[Dr. D]

Your tunnel vision reminds me of the old monks who would read scrolls by the light of a single incense stick. The ember lights up one Kanji at a time before passing into darkness.

[Dr. D]

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/man-behind-global-coronavirus-pandemic

Posting for this job in Wuhan last month:

“Dr. Peng Zhou (周鹏), Ph.D., a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Leader of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Group. Some more on Zhou’s background from the Institute (google translated):
He received his PhD in Wuhan Virus Research Institute in 2010 and has worked on bat virus and immunology in Australia and Singapore. In 2009 , he took the lead in starting the research on the immune mechanism of bat long-term carrying and transmitting virus in the world. So far, he has published more than 30 SCI articles, including the first and corresponding author’s Nature , Cell Host Microbe and PNAS . At present, research on bat virus and immunology is continuing, and it has received support from the National “You Qing” Fund, the pilot project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the major project of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Below is a list of several recent papers published by Dr. Zhou
• Dampened STING-Dependent Interferon Activation in Bats
• Fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin
• IFNAR2-dependent gene expression profile induced by IFN-α in Pteropus alecto bat cells and impact of IFNAR2 knockout on virus infection
• Immunogenicity of the spike glycoprotein of Bat SARS-like coronavirus
• Bat severe acute respiratory syndrome-like coronavirus ORF3b homologues display different interferon antagonist activities”

But that is a total coincidence and is not suspicious at all.

[Dr. D]

Am I wrong or is 132 of 6,000 (known) cases 0.02% death rate? I think given the choice, you should jump at Corona instead of contracting the common cold. So what’s driving this still?
Is it “Harvard Chemistry Chair & Two Chinese Nationals Arrested For Lying About China Ties, Smuggling “Biological Material” ?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/harvard-chemistry-chair-2-chinese-nationals-arrested-lying-about-china-ties-smuggling

So as we saw, Bill Gates foundation has Coronavirus test, a month or so later, Corona smuggled from Harvard/Canada to China and caught. 30 days later, a real corona just like the two in question accidentally and coincidentally runs the Corona epidemic as tested. Huh. Funny ol’ world.

Next: so far as anyone can prove, Wuhan is not dangerous. So…we have China, with labs, testing such things, doesn’t want to be embarrassed when it comes out they not only were doing it, but exposes/pressures their thousands of compromised ‘agent’ types, in Harvard and in Feinstein’s office? Now that makes some sense at least. U.S. services say “You broke it, you buy it: clean it up quick or we’ll start talking.” China starts taking drastic – and somewhat weird — actions. The real, dangerous corona is forestalled, and the excuse to crash the economy (instead of pointing at runaway compounding interest) is a squib. Nice try though.

Following yesterday’s gloves, also note there are 3-4 sizes. And possibly latex v. nitrile. So at 200/box x 4 sizes, I think you’ll find 100,000 gloves would be average in the smallest hospital known, and possibly no more than one shipping container. But hey! Journalists asking questions? Nevah! Give me any big number that sounds exciting and I’ll print it.

“British Airways Suspends All Direct Flights to and from Mainland China (BBC)”

At the same time – and I hate to bring this up – AOC was at a Bernie campaign and said Bernie signed on to 100% open borders, erasing the departments, no border guards at all. No door, No wall, No one testing, no one stamping passports, NOTHING. And Bernie is the DNC front-runner, which kind of makes it official party policy. So everyone from Wuhan is fully, totally welcome to fly to Nebraska, buy a house, re-align the census and Congress, elect our politicians, and we won’t even know.

…I can NOT see how that is a winning campaign. Who are they talking to? I mean, they were campaigning IN MEXICO the other month, but surely they still think there are SOME existing citizens who go to the polls. …No clue.

Anyway: Vote YES! to Wuhan. Open borders! Import some today! Bad timing, man.

“It would be interesting to conduct a secret ballot asking members of Congress — and indeed, members of the media — to confide whether they actually read the report.”

Don’t be ridiculous, everyone knows Congress and the Media are illiterate. They didn’t issue a comic book, so…

“unlikely horse trade of a witness like former National Security Adviser John Bolton for Hunter Biden.”

This could not possibly be more foreseen and expected. If they fall for this trap, I don’t know what to say. Weren’t the other 500 traps since ’16 a warning? Even this minute, Kelly is out there saying “Oh golly! Don’t throw Bolton in the briar patch! Anything but Bolton who we salted with fake intel, to get Hunter under oath! Ow, ow!” YGTBKM.

“Trump and Netanyahu Dictate Terms of Palestinian Surrender (IC)”

Since Gaza is the world’s largest open-air concentration camp, forgive me if I don’t like the plan to make more.

“Israel Will Now Officially Become an Apartheid State (Lauria)”

Yes, and the most officially racist state on earth. You must be proud. Maybe it’s better for it to be open and official though, so we can stop 50 years of idiotic denials. Not just racist, but violent and theocratic, like their good pal Saudi Arabia.

“shipping weapons to Kiev would effectively amount to the US turning its back on Ukrainian”

So apparently if you ship arms you’re Russian, and if you DON’T ship arms, you’re Russian. If you help, you’re Russian and if you leave you’re Russian. If you break treaties you’re Russian and if you make treaties you’re Russian. Newsflash: You’re Russian! RussiaRussiaRussia! Who knew a nation the size of New Jersey was running the U.S. and setting elections worldwide! If only Karl Rove and John Podesta could access this technology that controls all minds, all matter, all nations on earth! Who knew a mere $10,000 could throw every election into disarray? If only I’d racked a credit card and taken over the world myself! Cleverly, they’ve surrounded themselves with U.S. nukes and military bases! No one will suspect when they finally push their own button and nuke themselves from Belarus! Hahaha! Then they’ll see!

…Don’t worry, it doesn’t matter what I say, or how illogical it is, it is still believed without the slightest hesitation. That’s what happens when in your religion, logic is your arch-enemy. The crazier it is, the more counterproductive, the better they like it.

[Dr. D]

Even more appropriate questions from Smith:
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan20/questions-coronavirus1-20.html

[Dr. D]

40 days later they estimate possibly 200,000 “have” it. If it has anything like 3:1 transmission ratio, this would be required. Yet 2,000 have had a test and prove it. Death toll at 100, as statistically close to zero as possible. So statistically, 2,000 deaths / 365 = 5 deaths per day getting hit by lightning = 220 people, twice as likely as Kung-flu, officially.

NYC has 40,000 health care workers who need gloves Lord knows, 5x a day? 110,000 gloves is a Tuesday. Sounds impressive unless you ask a single question. It’s journalists, so we’re safe.

“The wildcard is not the fatality rate, but how infectious the Wuhan virus is.”

Yeah, because if it doesn’t kill anyone, it’s not going to be that interesting. Right now you could slip in the shower while choking on a hot dog and still survive corona. The economic effects of a panic you yourself invented out of whole cloth? Why did you do that? Or are there 5,000 dead bodies somewhere?

“the USA can get on with other business.”

Hurling complete bull-pucky has been our top business since the 1650s. Gold on the beaches of Virginia, fish jump into the boats. Why stop now?

“A US lawyer has called on Prince Andrew to “stop playing games”

If I were Andrew, I’d call on the U.S. to stop playing games and talk to Ms. Maxwell, who apparently can fly around the world as she pleases while people such as Assange are in jail.

It’s a show. A sham. A con. A put-up. WWE monster trucks for the hoi-polloi.

Trump is losing to all Democrats? Are they mental? Almost all Democrats are “my candidate or bust” so the turnout will be 1/2 – 1/4 turnout for any single offering. And I’m afraid that includes Bernie, especially lately when he’s pro-open border and re-education camp, and so weak on his competitors like Biden, I have no historical example to compare him to. He’s the weakest candidate ever, who attacks his own supporters while defending his attackers. That’s not a winning hand. And thus, impeachment, garden-variety election tampering, just like 4 out of 5 times. Hey, isn’t that what HE’S on trial for? Funny ol’ world.

[Dr. D]

We’re getting kicked out of the Middle East, and what are we going to do about it?

Speed it up and make it irreversible of course! This is what the voters wanted. So the Shia were divided all over the map, are now united not only in themselves, but with the Sunni in gracefully requesting the Americanos hit the road back home. Thank God. Even Bolton cannot effectively reverse this move without tremendous work. And we got that by doing exactly what Bolton and the Neo-cons most requested. Savage win. Their little brains are still trying to figure it out.

Speaking of, I guess we see him filled up with salted disinfo and shoved out the door just in time to write (and leak) his books. Leaked? To whom? Well Mr. Vindman, Col. Vindman’s twin brother, IKYN. But nobody nowheres ever expected he would a) authorize everything Bolton said as the legal censor and b) leak it all to the NY Times. Naw! Nevah. So as certainly as a train coming down the tracks you couldn’t have anticipated this in your strategy and legal defense. Nope, not when you sit around watching cartoons all day.

Certainly is a show. A sham. A con. A put-up. WWE at its finest.

Like the Kung-flu fighting? 40 days later they estimate possibly 200,000 “have” it. Death toll at 100, as statistically close to zero as possible. So statistically, 2,000 deaths / 365 = 5 deaths per day getting hit by lightning = 220 people, twice as likely as Kung-flu, officially.

Are y’all serious here? Since I don’t hear vaccine manufacturers hovering, like we did in ebola, etc, who vanished with the disease the second they were paid, what’s it all about, Alfie? To generate a media spin cycle from thin air? For the impeachment? That seems extreme. For the imploding economy? Darned if I can tell right now, but let’s pick a real CoD: there are 3,424 traffic fatalities per day worldwide. There are 49,000 deaths/day from combined heart diseases, CVD. There were 27 deaths/day in 2019 from wars, low estimate of direct fatalities. So eat a burger, stand in the middle of the road on a high hill in Aleppo with an umbrella. If anything they’re saying is within a 100 fold of correct, you’re not going to die of Corona, because officially, according to them, nobody yet has any more than the common cold. If they said it, it’s a lie. They are saying it, LOUD, therefore ….

[Dr. D]

“French NGOs, Local Authorities Take Court Action Against Oil Giant Total (G.)”

Desperate for austerity, Climate Austerity. Since that’s going so well since the gas tax hike! Don’t shoot ‘til you see the whites of their eyes. We’ll ruin this economy somehow! Then MORE government to fix that!

“Locust Swarms the Size of Cities (AP)”

Apparently locusts occur when there IS good weather. Rain = grass = locusts, who because it only just happened and is unusual, have no natural predators, who lag. That’s also why locusts are a predictable cycle, and show up in history in war and famine cycles. But note, this locusts ironically happen when there’s GOOD weather, and the desert first greens. …Don’t worry, won’t be reported. New lakes and grasslands aren’t news. Feel for them though: must seem like you can’t get a break.

“NYT has allowed itself to be used by Bolton”

The latest leak – again – shows that State Dept. people were openly obstructing and undermining the elected president, and that he was responding to this since the beginning of his presidency, months, years before Biden, and on issues not related to Biden.

So…argument this is about election – afraid of a guy who slurs, doesn’t know where he is, smells little girls, and can’t think straight: not so good. I wouldn’t be afraid of him, I could only dream he would the DNC candidate. And that second level (that it’s election-related) has never been established. But this latest leak does establish the time: years before Biden declared. That leaves the question: does the President have the right to fire ambassadors? Yes he does, unquestioningly. So…did you just harm your own case leaking facts again?

Since when have facts mattered? RussiaRussiaRussia. Bombshell. Walls closing in.

Is it not JUST candidate that can never be investigated, not JUST every member of their family, but every person and every family member that MIGHT candidate, someday, years from now?

Why can’t we pin Kung-Flu yet? Is it 50 people dead (world’s biggest joke) or 10,000 (worth locking down 50M) as random youtube clips are attempting to lead? Okay, something else? Need an excuse as to why China is slowing to collapse that isn’t the Chinese government? Can’t figure.

[Dr. D]

I was going to say, and NOW they complain we’re terrible, ecological wrecks, compared to THAT. …But what we’ve done is worse, in a way, paving all land from sea to sea and putting concrete houses on it it will take a glacier to erase. That’s “Clean” you see. Whereas having one coal-laden hot spot and 91% forest is “dirty”. Ah, humans!

We may have found out why China didn’t immediately blame the U.S.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coronavirus-canada-and-weaponize-it

I remember the airport stop but didn’t lodge the exact virus name, since it wasn’t relevant then. Too much going on.

On that, a bad 2nd piece: “This Is How China Is Hiding The True Number Of Coronavirus Deaths”
“Coronavirus Kills Man In Shanghai As China Confirms Nearly 2,000 Cases”

And viewers are right: China doesn’t screw everything up and go into worldwide lockdown unless there’s a LOT more people affected, and it’s a LOT more dangerous (or embarrassing) than they admit.

I have to suggest from their behavior that it’s not 100 dead. That would be what 50 Million lockdown / 200 cases, or they shut down their economy and blew $1B for 1:250,000 or even one in a million chance-death. No mas. No way. Nyet. The media is also lying and I wouldn’t credit different article that there are 10,000 cases in Wuhan 5 days ago, but that has to be a lot lot closer than 200 deaths.

Still random, still very low count, single%, but we now know it can kill healthy people without issue, the transmission says everyone in the world will have it very soon, and the usual suspects – vaccine salesmen, authoritarian lockdown experts, even fear mongers mostly – are nowhere to be found even now. So they are not on the list. Similarly not buying the “random animal market” story, which then they knew where and when a day later? C’mon, make it plausible. No, China knew instantly, and how serious instantly, in a vast land of bureaucratic denial instantly, and responded with shock and awe instantly, which means they knew something.

“The first person known to have been infected by the Wuhan coronavirus had never visited the city’s seafood market”

“ US Economic Confidence at Highest Point Since 2000 (Gallup)”

Although confidence is nice, it’s a feeling and not reality. After 20 years of contraction (hidden by erroneous inflation subtractor) we’ve barely risen 1%. So we cut the country 30% in a 20-year depression and rose off the mat? Well, better than not, I guess.

“Stock Market A ‘Ponzi Scheme’ That Eventually Must Collapse – Guggenheim (RT) “

Sure but in inflationary nations with a crippled economy like Argentina and Zimbabwe, money hides in the stock market and it goes up wildly, losing money less. It never collapsed numbers, only in real money terms.

“hung jury strategy.”

That’s a good point and meshes perfectly with the plan to inspire a new civil war to hide everything. Bernie’s guys – although only one or two, again – said if they didn’t get their way it was “obvious” that like Nadler says, there’s a “cover up” maybe plus a rigged vote – 100% of the time that I don’t win – and therefore they would “take to the streets” and “burn it down.” Then the criminals that inspire it, just like the teachers and professors, can make their getaway, claiming “oh those violent people, those peasants left and right, we need violent, oppressive authoritarianism to control them”. …Or more than now, apparently, which is impressive indeed. I hate the plan, yes. But it’s a pretty good one. They’re just unarmed and some numbers short, which is why they’ve been importing and protecting MS-13.

P.S. the Clinton trial was a much rigged nonsense with no “high crime” as the present one is. And just like now, there was a wide sweep of real crimes they COULD have presented and didn’t. Then everyone cries about ‘honesty’ and ‘what we did before’. What we did before? We lied, covered our side, and made it up. Why would we repeat that? Tradition?

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins.” ― G.K. Chesterton

“VP Pence Appears To Suggest Americans, Nor Russians, Liberated Auschwitz”

We’ve been at this since before it happened. Wow, Normandy! Bigliest in the war. …You know except every day on the Eastern front in Stalingrad and elsewhere. What was it, 60 divisions east to 10 west or something? And we didn’t take Italy and still couldn’t make it to Berlin on time? It’s amazing the Anglos flapping gums and polishing office-chairs until their bums are red-hot works so well for them. Not trying to diminish what was pretty hard for us dog-faces — just put it into context. Most things reported in history are true — it’s just that their opposites are also true. Which is real? Which is more accurate? One probably is but how do we know? We don’t even know what’s going on now, and it’s around us.

