[John Day]

Whoopi Goldberg’s statement aligned with ADL definition of racism, was “correct”, until ADL changed their definition of racism and denounced her.
https://www.rt.com/news/548257-adl-racism-definition-switch-whoopi/

The organization had initially changed its definition of racism in 2020 following months of Black Lives Matter demonstrations, quietly redefining the term in what appeared to be a response to the movement to mean “the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” …
…The (new) switch coincided with actress and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg being suspended from ‘The View’ for two weeks after she insisted the Holocaust was not about race, instead suggesting it was a struggle between “two white groups of people.” She was criticized not only by her fellow hosts, but by the ADL itself, despite its own definition of racism at the time suggesting it was a crime of which only white people could be guilty.

Technically correct, but politically incorrect… Punishment was immediate and public.

[John Day]

@D Benton Smith: Thanks, good analysis. “It can’t happen Here!” (Zappa/Mothers, Freak Out)
There is resource and fuel depletion, too.
The financial system is about to fall-down-and-can’t-get-up and nobody but the Russians and Chinese can agree on an alternative…
The people who can MacGyver stuff with duct take and baling wire might do so. Vegetable gardeners with bags of beans, rice, cooking oil and some salt might get by. I’m trying to be those things.

@WES: I don’t quite know what to hope, but one of the paths for the trucker’s strike/camp-out to be successful would be failing-to-die in the face of massive state force.
Police looking the other way, and/or not chasing citizens with groceries down very hard would be good.
People being inspired to find ways to help and participate is one good path.
Bringing in the military, imprisoning everybody and stealing all their trucks is another path which might turn the people against “their” government, or at least force them to see it as it has become.
That would be a harder way.
The essential step, generally, in power changes, is for the enforcers to change sides, the police and army. I guess the Mounties flipping would do it.

[John Day]

“Calcifediol, 25 hudroxy vitamin-D”, that should read.

[John Day]

@Susmarie 108: 25 hydroxy vitamin D, calcifediol, is the active circulating form, and is what is measured when you get a vitamin-D-level checked.
It’s what is looked at in the research, and what all of the mortality and morbidity data is based upon.
Vitamin-D supplements over the counter are all Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol), which is metabolized to active vitamin-D and stored as such.
Medically prescribed vitamin D may include Vitamin D2, Calcifediol (not in US) and Calcitriol, which is a rapidly bioavailable form of vitamin-D, often prescribed by kidney specialists, and studied some in COVID. http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/otherendo/vitamind.html
All of these forms of vitamin-D seem to help and to become calcifediol, 250 hydroxy vitamin-D when taken into the body.
Taking 200,000 to 300,000 units of vitamin D3 once, for those who have not maintained their level, at onset of COVID, should produce blood levels in the normal range in 3 days, peaking in 1-2 weeks, and remaining roughly normal for about a month afterwards.
Those who have more body fat, or no gallbladder, should certainly take the higher dose.
As far as I can tell, all of the benefit lies in getting the measured vitamin-D up, certainly to normal (30-100), but upper normal (60-100) appears to be a little better.
Your immune system really uses up vitamin-D when fighting illness/infectious disease.
Good website: http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/

[John Day]

“Deflationista” flatters me with attention to my comment.

[John Day]

West Texas Intermediate is over $92/bbl. I’d better top off the tank in the truck quickly!
https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/

[John Day]

Not showing strength of character lately…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-mocks-us-false-flag-video-accusation-delusional

Russia has responded to the United States’ elaborate and bizarre accusations that it will produce a propaganda false flag video to use a pretext to invade Ukraine, calling the US narrative “delusional” and “nonsense”. “The delusional nature of such fabrications — and there are more and more of them every day — is obvious to any more or less experienced political scientist,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in televised remarks Friday.

“It’s not my call to guess why our Western colleagues can be surprised now,” Lavrov added. “They are surprised with or without reason, mostly for no reason, or at some reasons that they make up themselves.”

[John Day]

@D Benton Smith: I’ve been thinking of the slippery slope of cognitive laziness, not reconsidering assumptions and looking for flaws regularly. Many are no good at it. Many more could do it, but take the easier path of going-along.
Once the first lazy step is taken, “copping out”, any application of intellectual rigor becomes less and less possible, until there is some catastrophic breakage in the support system and everything must be re-assessed.
Proactively looking for flaws and failures is a lot of work, but it’s also my set-point somehow.
It makes me slower, but I usually do good work, and I own-up to mistakes and simple errors promptly. It’s too much work to fake stuff and I’ll just forget what my lie was supposed to be these days.

[John Day]

@TDK: That makes the Fed “quantitative greasers”.
Undignified.
Please reconsider terminology…

[John Day]

Dr D said: “Aaaaand we’re off. The starting gun.”
Pink Floyd was playing in my mind before I saw that it was his intention…
It worked.

@somewhat-broken-Oxymoron-in-Oz: I admire your fortitude, Brother. Fortitude only counts when it is hard.
I’m glad your friends helped. I would give you a whole Fosters if I could.
Kangaroos are more human than ducks, but I never got to know any of them. Our only marsupials are “possums”, which are different from your possums.
You are a human…

[John Day]

Macron has to play nice with Russia until the April elections.
France has enough natural gas to last into March only.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/dwindling-french-gas-stockpiles-stoke-fears-winter-blackouts

[John Day]

@D Benton Smith: “It’s nothing but wag-the-dog all the way down”

@WES: Thanks for the media-best-friends reminder, and other constructive media reflections. In Texas, where it is mostly warm or hot, the vapor barrier goes outside the sheathing of the building, whereas it goes inside where the heat and moisture originate inside the building, as in the “Great White North”.

[John Day]

This is also from JMG’s Ecosophia:

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I’m quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able — and in fact quite eager — to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I’m likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

[John Day]

Does this mean it really already happened and the perpetrators are trying to front-run the evidence as a false-flag?
The Washington Post supposedly broke the story. WES, does that mean CIA? I always forget.

A senior administration official told CNN that the US has intelligence suggesting that the Russian government, with the help of Russia’s intelligence services, has been planning to produce a propaganda video depicting graphic scenes of a “staged false explosion with corpses, actors depicting mourners, and images of destroyed locations and military equipment,” the official said. The US believes Russia has already recruited actors to be involved in the fake attack.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-claims-russia-planning-false-flag-against-ukraine-using-graphic-video-crisis-actors

[John Day]

The first move to desert is the move best-rewarded.

