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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2021 #74135
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    From Germ’s Israeli article about efficacy of having had COVID in preventing severe illness, Initial findings, which might drift over a year or more (My money is on natural immunity in the longer haul.)

    We analyze an updated individual-level database of the entire population of Israel to assess the protection efficacy of both prior infection and vaccination in preventing subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection, hospitalization with COVID-19, severe disease, and death due to COVID-19. Vaccination was highly effective with overall estimated efficacy for documented infection of 92·8% (CI:[92·6, 93·0]); hospitalization 94·2% (CI:[93·6, 94·7]); severe illness 94·4% (CI:[93·6, 95·0]); and death 93·7% (CI:[92·5, 94·7]). Similarly, the overall estimated level of protection from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection for documented infection is 94·8% (CI:[94·4, 95·1]); hospitalization 94·1% (CI:[91·9, 95·7]); and severe illness 96·4% (CI:[92·5, 98·3]). Our results question the need to vaccinate previously-infected individuals.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2021 #74133
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    @Dr.D: Regarding Wetico, the cannibalistic delusion of selfishness-as-virtue…
    I give you, “How Debt Conquered America”, by Jada Thacker,
    a good and thoughtful teacher who died unexpectedly in 2018.

    How Debt Conquered America

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 29 2021 #74130
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    About those COVID Marshalls..
    Guys, you need MORE transmission in the SUMMER, when everybody tolerates viral illness so much better.

    ‘We know from last year that numbers of infections can change rapidly, and Government are very clear that we should plan in case a third wave arises. ‘It would be a dereliction of duty not to prepare for a third wave, at the same time as doing all we can to prevent it happening by keeping infections as low as possible so we can enjoy summer with no restrictions.

    in reply to: The Virus Is Far From The Biggest Danger #74082
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    Lots more good investigation, GERM!
    Enjoying your “retirement”?
    I replied to Madamski, Rototillerman and Doc Robinson on today’s other thread.

    Bedtime for Gonzo, now.
    Sincerely Yours,
    Hunter S. Thompson’s Ghost

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2021 #74078
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    @Rototillerman:
    The rapid tests are what they now use in hospitals, ERs and bigger clinics. They test for antigen, spike protein particles.
    The PCR tests look for viral RNA.
    If you have already had COVID (big or little case) and you get a “vaccine” that makes your body produce pieces of spike protein, they will get exuded into your nasal mucous, as far as I know. That would make the rapid antigen test go positive.
    So, if you are getting sick from your immune system attacking all of those little proteins it hates vengefully , and you go to the ER sick, you may have a chest x-ray that looks like COVID Pneumonia, and a positive rapid antigen test
    Why would anybody bother to send out a PCR “Confirmatory” test that will take 3 days to be reported?
    They don’t. I review ER/hospital records daily. A positive is a positive.
    The trouble is, that somebody having an adverse vaccine reaction is listed as a COVID case, and may die as a COVID case.
    That would, however, explain all of those COVID deaths right after vaccination. It’s a lot for the first 4-5 days and slowly declines after that.
    I’m pretty sure this is a question that nobody with money wants to be asked.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2021 #74076
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    @Doc Robinson:
    Thanks for finding even more.
    The abstract from Madamski’s Nature find
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-x contains this:

    Our results indicate that boceprevir, ombitasvir, paritaprevir, tipranavir, ivermectin, and micafungin exhibited inhibitory effect towards 3CLpro enzymatic activity. The 100 ns molecular dynamics simulation studies showed that ivermectin may require homodimeric form of 3CLpro enzyme for its inhibitory activity. In summary, these molecules could be useful to develop highly specific therapeutically viable drugs to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 replication either alone or in combination with drugs specific for other SARS-CoV-2 viral targets.

    That last sentence is code for: “You can make patentable drugs from this shite”

    “Pfizermectin”? 😮

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2021 #74074
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    @Madamski: You are a CONTRARIAN, Contrarian, contrarian, contrarian! 🙂
    I also read up on the life and passing of L. Ron Hubbard, after you mentioned his passing as something like an object lesson.
    Yeah, not apparently happy, but lots of money and hiding-out in style.
    I actually read the whole Dianetics book Christmas vacation 1979 or so. My roommate had fallen in with “The Org”, so he and I had to get different roomamates (cult thing). I took the introductory “Auditing Course” at the “Church”, and it was pretty interesting and informative. There is something to it. There is validity to aspects of the training, but I saw how the machine worked, and I was done with it.
    After that when somebody on “The Drag” by the university offered me “Free Personality Test?”, I would look them squarely in the eye and say, “I’ll repeat the auditing question”, and they would sort of freeze up.
    I appreciate your finding this about protease inhibitor activity of drugs, relevant to treating COVID:
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-x

    This came up somewhere, too. Sorry, I forget where.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-19-pill-cures-body-upon-first-signs-infection-could-be-authorized

    What is your educational training, and work experience, Girl?
    You are pretty Broad-Band.
    🙂

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2021 #74043
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    Ladies and Germs, “Schrodinger’s COVID”, with much you just saw, and this:
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/schrodingers-covid.html

    ​ I would like to present a hypothesis from the COVID-19 Treating Physicians list, which is that the increased “confirmed” COVID-19 cases and COVID-19 deaths in the 2 weeks following vaccination are actually vaccine adverse reactions, which test positive for SARS-CoV-2, because the “vaccines” cause the body to produce, and widely distribute, exactly the spike=protein fragments which the test detects in the nasal mucous.​
    One of my patients was recently hospitalized about a week after an mRNA vaccination, and tested positive for COVID with a nasal swab, so her pneumonia was COVID-Pneumonia. She had been hospitalized last August for a bad case of COVID. She had antibodies. She got an inflammatory response. The hospital put her on steroids and oxygen, and she lived. A week after discharge, still on blood thinners, she was short of breath again, and had a blood clot in her lungs. She was admitted again. We are monitoring her blood thinner doses. My clinic has called her to get her second vaccine shot.
    I have written that she should not, but how do I back that up?
    She obviously got COVID again, so obviously needs the shot, though a 3 month wait after COVID is considered “abundantly cautious”.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2021 #74034
    John Day
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    Thanks Doc Robinson:
    This is really Today’s News.

    Go GERM!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 28 2021 #74031
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    @GERM(y): You are on a ROLL, Brother!
    Commentarians like you were burning the midnight oil, and I don’t want folks to miss this article about how increasing cost of energy leads to slavery, like cheap coal helped abolish it.
    (Spiritual guidance in life appears to be “free”, or close to it, certainly a “bargain”.)

    Signs of things to come


    In employment, then, the practical response to the rising energy cost of energy is that employers and workers seek to circumvent labour market regulation which was created in a bygone age when real growth was still possible. And note that this is a very different reality to the wildly optimistic, hi-tech fantasy of the “Great Reset” in which we are meant to generate sufficient growth to automate almost everything.

