Debt Rattle March 5 2021
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Vincent van Gogh Landscape with House and Ploughman 1889 • Covid Vaccine Ads Aim To Influence Without Alienating People (G.) • Does Social Soli
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 5 2021]Vincent van Gogh Landscape with House and Ploughman 1889
Not at the top of his form, IMO, but…
Very nice, I like it….@JohnDay from yesterday: “If a tree falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it, does the tree or the forest “exist”?
What is “existence”, do you think?”I don’t believe a human needs to be present to experience something in order for that something to exist. Yes, the tree fell and it knows it (as does everything around it) and the forest knows it exists as well. All living matter has consciousness. Just because the way in which a tree (or any plant) “thinks and feels” is not apparent to humans does not mean that plants don’t think and feel. They do, which makes being a vegetarian somewhat, er … well, that’s a question for another time. 😉
I’m not entirely certain what existence is, nor how to adequately describe my thoughts on it. Perhaps, to be brief, I’d say that existence is [a] physical being manifested by a life force or energy that continually interacts with all other life force/energy around it.
I agree with @Susmarie108, we should work on our own self-awareness and be as kind and caring as we possibly can. That does have a positive effect on everything around us and every little bit helps. But it takes a very long time to effect a “mass” change in consciousness that results in changes in the “physical” world. And humans, in general, are not evolving into some higher form that is kinder, more caring, more aware than we were in the past. It isn’t happening, no matter how much we fool ourselves that it is. If anything, we seem to be “devolving.” So I find it arrogant to think humans have the power to improve much of anything. Mostly we seem to do the exact opposite.
I remember when I first started gardening. I fussed and fussed at everything, always trying to “improve” things (whatever that meant in my little human brain). Then one night when I couldn’t sleep I was out sitting on my patio at 2:00 in the morning. Just sitting quietly … and I suddenly “felt” that every living thing in the garden had its own existence, outside of me and my plans for it. And that I needed to leave them alone, aside from basic care, because what they were doing as part of their existence was none of my business.
Ok, done. Way too much thinking for my second cup of coffee this morning.
Thanks Upstate NYer: On the path. Any perception counts as perception, not just “human” perception. Perhaps a cuttlefish was there awaiting a fresh shrimp when the tree fell.
Druids know the great trees, right.Posts not posting again… https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/change-something-yourself.html
More, from last November, about that open source Finnish Nasal Spray Vaccine for COVID, that can’t seem to get to people, even though it was ready for human trials last May. It won’t make powerful persons in the machine richer and more powerful… so, IMPOSSIBLE.
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18270-finnish-covid-19-vaccine-yielding-promising-results-but-lacks-funding.htmlRussia has a new vaccine, a completely conventional “killed-virus” vaccine, with “no side effects”. Since it is a whole virus vaccine, it should be more effective against strains like the South African variant, which has differences in the spike protein, which most vaccines “target”. Thx Jeremy.
The third Covid-19 vaccine registered in Russia is based on a “perfectly conventional” platform, and those who have been injected experienced no side effects, the head of the Chumakov Scientific Center, which created it, told RT.
“Globally, almost 100% of vaccines contain either deactivated or live pathogens,” he said, adding that the one developed by his center contains an ‘inactivated’ (dead) coronavirus. This type of vaccine simulates a natural infection process, introducing the immune system to the virus and “teaching” the body to fight the pathogen without the risk of it spreading through the body and causing disease, he explained.
“Since we are talking about a whole-virion vaccine, the deviations in the genetic sequence – something one is calling different strains or different variants – are insignificant and amount to less than one percent. So… it would be weird to think that a whole-virion vaccine might fail to work against new strains, considering how small the differences are,” he said.
“The most important thing is that at this point we have a vaccine that definitely has no side effects,” he said, adding that, out of 300 volunteers, none reported any symptoms except for occasional soreness around the injection site.
https://www.rt.com/russia/517024-russia-third-vaccine-dead-virus/“Covid Vaccine Ads Aim to Influence without Alienating People (G.)”
Covid advertisements advertise, they do not not advertise. Sad panda is sad.
Why does nobody but AWFLs who sucked 90% of the money out of 90% of the counties and killed 6 million brown people overseas trust Big Daddy Government and slave-harvesting MNCs?
