Thursday, August 12, 2021

COVID Camp-Out

 ​Holiday Campers,​


​  I'm not including the story about the FEMA Camps for COVID-19 high-risk (unvaccinated) group isolation. 
You get the idea, and probably saw the story already. It's like Canada, but that story broke in the spring.​

​  ​There is a blackout on any conversation about how Ivermectin beat COVID-19 in India. When I discussed the dire straits that India found itself in early this year with 414,000 cases per day, and over 4,000 deaths per day, and how that evaporated within five weeks of the addition of Ivermectin, I am often asked, "But why is there no mention of that in the news?"...
​  ​Just as Galileo proved with his telescope that the earth was NOT the center of the Universe in 1616; today, the data from India shows that Ivermectin is effective, much more so than the vaccines. It not only prevents death, but it also prevents COVID infections, and it also is effective against the Delta Variant...
Likewise, the massive drop in cases and deaths in India to almost nothing after the addition of Ivermectin proved the drug's effectiveness. This is a truth that the NIH, CDC, and FDA cannot allow because it would endanger the vaccine policy...
​  ​Let us look at the burgundy-colored graph of Uttar Pradesh. First, allow me to thank Juan Chamie, a highly-respected Cambridge-based data analyst, who created this graph from the JHU CSSE data. Uttar Pradesh is a state in India that contains 241 million people. The United States’ population is 331 million people. Therefore, Uttar Pradesh can be compared to the United States, with 2/3 of our population size.
​  ​This data shows how Ivermectin knocked their COVID-19 cases and deaths - which we know were Delta Variant - down to almost zero within weeks. A population comparable to the US went from about 35,000 cases and 350 deaths per day to nearly ZERO within weeks of adding Ivermectin to their protocol.
​  ​By comparison, the United States is the lower graph. On August 5, here in the good ol’ USA, blessed with the glorious vaccines, we have 127,108 new cases per day and 574 new deaths.
​  ​Let us look at the August 5 numbers from Uttar Pradesh with 2/3 of our population. Uttar Pradesh, using Ivermectin, had a total of 26 new cases and exactly THREE deaths. The US without Ivermectin has precisely 4889 times as many daily cases and 191 times as many deaths as Uttar Pradesh with Ivermectin...
​  ​Tamil Nadu continues to suffer for its choice to reject Ivermectin. As a result, the Delta variant continues to ravage their citizens while it was virtually wiped out in the Ivermectin-using states. Likewise, in the United States, without Ivermectin, both the vaccinated and unvaccinated continue to spread the Delta variant like wildfire.

​FLCCC increases ivermectin dosing recommendations for both prophylaxis and treatment of COVID-19
PREVENTION PROTOCOL lvermectin1 Chronic Prevention 0.2 mg/kg per dose (take with or after a meal) — twice a week for as long as disease risk is elevated in your community 
Post COVID-19 Exposure Prevention2 0.4 mg/kg per dose (take with or after a meal)  — one dose today, repeat after 48 hours
  EARLY OUTPATIENT PROTOCOL3 lvermectin1 0.4–0.6 mg/kg per dose (take with or after a meal) — one dose daily, take for 5 days or until recovered  


Via Ron P​a​ul,    The Ultimate Power of The Word "NO"
​Fear is the primary tool of authoritarians. It mentally disarms the population. We know about the desire to physically disarm the population, by trying to take away guns. Well, fear is the tactic for mental disarmament.
​   ​When one is afraid, one makes bad decisions. One doesn't think things through. One tends to act impulsively in an attempt remove immediate dissatisfaction. One tends not to question, but blindly obey. In a state of fear, one may submit and agree that 2+2=5; only to afterwards be filled with regret at doing such a stupid thing.
​  ​Fear is meant to break your individual will. Your will to say the word "NO" stands in the way of every authoritarian scheme. The authoritarian needs you to say "YES," even if you don't really believe it. The authoritarian will pull all the levers available, and move all the pieces on the board to corner you, all with the goal of getting you to say "YES."
Mass propaganda is designed to get you to say "YES". Everywhere you look, you see the same exact message. "Say YES"..."Say YES"..."Say YES"...
​   ​Slapping the mask on your face provided two wins for authoritarians: First, you said "YES" to allowing authoritarians to dress you when you left your house. Second, it conditioned you to realize that all others had their wills broken too.​..
​   Now, the levers are being pulled, and pieces are being maneuvered for the grand slam: Saying "YES" to having foreign chemicals injected into your body, even if you don't want them and don't need them.
​   ​Medical treatments, especially those that will be with you and inside of your body for the rest of your life, should never (EVER) be mandatory. Most people would agree with this in a heartbeat. Yet, with a constant diet of fear, the goal is to get you to say "YES."
​   ​Saying "YES" to this not only breaks your will, but surrenders your sovereignty over the one (and only) body that you will ever have. Allow this, even a single time, and saying "NO" to future mandated injections will be neutralized.

​I won't need a booster shot, Tony.
Fauci Confirms "Likely, Inevitable" Everyone Will Need COVID Vaccine Booster Shot

"Inconceivable!"
Young adult mortality in Israel during the COVID-19 crisis
​   ​In this paper, we analyze excess mortality in Israel during the COVID-19 crisis, focusing on the age group of young adults under 50 years of age, as their susceptibility to COVID-19 mortality is low. Based primarily on online data from the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel, we observed an unexpected rise of excess mortality among 20 to 49-year-olds in February-March 2021. It should be noted that excess mortality peaks among these young age groups are rarely observed, with low number of deaths that are usually caused by wars.
​    ​We examined whether COVID-19 could account for this excess mortality. The inconsistency between the reported COVID-19 deaths and the excess deaths within this age group led to consider other potential causes: accident and vaccination. Indeed, the surge in mortality coincided with the rollout of the Israeli vaccination campaign for the 20 sto 49-year-olds, which reached more than 75% of individuals in this age group.​..
​   ​Thus, our observations should prompt to pause the campaign, while clarifying the underlying reasons for those excess deaths, especially in the context of a low mortality risk from COVID-19 within adults under 50 years of age.
https://steve-ohana.medium.com/young-adult-mortality-in-israel-during-the-covid-19-crisis-ff7456cff74f

My university ignores COVID natural immunity and wants to blame people like me for outbreaks
​   ​ I had COVID already, but my university wants to treat me like a leper


Durability of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell responses at 12-months post-infection
Conclusions. Our data show that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces polyfunctional memory T cells detectable at 12-months post-infection, with higher frequency noted in those who originally experienced severe disease.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.11.455984v1

​It's always the same story on vitamin-D. Lower is worse for COVID risks. 
This data is for pediatric patients. Vitamin-D levels were low and lower, not normal.
​   We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who were hospitalised at our university hospital with the diagnosis of COVID-19 during the period between 25 May 2020 and 24 December 2020. The mean age of the COVID-19 patients was 10.7 ± 5.5 years (range 1–18 years); 43 (57.3%) COVID-19 patients were male. The mean serum vitamin D level was significantly lower in the COVID-19 group than the control group (21.5 ± 10.0 vs. 28.0 ± 11.0 IU, P < 0.001). The proportion of patients with vitamin D deficiency was significantly higher in the COVID-19 group than the control group (44% vs. 17.5%, P < 0.001).

