[John Day]

COP26 & The Great Reset: The Not So Glorious Prospect of Owning Nothing and Passing a Cold, Dark Winter​ , Cynthia Chung​
President Putin also had to make the point that countries need to tell Russia whether they want the gas supply to be increased, that Russia is meeting the present contractual demands and that if there is a demand to increase the supply, Russia can do it, but it needs to be a contract. Russia is not simply going to increase its supply to European nations without their official request for such a thing.
​ ​So, thus far we have found out that Russia has increased its supply of gas to Europe since the beginning of the year, that the US accounts for half of the cuts to the supply to Europe, that the energy shortage in Europe was caused by an over-reliance on wind and solar energy and that Nord Stream 2 (which has been strongly opposed by the US and Green Energy advocates) has the capability to restabilize gas prices and meet supply demands, that Russia is willing to do this, but that there are ongoing European restrictions that are preventing this from happening.​..
​ ​The fight for nuclear energy has always been about the fight for the right to develop one’s nation.​ ​​ (As opposed to being a tributary colony.)​
As President Putin stressed the point at the recent “Russia Energy Week International Forum”:
“To reiterate, the rise in natural gas prices in Europe stemmed from shortages of electricity, not the other way around… Systemic flaws have been gradually introduced in European energy over the past decade, which led to a major market crisis in Europe.
​ ​As a reminder, when nuclear and natural gas-based generation were the leading energy sources, there were no such crises, and there were no grounds for them… Few people are aware of this, but the nuclear energy’s carbon footprint is lower than that of solar energy. I think even the specialists here are, perhaps, hearing this for the first time.”​ (Catastrophic failure risks, and end-of-life management of old reactors are not factored in to that.)​
Mark Carney, former director of the Bank of England has called for a “net zero banking alliance” in which banks have agreed not to lend to producers but only to put funds into the green bubble, the carbon bubble and so on. As a result, future energy production will drop even though there are ample resources available, creating further artificial scarcity.​…​
​ ​Carney said climate change must become the “fundamental driver of every investment decision or lending decision.”​ …
​ ​This is where the Great Reset agenda comes in, which will cause a further centralisation of how finance is already coordinated, into the hands of fewer and fewer controllers, giving increasing liquidity to the banking sector but no money for the productive sector.​..
In addition, Wall Street on Parade has reported that they have reason to believe that the hyperinflation we are presently observing started back in Sept 2019 when a derivatives blow out occurred and to which the Federal Reserve stepped in through the repo markets to provide massive liquidity to banks such as Deutsche Bank, BNP, JP Morgan, Citibank, Bank of America etc.
​ ​This hyperinflationary money pumping did not just go to what is claimed to be solely for the covering of short-term corporate loans. The hypothesis of Wall Street on Parade is that the bulk of this money really went to covering up the derivatives blowout that they believe started in Sept 2019.
​ ​This is what is truly causing the hyperinflation and is being covered up by labeling it as a supply chain problem of raw material shortages and so on, when in fact it is due to the hyperinflationary money printing, combined with the green new deal policies, which are artificially driving up the prices of gas and coal.

COP26 & The Great Reset: The Not So Glorious Prospect of Owning Nothing and Passing a Cold, Dark Winter

[John Day]

Pictured with collard greens. Got plenty of collard greens now. Truth Rests Lies https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/truth-resets-lies.html

​ In Mid October 2019 COP 201 was hastily convened to war-game a coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world, and how countries might mobilize to meet this global threat. Bill Gates, the WHO, Johns Hopkins and governments of the world all participated. At this moment in time, by my reckoning, SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in the US, China and Europe, and the Wuhan (military olympic) Games were underway, with all participants staying in a huge hotel complex.
A few participants, including Americans,were hospitalized with a weird viral pneumonia…​
Meanwhile, back in Manhattan, concurrent with COP 201, the Fed had to take over the overnight repo-window the previous month, September, because there was some kind of occult crisis of trust between the major banks of the world, and they could not loan to each other overnight based on good collateral (T-bills).
This now appears to have been due to the long-awaited crisis of derivative counterparty-risk.
They are not different things. The leveraged house-of-cards of global finance was quivering a bit…
Kill two birds with one stone. No, make that three birds. No, the whole damned flock of seagulls!
All of the players from global finance, global governance, global military and global medical and pharmacology were sitting at this big table working out the Great Reset. (“If you are not AT the table, you are ON the table”, I have heard.)
What we are seeing and living now is the unfolding of the plans they worked out at this crisis summit. They maintain ownership. They maintain control of the system. The system appears to function as it did in the past, but only through vast daily creation of faith-based money.
“Faith” is sustained through the giddy form of greed that people feel when they are riding the peak of a bubble higher and higher, “to infinity and beyond”.
Ths “smart” money is buying up any property it can find, before the faith-based money turns into a pumpkin at midnight. (Hey, what time is it!)
There can be no “rebuild back better”, because fossil fuels, mineral ores and fossil water are all in decline, while parasitic rents on real economy are choking it to death. Since it is already “what’s for dinner”, it needs to be cast as “what is necessary to save the planet”. Nobody in power has to lose power. The system stays the same, with some necessary adjustments.
Regular people, those of us not-at-the-table, need to understand that we are in climate crisis (we are) and that the only way out is to give up all of our property rights and all of our constitutional rights, and to allow our choices to be made for us, for the good of all of the life on Planet Earth.
Otherwise, there is no plan at all.
Obviously, only the people with experience at the top echelons of global governance, finance and public health have the broad enough vision to lead us forward into this crisis which was completely unforeseeable (except to people who read the obscure 1973 book “The Limits To Growth”, which I learned about in 1974, and Deng Xiaopeng also read about that time. I hear his thinking was much influenced by it.)
I must sheepishly admit that I am not really going along with this plan, even though it’s the best thing for all of us. I’m just going to try to spend cash while I have a little, grow vegetables, be a friend, a neighbor, “uncle John”, “Dad”, and so on. I don’t have a real plan for global, national, regional, local and household economies for our whole world. AI computers can probably work that all out these days. In the past, there always had to be a collapse of the upper levels of management, finance and government, and the economies had to re-set from the ground-level of production, distribution and consumption on up.
That always took a decade or more. It also always seemed to waste most of the valuable executive talent at the pinnacle of the financial and governance hierarchy.
We can scarcely afford to lose our leaders in this critical moment of crisis, now can we?

​A Global Oil Shortage Is Inevitable
…Chronic underinvestment in new oil supply since the 2015 crisis and the pressure on oil and gas companies to curb emissions and even “keep it in the ground” will likely lead to peak global oil production earlier than previously expected, analysts say.
​ ​This would be a welcome development for green energy advocates, net-zero agendas, and the planet if it weren’t for one simple fact: oil demand is rebounding from the pandemic-driven slump and will set a new average annual record as soon as next year.
​ ​The energy transition and the various government plans for net-zero emissions have prompted analysts to forecast that peak oil demand would occur earlier than expected just a few years ago. However, as current investment trends in oil and gas stand, global oil supply could peak sooner than global oil demand…
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/A-Global-Oil-Shortage-Is-Inevitable.html

[John Day]

I just caught up on the last comments from last night.

WES: Thank You, Amigo, for telling your tale of life with poor hearing and narrowing tunnel vision.
I won’t say more. You have my respect for your life and all you have told us of it…

TAE Summary said:
Summary in Limericks

Jacinda, New Zealand’s PM
Is ever so quick to condemn
If you’ve no accredit
You’d best just forget it
Her country’s now Us versus Them

The vaxx won’t prevent the transmission
Of Covid in many condition
To put it quite crude
Get vaxxed and you’re screwed
By Pfizer spike protein coition

Tom Hobbes thinks that people are rotten
While Locke said we’re just misbegotten
We’re decent, Locke thinks
Well that theory stinks
We’re evil, but Locke has forgotten

A doc takes the oath Hippocratic
Despite this some docs are erratic
They harm more than aid
By evil they’re swayed
Bad judgement becomes quite dogmatic

Dr. D. said a lot, and it dovetails into what I am going to write now, the essay that pulls the whole big picture together once and for all…
Gotta’ start writing while I can see it so clearly. Why didn’t I see this all before?
(Oh, I did, and I’m not alone, but still…)

[John Day]

Thanks Doc Robinson for the spontaneous Abortion after COVID vaccination paper
https://cf5e727d-d02d-4d71-89ff-9fe2d3ad957f.filesusr.com/ugd/adf864_2bd97450072f4364a65e5cf1d7384dd4.pdf

Thanks to Germ for the paper about suppression of DNA repair by anti-cancer cellular proteins/enzymes https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/10/2056/htm

These are very important topics.

