[John Day]

Corruption works best in societies that have a monetary system, i think.
WW-2 surviving heroes are pretty interesting guys, though I only still know one, a German, who escaped from American POW camps 5 times. He tried to get to Mexico, his duty. He could have jumped off another train, but he was pretty sure the guy watching him, who left the door open, would shoot him.
My Father in law was a 17 year old Mexican American boy with 7 siblings and no dad. He sent his entire paycheck home the whole war and did the other soldier’s laundry for his spending money. He did 3 Pacific landings. In the first one he went back behind Japanese lines to bring out his wounded cousin, who lived. Then he did another landing, and was similarly outstanding. Then he did a “suicide mission” on Mindanao, going into the jungle for a month with a radio, to identify Japanese positions…
He didn’t get married until he got back. He worked at Kelly Air Force base until he retired. What a guy. Drank a bit too much beer.

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz: Petula Clark had a lovely, clear voice. When I pay attention to the words she sang they are sad in a human way, but she sang them brightly, and I did not know they were sad in the 1960s and 1970s. Rundgren and Fagan are picking low-hanging-audience-fruit with that song. They sound good together, but I quite pretty soon, anyway. I’m not their target audience for this project.
They didn’t have to stoop so low in the 1970s. Those were better days.
(“Todd is God”, but so is the tree, and the fly in the kitchen, and so on.)

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz in Pink Flamingos shirt

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz, A Sign Of The Times of our childhood

[John Day]

AFKTT said:
“Russian leadership repeatedly made the mistake of thinking that it was possible to negotiate a peaceful settlement to conflicts over resources. But now Russian leadership fully understands that it is not possible to negotiate anything with compulsive liars, deceitful thieves and manipulators, psychotic fascists or the fake governments of NATOstan nations.”

It’s completely possible that Russia is building her brand by remaining faithful to agreements despite the unfaithfulness of the collective-west. This is an expense of war, investing in a long-term goal.
It’s bound to be an ongoing strategy, and it seems to be working.
“Trust” is the core of any working economic/financial system, innit?

[John Day]

D Benton Smith said:
“As God is the Creator and ultimate proprietor of the Universe, for that Universe to exist for us He must willingly experiences every single bit of every intolerable agony that we inflict upon ourselves and others.”

There is not an agreed logical framework that allows this to be proven, (jb-hb and Polemos did not yet find common-ground) however this is how I sense it to be.
When I suffer, I am bringing that suffering into the direct experience of “God”, likewise when I seek to reduce any suffering in any conscience being.

[John Day]

BAU and BAU2 start to diverge around 2020. Why? It is the decline in fossil-fuel availability, assumed in BAU, right?
CT, the high-tech-solution world, also assumes double the resources, which is the BAU2 assumption, so those two, assuming double the oil/gas look very much alike until after 2030 when the pollution in BAU2 becomes more extreme.
BAU2 and CT looked more like the current state of affairs than did BAU in 2020 quite possibly because fracking pushed the decline of oil and gas a little bit farther out than was projected in 1972. In 2014 the original BAU model was still tracking reality best.
Both BAU2 and CT assume double the resources estimated in 1972 for BAU. Since oil is the rate-limiting resource, it has the most effect as it declines.
The assumption of more-fuel wouldn’t cause divergence of BAU2 and CT projections from BAU until the oil and gas start to decline.

I think oil+natural-gas-liquids are now in terminal-decline, and the observed measurements might well fall between BAU and BAU2 in the next few years.
The fact that fracking technology got more oil out of some declining field quickly, and is an expensive means of extraction, may mean that a few years of future oil were pulled-forward. That would cause the decline of both industrial output and food production to be more rapid. Human population would decline sooner and more rapidly, as a result.

“Homo obliterans” is aware of these projected trends, but has other means of modifying them, other scenarios not presented here, such as drastic-population-reduction. Drastic-Population-Reduction is the specialty of our Homo obliterans elites.
After decades of considering why we have sociopathic elites in the world, I believe that the reduction of human population during the overshoot of environmental carrying capacity for our species is the useful worldly function of Homo obliterans. Homo obliterans is the Apex-Predator’s-Apex-Predator.
I also postulate that there is an existing subset of humans, members of humanity who are helpfully guided by Gaia/Divinity, who I’ll call Homo sapiens(+). Perhaps Homo sapiens(+) can steward a world which will no longer require the services of Homo obliterans. Homo sapiens(+) might make Homo obliterans redundant.
Homo obliterans is notably impervious to spiritual guidance, and might fare poorly in an unforeseen catastrophe, compared to forewarned Homo sapiens(+).
Homo obliterans working-groups might be preferentially predated by other Homo obliterans working-groups. Homo sapiens(+) are typically non-threatening.
The improved survival of Homo sapiens(+) might be an important factor after a Selection-Event, but there is no reason to believe that Homo sapiens(+) would breed-true. All human subtypes would still be present during and after a selection-event. Selection events might last centuries or longer, like ice-ages. The mixture of learned and inherited traits in society could change over time. Human culture adapts, not just genetically, but also through “memes”, useful patterns of thinking, living and socializing. Memes are passed down as customs, concepts and values.

There may be a rapid reduction of the total human population in this decade. I think Homo obliterans have made arrangements for population-reduction to take place through means such as bioweapons, famine, and impairment of industrial life-support systems through war.

The WEF has a project to control human behavior through “owning nothing” and “being happy” with smartphones, brain-implants, electronic currency and social credit scoring to tightly constrain human behavior, not leaving anything to guesswork. It looks like they are aiming for CT “comprehensive” technology world.
Some unmodified Homo obliterans would presumably still be in place to oversee the human population and make important decisions. They would still need to fly to meetings and nature preserves in private jets. The core capabilities of industrial economy would also need to remain intact, though reductions in output would be acceptable. Industry would primarily serve the owners, their essential human functionaries and technicians.
It looks as if the rapid reduction of population in the 2020s could compensate for the reduction of available oil. Both reductions would contribute to falls in projected pollution, compared to BAU2. The fall in human population would obviate the requirement to invest more in cleaner industrial technology, a cost-saving for the owners. It looks like CT is the WEF-preferred model.
I personally don’t think there is enough oil to run this scenario as depicted. Making people into cyborgs is a dead-end for our species. Hello Monsanto!

There are competing models, which we can also evaluate through The Limits To Growth. I am not sure of the Russian model. It is either a private secret, or it is what is publicized as the multipolar-world model of trade. Pollution is not much addressed, however fake plans to reduce pollution could be even worse.

Deng Xiaopeng, the modern visionary leader of 21st Century China, who somehow survived the Cultural Revolution, was very much inspired by The Limits To Growth, as I have read more than once. He set out a course for the rapid industrialization and modernization of China within the time-envelope remaining in the BAU projections regarding industrial production output and resource availability. Deng’s goals for China appear to have been achieved.
Xi Jinping seems similarly practical, though his task does not require as radical a change in national trajectory.
Inside China, something like the centralized electronic control of each individual’s human economy is already in place. China also allows for an entrepreneurial business model. Some humans must take initiative to accomplish economic expansion. Outside China, a multipolar-world of trade and transit is envisioned.
Human-rights issues will be compartmentalized locally, within nation-states, which are sovereign.

What might be gained through the multipolar-world model is better economic efficiency of fossil fuel use. We can expect the relative decline of the most carbon intensive economies of the collective west, and the growth of poorer economies, such as India and Cambodia, where baseline use of oil per capita is lower. Coal, though dirty and polluting, will probably be used until it is no longer economically accessible. Those societies which burn coal will have an economic advantage over those which do not. Coal is used to produce concrete, steel and electricity.
The increased fuel efficiency gained by the decline of the most fuel-intensive economies may trend towards the SW “stabilized world” projections, but with more pollution. The cost of reducing pollution must necessarily be borne by reducing the expenditures in production of food, goods and services per-capita.

