Jul 202021
 


Édouard Vuillard In bed 1891

 

60% Of People Admitted To Hospital With Covid Have Been Double-Jabbed (Sky)
Hospitalisation Data Not A Reason To Doubt The Vaccine (Moore)
Gottlieb Predicts ‘Most’ Unvaccinated Americans Will Get Delta Variant (HuPo)
The Flag Is In Tatters (Denninger)
Antibodies From Covid Infection Last At Least Nine Months (F.)
45K Death Count From Covid Shot Lawsuit (Renz Law)
Viral Diversity and the Pandemic Response (McCullough)
On ‘Freedom Day’, Boris Johnson Announces Mandatory Vaccine Passports (SN)
The Counter-truths Unspin (Kunstler)
Vax Wars are Global – Gerald Celente (USAW)
UK Government Advisor Admits Masks Are Just “Comfort Blankets” (SN)
AG Garland Bars Prosecutors From Seizing Reporters’ Records (AP)
The Shadow State: Corporations As Surrogates For Government Action (Turley)
The True Cost of Food (Rockefeller)

 

 

 

 

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He since “corrected” it to 40%.

My notes yesterday when I was reading this:

• UK: official numbers: 68% of adults are double jabbed (87% single jabbed)
• 60% of new hospitalizations are double jabbed (or 40%, if you will)
• winter high was 60K infections daily, now 50K
• but the vaccines are very very effective. in fact, they are over 90% effective.
• this does not make sense.

60% Of People Admitted To Hospital With Covid Have Been Double-Jabbed (Sky)

Sixty percent of people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the government’s chief scientific adviser. Speaking at a Downing Street news briefing, Sir Patrick Vallance said: “In terms of the number of people in hospital who’ve been double-vaccinated, we know it’s around 60% of the people being admitted to hospital with COVID. “We do expect there to be over 1,000 people per day being hospitalised with coronavirus because of the increase in infections. “But the rates should be lower than they have been previously because of the protective effects of vaccination.” He said this was not surprising “because the vaccines are not 100% effective”.

“They’re very, very effective, but not 100%, and as a higher proportion of the population is double-vaccinated, it’s inevitable that those 10% of that very large number remain at risk, and therefore will be amongst the people who both catch the infection and end up in hospital.” Meanwhile, most regions of England now have more coronavirus patients in hospital than at any point since mid-March. Two regions – south-west England and the combined area of north-east England and Yorkshire – are back to levels last seen more than four months ago. For England as a whole, there are now 3,813 patients in hospital with COVID-19 – the highest number since 24 March. Sir Patrick also warned said there were “high levels of COVID and they are increasing”.

He said the UK was quite close to the previous “winter wave” of infections. “In the winter wave, we were up to around 60,000 people testing positive per day,” he said. “We are now somewhere on towards 50,000. So we’re quite close to the size of the winter wave of infections and this is going to increase.” He said the timing of the next peak of the virus would be “uncertain”. He said: “But most of the models are suggesting that there should be a peak and start seeing some sort of either plateau or decrease over August.

“And at that point, if things continue to increase at the rate they are – and as I said at the outset, there is something like 50,000 or near 50,000 cases per day, or positives per day, at the moment being detected – with a doubling time of 11 days, you can see that that gets to pretty high numbers very quickly. “And another doubling time will take you to even higher numbers, of course – that would be really quite, quite worrying. So we would like to see some flattening of this, some decrease in the trajectory, and ideally, as you rightly say, you’d like to see this coming down by September, as return of schools would add another pressure on top of that.”

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This is an analysis that goes with the article above.

Hospitalisation Data Not A Reason To Doubt The Vaccine (Moore)

The majority of people in hospital with COVID right now have been fully vaccinated. That will be a surprise to many people, despite the reassurance of the chief scientist Sir Patrick Vallance that it’s to be expected. But he’s right. Firstly, two doses of the Pfizer jab are 96% effective at preventing hospitalisation. For the AstraZeneca shot the figure is 92%. So while the protection is high, it’s not 100%. Secondly, the older you are the more likely it is that you will end up seriously ill if you get COVID. So if the virus does break through the protective barrier of the vaccine you are still more likely to end up in hospital if you are over 50.


It’s not a reason to doubt the vaccine. But it is a reason for everyone to get the jab and reduce levels of the virus spreading through the community. That would mean there’s less risk to double-vaccinated, older people. The good news is that the death rate is still much lower than in previous waves – about one in 1000 infections leads to death now, compared to around one in 50 in January. That’s partly down to the vaccine, but also better drug treatment for those in hospital. So even if double-vaccinated people are still ending up in hospital, they stand a much better chance of survival.

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And so will most vaccinated. But he doesn’t add that.

Gottlieb Predicts ‘Most’ Unvaccinated Americans Will Get Delta Variant (HuPo)

The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration predicted Sunday that “most” unvaccinated Americans who haven’t already had COVID-19 will contract the delta variant — and it will be the “most serious” virus of their lives. “This virus is so contagious, this variant is so contagious … that most people will either get vaccinated or have been previously infected or they will get this delta variant,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned in an interview on “Face the Nation” on CBS. “And for most people who get this delta variant, it’s going to be the most serious virus that they get in their lifetime in terms of the risk of putting them in the hospital,” he added.

Gottlieb, who served under former President Donald Trump before the pandemic, spoke as cases of the disease were climbing across America, with the seven-day average of reported coronavirus cases soaring nearly 70% last week. All 50 states are experiencing a higher number of new cases. Among the hardest hit are states with low vaccination rates, such as Arkansas, Missouri and Florida. The Sunshine state last week accounted for 20% of all new cases in the country. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky called the new surge a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

Gottlieb said he believes actual cases of the more-easily transmissible delta variant are underreported. He estimated that health officials know about only one out of 10 or 20 cases because some of those infected have mild cases and testing is not widespread. “We’re not doing a lot of routine screening right now,” said Gottlieb, who currently serves on the board of vaccine-maker Pfizer. “Unless you work for the New York Yankees, you’re not getting tested on a regular basis. So I think that this delta wave could be far more advanced than what we’re detecting right now.”