[John Day]

Come Back Shane! … er Veracious Poet.

[John Day]

Thanks My Parents Said Know. I seek to keep this house design and execution as simple as possible, and as easy to work on later as can be done.

[John Day]

https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/11/unscheduled-creative-opportunity.html
“Unscheduled Creative Opportunity” post includes a hand drawn scale plan for the small house we are attaching to the main house at the homestead, via a short covered walkway. It’s what I have been doing, since I now have unscheduled time in my life. (Going for a bike ride now.)

Since my last blog post last week I have been working on physical projects in the world, mostly at the homestead. The absence of a regimented work schedule has allowed me to work on the 1957 house, getting a giant 24 HP vacuum cleaner in Austin, Saturday morning, driving it and a mess of six inch corrugated hose to Yoakum, and troubleshooting the mess all day, as we got shocked by the hose as we sucked out the old insulation. Static electricity was like rubbing wool on a glass rod, but more so with 24 HP providing the rub. The worst piece of hose was the big problem. It’s internally-conductive coil of copper wire was exposed by big cracks, allowing the static sparks to jump to human bodies (impressive visuals in the dark attic).
I did not do much of that work in the attic, but enough to “get a feel” for what was happening. None of us wants to do that again.
I told the rental place about the piece of tubing I had tagged with steel wire “really hurting people”. They said they would throw it away.
I would never have had any understanding of this somewhat obscure line of endeavor if I had not taken part in the process.
So what? Yeah, “so what”… That’s life and learning. That is actually doing things, instead of signing an order. It’s different.

For years I have been making scale drawings of houses to build, none of which has been built. I have been studying books about building and remodeling for those same years. I have the books, with highlighted passages, and good illustrations. I have been reviewing them again. I have been drawing pictures again, but this time we are setting out to actually build a modest little house, mainly kitchen and living/dining area, with a combined bathroom and laundry room, and some finished-out attic space. It will attach to the main house via a very short covered walkway. That makes it meet code as an “addition”.
The contractor has been doing much of the maintenance on the existing house, and we got to talk and draw this weekend. My friend, Lester, an Architectural Engineer, is being tremendously helpful with advice as to what works to safely and securely construct our ideas.
I am including a drawing of the internal space of the first floor, about 25 ft. X 32 ft. internally, with a 13 X 8 ft. screen porch coming off the back/kitchen door.
This structure will come off the end of the house, which was seen in the background of the last blog post, behind the Mexican avocado trees. Each square represents one square foot of floor space. The sliding glass door looks out to the avocado orchard. (There is a pull-down ladder to the attic, not shown, because I can’t upload the scanned image of the updated drawing.)

For now, my abstract ideas are being helped by the much greater experience of the building contractor and the Architectural Engineer, helping us all to proceed carefully and avoid errors. We are communicating well. We all intend to “measure twice; cut once”.
Though this has long been a plan of mine, it is made possible by my firing from the clinic for non-compliance with vaccine-mandate, changed to being fired-for-cause at the last minute, after the Governor issued an executive order against vaccine mandates a few weeks ago. I am cashing out my very modest retirement plan, which will fund a large portion of this build.
I have wanted to “build my own house” since I was a boy, or at least a youth. I will be completely satisfied to do some of the work and participate in the design of “my own house” at this stage of my life.

I will post updates of this constructive learning experience as it proceeds.
You might be entertained some days.
We’ll see…

[John Day]

Ugo Bardi’s “Age of Exterminations” series gives useful perspective on how societies have exterminated members, or classes within a society, for the profit of others, or sometimes because there was not enough food from a bad crop year.
Let me start with the base case of human society killing some members of an extended family/clan as “witches” when heavy rains or drought have drastically reduced the supply of food. In the area of Tanzania studied, fed by rain-supplied agriculture, there are twice as many witch-killings in years of excessive rainfall, when crops are damaged, as in years of normal rainfall. The victims are typically elderly women, killed by family-members.
Poverty and Witch Killing, Edward Miguel, U. Cal. Berkeley, 2005
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3700704

I would take the above as mostly a case of famine killing poor people. Western witch killings in Europe and North America did come in hard times, bad winters, the Little Ice Age, but also befell those with some property, and little protection. there was profit to be made.
Killing an elderly great-aunt, when everybody is hungry, seems like a variation on the theme of people starving to death in famine.

The Age of Exterminations VI: “The Great Famine To Come”, looks at the Irish Potato Famine as a historical example.
The Irish people were subsisting on potatoes, brought from the new world, and much of the land was owned by others, who produced grain and livestock for export and to feed the troops of the British Empire.
The Irish peasant farmers had been saddled with all of the risk, and they died when potato blight destroyed their food.
The crown was “reluctant” to interfere in the economic markets…
The Irish peasants had “owned nothing and were happy”, until they had no food, having unknowingly assumed all of the economic risk of the system by having no other recourse but to eat potatoes they grew, or to die.
The lesson here is that having no options, which is to be poor, and not to “own the means of food production” makes one a ready target for extermination through widespread famine. Universal Basic Income would be a chute into this outcome, as would any form of government handout that became an only-means-of-eating.
So, to kill large numbers of poor people, cut off the food supply. It can look like anything made it happen. It happens periodically.
Professor Bardi looks at The Limits To Growth graphs and the revision to that. We can expect industrialized food production and delivery to have major problems as industrial economy contracts. (Mr. Gates seems to be well invested in farmland.)
One might find ways to assure one’s food, water and fuel through a hard spell, but one would not be able to do so in a social vacuum.
Consider helping feed your community, or being a member of a community that largely feeds itself, if that is possible.
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-vi-great.html

The Age Of Exterminations IV: “How To Kill The Rich”, looks at the opposite end of the wealth spectrum. Wealth is sustained through force, through threat of violence. The rich who are inadequately protected by private armies, or a government army, are subject to ambush, sudden and overwhelming ambush.
It’s typically rich and powerful sociopaths that can conspire to do this.
That could include the king, the pope, the CIA, the FBI, the Mob, or the army, but it has to be people with trained killers who can keep a secret.
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-iv-how-to.html

The next two essays seem to share the common thread of killing those who are somewhat gullible, susceptible to propaganda, and crowd mania.

The Age Of Exterminations III: “How to Exterminate The Young”, is really about exterminating a lot of the young men in a society in WW-1.
Propagandized young Italian men got whipped into a mass rage and went off to take back pieces of Italy from Austrians who were offering to give it back if Italy remained neutral. Half of them died. People became much more wary after that.
In the US, it was the Civil War that made Americans wary.
Mechanized warfare is mass slaughter. The survivors will subsequently understand that.
It has mostly been wiped from the American memory by having smaller wars in places nobody knows, starting with Grenada.
Americans could be susceptible again. Vietnam is almost forgotten now, almost…
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-age-of-exterminations-ii-how-to.html

[John Day]

​ “Original Antigenic Sin” is an off-putting term for a really critical immunologic mechanism, which is well explained and documented here. I’d like to call it something less prone to cause people’s minds to immediately shut off, something like “Immunological Imprinting”​. (Hats off to Konrad Lorenz.)
Oh, look, that’s what this article in Nature calls it; just what I thought of. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23977-1
Here is the article that Marjorie sent me, explaining that the human adaptive immune system creates an antibody response to the first variant of a viral family that it gets infected by. Flu is an example, and coronavirus is a family that keeps mutating and adapting as time goes by, like influenza.
The memory B cells that are ready to make those antibodies go on vacation until the virus comes back, then pounce into action with the response they know so well. They do that in a couple of days, well before novice immune cells can mount a new response, more specific to this mutated variant.
That usually works OK, but not always, and sometimes it can be worse than nothing if the new virus has mutated to exploit that fixed antibody response.
That is called “ADE”, antibody dependent enhancement of viral pathogenicity, and it is one of the banes of vaccine makers. It usually only happens when the vaccine is the first exposure of a naive immune system to a viral family. It happened with a Rotavirus vaccine in the US, and recently with a Dengue vaccine in the tropics. That Dengue vaccine killed a lot of kids when they caught a different strain of Dengue from what they had been vaccinated against. It inhibited one Dengue virus, but enhanced the new improved version.
It is already apparent how that is working with coronaviruses in general and with COVID vaccines against the January 2020 spike protein in particular. People who have had other coronaviruses in the past mount that response again, early, and it is not specific to SARS-CoV-2, but it is usually good enough to keep the viral load down from the outset and prevent more than mild illness.
Those same people who had prior coronavirus infection do not make as many specific antibodies to the 2020 spike protein when they get vaccinated, because they mainly trigger the prior learned response.
People who get the January 2020 spike protein as an imprint are already making antibodies known to enhance certain infectious actions of the Delta variant, helping it to enter human cells more rapidly.
They do not make any antibodies to the other 84% of a coronavirus, and they might never be any good at doing that for the rest of their lives.
Any children who have not already caught a coronavirus, who are vaccinated with current products, may be impaired from ever mounting an adequate immune response to any future coronavirus…
That is precisely a very bad thing to do to each of those children, and to the human herd.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/more-on-original-antigenic-sin-and?