Reduction of population faster than assumed in any of these pre-COVID models, and a fuel-starvation of western European economies, seem to have begun. There is still time for negotiation, but that time is slipping away.

North American economy is even more carbon intensive, but North America is militarily powerful, harder to control, and has substantial oil, gas and coal.
The progressive economic destruction of North America has been foreseen by many. North American industry has long languished for lack of investment, which went to China instead. There are groups within North America which would like to restore North American industry.
It is apparent that North America will have a lower fossil-energy budget going forward, but how low remains to be seen. A real oil shortage may occur in 2023, as has been predicted for over a year.

One of the principal assumptions of the World-3 model has been that the availability of things like fuel, water and industrial capacity, matters more than economic models. It is as if economic models provide stories about “reality” which we tell each other, but they are far less deterministic than we imagine.
I do not imagine that liquid-fuels which can be accessed by an economy will not be accessed. They may run a train or truck, or they may become plastic packaging or devices. Coal will be used to make concrete, steel and electricity.

Though it is more important for effective group function to have social cohesion than truth, it is possible to have both “the truth” and social cohesion.
It is possible to have leaders who are truthful, good leaders, and also spiritual-seekers, but these “philosopher-kings” are exceedingly rare.
Maybe “Mom” has some in mind. One can hope.
Meanwhile, we have lots of basic prepping for our food, water, fuel and family-group needs.

[John Day]

“World-3 War” is not a typo. Picture of lovely little stalk of growing Namwah bananas at face-level.
https://thenextwavefutures.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/img_1725.jpg

People have various thoughts about there being so many people on earth, and exceeding the long-term carrying capacity for humans.
Nobody wants to volunteer to die.
Some people put the question off by claiming that it is not a real problem for one reason or another. There are support groups for these various non-problem scenario beliefs.
Some people find group-support around picking one particular threat, such as global-warming, and working on that to the exclusion of other threats, such as running out of diesel fuel for the trains and trucks that bring us our food, or heating fuel, or electricity.

Some people put their efforts towards global population reduction. Bill Gates advocated for that as early as the late 1990s, and liked vaccines as a means of fertility reduction in the early 2000s, along with social improvements like education for women, modern careers and good health care for children.

A common meme is that we humans have been bad and dirty, and should be ashamed for what we have done to the earth.
The upshot of that usually seems to be that we should buy solar-panels, a Prius or a Tesla, so I suspect such shaming is a form of niche-marketing.

People personify Earth, Gaia, as our mother, and I like that, but then they feel like we are more powerful than Mom and are hurting her.
I see that, but Mom has been around so much longer than we can begin to fathom, and has been through so much catastrophic destruction, yet Mom has still given rise to more and more forms of life, including us. We have not been here very long, and we just hit adolescence. We are driving sports cars, playing with guns and we keep playing with fire. Mom probably hopes that we will grow up, start gardening, and stop breaking so much stuff, but we show plenty of promise.

It is possible that Mom/Gaia finds adult humans seeking Divine guidance to be even more useful in her grand adaptations of planetary life. I think she provides guidance to those most receptive to it. Noah presents an archetypal example of an adult human who was extremely attuned to this kind of guidance.
Divine guidance from benevolent Gaia, or “God” could improve human survival odds against predation by our elite owners. (I’ll refer to our elite owner-class as “Homo obliterans”, if I may.) We may also read about animals fleeing to high ground when the waves suck out of the bay before a tsunami, while humans gawk. Mom could help us in those situations, too.

Is it bad that humans have brought fossil carbon and fossil water to the planetary surface? It might be a good thing, long term. A little too early to judge yet.
Some humans are capable of stewardship of life, as gardeners or diversified farmers. What if life-stewards preferentially survive a big cull by the owners, or a meteor strike, or a recurring micronova, ice age or flood?

Svet sent an academic update from Gaya Herrington, which puts fresh data into the updated version of the World-3 computer model, used in the 1972 Limits To Growth projections. Those projected graphic representations of how human industrial society might hit planetary limits in time. Limits of oil were already apparent in 1972. Pollution building up was also a big and obvious problem. The most recent update of The Limits To Growth was the 30 year update.
To compliment Gaya Harrington’s paper, a PDF, I found this article about the paper from last year, so I can copy the graphs: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-08-16/revisiting-the-limits-to-growth/

BAU is the famous “Business As Usual” graph from 1972. It has tracked our unfolding reality pretty well over the years, though births and deaths were both down a bit from projections. The resulting human population has been quite close to projections. My read of that graph has always been that industrial output looked like it peaked just before 2020. I personally think industrial output peaked in late 2018, and that made for problems in the world of finance.
BAU2 is the answer to, “What if there is really a lot more oil, gas and coal?” “Business As Usual-2” doubles the fossil fuel estimated to exist. This projection starts to diverge from BAU right around 2020, when one looks at industrial output and pollution. Pollution rises and rises in this scenario. Population rises another decade before falling, but falls harder, and is lower by 2100 than in BAU. Double the oil lets the game go for 10 more years before it crashes, but it crashes worse in a more polluted world.
SW is “Stabilized World”, a world where people across the world, rich and poor alike, cooperate to use less energy, make less plastic and waste, reduce family sizes and harmonize human needs with the needs of our Mother Planet. This model does not track the reality, which we are living. We’re not doing that yet.
CT is “Comprehensive Technology” scenario. This model assumes both the doubling of fossil fuels and the use of technology to decrease industrial damage to the planetary ecosphere. It is sort of like getting twice as much fuel and a bit more time to accomplish SW, a second chance, using technology, not altruism.

[John Day]

​Pepe Escobar, “Bamboo Diplomacy”​ , a whole lot is falling into place in Asia
​ ​In the current incandescent geopolitical juncture, China is definitely not interested in playing divide and rule in Southeast Asia. Chinese strategic planners seem to understand that ASEAN carries a lot of soft power smoothing the big power play across Southeast Asia, offering a platform for all to engage with each other.
​ ​No one seems to mistrust ASEAN. That also explains why the Southeast Asians have come up with an acronym fest that basically hails cooperation – from ASEM and ASEAN+3 to APEC.
​ ​So it’s enlightening to remember that “China is prepared to open itself to ASEAN countries,” as Xi himself said when he launched the Maritime Silk Road in Jakarta in 2013. “China is committed to greater connectivity with ASEAN countries” – and “China will propose the establishment of an Asian infrastructure investment bank that would give priority to ASEAN countries’ needs.”
​ ​The bilateral relationships between China and each of the 10 members of ASEAN may carry their own particular complications. But there seems to be a consensus that no bilateral will determine the future of China-Southeast Asian relations.
​ ​The discussions this week in Phnom Penh and next week in Bali and Bangkok suggest that Southeast Asia has ruled out either extreme: paying tribute or demonizing China.

