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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle April 20 2022 #106460
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    The Key Signs of an Empire in Decline from The Fate of Empires by John Glubb
    * Intellectualism and a decline of religion
    * An influx of foreigners
    * Internal hatreds
    * Affluence, materialism and frivolity
    * The largess of the welfare state
    * Selfishness, the love of money and a loss of the sense of duty

    It is sadly comforting to realize that the US collapse is just part of the natural cycle and is inevitable.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 16 2022 #106231
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 4 2022 #106230
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    World History
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 4 2022 #106229
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    World History
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 4 2022 #106228
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    World History
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 30 2022 #105192
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    * The Artist and His Model: Picasso gives ‘stacked’ a new meaning

    * Parliament was only stopped from executing bankers by British Animal Rights threatening to sue over cruelty to snakes

    * Xi lent Putin his copy of The Art of War and lent Biden his copy of My Pet Goat

    * Biden trains Polish troops how to lash out in anger when provoked by Russia

    * The Hunter Biden Laptop: Water under the bridge ends up overwhelming the dam

    * How slack really works

    * Dick Cheney said “The American way of life is non-negotiable.” He was right. There will be no negotiation. The American way of life will be terminated without input from Americans

    * And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a stethoscope and glasses; and an institute was given unto him: and he went forth dispensing AZT and vaccines.
    – And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him the remote control for a great drone.
    – And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a debit card reader in his hand. And I heard a voice say, An order of fries for $1000, and three Big Macs for a $10,000; and see thou hurt not the soft drinks and the shakes.
    – And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with lockdowns, and with myocarditis, and with food shortages, and with 50 caliber machine guns mounted on robotic dogs.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 23 3022 #104811
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    The Empire As We Know It
    – Electricity: cheap and available 24/7.
    – Gas: cheap and always available.
    – Food: cheap and always available.
    – Making money: Invest in stocks, crypto or NFT’s. manual labor is for losers.
    – Growing your own food: A hobby.
    – Health: Live however you want and get expensive health care when you’re old…knee replacements, dialysis, bypass surgery, etc.
    – Men: optional.
    – Everyone has a cell phone. Everyone goes to college. Everyone eats out. Everyone invests. Everyone goes on cruises. Everyone has new shoes.

    An Empire collapses slowly … then all at once

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 22 2022 #104736
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    When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.
    Arthur Ponsonby

    Ponsonby wrote Propaganda Lies of the First World War which provides a stunning comparison to our current situation: http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050824i/ponsonby.html
    A few excerpts in which the parallels are obvious:

    War being established as a recognized institution to be resorted to when Governments quarrel, the people are more or less prepared. They quite willingly delude themselves in order to justify their own actions. They are anxious to find an excuse for displaying their patriotism, or they are disposed to seize the opportunity for the excitement and new life of adventure which war opens out to them. So there is a sort of national wink, everyone goes forward, and the individual, in his turn, takes up lying as a patriotic duty. In the low standard of morality which prevails in war-time, such a practice appears almost innocent.

    Our prompt entry into the European War in 1914 was necessitated by our commitment to France. This commitment was not known to the people; it was not known to Parliament ; it was not even known to all the members of the Cabinet. More than this, its existence was denied. How binding the moral engagement was soon became clear. The fact that it was not a signed treaty had nothing whatever to do with the binding nature of an understanding come to as a result of military and naval conversations conducted over a number of years. .. it was referred to as “an obligation of honour”, “A compact “, “An honourable expectation “ (and) “the closest negotiations and arrangements between the two Governments “.

    Whatever may have been the causes of the Great War, the German invasion of Belgium was certainly not one of them. It was one of the first consequences of war. Nor was it even the reason of our entry into the war. But the Government, realizing how doubtful it was whether they could rouse public enthusiasm over a secret obligation to France, was able, owing to Germany’s fatal blunder, to represent the invasion of Belgium and the infringement of the Treaty of Neutrality as the cause of our participation in it.

    The accusation against the enemy of sole responsibility for the war is common form in every nation and in every war. So far as we are concerned, the Russians (in the Crimean War), the Afghans, the Arabs, the Zulus, and the Boers, were each in their turn unprovoked aggressors, to take only some recent instances. It is a necessary falsehood based on a momentary biased opinion of one side in a dispute, and it becomes the indispensable basis of all subsequent propaganda.

    Having declared the enemy the sole culprit and originator of the war, the next step is to personify the enemy. As a nation consists of millions of people and the absurd analogy of an individual criminal and a nation may become apparent even to moderately intelligent people, it is necessary to detach an individual on whom may be concentrated all the vials of the wrath of an innocent people who are only defending themselves from “unprovoked aggression.” The sovereign is the obvious person to choose. … A Punch cartoon in 1818 depicted the Kaiser as Cain. Under it was put: “More than 14,000 non-combatants have been murdered by the Kaiser’s orders.”

