Subject To Predation

​Awaiting Foreclosure,​

​Michael Hudson interview and transcript. Thanks Charles!​

​  ​The financial sector essentially is of the 1% or the 10% that holds the rest of the economy in debt. The financial sector makes its money by getting the rest of the economy indebted to itself and making money off asset price gains. In the past, the financial sector made its money by getting interest. But now, with almost zero interest what it’s after is capital gains because capital gains basically are either untaxed or taxed at very, very low rates.
​  ​So, the financial sector essentially makes its money not by being part of the production and consumption economy but by siphoning off as much money from the production and consumption economy as it can for real estate, for insurance and for debt service and banking services. The insurance, of course, would include the health insurance.
​  ​The result is that Americans have to spend so much of their money now on housing. Up to 40% to 43% of their income goes for housing as opposed to 25% back in the 1940s,’50s and ‘60s . They have to pay huge amounts for medical insurance.
​  ​And the taxes have been shifted off real estate, off of finance onto labor and industry. So you have America really being unable to revive its industry today. Because how can you create an export industry or even compete with foreigners when you have to pay such high housing costs, such high medical insurance and healthcare costs instead of the government taking over, such high debt service. If you got all of your clothing and food and basic needs for nothing you still couldn’t compete with foreigners because of all of these FIRE sector – finance, insurance and real estate – costs.
​  ​Now the job of the government under industrial capitalism was all spelled out in the late 19th century in the United States. For instance, by Simon Patten, who was the first Professor of Economics at the first business school, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. And Patten said that public infrastructure was a fourth factor of production. And the role of the government was to provide basic needs like healthcare, education, transportation and other basic services at very low price so that you lower the cost of doing business. You lower the cost of living so that the private sector will be able to compete with foreign countries.

​  ​Now, most countries now provide free healthcare. Because if they didn’t, then the employers and the laborers would have to pay healthcare. Their cost of production would be much higher. And America has not done that. America has the highest cost of production in the world. Not because it’s technologically inefficient. The technology is all available and there.
​  ​The reason is all of these extra costs that are paid by labor and by employers that are borne by governments in other countries. So as long as essentially America’s dismantling the government, what you’re dismantling is the basic means of subsidizing industrial production and manufacturing. And that’s what’s left America in a high cost position and driven American industry abroad without any idea of how to create a national economy that makes it profitable to invest in industry here.
​  ​So most of the American cost structure has nothing to do with the cost of production and therefore nothing to do with industry or industrial capitalism. It’s a fall back into a kind of post-medieval rentier economy.​..

  ​When you have a trust, a monopoly, you can get monopoly rent over and above the normal rate of profit. Banks said: well, look, we can work with companies to let a few companies like, Carnegie takeover the steel industry. You had agriculture, agribusiness in this country, really turned into a trust with two firms sort of monopolizing all of the distribution of agricultural products. It goes all the way up. You’ve had essentially, Amazon becoming a monopoly. You have the information technology sector turning into a monopoly.
​  ​And the function of these monopolies… the reason their stock prices are going up so much is because they’re setting the price without any anti-monopoly legislation such as you had under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and then Teddy Roosevelt as a trust Buster. Essentially, since the 1980s you have not had any anti-monopoly prosecutions at all.​..

​  So it’s like a financial death star has hit America. And the death star isn’t COVID itself. COVID is all over the world. Other countries have been able to cope. It’s the financial death star that’s really killing people in the United States.

https://theanalysis.news/interviews/polarization-then-a-crash-michael-hudson-on-the-rentier-economy/

The Tyranny Nobody Talks Abou​t​,  Charles Hugh Smith
​  ​All the tricks to hide our unaffordable cost structure have reached marginal returns. Reality is about to intrude.
​  ​There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic realm, a primary one being the tyranny of high costs: high costs crush the economy from within and enslave those attempting to start enterprises or keep their businesses afloat.
​  ​Traditionally, costs are broken down into fixed costs such as rent and fees which don't change regardless of whether business is good or bad, and operating costs such as payrolls, fuel, etc. which rise and fall with revenues.
​  ​To some degree, this division no longer matters, because the entire cost structure of our economy is tyrannically high: if rent, insurance, taxes and general overhead don't eat you alive, then labor overhead (healthcare insurance, etc.) and other operating costs will.​..​

​  ​So why don't we look at the sources of the high costs that are eroding the economy? Because every high-cost structure is someone's gravy train: some politically sacrosanct and untouchable special interest or class of insiders depends on ever-higher costs to fund their ever-higher wages, benefits, profits, etc., and they will not be denied their gravy train.
​  ​Since healthcare, higher education, local government, etc. is unaffordable, let's print money and give it away as the "solution" to unaffordability. This faux "solution" merely transfers the rising risk of collapse to the entire economy.  

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan21/tyranny-of-cost1-21.html

​Friend and correspondent, Cat McGuire writes about her experience last Wednesday in Washington:

  Contrary to Big Media’s Big Fat Lies, the Save America rally on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, was in my opinion an exhilarating, momentous, peaceful protest.
  Spoiler alert: I did not make it inside the Capitol, but I was in the first 25% wave of people that arrived, and like 99.9% of those around me, I jubilantly participated in a peaceful “storming” of the Capitol...
  On arrival to the Ellipse where Trump would speak, I can say based on many Washington marches under my belt that the Save America rally’s turn-out was spectacular.  I heard reports of a million plus present.  We will likely never get an official crowd estimate from the National Park Service.
  I’ve been to marches large and small, but I don’t recall encountering such a polite, well-mannered crowd. Bill had been to a prior Trump rally and Jim had been to three (Johnstown, Trump’s hospital vigil, November 3).
  They said every rally is the same: uncommonly good, nice people. I figured their love of Trump colored their characterization of the President’s base.  But I discovered at the rally that it’s an actual thing: Trump supporters are by and large decent, down-to-earth, genuine people...

​  ​I have to say I was truly surprised how incredibly informed almost everyone I met was.  The conversations I had revealed big-picture thinkers as well as familiarity with granular details. Those I spoke with certainly defied the stereotypical depictions of dumb deplorables.
​  ​As expected, there were a lot of Christians in the crowd, some of whom I had great talks with. I’m not a Christian, but I respected their deep faith and the fact that Christians I’ve been meeting of late (not Zionist Christians) are intensely engaged with the pressing political issues of our age.​..

​  ​As we were walking down Constitution Avenue, it dawned on me that there were virtually no police anywhere. They were surely around, but on the thirty-minute walk to the Capitol, we didn’t see a single police officer. I did spy an undercover man with an ear wire and then a few police cars diagonally parked at intersections, but that’s it.
​  ​I was really taken aback by the conspicuous absence of a police presence. Every major march I’ve been to, the streets are fully lined with police, sometimes on horses.  I remember being terrified once at a New York City protest when a cop on an enormous steed charged into us demonstrators.​

  Bill, Jim, and I got to the Capitol about 1:30pm before much of the crowd had arrived and saw protesters running up the steps. We were surprised to see so many going up the steps because we assumed there was a police barrier.
​  ​We smelled tear gas and heard flash-bang grenades going off in the distance, but very soon the disturbance fizzled and the unruffled crowd paid no more attention to the possibility of violence—especially since no reinforcements came at all until we left the event at 4:00pm. It was at that time—finally—that police cars began converging on the site as we were walking away.
​  ​For some, entering the Capitol was very easy.  I talked to a young Asian man who couldn’t believe how easy it was to enter the building.​..

​  There was a tremendous sense of excitement.  Dozens of people, even hundreds, could have easily “stormed” the Capitol, but chose not to. In fact, a relatively extremely small number entered the building. In my opinion, most did not go in because there was so much camaraderie and patriotic zeal taking place outside. Crowds were singing the Star Spangled Banner, and of course chanting “USA! USA!” The energy was electric, 100% positive, and we were determined to make sure our presence was known to the lawmakers inside who we assumed were deliberating on the certification.

