Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 68

[ecosophia]

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.  

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

FTX Funded $18 Million Towards Research that Claimed that Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Didn’t Work Against COVID

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/ftx-funded-18-million-towards-research-claimed-ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine-didnt-work-covid/

I have a feeling this FTX thing is involved with everything going on right now..

[(Anonymous)]

I'm inclined to agree. If you haven't already read it, Jeffrey Tucker at Brownstone posted on it several days ago: https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-crypto-connection-ftx-and-sbf/

[(Anonymous)]

wary about the whole FTX story.. they appear to be gargantuan con-artist/trolls, however, could this (also) be a classic pin-ALL-the-blame-(for everything)-on-the-fall-guy move?

irony of nakedcapitalism discussing migrating to Mexico

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/11/inverse-migration-why-are-so-americans-moving-to-mexico.html

Less abundance of covid-crazies is a key reason people are migrating to Mexico. Mexico did not shut down, did not lock up school-kids at home and did not ban travel. I find it ironic that the covid-crazies in nakedcapitalism got attracted to the topic.

Re: irony of nakedcapitalism discussing migrating to Mexico

[(Anonymous)]

The "nice" people in the cities, though, that was a different story. Many went full on Kool-aid chugging covidian. Several people got very upset with me for not wearing a mask when I was in Mexico City late this summer. For a long while many weddings required 2x vaxx certificates to be shown at the door (but not QR code, so I gather there were plenty of fake certificates being shown.)

But yes it is true that Mexican authorities imposed fewer restrictions in general.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm at a loss to know what to say anymore. If indeed we are under demonic possession, and that the demons feast on the energy of the pain it produces, what karmic blowback would one suffer for pointing out the obvious and perhaps encouraging anxiety amoungst the jabbed?

Background: This spring my next door neighbour announced that her daughter was pregnant again and my sister announced her first grandchild was on the way. I bit my tongue. Everything was well with my niece but the placenta of my neighbour's granddaughter did not detach her mother (home birth) and had to be rushed to the hospital that didn't have room for her; then on to one 50 kliks away. She lost a lot of blood but is OK. I bit my tongue.

About a month ago we made the 2000km (what has become yearly) round trip to visit our elderly parents, all quackxed and basted. At least my mother said she's had enough of basting and won't do it anymore. I bit my tongue. My father whose sanctuary away from my mom's constant nattering is his basement workshop and art studio (they'll both be 90 next spring) passed out climbing the stairs, fell to the cement floor and sent a hefty chair flying about four feet. No real damage, they think it was a seizure. Now mom won't let him go down to the basement anymore.

I'm tired of having blood in my mouth. Anyone?

[(Anonymous)]

You are singing my song.

It is quite painful and tiresome. I am trying to come to terms with this, that most all of my friends and loved ones have fallen for this canard of "safe and effective vaccines," and refuse to have eyes or ears for the elephantine obvious.

But I don't think I ever will.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that my mind keeps treating this as a problem to solve, but what it is, really, is a predicament.

I am delighted to be alive and in good health. Now I ask myself every day, how do I want to live my life? In this predicament?

Some days the answers feel a little clearer to me. It's been slow going.

Cetiosaurus

Those soothing voices

[revert2mean]

Just a data point, but I was horrified by this. Who remembers those soothing, disembodied voices last year, singing about how it would all be fine, just fine, if you got quacksinated? How many people do you know who told you they "just woke up one morning and decided they should get quacksinated"? "Oh." I say, when they tell me. And didn't JMG explain the astral topology somewhere by saying demons can reach us through some layer of our energy while we sleep?

Well ...

It's November 2022, right? I was reading Arkmedic's blog. Now, I don't want JMG to accuse me of peddling conspiracy theories here, so I'll just say I was reading about what happened in Samoa in 2019. And I was feeling ill, really physically ill, about the account of the events in Samoa in 2019 and what it might imply. Like Rebekah Barnett, I was thinking, "every time I get to the bottom of this damn rabbit-hole, the bottom falls out again."

AND THEN THE VOICES STARTED. Beautiful, soothing voices assuring me it was all OK and not to worry about it.

They back right off when they realise I can identify that they're an external entity, and I start investigating and putting up comments on the interwebs, so it only lasted less than a minute, but it was most definitely there.

So that made the bottom of the rabbit-hole fall out a second time in the space of a minute.

Re: Those soothing voices

[(Anonymous)]

The voices didn't even try with me. I have what the fancy doctors call oppositional defiance disorder.

Or in non thought-prison terms a functional BS detector

[(Anonymous)]

My psychic, who is extraordinarily good, is confident that there will be a deadly strain of COVID that hits next year. She believes it will mostly affect Europe and will kill rapidly (in a few days). I thought 🤔 that sounds like the ADE most have been talking about here. But only time will tell.

