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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.
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.
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
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?
“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 drunkWent 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
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.
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!
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.”
“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 reliefWell, uh, outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl…” _Bob Dylan“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?
““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.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 palsDeBlasio 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.
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.
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.”
“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.”
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/
“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….?
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.
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.
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.
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 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 doAw, 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.
https://romabyrachel.weebly.com/uploads/1/8/0/1/18019299/3332687_orig.jpgPopulation 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?
“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.
In continuing spirit of Christmas, Salon gushes with with joys of Pottersville over Bedford Falls.
“All Hail Pottersville!
The “bad” town in “It’s a Wonderful Life” jumps and jives 24/7 with hot bars and cool chicks — while “wholesome” Bedford Falls is a claustrophobic snooze.”
https://www.salon.com/2001/12/22/pottersville/Being rich, entitled intellectual from U.C. Berkeley, proudly living in the filth-ridden streets of San Francisco, medieval diseases and all, where drug overdoses kill 5x more people than Covid, he waxes poetic on the merits of violence, extortion, and prostitution. …Clearly having never lived in any such places and so privileged, he’s never met or spent time with any such people. In his words, they just “add color” to an otherwise boring, terrible world.
He joyfully concludes that we need not pine, for Pottersville won! We all live in Pottersville now!
In reality, living in Pottersville he would find no jobs, low pay, extortion, mugging, beatings, sexual assaults, rapes, incest, drug use and abuse, bleak, dark and endless days unable to hope or improve one’s self since given a crooked, company-town system, one cannot get ahead. You’ll “own nothing and you’ll be…” violent. Hungry. Suicidal.
…Just like all of America from Elizabethtown to Sacramento. With dead, cold bodies being found each Christmas in a ruined, collapsing house. Ask me how I know.
But fellows at the top of such system like founders and editors of Salon wouldn’t know this, having never met any of these people, but finding their desperate violent lives charming, wonderful…so long as they are at a very VERY great distance. So long as HE runs the casino as the paid suck-up of Governor Potter, and THEY are stuck with the watered down drinks and crooked bouncers, tossing them in prison on hilarious, novelic trumped-up charges Alexandre Dumas would shudder at.
Because his life is so boring and meaningless, rich and in the suburbs, he can only dream of something happening to relieve the boredom. The desperate ennui of rich, pointless existence. Where exciting things only happen to others because when Daddy’s here, you can never fail.
I say we air-drop him into a trailer park in Charleston W. Virginia, Christmas day, with the hilarity of no money, no clothes, and no friends, a bottle of Rye he loves so dearly. …It’d do him good to meet the natives he wishes the joys and wonders of Pottersville to.
Newsflash: if you were in Pottersville, you’d dream of having a job, stability, a decent house, even if you had to go to church and the PTA to get it. If only he could find out. But Daddy. Daddy bucks, Daddy government.
“One In Four Greek Companies Say They May Have Shut Down For Good (K.)”
Can’t stop, won’t stop until all small assets have been transferred to the billionaire insiders. …Just like the 1929 transfer, the 1870 transfer, the 1840 transfer…
When the harvesting of live human beings is complete and an appropriate number have been removed, we can open up and start over. Resistance is futile. Submit or die.
They tell you they’re doing it. They write it down in papers and books. It’s not my fault if you don’t believe what they themselves write, sign, publish, and distribute.
“William Barr said there is “no need” to appoint a special counsel””
However Roger Stone says he has found a need to investigate Bill Barr, as part of a few dozen $25M lawsuits involving DoJ malfeasance and suppression of evidence.
Should be wonderfully entertaining, which is his way. Besides whatever they were planning with him last time didn’t go off, so he’ll get a second run at it.
“Google Could Face Trillions In Fines In Texas Antitrust Suit (Pol.)”
But you can’t sue the Federal Government. Google is 99% CIA. The minute they’re destroyed, the rest of us can sleep at last.
But that’s going to take a while. Probably a distributed internet providing, which is beginning to come on now. World-wide Pirate Bay for every click.
But that’s all the Sound and the Fury. Signifying nothing. Here’s something more important:
Being driven out of their house by a crooked, rapacious, mindless state seeking for taxes like the unblinking eye of Sauron,
“And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Like 2:7
Neato! Now why did Luke mention this? What possible relevance has this to any when they don’t mention his childhood, youth, or training? What does a Roman-era “stable” with a “manger” look like?
So a bare stone room with a bare stone box in it. You know: just like a tomb with a coffin, a sepulcher. And they wrapped him in a white cloth and laid him in the stone box. First act. That is, this child was born to die, born from a woman, wrapped in a winding sheet, and put in a tiny coffin.
Just one of the many foreshadowings, many magics to come, to play out over the years, before, as the song says,
“O Saviour, tear the veils asunder” “God and man are reconciled.”
What does that mean? That Christ’s act, that Christ is still alive and in the throneroom of God re-opened the doorway from earth to heaven, and unlike the fall of man until that day, we can re-access heaven and goodness should we choose to walk through.
But that’s our choice to look to heaven, to become heavenly and pure, and bring ourselves to “Christ Consciousness” and thus not only ourselves but our world to a higher level, leaving behind the crooked, false, sinful, shameful things we read and discuss all day. For we see them, yes. What’s the solution? How do WE leave just selfishness, fear, and abuse behind? How do we get love, generosity, wisdom INSIDE ourselves? Certain nothing out here is causing us to. Well you are part of humanity, and in connection with your kinsman redeemer, who lives yet, in a timeless place.
Choose it if you wish. I can’t make you.
“Operation Moonshot” to roll out mass testing” …that will “Moonshot” the “infected” numbers. …And sell lots of product. #Winning.
“when every last cent of their money was spent. The fix-it-up chap packed up…and he went.”
