Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 130

[ecosophia]

We are now in the third year of these open posts. As the phrase "died suddenly" repeats in the mass media like a mantra, statistics for work days lost to illness and all-cause mortality mount up in heavily vaccinated nations, and more and more ugly facts about the official response to Covid spill out into public, we are entering what may well turn out to be the most difficult period of the Covid disaster -- the phase in which denial rises in lockstep with the death rate, and a great many people try not to admit what has been done to them by the people and institutions they trusted. It could get ugly, folks.

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, religions, 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

2023 Excess Mortality Positively Associated With COVID Vaccination Rates

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/2023-excess-mortality-positively

"SUMMARY: The baffling pattern of positive association of excess mortality with COVID vaccination rates continued in 2023, contradicting the thesis that “COVID vaccines save lives.” It is statistically significant and is unlikely to have occurred by chance. It continued the patterns seen in 2022."

Yesterday's post from Igor fits the cover image well.

Re: 2023 Excess Mortality Positively Associated With COVID Vaccination Rates

[(Anonymous)]

Not in nz apparently..

https://twitter.com/thereal_truther/status/1740596725474341128?t=GhmJdMjqmIwT24lkIeeiHQ&s=19

Which is great, but there will be no living with them after this if vaccines turn out all honky dory which is more luck than good science 😆.

[(Anonymous)]

I mentioned doing some research into the topic of diabetes on the main blog, and would like to share something I've come across which has troubled me, and is much more relevant here. Diabetes is a major issue with metabolism; type II diabetes is not just excess sugar in the blood, but a huge number of serious abnormal markers, such as excess insulin, excess glucagon, excess fat in the blood, salt retention, and on through a long list of serious issues.

One of the books I read which seriously shaped my thinking on this topic is Rethinking Diabetes by Gary Taubes, which includes a discussion of the way in which the low-fat, high carb diet has been pushed on Americans for decades. Crucial to this story is the way in which the AHA (American Heart Institute) took equivocal science and decided to try to make policy suggestions based on it.

Once committed, there was no way for them to back down: admitting to having been wrong would have meant losing their credibility and admitting they had killed a lot of people, and seriously harmed others. Meanwhile, the experts in diabetes worked within this framework, set by the AHA, and so tried to encourage their patients to eat less fats and thus more carbs; the exact opposite of the diets which, before insulin, could be used to control the disease!

This then distorts all future scientific research, because there's now an established paradigm which all studies need to fit within, making the problem even worse. As time passes, there are more and more anomalies which can't fit the established paradigm, things continue to get weirder and weirder, and more and more health problems occur.

What's occurred to me as I read this is that a very similar process seems to have played out with Covid vaccinations, and in fact, quite often with public health policy in general: people take equivocal and unclear science, make policy decisions and recommendations that are not productive, and then, rather than take the hit to reputation and ego, and admit to having made a mistake, double down on it.

I'm not sure what it is that makes public health seem to fall into this unhealthy dynamic so often, but the fact that it's happened so many times seems to suggest a flaw in the thinking that lead to evidence-based-medicine. It also suggests that a lot of the problems with modern medicine that people are noticing now are most of a century old, and that many further "advances" are going to be dangerous at best as well...

[(Anonymous)]

> I'm not sure what it is that makes public health seem to fall into this unhealthy dynamic so often

It is called -

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Instead of "evidence-based medicine", we have a centudy of "salary-based medicine".

two recent posts from geert vanden bossche

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately, it’s not over...

https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/unfortunately-its-not-over

"Whether one believes in my theory or not, the fact remains that, even purely theoretically, it can go both ways. Considering that people are no longer enthusiastic about receiving additional shots and that, at this stage of the pandemic, even updated booster vaccinations fail to generate significant neutralizing antibodies, one must wonder how such a passive stance from our health authorities is tolerated.

