop In Symptomatic COVID Cases With Pfizer Vaccine (R.)
Covid-19: Ivermectin Victim Of Dishonest Attacks (Maudrux)
Politicians, Doctors Keep Ignoring The Research On Vitamin D And Covid (Cook)
Fauci: Stimulus Bill Needs To Be Passed For Schools To Reopen (Hill)
Georgia State Bar Files Grievance Against Lin Wood (DB)
Lin Wood Will Represent Sidney Powell In Dominion Defamation Case (F.)
The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story (AmG)
The “For The People Act” Would Make The US a Democracy (IC)
Majority of Americans Say US Democracy Isn’t Thriving (NYP)
A Short Guide to Long, Healthy Life (Mangan)

 

 

 

 

Promising. But a bit hasty for big conclusions, perhaps? Unless you have something you want to sell?!

And then there’s this from the second article: “..if we type Corminaty (Pfizzer vaccine) we have 65,188 declarations, against 46 for Ivermectin..”

Israeli Study Finds 94% Drop In Symptomatic COVID Cases With Pfizer Vaccine (R.)

Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday reported a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections among 600,000 people who received two doses of the Pfizer’s vaccine in the country’s biggest study to date. Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, which covers more than half of all Israelis, said the same group was also 92% less likely to develop severe illness from the virus. The comparison was against a group of the same size, with matching medical histories, who had not received the vaccine. “It shows unequivocally that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is extremely effective in the real world a week after the second dose, just as it was found to be in the clinical study,” said Ran Balicer, Clalit’s chief innovation officer.


He added that the data indicates the Pfizer vaccine, which was developed in partnership with Germany’s BioNTech, is even more effective two weeks or more after the second shot. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, who have been tabulating national data, said on Sunday that a sharp decline in hospitalisation and serious illness identified earlier among the first age group to be vaccinated – aged 60 or older – was seen for the first time in those aged 55 and older. Hospitalisations and serious illness were still rising in younger groups who began vaccinations weeks later. Israel has been conducting a rapid vaccine rollout and its database offers insights into vaccine effectiveness and at what point countries might attain herd immunity.

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From France Soir, Google translated.

“Opinion piece by Dr Gérard Maudrux , after having been president of the Autonomous Retirement Fund for Doctors of France (CARMF) for 18 years, this urologist continues to speak on his blog in Le Quotidien du médecins. Doctor engaged since he supported the request for temporary payment of use for Ivermectin before the Council of State with the assistance of Me Teissedre. He finds himself today summoned before the council of the order to explain himself on his blog. In his debriefing, he explained to us that the doctors were afraid, that they were silent. With his agreement, we reproduce this forum which better reflects his commitment and his freedom of expression. ”

Covid-19: Ivermectin Victim Of Dishonest Attacks (Maudrux)

The latest attacks against Ivermectin dramatically demonstrate the financial issues behind the early and outpatient treatment of Covid, and the way in which the French are being manipulated. Merck opened the ball by denigrating the molecule it produces, and its press release will be put forward by all the newspapers and the authorities (we will see for the ANSM) to justify its non-use. The conflict of interest is however too big, but it will not be put forward: the laboratory is developing 2 products that could bring it big, while Ivermectin, which has fallen into the public domain, no longer brings in anything. If one day Ivermectin becomes THE drug against Sars-Cov-2, billions and billions of losses for the global pharmaceutical industry . With such sums at stake, everything will be done to prevent this from happening.

Predictably, the scenario we saw for Hydroxychloroquine happens again. There is “a worrying lack of safety data in the majority of studies” according to Merck. So I went to the WHO database, Vigibase, which collects data from pharmacovigilance centers such as ANSM in France, from more than 130 countries. In 30 years, 175,208 adverse effects for Aspirin, 159,824 for Paracetamol and 4,614 for Ivermectin. On more than 4 billion doses prescribed over this period, this makes 0.0001%. Since the beginning of the year if we type Corminaty (Pfizzer vaccine) we have 65,188 declarations, against 46 for Ivermectin . So I went to see the publication of our Medicines Safety Agency. In its report of January 11 on the side effects of drugs used for Covid, the ANSM reports 0 declarations for Ivermectin , against 271 for Hydroxychloroquine.

In the 15,143 specialties reimbursed in France, in the world pharmacopoeia, I believe that we can say that there is no drug that has so few side effects. So why deny it when there is no risk and a presumption of effectiveness, while allowing Aspirin and Paracetamol which have 30 to 50 times more side effects and without desired efficacy? If you take 10 tablets of Doliprane, recommended by authorities, you may die from liver necrosis. On the other hand, you can take 50 tablets of Ivermectin 3 days in a row and continue to go about your daily activities without any problem.

