[Michael Reid]

@ Bill7

I totally agree with you. The majority of the population has been captured and are ready for slaughter.

[Michael Reid]

@V. Arnold
@ John Day

Yes we are all a collection of our experiences and how we connect to nature is probably the truest truth that is real.

There is so much shit going on in our abstract lives, the connections to nature that we are not aware of and our world view that formed in our youth and has been modified by reality is not always consistent.

I have challenged everything in my life growing up and it is no different today. I thank you both for your causing me to think deeper and providing further sources of exploration.

@V. Arnold, regarding this article,

Killing Unknown

Your comment that it was not so unsettling to you is perhaps because you have recognized with your life experience that this is the way life has been proceeding but the reason I felt the article was so unsettling is because it destroyed my worldview.

The reason I say this is because I grew up in a very pristine environment where I can drink the water out of any brook or river not in town. Then I moved to Toronto for my post-secondary education where I saw the Don and Humber rivers running with a green water that if I had tried to drink I probably would have died. Lesson 1. What was this world with green river water that is probably unsafe to drink? It was my first clue that giant cities are not good for life. So as I proceeded with my education and eventually got my engineering degree and eventually spent some time in Hong Kong and China and I see in China a man on a bicycle with a steel king sized mattress positioned on his head as he transported it which I suspect was to another factory to be finished. In China there was an old woman with a baby smacking my arm and asking for money. What is wrong with this place I thought. So sheltered from life was I that I could not understand how this situation was even possible. Having grown up in Canada, I could not understand why the government was not feeding you, ensuring you are healthy and providing you with a place to live. That was my world.

So when I reflect on Capitalism, I have discovered that my idea is similar to that of FDR.

Hyperinflation, Fascism and War: How the New World Order May Be Defeated Once More

When I think of the USA as a country, I feel that they are very cruel to their poor and everyone else in the world who are poor. I have consumed the mainstream media and I mistakenly thought that the USA was a force for good in the world. No longer. I feel shame that I contributed to the AAAV, M1A1, and Bradley fighting vehicle.

What to do? Live in nature, work my ass off and try to survive for as long as I can as long as it is pleasant.

@ John Day
Regarding fungi, I understand that they provide a beautiful solution to the decomposition of organic matter but as a person who is trying to survive, I would encourage anyone else to forget about paints and stains and simply apply bleach once or twice a year. Your wooden structures would last much longer.

The concept reminds me of The Game of Thrones and the spore drive on Star Trek but life is a serious mystery. And yes I am certain there are many things that we have not figured out and the more I reflect there is a requirement for an unknown force to shepherd our souls.

[Michael Reid]

Thank you John Day

[Michael Reid]

Essential reading for those scared of the virus

https://www.sott.net/article/443240-World-Doctors-Alliance-Open-Letter-to-UK-Government-World-Governments-and-Citizens-of-the-World

[Michael Reid]

The following article is very well written and hits on many of the points that I have been making and proposes an explanation for what is going on but be warned it is very unsettling.

Killing Unknown

[Michael Reid]

@ Mr. House, you guys need to remake yourselves, beautiful people in your country despite the social paths. I wish you well

[Michael Reid]

The world seems to be going into a mess in a hurry. It feels very ungrounding. I don’t what to think anymore. I don’t know what is truth and I don’t know what is lies. Maybe I should disconnect from the matrix.

[Michael Reid]

@ a-kullervo,
I am a man and for most of my life a very dominant man. Men usually can always dominate women physically and this may have been the history of our existence but acting on this is simply wrong. All souls need to be respected and relationships need to be negotiated so all are satisfied and embrace a path forward otherwise there it is not a pleasant existence. Sure history is slavery and maybe that’s where we are heading again but there is so much more possible with mutual consent. This in my opinion the correct way to think of this issue. Certainly barbarism will eventually arrive again but it is not a positive way forward.

