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Jules Adler Panorama de Paris vu du Sacré Coeur 1935 Sometimes the best information comes from unexpected sources. That is certainly tru
[See the full post at: A Simple Christmas Message]It appears to me that there are two main issues in this current Pandemic. One is the >well-intentioned< decision by coordinated “movers-and-shakers” to use the real (or artificial) pandemic to demonstrate the value of mRNA genetic programming to solve all of man-kind (and ladies’) ills. They may have even considered that eventually this may include genetic disposition to violence and covetousness. At tremendous cost to civilization, this first test is arguably failing.
Then there is the possibility that the small cadre of Later Day Marxists including some extremely successful American industrialists believe that absolute social control is the best route to aggregate happiness-or to the Club of Rome goal of a population of 6E8 people. In this case, I believe they are wrong. Improving population standards of living, or at least reduction in average family stress automatically moves populations back to the natural (2 child) replacement rate or below.‘By god, if the Omicron doesn’t kill, maime and dismember you, the governments reaction to it will!’
Just how many cushy revolving door jobs do these political hacks think big pharma can offer them, after these opportunist tyrannical regimes collapse?
Snips from article in The Conservative Woman:
—In 2001, Ferguson’s modelling of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak influenced the UK government pre-emptively to cull well over 6 million animals at an estimated £10 billion cost to the economy. As a result, the farming community was utterly devastated, giving rise to more centralised power by the EU…..
—In 2005 Ferguson claimed that up to 200 million people worldwide would die during the bird flu outbreak including up to 750,000 in the UK. This led to the stockpiling of Tamiflu in the UK from 2006; this was widely prescribed later in the swine flu pandemic. The WHO was able to link only 78 deaths worldwide to the bird flu virus.
—In 2009, Imperial’s model led by Ferguson gave rise to the prediction of 65,000 deaths from swine flu in the UK; in fact only 457 deaths were linked to the virus. Based on Ferguson’s model, the government spent £1.2billion to prepare for the swine flu pandemic. As a result, more than 20 million unused doses of vaccine were left over.
—Once more it was Ferguson’s ‘doomsday’ modelling prediction in the March 16, 2020 report from the Imperial College Covid-19 response team that gave the dire warning of 510,000 UK deaths by the end of May 2020 if the government continued with its ‘herd immunity’ response to the pandemic.
The ‘models’ are pure corporate propaganda, they aren’t even ‘junk’ science, as that might be contested. Advisory / regulatory boards, bodies, institutions (e.g. SAGE, FDA, SwissMedic, etc.) have been corrupted and taken over, how, why, yes, important topic, anyway the upshot is they no longer fulfill their mission. At all.
In France (one ex.) the trad. structures have been ditched and a new advisory board was set up, in March 2020, a Scientific Council to advise the President, re. COV-19.
Composed of 11 members who are ‘experts’ and come from all over academe / prof. med. – an expert in ‘social media’ (?!), a sociologist specialised in health economy, a modeller who studies the speed of transmission of the virus (!?), a GP, and epidemiologist, etc.
These ppl have nothing in common and their meetings are role-play and posturing (imho.)
One description of the Comité (in F)
Their advisories, position papers, on various topics (in F, included for reference.)
In Ontario, fully-vaxxed case numbers have dramatically increased this past week:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/stunning-data-about-vaccine-failure/comments“…cull well over 6 million animals at an estimated £10 billion cost to the economy.”
What is $6 million? Vapor, an infamous rumor. What are 6 million mammalian lives? Just another partial genocide, part of modern human standard practice.
Like a briefly famous movie from the 70s said: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? As I often say: how convenient for the Nazis to have all those cattle cars for sending humans to the human abattoir.
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matt. 25:37–40.)
We are treated by TPTB to whom we grant dominion just like how we treat the animals over whom we hold dominion. I’m sorry about the economy, the scamdemic, the dissolution of the dream of some Great Modern Human Civilization, I really am, but I feel less pity for the homo saps causing all this then I feel for the poor countless critters to whom we’ve been doing shit like this for millennia, but never so much and so horrifically as during Modern Industralia’s domain.
We deserve to experience the bullshit we endorse or merely tolerate happening to others, human, animal, vegetable, and for all I know, ghostly.
