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@Madamski: I’m awaiting the prospective, randomized, double-blind trials, of course.
I was fairly seriously asserting that nasal saline irrigation with neti pot or Sinu Cleanse or bulb syringe would do the same job, but it’s all hard to do at work. I can’t even drink green tea and eat dried fruit and nuts at work these days.
Hidden costs abound…Thanks for thinking about me Farang-V-Arnold, nd pointing out my electrical isolation correctly Dr D.
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Ilargi said: “That’s awfully simplified. Wind is 20% of Texas power, and not even the biggest failure. All power plants must be properly winterized, and in Texas virtually non are, because one in a decade+ event. It’s not just the moving parts, it’s also water supply. There are ways to protect wind turbines from ice and snow, but for the same reasons those were not applied either.”
Our water is out now, a city problem, not our pipes. I did feel like Mish was turning the knife in the wound more than was seemly, but he made a good point about hidden costs of wind and solar power in a mass installation, as Texas has. Texas did have a similar, but more regional problem in 2011, and mandated weatherizing of power plants, which is “still ongoing” = not-done-yet.
Texas politicians are throwing poison-dart accusations right and left, but it’s no protection, I think Everybody knows nobody was prepared for this, and we all have to make some real changes and spend some real money to be more able to support the grid when disasters happen, which they will.
Natural gas plants are the way to do this, since they fire up quickly and can come online and go offline quickly. There is natural gas for them and water, and some have been recently decommissioned, but can be upgraded and refurbished. Gas lines and water pumps and pipes were problematic. That can be remediated. It’s standard technology. Texas needs to get together on this. 100 ft long turbine blades and rotor hubs are on the road every time we drive to Yoakum, new ones, going north to the flatlands.
I’m not saying they are bad, but I sure wish there was a use for them, and Teslas, after 12 years or so. They are going to build a Tesla plant on our route between Austin and Yoakum, too.
I hope at least one of our engineer sons can get a job there, maybe both. They live up in car-pileup-land, Dallas-Ft-Worth.
What happened on that icy pileup was that it happened just past the crest of a ridge, so it was invisible to traffic going 75 mph, approaching it, until they cleared the ridge and slammed into it on the slick surface. Cars were stacked 3 high in that pileup. I’ve not seen pictures like that before.I agree with Madamski, This spray is a nasal rinse, like a neti-pot. It physically rinses out viral particles before they attach to your nasal mucosa and get swallowed like little Trojans. Use a neti pot every 5 minutes at work and you, too will be fine. Hmmmm… How does this work if you just rinse your nose 3 times a day?
I wrote and compiled this last evening when the electricity came back on after a day off.
Internet is spotty today. https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/texas-freezing-blackout.htmlSharing Space Blankets,
Texas is cold, colder than anything on record, overall, for this time of year, and snowed-in, which never happens for more than a day here in central Texas. This combination, and the long duration, 6 days already, and counting, make this event an order of magnitude or more beyond the parameters that engineers considered when designing safety measures. Something similar, but milder and more localized happened in the Dallas, Fort Worth area during super bowl 2011, I hear, but I don’t recall it. I didn’t live there.
The cost to keep a temperature differential from inside to outside matters in several ways. Texas houses and businesses often pump something like 35 degrees, between 105 outside and 70 inside during the summer, with AC units, which are heat pumps. Heat pumps are pretty efficient. They might use 1 unit of electricity to pump 9 equal energy nits of heat outside. Gas burning furnaces and stoves are pretty good. Stoes don’t waste any heat. They are unvented heaters. CO2 does build up with lots of burning over a long time. Lots of use lived with unvented heaters for many years in the old days. Gas furnaces won’t work when the electricity is out. Stoves will. You may need a match.
Electric heating is different. It does not pump 9 units of heat for every equal unit of electricity.
Resistive electric heaters make 1 unit of heat for 1 unit of electricity. Resistive electric heaters take 9 times as much electricity to cover that 35 degree differential, and a lot of us are trying to get 65 degrees inside with 15 degrees outside this week.
A lot of people need 12 times as much electricity as during summer peak load.
About 40% of Texas households are currently without electricity. We just had about 20 hours without electricity, after 8 hours without last Thursday evening and night. We are fortunate to have a gas stove, and an older one with a gas pilot light, so we used it and blanketed up overnight, and sweatered up in the daytime.
We have been able to cook. We have nice fresh produce we harvested ahead of the deadly cold.
We gave some away, too. Not the spinach. Jenny cooked lovely Saag paneer 2 days ago, and I made spinach omelets with mushroom and cheese sauce today. Still tasting it…
I carried in frozen rainwater buckets to put in the refrigerator and freezer, which became “the icebox”, which was fun to say.
I put them back outside a while ago when the power came on. They are “recharging”.
Without internet, I read most of Charles Hugh Smith’s latest book, print version, by a window, A Hacker’s Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet. I have other books I still need to read…
There is a lot of blame being cast in Texas, for political purposes, but the fact is that nobody would have budgeted for something this extreme. Now they will need to.
Many natural gas wellheads are frozen and some of the pipelines are not working right in the extreme cold. Remaining natural gas power plants are burning all the gas they can get, and competing with residential users for it.
A lot of natural gas plants have been shut down in recent years, but they are the only kind of power plant that can ramp up fast to meet changes in electrical generation requirements. Some plants will need to be renovated and brought back online.
It will cost more most days, but it will provide resilience for times of severe need. Texas has the gas…
There is no wind or solar electric power currently online, due to ice storms last week and no thaw since then.