In the literature, there are several studies that have tested this toxicity. I have mentioned several times this , 10 times the normal dose, no problem. It is not the only one of this type. Several children with leukemia were treated at 3 times the dose times 15 days, and even 6 months, without side effects. 30 times the dose (10mg / kg) have been tested in dogs with no problem. In this literature, we also note that most of the side effects reported are linked to the release of degradation products from the killed parasites, and for Covid to associated drugs such as Doxycycline.

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Jonathan Cook on the study I quoted David Davis on yesterday. See a lot of people tweeting about the danger of either the study or the substance.

Politicians, Doctors Keep Ignoring The Research On Vitamin D And Covid (Cook)

It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many doctors have ignored a growing body of evidence suggesting that Vitamin D can play a critically important role in the prevention and treatment of Covid-19. It is time to speak out forcefully now that a new, large-scale Spanish study demonstrates not a just a correlation but a causal relationship between high-dose Vitamin D treatment of hospitalised Covid patients and significantly improved outcomes for their health. The pre-print paper in the Lancet shows there was an 80 per cent reduction in admission to intensive care units among hospitalised patients who were treated with large doses of Vitamin D, and a 64 per cent reduction in death.

The possibility of these being chance findings are infinitesimally small, note the researchers. And to boot, the study found no side-effects even when these mega-doses were given short term to the hospitalised patients. Those are astounding figures that deserve to be on front pages, especially at a time when politicians and doctors are uncertain whether they can ever find a single magic-bullet vaccine against Covid as new variants pop up like spring daffodils. If Vitamin D can approximate a cure for many of those hospitalised with Covid, one can infer that it should prove even more effective when used as a prophylactic. Most people in northern latitudes ought to be taking Vitamin D through much of the year in significant doses – well above the current, outdated 400IU recommended by governments like the UK’s.

This new study ought to finally silence the naysayers, though doubtless it won’t. So far it has attracted little media attention. What has been most troubling over the past year is that every time I and others have gently drawn attention to each new study that demonstrated the dramatic benefits of Vitamin D, we were greeted with knee-jerk dismissals that the studies showed only a correlation, not a causal link. That was a deeply irresponsible response, especially in the midst of a global pandemic for which effective treatments are urgently needed. The never-satisfied have engaged in the worst kind of blame-shifting, implicitly maligning medical researchers for the fact that they could only organise small-scale, improvised studies because governments were not supporting and funding the larger-scale research needed to prove conclusively whether Vitamin D was effective.

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The people haven’t got their checks, but schools should?

Fauci: Stimulus Bill Needs To Be Passed For Schools To Reopen (Hill)

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said on Sunday that a stimulus bill needed to be passed in order for schools to safely reopen. While appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Fauci spoke with host George Stephanopoulos about how schools could safely reopen, expanding on new guidelines that were recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “It’s the first time that it’s been put down in a document based on scientific observations and data over the last several months to a year, both in the United States and elsewhere. Part of that is to indicate and to suggest strongly that a preference be given to teachers to get vaccinated,” Fauci said, though he added it was possible to reopen schools without having all teachers vaccinated beforehand.


When asked by Stephanopoulos if schools had the resources available to abide by the new CDC guidelines, Fauci said he did not believe so. “I think that the schools really do need more resources and that’s the reason why the national relief act that we’re talking about getting passed — we need that. The schools need more resources.” House committees have begun marking up portions of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, and Democrats have vowed to pass a final bill into law by early next month. However, Fauci on Sunday appeared to be optimistic about reopening schools, a move that he has been supportive of throughout the pandemic, arguing the detriment to young students was too great. “I think it can be done. I mean, obviously it’s not a perfect situation, but it’s really important to get the children back to school in a safest way as possible. Safe for the children, but also safe for the teachers and the other educators,” Fauci said.

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I’ve maintained throughout that we should let the dice roll as they may, and this is where they landed.

Georgia State Bar Files Grievance Against Lin Wood (DB)

MAGA lawyer Lin Wood says he received a 1,600-page grievance from the Georgia State Bar and whined that “they have thrown the kitchen sink at me.” A copy of a Telegram message sent by Wood to his followers—obtained by journalist Stephen Fowler—shows Wood then asked “an Army of Patriots” to dig into the backgrounds of the disciplinary board members so he can try to disqualify them in an effort to stave off disbarment. The grievance begins with a list of lawsuits that Wood filed in an attempt to overturn the election of President Joe Biden, and also includes a lawsuit filed by his former associates in which they allege bizarre and frightening behavior. Wood was recently hired to defend fellow MAGA lawyer Sidney Powell in a million-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems—a target of her conspiracy theories.