Saskatchewan Premier Pledges To End All COVID Restrictions As Ottawa Braces For More Protests
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-truckers-vow-continue-long-it-takes-more-protests-expected-ottawa

[John Day]

@My Parents Said Know: I’m just getting back into it. I have not had a woodshop since 2005, and have not built nice cabinetry since around 2008. I am doing a lot of finishing work with nice cabinet plywood, which will be all of the upstairs walls, and which looks like the finish on that removable-for-plumbing-access shower wall.
It’s relaxing with the polyurethan fumes… (Well ventilated, actually, but had to make the joke.)

[John Day]

Moon of Alabama (in Germany) has: How A Misguided Grand Strategy Led To This U.S. Defeat
It’s longish, so I will summarize briefly:
​ The US/UK/NATO are strident in their claims that Russia is about to invade Ukraine​, and provocative in their “counter-moves” to “prevent” it, by moving arms and troops to the Russian border, while refusing in-writing to address Russian national security concerns of broken promises that NATO would not expand towards Russia, and continues to the Russian border, trying to include historically-Russian eastern Ukraine (Kiev was once the capital of Russia).
Neocons in the US/NATO (Cheney, Nuland, Blinken) have long sought to break Russia into smaller pieces, to prevent it ever challenging the US/NATO/neoliberalism again. If they could only do this, take #3 out of the competition, they could focus their efforts on China (currently number 1.5?)
This has been going poorly since last spring. Ukraine was to assault Donbass, but this was thwarted by Russian troops in Russia. That Belorussian color revolution was also thwarted. Russia won’t play “checkers”.
Equally bad is the fact that European “allies” (tributary states) are balking at accepting a trip-wire arrangement, whereby they give up Russian natural gas if Russia “invades Ukraine”, which is to be determined by the US. Well, we know there will be a false-flag attack and Europe will have no Russian gas, right?
Everybody knows that everybody (who is anybody) knows.
Russia continues with plodding, methodical, polite and reliable diplomacy…
​ ​”The U.S. strategy to ‘fix’ Russia in Europe by imposing ‘crushing sanctions’ on it to then attack China is failing. That is because it was completely misconceived.
​ ​Russia is the most autarkic country in the world. It produces nearly everything it needs and has highly desirable products that are in global demand and are especially needed in Europe. Russia also has huge financial reserves. A sanctions strategy against Russia can not work.
​ ​To use the Ukraine to g​oa​d Russia into some aggression to then apply sanctions was likewise a rather lunatic attempt. There is nothing in the Ukraine that would tempt Russia to invade. Everything that may have ​t​o be done in the Ukraine can be done from Russian territory by Russian missiles or its air force and navy.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/how-misguided-grant-strategy-led-to-the-us-defeat.html#more

​ ​On Wednesday the White House walked back its prior consistent assertions that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was “imminent”.
​ ​Spokeswoman Jen Psaki and other admin had in the last week or more doubled down on the word (which included Blinken in media statements) even as Ukraine’s President Zelensky openly disputed the alarmist assessment, essentially telling Biden directly to ‘calm down’ the hyped rhetoric.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/white-house-awkwardly-explains-ukraine-invasion-no-longer-imminent

​ ​Russia is speaking softly. Russia must have a “big stick”​.​​
The US needs to negotiate, or it would not be willing to do so.
​Leaked Documents Show US Is Serious About Arms Control With Russia
Washington’s written response to Moscow’s security proposals was leaked and published by the Spanish newspaper El Pais. While the US isn’t willing to give a written guarantee that Ukraine won’t ever join NATO, the document contained serious offers from the US on the issue of arms control.

Leaked Documents Show US Is Serious About Arms Control With Russia

​How Empires End is not long, and not complicated. It’s a recurring pattern.
The current western empire is in a fairly late stage, and can clearly make better and worse choices going forward.​

How Empires End

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​ ​Gas-pipelines are a choke-hold on Europe’s economy, a strategic-asset.
​ ​US-Qatar relations seem to be getting better and better. During a conversation at the White House with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, US President Joe Biden promised to elevate Qatar’s military status, considering it a major non-NATO ally. The measure favors the Qatari state as it allows the country access to a select sphere of the American arms market, with special prices and favorable tax conditions. In fact, this case looks like a real trade-off to encourage Qatar to play a major role in US energy strategy: Biden simply wants Doha to produce and export more and more gas to Europe in order to prevent international cooperation projects with Russia.
​ ​In recognition of the historic cooperation between both countries and the role played by Qatar as a rescuer of US troops fleeing Afghanistan during Taliban’s seizure of Kabul, Joe Biden decided to designate Doha as Major non-NATO Ally, a status that grants Qatar privileged access to special conditions in the trade of weapons and military equipment between the two countries, which makes the American proposal very profitable for the Qataris.​..
(Do they have a Plan-B?)
​ ​Qatar will accept a prestigious position in the gas market and a high military status but will become dependent on the West to maintain its economic stability, ceasing to occupy the role of regional power with its own sovereign interests, which has been its main characteristic in recent years.

US-Qatar Rise in Cooperation May be Related to Washington’s Energy Strategy

​Hungary’s President Orban (who excludes Soros’ “Open Society”) has another long, cordial meeting with Russia’s President Putin. their 13th in 13 years.​
Last week the Biden administration approached Hungary to formally request that it host a temporary deployment of US forces aimed at Russia, amid the ongoing Ukraine crisis which has resulted in a flurry of diplomatic activity and ratcheting accusations. The country’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto confirmed days ago it had “received an American request about temporary deployment of troops.”
It appears the White House has received its answer from the ‘wayward’ NATO-member ally, as Viktor Orban was in Moscow on Tuesday where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They greeted each other as old friends and settled in for a marathon meeting, which the Kremlin said lasted nearly five hours…
… EU officials and Hungary’s political opposition hurled accusations of “treason” over the visit to Moscow at a moment Russia has come under near-universal condemnation in the West. “Viktor Orbán is undermining joint decisions in Brussels by continuing to veto them,” Hungarian MEP Márton Gyöngyösi was quoted as saying after the trip was first announced….
…Following the meeting, the following was confirmed:
Putin went on to say that Russia and Hungary had signed long-term contracts that would allow the EU nation to purchase discounted gas from Russia until 2036. He also reported that Hungary currently buys gas five times cheaper than the European market rate. “This is primarily the result of your work,” he told his counterpart.
Orban replied that many in Europe are in fear of an upcoming energy crisis, and that Hungary is grateful for the contract.
Meanwhile, as Western media and officials have been expressing increased concern over the question of whether Putin may be successfully “dividing Europe” and NATO unity, it appears that Hungary is a first example showing that yes, this is precisely what’s happening with the Ukraine crisis 2.0. Germany has of course also featured centrally in this, given its refusal to allow German-made weapons to be transferred to Ukraine forces. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungarys-orban-answers-biden-troop-hosting-request-flies-moscow-marathon-meeting-putin

