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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle May 1 2022 #107107
    John Day
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    “Time” with picture of going up new stairs backwards https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/time?s=w

    It’s About Time, Edward Curtain
    In 1898 the yellow press screamed Spanish devils and today it screams Russian devils. Then and now the press called for war. If the human race is still here in another 124 years, time and the corporate media will no doubt have told the same story – war and propaganda’s lies to an insouciant and ignorant population too hypnotized by propaganda to oppose them.
    This despite the apocalyptic sense that permeates our lives because of demonic technology and its use to transform humans into machines who can’t think clearly enough to perceive reality and realize the threat posed by that quintessential technological invention – nuclear weapons…
    ..So time is my focus, for the last days have arrived unless there occurs a radical awakening to the obvious truth that the US government is pushing the world to the brink of disaster in full awareness of the consequences. Its actions are insane, yet insanity has become the norm. Insane leaders and a catatonic, hypnotized public lead to disaster.
    ​ ​I write these words with an old fountain pen, a high school graduation gift, to somehow comfort and remind myself that when we were this close once before in October 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev miraculously found a solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis; and to find hope now, and that when my time is up and I join John Patrick in the other world, things will have changed for my children and grandchildren.
    ​ ​It is admittedly the hope of a desperado.​..
    ​..Everyone is now doing time while scrolling messages on the walls of their cell phones. A twisted, convoluted, distorted, mechanical time in which it seems that there is no history and the future is an endless road of more of the same.
    ​ ​Some say we have all the time in the world. I say no, that we have entered a new time, perhaps the end-time, when the world’s end is a very real possibility. Hypnotized people can agree to anything, even mass-suicide, unless they snap out of it.

    It’s About Time

    ​ Gail Tverberg presents the last few years through the lens of crude-oil production peaking in Summer 2018. In our current world, crude oil and economy and human population, which oil and economy support, track in close correlation. Lockdowns can be seen as a successful way to reduce economic demand temporarily. War has different effects, but it does destroy the economies of battlefield-countries, reducing oil consumption. The end of oil-fueled-economic-growth necessitates a huge, unprecedented turn from growth economy to salvage-economy (“de-growth”).
    ​ I see western power elites unable to agree on anything​ other than continuation of the current system as they bleed it to death. When it dies, they will need to fight each other over some new system, and they will need competent people to devise such a system, and competent people will not want to include our current parasitic leeches in the new and efficient economy… Compliance-managers will be happy to manage the status quo, but that’s all they can do…
    Crisis calls us to duty.
    The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead

    The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead

    in reply to: Debt Rattle May 1 2022 #107105
    John Day
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    aspnaz said: “I have a few friends who also claim to have had Covid. It amazes me how nobody claims to have flu these days. I have one friend who believes his uncle died of Covid. Without reliable tests, I take all these stories with a pinch of salt. Until I see evidence of why flu has been eliminated, I am inclined to take the boring approach and assume all the people claiming to have Covid probably just had flu.”

    I have treated with repurposed antivirals since spring 2020, and have seen immediate results in most patients, overnight improvements, which I also experienced. Influenza does not respond to the same antivirals, things like ivermectin. Working and working and working with an illness and getting feedback from people about how the treatments affect them is the practice of medicine.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 30 2022 #107083
    John Day
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    @WES: Thanks. I took the test after a week of solid and sustained study, and 6 months without seeing patients, then I spent 4 hours in spiritual study.
    Where are we and whither go we?


    @Aspnaz
    : I had COVID for Christmas/New Years, Delta, and I had “believed” in it from mid December 2019, when it didn’t-exist-at-all officially, but that Chinese Ophthalmologist got heavily bullied for his wrong speech, before dying of it in January.

    All of our models of reality are simplifications. It’s the best we can do. useful simplified-abstract-models can be really useful, or destructive, or useful to me and destructive to you…

    I like to sell people those models…

    I absolutely agree about holding “facts” in abeyance until they are given time and opportunity to “fit” or “clash” with the world model that I keep as a work in progress, always revising and updating…

    I don’t have a better approach to truth than that, holding a jigsaw-puzzle piece to the side if I’m not sure that it actually goes to this particular puzzle that I’m trying to piece together into a coherent whole..

    I saw something peak in global finance/economy in the third quarter of 2018. I was not the only one.
    Gail Tverberg thinks it was associated with the peak in global crude oil production. She makes a good case for that, and for that being what’s behind the need for lockdowns and an expandable-world-war.

    The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2022 #107031
    John Day
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    @Susmarie108:
    Shhhh, …Don’t tell anybody. I used to lie, and I didn’t need hate to do it at all.
    Selfishness worked fine,
    Honest Injun!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2022 #107024
    John Day
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    Dr D said: “Kill everything. Everything alive. Everything different. Everything not-me. In war, in sterile finance, in factories turning topsoil to concrete, trees into garbage mountains, kill everything, leave nothing, the endless crying hunger of MOAR. Because the one thing they’re lacking, they won’t let in, which is “life”. Is spirit. Is not-me. Is God.”

    This is a problem with commanding the world through intellectual abstraction. Decisions within this model cannot begin to include the complex adaptation of living ecosystems, or even living humans, so they must simplify their calculations by eliminating that complexity, before they can model an outcome.

    The problem is that when the survival of the ecosystem (economy) is threatened, only the complexity of life-adapting-broadly can eventually create a new supportive balance.

    Until then the necessities just keep getting depleted until they are gone, and the living systems which produce the necessities of life just keep getting destroyed in this depletion.

    Sometimes it even goes “too far”.

    “Survival of the species is everyone’s business”, I once read on a late 1960s record jacket.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2022 #107021
    John Day
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    Antidote said: “I myself am reluctant to throw anyone under the bus AND assume some sort of moral high ground. I try to stick to what that rebellious jew told us re: Mary Magdalene. ….’”let he who without sin cast the first stone….”…you know the story.”

    That was NOT Mary Magdalene, Friend.
    The adultress was never identified.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2022 #107020
    John Day
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    Last night Zerosum asked: “Does Recertification involve lying by saying “I’m sorry” (but “I was right”)”

    Nope. I have been board-certified in Family Medicine since 1990, with ongoing requirements for lots of hours of their required continuing medical education (at cost) as well as regular testing requirements and other practice and medical education requirements, all of which I have always met.
    I was notified in January that my board-certification is being reviewed for “discouraging patients from receiving COVID-19 vaccination”, which is usually called “informed consent”.
    Indeed, I provided informed consent about deaths, injuries and uncertain protection from contracting COVID. I pointed these facts out to them promptly in January.
    They notified me that they got my response, and I have heard no more from them.
    I asked for refund of my $500 if the de-certify me (which is usually done for law-breaking and immorality with patients).
    I presume they need to keep that money…
    I will take the test tomorrow, after reviewing my last 10 years of medical education courses (a LOT).

