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Hi Madamski,
I like your ramblings about aliens and the tower of babel, and Nephilim.
It reminds me of this book I just got introduced to , week before last.
https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/titles-of-the-papersPepe Escobar: So Who Wants a Hot War?
It’s not by accident that the Hegemon is going no holds barred to harass and try to smash Eurasian integration by all means available…
Much more than NATO advisers in a frantic revolving door in Kiev, the real shadowplay is MI6 actually working very close with President Zelensky.
Zelensky’s warmongering script comes directly from MI6’s Richard Moore. Russian intel is very much aware of all the fine print...
Careless whispers in Brussels corridors swear that MI6 actually believes that in the case of a volcanic but as it stands still preventable hot war with Russia, continental Europe would burn and Brexitland would be spared…
…Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu examining step by step the deployment of the annual US Army DEFENDER-Europe 21: “The main forces are concentrated in the Black Sea and Baltic region.” …
When in doubt, call the irreplaceable Andrei Martyanov – who always tells it like it is. The Crash Test Dummy gang in D.C. still does not get it – although some Deep State pros do.
Here’s Martyanov:
As I am on record constantly – the United States never fought a war with its Command and Control system under the relentless sustained fire impact and its rear attacked and disorganized. Conventionally, the United States cannot win against Russia in Europe, at least Eastern part of it and Biden Admin better wake up to the reality that it may, indeed, not survive any kind of escalation and, in fact, modern Kalibrs, 3M14Ms, as a matter of fact, have a range of a 4,500 kilometers, as well as 5,000+ kilometer range of X-101 cruise missiles, which will have no issues with penetrating North American airspace when launched by Russia’s strategic bombers without even leaving the safety of Russia’s airspace...
…Triple Yoda Patrushev mentioned a very civilized late March phone call he had with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Of course there’s no smokin’ gun, but if anyone would come up with the face-saving idea of a Biden-Putin phone call that would have been Sullivan.
The spin from Washington and Moscow is only slightly divergent. The Americans highlight that “Biden” – actually the deciding combo behind him – wants to build “a stable and predictable relationship with Russia, consistent with US interests.”
The Kremlin said that Biden “expressed interest in normalizing bilateral relations.”
Away from all this fog, what really matters is Patrushev-Sullivan. That has to do with Washington telling Turkey that US warships would be transiting the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea. Sullivan must have told Patrushev that no, they won’t be “active” in Donbass. And Patrushev told Sullivan, OK, we won’t incinerate them...
So the cliffhanger – like a teaser for Snowpiercer – is what happens when Nord Stream 2 is completed...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has struck a much less Daoist note than Peskov: “The United States is our enemy, doing everything to undermine Russia’s position in the international arena, we do not see other elements in their approach to us. These are our conclusions”
That’s stone to the bone realpolitik. Ryabkov knows the Hegemon’s “non agreement-capable” mindset inside out...
Putin reiterated Minsk 2 on his live teleconference with Merkel and Macron – and certainly to “Biden” in their phone call. The Beltway, the EU and NATO are all aware of it. Minsk 2 was signed by Ukraine, France and Germany and certified by the UN Security Council. If Kiev violates it, Russia – as a member of the UNSC – must enforce it.
Kiev has been violating Minsk 2 for months now; it refuses to implement it. As a faithful Hegemon satrapy, they are also not “agreement-capable”. Yet now they are seeing the – firepower – writing on the wall if they as much as think of starting a blitzkrieg against Donbass...
Ideally, Ukraine/Donbass would be inserted in the overall revival of the Silk Roads – as in internal Central Eurasian trade based and developed taking into consideration Eurasia-wide demand. Eurasia integration – in both the Chinese and Russian vision – are all about interconnected economies via inter-regional trade.
So it’s not by accident that the Hegemon – on the verge of becoming an irrelevant player across Eurasia – is going no holds barred to harass and try to smash the continental integration by all means available. Following on the heels of last week’s Joe Biden invitation to Vladimir Putin for a bilateral summit proposed for the summer to tackle a range of still simmering contentious issues, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a surprised invitation late Tuesday for Putin to meet him in the war-torn east of Ukraine.
In making the announcement Zelensky told Putin that such a direct high states meeting where the two leaders can talk de-escalation is essential as there are a “million lives at stake” in any potential outbreak of major conflict,
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-zelensky-invites-putin-meet-war-torn-east-million-lives-are-stakeVladimir Putin’s State Of The Nation Address: (a few excerpts)
“We behave in a restrained, modest manner. Oftentimes we do not respond to outright rudeness; we want to have good relations.
We are not looking to burn any bridges.”
”I hope no one will think of crossing so-called ‘red lines’ against Russia, which we ourselves will define in each separate case. Russia’s response will be symmetrical, fast and tough. The organizers of any provocations threatening our core security interests will regret their actions more than they’ve regretted anything in a long time.”
“But now this practice is degenerating into something more dangerous — for example, an attempt to organize a coup in Belarus and an attempt to assassinate this country’s president…. The West is silent on this matter.”
“You can have any position on Lukashenko’s policies, but staging a goverment coup and planning the assassination of a head of state is too much.”
And on Biden’s recent sanctions…
“It seems that everyone is already accustomed to the practice of imposing illegal, politically motivated sanctions, attempts to impose their will on others by force.” …
On Russian national spirituality and traditional religion:
“And today, family, friendship, mutual assistance, and compassion have come to the fore for us. Spiritual and moral values, which some countries are forgetting about, have, on the contrary, made us stronger, and we will always uphold and protect these values,” Putin pledged.