[John Day]

Canadian Truckers Vow To Continue “Until It’s A Free Nation Again”
Overnight, truckers with the Freedom Convoy who have gathered in Coutts, Alberta near the border with Montana managed to refuel and re-supply as supporters continued to contribute to keep the protests going even as the RCMP continue to surround them in a blockade that has disrupted commerce – something the government has tried to blame on the truckers.​..
​ Back in Ottawa, where hundreds of protesters remain camped out after this weekend’s Freedom Rally at the seat of Canadian government, locals – and local officials (who have already tried to seize money raised for the truckers on GoFundMe) are growing increasingly anxious, since organizers expect the number of supporters in Ottawa to swell in the coming days as the weekend arrives and with it, another wave of protests.
​ ​The movement’s organizers have pledged not to relent until the Canadian government drops some of its more draconian policies, including a quarantine requirement that essentially would make life impossible for unvaccinated truckers.​..
​ Tamara Lich, a spokeswoman for the protestors, said she and fellow organizers had been surprised by the turnout at first “but we are now well organized and are settling in, until Canada is a free nation again.”​ …
​Chris Barber – one of the convoy leaders – said the group understood those frustrations but was also being bullied by politicians and members of the press.
​ ​”The responsibility for your inconvenience lies squarely on the shoulders of politicians who prefer to vilify and call us names rather than engage in respectful, serious dialogue,”​
​https://www.zerohedge.com/political/canadian-truckers-vow-continue-long-it-takes-more-protests-expected-ottawa

​ ​It’s a mitzvah, not anti-Semitism, to attack George Soros’ dangerous DA campaigns​ , Dov Fischer, conservative Rabbi
Ever since Jonathan Greenblatt, a woke former Obama White House official, took over the Anti-Defamation League, it reflexively screams “Anti-Semitism!” when critics fault Soros’ political work — and the left loyally follows suit.
It therefore falls upon established rabbis with authentic Jewish lifetime bona fides, like yours truly, to assert unequivocally that it’s a mitzvah (a righteous act) — not “anti-Semitism” — to castigate George Soros for his radical attempts to undermine public safety and the American republic…
Disbursing tens of millions of dollars, Soros has funded local campaigns across America to elect progressive district attorneys who agitate for the lethal cocktail of defunding police and decriminalization. These prosecutors tend not to prosecute property crimes or severe misdemeanors. Instead, they purposefully undercharge felonies as misdemeanors, then plead them down to disorderly-conduct violations. The result? A new term, “smash and grab,” has entered the crime lexicon.
​https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/its-a-mitzvah-not-anti-semitism-to-attack-george-soros-da-campaigns/

​His “Open Society Foundation” specifically…​
Soros calls for regime change in China
The liberal financier singled out Xi Jinping as the greatest threat to the ‘open societies’ of the world
https://www.rt.com/news/547892-soros-regime-change-china/

[John Day]

​ Who is killing Americans, again? What’s the case for that?
Are you sure you don’t have it backwards?
Video: CBS News Tells Viewers Joe Rogan Is KILLING People
“You don’t have a First Amendment right to appear on a platform as large as Spotify”

Video: CBS News Tells Viewers Joe Rogan Is KILLING People

There is no medical coverage or reimbursement when this happens. there “should” be, but it turns out there is not.
Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Injuring Record Number of Young People. Will Shots Also Bankrupt Families?

Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis Injuring Record Number of Young People. Will Shots Also Bankrupt Families?

​ Misreading public sentiment? Desperation? Just greedy?
​Ottawa City Councillor Demands Government Seize $7 Million Raised By Canadian Truckers
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ottawa-city-councillor-demands-government-seize-7-million-raised-canadian-truckers

​Tyranny is nothing new. People who embrace it, and who lust after power, tend to follow a similar pattern. There are no brakes. They always push it too far. They always overplay their hand. They can’t seem to stop themselves once they have a grip on the population.
​ ​Canada experienced a shocking amount of tyranny over the last several years. And yet, under the extreme pressure that the Canadian people were forced to endure, it appears that a diamond has been formed. Out came a force for liberty that has caught the attention of the entire world!
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/truckers-are-lighting-brushfires-of-freedom-in-millions-of-minds

[John Day]

The picture is of the decorative, functional, and easily removable panel I prettied up from cabinet plywood, for the shower plumbing, just before the bathroom door, which I did a nice job of finishing, and the sheetrock walls went in. I should be able to get pictures of that after the icy roads thaw tomorrow afternoon and we can get back down to Yoakum. https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/dont-miss-out.html

​70 Per Cent of Americans Say It’s Time to ‘Accept COVID and Get On With Our Lives’
​ ​“Fully 7 in 10 Americans (70%) agree with the sentiment that “it’s time we accept that Covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives” – including 78% of those who report having gotten Covid and 65% of those who say they have not been infected,” according to Monmouth.
The main difference in sentiment is predictably seen in political affiliation, with 89% of Republicans wanting to move on, along with 71% of independents but only 47% of Democrats.

70 Per Cent of Americans Say It’s Time to ‘Accept COVID and Get On With Our Lives’

​ Wait, Wait, we won’t even know how to think about things if these guys cease to exist!
How will we talk to each other?
​ Facebook – or Meta now that it’s in the witness protection program – is making record after dismal record this morning after its catastrophic earnings and guidance last night: not only is the company’s 22% drop the biggest in its history… but according to Bloomberg, the one-day crash ranks as the worst in stock-market history: the Facebook crash has erased some $195 billion of its market cap.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stunned-wall-street-responds-facebooks-record-200-billion-wipeout

​American Truck Drivers, organizing a Freedom Rally, get deplatformed by “Facebook”.
YOU, Outta’ the Metaverse!
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/us-truckers-got-booted-off-of-facebook

[John Day]

I’ve compiled another collection of trees in the forest of history unfolding awkwardly, but first I’d like to comment on job opportunities in the shaping of societal narrative public opinion.