    In my estimation, the best thing for the board and myself would be if I passed (yet again) and they then de-certified me.
    I would wear it like a Purple Heart medal…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2022 #106979
    John Day
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    Thanks friends.
    Good comments today.
    I’m cramming for Family Practice Board Recertification Exam Saturday, though I’m still under-investigation for disparaging vaccines last year. If they let me take the exam THEN de-certify me, they keep all the fees.
    In my reply to their notification letter, I asked them for the $500 back if the decertify me.
    They have it all figured out, I suppose…

    Oxymoron, i’m glad somebody is making sense down under.

    The vaccinated ARE threatened by the unvaccinated, but they are 3 times as threatened by the vaccinated & boosted, I think…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2022 #106861
    John Day
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    @Ilargi: Musk says he’ll make the Twitter algorithms open-source.
    That means replacing whatever is bottling you up.

    Also: Ghislaine Maxwell’s right breast looks larger in that picture with Musk.
    In most women the left breast is larger, and most men have a larger left testicle.

    Why?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2022 #106860
    John Day
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    @Ilargi: Maybe they have only figured out and rescinded the newer censorship algorithms at Twitter?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2022 #106859
    John Day
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    Dr. D said:
    “Then FDR arranged an intentional war. …Or maybe you think breaking all treaties, arming all bases, and cutting all oil to Japan wasn’t creating a certainty of war. While we had the Pacific code and were aware of Pearl Harbor weeks ahead of time, parking all the warships as sitting ducks, to which the captains were defying direct military orders to have them safely at sea as they did.”
    FDR had the Japanese code and kept the reports to himself. The commanders at Pearl Harbor were kept in the dark, and at Clark Air Base. They were ordered to cluster the planes to protect them from saboteurs, but really to make them easier targets for bombing. The aircraft carriers were ordered out of Pearl by FDR 2 weeks before 12/7/41, and the other modern ships left on 11/30/41, leaving the WW-1 ships and crew to absorb Japan’s attack on the “climb the highest mountain” day, per Japanese code.
    The US was legally at war with Japan a week before 12/7/41, by a secret treaty with the Dutch Empire, when the Japanese fleet crossed a parallel line in the Pacific. That was never announced, either.
    FDR and Lincoln are generally ranked as America’s top presidents as I recall.
    I think we can all make our own rankings if we want.
    I still rank LBJ as worst…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2022 #106857
    John Day
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    Last night Thomasjkenney said (about being directed to use the automated check-out, instead of engaging a human being):
    “The robot takes a final breath, reads the tally, and requests some dough. I show it my chip, there’s a vague slurping sound in the back, and it’s over.
    I say a hearty “Fuck you, robot!” and walk proudly out the exit.

    It’s ok to refuse, because this does cost some humans their employment, and short-changes other humans, like you, of their human engagements, which are part of a normal(ish) life.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2022 #106804
    John Day
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    Well, all of the WW-3 stuff I am trying to post does not make it past the mystery-filters, so I will remove the links, which you can find here… https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/free-bait?s=w

    Moon of Alabama (German) has an update on the Ukraine war. I’ll encapsulate some:
    Russia has destroyed 5 electrical power stations for Ukraine’s electrified rail transport system, which is the backbone of their​ military re-supply infrastructure.
    Because Ukraine uses a wide gauge rail system, diesel locomotives (not made to that spec) cannot be imported to substitute for them. This could have been done at any time previously, but the rail lines also serve civilian economy.
    (Secretary of Defense) Austin was in Poland, answering questions from reporters after a brief trip Sunday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kyiv, where the pair met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials.
    The defense secretary was asked how he defined “America’s goals for success” in Ukraine. He first said Washington wants to see “Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic country, able to protect its sovereign territory.” (NATO Special Operations Zone?)
    Then, he said, the United States hopes Russia will be “weakened” by the war. “It has already lost a lot of military capability and a lot of its troops, quite frankly, and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability,” Austin said.
    Western military and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine will now mostly be bottled up near Poland, in western Ukraine (Galicia), and are subject to disappearance for resale.
    Ukrainian sabotage teams appear to have hit an oil storage facility about 100 miles inside of Russia.
    ​ “​Since phase two of the war started last week there have been no larger battles. What we have seen so far from the Russian side does not amount to more than armored reconnaissance.
    ​ ​The nearly 1,000 artillery missions in the last 24 hours and on the days before speak of intense preparations for upcoming attacks by Russian mechanized forces.​”
    [MoA]

    ​Ukraine War update from the Saker blog agrees with “softening up” in the beginning of Russian “Phase 2” of Special Military Operation to de-nazify Ukraine. Large assaults are expected to follow, perhaps this week. High level French and Canadian military personnel are reportedly trapped in Mariupol.​
    [The Saker]

    ​There are civilians in the fortified industrial complex, held by Ukrainian/Azov troops.​
    RUSSIAN MILITARY ANNOUNCED ANOTHER CEASEFIRE FOR EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS FROM AZOVSTAL IN MARIUPOL
    ​ ​On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to avoid a direct storm of the fortified area of Azovstal. He ordered to block it and once again propose fighters remaining there to surrender. The decision was made a day after the Ukrainian militants of the Azov nationalist battalion shared the video showing civilians in the basement of the plant, for the first time since the beginning of hostilities in the city.
    [SouthFront]

    Forensic doctors discover fléchettes – rarely used in modern warfare – in bodies found in mass graves in Bucha, “The Guardian” reported…
    ​ ​As soon as the Russian Ministry of Defence claimed the decision to withdraw from the Kiev and Chernihiv regions, the AFU heavily shelled Russian positions in the towns in the Kiev region with artillery. The investigation confirmed that civilians were killed as a result of artillery shelling. The flechettes could be used both by the Russian and Ukrainian artillery. Russian forces deployed in Bucha could not shell on their own positions. Thus, the civilians were killed during the clashes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
    [SouthFront]