We got down to 8 degrees F, with a wind, yesterday morning, and 6 F this morning. I’ve never experienced it getting below 16, and that was the winter of 1983-1984, when every palm tree in Houston died.
All of our “cold tolerant” Mexican avocado seedlings, now over a year old, are in the garage in their pots. The coating of ice from Thursday has melted. We put them in there before the temperature dropped below the mid 20s. That’s too cold.
No point killing them all. I just want to see which ones do better.
We’re not sure at all if any of the 15 Mexican avocado trees in Yoakum will live, though we cut up a roll of white plastic to wrap them with in sub freezing wind Saturday (Thanks Jenny!). We have been making deer-deterrence cages of chicken wire for a month, so that helps hold the wraps, but makes them harder to do and to tie. Jenny and I drove back to Austin after that chore, and harvesting the vegetables.
The “ghost trees” are pictured below.
We hope some live, but people are proud of the few that lived through 1983-1984, very proud.I’m actually very hopeful for Texas, because this is a big adversity, unanticipated and overwhelming for all Texans, a shared hardship. Political unity of purpose is exceedingly rare these days, and organizations are locked into status-quo procedures and protocols. That’s terrible, and only serves a few insulated power elites.
This event provides a platform for practical initiatives to be taken by (politicians in) the State of Texas, in the interests of all Texans.
Washington can only get in the way of Texas reinforcing it’s power grid backup-capacity for severe events.
Run with that Ball, Texas!Mike Shedlock is politically incorrect, but factual here. Natural gas is the cleanest fossil fuel, and still abundant. Combustion = Real Economy.
Hello Clean Energy Advocates, What Do We Do When the Wind Turbines are All Frozen?
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/hello-clean-energy-advocates-what-do-we-do-when-the-wind-turbines-are-all-frozen@My Parents said Know: Thanks, Bro. We’re ok, but we’ve had a lot of time without electricity. We have some now. We are fortunate to have a gas stove, which makes heat when there is no electricity. Many of us lived with unvented gas heaters for many years, and are not properly fearful of them. People with gas furnaces and no blower are as bad off as people with electric heaters. Only electric resistance heating, horribly wasteful, works in weather this cold. This is way colder than I’ve ever had in Texas, colder than January 1983, for instance. That killed every palm tree in Houston.
More in the morning, if we have power.
If any of the avocado trees live, it will be from some kind of super power, not the sheets of plastic we tied around them in the sub freezing wind Saturday.RFK Jr for President, someday, and Tulsi Gabbard for Secretary of War, or VP, someday…
Thanks for all the kind and thoughtful comments yesterday, friends and fellow-travelers.
We’ll all be deplatformed and e-shunned soon, I suppose, but it looks like the overlords are having to ram too much compliance and police state down our throats too soon, maybe too late.
It can’t “work”, whatever maintenance of their own power and order they might hopefully envision.
It CAN be horrific, which it is our job to mitigate, since it affects us.
@V.Arnold. Good comment about 9/11 yesterday. Eisenhower saw things well underway, already, and the machine killed JFK, RFK and MLK, but it’s the same machine, and has to kill most of the people in the world this time, as I understand the analysis.
Rare Friday ice-morning in Austin. Working this afternoon, COVID clinic.
Ivermectin for Surgeon General. Vitamin-D for Thee and Me…https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/enemy-of-life.html
Thank you all for the positive response to Treat Your Own COVID, and for sharing it around to friends and colleagues.
I have had somewhat less time to blog recently, due to having a lot of gardening and “prepping” work to do and arrange, at gardens in Austin and at the homestead in Yoakum.
This has been a big 2 years of work on the homestead project, now in its third winter, which has been mild and somewhat dry until now, so I got a lot of work done while the sun shined.
Now the “big chill” is here for a week. We are expected to have cold into the low teens in Austin and mid teens in Yoakum next Monday.
That will be a severe test to all of the Mexican avocado trees. Some varieties probably won’t survive.
Occasional big things happen in life, completely changing plans and forcing revisions to work already done.
We will bring the Mexican avocado seedlings in from the patio in Austin for the hard freeze..One big, yet basic lesson we have been learning in Yoakum is that it is really hard to get things done, to get basic work done, in a rural setting, when you are not from there. We have engaged as many “bad” contractors (thieves) as good ones at this point.
It seems like local law enforcement doesn’t actually investigate things under $3000, involving contractors.
I did not know that before. They likely did.
Sometimes it’s a mixed bag, a guy who wants to be good, but has drug and alcohol problems.
Contractors seem to have meth and alcohol problems, for some reason.Since fall of 2018 it seems like the economy and people everywhere have gotten shakier and less certain.
If one is getting a homestead in a rural area now, it’s good to get one that really does not need any work done, that you can tell. It’s good to get the names of contractors who already did work on it in recent years. We just don’t know what the progression of economic, financial and societal dysfunctions will be this year, next year, or the years ahead. I expect the current arrangements to keep degrading until they are just not the arrangements anymore. I can’t be more specific. History keeps rhyming on this.
The Great Depression and WW-2, the USSR break-up, and Chinese Cultural Revolution are all recent examples of this kind of degrading of an economic order until something new can be formed by the participants. That’s us. Start working or keep working. That’s all I can see.RFK, Jr. Interviews Vandana Shiva: The Gates Empire ‘Will Own Everything’ , Thanks Bill , transcript, too…
This is my meditation for today. This is life wisdom.
“New Feudalism” is the aggressor. It will own all life. Life will die without chemical inputs. We are made weak, sick and dependent.
