[John Day]

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!

🙂

[John Day]

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).

[John Day]

@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.

[John Day]

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

[John Day]

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.).

[John Day]

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 🙂

[John Day]

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/

[John Day]

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

[John Day]

@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.

[John Day]

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

[John Day]

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

[John Day]

.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

[John Day]

How is power wielded in the Western World?
Power, as we know it, is the capacity to compel other people to carry out actions which are designated by the powerful.
There is the carrot of payment in money, goods, services or favors, and the stick of violence and/or deprivation.

Since WW-2 the financial power of global reserve currency status has rested with the American Federal Reserve banking system.
To participate in global markets, any entity needs to have $US to trade in goods and services.
To obtain $US an entity must provide something of value in trade for them.
To create $US the US Federal Reserve system has to promise to back those dollars up with other dollars later, and the US Federal Government promises to accept those dollars with a promise of paying them back later with a little extra for the privilege. That creates an exponentially expanding stock of $US in the world.

At some point there are more $US than the world needs or desires, so the world will want something else, like American goods and services.
When those dollars are repatriated to the US, they drive up the price of the goods and services the world wants, and they increase the number of dollars within the US.
If those dollars in the US circulate freely, then other prices are increased in the US. Inflation.
It is in the interests of those holding power to keep the world desirous of $US, or their structure of extracting goods and services from the rest of the world breaks down.

When President Nixon ran out of gold to back the $US (Vietnam war bled gold from the US) King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was induced to agree to only accept $US in payment for oil, (the Shah of Iran did the same) and to recycle any excess dollars into US Treasury debt.
The Petro-Buck was created.

Threats to the Petro-Buck have included The Arab Oil Embargo (dealt with financially), the Iranian revolution (dealt with militarily and by secret agreements, then various forms of overt/covert warfare), the Iraqi sale of oil outside of the $US market (Iraq wars), the Libyan plan for a gold backed African currency outside the $US club (you know what Saddam got), and so on. A whole lot of violence has been needed to maintain demand for $US in the new millennium.
Violence did seem to be working, but more and more tribute-paying countries, tired of being bled are testing the Western Power Structure.
I sense that the time for a global reserve currency change is near. It stands to reason. We don’t use the Pound Sterling anymore.
These regimes don’t last.

Resorting to violence to support a financial empire is a sign of weakness, not of strength.

Failure of violence is a further sign of weakness. Violence has failed to bring Venezuela back into the fold of blood donors to the Western Empire.
The extractive $US global trade network, the extraction mechanism, is now used as a means of violent coercion, starving the citizens of Venezuela, and depriving them of medicines and tools they need.

Futile gestures , like $US-sanctioning Russian and Chinese politicians are an embarrassing public display of terminal weakness.
They announce that the current financial regime is a throw-away, running on fumes, and that these “tough sanctions” are being displayed to convince the folks at home that the $US remains almighty, because they, most of all, need to stay convinced of that.

The rest of the world, including Russia, China, Iran, Turkey and India, has long been exploring global trade alternatives to the $US regime, and quietly testing them out. The most prudent course for TROTW is to take baby steps, as it is doing, and await a $US financial crisis, like 2008, then to just increase use of the alternative systems, and open them to other participants, free of charge, free of tribute extraction.

The US won’t be able to buy F-35s after that. Americans will have to bid global prices for anything that can be exported, as their wages become almost worthless, like in 1979, but with finality, this time.

The “Global War On Terror” has failed to solidify the US/Fed. as global hegemon for all time.
What’s Plan-B?
Oh, that’s for our billionaire owners to decide amongst themselves.
Waddaya mean they are “not decision capable”?
Whaddaya mean, “we’re on our own”?
Whadday mean, “useless eaters”?
http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/all-power-off.html

[John Day]

Vanden Bossche vs ex Pfizer CEO.
Don’t take sides.
Both make valid points with a little gray in-between. Vanden Bossche says millions of chickens died of a mutated worse chicken virus when the other half got a vaccine that protected them from dying from that ramped up mutation, which they spread to the unvaccinated.
This is NOT fully analogous, but would be if we lived in massive open prisons, like on the Texas border, for instance.
Yes, innate immune response can do some down and some up gyrations right after vaccination.
The issue of whether we are marked for culling and this is part of the mechanism strikes me as more important.

[John Day]

https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/political-covid.html

If we look at the weakening of immune system effectiveness from low vitamin-D, things make more sense.
Florida, less locked down, and California, are similar in our minds, but Florida’s North is at the same latitude as California’s South.
Vitamin-D from sunlight does not exist above the 35th parallel in winter.
California also has a higher packing density in major cities, which puts people in closed spaces and close proximity.
Open Florida has more cases this spring, but closed California has more deaths.
It’s not all political. It’s more biological, as I see it.

