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Tulsi Gabbard ends campaign and ENDORSES JOE BIDEN (!!!!!)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tulsi-gabbard-suspends-campaign-endorses-joe-biden
I think she just betrayed everyone who placed their hopes in her. I cannot see how she can be a credible Presidential contender in future elections.
“Next! ……”
That breaks my heart.
Endorsed JOE BIDEN???? How disappointing. I mistook her ignorance for sweetness.
As a combat vet, I’m disappointed. Shame on me.
Has Biden said who his VP running mate will be? Please, dont tell me it’s Killary Clinton.
I’m willing to bet it will be the Hildebeast.
Yeah me too.
And if he wins the Presidency – has anyone opened a “book” on his survival length??
Vegas would not take bets on that one. They would call it a “no line.”
And Biden is too stupid to understand the danger he would put himself into by making her VP.
Tulsi will have a nice new job in the Biden administration if he gets in…
Michael Martin
On numerous occasions I pointed out that Tulsi was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and we all know who created that. I also stated my personal conviction that she was a replacement for Hillary. Looks like I was right. She pulls out of the presidential race and ends up supporting Biden. Yes, many people will be either shocked or disappointed, but she is just another example of political candidates being controlled.
Feels like weekend,
Thursday.
Macron is at war,
Yellow is not a favourite colour.
So the “anti war” candidate Tulsi Gabbard drops out of the race … and endorses the “forever war” candidate Joe Biden. Nothing to see here? What did you expect?
I expected more.
Well, at least now I have an excuse to never contribute to another candidate ever again.
Is Coronavirus the Next 9/11?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=264&v=yu9NJ-mxS3w&feature=emb_logo
“They’ve been talking about this for years and years and years. This is nothing new. This is just the excuse for a number of agenda items to come to life and that’s the important point if you give into the fear you are essentially allowing them to go ahead with their agenda because if there’s a crisis we need a solution and look here’s the fellows in white lab coats funded by billionaires who are going to tell us what that solution is.”
Well, at the risk of invoking an offensive gender identity construct, I think Coronovirus should win Time “Man of the Year” or “Person of the Year” as it is now known, or at least “Identity of the Year”.
To further the paranoia, everyone will line up for that “vaccine” when its ready next year.
And what else will be in ‘that cocktail’ as they save us all from Covid-19?
A chip linking our brains to their HQ
Just one guess
You have no need to know -it’s for your own good and they know what’s best for you.
(You do trust officialdom and Big Pharma, don’t you?)
Not particularly, they are part of gvt.
Conjecture I have every book I could lay my hands on, written by Alice Miller who was a psychoanalyst very angry with ‘accepted child raising methods”
Dr Miller was born in Poland but since 1946 lived in Switzerland
The first title I bought (in 1991) was
For Your Own Good – Hidden cruelty in Child-rearing the roots of violence
Bearing in mind the era in which she wrote, she explores “the sources of violence within ourselves and the way these are fed and encouraged by current child/rearing practices. Challenging the way in which we rationalise punishment and coercion as being for the child’s ‘own good.’
Alice Miller illuminates the cost in compassion and humanity in later life, both in the public and private domain.”
In this book Dr Miller writes up case histories of the childhoods of Adolf Hitler: ‘from hidden to manifest horror’ and Jürgen Bartsch: ‘a life seen in retrospect’
The Drama of Being a Child was published in Britain in 1983 as The Drama of the Gifted Child
What I learned in reading these books is that the society in which I was struggling was just as violent as the one that prevailed in Dr Miller’s lifetime
I think our so-called ‘western civilisation’ has thrown out the baby with the bath water in denying God and psychoanalysis, to descend into the sleazy, crazy free -for- all which is now being led to the cleansing and ultimate control ‘they’ have to have
Peace to You
I came to realise fairly early in my life that the expression ‘it’s for your own good’ was almost always for someone else’s ‘good’ and usually a ‘control, dominate and subdue’ mechanism to soothe an ego or for an authoritarian power fix.
Peace to all.
Larchmonter you are late to the game: they have already found a cure to chinese coronavirus, straight hydroxychloroquine or a combo of azitromycine and hydroxychloroquine. Multiple studies from France, japan, China, India, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, etc have already shown the efficacy of the treatment or are in the process validating it. Health works are already using as a prophylactic (such as in Italy and China). So the business case for a vaccine just imploded.
China has lost its bid to challenge the USA. This pandemic has devastated China’s GDP for this year, but more importantly, it’s heavily damaged their reputation among the slumbering masses of the West. The realization that almost all of their pharma materials are produced in China has shocked the ignorant public of the West, this isn’t China’s fault, this is the fault of the thieving neoliberal elites of the West that exploited both the chinese by squeezing them to the lowest price possible as well as offering only a modest discount to the western consumer (keeping the lion’s share of the profit for their own parasite middle man class). Unfortunately for China, it is China that will be blamed solely, meanwhile their western “partners” in the western elite will be spared any consequences.
This virus has been a disaster China and world the chinese system of suppressing free speech and whistleblowers like doctor Li Wen Qian has really cost them this time.
Supply chains being moved out of China has accelerated.
At least one of the antiviral drugs, called ribavirin. It carries this VERY RELEVANT warning, from cardiosmart.org:
“Ribavirin may decrease the number of red blood cells in your body. This is called anemia and it can be life-threatening in people who have heart disease or circulation problems.” High blood pressure is a circulatory problem.
Read more about this scandal on Jon Rappoport’s web-site.
Excellent factual video “insights into the Corona-panic by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg”
https://youtu.be/p_AyuhbnPOI
❌The TRUTH of the Wuhan Coronavirus Doctor’s Death
Today I want to talk to you about the doctor that’s died in China recently. To my English
speaking friends, you can call him Dr. Li.
Dr. Li’s death has started a lot of online conversation. And there’s a lot of opinions and
just kind of wanted to weight in with my perspective on things and share how I feel
about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Fy80yHYQo
Gabbard and Sanders are both anti-war candidates, therefore, neither of them stands a snowball’s chance in hell of making it to the big old house.
Sad times…the feeble Biden is a dream candidate for the perpetual war machine.
So its business as usual then.
Col
Tulsi was a one-trick pony. And she failed miserably. Now she isn’t running for House seat again, has no position she can win, has no reason to back Biden, but does so.
Why?
Because she is either in debt for her campaign and Biden will pay off the debts, or she is a Cult member and simply returned to the Cult of Liberalism after a jaunt outside the fences as a “prodigal”.
Never had me fooled. Told Saker she was a Cult member long ago.
When people follow an ideology, they follow it until the house burns down (Waco) (SLA). And the house always burns down (Jonestown).
Watch out for Pied Pipers who play one tune over and over. They aren’t leading the rats away. They are signaling for the rats to come back.
The reality of November is MAGA v2 or Clinton-Bush-Obama v2.
You want more war, worse relations among nations, the final collapse of Medicare, no borders, and totally rigged elections, you will get that package with Joe Biden.
We know we will get more America First with Trump. But he’s also found substitutes for more wars. He likes the power of Sanctions. He likes to play at Diplomacy (North Korea, China). He’s reforming the NSC and has several of his (obedient) Department heads, so he might be able to “talk” to Iran, to Russia.
However, Trump will be busy trying to resuscitate the American economy. He will have to cut budget and chew off some of the national debt. The easiest place to get those savings is defense. So, he will want a more placid world.
Biden is deep in the shit of Ukraine. Not just his son’s involvement in corruption but ideologically, like Clinton and all the Russophobic Khazarians in the Deep State, State Dept, Shadow Government and Think Tanks.
It bodes very badly for the region and Russia’s economic development if they have to deal with these lunatics arming the Ukies (as they hope to become an Israel, outfitted and trained to fight border wars).
Problem is that all the courts are closed, cases wont be even heard soon, more less finished until way after the election. No matter, no president ever in a crisis situation has lost a reelection so the outcome is a foregone conclusion, all he has to do is stay alive.
After yet another deception here’s some music sung by a lovely lady in which – I confess, I was fallen in love – I was a young boy. This song was very popular in among German speaking people at that time :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5N4eDvFTKg Mireille Mathieu – Aber dich vergess’ich nie
Below I made the English translation only for you:
But I’m not Forgetting You
But I’m not forgetting you
Your sweet love so warm and true,
Was a beauty but at morning, all is past.
Come into my arms
And just tell me about you
Come closer to me
Ahead I’m losing thee
Night is going by
Like a dream in wonder’s place
I forgot with you the time and space
But I’m not forgetting you
Your sweet love so warm and true,
Was a beauty but at morning everything must end
Farewell comes for you and me,
Our hearts again are free
But your love I won’t forget and either you !
Please just hold me tight
Only for a blink of eye,
Cause that blink of eye
Soon will say good bye
Open up your eyes,
For one kiss before I leave
And my heart the whole world shall forgive
But I’m not forgetting you
Your sweet love so warm and true,
Was a beauty but at morning everything must end
Farewell comes for you and me,
Our hearts again are free
But your love I won’t forget and either you !
Mireille Mathieu Sparrow of Avignon / Spatz von Avignon – Biography
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558871/bio
Mireille Mathieu – Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9evASARY4E
Edith Piaf The Little Sparrow – Non, Je ne regrette rien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88
What a lovely lady! I would have been in love as well back in the day had I known of her.
Brother Blue
Abandoned
Betrayed
– a politician
-a partner
-one’s self
Coming to terms with solitude
“…tho you’re still with me, I’ve been alone all along”
https://youtu.be/cu7QvOQKcKk
Oh-Oh. This does need confirmation from elsewhere, but I just caught this from one of my China / Russia news links:
https://tsargrad.tv/news/pojmany-s-polichnym-kitaj-obvinil-ssha-v-zanesenii-koronavirusa-jeksperty-podtverzhdajut-versiju-biooruzhija_242789?utm_referrer=mirtesen.ru&fbclid=IwAR2VgQkFQhyek0_QfaVUVDxHUuSnkW0uixcukVQylB6_5fQ7K7qlhO7D1ZY
Again, not sure if you will get the translation, but the headline reads”
“Caught red-handed”: China has charged the United States with entry of a coronavirus. Experts confirm the version of bioweapons”
China formally charged the United States with entry of coronavirus, a statement was made by the diplomat Zhao Lijiang. However, experts do not just confirm the version of biological weapons, but push her, protecting, for several weeks.
The representative of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of China Zhao Lijiang filed charges against the us military. He wrote that they could bring coronavirus in Wuhan.
Their findings Lijiang made after a speech to the oversight Committee of the U.S. house of representatives Robert Redfield, Director of the Center for control and prevention (CDC). The representative of the Chinese foreign Ministry said that after his report, Redfield was arrested.
Kusuma School of biological sciences, Indian institute of technology, New Delhi, India
Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120
and Gag*
We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus
(2019-nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the
spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other
coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity
to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag.
The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to
amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1#comment-4779677688
Gag* is group-specific antigen, the genetic material that codes for the core structural
proteins of a retrovirus
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The Coronavirus CONSPIRACY – Did COVID-19 Come from America? (by Nathan Rich)
CNN accuses China of promoting conspiracy theories. I accuse them right back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=31&v=lANyoV-Szos&feature=emb_logo
Ah. That was the first paper I saw I think, and I lost the link, so thank you.
However, the paper out of an Indian University, whilst it noted the 4 segment HIV series did find the same segments in other Corona virus strains, but stated they were either shortened, or had bits missing, or ever were only 2 – 3 segments, in other words, non-coding segments. this particular virus was the only one t hey found that had the entire glycoprotein series.
However, without seeing their Materials and Methods [i.e. their lab procedure for obtaining and identifying the viarl RNA I would still be cautious accepting it.
It’s difficult to get viral RNA from a human cell and separate it out from the human RNA and then confirm it is what you have given that Kochs’ Postulates dont apply.
Without knowing their “how I did it” I’d always be a bid in reserve on judgement of validity.
Were the missing papers perchance used as toilet paper?
No offence meant Pamela
:-)
None taken TJT. I dont offend easily, and you were easily well within boundaries.
Ah no, not unless these are virtual toilets made from photons!! What was once a paper on paper is now a paper on a screen; what was once print is now pixilated photons. But still, many things stay the same, as time goes by. And in academia, flawed though it has become, no matter the material matter, a paper is still a paper, as time goes by :-)
Question?
If these segments are, as this paper says, unique among Corona viruses to the CoV-19, and thus are how a testing procedure can identify them from stock Corona virus left over from long ago Common Cold attacks, how do they confirm that they are NOT an HIV they have, unless they do a whole new genomic sequencing of the obtained sample in order to confirm it is not HIV,- a thing I have not heard they are doing.
More mysteries.
There is change. It is NOT the same old, same old always and forever………..even when we think it is so.
For example:
I was prejudiced against the LA Times and wrote them off ….”forever”….decades ago.
The Chandlers, I concluded …in the eighties…….are simply rotten to the core. I so tuned all of that out…that I didn’t even realize that the La Times has a new owner…… Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong,
What a surprise! And I only discovered this change of ownership because I listened to the calm voice of this man teaching a series on Corona Virus…….a few minutes…despite the watermark logo of the LA TImes in the lower right hand corner of the screen…and couldn’t click away from his serious, calm, highly educational series with segments like “The Science of Soap” that teaches the how and why of its effectiveness…that seemed vaguely simplistic and primitive before.
No more..
Highly recommend it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlRvqhGdPk
The Science Behind the Coronavirus, the complete series
Short educational segments, strung together into one video only 33 minutes long
“The Science Behind the Coronavirus is a special series from the Los Angeles Times. It is available here in its entirety and in chaptered segments, as well as on the L.A. Times YouTube channel. The series is hosted by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times. Soon-Shiong is a surgeon and scientist who has spent his career studying the human immune system to fight cancer and infectious diseases.”
What a stunning improvement over the former owners! The last thing I expected today.
After that video the Doctor and his newspaper surely deserve at least a cautious look in the future….on other matters……without expecting angels in Los Angeles.
for people who read the German flagship Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) – it comes as a surprise that comments of readers function was apparently removed – no more comments, because the comments were not politically correct, it seems to me. Comments were frequently more illuminating than the articles. But that signals that the mass media, “flagships” are afraid of truth. So, the blogs are truly the “samizdats” of today.
It does not come as a surprise but thank you for reporting it. The people are not supposed to have a voice. That is the reality, and for that they put in place laws, have the political elite run the police, run the judicial system (that means beyond making laws), and ban demonstrations. So what kind of expression are there supposed to be.
Udo Ulfkotte worked as a journalist for FAZ, and he explained that journalists had been contracted by CIA to work for them (BND is the german CIA secret service called Bundes Nachrichten Dienst) after blowing the whistle on the operations, that he was taught to lie and deceive people for the state operations and directed via BND and CIA. He defected when the war on Russia became the main focus for which he understood Europe might enter active war again. For this he was killed by the orders of Angela Merkel by the BND. He reported several covert weapons attacks before he died. Then BND or other police organisations run violent demonstrations so that demonstrations are banned. The socalled democracy has already been replaced by law all over Europe by the EU in particular, but also by independant states outside EU .
Well, perhaps that is why the alternative blog Moon of Alabama is also showing signs of comment tampering, raising questions and doubts among regular visitors.
Katherine
I have been hanging out in this cafe for several days now, and would like to thank everyone sharing their thoughts. Perhaps one day I will introduce myself and pick a nickname.
I came across this article today, and would to hear from others what they read in it:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-new-world-order-blow-globalization/5706729
The article is well thought out and is basically my position/view of almost all the factors. I personally think it has been a “Deep State”/Globalist operation with a genetically altered virus. It doesn’t matter at this point who turned it loose if it was on purpose. When you are given lemons, make lemonade. I think Trump has the better recipe and his emphasis on “forcing” the individual States to step up their management of the crisis smacks of federalism as the Founders implemented. One HUGE thing the article does not address is “Always follow the Money”. Trump, and others recognize that current debts and liabilities of government are unsustainable and un payable. There will be a reset of currencies at some point and this crisis has sped that up considerably. What Trump and I understand is that you better spend it while it’s worth something. A new “reserve currency” or currencies has to come online as the old Bretton Woods and Petro dollar are caput. The only reason the petro dollar still has “value” is because everybody is sitting on tons of it. It’s still the only game in town. You can spend it like there’s no tomorrow because there is no tomorrow! Pay everybody to stay home while the elephants fight it out.
Always follow the money. China Inc, for one, is a wholly owned subsidiary of “The Red Shields”. The more you know, the scarier it gets. Enjoy the show.
SCMP article about citizens of Vancouver congregating in beaches and parks after a state of emergency is declared over COVID-19.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3076034/coronavirus-go-home-vancouver-stay-home-covid-19
My instinct is exactly the same as this, and I did notice an increase in people along the sea wall (while I was walking there myself.) This is what we do when there’s a vacation — go outdoors, especially in warmer weather. No wonder Parks Canada is closed (which is really mean, but the only way to prevent “COVID-campsites”, I suppose.)
The suggestion is that Vancouver behave more like Hong Kong, although I would reply that the reason for the difference is totally obvious. I’m not not going outside — although I’m not congregating, either. Trying to keep that one metre distance thing.
Situation down under.
Govt has pulled up the draw bridges, locked the gates, told everyone ‘do not travel overseas’, none shall enter.
Qantas, our flying kangaroo, has stopped all international flights so we have become an island in all senses of the word.
Social distancing – treat everyone as if they have the plague, wash your hands and work from home.
No church, no weddings, no funerals — only groups of less than 100 people.
Granddaughter still travels to work on Sydney trains – but peak hour is now staggered so people can spread out.
High school students – granddaughter and grandson at Sydney private schools are closed, so now do digital learning. Primary school students – grandson and granddaughter at govt school still open.
As we live 150 km away, do not know when we will be able to see them.
In local community, the shops are still crowed with empty shelves – police patrol the isles. Supermarkets are taking out full page advertisements to reassure customers ‘that there is plenty of food’…’ we just can’t get it on the shelves quick enough’. Normally they feed 24 million people, but they say it fells like they are feeding twice that number.
The run on toilet paper continues. A funny story – a man found a stash of over 1000 rolls of toilet paper in his deceased fathers’ garage. His father was a post war immigrant and whenever a product was on special, he bought it. The toilet roll stack was 30 years old, but still in original wrappings. The son is giving it away to the needy.
There is also a run on plant seedlings. People are getting back to basics in planting garlic, herbs and any green vegies. (Something I do anyway.)
Also a run on Panadol (Nurafen and aspirin not recommended for fever reduction in corona) and Ventilin.
Haven’t heard if there is a run on alcohol — but I’m sure that is happening.
Word of the Year would have to be “Unprecedented”.
Stay safe healthy everyone.
Cheers from down under.
Thank You Babushka for your thorough up-date on the situation in Oz
My version is only slightly different in that I’m still able to buy items on my list. Loo paper on the shelf and people calm and friendly/helpful
Woolworths has written to advise that many online orders are cancelled due to unavailability but assure us elders that our orders will be filled and delivered as best as possible
Meanwhile, work is going full steam ahead on three massive tower blocks surrounding my little sixties building.
Re your story about the stash of loo paper found in a post-war immigrant’s shed – this is reminiscent of how I grew up as a post war immigrant child. My parents were unbelievably frugal with money and extremely talented in all the basics, stretching each penny to the max, having been born in 1924 and 1928 respectively. So I learned, from their examples and also their stories.
Because I live so close to 4 major supermarkets, I’ve not bothered with a freezer. Because of my early childhood conditioning, I can get by with basics.
I’m inclined to agree with the comment in this Café from our Wolfhound in which he discusses a currency reset.
I too, have commented independently that today is reminiscent of 1929. Not that I was there but I’ve grown up with the habits and peccadilloes of true survivors. Then I went on to Study :-)
I’ve had happy hens and productive gardens for many years, but now nothing.
My two grandchildren are still very young. I know that most parents will do whatever the authority figures order them to do, on pain of ostracism- but I’m hoping and praying the parents of my grandkids won’t allow any further vaccinations, for reasons people here are alluding to.
Like the child pointing at the Naked Emperor, I’m saying it straight.
We have Easter coming and as someone said somewhere, everything that Extinction Rebellion wanted is now reality
Remember that politician who said his famous words about creating reality, and while you are studying this reality, we are busy creating new realities …
Lent is a fine time for us to be reflecting on our own individual Cross for the Greater Good
Peace and Blessings to You
PS we had Anna Bligh (former Q Premier) on the radio calmly instructing people to not panic/max out their credit cards in order to survive. She told the people to go to their friendly bank and make better arrangements.
Also, I’ve heard – right or wrong- that the authorities in Italy threaten to take kids from their parents if parents refuse vaccination.
