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How much energy per person all-told is an entry to thermoeconomics.
We should all be learning thermoeconomics empirically.
We should pay attention to all our fuel and electricity uses, imagining each within the context of “What if I did not have this right now?”
It gets depressing when it’s 98 degrees and 98 % humidity outside and you are thinking about no electricity as salt drips into your burning eyes.
I’ve been working-out with this kind of meditation lately.Riding off to work early today. I’m going to plant a Mexican avocado Seedling that Jenny dropped off at the clinic, and write it up.
Russian “charm offensive”: Thanks Wiggs. This is charming(ish) and not too long at all.
Full video of Vladimir Putin playing the piano and singing “Blueberry Hill”. The Russian prime minister is used to taking to the stage, but this time it was not for one of his speeches.
Please be informed that this article is Political Satire, a new category that Facebook (and the New York Times) had to discover after slandering the Babylon Bee as a far right extremist blog and censoring it.
It turns out that Political Satire is an old and constitutionally protected (as such things go) form of public speech.
In Honor Of Pride Month, Biden Announces He Will Also Sniff Men’s Hair
Biden was then quickly led off the podium by his wife before he could say any more.
”Every gender! I’ll sniff ’em all!” Biden yelled, protesting as he was dragged out of sight of the crowd.
According to sources, no gay men have taken up Biden on his offer to sniff their hair. However, hundreds of straight male journalists have lined up outside the White House clapping and cheering, hoping for their chance to be sniffed by the President.
https://babylonbee.com/news/in-honor-of-pride-month-biden-announces-he-will-also-sniff-mens-hairBlack Holes can only get bigger.
Damned, ultimately, no matter whether you do or don’t. (More Russian news.)
Splitting the gravitational wave data into time segments before and after the black holes merged, the researchers calculated the surface areas of the black holes in both periods.
The physicists found that the surface area of the new black hole was actually greater than the two initial black holes combined. The finding confirms a prediction made by famed scientist, Stephen Hawking, in the 1970s, in which he stated that black holes cannot decrease in surface area as it mirrored a rule in physics, that entropy or disorder can’t decrease over time.
https://www.rt.com/news/526601-physics-black-hole-theory-hawking/https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/charm-initiative.html
I’m going on a charm initiative (I was going to say “charm offensive”, but it’s …).
A couple of days ago I emailed the Medical Directors at my clinic about the Houston nurses (and others) fired for their refusal to accept experimental genetic engineering “vaccinations” into their bodies.
I said that having given it deep consideration, and not thinking that our clinic would act this way (I don’t), that if such an edict came down from Washington I would have to resign my position.
My statement of principle and position was politely received, with the reply that this was not a near-term consideration.
I have made the loss of my services a set-piece going forward. I don’t really want that. I have worked 17 (discontinuous) years at this clinic. I am versatile in what services I can provide, broadly experienced, do very good work, as judged by patients and reviewers, grow the vegetable garden, and go pretty slowly. I am not “productive” as business managers judge those things, or as payers reimburse. I am a money loser.
I have not taken a vacation, and have lost almost all of that time by not using it, in the 8 continuous years I have been working there recently. I work all day every Friday. Nobody wants to do that. I work a 12 hour long 8-hour shift, and I don’t leave until everything is done.
Since I am not monetarily “productie”, I seek to be generally helpful and to prevent bad things from happening on my watches.
Fifteen years ago, when “the kids” were teenagers, we sold the house and cars, and traveled around the world with bikes and backpacks.
We were “home schooling” the kids. It worked out fine. They learned stuff. Nobody missed a year.
Two places we visited taught the same lesson, Dachau concentration camp in Germany, and Tuol Sleng torture prison museum in Cambodia.
The lesson was not that the people who did those things were monsters.
The torturers and guards were ordinary people, which is a really important insight. They got mired in a sequence of slightly easier decisions to not quite do the right thing this time. They entered Hell gradually, having no-other-choice, each little step of the way, as they saw it.
Things did not get better. Things did not go back to normal.
Knowing this feature of history, one must determine how one would avoid getting caught in such a trap, should it be laid for them. One must act when one still has some autonomy. That is pretty early in the process, clearly before things “get bad”. When does the frog jump out of the progressively warming water?
What might be the signal? You can see that I have chosen the signal of forced injection of genetic-engineering black-boxes, the elimination of personal choice regarding bodily autonomy, as my hill-to-die-upon.
I’d rather not die on that hill, so to speak, but I can’t work in a setting that has adopted that human-as-property ethos.
I’m going to find ways to be even nicer and more useful than usual. I think the vegetable garden emails that everybody likes are going to become a bit more frequent.
The garden is producing. It’s June.I think the elites want an option on a cull, which they can exercise as desired.
So, if everybody gets spike protein antibodies, there is another thing that comes along, making a fatal combination, unless you have the special antidote that the owners can provide, if you are worthy.
That’s just a scenario of control.
Lenin said, “Trust is good. Control is better.”