    Nor is the gig economy the place where decline stops. While a large part of the gig economy exists in a legal twilight zone in which a great deal that goes on is unlawful – subject to civil law – very little crosses the boundary into criminality. But as the energy cost of energy increases, criminal gangs also have a growing incentive to engage in crime as a means of circumventing the laws and regulations of a by-gone age.

    It is no accident that growing demand for the abolition of slavery corresponded to the growth of coal-powered industrialisation. Such an economy no longer needs raw labour power – whether waged or forced – because of the huge increase in productivity achieved by industrial technologies backed by an explosion of fossilised sunlight. Wage labourers were still needed to mind the machines; but they were no longer the power source behind them. This is seen most clearly in the nineteenth century division between the industrial northern states of the USA, where freed slaves were a useful addition to the growing industrial workforce, and the manual labour-based colonial economies of the southern states whose profit margins were built on the back of slave labourers.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 27 2021 #73969
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    John​ ​Ward presents actual statistics about COVID-19 in India, which is doing very well, not terribly.
    ​ ​Unless you made an early getaway to Planet Drongo before the lockdown, you will have read pretty much everywhere that “India sees world’s highest daily cases amid oxygen shortage”. In fact, the BBC tells us that “some people” have died waiting for oxygen, the Indian health service is “completely overwhelmed” and the country now has “sixteen million cases”.So it’s a disaster, right? Well actually, no – it isn’t. The Indian health ministry has already made it clear that the Covid19 variant they’re dealing with this year has “a considerably lower death rate than the previous version”.
    ​ ​Go to the Worldometer site, and you’ll see that India’s deaths per million is a minute 134: that’s 7% of the US and French figures, 6% of the UK and Italy’s and the lowest by far of any country in the Top 30 for cases. Virtually no vaccination has been undertaken in India (only 1.3% are fully vaccinated) and the country is not using lockdowns. The Times of India has just denied the BBC’s ‘deaths from oxygen shortage’ fakery.
    ​ ​What India IS doing, however, is employing the anti-inflammatory drugs tocilizumab and itolizumab and the antivirals favipiravir and hydroxychloroquine on a very wide scale. Go to Pharma site/accolyte spaces, and you’ll see all four drugs being rubbished: the Pharmafia and their bureaucratic whores don’t want any signs of a success to get out.
    ​ ​But the Truth already is out there: India is doing spectacularly well without either vaccines or lockdown. You won’t find that reality expressed anywhere in the Western MSM, but the facts show that its infection management drugs have delivered one of the lowest case to death rates on the planet.
    ​ ​Not that you’d notice, reading Bloomberg: (my emphases)
    ​ ​‘India saw the world’s biggest one-day jump in coronavirus cases ever as a ferocious new wave grips the country, overwhelming hospitals and crematoriums and prompting frantic cries for help on social media.
    ​ ​The South Asian nation reported 314,835 new infections Thursday, topping a peak of 314,312 recorded in the U.S. on Dec. 21. People took to Twitter and Instagram to call for everything from hospital beds to medicine and doorstep Covid-19 tests.
    ​ ​The grim milestone shows how the pandemic crisis has shifted firmly to the developing world, where variants and complacency are threatening containment measures and there’s a lack of vaccines, with supplies dominated by richer nations.’
    ​ ​It’s a pack of lies from end to end. India has a population of 1.4 billion people – so overcrowding is almost generic – and being four times more people than the US, the comparison with America is completely ludicrous. Hospitals do not get overwhelmed when 134 folks out of a million get ill. India’s water purity and basic hygiene measures are very Third World. Yet despite all that, it is doing phenomenally well against Covid….by having and doing respectively none of the advantages and policies of the West.
    ​ ​Sloppy journalism? No – criminally misleading journalism designed to scare as many people into vaccination as possible.
    therealslog.com/2021/04/23/the-bbc-bloomberg-on-india-b-stands-for-bullshit/?unapproved=971931&moderation-hash=78dd3e173f2b25d3281b5ff7999d3663#comment-971931

    Corruption in the Medical Establishment
    Unpleasant facts​, ​Tessa Lena​ ​
    ​ ​This article is meant as something simple and logical that you can send to friends who still blindly trust in the American medical establishment. It’s a collection of stories and links that are not conspiratorial at all. All logical, all “respectable,” bland almost—yet demonstrating beyond any reasonable doubt that we need to watch out for ourselves.
    tessa.substack.com/p/medical-corruption

    ​We all lived at Camp Lejeune , North Carolina, which had the biggest TCE contamination of the drinking water of anywhere, but we didn’t know it. We drank it and swam laps and laps and laps in it. My Dad got Parkinson’s disease, and he died in early 2018, and we are just hearing about this.
    Rates of Parkinson’s disease are exploding. A common chemical may be to blame
    ​ Dorsey, a neurologist at the University of Rochester Medical Center and author of Ending Parkinson’s Disease, believes a Parkinson’s epidemic is on the horizon. Parkinson’s is already the fastest-growing neurological disorder in the world; in the US, the number of people with Parkinson’s has increased 35% the last 10 years, says Dorsey, and “We think over the next 25 years it will double again.”
    Most cases of Parkinson’s disease are considered idiopathic – they lack a clear cause. Yet researchers increasingly believe that one factor is environmental exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical compound used in industrial degreasing, dry-cleaning and household products such as some shoe polishes and carpet cleaners.
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/07/rates-of-parkinsons-disease-are-exploding-a-common-chemical-may-be-to-blame

    41.000 years ago the earth’s poles reversed, and a lot of big animals got wiped out by the increase in cosmic and solar radiation from the vastly diminished Van Allen Belt protection. Humans did red-ochre (ie. sunscreen) cave paintings, all of a sudden…
    They say this might happen again kinda’ soon, but nobody knows how soon. Thanks (NASA guy) Mel.
    Scientists link Earth’s magnetic reversals to changes in planet’s life and climate
    The discovery of a fossilized tree in New Zealand is providing scientists with insight on how magnetic pole reversals could affect life on Earth.
    http://www.pri.org/stories/2021-04-19/scientists-link-earths-magnetic-reversals-changes-planets-life-and-climate?fbclid=IwAR34kfy79ifnNMF_vWsZ9HTUB14MPCMMD35n6ilbS7cgvOOvXOaeaOXMtAg

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 27 2021 #73968
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    http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/truth-beats-lies.html
    Picture with daughter, Holly and 2 young peach trees, just planted at her new house

    We Have A COVID Lifeline. The Powers Won’t Allow It.​ Mary Beth Pfeiffer​
    In a widely reported announcement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned, “Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.”​ …​
    ​ ​A website tracker summarizes those 52 ivermectin trials, involving more than 17,500 patients. Collectively, ivermectin:
    –Prevented 85 percent of infections (similar to vaccines);
    –Resolved 81 percent of early illness;
    –Improved 43 percent of late-treated patients;
    –Reduced deaths by 76 percent.
    As authorities dismiss study after study, it has become clear. The drug’s rejection is not based on science, data or the experience of many doctors. Instead, a disinformation campaign is raging to demonize the drug and belittle studies that support it.
    trialsitenews.com/we-have-a-covid-lifeline-the-powers-wont-allow-it/