First, they take the guns. Then they take the kids. It’s the Liberal Cult dogma. Your Liberties are an illusion.
Aren’t the kids supposed to be unaffected by the corona virus?
Rethorical question.
Just like they said, we only gonna ban indoor gatherings, then include outdoor ones too.
But hey, see it this way: this is God’s punishment for allowing and being complicit in all the deaths in Donbass, Syria, Lybia, Iraq etc…
I disagree. All the liberals are now dead or dying. We now have “progressives” (regressives).
There is a long and ugly history of boat loads of British children sent to the antipodes while the authorities lied to their parents – see Sunshine and Oranges which is based on a true story, written by a social worker.
The immigration centre where my parents brought me in 1956 was once a Training Farm for the Dreadnought Boys. Unbelievably harsh although photos now show the ‘successful’ aspect of the Dreadnought Scheme. These boys were meant to go forth and work the land – with varying degrees of success.
Then there are the Australian Aboriginal children taken from their families by cruel and brutal colonial administrators – the stolen generation
See The Rabbit Proof Fence
Ditto the indigenous children of Kanata, placed in residential schools then disappeared, or marginalised.
Child slavery is aeons-old practice for TPTB, no matter the party or the politician
They strip people of everything while posturing /doling out charity
Keeping people impoverished and traumatised is the name of this age-old game
Suffer the little children…
Health minister Simon Harris a minister in a “caretaker government” whose party Fine Gael,came in third place in recent elections and are only in government still because the main parties including themselves can not agree on a new government nor are even close to doing so,has been given emergency powers amounting to a “Coup de-tat” by a panicked lock step Dail (parliament) in The Republic of Ireland.Powers derived from the “Health act of 1947”amended by various subsections now.
These powers have been signed into law by president Michael D Higgins as of tonight 20 March 2020.
The powers can be invoked after consulting with the state security services,health authorities and other relevant entities,may have no time Limit and no right to appeal.
Martial law and a rolling curfew in the form of area specific lock downs were part of the powers invoked.The only reading of the bill,to my knowledge,was shown after midnight,hours after it was reported without any detail whatsoever on all national MSM tv and radio.
The reading of the bill was performed in perfect english by Harris.
So fast did he speak that
my pencil could barely note the key words.
The recording was broadcast on”Oireachtas TV” (Government) tv.
Broadcast at a time when people were already tired,asleep,or too out of it to notice.I stumbled across it as I was about to shut down the damn thing and was rivited before I nearly threw up at what I had just witnessed.
In other parts of the world we have violent coups, here we just witnessed a coup by panic on a day of significance to a very different culture to ours.
I forgot to mention the term “Stakeholders in society” was also invoke in context of consulting with relevant,entities.above.
Yes indeed, post-war immigrants, like my Russian in-laws and husband could ‘live on the smell of an oily rag’. They dug up their entire back yard and the next vacant block and grew vegetables. The Aussies would come around offering a few pence for picked cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage and eggs etc.
Yes, indeed, the thought of forced vaccination is beyond horrid.
But this is the Hegelian model – problem (virus) , reaction (panic and fear), solution (force vaccines).
The amount of people testing ‘positive’ also rings alarm bells.
How are they being tested – (blood antibodies, tissue sample, Xray, throat swab) – I don’t know?
But something to bear in mind.
Traditionally, antibody tests reading positive were taken as a good sign for the patient: their immune system had contacted a germ and defeated it.
Then, starting in 1984, science was turned upside down: a positive test was taken to mean the patient was ill or would soon become ill.
Could be the reason many elderly are ‘positive’ – they have had the damn virus before and have immunity antibodies, but die of other health issues.
I could be wrong – all the ‘positive’ tests could be correct, but if you have a test, make sure you ask questions.
Just received this. Under Federal Government changes, in the middle of a pandemic, our PM is slashing Medicare payments to doctors. GPs are now warning that they’ll have to stop bulk billing children, pensioners and other concession patients – or close their doors.
So in Oz – don’t get sick, don’t get a test and don’t get a vaccine.
At least the beach and fresh air is still freely available.
“So in Oz – don’t get sick, don’t get a test and don’t get a vaccine. ”
What a good comment Babushka in Oz – short, punchy and true, I would say for all of us, not not only in Oz.
Reporting from rural Ecuador which has just been praised by the IMF for its precautionary measures the spreading of the virus- you can read that as swift police and military action. This is ironic because Ecuador was previously the most absurdly inefficient ineffective gov. imaginable. and much of Ecuador is very rural and basically 50 years behind how most of the world lives. People still use donkeys and live in very simple even primitive conditions growing their traditional foods and traveling into village markets to sell. (Markets now forbidden.)
The first restrictions were just as described above by B in OZ. Border closures, cancelling all fights and closure of all schools. From that day on everyone who came into the country was monitored by officials in hazmat suits who took temperatures and data. Next came the ‘stay- at-home’ mandate with restrictions on any travel locally enforced by military and police barricades at every town. No one is allowed to go even to the next town. We are only permitted to leave our homes for food or medical reasons. Workers can only travel every other day depending on if they have an even or odd license plates. And no more than 2 people per vehicle. In other words their meager livelihood is abruptly halved. The military was on the beaches not allowing people on the beach. News comes out sporadically. Today we heard the whole country which was on curfew from 9 pm is now on curfew from 7 pm. We also heard that medical staff will be visiting anyone who came into in the country the week before the quarantine when they started collecting data.
We are being very, very managed. Fairly recently, the President accepted an IMF loan and subsequently purchased military weapons from the US and received military training by the US. This rapid shut down of the whole country with a small rural population feels like it was for seen. Meanwhile due to the rapidity of the shutdown, many expats are stranded and scrambling to go home. Some embassies are helping but the US has said they cannot do much to get people to the airports because of the regional travel restrictions. This may change today and I will have to decide to return to my family and grandchildren under very great expense… and then what??? I’m sure the scenario I describe is already felt in other places as well and that the dark oppressive forces of tyranny are on the move everywhere across the globe.
The sun is shining today, and I will work in my garden, which is plentiful, painfully musing… should I stay or should I go…
Love to all my fellow truth warriors.
k
Not sure where you live kinterra – I am in Cuenca down by the Machangara Rio, in Monay. I haven’t noticed anything like that. All taxis can run, although buses have been stopped – there is word they will be back next week.
Coral supermaxi is open until 3pm every day, and all shelves are fully stocked -[ except, for some weird reason, canned cat food!! completely out] – all taxis can run, but because there are few people many have decided to take a holiday with family, whom most rarely see much of because they have to work such long hours.
I haven’t seen anyone on a donkey since I got here 5 years ago so I’m guess you are somewhere very rural.
I haven’t seen a single police car on my few trips to supermarket and out to the Avenue de las Americas for a Western Union. Private cars have to go out every other day, governed by last number on your plate. Odds one day, evens the other.
Others have to stay home for 2 weeks only. I called the guy who cuts my grass, who said he will be out in 9 days, having done 6 at home.
Thats all. It seems very mild – and I’ve seen no rabid screaming panic, for which one should be grateful I guess.
I’m a bit further south in rural Loja province near a small village of about 4000- about 1/4 of them expats. What you describe is very different. We are not allowed to go to the bigger shops in Loja town 45 minutes from here. We can not travel more than 2 in a car. Taxis are restricted to driving certain days. We can only go to town for food or medicine and are questioned at the entrance to the village. We have to stand outside the shop and present our list. Police are stationed around observing. The health ministry has gone to the homes of all people who have travelled in the last two weeks, checked them and put them under quarantine. As far as I know, no one has shown No one can work there or visit them. I am not sure how they get food.
I didn’t mention panic in my original email- there is not panic here. Everyone seems very willing to comply, though most local workers and taxis I’ve talked roll their eyes and think its all overblown. Only those on facebook expats who are needing/wanting to get out and can’t get to the bigger airports are expressing nervousness because they cannot travel from province to province. There are military checkpoints between provinces.. And the curfew is country wide. 7 pm- 5 am.
I’m glad things to hear things do not feel so extreme in Cuenca. I am very surprised that this little Hamlet has been so affected.
k
It does appear to be that local city councils have been allowed a fair amount of autonomy in how they handle this, rather than just a direct order from Quito doesn’t it? Which if so is a good thing.
Once again, i am pleased I am in Cuenca – by your description of the many expats, I’m assuming you are in or near Villecabamba – a pretty place certainly.
Still I’m glad I chose Cuenca :-)
Basin of the Machangare River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9lfkngYvc
Beautiful isn’t it? Thanks for that Azorka.
beaut. and nobody to be seen.
“There is also a run on plant seedlings. People are getting back to basics in planting garlic, herbs and any green vegies. (”
I’ve been experimenting with an idea from YouTube. That of re-growing some bought vegetables. I had no idea one could do this so I”m trying. Lettuce, onions, celery, you just chop off the top, pare a thin slice from the bottom, then put the stem into some moist potting mix.
They are growing, but slowly because the nights here are chilly and I have no heating lamps. But the idea works.
At my parents’ property I dig kitchen scraps into the garden. Therefor I have a sprawling lush pumpkin vine which produces delicious fruit for wild animals here- possums, deer, kangaroos
Ok in times of plenty but I might have to get serious about protection.
My son is telling me much of the survival equipment is rapidly being bought up here.
Good luck with your experiments Pamela.
Thank you Babuska.
Today I transferred 8 tiny little seedlings of Meyer lemon plants grown from seed. The look so fragile. I have to find a way to keep them warm over night. I miss the old incandescent bulbs. I’ve also started trying to grow a plant from Mango seeds.
So far I find Cos lettuce to grow best from a stem cut off. Leaves are beginning from the Iceberg, but they are slow.
Fastest growers by far are the garlic cloves – and the spring onions. It’s good to work quietly out in the sun, listening to some cheery bird calls, far away from the madding crowds of the modern world.
My last Tarot reading was very positive, so I work with a light heart.
I just read this in the horrible UK Daily Mail – another voice of reason. He wont be listened to – but at least he is there.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8138675/PETER-HITCHENS-shutting-Britain-REALLY-right-answer.html
… Pyramid of Djoser … March 19, 2020 …
After being closed for 14-years of structural safety renovation totaling $6.6 million, the 4,700-year-old Pyramid of Djoser is open. Imhotep (Imhotep translates as … “he who comes in peace”) was vizier and architect to Pharaoh Djoser.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/egypt-finished-restoring-oldest-pyramid
South Africa’s Doctor Death Wouter Bassoon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Basson
There is a page entry concerning him and a Larry Ford in California.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ford
Articles on Wouter Bassoon.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/126.html
I saw it on 60 Minutes that Year. 2000.
My father got to see his testimony on cspann, concerning Project Coast. My father relayed to me that the South African Apartheid Government successfully assassinated some enemies by infecting the targets with bacteria that took advantage of the persons “propensity” for certain illnesses. In one example causing an opponent to die from heart disease because they had access to opponents medical file, along with a family medical history of heart disease.
Please check cspann or cspann two to see if their archives have anything to view on the testimony.
This is a criticize and sarcasm comment:
I sometimes truly “admire” how thick skin and shameless China is.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B91OL8Aqahm/
Well done, China, you are very opportunism in many bizarre ways, you are very “honest” to show how less innovative you are by stealing others ideas and pulling others into hellhole.
Well done, China, well done!!!
@Unorthodox Black Sheep VN. Some background knowledge is required. The medical teams from China that are now working in Lombardy are mostly volunteers from the province of Sichuan. Why Sichuan. The answer’s on the cartoon picture “stolen” by the (presumably) Chinese artist. Sichuan earthquake (Mw8.3 USGS) happened on 2008-05-12 around the Wenchuan region, the epicentre is indicated on the China map in the cartoon picture where the Chinese language caption says: “You may have forgotten, we have not.” Italy sent a rescue team to Sichuan and Sichuan has not forgotten this act of kindness. How a picture like this could evoke such response addressed to China herself from anyone, of any nationality (or political belief), is a mystery to this passerby. So ready to be offended? Can it be just the language barrier.
Polly is alarmed ….and really, really pissed.
Not at the Chinese. At the people running this COVID 19 narrative.
Including Pence……and Ivanka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSfP8sXtMbk
We Are Being Played
44,744 views•Mar 19, 2020
“Who exactly is handling the Corona Virus Task Force in the US?
I look in to the back ground of Debra Birx which leads us to PEPFAR, which leads us to Bono and Bill Gates and the swampy depths of the Frankenstein Medical Industrial Complex. It’s GLOBAL.”
Birx…a favorite of Pence and Ivanka ….both of whom dissuaded Don from dumping her
Who else likes her? Bill Clinton, Obama…………. this Fauci runt and five organizations run by Bill Gates.
Polly probably has a point. And quite good instincts, usually. One hopes these people are being set up for a fall…but that seems to risky a game to play.
They speak of “gaps” and the need to “flood the zone” with their narratives. A Pandemic could certainly aid and abet such a scenario.
Could Trump actually be on to them……or just overwhelmed…..”flooded”?
Hard to tell.
Like the Donald has been more lulled to sleep than Sleepy Joe???
Is this what Complexity Theory is about???
Always an excuse for poor old Donald.
Why not, Anonymous??? The Orange Wrecking Ball has done some extremely useful demolition thus far.
What structures (like MSM credibility, for starters…) have YOU demolished lately???
Ummmm????
The demolition is not nearly complete….and any useful reconstruction is largely on paper…but HEY! Any progress is preferable to “poor old” impotent whining, in my book.
Toilet paper for sure
it was cheap and they have plenty of it however,
Here we are some way removed from these notions and strive to weave a common,clear,and powerful thread of truth that can overcome any adversary in time
I dunno. Polly has a place in all this as far as ringing alarm bells. I watched the vid as I’ve given her my time before. This is kinda thin gruel when you look at others putting out detailed meta data on the workings of the players. I believe that Trump adheres to the mantra “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. He was given the wheel of a monster truck of out of control graft and evil with millions of moving parts that need replacing.
Polly also had some “cat fight” stuff going on with personalities etc that turned me off. Maybe she should recommend to the Orange Man who she thinks should be in what position? I certainly struggle with that.
Mike Tyson said “Everybody has a plan until they get smashed in the mouth”.
Also, someone just plopped this into my lap and I’m 24 minutes into it. Warning; it’s 3 hours long. Hey, if you are holed up like me, what’s 3 hours if it presents a well documented…….well the title is “The End Of The World As We Know It; The Fall Of The Cabal”. If you only watched it with the sound off (a nice lady is speaking) you would know what is happening. I believe it is very recent from this month. All the players in history, top to bottom, and where we fit in…… I’ve completed 7 decades and am 3 years into my 8th. Much of this I know first hand which is priceless. The last person to lie to is yourself. I won’t start now. https://youtu.be/bmA8rreTvm8
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”
He must have forgotten about that when thinking about Qasem Soleimani.
Obviously, the famous old saying means enemies near at hand… in your own government and its bureaucracies…not persons or adversaries in a foreign land.
Which is not a commentary on the questions remaining about the killing.
Just that they are two entirely distinct and different matters concerning the keeping of certain types of persons “close”.
Obviously.
That doesn’t make him any less a murdering ziobastard though.
As I guess I made obvious on previous Cafe threads, this has been my concern since the start. What is going down, we can’t tell.
I note Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg statement that, using standard epidemiology techniques, he shows that the current fatality from infected patients is not even close to that predicted IF the Coronavirus 2019 was the infectious agent.
It is easily forgotten I think, by those not in these field, that just because you have a new variant, that doesn’t mean all the old ones shut up shop. There is a standard, average, background of deaths among the EI’s {Elderly Infirm} and VH {Vulnerable Health} people every year. That will still continue when an epidemic is going on, but the epidemic should add substantially to your background.
What Dr. Wodarg is saying is that there is No substantial addition to normal, in other words, it may be that the CoV-19 is not even a sickness causing agent!!
It’s easy to scare people by saying “another 15 people have died”, but what they never say is – were they nursing home patients?, – were they already aged and ill?, and does this add to the number of similar demographic who died this time last year and the average for the last 10 yrs at this time of year!! It just scares the uninformed to death.
I note comments from other virologists, including your Polly, of severe anomalies both in testing, detection and proof of lethality. And I compare this utter insanity with the much bigger Influenza A H1N1 of 2009, much greater fatalities, and not a murmur or flip.
Now we have another “dot” to see if it joins up. It seems noted that a considerable number of CEO’s and big time Corporates have resigned lately. Gates and the Governor of the Bank of England among them. No-one seems to know why.
So there is predicted world collapse in economy,; leading wealthy corporates are resigning and disappearing;, insane actions like Medical Martial Law is being put in place,; in Australia police are not even testing for drunk drivers because they have no time – apparently domestic violence has gone through the roof, according to one report I have been given, and the Anglo-Euro world is full of terrified irrational people – and “leaders” are disappearing.
And all we can say is “What in the Sam Hill is going on??”
Hi Pamela, fellow Aries, Hail and well Meet!
I would urge you to check out something called Crisper technology and to study this Virus-something? then acquaint yourself with a concept in bioweapon research ( 44 labs world wide–there used to be a map posted on the internet listing them and their countries) called “gain of function”. then crack the books on basic immunology which I am not struggling to understand—love the names, though: Killer T-cells and Helper T-cells and 50 different kinds of cytokines to say nothing of chemokine.
Check out the usual rate of “natural” mutation and then list the very strange, conveniently strange to my mind, gain of function aspects of this little doozy Virus. Actually it does not kill you –your own immune system does the dirty work for it because at a certain level of concentration in the lungs it provokes it into cytokine storm with ARDS.
Those pictures of people dropping dead on the street in Wuhan and smuggled out onto the WWW were not staged, unfortunately.
I am still studying and trying to come up with my own gain of function list as some of the information is still not clear or certain but …..1.very long, unusual incubation period
2. initial symptoms can be masked ( no fever,,,maybe a dry cough)
3. ability to survive on surfaces an unusually long time
4. viral interference—if you are given a regular flu vaccine, this may ( again this is a bit
iffy still) actually enable the deadliness of this what-ever/from where-ever Virus.
5. unusual lethal ability to hijack the body’s immune system even in the younger adults
There may be more that I am missing . I do not mean to frighten people but” the facts, mam, just the facts”.
The big takeaway for me was Russia’s response…Wham, Bam close the borders, tough quarantines and questioning, or yes–the dreaded profiling, racism charges–people who looked like they might have snuck into Russia from China . Wealthy people in China started to flee immediately to Vancouver, BC, US, etc. before the
flights were closed and also the not so wealthy. Russia announced that any foreign national with coronavirus would be deported back to country of origins.
Funny, did the much vaunted Intelligence network of Russia know something other folks did not?
No, I think not.
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Intelligence-officials-early-alarms-about-15147137.php
Hail and well met, fellow Arian. [Ascendent Libra, moon in Capricorn :-) ]
I think my lectures in immunology and post grad degrees in microbial genetics and biochem should carry me through – easier than for those learning anew.
I will read the links and get back to you – incidentally CRSPR is just a technique using a previously overlooked non-coding sequence to “cut” DNA that is an improvement in time on the old Restriction Enzyme technique, which I mostly used. Its in Humans pretty much as so called “Junk DNA”
I dont think ti’s going to answer my questions, but I’ll try it an let you know.
2 more strongly suspicious “events” that fit the timeline of a long-planned world event here is the constant foot-dragging & manoeuvering over any kind of Brexit, after the original june/2016 vote.
2nd vote so they can “vote correctly the 2nd time”, like the Irish a few short years before?
Soft Brexit…delayed votes in commons, “May or may not” placeholder puppet to buy more time.
on & on, buying time for something.
But on reflection, the absolute biggest giveaway was let out late last summer or so, splashed all over the tabloids at the checkouts, & blurred under the clear BS smokescreen story was that Harry (i think that’s Di’s kid) & Meghan were fed up with royalty (= their own kin & family), and were “distancing themselves” from them!
I remember even then seeing the first headlines splashed, thinking “Ja, right Tonto!”
To note, this was just maybe 2-5 months before the first outbreak.
Yes, they bailed around the same time as the Gates did. There is a list of the number of high flyers CEO’s etc who have recently bailed, the manager of the bank of England another one. All quite big corporations.
Could it be a co-incidence?
Thing is, i dont believe in coincidence.
We knew since years ago that this economic crash was going to come one day. Some thought that voting for Trump would drain the swamp and maybe prevent disaster for the little man. Some thought that at least Tulsi Gabbard was there to speak some truth. Some thought in my country that the government was there to help.
Now we know it matters absolutely zero who gets any votes in elections, there is room for oligarch representatives only, and the little man shall obey and suffer.
