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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle January 17 2021 #68483
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    * Words having meaning is also the basis of Law. Sad times when I have to say that, in the face to slackjawed stares worthy of “Idiocracy.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 17 2021 #68481
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    “President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is likely to start after Joe Biden’s inauguration…The timing for the trial, the first of a president no longer in office…”

    Dum dum dum dum… There’s a reason why. BECAUSE YOU IMPEACH TO REMOVE FROM OFFICE. ONLY. Then you have the person open to a normal, legal trial, NOT a political one. Not new. Not rocket science. Goes back centuries. You might have heard. There’s this thing called “google” where you can look it up.

    So you’re impeaching to remove a man from office who is not in office? In order to hold a trial in which you have no authority or standing? Well, what can I say? In #OppositeLand, once all reason and logic, all order and all definitions have been erased, this makes about as much sense as any other. Joe can then make a horse a Senator and go whip Posiden and steal his seashells on a banks of the Potomac.

    And the AP, being not reporters, too stupid to pass community college so they went to Yale, go ahead and print this nonsense as if it were real. The people, having read Common Core and assuming Yale reporters must know more than the town retard, believe them. Can they hold the trial? Probably. He was impeached before he left. No one’s ever been that dumb before, but we’re looking for new frontiers. But there would be no purpose to it.

    Democrats intend to move swiftly on Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID aid”

    Huh. Totally weird. So after 6 months of stalling, and Joe saying he was opposed, SUDDENLY they want to give the $2,000 Trump asked for all along? As part of their personal compassion and genius, of course. No nothin’ to do with any dates passing here.

    Meanwhile, back in kill-all-Americans-Land, Cuomo says we must open up Election Day +1, and now Chicago agrees. But, but, the CHILDREN! (Who don’t get it.) But you’re killing grandma!
    Taint
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    Yeah, don’t you know who I am? This is only the authoritarian race-obsessed panopticon merger of monopoly corporation and state, focused outward on a world-wide war machine that’s killed more than 6 million people, not like fascism at all.

    “It was a reckless speech”

    Really? Point to the reckless part. Also everyone who says the Capitol was “Breached” or that it was “attacked” or under “seige.” Used to be words had meaning. You should try it some time, it’s the basis of reason, intelligence, knowledge, and science. Strange thing about it is that it leads to good outcomes, not random and bad ones.

    CNN/NBC using a Time/NYT reporter already admitted there was nothing reckless in the speech. …And because “reporter” and “no logic” then said they should impeach anyway.

    Niall Ferguson” …Well, he did work for Harvard, so clearly he’s a total ignoramus and an enemy to all logic. You couldn’t get in there if you weren’t.

    “Social media helped Donald Trump take the White House,’ I wrote. ‘Silicon Valley won’t let it happen again.’

    Clear statement: Less than 10 social media billionaires pick presidents and feel entitled to, over all the American people. You do not. Doesn’t matter what you want. You are not allowed. That’s Democracy!

    The Left:
    TheEnd
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    Celsius reminds me of brook trout, which must have a very specific oxygen concentration requiring cool water, and can only be found in the few parts of the stream that provide it. That’s how fragile they are, although being 100 million years old.

    Sitting in an air-conditioned house it’s hard to imagine we are barely less fragile than they are and the slightest disruption in cosmic terms would freeze, fry, dehydrate, drown us all in a few short days. And thus the real world we live in is the forest, the grass, the waters that protect us, feed us, moderate life to be possible and even enjoyable.

    Nah, let’s pave them all until they are 0f and 100f, with no food, no water, and no temperatures in between. #ReligionofProgress. Go GDP!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2021 #68440
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    I love the disavowing of Cue-tee pie. Okay, so what you’re saying is, 1) No powerful person anywhere is a pedophile, not in the Catholic church, not in Cory Feldman’s Hollywood, and not the 1980’s Speaker of the House 2) There is no blackmail in politics, especially not after the time where having an affair or being gay has no leverage anymore, AND 3) Epstein doesn’t exist, there are no high-power young-girl and human trafficking with him, Weinstein, Nexum, U Penn, Prince of Britain, etc. You must believe all three, completely.

    NOPE! All our politicians are pure as the driven snow, no one ever uses blackmail there or anywhere, and Epstein and Maxwell are completely innocent and got a raw deal.

    Otherwise…perhaps some of the more inflammatory points of what this particular person was saying might possibly be true?

    The level of people seeing, agreeing, then suddenly not knowing what they just agreed and admit they knew and believed just a second ago is stupefying. There is a two. There is a two. And when you count them they equal what?

    Other thoughts: Whoever is running the 25,000 army standing in D.C. to protect the world’s most popular President-elect, are incredibly well-restrained and very, extremely quiet. Which side do you think this indicates? Dorsey and Pelosi, AOC and Mattis? Or somebody else? Since this is 5x the troops needed to hold F-Stan and Donald.win says there are zero riots planned, what are they there for? To keep AntiFa from being too happy?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 16 2021 #68437
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    Have to correct: Both sides were sending $1400, the balance of the $600 already sent, totalling $2,000. Yes, that’s pathetic. UBI? Income = $2,000 a year?

    The article better illustrates the problems of large numbers. Even a dollar given to 300M adds up fast, while you could give $1M to the 10 top donors and no one would notice. Also at this point their helping has so ruined the nation that half don’t pay taxes. …They have no money. They GET money, in EIC if not direct Welfare. So immediately any tax cut must go to the top half of the nation, right? Except that top 50% doesn’t pay taxes either: they’re barely collecting from 50% > 95%. So the top 5% pay 50%/60% of all taxes. Any tax cut must therefore be to the “rich”.

    …Except that we’ve so destroyed that nation, made it so much like Boliva, that the “rich” here starts at TWO incomes equaling $166,000. Wow. Palatial. Eat the rich. That’s a nurse and a regional manager of Kroger’s in a high-income city.

    Yet the second part is still true: if you DON’T lower taxes, the economy won’t recover and move. …Because (socialism) got us here over 100 years and everything’s broken, and it’s illegal to work. Own a business. Try stuff. Do anything and you’ll be arrested. And now the optics of recovering, of returning to freedom and hard work are horrible.

    “to leave no alternative to the ruling Democratic”

    Yes, when leaving the Democratic Party is illegal and purged on Facebook, (WalkAway) we’ve come a long way, baby.

    “79% of Americans Think The US Is Falling Apart (RT) This totalitarian mindset could be the US’ undoing.”

    No, this is them realizing what has been true all along. For decades. So that everyone sees it and agrees is a GOOD thing. They only thing the adversary has going is LIES. This shows those lies are ending. The adversary can only hide. When he’s exposed everyone rejects him.

    Like I said, now you’ve got Jimmy Dore and the Progressives finally up on it, and uniting again the way the Tea Party and Occupy were set to unite. Against? Liz Cheney, Biden, and the 100% NeoCon murdering, imprisoning, profiting cabinet he’s building.

    “The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) also reportedly released a bulletin warning that “domestic extremists” are planning a nationwide protest to stop Joe Biden from being sworn in”

    Because: FBI, this is a lie. Calling “anyone” for a “statement” would show as on the biggest/only coffeehouse for Trumpers, TheDonald.win, there are ZERO official protests for that day. Zero. Why? Because they know/believe it’s a setup. And the FBI helps prove this accusation for them.

    The FBI who was infiltrating QUAKERS in 2001 for being antiwar and arrest a new innocent man who has to embarrassingly be released each year? The same. You might know them as the ones writing MLK to go kill himself or they’ll release their (illegal unjustified) surveillance of his marital affairs. They guys who ran Whitey Bulger and released guns to the Mexican Zetas. The ones who had a meth head-run lab-for-hire that would send back any forensic results you asked. For decades. Real boy scouts.

    Remember: ZERO protests planned. They will be reported anyway. And violent. That’s interesting: by who then? CNN reporters and their hired AntiFa agitator as were just arrested yesterday?

    “Prosecutors Walk Back Story of Plot to Kill Lawmakers in Capitol Riot (JTN)”

    More boy scouts. Listen: if ANYONE planned to overrun you, they would have done it. You wouldn’t have stopped them. It’s hilarious and embarrassing that you think you could. Okay: 1,000 capitol police vs. 250,000 protestors: Go! It didn’t’ happen because no one but CNN and an AntiFa agitator were interested. Everyone else saw the Capitol Police open the barricades, wave them in, and since it was clearly open, toured the atrium between the velvet ropes. Now depending how you feel, that may be embarrassing in it’s own right, but clearly shows the overall intent: Incredible law-abidingness.

    “Increasing calls to refuse the Pfizer vaccine for people over 80.”

    Apparently someone noticed Science again. Don’t worry: it’ll pass.

    So….Signal is the same as WikiLeaks. Originally set up as a plausible whistleblowing platform since the press had totally discredited themselves as anything but boot-licking CIA flunkies. Wow. So surprised. Difference here is Signal likes the dough and won’t flip the switch on their funders, making it actually private.

    Don’t worry: peer to peer blockchain-ish communication is around the corner. It’s soooooo easy: if they’re not fighting it tooth and nail, it’s a scam. A trap. You know them by their enemies. Snowden…a supposedly talented ex-CIA guy, is FOR it. What does that tell you? Okay, so if he’s still mouthing for the CIA…while sitting in Russia…what’s going on?

    “ When Will the Window of Euphoria Close? (O’Rourke)”

    BTC $40,000 again and rising. From $4,000 this year.

    “America’s Biggest Owner of Farmland Is Now Bill Gates (F.)”

    You wouldn’t think he knows something about food and, I dunno, sun cycles, do you?
    Sunny
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    The Chinese own the other half, but through a warren of fronts and holding companies. They have to as they are about to starve. The U.S. is the only exporter. If they don’t take control of the U.S. by any means, they die.

    Like Snowden and Musk…and Assange…you know them by their ACTIONS. Because everything said by an adult is a lie.

    ‘In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act’. George Orwell.

    This is your best proof that Musk, Gates, Snowden, Nike, CocaCola, NBA, NFL, are not your revolutionaries. …If you hadn’t noticed that the “Resistance” the “Revolution” is being run by international corporations and corrupt monopoly billionaire oligarchs yet.

    in reply to: Baby Social Media #68399
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    Benton, that is very smart. And I am also very sorry to have come to this realization simply by not denying obvious conclusions.

    “If it’s three times, it’s enemy action.”

    It is not a pleasant world to know, and there are not that many allies in it. However, the truth is the truth, “Though the heavens fall.” The truth is God’s truth, and I would know it.

    On the upside, it looks not nearly as unpopulated on this side as it used to be. They’ve reached a point where there’s no other explanation.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 15 2021 #68369
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    CNN/WaPo/Time/NYT reporter today

    “I believe Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses on January 6 and should be removed from office and barred from ever seeking public office again….I realize that I am treading on legal grounds, and that I am not a lawyer.

    “…we’re going to walk down to the Capitol and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.”
    Trump later followed that up by saying, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

    Some have argued that Trump knew full well he was riling his followers up and that he cannot claim he was unaware of what they might do. But it is difficult to ignore the fact that his speech contained no explicit calls for violence and two explicit exhortations for the crowd to engage in peaceful protest.”

    “It took Trump 30 minutes…[to say] “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement,”
    And what is five minutes later: “Trump posted a slightly more forceful tweet. “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful,” he wrote. “No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order — Respect the Law… “We have to have peace. So, go home,”

    Uh-huh. Says CNN / Time / WaPo / NYTimes themselves.

    Babylon Bee, nation’s most trustworthy news source: ” ‘Let’s All Remain Peaceful,’ Says Trump In Clear Incitement To Violence”

    https://babylonbee.com/news/lets-all-remain-peaceful-says-trump-in-clear-incitement-to-violence/

    Since logic and reason died, they’ve been indistinguishable for years, but this is a good day.
    Gee…you think anyone out in AmericaLand noticed a bit? A guy who was 5,000 rows back and went back to his hotel and is now being investigated? A credentialed Congressional Reporter who was filming the rotunda is being doxed and arrested for…journalism, apparently.

    Keep it up. I love winning.

    Ollie
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    This is what happens when reason is dead: your strategy don’t do so well.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 15 2021 #68357
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    Salvador Dalí still living life in 1956

    “Blinken chosen for the job”

    Winkin’, Blinken, and Nod: the new Presidential Law Firm.

    Think

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 14 2021 #68313
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    As predicted. 1st Day of the 1st one and the first talks:

    2nd
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    “But what about SECOND Impeachment?” “I don’t think he cares about second impeachment, Pip.” Hahahahahaha. I don’t know about you, but we’re all having a great time.

    And because, logic is dead, at the same time reporters say “You don’t just shrug this off” NBC reports: “You just shrug this off.”

    “He unknowingly had Covid-19. Now his blood contains rare antibodies.”
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/he-unknowingly-had-covid-19-now-his-blood-contains-rare-n1254232

    Yes, with your family, you CAN shrug it off. OR you can get injured. Which is why you need to prioritize high health, get outside, go to the gym: love, laugh, be happy. Oh wait, all outlawed. And use HCQ, and Ivermectin. Also outlawed. …Total coincidence, of course. And it’s not like the lockdown states are all worse than the free states…what’s that? They all are? But in any case, we’re all going to keep getting it, this is admitted, today in an article by Merck, so no point in any lockdown, economy, division, and there never was.

    As said the 1st day. “But what about SECOND lockdown?” “I don’t think the people care about second lockdown, Pip.”

    “Trump was blamed for the siege of the US Capitol “ There was a siege? When? Can you show me the pictures? “I don’t think that word mean what you think it mean.”

    “A siege is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or a well-prepared assault. This derives from Latin: sedere, lit. ‘to sit’. Siege warfare is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characterized by one party holding a strong, static, defensive position.”

    But “We create our own reality now” and all the definitions made up as-we-go, right Merriam-Webster? When you’re on the side of Karl Rove, you’re on the side of the angels for sure.

    “If You Voted For Trump, You’re With The Klan, The Nazis, & The Rioters” AntiFa. Logic. Got it.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 14 2021 #68308
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    Added to the long posts yesterday.

    So much wrong with Hudson, I’ll spare you. It’s like every sentence. But it’s easy to tell when his conclusion is “Moderates and Centrists = violent terrorizing extremists” A ≠ A

    Also even in his own sentences, as all logic on earth seems to be suspended, he says, “government is necessary and critical to fix this / Government is the cause of all these things breaking.”

