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What America really wants to know is: after those months of “family leave,” did Pete Buttigieg get the hang of lactating? Hey, if sexuality is just a “social construct,” then the functions of sexuality must be teachable. So now Pete can move on to ovulation lessons and become the “birthing person” of his dreams. Pete’s dreams are America’s dreams, you see.
In the meantime, though, America has a little transportation problem that a Secretary of Transportation might look into if he wasn’t so busy performing a gender reeducation parable for the Woke family values crowd. Namely, that federal rules combined with California Air Resources Board regulations are destroying the trucking industry, a major link in the broken supply-chains for the gazillion products and parts that an advanced technological economy needs to keep on keeping on.
Under the rules, for example, California wants to phase-out tractor trailer rigs more than three years old, and eliminate all trucks that run on fossil fuels by 2035. Now, it happens that most of the truckers who service the ports of southern California are independents. They have to buy their own rigs, on which many make the equivalent of a mortgage payment, because a semi-rig can cost as much as a house. Of course, the rig must be allowed to operate for the duration of the loan. The new government regulations cancel that financial formula, and with it, the trucking industry. So much for the good intentions of the eco-wonks.
Secretary Pete might have paid attention to the developing trouble at the shipping container ports in late summer and started an emergency review of these untenable rules and regs, but instead, while learning the ins-and-outs of “chest-feeding,” he allowed the system to break down. The reality spinners in the “Joe Biden” news media would like you to think that the breakdown only applies to Christmas schwag for the hoi-polloi: No inflatable Frosty-the-Snowmen for you this year, you deplorable insurrectionist gorks in your sad little towns out in the Flyover gloaming! Actually, it applies to most of the things even super-hip Wokesters need every day in the normal course of things, and especially the replacement parts for all the engines and machines that American normality depends on. Plus, the situation has already moved into food supplies. And now that it’s all broken, the shortages may persist as far ahead as anyone can see.
Let us count the ways that America is committing suicide by Democratic Party policy. There is, front and center, “Joe Biden’s” vaccination mandate — with no basis in law, by the way — that is destroying most of the critical services industries in the nation: the hospitals, school systems, police forces, firefighters, ambulance squads, airlines, railroads, restaurants, you-name-it. No vaxx, no job for you — and no resuscitation for the unfortunate persons writhing on their kitchen floors in myocardial infarction. I’d say that depriving folks of their livelihoods while ensuring harm and death upon the citizenry is a bad combo for public order. One can easily imagine the righteous wrath building to the point where lamp-posts in capital cities are decorated with the dangling government officials who caused this to happen.
Then there are the vaxxes themselves and the Covid cat that dragged them in. Do you feel all warm and fuzzy over a shot that will turn your body into a spike protein generator, considering how spike proteins behave in a human vascular system? Got any questions or doubts about the number of adverse events seen so far? Looks like more than ten thousand deaths in the USA directly attributable to the vaxxes under the VAERS registry, and millions of injuries around the world. Not to mention the murky origins of the disease, the participation of US public health officials in its design and development, and the colossal profits reaped by the pharma companies that sell the vaxxes. Have you noted the draconian desperation to vaxx up absolutely everybody, despite some excellent reasons for people to say “no thanks”? Does the Big Picture look a little nefarious to you? Like some parties are out to bump off a pretty large number of people — including parties who have stated out loud that steeply reducing the global population would be a swell idea?
In the course of an average day, do you ever think about all the people from around the world who are jumping the US/Mexican border? It’s thousands of them each day, and millions piling in over the year 2021 — under the averted eyes of “Joe Biden” & Co. Some of them are criminal opportunists who — how shall we say — aim to blow shit up in this country. That’s apart from the economic burdens that the nonviolent ones will impose on the nation. Can you blame genuine US citizens for regarding this as an affront to common sense and common decency, not to mention an insult to the law and the constitution behind the law? Well, it is, you know. Since it’s the federal government’s duty to control entry across the border, and since “Joe Biden” directed the border patrol to not perform its duties, will you be surprised if the citizens develop the notion that they will have to defend the border themselves?
Do you think economic collapse will make any of this better? As winter looms, you’ll have plenty of time to mull that over, all bundled-up in your kitchen with the propane tanks empty and the last can of cold Spaghetti-Os in your gloved fist. When the time comes for that, don’t expect “Joe Biden” to be reading Thanksgiving homilies off his teleprompter. He will be gone, and the Democratic Party horse he rode in on with him. And when that time comes, we will be ready to start stitching things back together again in this land, perhaps a bit differently than the way we’d gotten used to. Be patient and brave. Our time will soon be at hand.
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I was looking at the Malibu camonsurfline and noticed two huge container ships just sitting off the coast in full view of the Malibu elite.
I can only imagine how much that view was irritating some of the filthy rich billionaire class who own homes right on the ocean.
Lets just hope they don’t drag anchors across yet another oil pipeline and cause another huge oil spill!
https://www.surfline.com/surf-report/malibu-close-up/5cbde6df477f8600012f498d
Ship still visible after three days.
But Joe Joe told us that if everyone takes the Covid Swill Shot, the goods can flow again.
Reminds me of when he told that crowd about how the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating his incredible level of corruption needed to be fired in order for those poor Ukraininas to receive their injection of fiat currency.
It would appear Joe Joe is a mafioso. I wonder who the Don could be?
What Jerky Joe did not mention was that the reason that the goods would flow sufficiently again after 100% vax rate was because there would not be many goods required to flow to keep the few surviving people happy. The art of omission is a great way to avoid not telling the truth.
So now Trudeau is saying anyone in government who says, “Let’s go Brandon!” will be fired:
https://en-volve.com/2021/10/18/fascist-trudeau-admin-bans-phrase-lets-go-brandon-with-harsh-penalties/
I know! I know! “Let’s go Justin!!!”
Head over to his personal YouTube page and leave him a special message.
Canadian version “Let’s Go Justin..you hoser..eh?”
I saw a video on Twitter a couple nights ago at a port (I think it was Washington) and the semi- trucks were all parked in position to receive their loads but there were six cranes sitting idle!
Maybe there is something going on with the crane operators? Demands for jabs being shunned? Crane operators probably have a union.
It would be swell if some journalist would get out to Long Beach and LA Ports and do some filming and digging.
I think there are all kinds of crazy testing and quarantine rules for the crane operators at West Coast ports.
Makes total sense, it’s not like those guys spend their entire shift isolated in a tiny crane cab or something.
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So, just because a crane isn’t running when you, or anyone else just so happens to see it not running / working, then it’s an immediate conspiracy to not unload the TEU. Myyyyyyyyy God.
The guy posting the film on Twitter said he’d been there all day with no crane activity.
With all the trucks lined up all day and all the ships standing idle and the cranes not working, nothing to see here. Just move along.
There are some billionaires in Malibu [which is a SANCTUARY CITY] but I think its more the 5-50 million dollar people who live there.
Benr: I’m sure they are much more panicked about the rising seas that will be overwhelming their beachfront properties any day now. I imagine, being left wing cult members, they are frantically trying to save up and move to Arizona…
I can attest that the ocean is in exactly the same spot it was in 1976 when I started surfing.
The lows go low and the highs go high as far as tides.
I can look at the water lines on cliffs in Santa Cruz to piers and jetties from Santa Barbara to Imperial beach the water is in pretty much the same exact spots for the last 45 years.
Its all bullshit.
Container ships are backed up 20 miles or maybe more, all the way back to Orange County. The situation is likely worse than the media is reporting.
Tall Ships festival, July 12th, 1997 – Aberdeen, Scotland (I was there – Ralph?). I will find out *ONE DAY* . (and NO I’m not subscribing to the British Archives)
Negative. I hope they do.
RIP Colin Powell.
RIP Tom Morey creator of the boogie board!
This one actually hurt I spent the better part of my youth floating around on one of these.
Damn. I had a Morey Boogie as a kid.
Fully jabbed, yet died of WuFlu complications.
Imagine how much worse it would have been for him if he hadn’t been jabbed!
TCL, What are you trying to say? The Vax doesn’t work? Oh, the humanity! I guess he goes in the ‘Vid column even though Powell was previously diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
CP was?
Colin Powell – former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, first black Secretary of State.
Very accomplished gentleman & career and then he threw away his reputation in one day, when he knowingly lied us into war in Iraq over non-existent WMD. He knew it and lied anyway.
Spin Colin Powell – no rest for liars.
Ron: Yep. He has some solid accomplishments behind him. I wonder what made him switch? Same goes, believe it or not, for Lloyd Austin. He was a top-notch one and two star general, and the 82nd Airborne still speak very highly of his time there. Then he morphed into one half of Biden’s Keitel and Jodl team.
Was that the anthrax stunt at the UN that really contained A-JAX?
Yes Abby – and claiming that Saddam Hussein had “yellow cake” uranium.
“Gentleman” yes. During the first gulf war, he would drive across or around DC to the Hospital in Bethesda at lunch time to personally visit wounded soldiers. He came alone without cameras or reporters. I had a friend in the hospital in the head trauma unit. Another soldier had severe memory loss and didn’t know who General Powell was. He had the decency to face some of the consequences of his decisions. During that time the first president Bush entered the same hospital on a different floor. They said he never came to visit any of the wounded. Two different leadership styles on display.
He got on the Cheney train of deceit and lies.
And he tried his best to convince the American public we needed to go to war.
He can roast in pieces.
What nonsense. Powell got his start up the greasy pole by lying his ass of in Vietnam. The UN was just par for the course. The rest was bullshit from the media whores that intellectual paraplegics bought.
All true no doubt. Few people start out all good or bad. Jim Jones was once an idealistic young preacher who wanted to help the poor.
People get worse as they rise because they have to compromise their moral code. And if they want to rise really high, they typically will have to sell their souls – as Powell did that day.
Powell lied about weapons of mass destruction, and many died. Someone lied to Powell about the covid vaccine’s safety, and he died.
What goes around, comes around. Karma is a bitch.
H – interesting angle. Well put – no truer words were spoken – just can’t wait for it to come around for the rest of these fuckers. It will.
I have mixed feelings on Colin Powell. A decent man of modest background who found the army was a good fit for him, and had a successful career. Let’s not forget, early in his career, he had to face discrimination. He had to be good.
Now, we can argue that he succeeded in a corrupt enterprise, the US Army. And I accept that the Army, indeed the DoD and the military-industrial complex is corrupt, self-serving, and power hungry, one of the cancers that afflict America.
A prominent member of this club warned us—Pres Eisenhower’s farewell address coined the term (military industrial complex)
Still, it takes some people years to figure this out. Many never do. They conflate patriotism with the military. Many who know are themselves former imperial troopers (US military).
In many societies, as well as ours, it’s a good place for those of limited means to make a career.
My point, in my long winded way, is that to put Colin Powell, and our overweight, seemingly inept, professional grifter Sec Def, who used has milked his rank by being a highly paid member of the defense industry, and who made his rank in an era when he benefited from racial discrimination, is very unfair to Colin Powell, who as noted here was a good leader, a decent person, albeit in a corrupt entity
He was played, or rolled, into the big lie. He never lived it down. The US was going to Iraq, and if not Powell, some one else would have helped legitimize this disgraceful crime.
“….and I believe in one Lord….who will come again to judge the living and the dead….”
As a nation, America has done good in the world—when it suited the PTB. In post war Europe, US food kept people alive in 1946.
Yet America has much to atone for with our contrived wars that needlessly killed millions (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq) for dubious reasons or lies. Perhaps the Long Emergency will be part of our preliminary judgement—and may mitigate the big one when it arrives.
Austin is totally bad news—like Miley, a dangerous fat cat.
Seems I’ve read about Colin Powell whitewashing the My Lai Massacre – even Wikipedia doesn’t completely whitewash Powell on this. Sell out at the beginning, sell out at the end.
The article I just saw said he died of ‘complications from Covid19’ which is the same headline/line they used for a 21 year old who also died of the jab.
They’ve stepped it up. Last week it was ‘after a short illness’ (because you know, it’s normal for a 21 to die of ‘natural causes’ ‘after a short illness’).
How stupid are people not to see right through this utter bullshit?
Don’t forget about “The Worst Cold Ever.”
I thought the UK are calling it, “The Super Cold?”
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
Also, Pfizer board members are nattering about the AY.4, “Delta Plus variant.”
Ooga Booga!
No, this is clearly beyond stupid.
LMAO!
Oh, that’s soooo bad. But accurate 🙂
Worse than dead?
That really is the ultimate adverse reaction.
Wanna snicker?
According to Well-Informed Sources (MaryQ), Colion Powell wouldn’t have actually had a vaccination…he’d have had a saline shot/placebo, being among the Power Elites & all…
Maybe Powell was old and considered expendable by the deep state. Maybe there is no saline shot/placebo. Maybe Powell died mostly from the cancer and other diseases eating away at him.
Maybe we’re all trying to understand a world gone mad, filled with lies, deceptions, and uncertainties. Meanwhile, you are the trivia sniper, taking potshots at targets of opportunity. Ever strive to see the bigger picture, Redneck?
Nice summary of the troll mentality h. I like the perspective of the sniper sniper.
Powell had terminal cancer. He got the shot, then a case of “breakthrough” China Flu, and so his death is being blamed on — China Flu. Of course. You can’t blame his death on what actually killed him these days, not if you want to push the official narrative.