Putin added that the service of representatives of traditional religions had become “the spiritual backbone of society, as it always was in difficult times.” That said, the head of state addressed the clergy present in the hall, “I would like to take a deep bow before you all. Thank you very much.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-key-state-nation-address-swift-tough-response-coming-those-crossing-red-linehttp://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/anticipating-sudden-letdown.html
(Picture of garden/gardener @ end)Our present western economic system is based upon faith in a future which cannot possibly transpire. That faith is growing thinner and thinner, so the leverage on the bets is growing higher and higher, to maintain the amount of skim-profit, to which our elite class and their upper managers are accustomed. The system crashed in 2008, but was resuscitated with more skim than ever to bankers and financiers, and more promises than ever for everybody else. This was sustained by “whatever it took” in money printing and asset-buying by central banks, It’s the biggest ponzi scheme ever, and the Federal Reserve banking system is the final sucker. There was an overnight-repo crisis in late summer of 2019, when the major banks quit trusting each other overnight.
The fix was the Fed, again.
“Repo” still broken after over a year of social distancing and lockdowns. That didn’t create overnight trust at the level of major global banks.The top 10%, the managerial class, has been bribed to hold things together for 13 years.
The present system will not hold together without their best efforts.
Elites have no plan but to retain power indefinitely.
When does the system break? Next month? June?
Got beans? Got water? Got cash? Got friends?Anthony Ward, “The Slog”
What I find worrying tonight is the number of people whose experience I trust offering remarkably similar predictions: in a relatively narrow time range from mid-May to late June, they all see time finally running out for by far the most mendacious stock valuation bubble in bourse history.
The control, containment and citizen obedience being demanded by States around the globe is in near-zero relation to the homoaeopathic threat from SarsCov2. We are about to see the real reason for accustoming us to the idea of virtue-signalled, false necessity.
therealslog.com/2021/04/15/from-covid-to-collapse-can-you-see-the-join/THE $2.3 QUADRILLION GLOBAL TIMEBOMB
The $30 billion in Archegos derivatives that went up in smoke over a weekend is just the tip of the iceberg. The hedge fund Archegos lost everything and the normal uber-leveraged players Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Nomura etc lost at least $30 billion.
These investment banks are making casino bets that they can’t afford to lose. What their boards and top management don’t realise or understand is that the traders, supported by easily manipulated risk managers, are betting the bank on a daily basis...
Just take the notorious Deutsche Bank (DB) that has outstanding derivatives of €37 trillion against total equity of €62 billion. Thus the derivatives position is 600X the equity.
Or to put it in a different way, the equity is 0.17% of the outstanding derivatives. So a loss of 0.2% on the derivatives will wipe the share capital and the bank out!
Now the DB risk managers will argue that the net derivatives position is just a fraction of the €37 trillion at €20 billion. That is of course nonsense as we saw with Archegos when a few banks let $30 billion over a weekend.
Derivatives can only be netted down on the basis that counterparties pay up. But in a real systemic crisis, counterparties will disappear and gross exposure will remain gross.
(So gold to $175,000/oz? Just think dollar-to-zero.)
goldswitzerland.com/the-2-3-quadrillion-global-timebomb/ 11 years ago in Afghanistan, news of massive mineral deposits came out.
It’s not just heroin and the ability to disrupt Russia, China and Iran that makes this real estate valuable to the crumbling western empire.
$1 Trillion Motherlode of Lithium and Gold Discovered in Afghanistan , June 16, 2010
The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world. An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries…
http://www.mining.com/1-trillion-motherlode-of-lithium-and-gold-discovered-in-afghanistan/Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers
while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/biden-afghanistan-war-privatizing-contractors/Freedom Of Choice:
In a universe where there is free choice, more and more coercion can hold a failing hierarchical system together, until it just can’t, and freedom of choice comes in a tsunami of hunger and broken promises.Do choose to make some necessary provisions today, for the unforeseeable future.
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in the human bloodstream is bad. It clumps platelets, causes inflammation, clots and inability to clot after that.
80% of people who get SARS-CoV-2 infection in their noses STOP IT in their noses.
20% have it progress their lungs, guts and blood.Everybody who gets various injectable “vaccines” gets Spike Protein in their bloodstream.
Take 5000 units/day vitamin D, which supports both the innate immune system in your nose, and the adaptive immune system in the rest of your body.
@Phoenixvoice:
I wish you well, sister.
Most people believe whatever people around them believe.
It’s that simple. It works for the group.
Paradigm shifts happen kind of fast, like Americans turned against the Vietnam War after Tet and Cronkite’s statements that we’d been misled.@WES, from yesterday. You could take zinc and quercetin along with ivermectin as prophylaxis, but I would not. Zinc is moderately upsetting to a lot of stomachs at 50 mg. I would rather hold the zinc and quercetin and just take the ivermectin as prophylaxis.
I would not take more than about 25 mg of zinc once per day long term, since it interferes with absorption of copper, which is a thing we need a little of.@Rototillerman:
Injectable liquid veterinary ivermectin has less volume per mg than horse paste.
Take it as you would the pills. You can dose 0.2 mg per kg on days 1 and 2, then take 0.2 mg per kg (1 mg per 11#) every week for a higher dose prophylaxis, or every 2 weeks for a lower dose prophylaxis.
If you would catch it, then the 2 days of loading dose, and doses on days 4 and 6, with 50 mg zinc 3 times per day for 10 days, and maybe a plain aspirin per day, if you are sick enough to have a fever (reduce clotting risk). You might carry quercetin 250 mg and take 1 by mouth 3 times per day with the zinc, in case of that illness.
Doxycycline 100 mg twice per day if you can get it.https://brandnewtube.com/watch/the-story-of-ivermectin_ffENQ99XWhon3Ui.html
The Story of Ivermectin is also the story of financial investment of powerful decision makers in the US medical system with Gilead, who makes Remdesivir, which is recommended in the US, is very expensive, but can’t save a life.
Thanks Luc!(Yeah, it’s a video, and I almost never do that, but it wastes no time and puts the information together very well. No blather.)
I have been encouraged to get vaccinated since early January.