I envision running an orphanage in a year or two. Well, subsidizing one. I’m getting almost too frail to even read a children a bedtime story; talking that much will often give me a horrific nosebleed. It’s a crazy dream but I’m a crazy man, we all need a dream, and one never knows, right?
The orphanage I have in mind has space and pasturage for many animals, preferably stolen at shotgun-point or via baseball-bat impact from the local meat factory.
Anyway, this human needs a dream. Otherwise I’d stop mojoing against all these morbid maladies and just let the wind take my breath away one last time. I could care less about me. Or you, for that matter. I care only about each and every one of us, even the funny-looking mutant microbes brewed by the likes of Fauci, why, even that over-sized microbe, Herr Fauci himself. Poor dumb cluck. Caring for less is chump change, and I’ve literally lived on chump change more often than I wish to even remember.
And yet, the best we can do is care for a few at most… except in our dreams. I dream of an orphanage. In a big white house.
Like this:
Why, in fact, that very house, located at the very tiptoe of the tsunami evacuation zone in that region.. And now that I’m finally healthy enough to resume working on serious fiction, I retire to my dungeon of dreams to type out some kind of miracle that just might sell big. I already know I’m a lunatic, so why not try and cash in on it?
The odds say I’ll fail before I start but a) fuck the odds, and b) I’ve managed to make a woman know that I deeply and dearly love her for 34 years; and if I can do that, I can do anything. And I have PROOF.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
“It is better far for us to strive
Our useless cares from us to drive.
Do this and joy, your hearts will swell:
All is well, all is well.”Comes with its own dollhouse, even:
Me and Wendy gonna find some Lost Boys and Lost Girls and provide a home for them. Or die trying. Well, we’re gonna die someday, and we’re trying. Close enough.
Dam just gave in, … La Belle Province – a nickname for Quebec – goes first, other provinces and territories will follow:
“Our health system is already in crisis.”
Bars, gyms, movie theatres, concert venues and spas must close as of 5 p.m. Monday. Restaurants will have to reduce their capacity to 50 per cent and limit their hours from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Professional sports will have to be held without audiences.
Schools will close early for the holidays, shutting down as of Monday evening and returning on Jan. 10. Elementary schools will remain open only for vaccination campaigns and the distribution of rapid test kits.
Working from home is now being mandated for all non-essential workers, including civil servants. The provincial government is pausing all ministerial public activities, such as news conferences that are not related to COVID-19.
Hours before the announcement, Quebec reported a record number of cases for the past 24 hours, with 4,571 new cases, three more deaths and 21 more people in hospital.
Hospitalizations, at 397, are already higher than half of the province’s capacity.”
… bold added.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/new-closures-covid-19-quebec-1.6292622
F.S.
Looking at two different “scientific” approaches to dealing with Covid-19, one is mostly model-driven, and the other is mostly empirical. “Remarkably, we find using each paradigm leads to diametrically opposite conclusions…”
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have adopted responses revolving around the open-ended use of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including “lockdowns”, “stay-at-home” orders, travel restrictions, mask-wearing, and regulated social distancing. Initially these were introduced with the stated goals of “flattening the curve” of hospital demand and/or the eradication of the virus from the country (i.e., “zero covid” policies). Over time, these goals have shifted to maintaining sufficient NPIs in place until such time as population-wide vaccination programmes have achieved an appropriate level of herd immunity to allow lifting of these measures without excessive hospital demand. Supporters of this approach have claimed to be “following the science”, insisting that criticism of any aspects of these measures is non-scientific or even “scientific misinformation”. This idea that only one set of scientifically valid opinions on COVID-19 exists has encouraged the media, social media and even scientific journals to suppress and/or dismiss any differing scientific opinions as “erroneous”, “discredited” or “debunked”, resulting in discouragement of open-minded scientific inquiry or discussion. Accordingly, in the current article we identify two distinct scientific paradigms to analysing COVID-19 adopted within the medical and scientific community. Paradigm 1 is primarily model-driven, while Paradigm 2 is primarily empirically-driven. Using these two paradigms we have analysed the epidemiological data for 30 northern hemisphere countries (with a total population of 882 million). Remarkably, we find using each paradigm leads to diametrically opposite conclusions on many policy-relevant issues. We discuss how these conflicting results might be reconciled and provide recommendations for scientists and policymakers.