    Not only did the Belgian baby whose hands had been cut off by the Germans travel through the towns and villages of Great Britain, but it went through Western Europe and America, even into the Far West. No one paused to ask how long a baby would live were its hands cut off unless expert surgical aid were at hand to tie up the arteries (the answer being a very few minutes). Everyone wanted to believe the story, and many went so far as to say they had seen the baby. The lie was as universally accepted.

    To the uninitiated there is something substantially reliable in a picture obviously taken from a photograph. Nothing would seem to be more authentic than a snapshot. It does not occur to anyone to question photograph, and faked pictures therefore have special value, as they get a much better start than any mere statement, which may be criticized or denied. Only long time after, if ever, can their falsity be detected. The faking of photographs must have amounted almost to an industry during the war. All countries were concerned, but the French were the most expert. Some of the originals have been collected and reproduced.

    Gas warfare and submarine warfare offered instances of violent outbursts of indignation on the on the part of the Press, which events showed were gross hypocrisy. “We must expect the Germans to fight like savages who have acquired a knowledge of chemistry. This atrocious method of warfare . . . this diabolical contrivance. . . . The willful and systematic attempt to choke and poison our soldiers can have but one effect upon the British peoples and upon all the non-German peoples of the earth. It will deepen our indignation and our resolution, and it will fill all races with a horror of the German name”. But it turned out that the Germans had not been the first to use poison gas. M. Turpin”s discoveries in poison explosives had been advertised in the French Press before this date, and the French War Ministry’s official instructions with regard to the use of gas hand grenades had been issued in the autumn of 1914.

    There was no richer field for propaganda than the United States of America in the first years of the war. The Allied Powers and the Central Powers were both hard at work competing. The German method began by being too subtle. A wireless news agency, under German control, gave at first the best, most authentic, unbiased, and by far the cheapest war news, and thus attracted a large number of subscribers and fed the American Press. As the months passed, their news began to be ingeniously “slanted” in favour of the Central Powers. But they relied too much on argument. The cruder British methods were far more successful, and intensive work was done by the British War Mission, which comprised 500 officials with 10,000 assistants. Atrocities, Germany’s sole responsibility, the criminal Kaiser, and all the other fabrications started in Great Britain, were worked up by American liars with great effect. The Belgian baby without hands was a special favourite. There was hardly a household in which it was not discussed all over that vast continent, and even so ridiculous a scare as the concrete platforms for German guns was current in California.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 9 2022 #103852
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    Fubar Te Ching Chapter 80

    If a country is governed poorly,
    its inhabitants will be depressed.
    They will hate working with their hands
    and spend all their money on labor-saving devices.
    Since their home cities are wastelands,
    they are obsessed with travel.
    Cars and planes and boats become their fetish,
    And they go nowhere on foot.
    They own many weapons,
    and dream of opportunities to use them.
    People eat a lot of junk food,
    can’t stand their families,
    spend their weekends watching sports,
    and don’t know their neighbors.
    And rather than pay attention to what is around them
    they spend hours online watching puppies and kittens in foreign countries.
    They are terrified of old age
    and avoid reality by living a virtual existence.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 8 2022 #103784
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    * Why do we want to wreck the world? Because it is wreckable!

    * Rage is an abstract, redirectable force. Give into your anger, it will make you strong.

    * The chart of military capabilities didn’t show hypersonic weapons; Only three countries have them, the US, Russia and China.

    * Global Food Crisis on the way: Starving Lives Matter; American should be willing to live on 500 calories a day to support Ukraine; Patriots: Don’t tread on me; Biden Administration: Let them eat snake.

    * Fifty years is a long time to pawn monopoly money off as the reserve currency but all good things must come to an end; It was fun while it lasted; Good job USA!

    * We are our leaders; In Russia every man is Putin; In the US every man is Biden; In Canada every man is Trudeau; In the UK every man is BoJo.

    * They lied about Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran; This time is different.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 24 2022 #102816
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    * I don’t know what kind of a person Putin really is but he is doing a better for Russia than any recent American president has done for the US. I don’t know what Russian elections are like but they couldn’t be much worse than elections in the US. I don’t know if the attack on Ukraine is dastardly and based on lies or not but it couldn’t be any more dastardly and based on lies than the attacks on Iraq and Libya.

    * Russia says it doesn’t want all of Ukraine. Maybe they learned their lesson and only want people who want to be part of Russia to be part of Russia. Managing people who don’t want to be part of your country is just too bothersome. I say let people vote as to what country/state they want to be part of. Donetsk and Lugansk can be part of Russia, Mexico can have So Cal and Idaho can have half of Oregon. Democracy, self determination and all that.

