2020/02/10 11:00:07
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There is talk about Mers coming back in Saudi Arabia and perhaps in Vietnam, but I can’t find the links. Bird flu in China. Germany says those who recover may transmit the new virus. WHO says the virus may be transmitted from human to human but “not often”. There are at least nine cases in the US. What are we to think? Is death walking our streets?
Wuhan before the disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RirxVLDMllA
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1223308656101462016
“Indian scientists have just found HIV (AIDS) virus-like insertions in the 2019-nCov virus that are not found in any other coronavirus. They hint at the possibility that this Chinese virus was designed [“not fortuitous’].”
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1223320879162986496
Only eight individuals were checked.
“The result indicates that the ACE2 virus receptor expression is concentrated in a small population of type II alveolar cells (AT2). Surprisingly, we found that this population of ACE2-expressing AT2 also highly expressed many other genes that positively regulating viral reproduction and transmission. A comparison between eight individual samples demonstrated that the Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung.”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1
“The “novel corona virus” now infecting people in China is designed to leave those of European descent unharmed, according to P3 Freemason sources. We have previously provided extensive proof to show this was also true of SARS.”
https://benjaminfulford.net/2020/01/29/engineered-novel-corona-virus-okay-for-europeans/
China develops rapid Coronavirus test that works in under 15 MINUTES
https://www.rt.com/news/479705-china-develop-coronavirus-rapid-test
https://www.rt.com/news/479871-china-bird-flu-coronavirus/
Scientific study finds virus doesn’t come from bats
https://www.infowars.com/msm-tries-to-suppress-evidence-that-hiv-delivery-system-is-embedded-in-coronavirus/
“Chinese develops rapid Coronavirus test that works in under 15 MINUTES” is possible a lie or exaggerate thing. France company, Novacyt S.A., is the first company (that mean France is the first one of course) that develop rapid Coronavirus test but in 2 Hours not 15 minutes.
Novacyt S.A.: Launch of Novel Coronavirus Test
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200130005908/en/Novacyt-S.A.%C2%A0Launch-Coronavirus-Test
Hong Kong researchers also have fast test kits for Coronavirus.
https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/20/01/n15232375/two-new-rapid-coronavirus-tests-could-play-key-role-in-efforts-to-contain-growing-epidemic
The Mainland Chinese also have tested a Russian test which is easier to use because it stores at warmer temperatures.
https://sputniknews.com/society/202002101078278401-chinese-medics-have-tested-russian-systems-for-coronavirus-detection-confirm-their-effectiveness/
So, there are 5+ tests for the virus that are being used in various places. One from Wuxi, one from Russia, two from Hong Kong and one from France.
This is why the totals are climbing fast. They can test if only one or two symptoms are evident and see the virus swiftly or clear the patient as non-carrier.
@Larchmonter445
Thank you so much for your information!
Based on your information and mine, I think the rapid test speed is from 1 hour to 2 hours. The rapid speed “15 minutes” is really sound hogwash to me.
Best Regards,
Unorthodox Black Sheep VN.
All the gossip and nonsense that Xi Jinping is ‘gone’ … OK, maybe we can lay that one to rest now.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1179056.shtml
A possible sign the worst may be over in China – Beijing fires top health officials in Hubei, summons others to Beijing for an explanation
READ: they now have time and energy for blame game
I expect the 2nd wave spread to wider circle outside china and that could be a real problem as most other countries dont have the resource and ppl mantra china has and the dont have the billions of population as china to lose (tragic as it may be – as President Xi says China will be ‘more prosperous’ after outbreak – this can be read at many interpretation and many deeper levels).
I also expect a distinct possibility of a western-exclusive-narrative event to unfold. (if not already)
Be safe
The Extremes of Sea Level, Ranges of Ideas….and Other Related Things.
I’ve been to the Dead Sea once and Death Valley a few times…and there may be some places even lower.
That’s one extreme.
The other extreme, Everest. No, not in this life time. Except metaphorically. THAT I will absolutely attempt, any time, any place, in terms of heights. Not depths. I leave that to The Cultural Enemy of Mankind.
And they are at it Big Time in this 250th Anniversary of the birth of a cultural giant, Ludwig von Beethoven.
First you had the sexually aggressive J-Lo and Shakira’s performance of rapid fire successive crotch shots 8 days ago in Miami, Stupor Bowl Halftime Show.
Now the cultural virus infects……..Ukrainian Soccer:
https://youtu.be/sE3LzfSaru8
“The wife of Ukrainian international footballer Mykola Moroziuk could be threatened with jail for abuse of state symbols after she sang Ukraine’s national anthem while showing her underwear, according to a lawyer.
Irina Moroziuk shared the controversial post on February 1, sending her social media followers into a frenzy.
READ MORE: ‘I tuned in to watch football, not porn’: Christian activist wants to sue ‘for $867 trillion’ over J. Lo & Shakira Super Bowl show
The video, which has been circulating online, shows Moroziuk wearing a tight-fitting blue top and low-sitting baggy trousers which exposed her yellow underwear – revealing a color scheme which matched that of the Ukrainian flag.
The blonde can be seen looking into the mirror and proudly singing Ukraine’s national anthem.
Emulate the Americans..???…What Could Go Wrong??? lol
Politics is downstream of culture and the culture of sports in the USA and Ukraine today is…….below Sea Level….or should I say “below the belt” and way, way, WAY below the mind of Beethoven…or any person that recognizes actual creative genius and is positively influenced by it, as opposed to enactions of orgiastic mindlessness, encouraged by the Globalist Elites of the Congress of Cultural “Freedom.
This fundamental Battle for The Mind…and Soul underlies what I intend to discuss in this Cafe…… but first…before Chauffer for Schoolboy duties, Harley’s daily short update, just 5 days after Impeachment Acquittal,as these are time-specific, task oriented ……. and not entirely timeless……fundamental matters:
Harley’s update omitted above:
https://youtu.be/Qe9kTSvJ_vU
If the Coup Plotters ( who are filled with murderous rage at even the hint of peaceful great power cooperation …) Are Held Accountable……might that be a good thing??
Or is your thesis Global Conflict Is An Eternally Given, Immutable Universal Axiom???
Ergo:Learn to Love Our Chains….Like Diamonds, They Are Forever!
I maintain that the necessary possibility of creative resolution ……exists……to be discovered…and implemented!
Coronavirus is worse continually one by one. China must use apartment for quarantine Coronavirus patients. China lock people, who is suspected get Coronavirus, in their own house. Suspect unusual high number of burning cremation burning in Wuhan. It seems that China has hide the actual number of death people, they just let people around the world concentrate on the Huoshenshan hospital only so China can ‘delete’ the information how really worse situation is without notice of anyone else.
Get more information from the source below:
Black Swan Updates and Observations
https://www.winterwatch.net/2020/02/black-swan-updates-and-observations/
My only hope.
EL SHADDAI BY AMY GRANT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuXB1a3NBCw
Regarding the numbers of people infected, its spread, its fatality, and governments covering up the true figures, we have a perfect lab experiment now in the cruise ship with the quarantined passengers – we will be able to extrapolate the numbers in China from what occurs on the cruise ship.
I find this man credible. He has expertise, has his own lab and business, speaks Chinese and the deep state blocks him.
His stance is I hope I am wrong but this bioweapon release requires you to be prepared.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-02-09-shanghai-locked-down-in-response-to-shocking-spread-of-coronavirus-pandemic.html
Terry; Mike Adams, who runs natural news, says some good things(that are obvious), mostly about health, but is basically a rightwing commie-behind-every-bush uh, libertarian. He has a cult scene in Ecuador and also lives right over here in Dripping Springs.(TX)
@Teranam13
I used to subscribe to naturalnews.com. When Trump started the trade war with China, Mike Adams praised Trump to high heavens, saying that tariffs is the way to go and that nothing good can come from China. Up to the present, he insists that the US is doing very well economically, thanks to the tariffs imposed by Trump on Chinese goods. So you see Mike Adams is out-and-out anti-China and he sees Trump as the savior of the US and also he hates Iran very much. Have you read his articles on Iran? Can you trust a man like that?
I’m the same on Mike Adams guys. I used to get his natural news email newsletter and found a lot of his health claims interesting, as a past medical and biology professional was dubious about a few too, but when he came out with the standard anti-Russia anti-China claptrap I unsubscribed and haven’t followed him since.
To me it’s part of a pattern. If I can’t trust your intelligence, open mindedness and integrity on one issue, why should I on anything else?
I have had a comment from Peter Wadhams, Arctic ice expert, Cambridge
“The death rate statistics are very suspicious. As a statistician I would say that it is impossible for these numbers to arise naturally. Somebody within the system (Wuhan?) decided to have a predetermined death rate (2.1%) and to adjust either the declared number of cases or the declared number of deaths so as to fit. Either way it conceals information about how the epidemic is really developing.”
J.M. Pourny
Sorry no idea what this is about.
No one rational has the death rate as low as 2%. With THIS disease you need to look at the death compared with cases about 7-10 days ago because it takes a while for symptoms to warrant hospital then Intensive care..
it is the WHO who insist on that death rate, but it is just to keep up the pretense that it is no more serious than flu.
Well, the news are not very encouraging, are they? so I picked up a poem-song which has something different this time. Hope you enjoy it :
Claire
by ioan
Between cups and older dishes
Met a girl with golden hair
Oh, her lips were so delicious
Then she told me, she is Claire
Next day walking in the city
Saw a brave embracing pair
Oh, the young girl was so pretty
Then, I recognized her hair
Oh, Claire, you made me fool again
Waiting for you in rain,
Singing the same refrain.
Oh, Claire, you found another pet
To warm you in your bed
Until you’re bored to death.
Girls like you with golden hair
With sweetly smile and gluey lips
Are with other men to share
Picking the fruit, giving the gifts
Bloody Hell, where is the rescue,
Ticking bomb, who has a clue?
Ancient knowledge, long forgotten
Smartphones have replaced the truth
Oh, Claire, you made me fool again
Waiting for you in rain,
Singing the same refrain.
Oh, Claire, you found another pet
To warm you in your bed
Until you’re bored to death.
Brought this song by Suzanne Vega to mind; my favourite of hers. Ironically, it’s not written by her, but by Jack Hardy. Gorgeous clip as well; this is for you, my brother!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvekoHGK8i0
Call on that Saint
and the candle that burns,
Keeping her safe,
Until her return.
Plaster and paint,
Holding the fire.
A poor woman’s Saint
Holding all man’s desire.
Bold little bird,
Fly away home.
Could I but ride herd,
On the wind and the foam.
All of the souls
that curl by the fire,
They never know
all man’s desire.
Watercress clings
to the banks of the stream,
In the first grip of spring
when the snow melts to green.
Barefoot and cold,
and holding a lyre.
By the side of the road,
holding all man’s desire.
Call on the Saint
when the white candle burns,
Keeping her safe,
until her return…
What’s with the Duran these days?
The video doesn’t match the text which is US propaganda from US thinktank neocon Luke Coffey, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy in a tabloid rag .
Why are they giving space to this without even explaining the source?
“The back-to-back visits by delegations from NATO’s two most powerful militaries underscore how Ukraine is playing an increasingly outsized role in counterbalancing Russia’s destabilizing influence across Eastern Europe”
“So, too, has Russia’s systematic persecution of a Turkic ethnic group living in Crimea—the Tatars”
– I thought a majority of Tatars voted for rejoining Russia in the Crimean referendum??
“Ukraine’s troops are battle-hardened after more than six years of constant combat against Russian forces”
-more like depleted and demoralised.
“…Ukraine—a country currently at war against Russian forces in its southeastern Donbas region.”
