Debt Rattle December 18 2021

ctbarnum
…no needles, just balls…

If I catch your drift…brilliant!

Long Media criticism, feel free to skip. However, since it composes our present world and cage, it is relevant.

Bill goes down. Amazing: apparently Manchin is worth five (5) Congressmen? He overruled the whole Squad?

Yup, that’s what’s reported. Probably one man vote is worth five women votes, and not that the Progressives caved to NeoLiberal corporatists under Nancy Pelosi like we’ve seen for 50 years and highlighted with Bernie being actively vote-tampered out of California and Iowa in some kind of fake WWE puppet show. Nope! Really: it’s not at all like when Obama had a supermajority he just COULDN’T pass health care or other simple DNC planks. “Supermajority”, including the USSC, means they didn’t have the votes, you see. If only they had more power, finally something would happen.

When are we going to stop pretending the floor votes or elections are real? Do we need Princeton to issue an official report that there’s no Democracy? …Oh wait, that was 2014.

But that’s not new: have you seen the freshman Congressmen asking Newt Gingrich “Mr. Speaker, exactly how big a supermajority do we need before we enact policies we were voted in for?” …In 1994.

Remember, just needed to get Joe into residency and then push him Left? Yeah, that. “Progressive” like $100B/mo to the banks, a war in Russia, and no health care in a pandemic.

“Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming…”

“FDR will hold Wall Street to account, uphold the banks and save your accounts, and stay out of the war”

Oh and Adams is a hermaphrodite and Jefferson is in the pocket of the French. Trust me: I’m a professional politician. Or adult American.

“The Atlantic: Where the Dumbest people meet.”

An article the have on Civil War, and how it can never happen again. ‘Cause, experts. From Ireland.

“[That the U.S.] system of federal governance gives a minority the power to frustrate and repress the majority, that much of its media discourse is toxic, that one half of a two-party system has entered a postdemocratic phase, and that, uniquely among developed states, it tolerates the existence of several hundred private armies equipped with battle-grade weaponry.”

Yes, but who’s who? You mean MNCs armies like Blackwater, insider, non-taxpaying corporations like GE and $6B CIA-serving Amazon, and the G4S security forces that protect Lightfoot and London Breed? Those guys are all government-adjacent, government-merged. Who’s postdemocratic? One who loses and election and cries RussiaRussiaRussia? Their minority when they frustrated political proceedings of the elected majority? Or is it their tiny NeoLib minority even now frustrating the will of the overwhelming Democratic Base? …And the same on the other side. Only one side is in the wrong. Good thing he’s objective, like any good reporter.

“It is also true that the American system of government is extraordinarily difficult to change by peaceful means. Most successful democracies have mechanisms that allow them to respond to new conditions and challenges by amending their constitutions and reforming their institutions. But the U.S. Constitution has inertia built into it. What realistic prospect is there of changing the composition of the Senate, even as it becomes more and more unrepresentative of the population?”

Because: Atlantic, they’ve never heard of “The Constitution” or something called “Amendments”. I guess we’ve never passed any. I mean, not like we’d expect a writer for the Atlantic, the Guardian, NY Daily News to have heard of something so arcane and little mentioned as the “Bill of Rights” and the 1st and 2nd Amendment. They hardly ever come up in European conversations on America and, for example, guns.

Also, I guess we’ve never either elected the Senate, nor ever changed the way in which they operate, with say, a 17th Amendment. Being 17 times we’ve updated this non-update-able country. I mean, that’s proof right there, American Democracy: it’s just impossible to change!

Really, he’s right. Because we’ve never held State Senatorial appointments, and certainly not Senatorial popular elections like for Senator Clinton or Biden; we still have the senators James Monroe, Philip Schuyler, and Robert Morris, average age: 264 years old. Kind of like the House of Lords.

But someday we’ll figure out this “Democracy” thingy and then you’ll be sorry.

“America has still not recovered from the fratricidal slaughter of the 1860s.”

I know, right? Not a day goes by I don’t shoot a Vermonter or a Virginian. The morgues of Baltimore and Chicago are filled with this conflict of North vs South. And we’re definitely, definitely scared of war. Terrified of starting or spreading them.

And since we’ve never recovered from the Civil War, we’ve CERTAINLY never written anything in West Point on it. The CIA, who specializes in creating Civil Wars worldwide never thought about it: “in his 1994 book Civil Wars, “there is no useful Theory of Civil War.” It isn’t a staple in military school—Carl von Clausewitz’s bible, On War, has nothing to say”

Other news from the Smart geniuses, “Texas is a “single-party state.” Because they voted Blue last elections? Austin is Blue while the state is Red? That’s “One-Party”. Unlike Congress, which votes for the same things regardless of who is elected – officially, according to Princeton – they are Two Party. Silly Wabbit.

“The comforting fiction that the U.S. used to be a glorious and settled democracy prevents any reckoning with the fact that its current crisis is not a terrible departure from the past but rather a product of the unresolved contradictions of its history. The dark fantasy of Armageddon distracts from the more prosaic and obvious necessity to uphold the law and establish political and legal accountability for those who encourage others to defy it.”

Ah but on this we totally agree. America was never peaceful even before colonization, and always has low-level internal contention and violence. Hey! Something like every other nation on earth where men live. Maybe someday we will uphold the law and arrest the people responsible for this, against all known history, but don’t hold your breath. With deep, accurate, cutting-edge legal knowledge like this, how could we?

But so long as they know nothing about the subject, they are an “expert” and can issue books and reviews at will. Or, as they said even 100 years ago:

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.” ― Nicholas Butler

And he should know. President of Columbia U., Nobel Prize winner, P.S. married a Schyuler, Also stole the Pulitzer Prize from Hemingway to award it to nobody.

And who could forget Butler when he was immortalized in fiction with “The Goose-Step” by Upton Sinclair? Ah, education! We hardly knew ya. There’s your real war: The War on Truth.

P.S. Did you hear 9 out of 10 experts say there’s no such thing as the “Moon”? These are the guys I want as my doctor.

Luckily they at “The Atlantic” n pals don’t Doctor…oh wait:

“America Is Not Ready for Omicron. The new variant poses a far graver threat…” –The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/america-omicron-variant-surge-booster/621027

Apparently old Ed Yong can’t be bothered to ask a “Doctor”. But they’re African. So not real doctors. We’ve seen Ed before where he writes for “Scienz!” As opposed to “Science” which is based on any supportable facts, however unlikely.

“some of the absolute worst-case scenarios that were possible when we saw its genome are off the table,”

So…it’s good then? He says, picking cherry quotes from a friendly biologist: NOT A DOCTOR.

“The real unknown is what an Omicron cross will do when it follows a Delta hook.”

Omicron and Delta have already crossed? Do tell. If it has, why is it “unknown”? BECAUSE IT’S A GREAT BIG STEAMING LIE. Ed made it up. In his fevered head. As top representative of The Atlantic, who “makes s—t up” for a living.