[revert2mean]

Jessica Adams has been singing the same song for a while now, though she's very, very low-key about any mention of mass death. She just says covid will be "back" in March 2023, and that vaccines are "no solution" (at last she says that). She wants everyone to install UV-C light in all their indoor spaces. She has been pretty accurate, but I can only think, "good luck with that" about that solution. We're kind of symbiotic with viruses and all.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, JMG, and thank you, forumistas.

Cetiosaurus

future of industrial medicine

[(Anonymous)]

JMG: I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries.

I am wondering what people think is happening or will happen as far as the existing medical indsutry reeling. What might this look like going forward?

Re: future of industrial medicine

[(Anonymous)]

Like, you'd better be able to take care of yourself at home.

Giving thanks

[dendroica]

It's Thanksgiving week in the USA: a holiday that has somehow not been fully capitalized and commercialized and plasticized and is still more or less about coming together with friends and family and eating good food and giving thanks.

I'd like to express my gratitude to JMG for creating and moderating this space and to everyone who has joined in these discussions.

With the caveat that it has nothing to do with covid or the vaccines, I'll also share this month's Dendroica Project post with a gratitude theme:
https://dendroica.substack.com/p/gratitude

Re: Giving thanks

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I am very appreciative of JMG for hosting this blog and grateful to everyone posting here for a meaningful discussion of this crisis.

[open_space]

This isn't Burma, nor do I know what the thing with her was but since I have been writing about my fears for the past week, I was reminded of a comic I used to like, Zen Pencils, and this one is about work, hope and fear.

California Disinformation Law

[ritaer]

I haven't followed all the posts on this topic, so I don't know whether California AB 2098, which was passed and signed in September, to take effect next year, has been discussed. On 11/15 the Sacramento Bee published an article about a federal lawsuit by five California physicians against Governor Newsom and the state medical board. The suit argues that the law violates the 1st Amendment right of free speech and the 14th Amendment guarantee of due process in threatening that medical licenses can be revoked for "misinformation" about COVID-19. The bill was co-sponsored by the California Medical Association.

The governor claimed that the law was "narrowly tailored and would apply only to those egregious instances in which a licensee is acting with malicious intent or clearly deviating from the required standard of care . . . " However, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is handling the lawsuit, noted that the governor's musings carry no legal weight, and the law will be interpreted solely on the basis of its vague language.

The Bee article quotes doctors on both sides, some calling the claimants quacks who should lose their licenses, while the claimants themselves cite cases in which non-standard medical practices in the treatment of other disorders have saved lives and even become the standard. Dr. Ram Duriseti recalled that early in the pandemic he had bucked the strategy of rushing patients onto ventilators, adding that the strategy was adopted primarily to protect health care workers. Though the establishment has backed away from such aggressive use of ventilators, Duriseti fears that the law could penalize him for future instances in which his professional instincts collide with the accepted wisdom.

The ACLU of Northern California has called on the courts to block the law, arguing that it "doesn't strike the right balance between free speech and patient safety."

If anyone is interested in reading the article, it was written by John Woolfolk of the Bay Area News Group, published page 6A of 11/15/22 Sacramento Bee.

Rita

Rochelle's Testimony of Social Media Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

Transcriber here. I selected this one for transcription because, while many of vaxx injured on realnotrare.com and elsewhere mention censorship and harassment, this testimony goes into more detail. I felt that it is historically important. As of November 22, 2022 I have not been able to find other videos from TrialSite news' "Vaccine Injury" series and so far nothing has been coming up in my various searches, however, this video did appear on TrialSite News' rumble page. If anyone can find the home page for this series and/or identify the interviewer, please let me know and I will be sure to add that information.

TrialSite News, Vaccine Injury Series
Rochelle tells the experience of both her mother and grandmother after getting vaccinated.
https://rumble.com/v1qzoce-vaccine-injured-rochelle-tells-her-story.html
November 1, 2022

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the first half of the video Rochelle recounts that both her grandmother and mother suffered severe adverse events after their second injections. Her grandmother lost her ability to speak and died shortly thereafter, and her mother, previously active and healthy, suffered severe "10 out of 10" pain all over her body and lost her ability to walk, among other symptoms.

TRANSCRIPT -- EXCERPT

10:07
ROCHELLE: First of all, my mother actually shared this on her FaceBook page and every time she tried to talk about it on FaceBook she always, I don't remember exactly what people were saying to her but she got some really nasty comments from people calling her like a Trump supporter and an anti-vaxxer and anti-science, and, you know, and she just felt very bullied. And so she finally just got fed up with it and she made this post on FaceBook saying, like, here's what happened, like, I'm not a Trump supporter, I'm not an anti-vaxxer, like, I'm a retired registered nurse who is married to a pulmonologist and a critical care physician. So both of them have like degrees in science and our whole family is in medicine. My brother is also a doctor, and I have a background in biology. So she just, you know, made this post about how she does not deserve the criticism that she's getting and that this vaccine injury that she got is very real and that you know it's just not OK for people to be bullying. And she received some support for that, so some people were nice to her. But I think she's gotten kind of like mixed responses from people.