[Michael Reid]

Thank you Bill7

[Michael Reid]

Engineering taught me with money and intelligence worthwhile things may be created. Nursing taught me that me live your fullest at this very present moment because it is uncertain if another moment will occur

[Michael Reid]

@Boogaloo

COVID-19 is not droplet precautions, it is airborne precautions. This is way more than droplet precautions. Take this from a surgical/ICU nurse

[Michael Reid]

@Glennda,

I am sorry and sad because my previous post to you vapourized when I posted it and I spent so much time constructing it and I felt it was profound. I hope that I can reconstruct it from memory which is failing. I doubt it will be nearly as well written but I got to get this out.

Regarding masks, the current political directive to wear any kind of crap over your face is simply retarded nonsense. It will not protect you. As a surgical/ICU nurse I can tell you the mask that will protect you is a N95 mask but you need to have it selected and fitted and tested by a professional who sprays this nasty smelling aerosol that if you can’t smell it with the mask on then you are protected. If you smell that nasty crap then it is the wrong fit for your face and retest and retry until you get the one so that you cannot smell that nasty aerosol they test with and then you can be fairly certain no viruses will go into your lungs. And you will be safe but these lesser masks are nonsense.

These useless masks have been mandated by the political establishment and although useless for protecting you from airborne COVID-19 seems to soothe the general population who know no better.

But beyond this issue is why are the political leaders implementing lockdowns and destruction of human contact and the general living of a free life. I have worked out the numbers and the death rates are less than influenza which occurs every year.

I am of the option that the western countries follow the USA like submissives in a dominant relationship. It seems to me that the capitalists that run the USA want to continue the hollowing out of the western world. Think vulture capitalism.

I have some experience in this as a computer engineer when I travelled to China to help them make product of sufficient quality to sell in the western world and they make it for a fraction of the cost that we could in the western world but the capitalists sell it for a slightly lower price but at a massively increased profit. The result is a transfer of employment to the east and unemployment or try to retrain in the west. I have seen so many industries close and manufacturing transferred to the east. Free trade is a problem. It does not protect the citizens of a given country but it allows the capitalists to strip the rich countries of value.

[Michael Reid]

Abbey Martin seems wonderful to me and she does the empire files and a podcast on apple called media roots radio with her brother Robbie Martin that I have been following this last year. I have enjoyed most everything they have said but most recently they have said that they were excited that Trump might die because he got COVID-19. Other than that I have enjoyed their podcast.

[Michael Reid]

Financial matters are not an area that I consider myself well versed in. However I recently stumbled upon references to this book:
Giants: The Global Power Elite

Front Cover
Peter Phillips
Seven Stories Press, 2018 – Business & Economics – 384 pages
0 Reviews
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.
Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world’s wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett.
As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms–each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management–now represent the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management–the facilitators–of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies–and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission–and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.

And a review of the book:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335591123_Giants_The_Global_Power_Elite/fulltext/5d6f235ca6fdccf93d3874f3/Giants-The-Global-Power-Elite.pdf

And a video of Abbey Martin speaking with the author:

It seems to shine some light on how capitalism has transformed governments and societies

[Michael Reid]

Experts with integrity explain why and how the health policy implemented in the western world is incorrect

https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/06/another-10-experts-questioning-the-coronavirus-panic/

[Michael Reid]

The linked video describes why and how the west came to adopt the incorrect COVID-19 health policy and what can be done about it

[Michael Reid]

@ Bill7 posted deep in yesterday’s comments an article that I feel is essential reading

OPEN LETTER: Belgian Healthcare Workers Call for End to Lockdown:

OPEN LETTER: Belgian Healthcare Workers Call for End to Lockdown

[Michael Reid]

@ Bill7

OPEN LETTER: Belgian Healthcare Workers Call for End to Lockdown:

Thank you for bringing my attention to this letter which reflects my view as I have expressed in my comments on this website.