I’m not afraid of infection with this virus. My personalized risk assessment is low, and I have access to rapid testing and early antiviral treatment. I am not very prone to catching it, because I have not caught it symptomatically yet, and I have done more testing than any other doctor at our clinic, several of which did catch it.
My primary reason to have not accepted vaccination is the deep and pervasive wrongness of how it is being pushed so hard by monied interests, the same interests who are quite happy to keep people scared and dying as long as possible to enforce their wills on the populace.
This is bad enough.
Do they have a second trick up their sleeves to deny us free will, to deny us our human lives?
I sure dunno…Well, on closer inspection, I see that quote may refer specifically to side effects in breeds of dogs.
YMMV.
The more famous side effects of ivermectin in humans are from killing the parasites, though.
Stromectol-Man
Night before last, in page 2 of comments (like page 2 of Google search) Mdamski posted:
What is Parasitic Drug (Ivermectin) Poisoning?
“Poisoning by use of ivermectin is well documented. Most cases of adverse reaction result due to overdose of the product, and toxicity due to sensitivity because of a genetic mutation, MDR1 (multi-drug resistance gene), specific to certain breeds. This medication is given orally (tablets, treats, liquids, pastes), by injection, and as a topical solution against mites. Signs of poisoning are many and include blindness, tremors, and uncoordinated movements as a result of nerve and brain toxicity . There is no treatment for the poisoning; supportive measures are the only care available (though in cases of oral administration inducing of vomiting and active charcoal use are often done). Early and aggressive supportive care allows for a good prognosis for recovery.
“Ivermectin is used in the treatment of parasitic diseases, one of the most well known being heartworm disease. Ivermectin belongs to the avermectin family of drugs and has been approved for multiple uses. Toxicity has been documented, with adverse effects due to the cross between the blood brain barrier.”
Salt is a poison if you ingest too much too fast. And people wonder why I distrust experts.
BACK to the present… The side effects above are analogous to the main side effect of ivermectin, as it is usually employed: DEAD WORMS COME OUT YOUR BUTT
The weird effects are from when you take ivermectin for microfilarial worms, which have insinuated themselves into every pore of your being, and die there…
Ladies and Gents, “Filariasis” : https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/filariasis/#:~:text=Filariasis%20is%20an%20infectious%20tropical,the%20bite%20of%20a%20mosquito.
Go without fear!
🙂
For your perusal: Human Confusion Update
http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/human-confusion-update.htmlTexas is finally getting a small uptick in positive COVID tests and hospitalizations, in the post-Easter period. The rapid antigen (fewer false positives) percent positive rate has ticked up to 3.4%.
Is this the UK strain? Is this Brazilian strain? Was this entire families of all ages, and churches getting together?
All of the above?
apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/The UK B 1.1.7. variant is the most reported in the US, followed by the Brazilian P.1 variant, which is more contagious, more deadly, partly vaccine-resistant, and reports from Brazilian treating physicians, using Ivermectin based therapies, are that it is harder to treat with the medicines they have been using, though it does still respond and improve with those medicines.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/04/09/devastating-covid-19-variant-in-brazil-now-2nd-most-reported-variant-in-us-cdc-data-shows/?sh=7d78fefd400eI remember Judd For The Defense and Perry Mason: Thanks Jeremy
American Hero: Ralph C. Lorigo Fights for Client Rights Including Access to Ivermectin for COVID-19 Patients At Risk
Especially if elderly high risk patients present advanced COVID-19, Lorigo has personally seen the drug potentially contribute to saving the lives of clients. Interestingly, the attorney reports that it would appear that hospital administrations are the most recalcitrant to the idea, even if the patients and the ICU doctor are in support. It’s as if the COVID-19 wings of all hospitals are completely opposed to any suggestion of this particular medication. In the age of COVID-19, the COVID-19 wing is sort of a “federalized” operation.
trialsitenews.com/american-hero-ralph-c-lorigo-fights-for-client-rights-including-access-to-ivermectin-for-covid-19-patients-at-risk/ CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” …
Covid-19 vaccine passports, the latest insult in the unending stream of scientifically inapt actions as outlined above, is already driving extensive anguish and debate. These digital passports linked to one’s entire life experience with geolocated data and one’s personal medical information represents the latest intrusion and attack on our freedoms that have been put before the easily distracted populace. These passports are simply unjustifiable on any grounds, not the least of which is the fact that SARS CoV-2 is no more deadly on a population level than influenza. Ostensibly, the passports are designed to allow individuals to partake in everyday commerce and “life” with freedom.
http://www.aier.org/article/vaccine-passports-vs-freedom-itself/(Whitney Webb Militarized Facebook here.)
Top US officials are reportedly calling for a hard look at China’s plans for a digital yuan, after raising concerns that the new currency may potentially challenge the greenback as the world’s dominant reserve currency.
Officials at the Treasury, State Department, Pentagon, and National Security Council are currently trying to explore the potential implications of China’s new sovereign digital currency, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg…
Last year, the People’s Bank of China revealed plans to have its sovereign digital currency ready in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics. China became the first country in the world to test such a product on a national level.
According to the Chinese central bank, the new currency will share some features with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The digital yuan is projected to replace banknotes and coins.
The White House is said not to be planning any measures against the e-yuan, but is highly interested in creating a digital dollar.
http://www.rt.com/business/520768-digital-yuan-threat-dollar/ I personally like that the US may create a competitive (lossless-I-presume) digital dollar to replace paper $100 bills as the global anonymously circulating currency of economies everywhere. If the initial creation of each “dollar” lies with the Treasury, not with private banking, then the benefits of “seigniorage” accrue to the collective, not the private. Creation of debt-money-at-interest could be curtailed, or value contributed to the commons (even if through a captured bureaucracy).
@Mr. Roboto: Yes, steroids save your life when you are in cytokine storm with COVID pneumonia.