    The ​Russian Ministry of Defense presents warning of new Western “provocations” soon, such as chemical false flag attack, blamed on Russia, which destroyed it’s chemical weapons, Or other use of weapons of mass destruction, covertly or overtly, in a battle zone.
    ​[ The Saker]

    Pepe Escobar discusses “The Moskva Riddle” (What DID sink Russia’s black sea flagship, and what then?)
    [ The Saker]

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2022 #106801
    John Day
    Participant

    COVID (cont.)
    Rebel News is no longer “journalism” in Canada, because they just rebel too much to take part in democracy.
    Disquieting death toll: Dissecting Canada’s all-cause mortality​ ​(August, September and October 2021 again.)
    After a rapid acceleration in July 2021, the 0-44 age group saw a catastrophic 25% weekly excess death rate for approximately three months that ‘cannot be explained by suicides, overdoses, cancers, etc.’
    https://www.rebelnews.com/disquieting_death_toll_dissecting_canadas_all_cause_mortality

    ​Can’t fight infections or cancer much when this happens.
    Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs
    …In this paper, we call attention to three very important aspects of the safety profile of these vaccinations. First is the extensively documented subversion of innate immunity, primarily via suppression of IFN-α and its associated signaling cascade. This suppression will have a wide range of consequences, not the least of which include the reactivation of latent viral infections and the reduced ability to effectively combat future infections. Second is the dysregulation of the system for both preventing and detecting genetically driven malignant transformation within cells and the consequent potential for vaccination to promote those transformations. Third, mRNA vaccination potentially disrupts intracellular communication carried out by exosomes, and induces cells taking up spike glycoprotein mRNA to produce high levels of spike-glycoprotein-carrying exosomes, with potentially serious inflammatory consequences…
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X

    ​The mRNA vaccines are documented to cause an autoimmune hepatitis. There has been lots of unexplained hepatitis going around in kids and adults lately…​
    SARS-CoV-2 vaccination can elicit a CD8 T-cell dominant hepatitis
    ​..​Liver inflammation is observed during SARS-CoV-2 infection but can also occur in some individuals after vaccination and shares some typical features with autoimmune liver disease. In this report, we show that highly activated T cells accumulate and are evenly distributed in the different areas of the liver in a patient with liver inflammation following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Moreover, within these liver infiltrating T cells, we observed an enrichment of T cells that are reactive to SARS-CoV-2, suggesting that these vaccine-induced cells can contribute to the liver inflammation in this context.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168827822002343

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2022 #106800
    John Day
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    Y’all have seen a lot of this COVID news already:

    There’s more where this came from.​
    Pfizer Documents Released By Court Order Show 3.7% Death Rate From Vaccine, Many More Serious Injuries.. And An EXTENSIVE Cover-Up

    BREAKING: Pfizer Documents Released By Court Order Show 3.7% Death Rate From Vaccine, Many More Serious Injuries.. And An EXTENSIVE Cover-Up

    The deaths right after COVID-vaccination ​happen among the “unvaccinated”​ by definition, since everybody remains “unvaccinated” until 14 days​ later. Clever.
    “Not Counted” as Vaccine Deaths – Over 50,000 Americans Aged 65 and Up Died Within the First Two Weeks
    https://rumble.com/v11vu2c-not-counted-as-vaccine-deaths-over-50000-americans-aged-65-and-up-died-with.html

    Covid vaccination increases the risk of severe heart inflammation up to 120-fold, a major study from Scandinavia published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has found.​ (Thanks Ilargi)​

    Covid Vaccines Increase Risk of Severe Heart Inflammation Up to 120-Fold, Major Study Finds

    ​The JAMA article: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents (Thanks Jeremy)
    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2791253

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2022 #106799
    John Day
    Participant

    With gratitude to D.B.Smith, and a picture of the oak staircase I finally finished making and installing.
    “Free Bait” (pay later) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/free-bait?s=w

    A friend recently said that you can tell there is a trap by the presence and nature of “bait”.

    COVID-19 Deep Dive Part VII: Smart Cities and Neo-Malthusianism​ ​ ,Spartacus
    Welcome to the new tyranny, same as the old tyranny​
    ​What the Elites aim to bring into being is a system of full-spectrum control and naked tyranny never before seen on this planet, where people’s every move is tracked and quantified by remote, and then nudged along lines that the tyrants find more acceptable, using a blend of scientific management, behavioral economics, big data, and AI algorithms. They believe this will result in a more resilient society, more capable of absorbing unexpected shocks and surprises. It will not. It won’t, because they’re not taking the wisdom of crowds into account, and because they want to employ the same top-down, planned economy methods that failed in prior socialist dictatorships. While crowing about preserving liberal democracy, the Elites plan on creating a system that is, at its core, illiberal and undemocratic, taking human decision-making out of the equation entirely. An automatic, self-managing cornucopia of wealth and prosperity for the few, and a system of brutal, totalitarian control for the many.
    ​ ​This new totalitarianism does not use boldly-illustrated propaganda posters or rousing anthems to get people to go along with its dictatorship. It uses soothing narrators and cutesy cartoons and ukuleles and footage of happy people doing yoga. It is deliberately infantilizing and insipid, teaching people to embrace a condition of learned helplessness.​..
    ..In 2001, shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Admiral John Poindexter proposed the Total Information Awareness program.
    ..DARPA pursued research into mass surveillance of the public for a couple years before the TIA program drew harsh criticism and was shut down in late 2003…
    Shortly afterward, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.​ (The same day, I have read elsewhere)​
    ​ The last part of the long article deals with neo-Malthusianism, with a brief comparison to “cornucopianism”, which is the opposing belief system that technological advancement (like using coal, oil and gas to create industry, fertilizers, electricity and infrastructure)​ will provide more and more support for humanity without limits.
    Thomas Malthus (employed by the British East India Company) wrote in 1799 that human population growth was exponential, whereas growth of support systems was linear at best, so population would always tend to outstrip resources, except as mitigated by war, pestilence, famine and death. He did not account for the industrialization of agriculture, which was about to shift the baseline of support much higher with fertilizers, irrigation and big machines to plant, harvest, process, transport and store.
    That appears to be a one-time event. Limits to fossil fuels, mined resources and well water are real, as are pollution and climate change. He briefly disparages The Limits To Growth, published in 1972, and goes on to the advance of global capitalism and offshoring of American industry, to weaken the US, and to weaken the position of American workers.
    Personally, I do believe that we are seeing the downturn of growth, already. I personally see the pandemic control-narrative and WAR! control-narrative as being reactions to the inflection point of global-real-economy into a downtrend, which appears to have happened in late 2018 or early 2019.
    The “repo-crisis” in August-September 2019 is thought to reflect that by some. The biggest banks could no longer trust each other overnight for loans based on T-bills, so the Fed had to take over the operation.
    Therefore, I do see the enemy as global financial capitalist neo-feudalism (Own Nothing: Be Happy), but this article does not present a sustainable or low-carbon path into the future.
    Real-adaptation-to-less-energy is a hard-sell, and not really worked out yet. The end of growth, going into “de-growth” is very complicated. 90% of the energy going into our food calories (including fertilizers, planting, harvesting, storage and transport) comes from inputs of fuel and electricity, not from sunshine, as in the past.
    We do not see that. It is invisible to most of us. We cannot rapidly change that, but we can eat more local produce, grow vegetables, and learn from this process, so as to work the problem together going forward.
    We are at a certain disadvantage to financial and power elites in the near term, in our lifetimes. Their control-narrative is weakening. They have had to go from climate-change (financialized solutions) to pandemic-response, to WAR! All of these are dishonest and manipulative, but the truth is difficult. It is not clear what the timeline of the next 20 years might hold. Elite measures to covertly reduce our population numbers appear to include pestilence, now advancing into famine, which usually proceeds to war.
    We are able to improve our positions going forward if we become less reliant on centralized systems for our food, water, electricity, fuel and other necessities. That is a tall order, and we will be more vulnerable where climates are harsher, food comes from farther away, water is hard to get independently, and human populations are very high and dense.
    None of these preparations are “the solution”, but they buy time and freedom to work on smaller, more local, more efficient economic support systems for us and our descendants.
    https://iceni.substack.com/p/covid-19-deep-dive-part-vii-smart?s=r