I also tried to share her story on social media. So I went to TikTok and I went to Instagram and I talked about what happened to my mother and my grandmother. And what happened is that there was this [makes air quotes with fingers] medical professional, I think he was a nurse who had a really big platform with like hundreds of thousands of followers. And so he responded to one of the videos I made and he called me a liar and he made fun of me, he mocked me, he ridiculed me, and then he sent all of his followers to come harass my page. So at the time I was using my name for my Instagram account because I felt like I had nothing to hide. Unfortunately, when he sent his hundreds of thousands of followers to harass my page, what happened is that they looked up my name on the Internet and they found that my father, who is a associate professor at a pretty well-known medical university college, they found out that I was related him and they actually started to call his place of work and threaten him with, um, they were trying to get him fired from his job, they were trying to get him, like, his medical license removed, they were like calling his supervisors. And then they tried to like find my personal information and they were like sending our family threats. It was just like a big nightmare. It was like, you know, all I did was just share the truthful story of what happened to my family. And I have absolutely no reason to lie about this. It's not comfortable to be harassed in this way. And so this is like not the type of attention that I'm craving.

And I do feel the urge and the desire to talk about what happened because I feel that so many people are very afraid to talk about it. I've just, I've seen the cruelty and the horrible reactions that friends and family members have had. And I've had a vaccine injury in the past and I've been harassed for speaking about it as well.

So it's just been unbelievable. To me it's kind of showed me this different side of human nature that I didn't really see before. And it's been a little bit eye-opening.


INTERVIEWER: Mind-blowing and infuriating to hear this. And I know that you're not alone. I have seen this time and again. You know, and it's sick, and these kinds of people that are going out there trying to destroy you, your family, your father's work because what? Because you're going to tell about your experience? Disgusting! Every one of those people are, that engage in this, are animals. Hands-down.


ROCHELLE: I agree. Yeah, I agree. I mean, to me it's just the heartlessness of going out of your way to harass someone who just told the most tragic, like, horrifying story about their family and then you're just going to make the assumption, without even having any proof that they're lying, you're going to make the assumption that they're lying about this. And you know, like, people were asking me like, prove that your grandmother died! And so I posted on my TikTok like pictures of her funeral. And they're like, that's not proof of anything, like, show her death certificate! And it's just like, just the assumption that I would be, for whatever reason, making up stories about this.

And it's also unbelievable because I'm not even telling anybody else what to do with their body, like, I'm not going in there, telling these people online to not get the vaccine. I'm not telling them that that they can't get it. I'm just telling them what happened to my family. And that's all I'm saying. And for them to viciously attack me like that is just, I think that shows a lot about the nature of, um, I don't know, I was looking to this mass formation psychosis thing* and I just think there's a lot of really crazy cult-like brainwashing going on that, you know, we, I think we could, I think that we could study similar cults and we can understand what's going on right now by studying the history of various different cults that have risen to popularity.


INTERVIEWER: Basically in my opinion you're being treated as less than human. And I think that's where this is going.


ROCHELLE: Yeah. And I actually have something to add to that which is that I've had my Facebook account that I had for 10 years permanently deleted because of what I talked about with the vaccine injuries, I talked about Trump and covid. So I talked about that stuff. They [?] deleted. I lost, I had like a thousand friends on there, and a bunch of pictures, like I lost all of that stuff. Permanently.


INTERVIEWER: Yep.


ROCHELLE: Which sucks because you know I mean—


INTERVIEWER: Memories.


ROCHELLE: I don't really like FaceBook all that much but it's nice to have a data base of memories.

I had my Instragram account that I've had for 5 years, hundreds of pictures on it, a bunch of friends, connections, deleted permanently because I talked about my mom's vaccine injury.


INTERVIEWER: Yep.


ROCHELLE: I had my TikTok account deleted because when I was responding to this nurse who was bullying me and accusing me of lying, a bunch of people reported my account for [makes air quotes with fingfers] false information and then my account was deleted.


INTERVIEWER: Yes.


ROCHELLE: So I've had three social media accounts permanently deleted. And it's felt like they're trying to just wipe my existence off the face of the planet. So it's like not only did this tragic thing happen to my family but they're trying to erase me now. They're trying to make me invisible. They're trying to take away my connection to the outside worlds because, you know, during these lockdowns we've been so isolated and disconnected from other people and so social media has been—


INTERVIEWER: Critical.


ROCHELLE: — one of the main things connecting us, and they stole that from me by the this censorship, by deleting everything. And so I got really upset about that.

And also I have family members, um, so I'm part Jewish also. Jewish, American, European, and Afghan. And so I've had my grandmother's entire family was murdered in Auschwitz in—


INTERVIEWER: Wow.


