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I fear that if I cold-turkeyed on chemicals like glysophate I’d get sick and die. I was raised on pesticides!
How amusing. All we have to do is take really good care of ourselves and we’ll most of us be fine, covid-wise. But… how do we do that? We don’t know how to take care of ourselves. We’re too busy taking care of the Machine that feeds us.
Here’s a wildly applicable bit of paleohistory:
@ my parents said know:
I shared your thoughts above with some people I know. Younguns. Maybe I got their attention?
. All web platforms are wonky these days. Biden’s tax pronouncement should provide good cover for awhile. Congress will bicker endlessly, providing distraction from the daily disintegration.
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@ Dr. D
” ‘The U.K. coronavirus variant known as B.1.1.7 is not only more transmissible, but also more deadly’
“Well they’ve never been right so far, so I just assume they’re LLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGG. Lying lying, lying, lying. Just like “death rate”, PCR test, Vaccine safety, and every other thing they’ve ever said in their stoopid lives. “Vioxx has been tested.” “Glyphosate is safe as water”. “Polar bears will be extinct by 2001.”
If Dr. Bossche is correct, they’re probably telling the truth. If his primary data and applied logic hold firm to deeper examination, I think we’re wise to amp up on our vit D etc., take extra good care of ourselves, and hug the moon when offered, because it appears that a genuine pandemic of seriously powerful covid variants is winding up for its tsunami phase.
No one lies all the time just as no one, including dear Dr. D or my haggard old self, tells the truth all the time except maybe some autistics and perversely ambitious psychopaths. Dr. D’s favorite lie is to take the argument from authority logical fallacy and invert it: if it comes from authority, it’s a lie. This is as foolish in its way as believing everything MSNBC or FOX says. It clouds the mind. Data needs no more filter than correspondence with known data or proper experimentation, not reputation of source. Consider Trump: most honest man in D.C. on Monday, couldn’t speak an honest word on Tuesday. Newton was right about gravity and inertia, wrong about Hermetic Xtian alchemy. Einstein mistakenly thought NAZI Germany was a greater threat than the nascent state of Israel.
@ WES
“My late Father used to complain about how incompetent governments are.Then he realized that we should be grateful that they are so incompetent!”
It’s a dilemma. We’re a hugely overpopulated social species that has culturally empowered itself way beyond its evolutionary pay grade. We have to have government because we can’t control our breeding while we extend lifespans, making our population increases doubly profound, but a species that can’t control its breeding can’t govern itself.
The idea of large group governance seems to be something humans learned around the same time they began practicing slavery. THe correlation remains to this day.
I think it’s a situation where we learn not ask: are they that stupid or are they that evil but rather, how much of this is stupidity and how much is evil? Not that it is likely to prevent disaster. Obviously, they are lying, are acting on motives of greed and preservation/expansion of their existing power, and are incapable of delivering good, only evil.
But that is far from saying they know what they’re doing as in a coherent plan. I see entitled buffoons cutting off their faces to spite their noses.
If massive cryptic depopulation while saving themselves is their agenda, they’re doing a terrible job. LIke everything else they do.
@ Mr. House
“Uhhh i think they know they’ve been blatantly lying for the past year about covid.”
That’s… could you tell us something we don’t all already know? And not present it as some kind of qualifying remark? There is currently no significant anti-official-covid-protocol movement. Keeping troops headuqarted like this is anything but good for their morale or their protection. Assuming these people are remotely logical (hardly a given in their case), one assumes there is something else, something more immediate, that frightens them or, again, it’s just a sham show.
I don’t know if you enjoy deliberately misreading people or just are contentious for contention’s sake. It’s tiresome to me.
Sociopaths and NPDs are the more salivating power-cravers, but upper-tier high-functioning psychopath wield it more effectively because it is their primary tool for obtaining satisfaction. We have more socios and NPDs in upper power, I think. A really high-functioning psycho with an otherwise well-adjusted personality (they do exist) would make an ideal benevolent dictator.
The socios and NPDs would want this dictator offed, of course, because fair competent governance really cramps their style.
@ Bassterre Kitona
“From their perspective, in that sense, I guess this is a life & death struggle because once they are full exposed the mobs of citizens will be out for blood.”
The core personality type found in the uppermost tier is socio/psycho-pathic, and are, I think, probably motivated more by their addiction to power than fear of negative consequences from us. What violence they fear is probably that which may occur among each other.
This is not to say that they shouldn’t fear the masses, and haven’t begun to realize they’re not invulnerable. Witness the National Guard presence in D.C. But that seems to be more sham than anhything. If it’s genuine, they know something we don’t know, cuz currently they’re in no danger from us.