    ​Charles Hugh Smith, Staring Into The Abyss
    ​ ​The global economy is perched on the edge of an abyss, and averting our gaze doesn’t actually lessen the risk, it increases it because problems which aren’t faced directly and addressed directly fester and rot the system from within.
    ​ ​This is why we’re collectively staring into the abyss: all the big problems have been dismissed, ignored or papered over with PR-happy-talk “solutions” that only make the problem worse.
    ​ ​There are three basic techniques that our “leadership” (public and private) have used to avoid dealing directly with our pressing problems:
    1. Appear to address the problems by doing more of what’s failed spectacularly.
    2. Propose magical-thinking happy-happy technological “solutions” that are appealing but impractical.
    3. Keep the status quo glued together to maximize quick-buck gains for the elite while guaranteeing long-term catastrophe for the entire society / economy.​..
    ..Every elite is pursuing the same self-serving agenda of maximizing their private plunder and hoping–perhaps vainly–to escape the consequences of their obsession with short-term gains at the expense of the planet and its people.
    https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr22/abyss4-22.html

    ​If you stop feeding people greenhouse gas emissions will decrease, just like if you don’t let truckers cross the border.
    Canada leads the way.
    Trudeau government targets grain growers as worst emissions offenders

    Trudeau government targets grain growers as worst emissions offenders

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 25 2022 #106798
    John Day
    Participant

    If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em.
    Will the deep-state have to buy Musk out?
    Can he be “turned”?
    Is he already “captured”? (I don’t see it.)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 24 2022 #106720
    John Day
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    @Dr. D: Noted and appreciated.
    You are more forthcoming with your worldview, Brother.

    (Have you read the Dr. Bonner’s All-One soap labels?)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 24 2022 #106711
    John Day
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    @D Benton Smith, VP Gary and Dr. D from last night, and Armenio Pereira this morning.

    I model what we species go through as evolution, and not gradual, but in spurts of change, genetic bottlenecks, selection-events.
    Yes, this can also exist within universal mind. Chittamatra is the “mind only” school of Tibetan Buddhism.
    It’s not feasible, within our world, to prove the existence of material existence. It would appear the same modeled in universal-mind.
    Is there “intent” in universal-mind? Doe we have “free will” or merely the experience of “free will”?
    Are “good” and “evil” discernable, except by intention?
    If I intend to help others, then it is good-intent.
    If I intend to help my physical wealth, comforts and power, at the expense of others, or without regard to their needs/desires, then it is evil, right?
    Does God “use evil men to his purposes”? How might that look in an evolutionary context?
    If a species dies out it stops evolving.
    If predatory human elites keep the human herd thinned, then evolution can proceed.
    This does not need to be their intention.
    A predator kills the weaker members of a herd of deer, with a programming that may benefit the gene-pool of the herd of deer in the long term, but the predator does so for hunger.
    We would not model this as “good” or “evil”, as it is the evolutionary state of affairs.
    It is apparent that we humans are in a situation of rapid environmental change, which has seen our species numbers multiply by 10 – 20 times in a few centuries, because of mineral resources.
    We might presume that our numbers will fall rapidly as these resources decline rapidly.
    There has been much evidence of this going back to the 1950s, and Admiral Hyman Rickover of the nuclear navy taught Jimmy Carter just that as a young officer.
    The Bushes and Cheney’s of the world are no less informed, but decided to keep it to themselves and control the oil going into it.
    The implications for the predators-upon-humans is that they need to thin the herd 90%, gradually, while maintaining their power to control the herd as their life-support system
    That will require a LOT of cooperation from the herd. We may be seeing a lot of cooperation from the herd with this mass self-culling, refusing to see it for what it is, and complying with it.
    Does that selectively cull the herd members who believe and follow without analysis of the situation?
    That’s how it seems to me. Analytical skill, the ability and drive to act upon analysis, not herd-movement, and psychic-premonitions and guidance can all lead to selective survival in this selection-event.
    With these traits more in evidence, will our offspring be able to evolve beyond the predator-prey model, evolve into stewards of life on earth? Ever? Now, at this critical historical moment of opportunity (a century, perhaps)?
    What would the change of direction look like? We can see that there appear to have always been some humans who saw bad times coming, and gave good warnings.
    We, here, are of that general constitution…
    Action upon valid analysis is different from valid analysis with inaction. What are the reasons for inaction? We do have social settings, which differ from our cognitive settings. We may see what is correct action, but be inhibited from taking it by our social programs, inherited and trained.
    I foresee a big decrement in elite apex-predators, also. What will be the selection criteria among their numbers? They cannot really trust each other as a system breaks down, though they can sort of trust each other to maintain class-interests in a system that is declining in function.
    They don’t seem to be able to act together to reform an economic system for the better, except, maybe after a wartime capitulation, when there is selfish gain to also be had, and losses have already happened.
    I’m going out to do some mowing before breakfast, having already gardened…
    I’ll try to keep y’all up on how this is going. I am the oddball critter that I am.
    I hope I have good survival traits, but it remains speculative.
    My kids all got “the shot”, for instance…
    We shall see this play out. It’s accelerating downhill now.
    Is there life-after-death? Is there just a perceptual phase-change? Is their reincarnation?
    Is there work to do as we await answers?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 23 2022 #106677
    John Day
    Participant