Bamboo diplomacy: the China-SE Asia romance

​ ​If accepted, the new proposed BRICS members would create an entity with a GDP 30% larger than the United States, over 50% of the global population and in control of 60% of global gas reserves.
​ ​The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov has stated that ‘over a dozen’ countries have formally applied to join the BRICS grouping following the groups decision to allow new members earlier this year. The BRICS currently includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.​..
..Concerning a BRICS expansion, Lavrov stated that Algeria, Argentina, and Iran had all applied, while it is already known that Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Egypt and Afghanistan are interested, along with Indonesia, which is expected to make a formal application to join at the upcoming G20 summit in Bali.
​ ​Other likely contenders for membership include Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.
https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2022/11/09/the-new-candidate-countries-for-brics-expansion/

​ Imran Khan is the first Pakistani populist-nationalist, immensely popular, after a long career as a sports star. He is filling a heroic-leader archetype, despite being shot in an assassination attempt. He seeks to take Pakistan on a truly independent national policy path.​
He was recently deposed as Prime Minister by a CIA political soft-coup. It’s not working. They can still find a way to kill him, but he shows no fear of that.
Failed assassination of Imran Khan may push Pakistan’s US-backed coup regime to tipping point
​ ​First Washington supported a soft coup against Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan. Then the unelected regime banned his speeches, charged him with “terrorism,” and banned him from politics. Now a failed assassination attempt may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Failed assassination of Imran Khan may push Pakistan’s US-backed coup regime to tipping point

​ Iran has developed hypersonic missiles which can maneuver in and outside of the earth’s atmosphere.​
https://www.rt.com/news/566264-iran-hypersonic-ballistic-missile/

[John Day]

Igor Chudov , Association Between Vaccines and EXCESS MORTALITY Getting Stronger
We can see that both vaccination rates (number of fully vaccinated people per 100), as well as booster doses administered per 100 persons, are VERY STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH EXCESS MORTALITY.​..
..During weeks 20-44, both vaccination and booster rates explain NEARLY HALF of excess mortality variation (49% for both). That’s a lot greater explanatory power!
​ ​This means that over time, the strength of the association between excess mortality and vaccination is INCREASING!
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/association-between-vaccines-and

​Excess mortality jumps in young and healthy people correlate highly with COVID vaccines and boosters in Denmark, England and Wales.​
‘Something Horrible Is Going On’: The Longer They Ignore It, the More Criminal It Is
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/something-horrible-is-going-on-the

​Peter McGullough MD, SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Found in the Human Nucleus
​In a recent paper by Sattar et al, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it was discovered that both mRNA and Spike protein colocalized within the nucleus of human cells…
​..​Having both one of the most pathogenic and lethal proteins ever discovered found within the nucleus of human cells with its genetic code is a hair-raising discovery. A prior paper by Singh and Singh demonstrated Spike protein models anticipate an interaction with tumor suppressor genes P53 and BRCA1.[ii] Sattar now says this could indeed happen! Thus, Spike protein is at the scene of a crime—oncogenesis or the failure of immune surveillance against nascent cancer cells. Seneff et al have predicted that the Spike protein may be related to cell senescence and autophagy.[iii] This means more rapid aging of cells and then programmed cell death.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-spike-protein-found-in

​ Paul Marik MD, whose early treatment protocols kept people out of hospitals, and saved their lives in hospitals, was forbidden to treat in his hospital, despite having twice the survival rate in his patients, then he was stripped of his professorship and medical privileges, for being politically-incorrect.
​ “This system was effectively preventing me from treating my patients according to my best clinical judgement. … As a clinician for the first time in my entire career, I could not be a doctor. I could not treat patients. I had seven Covid patients [he holds up his hands showing seven digits] including a 31-year-old woman. I was not allowed to treat these people. I had to stand by idly [he clenches and raises his fists with anguish and begins to weep]. I had to stand by idly, watching these people die.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/i-had-to-stand-by-idly-watching-these

[John Day]

Bankman And Robbing blog post is up, with a picture of me a couple of days ago with vegetable spaghetti and vegetables I picked in the cold wind that morning (but not freezing, so veggies good)
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/bankman-and-robbing

I’m going to leave off the crypto-Ponzi scam stories. You know. I’ll delete a lot. There’s still a lot.

Tessa (fights robots) Lena, talks to Charles Eisenstein about human society, forms of corruption, and aspects of consciousness, individual and collective.
Conspiracy, Mob Morality, and Amnesty: A Conversation with Charles Eisenstein
https://tessa.substack.com/p/charles-eisenstein-amnesty

America’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ hasn’t gone away: Official Washington didn’t abandon its plan to control social networks
Leaked documents reveal the ‘paused’ ‘Disinformation Governance Board’’ is back online
​..​A report produced by the Agency’s advisory committee in June this year is among the leaked papers. It declares that CISA “is positioned to play a unique and productive role in helping address the challenges” of “disinformation.”
​ ​Noting that the internet and “in particular social media platforms” have disrupted the role of “traditional ‘gatekeepers’ in the dissemination of information,” the report advises that CISA approach the disinformation “problem” with “the entire information ecosystem in view.” This would include patrolling and regulating “social media platforms of all sizes, mainstream media, cable news, hyper partisan media, talk radio, and other online resources,” and effectively controlling their content.
https://www.rt.com/news/566038-us-ministry-of-truth/

Pfizer Works to Fast-Track More Vaccines for Pregnant Moms, Despite Mounting Evidence Rushed COVID Shots Harmed Babies
​ ​As Pfizer, with the FDA’s help, tees itself up to “dominat[e] the maternal RSV vaccine market,” OB-GYNs on the front lines of maternal care are stepping forth to sound the alarm about the COVID-19 shots’ infanticidal fallout.
​ ​Dr. Kimberly Biss recently tweeted, “Since the vaccine rollout started, we have seen in our practice a decrease in new OB numbers, which would be infertility, by about 50%; we’ve also seen an increase in miscarriage rate by about 50%, and … probably about a 25% increase in abnormal pap smears as well as cervical malignancies.”​ …
​..Asked to comment on information recently leaked from a California hospital, Thorp characterized the uptick in fetal deaths — from under 6 per 1,000 in 2020 to more than 29 per 1,000 following the rollout of COVID-19 injections — as being “way way beyond” what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordinarily would consider a safety signal…
​..​Cataloging significant increases in “miscarriage, fetal chromosomal abnormalities, fetal malformation, fetal cystic hygroma, fetal cardiac disorders, fetal arrhythmia, fetal cardiac arrest, fetal vascular mal-perfusion, fetal growth abnormalities, fetal abnormal surveillance, fetal placental thrombosis, low amniotic fluid, and fetal death/stillbirth” and also menstrual abnormalities, Thorp and co-authors called for a “worldwide moratorium on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy.”
​ ​For children who survive, Thorp suggested they may suffer from lifelong “vaccine-induced acquired immune deficiency syndrome.”
​ ​In Scotland, meanwhile, the government ordered an investigation into the “spike in newborn baby deaths” in 2021 and 2022, an increase “larger than expected from chance alone.”

Pfizer Works to Fast-Track More Vaccines for Pregnant Moms, Despite Mounting Evidence Rushed COVID Shots Harmed Babies

​Jessica Rose Ph.D. ​What’s going on with births down under in Australia?
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/whats-going-on-with-births-down-under

[John Day]

@Dr.D: I was going to point this out, but I read a little farther and saw that it was not necessary.

“Oh, PS, Dulles was the guy trying to end the Russian Stalemate by starting WWIII in Cuba. And a couple other places before then. Kennedy tried to take him out and then… Well, I guess things happen. All accidental of course. Nobody ever plans anything, Ever.”

[John Day]

Phoenixvoice: Good essay, Sister!

[John Day]

@Oroboros: It’s almost enough to get you to believe that our owners are culling the herd, using all available means, isn’t it?

[John Day]

That “antineoplastin” looks like good stuff. (Anti-cancer treatment video)
How was Dr.Burzynski able to afford and survive all of those legal attacks?

[John Day]

Here, in 32 minutes, he presents Solar Micronova, The End of an Age, with good animated illustrations. This is the more complete video he talks about. This kind of an event will clearly have lots of human survivors, due to location, good fortune and preparation, but they will be a minority of humanity.
This video is dense with information, which I am able to digest, having delved into numerous NASA videos in recent years for the background. Try it.