    Pick one. I have to pick one: so do you. I pick that only government has the guns to enforce monopolies, and once you have government power large enough to do this, it’s guaranteed that the wealthy will hijack and direct government to make 100% monopolies and 0% competition. Competition. Bankruptcy. You know: Capitalism. His answer: more government. Because of course the rich don’t now / never will control government to get even more as we spiral into a complete merger of corporation-and-state authoritarianism we see in the last 24 hours. Nope! Not like that at all. I’m seeing things.

    It’s just too much to get into.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 13 2021 #68307
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    The good Docktor is not Mr. Kennedy. Promise.

    Titor is a lot more than that: he predicted the Space Shuttle exploding, and the nation splitting over a he/she Presidential rivalry that went on years and was never solved. Suppose he was real: his job was to tell them as he implied that the original decay came over Y2K (economic) collapse. The rest of his civil war /nuclear strike just followed on as the stresses surfaced.

    But who has his vaunted IBM model? Who was aware that the cross-platform ability in that wildly-obsolete model was really true? Like 10 people alive on the planet? Who was his uncle he was looking for? Suppose he told…shooting sparks here…Alan Greenspan at the Fed. For once in their life (as Stevie Wonder would say) just ONCE, ever, the government ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING, ahead of time, spearheaded by Greenspan, printed money and swapped out all the computers. Almost as if their life depended on it. The money + the sales created the biggest bubble in history to that time, the NASDAQ pop.

    So what happens? Were the stresses solved? Were 40 years of engineering a civil/race war reversed? Of course not: it bought time. And lowered severity. We had the Tech pop, then the real estate bubble, then the GFC, and then, delaying one cycle, the He/She presidency. The first that could be called that. And here we are.

    Okay, now go back and replace “John Titor” with “We created the first quantum supercomputer in the 90’s in military intel and asked it to predict the future of the U.S.” and “What we found was so important, so fatal, so grave — but being the future also so abstract and prophet-like — that we didn’t dare leave it at the bottom of a locked cabinet, but needed the people of the U.S. to know and be warned, so we created some implausible backstory, complete with tech-insider-only details, to get it out there and get people prepared and preparing.”

    Sound a little more interesting now? Especially as exactly what you might expect has actually happened? You can read all his posts yourself: they’re archived in several places.

    “Q is for quantum, that’s good enough for me.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 13 2021 #68236
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    “politically-motivated analysis by the CDC that models more than 100 million Americans already possessing Covid antibodies”

    Let me get this correct: you think the virus has been here a year, has been completely unrestrained by all actions in that time, yet nobody in the U.S. has had it?

    Would you like to support that claim with anything besides drooling fantasies? Unlike your side, I’m listening. P.S. you’ve be DEAD WRONG about everything, every day for 365 days in a row. No impact. No brain, no pain, as they say.

    “You don’t ignore Covid. You don’t just brush it off.”

    Yes. Yes you do. Look: you can’t just make #$%& up. You have to actually support them. They have to be true.

    Hey! Remember that “Diamond Princess” thingie? That was March, 270 days ago. Remember how, crammed indoors with no protection whatsoever, ALMOST ALL passengers didn’t “Get” the disease, didn’t even show symptoms? Husbands and wives, +70y.o. One would die the other would be symptomless. Sounds like they “brushed it off” at least medically.
    YOU ARE LYING. L Y I N G . L Y I N G. And you know it, or in the long tradition of American bulls—t you just don’t care the slightest if what you’re saying is true or false. “We create reality now…” Yeah, in your own minds.

    With a long, long, embarrassing, unending, continuing list of failure and bare-faced lies, this is one of the few things we are absolutely, positively CERTAIN of is that some people “brush it off.” +90% of people, in fact. The problem is which ones and why, not IF.

    “Otherwise, you are going to be wasting one-third of your precious supply of vaccines on people who don’t need it.”

    Hahahaha you’re so funny. With a 0.54% increase in life from the vaccine, it’s not doing much. What the vaccine is for is to SELL VACCINE. It’s not a waste. It’s a forced-taxpayer transfer FROM the poor, TO the rich pharmaceutical executives and stockholders. If only they could waste more, like Cuomo arranged for, they’d get ever-so much richer.

    Is this guy a reporter? Who gave him a brain transfusion that removed all his suspicion and cynicism? Drink some whiskey or something, cupcake.

    “China Sees Growing COVID-19 Threat as More Cities Locked Down (R.)”

    But, but China doesn’t have any cases! China said so! And all reporters always believe everything China prints.

    Ron Paul Criticized Social Media Censorship Before Being Blocked (Turley)”

    While long, the title says it all here: “Attempts To Censor Conservatives FAILED, Deplatforming Failed, the Underground Network is Growing”

    “Underground”. Hahahahaha! For Yale graduates writing from Brooklyn who can barely use a keyboard, maybe. “Gee, I went on App Store and downloaded this app, I clicked this completely public and widely-advertised website, I guess I’m a Dark Net hack3r now.” No. Moving to Gab is not “Underground.” For the love of Christ and all things holy, JesusMaryJoseph and all the saints, cut the hyperventilating rhetoric, you look such the fool I’m embarrassed for you.

    No. Twitter has killed THEMSELVES. They now have no Influence to peddle, aka “sell.” They are now useless as a platform, and will be shunned by all the young, cool, edgy kids who want to make a bit of hooligan pranks as young people should / I approve this message. That is, the Democrats are now the lemon-sucking church ladies. “Could it be…hmmmmm…RACISM???”
    Santa
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    And the Libertarians are the cool, funny, edgy jacket-wearing rebels to look up to. My god it’s so embarrassing. Apparently these Yale-failing, jet-setting globalists have never met an “American” before, which is easy to believe.

    Americans exist to rebel. They live make/get into trouble. Not to wear helmets and suck lemons. That’s why they DGAF about Covid, and think people who do are whiny weaklings. NOT that they won’t die of it, although clearly their approach has been proven medically, socially, and legally correct, it’s that THEY DON’T CARE if they die of it. Because they don’t live life hiding in a basement filled with anxiety. BUT YOU DO. That’s why you’re contemptible. Show some manhood, some spirit, some virtue. Fill your lungs with bravery for “today is a good day to die.”

    Hiding like a rat will not save you. Selling your soul, your nation down the river has done what so far? N O T H I N G. Texas is doing better, safer, richer, more full of life and love than New York. So you want to be China now? Slave-running, organ harvesting, billionaire-abducting totalitarian panopolic fascists? Apparently yes. China is indeed their greatest love, joy, and goal to being.

    Ooooooooooor, you could choose “Life” “Liberty” and … safety? Isn’t there a quote by a certain Benjamin about this? And the people who deserve safety?

    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.” Which I can attest.

    Be a man. Stop cowering. It won’t help. There is no end. The purpose of Power is Power. They’re coming for you. You’re Next if you’re not already.
    Next!
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    Israel Isn’t A Democracy, It’s An ‘Apartheid Regime’ – Rights Group (CNN)”
    Interesting CNN and the boyz want to report this while PBS says,
    “Kids who are growing up, know nothing but Trump, for four years, you’ve got to wonder what they’re (Trump supporting children) going to be like, ” Beller told the undercover journalist. “They’ll (Trump supporters) be raising a generation of intolerant, horrible people – horrible kids.” Beller suggests removing the children from parents who supported Trump and then sending them to enlightenment camps.

    He’s not unique, I’ve been hearing this for 30-40 years and watched it happen for real all the time.

    So the ‘Apartheid Regime’ is who? The untermensch are which hat-wearers? Who supports such actions in our society? Who divides, defines people by race, not by individuality? And which side is opposed to all science when they define and divide by race? Don’t do that. It’s not smart. Why is it not smart? Because “You’re Next”. Bernie Bros were just purged off WalkAway, Jimmy Dore and every Progressive is next. Just as he warned them for 5 years running.

    “Upbeat Xi Says “Time And Situation On China’s Side” (ZH)”

    I bet he’s super upbeat. He’s about to turn the United States into an African colony. He thinks. And here he thought his 1B people were about to freeze and starve if he didn’t. I feel for his situation but besides selling grain exports, can’t help.

    “Top Scientists: ‘Ghastly Future of Mass Extinction’, Climate Disruption (G.)

    The top scientists whose every prediction has been wrong for 30 50 years (can’t forget about that Ice Age!)? Yeah, sure, this one time they’re right. Because being wrong 50 years in a row doesn’t mean anything. No one’s fired. There are no consequences. Cause and effect have been suspended forever. That’s Science! Physics now means when I have a hypothesis and it’s disproven by running evidence for 50 years, it’s correct!

    They are going to have jet-setting conferences on Ibiza and $500 salads flown in from New Zealand until this stops! Since I recently bought 5 more mansions on the beach, obviously I’m concerned!

    Since their words won’t discredit them for you, do their actions? Use your head.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 12 2021 #68201
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    “The gun-wielding factions will grow…Right and Left” That is a pretty smart statement. No telling which is better or worse either. I guess I’d prefer people who have experience with both firearms and violence. Like the old Bouncers it makes you reserved and restrained. Counterintuitive, which is what we see with hillbillies right now.

    I don’t know the Reardon reference. He is the revolutionary industrialist in “Atlas Shrugged”.

    Yes, you can’t delete Facebook. The internet is forever. Welcome to the Hotel California. That always says “we’re good people and never up to something” when they refuse all honest appeals from their customers and vendors. But Facebook is dead anyway, only used by grandmas arranging church dinners now. Twitter is following them now.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 12 2021 #68191
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    It’s spreading? But like all the others, it doesn’t kill anyone?

    I HAVE a pinky finger. If you test, most people do. But if it doesn’t cause health issues, it doesn’t matter how many “have” it.

    Here’s one for you, since that depends on the 90-wrong PCR test:

    PCR [test] Inventor Kary Mullis Talks About Anthony Fauci — “He doesn’t know anything really about anything” DB

    He has specifically said you cannot amplify his test +30x or you’ll get only false positives. He’s even said you cannot use his test for diagnosis at all. …Specifically, by the time his test is accurate, you already have body symptoms you can see and hear with a stethoscope.

    Election day +1, as predicted:
    “Cuomo Reverses: Demands “Reopen the Economy” Amid Dismal NYC Vaccine Rollout
    Stringer’s complaints follow reports of hospitals in the city being forced to throw away doses of the vaccine.

    Because, Science!™ We follow the Science! Only the Science! Which is why Cuomo said it was a ridiculous non-starter to shut New York for a 99.97% safe virus, when a 1% increase in unemployment kills 40,000 people. …Until suddenly that wasn’t true, an election started, and he did.

    …Now it’s suddenly not true, and he doesn’t. And he’s opening because he CAN’T get the vaccine – Connecticut has deployed more, a state 1/10th the size – not because they HAVE the vaccine.

    ScienceScienceScience! FailFailFailFail.

    Speaking of New York:

    “A Nursing Home Had Zero COVID Deaths. Then, It Vaccinates Residents and The Deaths Begin
    Things seem to be working backwards at The Commons on St. Anthony nursing home in Auburn, New York…

    And Science! Herd immunity – caused by vaccines, or caused naturally, doesn’t mean we are somehow immune and it’s over.

    ….Except that’s EXACTLY what that word means, by the very definition. …Unless you’re the WHO.

    “WHO Warns Herd Immunity Won’t Bring World “Back to Normal” Quickly”
    In the US, Texas, California, Florida and New York have received the largest number of vaccines, while seeing the slowest turnaround.

    This could in fact be true since it’s not a “vaccine” in any sense of the word. It is not the debilitated virus, and it does NOT prevent you from getting it…it only reduces the severity. Maybe. With side effects. Like “Death”.

    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
    “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
    “The question is: which is to be master—that’s all.”

    TAE
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    Again, Science!™ We never knew ya! Ever. Science-free zone.

    NO IT CANNOT. THIS CHART IS FALSE.

    A virus must rise, THEN RUNS OUT OF HOSTS. And dies. Duh. It starts, rises vertically, then plateaus. If you’ve looked at any other R0 chart at any time once in the whole last year. So if this is not a completely different virus, then it will NOT rise. We are at herd immunity already.

    If it’s a different virus, it is not COVID. Duh. A = A A ≠ B

    What is even the point when no logic is engaged?

    “An Epidemic of COVID Positive Tests (John Hunt)”

    At least this is true, but they’re going to get away with their Trillion$$$ total lack of $$cience$$. As they reduce the PCR test, they will “prove” their unworking vaccine “works”. As predicted. And get all the money and applause. By the people they terrorized. All medical officials show total lack of medicine, total lack of science, and don’t notice, approve, let them do it again. Doctors applaud, and want my honor and support. Trolls like me are not supposed to be better at medicine, better at medical predictions than they are.

    Coach
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    “French Government “Shocked” at Twitter Banning of Trump (SN)”

    I am SHOCKED there is gambling going on this is casino. If anybody’s going to censor you, it should be EU/France.

    “Twitter Has Suspended More Than 70,000 Accounts Since Friday (ZH)

    Anyone setting up a better alternative will be crushed.

    Only by closing the internet. Good luck. You’ve only alarmed the herd. The herd has circled and moved to safety, horns down. No more cattle-chute for harvest. No propaganda, no fake news, no “framing”, no credit cards, no sales, no money.

    “The Big Tech Backfire (Miller)”

    Exactly. We won. They lost. They lost hearts, minds, and eyeballs. Oh and money, if that has any meaning anymore.

    “We Need a New Media System (Taibbi)”

    Taibbi rediscovers journalism. Genius. And why we aren’t biased. Or said correctly, why journalists shouldn’t LIE LIE LIE.

    Of course no one gets to objectivity, but if you TRY, rather than trying the opposite, you might get closer. When he says “reader-based journalism” he means LYING. You tell the users what is TRUE, not what they want to hear. Of course. This is too complicated for Yale, sipping lattes in Brooklyn.

    “50 Countries Commit to Protection Of 30% of Earth’s Land and Oceans (G.)”

    The countries that have paved, pesticided, and harvest everything are going to NOT pave, pesticide, and harvest everything. While they’re leveling mountains and whole nations for their super-green rare earth lithiums. They’re going to have 0% GDP instead. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

    “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” Elon Musk

    But logic is dead. People eat it up.