“Omicron negates one previous immunizing event… Someone who considered themselves fully vaccinated in September would be just partially vaccinated now (and the official definition may change imminently)”

So, Vaccines don’t work and you guys change the definition daily. Got it. That is, you change the definition of “Science”, to “Whatever I feel like today,” when it has actual process.

“Dylan Morris suggests watching highly boosted places, such as Israel,” …where Omicron hit everyone fully boosted and has the highest hospital rate in the world. …Hmm, I HAVE been watching it, Mr. Yong, that’s where I get my facts from. I think we know.

Also “ The widespread notion that viruses naturally evolve to become less virulent is mistaken,” O Rly? Amazing how that defies 10,000 years of evidence. Well, he IS quoting the NYTimes, hotbed of known plagiarism, top promoter of “RussiaRussia” and “WMD and ties to Al-qeada” “Yellowcake” “Mushroom clouds” and soon-to-be ex-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. But thankfully no one reads it, so we’re spared.

He then goes on to stealth-suppose there’s no natural immunity anywhere on earth AS WELL as that vaccines totally, 100% don’t work. I’m sold! Shut up and take my money! If it doesn’t work at all, jab me thrice right now!!!

“people from rural, low-income, and minority communities will likely experience the greatest delays, [to get a booster]”

I think he may be misinterpreting why those demographics aren’t vaxxed. It’s actually because of past history with the accuracy of Atlantic writers like Mr. Yong.

Quoting a virologist for a change, “once we have an Omicron-specific booster, the wave will be past,”

So…Vaccines don’t work. They’re too slow, can’t create and deliver them in time. As uneducated, barely-literate posters like the Docktor said in March 2020.

Who’s to blame? “instead of distributing rapid tests en masse, the Biden administration opted to merely make them reimbursable through health insurance.” So…is that the Democratic Supermajority down to the Governors, the CDC, NIH, or Pfizer that we should blame for it, arrest, chop up and spread to the winds? I mean, just point us in the right direction and we’ll get the people responsible for this mess.

But not to fear: “At an Oslo Christmas party, almost three-quarters of attendees were infected even though all reported a negative test result one to three days before.”

Tests don’t work anyway, so why worry if you can get one? A load off my mind.

“The various measures that controlled the spread of other variants—masks, better ventilation, contact tracing, quarantine, and restrictions on gatherings”

Apparently we have a different definition of “work”. Perhaps he doesn’t know the difference between “Raging deadly worldwide pandemic” and “Working great: All good.”

Next sentence: “After Delta’s emergence, it became clear that the coronavirus was too transmissible to fully eradicate.” …that he just said we nicely controlled. So we controlled it so much it’s everywhere, un-eradicable? We are in control of it, so we, you PMCs, WANT it? ‘Cause if I were in control, I wouldn’t want it, but that’s just me.

“Vaccinating the world can curtail those possibilities,” with a vaccine you just said doesn’t work. Against a variant that is entirely undeterred by it, as seen – as you suggested – in Israel. This is your “matter of moral urgency”: spending billions of my money, the money of the poor, transferring it to rich individuals and multinational corporations, with threat of arrest and prison, on a thing you just swore a sacred oath won’t work in the slightest. Very moral indeed. “God’s work.” Depending on your god.

“Individualism couldn’t beat Delta,” And neither could collectivism. Singapore is a top Covid spot, as are Israel, UK, and other collective states. Meanwhile, Florida is the safest state in the Union. Again.

Sorry you had to read that. Sharing my agony as a fellow brain-owner, I guess.

But the news goes ever on. It’s like Lamb Chop, the Song that Never Ends. “If all the girls at Columbia Journalism were laid end-to-end … I wouldn’t be surprised.” -Dorothy Parker.

The point is, this is what’s out there as “The Narrative” and the media, scientific, and people’s consensus. This is the “New Logic,” backing the “New Normal”, defended even to assault and murder.

“New details paint ‘insane’ picture of how right wing media obtained Biden daughter’s diary” — Rachel Maddow

Oh so the diary is REAL, Ms. Maddow? That’s great to know. However if so, its contents are very disturbing. Appalling sexual felonies, I believe, by Mr. Biden. So…? What’s your move here? Trash the right wing and have Biden arrested, or what?

Also on NBC: All Trump, all the time; Trump’s Trump channel. …What? Who?

Remember we were going to track what’s been recently censored and banned as a perfect outline on the moves and location of Mr. Global, the Invisible Man? Something like that. So NBC clearly believes something’s about to happen with Orange Man. Which is Bad. Of course. They are having New York indict him for — get this — self-promoting and talking up his businesses. Can you believe that? Put this man in prison Right. Now! A businessman being optimistic and selling himself. I never heard the like! And to get loans. Can you imagine if those poor banks got the loans, found out they were all worthless “piles of dog s–t” would collapse the whole financial system, worth only 19c on the dollar? Why they’d come honest immediately! And the new popular President would enforce such needed honesty. Not like Mr. Trump! Well I say good sir!

But again: Leftists/CNN/Government/CIA all know something is about to happen with Dr. Orange, and we here, the public, the Right, even Congressmen like Rand Paul don’t. What does that mean to you? Maybe CNN/CIA/US Feds are all one unit, one party, one god? It’s a big club and you ain’t in it?

See, it used to be the Party in the USSR, you knew who they were. They carried cards, held positions, easy stuff. But in a nation of coast-to-coast non-stop liars, we can’t have that. Nike needs to be able to say “I’m a rebel, Dottie, a drifter,” the little guy, the underdog outsider resistance. Totally down wi’t it and they’re black, yo. Trans-racial. Fist power. So they can’t just admit they’re born, life-long, entitled, born-billionaire, 7th son idiot shills who couldn’t win checkers against Hannah Montana. So there’s the same Party Member Politoboro that is more equal than others, but we can’t tell you who they are. …So that you could even avoid getting squashed by them. Which we are all the time. That would be too easy.

But that leads to the other consequence: that since there’s no List, no one knows who’s ON the list or who’s now OFF the list and about to be arrested, like Madoff (there are so few examples) or murdered and fed to their peers like Bear Sterns. I don’t think THEY know. It’s all a big popularity contest, which is what it comes down to, ultimately: if money doesn’t mean anything, like in Capitalism, then only social connections and popularity have value. They are now your currency, your money. But unlike money, they can appear for no reason and be removed and stolen for no reason. It’s the ultimate insecurity, the infinite sword of Damocles.

This is the world Democratic Socialists want for everyone, even if they don’t fully realize it: everything for my friends, who are good and right, and nothing for you, you ignorant troll. It’s basically a 13 year-old girl sleepover party as life, complete with crying and suicides.

Again, Capitalism isn’t much better, but at least it’s least-bad. There you have both, which can offset each other and give you a safe island and counterweight. You can’t get rid of popularity and social opinions, nor should you. They pretend social credit and the respect of your name doesn’t matter, in Capitalism, but it really does. Whole brands like Coke or Elon are based on it and have “intangible” book value of billions. “Intangible” value you can issue stock and get loans against. Just like sports and media stars, lawyers, politicians, contractors, authors, spiritualists, and anyone else you meet.