Thanks for the kind words, Oroboros.
Thanks for all the ongoing research work, Germ.
And thanks for the family dynamics news, too.Thanks everybody. I read your stuff when I get the chance, but I’m out a lot.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/framing-question.html
Societal changes do not just happen. Entire societies have to work them out and enact them. It’s not as simple as a good or evil government making a detailed plan and having it carried out in a series of laws and processes. WW-2 was a complex example of that, as was the Great Depression.
We are already well into failing processes to bring about “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Great Reset”. The elite owners plan a “transhuman” future, except for themselves, and whatever other faithful and capable human servants they need, but not 90% of humans.
The transition from the postwar societal contracts, where people could reasonably expect personal freedoms and the opportunity to earn a good/adequate living by working diligently, to whatever sort of hopeless slavery awaits us is going poorly at first.
People are embracing the new rules on one hand, giving their teenagrs “the vaccine”, like it’s a good thing, completely innocent to the extreme dangers, even after “reactions” begin. “That just means it’s working.” I have a specific boy in my prayers, and have not yet been able to see the wise way to speak to his mother, my friend, about what is happening. He is away, visiting family. She doesn’t understand. She loves him with all her heart.
Other people, like the workers at Methodist Hospital in Houston, who are jobless, after the Federal Judge rejected their bodily rights argument out of hand, have found their hill to stand and defend:
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/state/federal-court-ruling-employers-can-require-employees-to-get-covid19-vaccination/85-0f156612-ed8f-48ff-918f-c7613ab0484f
How does this become a first, crystalized choice for the rest of us? It is easier to delay that choice, but it seems to be crystalizing for our Western societies around bodily integrity, around the precedent of having to accept a genetic-engineering injection into your flesh to have the right to be a member of a failing social order.
Live under a tightening noose of control /ownership by the same selfish, heartless, and now, increasingly desperate elites, or what?.
The Deep states and media are the iron fist and velvet glove of that order.
. Ordinary Doctors, teachers, government employees, grocery clerks, garbage men and policemen follow orders and respect rules, like they always have.
At what point does one have to choose a side?
How soon can one choose a side, having determined what side to choose?
The sooner the better, I suspect.
Proactively framing the question at my clinic, instead of awaiting an ultimatum, might be possible for me, with the Houston nurses in mind.
I will take that path, now that the specific decision is clearly coming, likely this fall.
I will explicitly state my firm conviction to refuse “vaccination”.
(My reluctance to suggest it for any but the highest risk patients has been clear all along. The vaccine machine has been going around me, like a critter in the road.)@Antidote,
Thanks for posting this for me a couple of days ago, when I was otherwise occupied:
The Wizard Of Oz: The Dark Reality That The Deep State Hides From The World
Andrew Korybko …
Nothing is ever as it seems, especially when it comes to the modern world in which everyone lives. “There Are No Democracies Or Autocracies, Only Governments”, I wrote last week, and they’re all comprised of permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies, or “deep states”, which handle matters largely considered (whether rightly or wrongly) to be beyond the responsibility of the average citizen. …
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in what can be described as WorldWarC, or the full-spectrum paradigm-changing processes catalyzed by the world’s uncoordinated attempt to contain the virus (again, whether or not one believes that it’s real, fake, or exaggerated). All preexisting trends are now being accelerated and compressed, including the geopolitical, military, economic-industrial, information-communication, healthcare (genetic engineering), governmental (“socialist/”fascist”), and “green” (“depopulation”) ones. This means that everyone is truly living in an unprecedented era of history whereby literally everything about life as they know it will be completely different within a decade. The very nature of international, economic, civil-state, and even human-to-human relations is transforming at a record pace, with folks either choosing to remain asleep like the “deep state” wants or wake up and peacefully try to stop them if it’s even at all still possible to do so.
https://www.sott.net/article/453899-The-Wizard-Of-Oz-The-Dark-Reality-That-The-Deep-State-Hides-From-The-WorldKorybko is a TRUE JOURNALIST, and smart and insightful, and prepared to die and face judgment.
Sacrifice Your Children https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/sacrifice-your-children.html
This is the bigger Spanish calcifediol (active vitamin-D) study. Same results as the smaller one last year with 76 patients.
Conclusions
In patients hospitalized with COVID-19, calcifediol treatment significantly reduced ICU admission and mortality.
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgab405/6294179Some people (where do they get their information?) grudgingly acknowledge that having had COVID “might be almost as good as vaccination”.
The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.
The results provide HOPE that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19So only about half got stolen and sent out of the country?
As much as half of the unemployment benefits paid by the US government over the past year may have been stolen through fraud, with the bulk ultimately ending up outside the country – likely into the hands of foreign crime syndicates in China, Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere, according to Axios’ Felix Salmon.
According to some estimates, unemployment fraud during the pandemic could ‘easily reach $400 billion,’ as states weren’t prepared for the unprecedented wave of unemployment claims.
https://www.zerohedge.com/bailout/half-pandemic-unemployment-funds-may-have-been-stolen-axiosNaw, Bill just likes Porsches a lot.