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They get another chance to talk about Venezuela, Cuba and China being involved.

Lin Wood Will Represent Sidney Powell In Dominion Defamation Case (F.)

Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood will join fellow lawyer Sidney Powell’s legal team in a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, even as the pro-Trump lawyer faces the threat of litigation for spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the company’s voting machines. Dominion is suing Powell for spreading a baseless conspiracy theory alleging its voting machines fraudulently flipped votes to Joe Biden. Wood said on Telegram Friday that Powell called him Thursday night and asked him to serve as her lead counsel in the case, adding, “I quickly accepted.” Powell’s attorney Howard Kleinhendler confirmed to Forbes in an email that Wood will be joining the legal team. “Sidney and I will not be intimidated,” Wood wrote, claiming he and Powell “will not go quietly into the night.”

Wood frequently appeared alongside Powell after the election to push the Dominion fraud claims and was involved with her lawsuits aimed at overturning the results of the election. Dominion has sent a letter to Wood warning it may bring a defamation lawsuit against him, asked social media networks to preserve his posts and singled out Wood in its lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani as being particularly “determined to promote” the conspiracy theory against them (the company declined to comment on Wood’s involvement in Powell’s case). “Get ready to rumble, Dominion,” Wood wrote on Telegram. “You made a mistake suing Sidney. You are going to pay a heavy price.”

Wood is facing wide-ranging consequences for spreading conspiracy theories since the election, which included outlandish claims involving former Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. He has been removed from an unrelated Delaware case over his conduct, and attorneys for MSNBC host Joy Reid have asked him to be removed as attorney in a separate defamation case. The Georgia State Bar has also confirmed it is moving forward with an inquiry into Wood’s mental health in light of his post-election behavior, which could result in his license to practice law potentially being revoked.

Wood’s defense of Powell comes after he recently tried to distance himself from her post-election lawsuits in Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona in a court filing in the defamation case against Reid. After the MSNBC host’s attorney pointed to Wood’s appearance with Powell as co-counsel in the suits as a reason for him to be removed from her case, he noted that he was “not counsel of record” in those cases and did not try to seek privileges to argue the case in court. He did acknowledge having a larger involvement in Powell’s Georgia lawsuit.

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Just too crazy. And then they go on as if nothing happened.

The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story (AmG)

In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building. Shortly after American Greatness published my column Friday that showed how the Times gradually was backpedaling on its January 8 bombshell, the paper posted this caveat: The paper continued to revise its story within the body of the original January 8 story: “Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.”

What’s missing, however, is how the Times first described what happened to Sicknick. “Mr. Sicknick, 42, an officer for the Capitol Police, died on Thursday from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.” The account of Sicknick’s death was reported as fact, not speculation or rumor. Further, it appears that the anonymous sources were not law enforcement officials but people “close” to the police department—which means they could have been anyone from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to inveterate liar U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser.

Not only was the Times’ untrue story about Sicknick’s death accepted as fact by every news media organization from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, political pundits on the NeverTrump Right also regurgitated the narrative that Sicknick was “murdered” as did lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. In an outrageous effort to create more favorable optics before the impeachment trial, House Democrats honored Sicknick in a rare memorial at the Capitol Rotunda on February 3. Joe Biden, in a statement issued after Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday afternoon, repeated the lie about Sicknick. “It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob on January 6, 2021.”

The Times’ correction might be one reason why Democrats on Saturday reversed their demand to subpoena witnesses. House impeachment managers cited the original January 8 Times’ article as evidence in their impeachment memo: “The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.” Any arrangement to compel testimony would have provided Trump’s legal team with an opportunity to expose yet another myth in the Democrats’ “incitement” case against the former president.

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Some things just sound too good.

The “For The People Act” Would Make The US a Democracy (IC)

Since the 117th Congress was convened on January 3, over 2,000 bills have been introduced in the House and Senate. But the very first legislation proposed by the Democratic Party majorities in both chambers — making it both H.R.1 and S.1 — is the “For the People Act” of 2021. This is appropriate, because the For the People Act is plausibly the most important legislation considered by Congress in decades. It would change the basic structure of U.S. politics, making it far more small-d democratic. The bill makes illegal essentially all of the anti-enfranchisement tactics perfected by the right over the past decades. It then creates a new infrastructure to permanently bolster the influence of regular people.