[Dr. D]

Here’s something useful from The Guardian: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-case-for-making-low-tech-dumb-cities-instead-of-smart-ones?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Just as well to go to low-tech now and beat the rush, since high-tech is spiral of both increasing failures and higher costs. What is is Tainter said about “Collapse”? That it was a result of outsized infrastructure that then saps too much daily support? Our answer: more centralization, more infrastructure, more GDP=more costs.

So the article can indicate scores of solutions, but we cannot use them – yet – because we cannot let go of centralization and power concentration, and the mind that makes the problem cannot be the mind that sees the solution.

A lot of hype and alarmism about my Corona. Let’s see what happens and what the real numbers are. People may “have it” but if if only gives you the common cold, then that happens already with all the existing flus. Kung-flu, as they’re saying. It’s probably worse, but how MUCH worse? I’m not getting good info, because without a test, no one knows how many have it. Could be the whole world has already been infected, and the hundred deaths are the cap. Not looking too hard, 3,000 deaths a year in Australia for the common cold, population 25M = 1:8300, or 0.0001% That would be 700k deaths worldwide. See what I mean? Does it go up by fibonocci? It’s cool numbers to put on a page, but can you back it?

“was holding Republican senators rapt”

That’s not what Kunstler and other leftists said. They thought if only someone should throw a brick and end it all, like a Vogon Poetry reading. The comment itself is pretty standard these days: IF anything I said/wrote/implied was true, THEN that would be quite a story! Yes, and IF aliens landed and made Fluffy the Shibu king of all earth, that would be a story too. But it didn’t happen, you didn’t have evidence, nobody said it was, and there was no reason to think it ever will. “You can’t make this stuff up!” –CNN reporter, on making all the stuff up.

Example 5 minutes ago, MSNBC: “Gay teen’s family says his homicide may have been a hate crime” …Or it may not have been. Because I’m a journalist, I didn’t call anybody, collect evidence, or check. Even if there were evidence, that would have to be proven somewhere, presented by the D.A., confirmed by a jury, and might even then be wrong…but at least there would BE a story. The story here is, “If I invent and presume things, there might be a story.”

Back to the point, yes, IF anything Adam Schiff said was true, that WOULD be interesting and incriminating. However, it’s Mr. Adam’s job to PRESENT EVIDENCE of…anything, frankly…but hopefully something relevant to the non-crimes and non-charges in the impeachment, and after 3 days has failed or forgotten to do so. I can’t help him in that case. Trump could be totally guilty, but you wouldn’t know it through Adam Schiff because he presented nothing to the jury.

Not exactly sure who the speech was for. It’s a grand-slam to the Twitterati who already agree with him. Okay, great, but a) you need to convince people who do NOT agree with you, and b) the only practical audience is the Senate, because if you convince some voters but not the Senate, he’s going to walk free and undermine your gains with the voters.

And yes, his whole premise is to bomb Russia, who is the size of Italy and hasn’t been Soviet for 30 years. Even if they were, Schiff’s party is literally the “Democratic Socialist” party, so maybe that’s what they’re mad about: that Russia is NOT communist, but vaguely authoritarian mixed-capitalist like we are. I guess Carlson is right? According to Schiff the impeachment is about nuking Russia, not any action by Trump? That’s what’s on trial here?
Do we all want to die? Will we vote for WWIII?

Per Kunstler, is it instead a plan to discredit democracy, government, elections, and therefore incite a civil war? Probably, that’s been the plan since Limbaugh in the 90s, but I don’t know if they can get that far from here. Even Antifa doesn’t seem to be getting lift-off, and it requires one side in government, and the outside faction to be armed and orderly, like Virginia. However, Virginia was so orderly they had no news and even picked up all their garbage before returning home.

“Ukrainian officials had actually opened a new probe into Burisma months before President Trump’s July 2019 phone call”

Hey no kidding. So how was he going to rig an election to open a case they already had opened, twice? Three, four times? Doesn’t matter. ‘Cause I want it to be true and thought it in my mind. That’s beyond whether IF we were eventually able to prove wrongdoing – and to do that someone would have to look – then it would STILL be appropriate. In fact, it’s legally required, both at home and via the Clinton-era treaty. Nevermind: facts, logic. We can’t look, so we can’t know, because looking at my side is a crime. We’re as pure as the driven snow.

And since there’s more targets than gunsights in a field this dirty, remind that Ukraine has already legally established that they DID rig the ‘16 election, and that has also been established here, with the release of documents on Manafort. But the Ukrainians are Slavs and therefore not real human beings. What they say doesn’t matter and nobody pays attention to them anymore than pigs or untermench snorting. Ask the tolerant, diverse, inclusive left. Nope! Slavs aren’t people, their countries aren’t countries, their laws, opinions, or self-determination don’t count! We don’t even ignore them: they literally don’t exist as humans anymore than flies or bugs.

“no one has suggested my son did anything wrong.”

I have no idea what he’s doing any more then Sanders who tried to say Biden was “not corrupt in any way.” In any way? He’s a politician, no American or other person on earth is going to believe that. Who are you talking to and why did you say it? Jut say, “Your guy’s more corrupt, why are you singling out po’ Joe and picking on his kids?” See how easy that was? Btw, and speaking of the GAO, the ethics rules don’t just say you can’t take bribes(duh), they delineate in detail that IF you are in charge of an area, you CANNOT have family members there, and, covering all, cannot have even the appearance of corruption. Even if he’s completely innocent, which he is, since nothing’s been proven yet, we’re only asking to look. So there’s a real and defined breach of ethics, rejection of rules, and ignoring of oversight. …But we knew that, since the State Department said there was, was covering and responding to it, and briefing the Ambassador for the expected accusations and fallout.

…Except none of all that happened, though widely reported by the NYT, Politico, in public government records, because if the things that happened, did, it would be legal, logical, and required to ask questions about it. But asking questions about public record and widely-reported stories is treason and impeachable.

“Professors Donate To Democrats Over Republicans By A 95:1 Ratio (Turley)”

I think this makes them the least diverse, least tolerant group on the planet. Also reminds me of “If everybody’s thinking the same thing, nobody’s thinking.” And that’s even if you don’t credit throwing all Republicans into re-education camps, which I’ve been hearing from them for decades, and not just from a few young kids in Bernie’s campaign. Where do you think the kids GOT the idea? From trusted professors, who are going to run away like little girls and deny everything like milk-sops, leaving Antifa and the Bernie Bros to swing for what they incited like little weasels. Don’t know what to do with that. It’s what happens when you’re allowed to speak, but no one thinks or expects words to be backed by actions, ever. Since they have no actions but evasion, they’re just chickenhawks. I can’t respect that.

[Dr. D]

Besides, the GAO is the House. Yeah, we know they dinna’ like: big surprise. There’s a parallel inspector that also saw it and did NOT care, showing it’s debatable. But in any case we already KNOW the House and Congress disagree with the GAO and didn’t care since THEY WATCHED IT, saw it, recorded it, marked it, AND SAID NOTHING. So if they — the House — were concerned why isn’t his –still potential — withholding of aid in front of the Supreme Court? Why? Because the House never brought suit to compel. …Which they never had to, because he provided all that aid, plus naughty Javelin missiles that Obama wouldn’t.

Which shows they never cared a bit. They just make stuff up, like everybody else. My side, right or wrong. I thought it, now it’s real.

[Dr. D]

Meh, I dunno. He thought about not paying his rent, but eventually paid it. On time.

…And that’s even if he ever thought about not paying, it, which I can’t prove.

[Dr. D]

Am I crazy here, or does China have a different health perspective based on Chinese medicine and therefore not “General Practitioners” who are Western? Not sure what that means, but sounds similar to complaining there are only 27,000 TCM doctors in the U.S. Well, yes. We’re not China, China’s not us. We’re different.

That’s not to say Western medicine isn’t better in a crisis or epidemic, it may be; it’s to say I don’t know and those numbers won’t tell me.

In death tolls, when it was a dozen, apparently 8 were over 80, 5 were over 70, and three had serious underlying health conditions. Like usual, that ain’t much of a death toll, hardly greater than the common cold. Yet they are reacting very seriously and not blaming us, and I don’t know why. Isn’t it legally REQUIRED to blame America for everything? Also didn’t entirely grasp that sure, a dozen people at first, but 0.01% of 1.38 Billion is 13 million people, as we’re rapidly realizing.

So, to commenters, given some weird elements here, a test run for plausible lockdowns? Why? For upcoming food shortages? How many journalists have gotten sick and “disappeared” compared to the general population, as set by a few years of their social-credit scores?

“Wuhan Virus Will Shape China’s Smart City Vision (R.)” Aha.

Take a peep at the U.S. system: so everyone is catastrophically sick with completely voluntary diseases and the hospitals are full. Well-stocked, sure, but dizzying consumers of all supplies under our present procedures. So you think we can absorb 10,000 new patients per city? And what, kick all the heart patients and diabetics out on the street? Profit says you have to run at 100% capacity though, and with no cost or consequence to your bad lifestyle choices, it’s somebody else’s cost, somebody else’s fault.

“Doomsday Clock Moves within 100 Seconds of Midnight (NPR)”

So after being wrong for 60 years, they move the clock again? It’s been a second to midnight my whole life. Nothing’s happened but they sure scared the heck out of me and caused a lot of child suicides over the years. That was before I realized if a adult human said it, it’s a bat-s—t, fabricated, self-serving bald-faced lie. Children lie only half the time, a pleasant relief. So the clock is run by adults? It’s a lie. It’s run by schmarty-guyz, in the media? It’s definitely and COMPLETELY a lie, and almost certainly a knowing one. Known because smart people can’t say it’s two minutes to midnight for 60 years without failing statistics 120 semesters in a row. Lookin’ at you NPR, Yale graduates and the dumbest guys in the room.

More productively? It’s political. Propaganda. Theatre. Now just look for the stage director and the script.

““the law of attempts,” a category of crimes”

It cannot be a crime if it wasn’t committed. Even if you had a brain-intent recording machine on tape – which you don’t — it still wouldn’t be a crime. We don’t arrest people for wanting to swear and not, or thinking about not paying their rent. But isn’t this a caution about the problems of “Thoughtcrime”, which is not a joke to these people but actually believed and actually prosecuted? Just had this in a Danish interview with Facebook about a certain British Mr. Robinson. The Dane said, “Oh yes, I totally, totally believe everything you say about Robinson, of course! So…can you point me to the quotes where he said anything bad, incited or promoted ay violence?”

Facebook say: “…Er…he has, that is…der…we all know…it’s more a contextual that WE at Facebook know what he MEANT by what he’s never even once said…”

O RLY? So you know and bann people – forever, without trial or appeal – not even on what they’ve DONE, but on what YOU THINK THEY MIGHT SAY, BUT NEVER HAVE? = Thoughtcrime. Coming to your town, but it’s already there, planetwide, down to the tiniest Boy Scout meeting.

Since y’all like fascism and tyranny so much and won’t lift a finger, You’re Next. Might what to brush up on your Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it’ll come in handy in ‘Bernie’s’ education camps.

Am I kidding? Germany just outlawed, “Climate Hysteria” as a plausible word yesterday. A French author was just jailed for having the opinion that a few million sudden immigrants could plausibly be characterized as an “Invasion”. Invasion /ɪnˈveɪ·ʒən The entering or taking over of a place, or being entered by force.

Opinions are treason. When I want your opinion, I’ll beat it out of you.

“Fed’s Repos Drop to Oct Level, T-Bills Surge, But MBS Fall (WS)”

Finally to something important, the number hasn’t dropped, it’s $730B, what they’re doing is hiding it, but only a little since everybody loves fraud and nobody cares. For instance, FICC has now bought $60B. Who’s the FICC? Funny you should as: it’s an empty shell corporation, a clearinghouse with no assets run by the DTCC. Whos the DTCC? Since they’re the nexus of all stocks in the U.S. of $34 Trillion, maybe should look it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
They’re a shell corporation that’s owned by Cede and Co. (as in, surrender, give up), a shell entity that keeps bookwork on who owes what stocks to whom among EVERY bank, Hedge Fund, and Person on earth. –And owning paper copies are now illegal. That’s odd, why dat? So…when you have a “flash-crash” sale and Fargo doesn’t like taking a loss? DTCC reverses the trade so they win. When you have a stock vote in Taser and 130% more people vote than shares exist? That’s DTCC having so completely lost track of stock certificates that there are double, triple, quadruple more shares in Morgan and Citi slush than were ever issued: that is to say, they’re counterfeited. At will. Any time they like. For any reason. How to you think Sachs make 400 winning trading days in a row? With ONLY insider trading? And stock is now issued like with Overstock.com, at 2x, 5x, 25x multiples created out of thin air – because nobody’s watching the books – and used to short troublemakers like Overstock, or Blackberry, or whoever Tesla’s or Amazon’s enemies are today, and run them out of business.
Every day of the year. It’s called “failures to deliver” and it’s been going on almost 20 years in numbers that beggar the imagination.

So FICC, like the DTCC, has no assets and no oversight and no accountants. So they just say, “I have a used pack of Wrigley’s gum, and I can now borrow against that chewing gum to the tune of $60B, and $6,000 Billion tomorrow if I want”, and nobody says anything. And they did so earlier this month.

Okay, so what’s the problem here, aside from the obvious one: money if worthless and everybody (that’s you) loves fraud more than air?

We can be almost completely sure that, like Taser and Overstock, EVERY SINGLE SIFI BANK – all of them, UBS, Santander, Sumitomo, DeutscheBank, Morgan – has for historic reasons, to rig that price, to win that extra trade, 25 years ago, has COUNTERFEITED U.S. Treasury bonds in the system. …Because nobody’s checking the system. Nobody cares, so long as it expands and not contracts, so long as it wins and not loses. So we have a case where, if you check the serial numbers, SOME HUGE NUMBER OF BONDS ARE DUPLICATES, triplicates, googleplexacates. —Hey, just like all those MBS mortgages, back in the ’08 crisis, Docktor? Yes, Virginia, just like that. Like selling the same house 20x to Norwegian pensions, owned by Fargo, owned by 20 other funds in the MERS system, owned by YOU too – because they’re trying to foreclose and you have no mortgage at all —

“...until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew
whether this one was that one… or that one was this one…
or which one was what one… or what one was who!”

So when you have a REPO crisis, and somebody’s going down, maybe the real problem is that the banks are aware that 10%, 1/3, HALF of all bonds they are posting for overnight are FAKE? And they could get caught with the counterfeit? The whole system is essentially a fake? And being system-wide and going back to the 90’s, it literally can’t BE unfaked? No method on earth can possibly un-f—k the system this corrupt?

What does the Fed do? Well the “Fed” is merely the SIFI banks and the banks are the Fed. So what do the banks do for themselves? They say, “We’re in a crisis. You just have to buy EVERYTHING, with NO QUESTIONS asked, FOREVER,” and therefore LAUNDER all the money, all the fraud, and make it money-good.

Hey, Herr Docktor, is that like when the Fed bought AIG and the MBS at 100c on the $ when they were worth 15c? You know, making the banks whole at the taxpayers’ expense, and not only not PROSECUTING crime, but actually REWARDING it with multi-billion in bonuses, THAT YEAR and every years since? Yes, Virginia.

So…this could be that kind of problem trader Armstrong was saying: a problem that is SO bad, SO systemic, SO insolvable, that no one will even TALK about it? Verboten, does not exist?
Uh, yeah, something like that. Just a theory though. You can suggest it’s the trillions in negative Euro interest rates finally contaminating the Repo, or that it’s a generic bailout, but although those probably exist, from the actions I have to guess isn’t and is a lot bigger.

“Tis a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive.” The only way out is to come clean, stop lying. That will never happen, because the system itself is a lie and the system itself and all its power brokers will vanish and fail if truth returns. That’s why the only enemy, the only crime, is telling the truth. Fīat jūstitia ruat cælum. Because they will. Right now.

“America’s Radioactive Secret (Rolling Stone)”

Oh if only it were this. In our area, a load costs, say, $10,000. However, if someone were to loosen the petcock on the back of the truck and it leaked out on the roads on the way there, well, you and the company would just have to split the $10,000, wouldn’t you? Accidents happen. Shucks, Gomer, I won. And then I took my daughter to get chemo. Was it all worthwhile? You can’t prove nothin’. “No evidence was published.”