ROCHELLE: Yeah, in the Holocaust. And same with my partner, his, a lot of his grandparents' family members were murdered in the Holocaust. Even here in Hungary, a lot of them were murdered, where I am right now. And so it's like, you know, we come from this background where these horrible things have happened in previous generations and then there's a lot of generational trauma that you have to try to heal from. And then you see the same kind of thing happening again. And it's just really, it's just very disappointing
because you feel like humanity has just not learned the lessons that we needed to learn. And things are just repeating themselves because people are not noticing what's happening.
18:47
[END OF EXCERPT]

# # #

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
*Rochelle refers to Mathias Desmet's concept of "mass formation psychosis" which, in his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022) Desmet describes as "a dangerous collective type of hypnosis." Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

Re: Rochelle's Testimony of Social Media Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

Just awful. Horrifying. Infuriating. Enraging.

[(Anonymous)]

Re: "what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries."

In part this will depend on what citizens allow and what they don't. Speaking of which, I just came upon this list of medical freedom groups by state in the US, by way of a link from Leslie Manookian's site:

https://sheet.zohopublic.com/sheet/published.do?rid=ky9d7472594a3faf241b8b76bc5030e9529b1

Here is Leslie Manookian's resources page:
https://lesliemanookian.com/resources/

Cetiosaurus

[kashtan]

Here's a detailed analysis of Massachusetts mortality statistics in 2020 and 2021, showing that the patterns of mortality fundamentally shifted after the vaccines were introduced. The excess mortality in 2020 was almost exclusively in the vulnerable populations during COVID waves and fell back to normal during times of low COVID cases. After the vax was introduced, the excess mortality wasn't as concentrated in the most vulnerable populations, and the percentage of deaths that were from heart and blood issues went up significantly.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/massachusetts-death-certificates-excess-mortality-covid-vaccines

[(Anonymous)]

UConn Women’s Basketball Assistant Coach Chris Dailey "COLLAPSES" BEFORE GAME...
FELL TO THE FLOOR......
VOMITED and "appeared" to FAINT before the team’s game with NC State at the XL Center...
Taken off the court on a stretcher...
- Hartford Courant, wtnh

Mistakes were made on both sides. It's time to forgive and forget and move on. Nobody really knew.

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t think the ‘nobody really
knew’ argument holds water. Look up the row over the article in the Atlantic calling for a covid amnesty. Charles Eisenstein wrote a good article about it. Pharma knew. Politicos knew. Finance knew. Technocrats knew. Some of them revelled in it. Look out the clip of Jacinda Ahern revelling in creating a two tier society of jibbed/non jibbed. Truth and Reconciliation Commissions work only when people tell the truth. Moving on without attending to the harms is whitewashing and laying the foundations for a repeat performance, if not now then in decades to come. Look at the experiences of the Jewish heritage people in the transcribed thread above. All imho obviously.
Falling Tree Woman

I hope it's just a seasonal bug

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in a night class with a bunch of other teachers, and for the past two weeks the first thing everyone talks about as we're arriving and getting settled is how sick the kids are this fall.

Some have been kept home from school three separate times already this fall. Others are dropped off at school after a time away, still with obvious symptoms, and the teachers/admin have to phone to get them picked up and taken home again.

At the outdoor school where I teach, almost half of our group last Friday was home sick (five out of eleven), and in the younger kids' group which runs simultaneous to mine, it was four out of seven.

I haven't heard through word of mouth of any kids getting dangerously sick, just these long dragging colds or whatever it is. I did hear on the radio that Ontario is seeing a very high incidence of RSV in kids, and that children's hospitals are filling up.

Dylan

Re: I hope it's just a seasonal bug

[(Anonymous)]

It's hard to tell what's going on. Where I live, it used to be pretty normal for people to go to work or school despite the sniffles or even a low-grade fever. These days, folks will stay home for a couple of days when they have just the inkling of a cold, to avoid setting off a reaction from the covid wardens.

[(Anonymous)]

Here is a documentary that has just been released

World Premiere: Died Suddenly

https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html

[coyote_girl]

That was one of the few videos I had the patience to sit through. The coverage of the dangers of the fox are probably nothing new to most of this forum. Though it does have some graphic scenes involving the massive clots.

They do play it from the angle of being a depopulation plan. Previously I had dismissed it. Why kill off the most compliant? It makes no sense.

Maybe my thinking cap is made of tinfoil, but what if the intent was to reduce fertility and crank up the collateral damage? Some doses from a hot lot, most duds. Our ruling class does seem to view the rest of us as disposable and too stupid to catch on. Russian Roulette with the peons.

That would also explain some other recent policies. Keeping the southern boarder open for the drug trade, not prosecuting traffickers etc. Last week I was talking to one of the local cops, red county in a blue state. He was calling it quits. They would bust a guy with multiple arrests in the last month who had stolen firearms and 'thousands' of fentanyl pills. He gets to walk. No charges made. Think the opioid crisis and deaths from despair is being encouraged much?

Or maybe it's more along with the demon hypothesis, or both, or both plus X. Towards the end of the video, they did not call the EGT demonic, one of the interviewees just settled for 'pure evil.'

Dear JMG. Thanks again for hosting. If this post is deemed too far off topic or too tin foil, please feel free to delete it.