    Good output again today, Dr. D. Jackson and Kennedy inside jokes by our owners…
    Much, much more. They play with human deaths as a game and pastime.
    They like to put silly signs on their work and laugh that nobody knows what they mean, except the insiders.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 23 2022 #106675
    John Day
    Participant

    @D Benton Smith, from yesterday.
    I got to Khazerian-Mafia over a decade ago and stopped digging for deeper layers than that.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2022 #106617
    John Day
    Participant

    This site could put descriptions next to the links. I suspect there is MORE evidence than this.
    The Spike protein in the vaccines is toxic
    Summarizing all the known science demonstrating that the Spike protein as used in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines is toxic. https://demandthetruth.substack.com/p/the-spike-protein-in-the-vaccines?s=r

    Repurposed antivirals ASAP are good… Supporters of that approach are good. Telling the COVID Good Guys from the Bad Guys https://justusrhope.substack.com/p/telling-the-covid-good-guys-from?s=r

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2022 #106616
    John Day
    Participant

    Vladimir Zelenko MD (the first MD in the US to successfully treat early COVID and provided protocol details) and John Sorensen present a large body of factual information here, first released last September, but now on Global Research site. (Efforts to suppress this cannot relent until complicit power elites are demoted.)
    Note that insurance companies will pay nothing on bills for vaccine-injuries, and neither will any other payer, so those cannot be reported as billing diagnoses.
    The Vaccine Death Report: Evidence of Millions of Deaths and Serious Adverse Events Resulting from the Experimental COVID-19 Injections
    VAERS published 726,963 adverse events, including 15,386 deaths as of September 17, 2021
    CDC fraud expert says that number of deaths is at least five times, and possibly ten times higher
    A whistleblower from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) revealed how almost 50,000 people died from the injections. They represent only 20% of the U.S. population, meaning
    that if this data is applied to the entire population 250,000 have died 150,000 reports have been rejected or scrubbed by the VAERS system
    The actual number of anaphylaxis is 50 to 120 times higher than claimed by the CDC
    Everyone who dies before two weeks after the second injection, is not considered a vaccine death, which causes the majority of early vaccine deaths to be ignored
    Moderna received over 300,000 reports of adverse events in only three months-time
    The Lazarus Report shows that only 1% of adverse events is being reported by the public The majority of the population is not aware of the existence of systems where they can report vaccine adverse events
    Aggressive censorship and propaganda told the public that adverse events are rare, causing people to not understand how their health problems stem from past injections
    The shaming and blaming of medical professionals who say anything against the vaccines, cause many in the medical community to avoid reporting adverse events
    The fear of being held accountable after administering an injection that killed or disabled patients, further prevents medical personnel from reporting it
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/evidence-millions-deaths-serious-adverse-events-resulting-experimental-covid-19-injections/5763676

    Why did so many working age people die in September 2021?
    In September 2021, recorded COVID-19 deaths show 65-74 years old died in greater numbers than 75 years and older, and COVID-19 deaths for the 45-54 years old were as high as for the 85 years and older.
    This has never happened before for deaths due to respiratory diseases, from 1999 to 2019. These September 2021 peaks for “younger” age groups are consistent with the vaccine deaths hypothesis. https://brownstone.org/articles/why-so-many-middle-aged-deaths-in-2021/

    The UK has stopped publishing this data recently.
    British children up to 52 times more likely to die following a COVID shot: gov’t report
    The data show a stark increase in deaths among children both single- and double-jabbed compared to their un-jabbed counterparts. For children aged 15–19, the risk of death increases by almost double if they take the first shot and by over three times if they take the second. 10–14-year-olds, on the other hand, run the risk of dying almost by a factor of ten following the first dose while the second dose brings a 51.8 times greater risk of death than if they had remained un-jabbed. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/children-in-britain-up-to-52-times-more-likely-to-die-following-a-covid-shot-report-finds/

    Walgreens still publishes data: As you can see, even though the boosted represent just 30% of the population, they accounted for 53.5% of the positives among the sample of over 60,000 tests administered by Walgreens stores nationwide during the week beginning April 5. The unjabbed accounted for just 17% of the positives, lower than their share of the population. https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-walgreens-recorded-who-tested-positive-for-covid-and-the-results-might-surprise-you

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2022 #106615
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ There may well be civilian human-shields down in the tunnels under the industrial zone.​ “Surrender and be fed”…
    No gas; no bombs, no pumped-sea-water drowning.
    “So Not Even A Fly Can Escape”: Putin Declares Mariupol ‘Liberated’ – Orders Besieged Steel Plant Sealed Off
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/so-not-even-fly-can-escape-putin-declares-mariupol-liberated-orders-besieged-steel

    Moon of Alabama has this:
    In a talk at a defense industry meeting Major General Rustam Minnekaev, Deputy Commander of the Central Military District, named areas of Ukraine which Russia wants to secure (machine translation):
    “Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, it has already begun, literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over the Donbass and southern Ukraine,” he said.
    …”This (control over the Donbass – TASS note) will provide a land corridor to the Crimea, as well as influence the vital facilities of the Ukrainian [military forces], Black Sea ports through which agricultural and metallurgical products are delivered to [other] countries,” – said the deputy commander.
    “Control over the South of Ukraine is another way out to [Transnistria], where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population. Apparently, we are now at war with the whole world, as it was in the Great Patriotic War, all of Europe, the whole world was against us. And now the same thing, they never liked Russia,” he added.
    The Russian ambassador to the U.S. again named the political aims:
    Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine is aimed at demilitarization and denazification of the country, and Moscow will ensure that the country has a non-nuclear and neutral status,
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/newsbits-on-ukraine-gonzalo-lira-war-aims-railway-supplies-and-incoming-fire.html#more