It’s a big deal, worthy of high level military attention, and everybody is doing it:
Defense Primer: Cybespace Operations: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF10537.pdf
Russian disinformation must be countered in the trenches of cyberspace.
https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/countering-russian-disinformation

Obviously, there is a lot of automation involved. There are weaponized narratives, and a continuously updated catalog of weaponized countermeasures, readily at hand, with which to answer.
Much of this can be automated, or semi-automated, and stylistic signature-packages can be customized to each account. Some human attention and decision-making is required to maintain credibility.

This means green-jobs, good-paying green jobs, at all levels. Some accounts can be almost completely automated. Others will need more close attention, but there are flags to bring attacks by the enemy to the attention of automated and human combatants, things like names, words, and key phrases. Specific disinformation links will already be assigned effective informational countermeasures, which can be applied promptly, often with a personal flourish to increase impact and effectiveness.

This is serious work. Serious talent and sustained effort are well rewarded by nations, groups representing the rights and interests of political and ethnic constituencies, and of course private interests, with much to lose from harmful rumors and disinformation.

If you have talent and are well motivated, this may be the career you have been looking for. You can be helpful and influential beyond what one person could ever do in the world before, and can expect excellent benefits and retirement packages.

[John Day]

I looked at the pictures SeaBirds sent. It’s not anything I saw in med school. Looks like little circuits and parts that could function as antennas. Is it self-constructing? Is it RFID-type stuff, that can send and receive if powered by a radio frequency device?
Beats me.
How can I be sure of the veracity?

[John Day]

Thanks Susmarie 108: My truck just got puled out of the mud here in Yoakum, a problem caused by recent construction trenching therough the driveway, heavy rains, and clay soil.
Fix needs implementation before proceeding with construction inside.
Life is full of complications caused by doing something else…

[John Day]

​It turns out that societies undergo upheaval when bad weather for a few years destroys their food supply. Big volcanoes can do that, even if you live across the planed and are clueless about them​. I wonder if it’s the food-production system breaking down that does this. Seems logical, right? Thanks Charles.
Climate Clues from the Past Prompt a New Look at History
As scientists rapidly improve their ability to decipher past climate upheaval through ice cores and other “proxies,” historians are re-examining previous political and social turmoil and linking it to volcanic eruptions, prolonged droughts, and other disturbances in the natural world.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-clues-from-the-past-prompt-new-look-at-history

Pregnant Reporter Forced To Stay In Kabul After Home Country Of New Zealand Denies Her Entry Due To COVID Protocols​
​She had been covering “the difficult conditions mothers and babies face” in the country, and has now herself been forced to take up shelter in Kabul, according to AP. She is 25 weeks pregnant and has been vaccinated three times.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pregnant-35-year-old-reporter-forced-stay-kabul-after-her-home-country-new-zealand-denies

[John Day]

The Monday UN SecurityCouncil hearing on Russian troops in Russia, near Ukraine​, called by the US, was a chance for the US to blame Russia, for Russia and China to say, “No, NATO is the provocateur” and for other countries to choose sides in public. Who won? (I don’t think Russia wants that rotten bait.)
US Charged With Trying To Provoke Russian Military Action At UN: “You Want It To Happen”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-charged-trying-provoke-russian-military-action-un-you-want-it-happen

​”Sitting ducks”; there for show. An attack on Russia would see them sunk by hypersonic missiles in a few minutes, right?​ Then what?
US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020
US warships spent about 182 days in the Black Sea in 2021, compared with about 82 in 2020

US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020

​The nuclear submarines are very important.​
​ ​Russia’s Northern Fleet conduc​t​ed anti-submarine drills in the Norwegian Sea, not far from NATO member Norway, at a moment of broader and rival naval movements in places like the Black Sea
​ ​Russia’s military described the northern drills as involving ships “hunting down a notional enemy’s submarine using sonars and data from military pilots,”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-navy-holds-anti-submarine-drills-near-nato-country-prepares-more

​Mish Shedlock, The Battle for European Integration Has Failed and Russia Provides Proof​
​ ​Eurointelligence founder Wolfgang Münchau is a strong pro-Europe advocate…
​ ​Earlier this month he commented:
“The battle for European integration has failed. It is time to recognise defeat, and to think through the consequences.​…
​”When you fight for a cause that does not materialise, at what point do you recognise, and admit, defeat? There are some causes you may want to keep fighting for no matter what, like human rights or climate change. Is European integration in that category? For me, it is not. My biggest area of disagreement with my fellow European federalists is not in what we think is desirable. What we disagree on is where the dividing line between realpolitik and wishful thinking lies.
​ ​A good example occurred this weekend. The fool whose committed the crime of saying what everybody in the SPD is thinking was Kay-Achim Schönbach. He was forced to resign as head of the German Navy for revealing to the world that Germany’s natural ally is Russia.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-battle-for-europe-integration-has-failed-and-russia-provides-proof

​Same threat as “I’ll shoot myself in the stomach and die horribly on your doorstep”..
EU threatens to halt Nord Stream 2 & cut Russia off from SWIFT
​ ​According to von der Leyen, any EU sanctions against Russia would have a devastating effect. Brussels is Moscow’s largest trading partner, and 75% of direct foreign investment in Russia comes from the EU, she explained, suggesting that economic measures would be painful.
​ ​Earlier in January, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that the EU and the US had refused to consider disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT international bank payment system. It noted that it could destabilize financial markets and help create an alternative payment infrastructure that would no longer be dominated by Western nations.​..
​https://www.rt.com/russia/547640-disconnected-swift-nordstream2-eurocrat/

[John Day]

​ Charles Hugh Smith observes the financial rock and hard place that the $US Empire is in. When inflation eroded the dollar in the late 1970s and early 1980s, global finance moved away from the $US as global reserve currency, which greatly threatened global wealth extraction through the global dollar and imperial military combination.​
The empire must maintain this wealth extraction mechanism until it has something as good or better in place. Nothing yet… Stocks must fall without loose money.
No wonder the market is skittish:
​ ​ Every time the Federal Reserve began to taper quantitative easing / open spigot of liquidity over the past decade, reduce its balance sheet or raise rates from near-zero, the market plummeted (“taper tantrum”) and the Fed stopped tightening and returned to easy-money expansion.
Now the Fed is boxed in by inflation–it can’t continue the bubblicious easy-money policies, nor does it have any room left to lower rates due to its pinning interest rates to near-zero for years.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan22/skittish1-22.html