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Paradigm 1, mostly model-driven, implies that non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are effective and essential until a population-wide vaccination programme has been completed. By corollary, Paradigm 1 implies that a public perception that therapeutics might reduce the severity of COVID-19 would be dangerous if it led to the premature lifting of NPIs.Paradigm 2, mostly empirically driven, is unable to find compelling evidence that the NPIs are particularly effective, but plenty of evidence that “the cure is worse than the disease”. Meanwhile, Paradigm 2 finds no need for a population-wide vaccination programme, although smaller-scale voluntary vaccination programmes may potentially be helpful in shielding the vulnerable and health-care workers. Paradigm 2 also implies that research into identifying effective therapeutics to reduce the severity of COVID-19 should be actively encouraged.
A TALE OF TWO SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS: CONFLICTING SCIENTIFIC OPINIONS ON WHAT “FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE” MEANS FOR SARS-COV-2 AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
AUTHORS Gerry A Quinn, Ronan Connolly, Coilín ÓhAiseadha, Paul Hynds
https://osf.io/s9z2p/Re: The vaccinated making up most of the cases.
I love the part when The Expert intones:
This is to be expected, since more and more people are vaccinated.
Huh?! So you’re saying, for example, if 85% of the people in the hospital due to covid are vaccinated, that corresponds to 85% of the local population being vaccinated. Do I have that right?
Exactly! Very good!
Thanks! And what a convenient easy to remember formula!
You’re welcome, I’m sure.*
Math! It’s the New Science!
*Note that in some cases, percentage of vaxxed in the hospital may exceed percentage of vaxxed in the population. We’re not sure why. But be safe, get boosted!
This seems pertinent:
Fred Meyer, grocery union reach settlement, strike over after less than a day
“Tigard, Oregon – Almost a year-and-a-half ago, Fred Meyer and QFC stopped paying hourly hazard pay. In the time since then, workers have continued to deal with the pandemic, while the company has enjoyed record profits. The hazard never ended.
“Fast forward to today, Fred Meyer and QFC continue to refuse to deliver the wage increases that workers deserve. We are asking for substantial wage increases to be able to afford to live in the community we take care of. The company is currently offering long term employees a 50 cent raise for the next 2 years, and a 40 cent raise on the third year of the contract. They have not offered any raises for a vast majority of employees.
“After nearly two years of breaking labor law to continue paying their employees less, Fred Meyer has upped the ante by systematically ignoring the law and trampling on employee rights. It’s absurd, and abhorrent.” said Dan Clay, President of UFCW Local 555.
“Fred Meyer’s callous disregard for their own essential workers is stunning considering the sacrifice these employees have made throughout the pandemic. While so many were able to stay safely in their own homes, essential grocery workers showed up to work helping feed our communities. These employers should recognize their sacrifice by treating these workers with the basic respect they deserve,” said Sandy Humphrey, Secretary Treasurer of UFCW Local 555.”
I see the corporate hypocrisy behind this being called out more and more. This will add to the growing general discontent. I don’t see said discontent producing anything like a decisive turnaround of prevailing covidiotic policies, but I do see it adding to the general disintegration. I see revolution (shudder) not reform.
Bosco:
In Canada, all the unvaxxed frontline hospital (I.e. gov) employees were fired as their reward.
So government is better than corporations?
Sometimes corporations realize shooting their employees in the foot is going to hurt them too.
Governments never seem to worry that shooting others might hurt the government.Doc Robinson:
Notice that preventative measures (vit D3, zinc, ivermectin) are not on the table in all of this!
F. S.:
Yes, Quebec always goes the maximum socialist route!
Pfizer is getting their money’s worth from Quebec!
Graft is afterall Quebec’s “favorite indoor sport”!
In 1972, Rene escorted me to the border and said “Don’t come back, yea hear!”WES: “Notice that preventative measures (vit D3, zinc, ivermectin) are not on the table in all of this!”