California’s Failed Response To COVID

This is a substantial article, and voices the same concerns that I have.
This could be the big solution that our owners desire. Thanks Luc.
Former Pfizer VP to AFLDS: ‘Entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation’​ ​

Exclusive: Former Pfizer VP to AFLDS: ‘Entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation’

[John Day]

Go GERM!

@Madamski: I’m still likin’ your style and attention to flawed assumptions.
It’s good for mental clarity.

[John Day]

Thanks everybody for the kind human comments. Thanks Grm for helping with the COVID information, and the insights about the incessant schemesto totally dominate all aspects of our physical and mental existence. I do think the schemes are unable too coordinate. Several of them appear to need some of the others to fail, in order to completely control us, and I think there is mass-consciousness, some form of hive mind. Also, no matter what the projections are, we have not yet co-created the future. There’s a random error-function generator, too.

@Madamski. I read the “Professional Psychopath” link for about 45 minutes just now.
Athenas Walker, Professional Psychopath
Fascinating model-clarification. My cognitive model is refined.
I’m not one. I do seem to lack fear and get very clear headed when threats are highest. I’ve always been curious about death in the moments that it was possibly for immediate consumption.
You might have some of those traits.
Howzat workin’ for ya?
(What DO they say about the size of a man’s proboscis stocking? Mr-average-size-surgical-gloves)

[John Day]

Xupermask!

Are there matching shoes?

😮

This one’s cheaper, and featured last year on TAE:
https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/04/horowitz-proboscoid-viral-interceptor.html
Goes with any shoes…

[John Day]

During our Easter party nobody asked about a mask. Nobody flashed a mask.
The reference was made “back during COVID”, and it passed without comment.
Look how low the (real) rapid test percent positive rate is in Texas.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/?_ga=2.47205413.380059689.1617709767-1037324414.1591643250
DSHS released another positivity rate based only on rapid-result antigen tests on Dec. 11. As of April 4, the rate was 2.2% out of 3.4 million tests.

Now I’m really going…

[John Day]

There is a picture I like. Nobody posed.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/being-alive.html
Time to finish coffee and bike to work. 🙂

We had a family garden party in Yoakum Saturday, with kids, beer, Easter-eggs, Frisbee-throwing and a barbecue grill. A contingent ended up spending the night, which was safer for them than driving, and we had the bed space as part of the plan.
Everybody just came and engaged the space, the food, drink, and each other. We didn’t have to explain anything to anybody. The plan seems to be self-explanatory.
“Thing One and Thing Two” who are very active brothers, aged 2 and 4 got a tutorial on the big vegetable garden, and did comparative tasting of the green bits of purple and yellow onions..
They like the garden a lot, and are interested in how food grows.
Phoenix and Hendrix went home with some black beans to plant.

It’s not that I don’t want to drill down into the news and post it, but I am often forced to choose between life in the flesh, and searching abstract information for emerging threats to life, and possibilities for enhancing the meaning of life. It’s hard to work out the enhancement of life in the abstract, and doing it in person demands complete engagement, at least for me.
I can think about things when I mow the lawn for 4-5 hours, but I still have to pay attention to all of the corners, edges of gardens, borders around 45 fruit trees, those stumps and the drip hoses, while my mind muses, and my heart reaches out.
Jenny was back at her library this morning, so I dropped her off there at the school and drove down to Yoakum, to plant more replacements for dead fruit trees, make coffee for her sister, who is spending the week there, and make sure that she is able to cook things, and shower, and we didn’t forget something. She’s doing fine.

The thought rolls over and over that this-is-human-life. We are living as humans, social animals with the capacity for abstract reason.
We live and die as social animals, not as abstract-reason.
In crisis, we save each other, and kill each other in person, not in abstract.
There are killer drones, though, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were abstractions of killing for a few people, who gave orders, but did not need to attend.

I feel that we have gone way too far into abstraction of life and all of the essentials of life. I feel that we are simplified and abstracted into confusion and frustration. This past year of isolation has taken people away from each others’ breath, warmth, tone of voice and tingle of touch. Social media, Google and Amazon have placed themselves between us, controlling our inputs of abstract information, our food delivery and our social prerogatives and group beliefs.
Masks and electronic interface-distancing have atomized us. We are not whole. We are not “individual-humans”. Humans die in isolation.

What am I? Who are we?
We have to know with certainty, like we know when we’ll hit the ground when we jump those last two steps, not like we know the alphabet.
You are bound to know what I mean. Life is the living, the engagement.
This is what our kind of animal does together, and we need to do it, because our owners are abstracting us out of existence.

[John Day]

Go Vitamin-D!
Go Texas Herd!

[John Day]

Lots of good commentary.
Thanks folks.
Big day at the clinic tomorrow.
(I wonder about those excess deaths in Israel.
Such a blessing having all of the tribe vaccinated, but not the Palestinians.
Wonder how this plays out.)

[John Day]

1) Ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline, vitamin-D…

2) Meaningful Human Life

3) Fear and isolation.