-Russia invaded Ukraine with a 1000 tanks again nonsense?
“…referring to a Ukrainian peninsular territory that Russia invaded and illegally annexed in 2014”
When an overwhelming democratic vote in a Crimean referendum is considered “illegal” it defines how the Hegemon & vassals have corrupted the word “democracy”
Why is the Duran promoting this neocon garbage?
https://theduran.com/russian-diplomacy-cracks-as-erdogan-challenges-russia-in-syria-ukraine-video/
Wow. Thank God someone else has noticed. I was starting to think I was going mad.
I first noticed this over the murder of General Soleimani. Essentially Alexander Mercouris had Iran as having only itself to blame for “making Soleimani out to be greater and more important than he was”. Essentially, according to AM, Soleimani was a run of the mill General, not of any significance to Iran and easily replaced, but the Iranian Leaders went and “chalked him up” which made him look like attractive target. Trump could not be blamed because he was “on holiday at Mar-y-Lago” and out of his office and so not able to access detail. !!!
This excusing ordering the death of someone without bothering to check any facts because one was between holes on the golf course had me struggling for breath.
Then we had glowing reports of Trumps SOTN speech, with a tirade over Pelosi’s dummy spitting, but no emphasis, no discussion, of Trumps interaction with Guido and his diatribe over Venezuela.
Now we have the thing linked to by Conjecture, which had me furious. Full of typical Colonial arrogance, that Putin, Lavrov, et al didn’t see the latest Erdogan insanity – which AM says “we all could see coming” ergo Putin and Lavrov are as dim as a candle because they supposedly didn’t – and it’s because “Russians dont understand complexity, dont understand the need for people to keep face, uphold religious beliefs” etc etc. ‘
In other words, Putin misunderstood everything because as he is Russian he’s basically dim, stupid, doesn’t know a fart from a cough, and needs two small time, unheard of Greek opinion writers to inform and advise him.
Like you I thought “what the blazes is going on with these guys?”
The extraction of “truth” from any source is strictly limited by ones own perceptional values and understanding imo. .
I, for one, do have the utmost respect for any analysis on any subject by A.M.
However, he, with his enormous intellectual capacity and extreme knowledge in so many fields, also, as ALL of us has boundaries/limitations, which we should respect and try to understand.
Yes. I do listen/see, all their videos/podcasts with grat pleasure, and as you wonder sometimes “What the heck was that??”
Never mind. + in my book.
Kent
Well that whole bag of crap might as well be pompeo talking.Your AM has lost it.
I do agree with your first sentence there Kent “he extraction of “truth” from any source is strictly limited by ones own perceptional values and understanding” although I would not say “extraction of truth” so much as the angle and perspective one sees things reflects ones own inner lens of values, core beliefs and integrity.
And if a person can see the things AM is referring to and see them as he is, then that has me doubting his own inner value system very much. I have to ask myself – “what exactly does this guy stand for and by”?
Actually, there is a much more damning video, after the “cracked Russian diplomacy” one, and that is very surprising and worrying.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o06nieT4FWk&t=713s
I made this comment:
Hang on. “Reports are now coming that are ALARMING – which is that {American} F22’s are unable to achieve a convincing superiority over Russia SU 35 fighters in Syria, {and from the Iranian recent engagement into Iraq} the Russians were able to track the American F-35 {which it shouldn’t} because the US planes are supposed to be stealthy and better than Russian tracking devices, so, you know, we are getting these very DISTURBING reports about the effectiveness of these aircraft, so when you {realise the f-22 has so many issues] it is very DISTURBING especially when we learn it can only fly once a week. ”
Please forgive small errors of transliteration, but — excuse me, who exactly is it that finds that the super aggressive USA, which is trying to blow the ME apart, and launch war on Russia and China, has poorly performing aircraft with which to do this, and finds this ALARMING and DISTURBING??
Personally, since I have no desire to see the Empire Hegemon extend it’s fascist control over anywhere, but get its nose kicked and go home, I’m extremely pleased to learn that Russian equipment outperforms it in every way. Thank God, is all I can say. Clearly, however, I am looking at this from a very different perspective to that of the Duran
Remember that old saying “when a person by their actions tells you who they are, it’s a good idea to believe them”.
And AM isn’t that brilliant I think. He has some good contacts yes, and puts a good connection on some dots occasionally, but I can’t say I ever felt I learned anything from him: and I do know he “lifts” comments others have made without attribute. And as for once quoting from the UK’s gutter rag the Daily Mail as a source – words fail me.
Agree with highplains – it sounds like he lifted from Pompeo and the Atlantic Council. And that sounds worryingly sus.
What can I say?
Let’s try this one (Again). (Different version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unLKgu1-v_8
And, Both Alex and Alexander put their FACES online, often live, show their emotion and biases for all to see.
Who else does that? And has to face the consequences, daily, mind you.
First and foremost Alexander is an analyst with some distance to events (short distance sometimes, but what the heck, are WE perfect?).
He is IMO indeed the “Oracle of London” in many respects, and in short term prediction/analysis on an astonishing variety of subjects, he is indeed among the very best. (One, or even five videos is not sufficient to make any radical statements IMO).
As for action. Didn’t he participate physically in front of the Belmont prison, and did his wife record the event on camera or not?
As for understanding, or conveying “deeper” or somewhat more complex spiritual context, Please go elsewhere of your preferred choice.
Thank you Pamela for your response.
Kent
Great fan of Alexander Mercouris here!
His almost daily videos with Alex Christoforou are outstanding. That said, AM is not a ‘truther’ journalist or even a Russia fan boy. Rather, he a classic journalist, who can’t work for System Media, as he is too honest, and values his integrity above pushing Politburo’s lousy narratives.
AM’s real strength is his encyclopedic knowledge, and his gift of explaining multi-leveled events – like Brexit, or the Trump Impeachment hoax – in such a way that the non-insider can follow easily, while keeping the complexity of the topic at hand fully intact.
And yes, the ‘Russian diplomacy cracks…’ video one of his poorer efforts.
While I enjoy reading AM’s work, he does have a very colourful past:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/21/past-comes-back-to-haunt-struck-off-barrister-turned-russia-comm/
Wow. Thank you for that, it is in fact very illuminating. I had curiosities about A.M. for a while – one I wont detail as it was part of a private, “off-line” interaction, which was unsatisfactory. I’ve had a number of queries, but this pretty much explains them.
Althogh Alexander is the Chief Editor of the Duran this piece is by his cohort Alex Christoforou. There’s no ‘limitation of perceptional values’ in reading the text. It is as black and white as you can get and totally in your face with no ambiguity. The tabloid it comes from and the author and his affiliations are lacking any ambiguity and there’s no chance of parody or satire.
Read the text again and explain to all of us how our ‘perceptional values’ are deceiving us.
Read it!
https://theduran.com/russian-diplomacy-cracks-as-erdogan-challenges-russia-in-syria-ukraine-video
From the CDC:
From Oct 1st 2019 – Feb 1st 2020 [i.e. 4 mnths } there have been, of influenza known cases,
22,000,000 – 31,000,000
Influenza caused deaths of the total figure above
12,000 – 30,000 flu deaths
Thus this Influenza is carrying a death rate of 7.5 – 8%
Most people are so unconcerned by this, they can’t be bothered to get a “flu shot”. {According to the CDC, less than 40% of people receive the vaccine].
YET, The current epidemic of CoV-2019 apparently has a death rate of 2.1%, mainly among the health compromised, mainly located to one small region of the world, yet there is world wide panic and hysteria!!!!
What’s wrong with this picture!!
As a famous man once said “it’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the cover up”.
As the famous writer, film maker and medical doctor, Michael Crichton said, after researching the Chernobyl meltdown and subsequent demographic of health and death rates “many more people were killed after the accident by fear than were by any radiation, which in fact killed so few it didn’t qualify as a major disaster”.
All measurements of fear, high level stress, anxiety states show dramatic rises in various biochemicals and hormones like Cortisol which are detrimental not only to physical health, but to mental health. Such states are co-related with brainwave changes, and dendritic synapses especially in the frontal cortex which influences social interaction and rational decision making.
Again, no fear or hysteria for thousands dead in 4 months, hysteria and very negative impacts for one nation, for less than one thousand dead located in one place.
Again I ask, “what’s wrong with this picture?”
Pamela wrote:
“From the CDC: From Oct 1st 2019 – Feb 1st 2020 [i.e. 4 mnths } there have been, of influenza known cases,
22,000,000 – 31,000,000
“Influenza caused deaths of the total figure above
12,000 – 30,000 flu deaths
Thus this Influenza is carrying a death rate of 7.5 – 8%”
Smallest # deaths/largest # infected = 12,000/31,000,000 = 0.039%.
Largest # deaths/smallest # infected = 33,000/22,000,000 = 0.150%.
In a population of 10,000 infected people, somewhere between 4 and 15 deaths will result.
Had 7.5-8% death rate been correct, 750-800 deaths would result in 10,000 infected people.
In either case, keep washing your hands.
My error in leaving out an important word as I corrected a typo – the CDC figure of 7.5 – 8% is for a year. The one I have in the comment is in fact for just 4 months – and as I am sure you know, over a year, a graphed line will show ups and downs.
I dont doubt CDC on this, they have data going over years. if they say it’s 7.5 – 8% then I believe them.
Keep washing your hands, indeed, but these viruses are transmitted by droplet, which is mainly sneezing, coughing, from drinking vessels, i.e. glasses, cups, cutlery and expectorating – spitting.
Speaking of, this just happens to be today’s lamestream pushback propaganda post about ‘rat shots’, which of course is another fraudulent way they push these, as if humans & rats are so similar in genome, & thus reaction to the shots.:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-s-fears-about-vaccines-aren-t-just-about-vaccines?utm_source=pocket-newtab
People’s Fears About Vaccines Aren’t Just About Vaccines
The more we understand this, the better we can allay these fears.
“Have you had your rat shot today, comrades”?
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
That page has those flu statistical numbers. But I don’t see the following claim there:
“Thus this Influenza is carrying a death rate of 7.5 – 8%”
There is another page which gives weekly stats, and I found it on there.
Well, I don’t buy it. That’s like one in 12 people who catch the flu die. I’ve had the flu well over a dozen times in my lifetime. Nobody I know has died of it, either. And I’ve known more than 3 people. ;-)
Something is wrong here. The calculations done by Butte Bill seem much more in line with reality, as I’ve experienced it. Can you provide a link to the cdc claim that 8% of those who catch the flu die, Pamela?
vot tak, you have NOT had the flu over a dozen times. No-one ever does that.
You have done what most people do which is confuse a bad head cold with Influenza. I’ve heard so many people saying “I was off last week with the flu”. You dont get over Influenza in a week to 10 days which all it takes to recover fully from Common Cold.
Well, Influenza is contagious via it’s coat proteins, largely the H and N. These have variations, but not that many. Once your body has “seen” an infectious agent, it develops antibodies to it, and you are usually resistant to it again.
No-one I know has ever had real Influenza more than once, and if you get it, you never forget it. [Both of my parents got it together, once, when I was 5 yrs old and never again].
I got it after an epidemic – and it always goes in epidemics – that hit Melbourne when i was a very fit, active, healthy 25 yr old. I was off work for 6 weeks, and bed ridden for 3. I was in so much pain, I couldnt even turn over in bed without taking a Schedule 8 drug containing high levels of codeine 20 mins before trying. When my mother in law came to see me, and my husband had left the door locked, I was unable to move to let her in. I had to be left with a jug of water and glass by my bed all day – I couldnt even get to the kitchen for anything.
It finally took over 2 months to recover from. And lying in bed, in agony, weak, and unable to properly even breath because of the pain, I finally understood why it kills.