    * Russia seems to be still fairly homogeneous. Diversity is our strength, so uniformity must be their weakness. We will yet raise the rainbow flag over Moscow.

    * The Saudi’s aren’t dummies. They will do what is best for the Saudi’s. They can smell blood in the water. Joe Biden asks them to pump more oil as a favor. They know that the full perfidy and liability of the US government will soon mean nothing. Do people really buy the bologna about supporting a democracy half way around the world and how we should sacrifice for them? Other Presidents pulled this nonsense from a position of strength. The US is no longer a bully but a whiny bystander. Joe Biden new favorite flavor is bomb pops. He plans to send a case to Zelensky.

    * So bye, bye, Miss American Pie
    Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
    Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey ‘n rye
    Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die
    This’ll be the day that I die

    in reply to: Bankruptcy For Moderna, Definitely Pfizer #102722
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    I met an adviser from an asset fund,
    Who said—“Two vast and bankrupt Pharma firms
    Stand on Wall Street. . . . Near them, on the sidewalk,
    Half shrunk a shattered vagrant lies, whose smirk,
    And reedy lip, and whiny, high pitched voice,
    Tell that well authority bred
    Which yet survive, there upon that tragic being,
    The cash that funded, and the ego it fed;
    And on his cardboard, these words appear:
    ‘My name is Tony Fauci, NIAID Ex-Director;
    Look on my Science, ye Mighty, and donate!
    Even a few dollars or some small change will help!’
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that disgraced Bureaucrat, boundless and bare
    The lone and level concrete stretches clear to Yonkers.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 11 2022 #100782
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    * Allons-y Justin

    * A big rig, we must make them pay.
    A box cutter, automatic weapons, a tow truck, – and Thou
    Beside me slashing tires along the way –
    Our Terrorism is Democracy now.
    — The Rubaiyat of Juliette Kayyem

    * GiveSendGo – Sharing Hope through CrowdFunding
    ShutdownSeizeArrest – Sharing Despair through GovernmentMandates

    * The recombinant DNA “sneaks past” their body’s defenses.
    Why would we want that? OK, it’s a rhetorical question.
    — Klaus Schwab

    * If a tree is chopped down in the forest but you didn’t collect the data, is it still rotting on the forest floor?

    * Man: (Knocks)
    Expert: Come in.
    Man: Ah, Is this the right room for discussing Covid treatments?
    Expert: I told you once.
    Man: No you haven’t.
    Expert: Yes I have.
    Man: When?
    Expert: Just now.
    Man: No you didn’t.
    Expert: Yes I did.
    Man: You didn’t!
    Expert: I’m telling you I did!
    Man: You did not!!
    Expert: Oh, I’m sorry, just one moment. Is this a five minute Covid treatment discussion or the full half hour?
    Man: Oh, just the five minutes.
    Expert: Ah, thank you. Anyway, I did.
    Man: You most certainly did not.
    Expert: Look, let’s get this thing clear; I quite definitely told you.
    Man: No you did not.
    Expert: Yes I did.
    Man: No you didn’t.
    Expert: Yes I did.
    Man: Oh I’ve had enough of this.
    Expert: No you haven’t.
    Man: Oh Shut up.

    in reply to: 2 Predictions #100638
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    THE EIGHT PRINCIPLES OF UNCIVILISATION
    from The Dark Mountain Project Manifesto

    1. We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history. We will face this reality honestly and learn how to live with it.
    2. We reject the faith which holds that the converging crises of our times can be reduced to a set of ‘problems’ in need of technological or political ‘solutions’.
    3. We believe that the roots of these crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’. These myths are more dangerous for the fact that we have forgotten they are myths.
    4. We will reassert the role of storytelling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories that we weave reality.
    5. Humans are not the point and purpose of the planet. Our art will begin with the attempt to step outside the human bubble. By careful attention, we will reengage with the non-human world.
    6. We will celebrate writing and art which is grounded in a sense of place and of time. Our literature has been dominated for too long by those who inhabit the cosmopolitan citadels.
    7. We will not lose ourselves in the elaboration of theories or ideologies. Our words will be elemental. We write with dirt under our fingernails.
    8. The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. Together, we will find the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 1 2022 #99696
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    The Blind Men and the Epidemic

    It was six post-doc PhD’s
    Credentials still were scant
    Who heard about the pandemic
    And hoped to get a grant
    Though none of them knew medicine
    But all were sycophant

    The First one said of early measures
    “Why this cannot be!
    Such measure will not cure a soul
    It’s very plain to see
    A measure cannot claim success
    Without an RCT!”

    The Second hoped to cure us all
    He struggled with the task
    But then he learned it spread by air
    “There’s just one thing to ask
    We’ll cure this virus right away
    If we all wear a mask!”