I’m always in this awkward position of believing in global warming, CO2, methane, other greenhouse-gasses, tipping points of melting polar ice caps and methane clathrates, but not being so worried about those things, compared to other things that would be better candidates to kill most of us. 536 ws purportedly “the worst year to be alive”, likely due to a super-volcano erupting and darkening the sun for a year and a half, ruining crops, making it cold, and bringing out the worst in humans, which is ghastly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/536

536 kicked-off the “Late Antiquity Little Ice Age”, which was likely the end of the Anasazi people in Mesa Verde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Antique_Little_Ice_Age#:~:text=The%20Late%20Antique%20Little%20Ice,%2C%20539%2F540%20and%20547.

From around 1300 to 1850 the northern hemisphere had “The Little Ice Age”, with some very cold years, which were probably due to volcanic eruptions causing cooling. This is much better recorded, and includes the Black-Plague years. https://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age/Changes-in-large-scale-atmospheric-patterns

Since 1850, California has had a lot of nice weather, but we find out that was an anomaly. We assume that so much which is pleasant and agreeable in our world is the normal baseline. Who could blame us?
Being killed by weather is a recurring feature of human existence, and the deadly weather keeps changing for such a very wide variety of reasons, some of which we are just now discovering. Anthropogenic global warming seems to me to be a real thing. I am scientifically trained and educated, and it all seems to be completely as presented by climate scientists. Not looking at all of the other causes of deadly weather seems to be the fatal flaw.
The largest threat to most people is being killed by other people, which is well documented when weather and crops are bad in history. We have such a vast and intricate food production and distribution system, using 10 calories of fossil fuel for every one calorie eaten, that we are unfathomably vulnerable compared to other periods in history. Most of us would be dead within 3 months if all the electricity went off and stayed off.

Thank you for considering the context that life is usually far more difficult than we have known it in our own years, and that this best-of-all times is not the baseline. Don’t get sold a scam. Learn basic human living, especially vegetable gardening, walking and bicycling. I’m grateful to have been able to do all of the things, go all of the places, know and help all of the people that I have in my life. Now that I realize that this has been the best of all times, I feel a responsibility to help all of us go forward gracefully, without face-planting from the next curveball that the universe throws our way.
World War-3 has started. It’s different from the first two, as you have noticed. The cause is about the same. Power elites are in a power struggle as the economy goes through big changes. They all need to get richer, to protect what they already own, and to get rid of some of their rivals and most of us useless-eaters.
That being said, a lot of them are probably not expecting a micronova event, or even Scotty losing our shields for a few decades.
Try to outlive them. Keep your head down.

[John Day]

Other very strange things can happen, like the younger-Dryas period of 13,00 to 11,500 years ago, when the weather changed abruptly from warming, back into sudden glaciation. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-11/3%20The%20Younger%20Dryas%20-FINAL%20NOV%20%281%29.pdf
The Younger Dryas Period corresponds to what looks to be the last time this big electromagnetic spinning disc crossed our solar system. It also looks like large things impacted our planet, likely making clouds of water and dust, which could lead to glaciation. There were anomalies in the magnetic formations in hardening lava. Modern agriculture sprang up after that glaciation age warmed up, but some think it had already been present before that bad 1500 years of cold. There was a genetic bottleneck in our human genome around that time, also. There was a very small human population surviving in India, north Africa and the Mediterranean areas.
Though NASA won’t talk, Astrophysicist Ben Davidson will. This is a sub 10 minute talk he posted this past week about bad space weather effects we may expect “soon”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyPJfa_Cum0&t=2s

Though we can’t know exactly when, it would probably be this decade or next. Ben talks about our sun going into a recurring micronova event, a cyclic thing for our star, and seemingly linked to the recurring galactic electromagnetic wave disturbance that we now know about.
Because of how micronovas occur, there is a darkening of the sun, for an undetermined number of days, as solar energy emission decreases, and matter collects at and beyond the surface of the star. A burst of energy explodes this “shell” and releases an intense pulse of gamma and X-rays, which reach the earth in 8 minutes as an intense flash. You should be in a big cave somewhere since our bodies would be sickened or killed at the surface. If it impacts the other side of our planet, you will be spared from the flash. 18 hours after the flash, the hurtling debris field arrives on your side of the planet, so the secure cave is still the place to be. I don’t have one. I’m trying to figure this out. I’ll need to have something actionable when the sun goes dark, right?
Ben points out how rapidly we are accumulating knowledge of the workings of our universe, that all of the assumptions of not-much happening were based on our just not knowing much, and not looking for very long, or very effectively. We now have sensitive arrays to look at light and other radiation much farther away and are seeing all kinds of “new” things we did not know were happening.

[John Day]

“Stormy Space Weather” has a pictureof me wiring the needs-no-electricity gas wall-furnace to work without a thermostat. It’s mostly essay. One need not view the two modest and information-packed videos by Ben Davidson. https://www.amazon.com/Weathermans-Guide-Sun-Ben-Davidson/dp/148358898X

https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/stormy-space-weather
The cold front hit yesterday afternoon, and the cold north wind blew all night​ at 15 to 20 mph. When we got to Yoakum from Austin last night it was warm downstairs in the new house, but kind of cold upstairs, where I had left the windows open. I closed them. This morning it was pleasantly cool downstairs and cooler upstairs, but did not feel cold, as it did outside in the wind. The insulation seems to do a fine job, even in a sustained wind.
I could barely feel my fingers while picking vegetables in the garden, which had been warm all week. We got lots of small tomatoes, a few medium tomatoes, four good eggplants and lots of kinds of peppers. Along with some fresh basil I picked, some of this became tonight’s spaghetti dinner.

Since it was finally cold enough to try the heating I put in with the build, I turned the heat pump from AC to heat, and turned it on. It worked fine. Very nice.
We have small , vented gas wall-heaters upstairs and downstairs, so I squatted down, read the directions and got the pilot lights lit.
Jenny found the printed directions, so I was able to read about installing a thermostat (“sold separately”) .
We never bought thermostats, but they are “passive”, “microvolt thermostats”, not requiring batteries or connection to house-wiring. These units are sold to work on gas-only. I looked at the 2 connections for the thermostat wired, which were easy to access with the front open. I touched them both with metal plies at the same time, and the flame came on. Success!
This is how I remember my grandparent’s wall heater. No thermostat. Turn the little knob to Low, High or Pilot.
I stripped a couple of pieces of wire, jumpered the connections for the thermostat, and turned the flames to low. They both made plenty of heat on low.
We are ready for winter in the new house. We turned the furnace on last night in the old house. It is big, central, and makes a big sound when the flame ignites.
The fan blows impressively. I think it burns a lot of gas, by comparison.
It is still a work in progress, but we will see how much of our daily living and sleeping we can easily transfer to the new house this winter.