Bill Gates Had a Car-Changing System for Meeting Women, Forced Staff to Keep QuietBill Gates Had a Car-Changing System for Meeting Women, Forced Staff to Keep Quiet
Sacrifice Your Children https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/sacrifice-your-children.html
Russians are laughing.
US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he aims to make clear to Russia and China that the United States, the European Union, and the G7 are united in their position and will act.
“Strengthening the alliance, make it clear to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and to China that Europe and the United States are tight, and the G7 is going to move,” Biden told reporters answering a question about the goal of his trip to Europe.
https://sputniknews.com/world/202106091083108757-biden-says-aims-to-make-clear-to-putin-china-that-us-eu-united-g7-will-act/Who might have more to lose with a financial-system hack-attack, leading to breakdown, and blamed on “Russian state hackers”? We may soon see.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an appearance on “Axios on HBO” previewed what he expects to come out of the Putin-Biden summit set for June 16 in Geneva. The short answer is: not much except for vague warnings and threats, it appears. Blinken said during the interview that the US president intends to warn Putin “directly and clearly what he can expect from the United States if aggressive, reckless actions toward us continue.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blinken-says-biden-will-put-future-cyberattack-warnings-front-center-putin-summitIt’s not just Dr Seuss that’s “racist”. Can we eat sweet potatoes and black-eyed peas, or not?
The article, titled ‘Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie’, was published in May but is still raising eyebrows over the author’s reflections on the history of colonialism and slavery enshrined in the dessert’s recipe and its sugary crust.
“Apples travelled to the Western hemisphere with colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people,” Patel writes.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202106091083108740-as-woke-culture-gains-momentum-apple-pie-has-now-apparently-been-branded-racist-too/This is the bigger Spanish calcifediol (active vitamin-D) study. Same results as the smaller one last year with 76 patients.
Conclusions
In patients hospitalized with COVID-19, calcifediol treatment significantly reduced ICU admission and mortality.
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgab405/6294179Some people (where do they get their information?) grudgingly acknowledge that having had COVID “might be almost as good as vaccination”.
The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.
The results provide HOPE that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting-immunity-found-after-recovery-covid-19So only about half got stolen and sent out of the country?
As much as half of the unemployment benefits paid by the US government over the past year may have been stolen through fraud, with the bulk ultimately ending up outside the country – likely into the hands of foreign crime syndicates in China, Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere, according to Axios’ Felix Salmon.
According to some estimates, unemployment fraud during the pandemic could ‘easily reach $400 billion,’ as states weren’t prepared for the unprecedented wave of unemployment claims.
https://www.zerohedge.com/bailout/half-pandemic-unemployment-funds-may-have-been-stolen-axios@Germ: I have traveled extensively in India, Nepal and Sikkim, but not for as long as you, b ut with Jenny and the kids.
@Mister Roboto: It’s THIS!
@MichaelReid: Maybe there is not enough wealth to support an overriding master as the resources deplete. Increasingly granular “multipolarity” and trade make sense in a world of progressively less material wealth.
Chinese power is traditionally the most centralized, a weakness in this scenario,
Chinese history does show that all the mistakes have been made already, and the ways to avoid them are well known to Chinese rulers.Conservatism, not bold threats and destruction, may prevail.
One might hope.
“It takes a fast car, Baby, to lead a double life.” The Cars
Bill Gates Had a Car-Changing System for Meeting Women, Forced Staff to Keep Quiet
Thanks for this interesting piece, Germ.
It fits right into my conceptual structure without budging anything else in the slightest…Secret planning exercise in 2016 modelled impact of Mers outbreak in UK
Expert says Exercise Alice, one of 10 exercises disclosed under FoI, could have been relevant to Covid responseThanks Huskynut for The Kitsch COVID Aesthetic article last night
Ignoring morality and intellect may feel ok while everybody hangs together with food and whine, but it’s a mile wide and an inch deep.
@AbsoluteGalore (who is a male) I didn’t catch that what you posted was identical.
When I had appendicitis for my 4th birthday, and was throwing up for 4 days, sick, undiagnosed, my Mom tried to feed me little cubes of raw calves liver that she cut up. I can still picture the spoon of raw calves liver cubes coming to my face as I lay in bed sick.
Later I was diagnosed and my traitorous appendix removed, which I also remember very clearly, except when I held my breath for “the astronaut mask”, but they slipped me some kind of rapid acting barbiturate in my IV and I felt myself slipping away into the dream, which I still recall.So, not chopped liver, no…
“It was China what done it” (All the bioweapons labs were playing with the same coronavirus strains and gain-of-function mix-and-match special-features.)
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak – who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on research funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease – appears to boast about the manipulation of “killer” SARS-like coronaviruses carried out by his “colleagues in China” in a clip unearthed by The National Pulse.
