About 10 years ago, when it finally dawned on me that we were becoming a colony of China, I started asking for anything not made in that country when I walked into a store. It was very hard to find any USA products at all. Not one of us truly complained… mainly because everything was so much cheaper. Now we’re paying another price. Chinese authorities are not stupid. The sooner Western “leaders” disengage from these totalitarian tactics of population control, the longer they will maintain their own leadership. If they fail to disengage … who’s to say what could happen. One thing is certain: It would not be pretty for any of us, including our glorious “leaders.”
If only 6% of the Democrat Party identify as “Progressives” they nevertheless show their support by remaining loyal to the Party.
How many Germans would say they were loyal to the Nazi Party, very few but they fought for it and died to protect it. ….They lie, they supported it.
So do the Democrats today, support their Party politics.
I am Australian and choke having to use words like “progressive” and “democrat” to describe these people. I guess a bit like -NAZI sounds quite different to NATIONAL GERMAN SOCIALIST WORKER’S PARTY
As to the 6% who identify as progressives - I identify as progressive, but not in total alignment with anyone. I had Trump's number from the beginning. Sad experience with bullies and liars have sharpened my senses. I didn't need CNN to lay it on. I was actually irritated with CNN when they made mountains out of molehills, took things out of context, and emphasized his lack of finesse. Yes, he was a bad person all the time and wrong and a liar most of the time, but occasionally he was right, much to my frustration. It's so much easier to color a person one color.
Which brings us back to simplistic interpretations of people. Heuristics are helpful, but life and people are more complicated than that.
I love that the Canadian Truckers have raised millions on GoFundMe to support their Freedom movement. What non profits organizations can I support that are fighting for Freedom in the US?
"Predatory billionaires [and surveillance state] are using the progressive movement to advance their agenda." because if you own the media you can get away with anything, like, say, vaccinating a few million 5-18 year olds with an experimental gene therapy.
The NY Times obliviousness reminds me of the current flack between Neil Young and Spotify. Young, a supposed champion of freedom, demanding his music removed from the platform until Joe Rogan is censored/removed. I've read the justifications his fans have produced on sites like Twitter saying it's not censoring. None of their arguments hold water. It's "mis-information" when it doesn't agree with your conditioning.
HBO has two really good shows that explain our past and current predicaments.
Westworld
The leftovers
If you haven't watched them, please do. Westworld takes place in a transhumanist world but shows how nature fights back... The next season is due this spring/summer!
The utter tone deafness of contemporary Democrats has been my theme for the week, and I'm glad you touched on it in multiple places. I also read the NYT article about China incredulously. Watched the classist media and governing elite smear the truckers as "white supremacists." (Yep, that old trope. Divide and conquer the working class that you simultaneously despise and pander to.)
But-- partially because I am a parent to young kids, and partially because I was educated among that elite class and understand them well-- the banning books issue hits me the hardest. For them, this isn't about freedom of speech. It is about their absolute conviction that they are morally and intellectually superior to those who hold differing views. That is why we they want control of our children, and that is why they also need to censor and ban the kind of information we might be able to access.
Philosophically speaking, it is a very scary point of view even if you agree with them on all of the issues-- because one day you may not.
The NY TIMES has never properly reviewed RFKjrs “The Real Anthony Fauci”. A bestseller, one of the most important books of my life. In 50 years, they will laud it and the author.
As a kid I remember when Malcolm X died, there was no outpouring of support from any media, liberal or conservative. Most people catch on decades later.
The Boston Globe did a crappy hit piece on him this weekend. The comments were so awful. Really unnerving and depressing to read. I admire him so much. He's done more good in the world than any of the commenters that's for sure! (and i said so in the comments)
To learn something means to get a clearer or more accurate vision of the difference between right and wrong. To learn anything from the trucker's event, let's ask: What is it that many of us have thought of previously, that the trucker's event shows that it may be wrong?
A. That, in the words of the great historian Carroll Quigley, the Western civilisation is "just about finished." That, as someone else said recently, "COVID proves that Western society had already largely destroyed itself, top-down, over many decades."
B. That, in the words of Buckminster Fuller, the way to change something is to "build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete," or put more precisely, Bill Mollison says there is "futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
Which makes one think. If the crisis in Ottawa extends, who'll feed the people?
All the quoted views may turn out to be true.
But, my guess is that every opportunity for a good fight and resistance counts, and we should exploit it.
Toby, I laughed out loud at your comments regarding not being able to watch a movie. I so identify with you and this issue of finding casual reading and movie watching boring and terribly unfulfilling! I would much rather be educating myself on all of the COVID lies and writing to help WAKE UP the sheep. Keep up the great work!