    The Third approached the dread disease
    And tried to find it’s source
    He thought it likely from a lab;
    They threatened him with force
    He then announced “It’s plain to see
    It’s from a bat, of course!”

    The Fourth long pondered the disease
    Infecting some in town
    He figured out a policy
    Announcing with a frown
    “This virus is unstoppable
    Unless we’re all locked down!”

    The Fifth, was not sure what to do
    And not sure where to start
    It seems he wasn’t all the bright
    And not so very smart
    But he had an epiphany
    “Just stand six feet apart!”

    The Sixth considered the disease
    “I know what this all means
    We’re suffering from infected cells
    We need to change our genes
    We’ll fix this issue if all get
    mRNA vaccines”

    And so those post-doc PHD’s
    All published papers long,
    And each received a research grant
    Their CV’s now were strong,
    Though none of them were in the right,
    Yes, all were in the wrong

    Moral:
    So oft in epidemic times,
    Proposals that get tweeted,
    Suggest in utter ignorance
    From “experts” quite conceited,
    Who try to cure contagion
    Not one of them has treated.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 30 2022 #99560
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    Neil Young has a masterful plan
    Promoting a Spotify ban
    He’s using his karma
    Supporting big pharma
    Neil Young: Sticking up for the man

    Molnupiravir ruins sperm
    In short to the medium term
    If you got the boost
    Then don’t get seduced
    If you’re contraception’s not firm

    The country just north of the border
    Is clamping down hard: Law and Order!
    Just Trudeau insists
    That no one resists
    He’d like Canada to be Mordor

    “Putin’s controls Canuck truckers
    Those gullible, credulous suckers”
    So says CBC
    They’re obviously
    A news group of worthless old dolts

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 27 2022 #99283
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    The patient had Covid which led
    To treatments that left him near dead
    His wife interceded
    Got the drugs that he needed
    By sneaking in lice for his head

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 25 2022 #99087
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    * Crabby, Stilted, Gnashing Young takes his ball and goes home
    – Note to Ilargi: Please remove all my comments. I don’t want to be on the same platform with certain disinformed commenters. This is my final ulti-tantrum.

    * NY Governor wants to reverse court rulings; Socialism is the end of history; Power bankrupts. Absolute power bankrupts absolutely

    * Putin is playing 4 dimensional chess; Biden is playing poor, demential Risk.

    * Once someone is wrong never believe them again.

    * Portland needs to adapt and live with Covid.

    * Skipping Greek letters is Ωκ.

    * Freedom means we can express our opinions no matter how crazy they are; I may think you are a stupid SOB but I’ll defend to the death you’re right to be a stupid SOB, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

    * Be careful what you wish for. Endemicity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

    * Jacinda cancels wedding plans. Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear.

    * GoFundMe swaps the “nd” in “kindness” for the “ck” in “truckers”.

    * Those who say what they know don’t say that they don’t know what they say they know but don’t.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 24 2022 #98919
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    Couplets

    President Biden: A winter of severe illness and death
    Anthony Fauci: A bit more pain and suffering

    President Bush, 2002: They are terrorists and they hate us for our freedoms
    President Biden, 2022: They are terrorists and we must hate them for their freedoms

    The flu disappeared because of Covid measures and will return if we stop the measures
    The flu disappeared because of Covid and has returned as Covid becomes endemic

    People are susceptible to propaganda although they are educated
    People are susceptible to propaganda because of the way they were educated

    deflationista: What the actual f–k is wrong with you? You f–king snob. You people are f–king nuts… you’re f–king crazy. Let me get real human for you: Go f–k yourself.
    Julius Ruechel (in his own comment section): @NJP, I invite you to participate in evidence based discussion, but going forward, I will remove any further posts from you in which you insult readers. If there is something specific you disagree with in my articles, please quote the part you disagree with and provide evidence to support your claim. Credentials and opinions are not a replacement for evidence.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 22 2022 #98787
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    The data from Scotland’s upsetting
    They vaxxed up but now are regretting
    It seems those injected
    Are now more infected
    Big pharma is due a bloodletting

    It’s awfully hard to take action
    Sans data to ground satisfaction
    A year and half,
    But still, what a laugh!
    We aren’t giv’n the facts, just distraction

    The omicron’s very transmissible
    Be careful and don’t be remissible
    Bypass crowded places
    Eschew unmasked faces
    Avoid all young maids who’re French kissable

    Convinced by “The Science” and seduced
    Your spike protein mill has been goosed
    But week after week
    It falls from it’s peak
    You still need more spikes! Get the boost!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 14 2022 #98069
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    The Supremes disappointed Pres. Biden
    “No mandate is what we’re decidin’ ”
    So Joe’s asking bosses
    To bail out his losses
    “The divide is to small, it must widen”

    “I told you so” taunts Karl D.
    “You perps should have listened to me.
    And now it’s my hope
    You’ll swing from a rope
    You think that I jest? Wait and see.”