Suntanned


Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Passports To Nowhere

 Questioning COVID Treatment Strategies and Passports,


Earlier is better when treating a progressive viral illness with antivirals, which impair viral reproduction and spread.
Seek out how to get a rapid antigen test for COVID if you get a summer-cold presentation in nose and throat, and be poised to treat with antivirals..
Prophylaxis makes sense, also, notably in our present context, with the very transmissible Indian/delta strain.

Ivermectin prophylaxis seems to be the best available long term prophylaxis for efficacy and low toxicity, and I have prescribed it for that since last fall. I began prescribing ivermectin-based treatment for illness in August 2020. (Ivermectin, zinc, doxycycline; Dr Borody's protocol. Always vitamin-D)

I posted Treat Your Own COVID 2/8/21  https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/02/treat-your-own-covid.html 
Information to order Indian ivermectin is there.
People tell me the ivermectin from India takes 8-14 days to arrive in the US. (see blog link)

  A dosing for prophylaxis, is most ideally 0.2 mg//kg body weight per dose, days #1, #2 and every 7 days thereafter. Missed doses are made up when remembered.
There are other prophylactic regimens, including once per month, but I think this one is the most foolproof.

  One can go to Tractor Supply Company and buy veterinary ivermectin. The veterinarian on the COVID treating-physicians listserv recommends the injectable form, taken orally, but most Americans just use the horse paste.  Refrigerate after opening. 

  That "single dose" in the tube of pasteis for a horse that weighs 10X what a human weighs. It is marked for weight for the initial dose. Anybody with livestock has given a lot of this, and has probably taken it a few times, too. having a syringe to measure the liquid accurately would be my approach, if I were to use this.

  I presume you are taking vitamin-D 5000 units per day already..
25 - 50 mg zinc daily is good. I would not exceed 50, and consider 25 a sweet spot, since more inhibits copper uptake.
Zinc is directly active against coronaviruses, known for 25 years.
Quercetin helps it get into our cells, where it impairs viral replication.
Sunflower lecithin greatly helps the body absorb quercetin. Both are found in our foods daily.
Texas HEB has quercetin/bromelain caps. Just take 1/day. with HEB zinc.
HEB also has sunflower lecithin powder. Take 1/4 teaspoon with the quercetin and zinc. A little more won't hurt. 
Other grocers and drugstores should have similar choices.

  The vaccinated are also catching this bug a lot. 
None of the vaccines is very helpful, but they probably reduce ICU admissions and deaths.

  It is the non-sterilizing vaccines, not the unvaccinated, which are creating a selection-gradient to favor viral mutations to escape the vaccine-induced antibodies.
The virus coexists with the antibodies in the vaccinated hosts, mainly sitting in the nasopharynx.
As such, if a mutation eludes antibody attack, it is highly selected for reproduction, and spreads within the host. It spreads more if it jumps hosts.
That is exactly what is happening, and it is completely mundane and predictable. 
Natural immunity is best and most durable, but requires catching COVID..
Details are pretty well explained here:  https://www.cure-hub.com/post/sars-cov-2-vaccines-breakthrough-infections-and-lasting-natural-immunity

  The Indian/Delta variant also has a much lower case fatality rate, 20% or lower than the original strain.
That doesn't mean it is desirable, but this is the usual deal viruses make with host populations.

This from India last month. This inflammation syndrome is known with COVID, and apparently also with vaccines
17 Children Dead, More Than 2000 Suffering From Multi System Inflammatory Syndrome Due To COVID Vaccine
Young children are becoming victims of Multi System Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS), due to the increase in the number of antibodies being made in the body from the COVID-19 vaccine which is causing damage to the immune system which is attacking other organs.

Natural Immunity to COVID appears "durable and long lasting". It is rare to catch it twice, except in immunosuppressed people. SARS-1 immunity lasts over 15 years.

Not impressive numbers and worsening by the week.
​  Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine appeared to have a higher effectiveness rate compared with the Pfizer vaccine during the period of time when the Delta variant first became predominant, researchers reported.
​  ​While both vaccines were highly protective against infection from January to July in Minnesota (Moderna 86%, Pfizer 76%), their effectiveness estimates declined during the month of July, with an estimate of 76% for Moderna (95% CI 69-81) and 42% for Pfizer (95% CI 13-62)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/93982

I treated a guy with COVID on fenofibrate just yesterday, except he was not actually taking it. He never bought it.
​  ​A drug meant to treat cholesterol was found to reduce coronavirus infection by 70% in lab studies, with researchers calling for additional clinical trials among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
​  ​A team of researchers from the U.K. and Italy published findings in the Frontiers in Pharmacology journal Friday, finding that fenofibrate and fenofibric acid resulted in a significant reduction in coronavirus infection in human cells when the drug was used in safe and approved concentrations

​This can happen wherever it is allowed. These measures are also being stridently advocated in the US. 
"Untermenschen" means "inferior humans".
The "elites" are very anxious about losing control, about losing power over societies, and are squeezing the rest of us as hard as they can.​
​  Despite massive protests against the measures, Italy is set to extend its vaccine passport system to public transport and schools from September 1st.
Potentially exacerbating growing public contempt towards the draconian rules, authorities announced that the list of venues where the passport would be required is to be extended.
​  ​From the start of next month, teachers will be out of a job unless they take the vaccine and get the pass, while university students will be unable to attend classes without it.
​  ​The unvaccinated will also be banned from using long distance public transport, meaning that holidays, travel for work and visiting relatives will become impossible for many.
​  ​As of last week, venues such as museums, stadiums, theaters gyms, and indoor seating spaces at bars and restaurants all required vaccine identification.

​Economic restriction destroys economic demand for fossil fuels and other nice things. Is "demand destruction" the intent of "vaccine passes"?​
Police in France have begun enforcing the vaccination pass mandate to enter cafés and restaurants, leading to many of their tables being empty during the usually busy lunchtime, as the French lunched on public benches instead.

