Mister Roboto
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That NYT hit-piece on Ivermectin was disturbing, because what it told me was that the globalist powers that be don’t really care about helping all those people who are sick and dying. They care about whatever other agenda they have that doesn’t have helping all those people who are sick and dying as one of its priorities. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised, but I’m still quite disgusted. We do have an awful lot of poor people with health problems in the USA. Maybe somebody wants there to be less of them around. I’m no fan of conspiracy theories, but it’s starting to become difficult to arrive at any other conclusion, at this point.
I think the reason no firearms were confiscated during the Capitol Riot was because representatives of law enforcement went into the Capitol and politely told the rioters it was time to leave, which the rioters did upon realizing that Congress had pretty much locked itself up in the basement.
The massive disinformation campaign waged against effective prevention and treatment does not come from ignorance and incompetence of public authorities. It comes from the agendas that Covid is being used to advance, agendas whose toll in human life and suffering is unimportant to those whose agendas are being served.
I’m not a fan of PCR’s bargain-basement neo-Confederate white nationalism, but about this one issue, he’s right on the money.
While Greenwald makes many salient points, I can’t be quite as dismissive about the fact that a pretty fair number of rioters at the Capitol were carrying fire-arms. Besides, if, let’s just say, a bunch of very militant Bernie Bros did something like that at the Capitol and a number of them were armed, the ones who weren’t simultaneously beaten, tazed, and shot to death would undoubtedly be facing very long prison sentences for domestic terrorism at this point!
Yes, the old USSR was a terrible place to live, but I wouldn’t want to live in a “libertarian paradise” any more than I would have wanted to live in Lenin’s “worker’s paradise”.
Yes, the old USSR was a terrible place to live, but I wouldn’t want to live in a “libertarian paradise” any more than I would have wanted to live in Lenin’s “worker’s paradise”.
Well, I think Trump was just a symptom of a huge spiritual problem (namely a lack of any sort of real spirituality) that this country has, and I’m under no illusions that getting rid of Trump got rid of the problem. If anything, the ascendancy of Q-Anon mass hysteria clearly demonstrates that it’s worse than ever and will likely only continue getting worse. And that very mainstream media will be very much a part of that problem.
My best friend from the good old daze got the Covid back in December and had to go in the hospital for a few days. They treated him with remdesivir, which kept him off a ventilator. That was a good job, too, because once you have to go on the ventilator with Covid, you have something like a fifty percent chance of dying! However, I can’t help but wonder how much better it would have gone for him if they had started treated him ivermectin, azithromycin, vitamin D, and zinc as soon as he checked in. But, he had decent insurance from his employer, so we can’t stand in the way of Big Pharma raking in those mega-profits, can we?
I imagine Trump’s lawyers really would experience some backlash from their part in Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate….for being extremely lousy excuses for lawyers.
Haven’t read the “financial bubble” article yet, but here’s an interested fact in support of the contention in the headline that I read at Chris Martenson’s website: 20% of all dollars ever created were put into existence in 2020 with the Fed’s “QE on mega-steroids” response to the effects of the pandemic/ lockdowns on the financial markets. How could that not turn the already existing bubble into a hyper-bubble?
Well, this EXO-CD24 had better be nice and expensive, otherwise its success will mean you’re not allowed to discuss it on social media!
Another thing I would like to add: All the other countries that are doing lockdowns are at least providing relief-money for their locked-down citizens. Here in the USA where the most that economically lockdown-displaced people can count on is sporadic and begrudgingly delivered relief-checks from a government culture that despises the notion of transfer-payments to the disadvantaged, lockdowns really are a recipe for disaster.
I have thought for a while now that the lockdowns were a bad idea because you need a healthy and resilient society to handle a public health crisis such as Covid. The lockdown approach has too many effects that make society less healthy and resilient. I think there would have been a negative effect on the economy without the lockdowns (a contagious and possibly deadly respiratory disease is going to make people less keen on going to bars and restaurants), but when you look at what happened to the unemployment rate in March, it’s difficult to defend how dealing society a body-blow like that helps us to deal with any sort of emergency.
Also, it is seriously doubtful how much locking down stops the spread of the virus. People will still interact with each other for some absolutely necessary things in the event of a lockdown, so the virus will continue to do what contagious viruses do.