Ok, so all we must do is copy the French and take to the streets, then they will realise we must be taken seriously? Except they thought of that in advance and gave us the corona virus and told us to be afraid of our own children, even our own hands. If we don’t stay at home someone will call the authorities and give us a fine.
Brilliant, I give them that.
https://www.euromomo.eu/
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Mortality monitoring in Europe
Welcome to the EuroMOMO website. We publish weekly bulletins of the all-cause mortality levels in up to 24 European countries or regions of countries. The weekly bulletin is published every Thursday around noon.
European mortality bulletin week 11, 2020
Pooled estimates of all-cause mortality show normal expected levels of mortality in the participating countries.
Participating countries:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, UK (England) , UK (Northern Ireland), UK (Scotland), UK (Wales)
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The page includes includes graphs by country. It also states:
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Special note in relation to COVID-19 related mortality as part of the all-cause mortality figures reported by EuroMOMO
Over the past days, the EuroMOMO hub has received multiple questions about the weekly all-cause mortality data and the possible contribution of COVID-19 related mortality. Some wonder why there no increased mortality observed in the reported mortality figures for the COVID-19 affected countries. The answer is that an increased mortality only at subnational level or within smaller focal areas may not be detected at national level. Even more so in the pooled European-wide analysis, given the large total population denominator. Furthermore, there is always a few weeks of delay in death registration and reporting. Hence, the EuroMOMO mortality figures for the most recent weeks must be interpreted with caution. Therefore, although no increased mortality is currently observed in the EuroMOMO figures, it does not rule out that increased mortality occur in some areas or in some age groups, including mortality related to COVID-19.
End Quote
Could be useful to keep an eye on the graphs for Italy & Spain over the next few weeks to confirm the “extra deathhype as a 911 type lie on steroids / otherwise.
“Take care of that throat!”
“This California dew is a little heavier than usual tonight.”
“Really? From where I’m standing it’s sunshine all over the place!”
Singing In The Rain – performed by Gene Kelly …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ
From Soft-Quarantine (really light house-arrest) in the Tropics – A few higher level views and musings on where we are now and a few comments on the general commenting population on the blog. Let me finish that first.
I see we have a bunch of China Bad drive-by shootings happening. And of course the accusation that China did not respond, either soon enough, or well enough, or too much but anyways, China Bad Forever.
I’m sure China made mistakes. I’m sure China made big mistakes. The way I handle these China Bad Forever folks now, is to ask them for alternatives. Usually the thinking process is not complete enough to get to that point and they stick to China did not let the rest of the world know soon enough.
Thing is, China did.
They informed on January 3rd the US and the WHO earlier. But on January 3rd, the US at least was too busy killing Suleimani, to bother.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-03-19/China-first-updated-U-S-over-coronavirus-on-Jan-3-FM-spokeswoman-OZqjpIohm8/index.html
Medical model and non-BigPharma and BigMedical approaches.
I would say that the Medical and BigPharma model is a large part of what has us in this mess anyways, so my own hope is that once we are through this, we may have come to a place where these two – BigPharma and BigMedicine is placed in a proper place and context in our world. I would say, so far, these models have failed us and spectacularly.
Quite rightly people are questioning testing. The tests are truly just a mess.
Quite rightly people are questioning the numbers. Well, everybody is lying. Nobody but nobody will tell you what is happening in their military – and we all know that the military form a very very big part of our populations.
Quite rightly people are questioning and asking for proper testing and proper lab studies because the diagnosis of Covid-19 is not reliable.
But, in analyzing this, we can only work with what we have – It is a *what is* approach, instead of a *what if*. John Rapoport is frequently quoted to support the medical model because he questions. So, his questions are used for support for better labs and better data. Yet, he made a career (and I have tremendous respect for him) out of debunking BigPharma and BigMedicine and clearly vaccines very thoroughly. Because he says things are wrong, does not mean more medical intervention. I find his latest articles alarming, but also, there is no recourse, no different way to go in his work – there are no solutions. I would like to see that.
And sometimes we cannot have good labs. In this case, we do not have good labs, which we should have, at this stage already. So, what do we have, in reality?. One can diagnose from labs, or one can diagnose from symptoms. Let me explain that, i.e., how do we know that Covid-19 is making people sick, and that this is not just a common type of viral pneumonia, and not just a cold.
We have Dr Li. He has now been exonerated by the Chinese .gov and they have apologized to everyone, families and the Chinese people.
Dr. Li spoke on some Chinese social media – where other Doctors gather – saying that he has patients with this pneumonia-like symptoms, but it does not respond to the usual treatment – and, he has too many of those patients for it to be a coincidence.
Other Doctors then reported similar and this was spreading throughout the population.
The local Chinese thugs said he was creating confusion in the masses. These thugs have now been fired.
Dr. Li died six weeks later of this set of symptoms that he found does not respond to any known treatment protocol.
Three day later, China was in lock-down.
Thing is, we have the symptoms from this early work. We know what this thing does, how it responds and what it does not respond to from Dr Li and his colleagues. But yet in the West, they excoriate China. But, they use the work that these Doctors did.
The West, in some magical thinking, thought this virus would stay in the borders of China and did not prepare adequately in terms of the BigPharma and the BigMedicine models.
(In the alternative health model, most of us were out early with necessary protective protocols and we have not stopped – in our world we are not so dependent on labs and medical data, as anecdotal evidence and correct analysis of that anecdotal evidence forms part of our world.)
Another way we can diagnose – and this is TCM. Those who know a little about this know that diagnoses come from the state of the tongue. So, in this health modality, they report a very specific grey coating on the tongue, which to them is dead certain, this is not just a normal thing, but is what we’ve come to call Covid-19.
So, the BigPharma and BigMedicine is flailing around – we still do not have a set of medicine that is a sure fire bet against Covid-19. They are flailing, the tests are useless and report as many high incidences as what they report as low incidences. The Governments are betting on a vaccine. Again, John Rapoport himself as debunked the vaccine theory and methodology thoroughly. New York has now come out with numbers of flu-like diseases before, and so far:
“Early warning signs: NYC Health dept’s surveillance of “influenza like illness” symptoms. The current peak is now almost DOUBLE past flu seasons. #COVID19 is hitting NYC hard now for sure.”
Eric Feigl-Ding’s twitter feed is useful to have at hand. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
In the mean-time, most of us are now in some kind of house arrest.
So, what is next. It looks a little bleak, because we do not know how long this house-arrest is going to last and if the population under stress is going to keep their heads, or like Slavoj Zizek says: “Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but barbarism with human face.”
Again, we only have China to take lessons from. I would caution people to take what is said about China in the Western press with a big grain of salt. China has not relaxed in any big way, their lock-down. What they have done, is to release some workers from quarantine, mostly farm workers and such types of work. They are allowing people in communities under quarantine, to get out of their houses and mix, but only within their own communities – those quarantined together. They are relaxing little bit by little bit to avoid a second phase. Many Chinese are going back to China – these are put under mandatory quarantine and asked to pay for their own quarantine, reason being, they stayed out of the country when it was in trouble, and now they want to avoid trouble in the countries where they are .. so, they can pay some. (I do not believe China’s numbers – I think there were many more deaths than reported – they lied in my view, for political reasons.)
So, what am I going to do with the lighter workload? First, study the economics as I am convinced that this whole set of circumstances came from the Trade War. It is not what it seems. Second, figure if I’m going to do another Spanish language course, or something that I’ve been wanting to do forever, either tackle Simplified Chinese, or dive into Vedic type languages – Vedic Sanskrit or a more modern type.
The one thing that I’ve simplified is cooking. I am a foodie and love making things – sometimes complex and complicated things – just because I love it. This, I had to simplify. I have this yearning to read some cheap novels but I don’t know if that will happen – I don’t think I will be able to do that. My husband who is an inveterate tinkerer and always wants do something with his hands, preferably woodwork, also had to simplify. Both of these hobbies need a quick run to the store usually for a little bit of this, or a little bit of that. So, we’ve simplified for the duration. My husband will probably tackle learning some new computer languages in the blockchain family which means we will both do that as he will rope me in! Already too many things on the ‘hoped for’ list.
In addition, I’ll keep correspondence with the groups working with a non-medical and non-big pharma model.
We’re pretty calm and content but we started preparing right early on. When China started reporting I had a gnosis that this will not stay in China, and since then we’ve prepped up little by little – will for sure run out of toilet paper – depending how long this house-arrest lasts. I’m not against house-arrest. To me it means I stay healthy, and also, I don’t infect anyone else. We hope it works.
That’s my story, and now into the economics and how the money works. Stay healthy out there, do not believe the government, or BigPharma or BigMedical.
My mantra now I’ve taken from Babushka in Oz – don’t get sick, don’t get a test and don’t get a vaccine. ”
May it be this simple.
Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Pneumonia Caused by COVID-19 issued by the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China for treatment of COVID-19 infection in larger populations in the future.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/14/1/14_2020.01047/_pdf/-char/en
Thanks Amarynth . I have two blood type A friends who are a bit concerned that they are statistically significantly more susceptible. to this virus. I forwarded the article to them. and highlighted this paragraph:
“Studies revealed that it also has potential broad-spectrum antiviral activities by increasing endosomal pH required for virus/cell fusion, as well as interfering with the glycosylation of cellular receptors of SARS-CoV (6,7′
At least they will know what drug to ask for should they need it but one man knows Mds who will do intravenous Vitamin.C—it is a very big deal to go “off plantation” when dealing with the Medical Mafia in Looneylandia.
Looney-landia itself by the way seems to be going totally berserk these days. ( the commentariat that is—the regular folks are hunkering down, dazed and frightened and waiting). The looks on the children’s faces tell it all—the rounded eyes watching very, very carefully the adults.
A simple thing, from our tropical little country which is poor, i.e., no masks and for many people, very little extra.
One sometimes misses something if you don’t watch this local TeeVee (and I don’t). I just had a conversation with some rural folks who kept their distance and reminded me me to keep mine :-). We are under full and hard quarantine now. Most everything closed, supermarkets open and times staggered and tests at supermarket doors. Continual cleaning of supermarket baskets. No tourist ships may land. Buses running empty, mostly with supermarket and medical staff and necessary services.
The local folks have a simple and cheap way for navigating any crowd situation like on a bus,, with something that everyone has and will not get in short supply. They all have a pack of wetwipes in their bags and a container of alcohol. So, they drip some alcohol on the wetwipe, and wipe their faces, arms, hands, noses and everything every now and again. This whole week there was education? on TeeVee exactly how to behave. All are calm, they say they feel good with the 3 week quarantine called and with their methods of wetwipes and alcohol because everyone knows that we cannot afford all the masks and gloves and stuff.
One cannot but admire this spirit.
I course it is ….never doubt.
this is a deep subject going back to ancient times of darkness and much learning from the survivors …ones that wrote the Sanskrit
Five food pantries in the southern part of my county (Peoria, I’ll) are now shut down. Anybody else hear similar?
… Nassim Hassermein speaks about his thoughts on The Giza Pyramids …
the following video link is timed …
https://youtu.be/0adlTaiLmEM?t=2940
(stay tuned)
UK update.
We must self isolate.
We must stay at home.
We must not got to the gym or the pub, and shall observe the advice of social distancing.
Planned meetings and gatherings of all kinds are cancelled on the advice of the British government.
We are doing this to protect others, out of care for our loved ones, and to avoid spreading a disease.
This goes even if you have no loved ones. It is very stressful.
Millions of professionals, workers of all kinds, have lost their jobs.
Children have no school. They are advised to stay at home and avoid social gatherings.
Something utterly terrible must surely be about to happen.
People are arranging and buying and planning for the worst. The worst of what ?
So far no one seems to know of someone, either with symptoms of, or has the threatened virus.
It is very confusing and tiring for the masses, and they stay at home and watch horror movies for distraction.
Nature seems fine, the birds are singing for all they’re worth, the buds are bursting into life, there are bees on the heather and the airs are fresh and windswept from months of wind and rain, rejoicing mightily at the loss of aviation traffic.
Ras
If we think more deeply at the human “evolution” in the latest decades, this is but one of the results. One can build up all kinds of theories based on all kinds of information gathered from the internet, the reality is that humanity has achieved a state of mind which is much closer to matter than to spiritual evolution.
In fact, people have deceived themselves, hunting illusions in almost every corner of the world thanks to global teasing with the outlook of a western style of life which has become a standard target for almost every person. Now the king is indeed naked, the strongest deniers of spiritual existence, the scientists, are staying perplexed, trying to find an answer to this pandemic, meanwhile the matter itself is being shaken, the naked masters of economy have no idea what to do, not being capable of drawing a solution in the wake of unpredictable outcomes, not to mention the politicians who, instead of serving the people have chosen the politics as a career, a mean of making money by having power, assuring themselves a higher place in the material world as if they have a special protection granted by God himself.
The stunning about them is, that some believe that in the afterlife they will keep their positions in some way known only by them (yes, they are so sick minds).
In other words, once the minds of people have been infected, there was only a question of Time until the infection has reached the physical level.
And the Easter is near.
life is a series
of interconnected wheels;
as above so below
Your words made me instantly think again of the words of this song Dimitar – as has been the case a fair bit lately.
I feel more as if, for more and more people right now, everything that is happening; everything we try to make sense of, as we take in more and more information that puzzles and contradicts, it feels to me just like “the Windmills of your mind”
Like a circle in a spiral or
A wheel within a wheel
never ending or Beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball on mountain or a carnival balloon
or a carousel that’s turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are Sweeping past the minutes on it’s face
And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind
Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel on it’s own
Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Here you go Pamela
I posted this 28 Feb –
In keeping with the good cheer depicted in our Café image
In celebration of Life
and the kaleidoscope of topics discussed here
An exhilarating version of a golden oldie
Windmills…Mind…
https://youtu.be/5q3y5jYZ6V4
Thank you Babuska – Dusty Springfields’ is the best verions I think – she comes closer than anyone to capturing that sad wistful regret of a love lost from lack of communication. It is to me a haunting melody of that “tristesse”, and the other versions instead make it noisy and jazzy, thus missing the point.
To me, anyway
A nice sound when you can’t sleep at 5.30 a.m. :-)
I’m a prisoner
in the castle of tristesse;
early morning haunt
Pleasure.
Dusty coloured my angsty adolescent life, always for the better with her beautiful voice and evocative words.
What I especially love now with these videos including couples ice skating is the infinite unfailing trust each partner has, in the other,
Trust.
Where do we see trust today?
When I wake in the early hours, I come to this Café:-)
is there no escape?
my mind unravels before
the circle of love!
There is no escaping satan or trying to reason with the wicked, this is why the wars must continue thru these difficult times, all in the name of the love of god.
The never/ending wars are for power, resources and coin.
Any one who dares stand in the way of these objectives is removed. That is the eternal story Alabama
It takes the stronger person to not fight back.
Even though there are such strong persons, we see or hear of them being liquidated vaporised or disappeared by whatever means necessary.
It seems like a losing battle but as we know,
Because it says so somewhere in Denver International Airport -something about a Capstone :-)
Nothing is as it seems
There are no co-incidents
Everything is interrelated
I have long known that the Christianity of Christ and His Sermons on the Mount are seriously hijacked by the usual suspects.
Dimitar here unfailingly, lyrically teaches the real deal on Soul
We are all part of the One Soul
Blessings to You
Old Satan’s Tree
Well, Billy he had a bone to pick,
And Seb said he wanted to even the score.
We followed that trail through the old dry gulch,
And on through the heart of the withered moor.
We caught ol’ Satan lurking about,
Down by the ruins of a killing spree.
We strung him up in a big old oak,
Henceforth to be known as old Satan’s tree!
In the morning that old belier was gone,
The rope was charred, a charm had been spun.
And everywhere we turned we saw,
Throughout the land the wars had begun!
Well, the years have passed and the trail’s still hot,
We’re old and we’re grey but we still remain three.
Each day I pray to the Lord above,
This time he won’t escape from old Satan’s tree!
continually
dying and being reborn;
the journey of soul
Someone is in the bargaining stage of grief(bargaining) and it is not Russia. ( great meme video at the end of the article)
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/putin-wont-blink-first-kremlin-rejects-potential-us-intervention-russia-saudi-oil-war
And a song to listen to while you read it:( Tom Petty: I won’t back down)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA.
A little more info from Vancouver, BC, Canada:
1) According to Dr. Bonnie Henry, provincial health officer, we can go outside for activities like dog walking. Keep your social distance. I don’t know if other parts of Canada are being given this advice, but I appreciate it. If this social isolation becomes a longer-term situation, the parks will have to be opened somehow. This is Canada, not Asia.
2) The border between Canada and the US is being closed overnight to non-essential travel. https://twitter.com/CBCKatie/status/1240991220597436419
While this was announced as a mutual measure between the two counties, I read on a couple news sites that it was a Canadian request, which was carefully spun as mutual. Apparently Deputy PM Freeland spent 22 hours coaxing the American side to an agreement (per Rosemary Barton on The National)
3) An update on Canada’s military presence in Italy: https://globalnews.ca/news/6701288/hmcs-fredericton-continues-mediterranean-mission-amid-covid-19/
A Canadian naval ship is patrolling the Mediterranean and Black Seas to strengthen defence and deterrence measures in Central and Eastern Europe. ‘Kay.
4) “Kremlin says Russia and Saudi Arabia do not wage wars over oil prices.” https://tass.com/economy/1132923 All the Canadian coverage I’ve read/watched reports that Russia and Saudi Arabia are engaged in an oil price war. Interesting.
5) Canadian military involvement in COVID response? Here’s an interview on the subject:
https://twitter.com/CAGlobalAffairs/status/1240732788518785025
Trudeau’s about to give an update. Cheers for now!
One update from Trudeau’s update: Irregular migrants will be turned away at the Canadian border (and vice versa.) This is a bit sad to me because it closes a “last resort” option for those fleeing persecution (of any kind) in the northern US.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/irregular-migrants-to-be-turned-away-at-canadian-border-1.4861409
And a quick update on those repatriated Canadians in quarantine at the military base, CFB Trenton. These folks came directly from Wuhan and from cruise ships. More than 200 people are quarantined there and 12 are confirmed to have COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1241039698757378051
Here’s a little more info on, what I’d call, “the elephant in the not-a-bio-weapon room”. In the last week alone, about a million people returned to Canada. Why are these ones quarantined at a military base?
https://globalnews.ca/news/6654104/coronavirus-grand-princess-evacuees-trenton/
Just a reminder, those citizens of Canada in Wuhan at the time of the outbreak were also flown back to this military base. And it took days to negotiate that.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6526117/ottawa-professor-quarantine-cfb-trenton/
In a comment yesterday, Steve Pahs aka Wolfhound concluded a comment of his saying:
“Always follow the money. China Inc, for one, is a wholly owned subsidiary of “The Red Shields”. The more you know, the scarier it gets. Enjoy the show.”
I wrote a reply but it somehow got lost in the ether…because it wasn’t even remotely a rule breaker or ad hominem of any sort. But the matter I wanted to bring up is important enough, IMHO to try again from Higher Ground than (Empire!) geopolitical rivalry. So here goes:
Steve, I think way too many in the so-called “patriot movement” are much too filled with 200 year old North American Pride and Ego and ridiculously dismissive of a 5000 year old culture that for many many centuries. if not millenia was THE world leader in Learning and Invention….and civilization.
I am encouraged by the fact that Frank of Quite Frankly (despite milking the China Virus thing pretty hard….for clicks, viewers, subscribers….and in general “keeping the lights on”….and buying more lights….upgrading his studio….which I don’t knock, BTW…) IS asking sincere Virus Origin questions now, openly.
SO…always keep in mind the View from the Very Top of the Global Control System Pyramid:
Divide & Conquer ALL of Humanity ………….using the distinct particular identities of different parts of humanity to do so.
EGO (the Particular versus the Universal….) is the Fundamental Enemy….not The Other race, or nationality or tribe. For the occult manipulators of the world know the human beings in it far, far more deeply (in terms of our vulnerabilities ….our unrealized potential to rise above these vulnerabilities of particularity vs universality of identity…. is what they fear) than we know ourselves./..and THEY use this inner or secret knowledge as a power differential to attempt to keep us enslaved.
Here’s where it gets tricky and very, very interesting: That does not mean that an Englishman or Chinese or Arab or Jew does not have the same issue…of the same necessary in some degree…EGO. They all do, as well! A general cultural and spiritual maturation out of the Adolescent Phase of human development is required to overcome this vulnerability….as some great men and women of the past…have done…and more will do in our present and future.