​Charles Hugh Smith looks at how vaccine passports mesh with economy.
​  ​Yes, it’s an official concern now. The mainstream media and the Biden Administration have gone from suggesting that Covid vaccinations would “not be mandated” to saying they “should be mandated.” This means several very uncomfortable consequences are on the way for our economy and the nation as a whole. Remember, the federal government already decided it’s legal for companies to require coronavirus vaccines.
​  ​The most obvious next step: A mandatory “vaccine passport” certifying its holder has gotten the recommended injections.

Conclusion: “adjusted (excess) deaths per million vaccine doses delivered is 411 ..” (673 million doses have been administered, so 276,603 deaths)

​CD24, a naturally occurring compound in the human body, attaches to a binding site in the lungs, which comes under attack during cytokine-storm, the severe phase of COVID, and largely blocks that misguided self-attack.
The Phase II trial for an Israeli COVID drug saw some 29 out of 30 patients, moderate to serious, recover within days.

​  Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the Taliban are quickly taking over border transit points and major regional centers, with little to no resistance from the Afghan army.
Talks between the taliban and Afghan government include Russia, China and Pakistan, but not India, which won't sit with the Taliban, and not Iran, since IRan and the US cannot sit together. The talks are not progressing, but the Taliban are progressing rapidly. Will they negotiate once they hold a very firm upper hand, to avoid destroying commerce and trade partnerships? Will they stop the export of opium and heroin, or take it over as a profit center? If they take it as a profit center, where will they direct it? The CIA has been directing it into Iran, China and Russia. That seems like it would be negotiable...  Pepe Escobar has the view.
​  ​What’s clear is that the extended troika will not be shaping the most intricate details of the future of Eurasia integration. That will be up to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which includes Russia, China, Pakistan, India, the Central Asian “stans” and Iran and Afghanistan as current observers and future full-members.

​It looks like NATO is just bringing pressure to bear wherever it still can.
Russia Slams "Crude Provocation" After US Invited To Station Troops & Anti-Air Systems In Ukraine

Praying For Peace


Sunday, August 8, 2021

Totalitarianism How-To Cartoon

 Cognitive Dissidents,


  This video looks specifically at how elites use repetitive waves of crisis & confusion to create cognitive dissonance, to which they offer relief with a mass delusion, like "Life will be normal"...after The-Donald is gone; after everybody gets the v...... , insert next mass-hypnotic-command...
  "Mass Psychosis"  is a short Jungian how-to video on "Totalitarianism", which is not yet an AI-Censorship word. 
Thanks to Anonymous-in-Finland! 

 Tessa Lena has a short story about how "fully vaccinated" people in Europe are having-vaccine-passport burning protests, 
which reminds me of draft-card burnings in 1969. 
This is a slap-in-the-face to a weak narrative.

Let's Talk Delta:
​   ​I’ll try to make it simple. Before the first jab went into the first arm and could do anything Covid-19 had peaked in the United States in most areas. Remember that the rule is “two weeks from first shot to second, then two weeks to have protection.” The CDC, Trump and then Biden all took credit for something that the vaccines did not do. What did it? Covid originally had an R0 of about 3. That means you need 1 – (1/3) or about 66% of the people to be immune by either infection of vaccination before the case rate would fall. The CDC claimed we had about 33 million infections and somewhere between 4 and 11 not diagnosed for each one that was. Well, it wasn’t 11 because that’s more people than exist in the US.
​  ​But if it’s six, more or less up the middle, then we were for all intents and purposes at herd immunity. 
Rah-rah-rah-rah vaccines are the reason we’re saved. Nice try; the evidence is that the vaccines don’t work well at all.

​Gardening Without Facebook
(Jenny pictured with Fairy Squash, basil and banana plant this morning)​


Thursday, August 5, 2021

Sue Dr. McCullough

 Free Thinkers,


Mob Mentality and the Unvaxxed    Thanks  Marjorie. I think it is hard to make this work going forward, though the tool is inchoate rage, not logic.
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
– Joseph Goebbels
https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-the-unvaxxed

​  ​I don't forward petitions, but this man is fighting for truth, for your human rights, not just rational medical treatment for COVID.
​Professor of Medicine at Baylor Med School, and author of the most frequently cited medical papers on COVID-19, 
Peter McCullough MD, is being sued to silence him.
The petition to Baylor is to please drop the lawsuit against Dr McCullough. 
He's a good man, a good doctor and a valiant hero in the current political context.
Next role, human-sacrifice?

Does this include criticism of Dr. McCullough? I'm cornfused...
Baylor Prof Demands Prosecution Of Criticism Of Fauci And Other 'Scientists' As Hate Crime
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/baylor-prof-demands-prosecution-criticism-fauci-and-other-scientists-hate-crime

People are not being informed of the risk of getting sicker or dying from the current COVID-19 "vaccines" and vaccines. 
They never were. The risk was always known.
Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease

​Concentration of "nanocarriers" in ovaries of all test animals was described in this May 2012 paper. (Hey, that's what the mRNA vaccines use​) Thanks Jeremy.
Accumulation of nanocarriers in the ovary: A neglected toxicity risk?

​This is one of the "Disinformation Dozen" of truth-about-COVID heretics, witch Sharyl Attkisson.  The links are all good science.
Top of the List is Doctor Mercola, who is having to purge all of his vast online data archive, due to threats we know, and threats to which he can only allude.
 Also near the top is Robert Kennedy Jr,   KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT!
Covid-19 natural immunity compared to vaccine-induced immunity: The definitive summary

Sen. Rand Paul: Mask mandates and lockdowns from petty tyrants? No, not again. Choose freedom
Resist. They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your kids home from school
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mask-mandates-lockdown-choose-freedom-sen-rand-paul

"Right wing fringe organization" Association of American Physicians and Surgeons dismantles push to mandate COVID vaccines for all
‘The ethical commitment to protect others does not require workers to surrender their bodily integrity and self-determination.’

Ron Paul:
In televised remarks yesterday, President Biden urged private businesses and universities to institute a China-style "social credit" system whereby some individuals are denied basic rights and privileges if they hold "wrong" views on matters such as health and medicine.
https://rumble.com/vkq1w2-dark-clouds-biden-pushes-china-style-social-credit-system.html

​You just need MOAR of what's failing!
White House Defies WHO With Plans To Start Doling Out Booster Shots

What is the rationale for urgent vaccination, precisely, again, Sir?
'A Variant Worse Than Delta': Fauci Dials Fear To 11 As Emerging 'Lambda' Strain Appears More Resistant To Vaccine
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease specialist who funded controversial coronavirus research in Wuhan, China - and is now managing the coronavirus pandemic response for the US government, says the country could be "in trouble" unless everyone who hasn't been vaccinated gets the jab.