The bill’s provisions largely fall into three categories: First, it makes it far easier to vote, both by eliminating barriers and enhancing basic outreach to citizens. Second, it makes everyone’s vote count more equally, especially by reducing gerrymandering. Third, it hugely amplifies the power of small political donors, allowing them to match and possibly swamp the power of big money. There’s a popular, weary American aphorism (often attributed to the anarchist Emma Goldman, although she apparently did not say it): “If voting could change anything, it would be made illegal.” The meaning is always taken to be that voting is pointless. However, the past decades of U.S. politics demonstrate that this saying is accurate — but in fact its meaning is exactly the opposite.

[..] Under the bill, candidates for congressional office could opt into a system that would provide matching funds for small donations. To qualify, the candidate would need to raise $50,000 from at least 1,000 individuals; take no more than $1,000 from any contributor; and spend no more than $50,000 of their own money. In return, all donations to the candidate up to $200 would be matched with public funds at a 6 to 1 ratio. Thus if you gave $10 to someone running for Congress, they would receive that plus another $60, totaling $70. Maryland Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes, the House sponsor of the For the People Act, has explained — based on his own experience and what he’s witnessed of his colleagues’ behavior — how this would change the core incentives for politicians.

Right now, says Sarbanes, it is only worth a candidate’s time to attend a fundraising event if they will receive at least $10,000 in contributions. There’s therefore no point in going to a house party with 30 constituents each ponying up $50 for a total of $1,500. Instead, they’ll head to events organized by D.C. lobbyists, who will each write big checks. But with 6 to 1 matching funds, the same constituent house party would generate $10,500 — $1,500 from individuals, $9,000 from the government (also known as “the people”) — suddenly making it worth a politician’s while. That’s not all, however: Sarbanes points out that from a candidate’s perspective, such an event would actually be more valuable than a K Street fundraiser, because attendees “can vote, they can donate, they can volunteer, they can rope their friends in. You’re creating an active, engaged group of people around your campaign. That can be worth 2 to 3 points, that’s the difference in a close election.”

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You don’t say.

Majority of Americans Say US Democracy Isn’t Thriving (NYP)

Only 16 percent of Americans believe the country’s democracy is thriving, according to a poll conducted after the deadly Capitol riots on Jan. 6. But the vast majority accept that a government by the people is a critically important principle of the United States, the poll said. Fewer than 1 in 6 Americans surveyed by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research said democracy is working well or extremely well. Forty-five percent said they think democracy isn’t functioning properly, and 38 percent said it’s working only somewhat well. About half of those polled think President Donald Trump should be convicted in this week’s Senate impeachment trial for “incitement of insurrection.”

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the Republican Party is at least partly responsible for the riot by promoting baseless claims of election fraud. The AP-NORC poll also found that Republicans, in particular, have lost faith in the US’s system of government since Trump’s attack on the election results. In October, 68 percent of GOP supporters said democracy was working at least somewhat well. That figure plummeted to only 36 percent in January. Confidence in representative government soared among Democrats during that time, rising from 37 percent to 70 percent. When it came to the 2020 election, about two-thirds of Americans say President Biden was fairly elected, but only a third of Republicans agree.

Seventy percent of Americans polled believe Biden, a Democrat, respects democratic institutions at least a fair amount. However, only 42 percent of Republicans hold that view. Only 38 percent of responders believed Trump had at least fair respect for government institutions. Notably, 27 percent of Republicans said the former president had little or no respect for the government.

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I know, Mangan seems a bit of a poser. But in these times it’s a good idea to be extra healthy.

A Short Guide to Long, Healthy Life (Mangan)

Almost 90 years ago, the scientist Clive McCay made an unusual discovery: when he fed his lab rats less food than they wanted to eat, they lived longer – a lot longer. And they lived in better health, with a more youthful appearance, more energy, and just all-around awesomeness. Since then, this procedure, known as calorie or dietary restriction, has been repeated thousands of times and on many different species of animals (including humans), and in virtually all cases, animals live longer and in better health. (In the case of humans, we obviously can’t cage them and study them for decades to see how long they live; nevertheless, humans who restrict calories have much better health and low risk of chronic disease.)

Scientists have pondered the question as to why calorie restriction extends life, and come up with many possible answers, which need not detain us here, but we do know that it works. There’s one problem though: calorie restriction is difficult. Animals kept in these conditions are hungry all the time. It seems unlikely that many humans would voluntarily adopt such an unpleasant lifestyle. But scientists noticed something else about these animals: since they were so hungry, when they were fed, they ate all their food at once. They then fasted for 24 hours until their next feeding. Maybe fasting was the key?