And you wonder why Fīat jūstitia ruat cælum. The only way to make it stop.

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.”

[Dr. D]

Check 9Bill comments?

[Dr. D]

“China Quarantines 11 Million in Wuhan As Virus Kills 17, with 95 Critical (RT)”

From yesterday, it doesn’t matter what happens, what matters is what China THINKS happened. And the Corona was patented by the West just a few years ago (2015) and related to a group fronted by Bill Gates. Again, doesn’t matter if that’s why and true, only that China can/might THINK that’s where and why it came from. ‘Cause you know: genocide? It makes people cranky.

“Gabbard Suing Clinton for Defamation over ‘Russian Asset’ Comments (Hill)”

Since HRC is queen bee, this make a lot of sense. To wrest the party from two who go directly to the media and order the media what to cover and ignore (just like HRC ordered the media to give DJT coverage as “pied piper”, in the leaked emails), Tulsa has to head-on the queen bee to change and save the party. But don’t worry: they won’t. They will irreparably damage it instead. Why? They believe nothing and without the party as air-cover would all go to jail. For election tampering for starters. With Bernie, proven, among 100 other charges, and would be Federal Charge any other time and place. Been so long anyone was straightforward in the party, just doing what they say and acting on it, they don’t expect it or know what to do.

The media for their part refused to take 30 minutes and read the simple lawsuit document, just like Covington, then commented on nonsense that didn’t happen they all made up in their minds. …But I said “media” so obviously.

“UN Demands US Probe of Alleged Saudi Hack of Bezos’ Phone (ZH)”

Hey U.N., my phone’s been hacked too, and I have some mail I’d like you to sort.

“Boeing CEO Expects to Resume 737 MAX Production before Mid-Year (R.)”

Doing it to themselves. All about response and handling. They could have fixed and be over this by now except for the lying.

“The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Bust (WS)”

They act like this matters. The whole point was to turn borrowed Fed money into oil. The companies went bankrupt? The “company” is a fiction. It’s a bunch of words on paper, nothing happens when you tear the paper. However we got real oil for a bunch of hot air clicking mice on a pixel. Sounds like a win, not a loss.

Point: THEY DON’T CARE. Nor does the economy about this fiction. We’ll just do it again until the US$ is taken away.

“Ghislaine Maxwell’s Personal Emails Were Hacked (DM)”

Call the U.N. IT Support hotline!!!

“TEPCO Estimates It Will Take 44 Years to Decommission Fukushima No. 2 (JT)”

They re-occupied Hiroshima almost right away with little ill effects. Doesn’t that make General Electric 44x more dangerous than an atom bomb? American corporations and product kill more people than cancer? We’re No 1!!!

[Dr. D]

“The Democratic party is falling apart before our eyes, and they have only themselves to blame. This should have happened about 4 years ago,”

Sad. Don’t do it! #ComeBack

“USA’s use of atomic bombs on Hiro-Saki will see that it was a lunatic decision”

Not at all. It WAS a pack of lies though. Sure, they wanted to avoid a Normandy landing of Tokyo, and rightfully so…but Japan was already surrendering and only wanted their 1,000-year emperor, an easy ask, as proven. No, they were really talking to the Russians, moving seamlessly on to that war, as shown. And also we leaked that nuclear info to them (also consensus reality now, look it up) to have your MICC arms-war, as Eisenhower, who was RIGHT THERE at the time, warned us about, but was already too far. Hype aside, the atom bombs were a joke. Dresden was much more bombed, attacking civilians not just incidentally but specifically. And the radiation that would salt them for 1,000 years, people live nicely there and almost right away. So yes, sure, bigger bomb. But so? Does it matter to get hit with 50 .22s instead of one 10-gauge slug? Not to the guy dying. Anyway, hardly lunatic, totally rational, such as military planners murdering everyone can ever be called “rational.”

Also the whole premise is gone now. We’re beyond battlefield nukes down to pocket nukes, and they were probably tested out in Syria and Ukraine already, though hard to pin down. They too do not leave lingering radiation. The smaller and more conventional they are, the more likely to be used, so no one knows where the threshold to “Hold on” is anymore.

“Hunter Biden Ordered to Explain Why He Shouldn’t Be Held in Contempt Of Court”

I was more concerned this is a Contempt of the Mother of his child. Everyone finds courts contemptible, what about your infant son, a Biden?

[Dr. D]

“Repair and overhauling in Chicago”

Americans doing stuff: we need to shut that down right away! There’s got to be some kind of safety, environmental or tax excuse we can find: go to it boys! Work is bad, mkay, find that crime so we can prosecute.

“New Coronavirus Has Unusually High Ability To Bind To A Human Protein (SCMP)”

Don’t know if it’s true, but reportedly behind the scenes, China believed SARS was a human engineered virus meant to attack people by race, i.e. Asians, Chinese specifically. From the spread and death count it seems they were not entirely mistaken. Whether it is or isn’t we can’t know, and doesn’t matter, only that they THINK it is, so they will then respond to our politics that way. …You know a day after all their pigs mysteriously died, leaving them helpless to U.S. imports. Another gol-durned coincidence. Boy those Yanks sure are lucky!

““Proposed changes will insure that incomes and pensions are such that everybody has decent living conditions”

‘Tis but to dream here, but I’ve got an easier one: leave us all the f alone, we’ll be rich in no time.

“Senate Votes Down Democrats’ Subpoena Proposals (G.)”

Still no idea what they’re doing except prevent Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, and Pelosi from being subpoena’d for crimes one more day.

“Adam Schiff Caught ‘Fabricating’ Evidence (US24)”

There’s somebody left who didn’t know this? And from a guy who didn’t know the whistleblower “Charlie’s” name, but somehow for weeks knew which name not to say? Along with Google, Twitter, Facebook, who didn’t know either but knew which name to erase? Huh.

“This week, Bernie is sexist. Stay tuned for next week,”

If only this were a joke. So…TDS, Bernie’s supporters say the DNC is rigging him – again – and with CNN, etc. Right. Then Trump says it. Lo! If Trump was for oxygen, Democrats would suffocate. Bernie then attacks TRUMP for defending HIM, and therefore attacks his own Bernie-supporter base as hostile lunatics. #OppositeLand #Winning! Then comes out not with a “Hey, the party needs to stand together against evil, now is not the time to question Biden…blah blah” Nope! He says, “I apologize, It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way.” In any way. Look, I don’t know who you’re talking to because NOBODY thinks Joe is not corrupt “in ANY way.” Maybe a reasonable amount, maybe unfair to single him out, not “not at all” and ESPECIALLY the far-left i.e. Bernie/AOC: they hate Biden and Obama and think they’re far-right Conservative Nazis. (Yes, that doesn’t exist and is an oxymoron, tell them to read a book: I’ve tried)

Political takeaway: W T F ? The only person trying to get sink Bernie and election Biden/Trump is Bernie. He hates his own support. #Oppositeland, #AntiLogos what can I say? You win by losing, or in his case lose by being the winning front-runner.

P.S. HRC says, “Nobody likes Bernie? It’s sad?” Well he whipped you with no media and no support and without trying so imagine how much MORE people dislike you. #EveryoneHatesHillary. More than Bernie. More than Trump. More than Cancer. Sit with that for a minute and have a nice day!

“Ukrainian Prosecutor Biden Pushed to Oust Heavily Investigated Burisma (RT)”

We only deny public evidence we can see with our own eyes, like Biden’s video from CFR. We accept all evidence that makes no logical sense, we CAN’T see, have never seen, and is illegal to see or ask about. That’s logic! Or at least in a world of American AntiLogic.

And so Biden gets to tell the media what to do? Must be nice, but they are not biased at all.

“Brazil Charges Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes (ZH)”

Big holy yikes. Because “Exposing deep systemic corruption” was “discrediting the judiciary.” I’ll bet it was! That’s why we have reporters! But remember, in #OppositeLand, we have reporters to HIDE facts.

“The EU has done it. It’s turned the Greeks against immigrants.”

That is the plan. Now they can steer a civil war or peasant against peasant instead of against their machinations where it belongs. It took a couple million to do it BECAUSE humans are so helpful and so tolerant, but if you push enough, and pay for enough media extremism to get out there, then fund enough organizations, you CAN indeed do what is unnatural for everyone, just like every time before. “The terrible Hun!” “Irrational slanty-eyed Japs!” Ah, high points in history, for which Bernays and Madison Avenue were very well paid. –And all those guys from Hannibal, MO died at Omaha. Or Aleppo. Sure wasn’t the Bush sisters.

“US Drinking Water Widely Contaminated with ‘Forever Chemicals’ (R.)”

Should we stop? Nah. Hey, if poisoning people is a crime, should we sue and/or prosecute? Nah. Are you crazy? We don’t arrest folks just for KILLING everyone, you know, ‘forever’! In #OppositeLand that’s a GOOD thing, just ask any environmentalist. Really, we need to give them a medal, or failing that, an enormous tax subsidy and immunity from all prosecution while they run the FDA. What? We already did that for 30 years? #Winning!

[Dr. D]

“Hillary Says Nobody Likes Bernie, Won’t Commit To Backing Him”

So what are they saying? A retired private citizen who does nothing and holds no positions won’t vote for Bernie? So what? Or are you saying we should care, because HRC still is running the DNC? Seems like one or the other. If she’s running it, then why is she hiding and not honest about it? CNN, you’re a joke.

“Markets Tumble As Human-to-Human Transmission Coronavirus Confirmed (ZH)”

Is this like all the other 20 scares where the death tool is scarcely higher than the common cold?

“Cry Wolf! And loose the lies of war!”

“Still wondering how he got from near bankruptcy to hiring an A-list lawyer.”

Yeah, amazing. And somebody seems to be inside handing out bread crumbs, as how does Powell know what was on the 302s nobody wrote, has, or has ever seen? Funny ol’ world. But she knows what the FBI and DoJ don’t and is almost certainly right. …But there’s no NSA or military intel anywhere. It’s all just a big accident.

“McConnell Proposes Compressed Schedule for Impeachment Trial (Hill)”

This probably would have helped if they’d got some crimes or evidence before now. It’s like the local constabulary saying, “He’s a bad seed: born bad.” So they just chase and harass him from the age of 13 until he’s proven right.

“Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what I don’t know
Every time that I plant a seed
He said, “Kill it before it grows”

Congress has already said, they don’t care about the impeachment; they are going to keep investigating forever until they find something. And as ever, #OppositeLand, “The World Turned Upside-down”: you are INNOCENT, innocent, innocent, innocent, until PROVEN guilty. Proven. As is the Jury reads the final words and the court is adjourned. And there must be a definitive CRIME to exist before we start looking for who committed it. But that would be #Logos, logic. We are definitively #AntiLogos, AntiLogic.

“Chief Justice Roberts Under Pressure from Both Sides in Witness Fight (Hill)”

What are you saying? That the law exists and he’s a judge? Or do you swim in a world of Twitterati group-think where everybody slavishly agrees all the time or is excommunicated from existence? Weirdos.

Orlov runs down more details in the Putin-law changes:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2020/01/life-after-putin.html

“During Putin’s period in power, Russia has solved the problems of separatism and domestic terrorism, reigned in the predatory oligarchy, paid off virtually all of its foreign debts including ones it inherited from the USSR, grew its economy by a factor of six (vs. China’s five and USA’s one), regained Crimea (which had been part of Russia since 1783), rebuilt its armed forces to a point where international security is no longer a major concern, and achieved an overall level of societal well-being that is unparalleled in all of Russian history.

The system of governance he has built has worked well with him as the head of government, but it will require some adjustments in order to work well under future presidents, who may not be equally gifted. Recognizing this fact, on Wednesday Putin has launched a limited overhaul of the Russian Constitution.”

“Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition (Eric Mann)”

The left hates MLK sooooo much and works tirelessly to undermine him every day, because he said, “I want people to be judged on the content of their character, NOT the color of their skin.” They do the #OppositeLand, caring only and exclusively about ever-smaller divisions of skin, and are repulsed by merit and character, and most ESPECIALLY Christian ones, as described by southern preachers. Ew.

“Ukraine, China Knew Hunter Biden Was Chronic Drug Addict, Hired Him Anyway (GP)”

But there’s no suspicion, no evidence and even ASKING THE QUESTION is a crime.

[Dr. D]

“Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without: A motto for getting out of debt.”
Book available.

“We don’t have an economic problem; we have a political problem”

“Walk the plank with our eyes wide open.

Some people offered up answers.
We made out like we heard, they were only words.
They didn’t add up to a change in the way we were living,
And the saddest thing is all of it could have been avoided.

But it was like to stop consuming is to stop being human,
You’ll want to make a change if you won’t.
We’re all in the same boat, staying afloat for the moment.”

When they stop buying stuff and lower GDP, I’ll believe them. Especially since it’s the buying and GDP that’s making us so unhappy. Until then, it’s all nonsense.

[Dr. D]

“Nadler Says Dems Unwilling to Negotiate Hunter Biden Testimony (Fox)”

All witnesses must be heard, except for all the ones I don’t want. Right!

“Warren Joins Bernie in Jabbing Biden on Social Security (Pol.)”

Craziest things happening every day now. Warren says Bernie – who’s on tape calling for a woman president decades ago doesn’t believe in women presidents. …Months after HRC won the popular. Months after telling her he wasn’t a great candidate and if she was going to run he would stand aside and let her. She didn’t, so he did.

Claims a tape of Biden, doing Biden things in the past – and nothing that strange, unlike now – are “doctored”, fabricated. Huh? This is just C-Span video of you talking in Congress.

Fake claims Bernie says Buttigeig has a “gay problem”? What?

Notice any pattern here? Oh yeah, 100% of them are against Bernie. But on his side, his campaign guy was outed as a violent-loving death-camp revolutionary. And that’s just one guy, however it can show what kind of people he attracts. Don’t mind that so much. However, he was not fired, and everyone nearby locked their accounts so no evidence could be found. …Always the first response of innocent men. And going into a critical primary where their accounts MUST be active to chat up that support. I wouldn’t go nuts about it, because they’ve been saying the same thing for decades (and trying it, see VA, but so, so many laws) but…

Speaking of, NBC had an op-ed that supporting Trump was illegal and arrestable crime. No joke. So if you’re a-gonna do that, what would you call the prisons where you plan to hold 1/3 of all Americans? And I’m the crazy one here. Can you think 30 seconds ahead? Nevermind.

Back to crazy-every-day, “NYT endorsed Warren AND Klobuchar yesterday.” Of course they did. Because who the fargleblaster has ever supported Klobuchar? Nobody I ever heard of, not even the press until now. Since Harris was too vile even for the media, they’re picking the next VPs, who must be women. …Not capable people but nobody cares who they are, nobody cares what they do, nobody cares if anyone likes them so long as they’re women. …Because gender is a social construct that doesn’t exist, and there’s no such thing as men and women.

“John Durham Investigates Months Before Mueller Appointment (WE)”

But apparently can’t find any indictments. You know, like when somebody takes home 30,000 emails then erases them for a subpoena. Speaking of, how about Cheeto’s new legal team! Can I get an “Epstein” up in here? Since we see bad law sink ships, like Flynn’s legal team not only rigging him, but all of Comey’s pals from Justice were immediately hired into that law group to leak his legal defense in the background and run the show, maybe Cheeto needs to have some really, REALLY sweet blackmail over his lawyers Dershowitz et pals to keep them honest? …Honest in lawyer terms, anyway. And are they good? Well they got Epstein off!

“immediate steps to allow the suppressed report into Russia’s interference in the British political system to be published”

I’m guessing he hand-picked the people and fabricated the document, like all documents these day. “17 intelligence agencies!” (including NOAA and the Coast Guard) Remember Blair and yellowcake? How about the OPCW? OxFam rapes and trafficking? Hey both of those were overseen by the U.N.! But that is a coincidence and both of them are totally trustworthy. Ask the Skripals, they’ll tell you.

I think he should just declassify a warehouse of documents including these and watch them all squirm about “Suppression” and “publishing”. Is it true? Meh, maybe, probably not. But I’ll bet you can find a few ten-million foreign cash used to rig the “Remain” vote.

“World’s Richest 2,000 People Hold More than Poorest 4.6 Billion Combined (R.)”