"LAMBADA", musical interlude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD7gObAFkok

This looks like a loyalty-test to the faltering narrative:
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin - the former Raytheon guy - is expected to announce a mandatory vaccine policy for all 1.3 million active-duty US military on Friday. It will follow a similar mandate issued last week for all federal employees and on-site contractors, including the Defense Department's civilian employees. Notably, in February nearly one-third of US troops refused to take the vaccine.

More loyalty testing: Pass-Fail:
"I Know It Seems Weird": NIH Director Suggests Parents Wear Masks At Home Around Children

"Don't Go Anywhere Near Your Grandkids": Australian Health Official Warns Grandparents
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/dont-go-anywhere-near-your-grandkids-australian-health-official-warns-grandparents

​I think the bug jumped out of Fort Detrick in spring 2019, myself. ​  https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/fort-detrick.html
Fmr US Intel Boss: COVID Lab Leak "Very Close To A Certainty" After Seeing 'Most Sensitive Intel' Related To Pandemic
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says that the lab-leak Covid-19 origin hypothesis isn't just a "possibility," but "more like a probability, if not very close to a certainty."

Israeli scientist says COVID-19 could be treated for under $1/day
Double-blind study shows ivermectin reduces disease’s duration and infectiousness • FDA and WHO caution against its use

Here is the real reason "targets for hatred" will be so necessary soon. (Make them/us take all the losses, then eliminate them/us.) 
Charles Hugh Smith:
​  ​This wholesale transfer of risk from elites to the workers is finally becoming consequential as wealth / income / security inequality is reaching extremes that are destabilizing society and the economy.
​  ​One of the most consequential financial trends of the past 50 years has been ignored to the point of invisibility. I'm referring to the transfer of risk from the top tier to the middle and working classes.

​Bag Holder​



Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Failed Vaccine Narrative

 Human Variants,


Ilargi at The Automatic Earth, The Vaccines Don't Work (see: emperor, unclothed)
​  ​On Thursday, an internal CDC slide deck was “leaked”. On Friday, an “official” document was presented. The first is more interesting, because it contains things that are ostensibly not meant for public consumption (how to present…). The second is made up of a lot of official looking terminology. What else? But both largely say the same thing: there is no difference between the infection rates of vaccinated and non-vaccinated people. Of course that is then dressed up again in calls to get vaccinated, they can’t help themselves…
​  ​In colorful language such as “the war has changed” and “Delta spreads as easily as chickenpox”, the CDC tries very hard to undermine -even deny- its own findings.
...Pfizer wants to give everyone a booster shot this fall. I was thinking they must have made some improved version against Delta, but no, it’ll be a third shot of the same “vaccine”. But wait, we just found it doesn’t work against Delta. The Israelis give it a 39% efficacy, which is not even enough to get an emergency authorization. Get it off the market then.
​  ​Why would I get such a shot at this point in time? The only reason I can think of is that if I don’t, you’ll take my job away, and/or severely screw with my life, and rights, and freedoms, in other ways

CDC releases study showing 3/4 Delta cases are among the vaccinated, says masks are the answer

Vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals have similar viral loads in communities with a high prevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant

CDC Says Vaccinated May Be as Likely to Spread COVID as Unvaxxed, as Reports of Serious Injuries After Vaccines Surge

You’re doing it WRONG! White House Covid-19 spokesman yells at media for quoting CDC documents on Delta variant

Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer.

Antibody Evolution after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination...We conclude that memory antibodies selected over time by natural infection have greater potency and breadth than antibodies elicited by vaccination...

​"Et tu, Brute'?" 
The Wall Street Journal endorses ivermectin  Rupert Murdoch owns that rag. Rupert just left a sinking ship, didn't he?
Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?
Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it.


​I don't like Greg Abbot  He's a sleazy politician, but I have to give him credit for reading the entrails pretty accurately through the COVID pandemic, and moving in the right direction earlier than just about anybody. I think he gets good data, and acts decisively to gain an advantage.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs order banning COVID vaccine, mask mandates
Abbot issues order days after CDC called for indoor mask mandates regardless of vaccination status

If you don't get your sense of smell back, COVID probably shriveled that part of your brain.
Alarming COVID study indicates long-term loss of gray matter and other brain tissue

  I remember in the 1990s when Apple was GOOD and NICE, and let people ​build​ "Apple clone" computers.  ​Now you can't hook-up without the jab.​
Apple removes dating app for the unvaccinated "Unjected" for trying to ‘cheat the system,’ as its creators cry ‘CENSORSHIP!’

​David Sacks was co-originator of Paypal.
Get Ready for the 'No-Buy' List
First Big Tech censored speech. Now they want to shut deplorables out of the financial system.


Thanks for these two, Charles: First from Jeff Bzos' Washington Post. Jeff is a fuel-burning Jack-Flash on a candlestick.
The Amazon rainforest is the world’s carbon sink. Parts of it now release more carbon than can be absorbed.

​Umar Haque is getting apoplectic. He just had an epiphany.
​  The Amazon’s the first one to hit a tipping point which we know of and can call one: it emits more carbon than it takes in, crippled, battered, left for dead. Bang. That’s one crucial planetary ecosystem dead. Did anyone much notice or even care? Did you? Are you just clueless, the way our institutions want you?
​  ​Then there’s the melting of ice sheets, whether in the Arctic, Antarctic, Greenland. Their disintegration has been swift and severe — faster, again, than predicted. Have they already hit a tipping point?
​  ​How about the ocean currents? There’s plenty of evidence, too, they’re slowing down, changing in strange ways unseen for millions of years.​..
We should be incredibly worried. It is not normal. Even within the pretty catastrophic range of “normal” for climate scenarios. We’re beyond even that abnormal normal. We’re rapidly, severely outpacing our very own worst predictions for planetary climate catastrophe. So fast, so hard, that you can feel it in your memory. That you remember: it didn’t used to be like this. Just a few short years ago. Within the mayfly span of a single human lifetime. And it seems to be accelerating every year, overheating, warming, how searingly hot it is, even in what used to be some of the coldest places or times on earth, in your life, in our world.
​  ​That’s really, really bad. It shouldn’t be happening like this, “climate change.” It’s too fast, too severe, too weird, too sudden, accelerating too hard, spinning out of control. It’s way beyond us now, shocking us every season, hitting us much, much harder than most of us ever thought it could or would, catastrophic discontinuity exploding off the axes of the graphs we used to confidently show each other to prove how intelligent we were. 
I can barely go outside today. You?