    Lots of information about physiologic benefits of vitamin-D here, Note that Michael Hollick MD, PhD is an author
    Vitamin D and Its Potential Benefit for the COVID-19 Pandemic
    ​ ​Vitamin D is known not only for its importance for bone health but also for its biologic activities on many other organ systems. This is due to the presence of the vitamin D receptor in various types of cells and tissues, including the skin, skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, endocrine pancreas, immune cells, and blood vessels. Experimental studies have shown that vitamin D exerts several actions that are thought to be protective against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infectivity and severity. These include the immunomodulatory effects on the innate and adaptive immune systems, the regulatory effects on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system in the kidneys and the lungs, and the protective effects against endothelial dysfunction and thrombosis. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have shown that vitamin D supplementation is beneficial in protecting against risk of acquiring acute respiratory viral infection and may improve outcomes in sepsis and critically ill patients. There are a growing number of data connecting COVID-19 infectivity and severity with vitamin D status, suggesting a potential benefit of vitamin D supplementation for primary prevention or as an adjunctive treatment of COVID-19. Although the results from most ongoing randomized clinical trials aiming to prove the benefit of vitamin D supplementation for these purposes are still pending, there is no downside to increasing vitamin D intake and having sensible sunlight exposure to maintain serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D at a level of least 30 ng/mL (75 nmol/L) and preferably 40 to 60 ng/mL (100-150 nmol/L) to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection and its severity.
    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33744444/#:~:text=Prior%20to%20the%20COVID%2D19,sepsis%20and%20critically%20ill%20

    ​The (16 page) 2007 Vitamin-D paper by Dr Hollick that really got me interested in Vitamin-D, testing and treating patients for deficiency.
    (I did discover that I needed much higher doses than he lists in the paper, and the journal article above also uses much higher doses. I don’t know why, but I need 5000 units per day for several months to get most people up into the normal range, twice that if they are obese.)
    Vitamin D Deficiency​, ​Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D.
    http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/nejmra070553

    Truth Over Fear, COVID-19 and The Great Reset, free registration, April 30 to May 2 (Fri, Sat, Sun)
    Look at the quality of these participants. Dr McCullough, who is one of the presenters, sent this.
    http://www.restoretheculture.com/?r_done=1

    Cheap, safe Nitric Oxide nasal spray clears SARS-CoV-2 from nasal passages (in early infections where that’s where it still is)
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/clinical-trial-confirms-breakthrough-treatment-covid-19/5743173

    Isreali Health Body Report On COVID Vax ‘Deadly’ Impacts Thanks Jeremy
    The Israeli People Committee (IPC), a civilian body made of leading Israeli health experts, has published its April report into the Pfizer vaccine’s side effects.* The findings are catastrophic on every possible level.
    Their verdict is that “there has never been a vaccine that has harmed as many people.” The report is long and detailed. I will outline just some of the most devastating findings presented in the report.
    “We received 288 death reports in proximity to vaccination (90% up to 10 days after the vaccination), 64% of those were men.” Yet the report states, “according to data provided by the Ministry of Health, only 45 deaths in Israel were vaccine related.” If the numbers above are sincere then Israel, which claimed to conduct a world experiment, failed to genuinely report on its experiment’s results.
    We often hear about blood clots caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine. For instance, we learned this morning about 300 cases of blood clots in of Europe. However, if the IPC’s findings are genuine, then in Israel alone the Pfizer vaccine may be associated with more deaths than AstraZeneca’s in the whole of Europe.
    principia-scientific.com/isreali-health-body-report-on-covid-vax-deadly-impacts/

    We can’t expect COVID-19 to go away; we should plan accordingly, Gail Tverberg , Actuary​, Thermoeconomics Analyst
    ​ ​In this post, I explain why, in my view, COVID-19 seems likely to become endemic, like the flu. The vaccines won’t be enough to make it go away completely. I will also look at the issue of how we should respond to the cases of COVID-19 that we will almost certainly experience in the future.
    ​ ​To a significant extent, what we can and should do in the future is an energy issue. If we plan to transition to a green energy future, or if we simply plan to reduce usage of fossil fuels in future years, we probably need to scale back our plans for vaccines. In fact, any treatment that would be given in today’s emergency rooms is likely to become less and less possible as energy supplies deplete.
    ​ ​We will need to focus more on what our bodies can do for us, and what we can do to assist them in this effort. We also need to think about what simple changes to our environment (such as windows that open) can do for the prevention of both COVID-19 and the many other communicable diseases that we can expect to encounter in the future. ​ ​ourfiniteworld.com/2021/04/11/we-cant-expect-covid-19-to-go-away-we-should-plan-accordingly/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 27 2021 #73967
    John Day
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    Late last night, Madamski wrote:
    “Re: The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul:
    Flesh blood and bone are experienced by ??? No explanations avail.”
    You might crack that Urantia Book again, or maybe you did.
    “Foreword” works fine.
    I think “you” have an inkling…
    I think “I” have an inkling.


    @Germ
    ; I’ve Gotta’ catch up on your posts, maybe after work.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2021 #73951
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    Catchy little title, there! Thanks Germ:
    Public Health Act 2016 (WA) – Instrument of Authorisation – Authorisation to Supply or Administer a Poison [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE – Australian Defence Force] (No.2) 2021
    Guidance An authorisation by the Chief Health Office under the s. 197 and s.198 Public Health Act 2016 (WA) to authorise relevant Australian Defence Force employees to supply and administer the COVID-19 Vaccine.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 26 2021 #73939
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    Here is a link to a (free, I think) online summit:
    Truth Over Fear, COVID-19 and The Great Reset
    https://www.restoretheculture.com/?r_done=1

    Peter McCullough MD sent it and is one of the many panelists (scroll down).
    https://www.restoretheculture.com/?r_done=1

    Also, Harvey Risch MD is quite a stickler for details. If he says most cases of COVID-19 in Israel are now in the 50% or so of the population which has been vaccinated, that is so.
    It looks like there is a spike in cases in the 2 weeks right after vaccination.
    The reason is unclear. Several hypotheses on the C-19D list.

    Also, nitric oxide spray up your nose helps clear virus: https://www.globalresearch.ca/clinical-trial-confirms-breakthrough-treatment-covid-19/5743173
    This would be useful in early disease, when symptoms are just starting. It looks mild enough to use without a test result, even.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2021 #73715
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    Thoughts after reading comments:
    Good comments.

    I’m unraveled pretty far, already.
    It was my destiny. Now it’s my everyday life.

    Yep, ivermectin, zinc and doxycycline (don’t forget “V.D.”) will still work for the genetically vaccinated if they get COVID.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 22 2021 #73680
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    Thanks for late reply about Urantia book, Madamski.
    It is easier (for me) to read than Marx, and I ingested ovwe 150 pages of Kapital before I got a Cliff-notes version.