” WHO Inspectors ‘To Scrap Interim Report’ on Probe of COVID Origin (AlJ)”
A year later and they still don’t even have a PROBE. While the U.N. bioweapons treaty scientist said it was manmade in weeks. Ban! We NON-scientists, NON-doctors at Google and Facebook make all the medical and scientific conclusions on behalf of the doctors. The ones we know they really MEANT to say, comrade, except they are black White Supremacists and Nazi Russian bots. (Do I have to add here that Russians and Nazis are ALSO as opposite as Black White supremacists? Apparently yes.)
“If you lined up all the economists end to end, they still wouldn’t reach a conclusion”
Apparently the same is true of every chemical and biological weapons accusation investigator. 10 years now since Syria, and they only thing they found UN OPCW is nothing. Bellingcat’s still going though, still supported by BBC/Reuters/MI6 merger, and Biden/Raytheon/Exxon merger starting new bombing and blowing up 3 regional Nobel treaties.
“Majority of Brits Say They Will “Miss” Some or Many Aspects of Lockdown (SN)”
Simply shows that humans are adaptable and try to make the best of any situation.
“Capitol Police Requests National Guard Past March 12 (F.)”
That’s odd. Pelosi said she didn’t WANT 10,000 guard members there only last month. Racist Wall that don’t work isn’t who we are. But if it costs money and doesn’t work, we’re the government and we’re all over it. The only possible add is that it destroys all human rights, so, lock.
Speaking of what won’t work:
“White House Weighs Minimum Wage Negotiations with Republicans (Pol.)”The US$ has lost 99% of its value since 1913, and we wonder why wages should rise? Who makes money when money is printed? Is that somehow related to how financiers have the largest wealth gap in the history of the world? Hey: let’s do MORE! Moar government! Moar helping! There are still a few workers and children left alive somewhere, but we can fix that.
Bonus: Powell says there is inflation. Rates come unhinged on cue, giving him a crisis he can use to grab more power and profit, make more poor folks.
“Even if Democrats were to eliminate the filibuster, they would still need Manchin’s stamp of approval for virtually all legislation,”
Whiskey Tango? Or any of the other 49 Senators. Wtf is Manchin? Compromise like Congress has for 240 years, Parliament did for 400 years before that, and you’ve got no problem at all. Is everyone literally this illiterate and illogical? What they’re saying is that they’re ramming through enormously unpopular legislation on half the country, legislation so bad that not only can they not only not get a single opposing members to sign, but not even their own people. That’s Democracy, quite literally. 51% trampling the 49%. We passed a law saying we could rape your daughters, 51%-49% Now it’s law! There are no protected rights for the minority like in a Republic. Because we’re against minorities! Democracies also reverse daily as the winds blow, as we see here. Today’s Wheel of Fauci? Two masks in California, except I see all their own officials wear only one, if any. Tomorrow, anyone’s guess. We’ll vote on what reality is then.
“Where is all that money going?”
BLM’s website said it was going to destroy America, install communism, and to erase the heteronormative family. I mean, doesn’t anybody read anymore? 1. Click. 2. Page appears with words on it. 3. Read words into brain. 4. Question answered. They were also bailing out arsonists and pedophiles and being the fundraising arm of anti-Progressive known racists like Biden, who is on camera saying “we don’t need to n—-r mayors,” and just recently, that Black folks are too stupid to use a computer.
Offensive? You bet they are. So I hope you are. This is what they said about voting rights. Just another day in the land of Love. You didn’t think they were going to give that money to police violence did you? No, you misunderstand it was FOR police violence, like Kamala rounding up innocent black children, imprisoning them, and telling the judge she’d never let them out even with a court order ‘cause corporations merged with the state needed them to fight deadly forest fires at $1/hour. THAT’S what BLM stand for. Mission Accomplished. 1. Click. 2. Page appears with words on it. 3. Read words into brain. 4. Question answered. Oh I forgot: 5. Deny every word you read and say it isn’t true. #RealityOptional
Meme:
“Top song of 2020: Wet A– P—y” On public radio, Good for kids!
Dr. Seuss 2020? Banned. Even private copies and private sales.”Must have been that rousing approval by Black President Obama that did it. Every candidate he endorsed was immediately defeated.