I’ve got an answer: More market rigging! More government! Ask Carney, he just said he was going to do all that AND hand more poorest money to his 2,000 richest friends, so long as they used the special discount code “Green” in the last 500 days. When the rich hire the rich to oversee the rich, what could possibly go wrong? I know: let’s ask the rich. NYT, Guardian, Murdoch: what do you say?

“UN Decarbonisation Target for Shipping to Cost over $1 Trillion (R.)”

Once again, they think it’s money. Money is a big zero, a representation, a pronoun. What they’re really saying is they need to burn $1 Trillion in oil-energy to create all the ships and trains to save $1 Trillion in energy. Translation: we must burn the town to fire-proof the town. #Winning! Everyone applauds. “You rich peoples sure iz schmart! $1 Trillion went into your coffers and we burned more CO2 than ever! How’d dat happen?” Wouldn’t it be easier to hire people and manufacture locally instead? You know, the way you violently oppose at every turn, even with impeachment?

“Oil Firms Risk Public Backlash If Profits Put Before Climate, Says IEA (G.)”

Being “The Guardian”, they’re probably unaware of all law, profit, and finance over the last 100 years, but it’s literally illegal if they don’t? They would be instantly sued for breach of fiduciary duty and bounced off the BoD. If they had any reporters over the age of 12, and/or called anybody on earth to ask, they would tell them, but sadly it is “The Guardian”, so synapse-free for 100 years.

“Europe already has enough infrastructure – such as pipelines and processing plants – to meet the continent’s future demand.”

That’s so odd since I remember just a year or two ago Europe ran out of gas and had a panic about their supplies from Russia. So they have all the gas they need except it went down yesterday. Right! The Guardian cannot Google “The Guardian” for old articles from “The Guardian” because they are reporters for “The Guardian.” Good thing we only trust mainstream sources!

“Some 90 years after the US dust bowl.”

Yes, and Australia had the same cycle then too, and is as predictable as rain they would have it again. Just go chart it, or look at the many climate cycle charts people have posted for you. But they’re “Crazy” people who post science recordings in graph form, while the people who doctor and hide data are “scientists.”

PS. 9 days of snow in Bangladesh with 9” accumulation, not seen in 40 years, much less a de-facto blizzard. I blame Russia, and certainly not East Anglia who lied to you about it. Not the people who “lost” the ice cores, then the satellite data, then their computer models, then… Also snowing to Mexico, California, in Saudi Arabia, greening in Libya, Africa, and the whole Silk Road…

Nope. Those people don’t count. Only report what sells my product: taxes and slavery. The other stuff? Green all over new areas? Croplands growing? Well: “Deny everything. Admit nothing. Make counter-accusations.” Science!™

[Dr. D]

“Things are moving too fast for me to keep up. Rosenstein was in the Trump camp’s crosshairs forever, but now all of a sudden he’s the other camp’s worst enemy?”

Yes, like Comey, Dore, Trump himself. First they’re registered Democrats, far leftists even. Then they cross not the principles, not the party, but HRC or the NeoLibs and suddenly they’re far right Nazis who work for Putin. (except that Russia fought the Nazis) Expect no less. So if you believe in universal health care, social security, free speech, are antiwar etc, you’re now a Nazi, where if you DON’T want that, like Biden and HRC, you’re a Democrat. #OppositeLand.

The weird part is, no one notices.

“Strzok and Page sent 100s, 1000s of messages to each other, often during work hours, but they still get to claim invasion of their privacy?”

Yup. See above. My side right or wrong. On a phone with a bone. In a boat with a goat. On a fully-monitored government phone, in their home. Enough texts that show they could not possibly have done any other work, or heck, even this work. And I paid for it all, paid for them to rig the elections. RussiaRussiaRussia!

“Always wonder why people claim to know exactly what the Framers meant”

Well that part’s easy: with their voluminous letters it would take a lifetime to read. Downside: they often disagreed with each other. They don’t bring that part up, as it would discredit both sides. What was it Lincoln said both sides pray to the same God for victory? Both sides refer to the framer-saints rather than engaging their brains today, an appeal to authority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

However, they were concerned if they put in impeachment, it would be constantly used instead of elections. You know, like the last 4 out of 5 Republican Presidents. (Snopes) However, the risks of NOT allowing impeachment are too high, and I agree. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102 If the people themselves are corrupt, nothing can save them. They so often say “The Government” oughta do/fix/make/punish such-and-such” as if the government were not us and made of the same people. If we’re corrupt, they’re 100x more corrupt, because of selection bias and Lord Acton’s “Power Corrupts.” So we’re giving more power to the MOST corrupt people in our society. Nope. The answer to government corruption is more laws and more government. Forever. Hey, where’d all this tyranny come from in here? I meant pursue and arrest MY enemies when THEY have opinions, not me and mine. Hey, what’s this bag and why is it dark sudden?

Meh. Suppose he even got booted. So what? If the people didn’t stand for it, they’d vote his equivalent right back in, or else hold sit-ins like the one in Alexandria. You can’t actually make them. …Which is why impeachment a day before election is so counter-democratic and infuriating. Is it really too much to pick a good candidate people like and vote them in? Fighting this guy has got to be the easiest election ever, yet they still fail. “All they have to do is be less crazy than Trump.” — Bill Maher Of course the whole thing is garden-variety election-rigging, just what they accuse him of. So…we should impeach the House of Representatives. I’d start the petition, but when VA representatives got their 10% recall petition in just a few days, they simply raised the threshold to 20%, kind of like the DNC debates. If they got to 20%, they’d raise it to 90%. If 90%, then 99%. Democracy!

“mayor turned Donald Trump stooge” Nice. I see no bias at all from The Guardian. And he was considered great because his city was bombed and he completely failed even any attempt to stop it, nor protected anyone from the health consequences, nor led the charge to fix the original breach. This is considered totally normal. No one notices. And he was defeated by a chicken, not McCain’s thundering herd of RINOs. I live here and I don’t even remember a chicken. But sure, Guardian, sure it was.

“were necessary to prevent a vague, yet allegedly imminent, threat”

Wow, face-recognition of the protestors showed they were trained militias organized by Iran and were at that minute destroying the Embassy. Even on the outside I can tell the top suspect for a really-smart attack on the U.S. would be Soleimani. Yet they’re like “What attack are you talking about?” The one that the media was breathlessly reporting 24/7 until it failed and then the media threw a temper-tantrum about it? That one? I’m not saying there were or weren’t others, but like, IT’S HIS JOB to have all sorts of military plans. So if he DIDN’T have plans, he should have been fired for dereliction of duty. But: no plans. Sure, media, sure.

Anyway, what’s Trump and Rouhani supposed to say, we colluded to erase Rouhani’s chief rival, the same way he most probably requested permission from Assad and Putin to bomb (empty, targetless) Syria? (Why? Because Maddow and Williams demanded it, and such a charge could have been impeachable if he couldn’t pull up a signed document saying it could not possibly be a war crime. It went one way since there is nothing on earth Democrats and the Media love more than war, but it could have gone the other way, and I bet they wish they had.) Anyway, I can’t prove it, but what does their resulting behavior look like? Media is still reporting how Iran will attack us worldwide, using thousands of sleeper agents. Okay, when? 2055? That WOULD be tricky. “We’ll get you when you least expect us: 50 years after Trump leaves office, see if we won’t.” No. No. Your brain is on backwards. Iran hits essentially nothing, anywhere? We’re the world’s softest target. Our infrastructure is so third-world you could take out a whole city with a backhoe. Sure they’re super-mad. Sure they are.

“The Petrodollar and the Phantom of the Petroyuan (Webb)”

Nah, they could use a gold-trade note and it’s safer. If RMB, we’d just rock their market with our usual unlimited manipulations, like we do every day, every where, and you can destroy the Petro and US$ just by stopping us from printing fake dollars for real goods, which a gold-trade, or even BTC-trade note would do. The U.S. would have to make stuff then, do work. Hey, is that what Cheeto has feverishly been trying to do, and resisted at every turn? The beginning of jobs, the beginning of the U.S. working for a living like a fair partner? Weird. Sounds like a coincidence.

“We will shut them up with reliable and fundamental facts.”

Boy is he going to be surprised. Since when have facts mattered to the Anglos or the whole West? They just think it, write it down, and it’s true! At least all my friends say it is, and they edit Wikipedia! Just like how Russia was a Nazi instead of the near-sole ENEMY of the Nazis, above.

I like facts as much as the next guy, but I would like them to matter before I die.

[Dr. D]

Yes, you can come face to face with actual reality, outside dark glass of thought-words, but ego has to vanish, and likewise will not be able bring that reality back into thought-words. It will be yours alone. And who sees this and knows? Thought-words will not tell you.

This may be nothing, but: drones scouring all the Colorado West. GPS is being intentionally shut off through the South East. All night vision goggles of any merit are reportedly stolen by the FBI, in a enormous hurry. And on the first day of an impeachment, with a 2A little meet-n-greet happening next door in Alexandria.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-01-17-military-to-jam-gps-signals-fbi-asserting-imminent-domain-seize-night-vision.html

Do not want.

[Dr. D]

“the top 10% now control nearly as much wealth as the bottom 50%.”

There’s probably more to this than it seems at first. Because you can’t actually get rich fast enough by doing work, income disparity will be a consequence of financial speculation, a paper bubble. So by the time we see such levels of income disparity, we already have a bubble that is deep and wide. And bubbles pop, eventually. That’s why they make them. It’s not a financial secret. While millionaires go broke, billionaires consolidate.

So cause-effect may not so much be that, people politically cause trouble, purchasing power shrinks, although true, but as Mises says, “There is no avoiding the final bust.”

“ Battle of the Ages To Stop Eurasian Integration (Pepe Escobar) “

MacKinder again, by the idiot Brits and Anglos. Defending this theory – which exists only in their mind, never tested – has probably killed more people than Genghis Khan. And here we go again. These are the same University wonks who told us “permanent plateau”, “subprime is contained”, “Manhattan will be underwater”, and P.S. Eugenics is both scientifically obvious and good. I don’t want to die in service of their dumb theories, how about you?

“China’s $40 Trillion banking system dwarfs the American system at double the size, with over 4,000 small, medium and massive, state-owned banks.”

China is a great illustration of why bubbles pop, and why the Anglos, baiting them into it, can be sure no matter what happens, no matter how smart, no matter how authoritarian, China will still collapse and fail in an economic panic, like everybody else. However, at the moment, they have out-gamed the West, probably 12-20 years longer than we thought they could. Remember Asian panic, Congress demanding they re-set their currency, ‘cause we said so? Like that. Too bad suckers! China has their own ways and doesn’t live for you.

“UK Cops Block Bid To Trace Prince Andrew’s Location 19 Years Ago (NYP)”

They refuse to provide evidence to totally exonerate him. That is not suspicious at all. And they seem to be losing Royals at quite a pace over there. Anyone wonder why? Maybe somebody knew Andrew all this time and was playing too? Maybe they all did? This goes way, way back.

“Health care, education etc. must be universal.”

It is in a way. They’ll arrest you if you don’t go to school and aren’t vaccinated to do so. You can walk into any emergency room at any time. What we have are two TRACKS, as with everything: a doctor for the rich and for the poor, a financial system for the rich and for the poor, a legal system for the rich and for the poor. “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it!” No sir, it’s a big club and you’re receiving it.

(You know, after paying for it.)

I think you’ll find all of these match the post-Soviet experience, per Orlov. Difference is, following the American way, we’re lying about it. It’s not white guys dropping fastest, they’re the firstest! And they control everything, even the inside of womens’ voters’ minds, just ask Hillary. And like Putin once they do that, they attack and kill themselves, shave 10 years off their life expectancy like the tricky people they are!

Is there any thinking going on here in America? A: no. But you can’t think straight in the first place when – thanks to universal government education – every fact you’ve ever heard is a lie.

“When everything Americans believe is false, our misinformation campaign will be complete.” – CIA Director Casey, following the new Department of Education.

“Children, Young Adults Can’t Sue US Government Over Climate Change – Court (R.)”

This would be obvious legal nonsense. You could say, “I’m suing because you didn’t move my school, because my theory indicates a volcano will spring up under the gym.” You’re presuming what might have been in the past and what might possibly be in the future: an impossible legal standard. I could sue that you DIDN’T divorce me, since in the future the lack of divorce will cause my suicide, car wreck, alcoholism, etc. Nothing’s happened yet. We’re not smart enough to know it ever will. And although a lot of (bad) laws point in this direction, nothing like to this level of complete mental fabrication. “I thought it in my head, so it’s real.” as we see in Nonsense, Narcissism, and self-serving every day, in the media, but also whenever anyone speaks on the internet, whenever a sparrow falls to the ground.

No, Virginia, there IS objective reality. We may not be able to know it, but it is real. To say otherwise is a road to madness, ruin, and despair. However, it is the essence of #AntiLogos, of ego’s rebellion against God, of the “Spirit of AntiChrist” which pops up in cycles from time to time, as predicted. But this is its root, and why all these otherwise different groups, approaches, causes, all cohere together: they all have this as their root, so they are psychological allies, the same world view. Unfortunately one that doesn’t work, and kills millions trying. The inside of your ego is not reality. Things do not exist because you thought them so once. Delusion and samsara.

Ali is a paragon of how you resist. You just do. You don’t tell other people to do it, you don’t go punch gay Asians and flag-holding grandmothers. You just do the right and not the wrong. As Gandhi pointed out, they can’t MAKE you do the wrong. They need your consent. So don’t be the baddie. Don’t give it.

[Dr. D]

Wow, don’t quote The Guardian as a source for anything real. Here’s a canonical, University, left-wing orthodoxy:

“Women in medieval times were not the passive victims of the religious and political patriarchy, no matter how often that claim is repeated. Women frequently found ways around the obstacles placed in their path or forged new paths when a challenge proved too great. They took over their husband’s businesses and ran them successfully, continued to work in guilds, or even formed their own guilds as the textile guilds of Italy attest.”

I’d go way further than that, since they themselves say: “Women of the lowest class actually … life was uniformly difficult for the serfs – male or female – and women worked alongside men in the fields and in the medieval guilds as equals or near-equals.” Canonical. I only clicked the first thing on Google.

And since lacking a middle class, there were only 3 people of rank per 1,000, that’s virtually the whole western world, except for a few pointy-hat wearing weirdo stars at the top, just like now. You don’t think the Kardashians or Jeffrey Starr represent normal state of fashion or behavior in North America, right? They were constantly hooking up, getting married, ‘disappearing’-as-divorce, wife-swapping, controlling-husband-controlling-wife getting the upper hand, marrying their way up, marrying their way down, getting shotgun marriages from getting knocked up by the plumber-next-door, calling the banns out the front door three times and calling it all honest, legal, and ‘Christian’. Read Chaucer. That behavior puts frontier coal-mining towns to shame. They’re humans: it was as universal then as it is now.

…And that’s aside from the Vikings, Celts, Iroquois and a whole lotta other people where the women were giving men blow-for-blow. So sure, as they say, if you’re talking about the property-owning, decision-making, fashion-wearing 0,01%, then yeah, women’s position was weird there. So was the mens’. Just like now. …And still badly represented, Elanor of Aquatine says, or Mary Katherine Goddard if you like.

But I’d have to do a whole thesis to prove it and read the original documents in medieval latin instead of fairy tales coming from the Victorian Age, which was its own fairy tale. So, my point being, if that was true for the Pagans, the Greeks, the Romans, then the early, middle, and late middle ages, true for Victoria, true in weird, bizarrely-civilized places like London in 1928, then how much more true on the wuz-just-frontier places like working-class America while Black Elk was still walking around?

https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/explore/topics/world-war-ii

Featuring WWII American ladies sleeping with any handsome guy, just like they claim didn’t happen ’til the 60s, black Germans in the war, and all sort of other interesting things that are real, not made up by historians that can only make things up because they never left their office to talk to real people or do real work. …Just like reporters, the source historians count on. Just go ask people. They’ll tell you.

If you know The Guardian is fake, also think backward to all the stuff they said when you were a kid, and all the books those same authors wrote when you were in school. Remember Columbus discovered America the Ice Age will arrive in 1980, and continental drift is a fringe conspiracy theory!