Vaccines-only for COVID, ignoring ivermectin and vitamin-D benefits, are the Gates/WHO gameplan to own our living bodies…
In an interview with CHD Chairman RFK, Jr., Vandana Shiva warns listeners that if we don’t fight back against Gates and his empire,
“They will own everything. You will own nothing … no commons, no public good, no shared values.”
Vandana Shiva discusses how Bill Gates, along with Big Ag, Big Chemical, Big Food, Big Tech and Big Pharma are destroying Earth’s ecosystem and with it, our health.
Shiva, who has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, is founder of Navdanya International, an organization dedicated to protecting seed and food sovereignty, and small farmers around the world.
Bobby, I wasn’t a leader. I was a student, and I was volunteering, and the leaders were the women and they were my professors. I always say, I went to University of Western Ontario for my Ph.D. to figure out quantum theory better, but I went to the Chipko University to figure out biodiversity. And Bobby, just the other day, the mafia has taken hold of David Attenborough to launch portfolio management on biodiversity, like portfolios on land ownership, as if value to biodiversity was not recognized by the Chipko women. I think that is the clash we are living through. The billionaires wanting to turn everything into their portfolio, and the ordinary people saying, “No, we want to protect our land.” Our farmers have been protesting now for six months for the land. That’s what they’re saying...
”We are fighting for the soul and soil of India.”RFK, Jr. Interviews Vandana Shiva: The Gates Empire ‘Will Own Everything’
A now-deleted fact sheet published by the U.S. State Department on January 15, 2021, claimed that for over a year, “the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin.” The official release of that fact sheet focuses on the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV); a controversial research lab in the Hubei province of China which has been the target of well-earned suspicions over its work on bat-borne zoonotic diseases like SARS-CoV-2, better known as the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Missing from the State Department’s missive is the intimate bond that this particular laboratory has to American scientific institutions and to a tight-knit group of individuals with direct links to the U.S. intelligence apparatus and the biodefense establishment. National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci’s funding of gain-of-function (GoF) research in 2014 at the Chinese lab is just one example. The highly polarizing GoF studies, which entail turbo-charging a pathogen’s virulence through the “generation of viruses with properties that do not exist in nature” present considerable biosafety hazards, which led the Obama administration to issue a federal moratorium on GoF research. The study Fauci funded at the WIV in 2014 was done so in contravention to the moratorium then in effect.
Deeper and more disturbing ties to outfits like USAID-funded Ecohealth Alliance have been covered by independent journalists like Same Husseini and others, revealing the WIV’s close relationship to people like David R. Franz – former commander of Fort Detrick, the pre-eminent biowarfare and biodefense facility in the U.S. and the source of the anthrax spores used in the infamous 2001 anthrax attacks. In July 2020, this author carried out an investigation into the nexus between the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), USAID and zoonotic disease research in Asia.Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World, Where Energy Modeling Goes Wrong
Summary: The economy is approaching near-term collapse, not peak oil. The result is quite different.
The modeling that comes closest to being correct is that which underlies the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth by Donella Meadows and others. This modeling was based on physical quantities of resources, with no financial system whatsoever. The base model, shown here, indicates that limits would be reached a few years later than we actually seem to be reaching them. The dotted black line in Figure 1 indicates where I saw the world economy to be in January 2019, based on the limits we already seemed to be reaching at that time.
(I think that line is drawn at 2010, myself.)@Maxwell Quest: Thank You.
@UpstateNYer: Thank You, too.
@Glennda: You’re Good, too.
@Dr.D: Where does that involuntary population control by elites lead?
I think it is what they do when we start to outgrow our resources.
I think it is the use they provide to the gene pool.
I think we can be much better stewards than that. We know how.
How do we get there from here?
It’s a though problem that requires action, but you just have to keep working it until you start to make progress.
We’re working on it.Jeremy, “Germ” sent this: Ivermectin is bad if it’s a competitor to YOUR products.
FLCCC Alliance Response to Merck’s
public statements on ivermectin’s
efficacy in COVID-191
https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FLCCC-Alliance-Response-to-Merck-statements-on-ivermectin-in-Covid19-Dec7-2021.pdf@Absolute Galore, from yesterday: Vitamin-D deficiency makes the immune system malfunction.
Enough vitamin-D helps the immune system be intelligent and discerning.
Thinking “too much” and “too little” is barking up the wrong tree.
An intelligent immune system is very likely to stop coronaviruses in the nose and throat area.
An angry, overwhelmed and desperate immune system busts loose with cytokine storm, which is too-much-too-late.I remain highly suspicious that Hank Aaron died of immune thrombocytopenia causing “a massive stroke”, which would have been the smoking gun, if it was a bleed, not ischemia (dry),
Clammed-up. No information will be allowed out.
“Natural Causes” , is all we will get.
If it was a dry/ischemic stroke, they would have said so.
It would have excluded his death as a side effect.The red on that map looks like Bangladesh and West Bengal, one country as part of India , until civil war, threatened by sea level rise. People will have to leave.
Heh,heh, heh…
What they don’t sayis that ALL of those side effects are from killing the massive load of filariform worms and other parasites infesting your body, like treating “River Blindeness”. A bunch of kinds of worm corpses are now dead and your body reacts with shock as it tries to clean up the mess.These side effects do not apply to treating COVID.
heh, heh, heh… Don’t be a sucker.
@Polder Dweller: You asked about how the (Vitamin-D) ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline treatment works.