But beware the automatic projection of our “dog eat dog”…survival of the fittest Darwinism onto things like BRi and OBOR. I was fighting for that conception under different names …The (1989!!!…!990!!!) World Landbridge of Lyndon LaRouche (and his mentor Leibniz….who recognized in Chinese Civilization common moral principles….with European Christian principles) nearly a quarter century before the Chinese adopted these as policy and gave such connectivity concepts (as the requisite infrastructure to provide the entire planet with a new, and higher economic platform of capability…) their new names.
And the matter of AZ Empire being opposed to OBOR/BRI…not in any way, shape or form backing it as some sort of Rothschild Plot……..is as plain as the nose on your face:
WHAT do you suppose is the purpose of their backing AlQueda…..ISIS…and so forth…if not to disrupt and destroy the potential for this new, higher platform (Which SHOULD be extended into the Americas via the Bering Straits Tunnel…which would toss their Sea Power Trade (Geographic) and Financial Choke Points system….into the well deserved trash can of history) …ultimately??
So No, Steve,,,,,(and NO, Quite Frankly…LOL) China’s presence in Africa and massive NEEDED investments in physical transporatation infrastructe is not necessarily the same as John Perkin’s Debt Trap Exposed in his Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man book.
A re-evaluation of this matter is needed. There are signs, believe it or not, that Trump gets it!
Which does not mean that we don’t need our own national economic security supply lines back! We do.
Just as China needs further development of their internal domestic markets……not OBOR/BRI extended to Rotterdam, Athens,etc without the internal part. Which they have done first, BTW in greater detail and degree.
But recovering our capacities while the Chinese go even further with theirs…and together we co-operate in enabling a wounded, weakened world advance…is The Prize.
NOT knocking out China…..(sorry, Black Sheep) or anyone else (Vietnam???….lol…The Phillipines???……Brazil??? Venezuela??? Argentina???…etc,etc,etc,etc) in any geopolitical boxing ring…..in any arena owned by Red Shield or any other faction of globalist oligarchy.
“Follow the Money!”??? Yeah, sure.
However:
How about “Expose the Unhinged Ego Of Monstrous Evil” and how it divides and conquers smaller and more human egos …….that can only escape this situation by raising their identities to one that is less particular…..and more universal?
Yikes! Bro, we are on the same page basically. I would never get into a pissing contest with you as your bladder is the size of a KC-135’s fuel capacity.
I was once in the “Patriot Movement” but moved on because the knuckle draggers were stuck in second gear and my tranny has 8. I fully recognize as does Trump and you, that, it is a global system and pitting one area against another is counter productive. At Purdue U., Krannert Business , after getting my lunch handed to me in Nam, a prof told me to erase national boundaries in my mind and look at earth as economic subsystems. The National boundaries suddenly made no sense. They still don’t. Don’t get me wrong, I think boundaries do have a purpose otherwise all the marbles roll into unsustainable corners. Humans need some guiding principals or the biggest biceps win. The Ten Commandments, even less the God stuff, are a fair set of rules.. There are other set like the Koran who have good ideas also such as setting interest on money at 3%. Well, we KNOW that that wouldn’t fly with the fiat crowd. “Allow me to issue the currency and I care not who the leaders are as I will determine the fate of the people”. Mayer Amschell Rothschild. (Red Shields)
I’ve led a rather charmed life for a dairy farm puke. By happenstance my family was acquainted with the family of Dr Scholl. You know, the foot pad medical dynasty etc that you see on pharmacy and grocery shelves worldwide. Well, when I got back from Nam in 68′, one of his grand nieces took a shine to me and her father was a wheel with American Can. In the early 70’s with Nixon still around he “opened the door to China”. My squeeze’
s father was one of the wheels who went to China as the opportunity to shift our factories there (cheap labor) opened up. This required financing. I think you know where I’m going.
yeah, I get the “human maturation stuff” and I judge everyone I meet on an individual basis. I’m alive because a Black kid (yes, we were kids) saved my life on at least 3 occasions. I also had a black kid die while I was trying to haul him uphill in the dark under close fire. All humans are different. I get it. I have confidence. Ego?
I’m not opposed to OBOR/BRI and I’m sure I’ve said that on this site (or not) before. I’m opposed to who ostensibly would control it. China, with “western” financing and massive shift of manufacturing does have the resources to do such. That’s cool. What’s not cool is “Deep State” destruction of the “right of way”.
My position is that I want all humans to live and profit from what they do best. I believe that can only happen if the means of trade based upon a currency that reflects the true value of such is in place. That rules out the present Central Banking system in my view. They won’t go quietly into the night. We’re back to “Buckle up”.
Just checking.
Not marking my territory. None of it is mine.
It’s all of ours. On borrowed time.
Now I won’t worry about you. lol
Like I’m not too worried about Frank.
I have a link for him I saw this morning (but where? I’ll look ..) in the New York Times attacking :”authoritarian” China.
Frank can discern. Not jump
Into bed with the rag anti-Trump
But can can vot tak, amarynth and the Colonel?
We will discover in the end. If we make it that far, that is, without having to pass the baton before we fall flat on our face….for others to continue…The Human Race
You took the words right out of my mouth. Better wash your hands!
Frank needs to rollem’ bigger at “intermission.”
There are other set like the Koran who have good ideas also such as setting interest on money at 3%. Well, we KNOW that that wouldn’t fly with the fiat crowd. “
I remember well, even tho 2+ decades ago, when the congresscriminals voted to remove the interest rate cap on cc debt at least (may have been any/all loans). Thus now we have millions not just maxed out, but now no job, no cash to even pay the monthly cc minimum, & interest piling up at 24- 28.8%!
So, what are the odds Mr.T., to offer relief to anyone but the moneyed rentier class, will wave his magic wand or field marshal’s baton & freeze the interest at this mythical “0%” for the average schlub/paisano/kulak on their cc debt at least…after all they just magically adjusted it upward with no effort as mentioned, almost at will u could say.
Since we’re talking fairy tale land here, that momentous event might look something like this:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/protagonists/images/d/d9/Mickey.png/revision/latest?cb=20121105031437
Link enters vid at exact time (502 sec in) to read screenshot of latest utterance of Larry ‘Could be more’ telling us it (relief) could be….$2.1T! (But none of it for you! Get back to work!):
Global Mega Stimulus Has Begun! HISTORIC Interest Rate Cuts Could Bring Massive Inflation!
MONEY GPS MARCH 21
https://youtu.be/EyoBWrs0PTY?t=502
could not be said any better than that Steve.
@Bro93
“For the occult manipulators of the world know the human beings in it far, far more deeply (in terms of our vulnerabilities ….our unrealized potential to rise above these vulnerabilities of particularity vs universality of identity…. is what they fear) than we know ourselves./..and THEY use this inner or secret knowledge as a power differential to attempt to keep us enslaved.”
In a way their initiation rites are in fact humiliating experiences – to succumb and openly seen by all initiated – to the lowest, of low instincts. In a way they give up their living self and succumb to their god – Luzifer, Satan, Moloch, which is appropriately illustrated even be them by decay, cannibalism, chaos, death.
Any person being able to take responsibility over many others should go through a humiliation rite, but not to crush the innermost love to god but to show the limits, which ALWAYS are there different for anyone. This of course requires a deep line of education even over the limits of the generational limits touching the karma of family anchesty as well, because most of our burden comes from there (or is transmitted through for this specific soul). The Vedas talk about these things, sadly not in detail – perhaps it has never been mastered, and if, the traces have been lost, or are still hidden in some forgotten place….not even a glimpse is found in the current curriculums of schools…
The amount of ‘work’ necessary to build a better world is gargantuan while almost everything is in place for Luzifer already, their troops are in the hundreds of millions – all sheep are their property !!!!
Our only hope is Russia – there – the basics are enshrined in the language, it was there long before Christianization, much has been lost, but the core is intact.
Every quarter hour we need a Corona Update. I’ll do my duty:
Sputnik International all editions 20 MARCH 2020
Scientists in countries around the world have rushed to learn everything they can about COVID-19 in recent months in a bid to create an effective vaccine.
Russian scientists have sequenced the whole genome of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health has announced.
In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry explained that the genome, sourced from a patient infected with the virus, will help in the development of vaccines and antiviral drugs for treatment.
The genome was sequenced by scientists from the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, a leading medical institute in St. Petersburg partnered with the World Health Organization.
Doctor of Medical Sciences Dmitry Lioznov, who serves as the acting director of the Smorodintsev Institute, stressed that because COVID-19 is “a new coronavirus for us…it is critically important to be able to determine the path of its entry and spread into our country, as well as its mutations.”
Russia, which has 147 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including nine recoveries and one fatality, has joined other nations in taking a series of measures to combat the pandemic. Classifying the outbreak as one of the worst public health crises in the last 50 years, the Russian government’s efforts have included shutting down borders with neighbouring countries, instituting tough screening procedures at airports and train stations, restricting public gatherings and asking business to ramp up production of virus-related medical equipment, including test kits and masks. On Thursday, the government announced that it is reviewing existing restrictions and may strengthen them in the future on the basis of scientific and medical advice.
Earlier this week, President Vladimir Putin called on Russians to treat the precautionary measures put in place with a sense of understanding, and urged the public to show solidarity, composure, responsibility and discipline to overcome the virus and its social impact.
Since originating in Wuhan, China in late 2019, COVID-19 has spread to nearly 160 countries and territories, infecting some 220,000 people and causing nearly 9,000 deaths. Some 84,000 people have enjoyed a complete recovery thus far.
https://sputniknews.com/russia/202003191078623394-russian-scientists-make-coronavirus-whole-genome-sequencing/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com&utm_campaign=dbr
https://www.facebook.com/673674355/posts/10158007340299356
Can any one confirm the spanish translation is correct and provide and english one?!
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/03/19/621183/Kashmir-India-journalism-dramatic-state-of-repression
News / India
Journalism in Kashmir in ‘dramatic state of repression:’ Media watchdog
Journalists hold signs during a protest against ongoing restrictions of the
Internet and mobile phone networks, at the Kashmir Press Club, in Srinagar,
Indian-administered Kashmir, on October 3, 2019. (Photo by AFP)
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global media watchdog, has raised
concern about the condition of journalists in the Indian-administered Kashmir
region, saying press freedom there is “under serious threat from security forces.”
please disregard this man’s obvious political bias ( he is one of the berserkers who things China is going to land of the beaches of California). But the health information is accurate so far:
Do-it-yourself toilet paper:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-03-20-how-to-make-diy-toilet-paper.html
My clairvoyance tells me that
1. The police hours / lockdowns in Europe are used to shuttle Idlib refugees over the Balkan route, without the locals taking notice and objecting. Hint: Talk about the refugees disappeared from the news cycle completely.
2. This deliberate destroying of EU economies equals mandated austerity for the masses and money for the banks. This time it’s not just Greece but Europe-wide. Recall the 10-part article series from Ramin Mazaheri and that he said that if the banks don’t get any more free money from the FED/ECB that they start fleecing the masses using austerity. Well that is happening right now, ain’t it?
What say you, dear readers?
Weimar Republic levels of inflation is another way to do it but the American working class has no reserves to put up with even more moderate levels of inflation…No one has gardens, no one has relatives in the countryside, no one has unions to fight for them except the truckers, teachers, police etc, nurses, and the most important powerful one of all in California, the Prison Guard worker’s union.
Agreed. Central banks cant print no more without creating inflation, so they opted for austerity/depression, but I am noticing inflation up to 30% for imported goods (some IT components). And what’s the private sector gonna do: either fire ppl, lower wages or raise prices. I talk to people and they take the shorter working hours light-headed. But they gonna be gobsmacked soon enough.
Things so ugly this guy’s doing something never seen him do before—short vids about 1/2 as long as his regular stuff. keeps the dose of doom porn down to sane.
Money gps MARCH 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLXBpL19eBg
Philippines stock exchange drops 24% first few hours after reopening, 2 days after shutting down,
As mentioned earlier post, we’ll see this rotate thru the world various exchanges in turn.
Boeing, after pissing away billions in share buybacks past years, loading company with huge debt, now puts out begging bowl asking Mr. T. (Tariff, Twitterer, Trillion, …) “Buddy, can you spare a T?”
Comment below vid MAR20 interesting—right after US adults announced get $1000 cheque to spend on whatever. obviously done to mollify the masses keep them simmering below the boiling point, sorely pissed at seeing all the trillions being passed out to the banksters.
You’d almost think seeing this act that these 2 are separated at birth!
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carsten_Weerth/post/Boris_Johnson_and_Donald_Trump-are_they_political_twins_or_is_Johnson_a_Trump_puppet_Discuss_and_give_evidence_or_helpful_comments/attachment/5d41faa3cfe4a7968dbb7215/AS%3A786812574371841%401564602144526/image/Boris_Donald_IMG-20190731-WA0001.jpg
Lol in the UK they just announced the government will pay everybody’s wage (80%, maximum £2500), which will essentially be funded by the BOE QE. People getting paid to do nothing with printed money while production craters means prices for basic goods are going to skyrocket and/or run out.
Only thing to do when the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and you cant stop it — laugh at it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrtwXqqc6g&fbclid=IwAR3-njQezL8CwKNyHU2EkFQ06We0xmR1bV_YTGp_ljJWYuR4JrFoOlmxOGs
Also, if you know anything about Jungian / MBTI types, this could appeal. Can you spot “you”. ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHC_TNfjRLQ
Lied too, lied too, laughing too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7u-9ZHOgE
It’s All Good, Ma and Pa!.
A calmness comes over me, as I smile and realize that there is…….. An Order To It All……. it’s not an irrational, Meaningless Universe, With No Purpose, after all!
And the purpose is going “viral”.
Alex Jones told us that there is A War On For Our Minds……….and was proven correct, as he lost his, on the air live. His heroic sacrifice will always be remembered!
Joe Biden declared that Italy’s health care system doesn’t work. I got this from Jimmy Dore live but it’s still running so I can’t get you the exact time within this long video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48iftIFMpRA
Which shows an emergency airlift of half a million Italian respirators arriving in Memphis, Tennessee to help Trump out. They owe him one.
With former presidential primary opponents tripping over themselves to drop out and endorse a clearly Demented, Corrupt As Hell Old Fart………..just explain to folks abroad that the Dem. on the November ballot…………Joe Biden Dem. …..stands for DEMENTED.
Meanwhile……along the lines of Deja Vu……….all over again…..despite the fact that my Ma has been gone for more than a decade….with Existentialism Hanging Heavy In The Air………….A Dylan song re-entered my brain like a 50 year re-occurrence of a virus, and hooked itself unto one of my brain cell receptors:
It’s Alright, Ma
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon, there is no sense in trying
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words proves to warn
That he not busy being born …..is busy dying.
Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more person….. crying!
So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all, except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
Our preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
An’ all the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on all around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Do what they do just to be
Nothing more than something they invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize and say, “God bless him”
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole…. that he’s in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn’t talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes…… must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False goals, I scuff at pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say, “Okay, I have had enough, what else can you show me?”
And if my thought dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only.
Such inspiring optimism, Bob!
Except reality intervenes in my feverish brain
As I substitute words like the second “life” for their opposite
And must alter, edit and remove from your refrain
The synonym for deep respiring
And make it mean “expiring”
And in this reversion to the true meaning
I find myself theorizing and conspiring
And……It becomes:
But it’s alright, Ma!
I’m only dying……
Of laughter, for now.
I don’t usually post zionazi-gay media articles, this time making an exception since the article gives a useful over view.
Americans are very likely to get $1,000 (or more) checks. Here’s what you need to know.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/17/checks-virus/
Nothing is finalized yet, that’s the problem. The money is necessary now. Not in 2 weeks, a month, in summer…
Now.
US hopes both sanctions & Covid-19 in Iran will force regime change. But it’s a MASS MURDER that will only strengthen Tehran govt
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/483680-iran-sanctions-coronavirus-us-murder/
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Javad Zarif
✔
@JZarif
US administration gleefully takes pride in killing Iranians citizens on #Nowruz—our New Year.
The White House takes its “maximum pressure” to a new level of inhumanity with its utter contempt for human life.
Iran to US: Your policy will live in infamy. But Iran won’t break”
“While the ‘maximum pressure’ campaign has weakened the Iranian economy and eroded the confidence of the Iranian people in their government, by denying Iran access to humanitarian aid at the same time it is subjecting Iran to some of the most stringent economic sanctions ever, the US risks negating the impact of its policy by alienating an international community desirous of helping Iran recover from the coronavirus outbreak, and similarly rallying the Iranian people in support of their embattled government. If this were to occur, it would be a fitting manifestation of the law of unintended consequences.”
The likudites, with their fanaticism and aspie sense of deluded self importance, have a long history of creating unintended consequences.
Buried at the bottom of an NPR article is an indication that Lombardy had the virus much earlier than previously known — in December, perhaps November — in which case it may have occurred before and independently of Wuhan.
“Remuzzi says he is now hearing information about it [the virus outbreak] from general practitioners. “They remember having seen very strange pneumonia, very severe, particularly in old people in December and even November,” he says. “This means that the virus was circulating, at least in [the northern region of] Lombardy and before we were aware of this outbreak occurring in China.”
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/817974987/every-single-individual-must-stay-home-italy-s-coronavirus-deaths-pass-china-s
If we push back the northern Lombardy timeline to December or November, then it would overlap with the Wuhan timeline, and possibly precede it. Tests will have to taken of previous patients to confirm this.
Keep in mind that late-December, early-January is very much at the early stages in Wuhan, The earliest sign of Covid-19 in Wuhan occurred on December 26, when a doctor observed that four patients exhibited unusual infection outcomes (because three of the family members all got infected by proximity.) At that time, in late December, it was not yet identified as a new virus; that would have to await lab tests. China reported Covid cases to the WHO on January 3rd, then sequenced the virus genome and shared it with the WHO on Jan. 7th.
See WHO report for the dates of this timeline, page 31:
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf
If the Lombardy timeline goes as far back as December or November, it could well be an independent outbreak unrelated to Wuhan. Note that that the Lombardy haplotype of the virus is distinct from the one predominant in Wuhan, so given the overlapping timeline, and their being of different haplotypes, these might be independent outbreaks. At this point, it is still undetermined where and when the virus originated.
“If the Lombardy timeline goes as far back as December or November, it could well be an independent outbreak unrelated to Wuhan. Note that that the Lombardy haplotype of the virus is distinct from the one predominant in Wuhan, so given the overlapping timeline, and their being of different haplotypes, these might be independent outbreaks. At this point, it is still undetermined where and when the virus originated.”
Likely the Iranian outbreak also began back around the same time. It is a different variety of the virus, as well, by an odd coincidence. The 3 regions were probably seeded approximately at the same time as part of the israeloamerican biowar strategy.
‘US wasted precious time China has bought!’ Beijing shreds Washington over ‘racist’ coronavirus rhetoric
https://www.rt.com/news/483691-china-us-coronavirus-trumpandemic/
“Some people in the United States attempt to stigmatize China’s fight against the epidemic and shirk its responsibility to China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang told reporters on Friday, referring to the finger-pointing adopted by President Trump and other top officials (after weeks of US media outlets calling it the ‘Chinese’ and ‘Wuhan’ virus).
This practice ignores the huge sacrifices made by the Chinese people to safeguard human health and safety, and denigrates China’s major public health security contributions.
Over the last two months, Beijing has helped the US buy time in its efforts to combat the coronavirus by providing “timely information” and other aid, the spokesman said, noting that the US president himself acknowledged as much during a press briefing last week. But most of that assistance has gone to waste, he lamented.
It is a pity, as many US media and specialists have noted, that the US has wasted the precious time China has bought.
Despite being the only country that managed to contain the outbreak, China has been accused of suppressing information in the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak – which began in the city of Wuhan late last year. The spokesman insisted the country has taken “the most comprehensive, strictest and most thorough prevention and control measures,” and has been “open” and “transparent” about the virus.
“We hope that the United States will respect objective facts, respect international public opinion, do its own thing, … stop slandering other countries, passing on responsibilities, and play a constructive role in fighting the epidemic,” he said.”
The reason trump’s zionazi-gay handlers have him call the virus the “Chinese virus” is psywar. They are employing racist association in order to foment hate against Chinese. The likudites/neocons running the trump regime, including trump, are not fully human. Vital parts are missing.
Vot
Indeed!…
In the below link Greg Hunter…sinophobic/xenophobic, religious-fundamentalist, arch-bigot, extraordinaire is now parroting the mantra of his idol Trump. He joins the psywar chorus and uses the term “Chinese Virus” to jump on the racist neocon bandwagon…see the 29-second mark.
As far as this clown is concerned Pompeo can do no wrong either as Trump’s right-hand man. In fact, he is to be pitied as he has become little more than another useful idiot for the Neocons and the MIC.