Daszak made the admission at a 2016 forum discussing “emerging infectious diseases and the next pandemic,” which appears to be at odds with Fauci’s repeated denial of funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of VirologyHow America went from Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism (so what’s next?)
On the economic front, global lockdowns eliminated competition from small and medium-sized businesses, allowing monopolies and oligopolies to grow. “The biggest loser from all this is the middle class,” wrote Logan Kane on Seeking Alpha. By May 2020, about one in four Americans had filed for unemployment, with over 40 million Americans filing jobless claims; and 200,000 more businesses closed in 2020 than the historical annual average. Meanwhile, US billionaires collectively increased their total net worth by $1.1 trillion during the last 10 months of 2020; and 46 people joined the billionaire class.How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
Michael Snyder observes: (Cars don’t actually need computer chips. Remember the Pinto? America could make its own Yugos, little trucks and vans.)
Many of the imbalances that are contributing to the nightmarish shortages that we are currently witnessing are not going to be solved any time soon. Ever since I started The Economic Collapse Blog, I have been warning that outsourcing the production of just about everything and running massive trade deficits year after year would eventually have very serious consequences down the road. Well, now we are officially “down the road”, and our incredibly foolish trade policies have put us in a very precarious position. During the “good times”, being extremely dependent on the rest of the world to make stuff for us wasn’t a problem, but now it is rapidly becoming a national security issue.
For example, without a steady flow of computer chips, our society as it is formulated today simply could not function. We need computer chips for our vehicles, for the trucks that transport all of our goods, for the farm equipment that produces our food, for the extremely sophisticated equipment in our hospitals and for the millions upon millions of electronic devices that connect to the Internet.
The global chip shortage has been a very painful reminder of how exceedingly dependent we have become on technology, and it has also shown us how unwise it was to outsource production of most of our chips to Asia.
Back in 1990, the United States produced 37 percent of all computer chips in the world.
Today, that number has fallen to just 12 percent.And you are already taking plenty of vitamin-D, right? Maybe 25 mg of zinc per day, too?
Scientists from the Cleveland Clinic, USA, have recently evaluated the effectiveness of coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-19) vaccination among individuals with or without a history of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.
The study findings reveal that individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection do not get additional benefits from vaccination, indicating that COVID-19 vaccines should be prioritized to individuals without prior infection. The study is currently available on the medRxiv* preprint server.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210608/No-point-vaccinating-those-whoe28099ve-had-COVID-19-Findings-of-Cleveland-Clinic-study.aspxOne month after “vaccination” most of this guy’s body tested positive for only spike protein (not nucleocapsid so not whole virus).
He did not appear to have COVID-19, just multi organ failure with positive spike-protein-sensing tests on most of his corpse.
They soft pedal this to say that vaccination didn’t fully protect him.
Obviously, that mRNA did not degrade, and kept pumping spike protein into his blood, and killed his poor organs.First case of postmortem study in a patient vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2
A previously symptomless 86-year-old man received the first dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. He died 4 weeks later from acute renal and respiratory failure. Although he did not present with any COVID-19-specific symptoms, he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 before he died. Spike protein (S1) antigen-binding showed significant levels for immunoglobulin (Ig) G, while nucleocapsid IgG/IgM was not elicited. Acute bronchopneumonia and tubular failure were assigned as the cause of death at autopsy; however, we did not observe any characteristic morphological features of COVID-19. Postmortem molecular mapping by real-time polymerase chain reaction revealed relevant SARS-CoV-2 cycle threshold values in all organs examined (oropharynx, olfactory mucosa, trachea, lungs, heart, kidney and cerebrum) except for the liver and olfactory bulb. These results might suggest that the first vaccination induces immunogenicity but not sterile immunity.
https://www.ijidonline.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1201-9712%2821%2900364-7mRNA “vaccines” are your-entire-future, not just in-your-future. (Thanks Dr.D)
Your genes are our playground forever!
Don’t Miss Out!
Don’t worry; Nothing Bad Can Happen!
The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-vaccine-revolution-katalin-karikoUnder 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported in the USA, for reasons Dr. McCullough explains, and I confirm.
Latest VAERS Data Show: 5,165 Deaths Reported Following COVID Vaccines
VAERS data released today showed 294,801 reports of adverse events following COVID vaccines, including 5,165 deaths and 25,359 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020 and May 28, 2021.Latest VAERS Data Show: 5,165 Deaths Reported Following COVID Vaccines
There has been clear evidence of numerous laboratory manipulations of the SARS-CoV-2 genome since late February 2020. Here is that wheel partly rediscovered.
The two pieces of evidence led Quay and Muller to conclude that the possibility that COVID-19 was engineered should be viewed as the leading theory.
“The presence of the double CGG sequence is strong evidence of gene splicing, and the absence of diversity in the public outbreak suggests gain-of-function acceleration,” they wrote. “The scientific evidence points to the conclusion that the virus was developed in a laboratory.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/06/damning-science-shows-covid-19-likely-engineered-in-lab/”Vaccine Reluctant” are unlikely to want COVID vaccines going forward. (Yeah, that’s me, for sure!)