About the “lies at the UN:” One, we knew Iraq had WMD because the US GAVE them to Iraq to use against Iran. Two, we also knew the Russians carted WMD into Syria just before US forces invaded Iraq (probably having given the Russians time to skedaddle), but we said jack shit because Dubya hoped it would buy Putin’s help in fighting terrorism and squeezing China. Surprisingly, neither aspect of the plan succeeded. In the end, Powell’s reputation was harmed by his role in Gulf War 2, but later he rehabilitated it by endorsing a steady stream of Democrats, starting with The One.
Three we knew that Iraq had hundreds of tons of yellow cake.
How because it was shipped to Canada!
They also had tons and tons of high explosives that ALL disappeared.
When the US was burning stock piles of weapons the BCR sirens would go off onboard Naval ships cutting circles off the coast.
Naw nothing to see here move along.
https://carnegieendowment.org/files/Iraq3FullText.pdf
The truth is Saddam was using dual use technology to include mustard gas which is believe it or not WMD he even used it on the Kurds and that can be made from standard pool chemicals.
True. Firsthand experience. Wait another 20 years for the declassification.
How much radiation/chemo was he getting, for that cancer?!… hmm… (skeptical)
some good news
Amen another warmonger gone !
Another war criminal.
Another man.
Let’s not forget My Lai.
WMD/patsy dupe. No tears shed.
Sweet is the bread of lies to the lips of man,
and then with dust his mouth is covered up.
– Proverbs 20:17
Isn’t he the one who in front of the UN held up a vial of milk claiming it was some disease ushering in the endless wars killing millions in the mid-east, so I say to him may you rot in hell.
If memory serves, it was a vial of the dreaded “yellow-cake” uranium that was in the WMD that nobody ever found because they weren’t there.
One article says that during his tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff he oversaw 28 crises. If there are 28 crises on your watch, you are doing something wrong.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colin-powell-dead-covid-19-former-secretary-of-state
You are right! Uranium not anthrax.
It doesn’t matter whether it was uranium or Tide laundry detergent. It was all trumped up bullshit lies one after another to take out Saddam Hussein.
It’s the same bullshit they are now trying with Covid 19. People are starting to finally see what pieces of shit we have for leaders and The Plebs are no longer believing what they say or at least asking questions.
Just ask Pelosi who put the temporary wall back up in D.C. But this was all predicted by many including Martin Armstrong who says his Socrates Computer predicts a rise of civil unrest because of these jokers.
And right on queue you read about another British politician who was murdered and of course anger at a prominent British News channel, which resulted in protest and vandalism.
Martin Armstrong’s computer also predicted many deaths this winter from the jab. So we shall see.
If Socrates predicts death, Socrates predicts death.
Uranium is nothing to play around with even small amounts of it can be used with terrible results.
A friend of mine took his uncle to canyon de chelly who picked up a rock as a souvenir just outside the national monument.
It wound up having small amounts of radioactive material in it.
He got pulled aside at the airport and had to explain what it was and where he got it and most of all why he had it.
Covid cake.
Wrong.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uranium-shipped-to-montreal-from-iraq-in-top-secret-mission-1.742303
Uranium shipped to Montreal from Iraq in top secret mission
The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 05, 2008 5:26 PM ET | Last Updated: July 5, 2008
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal on Saturday to complete a top-secret U.S. operation.
The removal of 550 metric tonnes of “yellowcake,” the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment, included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a voyage across two oceans.
The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth “tens of millions of dollars.”
A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.
“We are pleased … that we have taken [the yellowcake] from a volatile region into a stable area to produce clean electricity,” Krahn said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have guarded the 9,300-hectare yellowcake site since its discovery.
The deal culminated more than a year of intense diplomatic and military initiatives — kept hushed in fear of ambushes or attacks once the convoys were under way.
It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid their nuclear ambitions.
Diplomats and military leaders first weighed the idea of shipping the yellowcake overland to Kuwait’s port on the Persian Gulf.
Such a route, however, would pass through Iraq’s Shiite heartland and be within easy range of extremists.
The ship also would need to clear the narrow Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf, where U.S. and Iranian ships often come in close contact.
Kuwaiti authorities, too, were reluctant to open their borders to the shipment despite top-level lobbying from Washington.
Coincidences?
CBC News ·
Posted: Oct 23, 2006 10:43 AM ET | Last Updated: October 23, 2006
Cameco Corp. said its Cigar Lake underground uranium project in northern Saskatchewan is expected to flood completely after a rockfall yesterday.
Cameco said the fall occurred Sunday afternoon in an underground area that had been dry and a “significant” amount of water started flowing in.
….It’s the second such incident at the mine this year. In the spring, water flooded a shaft at Cigar Lake and delayed the project bysix months.
Cigar Lake is believed to be the biggest undeveloped high-grade uranium deposit in the world, withproven and probable reserves of 232 million pounds of uranium oxide.
Cameco said its estimate of Cigar Lake’s uranium reserves is not expected to be affected.
Cameco is the operator and majority owner of the Cigar Lake project, 660 kilometres north of Saskatoon.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cameco-s-cigar-lake-mine-inundated-stock-falls-1.602573
Associated Press
Posted: Jul 05, 2008 5:26 PM ET | Last Updated: July 5, 2008
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal on Saturday to complete a top-secret U.S. operation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uranium-shipped-to-montreal-from-iraq-in-top-secret-mission-1.742303
ARMS CONTROL Today Meredith Lugo
In early July, U.S. forces transferred 550 metric tons of yellowcake, the compound made from mined natural uranium ore, from the Iraqi nuclear site of Tuwaitha to a port in Montreal. If the material were processed for military purposes, it would be sufficient for as many as 50 nuclear weapons. The Canadian corporation Cameco purchased the nuclear material.
In a July 2008 interview with the Canadian television network CTV, Cameco spokesperson Lyle Krahn indicated that the company intends to process the uranium in Ontario and sell it as fuel for nuclear reactors. Cameco is the largest producer of uranium in the world and was “invited” by the U.S. government to bid on the material from Iraq.
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008-09/us-removes-uranium-iraqi-nuclear-site
As any Corona-skeptic or CoronaPanic-critic could have predicted how this all went:
(1) The headlines screamed Colin Powell died “of Covid!!” (a name they made up for a kind of flu virus).
(2) Powell turns out he had advanced cancer (multiple myeloma).
(3) Powell not only had cancer, he was undergoing treatment for it.
(4) Powell was in his mid-eighties.
(5) In other words, his chance of dying sometime in the first half of the 2020s were EXTREMELY high even under several seasons of unusually mild flu activity.
(6) Knowing all the above, they still screamed that he died “OF Covid!!”
(7) It’s all so tiresome. They are stuck in a repeat-loop of endless BS and misleading info, a kind of giant, global marketing apparatus on behalf of one flu virus.
He probably died of Standard of Care, pumped full of Remdesivir.
John Prine [age 75] dead from co-vid.
Also a 2 time cancer survivor who looked dead after his neck was cut up.
smoker? drinker?
Perhaps rumors of his death were premature but according to most sources he died in Nashville April 7 2020 of covid.
Prine’s wife said he died of double pneumonia and tested negative for Covid…
He was double-jabbed. Not even mentioned in the article I saw.
Powell’s life expectancy was 60 when he was born according to CDC tables for black men. He made it past 84 which is longer than most white men — all the while fighting Parkinson’s and blood cancer.
And the hacker saboteurs have been busy this weekend shutting down Sinclair Broadcasting’s TV stations — including the one here in my hometown.
I was saying a couple posts back that IT staff would soon be an issue, but I was talking about walkouts and such. Sinclair HQ is right here in Maryland. Twenty years ago they were my biggest IT account. They own a ton of local Fox stations.
Seeing as their IT dept. is having such a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, you should probably be counting your blessings that you don’t work for them any more!
While I would never say JHK is wrong. I truly hope he is wrong about the vax side effects. I do volunteer work with senior citizen’s and I got vaxxed for them. I hope it does not kill me.
I hope so too.Considering that they thought these vaccines might work, and they were wrong, other thinking about what the vaccines might do can just as easily be wrong too.
What we do know is that these products are high risk and no reward (to the recipient).
Teddy, don’t lose hope. Dr Zelenko, the guy who treated Trump successfully for China flu, has some good ideas about how you can help yourself if you took the jab. Just don’t take any more! God Bless.
God Bless. – Hereward
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Of all the “believers” on this board Jarek is the most honest. Never any of that “God Bless” bull from him.
Why would one ever take an untested, experimental substance into one’s veins for someone else?
Insanity.
Adam took the bite for Eve. If he had held out, he would have gotten a better model.
He thought he already had, because he dumped Lillith first.
Maybe Lillith was involved in the apple incident. First wives can be very hateful and cunning.
Well Eve was better but obviously not good enough. Third time might have been the charm.
Look on the bright side – there’s a chance you got the saline!
Meanwhile if I were you, I would examine the mindset that led you down the spike protein pathway in the first place. Good luck on down the road alligator.
You got it for VOLUNTEER work?
The mind reels….
Teddyboy46, please put your mind at ease. You will be fine, and getting the vax allows you to continue your volunteer work which is undoubtedly greatly appreciated.
The vaccines do not create spike proteins circulating through the body and lodging in organs. Here is an explanation of the difference between the spike proteins in the vaxxes vs. infection:
“The spike proteins from the virus and the ones generated by the vaccines are “essentially the same,” McLellan, the spike protein researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, told us, noting that they have the same function, structure and way of processing.
But, he said, there is “one key difference,” in that the spikes encoded by the vaccines “contain 2 amino acid changes that help stabilize the spike in its initial conformation and help prevent the spike from undergoing a conformational change that is required to facilitate membrane fusion.”
That’s because the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is a shape-shifter. To fuse its viral membrane with the host cell membrane it substantially changes its shape from an unstable pre-fusion state to a stable post-fusion state. While previously working on a vaccine for MERS, a disease caused by another coronavirus, McLellan and others discovered that by adding two proline molecules to the spike protein, they could lock it into its pre-fusion state, triggering a more effective immune response and preventing cell entry. The same harmless mutation, called 2P, as in two proline molecules, is used in the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
During a SARS-CoV-2 infection, the NIAID told us, the virus spike proteins can latch onto human cells, allowing the virus to infect them. With the live virus, the protein “attaches to receptors on the surface of cells and fuses the viral membrane with the host-cell membrane,” McLellan said.
However, vaccine-generated spike proteins can’t do that fusion because they are locked in the pre-fusion shape.
“The spike protein encoded by the mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech) and the J&J vaccine instruct the cells in our arm (where the injection is given) to produce spike protein that is tethered to the surface of the cell. It is not secreted and thus does not float through the body,” McLellan said.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/07/scicheck-covid-19-vaccine-generated-spike-protein-is-safe-contrary-to-viral-claims/
I’ve read JHK’s blog for years, because he’s a great writer. But I fact check all blogs I read, his included. Today’s post contains inaccurate info about the vaccine. Please don’t let bad info create worry over getting the shots.
Yeah best to ignore the thousands of deaths from it. Sheesh.
And the fact that it does not prevent infection, transmission, or hospitalization.
Yes, I will run right out and get me a shot that does God only knows what, that I know, UP FRONT, won’t do me or anybody else ANY GOOD AT ALL.
What is your procedure for fact checking the factchecks?
Going to the source documents linked at the bottom of the article, or any other article concerning covid and/or the vaccines.
Could you factcheck this one for us please?
https://unshackledminds.com/there-is-a-living-creature-inside-the-vaccine-it-is-immortal-the-hydra-vulgaris-see-description/
Perhaps there are some ‘experts’ who have said there is no truth in the story and the good doctor’s microscope is suffering from psychosis.
Not long ago I’d have said this is ‘outlandish’, but normal life has become rather more than outlandish since then, so, y’know …
GA, the link above triggered the warning of a non private connection that might be stealing personal/financial info. It’s a no go for me.
Did some DDGing, finally came up with the name Dr Carrie Madej, and had a look at this:
https://carriemadej.com/uncategorized/the-stew-peters-interview/
I do not know what is being seen here, but at this point neither does Madej. It would make sense for her to start a detailed, expanded and controlled investigation and submit her findings for peer review. Once she has the answers for what she is seeing, I’ll take another look. Right now, she just has feelings and hunches. Can’t draw firm conclusions from those.
Nicely deflected, tully.
So, in your lay opinion, having seen the images, what are your hunches and feelings? Just curious.
There seem to be a few problems with peer review these days, as in intimidation and fear. What are your hunches and feelings about how that could be resolved?
Presumably you saw the tweet by Robert Malone that Nightowl posted, showing the article removed by Elsevier with no explanation and no notice to the authors?
GA, my hunches and feelings don’t count. Nor do Dr Madej’s.
If she is uncomfortable with normal channels of peer review, she can ask fellow anti vax doctors to look at her research. Right now, she has looked at a few slides and seen things she doesn’t understand.
I’m not sure how I deflected. You provided a bad original link; I tracked down Medan and her info because I wanted to respond to your request.
Yes, I saw Nightowl’s Twitter link regarding the removal of the Malone article. I would presume Dr Malone is pushing them for answers; going public as he has will hopefully encourage them into explaining why they removed his article, as they well should.
Madej, not Medan. 🙁
tully
The article isn’t Dr Malone’s. It was co-authored by Dr Peter McCullough (the abstract is provided by WilbursHuman at the (current) end of the comments section.