Space weather is changing, too. Our lovely blue and green planet insulates us from most of that, most of the time, but not completely, and not always.
We didn’t have space weather yet when I was a kid, but we do now. We didn’t know about much except gravity and forms of radiation in space. There were little tiny particles moving really fast that could damage space capsule shells and windows.
We did know about big solar flares, like the Carrington Event of September 1-2, 1859, which caused auroral displays and caused telegraph wires to vaporize.
The sunspot that spewed it was tracked by a hobbyist named Carrington, who got a lordship for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event#:~:text=The%20Carrington%20Event%20was%20the,fires%20in%20multiple%20telegraph%20stations

These solar flares get tracked by NASA and others these days. We know there is a solar cycle of 11 years. There are electromagnetic excursions as well as ejection of high energy x-rays and gamma rays. The magnetic fields of the earth and the sun are also coupled.
It looks like the whole of the universe is magnetically coupled, and all of it is in motion, and there are sheets of magnetic waves traveling through the universe, changing the behavior of stars as they cross them, so they can be tracked. Voyager has detected a lot of these electromagnetic fields and waves. Our sun has something like a bow-wave in front of a ship, as it speeds on its way.
Our solar system is about to be engaged with a big, powerful electromagnetic wave, which seems to be cyclical, like a big, spinning, wavy-disc. Voyager, and watching other stars, reveal this. Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening more rapidly, and its strength has not been reported since 2010, when it was seen to have declined twice as rapidly as predicted. It was down 15% from 1900, and down about 35% from the field strength enjoyed by Jesus of Nazareth. The north pole has accelerated from a walk to a jog towards Siberia in recent years, increasing from 25 miles per year in 2–3, to 50 miles last year.
There is a lot of uncertainty about polar reversals lately. They might be more frequent and transient than thought, not just every 100,000 to 10 million years. The electromagnetic universe, through which our electromagnetic sun and planet speed may be a determining factor, but it is only beginning to be studied. The current accelerated decay of earth’s magnetic field, coupled with accelerating travel of the magnetic north pole, and the approach of the periodic electromagnetic wave, seen disturbing stars as it overtakes them, suggest that we humans may be in for some bad solar weather soon.
NASA won’t talk about it. They clammed up after 2015 and have been making data posted earlier harder to find. The European Space Agency is just as tight-lipped.
The problem is that when the fields weaken X-rays and gamma-rays get through to the earth’s surface, where they are extremely toxic to life forms, such as mammals. A steel roof doesn’t stop gamma rays. Even lead sheet isn’t enough. It needs to be thick lead.
Four feet of soil or water does a decent job of protecting life forms. Nobody has that, nobody normal, anyway. Driving in a car is no good. Driving at night protects you from solar rays, blocked by earth, but not from cosmic rays, coming from distant parts of our galaxy.

[John Day]

Solar Micronova events Q & A with Ben Davidson It’s Coming! 😮
(Just wait for the sun to go dark, Y’all, then go underground for a month or so)

[John Day]

Sorry Doc Robinson is not at the meting today. I’ll fill in some more. (My impression is that the writer of the OffGuardian article has classroom experience, but not lab experience.)

An unsupported assumption, which does not actually contribute to the argument. If 50% of the lipid-encapsulated mRNA is destroyed, that means nothing but a dose-adjustment in the initial injection.

“As soon as the genic material is injected, it is attacked by specific enzymes called extra-cellular ribonucleases, which degrade any foreign genetic material. Pharmaceutical companies claim that the lipid nanoparticles are supposed to protect the mRNA from the enzymatic attack: But nobody knows how much protection is offered.”

This next statement is incorrect in 2 ways:
1) There is no “blend” of lipids and mRNA. There is modified-mRNA discretely inside of something like gel-caps., the lipid micelle.
2) “Endocytosis” is not quite the process at work. What happens is the lipid membrane around the protected-mRNA fuses with the cell membrane and allows the protected-mRNA to transit through a created passage into the cytoplasm of the cell.
Endocytosis is different. The cell membrane pouches inwardly around some object, and closes again, resealing itself. The object is now enclosed within a bubble of cell-membrane within the cell. The object is not free in the cytoplasm

“At this point, the mRNA/lipids blend has to enter the cell, supposedly through endocytosis, i.e. the cell is forming an external pouch that brings in the material. But, the researchers state, often instead of endocytosis the cell produces exocytosis, that is the pouch is used to keep the foreign material outside: Let’s say that half enters and so we now have 7.5 micrograms inside the cell.”

This statement is also wrong, also because the protected-mRNA is “protected” from enzymatic degradation, one of the first problems the researchers had to address in making their “products”,

“At this point enters the endosomes/lysosome system: all scientists in the field know that this enzymatic endocellular system attacks, degrades and eliminate at least 98 percent of any foreign material entering the cells.”

[John Day]

This part is wrong in the OffGuardian story about mRNA “vaccine” products not actually leading to human cellular production of spike-protein:

“But alas, the ribonuclease enzymes are also inside the cell, they are called endocellular ribonucleases, and they would dispose very quickly of the minuscule amount of mRNA.”

The mRNA in the “vaccine” products is modified to be “undigestible” by these RNA-consuming enzymes. It’s like driving railroad spikes into a redwood-tree to break the chain-saw.
It was supposedly the case that nobody knew how long it would take this protected-mRNA to eventually break down. Last year 6:6 people who had been “vaccinated” with Pfizer and Moderna products,
6 months after their second dose, all had circulating spike protein in blood samples. This stuck in my head at the time, summer 2021.
Sorry I don’t have the link i think it was on Dr. Malone’s prior blog. It was Dr. Malone’s lab. Some distrust him. He’s sure not getting rich or popular for what he’s doing these days.
I think he’s principled.

[John Day]

@Michael Reid: You are welcome.

[John Day]

@Redneck: “Stakeholder” in a mining operation would still be a subset of what I realized the owner-reps were talking about back in the 1990s, “owner of rent-producing asset”.
They make it sound like they care about people who do work and benefit from work and have a work-stake or a need-stake in how it goes, but those people are never able to make a dent in the system, because they are not the owners.

Those who get glimpses of non-duality will still cease to exist in carnal form without potatoes, or some suitable alternative.

[John Day]

Kultsommer said:
“It appears that you have unshakable belief that if “production” side of the system was “left alone from financial” intrusion that current state of affairs would be rosy? Marriage with finance is the result of human nature. Producing and distributing product or service is not easy, so becoming a rentier by selling the business, is preferable mode of existence for many.”

I’m sorry if that is how my words came through, because that was not my intention.
This is probably the relevant excerpt below.
I have inserted “its” to clarify my meaning. I do not mean to disparage a financial system. It is necessary to operating a complex economy.

” The financial system, at (its) best, facilitates the functions of the real economy, and carries information about how it is working, by means of production and “profits”.
Investments in production provide returns, based on how well the productive project performs in the real economy.”

My intention was to point out the unhealthy aspects of finance diverging so far from reality, that it does not serve the function of the economy, but progressively degrades it.

Yes, collecting rent without work or risk is “good-work-if-you-can-get-it” , as the saying goes.

[John Day]

I think you need a better back-up plan then growing potatoes indoors in Canada.
Certainly there must be some other way.
What if the electricity goes out during the apocalypse?

[John Day]

​ The global financial-extraction system sees a new way to forge-forward in reducing wages, while maintaining worker-motivation and “productivity”. We know that they see “transhumanism” as the answer, replacing human ingenuity with AI, and motivating the few necessary human workers with brain implants and control of all finance and purchases.​ This “solution” clearly converges on reduction of workers to nothing, no-expense, no-voice, no ability to be “consumers”, to be a “market”. Like exponential-growth on a finite planet, the end-game of this “trans-human” regime is clearly defined, and would be approached in a short time.
What would be the next economic arrangement? It seems like there would not be one, after the replacement of natural humans with cyborg-slaves, incapable of autonomus actions.
Maybe I just don’t have a good enough imagination, but it is easier for me to imagine replacement of the global-neoliberal financial-capitalism model with good-old-fashioned Henry Ford industrial capitalism, supported by public provision of schooling, utilities, roads, medical care and retirement security.