As of the May 18-23 survey, 60% of U.S. adults report they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, 4% have been partially vaccinated, 12% plan to be vaccinated and 24% do not plan to be vaccinated.
Among those not planning to be vaccinated, 78% say they are unlikely to reconsider their plans, including 51% who say they are “not likely at all” to change their mind and get vaccinated. That leaves one in five vaccine-reluctant adults open to reconsidering, with 2% saying they are very likely and 19% saying they are somewhat likely to change their mind and get vaccinated — equivalent to 5% of all U.S. adults.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/350720/covid-vaccine-reluctant-likely-stay.aspxThings not posting well again. Will try little bites.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/going-viral.htmlMy son has decided not to get our 4 year old granddaughter “vaccinated”, after we had a long talk this past weekend, for his birthday. He jumped to get the shots when they were provided at his work a couple of months ago. He’s more broadly informed now. All “the kids” have gotten-the-jabs, even my daughters, who both had COVID, and both accepted ivermectin-based-treatment, even the one who was running the COVID ward at her hospital.
Peer pressure is powerful.
Protecting your children can actively compete with peer pressure.@Dr.D: Yep, I read you.
Build Me Up Buttercup is a song that can run through my mind on bike rides, and mowing the homestead. This particular recording is presented in the same glorious monophonic that the single was released in and which popped up to the top tier of the American Top 40@SeaBirds: Thanks for the kind words. I really do want to help us all work this problem out.
@ctbarnum: I’ve been catching up on recent posts after a busy Friday through Monday at work and the homestead. I’m not sure how you came to be notified that your-kind-ain’t-served-here. Is it a private practice or a public clinic? If the phones are anything like the phones everywhere else, you would likely fare better showing up in person, masked, polite and neatly dressed on something like a Tuesday, Wednesday, asking to have the exact legal position of the clinic explained to you for your edification, and staying there until somebody did that, or scheduled you with someone to do that.
Take notes. Take names. Be detail-oriented. Just keep asking questions. Don’t confront overtly. Questions work to do that better, I think
If you find, at the end of that, something illegal-appearing, then some of UpstateNYer’s legal connections might be good. Any attorney that would pose 2-3 specific legal questions to the clinic on office letterhead would get the point across. (I think)Thanks Mr House, for the Peter McCullough (I watched the first 4 minute, as it suggested).
Yep. WHY? Why a-needle-in-every-arm? Why even those recovered from COVID?
WHY?
(tell yuz later when it’s too late…)Dr. D said:
“Huh. They’re not even done with Cyber Polygon yet. Are they in a hurry? Something happen? A: Yes. Their system has already swapped and they already don’t have control.”Mr. House said:
“Websites going down, ransomwear attacks, i would advise everyone to start withdrawing cash at atms and have a bit of a stockpile on hand. Event 201 was October of 2019 and covid began around January. They (whoever they are) are going to be wargaming the internet going down this July. So i’d say its a fair bet it may go down afterwards. Wouldn’t hurt to have a little preparation beforehand.”John figures:
It looks like SARS-CoV-2 virus was already on the loose in the US, Wuhan-Games, France and Italy (at least) by the time Event 201 was held, so if one assumes similar staging, then the fall of the dollar-denominated-western-empire is already underway.
I’m not saying you should not hold some cash. I think you should, and should have good relations with the places where you get your needs met and contribute to the needs of others, and ride a bike, and grow vegetables.
You already know my approach.Supporting evidence is that (patient, prudent, timely) Russians are now openly scorning the puppet-leaders of the western empire, and frontally attacking the dollar, while giving openings for negotiated settlements, at the same time.
Look at the elegance, please.
The US has strained to keep EU and Russia separated since the collapse of the USSR.
First, the EU was going to share in the pillage and plunder, and it did, but when Russia reasserted autonomy under Putin, the pillage tapered to residuals on debt.
Lately, the US has been straining mightily to keep the (energy-buying) EU separated from next door energy exporting Russia, which is just not possible, if Germany is to maintain production and pricing, and Europeans of modest means are to survive the winters.
The last decade of wars has been fought, at least partly, to control the oil and gas flows to industrial Europe. Blocking Iranian oil/gas and Russian gas/oil, while substituting other sources, controlled by the US military, has failed, despite massive injuries to Iraq, Syria, Iran and Ukraine.
Flipping those tables, Russia positions to destroy the petro-$ by ceasing dollar trade of oil. Russia would really like to use the Euro, and basically join the EU in some way, splitting Europe from NATO military diktats, and forming a much more powerful European alliance, based on local geography and meeting of local needs, while North America does whatever, grows corn, rebuilds infrastructure, beats swords into plowshares…
Just imagine the flip from petro-buck to petro-Euro, Eurasian integration in an augenblick (blink of eye). The Russian Central Bank took part in Cyber-Polygon last summer, already. They were clearly under threat from the west. They kept muddling through, and making all those inferior Russian products, and getting some stuff from China, and now they are not apparently threatened at all by elimination from dollar-denominated trade, so the dollar must be threatened as global reserve currency, so yes, hold more as cash. (Yes, Dr.D is right about anti-logos.)