I had a long Friday at work, then did a lot of real life work and arranging in Yoakum from Saturday through Monday, and back to paid work yesterday. (excuses)
Nobody, out of about 40 that I recall hearing back from, has gotten worse after starting the treatment. All but a few, who already have nausea/diarrhea, have kept it down well. Vomiting reduces it’s efficacy, but out of those 3, nobody really got bad, either. A moderate number of people take one pill per day of the ivermectin, no matter what is written on the bottle. They don’t get better quickly.
Almost everybody who takes it and keeps it down feels better within 24 hours.https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/investing-in-life.html
Tessa Fights Robots:
The Last Squeeze: Digital Colonization as Manifest Destiny 2.0
Beware of billionaires bearing gifts of efficient management.
https://tessa.substack.com/p/digital-slaveryIndian Farmers Fight Robots, too…
India Restricts Internet, Twitter Complies With Blockage Request As Farmers Protest Grows
Parts of India are facing extended government-ordered internet blackouts as the Indian farmers protest movement has grown. The farmers allege Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s farming law, which ends the government’s programs to keep commodity prices at fixed levels, therefore allowing free markets to dictate prices, favors large corporations over smaller mom and pop farmers. (most Indians)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-restricts-internet-twitter-complies-blockage-request-protesting-farmers-clashJeremy sent this: The Science is Broken
”If we don’t address gross over-population and the real carrying capacity of the planet, along with unlimited consumption and endless greed, our waste streams (greenhouse gasses and pollution) will continue to accelerate biosphere collapse, leading to our (soon) extinction. It’s just that simple. The civilization that we embraced refused to consider finite limits on any of the Earth systems that sustain life, and we deliberately designed economic models based upon this gross miscalculation.
This is probably one of the biggest mistakes in our entire history, and it is being ignored by scientists, researchers, academics and policy makers. An economic model based upon consumption and endless growth was always destined to destroy Earth’s habitability and human survival. Religions that fail to recognize that the Earth is now way over-full and over-used have violated their core teachings.
Scientists that continue to insist that growth is still desirable are doing the entire world a great disservice. We look to these experts to give us expert guidance, but I’m still not seeing it and have been looking for decades now. If they can’t actually tell us “like it is”, then we need to find those who will and can, fast. Otherwise, you might as well embrace the hopium and the suck that will come with it, because it’s going to really suck to watch your own children die from something that we should have all prevented.”I replied:
Who does this author address? He expresses frustration that human population is not being dealt with and that public statements of the science are sugar-coated, not honest.
Our owners are well aware of the situation and are already acting to reduce our numbers, especially those of us who live over the cheap oil, like in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, and so on… The rest of us in the “developed” countries are now in draconian lockdowns, promised that some novel vaccines will fix everything. We know that they can’t fix anything that they are supposed to fix, and that there are generic medicines that will do the job, that are doing the job when they are used, so what is the real agenda?
This author may be unaware of what’s going on. He appears unaware.
The power structure above industrial society supports the powerful human “owners”. That’s the purpose.
They are slowly negotiating a transition for their power structure, out of necessity.
We are not at that table, and that table will have to have some losers, so negotiations are not proceeding well, but we get culled. That’s a given. Be useful…Thanks Ilargi,
I have forwarded the link to this post to the C-19-d listserv, which includes Dr McCullough, who you cited above (It’s his list) and Dr Risch, who you had on video a few days ago.
Dr Risch has intimated to me that almost, or about 50% of people in the USA have or have had COVID-19 now. He is an epidemiologist. This winter surge is also the bum towards “herd immunity”, except that immunity to coronaviruses fades between 6-12 months for most people, u-nless it is restimulated.
There is crossover immunity or partial resistance between coronavirus strains. We are baout to see how that works for us. We are also about to get sold a new lifesaving vaccine every 6 months to save us from the very latest threat.
I’d probably take the Sputnik vaccine at this point, but as a political statement, more than anything.
I have more faith in the interests that birthed it than I do in Pfizer, Moderna and friends.@Ilargi:
Look the global north and global south cases and deaths largely track the inverse of seasonal vitamin-D levels by region! Good color coding, too.@Christianarchist: Nice of you to introduce yourself. Might I suggest that you seek out the homeschool community where you live for those of like mind or similar mind? Also homebirthers and La Leche Leaguers could be on your wavelength. You have to look for a higher concentration of non-conformists who are making it work. That’s pretty selective.
Allegiance To Cancer https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/allegiance-to-cancer.html
“You can’t talk about hope if you can’t see reality.
Reality’s pretty bleak, but that’s the starting point.”
Chris Hedges
American Psychosis, short video. Thanks Jeremy
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday issued a tacit rebuke of controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, slamming the Georgia Republican’s “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer” for the party.
”Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” McConnell said in a statement. “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.” (Or maybe that’s exactly what it has to do with, Mitch.)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/01/politics/mcconnell-marjorie-taylor-greene-cancer-republican-party/index.html In 2006 Loose Change, a 70 minute 9/11 Truth documentary was the most watched download ever on YouTube.
Now you can see a 1 minute trailer and a lot of articles about how it dangerously-misinformed a generation (who believe things like a high-penetration cruise missile hit the Pentagon where the Office of Naval Intelligence was investigating the missing trillions of dollars that Rumsfeld had just mentioned, and that WTC-7 fell into its own footprint in free-fall time, from fires in some wastebaskets, er, from controlled-demolition, and so on). I still recommend it. Mitch McConnel does not recommend it. It’s “cancer”.
With lower energy consumption, many things tend to go wrong at once: The rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Protests and uprisings become more common. The poorer citizens and those already in poor health become more vulnerable to communicable diseases. Governments feel a need to control their populations, partly to keep down protests and partly to prevent the further spread of disease.