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2022 #106614
    John Day
    Participant

    Eleni in Athens sends this French assessment of the current ​global-financial-war, justified by the war in Ukraine.
    Nobody dared to say anything, but from 2003 onwards, the US economic system was no longer what it claimed to be. Officially they were still liberal, but everyone could see that they were no longer producing their own food and necessities, and that they were living on rapine.
    The US economy, which was one third of the world economy when the USSR dissolved, is now only one tenth…
    ..Gradually, the Russian and Chinese blocs have come closer together thanks to the joint project of the Great Eurasian Global Partnership (2016) within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The aim is to develop the whole space by creating balanced communication channels on the ideological bases defined by Kazakh Sultan Nazerbayev: inclusiveness, sovereign equality, respect for cultural and socio-political identity, openness and readiness to integrate other ensembles.
    Washington’s attempt to destroy this emerging entity has no chance of success. It is striking that :
    The economic attack began not with the invasion of Ukraine, but two days before…The very day after Moscow recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (February 21, 2022), the United States launched an economic attack on Russia (February 22). The European Union followed suit the day after (February 23). Vnesheconombank and Promsvyazbank were excluded from the global financial system.
    Vnesheconombank (VEB.RF) is a regional development bank. It could have helped the Donbass. Promsvyazbank (PSB) invests mainly in the defense sector. It could have played a role under the Mutual Assistance Treaty…..Due to the unilateral actions of the Anglo-Saxons and the European Union, the world is being divided into two heterogeneous spaces. The era of economic globalization is over. The economic and financial bridges are being broken one by one…..Rather than confronting Russia and China, the United States has chosen to withdraw into its empire: to isolate the West in order to maintain its hegemony.
    Since 2001, all world leaders have viewed the West, and particularly the United States, as wounded predators. They do not dare to confront them and look for ways to accompany them gently to the cemetery. No one ever imagined that they would isolate themselves to die.
    https://www.voltairenet.org/article216524.html

    ​ There is lots of prevarication here, but this may be “de-dollarization” starting.
    Foreign Demand For US Treasuries Collapses Just As Fed Launches QT
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/foreign-demand-us-treasuries-collapses-just-fed-launches-qt

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2022 #106613
    John Day
    Participant

    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/protected-by-propaganda?s=w (smaller) Austin garden at dawn

    Former US President Obama (still powerful within the Democratic Party, and potentially involved in spying on candidate Trump in 2016) speaks out forcefully for the need for more big-media narrative control against “disinformation” about COVID vaccines, which make some people afraid to receive them. Further disinformation against good Americans like himself and the current “president” Biden are bound to come from Russian-influenced sources, just like Russia threw the 2016 elections to Trump..
    He speaks eloquently, of course. “Democracy will wither.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/21/obama-stanford-speech-big-tech

    Glenn Greenwald: Former Intelligence Officials, Citing Russia, Say Big Tech Monopoly Power is Vital to National Security
    ​ ​A group of former intelligence and national security officials on Monday issued a jointly signed letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the power of Big Tech monopolies — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — would jeopardize national security because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy.​.. ​several of these officials are themselves leading disinformation agents: many were the same former intelligence officials who signed the now-infamous-and-debunked pre-election letter fraudulently claiming that the authentic Hunter Biden emails had the “hallmarks” of Russia disinformation…
    …The ostensible purpose of this new letter is to insist that Big Tech monopoly power is vital to U.S. national security — because it is necessary for them to censor “disinformation” from the internet, especially now with the grave Russian threat reflected by the war in Ukraine — and they thus demand that the anti-Big-Tech bills first be reviewed not only by the Judiciary and Antitrust Committees, but also the national security committees where they wield power and influence…
    ​..Big Tech and the U.S. security state are in a virtually complete union, with all sorts of overlapping, mutual financial interests….​Many of the key tech monopolies — such as Google and Amazon — routinely seek and obtain highly lucrative contracts with the U.S. security state, including both the CIA and NSA…
    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-citing?s=w

    ​Pepe Escobar just got canceled by Twitter, along with many others, like Scott Ritter, who did not toe the official US lines about the war in Ukraine.
    This snippet jumps out. We all know the rumor…
    ​ ​Every silicon fragment in the valley connects Facebook as a direct extension of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s LifeLog project, a Pentagon attempt to “build a database tracking a person’s entire existence.” Facebook launched its website exactly on the same day – Feb. 4, 2004 – that DARPA and the Pentagon shuttered LifeLog.
    ​ ​No explanation by DARPA was ever provided.
    https://thesaker.is/big-techs-cancel-culture-love-affair/

    ​ ​Newly released CIA memoranda suggest the tech gurus behind the Alfa Bank hoax also tracked Donald Trump’s movements to devise another collusion conspiracy theory. While smaller in scale than other aspects of Spygate, the Yotaphone hoax represents an equally serious scandal because it involved both the mining of proprietary information and sensitive data from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) and the apparent surveillance of Trump’s physical movements.​..
    ​ While the special counsel’s office did not charge Sussmann with making a false statement to the CIA, Durham’s team seeks to present evidence of Sussmann’s representations to the CIA as evidence of his motive and intent to also deceive the FBI.
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/20/new-documents-suggest-democrats-sicced-the-cia-on-their-domestic-enemy-the-president/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2022 #106592
    John Day
    Participant

    Gonzalo Lira lives, but you wouldn’t think straight after the week he’s had.
    Obama doubles down on MORE censorship for democracy.
    Grow vegetables, especially this year.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2022 #106534
    John Day
    Participant

    About my suggestion of a name for the “band”:

    A glory hole is sexual slang for a slot in a wall in which a man inserts his penis for sexual stimulation by someone on the other side.
    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/glory-hole#:~:text=A%20glory%20hole%20is%20sexual,someone%20on%20the%20other%20side.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2022 #106525
    John Day
    Participant

    “Glory Hole”

    @V.Arnold and D Benton Smith: The risk seems to be overshooting the cull and killing everybody by accident. It seems like the goal is to gradually cull 90% , while keeping the support-system for the owners intact.
    I don’t think that’s do-able. It assumes comepetence and faelty among the support-team can coexist.
    I think the competent cannot, for the most part, be loyal to the owners,. Kassandra mentioned their human characteristics yesterday…

    AD Benton Smith: I think foresight, which a 14 y/o , stopped by a cop, won’t likely have yet, is the key to freedom and relative-autonomy. If you identify a trap, you can avoid it before you enter. History is a teacher, and, in my experience, spirit is a guide, if you can listen.
    What about all those critters that reportedly got out ahead of the Indian tsunami, while humans gawked at the suck-out?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106490
    John Day
    Participant

    @WES: Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road, 1972, Loudon Wainwright III

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106489
    John Day
    Participant

    @VP Gary: I agree that you can’t relate with words , that which has never been experienced by the hearer, and that these explorations are personal. I am also glad we can mention it here.