Believe me, the CDC figures are correct. What happens mostly is again the more compromised, the elderly, the unfit, the poor in health who too often contract a secondary disease like pneumonia, and thats what finally kills. But the Influenza is the activator. Why on earth do you think the “Spanish Flu” of the 1918’s killed millions – I give you this:
The global mortality rate from the 1918–1919 pandemic is not known, but an estimated 10% to 20% of those who were infected died (case-fatality ratio). About a third of the world population was infected, and 3% to 6% of the entire global population of over 1800 million died.[2] Influenza may have killed as many as 25 million people in its first 25 weeks. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people,[3] while current estimates put the death toll at probably 50 million (less than 3% of the global population), and possibly as high as 100 million (more than 5%).
No Common cold does that.
I’d like to add, that on the thread specific to this epidemic, I wrote a comment which drew some ire, that social factors needed to be considered, predominantly the high rate of smokers in China, especially Males, along with public expectoration. I was labelled a racist for the latter. Ironically about 2 days later, the UK press carried a piece with a security camera photo from a Chinese apartment block, of a woman coughing then expectorating over her neighbours door handle!! The photo taken by the door security camera was unmistakable, and unlikely to be faked. I thought of posting the link here, but shrugged and couldnt be bothered. However, : —
Today, ZeroHedge is carrying this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-02-13/why-most-coronavirus-deaths-have-been-chinese-men
Perhaps after my original comments [ and they were original, my own thoughts, not something I read], I should have added “remember, you saw it here first” :-) :-) ]
Pamela, of course social factors need to be taken into consideration. But there is another factor that clearly is so visible that we have to mention it. This is that the western medias have kinda gone nuts, and the alternative media is literally spewing out so much nonsense that I do not even look at any of that. I would rather at this stage let the Chinese .gov lie to me, than to take information from zerohedge or the many uninformed blockheads on various youtubes who all of a sudden all changed into specialists on COVID-19 and on China. There is a mess of uninformed just sheer rumor-mongering out there supported by grainy videos with no ability to even know where the videos come from.
The very interesting thing that I observe is that the alternative western media are singing the song of their governments and that is without fail something like Brutal China Bad! These blockheads are not even thankful for the total lockdown in China, which is probably the one thing that is saving the butts of the rest of us, or a massively bigger worldwide infection. Besides Wuhan and Hubei, the rate of infection is dropping, and China is slowly going back to work. The farmers are clearly back to work. Outside of Hubei, new cases have dropped for 9th consecutive day now.
The other interesting piece of news that I get from someone into TCM, a reliable person with a reliable connection to a TCM practitioner in the affected area. The TCM practitioners are allowed to continue doing their own thing. To the news, apparently (and this is a small group of 9 older Chinese patients), those that are regularly taking Chaga Tea show a clear resistance, and a much stronger immune response. This is too small to draw conclusions, but it is this one practitioner’s complete patient profile for older Chinese. Interesting eh?
Thank you for your comment amarynth.
Yes, I do understand about the idiocy of the Western media – like you I ignore it completely except to get a gauge of the the depth of insanity and speed of acceleration over the event horizon into complete madness and destruction :-)
The first set of figures I took from a ZeroHedge piece, re the sequencing of the genome and the discovery of the 4 HIV segments were merely a reprint from a scientific paper. I would never take anything else.
As for the last ZH link I gave, I didn’t give it air to prove anything medical or scientific, [apart from anything else the writer made a huge gaff early in the piece showing his complete ignorance, and confidently stated an unproven claim] – merely to show how the meme is catching on. Where he got it from I dont know. I wouldn’t be so confident it was from myself, although I am the only person so far I’ve seen proposing the smoking link.
The drop off in cases I also predicted, based purely on my knowledge of the science of virus replication and the patterns of epidemics. I knew this would happen – and said as much. The rest has been part of Sakers “they lie to us, we know, why do we believe it” piece. I feel as if I’m screaming into the force 10 gale sometimes!!
I dont know what TCM stands for, sorry, so cannot comment.
TCM = Traditional Chinese Medicine – its been around for thousands of years. It is based on energy flowing in the body, the Qi. All illness according to the modality results from energy imbalance, either excess or a deficiency.
So, the vital life force flows through physical meridians of the body (pathways) and then we come into the yin and yang balance things. TCM is said to treat spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health. TCM practitioners (I don’t know currently) used to have to do something like 10 years apprenticeship.
If one has a little experience it is quite the experience :-)
Ah, of course. If I’d realised it was Traditional Chinese I’d have understood. I’ve had a fair bit to do with it from time to time; the Qui balance is an important part of chakra meditation which I do, and also the Yin and Yang in so many issue of life. In fact, for me, almost everything does come down to that – the need to see the 3, which Egyptian numbers philosophy made the basis of all life, and the balance between the two across the join line which is the 3.
I’ve long believed that one can pretty much trace everything wrong with the Empire + vassal collapse, going back a long long way, to that lack of understanding the need to find balance in all things.
Plus, of course, the terrible mistake made by first Darwin then Michelson and Morley, believing they proved that all things are separate, unconnected, and unaffected by other things and life is nothing but a random chance event inflicted on separated entities. Disaster that was.
Incidentally, I said in the previous post that I had not bothered to post a link about the lady spitting on someone’s doorknob.
However, another has cropped up. Seemingly anyway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7999601/Chinese-woman-repeatedly-spits-lift-buttons-vent-frustration-coronavirus-outbreak.html
Simply noting a behavioural pattern adopted by a certain culture isn’t being racist. [I know it’s not you who said so]. It’s being objective and honest and acknowledging reality which, as Saker says, is getting quite a pounding lately, with also disastrous results.
For all to note .. there is a change in the numbers because of a different classification.
Report from Hubei: 14,840 new cases and 242 new deaths. [original document]
Surge in number of cases and deaths is due for the most part to the adoption of a new diagnosis classification.
In conformity with other provinces, starting with Feb. 12 counts, Hubei Province will include the number of clinically diagnosed cases into the number of confirmed cases.
Of the 14,840 cases added, 13,332 are due to the new classification while 1,508 are new cases.
There were 242 new deaths (including 135 clinically diagnosed cases).
I’ve not looked at this in depth, but it seems as if the reports in this view
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
now closely approximates the numbers in this view
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1177737.shtml
Play with the devil?
Anybody can, and does in many ways.
Thing is. YOU, play by “It’s” rules. There is no other way.
Your main “chip” is your soul, which is very powerful indeed, and should be a safe hand, because “It” has no directly match to that.
However, most brave souls throughout history have lost, and paid a very heavy price.
In vain?? No, I don’t think so.
In poetry, literature, music, movies, all clues/struggles are embedded , primarily to ease and help the next legion of warrior souls (even, the Icarus ones) to accomplish the task.
What is this task then?
Easy? Simple? Yes (and no).
We as souls are fragments (or whole) of “God”.
The individual path in how to get there is actually the “only” challenge..
Have any of you seen this movie? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119099/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_29
If not, please do so.
Yes, it is, in a way very cartoonist, and yet it is absolutely not.
As a side note, mentioned here some years back,. The uneducated/non intellectual entity would have been better suited to assimilate the knowledge from “The Black Mist”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle.
Kent
Kent
Very interesting, Mr.Hoyle’s theories indeed. I won’t be surprised if one day those ideas will have another traction, presumably they will be taken into account.
Thanks Kent for the link !
https://www.sott.net/article/428947-Britains-Supreme-Court-scandal-New-damning-emails-show-UK-corruption-in-Assange-case
No surprises here-us and uk are going to the wall with their fraud and corruption to put assange away permenantly.
Below is a very long article by a blogger who gets into the weeds with detail on how critical it was and is to shut down and silencel assange for the ci of a and mi 6; warning, it is very detailed and I did not see it in this article but he is rabidly pro-trump: ; (BTW, he is finally starting to see AG Barr for the deep state fixer and fraud that he is).
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/08/too-big-to-jail/
CRAZY PILLS: Adam Schiff Claims President Trump Will Sell Alaska To Russia If He’s Not Impeached
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b2I4GcEUDw
“Watch it now, watch it now! It’s comin’ very soon!”
So don’t be caught napping, like I almost was………….lol
I hope this is only a preview of an explosive subject, and that it is examined far more thoroughly soon by an infinitely more qualified, younger and more energetic analyst and featured in one or two Vineyard of the Saker articles (not a mere Café Comment ) by someone that could really do it Very Impartial Justice.
George Eliason, for example:
Common Sense Ep. 5 | The Complete Witness: Proof of Bribery & Collusion
33,162 views •
Feb 09, 2020
Rudy W. Giuliani
43500 subscribers
SUBSCRIBE
“In today’s episode Rudy Giuliani sits down with Andrii Telizhenko, one of possibly as many as 12 witnesses who can testify that the State Department, DOJ, and FBI were not interested in evidence of Democrat bribery, extortion, money laundering, and illegal interference in the 2016 election.”
https://youtu.be/crZpE3FGoVM
Telizhenko can blow the entire Obama – Nuland – Clinton -Biden effort to instigate and then defend and extend the illegal warfare on Russia effort, via Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election …on behalf of Porky Pig and the Forty Thieves…… sky high.
Educated in both the US and Ukraine, he worked in the Ukrainian embassy in DC and knows where most of the “bodies (damning secrets) are buried.” on Burisma and the Maidan and Burisma Dems….
I was tired, and fading…near bed time…..but when Andrii got to the meeting with Alexandra Chalupa at Leopold’s, a famous restaurant in DC in March 2016…….I WOKE UP……and you might too:
https://youtu.be/crZpE3FGoVM?t=1169
Despite Rudy’s cozy law library ads for Wine Spectator and Cigar Aficionado in the middle of this Podcast # 5 of his Common Sense Podcast……….I subscribed….but by cutting to the 1,169 second mark….I put you right into Andrii’s taped testimony of receiving his invitation for breaking the law from Alexandra Chalupa..of the DNC….then taking his nervous concerns to the # 2 in command of the Embassy, Oksana Shuylar…..and being told: by Oksana: “DO IT.”
Do what?
That’s worth a few minutes of your time to find out, IMHO.
That’s just one of TWELVE such Ukrainian witnesses Rudy has, his site says.
PANIC in DC
Quite relevant and to the heart of the matter regarding the broad daylight coup attempt on DJT. When, and it will, the dust settles from this episode I hope that Rudy et al take on the obvious inside job of 911.
The curtain is being pulled back, and the wizard(s) exposed. With the “boltholes” closed there will be nowhere to run. As a kid on a farm in the 50’s, we’d sneak into the hog barn at night and flip on the lights and shoot the rats running for their holes. Great fun. Make your own analogies.
Buckle up.
Buckle up.
Buckle up
Buckle up
Therea are, unfortunately, billions of Nazis about.
(a fair portion in North Amerikansa).
Silence is Gold
You used to carry a beggar’s bowl,
Living off crumbs, down in a hole.
Looking for something that can never be told;
Words are silver, but silence is gold.
You used to carry a calligrapher’s brush;
Elegance adorned the palace so lush!
The king would come by with his questions so bold;
Words are silver, but silence is gold.
You used to carry a sword of steel,
With matching armour from head to heel.
Dispatching traitors when secrets were sold;
Words are silver, but silence is gold.
You used to carry a wound so deep,
By day and by night you’d tremble and weep!
Some burdens are to share, yet others, to withhold;
Words are silver, but silence is gold.
You used to carry a beggar’s bowl,
While speaking in tongues and wearing blindfolds.
Till the day you finally came in from the cold…
Words may be silver, but silence is gold!