YCHMTSU
Col
https://usawatchdog.com/china-virus-treatments-coming-economic-damage-done-ponzi-ending/#more-23125
If it transpires (say within 2 weeks from now) that there have bee no “additional to normal” Italian deaths then it seems that the Chinese, US, European (and all other nations) have been lieing through their back teeth about the “extra” CV19 death toll. The quesstion then will be “why”?
https://www.euromomo.eu/
“European mortality bulletin week 11, 2020
Pooled estimates of all-cause mortality show normal expected levels of mortality in the participating countries.”
What is strange is that euromomo receives funding from the eurpoean commission but is still permitted to report e.g. http://www.euromomo.eu/methods/pdf/wp6_report.pdf
We already have indications whether this is ‘normal’ or ‘not’. Last year during flu season – did Italy need to call out their defense forces to help transport dead bodies? Not anywhere or at any time to my knowledge.
“We already have indications whether this is ‘normal’ or ‘not’”
True (e.g. totally normal rate of Italian total mortality so far).
But why did China start the hype and Russia join it.
Use Yabdex if preferred https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.wodarg.com/&prev=search
Without PCR tests there would be no reason for special alarms.
We are currently not measuring the incidence of coronavirus diseases, but the activity of the specialists searching for them.
by Wolfgang Wodarg
The corona hype is not based on any extraordinary public health danger. However, it causes considerable damage to our freedom and personal rights through frivolous and unjustified quarantine measures and restrictions. The images in the media are frightening and the traffic in China’s cities seems to be regulated by the clinical thermometer.
Evidence based epidemiological assessment is drowning in the mainstream of fear mongers in labs, media and ministries.
The carnival in Venice was canceled after an elderly dying hospital patient was tested positive. When a handful of people in Northern Italy also were tested positive, Austria immediately closed the Brenner Pass temporarily.
Due to a suspected case of coronavirus, more than 1000 people were not allowed to leave their hotel in Tenerife. On the cruise ship Diamond Princess 3700 passengers could not disembark., Congresses and touristic events are canceled , economies suffer and schools in Italy have an extra holyday.
At the beginning of February, 126 people from Wuhan were brought to Germany by plane and remained there in quarantine two weeks in perfect health. Corona viruses were detected in two of the healthy individuals.
We have experienced similar alarmist actions by virologists in the last two decades. WHO’s “swine flu pandemic” was in fact one of the mildest flu waves in history and it is not only migratory birds that are still waiting for “birds flu”. Many institutions that are now again alerting us to the need for caution have let us down and failed us on several occasions. Far too often, they are institutionally corrupted by secondary interests from business and / or politics.
If we do not want to chase frivolous panic messages, but rather to responsibly assess the risk of a spreading infection, we must use solid epidemiological methodology. This includes looking at the “normal”, the baseline, before you can speak of anything exceptional.
Until now, hardly anyone has paid attention to corona viruses. For example, in th e annual reports of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI ) they are only marginally mentioned because there was SARS in China in 2002 and because since 2012 some transmissions from dromedaries to humans have been observed in Arabia (MERS). There is nothing about a regularly recurring presence of corona viruses in dogs, cats, pigs, mice, bats and in humans, even in Germany.
However, children’s hospitals are usually well aware, that a considerable proportion of the often severe viral pneumonia is also regularly caused or accompanied by corona viruses worldwide .
In view of the well-known fact that in every “flu wave” 7-15% of acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) are coming along with coronaviruses, the case numbers that are now continuously added up are still completely within the normal range.
About one per thousand infected are expected to die during flu seasons. By selective application of PCR-tests – for example, only in clinics and medical outpatient clinics – this rate can easily be pushed up to frightening levels, because those, who need help there are usually worse off than those, who are recovering at home. The role of such s selection bias seems to be neglected in China and elsewhere.
Since the turn of the year, the focus of the public, of science and of health authorities has suddenly narrowed to some kind of blindness. Some doctors in Wuhan (12 million inhabitants) succeeded in attracting worldwide attention with initially less than 50 cases and some deaths in their clinic, in which they had identified corona viruses as the pathogen.
The colorful maps that are now being shown to us on paper or screens are impressive, but they usually have less to do with disease than with the activity of skilled virologists and crowds of sensationalist reporters.
We are currently not measuring the incidence of coronavirus diseases, but the activity of the specialists searching for them.
Wherever such the new tests are carried out – there about 9000 tests per week available in 38 laboratories throughout Europe on 13 February 2020 – there are at least single cases detected and every case becomes a self-sustaining media event. The fact alone that the discovery of a coronavirus infection is accompanied by a particularly intensive search in its vicinity explains many regional clustersi.
The horror reports from Wuhan were something, that virologists all over the world are waiting for. Immediately, the virus strains present in the refrigerators were scanned and compared feverishly with the reported newcomers from Wuhan. A laboratory at the Charité won the race at the WHO and was the first to be allowed to market its in-house tests worldwide. Prof C. Drosten was interviewed on 23rd of january 2020 and described how the Test was established. He said, that he cooperated with a partner from China, who confirmed the specific sensitivity of the Charitè-Test for the Wuhan coronavirus. Other tests from different places followed soon and found their market.
However, it is better not to be tested for corona viruses. Even with a slight “flu-like” infection the risk of coronavirus detection would be 7% – 15%. This is, what a prospective monitoring in Scotland (from 2005 to 2013 ) may teach us. The scope, the possible hits and the significance of the new tests are not jet validated. It would be intersting to have soe tests not only on airports and cruising ships but on german or italian cats, mice or even bats.
If you find some new virus RNA in a Thai cave ore a Wuhan hospital , it takes a long time to map its prevalence in different hosts worldwide.
But if you want to give evidence to a spreading pandemic by using PCR-Tests only, this is what should have been done after a prospective cross sectional protocol.
So beware of side effects. Nowadays positive PCR tests have tremendous consequences for the everyday life of the patient and his wider environment, as can be seen in all media without effort.
However, the finding itself has no clinical significance. It is just another name for acute respiratory illnesses (ARI), which as every year put 30% to 70% of all people in our countries more or less out of action for a week or two every winter.
According to a prospective ARI-virus monitoring in Scotland from 2005 to 2013 , the most common pathogens of acute respiratory diseases were: 1. rhinoviruses, 2. influenza A viruses, 3. influenza B viruses, 4. RS viruses and 5. coronaviruses.
This order changed slightly from year to year. Even with viruses competing for our mucous membrane cells, there is apparently a changing quorum , as we know it from our intestines in the case of microorganisms and from the Bundestag in the case of political groups.
So if there is now to be an increasing number of “proven” coronavirus infections. in China or in Italy: Can anyone say how often such examinations were carried out in previous winters, by whom, for what reason and with which results? When someone claims that something is increasing, he must surely refer to something, that has been observed before .
It can be stunning, when an experienced disease control officer looks at the current turmoil, the panic and the suffering it causes. I’m sure many of those responsible public health officers would probably risk their jobs today, as they did with the “swine flu” back then, if they would follow their experience and oppose the mainstream.
Every winter we have a virus epidemic with thousands of deaths and with millions of infected people even in Germany. And coronaviruses always have their share.
So if the Federal Government wants to do something good, it could learn from epidemiologists in Glasgow and have all clever minds at the RKI observe prospectively (!!!) and watch how the virom of the German population changes from year to year.
Some questions for the evaluation of the current findings:
Which prospective, standardized monitoring of acute respiratory diseases with or without fever (ILI, ARI) is used for the epidemiological risk assessment of coronavirus infections observed in Wuhan Italy, South Korea, Iran and elsewhere (baseline).
How do the comparable (!) Results of earlier observations differ from those now reported by the WHO? (in China, in Europe, in Italy, in Germany, etc.)
What would we observe this ARI season if we would ignore the new PCR testing?
How valid and how comparable are the detection methods used with regard to sensitivity, specificity and pathogenetic or prognostic relevance?
What is the evidence or probability that the observed corona viruses 2019/2020 are more dangerous to public health than previous variants?
If you find them now, how can you proove, they were not there (eg in animals) before.
How do you make shure, that a positive tested case is not in the same time suffering / dying from other virus co-infections?
What considerations have been made or taken into account to exclude or minimize sources of bias (sources of error)?
This sentence of course tells us everything we want to know.
“But why did China start the hype and Russia join it.”
Why does this poster make a statement like this, while it is obviously absurd?
How does one know, or make sure? You go and see what the first Chinese Doctors (Dr Lee) actually found. That is how. Look for it – I’ve written it up.
Amarynth
“Why does this poster make a statement like this, while it is obviously absurd?”
Methinks…three possibilities…
#1 Paid Troll
#2 Just flat trying to muddy the waters for the hell of it to distract attention and waste people’s time…sometimes
this is done with a supercilious [blimey I just love that word!] demeanor…sometimes just some sort of
demented hobby
#2 Severe case of cognitive dissonance
#3 Just this minute crawled out from under a large rock
#4 Most of the above combined in one sad confused package
There’s a good side to this amarynth…the main discussion on the site has pointed out that the trail of patient zero does not lead to China…this poses an extraordinarily huge threat to the Hegemon’s narrative and agenda.
Same old story…the flack always increases when one is over the target…perhaps consider it affirmation that the main thrust of the discussion is on exactly the right track. One thing is assured… these entities will not shift their position no matter how absurd their claims are shown to be.
YCHMTSU
Col
Thank you very much for providing this transcript. I have listened to the address Dr. Wodarg gave, and I know how time consuming it is to transcribe and type out someones verbal address.
It is important that we look at all aspects. Currently I am aware that the only “news” we get is being mostly supplied by the same MSM which brought us “weapons of mass destruction” and Libya “gassing of innocents” and now “Regime change needed Syria” not to mention “Putin to become Dictator for life after stealing more than 200 billion $$ of Russian money”.
how it is that anyone is even giving these toilet paper room is beyond me.
But to have the words of skilled epidemiologist explaining the science that needs to asked and investigated is refreshing and gives us all food for thought.
And more, last year or the previous years – did 25% of Italy’s medical staff just die – just for nothing? Is this normal. Why is basically the whole Western world short of ventilators, masks, even the little sticks that they use for swabbing throat or inside cheeks for doing lab testing. (Did we hide all the ventilators in the basement?)
amarynth
No, no, nooooo….the supercilious scientist’s calls on the sudden 25% death rate of medical staff is no doubt just Italy having a bit of a bad run lately…probably just one of those pesky coincidences…nothing to see there…indeed nothing to do with QV-19 whatsoever!
YCHMTSU
Col
Italy topped the one day corona death toll today of some 750 or so recruits, that was something.
While Pompeo is still walking this earth, he remains a racist lying warmonger.
He has just threatened the families of the International Criminal Court staff.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/20/us-threatens-families-international-criminal-court/
This caught my eye because of this piece .. I don’t know who remembers but the guy, José Bustani, who was head of the OPCW during the Iraq has weapons on mass destruction theater .. he kept to his initial assessment that this was not true. And then, overnight, he resigned. One day he was there and I followed him at the time, and then, he was resigned – within hours. Turns out John Bolton threatened his family as well at the time.
It makes my head sore that some very good US American people are working very hard to protect Trump. It is same old, same old US strategies being used right out of the current White House.
“José Bustani, the former director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said hardline neoconservative John Bolton, a former under secretary of state for George W. Bush and national security adviser for Donald Trump, threatened him and his family when Bustani negotiated with the Iraqi government to allow in OPCW weapons inspectors.”
“You have 24 hours to leave the organization, and if you don’t comply with this decision by Washington, we have ways to retaliate against you,” Bolton reportedly told Bustani, according to his recollection. “We know where your kids live. You have two sons in New York.”
We have a lot of evidence that this was not a ‘Chinese Virus’, but this evidence has not congealed into a firm factual basis. If you think that people of this ilk, who have no qualms to threaten families, were above perhaps dropping a bit of Virus in the Wuhan wet market .. thinking magically the borders of China will contain this little virus .. well, I have to believe the evidence in front of my eyes – and, it is not enough yet.
Amarynth
Exactly!
Trump promoted both these psychopathic thugs to two of the highest positions in his cabinet.
The fact that one was National Security adviser and the other is still SOS is the absolute height of absurdity.
Sadly this is a salient indication as to the mentality of the man himself. These two are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to nutjobs and swamp creatures in high places…think of Mnuchin, Abrams and Haspel’s backgrounds…the list reads like the characters straight out of some sort of macabre horror movie.
YCHMTSU
Col
Exactly!
Trump promoted both these psychopathic thugs to two of the highest offices in his cabinet. The fact that one was National Security Advisor and the other still to this day SOS, is the absolute height of absurdity.
Sadly this is a salient indication of the mentality of the man himself. These two are just some of the nutjobs and swamp creatures that he has appointed. Think of Mnuchin, Abrams, and Haspel’s backgrounds…the list reads like the characters straight out of some sort of macabre horror movie.
YCHMTSU
Col
… Chantal Ford at Contiki website asks the following …
” Just how the hell were the Egyptian Pyramids actually built? ”
https://www.contiki.com/six-two/how-were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built/
The comments were zero, so I posted my article at Pravda …
https://www.pravdareport.com/science/142069-great_pyramid/
The link was posted in comments long enough for the web-crawler to record it.
Now the link to make a comment has been removed and on clicking “see comments”, there are none. I’m left feeling somewhat … Con-tiki-ed ;-) but still “singing in the rain”.
We don’t know how the pyramids were built, but we know who didn’t build them, it wasn’t the pharaos. They simply did not have the technology, and they didn’t even claim to have built them. The reality is that when the dynastic Egyptian civilization eimerged, the pyramids had been there for thousands of years already, the pharaos simply inherited them.
We have evidence that the north american fauna was erased over night around 12900 years ago when a comet or small asteroid hit the Laurentide ice sheet over present day Michigan, USA. This event caused the Younger Dryas cooling event that lasted 1200 years and devastated a pretty advanced civilization that existed world wide, and from which you can find remains in Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Libanon, Jordan, India, Cambodia, Laos, China and several other places.
See “Mechanism for the creation of the Carolina Bays” by Antonio Zamora for some evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCzdxrI2k-E
very restricted almost blacklisted this guy lived into the 1950’s, never heard of him till i’d read dozens of books & thousands online article about the pyramids, ancient technologies etc.
you can tell by the collector edition price of his few books available now, each for hundreds $ amazon.
Adam Rutherford.
He verified work of Stewart, independently decoded the timeline & near future of the earth till a giant catastrophe will require a new build, by using the descending passageway, its length & that of the egyptian cubit, all its other angles & dimensions, etc.
each would have been a contemporary of edgar cayce, probably explains all his thousands of hours of time-wasting mumbling & mumbo-jumbo reliving his past reincarnations just a smokescreen for hiding the real golden age of unwinding the very heart of the entire giza complex, 1920’s- start of WW II.
That certainly didn’t start in the 1990’s with the Hancock/West bestsellers!
altho in one u-tube vid, West (died recently in his 80’s) clearly shows, under the G.P. shining a flashlight around, how absolutely this G.P. is a total rebuild from the foundation up, literally, because the “hidden ones” appeared after the giant cataclysm about 2400 years ago, re-surveyed the earth & its waters, landmass centre of gravity, etc, & blueprinted those numbers into a new exact scale model (G.P. side length at base, example, 1760 cubits, are within 1 cm of each other)
They then had to have this present G.P. we see now built to reflect the new earth angle, orbit, etc.
Basil Stewart another notable. his 1929 book “The mystery of the G.P.” is a true classic the first known in print of the exacting deciphering of the timeline built into the descending passage.
Great sphinx there different story entirely. it’s a one piece carved right in its own soft rock lair “bathtub”, and
is many many tens of thousands of years old, or even entire precession multiples added to that number (+25920 years, or +51840 years, etc)
BTW, why doesn’t putin, now that the borders are locked down & many people must be looking for something to do, fund a team deep-sea sub, divers, archaeologists, etc. & go out & explore that Sevastopol Sphinx just offshore there?
Not to forget that the new scientific tool of Archeo Astronomy has shown that the 3 Giza Plateau Pyramids are not only on the ground an exact replica of the lay out of Orions’ belt, but 11,000 yrs ago, they perfectly matched the Belt when the Plane of the Obliquity put them directly overhead the Giza Plateau.
Which means they too were probably erected at least 11, 000 yrs ago, or even one precession previous.
Given that 11,000 yrs ago pretty much matches Dr. Robert Schoch’s geological proof that the Sphinx is also almost certainly from the same period there is much substantiation for this further distant dating of both.
‘If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre
Solitude – Sakamoto Ryuichi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIrWY48Kih4
Ash – Mosaïque live at The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6wFz3psxI
Using Yandex site translate (German/English) for this https://www.wodarg.com/ gives:
Health Assessment:
There is no valid data and no evidence of unusual health threat.
Undisputed Facts:
The still accessible official statistics on mortality and various national flu-Monitoring Institute show the progression of the normal curve.
The seasonal “flu” is as always.
Also corona viruses are and have always been there.
Corona virus, influenza virus and other viruses need to adapt to constant change.
“New” viruses are something Normal.
The significance and application of PCR Tests:
The used Tests have not been validated officially, but only by cooperating institutions has been advocated.
The Tests are often (applied, Wuhan, China, and Italy) selectively, for example in the case of already severely ill and for the assessment of disease risk unusable.
Without the in their expressiveness and their distortive application of questionable Tests, there is no indication for emergency measures.
To further risks of a miscalculation
The WHO is from the Gates Foundation financially dependent.
The non-assignable pandemic scenarios are images of the Fear.
Wuhan, China, and Italy were used to in some places, fear to do produce images.
Also in Italy you would see without the new Tests, only the annual flu damage.
On these home pages, you will find numerous documents and sources.
see below Slide Show
political situation:
The attention of the Public and their political representatives is by scaring distracted by images, and with Support compliant media react deceived.
Anyone who doubts this, is defamed, and with concentrated Power is turned off.
The Opposition is lahmgelgt.
Facts endanger the course of the Federal government and can be dismissed by defaming you to transferring individuals.
With the population so little?
Please self-assess:
http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
A lot of wodarg’s assessments are being posted all across The Saker Blog. But, who is Wodarg?
This is Wodarg:
“China is well off
The current panic has nothing to do with illness or epidemics. All flu-watch indicators just show baseline data. (normale Werte)
Neither in China nor in Italy nor elsewhere extraordinary cases of severe illness are registered. (see above)
China alarmed its people and the world just for two months in Wuhan and staged how to detect and fight an epidemic. European states follow that example and are isolating each other. In Europe the economy is breaking down and human rights are forgotten, while China has shifted its testing to its frontiers and declares the crisis from now on as a foreign problem.
Europe is paralyzed by panic and China is smiling.”
That is Wodarg. That is his rationale for posting his stuff. He is an anti-China activist and a China hater. China has never ‘declared the crisis as a foreign problem’. They are continually saying it needs to be tackled by all countries and together and they themselves are assisting other countries. So, Wodarg lies, in this respect. He is blaming China. Why should I respect or worry about what else he says? Is there any way that one can trust someone that is lying and accusing China of staging an epidemic? How confused must be the brain that believes that China decimated their economics to ‘stage an epidemic’. It would be like believing that Pompeo will say something that is true once in a while.
Here is how China declared ‘the crisis as a foreign problem’.
Xi calls for building community of common health for mankind
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/21/c_138902701.htm
China just sent healthcare workers to help in Serbia.
China is talking to France to send staff to them to help.
I know I am not singing Kumbaya with many others, but we have to think and correlate many pieces of information.
Exactly, Amarythn. It is the curse as well as the blessing of scholarly truth tellers….you know, the ones who ask those forbidden questions like, ” So exactly what did Lenin do with all that gold in the train once he arrived to St. Petersburg?” or So what exactly is the difference in practice between a master race and a chosen people? sigh.
But if you ask the Grail question—what is necessary to do in order to be of service?– then you will be tested. so continue to be your big, bad self ( no, kidding: you are always most gracefully calm.)
Worse than fear is complacency…worse than fear mongering is the telling of half-truths.
Thanks Amarynth for raising the flag on Wodarg. He is a china hater trash.
Cheers!
“China has never ‘declared the crisis as a foreign problem’. They are continually saying it needs to be tackled by all countries and together and they themselves are assisting other countries. So, Wodarg lies, in this respect. He is blaming China.”
If there is no real problem (as the euromomo.eu site reports is the case, so far, in Italy) local or foreign then Wodrag is not lieing in respect to that. He is correctly pointing out that “the problem” does not need to be tackled by all countries because there is no problem. If there is no real problem then China does not need to assist any other country.
I have no idea what he means by China is well off other than to imagine some Chinese billionaires are making a clean fortune by shorting everything that they are invested in.