It only demonstrates how much the people have become worn out and exhausted by the mismanagement of this crisis over the past years and all the nonsense spouted by the so-called Corona experts. While I perfectly understand this indifference, I am not hiding my scientifically grounded fear of the potential consequences that an entirely new type of SARS-CoV-2 variant could cause in highly C-19 vaccinated populations. Therefore, I continue to assert that "Society in highly C-19 vaccinated countries will be caught by surprise." It is very difficult, though, to predict when the expected metamorphosis of the virus will occur. The emergence of a highly infectious Omicron generation did not take long after Delta. Now the only question is how long the virus will need to conjure up a variant that will allow it to eventually escape the life-threatening immune pressure it is currently undergoing. In any case, Dr. Rob Rennebohm once again provides guidance here and also explains why timely treatment with ivermectin makes perfect sense (https://notesfromthesocialclinic.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/COVID-ANALYSIS-232g-IVERMECTIN-SUMMARY.pdf)."

SARS-CoV-2 is currently pedaling in place, eagerly anticipating the moment an appropriately selected mutation will switch the light to green....

https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-is-currently-pedaling

"Unknown to many, the BA.2.86 and JN.1 variants are evolving and spawning sub-lineages with unique mutations at an unprecedented rate never seen before in the history or annals of virology”

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/brazilian-news-sound-alarm-about-detection-of-ba-2-86-spawn-jn-2-5-after-the-variant-was-found-driving-covid-19-hospitalizations-in-canada

Here comes a lay interpretation of the explosion of sublineages (spawn by BA2.86 and JN.1) currently seen:

The virus is currently pedaling in place at the bottom of a steep snowy hill, looking for its winter tires. Once those are found, it will rapidly shoot up the slope in a devastating ride…."

Re: two recent posts from geert vanden bossche

[(Anonymous)]

He's been saying the same thing for a while.

From a purely layman's perspective, here's what I don't quite understand:

It's long been observed that rapidly-mutating viruses like the ones that cause cold and flu have always evolved to be more infectious but less severe. It's to the virus's evolutionary benefit to make the host less sick, so that the host will continue to move around and interact with other hosts and spread the virus, rather than being so sick that they stay home and reduce the virus's chance to infect more hosts.

By mass vaccinating during a pandemic, humans put evolutionary pressure on the virus to evade the vaccines, so, yes, the virus should evolve to evade the mono-culture of vaccine-based immunity. This makes sense.

But why would that put any pressure on it to become more severe? Wouldn't the virus evolve to evade the vaccine but also evolve to be less severe, so that it can have hosts that continue to move around and give it lots of chances to keep spreading? Wouldn't we be more likely to wind up with a situation where the vaxxed get sick over and over again with mild strains that can evade their vax-based immunity, rather than a scenario of severe disease?

But he seems worried about severe disease, and I don't quite understand the scientific logic behind that argument. I know he tries to explain it, but I'm still not quite grasping it.

[(Anonymous)]

Scientists Call for Global Moratorium on mRNA Vaccines, Immediate Removal From Childhood Schedule

A review paper published last week in the journal Cureus is the first peer-reviewed paper to call for a global moratorium on the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. The authors say that reanalyzed data from the vaccine makers’ trials and high rates of serious post-injection injuries indicate the mRNA gene therapy vaccines should not have been authorized for use.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/scientists-global-moratorium-mrna-vaccines-removal-childhood-schedule/

[(Anonymous)]

We need global moratorium on Science (as in Fauci saying "I am Science").

Why 7 years?

[(Anonymous)]

In case of demonic hypothesis, why is the 7 years, is it known or speculated why this particulare 7 years cycle are there any cycles?

Also in the last thread I noticed that something already happened on the 3 year and 5 year marks from the 24th February 2017 mass hex on Trump:
https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/263734.html?thread=46100278#cmt46100278

On 3(Mercury, Hermes?!) year mark Trump seeds his own demise on 24th of February 2020 tweeting :

“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA” This tweet was used then to put pressure on Trump, arguably a lot of people got on ventilators after this mark. Then the media pumped up the numbers to make Trump look bad, and I am pretty sure this might have determined trump to embark onboard on Warp Speed since Warp speed started on May 15th, 2020 and lasted until, strangely February 24, 2021, Fauci was already on board pretty early being head of Coronavirus task force forms as early as 20th of January 2020: .