Temporary Reality...

[(Anonymous)]

...TEMPORARY REALITY!
i read your comment on ECOSOPHIA.net about historical clothing and how you say you're a beginner and i beg to differ because in the spirit of that topic on writing and the biz, it's the same in sewing. i stopped reading books on "how" to do most techniques when i realized that i was wasting time fretting about all i supposedly DON'T know, but when i use my MIND, i... KNOW. i come up with solutions that may be classic or innovative because i'm coming at it from another artistic approach.

so if you're spinning wool and fixing mimeographs, i dare say that YOU are wise with your hands as well. they want us to get hung up on their heirarchy of experts, but now that luxury has long since been "luxurious," we're looking pretty good in comparison.

i had this idea that i put in a drawer because it looked too much like i was having "designs" on you as an artist and all-around kindred spirit, BUT when i read your post on Eco main, i smiled! because my dream when i started looking at craft fairs as if they're smelly (because of those clickable racist BIPOC+ designations), was this idea that popped into my head:

"what if [Temporary Reality] and i could learn custom on each other and others and we can fit up people FAST and she does her style of clothing for people and then her daughter digs it and then we have all these beautiful customers wearing different artistic digs and it's a THING?"

and my reason for also not wanting to do craft fairs, is that you're inclined to make things that are "general" and will sell because the cost of pre-production is so damn HIGH. and that makes me feel like i'm already selling out on the new future because it's just a hop skip and a jump away from stretchy tubes to do saggy clothes that'll fit anyone but you just paint a bit or give an earth tone (so it'll sell) and we're back to beige houses..now dark GREY houses in san francisco...

aberrations...

so you, Temporary Reality and Northwind Grandma, talk about making HISTORICAL clothes and now it's as if i hear the click on cracking the code and there it is! HISTORICALLY-based it shall be.

not ONLY that. but the highest artistic expression of what i wanna do as an Artist will be referencing both the French and American Revolution's clothing. as i try to riff like be bop and come up with a pitch for OUR OWN.

i see using "Ungovernable" somehow. maybe in illegible script or a design as a wink to each other. i still see painting bags... i want to pitch that in a world of censorship we become our own billboards regarding our vibes..

i remembered Harajuku clothes and the small vendors and set ups... so small!

and i reference hip hop and why i danced to electrify others... because i was electrified when i was young and carried it around til it exploded LATER... so i need to back off my own preconceived expectations. i know i DID electrify a couple other girls. one made her boyfriend pull over so she could run up and talk to me and she screamed: I WANNA DO WHAT YOU'RE DOING. TEACH ME.

i think it was the REQUEST "teach me" that had me shrugging and backing off. i don't want any followers; i want equals who challenge me and call me up and OUT.

Temporary Reality is THAT.

so Temporary Reality, that's my dream, idea. i figured i'll use this year to get my act together then i'll show you in summer when we step back out, and if you dig it, i'll show you. i need to make the most of the long bus rides, right? (smile)

until i KNOW what i'm doing like learning to ride a motorcycle and finally stop telling myself which levers to pull in case i panic and just... RIDE... until i'm a little better i've got nothing to share yet.

but i wanted to say: THANK YOU i will stay on "historical" because why on earth when you can make something, would it be... TUBES???? that's industrial thinking.

so you're an easy consumer who doesn't wanna stand out.

see where i'm going with this, y'all?

as we ARE The Pretty People now, it's time to start ACTING like it and having hellafied FUN with who we are. and like dancing we will electrify awake and find and remember and discover each other.

find means discover but find is stub your toe on existence while discover is adventure and all WOW WHAT and WHO IS THIS?

anyhow i like this fitting to the body custom more than ANYTHING because it changes how you think about design and yourself when you're not a generic size off rack where clothes are designed for hanger appeal.

erika

Re: Temporary Reality...

[temporaryreality]

Erika!

holy smokes!

Well, I won't totally argue semantics with you -but I AM a beginner at sewing garments, doesn't mean I'm not capable, just that I haven't learned much, nor practice much. Like you say, "until I'm a little better, i've got nothing to share yet."

But yeah, the historical stuff - back when people came up with their own patterns and made things for their own bodies and lives... But obviously, with our own aesthetics and needs met (I, for one, think medieval men's clothes are pretty unappealing, lol).

This is probably where I kinda meld yours and James's notions. I do think the "artist" (read: the creative human) must create if that person or others are going to get out of this stew with any remnant of life -- but I strongly hew toward putting on my own oxygen mask/create for myself first. The *making* and the choosing of *life* is the message that can only be transmitted in the doing (not, I'm starting to think, by the "product" of the doing/art-making). At least for me.

"Go ye forth and do your thing" as has been said by a certain person, and, like James said, "you gotta just experiment and do what's right for you."

We'll (all) certainly be the ones having more fun than the consumerists.