Again, when was the last time the people banning and burning books, rounding people up and deplatforming them, ending all human rights and disarming them were the good guys?
Humanity is almost certainly improving. We don’t have to have Leviticus warnings at this point, “Don’t kill your infant daughters by burying them alive in the sand,” etc. However, the improvement is a cycle, a spiral. Since we are against all laws, all rules, all restraint, and all truth everywhere, it’s little wonder our present experience is poor. It will improve, but a lot slower than most of us can stand. My problem isn’t that they bear improvement or are slow. My problem is that they cannot, will not leave me alone. No matter where I go, what I do, what I say, they will chase me down and start “helping”. Helping me to be a Borg-cube clone of conformity like them. Ignorance is Strength. Resistance is Futile. Exterminate.
upstateNYer, I looked up what Paypal takes, after our talk about it yesterday:
From a $2 donation, $1.59 is left. And then:
$5 becomes $4.43
$10 – $9.16
$25 – $23.35
$50 – $47Yeah, you can say Send Money to a Friend, better, but I’m not sure if I can encourage people to do that.
And it doesn’t stop there: because most donations are in USD (80% of readers are American), and I’m in Europe, the exchange rate comes in. 1€ right now is $1.19, and Paypal’s rate is $1.24.
Patreon is harder to oversee, because it involves a total amount over a whole month. IIRC they take 5% of that total.
Yes, they take large amounts of money, they even do that with the donations for the Monastiraki kitchen, but it’s what they do, and they’re a near monopoly, so I long ago decided to worry about other things.
I recall first associating TAE with its concern and grief for young chiuldren suffering in places like Lesbos. Reading us bemoaning and ranting here, I think of the children coming on line.
Raul: It seems sending a check is the best way to keep the money in your pocket instead of benefiting the skimmers. 5% is a lot off the top just to funnel the money from donors to recipients, although part of that goes to the credit card companies. Too many layers of skimming.
domestic terrorism – opposition – losers – consumers – them –
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• WHO Inspectors ‘To Scrap Interim Report’ On Probe Of COVID Origin (AlJ)
Herd Immunity in China
Where is covid19 hiding?
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a 93% increase in threats todemocracylawmakers this year
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Lawmakers working for the needy
higher minimum wage to millions of Americans – tomorrow – not now – not retro
$1,400 instead of the $2,000 people were promised — will likely now go to 17 million fewer people
Soft population control – genocide
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Life – requires replicating/reproducing/cloning/growth
To be or not to be a vegetarian – still feeding off life
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a vaccine that definitely has no side effects – if it replicates, its alive
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How to become wealthy – many layers of skimming – capitalism – don’t tell (the truth)Dr D wrote: “Majority of Brits Say They Will “Miss” Some or Many Aspects of Lockdown (SN)”
Simply shows that humans are adaptable and try to make the best of any situation.
Or could it be that those WFH realized how crappy were their commutes, how toxic the workplace vibe, how mindless their tasks? And for those that still had jobs they had to show up for–less traffic, less jerks at the deli counter at lunch! And most of the people that have jobs that actually involve making something, or picking something to eat, don’t live in England. So yeah, I guess many are “making the best of it” and still getting paid or still on the dole, for now anyway.
The carbonara sauce pasta violence twitter joke went over my head. I must have missed a news cycle. Or maybe this was a twitterverse thing, of which I am not a member.
Canada approves J&J’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine,
Looking forward to approval of nose spray, and Cuban vaccines.Charity – tipping – subsidizing capitalism – guilt trip
Tipping is expected, and is meant to keep encouraging good service. A gratuity of between 15% and 20% of the bill before tax, depending on the level of service. Tip 15% for normal service, 20% for exceptional service. You can tip below 15% (say 10%) if you aren’t particularly satisfied, or you thought the service was just ‘ok’.Raul: It seems sending a check is the best way to keep the money in your pocket instead of benefiting the skimmers. 5% is a lot off the top just to funnel the money from donors to recipients, although part of that goes to the credit card companies. Too many layers of skimming.