Charles Hugh Smith sent this claptrap from the Fed https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/preconditions-for-a-general-purpose-central-bank-digital-currency-20210224.htm
,about what the essential requirements for a central bank digital currency for the US would be and who would have to sign on. Notice that the real-stakeholders, the Buffet-Bezos-Gates-Soros crowd are not on the list. It’s a lie. It soulds like they don’t have it worked out yet, but smaller banks (than the Fed) will sort of get cut out to keep the central banks in bidness. Jamie Dimon has apparently picked his side of that deal.
One point is that Federal Reserve Notes are a central bank liability, whereas other things are not. Holding FRNs gives one a bit more autonomy, makes one a little more like a real person, a central bank. That doesn’t go very far, but people are in the habit (supremely important) of accepting FRNs as “cash”; don’t have to give it a second thought. Some of us remember stagflation, but it all happened in $US for Americans. It’ll happen again.
Now is a bad time to buy lumber. It’s 4 times usual $ price. maybe it’ll be half that next year. Probably one should be counter-trending with $US, and not be time pressured if it can be avoided. Chinese window-unit air conditioners still seem to be cheap, even the better ones. We got the last one at the medium price at the Yoakum grocery store yesterday. It works fine. We got the kitchen floor repaired and I spent about 10 hours in the humidity gardening and pushing a good-little-Honda mower.
Like Charles Hugh Smith has said, “work on plan-C”.
I was mulling this over while I pushed the mower. Plan to have options and recourse in scenario-C, a scenario of USSR type collapse/reset. Maybe all the thinking and the vegetable gardening and communicating with other denominations of prepper will be good for us.
Be on good terms with God and Man…
One thing that is increasingly important for me is to have a working understanding of what we need as a baseline to survive and to thrive, so that I can be of assistance and offer counsel, advice and a demo, if called upon some day.Hi Ilargi.
I read this story: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media
It’s a human interest story, leading the reader on a merry chase through certain exotic climes and databases. It only goes where it goes, but it makes the reader feel that he or she has taken in a lot of information, really knows something.
It says nothing about the US, Canadian and Chinese cooperation on gain-of-function, because (I presume) that path does not stay nicely in China.
Mockingbird? Why would Newsweek ever put out anything unapproved by the deep state. Thou shalt not mention Ft. Detrick in all of this.
I do, of course.
I’m probably secretly suicidal, too,
🙁 Chinese researchers have achieved a new world record after scientists developing an “artificial sun” ran the device on Friday at a record-shattering temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for over 100 seconds.
The experiment was held at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.
The exercise is a part of the China’s efforts to develop new clean energy sources through the development of next-generation nuclear fusion reactor technology.
Known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the “Chinese artificial sun” managed to generate plasma temperatures of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds before scientists also realized a temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius for an additional 20 seconds.
The goal of EAST is to create Sun-like energy using deuterium, a hydrogen isotope that is plentiful in the ocean and can provide a steady flow of clean energy.China’s “Artificial Sun” Sets World Record Running At 120 MILLION Degrees For 101 Seconds
Bill and Warren fund a molten-sodium cooled, “clean energy” natrium nuclear reactor project in Wyoming.
What could go wrong?
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to build new kind of nuclear reactor in Wyoming
The project in Wyoming – the country’s top coal-producing state – is a small advanced reactor that runs on different fuels to traditional ones…
Chris Levesque, TerraPower’s president and chief executive, said the demonstration plant would take about seven years to build. “We need this kind of clean energy on the grid in the 2030s,” he told reporters. Nuclear power experts have warned that advanced reactors could have higher risks than conventional ones.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natriumHighway Cafe Of The Damned, Austin Lounge Lizards (For your brief consideration. What are those “seven vices” again?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGF1fGipmwgDON’T LOOK AT THIS!
Russia may be cut off from SWIFT banking payment system as part of West’s ‘spiral of sanctions,’ warns country’s foreign ministry
Russian banks may be blocked from using SWIFT, a payment system that enables reliable and secure financial transactions, as part of restrictions against Moscow, in what one official has called a potential “spiral of sanctions.”
“It’s no secret that there are threats, primarily from the United States, to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT system,” said Dmitry Birichevsky, director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
https://www.rt.com/russia/525271-swift-cut-spiral-sanctions/Russia’s $186 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund Dumps All Dollar Assets …
GULP! It’s almost time, now…
Following a series of corporate cyberattacks that American intelligence agencies have blamed on Russian actors, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund (officially the National Wellbeing Fund) has decided to dump all of its dollars and dollar-denominated assets in favor of those denominated in euros, yuan – or simply buying precious metals like gold.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russias-186-billion-sovereign-wealth-fund-dumps-all-dollar-assetsU.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa announced that American B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers accompanied by military aircraft from twenty-one other NATO nations flew over all 30 NATO member states today. Those would include the five that border Russia – Norway, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – of course.