Alison Morrow interviews Chad LaVeglia

[(Anonymous)]

Alison Morrow, journalist who specializes in free speech issues, interviews the attorney who job jobs and backpay for NYC workers

VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
#NYC #Mandate #SupremeCourt A NY Supreme Court judge recently decided that 16 sanitation workers were fired under arbitrary and capricious circumstances when they refused to get the Covid vaccine to maintain employment. Chad LaVeglia represented them in the case, in which it was determined they should be reinstated at work and receive lost back pay.

https://rumble.com/v1wi8zi-the-attorney-who-won-jobs-back-pay-for-nyc-workers-chad-laveglia.html

Re: Alison Morrow interviews Chad LaVeglia

[(Anonymous)]

Oops

the attorney who job jobs and backpay for NYC workers

should read

the attorney who got jobs and backpay for NYC workers

Twist in the Commission Plot

[(Anonymous)]

Days #27 and 28 (Monday and Tuesday this week) of Canada’s Public Order Emergency Commission (“Trucker’s Commission”) have certainly taken a surprising turn. Generous doses of high drama along with a “Niagara Falls” of well-rehearsed lies. I’ll cut to the chase.

Monday started off with three representatives of CSIS (Canada’s version of the FBI). They radiated the supreme confidence of untouchability. In the midst of the testimony, the director of the spy-agency state, rather nonchalantly, that he had advised the Prime Minister that the “nuclear legislation” of the Emergencies Act should be invoked, even though the CSIS threshold of “national threat” which the invocation is to be triggered (as per the Act) had not been met. Atom Bomb! Up to this point, every single government witness, when asked why the Emergencies Act has been invoked even though it did not meet the CSIS threshold, some lame answer or another was given – never a contradiction like ‘the director of CSIS told us to’. Now here’s the kicker: the director himself never mentioned this point when he gave a preliminary testimony interview on August 29th. Naturally, when the bombshell was dropped, the lawyer asked him why he did not mention this during the interview, the director stated, “I wasn’t asked.” I guess we should give him the benefit of the doubt: after all, such a small detail would slip anyone’s mind (right?????).

Pandemonium ensued. The case of virtually all of the “freedom/human rights/constitutional rights” lawyers had been preparing to pull apart every federal politician giving testimony this week due to the whole ‘did not follow CSIS’ argument. The wind was taken out of their sails. While some lawyers took a more traditional approach of finding something else on the edge of the issue to pound, Convoy lawyer Brandon Miller took a different, bolder, approach.

But before giving that away, a bit of a back story. Miller has become the “rock star” of the Commission proceedings. Even though he is a lawyer, he embodies the trucker spirit: though he knows the law down pat, the guy’s a “brawler” while all the other lawyers try to keep up the image of being “gentlemen”. I do not know anything about hashtags and other such social media metrics for monitoring the “buzz”, but I’m willing to bet that Miller is right up there in Canadian social media. Anyway, a feud has been slowly brewing between Miller and Commissioner Rouleau (many of us just call him ‘Rolly’). From what I can see, they first crossed swords when Miller asked that a video of police brutality against unresisting protesters be shown and (for the first and only time since the Commission started) there was a technical ‘glitch’ so that only the audio was presented (“oopsie’!). Things have only gone from bad to worse since then. I suspect that Miller (and the team with him including the illustrious Keith Wilson) knows that the whole Commission is a sham and, realizing that it is not a fair fight, has been periodically releasing shocking “Easter eggs” – that is, when he is not gutting and filleting whoever is testifying.

Well, on Monday, Miller did it again. First, he asked the CSIS director some lead-up questions and then got him to respond to two photos. But not before a titanic battle with government lawyers over said evidence (which wasted most of the time allowed for Miller’s cross-examination). These lawyers really, really, really did not want Miller to show those photos. But after a lot of reservations and conditions, Rolly gave the ‘green light’. And the photos? The notorious ‘man holding the N*zi flag’ photo and the first ‘truck displaying a Confederate flag’ photo. And then Miller grilled the director about whether CSIS had investigated the identities of the flag waver and the truck owner (its licence plate was clearly visible). When the director demurred, Miller dropped his own Atom Bombs: he revealed the identity of the individuals and their company’s ties to the Liberal Party of Canada. Rolly was not entertained!
(those who like videos can see it here from 3:30:00 to 3:36:30: https://rumble.com/v1w83ce-the-final-week-emergencies-act-inquiry-live-with-chat.html)

Following the CSIS testimony came the first Cabinet member to testify: Bill Blair. This former Chief of Toronto Police possesses the great talent of talking a mile a minute without ever taking a breath and also without actually saying anything (more a ‘curse of the gab’ than a ‘gift of the gab’ if you ask me). The less said about him the better.