    “Economic Failures of the IPCC Process (Steve Keen)”

    Ya don’t say. It was only and always a money transfer. TO the rich. FROM the poor. But also from the “rich” countries like the U.S. (ha ha, not really) TO the new pirate ship we’re hijacking, Chinese/Indian banks and oligarchs. TO the replacement monetary system written by Technocrats since the 30’s: BTU/CarbonCredits, with all the back-room printing and hypothecation by mega-banks therein. So that those countries will lose all human rights and incidentally all environmentalism and protection, and be brought to heel under neofeudalism.

    So easy a cave man can do it. Because even accused, even said, even admitted, even proven by their own actions, no one will believe it. They LIKE anti-environmentalism, they LIKE poverty, they LIKE death, they LIKE the end of all human rights. If they don’t love it, why is it so hard to say no? Call a spade. Name a rose.

    “They never considered the need to quickly develop accurate cheap tests to self-determine if one is infectious”

    Huh. Why not? Any cave man saw that the first day. They didn’t. You’re fired. Or did you not do it because you made a few billion dollars and advanced all your medical/personal/political agendas-on-tap? In which case: you’re fired.

    But again, why would you test? California is locked down and has the same rate as Texas which is open. New York is 3x worse than Florida, which is doing nothing. If anything, “Science!™” is saying lockdowns CAUSE Covid. A new study appears each day saying masks don’t work. In fact, the Nov 11 NEJM study showed the Army forcing cadets to follow all rules with absolute strictness, and it didn’t work.

    …Like I said in February. “It’s de-facto aerosol, x hour life on touched objects? Yeah, you’re not going to stop it. That requires space suits forever and it isn’t going to happen.” CDC says >1% in the population, cannot be stopped. Guess what?

    But no scientist, NO doctor, is following any of the Science. So why bother? Their only goal is neofeudalism and the end to all human rights, which they’re succeeding at handily. Good show old chap!

    “Only restoration of government by and for the people can fix this.”

    This is why they just lost. The insurrection was a sham, the opposition is peaceful, their shrill panic over the public placidly touring the rotunda is embarrassing: they have lost all credibility and moral standing. They are a joke to us. The more they scream the funnier it is. They have been trying to get the armed, violent, ignorant hillbillies to shoot back since the 90s: they won’t. They’ve done everything, droned, tanked, lit children on fire, shot a mother with her infant in arms. They are the church people, not the violent ones. Without that, their plan, their response won’t work. Ooops.

    So look for more of embarrassing, made-up panic next week at new protests most won’t go to as the USSR continues their totally predicted, totally foreseeable collapse.

    You see, this is why it doesn’t matter and would even be hilarious for Joe to take the Presidency. So he sits down, the economy crashes, 75 million people ignore him and refuse to take orders, 10 million more urban liberals, gay, trans, brown, hairdressers are all furious over being de-platformed, and Jimmy Dore is chewed their leg up to the knee with a new “People’s Party” having been completely outed as AGAINST $2,000, AGAINST Medicare-for-All, FOR every war and Corporation, and AGAINST every Progressive in the Party. Remember, Brexit won when their party was only 6 weeks old.

    I’ll watch. It’ll be amazing. Entertaining. A show for the ages. There are no winning moves from here. They lost.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 11 2021 #68142
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Just a pitiful outburst that was quickly dispersed.”

    Rhetoric, rhetoric, rhetoric. It wasn’t MEANT to be a coup. As the reporter themself says. So if it’s NOT a coup, and the capitol police opened the gates and waved them inside as we see on tape, how is politely touring the Capitol between the velvet ropes a “Pitful outburst”? Glad they’re not the tourism board for D.C.!

    “See the Washington Monument? You’re pathetic!” “You didn’t ‘go home’ after your vacation, you loser: you dispersed! Guess we showed you!” et cetera, ad nauseum.

    Framing, rhetoric. Or more accurately: bare-faced lies. Total lack of reason and logic, since as I said, the reporter themselves ADMITS this interpretation makes no sense. …They just attribute the illogical-ness to the supporters, not to their own ego and mind. There are two parts to a mirror. Stop. Breathe. Look.

    “Steve Bannon was nuked from YouTube.”

    Rhetoric. Who benefits from that? Are you, reporter, incapable of seeing the result? The very next move? Ooooooh, I can’t text on ONE WHOLE PLATFORM. My life is over. I guess I stop existing now.

    …Oh by the way, you just proved that the collection of conspiracy-addled violent loons were totally correct. To the 5 million urban, gay, trans, progressive, democrats you just erased over at Facebook Walk Away. So…those boys are now headed Left? Or Right?

    I’m sorry, WHO did you just nuke? Because it looks self-inflicted.

    Twitter, the avowed winner here, has lost millions of customers overnight. Their stock is collapsing. Dorsey sure showed them, boy howdy! It’ll only be a matter of time that their influence/propaganda is controlling…no one at all. Because no one is there anymore.

    …Aaaand so on through every sentence making less coherence, mental integration, than the last. You know what we call that? Integrity. It’s related to Principle. If you are without “Integration” you lack “Principles”, morality. Logic. Logos.

    But I’m having the greatest time watchin’! Oh noes! Don’t do that, Bri’er Bear! Oh no, not the proof that you are unprincipled, anti-free-speech scoundrels only out for yourselves and will happily erase half the nation.

    https://preview.redd.it/as313a431ps51.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=0abd1d9b41a1b7af1f578fa6324ee6ba10e924e7DontStop
    Don’t. Stop.

    Pense
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    TheCapn

    Man, I love winning.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 10 2021 #68066
    Dr. D
    Participant

    em>“Rapid testing to find symptomless carriers of Covid-19 is to be launched in England this week.”

    The minute of the hour is even or odd: do symptomless cases infect others, or so I have to wait 60 seconds? Don’t worry: if I wait another minute, Fauci will claim that they do again.

    The real reason is to a) sell tests b) sell fear c) get everyone under house arrest during a violent and inevitable economic reset / debt / oil collapse.

    …If some how, some way, that wasn’t blindingly, embarrassingly obvious to everyone.

    Why would they need to know? No one’s getting sick. They can’t even tell. Symptomless people are inert. According to officials, they also have no therapy and no cure and the vaccine won’t stop it or protect you. This isn’t Herr Docktor saying this, it’s their own press releases. So, even if it killed you in an hour, why would you need to know?

    “ The American Empire Has Fallen, Though Washington May Not Know It Yet (Malic)”

    If that’s the case, “America First”, the nationalists who are trying to get the U.S. to survive, have won against the Empire-ists, the “Internationalists” or better known as the “Globalists.” Yeah, I know. Pretty sure that’s true, so one mega-victory already.

    The vision of the US as a shining city on a hill …. was “always an illusion”

    It wasn’t an illusion. It BECAME an illusion after 300 gol-durned years. It may even still be true. The LEVEL OF RHETORIC these days. My GOD! Look, a guy in a fur hat, escorted in by capitol police, taking a selfie, is not a “coup” or “insurrection” that we “Purge” (ABC) all men who ever joined any bowling club he was in. Even placid Tim Pool has been taken up by this: “The one side only wants the complete death and erasure of the other, they only want to win, and the law to be used to WIN against the other.” (paraphrase). No they don’t! That’s just a lie. Conservatives and Libertarians want to BE LEFT ALONE, and bright blue gay couples in Connecticut can do whatever it is Prius-driving people do. And while OF COURSE the red has no intention of wiping out anyone and never has, and are incredibly irritated they even have to get off the couch for literal self-defense of their very lives, NEITHER DO THE BLUE. You think your regular low-information (former) union democrat, the close friends of people who only just “Walked Away” all want 75 million red people shot in their front yard? Yeah, mostly, but when it comes down to it, it’s messy. It’ll lower house values. There’ll be lots of screaming. …Which they don’t care about, but IT WILL BE EMBARRASSING, and they’ll have to look at themselves and be the ones responsible for hurting others. Ultimately, if anyone acts, they would steadily lose support because Liberals don’t want to be the bad guys. They want the other guys to die in darkness, enslaved and starved somewhere else…you know, like iPhone factories and rare-earth mines in Uighur-land. But red-hat wearing people fix your car, and you’d feel bad if they shot Billy-Joe. You have to export them to concentration camps for wrong-think first.

    My point is, even at this level, it’s not going to happen. They failed. They couldn’t do it. And here EVERY DAY they are losing some more. Okay, now that everyone has been purged off Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, cant use iPhones, Google, etc. what do you think will happen? They all just died and vanished into the soil like a video game? No, they did only one thing: destroyed their business model. Half the nation is no longer on, or eligible to use, their service. Two things: it also exposed that everything every red hat has been saying since your bum uncle cornered you in 1964, is totally true.

    And then what? Well, everyone on the internet just joined Gab. And gee, I can’t pay 19% interest on my rent-to-own because you de-banked me? Who’s losing when THAT ends? I’m not allowed to live inside a propaganda machine but was chucked out the door to the Free-Speech-Tavern? Wow. Stop. Not the briar patch.
    Dont

    This is the most awesome level of winning I’ve seen so far in my life. FINALLY the truth about these guys. Finally when you say “they are trying to kill you” people don’t claim not to see it. It already happened to them. And what’s more, they have now been clearly poked, they know from where, and are motivated and annoyed. They are also not alone.

    Back with the Weathermen, Bill Ayers said yes, they’d have to kill maybe 30M Americans. It’s on record, HereLetMeGoogleThatForYou.com But…communists, so funny! You break a few eggs, you make an omlete, it’s all in good fun, let me protege the next President for you and we’ll call it even.

    Now, you know, as a communist, I know he’s never done a day’s work in his life, but murdering and re-educating 30 MILLION Americans, SIXTY American cities, always seemed a bit unrealistic to me, even knowing that’s a low-ball number among death-by-Socialist. ESPECIALLY when they already know you’re after them. AND they’re all veterans, AND they’re well-armed. They would be the FATHERS, brothers, sisters, plumbers, pastors, co-workers, of the people doing the re-educating. But what the hey, right?

    NOW THERE ARE 80 MILLION.

    Can you tell me what on God’s green earth makes you think you can put this back in the box? A fake legal review and some more slow propaganda cooking to communize another generation was the only thing they had going. That would keep these people, half the country, thinking they lost and following the laws. That they were crazy – no one is after you! You’re just wrong, alone, you’re the only one.

    Now you had a rally of 75M people, with no sham, no fake law, no fig leaf just DO AS YOU’RE TOLD. They are already and clearly being purged. They have extensive online presence, election-calling-lists, levels of hypocrisy heretofore-considered-impossible, and what? They all just fade into the floorboards like a video game?

    IF the election was rigged (it was) then use your head: we saw votes vanish, so let’s call 75M the minimum. Biden claims to be more popular than Jesus Christ, but if he got 80M votes, then 105% of all registered Americans voted. But let’s suppose generously, that a guy who can’t fill a high school cafeteria got an average vote. That a guy who the Left hates with passion of the ages, and that is completely uninspiring to the entire DNC base who couldn’t get him in the top third in Iowa is merely “average”. Try not to laugh, please. Mitt Romney had 61M votes. And I’d bet it’s 80M : 50M. Here’s the problem: “I’m not locked in here with YOU, you’re locked in here with ME.”

    So the MINORITY of the U.S. is going to purge and erase the well-armed, well-informed, well-placed MAJORITY? Who do these people think they are? Twitter is going to defeat us? The U.S. ARMY has lost every war game against the people since they (sadly) started doing war games against their own citizens. But – let me get this straight – ABC, Facebook, and Twitter are going to defeat us? It’s over.

    Come on, where’s your head at? It’s just getting’ started. You only JUST woke the sleeping giant and he’s ONLY just thowing cheeto-dust at you. You forget the last time we got off the couch, we nuked two cities. For no good reason. Before that, we leveled every city from Memphis to Savannah — our OWN cities — and were only getting warmed up. I mean, we destroyed every vertical object in Afghanistan and Libya just for target practice.

    But Jack Dorsey and limp-wristed Lindsey Graham think it’s all over now.

    Okay then. It’s a free country. You do you. Hope your plan works out for you.

    So…just asking… if it’s over WHY are they purging 60% of the country? Why does Pelosi need to call the Pentagon and beg for a coup? According to them, they’re going to just walk in and take it all in just ten days. Is she just that impatient? Can’t wait to get Pogroms started?

    “[They] are outgunned. Outmanned. Outnumbered. Outplanned.

    We gotta make an all out stand.
    But the elephant is in the room

    The truth is in ya face when the cannons go BOOM”

    Moving on: “Remember the ‘Deep State’ that was supposedly a Trumpian conspiracy theory? Yet its existence was confirmed”

    Yes, and the whole nation saw it. Right AND Left, with no $2k and Force the Vote. The only thing cockroaches has going was that they were in the dark. Now they’re all in the light, and all in one place: D.C. Getting rid of them is easy as falling off a log.

    political and ideological polarization fueled by social media platforms”

    Yes, polarization of US against THEM. That is, the people, Social Democrats, Progressives, Workers, PLUS all 80M on the right, AGAINST D.C. Against Facebook. Against Jack Dorsey. Insiders vs Outsiders. “You’re locked in here with me.” Where you gonna go Lindsey Graham, Mr. Romney? You can’t even walk down the street or take a plane now. What good is your money now? Will it protect you? Did it help Jack Ma? Pelosi knows. That’s why she just demanded the U.S. Military obey and save her.

    So you think after every flag officer read the DNI report that 80 million well-armed people were openly disenfranchised, that MI6 ran it, that Italy coordinated it, that Switzerland banked it, the U.S. Military is going to just hand the country over to a guy who took a BILLION dollars from China? A bold prediction: I hope it works out.

    It’s over indeed: We won. They lost. All we have now is time.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 10 2021 #68065
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes, and if they had the slightest inclination toward health, they would have done something. They do not. They did not.
    Did they remove these excess administrators to get funds for Covid? No. I thought that’s why they closed every hospital: to consolidate and economize. If you have this many admins you may as well have a hospital in every town with 5 beds.
    Did they re-train these smart people to provide care? No.
    Did they do any pre-health, gyms, outdoor vitamin D? No. they outlawed it.
    Did they open all the hospitals they closed recently? No. They are functional, and completely empty.
    Did they pay-incentive to hire retired nurses and nurses who left because of problems 1-4? No. There is no incentive to get workers.
    Surely they got a vaccine going? No. They cannot figure out how to give a routine shot, both for problems 1-5, and also because the state made it illegal, or in NY at least.
    Then they called the National Guard, like last time, and got the Hospital Ships? No. No one bothered. No one cares.