Yes, as explained by the study I posted above,
“Paradigm 1 implies that a public perception that therapeutics might reduce the severity of COVID-19 would be dangerous if it led to the premature lifting of NPIs [non-pharmaceutical interventions including “lockdowns”, “stay-at-home” orders, travel restrictions, mask-wearing, and regulated social distancing..]”
Loss of narrative control:
Omicron spreading and infecting the vaccinated – WHO
“GENEVA, Dec 20 (Reuters) – The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading faster than the Delta variant and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
“There is now consistent evidence that Omicron is spreading significantly faster than the Delta variant,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news briefing for Geneva-based journalists, held at its new headquarters building.
“And it is more likely people vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 could be infected or re-infected,” Tedros said. (Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Alison Williams)”
“A slight rephrase would read ‘people vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 are more likely to be infected or re-infected’..
Tell that many lies so often, broadly, and sloppily, and the narrative collapses of its own. This is not to say that a collapsing narrative will fix things; but loss of narrative control goes together with loss of power. Loss of power leads to loss of stability. Things are already losing stability at an increasing rate.
The Davos Summit was cancelled due to Omicron. While this fits their narrative (‘omicron is vewwy vewwy dangewuss’) it also interferes with getting business done. Davos summit articles
I was too sick to remember to share this until now: we went to Yakima, WA for Thanksgiving. The Inland Pacific Northwest is as red as coastal Pac NW is blue. People wore masks if they felt like it, period. At least half the people in the grocery store were maskless despite Mandatory Mask signs on the door. AN observation on such signs: in blue areas, such signs are often custom, written with feel-good guilt-inducers* worthy of Big Bird. Glossy, colorful, tres au courant. Owners/mngmnt of the places displaying these signs wanted to herald their emotional investment in the concept of “we’re all in this together and so should you”.
*oxymoron alert
In Yakima, they were usually barebones B&W printouts of some standard, probably state-issued format: masks required by state law. Period. No endorsement, just due diligence. In Ellensburg, a college town north of Yakima, there is some blue influence from the state university and its nearness to Seattle (which has pretty much bought out the town). Downtown in the trendy useless shopping stores, the signs showed some investment. Away from that, masks were mostly absent. Seated next to us at an ancient truck stop near the mouth of Yakima River canyon, some guy who is an ex-jarhead or I’m Marilynn Monroe, wore a FUCK Joe Biden T-shirt.
The tide should soon be noticeably turning soon. Speaking paranoiacally, it seems not ludicrously improbable that Team Biden will pay Putin that $50 billion he wants paid up front before he kicks our ass out of Ukraine for us and gives the USA’s ruling dingbats the emergency war footing they surely want to place elections on hold. Not that said hold will hold. They’re obviously too stupid to know when their ass has been kicked.
“We share something in common! My wife says I am different too!”
Indeed you are, WES. A bit of a treasure, in my opinion. Your genuineness is plain to see. But then, bullshit and mines= dead/wish you were dead. In mining, your engineering mistake will not only kill others but probably you too. Makes a man embrace reality for what it is: something one experiences only when alive and conscious.
Re: Canada, Australia, UK, NZ: all three nations are headed for major governmental overhauls. So are most nations of the world, but these British Commonwealth stencil-states are practicing ferret-legging with honey badgers: they’re going to get their weenies eaten off by an angry public when this covidiocy carbuncle erupts.
Another note on red state mentality as I’ve seen it here:
they’re big on buying ammo and Don’t Tread on Me flags, but the pronouncedly redneck neighborhood that our godson lives in had gobs of spacious backyard and not.a.single.food.garden: they’ll just shoot each other apeshot comes scarcity. Whatever the common man’s view on government is, it is filtered through Modern Civilization, which is clueless concerning the necessities of life. After all, “your credit rating is your most important possession as an adult”. Portland’s quasi-neo-hippies are big on little food plots, but their back yards are mostly tiny and no one wants to cut down tress so they can produce full yields.
How red was this Yakima neighborhood? Red enough to have one of these:
On one of these:
This is my fave, tho. One of the local boys ran into some serious money and is refurbishing a derelict gingerbread mansion into a show-off place. This was atop the mansions two-story one-car garage:
He’s covered what little yard the place has with white gravel. Nobody seems to know where food comes these days.