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“The data from Israel says natural infection is 6-7x as effective in preventing a future infection as the jab.”

these vaccines are not sterilizing, which means every vaccinated person is a viral mutation factory”

The Flag Is In Tatters (Denninger)

Let’s not kid ourselves. If the media and “public health” people are telling the truth about Delta being as transmissible as claimed there is no way to reach a vaccination level that will suppress it. There are actually people claiming it has an R0 equal or even greater than measles. This is probably a lie, but the problem with lies such as this is that they preclude solutions you then put forward as you’ll never get there. In short we have what I pointed out originally: You either had Covid now or will get it, like it or not. It is as certain as winter. Further, if Delta arose it won’t be the last one. Worse, we now know, conclusively that these vaccines are not sterilizing, which means every vaccinated person is a viral mutation factory and won’t know they have it in many cases. We also know it does not block transmission, as was just demonstrated on the HMS Queen Elizabeth and in the Texas Delegation.

You cannot out-vaccinate a mutating virus; the reason is quite simple as the virus passes through people and mutates faster than you can modify vaccination formulas. I warned early on that the use of non-sterilizing vaccines was known dangerous back when IPV came out for Polio and is why Sabin’s OPV formula, which is sterilizing, was universally used in conjunction with IPV in the US until polio was no longer circulating here. In fact we kept using OPV in the United States for another 20 years after the nation was declared polio-free. Why? Because not doing so — using non-sterilizing IPV alone when polio was still circulating in the population — was damned dangerous as it placed evolutionary pressure on the virus that could cause more disease rather than less and we knew it.

There are no sterilizing Covid-19 vaccines and no evidence we can develop one. The manufacturers admitted their trials were not intended to prove that originally but now we have the data and zero of the shots produce sterilizing immunity. That’s scientific fact at this point. In short we have no choice but to drop the bull**** and accept that we have to live with Covid-19. It will never go away. It has become an endemic virus like the cold or flu viruses and will be with us forever. In addition eradication was always doomed to fail because it has animal reservoirs, specifically at least cats and ferrets. We have no choice in this matter.

Within a very short period of time if Delta is what they claim in terms of infectivity you’re going to see a dramatic shift here as we have in Britain and Israel. The data from Israel says natural infection is 6-7x as effective in preventing a future infection as the jab. The virus will shortly run out of non-jabbed people to infect and the vax-vs-nonvax numbers showing up in the ER will shift dramatically. The bad news is that those who got a “hidden” adverse effect, especially thrombosis of any sort, are at a very high risk of getting monkey-hammered if and when their immunity fails and they get infected anyway because that pre-existing damage will be synergistic with the virus effects.

Lockdowns, masks and mass-jabs will not solve the problem and in fact will make it worse due to the adverse effects. For the healthy 18 year old who is screwed by cardiomylitis what do you tell him or her? They were at an effective zero risk of death in the first place; the number harmed by the shots in that cohort exceeds the number saved. Jabbing such people is an unconscionable evil, and this presumes the risks are confined to what we know which is almost certainly not the case, and that evasion by the virus never occurs, which is ridiculously improbable. Good luck folks.

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180º lie: “..immunity from infection [..] is typically weaker than that provided by vaccination.”

Why would anyone want to spin such lies? What’s to gain?

Antibodies From Covid Infection Last At Least Nine Months (F.)

Almost all people who have recovered from Covid-19 have detectable levels of antibodies nine months later, according to a new study of almost the entire population of an Italian town, bolstering earlier research that suggests a prior infection conveys some protection against the coronavirus. Over a span of nine months, researchers from Italy’s University of Padua and Imperial College London tested more than 85% of the 3,000 residents of Vo, Italy, for Covid-19 antibodies. The researchers, writing in Nature Communications, found that 98.8% of people infected in the first wave—around February/March 2020—still showed detectable levels of antibodies nine months on when tested in November.

There was no difference between people who had symptomatic and asymptomatic illness, the study found. Lead author Dr. Ilaria Dorigatti said this suggests that “the strength of the immune response does not depend on the symptoms and the severity of the infection.” For some people, antibody levels actually increased between testing, indicating a boost to the immune system from another infection with the virus. The possibility of further infection could mean that people with antibodies—whether by infection or vaccination—are capable of transmitting the virus even if they are protected from disease, the researchers warned.

Understanding how long immunity to Covid-19 lasts is crucial to public health officials trying to manage the pandemic. While antibodies indicate an immune response, they do not provide a complete picture of the immune system and cannot tell us how robust immunity is. Though some evidence suggests immunity from infection might be long lasting, it may not be strong enough to protect against disease and is typically weaker than that provided by vaccination.

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Wasn’t sure what to make of the video I posted yesterday, but it’s a real lawsuit of 67 pages which alleges that VAERS undercounts vaccine deaths by a factor of 5.

45K Death Count From Covid Shot Lawsuit (Renz Law)



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“..mass vaccination when it hits >25% of the population, begins to promote latent variants to become predominant ..”

Viral Diversity and the Pandemic Response (McCullough)

There are multiple reports that fully vaccinated groups in the hubris of their newly gained freedoms are coming down with COVID-19, this time with the Delta variant. This mutant strain was born in India in response to evolutionary pressure that promoted a base pair changes from the original alpha variant out of the UK. The HMS Queen Elizabeth reported an outbreak of 100 COVID-19 cases among 3700 fully vaccinated, socially distanced, and masked sailers. Many were detected by unnecessary asymptomatic testing which is not approved by regulatory authorities and not sanctioned by the WHO. The lessons prove that the military should reserve testing for only sick sailors and not put any stock on the vaccines as they clearly have failed.