@dermot: Even though I don’t read JMG anymore, I think his evaluation of classical Fascism is the one I used in referring to things as Fascism. I think American right-wing authoritarianism [I would like to interject here that I think it’s the authoritarian-nationalist faction of the Deep State, as opposed to the neo-con/neo-lib globalist faction represented by Biden and Harris, who is propagating this story about a stolen election] will certainly have some things in common with old-fashioned Fascism. But in Fascism, the government was very much the senior partner in the amalgamation of the corporate establishment and the government, but in American RWA, the corporate establishment will be the senior partner and the RWA government would do whatever it does to prop up the interests of the corporate establishment. This is not to deny, however, that the globalists are soft authoritarians.
I think the authoritarian-nationalists would have been able to hold onto power if they hadn’t had a figurehead as unstable and erratic as Donald Trump in the Oval Office. However, it was Trump who was able to capture the fancy of a large subset of voters who felt alienated by the whole globalist game, and he was willing to be their guy, so they took the opportunity that presented itself to them, as their power has been seriously on the wane ever since the Clinton Administration. I have to admit, I am not looking forward to seeing how this all plays out.
Honestly, I just think people are going insane individually and collectively from continually decreasing net-energy availability and its impacts. And of course, being Americans, we’re making the whole process as drawn-out, agonizing, and lugubrious as we possibly can. 🙂
DailyDot.com’s take on the reaction to the recent Time article about the election.
YouTube removed two videos from a December 8th hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. It featured Kory who discussed the use of Ivermectin as a potential treatment for Covid-19, particularly in the early stages. It is a drug that treats tropical diseases caused by parasites. Kory was calling for a review by National Institutes of Health on trials for the drug.
Just fuggeddabout all the lives that could be saved and the suffering that could be eased, we gotta protect all those nice, pretty Big Pharma remdesivir and vaccine profits!
Continuing my Ivermectin musings from the previous thread, another thing I simply can’t fathom are the people who continue to struggle with severe symptoms after a bout with Covid. I think it’s war-crime level stuff that we aren’t treating these people with Ivermectin, just letting them suffer and suffer and suffer.
I still stand with my opinion, Jan. 6 was mainly unescorted tourists enjoying Capitol Hill and taking selfies.
Deliberately trying to crush a man to death is not something it would occur to me to do if I were ever part of a tour-group. 🙂
Another thing is, now that Covid has a massive foothold in the human population, it is showing a strong predisposition to mutate into new, more dangerous strains, and so even if a worldwide program of aggressive treatment with Ivermectin would be more difficult than if it had been initiated six-to-nine months ago. Not impossible, mind you, I’m just emphasizing how much damage was done by failing to nip it in the bud when it was a new thing.
What it boils down to is that we can treat Covid in a widespread, cost-effective way, but we’re not despite the damage it’s doing. So maybe somebody wants the damage. Though I am also willing to entertain the possibility that it’s just a combination of incompetence, institutional inertia, and big pharma only wanting the most expensive treatments (thereby limiting the utility of said treatment-approaches) that put us in our current situation.
Whatever the situation really is, I suspect that it’s more weird and complicated than any of us fully realize, and the normalcy of pre-2020 simply isn’t coming back because things have changed too much now, no matter what we “little people” say, do, feel, or think.
As for the origin of Covid, I think it probably just accidentally escaped containment from some lab facility, and if it is deliberately being allowed to run rampant, that is because of the “don’t let a good crisis go to waste” dictum that elites often follow. There’s a saying that tells us to never attribute to willful malice what can just as easily be attributed to stupidity, but I can’t help but suspect that come combination of both is at work here.
Thapsia villosa, eh? Well, if it’s cheap and easily produced, I guess we won’t be seeing much of any such therapy in North America, Europe, or Australia, will we?
I acknowledge Covid is a very real and deadly problem if left untreated. The thing is, it’s at least more easily treatable than influenza with Ivermectin, Azithromycin, Vitamin D3,and Zinc, but we simply won’t do that here in the developed world, despite the fact that it should be easier than falling off the proverbial log. So the question to ask is, “Who benefits?” Well, unchecked Covid is killing a lot of poor and elderly people, so perhaps somebody wants a lot of poor and elderly people to bite the dust right now.
It has also had the effect of seriously inhibiting normal social and economic life, which I’m guessing it would even without the dubious lockdown strategy that is so widely favored now. Perhaps we were about to hit an economic wall fast and hard, and the pandemic has introduced a convenient way of inducing this in a more “slow-motion” manner (at least from the perspective of elites)? It certainly provided a convenient rationale for ramping up to the nines the whole “print-money-for-the-financial-markets” strategy that has been in place for the past five years.
Normally, I’m averse to conspiracy-theories, but I really have to think that if something like this would have happened thirty years ago and the means to stop it were so readily available (which they would have been in 1991), we would have stopped it, or at the very least not let it burn through our population like a fucking prairie-grass fire!