Music’s good and the violinist owns the cross-dressing:
They’re from Brooklynn, arguably hipster folly central of USA E of the Mississippi. Only San Francisco can begin to compete with Brooklynn’s insufferably PC crowd.
P.S. Want to practice civil disobedience? Tell the store owners insisting on masks to call the police. Even in Australia, I suspect the cops are growing leery of arresting anti-maskers. Take a day off, 5 or 10 of you, and target the same store arrest after arrest. Cops arrest and leave, enter maskless # 2. Rinse, repeat.
Make sure you have a solid attorney on retainer, I suppose.
But that’s a lot of dirty dramatic work and jail can be seriously awful and bad for your health.
I recommend going in maskless, and when they insist on you donning a mask, pull out a wad of crisp $100 bills. Like a grand. Count it so that the bills unfold TOWARD the store owner as you say Mask Off, Get Money. Count it again refolding the money AWAY from the store-owner as you say Mask On, Go Broke.
Say, “Enjoy your bankruptcy!” if they insist you leave. If they counter with, “Enjoy dying from covid!” say, “You first” with a quiet grave voice and look. “You first.”
Dress spiffy when you do this. Not over-the-top fancy, but the kind of threads that people associate with success and $$$. People are very impressed by superficialities. Something to do with being mostly supoe5rficial most of the time?
In larger stores like grocery stores, do as you like. I doubt anyone will harass you. I’ve never been harassed when I did this, even in purple-haired Portland. I’m too sick these days to get out much or endure the nonsense stress of such actions, but people are REALLY sick of this shit — even ardent Blue Covid True Believers.
If you don’t vote with your money, you’re not voting, just playing a shell game.
Yeah, Bono’s a self-righteous wealthy dickweed sellout, but the man can sing, and there was a time when U2 could really kick it.
Women are obviously smarter than men:
“An attempt to introduce a female version of the sport—ferret busting, in which female contestants introduced ferrets down their blouses—proved unsuccessful.[11]”
“It’s time for all of you to grow a spine and a pair of balls “
‘Gonads’ is wonderfully gender-neutral.
WES: other non- Canadian readers here may not be aware of the historical animosity between English and French (Quebec) Canada. You have illustrated it here in your representation of la belle province.
Quebecers were long subjugated by Anglo business interests, as well as the Catholic Church. When Quebecers finally took control of their province out of the hands of both groups of overlords and refocused on their own unique culture and values, they were roundly snubbed by English Canada for their audacity. As a region less influenced by huge American media and their overwhelming corporate allegiances, their take on world events is quite often refreshingly richer and more nuanced -not perfect of course. If you have the capacity (Parlez-vous francais?) do tune in to their offerings- you may gain a better understanding of what this unique province contributes to Canada.Oh my:
from today’s Russia Observer which I checked, ironically, to see if any of the Russophiles I follow was ever going to touch the covid issue. (Orlov did early on but then backed off; he’d overstated his position via classic Orlovian arrogance and got drowned in conflicting data.)
Still, no major trustworthy Russian expert has said much of anything about Putin joining the covidiotic rhumba line.
Everybody’s jumping at shadows these days.
Bosco I loved your “Christmas story” of a few days ago – just got around to reading it thru.
John Day your note on Vitamin D was very illuminating.
Dr. D you make me laugh every day – I am beginning to think that your satirical approach is the best one to use, seeing as how logic no longer works.
Shit, I can hardly hear Peter Green’s solo work these days with my rapidly failing ears.
One of a kind, Mr. Green:
“It’s time for all of you to grow a spine and a pair of balls “
‘Gonads’ is wonderfully gender-neutral.
The word you are looking for is “breasticles”
Making sumac.carol smile makes me proud. Reminds me of something Charlie Musselwhite said on stage after an upbeat boogie number got some women shaking it on the floor: “Man, when I get pretty women out dancing on the floor, I feel like I done accomplished something.”