[Dr. D]

“Mrs. Marcella Hart” But I thought women were barefoot, unemployed slaves to men until the ‘60s! That’s what they taught me in school.

“BlackRock Will Start Moving Away from Fossil Fuels (NewYorker)”

I have heard the Rockefellers are already safely out – rats from the ship if I ever saw it – so their corporation having held the door can now safely lower the prices with their selling. Does this – and all the wildly un-scientific, anti-engineering nonsense — not tell you they have a patent, an invention in the works? And from other actions, that patent probably requires lithium, as found in Afghanistan and Bolivia. Because otherwise, as I say every day, they are openly planning to murder half the people on the planet with their carbon targets – not that they would think that a bad thing, as they themselves have often said. But they also have pre-positioned themselves in the companies their 1:10 handmaiden BlackRock will start buying. …Because they themselves own BlackRock and DIRECT them to buy their own companies which can make themselves rich(er). How is any of this not obvious? And IF BlackRock cannot force-short oil and force-long the hand-picked Green winners, Mark Carney has said he will make YOU, the taxpayer, buy Green and buy a can’t-lose for Gore, Musk, Bezos, Rockefeller, et Co. Thaaaaaaaat’s Capitalism! When there’s no free market pricing and all manipulation! Human bad, government good. Oil bad, green good. All the trillions of green that will go right out of my pockets and into theirs.

“With Rivals Stuck in Impeachment Trial, Biden, Buttigieg to Barnstorm Iowa (R.)”

Right on schedule, Pelosi trashes Sanders, pulls him out of the race. Couldn’t get Harris, now it’s Biden-Warren, as CNN shows. About the latest watchdog, it’s a redo of the Impeachment itself: So Congress and the President disagree? Then they move to the 3rd branch, the courts. Nope! That would be logical, orderly, #Logos. You Impeach BEFORE any attempt as resolution. In fact, you plan and advertise impeachment before he’s elected!

Today’s Watchdog is from Congress, i.e., a puppy-dog of the House. Although Trump gave all the Ukrainian aid and more, on time – they say that he did not and delayed this critical thing, Ukraine fell, Russia invaded them and is now in Paris massing to invade England, etc. (Oh wait, nothing happened. At all.) So if Congress and this Congressional Finance watchdog disagreed with the President and the 1971 law then…impeach of course, as the law says? No. They INFORM THE PRESIDENT. Just as when if Trump wishes to refuse the aid (you know, the aid he didn’t refuse but actually increased) he would INFORM CONGRESS as the 1971 law directs. Congress and the Watchdog never informed the President they opposed his delay. At all. As such, Trump never responded. It never went to court, etc. What do they think, we’re all made of moron over here? CONGRESS THEMSELVES showed with their lack of follow-up that they didn’t care in the slightest about the delay. But now they do. Okey-dokey.

Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies.

“Parnas Now Denies Speaking with Trump (WE)”

Sounds like Cohen, when Congress convicted him for perjury, then used a known perjurer as their star witness.

https://brianpeytonjoyner.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/6ddc9_tina-fey-eyeroll-1.jpg

Should be hilarious, but I’m glad it’s not my job because I’m too bored to follow it. So is all of America, from the ratings, but also no one knew who “Adam Schiff” was on Jeopardy last night. Because he’s a nobody and nobody cares. Maybe could follow important things like $500B disappearing in bailouts this weekend.

“Manhattan’s Homeless Shelters Are Full, Luxury Skyscrapers Are Empty (Atl.)”

And the market is completely rigged, there are no free pricing, so the market cannot respond and fix it by adding needed homes and removing luxury penthouses. And Canada, AND Australia, AND London, AND San Francisco… But the Fed said yesterday they think it’s their fault. Maybe.

“their editors have specifically hired them to write negative, sensationalistic stories because they sell best.”

If only. It’s not about the money. “Conservative” stories and outlets – that is, what was normal and centrist only 4 years ago, and are so Right-wing they believe in gun control and gay marriage, like Trump does — are booming. Fox news is booming. (Ugh.) CNN is failing. YET THEY WON’T WRITE STORIES THAT SELL, EVEN TO SAVE THEIR NETWORK. Because it’s not about money, it’s about religion. If only it were about the money we might be saved, but it’s worse than that. Oh, and also that they’re lying, about this, as about everything. Don’t give them this transparent fake excuse.

“Mass suicide continues.”

Except it’s NOT a suicide. It’s a murder. Mass murder. Unless you think Flint LIKES lead in their water. “It’s a force that’s bigger than us.” Yes, and they’ve written about the wonderful, salutary, environmental effects of killing us all, every day lately and going back 40 years. Just read. You must be literate by reading this sentence. Just click the mouse. Upper right corner. You can do it! It’s not secret! You can read it! It’s okay. Because it’s not a secret, it’s a plan.

[Dr. D]

For Putin, Raul will probably link tomorrow:

Putin’s Now Purged the West from the Kremlin

It’s an opinion. Russia knows Putin will not live forever, and wishes to purge the remaining moles, and set up a more limited, distributed government to avoid the inevitable re-attack of the West to re-take and re-destroy Russia. I can’t get deep enough in to say, but it reads correct to me. You must also remember Russia is more dispositionally authoritarian, they call it “monarchical” than the Anglos (i.e. us). It’s just a way, look at how terribly slow and messy the Anglo method of democracy is. It’s the least bad alternative that suits only is. I.e. not the Middle East, or China. Each have their own ways, which are theirs to have.

On Q, just what I’m saying about Marine Generals. They can be your allies, but they are not you, nor aligned with you; they have their own plans. Sure, pretty clear he’s from Military Intel Psyops, authorized by Cheeto. And all followers know that, he himself admits it. The problem comes when you think you’re on the same team, with the same plan (The ‘Ineffable Plan’?), as I believe many do, which is why it is high-quality propaganda. That doesn’t make it all not true. The best propaganda IS true. And there’s no reason for them not to, since there’s nothing but high-quality felony targets from Harper’s Ferry to the sea.

But as the devil, so what happens when they take full power? And you are fully aligned with them, not just in politics, but in your emotion, your mind? Are they going to erase 80% of government as the Constitution requires? Erase the NSA and restore the 4th Amendment? End monopoly billionaires? Stand down the entire army and go back to a Swiss model, as expected by the founders? Not on your life. So it’s easy to see they are true, sure, why not? And also quite false. And that’s even if they — the Q collective — don’t know it or believe it themselves. They could have intentions white as snow, why not? And when Isildur gains the One Ring, what then?

[Dr. D]

“Is it for all time or simply a lark?
Is it Granada I see or only Asbury park?”

Late in the day as the sun disappears behind Pennsylvania, there is a sign behind them on the boardwalk, the shadow cast in the sand.

“Warren Told Sanders He Called Her a Liar On National TV (R.)”

Had to take a break, lost track of everything because everything is a lie, fabricated, logic-free, self-contradicting from every angle. So Bernie called Warren a liar and she took umbrage, but Warren did NOT call Sanders a liar and he can NOT take umbrage. CNN then reports “this is not a he said, she said story.” Why? “Because we reported it” which makes it real, whichever way they reported it, whoever they choose to believe. Pretty average. Just like who we believe with Biden or in Ukraine, or in the Justice department. DoJ says two contradictory things: no surprise. We consider no evidence to decide the matter, have none, and look for none, but simply say our guy is perfect, without stain or flaw, and your guy’s a liar. QED. Just like Idiocracy:

“uh, your honor I think we have a mistrial or something!
I’m gonna mistrial my foot up your *ss you don’t shut up!”
The Judge drops his pants for the courtroom. “GUILTY!!” is scrawled across it.”

So what do you think history does to people like that? When you think Putin controls all elections on earth and just installed Trump so he could attack all Russian allies and nuke themselves, I’m at a loss of how to re-instate logic. The nation is clearly insane. And as we’ve heard, while “men go mad in herds, they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” Very slowly. Then never admit they were wrong. Just like eugenics, desegregation, the Red Scare, the Cultural Revolution, or a thousand other things. But they will designate you a villain and kill you by the thousands in the meantime.

In the meantime, in Idiocracy, we are instead fighting a Twitter avatar of a snake for Warren, which is now has always been a racist sign, and the #CNNisGarbage goes viral. Glad to see we’re spending our time well and fighting the right fight over, say “Brawndo” instead of things like missile strikes or crops.

“Americans Beware! Russia Can Hack Your Brain (Bridge)”

So as well shown, nothing, no level of proof, discrediting, no possible illogic can or will derail a people like that, lost in madness and worshipping #AntiLogos, illogic, untruth, as their god. Russia hacked ’16 although Obama says they didn’t, and Mueller could find anything, and has already hacked 2020, although it hasn’t happened, to install a President that attacks them and their allies with missiles, agents, and sanctions at every turn. Of course. Makes sense. When you’re #AntiLogos, you always attack and undermine yourself, so why wouldn’t Putin and Russia surround, attack, and nuke themselves? That’s just common sense in a land of madness. And all it took to undermine the whole 230 year U.S. is a gif with a funny caption on it. We’re helpless before the World’s Funniest Joke.

America collapses like leaves before a nation the size of New Jersey.

“Sen. Rand Paul Says GOP Will Shaft Trump (GP)”

I imagine he is right. They will definitively double-cross him, and he expects and has planned for it. I mean, they’re politicians. It’s psychologically impossible for them not to. Does that have anything to do with law, justice, or fair process? What’s that? We haven’t done that in 100 years.

“Bloomberg Is Wasting His Money Attacking Teflon Don (DC)”

Not really. He’s 80, is he going to take it with him? He’s not polling 10%? No surprise: he only started yesterday. They claim he’s going to keep spending after losing. I’m not sure Federal Elections Law will allow that.

“90 percent of all coverage he received in 2018 was negative.”

That’s can’t be true. NBC just accused CNN of being violently Pro-Trump only yesterday. Of course I believe them both.

“Over 40% Of Listed US Companies Don’t Make Money (ZH)”

As I say every day in #OppositeLand, land of lies. Tesla just had a jump, they are now probably the largest car manufacturer on the planet by market cap but don’t produce any cars. The cars they produce explode. SEC doesn’t follow the stock rigging, NFSB doesn’t look at one new Tesla murder per day. No one notices: they go higher.

““It’s Unthinkable” Australia Sells Arms to Countries Accused of War Crimes (G.)”

Every word of every sentence they say. “Accused?” I just accused Orkney of war crimes. Unthinkable? Every nation on earth is participating in them, as overseen daily by the U.N. What do they think that arms do? You give them to people to use, not to plant flowers in. Ad nauseum. Logic is dead, so be outraged instead.

“Virgin Islands Alleges Epstein Used Private Island to Abuse and Traffic Girls (G.)”

Whoops, after 30 years of worldwide media reports, we suddenly noticed there was a crime in our jurisdiction. From a guy of whom we are not questioning or arresting what can only be thousands of accomplices and co-trafficking co-felons. And this is considered logical and not unusual.

While Taleb is true, and people meddling so often causes not cures problems, yet if you go further and insure regular maintenance fires, you will have least trouble of all. But that takes, sacrifice, intelligence, and self-control. Which from yesterday, is quite the hallmark of our species, unless specifically engineered and countered with substantial meddling and force from elsewhere. You know, in the service of Disaster Capitalism, or worse, Disaster of Socialism.

[Dr. D]

“The Iraqi government has been threatened with a cut off of access to Fed money … This is even more stupid than the assassination”

How many thousand times do all the accidents have to point in one direction, how many compasses laid out on the table point each and all to North, before you believe this is not an accident? The compasses are not magic, but have purpose and intent?

“30 years of war all Iraqis want is the foreigners gone. The US doesn’t have a half a million-man army”

Hey, no kidding. So these moves will force the U.S. out, whether anyone in the U.S. likes it or not. Just as promised in the ’16 campaign and resisted every day since then by every member of government. So how do you get it done, since if it doesn’t we will be bled dry? And when you do this in the American fashion, you don’t meekly surrender and admit you were wrong. Nevertheless, I don’t see any Marine Hueys in Vietnam. We left somehow. And how was that?

[Dr. D]

“Healthier Looking Julian Assange Filmed Briefly”
“Assange May Walk Free Thanks to CIA Bumbling: Former NYT General Counsel”

What a surprise. Speaking of, the Awan brothers are reappearing too. Then we’d have a lot of talking about what went on in ’16 and before. …But asking is itself an impeachable offense. In a nation of lies, the only crime is finding the truth.

On the other side, as a major corporation in a corrupt area that no doubt has a ton of dirt as well as negotiating strategy leverage, Burisma suddenly says they’ve been hacked. – Insert surprised face– You’re a CORPORATION, of COURSE you’ve been hacked. You and every other corporation on earth, every day. But although they don’t have anything specific except some guys did some things, they’re sure Vladimir Putin sat down at a keyboard and typed code himself. …And not because it’s crucial to Russia’s gas and oil strategy with their nearest neighbor: heavens no!!! Non-white peoples such as slavs are treated, have no reality, no free agency, no motives of their own. They are but coolies the Swedish girl’s burden must order around! No, these unknown hackers – who must be FSB, and must be from Putin, despite living in the most corrupt, hacked nation on earth – they did it only and EXCLUSIVELY to hurt Joe Biden. OF COURSE!!! RussiaRussiaRussia! You knew they were Jonesing for it. Like all good addicts.

Moral of the story: all things that happen on earth are FROM Russia, and ABOUT Joe.

And despite furious attempts otherwise, appears Iran DIDN’T know, and assumed the U.S. shot down their plane for some reason (to have our Deep State, who totally would and probably did arrange it, start WWIII as they published and discussed for 50 years) and are going to go find the poor saps who either were paid or punk’d into doing it. Media now says “Muh, scapegoats, fake trial!”, with no evidence whatsoever of anything, pro or con, ‘cause it could only ever possibly be on earth that Iran is ‘Muslim State Bad’. Thanks, morons of the right, you’re swell. All that fake news you digested back in the 80s is still working a treat. Despite believing nothing now, you still believe everything your heard then. Sigh.

Point however: are we not wildly closer than ever to a real and lasting peace? Just like NoKo? Not easy, building trust takes time and events. But aren’t we? “Bill Blain: Is Donald Trump Just an Extremely Lucky Guy?” Uh huh. You only get lucky day after day, year after year, because you sit around the White House eating Cheetos and watching cartoons all day. Yup!

Trying a new spin: Trump authorized the Iran attack 7 months ago (as in, “not because of imminent attack” despite that there WAS an embassy attack, that very minute). Uh, yes, duh. IF the Iranian Guard is a Terrorist organization AND Soleimani is their head, AND was specifically named, as was done years and years ago under Obama, THEN yes, of course, absolutely and by law he is and must be a ‘legal’ target. As said, day 1 of listing under Obama and every day since then, but sure, they probably re-reviewed it seven months ago. So? The only reason that matters is that everyone are such liars that they’re genuinely SURPRISED when their words are turned into action. “Muh, what? Words are supposed to be acted on? Since when? You mean, we actually BELIEVE these things? But wait, I didn’t mean that! God knows what I’ve lied about and said over the years!” Lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies upon lies. No one’s turned their lies to action in a generation, no one’s believe anything in a lifetime, so YES they’re surprised and shocked we did something about a guy THEY THEMSELVES targeted.

Kunstler: Ouch! But not to worry: no one’s arrested.

“UN Draft Plan Sets 2030 Target to Avert Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction (G.)”

Ah, The Guardian. Synapse-free as ever. Sounds like they better tell China to knock it off with coal and plastics, since it’s all there, not here. …And they’re the only people who aren’t going to do anything, and demand we shut off the electric in Denmark, and Holland, the cleanest place. So signing things that didn’t work last time, no one obeys, is our plan? Well, it’s something, I guess? But any chance we try something people WILL do and DOES work instead?

Not really. If they don’t get $1T into the economy RIGHT NOW, the compounding interest will take out the system. Doesn’t matter why we print it, but since they’ve lost all the wars, that’s a hard sell.