​  ​For a crowd this size and in light of the crimes that had been done against our country, the heightened energy flowing amongst us could have been combustible.  But we protesters had about as much malevolence as an energized Superbowl crowd.
​  ​Because the vast majority of the crowd was not engaging in violence, I suggest that there was a Charlottesville-type situation in which Antifa types violently breached the Capitol despite filmed instances of Trump supporters trying to stop them.

​  ​Later when I was able to read the media’s reporting, I was dumbfounded to see something I had experienced as so peaceful, positive, and inspiring be described as violent, negative, and destructive. Black is white. War is peace. The stolen narrative of the Save America rally is my personal 1984 moment.​..

​  ​I spoke with so many people at the January 6th Washington D.C. rally and learned that these folks incontrovertibly understand what Deep State Establishment Power is about. They know there is overwhelming evidence that the 2020 election was stolen.  

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/01/08/i-was-at-the-washington-d-c-save-america-rally/

​January 6, What Really Happened in DC?  Thanks Phil!

This has actual video from inside the march, and is about the same as Cat describes, but also the action at entrances. It's short, 05:31.

The comments are similar to hers.   "Some kind of false flag operation".  "Small number of provocateurs." "Grungy men, people we didn't see anywhere else at the rally." "Who benefits?"  Star Spangled Banner cloud rendition sounds nice.

https://larouchepac.com/20210108/january-6-what-really-happened-dc 

The Boot is Coming Down Hard and Fast, Caitlin Johnstone

  “Mr. Biden has said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them,” Wall Street Journal reports.
  Did you know that Biden has often boasted about being the original author of the US Patriot Act?
The first draft of the civil rights-eroding USA PATRIOT Act was magically introduced one week after the 9/11 attacks. Legislators later admitted that they hadn’t even had time to read through the hundreds of pages of the history-shaping bill before passing it the next month, yet somehow its authors were able to gather all the necessary information and write the whole entire thing in a week.
This was because most of the work had already been done. CNET reported the following back in 2008:
  “Months before the Oklahoma City bombing took place, [then-Senator Joe] Biden introduced another bill called the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of ‘terrorism’ that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detention of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/09/the-boot-is-coming-down-hard-and-fast/

House Democrats introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Trump (Why? Really, why?)

The article, co-authored by Reps. David Cicilline (R-I.), Ted Lieu (Calif.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.), states that Trump engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by “willfully inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”  

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-dems-reportedly-have-votes-impeach-president-trump

​  ​Despite the globe's attention focused on the Capitol protest chaos and Democrats readying a charge to impeach under Pelosi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday announced this absolute bombshell, namely that he's now lifting "self-imposed restrictions" on the relationship between the United States and Taiwan. He announced in an official statement:
​  ​Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions. Executive branch agencies should consider all "contact guidelines" regarding relations with Taiwan previously issued by the Department of State under authorities delegated to the Secretary of State to be null and void.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washington-one-china-policy-dead-pompeo-lifts-restrictions-us-taiwan-relations

Matt Tibbi has last Wednesday's other story, the continued imprisonment of Julian Assange, threat to imperial propaganda.

(He's a threat to the Clinton Crime Family, too. I think they want him sent to the US under Biden's rule.)

​  ​Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who seemed Monday to be the luckiest man alive when a judge denied an American request to extradite him, was now denied bail on the grounds that he might “fail to surrender to court to face” the inevitable U.S. appeal. He goes back to legal purgatory, possibly a worse outcome than extradition, which might be the idea.
​  ​We sell politics in American media as a soap opera, and the personalities make for lively copy, but properly following the bouncing ball means watching institutions, not characters. Where are armies, banks, central banks, intelligence services, the press? Whose money is talking on the floor of the House and the Senate? How concentrated is financial and political power? How do public and private institutions coordinate? When they coordinate, what are their collective aims? How transparent are they or aren’t they? How accountable?

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/wednesdays-other-story

​A South African Doctor gives a 42 minute talk, explaining the molecular biology of ivermectin treatment of COVID, including zinc, doxycycline and vitamin-D as compliments, as being used in India, to such good effect (but now illegal in South Africa. I hope he's ok).​ Thanks Jeremy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MBCYPrgus&feature=youtu.be

In the UK, where vitamin-D deficiency was discovered to cause Rickets, "English Children's Disease", there is widespread government opposition to recommending it be used, despite all clinical data pointing to benefit against COVID. "Not enough evidence." 

Take 5000 units of vitamin-D per day, please.

​  ​Writing in the Lancet in August, he said: “It would seem uncontroversial to enthusiastically promote efforts to achieve reference nutrient intakes of vitamin D… There is nothing to lose from their implementation, and potentially much to gain.” Although extremely large sustained doses of vitamin D can cause toxicity, it is otherwise harmless.
​  ​Dr Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist and writer, has been disappointed over an absence of leadership to ensure people of colour have sufficient levels of the nutrient. “Structural racism absolutely has an effect,” he says. “But it should not be at the forefront of the conversation. The message should have been: ‘Everyone take vitamin D and cut out the junk food.’ I think it’s a no-brainer, because there is no harm from vitamin D and it’s cheap. It’s pretty scandalous that this hasn’t been dealt with until now.”
​  ​Davis now believes there will be increasing government focus on immunological health. “Covid kills you if you’ve got a weak immune system,” he says. “That’s why vitamin D has a much more general purpose effect than, let’s say, vaccines. We’re going to win this battle in the long run. I just feel for those who have died unnecessarily.”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jan/10/does-vitamin-d-combat-covid

​D-Day​ 

Toiling Together

 Collaborators,

   I was never a good chess player, but I liked it as a kid, until I got into high school and played better players. I quit playing chess.

Now, in America, I have that game's-about-over feeling about our democratic political mechanisms. 

No hope for any future elections. 

Consolidation of big tech supremacy and intimate control of our thoughts, perceptions, purchases, travel and interpersonal communications.

Death by disconnection becomes feasible. Non-entities just shivering somewhere invisibly. 

Here is how I have been feeling the past few days.

  When I was working at the Pinon clinic on the Navajo reservation, in 1991, somebody rushed in and called for me to "come quick, a lady has been shot". I rushed down the dirt street to see a middle aged Navajo woman's head and shoulders on the ground and her bottom and feet up in the passenger side of the open truck. I pulled her out onto the dirt and stabilized her head and airway. She breathed. 

A hysterical white lady was praising God, "She's Alive! Praise God!" 

The woman had been shot in the right eye and the bullet came out the back of her head. Her heart was beating. 

Her breathing became deeper, more gasping, periodic, then occasional gasps, then no more.

Her pulse weakened, then trailed off. 

A Young Navajo man wanted to do CPR. I said, "no, she just herniated her brainstem. She's dead." 

EMS arrived and I declared her dead. 

I walked back with dusty trousers to finish seeing strep throats and diabetes at the clinic, hours of ordinary work for the people.

It was really hard for me to keep moving, ploddingly practicing medicine, but I had to do it. They needed me to provide their care.

  There is that no-way-out feeling. We have to do this together. Individual humans just don't survive. 

Any one of us has to come forward into the new world with the rest of us. 

We have to co-create a living world. Selfish motives cannot work any more. 

Sharing-paradigm-or-bust.

That's the conundrum, like in the dream, when you are just about to hit the ground and you wake up.

Spiritually, in Buddhism, this anguished helplessness is the situation to drive the soul to transcend the physical constraints.

The only way to change the hopeless situation is through spiritual engagement.

I practiced channeling  love to each person I saw, or whose presence I felt, on my bike rides to work Thursday and Friday.

I both did so and noticed my impediments in doing so. 

I'm a spiritual Swiss cheese.

Helen Buyniski on transnational e-tech monopoly rule. Meat-puppets are complicit enablers for now, of course.

With unilateral censorship of a sitting US president, Big Tech has proven it’s more powerful than any government

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511958-social-media-politicians-censorship-riots/

In Scotland. Mum back-talked.

Police Enter Home, Arrest Family After Neighbor Snitched on Them For Violating COVID Rules
Children scream as parents are handcuffed.

https://summit.news/2021/01/08/police-enter-home-arrest-family-after-neighbor-snitched-on-them-for-violating-covid-rules/

India is kicking ass on COVID with ivermectin. Thanks Jeremy.