Ivermectin is efficacious at all stages of illness (before death), but I want it before I can’t breathe, please.Great after hours commentariat on “page 2” last night!
@V.Arnold: What Germ said, but n=some are now pushing the ivermectin dose to 0.3 mg/kg/day, up from 0.2 mg/kg/d
Harvey Risch MD sent this statistical set:
Vaccinated (millions) Thrombocytopenia Thrombosis Haemorrhage Fatalities Tpnia Rate Thromb Rate Haem Rate Mort Rate
J&J 7.164152 4 6 5 42 0.56 0.84 0.70 5.86
Moderna 31.355979 41 43 28 1001 1.31 1.37 0.89 31.92
Pfizer 36.76424 44 66 54 986 1.20 1.80 1.47 26.82
“Rates” are numbers per million people fully vaccinated (1 dose for J&J, 2 doses for the others)Thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, haemorrhage:
J&J 15/4 million
Moderna 109/40 million
Pfizer 163/40 millionThanks Friends and neighbors.
I’m back from work for the day and really appreciating your contributions to this forum again.I’m working on spirituality. A friend lent me a book I read chapter 42, about life, the universe and everything. It has a whole lot of chapters.
I’m just going to read a little when I can and keep working on being a spiritual helper in this (mostly) physical world, gardening, practicing thoughtful medicine, and so on.We’re going to have a May-Day garden party at the Yoakum homestead.
Mayday is a Saturday, like spring equinox was and the day before Easter was. Those parties went fine.
People connected well. Some days, normalcy might be enough.I just keep plugging away “arrogantly”.
I’ll fight if somebody jumps me. It’s automatic.
If I have a little while to think it over, I might do something more elegantly creative, like Putin/Lavrov.
I love those guys, because they seem to play 4 moves ahead.
That was part of my meditation on my bike ride to work. Those chess players have seen this cusp coming for the dollar as global reserve currency for a long time. Even I have, and they are smarter.
They have been able to pre-position facts-on-the-ground for over a dozen years for the inevitable death throes, so they might have a lot of set-pieces to dissuade our (rich) shadowy puppet masters from taking rash actions in a wide array of foreseeable situations (Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Syria)
I’m not trying to be deluded or optimistic, but none of the interested parties over-there stands to benefit from the Samson-Option of our cornered elites. The prudent grown-ups have to make the choice not to act rashly, the EA$IER choice for Western elites, day after day, and year after year as the $US Empire gradually morphs into …something.
The Digital US Dollar looks like a swell idea.
Make it like that digital Yuan, like digital $100 bills.
Beat the Chinese yellow-menace with a skim-free digital $US.
Go America! (Sorry banks, we’ll get right back to you.).Madamski said: “But I am all for finding ways to penetrate mass hypnosis so that individuals will stand up and act individually. It only takes a very few individuals standing up to the madness not by opposing it BUT BY IGNORING IT. Well, IGNORE is not the right word, which is ARROGATE.
Messages that make individuals decide to trust their own reason, knowledge, and intutition, so the more audacious can take action whereupon the other kids follow, as they’ve done since kindergarten first indoctrinated them with the Power of Peer Pressure.”
Reply: “42”, Life, The Universe and Everything
(Also, “To Infinity and Beyond!”)Obscurantist John about to bike to work: Howdy and bye-bye , fellow sentient beings 🙂
Jenny and I are working the spring gardens and replacing fruit trees killed by the deep freeze around Valentine’s Day. I’ve put in 6 fruit trees over the past two weekends in Yoakum and Austin, and the Mexican avocado bed repopulation is still not finished. My Brother, Tom, whose birthday it is today ordered me a tree that is somewhat hard to find, and I’m waiting on a few others, also. Two of the seedlings from a Mysterious California avocado tree, coming through Jenny’s cousin, Freddy, in Victoria, have life growing up from the bases. Since they are seedlings, not grafted, that reflects their inherent nature, whatever it may be, so they remain in place, and are being cherished. Jenny is pictured in Yoakum this past Sunday morning, before we started some tree work.
I’m concerned for this “great reset”. We need to make our own provisions to weather this long storm into the world that has less energy and less stuff. Our owners only know to cull the herd. Maybe the secret to that lies in these universal vaccines. That’s way above my pay grade, but entirely possible, and that meme is alive.“China and Russia Launch a Global Resistance Economy”, Alastair Crooke
The $US used to be redeemable for gold, until Nixon effectively ran out in 1971. Even then, dollars were printed far in excess of gold holdings, while they were accepted as equal to god by countries which needed to do international business. The borrowed printed dollars were also paid back at interest, so there was always value extracted from the user, even if the user was not a borrower-at-interest. (Borrowers at variable interest would get the Asian Financial Crisis imposed on them, suffering massive extraction of value periodically.)
What is proposed here is a global no-extraction monetary-mechanism, which will certainly appeal to countries currently being extracted by the $US.
This will make the $US suddenly much less valuable to the rest of the world. The rest of the world will buy whatever we still make. We in the US will hardly be able to buy anything as dollar prices of domestic goods shoot up and foreign goods just can’t be bought.
America cannot beat this. America will have to join this. Financial-capitalists would rather anything than the loss of their daily rents from global and domestic “investments”. They will say we will all lose our retirements. I presume that’s inevitable, anyway.
So here is the essence to ‘a clever combatant moving to impose his will’ – there is no need for China or Russia or Iran to go to war to do this; they just implement ‘it’. They can do ‘it’ – quite simply. They don’t need a revolution to do it, because they have no vested interest in fighting America.
What is ‘it’? It is not just a trade and investment pact with Tehran; neither is it simply allies helping each other. The ‘resistance’ lies precisely with the way they’re trying to help each other. It is a mode of economic development. It represents the notion that any rent-yielding resource – banking, land, natural resources and natural infrastructure monopolies – should be in the public domain to provide basic needs to everybody – freely.