Oh wait: not a prediction. They ALREADY did mass testing, and ALREADY got massive positives with a 100:1 increases in cases…but not hospitalizations. Ching!!
“Infectious one to two days before the onset of symptoms”
That’s odd: how would you know that? Virology of hundreds of healthy people in the hopes that one day they get it? Probably.
Science time: What does “Infectious” mean? 99% chance of killing anyone you meet? 50%? 5%? 1%? There’s a single virus particle somewhere in the room? This is like setting the PCR threshold: What do you WANT the answer to be? We’ll fix the numbers accordingly.
“withholding a working vaccine…”
Except it’s NOT a vaccine. In the usual sense of the word. It also doesn’t protect you, according to themselves, AND won’t allow you to be immune, nor change your behavior, like not wearing masks. All it does is collect money, apparently.
Why would I get a vaccine that doesn’t protect me even from THIS strain, AND they claim, before the vial is even warm, that it already is useless against UK and S. Africa?
** Describe anatomical act here **
Oh wait: Although they only INVENTED the UK strain on Monday, they ALREADY say it isn’t real: it’s neither more infectious nor more deadly. Which is obvious, because no one could know that already. That is to say,
************** T H E Y ’ R E L Y I N G **************
But you knew that because medical professionals opened their eyes in the morning and their lips moved. …And my beef here: other medical professionals didn’t lambaste them publicly and call to pull their medical license unless they shut up and follow science.
“Trump Pardons Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Charles Kushner, 23 Others (JTN)”
Gag. I wouldn’t pardon Manafort, I’d go arrest every other lobbyist in K-Street who’d also done what he did. …And then all non-violent Federal drug offenders. You need a public army.
“Reports say Donald Trump has lost it. Unable to face the reality”
I have no idea where they get this stuff. “17 unnamed agencies”? He’s furious over tiny hands? Download and listen to one Trump session with the public. He’s constantly telling jokes, very often at his own expense. It’s like choose-your-own fact, reality-optional world. After 4, 5, 12 years of this, still no nuttin’. All things are bad. All things are false. He is always “Furious”, “Lashing out” in an “unhinged” “rant”, “Attack”. Meanwhile, Bush and Brian Williams (Live from the Moon), talk about the “Beautiful (Peace) bombs” when you ACTUALLY invade, bomb, murder, kill, and steal a hundred thousand kids at a pop. Albright sez “It was sooooo worth it.” That’s NOT furious. That’s NOT an attack. That’s pure love and tolerance of another new slave market being born. Gag.
“There’s only one thing that prevents the US from attacking Russia: their weapons are far more sophisticated.”
Nah. Since the leadership WANTS the whole U.S. dead and they can get to underground bunkers, this wouldn’t stop them in the slightest. I mean: look at Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit. They’re more leveled than IF Russia had bombed them. They got the pure love of Socialism, “helping” writ large.
“3,800 people shot in Chicago through end of November as violence spikes 50% from last year
Police reported 716 murders through the end of November, a 54% increase from the 464 murders during the same time last year.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/12/1/21755116/chicago-police-department-crime-statistics-shooting-murder-homicide-gun-violence-november-2020But Black Lives don’t matter. If they live in any Democrat city. Thankfully, Chicago is a gun-free zone, unlike New Hampshire which has near-zero shootings.
YES!!!!!!!! They will kill every man, woman and child in America!!!!! They already do!!!!
“Biden Threats Make Russia Discourse More Reckless, Dangerous (Greenwald)”
We’ve reached the point where it’s impossible to make this stupider than it is. So RUSSIA now has hacked us and interfered in the election. Right. To INSTALL Joe Biden in all the key states, apparently. No, to help Trump…hurt Trump…nevermind Trump…Joe Foevah…RussiaRussiaRussia, it all makes sense, shutupandtakemymoney!
Makes sense, since Russia is everywhere. Like God. Or Elvis.
“ DNC Was “Directly Involved” In Iowa Caucus App Development (IC)”
Progressives. I have no words for you, since YOU let this happen, applauded it, rolled over, and now you have NOT one person in the whole administration, and NO floor vote for anything. Pelosi gave the Committee position to the first NeoLib who demanded, and NOT YOU. …As any pot-smoking, nightclub, 2nd rate, Jimmy Dore would tell you. …FOR FOUR YEARS straight.
They’re not done yet. As victims, they love losing. It’s their way, their whole identity. What can I say? Game played badly. Now if you’d be strategic and WIN, you’d joins sides with Cheeto on $2,000/ppl or MORE, force the vote you want with REPUBLICANS, who don’t care as long as it doesn’t pass, and have the PEOPLE take out the ESTABLISHMENT. But no. Orange Man Bad. We must, must, must lose. It’s just too important. …Orange man whose supporters are ex-Bernie Bros, ex-Obama-voters, you silly-billies.
Take out Pelosi, RUN the party, install your OWN primary rigging, THEN turn and attack Orange Man. Maybe you need to smoke more. Whatever Jimmy’s smoking.
“Biden has vaguely promised to push more aid”
As per above, Biden is AGAINST $2,000, AGAINST Social Security, and pretty clearly AGAINST Medicare-for-All. His cabinet is clearly AGAINST the entire Progressive cause, purpose, ethos, and peoples. They are pretty clearly PRO war, PRO Flint water, PRO $10T for insiders.
Nope. Orange Man Bad. Biden yay! He’s installed a Dick Cheney and a Don Rumsfeld with a vagina! Worst. Ever. Didn’t think we could get to levels like this, even WITH Progressives,you know, being young, and of course totally, totally credulous of everything they’re told.
Pointing out again – not than anyone cares, or there is the slightest fig leaf of a law around here – that Medicare-for-All is totally illegal. Unconstitutional. …You need an amendment or it has to be done at the state level (where it immediately bankrupted everyone). See 10A.