(WARNING: Potentially Russian disinformation!)
We really need the “right” war before the financial system collapses. We really need to blame Putin…
​ ​Despite weeks of escalating tensions and claims that Russian troops and tanks could begin streaming over the border into Ukraine at a moment’s notice, Moscow doesn’t actually appear to be masterminding an invasion of its neighbor, a top NATO official has reportedly admitted.
​ ​The senior figure, who represents an EU member state in the bloc’s Brussels HQ has told pan-European news outlet Euractiv that they believe Russia is not on the verge of starting a military incursion into Ukraine.
​ ​“To invade such a large country with such military forces [like Ukraine], you need military capabilities other than those that have been currently deployed,” the source said.
https://www.rt.com/russia/547644-nato-source-russia-invasion/

​Brandon Smith sees it: ​The Globalist Reset Agenda Has Failed – Is Ukraine Plan B? (I don’t agree, however, with everything he sees…)
..The funny thing about planning ten steps ahead though is that if anything goes wrong with steps 1-9 then getting to step number 10 will be impossible and you just wasted a whole lot of energy on an elaborate plan that ended up going nowhere. The globalists are NOT the smartest people around; not even close. They aren’t even all that effective when their plans actually function and there are no surprises. Their ideas fail constantly.
There is only one reason that centralizing criminals have not been brought down, and that is because no one has ever targeted them directly. Every time there is a governmental shake up or rebellion or mass movement for change people target “the system”; they blame the system for all our problems (or they blame a handful of political puppets) and they seek to add a fresh coat of paint or change some of its basic functions, but the men behind the curtain always end up back behind the curtain. The problem is never “the system”, it’s the people running and influencing the system while enjoying the comfort of the shadows.​..
​ ​Every once in a while it becomes obvious when they have invested an immense amount of time and planning into a single unique scheme, a fulcrum point that many of their other plans will rely on in the future. There is no doubt that the response to the covid outbreak was meant to bulldoze over numerous social and legal conventions and achieve full bore centralization before the vast majority of people even knew what hit them.​..
More recently, the covid agenda and by extension the globalist “Reset” has fallen apart in the US and this has led to problems for them in other parts of the world.
​ American resistance to the vax mandates and lockdowns was key to everything, more so than I think many people realize. Even if the globalists could implement medical tyranny through much of the rest of the world, with conservative red states blocking the agenda at every turn this created a focal point for resistance. Meaning, all the people in the world can still see that there is another way to do things that does not involve authoritarianism. Life in the red states goes on as if covid barely existed.​..
​ For whatever reason, the globalists invested an intense amount of energy into the covid virus and it let them down, and now they are stuck trying to create mass panic over a nothing-burger…
​ ​It makes sense that they will need a distraction as a means to redirect momentum, and the globalists will do what they always do, which is create war tensions. This does not mean that large scale war is the intended outcome, but limited regional wars that could grow into something more are always on the table. It is not a mistake that the US could potentially be caught up in not one but two major regional conflicts at this time, including a Chinese invasion of Taiwan as well as a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
​​https://alt-market.us/the-globalist-reset-agenda-has-failed-is-ukraine-plan-b/

[John Day]

If you get a vaccine to only Wuhan-COVID-spike-protein, then your body will only make antibodies to that small part (20%) of that particular virus.
Your body will make those same antibodies to that historical spike protein when it meets a current strain, which may have an unrecognizable spike-protein (Omicron has a very different spike protein). Those vaccine-antibodies will not work well.
If natural infection had produced the antibody response, then other parts of the virus would also be targeted by antibodies.
The N-​protein (nucleocapsid protein) is a really good target for antibodies, but for those who got one of those vaccines, the body, which has been trained to make the antibodies against that outdated spike protein, will do that same trick, and will not modify the trick much, will not readily learn to make better antibodies to the new virus.
Steve Kirsch, The story of N-antibodies and why they are so important
​ ​In its Week 42 “COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report” (published 21 October 2021), the UK Department of Health admits on page 23 that “recent observations from UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) surveillance data that N antibody levels appear to be lower in individuals who acquire infection following 2 doses of vaccination.”
​ ​What does this mean? It means that the vaccine interferes with the body’s ability to make antibodies after infection against other parts of the virus.
​ ​In particular, vaccinated people do not appear to form antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein, the envelope of the virus, which is an important part of the response in unvaccinated people. The observation may explain why the vaccines actually produce negative efficacy as was shown in the Denmark study, for example.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-story-of-n-antibodies-and-why

Shown effective in Bangladesh in July 2020, and many times since then. I have prescribed ivermectin based treatment to good effect, since August 2020.
​ ​A Japanese pharmaceutical company, Kowa Co, said on Monday that the drug ivermectin has an “antiviral effect” against Omicron and other Covid-19 variants.
The finding was made with Tokyo’s Kitasato University on a joint non-clinical research project, which has been testing the drug as a potential treatment for the disease, according to Reuters. Kowa says that ivermectin showed the “same antiviral effect” on all “mutant strains,” including Alpha, Delta and Omicron. The company also noted that ivermectin suppresses invasion of the virus and inhibits its replication. “[Ivermectin] is expected to be applied as a therapeutic drug (tablet) for all new coronavirus infectious diseases,” reads the report.​
​ ​Of note, Reuters changed their original headline from “effective” against Omicron to having an “antiviral effect,” and corrected a statement that the finding occurred during “Phase III clinical trials.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/ivermectin-has-antiviral-effect-against-omicron-and-all-other-mutant-strains-covid-19

[John Day]

Jim Kunstler: The Revolt Begins
​ ​Canada under the Trudeau government has been more restrictive on Covid-19 than the Big Gorilla to its south, with the population compliantly following all the insane, economy-wrecking rules, until a recent mandate to vaxx-up every last trucker in the land finally sparked-off a revolt. Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party failed to win a parliamentary majority in last September’s federal election, and he heads a flimsy coalition potentially facing a no-confidence vote that would drive the PM out of office.
​ ​For now, the truckers seem determined to stick around and disrupt the Canadian capital. Their estimated 50,000 rigs could surround the city and create siege conditions, where food supplies and other goods won’t get in, starving the government into surrendering on its mandates and restrictions. So far, the local Ottawa police have stood by with a very light hand, and there are rumors that they are on the same page as the truckers against federal overreach.
​ ​Will Mr. Trudeau resort to using the military to break up the revolt?​ …
​ How will that help move stuff from Point A to Point B? It kind of looks like they have Mr. T over a Molson barrel. For now, it’s a stand-off, but it looks to me like the Prime Minister must resign and whoever takes charge next will have to rapidly rethink the country’s entire Covid-19 policy in a not-insane direction.​..
​Let the trucks roll from Fresno to DC if they still want to play rough. Think the “Joe Biden” gang will try to divert attention by starting a war in Ukraine? They don’t dare. Think the financial markets will tank? Well, of course they will, no matter what, because the markets and the money are detached from reality. Face it: what America needs most of all is to reconnect with reality, and you can be sure that the process will be uncomfortable, having sojourned so far from it for so long. (“Let’s Go, Brandon!”) And Let’s go, Canadian truckers!