In the 1990s, the scientist Cynthia Kenyon (who now works in Google’s anti-aging program) made another momentous discovery in aging: by changing a single gene, her lab animals (worms) lived much longer than normal. The single gene change involved insulin, a hormone that in humans is secreted in response to food. Now we’re getting somewhere. Calorie restriction and fasting both lower levels of insulin, and this may be the key to longer life and better health.

Many people have taken up the practice of intermittent fasting, which simply means going without food for some period of time, often 16 hours. (Sleep time counts.) Fasting is a healthy practice, but, like calorie restriction, also seems unlikely to be widely adopted. Can you get the effects of fasting without actually, you know, fasting? There may be a way. Without deep diving into biochemistry and physiology, it appears that most of the benefits of fasting come from just one thing: eating fewer carbohydrates, which are the main nutrient found in foods such as bread, pastries, pasta, rice, potatoes, and sugar. So if someone eats a diet very low in carbohydrates, they may get most or all of the benefits of fasting, or even of calorie restriction.

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    Vincent van Gogh Landscape with snow 1888   • Israeli Study Finds 94% Drop In Symptomatic COVID Cases With Pfizer Vaccine (R.) • Covid-19: Iverme
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 15 2021]

    #69717
    V. Arnold
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    Vincent van Gogh Landscape with snow 1888

    Just lovely…
    And kudos to Jonathan on his 189th; not many get this opportunity, or perspective…

    #69719
    Dr. D
    Participant

    And here’s why Green Energy will collapse in on itself and take whole nations with it:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/energy-emergency-texas-power-provider-warns-rotating-outages-cold-weather-tests-limits-grid

    So…because a few NatGas wells got shut in due to totally predictable cold weather, MWH prices went from $25 to $9,000. NatGas itself went from $4 to $600. Companies cannot operate in that environment.

    Whyso? To go Green, they shut down all the coal plants and went with their super-duper schmartz micro natural gas peak turbines. Just as the astonishing arbitrage in Gas vs any other BTU caused long term national demand to gravitate to gas. Just as they fracked to drive prices to bankruptcy, just before all those wells run suddenly – and completely predictably – dry.
    Congratulations, you have all the green you ever wanted. The entire grid, or the companies that cause it to exist, are going to vanish, and after a couple cycles of this you will have no grid at all. Then you can live in bark huts and caves. Pop quiz: if there is no longer a reliable electric grid, particularly in the United States, will people die from it? Having no CPAP machines, no O2, no heat at -30f, or A/C at 110f? If all those (poor, rural) people die, is that ALSO green for the environment?

    Note: despite the news, this is not at all an unusual storm or front, not by temps, not by size. It’s just winter in North America, like every other year. Killin’ some folks. Or in this case, killing the companies that keep the normal folks alive, then just waiting for the obvious and inevitable.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

    “Fauci: Stimulus Bill Needs to Be Passed for Schools to Reopen (Hill)”

    The daily flopper. His boss, CDC Director Redfield said schools should be reopened already. P.S. mental health is a crisis for them, so #Winning! All the sick kids Science can make. 0% chance of COVID death, so suicide was prescribed.

    By the way, he’s an economist now. Schools don’t open for Science or medicine, but for money. So he’s on the committee to decide how much money, where, when, and how, right? Just as the money people are on the committees for CO2, weather analysis, and racism. If there’s a noun, they need to control it or they can’t sleep at night. Someone, somebody, is doing SOMETHING, without my permission. I just KNOW it! And if they do what I tell them, like Fauci has seen, I just change it tomorrow so they’ll have to obey me again! Can’t lose!

    Ah, but Tony, don’t you know, no money for Schools? We’ve got an impeachment to run. Can we kill another hundredweight of children in that time? Who cares? We’ll find out anyway. Helping! Always helping, so, so much! Can’t stop helping, gotta help! Every place that helped has higher death rates than places that did nothing: more helping!!!

    “The grievance begins with a list of lawsuits that Wood filed in an attempt to overturn the election”

    Again, filing legal challenges is now “bizarre and frightening behavior” that merits disbarment? If only. The nation could use fewer lawyers. Somehow Dominion filing a similar lawsuit – of a billion dollars on a single citizen — is NOT bizarre and frightening. It’s of course logical and laudable. It also leads to discovery, which should be interesting, since every man in Phoenix wants to go to jail rather than allow the Dominion machines to be audited. Perfectly normal and not bizarre at all. Jail is super-nice I hear, and politicians often volunteer for a little stay-cation for no reason at all.