Vice versa, your money means nothing and they’ll just jail and execute you, steal your Dacha, and cut you out of the Party photos. ‘Cuz Stalin is a 13-year-old girl.

You know, like they’re doing right now.

And the American Experiment goes on.

The day before the last day of my eldest sons last day at Primary school (12 yo – so translate to your place’s preferred school term) a child got a runny nose. Oh oh!

The madness – the testing station (100 foot wide) brought in from the big smoke, the email chatting amongst parents, the agonizing, the shame they displayed to each other as they shared their pos or neg stats. The children not seeing friends, the closing of the entire school so that NONE of the children were allowed to say good bye or sign shirts with black pens, or have water fights…
So now, I find out my son is Negative after reluctantly submitting to a nose/brain probe invasion and sending his medical info off to a private blood/spit analysis company – (probably owned by mine and your favourite DNA harvesting vampires at Blackcock)

The new social bond is a thing to behold. The joining in self-induced and government assisted torture is assured and I fear Desmet is correct in assuming the minute they silence us is the minute the atrocities begin. These people are just shy of the self-harming phase.
If I had white powder and rum I would partake RIGHT NOW. People and their unacknowledged fear can be highly irritating and restrictive I am noticing.

So many anecdotes and so little time but here in Australia it is absolutely bat-shit crazy. BELIEVE ME

@ctbarnum: Sometimes I feel quite dismayed by humans … then I see something like that tree and realize just how funny, artistic and creative we can be and it makes me feel more optimistic. 🙂

This morning, I bring you “Ancient Vitamin-D Protection”, one thing, and another construction photo.
Maybe David Grimes MD could be offered a guest post about vitamin-D?
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/ancient-vitamin-d-protection.html

Descendants of Plankton,

David Grimes MD is a vitamin-D expert in England. I have recently been introduced to his work.
Here, I have excerpted from his blog post of 11/10/21.
The history of vitamin-D allowing evolution of immune responses was “illuminating”.
The hypothesis of immune system dysfunction after vaccination being caused by vitamin-D depletion is testable.

The evolution of the immune response
​It is necessary to understand the immune response that has developed during 500 million years of evolution.

​ ​Evolution is full of mysteries, but a critical stage of evolution was the appearance of an intracellular protein that became the key to immunity. This protein is what we now call VDR, which stands for Vitamin D Receptor. It was the evolution of VDR 500 million years ago that was probably the initiator of the Cambrian explosion of advanced life-forms. The development of immunity meant that very primitive animal life, for example plankton, could evolve into more complex forms without being at the total mercy of pre-existing bacteria and viruses.
​ ​And so it is today. Without immunity we would not survive infancy and we would become extinct. Immunity is vital and we have seen the effects of seriously damaged immunity in the recent AIDS pandemic. We must not forget this. We must respect immunity and the need for its optimisation. We must understand it.

The evolution of VDR was critical, but VDR would have had no function had it not been for Vitamin D which had evolved a billion years earlier.
​ ​Plankton at the surface of the oceans were at risk of physical damage by UV from the Sun. They ultimately developed genetically programmed diurnal vertical migration, meaning that they spend the night at the surface and descend deeper in the water during the day.
​ ​But they developed another method of protection from UV, a chemical sunscreen. Starting from the long-chain squalene, otherwise known as shark oil, they became capable of synthesising steroid compounds, a process that is blocked by statin drugs (taken only by humankind in recent years). The important sunscreen steroid became the oil 7-dehydrocholesterol, 7-DHC. This will sound familiar to readers of the Blog. UV converts 7-DHC in the skin into cholecalciferol which we know as vitamin D. Within plankton this physico-chemical process absorbs UV energy and thus protects the plankton from damage.

​ ​For a billion years vitamin D had no function and it was merely a waste product of the sunscreen 7-DHC. But by another accident of evolution it became critical because it was able to activate VDR into the major player in the immune process. The Cambrian explosion was initiated.

Understanding our immunity

​ ​We know about T-cells that produce tissue immunity and B-cells that produce humoral antibody immunity, but the important process is the rapid escalation of immunity that is essential in response to infection if an optimal effect and recovery is to be achieved. This will also apply to the pseudo-infection of vaccination. The driving force is to switch on the genes that bring about multiplication of the immune cells and their effects, a genetically controlled amplification that can be 75-fold.
​ ​The genes are activated by an intracellular dimer composed of VDR and RXR, Retinoid X Receptor. However the VDR component must first be activated by 1,25(OH)D, otherwise known as calcitriol, the fully active form of vitamin D that is produced within immune cells.
​ ​Activation of the genes will switch on or increase the production of defensive proteins including antibodies that act within tissue fluids to control and eliminate infection, the purpose of immunity.
​ ​The immune cells are able to increase greatly the synthesis of VDR, but before the gene-activating VDR-RXR dimer can be formed, VDR must be activated, ‘unlocked’, by 1,25(OH)D which cannot be synthesised de novo. It can only be formed by hydroxylation (addition of an -OH group) of 25(OH)D, the number indicting the point on the molecule to which the -OH group becomes attached. 25(OH)D is the form of Vitamin D that has already been hydroxylated in the liver and which circulates in the blood.

Consumption of Vitamin D and exhaustion of reserves
​ ​Too much 1,25(OH)D produced in response to the escalation of immunity could cause subsequent problems of ‘hypervitaminosis D’, with an excess of calcium in the blood and in the urine. But evolution has solved this problem: the 1,25(OH)D molecule can be used only once, after which it is inactivated by conversion into 24,25(OH)D. The process of escalation of immunity requires a large number of single-use 1,25(OH)D molecules to activate a multitude of VDR molecules. Therefore a constant supply of 1,25(OH)D is essential and so there must be in the blood a good reserve of its immediate precursor 25(OH)D, the circulating form of vitamin D that is also known as calcidiol or calcifediol.

​ ​A serious infection such as Covid-19 will consume significant amounts of 1,25(OH)D, and so we can expect to see a reduction of the blood level of 25(OH)D as a result of such an infection. As far as I am aware, such research has not been performed during the pandemic, or at least not published, despite how simple it would be.

​ ​The magnitude of the inevitable fall in blood level of Vitamin D, 25(OH)D, following vaccination has not been reported. Perhaps it has not been investigated, but if it has been investigated by the pharmaceutical companies, the results will only be published if there is commercial benefit. Obviously, as with Covid-19, a good level of Vitamin D, 25(OH)D, in the blood (greater than 40ng/ml, 100nmol/L) would have sustained the escalation of immunity. But if before the infection or vaccination the blood level had been critically low (less than 20ng/ml, 50nmol/L), then a reduction would have reduced the level to a point that the escalation of the immune process would be halted, with a high risk of significant illness, perhaps critical or fatal.​..