    @D Benton Smith:
    Free will exists. When humans of domineering disposition seek to curtail all possible choices for a person or group, other than the choice of their choosing, they are usually threatening the group with death, or at least unemployment.

    To my perception, one of the greater exercises of free will is to avoid compromising situations in life.

    The assumption about forcing people to do one’s will implies that those people have been trapped by the wilful tyrant. It assumes that one can be trapped, which may not apply to everybody. I try to keep it from applying to me, and I try to be helpful to others who seek to be free.

    Spirit-nature, as I experience it, is less bound by time and space, and gives me clues and points things out to me, for my consideration. It seems benevolent towards me and towards other living beings, but I have to pay attention, and I have to want to escape tyranny and to want to help others escape tyranny. Tyranny is best escaped before one is in a trap, right?
    Pre-emptive escape.


    @CitizenX
    : Sometimes the practice of non-violence requires stopping or preventing a violent act, as I see it. That is the choice of lessening the total violence. It’s not non-violent to stand back and let a bully beat a weaker person if you can stop it. That’s my synthesis. In the moment, things are usually clear.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106473
    John Day
    Participant

    Formerly T-Bear said:
    “TAE of late is reading like social media.
    Once some time ago the site subsisted to large extent on factual exchange and considered opinions.
    Facts are facts only if they can be proven or disproved.
    Beliefs, faith, religion, doctrine, theology, ideology, creeds, cults and cannon all cannot be disproved or proved – they are not factual although they may be fact in they exist.”

    That is eminently reasonable, and we should all give and receive slack.

    The main form of “reality testing” which humans practice is to see what their fellow group-member humans seem to believe. In times when there is rapid change, and worldview assumptions must be freshly questioned, our responses are largely social. It seems that our species-survival over the eons has relied more upon group cohesion and coordination than upon “facts”.

    Don’t get me wrong. I love facts. I really enjoy finding an embedded flaw in fact or cognition, which might be making a hypothesis go all jiggledy-piggledy.
    Don’t you love finding the flaw in reasoning which is leading to intellectual suffering, and slaying it?

    It’s not always possible. We’re an inhomogenous aggregation of adults here, so the social-reality-testing is more difficult. I think we are agreeing to terms of engagement. I’m a Central Texas Buddhist with both Tibetan and Japanese leanings and a fundamentalist Christian upbringing, who feels like all truth should agree with all other truth, but who could not particularly get physics prof or church deacon interested in the proposition.

    Can atheists have ESP? How about agnostics?
    A Tibetan Buddhist teacher told me that “atheists can also know the truth”, and he told me without pausing to take a breath, POW, immediately, as if he was already completely sure of it…

    It would be wrong of me to expect anybody to take an experience of mine, which I relate to them, as proof of spiritual or psychic “realities”, which they have not personally known.

    I won’t do that. We still have a lot to discuss and share.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106469
    John Day
    Participant

    More on Leo Strauss:
    “Strauss is a nihilist in the sense that he believes that there is no rational foundation for morality. He is an atheist, and he believes that in the absence of God, morality has no grounding. It’s all about benefiting others and oneself; there is no objective reason for doing so, only rewards and punishments in this life.
    But Strauss is not a nihilist if we mean by the term a denial that there is any truth, a belief that everything is interpretation. He does not deny that there is an independent reality. On the contrary, he thinks that independent reality consists in nature and its “order of rank” – the high and the low, the superior and the inferior.”


    @Bishko
    : Carol Deppe lives in the Pacific Northwest. I also recommend her books, but you have to modify them for your specific location. I have tried a LOT of what she recommends. Texas is several different kinds of different.
    Start gardening, no matter what.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106466
    John Day
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud: I think there may be more than those 3 types of men. I don’t see Gandhi or Buddha in there, maybe not even Elon Musk.

    I am reading about Leo Strauss and his take on Plato, as you counseled. This jumps out at me:

    “The effect of Strauss’s teaching is to convince his acolytes that they are the natural ruling elite and the persecuted few. And it does not take much intelligence for them to surmise that they are in a situation of great danger, especially in a world devoted to the modern ideas of equal rights and freedoms. Now more than ever, the wise few must proceed cautiously and with circumspection. So, they come to the conclusion that they have a moral justification to lie in order to avoid persecution. Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception – in effect, a culture of lies – is the peculiar justice of the wise.”

    It’s a secret society of the powerful. What’s not to like, if you’re in it?
    Signal virtue by lying to the herd?
    Right-On!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106454
    John Day
    Participant

    Retrieved it… Trying again:
    .

    I think things are going okay because I have set the bar fairly low for enlightening-discourse. It can only go so far, as I see it. We’re doing ok here, I think.

    Our discourse has progressed into the obviousness of disinformation-conspiracy since 2016.
    I’ve been a little part of moving Mr. Overton’s window, but all of us have had perceptual adjustments, especially during COVID.

    We are mostly in that 30% who don’t trust vaccines and don’t trust the Putin-Bad narrative, with all of the puzzling overlap between the two categories, though not if you subscribe to Plato’s “noble lie” theory that elites manage society with control-narratives.

    We appear to be in a “super-cycle” economically, the end of 250 years of human expansion based upon fossil fuels. I have accepted it since 1974, maybe March or so, when a teacher spent a 10th grade sociology class period discussing The Limits To Growth. It made perfect sense during the Arab Oil Embargo.

    I am determined to do my best to prepare for a world of much less energy by making food growing systems that require just a little, in a place where food grows well, and you can survive the weather year round. I’ve designed, and am building a house that would be livable in the mid 1800s, when German and Bohemian farmers fled war and settled to farm the Texas Coastal Plains. It was never a slave economy, and many people there today are descended from those settlers.

    I do not have a physical alternative plan to propose as a replacement for the Apex-Predator-of-Apex-Predators sociopathic-rule paradigm.
    I seek to follow spiritual guidance.

