[John Day]

Germ: “always wondered – How did madness unfold under Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot and all the other evil doers? Now I’m seeing it in real time.”

Ancient saying: “When the student is ready, the master will appear.”

Shit! Me, too. I wondered that, too.

😮

[John Day]

Thanks for noting Tessa’s post, Willem.
Thanks for China insights, Aspnaz.

[John Day]

The selection of the more principled and firm-willed members of society continues, again in the enforcer-class, which is a critical class in power transitions.
Is one completely commited enforcer worth 4 or 5 “employees”?

The U.S. Army on Friday said that roughly 40,000 National Guardsmen and 22,000 Reservists who have refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus will be barred from their duties, effectively cutting their pay and benefits. “Soldiers who refuse the vaccination order without an approved or pending exemption request are subject to adverse administrative actions, including flags, bars to service, and official reprimands,” an Army spokesperson said

[John Day]

V.Arnold took the bait and asked: “Okay, I’m asking…
Oxymoron had written, and I had whimsically offered an answer to those who really desired to know why.
“2019 Australian pilot deaths 1
2021 111
Wtf?!”

The answer is most probably, withing 5-sigma, due mostly to voluntary-MANDATORY COVID vaccination side effects, thrombotic, inflammatory and acutely toxic.

Y’all knew that.
V. Arnold was just seeing if I had anything else.
I didn’t.

[John Day]

Oxymoron wrote:
“2019 Australian pilot deaths 1
2021 111
Wtf?!”

I can tell y’all, but only if you really want to know, and you have to actually ask me.
🙁

[John Day]

Elon Musk Terminates Deal To Buy Twitter; Board To Pursue Legal Action
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bring-lawsuits-elon-musk-terminates-deal-buy-twitter

[John Day]

The Saker blog is back up here for the moment:
http://thesaker.is/latest-articles/

[John Day]

​This is not where the buck-stops, is it? Austria passed laws fining people every month they were not “vaccinated”
Cracks in the wall appearing. Austrian Minister of Health Shifts Responsibility for Vaccine Damage to Doctors. The most epic throwing under the bus to save your own ass of our generation begins.
https://mole.substack.com/p/vax_danger-2022-07-02-special-killjab

All-cause mortality has risen in all age groups , including children, around the world, synchronized with use of COVID vaccines in those groups. National governments will not cough up the requested specifics of the statistics to see if most deaths are among the vaccinated. Why not?
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/all-cause-mortality-effects-of-covid

​ ​One of the members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine advisory panel explained why he voted against adding an Omicron component to fall COVID-19 booster shots raising serious questions over a lack of critical data and the Biden administration’s role in politicizing the process…
​ ​Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center and professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, described the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee’s (VRBPAC) recent meeting as “unusual.” …
“Here on the other hand, normally you get the EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] submission from the company, which is 85 to 100 pages long, and then you get the FDA’s review of all those data. It’s a very thorough review. Not here though. Here, it was 22 pages from the FDA, which included a half-page on Pfizer’s data and a half-page on Moderna’s data.”
“You could get that from the press release,” Offit said. “In fact, it was no more detail than the press release provided.” …
..Offit said he was surprised that out of 21 voting members, 19 voted “yes” because he “just didn’t see the evidence for that.” …
..The press release mentioned VRBPAC had just made its decision the day before, “so you just kind of felt like the fix was in a little bit,” Offit said. “Maybe that’s not the right phrase but it was something they wanted and I felt like we were being led here and with a critical lack of information.”

Paul Offit: It ‘Felt Like the Fix Was In’ Before FDA Panel Voted to Reformulate COVID Booster Shots

​There are many more childhood cancers where pesticides are sprayed on crops, county by county, very specific data on cancers and spraying locations.
​ ​Two studies published in the peer-reviewed journal GeoHealth used geospatial data and publicly available pesticide databases to uncover the relationship between chemical-heavy agricultural practices and cancer in both adults and children…
..Rather than focus solely on the impacts of pesticide use on farmers or agricultural workers, the studies consider the broader effects of agricultural pesticide use on the public at large…
..Delving deeper into specific pesticide types, a strong connection is found between the amount of fumigants applied in each state and the rate of pediatric cancers.
Specifically, the fumigant pesticide metam sodium has a strong connection between its higher use and the total cancer rate.
These findings are even more prevalent at the county level…
..Notably, the areas where fumigant use is high are those with more vegetable and fruit production, rather than grain crops like corn and soy. Regarding the cancer connection to fumigant use, study co-author Naveen Joseph, Ph.D. says, “We have not seen it expressed in a fumigant like this before, and it’s absolutely striking.”
​https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pesticides-cancer-children-western-united-states/?

[John Day]

Fewer Americans are employed, but more Americans are working 2 jobs, so the statistical sets have very different appearances.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/something-snaps-us-labor-market-full-part-time-workers-plunge-multiple-jobholders-soar

Thanks Eleni, Japan’s Kishida steps on Russian oil slick , M. K. Bhadrakumar
​ ​Last week, President Vladimir Putin issued a decree that appears to be a step towards nationalisation of the foreign shareholdings in the giant Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project where Mitsui and Mitsubishi hold 22.5% shares. The five-page decree says it is up to the Kremlin to decide whether foreign shareholders should remain in the consortium.
​ ​Meanwhile, Tokyo’s support for the US proposal at the recent G7 summit advocating a price cap on Russian oil has put Moscow’s back up. On Tuesday, the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev sternly warned that Japan would be kicked out of Sakhalin-2 project and its supplies of Russian oil and gas cut off if it supported the US move. Medvedev forecast that if any price cap is imposed on Russian oil, the market price will touch somewhere between $300-$400 per barrel!
​ ​Sakhalin-2 is critical to Japan for meeting its energy needs. Sakhalin-2 alone meets about 8% of Japan’s gas needs and to replace it, Tokyo has to buy from spot market where competition for LNG shipments globally is currently intense and the price is around 6 times that of Russian gas. Besides, Japan’s entry will tighten the LNG market materially this decade, as Japan will have to compete with Europe.
​ ​Japan depends on imports to meet 90% of its oil and gas needs.​..
​ As Russia tightens its screws on Japan, it appears Kishida may have bitten more than what he could chew on the price cap idea. Top Japanese experts have doubted the rationale behind Japan’s policy trajectory. Of course, Moscow’s dexterity to use oil and gas as geopolitical tool is not to be doubted. The Kremlin decree on Sakhalin-2 could be intended, partly at least, as a wake-up call that alienating Russia could damage Japan’s vital long-term interests.