​   ​Late last March, as the U.S. argued over the merits of Trump-endorsed hydroxychloroquine and studies failed in late-stage patients, India decided to recommend the drug in its national guidelines. HCQ “should be used as early in the disease course as possible…and should be avoided in patients with severe disease,” the directives wisely state. As a precaution, authorities suggested an EKG to monitor for a rare heart arrhythmia that several COVID studies have since shown to be minimal.
​  ​But a crucial turn for India may have come in August when the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh recommended use of another drug: Ivermectin, which is coming on fast as a leading COVID treatment — without the baggage of at-turns effective but vilified hydroxychloroquine.
​   ​This was no small move. Were it a country, U.P.’s more than 230 million citizens would rank it fifth worldwide. As India’s largest state, its embrace of ivermectin may have changed the treatment landscape across India.
​   ​“This authentication of ivermectin revived the faith of people,” Dr. Chaurasia told me, “and net result was a massive inclination to take these drugs” — both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
​   ​By the end of 2020, Uttar Pradesh — which distributed free ivermectin for home care — had the second-lowest fatality rate in India at 0.26 per 100,000 residents in December. Only the state of Bihar, with 128 million residents, was lower, and it, too, recommends ivermectin.
​   ​But Uttar Pradesh did more than treat 300,000 mild cases at home through 2020; it also opted to use ivermectin to prevent infection. It seems a young health officer’s COVID response teams had taken the drug and remained well – something prophylaxis studies support. U.P. then had contacts of COVID patients take it, with similar success. “Recognizing the sense of urgency,” Amit Mohan Prasad, a U.P. health official, wrote in a Dec. 30 article, “we decided to go ahead.”

https://trialsitenews.com/an-unlikely-nation-is-kicking-this-pandemic-guess-which-then-why/

Here is some information from the listserv of doctors who treat COVID-19, that I'm on lately:

The reason that coronavirus is of interest as a vaccine vector is that the human body does not mount a very good response agains coronavirus. It slips in, so it can carry vaccine-program-RNA into cells. The suspicion that COVID may have originated in attempts to make vaccine, like AIDS vaccine, is more comprehensible to me, now.

A 35 year Dutch study on 4 strains of coronavirus shows that immunity has pretty much waned by a year from the last infection, and there are many as years go by.

https://www.livescience.com/seasonal-coronavirus-immunity-reinfection.html

SARS-CoV-2 cellular immunity (more important than antibodies, perhaps) is good at 6 months, but falls off pretty rapidly after that.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/06/science.abf4063

Treating People

Horned Guy Revisions

 Historical Participants,

Jake Angeli, the guy in the videos with a horned Davy Crockett hat was at an Arizona BLM rally, as well as the congressional chambers. He IS a QAnon celebrity, and I just didn't know. Several people have pointed that out. Thanks Cat for this Thursday phone interview with "Shaman Jake".

https://www.bitchute.com/video/eIR6LLIXoT3B/

Thanks for this image, Colleen, but it seems like the cartoon was revised, rather than predictive.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/08/the-simpsons-didnt-predict-qanon-shaman-from-capitol-riots-13872219/

The video of Ashli Babit being shot was taken by a BLM activist at the advancing front line in the capitol building. Thanks Travis.

Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-was-founder-far-left-blm-group-filming-inside-capitol-police-shot-protester

Is there some cancer growing everywhere, independently of nations?

How does cancer work? it kills the host, right? Yugoslavia, Georgia, Ukraine...

Do you realize now what you have done? US gets the kind of ‘democracy’ it championed overseas​  

​Nebojsa Malic​ ​is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.​ Russia Alert  (Hey, Russia survived something like this after a decade at death's door.)​

​  ​Way back in 2004, the Guardian wrote approvingly about how the US has created a “slick” operation of “engineering democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience,” developing since Belgrade a “template for winning other people’s elections.”
​  ​Now the same mainstream media that slavishly followed the State Department line in denouncing elections elsewhere as “rigged” and color revolutions as spontaneous democracy are clutching their pearls when Americans who believe their election was stolen take to the streets and storm their Capitol.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511740-us-democracy-congress-stormed/

​Moon of Alabama​ is not a QAnon acolyte, but an intelligence analyst:

​  ​Trump spoke out against violence and called on the people to leave peacefully only to get censored by the blue tick monopoly:
​  ​Protesters, who were seen fighting with officers both inside the building and outside, were described as "special people" by President Donald Trump, who responded to calls to condemn the violence.
​  ​In a video address shared on Twitter, he urged his supporters to "go home" but repeated an unsubstantiated claim that the election was "stolen".
​  ​He said: "I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us, it was a landslide election and everyone knows it especially the other side.
​  ​"But you have to go home now, we have to have peace, we have to have law and order, we have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt."
​  ​He described it as a "tough period of time", and repeated false claims that the November's election was "fraudulent".
​  ​He ended the video message by calling the protesters "very special", adding: "We can’t play into the hands of these people.
"We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special."
Twitter disabled the video from being liked or retweeted "due to a risk of violence". It was later deleted.
Explain to me how the above quotes are risking violence or a breach of 'civic integrity'? 

What, please, is that?

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/01/leaving-in-style-.html#more

​Trump's speech was long, unscripted, spontaneous, repetitive and has a lot of specific facts about the multi level electronic and human election rigging (which had to get sloppy and blatant, after the Dominion adjustments weren't adequate).​

​  ​Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans for our movement, for our children and for our beloved country and I say this, despite all that’s happened, the best is yet to come.
​  ​So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’re going to the Capitol and we’re going to try and give… The Democrats are hopeless. They’re never voting for anything, not even one vote. But we’re going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.
​  ​So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you all for being here, this is incredible. Thank you very much. Thank you.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6

Tiananmen Avoided in D.C. as Trump Era Ends​, Tom Luongo​

​  ​On January 6th, 2021 the Trump Era of U.S. history ended. 

Nothing will be the same after the events on Capitol Hill. There is no going back. That much is obvious.
​  ​The shock of those events wasn’t Trump calling a rally of his supporters to the Capitol or that they were seething with anger over what is clearly a stolen election.
​  ​The shock was that they “aimed to misbehave” after coming to the realization that the America they thought they lived in no longer existed.
​  ​I’ve said many times in 2020 that this election was the last chance to keep a lid on their anger. It was, in their minds, their last non-violent way of choosing the rules they lived under.
​  ​As long as the results looked even remotely fair they would be willing to accept them and make the best of it. That’s the contract right?
But they would not accept fraud.
Because fraud is theft. And theft is force. Theft is ultimately violence.
​  ​So everyone clutching their pearls today over the ‘violence’ of January 6th needs to remember that violence is baked into this story at every level.
​  ​In fact, the worst pearl clutchers are the ones whose power is most threatened, i.e. Congress, and the cowards unwilling to stand next to those facing them down.
Her name is Ashli Babbitt.​ ​
​  ​Because as George Washington almost certainly didn’t say …
​"​Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action​."​
​ ​Force was on display fully at the capitol but it wasn’t coming from the people. It was coming from Congress who knowingly certified a fraudulent election hiding behind their cowardice and corruption.

https://tomluongo.me/2021/01/07/tiananmen-avoided-d-c-as-trump-era-ends/

​Unrepresented​

Ashli Babbit Bleeding

 Subjects of Empire,

14 year USAF veteran Ashli Babbit's last moments and words. The video with the young man who caught her is not long, 2 minutes. 

Listen to his sentiments.

  We stormed into the chambers inside, and there was a young lady who rushed to the windows. A number of police and secret service were saying ‘get back, get down, get out of the way’. She didn’t heed the call, and as we raced up to grab people and pull them back, they shot her in the neck, and she fell back on me. She started saying, ‘it’s fine, it’s cool,’ and then she started moving weird, and blood was coming out of her mouth and neck and nose. I don’t know if she’s alive or dead any more… Riot police came in, and started ushering us out with sticks…  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/young-female-trump-supporter-shot-capitol-police-possibly-fatal-warning-graphic-videos/

https://nationalfile.com/breaking-videos-reportedly-show-dc-police-shoot-unarmed-peaceful-female-trump-supporter-in-neck/

This is the video of a handgun shooting 35 year old Ashli in the neck as she tries to jump a barrier then falls onto her back, mortally wounded.