Too stupid to be scared is a major attribute of psychopathy.
“…the Constitution talks about the Consent of the Governed also means that the governed were considered to be able to make proper, just decisions about their own lives, and had the right to do that, without goverment intervention. But you are not.”
Well, it’s true. Look at the democratic nations of the world. They all steadily vote themselves into depraved bankrupt tyranny. I remind us that here in the West, our primary creation myth has a First Woman and First Man blame their childish dire folly on a snake.
We blame the leaders who we let openly scam their way into offices that we’d never seek. Voting is an exercise in name ’em’n’blame’em, not responsible group governance.
“Let someone else do it” seems to usually end up with snakes in charge. One can say we’d act differently if we weren’t conditioned so much by media and schools, but history isn’t so sure about that conclusion. Used to be that some mumbled Latin on Sundays, a few edicts from some king one never met, and an ongoing heritage of tribal myths and old wives’ tales were enough to similarly hypnotize us into submission.
I know! Let’s build a ziggurat to heaven!
The absurdity of a “right to protest” baffles the innards of my mind. Only humans could believe such a thing can be conferred. One protests because one protests. A protest that is permitted isn’t a protest, it’s performance art.
But then, what can we expect from members of a society essentially raised by broadcast robots since WWII?
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Hush, little babies, we’ll never grow up. That’s a hominid myth. One doesn’t grow up. One grows old and dies.
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Posters: I always remove the http part. I have no problem posting things.
I have never trafficked in the pc/non-c nonsense dichotomy.
In a democracy, no one is correct. They just want what they want and get what they can get. Conservatives think they’re politically correct, liberals think the honor is theirs. There is nothing correct about politics. Nothing. Politics is a brawl, no more, no less, and there is no such thing as a fair fight.
Not to mention they’re usually more bluster than not:
“Do not accept what is not freely given”
That’s when you take what you can get. Life, I submit, is closer than not to Twain’s famous intro:
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” M. Twain
They’re running out of time to put together an Orwellian state:
Poll: Nearly half of voters think COVID lockdowns unhelpful or made no difference
Dr. Fauci, White Courtesy Phone, pls
Tucker gives me phantom PMS syndrome but I like what he did with the 4th of July statement. Time to get this fight rolling. Can’t be put off much more.
“Keeping with the metaphor, when SanFran went down in 1906, the problems and insurance payouts collapsed the market.”
And now, vice-versa.
As for platforms: our very dependence on what we call “platforms” undoes us.
I have built numerous email clubs in my time. They all fail because they require some kind of egalitarian involvement to survive, and most people want to ‘turn it on and turn themselves off’.
Real communication about real issues is demanding, even terrifying stuff. It’s like Bonnie sang about the communication we call erotic love:
Gonna get into it, babe
Down where it’s tangled and dark
Way on into it, baby
Down where your fears are parked
Gonna tell the truth about it, babe
Honey, that’s the hardest part
When we get through it, baby
You’re gonna give up your heart
Gonna get into it, baby
Gonna give them demons a call, babe
Way on into it, baby
Gonna find out once and for all
Gonna get a little risky, baby
Honey, that’s my favorite part
When we get through it, baby
Gonna give up our hearts
Gonna give up our hearts
Well, there’s no turnin’ back
No turnin’ back this time
Well, there’s no turnin’ back
No turnin’ back
No use in runnin’
It’s always the same
You can count on the panic
It’s the faces that change
We might have a chance
To get this love off the block
So take a deep breath
Let’s look under that rock, now baby
Gonna get into it, baby
Down where it’s tangled and dark, no, no, baby
Way on into it, baby
Down where your fears are parked
Gonna tell the truth about it, baby
Honey, that’s the hardest part
When we get through it, baby
You’re gonna give up
If we get through it, baby
You’re gonna give up, you’re gonna give up
When we get through it, baby
You’re gonna give up your heart
Gonna give up your heart
Gonna give up your heart
Ooh babe, gonna give up
You’re gonna give up, you’re gonna give up
Gonna give up, gonna give up your heart
Hey baby, gonna give up, gonna give up
Gonna give up, gonna give up
Gonna give up your heart
(end)Most of us cannot fess up the personal truth when needed but we expect people in power to do the same. We get the leaders we deserve. Of course 8 billion homo sapiens are making a mess of things. Only reason we expected otherwise is because we’re all so busy lying to ourselves and each other. TOp down, bottom up, side to side, in and out…
“Moreover, Beijing is also talking about the Sci-Tech Innovation 2030 Agenda and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035. ”
I doubt there will be a China as we know it by 2035. It will balkanize just like the USA will and Europe alwahs has.