Again I thank you from the bottom of my heart. The article linked in comment is a must read for all

[Michael Reid]

Going around with a N95 mask that has not been fitted and tested in the manner I described is like playing Russian Roulette with a revolver that you think has no ammunition in the chambers. You are not safe even if you think you are. Keep pulling that trigger until your head explodes or better yet get a N95 mask properly fitted and tested and know that you are truly safe or just live your life and take the consequences. My recommendation is don’t live a lie.

[Michael Reid]

@ V. Arnold

Beautiful comment. Soul to soul

[Michael Reid]

@ V. Arnold

I have butchered a moose putting some in brine and freezing the rest as steaks, soup, stew, burger and stir fry. The the .337 Win mag is the correct firearm.However as I was trying to express previously, there is always trauma taking a soul for your survival. Everything wants to live. I have seen many American hunters in search of the big game so they can check it off the list. What a sad state of humanity that is possible due to money. Any comment?

[Michael Reid]

Comedy is a spectacle for the masses and you have a valid point but the real truth in my mind is nothing compares to the joy felt when one’s comments causes one’s partner laugh in a way that touches her soul. It is time to live fully without fear. These are dangerous times but embrace life and don’t hide.

[Michael Reid]

Betrayal, Infuriating Betrayal
Mike Whitney

This article provided a wide enough perspective and plausible explanation of what has been going on the last four years that when I shared it with my mainstream media consuming dad he did not reject it outright and said there seems to be some truth in this article.

[Michael Reid]

@ Kimo

Good advice if anyone would listen

[Michael Reid]

As a retired surgical/ ICU nurse, anyone who would like to know about the correct fitting required for a N95 mask to be effective please refer to my comment on the Incompetence “R” Us post

[Michael Reid]

It is important to know that in order for a N95 mask to be effective a person must wear the size that correctly fits that person. When I was working as a registered nurse for surgery and ICU, I went through the process that identified which N95 mask size property fit me such that I would be protected from airborne. There was a person responsible for running the procedures who first tried me with a mask that she thought would work for me. Next she used an aerosol to test the mask effectiveness for me and it was not effective as I was able to smell the nasty aerosol. She had to select another size and retest and retest before we found the size that worked for me. The mask selection procedure took a while perhaps 30 minutes because I had smelled the nasty aerosol.

My thoughts are that:
the general population will never be fitted for N95 mask size,
the general population should be left alone to live their life to its fullest extent prior to death
the response to COVID-19 has been a total failure in every way everywhere

[Michael Reid]

@ John Day

I have saved your substantial comment for more complete exploration, reflection and possibly sharing

[Michael Reid]

I have appreciated the comments here today. I feel less alone in my world view.

@ V. Arnold
Do you comment first every day so you get emails of the blog comments?

@ Dr. D
I feel in agreement with what you said and I laughed out loud on a few occasions.

@zerosum
I feel my father is afflicted by these lies as probably the majority of the population is and as I have been. One time I thought the truth was being mass shared and broadcast but these days I no longer believe that. I seek the truth. I hope that I can recognize it when presented.

@
madamski
What steps should one take to avoid being sucked into the black hole that you refer to?

@ Mr. House
I am of the option that it’s all a matter of respect

[Michael Reid]

The awesome Caribou was harvested today September 16. I can assure you by observing him the last few days that he had lost his ability to sense threats in his environment or maybe he no longer cared much anymore. I am grateful that I have photos of him.

[Michael Reid]

@ Susmarie108
I enjoyed what you wrote. I grew up in a town where everyone was basically equal. It often seems to be forgotten but we do have a tax system that is able to reclaim the super wealth of the wealthy. Why this is a no go in the USA is perhaps because it is run by the super wealthy. But some of my ideas are tax the wealthy until they have 1 million or less in the bank. Of course you would need a functional government for that but it is a way out.

[Michael Reid]

Call me crazy but I have just been reading the news quite a bit these last four years and I have gotten the feeling that Putin is currently the best leader in world.