    “In a quiet but stunning correction,”

    Stunning to who? I don’t remember the last time they printed a story that was true. Next question: what DID he die of? It’s lotta pretty very awful weird to have a story he died of this VERY SPECIFIC thing, only to find out he died of suicide, or heart attack like everybody else that day besides Babbit. Can they not tell that there was no bloody extinguisher nearby and no circular dent in his cranium? Slipped their mind?

    “The Times’ correction might be one reason why Democrats on Saturday reversed their demand to subpoena witnesses.”

    Maybe, but more likely you’re making this up more than the NY Times is. it’s been reported that the sole thing stopping witnesses was that they would put Pelosi (and co.) under oath. Since she always tells the truth and has nothing to hide, I can’t imagine why that would be a problem for them.

    “it makes it far easier to vote”

    Easier than not needing an I.D.? Pray tell, please tell me how it can get easier than that? You get mailed the ballot to both your addresses and return it to the office before it was mailed out. How much easier can it be?

    “it hugely amplifies the power of small political donors, allowing them to match and possibly swamp the power of big money.”

    They certainly don’t want this then. The DNC is now the party of big money, Wall Street, and insider billionaires vs the people. Like the “must vote with other states” rule, it would backfire spectacularly. Imagine if they had it in the ’20 election. Sorry, Colorado would have had to vote with Ohio.

    None of this will help anyway. If you put all money and power to set laws that pay me direct cash and run my competitors out of business in one place, there will be infinite corruption pressure on that place. Only by removing a) the money and b) the power, and distributing them back throughout the nation can this be solved. But stopping war, knocking the billionaires, helping the workers would require being a Libertarian, so the Left will burn a thousand Americas before trying it. “It” being what’s worked every time and place in history before, instead of the opposite, which has failed every time and place in history, and killed 300M in 100 years, and winding up rapidly in the 21st century too.

    Like environmentalism, another 50 years of losing will not deter them. That CO2 has fallen due to efficiencies of capitalism, and the largest success is in the United States with the least rules does not affect them in the slightest. We must follow China’s model! The one that releases more CO2 and pollutes more, destroys more lives and more effectively erases the environment than any other place on earth, at any time. We need the love, safety, and thriving environment of blue Baltimore and Detroit not Wyoming and New Hampshire.

    Why use words? Clearly there’s nothing I can say more ridiculous than what’s happening. Manhattan is the tippy-top of sustainable environmentalism, and Kentucky is made of mindless environment-killers. You can tell that by counting the trees and measuring the parking lots. Manhattan has one whole park, you know.

    “Many people have taken up the practice of intermittent fasting,”

    Because we’re dumber than any generation in the history of earth, yet are so dumb we think we’re the smartest, even medieval peasants followed this plan without the slightest trouble. Just as they lived in a green land covered with clean streams and green fields. So, if you want to have the brains of a medieval peasant, just download the Catholic calendar. You’ll also have 40 holidays off.

    But we’re SO much, much smarter now, and not only work 365 days, but 24/7 as well, tied to a cell, and lacking family, purpose, and a social safety net of any sort. Never see their children, don’t know if they will eat today, and can be arrested at any time for so much as sharing thoughts. But they got that Netflix thing covered, so…all good! Clearly we’re the greatest. GOAT.

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    WES
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    One good thing that came about due to the recent failed Reddit/Robinhood silver squeeze is that the manager of the etf SLV (who else but JP Morgan!) where forced to file a new legal disclaimer saying that in the future the price of SLV may “not” track the price of silver.

    The whole purpose of SLV is to track the price of silver! The only reason SLV may not track the price of silver is because SLV may not have the silver backing it, that it says it does! That is the only reason why the manager of SLV put out the new legal disclaimer! This nicely gets the manager, JP Morgan, off the hook if SLV fails!

    My personal opinion is that SLV was set up to manipulate the price of silver from the get go! It is the perfect scram. When interest in silver rises, money pours into the paper SLV, nicely diverted away from buying actual physical silver. The manager then uses the money in the SLV as a slush fund to suppress the price of paper silver. The more money that enters SLV, the more firepower JP Morgan has to suppress the price of silver!

    My own long term observation of SLV is that silver prices don’t rise despite the tens of millions of ounces of silver supposedly bought daily by SLV. The amounts of silver claimed to have been purchased daily by SLV simply staggers the imagination! It just isn’t possible to find that much real silver to buy in mere hours! The only way to buy that much silver is to create paper silver!

    For example the US mint cannot make more than a few million eagles a month because they can’t get their hands on more silver! Try buying just one silver eagle today! You are as good as dead if you try!