The logic of the Dutch paper transcends any other aspects. UNless someone can knowledgably explain why the logic is false, I think the paper by Geert Vanden Bossche is spot-on scientifically accurate.
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@Susmarie108I enjoy abstract art, just prefer it not be pretentiously so. Same rules apply to representative art.
Summarizing money quote: “This is how we are currently turning vaccinees into asymptomatic carriers shedding infectious variants.”
Piet Mondriaan demonstrates why I feel that the likes of Jackson Pollock are more superfluous than not.
Questioning the principle of lockdown is indeed foolish. We know its working facets. It’s the application of said principle that wanted questioning and challenging.
@ Polder Dweller
“…the global vaccination campaign, lockdowns and other measures are working together to produce increasingly dangerous strains of the coronavirus which are likely to devastate the population if nothing is done about this now.”
Thanx for sharing that. I’ve been wondering the same thing the past few months. And it will hit when public trust in major institutional authority has been trashed. THere are times when the looming future seems like a disaster movie producer’s nightmare. It’s like the future’s been hoarding disasters, waiting for our arrival at the proper moment. Big surprise party.
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@ Dr. D
“Yet it’s the right that’s losing, not the Left.”
But it’s neither the left nor the right who are losing or winning. This is not a game with winners, only losers. If any ideological parties are being amplified or selected for right now, it’s the libertarians and anarchists. Liberals/conservatives is SO Enlightenment Industrial Era.
Taibbi is neither lib nor con altho he surely has roots in one or the other. Those have entirely, and I mean entirely reduced to stickers the customer can remove and place on other merchandise as they please. It’s 90% off everything, and everything must go.
I will say that in core road/street terms, certain factions associated with conservatism, hollahboyz being a clarion example, definitely hold the upper hand regarding survival and all that when the last illusions fall. But the turfs that are blue-stickered as liberal will fast produce their urban equivalents.
If I were young, I’d be sizing up the local big guns and making myself useful to them. One can enlist before there is an army to join.
We will see adventure, most of us. We can be heroes, even.
The Van Gogh image insisted I post this musical offspring:
@ V. Arnold
“The other day I was lamenting the flatlined donations to Ilargi’s TAE; looking at Jims Patreon and Dmitry’s also (both well over $3,000/mos), leaves me dumbfounded as to why Ilargi cannot get over the mid $700/mos.The quality of the writing and content here certainly deserve more than $700/mos.”
Kuntsler has a NYTimes bestseller rep bolstering him. Dmitry has a carefully calibrated angle that speaks uncannily well to current times. Both indulge heavily in almost panting sweaty sarcastic irony, and both in their way are authors of uncommon polish and power although both succumb to sophomoric tendnecies (which probably is part of their mrket pull, btw).
Ilargi is not high-voltage in his sarcasm and irony. It’s not his thing. Worse, he is not sophomoric. He relies more on fact and straightforward linear analysis of developing trends rather than forming an identifiable, um, conspiracy theory paradigm while showing off his second and third order logicabilities. This is wiser, imo, when discussing chaotically emerging trends like now, especially among people who already know its fundamental drivers. We tend to lose track of the direct linear while following implications and implications of implications. He’s not afraid to make predictions but he doesn’t present his stuff as such, as a series of wagers, like the Orlov and Kunstler do, which probably hurts him because this is less contentious and contention makes clicks happen.
I hate to say it, but I think that Dmitry’s teaser model has merit in this case. Raul being as much an aggregator as content writer, applying that tactic would be different here. But I think it’s worth a bit of brain-chewing. I know this: people don’t really appreciate a thing until it’s taken away to at least some extent.
@ Raul
“Why does the Kremlin bother to deny this?• US Says Russia-Backed Outlets Spread Covid Vaccine ‘Disinformation’ (CNBC)”
Possible reasons: their bots are learning as much about media manipulatiuon of the masses thrpough these exchanges as we are. Reacting promotes the illusion in the US that it’s still in the game (rather like espionage logic where you don’t let the spy know you’re onto him), which tends to keep us less jittery and therefore likely to do something we’ll all regret including Vlad and the lads.
That said: “Russia’s embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.” They probably have a crack comedy team working with their experts in plebiscite groupthink dynamics to come up with a really good wisecrack.
“Art is the ultimate expression of what the human mind is capable of, other than love and compassion. ”
That sentence deserves a medal.
I would feel a tad embarrased about the winnie burlesque if I were Kunstler too. Not that it isn’t marvelous, but it bites off more than almost anyone could possibly chew. So, even tho Kafka’s cockroach as atty is brilliant, it’s also too much. Can’t be helped. There isn’t a lens large enough to handle all that much without some carnival distortion. Well done, James.