The B-52s (designed to carry nuclear weapons during the Cold War), like their fellow nuclear-capable long-range bombers the B-1 and B-2, started deployment to Europe in 2018 under the aegis of the Pentagon’s Bomber Task Force…
https://news.antiwar.com/2021/05/31/memorial-day-us-nuclear-capable-bombers-nato-warplanes-fly-over-all-30-nato-nations-in-one-day/ WHY DANIEL ELLSBERG WANTS THE U.S. TO PROSECUTE HIM UNDER THE ESPIONAGE ACT
Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers.
“The whole idea is to kill the bastards,” Gen. Thomas Power, commander of America’s nuclear forces from 1957 to 1963, once said about the use of atomic weapons. “At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win.” The hold this nuclear lunacy had on the top of the U.S. government is terrifyingly illuminated in a top-secret study of U.S. war plans newly publicized by famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. The document, produced by the RAND Corporation and copied by Ellsberg at the same time he exfiltrated the Pentagon Papers from RAND, examines the U.S. response to the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. The study’s contents were first reported on May 22 by the New York Times.
The crisis, now completely forgotten, began when China attempted to seize several small islands off its coast from Taiwan. The study shows American generals enthusiastically planning for the use of nuclear weapons against China. It is not simply that the officials looked with equanimity on the possibility of killing millions; rather, many seemed frustrated that there were any delays forced upon them by the rest of the government… “You shouldn’t be confident that the current calculations are any less crazy,” Ellsberg said. His apprehension about the potential use of nuclear weapons is intimately linked to another of his key concerns: the Justice Department’s accelerating use of the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers. https://theintercept.com/2021/06/01/daniel-ellsberg-china-atomic-nuclear-weapons/Trouble posting again. Breaking it up more.
Pictured in garden after rains, just after dawn this morning…
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/miscalculations.htmlThe recurring meme at close of comments last night was “what’s really going on behind the distractions?”.
Look, Russia just dumped dollars and dollar assets from their sovereign wealth fund.
Happy Fishing, Germ!
Thanks Userzerold, I’ve been reading TAE since early 2008, which was a helpful time.
I discovered Zero Hedge, which was little and obscure then, from TAE.Thanks for that September 2019 find, Doc Robinson. If one already knew about Ft Detrick in the correct context, one might arrange such a prep-course, huh?
@Bill7: I hope it gets better, Man…FromDecember 2020:
COVID-19 Un-Explained, Larry Romanoff
Mr Romanoff has been doing hard and persistent investigative reporting on this virus all year. He opens with an analysis of the waves of infection which is not informed by vitamin-D levels at various times of year, or by the different seasonal patterns of spread typical for areas like Northern Eurasia and Northern North America, as compared to tropical spread patterns, typified in Texas and Peru, for instance. Otherwise his extensive and detailed research and analysis is first rate, especially regarding the origin of the virus, which may well have been Ft Detrick Maryland, the super-spreading event at the Wuhan Games, official cover-ups by national governments, especially the US. No search for “patient zero” in the US, and all information about tests for coronavirus on frozen blood and sewage from 2019 in the US are state secrets, reportable only to the feds, not the newspapers or local authorities. That was Mike Pompeo’s doing, it seems.
Oh, and just like the tetanus vaccine that immunized girls against pregnancy, the COVID vaccines may induce antibody production against a protein called syncytin-1, which is vital for the formation of the placenta in pregnant women.
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/covid-19-un-explained/#comment-4348856By April 2020, it was clear from viral sequencing that it could not have occurred naturally, just could not have.
Dr. Luc Montagnier discovered that HTLV-3 causes AIDS and got a Nobel Prize in 2008.
Referring to a study published at the Kusama School of Biology in New Dehli on January 31st, Montagnier (the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for his 1983 discovery of the HIV virus) made the point that the specific occurrence of HIV RNA viral segments spliced surgically within the COVID-19 genome could not have originated naturally and he described it in the following words:
“We have carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus. We weren’t the first, a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study showing that the complete genome of this virus that has within the sequences of another virus: that of HIV.”