Japan’s Kishida steps on Russian oil slick

100 Sikh security guards fired for not adhering to Toronto’s mask mandate
​ ​According to CBC News, the city has been mandating that security guards wear N95 masks while on the job at settings such as homeless shelters since January. The city confirmed that employees working within the Shelter, Support, and Housing Administration (SSHA) department must wear N95 masks at all times and be clean-shaven so that the masks provide effective protection against Covid-19…
​ ​For devout Sikhs, leaving their hair uncut is an important part of their faith. In a practice called Kesh, Sikhs allow one’s hair to grow out naturally out of respect for the perfection of God’s creation.

100 Sikh security guards fired for not adhering to Toronto’s mask mandate

​The ones who leave have the stronger wills, compared to those who comply. They commit to working out the difficult consequences of their actions.​
​What happens to the owners when they fire 22% of their (already undermanned) enforcers?​
San Diego Loses 22% Of Its Police Force Due To Vax Mandates
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/san-diego-loses-22-its-police-force-due-vax-mandates

[John Day]

​ Let me propose a political scenario, to take place after the November midterm elections go strongly Republican, where “Joe Biden” gets thrown under the bus, resigns in ignominy, and Kamala Harris becomes POTUS, which nobody wants.​ The deal would let all current scoundrels off with resignations, wrist-slaps or nothing, and would declare that the “swamp had been drained”. Business-as-usual would proceed with some shift in the mix of special interest groups, but not cutting out the MIC, Big Oil or Wall Street. Steps would be taken to goose the economy. The premise would be that this would create a “bottom” and a sustainable economic rebound.
​ I’m dubious that the rebound after a false-capitulation would be sustainable, because the corrupt and inefficient system would not have been fundamentally changed, and the rest of the world cannot be sold on American global finance from now on. The world is going multipolar with $-debt repudiation on the near horizon.​

Biden Sold 1 Million Barrels From Strategic Petroleum Reserve To Chinese Firm Hunter Invested In
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-sold-1-million-barrels-strategic-petroleum-reserve-chinese-firm-hunter-invested

Top House Republican Presses Yellen For Records On Hunter Biden’s Foreign Business Dealings
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-house-republican-presses-yellen-records-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-dealings

They can’t push the refineries any harder, and investing in new refineries is a bad-economics with current US government policy.
​ ​U.S. refineries have been operating at or near maximum utilization levels in recent weeks as demand recovers. Petroleum stocks are sitting at multi-year lows, and refining margins are sky-high. Refinery utilization at 95% is at its highest since before COVID—September 2019. Yet, refiners don’t have much room to safely raise capacity usage further, while the summer season with heat waves and hurricanes could suddenly take some capacity off the market, further straining gasoline supply and putting upward pressure on gasoline prices.
​ ​Refiners are running crude processing at full tilt.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Are-US-Gasoline-Refiners-Running-Out-Of-Steam.html

Charles Hugh Smith, on economic first-principles:
..If you don’t keep the foundation–the industrial base–glued together, then all the high-minded ideological or financial fixes will all be completely, utterly meaningless. When the generator breaks down and can’t be fixed due to a lack of critical spare parts, that isn’t a problem that has a “Progressive” or “Conservative” fix. Printing money and tax breaks won’t fix it either. And neither will ideological fixations like “global markets.”
Financial gimmicks and global markets are what got us into this mess in the first place. Greed is good until you sacrifice your national security and industrial base for a few extra bucks.
From this perspective, there is one solution to all the problems, because if you don’t fix the industrial base then the whole shebang collapses. All those little things like a judiciary, law enforcement and food supply system all rely on a functional industrial base, by which I mean the interwoven industries that made the millions of essential parts and components of a complex industrial economy.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly22/one-solution7-22.html

​Thanks Michael Reid, The End of the Industrial Age, John Michael Greer (The Archdruid)
..My basic advice hasn’t changed. “Collapse now and avoid the rush” remains the keynote of an effective response. What this means, with the snark filtered out, is that you are going to be living for the rest of your life with much less energy and much less of the products of energy than you’re used to. The sooner you start living that way, the sooner you’ll get competent at it, and the sooner you’ll discover that most of the energy- and resource-wasting activities central to the American way of life of the recent past don’t actually do you any good—their real function, after all, is to keep you shackled as closely as possible to the corporate-bureaucratic technostructure. The more high-tech gimmickry you can do without, and the more you rely on your own capacities instead of slurping at an assortment of technological teats, the more free you are and the more resilience you have in the face of the future.
​ ​The same rule applies to families, groups, and communities. There was a lot of noise back in the peak oil days about building sustainable communities, and nearly all of it ended up as wasted breath, for two simple reasons. The first was that everybody wanted the benefits of community but next to nobody wanted to put up with the costs, burdens, commitments, and annoyances that a viable community involves. The second was that a genuinely sustainable community in the deindustrial future taking shape around us is going to involve a lot fewer middle-class comforts and a lot more plain hard muscular labor than most Americans these days are willing to consider.
​https://www.ecosophia.net/the-end-of-the-industrial-age/

[John Day]

A lot of work to level cabinets before the kitchen counter goes in is not visible, but custom fitted and finished trim around windows really brightens and sharpens the downstairs. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/seeking-solutions-in-crisis