I don’t have any information about Dr Madej’s pro- or anti-vaxx status. She may not be anti-vaxx, but only concerned about this spurious and half-tested vaxx.
And, if she gets colleagues to confirm what she has seen and photographed, what journal are you expecting would dare to publish those findings? The Lancet, perhaps, which belongs to the same stable as the journal which pulled Dr McCullough’s article, and which employs Peter Daszak (sp?) who was involved in the Wuhan lab experiments?
Please, tully, get real.
Factcheck.org.
LOL
Please don’t cite any “fact checking” orgs, since they exist mainly to shoot down contrary information. Ever notice how “fact checkers” always side with the official story?
The evidence for vaccine-induced thrombotic injury, regardless of the working theory of how the spike protein is supposed to work, is overwhelming. A quick glance at VAERS confirms this. The spike does not remain in the shoulder but circulates widely in the blood, especially if the one administering the vaccine does not aspirate correctly–leading to an intravenous injection rather than an instramuscular one.
“The S1 protein of SARS-CoV-2 crosses the blood-brain barrier in mice”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33328624/
Jeff2002, the linked article references the actions of the S1 protein from the virus itself, not the altered version used in the vaccines.
In fact, the spikes can travel all through the body, concentrating in key organs to cause inflammation, clotting, and death.
There’s something wrong with you….
The mRNA ”vaccines” don’t use the spike protein to enter the cells, they are encased in a lipoprotein that manages to elude the immune system that would usually destroy them.
Then they make the spike proteins by the millions and release them into the blood stream, where they circulate until they are eliminated by the immune system.
We know that they cause endothelial damage while they circulate and we know that they collect in various organs.
We also know that the story about ”it stays in the deltoid muscle” is absurd. It was absurd from the beginning and most propaganda has dropped that as a claim. I see that Tully found one that is still spewing it. They must realize that there is a sucker born every minute when they craft their ”debunking” bullshit.
I gave injections for decades. My standard spiel when giving one, say for instance a pain shot, was “You will feel this in about 20 minutes”. And by George, they usually did.
Epinephrine given below the skin worked within minutes.
IV drugs worked within 5 minutes.
But the clotshot stays in the muscle? Yeah, right.
The same people who have convinced Democrats that they don’t have a reproductive system and they don’t have an immune system are now trying to convince them that they don’t have a circulatory system.
It annoys me when they get away with absurdities, and not just because it allows them to commit atrocities. It annoys me because I am embarrassed for my fellow citizens’ idiocy and the laughter it most likely causes among those pulling their strings.
As if “factcheck.org” were never wrong (or biased)!! It’s right up there with “snopes.com”.
What’s Latin for “who checks the fact checkers?”
The CVC Head has stated that the vaxx doesn’t prevent Covid or spreading Covid, and in fact it has caused more severe reactions and hospitalizations, especially from variants…
They changed those two proteins by folding them. The spike proteins don’t stay in your arm doing good things for your immune system either. They migrate all over the body and cross the blood-brain barrier. Look up what folded proteins do to the brain. That’s been known for years. That’s not all. There are three cases of African Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) listed in VAERS as a side effect, so some of those vials are contaminated with parasites, as well as something that looks visually like the protozoan, Hydra vulgaris, which, as far as I know doesn’t cause disease, but what is it doing there? It’s not something I want in my body. The blood smears of the vaccinated appear grossly abnormal, containing Rouleaux formations (red cells stacked like coins) that have only been seen previously in certain types of blood cancer. Both the red and white cells are deformed. There are unidentified microscopic objects that fluoresce with colors under the light and appear to be metallic. The government of Japan recently rejected 1.6 million vials of the Moderna vaccine as being contaminated, including with particles of stainless steel. That’s not even mentioning the graphene oxide.
Lawyerly weasel words. The spike protein may not circulate throughout the body, but the lipid nano particles containing the mRNA instructions to make spike protein surely does. Check out the Japanese study referenced here: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/mrna-technology-covid-vaccine-lipid-nanoparticles-accumulate-ovaries/
Tully, I happened to be listening to top Italian scientist Stefano Scoglio today and I think he was arguing that there are some (4?) reasoins why the spike proteins cannot enter cells and do what they are supposed to do. (Prof Bhakdi argues that the vaccine injuries are caused by the spike proteins doing just that, leading to an uprecedented double attack by the immune system on capillary walls and organs.)
Socglio’s argument echoes a remark I heard a year ago or so from ‘Chefartzt’ Dr Gerd Reuther, who thought the new vaccines were just science fiction.
However, the vaccines are extremely dangerous and thsi is shown by the astonishing amount of death and injury they are leaving in their wake. So if it is not the artificial genetic material that is doing this then it is the rest of the vaccines, either the lipid particles or the adjuvants or both.
Did you see the video of the young Austrian deputy who collapsed in itheir parliament while making a speech, cluthcing her chet?
The reported deaths are likely a small fraction of the real number, so you would be reasonable in estimating at least 100k in America. Some have claimed it is already half a million.
I have been impressed by Scoglio from the start, when he appeared a few times on the Byoblu YT channel becfore it was closed. (The same thing happened to Rubkion in Germany.) He explains well why he beleives there is no SARSCov2 virus and no new ‘Covid19’ disease. i was pleased to hear him refer to Dr Fabio Franchi, another old favourite of mine and a droll speaker.
This whole ‘Covid’ story is not only wrong, but wrong at every single turn in every conceivable way. It is absurd beyond measure. Just like… well, take your choice of any of the insane collective fantasies that I have been going on about here for quite a while now. (it is, of course, more than just rantasy, but a very well planned conspiracy.)
Scoglio is one of two additional authors behind the new edition of the book Virus Mania, which tells the story of the obsessive belief in viruses as the cause of illnesses. (The original authors were Germans, journalist Torsten Engelbreach and Dr Claus Kohnlein.)
A NZ doctor, Sam Bailey, joined Scoglio for the new edition. Her accent is, er, ‘somewhat ‘challenging’, but she is sound.
For a nice explanation for the circular reasoning going on here look at the 5 minute mark of this recent video of hers:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qn2hWFK8h2ne/
I hope so too and hope you will take preemptive action in advance. We all have families and friends who got jabbed. Unfortunately, like in every COLUMBO crime drama television show, the truth is last to arrive. She limps along but she actually does arrive.
no judgement, but you need to start treating yourself according to one of the protocols now.
I would probably go to flccc.net and look for their protocol for vax and long covid.
Hope is not a thing without action to hope about. or something
Although I also believe there were a lot of Placebo shots.
What sort of experiment doesn’t have a control group? and voluntary ones aren’t useful.
I have a couple of manual can openers. Cans aren’t all pull-tabs.
Good to have.
Churchkey, where did the name come from?
https://advancedmixology.com/blogs/art-of-mixology/what-is-a-churchkey-opener
Interesting.
I have one of the ones you stab into the can. I can’t find the name of it.
When you see old cartoons of tin cans, they always sow the jagged top still attached, because the old can openers couldn’t remove the whole lid.
I don’t know why there were so many depictions of tin cans though. Maybe because they were a modern invention?
I think there was a lot of canned food eaten, simple as that. No refrigerators for most of history after all.
Manual Can Opener: is that one of those Mexican border crossers? What do you pay them? Do they do the lawn too?
Such humor! LOL
No, dear one. My lawn is in the caring hands of Jesus.
To open a can without an opener, turn it upside down, and rub the top across smooth concrete, such as a sidewalk. Pops right off.
But don’t your spaghettio’s wind up on the sidewalk?
Throw it off a tall building. Take the elevator down. Scoop up – and enjoy!
with the propane tanks empty and the last can of cold Spaghetti-Os in your gloved fist.
….snorting milk all over the table and THEN ROFLMAO!!!!!
This from one who’s enjoyed his share of luke-warm spaghetti-O’s.
Hardrock: Bingo, that got me too! Love this guy! That’s how our civilisation ends: from discussing the nature of truth and reality on a Greek hillside to fighting over a tin of processed gunk.
I’ve eaten spam 6 years past the expiration date. No difference. That stuff is the eternal ambrosia of the gods. Lasts forever, yum, yum. Someday there will be monuments built to spam.
Uh oh. I had not thought of spam in years and now I’m craving it. Pan fried, with cream gravy made with pan drippings, flour and milk, mashed taters and green beans. Parents were WWII vets who liked it and mom kept it in the supper rotation. That and creamed corned beef on toast, AKA shit on a shingle.
It is cooked in the can, all 4 ingredients. Serve it hot, serve it cold, it’s already cooked and ready to go.
Certainly will last at least 5 years beyond the date on the can. Unless O2 gets in (and bulges the can) it probably qualifies as a future archeological find.
Neither gourmet dining nor culinary delight, it can be a staple during a food calamity.
They are pretty good with fists full of Ritz Crackers crumbled up and stirred in. A little Parm and ready!
“They are pretty good with fists full of Ritz Crackers crumbled up and stirred in. A little Parm and ready”
Abby
Indeed! I would suggest that, when the meal is heated, to throw away the concoction and eat the can.
I still love Campbell’s Tomato Soup cold, right out of the can.
When irrigating in the outlands of Nevada, you’d be out for days or weeks with your jacket and cans of Campbells.
I slept on straw, since we were irrigating hay.
The nights were cold, with no fire. I’d wake up for a moment and feel all the small animals bolt. Vermin would snuggle up inside of my clothes for the Giant’s warmth.
I got to where I’d awaken so still, the little ones would stay sleeping. My leg twitched a bit, and I felt something long and slim slither out of my pants leg, probably a baby rattlesnake.
Sounds like a great job, – for all the CRT instructors fired when we take back the country.
So, the vaccines don’t keep you out of the hospital, keep you from dying, and they may in themselves cause death or permanent impairment.
Oh, and they don’t prevent infection or spread.
What was the upside, again?
Moderna turned its FIRST profit ever.
Pfizer 32 billion in one quarter!
Never let a crisis go to waste to pass legislation you know won’t pass otherwise.
It gave lumps like Redneck Liberal something to tilt at with us deplorables.
Lots of face diapers cast across the land!
BigPharma would never hurt us. What a wild conspiracy theory.
I bet you think BigTobacco tried to hurt us, too.
Ka-ching, ka-ching!
You can take your maimed ass to a football game!
Are they still playing “the Black National Anthem” before football games? I stopped watching. Professional sports can take all their woke virtue signalling and stuff it up a gender neutral orifice.
If you live long enough you get to keep working at your job and paying taxes.
“The reality spinners in the “Joe Biden” news media would like you to think that the breakdown only applies to Christmas schwag for the hoi-polloi: No inflatable Frosty-the-Snowmen for you this year, you deplorable insurrectionist gorks in your sad little towns out in the Flyover gloaming! ”
Love it!
I do wonder, though, about the prognosis
” When the time comes for that, don’t expect “Joe Biden” to be reading Thanksgiving homilies off his teleprompter. He will be gone, and the Democratic Party horse he rode in on with him.”
Perhaps Jim means Thanksgiving 2022. TG 2021—if we are able to cook the dinner. Seems like too much to hope for . . . just five weeks away . . .
I read about CA’s emissions regs over at the Market-Ticker. That is, someone there linked a story about it.
Fossil-free by 2030 and those types of slogans sound a lot like “unfunded mandates”—not literally unfunded, but unrealistic on many levels. Yet TPTB do not want to adjust their dreams to match what is possible.
Standing in the way is physics, darn it! In addition to the financial realities that Jim mentions.
Lay in some batteries, I guess . . . If you can get them . . .
Fossil-free by 2030 only works if there’s a whole lot fewer people to support. Hmm…
Does the “Fossil-free” policy mean we get rid of the human fossils like Biden, McConnell and Pelosi too? Let me check the small print.
Hahahahaha! If only!
Ditto hahaha
We can only hope!
Burnt, they may finally prove of some use in heating the halls of Congress.
Well, the British burned mummies by the ton to fuel their steam trains across Egypt.
Fascinating! I never knew that. Seems like some kind of mummy’s curse would have been visited on them.
That’s why the British Empire fell – the curse of a million railroaded mummies.
BTW…in fairness to Pete, Carlson said he was on “maternity leave” but it’s actually “paternity leave” according to what I’m reading.
So, is the “chest feeding” reported by JHK a real thing or a little poetic license/hyperbole from a master of the snarky one-liner?????
I would normally say poetic license, but the way things are going lately, maybe that’s a thing now. I little hormonal therapy would probably do it. Either way, the idea’s pretty gross.
“Going lately….”
Yes, visiting with daughter and son-in-law yesterday, I tried to convey to them the magnitude of the changes in the country in just a few short years. Then realized that though they are only 30, they have seen it happen and they confirmed.
How DID this happen? Behind the scenes for a long time. Can you put your finger on the start?
The publishing of Das Kapital is one possibility. Other nominees:
— the assassination of McKinley, which gave us 20 years of Progressive do-gooders who’ve continued to be present in Americsn politics ever since
— the New Deal, which got people comfortable with “government” money
— the Great Society, which ruined minority families and got people more dependent on gub’mint money
— the Seventies, when we had criminal and/or incompetent government
— the Nineties, when we were told a “peace dividend” and we promptly pissed away all our advantages, including deterrence, leading us to
— 9/11/01 and its aftermath, the Patriot Act, which further undermined civil liberties by empowering Washington to stick its nose into everyone’s life in the name of stopping “terror”
— Barack the Magnificent, who inspired minority kids not to bust their asses to get ahead, but rather to try and tear the system down in order to “fundamentally transform America.” This led to spasmodic revolts such as the Tea Party and
— Trump 2016, which challenged the established order and threatened to undo decades of work to make Americans into cowardly serfs instead of “the brave.” Of course, this was short-circuited by TPTB and their mediot minions’ narratives, which gave us the current daily catastrophes for the American people that are blamed on non-compliant people, which of course is exactly what Biden and his owners want.