[John Day]

Blog is up, with picture in replanted Mexican avocado orchard
Resist extermination. Protect the kids.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/targeted-exterminations.html

The Age Of Exterminations V: “Suicide As A Weapon Of Mass Destruction”, is really about tricking people into taking poison, but they will do it best, if they do not know they are taking poison. They could just be doing something “good for their health”, or “going to a hospital”, or “taking a shower”.
Poisoners throughout history have been a devious and cunning lot.
Sometimes the people who do not take the poison with everybody else get shot. Sometimes they get away.
Sometimes people do kill themselves and their families, rather than be taken by enemy soldiers.
I think that is different from being tricked into taking poison…
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-v-killing.html

COVID Vaccines in teenagers::
This week’s U.S. data for 12- to 17-year-olds show:
​ ​21,921 total adverse events, including 1,325 rated as serious and 25 reported deaths. Two of the 25 deaths were suicides.
​ ​The most recent death involves a 12-year-old girl (VAERS I.D. 1784945) who died from a respiratory tract hemorrhage 22 days after receiving her first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.
​ ​Another recent death includes a 15-year-old male who died six days after receiving his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine. According to his VAERS report (VAERS I.D. 1764974), the previously healthy teen complained of brief unilateral shoulder pain five days after receiving his COVID vaccine.
​ ​The next day he played with two friends at a community pond, swung on a rope swing, flipped into the air, and landed in the water feet first. He surfaced, laughed and told his friends “Wow, that hurt!” He then swam toward shore underwater, as was his usual routine, but did not re-emerge.
​ ​An autopsy showed no external indication of a head injury, but there was a small subgaleal hemorrhage — a rare, but lethal bleeding disorder — over the left occiput. In addition, the boy had a mildly elevated cardiac mass, increased left ventricular wall thickness and small foci of myocardial inflammation of the lateral wall of the left ventricle with myocyte necrosis (dead heart muscle) consistent with myocardial infarction.​

17,000+ Deaths Reported After COVID Vaccines, Including New Report of 12-Year-Old Who Died After Pfizer Vaccine

[John Day]

@Germ: Thank you, thank you, thank you… “Store up for yourself treasures in Heaven”

@Wes: I did read your comments last night. Thanks for having a brain, brother.

Those Darned Kids said: “you know, doc day, i’ve a theory that many of those non-coding CATGut (i play strings..) dna thingers are actually memories encoded in a quaternary language.”
JD: The Inca string messages have not been decoded the last I heard. It does look like the non-replicating parts are control-related. It’s some kind of meaning, tied to function, sort of like compliance-officers at work, maybe.

@Zerosum: What was the question again? 😮

[John Day]

@Chooch: You are currently winning-by-not-losing.
I advise to accept the mask-wearing and weekly swab testing. They are a benign face-saving measure for your employer.
Here is the sticky part:
3. I must adhere to any additional customer or supplier requirements – even where those requirements may be more stringent.
It’s open-ended. It needs to be limited. This would limit it to putting on more stuff or staying farther away: It sounds very stringent… It may even be what they mean.
3. I must adhere to any additional customer or supplier on-site requirements – even where those requirements may involve stringent requirements for isolation or personal protective equipment.

[John Day]

@TT4TW:
Vitamin-D is, yes a hormone, but it was named when it was discovered, before that was understood.
It is a hormone that our species lost the ability to manufacture, but that did not matter much at the time, since our species mostly lived in the sun in temperate zones, where sunlight in the skin surface made plenty of vitamin-D. It became a problem when our species migrated north, where one must wear clothing in the winter, and the sun is too weak to make vitamin-D for much of the year.
Those people lost pigment and ate animals with vitamin-D, or got rickets, and died of disease at young ages.
This is late in the game for us to directly address this, maybe 200,000 years too late. Vitamin-D is stored in the fat. It has a very long half life. Optimum levels for immune function appear to be over 60. Ideal levels for people with autoimmune disease or cancer are probably 90-100. Some would say higher. “Normal” is 30-100, but toxicity does not occur under 150. I’ve never seen it over 112, and the person felt fine.
I advise everybody to take some vitamin-D , ride a bike, grow a vegetable garden if you are able, and to be at peace with your divine nature, and benevolent to others.
Don’t trust “A Rothschild” who is obviously a poseur discussing the relative merits of hallucinogens/entheogens. The “bloodline” stuff is mostly a misdirection of though
Look at traits. Traits are the thing. “Bloodline” is not really a useful term in genetic analysis.
“Memes” carried in families and clans look to be at least as important as genes, and there should be synergy between them.

[John Day]

The Age of Extermination (I) : Who Are The Typical Victims? Professor Ugo Bardi
If you think of the story of the witch hunts of the 16th-17th century in Europe, you may be under the impression that the typical witch was an old hag living in a hut at the margins of the village, alone with a black cat.
But no, that wasn’t the case. Maybe this kind of marginal people were occasionally killed for being witches, but they were not the usual victims. In reality, witch hunting had a strong monetary component and it was often carried out with a view on making a profit on the confiscation of the assets of the victims. They were not poor and destitute women but, rather, members of the growing mercantile class in Europe.
The profit-making facet of witch hunting has been often ignored by historians, but it is being reappraised and highlighted in recent times, for instance by Johannes Dillinger (2021) and by Shmakov and Petrov (2018). Both articles are highly suggested and provide a remarkable wealth of data about the financial mechanism that led to witch hunts: in short, there was no (or very little) witch hunting where the government didn’t allow the assets of the victims to be confiscated. Killing witches, then, was just one of the many forms of legalized robbery in history,..
Without going into the details, we can say that all these exterminations have several points in common.
1. A relatively wealthy subgroup of society that can be identified by physical, linguistic, or cultural traits, sufficiently large to give a good revenue if defeated and spoiled of its assets.
2. A strained economic, social, or military situation that leads the dominant groups to look for new resources.
3. The lack of effective military defense capabilities on the part of the subgroup…
​ ​It has happened so many times that it is unthinkable that it won’t happen again. There is no doubt that we are in a difficult moment, both economically and militarily. So, the temptation is strong for the elites to identify one or more subgroups to exterminate and rob of their assets.
Who could be the next victims?
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-age-of-exterminations-who-will-be.html

​ ​”Now I think I can propose the answer​”​:
The most likely target for the next extermination round are middle-class retirees.
​ ​Retirees satisfy all the requirements: They are identifiable, of course, they are old! They are often relatively wealthy and, more than that, they cost a lot of money in terms of health care. Finally, they can hardly put up serious military resistance. Exterminating the middle-class elders would be both easy and profitable​…

In practice, the weak spot of the middle-class retirees is that they need medical assistance and that they cannot normally pay the skyrocketing costs on their personal saving. So, they could be gently removed from the state budget by degrading the public health care system while saying that it is being modified in order to protect them…
….society as a whole is a complex network with a certain ability to process information. It does that without being “conscious” of what is being done: there is no plan, no specific objectives to reach. But often society moves as a whole in a specific direction.