Pick 2 out of 3

[John Day]

Oops. 15 million doses of Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine were mixed up with a wrong ingredient and can’t be used.​
​New team at the factory. Other batches are probably fine.​
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9424827/15-million-doses-J-J-vaccine-ruined-ingredient-mix-up.html

​This “class traitor” has the temerity to say that only people at high risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID should get vaccinated.
The great majority of people should not submit to current vaccines.
He’s a high priest of science. How dare he?
​Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff
http://www.aier.org/article/twitter-censors-famed-epidemiologist-martin-kulldorff/

[John Day]

My blog today has significant COVID-crossover with recent TAE posts.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/misconceptions.html

​Finian Cunningham interviews​ Norwegian Professor specializing in Russian Affairs
Glenn Diesen: U.S. policies aim to prevent the emergence of a multipolar order. In my opinion, this is a misguided objective as Washington must adjust to the changing international distribution of power. I have argued that the U.S. is confronted with a dilemma – it can either facilitate and shape a multipolar system where the U.S. is the “first among equals”​ (yeah, maybe), or it can aim to contain rising powers to extend its hegemonic position although then a multipolar system will emerge in direct opposition to the U.S. By containing the rise of both Russia and China, the U.S. encourages Moscow and Beijing to define their partnership often in opposition to the U.S.
​ ​The global economy is subsequently fragmenting. The geoeconomic dominance of the U.S. has rested on its leading technologies that buttress its strategic industries, control over the maritime corridors of the world, and control over the main development banks and the world’s trade/reserve currency. Russia and China have therefore developed a strategic partnership to develop their own technological ecosystems, new Eurasian transportation corridors by land and sea, and new financial instruments such as banks, payment systems and de-dollarizing their trade. The U.S. will therefore discover that the effort to isolate China and Russia will result in the U.S. isolating itself.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/30/washington-hegemonic-ambitions-defy-multipolar-reality-risking-catastrophic-conflict/

​COVID-19 has distracted us, all of us, from economic realities for over a year now, and we should stop being distracted. If we had not gotten the huge fear campaign, we would not have had the huge fear. Vitamin-D adequacy greatly reduces vulnerability to catching and getting badly sick from COVID, and dying from it.
Be adequate. Take 5000 units per day of vitamin-D. It’s cheap and available. Just do it.

​ ​We assessed the association between vitamin D and risk, severity, and mortality for COVID-19 infection, through a review of 43 observational studies. Among subjects with deficient vitamin D values, risk of COVID-19 infection was higher compared to those with replete values (OR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.19-1.34; P < .01). Vitamin D deficiency was also associated with worse severity and higher mortality than in nondeficient patients (OR = 2.6; 95% CI, 1.84-3.67; P <  .01 and OR = 1.22; 95% CI, 1.04-1.43; P <  .01, respectively).
​ ​Reduced vitamin D values resulted in a higher infection risk, mortality and severity COVID-19 infection.
Supplementation may be considered as preventive and therapeutic measure.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076021000765

There is rapid testing available now, and you can order and hold ivermectin based treatment from India.
Treat Your Own COVID: ​www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/treat-your-own-covid.html

In Texas, we have 5.2% test positivity rate for COVID, the lowest ever (scroll to percent positive graphic) but the rapid test positivity rate is 2/3 of that, 3%, and that is the rate I believe, because when you test a lot of asymptomatic people with PCR tests, people who are not actually infected show up as more and more of the “positive results”.
apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/

[John Day]

Oh my. Typos again… Touching extra keys.

[John Day]

Some differences between SARS-CoV-2 variants and influenza variants include:
SARS-CoV-2 transmits better, and it is mostly little floating particles, which concentrate indoors.
SARS-CoV-2 is bimodal. 80% of people stop it in the nose, where it is mild. In 20% of people it gets into lungs, guts and bloodstream. It has special aggressive powers to attack blood vessel linings, which can ruin lungs, kidneys, heart and brain.
SARS-CoV-2 has a longish period from exposure to onset of symptoms, typically about 5-7 days, but the viral load in the nose/throat peaks for 2 days before symptom onset to 2 days after symptom onset. This allows for lots of transmission by “pre-symptomatic” and “early-symptomatic” people who have not been able to take off work yet. (Don’t say “asymptomatic spread”!)
SARS-CoV-2 infections respond well to early antiviral treatment, too. Flu used to, if you got cheap, generic acyclovir on the first (best) or second (helps some) day of symptoms, but flu has mutated to resist acyclovir, and it is really hard to get test and a prescription on even the second day of illness these days.
Both viruses kill the old and infirm, and a=occasionally somebody else. COVID is more dramatic when it does that. Attacking the arterial and arteriolar linings is really hitting-below-the-belt. It is nasty, and most hospitals are very limited in what they will allow t=for treatment. Treatment ismostly denied by governments and discouraged by propaganda outside of hospitals for nefarious reasons related to lef=vers of power and control over humanity (IMHO).