Re the video showing deaths post vaccination, there are some reasonable objections to it in the Twitter responses. Largely that most of the countries in the video were not heavily vaccinated. Another concern is differences in the virulence of variants active at a given time.
I think the missing bit of explanation is that vaccination drives an initial weakening of the immune response that leads to an outbreak which in turn may kill many non vaccinated and not fully vaccinated people. So it's not so much they vaccine itself as the epidemiological impact of this non sterilizing vaccine during active community transmission.
It probably depends on the locality what the incidence was before hand, but an explosion of cases caused by the sudden introduction of many new immune compromised people will correspondingly magnify the death count.. most of whom will be unvaccinated. Anything that causes a rise in cases (and that is a pretty clear outcome of vaccination from the evidence) will make things worse.
We can see deaths before vaccination going back to Janaury 2020. The lack of peaks before vaccination in many countries is more evidence that the vaccines are ineffective.
We do have to acknowledge that the vaccines produced a brief period of effectiveness at reducing severity and transmission, that is measurable and borne out in statistics. But on balance it's a net negative when you factor in side effects and the period of greater susceptibility before and after the period of effectiveness.
One theory on that is that some Asian countries had high rates of cross immunity from some other cov that swept through prior to 2020. But then vaccines nuked that immunity, at least temporarily, leading to outbreaks. Of course these countries previously attributed their success to lockdowns and contract tracing.
When pre-vaccine deaths are low, post-vaccine deaths have to remain low for the treatment to be perceived as effective. Surely the pro-vaccine side can come up with a list of countries where pre-vaccine deaths were high, and post-vaccine deaths are low.
Yes I'm sure they will release that evidence any day now. Even better, use all cause mortality!
To this point, I didn't see anyone in the Twitter responses mentioning any such case. The best they had was that that countries didn't vaccinate hard enough
About 10 years ago, when it finally dawned on me that we were becoming a colony of China, I started asking for anything not made in that country when I walked into a store. It was very hard to find any USA products at all. Not one of us truly complained… mainly because everything was so much cheaper. Now we’re paying another price. Chinese authorities are not stupid. The sooner Western “leaders” disengage from these totalitarian tactics of population control, the longer they will maintain their own leadership. If they fail to disengage … who’s to say what could happen. One thing is certain: It would not be pretty for any of us, including our glorious “leaders.”
The fakestream media is telling a tale of Nazi hooligans taking over Ottawa. No surprise. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ottawa-police-protest-demonstrators-covid19-174137371.html https://www.newsweek.com/canadian-protesters-face-investigation-after-national-hero-statue-defaced-swastikas-found-1674551
If only 6% of the Democrat Party identify as “Progressives” they nevertheless show their support by remaining loyal to the Party.
How many Germans would say they were loyal to the Nazi Party, very few but they fought for it and died to protect it. ….They lie, they supported it.
So do the Democrats today, support their Party politics.
I am Australian and choke having to use words like “progressive” and “democrat” to describe these people. I guess a bit like -NAZI sounds quite different to NATIONAL GERMAN SOCIALIST WORKER’S PARTY
As to the 6% who identify as progressives - I identify as progressive, but not in total alignment with anyone. I had Trump's number from the beginning. Sad experience with bullies and liars have sharpened my senses. I didn't need CNN to lay it on. I was actually irritated with CNN when they made mountains out of molehills, took things out of context, and emphasized his lack of finesse. Yes, he was a bad person all the time and wrong and a liar most of the time, but occasionally he was right, much to my frustration. It's so much easier to color a person one color.
Which brings us back to simplistic interpretations of people. Heuristics are helpful, but life and people are more complicated than that.
I love that the Canadian Truckers have raised millions on GoFundMe to support their Freedom movement. What non profits organizations can I support that are fighting for Freedom in the US?
"Predatory billionaires [and surveillance state] are using the progressive movement to advance their agenda." because if you own the media you can get away with anything, like, say, vaccinating a few million 5-18 year olds with an experimental gene therapy.
Don't worry about the video. If they take it down, I'll do another one. Probably about time anyway!
The NY Times obliviousness reminds me of the current flack between Neil Young and Spotify. Young, a supposed champion of freedom, demanding his music removed from the platform until Joe Rogan is censored/removed. I've read the justifications his fans have produced on sites like Twitter saying it's not censoring. None of their arguments hold water. It's "mis-information" when it doesn't agree with your conditioning.