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including humanity—is in fact so great that it is difficult to grasp for even well-informed experts. Second, we ask what political or economic system, or leadership, is prepared to handle the predicted disasters, or even capable of such action. Third, this dire situation places an extraordinary responsibility on scientists to speak out candidly and accurately when engaging with government, business, and the public. We especially draw attention to the lack of appreciation of the enormous challenges to creating a sustainable future. The added stresses to human health, wealth, and well-being will perversely diminish our political capacity to mitigate the erosion of ecosystem services on which society depends.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full@Germ: Thanks for the short , searingly truthful Chris Hedges video.
@Susmarie108: Yu are doing the work. I think it’s best to do the work the first time it is presented to you, not to put it off… You’re an ok human being… You and Mom know that.The blog has a paper by Dr Merritt, and the video linked to above, but mainly it has a picture of me in the 1957 iron bathtub that now has a tile shower. You should not get sore from grouting and puttying a tile job. I’ve never done grout work before. I have a couple of sore spots. I did not do the tile work, itself.
I would like to know what V.Arnold thinks of the photographic composition and subject matter.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/war-by-virus.htmlOff to plant another peach tree in the other raised-bed planter at the clinic!
Now I know who Laura Ingraham is. The guy on the right of the screen in yesterday”s link (in comments) Harvey Risch MD is an epidemiologist. The statement up top today about the one-in-a-gazillion-chance-that-HCQ-doesn’t-work is medical professor Peter McCullough MD’s writing. These are a couple of the principals on the email listserv of C-19 treating physicians, that Dr McCullough added me to last month.
It’s a good and useful and heterogenous group. I’ve gotten behind again over the long Friday at work and the weekend chores in Yoakum. Other chores back in Austin today.This video did not come from that august group, but is likely informed by their COVID treatment work.
Former Military Surgeon, Lee Merritt MD (skip the first 2-3 minutes of beard-guy) lays out the argument that SARS-CoV-2 is a military weapon, and we humans are the targets, but that the actual aggressor remains hidden in this war. China is mentioned, but she specifically does not say that the CCP is the primary aggressor. Arguments are sound, even if the finish of this piece is nuevo-John-Birch-Society.
Understanding that we are already in a war is a useful cognitive tool.
Yes, hydroxychloroquine is effective in the early (pre-hospital) stage and also some in hospital, and ivermectin is effective at all stages, and other medicines have antiviral effects, notably vitamin-D as a baseline immune support, and zinc to reduce viral replication when ill. We are not supposed to think.
We are supposed to take vaccines. Why?
The answer is not apparent. Is this a long term business model on your rent to keep living, in the form of a vaccine every 6 months? That’s plausible.
Is some vaccine (there are many) the harmless first part of a binarybiological weapon of some sort?
What would the secondary part of the binary weapon cause? Death? Infertility?
https://www.brighteon.com/b95f1834-1283-4866-b16e-fb6bf9092aebAs to some of the comments from the days I missed. I’ve read them. Tulsi-bashing is easy. She did 2 tours in a medical unit in a war-of-empire-zone. Bash Tulsi after you walk in those shoes. She is strong in character and strong physically. She surfs like a warrior, not like a babe. “Pretty” is a cheap shot.
Let me refer you to this link, scroll down to just above the comments:https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/01/reasons-to-cooperate.html
(Iran reports on Russia. Don’t listen!)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against the same scenario that triggered international tensions leading to World War II.
The modern world’s current situation, Putin said on Wednesday, is one where you have “everyone against everyone,” and that resembles the time during the 1930s before the eruption of the world war.
“The scale and complex systemic nature of the challenges” in international relations pose similar threats, he said in an address to the World Economic Forum event, which is usually held in Davos, Switzerland, but it was virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Existing economic models are causing a “sharp polarization” in views, the Russian president said, which leads to both populism and radicalism.
“International institutions are weakening, regional conflicts are multiplying, and the global security system is degrading.”
Putin’s participation in the forum marks his first appearance at the event since 2009, when he was prime minister.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2021/01/27/643983/Putin-World-WarHorrors!
Game-changing Iranian Pipeline Set To Launch In March
Over and above the technical details involved in the Goreh-Jask pipeline project, the key point is that the pipeline will allow Iran another method by which it can export huge amounts of oil without being prey to U.S. sanctions and it will also allow Iran to do this whilst at the same time causing chaos for a third of the rest of the world’s oil shipments through blockading the Strait of Hormuz, should it wish to do so again. “The logistical model Iran has at present is not sustainable in the current circumstances, with around 90 per cent of all of its oil for export currently loaded at Kharg Island – with most of the remaining loads going through terminals on Lavan and Sirri – making it an obvious and easy target for the U.S. and its proxies to cripple Iran’s oil sector and therefore its economy,” a senior oil and gas industry source who works closely with Iran’s Petroleum Ministry told OilPrice.com. “Conversely, Iran wants to be able to use the threat – or reality – of closing the Strait of Hormuz for political reasons without also completing destroying its own oil exports revenue stream,” he said.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Game-changing-Iranian-Pipeline-Set-To-Launch-In-March.htmlFrom the mouths of Slavs…
‘Where is the line between global business & attempts to control society?’ Putin asks Davos as he calls out power of Big Tech
“Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves how to live, what to choose, what stance to express freely?” Putin wondered.
“We’ve all seen this just now in the US. And everybody understands what I’m talking about,” he added.
https://www.rt.com/russia/513768-putin-slams-big-tech-in-davos/TOXIC CHEMICALS THREATEN HUMANITY’S ABILITY TO REPRODUCE (“PLASTICS”)
In a new book, epidemiologist Shanna Swan looks at the impact of environmental chemicals on human sexuality and reproductive systems.