On 4 year(Venus?!) mark, February 24, 2021 Warp Speed ends.
On 5 year(Mars. Ares?!) mark, February 24, 2022 Putin declares SMO in Ukraine.
On 6 years(Jupiter) I could not find anything, but on 25th of February 2023 Biden demonstrates mendacity about inflation reduction by tweeting

"Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act we passed last year, we are lowering prescription drug costs, health care costs, and home energy costs for tens of millions of Americans—all while lowering the deficit."

Re: Why 7 years?

[(Anonymous)]

On 3(Mercury, Hermes?!) year mark Trump seeds his own demise on 24th of February 2020 tweeting :

“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA” This tweet was used then to put pressure on Trump, arguably a lot of people got on ventilators after this mark. Then the media pumped up the numbers to make Trump look bad, and I am pretty sure this might have determined trump to embark onboard on Warp Speed since Warp speed started on May 15th, 2020 and lasted until, strangely February 24, 2021, Fauci was already on board pretty early being head of Coronavirus task force forms as early as 20th of January 2020: .

Also given his investment in his own tweets and declaration, it is not impossible to see how by presenting him mass casualties, was convinced into the lockdown. Lockdowns in US happened after this mark on 12th of March 2020 (too close on the Ides of March)


“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA” is the most quoted tweet on Trump to detract him. Was quoted in the visual media, social media an in "scientific papers" gathering around 90 "papers" holding this quote

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=allintext%3A+%22The+Coronavirus+is+very+much+under+control+in+the+USA%22&btnG=

[(Anonymous)]

Landmark Covid vaccine injury win

The Department of Child Protection (DCP) must pay compensation and medical expenses to a youth worker who developed pericarditis after getting a Covid booster under a workplace vaccination directive, the South Australian Employment Tribunal has ruled.

https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/landmark-covid-vaccine-injury-win

the failure of social psychology

[frittermywig]

Last week I tried to take a step back from hypotheses about demons, gods, and archetypes to try to find out if social psychology had anything useful to say about the Covid catastrophe. Turns out, "mass psychosis" is not a valid concept in psychology! Reuters "fact-checked" Robert Malone using Desmet's concept of "mass formation" and the article quotes two professors of psychology:

Steven Reicher, who has studied crowd psychology for more than 40 years, described the concept of a “mass psychosis” as “more metaphor than science, more ideology than fact”.

Chris Cocking told Reuters that a preferred way to explain crowd action was in terms of “shared identities, relations between different groups and leadership influence”. He said: “We have all spent our careers trying to undo irrationalist approaches that pathologise crowd behaviour.”

There you have it: Psychologists have nothing to say about the greatest mass psychological catastrophe in eighty years. Gravity's Rainbow, part 3, section 30: "Those with the greatest interest in discovering the truth, were thrown back on dreams, psychic flashes, omens, cryptographies, drug-epistemologies, all dancing on a ground of terror, contradiction, absurdity."

Re: the failure of social psychology

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for that quote from Gravity's Rainbow! On my to do, to find list.

week 130

[(Anonymous)]

Week 130!

Thank you, JMG, thank you forumistas.

Cetiosaurus

"Open your eyes"

[(Anonymous)]

Hello people, It's been a long time since I posted last time...
Yesterday, I was walking with a friend in my neighbourhood, and we saw a little written paper over the cars windshields on the street.
We read it. It said (I am translating it roughly): "Open your eyes. Spain has a death excess since the COVID "pandemics". There's no secret, do the math...
Unfortunately, my friend is hanged to the Narrative, so he told me it was all bulls**t, although I tried to persuade him it was real information and the elephant in the room...
I don't know who put thaese papers on the cars but thank you for that little crack in the Narrative.

-A Spaniard.

Ecosophia Prayer List

[tunesmyth]

Here are all of the requests for prayer that have recently appeared at ecosophia.net and ecosophia.dreamwidth.org, as well as in the comments of the prayer list posts. Please feel free to add any or all of the requests to your own prayers.

