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Madamski:
The Russian authorities openly complained about Russians drinking too much, and the one solution they did try was introducing Pepsi. There was a bottling plant about 10 hours away from the mine where I worked. We managed to convince the mine manager (ex-major and Vietnam advisor!) to send a mine truck up to the Pepsi bottling plant. The biggest problem was the lack of glass bottles! We collectively had to promise to return the empty bottles or we wouldn’t get any more Pepsi! I think we managed 2 round trips before winter arrived.
Funny thing about the mine manager was that because he had travelled a bit, he was the most reasonable one we had to deal with! Everyone else below him were true sticks in the mud! If you were Russian, “NO” was only said once by them and that was the end of that! But not with us!
I can tell you when you put together a bunch of experienced service reps from many different countries and companies, you get a collection of some very independent minded types! Types who don’t take “No” for an answer, but view it as merely the starting point for obtaining “YES”! As a group were were deadly!
So, you close the front door!
We come in by the back door!
You close the back door!
We climb in a window!
You close all the windows!
We climb down the chimney!
You block the chimney!
We make a new side door!You finally realize resisting is futile!
Better to give the buggers what they want to keep them quiet!
Or word will leak out that you can’t keep the foreigners under control and thus get yourself into trouble!Madamski:
I guess the number one surprise for me in Russia in 1983 was the general lack of hope. Drinking was their coping mechanism. So much so, the authorities didn’t dare cut vodka production!
UpstateNYer & Madamski:
When I was in Siberia, admittedly southern Siberia, the locals started many of their plants indoors by windows. (Yes, many of the wooden houses suffered badly from the ground heaving. It was not unusual to notice on corner of the house 2 feet higher or lower than another house corner.)
Then as spring came and the ground thawed, they started putting their early plants into cold frames. (Nobody had green houses.) These wooden cold frames had removable tops made of either glass or plastic. I noticed that they also kept buckets of water inside the old frames to ward off mild frost. If it was to be a hard frost, then they either brought many plants back inside or put blankets over the cold frame tops.
If it was a nice sunny day, they would remove the cold frame tops to let the plants harden and not get over heated. During cool cloudy days, or windy days, the cold frame tops stayed on. As you can imagine, this required a lot of effort but these people depended on these small but very productive gardens for their food. The reality was the garden remained their entire focus through out the short summer.
Here in Toronto, my parents started many plants indoors before transferring them to a small cold frame with a southern exposure. They also used buckets of water and blankets to protect against late spring frosts. So they faced the same problems UpstateNYer faced.
When my Father was growing up in Saskatchewan, they started tomato plants indoors beside south facing windows, before transferring to cold frames. However the growing season in Saskatchewan is too short to grow tomatoes, so they would allow only one tomato to form on each plant. They also heavily pruned the leaves forcing the tomato plant to focus all of it’s energy on just the one fruit. Often they had to pick many tomatoes green to avoid an early fall frost. Then they would ripen the green tomatoes on the window sill.
Up in northern Labrador some folks would put up a wind fence around their garden and try and grow southern crops like corn! The tallest corn I ever saw reached about a foot high! Of course they never succeeded in growing anything! It was just the “trying” that counted! The futile garden made for a great conversation piece with friends and neighbors!
In northern Labrador, my parents grew 2 things in their miniature garden, green mint, and tiny radishes! Mom would make reen mint jelly. Wild daisies and pansie were the only two flowers they grew!
V. Arnold:
Actually 100 tablets is enough for you and your wife to last almost a year! You only take one ivermectin tablet every 7 days or if every 14 days, then you have a 2 years supply!
As far as the other stuff you have me beat! Question: Why 5,000 mg of vit C per day? Maybe I am low?
V. Arnold:
While you are waiting for your order of ivermectin, you can take zinc with aspirin. I think the aspirin helps a little bit in conveying the zinc into your cells, but not sure. Someone on TAE is doing this. (I think the aspirin helps with keeping blood thinner for heart and stroke prevention too.)
Here in Canada I can’t get any ivermectin since Canadian customs seizes all ivermecrin orders. My doctor refuses to proscribed, having drank the kool-aid.
I have been taking 250mg of quercetin with 25 mg of zinc (50 mg pill split in half) everyday (plus 5,000 vit D3-split 2,000 morning/3,000 evening, and 1,500 vit C). It is my understanding that the quercetin also helps convey the zinc into one’s cells just like ivermectin does. (I suspect ivermectin is the best at coveying zinc into one’s cells, plus other benefits, and you only have to take once a week or every two.)