You might think so, but I can’t do anything with American checks in Europe, so my buddy and techie Danny in NY is the address for those, and he sends me the proceeds through… Paypal, because that’s easiest. Elon Musk has a good business model. Sort of surprised major banks haven’t stepped into that field.
@upstateNYer: a beautiful contribution this morning.
“Just sitting quietly … and I suddenly “felt” that every living thing in the garden had its own existence, outside of me and my plans for it. And that I needed to leave them alone, aside from basic care, because what they were doing as part of their existence was none of my business.”
The process of arriving…at knowing, as shared above – is the inner work at work in the world. Am certain that your garden is responding well to your shift in awareness.
We’re just going to have to disagree on “But it takes a very long time to effect a “mass” change in consciousness that results in changes in the “physical” world.” How many do we need to “flip the script” to achieve “mass”? Does it matter? Why worry? Just sit quietly and find out.
A collective shift is not bound by time. Every act of positivity, of LOVE matters – and rolls into the mighty flow. On the Path with you, Sister.
French medical staff are quite reluctant to have the vaccine, if keener than the general public. Before their arrival, in Nov. 2020:
53% French public was opposed to the covid vaccine(s).
Amongst libéral (non-gvmt) medical personnel:
Docs and pharmacists, 80% said would accept it for themselves, and 85% would recommend it to their patients.
Midwives and physiotherapists: 60%, and 80% would reco. to their patients.
Nurses: 50% … 80%.
—link 1
Dec. 2020. Med. staff (including ‘aides soignants’ – nurse helpers) working in old ppls homes. 76% are opposed to corona vaccines, and 5% ‘don’t know.’
—link 2
As for general attitude to vaccines, here the % vaccinated against flu for season 19-20
Docs 67%
Midwives 48%
Nurses 36%
‘aides-soignants’ 21%—link 3
These numbers are explained by social stratification. Med personnel (see 1) consider themselves socially above their patients (as younger, better educated, in better shape, more attractive, maybe in many cases ‘richer’, etc.) I do find the no. of those who won’t accept a dodgy product for themselves but who will recommend it for their patients quite alarming, but *there ya go* – social superiority, bis.
Those working in old-ppls homes (see 2) are way down the social ladder as compared to independents and public hospital employees. Much of elder-home care in France is privatised, and are pure profit-making machines.. salaries in the pits.. work conditions disgusting..
As for actually being vaccinated (for flu), the % (see 3) speak for themselves. (In F, midwives have higher status than nurses, which is why they are treated as a category apart.)
As the vaccines are being produced and promulgated by the top power echelons (Corporations, aka Big Pharma, Gvmts. and rotten NGOs in web of alliance, be it uneasy) higher-placed followers or hangers-on adhere through self-interest, fancifully assumed or aspriring group-belonging —> approval sinks steadily lower down the social scale.
It follows that the corona vaccines are being advertised and boosted (sic) by primitive prop methods. (There are no ‘scientific’ arguments to be made, invented ones might contravene some still existing laws / conventions.)
E.g. famous ppl being jabbed on TV, some proudly announcing their vax status, etc. as if a vaccine is akin to some fashion move, like a super symbol artsy tattoo or wearing X highest-end shoes, a visible sign of belonging to the in-crowd. This also ties up with the ‘vax-status pass’ issue, which will certify not only that ‘you’ are a good, moral person (protecting everyone and all grannies) but admire your betters and imitate them, i.e., submit to them — or not.
links in next post
@ Noirette
You said:
(Expressions that you used that encapsulate our society/path to success)
“… higher-placed followers or hangers-on adhere through self-interest, fancifully assumed or aspriring group-belonging
a visible sign of belonging to the in-crowd.
admire your betters and imitate them”links, all thru a link shortener, bitly, and didn’t stick. all originals in french so prob not much read anyway, can do better if requested
“The Guardian recently published an article saying “People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – and it’s unscientific to suggest otherwise”. “Behavioural fatigue” the piece said, “has no basis in science”.”
People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – the government is wrong to suggest otherwise
Now that The Guardian has officially denied the existence of behavorioral fatigue (BF), BF is now free to come forth and create more public resistence to covid (alleged) prevention measures.
I predict that naked restaurant dining will be in come Xmas.