The Deeper Meaning of Ukraine, Alastair Crooke . Thanks Eleni
​ ​They ​(tributary nations of the world) ​have bad experiences from World Bank and IMF-style predatory development doctrines. Now they have the evidence that properly-prepared states can not only survive western sanctions, but can use them as a tool to alter the global trading system to their advantage.
​ ​The risk coming from the coming cost-of-living crisis is easy to grasp: The risk from additional food shortages is almost beyond calculation. There – as in Europe – is fear, and anger too, at system disintegration; fear, as cities become both violent and mal-administered. They are not seeking ‘more Europe’; more identity politics. They don’t care a jot for ‘more anything’. Anger is plain as people want systems to work – yet they don’t . They want to return to living life, normally.
​ ​And as the cold winds of inflationary price hikes and recession blow, they look to their leaders – not for ‘more free market’ – but rather, for protection from markets and regulatory absurdities. They sense the danger of unknown ‘doom-loops’ imploding parts of their economies.
​ ​This is the major geo-strategic message to emerge from the West’s war on Russia: Russians – and many others – say that they have ‘had it’ with ‘Westification’ (by which is meant its ‘missionary’ attribute).
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/the-deeper-meaning-of-ukraine

​Tom Luongo, Why “Joe Biden” Refuses to Back Off Ukraine​
​ ​Over the weekend I was asked by Sputnik News to comment on why Fungal President Select Biden was so set on supporting Ukraine against Russia with money and weapons despite abysmal approval ratings and a fiscal budget hole that widens daily…​
​ ​The short answer is what I’ve been saying for nearly three years now, The Davos Crowd wants the US destroyed and it is working from within and without our government to achieve that goal. Biden’s staunch support of Ukraine fits that thesis perfectly​.​

Why Joe Biden Refuses to Back Off Ukraine

​Last week the issue seemed to be that Ukraine called grain from Donetsk and Luhansk (provinces vs People’s Republics) “stolen”, while Russia did not agree.​
​ ​Ukraine has lashed out at Turkey and is currently demanding answers over a Russian-flagged cargo ship that was allowed to pass through straits controlled by the Turkish government as it sailed out of the Black Sea. Ukraine alleges the vessel was full of stolen Ukrainian grain, while Moscow has dismissed the reports as false.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-furious-turkey-allowing-passage-russian-ship-full-stolen-grain

​More Tom Luongo, ​China Queues Up to Join the Davos Beatdown (Long rambling rant, but here’s the point. Cut out the WEF/Davos.)
​ ​I do believe pushing the US into political crisis is the ultimate Davos play here. The problem is, since Putin moved on Ukraine the way he did, there is no pulling that off without atomizing Europe in the process.
​ ​So, for once, Davos is staring at a Hobson’s Choice rather than their victims. That Vlad, what a card!
​ ​China doesn’t want war with the US anymore than Russia does. So opening up China’s economy and Biden lifting tariffs here are the right capital-attracting moves to force even more instability on Europe.
​ ​If we avoid WWIII, along with the Fed putting Congress in a fiscal straightjacket, then we can effect real political change in the US
​ ​Everyone wins.
​ ​I do believe this is the single most important point every other analyst has missed over the past couple of years. The point of beating Davos is to stop WWIII, stop the messy dissolution of the US which would be a catastrophe for everyone, and end the cycle of violence which has emanated from the European colonial powers for centuries.
​ ​The US can survive this fiscally and politically.

China Queues Up to Join the Davos Beatdown

[John Day]

http://thesaker.is Is not working for me this morning in Texas, so another attack is presumed.

[John Day]

Thanks Doc Robinson, http://thesaker.is
That works

[John Day]

The Vineyard of the Saker “website can’t be reached” today, from Texas.
Gmail removed it from my frequent visits section 2 days ago, but now it is POOF!

Ministers of Money and Health (not dim bulbs, either) resigned-on-principle yesterday, so BoJo got under the bus-of-state today. All of them have bright futures because they are all following their scripts.
They are handing off the chalices of their positions with plenty of poison in the wine dregs.

[John Day]

Psychedelics for billionaires…
Worth a try, isn’t it?

😀

[John Day]

Picture of Jenny in the Banana-garden-of-Yoakum (200 mi. South-southeast of Eden, Texas) https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/genocidal-social-mentality

​ A friend, ​Phoenixvoice quoted Hannah Arendt​, who she has been reading, trying to comprehend totalitarianism.​
​ ​“Under conditions of total terror not even fear can any longer serve as an advisor of how to behave, because terror chooses its victims without reference to individual actions or thoughts, exclusively in accordance with the objective necessity of the natural or historical process.
​ ​[​Arendt​ has just spent the last few paragraphs talking about how totalitarianism follows a “natural” or “historical” process.]
Under totalitarian conditions, fear probably is more widespread than ever before; but fear has lost its practical usefulness when actions guided by it can no longer help to avoid the dangers man fears. The same is true for sympathy or support of the regime; for total terror not only selects it victims according to objective standards; it chooses its executioners with as complete a disregard as possible for the candidate’s convictions and sympathies.”

​ I​​t seems that Hannah Arendt is saying that totalitarianism is a different ​human-group paradigm, where everybody does as they are told, including killing other people,​unquestioningly, feeling the fear and stress and turning off their inner moral guidance, the voice of god and conscience.​ ​(“Well, we are at war.”)​

​ ​If we take this as an alternate human-setting, and we look at history, we can see that this setting was active in wartimes, and those times that we always had a hard time understanding how people could do all those horrific and crazy things.

​ ​People who have drunk of the excitement of mass team sports might understand the rioting of fans afterwards, and might get a feeling for massed battles of crowds, and lynch mobs.

​ ​Maybe we have to understand the mindset within totalitarian times as being something humanly useful for those kinds of times. It leads to mass killing of humans, which seems to be “the objective necessity of the natural or historical process”.

​ ​Perhaps that is the function of this setting in humans, to reduce the population at times until it is completed. Who/what decides? Must there be a human Fuhrer?

​ ​“Science” the faceless god seems to be cast in that role this time, mostly for people who don’t understand scientific method, or who see it as secondary to power.

​ ​I have never been wired to feast on crowd-energy. I am a scientist, and it comes naturally to me, and I do not crave power, but like camaraderie and friendship.

​ ​I was recently criticized for using “zetigeist” to mean a living ​conscious and intentional ​form in the collective mind, rather than a stylistic epoch or wave tied to a time.