Doug Casey on the World Economic Forum’s Plan for Mankind and What Comes Next

​The pervasive use of government newspeak in this article is chilling, but that’s what happens when one has to quote government mouthpieces and functionaries.​
You have to think a bit about what each genteel statement means when it is carried out in the world.
The Quiet Merger Between Online Platforms and the National Security State Continues
https://jacobin.com/2022/11/dhs-big-tech-surveillance-censorship-mdm

​ Hungary says they saw what happened when they agreed to the COVID emergency borrowing through the EU. Hungary and Poland are having their own funds withheld by the EU right now, but are expected to vote in favor​ of backing another loan-to-nowhere for the NATO Mafia to distribute as it sees fit.
Hungary reacts to EU aid plan for Kiev
https://www.rt.com/news/566202-hungary-rejects-ukraine-plan/

​ Russian preparations to withdraw across the river from Kherson are detailed here. The city has been evacuated of civilians, and is expected to become a kill-zone for either Russian or Ukrainian military forces soon.​ Ukrainian forces have taken very high losses in the past 3 months of offensive attacks around Kherson. If Ukrainian forces take Kherson they can strike at Crimea. If Russian forces later retake Kherson, they are expected to advance to Odessa, capturing the whole Ukrainian Black Sea coastline. Ukraine is really muddy and still having heavy rains. Tank maneuvers will be possible by early December, when the ground is frozen solid. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/the-pullout-from-kherson.html

[John Day]

“Supply Lines” includes that essay I just threatened and a picture of a developing banana stalk
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/supply-lines

Most people think of war in terms of decisive battles and brilliant tactics, but I read that most generals and colonels think of war in terms of supply lines to the fighting forces. Wars are purportedly won more by the 90% “tail” than the 10% “tooth”.
Empires and multinational economic systems appear to be the same way. In the early days of colonialism, swords, armor, cavalry, cannons and muskets slaughtered native populations, freeing up their gold, lands and natural resources for industry, European industry, then American industry. Colonialism then moved some industry to the sources of the resources, while keeping profits at the center of the empire. That was more efficient, and prevailed.
Surprisingly, in the mid 1800s to mid 1900s, it was discovered that healthier and more motivated workers, with much higher wages and living standards, advanced industry rapidly and profitably. Otto Von Bismarck in Germany and Henry Ford in the US proved that to otherwise dubious elites in Europe and the US.
Colonialism and the Victorian era exploitation of workers, who died in their 20s, gave way to industrial capitalism with social safety nets for food, housing, medical care and old age. Industrial Capitalism flourished broadly in the world, including in former colonies.
Colonies were lost, just as chattel slavery was lost, because these forms were out-produced by industrial economies which provided high standards of living and security for their working populations. Marx was accepted by industrial capitalists, who incorporated his observations and analysis, making the revolutions of 1848-1849 and his Communist Manifesto, redundant. Marx died a success, long before the Bolshevik Revolution, which did not accomplish its stated goals.
Something changed in “capitalism” in the mid 20th century, quietly, and while maintaining the “brand-name”. “Industrial Capitalism” became increasingly parasitized by “Financial Capitalism”, which is the “Rentier” model of extracting value from any and all economies.
That’s parasitic blood-letting. The parasites have taken control of the financial system, which has taken control of the real economy.
The financial system, at best, facilitates the functions of the real economy, and carries information about how it is working, by means of production and “profits”.
Investments in production provide returns, based on how well the productive project performs in the real economy.
Banks don’t actually lend to make industries, as Michael Hudson likes to point out. Those “productive loans” are made through purchase of stocks, and sometimes corporate bonds.
Banks make non-productive loans on things of value, which already exist, like land, housing, and office buildings. Banks, and finance in general, seek to avoid all risk, placing all risk onto the borrower.
Productive investments, like purchasing stock in a growing factory, initially accepted risk in the venture, and was understood to share in the rewards of success, by getting paid dividends in the company, as it prospered. The factory could fail. The stock would then be worthless. Doing research into companies, before purchasing their stock was “due diligence”. These were long-term investments in progress.
Financialization and high-frequency-trading have eliminated that model for most public investors, because “activist shareholder” groups can band together, take over the controlling stock of a company, sell its assets, like factories, take out loans, and use the money to buy the stock back from themselves at great profit. they then abandon the hollow shell, like Sears.
This is bad for the long-term prospects of any nation, but the profits pay to capture regulators and provide public-relations advertising. “Financial Innovation” sounds better. Clinton got that stuff through Congress, eliminating the protections like the (nice and short) Glass Steagall Act of the Great Depression era.

So, getting back to supply-lines winning a war… There is now a contest between the financial systems of the former colonial powers, the “developed/industrialized” nations, which are now being consumed from within, and the other 80% of the world, which pays them “tribute” in the form of profits, and supplies them with raw materials, and more and more manufactured goods.
Why supply the “owners” with profits and goods if they control neither the raw materials, the labor, or the means of production?
The only practical answer is that you will be severely harmed if you don’t, like Saddam Hussein and Moammer Ghaddaffi were.
That perfectly-good-reason is brought more and more into doubt, as western neo-colonial military prowess declines. Cuba, Iran and Venezuela are still being economically choked, which brings suffering and death upon their citizens. They are promised “relief” if they comply, but they see how those promises have been kept to others.
The NATO debacle in Afghanistan looked bad, looked like the fall of Saigon. The punishment of Russia, and destruction of the Russian economy, through the war in Ukraine, and western sanctions, was supposed to reassert the threat of suffering for non-compliance with the extraction-model. The punishing attacks broke fundamentally accepted rules of the global financial system, an all-or-nothing risk to that $US financial system. $300 billion of Russian $US and gold were confiscated. All $US holdings are declared to be discretionary to the US government going forward.
Iran, Venezuela and Afghanistan had been “sanctioned” this way, already, but this move meant that no global economic player had any security of wealth within the $US system. This made the issue of alternative global trade finance pressing and urgent to the rest of the world, 80% of the world. Fortunately, they had been working on alternatives since 2008, mainly to reduce their losses through payment of “tribute” to the system of financial-capitalism.
China has become the global manufacturing engine that the US was from the 1930s through the 1960s. Russia has the most natural resources of any country (USA #2). The BRICS consortium and the Shanghai Cooperation organization provide frameworks for cooperation outside of the $US dominated western financial system. Many exploited countries of the “global south” would much prefer to profit from their own national resources and industry, to raise the living standards of their own citizens. This is not to say that their elites are not selfish and dishonest, but to say that they have good reason to cooperate to replace the present exploitative system, especially since the threat to them personally is becoming less and less.
After Nixon was forced to default on the gold-standard, and negotiated a special-relationship with King Faisal, Saudi Arabia became the pivotal country in the petro-dollar arrangement. Saudi Arabia only accepted $US in payment for oil, holding global oil markets to that standard, and reinvesting $US in US Treasury debt, sustaining the $US imperial system and funding the US federal government in (almost) perpetuity.
Saudi Arabia now has other offers to consider. Protection and profit are the interests of the Kingdom. Russia seems to be pretty reliable in the “protection” department, and China is a big market, and manufactures most of what the world needs. Saudi Arabia openly plans to join BRICS, and has been very cooperative with Russia and China, even somewhat cooperative with Iran, lately.