Cadillac Wimminz“>Cadillac Wimminz
More thoughts (too much coffee)
I ponder the fate of small organic farmers (of whom I know a decent number). Many of these folks have come to the realization that, our current paradigm bring what it is, they will have a very hard time making a decent living. However, what also strikes me more recently is that some in this group would likely not prosper even under more favourable economic and political conditions because of a lack of any one if the capacities required to succeed at farming. There are many ways to fail (50 ways to lose your shirt at farming?): selection of land, selection of crop/niche, finding markets/marketing, knowledge of techniques for crop-raising, capacity for work… This was a bit of a revelation for me – all challenges are not necessarily caused by big bad external stuff- sometimes we visit them in ourselves thru our own errors or omissions.WES: I hope you keep feeling OK, whether it’s mystery-road-de-icer or the free-airborne-vaccine.
@Kassandra: I hope you find a true karass, however that might come to be.
@PhoenixVoice: I salute you, Sister. You will be rewarded I believe. I hope you and your “kids” can hang on until they reach majority, then move from Phoenix, though there are so many human connections for you there…
@Boscohorowitz: It’s OK to follow divine guidance/God at any age. You know it is. Hard to know what stories to believe about Jesus, but you can look into your own heart and see that it is also God’s heart.
Might take awhile. Start early, or now, whichever comes first.@Sumac,Carol: I am a vegetable gardener, experimenting with Mexican avocados in the Texas coastal plains as a service to humans in the area, should it work out.
I’m no good at business, but I like trying out ideas, to see how they work.
Always have…The Fear of Omicron is growing in Oz. Just got this email from the ACT Government:
Mandatory face masks reintroduced for indoor settings
The ACT will reintroduce the requirement to wear a mask indoors and tighten visitor restrictions for residential aged care facilities to help keep the community safe from the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
Wearing a mask is a simple and practical way to minimise transmission of COVID-19.
From 11.59pm tonight (Tuesday 21 December), mask wearing will once again be mandatory in indoor settings in the ACT.
Additionally, some restrictions for residential aged care facilities will be re-introduced. Residents will be restricted to five visitors per day with a maximum of five visitors at any one time. There will be no daily limit on the number of visitors for end of life care visits. Masks will be mandatory for staff and visitors.
From 11.59pm tonight, masks must be worn in all indoor settings other than a place of residence, including:-
Indoor retail settings
Public transport
Hospitality venues (except when seated, or eating or drinking)
Offices
Visitors and staff in a residential aged care facilityExceptions for mask usage can be found on the COVID-19 website.
When you’re outside your home, continue to check in at all stores using the Check In CBR app, regularly wash and sanitise your hands, and stay 1.5 metres away from people you don’t know.At least we can still hug people we do know. Better still, get to know them by hugging them.
I’m hopeful that Omicron proves to be the undoing of all of this. If it does, won’t it spoil the fun of a lot of people! Nothing to live for, nothing to fight against, no great purpose, back to their humdrum lives of two years ago.
boscohorowitz wrote, “Even in Australia, I suspect the cops are growing leery of arresting anti-maskers.”
Not yet, but I have heard that the courts in NSW are dismissing many if not most cases.
We’ve got a federal election planned for early next year sometime (the campaigning is beginning now). The incumbent conservatives have shown themselves to be corrupt, cruel and stupid. Big problem: the labor opposition appear flabby, flaccid and indecisive. As Shakespeare wrote, there is small choice in rotten apples.
Sumac/DrJDay:
Here’s another perspective: food deserts will become more common. Big box stores will increasingly fail even after making fat profits from covid. Before we moved to Portland, and when my health was still tolerable if limited, we’d planned to run a produce stand from our driveway. We lived on a busy stoplight intersection that was either business or school on each corner, our house being a tiny pocket of residence toward the back of one corner.
The Albertsons grocery store kitty-corner from us had predictably closed around… 2014? 15? even though it served a mostly upper income neighborhood and was directly across the street from a grammar school and an attendant sports complex. Major foot/car traffic.
It seemed fairly easy for me to get commercial zoning permission since I was engulfed by business. Our non-commercial zoning was like a tiny cavity on an otherwise perfectly white smile.
The foot traffic from the school, especially, would make a simple produce/flower stand an easy success, especially now that the nearest grocery was 3/4th of a mile away. Even if Albertsons was still in business I could pay MORE for good organic produce than Albertsons could because my home mortgage was my primary business expense, see? I could buy the best and still charge a little less. I had way more margin room, jah?