Yet another poem, one of your best, Dimitar ! Thank you for sharing it with us !
Thank you, Ioan! And what a beautiful circle it is, inspired by your own “Silence Poem”.
Since the English language is our common language in this day and age, I have a question re: the rules of grammar. I have two friends who are both editors, and one has raised a point, where my poem “Silence is Gold”
is concerned. Stanza 1 reads, “You used to carry a beggar’s bowl, Living off crumbs, down in a hole. Looking for something that can never be told, Words are silver, and silence is gold..” His point; that the first line is past tense, and the second and third lines begin with the verbs, “Living” and “Looking”, both being present tense words. He sees an anomoly here, being the mixing up of tenses, past and present. I argue that the first line places the event in the past, and so the reader understands that the verbs, although present tense, refer to a past event. The second editor sees no problem.
Do any of you have an opinion? My insistence on the current form is that using the past tense of the verbs ‘living’, and ‘looking’ contain greater musicality in the context, ie; preserve an inner rhythm, better than say, “Lived off crumbs, down in a hole,” etc. Ive tried other edits, but all end up sacrificing the original rhythm. Any opinions anyone?
The movement of time within the poem is clear enough –in poetry there are many implied extraneous words ( you were) Living . It could just as well be ( you are) living but the poetic mind set that one has upon picking up poetry makes the difference in this case. Editing poetry is different from editing technical or descriptive writing. Editing in this last sentence if I remember my secondary school grammar is a gerund or a verb form used as a noun as the subject of a sentence i.e.( The) editing of poetry…
I like the poem….it makes full circle but then the circle opens spiral like.
Thanks so much for your response to my question, tera. It confirms my inner sense that what I have written is acceptable grammatically in the context of the poem, and it’s meaning, which is of course, the most important consideration. The edits I tried blunted the thrust of the poem, and as you say, same as the second editor, btw.; that the rules of poetry are a little less strict, and if not entirely ‘laws according to their own logic”, do exist in a realm of their own shall we say. Thanks also for your assessment of the poem itself. Silence, or the lack of it gets us into so much trouble, until we learn and accept that the one blabbing on is ego, whose motives are always fleeting. Silence is closely tied to discrimination. My rule of thumb is ‘look at what is compelling me to say something”; is it emotion, insecurity, or is it soul? Warm Regards, D.
Thanks for the repost!!!
A re-write of a poem written late last year after an exchange with our friend, kpax; Hello, friend; please come by and say hello if at all possible; we’re missing you at the Saloon!
The Land of Betwixt and Between; The Temple Within, the place one goes to when one wants to connect with one’s deeper self.
The Sweet-Throated Thrush; The Soul Body, here personified as a beautiful torch singer with a voice to die for.
Elixir; In order to address the Originator of Life, one needs a way to focus the enrgies of the Soul. Traditionally, this is done through a mantra, such as HU, AUM, God, Love, Jesus, Allah etc. Or it may be a favourite prayer, psalm, etc.
Priest, Judge, Warrior, Thief; These are archetypal images we carry within which exert influence on the personality, whether dominant, dormant, latent, etc.
The Land of Betwixt and Between
It was just another ordinary day;
A round between friends before parting ways.
Here at the saloon, it’s a quarter to nine –
A voice is warming up, and it sounds sublime!
We have an elixir that comes from the Gods;
Smuggled out of Heaven against all odds.
It’s truly a drop fit for a king –
And our sweet-throated thrush is about to sing!
Now you may be preparing to go to ground,
Or perhaps you’re simply homeward bound.
But your stopover here would surely be remiss –
Were it not for a drink, and our sweet-voiced miss!
They come for a taste from far and wide,
To hear that song or escape some broadside.
But whether you’re man, or whether you’re mouse –
It does not matter, this one’s on the house!
The story is told of the priest and the judge;
One came with a collar, the other with a grudge.
They found what it means to live and let live –
One learnt how to love, the other to forgive!
Then there’s the warrior with his hidden blade,
The thief and the mistake he inevitably made.
The fire was doused, cool heads prevailed –
Free rounds were offered and disaster derailed!
So, in that world where cold cash is preferred;
Develop your voice and sing like a bird!
Find your elixir for dreams die young,
And try to ignore every slip of the tongue!
Here comes that angel with her musical art;
She’s surely the bearer of Cupid’s dart!
She’ll take you to the land of betwixt and between…
So drink up, me hearties, it’s time to come clean!
All the Ladies…
All the ladies have gathered
at the sidewalk cafe,
Embroidered accounts
are the order of the day.
How the world it passes by
with coffee or with tea,
Toast and marmalade
camembert and brie.
There’s betty with her diet,
just a few kilos more.
That party was a riot;
the last one for sure!
Angel with her husband,
the saga that just won’t end.
Last week there was hope,
now not even friends.
Flo with her rash,
hidden from the light of day
Life’s some kinda hell;
it just wont go away!
Peta in her stripes,
again she’s on the run.
Seems she never will escape
from her layabout son.
The table there beside them,
everyone gets their turn,
To ease their heavy load,
and share all their concerns.
Will it help, will it not,
maybe not so much.
As they talk and listen
maybe just a touch…
All the ladies that have gathered,
at the sidewalk cafe,
Embroider their accounts;
the order of the day!
How the world it passes,
with coffee, toast and tea.
Jam and marmalade
and friends who’ll listen for free…
This sketch is based on the header photo, of course…
Wow, Dimiter and here I was ( before I read the header poem ) thinking,,,”he sure can’t do women’s heart as is….”
Well, wrong again!!!! I had a teacher who suggested that the repetition of “what do I know?” might be a the most valid path for some. Since the ego does not like a direct brush off, I suppose this form of gentle
rebuke might work?
Dimitar: you’re on fire!
Lol… seriously though, this sketch came to me last night when I studied the header and noticed that only women were present. Imagination is a wonderful thing, is what I’ll say. But yes, I have ( had ) a mum, I am married and have had previous relationships, have daughters, etc. As always, the poem could be ‘brushed up’, and made into something much better. But seriously, re: woman, acc. to Rumi, we’re 99.9% grey, not black and white, so I guess we’re all male and female to some degree. This is in line with Jung and others, the male/female image within, anima, animus etc. Finally, we incarnate as both male and female, generally alternating between the two, though that isn’t a rule per se. Comes a time we have more say…
By the way, hoping this observation may contribute to your impression: this sidewalk cafe has no equivalent in the shop front behind it – thus it seems that the ladies’ gathering there made this sidewalk a, their cafe, without their gathering there wouldn’t be one…
The Moveable Feast
A sidewalk/gathering,
a moveable feast;
An impromptu epicentre
of energy released!
The high-pitched laughter,
the hollers and whoops;
The whirlwind begins
to gather and swoop!
Anything you can imagine,
you’re bound to see there;
From old Vladivostok
to County Clare!
Gesticulating, remonstrating;
the old rules and new!
Who’s that old fat cat…
the lion I once knew??
The grimace and pout,
the furrowed old frown,
The cackling and clapping
and hair, once brown.
The slapping of knees
and stomping of feet;
All echo up and down,
the length of the street!
‘All roads lead to Rome’,
hubbie he says,
From down on his bed,
disguised in his fez.
He’s an old slowhand,
going way back;
Resting on his laurels;
he’s lost the knack!
As the hurricane ends
it’s the same old dream.
Well, I’d rather I didn’t,
but, cookies and cream.
Husbands may rest,
and children may roam;
But wherever women meet,
is a place called ‘home’!
Anything you can imagine
you’re bound to hear there;
From old Vladivostok
to County Clare!
Gesticulations, remonstrations;
old rules and new…
Who could ever tame
the lioness in you?
I’m certain there’s one strong poem to come out of the two…
The Moveable Feast
All the ladies have gathered
at the sidewalk cafe;
Embroidered accounts,
the order of the day.
How the world is transfigured
with coffee and tea,
Toast and marmalade,
camembert and brie!
The sidewalk gathering
is a moveable feast;
An epicentre swelling
with energy released!
Gesticulating, remonstrating,
the old and the new;
Who could possibly tame
a lioness like you?
The grimace, the pout,
the furrowed old frown.
The cackling and clapping
and hair, once brown.
The slapping of knees
and stomping of feet,
All echo up and down
the length of the street!
Anything you can imagine
you’ll surely hear there;
From old Vladivostok
to County Clare!
Hubby he says,
“All roads lead to Rome!”
But wherever women meet,
that place is home!
All the ladies have gathered
at the sidewalk cafe.
Embroidered accounts,
are the order of the day!
Gesticulations, remonstrations;
the tired and the true…
Who could ever tame
a lioness like you?
PS… In stanza 3, beginning “The grimace, the pout..” etc. no offence is meant to the fairer sex. Obviously, I’ve taken poetic licence and gone further than the event portrayed in the header image. In fact, those images came from events held by my next door neighbour, a good Catholic woman, who when her husband and herself
hold their Christmas gathering, more than once have I witnessed/heard all of the above. There is an unwieldiness shall we say, when humans, male or female, same sex, or mixed, get together to let their hair down somewhat. The description illustrates that human gatherings do serve to facilitate a freer state, where the individual often transcends the decorum usually expected of human beings.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE WOMAN IN GREEN (Full Movie) – Basil Rathbone – Nigel Bruce – TCC AI Color
… produced in black and white in 1945 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvV20oFTFY&list=PLvEUIW7-Lfq2vlugfJXXf3O4sJbAjuLPe
(note the excessive smoking in some movies)
Episode #20 – The Saker and the Necessary Retreat of Empires
with Tom Luongo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDU0NyaZWbE
This week The Saker and I sit down for a chat about all thing Empire, what their motives are, why they act the way they do, and why they collapse. We compare and contrast the behavior of the U.S. and Russia in the post-Soviet era while looking carefully at why the U.S.’s lack of foreign policy is the biggest threat to humanity at the moment.
AWESOME!
… 27 minutes in … The Saker is offered to “take the ball” (thank goodness) on Israel, Syria (Idlib) and Turkey.
Meanwhile in the parallel world of American Exceptionalism…
The world’s biggest incarceration industry has been plagued for decades by all sorts of problems & issues!!!
Including slave labor, prisoner human rights abuses, sexual molestation and not just a few prisoners claimed
torture is present. There are hunger strikes and strikes against exploitative work conditions and again the rise of debtors prisoner.
( http://legacy.buzzflash.com/commentary/item/17939-debtors-prisons-once-a-19th-century-relic-again-
wreaking-havoc-in-us )
Moreover an almost perverse increase of prison fees putting (ex-)inmates deep in debt. Consequently rather difficult for those to pay off such newly created outstanding liabilities.
Often creating a kafkaesque RE-incarceration cycle of ‘active debt’… only resulting in slipping off even deeper in a spiral of seemingly never-ending indebtedness & ending up behind bars – again and again.
( https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/15/the-costs-of-incarceration-how-prison-fees-maintain-the-social-
and-economic-order-of-america/ )
Also…
While decreasing the overload in state prisons, the results in many county jails have been deadly. An investigation by McClatchy has found that many county jails have struggled to handle the influx of violent and mentally ill prisoners incarcerated for longer sentences than ever before. As a result, prisoners are dying in markedly higher numbers.
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2019/oct/3/california-tried-fix-its-prisons-now-county-jails-are-more-
deadly/
Please keep in mind that the estimated procentage of wrongfully convicted people is hottly debated
but could be as high as 20-30 % !!!
The ‘whole prison & jail thing ‘ is pretty much a galaxy afar from mass media and corporate news channels and
HRW has surprinsingly( or not, if you look into financing & political influence aka connections) very little to say or publish about it.