Not very afraid:
​ ​Russian LNG suppliers have recently sold LNG cargoes in Asia at close to the prevailing spot market prices, suggesting that fears of sanctions on Russia’s LNG exports have nearly disappeared.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Steep-Discount-On-Russian-LNG-Disappears.html

It is interesting to me that Musk and Dorsey have history in PayPal, electronic finance, and Musk’s biggest co-owners of Twitter are now Dorsey and a Saudi Prince. Is this going to be a new independent global financial platform? Just wondering…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/10/biden-says-elon-musks-connections-to-other-countries-worthy-of-being-looked-at

​ ​The post-war phase (1950-1980) involved the victory of national liberation movements – China, Vietnam – in south east Asia and the middle-east – still ongoing – enabled the peripheries to impose a revision of the old asymmetrical terms of the global system and to enter into the industrial age. This period of negotiated globalization was exceptional, and it is interesting to note that the world then experienced growth that was the strongest known in history as well as the least uneven in terms of the distribution of what was produced and distributed
​ ​But whisper it softly there has occurred a slow geopolitical burn which is now not easily snuffed out and which goes from strength to strength. This emerging bloc of independent Eurasian states led in the main by Russia and China and organized in the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-China-India-SouthAfrica) and Shanghai Corporation Organization (SCO) represent an alternative system to the glaring global level of inequality and stands out like a beacon of light against the parasitism and orthodoxies of laissez-faire extractive capitalism/imperialism.
​ ​In more general terms Michael Hudson lays out a precis of a choice between the two alternatives. As follows:
​”Finance capitalism is de-industrializing the US economy and that of its allied NATO satellites. The Destiny of Civilization explains that the resulting international diplomacy is not a competition for markets (as the Western Economies are already deindustrializing as a byproduct of financialization and capital’s war against wage labour), nor a conflict between democratic freedom and authoritarianism, but rather a conflict of economic systems juxtaposing the rentier economics of debt-deflation and austerity to socialist state-subsidized growth protecting the 99% by keeping the 1% in check.’’

The collective West might be losing the war with Eurasia

[John Day]

@Kultsommer: We are certainly talking about the same playing field of global economic and financial models, and their participating players. It really has been bouncing around in my mind again after reading thee most recent Hudson interview.

The Real Progressive interview of Michael Hudson (with transcript!)

Hudson really does point out that financial capitalists don’t have to be very bright at all. They are completely about short-term extraction of wealth, then moving on.

You talk about “owners” being paid well, but “ownership” is actually really complex, and has to be enforced by violence by some entity. I just wrote an essay that I’m about to post.

Hudson keeps making the point that the world is now in a war between 2 global systems.
Having studied history, I think the more efficient system usually “wins”, due to better-sustaining supply lines.

I never read Atlas Shrugged, but yes, monopoly-rent-extraction is mighty enticing…

[John Day]

““The natural progression of every form of Marxism, communism, socialism, fascism etc. all ultimately lead to a kind of globalist ideology..”

This reflects the insatiable hunger for MOAR, which is greed for domination and power.
No, it’s not the most-capable-industrial-capitalists, as Hudson keeps pointing out, they have been usurped in “the west” by “Financial-Capitalists”, who spend company earnings and borrowings on stock-buybacks, which extract the value out of the 30-year investments of last century, consuming the business, consuming the production capacity, needing to consume new-host after new-host until…

It’s the same exponential-growth eating a finite-pie. It’s just the same story. We understand the exponential function. Both Hudson and Marx favor(ed) industrial-Capitalism, Henry Ford and Otto Von Bismarck. They favor(ed) stable support systems for a productive society with minimal extraction of rent.
Financial capitalism drinks more blood and eats more flesh every year until nothing remains, then …

Well, Russia, China, Iran, Syria, South America and Africa like that industrial-capitalism model better, because they are tired of being bled and consumed.

[John Day]

@aspnaz: The mRNA is enclosed inside little balloons of lipids, which merge with lipid cell membranes, fusing, and opening up on the inside of the cell membrane, releasing the modified mRNA into the interior of the cell.
Once inside the cell, the modified mRNA does not degrade in a few minutes, but lasts for months, being read and transcribed into spike-proteins again and again and again…
These spike proteins are measurable in the bloodstreams of the “vaccinated” for up to 6 months after their injection.
This is only a somewhat new technology, not brand new. It was proven to “work” for DARPA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
That means that it does do what I just wrote, and can do it with a lot of different mRNA coding for proteins, which is why DARPA likes it as a rapid-deployment platform.

Side-effects are quite another thing. DARPA usually accepts high, wartime-level risks as part of the bargain.

[John Day]

“Stakeholder”, as actually used by management and business higher-ups, seems to really mean “Owner of Rent-Collecting-Assets”.
That clarifies things, I think.

[John Day]

Leon Russell, “Stranger In A Strange Land” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F32iOTqoGOY

[John Day]

MoA covers the planned Russian military withdrawal from Kherson.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/the-pullout-from-kherson.html

[John Day]

@Boscohorowitz: Weird-world, indeed. That must have been expensive to put in, but it appears to have lasted since about 1976. I wouldn’t want to have to dust it.

Since it’s in Rural Oregon, maybe I’d ride my bike over to John Day and check out the fossil beds, or the river, or get a pimento cheese sandwich at the deli and pay with a credit card.

[John Day]

@Polemos: I’m mosquito-macho-man, so I didn’t use mosquito repellant while trekking through Thailand, so I came down with malaria in Laos…
There are different kinds of mosquitoes in our grand world.

[John Day]

​ The post-mortem analysis of midterm election results won’t be fully settled until the December 6 runoff election for US Senate seat in Georgia, but it appears that Republicans will take a narrow lead in the House, while the Senate is a toss-up, favoring the Democrats, since VP Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote.​
My view is that there will be another 2 years of gridlock, as the rest of the world, outside of NATO and other vassal-states, moves rapidly forward to bypass the $US in global trade. There is the splitting into 2 blocs, as Michael Hudson describes above, but the declining bloc is self-cannibalizing.
There cannot be a power/leadership transition in the US/NATO/$US bloc until the current power elites capitulate in ultimate despair.
The owners may kill a lot of their herds before they despair like that. It seems like a best-case-scenario that this bottom could be reached in 2024, blame dumped on “Joe Biden”, and some transitional-figure elected to walk the USA through chapter-11 bankruptcy.
Power elites could really wait another 4 years, until 2028 to give-up-all-hope. That would imply horrific war in those years.
I sincerely suggest that we turn our efforts and best-intentions towards hitting bottom by 2024.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/comprehending_the_underwhelming_performance_of_the_gop.html

​ Ben Davidson is a brilliant scientist and author of the textbook on Space Weather.
From 2:30 he explains that all of the space agencies have clammed-up on magnetic field strength data in recent years.
We are mainly looking at 6 year old data, which was showing rapid weakening of our protective fields.​ Thanks Red.

​ If you mimic the trees, shrubs and herbs in a mature old-growth forest near you, or one that previously existed where you live, you can nurture that mix, planted fairly densely, for 3 years and it should self-sustain. This is significantly expensive, and in 100 years it will just look like something to log, if it is big enough.
It’s not financially feasible, except as a gift to life, with an uncertain future.
Imagining a Mini-Forest’s Potential: The Miyawaki Method

Imagining a Mini-Forest’s Potential: The Miyawaki Method

How to make a mini forest with Miyawaki method
https://bengaluru.citizenmatters.in/how-to-make-mini-forest-miyawaki-method-34867

[John Day]

​I will make the case that the next default will be massive devaluation of the $US against gold, allowing all federal debts to be paid-off-in-gold at much reduced real value. Other deeply indebted countries will do the same, maybe first, or at the same time. Suddenly transitioning to Central Bank Digital Currency requires too much trust and agreement in our world.​ There is too much to read here. This is the nugget. Thanks Ilargi.
Are You Ready for the Coming U.S. Government Default?
​ ​The popular American myth is that the U.S. government has never defaulted on its debt. Quite frankly, that’s an unadulterated lie. The U.S. government has (unofficially) defaulted on its debt twice within the last hundred years…
​ ​Executive Order 6102 of 1933, which forced all American citizens to turn in gold coins and bars, was, in fact, a default. Gold ownership in the United States, with some small limitations, was illegal for the next 40 years.
​ ​Under EO 6102, Americans were compensated $20.67 per troy ounce of gold. They were paid with paper dollars. Immediately following the government’s gold confiscation, the price of gold was raised by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 to $35 per ounce. Just like that, American citizens were robbed of over 40 percent of their wealth.
​ ​The second default occurred in 1971, when President Nixon “temporarily” suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold.​
​https://economicprism.com/are-you-ready-for-the-coming-u-s-government-default/