If I missed anybody, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom a relevant person holds power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below.

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This week I would like to bring special attention to the following prayer requests.

May John Michael Greer's wife Sara, who is recovering from a serious illness, recover fully and be restored to health.

May Erika's partner James, who has successfully beaten his cancer, remain cancer free, and make a full return to robust health.

Tyler A's wife Monika's pregnancy is high risk; may Mother and child be blessed with good health and a smooth delivery.

May the surgery for Yuccaglauca's mother Monica's malignant mass be safe, successful, and conclusive of the matter.

May Frank Rudolf Hartman of Altadena California (picture), who is receiving chemotherapy, be completely cured of the lymphoma that is afflicting him, and may he return to full health.

May Audrey's nephew Jon, who is now in a wheelchair due to ALS, have peace and comfort during this difficult time, and be healed of his condition to the greatest degree possible.

May Just Another Green Rage Monster's father, who is dealing with Stage 4 Lymphoma, and mother, who is primary caregiver, be blessed, protected and healed.

May Kyle's friend Amanda, who though in her early thirties is undergoing various difficult treatments for brain cancer, make a full recovery; and may her body and spirit heal with grace.

Lp9's hometown, East Palestine, Ohio, for the safety and welfare of their people, animals and all living beings in and around East Palestine, and to improve the natural environment there to the benefit of all.

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Re: Ecosophia Prayer List

[(Anonymous)]

QUEEN G! May you get better. Even though you're quiet, you're so HERE. thank you.
X

Erika

[tunesmyth]

Erika, I wasn't able to respond in a timely fashion because I got knocked out of commission by a bad flu, but I just wanted to let you know that I read your reply on last week's Covid post. Jame's recovery sounds truly extraordinary. Here is how James's prayer list entry will read going forward, unless you wish to make any adjustments to it:

"May Erika's partner James, who has successfully beaten his cancer, remain cancer free, and make a full return to robust health."

[(Anonymous)]

I'm afraid that's too aspirational and i don't want the prayer to seem presumptuous! he's not yet cancer free, its all over, but it's apparently backing out of his liver. I liked the prayer exactly as you'd just written it, about him continuing to heal.

Thank you so much, tunesmyth.

X

[(Anonymous)]

Via Jim Corr : This is a bombshell! The Center for Disease Control (CDC) did a Vaccinated versus Unvaccinated study in 1999. The results were so damning against vaccines that they hid them from the public & never published them. Robert F Kennedy Jnr and Children’s Health Defense put in a FOIA Freedom of Information Request and now the information is out. Here is the study

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DD9uH_LkbqJssArd9vsDiatjs0PsVhY7/view?sfns=mo

If one good thing comes out of the covid vaxx debacle, I hope that it will be vaccines becoming a dirty word. Turns out they're highly lucrative snake oil and do more harm than good.

[methylethyl]

!!

[(Anonymous)]

FDA Finds Safety Signals For Updated COVID-19 Vaccines

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fda-finds-safety-signals-updated-covid-19-vaccines

[(Anonymous)]

Court upholds Quebec government’s Covid curfew

https://tnc.news/2024/01/31/court-upholds-qc-covid-curfew4/

More Transcripts of videos from 2021

[transcriberb]

I'm still at this transcribing thing, although I've capped the date for the videos at December 31, 2023 (so that the archive spans 2021-2023).

Here are a few new transcripts from videos of 2021, all recently posted. Three things are standing out for me: Firstly, that many, many more people than I realized DID IN FACT speak out-- but of course they were so heavily censored; secondly, some people had almost the whole cooties show figured out very early on; and thirdly, even the savviest didn't quite grok it, that this was another game, they were not playing on the field, nor with the players, nor with the referees, that they imagined they were.