“Skills like that, they have but we don’t know,”

Wow, noble savage, white man bad. It’s fire? It’s pretty easy, been written down by universities worldwide, but if you’re still embarrassed about it, you can ask. They act like aborigines are weird aliens who can’t/won’t communicate. Nope! It’s our plan to have Australia burn because we’ll never tell you our voodoo spells. Not hard or anything. Matches, fire, season, shovel. Watching with your eyes. Oh and either get rid of all your wood houses or make them mobile. Oops. Similar to farming though: looks easy: seeds, ground, then go sit on the porch. Um, not so much. And no one can tell you in THIS place, on THIS day, with THIS equipment, but IN GENERAL you can do okay. To be great takes experience and talent, but that’s really just caring about the problem and applying yourself. We do this all the time with all sorts of things, which tree to cut, which to leave? How big a clearcut? What kind of ditch? How wide or shallow? When to mow tells which plant you want to seed and favor on this field? And yes, what/when to burn. …Not you suburban CNN-watching peoples though. Plants are a thing on T.V., food grows in plastic wrap on Keebler trees. People don’t actually know what butter is, ikyn. Blows my mind.

“Assange Legal Team Close To Bringing Legal Action Against Belmarsh Prison (Sp.)”

Oops. Assange escapes and testifies before Congress about the DNC servers and how they WERE NOT RUSSIA. Springing him and incriminating them, months before an election. Another lucky accident while Cheeto wanders around like a 5-year-old, knowing nothing, all on accident, like Mr. Magoo.

Bevan, true enough. But how do you get poverty to vote for you when every year poverty gets worse, race relations get worse, income disparity gets worse, and there’s a defacto-mass shooting every day of every week in Baltimore and Chicago and all the Congressmen and Mayors get rich? There lies the whole art of the Democratic Party. Fair’s fair. Pot, kettle.

[Dr. D]

I’m only literate. I only know what I read. Very first DuckGo hit “Most people don’t realize that there were no honey bees in America until the white settlers brought hives from Europe” in 1622.

There are native species, but they’re not “bees” as people commonly refer to them, not HONEYbees of any sort – although this search showed me there WAS a Mayan honeybee that exists only at the equator. What bees did we have? Bumble, sweat, mason, hoverbees, wasps, many others, almost all solitary. But the article seemed to say that the honeybee was a scourge to the environment and the native, existing bees. Maybe. Doubt it – they’re a different niche, life cycle, and approach, so expect you’ll find they ADD diversity and are complimentary. I thought they wanted diversity? Want to do a study? But the point was, without honeybees, you don’t have apples, pears, almonds… And you must therefore would only have maize, grasses, etc. Squash is pollinated by both, but CAN be pollinated by non-honeybees – and going the other way, that’s frustrating when environmentalists, journalists – again lacking 30 minutes on Wikipedia – say NO crops would exist without honeybees = we all gonna die. No, once there were no bees, so clearly beans, squash, etc. are native crops who had no trouble pollinating. Others crops would have trouble, but we humans would then pollinate them. Things would change, but the world wouldn’t end. Nevertheless, since they’re doing work for nothing, don’t harm them.

Lifespan? The reporter alarmingly said, “More bees die every year in the US than all other fish and animals raised for slaughter combined.” True but wtf? More bacteria die in an hour in Pittsburgh toilets than that. So? Also we don’t ‘slaughter’ bees and hang their little carcasses in meat shops. More bees die because they’re smaller and there are more of them. More ants die than bees, and they aren’t either ‘slaughtered’ or intentionally killed either. Is this the world’s largest non sequitur? Knowing that, no one intentionally kills a hive, the bees therefore DIE OF OLD AGE. Now we’re arguing that they die slightly sooner than if they had better conditions: how much better, how much sooner? No one knows, this disingenuine reporter most of all. But they aren’t ‘slaughtered’, basically ever. It’s just the garbage assembly of essentially meaningless emotion-words meant to yank you around. If they can’t think straight, I can’t credit their article on matters I can’t cross-check. What is its purpose then? It’s only meant to say: humans are bad. Hate and death and fear and despair. Okay, okay, I’M SORRY. You got me. I’m SORRY I took care of bees for 10,000 years. I’m SORRY I gave them a whole new continent. I’m SORRY we gave them ever-more nutritious plants and are breeding a whole new almond for them. I’m SORRY I fought off their predators. I’m sorry I built them 2.68 million homes and I’m sorry we’re taking them to a doctor to fix both mites and colony collapse now. If it makes everyone feel better they can live in a hollow tree and be as rare like the wolverine, but maybe we should let the bees vote on it for themselves? Hey, how do you feel about living in a virgin pine forest with no human clearings or crops around, and live in a hollow tree in -20f weather all winter? Better or worse than now? You’ll be free bees with all the Liberty and self-determination due to your kind.

Then to my next question, which is: are we humans any less murdered, less free, or less abused than they? Hardly. Probably worse, our peoples are too different to say. But that IS in fact part of the point of their (natural) deaths. We naturally die too, yes, and we too are not important in the big scheme either. Nature rolls on and on, one day without us. So if 550M people died in the last 10 years, but it’s almost all from natural causes, then…what? So bees are slaughtered…of natural causes by old age?

That doesn’t make the die-off not an issue, but we’ve learned a lot of things here: one, food and pollination will go on adequately, despite alarmist reporters. Since that’s the case, and bees are okay, being 2.8M hives this year, up by 200,000, what’s the article for? To terrify you unnecessarily and unscientifically. To jerk on your heart strings while removing you from logic. And I think this is bad reporting. So next, mites have long existed, but not as hard-hitting until now. Why? CCD didn’t exist, or wasn’t large enough to be known before 2006. Why? Now there’s a reporter’s question. Monsanto and others have been savaged on the weakening of bees caused by exposure to glyphosate and neonicotinoids, as well as a very specific termite poison that causes…ta da…CCD in termites, the bees’ closest relative: it makes them lose their way back home. Comments on this in Guardian article? No. Companies, brands, lawsuits? Nope. “Pesticides” mentioned generically. Monsanto could have written this article themselves, it’s so helpful to them. Generic “transform the way large-scale agriculture is carried out.” I mean, all things can generally be improved, so yes? How though? “these enormous orchards can’t function without bees.” No then? I’m lost: what do you want from me? So change things without changing them? Typical do-gooder: “Whaaah, it’s not perfect!” “Okay, any suggestions that won’t kill everyone on earth?” “Nope: you figure it out, you do the hard work, while I complain about how YOU SUCK on the internets and sip my GMO soy glyphosate Starbucks with a straw.” Thanks, very helpful.

What I see from wild hives – and nothing in this article, thanks – is that backyard bees in wild fields away from modern crops are under noticeable pressure that would otherwise be remarkable, particularly mites. However, not at alarmist levels. At the same time, bees in agri-business – saying GMOs, pesticides, glyphosate – are under another whole level of trouble. Then bees which travel on trucks are worst of all. Why? Bet the pesticides ARE hurting them, and the more “modern” the field, the worse, while they also travel to areas in the South with the new termite poisons: no termites live up North. However, even after all this, it’s violently denied by the companies (of course: ‘safe as water’), but also no clean evidence from beekeepers generally who almost certainly could know for sure by now. That’s confusing: is there no evidence or are they saving $100B fine by doctoring the evidence? But again, why 2006?

Although I can’t run in circles pulling my hair — because as you say, pollination will be fine and we’re not going to die – I DO care about the bee thing specifically. Mainly because it can put pressure on these guys – chemical conglomerates, not so much farmers – to STOP KILLING EVERYTHING, to save the bees, and thus themselves and their own yields. But that’s because they DON’T care about every fish, frog, and Christopher Robin wading in Pooh sticks and are joyful to poison every living things right out to sea, while paying exorbitant profits to monopolies and proven serial murderers for the privilege. This could get a wedge in we otherwise might not.

But with Guardian articles fact-free, written muddily (like native vs imported bees), and wandering around alarmed and fearful of everything human = bad, we’re not going to stop pesticides at all, are we? And therefore waste all our time, let Monsanto go, kep poisons rolling, and do nothing for the bees either. That’s what I’m really up to here.

But if you like bees, then why not help them yourself? Get a hive, grow plants, stop spraying. It’ll do more than hot air on the internet. Suggest borage or buckwheat. Very easy. If you prefer wild, mason bee huts are available on the internets.

[Dr. D]

In a surprise to exactly no one: “Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunburg’s Father Posting As Teenage Climate Activist” …and UN’s Climate Change organization, Adarsh Prathap. “Greta claims to have written all the content posted by her father and Prathap.”

Another environmentalist, another lie.

I mean aside from Columbia openly having lectures saying they planned and staged the whole thing with signed buy-in from scores of media outlets who promised to invent coverage and salt otherwise ordinary stories with unrelated AGW stuff, with the Green handler behind her in every photo.

Guys, you are not helping the cause here. You’ve probably done more to harm it than anything I can think of, even Obama (pipeline, drilling, ANWR) and George Bush (near-permanent environmental death in two different Gulfs). And we haven’t even started with the real backlash such as we now see in Chappelle, Gervais, and political correctness. The world is actually IN trouble: there are actual things wrong. Is it too much to ask to focus on that and NOT lie about it, about totally normal or unrelated things? Nope. And it mirrors TDS: Step 1: lie about everything you don’t need to, don’t have to, and harms yourself. Step 2: never tell the truth even when it helps your cause. Is it any wonder people think you’re crazy, even extreme? Meantime guys like Elon Musk are burning nations of diesel with Caterpillars leveling mountains, then lighting all the lithium on fire so he can charge his cars with diesel and coal, while Monsanto forces Europe to eat Roundup in every meal.

Can we start somewhere normal, like encouraging people to have honeybees, then stopping the poisons that kill us both? A: No. There’s no profit and concentration of power in that. Only in Greta and the worldwide Carbon Tax. Otherwise, you think they’d post her? No way. If she’s on line, there’s a profit or a lie somewhere. If there weren’t, they’d shut her out like everybody else.

[Dr. D]

“What will it take for the Federal Reserve to withdraw from its daily liquidity operations in this $2.2 trillion market for repurchase agreements (repos)?
All I am prepared to say publicly is that the solution is beyond the powers of all the central banks combined. The solution is not attainable without political concessions, which politically are just off the table. This is going to require a major reform that is unlikely to take place and will not even be recognized until the crisis erupts on a much larger scale.” –Armstrong

Could the Fed Ever Exit the Repo Market?

“I’m Spending All My Money to Get Rid of Trump’: Michael Bloomberg (R.)”

And another pedophile trying to get rid of him: a registered offender tried to get access to Marine One and is now in custody. Is that 16 probable assassination attempts now?

“his Democratic rivals are ‘too liberal’ to beat Donald Trump.”

True, however, he will never be accepted by the party left. Worse, AOC has started open war with the DNC, saying either Biden or her has to go. I just read Biden is in 4th, which isn’t any poll I’ve seen. However, it is possible Bernie is in 1st, with Pelosi passing impeachment exactly then, which pull Bernie off the road and out of the primary. …And we worry about the Russians rigging the elections and undermining democracy. Why bother? We do it all for them. All they have to do to destroy us is watch. P.S. she is also trying to pass ONE impeachment, and not the other, although there was only ONE, and one vote, so she can shop the Supreme Court and find a crime to impeach for since they still don’t have one. Dunno what to say. Sure! Why not? Makes as much sense as anything. In #Oppositeland, we start with the conviction and work our way backward to the crime.

“What If @realDonaldTrump Is Brilliant? (Papachelas)”

He’s not brilliant but he’s not dumb either. Like everybody else “he” is a team. But by saying he’s dumb they are making it so, SO easy to control things and steer them around. Case in point: “he petulantly threw down the screen and blamed his awkwardness on his team” Or you could equally say: they are a bunch of canned dumba—es and he was totally right, as was immediately proven…IN THE NEXT SENTENCE. So what’s with the framing? For the love of Christmas, is there any article where the facts they themselves report don’t disprove their own headline anymore?

“A rare sign of discord”

Speaking of: uh, what? The entire Democratic field does nothing all day but attack each other. Bernie may not be foremost, but it sure ain’t rare. And does Warren, fraudulently pulling identity theft on Bernie’s platform while taking millions from Wall Street not count as a bit discordant to his campaign? They’re imposters, and the Progressive wing generally knows it.

“How Bad Can The Climate Crisis Get If Trump Wins Again? (G.)”

So odd since I’ve been reading about this since 1990, 26 years before Trump. But: “The Guardian”, so you can be sure not a single synapse went off. “199 Years Synapse Free!” How bad will it get? Well the U.S. has reduced CO2 the most including under Trump, more than any other nation — although honestly the U.S. and E.U. are falling in parallel, we’re just larger. Sounds awful! How can we survive the continual decline of CO2 under Trump? He must be stopped so we can sign that Paris Accord and get China and India to get those CO2 levels up again! Besides, these lilly-white pollyannas only export their savage pollution and human rights violations to China, so they can live in smug sanctimony. The CO2 is the same, whether it’s China or Detroit, but in Detroit we’d be giving odious Americans jobs, and that cannot be tolerated.

Just consider it #OppositeLand, where everything that’s said, done, or implied, is the opposite of reality. Whenever they say something (i.e. Buy stocks) do the opposite.

“seeking to encourage other big emitters like China and India to continue to slow”

Working gangbusters, as China has opened 130 new coal plants. But in #Oppositeland, #Failing is the new #Winning, so…

“could increase that to 49% with what Light described as modest, politically achievable policy changes.”

Hahahaha. He thinks we can cut fossil fuels 50% in 10 years! Not without killing half the people, silly. …But of course, that is the plan. You’re literate: read their white papers. Not like it’s a secret or anything.

” Avoid UK Recession By Kickstarting Green” investment in all my billionaire friend’s front corporations that will make us ever richer, and push income disparity further off the charts!
(P.S., It’s also a scam, like Tesla, we’re not going to reduce anything but your wallet, most probably while killing you in a fiery wreck.) That’s because real green and CO2 decline would drop GDP, make us POORER, and REDUCE income disparity. “readily available blueprints to raise government spending” You know, like that. Where I get the money, and the taxpayer – 25% of which are on welfare and 50% of which don’t have $400 — get the bill. The billionaire friends and Senators, MPs get the profits! #Winning!

“spiral into a slump and risk mass layoffs as it tangles with rising debt, cooling domestic demand and an ongoing trade war…”

You mean the trade war that wasn’t working, didn’t do anything, and wasn’t pressuring China? That trade war, CNN? Your reporters need to coordinate your stories a little; they’d never hold up in court.

“And 15% for GM. Who’s taking over? Reuters doesn’t say.”

That’s because Reuters, like the others, is not a news agency. No surprise though: even the dumbest people told them China would steal everything, take it, start their own companies, and kick the U.S. out. By golly were all us dumb people right and all you schmarty-peoples wrong? Again? 35 years in a row? Who’d a thunk. Hey, does that make you dumber than the dumbest fat American that you hate and make fun of? A: Yes. Far, far dumber. So dumb you’d have to go to Yale to believe such dumbness.

“the U.S. Navy shot down Iran Air Flight 655 scheduled from Tehran”

Nice. While true, they, the media, seem to be the Iranian Revolutionary Force imbedded in the West to attack our own government and people. We attacked them, they attacked us, they shot down a plane, we shot down a plane, maybe we should knock it off and stop shooting down planes? Is it not good that they, while starting with required denials, seem to be opening up and working to honesty? Is that bad? And that’s against the body of the article focusing on deceptions. Some people like it, some people don’t. Some vilified Iran, some the U.S. Some want war, some are against war. So the media just manufactures what they want and say that “it’s true”, which technically it is. But you’re describing your echo chamber, the inside of your own ego, not reality.

““Bolivia Exiled Ex-President Morales Calls on Radio for Armed Militias (R.)”
if the armed forces are shooting the people, killing the people, the people have the right to organize their security”

Sounds like they need a 2A. Otherwise, if the government misbehaves, the people have no options but death. In one view, the people are a collective that exist for the government, and in the other, the government was created out of, and exists for, the individual people. One causes mass-death, the other mass-prosperity. Choose wisely.