The alternative way simply is to privatise these ‘public goods’ (as in the West), where they are provided at a financialized maximum cost – including interest rates, dividends, management fees, and corporate manipulations for financial gain.
‘It’ is then a truly different economic approach. To give one example: New York’s Second Avenue Subway extension cost $6 billion, or $2 billion per mile – the most expensive urban mass transit ever built. The average cost of underground subway lines outside the U.S. is $350 million a mile, or a sixth of New York’s cost.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/04/05/china-russia-launch-global-resistance-economy/This poorly organized presentation states that China continues to advance its Central Bank Digital Currency. That’s setting a certain pace.
China is also beta-testing it’s Sovereign Digital Currency, which is to say Chinese smartphone-money that is lossless-for-the-users.
This smartphone exchange can also be used phone-to-phone, imitating cash, in areas without cellphone service.
It is not blockchain. It has conventional security features.
China is taking steps to eliminate non-governmental digital currencies (That’s what is happening to Jack Ma).
China also wants it’s digital currency to really work smoothly and well for Chinese commerce, and to be borderless, as $100 bills are effectively borderless, and anonymous, except when the Bank of China needs to trace a chain of transactions.
This borderless feature will make the Chinese Sovereign Digital Currency on smartphones directly challenge the role of $100 bills in global commerce.
It looks like it has a lot to offer, but once you meet the new boss, will he become the same as the old boss? It’s a good gamble, isn’t it?
http://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/chinas-digital-yuan-comes-expiration-dateThis is simply the fact in $US amounts. Lots of eggs in that basket.
Investors have put more money into stocks in the last 5 months than the previous 12 years combined
http://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/09/investors-have-put-more-money-into-stocks-in-the-last-5-months-than-the-previous-12-years-combined.html“NATO is ready to fight to the last Ukie”. Russia has to protect many Russians in East Ukraine, and also avoid directly invading Ukraine.
The deep state/NATO combo’s using Kiev to start a war to bury Nord Stream 2 and German-Russian relations… Pepe Escobar
On March 24, Ukrainian President Zelensky, for all practical purposes, signed a declaration of war against Russia, via decree No. 117/2021.
The decree establishes that retaking Crimea from Russia is now Kiev’s official policy. That’s exactly what prompted an array of Ukrainian battle tanks to be shipped east on flatbed rail cars, following the saturation of the Ukrainian army by the US with military equipment including unmanned aerial vehicles, electronic warfare systems, anti-tank systems and man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).
http://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-ukraine-redux-war-russophobia-pipelineistanMOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/. German Chancellor Angela Merkel in her phone talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin did not demand Russia scale down its military presence near the Ukrainian border but voiced concerns about this, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Moscow. Kremlin. Putin on Rossiya-1 TV channel.
”No,” Peskov said answering a question if Merkel had called on Moscow to scale down its military presence near eastern Ukraine. “Merkel indeed said that Europe is concerned over the concentration of Russian forces near the borders. Yes, she said this and this concern was voiced,” Peskov said. The Russian leader gave explanation to this, he stressed.
Moscow sees that the Minsk peace deal is not being implemented in Donbass and Ukraine is stepping up its provocations, Kremlin Spokesman told. “In Donbass there is a situation when the Minsk agreements are not being fulfilled,” Peskov stressed. “And there is a situation in Donbass related to the increased activity of provocations by the Ukrainian armed forces.” …
“Since in general there are tensions and there is no de-escalation, tensions are running high and such provocations could one day ignite the fire of this civil war inside the Ukrainian conflict,” Peskov stressed.
tass.com/politics/1276543MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has called for talks to create a legally binding international instrument that would ban the deployment of any type of weapons in space, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight.
”We consistently believe that only a guaranteed prevention of an arms race in space will make it possible to use it for creative purposes, for the benefit of the entire mankind. We call for negotiations on the development of an international legally binding instrument that would prohibit the deployment of any types of weapons there, as well as the use of force or the threat of force,” Lavrov said in a video message on the anniversary of the first manned space flight.
sputniknews.com/russia/202104111082600146-russia-calls-for-talks-on-binding-treaty-to-prohibit-weapons-in-space—lavrov/Much of this information may be redundant to the commentariat and readership here, but there is a nice picture.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/spring-preparations.html@Poulder Dweller: The (abridged) contents of the article Germ posted
State Supreme Court justice has ordered a Batavia hospital to administer the drug Ivermectin to an 81-year-old Covid-19 patient.
The case involving John W. Swanson, a farmer from Stafford in Genesee County, is the latest of several in which judges have ordered local hospitals to give Ivermectin to patients suffering from the virus. The drug is used to treat other ailments but is not yet approved by the federal government as a Covid-19 treatment.
Swanson was on a ventilator and “on death’s doorstep,” at the United Memorial Medical Center when doctors there gave him one dose of Ivermectin on April 1, according to an affidavit filed in court by attorneys for Swanson’s wife, Sandra.
“After that one dose, he started breathing on his own. He was taken off the ventilator and was making great progress,” said attorney Ralph C. Lorigo, who represents the Swanson family with Jon F. Minear. “Then, the hospital refused to give him additional doses.” …
While Ivermectin is not yet approved by the Food & Drug Administration as a treatment for Covid-19, many doctors – including some in Western New York – are offering the drug to their Covid-19 patients.
A hospital spokeswoman, Veronica R. Chiesi, declined to comment on Swanson’s case.
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Gotta go plant some more trees before dark.I’ve been digging the catch-up this afternoon.
Madamski-converges-on-Dr-D, sort of… I also really like CHSs tke on the Cultural Revolution.
We are on the cusp of that kind of historical moment, but have been for awhile, already.Eleni in Athens sent me 2 important things that it took me awhile to get to, because of busy life.