“The Lancet Publishes German Doctors’ Report”
Stopped reading at “The Lancet”. It’s false. That’s what happens when you destroy your credibility by publishing false reports fabricated in headline news by adult actors, that kill people. Wait, everyone else already forgot? And all the other false things they’ve published for years? Goldfish.
Hopper was deaf. You see that in the immense silence in his paintings.
Masks? They don’t even keep out f’n dust. I wouldn’t wear those blue masks to sand a railing; you’d be choked with a noseful in 30 minutes. But they stop the ‘Rona! ‘Cause it knows! It’s the Tooth Fairy that’s going house to house spreading it in all the lockdown states, cause masks definitely work!
Vaccines? It’s going where it’s going. Apparently they’re running the Darwin effect, although that may be too strong for me to say. I’m not your mommy, I’m not going to make you not take it until it’s tested – a little – or works – a little (at least over 0.54%) — however, I will give you my opinion, and be fired, arrested, and banned. ‘Cause, Land of the Free, ‘natch.
PayPal? Don’t know what they’re up to, but at the moment it’s a scam. PayPal neither lets you transmit, nor remove Crypto from their platform. Translation: They’re lying, they don’t have any. You know, like the gold ETF, it takes the pressure off when total idiots who read nothing buy this at 10,000:1 hypothecation, instead of Coinbase with 300:1 hypothecation. ‘Cause honesty matters to Coinbase, they never shut their servers off on every drop, and they’re not anything like:
Quadriga
MtGox
Tradesatoshi
FCoin
Coinnest
Cryptopia
Zaif
Coinrail
Coinsecure
Bitgrail
Coincheck
Youbit
BTCChina
Gatecoin
Harborly
Coin.mx
Bitspark
Excoin
Virtex
Yacuna
Bitstake
Melotic
Coin-Swap
AllCrypt
Comkort
LibertyBit
MintPal
McxNOW
Cryptorush
WeExchange
Kapiton
Vault of Satoshi
Britcoin
Bitomat
Bitfloor
BitMarket.eu
Bitcoin Brasil
FXBTC
Crypto-Trade
Bitcoinica
Bitcoin-Central
Tradehill
or
The Bitcoin MarketAll of whom no longer exist, mostly because they were mysteriously “hacked”. No news if the owners then retired to a private island to think long and hard about what they’ve done.
Don’t hand your money to unregulated criminals like Wells Fargo. Or major DNC fundraisers, licensed on Wall Street and protected by SEC insurance, like MF Global. Or the State of California, which has broken into and emptied out all the safe deposit boxes. No, no, no, those things are safe, and crypto is risky.
Get a Trezor or a paper wallet, and don’t leave $100 bills lying around, or hand them to people you don’t know “for safekeeping.” Even it they’re honest, trustworthy, sober fellows like PayPal founder Elon Musk who has never had any issues with constant, uncontrollable fires. And explosions. And SEC investigations, and…
“If anything, Trump fired him far too late.”
Nah. If they’d revealed it back then, they’d just have hacked in with a new method we DON’T know about. Much more dangerous. Don’t you understand when you’ve discovered a mole, you don’t ARREST them? That would be a waste. You watch them and feed them false information. Forever, if possible, but in this case they need to publicize the U.S. was “hacked” when in fact the U.S. is always “hacked” – the insiders themselves are the ones popping in the USB drives and leaving the doors open.
But don’t you know that’s what makes it the best election in history? Because we put in our guy despite all your honest effort. #Winning! And it only took 1M more people voting than were registered.
““The president may insist on having his name on the check. But make no mistake, those checks are from the American people.”
Huh? They’re FROM the people, TO the people? So you can take a $10T cut for the oligarchs? Definition of a circle-jerk.
“it totals $6.69 a day since the country shut down in March.”
Nonsense. $10 Trillion transferred to oligarchs is $27 Billion dollars a day. That’s so much “Help” from government I argue the U.S. people could hardly take any more!
Only government can do this. The “Capitalists” are minimum-wage janitors in comparison.
“$600 Is Not Enough, And It Won’t Get Easier (Sirota)”
Killin’ some folks, movin’ $10 Trillion to the rich. No one notices. They still argue it’s an “accident.” After 1994, 2001, 2008, Madoff, Mozillo, Kash-n-kari…
Next problem we’ve shockingly haven’t run into is: food isn’t money. Your “money” means nothing to me.
“Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff and Supplies (IC)”
Vouch for this. They’re like, “Golly, since we totally, completely lied about 15 days DIDN’T stop the virus, and can’t do regular procedures, we’re out of money. Can you all work half-staffed while we sit over here in safe, COVID-free office buildings or work from our $500k kitchens? Thanks, pal.”
And NOW they’re like, “Gee, there’s a second wave.” –Yeah, we know, you were talking about it even before there was a FIRST wave. “The second wave is overwhelming (only very certain parts) of the country – the ones that wear masks.” Yeah, we know. So you went on a Manhattan Project of recruiting nurses and hiring and training medical staff, opened up disused wings and shuttered facilities, activated the national guard and hospital ships, right? You had a year.
NOPE. We just worked from home and used the half-staffing in Covid wards to pay our own safe-in-houses salaries. Sorry about those Front-line workers who have long-term disabilities now. Ooopsie!!! Is that a third Margaritaville blender arriving from Amazon? Gotta go!
“Coronavirus New Variant (Conv.)”