Regards,
I spent yesterday and today making 3 thick floating shelves for my daughter. First, I had to increase the vertical height of my drill press to drill the 1/2″ dowels holes in the 2″ x 10″ wide shelves. (The original drill press had previously been modified to drill large round metal plates for a homemade wind turbine, many years ago.) I re-modified the drill press again yesterday. Last night, I hand sanded the 1/2″ diameter wooden dowel’s diameter down so it would fit easier into drilled 1/2″ holes.
Today I cut the 2″ x 10″ x 8″ pine board ($28) into three 26″ long shelves, drilled four 3″ deep dowel holes in the back of each shelf, then ripped 1-1/2″ off the back of each shelf to make the wall mounting boards, and cut twelve 3″ long dowels. I then carefully hand sanded all the shelf boards, mounting boards, and dowels.
As darkness fell my daughter happily conditioned, then stained each shelf piece. Tomorrow the shelves receive their second coat of stain. After that dries, it is 3 coats of varnish with a light sanding between coats to ensure a nice smooth finish. Then Wednesday I have to leave the cottage and travel back to big bad Toronto to install the shelves in the bathroom above the toilet. The trickiess part will be finding the 2 x 4 studs behind the drywall to secure these fairly heavy shelves to.
So what does this have to do with the TAE. Nothing! Except I, like John Day, am doing my own thing! The hell with the world!
BLS released second quarter 2021 labor statistics today. Labor wages fell 1.2% from second quarter 2020. Add in your favorite inflation figure and you arrive at a much greater lost of purchasing power for workers.
Particularly hard hit were women. All of this is by design. That means housing prices have likely peaked.
The 3rd quarter will likely be even worst followed by an even worse 4th quarter. Are more free money checks on the way to boost inflation even more? Sadly anything is possible in our upside down world!
Yesterday I was taking a little siestas on a lawn chair in my daughter’s Dutch Drawf rabbit’s cage.
(For those a little worried about how I managed to put a lawn chair and myself into a little 2 pound rabbit’s cage, the cage is 8′ wide x 6′ high x 20′ long! Her favorite hobby is digging new tunnels in the pure sand! She has dug so many tunnels that she has raised the entire cage’s floor by at least 4 inches!)(Strangely she has never dug a tunnel to escape. The one time that her tunnel surfaced outside the cage, she plugged it by backfilling the tunnel!) If I knew how to take a picture of the cage of less than 512K
( and put it in my post I would, but I don’t.Then I notice Moki stand upright on her hind legs. That means she has spotted something of interest! I suspected her friend the deer, but I didn’t see the deer. After I left the cage, my wife said the deer had walked right past her, not 20 feet away, on the other side of the rabbit cage! It had never dawned on me to look behind me for the deer! Delights of being at the cottage!
Biden needs 70% of Americans vaxxed. Trudeau needs 3/4 of Canadians vaxxed before he will open the US/Canada border to fully vaxxed travelers.
Well I just completed a big study that found over 70% of Americans are fully vaxxed! I also just completed a big study on Canadians and found over 3/4s of Canadians are fully vaxxed!
Now joe and justin have no more excuses! Their goals have been fully met! Bbee.
Yes they are doubling down on discrediting ivermectin while doubling up on vaccinations, just as we figured they would. They certainly are not worried about our health!
The white house pressitute Jen psaki admitted the white house flags any facebook comments they don’t like and sends them to Facebook to be removed. Now they don’t even bother to hide their censoring of the media! Imagine if Trump tried that!
Today the Arizona state senate released some early vote audit findings for Phoenix. Yes everything is on the level with no fraud whatsoever found. Clearly Biden won Phoenix a landslide! BBee.
Madaski:
The media are only covering this flying because the illegals are being flown from one part of the border to another unfamiliar part of the border before being expelled!
Don’t forget the msm are simply not covering the border because they have been told not too. Joe can get away with the US military flying illegals into other parts of the states because the msm won’t mention it. The US military told everyone to keep their mouths shut or else!
Mister Roboto:
Sadly being disabled for life is in many ways a fate worse than death. Now the mother will be forced to look after the daughter for the rest of her life. Naturally Pfizer or Moderna aren’t going to surrender a penny of their profits to help her. Sad.
The Democrats need another squirrel named Trump, to divert attention away from the vote audits! A squirrel named Biden can’t even make people look!