That’s my attempt. I’m sure others can do better.
mighty fine intent though. Thanks
I meant attempt obviously. sorry ’bout dat
It’s a logical assumption, given that Pete and his husband both went out of their way to portray themselves as new mommies.
You don’t see that adorable touch in the top levels of the Chinese Communist Party leadership. We put those stuffed shirts to shame.
Her ya go Hardrock,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FB7q6h_VUAEvt9x?format=jpg&name=small
I think he was on eternity leave. And perversion is perversion no matter what spin you put on it.
OK….you’re on track to compete with JHK in the snarky one-liner competition.
Good one!
It’s part of the transagenda forced language now, yes.
And women are ‘vagina havers’ and women with child are now ‘pregnant people’ etc etc.
“woman” is a bad word to the trans and that’s the law of the land now.
Wait, I thought women were, “people with front holes now?”
So hard to keep up anymore….must be getting old….
I am Person, hear me roar! – Helen Reddy (revised)
OOPS. I just realized “person” contains the word “son”; and “human” contains the word “man”. All very sexist. How about
“I am Sentient Entity, hear me roar.”? Sounds gender neutral, very Star Trekky.
Latest word from the comic book world:
1) Superman will no longer protect ‘the American Way’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dc-comics-announces-superman-will-no-longer-protect-american-way
2) Superman’s son has embraced the gay lifestyle.
Who’s next. Rumors have long swirled around Batman and Robin. There has even been forest gossip about den mates Yogi Bear and Booboo. And don’t get me started on Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble going camping on Broke Rock Mountain.
Proud ‘mommy’
https://twitter.com/TheJordanRachel/status/1449854424713547782
Isn’t that a photo shop though?
I’m not tech savvy like you, but that is not a newborn baby.
Yeah I am thinking now it’s a photoshop. I didn’t look too closely before. The head is photoshopped onto a body.
The couple took a bizarre picture of themselves in bed, each holding a baby. Propped up like it was a hospital bed. If they didn’t want these memes, they shouldn’t have done it. Pete is a walking cliche, a veritable one person meme machine. We hate to chasten him, but it must be done for the good of all. He’s not a private person but a public official, supposedly.
Pete’s husband probably Chastens him enough. Of course, if he doesn’t, maybe they can expand Americans’ horizons with the first Cabinet-level (presumably gay) throuple!
“But the bigger story for us is that big pharma and governments are now not only chasing Covid, they are putting huge resources into vaccine development and programmes for influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which is one of the biggest killers of children under 12 months in the developed world, and human rhinovirus (HRV).”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/inside-the-quarantine-lab-where-irish-company-infects-humans-with-covid-40958497.html
Yep, one thing leads to another… The little kiddies of today can look forward to a “fully vaxed” future.
Disaffected: the psychopaths are about to go around schools in my region pushing the jab on kids. And of course, the kids can take it without parental consent. I was furious and already contemplating contacting parents and parents’ groups to organize resistance. However, my wife basically said, “Screw them!” If they aren’t going to fight to protect their own kids, why should I?
Agreed Hereward – hoping this will be a true parental “red line”. They went ballistic over masks alone, when masks were pushed on their children. Rightly so.
This is also the reason, I believe, for parents being called “domestic terrorists” – a pre-emptive label – for the parental response to these psychopaths attempting a much more draconian measure against their children.
Maybe this continued attempt to vaccinate children against their parents’ will, will get this party started. Fingers crossed.
1 in 20 boys. 1 in virtually every school bus.
https://www.autismnj.org/understanding-autism/prevalence-rates/
Who will care for these kids?
Not in Japan.
Sweet Jesus,
Even I didn’t realise it was this bad.
The country I live in (“my country”, y’all know what I mean), a former liberal western European democracy, imperfect though it was, has now become what I call a Pharmocracy. (And effectively comparable to a US ‘Blue’ state).
Total capture by, amongst other corporates, the bio-pharmaceutical sector.
There was a scandal which emerged in 2019 think it was, ran into 2020 (the irony escaped most it seems) about clandestine vaccine trials that were conducted in orphanages in the early-mid 20th century. The institutions were run by Roman Catholic religious orders who were paid by pharmaceutical companies (not to even speak of selling babies to the US, something which also happened in Spain and other countries).
The Covid hysteria continues apace but for those who wish to see it, the narrative is breaking.
I just never could have imagined how we’d come full circle (“Open Orphan”).
Two words I’m using a lot lately: one an adjective, “galactic”, the other a noun (with apologies) “bollocks”.
Commentary on the crazy here by Thomas Sheridan, who is worth a follow, very prescient observations. Irish, but could be applicable pretty much anywhere you are:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On_ljHLQcvU
shv
Post script,
As a salient example of the galactic bollocks we’re being exposed to here is an article I read (most of, not all) earlier.
Lab meat was supposed to be inevitable but investigators come up against a “wall of no”.
This article consoles me greatly.
The technocrats are not as clever, sophisticated or powerful as they imagine.
And physical limits, if nothing else, and basic thermodynamics, will expose their duplicity.
This is a long but excellent, incisive and thorough read:
https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
shv
Heh, you think that’s bad start digging into the numbers for all the green energy junk….
Absolutely TCL,
Yet more galactic bollocks.
The levels of intellectual dishonesty are beyond stratospheric.
But let’s not get inconvenient facts get in the way of profit.
shv
Back in the 60s they tested a RSV vax on children. They only killed about 8 kids before they pulled it.
Those were the Good Ol Days.
Looks like the honeymoon is over for the grey ghoul of grifting aka lil joey.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rising-prices-and-empty-store-shelves-spell-grave-political-danger-for-biden-and-his-democrats/ar-AAPE7fA?ocid=msedgntp
Even CNN is throwing him under the bus.
Next up cackles for resident in the Whitehouse!
Will we also be served a side of granny Pelosi as VP?
You think a bad dude like Joe that threatens Navy SEALs is afraid of some CNN news wonks?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-admin-threatens-make-unvaxxd-navy-seals-repay-their-training-costs
Hah!
He faced down “Corn Pop” for crying out loud!
The rest of the story.
He actually meant he fought a box of corn pops to get the toy prize inside and won!
It may be autumn, but like the early shoots of spring growth after the snow has melted and the days start warming, the MSM is doing its part to slowly acclimate society
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-faces-fiscal-problems-much-090000541.html
“Next up cackles for resident in the Whitehouse” or not, I think her presence is a sort of safety valve protecting “Joe Biden”.
Of course, this could change. Also, I recall something about Willy Brown advice for her not to take the job.
Yes NGT – Willy Brown had a job for her – giving her a job, so she could give him a job. He didn’t want her taking a job giving everyone else jobs. Got it?
yup
Willie Brown is 87. Time to give it a rest.
Putting in a detestable villain as a VP is an old trick: Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
“OK – get rid of me and the see who ya got for President.”
I want to say “poison pill tactic” but I’m not sure that’s the right expression.
No problemo for the ruling class.
Look how fast Spiro disappeared when it was time to dispose of Nixon.
Cackles as prez is so perfect for the final tanking of the US, isn’t it? Almost poetically so. Our very own President Camacho, so to speak.
Idiocracy really was a futuristic documentary, wasn’t it?
certainly one of my favourites.
Although don’t make the mistake of viewing the dubbed into Spanish version.
Somehow they made it incredibly unfunny.
Maybe there’s more than one dub, because many dubbed comedies are great. The Pixar movies and Shrek and things like that are brilliant in Spanish.
I suppose it’s a budget constraint issue. They need to discover MMT
At the moment, I like Stacy Abrams as the Hildebeast’s Number 2.
NYC is going to remove the statue of Jefferson from the front of City Hall? Who’s next on the cancel list, George Washington?
Sad to say, but… old news. No symbols of patriotism allowed.
Probably. The insolence shown by these Wokesters really indicates how much they hate this country. We are importing more and more of them and graduating more of them every year.
We are not a Black nation, yet!
Jefferson authored the Bill of Rights and they want to get people to hate our rights.
Looks like they’ve got about half the population onboard.
Cancel culture attitudes started earlier than I realized. I was listening to the local community radio station last night and the DJ did a brief eulogy for a man in our town who died last week.
He said he had gone to one of his parties (which I think stopped about 10 years ago) and another guest found out that he was a Republican and started chastising the host for allowing a Republican to come.
Say what??? Who does that? Oh yeah, now, but back then, who did that?
Now those kind of people have official backing.
Used to make for lively conversation at parties.
Now the knives are out.
Emory Morton Thomas, Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia, told a grad school class I was in back in 1990 that the only way to save America was to round up every Republican, stuff them into boxcars, and send them to concentration camps for extermination. My classmates laughed. I knew then that I didnt belong there. What I didnt realize was that this sort of bigoted bullshit would gain any traction. But I’m just a schmuck from Upstate New York, so how could I know how many subversives existed in America 30 years ago, much less today?
De Blasio said, “It’s not who we are.” Demographically, he’s correct: Whites are a minority in NYC now. Why did we imagine our culture and freedoms would last once we were a minority?
Yes, replaced by a monument “that reflects who we are”. But how many George Floyd monuments can you build?
How many Holocaust monuments have they built? How many movies have they made?
about six million.
The elites have declared war on the American people. Any fool can see it.
No one ever intentionally starts a war that they think that they are going to lose – no one. But, and this is important, history shows us again and again that oftentimes, the maniacs that start these wars end up losing them. History is nothing but a chronological retelling of things that were not supposed to happen.
I believe that we are now in the Fog of War phase of things where all the plans, planning, operational orders, etc, have been tossed aside. It is all up for grabs now.
These shortages were NOT supposed to happen. This inflation was NOT supposed to happen. The debacle in Afghanistan was NOT supposed to happen.
The catastrophe of the Biden selection has not at all helped with the elites injecting everyone with AIDS. People can see with their own eyes the absolute incompetence of the ruling elites and it makes them question everything.
I can certainly tell you that the items I’ve listed have helped me to convince the “hesitant” to remain “hesitant”. After all, how can you trust an administration that gave away 85 billion in brand new equipment and our military bases to terrorists? How can you witness this while at the same time noticing that no one but a guy that complained about it was punished? I mean, wasn’t Trump impeached for a phone call? Isn’t leaving 85 billion worth of brand new military equipment to lunatic terrorists worth some impeachments? No???
The bad part about all of this is that they are going to have to turn off the internet here pretty soon because they can’t have us pointing out their treasonous actions and hypocrisy. They can’t have us organizing.
Build your network and, most importantly, build communications outside of your cell phone and internet.
Any fool can see it.
Uh, fools are the ones who do not get it.
Also the term ‘elite’ is not the right term, power brokers is better.
I disagree, the gimme folks have declared war on America in their desire to get stuff. Everything the Dems are doing serves the advance of the gimme philosophy, to steal from the Haves.
The power brokers are using the gimmes as an access to the power needed to destroy the country.
MAGA is dead, DTA is here. Death to America.
So is the era of BigPharma. Say the Pfizer has no interest in helping you.
Come on.
Do it.
Pfizer, like all corporations, or governments, are there to have power and make a profit. Period!
Happy? Ego assuaged?
Pfizer, J&J, and AZ also have incredibly poor saftey records. And have paid many millions in court settlements in the past.
This time, they signed indemnity contracts with Western governments in advance, before the Swill even hit the market.
My ego?
LO fucking L
It’s the karma of promising pancake producing trees.
You make my point exactly.
The elites depend upon and are part of the gimme class. Empty store shelves and skyrocketing inflation are not helping their cause.
Because these people have never in their lives produced anything of value, they have zero understanding of how the real world works and thought they could print their way out of any problem that might occur as they were de-populating the planet.
Giving away money doesn’t create products.
Giving away money doesn’t put food on the grocery store shelves.
Inflation only hurts the gimme lower classes as the things they’d like to have like food and shelter inflate away faster than the government can redistribute.
Capitalists don’t believe in Capitalism – that’s competition stuff is for suckers. Get big or get out. And getting big means there’s no need for competition.
As Marx said, Capital centralizes and concentrates. And the Capitalist class attains class consciousness first. He was against any attempt to stop this (like tariffs). Anything that got in the way got in the way of the Revolution. I differ with him here since I think we should have stopped it. But we didn’t.
However, if you debase the currency to the point it collapses, you can impose a new electronic currency to replace it, at times on the dollar. Moreover, if you control banking and industry via ESG scores so that you can destroy people and entire industries that get in the way of The Plan, people will quietly surrender their freedom for a bowl of whatever gruel they are offered. As a bonus, TPTB get to brand the few holdouts “racists” and “environmental abusers.” We’ll get to see in the next several years whether the bad guys can pull off their plan, or if they’ll fail.
NickelthroweR: “build communications outside of your cell phone and internet”
I thought I had that covered in my preps with my signal fire and wet blanket for smoke signals. Turned out that was actually “Cultural Appropriation” and the local authorities shut me down. I’m back to a couple empty Spaghetti-0’s cans and a piece of twine.