    What is “science fiction”?
    Serious question.
    Reading this book (about an hour for some pages) is somewhat transforming my thought/consciousness patterns. It also seems like a natural process of restoration,
    archaeologic restoration comes to mind.
    I always liked “good” science fiction; something about those patterns…

    Bike/meditate to work, now…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2021 #73645
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    Hi Madamski,
    I like your ramblings about aliens and the tower of babel, and Nephilim.
    It reminds me of this book I just got introduced to , week before last.
    https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/titles-of-the-papers

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2021 #73611
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    Pepe Escobar: So Who Wants a Hot War?
    It’s not by accident that the Hegemon is going no holds barred to harass and try to smash Eurasian integration by all means available…
    Much more than NATO advisers in a frantic revolving door in Kiev, the real shadowplay is MI6 actually working very close with President Zelensky.
    Zelensky’s warmongering script comes directly from MI6’s Richard Moore. Russian intel is very much aware of all the fine print.​..
    ​ Careless whispers in Brussels corridors swear that MI6 actually believes that in the case of a volcanic but as it stands still preventable hot war with Russia, continental Europe would burn and Brexitland would be spared…
    ​…​Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu examining step by step the deployment of the annual US Army DEFENDER-Europe 21: “The main forces are concentrated in the Black Sea and Baltic region.”​ …
    ​ When in doubt, call the irreplaceable Andrei Martyanov – who always tells it like it is. The Crash Test Dummy gang in D.C. still does not get it – although some Deep State pros do.
    Here’s Martyanov:
    ​ ​As I am on record constantly – the United States never fought a war with its Command and Control system under the relentless sustained fire impact and its rear attacked and disorganized. Conventionally, the United States cannot win against Russia in Europe, at least Eastern part of it and Biden Admin better wake up to the reality that it may, indeed, not survive any kind of escalation and, in fact, modern Kalibrs, 3M14Ms, as a matter of fact, have a range of a 4,500 kilometers, as well as 5,000+ kilometer range of X-101 cruise missiles, which will have no issues with penetrating North American airspace when launched by Russia’s strategic bombers without even leaving the safety of Russia’s airspace.​..
    …Triple Yoda Patrushev mentioned a very civilized late March phone call he had with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Of course there’s no smokin’ gun, but if anyone would come up with the face-saving idea of a Biden-Putin phone call that would have been Sullivan.
    ​ ​The spin from Washington and Moscow is only slightly divergent. The Americans highlight that “Biden” – actually the deciding combo behind him – wants to build “a stable and predictable relationship with Russia, consistent with US interests.”
    T​he Kremlin said that Biden “expressed interest in normalizing bilateral relations.”
    Away from all this fog, what really matters is Patrushev-Sullivan. That has to do with Washington telling Turkey that US warships would be transiting the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea. Sullivan must have told Patrushev that no, they won’t be “active” in Donbass. And Patrushev told Sullivan, OK, we won’t incinerate them.​..
    ​ So the cliffhanger – like a teaser for Snowpiercer – is what happens when Nord Stream 2 is completed.​..
    ​ Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has struck a much less Daoist note than Peskov: “The United States is our enemy, doing everything to undermine Russia’s position in the international arena, we do not see other elements in their approach to us. These are our conclusions”
    That’s stone to the bone realpolitik. Ryabkov knows the Hegemon’s “non agreement-capable” mindset inside out.​..​
    ​ ​Putin reiterated Minsk 2 on his live teleconference with Merkel and Macron – and certainly to “Biden” in their phone call. The Beltway, the EU and NATO are all aware of it. Minsk 2 was signed by Ukraine, France and Germany and certified by the UN Security Council. If Kiev violates it, Russia – as a member of the UNSC – must enforce it.
    ​ ​Kiev has been violating Minsk 2 for months now; it refuses to implement it. As a faithful Hegemon satrapy, they are also not “agreement-capable”. Yet now they are seeing the – firepower – writing on the wall if they as much as think of starting a blitzkrieg against Donbass.​..
    Ideally, Ukraine/Donbass would be inserted in the overall revival of the Silk Roads – as in internal Central Eurasian trade based and developed taking into consideration Eurasia-wide demand. Eurasia integration – in both the Chinese and Russian vision – are all about interconnected economies via inter-regional trade.
    ​ ​So it’s not by accident that the Hegemon – on the verge of becoming an irrelevant player across Eurasia – is going no holds barred to harass and try to smash the continental integration by all means available.

    So Who Wants a Hot War?

    ​ ​Following on the heels of last week’s Joe Biden invitation to Vladimir Putin for a bilateral summit proposed for the summer to tackle a range of still simmering contentious issues, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a surprised invitation late Tuesday for Putin to meet him in the war-torn east of Ukraine.
    ​ ​In making the announcement Zelensky told Putin that such a direct high states meeting where the two leaders can talk de-escalation is essential as there are a “million lives at stake” in any potential outbreak of major conflict,
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-zelensky-invites-putin-meet-war-torn-east-million-lives-are-stake

    Vladimir Putin’s State Of The Nation Address: (a few excerpts)
    “We behave in a restrained, modest manner. Oftentimes we do not respond to outright rudeness; we want to have good relations.
    We are not looking to burn any bridges.”
    ​ ​”I hope no one will think of crossing so-called ‘red lines’ against Russia, which we ourselves will define in each separate case. Russia’s response will be symmetrical, fast and tough. The organizers of any provocations threatening our core security interests will regret their actions more than they’ve regretted anything in a long time.”
    “But now this practice is degenerating into something more dangerous — for example, an attempt to organize a coup in Belarus and an attempt to assassinate this country’s president…. The West is silent on this matter.”
    “You can have any position on Lukashenko’s policies, but staging a goverment coup and planning the assassination of a head of state is too much.”
    ​ ​And on Biden’s recent sanctions…
    “It seems that everyone is already accustomed to the practice of imposing illegal, politically motivated sanctions, attempts to impose their will on others by force.”​ …
    ​ On Russian national spirituality and traditional religion:
    ​ “And today, family, friendship, mutual assistance, and compassion have come to the fore for us. Spiritual and moral values, which some countries are forgetting about, have, on the contrary, made us stronger, and we will always uphold and protect these values,” Putin pledged.
    ​ ​Putin added that the service of representatives of traditional religions had become “the spiritual backbone of society, as it always was in difficult times.” That said, the head of state addressed the clergy present in the hall, “I would like to take a deep bow before you all. Thank you very much.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-key-state-nation-address-swift-tough-response-coming-those-crossing-red-line

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2021 #73609
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/anticipating-sudden-letdown.html
    (Picture of garden/gardener @ end)

    Our present western economic system is based upon faith in a future which cannot possibly transpire. That faith is growing thinner and thinner, so the leverage on the bets is growing higher and higher, to maintain the amount of skim-profit, to which our elite class and their upper managers are accustomed. The system crashed in 2008, but was resuscitated with more skim than ever to bankers and financiers, and more promises than ever for everybody else. This was sustained by “whatever it took” in money printing and asset-buying by central banks, It’s the biggest ponzi scheme ever, and the Federal Reserve banking system is the final sucker. There was an overnight-repo crisis in late summer of 2019, when the major banks quit trusting each other overnight.
    The fix was the Fed, again.
    “Repo” still broken after over a year of social distancing and lockdowns. That didn’t create overnight trust at the level of major global banks.