Printed. Therefore: lie. It’s “More contagious?” Who cares? A) the first one already isn’t stopped by anything, and DEFINITELY, PROVABLY not by lockdowns, fake or otherwise. (20-nation study, WHO, Nov 11 U.S. Army study, Sweden, California, Texas, NY…) B) Nobody’s dying from it in the first place. If I “Get” feline leukemia, would I care? No, because it doesn’t do anything to me. Now CV is probably 2x-ish more dangerous than the flu, but that’s still down near “not dangerous at all.” Or no more dangerous than a thousand things we do nothing about, like pollution-caused cancer, driving miles, and diet-caused Diabetes.
C) So you have the same-old non-disease, and you call a city-wide lockdown? A week after PARIS freaked over their city-wide lockdown? And so…more predictably than rain…
everyoneall the rich people in the affected area fled town. …AND THEREBY SPREAD THE NEW STRAIN COUNTRYWIDE. Worldwide. Congratulations, you’re an idiot. No one gets in trouble, which means they LIKE what happened, and they’re up to something.…I mean beyond the obvious of FORCING city-real estate prices down, making the middle-class take the loss, then buying it up on the cheap and “Building Back Better” with ANOTHER $10 Trillion from broke, stolen, trampled, harassed, imprisoned, murdered taxpayers. ..So lacking any imagination, they stole the plot from “RoboCop.”
“No Question’ Russia Behind Latest Hacking Scare – Adam Schiff (RT)”
The amazing thing here is that Adam Schiff can speak without everybody laughing. …But that’s what happens when you don’t arrest anybody. Ever.
“Trump Campaign Take Election Battle to SCOTUS Over Pennsylvania Rulings (RT)”
You have to exhaust all legal avenues before you do more creative things. Both being the good guys, and public perception demand it.
“Flynn: Foreign Intelligence Agencies Were Monitoring US Election (ET)”
Which one? We still need to arrest people for illegally spying on the LAST election, including Ted Cruz and every other candidate (Jill Stein), without even a fake RussiaGate premise to fabricate legality.
“I guess there are still people who read the New York Times. Why?”To know what idiots think, of course. To keep track of the other side, what they’re up to, what their strategy and game plan is. And of course since everything they print is a lie, just fill in the opposite and you have the truth. And they printed it. Only in the negative.
This is how traders read the news. It’s not HOW they report, it’s WHAT they report. Why is this headline here when another far more important story isn’t? Paid advertising. Product placement. You certainly don’t own a paper for the PROFITS, so it has to be to control narrative and insider trade. By lying. Then lying. Then lying some more. The Truth doesn’t sell, people. Only lies and slander.
Mr. House, yes, the problem I describe is surmountable. The real problem is this: a farm can’t be hidden, it can’t be moved. Therefore it will be taxed until the laborers are reduced to total poverty and death, while the tax authorities eat 20 sheep at a meal. Anything you have, own, do, try, is under their rapacious eye, and their well-fed soldiers will come down and keep themselves well-fed. Look at the movie “Defiance.” They had a farm. Did it help them? Were their fellow farmers helped?
THEY are the one who will make everyone starve – even themselves in their ignorance and arrogance. Like in Russia, Ireland, and everywhere else.
So in theory, you need a food-farm Bitcoin wallet. Tiny, invisible, mobile, international. Newsflash: There’s no such thing.
You are NOT going to be left alone. Ever. Good men will join together or perishfor 1,000 years. If you want cows and food YOU will have to defend it. Either personally, or by alliance with people who grow them.
John Day: Yes, certainly the problem, 3 acres/cow, and that’s not even bad in Texas terms. AND you need water. AND the soil is often impacted clay and can’t be hoof-hammered. They need the wandering, large-herd system the buffalo had, even if it’s with different breed. Should it be larger, like the buffalo? Or smaller, like an Irish Dexter? And then how? There are still places like the Highlands that simply allow their animals to roam. That’s a very different life. A fun one, maybe, but also dangerous. Don’t want to drive a car 75mph with jet-black 700lb obstacles walking around.
And the other part, yes, not only does your farm strength start from birth, but your judgement. Cow is a little sick. Do you call the Doc? Put it down? Take it in? There’s no Windows Diagnostics disk to run: just you, a ticking clock, blank experience, and no clues. This is a major reason why every Socialist central-planner starved. A college professor, party official just can’t tell, doesn’t know, then safely from his leather chair second guesses the farmer, the worker. And the farmer doesn’t know either, but over time his odds are constantly better, and the experts are no help at all. Not veterinarians? No. They can save the animal but don’t account for their “success” being so expensive that it’s a ruinous energy-input failure. A net loss. Kind of like medical experts right now. There are worse things than death, on the farm, or in life.
For bad soils, I learned something important. In 1890 Paris market-growing, they didn’t look for good soils nor care. THEY brought in the soil themselves, that is, mountains of horse manure and put it atop the ground in cold-frames, that is raised beds. They outdoor-greenhoused every inch, and all of it was “artificial.” So whether in Australia or Texas, or parking lots in Detroit, it’s all the same then. The soil being ruined still matters, but matters a lot less if you drop two feet of compost on it. Made me feel like we weren’t cheating by doing what seemed like modern, space-ship measures. In fact, this has always been true: the natives growing “corn, beans, squash” clear-cut the forest and burnt out a stump, and raked all the good soil into a pile. Raised bed. Totally artificial. With artificial seeds, and artificial waterings with a gourd or a bison-stomach bag.
Yet they’re ecological an we’re not? Or maybe we are, as we’re still an animal and an unbroken subset of “Nature.” As we’re about to find out, thinking ourselves too good to be married to a round frumpy called “soil” when there are hot new hot-mess starships exploding daily.“Lawmakers Ask Whether Massive Hack Amounted to Act of War (Hill)”
This is the only way to use the feckless, corrupt media to set-up the pitch for when they say China was in the machine, China was in the office, China was setting the plans, China was paying the bribes to Kemp…and we have the receipts. What would you have us do, America? Our hands are tied.