Yesterday’s Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant had an eye-catching headline saying that the much ballyhooed wonder substance ivermectin doesn’t work against Covid-19, (In Dutch, behind paywall). It said that there was a positive effect, but that it wasn’t statistically significant. The article was based on another article in the journal JAMA:
Effect of Ivermectin on Time to Resolution of Symptoms Among Adults With Mild COVID-19
A Randomized Clinical TrialQuestion What is the effect of ivermectin on duration of symptoms in adults with mild COVID-19?
Findings In this randomized clinical trial that included 476 patients, the duration of symptoms was not significantly different for patients who received a 5-day course of ivermectin compared with placebo (median time to resolution of symptoms, 10 vs 12 days; hazard ratio for resolution of symptoms, 1.07).
Meaning The findings do not support the use of ivermectin for treatment of mild COVID-19, although larger trials may be needed to understand effects on other clinically relevant outcomes.
Abstract
Importance Ivermectin is widely prescribed as a potential treatment for COVID-19 despite uncertainty about its clinical benefit.Objective To determine whether ivermectin is an efficacious treatment for mild COVID-19.
Design, Setting, and Participants Double-blind, randomized trial conducted at a single site in Cali, Colombia. Potential study participants were identified by simple random sampling from the state’s health department electronic database of patients with symptomatic, laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 during the study period. A total of 476 adult patients with mild disease and symptoms for 7 days or fewer (at home or hospitalized) were enrolled between July 15 and November 30, 2020, and followed up through December 21, 2020.
Intervention Patients were randomized to receive ivermectin, 300 μg/kg of body weight per day for 5 days (n = 200) or placebo (n = 200).
Main Outcomes and Measures Primary outcome was time to resolution of symptoms within a 21-day follow-up period. Solicited adverse events and serious adverse events were also collected.
Results Among 400 patients who were randomized in the primary analysis population (median age, 37 years [interquartile range {IQR}, 29-48]; 231 women [58%]), 398 (99.5%) completed the trial. The median time to resolution of symptoms was 10 days (IQR, 9-13) in the ivermectin group compared with 12 days (IQR, 9-13) in the placebo group (hazard ratio for resolution of symptoms, 1.07 [95% CI, 0.87 to 1.32]; P = .53 by log-rank test). By day 21, 82% in the ivermectin group and 79% in the placebo group had resolved symptoms. The most common solicited adverse event was headache, reported by 104 patients (52%) given ivermectin and 111 (56%) who received placebo. The most common serious adverse event was multiorgan failure, occurring in 4 patients (2 in each group).
Conclusion and Relevance Among adults with mild COVID-19, a 5-day course of ivermectin, compared with placebo, did not significantly improve the time to resolution of symptoms. The findings do not support the use of ivermectin for treatment of mild COVID-19, although larger trials may be needed to understand the effects of ivermectin on other clinically relevant outcomes.
The dosage used was higher than suggested by John Day – a 90kg (200 lb) person would be given 27mg per day for five days, compared to 18mg on days 1, 2, 4, 6 following JD’s regime. However, there was no vitamin D, zinc, doxycycline or anything else given, just ivermectin. What got me though, was that they gave it to people with mild covid whereas with HCQ they gave it to people who were on death’s door. So, it suggests to me that it was just a study to “prove” that ivermectin is ineffective.
No links because they won’t post.
Also, regarding the allegedly missing flu:
“One study looked at airline passengers’ missed flights during the 2009 outbreak – given that flying with a bunch of people in an enclosed space is likely to spread flu. There was a massive spike of missed flights at the beginning of the pandemic but this quickly dropped off as the infection rate climbed, although later, missed flights did begin to track infection rates more closely.”
We’ve stopped flying, car-pooling is surely dead, and we generally spend much less time indoors except for at home. Not that we seem to spend much time outdoors. I reckon people read blogs like TAE. 😉 Anyway, the missing flu makes sense: influenza is well optimized to homo saps and our habits. Alter those habits in crucial ways, and flu populations decline radically.
I see so many people assume that the decline in flu stats is a statistical error related to generally inane incompetence and corruption in such things these days. But the events that might cause such an anomaly could also create a genuine anomaly in real life: reduce that much flu habitat, you remove an awful lot of flu.