Whistleblower Occupational Therapist Abrien Aguirre on Covid Fraud and Deadly Protocols
"no one's looking after the health of our kapuna [elderly]. You know, I've seen more death come from the vaccine, 32 kapuna, immediately after taking the Moderna shot, either the first or second shot, pass away from this. So who's looking out for their care? The people that try to speak up and look out for their care? It falls on deaf ears. No one, no one corresponds back with us. No one wants to hear it because it doesn't fit the current narrative....if your kapuna are sick, if your elderly are sick, your grandmother, your great grandmother, your mom, don't send them to skilled nursing facility. They're not going to receive adequate care. Treatment is going to be withheld from them. They will be forced to wear a mask all day and social distance. They're going to become depressed and want to commit suicide, because that's what I'm seeing in our facilities. That's what's been going on."
Transcript of excerpts: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/135554.html
Source video:
Certified Occupational Therapist Whistleblower: More Patients are Dying from the Vaccine than COVID
HealthImpactNews, August 11, 2021
https://rumble.com/vl0flw-certified-occupational-therapist-whistleblower-more-patients-are-dying-from.html

Jill Dillingham Hines Admonishes Louisiana State Legislators
"You said there would be no mandates, but mandates are here and have been here for over a year now. While I appreciate this committee for convening for this much-needed hearing, I would ask that you take the opportunity when next its available to protect the rights of the people you serve."
Transcript: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/134356.html
Jill Dillingham Hines speaking up today at the Louisiana legislature Health & Welfare Committee
Live and Local, August 16, 2021
https://rumble.com/vl9rzl-jill-dillingham-hines-speaking-up-today-at-the-louisiana-legislature-health.html

Judea Johnson, Mother, Chef, and Nutritionist Talks to Shades of Beige (Micropixie, Sane Francisco)
"I have not gotten the covid-19 vaccine and I never will get the covid 19 vaccine."
Transcript: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/132392.html
Source video:
Beige Against The Machine:
Shades of Beige: Judea Johnson
Micropixie aka MPX, Sane Francisco
posted September 27, 2022 [filmed in 2021]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6V95H676X4

Amy Loftus Castigates the Culver City Council, Which Approved Jab Crow
"Papers please, is not something that I want to hear in any town in America. And that this council is proud to stand behind legislation like this, is disgusting. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You're on the wrong path, and I think deep down you know it."
Transcript: https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/131666.html
Clip from: Culver City Council Mtg 11/8/21
posted December 26, 2023 [filmed November 8, 2021]
https://t.me/amyloftusmusic/3713
posted December 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy0NrHXY2bc

Re: More Transcripts of videos from 2021

[transcriberb]

Synchronicity aficionados may note the 666 in the URL for that last transcript. Just to say, in case you were wondering, I did not do that, it came out that way automatically.

[escorcher]

I don't quite know what to make of it, but seems the all new JN Sars-CoV-2 is unwilling to die down for some reason. Reminds me of a certain weekly open post!

Verily/WWS #wastewater data suggest another hill before a decline in transmission in the U.S.

This is similar to the PMC Biobot-based forecast.
Not good. https://t.co/JKUwscrkpP pic.twitter.com/JPEPba1ncX

— Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA (@michael_hoerger) February 1, 2024

[escorcher]

To offer a little contrast to the current infection picture in the USA...

UK Infection survey has a slow decline in infections down to 1 in 50 as of w/e weds 24th Jan from 1 in 43 two weeks previous. This is based on a random sample testing rather than wastewater:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukhsa-and-ons-release-latest-winter-covid-19-infection-study-data

I do think this little tinker of a viral iteration is especially suited to mRNA's lack of full spectrum immune protection and tolerance issues. The UK is a weird one because a lot of our first set of vixenations were not mRNA. I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that is making a bit of difference in ongoing (re) infection levels (i.e. they are overall lower in the UK). I absolutely acknowledge that certain areas of the US (e.g. the urban NE) are much more mRNAed than other parts of the country...and I'd say it shows in higher (re)infection and long infection rates in these areas. I also still think that a fair percentage of vixens were 'blanks', but enough hit the mark to cause what we're seeing, especially in populations where multiple 'boosters' were taken up. Of course Western Europe with the exception of the UK was also all mRNA so we'd expect something similar to the US there and continued air travel means everything keeps swishing about somewhat regardless of local vixenation/immunity levels.