“How confused must be the brain that believes that China decimated their economics to ‘stage an epidemic’.”
Few years back, when Japanese Abe visited that war crime shrine, China objected and what followed was a mass movement inside China to boycott Japanese cars. Even to the point, that Chinese were destroying their newly bought Toyotas. Videos, articles can surely be googled. Talk about Borg mentality. So China temporarily halting their economy (not destroying bcs the factories are still standing) is totally plausible if it hurts the enemy/West MORE.
I’m not saying it is a China made virus, but the Chinese reaction is over the top.
The ‘helping hand’ is just to differentiate from the selfish West.
RATM, I happen to have friends in Mexico. Remember when Trump (just soon after he took office) took aim at the Mexicans as drug addled rapists and criminals – something like that. Well, the whole of Mexico started boycotting all the US Big Box stores and places like Starbucks and so on. They went into hard boycott of all American based stores in Mexico. Very well organized with informational brochures, I remember one that was sent to me .. on the left side listing all the No-Go stores with a big red cross over them, and right hand side perfectly acceptable Mexican alternatives. Yes, if you can read Spanish and get onto the Facebooks you will see this boycott there. This was so successful that within 2 weeks or so, there was fear that the common proletariat there would start physically attacking the US stores and the US based stores cried Uncle – no business whatsoever. To calm things down, and to get people back to buying, that very rich fellow, Carlos Slim, had a press conference, begging the Mexicans to call off the boycott – making excuses for Trump – saying that the Mexicans should not fight him and let the rhetoric wash over them and other such good talk.
So, what you are describing is not unique to China.
Temporarily halting the Chinese economy is just for any business person understanding modern supply chains unthinkable. Nobody is that stupid as the difficulty to string this all together again is visible now that China is trying to pick up again. We have not begun to see the fallout of broken supply chains across the world.
The rest .. reaction over the top and helping hand is only to distinguish themselves? This does not track with anything coming out of their leadership – it is simply opinion and is certainly not based on anything that I see from China. But if this is so, I am glad they are not distinguishing themselves and reacting over the top by bombing large parts of the world, being occupying forces in the Middle East, assassinating leaders of other countries and running brutal sanctions wars. I can live with their alternative over the top methods and lending helping hands to distinguish themselves.
“Temporarily halting the Chinese economy is just for any business person understanding modern supply chains unthinkable. ”
But that is exactly what happened.
Sure, we can argue whether it was on purpose to hurt the West, or a trial run, or it just happened due to circumstances. But that is exactly what happened.
I have to respectfully disagree with you.
Dr. Wodarg is a Pulmonologist and influenza specialist. He is a scientist, and he’s just explaining how this situation looks to him from a scientific point of view.
I find nothing to take issue with regarding what he says needs to be asked, investigated, and answered.
@Pamela
I agree, what amarynth forgets is that Wodarg condems Europe going into panic-mode which is exactly what it does ! China can feel as it likes, this is not our concern. But China flew in hundreds of tons of medical aid material to Italy this week, and pledges to help any country ! While the press here was spitting out hate towards China only a few weeks ago.
All the while the Europeans plan to kill almost everything during the next several months as it seems, all of them are talking of months instead of weeks now ! Isn’t that some food for critical thought ? Most probably the deaths resulting from the aftermath (austerity) of their managing the case will kill several times the virus toll numbers !!!! But THAT will be booked as something out of their hand of course – a natural disaster !! I have a feeling that both numbers are very much welcomed by those at the helms, in order to ‘stabilize’ Europe.
Most probably the deaths resulting from the aftermath (austerity) of their managing the case will kill several times the virus toll numbers !!!! But THAT will be booked as something out of their hand of course – a natural disaster!
Excellent point. they always are when holding office above the law, literally, immune even from persecution for war crimes.
The suicide stats alone stateside these past years puts the lie to that damnable claim, tweeted & broadcast ad nauseum about “the greatest economy ever.”
It’s far higher than the murders by a long multiple.
Many millions in the first world today have fewer or no jobs compared to just 6-8 weeks ago.
They may have lost their one full time good-paying job eg airline pilot/FO.
They may have lost that 2nd supplementary part-time job used for just to make ends meet, or frill expenses, keeping a pet, slowly building up a rainy day emergency cash fund (dental), etc.
Or, worst of worse, lost all in 1 day or same week the more than 1 combination of jobs they had.
Pamela, he may be all that, but he is also a virulent china hater. His work is biased, because of his hatred.
A little Wuhan history.
This is not the first time that this city was decimated – they were actually firebombed into pieces during the 2nd World War – These were not precision airstrikes but mass bombings designed to destroy the city and kill residents. Take a listen up to about 5.45 time marker to get some overview and to get to the Wuhan piece – the rest is interesting history, but not directly to do with Wuhan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=rvJgLrgju3k&feature=emb_logo
I’m looking through the window, the weather is changing…only two hours ago there was a beautiful spring time out there, with sunshine and bees flying around the small white and yellow flowers blooming in the green of grass in the little park nearby. Took my fellow friend for a walk then returned home where mom was waiting for us, smiling in the picture on the wall, we had our small lunch together then I put myself in bed for a little sleep, who knows if I sleep all night long, things are changing in my habits. By the way, I’m glad that my mom is now in safety though I often tell her to prepare my coming home but until then I ask her to take care of her kids (me and my dog).
The weather is changing…the world is changing too, bad things are catching us being always unprepared cause, after all we are just humans carrying our more or less heavy bags full of mistakes and faults until we reach our end station. Once, an old friend of mine told me that life is like a potty with 3/4 of shit and 1/4 honey on the surface – if you’re eating the homey too fast, only the shit remains. As it looks now, it seems that we ate the honey too fast.
– sorry, to add a correction : I finished with honey 30 years ago but the majority of you are only at the beginning of poop time meal.
Truth is often bitter
Can indeed be hard to take
Surely better swallowed
Than being the one that is waked.
(A wake is an event where a deceased persons body is laid out in the home for people to pay their last respects)
Now is the perfect opportunity to consider whether you go shopping with a base-ball bat or go TOTO … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8B4VloOcI
All in toto, who needs TP, when you have such amazing Japanese toilet technology!
Just sit there and get washed…and dried.
And “Save the trees!”
While you meditate
On your porcelain throne.
The Answer is Within:
Do you have the time
for “win-win-win” ?
Yes, you do!
If you don’t give in
To Paper Wars!
UK update II
One thing that must strike any observer in the last 2 weeks has been the often repeated statement : “I don’t know,” or “we don”t know,” or the government don’t seem to know,” while statements fly around on essential aspects of peoples lives : freedom to move and meet others.
In the face of this “I/we are not sure”, Boris Johnson’s advice has/is being voluntarily adopted en mass, with very few asking how this is to be implemented, enforced, for how long, what are they supposed to do, etc., etc. Fear has driven the current of the wave in an astonishing fait accompli, a coup d’état of the people by the goverment.
Britain is set to be policed to make sure that pubs and restaurants stay closed. UK has 67,886,011 people, quite a lot to herd and keep quiet…
There is no news, news is now something of the past. Nothing is reported but infected cases of corona virus in different areas of the UK, and how many deaths from Covid 19 there are, while reinforcing the statement, like a sheepish afterthought or apology, that it is for everyone’s safety.
ras
Who is the super-villain of our time? Boris Johnson seem to always come up as the super-villain of our time in my head actually long before the corona outbreak he seemed like a villain you see in the cartoons, signalling decisions were in the making. Now this keeps thumbling around in my head since the responsibility of several british bioweapons research labs are with the PM of Britain, British bioeweapons research labs have a direct connection to the Coronavirus (licensed to Phirbright Institute).
Further he Deep state / Dems used foreign intelligence Christopher Steele in order to incapacitate pres. Trump and accuse him of working for the Russians and Kreml. The deep state have since or continuouwly tried to maim the strong economy , now the economy was pres. Trump’s strong argument before the new elections of which the Dems saw little change of winning,but they believed such an epidemic would surely maim the economy . So again, Britain , British Intelligence, and PM Boris Johnson may need to sanction such drastic although secret measures and he fits that bill perfectly.
Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus crisis has been in my view extremely clumsy, and still it appears that he is unable to speak about it without looking extremely uncomfortable, with a weak voice his eyes running about uncontrollably (the sign of lying). I have long thought that the virus originated from these biolabs somewhere either USA, Britain or even China which had received virus samples of corona via post, which is quite suspicious, it happened last year, so the planning of blaming China may also show a planned event that needed a lot of preparation, and ultimately a high level sanction to go ahead.
Boris Johnson personally is very close to the global elite in Britain, in fact the global elite make sure they have politicians in power who serves their interests, and nobody else. Both David Cameron and Boris Johnson graduated from Oxford and were members of Bullingdon Club once frequented by the influencial Cecil Rhodes who testamented his industries and wealth back to the Rothschild Society, Cecil Rhodes is known for the Round Table and close associate of the Rothschild Syndicate. Both David Cameron and Boris Johnson were members of the Bullingdon Club at the same time as Nathaniel Rothschild although this may not be the only reason they both have become British prime ministers, as the global elite recruit widely from such schools as PPE Oxford.
This is all well known so I am not going to elaborate about the global elite and the running of political assets, we all know the cowardly state of our own politicians wherever they may be.
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cherry tree blossom
one pink floret at a time
open in the cold
ras
sporting pink bouquets,
the gnarly old cherry-tree;
first blush of spring
I apologize for posting so much and this will be my last as I do not want to monopolize or bore people:
The article I posted to make a point with Pamela
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Intelligence-officials-early-alarms-about-15147137.php
needs to be put into context . It is a deep state dagger thrust into the back of Trump. The intelligence community, neocon traitor scum ( sorry, my 3rd house Aries planets are in full swing ) , has no problem running to the media to blast Trump with whatever might compromise him so why did they not do this earlier with this information ?
Set up time:
That is because the other arm of the nomenklatura, the health industry—WHO and CDC –were giving him conflicting information urging him not to be a racist, dragging their feet on testing ( the CDC actually forbade State and private labs from testing for the virus) etc, etc. These bureaucrats cycle in and out of the pharmaceutical, and health industries from government jobs to cushy high paid University stints or sitting of boards of directors of Pharma companies.
China blames USA, USA blames China, Britain blames nobody, nothing to see (which is suspicious).
The deep state is confusing everything with fake news as always and they own media more or less 100 pct.
For the history books, no media (fake news) is going to have anything closely related to the truth , the new virus probably hatched in “something” a natural evolution is the only theory they can express.
These are circumstances in which USA, China and Britain are the main suspects for hosting a harmless coronavirus in BSL-4 labs (bioweapons research) that suddenly appeared as a bioweapon. Of course pres. Trump is to blame, many aims are achieved at the same time and it does totally circumvent the real issues.
The Silver Lining to the Lockdown
Paul I can barely keep up!
But what may be of quite a bit of help for nerves and egos bruised and hearts abused….and strategic confidence…..no panic! we are winning!….. ………..is a reply in more detail to the video you shared of Nassim Haramein, which is ALL on my review list….but I came in where you put the Pyramids of Giza on the screen…as Nassim discusses them more specifically.
SO I continue further on from where you started…….with Another Very Nice English Lady, Suzanne Powell interviewing Nassim…… and MY Theme…..that they inspired in their conversation is
If you can’t go out
….then go within:
And Mundo ….for you too:
https://youtu.be/0adlTaiLmEM?t=3237
til the conclusion…there is a lot there for an internal “reset” before The Big One
Thanks so much for the link….now to view the whole beginning, up to the time you linked with Giza on the screen.
Bro … Nassim is not a “stuffed shirt” type and he is appealing for knowledge which creates a positive atmosphere. Nassim is reasonable … level headed.
Stay tuned … this could get very interesting … thanks to you.
As a musician, I’m in touch with people from all over the place. About 5 days ago, I asked two of my friends (also musicians with a vast network of people) from Milan, to ask around, if anyone out there heard, or knows somebody who actually died. Well, so far nobody can confirm any real deaths. Yet, everybody is truly terrified. There are plenty of pictures of piled up coffins that were probably photographed somewhere else, and the reasons for over loaded crematoriums (also not confirmed) could be explained by the fact that lots of morticians are absolutely terrified of touching any corpses arriving at their facilities since February. Obviously, it does not prove anything at this time, but it highlights some massively astounding differences between what is projected by the mainstream media, and what is actually happening on the ground.
Here is a bunch of links to a bunch of interesting interviews covering this whole COVID-1984 debacle.
Interview with a wall street trader about mergers of corporations and governments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbecGlfwCs&fbclid=IwAR1jBcqlLwGZH7CStYB-fTEiVOdp4QuaV7ipID-o75y5a_ebWRvMimqbLhA
Corbett report: Medical Marshal Law:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZRT-gWZ8M
Interview with dr Andy Kauffman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcS60a9cdg4
Sayer Ji and Thomas Cowan, MD, discuss the present Coronavirus scare and ways to navigate this intense time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqNc4m5oOI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1Ib2xwJjQz5Z1V7qsGnBYDkfqpq2SQ5X8w38aZklZL29Jl1YC-I3NIPXs
Audio feedback is a phenomenon known by anyone operating a basic public address system with one microphone an amplifier and one loudspeaker in its simplest form.
Easy enough to detect the source and kill the feedback.
Taking this a few steps up we can have multiple microphones with multiple amplifiers and multiple speaker zones.
To find the offending component therefore becomes a greater task,as there may be more than one source at this point.
However,this problem can be dealt with instantly with by muting the entire system.None the less muting the system never identifies the cause.
An alternative approach is,methodically muting all of the likely sources one by one and finally one will likely find the culprit component.
Applying this analogue to trouble shooting a feedback loop the nature of which we witness now can be done mentally and physically,referencing time lines and content etc.
I contend that the latter approach is time limited and we should be aware of this.
God bless the work of this site.
An alternative approach is,methodically muting all of the likely sources one by one and finally one will likely find the culprit component.
Better still, mute the entire system, then restore the sources one by one. At least it’s quiet during the process.
Silence is often a good thing,we have it aplenty now what with the state of play.
Time to reflect and pay attention to the needs of the heart.
Keep a cool head and a dry britches.
Won’t require much toilet paper.
“De sound system always sound best when it’s in De truck man”……..
Old saying from the road.
It looks like the opportunity to buy physical metals using the farcical Comex pricing mechanism is closing fast. This was inevitable as the flight out of paper into tangibles becomes a headlong stampede. Remember that at any given time there are literally hundreds of paper claims for every physical ounce that exists.
This is another unsustainable nonsense that CV-19 will expose.
A quote from the below link….
‘Disconnect between the Paper Price and Physical Price
There is a disconnect between on the one hand, the COMEX futures and London spot OTC market and on the other hand, the physical precious metals market.
Unless there is a very strong rally in the paper market that balances physical demand and supply, the disconnect between the paper market and physical market may widen until the paper pricing system (COMEX futures and LBMA unallocated system) implodes.
In a scenario where the paper spot market doesn’t rally to balance physical demand and supply, physical precious metals will no longer be priced based on the spot market. Bullion dealers will stop pricing metals. Many have already done so by suspending the accepting of orders.
When preferences in the derivatives paper spot and futures markets, which are unbacked or only partially backed by precious metals, differ from supply and demand in the physical market, prices disconnect.”
Cheers
Col
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-03-20/window-purchase-precious-metals-fiat-currency-closing
This is true, Colonel.
The paper (digital, really) markets were never as essential as the City and Wall St pretended they were, A GOD of “The Market”.
Now the divorce between suppressed monetary metals prices and the pressure for an explosion…..is….”off the charts”. Pun intended.
Trump seems to me to have been going along with the pretense, trolling it, then just brushing aside the huge drop more recently as, “Hey, I’m concentrating on this VIRUS now, Ok? Next Question.”
How the Reset will be coordinated is the most interesting question. Timing is everything.
Nostradamus 93
Yeah, Bro…I just rang two bullion dealers this morning and was told that there was no physical gold available from either of them for at least 46 weeks!
No doubt there are mountains of paper gold available but!… LOL
I always joke about the Comex pricing system as being in essence… ‘a group of people who don’t have any gold selling to another group who don’t want to own gold’…YCHMTSU!
Cheers and regards
The Colonel
7 Australian deaths
age range 77-95
1068 infected
That is 0.655 fatality so far.
I just found this – looking at the date, it’s interesting:
Help stop the spread of flu as the death toll rises
17 May 2019
The number of people who have died from influenza in Queensland may have reached 25, while in South Australia 17 people have died of flu.
To date, there have been more than 12,300 notifications of the flu in SA — about 9 times the cases this time last year.
But it’s not just the Festival and Sunshine States that are feeling the brunt of an early start to flu season.
So far in 2019 there have been nearly 43,000 laboratory-confirmed cases of flu across the country — compared with nearly 59,000 cases for the whole of 2018 — and it’s only May.
Hmmm
Pamela
A quote from your post… /moveable-feast-cafe-2020-03-12/#comment-772870
“Ecuador is taking NO specific approach to this at all. Ecuador is a Roman Catholic nation. They either believe God will take care of things, or what will be will be.”
In an earlier quote in the same café…http://thesaker.is/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-03-12/#comment-772818
…you volunteered…“Ecuador has just reported 17 cases of CoV-2019. This is one per one million people.”
I just this minute checked the Worldometer.info and it shows Ecuador on March 21 at 532 cases.
So let me get this straight then…a doubling rate of 2 days beginning on March 12 with 17 known cases gives 528 cases on the 22nd. This means that the 532 cases reported a day earlier on March 21 is actually slightly worse than a doubling rate of 2 days.
Pamela please check my maths, but the way I work it out, if social habits don’t change drastically and quickly, Ecuador will have 16,896 cases by April 1.
Even in the unlikely event of the doubling rate going down to 3 days, Ecuador would still get to the 16,896 mark on April 11.
Furthermore your quoted case rate of one per million population, if this doubling rates persists, would go up 965 times in less than 1 month!
Working on a population of 17.5 million I hope you are aware that this 965 cases per million population would be higher even than Italy who today are 886/million.
So a polite question springs to mind…do you still endorse the “taking NO specific approach…what will be will be” method or would you suggest your country revisits their strategy?
correction 6th paragraph…
Ecuador COULD have 16,896 cases by April 1 IF THE CURRENT DOUBLING RATE CONTINUES
Yandex translation
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/de-en.en/https/www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.
At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and government-to-people quarantined or just social distancing, we lack reliable evidence on how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or who continue to become infected. Better information is needed to guide decisions and actions of monumental significance and to monitor their impact.
Draconian countermeasures have been adopted in many countries. If the pandemic dissipates — either on its own or because of these measures, short-term extreme social distancing and lock downs may be bearable. How long, though, should measures like these be continued if the pandemic churns across the globe unabated? How can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm?
Vaccines or affordable treatments take many months (or even years) to develop and test properly. Given search timelines, the consequences of long-term lock downs are entirely unknown.
The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving, are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to SARS-CoV-2 are being missed. We don’t know if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of three or 300. Three months after the outbreak emerged, most countries, including the U. S., patent the ability to test a large number of people and no countries have reliable data on the prevalence of the virus in a representative random sample of the general population.
This evidence fiasco creates tremendous uncertainty about the risk of dying from Covid-19. Reported case fatality Council, like the official 3.4% rate from the World Health Organization, cause horror and are meaningless. Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. As most health systems have limited testing capacity, selection bias may even worsen in the near future.
The one situation where an entire, closed population of what is tested what the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. The case fatality rate there was 1.0%, but this was a largely elderly population, in which the death rate from Covid-19 is much higher.
Projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S. population, the death rate among people infected with Covid-19 would be 0.125%. But since this estimate is based on extremely thin data — there were just seven deaths among the 700 infected passengers and crew — the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%). It is also possible that some of the passengers who were infected might the later, and that tourists may have different frequencies of chronic diseases — a risk factor for worse outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection than the general population. Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.
That huge range markedly affects how severe the pandemic is and what should be done. A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational. It’s like an elephant being attacked by a house cat. Frustrated and trying to avoid the cat, the elephant accidentally jumps off a cliff and dies.
Could the Covid-19 case fatality rate be that low? No, some say, pointing to the high rate in elderly people. However, even some so-called mild or common cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality Council as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes. In fact, search “mild” coronaviruses infect tens of millions of people every year, and account for 3% to 11% in of those hospitalized in the U. S. with lower respiratory infections each winter.
These “mild” coronaviruses may be implicated in several thousands of deaths every year worldwide, though the vast majority of them are not documented with precise testing. Instead, they are lost as noise among the 60 million deaths from various causes every year.