As the Big System crashes, itty-bitty systems will pop up like mushrooms because people don’t like to starve. (A god named Cronus told me this in a bar in Baghdad in a dream around my left ear about 10 years ago.) I suggest you look for and cultivate persons who fit profiles like the one I just described.
Meanwhile, be glad you’ve got acreage to till, hopefully water if the municipal pumps go and/or a windmill to run a rural operation water pump, and a defense system/plan setup to protect your property when the cops become a) less likely to respond to burglary calls and b) are increasingly likely to charge you protection money, maybe in the form of food, if they do respond.
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ezlxa (sounds like a dyslexic OT prophet), the cops generally turn around when a few of them get shot or baseball batted.
Baseball bats are still legal in Oz, right? Also, bows’n’arrows are legal, right? And it’s amazing what a wrist-rocket can do with a proper caliber smooth stone. Some guy named David told me in a hospital ward in Palestine.
“But you killed Goliath, right?”
“Yeah, but I was so busy doing my victory dance I didn’t realize he was falling on top of me. Talk about a head-butt!”
The various constabularies and legislatures of these currently mighty-seeming regimes are virtually untested forces against real civil disobedience. Real opposition pulls them up short real fast. All this BLMatter stuff in the USA obscures something else: cops are being shot and killed an awful lot lately. Chicken-shit bully-boys don’t like real danger.
The supposedly most mighty military in the world got kicked out of shithole Afghanistan after bombing it back into the Stone Age, ruining a great many soldiers’ lives precisely because they get killed less but maimed more (including psychologically) while spending several fortunes, much of it given away to the people we were supposedly ruling.
That was with attack helicopters and drone missiles and and and… Oz ain’t gonna do that to its own people. Not for moral reasons although that will likely be some kind of factor, but because you can’t even begin to control a people on their home turf without blasting the whole thing to smithereens and still losing. It’s not like the Oz police live in fortified compounds. They have families and homes and…. they’ll back off right quick once a few courageous lunatics do the heavy lifting that 99.9% won’t until someone shows them it can be done.
Elections? They already mean next to nothing, and will mean even less next year. As elections, that is. As pivotal events unraveling the major players of Euromerica and its affiliates like Oz, those elections will likely be VERY important. But not in terms of whom they elect but rather, what they reveal about things like AI surveillance/analysis, the internet, mass media, political machinations and public sentiment manipulation, etc…
A black box/Chinese box like the AI complex that got Biden elected, fraudulence and all, is WAY smarter than humans in many ways… and unfathomably stupid in others. The latter aspect will reveal itself glaringly, I predict, around the next election cycle/ collapse of the covid narrative like a bad surfing wave that peters out just as you’re getting some rise, along with whatever stupid thing the NATOites do with Russia (a scenario in which overdependence on AI is certain disaster heaped upon an already certain disaster i.e. crossing Putin’s red line).
What looks mighty now will fall, and it will be like Hemingway said of going bankrupt: “It’s slow at first, then all at once.”
Why waste energy on sham elections when real politics is just outside your door? Political entrepreneurialism, yea, even “disruptive entrepreneurialism”, is the next big thing. Get in on the ground floor!
Meanwhile, in the States, I think Dr.D has the basic drift right: balkanization. Boy, are we gonna celebrate diversity or what?
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DrJDay: if one really follows divine guidance, shit happens, and it can be one crazy roller-coaster. With an extremist like me (reality being extremely real, you see, and me being extremely addicted to reality, it being where I keep my stuff including breath of life), you can count on seriously manic lunacy. That’s how miracles are made, best I can tell. You lose most or all of your friends, very often your wife*, you question your sanity 60/60/24/7/365, so does everyone else, and you do what inner guidance tells you, period.
*I won’t. We’re tried and tested and then some.What stories about Jesus to believe? What stories about ANYONE, living or dead, ancient or recent, to believe? Stories are illusions, even the details of a person’s diary. The only truth is action/consequences. Remove the illusion that one knows what one is doing, let the dao speak and act freely through you, and lord have mercy, you’d better talk real fast or run even faster.
I move really slowly these days, but boy can I talk fast. 😉
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