    Gee, sounds to me like you don’t have a health problem at all. You have a political problem. And in keeping with new TAE getting back-to-roots, that’s exactly what Foss used to say: You don’t have a money crisis. You may not even have an oil problem. You have a political will problem. The bureaucracy doesn’t WANT to provide anything. They want you to die. Or what other “therefore” conclusion could you possibly draw from 1-7? They are all entirely, exclusively voluntary. They are all predictable, and all over the objections of everyone, including the dumbest, most uneducated observers. Like me.

    in reply to: The Swamp Swallowed Trump #68026
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Jah mon, it doesn’t matter what happens right now. If you’re not prepared and to eat, fight, hide, and respond right now, you’re not prepared.

    Suppose Cheeto still comes through…since NY Times just reported Nanci just asked the Pentagon to commit an open coup for her. That ain’t kosher. And suppose the little green men (with bars-n-stars) call a time out and a re-election, even with new candidates.

    You think the big baddies are just going to let it go at that? Let me answer for you: no. China, NoKo, and France will nuke us for not giving in, for getting free, for not being the blood and muscle they must have to run their empire.

    It doesn’t matter if we win OR lose. We’re in it, and no mistake.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 9 2021 #67996
    Dr. D
    Participant

    70-year is often called Kondrietieff, they are all the same cycles. There would be 4 Generations, or Turnings in a Kondrietieff. War, post-war, rebel-visionary, end. Greatest, Silent, Boomer, X, and Millennials are or would normally be fighting the next war. …They stretched it slightly perhaps because we coincide with a 200-year mega-cycle end here, perhaps longer lifespans now to forget WHY we save and WHY we don’t glee and scree for war and hate.

    If Armstrong is right, this is most probably the human syncronization with a sun cycle. THat is, back when the sun’s heartbeat led to bad weather and crops…as now…and that leads to war and depopulation, and that leads to the children of that war to have a certain outlook…while the weather improves and creates property, until and almost imperceptible change reduces crops again. Like Rome (no sun volcanos) or 1789 (failed crops and starvation). That heartbeat might change slowly so it’s now 80 years, or we may grow and frack so much oil we can buy time and not be tied to the crops now. …But the essence so far goes on uninterrupted.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory

    And speaking of interrupted, I REALLY have to go get some work done and make my own solutions now or I won’t eat either.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 9 2021 #67994
    Dr. D
    Participant

    The REALLY, REALLY GREAT REBALANCING… ..sort of…I guess…..

    Is so complicated I’d have to write a book on it. But I spare you. I agree with all the major points. Adding point: The U.S. is either going to be taken over as a Chinese colony (process underway now) OR they’re going to default on all Chinese promises. (And cause a war) Because we ain’t payin’ to be no Chinese slave-harvesting colony. Not EVEN if they sell us out. There’s still too many guns and we’ll level the place first if they won’t, and STILL they won’t get the money from a leveled, hollowed-out, hostile, non-food-exporting nation. But your choice: clearly everyone on every coast, all of Harvard, K-Street and South Manhattan is in favor of it.

    PS, this is following the same event from Saudi in 1980, when they could buy a new U.S. aircraft carrier…every DAY…with the paper-printed money we were trade-deficiting to them. And yes, they back-infiltrated us to some extent and back-colonized the globe with Saudi wahhabists. But THEY, are all the same club. Saudi, CIA, Mossad, Lockheed, London, Chinese funds, all have interlocking self-interests. AGAINST YOU. You make the money, they take the money. They have complete freedom from any laws and norms, you are nuzzled and imprisoned for merely being alive. So why do you go help them?

    Other notes: BTC is a larger market than Yuan, according to his number.

    “The primary tool the CPC will be deploying to accelerate the Global print-a-thon as described in my January discussion of the “Stealth Nationalization of America’s Banks….” is the “Pump and Dump” cycle. In a nutshell, because the Chinese Communist Party has reached disguised critical mass on their foreign financial asset holdings, they are fully capable of, along with their plugged-in Western “helpers” of starting and stopping these passive/algo driven buy and sell cycles. Every one of these cycles is worth hundreds of billions of US Dollars depending on the depth of the cycle from peak to trough. Could you imagine how much money you could make if you were a plugged-in-to-China investor and could time, with certainty, the peaks and valleys of these Pump & Pump cycles? We’ve seen a couple of test cycles so far (December 2018, February & March of 2020, October 2020, etc.) Here’s the pro-forma illustration”

    Tesla:

    “That’s right a $10 Billion “pump” in 15 minutes, first thing Tuesday morning followed by a $10 Billion “dump” the first thing Wednesday morning on “no news”. If we had any doubt in the integrity of the markets we might just assume that:

    1.) An entity or entities (I believe this is Chinese directed activity, although impossible to prove) took a run at chasing the shorts out of the stock, and it apparently worked even better than they could have imagined.
    2.) This was a test of what the impact that volume spikes might have on the movement of passive/algo money. How big does the trigger have to be? How long does the response take? What sort of offset/bounce back can they expect.

    That said, I’d expect, if my assessment is correct, we will be seeing more cycles like this with increasing frequency and amplitude.”

    …Until China shakes the machine apart and into pieces, leaving us in ruins.

    “Ray’s very general, one sentence, recommendation, is that Central Banks MUST continue to provide liquidity and support Western asset prices through the entire cycle to avoid a cataclysmic global depression. In short, Ray’s advice would seem to be to do exactly what the Chinese Communist Party would want the West to do.”

    That is, we fuel our own destruction. …And those Lockheed, K-Street, Harvard Manhattanites know it and play along, joyfully throwing bourbon (and live deplorables) on the fire.

    because of the size of the economic power shift, this transfer of wealth and power from the West to the the Chinese Communist Party will likely be permanent and irreversible. The second difference is that they will have accomplished this transfer of wealth and power by using our own systems against us. They will have lied, cheated and stolen their way to global dominance.”

    Ah, just like we did when we were but a wee laddie. Like all nations do, or would given a chance.

    So…hey peoples! Who are we at war with? Deplorables, right?

    Who is going to ruin you, level Detroit, far more effectively than all the nuclear bombs in the world? (Just as Ayn Rand predicted in 1953)

    And if they are in the system, shaking it apart, how do you respond?

    A: by leaving it and going to another system. Non-bank, non-dollar.

    “F-MAGA-BUTT Stocks (Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Baba, Uber, Tesla and Tencent).
    $9.4 Trillion, or the equivalent of roughly 25% of… all US Stocks, is tied up in these 9 tech stocks. The P/E of these stocks is a remarkable 46, or the stock price represents 46 years of the current earnings”

    These are the stocks you most want to avoid. Stay out of your BUTT.

    As I described above, we Westerners have been in a war for quite some time, yet we haven’t believed, understood, acknowledged, accepted or done anything about it. We’ve let the burglars in the house thinking they were our friends, endorsed by the “helpers”, yet we continue to rationalize different theories about how the silverware and jewelry might have gone missing. We wonder why our family members have been bound, gagged and locked in the closet as the Chinese are loading our furniture into the moving van. We can’t believe that this could possibly be happening. We had thought that we had reformed the criminals and that they were becoming honest, Westernized, helpful global citizens. When we politely ask the Chinese about these indiscretions, they deny that they’ve had anything to do with anything, and insist that even if they did, that we can’t possibly prove it. Delay, Deny and Defend….right out of the McKinsey playbook.”

    Nah. We Anglos intend to double-cross them and always have. Anglos are as anglos ever have been. There isn’t a single anglo treaty ever signed they haven’t broken. And China knows it. HW Bush sold them this crap for God’s sake! Surely they absolutely knew. However, they need somebody to take the blame for it. And I believe they wanted China to destroy the U.S., or rather its Constitution and all Human Rights first. …But Chinavirus beat them to it. We handed it over and didn’t even get the sniffles. #Winning! We don’t need no Freedom of Speech, Assembly, Religion, Self-defense, Warrants, Trials, or limitations! We are EGO. We want ALL, to Infinity and Beyond!

    Applause all ‘round. How DARE you speak the words “Human Rights”. If if ONE life is saved, isn’t it worth it to destroy all human rights forever? And kill 40,000 people with every 1% increase in unemployment?

    My thought is the Amish. They bank, borrow, lend, work, with themselves, in the (local) community. You will too, or die.

    No more selling out Joe, killing his kids, causing his divorce, letting his house collapse because you trampled him in the race to get a Wal-Mart that would annihilate his business, his family, his living, while HE paid business taxes that were HANDED to WalMart as an INCENTIVE to run him…and all employment in town…out of business. ..Before WalMart Company Store™ jacked prices and left a hollow building where food once grew. Cause if you’re a red hat…or it’s Tuesday, because you don’t speak Mandarin/Harvardese…you can’t buy groceries. Go die in a hole, you f’er. You’re off Twitter. You’re off Facebook, You’re off MasterCard. While IF you shop with your own people, and community, and neighbors, and chat in person not on Facebook, they can’t touch you. You are now a State-shifting power bloc, even the Governor has to tread lightly.

    And you WILL do this. Or you WILL die. Because all Leftists, from Jimmy Dore to Assange are in the same crosshairs. It’s just a matter of how much longer you want to kill all your neighbor’s children to get 20c off that can of (GMO, diabetes-causing) beans.

    Now you should have done that before, but they were Boomers, and the ME generation, who had ALREADY sacrificed all their latchkey children to be raised by wolves and solitary confinement, and ALREADY sold out their nation, it’s people, principles, and ecology for a sack of beads smaller than any (non-Manhattan) indian ever could. The only joy in this is that their pensions are destroyed in their own old age, and their kids are too destitute to rescue them.

    …But on the downside, the rest of us all die too. Thanks Mom.

    ““A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 9 2021 #67989
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Interesting, Armstrong has let us down this time: his cycle turn was on 8Jan. Nothing visible happened.

    Rome is a huge subject, because as humans we just say “Rome” with means ten-million things over 10 centuries, and more things even today. If you were there, living it out slowly, you’d hardly notice. There’d be life, struggle, a war, peace, conquering, being conquered, the conquerors being same as the old ones, then getting conquered themselves. That’s all 70-year cycle that was probably going on even then, at least one total war or collapse per generation. Here is ours.

    Did Rome move? Maybe? Was Byzantine Rome? Sort of? It was also very different. Was Europe Rome, right up to Hadrian’s Wall? Yes. But also no. It had ground-elements as well, and was subsumed by Anglos, Vikings, and others for centuries. Are we Roman now? Clearly yes, but they wouldn’t recognize us. Can any nation founded on God and even Christ be Roman? Probably not, that’s clearly Abrahamic. They have law above the Law of Power.

    What strikes me about that period was there wasn’t one thing to do. It devolved, so first you did this, then you did that, and ultimately it depended where you wanted to be. Was sitting it out from Julius to a shepherd town of 30k in 1801 your goal? Being a shepherd in a beautiful ruin in beautiful weather don’t sound too bad. They’re still doing it today – since everything in Italy is corrupt and always has been, why not live the beautiful life? Would you rather move to the new center of “Holy Rome” in the cold mud of Germany? That’s what was hoppin’ then. Or the mists and cross-attacks of Holland and Belgium? Or England, the most backwater of all for 1,000 years? So backwater they didn’t even have pots, while camping on the palatial tile floors of Roman Villas?

    Same here, and same with “solutions.” What’s the “Solution”? Well, depends if you’re a college student or a 70-year-old ex patriot. If you’re in Belgium or in Baltimore. If you’re on a farm or in a flat. “Solutions” are crushingly local. And extremely personal. There is no interest at all in rural life or food. If I pushed that “solution” they way the cities push paving and urbanization, all the cities would shoot me. You know, as they’ve just shot all the rural folks…Lately with the total removal of health care within a hundred miles of their house, not just in America, but France and other places as well.

    Some WANT that goal, that life. Some do not. And we, the un-violent, liberty-minded, approve of that. Do your thing. But as said, “we” (meaning “they”) are so hypnotized by centralization they look to the national level to spoon porridge into their mouths rather than do it themselves. They beg Idiot, or Idiot-Box, to tell them what to do, say, think. That’s all going away now. Like Rome, they slowly will have no power, no legitimacy which is the whole basis of that power, to tell any of us what to do. But since nobody’s thought in 50 years, the people won’t know WHAT to do without fascists, centralists, the Party, the Uni-Party, ORDERING every aspect of their existence, and punishing them if they don’t.

    So in my opinion that’s why we don’t focus on solutions necessarily. Solutions are local. They are YOUR life, your problem. While centralization, even worldwide, are common to us all. We couldn’t come together for “solutions” because no solution would intersect us all, even if we had a common goal for a common life, which we don’t.

    So here we are, doing this. Although I agree, kvetching isn’t much use about the same old things. The Peak Oil aspect, which is the foundation, had more applicability, mentally and personally. While fun, it’s better to track this new thing:

    *The basis of the Peak Oil was that it existed. It seems to, or may.
    *That the financial, being psychological, would collapse first, and it generally has, and will, but we learned, being psychological, was prone to fancy and illusion heretofore unimaginable.
    *That as these devolved, as they clearly are, centralization would break down.
    *Money is the cooperation system, the means by which we can coordinate and centralize. *If money breaks down, centralization fails. With it, power, including state power, fails.
    *Money is based on trust. When trust fails, money fails, as this very minute. And vice-versa, as they are twined.
    *What to do about that is very personal. But in a world where trust is broken, you clearly will re-localize.
    *Human rights fail as people choose their money – but moreso just their previous habits – over anything else.

    As the loss of human rights instantly equals a loss of trust and cooperation, everyone buries their gold and stops working – the biggest single takeaway from Rome. That this can go on for 10,000 years until Laws exist again and are reliable, impartial again is the second lesson. We are violating both and many more, and the rich will be worthless because of it. A backwater, edge-of-the-empire, out-house-using town. “Rich” will be eating every day, and it’ll be the “Rich” who made it that way. The way being “rich” then will be worse than being “poor” now.