But I remember a couple of podium discussions where HRW speakers got under intense pressure & criticisms
for covering – ‘the bloody thing’- up while being confronted with certain surveys & other fact-related
publications (UNHCR, HRDC, AHRC and others).
They all did expose HRW’s double standards, mendacity and indeed hypocrisy without even mention its name..
Two of those “speakers” left abruptly not answering any questions… and ONE started to scream – it’s not exaggerated – these ‘things’ were none of our buisness because the U.S.A. is better than the rest. Resulting in laughter and boos – LOL!!
Yet, you can’t find hardly any article concerning the exposure of HRW… and you won’t find not even one video on YT of those live-events. Neither on LiveLeak nor BitChute or DailyMotion.
That’s the world we live in.
Excellent article by Finian Cunningham destroying the myth that the us was founded on the principle of “we the people: (This article prob could be stating the obvious to anyone watching the looting and corruption of the us in recent times).
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202002101078278453-we-the-people-vs-us-elites/
As Cunningham notes:
America is not a democracy – at least not yet anyway – despite nearly 244 years of history as a modern state. It is a plutocracy run by an oligarchy. Such an observation is not a radical criticism. Former President Jimmy Carter came to the same conclusion. So did a study conducted by researchers from the prestigious US universities, Princeton and Northwestern.
Thus, the four-year exercise of citizens voting for president or members of Congress is more accurately a “selection”, not an election.
The selection being made, largely, by the ruling elites and the mass media controlled by a handful of corporations. Before a candidate’s name gets on the ballot paper, there’s a huge filtering process which whittles down the final list presented to voters for their nominal “X”. Big-money donors (billions of dollars), as well as withering and warping media coverage, usually determines who gets selected for voters to “choose”.
-the ruling elites and the mass media controlled by a handful of corporations
It is not correct the center of media is “a handful of corporations”.
The center of media is Operation Mockingbird, that is government run.
The distinction has importance. Like:
a handful of corporations – running their shadow government – can start nuclear war gainst China?
No
The information war to (attempt to) discredit the 75th Anniversary May 9th of the defeat of Nazis heats up:
very important–expect more of this type of so-called “counter-prop” directed towards different demographics.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/480554-national-interest-tank-wwii/
“Come gather ’round Vineyarders, wherever you roam………..”
Dylanesque Fond Memories of Days with Dennis still exist…….. Ah, if only he didn’t consider the well-being of others (in the World Heartland….Eurasia) …………“a cancer”..echoing the inscription on the Georgia Guidestones rging over 90% of us to drop dead………..……..and if only he hadn’t insisted in railing against the prerequisite for eliminating their poverty and defending their posterity….along the New Silk Roads…of the majority of territory and population of mankind……….complaining bitterly about OBOR and everything to do with China. Sigh.
A lost brother, muttering unhappily about OBOR and his nightmarish negative “free association” emotional bad reaction to “blockchain” and “cryptographic”…..the way “my” Polly still does.
Unlike My Dear Leary…………I haven’t given up on Polly yet. She IS capable, I feel, of separating the wheat from the chaff!
It will , however take much patience and some work to overcome her negative emotion, and I’m not asking you to gather around for her sake………because I know…………… that maybe 99.99% of you share her negative emotional reaction to Something of Much Actual Benefit (an immutable, permanent public digital accounting and data ledger that offers both personal privacy under law, AND public traceability under law protecting the public from multiple sets of “books” (accounting ledgers, guys…) financial frauds ala Bernie Madoff…the private and UN-Federal Reserve…and so forth.
OR, if you’re ambivalent and neutral ….and don’t care about it (“Bitcoin”) or fail to yet see its relevance to the global strategic situation and struggle to bury Empire…on behalf of a Multi-Polar World…the possible relevance of the topic (In a Global Monetary Reset, for example). If the connection simply escapes you, thus far!
I’m not 1000% certain yet of its relevance in that regard (though you DO have to separate the “wheat” from the Crypto-Chaff …
…ie, the real bitcoin from the shitcoins…….
first…which I will do…..based not on my emotions ….but on method…..of Proof By Construction …………………(.like Paul/Pavel lays out in Raising Stone…for the Giza Pyramids…)…but I am 90% ++ convinced of its relevant role in that regard………….as will be demonstrated, YES!!!… by construction, as long as that takes….until my strong, strong hunch is obliterated………and I admit it…..and say “Polly and Dennis were right!
Which result I do not presently fear, in the slightest.
But if you like and trust (as method) construction…….. as opposed to Wild-Ass Guessing & Unrestrained Emoting, as Just Possibly More Reliably leading to truth, bear with me, follow along for our sister amaryth’s sake!
And my Blue-Pillled Sister, too!
But we’ll leave Blue-Pilled alone for now, clinging to her forlorn hopes that BTC Will Some Day get back to the Everest-like hyper speculative heights she bought some of it at, early 2018. You can’t always help everyone. Sometimes there’s TRIAGE.
But we are working on the Macro, not the micro-personalities here….and me thinks the reason that we still have only 1-2 persons in the entire community even paying any attention at all to Bitcoin (yeah but WHICH???It’s all fragmented!!!). or learning anything about the subject amarynth and I are interested in…..is that we argue a lot.
Most People are social, gregarious beings, and when there is a heated argument going on…where they are drawing a blank on the subject being argued about, what do they do???
They avoid ANY involvement, and emotionally associate something of great potential use for political transparency (Blockchain can absolutely KILL vote fraud…or that Iowa Caucuses Charade type of thing, mind you!) and financial fraud detection capacity….INSTEAD…. with the unpleasantness of doubt ………..and Fear of the Unknown!
So, because the last thing I want to do is gloat, rub it in and say, “I told you so!”, this year, next year or EVER. for amarynth’s micro-sake as well as our common efforts for the Macro-sake today, (and occasionally in the future) as impartial observers (on this topic) follow along with the Experienced Vikings
Joakim Holmer (speaking from Australia) and Larson (speaking from his storefront office in Stockholm….the street in the background).
Both with over 20 years with Ercksson Mobile experienced international participants in taking (Larson mostly in Asia…lived in 10 countries…..
VIETNAM, Back Duck!!!
and Jaokim in Africa, US, Australia etc ) a SYSTEM………That is, Mobile Telecomm from ZERO.a short ime ago historically …to over 8 billion subscribers (some on earth have zero…but very many have more than 1….!!) today…………
and exactly what mobile telecomm network principles (exactly like “Bitcoin”….but which one???? It’s all fragmented!!!…. There are too many pretenders to the throne!) were required to accomplish that reality???
https://youtu.be/A5V74WRmXwg?t=72
No sizzle. Just steak.
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Ok, Paul…added to my TO DO list and scratched off my DONE list.
I guess that last one was a little lazy….not quite what you wanted.
I’ll do better next time!
Article from Orlov;
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/02/dmitry-orlov/a-most-convenient-virus/
He does argue from logic but as he says, nothing is conclusive and the evidence for any conclusion is sparce but his title indicates the direction he goes:
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From the article:
Second, the Western media response has been an exemplary effort to produce a panic and to smear China, making what is happening there into a horror story. Not only did the mass media outlets do their best to stoke mass hysteria about all things Chinese, but various bloggers and independent “experts” pitched in to produce a panic. There seems to have been a policy-driven reorientation from Russophibia (where it has been high time for the US to silently admit defeat and move on) to Sinophobia (where the US is yet to have its ass handed to it on a plate). Those notionally independent commentators who are exploiting this opportunity to attack China are acting as useful idiots in this centrally choreographed media campaign.
Third, the White House has recently requested that experts look into the possibility that 2019-nCoV has been genetically engineered. It is often the case that the person who shouts “Catch the thief!” the loudest happens to be the thief himself. I suspect that the next move will be to declare that this virus is indeed an engineered biological weapon developed by… why, Russia, of course, and Mr. Putin personally.
Taking all of this into account, the scenario that seems most plausible to me was that this virus was genetically engineered in one of the Pentagon’s biological weapons laboratories and introduced into China via infected wild bats, having picked the technology and manufacturing mecca of Wuhan as a target. The ultimate goal, one might surmise, is to induce US corporations to repatriate production to the US mainland in order to “make America great again.”
But my suspicion is that this isn’t going to work. The Chinese government will succeed in stopping the epidemic, in the process demonstrating that it cares about its people and is effective in protecting them. Already the infection rate, plotted on a log scale, is starting to slope down from a straight line, meaning that the epidemic is losing steam. And then, working alongside many other countries, China will move on with the main task of eradicating the other parasite—which is the United States, a country that get something for nothing simply by printing dollars.
To add to this solid analys by Orlov, I finally and reluctantly come to conclusion that this virus is the result of a us bio-engineered attack on the Chinese population and economy. There is just too much out there to ignore with the linkage of us bio wpns labs, the timing of attacks, and/or misdirection by zionists such as pompeo and cotton.
The us has not taken one step in assisting the Chinese; this coupled with attacks from cia organs nyt/wapo, which are racist and misdirectional in nature with their blame of the Chinese govt, indicates quite clearly to me that the us govt has conducted this attack.
I will not link any additional articles but Unz has whitney webb’s lengthy article on the us “record,” also on Unz is godfree roberts and k.j noh. Global Research also has a number of articles. VT has a couple of videos and an article or two but I tend to give them less credence. And I have also ignored the somewhat hysterical articles on zero hedge.
I guess my somewhat naive belief led me to be slow in accepting the horror and evil that the us govt would go this low but looking at the track record iit is clear that it can and will conduct these attacks as it has done throughout history.
Examples are numerous in articles I have mentioned.
I guess for me this is a mind blower at the dimensions and the extent of the evil associated with the decisions for this attack. Paybacks will inevitably come in one way or another.
Actually the Chinese refused American so called assistance when it was offered, probably deferring to the likely hood that the assistance would only lead to moore trouble for the Chinese, and at this point who could blame them.
Taras
You echo my own thoughts.
My intuition told me very early on that the Hegemons fingerprints were all over this latest atrocity.
Cui Bono was a potent clue in itself, but of course, if you want a previous example of the hideous evil that they are capable of it then just think three letters…911.
The monumental problem remains that Hegemon also owns and creates the narrative and their huge resources will have been hard at work muddying the waters long before the event even began.
911 is also a sad reminder that no matter how outrageous and murderous the act is and how farcical the false narrative they create, the perpetrators still to this day roam Scott-free. Nineteen years on and none one except a few convenient Patsys has been held accountable.
This is yet another blatant act of war against a sovereign country. The waters will be further clouded by how China reacts to this heinous psychopathic act simply because reacting in a normal manner could well make the situation even more dangerous than it already is.
Scary times indeed
Col
And what do you know…the evidence is becoming more compelling by the day. This is indeed a decidedly racist as well as male gender-biased bug…now how splendidly convenient is that for the Hegemon?
Martenson’s latest update…
https://www.peakprosperity.com/the-coronavirus-threat-is-greatest-in-cities/
Maybe Martenson is ‘puzzled’ as to why the spread is so much less away from Mailand China…not me…this is precisely the pattern that I would have expected. I have repeatedly warned that the Hegemon would continue to throw every spanner they could lay their hands on into the works to impede the progress of the BRI and the Chinese economy. It is difficult to imagine them finding a single strategy more effective in hindering the continued rise of China than the release of this bio-weapon.
But of course, he simply cannot mention the enormous putrid elephant in the room because he would be immediately shut down if he dared. Instead, he leaves it to any of us who have marginally more brain cells than an amoeba to work this one out for ourselves…some puzzle…NOT!
This will be a crippling disaster for BRI development and the Chinese economy in general. The effect on their Armed forces which are hugely male-dominated will be devastating and the absolute icing on the cake for the Hegemon. Pompeo, Haspel, Pence and their ‘leader’ the idiotic Trump will be absolutely drooling at the mouth now in anticipation of the ongoing carnage.