​The proposal
​ ​My proposal is that the decline of immunity following vaccinations is not because of a ‘poisoning’ of immunity, but because the reservoir of Vitamin D as 25(OH)D within the blood becomes exhausted by the immune responses to successive vaccinations.
​ ​The investigation of this would be very simple. Blood would be taken for Vitamin D measurement immediately before vaccination and one month later. The two samples would be analysed together, following the second blood test. Previous Covid-19 would need to be recorded, and of course the dose of any vitamin D supplement taken.
​ ​This simple study could be undertaken in any public health vaccination centre. Ethical approval would be needed but I can envisage no conflict with ethics and what is in the best interests of individuals and the population. My view is that it has been unethical to withhold Vitamin D during this pandemic, contrasting with the official narrative that Vitamin D is of no value in the management of Covid-19…

​ ​The problems go beyond Covid-19 in that we are now hearing reports of increasing pressures from hospital admissions in greater numbers than are seasonal, and that most are not Covid-19. If admissions due to other conditions are increasing, it is likely that we are faced with impaired immunity due to exhaustion of body stores of Vitamin D in turn resulting from the vaccination programme. This could be corrected very easily and very rapidly.
​We are also hearing official reports of excess deaths from cardiovascular disease in recent weeks. Why should this suddenly occur? Could this serious phenomenon be result of the vaccination programme? Is it the direct result of exhaustion of Vitamin D reserves due to the effects of the vaccination process? Could it be stopped by finding and correcting VItamin D deficiency? The challenge is urgent and the problem must not be witheld from the population.

​ ​Vitamin D in its metabolic forms has been very successfully ignored by official bodies during the pandemic of Covid-19. Evidence of benefit has been side-lined for the flimsiest of reasons and without any debate. The reason for this has been to protect the vaccine roll-out. The vaccines in use have still not been licensed and are still being used under Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA). This is dependent on there being no alternative prevention or treatment, resulting in the burial not just of Vitamin D but also ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2021/11/covid-19-vitamin-d-urgent-vaccines-need.html

​Now Better Informed​
​(pictured yesterday before discovering shoes were too slick on that surface)​

@Dr.D. Another good post. Got projects?

@Germ: Don’t give up. It’s a long war if we keep “not losing”.

@Ilargi: I’m serious about seeing if David Grimes MD will write a Vitamin-D special
I’ll email him and ask.

Must watch – https://rumble.com/vqyxhn-vaccines-sacrificing-the-children-to-save-the-vulnerable..html

Couldn’t resist.

cntd…

THE MAN IN THE RED VELVET GORILLA SUIT

Throughout the Middle Ages and culminating in the early modern eras of Reformation and, later, the Enlightenment, Christmas grew more and more a problem for the church fathers and village constabulary.
A recent book, The Battle For Christmas, by Stephen Nissenbaum, details the struggle to either do away with Christmas altogether (as the Puritans tried to do with some success in the mid-17th century, especially in the States), or to at least tame the beast it had become among the rowdy Northwest European / North American crowd.

Three hundred years ago, Christmas was not the time to let your children out of the house. Revelry tended to get ugly. The old social inversion of Saturnalia was apparently not so effectively administered as it was in ancient times. Most things Latin had a hard time dealing with those unruly northern barbarians, i.e., us. We were Rome’s ultimate downfall, after all. Party-crashing is an old practice of ours.

The Industrial Revolution really strained things. Longstanding feudal ties were replaced by wage-slave/industrial baron relationships, as demonstrated by the ‘milltown’ or ‘foundrytown’ systems still vestigially in place today in Rustbelt remnants like Flint, MI, or the Appalachian ‘fall-line’ textile towns (and their sister cities in the Philippines and Indonesia). These towns were, in their heydays, a form of industrial feudalism without older agrarian feudalism’s benefits – like having half of winter off. Eventually, modern labor unionism created – for a brief period of history — a very well paid form of wage-serf, so much so that many people now long for the ‘good old days’ of retrospectively romanticized factory tenure. ( A typical milltown employee usually worked for the same guy to whom he paid rent and from whom, often enough, he bought life’s necessities.) Those labor union glory days seem to be gone and even the Japanese look longingly to Southeast Asia for the affluent proletariat false security that was theirs just, seemingly, yesterday.

Interestingly and, praise Allah, pertinently (where was I?), the strained labor relations of the early Industrial Revolution had much to do with the final transformation of Saturnalia/Christmas from a winterfest of depraved celebration to the quietly joyful and materialistically maddening holiday we know in this century.

The process was begun in the 1820’s as a deliberate campaign to pull Christmas’s holiday fat out of its own destructive Yuletide fire at a time when, throughout the holidays, gangs of street toughs ruled the mud and cobblestone streets of New England and northwest European cities. Things could get pretty bad. Business suffered. Looting proliferated. Peasants rallied. Christmas was becoming an unruly riot threatening the political status quo.
As a propaganda to counter this, prominent citizens, especially prosperous merchants, wanted and created a ‘new’ Christmas. Much of this was accomplished through well-placed articles and widely popular works of fiction describing greatly romanticized and often totally imaginary ‘Christmases past’. These books and articles urging a return to the ‘good olde days’ of Olde Chryst’s Mass were widely distributed. Basically, they were describing a past that to a great extent never was, in order to make it a popularly accepted future.

Such transformations are a big part of what we call popular culture. Mass media was gaining its stride in those days and the right message in the papers and periodicals of the time could create what are now known as fads, promotions, marketing campaigns or, my favorite term, media bubbles. The media bauble of Christmas became so powerful, especially in this century when first Hollywood and then Madison Avenue placed their own Yule logs upon the mediated fire, that it effectively created an embolism in the heart of the aging and ribald Saturnalia. Another pagan god bites the dust. Not that gods ever really die. But standing in Saturn’s place as Golden Age prom king appeared not Jesus, but Santa Claus.

The story of this transformation of Christmas is fascinating as a revelation of how we shape our holy days and how they in turn shape us, and I will leave its depiction to those excellent books already available. I will, however, say this about that.

Santa Claus should not be perceived as some subliminally commercialized mutation of Satan, as many fundamentalist Christians theorize. Santa Claus is NOT Satan’s Claws. There is no more relation between the two than there is between Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick and the Man in the Gorilla Suit, (despite their striking superficial similarities, such as fake facial hair and a shared propensity for exaggerated hooting). Satan gets entirely too much airplay in my opinion. “Get thee behind Me, Satan”, said Christ. I take that as Jesus’ divinely polite injunction for the Old Fart to, please, shut up before he makes a total, or even, eternal fool of himself.

Santa has taken and possibly deserves a lot of heat for stealing the stellar light away from Baby Jesus in the stable and refocusing it on a magical hotrod sleigh. I mean, which shines brighter today, the Star of Bethlehem or Rudolph’s radioactive nose?