Fortunately, Delta is mild and very manageable if treated early at home in high-risk individuals or those presenting with severe symptoms. Why did the vaccines fail so quickly? >. First, the genetic vaccines are all coded to the original Wuhan wild-type spike protein. That strain has been extinct for months now. >. Second, mass vaccination when it hits >25% of the population, begins to promote latent variants to become predominant and the overall flora of mutant strains to become less diverse. For example, about six months ago in the US, we had about 14 strains according to the CDC. Now we have only about six strains, with the rising Delta expected to become super dominant. Since Pfizer, Moderna, and JNJ provide no coverage for Delta, we can surely expect more cases but the public may be blinded to reality.

This spring after the CDC was overloaded with >10,000 vaccine failure cases with full-blown COVID-19 after being completely vaccinated, the CDC notified Americans it was only going to track and report COVID-19 in the unvaccinated. This was a giant blunder since there is a great need to study why the vaccines are failing in order to plan for boosters or better technological vaccines.

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He wants his cake and eat it and order seconds.

On ‘Freedom Day’, Boris Johnson Announces Mandatory Vaccine Passports (SN)

On the occasion labeled ‘freedom day’, the UK government announced that vaccine passports would be mandatory to enter “crowded venues” from the end of September. Gee, I feel so free! After initially denying that domestic, vaccine passports would ever be introduced, Boris Johnson’s government feverishly set about creating the framework for them. Now on the very day that all coronavirus restrictions were supposed to be lifted, the UK’s vaccines minister has announced what basically amounts to medical apartheid. “By the end of September everyone aged 18 and over will have the chance to receive full vaccination and the additional two weeks for that protection to really take hold,” said Nadhim Zahawi. “So at that point we plan to make full vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather.”

From the end of September, people will also have the option of providing a negative test result to enter such venues removed, making the vaccine de facto mandatory. Boris Jonhson also refused to rule out future vaccine passports for pubs and bars, saying the government the government “reserved the right to do what’s necessary to protect the public.” “I would remind everybody that some of life’s most important pleasures and opportunities are likely to be increasingly dependent on vaccination,” said Johnson, openly threatening those who don’t get jabbed that their lifestyle will be severely stunted. The measures are being introduced to bully the 35% of 18 to 30-year-olds who haven’t taken the jab into getting it.

Once domestic vaccine passports have become commonplace for travel and to enter crowded venues, expect them to be extended to every other area of life. This will create a two tier society where those who for whatever reason refuse to have the vaccine will remain under de facto lockdown indefinitely.

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“Back in the day, LSD trips were mostly a matter of personal choice.”

The Counter-truths Unspin (Kunstler)

Back in the day, LSD trips were mostly a matter of personal choice. Today, though, all you have to do is wake up somewhere between Montauk and the Farallon Islands and your senses are overwhelmed with hallucinations. The public used to depend on newspapers and TV networks to suss out reality, but that filter is long gone, replaced by a relentless “narrative” machine, and all it does is spin out one technicolor whopper after another. The trouble is: narrative is not the truth. Generally, it’s the opposite of the truth. It’s manufactured counter-truth. The more narrative you spin, the faster you must spin off new supporting narrative to conceal the untruth of your previous narrative — until the national hive mind is lit up in unreality where nothing makes sense and the very language that separates humanity from the rough beasts becomes a social poison.

And is “Joe Biden” not the perfect gibbering epitome of this mess, a ghost in the narrative machine, beckoning us into chaos? America is on a bad trip. The country has lost its way psychologically. Two things will be required to bring it out of the fugue state it tripped into five years ago: some significant shocks to the system and the passage of time. Those shocks are in the offing and the “Joe Biden” regime — meaning Barack Obama and his wing-people who run things — are looking more and more desperate as auguries manifest.

Their current tactical hustle is to amp up paranoia over the receding Covid-19 episode. It looks like an attempt to smokescreen the emerging evidence of massive and widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, and the growing eagerness of a few other states besides Arizona to mount audits of what went on last November 3rd. The supposed surge in new Covid cases is really just a tiny blip, considering it comes off a baseline of close to zero cases in many places. 11,140 so far have died from Covid vaccinations, according to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Last week 2,092 deaths from vaccinations were added versus 1,918 deaths from the virus. Countries with the highest vaccination rates are showing the most new Covid cases.

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“There are going to be new parties: anti-vax, anti-establishment, anti-tax and anti-immigration. The parties that unite under that will be the winning parties.”

Vax Wars are Global – Gerald Celente (USAW)

Celente says the pressure will continue to be pushed and coerced upon the so-called “unvaccinated” even though it is, in fact, an experimental human drug trial. No one will mention the fact that half the country already has natural immunity, according to Dr. Marty Makary at Johns Hopkins University. With death and injuries from fully vaccinated people going higher by the thousands every week, there are no facts that will sway the pro-vax crowd. Celente says, “The facts don’t count. If you show the facts, it’s misinformation if you put out facts. It’s a conspiracy theory when you put out facts, and in the United Soviet States of America, you are not allowed to put facts on any social media because they will ban you. You are not allowed to say anything to disagree with the government or the (so-called) ‘health experts.’”