[Dr. D]

I don’t know. I heard they planted a lot of great, wonderful trees! Problem was, they were eucalyptus trees, which are made of oil and burn like gasoline. And then – Again and Again and Again and Again – the CO2 in those trees was just put there over the last few years. Then it’s released. Then it’s absorbed by trees. Then it’s released by trees = Net Zero. OMG, science a little, people. And 84% were caused by people, not climate. At the same time, the TAAN volcano went off, probably eclipsing the CO2 put out on the planet this year, and with mile-high ash will definitively cause global cooling. Don’t expect to hear about it.

At least Greta has it right that if you believe in CO2, it comes from the ground in locked-up resources, Not not not not not not not not not not not not not vegetable sources. Or cows via vegetable resources. And that trees will not help. Or not CO2 at least. Ugh.

Why is Extinction Rebellion an extremist group? Um, because you think the world is going extinct? In an apocalyptic fireball we must do anything to prevent? That’s the definition of Jimmy Jones, Hale-Bopp, Mike Pence kind of stuff. And while not violent, the premise of the organization requires, by any logical reading, extreme action. That’s the definition of “Extreme Group”, yes? And even, should anyone on the planet wish to survive, the only possible, logical reading would be that violent action is fully appropriate, if not required. To say otherwise only shows you don’t believe your own premise: “Extinction.” And that’s aside from the leaders and nearby associates saying they are promoting “open rebellion against the government” to get this done. Does the word “I am in open rebellion to the law and present norms of this country” not say “Extreme” to anyone? Whatever would, then? Of course they’re an extremist group. I thought they were proud of it.

Thankfully, their own followers by their own actions don’t believe a word of what they’re saying, as shown by how they are NOT in open rebellion, and are NOT violent, where if they believed a word they themselves say, they would have to be. But that’s how it is these days in universal lies. Weird world. CNN just had one where their reporter said Iranians are innocent, loving people who couldn’t be nicer to her while the whole 10,000 protestors were chanting “Death to America!” Funny part is: she’s right. But that also means they don’t mean a word of it either, or they have an American right there in their hands, and can death them all to their heart’s desire. That’s what happens when you lie every day about everything: you no longer even notice when your words and actions don’t match. Them, us, everyone.

“More bees die every year in the US than all other fish and animals raised for slaughter combined.”
Uh, what? They have like a 2 month lifespan. Of course they die. Btw, all fish and animals raised have a 100% mortality rate. Just like humans, trees, aliens, and all named things in time-space.

Are you trying to say something here, or just using words?

Okay, P.S, if you want to be green, drink cow milk then. But not cow milk. Not soy milk. Not almond milk. Not in plastic or in paper. Not in a boat or with a goat. Sounds like humans should just die then. And be quick about it, as Scrooge said.

“Honeybees out-compete diverse native bee species for forage,” I have no idea what he’s saying here except he didn’t bother to read that new-fangled “Wikipedia”, like all reporters, not just but especially Guardian reporters. Newsflash: ALL bees in north America are non-native. There were no honeybees in North America. Maybe he means wasps and bumblebees, but if so, they can hardly be called “pollinators” as there were no almonds, apples, pears in North America either. You’d be eating corn, grass, and squash.

“It wasn’t that long ago that beekeeping was mostly a boutique pursuit” Not that long: only +100 years or five generations ago. Practically yesterday! “European immigrants introduced their own version of agriculture to North America” only 300-400 years ago. Also practically yesterday! 20 generations ago. How do I know? Almonds are the WORST pollinators on the planet. That means since we got there and planted the first orchard, they have ALWAYS had to put bees there. Not just because anywhere we go, we’ll bring bees, wildly increasing their numbers and habitat. In fact, we would FORCE bees there, while de-flowering every other thing in bee-range because otherwise they would eat THAT and ignore the almonds. And almonds have been there since the Spanish, so… Fake, fake, more fake. Bulls—t, fake, and false. Then made up, invented, not researched, and wrong, although I’m guessing the farmer you spoke to knew this. Okay, yes, it’s gotten larger. Yes, the major industry is to let bees fat up and you know — not die – by summering over in Minnesota hayfields, then trucking them back to the almond Bataan March, where they can pick up more anti-termite and neonicotinoid pesticides in le plus uber-progressive eco California that kill them dead. So green. We should be like them. Note: no such thing as “Colony Collapse” until those toxins were released in 2006. …Another amazing coincidence no one should look into or believe or anything.

And they’re “exploited”? Compared to me? My job and tax rate? The Draft? Opioid pushers? Worldwide slavery and human trafficking? I mean…yes? But if they’re reversing this and breeding viable almond pollen, then no? We care about and are helping them? You know, like we do when we build them houses and fight their predators? Like when we gave them a whole new continent to buzz on? Don’t know what you’re saying here. This is what humans do, like beavers, prairie dogs, and ant colonies. So this expression only makes any sense if humans = not nature. If Humans = bad. Kill all the humans, every day. Except the ones in London and NYC: only the naughty farming ones who have trees and fields and forests.

[Dr. D]

…And also the women ravagers, like Maxwell?

“Here’s where the US empire is drawing to a close.”

Stage was set that withdrawal cannot be resisted even if the military, his own cabinet tries. And you see they ARE trying. But this was the POINT, wasn’t it? To retreat to the U.S., hunker down and survive since our (their) attempt to take over the world failed, because mouth-breathing simpletons, who’ve never done anything in their lives, and are idiot sons of idiot sons – and went to Yale – screwed it all up so catastrophically that even being the world’s hyperpower couldn’t overcome their failing fails? So here we are, the Petrodollar is unraveling fast, and we need to withdraw fast, yet everybody’s still fighting it as if we’re a contender. We’re not. We’re a corrupt, washed-up has-been, without a lick of work or morality anywhere. And history is not kind to corrupt idiots. Especially when they’re violent. But what else did you think we could do right now? And I bet you we can’t stop/won’t stop until the U.S. troops are surrounded, surrender, and are shipped home on a city bus with tickets bought by their parents.

Let’s watch. Can’t stop it anyway.

“ US, Iran Used An Encrypted Swiss Fax Machine To Defuse Crisis (ZH)”

They must be super annoyed about this. I know they’re annoyed that Kim sends “beautiful letters” in calligraphy. But you see, they’re on PAPER, which means the NSA and everyone on earth can’t intercept them in the Cisco/Huiwai routers. Likewise, Putin bought typewriters going on 20 years ago. Quantum computer THIS, you dummies. Cracking only works if you know the code exists.

“ Iran Admits It Shot Down Ukrainian Plane (AlJ) “

Yeah, we know. And I’d ask why but to some extent I don’t care. Won’t get a straight answer anyway.

“18 years the U.S. has been engaged in the “Global War on Terror,”

Otherwise known as WWIII ½ which we LOST, as we lost every war in my lifetime. Now we’re retreating. In proper #AntiLogos fashion: “We didn’t have a war!” “It wasn’t against you” and “We’re not retreating.” Uh-huh. To some extent they’re right: it ended up being against US, the American people and the rule of law known as the Constitution. “We had to fight and kill West Virginians by the thousands over there, so we didn’t have to fight and kill them over here.” Worked a treat. P.S. we’re not going to pay it. We’re going to default like everybody always has since Adam Smith in 1775.

“Trump Impeachment Charges May Go To Senate As Early As Next Week (R.)”

Kunstler pointed out what they were shopping for with the delay. Plus praying a Court decision would let them tack on more stuff, which would likewise be quasi-illegal: you can’t have an indictment, then add indictments. Plus you also need a crime, then find out who did it, instead of having a man, and fishing for errors. But what? Us rule of law? Surely you jest.

“if Pelosi makes Adam Schiff a “manager”, can the GOP still call him to testify?”

Since there’s no law at this level, only politics, yes, they can.

“Central Bankers Are Quietly Freaking Out About How To Fight The Next Recession (F.)”

But, but, the economy’s never been better! Ever! And that’s why the Fed posted $500B to float the Jan 11th weekend. For fun: are the Feds doing a reverse-takeover of JPM? They have 6+ traders charged with RICO racketeering for rigging metals. That’s a 3x payback if so, and as you noticed, there’s no honest law anywhere. So if JPM has 1B oz rigged, let’s say, the U.S. can force JPM to pay back 3B oz of metals, and set any payback period they want: let’s say 10-20 years of all their profits. Effectively nationalize as a state bank. Why? Because with a dead petrodollar, the world will revalue gold+silver, and the Treasury would like to steal some somewhere. So if you’re in the Repo market, do you trust DeutscheBank? No way. Now how about JPM with every trader arrested and unlimited penalties? But when have we seen prosecutorial extortion except every day for the last 2 1/2 years?

“Boeing’s Ousted CEO Departs With $62 Million, Even Without Severance Pay (R.) “

And the shareholders still say, “Looks great to me! BuyBuyBuy!” They’re the ones that would stop this. P.S. but they can’t because as long as the Fed prints, money has no meaning, and anyone who is the slightest bit responsible must lose, which is why Tulip Manias collapse. But if the people won’t reject this and be responsible, I can’t help them. They’ll be involved in the corruption, the ponzi, until it collapses, then say “Whaaaaaah!”

With layoffs, some Ford and GM plans were reversing and hiring though. Little bit.

“ Joe Biden Gets $Millions In TV Ads In Iowa From Undisclosed Donors (IC) “

They always hide their names because they’re proud, honest, and don’t mind people knowing who they are. Totally above board. I always hide my name and use a front company when I’m in honest deals. Hiding and lying is just what honest people do, amirite?

[Dr. D]

Maybe so. Certainly I’m in error somewhere. But I struggle to make things make sense in any other framework: certainly what I’m being told is completely wrong.

Stage was set that withdrawal cannot be resisted even if the military, his own cabinet tries. And as you see, once they got their feet under them, they ARE trying. Very very hard. Oops, another accident.

[Dr. D]

Elsewhere:

“A supposed party with possible knowledge inside IRGC says that since yesterday evening, 56 IRGC commanders have been arrested by the IRGC’s intelligence organization. I have not confirmed this as I have no reason to do so, so take this as plausible rumor.

This would presume IRGC being cleared of spies at the moment so no Iranian response until spy/spies found. This is believable as they did this about a year ago. One imagines they have much dissent within the ranks. So if missiles have hit Iraq as you said, then they must feel confident in their cleansing.”

[Dr. D]

Much as it pains me to admit it, the economy here has stopped flatlining or declining 2% p.a., and has popped its head up barely, like 1-2%. There must also be more optimism as there are jobs, help wanted signs, and rising wages or better conditions (like 4 day workweek). For instance, Taco Bell is paying 6 figures for managers in some (almost certainly city) districts. These are also entirely low-skill jobs, which is easy to pressure wages upward: since a whole generation has been destroyed, it’s nearly impossible to get anyone to show up at all, literate and you know, not drunk, much less reliably. So despite technical unemployment no doubt still near 18%, the few remaining people who actually work are in short supply. …Just like Russia in 1990 under the same conditions of communism or bank extraction.

This may be an economic flip pulling jobs and wealth from the cities TO these blue-collar flyover areas, I can’t tell, but if so the cities have 30 years of wealth to bank on and won’t feel a similar hardship for quite some time. This may also be showing in Cheeto’s minority support, particularly the black vote, which has nearly doubled, which has been said to be due to jobs in minority communities. Again, not an accident, exactly what he and Bannon said was their express, specific plan, while CNN and NYT called them racists for helping blacks and wanting the black vote.

I’ll keep you posted, but this is strictly anecdotal, light, and hard to define.

“Trump’s Iran De-Escalation Succeeds (Flores)”

No doubt at all this is what they would TRY. We can see them do it with their “Presidential” “Beautiful bombs.” And how causing peace makes Trump “weak”, and Iran “Wins”. The question is more: is there a single person on earth dumb enough not to notice and fall for it? What’s their counter-response? To fight? Or pretend to fall for it and set a trap?

Other than that, prettymuch what I’m saying – since it’s blindingly obvious – that Syria missiles were a joke, the Iran drone was another joke, a transparent attempt by the same transparent actors to cause the same transparent war they’ve openly said they wanted for 40 years. Wot a shock.

And Iran responds in like kind with fake, transparent counterattack. All a fake movie set with fake actors and a fake script. CNN doesn’t notice since their reporters haven’t not reported the fake in a generation. Do you have any idea how hard it is to shoot off 100 missiles, each of which can destroy a town, and not hurt a single person? They deserve a medal just for pulling it off. But talk is cheap, and the only way to prove things among perennial, pathological liars, is with actions. Like Rouhani’s non-attack on non-bases, with a non-warning.

“I think a few of the advisers of the president are trying to slow-walk the administration into war.”

Yup. At last people can see the patently obvious and have stopped denying everything. Not the media though, they’ll deny the truth to their grave, like good little zealots.

“Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Iran Is Closer Now to a Nuclear Weapon than Ever Before’ (NW)”

I’m sure they are, but: compared to what? Israel has said they’ve been an hour from the bomb since 1979. They should know since they’re the ones that sold it to them. That’s why we need to attack their enemies for them in an illegal war of aggression. The one they got the dual-citizen NeoCons to do. Nope.

Besides, nukes are a joke. You can kill more people with a trunkful of fentanyl, like we found the other day, available from China for spare change. No one cares. We love our made-for-TV stories and not the truth.

And right on schedule: “Iran could have nuclear weapons in one to two years.” Guess we know who they work for since they use the same words. Does anyone notice after 40 years? Nope. Not CNN and LeMonde at least.

“Democrats to Press for Impeachment Witnesses Throughout Trial (R.)”

The non-strategy for the non-defense of the non-impeachment. Talk about wasting our time. But #Oppositeland, what else would you expect?

“This is how corrupt American law has become. A man is being put in prison for 6 months for not cooperating with an investigation of an event that did not happen!”

You notice for the 50,000th time, this is not a black man. It’s about being poor and vulnerable. Self-serving corruption could care less about your color. And no one should be surprised, since the system from county judges in Delaware to the Supreme Court in D.C. have been blatantly imprisoning the innocent for 70 years. What’s the oldest still-surviving case? Peltier? Hard to track there are so many thousand. Armstrong — both white AND essentially a billionaire, was in prison, like Assange, another white insider, and Manning, also white, and also transgender — was put in prison, in solitary, indefinitely for life, for contempt. But but, it’s all racism! It’s only black people! As above, after 40 years will anyone notice? Nope. Not if a media you know and we all agree lies every day about everything says so. Because this one time it’s not a lie, I promise.

“Would you put your family on a Max simulator trained aircraft?”

I would. Because I’ve read what the fault was and am logical, not following manufactured fear from an inevitably lying media who hasn’t told the truth in my lifetime. See the fake exploding gas tanks from Dateline. I’d fly every day for a year if they just told pilots and put an off switch on the wall, and I’d die of cosmic rays and the airport x-ray machine 100 times over from cancer before a 737 Max would kill me. Get a grip, people.

P.S., you’re a fool if you think Airbus doesn’t have the same emails in their teams, and the Euro regulators don’t show up and cover everything there too. They need to sink Boeing to kill the U.S. and economy, but Boeing shouldn’t make it easy for them with lies and pathetic engineering.

“White House Unveils Plan to Speed Big Projects Permits (R.)”

He keeps trying to improve the economy, and they keep fighting prosperity tooth and nail, using every underhanded means they can find. …And I’m referring to the Republicans. Because if America succeeds, how will they buy it up at 1c on the $1? How can I escape my crimes if there’s no civil war to burn the records? Those Epstein tapes don’t kill themselves, you know.

“China to Become First to Realize UN Goal of ‘No Poverty’ (CD)”

Cough*buls—t*cough. Goes to show there’s no end of morons, but this is the media and the U.N., so… Probably Yale. Even the middle class in China are poorer than our poor by our standards. And they’re following the fallacy that – like Malaysia – if a comfortable farmer, but with no need for cash money, becomes a paid factory worker, but is barely eating and crammed in a concrete flat with no community and no security, but makes $10/week, that he’s better off. No, he’s WORSE off, you maniacs, and that’s before we calculate the environmental and human rights costs.

Armstrong, re: 1934: “[T]he broader trend is cooling thanks to the solar minimum. But there are also wild swings from new record lows to a single day of record high temperatures. This is similar to what was taking place during the 1930s. There was the dust bowl with drought and heat in the summer, and the winters were still the coldest on record which we have not yet reached on a sustained basis.”