​ ​In this case, Western Society seems to perceive the problem created by an excess of elderly people, and it is moving to solve it. It is brutal, yes, but only individuals have moral restraints, society as a whole has none. Every decision taken individually affects all the other decisions, and we are seeing the results. It is nothing new in history where, typically, everything that happens, happens because it had to happen.
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-age-of-exterminations-iii-you.html

[John Day]

Ten red flags in the FDA’s risk-benefit analysis of Pfizer’s EUA application to inject American children 5 to 11 with its mRNA product
​1)​ COVID-19 rates in children ages 5 to 11 are so low that there were ZERO cases of severe COVID-19 and ZERO cases of death from COVID in either the treatment (n= 1,518) or control group (n= 750). So any claims you see in the press about the Pfizer vaccine being “90% effective” in children are meaningless​…
2) ​Pfizer’s clinical trial in kids was intentionally undersized to hide harms. This is a well known trick of the pharmaceutical industry. The FDA even called them out on it earlier this summer and asked Pfizer to expand the trial and Pfizer just ignored them because they can.​..
3) ​Pfizer only enrolled “participants 5-11 years of age without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.” Does the Pfizer mRNA shot wipe out natural immunity and leave one worse-off than doing nothing as shown in this data from the British government? Pfizer has no idea because children with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection were excluded…
4) ​Did Pfizer LOSE CONTACT with 4.9% of their clinical trial participants? The FDA risk-benefit document states: “Among Cohort 1 participants, 95.1% had safety follow-up ≥2 months after Dose 2 at the time of the September 6, 2021 data cutoff.” So what happened with those 4.9% who did not have safety follow-up 2 months after Dose 2? Were they in the treatment or control group?​ (Note:​ ​Throwing out just a few data points you don’t like can work WONDERS for a small study.)
​5) ​The follow up period was intentionally too short. This is another well-know trick of the pharmaceutical industry designed to hide harms. Cohort 1 appears to have been followed for 2 months, cohort 2 was only monitored for adverse events for 17 days. Many harms from vaccines including cancer and autoimmune disorders take much longer to show up…
6) The risk-benefit model created by the FDA only looks at one known harm from the Pfizer mRNA shot — myocarditis. But we know that the real world harms from the Pfizer mRNA shot go well beyond myocarditis and include anaphylaxis, Bell’s Palsy, heart attack, thrombocytopenia/ low platelet, permanent disability, shingles, and Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) to name a few. Cancer, diabetes, endocrine disruption, and autoimmune disorders may show up later…
7) Pfizer intentionally wipes out the control group as soon as they can by vaccinating all of the kids who initially got the placebo. They claim that they are doing this for “ethical reasons”. But everyone knows that Pfizer’s true aim is to wipe out any comparison group so that there can be no long term safety studies.
8) Given all of the above, how on earth did the FDA claim any benefits at all from this shot? You should probably sit down for this part because it’s a doozy! Here’s the key sentence:
Vaccine effectiveness was inferred by immunobridging SARS-CoV-2 50% neutralizing antibody titers (NT50, SARS-CoV-2 mNG microneutralization assay).
Wait, what!? I’ll explain. There were ZERO cases of severe COVID-19 in the clinical trial of children ages 5 to 11. So Pfizer and the FDA just ignored all of the actual health outcomes (they had to, there is no emergency, so the application is moot). INSTEAD Pfizer switched to looking at antibodies in the blood. In general, antibodies are a poor predictor of immunity. And the antibodies in the blood of these 5 to 11 year old children tell us nothing because again, there were zero cases of severe COVID-19 in this study (none in the treatment group, none in the control group).
9) The FDA model only assesses the benefits of vaccine protection in a 6-month period after completion of two doses. Furthermore it assumes constant vaccine efficacy during that time period. This is problematic on several counts.
First, reducing mild cases in children is not a desired clinical outcome…
Second, we know that vaccine efficacy in the month after the first dose is negative because it suppresses the immune system and it begins to wane after 4 months so all of the FDA’s estimates of vaccine efficacy are inflated.
Third, the harms of myocarditis from these shots will likely unfold over the course of years.
​10)​ The FDA/Pfizer play fast and loose with their estimates of myocarditis.​..
​ So (if the Biden administration has its way) 106 excess myocarditis cases per 1 million x 28.38 million people would be 3,009 excess myocarditis cases post-vaccination if the Pfizer vaccine is approved.
​ ​And over the course of several years many of those children will die. Dr. Anthony Hinton (“Consultant Surgeon with 30 years experience in the NHS”) points out that myocarditis has a 20% fatality rate after 2 years and a 50% fatality rate after 5 years.
So the FDA has it exactly backwards — they want to prevent mild COVID in children which reduces herd immunity and they just flat out lie about the harms from myocarditis.​ (So why would the FDA want to do something exactly wrong with so many children? Just business?)​
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/ten-red-flags-in-the-fdas-risk-benefit

Urgent: Send This Letter Today to Congress Outlining Threat COVID Vaccines Pose to the Health of Our Nation’s Young Children
​ ​In a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Children’s Health Defense highlighted peer-reviewed research showing children have virtually zero risk of hospitalization and death from COVID, and outlined the vaccine’s risks. Please send the letter to your members of Congress.

Urgent: Send This Letter Today to Congress Outlining Threat COVID Vaccines Pose to the Health of Our Nation’s Young Children

[John Day]

There is a picture of a couple of thriving Namwah banana plants with a guy in an odd t-shirt today
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/the-age-of-extermination.html

I posted about the smoke, mirrors and hand-waving that went into the Pfizer trial for Pediatric approval of their vaccine, which should have had something like 60,000 subjects to find anything but the most common adverse events. It vaccinated 1,131 children 12-15, so it was unlikely to pick up even one case of myocarditis, which appears to be 1/5000 in this cohort. It was likely to sail through with no adverse events. There was at least one very adverse event, and they have to pretend it did not happen. So far, that is working. Wall-of-silence… The mother of the child had her public notification (ad) disallowed, censored.
​ ​When Stephanie and Patrick de Garay enrolled their 12-year-old child Maddie and her two brothers in Pfizer’s Covid-19 clinical trial, they believed they were doing the right thing.
​ ​That decision has turned into a nightmare. Maddie, a previously healthy, energetic, full of life child, was within 24 hours of her second dose reduced to crippling, scream-inducing pain that landed her in the emergency room where she described feeling like someone was “ripping [her] heart out through [her] neck.”
​ ​Over the next several months the nightmare continued, during which Maddie was hospitalized several times and suffered numerous systemic injuries, requires a tube through her nose that carries her food and medicine, and a wheelchair for assistance.
​ ​Ms. de Garay documented every detail of Maddie’s injury and reported it to the principal investigator for the Pfizer trial at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where the vaccine clinical trial was occurring and where Maddie was treated and admitted. They first tried to treat Maddie as “a mental patient,” telling the family it was psychological and in Maddie’s imagination. Then they claimed it was unrelated to the vaccine (copy of recording with hospital below), and when that argument failed, Pfizer listed this traumatic adverse event as “functional abdominal pain” when reporting to the FDA.
​ ​Ms. de Garay reported what occurred to the CDC and FDA through VAERS in June 2021 but nobody from these agencies sought additional information or followed-up with the de Garays. Ms. de Garay also reached out to Dr. Nath, a Chief in the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, responded by stating he was “Sorry to hear of your daughter’s illness” and that “We have certainly heard of a lot of cases of neurological complications form [sic] the vaccine and will be glad to share our experience with them.” (Copy of this email is below.) Unfortunately, other than a call arranged by Maddie’s neurologist, there was no follow-up or response from NIH or any other federal health agency. Even after Ms. de Garay did a press event on June 28, 2021 with Senator Ron Johnson, neither Pfizer nor any health agency reached out in any manner to address Maddie’s injury or obtain any additional information.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fda-buries-data-seriously-injured-child-pfizer-covid-19-clinical-trial/5759802

[John Day]

Thanks for sorting out that COVID Vaccinated Die less story, Doc Robinson. It is from the golden-age of American COVID vaccination outcomes, before August. Israel and the UK were already going bad by late July.
Just cut the data off when it goes bad and declare past glory as a timeless absolute!

The article about the complete fabrication of fake study data to justify mRNA vaccinating children at zero risk is also very good.