Celente sees a huge trend in politics emerging and explains, “There are going to be new parties: anti-vax, anti-establishment, anti-tax and anti-immigration. The parties that unite under that will be the winning parties. They have to unite under that.” Celente says, “The whole damn system is corrupt.” Celente does not have high hopes for the election fraud being uncovered to actually do anything because the system is so corrupt. Celente also talks about the U.S. economy and that it should have tanked long ago, and the powers keep propping it up. He also comments on gold, silver, Bitcoin and why New York City and many other cities are not coming back. Celente says people will have to “unite to protect liberty and freedom,” and predicts it’s going to be a long fight.

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Too late to dispel the myth now.

UK Government Advisor Admits Masks Are Just “Comfort Blankets” (SN)

Dr Colin Axon, a SAGE advisor for the government told the London Telegraph that medics have given people a “cartoonish” view of how how microscopic viruses travel through the air, and the masks have gaps in them that are up to 5000 times bigger than Covid particles. “The small sizes are not easily understood but an imperfect analogy would be to imagine marbles fired at builders’ scaffolding, some might hit a pole and rebound, but obviously most will fly through,” Axon said. “Once a particle is not on a biological surface it is no longer a biomedical issue, it is simply about physics. The public has only a partial view of the story if information only comes from one type of source,” Axon continued, adding “Medics have some of the answers but not a whole view.”

Noting that the “mask debate is about the particle journey,” Axon explained that “Masks can catch droplets and sputum from a cough but what is important is that SARS CoV-2 is predominantly distributed by tiny aerosols.” “A Covid viral particle is around 100 nanometres, material gaps in blue surgical masks are up to 1,000 times that size, cloth mask gaps can be 500,000 times the size,” Axon urged. The professor noted that “those aerosols escape masks and will render the mask ineffective,” adding “The public were demanding something must be done, they got masks, it is just a comfort blanket. But now it is entrenched, and we are entrenching bad behaviour.”

“All around the world you can look at mask mandates and superimpose on infection rates, you cannot see that mask mandates made any effect whatsoever,” Axon further noted, adding that “The best thing you can say about any mask is that any positive effect they do have is too small to be measured.” Axon’s comments echo those of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who wrote in February 2020 that a typical store-bought face mask “is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.” Fauci later reversed his position after the CDC began recommending that Americans wear face coverings. Similar recommendations were then made worldwide, with World Health Organisation officials even recommending that masks remain INDEFINTELY.

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Assange.

AG Garland Bars Prosecutors From Seizing Reporters’ Records (AP)

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations, with limited exceptions, reversing years of department policy. The new policy largely codifies the commitment Garland made in June, when he said the Justice Department would abandon the practice of seizing reporters’ records in leak investigations. It aims to resolve a politically thorny issue that has long vexed Justice Department prosecutors trying to weigh the media’s First Amendment rights against government’s desire to protect classified information. But the memo makes clear that federal prosecutors can, in some cases, seize journalists’ records, including if the reporters are suspected of working for agents of a foreign power or terrorist organizations. There is also an exception for situations with imminent risks, like kidnappings or crimes against children.


Garland was moved to act following an outcry over revelations that the department during the Trump administration had obtained records belonging to journalists at The Washington Post, CNN and The New York Times as part of investigations into who had disclosed government secrets related to the Russia investigation and other national security matters. Others whose records were obtained were members of Congress and their staffers and former White House counsel Don McGahn. Garland’s announcement came after President Joe Biden said he would not allow the Justice Department to seize journalists’ phone records and emails, calling the practice “wrong.” Since then, Garland and other senior Justice Department staffers have met with representatives of news media organizations, with both sides agreeing on the need for new department policies. Garland has also said he would support federal legislation to add additional protections for journalists.

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It’s not just Big Tech.

The Shadow State: Corporations As Surrogates For Government Action (Turley)

This use of corporations is born out of political and legal convenience. Despite the rising call for mandatory vaccinations, the Biden administration clearly is not willing to face the political costs of a government mandate. As of July 11, 159,266,536 Americans were fully vaccinated — 48 percent of the country’s population. When you consider the extremely high rate of vaccination for those over 65 (an estimated 85 percent), the percentage of adults under 65 is even smaller. That is a lot of voters who would not take well to a government mandate before the 2022 election.

[..] The political convenience of relying on corporate controls is most evident in the support for a massive system of corporate-based speech controls now implanted in the United States. The government cannot implement a censorship system under the Constitution — but it can outsource censorship functions to private companies like Facebook and Twitter. Just this week, the White House admitted it has been flagging “misinformation” for Facebook to censor. At the same time, Democrats like Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have demanded that Big Tech companies commit to even more “robust content modification” — an Orwellian term for censorship. Liberal writers and media figures have called for corporate censorship despite the danger of an effective state media run through private corporations.

[..] Social media companies are not just any businesses, however. They were created as neutral platforms for communication between people when they were given special immunity from lawsuits. Yet these corporations now control an enormous amount of public discourse and have become a rising threat to the democratic process, expanding their authority to frame the debate on issues ranging from climate change to gender identity, from election fraud to public health. You must espouse the “truth” as established by these companies on certain questions or risk being banned as “misinformation spreaders.” Indeed, Psaki this week insisted that once people are banned by one company, they should be banned from all social media companies.

If these trends continue, citizens could find themselves effectively exiled by order of corporate governors — unable to travel or go to school while also barred from espousing dissenting views on social media. They would, effectively, be “disappeared” within a shadow state that lacks any electoral or appellate process — a dystopian brave new world that could become all too real if we allow elected officials to use corporate surrogates to control the essential aspects of our lives.

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I know, I know, Rockefeller Foundation.

The True Cost of Food (Rockefeller)

Although Americans have some of the most affordable food in the world, our food comes with hidden costs—to our health, to our climate, and to the farmers, fishers, ranchers, and food workers who ensure goods make their way to store shelves. As the pandemic made explicit, those workers bear the brunt of the unequal and unsustainable food system we live with today. In fact, our food system costs all of us far more than what’s written on our receipt as we exit the check-out line. Our food system is failing us, and too few people understand the true cost of the food we consume, and lack clear incentives to change a system that is costing us dearly. That’s why accounting for the true cost of the food we eat is the first, necessary step towards remaking the incentive structure that drives our food system today.