    How is SLV able to buy 10, or 40, or 60 million ounces in one day? They can’t! They are buying more silver in a few days than is mined in the whole world in an entire year! But they can easily create 10, or 40, or 60 million ounces of paper silver while not causing the price of silver to rise but rather fall!

    SLV and GLD etfs are government approved Ponzi schemes!

    Advice: Be Smart! Don’t play! The SLV & GLD Game Is Rigged!

    #69721
    WES
    Participant

    Dr. D:

    Your on fire today!

    Isn’t green so lovely!

    #69722
    zerosum
    Participant

    “…..holding completely different baseline perceptions of reality ….”

    Irrelevant ….

    Truth
    Facts
    Knowledge
    Lies

    Relevant ….

    Emotions
    Beliefs

    Fact

    Trump failed to succeed in making an insurrection.
    Nobody has been charged with insurrection.

    https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1
    Capitol insurrection arrests made in 2021

    Page 1 of 33
    search in table for charges for insurrection, or riot, or attack – result – zero, nada
    ——
    https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/14/the-new-york-times-retracts-the-sicknick-story/
    By Julie Kelly
    February 14, 2021
    the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building.


    By Marc Santora, Megan Specia and Mike Baker
    Published Jan. 8, 2021
    Updated Feb. 12, 2021
    Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.

    “He returned to his division office and collapsed,” the Capitol Police said in the statement. “He was taken to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.”
    The officer’s death brings the fatalities from Wednesday’s mayhem to five. One participant in the pro-Trump rampage, Ashli Babbitt, was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer inside the building as she climbed through a broken window leading to the Speaker’s Lobby. Three other people died after experiencing what were believed to be medical emergencies in the area around the Capitol, the police said.

    #69723
    zerosum
    Participant

    Important – freezing banana trees

    #69724
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Such a clean, serene palette from Van Gogh. I love the extreme offset of the figures, too. I’ll take this over some of his more famous works, please. Thank you.

    While I have definitely gotten on board with supplemental Vitamin D, and I am seriously thinking about ordering some Ivermectin from India, I am not giving up my baguettes and spaghetti and meatballs any time soon. Or my mashed potatoes or rice and beans or occasional bowl of locally made ice cream. This whole concept of anti-aging, and food restrictions, diets, etc. strikes me as anti-life in a way. Since industrial society got into full swing, there have always been these cure all live forever tenets based on the food we ingest. Sure, eat your greens, watch the sugar, and don’t be a glutton. But celebrate the bounty of a fresh baked loaf of bread and don’t stress over a yummy dessert. Who really wants to live much past 80 anyway? Especially these days.,.

    #69731
    sumac.carol
    Participant

    Environmentalists have highlighted important problems brought about in large part by our excess consumption of resources. The solutions proposed have in some cases been flawed, but the issues identified by environmentalists are correct:
    1) pollution of air, water and land by all manner of stuff, the worst being man-made chemicals that do not exist in nature (of which there are tens of thousands)
    2) Loss of habitat for other species, resulting in their decline (due to pollution or excess land consumption by humans).
    Most environmentalists receive a pittance for standing up to the deep pocketed wealthy who control government and media.

    #69732
    sumac.carol
    Participant

    That note was for you Dr. D.

    #69739
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Sure. No need to call it Green now that’s it’s gotten a terrible name. You can get the Right onboard too in seconds by saying we’re God’s stewards or some such. Since they’re already broke, it just puts a nice bow on what they’re already doing anyway.

    Here’s how to be a top environmentalist in seconds: STOP BUYING STUFF. There. All done.

    It doesn’t need to be highlighted, identified, realized, memed, sloganed, marched, protested, challenged, proposed or identified. It doesn’t need to be discussed, planned, ordered, or blamed. It needs to be ACTED. The Right and 95% of all U.S. counties already can’t afford to buy anything, they’re safe. If the Left and the 12 remaining cities can be guilted into it or whatever floats their boat, everybody’s on board: planet saved. You have a wonderful life. Be happy in it as it is. No need to tell others what to do. No need for more. Enjoy it. La Bella Vita.

    “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” — The Yankee motto

    How about “never buy new, and do without”?

    #69740
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Not why I’m here.

    “Biden gets his first chance to fully exercise his power, The new President is already moving aggressively to fill the post-Trump vacuum” –CNN

    Because, “CNN”, mind-mending, non-sequitur, lie, but Whiskey Tango? CNN, do you LIKE shrinking Joe?

    So a month in and Biden’s done nothing according to CNN?

    Biden just signed 100 executive orders, this is not an exercise of power? No? They meant nothing, have no merit or force according to CNN?