Santa would have looked a touch garish next to the regal Magi, who were not exactly quiet dressers themselves, and “Ho!Ho!Ho!” would have really upset Mary and her sleeping newborn (especially if accompanied by chest beating). Even The Little Drummer Boy kept it down to a gently soporific rumpumpum-pum. I don’t think there was a man in a gorilla suit at the nativity but, had there been, I’m sure he would have kept the hooting down.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL SUNG IN THREE-PART HARMONY BY GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT, FUTURE AND PAST

Present
Still, Santa is the icon that stole Christmas away from the rowdy boys and horny habits of Saturnalian Xmas, with married people in cross-dress committing adultery in the backroom or alley, or, often enough, in the street – if the hooch be stout enough and the snow sufficiently soft – and gave it to the children and their families and, alas, the heavy players on the board of directors at Disney, Wal-Mart, Mattel et al.

Santa and his creator/followers like Clement Moore (who wrote “The Night Before Christmas”), and Mel Torme (who co-authored “The Christmas Song”), made it clear that Christmas ain’t shit without the wee ones. Excuse my Saxonish; ‘shit’ is an old Saxon peasant term for, well, you know, but I feel just as strongly about children all snug in their beds with sugarplum fairies dancing in their heads as do you. Despite all the peace in our time in this North American land, it is still not such an easy time for kids and most of us are fairly inadequate as parents although our children love us anyway, and if that ain’t the miracle of Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanzaa or Saturnalia or…then my name’s Jimmy Stewart and I’m jumping off that bridge after all, dammit.

How come every time an angel gets its wings some clown rings MY doorbell singing “Frosty The Snowman” off key? I mean, it’s Christmas after all and I’ve got presents to wrap and kids going psycho under the influence of sugar, chocolate and 3-D commercials for toys that make “Rock’Em Sock’Em Robots” look like hugathons. (“…and may the best robot reclaim its battered inner child from its vanquished opponent in MORTAL COMBAT!!!!! Die sucker…!”)

It is then, as the children race around the tree on Christmas morn, firing toy phasers which imitate the sights and sounds of real weapons of the future, weapons which will someday paralyze the enemy with migraine mindrays that not only consume the enemy with pain but also fill them with the desire to sacrifice their children, thereby hastening war’s end and returning us to the good old days of Cronus and offerings of severed heads and whatever those little clay dolls stood in for…it is then one realizes that you can take the boy out of the senseless revelry but you can’t take the senseless revelry out of the boy.

Future
Did anyone catch that TV special a few years back, Santa Versus The Abominable Snowmen, (or men in Abominable Snowman suits)? Featuring an high tech battle much like the second Star Wars movie wherein gigantic walking war tanks fought in the snow fields of some forlorn, frozen planet, it almost seemed like a bit of Wotan or Marduk returning to do battle with the forces of Chaos (which still run rampant during the Holidaze). “Only xx shopping days till Xmas” sounds a little like a countdown to Armageddon. Come to think of it, if there’s a guy tough enough to battle the demons of solsticial darkness, it would be a guy who lives in the North Pole. A guy who can fire toys down chimneys like so many smartbombs is just the guy to lob one down the hatch of those perennial death stars, Zrvan cum Cronus cum Saturnus.

Cultural icons are ever changing. If Santa doesn’t watch out he’ll become too naughty and not nice enough and George Lucas will do a leveraged buyout of Santa’s franchise. Instead of Santa, we’ll have a digitally animated Obie Wan Kanobi, (the ‘dead’ spectral version who talks in Luke Skywalker’s head at critical junctures), starring as a new Xmas hero who saves the world from a man in a Grinch Vader suit. Christmas could become the intergalactic special effects extravaganza that Disney, Mattel, and Wal-Mart must surely desire: “Jolly Old Saint Obie Wan, lend your ears this way, Don’t you miss a single word the TV made me say; Suzy wants a droid that talks, or a cloned white horse; Jimmy wants a lightsabre ‘cause he trusts in force…”

Currently, Christmas as THE prime solsticial festival seems inflated beyond its effective spiritual carrying capacity. Magic, redemption, divinity, destiny – along with material craving – are big, even bigger than ever, but no longer so centered about Christmas (and Christianity?) as they were in, say, 1946 when It’s A Wonderful Life hit the theatres, or 1947, when Miracle on 34th Street was released. If anything, Santa and Christmas seem to be hearkening back towards earlier times. ‘Old Father Christmas’ is resurgent even as Hollywood and Madison Avenue make Santa over into a high-tech superhero. (Superman, too, had his ‘Fortress of Solitude’ near the North Pole.)

Currently the retrospective focus seems to be on the Victorian era, when ‘modern’ Christmas fully crystallized, with medieval ambiences appearing in the background tapestry, but I suspect Old Man Saturn is primping for a comeback bid. Considering an ancient god to be the kind of guy who has everything and is, therefore, a bear to Xmas shop for, I recommend a visit to the local candles & ceramics shop.

Even so, it is a time of great beauty, joy and wonder. It has to be. The days grow short as the nights grow long and the frost bears down while the slush slings up. We couldn’t survive these days without our magical ministrations.

“To face unafraid, the plans that we’ve made, walking in a winter wonderland”…now there’s an incantation to get one through to spring.

Past
“God rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing ye dismay.” I can hear an ancestor of Andy Griffith singing that to a crowd of one-drink-too-many Yorkshire Christmas revelers, two or three centuries back, as he pours them all a draft of the barkeep’s finest while never letting on to the water in the mix or the blunderbuss under the bar loaded with peppercorns and rocksalt.

“Remember Christ our Sa-ay-vyor was born on Christmas Day.” He sings badly, so horribly awful that the men break out in laughter. The bad boys at the bar lighten up and before long are singing “Good King Wenceslas” and “Greensleeves” and then, from over in the corner, far from the fire, where the mead’s warmth vies with the door’s draft, a strong if sloppy baritone sings out the words to a strange Noel they’ve never heard before: “Oh Holy Night, the stars are brightly shi-i-ning, this is the night of our dear Savior’s birth…”

As the boys nod and relax to the tune, Andy picks it up, loud and awful, like my Uncle Gayle trying to sing “I Pagliacci” or your Aunt Mimi attempting suicide by Streisand karaoke. Everyone takes courage from his tunelessness and joins in.

Several are soon asleep. The older or simply wiser spread straw for the snorers and droolers, asking neither Sheriff Andy’s nor the taverner’s permission but nodding respectfully to signal the quiescence of the night’s revels. Gathering around the fire, they quietly sing tunes going back a thousand years, venturing a little two-and-three-part-harmony and throwing Andy a diesucker glare when he dares to join in, but allowing him a few sly grins when he just hums along. He’s had himself a few now that trouble seems unlikely.

The taverner, a wise businessman, leaves a gallon of warm mulled cider as one for the road for those venturing home tonight. He places a donations jar prominently on the firemantle, marked “For Goode Will and Good Olde Wylliaume”, Wylliaume being the taverner’s name. He’s had a hard time keeping his Christmas losses down to a survivable hardship; Christmas revelers expect and demand a taverner to pretty much give the house away during Yuletide. In the spirit of requisite giving, he’s served mostly watered-down swill but he’s a good fellow and wishes them well enough on their journeys homeward. The mulled cider he has left out is spiked with an half gallon of true applejack from, he was told, the orchards of Brittany. Goode shyte, that stuff.