The US Sturgeon General has just issued guidelines for big tech to censor any comments that oppose Biden’s vaccine narrative!
Biden is secretly using the US military aircraft to distribute illegals throughout the US. You aren’t supposed to know this, so keep it quiet! No doubt illegals are being ferried to where companies need cheap labor. How is your $15 an hour job doing? Still at $7? Wonder why?
Moderna is just launching a study to see if their vaccine is safe for pregnant women to take. Our upside downworld!
Clearly for some reason we are starting to see an all out effort by governments to vaxx everybody in the west. But not in the third world.
It is interesting that over 100 multinational companies have signed a letter demanding the federal government pass legislation to take the running of the federal election away from the 50 states. I would say globalism is alive and well. Clearly these companies want free and fair elections! Not!
The House has chosen to use the House Oversight and Reform Committee to spearhead the federal effort to discredit the Arizona Senate’s vote audit. Also involved are the DofJ, FBI, CIA, Homeland, & DofDefense. Joe needs to defend the results of his fraudulent election, no matter the cost, to stay in power.
Fortunately joe has all the power levers at his disposal. I wonder if Arizona even stands a chance in this battle?. Clearly the Fed’s are going to go after each Arizona state senator and House reps who supports the vote audit. I wonder how many are going to commit suicide or have family members die. Some will likely die in car accidents, another favorite method. Some will likely be charged with various crimes by the DofJ’s hit men, the FBI, in the dead of night with media cameras coverage. I expect to see lots of media staged perp walks. Intimidation at it’s worst.
I haven’t yet seen what the French reaction to the mandatory vaccine dictat from their fearless leader is. Clearly Dr. Fauci wants to be able to mandate vaccines, the French way.
Doc Robinson:
You just made a lier out of me! The only compensation is I guessed right about old folks mainly dying. I based my guess on comments from a TAE commentator from Spain who mentioned how so many old folks were dying after getting the vaccine in old folks homes that health care workers were being laid off. Also another US TAE commentator noted that a friend who runs a nursing home didn’t lose anybody to covid but sure did to the vaccine!
DarkMatter:
You raise a good point! I suspect that it is “mainly” older higher risk people who are dying from the vaccine’s spike proteins. People with the same risks who died from covid. But of course I have no data to back this up as you rightly point out! I doubt the CDC will provide the required data either!
Yesterday joe was in Philadelphia giving a desparate pep talk to democrats to not let any vote audits take place in Pennsylvania. Joe threw the full weight of the entire federal government behind the effort. Guess he must be worried that his legitimacy as president is still being questioned.
So far joe hasn’t been able to stop the Phoenix, Arizona senate vote audit. Things aren’t going so hot in Fulton County (Atlanta) Georgia either, as vote fraud evidence keeps simmering to the surface despite best efforts to bury the evidence. Clumsy Stacy Adam’s left her finger prints everywhere!
For joe, it looks he has no choice but to pick a hill in Pennsylvania to fight and die on for his presidential legitimacy.
Joe, may I suggest Little Round Top in Gettysburg? It provides a very nice green view, if I remember correctly!
Bill7:
Hope you don’t have too many bonfires like BC is currently having! (Or maybe there isn’t anything left to burn?)
Madamski:
We would be rather remiss if we didn’t include the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 that killed over 20 people and injured over 100 people. That was truly a very sticky mess!
Looks like the 6 defendants arrested for plotting to kidnap Michigan’s nutcase governor were aided by 12 FBI informants! Yeah outnumbered 2 to 1! What a joke! If I was on any jury I would refuse to convict anyone, except the FBI! They are the real criminals!
(My Father once delayed a murder jury verdict by 2 days to prevent a pompous judge from getting an early start Friday morning to go weekend fishing!) (No love lost between engineers and lawyers!)
It seems the Fulton County, Georgia vote count of mail-in-ballots only had a greater than 60% error rate! That is what you get from teaching dumbed down math! Like double or triple counting!
So everybody in France needs to be vaccinated before they are allowed to do anything useful like support the economy! The US is watching closely to see if this works! After all the Democrats are planning on making life for the unvaccinated difficult and hard.
I laughed when a judge said the California’s governor can’t call himself a Democrat in the upcoming re-call election! Newsom sure has been going around throwing billions at California voters thanks to free taxpayer money from D.C.
In Texas they always do things big! Like state Democrats flying on a private jet to DC, shutting down the state house! Now the governor is planning to arrest them when they ever return! Maybe they won’t return! Maybe we end up with a Texas long horn stand-off! Get your BBQ ready!