Stelmos: After a 5-4 Scotus decision you can still use smoke signals if you speak in Ebonics.
Hahahahaa! Maybe try semaphore flags next?
Nickel: Their “incompetence” is part of their modus operandi. They are doing all this deliberately, and even when they screw up, they know it’s going to hurt ordinary Americans and push the country closer to the landfill site of history. Anyone who doesn’t realize this by now is a moron. My only question is whether they really believe they will be exempt from some rather kinetic punishment when everything blows up?
They have billionaire bunkers to go to. They better hope they are real secure.
“…billionaire bunkers…” sounds romantic. But, umm… remember “fallout shelters”? Real cool for the first couple of days, until the air starts to stink and the inhabitants too. Then there is a problem with potable water and nobody to fix it. Then some of the food has gone bad long before its “shelf life” was up. Then one of your kinfolks comes knocking, with his children and their diseases …
That was fallout shelters, which over the long run were only useful as tornado hideouts.
As for the well-provisioned, gleaming “billionaire bunkers”, they will undoubtedly require elite, ruthless guards, ready to gun down anybody or anything that gets into the perimeter. Before long those same “elites” are going to figure out that the bunker should rightfully belong to THEM and fuck the fat rich bastards inside.
Can you imagine being holed up for eternity with Bill Gates and Zuckerberg. I’d rather take the clot shot.
an interesting question. if the internet went down, would it prevent opposition to woke federalism, or localize and fuel it. i kind of think the latter would happen in some form.
Gustaf: A great and increasingly pertinent question. We would be hamstrung in many of our actions, but the DS wouldn’t know what we’re up to or be able to set up their digital currency scam. I can picture millions of people going “offline” permanently and finding their own work-arounds. In a way, it’s already happening.
I wonder what percentage of average Americans still have working landlines??
Shortwaves?
Is there a ham in the crowd??
Q used to be a ham. He said the only things hams ever talked about what what equipment they were using.
Q used to be a ham. – Jarek
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Close but no cigar. It was my father that was a ham… his entire life from when crystal sets were invented ’till he drew his last breath. It was sort of the internet/blog of its day.
I WILL credit you with tucking away in your mind vast quantities of obscure minutiae even though you often get it balled up.
@NickelthroweR – everything you said is correct but it is past time to start decorating lamp-posts. Killing the internet is scheduled for the same time as the road blocks to determine who is loyal and who still hasn’t taken the jab. Refuseniks will be offered a roadside jab and those who decline will miss holiday dinner at Grandma’s because they’ve gone FEMA camping.
@ NickelthroweR
The military did the same thing in Iraq. Tanks and other vehicles in the photos seemed to go to the horizon. After the helicopters got everybody off the roof in Saigon, they flew back to the carriers and at sea, pushed the choppers overboard.
We need to organize, out in the open.
Just like, “No,” is the only answer to the vax, organizing in the open is the way to mount an effective opposition to this regime. We cannot hide like bugs, we cannot compartmentalize ourselves like terrorist cells or revolutionaries. Totalitarian regimes ALWAYS co-opt the law and use the law to cleanse dissent. We cannot fall into their convenient trap of becoming criminals by THEIR definitions.
Thank you for using the correct terminology, that is exactly what the jab is doing: Injecting people with AIDs. It’s the same thing all over again.
Fauxi’s second fraud. And this one is global.
By the time people get their ‘booster’ it is estimated (by a lot of scientists and doctors who oppose the clot shot) that 3/4 of peoples’ immune system will be gone.
@MaryQueen – yes and who can stand a chance against the Epsilon variant without an immune system?
Once the immune system of billions is done away with, the coup de grâce will be simple.
The “elite” who have taken saline or nothing at all i.e. Fauci, Gates will sit back and smirk.
To reiterate: we need to start lamp-post decorating while we can!
COJones, that’s it, that’s it, that’s IT
Addendum: But how are we ever going to achieve Birth Lottery licenses unless we’re tracked, traced, and manageable?
I’m not convinced that the Internet will be switched off, because that would force us all into MeatSpace.
MeatSpace is incredibly difficult to monitor and control … and it’s where ‘real stuff’ happens. The Establishment would effectively be blinding itself, if it were to kill the Internet.
They don’t have to kill the entire internet, just social media. That is the part that makes it possible for us to communicate with each other in large numbers, over vast distances.
They can keep Yahoo News and the Amazon site up.
https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/maximum-vaccination?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email
Maximum vaccination
BTW, hanging by noose is not a hate crime (in case you were wondering).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMCFoudyYxQ
Or, you can dispense with everything above the shoulder altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyhxatBH8_w
A family friend who is recuperating from the Chinese virus even though vaccinated, is alienating friends with his non-stop proselytizing in favor of the shots.
Everyone must hit their own bottom Beryl before they’re willing to see the light
SY: if someone tries to hit my bottom, they’re definitely going to see lights.
LOL. Nice
Beryl: be alienated!
HeW – I’ve been alienated my whole life. It’s really paying off now.
jaja
You can’t fix stupid – or culted.
“It would surely have been worse if I didn’t take it”
–Some buffoon with a coffee filter on his face
That’s it! Start wearing white coffee filters around with “Let’s Go Brandon!” written in red!
“The convulsions and clots show it’s really working!”
Personally, I’d rather Buttguy play pretend mommy than mess with the levers of power. It’s better for all of us if he and his vaxxxed up boyfriend play hide the salami in South Bend.
#MeToo
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“it’s just two weeks.”
“it’s just a mask.”
“it’s just six feet.”
“it’s just non essential businesses.”
“it’s just non essential workers.”
“it’s just a bar.” “it’s just a restaurant.”
“it’s just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals.”
“it’s just to make the cases go down.”
“it’s just to flatten the curve.”
“it’s just a few inmates.”
“it’s just to keep others from getting scared.”
“it’s just for a few more weeks.”
“it’s just church, you could still pray.”
“it’s just a bracelet.”
“it’s just an app.”
“it’s just for tracing.”
“it’s just to let others know you’re safe to be around.”
“it’s just to let others know who you’ve been in contact with.”
“it’s just a few more months.”
“it’s just large gatherings.” “it’s just a rare side-effect.”
“it’s just a vaccine.”
“it’s just for the vulnerable.”
“it’s just to protect children.”
“it’s just a little microchip.”
“it’s just a blood test.”
“it’s just a scan.”
“it’s just for medical information.”
“it’s just a vaccination certificate.”
“it’s just like a credit card.”
“it’s just a few places that don’t take cash.”
“it’s just so you can travel.”
“it’s just so you can get your driver’s license.”
“it’s just so you can vote.”
“it’s just a few more years.”
it’s just the new world order.
to flatten the curve we were to lock down for 10 days
that was 18 months ago
All these actions to combat something that does not really exist?
You betcha.
Time to wakey wakey, JAZ.
We can do this!”
wu flu exists, Id guess.
They literally did war games on this, and they included these actions, as well as sample Tweets from influencers and strategies for demonizing the “unvaxxed.”
What is Event 201? Did you even read the “SPARS pandemic” excercise that was posted here months ago?
You think that them doing the frog-in-pot trick to remove your rights is actually because “the virus” is dangerous? Two states away, they have blocked me from entering a grocery store.
You think that verifies your claim?
LOL.
Oh John! Because it doesn’t exist, it can be anything!
We were supposed to land on one Normandy beach but we landed on another. We tricked those Natsi bastards because we knew they had broken our code.
War is deception – Sun Tzu
“Just” nothing? Nothing is very, very strong – C.S Lewis
Look for what isn’t there. It’s lack that is the root of fullness – general Taoism. A cup is useful because it is mostly empty space. The Great Pyramid would make a good granary because it is mostly filled up space.
Don’t forget the Christians: “I getting vaxxed because I care about other people, just like Jesus did.”
Don’t forget the ‘clever’ who will wrangle their ‘religious’ exemption.
‘Exemptions’ are for legitimate orders. Illegitimate orders are met with simple refusal.
There is no greater God given religious exemption than that codified in the Nuremberg Code.
“No, I will not take the shot.”
End of story, no explanation required.
Try not to get arrested.
Agreed, Pete. And no fake clot shot passes either. Just Say No.
15 days
The restrictions that we are seeing on stuff is self imposed. The American people, at least one over the majority, elected these Bozos into the positions that they can tear down the US for two reasons, Woke and climate change. The Stupidification that is becoming so evident now with the resultant pacification of the public under dictatorial control will control this country from now on. IMHO, JHK is an optimist with his summarizations. With the dissolving of the southern border, this country is losing its right to be called a sovereign nation. It is becoming a deposition point for all the human scum of the earth. “Give me your tired, your poor” will become a curse on this country. Gimme, gimme is becoming the rallying cry for the American people. It is ironic that the maxing out of the gimme folks should be halted by the supply line issues created by the idiots that they elected.
It still appalls me the total collapsed of all things institutional into the morass of the Left and its Deep State. It is called suicide ideation on a grand scale. I saw a report where a couple of ardent conservatives are starting a drive to separate the Red and Blue states. I wish them well. There is no way that this country will ever consolidate again, the Wokesters have guaranteed that.
Colin Powell died from complications of Covid. Sure wish someone had told him that there is no such thing as Covid. And that is all that is worth discussing on it.
Colin Powell died from complications of Covid.
Impossible to say whether that’s true or not, Even assuming his death was respiratory related, at his age, it could well have been common pneumonia, which kills thousands every year.
CP’s death and Clinton’s recent brush with mortality are a reminder to all the “elites” who destroy human lives: you too will die and be called to account.
Well, it used to kill thousands every year.
One of the little know side effects of covid is that it cures pneumonia.
It does a real number on flu deaths too.
LOL! So true! Got flu? Get some Covid. Clears it right up.
LMAO.
God is a nationalist, not a globalist. He created nations because that is the way He wanted it. He chooses and uses nations as well as individuals.
Our friend’s 21 year son just died of a heart attack. Paramedics couldnt reach him in time after it happened. He didnt use drugs and there was no family history of heart disease. He was strong and healthy and worked on a fishing boat.
He was fully vaxed and got the 2nd shot in August. What else could it be?
We need a tribunal.
Another 21 years old died – same. Notice the headline? Of covid19. Not of vaccine injury. They wait a couple of paragraphs down to mention he was double-jabbed:
https://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2021/10/uga-senior-dies-covid-19-complications/
Standard bury the lead several paragraphs down tactic perfected at the NYT.
Not knowing all the particulars, relying on paramedics to “reach him in time” isn’t the best plan.
Self-sufficiency includes managing medical emergencies. Not all events are survivable. Some are with immediate decisive and effective intervention.
If it is a cardiac arrest, the window is 10 minutes. Survival drops roughly 10% every minute of inaction. After 5 minutes, at 50%, the window is not only half open, it is half closed.
The accepted “gold standard” for EMS response time is 6 minutes.
A lot of locations experience much longer response times for a variety of reasons.
Excellent high quality chest compressions and early defibrillation are what work in the cardiac arrest. Not all are survivable regardless of the available treatment.
It is not difficult to put this in place.
‘Stop the Bleed” has been another push. Something which is also rather easy to learn.
I’m a bit off topic as the original post had to do with an otherwise healthy 21 year old who got the vaxx. With this in mind, I’m encouraging anyone/everyone to learn to do what they can do proactively rather than waiting for help to arrive in a medical emergency.
Hope they do an autopsy.
I know an olympian. Her friends daughter had to get the vax to travel with a team to play somewhere.
18 years young, she now has the vax and heart inflammation.
Hawthorn for the heart
Calendula for the boils
Artemesia for the marburg
Nac 4 lungs + selenium
Very interesting about the assault on tractor trailers and those who operate them Jim. One might think that in order for truckers to be able to afford a new 6 figure rig every three years it would require a BOOMING economy in order for that to be affordable. Of course, if there are only 10 truck drivers in any given state by then, perhaps they will be able to afford to make those kind of truck payments with the massive freight charges they will be imposing on the customers.
An interesting subject too because I just finished taking a class on requirements that the Federal government has instituted for anyone who employs a person with a CDL license. It deals with the new DOT Clearing House that will go into operation in 2023. This database will track and record every CDL operator along with their driving records and set out detailed requirements for monitoring and drug testing of every driver. One of the factors that was noted in this class was the huge shortage of drivers right now that could pass muster under these new rules. This issue alone and the government’s plans for what they are going to do with it makes a pretty strong case for the outright concerted effort to destroy America’s ability to maintain the supply lines that keep the peasants eating and even alive.
Population reduction, once booed and dismissed as a conspiracy theory appears to be taking on the frightening specter of conspiracy fact. Oh well, most of our problems will be solved once we are dead right? And we will certainly be a lot “safer” too then. Oh boy.
Looking deeply at this trucking/supply chain destruction issue I would argue that our beloved host has just moved up many steps in the nation’s relevancy category with his “smaller and more local” model of the future. If his theory of peak oil occurs soon as well, I for one would place him on the top step and call him my leader. Unfortunately for US(A), there will be nothing to lead at that point. Perhaps if I can realize my plan of moving to northern Pennsylvania just across the border from Hancock, New York I will be able to almost call him neighbor.
“If his theory of peak oil occurs soon”
An oil price spike preceded the 2008 “Great Recession.” At the time this is exactly what Peak Oil Theory predicted, afaict.