HBO has two really good shows that explain our past and current predicaments.
Westworld
The leftovers
If you haven't watched them, please do. Westworld takes place in a transhumanist world but shows how nature fights back... The next season is due this spring/summer!
I watched the Leftovers and was deeply moved by it (but wow it's hard to watch).
The utter tone deafness of contemporary Democrats has been my theme for the week, and I'm glad you touched on it in multiple places. I also read the NYT article about China incredulously. Watched the classist media and governing elite smear the truckers as "white supremacists." (Yep, that old trope. Divide and conquer the working class that you simultaneously despise and pander to.)
But-- partially because I am a parent to young kids, and partially because I was educated among that elite class and understand them well-- the banning books issue hits me the hardest. For them, this isn't about freedom of speech. It is about their absolute conviction that they are morally and intellectually superior to those who hold differing views. That is why we they want control of our children, and that is why they also need to censor and ban the kind of information we might be able to access.
Philosophically speaking, it is a very scary point of view even if you agree with them on all of the issues-- because one day you may not.
The NY TIMES has never properly reviewed RFKjrs “The Real Anthony Fauci”. A bestseller, one of the most important books of my life. In 50 years, they will laud it and the author.
As a kid I remember when Malcolm X died, there was no outpouring of support from any media, liberal or conservative. Most people catch on decades later.
The Boston Globe did a crappy hit piece on him this weekend. The comments were so awful. Really unnerving and depressing to read. I admire him so much. He's done more good in the world than any of the commenters that's for sure! (and i said so in the comments)
'I can’t watch movies anymore'.
Same here. The courage in our hearts is making us stronger. They have an enemy. They have a war.
To learn something means to get a clearer or more accurate vision of the difference between right and wrong. To learn anything from the trucker's event, let's ask: What is it that many of us have thought of previously, that the trucker's event shows that it may be wrong?
A. That, in the words of the great historian Carroll Quigley, the Western civilisation is "just about finished." That, as someone else said recently, "COVID proves that Western society had already largely destroyed itself, top-down, over many decades."
B. That, in the words of Buckminster Fuller, the way to change something is to "build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete," or put more precisely, Bill Mollison says there is "futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
Which makes one think. If the crisis in Ottawa extends, who'll feed the people?
All the quoted views may turn out to be true.
But, my guess is that every opportunity for a good fight and resistance counts, and we should exploit it.
Ditto! Great minds think alike : )
Toby, I laughed out loud at your comments regarding not being able to watch a movie. I so identify with you and this issue of finding casual reading and movie watching boring and terribly unfulfilling! I would much rather be educating myself on all of the COVID lies and writing to help WAKE UP the sheep. Keep up the great work!
Re the video showing deaths post vaccination, there are some reasonable objections to it in the Twitter responses. Largely that most of the countries in the video were not heavily vaccinated. Another concern is differences in the virulence of variants active at a given time.
I think the missing bit of explanation is that vaccination drives an initial weakening of the immune response that leads to an outbreak which in turn may kill many non vaccinated and not fully vaccinated people. So it's not so much they vaccine itself as the epidemiological impact of this non sterilizing vaccine during active community transmission.
What explains the low death counts prior to vaccination?
It probably depends on the locality what the incidence was before hand, but an explosion of cases caused by the sudden introduction of many new immune compromised people will correspondingly magnify the death count.. most of whom will be unvaccinated. Anything that causes a rise in cases (and that is a pretty clear outcome of vaccination from the evidence) will make things worse.
We can see deaths before vaccination going back to Janaury 2020. The lack of peaks before vaccination in many countries is more evidence that the vaccines are ineffective.
We do have to acknowledge that the vaccines produced a brief period of effectiveness at reducing severity and transmission, that is measurable and borne out in statistics. But on balance it's a net negative when you factor in side effects and the period of greater susceptibility before and after the period of effectiveness.
One theory on that is that some Asian countries had high rates of cross immunity from some other cov that swept through prior to 2020. But then vaccines nuked that immunity, at least temporarily, leading to outbreaks. Of course these countries previously attributed their success to lockdowns and contract tracing.
When pre-vaccine deaths are low, post-vaccine deaths have to remain low for the treatment to be perceived as effective. Surely the pro-vaccine side can come up with a list of countries where pre-vaccine deaths were high, and post-vaccine deaths are low.
Yes I'm sure they will release that evidence any day now. Even better, use all cause mortality!
To this point, I didn't see anyone in the Twitter responses mentioning any such case. The best they had was that that countries didn't vaccinate hard enough