[John Day]

@WES and Michael Reid, from yesterday. Thanks guys. Thanks for humanity.

[John Day]

@WES:
Bismark was brilliant, like Putin/Lavrov level of competence.
The British Empire was appropriately aghast.
That dude was as brilliant at statecraft, and really moving German society in healthy directions, as Marx was at diagnosing Capitalism as a patient.

[John Day]

https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/life-support-ruminations.html

It’s the essay above, just re-edited a bit.

[John Day]

I keep ruminating upon the next step in the decline and fall of Globo-Cap. The Hudson/Escobar interview is very long, but this starts “part-2” in my mind.
thesaker.is/in-quest-of-a-multipolar-economic-world-order-with-michael-hudson-and-pepe-escobar/
Michael Hudson: [01:11:30] I can’t give you hope. I am all in favor of public banking and I’m on Ellen Brown’s board of directors for her group. However, supposing you had a public bank in Baltimore and the public bank said, we want to provide credit for Baltimore people to be able to afford homes. They would still have to out create enough credit and enough debt to outbid what commercial banks are lending other people that want to buy houses there. So, you can’t have an Island of efficiency and public banking in a system that basically is still financialized. The problem is systemic.

It goes to the courts. You talk about seceding. Then of course it’s possible. And people in Texas were talking about seceding in the 1840s when it was largely a German population. There were more publishers publishing German language books in Texas than there were English language books. But now, I think the way Texans think, if they were to succeed it is not going to be along the lines of public banking that you want . It would be a private bank owned by the oil companies that calls itself, a public bank. We’re in a world of Orwellian rhetoric.

What can the Americans do? They already have voted. We have democracy, they’ve voted for what they wanted to do. What did they vote for? They want shorter lifespans, lower wages, less education and less public services. Their choice is to get these things by a Democrat or by a Republican. But that’s the only choice they have. Other countries have a choice to emigrate, as the Ukrainians and the Greeks and Latvians have done. But I have no idea where Americans can emigrate to.

John again: I personally think Hudson is drawing a bleak, no-way-out picture to avoid drawing attention to what he may see as possible paths out. The military-industrial-financial complex DID use “Super Imperialism” as their cookbook, after all…
There is (as yet) no way out of the financialized, extractive vampire capitalist bleeding box that encloses America, yet. Hudson talks of “revolution” as the only way, and in broad terms. He goes into the current regime being incapable of keeping any contractual obligation, which includes domestic social-contracts with Americans. Social Security has been gutted already. It is still paying out claims, but it is bled dry. It is no longer a cash cow for globo-cap. It keeps Americans placated. As long as American “consent” is needed by globo-cap, Social Security entitlements need to keep going out every month.
The extractive system has to extract from somewhere to keep paying maintenance expenses like S.S.
The rest of the world has been accepting &US, backed by US credit, for stuff they make, and shipping that stuff to Americans, which supports Americans every day. It’s not so much “trade” as extraction, since the US does send some grain, and licensed intellectual property, but mostly military enforcers.
The rest of the world knows it is paying to be enslaved, supporting the system which enslaves and bleeds it. Russia, China, Iran, Turkey and India and Pakistan all know the score.
So do Germany and Japan, but they are regional intermediaries of the imperial system. The intermediaries are important bellwethers. They need to maintain a favorable position in global economy as the hegemony of Western Global Capitalism under the Petrodollar regime is replaced. This transition needs to be “peaceful”, at least not WW-3.
Monetary transition needs a parallel trade and finance system. There is always gold.
“Digital gold” is gold. Physical gold has done more ocean travel in recent years, but it mostly travels conceptually via the internet.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a working parallel trade organization, which Hudson and Escobar discuss.
“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental organization founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001. The SCO currently comprises eight Member States (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), four Observer States interested in acceding to full membership (Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia) and six “Dialogue Partners” (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey).”
dppa.un.org/en/shanghai-cooperation-organization#:~:text=The%20SCO%20currently%20comprises%20eight,Cambodia%2C%20Nepal%2C%20Sri%20Lanka%20and
Within those nations, trade is increasing in various non-dollar accounting instruments. The use of the $US as both a means of extraction and a means of bullying-exclusion from global trade has thrust the imperative upon China, Russia, pariah-states and tribute-states alike to build a parallel global trade and finance system. Trust is shot these days, so I think gold-backed cryptocurrency will have to be the fallback.
The Fed can’t print gold, so the Fed loses out. The rest of the world can’t be bled, so “TROW” gets a better trade position going forward. There is massive disruption of trade and accounting, but maybe that will come first. Maybe disruption of global financial accounting will happen, and the world will be forced into some degree of debt jubilee and financial reset, without value extraction by globocap and central-bankers. The technology exists. The rationale has existed longer than any living human, and was broadly seen as inevitable before the 1980s, as Hudson lays out.
In the best case scenario the American people can trade stuff for agency and autonomy. Less cheap stuff will come into the Port of Los Angeles, but we will again be able to devise and create, not merely “comply”. We will work out local economies efficiently, as we, and all of our ancestors have always done. We will need to focus a lot more locally. The $US has also kept us divided and conquered at the local and regional levels. At least Americans, some Americans, can still vote with their feet. That stands to really hurt the people who cannot move away from places like Chicago and Detroit.
American cities and states will need broad debt-forgiveness, but those trapped people still need food, water, shelter, fuel, community and medical care. They need physical protection, too.
Parasitic gangs need productive-economy options, decent jobs. Parasitic-gang members have the same needs as everybody else, and need a better job-offer. A national infrastructure and public works project has been the historical answer. Some people will be abrasive, lazy, scheming and will do crap work. They still have to be rehabilitated from outright criminality.
I think that local money, community banking can come in at this point. A gold-backed $US will be forced upon the current seat of empire. No more free-printing.
Local communities would create local credit for local projects, as Ellen Brown sees in the Bank of North Dakota, and Hudson mentions.
There could be national reserve currency, backed by gold and silver, and local credit money, through community banking. The local credit money should be incentivized to stay local. Distant extraction of rents should really be eliminated, since it “kills the host”.