The shorter one is this explanation of how the Archegos Capital IED could well have been a Chinese weapon maintained within the American financial casino, and that there may be others, and that “notional becomes net when the counterparty doesn’t pay”. Tom Luongo suggests that there may be more of these, and they can’t be discussed… Detecting and disposing of them may delay WW-3 a little while. tomluongo.me/2021/04/02/from-the-notebook-archegos-bikini-atolls/This is long and it’s a video and Mike Lindell can’t stop shouting all the time and let the physicist talk about the graphs of the algorithms used to manage the very-difficult-to-manage 2020 US elections. You can skip and jump a lot. “The Key” is remarkably straightforward and it was imposed on essentially every county in every state in the US, identically for each state. The graphical correlation is .999% perfect again and again, and easy to see because of a quirky little anomalous jump in the population age numbers that could only have come from one place, which is identified.
cdn.jigg.cloud/ScientificProofTVSpecial-03-31-21-FINALHQ/mp4/ScientificProofTVSpecial-03-31-21-FINALHQ.mp4?fbclid=IwAR2v1GAuX0240luUbwjJtzPUzv-J4lz289LzM-Eb5C1cCY7RD6_PucVs_aE.johndayblog.com/2021/04/all-power-off.html
Eleni sends this “explains it all” article from mythbuster Alastair Crooke.
The key point here surely is whether the élites’ Great Re-set – to reinvent themselves as leaders of the ‘re-vamped’ values of liberalism, overlayered by a newly up-dated, AI and robot-led, post-modernity – is destined to succeed, or not.
Continued ‘westification’ of the globe – the principal component to ‘old’ liberal globalism – though tarnished and largely discredited, remains mandatory, as made clear in the cogent reasoning recently advanced by Robert Kagan: Absent the justifying myth of ‘seeding democ racy across the world’ around which to organise the empire, the moral logic of the entire enterprise begins to fall apart, Kagan argued (with surprising frankness). He thus asserts that the U.S. empire abroad is required – precisely in order to preserve the myth of ‘democracy’ at home. An America that retreats from global hegemony, he argues, would no longer possess the cohesive binding to preserve America as liberal democracy, at home either.
strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/15/leviathan-mobilises-for-decisive-battle/There’s this deeply and extensively researched new book out in Germany, kind of about the insider-trading around 9/11, and some other things. He followed that money, picking up the trails where others left off, when they died or other interruptions took place.
Lars shows in detail how 9/11 enabled a state of emergency, a permanent Continuity of Government (COG) in the U.S. and mass surveillance of U.S. citizens – connecting the dots all the way from missing trillions of dollars in the Pentagon to NSA data mining and leading U.S. neocons. The latter had been praying for a “Pearl Harbor” to reorient US foreign policy since 1997. Their prayers were answered beyond their wildest dreams.
The investigation eventually displays a startling road map: the war on terror as a business model. However, as Lars also shows, in the end, much to the despair of U.S. neocons, all the combined sound and fury of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, in nearly two decades, ended up bringing about a Russia-China strategic partnership in Eurasia.
thesaker.is/bombshell-book-in-germany-revives-9-11-as-a-business-model/Tessa softens the blow.
We are living, breathing, touching, feeling, loving human beings, after all.
Love and Unity During the Ugly Attempt at the Great Reset
This story is about being grounded as we push back against the Grand Bulldozer.
tessa.substack.com/p/unityHow is power wielded in the Western World?
Power, as we know it, is the capacity to compel other people to carry out actions which are designated by the powerful.
There is the carrot of payment in money, goods, services or favors, and the stick of violence and/or deprivation.Since WW-2 the financial power of global reserve currency status has rested with the American Federal Reserve banking system.
To participate in global markets, any entity needs to have $US to trade in goods and services.
To obtain $US an entity must provide something of value in trade for them.
To create $US the US Federal Reserve system has to promise to back those dollars up with other dollars later, and the US Federal Government promises to accept those dollars with a promise of paying them back later with a little extra for the privilege. That creates an exponentially expanding stock of $US in the world.At some point there are more $US than the world needs or desires, so the world will want something else, like American goods and services.
When those dollars are repatriated to the US, they drive up the price of the goods and services the world wants, and they increase the number of dollars within the US.
If those dollars in the US circulate freely, then other prices are increased in the US. Inflation.
It is in the interests of those holding power to keep the world desirous of $US, or their structure of extracting goods and services from the rest of the world breaks down.When President Nixon ran out of gold to back the $US (Vietnam war bled gold from the US) King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was induced to agree to only accept $US in payment for oil, (the Shah of Iran did the same) and to recycle any excess dollars into US Treasury debt.
The Petro-Buck was created.Threats to the Petro-Buck have included The Arab Oil Embargo (dealt with financially), the Iranian revolution (dealt with militarily and by secret agreements, then various forms of overt/covert warfare), the Iraqi sale of oil outside of the $US market (Iraq wars), the Libyan plan for a gold backed African currency outside the $US club (you know what Saddam got), and so on. A whole lot of violence has been needed to maintain demand for $US in the new millennium.
Violence did seem to be working, but more and more tribute-paying countries, tired of being bled are testing the Western Power Structure.
I sense that the time for a global reserve currency change is near. It stands to reason. We don’t use the Pound Sterling anymore.
These regimes don’t last.Resorting to violence to support a financial empire is a sign of weakness, not of strength.
Failure of violence is a further sign of weakness. Violence has failed to bring Venezuela back into the fold of blood donors to the Western Empire.
The extractive $US global trade network, the extraction mechanism, is now used as a means of violent coercion, starving the citizens of Venezuela, and depriving them of medicines and tools they need.Futile gestures , like $US-sanctioning Russian and Chinese politicians are an embarrassing public display of terminal weakness.