Consider this: In 2019, American consumers spent an estimated $1.1 trillion on food. That price tag includes the cost of producing, processing, retailing, and wholesaling the food we buy and eat. It does not include the cost of healthcare for the millions who fall ill with diet-related diseases. Nor does $1.1 trillion include the present and future costs of the food system’s contributions to water and air pollution, reduced biodiversity, or greenhouse gas emissions, which cause climate change. Take those costs into account and it becomes clear the true cost of the U.S. food system is at least three times as big—$3.2 trillion per year. The true cost of food disproportionately burdens people of color, who are more likely to suffer from dietrelated diseases, have less access to water and sanitation, and often work in food production jobs for less than a living wage.

Americans pay that high cost even if consumers don’t see it in the check-out line. And, if we don’t change our food system, future generations will pay those high costs, too.

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    madamski cafone
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    More like this than a vicar in a tutu:

    In the red red mud…

    But I’ve known my share of tutu’d vicars. Of the many weirdnesses I’ve witnessed in what we’ll loosely call the transgender realm, I believe that Captain Dirty Dan is the pinnacle:

    Dirty Dan’s was and may still be a flaming magenta stucco gay bar hidden (maybe even to this day) deep in the loblolly pines of far south Georgia a short drive from Jimmy Carter’s boyhood home. After falling for a boy in exquisite drag, deflated and disappointed when hir tits proved to be ridiculously lifelike silicone (with deep cleavage shown but a bar lit entirely in ultraviolet can conceal deepfakery amazingly well), a fact he gigglingly displayed by pulling them out and wiggling them in the air before my eyes… whoa), I retired to the back room where there was a large round table of glass and heavy ornate wrought iron. Only part of the bar that was normally lit, albeit dimly.

    Seated there was a very large powerful overweight short furry bear of a man in a classic black captain’s sailor suit including black captain’s hat. The ultraviolet leaking through the bar illuminated his shoulder epaulettes of pure dandruff but his beard was a nice salt’n’pepper masterpiece.

    We chatted. He thought it was cute how I dressed like a boy and mostly got away with it. Being raised with 4 brothers and a towering father made it natural for me. He propositioned me:

    “You’ve got a way with words. I’ll pay you $50 if you’ll lie under the table while I sit on the glass – it’s super-strong,” he said, knocking it hard with knuckles like 4×4 wheel treads,” and tell me what it looks like.”

    I declined.

    “$100.”

    $100 was a lot of money back then.
    I declined. He wasn’t exactly gracious about it but he respectfully accepted the fact of my disinterest.

    Then, two hours later, smoking a joint after sunset in hazy cypress twilight with another, nicer, tamer Dan (who was also a merchant marine, oddly enough😉), on a narrow wooden bridge just two feet above the water of a swamp slough, I came this close to having my legs bit off by an alligator. Dan knew it was approaching and was ready to pull me back if I didn’t see it in time, but he wanted a good laugh and he got it.

    Beady little red eyes barely glowing in the last sunset light, scrawny little Madamski rolling over in a backwards somersault across the bridge, peeing my britches while Danny laughed so hard he almost peed his, and some alligator pissed at missing a meal. Poor Dan. He was so disappointed to find out I was a girl, not a boy playing one. Not a bone of bi- in that boy. But I seem to recall he told good stories although I can’t recall any.

    You know what I’m gonna play:

    Dude Looked Like a Lady

    #80303
    Polder Dweller
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    Dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, today:

    Virologists sound the alarm: delta variant also spreads via vaccinated people

    Once again, virologists are sounding the alarm about the coronavirus. The delta variant is so contagious that people who have already been fully vaccinated can also pass on the virus. This could have ‘major consequences’ for policy, the scientists warn.

    Although vaccinees who contract the delta variant usually do not become so sick that they end up in hospital, they can transmit the virus to others. That is why people who have been vaccinated should adhere to the same rules as non-vaccinated people: testing immediately in case of complaints, testing for admission tickets and after returning from vacation, and keeping an extra good distance from people who have not yet been vaccinated.

    “The idea we had in the beginning, that you no longer transmit the virus after vaccination, does not seem to hold true for the delta variant,” says clinical virologist Matthijs Welkers (Amsterdam UMC). “We even see people who have already had an infection, have been vaccinated twice and are now testing positive again.”

    […]

    What probably happens is that the virus partially undermines the immune system. Anyone who becomes infected with the delta variant produces up to a thousand times as many virus particles as in the original variant, according to a recently published analysis. “At the beginning of the infection, it’s probably so much that your antibodies can’t keep up,” says Welkers. “Because of its large numbers, the virus breaks through the defense as it were.”

    In addition, antibodies from vaccinees are about eight times less effective on the delta variant protrusions than on those of the original virus, according to recently published British lab tests. That doesn’t make things any better.

    The fact that vaccinated individuals rarely end up in ICU or die is due to something else. After the initial phase of the infection, the delta variant probably also runs into the T cells, the line of defense that cleans up affected cells and controls the inflammation. This keeps the disease limited.

    […]

    In other countries, that awareness is also beginning to decline. For example, Israel, where the population was vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, announced on Friday that more than a thousand fully vaccinated people in that country have already become infected with the delta variant again. And in India, scientists discovered that healthcare workers who had been vaccinated with AstraZeneca often still became infected with the delta variant. “The warning that this emanates is that although vaccination is very important, it is not the only thing that is needed to prevent transmission,” says Koopmans.

    https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/virologen-slaan-alarm-deltavariant-verspreidt-zich-ook-via-gevaccineerden~b800c3e1/ (In Dutch)

    #80304
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    They have to manufacture dips at this popint to get any market action. Money velocity is like a snail on thorazine.