He shuffles bedward. He’ll have to wake up early to quicken the fire and clean out the slop pails before someone wakes up to the stink and loses the rest of their Christmas cookies. He’ll put sausage and bread out for the lads along with a pint per man’s share of Old Hairdog Ciderjack, reckoned strong and sweet enough to light their way home where they’ll spend Christmas Day in glorious recovery in an era when coffee was a mysterious wonder drug found only in London’s priciest establishments.

So, as the church bells toll your head apart announcing Christ’s Mass, ask not for whom the bell tolls, oy vey, it tolls for thee. Shyte. Get thine arse up and down to church with thy wife and kids, for aren’t ye a good fellow? Who would give their child a rooty-toot-toot or rummy-tum-tum under those circumstances?

Dark days. Long nights. These are the times to count your blessings, head by tousled head by tinseled headache. Whether one celebrates the Christchild of Bethlehem or Claus of Toyland, solstice time in America has been made into a National Children’s Holiday, unofficially but in sooth, and however maudlin and platitudinous it may sound – especially with a word like ‘platitudinous’ stuck in your gob like a stone in a blanket – magic is obtained thereby. And magic is a very good thing. Robin Morrison, 1997

As for Santa, I’ve always wondered what he keeps under that “hippy hat” of His. ALways had a renegade vibe, that Old Fat Man:

Take the Sleigh Train

If I stop and think about it
I’m either stone cold certain
Or more inclined to doubt it
But when you jump into the darkness
Well, I take off my hat
You’ve changed, they say
You can know when to play or to hold
And they think they can show all that glitters is gold
And they don’t care to go where you go
‘Cause they know you’re insane
When you change to the uptown train
Well, I knew that you were trouble
You were a ten time loser
Or maybe even double
But you pulled some kind of rabbit
From your lil’ hippie hat
You’ve changed, they say
Take it slow when you’re breaking the mold
Got to pay what you owe or be out in the cold
And they don’t care to know what you know
Or to go through the pain
To change to the uptown train

Oh, and a stocking-stuffer for that def-bot of ours:

“Former Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has tested positive for Covid-19 – just days after signing for Barcelona.

He is said to have tested positive in a rapid test carried out at the Argentinian Football Association’s installations in Ezeiza on the outskirts of Buenos Aires soon after his arrival on Tuesday morning from Europe.

Aguero is now understood to be awaiting the results of a second PCR test.

The 33-year-old had to quarantine at his home near Manchester with girlfriend Sofia Calzetti after they tested positive for coronavirus in February.

A second PCR test came back negative, according to Aguero’s father, Leonel del Castillo, who said on radio La Red: “First he was positive and when they tested him again it came back negative.” 2 Jun 2021

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Breaking: Pep Guardiola Returns ‘Inconclusive’ Covid-19 Test Result – Press Conference Cancelled Due to Situation
Pep Guardiola has returned an inconclusive Covid-19 test result, ahead of Manchester City’s upcoming Premier League clash with Newcastle this weekend.”

The scare came on Aguero’s 33rd birthday on Tuesday. DEC 17, 2021

Point being that ambiguity rules, and whatever point the wannabe hacktivist formerly known as def-bot tried to make was pre-dulled before impact, like today’s pre-shredded jeans and talking points. (I wonder what the official term for a flock of canards is.)
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SERGIO AGUERO’S CARDIOLOGIST SAYS A VIRUS COULD BE BEHIND THE HEART PROBLEMS WHICH CAUSED EARLY RETIREMENT

Sergio Aguero’s cardiologist thinks a virus could be behind the heart problems which led to the Argentina striker’s early retirement from football. Aguero announced he was stepping away from the game in an emotional press conference, where he said he’s “proud” of the career he had. The 33-year-old won a host of trophies, including five Premier League titles with Manchester City.

After Sergio Aguero’s stellar career as a professional footballer was cut short, his cardiologist says a virus could be the reason behind the heart problems which have forced his early retirement.

But Roberto Peidro, who has treated Aguero since 2004, says it has “nothing to do with Covid or the Covid vaccine”.
Speaking during radio interviews in Argentina, Peidro has explained how Aguero was left with a “very small scar” following a cardiac ablation procedure.

But others are more prepared to allow players to make their own minds up—and a lot of players have expressed concern about the heart problems suffered by Christian Eriksen, Sergio Agüero, Piotr Zielinski and the Wigan forward Charlie Wyke recently, asking whether the vaccine could have been a contributing factor. But Wyke was not vaccinated and, while the status of others is unclear, there is no evidence that the vaccine was a factor in any of the cases. 16/12/2021

In short, no one knows, but since covid is still top draw topic/agenda, we must therefore form opposing teams around the issue. Covid/vaccines may have zip to do with Aguero’s heart problems, but covid, currently being mass conformistically in climax vogue, has to be applied to the subject, with or without adequate vetting or critical analysis by humans or bots, neither of which are as human or robotic as they are assumed to be.
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This week, in order to qualify for a medically meaningless doctor visit nonetheless bureaucratically necessary to me getting a life-saving procedure done, I had to test covid-free 3 days prior. It came back negative. I wonder what that means. Does it mean maybe no? Or maybe yes? Mongo took shit AND went blind. Fortunately him remember magic light switch. Mongo saved! Switch not only cure blindness but turn on exhaust fan! Io Saturnalia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you smell the real me? (Arguably the last studio recording to capture the magic that was, for a few years, the Entwistle/Moon genius rhythm section.)

And yes, it was more fun being madamski than bosco.

What do we want!

1. • South Africa Hospitalization Rate Falls 91% in Omicron Wave (BBG)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/s-africa-says-hospitalizations-in-omicron-wave-much-lower

South Africa country’s population is young

Between 70% and 80% of citizens may also have had a prior Covid-19 infection

(does having a strong immune system count)
( does not being overweight count)
(does not having high blood pressure count)
(does not having cholesterol help)
(does having the flue count)
( does taking IVM count)
( does taking vD3 count)

2. CDC lists at least 3 conventional type vaccines (inactivated/killed virus as opposed to RNA/DNA) on its own website that are recognized by the United States government as producing immunity to COVID, yet no conventional vaccine is available in the United States. Why?

3. Truth
• Guidance On Covid Vaccines Moves Closer To ‘Misinformation’ Of Skeptics (JTN)
“Not only do the three vaccines authorized for emergency use require boosters due to waning “protective efficacy,” but they haven’t stopped breakthrough infections..”

4. flatten the curve, end pandemic,
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boscohorowitz
Thanks for your presentation of knowledge of Mythology
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How many serfs/slaves can one elite control?