    The top 10%, the managerial class, has been bribed to hold things together for 13 years.
    The present system will not hold together without their best efforts.
    Elites have no plan but to retain power indefinitely.
    When does the system break? Next month? June?
    Got beans? Got water? Got cash? Got friends?

    Anthony Ward, “The Slog”
    ​ ​What I find worrying tonight is the number of people whose experience I trust offering remarkably similar predictions: in a relatively narrow time range from mid-May to late June, they all see time finally running out for by far the most mendacious stock valuation bubble in bourse history.
    ​ ​The control, containment and citizen obedience being demanded by States around the globe is in near-zero relation to the homoaeopathic threat from SarsCov2. We are about to see the real reason for accustoming us to the idea of virtue-signalled, false necessity.
    therealslog.com/2021/04/15/from-covid-to-collapse-can-you-see-the-join/

    THE $2.3 QUADRILLION GLOBAL TIMEBOMB
    ​ ​The $30 billion in Archegos derivatives that went up in smoke over a weekend is just the tip of the iceberg. The hedge fund Archegos lost everything and the normal uber-leveraged players Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Nomura etc lost at least $30 billion.
    ​ ​These investment banks are making casino bets that they can’t afford to lose. What their boards and top management don’t realise or understand is that the traders, supported by easily manipulated risk managers, are betting the bank on a daily basis.​..
    ​ ​Just take the notorious Deutsche Bank (DB) that has outstanding derivatives of €37 trillion against total equity of €62 billion. Thus the derivatives position is 600X the equity.
    Or to put it in a different way, the equity is 0.17% of the outstanding derivatives. So a loss of 0.2% on the derivatives will wipe the share capital and the bank out!
    ​ ​Now the DB risk managers will argue that the net derivatives position is just a fraction of the €37 trillion at €20 billion. That is of course nonsense as we saw with Archegos when a few banks let $30 billion over a weekend.
    ​ ​Derivatives can only be netted down on the basis that counterparties pay up. But in a real systemic crisis, counterparties will disappear and gross exposure will remain gross.
    (So gold to $175,000/oz? Just think dollar​-​to​-​zero.)
    goldswitzerland.com/the-2-3-quadrillion-global-timebomb/

    ​ 11 years ago in Afghanistan, news of massive mineral deposits came out.
    It’s not just heroin and the ability to disrupt Russia, China and Iran that makes this real estate valuable to the crumbling western empire.​
    $1 Trillion Motherlode of Lithium and Gold Discovered in Afghanistan​ , June 16, 2010
    ​ ​The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world. An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries…
    http://www.mining.com/1-trillion-motherlode-of-lithium-and-gold-discovered-in-afghanistan/

    Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
    ​ ​Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers
    while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
    thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/biden-afghanistan-war-privatizing-contractors/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2021 #73598
    John Day
    Participant

    Freedom Of Choice:
    In a universe where there is free choice, more and more coercion can hold a failing hierarchical system together, until it just can’t, and freedom of choice comes in a tsunami of hunger and broken promises.

    Do choose to make some necessary provisions today, for the unforeseeable future.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 21 2021 #73596
    John Day
    Participant

    SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in the human bloodstream is bad. It clumps platelets, causes inflammation, clots and inability to clot after that.

    80% of people who get SARS-CoV-2 infection in their noses STOP IT in their noses.
    20% have it progress their lungs, guts and blood.

    Everybody who gets various injectable “vaccines” gets Spike Protein in their bloodstream.

    Take 5000 units/day vitamin D, which supports both the innate immune system in your nose, and the adaptive immune system in the rest of your body.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2021 #73563
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice:
    I wish you well, sister.
    Most people believe whatever people around them believe.
    It’s that simple. It works for the group.
    Paradigm shifts happen kind of fast, like Americans turned against the Vietnam War after Tet and Cronkite’s statements that we’d been misled.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 19 2021 #73486
    John Day
    Participant

    @WES, from yesterday. You could take zinc and quercetin along with ivermectin as prophylaxis, but I would not. Zinc is moderately upsetting to a lot of stomachs at 50 mg. I would rather hold the zinc and quercetin and just take the ivermectin as prophylaxis.
    I would not take more than about 25 mg of zinc once per day long term, since it interferes with absorption of copper, which is a thing we need a little of.

    in reply to: 18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine #73417
    John Day
    Participant
    in reply to: 18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine #73416
    John Day
    Participant

    @Rototillerman:
    Injectable liquid veterinary ivermectin has less volume per mg than horse paste.
    Take it as you would the pills. You can dose 0.2 mg per kg on days 1 and 2, then take 0.2 mg per kg (1 mg per 11#) every week for a higher dose prophylaxis, or every 2 weeks for a lower dose prophylaxis.
    If you would catch it, then the 2 days of loading dose, and doses on days 4 and 6, with 50 mg zinc 3 times per day for 10 days, and maybe a plain aspirin per day, if you are sick enough to have a fever (reduce clotting risk). You might carry quercetin 250 mg and take 1 by mouth 3 times per day with the zinc, in case of that illness.
    Doxycycline 100 mg twice per day if you can get it.

    in reply to: 18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine #73410
    John Day
    Participant

    https://brandnewtube.com/watch/the-story-of-ivermectin_ffENQ99XWhon3Ui.html

    The Story of Ivermectin is also the story of financial investment of powerful decision makers in the US medical system with Gilead, who makes Remdesivir, which is recommended in the US, is very expensive, but can’t save a life.
    Thanks Luc!

    (Yeah, it’s a video, and I almost never do that, but it wastes no time and puts the information together very well. No blather.)

    I have been encouraged to get vaccinated since early January.
    I’m not afraid of infection with this virus. My personalized risk assessment is low, and I have access to rapid testing and early antiviral treatment. I am not very prone to catching it, because I have not caught it symptomatically yet, and I have done more testing than any other doctor at our clinic, several of which did catch it.
    My primary reason to have not accepted vaccination is the deep and pervasive wrongness of how it is being pushed so hard by monied interests, the same interests who are quite happy to keep people scared and dying as long as possible to enforce their wills on the populace.
    This is bad enough.
    Do they have a second trick up their sleeves to deny us free will, to deny us our human lives?
    I sure dunno…

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 17 2021 #73325
    John Day
    Participant

    Well, on closer inspection, I see that quote may refer specifically to side effects in breeds of dogs.

    YMMV.

    The more famous side effects of ivermectin in humans are from killing the parasites, though.

    Stromectol-Man

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 17 2021 #73324
    John Day
    Participant

    Night before last, in page 2 of comments (like page 2 of Google search) Mdamski posted:

    What is Parasitic Drug (Ivermectin) Poisoning?