The Revolt Begins

​ ​Hundreds of protestors have gathered in front of Australia’s Parliament House in solidarity with the massive Convoy to Ottawa that converged on the Canadian capital around the weekend of Jan. 29.
​ ​Calls for a similar movement have been echoing Down Under for days, and on Jan. 31, a crowd organised under a “Convoy to Canberra” campaign gathered in front of the national legislature, according to videos circulating on social media.​..​
​ ​Social media has been awash with footage of drivers making their way to the Australian capital. The grassroots movement has begun gathering steam as a four-day-old GoFundMe campaign already garnered AU$167,539 in donations, as of Jan. 31.
​ ​According to the ABC, the funds have been frozen by the website until details are provided regarding how the organiser will disperse them.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/protestors-gather-front-australian-parliament-solidarity-ottawa-truck-convoy

[John Day]

Glenn Greenwald: The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship
​ ​Constitutional illiteracy to the side, the “hate speech” framework for justifying censorship is now insufficient because liberals are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful. That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.” These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term “terrorism,” it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.
​ ​When liberals’ favorite media outlets, from CNN and NBC to The New York Times and The Atlantic, spend four years disseminating one fabricated Russia story after the next — from the Kremlin hacking into Vermont’s heating system and Putin’s sexual blackmail over Trump to bounties on the heads of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the Biden email archive being “Russian disinformation,” and a magical mystery weapon that injures American brains with cricket noises — none of that is “disinformation” that requires banishment. Nor are false claims that COVID’s origin has proven to be zoonotic rather than a lab leak, the vastly overstated claim that vaccines prevent transmission of COVID, or that Julian Assange stole classified documents and caused people to die. Corporate outlets beloved by liberals are free to spout serious falsehoods without being deemed guilty of disinformation, and, because of that, do so routinely.
​ ​This “disinformation” term is reserved for those who question liberal pieties, not for those devoted to affirming them. That is the real functional definition of “disinformation” and of its little cousin, “misinformation.” It is not possible to disagree with liberals or see the world differently than they see it. The only two choices are unthinking submission to their dogma or acting as an agent of “disinformation.” Dissent does not exist to them; any deviation from their worldview is inherently dangerous — to the point that it cannot be heard.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-pressure-campaign-on-spotify

​This was my conclusion when “the unvaccinated” first became an underclass.
I stand unemployed with the underclass.​
Holocaust Survivor: Never Again Is Now. Unless We All Resist​
​In a speech delivered Sunday in Brussels, Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav described the striking parallels between what she witnessed as a child in Nazi-controlled Romania, and COVID policies being enacted today by governments around the globe.

Holocaust Survivor: Never Again Is Now. Unless We All Resist

​Five People died in the January 6, 2021 Protests in Washington DC. Four were killed by police, and the death of the police officer from a stroke, the last death investigated here, could have been avoided, if the medic at the protest had been heeded by the man’s fellow officers, when he said that the officer was showing signs of a stroke and needed immediate medical attention. The officer had not been hit or harmed, not shot dead, while trying to restrain an agent provocateur, not killed by concussion grenades, and not killed by being beaten to death with a billy-club. That was those other folks, and they all got unfairly dissed after they were murdered.
https://taylerhansen.substack.com/p/capitol-offense-the-ugly-truth-behind

[John Day]

Finally another construction photo at https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/analysis-is-forbidden.html

Societies are coordinated in their works, efforts and aspirations by shared narratives of meaning and purpose. Those typically degrade over time, as they are gradually corrupted for selfish gain. What remains is a worm eaten corpse, which must not be closely examined at all, or the delicate societal glue will dissolve.
I think we’re there again, like in the Great Depression. China was there in the Cultural Revolution. Russia went there in the 1990s. These Social Contracts and civilizational narratives take a whole lot of sustained work, with frustrations, fears and disappointments at betrayals, by the entire society, to be renegotiated and reworked, so that society can again function. This takes something like 10 years to bottom out and turn around. How far are we? I have to ask, so I don’t think we are anywhere near a bottom, a “capitulation”.
The Western Empire is still pretending it can rule the world. The globalist “owners” don’t seem to have an alternative, except finding ways to reduce the useless-eaters and motivate the useful eaters to excellence-in-service.
I was recently a useful-eater, but I bucked the narrative and refused COVID vaccination, on principle first, and on scientific evidence also.
Now I am a problem, because I examine the corpse of the governing societal narrative.
It stinks. It’s dead. It cannot be resuscitated rationally, because it is completely irrational and counterproductive for everybody except the globalist owners, and it breaks for them next…
The oligarchy consists of global finance, backed by global military-industrial complex, which forces countries to accept American dollars at interest, through a new BIS-controlled central bank, which is promptly installed. International investors buy resources, assets and human labor at a discount, extract extra at interest, and periodically crash the economy to buyat an even deeper discount. Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Venezuela. It’s the same game plan, but it doesn’t always work the same. It also hollows out the economic core of the centers of empire, like the US. That’s been done.
If the rest of the world abandons the $US as global reserve currency, and uses something else for international trade, (gold would serve) then the price of everything in the US would double, and valuable things would be bought by foreigners with their dollars, and exported to them. Printing dollars would no longer be an option to fund the government. This began in the decade after Nixon had to default on the gold standard, when America ran out of gold, funding the Vietnam War.
The petrodollar was arranged by getting Saudi Arabia to only accept $US for oil, and coercing other il producers to do the same. those $US could be recycled into US Federal debt, holding the system intact. The American/NATO global military (the biggest users of oil on our planet) would enforce the regime.
This worked well for a long time, but all of its foundations are now rotten, all of them.
The interests of global finance and the military industrial complex are well aligned, and Big Pharma is an eager ally. Big media, the corporate-state-propaganda-apparatus (Free News!) is completely on board, as is the information-search-monopoly, Google, as is the computer software duopoly of Microsoft and Apple.
What is not holding is a narrative that this is good for society, because that is obviously false. Scapegoats have been created, like Russia’s President Putin, America’s recent President Trump, middle aged white Americans with political opinions (aka “white supremacists”), productively-employed American farmers, truckers, craftsmen and factory workers (“deplorables”), and other “homegrown-terrorists-spreading-disinformation”.
That’s a pretty big tent excluded by the narrative, but it is sustained by the increasingly stressed Professional Managerial Class and all of those “compliance officers”. Political Correctness helps put boots-on-the-ground.
Supporters of transgender rights ignore that the great majority of transgendered people just want to be invisibly accepted and left alone. They don’t want to be standard-bearers for the social alliance that supports the status-quo at such a low actual cost to the owners.
Most black people I talk to have seen this movie before, would like the check, please, but don’t want to be pawns in street riots. They are some of the most suspicious about the COVID narrative (killed a lot of black people) and the mandatory vaccination “solution”. All of the black patients I served were very receptive to getting their families on vitamin-D to help their immune systems work better, all of them, for two years…
It is too late for this corpse, and I’ll keep pointing that out. I’m going to do some more internal finishing work on the homestead-addition today. The bathroom is going in, too.