They announce that the current financial regime is a throw-away, running on fumes, and that these “tough sanctions” are being displayed to convince the folks at home that the $US remains almighty, because they, most of all, need to stay convinced of that.The rest of the world, including Russia, China, Iran, Turkey and India, has long been exploring global trade alternatives to the $US regime, and quietly testing them out. The most prudent course for TROTW is to take baby steps, as it is doing, and await a $US financial crisis, like 2008, then to just increase use of the alternative systems, and open them to other participants, free of charge, free of tribute extraction.
The US won’t be able to buy F-35s after that. Americans will have to bid global prices for anything that can be exported, as their wages become almost worthless, like in 1979, but with finality, this time.
The “Global War On Terror” has failed to solidify the US/Fed. as global hegemon for all time.
What’s Plan-B?
Oh, that’s for our billionaire owners to decide amongst themselves.
Waddaya mean they are “not decision capable”?
Whaddaya mean, “we’re on our own”?
Whadday mean, “useless eaters”?
http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/all-power-off.htmlVanden Bossche vs ex Pfizer CEO.
Don’t take sides.
Both make valid points with a little gray in-between. Vanden Bossche says millions of chickens died of a mutated worse chicken virus when the other half got a vaccine that protected them from dying from that ramped up mutation, which they spread to the unvaccinated.
This is NOT fully analogous, but would be if we lived in massive open prisons, like on the Texas border, for instance.
Yes, innate immune response can do some down and some up gyrations right after vaccination.
The issue of whether we are marked for culling and this is part of the mechanism strikes me as more important.https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/political-covid.html
If we look at the weakening of immune system effectiveness from low vitamin-D, things make more sense.
Florida, less locked down, and California, are similar in our minds, but Florida’s North is at the same latitude as California’s South.
Vitamin-D from sunlight does not exist above the 35th parallel in winter.
California also has a higher packing density in major cities, which puts people in closed spaces and close proximity.
Open Florida has more cases this spring, but closed California has more deaths.
It’s not all political. It’s more biological, as I see it.This is a substantial article, and voices the same concerns that I have.
This could be the big solution that our owners desire. Thanks Luc.
Former Pfizer VP to AFLDS: ‘Entirely possible this will be used for massive-scale depopulation’ Go GERM!
@Madamski: I’m still likin’ your style and attention to flawed assumptions.
It’s good for mental clarity.Thanks everybody for the kind human comments. Thanks Grm for helping with the COVID information, and the insights about the incessant schemesto totally dominate all aspects of our physical and mental existence. I do think the schemes are unable too coordinate. Several of them appear to need some of the others to fail, in order to completely control us, and I think there is mass-consciousness, some form of hive mind. Also, no matter what the projections are, we have not yet co-created the future. There’s a random error-function generator, too.
@Madamski. I read the “Professional Psychopath” link for about 45 minutes just now.
Athenas Walker, Professional Psychopath
Fascinating model-clarification. My cognitive model is refined.
I’m not one. I do seem to lack fear and get very clear headed when threats are highest. I’ve always been curious about death in the moments that it was possibly for immediate consumption.
You might have some of those traits.
Howzat workin’ for ya?
(What DO they say about the size of a man’s proboscis stocking? Mr-average-size-surgical-gloves)Xupermask!
Are there matching shoes?
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This one’s cheaper, and featured last year on TAE:
https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/04/horowitz-proboscoid-viral-interceptor.html
Goes with any shoes…During our Easter party nobody asked about a mask. Nobody flashed a mask.
The reference was made “back during COVID”, and it passed without comment.
Look how low the (real) rapid test percent positive rate is in Texas.
https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/?_ga=2.47205413.380059689.1617709767-1037324414.1591643250
DSHS released another positivity rate based only on rapid-result antigen tests on Dec. 11. As of April 4, the rate was 2.2% out of 3.4 million tests.Now I’m really going…
There is a picture I like. Nobody posed.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/being-alive.html
Time to finish coffee and bike to work. 🙂We had a family garden party in Yoakum Saturday, with kids, beer, Easter-eggs, Frisbee-throwing and a barbecue grill. A contingent ended up spending the night, which was safer for them than driving, and we had the bed space as part of the plan.
Everybody just came and engaged the space, the food, drink, and each other. We didn’t have to explain anything to anybody. The plan seems to be self-explanatory.
“Thing One and Thing Two” who are very active brothers, aged 2 and 4 got a tutorial on the big vegetable garden, and did comparative tasting of the green bits of purple and yellow onions..
They like the garden a lot, and are interested in how food grows.
Phoenix and Hendrix went home with some black beans to plant.It’s not that I don’t want to drill down into the news and post it, but I am often forced to choose between life in the flesh, and searching abstract information for emerging threats to life, and possibilities for enhancing the meaning of life. It’s hard to work out the enhancement of life in the abstract, and doing it in person demands complete engagement, at least for me.
I can think about things when I mow the lawn for 4-5 hours, but I still have to pay attention to all of the corners, edges of gardens, borders around 45 fruit trees, those stumps and the drip hoses, while my mind muses, and my heart reaches out.
Jenny was back at her library this morning, so I dropped her off there at the school and drove down to Yoakum, to plant more replacements for dead fruit trees, make coffee for her sister, who is spending the week there, and make sure that she is able to cook things, and shower, and we didn’t forget something. She’s doing fine.The thought rolls over and over that this-is-human-life. We are living as humans, social animals with the capacity for abstract reason.
We live and die as social animals, not as abstract-reason.
In crisis, we save each other, and kill each other in person, not in abstract.
There are killer drones, though, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were abstractions of killing for a few people, who gave orders, but did not need to attend.I feel that we have gone way too far into abstraction of life and all of the essentials of life. I feel that we are simplified and abstracted into confusion and frustration. This past year of isolation has taken people away from each others’ breath, warmth, tone of voice and tingle of touch. Social media, Google and Amazon have placed themselves between us, controlling our inputs of abstract information, our food delivery and our social prerogatives and group beliefs.