[John Day]

A Tale of Two Civilizations looks at long and short term Chinese strategy for markets, trade and currency.​
If I may compress:
Taiwan makes 2/3 of the world’s computer chips and is contested between China, the Taiwanese, other Asian countries, other chip users, and the US/West. The first order of business for all, is to keep the chips coming. The second order of business is to deny them to one’s competitors. China may have another order of business, if it needs a war to hold the country together. Taiwan does not want to be taken over again. It is already too much of Taiwan’s history. Not mentioned is the interest of countries like Japan and Korea, which want Taiwan to be independent for reasons of economics, and also due to the threats they face if China overruns Taiwan.
China has seen the $US as doomed for 50 years, at least in some ruling circles. China has been building gold bullion stores since around 1980, and they are probably bigger than what is admitted, maybe several times bigger. This might be revealed when the $US appears weak, to support a global reserve currency, perhaps backed by gold, which would serve Chinese interests.
China sees the US as morally degenerate, which is more apparent in the western media, so China curtails Chinese media presentations that weaken family and traditional social structures.
China manages the Chinese economy as a command economy at the strategic level, but not at the day to day level, and is taking steps to gently deflate wealth bubbles that are making the poor get poorer.
The West is currently “defeating itself” to borrow from Sun Tzu’s “Art od War”. China is not interfering much. (Maybe fanning a flame, here and there.)
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/a-tale-of-two-civilisations

​ ​Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol
(He seems pretty convincing, but people caught onto him and chanted “Fed, Fed, Fed…”, so he popped up in other spots, again and again, urging people to “go into the capital”.)​ ​
​ ​Epps appears to have led the “breach team” that committed the very first illegal acts on that fateful day. What’s more, Epps and his “breach team” did all their dirty work with 10 minutes still remaining in President Trump’s National Mall speech, and with the vast majority of Trump supporters still 30 minutes away from the Capitol.

Meet Ray Epps: The Fed-Protected Provocateur Who Appears To Have Led The Very First 1/6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol

End of capitalism, transgender kids, NATO, reverse racism, WWII, censorship and more: What Putin spoke about at Valdai
https://www.rt.com/russia/538131-putin-capitalism-racism-censorship/

​Charles Hugh Smith: ​
Software Ate the World and Now Has Indigestion
​ ​The vision of software eating the world is part and parcel of the compelling fantasy that humans will soon be free from the drudgery of work and scarcity and bask in near-infinite abundance due to techno-magic. Those most taken by this vision are never the ones trying to keep the software and robotics from failing, because those laboring to keep the whole mess from collapsing know the limits are far more real than the magical-thinking enthusiasts understand.​..
​ Consider all those apps which are supposed to be the epitome of automated productivity: if software is so great, then why do the apps need thousands of ghost workers to keep the kludgy mess semi-functional? Hidden behind the shiny happy facade of automated software wonderland, thousands of poorly paid humans have to do the hard bits that software fails to do or fails to do properly.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct21/software-indigestion10-21.html

Where Stuff Comes From
​ ​“this dovetails in sinister fashion with the basic idea that any sufficiently advanced technology cannot be distinguished from magic. highly evolved capitalism becomes such a technology and the largess and plenty it produces gets mistaken for a property of the universe rather than a made thing, a thing that must be created rather than simply reaped.”​ …
​ Click some buttons, swipe a card, tap a phone – and presto! Stuff appears, like magic.​…
​ ​As I type this, I’m sitting on a couch made predominantly from foamed polyurethane, my feet resting on a carpet made from synthetic nylon. I just sipped water from a bottle made of polyethylene terephthalate, which I then placed on a coffee table made of wood.
https://doomberg.substack.com/p/where-stuff-comes-from

[John Day]

Requesting Pediatric Clemency is up
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/requesting-pediatric-clemency.html
Picture from yesterday after I pounded stakes into the ground at the corners of a small house I have been drawing on paper for the past year or two, which will extend the roofline of the current house in Yoakum

Thanks Cat, for sending this contact information for those who will vote to decide upon injecting young children with COVID vaccines, which will clearly cause far more death and harm in their lives than will COVID, which they tolerate extremely well, and to which they will have lasting, natural immunity. I bccd all the emails into an addressee box and wrote a nice, polite and collegial email. There are also phone numbers.
The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will meet on Oct. 26 to discuss emergency use authorization of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. Then the decision goes to the FDA Commissioner for her sign off.
​ ​Following the FDA decisions, Pfizer’s application will reviewed by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at their meeting on Nov. 2-3. And then the ACIP decision is reviewed by the CDC Director (the ever-anxious Rochelle Walensky).
​ ​The Biden Administration has already purchased 65 million doses of this vaccine for use in children. If we do nothing, these shots will start being injected into children within days of the ACIP decision.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/lets-go-call-to-action-part-1-fda

Those killed by COVID vaccines exceeds those saved for all ages above 20, by Steve Kirsch’s data:
Let’s not get data down to 5 years of age, please. The trend is clear.
​https://www.skirsch.com/covid/All.pdf

​ ​A 43-year-old mum who thought says she was doing ‘the right thing’ in getting her Covid vaccine – before suffering from a blood clot and stroke. Kerry Hurt, who in now in a wheelchair, had to have life saving treatment after a blood clot formed on her brain a week after having her AstraZeneca vaccine in April. As part of the operation she had a part of her skull removed and suffered a ‘massive stroke’ which resulted in the left side of her body being paralysed, YorkshireLive reported. A week later fluid built up on her brain which required another life saving operation to insert a drain in her skull, which required another three weeks in intensive care at the Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/healthy-mum-left-wheelchair-following-21951407

Fauci predicts Covid shots for kids five to 11 will be available by early November
Government’s chief medical adviser makes prediction after FDA review panel finds that benefits for group outweighs risks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/24/fauci-covid-vaccines-children-5-11

[John Day]

@Germ: Yes, i read that article a few days ago and thought well of it.

@Dr.D: What is the $30 tool. I have several like that from the late 1970s.
Glad you told us more about your life. Whatever you call it, humans always have to keep adjusting economic arrangements, because everything in the economy, and every participant, keeps changing.

TT4TW said last night: ” while it is an ugly truth, the modern US military was misused to attack countries without a BIS, Inc. central bank such that the OWNERS of the BIS, Inc. debt-based money system could seize control of their central bank and begin to subjugate the people in question. Freedom was just rhetoric.
This is literally the history of 20th and 21st Century warfare — BIS central bank financed countries defeating non-BIS central banking countries, and then installing a BIS central bank.”

I have read that one major purpose of WW-1 was to crack all of the little cantons of Europe open to banking. I have seen nothing to dissuade me from accepting that assertion.

“A Rothschild” pontificating on what psychedelic drugs to use, declared that:
“Synthetics, such as LSD-25 and its derivatives are useless noise.
DMT is the real deal. Ayuasca is one route, but requires rigorous rituals prior which most ignore.
From February 1986 High Times: https://hightimes.com/culture/dmt/
DMT, ‘The Lunch-Hour Psychedelic’

Anybody here drop 200 mics or more of LSD-25? Did you get wordless, unable to utter more than 3 words? Would you describe your experience as “useless noise”.
What A POSEUR! “A Rothschild” is not man enough to Trip-on-Acid. He (I presume) needed the safe little in-and-then-done “businessman’s high” of DMT. I’m not saying it’s “bad”. I don’t personally know. People say nice things about it.
DMT does not seem to directly threaten the Ego. LSD strips it naked and chases it through the streets.
Mushrooms are less edgy. Look for the cow patties in the right places. “The medicine” in Native American Church is treated with due reverence, but especially the spirits and bodies of the members of the Church, and any visitor (fully prepared and tested) are held in complete and loving-healing reverence, with patience…
I have had no inclination to use anything from pot or beer to “entheogens” since spring of 1994. The shaman (Paul) said he didn’t see that I would need another one. He discerned my prior LSD trips as “an edge” on my spirit, and specifically inquired if I had tripped on acid.
I’m human and soul and living this path , now.
Any drug is not a path.
It may be a “door of perception”, but you have to keep doing your work and seeking guidance.

[John Day]

Thanks Bluebird 🙂

@Veracious Poet: Thanks. Let’s be “in the jungle, but not of the jungle” and see what the divine can bring about with our wholehearted participation. I grew up on military bases, so it keeps entering my mind, but I’m seriously not up for practicing killing people at this point in my life. I would be there at the shooting range, getting deafer, and there would be a list as long as my arm of more worthy things I should be doing with that time, money and intention.