    “Poisoning by use of ivermectin is well documented. Most cases of adverse reaction result due to overdose of the product, and toxicity due to sensitivity because of a genetic mutation, MDR1 (multi-drug resistance gene), specific to certain breeds. This medication is given orally (tablets, treats, liquids, pastes), by injection, and as a topical solution against mites. Signs of poisoning are many and include blindness, tremors, and uncoordinated movements as a result of nerve and brain toxicity . There is no treatment for the poisoning; supportive measures are the only care available (though in cases of oral administration inducing of vomiting and active charcoal use are often done). Early and aggressive supportive care allows for a good prognosis for recovery.

    “Ivermectin is used in the treatment of parasitic diseases, one of the most well known being heartworm disease. Ivermectin belongs to the avermectin family of drugs and has been approved for multiple uses. Toxicity has been documented, with adverse effects due to the cross between the blood brain barrier.”

    Salt is a poison if you ingest too much too fast. And people wonder why I distrust experts.

    BACK to the present… The side effects above are analogous to the main side effect of ivermectin, as it is usually employed: DEAD WORMS COME OUT YOUR BUTT

    The weird effects are from when you take ivermectin for microfilarial worms, which have insinuated themselves into every pore of your being, and die there…

    Ladies and Gents, “Filariasis” : https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/filariasis/#:~:text=Filariasis%20is%20an%20infectious%20tropical,the%20bite%20of%20a%20mosquito.

    Go without fear!

    🙂

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 15 2021 #73216
    John Day
    Participant

    For your perusal: Human Confusion Update
    http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/human-confusion-update.html

    Texas is finally getting a small uptick in positive COVID tests and hospitalizations, in the post-Easter period. The rapid antigen (fewer false positives) percent positive rate has ticked up to 3.4%.
    Is this the UK strain? Is this Brazilian strain? Was this entire families of all ages, and churches getting together?
    All of the above?
    apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/

    The UK B 1.1.7. variant is the most reported in the US, followed by the Brazilian P.1 variant, which is more contagious, more deadly, partly vaccine-resistant, and reports from Brazilian treating physicians, using Ivermectin based therapies, are that it is harder to treat with the medicines they have been using, though it does still respond and improve with those medicines.
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/04/09/devastating-covid-19-variant-in-brazil-now-2nd-most-reported-variant-in-us-cdc-data-shows/?sh=7d78fefd400e

    I remember Judd For The Defense and Perry Mason: Thanks Jeremy
    American Hero: Ralph C. Lorigo Fights for Client Rights Including Access to Ivermectin for COVID-19 Patients At Risk
    ​ ​Especially if elderly high risk patients present advanced COVID-19, Lorigo has personally seen the drug potentially contribute to saving the lives of clients. Interestingly, the attorney reports that it would appear that hospital administrations are the most recalcitrant to the idea, even if the patients and the ICU doctor are in support. It’s as if the COVID-19 wings of all hospitals are completely opposed to any suggestion of this particular medication. In the age of COVID-19, the COVID-19 wing is sort of a “federalized” operation.
    trialsitenews.com/american-hero-ralph-c-lorigo-fights-for-client-rights-including-access-to-ivermectin-for-covid-19-patients-at-risk/

    ​ ​CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” …
    ​ ​Covid-19 vaccine passports, the latest insult in the unending stream of scientifically inapt actions as outlined above, is already driving extensive anguish and debate. These digital passports linked to one’s entire life experience with geolocated data and one’s personal medical information represents the latest intrusion and attack on our freedoms that have been put before the easily distracted populace. These passports are simply unjustifiable on any grounds, not the least of which is the fact that SARS CoV-2 is no more deadly on a population level than influenza. Ostensibly, the passports are designed to allow individuals to partake in everyday commerce and “life” with freedom.
    http://www.aier.org/article/vaccine-passports-vs-freedom-itself/

    (Whitney Webb Militarized Facebook here.)

    ​Top US officials are reportedly calling for a hard look at China’s plans for a digital yuan, after raising concerns that the new currency may potentially challenge the greenback as the world’s dominant reserve currency.
    ​ ​Officials at the Treasury, State Department, Pentagon, and National Security Council are currently trying to explore the potential implications of China’s new sovereign digital currency, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg…
    ​ ​Last year, the People’s Bank of China revealed plans to have its sovereign digital currency ready in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics. China became the first country in the world to test such a product on a national level.
    ​ ​According to the Chinese central bank, the new currency will share some features with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The digital yuan is projected to replace banknotes and coins.
    ​ ​The White House is said not to be planning any measures against the e-yuan, but is highly interested in creating a digital dollar.
    http://www.rt.com/business/520768-digital-yuan-threat-dollar/

    ​ I personally like that the US may create a competitive (lossless-I-presume)​ digital dollar to replace paper $100 bills as the global anonymously circulating currency of economies everywhere. If the initial creation of each “dollar” lies with the Treasury, not with private banking, then the benefits of “seigniorage” accrue to the collective, not the private. Creation of debt-money-at-interest could be curtailed, or value contributed to the commons (even if through a captured bureaucracy).

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 15 2021 #73215
    John Day
    Participant

    @Mr. Roboto: Yes, steroids save your life when you are in cytokine storm with COVID pneumonia.
    Ivermectin is efficacious at all stages of illness (before death), but I want it before I can’t breathe, please.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 15 2021 #73214
    John Day
    Participant

    Great after hours commentariat on “page 2” last night!

    @V.Arnold: What Germ said, but n=some are now pushing the ivermectin dose to 0.3 mg/kg/day, up from 0.2 mg/kg/d

    Harvey Risch MD sent this statistical set:

    Vaccinated (millions) Thrombocytopenia Thrombosis Haemorrhage Fatalities Tpnia Rate Thromb Rate Haem Rate Mort Rate
    J&J 7.164152 4 6 5 42 0.56 0.84 0.70 5.86
    Moderna 31.355979 41 43 28 1001 1.31 1.37 0.89 31.92
    Pfizer 36.76424 44 66 54 986 1.20 1.80 1.47 26.82
    “Rates” are numbers per million people fully vaccinated (1 dose for J&J, 2 doses for the others)

    Thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, haemorrhage:

    J&J 15/4 million
    Moderna 109/40 million
    Pfizer 163/40 million

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 14 2021 #73169
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Friends and neighbors.
    I’m back from work for the day and really appreciating your contributions to this forum again.

    I’m working on spirituality. A friend lent me a book I read chapter 42, about life, the universe and everything. It has a whole lot of chapters.
    I’m just going to read a little when I can and keep working on being a spiritual helper in this (mostly) physical world, gardening, practicing thoughtful medicine, and so on.

    We’re going to have a May-Day garden party at the Yoakum homestead.
    Mayday is a Saturday, like spring equinox was and the day before Easter was. Those parties went fine.
    People connected well. Some days, normalcy might be enough.