    Says Rand (the Senate’s true teacher)
    “The Fauci’s a juvenile creature
    He’s concocted a virus
    But now he’s desirous
    To claim it’s a bug, not a feature”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 12 2022 #97906
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    We’re threatened by myriad attacks
    We’re told we must get the dread vaxx
    Their threats are substantial
    And now turn financial
    Get jabbed or we’ll wreck you with tax

    Since Scots must wear face masks forever
    A love life requires something clever
    It’s hard to grab bliss
    When one cannot kiss
    Let alone a more int’mate endeavor

    As Biden’s star loses its luster
    He gathers what strength he can muster
    His legacy’s fading
    To stop its degrading
    He must kill his foe’s fillibuster

    There once was a fellow from Italy
    Who talked with his goat rather wittily
    From deep in his throat
    The response from the goat
    Was to answer the man very spittily

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 11 2022 #97802
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    * Yeadon? Bhakdi? Fauci? Wallensky? All unreliable. Trust no one.

    * Ignore, v.: to refuse to pay attention to, to not answer, to not respond to, to skip over, to pretend a thing doesn’t exist. Antonyms: to answer, to engage with, to argue with, to acknowledge the existence of

    * The Secret History of Omicron: It learned to read and went to medical school, became a doctor and took the Hippocratic oath: First do no harm. Omicron is an example to doctors everywhere.

    * Pfizer CEO:
    2 Doses: limited protection
    3 Doses: reasonable protection
    4 Doses: good protection
    5 Doses: very good protection
    6 Doses: excellent protection
    7 Doses: outstanding protection
    8 doses: stellar protection
    9 doses: A number one, top of the list, king of the hill, A number one protection
    10 doses: eternal protection

    * Bill Clinton a year from now: I was jabbed with the mRNA but it didn’t inject

    * The vaxxed and infected are less dangerous than the unvaxxed, uninfected, obviously

    * Is obedience cowardly?

    * We can stop talking about Covid any time we want. I’m stopping now.



    Whew. That was long enough. I’m starting again.

    * Once a vaccine mandate is in place it will never go away. Think Income Tax, TSA and NPR

    * Evil in Time Bandits: I think I should teach you one of my special lessons? What do you think, Robert? Benson? What would look nice? Half-warthog? Half-donkey? Half-oyster? Half-carrot?

    * Word of the Day: Hypocracy n.: A government run by hypocrites

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 9 2022 #97536
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    * St. Francis on Ecstasy is beautiful and mind-expanding.

    * Omicron 100x less deadly; Pandemic is over in two weeks; They have two weeks to beat us over the head with the curve; Two weeks is like a thousand years in Covid time, and a thousand years like two weeks.

    * New Fact-Based Conspiracy Theory: Daily case count graph in the USA looks suspiciously like the Arabic word for “why?”. Bin Laden is still alive and in control.

    * If you want a picture of the future, imagine a needle stabbing a human arm, forever.

    * Walensky announces 75% of deaths from Covid are among those with 4 or more comorbidities, however, new evidence suggests all comorbidities are caused by Covid, so comorbidities from Covid, not with Covid.

    * My Doc is Dr. Ruth: Take two Viagra three times a day and stay in bed for a week.

    * If a tree has Covid in a forest and no one is there to test it, was it a case?

    * Obi Won Mediobi: This is not the mass formation you are looking for. This mass formation may go about its business. (Aside to Luke: The Media Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.)

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    “Let us work,” said Martin, “without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable.”

    The whole little society entered into this laudable design, according to their different abilities. Their little plot of land produced plentiful crops. Cunegonde was, indeed, very ugly, but she became an excellent pastry cook; Paquette worked at embroidery; the old woman looked after the linen. They were all, not excepting Friar Giroflée, of some service or other; for he made a good joiner, and became a very honest man.

    Pangloss sometimes said to Candide:

    “There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds: for if you had not been kicked out of a magnificent castle for love of Miss Cunegonde: if you had not been put into the Inquisition: if you had not walked over America: if you had not stabbed the Baron: if you had not lost all your sheep from the fine country of El Dorado: you would not be here eating preserved citrons and pistachio-nuts.”