    There was a vacuum of power? Did I miss this like the siege, or is it by definition totally not true like the siege? When was there a vacuum? One guy walked out, one guy walked in according to you. So was Trump so mild he creates a “cone of silence” around him, or is Biden so small and hapless HE creates a vacuum? He has to move as ‘aggressively’ as he’s able just to not have the walls close in?

    Out here in the real world, there was no vacuum at all. One guy left. One guy sat down. Like always. +50 times in a row. But the real world is not CNN. “CNN: We Make S–t Up. All day, every day. Can’t shut up.”

    Jawdropping, had to share. So when do they get rid of him for bad reality show ratings?

    #69741
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    I’m with you, @absolute galore!! Apparently I’ve been “intermittent fasting” my entire adult life. (Who knew?) I generally eat only twice a day. One small meal midday and a large meal in the evening. I’m somewhat hungry in between … so what?? I like being a bit hungry. Keeps me sharp. (Where did we get this idea we always have to be comfortable?) I also eat carbs, although have never been overly addicted to the complex carbs (is that what bread and pasta is?). But fresh, real bread slathered with grass-fed butter? Would not give it up. lol. I don’t think we’re designed to graze all day. That’s my 2 cents.

    My vitamin/supplements are those recommended by Dr John Day. I just received my ivermectin from India (from Kachhela, as recommended in Dr John Day’s link). Easy to order, and it’s my first experience with overseas direct ordering so I’m no pro. The boxes are sealed, the tablets inside are in blister packs. Dirt cheap to buy so I bought a lot. Plan on giving it away if family/friends decide to go this route. So far only my daughter is onboard with taking ivermectin if sick, not as a prophylactic. Ya take what you can get when hoping to convince others that there are alternatives.

    #69745
    Huskynut
    Participant

    @WES
    BullionStar in Singapore still have plenty of silver of various sizes (oz through 1000oz bars) if you’re buying. The trick is to search their site in SGP dollars (other currencies don’t show all their stock.

    IMO SLV is just one of many fault lines in the “market”.. where will the next quake be…?!

    #69748
    WES
    Participant

    Huskynut:

    The Reddit/Robinhood silver squeese craze was really only a US thing.
    The rest of the world already respects the value of silver (and gold).

    #69749
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Interesting documentary on RT about black Americans who emigrated to Russia in the 30’s.
    A part of Black American History few know of, including me. A fascinating view IMO…

    #69750
    kultsommer
    Participant

    @ Arnold
    Unless already familiar – wiki search Alexander Pushkin.

    #69752
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    I read a Britanica Encyclopedia bio on Alexander Pushkin; very informative/interesting…
    Most of it was new information for me, thanks a bunch for the suggestion…

    #69753

    So if I stay hungry all the time I’ll live longer? Better health through deprivation? That sounds familiar.
    Will I get a choice?

    So we know that if you lack vitamin D you may get rickets, so we set the bar for how much you need at 400-800 IUs/day, and you don’t get rickets. Now it seems if you get 5000 IUs/day you don’t get seasonal illnesses. That is a real buzzkill for BigMed. And for the guy who wants to blot out the Sun to save the planet, it may be a major hurdle to convince people that their one best source of vitamin D is that regal orb he wants to shroud.

    So little people- with their “6X” donations- will finally have some influence… un-hunh. Does this mean the big dark money says: “oh, that’s right- little donors are calling the shots now. We’ll just step aside.”

    #69755
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    I have only been in Texas in its airports and traveling on Amtrak. I spent a couple nights in El Paso going to Mexico and back to ride the Copper Canyon train in the early 1990s. Texas is big and once was a nation. It has its own power grid; separate from the US regional ones. I take at face value that the Texas Permian Basin Gas Wells are frozen solid. No gas. No gas heating. No gas turbine electrical generation. But I doubt it was environmentalists. I’d bet the real cause is deregulation and energy companies out for the big bucks now switching to cheaper fracked natural gas.

    This is tragically typical of the new America, absolutely no planning, no stockpiles, no preparedness for future events — a polar vortex, a pandemic, or the fracked wells drying up faster than predicted.

    #69756
    Germ
    Participant

    @UpStateNYer – yup, I’ve used the Indian pharmacy too. Don’t forget to order the azithromycin that is used in conjunction with the IVM. https://tinyurl.com/r7sjn9cb

    You may want some of these too in your medicine cabinet!

    https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-02-09-common-asthma-treatment-reduces-need-hospitalisation-covid-19-patients-study

    https://www.ciplamed.com/content/budecort-inhaler

    #69837
    John Day
    Participant

    Go Germ!

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