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/24/toxic-chemicals-human-sexuality-shanna-swan/@D.Benton Smith: So long again, Amigo. I hope your prepping is going better than mine. The work always ends up being more than I thought, and the deer graze and antler shred stuff in the fall and winter. The people aren’t even a problem yet, and the wild hogs don’t come into the edge of town, yet. The weeds ye have with you always, to paraphrase Jesus.
James Lyons Weiler Ph.D. testifies about “Pathogenic Priming” side effects of vaccines, which are specific to their containing bits that correspond to bits already in the human body, which the immune system will be induced to attack after vaccination. Pennsylvania Congressional testimony is still up.
Deaths dropped fast in every Peruvian state where early outpatient ivermectin was introduced as treatment this past spring and summer.
Sharp Reductions in COVID-19 Case Fatalities and Excess Deaths in Peru in Close Time Conjunction, State-By-State, with Ivermectin Treatments
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3765018Back To The Future:
“Farmers are not just a residue from our past; farmers, agriculture and village India are integral to the future of India and the world; as bearers of historic knowledge, skills and culture; as agents of food safety, security and sovereignty; and as guardians of biodiversity and ecological sustainability.”President Joe signs Executive Order banning the term “China virus”.
Mandatory sentencing guidelines to follow?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-signs-executive-order-ban-term-china-virus@Chett: Yes, that very good paper you link to is from the same FLCCC Front line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance guys. Keep track here. I’m honored to be on their listserv. I am spending significant time there lately.
@Doc Robinson: Yes, the Emergency Use Authorization law is a wartime law, for bioweapon attacks, and was never intended to be used for a pandemic. (I do think this is a leaked bioweapon, but it was in the US and Europe in mid 2019, so it could have been labs other than Wuhan, too)
To activate that law required lies, maybe not quite at first, but they were clearly lies by late spring. By mid spring, the government doubled down, forced the VA to stop using HCQ/azithromycin, and all other hospitals soon stopped, too. My daughter’s hospital had tracked VA use early, and their deaths and ICU admissions seemed to go up. their stats went down to average when the stopped HCG/Azithro. Just following orders, like everybody else.
At least one of the doctors on the FLCCC list has intimated to me the feeling that we are all putting up with lies and injustice rather than face the consequences.
@ Ilargi: What about everybody else standing up to the global death machine? The courts wouldn’t even hear Trump’s case.
Hey , judges have families that can die in flaming car accidents, too (Ref fiancee of Georgia Governor’s daughter).
I think we are all in deeper shite than we are comfortable admitting, but that’s just what I think. I’m human. I err.
I feel very fortunate to have started everything I am doing at the clinic before it became a political hot-button. I am prescribing more and more ivermectin, but I’m still the only one. I’m just keeping on.
This is one of those times in history where you just need to outlive your enemy, I think. That’s my current objective. I want to help global financial capitalism fail by keeping on keeping on and pushing vitamin-D , zinc and ivermectin to everybody who will listen.
The system needs to fail, and it’s our life support system, even though it sucks our lifeblood.
We are hostages. Wiggle in those ropes, friends! Do some transactions without the internet, and walk or bike places. Put a target on your forehead by planting a vegetable garden…@Cloudhidden: Well, that would explain why the article with that picture was taken down from Off-Guardian.
A healthy Florida doctor got the Pfizer COVID vaccine, and noticed little spots of bleeding in his skin a week and a half later. 15 days after the first vaccine dose, he bled into his brain and died of a hemorrhagic stroke (not an ischemic stroke that chokes off blood supply). He had gotten autoimmune thrombocytopenia. His immune system had attacked his platelets until he bled freely. He was not reportedly feeling sick, but he knew what those little petechiae meant, and sought medical care.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/healthy-florida-doctor-dies-after-pfizer-covid-vaccine/Hank Aaron got the Moderna vaccine, and died 17 days later of a “massive stroke”. Which kind of stroke?
Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, who battled racial prejudice and hatred on his way to breaking the major leagues’ career home run record, has died at the age of 86, the Atlanta Braves announced.
According to a person with knowledge, Aaron died Friday morning after suffering a massive stroke. The person requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2021/01/22/hank-aaron-baseball-hall-of-famer-dies/437341002/There is a coroner’s report, which fails to answer that very basic question of “which kind of stroke did Hank die from?”
Coroner’s report quoted as “natural causes” of death. Here we get non-medical hearsay.
In an interview with Ambassador Andrew Young, who also received the shot with Aaron, Young also told 11Alive Aaron “never had any reaction.”
“I talked to the fella who was his driver, and I said, ‘was hank feeling any discomfort or any problem over the last few days?’ and he said, ‘no, he wanted to keep his schedule,'” Young recounted.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/sports/mlb/hank-aaron-cause-of-death-natural-medical-examiner-says/85-8260cf39-f023-4963-b3cd-bea3cd7e358a
What do you mean by “stroke”, sir? What about that doctor in Florida, sir? Was that a “stroke”, or not? Who pays your salary?
A spokesperson at the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office, which examined Aaron’s body after his death, told PolitiFact that his cause of death was natural and not linked to the COVID-19 vaccine.
If Aaron did die of a stroke, that would make it even less likely that the vaccine contributed in some way to his death. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said that it would be “biologically implausible” for the COVID-19 vaccine to cause a stroke.