Interesting to see that joe and the democrats have now enlisted all the cell phone carriers to centure your text messages regarding vaccines and anti-government comments!
Ben Garrison has an interesting cartoon of the 4th branch of government. Since I don’t know how to link or embed the cartoon, maybe someone else will help out!
Interesting that it is now coming out how Bill Barr stopped any investigation of election fraud. The one who didn’t see any election fraud!
Lots of good comments on TAE today!
While talking to my 25 year old son who works as a maintenance tech on GE wind turbines. I explained what I knew about covid. He is only 1 of 2 techs out of about a dozen not vaccinated.
This spring he was working up in northern Ontario on Manitulian Island (world’s biggest fresh water island) in Lake Huron. The northern techs are a more conservative group so the didn’t put any pressure on him to get vax’ed.
He is now back in southern Ontario and his OSS is putting pressure on him to get vax’ed. Not wanting a confrontation he said he would get it later.
His best friend, also working there just got his second shot this week. My son knew he didn’t look right. Sort of half there and half not there. It was a lightening day so they where confinded to the shop and not allowed to climb the turbines. So my son kept asking his friend. “Are you O.K.?” Finally about noon his friend admitted he was feeling dizzy and went home.
I explained the risks he faces not being vaccinated, basically zero, and that getting vax’ed would greatly increase his risks of catching covid and dying, not to mention all the long term horrors slowly starting to leak out about thousands of disabled people.
I also explained how this whole covid crisis was created and driven by massive corporate and government corruption. We also talked about the phyopaths behind it all.
My son considers his boss and many others to be much smarter than he is. And I said to him isn’t it amazing how all of these so called smart people, can do such stupid things and are badly short of common sense!
Oxymoron:
Sorry to hear that kangaroos are nibbling on your fruit trees! The nerve of those pesty critters!
THowever there is a solution! You could learn to like kangaroo meat!
I hear kangaroo meat is quite tasty! After all 50,000 Americans unknowingly ate kangaroo meat at Jack-in-the-Box in California!
The reason I know this is true because I saw a bumper sticker on a car in Sydney in 1982!
I worked in a coal mine near Singleton in the Hunter Valley for a year building a large electric mining shovel.
If the elites want to control me, good luck! My speciality is gaming their rules! Been doing so all my life!
Recently it became advantages to file incomes taxes for my 21 year old daughter! The pay for filling out their tax forms is better than $200 per hour! Naturally, I of course still file paper copies only, not electronic, income tax forms.
My daughter said oh, you should file electronically online because it is so much easier! I said I am not going to file electronically because all of these electronic forms have been previously approved by the government tax authorities to always be in their favor! Since the tax code legally allows for the taxpayer to interpret some things in a more favorably light, I naturally do so! I also want to frustrate their efforts to go 100% online! Nothing like good old paperwork to gum up their tax system and keep them inefficient! An ungrateful taxpayer, I am! (I also refuse to use store self checkouts too!)
Tonight my daughter announced that she had just received a sales tax refund of $700 deposited directly into her bank account! I said do you remember all the grief you gave me for filing paper tax returns going back to 2018? She is also to get 3 more sales tax refunds this year.
She now knows her Dad is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg! She is taking business having completed year 2. I keep telling her she is learning how businesses should be run but not how businesses are really run! You know like 2 sets of books! She is learning fast!
The vote audit in Phoenix continues silently so as to not give opponents of the vote audit any ammunition to discredit the vote audit. This silence is killing vote audit opponents!
Pennsylvania’ssenate is going to do a vote audit in 3 counties, 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat (Philadelphia). Expect wolf level howls and all out efforts by Democrats to stop the vote audit. Another slow burn!
So joe is spying on Tucker Carson. Sadly proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Intelligence Branch, the fourth branch of the US gov, exists.
That vaccinated people believe the fake covid crisis is real is exactly why the creators of this fake crisis are pushing so hard for everyone to get vax’ed. They need majority buy in. Once you have beenvaccinated you become a believer.
I have noticed that anyone who is already vax’ed no longer wants to know about any of the possible future negative side effects.
True believers simply refuse to accept, for example, that the vaccines inflict higher risks n young healthy
people than covid does. They also refuse to admit the vaccines do not prevent a vaccinated person from catching covid. They refuse to acknowledge the vaccines are gene therapy. Their minds are 100% made up! Vaccines are wonderful!As I read the TAE comments I see many are also seeing these same closed minds!