    #80305
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    (above) @ Mister Roboto

    #80306
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    ” and tell me what it looks like.”

    Oops. I forgot: what it looked like as he took a dump.

    True story.

    #80307
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Never interfere with your enemy when it is destroying itself

    “Despite the paper’s own definition of gain-of-function research seemingly being the same as Paul’s, the White House scientist still insisted that the research outlined in the 2015 paper “is not” the same thing.”

    Fauci has reached his “depends on what your definition os ‘is’ is” moment. Farewell Fauci. It was nice not knowing you.

    #80308
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Okay, now I’m convinced that the banksters really are planning to move to China after they’re done selling us downriver.

    Where they will be eaten alive, of course.

    ‘We’ll sail where intl law allows’: UK to permanently deploy naval vessels to South China Sea amid regional tensions

    “…permanently.” Yeah, sunken aircraft are pretty permanently deployed, I’d say.

    #80309
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Checkmate

    “Checkmate is capable of short – but not vertical – takeoff, and is fitted with modular weapon bays that can be equipped with the full array of current anti-aircraft missiles, gun pods, bombs, and guided missiles. A drone version is also currently under development.”

    They watch us build stupid shit while they study the good stuff we make and then improve it considerably, generally making them both simpler and more robust yet also more multi-functional. THe name itself says it all: not only vastly superior air defense and long-range ballistics, but also offensive air power.

    The barbarians are practically at the gate. But they’re content to watch us implode so long as we don’t act up.

    #80310
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    fit-to-fly fakery?

    “A UK government-approved testing company is accused of dumping test vials in the trash and issuing fit-to-fly certificates. My experience with the firm was dreadful – and it’s typical of how shabbily the pandemic has been handled.”

    Whoa. The unraveling picks up speed.

    #80312
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Written from a very mainstream perspective, which in this case is apt, for it seeks to communicate to a broad range of belief systems that the reason it feels like things are falling apart is that they ARE falling apart:

    consensus crackers

    #80313
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “The Great Reset deals with this evil by acquiescing in it. Under its plan, governments who became indebted to the Federal Reserve while bailing out the banks should wipe the slate clean by handing over the remaining assets. The bankers and the billionaires instruct that you will own nothing and you will be happy.

    The industrial corporations who polluted the skies and the oceans demand subsidies to go “carbon neutral,” outsourcing their responsibility, leaving someone else to clean their mess. The families who own most of the world’s oil and gas will continue to hoard those resources, while making us pay for wind and solar. And because wind and solar cannot meet the needs of today’s population, our lifestyles must adapt. The world may get to 100 per cent renewable energy but at a cost that is as yet unimaginable.

    What brought us to this crossroads is the manipulation of morals to adjust for a deep rot in society. Business schools noticed this when they began to teach courses in ethics: it had little impact on standards in corporate life. If anything, they declined, or more politely, adapted.

    They outsourced responsibility for their behaviour — principles, decency, even that antiquated word, standards — to a compliance officer sitting in a corner office. Just like corporations, we individuals did the same.

    That is how they are approaching The Great Reset: by compartmentalizing ethics. As a society that bails out others’ failed bets while some gamble anew. Governments award no-tender contracts for vaccines and personal protective equipment, technology companies are given carte blanche to invent the future systems of governance with no thought for the role of elected officials. While health becomes a bazaar where the buyer better beware.

    Society is melded to the interest of corporations while billionaires play leap frog. Secret societies always offered a “leg up” to their pals but the ethical drought has created an escalator. Their “oaths and proceedings” have swept them into endeavors that no sensible, rational or prudent mind would consider. Government, bureaucracy and the corporate world are shaking hands like the wicked doctor of Württemberg. Isn’t that just another word for pursuing the Will bereft of conscience?

    The words of the Great Reset have an internal logic and a veneer of justice, if not morality. But in empowering corporations as equal stakeholders with the state, it fortifies a psychopath compelled to prioritize its own benefit and lacking any moral guide.

    The state is (theoretically) subject to greater moral oversight but it also arrogates to itself the right to murder and on certain pretexts to set aside its own laws and conventions in order to expropriate or steal. You don’t have to be a libertarian or anarchist to see the state is founded on a monopoly of violence.

    The state is only as moral as those in power. It is a dangerous machine. Allied with psychopathic corporations in state-corporatism the certainty of abuse is terrifying, the 20th Century having borne ample proof.

    The fundamental transformation of society has not been debated in any public forum. Our legislatures have been sidelined by presidential or prime ministerial decree, teams of psychologists use the media to manipulate the people into action, and the military looms on the outskirts of our cities. Acts are being undertaken that are a violation of humanity by deceitful, even depraved, methods whose outcomes threaten to match or exceed any past tragedy.

    What shall we do in return? Shall we respond with the wry wisdom of an Aristophanes or the dread practicality of a Spartan? Can we succeed if we play nice? Is civilization built by compromise with evil or by striking it down? Do leaders arise from the squalor of submission, accumulating points for victimhood, or by raising their eyes to dignity, honor, integrity and freedom?

    Let our coin buy more than mere survival, let our currency be defiance and, if necessary, honest vengeance.”

    #80314
    hexadec
    Participant

    I was wondering about the claims that everyone sick with Covid was unvaccinated. Maybe this has something to do with it.

    This spring after the CDC was overloaded with >10,000 vaccine failure cases with full-blown COVID-19 after being completely vaccinated, the CDC notified Americans it was only going to track and report COVID-19 in the unvaccinated.