Notice too how Trump repeatedly stated that the spread would be contained quickly. He knew this because the entities that engineered the bug knew this. What he failed to mention was the almost insurmountable challenge of the containment in China and Asia. But of course, this is his style…in Trump’s psychopathic infantile mind countless deaths of Asians are inconsequential…indeed not even worthy of a mention!
YCHMTSU
Col
The plot thickens
Col
Sigh, not everyone who criticizes the CCP is a counter revolutionary, reactionary. blah, blah blah. The facts may irrefutably prove that the agent causing this acute deadly pneumonia is indeed a bioweapon.
Oh surprise, surprise…there are 44 special research labs all over the world devoted to bioweapon research and these labs do have, “oops!”, accidents. It is like facing a biological weapons arms race as deadly as the nuclear weapons race which recently the Donald Duck of Looneylandia has heartily endorsed and restarted.
I despair that we as a human race can ever have rational discourse and that “we” may have to start over again from remnants hiding out in the Andes, the Himalayans, Caucusus, Urals, Rocky Mountains and the like. Archetypal legends say it has been done before—several times.
Maybe someday we will get it “right”—after all, it really isn’t that difficult: “Just Do onto others…”
As for requiring complete ideological purity before I consider the validity of anything anyone had to say, well, that would divorce me from 99% percent of my human contacts here in Looneylandia. The spiritual effect would be to make me totally arrogant which is even more to be feared than the pride suffered by an ideologue.
So if Mike Adams of naturalnews.com is correct about the coronavirus ( he is married to a Chinese lady by the way so back off on the racism allegations) and wrong about Trump and Iran…so be it. And if in Transhumania ( California) I have prepped for the plague and an earthquake comes —I will still be prepared somewhat should I survive to be of service to those around me.
There wont be hardly anywhere to hide once the end comes, and it wont come for quite a while say in 50-75 years, once the gathered resources and knowledge to advance the evolution of the human race are aquired.
Any survivors will be mostly stuck where they are with an incapacitated ability to move themselves or just about anything needed for survival. She said the people would even completely run out of ammunition with in 8 years after the fall out, she doesn’t recommend traveling outside your local area for at least that long.
I enjoy reading Mike healthy news but his political views are way too colored.
Hs is married to a taiwan girl, who is in the faction of anti-china.
And Mike use (or abuse) his air time to ‘express his views’.
I am not saying Mike and his wife are wrong but we should take into account where she is from and her base attitude against china and Mike has chose to adopt her views as his own.
Factcheck.org has found various reports of chinese scientists stealing coronavirus in Canada to be lies.
That is probably a good indication there are worries about the truth in the matter that the elites want hidden. Facebook has also removed the content. The works of virus research involves Bill and Melinda Gates who fund such research, and then develop vaccines among planning for depopulation (eugenics plans). (Bioweapons).
It was widely reported that last year two chinese scientists and their chinese students were removed from the canadian lab. Indian press, GreatGameIndia, a legit geopolitical magazine, has various reports that
the chinese scientists had illegally shipped the virus to China.
https://greatgameindia.com/coronavirus-bioweapon/
https://greatgameindia.com/dr-xiangguo-qiu-chinese-biological-warfare-agent/
https://greatgameindia.com/frank-plummer-canadian-lab-scientist-key-to-coronavirus-investigation-assassinated/
https://greatgameindia.com/dr-francis-boyle-creator-of-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-is-biological-warfare-weapon/
It also happened in the USA.
https://greatgameindia.com/chinese-biowarfare-agents-at-harvard-university-caught-smuggling-viruses/
Microsoft is now developing skynet for Pentagon, Bill Gates was always a deep state operator, stealing CP/M for corporate IBM PC, calling it Microsoft (DOS) much like Mark Zuckerberg stealing the communit board software at Harvard.
So now Bill Gates has been given tasks with mass genocide politics.
Yes, tis true, but remember a court ruled fairly that despite it being blatant theft, Sucker-borg could keep it & own all rights.
I see a few days ago France graciously offered to fly back the (infected?) French from China,which i assume refers to those running or advising directly (pateur institute) that bio-lab in Wuhan where this coronavirus just happened to get loose from, and it just happened to be ethno-specific. Fancy that.
Think of it as a gag order from 5000 miles away.
I wonder if China will honor this request. that alone will tell you tons about how much their leadership is welded in.
Also to note especially, Putin made a comment many days ago but after this virus developed into something,where he asked “what were those collecting russian blood/dna samples many years ago up to?”, inferring that he should be wary of a similar outbreak in russia sometime soon.
And that comment was because he likely really does expect something this scale, because he gave a explicit strong pointed warning last mid-nov in either a press conference or speech that the US Dollar would soon drop big & fast!.
i don’t have the exact date or location where he said it; he may even have been overseas at the time.
Buttigieg another CIA insertion in the White House? Working at an agency in Khabul analysing and researching the drug trade in Afghanistan he probably was at an agency designed to make sure drug trade were controlled by the CIA and the production shipped to the USA or destroying any competition. Drug trade under Taliban was close to zero.
https://www.sott.net/article/428944-Mayor-Buttigieg-worked-with-the-CIA-in-Afghanistan-as-an-intelligence-analyst-for-USEUCOM-ATFC-Kabul-HQ-NSA-DIA
I doubt that America will elect a gay man with the word butt in his last name.
Well, picking politicians is a stategy for ending democracy and installing a totalitarian state . Buttigieg is John F. Kennedy School graduate and a Rhodes Scholar, that is a Rothschild syndicate education, those people get recruited that way. He entered McKinsey Co. which is also a offspring of the Rothschild syndicate, run by both Rothschilds and Rockefeller foundation. There is no doubt who Buttigieg is, someone they try to install in the Whitehouse. When all their media/press come together in 4 years he will be celebrated as always. Obviously they have many assets though.
… The Time has Arrived … (heard that before somewhere) …
“I bring the commitment of the free world, willing to help us recover Democracy and Freedom,”
… and …
“A new moment begins that will not admit setbacks and that needs us all doing what we have to do. The time has arrived.”
Juan Guaido did not appear to receive a warm welcome from Venezuelan citizens upon his return to the country on Tuesday, as he was confronted by waves of protesters who voiced their displeasure with the opposition leader.
https://sputniknews.com/latam/202002121078291506-videos-guaid-confronted-by-protesters-chanting-murderer-upon-return-to-venezuela/
(should we laugh or cry ? … but read the comments)
Hah! Loved it. I hope he gets what he deserves – A long prison sentence for treason.
If you are interested in WW2 history, I highly recomend this article (and even if you don’t have much of an interest, you may like it as well):
A ‘Deathtrap’ or ‘Ahead of its time’? US mag National Interest attacks Soviet WW2-era KV heavy tank
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/480554-national-interest-tank-wwii/
I’ve read several other articles by Mikhail Khodarenok at RT and think he is one of their better authors. This one, everything he says I’ve read confirmation of over the years. Factually based journalism, what a concept… :-) Usually when I read a media article about a subject, of which I have some knowledge, I find it is full of errors. Very refreshing to read this article, which is the opposite.
From the far north a Soul touching documentary. It’s a masterpiece, I will repost it definitely in the next cafe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-FHlYojjMc&t=2104s
@sean
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Thank you for your information. That mean Duterte’s social security policy is very good. However, his political skills is really disaster, in my opinion, the island is literally belong to Philippines legally and he let China invaded then accept the deal “60-40”. Moreover, he even said Chinese coastguard sink Filipino fishing boat is just a little accident and this is unacceptable in common sense and treason.
https://amp.rappler.com/nation/233282-duterte-statement-chinese-sinking-filipino-boat-recto-bank
Who know what will be go wrong in the future? I heard some rumor that majority of Filipino does not have nationalist and patriotism spirit right? I hope this is wrong.
Sorry, in my brutal honest opinion, I afraid that the people tell you anything ok is possible a minority to majority who have negative think about their country.
I hear what you are saying, but it must be a relief domesticly to not live in constant fear. Things that are rare now, besides the petty theft are the gang bangers on motorcycles driving around killing people. They get sumarily whacked (no SJW tears here) and the message is getting out. China does have a huge stake in the Pillipines, tv, phones, internet, manufacturing, retail developement and many of those companies are run/owned by people who are half Chinese half Pillipino/a.
As for thier patriotism, I would never go there, they are some of the most caring polite people I have ever met, but they will fight, if required…………see American Pillipines War. They are trying to take thier country back, but sometimes you have to dance with the one that brung you.
Just the other day the friends brother and his body guards whacked two Chinese nationals in Manila, they were living in a high end condo dealing meth………now they deal with the devil. Could use some of that here.
@ sean the leprechaun
The Filipino-Chinese, from my own knowledge, is the 5th column that can force Philippines do what China want and they are very dangerous for the national security. I think you should read about Chinese 5th column:
Special Report: Vietnam between the US, Russia and China
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/o
And the comment:
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china/#comment-101910
The Chinese 5th column is really dangerous in long term.
I repost the link here to replace the ‘error’ link above”
/special-report-vietnam-between-the-us-russia-and-china
In respect of current and highly controversial issues of cleanliness, hygiene and diseases fear, a brief chorus excerpt below by T.S Elliot from the play Murder in the Cathedral, spoken by the women gathered outside.
The sense being the environmental pollution of evil.
Clear the air! Clean the sky! Wash the wind!
Take the stone from the stone and wash them.
The land is foul, the water is foul, our beasts
and ourselves defiled with blood.
One can only describe this as one hell-of-a-story.
The CIA and the German foreign intelligence service, the BND, secretly bought a Swiss cryptography company, Crypto AG, and jimmied or rigged the machines so they could grab the conversations of something like 120 countries. This was over a period of many years and not even the company’s sales people or most employees understood that they were selling rigged cryptography machines. (This type of equipment and technology is now old as we now have computerized cryptography).
In the meantime the CIA and the BND were raking in the money – this is not cheap equipment. The Swiss have now called for an investigation. This story was actually broken by WaPo and some German publisher – and despite a very long article, it is a little vapid as they are probably still too scared to say anything.
“From 1970 on, the CIA and its code-breaking sibling, the National Security Agency, controlled nearly every aspect of Crypto’s operations — presiding with their German partners over hiring decisions, designing its technology, sabotaging its algorithms and directing its sales targets. ”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/
https://www.rt.com/news/480627-cia-spied-swiss-firm/
If you did not believe Edward Snowden, you can believe him now. If you did not believe that the CIA ran the poppy operations in Afghanistan, you can believe it now. If you do not believe that every election is rigged, you can believe it now. If you do not believe that you and I are being lied to with every word coming out of the mouths of most government, you can believe it now. If you do not believe that most law is corrupted, you can believe it now.
“The decades-long arrangement, among the most closely guarded secrets of the Cold War, is laid bare in a classified, comprehensive CIA history of the operation obtained by The Washington Post and ZDF, a German public broadcaster, in a joint reporting project.
“The account identifies the CIA officers who ran the program and the company executives entrusted to execute it. It traces the origin of the venture as well as the internal conflicts that nearly derailed it. It describes how the United States and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. ”
Eventually the ethical limits and fear of exposure was too much even for the Germans and they sold their share to the CIA.
“The German spy agency, the BND, came to believe the risk of exposure was too great and left the operation in the early 1990s. But the CIA bought the Germans’ stake and simply kept going, wringing Crypto for all its espionage worth until 2018, when the agency sold off the company’s assets, according to current and former officials.”