While the Indian team was induced to retract their publication under immense pressure from the mainstream medical establishment (which never bothered to seriously refute the content of the study’s research but rather used the “random-mutation-makes-anything-possible” argument), Montagnier stated “scientific truth always emerges”...Big Pharma Beware: Dr. Montagnier Shines New Light on COVID-19 and The Future of Medicine
By May 17, 2020 I posted this in Answers https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/05/answers.html
The first signs that something terrible had gone wrong with the security at the Fort Detrick bio-defence facility fifty miles north-west of Washington DC were when cases of a previously unknown and serious respiratory illness appeared at a retirement village on the western outskirts of the capital in July 2019. The first cases were noted on June 30th amongst the 260 residents of the Greenspring Assisted Living unit, with the infectious disease later affecting 19 staff and taking the lives of some older residents…
I propose that the scheme devised in desperation last summer for this “diversionary tactic”, was to send the Fort Detrick Virus with the soldiers set to compete at the Wuhan games in three months’ time, while trying to keep a lid on the domestic epidemic until the new year, and a lock on the inquisitive media. Rehearsing for the subsequent global pandemic called for “Event 201” to prepare participants for what they might have to face, and bring their organizational and media responses into line…
Whether this theory is the correct one may not yet be proven, but it does provide an explanation to the conundrum of the genie that was accidentally released from the bottle but intentionally released from Wuhan. And we must all now suffer the consequences of that US “culpable manslaughter” as we learn to live with their engineered Genie.
https://ahtribune.com/world/covid-19/4152-american-genie.htmlShortly after that, Origins Of Covid https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/05/origins-of-covid.html post contained this:
On December 9, 2019, long before the world knew anything about it, a video interview took place with one of the key players in the COVID-19 drama, Dr Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance, who inadvertently may have provided indications of its true origin.
Much of that discussion centred around the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS) epidemic of 2002-2004, which was believed to have originated in bats, although civets may have acted as an intermediate host.
While circulating in animals, the SARS virus mutated, acquiring the ability to infect humans, which it was assumed to have done so, infecting workers in a Guangdong, China animal market.
That explanation became the narrative now being promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, the media and some Western scientists to convince the world that COVID-19 was a naturally-occurring outbreak.
Beginning at 27:49, Dr Daszak explains the basis of the naturally-occurring narrative and the collection of over one hundred bat coronaviruses capable of infecting humans, but untreatable with drugs or vaccines. Those coronaviruses are presumed to be stored in Chinese laboratories.
“So, we did a couple of things with it. So, one is around SARS. We focused on SARS coronavirus emerged from a wildlife market. And whilst the first pandemic of this century. So, it’s big event. And, so we started to trace back from the wildlife market, which species carried the virus, that came into those markets. We found that it was bats, not civets, was the original idea. So, we started looking where did they come from. And we went out to southern China. And did surveillance of bats across southern China. And we’ve now found, after six or seven years of doing this, over one hundred new SARS-related coronaviruses, very close to SARS. Some of them get into human cells in the lab. And some of them can cause SARS disease in humanized mouse models. And are untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals [antibodies] and you can’t vaccinate against them with a vaccine.”
At 29:51, Dr Daszak describes bioengineering of those viruses by inserting components of one coronavirus into another.
“Well, I think, coronavirus is a pretty good, I mean, you’re a virologist [the interviewer], you know all this stuff, but the, you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus, zoonotic risk. So, you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC [University of North Carolina] to do this. Insert it into a backbone of another virus, and do some work in the lab. So, you can get more predictive, when you find the sequence. You have this diversity. Now, the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s try to insert these other related and get a better vaccine.”
In 2015, Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina and Zheng-Li Shi, the “bat woman” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology jointly published a scientific article describing the combination of the receptor-binding spike protein from a newly isolated coronavirus (SHC014) and the “backbone” from SARS-CoV, the coronavirus responsible for the 2002-2003 pandemic.
That experiment produced a novel virus, chimera SHC014-MA15, which showed “robust viral replication both in vitro [cell cultures] and in vivo [animals],” using models adapted to test human infectivity.
The scientific consensus claims that COVID-19, like SARS, originated in bats.
There is conclusive scientific evidence, however, that COVID-19’s receptor binding domain within the spike protein is structurally closest to that of pangolins (scaly anteaters), not bats, and it was the result of a recombination, not convergent evolution.
Yet, pangolins have been ruled out as the intermediate host for COVID-19.
Even Dr Ralph Baric in a March 15, 2020 interview, beginning at the 27:40 time point, stated unequivocally, that pangolins were not the source of COVID-19:
“Pangolins have over 3,000 nucleotide changes – no way they are the reservoir species [for COVID-19], absolutely no chance.”
It is, therefore, logical to conclude that the recombinant event resulting in a pangolin receptor binding domain within a bat coronavirus backbone must have occurred in a laboratory, in a manner similar to the experiment conducted by Ralph Baric and Zheng-Li Shi in 2015.
Furthermore, COVID-19’s S1/S2 furin polybasic cleavage site, a distinctive feature widely known for its ability to enhance pathogenicity and transmissibility in coronaviruses, does not appear in any of 45 bat, 5 human SARS, 2 civet, 1 pangolin and 1 racoon dog coronaviruses, that have S1/S2 junction structures otherwise identical or nearly identical to COVID-19.
There is no credible scientific evidence that the furin polybasic cleavage site evolved naturally, although the methods for artificially inserting such cleavage sites are well-established.
https://www.wionews.com/opinions-blogs/tracing-the-origins-of-covid-19-300766