[Michael Reid]

@ Dr. D,

I am not very good financials but it sounds like most of us are being flushed down the toilet. No moose today but I did cut down a tree that had its top broken off.

Seen an awesome Caribou today and when I say awesome I mean I was in awe.

[Michael Reid]

@ V. Arnold

The photo file size is 121 KB so I simply do not know how to send it.

I was very close to the most awesome Caribou that I have ever seen in my life today and took photos but unfortunately I don’t know how to share them.

[Michael Reid]

@ V. Arnold

The problem with the photo not appearing probably means it was too large to attach so I will try again.

[Michael Reid]

@ V Arnold

Here is a photo of my rifle taken this morning

[Michael Reid]

.338 Win Mag and successfully harvested many many moose over the years. They have given us life with their death. I don’t recall the total trauma but it gives us life but it is not an option for the full population. Death is coming sorry to say.

[Michael Reid]

@ V. Arnold,
I need to go to bed. I don’t understand politics much or even financial much but my goal tomorrow is to shoot a moose.

[Michael Reid]

@ V. Arnold
When everyone is starving and homeless should we describe it as cavalier

[Michael Reid]

@Boogaloo

Death is a risk of simply being alive.

[Michael Reid]

So I have been reflecting on the comments to my posts on The Automatic Earth Debt Rattle September 10, 2020.

Regarding COVID-19:
First everyone must grasp the concept that as human beings every one of us will eventually die. As a retired Registered Nurse it seems to me the general population does not have a deep comprehension of this fact. Work as a nurse long enough and one learns death is very real and one learns death is not to be feared and sometimes needs to be deeply embraced as a release from life which is seeking completion. One also comes to the realization in the variable finite amount of time one exists perhaps embracing that life is more important than anything else you could do. That being said as I stated in my previous comment the world is currently living a lie regarding COVID-19 which believes lockdowns are the best approach. Canada is locked down and the percentage of the Canadian population that has died is 0.0243 %. Even if one has objections to death being used as the guiding metric because simply being a case could inflict that case with other health issues or disability let’s recompute using the number of COVID-19 cases:
Canada Cumulative number of COVID-19 cases = 132142
Canada Total population = 37590000
Canada % of Total population inflicted casewise by COVID-19 = 132142 / 37590000 * 100 = 0.3515 %

Sweden with no lockdowns:
Sweden Cumulative number of COVID-19 cases = 85880
Sweden Total population = 10230000
Sweden % of population inflicted casewise by COVID-19 = 85880 / 10230000 * 100 = 0.8395 %

The lockdown response is bullshit. It is not an extreme death rate or death and/or disability rate.

The world response is incorrect. Lockdowns also lead to non COVID-19 additional deaths due to psychological damage, job destruction and maybe triggering a Great Depression where everyone will be starving and homeless. Seriously what’s going on?

Continuing this way in my mind will lead to a great culling of world population. It may improve the environment but really what is the goal of our leaders?

Do not fear death. Embrace life and living and freedom. If I didn’t live in the middle of nowhere but instead lived in a giant city my soul would be crushed by current events.

Regarding Planet of the Humans:
If you have any care for the environment and have not seen this documentary you have been misled by most of the Green Tech people.

As a retired technologist and engineer I can tell you this documentary is correct in its assessment.

I designed, purchased, implemented and am now maintaining an off grid solar system that provides two 120 volt 20 amp circuits. The system cost between $50000 and $100000. After watching planet of the humans I have come to the realization that the environment would have been better off if I used a gasoline generator solution or gave up power altogether.

The green tech is more environmentally destructive than fossil fuels.

Regarding the USA, I feel sorry for Americans. As I previously stated I believe you no longer live in a country but are living in a corporation. The corporations seem to own the politicians and seem to write the laws for them and the citizens to follow. You guys have been so programmed. You have no freedom, no democracy and if the USA looses its reserve currency status you will have no money.

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