Michael Lesher has a thoughtful article. Here are some excerpts.
…The COVID coup is fundamentally not about medicine or science. It is not about inflated “case” rates or jiggered statistics or fake news or the pseudo-studies circulated by propaganda outfits like the World Health Organization or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ​ ​
​ ​Yes, all those things have figured in the derangement of constitutional democracy that has characterized the COVID coup. But at bottom it’s not about any of them.
The real nature of the campaign is at once simpler and far more dangerous. What we’re experiencing is an attack on the very foundation of ordered liberty, an assault that is already in the process of submerging democracies beneath what the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called a “permanent ‘state of exception.’”
​ ​To put it bluntly: our ruling classes, in one country after another, have effectively switched off their nations’ constitutions and the whole set of civil liberties that are supposed to accompany them – not by formally abolishing them, mind you, but by adopting the extra-legal mechanisms of a “state of emergency” in place of normal constitutional procedures, with the result that the ordinary rules of democracy and the rights of individuals have, for most practical purposes, been indefinitely suspended.
​ ​That’s why the COVID coup began, in my own country, with declarations of an “emergency” in four-fifths of the states – and why, with very rare exceptions, those “states of emergency” remain in effect to this day, nearly two years later.
​ ​Again, this cannot be explained away as a response to a respiratory virus. When an “emergency” involves suspending constitutional government for two years, it should be obvious that the “emergency” has ceased to be a real emergency (if it ever was one) and has become an extralegal norm – and this is even more emphatically true when virtually no one in the political opposition, the civil rights bar or the mainstream media so much as mentions this fundamental fact…
​ ​And that allows them to skirt the real issue. COVID fascism is not a comedy of scientific errors. For all intents and purposes, it is a coup d’état. And it must resisted accordingly.​..
​ ​What we’re engaged in is a spiritual struggle. It’s a battle for the survival of the human soul, and in that battle our main weapons are likely to be spiritual ones: courage, hope, self-sacrifice, faith.
​ ​Remember, the enemies of humanity have a weak point: they do not believe in human beings, and consequently they do not understand the power contained in each soul that refuses to be duped.

Truth or Covid? (or, “why we know everything they’re telling us is a lie”)

[John Day]

@VP Gary: We know the same things.
The workings of this world are far uglier than advertised.
Don’t kill yourself.
Make something good, yeah?
Make it visibe, memorable, so that when a question arises, your project pops into consciousnee.
Abstraction alone is discouraging to me, so I have to do constructive things and seek guidance.

[John Day]

TT4TW said: “Try this on for size, “If anyone comes along and sells you on a never ending war, ONE OF THEIR PRIME OBJECTIVES IS… TO… BANKRUPT… THE… COUNTRY…

The US never fought anyone. It was the Money Power using their US vassal to fight against both the stated “enemy” (who invariably doesn’t have a BIS controlled central bank and obeisant politicians, NO EXCEPTIONS!) and the US, Inc. Inextinguishable Debt-Serfs.”

Good analysis, Amigo!

[John Day]

Boscohorowitz said: “Bad news, we have numerous real big deal-breaking death-delivering problems at hand, and none of our answers/solutions to them are real.”

That’s why working on any real problem in a real way is something you can show and tell, like making a nice old house into an orphanage with a big doll-house in it, maybe a kitchen-garden and some fruit trees…

Insulation is a good thing winter and summer. Get it while you can..
Be seen working on “emerging problems”.

[John Day]

@VP Gary: I’m just saying that people don’t get it unless they see something. Buckminster Fuller made things people could see… That’s what I’m trying to do, a trial project of growing Mexican avocadoes farther north than usual. I’ve really put them through some rounds of selection for cold tolerance, got one avocado before the February deep-freeze last year, and have lost 4 trees to cold this winter, but have potted seedlings that did fine to replace them, and more experience with what varieties survive here, now. https://floridafruitgeek.com/cold-hardy-avocados/

I expect “some” avocadoes this year (2 counts).

The thing bout soft-skinned Mexican avocadoes is that they get beat up in shipping, so strictly a local thing, or processed-preserved products.

[John Day]

Ukraine and Russian escalation dominance: A Fiction This is a scenario, a sketch of what Russian invasion of Ukraine might look like. Of course such contingency plans exist in detail.
Of course…

Ukraine and Russian escalation dominance: A Fiction

[John Day]

@Dr.D: Yep, good read, Amigo. The wise path seems to be the very steady and self-disciplined open resistance to tyranny en-mass. Truckers now.
This is a one-time opportunity for the rest of us to show solidarity.
Uh, how? Yep, how?
It looks like physical presence in open public areas is what does the magic…

@TDK: Yep, deer are psychic.
Look, I found it on the internet. https://crystalclearintuition.com/deer-meaning/
Deer are spiritual. (I can tell, but I can’t tell others.
That’s the nature of that kind of gnostic experience. Confounding, innit?)

@VP Gary: Do the work decades before it is time. Be the seed you plant. Otherwise, you await a time where you will be old and unprepared to actually do anything, and people will not seek your opinion unless you can show-your-work.
It’s better if they have seen it for years, and it pops up in their mind when the question finally forms.
Giving it my efforts…
Doing finishing work on wood, cutting plywood for certain of the walls. Pictures soon.