Because when things change, things change, and when things change they change things. Whatever is true or not regarding covid itself and our stat models for tracking it, it is glaringly obvious that we’ve radically altered the human/microbe shared environment that the 20th Century produced.
Meanwhile, I read elsewhere:
“The most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all coronaviruses is estimated to have existed as recently as 8000 BCE, although some models place the common ancestor as far back as 55 million years or more, implying long term coevolution with bat and avian species.[73] The most recent common ancestor of the alphacoronavirus line has been placed at about 2400 BCE, of the betacoronavirus line at 3300 BCE, of the gammacoronavirus line at 2800 BCE, and of the deltacoronavirus line at about 3000 BCE. Bats and birds, as warm-blooded flying vertebrates, are an ideal natural reservoir for the coronavirus gene pool (with bats the reservoir for alphacoronaviruses and betacoronavirus – and birds the reservoir for gammacoronaviruses and deltacoronaviruses). The large number and global range of bat and avian species that host viruses has enabled extensive evolution and dissemination of coronaviruses.[74]
“Many human coronaviruses have their origin in bats.[75] The human coronavirus NL63 shared a common ancestor with a bat coronavirus (ARCoV.2) between 1190 and 1449 CE.[76] The human coronavirus 229E shared a common ancestor with a bat coronavirus (GhanaGrp1 Bt CoV) between 1686 and 1800 CE.[77] More recently, alpaca coronavirus and human coronavirus 229E diverged sometime before 1960.[78] MERS-CoV emerged in humans from bats through the intermediate host of camels.[79] MERS-CoV, although related to several bat coronavirus species, appears to have diverged from these several centuries ago.[80] The most closely related bat coronavirus and SARS-CoV diverged in 1986.[81] The ancestors of SARS-CoV first infected leaf-nose bats of the genus Hipposideridae; subsequently, they spread to horseshoe bats in the species Rhinolophidae, then to Asian palm civets, and finally to humans.[82][83]”
Yeah, well the clap comes from sheep, but getting the clap doesn’t mean you have sex with sheep…. just that long long ago, some human did. Which reminds me:
@Susmarie108: thank you. 🙂
“We’re just going to have to disagree on “But it takes a very long time to effect a “mass” change in consciousness that results in changes in the “physical” world.””
Perhaps I’ve become too cynical, but [for example] I’ve watched the US and its allies bomb other countries for no good reason, indiscriminately killing civilians of all ages, and no amount of loving feelings toward others has slowed that down one iota. I do hope you’re right, that all the loving feelings will suddenly shift how humans treat one another and every other living thing in the world. Yes, I do hope you’re right.
Madam: holy smokes that’s crazy! The poster child of we-said-it-so-it’s-true insanity.
Yeah, I’m sure these same scientists, who say we’re all mindless victims of evolution and our Neanderthal heritage, now say in 90 days humans no longer need touching, society, interaction. Nope, nope, nope! They’ve intermediated and monetized work, child rearing, trading, thining, knowing, talking, clubs, and now friendship, and all communication whatsoever. Talk about lack of collateral for hypothecation of an exponential function! I’d say I’ll be sure to tell my kids but they’d already rather text than speak to me.
And now on to the REAL news, what’s happening in the bond market that will move every other action on earth, and post haste.
UST 30-year is over 3%, UST10 is over 1.6% and yet shorting liquidity is negative 4%. No, for a change I don’t claim to understand this. But the bond market sets the price for money which sets the price for everything. Next thing to keep in mind is, if the markets rock, which seems likely, even for Powell to take another crack at Bailout: Infinitity, then the US$ will STRENGTHEN sharply and kill every emerging market on earth, harvest them, and also hammer cryptos and stocks. The core currency falls LAST. These appear to be the stresses that are slipping right now.
This will eclipse covid or even war. But it will put you in mind to get food from Mr. Gates as inflation suddenly begins.
“Oh sure, let’s pretend that Manchin keeps Biden from keeping his promises.”
But it doesn’t say that. It hypothesizes Manchin as a tool by which to leverage Biden. How sound that hypothesis is, I don’t know, but it doesn’t pretend that Manchin is the goal-keeper.