​  ​The circumstances have now become much clearer with video of the shooter emerging overnight. There were police behind her - indicating they did not consider her an immediate lethal threat - at the moment she attempted to breach a barricade inside the capitol building.
​  ​Despite the security officers behind her being potentially in the line of fire, Babbitt was still shot by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to jump over a physical barrier, new video shows.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exact-moment-ashli-babbitt-was-shot-while-storming-capitol

​  ​Ashli Babbitt, who had 14 years in the service and did four tours of duty, was married and lived near San Diego, her husband Aaron told KUSI-TV​.
​​The day before she was fatally shot — apparently by Capitol Police, Babbitt tweeted, “Nothing will stop us…. they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light.”

https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/protester-killed-in-capitol-was-air-force-vet-from-california/

“Maybe She Was Doing Terrible Things and Deserved to be Shot”  ,​ ​Fox News, CPAC’s Matt Schlapp

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/wow-cpacs-matt-schlapp-suggests-unarmed-16-year-old-trump-supporter-may-deserved-shot-dead-capitol-police-video/

​“It is my considered judgement that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence said.
The President ripped into Pence for not having the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and Constitution.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/pence-didnt-courage-protect-country-president-trump-tears-mike-pence-patriots-storm-capitol-building/

​This dude was up at the podium in the senate being outrageous. 

His image stuck in my mind, maybe yours. 

2 protests. same guy.

Viking Protester Is A COINTELPRO Agent Provocateur

https://rense.com/general96/viking-protester-is-a-cointelpro.php

https://rense.com/general96/antifa-flier.php

​Michael Snyder makes the case that protesters were set up to look bad in media presentations.:  

   Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified by the violence that I watched at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.  But I had a difficult time trying to understand what I was witnessing.  Trump supporters are almost always extremely peaceful, but many of those that were storming the Capitol were being very violent.  That didn’t make sense to me.  And how in the world did protesters get into the U.S. Capitol in the first place?
  Well, it turns out that police actually opened up the barricades that were surrounding the U.S. Capitol and purposely allowed protesters to storm the building.  You can see this on video right here…
I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.
  And once they were inside the building, they were herded toward particular areas.  For example, you can watch one “guard” actually lead protesters up several flights of stairs right here…
  Either the U.S. Congress has the worst security personnel that any of us have ever seen, or this was allowed to happen on purpose.
And there are multiple reports that Antifa activists were brought in by bus.  In fact, one patriot actually recorded video of the Antifa buses that were brought into the heart of Washington D.C. with an escort…

http://themostimportantnews.com/questions-about-the-chaos-at-the-capitol-that-desperately-need-to-be-answered/

​  ​The Nationalist Review reports, “A Black Lives Matter supporter attacked an elderly Trump supporter this evening in Washington, leaving her face bruised and bloody. When other Trump supporters demonstrating for the president’s reelection struggle stepped in to protect the victim and ​  ​request that the police arrest her assailant, the police responded by pepper spraying the entire group.”  ​...

​  “You lost both sides of support. We had your f***ing back, but we ain’t got your back no more!” the marine could be heard shouting at cops.

https://newspunch.com/marine-slams-police-after-they-mace-trump-supporters-we-had-your-fing-back-but-not-anymore/

Biden’s Electoral College victory certified; Trump vows ‘orderly transition’
Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff, posted a statement from President Trump on Twitter that called for calm.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/live-updates-pence-has-power-to-block-certification-trump-says

​A recent story:​

President Trump will remain in the White House, according to Gen. Michael Flynn.  
​  ​“My big message is that the truth is going to come out and that Donald Trump will continue to be the president of the United States for the next four years,” he said in an interview with Alex Jones.  
“There’s no doubt in my mind. When I’m asked on a scale of 1 to 10 – what’s the scale that you would put Trump will be the next president – I say 10, without a doubt.”  
​  ​“That is the truth. Everybody in this country, everybody in this world knows that this election on the 3rd of November was a total rip-off,” Flynn added. “It was a fraudulent election, we have had foreign interference from multiple countries that I can rattle off here if you want to get into that.”
​  ​Accordingly, Flynn confirmed previous reports that the election was done under a state of national emergency due to reports of foreign actors penetrating the election system, particularly the Chinese.
​  ​“We have clear evidence of foreign interference, which is [what] the president’s executive order describes, the executive order from 2018,” he continued, referring to Executive Order 13848. “He reinstituted it in 2019 and reinstituted again in 2020, so we are essentially in a national emergency that the president has already declared.”

“He just has to decide whether to execute some of those procedures that are well within his authority.”  

​...Trump did not...

https://www.infowars.com/posts/flynn-trump-will-remain-president/

​ ​  America is now divided into two camps. 

Today I have posted the view, a quick skim, of the underdog side, the side you do not see in the mass media.

​Who gains by dividing this country against itself? I don't have a pat answer. I don't know exactly what interests are invested where.

It's secret. 

  It is not in the interests of Americans to be divided this way through manipulation of images and narratives, through lies.​

The lockdowns have hobbled people, isolated them from other humans, so that communications are mostly through media channels, "guided" by artificial intelligence minders. 

  I certainly have no grand solution. 

What I will do today is the same. Blog is up. I cooked dinner last night and breakfast this morning and packed lunches for Jenny, and myself. 

I am looking out at the Austin vegetable garden. I will ride my bike to work to provide medical care for people.

​Across the pond, the Queen of England said something which will not be televised:

​  ​In an impromptu, unscripted moment, the Queen said, "One cannot over emphasise just how diabolical these evil doers are. they do not hold the light of God within them," according to BBC production staff.
The Queen warned her subjects that world leaders are secretly pursuing the 'Great Reset' in order to create a "dark new dawn" for humanity.
Senior BBC production staff and palace advisors scrambled to cancel the filming...

https://rense.com/general96/queen-warns.php

​Into the Abyss​

VIP News

 Ruled by Liars,

Jim Kunstler sets the stage:

​  ​Only the bare outlines of this week’s fateful game are visible. Mr. Trump has not conceded the election. An action will play out in congress under rarely-used constitutional rules as to how the electoral college votes are awarded to whom. The rancor around this action is already epic. Few of the political players are beyond suspicion of dark deals and shifty allegiances. Persistent rumor has the president laying out a royal flush of deadly information about his antagonists, enough to make heads explode among the formerly cocksure and vaporize the narrative they’ve been running for four years.
​  ​A whole lot of people are converging in the nation’s capital at midweek, maybe even the touted million. It is a moment, possibly, not unlike the Bastille in Paris, 1789. They will be clamoring right outside Congress as the electoral vote ceremony proceeds. If the battle is not joined in the chamber, it’s a little hard to believe the crowd will just heave a million sighs, trudge back to their cars, and drive quietly home.

