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Dr. Naomi Wolf offers some pretty serious food for thought to chew on in her analysis of the SCOTUS overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“Just 5% call abortion top concern”
I will take this opportunity to point out that the primary demographic among whom this is a big deal is women in the professional-managerial class and the administrative class, which in urban areas, at least, is likely to identify with the PMC. Working-class women who live in “red states”? Not so much, as these states have arranged things such that abortions are effectively not available for these women. Sadly, actually having a child has also become too expensive a proposition for very many of these women, even with a committed and faithful male partner helping them. So I’m guessing these women are already on what blue-haired women in “blue states” are calling a “sex strike”.
It is very important that nations and states be governed by law, and not merely by what any group or individual within the country feels very strongly about. Process matters, not just results. In most cases and situations, the ends do not justify the means…and the ends ultimately follow the means
Yes.
The data tell us that people who got “vaccinated” and “boosted” are turning up with broken immune systems that leave them extra-specially open to repeated Covid-19 re-infection, and that each reiteration of the illness breaks down their immune systems even more — which suggests that over time (think: the months ahead) more and more of them are going to die from all kinds of opportunistic viral and bacterial diseases, not to mention cancers, structural damage due to blood clots, heart tissue injury directly from spike proteins, and brain-and-neuro illness, ditto. Do you believe that the authorities somehow missed all this? Are they trying to pretend that they didn’t.
And yet the entire vaccine narrative is still being officially promoted as if none of this was happening. The Western World has to be the most well-brainwashed population in the history of humanity. I don’t think it was a coincidence that deflationista’s braying, hectoring tone was exactly that of an offended religionist.
Some of us maybe wondering why the stock market had a bit of a rebound this week. Well, I subscribe to Chris Martenson’s “members only” videos on his website, and one thing he revealed recently is that even though the Fed has been saying they are going to reduce their bloated balance-sheet (basically the amount of debt-paper they have bought as an institution), they haven’t done this as indicated by their figures for the first half of the month of June. They are, at best, reducing the rate at which they are expanding their balance-sheet.
True, the Fed, like the ECB, doesn’t buy stocks directly, but when they buy bonds, it always has a salutary effect on the stock-market. And the valuation of stocks is now so totally dependent on the willingness of these central banks (which also includes the Bank of Japan and the People’s Bank of China) to buy debt-paper, that any significant slackening in these purchases, will result in those red-colored big numbers on websites that monitor the stock-markets! And they just can’t stomach that.
So our august financial institutions have only one of two choices: Devastating inflation by printing up more money to keep these financial markets propped up, or a devastating deflationary compression by withdrawing that support. And they can be counted on to do the former because that choice hurts rich people less by keeping all that paper-wealth from shrinking, but it hurts the common people more because the money the earn will buy always less and less and less.
And the vast majority of normies are completely oblivious to the fact that the stock markets have been kept in a hypertrophic state for the past few years by central-bank debt-paper purchases and central-bank debt-paper purchases alone. In fact, the Bank of Japan (possibly also the Swiss central bank, I’m not completely sure about that one) is at least one bank that goes so far as to actually buy stocks directly, and boy-howdy have they been buying those since 2016!
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote Friday that the high court should reconsider rulings on contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage
I still think there’s room in the Ninth Amendment for disallowing laws that attempt to legislate people’s sex lives. Less so for marriage, as that is a public institution in at least some respects. I certainly wouldn’t want to live in a state the presumes to outlaw contraception, which is why I never would have moved to pre-EU Ireland despite the fact that is one of my ancestral homelands (the others being the UK and France).
Like a lot of people here who were born and raised in culturally blue areas, my pro-choice position has been made rather less ardent by the fact that a lot of these so-called pro-choicers (the ones who so often have Ukie flags in their Twitter bios) supported the recent Federal attempt to force vaccines on people who don’t want them. And ultimately, it’s probably best that whether or not abortion is legal be left to state governments. Even under Roe v. Wade, many red states made getting an abortion effectively not an option for non-affluent women. And affluent women in red states who want an abortion will still be able to take an airplane ride (at least as long as commercial airplanes are still flying, which might not be for very much longer) to a state such as California, Illinois, or New York.
Pays? Yes, I can’t tell you how I come about the information, but having an abortion is a VERY SERIOUS thing, very often deeply damaging. Letters from women saying “I feel like I’m going crazy and I don’t know if you can understand, but I’ve never been the same since the abortion. I can’t move on. It’s been months, years.” Over and over and over again. I can’t know what percentage, but what would it matter? 30%? 60%? No one warns you this can happen.