​Heat Tolerant With Air Conditioning

pictured with squash patch and banana plant​


Thursday, July 29, 2021

Antibody Dependent Enhancement

 Bodies With Antibodies,


The Archdruid,John Michael Greer (You are approximately HERE.) 
We may have to keep doing this downward grind for the rest of our lives, so we should pace accordingly, though arising-threats will probably be like pop-up ads.
 I don’t believe in perpetual progress, that is, and I also don’t believe in sudden apocalypse.  My take is that our civilization will follow the same long rhythm of rise and fall as every previous civilization; that we have in fact passed our peak and are half a century into decline; that the cascading crises and spreading dysfunctions of our time are equivalents of the crises and dysfunctions that forced all those other civilizations to their knees; and that our decline and fall will unfold in the usual fashion over the next several centuries, in a cascade of disasters interspersed with temporary respites and partial recoveries, ending in a typical dark age half a millennium long from which new cultures will rise in turn.​..
​  We’re looking at the decline and fall of a civilization, a process that has already been under way for half a century and will take centuries more to finish. 
​...​First of all, there are plenty of things that can still be done here and now to cushion the process of decline and see to it that as much as possible of the best achievements of our civilization are handed on to the cultures that will build on our ruins.  Those things will not be done by people who are still fixated on hopes and dreams of perpetual progress toward a utopian future. (Nor, by the way, will they be done by people who have embraced the belief in instant apocalypse, which is simply another way of evading responsibility for the future.) They will be done, if they are done at all, by those who have shaken themselves free of those delusions, grappled with the harsh reality of our predicament, and aimed their imaginations toward envisioning the best available options in a troubled time.
https://www.ecosophia.net/what-we-can-still-accomplish/

​  Robert Malone MD, inventor of mRNA vaccines, gets to speak without interruption to Steve Bannon, about Antibody Dependent (viral) Enhancement​. Preliminary data is that those who had Pfizer vaccination carry 10 or more times the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in their noses , compared to the unvaccinated. 
  I would call this "Enhanced Carrier State", which occurs in chicken and Turkey flocks where some have been vaccinated against a deadly avian virus, carry it without much harm, but spread it to the unvaccinated flock, which mostly dies. It looks like this may have happened on the planeload of unmasked, vaccinated Democratic Texas House Members who flew to Washington in a private plane. It appears to have spread among them during their time together.
  "ADE" Antibody Dependent (viral) Enhancement has traditionally meant that vaccination increases the death rate among the vaccinated, which might also be happening, but that's not quite what this news flurry is about.  
ADE:  https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety/antibody-dependent-enhancement-and-vaccines
Dr. Malone:  https://rumble.com/vkfz1v-the-vaccine-causes-the-virus-to-be-more-dangerous.html

From across the pond:  New US mask guidance prompted by evidence vaccinated can spread Delta
​  ​The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Protection spoke on Wednesday about evidence that vaccinated people can spread the Covid-19 Delta variant to others, after the nation’s top health agency expanded on its new guidance that fully vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in certain places.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/28/cdc-director-new-mask-guidance-vaccinated-spreading-delta-variant

​The Enhanced Carrier State will not be televised.
“NBC News, citing unnamed officials aware of the decision, reported it comes after new data suggests vaccinated individuals could have higher levels of virus and infect others amid the surge of cases driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus,” the USA Today reported in a passage that was later scrubbed from an article.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/usa-today-scrubs-new-evidence-suggesting-covid-vaccine-may-spread-virus

​  ​The Golden State was deemed more high risk than Texas. Indeed, scientists are finding that despite its high vaccination rates, California is seeing more COVID cases than it should.
​  ​California and its big coastal cities have embraced vaccines in their effort to beat back the COVID pandemic. But a Bay Area News Group analysis shows that not only are cases rising fast, they are rising in areas where there are more fully vaccinated people. Some of these counties have both among the highest vaccination rates, and the highest new-case rates.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/california-counties-see-covid-cases-rising-most-heavily-vaccinated-counties

Latest Data Show Efficacy Of Pfizer Vaccine Falls To 84% After 6 Months​   (What shall we do?)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/latest-data-show-efficacy-pfizer-vaccine-falls-84-after-6-months

​Double-Down!  ​Pfizer data suggest third dose of Covid-19 vaccine 'strongly' boosts protection against Delta variant
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/28/health/pfizer-third-dose-data-bn/index.html

Ivermectin happy endings are the same thing I am seeing, though this doctor has treated more patients than I have.
​  ​In fact, Dr. Safranek shared that not one COVID-19 patient that he has treated with ivermectin and other regimens have ended up on a ventilator or dead. He reports out of about 200 patients, only one ended up hospitalized, making this a very high success.
https://trialsitenews.com/omaha-doctor-seems-tremendous-success-with-ivermectin-as-early-treatment-against-covid-19/

​Safety First​

​last picture of Rocket-window-shopping-Man​ on weekend vacation


Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Quite The Contrary

 Cognitive Modelers,


  I've got a conceptual simplification that helps clarify the confusion in the information feeds we are fire-hosed with these days. 
Look at the opposite, and see if things make more sense if the opposite is true.

  New York mandates that nursing homes accept patients sick with COVID, but not dying, to free up the hospitals to "Save Lives". 
The actions taken make perfect sense in the context of wanting to kill a lot of useless-old-has-beens in the first wave of a mass cull.

  Let's look at everything purported to "Save Lives" as a way to kill-people, and see if that makes sense going forward.

  From the UK, where they kept switching back and forth between various plans as the virus seemed to go about it's daily business, but where they did not give anybody high dose vitamin-D, though they were the country that pioneered its use for rickets.
​  ​The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has issued advice to Sajid Javid’s Department of Health and Social Care, stating that children with disabilities should be offered a Covid-19 vaccine, despite the fact real world data shows that children as young as two-months-old in the USA have suffered paralysis, cardiac arrest and death after being given one of the experimental jabs.
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/07/21/paralysis-cardiac-arrest-death-adverse-reactions-covid-vaccines-infants/

​  I'd like to call this conceptual tool "Occam's Switchblade", because it strikes me as apt, colorful and memorable.​

This says they found spike protein actively circulating in the blood of all 6 mRNA "vaccinated" persons (Pfizer and Moderna) 5 months after they were vaccinated.
​  ​Robert Malone has said you need to measure duration, distribution, and amount for the spike protein. FDA never did this; one of our researchers did. They found spike protein is still circulating 5 months from vaccination in 100% of patients tested (6 people; random pick).​ 
    Robert Malone MD bio: ​https://www.rwmalonemd.com/about-us
​  ​I​ just saw this today, and I sure would like to see verification.corroboration of the report, but it's important enough to think about right now. ​
If spike protein keeps being made and circulating without cessation, what are the effects of keeping a foreign protein that is aggressively caustic to the blood vessel linings, and causes clotting, in your bloodstream for months, years, the rest of your life?
  This is a lot easier to make sense of if the intent is to cull, rather than save a whole bunch of folks.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1419713123787808812?refresh=1627326570