    “All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our garden.”

    the end of Candide by Voltaire

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 8 2022 #97401
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    Statements I Think All Agree To:

    1. Covid 19 has several phases. In the final phase the body’s own immune-response does the damage.
    2. Covid 19 spreads primarily via aerosols.
    3. Properly worn N95 masks are much more effective than cloth or surgical masks.
    4. Air filtration and ventilation are effective against the spread of Covid 19.
    5. The CDC gave no early treatment guidelines for Covid 19.
    6. Pfizer made a profit of $8 billion on Covid 19 vaccines in the 4th quarter of 2021.
    7. The definition of vaccine was modified by Merriam Webster to accommodate the Covid 19 vaccines.
    8. The Pfizer and Moderna Covid 19 vaccines contain mRNA which enters human cells and gets them to create spike proteins like those on Covid 19. The immune system creates antibodies for these spike proteins.
    9. The vaccines cause adverse effects in some people including Bell’s palsy, myocarditis and death.
    10. Long Covid affects a some people infected with Covid 19.
    11. The Covid vaccines reduce the severity of Covid 19 symptoms in most people for some amount of time.
    12. The Covid vaccines lose effectiveness after 6 months or less.
    13. A lot of things about the vaccines that are known now were not known when the vaccines were released.
    14. The long term (3+ years) effects of Covid 19 vaccines are unknown.
    15. Vaccinated people can both contract and spread Covid 19.
    16. Lockdowns have had a terrible effect on society and the economy.
    17. Children are least likely to have complications with Covid 19.
    18. The aged and people with comorbidities including obesity are most likely to have complications with Covid 19.

    Questions that Make Me Vaccine Hesitant:

    1. Does the mRNA in the vaccine stay at the injection site?
    2. Is the spike protein a pathogen?
    3. How long does the spike protein stay in the body and at what levels?
    4. What causes adverse effects to vaccines such as Bell’s Palsy, myocarditis and stroke?
    5. How often do adverse effects occur?
    6. How long does vaccine protection last?
    7. How likely is one to get and spread Covid 19 if vaccinated?
    8. Does mRNA affect the immune system and how do we know this?
    9. How likely are long term consequences from the vaccine and how do we know this?
    10. Why have there been no early treatment protocols from the NIH, CDC, FDA and WHO?
    11. Why should I trust the information from the CDC, NIH, FDA, WHO, Pfizer, Moderna and J and J?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 4 2022 #97024
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    * Since obesity is now known as a Covid risk factor Ben and Jerry have canceled release plans for their new flavor “Triple Jab Spike Protein Crunch”

    * Outpatient treatment has been suppressed; What If The Largest Failure In Human History is the head of NIAID?

    * Holmes: I wasted $1 billion on fraudulent medical tech and am going to jail
    – Fauci: You piker

    * Consultants sink Biden’s agenda by pulling plug built into the hull

    * Buckle your seat belt; You will have your life back in two months when we reach the bottom of the cliff

    in reply to: Debt Rattle January 2 2022 #96793
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    Additional Covid Vaccine Benefits

    Researchers at the CDC have discovered that in addition to protecting against Covid 19, the mRNA vaccines also protect against racism and misogyny. In a randomized controlled trial 20,000 healthy adults were given a vaccine and 20,000 were given a placebo. Two weeks later all were then tested. Only 2 people who received the vaccine were found to be racist and misogynist while 100% of those in the placebo group were either racist or misogynist or both.

    Even if you think you aren’t personally in danger of being a racist or misogynist, getting vaccinated will help prevent others in your family and at work from becoming a racist or misogynists. To be safe, limit contact with the unvaccinated. Having dinner with an unvaccinated person or having them in your home could cause you to become a racist and/or misogynist even if you are vaccinated.

    Although children as young as 5 are almost never racists or misogynists they should still get vaccinated because some children with special conditions have been thought to be racist or misogynist and vaccinating children also protects their parents and teachers from becoming racists and misogynists. Trials are now being performed on children as young as 6 months to find if the vaccine can prevent racism and misogyny in them as well.

    Unfortunately after 4 to 6 months you are once again likely to be a racist or misogynist so you will need a booster. Even before the 4 to 6 month expiration date there is the possibility of a breakthrough case of racism and misogyny. This is a very rare occurrence and may not actually be racism or misogyny but may be just a stomachache. Just in case, you should get tested immediately and if the test comes back positive quarantine for at least 5 days. Once you know longer exhibit racist or misogynistic tendencies get tested again before going out in to public.

    If you get vaccinated and find you have become a racist or misogynist anyway you should report this to the Vaccine Adverse Racism/Misogyny Reporting System (VARMRS). Note however that since the vaccines have received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) the vaccine manufacturers cannot be held liable for your racism or misogyny. Luckily any racist or misogynistic actions you take while vaccinated will be ignored because making them public could discourage others from getting vaccinated. Reports that any vaccinated persons are racists or misogynists are misinformation and will be removed from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Linkedin.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 28 2021 #96490
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    A shot that you get in your arm
    Intended to stop covid harm
    Can’t stop a creation
    That attacks respiration
    Nonetheless, third time is the charm

    When aliens come to the earth
    And threaten us humans with dearth
    Though we fear eschatology
    We hope our theology
    Convinces green men of our worth