Masks and electronic interface-distancing have atomized us. We are not whole. We are not “individual-humans”. Humans die in isolation.What am I? Who are we?
We have to know with certainty, like we know when we’ll hit the ground when we jump those last two steps, not like we know the alphabet.
You are bound to know what I mean. Life is the living, the engagement.
This is what our kind of animal does together, and we need to do it, because our owners are abstracting us out of existence.Lots of good commentary.
Thanks folks.
Big day at the clinic tomorrow.
(I wonder about those excess deaths in Israel.
Such a blessing having all of the tribe vaccinated, but not the Palestinians.
Wonder how this plays out.)1) Ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline, vitamin-D…
2) Meaningful Human Life
3) Fear and isolation.
Pick 2 out of 3
Oops. 15 million doses of Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine were mixed up with a wrong ingredient and can’t be used.
New team at the factory. Other batches are probably fine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9424827/15-million-doses-J-J-vaccine-ruined-ingredient-mix-up.htmlThis “class traitor” has the temerity to say that only people at high risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID should get vaccinated.
The great majority of people should not submit to current vaccines.
He’s a high priest of science. How dare he?
Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff
http://www.aier.org/article/twitter-censors-famed-epidemiologist-martin-kulldorff/My blog today has significant COVID-crossover with recent TAE posts.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2021/04/misconceptions.htmlFinian Cunningham interviews Norwegian Professor specializing in Russian Affairs
Glenn Diesen: U.S. policies aim to prevent the emergence of a multipolar order. In my opinion, this is a misguided objective as Washington must adjust to the changing international distribution of power. I have argued that the U.S. is confronted with a dilemma – it can either facilitate and shape a multipolar system where the U.S. is the “first among equals” (yeah, maybe), or it can aim to contain rising powers to extend its hegemonic position although then a multipolar system will emerge in direct opposition to the U.S. By containing the rise of both Russia and China, the U.S. encourages Moscow and Beijing to define their partnership often in opposition to the U.S.
The global economy is subsequently fragmenting. The geoeconomic dominance of the U.S. has rested on its leading technologies that buttress its strategic industries, control over the maritime corridors of the world, and control over the main development banks and the world’s trade/reserve currency. Russia and China have therefore developed a strategic partnership to develop their own technological ecosystems, new Eurasian transportation corridors by land and sea, and new financial instruments such as banks, payment systems and de-dollarizing their trade. The U.S. will therefore discover that the effort to isolate China and Russia will result in the U.S. isolating itself.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/03/30/washington-hegemonic-ambitions-defy-multipolar-reality-risking-catastrophic-conflict/COVID-19 has distracted us, all of us, from economic realities for over a year now, and we should stop being distracted. If we had not gotten the huge fear campaign, we would not have had the huge fear. Vitamin-D adequacy greatly reduces vulnerability to catching and getting badly sick from COVID, and dying from it.
Be adequate. Take 5000 units per day of vitamin-D. It’s cheap and available. Just do it. We assessed the association between vitamin D and risk, severity, and mortality for COVID-19 infection, through a review of 43 observational studies. Among subjects with deficient vitamin D values, risk of COVID-19 infection was higher compared to those with replete values (OR = 1.26; 95% CI, 1.19-1.34; P < .01). Vitamin D deficiency was also associated with worse severity and higher mortality than in nondeficient patients (OR = 2.6; 95% CI, 1.84-3.67; P < .01 and OR = 1.22; 95% CI, 1.04-1.43; P < .01, respectively).
Reduced vitamin D values resulted in a higher infection risk, mortality and severity COVID-19 infection.
Supplementation may be considered as preventive and therapeutic measure.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076021000765There is rapid testing available now, and you can order and hold ivermectin based treatment from India.
Treat Your Own COVID: www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/treat-your-own-covid.htmlIn Texas, we have 5.2% test positivity rate for COVID, the lowest ever (scroll to percent positive graphic) but the rapid test positivity rate is 2/3 of that, 3%, and that is the rate I believe, because when you test a lot of asymptomatic people with PCR tests, people who are not actually infected show up as more and more of the “positive results”.
apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/Some differences between SARS-CoV-2 variants and influenza variants include:
SARS-CoV-2 transmits better, and it is mostly little floating particles, which concentrate indoors.
SARS-CoV-2 is bimodal. 80% of people stop it in the nose, where it is mild. In 20% of people it gets into lungs, guts and bloodstream. It has special aggressive powers to attack blood vessel linings, which can ruin lungs, kidneys, heart and brain.
SARS-CoV-2 has a longish period from exposure to onset of symptoms, typically about 5-7 days, but the viral load in the nose/throat peaks for 2 days before symptom onset to 2 days after symptom onset. This allows for lots of transmission by “pre-symptomatic” and “early-symptomatic” people who have not been able to take off work yet. (Don’t say “asymptomatic spread”!)
SARS-CoV-2 infections respond well to early antiviral treatment, too. Flu used to, if you got cheap, generic acyclovir on the first (best) or second (helps some) day of symptoms, but flu has mutated to resist acyclovir, and it is really hard to get test and a prescription on even the second day of illness these days.
Both viruses kill the old and infirm, and a=occasionally somebody else. COVID is more dramatic when it does that. Attacking the arterial and arteriolar linings is really hitting-below-the-belt. It is nasty, and most hospitals are very limited in what they will allow t=for treatment. Treatment ismostly denied by governments and discouraged by propaganda outside of hospitals for nefarious reasons related to lef=vers of power and control over humanity (IMHO).@WES and Michael Reid, from yesterday. Thanks guys. Thanks for humanity.
@WES:
Bismark was brilliant, like Putin/Lavrov level of competence.
The British Empire was appropriately aghast.
That dude was as brilliant at statecraft, and really moving German society in healthy directions, as Marx was at diagnosing Capitalism as a patient.