Right now it looks like something similar is happening.
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(expanding on the point)
We are at $85/barrel right now, which is at the high end of the historical range.
Some time in Sept./Oct. 2007, oil crossed above $100/barrel in inflation-adjusted Oct. 2021 dollars, which was high, but few paid much attention.
Then 2008 came. As people were focused on Hillary versus Obama, oil was relentlessly pushing up and up and up. It became a focus of interest when it peaked in July 2008 around $185 (again in inflation-adjusted Oct. 2021 dollars). That was eight weeks before the big Sept. 2008 crash.
What happens if oil goes to $150+/barrel today and never goes down?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVVplAweZw
There is still reserve capacity available to offset price increases. However, I do notice that these perturbations to the supply demand situations are happening in 2021, not 2035, 2050 or by the end of the century as TLE predicted.
This latest increase was politically created; down the road, that will be supply side centered.
IMHO, the effects of the Green New Deal will be in place as the availability of oil will diminish.
Do not puke on this statement, JHK’s peak oil prophesy forces us to a low FF future just as much as the idiot Left.
Trying to solve the problem over the next four years, however, will destroy the world, not just the US.
RE: JohnAZ
“I do notice that these perturbations to the supply demand situations are happening in 2021, not 2035, 2050 or by the end of the century as TLE predicted.”
Sorry, but who or what is TLE?
Mr Kunstler’s book, “The Long Emergency” about the end of the age of oil, which may indeed be what is happening underneath it all, including the Elite’s attempt to power down while staying in control. It’s available in most large libraries.
John’s use of TLE refers to us being in the The Long Emergency, the interim between the Age of Oil and A World Made by Hand (another series of books).
“who or what is TLE?”
Our host’s seminal book, The Long Emergency (2005).
E.H. – JHK’s The Long Emergency.
Sorry, late to the party. Have an appointment later today with my cranio-rectologist.
Thanks to all for pointing out TLE means “The Long Emergency,” in reference to the 2000s-era book (for which Kunstler claims he had the idea since circa 1990, I think) and the concept implied in the title.
Continued thoughts in fresh thread below (an out of commenting “reply” real estate here):
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/let-us-count-the-ways/#comment-631255
“What happens if oil goes to $150+/barrel today and never goes down?” – E.H. Hail
Simple. We print up a shitload of money and hand it out to everyone so they can pay the higher costs. God bless Modern Monetary Theory. LOL
Peak Oil is a process that has been underway in plain sight and it is no theory.
EROEI
Energy return on energy invested, dropping like a 737max with a clot-shotted pilot at the wheel
Many people that frequent this blog know that you can’t take an ever increasing amount of a finite resource for ever. Peak Oil is just a name for this simple fact.
Also encapsulates the idea that we took the easy stuff first, and what remains is the hard to produce stuff.
Hence no more cheap oil, still plenty of oil, (for the moment)
Hope that helps
maybe I should have a said ‘a lot of oil’ rather than ‘plenty of oil’.
Two different things.
But at the bumpy plateau there is still a lot of oil, just not very much excess energy on energy invested.
The plan behind gutting the independent trucking companies might be self-driving trucks. I saw a 60 minutes segment about 4 or 5 months ago with a couple of CEOs who bragged how safe they are and how’s there’s plenty of investment cash backing them up. AI does the driving. They’re already testing them on the roads.
There were no questions about how this would deprive men of their livelihood or change the culture of long-haul trucking. It’s as if the people these new technologies impact aren’t important at all — and maybe that’s exactly how they feel about it.
I, for one, will not get near an Interstate highway with AI trucks on it.
They will need chips and processors. The processors make a 25,000 mile journey for the finished product to arrive at the end user in the US. This takes a lot of energy. So do the processors.
They have a useful life of around 4 years (average), less if used for energy-intense heat-producing crypto mining.
I have to ask if it is realistic? I don’t know, but I would not call it a done deal.
I would hazard a guess that AI is pretty energy intensive itself
All this to keep old fume-producing semi-trucks from Mexico out of the US.
The fucking dimmykrats have put a couple of ignorant clueless braindead morons in office thru nefarious means. They are now the enemy and deserve no quarter. My day will be target practice and sharpening the tines on my pitchfork. FUCK THEM ALL, woke cocksuckers.
C’mon Man, tell us how you really feel.
I wonder what dialogue sounded like before 1861.
By 1861 that dialog ended with something along the lines of, “You are a poltroon and a coward. I demand satisfaction, Suh!”
Dueling was still a thing back then.
I want to party with you!
Hi Jim, you make a great point which must be re-iterated “There is, front and center, “Joe Biden’s” vaccination mandate — with no basis in law”.
The mandate is simply a open-air prison sentence without a trial. At least with a trial you could be sentenced to prison and provided with food, clothing and shelter. The mandate takes away your means of purchasing life’s necessities. Your family is thrown into poverty.
The 8th Amendment protects us from such excessive fines and the 5th Amendment protects our life, liberty and property without due process of law.
When is the Supreme Court going to stop this dictatorship?
Maybe it’s time to become an entrepreneur for some of us.
As for flyover land: I was thinking the other day what $300,000,000 (the price tag for one day of our 20 year Afghanistan policy) would do for a place like Quincy, Illinois. A former resident of this flyover central city was telling me of all the factories that left there. Could we come up with 365 Quincies a year and spend $300,000,000 there for the next 20 years or is that all done? Anyone? Bueller?
Entrepreneur to do what? All progression in the economy have been moved overseas, this country is done.
Become a natural food entrepreneur. There is way too much crappy food out there – mostly giant multinational conglomerates. Everyone eats, until they don’t. Farm. Start a car company. Whatever it is that you desire – something you would like to see in the world that doesn’t exist. Start small, part time, see if there’s market. Learn, adjust, expand. Follow your bliss.
All we have to do to see how badly our food supply has been contaminated is look around. My youngest daughter was saying to me last week that she and her husband were watching some show that showed old newsreels from the fifties and she was amazed at how healthy and slender all the people were. It was rare when I was growing up to see what is now common, a morbidly obese man or woman.
Before then, no high nitrogen fertilizer was routinely used nor tons of pesticides, artificial hormones and antibiotics. Did you know that 70% of all antibiotics used in the US are for cattle? And it’s now well known that these contribute to weight gain.
It would be great to see that money channeled to independent farmers who didn’t use these methods to produce a crop or raise farm animals.
@SW:
I tend to think that big corporate farms and CAFOs, along with their destructive and poisonous agricultural methods, exist large because of agricultural subsidies–and of course government programs to grow corn for ethanol.
I don’t have the data to prove it, but I think that without ag subsidies such companies would go bankrupt. Unfortunately, most independent farmers support ag subsidies because the get a little something in the way of subsidies themselves.
I often imagine what the landscape in my county would look like without large-scale government-subsidized corporate farming. Instead of vast acreages of corn and soybeans, we’d see small family farms and many 5-20-acre mini-farms. We’d see vegetable gardens, high tunnels, orchards, berries, nut trees, bee hives, meat and dairy goats, chickens, maybe a couple of cattle and 3-4 hogs, wood lots for firewood–pretty much all of the above on most farms or farmettes. Some would specialize in producing quality hay, some in honey production, egg production, milk production, artisan cheese-making, or charcuterie.
I think the main reason we don’t see this is because of government subsidies and other government intrusions in agriculture.
@ anthea.
I agree that would be a much better world for everyone & maybe a degree of natural health could be restored. Why is it that when the government (probably with good intentions) gets involved the vultures show up & the destruction begins?
The small scale marijuana growers are being put out of business in California & corporate growers are taking over. Even marijuana !
@ SW:
My neighbor down the block is a licensed grower of marijuana. We had a long talk yesterday about his growing methods and the chemistry and methods for producing a wide variety of products. (I know a little about this stuff, because I was interested in manufacturing CBD bath bombs to sell a couple of years ago and studied up on making CBD oil and calculating the strength of the end product.)
I asked him if he could sell the products he is making–which is an astonishing lot of them for a guy operating out of his spare bedroom. He said, “Not legally.” His license only allows him to make products for medicinal use for him and his wife, both of whom have pain issues and a bunch of other medical problems.
He told me that, in order to get a license that would allow him to sell his products, he would have to put up something like a million-dollar bond. (I forget the actual figure, but it was staggering.)
So here’s a guy who is highly skilled, who could make a pretty decent living working out of his garage, who is prohibited by law from selling.
He explained that the only legal option that would allow him to sell his products is to become a “caregiver” for a few individuals. If he could expand his operation by converting his garage to growing space, he could probably serve as “caregiver” for about four people. That’s the only option for the proverbial “little guy.”
Just another example of the way the government boot-on-the-neck stifles and exterminates small businesses.
For all his mistakes, one of the cornerstones of the Trump administration was doing something about our dependency on, and vulnerability to, a communist country.
Also the devastating effects of the situation on working class America.
That’s why President Trump has over 75 million supporters, no matter what he does, and why the Democrats and most of the Republicans hate him.
How long have some of these people been in office, and done NOTHING that earns them a fraction of the love we supporters have for our man?
It’s just plain jealousy, when it isn’t outright corruption.
Also, fear. The Deep State fears the 75 million people.
That they do.
Don’t confuse jealousy with envy. Jealousy watches and fumes, envy attacks.
Oh, he has his attackers, but I’m referring to those who would rather not see the USA torn down, but if it means getting behind Trump, they can’t bring themselves to do it.
They are jealous that he wandered into their territory and became more popular than they could ever dream of.
The return on investment for the American people would have been great!
The grift, not so much. It’s telling which one they went for!
Can we retroactively tax the recipients of the largess? Lol
Plenty of this money went to big companies like Halliburton who hired “independent contractors.” A friends’ son was a cable guy who worked in Afghanistan for 2 years and made $500k and got to free airline 2x/year to fly anywhere in the world he wanted to for vacation. And it was tax free.
Bill: Sorry, but your rights and your existence have no “standing”. Please leave Scotus to get on with its real job of deciding which of the 95 genders can use which restroom in Spokane.
Hi Hereward the Woke: I think you are referring to the supreme court not hearing an important case recently due to “standing”. Which case was that?
Two men stood: Alito and Thomas. The rest are simply shit.
You are right by saying the SC is the only institution that will block what is going on, a legacy from Trump.
The problem is that the total control of everything politic by the Deep State has allowed the Left to control everything, everything. I see no progress, actually retreat by all things from traditional America. The SC is rapidly becoming a target, either stuff it or just ignore it.
The gimmes are winning. The scary part is if they ultimately win, we all lose horribly.
I’m sorry, but the SCOTUS is made up of WEF puppetry. There will be no recourse for Americans except some sort of general strike or a war, which is what they are pushing for.
Like I said, Mary, totally ignored.
“When is the Supreme Court going to stop this dictatorship?”
If you hold your breath waiting you’ll likely turn blue. Thus, don’t hold your breath.
Even if the Supreme Court rules vaccine mandates are unconstitutional, that doesn’t mean they’ll stop. Sometimes it’s taken years for rulings to be put in place and the rest of the government has to co-operate. They won’t.
As soon as a major class-action lawsuit makes it’s way to them after all the appeals fail?
Mr. Kunstler wrote:
“Looks like more than ten thousand deaths in the USA directly attributable to the vaxxes under the VAERS registry, and millions of injuries around the world.”
A UK newspaper has published a purported study this week claiming 16,000 WuhanCorona-Vaccine-linked deaths in the USA (strictly speaking, “the product marketed as a vaccine”). Up through end of September 2021. And 1,700 in the UK for the same period.
Here it is:
https://hailtoyou.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/uk-newspaper-ad-on-covid-v-risks-the-forester-october-13-2021.jpeg
(Full-page spread in “The Forester” (Gloucestershire), Oct 13, 2021.)
The US per capita death rate is higher than the UK’s, implying up to **a 1-in-10,000 chance of death caused by the vaccine** so far. That’s not very high, and the Vaccine Pushers will of course say it’s less than the chance of death by the horrifying Wuhan Apocalypse Virus.
But the deaths here potentially have a long “tail.” And in life-years-lost terms the vaccine-linked deaths do punch above their weight vs. the purported covid-flu-deaths.
These numbers also let us calculate the probable age-and-condition thresholds at which the vaccine is more dangerous to you than the virus. Some of us have been proposing that this threshold obviously exists, but we just didn’t have the data to get it pinned down, but it’s probably fairly high in age.
I’ll leave the calculation to others.
The vaccine:virus relative risk thresholds could be (making these up for demonstration’s sake): a healthy eighty-year-old, a moderately healthy sixty-five-year-old, and a very unhealthy or morbidly obese etc fifty-year-old—the vaccine:virus threshold-line could run through all these three types. It’s both age- and condition-related.
Absolutely correct.
BTW, the multiple myeloma diagnosis that Powell had may have nixed any response to the vaxx, which he had received.
Or the vax could have exacerbated the cancer.
According to honest doctors, the cancer rate is skyrocketing and the cancers are very aggressive.
The shot stops the immune system from stopping the cancer cells from replicating.
I don’t know. Do we honestly believe Powell got the real shit, or (being relatively elite) did he get placebo/saline/nothing? I would’ve thought the latter.