    That happens both fast and slow. Right now it’s moving fast. But the music can stop any time and you’ll be in a chair for half a generation again. Like ‘79 to ‘01 or ‘01 to ‘08.

    “I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day.” –Rhett Butler

    Some people, like Bezos, but also Bitcoin midgets, are making more money now than they’ve ever made before. You can be on one side or the other. You can hide, or you can sell shovels. Rhett made more money as a blockade-runner than he could have dreamed of making in peacetime. He prospered while everyone he knew was wiped out. And he told them specifically, but they wouldn’t listen.

    “Rhett: I think it’s hard winning a war with words, gentlemen.
    Charles: What do you mean, sir?
    Rhett: I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there’s not a cannon factory in the whole South.
    Man: What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman?
    Rhett: I’m afraid it’s going to make a great deal of difference to a great many gentlemen, sir.
    Charles: Are you hinting, Mr. Butler, that the Yankees can lick us?
    Rhett: No, I’m not hinting. I’m saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. They’ve got factories, shipyards, coalmines… and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us to death. All we’ve got is cotton, and slaves and… arrogance.
    To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country-the young men.”

    But you want to do this anyway, who am I to say? I can only position my own life. Books as simple as “Rich Dad” inform you, beg you, to use the obvious, common, legal means to prosper. But people will just work at Taco Bell, rent-to-own, and get divorced instead. What can I do about it? Most rich men I’ve known would be happy to tell you how to do it if only you can catch their attention with seriousness. Because ain’t nobody asking, nobody working, only complaining. Why me no rich? I watch Tik-tok all day, don’t I?

    So here you are: greatest transfer of wealth ever is happening, about to happen. They are going to burn your house and then steal YOUR money to Build Back Better. That structure is past-tense, the army was mustered, it’s standing in your yard. All you can do now is steal THEIR money ahead of them with their own rules so that they get less. Or not do that, and let them have more as you have ever-less power.

    Now if ALL of you did this, they would be essentially powerless, as the power would be extremely widespread and the income disparity wiped out. You would have leverage. But they won’t, because they are in Decadence and Dependency, and have no Faith, Courage, or Hard Work. What do you think I can do about that, any more than any Plebian?

    They printed $6T in 6 months after printing and losing $40T the previous years. If you’d bought Bitcoin at $5,000 this year, you’d have $40,000 nine months later. Would that $35,000 help with your cistern?

    How’s that for a solution today?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 7 2021 #67884
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Weaving down the American highway
    Through the litter and the wreckage, and the cultural junk
    Bloated with entitlement, bloated on propaganda
    Now we’re driving dazed and drunk

    Went down the road to Damascus, the road to Mandalay
    Met the ghost of Caesar on the Appian Way
    He said, “It’s hard to stop this binging once you get a taste
    But the road to empire is a bloody, stupid waste”

    Behold the bitten apple, the power of the tools
    But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
    And it’s a long road out of Eden” — The Eagles

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 7 2021 #67883
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Tit

    Yesterday’s Website WhiteHotHarlots.tumblr.com

    “Madness. Absolute madness.

    There’s a trend in the social justice sphere that encapsulates the self-defeating idiocy of our present moment. During official meetings meant to address or raise awareness of issues of racial justice, all the white people present are expected to call themselves racist, provide examples of their racism, and explain what they’re doing to avoid being racist in the future.

    I am not exaggerating, and this is as cult-like as it sounds: to enter into the discussion, you must start by saying “My name is Mark, and I’m a racist.”

    This is not a fringe activity. It’s a completely mainstream part of racial justice programming. A student in Nevada is suing his school after administrators threatened to deny him graduation because he refused to call himself racist. A quick twitter search reveals dozens of examples (which I am omitting to avoid accusations of “generating death threats” or whatever), and this has been covered extensively in right wing media. This is mainstream, even if we want to pretend that it’s not.

    Now, looking at this just in the abstract, a few seconds of scrutiny shows us how idiotic and self-defeating this practice is. I accept the notion that everyone is prejudiced to some degree and that most white Americans receive some structural advantages in some spaces. In this very obscure sense, you can argue that all white people are racist. Fine. But if a term is applied to literally everyone and everything, it loses its utility. If everyone is racist, then “racist” is a meaningless designation.

    In practice, however, this is even more insane than it sounds. Because of course the purveyors and participants in these ritualistic humiliation sessions don’t really think that everyone is racist. If they did, they wouldn’t go through the ritual. Obviously, the people calling themselves racist are being coerced into doing so. Every person who says “My name is Mary, and I’m a racist” is thinking in the back of their head that they’re not really racist, that this confession serves as an act of ablution. And, in a truly lunatic twist of irony, the people who are regarded as racist after these sessions are the ones who did not call themselves racist.

    Madness. Absolute madness.

    This is precipitated, of course, by guilt. White liberals realize, correctly, the the world is f–ked. The politicians and organizations that putatively represent their views have done the opposite and accelerated widespread brutality. The man who invented mass incarceration was sold as the only way to avoid “fascism.” There’s no hope of a more decent future. They feel like s–t and will do anything, even self-flagellation, to glimpse the feeling that maybe they’re kind of sort of partway making the world less horrible. They’re not–objectively, this type of gross bullshit is alienating, makes non-insane people disengage with the movement, and has been empirically proven to reduce empathy and make people more hateful. But they feel a little better for doing it.

    Beyond guilt, however, lies coercion. I’ll bet the vast, vast majority of people who have subjected themselves to these struggle sessions didn’t believe a word they were saying but were just going along to avoid getting in trouble. Personally, I’m not going to lose my job and my healthcare just to avoid a few moments of cynical embarrassment. Very few people would.

    It was just today that I realized how commonplace this type of dishonesty has become. If you live or work in a liberal space, ask yourself this question: how many times in the last few years have you professed a belief in something you knew was crazy? How many times have you been made to signal approval for ideas that you knew to be harmful, impossible, or reactionary in order to avoid being branded an Enemy of Social Justice? How many times have you stayed silent and let yourself be bullied into feigning support for policies and procedures that contradict your beliefs?

    More than a few, I’ll bet. Now ask yourself: what has been gained from this? Is the world more just or safe or equal than it was before this type of shit was made commonplace? Do you have more hope for the future, or less?

    The only political effect of this normalization of dishonesty has been the ascendance of the most reactionary faction of the Democrat party. A left that had not been trained to hate itself would not have voted for Joe Biden.

    This is what happens when a movement places zero value upon honesty and decency. When all conflict becomes understood as abuse, when all criticism is regarded as violence, the most sociopathic and violent members of a community are the ones who get to set the agenda. No one can push back. No one can dissent. The demand for absolute uniformity [i.e. opposite of diversity] cripples the movement’s ability to accomplish anything beyond enriching a handful of the very worst people on earth.

    We did this to ourselves, and I worry we might be past the point of no return. Just a few months ago I still held some hope that we might see a turn around, that saner and more decent voices might take control and actualize our widespread disgust and discontent toward policies that would actually help people. That’s not going to happen. The sociopaths have won. Their candidate is president, their ideology is mandatory, and their ability to hurt anyone who crosses them is stronger than ever.

    Joe Biden will be the most austerity-minded president since Herbert Hoover. His reign is going to be disastrous for everyone, especially those who are already vulnerable. His supporters, secure in their positions within media and NGOs and academe, will need to fabricate more scapegoats to explain away the failures and brutalities of their leader–to convince everyone that they deserve the punishment they are receiving. They’re going to demand and receive more intrusive means of ensuring ideological uniformity. And there’s nothing we can do to stop them.”

    Ye of little faith. Just watch them get stopped. By your worst enemies, the worst, most ignorant deplorables in the world. You see: they’re not smart enough to understand your lies. They don’t have the neurons to not single-mind, but double-mind, lie, deceive about everything. Not only that, if you poke them, they poke back.

    My point here was only in a violent nation living in universal lies, drunk on denial, what did you think was going to happen? You don’t just walk away after what we’ve done. The whole house is burned, there is a curtain with a painting of a house hanging in front of it. “Cece n’est pas une pipe.” A painting of a nation is not a nation.

    “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” — Zappa

    But with zero honesty, zero morality, from the janitor to the President, — and not for nothing since if any one from end to end TOLD the truth, they’d be attacked — what did you think was going to happen? It’s not a big-budget action movie of a nation, either. When you’re in “Bondage”, the only way out is “Faith.” Why? Because only then do you not care if you live or die. And only with that will men have courage. They would burn a thousands ships and nuke the planet, kill every man, woman, and child before they have any g– d—d faith, I’ll tell you. Before they reduce their EGO before God. Clearly. As demonstrated my whole life.

    But those are the rules. The “Natural Law” of our “Creator”, which was written 250 years ago in the Enlightenment. That all men are Created Equal. And are not ordered to call themselves racists when they are half-black, against all reason, logic, and practical consequence. What do you have when you raised kids to lie from birth, lie about everything, deny all truths, all the time, for 30 years? Millennials. And the Boomers (and X-ers) who raised them and put them to it, demanded, punished, abandoned, crippled them if they didn’t. Who gave them the trophies that they didn’t want or need.

    And you’re going to get the trophy all right. Good and hard. That’s what nations get when they’re stupid. That’s what happens when you defy God, and thereby the laws of reason and physics.

    …And don’t the Chinese know it.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 7 2021 #67879
    Dr. D
    Participant

    See Black-clad pajamas with the press pass?

    See Mr. Bear in the tan hoodie on the left?

    See the Hammer and Sickle tattoo on his left hand?

    Very MAGA. Go hammer and sickle! Peace, land, bread, forever!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 7 2021 #67852
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Arc of History:

    “Allying with various non-Russian nationalist leaders, Yeltsin was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December that year, at which the RSFSR became the Russian Federation, an independent state. Yeltsin remained in office as president and was reelected in the 1996 election, although critics claimed pervasive electoral corruption.

    Yeltsin transformed Russia’s state socialist economy into a capitalist market economy by implementing economic shock therapy, market exchange rate of the ruble, nationwide privatization, and lifting of price controls. Economic collapse and inflation ensued. Amid the economic shift, a small number of oligarchs obtained a majority of the national property and wealth,[1] while international monopolies came to dominate the market.[2] During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, Yeltsin ordered the unconstitutional dissolution of the Supreme Soviet parliament, which

    responded by attempting to remove him from office.

    In October 1993, troops loyal to Yeltsin stopped an armed uprising outside of the parliament building; he then

    introduced a new constitution which significantly expanded the powers of the president.

    Secessionist sentiment in the Russian Caucasus led to the First Chechen War, War of Dagestan, and Second Chechen War between 1994 and 1999. Internationally, Yeltsin promoted renewed collaboration with Europe and signed arms control agreements.”

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

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 6 2021 #67798
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Come the lightning and the thunder / You’re the one who’ll suffer” — Paul Simon

    “It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder / how I keep from going under.” – Grandmaster Flash

    “Such a blunder makes me wonder why why I even bring the thunder” — Hamilton

    “There must be some kind of way outta here
    Said the joker to the thief
    There’s too much confusion
    I can’t get no relief

    Well, uh, outside in the cold distance
    A wildcat did growl
    Two riders were approaching
    And the wind began to howl…” _Bob Dylan

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 5 2021 #67735
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Queensland Cops Pay Home Visit to Author Who Bragged on Twitter About COVID-Violating Jog”

    Who was entirely outside, entirely alone, not near anyone. KillKillKill!!! Ego demands it! Say the police on the home visit, who endanger him, spread disease to a man who was isolated, and don’t wear masks.
    …Oh and while the rogue’s gallery of – um, everyone – does NOT obey ANY lockdown, and goes on vacation, eat at restaurants, and fly around the world.

    ‘Cause that’s Science! Logic! We follow the Science! By breaking quarantine to visit homes of people who met and interacted with no one.

    Clearly it’s time to proposing a law to:

    a) Arrest and remove any one,
    b) For any SUSPECTED contact with,
    c) ANY disease. That is, not Covid, not dangerous, anything they care to name,
    d) To be removed WITHOUT trial or ANY process,
    e) To be detained in ANY facility,
    f) By ANY person who wants to,
    g) For ANY length of time.

    Or maybe half the Science! We haven’t tested it, but you’re first! With the half dose we havent’ tested of the vaccine, that’s not a vaccine, that doesn’t prevent infection, that we haven’t tested!

    Now why you chirpin’? DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD.

    “Boris Johnson Imposes New National Lockdown Across England: Live Updates”

    Because we follow the science who says:

    “Statistician: Lockdowns Don’t Work Because They Force People To Congregate In Fewer Places: “Lockdowns are merely forced gatherings.”

    And it’s totally safe, we’re saving lives as it directly causes this:

    “Man Wielding Bat Goes on GTA-Style Crime Spree in Lower Manhattan”

    Whose murder rate has risen 400%.

    Speaking of NY, Helping! Helping! We are your mommy and god and know what’s best for you. Cuomo says we must have vaccines. Okay then. So we’re going to arrest anyone who un-prioritizes the Duma’s Central Planning Committee vaccine rollout release. Er, okaaaay… So the hospitals then have to PROVE each person, PROVE the lists, and keep very accurate records of who’s getting it, or be arrested and taken to jail for Covid, while they RELEASE non-healthcare workers to be SAFE for COVID. Therefore, whole process slows down, slightest problem = no vaccine. Vaccines expire in the fridge. Ka-Ching!

    Okaaaay. So what then? Cuomo, who caused this problem by “Helping, “Flip Flops, Threatens To Fine Hospitals For Not Meeting COVID Vaccination Targets” Yes, the target and vaccination hehe just STOPPED from being met naturally with his iron-fisted intervention.

    …And this is above all of the health care workers who, not being idiots and understanding medicine and statistics, want to wait a little bit before getting it.

    Gee, have we reached fascism yet? What is fascism, totalitarianism? When everything is either illegal or compulsory. Here we are. Whole states are made prisons. They have already seceded from the United States as they are in total violation of the U.S., the Constitution, and Federal Law. You have no human rights, and no right to self-defense. And NY’s not the only one. What’s your right to be heard on court adjudication in Pennsylvania right now? Dismissed! It’s too early! Wait: It’s too late! Wait: It wouldn’t change anything, which we can tell before we read it! Wait: you too early, too late, too small person don’t have standing to be heard! Here, there, nor anywhere! As Comey said, “No reasonable person (who didn’t want to be killed in a fiery crash) would take the case.”