Dr. Fauci Insists CDC "Didn't Flip Flop" As He Tries To Shift Focus To Children
​(​I think he means to say that ​"​vaccines AND masks work great, so use ​BOTH​​, and UN-vaccinated people spread new COVID variants​")​
"The data are clear ... that when a person gets infected who has been vaccinated ... and they get infected with the Delta variant, that the level of virus in their nasopharynx is about 1,000 times higher than with the Alpha variant."
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/dr-fauci-insists-cdc-didnt-flip-flop-something-has-changed

  Look at this mistake a whole lot of experts made. The statistical flag for detecting an excess of adverse events for the mRNA vaccines acts as a burial carpet for adverse events, the very opposite of a warning flag. 
Danger, "Maths" and sadistics. Thanks Marjorie.
Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals
​  ​If my understanding of this situation is correct, the mass vaccination program should be immediately halted until the safety data is gathered, cleaned, and examined. We cannot tolerate a misleading statement of "vaccines are safe and effective" in the face of regulatory agencies defining away the responsibility of performing the risk analysis needed to verify safety. The CDC leadership should be immediately replaced and investigated, and independent analysts should reformulate the task of tracking vaccine safety results.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccine-safety-signals

​  Another ivermectin meta-analysis shows what the ivermectin papers I have looked at since last summer show. Ivermectin reduces viral load, reduces symptoms of illness, reduces hospitalizations when given early, and reduces deaths, when given at any stage of illness.
​  ​Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug being investigated for repurposing against SARS-CoV-2. Ivermectin showed in-vitro activity against SARS-COV-2 at high concentrations. This meta-analysis investigated ivermectin in 24 randomized clinical trials (3328 patients) identified through systematic searches of PUBMED, EMBASE, MedRxiv and trial registries. Ivermectin was associated with reduced inflammatory markers (C-Reactive Protein, d-dimer and ferritin) and faster viral clearance by PCR. Viral clearance was treatment dose- and duration-dependent. In 11 randomized trials of moderate/severe infection, there was a 56% reduction in mortality (Relative Risk 0.44 [95%CI 0.25-0.77]; p=0.004; 35/1064 (3%) deaths on ivermectin; 93/1063 (9%) deaths in controls) with favorable clinical recovery and reduced hospitalization.
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofab358/6316214#

​India used a lot of ivermectin, but not everywhere. Uttar Pradesh started earliest and did the best. Ivermectin users still develop broad immunity to COVID.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released the results of its fourth seroprevalence study which was conducted across 21 states in June and July with 36,227 people participating, including 7,252 healthcare workers. It found that 67.6 percent of people over six years of age, some two-thirds of India's population, have Sars-CoV-2 antibodies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/two-thirds-indians-have-been-exposed-covid-19

​Ron Paul, ​The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us
​  ​The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so beholden to politics instead of justice.
We’ve seen this movie before and it does not end well.
​  ​Worse than this miscarriage of justice is the despicable attempt by the prosecutor in the case to label Hodgkins – who has no criminal record and was accused of no violent crime – a “terrorist.”
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/july/26/the-jan-6th-show-trials-threaten-all-of-us/

​Chris Hedges, Thanks Dan.  The Collective Suicide Machine  
The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable.​  ​
​  ​Historians call the self-defeating military adventurism of late empires “micro-militarism.” During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) the Athenians invaded Sicily, suffering the loss of 200 ships and thousands of soldiers and triggering revolts throughout the empire. Britain attacked Egypt in 1956 in a dispute over the nationalization of the Suez Canal and was humiliated when it had to withdraw its forces, bolstering the status of Arab nationalists such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser.
​  ​“While rising empires are often judicious, even rational in their application of armed force for conquest and control of overseas dominions, fading empires are inclined to ill-considered displays of power, dreaming of bold military masterstrokes that would somehow recoup lost prestige and power,” the historian Alfred McCoy writes “In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power.” “Often irrational even from an imperial point of view, these micromilitary operations can yield hemorrhaging expenditures or humiliating defeats that only accelerate the process already under way.”
​  ​The death blow to the American empire will, as McCoy writes, be the loss of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. This loss will plunge the United States into a crippling, and prolonged depression.

https://scheerpost.com/2021/07/26/hedges-the-collective-suicide-machine/

​Charles Hugh Smith also says the hurt is about to arrive.​
​  ​I have long made the case that manufacturing, energy and food are all fundamentally national security issues. Those benefiting from "free trade" (there is no such thing, that's just a handy PR cover) have sold the unwary the fraudulent notion that "everyone benefits" from globalization. Nothing could be further from reality. A handful of corporate insiders and financiers have benefited at the expense of everyone else.
​  ​And now the chickens are coming home to roost. Essential parts and feedstocks become unavailable for all sorts of flimsy excuses, prices double, triple, then double again, and since we've allowed our entire economy to become dependent on a handful of sources for these essentials because that dependency maximized profits, then there are no alternatives.
​  ​America has already lost the trade war, but the pain has yet to begin. Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. Now it's too late, and all the good seats at the banquet of consequences have already been taken.

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly21/trade-war7-21.html

​Eleni sends this long Andrew Korybko analysis of the Russian diplomatic engagements with the Muslim world​. 
It is long and completely informative. No wasted words. 
The Geostrategic Challenges of Russia's Ummah Pivot:
​  ​A key component of Russia’s 21st-century grand strategy goal of becoming the supreme balancing force in Eurasia is its “Ummah Pivot” of comprehensive engagement with the Muslim-majority countries to its South, stretching from North Africa to South Asia. This vector of Russian diplomacy is intended to compensate for the recent setbacks in Western Eurasia (Europe) while simultaneously preventing any future disproportionate strategic dependence on Eastern Eurasia (China).
https://russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/the-geostrategic-challenges-of-russia-s-ummah-pivot/