    I just keep plugging away “arrogantly”.
    I’ll fight if somebody jumps me. It’s automatic.
    If I have a little while to think it over, I might do something more elegantly creative, like Putin/Lavrov.
    I love those guys, because they seem to play 4 moves ahead.
    That was part of my meditation on my bike ride to work. Those chess players have seen this cusp coming for the dollar as global reserve currency for a long time. Even I have, and they are smarter.
    They have been able to pre-position facts-on-the-ground for over a dozen years for the inevitable death throes, so they might have a lot of set-pieces to dissuade our (rich) shadowy puppet masters from taking rash actions in a wide array of foreseeable situations (Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Syria)
    I’m not trying to be deluded or optimistic, but none of the interested parties over-there stands to benefit from the Samson-Option of our cornered elites. The prudent grown-ups have to make the choice not to act rashly, the EA$IER choice for Western elites, day after day, and year after year as the $US Empire gradually morphs into …something.
    The Digital US Dollar looks like a swell idea.
    Make it like that digital Yuan, like digital $100 bills.
    Beat the Chinese yellow-menace with a skim-free digital $US.
    Go America! (Sorry banks, we’ll get right back to you.).

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 14 2021 #73151
    John Day
    Participant

    Madamski said: “But I am all for finding ways to penetrate mass hypnosis so that individuals will stand up and act individually. It only takes a very few individuals standing up to the madness not by opposing it BUT BY IGNORING IT. Well, IGNORE is not the right word, which is ARROGATE.

    Messages that make individuals decide to trust their own reason, knowledge, and intutition, so the more audacious can take action whereupon the other kids follow, as they’ve done since kindergarten first indoctrinated them with the Power of Peer Pressure.”

    Reply: “42”, Life, The Universe and Everything
    (Also, “To Infinity and Beyond!”)

    Obscurantist John about to bike to work: Howdy and bye-bye , fellow sentient beings 🙂

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 13 2021 #73038
    John Day
    Participant

    Jenny and I are working the spring gardens and replacing fruit trees killed by the deep freeze around Valentine’s Day. I’ve put in 6 fruit trees over the past two weekends in Yoakum and Austin, and the Mexican avocado bed repopulation is still not finished. My Brother, Tom, whose birthday it is today ordered me a tree that is somewhat hard to find, and I’m waiting on a few others, also. Two of the seedlings from a Mysterious California avocado tree, coming through Jenny’s cousin, Freddy, in Victoria, have life growing up from the bases. Since they are seedlings, not grafted, that reflects their inherent nature, whatever it may be, so they remain in place, and are being cherished. Jenny is pictured in Yoakum this past Sunday morning, before we started some tree work.
    I’m concerned for this “great reset”. We need to make our own provisions to weather this long storm into the world that has less energy and less stuff. Our owners only know to cull the herd. Maybe the secret to that lies in these universal vaccines. That’s way above my pay grade, but entirely possible, and that meme is alive.

    “China and Russia Launch a Global Resistance Economy”, Alastair Crooke
    The $US used to be redeemable for gold, until Nixon effectively ran out in 1971. Even then, dollars were printed far in excess of gold holdings, while they were accepted as equal to god by countries which needed to do international business. The borrowed printed dollars were also paid back at interest, so there was always value extracted from the user, even if the user was not a borrower-at-interest. (Borrowers at variable interest would get the Asian Financial Crisis imposed on them, suffering massive extraction of value periodically.)
    What is proposed here is a global no-extraction monetary-mechanism, which will certainly appeal to countries currently being extracted by the $US.
    This will make the $US suddenly much less valuable to the rest of the world. The rest of the world will buy whatever we still make. We in the US will hardly be able to buy anything as dollar prices of domestic goods shoot up and foreign goods just can’t be bought.
    America cannot beat this. America will have to join this. Financial-capitalists would rather anything than the loss of their daily rents from global and domestic “investments”. They will say we will all lose our retirements. I presume that’s inevitable, anyway.
    ​ ​So here is the essence to ‘a clever combatant moving to impose his will’ – there is no need for China or Russia or Iran to go to war to do this; they just implement ‘it’. They can do ‘it’ – quite simply. They don’t need a revolution to do it, because they have no vested interest in fighting America.
    ​ ​What is ‘it’? It is not just a trade and investment pact with Tehran; neither is it simply allies helping each other. The ‘resistance’ lies precisely with the way they’re trying to help each other. It is a mode of economic development. It represents the notion that any rent-yielding resource – banking, land, natural resources and natural infrastructure monopolies – should be in the public domain to provide basic needs to everybody – freely.
    ​ ​The alternative way simply is to privatise these ‘public goods’ (as in the West), where they are provided at a financialized maximum cost – including interest rates, dividends, management fees, and corporate manipulations for financial gain.
    ​ ​‘It’ is then a truly different economic approach. To give one example: New York’s Second Avenue Subway extension cost $6 billion, or $2 billion per mile – the most expensive urban mass transit ever built. The average cost of underground subway lines outside the U.S. is $350 million a mile, or a sixth of New York’s cost.
    http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/04/05/china-russia-launch-global-resistance-economy/

    ​This poorly organized presentation states that China continues to advance its Central Bank Digital Currency. That’s setting a certain pace.
    China is also beta-testing it’s Sovereign Digital Currency, which is to say Chinese smartphone-money that is lossless-for-the-users.
    This smartphone exchange can also be used phone-to-phone, imitating cash, in areas without cellphone service.
    It is not blockchain. It has conventional security features.
    China is taking steps to eliminate non-governmental digital currencies (That’s what is happening to Jack Ma).
    China also wants it’s digital currency to really work smoothly and well for Chinese commerce, and to be borderless, as $100 bills are effectively borderless, and anonymous, except when the Bank of China needs to trace a chain of transactions. ​
    This borderless feature will make the Chinese Sovereign Digital Currency on smartphones directly challenge the role of $100 bills in global commerce.
    It looks like it has a lot to offer, but once you meet the new boss, will he become the same as the old boss? It’s a good gamble, isn’t it?
    http://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/chinas-digital-yuan-comes-expiration-date

    ​This is simply the fact in $US amounts. Lots of eggs in that basket.
    Investors have put more money into stocks in the last 5 months than the previous 12 years combined
    http://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/investors-have-put-more-money-into-stocks-in-the-last-5-months-than-the-previous-12-years-combined.html

    “NATO is ready to fight to the last Ukie”. Russia has to protect many Russians in East Ukraine, and also avoid directly invading Ukraine.
    The deep state/NATO combo’s using Kiev to start a war to bury Nord Stream 2 and German-Russian relations… Pepe Escobar
    On March 24, Ukrainian President Zelensky, for all practical purposes, signed a declaration of war against Russia, via decree No. 117/2021.
    The decree establishes that retaking Crimea from Russia is now Kiev’s official policy. That’s exactly what prompted an array of Ukrainian battle tanks to be shipped east on flatbed rail cars, following the saturation of the Ukrainian army by the US with military equipment including unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems, anti-tank systems and man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).
    http://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-ukraine-redux-war-russophobia-pipelineistan

    MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her phone talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin did not demand Russia scale down its military presence near the Ukrainian border but voiced concerns about this, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on Rossiya-1 TV channel.
    ​ ​”No,” Peskov said answering a question if Merkel had called on Moscow to scale down its military presence near eastern Ukraine. “Merkel indeed said that Europe is concerned over the concentration of Russian forces near the borders. Yes, she said this and this concern was voiced,” Peskov said. The Russian leader gave explanation to this, he stressed.
    ​ ​Moscow sees that the Minsk peace deal is not being implemented in Donbass and Ukraine is stepping up its provocations, Kremlin Spokesman told. “In Donbass there is a situation when the Minsk agreements are not being fulfilled,” Peskov stressed. “And there is a situation in Donbass related to the increased activity of provocations by the Ukrainian armed forces.”​ …
    “Since in general there are tensions and there is no de-escalation, tensions are running high and such provocations could one day ignite the fire of this civil war inside the Ukrainian conflict,” Peskov stressed.
    tass.com/politics/1276543

    MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has called for talks to create a legally binding international instrument that would ban the deployment of any type of weapons in space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight.
    ​ ​”We consistently believe that only a guaranteed prevention of an arms race in space will make it possible to use it for creative purposes, for the benefit of the entire mankind. We call for negotiations on the development of an international legally binding instrument that would prohibit the deployment of any types of weapons there, as well as the use of force or the threat of force,” Lavrov said in a video message on the anniversary of the first manned space flight.
    sputniknews.com/russia/202104111082600146-russia-calls-for-talks-on-binding-treaty-to-prohibit-weapons-in-space—lavrov/

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 13 2021 #73037
    John Day
    Participant

    Much of this information may be redundant to the commentariat and readership here, but there is a nice picture.
    http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/spring-preparations.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 12 2021 #72994
    John Day
    Participant

    @Poulder Dweller: The (abridged) contents of the article Germ posted

    State Supreme Court justice has ordered a Batavia hospital to administer the drug Ivermectin to an 81-year-old Covid-19 patient.

    The case involving John W. Swanson, a farmer from Stafford in Genesee County, is the latest of several in which judges have ordered local hospitals to give Ivermectin to patients suffering from the virus. The drug is used to treat other ailments but is not yet approved by the federal government as a Covid-19 treatment.

    Swanson was on a ventilator and “on death’s doorstep,” at the United Memorial Medical Center when doctors there gave him one dose of Ivermectin on April 1, according to an affidavit filed in court by attorneys for Swanson’s wife, Sandra.

    “After that one dose, he started breathing on his own. He was taken off the ventilator and was making great progress,” said attorney Ralph C. Lorigo, who represents the Swanson family with Jon F. Minear. “Then, the hospital refused to give him additional doses.” …

    While Ivermectin is not yet approved by the Food & Drug Administration as a treatment for Covid-19, many doctors – including some in Western New York – are offering the drug to their Covid-19 patients.

    A hospital spokeswoman, Veronica R. Chiesi, declined to comment on Swanson’s case.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 10 2021 #72888
    John Day
    Participant

    Cut, paste and enter that line of code into your browser … best I can do.
    Gotta go plant some more trees before dark.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 10 2021 #72886
    John Day
    Participant

    I’ve been digging the catch-up this afternoon.
    Madamski-converges-on-Dr-D, sort of… I also really like CHSs tke on the Cultural Revolution.
    We are on the cusp of that kind of historical moment, but have been for awhile, already.

    Eleni in Athens sent me 2 important things that it took me awhile to get to, because of busy life.
    The shorter one is this explanation of how the Archegos Capital IED could well have been a Chinese weapon maintained within the American financial casino, and that there may be others, and that “notional becomes net when the counterparty doesn’t pay”. Tom Luongo suggests that there may be more of these, and they can’t be discussed… Detecting and disposing of them may delay WW-3 a little while. tomluongo.me/2021/04/02/from-the-notebook-archegos-bikini-atolls/

    This is long and it’s a video and Mike Lindell can’t stop shouting all the time and let the physicist talk about the graphs of the algorithms used to manage the very-difficult-to-manage 2020 US elections. You can skip and jump a lot. “The Key” is remarkably straightforward and it was imposed on essentially every county in every state in the US, identically for each state. The graphical correlation is .999% perfect again and again, and easy to see because of a quirky little anomalous jump in the population age numbers that could only have come from one place, which is identified.
    cdn.jigg.cloud/ScientificProofTVSpecial-03-31-21-FINALHQ/mp4/ScientificProofTVSpecial-03-31-21-FINALHQ.mp4?fbclid=IwAR2v1GAuX0240luUbwjJtzPUzv-J4lz289LzM-Eb5C1cCY7RD6_PucVs_aE

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2021 #72744
    John Day
    Participant

    .johndayblog.com/2021/04/all-power-off.html

    Eleni sends this “explains it all” article from mythbuster Alastair Crooke.
    ​ The key point here surely is whether the élites’ Great Re-set – to reinvent themselves as leaders of the ‘re-vamped’ values of liberalism, overlayered by a newly up-dated, AI and robot-led, post-modernity – is destined to succeed, or not.
    Continued​ ‘westification’ of the globe – the principal component to ‘old’ liberal globalism – though tarnished and largely discredited, remains mandatory, as made clear in the cogent reasoning recently advanced by Robert Kagan: Absent the justifying myth of ‘seeding democ racy across the world’ around which to organise the empire, the moral logic of the entire enterprise begins to fall apart, Kagan argued (with surprising frankness). He thus asserts that the U.S. empire abroad is required – precisely in order to preserve the myth of ‘democracy’ at home.​ ​An America that retreats from global hegemony, he argues, would no longer possess the cohesive binding to preserve America as liberal democracy, at home either.
    strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/15/leviathan-mobilises-for-decisive-battle/

    ​There’s this deeply and extensively researched new book out in Germany, kind of about the insider-trading around 9/11, and some other things. He followed that money, picking up the trails where others left off, when they died or other interruptions took place.
    ​ Lars shows in detail how 9/11 enabled a state of emergency, a permanent Continuity of Government (COG) in the U.S. and mass surveillance of U.S. citizens – connecting the dots all the way from missing trillions of dollars in the Pentagon to NSA data mining and leading U.S. neocons. The latter had been praying for a “Pearl Harbor” to reorient US foreign policy since 1997. Their prayers were answered beyond their wildest dreams.
    The investigation eventually displays a startling road map: the war on terror as a business model. However, as Lars also shows, in the end, much to the despair of U.S. neocons, all the combined sound and fury of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, in nearly two decades, ended up bringing about a Russia-China strategic partnership in Eurasia.
    thesaker.is/bombshell-book-in-germany-revives-9-11-as-a-business-model/

    Tessa softens the blow.
    We are living, breathing, touching, feeling, loving human beings, after all.
    Love and Unity During the Ugly Attempt at the Great Reset
    This story is about being grounded as we push back against the Grand Bulldozer.
    tessa.substack.com/p/unity

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