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/giving-up-the-ghost/

LA hospitals ​tell​ EMTs to make critical decisions about who WILL die vs who might live, so they don't have to.
Los Angeles ambulances told not to transport COVID patients with little chance of survival

https://katu.com/news/nation-world/los-angeles-ambulances-told-not-to-transport-covid-patients-with-little-chance-of-survival

Clinical outcomes after early ambulatory multidrug therapy for high-risk SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection

Hospitalizations reduced by 85% and deaths reduced by 61% in this outpatient treatment study.​ Thanks Peter.​

https://www.docwirenews.com/abstracts/clinical-outcomes-after-early-ambulatory-multidrug-therapy-for-high-risk-sars-cov-2-covid-19-infection-3/

​From France, but not reported in the US. Translated. Thanks Peter:​

​  ​In the United States in October, under the influence of Senator Johnson , Professors Peter McCullough , Harvey Risch, and doctor Pierre Kory testified under oath to the Senate commission of inquiry into early stage treatments. The latter recalled the fundamental basis of a response to a viral epidemic with the 4 pillars: the control of contagion by various measures such as barrier gestures, early phase treatment, hospital care, and the vaccine or group immunity.
​  ​A peer-reviewed study published in the Reviews of Cardiovascular Medicine (Reviews of Cardiovascular Medicine) on December 30, 2020 by a group of 57 doctors, including Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Harvey Risch, many of whom have treated the disease in the early phase, includes all the elements to show that there is no cure for Covid-19, but that a combination of drugs and other supplements can significantly reduce the risk of worsening the disease . This also leads to a reduction in hospitalization needs, thus reducing the pressure on the use of intensive care or resuscitation beds. The question of risk benefit for the need for a vaccine therefore arises.

https://theeconomicstandard.com/docs-urge-early-outpatient-treatment-for-covid-19/

​Get this: "Use vaccines right now, because they do not appear to work against this new viral mutant that is spreading like wildfire in South Africa and South America, even though it is summer down there.​" No mention of Ivermectin, zinc, Hydroxychloroquine or Vitamin-D at all...  ($)

​  ​Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned that vaccinating Americans against Covid is more critical than ever, especially as the new South Africa variant appears to inhibit antibody drugs... 
​  ​Gottlieb cited experimental evidence from Bloom Lab, and explained 501.V2  does appear to partially escape prior immunity. It means that some of the antibodies people produce when they get infected with Covid, as well as the antibody drugs​ (vaccines), may not be quite as effective.
​  ​“The new variant has mutated a part of the spike protein that our antibodies bind to, to try to clear the virus itself, so this is concerning,” Gottlieb said. “Now, the vaccine can become a backstop against these variants really getting more of a foothold here in the United States, but we need to quicken the pace of vaccination.​ ($)​ money talks

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/south-africa-covid-variant-appears-to-obviate-antibody-drugs-dr-scott-gottlieb-says.html

Rural Peru had very good results with ivermectin.

Peru Slams Pfizer Over Legal Immunity For COVID Vaccine Side Effects

"One indeed needs the vaccine, but it is also true that there are aspects related to aspects of our sovereignty that the country has to protect ... it has to do with risk for future generations," she said.  

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/peru-slams-pfizer-over-legal-immunity-covid-vaccine-side-effects 

​  ​Albert Einstein College of Medicine virologist Kartik Chandran tells The Scientist in an email that it would also be useful to investigate cell-mediated immunity, which is a response driven by T cells and may be less sensitive to mutations in the spike protein than the neutralizing antibody response is.
​  ​Like the UK variant, scientists suspect that 501.V2 is more infectious than other strains of SARS-CoV-2 are, as it has rapidly become dominant in the country’s coastal areas. Lessells says he expects the variant will quickly become dominant in Johannesburg, the country’s largest city, and the surrounding provinces.
​  ​South Africa is currently experiencing a resurgence of the virus with new cases and deaths rising rapidly, surpassing what the country experienced in its first surge in late July.​ (Their winter)​  Uh, Ivermectin? The British tabloids already noticed ivermectin.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/south-african-sars-cov-2-variant-alarms-scientists-68317

Thanks Jeremy in the UK. New York Post has the same story about Ivermectin.

Cheap hair lice drug may cut the risk of hospitalized Covid patients dying by up to 80%, study finds

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9110301/Cheap-hair-lice-drug-cut-risk-hospitalised-Covid-patients-dying-80-study-finds.html

https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/hair-lice-drug-may-cut-risk-of-covid-19-death-by-80-percent/

​Miami Doctor recovers from ventilator dependent COVID with new drug, which does very well in early trials. VIP

​  ​It looked like Elgozy may need a lung transplant. At one point, he was scheduled to undergo a double lung transplant.
​  ​That’s when his doctor thought of RLF-100 (aviptadil), a game-changing drug. A doctor who is leading the trial at Johns Hopkins University is seeing promising results.
​  ​“With the drug, we saw a 70% or greater survival,” said NeuroRX CEO Dr. Jonathan Javitt, “but in these patients who have no alternative, who have very little to look forward to, we believe the experience that was seen in Houston and seen now around the country.”

https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/miami-beach-doctor-recovering-from-covid-19-after-taking-new-drug/

​  ​Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide (VIP), the active ingredient in  aviptadil been shown in more than 100 peer-reviewed studies to have potent anti-inflammatory/anti-cytokine activity in animal models of respiratory distress, acute lung injury, and inflammation. Most importantly, 70% of the VIP in the body is bound to a rare cell in the lung, the alveolar type 2 cell, that is critical to transmission of oxygen to the body. VIP has a 20-year history of safe use in humans in multiple human trials for sarcoidosis, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma/allergy, and pulmonary hypertension.  

https://european-biotechnology.com/up-to-date/latest-news/news/drug-set-to-rescue-covid-19-patients-at-icus.html

​Tuesday January 12 free webinar about treating COVID with ivermectin, by Professor/investigator Hector Carvallo MD

​https://theeconomicstandard.com/docs-urge-early-outpatient-treatment-for-covid-19/

Physicians/facilities providing early outpatient treatment for COVID:

https://c19protocols.com/physicians-facilities-offering-early-treatment/

New York’s new law setting up detention centers to lock up suspected Covid-19 cases heralds a Kafkaesque nightmare​  Helen Buyniski​

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511599-new-york-indefinite-detention-covid/

​There is no "justice", just playing inside games. "We would and should extradite you, but you might kill yourself, so you'll stay in our prison:"

​  ​WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has been denied bail by the London court which two days ago blocked the US extradition request. The UK judge rejected the bail request on fears that he's a flight risk, even though he's not facing criminal charges in the UK.
​  ​"I am satisfied that there are substantial grounds for believing that if Mr Assange is released today he would fail to surrender to court to face the appeal proceedings," Judge Vanessa Baraitser

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-judge-cites-flight-risk-deny-bail-assange

​Respecting Truth​

2021 Starting Gun

 Adaptive Living Organisms,

  

The Most Hopeful Scenario for 2021​, Charles Hugh Smith​
​  ​From the point of view of evolution, the most hopeful scenario for 2021 is the sudden and complete collapse of everything that is obsolete, inefficient, ineffective and sclerotic. When obsolete systems and entities pass away quickly, the cost and pain are processed and absorbed quickly as well: enterprises go bankrupt and their assets are liquidated, failed ventures close, and schemes that didn't yield the desired benefits are scrapped.
​  ​This is the evolutionary process. Whatever has lost its selective advantages will succumb to selective pressures and fade away.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec20/most-hopeful12-20.html

​Glenn  Greenwald:

​  “Amazon and Walmart have raked in billions in additional profits during the pandemic, and shared almost none of it with their workers” — found that “the COVID-19 pandemic has generated record profits for America’s biggest companies, as well as immense wealth for their founders and largest shareholders—but next to nothing for workers.”
  These COVID “winners” are not the Randian victors in free market capitalism. Quite the contrary, they are the recipients of enormous amounts of largesse from the U.S. Government, which they control through armies of lobbyists and donations and which therefore constantly intervenes in the market for their benefit. This is not free market capitalism rewarding innovative titans, but rather crony capitalism that is abusing the power of the state to crush small competitors, lavish corporate giants with ever more wealth and power, and turn millions of Americans into vassals whose best case scenario is working multiple jobs at low hourly wages with no benefits, few rights, and even fewer options.
  Those must disgusted by this outcome should not be socialists but capitalists: this is a classic merger of state and corporate power —- also known as a hallmark of fascism in its most formal expression — that abuses state interference in markets to consolidate and centralize authority in a small handful of actors in order to disempower everyone else. Those trends were already quite visible prior to Trump and the onset of the pandemic, but have accelerated beyond anyone’s dreams in the wake of mass lockdowns, shutdowns, prolonged isolation and corporate welfare thinly disguised as legislative “relief.”
  What makes this most menacing of all is that the primary beneficiaries of these rapid changes are Silicon Valley giants, at least three of which — Facebook, Google, and Amazon — are now classic monopolies. (AI-powered techno-fascism)

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in

​Jim Kunstler has a lot of predictive narrative.​ He has studied this path into the future for a long time. (Look at Latin American economies.)