And floating the trial balloons for martial law and a re-vote. Ding!
Normally I’d be annoyed and protest this regardless of who’s doing it. However, thanks to these idiots, we’re ALREADY under martial law. WORSE than martial law, since there’s no “Law” in it – not even any pretense – no Supreme Court, which already struck it down everywhere, no Justice in that all leaders and pals do whatever and arrest/bankrupt all the poor for selling a hot dog. In that case, a Federal-level martial law arresting governors and arsonists is LESS bad than a DeBlasio martial law, and is welcome. P.S. thanks for the authorization of nation-wide emergency powers.
How do you get this going? Since they’ll go bananas with the very first move, illogically, a-logically regardless of who, what, where, when, scale, size, purpose, or justice of it, we hear they may start with arresting all the criminals in the LAST elections’ hundred-thou felonies, just to soften up the public. THEN move on to today’s rigging, very very slowly.
“California Reports Record COVID Cases and Deaths—Despite Strict Lockdown (FEE)”California is worse than the Congo. And less free. Still no scientific curiosity, no shame, no law, no science, as the WHO says “Do no lockdowns” and the AMA re-instates HCQ.
“Trump has vented his fury at late Senator John McCain”Hyperbole much? It’s called “lying”. What did he actually say? “John McCain, one of the most overrated people in D.C” Wow. Be still my heart. Is this pistols at dawn, or what? Overrated. Sad.
“Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if thispoetrylying s–t continues, shoot me now, please.”Quote, “Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even when the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I told the press that, like, a gang-banger would get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics. Because it’s all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor
will die,is called “overrated” well then everybody loses their minds!”So what will happen when the former FBI director and CIA directors are arrested? Well, if you wonder why things are slow-rolling, use your imagination. McConnell and 100 Republicans are suddenly investigated like the DA who presented the Texas case was? A missile gets shot out of Puget Sound and Honolulu goes into panic for incoming nukes? Oh did these things already happen (threatening arresting Trump day after office, hanging 150 Congressmen)? What happens if anyone actually DID anything? Like their job?
“as intended to influence as well as to inform.”
Completely fabricated, bare-faced lies “inform” now? Tell me more about how all false things educate and elucidate people.
“’We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false’? – CIA Director Casey.
“When Deplorables Become Ungovernables (Escobar)”
AntiFa, the “Resistance” are ungovernable too, creating YET ANOTHER secession, autonomous zone. Murdering a few more black children will follow shortly, I’m sure.
But in this article, no one follows the famous corruption of the 1960 election? Chicago going way back? The Southern Democrats since the reconstruction? Tammany Hall? Adams v Jackson? There’s never been a time this hasn’t happened. Yet since we’re raised on nothing but lies, we pretend each time is the first time in our lives, no one ever did drugs before, our parents never had sex, like goldfish we forgot and invented it all. Could it be any better for controlling the masses to their own ruin? This is why you want “Democracy” and a (illegal) Department of Education forcing Common Core: so the masses are do dumb, so credible, so incapable of thinking using our “Newspeak” that we can just say “Friends, Romans, Countrymen”, start a riot with the unthinking mob, and depose or raise up anyone we puppetmasters feel like. Even if they’re the worse 2 candidates ever seen, hated universally by the party members.
“A self-funding national infrastructure bank…”
Fighting the last war. What infrastructure do we need? More houses? More roads? To do what? Create more factories and consumer goods? And using what? More oil, strip-mining more iron and concrete? I mean, yes, the “American Plan” of Hamilton will work…but because it erases vertical-compounding interest and moves the control of the nation away from outside oligarchs. …A little. That’s why they will nuke us before they allow that to happen, and impeach/depose/arrest/assassinate anyone who puts a painting of Andrew Jackson on their wall. ..Facing the statue of Martin Luther King, assassinated the day he united black and white against the war.
Going back: the Fed is reportedly owned by the Treasury now. They are widely advertising a “Financial Reset”, we are going to default on U.S. Treasury bonds owned by China due to their act of war, and will convert to the new Treasury Dollar, probably eventually gold, or more likely silver-backed.
Article has a lot of good, but what good are high-speed rails? What is a “productive purpose”? Who can tell? Well, for all journalists, including this one sadly, it’s central planning decided by JP Morgan, Mitch McConnell, and the Politburo who brought us Amtrak and Solyndra. Sure, but really…? Is leaving people alone really that bad? Why not let them decide what they need, if anything at all. Maybe they want to grow trees, eat avocado toast, and be happy with their friends.
“vaccination is key to safely reopening our long term care facilities.”
Not according to them. It doesn’t confer immunity and you still have to wear a mask. So other than causing side effects, I’m at a loss to measure what it’s for.
“Missed social life might be bigger.” Missed HUMAN life. That is, “the reason and meaning of being human.”
“Virtual Learning Has Traumatized Their Children (DC)”Yes, life-sentence house arrest, as has happened to Liu Xia, Aung San Suu Kyi, and hundreds of others – without law or trial — is considered human right abuse and torture for a reason. …Unless you use it on 5-year-olds in Harrisburg and Sioux City, letting your mother die alone. Then it’s love and tolerance.
“all the PCR tests being done will be done “under the new WHO guidelines”, and running only 25-30 cycles instead of 35+. Lo and behold, the number of “positive cases” will plummet..”Ding! Okay, if it’s real, why does it have so many dozen aspects of a scam? Lucky accident?
“will you stop saying you were cheated, because you haven’t got any evidence – we know this, because we don’t need to look at it”.
Ding! That says “honesty” to me. No need to look further.