I believe in bodily autonomy strongly enough that I believe it is appropriate that my position is “pro-choice”, but at the same time, I believe that abortion, especially if done for the reason which sits at the bottom of the list you posted, is, generally speaking, a very serious spiritual error. And like all serious spiritual errors, it carries with it serious consequences for one’s own spiritual life. And let us also not forget that the procedure inflicts a certain amount of physical trauma on the body of the woman undergoing the procedure.
any of you guys on facebook? The comments are great, ranging from all sex is rape and if you believe in personal responsibility you a fundamentalist christian or belong in Saudi Arabia
I’m sure their Twitter equivalents all have Ukrainian flags in their bio! 😀
Though I usually find myself agreeing with Chris Hedges, his take on the economic situation in his article that was posted in yesterday’s Rattle seemed off-the-mark. In placing the blame for inflation solely on corporate greed, he ignores that various major central banks have printed twenty trillion dollars in new money since the Great Financial Collapse of 2008 to keep the system up and running. He also seems unaware of the fact that Peak Liquid Hydrocarbons happened very recently, and this also makes everything more expensive because the master energy-resource of the industrial economy is getting more expensive. Also, his recommendation of wage and price controls as a solution to inflation is a classic example of that old-timey social-dem approach to economics that has been shown to do more harm than good when governments have implemented such measures in the past.
BREAKING: CRYPTO has lost $1.1 TRILLION in market capitalization in the last 77 days, the LARGEST and FASTEST known LOSS in its HISTORY.
— BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) June 16, 2022
So can anyone debunk this?
Great news out of Texas today. Renewables keeping the lights on and AC running during the heat wave. https://t.co/5xz3HcC8p3
— Christy Walsh (@ChristyWalshDC) June 14, 2022
@phoenix: I definitely respect your approach of absolutely not shaming or punishing gender nonconforming behavior but at the same time not imposing the idea that these dalliances mean that the child may be a transgender. That is something the child needs to bring to the attention of the parent for discussion, and in this day and age, part of that discussion would be making sure they weren’t thinking their gender identity is the opposite of their biological sex on account of SJW zealots planting ideas in their heads at school.
Not only have those limits been reached, but they have also been exceeded to such an extent that a stagflationary economic depression is inevitable. And one of its many casualties will be that a long-duped public will never support so-called “green” policies again.
Yeah, one of many realizations I have had over the past year is that Green Parties (called “watermelon parties” by some on account of being “red on the inside and green on the outside”) are about as useful as the proverbial wooden nickel. And besides, the Green Party in the USA isn’t a whole lot more than the equivalent of a collection of Facebook groups. The only reason Dr. Jill Stein did as well as she did in running for president in 2016 is because of how many people just couldn’t stomach Hillary Clinton.
Epic tweet-storm. Read the whole thing.
I am not looking for patreon donations, I am looking for a fucking job and noone on god’s earth will hire me. I have completed coursework in javascript/react and that’s what Im looking for right now. Formerly I was a designer but i quit after working for an alcoholic boss.
— Blue Moon (@bmrwshow) June 7, 2022
So this video was making the rounds on conservative Twitter yesterday. You really have to draw a line somewhere, and the problem with the whole wokester gender-ideology is this kind of resolute refusal to draw that line.
So the neon sign on the wall isn't an indication that this probably isn't an appropriate venue for small children and toddlers? https://t.co/5akMKBo2D5
— Mister Nobody (@mister_nobody67) June 5, 2022
Another interesting read from “The Philosophical Salon” yesterday. Though I continue to be mystified as to why this author seems to blind himself to the role of shrinking fossil-fuel reserves in making the global economic system less profitable and less able to provide for people’s real needs.
Around about 1971, the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil would yield 25 barrels of oil. Around about 2001, this yield was down to 10. These days, it is down to 3.5. Once we get to the point where the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil yields just one barrel of oil, fossil fuels will have become an energy sink rather than an energy source, and we will probably arrive at this point no later than 2031. We also need petroleum-fuel driven machines for digging deep into the ground to get what lousy-quality coal is left to extract, so once we reach that 1:1 ratio with petroleum, that will sequester the remaining coal as well as the remaining oil in the ground.
One website I read informed me that we use energy from petroleum to extract natural gas, too, though I suppose we could redesign those extraction efforts to use natural gas to extract natural gas. I can’t imagine there will be terribly many exploitable natural gas reserves remaining by 2031, though. (I suppose I could be wrong about that. We’ll find out soon enough, I guess.)
Just try to remember that there's an awful lot that's tempting to blame on a conspiracy when it's more rightfully blamed on the fact that people are often just stupid motherfuckers. https://t.co/wBSzAxUgzA
— Mister Nobody (@mister_nobody67) May 27, 2022
Chris Martensen asks some important questions (including some very necessary existential questions) about our over-reliance on certain psychotropic pharmaceuticals for treating the unique ills of our time:
Okay, that Batiushka guy on the Saker blog really comes off as someone who is smoking his shorts. His little dream-vision of a Russified future sounds as though it involves quite a few moves that could easily set of World War 3.
Just in case you-know-who shows their screenhandle around here again, this time braying and hectoring about monkeypox:
Probably stating the obvious here, but it would appear that the salad days of US financial markets are over. One major symptom of stock markets in trouble is a series of huge swings both upward and downward with an overall downward trend. If today’s losses in the NASDAQ hold at closing-time, it will have lost more than 30% of what it had at its height.