​  ​I believe that working class will return to laboring, and not in the giant American factories of the kind we had in the 1960s, but because the government social safety nets will be running out of financial mojo in the coming decade. So, they will have no choice but to labor — at the same time that many automated activities we’ve enjoyed will not be running much longer. A lot of that automation has been applied, for instance, in agriculture, where one person could plow or harvest hundreds of acres a day riding in the air-conditioned cab of a multi-million-dollar rig guided by GPS, allowing the driver to watch movies while he “worked.” Well, that agri-business model is about to fail. The scale is all wrong and the capital requirements are too exorbitant. Bottom line: many idle working-class folk have a future in agricultural work. They don’t know it yet. Expect, also, more opportunities as household servants as American society becomes more distinctly hierarchical, and in more fine-grained strata than merely the rich and the poor. Far from being an evil outcome, consider how important to human psychology it is to have a place in this world, both in terms of purpose and a physical place to call home. And, anyway, how wonderful is the former working-class’s current plight as drug-addled, often homeless, and suicidal? Would you want things to stay that way, or can you imagine new social arrangements to meet new economic realities? 

​  ​The consolidation of commerce into a few giant companies such as Walmart, Target, Amazon had reached a deadly and tragic pitch before Covid-19, destroying all lesser organisms in the business ecosystem, and thousands of local Main Streets in the process. With the Covid lockdowns, the big boxes were somehow exempted from closure. Though they seem to be triumphing for the moment, these giant national chain merchandising outfits are in their sunset phase headed for twilight. As I’ll surely state again in this forecast, the macro-trend is for downscaling and re-localizing in everything, all activities. The chain-stores and big boxes depend on systems and arrangements that won’t persist, for instance, the long supply lines from the factories of Asia. The end of mass motoring will also prove problematical for commerce at the giant scale smeared all over suburban landscapes.​..

​  ​Shale oil was made possible by the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low-interest, easy lending policies. They made a lot of cheap capital available, and hundreds of billions migrated to the new shale oil plays in expectation that they would produce excellent steady revenues. Big institutional investors like pension funds and insurance companies especially were looking for reliable revenue with bond interest rates so low due to Fed policy. They thought they’d be swimming in shale oil company dividends and revenue streams from loans to shale drillers that paid better than US treasury bonds. One thing for sure, they thought: America wasn’t going to stop needing lots of oil. So, shale oil seemed like a sure thing. Except that after a few years, it turned out that nobody was making any money producing shale oil.
​  ​It just cost so damn much to get that stuff out of the ground. And the depletion rate was so savage that you had to drill and re-drill incessantly. And what was worse, the economy had evolved to the stage where there was no sweet spot for oil prices. Oil over $75 destroyed the business model for productive industrial activities that relied on cheap oil; while oil under $75 destroyed oil companies because they couldn’t make a profit at the well head.​..

​  ​I believe it will go down much quicker than that because falling production is so destructive to the business model of industrial society that it will induce gross economic, social, and political disorder. All that disorder will generate self-reinforcing feedback loops making a return to previous levels of comfort, convenience, prosperity, and order much less likely. The net effect will be a much lower standard-of-living among formerly “advanced” nations, and also falling populations. We’re just experiencing the beginning of that process with the destruction of America’s middle-class. It is the essence of the long emergency.​..

​  As for transitioning into a “sustainable economy” powered by “renewables” such as solar and wind power, that just ain’t going to happen — unless you’re talking about oxen and firewood, and a human population about ten percent of what the planet currently carries. All our fantasies about a high-tech utopia driven by wind and sun depend on a fossil fuel economy to produce the hardware for it and then the replacement parts for the hardware, ad infinitum.​..

​  We’ll see a Great Reset, all right, but not some totalitarian gruel dished out to the plebes from the Davos steam-table or any other elite catering service. It will be an emergent, self-organizing phenomenon, from the ground up, in which everyday people will have to improvise new systems at the local level for getting food, arranging for shelter, and creating business activities around their most fundamental needs: food production, transport, trade, manufacturing, energy supplies, medical care, cleaning, building, et cetera.

​https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/forecast-2021-chinese-fire-drills-with-a-side-of-french-fries-jacobin-style-and-russian-dressing/

SARS-CoV-2 viral variant B-117 seems to be 50 to 70% more transmissible.​ 

My take on that is that this fact will rapidly drive the crisis of hospitalization unless we quickly ramp up outpatient antiviral treatment.

We need quick rapid testing and quick treatment with antivirals like ivermectin/zinc/doxycycline combination, as used widely in India.​

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/

Luc sent this video of Roger Seheult MD talking about the role of vitamin-D in COVID, and presenting for a non-medical audience, a vast body of evidence about how critically beneficial vitamin-D supplementation is for human health. Get it in your body ahead of the virus, please.

Roger takes 5000 units per day. So do I. 

Feel free to take it twice a day for January and February, to get off to a good start in 2021.

(The guy asking Dr. Seheult questions irritates me. Maybe he's supposed to. I can't tell.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha2mLz-Xdpg

Please note that this is in hospitalized patients. That is way later than treatment should be starting. 

Hospitalization is a public-health failure mode.

WHO-commissioned review of ivermectin trials finds 83% reduction in covid mortality.  

https://swprs.org/who-preliminary-review-confirms-ivermectin-effectiveness/

​Here again is the Eastern Virginia Medical School protocol for treatment of SASR-CoV-2, Paul Marik MD's protocol.

The first dozen pages are most applicable to outpatient treatment.

(Vitamin-D, zinc, quercetin and aspirin are available to everybody. Only take vitamin-D, and a little zinc, and hold the others in reserve.)​

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

From Harvey Risch MD, is the list of access physicians who are treating COVID with antiviral and other medicines, not just "watchful-waiting".

https://c19protocols.com/physicians-facilities-offering-early-treatment/

NYT: We Came All This Way to Let Vaccines Go Bad in the Freezer?​ 

Problems arise in administering vaccine with short shelf life at -30 degrees to millions of people, who are rightfully uncertain that it's "safe".​

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-expiring.html#click=https://t.co/GKwMUVGFkG

Antibody Dependent Enhancement (of the virus, not you) and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and therapies

​  ​One potential hurdle for antibody-based vaccines and therapeutics is the risk of exacerbating COVID-19 severity via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). ADE can increase the severity of multiple viral infections, including other respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)9,10 and measles11,12. ADE in respiratory infections is included in a broader category named enhanced respiratory disease (ERD), which also includes non-antibody-based mechanisms such as cytokine cascades and cell-mediated immunopathology (Box 1). ADE caused by enhanced viral replication has been observed for other viruses that infect macrophages, including dengue virus13,14 and feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV)15. Furthermore, ADE and ERD has been reported for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV both in vitro and in vivo. The extent to which ADE contributes to COVID-19 immunopathology is being actively investigated.  

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00789-5

​Bill Barr just quit that job. Thanks Wiggs

“They’ve been protecting Hillary Clinton, they’ve been protecting Obama, they’ve been protecting the Deep State,” Fitton stated last Friday.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/deep-dive/how-the-barr-doj-failed/

​How real will this get?

​11 senators announce they will reject congressional election certification on Wednesday
Lawmakers calling for an audit of the U.S. election out of concerns over voting integrity.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/11-senators-say-they-will-reject-congressional-election-certification-monday

​Just how much constitutional power Mike Pence can wield as President of the Senate is a little fuzzy, and critically important.​

Pence embraces election challenge by members of Congress
Pence says he shares the concerns of millions of Americans about electoral fraud.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/pence-embraces-election-challenge-members-congress

​Julian Assange is one of our living martyrs. How can we support this brave champion of truth?