​ ​I don’t really have another word for that. It seems to me that mass-consciousness is not necessarily blind, can be ruthlessly destructive or powerfully good and beneficent. People can answer calls to righteousness​,​ and ​also ​to killing their very neighbors. It keeps happening.
They said that in Rwanda it was not really Hutu and Tutsis​ killing each other​, but people whose kids went to school barefoot killing people whose children wore shoes to school.

​ ​I’m ​postulating​ that we, as a species, seem to have factory settings that kick in at critical times, which are completely invisible at other times, repeatedly apparent in history, and ​subsequently misunderstood and misrepresented to students and citizens who come later.

​ ​Sociopaths ​might thrive​ in these phases, feel right at home, but ​sociopaths ​also get culled.
​I speculate that w​e may have ​such “wartime”​ settings because we do not have natural predators other than sociopaths, and there must be some mechanism to reduce our numbers when we outgrow our environmental support system.

​ ​It may be that people who resonate to these wavelengths are more susceptible to the killing and being killed, though it can obviously reach out and touch anybody.

​ ​I feel that I have different settings​. I​ have felt for my whole life that I would need to make it through a time like this​. I felt ​that I needed to learn from my Grandfather who ​was in both world wars and raised a family in the Great Depression. I felt that I​ needed to really understand…

​ ​If we are dividing into human groups with different settings for times of “selection events” or “herd culling” or “world war”, then maybe we need to reconsider history this way. The herd splits into clumps that behave differently, in synchrony, like a murmur of Starlings, and some members of the herd split away, maybe ​to ​congregate elsewhere in smaller groups.

​ ​​People now are so broadly unable to employ their rational processes for simple​ ​preservation​ of themselves and their families​ lately.
We seem to be living in different worlds, and going forward into different worlds.
I don’t feel like I can try to convince anybody who is living in that other world where COVID vaccines are good, protect you, protect the children, and​ “​everybody needs to trust Dr. Fauci and get behind the science”.

There are multiple edible faux-human-flesh meat-products popping up. What is the point? Who funds these projects? Who are the expert taste-testers?
This one is ideal for “cannibalism-curious” vegans.
Burger ‘that tastes like human flesh’ despite being vegan wins top award
If you’ve ever hankered after the taste of human flesh, now you can sample it in the form of an all-new plant-based burger that claims to perfectly replicate the taste and texture of human meat
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/burger-that-tastes-like-human-27347170.amp

[John Day]

Thanks Germ,
If I were “an unvaccinated pregnant person” I would remain in that sttus for about 9 months, if all went normally.
Take your poison. Give the poison to your children. Take the poison for your unborn child.
Watch Dr. Fauci. Watch Elmo.
We are now in an epoch of great human tragedy.
We will understand it like Carl Jung and Hannah Arendt did.

[John Day]

Martin Kulldorff Ph.D. an originator of the Great Barrington Declaration, wrote that article as if he would need to defend it in court. Every statement is completely conservative and definsible.
Are the Covid mRNA Vaccines Safe?

Oxymoron commented on the transfer of “deviancy” from traditionally deviant groups, like drag queens, but didn’t say where it had gotten to. There has to be some form of deviancy from any big group, right?

“Unvaccinated” might still be “deviants” in some places, but that did not reach critical-mass in Texas, for which I am grateful, though still unemployed. That seems like a victory-of-conscience for me in a way.

The Hannah Arendt quote from last night remains important. “Totalitarian” is when you “are not in Kansas anymore”, when the rules are like WW-2 Germany, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia, but it is too late then.
You have to see the move to creating “deviants”, “untermenschen”, and fight it immediately, or run far away immediately, before that “just following orders” wartime “norm” arises, and anything but “just following orders” becomes “deviancy” and is punished by those “just following orders”.

[John Day]

@Redneck: I’ve not been to Tasmania, but have met interesting, good and resourceful folks from there. There is a fair amount of agriculture. Veterinary ivermectin might be available without too many questions to those with some sheep. Keeping enough for a 10 day course is a good plan. I presume you are taking vitamin-D.

OTC COVID rxs for Omicron, from December, just before I caught Delta in our short days.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/otc-covid-rxs-for-omicron.html

[John Day]

@V.Arnold: I wish he wouldput it into a transcript. Spartacus (he/she/they) always has very good information, reasoning, and replies to my comments, but I can’t listen for more than about 90 seconds. I tried. I process text much better, and might spend the same amount of time (usually much less), and yet get more out of it.

[John Day]

Phoenixvoice quoted Hannah Arendt:
“Under conditions of total terror not even fear can any longer serve as an advisor of how to behave, because terror chooses its victims without reference to individual actions or thoughts, exclusively in accordance with the objective necessity of the natural or historical process. [She has just spent the last few paragraphs talking about how totalitarianism follows a “natural” or “historical” process.] Under totalitarian conditions, fear probably is more widespread than ever before; but fear has lost its practical usefulness when actions guided by it can no longer help to avoid the dangers man fears. The same is true for sympathy or support of the regime; for total terror not only selects it victims according to objective standards; it chooses its executioners with as complete a disregard as possible for the candidate’s convictions and sympathies.”

It seems that Hannah Arendt is saying that totalitarianism is a different social paradigm, where everybody does as they are told, including killing other people, because everybody else is doing what they are told and they are all in it together, all one, all obeying immediately and unquestionaingly.

If we take this as an alternate human-setting, and we look at history, we can see that this setting was active in wartimes, and those times that we always had a hard time understanding how people could do all those horrific and crazy things.

People who have drunk of the excitement of mass team sports might understand the rioting of fans afterwards, and might get a feeling for massed battles of crowds, and lynch mobs.

Maybe we have to understand the mindset within totalitarian times as being something humanly useful for those kinds of times. It leads to mass killing of humans, which seems to be “the objective necessity of the natural or historical process”.

Perhaps that is the function of this setting in humans, to reduce the population at times until it is completed. Who/what decides? Must there be a human Fuhrer?