” “I personally find it difficult to imagine such a deeply entrenched political animal of the swamp variety facing any serious repercussion..” ”
Maybe it’s my native savage bloodlust, but I think someone is likely to shoot the old croc if he doesn’t hie himself to a nunnery soon. These were people’s parents and grandparents. Plus, with schools closed so long, likewise malls etc., where are spree shooters to get their kicks in?
It would be “funny” to see a drone swarm take out Harris, McConnel, Pelosi et al but leave Biden unharmed since he is himself harmless.
@ MIster Roboto
If the OANews said the earth orbited the sun, would you believe it? Even much of what the NYTimes and WaPo print is true. Same with AONews. Blinders are blinders no matter what you’re looking at.
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The CDC is local and USA wants to get things moving again, so it uses powerful weasel words to move away from masks and such while keeping the covid bogeyman potentially still viable. The WHO is global and therefore remains more reserved, wanting maximum flexibility for itself. Weasel leverage.
If only we could make America even medoicre.
@ Michael Reid
Full agreement scares me. 😉
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btw, the North American plains weren’t covered with buffalo when we first arrived. It took the removal of most of the Indians, and the various agri/horti-cultures they practiced, to do that. Those plains covered with bison were a massive population bloom created by a rapidly and majorly altered ecology. One can read about such things here:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
“There was extensive disruption of societies and loss of environmental control as a result. Decreased environmental influence and resource competition would have led to population explosions in species such as the American bison and the passenger pigeon. Because fire clearing had ceased, forests would have expanded and become denser.”
We don’t know what the Good Old Days were like. We usually destroy most of the evidence one way or another and then tell ourselves stories that fit our views.
If there is a global elitist plan to place the world under One Rule, the USA military isn’t in on it. They KNOW Putin can wipe us out in a nuclear exchange while minimizing its losses. They know that Iran can knock that bomber out of the sky if so inclined. No prob.
I agree with Bismark: “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”― Otto von Bismarck
Methinks that God is tired of covering the USA’s tushie. Methinks we’ve become too stupid and destructive to even plead the insanity defense. We are, I suspect, what God might call “hopeless”.
I miss Trump. He wasn’t a drunkard but he was at least a fool. Now we have wall-to-wall arrogant dipshits running our affairs. It was nice to at least have a fool in alleged charge for awhile.
I wonder if the other players, Putin, Xi, et al, are working on a major color revolution in the States. One that puts Trump in charge on an extra-constitutional basis. Sounds crazy, but Putin/Xi don’t want us collapsing too harshly because the debris might bury them too. It seems to me highly unlikely we’ll have another successful presidential election.
So I’d like it if someone would put someone actually in charge so we have someone to fight other than each other.
“Here I come to save the day!”
Electronic media ia altering the minds of everyone who comes into significant contact with it. Our dog, our cat, and our parrot have all learned to watch the magic screen. We are a tiger that has caught itself by its own tail.
On the other side of this darkening century, people will learn how to tell stories and sing together (without a karaoke machine!) again. A new Fall from Eden mythos will emerge. Life will be demanding for my great-great-grandchildren but much more meaningful and satisfying than this vapid brain batik that is modern human culture.
I envy them. I do not envy my grandchildren, torn between a childhood of video games while commuting between divorced parents, and a life of hard-scrabble do-it-yourself and be-sure-it’s-dead-before-picking-it-up.
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I hear a lot of talk about some glorified cold called covid or something. People are freaking out about it. Well, I guess it’s good practice for when the REAL freaking out begins.
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Paleo? Vegan? Both are better than starvation. Guess what? I can but certified non-GMO cigarettes. Didn’t have those when I was a young dumb smoker. Healthy carcinogens!
Well. Thanx for sharing that with us, kultsommer. I’m sure we all feel better now. btw, this is not a covid site altho covid has become the predominant topic.The founding basis of this site is: what we gonna do when the (oil) well runs dry? Dr. John Day’s garden remarks address learning how to raise food in a post-petroleum world. Last I heard, having food is crucial regardless of whatever bug’s going around.
The man you criticise has posted numerous personal opinions both here and on his own damn blog. Do some digging if it means that much to you, or continue making an ass of yourself. I dunno, maybe you should schedule an appointment with a doctor and give him an earful. Or maybe learn some manners before someone kicks your ass hard enough to make an impression on your consciousness.
Sheesh.
P.S. I normally dislike the word ‘punk’, since its etymology demeans an ancient profession, but I’ll make an exception for you, punk.