Glacier National Park quietly removes all signs about how there won’t be any glaciers, since 50 years after the prediction, they’re still there and probably growing. Yet another day Manhattan isn’t underwater, in fact hasn’t raised an inch. Polar bears are doing better than ever and are an arctic scourge – to humans at least, which they don’t mind to eat. So that’s half my life they’ve been wrong. Every. single. day. Since what? 1990? Are they going to notice sometime? Not on your life: humans never, ever admit when they’re wrong. Science only proceeds again when they die of old age, because it’s essentially a popularity contest, a fashion show for nerds. Sadly. While they drum out good science that’s unfashionable, waiting in the shadows with answers. And sadly because this was so, SO predictable. But then they couldn’t destroy everyone, put in a worldwide tax that favors the rich and Sach’s CO2 trading hypothecations, and kill millions of hateful humans, annoying the rich with their breathing and “property rights.”

Over in Australia, 10 years of research 2005-2015 showed 40% of fires were intentionally set while 47% were started by humans but accidentally. That’s 87% caused by humans. So the 200 arsonists seems dead-on the long-term average, the only difference being they’re mad enough to find an arrest them. Since fire-using humans are going to start fires, maybe we can go back to doing it carefully on purpose again? Lookin’ at you, California. You essentially outlawed this and killed everyone in Paradise, then bankrupted PG&E and raised rates on the poor to cover it up.

“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.” Harry S. Truman

That was 70 years ago. Imagine what mischief they could have got up to by now. But I’m sure as a President, who read every security file we’ll never see, he was an idiot and a conspiracy theorist who made it all up. Trust Brennan, he’s on NBC. When’s the last time they lied to you? 11pm Thursday?

[Dr. D]

Cautiously optimistic about Iran. As Iran shot up the whole town and missed everything and everyone…just like Cheeto in Syria, with his “beautiful bombs”… looks like Quds/Soulimeni were their semi-rogue agency, T asked Rouhani, “Looks like General S. is not only your CIA, but is going increasingly rogue and may make a play to take over Iran, and your job. Would you cry too much if he had an accident?” Rouhani says “Yes, take him and we, the civilian, not secret state governments will talk.” Now here’s the part where T looks serious, the only time as serious as this was during the inauguration, real danger here. Rouhani responds with the empty missile strike, hitting literally nothing. Offer accepted. Proven. Media claims they have assets (effectively terrorists) in America and worldwide and no doubt that’s true: who wouldn’t? It’s so easy a cave man could do it, yet none, zero, attacks on America, which is the easiest place in the world to hit. They took down one unimportant website.

So that says – and in a big way – Rouhani has accepted the offer. He put down his secret state and reasserted his control, which no doubt is equally dangerous for him. We are going to talk.

Not to be outdone, and Hollywood and much of the left is flying the flag at half mast, trying to have state funerals for Soulimeni, attacking the United States for, you know, pursuing the same authorized war we have for 20 years during which time Obama killed 5,000 children with the exact same drone strikes, the media reports, “30 U.S. servicemen killed in counter attack!!! WWIII on the way! Beautiful war! (insert orgasm here)” At which time Cheeto tweets, “All is well.” So well in fact, I’m not even going to comment. I’m going to bed and will see you tomorrow. Which he did. So since that was fake news, the 1,448th day in a row, they flipped his comment to be, not that he was responding to their fake WWIII attempt, but that he thinks being bombed is a well and good thing. Nice, but really scraping the barrel of Orange Man Bad.

So here’s the situation: so Iran has all the oil, and Saudi has none since the U.S. burned it all for them in exchange for paper bucks and gold we already stole from them in Switzerland. The U.S. just set up a deal with the guys who HAVE the oil, at the same time the U.S. – at the moment oil independent – doesn’t NEED the petrodollar. We can’t be cut off. Iran and Saudi are mortal enemies, along with Saudi’s evil Siamese twin, Israel, the two nations (with Qatar, etc peanut gallery) who funded ISIS, the most evil, murdering, bloodthirsty regime the world has seen in the last 500 years. So doesn’t this say, IF Trump is/has a deal with Iran, AND Saudi no longer has any value but is a violent liability, THEN we are about to double-cross and cut loose Saudi Arabia? You know, like seen in the 911 re-investigation? Why else would we pull the plug on the petrodollar as we have? And IF we do that, don’t we by definition, double-cross Israel to some extent? Now Israel will wiggle out of this for sure: they have a deal for the Cyprus pipeline from Leviathan, and can pretend they didn’t know nothin’. But when half your alliance is vanished, put down, can’t say that improves your position much.

So can you see why he might hold off and keep the 50-year deal with Saudi/MBS for an extra month or two even though they are attacking and killing Yemen’s civilians (and losing badly), UNTIL he could secure a deal with Rouhani and Iran? What would happen if he cut off Saudi first? Before we were oil independent, and before Iran was trusting enough to deal with us? What would happen if Soulimeni was still there, trying to annex Shia Iraq into Iran and use it to attack Israel? And you know, pursue these guys’ weird religion of Pence, Christian dominionist/evengelical, Iran’s return of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, and Israel’s reinstatement of the Temple via launching WWIII? They all think war would be a great plan and the best evah.

And can you see why, just like NoKo where the exact same thing happened, Cheeto wants to keep on sanctions until a final agreement is signed? And Russia and China seem to be completely on board: they don’t like loose cannon secret agencies either. Look at how arm’s-length Russia has been for decades with their closest, necessary ally. Why?

So, keep an eye. Stay tuned. Iran’s secret state isn’t going to just vanish without taking a swing, but not too bad so far. ““Iran Appears to Be Standing Down.” At least until Israel can re-calibrate us fighting that war for them, down to the last West Virginian.

Bonus question: so Rouhani made a play to re-control Iran’s secret state, the one we expect is made up of more than Iranians. For example, both Strzok and Valerie Jarrett have ties or grew up in Iran. So when they realized that Rouhani was going to purge the Revolutionary Guard and that secret-state nuclear-wanting wing of Iran, did they all get on a plane and fly to their home base, this nexus of worldwide corruption, apparent hub of the black CIA, the Ukraine? And did Iran shoot down the whole plane without comment rather than have them escape? Or is it just air defense on very high alert and an accident? Or perhaps IDF would give Iran a black eye, let the plane take off, then use tech to paint it up on military radar, knowing that would activate the air defense? We may never know, but we’ll see who squawks loudest about being allowed into the investigation: lookin’ at you, Canada’s first black PM, nation deepest in the Ukraine lobby.

Speaking of Ukraine: “The recent gas transit deal between Russia and Ukraine, and their national gas companies Gazprom and Naftogaz respectively, has comforted Europe…”

Looks like Russia, Ukr, U.S., and Europe all have a deal now. No more Brzezinski WWIIIs. Total, utter, complete, repudiated failure, in his lifetime so he could watch: couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Media says? “Peace is war, and Iran standing down is Iran winning.” “Trump, who killed a general and paid nothing, gets a peace deal going into an election, and that means he’s losing.” Gotcha. Right.

Bloomberg just sunk his own, very successful campaign, saying California – being the first U.S. state to fully enter third-world status – is the model he plans to export to every other state. Yeah, we just don’t have enough bankruptcy, wildfires, gang shootings, typhus, and human excrement on the streets of Des Moines. The real threat to America comes from deer hunting and 40-ounce sodas, and we’ve always wanted stop-and-frisk shakedowns. That’s the threat, not, you know, another record high in opioid overdoses and male suicides.

“Pelosi Seeks to Limit Trump’s War Powers (USAT)”

Nah, Congress already has this power, it’s already in the Constitution. They just don’t want to use it and would have to admit all the fake, weasely wars they’ve fought for 70 years have been illegal as h—l. Just like we all said for all 70 years. So if she does, win-win for Republicans, limiting government. But at the moment the (Republican) Senate won’t, so it’s a joke.

“McConnell said, “no such leverage exists … it will never exist.”

This is entirely true. I don’t know what she thought she would get. Hope another round of DNC/CIA search could find a little more blackmail? That’s how it’s all done now.

“Can You Locate Iran on a Map? Few Americans Can. (MC)”

While generally true, I’m calling shenanigans as just as many dots are in the ocean with no land, and are especially in Greenland. More like American’s don’t give a crap about authority and will stick you in the eye if you make them take tests. …Kind of like when poll numbers call these same Americans. Tell them something random, just ’cause. And MC and pollsters believe it without thinking and call us stupid. Hahahaha. Keep it up, dummies. But they’re from Yale, so…

“Ghosn was citing a 99.4% conviction rate in Japanese cases. Why have a lawyer?” As Armstrong said, and equal only to us and improving on Hitler. Now Japan suddenly realized his wife is a criminal and arrest her? Yeah, that says “integrity” all over.

“Hunter Biden ‘Biological and Legal Father’ of Stripper’s Child – Judge (Fox)”

And pointing out that Joe’s career has lambasted deadbeat dads. Or granddads? So will any judge in Arkansas take the case? Or would “No reasonable prosecutor” dare? I mean, I feel for them; it’s not a crime. But it doesn’t show well.

[Dr. D]

Health Care: “I’ve noted in 1998 the entire Medicare and Medicaid spend was just over $310 billion. Last year it was $1,576 billion, or 500% of the former amount….the number of old people — over 65 — has risen by 30% during that same time period the cost went up to 500% of its former amount.”
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=237813

So the Feds taking this over will solve it? They just quintupled the problem. Meanwhile all cash surgery, lasik, plastic, Oklahoma Surgical, etc, has fallen 80%. None of this can happen without government help and government-enforced monopolies.

Above, smoke hasn’t cleared yet. Soulimeni went to broker a peace that would see Iran boot the U.S. from the region. Okay, well his death that may create that, which I think is what he would have died for voluntarily. We’ll have to see, since everyone is double-crossing everyone, and mistakes are being made (737?) but it doesn’t look that different yet to me.

[Dr. D]

“Ukranian Whistleblower Reveals MH-17 Tragedy Was Orchestrated by Poroshenko and British Secret Service”

Well what do you know? Just like we all said 5 hours after it happened. Is Holland going to apologize for participating after? Or was it worth it to have permission to repatriate their gold? Since they didn’t cause it, I’d almost call it fair.

In other Dutch news: “Netherlands Supreme Court Rules They Must Reduce CO2 by 25% by end of 2020!”
“The judges in the Supreme Court of Netherlands have made one of the worst decisions possible. In hindsight, the ruling will be the straw that broke the back of the European economy.” –Armstrong

I don’t know what they’d have to do to accomplish this. Close the malls, shut the roads with the army, shut off the electric 12 hours a day, and pump water by hand? You know, starting tomorrow? In the middle of winter? I’m sure when thousands die from cold and diphtheria they’ll want to review it. In reality, of course, they’re just going to ignore the court because they must, and then the court and government are discredited as an institution instead. Meaning, people now just ignore the courts.
From another view, if the court can do this, demand the central-planning and complete shutdown of Dutch culture, ordering the deaths of thousands, is there anything they CAN’T do? Yet they STILL don’t have the overreach of the English Supreme Court. Their overreach extended backward into time and was planetwide.

“With regard to military matters, it seems safe to declare that by the end of the 2020s the US empire will be definitively over.”

Everybody’s on the same page here. Just need to inform the NeoCon/NeoLibs and their dinosaur holdovers left in the parties. It’s going to be messy and confusing but I said just the other day, the U.S. can only leave by shooting up the town. Iran can only save face and let us. So far, that’s happened. If Putin feels safe to fly to Syria, that’s a great sign: he’s not going to fly into WWIII.

“Maduro Opponents Storm Parliament to Reinstall Guaidó as Leader (G.)”

These guys, whenever they lose, they call it a win and keep going. That mostly works only because they own the media, who reports it works.

“they or a family member have delayed medical treatment for a serious illness”

In America we delay it. In foreign countries, THEY delay it; see multi-month delays in Canada. Same thing either way: health care takes people and resources. All resources have limits.

While true, this is also true, and voluntary: “US still spends the most on healthcare of any developed nation in the world, while covering fewer people and achieving worse overall health outcomes.” We could easily and instantly drop costs by 50% by firing and retraining all the paperwork/insurers, then drop it another 50% by going after gouging and monopoly in drug and devices, which is legal and long been upheld in the Supreme Court. …Just no one will enforce the law, as always here. If you did that, i.e., cut out illegal and outsize profits and criminal waste, we’d have the 1981 system low enough that ordinary, affordable insurance would cover it, and the problem would be solved. But you’ve noticed since 1990, they don’t WANT it to be solved. They want it to be broken, and made it multiples more broken with every chance and law since then. #Helping! So much helping! Effective, affordable health care isn’t profitable. It’s just utility-money, like 5% returns. And how do your third yacht with that? How do you buy your third Senator?

“The world must eradicate pesticide use, prioritise nature-based farming methods and urgently reduce water, light and noise pollution”

We absolutely should, and can, but be careful in the transition which would disrupt food supplies. Ultimately, I would not expect yields to drop, but it would require more employed people, higher food prices and more land under cultivation, which would price out all these new subdevelopments. …And Price should be higher, they’ve been suppressed for 50 years. And we WANT people employed, that’s one of our problems right now, we’re just shifting profits FROM Apple and Amazon, TO workers and farmers. Win-Win to me.

“Love the Land or Watch It Die (Yates)”

The usual city-folk, noble-savage stuff. If you want biodiversity why don’t you knock down that mall in New Jersey? How is their ecosystem different and less important than the western range? Just because you don’t want YOUR WalMart and Macy’s boarded up because near your house, you need them? Well so do the Western people need them. What you’re really saying is, “I want these theoretical benefits, but I want YOU to pay for them, not me. YOU are the baddie when you kill a coyote in Wyoming, but I’m not bad when I pave 1,000 square miles of coyote habitat in Long Island.” Also as a journalist, you didn’t call Wyoming and say, “WHY did you poison them? How many? A few or a lot?” And I can tell you but you can look it up for yourself. The western range is wildly, overwhelmingly, stunningly, amazingly, indisputably more environmental as a haven and a people than anyone from the Atlantic to Cincinnati, yet you make it seem the opposite. More poisons are used on Mar del Lago and Miami and the fields from Scranton to Nebraska than the West, yet the ones who still HAVE wolves, grizzly bears, antelope, elk, AT ALL, are apparently the un-environmental guys, while people from Central Park and Pacific Heights, where nothing remains but skunks and starlings, are somehow the MOST environmental, and we should follow YOUR lead and advice.
Ah well, #Oppositeland, what can I say?

He is right in this: “Before the Earth can be saved or at least salvaged, a transformation, a metamorphosis, in our social relationships—economic, political, cultural—and in our connection to nature must take place. Only this can alter our understanding of who and what we are.”

That’s the point I’m trying to bring up by describing their own blindness and shortcomings. If you live in Newark, make Newark a virgin forest again. If Queens, then in Queens. Atlanta could use more green. Shut down your OWN fertilizer, your OWN WalMart. So fix your OWN back yard and first before you tell other people what to do. …Especially when their back yard IS the wilderness, and yours ISN’T.

Orlov is smug and will be wrong in a way, for it’s no more correct to see all wrong in a people than to see only right. However, we do have serious consequences and challenges ahead and starting right now. The people could hardly be less capable and less prepared. But that’s always how it is.

[Dr. D]

Orlov is worth the time today, right up TAE:

“While finance types and economists, who deal in dimensionless quantities identified by quasi-religious mystical symbols such as $, €, ¥ and £, toil tirelessly to maintain a fake Potemkin village façade of a thriving economy, no such theatrical suspension of disbelief is possible when looking at tonnes, cubic meters or kilowatt-hours. A bunch of ruthless financial swindlers teamed up with pointy-hatted economists spend their days reasoning circularly about price determining value determining price while resolutely confusing money creation with wealth creation. Meanwhile, a shrinking physical economy obscured by runaway debt remains on a collision course with reality; once the collision takes place, the result will be similar to what happened during the financial collapse of 2007-8, except that the desperate financial manipulations that were then used to arrest it will no longer work at all and the physical economy, which is already languishing, will grind to a halt.”

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