“Science” the faceless god seems to be cast in that role this time, mostly for people who don’t understand scientific method, or who see it as secondary to power.

I have never been wired to feast on crowd-energy. I am a scientist, and it comes naturally to me, and I do not crave power, but like comeraderie and friendship.

I was recently criticized for using “zetigeist” to mean a living form in the collective mind, concious or unconscious, rather than a stylistic epoch or wave tied to a time.

I don’t really have another word for that. It seems to me that mass-consciousness is not necessarily blind, can be ruthlessly destructive or poerfully good and beneficent. People can answer calls to righteousness and to killing thier very neighbors. It keeps happening.
They said that in Rwanda it was not really Hutu and Tutsis, but people whose kids went to school barefoot killing people whose children wore shoes to scool.

I’m positing that we, as a species, seem to have factory settings that kick in at critical times, which are completely invisible at other times, repeatedly apparent in history, and usually miunderstood and misrepresented to students and citizens who come later.

Sociopaths THRIVE in these phases, feel right at home, but also get culled in them.
We may have these settings because we do not have natural predators other than sociopaths, and there must be some mechanism to reduce our numbers when we outgrow our environmental support system.

It may be that people who resonate to these wavelengths are more susceptible to the killing and being killed, though it can obviously reach out and touch anybody.

I feel that I have different settings, to have felt for my whole life that I would need to make it through a time like this, that I needed to learn from my Gradfather who did so, needed to really understand…

If we are dividing into human groups with different settings for times of “selection events” or “herd culling” or “world war”, then maybe we need to reconsider history this way. The herd splits into clumps that behave differently, in synchrony, like a murmur of Starlings, and some members of the herd split away, maybe congregate elsewhere in smaller groups.

There is so much of people being unable to employ their rational processes for simple self and family benefit and preservation lately. We seem to be living in different worlds, and going forward into different worlds. I don’t feel like I can try to convince anybody who is living in that other world where COVID vaccines are good, protect you, protect the children, and” everybody needs to trust Dr. Fauci and get behind the science”.

“Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more…”

[John Day]

Thanks Germ, much appreciated.

Saudi Arabia and Iran will both join BRICS +++ ?
That’s interesting.
Russia and China and Saudi Arabia and Iran will all be BRICS+++
Will Israel apply, too?

Gotta go install window trim now.

[John Day]

@Slimy lligator: Good on ya with the ivermectin and ditamin-D. Convalesce well.

Here is the OTC Rxs for Omicron post again:
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/12/got-well-from-covid.html

[John Day]

@Germ: Thank youfor the good articles. I read the jumbled Telegraph article about “vaccinating ” children, which wasvery poorly written, to the point of being readily misunderstood.
The comments, which you suggeted reading, were far clearer and directly to the point.

I am very sorry to say this, but I keep seeing this as a vast selection-event, which will reduce the ranks of non-critical thinkers.
This kind of recurrent thought in myself worries me, because I am picking a group to sacrifice, a group without myself.
My mind wants to write-off the credulous as a loss. This is not healthy.
This is a manifestation of the mindset that I think is doing this. I am self-analyzing on this forum.

[John Day]

Phoenixvoice said:
“I have the utmost respect for the unborn. From the moment I knew I was carrying new life within me, I knew that I carried a sacred responsibility within me. It was up to me to see the babes safely into the world. I sought out quality prenatal care to assist me with both of my “high risk” pregnancies.
I also see motherhood/parenthood as a sacred responsibility.
But I cannot dictate to other women how to view pregnancy nor what to do about it.”
Thanks you, sister. You approach this as I do. Though I am a man, I am sincere in my aproach.
My feelings of respect and responsibility are the same. I have always acted upon them as such.

[John Day]

Phoenixvoice said:
“It is only by granting gestating women bodily autonomy that you recognize that they are independent beings, with capable minds and hearts, just as your own heart and mind are capable.”

Hear, hear!

🙂

[John Day]

DBS just said:
“Sure looks like “”Ukraine” vs Russia to me.”
Yep, like Sirhan-Sirhan killed RFK, and Oswald killed JFK, right?

[John Day]

​After a generation, I personally expect China to approach “more equal” status in this new multipolar order, as the US did after WW-2/Bretton-Woods.​
​China Daily: ​BRICS steering development into new era
​ ​BRICS provides an alternative mode of financing for development, is a platform for South-South cooperation, a game changer in the North-South dialogue, and a balancing mechanism in the context of building a fair global economic order.
​ ​The just-concluded BRICS Summit, chaired by China, was the 14th since 2009.​..
..​The NDB​ (National Development Bank)​, the “BRICS Plus” mechanism and the inclusion of new members are three significant directions for the future development of BRICS.
​ ​The NDB, a core part of the BRICS mechanism, has turned a forum into an institution. The NDB does not impose harsh conditions while providing infrastructure financing for the member states or other emerging market and developing economies. Internally, the NDB is a platform for better integration of resources of the BRICS countries, enlarging the effect of investments. Externally, the NDB brings the member states and other developing countries closer, and promotes mutual development.​..
..​This year is ideal to talk BRICS’ expansion, because it’s been five years since ​(“most equal”?) ​China proposed to start the expansion process. Although explorations and procedures continue, unofficially the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Argentina and Thailand are among the countries that could join the grouping.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202206/30/WS62bcf47fa310fd2b29e696c2.html

​There is some statistical margin of error. figure these USA numbers could be half, or double, for instance.
​Survey: More Than 750,000 Dead, 30 Million Injured Because of Covid Vax
https://thenewamerican.com/survey-more-than-750000-dead-30-million-injured-because-of-covid-vax/

The Ex Post Facto Mindset of the Predator, The Ethical Skeptic (These mechanisms appear to hold well for narcissists, too: Trudeau, Biden, Macron, BoJo, etc. They just can’t back down until there is some big excuse that makes them “victims”.)
​ ​The predator does not think in terms of what actions will serve to clarify, add value, nor alleviate suffering or risk (ethical skepticism). The pathological predator (fake skeptic, debunker, troll, stalker, virtue signaler, pedophile, groomer, exploiter, thief, abuser, poison purveyor, science poseur, and Party apparatchik) thinks in terms of weakness and identifying a party whom they can harm. The sociopath predator allows a third-party agency which co-occupies their mind, to dictate their thinking for them – egging them onward and simultaneously then accusing and justifying them thereafter. Such torment mandates the keeping of appearances. Accordingly, the sociopath is often a person who is well-groomed in terms of social affability and acceptable protocol.