    Well, at least he can kill another 6,000 people with direct criminal actions and blame it on Covid. So that’s winning.

    So are we there yet? When is enough?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 4 2021 #67672
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ““Did you ever expect it to be that high?” host Martha Raddatz asked. “No Martha, I did not,” Fauci responded.”

    Never ending lies. And as said, never-ending fascism and employment. He specifically was a promoter of the Neil Ferguson school of millions dead. That’s why we just “had” to have these measures. If he didn’t think 300k would die, only maybe 30k, the same at the flu, WHAT THE F DID HE SHUT DOWN FOR?

    Lieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslieslies

    And still no lampposts.

    “Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University”

    The John Hopkins that was just caught lying and erased their own data? After Fauci was caught lying (about every other day) and erased his own data?

    Gee, why do cranks like me just not trust them? It is only because they’ve been lying all 365 days out of the last year?

    Masks work, masks don’t work.
    Do/Don’t buy them.
    No one will die/25 Million will die.
    We can’t lock down, that’s ridiculous/we just did.
    It will “flatten the curve” / 9 months later no curve is flattened.
    It’s 15 Day / Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever.
    No one will force you / You can’t move 5 miles or buy food without an untested vaccine and constant passport.
    It’s the law / No law has been passed, anywhere.
    Fauci says there is no prevention or therapy / says to take Vitamin D and C.
    HCQ works / doesn’t work / works / doesn’t work
    Ivermectin works.
    Can’t authorize untested vaccines if we have therapies like Fauci /France just said we have.

    That’s 60 seconds off the top of my head. Meanwhile, they are busting into houses in Quebec without a warrant and arrest families for existing. Yeah, the cops didn’t have masks either, as usual.

    So…we’re all quaranteaming – you don’t f’n know! – and perfectly safe as we can be among ourselves, and YOU, you EEEE-DIOTS!, who go around and meet the whoooooooooooole public, apparently without a mask, came into OUR family’s house because WE’RE dangerous?

    When do they chuck them into the St. Lawrence Sound?

    And yeah, that’s generally the story all over. 1) No harm is being done 2) cops break every law and human right 3) don’t wear the very masks they arrest the people for 4) throw them in jail to be “safe” 5) while letting other people like domestic abusers OUT of jail to be “safe.”

    Have we reached peak insanity yet? Peak #AntiLogos? Not on your life. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. New York is proposing a law to:

    a) Arrest and remove any one,
    b) For any SUSPECTED contact with,
    c) ANY disease. That is, not Covid, not dangerous, anything they care to name,
    d) To be removed WITHOUT trial or ANY process,
    e) To be detained in ANY facility,
    f) By ANY person who wants to,
    g) For ANY length of time.

    Gee, have we reached fascism yet, Chuckie? Ya thinks maybe – jeeeest maybeeee – enemies of Cuomo might end up on that list of “suspected contacts” with “something unnamed/we’ll make it up later”? Maybe journalists like Kunstler, Assange, Taibbi? Maybe whistleblowers who accuse Andy of slappin’ the salami while sniffin’ her hair?

    WHAT DOES IT TAKE ???

    You guys are not only GOING to the cattle cars willingly, you’ll be the ones DRIVING them into the furnace. While Justin, Cuomo, and Gates watch. With a smile on their face.

    WHAT DOES IT TAKE ???

    Apparently death itself will not rouse you. Good luck.

    There’s a reason why pandemics – which this isn’t – have NO force of law at all. …And that’s even IF any state, any where, should ever pass a law, some distant day. We haven’t. But 1A says you can assemble FOR ANY REASON, AT ANY TIME. 4A says you cannot have your rights remove and be put under infinite house arrest without ANY due process of law, speedy, transparent, legal, and fair. With access to the prosecution’s records. And 2A, which is the only thing that MAKES 1A-10A have the slightest chance of being respected. But not if you don’t use any of them. Your CREATOR gave you these rights, but if you cede them because of a 0.03% chance of harm, then you’re just a coward and will die as one. Do better. Hiding is not going to save you.

    Ask Assange. Or Jack Ma. Did his billions help him any?

    Assange out? Yes, but now how is he going to testify before Congress? And not “drone strike this guy”?
    It’s not over yet, it’s only beginning.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 3 2021 #67631
    Dr. D
    Participant

    They should NOT pardon Assange. Any more than General Flynn. He should be sent to the Supreme Court where his right as a journalist is upheld and sets precedent. Again. And again. Then he should sue the whole U.S., and this would include Trump, for violating his Civil Rights, although as a non-citizen wouldn’t have good standing for a hundred ‘mil in damages.

    “With Trump, however, the mood has changed dramatically and under his administration, journalistic practices have been pursued as crimes.”

    Achoo—BULLS—T! Excuse me. Obama wasn’t the first– that was Cheney outing Plame, or back to Nixon, or back to Lincoln arresting every journalist he could find, or John Adams – but Obama was top whistleblower-imprisoner as well as deporter and dronebomber-in-Chief, AND wiretapped the whole AP, which was in the headline news, although why he’d bother is a mystery since they’ve been on the CIA payroll since the Church commission. …Just in case some uppity cuss thought they might be a journalist or something I guess, aching to drive out the last Kunstler and the new Taibbis.

    Anyway, “The mood has changed”? Are you for real kidding me? This is the first time the media HAS gone after a President – although I’d only prefer it were for real, actual things – AND the first time the President HASN’T arrested them all. Or had their cars accidentally accelerate to 80 in a school zone and crash into a bridge. Google that for yourself.

    hidden microphones to spy on Julian’s solicitors’ meetings.”

    Was that anything like arresting or wiretapping Trump’s lawyer, breaking a thousand years of attorney-client privilege? And it was Trump doing that, right? Arresting Hillary’s and Biden’s lawyers? No.

    Blah blah blah lies, blah blah blah. Since when HAVEN’T the Brits wiretapped solicitors and rigged courts? No century I remember.

    “11 Senators To Reject Congressional Election Certification On Wednesday (JTN)”

    I think they spend 2 hours per allegation, so if they brought 250,000 allegations of fraud, which is well-possible, it would be absolutely hilarious. Worst. Election. Ever. As like RussiaRussiaRussia, or Covid, we have to hear absolutely nothing but verified reports of how corrupt and fraudelent every person, act, court, official, and representative is for 20,833 days on C-Span. But what else could fix it? The capacity of Americans for mendacity and denial is legendary. Clearly nothing can break through.

    On the mis-printing of ballots, a print shop in NY that printed all those ballots burned to the ground right after the election. They said it was strange the equipment was missing. Since it’s made of cast iron and weighs 3,000 pounds, maybe that means something. I didn’t bother looking.

    October Legal Analysis Finds Today’s Scenario Favors Trump Victory (Attkisson)”

    More to the point, Podesta said this would happen back in July’s TIP project and printed it in USA Today. Since everyone is apparently illiterate, or il-logic-ate, maybe he shouldn’t have bothered.

    “New York has had a 50% increase in homicides and almost a 100 percent increase in shootings.”

    As predicted and planned. I mean, who on earth could possibly have predicted otherwise from these actions? Bye-bye New York. Gangs attacking people in the streets and pulling them out of cars. Oh and gangs of rats and squirrels attacking everyone. Didn’t see that coming.

    Anyway, yes, he kills as many as possible — for Justice and Safety, ‘natch — mismanages, burning the city to the ground, his billionaire pals DeBlasio himself, as a landlord, forces landlords out by force of law, and buys up their property at gunpoint, proudly admitting it on national news, then only he can sit on this loss for 5 years or so until Lo! A miracle! Like Mayor Ted Wheeler, he suddenly sees the error of his ways! Letting black-clad fascists roam the streets beating Jews and gay Asians does NOT work! Communism doesn’t lead to riches and equity and we have to return to capitalism! …Now that THEY, DeBlasio, the Capitalist, has used Socialism to buy up the city and get government funds from Flint and West Virginia “Build Back Better” on the Upper East Side.

    C’mon. Am I the only one who sees this screwing? Bite back.

    Madamski Btcoin does have problems, but most of those are not part of them. Bitcoin requires electric power, but so does the giant server farms and currency trading farms at Citigroup. I don’t hear anything about the problem of banking and trading computers wasting electric worldwide, although it’s the same. And it IS a waste. But so is mining one rock to bury it again. Also BTC will shortly end, as there won’t be able to mine it, really. So there’ll be no miners, only traders, like Citi.

    Second, it depends on the internet, but so does the rest of your life. Without that working, you won’t even have a phone. No medicine, no food. Other problems. So yes, but it’s hard to imagine that as you’d be going back to a 1840 level if that happens and be way too busy to worry about anything – even gold. You’ll be trading lead.

    You can stuff it in a mattress far, FAR better, and move it worldwide faster, which is a prime advantage. I can memorize my key and walk across a border naked, reinstate $100M on the other side. Wouldn’t advise it, but you can. And gold, or dollars, we all get goods and services worldwide now, no one near you makes anything. On purpose because that means the banks and middle men get cuts of all. The banks would equally cut your gold/dollar transfer. But Charles Hugh Smith for instance wanted Spanish translations of his books, and this is a huge deal in Columbia, Venezuela, you can’t set up an account, move dollars, so he scanned BTC in 10 seconds. …For instance. It can’t be stopped. But your car parts come from there too and not up the road.

    It can’t be “hacked”, because if I print out a paper wallet and put it in a coffee can, or even if I put it on a Trezor fob at home, who knows I have it? I’m offline with an airgap, how would you reach me? Quantum computing is no better. Although the queer physics mean essentially they look into the future – that is, they could name the combination of a iron safe in a gas station for instance – which is not logical, they are not “computing” anything, however, you’re going to have the NSA set up a $100M computer for a week just so they can read ONE random guy’s hash? With a mere 80% accuracy? Not really. And then if they stole the money, we could also see who it transferred to, forever. So it’s not like they could get away. The money is right there, in that other account, visible to everyone.

    Problems? Yes, many, but they are different problems for a different world. Same as when we move from silver coins to bank notes, which had thousands of scams, not the least going bankrupt, or the present scam of both printing money, $40T missing from Federal budgets, stealing and freezing your money, or of printing up an equal amount of fake, hypothetical US T-Bonds that back the whole system. The system you’re in is no less dangerous and no less a scam. It just is a scam for them, while this scam tends to be more against them.

    That it’s digital, virtual, is no different than your checking account. None of it exists, it’s all digits, taken away at any time. Difference is merely that you have control or they have control. Take your pick. In Aquarius, it’s all air, information, nothing is real. If you had real sheep, real eggs instead, you’d also be set upon by vultures and only as rich as a scratch farmer, and I can’t help that right now.

    Of quantum computers, though, if they can pick a random safe, they can see into other futures and timelines. This is what I mean when I say they’ve got supercomputers in the White House basement burning hot day and night. What do you think they could see or scenario with that kind of Looking Glass power? Alright then: what do you think the OTHER guy could have done, fixed, the world they could have made under Obama, Bush, even Clinton, and didn’t? Leaving us to wither? This is what Eisenhower said.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2021 #67591
    Dr. D
    Participant

    BTC $10k, $20k, $30k, $31k, $32k, $33k, $34k….

    It’s hard to know what to do since it could drop not $10k, but $20,000 next week and still be in play. And next problem: feels like it can’t stop going up, and maybe so. We don’t know what confidence in the US$ will be in four days.

    But you can’t buy the vertical, the FOMO. Only on fishing lines, on the drops.

    Now more than ever since I don’t know what level chart or what dividers, what Log I’d have to use to find some trend or supports. It’s a madhouse. And this is BEFORE Coinbase shuts off their servers “for a glitch/service/hack” to lock everyone in when Sachs and Morgan sell off on the inside track. …And Coinbase admits it. They have a Tier 1 direct trading. And you’re not in that club.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2021 #67572
    Dr. D
    Participant

    And therefore their total failure, as failures, idiot sons of idiot sons, 7 generations deep, their answer is this, same as King Kanute:

    The So-called Great Reset

    Life in the USA, and other “advanced” nations will reset, but not in the way that most people blabbering about “the Great Reset” think or say it will.

    Surely, there are groups, gangs, claques, and covens of people in the world who have some consensual agreement about how things might work, and how they would run them to their benefit, in their hypothetical ideal disposition of things. For instance, the so-called “Davos Crowd.” What are they? A convocation of bankers, market movers, politicians, business moguls, tech entrepreneurs, Hollywood catamites, black ops runners, and PR errand boys who have plenty of financial and political mojo in their own realms, but not enough collectively to carry out the kind of global coup that comprises the standard paranoid Great Reset fantasy. That they meet-up in an ultra-luxurious setting out of a James Bond movie every year stokes terrific fascination, envy, anger, and paranoia that they are capable of anything beyond a festival of ass-kissing, mutual self-congratulation, and status-jockeying, which are the actual activities at the Davos meet-up.

    For another thing, in the USA, at least, there are too many pissed-off people with small arms, hardened by years of proffered bad faith and dishonesty from the political/media/higher-ed complex, to just bend over and take it up the back-door from a gang of seditious, would-be aristo-totalitarians with lèse-majesté dreams of nostalgie-de-la-boue Marxist redemption. If you have any doubt about how disruptive angry people with small arms and lots of ammo might be to condescending elites, just review the events in the Middle East the past twenty years and imagine those dynamics transferred to Kansas.

    What does the “reset” fantasy supposedly include? A “new world order,” a phantasm of a unified world government, which is preposterous because the macro-trend at this moment of history worldwide is the opposite of consolidation and centralization of power, but rather breakup, downscaling, and re-localization. Why? As you saw in the Econ chapter, because the scale, pitch, and range of all our activities must be reduced to survive in the post-industrial conditions of resource and capital scarcity. And it will happen whether we like it or not and despite anybody’s objections.

    What else is in the Reset grab-bag? Supposedly a single world currency, also absurd for reasons already stated — unless you are talking about gold and silver, which may eventually become the universally-accepted medium of exchange (and store of value, index of price) if the post-industrial contraction is severe and destructive enough. But fuggeddabowt “digital currencies,” especially in the USA because too many people are “un-banked,” or otherwise depend on cash-money in the informal “gray” economy of just-getting-by (and there will be a lot more of these types as the middle-class gets pounded further down into the mud), plus a large cohort of digitally-capable people just plain ornery about being herded into an IRS surveillance cul-de-sac — and the whole lot of them will fight like hell to prevent government-sponsored crypto-dollars from replacing what used to be considered money. And, if, in the unlikely event that rebellion fails, it’s back to gold and silver by default — and that might literally mean by default.