“UST 30-year is over 3%, UST10 is over 1.6% and yet shorting liquidity is negative 4%. No, for a change I don’t claim to understand this. But the bond market sets the price for money which sets the price for everything. ”
I don’t either, but it reminds me of how a sudden drop in petroleum sales made it necessary to pay people, sometimes heftily, to take oil off some trader’s hands. Perhaps shorting liquidity 4% is similar. Who wants to borrow money now while defaulting on loans they made to cover the past 3 imminent defaults.
Inflation measured in the ratio between demand for goods and the amount of money chasing them is one thing. Inflation measured in the demand for borrowable money is another. Methinks that banking is entering one helluva financially deflationary state where you have to pay people to borrow money (a mirror image of negative interest rates?) from you: “You want me to borrow $100 from you? OK. I’ll give you$100 for a loan of $200.”
&*$
““We’re just going to have to disagree on “But it takes a very long time to effect a “mass” change in consciousness that results in changes in the “physical” world.””
First we should decide whether the hypothesis (sane nondestructivre human progress) is even possible. (fwiw, my vote is No.)
An amazing thing about Van Gogh is how he could use such dense saturated colors but still have light come through them.
@madamski: “I predict that naked restaurant dining will be in come Xmas.”
I predict that is followed by weight loss in the dining out population. This will be based on loss of appetite – think about how the majority of Americans look with their clothes ON at this point.
The greedy fools who own most of the world simply can’t comprehend that the thing they manipulate so well for their gain could otherwise fail through their management. It is wise to remember that empathy is a necessary component of human psychology. Those lacking empathy are literally incapable of running a society anyewhere but to the ground via their bank accounts.
Meanwhile, the rest of the populace is conditioned to follow orders, period.
Oh, come on: it’ll be fun, y’all.
“I predict that is followed by weight loss in the dining out population. This will be based on loss of appetite – think about how the majority of Americans look with their clothes ON at this point.”
We’ll wear blinders to go along with our masks.
“You want me to borrow $100 from you? OK. I’ll give you$100 for a loan of $200.”
I phrased that poorly. I meant to imply that if you loan me $100, you need to give me $200 so I can use half of it to pay you back and keep the rest.
A problem with mandatory vaccines is that placing people in jail begs infection? We’re not a totalitarian society. China can do this stuff with little resistance. USA, while mostly a nation of obedient toddlers, also possesses that tantrum power that 3-year olds can muster when they feel sufficiently wronged.
If somehow we attain that level of control, we will have back-flipped over China into NK reality.
Times are weird enough: I susspose it could happen. But I doubt it. We’ll just clusterfuck into a mass collapse and then fight each other until we’ve had enough.
• Majority of Brits Say They Will “Miss” Some or Many Aspects of Lockdown
One aspect of the British lockdown:
Alcohol deaths rise sharply in England and Wales (BMJ, 05 March 2021)January-March, a 9.7% increase compared with 2019.
April-June, a 17.7% increase compared with 2019.
July-September, a 22.6% increase compared with 2019.The alcohol-specific death rate reached its highest peak since the data time series began in 2001
Alcohol-specific deaths only include those health conditions where each death is a direct consequence of alcohol misuse (that is, wholly attributable causes such as alcoholic liver disease).
Updated stats on excess deaths in Europe were published yesterday.
The most recent weekly excess deaths (from all causes) are not only below the corresponding data from 2019, they are below the baseline (less than zero) for every age grouping.
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps#excess-mortality
(choose Weekly instead of Cumulated)Somebody in Australia is calling it out for what is really going on:
“Probably, like most people, you’ve trusted the near-universal media narrative that the pandemic is real, that masks and lockdowns are necessary and that vaccines are the only solution. By the time you realise otherwise it may well be too late to stop the unfolding disaster.”
“This has been decades in the planning by a technocratic, billionaire elite, some of whose names you will have heard of but many of whom remain in the shadows. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ is part of this; so too is the United Nation’s Agenda 2030. It’s almost impossible to believe that our governments, our media, our judiciary – all the various institutions and checks and balances which should have protected us – are instead playing along with this terrifying takeover. But under cover of our innocence and ignorance they are.”
I was in the woods today cutting trees to feed our wood stove next winter so we don’t freeze to death.
I feel your comments.
Living life can be such a joy
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