​ But they won’t say how they know these numbers. They may be confirming total sales, then looking at declared purchases, and declaring that central banks quietly bought the rest. That might be right. Somebody appears to have bought the most gold in history this year, and it’s a secret. One presumes they took possession, in the prevailing circumstances.​
​ ​“Global central bank purchases leapt to almost 400 tonnes in Q3 (+115% q-o-q). This is the largest single quarter of demand from this sector in our records back to 2000 and almost double the previous record of 241t in Q3 2018.
It also marks the eighth consecutive quarter of net purchases and lifts the y-t-d total to 673 tonnes, higher than any other full year total since 1967.”
Specifically, the World Gold Council claims that Q3 2022 central bank gold demand was 399.3 tonnes, which is a massive 340% higher than Q3 2021.
https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/ronan-manly/gold-establishment-supports-central-bank-secrecy-instead-of-exposing-it/#comments

​ Peter Schiff has good reason to push gold. ​Still, he makes a good case that something has fundamentally changed in the way gold “markets” are managed, to allow a $50 increase in the price of an ounce of gold Friday, then another $40 on Monday, when it had never been allowed to rise more than $20 (thanks Dr.D) before. This could be a signal that gold is the ordained next-bubble.
As above, that would allow global central banks to get out of debt by massively devaluing against gold, then settling under a new global gold regime.
Peter Schiff: The Gold Train Has Left the Station​
​https://schiffgold.com/peters-podcast/peter-schiff-the-gold-train-has-left-the-station/

​Charles Hugh Smith: The Unintended Consequences of Unintended Consequences
​ ​Decades of central bank distortions and regulatory / market-share capture by cartels and monopolies have completely gutted “markets,” destroying their self-correcting dynamics.​ ​
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-unintended-consequences-of.html

[John Day]

​ ​The United States and Russia are expected to meet soon and discuss resuming inspections under the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty that have been paused since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Tuesday.
​ ​Speaking at a daily press briefing, Price said the bilateral consultative commission (BCC), the mechanism for implementation of the last remaining arms control agreement between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, will meet “in the near future.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-us-discuss-first-nuclear-talks-since-ukraine-conflict-kommersant-2022-11-08/

​ Ugo Bardi and I see this the same way. The defense against lies is the unremitting attempt to fully and completely understand reality in our own way, in our own living minds. Easy answers tend to be lies, calculated to serve some interest, which pays to make them available to you.​
How to Beat Propaganda: the Grokking Strategy
​ ​We can describe this attitude by the term “grokking,” invented by sci-fi author Robert Anson Heinlein to indicate the kind of in-depth understanding that professionals have of their field. In Heinlein’s fictional Mars, “to grok” also means “to drink.” You assimilate knowledge just like you assimilate the water you drink. It is strictly related to the concept of “empathy” as discussed by Chuck Pezeshky in his blog. (It is also part of the concept of “virtual holobiont,” but let me skip that, here).
​ ​The “grokking-style” learning is based on the idea that you don’t trust any source just because it is “authoritative.”
https://www.senecaeffect.com/2022/11/how-to-beat-propaganda-grokking-strategy.html

​Another Michael Hudson interview transcript, from which I excerpt this pearl of wisdom:
​ ​So there are two economic philosophies and I began the book by contrasting the dynamics of industrial capitalism with finance capitalism. And industrial capitalism in the United States, Germany, England, and every country where it took off, was to promote a public investment in basic infrastructure monopolies in transportation, communication, education, healthcare.
​ ​The idea is that if the government would provide these basic services and basic human rights at subsidized rates – or freely, as in the case of education and healthcare – then employers would not have to pay labor a high enough basic wage to make labor pay for healthcare – as in the United States where 18% of GDP is for healthcare – or to pay for education, the 1.7 trillion that goes for student debt in the United States, not mentioning the education that is not debt-financed.
​ ​Finance capitalism basically sought to break away all of the public infrastructure. Most financial fortunes and financial fortunes in history were made just in the way that Zola had described, by prying thefts from the public domain.
​ ​But the financial capitalism doesn’t say… You don’t have to steal it; you actually make it your policy, giving away the financial domain in the way that President Yeltsin gave away all of Russia’s natural resources, public utilities, electric companies, anything that yields an economic rent that can be just easy income without any investment. And you financialize it.
​ ​You’ve had, for the last – really since the 1980s, but even since World War 1 – this movement to prevent industrial economies from being low cost. But the objective of finance capitalism, contrary to what’s taught in the textbooks, is to make economies high cost, to raise the cost every year.

The Real Progressive interview of Michael Hudson (with transcript!)

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“Not Yet” post is up, with picture of gardener gazing expectantly at growing Nam-wah banana stalk above him. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/not-yet

US Nuclear Forces Chief Says ‘the Big One Is Coming’
​ ​The commander that oversees US nuclear forces delivered an ominous warning at a naval conference last week by calling the war in Ukraine a “warmup” for the “big one” that is to come.
​ ​“This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” said Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the commander of US Strategic command. “The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time.”
​ ​Richard’s warning came after the US released its new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which reaffirms that the US doctrine allows for the first use of nuclear weapons.

US Nuclear Forces Chief Says ‘the Big One Is Coming’

​ Former Russian President Medvedev explains the reason behind the timing of the special-military-operation to eliminate elements hostile to Russian-speakers and Russia.​ Kiev’s nuclear ambitions spurred Moscow’s military operation
​ ​Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine surrendered its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal in exchange for promises from the US, Britain and Russia that they would “provide assistance” to the country in case of aggression. The three states also vowed not to attack Ukraine themselves.
​ ​However, Russian officials have repeatedly stated that this document was undermined by NATO’s eastward expansion, which threatened Moscow’s vital security interests. Moreover, prior to the start of the Ukraine conflict in late February, Zelenksy signaled that Kiev could give up its decades-old pledge to be a non-nuclear nation and reverse the decision it took to give up its atomic weapons.
https://www.rt.com/russia/566062-medvedev-ukraine-nuclear-weapons/

​ War as a “lesser good” for the Godly, who prepare themselves to kill or to die for moral principles, to be judged by eternity.​ “The General” makes the case that only a Godly, morally intact army can excel. Anything else lacks the necessary foundation of certainty of conscience in each soldier. (Did Putin refer to this book?)
While the Moscow military operation was taking place, in the author’s reading schedule it was turn for a book by the Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov entitled “Three Conversations on War, Progress and the End of World History“. The English translation, published in the second decade of the previous century, is entitled “War and Christianity from a Russian perspective“. “Three Conversations” is a philosophical work by Vladimir Solovyov, in which he addresses several important issues, by presenting his ideas in the form of a discussion among five characters.

Operation Z through the eyes of Vladimir Solov’ev

After evacuating all civilians from Kherson 2 days ago, Russian troops are withdrawing to the east side of the Dnieper river. Ukrainian forces have been shelling the city, and the dam above it for weeks. It can’t be a killing-field until there are people in it. Ukrainian forces are not eager to occupy the regional capital city.
Without holding Kherson, how can Russian forces take Odessa? But who wants to be in the way of a flood?
​ ​Both sides now appear to be scrambling to bolster manpower in the region, with Ukraine’s military vowing to keep up the pressure after pounding the Russian-held city with artillery for weeks:
​ ​A senior adviser to Ukraine’s president said on Wednesday it was too early to talk about a Russian troop pullout from the southern city of Kherson.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-orders-troops-leave-kherson-zelenskys-office-cautions-over-staged-retreat

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