​Also from Eleni in Athens,  ​Today Hungary, Tomorrow Poland — Will German Pressure Cave Eastern Europe? By Thomas Luongo
  So, Ukraine will likely get nothing from Merkel of substance now that she has, for all intents and purposes, washed her hands of the country and she’s as lame-duck as lame-duck gets. All of this is really just theatre at this point. Ukraine will be a staging area in Eastern Europe to launch color revolutions across the region, including Poland and continued aggression against Belarus. This was always the fallback position of Davos and U.S. neoconservatives.
​  ​To me, the real solution is to sit down with both Zelensky and Putin and work out a future which ensures gas transit and delivery between all three. From everything he’s said and intimated, Putin is more than happy to make that deal. A strong and vibrant eastern Europe is the perfect buffer between the EU and Russia.
​  ​So, like Viktor Orban in Hungary, Poland’s leadership has a real choice, will they finally see their board position for how very weak it is and finally reach out to potential allies (Hungary, Czech Republic) and non-combatants (Russia) and start shoring up its position?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/07/thomas-luongo/today-hungary-tomorrow-poland-will-german-pressure-cave-eastern-europe/

​Ed Snowden is careful. He explains why we should all be careful:
​  ​The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart. I don’t do this to satisfy a tinkerer’s urge, or out of political principle, but simply because it is unsafe to operate. Fixing the hardware, which is to say surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside, is only the first step of an arduous process, and yet even after days of these DIY security improvements, my smartphone will remain the most dangerous item I possess.
​  ​Prior to this week’s Pegasus Project, a global reporting effort by major newspapers to expose the fatal consequences of the NSO Group—the new private-sector face of an out-of-control Insecurity Industry—most smartphone manufacturers along with much of the world press collectively rolled their eyes at me whenever I publicly identified a fresh-out-of-the-box iPhone as a potentially lethal threat.
https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal

​Chris Hedges, 
​  Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced Tuesday to 45 months in prison.
 
The documents, published by The Intercept on October 15, 2015, exposed that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. For one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. The civilian dead, usually innocent bystanders, were routinely classified as “enemies killed in action.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2021/07/27/chris-hedges-the-price-of-conscience-hale-sentenced-to-45-months/

​Contrarian​
(Pictured is Holly Day MD on scenic Boca Chica bike ride a few days ago)

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Monday, July 26, 2021

Better Information

 Hearing Something Different,


5,522 people have died within 28 days of having a Covid-19 Vaccine in Scotland according to Public Health Scotland
https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/07/18/5522-people-have-died-within-28-days-of-having-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-scotland-according-to-public-health-scotland/

Ivermectin. It’s as Aussie as Vegemite
The path out of the pandemic is under our noses 
​ ​ ​Thanks Jeremy​; same since last August, still suppressed by the military/industrial/deep-state/vaccine/complex.
​  ​ As more than five million Sydneysiders woke up to their fourth week under house arrest, they were greeted with the news that a woman in her fifties had died of Covid, the fifth person since they were confined to their homes. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant used the woman’s tragic demise to point out how deadly Covid can be, yet no one questioned why Saeeda Akobi Jjou Stu, only 57, was allowed to die.
  Tested on Thursday, confirmed positive on Friday, she was not offered early treatment that would have reduced her risk of dying by up to 75 per cent despite the fact that she was at high risk of developing severe Covid because of her weight and possibly related co-morbidities.
  That treatment was discovered by Australian Professor Thomas Borody based on research by Australian scientists at the Doherty Institute and Monash University. Borody, who discovered the cure for peptic ulcers using a triple-therapy, has developed a triple-therapy for Covid using safe, cheap, approved medications.
  Doctors are already legally prescribing his therapy in Australia and the key medication — ivermectin — is being used in various combinations around the world and has been credited not just with dramatically reducing cases and deaths in the devastating second wave in India but also in Mexico City. Indeed, it is currently being used in 17 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America and even in the US, where it is legal but where families sometimes have to get court orders to force hospitals to use it, to save their relatives lives.
​  ​Sadly, Saeeda lived only a few kilometres from where Borody practises, yet she and most Australians have no idea that a cheap, safe, effective, legal prophylactic and treatment for Covid exists.
spectator.com.au/2021/07/ivermectin-its-as-aussie-as-vegemite/

Israel reports sharp decline in Pfizer coronavirus vaccine efficacy
Preliminary data from an analysis conducted by the Health Ministry shows​...
​42% decrease in vaccine protection from infections and up to 60% ​decrease in protection ​from severe illness among vaccinated; 
Israel mulls 3rd booster shot for all over 65s
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bytq34n0u

CDC Quietly Deletes 6,000 COVID Vaccine Deaths From Its CDC Website Total in One Day — Caught by Internet Sleuths
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/cdc-quietly-deletes-6000-covid-vaccine-deaths-cdc-website-total-one-day-caught-internet-sleuths-video/

​  ​Thousands of people flooded the streets of Turin, a city located in northern Italy, Thursday evening to protest harsh government restrictions for unvaccinated citizens, dubbed the "green pass."
​  ​The Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, told a press conference Thursday that the country will need to act and suppress another wave of COVID-19 infections at a time the Delta variant is spreading throughout Europe.  
​  ​The green pass -- a digit certificate containing proof of immunization will be necessary for anyone older than 12 to enter stadiums, museums, theatres, cinemas, exhibition centers, swimming pools, and gyms. The pass is an extension of the EU's digital Covid certificate and will also be required for restaurants.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/protests-erupt-italy-after-new-health-passports-revealed

English care homes could lose 70,000 staff over mandatory Covid jab
Government estimates between 3% and 12% of staff may resist getting jab – meaning they will lose their jobs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/21/english-care-homes-could-lose-70000-staff-over-mandatory-covid-jab

Rand Paul Asks DoJ To Investigate Fauci For Lying To Congress
​  ​A clearly frazzled Dr. Fauci hurled insults at Sen. Rand Paul (a medical doctor) - "you don't know what you're talking about", he shouted. However, after the dust settled, several reporters, including a reporter for the Washington Post, stepped up to point out that Dr. Fauci was, in fact, wrong. As we reported as far back as March, the NIH - which Dr. Fauci has been in charge of for decades - helped finance 'gain-of-function' research involving bat coronaviruses (research overseen by Dr. Shi 'Batwoman' Zhengli) via a third-party: EcoHealth Alliance.​..
  "Is it your belief Senator that he lied to Congress and broke the law?" Hannity asks. "Yes," Sen. Paul responds. "And I will be sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rand-paul-asks-doj-investigate-fauci-lying-congress

Meet ‘Checkmate’: Putin given guided tour of new Russian state-of-the-art lightweight stealth fighter jet at MAKS 2021 Air Show
https://www.rt.com/russia/529756-putin-new-stealth-fighter-checkmate/