Although successful surveillance systems have long existed for influenza, the disease is confirmed by a laboratory in a tiny minority of cases. In the U.S., for example, so far this season 1,073,976 specimens have been tested and 222,552 (20.7%) have tested positive for influenza. In the same period, the estimated number of influenza-like illnesses is between 36,000,000 and 51,000,000, with an estimated 22,000 to 55,000 flu deaths.
Note the uncertainty about influenza-like illness deaths: a 2.5-fold range, corresponding to tens of thousands of deaths. Every year, some of these deaths are due to influenza and some to other viruses, like the common-cold coronaviruses.
In an autopsy series that tested for respiratory viruses in specimens from 57 elderly persons who died during the 2016 to 2017 influenza season, influenza viruses were detected in 18% of the specimens, while any kind of respiratory virus was found in 47%. In some people who the from viral respiratory pathogen, more than one virus is found upon autopsy, and bacteria are often superimposed. A positive test for coronavirus does not mean necessarily that this virus is always primarily responsible for a patient’s demise.
If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths. This sounds like a huge number, but it is buried within the noise of the estimate of deaths from “influenza-like illness.” If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average. The media coverage would have been less than for an NBA game between the two most indifferent teams.
Some worry that the 68 deaths from Covid-19 in the U. S. as of March 16 will increase exponentially to 680, 6,800, 68,000, 680,000 … along with similar catastrophic patterns around the globe. Is that a realistic scenario, or bad science fiction? How can we tell at what point such a curve might stop?
The most valuable piece of information for answering those questions would be to know the current prevalence of the infection in a random sample of a population and to repeat this exercise at regular time intervals to estimate the incidence of new infections. Sadly, that’s information we don’t have.
In the absence of data, prepare-for-the-worst reasoning leads to extreme measures of social distancing and lock downs. Unfortunately, we do not know if these measures work. School closures, for example, may reduce transmission Council. But they may also backfire if children socialize anyhow, if school closure leads children to spend more time with susceptible elderly family members, if children at home, disrupt their parents ability to work, and more. School closures may, therefore, diminish the chances of developing herd immunity in an age group that is has been spared serious disease.
Anonymous, please refer to moderation rule
9) The cut-n-paste long segments of texts into the comment section is banned. Use your own words and your own thoughts and, if needed, add a short quote or a link to an outside source.
Kindly adhere to that rule from now onwards.
Anonymous
Please visit the link…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12318890
If you go down to the graph and hover over the lines you can compare the spread of Covid-19 in different countries. Out of some 180 countries to date, there are only 4 that have been able to flatten their growth curves and avoid the spread from going exponential. They are…
Singapore
Hongkong
Taiwan
Japan
These countries have two things in common…
#1 They have been proactive in changing their population’s social habits and movements
#2 They have undergone vigorous testing programs to track the spread of the virus and to aid in its control.
Col,
at 316,659 cases that is approx 20,000 less than the worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries site.
it currently reports 5,476 CV19 Italian deaths.
Total mortality 9all causes) in Italy (as of last Thursday) has not ticked up a jot – site funded by the European Commission
https://www.euromomo.eu/
So I take it then that you believe that all is fine and dandy in Italy then, and any suggestion that the health system is becoming overwhelmed is nonsense…well good luck with that theory.
So I take it then that you believe that all is fine and dandy in Italy then
This https://www.statista.com/statistics/568024/death-rate-in-italy/ shows the Italian death rate around 10 per 1000 (2002 to 2018).
The Italian population is around 60 million.
Mortality is approx 11,500 / week.
Lets be generous and make that 20,000/week in the Winter season.
The euromomo figures are provided by Italy on a weekly basis. The euromomo figures are provided each Thursday.
The daily “CV19” deaths for Italy are reported on worldometers here https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
Tabulating those numbers from, say, Wed 11th Mar to Wed 18th March:
Wed 11th 196
Thur 12th 189
Fri 13th 250
Sat 14th 175
Sun 15th 368
Mon 16th 349
Tue 17th 345
Wed 18th 475
Total 2,347
Dividing this total “extra” death count by “normal” daily (Winter) deaths of 20,000:
2,347/20,000 = 11.73%
Yet the euromomo site reports:
“European mortality bulletin week 11, 2020
Pooled estimates of all-cause mortality show normal expected levels of mortality in the participating countries.”
Lets say the “Winter” season in Italy is 4 months duration (17 Weeks).
This https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(19)30328-5/fulltext reports:
Results
We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, respectively, using the Goldstein index. The average annual mortality excess rate per 100,000 ranged from 11.6 to 41.2 with most of the influenza-associated deaths per year registered among the elderly. However children less than 5 years old also reported a relevant influenza attributable excess death rate in the 2014/15 and 2016/17 seasons (1.05/100,000 and 1.54/100,000 respectively).
For 2016/17 that is 24,981 / 17 = 1,469 / week or 205 /day for 122 days.
Compared to this the CV19 deaths are a drop in the bucket. Was the Italian health system overwhelmed in 2016/17? if it was, were you aware of that?
Here’s what the Commander-in-Chief fakestream has to say on the topic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-51491763
There are deep concerns laboratory tests are incorrectly telling people they are free of the coronavirus.
Stories in several countries suggest people are having up to six negative results before finally being diagnosed.
Meanwhile, officials in the epicentre of the epidemic, Hubei province, China, have started counting people with symptoms rather than using the tests for final confirmation.
…[]…
A final option is the RT-PCR test for the new coronavirus is based on flawed science.
In order to develop the test, researchers must first pick a section of the virus’s genetic code.
This is known as the primer. It binds with the matching code in the virus and helps bulk it up. Scientists try to pick a region of the virus’s code they do not think will mutate.
But if there is a poor match between the primer and the virus in the patient, then an infected patient could get a negative result.
At this stage, it is impossible to tell exactly what is going on so lessons for other countries are unclear.
“It is not going to change that much,” Dr MacDermott says.
“But it flags up that you have to test people again if they continue to have symptoms.”
Mr. No Name
You said…”We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, respectively, using the Goldstein index.”
That was 68,000 deaths attributed to the influenza epidemic in Italy from that 4 year period.
When I went to school 4 years equaled 48 months.
68,000 divided by 48 = 1416 per month
The death rate in Italy attributed to CV-19 in less than one month is 5476 as of today
5476 div by 1416 = 386%
Given that the virus languished at low MRs for much of that month before starting its exponential spread it is probably fair to multiply the 380% by at least 3 = 1160%
So there you have perhaps a 10-12 fold increase is pretty close to reality and why Italy is in need of international aid in coping with this national emergency…and not actually fabricating this whole situation.
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Right .. Italy.
The first Russian military planes have just landed with military virologists, medics and supplies.
There is no problem here folks .. no problem whatsoever. Russia sends military virologists, medics and supplies out to Italy every year for the ‘common cold’ or flu. /end sarcasm.
Italy has military trucks removing dead bodies and they are doing makeshift triage in hastily erected tents. There is no problem here folks. We do this every flu season in Italy /end sarcasm.
I’m truly weary of those that say ‘there is no problem’. We’re ‘counting wrong’. We don’t have the right numbers and so on. No, we don’t have the right numbers. But we do have a problem. And this problem is going to continue piling up and piling up if we cannot be adult about it.
A quote from the below link…
“Trump’s sudden shift was driven by an alarming new scientific model, developed by British epidemiologists and shared with the White House. The scientists bluntly stated the coronavirus is the most serious respiratory virus threat since the 1918 flu pandemic. If no action to limit the viral spread were taken, as many as 2.2 million people in the United States could die over the course of the pandemic, according to epidemiologist Neil Ferguson and others at the Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team.
Adopting some mitigation strategies to slow the pandemic — such as isolating those suspected of being infected and social distancing of the elderly only cuts the death toll in half to 1.1 million, although it would also reduce demand for health services by two-thirds.
Only by enacting an entire series of drastic, severe restrictions could America shrink its death toll further, the study found. That strategy would require, at a minimum, the nationwide practice of social distancing, home isolation, and school and university closures. And such restrictions would have to be maintained, at least intermittently, until a working vaccine is developed, which could take 12 to 18 months at best.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/19/coronavirus-projections-us/
Today’s big news:
https://www.takebackyourpower.net/5g-biometrics-covertly-installed-during-lockdown/
Following the Logic Before Authority video, On March 18 another video began circulating showing a fleet of white work vans behind an unknown school. Although we do not see the name or location of the school, the video clearly shows vans for two companies – Systems Plus Wisconsin and North American Mechanical, Inc. Both companies appear to be headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
While American Mechanical, Inc focuses on plumbing and mechanical services, Systems Plus Wisconsin clearly states they install biometric systems. The person filming the video called the school to ask whether the vans were involved with anything related to 5G. The person on the other end of the line then immediately hung up the phone.
Walmart Canada to hire 10,000 staff to meet surging demand
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/walmart-canada-to-hire-10-000-staff-to-meet-surging-demand-1.1409596
I lack words to express how vile I find this. During a national crisis, we’re dramatically pumping up a non-Canadian multinational. Let us work on maintenance of our country: we can work separately from each other picking up litter, counting butterflies, photographing wildflowers and noting when they are blooming, river watch, etc, etc,etc
I’m sure those unemployed Parks Canada people have come up with 100 different scenarios where Canadians (volunteer and otherwise) could safely and healthily self-isolate while serving our (natural) country.
Well, a Canadian retailer is benefiting too – Dollarama —- https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/dollarama-vows-to-hire-thousands-to-meet-ongoing-demand-amid-covid-19-pandemic-1.1410836
Checking in with an update on a true leader in these times, the “financial advisor to the stars”, Larry ‘could be lower’ Kudlow.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-larrykudlow-stocks-americas-worst-financial-advisor-215108082.html
On Feb. 25, Larry Kudlow, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, suggested it was a good time to buy stocks. “The virus story is not going to last forever,” Kudlow said on CNBC around 2:30 p.m. “
At the time, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) index was around 3,128.
BUT (article is 2 weeks old), using instead of the percent losses inside, the real close on Friday, the updated percent loss is, using the S&P500 numbers:
2305/3128= .7369;
1- .7369= .2631;
times 100= 26.31% loss
Take a bow, Larry!
https://hardforum.com/data/attachment-files/2018/05/277554_5ba28b9a0c9b3def200344d189297908–the-three-stooges-tv-series.jpg
A huge FWIW for those who wish to dig in and understand (read debunk) the hysteria on the virus (very long article with large numbers of graphs-seems to have been very well researched):
https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894
It would be next to impossible to summarize this article in a few short words so I will paste the table of contents for those who wish to peruse the data, the graphs, which are very helpful. Suffice it to say that the media, the politicians, local and national, are causing huge problems for the public to understand just what are the risks. The goal is to “flat line” the number of cases and treat those who are ill: in other words, “The first rule of medicine is to do no harm.”
Table of Contents
Total cases are the wrong metric
Time lapsing new cases gives us perspective
On a per-capita basis, we shouldn’t be panicking
COVID-19 is spreading
Watch the Bell Curve
A low probability of catching COVID-19
Common transmission modes
COVID-19 is likely to burn off in the summer
Children and Teens aren’t at risk
Strong, but unknown viral effect
What about asymptomatic spread?
93% of people who think they are positive aren’t
1% of cases will be severe
Declining fatality rate
So what should we do?
Start with basic hygiene
More data
Open schools
Open up public spaces
Support business and productivity
People fear what the government will do, not infection
Expand medical capacity
Don’t let them forget it and vote
Thanks for this Taras 77 – very interesting. I’ll take another look tomorrow, but some comments truly makes sense
.. One for example :
“At this rate, we will spend more money on “shelter-in-place” than if we completely rebuilt our acute care and emergency capacity.”
Makes sense on the face of it yes? But, will take another look tomorrow.
Thanks, Amarynth
No question, data is a tad dated, as of 3/14, 3/15; that does skew the discussion maybe too optimistically particularly for Italy.
The other point is author may have an obvious political agenda; I’ve noted some bricks being thrown at Fauci by the trumpers for his skepticism but trump does go over the top with his electioneering; somewhere in the middle of those views is prob a dose of reality.
I tend to agree, however, that caution is indeed warranted when Big Pharma and Big health concerns smell a serious profit opportunity.
Taras
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Cheers
Col
Col, Amarynth:
This link provides update data but it is a question as to how often the countries update-e.g. Italy has not changed for roughly a day:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
Medium article: I stumbled upon the article on zero and linked it from medium-as you will note, it was taken down by medium but reluctantly I post the zero link and the twitter “debunking” the article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria
I also posted the article link on Moon (MOA) last eve and it immediatelly provoked a harsh reaction because too optimistic and data was out of date, 4, 5 days). I note now that that my posted comment with link has been taken down but the harsh my mellow comment stayed up.
Interesting aside, my comments being very critical of pompass and the zionist sanctions on the people, not the military and not the elite, of Iran, Venezuela have been branded as spam by what I believed was a pub site which also posted criticism of such policies-indeed my comments were entirely in tone with the criticism of the original article and endorsing such criticism of the man and his policies.
Indeed, we cannot have criticism floating around (sarc).
Indeed yes – a little bit of sense in an ocean of non-sense and its gone – cannot believe it.
Language as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Understanding the power of words such as ‘pandemic’ – ‘self isolating’
Juliana Barembuem [an Argentinian-Italian, who moved to France at the age of 18, where she obtained a Masters Degree in Linguistics] says:
…Contrary to what most people have been led to believe, the coronavirus may be less virulent and less deadly than the influenza virus. Australian scientists have reportedly discovered that people recover from coronavirus in much the same way they recover from the flu. Despite this, coronavirus has transformed the entire world in just a matter of days.
People in ostensibly democratic Western societies are accepting draconian measures “for their own good”, and a precedent is being set for unjustified quarantines, lock downs, travel bans and much more. Right this minute a great portion of the global population are ‘self-isolating’ on the basis of vague science and dubious speculation based on unreliable data.
So while the coronavirus itself is likely much less dangerous than we are being told, the seemingly normal yet nefarious language being utilized to describe, and thereby exacerbate, this ‘crisis’ is posing a real threat to our societies. When people stop questioning the why and how of a situation, and limit themselves to blindly accepting state orders, they are asking for trouble. Words take on new meanings, and influence the way we all view reality. When a certain view become a consensus reality, it can lead to dramatic changes in reality itself.
Language is so natural to us that we don’t often stop to think how it can be used as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’, or at least a weapon of mass hysteria. … end of quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkfWnb7zD_I
or
https://www.sott.net/article/431115-Coronavirus-Language-as-a-Weapon-of-Mass-Destruction
I would like to ask for help from anyone who is familiar with the world of psychology.
There is a word for an action, which I cant for the life of me remember – and I’ve even used it a few years back. Russia had a name similar, as well. But do you think I can remember it??
It’s the name given to an action taken by person A towards person B when A wants B to do some thing, and knows that B will react to A’s action in the manner A wants.
Clear as mud, I guess.
Suppose I want my house mate to go out Tuesday night, but I cant ask her – she has to think she chose it herself. Thinking, I remember she hates the smell of curry – when I make it she goes out. So – Tuesday I put on a curry and she says “I think I’ll go out for coffee”. So – I got her to do just what I wanted. There is a name for this. Does anyone know it?
– induce, persuade, convince, prompt, influence, incite, impel, urge
Pamela, I am not a psychologist, but someone (a woman) unable to resist philosophy.
So, another word for action ? How about the English word do. Do battle against, do ones best, and so on.
“Doing” opens up a world. Why have you done that, what led you to do that ?
If I throw the dog a stick or bone, it will fetch it as fast as it can. No need for questions.
Freedom therefore has a relation to activity. Thoughts precede actions. Why speak of actions, they are of infinite number, and who will convince me of another life or thought than my own ?
I better stop there, but here is a poem, yep, another one, even longer and boringer than ever, but not a fraction, the tip of an eyelash, as long as words engendered by corona “live” pandemic …
By John Fletcher (1579–1625)
You that can look through Heaven, and tell the stars,
Observe their kind conjunctions, and their wars;
Find out new lights, and give them where you please,
To these men honors, pleasures, to those ease;
You that are God’s surveyors, and can show 5
How far, and when, and why the wind doth blow;
Know all the charges of the dreadful thunder,
And when it will shoot over, or fall under:
Tell me, by all your art I conjure ye,
Yes, and by truth, what shall become of me? 10
Find out my star, if each one, as you say,
Have his peculiar Angel, and his way;
Observe my fate, next fall into your dreams,
Sweep clean your houses, and new line your seams,
Then say your worst: or have I none at all? 15
Or is it burnt out lately? or did fall?
Or am I poor, not able, no full flame?
My star, like me, unworthy of a name?
Is it, your art can only work on those
That deale with dangers, dignities, and cloathes? 20
With love, or new opinions? you all lye,
A fishwife hath a fate, and so have I,
But far above your finding; He that gives,
Out of his providence, to all that lives;
He that made all the stars, you daily read, 25
And from thence filch a knowledge how to feed;
Hath hid this from you, your conjectures all
Are drunken things, not how, but when they fall;
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest, and a perfect man 30
Commands all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our Angels are, or good, or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still,
And when the stars are laboring we believe 35
It is not that they govern, but they grieve
Our stubborn ignorance; all things that are
Made for our general uses are at war,
Even we among ourselves, and from the strife
Your first unlike opinions got a life. 40
O man, thou image of thy Maker’s good,
What canst thou fear, when breathed into thy blood
His spirit is, that built thee? what dull sense
Makes thee suspect, in need, that providence?
Who made the morning, and who placed the light 45
Guide to thy labors? who called up the night,
And bid her fall upon thee, like sweet showers
In hollow murmurs, to lock up thy powers?
Who gave thee knowledge? who so trusted thee,
To let thee grow so near himself, the Tree? 50
Must he then be distrusted? shall his frame
Discourse with him, why thus, and thus I am?
He made the Angels thine, thy fellows all,
Nay, even thy servants, when devotions call.
Oh canst thou be so stupid then, so dim, 55
To seek a saving influence, and lose him?
Can Stars protect thee? or can poverty,
Which is the light to Heaven, put out his eye?
He is my star; in him all truth I find,
All influence, all fate, and when my mind 60
Is furnished with his fullnesse, my poor story
Shall outlive all their Age, and all their glory.
The hand of danger cannot fall amiss,
When I know what, and in whose power it is.
Nor want, the cause of man, shall make me groan; 65
A holy hermit is a mind alone.
Doth not experience teach us all we can
To work ourselves into a glorious man?
Love’s but an exhalation to best eyes
The matter’s spent, and then the fool’s fire dyes? 70
Were I in love, and could that bright star bring
Increase to wealth, honor, and every thing:
Were she as perfect good as we can aim,—
The first was so, and yet she lost the Game.
My mistress then be knowledge and faire truth; 75
So I enjoy all beauty and all youth,
And though to Time her lights and laws she lends,
She knows no Age that to corruption bends.
Friends’ promises may lead me to believe,
But he that is his own friend knows to live. 80
Affliction, when I know it, is but this,
A deep alloy whereby man tougher is
To bear the hammer; and the deeper still,—
We still arise more image of his will.
Sickness an humorous cloud ’twixt us and light, 85
And Death, at longest but another night.
Man is his own Star, and that soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.
shared by ras
Many thanks for sharing it Ras !
” But he that is his own friend knows to live”
Only he can be friend to others, cause he is
enough satiated with his own friendliness.
Manipulate, as in variables? LOL
Exploit?
None of these are exactly what you’re after, though Babuška is right in her interpretation of the action you’ve described, which is a form of manipulation…
choreograph, steer, orchestrate, “finger”, manage, persuade, ‘turn to your advantage’, manoeuvre, exploit…
… the technical term … “reverse psychology”
Each questionable profession has its own specific words to describe the (secret) outcome of its desires, there is probably a word in that field to accomplish this, this person probably came across this word in the past but it was irrelevant at that time and as such was forgotten.
Unfortunately people in the profession who rely on such wording (like the law profession) make good money using these terms and as such will not be willing to forward the word if in fact they could, in the name of making money.
A finders keepers loser weepers, or, if you snooze, you loose, type scenario.
This is funny. I don’t know of a commonly used word as there are different descriptions in different ‘schools of psychology’. In Transactional Analysis, this is known as a game called FOOJY – ‘Let’s Pull a Fast One on Joey’. :-)
It is known as one of the ‘underworld games’.
You have Patsy, and Persecutor and eventually the roles change as the game changes.
All this makes my mind go back to BV (before virus).
From what I have read of Pamela’s posts, a game of foojy may not have been her first thought or intention – despite her light heartedness at times – has she a penchant for the humoresque, a love of comedy even ?!
Hopefully we will all be further enlightened by her in the fullness of time.