[John Day]

Word of the day: (Good work everybody, and good civility)
Epistemology (/ɪˌpɪstɪˈmɒlədʒi/ (About this soundlisten); from Greek ἐπιστήμη, epistēmē ‘knowledge’, and -logy) is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues. Epistemology is considered one of the four main branches of philosophy, along with ethics, logic, and metaphysics.[1]

Debates in epistemology are generally clustered around four core areas:[2][3][4]

The philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and the conditions required for a belief to constitute knowledge, such as truth and justification
Potential sources of knowledge and justified belief, such as perception, reason, memory, and testimony
The structure of a body of knowledge or justified belief, including whether all justified beliefs must be derived from justified foundational beliefs or whether justification requires only a coherent set of beliefs
Philosophical skepticism, which questions the possibility of knowledge, and related problems, such as whether skepticism poses a threat to our ordinary knowledge claims and whether it is possible to refute skeptical arguments
In these debates and others, epistemology aims to answer questions such as “What do we know?”, “What does it mean to say that we know something?”, “What makes justified beliefs justified?”, and “How do we know that we know?”

[John Day]

@Michael Reid,I grew up in big cites and small towns, and military bases, which are more like medium towns with a plantation economy, and the Yokohama area. I really miss people responding to a smile with a smile, but it has gotten a bit better in Austin since the deep freeze.
I naturally look people in the eyes and smile. Some are completely blank.

[John Day]

Major vaccine-industry advocate… ​
White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci declared Sunday that children either need to be vaccinated or must wear face masks if they want to play together.
http://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-fauci-says-kids-need-wear-face-masks-play-together

​Look at these graphics. Texas is sliding into natural herd immunity.
This was happening already before vaccinations started.
Peak cases were in mid January.
Spring break didn’t even cause an uptick.
12% of Texans are fully vaccinated.​
Kids are mostly back in school.
http://www.texasobserver.org/tracking-covid-19-in-texas/

A​t least the threat of global shipping through the arctic with Russian icebreakers is now forestalled!​
The Ever Given is out of the Suez Canal, thanks to full (super) moon, high tide, big tugs and dredging.
http://www.zerohedge.com/markets/megaship-blocking-suez-canal-80-partially-refloated

[John Day]

Surgeon Warns Vaccinating People Infected With COVID Could Cause ‘Avoidable Harm’
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm says we’re taking the COVID pandemic problem, where a half-percent of the population is susceptible to dying, and compounding it by vaccinating people who are already infected.
childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinating-people-infected-covid-cause-avoidable-harm/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=cc4fbf8a-fef7-446e-b013-777366a5330a