It does look to me that JN Sars CoV-2 remains a not particularly virulent virus from an acute point of view. I'm sure repeated infections don't help things though and am noting both news stories talking about cancer rates and other increases in illness are becoming 'the norm' (seems to be going side by side with the idea of war being an expectation) e.g. these yesterday from the Independent:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/flu-nhs-england-nhs-confederation-nhs-providers-b2488720.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cancer-uk-rise-symptoms-diets-smoking-b2488676.html

[(Anonymous)]

as for 'never forgetting' I'd say it has to go way way way beyond that.
The Nuremberg Trials were mostly an episode of 'Masterpiece Theatre' designed to
prosecute a bucket or two of symbolic 'bad guys' while the useful ones were neatly slotted into their new
responsibilities. We need a day of reckoning that dwarfs any previous reckoning. No I am
not calling for violence. Only legal justice. No I am not advocating illegal activity. Only legal
justice.

[fredsmith11]

"Day of reckoning" IMO is going to be an accelerated decline of the combined West. It's easy to observe it already happening.

Your mission should you accept it, is to proceed with as much of your health and essential, personal infrastructure intact as you can.

I ain't holding my breath for any sort of "day of reckoning", because people will be focused on getting through difficult times, rather than retribution. Anyway, governance systems are so corrupted, how would that work? Bureaucracy everywhere is full of woke, true believers.

I must admit however to some satisfaction observing notable jab spruikers self delete.

Do they have boosters for Disease X ready yet?

[(Anonymous)]

Slovakia Prime Minister Robert Fico Orders Investigation into COVID-19 Pandemic Management and Vaccines After 21,000 Excess Deaths Announced in Slovakia Since 2020

https://www.globalresearch.ca/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-orders-investigation-covid-19-pandemic-management-vaccines-21000-excess-deaths-announced-slovakia-since-2020/5848126

[(Anonymous)]

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” -H. L. Mencken Sometimes I can't help but sympathize a little with our OverLords. They have such a burden, needing to herd their stubborn and lazy grazing animals into the loading pens of the shambles. Let's face it, most of the animals just aren't too bright and, if not for their ability to serve by making a tasty meal, would really have no justification for their existence. Consider that, depending on your timeframe, we are either almost 5 years into this process or at least twenty years. How many of the animals are actually willing to risk their "lives" in order to flee? How many of them even WANT to flee? By my observations, at least a third of the livestock is enthusiastically participating in the process; maybe another third is willing to follow the consensus; and maybe the last third -- if I am being generous -- is willing to break with their own patterns and habituations. But even when you look at that final "rebellious" third, how many of them are taking radical steps, trying to stay ahead of the next mass "vaccination", nudging, and other food quality programs? So here's my Covid/Vax contribution: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to implement a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act). This final rule allows an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects. The final rule permits an institutional review board (IRB) to waive or alter certain informed consent elements or to waive the requirement to obtain informed consent, under limited conditions, for certain FDA-regulated minimal risk clinical investigations.”

[(Anonymous)]

'final rule'?? Or is it really Final Solution?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, here's the link to the previously cited text changing the definition of informed consent:


https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/12/21/2023-27935/institutional-review-board-waiver-or-alteration-of-informed-consent-for-minimal-risk-clinical

[charlieobert]

"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."

Add in unbounded oblivious greed and I think you have all the bases covered.

This cartoon from the New Yorker nails it:

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

I think we have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that one seemed crazy.

[(Anonymous)]

Watched this twice now. Can't recommend enough.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/not-friendly-bret-weinstein-shows-tucker-carlson-how-china-un-are-driving-invesion

Going down that rabbit hole led me to this...

https://michaelyon.substack.com/p/canadian-fascism-in-full-view?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Re: I think we have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that one seemed crazy.

[scotlyn]

If what Bret Weinstein speculates (in his own words) is true, it strikes me that may be time for people to invoke the Third Amendment:

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."