Here’s the Zero-Hedge article about silver boiled down to its “brass-tacks” essentials for finance-dummies like me: There are two different kinds of precious metals markets, one in which the actual metal (usually gold or silver) is actually bought and sold; the other one is where paper pseudo-assets that are notionally based on the actual metal, are moved around in such a way as to create an illusory “spot-price” for the metal in question that benefits a small subset of big-time players in the financial markets. The purchasing-frenzy of actual physical silver is precipitating a schism between these parallel markets, which if it happens, will have consequences nobody can entirely predict but will probably be pretty major. But for now, maneuvers in the more notional of the two markets are keeping the price of silver suppressed.
There was a lot of ballyhooing about silver over the weekend, but it would appear that for all the effort to “short squeeze” it, it went up a bit, then shrugged and said, “Is that all ya got?” Might the central banks have counter-moved against the “Reddit Army”, as it’s now being called, to prevent the short-squeeze on silver? Just a thought. 🙂
Honestly, I think the thing Donald Trump would hate the most would be if people could just forget and stop talking about him, forever.
The fact that Covid seems given to rapidly mutating makes me even more skeptical of the “lockdown” approach. Lockdowns come with a very high economic price tag, and if this virus is going to be a little sumthin’-sumthin’ different every year, necessitating yet another lockdown again and again, then that cost may just prove to be way too high.
As for Donald Trump representing some sort of last, best hope for, well, anything, David Roth at Defector.com sums up what I think about that. (Trigger warning: The prose doesn’t get much more purple than this!)
The United States of America has always been more of a business concern than it ever has been a real country. Once the empire collapses, I really do expect it to break up into smaller units that will be a lot more like actual countries. It’s inevitable, even if it doesn’t happen in my lifetime (which may not be a whole lot longer, given the little foretaste we had this week of where things are headed).
Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off “Racist Ass Terrorists”
I normally wouldn’t post a link to a Buzzfeed News article (they really embarrassed themselves by reporting on the Steele Dossier as if it were an actual thing), but this eyewitness account on the part of African-American capitol police officers on the scene of the DC Trumpster-Putsch is an important one.
An idle question: Does anyone suspect, as I do, that the rise in oil prices over the past two months had a lot to do with this holiday season’s very online-dependent gift-shopping (which would, obviously, involve a lot of hauling packages by truck and van)?
@WES: It is my understanding that in old Britain, the ne’er-do-well sons of the upper classes would be shipped off to Ireland.
Another major impact that the discovery of the Western Hemisphere had on China: The transplantation of maize-corn there fueled a great deal of China’s population boom, as it would grow anywhere something could conceivably be grown, being a much less temperamental member of the Poaceae family of flowering grasses than wheat, rye, barley, or rice.
Two things: 1) It is also Kwanzaa (African Christmas). 2) I’m guessing these new, relatively untested vaccines are going to turn into a monumental clusterfuck. This might encourage more people to become anti-vaxers, which I don’t like, but it might also further sour people on the Myth of Perpetual Progress, and I do think that would be a good thing.
I recall reading a report that several members of Congress are using prescription drugs that are designed for countering the effects of Alzheimer’s. Pelosi’s recent performances in television interviews (“Good morning, Sunday morning”) really make me think that she might be one of those people utilizing said medications.
We’ve been adding a billion more people every 12-13 years since 1961, so I’m thinking we are going to hit a wall with that, at some point. Still, I will never countenance any sort of mass-murder as a solution.
So add to the long, long list of medical mass-murders.
I’m in complete agreement with you, for a change. Normally, I’m very conspiracy-theory averse, but I’m really starting to wonder if perhaps the oligarchic PTB simply want to get rid of as many of the poor people with chronic poor health/ preconditions and the elderly as they can in anticipation of…something.
Based on what Dr. Chris Martenson has been informing me about Ivermectin, it shows rather more than just “promise”. I’m reasonably sure that if an Ivermectin-based treatment-regimen were implemented worldwide, I would entirely cease being concerned about Covid, as Ivermectin would appear to have prophylactic effects, curative effects on both acute and chronic Covid-related sickness, and it knocks out transmissibility, to boot. The only reason it isn’t being implemented instantly, completely, and universally, I really do think, is because Ivermectin is cheap and doesn’t make the big bundle of cash for Big Pharma that these new and relatively untested vaccines will. You will recall that I recently posted a comment about Dr. Martenson’s video about Ivermectin being censored by YouTube and Facebook.
I also deplore the fact that hydroxychloriquine was derided as a treatment option merely because President Trump recommended it. I’m no fan of the man at all, but something isn’t automatically wrong just because Donald Trump said it!