The Ex Post Facto Mindset of the Predator

[John Day]

Trickle Down Inflation post is up, with progress on kitchen cabinetry shown, and that shirt Tulsi liked again.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/trickle-down-inflation

Michael Hudson has a new interview out, with a transcript, which is long, brilliant, but mostly in flashes of brilliance which are hard to capture without all of the other things being said. I’ll try to restate some of the points he makes.
Inflation is not as it is modeled in economics classes, but economists have to pretend that it is a battle between paying workers too much and imposing unemployment on them to reduce wages. (Otherwise economists don’t get a paycheck.)
A statistic is quoted in the question that 58% of inflation comes from corporate (rentier) profits. Hudson does not dispute that, but points out that only 8% of corporate profits are recycled into productive investments, 92% go into things like stock buybacks and offshoring of funds to hide “profits”, because no successful company has profits any more.
Profits are taxable. Hudson points out several mechanisms to eliminate rentier-value-extraction loopholes, which would make productive investments better by comparison. Right now, the western business model is to extract value as profit, both “at home” and abroad, which whittles productive industry down at home, and extracts value from countries abroad, value they cannot invest in infrastructure or serving the needs of their citizens. Stock buybacks at home make capital-gains, while gutting productive capacity. Abroad, the model is to lend at high interest, then foreclose on the factory or other assets when they can’t pay the loan. Not-paying-the-loan is a gift from the Fed, which jacks up interest rates just going into economic downturns and makes things like the Asian Economic Crisis.
This cycle is just going into that default-asset-stripping phase, and should be a doozie, unless all of the debtor-countries default and join Russia, China, BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union and friends.
This never happened before (1978), but it is finally possible for it to happen this time because there is a critical mass of economies , resources and production that would benefit from defaulting on $US debt and joining a new system, with Equity Investment, not financial asset-stripping, enforced by US/NATO., and they’ve spent 14 years quietly preparing.They are going to use each other’s money, gold, and commodities like oil and sugar to back their new trade currency.
Pass the popcorn, please.!
Trickle down inflation has been happening when central banks make trillions of dollars of loans at negative real interest rates to big financial institutions that have been robbing everybody right and left and still going bankrupt because that is their strong point and they are really way more corrupt than that internally.
The trillions of dollars of give-away money, and buying up all of the junk mortgages for trillions more, so the prices stay high, and the pretending can go on.
Eventually this makes prices of real things go high and stay high, like $600,000 houses that were $15,000 houses when they were built, and really need some repairs. Can’t really afford to buy the house we evicted you from? We’ll just rent it to you, until we have to evict you again.
That’s the miracle of trickle-down inflation. Putting people out of jobs won’t fix this kind of inflation, because the big money goes to the big players who are not just not-making stuff, but making everybody else stop-making-stuff.
More money, and less stuff is inflation, and this is the new way it happens.
All of the western retirement investments are in this snake-eating-itself economy.
The Ponzi keeps working as long as there is enough faith in the system to keep the funds and imports coming in from the whole world.
(“!0, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, ….”)
“Equity Investing” is the competing system. The lender takes a stake in the project, and does well when the project does well. The lender does not take everything and sell it if the project has a slow start or a bad year. This is actually “moral”. “Economics” used to be taught under “Morality Studies150 years ago. How Quaint! Even that weird relic “Islamic Finance” considers this to be the ideally moral form of lending. No wonder Iran wants to join up.
Saudi Arabia won’t get suckered like that, will they? Will they? (What’s the counter-offer, President Joe?)

Michael Hudson interviewed by Ben Norton (Multipolarista) Update with transcript

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov gave a talk at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. I’ve picked out 2 statements.
(This first statement says that they have gotten the framework set to bypass dollar trade, and need to implement it with each country putting in national currency.)
​ ​A firm basis has been created for promoting economic interaction within the SCO. It is necessary to work hard to put the existing plans into practice and implement concrete measures intended to ensure food, transport and energy security, develop remote and rural territories, strengthen inter-regional ties, carry out digital transformation, and introduce high technologies and innovations. It will be of use to approve, as expected, a roadmap on increasing the share of national currencies in mutual payments.​..
(This​ statement appears to say that they have the vast legal and contractual framework already worked out. That has been a lot of work.)
​ ​A vast legal and contractual infrastructure, a huge human and resource potential, multilevel practical mechanisms and the accumulated rich experience of multifaceted cooperation remain a guarantee of the SCO’s further strengthening.
​(Here Lavrov lists the membership-rules-of-engagement of the newer, more egalitarian world order.​ This is statist/nationalist.​ “Mind your own business!”)
​ ​Amid the continuing tectonic shifts in world politics and the economy, our Organisation can and must become one of the core elements of a new, more just and democratic polycentric world order based on the UN Charter, the principles of sovereign equality of all states, non-interference in internal affairs, and equal and indivisible security.