Other items.
I see Kunstler has finally figure out this is Obama’s third term!
I see that the US top military brass has issued orders that all troops be vaccinated by September. I believe this is part of their ongoing efforts to purge anyone who questions orders to drink the Kool Aid. If this indeed goes ahead the US military will lose their best minds. Stalin of 1937 would be very proud of the US’s drive for idealistic purity in the ranks. France 1940 falling in just 3 days!
Did you know the speaker of the house Nancy P has announced that the Capital Hill police force will be expanding their coverage nation wide, by establishing field offices just like the FBI has! This move now expands the legislative branch’s police reach from only DC to all across the country! Why does the House and Senate need their own national police force? Isn’t the FBI bad enough?
Just thought you should know that the US government no longer just consists of 3 branches, Congress, Supreme Court, and President. The fourth branch is the Intelligence Branch! Care to guess which branch 100% controls the first 3 branches and runs the US?
More random thoughts on slowing money velocity:
Some background. Recent Basil 3 changes shows that the large commercial banks have been steadily shifting their lending away from non-financial lending (real economy like manufacturing, etc) and toward lending to governments and other financial institutions. Currently the lending ratio favors governments/financial about 5 to 1. In the future this ratio will go much higher. It will go higher because governments are changing the rules to favor bank lennding to themselves over everybody else!
An example of this is that corporate deposits to commercial banks now only gets a 50% safety rating, meaning the banks must set aside more capital when corporate deposits increase. Naturally the banks, going forward, will now resist new corporate deposits (a new future problem). Individual deposits get a 95% safety rating in comparation. Allocated gold (actual gold on hand) gets a 100% rating while unallocated (paper) gold gets a much lower safety rating, requiring banks to set aside more capital to offset the higher risks of derivatives.
I am wondering if the great increase in lending to governments isn’t the main cause for the slowing down of money velocity?
I personally pay no attention to money velocity since I feel it is an old measurement measuring a relic of the past that no longer has it’s old meaning, as taught in Econ 101.
All I have to do is look around me at the crazy house bidding wars and skyrocketing used vehicle markets to tell me that there is increasing inflation driven money velocity going on! The reality of rising inflation is that people start spending their fiat money quicker and quicker, to extract maximum value before prices increase more. Hyperinflation has arrived when you spend money the same day you get it!
Madamski:
The world was a mess when we were born! That it is still a mess now means nothing has changed!
Yesterday, I tried to comment on money velocity. Obviously I wasn’t successful so I will try again tonight.
If central bankers have been creating ever larger amounts of cash that just bounces back and forth between the banks and the Fed but never enters the real economy, then this dead money has no velocity!
Now if the amount of dead money keeps increasing, wouldn’t averaging the money velocity with the real economy, show money velocity slowing down?
I personally don’t pay any attention to the deceptive money velocity god.
To point to slowing money velocity as proof there is no inflation, when your can see your money’s purchasing power evaporate before your very eyes, is doublespeak at it’s finest!
There are “unconfirmed rumors” that the J & J vaccine is being pulled from the market.
The WHO “suddenly” saying children should not get vaccinated (while also saying children should continue to get vaccinated), is very suspicious! Why the sudden “narrative” shift?
Are we getting a “new reality” manufactured for us???
I will bet next we will see the media suddenly giving Trump credit, instead of joe, for the vaccines!
Maybe we are being softened up for the media spewing “vaccines bad” narrative? Just like “Oramge Man Bad”!
It is an interesting part of herds of people that politicians, who have no experience building anything, run around mouthing off fancy slogans, like B3W, how they are going to build something grand and glorious!
Building anything takes planning, determination, scarce resources, and follow through effort over a great time span. In other words building anything is hard work! The very qualities most politicians lack!
Most politicians only know how to destroy what has already been built by others!
Yes, them vaccinated folks have magnetic personalities!
The non-vax’ed, not so magnetic!I have lots of super magnets, but no one to test!
So those who have been fully vaccinated are fully magnetic!
Those with only one shot of vaccine are only half magnetic,
The unvaccinated are not magnetic at all!So if you want to get a magnetic personality, get vaccinated!
For the unvaccinated, carry0 a magnet to to avoid the vaccinated!
The Chinese Academy of Science has just selected the Wuhan Lab as their 2021 winner for their outstanding science work creating Covid-19. Unbelievable!