Russia Announces Bilateral Nuclear Arms Control Talks With Biden Administration​
  ​Coming off the "positive" June Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, Russian media is now reporting the resumption of direct nuclear talks between Moscow in Washington set for end of this month.
​  ​"Russia and the United States have agreed to hold their first round of nuclear strategic stability talks on July 28 in Geneva, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday," according to Reuters.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/russia-announces-bilateral-nuclear-arms-control-talks-biden-administration

Russian-made air defense systems shot down ALL Israeli missiles targeting Syria’s Homs – military
​ ​Two Israeli F-16 jets fired the guided missiles from Lebanese airspace, around 01:11 local time on Thursday.
“All four missiles were destroyed by on-duty Syrian air defense units, using Russian-made Buk-M2E systems,” the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria said in a statement.
https://www.rt.com/news/529982-syria-defenses-israeli-missiles/

‘Failure of US sanctions’: Iran launches first oil terminal in Gulf of Oman to bypass Strait of Hormuz
​  ​The new oil terminal is located at the port of Bandar-e Jask, which lies just south of the strait. The faculty was inaugurated by the country’s President Hassan Rouhani, who announced the achievement in a televised speech on Thursday.
“This is a strategic move and an important step for Iran. It will secure the continuation of our oil exports,” Rouhani stated.
https://www.rt.com/news/529913-iran-hormuz-oil-terminal/

​Well, if you lose everywhere else, you can still win the war against Americans... Glenn Greenwald has the story (How is 1/6 like 9/11?)
FBI Using the Same Fear Tactic From the First War on Terror: Orchestrating its Own Terrorism Plots
Questioning the FBI's role in 1/6 was maligned by corporate media as deranged. But only ignorance about the FBI or a desire to deceive could produce such a reaction.

.For another, the majority of "terror plots” the FBI claimed to detect and break up during the first War on Terror were, in fact, plots manufactured, funded and driven by the FBI itself...
​  ​Indeed, the FBI has previously acknowledged that its own powers and budget depend on keeping Americans in fear of such attacks. Former FBI Assistant Director Thomas Fuentes, in a documentary called “The Newberg Sting” about a 2009 FBI arrest of four men on terrorism charges, uttered this extremely candid admission:
​  If you’re submitting budget proposals for a law enforcement agency, for an intelligence agency, you’re not going to submit the proposal that “We won the war on terror and everything’s great,” cuz the first thing that’s gonna happen is your budget’s gonna be cut in half. You know, it’s my opposite of Jesse Jackson’s ‘Keep Hope Alive’—it’s ‘Keep Fear Alive.’ Keep it alive.
  In the Whitmer kidnapping case, the FBI's own affidavit in support of the charges acknowledged the involvement in the plot of both informants and undercover FBI agents “over several months.”  ​ ​ ​
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/fbi-using-the-same-fear-tactic-from

​There is time to get in training on your bike, and set it up the way you like it. 
This might not be accurate, and we might still have gasoline on alternate days.
The World Will Run Out Of EV Batteries By 2025
​  ​And now, according to a new Bank of America Global Research report, the global EV battery supply is in danger of running out completely as soon as 2025. “Our updated EV battery supply-demand model suggests the global EV battery supply will likely hit [a] ‘sold-out’ situation between 2025-26, with its global operating rates reaching above 85%,”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-World-Will-Run-Out-Of-EV-Batteries-By-2025.html

Bicyclist  
pictured on bike, bottom right corner, at roadside attraction, Saturday


Thursday, July 22, 2021

The Will Of Love

 Creatures of Love,


This song was playing in my head in the garden as I picked "southern peas" a couple of days ago.

Yesterday I shared the tension I am feeling.  

  People tell me they are feeling it, too. 
I thought it helped explain those crazy moments in history, like those that led people into WW-2.
The constant tension feels unbearable. Others are urging, cajoling, bullying and publicly-shaming us to do-the-thing, like everybody else.
Don't keep being weird. What's wrong with you? 

  A couple of friends of mine at work, both Registered Nurses, informed, responsible, good parents, are looking for a pediatric practice where they can take their kids, where they will not be looked at like lepers or gargoyles when they say they (the parents) "have not been vaccinated".
  I called a practice where I used to work. They're still human to people who don't want vaccines. The culture also applies to adults who have good reasons not to want this bunch. I passed it on. It's safe to call Central Family Practice in Austin.

  Jenny, my humanity-compass, my wife, has been feeling tremendously pressured and torn. It's not that she doesn't see the power dynamics and the stakes. 
  Jenny is a school librarian. She told me when people at school, coworkers got COVID last summer, fall and winter, and I privately talked with those people, and wrote them prescriptions for ivermectin based antiviral treatment. I also treated a husband with cancer, on chemo, 
They all got better, and nobody paid me anything. Good Samaritan. I think it was 6 people.

  That was wonderful. Everybody liked that. As spring progressed, it got harder and harder for Jenny to tell everybody "she was not vaccinated". Some of it came from coworkers , but also a lot from concerned parents, bringing their kids back to school in person, after a long time at home. 

  Jenny is dreading going back to school and having to give the same "wrong answer" to concerned-parents again and again, day after day until she breaks and acquiesces and can be accepted as not-leprous. 

  "Accepting the jab is nothing more than a loyalty test to the narrative."  
Somebody commented that on The Automatic Earth blog yesterday, and I like it a lot as an encapsulation of the social tension dynamic here.
The feeling totally sucks. It's unrelenting cognitive dissonance, making one feel anxious and shunned, and very insecure.
It's a feeling. Feelings are different from thoughts. Feelings don't usually respond well to being thought-at.

  Narratives change by being resisted sufficiently for the question to remain open, as the evidence piles up that the narrative is wrong and dangerous.
Then the paradigm has to shift. Tet-offensive, Vietnam. It happened. You might like other examples, but I lived that paradigm shift. Dad got back from a year in Vietnam just before Tet started, and I saw the whole societal shift unfold from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where we moved.

  Back to the feeling that sucks so bad, it makes you want to jump, cowering and shivering and shaking...
I feel it. What have I tried to do? 
I don't mean to be vain, but all I can give is what I found when I prayed for my own guidance.
I have to meet the feeling of personal insecurity with compassion for those experiencing it, then it is not "I" experiencing it, but "I" am giving warmth and connection and support to those feeling it. In the societal-dominance dynamic, people are used against each other to create great tension by division and social pressure. Then, those group divisions are turned against each other, to kill each other until they are all exhausted and deeply traumatized, and willing to fully submit to power.

  The Will of Love is the opposite of that. 
I am trying to channel the Will of Love, which is to comfort my brothers and sisters who are shivering and cowering alone.
The power over us will no longer exist, when we comfort and love and accept each other. 
Time will dissolve it.

Trying To Love

pictured recently with vegetables