“Barr’s most significant achievement during his tenure was”
His ability to fail to prosecute any one, for any thing, at any time, and still be considered credible. You know: like EVERY. OTHER. PERSON. in the whole U.S. government, media, business…
“hackers – that U.S. officials say are tied to Russia”
WHICH U.S. officials? Nevermind: you know if they report it, it must be a lie. In this case, a lie being well-used. You can get SolarWinds, and the nation-wide hack by a state actor that includes the voting machines, and their illegal internet traffic (they are not allowed to be online) into the headlines of every paper, and the minds of the most bone-headed citizens. (NPR Listeners) So if that’s what it takes, just like DJT and the Ukraine payoff story to get it in the news, then that’s what it takes. Certainly you tell the truth for 20 years no one believes you. I have. 90% of what I say comes true and when it does, they say “No it didn’t, you’re still crazy.” Let them take in the face with a clue-by-four for a change.
Proof? “For 4 years, Congress has been urging [Trump] to take Russian threats seriously,”
Like by firing an Internet Security director who allowed Solar Winds to break all U.S. security and 400+ Fortune500 companies under his watch? Oh wait: you guys DEFENDED that guy. Said it was political loyalty purge without even “Calling” for a “Statement.”
Trump has “cozied up to” Russian President Vladimir Putin.” …By leaving every arms treaty, weaponizing space, surrounding Russia with instant-fire nukes while bombing all their allies and embargoing them for 4 years. Yes, definitely that’s just what Putin wanted, you’re so right.
Etc, etc. Every day. Yawn. So bored. Point being is, REALITY IS POINTLESS. It’s irrelevant to them and their followers of #AntiLogos. Just like when Kavanaugh’s first case he sided WITH the liberals AGAINST abortion, doesn’t matter, no olive branch is taken. Nothing exists but ego and power, unrestrained. If you’re bad, doesn’t matter what you do. If you’re a pal, in the Church of the Sainted Progressive, doesn’t matter what slave markets you create or whose hair you sniff.
“the Pentagon’s anti-terrorism trainees are learning a far broader definition of terrorism, one that includes:” Having thoughts.
Not kidding. New winds arising: post Trump, “Libertarians” are the new public enemy, be they on the left or right. That is, anyone who might LEAVE YOU ALONE and not want an Authoritarian – even Totalitarian – Government and birth-to-death surveillance state. THEY’RE Hitler. Because can’t you tell by how they mind their own business that they’re dangerous and out to get you?
“Facebook To Require Masks In All Profile Pictures (BBee)”
Speaking of, you missed it: This was already NOT a joke. Literally. I think it was something, a school or government in Michigan that breathlessly said they need to – MUST WEAR – masks to all their Zoom telecalls. Cause signaling is real, but reality isn’t real? Words are violence, but street beatings, arson, are merely communication. Or something? It wasn’t in this one place either, it pops up off and on every other week.
“Request for video meeting between Parliamentarians and Julian Assange”
Denied. You haven’t run things here for generations, and now you don’t run the EU, MI6, or HSBC either, so stuff it. Wait, you only NOW realized you don’t have any power and democracy was a sham? Good thing they don’t give IQ tests for public office.
Well, today’s the pivot day, I hear. Let’s see what the morrow brings.
“we may face a scenario that would be a first in modern US history: an aggrieved former president making a competing claim to the presidency and refusing in perpetuity to acknowledge the reality of his defeat. In other words, a “shadow” president.”
Breathtaking lack of self-awareness, not that we aren’t swimming in a sea of it. A Presidential candidate that claims they really won and the existing officeholder is “illegitimate”? Every day for four years on books and tours until their own party demands they shut up? A President that moves 1 mile away, roaming the earth ahead of the existing officeholder making parallel negotiations with Beirut, Iran, North Korea, because the present officeholder is just about to leave after being exposed as the puppet of foreign nations and impeached?
Yeah, that’s never happened before in US history. …Even as it never STOPPED happening, and this reporter knows it.
Not sure what the gratuitous smears are in there for, either. It’s called a “Straw Man Argument,” and it’s a fallacy. I.e. indicates being stupid, false, wrong, a lie. “Reagan said?” JHChrist, Ronnie’s been dead for 20 years. It’s super-important that what he said a generations ago – and people disagreed with even back then, as they have since 1770 – is also in dispute now.
“Unicef to Feed Hungry Children in UK for First Time in 70-Year History (G.)”
This has more to do with UNICEF making their own mandate…to undercut the “City on the Hill” image, as above. UK was very poor and hungry in 1950 and UK locations like Ulster, Scotland, Wales, have been poor and hungry for centuries. No one cared then, no one cares now. It’s just a show. Maybe they’re expanding their UN human trafficking franchise to the island.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/63394/foreign-aid-how-and-where-is-britains-budget-spent
“The £13.4bn spent by the UK in 2016 is around one-tenth of what the government spends on health in England.”So, for people who have food kitchens in small southern European countries, how many meals is £13.4 billion? Hint: at £10/meal – a 4-star spread – that’s 1 billion 340 million meals. There are 67 million people in Britain.
Your politicians are taking open questions now.
I have one: is it bad optics for the person in charge of Flint’s water to be the head of Biden’s EPA/Climate Tzar?
No rush: I’ll wait.
“Wow. Biden spoke well and coherently 13 years ago.” Yes, because he was plagiarizing everything then too. CNN and 60 Minutes covered it decades ago and every campaign since then. …Until OMB, of course.