    Covid can get in the brain
    Months later the problems remain
    And then mass formation
    With vaccine fixation
    Can render the patient insane

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Boxing Day 2021 #96306
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    * The Daily Covid
    – For PFfizer is our judge, Pfizer is our lawgiver, Pfizer is our king; It will save us; O death, where is thy jab? O grave, where is thy victory?
    – Studying the vaccines = Regression analysis
    – CDC’s new motto: Plan for the worst, Hope for the worst.
    – Words have meaning: Nobody’s been immunized or vaccinated, they’ve all just been injected
    – Having Covid creates long lasting immunity, Getting the vaxx creates long lasting auto-immunity.
    – I am all in favour of free choice but there comes a point when you cannot make 90 per cent of the country who are vaccinated feel stupid because or the ten per cent who refuse to be.
    – Malone is wrong; Gates and Big Pharma have integrity; They scrupulously follow the maxim “To thine own self be true.”
    – In nod to ancient Roman blood-sport Italy to host world cup in the Coliseum; Fauci to do thumbs up/thumbs down

    * Covid Quotes
    – What we’ve got here is… failure to vaccinate. Some men you just can’t reach.
    – Pfrawndo’s got mRNA. It’s what plant’s crave
    – Always look on the bright side of life; Ignore crucifixion hesitancy

    * Door to Door vaccination in England:
    – Citizen: Well I didn’t expect the Vaccine Inquisition
    – NHS: No one expects the Vaccine Inquisition! Our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Science!

    * Don’t Jab Me Card
    Why? Because
    – Most health conditions can be addressed without getting an experimental jab
    – When you threaten me with the jab I get stressed (and that’s not healthy)
    – Trying to jab me every time I come in for an appointment and talking about my vaxx status like it’s a problem perpetuates vaccination stigma (a known & serious health risk)
    – I pursue healthy behaviors regardless of my vaxx status (See Healthy at Every Risk)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle Christmas Day 2021 #96240
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    A Merry Christmas to All

    Oh TAE! The polestar in the night
    The trusted voice that guides me on my way
    Ilargi plots the course with second sight
    Makes light the dark as if it were the day

    Then Dr. D expands on daily news
    While zerosum succinctly sets it straight
    Veracious poet teaches with his views
    And oxymoron fights the Oz mandate

    John Day with calm depicts his daily life
    As bosco drolly sails the hermits course
    And phoenixvoice describes her joy mid strife
    While germ provides us yet another source

    Plus ctbarnum, those darned kids and more
    My thanks as you remind me what life’s for

    in reply to: An Open Letter to Friends #95917
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    Re-reviled as an orc, I’m omicron, as a deliverer.

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    Re-reviled as an orc, I’m omicron, as a deliverer.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 21 2021 #95896
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    It might be months, or years, or days—
    I kept no count, I took no note—
    I had no hope my eyes to raise,
    And clear them of their dreary mote;
    At last men came to set me free;
    I ask’d not why, and reck’d not where;
    It was at length the same to me,
    Fetter’d or fetterless to be,
    I learn’d to love despair.
    And thus when they appear’d at last,
    And all my bonds aside were cast,
    These heavy walls to me had grown
    A hermitage—and all my own!
    And half I felt as they were come
    To tear me from a second home:
    With spiders I had friendship made
    And watch’d them in their sullen trade,
    Had seen the mice by moonlight play,
    And why should I feel less than they?
    We were all inmates of one place,
    And I, the monarch of each race,
    Had power to kill—yet, strange to tell!
    In quiet we had learn’d to dwell;
    My very chains and I grew friends,
    So much a long communion tends
    To make us what we are:—even I
    Regain’d my freedom with a sigh.

    From the Prisoner of Chillon by Byron

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 18 2021 #95619
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    A tree that is trimmed but not there
    Your mind’s playing tricks, so beware
    Expecting a shape
    You foolishly gape
    There’s a tree, but it’s made out of air

    Omicron’s spreading so fast
    The symptoms are mild and don’t last
    A wimp of a virus
    Will surely require us
    To panic and scream all aghast

    Joe Biden, his patience is thinning
    He’s losing and fears he’s not winning
    He’s serious, insistent
    The vaccine resistant
    Are guilty of mortally sinning

    A system as complex as life
    Will generate conflict and strife
    Don’t try to unbend it
    Instead comprehend it
    Accept that the unknowns are rife

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 14 2021 #95251
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    A Mainstream Summary
    of articles from my news feed

    * Omicron variant: Pfizer vaccine protects 70% against hospitalization, study finds
    Pfizer claims two doses of its vaccine give 33% protection against infection and 70% protection against hospitalization based on 78K cases in South Africa between Nov 15 an Dec 7. SA currently has 13K cases so 78K in this time frame sounds funny. The Fox article references an AP News article which references a paper that is not peer reviewed. The AP article has no links to the paper it cites. The AP article says omicron may be milder but we don’t know for sure yet.