Sergey Lavrov: Roundtable discussion SCO Treaties

Law In A Multipolar World, Vladimir Putin​:​ Address to Plenary Session, 10th St Petersburg International Legal Forum.​ ​(Excerpted)
​ ​Participants at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum recently discussed the most relevant political, financial, technological and cultural issues on the global agenda; many of these issues directly related to international law. It is important that you continue this conversation within this forum and discuss important topics like Law in a Multipolar World. ​
​ ​It is true, a multipolar system of international relations is now being formed. It is an irreversible process; it is happening before our eyes and is objective in nature. The position of Russia and many other countries is that this democratic, more just world order should be built on the basis of mutual respect and trust, and, of course, on the generally accepted principles of international law and the UN Charter.
​ ​At the same time, it is being said that law cannot adequately respond to the problems and challenges of today, to today’s turbulent and fundamental changes. There are also more radical assessments that the idea of international law is being dismantled. I fundamentally disagree with these conclusions.​..
..Crises happen not because law is faulty, but because of attempts to replace law with dictate, and international standards with the national jurisdiction of certain states or groups of states in a deliberate refusal to follow essential legal principles – justice, conscientiousness, equality and humanity…
(Neoliberal financial colonialism​ and piracy​ must go!)
​..Some states are not ready to accept losing their supremacy on the international stage, and they are striving to preserve the unjust unipolar model. Under the guise of what they call order based on rules, and other questionable concepts, they try to control and direct global processes at their own discretion, and hold to a course of creating closed blocs and coalitions that make decisions for the benefit of one country, the United States of America. The natural rights of others in international relations are being ignored; the fundamental principle of indivisibility of security is being used selectively. The West’s unilateral, illegitimate sanctions against sovereign states have reached an unprecedented scale.
I will add that the countries that advocate their own exceptionalism also overstep the law and cross out such concepts as inviolability of property and freedom of speech in their own domestic policy as well…
..We are focused on joining efforts on crucial issues like the climate agenda, fighting famine, providing stability in food and energy markets, and fair rules in international trade and competition.
All of these areas require appropriate and flexible legal regulation and meticulous cooperation…
(Historically, legal frameworks are good for a couple of generations, then get degraded when the founders pass away.)
..I am confident that, by consistently following international law and joining our efforts, it is possible to resolve the most difficult problems that the world is facing and to provide for the stable, sustainable and progressive development of all states.

Putin: Address to participants of 10th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

[John Day]

We were well aware of Dr. Zelenko’s effective COVID-early-treatment protocol here at TAE from March 2020. China announced the effectiveness of chloroquine and HCQ in February 2020, and Dr. Zelenko added aithromycin and zinc, as well as vitamin-D, with steroids later, if lung inflammation progressed.
TAE posted this picture from my 3/2/20 blog, telling Tulsi Gabbard about HCQ to treat Americans.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/03/six-billion-doses.html

[John Day]

@RIM: Dutch farms are so very neat and tidy and well kept, and make such excelent produce. We biked from Amsterdam to Munich on “the trip” in 2005-2006.
I think the Dutch really respect reasonableness in their order, not rigidity, and they often deride the Germans for rigid order, which is, indeed, not more orderly than elegant Dutch order, to a visitor.
(Germans spray liquified pig-shit on the fields from tanker trucks. MAN! Bike through that…)

I lend my vague best-wishes to Dutch farmers, based upon this snapshot of observations while slowly passing through 17 years ago.

[John Day]

Maxwell Quest said about a dream:
“The understanding I received from this dream was that the people below represented my 25,000 human incarnations, and all 25,000 were still living inside me as various aspects, making me truly a collective being with numerous internal relationships. There was more to extract from the dream imagery, of course, but this was the part pertinent to the quote above.”

WES had a series of falling dreams and awoke just before he hit. I had this dream clinbing up a spiral stripe mountain, like a barber-pole, then falling from the top towards an ocean below, and awakening just before I hit, as I was awakening from appendectomy surgery right after my fourth birthday. I recall it all clearly, somehow.

Does it matter how many lives “I” have lived myself, if I am no more separate from those who now live, than I am from “myself” in past (and future) incarnations?

It’s hard to be sure, isn’t it?

[John Day]

@Michael Reid: I saw your list of vocations. I long designed and build custom loudepseakers, then low powered tube amps, pre-amps and a phono-stage, necessitating bigger, high-sensitivity speakers.
I’ve been into the big-change since 2008, though…
🙁

[John Day]

@Michael Reid: Alvin Lee, 10 Years After, such eloquence in liquid electric guitar.
The Vietnam War eventually ended …
The MIC oligarchs persist.

[John Day]

I’m reading everything people say. I’m sorry to have given offense, but did not intend to.

Our feelings about pregnancy likely fit better with the traditional definition of pregnancy, which was “quickening”, feeling a baby move inside oneself, which happens later, though still before “viability”, which is highly variable, but sometimes as early as 22 weeks of gestation. That is really early, and it is exceptional, but occasionally happens.

Many societies have practiced infanticide, even in our lifetimes (some of us).
My own feelings, are not different, I think, from many on the other side of right-to-choose, but I only hold myself to them. Granted, that seems easy for me … I have long pondered this since teenage years, always seeking further understanding. It is inherently complicated and with a wide gray zone.

Lots of gray zones in life…

[John Day]

This shouldn’t be a problem. It’s not like we’re at war with anybody that can cut off our oil, is it?​
(Well, just as a thought problem, what would happen if outside supplies of oil to the US were stopped?)
US Emergency Oil Reserves Tumble To Record Low 27 Days Worth Of Supply
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-emergency-oil-reserves-tumble-record-low-27-days-worth-supply

​It’s not just about “weapons”, but about covertly adjusting the brain function of billions of humans​ in order to manipulate them (us).
​Spartacus : ​The Weaponization of Biotech​
The unregulated advancement of biotech is creating a new arms race and threatening our personal autonomy
https://iceni.substack.com/p/the-weaponization-of-biotech

​What do Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan have in common this year?
Igor Chudov, Depopulation of Taiwan Birth Rate Dropped by 23% in ONE YEAR — And it is NOT Covid
​ ​This is a continuation of my post from yesterday about a massive 13% decline in births in Germany. Such a decline is a nine-sigma event, meaning that it is so unlikely to occur by chance, that it would naturally happen as rarely as an asteroid striking the Earth.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/depopulation-of-taiwan?

Dramatic Decline in Births in Germany​ (and Taiwan, Belgium, Switzerland, North Dakota)​
​..​If this is happening in Q1 in Germany after a MINORITY of 18-49 yo were vaccinated in Q2 2021, what will happen in subsequent quarters?
Will the birth rate decline even further?
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/dramatic-decrease-in-births-in-germany?