[John Day]

Fauci says attacking puppy torture is “an attack on science”.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fauci-says-attacking-puppy-torture-is-an-attack-on-science

[John Day]

This article has a list of names and email addresses, phone numbers, too, of the people who will soon vote on the EUA for COVID vaccines for 5 year old children.

I wrote a nice, reserved, collegial letter, requesting that they not approve such EUA, which will allow more harm than good, even with what we know now.
I bcc’d it to them this morning. Thanks Cat!
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/lets-go-call-to-action-part-1-fda

[John Day]

@Phoenix Voice: You have to be extremely reliable to raise chickens. That’s a Super-Power of sorts.

@TT4TW: What to call it? “Financial Cronyism”?

Right now the human apex-predators/aka “parasites” see that there are too many in the herd for the resource supply.
By their model, they need to work together to vastly thin all the human herds.

What if Universal Mind has a new model ready?
The human apex-predators will be able to enjoy a much-deserved retirement.

Visualize Whirled Peas!
🙂

[John Day]

Thank You for the Perspective, Phoenix Voice.
It has been a long time since I tried out fasting for a week over spring break, because the college co-op I lived in was not serving meals, and I didn’t have money, and it seemed like the time to check it out.
It was nothing special; neither good nor bad. I read books, mostly.

I am very impressed at what you are accomplishing.

[John Day]

​ ​What the British are saying is they are now finding the vaccine interferes with your body’s innate ability after infection to produce antibodies against not just the spike protein but other pieces of the virus. Specifically, vaccinated people don’t seem to be producing antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein, the shell of the virus, which are a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people.
​ ​This means vaccinated people will be far more vulnerable to mutations in the spike protein EVEN AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN INFECTED AND RECOVERED ONCE (or more than once, probably).
​ ​It also means the virus is likely to select for mutations that go in exactly that direction, because those will essentially give it an enormous vulnerable population to infect. And it probably is still more evidence the vaccines may interfere with the development of robust long-term immunity post-infection.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-covid-vaccines-will-keep-you/comments

The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West.
​ ​The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend.
​ ​Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her home.

Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism

[John Day]

https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/longer-conversations.html
Picture of unimpressive gardener in unimpressive garden transitioning into fall and winter this week

I have long wondered how people might join life-forces outside of the top-down economic model, which now dominates.
Is there an app for that?

This week I have had long talks, serious talks about our world, with good old friends of like mind, and others of like mind, more recently met. It’s been spontaneous.
Getting fired in the garden on Monday did open that door, and I did announce it in public on the blog. It was all quite satisfying, and we all had the same things on our mind.

The current power elites in finance, government, media, and especially the spook-world need to stay in power through the coming economic transition out of the exponential-growth economy.
That is a transition out of the last 300 years of western economy, which is already way more than most people know. It is basically all that anybody knows, and it has all been an anomaly. The anomaly happened due to discovering a lot of free-energy and metal ores that worked well to exploit free energy and metal ores, which worked well…
That is in terminal decline now. The production of useful things with energy and mineral resources has been such a good production engine that it has been able to carry a whole lot of non-productive humans and even counterproductive and destructive humans.
What a marvelous mule! The mule has been fed worse and less, and is covered with leeches and ticks now. It is weakening.

The leeches and ticks have a plan to lighten the mule’s load by getting rid of the guy with the cart and the feed bag. That guy might be us.
That’s my analogy, and I’m sticking to it. The plan the leeches have might work for the lifespan of a leech, or maybe not quite that long.

What are the details of the leech’s plan?
I don’t know, but the number of humans the earth can sustain long term keeps being quoted as half a billion to a billion.
That’s redundancy for nine out of ten of us. Time seems short. There is a sense of urgency all around.
Usually, big wars are used to kill off a lot of the population, but not 90% of the world.
That would destroy all of the stuff, too, and the leeches need the stuff to survive.

Some kind of a controlled cull, fast, but not too fast, with some control elements, can be provided with pestilence and famine, without war. Wars need to avoid destroying critical infrastructure and resource access. Resources can be put into mothballs, as war did to oil under Iraq and Libya.

Global digital currency can cut any person out at any time, causing a one-person-famine. That is ideally targeted.
What is necessary is to maintain fealty to the owners. If the owners hold the key to life itself, which might be the treatment for the latest mortal threat, then they can eliminate those who do not comply. They can maintain control.

Who lives compliantly under those conditions?
Maybe not pilots for Southwest, and nuclear physicists at Los Alamos. Maybe not Chicago and LA cops.
I won’t bend that knee. I won’t betray my patients.

Can I live without complying with the imposed conditions? I can live today.
I am preparing for times of irregular food and irregular fuel and irregular utilities.
Mony looks like it is going to break again, and there are fights over what the fix will be.
Those money-fix fights go on for decades in history. Whoever makes the money at the end is the winner.
Sometimes money is gold and or silver. It could be oil or coal or gas or wheat.
It can only be Bitcoin if there is a “World Wide Web”.
A lot of partisan actors can take down the WWW these days.

What is up with these excess deaths of healthy young people in the western world this year?
There are more heart disease and cancer deaths than there should be.
It’s not just COVID, and drugs and suicides and car accidents.

Jim Kunstler wonders, too:
​ ​The public’s view of this panoramic debacle is apt to flip starkly in the days ahead as five years of mind-fuckery ends in this national drunken driving incident. China may postpone the Evergrande unwind a few weeks longer, but its economy is foundering on the more fundamental energy quandary — it doesn’t have enough fossil fuels to run the joint — and there’s no prospect the situation will improve, meaning that the world will get less of all of the stuff that China was making. In short, Globalism is winding down, and standards of living are sinking with that. The capital markets are gravid with terror over it.
​ ​Meanwhile, the West is seeing the first signs that the Covid-19 vaccines it went cuckoo for may be producing a strange phenomenon of “excess mortality” around the world. Suspiciously higher rates of heart attacks, vascular disorders, cancer, and other bad stuff. It’s downright spooky. In Scotland, for instance, the vaccination rate is 87 percent and weekly deaths are up 30 percent. Pandemic reporter Alex Berenson said on TV that non-Covid-19 deaths were significantly higher everywhere, and he mused out loud that there was some connection between this and the vaccines. Uh oh.
​ ​Social media, network media, and legacy print media do not want that story getting around. Some of the most deranged Wokesters across this land greeted the debut of the mRNA vaccines like a holy jubilee of salvation (and still do!). What happens in their psyches when the darn thing bites them in the ass? There’s a fair chance we’re going to find out, and soon.

“What Am I Doing?” He Asks

[John Day]

That camera must have been running on cables, which I think you can see overhead as it passes through the cigar factory out to the high vantage down the long street. The lack of jerking is pretty impressive, though there is a little after it finishes the first climb and tracks to the right along the balcony.

[John Day]

Oops, typos. “offending by omission”.

[John Day]

Thank You, Ilargi, Teri (I really mean it), Germ, Germ, Germ,…, Formerly T-bear, Doc Robinson, Veracious Poet, Phoenix Voice, Zerosum, Chooch, TT4TW, My Parents Said Know, Mr. House, Bogaloo, D.B.S. , Oh, I know I;m offending by on=mission ,and I don’t mean to. I am trying to ctch up on a lot of non-work things, and keep having really long conversations with frinds who come over to sit in the garden and talk to me.

I spent 6 hours on hold , today, trying to speak to a human , at the phone number to cash in my retirement policy. Actually, yes. It let me keep my place by giving my number, so the phone was only at my ear 3.5 hours. “Due to unusually high call-volume”…
I made use of email and the land line while flip phone was to my ear, and eventually the representative for “the clinic” got back to me to say that he had gotten through and they were mailing me the forms to complete and mail back.
I’m sure this is the only retirement company that has no telephone access to the people who cash-out the policies. It’s Mutual of America. If there were other companies going through this same thing, then it would mean that they were putting off a bank-run by having one teller with a weak bladder, a dull pencil and poor eyesight.
It’s an N-of-1, but it’s my life experience today, so I had to think about it, and you know what THAT can do…
🙂

[John Day]

Thank You All. I have carefully and thoughtfully read each comment, wishing me well and presenting helpful information. Thank you.
I had a nice long meeting of minds and, it seems, souls, this morning. A good guy, who could fit right in here, who I have worked with before wanted me to meet the CEO/founder of a smallish specialty medical service provider company that has done well for almost 20 years by focusing on the care of medically ill mentally ill people, a population that is hospitalized a lot, but shrinks don’t treat medical problems, and medical docs don’t have time for schizophrenics. It was really nice. We gave hugs after a couple of hours of speaking each other’s thoughts. We may be able to do things together starting early next year. My friend and I then had lunch for another hour and a half.