“The coronavirus can cause strokes, but the (Moderna COVID-19) vaccine only contains one protein of the virus, and there’s no evidence that that one protein is inducing inflammation of the blood vessels (which could cause strokes),” he said.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/01/26/no-evidence-the-covid-19-vaccine-caused-hank-aarons-death-politifact/https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/01/distributed-strengths.html
Look, this shark’s even closer. It’s right here, already!
Covid-19 Variant In California May Explain Sharp Rise In Cases
But just as the U.K. has identified a more transmissible variant, termed B.1.1.7, South Africa has identified another highly transmissible variant, and a third variant has arisen in Japan and Brazil, California has found one of its own. The California strain, known as Cal.20C, has been identified in 35-50% of recently diagnosed cases in Los Angeles. And as has been the case for the other variants across the world, all of which have crossed oceans and borders, the Cal.20C variant is more infectious than the prior forms of coronavirus, or SARS-CoV2.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/01/21/covid-19-variant-in-california-may-explain-sharp-rise-in-cases/?sh=75f579b47425I posted this broadly insightful article from LArry Romanoff in December.
Here is the reminder that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in America in fall of 2019 (and very likely near Ft Detrick Maryland, even before that.)
A number of American cities made the same discoveries of the virus in their wastewater samples from 2019. The US mass media didn’t pick up the stories, but the local papers did. It was at that point that Pompeo issued another gag order that hospitals and labs were forbidden from disclosing any virus information directly to the CDC or the media but that all must be passed through the White House. That killed all further reports of COVID-19 in America’s wastewater in the second and third quarters of 2019.
With the accumulated volume of evidence, it now seems a certainty that COVID-19 was circulating in the US since June or July of 2019, far earlier than admitted, and that the CDC’s prevention (and forbidding) of testing was to bury this evidence. One example was headlines in the US media on June 21, 2020, stating, “Over 40 mysterious respiratory deaths in California could dramatically rewrite narrative of COVID-19” in the US.[21] The LA Times reported on “a cluster of mysterious respiratory deaths” beginning in December of 2019. The local news website http://www.bakersfield.com stated this meant that COVID-19 was circulating in California “way earlier than we knew”. Evidence of COVID-19 was also found in many blood donations collected from residents in nine states across the US as early as mid-December, according to a study published on Nov 30 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/covid-19-un-explained/Thanks Jeremy.
The previously discussed, WHO-sponsored meta-analysis of ivermectin against covid-19 has now been published as a preprint. It found a highly significant 75% reduction in covid mortality, based on randomized controlled trials only, and will be continually updated with additional trial results.
To date, the mode of action of ivermectin against SARS-CoV-2 has remained somewhat of a mystery. Early studies indicated that ivermectin may inhibit viral protein transportation. But a new US-Canadian study, published in Nature Commincations Biology, found that ivermection is highly effective (>90%) in inhibiting the main enzyme (3CLpro) involved in the replication of SARS-CoV-2 (and other RNA viruses). This might explain why ivermectin appears to be highly effective even as a prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Nevertheless, many patients, and even doctors, continue to be denied access to low-cost and safe ivermectin, especially in Western countries. Others are paying obscenely overcharged prices, visit dubious online merchants, or resort to animal-grade products. Given the current global covid death rate of 15,000 people per day, the SPR Collaboration has decided to provide access to a certified Indian pharmaceutical exporter of ivermectin, vetted by SPR readers: Kachhela Medex Ltd.Identification of 3-chymotrypsin like protease (3CLPro) inhibitors as potential anti-SARS-CoV-2 agents
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01577-xPierre Kory MD gives an update on Ivermectin treatment of COVID, based upon the WHO meta-analysis findings paper above, of which he is a co-author. He is an ICU doc, who has been treating COVID patients for almost a year now, in the worst hot spots.
Thanks Jeremy. Medical lecture starts at 12 minutes.
We are living within a competition between a machine paradigm and living ecosystems which self organize and evolve around light and water.
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/01/distributed-strengths.htmlThe industrial economy which developed machines that use combustion of coal and oil, then machines powered by electricity is really new on the scene, just born, but has become all that we learn about and see in our even-shorter lifetimes. We as organisms and as a cooperative species are truly ancient compared to combustion powered machines. Our bodies and our human ways contain deeply embedded adaptive mechanisms, selected for by hundreds of thousands of cycles of good times and bad surprises. Our individual experience gets surprised a lot, but our ways of engaging problems together are far more deeply proven. We cooperate well in small groups, platoon sized groups, but we can work well together in groups of up to about 150 members. Bigger groups than that require a hierarchy, because we quarrel too much to get tasks accomplished. Centurions commanded 100 soldiers in the Roman army. It was an empirically driven arrangement. It worked.
Hierarchies above that basic building block get more and more machine-like, and less adaptive at the level where humans engage problems, because of strict orders from above. We all have more experience with this rigidity and the ground-level stupidity it enforces than we did 20 years ago, 40 years ago, and so on.
Rigid hierarchy has flourished in our lifetimes despite it’s inefficiencies, including “corruption” (siphoning off resources) and maintenance of the hierarchy by burdensome compliance-assurance work, which displaces productive work.
Compliance tasks might be worthwhile if they prevent corruption, but corruption is tricky. Corruption can just move up to a higher level of the command structure, leaving all of the lower level inefficiencies intact, then take half of the pie, not just bites, or the pie can go somewhere else, altogether.
Large hierarchies have been able to grow and dominate because they can crush smaller organizations, or subsume them into the inefficient-but-unassailable “machine”. What large organizational machines need to keep growing, or even maintain their inefficient, complex structure is lots of energy and material flows into the machine. Every player must be fed, watered and rewarded for compliance. All of this must continue to be more desirable to the players than doing something outside the organization, something like working a small farm, our ancient fallback option.