It sounds morbid, but the signs are that I won’t live many more years (although I’m scheming otherwise, trust me). My hope is to live long enough to grow mature climax redneck injun braids like Willie Nelson has. If I can make it as long as his sister Bobbi’s hair (seated at piano here), that might be fine but God knows I’ll have to go full-blown crazy to survive this nonsense.

Full-blown crazy. They either enthrone you or crucify you. No one is smart enough to let me be in charge, so I guess I’ll have to accept crucifixion. Oy vey. Why God wasted life on a loon like me is beyond me, but since It did, I’ll just have to live it up. *sigh* It gets old:
“What on earth are YOU doing, Robin?!”
“Being real.”
“What’s that?”
“I can’t rightly say, but if you get arrested or killed or wake up with the same woman every morning after 30-some years of marriage, you’re doing it.”

Looks like about five years’ growing. Not exactly small time, but I can do another fiver on this prison planet if I have to.

Bosco, Thanks for sharing the information.

“Enjoy your pagan holiday interval!!”
~Rothschild in his apocalyptic disclosure

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth,
it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
~Samuel Johnson

Interestingly, or not, Rothschild quoted Samuel Johnson, too… in complete context…

“Underground bases do exist, and they are numerous. There is an entire world building under your collective feet….even as we type!
However, your question “what are they for” is like asking…”what are buildings for”? Well, sir, most everything!
Laughing out Loud!
I have previously referenced the works of the GREAT TESLA. Rest assured, every SCRAP of his amazing intellect is being HARVESTED…and for those who have even a VAGUE understanding of his works, the EARTH plays THE CENTRAL ROLE. How could it be otherwise?
Study TESLA, adopt the dietary regime I have studiously laid out, and you will have taken the first critical step in realigning yourself to the NEW COMING REALITY.
I do not know how I can make it more clear!
And for those who are able to make the transition, do not despair for your fallen comrades! They will have had the opportunity and free will to save themselves…and chose not to do so for whatever reason. If you need proof, look no further than this thread for validation.
As Samuel Johnson once observed:
…She closed this observation with a common and trite moral reflection; which, indeed, is very ill-founded, and does great injustice to animals — “I wonder what pleasure men can take in making beasts of themselves.” “I wonder, Madam,” replied the Doctor, “that you have not penetration to see the strong inducement to this excess; for he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.””
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^^^ He just defined the Biblical “beast Empire” system mentioned in Revelations… It is an empire of humans acting according to their base animalistic instincts… and no more.

And it is all around us, for all to see!

Vitamin D-eception

It seems that few people have the discernment to see through the Vitamin D-eception that Empire, Inc. has programmed into their mental algorithms.

Here is the answer up front — low CALCIDIOL (storage D, which is what is measured) fairly strongly correlates to HIGH SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION!

In other words, THE GOAL IS TO REDUCE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION, AND THE LOW STORAGE D (CALCIDIOL) CONDITION WILL RESOLVE ITSELF!

The EMPIRE ADMITTED TRUTH is, for those still able to process such when the PROPAGANDA NARRATIVE is so strong, that “vitamin D” actually functions like a HORMONE! It has a storage (calcidiol) and an active (calcitriol) component.

Now, is it, in any way, scientific to call TWO THINGS BY ONE NAME, AND NOT EVEN THE MOST ACCURATE NAME? Why, oh why, did Empire, Inc. break scientific rationality when this naming convention WAS FINANCED? HMMMMMM?

THE STANDARD OF CARE IS TO ONLY MEASURE THE STORAGE VERSION OF THE HORMONE-LIKE CHEMICAL. No other hormone is measured this way — they take BOTH the storage and the active levels because both are required TO LEAD TO A REASONABLE CONCLUSION.

You will not find research that show low storage D correlates tightly with low active D. In fact, an investigative M.D. who looked into this found out that LOW STORAGE D CORRELATED WITH HIGH ACTIVE D!!! Now you know why active D IS NOT MEASURED BY THE M.D.’s that just follow orders! Why is active D high? It is a response to elevated levels of systemic inflammation!

Now, who here would buy the narrative that your active D is too high, so you need to take more synthetic cholecalciferol to… what, brought down your active D? The FALSE NARRATIVE FALLS APART — SO YOU ARE KEPT IN THE DARK BECAUSE YOU CAN’T FIND THAT WHICH YOU DON’T LOOK FOR.

I get why the criminals lie to the masses, but I’m flummuxed by the fact the victims appear to embrace the lie with all the irrational subconscious they can muster!

Does taking more synthetic cholecalciferol reduce systemic inflammation — address the real problem?

Do share any scientific research that indicates it does — and if it doesn’t exist, well, that’s saying something, isn’t it?

Well, unfortunately for the D-uped, it actually drives inflammation over the longer term. How? First, hormone D turbocharges the uptake of calcium. Since calcium and magnesium compete for absorption, this reduces available magnesium, which is already deficient in almost all people because it is almost nonexistent in the food supply, and glyphosate chelates what it is there so the body can’t use it. And low magnesium is tied directly to increased inflammation by… well, let’s let the researchers explain the mechanism…

“Animal studies have shown that magnesium deficiency induces an inflammatory response that results in leukocyte and macrophage activation, release of inflammatory cytokines and acute-phase proteins, and excessive production of free radicals. Animal and in vitro studies indicate that the primary mechanism through which magnesium deficiency has this effect is through increasing cellular Ca2+, which is the signal that results in the priming of cells to give the inflammatory response.”

Search “Magnesium deficiency and increased inflammation: current perspectives” 2018, Journal of Inflammation Research

Oh, it is the calcium that becomes even more absorbed by the intake of vitamin D that actually SIGNALS FOR THE INFLAMMATION TO START!

Big Brother Loves You!

Not to mention that magnesium is required at every step in the hormone D and calcium metabolism processes… PTH depends on magnesium, calcitonin depends on magnesium, and hormone D depends on magnesium, and taking more cholecalciferol will deplete that magnesium, which then allows calcium to go rogue… and it ends up in the tissues where it doesn’t belong. Magnesium fires the enzyme that builds bones… Iron fires the enzymes that break down bones… So not only will the calcium from your diet go rogue when magnesium is depleted, but the calcium stripped out of your bones will as well — which is a consequence of too much iron and not enough magnesium.

But Mike, there’s moar!

Nature puts 10 parts of retinol to every part of natural hormone D. Hormone D “burns” retinol up, and retinol is the basis for retinoic acid, which is required by the ATP7B enzyme to load copper into ceruloplasmin, the body’s taxi which is REQUIRED to deliver copper to the 40 quadrillion mitochondria so that cytochrome c oxidase can activate oxygen to produce both Mg-ATP and clean exhaust, not to mention that copper delivered by ceruloplasmin-bound copper also energizes ALL the antioxidant enzymes, from SOD, to polyphenol oxidase, to glutathione peroxidase, and everything else.