Black beans, onions, garlic , peppers and tomatoes from the garden almost ready to eat for breakfast.
..

[John Day]

Putin might be behind the Freedom Convoy says Canadian Broadcasting Company:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/worlds-largest-truck-convoy-arrives-ottawa-protest-medical-tyranny

[John Day]

@Absolute Galore:I appreciate your conundrum. People may harden in an untenable position, and need a friendly helping hand out. You can offer to be that friend.
We have all been sold a bill-of-goods recently. That’s common ground.
You can be nice and reasonable, and “still trying to figure out what’s really going on in the world these days”.

@Boscohorowitz: Nice to see you back lately. I hope you are doing well. You said you were feeling more like yourself.

D.Benton Smith said:
“If there is anything more serious than purposeful mass murder on a global scale it is the following observed fact : The intelligence, military, judicial , financial, academic, communications , medical and scientific institutions across the entire planet are doing NOTHING to stop or even slow the crime. Quite the contrary. In many cases (maybe in MOST cases) these “institutional authority” people are energetically supporting and proactively committing the murders themselves !”

I have long considered the presence of sociopaths among us, and wondered how that benefits gene pool. It seems to be broadly present in civilized, urbanized populations, dense populations.
Historically, they kill a whole lot of people every few generations.
That’s what they do, so it must be their function.
How does that benefit a gene pool? And, what happened on Easter Island?
Nobody knows what happened on Easter Island, except they seemed to use up all the trees they used for fishing boats.
Perhaps it benefits a gene pool to thin the herd before it overshoots the resource base enough to die off completely. That’s not hard to envision, and it does sort of justify a government with the authority to kill people.
When you need some lebensraum, and coal and wheat from Ukraine, “who ya; gonna call”?
The Mayan Collapse was preceded by a lot of killing between villages, but it did not turn things around because the weather was so bad for farming for a long time (I read).

My personal synthesis is that we are at the end of a very long “Yang” swing, and we are in a kind of overshoot as a planetary-dominant-species, which seems completely novel on this planet (excluding the Spirulena Epoch before Eukaryotes)
I seek to be part of a new way of surviving cooperatively together, becoming Stewards of Life.
That may seem grandiose, but it’s really idealistic, and it is founded in a mechanism of deployment.
The mechanism is ESP, of a sort. Spiritual connection, and the desire to be part of the fulfillment of the will of Loving Universal Consciousness. Deer seem to be good at this, as do horses.
Deer are psychic, in my experience. There are a lot in our neighborhood, because they didn’t leave when it got built in the 1970s. I whistle to them as I approach on foot or bike. The send a tingle to me, a psychic tingle that I can feel, often as they look up at me from down the block. It feels like a sensor from them. I kind of like it. I bet they really engage with each other.
Horses are the embodiment of “the eyes are the windows to the soul”. I ride a bike. I like to engage with horses as friends. It’s just sort of something I discovered at times when there were horses on my walks. They like me, too. Once a horse knows you, he or she will recognize you from afar, and in a different place, and you can feel the recognition from the horse’s eyes, even several houses away, if you can feel that kind of thing.. (I mean I have experienced this. YMMV I have not eaten critters for 20 year, not eaten mammals for way longer. I’m “peaceful”)
So what is the mechanism of population control, which controls terminal overgrazing and extinction, which I have to propose, to replace what we have been using since before there were written records?
Not quite the right question, because it comes from where we see ourselves, which is informed by the narratives of our sociopathic overlords, since they have generally supported writers who write good justifications for their status-quo.
I don’t know, not exactly. It’s a broadly distributed problem which has not been worked yet. We can all think of mechanistic ways things could be forced to work (“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy”), but we need at least a hive-mind level to work this.
I experience beneficent spirit. I seek guidance. This seems to work on a personal scale, in the most wealthy (in a way) times in history. It’s a leap of faith to give up on mass extermination of our population (or at least those “others”) , but I think now is the time to give it our best efforts.
It really does look like the elites of the world are mostly seeking to cull all of the herds at the same time, rather than stampeding herds at each other in the vicinity of cliffs and waterfalls.
That makes this uncharted territory any way you look at it…
We can never just go back to the bloody trenches, artillery and mustard gas of bygone days, because total annihilation has become a push-button feature for sociopathic elites across the planet, and it serves nobody to use it, but it serves a lot of them to be instantly PREPARED to use it. It’s common knowledge that there have been a slew of close calls in my lifetime, though we mostly found out much later.
So, really, we can’t do it the way it always got done before, and the sociopaths are working this out in sociopathic ways, with sociopathic rules-of-engagement.
I suggest we do the parallel solution work, which has the capacity to be much better if we pull it off, and probably no worse if we don’t.
I don’t want to fail to try. This is a big deal.

[John Day]

The sociopathic American oligarchy that assassinated John, Bobby and Martin is still in power. It controls us, far more completely than before.
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone​ ​A Film Review​ , Edward Curtain
Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. It opens with President John F. Kennedy giving the commencement speech at American University on June 10, 1963 and it closes with his civil rights speech to the American people the following day.​..
​ What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children – not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women – not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.​..
​ ​One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.​..​​

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone

Just wondering… Whу are armed Americans operating in the trenches of Eastern Ukraine?
Forward Observations, which apparently consists mostly of former American servicemen, came into the spotlight after Russian military-related social media communities started discussing their e-bravado over being in the conflict zone.
Men with stars and stripes shared pictures of themselves, faces blurred, as they arrived in Severodonetsk. This is where the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces is deployed. It apparently includes ex-fighters from the currently nonexistent infamous volunteer Aidar Battalion, which was staffed by right-wing individuals often described as ‘neo-Nazi’ by the media.
https://www.rt.com/russia/547425-us-soldiers-ukraine-front/

Russia rejects the ruling order of that oligarchic cabal. How inconvenient. Whatever shall we do?
The Other Side of the Story: Russia’s view on Geopolitics, War and Energy Racketeering

The Other Side of the Story: Russia’s view on Geopolitics, War and Energy Racketeering

​The Russian Ruble is up after Russian FM Lavrov declares invasion of Ukraine “unthinkable” (Not stupid enough to punch that tar-baby, per analysts.)
​https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ruble-russian-markets-rebound-after-foreign-ministry-says-war-ukraine-unthinkable

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