    #80315
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    And look, they used the World’s Biggest Word:

    “To a certain extent, the fervor of the disestablishmentarian faction is traceable to economic and social trends mentioned earlier (the flow of wealth and power to coastal urban centers and the slow demographic shift of the country toward multi-ethnicity”

    #80316
    WES
    Participant

    Ff topic. Commenting on one of the TAE’s articles!

    So the US AG is going to stop his own DofJ from seizing journalist’s communication records every time someone in the deep state government decides to leak disinformation to journalists!

    How self serving the deep state is! They are just protecting themselves, not the journalists!

    Oh look! A squirrel over there!

    Nice spin by the deep state to cover their real motive!

    #80317
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “They outsourced responsibility for their behaviour — principles, decency, even that antiquated word, standards — to a compliance officer sitting in a corner office. Just like corporations, we individuals did the same.”

    Yup. That’s us. As we’re taught: DO this, get in trouble. DO that, get a cookie.

    #80318
    WES
    Participant

    Madamski:

    Are you aying Dr fauci is faucing us?

    (faucing = lying to)

    After all a new word is definately required to explain the outrageous behavior of Dr fauci!

    Just like Mr. Bigot outrageous behavior gave us the new word “bigot”!

    Mr. Bigot actions caused New France (Quebec) to fall to the British!

    #80319
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “What shall we do in return? Shall we respond with the wry wisdom of an Aristophanes or the dread practicality of a Spartan? Can we succeed if we play nice? Is civilization built by compromise with evil or by striking it down? Do leaders arise from the squalor of submission, accumulating points for victimhood, or by raising their eyes to dignity, honor, integrity and freedom?Let our coin buy more than mere survival, let our currency be defiance and, if necessary, honest vengeance.”

    Heh. The author said coin. Heh-heh-heh. On coins, the wry wisdom of Aristophanes and the dread practicality of a Spartan:

    “During the Peloponnesian War, the Athena Temple functioned in much the same way as a modern bank to fund the Athenian cause. Although considerable material wealth was kept in the physical temple, it is important to think of it more as an institution that had vast power over Athens’ economy. The Athena Temple’s reserve funds that were used to fund the war effort were drawn from a number of sources, including: tribute from Delian League members due every year in time for the campaigning season, funds still left from the treasury of Delos, the reserve fund held in the physical temple, and private donations of uncoined gold and silver. Thucydides related the details as follows:

    ‘“Saying that their strength came from the financial income they paid and that, for the most part, success in war was a matter of judgment and abundant revenues. He told them they could take confidence, since six hundred talents in tribute usually came in every year form the allies apart from other revenue, and on the Acropolis, there was still six thousand talents in coined silver remaining at that time . . . And, apart from that, uncoined silver in private and public dedications, and there was all the sacred equipment for processions and contests and booty from the Mede and everything else of that sort, not less than five hundred talents; going further, he added the considerable amount from the other sanctuaries. They would use these and if they were compelled, even the gold plating of the goddess herself; he pointed out that the statue had forty talents’ worth of refined gold, and it was all removable.”’

    How Did the Athenians Fund Their Military during the Peloponnesian War?

    The problem is ancient, now universal and global: no one can live without money any more except a few Amazon tribes who may soon be eaten by our culture. The love of money is the root of all evil. We cannoy even conceive of life without it. We will soon be forced to.

    Big $$, el Mam-mon, is in final climax and about to go sere but with infertile seeds. Money has tried to kill off the planet and our particular species with it, but failed, of course, being primarily ideas and only secondarily things, placing at a disadvantage outside the human noosphere. Reality ignores money.

    Slaves and animals and salt will again become our primary currencies.

    But we’ll become REAL again, not figments of our inter-mixed imaginations, not holographic projections of what we’ve been conditioned and indoctrinated to be. And what is that, you ask? Unconsciously evil. Flaccid consumers of industrialized death turned into meaningless comforts and diversionary titillations, including cheap moral thrills provided by the Latest Worthy Cause. Anything but individuals or real unto ourselves.

    #80320
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “Slaves and animals and salt will again become our primary currencies.”

    I agree with this. I think i even stated awhile back that the loss of cheap oil will do more to reinvigorate slavery then any kind of racism. I also think this explains “woke”. They know that “progress” is failing and they have the most to lose. People might actually have to deal with reality then.

    #80321
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Slaves and animals and salt will again become our primary currencies.

    So does that mean we won’t all be righteous eco-groovy vegans???

    #80322
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “I agree with this. I think i even stated awhile back that the loss of cheap oil will do more to reinvigorate slavery then any kind of racism. I also think this explains “woke”. They know that “progress” is failing and they have the most to lose. People might actually have to deal with reality then.”

    You mean as a distracting focus driven from behind by fear? Not unlike how I perceive the fad for zombies and demonics being respectively about fear of cannibalism or End is Near fear? (End is Near Fear is my next heavy punk metal project.)

    #80323
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “So does that mean we won’t all be righteous eco-groovy vegans???”

    Not if we can help it. I think that Kuntsler is hardly being sensationalist when he often refers to the protein value of well-fried large insects. A supply-chain collapse means a food-chain collapse in today’s globally commodified ecology. I see us eating low on the food chain for awhile. We’ll be healthier after a brief winnowing.

    Maybe then, ET Jeebus will come and save us.

    Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… some guy in a sandals and robe! NO, no, you’re kidding me. Can’t be. That is SO fucking corny. Oh well. Where’s some water I can dunk myself under? First impressions mean so much, you know.

    #80324
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    WES: at this point, anything almost anyone does in the gubmint or its primary apparati, is like being in Germany in its second half: everybody KNOWS, but not very many will SAY…

    Meanwhile, then, like now, the line between reality TV and actual reality went blurry:

    I think it’s a predecessor of that fad for large recreations of Jackson’s “THriller” vid.