The average age of death from Covid is higher than the average age of death. Thus Covid is nothing and more than nothing because nothing has great utility. A brick is a brick because of its fullness. A cup a cup because of its emptiness. If they tell you a brick is a cup, watch out. Next they will try and build wall with cups.
The use of the word “tail” is misleading. Giver the evidence so far the vaccines effects seem to be cumulative so we are probably still on the lead in to peak mortality. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we don’t start to see a tail for five years plus.
The direct vaccine deaths may be a relatively small *relative* sum in the end, compared to the “long tail” of Panic-, Lockdown-, economic-damage-related-, and social-disruption-related early deaths, of which we’ve already seen numbers which — in life-years lost terms — likely swamp the “Covid” deaths.
It can be hard to prove with certainty in many cases. But some are easy to see:
The spike in drug-overdose deaths as a result of a crazy Flu Panic is one that is obviously correlated.
Tens of thousands more drug deaths, the median with perhaps up to 10x more life-years lost than the typical Covid-positive death tossed in the pile to create their Big Scary Numbers… There are many more such things.
Unseen costs to indulging in a crazy and hysterical flu-virus panic, and then brutally digging in on it.
See also:
““All Life-Years Matter” — On the Corona-Panic’s social and economic costs vs. Covid-deaths; an Appeal to the Pro-Panic side”
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/all-life-years-matter-on-the-corona-panics-social-and-economic-costs-vs-covid-deaths-in-life-years-lost-terms/
Mr. Kunstler wrote: “….the replacement parts for all the engines and machines that American normality depends on….”
Someone on Twitter (describing herself as a “finance executive, professional economist and party guest to the stars”) replied to that with these words:
“[D]isintegration is the goal. Destroying the American middle class as an entity capable of resisting anything at all is the goal; it has been since the end of World War 2 when the eye of international finance swiveled onto the only other challenger to its power.”
https://twitter.com/792×33/status/1450103267938250753
When they start with “But as we all know…” I get contrary. I don’t like contrary.
The Allies fought on the side of the Global Death Merchants. The Axis Powers fought against them.
We were on the wrong side.
Excellent article today, James! Thank you.
“Let us count the ways that America is committing suicide by Democratic Party policy. ”
Yes, let us count the ways – there seems to be an endless list, above and beyond what you’ve put forth here.
Whose lives are not being harmed in some way by the Jo Jo Magoo madministration?
I have to say I am glad I stocked up on like a year’s worth of food, but if my heating goes out I’m as screwed as the next guy.
Maybe I’ll invest in a cord of wood.
Happy Holidaze….
Get a big -40 degree sleeping bag, and some longjohns.
Rumor has it that you might need three dogs some nights.
Great idea.
Total control, Mary, in all ways, from all directions.
This country is gone, totally insane. Stark raving mad!
Are you starting to doubt the sincerity of those demanding that we take their multiple jabs while they remain exempt, JAZ?
I have never believed in involuntary jabbing. It is individual choice.
Risk assessment is up to the individual.
A good example is the 21 year old previously mentioned. The data has been available for months that two things could affect him. One, clotting, in some individuals, inflammation caused by the vaxx irritated endothelial vessel tissue and triggers the clotting cascade. Two, cardiac myelitis in young men is another small population problem. To me, both of these should stop young men from taking the jab. But it is still up to the individual. I see high school boys dropping dead from cardiac problems in sports every fall, shall we stop football? Individual choice.
You missed his point, automatically going into “rights” talk (which I agree with of course).
He was asking why so many of the Elite don’t believe in what they push.
I wonder what life would be like had Trump won last year and the two Georgia Senate seats had stayed red?
Now THAT is a fun thought experiment!
The Dems would have started impeachment because the jabs were killing too many!
Mary: Search “How to make your own wood burning stove” on the net. Even a egghead like me can make one and they work well for cooking and heating.
I rent currently – is this an outdoor wood burning stove or indoor? Sounds awesome. Thanks.
I bought a cheap ($150) rocket stove for the balcony. It runs on a couple of dry sticks. I can warm food, melt and boil snow for hot drinks and hot water bottles, and heat up my cast iron cookware to use as emergency heaters in the one small room in the apartment we will be camping in. You can build those things yourself using fire bricks or cinderblock for practically nothing.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
E Barrett Browning
And hope Jim, don’t forget hope.
Some People
Some people have a meanness
Some people kick ya when you’re down
Some people shiv ya
Some people, when you least expect it
Some people suffer such envy
Some people are full of themselves
Some people laugh and ridicule
Some people jolt & jeer
Some people intentionally cause damage
Some people can’t shut up
Some people grab all they can
Some people fill their pockets
Some people ruin things for others
Some people have such Pride
Some people pretend to care
Some people never reproduced
Some people withered and dried up
Some people lose
Lovely.
Years ago, before I found out that water with a bit of dish soap suffocates them quickly, I used to spray hornet nests with commercial wasp-adjusted nerve toxin, like “Raid”.
The spray took effect very quickly and it provoked the hornets to fly around fast and mad as, I suppose, they were in much pain. Sometimes would also try and attack me in their final death throes, but generally they curled up and died before they could afflict effective stings.
Why the push for total experimental “vaccinations”? My dark mind goes to the hornets. If they all start dying at once, sure, they get mad and can possibly afflict some retribution, but generally they were too self interested in their death story to do much damage and very quickly they are all dead and they no longer occupied “my” territory.
The thing is: I had to make sure to hit them all with the spray. It was the unaffected or under dosed that could really be dangerous.
Healthy, tribally-gathered hornets can really mete out some serious pain.
From the beginning, I considered their urgency to get us all vaccinated to be OUTSIZED and suspicious. I began my Covid insurgency as a result and am happy with my decision to remain unvaxxed. Since, I’ve ostensibly, had Covid. I actually had whatever the PCR test said my roomate had, and it said Covid… so
There are a few OUTSIZED efforts on the part of the totalitarians. The effort to thwart Trump was outsized and suspicious as well. George Floyd was OUTSIZED and suspicious. Antifa was OUTSIZED and suspicious.
Hornets always go back to the hive. A well placed shop-vac hose, can suck them into a vat of soapy water as they come and go. One at a time. Remember that.
Thus you break the tribe. That’s what mass 3rd World immigration was for and mass anti-White education and propaganda. And put minorities ahead of Whites too of course – by Federal decrees.
Send the hornets to Tuktoyaktuk: a spray device with liquid nitrogen. Can’t see any downside and it’s certainly not poison.
Of course somebody really stupid or a butterfingers could get serious pain off spilt nitrogen but as long as you handle it cautiously it’s for the bees.
The thinkers are certainly aware of the – ahem – downside risk. Consider all of the various scenarios that were modeled, including the decision to go with covid vs other alternatives.
But, as wellington said, perhaps they expect they will prevail, even if it becomes “a damn close run thing”.
quote from Kunstler blog entry:
“Let us count the ways that America is committing suicide by Democratic Party policy”
“Joe Biden…will be gone, and the Democratic Party horse he rode in on with him. And when that time comes, we will be ready to start stitching things back together again in this land, perhaps a bit differently than the way we’d gotten used to”
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There is something resembling a one-party state in the USA now, by which I mean that whatever happens, it somehow feels they just have a lock on power — a lot like it felt to Soviet-bloc people.
It’s worth looking at domestic quasi-opposition who might actually challenge them from within. Is there any non-demagogic figure close to the equal of RON DeSANTIS right now?
I recently published an in-depth research piece on DeSantis’ personal origins and family (ancestry), an attempt to learn more about who he is, how he thinks, how he got where he is and did not meld into the Elite Blob. It’s available here:
“The ancestry of Ron DeSantis: son of Florida, grandson of industrial Ohio, great-grandson of Italy” (Oct. 2021)
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2021/10/12/the-ancestry-of-ron-desantis-son-of-florida-grandson-of-industrial-ohio-great-grandson-of-italy/
Well-written, a nice piece of research with good organization and flow.
I learned a lot, thank you.
Spot on essay, Mr. K. Thank you. In addition to exposing us to the Truth, you do it with such dystopian humor !
Have any of you stumbled across this? – it’s low brow humor, primitive cut and paste animation, and it is hilarious! They’ve so far managed to stay under the radar on yootoob by using codewords and such. Take a look – they always brighten my day:
The United Spot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8GKGzvq5I
Breathe, laugh, resist!!!
Funny! Thanks.
I know this blog, and in fact Jim Kunstler himself, if focused on primarily the negatives. Don’t get me wrong. It is important to keep an eye on it to be able to discern what’s happening. I have a handful of Jim’s books, and have read this blog since post #1
However it is not only nonproductive to focus primarily on the negative in our personal lives, but detrimental to our mental and physical health.
Things look gloomy right now for sure…or things look ripe for positive change and opportunities to do more and better things in our lives and communities.
Now is not a time to hunker in and build up our defense. It is a time to get out and start building the world we want.
Just as an example, and in way to show I practice what I preach, I am professionally trained and have a inclination toward horticulture. So I have started a home based tree and plant nursery with a focus on fruit and nut trees. Something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Now I’m using the changing situation to make changes.This not only gives me fulfillment as meaningful work, but alleviates much anxiety about future food insecurities.
Point is; at a certain point focusing on the negative and wringing our hands and gnashing our teeth ?can only make us cynical and more part of a problem than any solution. What are you good at? What do you enjoy? How can you help others in your immediate vicinity? If you’ve never done volunteer work, I can tell you that few things give as much warmth and peace to the soul.
“In a world that’s so bad; it’s not hard to be good” -Built to Spill
Its the negative that’ll kill ya Travis. A good point though and speaking of what can be done right now that is productive is well detailed by Dr. David Martin in the interview here:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/david-martin-patents-recombinant-coronavirus/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ea1eed7e-df55-4651-b376-06023fddfc88
If you don’t want to listen to the entire interview, which is amazing as all of Dr. Martin’s work always is, skip to the last few minute where he answers the question of what we should be engaging in now. It is great advice that most CFN Bloggers would love to hear.
nice, congrats on the fruit trees. do any chinese chestnuts? i think, as an end goal, we can do both…live positively and happily while simultaneously keeping a full eye on the full ball. and in the end, i think both aspects are necessary to each other, actually feed off each other, a bit paradoxically. cheers
If that’s your opinion, then why are you here?
My take is that to solve a problem, we must first understand and define it. Considering the total lack of transparency regarding big gov, big pharma, big biz, along with the imprisonment of our brave publishers of truth like Julian Assange, James performs an essential service here in educating and inspiring us to action in our own lives and in our own ways.
However step two must be to take positive and sometimes dramatic action to solve the problem or to aviod the bad consequence, although we humans are not very good at prevention IMHO. My frustration is that I see no one anywhere working to counteract the assaults, although the lawsuits and protests do appear to be commencing. Not that either of those reactions ever accomplishes anything.
Thanks, Travis, for a bit of uplift. It can be very depressing watching evil (apparently) winning.
That’s good advice, but why do you think any of us aren’t already doing that?
Two months Maternity Leave, HolyShit! Pete Buttpounder has only been on the job not even 10 months, and already he took 2 months off? At this critical time?
When my kid was born I took a few days off. After that my wife, mother in law and sister in law told me to get my ass back to work as I was just a clod getting in the way and f#kki g things up LoL!
Both Pete and Chasten were sitting up in the hospital type bed, each holding an infant, as if they had BOTH given birth to one of them, the one they were holding I suppose. Who is the Father?
I read its illegal. He did not have enough time on the job to get the leave.
JHK: ‘Looks like more than ten thousand deaths in the USA directly attributable to the vaxxes under the VAERS registry.’
Here’s a copy of the actual VAERS form that Physicians must fill out to file an adverse event.
file:///C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/VAERSForm_Sep2021.pdf
No one in their right mind would think that most ER docs seeing hundreds of patients per day or ICU docs who are pressured to the point of collapse, daily, is going to fill this thing out. Too much going on; too many emergencies all around you; no time for bullshit. All evidence points to only one out of 10 to 15 events ever getting reported. 10K represents only a small fraction of the ‘vax’ deaths.
FYI
And, by the way, it’s not PCPs or outpatient specialists filling out the form. Its the attending hospital physician taking care of the patient who dies, that fills out the form. The busiest people in medicine. Do the math.
Here is a better link to the VAERS form; just follow the instructions and you’ll get to it.
https://vaers.hhs.gov/uploadFile/index.jsp
Zev Zelenko says the number is easily 250,000 deaths.
Here is a link to an interview with a PA whistleblower stating that VAERs is essentially ignored and that hospitals are full of ‘fully vaxxed’ patients with severe COVID. 250K is not out of the question.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/17/physicians-asst-whistleblower-reveals-hospital-intake-with-90-percent-vaccinated-patients-and-hospital-administration-refusing-to-report-adverse-events/
Here in Idaho, we have one scrappy little news outlet pestering St. Lukes to answer questions about what they consider ‘vaccinated’ to be since they got their covid $$ to say that 90% of the people in the hospital are unvaxxed. Unsurprisingly, they have said that people who were vaxxed less than 2 weeks ago are considered unvaxxed, and even people who were vaxxed OUTSIDE THEIR SYSTEM.
Numbers are being played with like nobody’s business.
Heh, this is in my neck of the woods, where the Coronacult is firmly entrenched.
Thank you neurodoc for posting the link.
I heard part of the interview. It is surreal. I doubt this is the only hospital where staff is so pressured.
This PA is a heroine, God bless her!