​https://consortiumnews.com/2021/01/02/assange-extradition-legal-teams-likely-informed-already-of-assange-decision/

Speaking Truth Openly

Same Struggles Tomorrow

 Nourished by Information,

Censorship Kills,  Marilyn Singleton MD

​  ​For months we’ve heard that COVID is not like the flu. It is a different animal. It may leave the infected person with long term aftereffects. Given the potential problems, the FDA, CDC, NIH, HHS and the alphabet health agencies should be advocating for early pharmacological treatment and prevention. Instead, we are told to wash our hands, wear masks—which may or may not help—and to stay away from one another. Indeed, as California’s Health and Human Services Secretary admitted, the state’s order banning outdoor dining and closing playgrounds was “not a comment on the relative safety” of the activity but a tactic for keeping people at home.
​  ​Stay home — although 66 percent of new coronavirus hospitalizations in New York were in people who had not routinely left their homes. Stay inside — although there are studies echoing observations during the 1918 flu pandemic finding that people who went outside had better outcomes. A recent Spanish study​ ​showed that 80 percent of patients with COVID had low levels of vitamin D. Another study found that people with adequate vitamin D levels had a 51 percent lower risk of dying from COVID. People at risk for vitamin D deficiency include those who have dark skin, are elderly or overweight, or stay indoors. Interestingly, these groups are particularly hit hard by COVID.
​  ​Simply put, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Any risk of taking proper doses of vitamins and minerals is dwarfed by the risks associated with COVID. Useful vitamins and minerals include zinc (inhibits viral replication), vitamin D3 and vitamin C, and quercetin (to help drive zinc into the cells). Additionally, melatonin, a hormone found naturally in the body that regulates our sleep cycle, also has significant anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and mitochondrial protective effects.

https://marilynsingletonmdjd.com/2020/12/28/censorship-kills/

​Huh, Lockdowns are designed to last "forever" ? , Brandon Smith

​  ​Gotta keep that fear train chugging forward on the track to the “Great Reset”, right?
For the people that actually believe that the covid crisis will end after mass vaccinations, I’m sorry to say, but you have been duped. Every single element of the establishment response and every public statement they make indicates that they plan to violate your civil liberties for a long time to come. Those promises of relief right around the corner? All lies. The claim that if you go along to get along everything will go back to normal? It’s a con. It is hollow rhetoric designed to make you shut up and submit to medical tyranny for just long enough that it becomes irreversible.
​  ​I suspect they are hoping they can condition the public over the next few years to simply adapt to the controls until we forget what life was like before the pandemic and the reset. It seems, however, that the globalist reset plan is not going very well.

​https://alt-market.us/covid-mutation-stories-show-that-the-lockdowns-are-designed-to-last-forever/

​Quick, get your first shot of experimental vaccine!

Russia is developing world’s first Covid-19 antidote, preclinical studies show drug effectiveness of more than 99%

https://www.rt.com/russia/511116-world-first-covid19-antidote/

Here is yet another compilation of COVID treatment options, with links to reference articles, endorsed by a very long list of treating physicians:

file:///C:/Users/John.MEADOWS/Downloads/Multifaceted%20highly%20targeted%20sequential%20multidrug%20treatment%20of%20early%20ambulatory%20high-risk%20SARS-CoV-2%20infection%20(COVID-19).pdf

John Michael Greer has a list of unknowables for 2021, not predictions, this time:

​  ​The first one that comes to mind is the gaggle of vaccines against the Covid-19 coronavirus now being injected into long lines of recipients in countries around the world. The corporate media here in the US, at least, has been insisting at the top of its electronic lungs that “the vaccine” (there are of course several of them) is safe and effective. The stark truth is that nobody knows.  It takes one to two years of repeated tests and long-term assessments to figure out if a vaccine is safe and effective, and the Pfizer vaccine—the first one approved in the US and Britain—got a total of eight weeks of hurried testing before it was approved for sale. It’s quite common for problems with pharmaceuticals—even horrific problems—to take months or years to surface, and the Pfizer and Moderna products belong to a type of vaccine—mRNA vaccines—that have never before been successfully used on human subjects, so no one anywhere knows what will happen when millions of people take them.
​  ​One thing that interests me is the shrill tone of the claims being made by the media about the supposed safety and efficacy of the vaccines. For some years now, the comfortable classes in today’s America have lost track of the fact that control over the public narrative does not equal control over the facts underlying the narrative.

https://www.ecosophia.net/into-the-unknown-region/

​More excellent thoughtfulness. Samo Burja assesses how intellectual authority works​:

​  ​One might think professionalization means a strict improvement in the epistemic foundations of a field. This isn’t the case. Rather, professionalization is a way to reduce variance. Professionalization is essentially the creation of set procedures, norms, and social roles to govern a given area of knowledge, and while this eliminates unserious crackpottery, it also crowds out the “unorthodox” and often stochastic experimentation employed by all exceptional live players as they new drive fields forward—in short, reducing variants cuts off both tails of the skills distribution. While professionalization does eliminate some malpractice, for pre-paradigmatic fields it can be harmful, since researchers must pursue hypotheses that can’t be justified to bureaucrats. If the hypothesis could be justified to bureaucrats the field would already be mature. A premature professionalization closes many doors of inquiry.  

http://samoburja.com/intellectual-authority/

​We know why Seth Rich was murdered on the way home from a DNC office party. (Hi Hillary!)

The National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly holding records on Seth Rich that are at the highest level of classification.  

What on earth could cause these records to be so highly classified?

  The National Security Agency is hiding records about murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich, according to one of my sources, who informed me yesterday that the records are classified as a special access program (the highest level of classification) because they include intercepted communications between Mr. Rich and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/despite-numerous-foia-requests-relevant-information-nsa-withholding-government-documents-related-life-death-seth-rich/

This is all set. Will they pull-the-trigger?

  Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller during an interview on Newsmax TV expressed the hope that evidence pertaining to election-related issues will be shared directly with the American people next week.
  If a minimum of one member of each congressional chamber objects to the electoral vote returns of a state during a joint session of Congress presided over by the vice president on Jan. 6, each chamber will separately debate for up to two hours and then vote on the objection, https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/trump-campaign-senior-advisor-wants-americans-hear-about-evidence-related

​  ​Objections are filed in writing and must have support from at least one member of each chamber. If they do, they trigger a two-hour debate and a vote by the House of Representatives and the Senate. A simple majority in each chamber is required to uphold the challenge.
​  ​Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told The Epoch Times that the group plans to file objections against the votes from six states, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada. They’re mulling an objection to votes from New Mexico.
​  ​Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) was the first to announce plans to file an objection.
“In my judgment, based on what I have seen so far and my own personal experience with voter fraud and election theft by Democrats, in my judgment, if you only could count lawfully cast votes by American citizens, Donald Trump won the Electoral College,”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dozens-republicans-planning-challenge-electoral-college-results

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Wednesday he will raise objections next week when Congress meets to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory​.

​ https://apnews.com/article/8d868c985792e932f9bc527ec2f2ab30

​There are roles to play in a game, but there are some things you never do, like delay the military pork delivery.

Senate Democrats’ Motion To Concede On $2,000 Checks
How Democrats and Beltway pundits just helped Mitch McConnell undermine Bernie Sanders’ push for direct aid to millions of Americans facing eviction, starvation and bankruptcy.

https://www.dailyposter.com/p/senate-democrats-motion-to-concede

Charles Hugh Smith (who also spotted the economic impact of COVID in January) makes a PREDICTION:

The Top 10%'s Bubble Is About to Bur​st​
​  ​When the top 10%'s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory "wealth" were real.
​  ​A great many people are living in bubbles that are about to pop. The largest bubble is the one inhabited by people who complacently believe in time travel, i.e. that the world of 2019 is about to replace the nightmare of 2020 and we can all go back to our carefree debt-funded consumption frenzy and illusions of ever-greater wealth forever and ever.
​  ​The greater one's sense of security, the more durable the bubble. Those in America's top 10% who have reaped virtually all the gains in income and wealth of the past 20 years live in a bubble that they view as unbreakable: no matter what problems arise, their personal income and wealth is secured by the government, central bank, etc.​..