Ras
Pamela, this is not a common word – commonly used, but it is perhaps the best understood across the various disciplines of psych. It is ‘cognitive or perceptual misdirection’ – just based on the curry story. We do it often with kids ..
Let us know your word when you find it.
(In my view, if one has a housemate that does not like curry, surely housemate divorce is the only option :-)
Nudge perchance?
Regarding gabbard’s endorsement of biden, this should not be a surprise. One can ask why she didn’t endorse sanders? As she supported his run in 2016.
Simple.
Sanders will be endorsing biden, as well. As was the plan all along. No point in gabbard endorsing sanders if he is going to endorse biden.
Neither gabbard or sanders represent any meaningful change, they are there to drum up support from those turned off by democrat rightwing politics, which will then be channeled into support for the very things these people now find objectionable in the democrat party. In other words, political psywar to entice normal people into thinking a vote for democrats means their views will be represented.
What happened to Cynthia McKinney shows that real independence of zionazis and corporate fascism within the democrat party is essentially a pipe dream. Independents get whacked, one way or another. And the republican party is even worse in this regard.
Want genuine independence? Don’t waste your time with demicans and republicrats.
… Out of the Air onto the roads – The Rumpler ‚Tropfenwagen‘ …
Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler successfully built aircrafts before WWI. Having the license to build the so called ‚Taube‘, or ‚pidgeon‘, a model that became the most successful training aircraft in Germany before the war. During WWI the need for aircrafts went up – so did Rumpler’s business and new models appeared.
Fast forward to the 1920s: The Treaty of Versailles prohibited Germany from building engine powered aircrafts but the technical know-how was still present in Edmund Rumpler. Making use of this knowledge he started developing cars. Already in September 1921 he presented his ‚Tropfenwagen‘ as the world’s first streamlined car long before both the Chrysler Ariflow and the Tatra 77 were presented in 1934. Even by today’s standards the construction of the car followed strong aerodynamic principles that gave it its futuristic look. Shaped like the eponymous raindrop, the car’s drag coefficient read 0.28 which radically distinguished it from its competitors.
… extracted from
https://www.classic-trader.com/de/magazin/rumplers-tropfenwagen-science-fiction-in-streamlining
A very interesting interview on London Real about corona with David Icke, a long time researcher who wrote several books with tons of good researched information. It is not about the virus, it is about destroying our economy and change it with a different one and implementing a cashless society etc. What can we do?
https://londonreal.tv/the-truth-behind-the-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-lockdown-the-economic-crash-david-icke/
Synchronicity….I was 60% through that very video before checking into the Cafe.
And I look at Icke maybe 5,6 times a year. Lately mostly interviews of him by Sean Atwood…..regarding Epstein, Andrew…etc
“Bill Gates, the guy that wants to vaccinate the world.” @ 33 minutes……
Good info, and Icke should not be disregarded. However, there is more reason for optimism than I see so far.
Which I will raise in answer to other comments I expect to see earlier than yours, Ingrid.
Or maybe a new one. Time for Catchup Cafe reading first.
youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMTZu6_TjU8
It would be good for all the cafe dwellers to pick up on ioan’s comments here:
/we-are-all-stoics-now/#comment-777765
As usual, he draws it together eloquently and elegantly.
This is what I would like to focus on for a moment:
“It can be said that the lack of trust among players is blocking it, or the bad will which could hide something pretty different among actual human gods. It isn’t true that the waters are so murky that no one can see some probable outcomes even though everything seems to be unpredictable as some actors may want to suggest. The pressure on global scale has its own limits, the density of fog will have its peak and we will see more clearly.”
And seeing more clearly is to be the goal for sure. My view is that we have to look at the wide perspective, and not the narrow perspective, so a few notes.
It needs to be taken into account that as Empire has a war on Russia, so Empire has a war on China (and of course a list of other countries like Iran). In my perspective these latest happenings have to be seen in the context of war – perhaps the type of war that none of us have ever seen or experienced. It is technological for sure and biological, and the probable outcomes are too much in the mist to be able to see. But, there are the openly stated hoped for outcomes – and these have not changed in terms of the war.
So, we want to analyze this war so that we can feel comfortable and in charge of our own wellbeing. Currently, we cannot – and we’re going to have to live with massive insecurity for I don’t know how long. As I’ve said a number of times before, the Chinese are expecting a 2nd occurrence or wave. Now they do not hide it any longer under ‘threat from returning Chinese’.
COVID-19 may reach another peak next spring: Chinese expert
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1183387.shtml
(China media is easy .. if it is published, it is formal – it may be a formal lie, but it is the accepted view).
Do we have correct data? No, we don’t. What does one do from an analytical perspective if one does not have the full picture? Well, you analyze with what you have and detail what you don’t have. Who ever has all the data in a war?
Is this a real thing? a real disease? a real virus? I think it is, but I think that is best seen from the emergency units of hospitals themselves and the descriptions of nurses and doctors. That is at least as real as what one can get to. These are examples of the people that I believe.
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSurgery/status/1241139303423623168/photo/1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J60fQr0GWo&feature=youtu.be
Governments will grasp for more control and will kill us all off if they could. My view is a little positive here – we’re inside an event that will be driven by events .. nobody has a full picture, but we know what governments do. Yet, I’ve never seen so many people shocked to reality in terms of looking after their own health. Perhaps we come out of this healthy, full of vigor, and ready to take our world back. This is my hope and this is what I am working towards.
What we know from events such as this, are that prices are going to rise. And once prices rise they dont come back down until someone makes enough of the product to force the price down. But there are going to be fewer and fewer people able and willing to try to do that now.
Higher prices have left the millenials to travel as their gift of being on the planet, they dont expect to own or have hardly anything, what will the future look like in a price inflationary environment then? Lets just say its not a place you want to be, neighbors fight neighbors, do onto him as you would have him do unto you will occur, it can only lead to a more dangerous and frightful place and lawmakers are to blame but will probably skate as usual because as humans, they are not the brightest bulb in the universe.
Democrat’s run states New York, Illinois and California on lockdown orders.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/19/newsom-orders-all-40m-californians-to-stay-home-in-nations-strictest-state-lockdown-1268248
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-governor-to-issue-lockdown-order-requiring-residents-shelter-in-place-starting-saturday-sources-say/ar-BB11trTM?li=BBnb7Kz
https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-in-ny-cuomo-orders-lockdown-shuts-down-non-essential-businesses/
California equip police with UAV drones camera/loudspeaker combination to intercept people. This is pretty serious for a land governed by fundamental law , ie. the constitution, the right to peacefully assemble, privacy, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms to defend the liberties and so on. There are no such liberties at this time, they have been suspended, it looks like an engineered event as the coronavirus is a harmless virus for humans, it has been engineered into SARS-CoV-2 a very infectuous virus that causes disease, some people therefor rightfully call it a bioweapon (from a bio-weapons lab).
Government are adding a large anti-freedom arsenal as they are faced with giving it all up, the terrorist threaths were engineered by themselves.
Some things can only be trusted so far, and this statement is one of them.
The constitution is out dated and in need of reform. Rand Paul has contracted the virus, and should congress critters start dropping from the voting roles, and the constitution be held to by the letter of its law, the citizens will suffer from inaction due to constitutional restraints.
Is this the straw that breaks the back of the constitution? Only time will tell, but to say this bug is harmless, is negligent, as the health care industry faces collapse of its ability to treat this critter should it continue to gain a foothold and advance its destructive measures.
You use a good word Alabama .. to say this bug is harmless, is negligent. I just watched the Trump update on Corona Virus – lots of stuff that is kinda unbelievable, but there was one moment. Trump said and I quote just from memory and may not be exactly correct word for word: ‘I am a wartime president and this is war.’
The constitution is now suspended even more than after 9/11. Those are meaningful words.
Alabama and Amarynth.
I was referring to the the inventors of a SARS-COV patent (HHS, CDC registered) who states exactly this about the human coronavirus :
“Coronavirus have not previously been known to cause severe disease in humans, but have been identified as a major cause of upper respiratory tract illness, including the common cold. Repeat infections in humans are common within and across serotype, suggesting that immune response to coronavirus infection in humans is either incomplete or short lived. ”
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7220852B1/en
So that is more or less harmless, like a common cold. How this is morphed into SARS-COV or SARS-COV-2 is the question, a matter of engineering if it is in fact a virus weapon which has been proven before in scientific reports that are ignored by WHO by the way but nevertheless it has been proven.
Then I clearly say that it has been engineered into SARS-CoV-2 a very infectuous virus that causes disease
I dont see how you can misunderstand that at all.
The constitution is the foundation of freedom in the USA and it must be upheld. By the way, I don’t support any kind of other government, and that include the social democracy fraud, (the real nazism and I have analysed it down to the letter and implementation), or EU (fascist, often supported by the social democracies for obvious reasons).
When I referred to the constitution in this case the SARS-CoV-2, I made it in a technical matter. That means I support following the advice and common sense, but ultimately and according to the constitution a group of people may also decide to go out somewhere safe together. I meant that as isolated group on the beach or in the mountains without being policed.
John4Truth, in my world it is hasta mañana … I’ll take a more careful look at what you said in the morning.
I’ll use a hillary phrase, at this point what difference does it make how it was created. To consider its ability to spread is the issue, it can not be compared to the simple common cold or if that truly was/is the case, the quality of the human health condition has slid downhill rather rapidly.
In addition, the ability of the health care industry to understand this situation has both taxed the people in the industry to their breaking point and used up all the equipment to counter the bug. No other virus has done this since 1918, but the condition does seem to roll around to some extent each century somewhere, somehow.
The constitutional issues are all subjectively interpretative, when in a state of panic,(which we are currently in) use the theory of stampedes, get out the way, or risk getting hurt.
To the first point: It does matter a lot, it is probably a critical concern. The BSL-4 labs real purpose is to research or produce bioweapons and should be shut down, if necessary by international treaties like weapons bans. In short they have no purpose, and weaponised viruses appear in public one after another. The swine flul appeared in Mexico allegedly in a market as well, but it was developed in a lab as any other of deadly viruses in recent history. So should the world await a more deadly SARS-CoV-3, or actually do something about this and shut down the labs? The answer is simple.
You are making the assumption that the human being by nature is loving caring giving critter, they are not. They are a controlling destructive machine that needs to compete fiercely for resources that can then be used to control non like minded competitors. If a million people were created with the same look, only 10% would be loving and caring, the 90% would be of the destructive nature giving them the advantage when it comes to like minded solutions to their own problems, even if it is only themselves.
Saying one thing and doing another is common practice, you state that the real purpose for a lab is to research or produce and this is probably right. But what is not right is once a bad product is produced, whatever it might be like say a chemical to kill the root of a hair, instead of labeling it for what it is, it is introduced unadvertized and the unwitting victims are then prayed for on sunday in church, and then held accountable on monday to visionary or controlling perfectionists.
This bug is no different, its creation and introduction was most likely done by elders who’s dream of everlasting life and control of the population is coming to an end, and since they are on the way out, they want to destroy rather than give at this unfortunate moment in time.
To me this is just moore proof that satan has moore control of the population than does god, god actually has very little power, only a destructive one that is used sparingly to bring the odds of gods survival back to an even point where the human experiment is begun, (and eventually ended) all over again.
Alabama on March 23, 2020 · at 7:42 am EST/EDT
“You are making the assumption that the human being by nature is loving caring giving critter, they are not. They are a controlling destructive machine that needs to compete fiercely for resources”
Oops, how could I have missed that ! (sic.).
There are other reasons involved. I think that only a small percentage are psychopats and they of course bring many people onboard or chase them into surrender, the name become obvious, they are mental cases.
Other forces are at work. One such force is called recruit and work for an organisation, the organisation being used for gaining advantages for a few people, business or corporations. Both people, businesses and corporations may be further exploiten so that they control government, and thus has expanded into running everything, such as the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rothschild’s ( a syndicate which is more shadowy, and the top of the pyramid). You only has to look more closely at the various conferences the politicians attend, the EU itself, and so on. It has nothing to do with the nature of people in general, it has to do with an enormous problem of corruption.
Most people when aware of something, and are willing to be both loving and caring .
You apparently have more trust in people than do I, I have studied the human and gvt critter, the more power and money and control they have, the worse the potential outcome for those who willingly oppose their views.
The meek, yes, they are blindly more loving and caring, but once even they wake up, not so much.
Alabama on March 23, 2020 · at 10:18 am EST/EDT
“You apparently have more trust in people than do I, I have studied the human and gvt critter, the more power and money and control they have, the worse the potential outcome for those who willingly oppose their views.”
Yes, absolutely. The problem of giving anyone power, money and control is a bad idea. It was addressed by the US constitution itself and the original 12 amendments which serves as the constitution that was ratified by the
States, the constitution itself was not ratified alone. There were the view that the central government was to be
restricted in several ways so as not to give the government power over people’s life. The central part of restriction is the election process of representatives of law and of senators that is formed as a complete idea of non-controllable government. Then there is the election of a president based on the same non-controlability.
There were not to be any organised system of people running a government. So one can only see the destruction of the constitution that has taken place, and brought the system into the state in which it resides today. So, the thing is to restore the constitution, limit the power of government, and restore the election processes according to the constitution.
For what it’s worth I live in a solid red state with a blue Governor. How this came about was probably due to the fact that a strident pro-trumper (albeit Rhode Scholar) beat out the old guard moderate republican in the primary. This Governor has the honor of being the first to cancel all schools for the rest of the year despite being at maximal distance from the two coasts. Pandemic = dem + panic — I’m not necessarily being serious just noting the lexical serendipity.
I agree with you. I support following the advice and also closing schools for shorter periods when the virus spread in the community and so on, but I see lockdown as beyond reasonable and the opposite of freedom, contrary to the law. There is no war on the USA, this one is on the people. So the people ultimately must respond and the role of the government is to advice .
Except its already been proven that gvt advice cant really be trusted, or even questioned in some instances.
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Sunday, March 22
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
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A great talent. In his prime.
Just for the record I’m Ras but renamed Raisa to help maintain gender clarity ; )
My introduction to Haiku was 20 years ago, and what led me to it I know not, but that first meeting led to a performance, now buried in time and cherry blossom petals…
Sakura sakura
To utawareshi
Oi ki kana
O cherry, cherry !
So was it praised in song,
This venerable tree
Kobayshi Issa (1763 – 1828)
The atmosphere at Moon of Alabama has definitely changed in the coronavirus environment.
I am not the only one noticing a new, disturbing tone.
Lots of comments are being deleted. I have been completely banned. No idea why.
I had not dissed anyone but had in fact been flamed before my comments disappeared.
It feels like a limited number of commenters have kind of hijacked the threads related to the CV.
Bernhard, the blog’s owner, is taking a very strident tone toward many.
Which has caused a few to openly wonder why this is occurring and who he actually is. To wit
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/03/coronavirus-on-western-government-failures-and-possible-therapies/comments/page/2/#comments
“Jonathan @144
Stonebird @149
Jonathan W @156
I also have the same suspicion. I have never seen b react so stridently on an issue and wanting to shutdown any reasoned debate. It was quite surprising for me to see b’s response to my post analyzing the science of the ‘debunking’ paper in an earlier thread. All he did was accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist instead of actually tackling the science.
This reminds me of what became of Gwynne Dyer’s column a few years ago. Overnight it seemed Dyer switched gears to a much more Empire-friendly tone.
Posted by: JasonT | Mar 22 2020 15:48 utc | 183”
Another commenter qeorw:
“Maybe we could get some clarification on censorship here.
I left a very rational comment yesterday about environmental causes that was left up all night and now gone.
I guess censorship and hysteria are also the new normal?
. . .
Posted by: Allen | Mar 22 2020 13:05 utc | 157”
b is German and lives in Germany. Some laws are on the books there against discussing or saying certain things. One must be careful. I and others wonder whether he is coming under official pressure, possibly from the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst–German “intelligence”) to toe the official line on corona. He has done a total flip-flop from his first positions on the corona virus to an extreme adherence to the mainstream narrative on virtually all aspects of the virus. Some dissenting or skeptical views are published but apparently many are being censored.
Katherine
You probably given some good answers already. I dont have any experience with Moon of Alabama though.
If b lives in Germany, you may be right, but I dont know about him. I know that people in Britain are put in jail for posting on social media various issues like trans and gender issues, and many other issues that are fanned out from EU’s Xenophobia law by the government, issues that used to be common sense, but which they are not allowed to express because it would mean freedom of speech again, and opposition to the government on their political correct issues made by various mad ideas. With the Law on Xeonophobia from the European Comission many other issues than islam and immigration that it was made for; obviously law on xeonophobia is illadvised ,wrongful and undemocratical; has been engulfed in such government radicalisation (fascism as it is system engineered into the structure of EU, EU parliament make no laws they are given talking points it is the corruption, the distraction ), and therefore the resulting hate campaign against people. Where once people could speak freely they cannot.
So today is the first day of the End of the World* ™.
It must be the End of the World *(tm) because all the cafes are closed. Arrrrrgh-armageddon!(tm)!!
The stunned faces.
Confounded. Confused.
Tears behind brave faces, as business after business closes – livelihoods vaporised in a day….. No-one is safe. People everywhere lose their jobs….
Absolutely spot on interpretations of how WHO, and some corporate media slaves are trying to peddle this porn fear in regards to COVID debacle. Specifically, how numbers of the “infected” people are concocted. Really, really clear.
I highly recommend this episode by “observation deck” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRjDsY5xy7U
You can also witness, what happens when a Canadian doctor goes off script during radio interview, and actually making attempt to be factual. Priceless!
” … I was waiting, waiting for a long time
In the dark shadow of grey towers
In the dark shadow of rain towers … ”
Gortoz a Ran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdPGfvsfyI
The mass-media is in a frenzy … on fire …
Vivaldi: La Folia (Madness) — Apollo’s Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qePY2Wdss
It’s too late and too much work to pull together the video links to make the point I wanted to make earlier in the day. I will just observe that despite a little sniffle, I am not alarmed, but quite confident.
The mood of foreboding prevalent here, in contrast ot my confidence and calm is no surprise at all to me. My usual practice is to be sailing along one side of the freeway at 75-80 miles per hour in light traffic, while the lanes going in the other direction are clogged with vehicles barely crawling along. I’m more comfortable being in the minority, nearly always, almost as a rule.
I have seen no fistfights over toilet paper and no dog eat dog capitalists devouring each other. Trader Joe’s had a line to get in…so the store wouldn’t be too full. After waiting 10 or 15 minutes …no one frustrated, no one upset, everyone calm…..one was only given a shopping cart (with freshly sanitized handle…..one employee’s sole task) with which to enter the store, after someone else had just left the store.
No one stressing about the Constitution coming to an end or anything of the sort.
I took amarynth’s suggestion and read ioan’s comment in the Stoicism article. The once Most Prolific Poet (and still holding his own!) was in a bit of a difficult and uncertain time some months before Corona…and some years of caregiving to his mother was no picnic either. This too shall pass, I have always felt, and brighter moods, happier years….while never guaranteed to any human being…are still quite possible for him, I am sure.
I also read mundo’s interaction , which offered quite an open glimpse into a bedrock of stability and peace, amongst us…..and ioan’s positive response to that cheering up…..from the considerable depths of experience of the Bavarian Astrologer’s long life of study and reflection and observation……above and below..
Lastly, I revisited the comment by the purposeful amarynth and her concluding paragraph:
“Governments will grasp for more control and will kill us all off if they could. My view is a little positive here – we’re inside an event that will be driven by events .. nobody has a full picture, but we know what governments do. Yet, I’ve never seen so many people shocked to reality in terms of looking after their own health. Perhaps we come out of this healthy, full of vigor, and ready to take our world back. This is my hope and this is what I am working towards.”
And again, no offense to those people struggling with either respiratory or transportation congestion, but I have no desire to merge onto that anarchist highway…… of every ruler or governor being a Pol Pot or Hitler just waiting for the chance to give full expression to their genocidal urges.
I go back to Trump and Kennedy I and II….. and question whether all governments or all people are either good or bad…..but I know one thing for sure: It’s highly subjective……depending on the mindset and emotional predisposition of the observer of any press conference…therefore considerably more complex than that idea that government is always worse than the governed, I am positive. And relatively confident that within 2 or 3 fortnights y’all. will even agree that you feel quite a bit better…..and more free of worry.
AND maybe she did not see what I saw in the press conference……….nor process it nearly the same way Jordan and I did:
https://youtu.be/ApHsdbvYgFA?t=415
Some singularities, some anomalies might actually be quite positively significant….if one can permit oneself to allow it……. to just BE!.
Let it be, Let it be. LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d5ST3tbPIU