If the CERULOPLASMIN “copper taxi” has no copper because of a retinoic acid deficiency, well, that first stroke of cytochrome c oxidase produces hydrogen peroxide, and since it can’t complete the process, you mitochondria produces hydrogen peroxide and dirty exhaust… and the anti-oxidant enzymes can’t manage the pollution, and, well, that’s called oxidative stress and it DRIVES INFLAMMATION!

Oh, and the kicker? The ATP7B enzyme requires more than just retinoic acid to function — it needs magnesium, too!

So that synthetic D is DEPLETING BOTH NUTRIENTS REQUIRED TO ACTIVATE YOUR CERULOPLASMIN-BOUND COPPER… LEAVING YOU “BLUE BLOOD” DEPLETED.

Now, do you think people who pride themselves on being “Blue Bloods” want our sorry *sses to have a quality blue blood status? Of course not.

But that’s NOT the question. The question is, “why do you demand to deplete your own blue blood status through your own choice to be ignorant of the relevant data and logic?”

This is why they blame us! This is why we are considered “children.” This is why we are considered unevolved. This is why we are considered “unfit” and condemned to not survive by this system.

“Although the so-called “moral issues” were raised, in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.”
~Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

Re: the Christmas Tree with balls but no needles: The wildly depressing and bleak corner of a room where it stands forlorn is a good metaphor for the position of the unvaxxed these days–Get in the corner. No food or entertainment for you!

In fact I would say that the situation on the ground in my neck of the woods has never been more ridiculous than it is right now, mid-December of 2021. Last week, my good friend who owns a bar restaurant, one that I have made a point of patronizing even during the period when almost nobody ventured out, decided to make his establishment Vaccinated Only. This was just a day or two after our wack governor declared all business establishments must reinstate mask mandates until January 15, when it will be “reviewed.” Walking by our lovely movie theater last night, signs on every entrance door to the lobby proclaimed Vaccinated Only Proof Required. And my youngest brother,, who has taken over the family Christmas gatherings since my mother died, has gone from an indoor, overnight arrangement with both PCR test and home testing, to outdoor walk only, with same testing protocols and masks.

Am I spiting my own nose by telling myself I will never visit any of the establishments that take a Vaxxed Only stance (especially one that is owned by a friend and that I frequent often)?

While in my dentist’s waiting room yesterday, I watched a report that Radio City Music Hall was now requiring proof of vaccination from everyone five years old and up. But no worries if your kid is not vaxxed, you can still get in to see the show. They have helpfully set up a kiosk where your kid can get jabbed on the spot, no charge and a lollipop. Now that is some hard science right there. It reminds me of what that cretin DeBlasio said the other day, The mandates are working, he said, then cited how much the percentage of vaxxed New Yorkers went up. And here I thought evidence of “working” would be tied to quelling the virus.

Re: whalers and whale blubber. Both candles and soap were more commonly made from the readily available rendered fat of most barnyard animals mixed with a bit of wood ash from the hearth, so a lack of badass whale hunters was probably not the cause of body odor. The resulting soap was more for house cleaning duties than human bathing, however–daily bathing to scrub any human scent from one’s body was more a marketing triumph that arrived along with the industrial revolution. Which is not to say that a few whale species were not hunted nearly to extinction, or that some soap was not made from their blubber. Of course, using soap made from whales would be likely get rid of your human smell and make you smell like a large fishy sea mammal.

lard = rendered pig fat
tallow = rendered cattle, goats, sheep fat
whale oil = boiled blubber

We’ve had several soap making companies in our city through the years, including one that moved here about 7 or 8 years ago. All of their products are currently made of various oils and butters from plants.

Although my childhood was spent on Long Island, a proper whaling center, I currently live not far from Hudson, a city about 100 miles up river from New York City that has anunexpected whaling history
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Re: Vitamin D supplements are actually BAD for you, and low levels of stored vitamin D have nothing to do with bad Covid outcomes. I appreciate the research, but conspiracy at the molecular level–by Rothschilds, no less–is too much for me to follow at the moment. I will add a bottle of magnesium next time I pick up my Vit. D. (Previous to this virus outbreak, I have never taken vitamin supplements. Though I do eat raisins in my organic oatmeal, and I cook with cast iron pans.)

Although I dearly love my son, I have no plans to start a dynasty. It seems like a lot of work, and for what? Access to the best wines fancy chateaus and people like Jeffrey Epstein? Whether you die at 22 or 83, guess what, you’re dead. Besides, we can’t all be Rothschilds. Do the math. Where would be the hoi? Or the polloi? Not much fun being superior if you don’t have them to look down on, LOL! There is all a big plan. By humans. By some other entity. Or there isn’t. Either way, nobody’s asking me to brainstorm the next phase, that much I can report.

It isn’t at all how much you have- it’s how much you control. In the late seventies, I wanted to start a company that sells debt- but then I realized I had invented banking! 🙂
You sell people the illusion of wealth. You’re in no hurry to collect because the more debt you sell, the bigger the “assets”.
It’s how the world has been living- go into as much debt as possible. What’s the difference between owing a lot of money and having a lot of money? You only need a small amount to service the debt and everybody’s happy. Heck, you can even borrow the payments!

If you’re gonna go bankrupt, go huge. You’ll still know how to hobnob; you’ll still get invited to influence sessions, aka parties.
And someone will probably be willing to lend you some more…
“Cred[it]” isn’t just cash.

Bosco, to situate Santa Claus in the present, my experience Today was not good.

Downtown on the street I was accosted by Him, and he asked me for money, a few francs ‘you can spare.’ He was a most convincing Santa, a true Santa, with worn out boots, much curly white hair, splendid red robes, and all. He was dragging a trolley or shopper or whatever the Eng. word is, with a fake reindeer head on it, antlers sagging. I gave.

My second encounter was odder. In a supermarket in a mall, Santa sudenly loomed out from behind the tinned can / sauces section, Bonjour Madame Ma Chérie he seductively boomed, and approached me with open arms ready for a ginormous hug. I sort of side-stepped and wished him with screechy cheer (over the music which was playing Days of Pearly Spencer) Joyeux Noel! Which seemed like a nutty thing to say to Santa Claus.

Then I went home and didn’t meet Santa C. again today. 🙂

I doubt that I will trust any of the Omicron data for a month or two.

Finally, here's an updated graph (log scale) of reported #COVID19 DEATHS during each wave in Gauteng 🇿🇦

Whilst absolute number of reported deaths in #Gauteng still low (8% of previous peak), the rate of increase remains high – currently doubling about ~11 days 🙏🏽#OmicronVirus pic.twitter.com/x9vQKmFM9c

— Ridhwaan Suliman (@rid1tweets) December 16, 2021

1/Crushing Chest pains: 'can't fill my lungs with air properly': Families' Xmas Dinner & Gathering urns into Omicron Hell as an entire group of 35 are Infected: with the youngest having the most severe illness: all adults fully vaccinated.

— Chris Turnbull (@EnemyInAState) December 17, 2021

Coming to a town near you pic.twitter.com/aS4bsOKblP

— Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson) December 17, 2021

It’s very interesting, IF true.