His speculation appears to suggest that the US, and its institutions, have volunteered to assign American domestic resources to the quartering of foreign soldiers (against the spirit of the Third Amendment), using a rationale more appropriate to providing asylum to refugees.

Cell Salts raw materials

[open_space]

I recently dropped off several sets of raw materials for home compounding cell salts at the post office.

If you are doing the Carey protocol, The Secret of the Five Rites or would like to get a set of cell salts for your own lifetime supply of historical reenactment that you could probably inherit to your children, you can leave your info below and I'll send you a set for a small fee. I have yet to hear from people abroad, but it seems possible to send internationally.

Cell Salts Raw Materials

[(Anonymous)]

it's me, erika.

i wanted to write some idea updates for those in my crazy tribe, where we use "crazy" as our medium. (smile) looking again at you, Christophe...

please do pray for Sara Greer; if anything happens to her, i fear we will get half a Papa G even if he intends otherwise. i felt that when James was on his way out... I'D also be on my way out. You can call me crazy, but it's no crazier than now times to think they BOTH engineered being here at this particular time. the people who're doing some of the best most solid work on fighting this demonic move are coupled up or are working as couples. it takes a lot of home solidity to fight this and not go completely bonkers alone on a computer.

so the prayers from many of you here have held us in a deeper way than just casual good thoughts. even mr rationalistic James concedes defeat on total rationality now. thank you!

so i am somehow roped back into platonic love letters to a few of my beloveds at KPOO, even though i was wanting to be done with them, but The Reverend brother of Mr Lawrence Chew calls me back. we've never met but we write each other and he is the kind of man i'd run into when i was young, the kind of elder who'd watch out for me and i'd keep my shoulders back in pride because i'd know he was watching.

before i pulled the zip tie and wrote them an epic love letter, i thought hard in the sun and this idea came to me that James and i later flung into the middle of the floor so he could rip it apart and even he got quiet after trying to shred it and said: "...no, it's actually a really good idea. i get it."

what he was talking about is its... ability to repel a certain type of selfish exploitative thinking, and re-position you for a NEW kind of creativity that can skirt making no money in a contracting economy. this is MY beat! so i share this here because it will lead to other similar ideas in other areas.

then i pitched it publicly in the comments on Jeff Childers' substack, and the more i sit with it the more i'm convinced it's a brilliant idea... although NOT MY OWN. i stole bits from my mother's career and then i talked to the sun before i pitched it to Mr Lawrence who is in construction and was wanting to do something in Africa. i said "we need you HERE!" and pitched this idea that can make him the Big Shot i think he was really meant to be:

so, things are so ugly and inhuman, they've GOT to change. Gen X and other middle aged folks really are up. the kids are insane.

but the idea is this:

commercial real estate is imploding. there is talk about repurposing buildings for living spaces. they're so ugly, people figure they'll warehouse the migrants as they already are.

cities are dying. we haven't the will or need to return to them.

BUT if someone or someones are willing to train what will certainly turn out to be young men, the ignored ones, into tradesmen working in plumbing, hvac, building and other jobs as intermediaries, then you could start investment funds to get money to buy a commercial building and renovate with your apprentices, with some skilled foremen training and watching over them.

my mom started and ran a non profit training/employment business just outside of camden nj and she had kids running the front desk but the coolest thing was that she ran it like a for-profit and she used the kids learning construction to renovate their offices.

she'd re-invest in close-by commercial real estate as it came on the market, and had the boys renovate THOSE buildings, too. everyone was having fun. i saw it. it was incredible as i've never seen anything or anyone like my mom, since. but i grew up with her thinking like that. my pops, too.

it wouldn't work well or for long (i think) in a purely traditional for profit renteir way because the kids involved should also be able to work for sweat equity in living in a small spot they build, OR a piece of the sale if they sell it.

kids would WANT to do it as a way of finally being able to buy in.

if you had space for retail on ground floor and creative studio/music spaces on second floor or more, you'd re-invigorate culture and connections and dating and re-ignite dreams. you'd have businesses that cater to the locals AND the people who built the place would live there and keep an eye on it. you can't count on security guards and cameras.