    * Pfizer’s anti-covid pill prevents severe illness and should work against omicron variant, company says
    The Pfizer pill is manufactured in Germany. They say the pill reduces deaths and hospitalization by 90% among people at high risk because of age and comorbidities. The pill needs to be take with 5 days of symptom onset. The claim that it works on omicron is based on lab studies. The pill showed no symptom relief for non-high-risk patients though it did show a reduction in viral load. They say that oral antivirals offer significant benefits and are badly needed because of delta and omicron.

    * Omicron appears more resistant to Covid vaccines but is causing less severe illness in South Africa, major study finds
    The subtitle of the article makes the Pfizer vaccine claim above.
    The article says the first real world study found omicron caused less severe symptoms with 29% fewer hospital admission. It doesn’t say if this is absolute or relative. This is based on the same study that makes the Pfizer claims. They say they don’t know if this is good or bad news. They say this shows vaccine effectiveness is reduced but that boosters still increase immunity. They say that though the hospitalization rate is lower, the fact that it is more transmissible may mean more hospitalizations and deaths in absolute numbers.

    I am trying to give an objective report of what the articles say but it is hard not to notice how much of my news feed comes directly from Pfizer.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 13 2021 #95199
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    The Fair Summary
    It’s only fair to look at a few mainstream articles related to today’s posts to make sure we aren’t just in an echo chamber.

    * Mainstream article on Omicron: Omicron could cause 75,000 deaths in England by end of April, say scientists
    This is based on modeling though no details of the models were included in the article. The article included graphs that show that the UK full vaccination rate is at 70% and cases are at an all time high.

    * A mainstream article about 2021 Covid Death Toll In U.S. Eclipses That Of 2020 With More Than A Month Yet To Go
    Article points out that more people died from Covid in 2021 so far than in all of 2020. In fairness, Covid didn’t get going in 2020 until around April or May.
    People blamed Trump for all 2020 Covid deaths. It is only fair if these same people blame Biden for all 2021 Covid deaths.
    Around 70% of Americans have received one dose of a vaccine. It is only fair to say the vaccines have failed.

    * It was hard to find a mainstream pro Jacinda Arden article but I found this
    It is very supportive of Jacinda and compares her favorably to Trump. It points out that New Zealand hadn’t had a new case in 10 days, was fairly open and hadn’t suffered economically as much as the US and UK. It was published on October 10, 2020

    * Here’s a Mayo Clinic article on why kids should get vaccinated: Covid vaccine for Kids
    It points out that vaccination might prevent a child from getting short or long term complications from Covid. There are no details on what the chances or severity of these complications are
    They recommend the vaccine based on giving 3200 children 2 Pfizer shots and 1500 a placebo and monitoring them for 2 months. Side effects were mild. 3 children with the vaccine got Covid and 16 with placebo got Covid for a 91% effective rate. No mention of how they determined who got Covid or what the severity was for either group.
    It does mention that 54 of 1 million 12 to 17 years olds got myocarditis after vaccination. This is roughly 1 in 18.5 thousand so it is unlikely that if this were to happen to young children that it would have happened in the study. There was no analysis of the relative risk and severity of myocarditis vs Covid for children.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle December 8 2021 #94735
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    And after these things I saw another variant come down from heaven, having benign symptoms; and the earth was lightened with its glory.
    And one cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Covid the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the disease of administrations, and the contagion of every foul agency, and a malady of every unclean and hateful bureaucrat.
    For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of their lockdowns and distancings and mandates, and the kings of the earth have become dictators through her, and the pharma corporations of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of their therapies.
    And I heard another voice saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her jabs, and that ye receive not of their side effects.
    For the adverse reactions have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered their lack of testing.
    And the kings of the earth, who enjoyed emergency powers and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the lack of symptoms,
    Standing afar off for the fear of her harmlessness, saying, Alas, alas, that great disease Covid, that mighty virus! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
    And the pharma companies of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their medicines any more:
    Their merchandise of vaccines, and of gene therapies, and patented medicines, and all manner of opioids, and all manner of PCR tests,
    And painkillers, and anti-depressants, and anti-histamines, and monitors, and sensors, and ventilators.
    The sellers of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her demise, weeping and wailing,
    And saying, Alas, alas, that great virus, that was clothed in masks and gowns, and face shields and gloves and personal protective equipment!
    For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every wholesaler, and all the distributors and pharmacists stood afar off,
    And cried when they saw the end of her virulence, saying, What virus is like unto this great virus!
    And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great virus, wherein were made rich all that sold vaccines by reason of their costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

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