    We can’t talk about smothering mentally retarded babies at birth, or girl babies, or eugenics, because these are ugly, but somehow we can kill Iraqi children, or have them killed in our names, if we don’t have to know about it.

    I can work on human-living-with-less-resource-and-energy-consumption, so I do that. It’s a path, not a destination.

    John

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106453
    John Day
    Participant

    Maybe I can break-u p the rest of the missive a bit. It was rejected without “It looks like you’ve already said that” response.

    Oops, I lost it…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106452
    John Day
    Participant

    Hmm, the last part appears to have been more dangerous or threatening. I had a linkt to Plato’s “Noble Lie” Wikipedia entry. I’ll get that out of the way first:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie#:~:text=In%20politics%2C%20a%20noble%20lie,as%20described%20in%20The%20Republic.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106448
    John Day
    Participant

    That worked.
    Let’s try fractional-re-posting:

    @VP Gary, who I read, D Benton Smith who opened the can of worms, Dr. D who supplies worms by the bucket, V.Arnold who thinks getting extincted is beyond-the-pale, and everybody else who contributed, and it was all with feeling…
    “Overton Window” is functionally what we are willing to openly discuss on a format.
    The Triumverate For The World has a particular view of the western-elite owners and their schemes, which I am unable to refute or confirm. I am willing to keep it on the back burner of possibility, but I’m better able to do this than most people are. I don’t recall his being mocked or derided here, as he would be on other blogs.
    We are experiencing difficulty explaining our spiritual lives. I get it, Archie. It’s hard to discuss, and you can’t graph out the movement of the planets to confirm it “objectively”.
    I do advocate being guided by divine truth, and I don’t try to give lessons, other than “want to be guided by divine truth” and “keep taking little steps, so it can become a little clearer”.
    Like “grow vegetables”, “ridea bike” and “be a neighbor”, i can’t give more elaborate advice than what I am doing (not merely planning) myself. We do have some beans, rice, oil, salt, olive oil, canned goods, etc. What if the gas, water and electricity went out? Yeah, we’d be no better off in 2 weeks, though the first week, like in the February 2021 Texas Deep Freeze, might see us fare better than many.
    In prepping for Mad Max, one fails to prep for the years before Mad Max, and also the fact that the country folk know where the bunkers are…
    Hawaiians joke that the gated communities of “haoles” are their food reserves when the boats stop coming, and it’s not just what’s in the pantries…
    My physical worldview involves the persistence of traits within a gene-pool, and the assumption that trait-persistence provides some benefit to the gene pool. I wondered long and hard about the persistence of sociopathic traits, not just in Eurasian gene-pools, but in the new-world, also, as evidenced by the Mayan Collapse and all the massive human sacrifice to the Sun God, sacrifice of those not “pleasing the gods”, like the neighbor-community…
    I concluded (open to discussion) that the sociopaths killing off a lot of the people when food gets scarce is a survival benefit to the gene pool. Non-sociopaths follow orders in times of famine and war, follow orders without questioning… It appears to me that sociopaths ENJOY this kind of “work”, which they “should”, in order to be good at it.
    V.Arnold is right, as I see it, to doubt a conspiracy to extinct the human species, but a lot of species have been extincted in the last century, most of them in the last 40 years, and it does not seem to have been intentional, either.
    The technology is powerful and execution is sloppy. We can all see scenarios where 90% human extinction could occur. That is seen as a goal by some, whether attained gradually or somewhat faster.
    We still wonder about that Deagle prediction for 2025. Wassup widdat?
    Coming back to limits of finite fossil fuel, lithium, and rare-earths, in a polluted and toxic world, we should ask, “what’s the end game?”. Our owners read Limits To Growth in 1973, mulled it over awhile, then decided to openly deny it since Reagan/Thatcher. I think they decided to make a world for themselves, and find ways to exclude “others”. I’m in the “others” category by default, and also by choice. Catherine Austin Fitts has long discussed this (but I don’t pay to read it. I just accept the concept.)
    I personally seek guidance, spiritual guidance, direct inspiration, and I am open to it, and wish it would come more regularly and frequently, because I’m somewhat impatient, like D Benton Smith… I’m insecure, too. Doubts arise… It’s nice when serendipitous things happen. I feel reassured, for awhile…
    There is work i can do that I’m sure is good work, not just physically preparing and sharing life path and experiences with others, but meditative work, spiritual work.
    It’s difficult to explain, but going within, experiencing, not-forcing, being open to discovery and revelation, and open to nothing-much-this-time and open to a brain-full-of-thoughts-again, appears to be the window to going beyond self, also. One may be empathic without another person nearby, or even clearly in mind, like a radio transmitter-receiver. This is a practice, beginning with noticing feelings and going into them, and doing the same again, another time. You don’t have to sit. My bike-commutes, back when I was employed as a doctor, were an hour each way, and I felt like I was sharing the vibes of those along the way, often feeling sadness, often in the same points of the ride…
    It could just be my imagination. I didn’t hurt anybody, and I’m not afraid to share it here.

    Let’s see if this flies…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106446
    John Day
    Participant

    An odd thing just happened.
    I wrote an essay about the discussion here yesterday and today, about the “Overton Window” we keep repositioning, and I hit SUBMIT, and it disappeared. I back-spaced to it, hit SUBMIT, and it said “it looks like you’ve already said that”, but the text was not anywhere to be found.

    I’ll try this, then I’ll try breaking it up.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 19 2022 #106384
    John Day
    Participant

    Dr. D said:
    …”humans are bugs in a jar to train, tabula rasa stuff. This is why they hate God above all things because humans who have “telos”, a connection to higher consciousness and morality, are clearly mentally ill and they don’t behave the way I plan…they don’t “do what they’re told” and make chaotic decisions that ruin everything. Or rather, ruin MY will, MY decision, MY desires, as the master race of ubermensch philosopher kings that are better than you. Therefore God is hated above all things, and humans who believe in God are punished before all things, and the connection to God – or Telos – is attacked before all things, and the attempt to separate man from Telos — to make men into beasts, mere animals — is primary to all things. It’s their Alpha and Omega, their first and last: Hate God.”

    D Benton Smith said: “I’ll know by the responding comments (if any) whether or not this forum remains useful enough to those other urgent needs that I can afford the time and effort, going forward, to participate on TAE very much at this time.”

    I think it’s working ok, myself…

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