​Gilad Atzmon has more on that story, with a focus on the relationships between Pfizer, the Israeli government, and Israeli vaccine trial subjects without informed consent.
​ ​In Israel yesterday, an independent legal body that calls itself the Civilian Probe (CP)* published its finding regarding the catastrophic impact of the Pfizer vaccine on the nation.
​ ​In their report, which they submitted to the Attorney General and the Health Minister, the committee listed a chain of critical legal and ethical failures that point at a possible attempt to mislead not just Israelis but also the entire world. Since the beginning of January I have been reporting on an undeniable correlation between vaccinations, cases and deaths (here , here, here and here ). The CP confirms my suspicions but their study also presents alarming medical findings regarding the scale of lethal side effects.
​ ​In the document the CP points at a government attempt to conceal its dealing with Pfizer.​..​
​ ​“What do we learn from the facts on the ground?” the CP report asks. “An examination of mortality data published by the government shows that there is a correlation between number of vaccinations and the number of deaths. The excess mortality is noticeable among people up to 70 and also among adults over the age of 70, and remains even after offsetting the deaths attributed to Corona. In the population over the age of 70 – in January 2021 an excess mortality of 19.5% was observed compared to October 2020 – the month when the corona data were highest, and 22.4% compared to January 2020. In the younger population – an excess mortality of 7% was observed in January 2021 compared to the month October 2020 – the month in which the corona death numbers were the highest, and 7% compared to January 2020. It should be noted that this trend continues in the following month as well.”
​ ​As mentioned above I have been writing about the devastating correlation between vaccines and deaths since early January. In Britain and the USA, we detect identical correlation between mass vaccination and death. However, far more problematic is the realm of side effects, something which governments, the WHO, the corrupted pharmaceutical industry, and of course social media giants attempt to suppress in the most Orwellian manner. The Israeli CP seems to have produced the first robust report on Pfizer’s vaccine side effects. They published a table of their findings, which they summarize here:
​ ​“As one can detect looking at the table – there are close to 200 deaths, and this – only by examining about 800 reports of cases of serious side effects. As mentioned, the CP is still working on analyzing side effects and we have hundreds of additional reports that are subject to analysis. Our study so far indicates that about 25% of deaths are from people under the age of 60. About 15% of them are under 50 years old. 7 of the deceased are at young ages – below age 30. Also, the study identified 27 cases of heart problems in people under the age of 60, of which 24 cases are among young people aged 17-30. Regarding the issues to do with female medical complications (including labor-complication, delayed menstruation or irregular menstruation, etc.) – it should be noted that the committee has about 200 additional reports that have not yet been included in the final list of our findings.”
​[We tried to report vaccination side effects in a patient ​at our clinic ​last week. It was extremely cumbersome, an intimidating process, and we are not sure that we were successful.​ The RN left a recorded message.​ No organization can afford what it takes to report mild-to-moderate side effects within this ​US ​format.]
gilad.online/writings/2021/3/23/the-probe-into-the-israeli-vaccine-policy-and-its-outcome-is-beyond-damning

[John Day]

Better refloat that boat! Russia does already have a fleet of icebreakers…
Russia Pitches Frosty Arctic Sea Route As Superior Alternative To Blocked Suez Canal
http://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-pitches-frosty-arctic-sea-route-superior-alternative-blocked-suez-canal

“Biden” floats a rival plan for global trade to counter China’s Belt-and-Road initiative, “New Silk Road” to Boris Johnson.
Both of these men are titular heads of government within the rentier globalist/Atlantacist financial capitalist order.
What can this rentier new-world-order have to offer that is not rentier extraction?
This is a head-fake, a narrative-adjustment.
http://www.zerohedge.com/economics/biden-floats-rival-plan-chinas-belt-road-call-uks-johnson

But, but, but what else can there possibly be? This is the riddle of the Sphinx.
Monetary adaptation to planetary emergency: addressing the monetary growth imperative
Conclusion: In any economy where money hoarding and accumulation is not curtailed, and where most of the money in circulation is issued by private banks as debt, with or without interest, there will be a system-wide scarcity of money available to people and organisations to service their debts – unless, that is, there is continual economic growth. To avoid the deleterious implications of a shortfall of money in an economy, policies are used to maintain economic growth, which is therefore a form of imperative on society. This MGI may be accentuated, at a system-wide level, by the practice of full-reserve re-lending of money. Interest is not the main driver of the imperative, but because it increases the transfer of money to those who are wealthy and more likely to hold that money in a stagnant form that is not available for debt servicing by others, interest charges may indeed exacerbate the MGI. We conclude that the debt-money system creates a competition for money between debtors and savers which is resolved through creation of more debt-money, which in turn drives growth and the resulting ecological and climate emergency.
insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/5993/

[John Day]