you need people to have a stake and a reason to watch things on a daily/regular basis.

i see respect.

and i think whoever's first (or second!) can build a template model, do quite well in non profit or for profit (or both), and SHARE IT... because this model only works if you entice others to be involved or do well elsewhere. any loving fun creative culture you help to incite, will and can only BENEFIT YOU.

protect you.

it's brilliant. it's not my own so i can say this! (smile) i'm simply synthesizing what i saw my mom do and how she thought all my life with her, and she was amazing at getting people to get off their asses and paint their apartments buildings in nyc ever since i was little.

so it's really my mom.

the change in thinking prevents you from truly ever being screwed because even if you get screwed, you're not really. the person screwing you will only be hurting themselves.

this idea is good for the kids as it also teaches a way of THINKING. with such an approach, there is a job that can be created for anyone who wants to play along and link a new business or ancillary or tangential idea.

many businesses could spring up as a response.

but it's a way for a people to gentrify their own neighborhoods and not get evicted for the beautiful community they helped to create. it'd make wherever such projects happen, make other connecting neighborhoods benefit.

it won't work to try and just go in and buy up cheap commercial real estate because there is no shopping community or residential "life" and it's set to decline because of our birth rates as well as influx of migrants and newer and newer poor people.

i'd been asking James if there's a way around losing money on business in a contracting economy and this is what i keep coming up with.

everyone involved can do as well as they want. some can be the big shots who lead such projects and can come up with the hard work of the original templates, some can travel and consult and help others, some can add on projects.

but you cannot win without re-investing in people. it's a way of not wasting young men and their dreams. because they can build tiny studios that can be passed to new recruits as they move up to the two or three bedroom apartments as they can have families.

because the arts venues and connections will create opportunities for hanging out and meeting people in the real and get them off the magic phones that make them weird. online dating is hella creepy. online porn and how bad and mean it's getting (screw a strange girl and abandon her on the highway... this is "art" that's screaming it's anger at women who make them feel powerless... see devouring mother reactions).

it's a ton of work, but once you turn the barge of traditional "me! me! me!" thinking around, the momentum and others' excitements at benefits for them, makes this MOVE.

this all came fully formed in that moment in the sun when i was talking to god, wondering if i should bother sharing this idea with my KPOO beloveds.

and then James tried to shred it, couldn't, and admitted it's got it "all." / it's protected because you cannot pull this off as a mogul in it for yourself or shareholders. the PEOPLE will create it populate it protect it and more importantly, keep it going.

sure, someone COULD do a short-term idea of fixing it up for creepy apartments for migrants and homeless, but it'll be cabrini green in no time.

all the plumbing that'll have to be re-routed for apartments cannot be affordable with full priced plumbers. hvac may be a problem because of mold from being uninhabited.

so you NEED people in creative modes with a vested interest, to be involved. the young. let them decorate it.

i see jobs all the way down!

(smile)

this is my beat: creativity and a fun world being born.



erika

[scotlyn]

You are describing the creation of a member-operated and member-benefiting commons.

The members of a commons, of course, are commoners.

** raises a glass to all commoners **

This CAN work, without sparking the "tragedy of the commons" - there is, of course, our esteemed host's post on the subject, mentioning the work of two highly relevant scholars - Garrett Hardin and Elinor Ostrum - https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2013/01/restoring-commons.html

There is also this website, which is a gateway to research and writing on many, many examples, both historical and modern. https://iasc-commons.org/about-commons/

For myself, I say this: "You go, girl!"

[escorcher]

So, BA.2.87 eh?

https://twitter.com/EllingUlrich/status/1753050327606005777

"Here we go again😵‍💫. Another highly (!) divergent SARS-CoV-2 derived lineage detected in South Africa. Currently at low level and NOT growing fast, but additional mutations acquired in circulation may change that."

https://www.rintrah.nl/sars-versions-begin-to-emerge-that-overcome-the-most-important-virulence-reducing-antibodies/

'SARS versions begin to emerge that overcome the most important virulence reducing antibodies'