    #80325
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    This is the abyss staring back moment. The ruling class threw the dice and created a few more billionaires. But it has come up snake eyes for the public. Reports now indicate that Wuhan spike RNA vaccines are ineffective at stopping Delta Variant transmission (even lower than the 64% reported in Israel earlier) and anecdotal reports that the vaccinated hospitalized are sicker than the unvaccinated. An old fogey about to be thrown to the wolves, I am not happy that Berlin Bunker parodies are sure to infiltrate the intertubes with the dear leader in a rage when told that Fauci’s vaccines failed. Disinformation is the truth.

    The only hope left is that frontline healthcare workers can treat the ill and the virus is adapting to humans. Deaths in the West don’t spike too.

    #80326
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    The only hope left is that frontline healthcare workers can treat the ill and the virus is adapting to humans. Deaths in the West don’t spike too.

    IOW, maybe the vaccine backfiring will make them finally start using Ivermectin-based therapies. It might be a very slim hope, as oligarchs hate being shown to be all wrong much more than they hate mass death and suffering amongst the serfs, but it’s probably our only hope.

    #80327
    WES
    Participant

    Madamski:

    I think a while back I think we once discussed the velocity of money or M2. At the time I said I no longer paid any attention to M2 because it was an obsolete measurement, but couldn’t remember why.

    The reason M2 is obsolete is because it was designed to measure paper based payments like cash and cheques. Today none of these paper payments exist any more. They have been replaced by electronic online payment systems, making M2 obsolete!

    #80328
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “An old fogey about to be thrown to the wolves, I am not happy that Berlin Bunker parodies are sure to infiltrate the intertubes with the dear leader in a rage when told that Fauci’s vaccines failed. Disinformation is the truth.”

    I wish things weren’t failing but I’m always up for one of those Hitler parodies.

    #80329
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    WES: I wouldn’t know M2 from an M-1 carbine, but I know that the Titanic’s holds are all so bloated with financial water that the ship can hardly move and its very buoyancy is threatened.

    #80330
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “IOW, maybe the vaccine backfiring will make them finally start using Ivermectin-based therapies. It might be a very slim hope, as oligarchs hate being shown to be all wrong much more than they hate mass death and suffering amongst the serfs, but it’s probably our only hope.”

    The serfs will be steadily growing angry. The oligarchs won’t last much longer. Things won’t get much better for us, but the oligarchs will find life… unpleasant and rather… tenuous. And what magical ingredient will the oligarchs respond to? A little thing called direct action. People walking up to city hall and firing into its windows just for the fun of it.

    Why you guys place these mutant parasites on a Pedestal of Omnipotence bewilders and saddens me but no longer frightens me. Kinda givern up on fear, I haz. Now is a good time to smile. It always is. Fate will do as it does, and you can too.

    Right Off!

    #80331
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    I like how this guy says it:

    bones

    #80332
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #80333
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Covid Daily
    – Vaccine disinformation kills
    – Cats can spread Covid
    – If you die from the Delta Variant it may be the most serious virus you’ll ever get
    – If you know what’s good for you, you’ll get the vaccine
    – Everyone will get Covid eventually; A flat curve isn’t actually a curve
    – Natural antibodies from Covid 19 will last at least until you can get vaccinated
    – Masks are comfort blankets just like straight jackets are leisure suits
    – The vaccinated spread Delta but that’s OK because they’re vaccinated
    – NIH experiment shows that masks for fetuses may stop the unborn from getting Covid 19 from the mother
    – A test on the plane is worth two in the trash
    – Kory: Everything was fine until Ivermectin was banned by dickless here

    * Truths We Now Know
    – America is in prolonged organized state of conflict
    – Landscaping is dangerous
    – Journalists don’t make shit up: They digest information, absorb the useful parts and excrete the news
    – You are not a bug, you are a feature, but Valgrind may still find you and you will be refactored away
    – False emergency narrative persuades us to comply with the established power order
    – Slaves and animals will be the new money because they are durable, portable, scarce, divisible and uniform

    * Aphorisms
    – Obey da TV
    – We need to take the lawlessness into our own hands
    – The rich give (to themselves), the rich take (from us), blessed be the name of the rich

    * When a sea captain tells a young lass
    He’ll pay her to lie under glass
    While he sits up stairs
    And she names his wares
    Don’t do it, the man’s just an ass

    * Things as they are

    #80334
    madamski cafone
    Participant
    #80335
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “– If you die from the Delta Variant it may be the most serious virus you’ll ever get”

    As opposed to that silly Laughing Influenza of 193o

    Mr. Laurel Himself

    #80336
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Tovarisch TAE Summary:

    I like how you have these directable mirrors in your hall thereof that let’s you size up a paradox on the fly and take a snapshot with a quirky caption. It’s a gift so rare and fast as to make me wonder if you’re an AI. 😉 More like a clever rascal with access to a neato AI app. Or maybe you’re a high-functioning genius autist (I say that as a possible compliment, fwiw).

    In other words, you, o soul of mystery, are fricking FASCINATING.

    You remind me of this song:

    Out of Sight!

    #80337
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    When a sea captain tells a young lass
    He’ll pay her to lie under glass
    While he sits up stairs
    And she names his wares
    Don’t do it, the man’s just an ass

    *swoon*

    #80338
    madamski cafone
    Participant
    #80339
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    eleanor

    Here’s looking at you with my own eyes, TAE. Is the E silent?

    #80340
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    btw, oroboros, your video is unavailable. Several tries now over many hours.

    #80341
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Just Another Night at TAE.

    #80342
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Now that social attitudes have changed as much as they have, I don’t think I would mind as much going back to being a Smalltown Boy.

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