How did these guys trust each other back then? What was the secret? They were clearly murderous scoundrels.
Secret societies? Help me out.​ Samo Burja:
​ With a handshake and a reputation at stake, you could sail to the other end of the world, spending years out of contact with your business partners, yet secure in knowing they would honor their word. This trust at a distance provided the conditions for ocean-based commodity markets to beat regional commodity markets. After this material transformation, the plantations in the New World and workshops in India became logistically closer to a city than shepherds living in geographically nearby hills.
​ ​Before this point, city-based labor markets had the highest impact on society, while the role of markets in exchanging the raw resources of the countryside for the finished products of the city was minor and easily replaced by customary trade. With the social technologies of long-distance commerce, the labor market of a city became connected to a commodity market that could match its pace, opening massive potential to make the city a center of material production.
​ ​Creating those markets involved mass dislocation. Armies rip people from their homes and turn them into soldiers; this was well understood in antiquity. During industrialization, the shock of dislocation from previous social ties combined with a newly institutionalized environment to produce distress not too dissimilar from the shock of incarceration or hazing.​..
​ ​The strange spiritual practices, scientific exploration of human psychology, and at times outright ideological cults of the founding cohort gave way to a more shallow type of knowledge. This was a knowledge of levers and buttons, rather than the first principles which built those levers and buttons.
​ ​When times change—and you don’t need or can’t sustain the full pace of industrialization anymore—the vast masses of the industrial population prove themselves difficult to demobilize from their war of production. They can’t be returned to the social fabric of agricultural society, since the urban environment that enabled the agricultural hinterland to function no longer exists. The countryside has become an industrial resource base, rather than the setting for a pre-industrial way of life.
​ ​The solution of overproducing white-collar jobs is at first natural and then dysfunctional. Bureaucracies decay in a way that is much less visible than the decay of factories.
​ ​The real upward mobility of dysfunctional agriculturalists to functional industrial workers is replaced by the on-paper upward mobility of functional industrial workers to dysfunctional knowledge economy workers. Despite these measures, the real downward mobility is eventually made apparent.​
(I see it, peekaboo!​ Hey, where do competent workers go, now?​)​ …​
​ ​If this is correct, then post-industrial society isn’t our name for the next stage of civilizational progress. Instead, the term is true in its most literal and pessimistic interpretation: a society after and without industrial civilization. Such a society doesn’t even have the social infrastructure of agricultural civilizations. This means it cannot even mint the preliminary social capital needed to reindustrialize. Likewise, we have lost the implicit knowledge upon which our industrial systems functioned even as recently as a few decades ago. That knowledge cannot be regained absent the people who actually built and understood those systems.
​ ​What then follows is slow decay, first of production and then of advanced technology itself. At a macro scale, this is the deep root of civilizational collapse.​..
​Mostly, the adjustment to decline would just be an invisible lowering of expectations. When political incentives at all layers of the government pyramid go against ascertaining the truth of a situation, the truth isn’t ascertained.
​ ​Social scientists wouldn’t see it coming, since official numbers would be about as reliable as public health messaging during a pandemic. Wealth can shrink by 1% per year for a century, while measures such as GDP can show continued growth by 2% per year. The Soviet Union’s era of stagnation had 30 years of solid growth according to their metric of NMP (Net Material Product). American economists only noticed and revised our GDP estimates for the Soviet Union after its collapse.​..
​Whatever solution our civilization might find to escape the post-industrial trap, it will require social technologies of production and knowledge very different from anything we’ve seen before. A good place to start would be a new basis for friendship that defeats atomization, and a truthfulness that is compatible with political loyalty.​
​{Spiritual ​honesty​?}
palladiummag.com/2021/03/24/the-end-of-industrial-society/

[John Day]

Blog post is up: http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/03/lost-opportunities.html

I opened with Hudson and Escobar, which you have seen. I’ll put in some other things piecemeal to avoid blocking.

[John Day]