​Swiss Policy Research noticed that same bar graph of live births in Switzerland.
(The Pfizer study data aboutvaccine-study-participant miscarriages ceased to be recorded after a sudden early rise. Poof. Not writing that down any more.)
Covid Vaccines and Fertility
​ ​Why is there a substantial decrease in births in Germany, Switzerland, and other countries – nine months after the beginning of covid mass vaccinations?
​ ​Do covid vaccines impact male or female fertility?
​ ​An Israeli study recently published in the scientific journal Andrology seemed to have found a 15% decrease in sperm concentration three months after mRNA covid vaccination. The authors argued the decrease was temporary, but the data didn’t actually show a recovery…
​https://swprs.org/covid-vaccines-and-fertility/

[John Day]

Rules Based Oligarchy post with picture of a couple married 37 years https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/rules-based-oligarchy

I include this story as a perspective piece. This same ruling oligarchy remains in power today, after 54 years of consolidating that power.
RFK Jr is like his Dad, but 26 years older than dad lived to be. He knows all of this information. He fights honorably for truth, knowing that he may “die funny” some day.

​ ​New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in Elaborate “Hit” Plan to Prevent RFK From Ever Reaching White House
..In a 2018 interview with The Washington Post, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., said that he traveled to meet with Sirhan at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional facility in San Diego County, and, after a relatively lengthy conversation, believed that Sirhan did not kill his father and that a second gunman was involved.
​ ​Kennedy Jr.’s view is shared by his sister, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and by Paul Schrade, regional director of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and one of Bobby’s closest advisers, who was shot the night that he was killed.
​ ​In 2016, Schrade testified in support of Sirhan’s parole, stating his belief that a second shooter killed Kennedy and that Sirhan was intended to be a distraction from the real gunman by an unknown conspiracy.
​ ​Kennedy Jr. has pointed out that Sirhan’s appointed lawyer at his original trial, Grant Cooper, was Johnny Rosselli’s personal lawyer. “Roselli,” he said, “was the mobster who ran the assassination program for the CIA against Castro. Cooper pressured Sirhan to plead guilty so that there was no trial.”
​ ​Kennedy believes the real assassin was Thane Eugene Cesar, an employee of Lockheed’s Burbank facility—which manufactured the CIA produced U-2 spy plane—and previously Hughes Aircraft who was moonlighting as a security guard for Ace Security Services.
After the shooting, Kennedy Sr. was photographed with Cesar’s clip-on tie next to him, which he had apparently yanked off.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-evidence-implicates-cia-lapd-fbi-mafia-plotters-elaborate-hit-plan-prevent-rfk-from-ever-reaching-white-house-2/5782652

​This is what a “good day” looks like for NATO these days.
​ Hours after Turkey’s announcement yesterday that it would support Finland’s and Sweden’s accession to NATO, Alliance Secretary – General Jens Stoltenberg called this morning (Wednesday) at the annual conference in Madrid to unite and expedite the process of joining. At the same time, he attacked Russia and China, claiming that Russia posed a “direct threat” to NATO.

NATO secretary general attacks China and Russia: “poses a direct threat”

Understanding the New York Times Article on the CIA in Ukraine
​ ​When you read some so-called bombshell report dishing the dirt on some Top Secret U.S. operation in the New York Times or the Washington Post, you need to understand that this was not the result of some intrepid, eager beaver reporter who took the initiative and came up with a nifty idea for a story. Such stories are based on official or sanctioned leaks and always have an ulterior motive…
​..​Got that? The most acute problem is that the best Ukrainian troops are dead, wounded or captured. There are no first rate troops left to train.
Oh my. That is a problem and the United States is not going to put any of our troops into harms way.
That is, for now, the Biden Administration’s policy.
Putting “modern special operations teams” on the ground to train Ukrainians is, per the NY Times piece, too great a risk and carries a price that is not worth the outcome.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/understanding-new-york-times-article-cia-ukraine/5784948

[John Day]

@Neal: I’m glad you started posting. I used to enjoy TOD also, and frequented both this and that fom around early 2008.

Big Pharma is at the oligarchy-table and we are not.
If their is a pan-western regime change, war crimes might be prosecuted. It is very clear that there has been massive fraud and collusion, but pharma still pushes to make these COVID vaccine-products routine for young American children, no matter how many die or are disabled, because it’s about their own survival in changing times.
They are losing narrative control and just have to pull out the stops and rush, appearances-be-damned.

[John Day]

There is a logical fallacy to comparing a developing fetus or embryo to an established human life, already existent and engaged in family and community, which needs 6 months of intensive care.

The reductio-ad-absurdum in laid out in this song: “Every Sperm is Sacred” from “The Meaning of Life”.

The neurological development of a 12 week human fetus is similar to that of a tadpole, but not self-sufficient like a tadpole.

Our feelings as humans anticipate the humanity to come, which we expect to join us, but which is not yet a reality in space-time.

We will reason best, if we all reason honestly.

[John Day]

On elective abortion choices:
I have dealt with manyhumans going through this decision process since the late 1970s.
I was a non-progenator guy that girls would sometimes ask to go to the clinic with them when they had an abortion. I was just sort of ok, helpful and non-judgemental.
Then I became a medical doctor, and did deliveries and GYN surgery, and not termination procedures, but the equivalent of a chemical abortion for tubal pregnancies and non-viable pregnancies sometimes.

This is not easy for most people. A few women do use abortion as “birth control”. They are of a different sort of mind, I think, intellectually distanced from it, somehow.

There is not a better option in my medical opinion, which is the same as my human-experience opinion, than readily available contraception, morning after-pills and first trimester abortion, on demand, no questions asked, but there have to be more questions after that. Society starts voting after that.

Women are at a disadvantage to tricky or brutal men who impregnate them dishonorably, unless they have this early option to terminate.
Young women live and learn, as immature young men also live and learn about things.

Young women impregnated by “good” men may also feel that they need more time before they can decide to become mothers. Sometimes they need a little more time to be sure the man is actually good. They may need more time to know themselves, too.
Reproductive maturity comes at least 5 years before cognitive/emotional maturity (sometimes 10).
Most 15 year olds do really well physically giving birth…

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