You say this was old equipment, so its probably obsolete and wouldn’t bring much in the way of assets. But the new crypto tech, who controls that? The NSA or militara? Does it say?
It is not that simplistic Alabama and tecnically complex – there are many owners. These days everyone that is a cryptographer can program a cryptography algorithm. There literally are hundreds and they are owned by people, universities, cryptographers and there are standards and many are in the open source. So, the code is readable – its not hidden – but the numbers of course are unique. Everything of course can be broken, but with the standard that we use these days SHA256, it will literally take 1,000’s of years for a computer to solve such an algorithm and come up with a private key that fits the public key. It is not that somebody ‘controls’ it, as the hashed keys are generated on the spot. It is not as if someone has a list and hands these out or something.
Two links for you to read up if you are interested.
https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/difference-sha-1-sha-2-sha-256-hash-algorithms/
With this one, you can even make your own hash .. for your name for example. (No, I would not trust it, but as example of how a hash works)
https://hash.online-convert.com/sha256-generator
I think the new quantum computer, once 100%functional, whatever big it will be – in physical terms – will solve this problem in seconds. (I have to mention here my thanks for the links provided by you referring to this, however they won’t say the stage of their knowledge, and of course we understand that nowadays)
This subject is that of the near future, personally I would say, it is a revolution in computing technology which could be used for very good but also for bad purposes.
There is, and ever has been ONE quantum computer, and even that one takes literally eons to provide an answer to essential questions.
Answer (short version) is 42.
Long version is: 42.
Kent
Believe WAPO??
Not a chance!
What do you think are the odds that they and the fear porn Russia-gate peddlers of the New York times, WAPO and BBC ought to be allowed to frame the narrative which they are scrambling to reformulate????
Emotions are simple.
Reality is infinitely more complex.
When the complexity seems overwhelming, like a Giant Squid…the Empire releases its cloud of black ink so that its prey falls back on fear response……..and not knowing where to run (swim) remains.motionless!
Unthinking.
So that they can attempt to regain the initiative….reprogram the “thinking”.
They are not part and parcel of what they “expose”??
Ditto Snowden….a CIA plant within the NSA……..???
So I severely doubt that WAPO is a great new source……………given its long and sordid history.
This story has legs Bro .. you can read the RT link, but that long WAPO and their German counterpart has the source documents. For me, I’ll go to the source and for that, I have to read through the WAPO wordsalad because they have the source and are letting it out bit by bit – like the SOB’s that they are – no links – you just gotto mouse over.
Obviously RT considers this a story with legs as they followed. No, I don’t read WAPO – so now we have to wonder who actually sent it to me? and why? Uhm? because he also does not read WAPO. :-)
You really think I’ll come up with a WAPO link without something solid?
And the hell-of-a-story takes another shape.
The warmed up Crypto AG story is a subtle smear piece against Huawei and Kapersky.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/02/us-warms-up-old-spy-story-to-warn-of-foreign-espionage.html#more
Strange thing, that the German source and WAPO is working together and they are working for Pompeo. The ‘fake news’ epidemic started is not just fake news, they are all in cahoots.
I see Trudeau the Lesser snuck into Kuwait to thank the Canadian Forces for thier fast and furious retreat out of Iraq, without suffering one hang nail. What a dickless lap dog poddle. Should have pulled a Putin, flew into Iraq, had supper with the Iraqi parliment and thanked them for thier warm hospitality. Say what you want about his Da, this kid is useless.
After real rent control lost in Sacramento, CA ( there is a proposal on the ballot now allowing for a 10% increase—what a joke when wages barely budge and food prices soar), I noticed many young people leaving… Below is an article which lays the basis for Transhumania to morph into Looneylandia’s first Stazi State, but o ly after the elections when the Bernie Bro techie ideologues crawl out of the State bureaucracy:
But I digress and rant:
http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/middle-class-california-dream-what-is-middle-class-for-california-incomes-real-estate-prices-migration/
Ok to lighten up a bit with a playful nod to Dimitar:
Platinized Palladium
Words may be silver but silence is gold
Coat right action with platinum
for a trinity bold.
Here’s the link for today’s UNHCR document listing companies profiting from the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Scroll down to A/HRC/43/71).
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session43/Pages/ListReports.aspx
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session43/Documents/A_HRC_43_71.docx
to download the document
Turkey launced artillery fire against the syrian army in southwest Aleppo from their positions in Idlib province while turkish backed rebel militia HTS (al Qaeda) and NLF carried out an offensive against the syrian army who is now in control of highway 4 between Saraquib and Aleppo after liberating parts of Idlib and Aleppo province from the US led assault on Syria dating back to 2011. Now Turkey has become the main rebel force along with Israel who ocupied, and now holds the Golan Heights with IS and al Qaeda terrorist forces inside Quneitra province Syria. Turkey is holding kurdish areas in the northern Aleppo , Rojava as well as occupying the al Qaeda held Idlib province. All this was a planned assault on Syria in order to annex large parts of the country for criminal purposes.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jihadist-offensive-in-southwest-aleppo-falls-apart-despite-turkish-military-assistance/
Note.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-usa-idUSBRE89U1AY20121031
Hillary Clinton (pres. Obama sec. of State) wanted IS and al Qaeda in the syrian government in a speech Oct. 31 2012 after the exile government had received recognition of a large number of states in early 2012 from allied countries and others befriending the US administration, such actions are also a sharp reminder of criminal associations running international politics. This particular occupation of Syria sought to install a government that would seperate syrian provinces to foreign countries taking part in the operation, such as Turkey seeking to take over kurdish areas of Aleppo and other kurdish areas, the Golan Heights to be handed out to Israel as part of arranged international settlements with the corrupt syrian government. The syrian opposition military organisations were to be IS and al Qaedatop positions Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and others who sen. John McCain NED met with in 2013 inside Syria as proof of their already close political association and established ties from meetings in the USA. https://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html
Golan Heights is now again attempted to be handed over to Israel proof of top priority criminal politics, now an illegal act by pres. Trump administration, the oil rich Golan to be used in Rothschild oil production from Israel (Afek Oil , Genie Energy) recently discovered, but officially witheld information that was released to public in 2014.
According to Wikipedia Abu Bakr al Baghdadi is the same person that met with John McCain according to the photographs, the only problem is that it is not the same person that was formerly claimed to be Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri al-Samarrai from Samarra Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi
Both pictures now appears in Wikipedia. So there is a totally unknown Abu Bakr al Baghdadi who in his real name had a visa to the USA for visiting the syrian government in exile.
Thanks for keeping up posts re Syria. So little seems to be coming put from Russian viewpoint….except a very short latest that Turkey failed to implement Sochi agreement and SAA has established a de-escalation zone around M5……there seems to be proposals for further discussions or negotiations between Russia and Turkey……but Erdo seems to have learnt his current politics from his new friend Zelinsky who still pulverises the Donvass and endless procrastinates and delays in order to hide he will never implement Minsk….a 5 yr review of that is to held soon at UNSC to try and get it moving again.
Soooooo….will Russia defend SAA to the point where it absolutely destroys Turkish tanks howitzers etc and claim that Turkish soldiers are dressed in militants uniforms so are a legitimate target…..has it a strategy to deal with Turkish military leading and provide cover for the jihadists not just supplying them with armaments and huge convoys of various vehicles? One wonders.
Well, Turkey has stabbed Russia in the back again but I am pretty the russians they were aware of it all the time. Turkey had already invaded Syria when Russia made sure they became involved in the process of administrating these events. All is going as planned I suppose at least as expected. Erdogan’s ambitions made him go too far. This occupation of Syria has already failed with the occupational forces of IS and al Qaeda from the beginning of the conflict, and they are fighting a lost cause in Idlib province. And an invation of Syria will always be illegal operations according to international law and also involves heavy responsibilities for warcrimes. There seem to be a desperate situtation that have Sec. of State Mike Pompeo vist Erdogan to declare his support for his NATO ally. A declaration of defeat because it was Turkey who invaded Syria, not Syria that invaded Turkey. I don’t know anyone who would support USA at this point except the mindless puppets from Norway and Denmark.
Note.
Sec. of State Mike Pompeo was supported all the way into his political career by his business associate Koch Industries (multinational oil and Gas industries) sometimes referred to as Koch Brothers, who is pushing for partition of Iraq and Syria, so this is how rotten US foreign policy is and has been – corrupt to the bone. Formerly also running the CIA in the Donald J. Trump administration .
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-koch-brothers-favorite-congressman-will-be-in-charge-of-the-cia/
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-koch-brothers-get-their-very-own-secretary-of-state/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/exxonmobil-koch-israel-partition-iraq-syria/230830/
What does it mean? Venus in Aries? Grazers in the lands of meat eaters. Keeping togetherness-
What does it mean? Coming Mars in Capricorn? Attacks by the father? Awakening of the north?
Media in complete disarray? Mercury deep in Pisces.
Some notes concerning the look of this week:
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2020/02/venus-insecure-mars-with-three-more.html
As a very accomplished astrologer, why are you so confused? I don’t get it.
Regards
Kent
He’s an astrologer-not a soothsayer. or maybe a little of both? The stars incline but the ultimate intelligence decldes with a smidgen of grace and a cup of free will.
Venus has a little more than a mere smidgen of grace, her grace and beauty irradiate the starry constellations and shine over the earth, we only need to see and perceive this, it is in everything, and when she arrives in Aries, then the human potential for love (beyond personal experience) extends and reaches over the earth to meet that of others in an awakening.
This relates to Mars, that magnificent God of battle, in words as well as external wars, who is currently quarantined and receiving divine radiation intervention therapy from Dharma, the laws of Cosmic Good, the all inclusive spiritual field of Buddhism.
Not passive, indulgent, swimming in nice feelings, but active for the good with St Michael, the Sun Hero aligned with Mars in the battle for truth, human dignity, harmony and peace.
Operation Rescue Nice English Lady ……………from Crypto-Distress & Ship-Rekt-edness
I need Paul’s collaboration on proof by construction and your assistance, Mundo, on the Mandala Understanding Matter.
Because we have to get somewhere fast and use proofs of real work, before “proof of smacked bums” reks a lot of good, naive people. And If I can “get across” the conceptual channel…or “The Pond”….ie North Atlantic Ocean ……we might collaborate globally, for the benefit of Our Multi-Polar Allies Everywhere!)
Ramin, pay attention!
All I know is that deep esotericism pervades every bit of matter, energy, light, thought and that Michael Hudson seems to be aiming for High Priest of Time Chain….Immutable Memory (forget “blockchain”…geeks and nerds are god-awful at branding….).in his Truth & Light Series, where “the Mandala Effect” is featured as an essential concept, component, core principle, etc.
The latest Episode …..# 4
https://youtu.be/hhXAd5cXp2U?list=PLuaq_ZpgEY2Kz-L5wq0zRQMuP_d_VQMu-
Golden Globes 2020, Trump vs Iran, Prince Harry & Meghan, Epstein Autopsy – Truth and Light Ep. 4
878 views•Jan 11, 2020
The First Episode nearly a year ago:
https://youtu.be/UeZEKLw9g_I
In my all-to-mutable time-chain in my head (individual biological memory) I know that Michael touches repeatedly on Mandala somewhere between Episodes 1 and 4
Oh Captain, My Captain!
WHAAAT?? Captain Kirk??? William Shatner….promoting “Matterium”???
(sounds like errant asteroids to me….)
Mandala is also mentioned by the young man from Leeds aka “Sir Toshi”, with Host Captin Bitcoin (Shem Bobblehead, according to Higher Class Lady) who discusses in today’s episode of another channel how he (Toshi) will use his 15 minutes of Time February 22 at the Northern Block Time Chain Conference in York and school Cap’n Kirk and John MacAfee (same Twitter thread…so…apparently yes!) there, on such things:
https://youtu.be/HpXZJp2VQOI?t=1843
But if the Deepest Esotericism of Hudson and 15 minutes from Toshi in York will not move The Lady…..