Read the entire thread.
Like nearly 1 in 5 Canadians, I chose not to get the COVID vacks.
As a result, my own countrymen were turned against me and I was barred from participating in society.
It sucked.
But I'm actually glad it happened.
Because it taught me several important lessons🧵 pic.twitter.com/ghTfCSk1kh
— MARCUS HARDWIRE (@Marcus_Hardwire) May 23, 2022
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explains Pfizer's new tech to Davos crowd: "ingestible pills" – a pill with a tiny chip that send a wireless signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. "Imagine the compliance," he says pic.twitter.com/uYapKJGDJx
— Jeremy Loffredo (@loffredojeremy) May 20, 2022
House passes price control, price-gouging bill. Shortages are now certain and soon. I’m going to go fill up right now, as they are also adding digits on the pump in anticipation of +$10 gas
All Republicans in the House and something like four Democrats voted against it, so I predict this turkey of a bill will die in the Senate. All the Republicans will vote against it there too, and WV Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s policy is to vote with the Republicans when Republicans in the Senate are unanimous in their opposition to something.
Yeah, Manchin is probably just “playing the game” because he represents a red state and needs to do the whole bi-partisan thing if he wants to keep his job, but you have to give him credit for playing well. Not to mention helping to put a stop to this incompetent administration’s worst ideas!
If the Biden Administration continues to nix the talks and if the Russian Armored Army does finally breakout; only tactical nuclear weapons can stop the invasion of Poland which almost guarantees the use of both side’s strategic nuclear weapons.
Bernie Sanders just voted YES on funding the US proxy war in Ukraine to the tune of $40 billion. So now it's officially on the record that every national politician associated with the activist "Left" is completely on board with escalating the war. That's what the "Left" is now
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 19, 2022
Scott Ritter is fashionable, not elite, right?
{/shrugs} Well, you seem to have made up your mind about him.
So is anyone looking at the financial markets today? I wonder if the PPT has any ammo left for another one of their famous helicopter-drops of printed money?
Anything in the western media does that 1000 times over, that is much more of a problem. Of course “1000 times one-sided” is a contradictio in terminus, but you get the drift.
Oh yeah, I would listen to the babbling of a crazy street-person before I would ever believe the smorgasbord of lies served up by our elite media institutions.
If this turns out to be true, just think what it will do to inflation!?!?!
More confidence in our criminal leaders will vanish, and what is money today but confidence{/shudders and crosses self}
The thing is, I tend to gravitate towards sources that seem to be providing the most nuance. Sources such as Gonzalo Lira and the Saker’s blog come off as so one-sided at times that I really have to wonder just how accurate of a picture I’m getting from them. We’ll see soon enough, I guess.
Well, Gonzalo Lira claims that the complete collapse of the Ukrainian military as a fighting force in imminent. While I am skeptical of that, I am really trying to keep an open mind as I attempt to piece together what is happening through the fog of war from the other side of the planet. So if Lira is right, this is something that should happen by US Memorial Day or shortly after that. If this does happen, then I probably would reconsider whether or not I should listen to Scott Ritter in the future.
Reading Batiushka’s piece on the Saker blog in contrast with what we have recently learned reveals that what you read on that blog is to a very large extent Russian war-propaganda. That may contain a much larger grain of truth than what the US press is pumping out, but it is propaganda nonetheless. In Chris Martenson’s video on YouTube last week, he revealed that embargoes against Russian oil have hurt the Russian economy because Russia’s ability to get oil the Chinese and Indian customers who are willing to buy it is rather limited. Changing that situation will likely require a substantial investment in some new infrastructure. Also, it’s fair to say that Batiushka is not accurate when he claims that Russia “controls” Ukraine now. At most, Russia is on its way to controlling only the easternmost oblasts of Ukraine bordering Russia.
IMHO, Scott Ritter is gradually adjusting to the idea that the conflict in Ukraine is not a just regional skirmish between two quarrelsome neighbors, nor is it a proxy-war between NATO and Russia. No. Ukraine is the first phase of a broader plan for crushing Russia, collapsing its economy, removing its leaders, seizing its natural resources, splintering its territory, and projecting US power across Central Asia to the Pacific Rim. Ukraine is about hegemony, empire, and pure, unalloyed power. Most important, Ukraine is the first battle in a Third World War, a war that was concocted and launched by Washington to ensure another unchallenged century of American primacy.
I recommend Whitney’s write-up for a balanced view on the true status of the war on the Eurasian steppe. As much as I value Gonzalo Lira’s perspective, I think he does let just a little bit to much Russian propaganda seep into the things he says in his videos. And as we all know, truth is the first casualty of every war ever fought. I think Russia can win, but they’re going to need rather more manpower to pull that off.
This video from Gonzalo Lira sheds some light on why Russia will likely need to annex he eastern half of Ukraine’s ethnic Russian oblasts (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson).