I’m processing a lot, and I am suddenly having time to have extended, serious conversations with friends of similar mind. That’s not slacking-off, I think.
Yesterday and today I have been attending to necessary and long-put-off things, I have such a backlog. It looks like I’ll be “networking” in person more, which will be welcome.

The youngish HR guy ahs been helpful to me today. He was recently thrust into that spot when the previous lady retired. He wants to go back to doing more tech stuff. He’s a bit socially shy, reserved, careful. It’s mostly not doctors making these decisions but “the board” and “administration”. Anonymous power.

I learned in med school that iron supplementation led to the deaths of lots of poor anemic African children because the free iron in their bloodstreams allowed bacteria to grow in their bloodstreams, and they died of sepsis, from small would infections that did not do that when they were a little anemic.
I quite eating mammals in the 1970s and quite eating other critters in 2001.

Get a CT coronary artery calcium score for about $75 if you are over 50. In Texas you don’t even need a doctor’s order. It is very good risk stratification for heart disease. If you have a good CT calcium score you don’t need to take statins for your cholesterol profile. Yep, LDL is the main thing, but the cholesterol hypothesis has always been weak. I knew that before I started med school in 1982, from a physiology prof, and it’s still the same.
The thing is that there are products to sell, statins.

[John Day]

Phoenix Voice: I just saw your comment of post vaccination heart failure in your 38 year old cousin.
It’s too much.
Is he on the “conservative” side of the family?

[John Day]

Thanks Brothers and Sisters. Thanks Wes, for your story. “This time is different”, because it is the beginning of the time that The Limits To Growth foresaw, and I learned about that in 10th grade in Yokohama, Japan. I’m prepared enough for that to not be the main concern.
I feel good about being guided to the garden to put “them” in the position to do in public what they wanted to do without me around.
I was not cowed, and I looked kindly at all the eyes I met.

I et a lot of vegetables that I grow in good soil and a little compost. I don’t eat critters. I seek milk and cheese from grass-fed cows, but sheep that eat grass are fine, too. Grass-fed critters have omega-3 fats in their milk. Kerrygold Irish butter and cheese have that.
I think vitamin-D deficiency is very important, and I do not think there is a mechanism whereby being adequately replete with vitamin-D throws anything else out of whack, like copper.
I am interested in this thread. Nope, didn’t learn much about copper in med school, just that it’s in all these enzymatic pathways in the body and you get enough in food…

[John Day]

Oh, the Ivermectin and other medicines from India came in from Germ’s friend. They arrived in Texas last week, but we just saw the delivery attempt notice yesterday, so I went to the post office and waited a really long time, but they couldn’t find them until I said “international”. Say “international”.

[John Day]

I have jst finished reading the kind comments from Thursday, October 14.

Thank you all.

To those who want me to fight within the legal system, I understand that, but I have limited resources, time and life force, and I think events are about to leapfrog our established systems. The other side is lawyered-up, and has been proceeding as advised. They are prepared for a counter-attack from me, which will not come. I wish them well in the times we have entered.

@TT4TW: I have been reading what you include. I have long considered the elite position. The lack of compassion in the ruling elites allows them to be apex-predator over the rest of the humans, except some of us who choose to be sheepdogs, not wolves. This is a critical juncture we have entered.
We need to devise a new and non-predatory living ecosystem for the world, where human are stewards of life on earth. Maybe we can. It will allow life to flourish as much as is possible, but we will have to cooperatively finesse the overgrowth problem. The divine provides guidance to those who sincerely seek it.
That’s “natural”, too…

[John Day]

Go Down Gardening https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/go-down-gardening.html

Precariously Supported,

Yesterday was an odd day in several aspects. I had worked a long Friday at the clinic again, which did not go badly. I left nothing unfinished.
We drove to the Yoakum homestead Friday night and got a good night of sleep.

Somehow, I felt very heavy and slow on Saturday and Sunday, so I trudged through three to four hours of pushing the little Honda mower, and did work in the garden, but ploddingly. I planted garlic for the winter/spring season, and tended the garden.

I continued to feel a weight of unease, and as we started the drive back to Austin, Sunday afternoon, I had a sense that I should really buy winter veggies to put in at the clinic garden, which I started in 2016, and tend for my coworkers. Putting things off until the end of the month, in my last two weeks of work there, seemed awkward.

We picked up a lot of winter greens and salad starts in little pots on our way into Austin, some for our Austin kitchen garden, but most for the clinic garden.
I did a last harvest of the blackeyed pea row, then cut down the vines, and took them to some chickens that a friend of Jenny’s raises.

Yesterday (Monday) morning I worked in our kitchen garden again, preparing the beds for fall and winter, cleaning up the summer debris, and also planting an orange seedling in the bed in front of the house, where the February freeze had killed the one fruitful tree.

After eating, I went over to the clinic with an orange seedling, to replace the two that the February freeze had killed, and all of the winter salad and cooking-green seedlings to fill a couple of rows. I went through the entrance, put on a mask, and went through to the garden in the break area, with shovels and clippers, saying “hi” to a few people and smiling with my eyes. I went out through the garden gate, and brought in the orange tree, then the veggie starts.

The orange tree needed to go in the large bed, which has a Mexican avocado seedling tree, and a banana plant that actually survived February. Mainly it has a lot of sweet potatoes.It’s a fairly large bed, and this has been a very good year for sweet potatoes. I filled the three gallon bucket that the tree was in with sweet potatoes, from just a few square feet that I cleared and dug up, before planting it, maybe one percent of that bed.

While I was digging up the sweet potatoes and digging the hole to put the orange tree in, my flip phone rang. I figured it was Jenny. I brushed some of the dirt off my hands and answered it. It was the nice and very well-mannered youngish man, who is currently Director of Human Resources, telling me that my last day of work had been changed from the last Friday of October to the Friday just passed, which was different from what I had been told last week, when the reason for my firing was changed from vaccine-mandate non-compliance, to all of the wrongs I have committed in the period of time since that mandate was announced.

It was a lousy spot for him to be put in, and he seemed uncomfortable having to put it into polite words.He had been trying to call me while I was working on our home garden, but I had not been carrying the phone. I told him that I was at the clinic garden, putting in some things for winter, and that he could talk to me in person. My presence in the garden was unanticipated, though I have worked on my day off frequently in the past couple of months.

We talked as I planted the orange tree and put the big sweet potatoes in the pot, handing it over to a couple of nurses taking their lunch. They had helped dig sweet potatoes last year, and I knew they wanted some. He politely explained that I was not to re-enter the building, and that my desk would be cleared out and boxed for me. The explanation was so polite that I sought clarification.I did negotiate that I could pick up a few notes at my desk with his presence and supervision, which we then did. My badge didn’t let me in this time. He had to use his. As we walked through the clinic to my desk, most people had their eyes down. A few coworkers looked me in the eyes, and I smiled with my eyes. I was comfortable in myself, and emanated that (I think).

We grabbed a few boxes and made short work of the packing-up. I got everything, and we carried the three boxes to my little twenty four year old Ford Ranger pickup truck together. We went back to the garden and break-area through the gate, He thought it best that I just leave without planting the vegetables, but I prevailed upon him to keep his agreement to let me clean out the rows and do the planting.

He actually had a fair number of gardening questions, which I answered as I cleared the rows and planted for winter.
I worked expeditiously, taking about twenty to thirty minutes, as I explained the quality of the soil, and how building soil is one of the main objectives in successful gardening. If you don’t have enough garden to out produce what the squirrels, birds and other critters can eat, they will eat it all.
You need a big enough garden patch.