Everything that made industrial capitalism rich, everything that made America so strong in the 19th century, through its protective tariffs, through its public infrastructure investment all the way down through world war two and the aftermath, was that we had a mixed economy in America. Europe also had a mixed economy, and in fact, every economy since Babylon has had a mixed economy.
  But in America you’ve had something entirely different since 1980. Something that was not foreseen by anybody, because it seemed to be so disruptive: namely, the financial sector saying, “We need liberty – for ourselves, from government.” By “liberty” they meant taking planning and subsidy, economic and tax policy, out of the hands of government and put into the hands of Wall Street. The result was libertarianism as a “free market.” In the form of a centralized economy that is concentrated in the hands of the financial centers – Wall Street, the City of London, the Paris Bourse. What you’re having today is an attempt by the financial sector to take on the role that the landlord class had in Europe, from feudal times through the 19th century. It’s a kind of resurgence of feudalism.
  If you look at the last 200 years of economic theory from Adam Smith and Marx, onward, everybody expected a mixed economy to become more and more productive, and to free itself from the landlords – and also to free itself from banking…
  But in the United States and England, you have finance becoming something completely different. Banks don’t lend money to build factories. They don’t create money to make means of production. They make money to take over existing assets. Some 80% of bank loans are mortgage loans to transfer the ownership of real estate.
  But of course, that’s what created a middle class in the United States. The middle class was able to buy its own housing. It didn’t have to pay rent to landlords or absentee owners, or to warlords and their descendants as in England and Europe. They could buy their own homes. What nobody realized is that if you borrowed the money to take a mortgage, there’s still an economic rental value. Most of it is no longer paid to the landlords. It’s paid to the banks. And so in America and Europe, the banks now play the role that landlords played a hundred years ago…  The fight really is against government that would do anything that is not controlled by the 1%, and by the banks. Essentially, the merger between Finance, Insurance and Real Estate – the FIRE sector. So, you have a relapse of capitalism in the West back into feudalism, but feudalism with a financialized twist much more than in medieval times. The fight against China, the fear of China is that you can’t do to China what you did to Russia. America would love for there to be a Yeltsin figure in China to say, let’s just give all of the railroads that we’ve built, the high-speed rail, let’s give all the factories to individuals and let them run everything. Then Americans will lend them the money or buy them out and thus control them financially. China’s not letting that happen. And Russia stopped that from happening. The fury in the West is that the American financial system is unable to take over foreign resources and foreign agriculture…  What’s is ironic now is what has happened in the last few years in the fight against Russia and China. America has killed the free lunch. It said, okay, now we’re going to have sanctions against Russia and China. We’re going to grab whatever money you have in foreign banks, like we grabbed Venezuela’s money. We’re going to excommunicate you from the SWIFT bank clearing system. So, you can’t use banking. We’re going to put sanctions against banks that deal with you.
  So Russia and China have seen that they can’t deal with dollars anymore, because the United States just unilaterally rejected their use by any country that does not follow its military and financial diplomacy. If countries do have dollars as reserves and lend them back to the United States, it’s going to spend them on building more military bases around Russia and China, to make them waste their money on military defense spending. So, America itself has ended the free lunch, by the way in which it’s fighting against China and Russia.
  And now Russia and China, as you pointed out, are de-dollarizing. They’re trading in each other’s currency. They’re doing the opposite of what Bretton Woods tried to create. They’re inspiring monetary independence from the United States…  At issue is what kind of an economy we need in order to raise living standards and, wages and self-sufficiency and preserve the environment. What is needed for the ideal world that we want?    [Description follows…]  The banks fear this because they see that Modern Monetary Theory no longer gives them control. They want the rich One Percent to be able to have a choke point on the economy, so that that people cannot survive without borrowing and paying interest. They want to control the choke points to extract economic rent. So you have the West turning into a rent-extractive economy, a rent-seeking economy. The ideal of Russia, China, and other countries is that not only of Marx, but also of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and even Ricardo in the sense that the aim of classical economics was to free economies from economic rent. The American economy is all about extracting rent through the real estate sector, the financial sector, the health insurance sector, monopolies and the infrastructure sector.  The US economy has been Thatcherized and Reaganized. The result is a fight of rentier economic systems against China and Russia… Industrial capitalism was evolving toward socialism. It was socialized medicine, socialized infrastructure, socialized schooling. So, the fight against socialism is also a fight against what made industrial capitalism so successful in the United States and Germany.  What you’re seeing now is a fight for what direction civilization will follow……And it was expected that once you had capitalism free of the landlord class, free of something that wasn’t really industrial capitalism at all (it was a carry-over from feudalism), you wouldn’t have this overhead of the idle 1%, only consuming resources and going to war.
  World War I changed all that. Already in the late 19th century the landlords and the banks fought back. They fought back largely through the Austrian School of individualism and the English marginalists, and they euphemized it as free markets. That slogan meant giving power to the monopolists, to the oppressors, to violence. A free market was where armies can come in, take over your country, impose a client dictatorship like Pinochet in Chile or the neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Americans call that a free market. The Free World was a world centrally planned by the American military and finance. So, it’s Orwellian double-think…  Well, as opposed to that, you have economies that are not run by a rentier class, and that do not have a banking class and landlord class controlling the economy. The kind of arrangement that you had in Germany in the late 19th century: government, industry and labor coordinated. The question was how to provide the financing for industry so that banks can provide not only industrial capital formation, but public funding to build infrastructure and uplift the population.
  China is doing just what made America rich in the 19th century, and what made Germany rich. It’s the same logic of industrial engineering. This plan is based on economic expansion, environmental preservation and economic balance instead of concentration, so this is going to be a growing economy. So, you’re having a growing economy outside of the United States and a shrinking economy in the States and its satellites in Europe.
  Europe had a choice: Either it could shrink and be an American satellite economy, or it could join the growth. Europe has decided unanimously to forego growth and become a set of client oligarchies and kleptocracies. It is willing to let its financial sector take over just as in America. That’s a “free market,” because I’m told by American officials that they can just buy the European politicians, they’re bribable.
   http://thesaker.is/in-quest-of-a-multipolar-economic-world-order-with-michael-hudson-and-pepe-escobar/

[John Day]

I’m glad to have reopened the conversation (wound).
Birth rates have fallen below replacement in many “advanced” countries.
Are we doing the right thing despites the imperative for economic growth?
Are we actually as coordinated as a colony of termites, perhaps?
I’m just askin’.
What might be our mode of coordination?
Pheromones don’t work any farther than masks do, right?
This is soluble with coordinated effort.
What makes us rightfully uneasy is that a powerful group, the group mostly at the helm, is clearly willing to sacrifice the lives and any other goods of the rest of us cattle for “selfish” (harsh word) benefit.
I think we need to offer a plausible alternative, which will be less threatening to the owners, as well as to the herd. The owners are also threatened by the (other) owners.
This is clearly possible within basic food and environmental constraints, though it’s a window in time…
Perhaps a series of steps down from the current neo-feudal-financial-colonialism model can build trust and a fairer economy together.
Back to Hudson and Escobar…

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