Hierarchical organizational machines have a new tool, of course, which is direct communication and enforcement between the top layers of hierarchy and the performance of specific tasks at the working end, through computer networks, which become essential to systemic function.When we were traveling as a family in the late summer of 2005, we traveled by train from Germany to Croatia, then back to Germany. Getting the tickets arranged in Germany took a full half hour of the diligent effort of the german clerk at the train station, getting everything arranged on her computer, assured, confirmed, and reserved for us. We were grateful for her efforts. On the way back to Germany, the Croatian clerk was able to get all of our tickets arranged, confirmed, printed and handed to us in less than 5 minutes. I was very impressed at her efficiency. She spoke English. I told her that it had taken a half hour for a German clerk with a computer to do the same thing. She immediately responded that it was because she had a computer that the German was so slow. The Croatian clerk had made one phone call, then processed our tickets.
Now I experience this effect every day. All my medical documentation and all orders must be through the electronic medical record. I cannot print x-ray reports these days, because the new system since last fall prints 1/8 page onto a whole sheet of paper. Why the software does this to me is not yet diagnosed. We have a platoon of computer, software and network software and hardware geeks, currently working from home. The structure to emulate a quick flip through a paper chart is slow, and prone to thousands of little failure modes that need constant monitoring and fixes, and the system must be protected from hacking, which is endemic.
Despite what all of the advertising said, this is bad for patients and doctors, extremely expensive, and is always broken to some degree.
It is mandated by law. It keeps hierarchy in control. It is prone to catastrophic failure, at which point nobody gets medical attention, prescriptions or necessary procedures.
That’s the threat the system wields.
Can we do anything at all to help each other outside the internet?The monopolistic hierarchical machines own all of our life support structures, and if we fail to support and feed the system, we face removal from life-support. As individuals we can store water, beans, rice, salt, oil, onions, spices and maybe some propane, but that does not mean we have other options to engage in smaller and more efficient human economies to meet our basic needs.
They have been eliminated.
Can we do anything to help each other from day to day without the internet?China and India are ancient and successful civilizations. Chinese imperialism has always been rigidly hierarchical, whereas India had the caste system, where roles were distributed throughout all of society, in every village and family, so functionality was embedded at all levels. Any town could reorganize after a war, for instance, and without orders from elsewhere. There is much to criticize in the caste system in our modern world, and China has vaulted ahead of India in the last 40 years, but these have been the good times, of plenty of fuel, food and mineral wealth.
China has strip mined her farmers to feed factories in Guangdong. India continues to have a majority of citizens directly involved in subsistence farming. India took out a lot of loans from the World Bank in the last 10 years.
Bayer/Monsanto and Cargill have a plan for repaying those loans by replacing all of the small family farms with a few big factory farms, using lots of fertilizer, GMO seed, pesticides and diesel powered machinery. The profits can pay on those loans. The farmers can find other work. The economy can export more stuff. What could go wrong?Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism
Indian farming “reforms” will benefit a handful of billionaires at the cost of small farms and ordinary laborers.
..He, along with thousands of other farmers, are mobilising against three important pieces of farm legislation that were recently forced through parliament. To all intents and purposes, these laws sound a neoliberal death knell for most of India’s cultivators and its small farms, the backbone of the nation’s food production.The Consequences of Moving from Industrial to Financial Capitalism
MICHAEL HUDSON AND PEPE ESCOBAR
The wealth is no longer made here by industrializing. It’s made financially, mainly by making capital gains. Rising prices for real estate or for stocks and for bonds. In the last nine months, since the coronavirus came here, the top 1 percent of the U.S. economy grew by $1 trillion. It’s been a windfall for the 1 percent. The stock market is way up, the bond market is up, the real estate market is up while the rest of the economy is going down. Despite the tariffs that Trump put on, Chinese imports, trade with China is going up because we’re just not producing materials.
America doesn’t make its own shoes. It doesn’t make some nuts and bolts or fasteners, it doesn’t make industrial things anymore because if money is to be made off an industrial company it’s to buy and sell the company, not to make loans to increase the company’s production...
…The government in America provided low-cost education, not student debt. It provided transportation at subsidized prices. It provided basic infrastructure at low cost. And so, government infrastructure was considered a fourth factor of production.
And if you read what the business schools in the late 19th century taught like Simon Patten at the Wharton School, it’s very much like socialism. In fact, it’s very much like what China is doing. And in fact, China is following in the last 30 or 40 years pretty much the same way of getting rich that America followed.
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-consequences-of-moving-from-industrial-to-financial-capitalism/Tulsi Gabbard, like Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney and Dennis Kucinich, is no longer a member of Congress.
Tulsi Gabbard: Domestic-Terrorism Bill Is ‘a Targeting of Almost Half of the Country’
“It’s so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends,” Gabbard said.
She continued: “When you have people like former CIA Director John Brennan openly talking about how he’s spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the Biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they’ve seen overseas, that in his words, he says make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians.”
She said her concern lies in how officials will define the characteristics they are searching for in potential threats.
“What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? Where do you take this?” Gabbard said.
“You start looking at obviously, have to be a white person, obviously likely male, libertarians, anyone who loves freedom, liberty, maybe has an American flag outside their house, or people who, you know, attended a Trump rally,” Gabbard said.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-domestic-terrorism-bill-is-a-targeting-of-almost-half-of-the-country/@Doc Robinson: Thanks for finding that Castro/Trudeau tarmac snapshot for me last night.
That’s the one.