When I was just about to instantly concede my deaths rate (and go look instead at the source I used) I started into the CDC page posted. Look for yourself:
“Methods”
Counts of deaths in the most recent weeks were compared with historical trends (from 2013 to present) to determine whether the number of deaths in recent weeks was significantly higher than expected, using Farrington surveillance algorithms (1). The ‘surveillance’ package in R (2) was used to implement the Farrington algorithms, which use overdispersed Poisson generalized linear models with spline terms to model trends in counts, accounting for seasonality. For each jurisdiction, a model is used to generate a set of expected counts, and an upper bound threshold based on a one-sided 95% prediction interval of these expected counts…etc”
The chart says not “deaths” but consistently “Predicted deaths”. Okay, mostly the same? Wait: how is your “Threshold of extra deaths” always above the actual? Wouldn’t it be similar to your 200dma? Hold on: now I’m hovering over and getting week-by-week and the excess in 2020 is very similar to the weeks of 2018, like 50k. The mid-high weeks in 2020 are also in the 50k-range. What? They’re Visibly higher, but not actually higher? Or so “Weighted” as they say that a 2k increase reads like a 10k increase? 6k extra people isn’t nothing, but it’s also only 100 per state. Next door to nothing. This is going to take some time.
Trying .csv or alternatives, click “Number of excess deaths without weighting” + “Excluding Covid”. Wait: NYC has 7k extra deaths that are NOT Covid? And Michigan too? Texas has 10k and CA 12k? What are those? Deaths exclusively from the lockdown murder/suicide/healthcare halt? That’s like more than COVID itself. But it can’t be. But it is?
So you don’t have a number, you have a “predicted number.” You don’t have a death, you have a “weighted death.” Why? I mean like laymen look at the vaccine math and assume 95% means 95%, not 0.54% If you’re adding very, very complex adjustments, scientists say “Why?” “Where’s your raw data set?”
I JUST WANT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DIED GOING BACK TO 2010. And I have looked myself, but still can’t find it. (or forgot to link it.) Anyone? Like the number of missing children, why is this number not clearly tracked and easy to find?
“Utah Mink First Wild Animal In US To Test Positive For Mutated Coronavirus”
When a can of oil and a papaya can test positive on the PCR test, no surprise…
From yesterday, suppose you were in charge of the deep information stream. You’re the KNOWERS, you’re the state agency of three-letter secrets. Could you run leaders around like idiots the way Kennedy was for Missiles and the Bay of Pigs? Just before he got mad at them and had an accident? So if deep leaders believe to their core that there is an imminent sun/comet/weather collapse, WHY do they feel that way? Who told them?
Quote of the day, “The Lie is different at every level.” That is, at the bottom it’s something like, CNN “Beavis is a stupidhead and should be shot for using the wrong Dr. Title/pronoun/euphemism. He’s so dumb!” Next level it’s NPR “Sir Butthead Esquire should be imprisoned because their policy lacks robust logic, old chum.” Next level it’s Bloomberg “Everyone knows we’re just running that idiot policy as a bone to the rubes as a direct attack on propane and propane accessories industry in order to consolidate power in SE Asia.” Next level it’s Google “Dr. Evil doesn’t care about governments – we only use governments, politicians, and idiot voters to get the REAL power in corporations and interpersonal blackmail.” Above that it’s Sachs “I don’t care WHO does WHAT power, I have people posted in all governments I’m the guy brokering the secrets and power because I arm all sides and wait for them to kill each other for my profit.” And above that, perhaps something else.
Are they all true? Probably a little. All lies work best when they’re true. But clearly the big is the father to the small. For instance, gutting the U.S. and selling all military secrets and manufacturing to China so Xi would think we’re equal sizes and he could possibly win WWIII and therefore prompt/demand he take a swing at it. On Dec 7th, a day that FDR overruled all admirals and demanded the whole U.S. Navy be blocked into one port within striking distance of the enemy. While we had already cracked their Pacific code. Hypothetically, of course. Murdering every gun-toting, law-and-bible-quoting deplorable is just a happy bonus for the real motive of the action, almost too large to be opposed, coming as it is from arcane WTO and OSHA/ACA laws while tied to a fake, too-high currency.
So WHY do the insiders think, believe, and act as they do? Who sets facts and reality for them? When they think they’re so smart and on the inside?
Speaking of inside info, year-end deaths are in. No deaths. So weird how we have these mass pandemics with NO ADDITIONAL DEATHS at all. It’s almost like it’s a scam to create worldwide martial law, let insiders hold and consolidate their power, during a debt/currency collapse, and transfer $10T of middle class assets to 20 guys at the top. …But that’s just me. I’m just a stickler for you know, people dying, or in this case NOT dying. At all.
But I gotta have a vaccine that gives facial paralysis to 3 on the first day and is immediately reversed for old, allergy-owners, and the immunocompromised. So, basically not recommended to anyone who would be at risk for the disease, only healthy people who are at no risk. …Who will still have to wear a mask. Forever.
Jimmy Dore is on these Democrats and faux-Progressives like a spider monkey. Like, you have power now, why not have a vote? …murmurmurmur…deflect…OMB…RussiaRussia. Since Biden has Bush II cabinet, and just told black voters to go screw themselves, Oh say what can you see? By the dawn’s early light? We got a woman Rumsfeld and a Black Cheney, congratulations, I’m sure the 10 new wars and 5 open slave markets will be much more gentle and caring now.
This also goes after his main point: even pot-smoking 2nd rate nightclub comedians know you don’t give away your vote BEFORE you get anything for it. And therefore, if they do nothing, over and over and over, you need a People’s Party. Wake up, he’s said for 5 years.
Barr, Bush-family deep state flunky, does nothing and steps down. Ding! After creating great cases he thinks will never be brought to docket. Ding! He is replaced by the Army Airborne. Ding!