We walked back to the truck with shovels and clippers, talking about what’s next. The clinic will still pay me for these last two weeks of October, but my patients who are scheduled will not get to see me for a last visit. I have been doing everything possible to avoid leaving loose ends, and to write thorough chart notes, so it will be easy for the next doctor. I have tried to make suggestions for which doctor or practitioner might best match the needs and personality of each patient. I passed my list to give to the Director of Adult Medicine, who has been working hard and well on this transition. It’s not a complete list…

I am left to wonder why the clinic took surprise action to remove me from patient-care, while still paying my salary for two weeks. I suspect there was free-floating anxiety about what I might say or do. I had been informing people of the actual circumstances of my leaving, being fired for non-compliance with mandatory vaccination. The management has been consulting with attorneys the whole time, and somebody else is contesting her firing for non-compliance with that mandate, I am told. Governor Abbott did say that vaccine mandates are not tolerable in Texas, Monday of last week. I suspect that my being fired-for-cause, other than non-compliance with COVID vaccination might be more plausible when the date of my firing is moved forward from the prior date of my termination for non-compliance

I do not intend to contest my firing through recourse to the law. The only law I am really, currently concerned with is the Law of Karma, and I am very concerned with that law. I am constantly aware of the implications of Karma as we wade further into this rip-tide of history.

Human Horticulturist

[John Day]

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered United Airlines not to place workers seeking an exemption to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on unpaid leave.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/judge-orders-united-airlines-not-put-workers-seeking-vaccine-mandate-exception-leave

​Texas House bill 155 Would make individual choice of whether or not to accept vaccination the law, and would override any employer mandates.
Texas lawmakers consider ban on vaccine mandates for private employers
​ ​The House State Affairs Committee heard more than four hours of public testimony on House Bill 155 on Wednesday, which creates a de facto ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates by allowing individuals to claim an exemption to a vaccination requirement based on numerous factors, including “reasons of conscience.”
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2021/10/14/texas-vaccine-mandate-ban-private-companies-covid-19/8445028002/
https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB155/2021/X3

​Everything Solid Melts Into Air, Charles Hugh Smith​
​ ​We know we’re close to the moment when Everything Solid Melts into Air when extraordinary breakdowns are treated as ordinary and the “news” quickly reverts to gossip. So over 4 million American workers up and quit every month, month after month after month, and the reaction is ho-hum, labor shortage, blah, blah, blah, toy shortage for Christmas, oh, the horror, blah, blah, blah.
These are large numbers. Over 10 million job openings and 6 million hires and 6 million “separations,” i.e. layoffs and the 4.3 million voluntary quits.
​ ​The happy story promoted by the corporate media is that this enormous churn is the result of shiny, happy people moving up the work food chain to better paying jobs. We know we’re close to the moment when Everything Solid Melts into Air when every breakdown is instantly reworked into a happy story in which everything is getting better every day, in every way.
​ ​The reality nobody in power wants to acknowledge, much less address, is that millions of workers are opting out or burning out and they’re not coming back.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogoct21/solid-air10-21.html

[John Day]

​ ​The top Catholic official in the US military has declared that soldiers have the right to opt out of Covid vaccine mandates on the basis of “conscience,” after some branches were accused of trying to discourage such exemptions.
​ ​In a statement issued on Tuesday, Timothy Broglio – Archbishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for Military Services in the US – argued that while the Vatican has determined that none of the Covid-19 vaccines in use are inherently wrong due to a tangential link to aborted fetal cells, soldiers still have the right to decline the vaccine if they believe it would “violate [their] conscience” for whatever reason.
​ ​“Notwithstanding the moral permissibility of these vaccines, the Church treasures her teaching on the sanctity of conscience,” Broglio wrote. “Accordingly, no one should be forced to receive a Covid-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/537308-pentagon-archbishop-vaccine-mandate/

​Chicago Police Union Head Urges Members to Defy Vaccine Mandate, Warns Force to shrink 50% This Weekend
​ ​“Do not fill out the portal information,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in a video to officers posted on YouTube.
“I’ve made my status very clear as far as the vaccine, but I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody—let alone that information about your medical history.”
​ ​According to Catanzara, the police union is preparing a lawsuit against the city if Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration attempts to enforce the mandate, which requires city workers to report their vaccine status by Friday or be placed on a “no-pay” status.
​ ​“It’s safe to say that the city of Chicago will have a police force at 50 percent or less for this weekend coming up,” Catanzara said
​https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chicago-police-union-head-calls-members-defy-vaccine-mandate-warns-chicago-police-force

[John Day]

The Spirit Moves https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/the-spirit-moves.html

Yesterday at clinic, while I was finishing work at my desk, the Medical Director, a good guy, who I have known for 15 years, came by with an envelope.
I anticipated that the clinic would need to side with federal payments over a state order against vaccine mandates. That’s the case. Some uncertainty has been inserted into the system by Governor Abbot’s order. There is a bill in the legislature to bolster that. We will see how it fares.

I was dismayed that the position of the clinic administration is that I am being fired for cause, other than refusing to accept mandatory experimental vaccination.
The last 7 weeks, since the clinic announced the mandate, and I made my position clear, that I must stand with the under-class of un-vaccinated, has had more discord.
I was told that I must stop prescribing ivermectin-based treatment for COVID, with any link to the clinic, after over a year of doing so, and to good effect.
I was written up for prescribing ivermectin based treatment to the 17 year old son of a coworker, without an office visit, or writing it up in documentation.
That was true. I have prescribed for staff and some family members since spring 2020, and have maintained my open offer to do so.

I have continued to advise patients who have recovered from COVID against receiving vaccination, on the grounds of all-risk-and-no-benefit. I have discussed the shifting risk profiles where the vaccinated become more prone to catch COVID than the unvaccinated (Public Health England data is especially clear.)
This comes as the clinic is ramping up vaccine events, and is vaccinating children whenever parents will consent.

My approach to treatment of each patient, using my best judgment and giving my best medical advice, has become directly at odds with the policies of the clinic, lately a Federally Qualified Health Center. The clinic follows recommendations, policies, and incentives (for vaccinations), which come from the federal government.
It is appropriate that the clinic and I part ways, if we cannot share the same approach to patient care.
It is apparent that we cannot.

Of course I feel personally wronged in this, but there is not much to be done for this progression of the organization.
I was once mainstream. I’m about the same as I was then.
It has been awhile, and the change has been gradual, and not brought to a crisis until now. I am not the only one departing soon. Yesterday three competent people told me they had handed in their resignations for November and December. I already knew of another. These are people who accomplish critical tasks.
I know there are others who are now keeping their eyes out for jobs elsewhere. The first four are leaving with no new job, “taking some time off”.

This is my small world experience. There are a few in the hallway who glare and will not meet my eyes since I sent out the email last month likening the unvaccinated now to the Jews in WW-2 Germany. I sought to explain my sincere position of standing with the underclass, but it was not something that some people could consider.
I was reprimanded, and twice disparaged in administrative emails for my communication.
I was asked not to respond to those reprimands, and I had no intention to do so. I only wanted to explain my position once.
I had explained.

Today I have a few stories about how this is playing across America, as people of conscience say “No” and stand their ground.
I have no predictions how this will play out, or how long it will be in play, but the people who are firm in their convictions are an important sampling of society.
These people are able to make decisions and take action upon them. That’s not universal these days. That’s actually a talent-pool.

[John Day]

“Artificial Tyranny” was the title of yesterday’s news blog, which added some story links to the essay you saw here.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/artificial-tyranny-project.html

I got a visit and a letter after work yesterday that I am still being fired at the end of the month, but not for failure to accept COVID vaccination, but rather for my bad behavior since the mandate was announced at the clinic. In July, I had been much better, and was given the maximum 5% merit raise.

Yes, I’m being kind of snarky. Positions are clear. I will be paid my PTO as discharge, and my modest retirement is mine.
This is actualy all for the best. It seems to be particularly grating that I have been telling people who recovered from COVID to avoid vaccination, all risk and no benefit. I tried to talk about the “negative efficacy” in England as time from vaccination progresses, and the efficacy of ivermectin, but that could not be heard.
What began in 1970 as “The People’s Free Clinic”, and I will part ways for the last time, at the end of this month.
I discovered yesterday that 3 of the nurses I work closely with, who get a lot done, and have real expertise in the healthcare system, will be leaving in December, handed in their resignations.
It’s not just me feeling the death of the old spirit.

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