Sigh.
I suspect not…..since after 20+ years with a Russian one and a few years dialogue with an English one the empirical experience indicates to me that both varieties of those females are First Rank in World Stubborness. …
Nevertheless, I am morally, mind you, after the expected rebuff…. obligated to offer Insurance.
After all, what is more first rank, globally than Lloyd’s of London???
And absolutely ALL English Traders (who have no intention of having their fast packets sunk!) STILL insure their cargoes and vessels that carry them!
Stubborn does not mean Stupid. Or Lloyd’s wouldn’t exist………… if the English were stupid enough not to insure their packets, schooners, clippers…cargoes and all!
It’s actually, often enough, a kind of remarkably resilient strength……as Napoleon and Hitler discovered!
With BOTH national characters.
How to do that insuring at the best rates, next Cafe!
Well the signs coming out of China are encouraging about the Corona virus, as the number of cases seems to have stopped the exponential increase and now they are even reporting an Ro below 1.
Now I take some of that with many grains of salt but we know they have a strong containment policy so it is to be expected it will start to work.
I know that all responsible Chinese are holed up indoors and the only people allowed out are 1 person per household every two days to get to the markets. I can only speak with certainty of two cities but i am assuming it is similar elsewhere.
We should expect deaths to continue to increase for at least two weeks because the hoffific effect of this virus is that people are in intensive care three weeks after symptoms appear.
OK so how do I know this?
The Singapore public health people are bloody fantastic and the data is there for 50 cases now. What they say is that of their 50 cases: 15 recovered, 8 are still in intensive care ie critical, the remaining 37 are at various stages. So the serious morbidity rate is somewhere between 16 – 70%.
Now of the first 18 plus two evacuees ie 20 that caught the disease in Wuhan and have been studied for longest we have 6 recovered usually after about 11-14 days of symptoms. There appear to be three (mostly younger) who while known to be positive did not seek medical attention early so may in fact be largely asymptomatic. The remaining 11 seem to have been sick quite a long time and I guess mostly include the 8 still critical.
So everyone please stop calling this a mild disease. Based on the fact that returnees are mostly tested as are close contacts and anyone with a mild sniffle, even if you assume that they are only finding 10 % of cases, the rest being so mild they are not noticed you have a serious morbidity ie intensive care rate of at least 1.6% (ie 10% of 8/50 cases but you must add to that the fact that 30 new cases in Singapore are yet to reach the peak danger time do we would expect a good portion of these to become critical.
I think what we can say now is that something went seriously wrong in Wuhan re containment but that China has bee pretty bloody good at containment beyond that. Still a bit early to be certain but still encouraging.
My fears now rest with places NOT reporting larger outbreaks- India and thailand especially.
China announce the 7th hospital (or you can call it quarantine area) is launched today.
About the lock down protocol, only few places are really strict, other or rest of the country are run by local residents, like check points, or buy grocery for the suspected person while in incubation and so on. So far to social order is intact and the supplies are ramp up with no shortage of volunteers to pump all the medical items out. That said, there are lots of report of ‘funny business’ aside.
Singapore is a country filled with apartment so its not surprise there but they have great systems and they have MONEY! I am more worried about Taiwan and HK, and HK was seriously scapegoat the last time too. and yes, the rest of asean is very silent. and USA too!
I still won’t pin down who is the original culprit here but focus on the individual level.
Same msg: Wash your hands regularly and completely (front and back up to your elbow) + when meeting ppl maintain at least a meter gap (or talk to them on your mobile – in china some places only communicate via social media now no talking and no its not run by the gov but local resident collective agreement) + drink more clean water intake more veg and fruits (organic preferred). Keep your bodily system towards the alkaline level if possible (pls consult your doctors for your individual health status)
If in event of the body temp rises and you suspect something, do not be afraid to reach out to the authority. Early cases have over 90% saved.
Be safe
@ amarynth et al.
Brainstorm “Corona”.
Tried the subtle way a few days ago with a link to Fred Hoyle, having posted links and comments here some years back with more details, assuming that at least the regulars would/had noticed.
So, repeat Fred Hoyle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle
“Diseases from Space” Co-written with professor Chandra Wickramasinghe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Wickramasinghe
Links (important) article (not that important) and comments here: https://www.sott.net/article/428971-Coronavirus-Came-From-Meteor-Which-Hit-China-Last-Year-Claims-Scientist.
Is this “incident” one of those?
I don’t know for sure, not enough reliable info to determine. Possible, YES, one of many occurrences in decades.
The TPTB (Whatever that is), knows a whole lot more than us on this, and a wide range of other subjects (in the psychical realm that is).
So, we are actually playing the game of “catching up” (or trying to), getting ever more behind IMO.
Basics counts (gut feeling/soul feeling). Fast talking (very fast) intellectual brilliancy in segments of Geo-Political analyses will not cut it in the long run, ever.
Side note. (Brainstorming remember).
Ethnic specific weapons have been researched, tested and developed in Israel for 40+ years.
Thought that was common knowledge here?
Kent
Virus need a living organism, so I don’t think it is possible unless you involve aliens. I think the morons that run the world are far more dangerous than aliens or visitors from other planets would ever be. Living bacteria and virus dripping down from space through the atmosphere would mean there are a infinite numbers of sentient beings within reach of our atmosphere. Virus are not expected to survive long without a living organism.
According to Dr. Francis Boyle there is only one reason for a country to have a BSL-4 lab, and that is research and development of bioweapons. Some state actors are releasing those weapons for mass genocide purposes.
“Details about the Pirbright Institute and its ties to bioweapons, depopulation, vaccines and coronavirus patents. (It’s partially funded by Bill & Melinda Gates) ” . Great Game India interview with Dr. Francis Boyle.
Geopolitics and Empire: “And just to get your comment on, I mean, something to related to this, which was my next question. So I think, I’m not sure if it’s that same Institute that you just mentioned that has the patent. I read somewhere that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation maybe funds or has some connection to that Institute that has the patent.”
Dr. Francis Boyle: I think they do. The Bill & Melinda Gates information, they fund this type of DNA genetically engineered biological warfare work. That’s correct. So you can’t trust anything they’re telling you that somehow they’re out there trying to make the world a better place. I mean, we have Bill Gates publicly admitting that the world be a better place if there were a lot less people. So the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, they are wolves in sheep’s clothing and they are funding this type of stuff. ”
https://greatgameindia.com/transcript-bioweapons-expert-dr-francis-boyle-on-coronavirus/
It is interesting to note the wolves in sheep’s clothing remark, that is the coat of arms of Fabian Society (national socialism under the name of democratic socialism, under leadership of George Bernhard Shaw openly called for killing of the useless. It has become the politics of today and interestingly the US democrat party have turned into a mass democratic socialism platform. It is essentially nazism (national socialism) .
The Gates Foundation has established Gates Cambridge School just as George Bernhard Shaw the “superstar ” wizard of the time established London School of Economics. They are paid off very well , and are even personally psychopaths and mass murderers. Today even the politicians in power are mass murderers.
I have not looked in detail yet Kent, but of course. What I would ask immediately is what about the heat that such a meteorite needs to go through to fall on earth? But anyways, I’ll take a look.
Yes, the ethnic bioweapon thing … of course, again of course. It is a hard thing to take a look at, because it makes you and me and others so susceptible to almost ‘magical attacks’ that one cannot even fight against, that we don’t look at that deeply.
As to information there is still very little that makes sense today. For me, only a few things make sense so far:
1. China is fighting for its life. The death toll or even containment is not truly visible in any numbers as yet. This will have tremendous impact on supply lines and on not only China’s economy, but all part of that upstream and downstream. China is acting on unhappiness of the people and it is normal that the people will lash out to their government. People are being fired on the spot if they do not do their work, or allow red tape to get into the way of fighting this virus. It may look brutal to lock people into their homes, but how many do they save by this action?
2. This is a catastrophe. It is not a flu, it is not something that 5G brought onto China, it is not God punishing the Godless red commies, whatever it is, it is a catastrophe that may have world-wide consequences if China does not act to contain.
3. We do not know enough to come to conclusions excepting to say that in the timeline things are completely suspicious, and we would be right to be suspicious.
“Failure is Like Onions” The Mark 14 Torpedo – OR The F-35.
Same shit. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ5Ru7Zu_1I
Kent
“Deep dark Dungeons”
What’s that?
It’s deep, very deep, and, if you ever go down there (which actually is everywhere), no intellectual (pretend to be?) perception/explanation/analysis will ever get even close.
IF, you dive in the maelstrom, of, let’s call it depravity, in order to learn, and aquire knowledge, where you dive deep, please understand that most divers don’t make it.
However, if you don’t know (by experience, first hand observations), dive, try, experience and possible survive, no intellectual analysis or comments on most subjects will be of to much help. Sorry.
We are not Goethe, Dostovesky, Rudolf Steinar etc.. But we can try can’t we. Win or loose. You fight and loose apparently, but you win because you fight inevitably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxkWUnqy9sg
Regards
Kent
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“River runs deep”
Frick Clapton, insignificant for 40+ years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LekkGu9n8
Kent
“Devil in disguise”
Never mind the described devil, one of many.
From the California shore to New York City
The beat don’t never stop
You can hear it on the radio anywhere you go
It’s steady as the rhythm of a clock
It cuts through the noise of the city life
It won’t seem to go away
It’s the devil in disguise I tell you no lies
My fingers do the walking everyday
Yonder comes a young girl she wants to take a whirl
She thinks it’s all a dream
She got rock and roll way down in her soul
She wants to know where’s the limousine
Get up honey let your mama sit down
You’re too young anyway
The devil in disguise give her the prize
Then you can carry her away
When the road I travel starts to unravel
Every which way it goes
The beat starts to press on my bullet proof vest
And my high turns out to be low
Give me my guitar I’m going to go far
Let me see it let me hold it in my hand
I’m the devil in disguise I tell you no lies
I’m playing in a rock ‘n roll band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVj6QBhdmiw
Kent
It is LONG after midnight here.
So.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0RPSDEOxTA
If there is one Irish word that I love, it is gobshite! There is no reason in the world that I would know this word, but I came across it reading a novel many moons ago, and I loved it then, and I love it till now. (I had an Irish boss once, and he loved this word as well! but to his credit, he never used it to me :-)
So, here is this Irish Member of Parliament calling Guiadò a gobshite. So, the feathers were flying, but he kept to his word and later said: “Wallace wasn’t in the mood for apologies, however. He later doubled down on the comment on Twitter, saying that Guaido “is” in fact a gobshite and the parliament’s recognition of him is “outrageous.”
We’re talking about lying, and not caring about lying in the Saker Blog. I am not lying when I say — Guiadó, you are in fact and in truth a gobshite! And those that recognize you (even only to get in the Venezuealan vote) are gobshites too!
https://www.rt.com/news/480780-irish-mep-guaido-gobshite/
Any lawyers here?
Is there actually anything illegal about this?
“In one case outlined in the superseding indictment, a Huawei employee was allegedly “discovered in the middle of the night” after a trade show “removing the cover from a networking device and taking photographs of the circuitry inside.””
Timing aside you could buy the item in question and do the same -it was a trade show and trade shows are about selling stuff.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/huawei-meng-criminal-us-doj-1.5462770
(even the URL above is misleading)
https://abc.net.au/news/2020-02-14/us-admiral-warns-beijing-is-willing-to-punish-australia/11964104
Try not to choke on the projection.