Suddenly “Hacking” appears. Trump fired security insider who said, “Safest election ever” – a thing no NetSec admin would ever say, as one can barely keep the crooks out even when you’re not under direct attack. Turns out, they had complete “God-mode” access to huge swaths of U.S. government since June. As a State actor. A State actor like China, perhaps? Including – gasp! – Dominion! Shocked! Who coulda seen the timing? And Hunter’s case resurfacing. Meanwhile FBI investigates a totally different company and prints it to NYT, ‘cuz RussiaRussiaRussia.See the field? If you were about to release DNI Election tampering report, where you show all KINDS of fun stuff, sit on the throne, refuse to leave until the cases are finally heard and recounts actually run, to insure the worst election ever, what would you release? Biden actual payoffs with Chinese money-launderers? Chinese officials bragging they own the U.S. government? Leaks that the whole government was being monitored by China? And that went down to the voting systems, too? Nah. He’s just a midget IQ with tiny hands who eats ding-dongs all day.
Moving to Assange, don’t forget he’s the guy they need to testify under oath before Congress to pop all the fabricated Russian hysteria and vindicate Trump. Pardon, sure, but it’s much more than that. And they need to get him out of the U.K. alive, the nation that set up the whole fake Russian story, Steele, Haskell, Harper, the Skripals, and just about every other actual election-tampering worldwide. …You tell me how to do that, cause I’m not smart enough to figure it out. I’d guess they’d trade Andrew and the whole Royals – including St. Harry’s – dossier as well-known-and-run by Ms. Maxwell, whose father was Mossad/MI6.
“Democrats Make Wreck of Covid-19 Relief Negotiations (Taibbi)”
No they didn’t: if you hadn’t noticed, they’re trying to kill and monetize every poor and middle class person in every state they control. If you bail the people out, how can you utterly ruin and destroy them? They need to desperate, begging for the reset, UBI and Socialism. Just another “accident.” 500th in a row. All the same direction.
“Stimulus Bill Bails Out Defense Contractors, Denies Families Payments (DP)”
“How is it possible that in so many countries that failed so miserably in their pandemic fights, all the same faces hold on to all their same jobs?”
All the failures are approved and applauded. No one’s mad. They keep their jobs and are promoted. I rest my case.
“Guaido and Navalny are back in the western news, two people who play no role whatsoever in their own home countries.”
Just another amazing coincidence. No one’s behind it. Nothing to see here.
“Sunday Times Claims Navalny Was Poisoned Twice (Robinson)”
Wow, twice. With the world’s most deadly poison. With the world’s most deadly hit-squads. And still missed, Navalny is fine, completely unharmed. Who not only missed, but then allowed, helped, and encouraged him to seek special treatment in Germany so he could recover. RussiaPhrenia, where they’re both masing deadly masterminds and totally laughable, incompetent boobs at the same time. Like TrumpoPhrenia. Both dangerous masterminding dictator and idiot man-boy with too short an attention to get anything done. So be afraid! Be very afraid! …Of how he’s too dim-witted to do anything.
#Logic! …Or what passes for #Logic when you’re a dedicated zealot of #AntiLogos.
P.S. if you want to reduce tech to c1840 and allow everyone the freedom to play with fireworks and not wear a seatbelt, you’ll have a nice start on reducing population. …And increasing liberty and quality of life, something far more precious than GDP.
Back to the Peak Oil route, great Smith article:
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec20/gasoline12-20.htmlExtends the point here, but question: if all cars are electric, who uses the gasoline? Do you stop pumping oil and shut off asphalt, bunker, diesel, and jet? Do you dump the petrol in the river to get rid of it? Yeah, nobody’s thought of it, because it’s not about engineering or solutions: they’re up to something.
Post Script: After 20 years of all-stops investment and buildout, all renewables combined are now 4% of energy. You could increase it 10-fold and still half the people would die if you went Carbon-free. Luckily, 10x is not possible even in dreams. Present renewables would be hard-pressed to double to 8%.
Australia wins! By having a continent-wide totalitarian police state. In a fascist nation, the trains sure run on time. …Or else. Sure, you can’t speak and your kids die because they can’t cross the border to the other hospital, but that burger joint is great! Besides, in the U.S. we die AND we can’t get a burger, so who’s laughing now?
Going with Peak Oil here, suppose you knew Peak Oil, or you knew there was a Ice Age, comet, a micronova, or even as ridiculous and unscientific as the data is: Global Warming. So in 10-20 years, you KNOW, or at least believe, for an actual FACT that the weather will fail, and with it all crops worldwide.
So you’re the smart guys, the insiders, do you tell everyone and start a panic, instant in-fighting, cutting off all your tax revenue and supply lines? Do you find a way to radically reduce population with an “old age virus” that cuts human overhead, thereby slowing the impact speed of hitting the wall? And since the world to you is over, do you bother with rules, laws, insider trading, bailouts, payouts?
“It’s not a dream, you moron. It’s real. Anybody not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day, get it?! You think you’re safe and alive? You’re already dead! Everybody! This whole place! Everything you see is gone! You’re the one living in a ****ing dream! You know I believe it so don’t F*** with me!!”
So from their perspective, it’s a mercy, a necessity as the brave, true leaders, the elect, the deep, caring, loving, shepherd of the herd.
From my perspective, they’re mad. driven insane with ego and hubris. The first thing you’d do is reduce the technical level to c1840, ruralize, and tell people as fast as you can to they can come up with a thousand ideas and solutions. Instead, they hypertechnicalized so THEY might escape the planet leaving us behind, over-concentrated, over-centralized, stripped life surface-wide, over-stressed, over-worked, over-extracted, over-complicated life to a degree that’s fatal even WITHOUT a disaster event. Everyone thinks they’re the good guy. Just strikes me from their actions what they’re really about, what would make them think they’re the good guys. While openly killing everyone they can find.
What would you think it is?
Iverm3ct3n (trying to be cool and trendy)
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT04425850Study: ZERO cases as prophylactic, very high effectiveness when taken early, a virtual cure.
By why would we use it when we can throw people in ovens and take their gold teeth?
So add to the long, long list of medical mass-murders.