    Now, I grant you that there are fer sure problems with all the major currencies, especially the USA dollar, and they are all liable to become worthless eventually for all the usual and traditional reasons. The US dollar is especially vulnerable since its status as the world’s “reserve” currency — a reliable medium of exchange in global trade — is no longer consistent with the true financial condition of our country, which is morbidly obese with debt that will never be repaid — a terminal case. There will eventually be some kind of default, either the straightforward way, by declaring nonpayment to bond-holders and creditors outright, or by sneakily engineering a hyper-inflation of the money supply to destroy the value of the dollar. If either of those events plays out, the nation will be thrust into serious social and political disorder, blame will get cast, people will get hurt, and it will be a while before the finer points of the social contract get pasted back together — such as any agreement to introduce a “new dollar” of some kind to replace the ruined old one. By then, the old USA may not still be standing intact, and it would be up to states or regions to address the money issue.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2021 #67571
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Oil

    Hardly anyone paid any attention to the oil story this year with all the frightful distractions of Covid-19, the economic havoc of lockdowns, and the janky election. The oil story is probably more important than any other single factor in the current situation, and is largely responsible for America’s economic mess. Everything in the USA runs on oil and our business model for doing that is broken. De-growth changes everything.

    From 2000 to 2008, we were on a downward slide with our conventional oil supply — the kind of oil where you just drill a pipe into the ground and the oil flows out, or, at worst, gets sucked out by a pump-jack — all-in-all, a simple procedure. In 2008, total US oil production was under 5-million barrels-a-day, down from the old production peak of just under 10-milliion b/d in 1970. And of course, our consumption kept going up to about 20-million b/d by 2008. So, we were importing most of our oil then.

    That created terrible problems for our balance-of-payments in international trade, but we fudged that by pretending for decades that deficits don’t matter, as Veep Dick Cheney famously put it. The result, via the recondite and pernicious operations of financialization — that is, replacing a production economy with one based on the sheer manipulation of money and its derivatives — was the 2008-9 Great Financial Crisis. The GFC was presaged in the summer of 2008 by the price of a barrel of oil reaching just under $150 — which badly strained what remained of real productive industry. The dynamic in play induced political authorities to quit regulating wild misconduct in finance and banking, as they attempted to replace productive industry with money games. These malfeasances played out most vividly in real estate and the “innovative” securitized mortgage bonds that were gamed to a fare-the-well by the banks. The abstruse crimes have been chronicled widely elsewhere (e.g., my 2012 book Too Much Magic). But consider, also, that all the mortgage fraud of the early 2000s was based on the last gasp of the suburban expansion, and understand that suburbia was entirely at the mercy of mass motoring, which depended on affordable oil.

    So, oil shot up to just under $150, the economy wobbled, the banks and the automobile companies had to be bailed out and central bank interventions became normalized, including zero interest Federal Reserve policy, a desperate legerdemain to keep up the appearance of a sound economic-financial gestalt. And that led to the “shale oil miracle.”

    It was more a stunt than a miracle, really. First, you had this suite of techniques that could be employed to goose the last bit of oil from otherwise unproductive source rock. These included computerized horizontal drilling and the injection of fluids plus chemicals to fracture the impermeable rock and release the oil. This was “fracking.” It was not new but had not been scaled up into a major activity while the easier pickings were good. It was way different from the old simple method of drilling a pipe in the ground and letting it flow out of permeable rock. The old simple method cost about a half million dollars (in current dollars) per well to drill and start the oil flowing. Shale oil, with all its complications, cost between $6-12 million per well. The old 1960s conventional oil wells produced thousands of barrels a day for decades. The new shale wells produced maybe 100-odd barrels a day for the first year and they were done after four years. The depletion rate was horrendous.

    Shale oil was made possible by the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low-interest, easy lending policies. They made a lot of cheap capital available, and hundreds of billions migrated to the new shale oil plays in expectation that they would produce excellent steady revenues. Big institutional investors like pension funds and insurance companies especially were looking for reliable revenue with bond interest rates so low due to Fed policy. They thought they’d be swimming in shale oil company dividends and revenue streams from loans to shale drillers that paid better than US treasury bonds. One thing for sure, they thought: America wasn’t going to stop needing lots of oil. So, shale oil seemed like a sure thing. Except that after a few years, it turned out that nobody was making any money producing shale oil.

    It just cost so damn much to get that stuff out of the ground. And the depletion rate was so savage that you had to drill and re-drill incessantly. And what was worse, the economy had evolved to the stage where there was no sweet spot for oil prices. Oil over $75 destroyed the business model for productive industrial activities that relied on cheap oil; while oil under $75 destroyed oil companies because they couldn’t make a profit at the well head. The melodrama played out over ten years through several rounds of Fed Quantitative Easing (money creation from nowhere) and relentless run-ups of government deficits. The oil companies themselves were caught in a “Red Queen syndrome” (ref.: Alice Through the Looking Glass) in which they were producing as much and as fast as they could just to keep up their cash flow to make loan repayments, without generating any profits — and quite a few companies couldn’t even keep up with their loan repayments, so shale was a total bust for them and they went bankrupt. It all came to a head in early 2020.

    Just before the Covid-19 virus hit, shale oil production stood at over 9 million barrels a day, with another roughly 4 million from conventional oil, offshore oil, and natural gas liquids, for a grand total of nearly 13 million barrels a day in US oil production, a new record! That was 3 million b/d higher than the previous peak of 1970, at just under 10 million b/d. Quite a feat! Added to that was just under 5 million b/d in natural gas liquids. Daily US consumption was around 20 million b/d heading into 2020. It fell briefly during the initial Covid panic to around 15 million b/d and bounced back a little to around 18 million b/d in the fall of 2020. So, production appeared to be basically equal to our consumption.

    However, the quality of the oil skewed the equation of “oil independence.” Shale oil tended to be ultra-light oil, composed mostly of gasoline-grade distillates. Fine, America uses a lot of gasoline because we drive everywhere and incessantly so. The trouble is, shale oil contains little of the crucial heavier distillates: diesel fuel, which the trucking industry and heavy machinery depends on, aviation fuel (basically kerosene), and bunker fuel, a heavy oil fuel for home heating and ships’ engines. Neither did those nearly 5 million barrels a day of natural gas liquids, which were really only used for cutting heavy oil, which was mostly what the USA did not produce and was not well-equipped to refine. The bottom line was that the US had to swap a lot of gasoline to other countries to get heavier distillates to keep the economy going. It worked, but it was awkward and involved a tremendous amount of transport. So, America’s oil situation coming out of 2019 was superficially stabile but fragile.

    But entering 2020, shale oil production was in collapse. The lack of profitability finally caught up with the industry. Investors finally noticed that the shale oil producers couldn’t make money. At one flukey point in the Covid-19 spring of 2020, the oil markets became so disordered by collapsing demand that oil on the futures market cratered to a surreal negative-$40 a barrel. It soon corrected to the positive-$30-40 range, which was not nearly enough for the shale oil business to turn a profit. Consequently, the companies could not get new financing to continue their “Red Queen” operations, and without new financing they could not keep up cash flow… and they crapped out. Thirty-six producers filed for bankruptcy in 2020, including Chesapeake, Oasis, Lonestar, Ultra, Whiting, and Chaparral. Oil field service companies that are subcontracted to perform the drilling and fracking have also gone bust.

    Shale oil production fell by roughly 2.7 million b/d from March to May 2020, recovered a little at mid-year and stumbled again with the winter wave of the virus. Oil analyst Steve St. Angelo predicts that total US oil production (shale and everything else) will fall to between 9.5 and 10 million b/d in 2021, which would put us back to 1970 levels when the nation’s population was just 205 million (compared to 330+ million today). So, that’s a lot less oil-per-capita, to view it from another angle. Independent oil analyst Art Berman is predicting a more severe production crash by midyear 2021 to roughly half what it was at year-end 2019. Nafeez Ahmed, Director Institute for Policy Research & Development, is simply calling this the end of the oil age. Ahmed says it “will begin over the next 30 years, and continue through to the next century.”

    I believe it will go down much quicker than that because falling production is so destructive to the business model of industrial society that it will induce gross economic, social, and political disorder. All that disorder will generate self-reinforcing feedback loops making a return to previous levels of comfort, convenience, prosperity, and order much less likely. The net effect will be a much lower standard-of-living among formerly “advanced” nations, and also falling populations. We’re just experiencing the beginning of that process with the destruction of America’s middle-class. It is the essence of the long emergency. We just can’t tell right now how far down these dynamics will drive us, and how fast. 2021 is likely to manifest intense disorder in the USA as people reel from the loss of small businesses, economic conditions deteriorate further, and political grievance gets amped up by institutional failure to resolve, or even address, our many problems and quandaries.

    As for transitioning into a “sustainable economy” powered by “renewables” such as solar and wind power, that just ain’t going to happen — unless you’re talking about oxen and firewood, and a human population about ten percent of what the planet currently carries. All our fantasies about a high-tech utopia driven by wind and sun depend on a fossil fuel economy to produce the hardware for it and then the replacement parts for the hardware, ad infinitum. It’s not worth going into it further here, but if you want to see more elaborate arguments, they’re in my recent book Living in the Long Emergency (BenBella Books, 2020).”

    Leading to:

    The consolidation of commerce into a few giant companies such as Walmart, Target, Amazon had reached a deadly and tragic pitch before Covid-19, destroying all lesser organisms in the business ecosystem, and thousands of local Main Streets in the process. With the Covid lockdowns, the big boxes were somehow exempted from closure. Though they seem to be triumphing for the moment, these giant national chain merchandising outfits are in their sunset phase headed for twilight. As I’ll surely state again in this forecast, the macro-trend is for downscaling and re-localizing in everything, all activities. The chain-stores and big boxes depend on systems and arrangements that won’t persist, for instance, the long supply lines from the factories of Asia. The end of mass motoring will also prove problematical for commerce at the giant scale smeared all over suburban landscapes. And, of course, Amazon’s business model of home delivery for absolutely anything and everything, was perfectly suited to the Covid-19 crisis — though in the longer term its model will prove fatally flawed, since it depends on trucking every single item to its customers, and the reason will become evident further down.

    The catastrophic failure of so much small business in America through 2020 will provide the seeds for a rebirth of small businesses when the giants fall. A lot of equipment will be available at dimes on the dollar. Rents will be cheap. Enterprising people will have to be careful about where they decide to set up for new businesses: better Main Street than out on some empty strip-mall. Consolidation will be working in a different way — not to make companies bigger, but to bring many small businesses closer together in places people can get to without a car (what used to be known as a business district or downtown or Main Street). America is not going to need nearly as much shopping infrastructure as we had before 2020, and also not nearly as many restaurants. But we’re going to need some of these things and done in a new way. I can also imagine new businesses that would have been unthinkable a year ago. At some point when Covid-19 exits the scene, people will want to get together with other people very badly. Think about opening a dance hall or a nightclub with live music, even a life performance theater.

    The American economy had already entered a zone of dangerous structural fragility before Covid-19 stepped onstage. As Tim Morgan and Gail Tverberg argue so well in their respective blogs, the economy is an energy system that, in the advanced techno-industrial form, depends absolutely on fossil fuels, which have become a problem the past two decades, leading to the present inflection point bringing on de-growth, the onset of a long emergency, and what others call a fourth turning. Same things, really. We’ve entered a state of contraction, and it’s in the nature of large economic organisms to move from contraction to collapse fairly quickly, because the complex interconnections in their systems ramify and amplify each other’s failures. The virus has made it all worse, and faster.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2021 #67570
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Skip the intro essay and read all the detail by Kunstler. He has an engineer’s perspective, particularly on Peak Oil, which he’s been head of for decades and this site is based on.

    So, just as soon as fracking failed, bailing out would re-set and crash the economy, pointing up THEY were the root and intentional cause, suddenly LO! A Pale (Green) Horse! Suddenly, even though Global Warming/CO2/Green New Deal all failed as people smelled the world’s biggest, deadest rat, that it would ruthlessly crush the poor, minorities, small business, even the middle class and transfer all that money to oligarchs in a $10T rush, refusing because it would clearly lead to undemocratic, unresponsive, even illegal totalitarian government and the end of all human rights forever…

    LO! Covid suddenly makes 100% of everything they had planned for 30 years happen anyway. Just under a new premise. Yes, the day Fracking ran out, and with fracking, oil, and with oil, the debt-compounded economy, and with the debt-compounding economy tax revenue, the government, and all the monopoly oligarchs who depend on it to force people to buy — hypothetically of course — health care, vaccines, and false screening tests, along with airline bailouts and no stop to military spending. Ever. Even if every citizen PAYS $600 instead of getting it. …Which I assure you, they do. Much more.

    And then THIS happened: (next post) https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/forecast-2021-chinese-fire-drills-with-a-side-of-french-fries-jacobin-style-and-russian-dressing/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2021 #67564
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “The virus is absolutely rampant now in the community. Everybody is at extreme risk of contracting the virus.”

    …Of which almost everybody will survive. Why do I have to keep saying this? “Fear of contracting”…and I know it’s been oversaid, but it’s the old example, before everyone lost their minds, of the common cold. That’s what it’s going to be like for almost everyone. And 94% of people not over 80 or with several comorbidities. If you’re 80, were you planning 90? Of course you were, but that’s not statistics. You were already 10 years over and living on charity of God.

    You’re also — as I said the first month — going to get it. You probably already had it, although they refuse to test, so we won’t know there’s herd immunity. On Fauci’s sliding scale that started at 40%, then 50, 60,70, 80, and is now over 90%. So since you had it, you’re in terror of a virus you CAN’T get, and killing everybody else in your community in your fear, because risking your own life going about your business is “selfishness.” But destroying the entire community, all social structures, the economy, all small business, minority workers, and the poor, is pure love and selfLESSness. Got it.

    I ask you, when does this end? When it it enough?

    YOU. ARE GOING. TO DIE. Someday. And not of COVID. And you can hide and cower til then, scratching and begging, and babbling til then. Or not. You could sacrifice yourself, open up, and let your neighbors live. But Karen don’t want that, and Pfizer certainly doesn’t.