Then today (Tuesday) things got even wilder. When time came for Brendan Miller to cross-examine Cabinet member Marco Mendicino in the morning, Miller stated that he could not cross-examine him because the recent colossal data dump by government consists mostly of documents that are nearly completely redacted – even though there are no grounds (such as “cabinet confidentiality”) to require the redaction – and that many of these documents are central to questioning the witness. Clearly beside himself, Miller orally requested that Mendicino’s staffer (whose damning texts with a staffer of the PM’s office had been leaked by Miller two weeks ago), who was physically present in the room, be allowed to be questioned instead (Medicino – a former lawyer himself -- was visibly perturbed during this exchange). Rolly refused -- and then he expelled Miller from the premises! (video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThrEKvFv3yU)

Shortly afterwards, Miller was tweeting about the event and ended up having a couple of media scrums outside the venue where the Commission is ‘holding court’. Some may accuse Miller of grand-standing. Regardless, he managed to make headlines in the newpapers – which, I think, was the whole idea. (video of media scrum here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mqYYGABTL4)

While Miller was banished to the chilly Ottawa November outdoors, there was an appeal by a lawyer representing a different “freedom organization” that he be allowed back in the afternoon. Interestingly, a lawyer representing freedom fighters of Windsor (who has not said ‘boo’ for the past 27 days of testimony) brutally cross-examined Medicino regarding the mandates, the process used for deciding to mandate the foxes, and the fact that it was the fox-mandate that caused the protests in many parts of the country (gotta love the feisty blue-collar residents of Windsor). To his credit, however, Medicino had quite a lot of well-rehearsed answers.

Finally, in the late afternoon, it was Miller Time. Knowing that Medicino had been a lawyer for several terrorism cases, Miller grilled him on the laws that govern such cases – and then repeatedly tried to get a response from Medicino that there are no laws that protect the identity of a person who displays a flag in public and is photographed in public. Miller was continuously interrupted by government lawyers. Medicino played ‘dumb’. Then Miller showed him the photo of the N*zi flag waver (who was photographed by Trudeau’s official photographer out of all the thousands of camera-wielding people in the crowd that day – quite the coincidence, eh?) and identified the ‘waver’ and his associations with the Liberal Party. Again, Mendicino played dumb.

As for the persons whom Miller has ‘outed’ for displaying “unacceptable” flags, they have threatened to sue Miller. Apparently, when Miller was asked in an accusatory tone ‘don’t you realize how defamatory it is to be accused of being a N*zi?’, he replied, ‘Yes, I do: my clients have been accused of being N*zis all along’. That shut them up pretty good!

Sorry for the lengthy blow-by-blow account. But I figure at least a few people may want to know about the strange ‘twist of the tale’.

Honk honk! Freedom! Liberté!

Ron M

Re: Twist in the Commission Plot

[(Anonymous)]

re: "nd the photos? The notorious ‘man holding the N*zi flag’ photo and the first ‘truck displaying a Confederate flag’ photo. And then Miller grilled the director about whether CSIS had investigated the identities of the flag waver and the truck owner (its licence plate was clearly visible). When the director demurred, Miller dropped his own Atom Bombs: he revealed the identity of the individuals and their company’s ties to the Liberal Party of Canada."

I am in no way surprised!! It was such a stupid, cheap move, and I am amazed that anyone was stupid enough to believe the truckers were really waving such flags.

Thanks very much for this update, Ron M.

Mercola on Propaganda and Censorship

[fredsmith11]

Fear mongering, propaganda and suppression of early treatments were key components of the COVID playbook.

Mercola looks into who is behind it all and no surprises really - Big Gov + Big Corporates + Big Tech. One interesting snippet: "Just this week, Google embedded AI censorship into its Google Docs word processor to add friction for users engaged in wrongspeak."

Available for approx. 48 hours: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/11/23/elon-musk-twitter-censorship.aspx?

As mentioned before, now is a good time to make sure you have an email account outside of Big Tech. A VPN is helpful too.

Excerpt:

Identifying and Exposing ‘The Swamp’

Discovery documents obtained have identified upward of 70 federal employees across more than a dozen federal agencies, engaged in illegal censorship activities, including officials from:

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Election Security and Resilience team

Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis

The FBI’s foreign influence taskforce

The Justice Department’s (DOJ) national security division

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence

White House staff (including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty and former White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt)

Health and Human Services (HHS)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The Office of the Surgeon General

The Census Bureau

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

The State Department

The U.S. Treasury Department

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission

Emails from the strategic communications and marketing firm Reingold also reveal outside consultants were hired to manage the government’s collusion with social media to violate Americans’ Constitutional free speech rights.

Notable tech participants in the censorship meetings include Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Microsoft, Verizon Media, Pinterest, LinkedIn and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Re: Mercola on Propaganda and Censorship

[(Anonymous)]

Yes I second the tip to have an email outside of Big Tech.

I very very rarely look at wikipedia anymore, it's so gamed and full of shale.