When the top 10%'s bubble pops in 2021, the loss of illusions/delusions of security and wealth will be shattering to all those who believed artifice and illusory "wealth" were real. What's real is the tide of financialization and globalization reversed over a year ago. The tide is now running out, but few loading their "wealth" into lifeboats have noticed--yet.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogdec20/top-10-bubble12-20.html

​Swimming Naked​

Still Swimming In COVID

 Waving Hello,

  We are now into the "second wave" of COVID. 

In (sunny) Texas hospitalized cases have just exceeded their previous mid July peak. 

There is controversy about the term "second wave". It may mean different things to different people. 

  Why would there be an interruption in the spread of contagious illness through a population? 

There are masks and social distancing, which make it somewhat harder for virus to jump from host to host.

There are also host-resistance factors. 

Being susceptible to a bad outcome, if infected, is different from being more or less susceptible to initial infection.

We have repeatedly been shown that adequate levels of vitamin-D in a person reduce risk of infection when exposed (nasopharyngeal innate-immunity is supported.) and we have repeatedly seen that the lowest vitamin-D levels are closely correlated with worst hospital outcomes. 

Giving high-dose vitamin-D in a Spanish study was a very effective treatment intervention for hospitalized patients. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/

  Vitamin-D levels mostly come from sunshine entering the skin surface and creating active vitamin D. Darker skin , weaker sun, and less skin exposure to the sun all decrease vitamin-D levels. Vitamin-D builds and falls slowly in the body, over months, so the peak levels lag peak sun by about 3 months. Also, people may avoid August sun, and go back out in September. The curves will be different in Hawaii and New York.

  It is clear that dark skinned people in northern climes get hit the hardest, but that dark skinned people in Africa are faring tremendously better.

I have not seen a published comparison of vitamin-D levels by population, area and season, but they can be reasoned out.

  Do support your local immune system this winter, please! Vitamin-D 5000 units per day is a good dose for adults, and can be doubled for the first month or 2 to get blood levels up into the mid normal range.

Jeremy in the UK sent this: 

Hospital Crisis Results From Lack of At-Home Treatment for COVID-19

https://covexit.com/hospital-crisis-results-from-lack-of-at-home-treatment-for-covid-19/

​Here is an August interview with Professor Thomas Borody, regarding ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline treatment for COVID-19, which is curative.

Professor Borody developed the cure for peptic ulcer disease, caused by H. pylori infection. People stopped dying of bleeding ulcers, but adoption was slow, since ordinary generic medicines could be used. There was no fortune to be made.

​https://covexit.com/we-know-its-curable-its-easier-than-treating-the-flu-professor-thomas-borody/

Ziverdo costs $2 in India. It's zinc, ivermectin and doxycycline at fixed doses. People seem to have a very hard time getting it to Europe or the US when seeking to order it online.

https://covexit.com/did-you-hear-about-the-ziverdo-therapy-for-covid-19/

Here is the COVID-19 Essentials site that Jeremy sent.Treating physicians contribute to and update this site as a public service.

https://covexit.com/covid-19-essentials/

Here is Dr Paul Marik's treatment protocol. Pages 9-11 are most relevant to outpatients, but the prophylaxis section following next is also useful. 

The first few pages give a good description of what pathologic processes are occurring at what stages of infection, and what interventions are appropriate at each stage. This is the best overall reference, and includes many, many optional additions for consideration.

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

Major Covid Vaccine Glitch Emerges: Most Europeans, Including Hospital Staff, Refuse To Take It​  (Minimal testing takes 4 years)

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/major-covid-vaccine-glitch-emerges-most-europeans-including-hospital-staff-refuse-take-it

​  Polyethylene Glycol allergic reactions are not mysterious. It is known to cause hypersensitivity​. There were warnings. 

Most people are not pre-sensitized to polyethylene glycol because it has never been given as a shot, for good reason. 

This is a major concern for the SECOND VACCINATION SHOT, to which millions of people could have been sensitized by the first shot. Polyethylene glycol is essential to the design of the messenger RNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna. They do not work without it. It helps get the messenger RNA into the human cells, similarly to how an RNA virus infects them, but with the objective that the cells produce antigenic fragments, not active virus. The immune system then learns to attack the antigenic fragments (good). The immune system might develop hypersensitivity to polyethylene glycol (bad), or start attacking healthy parts of the body, which autoimmunity is known to occur after COVID-19 in some people, already (also bad).

Scientists Scramble To Identify Culprit Behind Covid Vaccine Allergic Reactions

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/scientists-scramble-identify-culprit-behind-covid-vaccine-allergic-reactions

​  There is pretty much no influenza circulating in the US so far this season. We have not had a positive at my clinic. California has a very few. We tested a lot at first, but have backed down lately. I don't think the tests are different. We use the same kits as in the spring.​

The masking and social distancing measures which society is following for COVID seem to be almost a brick wall for the less transmissible influenza.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/12/28/mysterious-disappearance-of-flu-in-san-diego-prompted-audit-of-covid-records/

Dr. Luc Montagnier discovered that HTLV-3 causes AIDS and got a Nobel Prize in 2008. This story is from April, reposted. Thanks Charles.

​  ​Referring to a study published at the Kusama School of Biology in New Dehli on January 31st, Montagnier (the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for his 1983 discovery of the HIV virus) made the point that the specific occurrence of HIV RNA viral segments spliced surgically within the COVID-19 genome could not have originated naturally and he described it in the following words:
​  ​“We have carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus. We weren’t the first, a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study showing that the complete genome of this virus that has within the sequences of another virus: that of HIV.”
​  ​While the Indian team was induced to retract their publication under immense pressure from the mainstream medical establishment (which never bothered to seriously refute the content of the study’s research but rather used the “random-mutation-makes-anything-possible” argument), Montagnier stated “scientific truth always emerges”.​..

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/30/big-pharma-beware-dr-montagnier-shines-new-light-on-covid-19-and-the-future-of-medicine/

Matthew Ehret also wrote this​ in April​ about American bioweapons work, and the need to move it outside the US , due to repeated breaches at Ft Detrick. One place ​research​ went was Wuhan, but Ft Detrick did have a breach in May or June 2019, and was shut down until November after a lot of people in a retirement community died of a mysterious viral illness.​ 

There are always ways to explain accidents to benefit one's objectives, when accidents happen.​

​https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/08/project-new-american-century-and-age-bioweapons-20-years-psychological-terror/

  ​Resource limits/costs have to be dealt with by either restructuring the economic growth paradigm, or by destroying competing growing economies, like Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Libya and Iraq​. That only works for a while. Now demand destruction, to allow some economy to keep growing, has to get bigger, or the financial/economic paradigm must be changed drastically, to one that accommodates a steady state or contracting system of production, not just growth. Gail Tverberg has that same story again, and it is why these drastic measures must be taken lately. (We are being forced to comply, not for our health, but because the owners can't do anything else, due to their own power struggles.)

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2020/12/23/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong/

Eleni sends this article about the destruction of Lebanon. Military now uses financial and economic weapons preferentially.

​  ​If the destruction of five states in the Greater Middle East over the past two decades has required deadly wars, the destruction of Lebanon was carried out by the Lebanese themselves, without them realizing it. The Resistance has helplessly seen the country collapse. It is indeed possible to win a war without having to fight it.  

https://www.voltairenet.org/article211872.html

​Thanks for this, too, Eleni. Paul Craig Roberts:​

​​  The Nashville bombing raises questions about the Oklahoma City bombing.  In 1995 the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was blown up.  Allegedly, the building was destroyed by a fertilizer bomb in a Ryder rental truck parked on the street.  The Murrah building had massive reinforced concrete columns, some being  3 feet thick if memory serves. The front third of the building was destroyed with columns turned to dust.
  The guilty parties were allegedly Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.  According to reports, the blast killed 168 people, injured 680 others, and destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius along with 86 cars and caused $652 million of damage in 1995 dollars.
  At the time US Air Force General Partin, who had high level responsibilities for ordinance and weapons development, distributed an expert report to 75 members of the House and Senate.  The report proved that the Murrah building blew up from the inside out. 

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/paul-craig-roberts/the-nashville-bombing-vs-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/

Making Comparisons