    Paper Dollars in Circulation Globally Spike Amid Hot Demand (WS)”

    Interesting. Opposite of what I expected, and maybe they expected too. I haven’t heard the all-digital PR push being engineered for a while now. I hope this means there’s a rapid black market. Jersey girls were opening a speakeasy, and naturally – hang for a penny as a pound – immediately set up illegal gambling too. Nice going, idiots. Since they’re going to do it anyway, all you did was increase their risk. Like Pot dealers having some rock, or maybe point out that if you go to a bar, not a college house party, there’s a bouncer protecting teen girls from cruisers and a bartender who can cut you off.

    They busted the Jersey Girls – thus how we know they exist – but where there’s a demand, there will be a supply. I mean, the French Laundry just HAS to stay open or who’s going to make $800 parties for Governor Newsom and the State Medical board? And soon the States will be as perennially black-market, black-money, tax-evading as Greece and Italy, and for the same reason: unending, irremovable corruption.

    Now if only we were MORE corrupt like places in Asia, we could just speed, get pulled over, and hand the officer $100 bill. That’d be both cheaper AND more efficient than the present legal system. And more free. Instead, it’s “Papers Please!” “You are 10.1km from your house, comrade! Do you have your transit pass? The uranium mines are thirsty.”

    Why bother? They’re already doing this in Australia, and long since rounded up innocent black minors in California for-profit workers, and refused to let them go on a Judge’s direct order. …Under President Kamala Harris. We used to say “Irony is dead.” Now it’s “Reason is dead.” The only thing I’ll get if I share this provable, legal fact is, “No it isn’t.”

    See? Fixed it with the power of my LIES! Hahahaha! And if that doesn’t work, more lies! Can you feel the power? Can I get an amen, brother?

    We’re nowhere in Bitcoin though. While it will certainly go to $100,000 this time, at $30k it could easily make a $10,000 drop to harvest all the little guys and Robinhood traders. Already saw that in XRP, banker-run and directly manipulated: 60% drop in one day. So if you’re not in, I can’t advise, you’ll have to figure out your more day-trading approach on your own. We’re not in sure-safety land like we were back at $6,000.

    Since BTC is more desired than the US$, (or the price wouldn’t go up) what does that say about the dollar right now? Or the system? What did Kunstler just say about the USDX, DOW….?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 31 2020 #67510
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Anecdotal, entirely non-medical experience here said people widely had CV back in Dec 19 and Jan. …Long BEFORE any official admission it had arrived here. So it was first in October latest if it’s all over the nation by then? Since no one will believe the CDC’s own numbers and research — see House, above — why bother bringing up the very deep dredgings? Oh, and China who had it first and worst has no none nothing now. Uh-huh, sure they do. The only people on the planet who are Covid-free.

    Since we’re in deep dredgings, IF it was around earlier (easy to prove as we have the samples) THEN why bother to hide it? Why have an impeachment the day of its official arrival? Etc. Only because WE were the cause, or complicit in the cause? But if we were, why would China play along? …I mean besides that they just ethnically-cleansed the city that was most-Christian and set up for most-protests, most-likely to be successful in breaching the state. …And now they’re a model of citizen compliance. So happy.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 31 2020 #67509
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Doctor over at Ecosophia writes:

    “I’m rather mystified myself at what I’ve been seeing from other doctors. I’m well aware of your rather jaundiced eye towards the profession, but I guess I still expected a little better. At the largish practice I’m at, many of the doctors are falling over themselves to get the vaccine ASAP. I’ve been my typical iconoclastic self pointing out the lack of testing, same as you mentioned, but it’s mostly in one ear out the other. Amusingly enough, out of well over a dozen medical assistants I’ve spoken to, only one was planning on getting the vaccine, and his justification was essentially he was a guinea pig for Uncle Sam all the time in the military, so it’s nothing new to him. The rest seem to make the connection after seeing hordes of patients their age that for them this is closer to a cold than smallpox cubed, and taking a inadequately tested vaccine with so many unknowns is probably not warranted at this time.

    Kind of the same for treatment options. There’s been an astonishing amount of research recently in support of ivermectin, from countries that I believe to be not coincidentally generally too poor for Big Pharma to have much interest in. I’ve been doing what I remember actually being taught to do and follow the evidence leavened with ethical pragmatism wherever it happens to lead, but I’m still relatively alone in this. What’s overwhelmingly popular among American doctors seems to high priced, rather impractical, experimental treatments that have failed over and over again in actual studies (remdesivir, tociluzumab, convalescent serum, monoclonal antibodies). But, hey, Big Pharma makes a bundle on them, so that’s what their “authoritative sources” tell them to keep using. That’s literally the only explanation I can logically come up with, and it’s incredibly disappointing. I’m sitting here watching them be the stereotypes that critics have long accused them of being.”

    Fitting my view perfectly. I’m just so heart-sick and aghast at where people’s brains have gone to.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 30 2020 #67505
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Quote is Oscar Wilde.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 30 2020 #67460
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Interesting. So they are essentially saying there is no such thing as natural immunity. Which is what the WHO just edited as NEWSPEAK on their website.

    I mean, if you were naturally immune from getting it like every other thing in the history of human medicine, you wouldn’t need the vaccine, would you? But according to the Mr. Fix-it-up chappy, the Sneetches need to buy and take it anyway.

    “And when every last dollar of money was spent — the Fix-it-up chap packed up…and he went.”

    Went to find another test that most people now admit is +80% inaccurate. Hey, maybe you have herpes! Let me give you this 80% inaccurate test and see if you need to buy Herr Docktor’s magical mystical cure. …For a modest fee of course. And with some guaranteed side effects, including several instant deaths.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 30 2020 #67433
    Dr. D
    Participant

    More practical, Dr. Day, do they have anything on the long-term Covid syndrome yet? Ways to forestall it, of course, but more for recovery and repairs?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 30 2020 #67432
    Dr. D
    Participant

    In the idiotic sense that 2020 is unprecedented, worst year ever, no, that’s only for people who are ignorant, uncurious, and illiterate.

    Among many, blast from the past, the Battle of Athens, Tennessee, 1946:

    The corruption in politics was just in your face. In Athens, Tennessee, the Cantrell-Mansfield government was not only rigging their election to stay in power, but they were also involved in bootlegging, gambling, and protection scheme shaking down local businesses and citizens along with tourists demanding big fines and fees. Because of the corruption, Athens stagnated and did not boom as other cities revived. When veterans returned home from the war and found corruption out of control, they began to confront Cantrell and Mansfield who tried to nullify the veterans’ votes and reform efforts.
    The U.S. Department of Justice proved useless back then as well who supposedly investigated allegations of electoral fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944, but never took any action. The issue was resolved by violence, which is always the case when the rule of law fails as we see once against today. A sign marks the spot of the uprising where several hundred veterans, with some accounts claiming as many as 2,000, took up arms against the politicians who retreated to the jailhouse. They took up positions across the street and died upon them. They finally surrendered and they appointed a new government by sheet force (see account). It was common back then as well that dead voters’ participated in elections as they always do

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    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/politicians-besieged-at-gun-point-over-corrupt-elections-in-1946/

    Aw, violence and standing up for yourself never works does it? One simply cannot break the law, even when it’s broken upon you. And we don’t need no Right of Self Defense, given to you by your Creator, which includes the full tools therein.
    Nope. DO AS YOU’RE TOLD!!! The Justice Department looked into it and has it all worked out. You can’t fix it ‘cause it’s already fixed.

    aDay
    https://romabyrachel.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/0/1/18019299/3332687_orig.jpg

    Population Rome, 1.3 Million to 30,000, occupied by nothing by shepherds even up to Byron’s time. That’s what a worst year looks like. Not eating chocolate cake watching Netfix in the air conditioning, waiting for your $2,000 check to show up for doing nothing.

    I’m afraid I lost the plot line along the way. If the chief WHO scientist says there’s no evidence the vaccine protects you from being infected, or even from infecting others, what is the purpose of a vaccine passport?”

    The point? POWER. Submit or be murdered where you stand. The true point of power is POWER. The end goal of power is POWER. The purpose of power is POWER. That is, EGO. And so said Orwell, who personally worked with these people and was part of their societies.

    But it’s not, really: just ask them! It’s all for pure Love, pure tolerance. Bill Gates said he wanted the vaccines to reduce overpopulation. …yes, let that sink in. He said he wanted a life-saving measure so there would be FEWER people. He lives. You die. Well, can’t say he didn’t tell you! He did! Not my fault if you don’t believe the words out of his/their own mouth.

    “It doesn’t stop when the virus is under control and there are few people in hospital. You’ve got to fund the long-term consequences.”

    You know, normally I would make fun of this sort of thing. However, do you imagine the cost of long-term medical care is over, or under, $600/person?

    “The overall figure includes 1.5 million children at risk of anxiety and depression brought about or aggravated by social isolation, quarantine or the hospitalisation or death of family members. The numbers may rise as the full impact becomes clear on Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, care homes and people with disabilities.”

    Only these people matter. Everyone else can die. Because some animals are MOAR equal than others. For instance, recent professor says old people shouldn’t get the vaccine. Since statistically they’re white, they should die, and he will help them. No joke. Good medicine there, very Hippocratic oath stuff.

    But nobody follows anything in the Hippocratic Oath, just read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
    To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine
    if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept, oral instruction
    I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients
    Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so,
    I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.

    What is lacking in this early original is the only phrase we quote: “First do no harm“, which they do constantly since one of the primary causes of death is doctors, and largely via officially-prescribed drugs, not accidents.

    I’ve done enough quoting here, you can look that up for yourself. HereLetMeGoogleThatForYou.com

    In any case, my point was that modern medical professionals universally agree to treat everyone, and treat them equally, regardless of race, creed, nationality, violence, merit, or even compliance. Like the Red Cross, that is all left aside until everyone is patched up, and you can fight them or among yourselves afterward. Not no more! We divide medicine by color. ‘Cause dividing people by color is the sure cure for Racism!

    “Sanders has the procedural means at his disposal to keep the Senate in session all the way to New Year’s Day…”

    That would be shocking indeed as he’s never fought for anything and has always rolled over.

    “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), with the backing of the Senate Democratic caucus, is prepared to make life miserable for Senate Republicans”

    Um, no, the Senate DNC was against this until just a minute ago when Trump embarrassed them all. Then they said Trump, who proposed like $1,200/per 4 months ago, and $2,000 now, was the OBSTACLE to passing it. Oh and doesn’t this mean Bernie, the Progressives, and Trump are all close allies? Trump would even allow the vote on Medicare-for-All, (so long as it doesn’t pass) which is better than every DNC from Pelosi all the way over the AOC. So since Trump is now on the far-left, who are they against?

    “Ukraine Press Conference Explicitly Ties Hunter & Joe Biden To Corruption” “Can we bury this story too?” What story? Does that give you a clue who they’re fighting?

    “It seemed incredible that such a responsible outlet would advocate the overthrow of a century of public-health wisdom and even immunological basics, but that’s what they did. At this point, the New York Times was fully committed to the narrative that we must dismantle society to save it.

    Who is the enemy? Who are we fighting again?

    Fun for fun, this reveals all the GOP RINO-Weasels who pretended to care about…anything. You know, 90% of the party. Vs. 91% of the DNC party? Yes, I mark a difference, but it’s very, very small.

    “Why Senators Must Reject Avril Haines for Intelligence (MPN)”

    They wouldn’t have this problem if she was in prison with all the others. Like Dick Cheney. …Back in 1987.

    But I’m sure people have a long, long list, much longer than mine. Just ask them and we can get started. “Freedom and JUSTICE for all.” You know: equally. We already investigated the President for 3 years, let’s spread the joy. Who’s with me?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 27 2020 #67337
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “all regions of England be placed in tier 4, meaning that non-essential shops, hairdressers, and leisure and entertainment venues must close.”

    Cool. However, didn’t they just say yesterday that this new strain is neither more deadly nor more virulent? Goldfish. Squirrel. …I begin to think they intentionally release the opposite of all information to divide and identify people of each party. For example, after months, years of cover, suppression and denial, immediately after the election they covered and admitted that Hunter was under legitimate investigation.

    If you’re only promoting one side, as propaganda, to support yourselves, that makes no sense. Only if you are also promoting the opposition, Goldberg, to keep things hoppin’, lots of fighting going on so no peasant burns down the castle.

    “None of the patients was reported to be seriously ill.”

    Don’t worry: they will be soon. When they are desperate and white with hunger, as they even were already before this began.

    “RussiaGate 2.0, Right on Schedule (Luongo)”

    Yes, but he got the Chinese media to cover the Chinese attack, didn’t he? So now this is consensus reality. All you need to do now is a “surprise” discovery that it turns out to be China, not Russia. …Which of course they won’t report, as they haven’t already, but it depends which fact you want in the news this week.

    “This Brexit Deal Is Emphatically Nothing to Celebrate (Lis)”

    “We have to pass it to see what’s in it.” I wouldn’t bet a nickel what’s admitted is the real deal. When’s the last time that happened? The EU likes it, which means it’s terrible. But the UK wasn’t nuked, which is what psychopathic ex-wives like the EU do, but it does move them further away in some way. Keep an eye to see what was really agreed.

    Time’s winge’d chariot marches on, but thinking, the basis of the election is very simple: Just say no, and shift the burden of proof to the other side. There are a few paths yet to do this, but keeping it simple, just state the obvious and true, and make THEM prove the election was honest and good.

    “I’m going to make them demand the re-count” – DJT.

    Lots of talk about the break-up, regionalization, and re-structure of America with new rules lately. Makes no sense, but at least we can see how it would happen. Like maybe we can admit we have too much power in the executive branch? That maybe we should have independence of states, allowing them their own laws and character?

    Nah. All things in reality must match me, my ego. Submit or die. What was the fall of the morning star? Ego. Narcissism. Self. And what has the delusion of the nation been? Me. Nevermind my neighbor — they have to do what I say or I’ll kill them all. For I, the Ego, are perfect good, and all others, unlike me, are evil. Therefore, murder is expression of the highest good. Refusing to hear is the only true defense of love, peace, and tolerance. Love of Ego, peace of ego, tolerance only of things that are identical to ego. The only true peace is to murder all.

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