MRI scans showing increased magnetic susceptibility of brain in long-COVID

[sinners4diseasecontrol]

A new study published in Neuroscience News says, "Neuroimaging study," using a special type of MRI "reveals significant brain changes in areas associated with language comprehension, cognition, and circadian rhythm control six months after COVID-19 infection."
https://neurosciencenews.com/post-covid-brain-21904/

The report says that neurological symptoms associated with long COVID include difficulty thinking or concentrating, headache, sleep problems, lightheadedness, pins-and-needles sensation, change in smell or taste, and depression or anxiety.
"Magnetic susceptibility denotes how much certain materials, such as blood, iron and calcium, will become magnetized in an applied magnetic field. This ability aids in the detection and monitoring of a host of neurologic conditions including microbleeds, vascular malformations, brain tumors and stroke...
MRI results showed that patients who recovered from COVID-19 had significantly higher susceptibility values in the frontal lobe and brain stem compared to healthy controls."

I note that magnetite in the brain has been associated with electrosensitivity, the neurological symptoms of which basically identical to those listed above, and factors in the presence or absence magnetite there are still mysterious, but migrating birds are known to have it and use it in navigation. Anecdotally, when my husband, father and I visited Australia together, the guys were prone to getting disoriented, but I knew which way north was at all times.
I have joked that I've had long-COVID since 1997. It has been noted that a good proportion of the people suffering from it have never tested positive for COVID. That, of course, does not mean that COVID plays no role in the onset of these symptoms. Hopefully, studies like this will result in research on ways to reduce magnetite in the brain. But again, I don't think that is the only mechanism of harm from EMFs.

Re: MRI scans showing increased magnetic susceptibility of brain in long-COVID

[(Anonymous)]

I'd take it more seriously if the long covid sufferers in the study were **not** also vaccinated. Or did I miss that?

Like, gee, people who got tocked on the head with a loaf of old bread, but who also got whacked on the head with a baseball bat, oftentimes turn out to have some brain damage. Therefore, watch out, those loaves of old bread are so dangerous! Everybody, quick, chuck that super dangerous bread, switch to the bug powder-fortified mush!

Just kidding maybe a little bit not really.

Grumbling Grumbledore

[(Anonymous)]

OK I really have to figure out how to insert photos on my dreamwidth account. (I have been trying!!)

Best meme du jour:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F571a7013-970f-4d89-b3c9-1123fcd6fb3f_538x486.png

[(Anonymous)]

haha. Is that mouse #8? :-)

Documentary on the V

[(Anonymous)]

https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html

Here is a somewhat knarley documentary about the V. I talked with a coworker whose brother in law is an undertaker, the clotting stories are true.

Re: Documentary on the V

[(Anonymous)]

I was in Hospital back in Feb - Everyone in the ward was in with heart conditions, apart from one guy who was in with some sort of virus which couldn't be diagnosed. Last I heard the consultant was ordering him HIV tests. The guy opposite me, they sent him home with anxiety meds. I wouldn't believe all the stories are true if I hadn't seen it first hand myself. Separately my cousin is a nurse - one of the first to get jabbed here. She says lately the system is at breaking point, and morale amongst staff is on the floor. She mentioned the vaccine as a large contributor to the problems. My band mate's best friend died suddenly 2 months ago. last month I was at my best friends brother's funeral- stomach embolism, another died suddenly. Another best friend's childhood neighbor died suddenly 2 weeks ago. Aside from that I've had a few acquaintances die suddenly in the last year. All are in their 40s. Now I hear last week a good friend had a cardiac arrest. This is in Ireland - there has been almost nothing in the papers about it until this week - a story about a 14 year old boy who dies from the vaccine. I can't imagine the narrative going on much longer they way things are progressing.

[mr_nobody1967]

....Or as I like to call it, The Winter Of Severe Illness And Death 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Seeing as how nobody seems to have posted it on this week's comments yet, here's a link to the "Died Suddenly" video that is going viral in the Covid-narrative-skeptic community. What this dire documentary is reporting on is the spate of sudden deaths we are seeing in the developed (read "highly-Covid-vaccinated") world, the huge fibrous clots that funerary-embalmers are finding in people's mortal remains, and the catastrophic effect on human reproductive ability and pregnancies that have been happening and are all thought by many people to be Covid-vaccine related.

"Died Suddenly"

[(Anonymous)]

So I finished watching Matthew Miller Skow and Nicholas Strumphauzer's documentary film for the Stew Peters Network, "Died Suddenly." I would recommend it as a well-made and historic contribution, although, I would guess, for most of you reading this on the forum, it's probably not going to tell you much that you don't already know.

https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html

Important caveat: this is only for those with an iron-clad stomach. The film opens with the warning: "This film is not suitable for children." They weren't kidding.

For Kool-aid drinkers, well, I doubt many will watch it for more than a few minutes, if that. I'm afraid British undertaker John O'Looney said it best-- to quote him in the film-- "one of the hardest things, knowing what I know, was accepting that people are going to die because they're just not going to believe it." (O'Looney was referring I think to both his theory about who's behind it --so that does get into conspiracy theory-- but also to what he has seen as an undertaker, especially all the weird clots.) Nonetheless, the growing numbers of people who are recognizing that they have been lied to, when they watch this film they may get their minds blown beyond paisley.

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