Interesting analysis of this by Steve Kirsch:
https://rumble.com/vnqldq-tfnt11-the-fdas-big-mistake.html
Also, many doctors don’t even know that VAERS reporting exists.
A couple of surveys in the past have indicated only about 1 in 200 adverse reactions make it into VAERS.
I’ve also seen a few reports that the system is currently (i,e, past 18 months) very buggy and prone to kicking people out after 3 or 4 minutes.
Quell Surprise!
Think I’ll have a slice of yellow cake today to commemorate Col’lyin’ Powell’s trip to the deep state in the sky
With some Condoleesa Rice special recipe yellow cake frosting on top!
Mr. Kunstler,
In viewing the major issues we face…we disagree on a major point. You, I believe, suggest that the powers that be…the shot callers within and without the US government are foolish, ignorant, perhaps stupid. I believe otherwise.
The obvious outrages that occur daily have a purpose. The destruction of our Culture and lifestyle intentional. To what purpose, I can only speculate. My current thoughts, however, are leaning to a very sinister scenario.
Push the population to rebellion, and then use the full force of the US Government to quell such. Martial law. Curfew. Suspension of the Constitution for the good of the population, mandatory gun control. The shot callers need a damned good reason…Jan 6…just a dress rehearsal. Consider that a person with a full belly and a bit of comfort is usually not prone to riot…and this winter may change that status for many.
The law does allow, under Presidential order, suspension of the Posse Comitatus statutes.
elysianfield wrote:
___________
“The destruction of our Culture and lifestyle intentional. To what purpose, I can only speculate. My current thoughts, however, are leaning to a very sinister scenario.”
___________
I don’t think it’s so hard to understand US politics. All politics is coalitional. The one coalition is Core America, itself a set of subcomponents. The other is what the journalist Steve Sailer has called “The coalition of the fringes,” an even more fractured, weakly rooted, and wide ranging set of subcomponents.
There is a lot of nuance here and historical strands to pull on if one wants, but the point is: The coalition of the fringes is fundamentally highly insecure, rather internally unstable, and by its very nature inherently negative (wanting to tear down). Its animating and driving impulse is that it wants to defeat the Core America (or Historical America) coalition, and it has entirely wrapped up its identity and weaved an entire historical dialectic for itself around making the opposing coalition and its loyalists into something Evil.
This, I believe, explains why Corona Pro-Panic vs. Corona Anti-Panic positions eventually largely dug into the pre-set Blue vs. Red political mold (this did not occur elsewhere so much). It explains why the Corona-Panic itself lasted this long, because dominant “coalition of the fringes” believed they could be used as a weapon against their domestic enemies. This an insight so obvious now it need hardly be stated. Everyone knows it. Everyone can see it. Almost all virus rhetoric has long been tinged with Blue-vs-Red politics.
The current problems come in part the dilemma within the dominant coalition being a “coalition of the fringes” in the first place, whose purpose is to crush and dispossess the Core America coalition. They are not foolish nor ignorant, but they have ideological commitments they cannot get out of. They’re stuck in negative mode. I think Covid Mania kind of demonstrates this too.
The whole thing long served them well. But in the 2010s somewhere
it reached obvious “diminishing returns,” politically, and is probably now well within the zone of “negative returns.”
But how can they stop? Individuals can defect, but the coalition goes on, powered by noxious fumes of groupthink. It’s like a superorganism. Put another way, they’re not necessarily (on the main) stupid or ignorant, but they ARE trapped.
I agree that this has been turned, in the US, into a Blue/Red thing, but I disagree that it is coming from the grassroots.
This is orchestrated from the top, and fed by 24/7 propaganda aimed at those already primed by TDS (which also came from the top).
Individuals have defected, including our host. Looking at the Crazy they said “No”.
But the propaganda keeps coming, in multiple versions, spread on every possible channel, from TV to the cellphones most everyone spends their time perusing (especially the young).
I actually had one of them tell me, when he proclaimed his Blueness by pushing for the vax, and I pointed out that it was developed under Trump “But that was Trump’s FDA, this is Biden’s FDA”.
So the FDA changes when the president does? What about the $cience? Does that also change?
He had no answers for those questions.
That explains the 1619 project, as an effort to push blacks to the center of American life. A small example of this is a website in the small Ct town I grew up in published HS class photos from 1920-2020, a century of class photos. The fact there were no blacks was positive proof for many of the ‘Systemic Racism’ that exists in the USA. Why were there no black graduates in your rural Connecticut town? So the comment section was filled up with posters declaring how unracist they were, and how much they loved the other.
Marlin, xHe, XxHim
BRH,
Newsmax (a site you can trust) is today reporting that immigrants… illegals… are being flown to the New York area and then bussed to various venues in an attempt to assimilate them into our…culture.
The article even mentioned a locale in Connecticut where the swells live.
I suggest that you do not worry, however, as the immigrants in question are but an admixture of children, and military age males, and possibly do not carry any diseases.*
That this influx was done in secret shows that our government really REALLY wants to surprise you, for Christmas, possibly.
*Well, who the hell knows?
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-administration-migrants-new-york-relocate/2021/10/19/id/1041075/
Mr. Hail…(Hail, Yes!)
Thank you for the considered reply.
However, several trends and conditions do not seem to fit that paradigm;
Defund the police
Refuse to prosecute ferals and theives, and ceding areas of a city to what amounts to warlords.
Open Borders.
The above three are obviously destructive by any means, and groupthink is a poor argument, in my opinion.
The point of the food shortages and the new variant they will cook up is to roll out an executive order mandating a jab pass to buy food at the grocery stores.
The reaction to that order will give them the excuse they need to declare martial law that leads to mass gun grabs and roadside jab pass checkpoints.
People caught traveling without a jab pass will get a free one-way trip to a FEMA camp.
And thus CW2 will begin.
I find it naive that CFNers with a year’s food supply are “thinking” that they are propane away from riding this out like a Montreal ice storm.
[Hint: Don’t burn your propane BBQ in-doors as a heat source as you will asphixate to death.]
TPTB have plans for preppers worthy of a documentary let alone someone with rice, beans & whey powder.
All must be jabbed. There can be no control group outside of the exempt.
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“You have 5 minutes to pack 1 suit-case. Hustle it up! …
Whooooah! Thanks for the grub! Steve-O! We’re rich!”
Agree.
I first started reading Art Speigelman’s “Maus” when it was serialized in underground comics decades ago. I finally finished a few days ago – “The Complete Maus”. It’s the only graphic “novel” (although a true story) ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Not only a window into the past, but perhaps also into the future. Highly recommend.
Yup! The Long Emergency is permanent, people will die. Regardless of political party, or location. The whole world!
What is the root of Jim’s and the group’s ire? That the future with scarcity as the dictating basis should have been met with some type of informed general consensus?
What about the treatment of Ehrlich, or the repudiation of Carter? These attempts at educating the public about future constraints occurred 40-50 years ago!
I believe the lessons learned with Reagan and Trump proved that people simply cannot change. The promise of steady, unchanging supply and consumption is simply too great.
This forced the hand of thinkers causing them to take the most noxious approach of all. Sure, there may be some psychopaths, but in general it probably causes the rank and file to craft deep rationalizations.
Let’s say Jim’s prognosis proves correct? Then what? The end outcome is still ordained: less population, less supply, less consumption. Everyone’s living standard reverts by 100 years, and that’s just for starters.
I truly believe the end goal is to prevent nukes from being used in a mad attempt at controlling key resources. There’s your population reduction plan.
okay, yes but… “repudiation of carter”. Carter represented nothing. He was proto-“milquetoast-left”, for whom no problem is understood deeply enough and no proposed solution is shallow enough.
Ehrlich represents that period in the sixties when so many wild voices competed, no popular coherence could be reached. The seventies and eighties should have been the times when that maelstrom of 60’s ideas was digested and developed, but everyone was too strung-out and hung-over to bother.
So, i think its innaccurate to say that presenting the whole overpopulation and energy-crunch case to the public clearly, forcefully and in-full has been tried. It’s overly cynical and a bit shallow, in my opinion, to say that it has been tried, or even that it would be pointless and unproductive absolutely, and… therefore some elite great-reset program is 100% justified and really the only option the public has left the elites…as you seem to be saying.
i say, let the true case be presented to the society at large… let the cards fall as they may afterwards.
i’m not even sure enough of the elites are on the correct page regarding energy and overpopulation for them to qualify to educate anybody. A truer picture might be: everyone’s in the dark, from top to bottom.
cheers mitchellc
“milquetoast left…for whom no problem is understood deeply enough and no proposed solution is shallow enough.”
didnt really say that exactly right… should be more like:
“milquetoast left… who understand no problem deeply enough, and who never met a shallow solution they didnt love”
Yes that is better. Few have considered the Big Picture – even those at the top.
“i’m not even sure enough of the elites are on the correct page regarding energy and overpopulation for them to qualify to educate anybody.” — gustafson.robert
Dick Cheney knew about the then-imminent Peak Oil predicament in 2002, as recorded in conversation.
And the various globalist entities know it, too — if not then, certainly now.
Economics = energy.
sf: yes, but i think the majority still vastly overestimate how successful a “tech our way out of this” strategy can be. i’m sure cheny believed capitalist markets would basically solve the peak oil problem (“with a little carnage along the way, a little of the typical collateral damage, but markets will solve these things in the end”)
I don’t think Cheney thought any such thing. Ka-ching! for him with Halliburton, and on to the specific countries with oil he/they could steal, along with invasion of countries who wanted off the U.S. dollar peg.
Cheney was under no illusions that there was a credible source of alt energy to take the place of oil. The neo-cons mission was to grab what they could, and let the next generation worry about oil transition.
Since then, each administration has been just as reactive, though with an added touch of desperation. Ghaddafi gonged, the Syrian interference, the shale oil speculation.
Like quantitative ‘easing’, it’s all just a game of kicking the can down the road. They’ve known for a long time that there’s no alt energy to transition to.
maybe so.
that makes the bush neocons the realest villians, if they knew and understood, and did nothing to communicate these economic facts as a message to the public…laying the perfect groundwork for all the booshit that’s followed.
that would also, i believe, mean the bush neocons may have been more on-the-ball conceptually than many elites today, who, i believe, are duped by “energy alternatives” and the “promise of science” in varying degrees almost across the board
I agree with Soul Forsenics. Cheney knew about peak oil and he had no illusions that the ”markets” can produce a vital necessity out of thin air.
As soon as he got to the White House he set up an Energy Commission, and we know that part of it was mapping out all of the known oil-containing places on the planet.
We don’t know much more than that, because when citizens sued to find out, by releasing the information, Cheney took Scalia duck hunting and they had a little talk and the Supreme Court ruled against making public policy plans available to the public. I guess we had no standing. Especially the ones that came home in body bags.
Scalia wasn’t big on recusing himself when he had a blatant conflict of interest. Case in point, the 2000 decision to put Bush in the White House.
A good assessment. The human junk piles that the US and Europe are turning into will turn into the battlefields of the resource wars of the future.
Hmmm
Do we need global warming to open up the northern latitudes of say Siberia or Canada to production? Over the pole navigation could save lots of transportation costs. The Northwest passage is already open part of the year. The search for this passage was the reason North America was explored in the first place. Will we need resources from these areas? Russia is already getting well ahead of us in the exploration for oil in the Arctic.
These really dumb tree huggers that want to limit oil are threatening them selves with extinction by their GND attitudes. The renewable energy alternatives are really starting to fail, MISERABLY, all around the world as their limitations are starting to hurt large groups of people.
Nuclear war? Hopefully not. Biological WMD? Are we witnessing that right now?
@John
“resource wars of the future”
That’s an interesting concept.
I cannot begin to imagine that there will be many resources in relative short supply such as to cause the remaining ruling elite to go to war.
I wonder what it is about this momentary energy bonanza that causes people to believe that it will go on forever.
~toktomi~
Now their plan is to line both US coastlines with wind turbines.
Seriously.
The first hurricane will blow them all down.
I have often wondered where we would be if we had stayed the course started in 1970s toward energy efficiency and reducing resource demand. John Michael Greer wrote about this on his old Archdruid Report blog. His book “Green Wizardry” is built in large part on what he learned back in the day reducing his resource usage.
But that path was abandoned by the US as a whole, and here we are. And while some have been willing to live Greer’s advice of “collapse now and avoid the rush”, most have not. Now we are moving into an era of forced collapse that will be difficult and painful. Could have been largely avoided, but too late for that now.
“Could have been largely avoided”
How? Are the things controlling energy production different now f
As opposed to the 70s? The only thing that has happened to affect things is fracking, which is being squeezed right now for fiscal lack of integrity.
TLE was in response to currents in energy production that started mid 20 th century.
@tully
the 70’s were waaaaay too late in the voyage to patch the gaping hole in hull.
The last opportunity for any kind of industrial society was the Great Depression era. Had they ground it down to a much lower base line instead of launching an economy-stimulating world war, things might have been different.
…just a story; I could be wrong.
~toktomi~
Americans did respond in the 70s, some eagerly and some unwillingly. The adults in charge back then were Depression babies grown up and didn’t think that either conservation or thriftiness were the existential crisis that the adults of today seem to. The young adults took the Population Bomb to heart and cut the birth rate in this country dramatically.
It was a ruling class to decision to abandon conservation and a ruling class decision to open the borders to make up for the reduced birth rate. If this country had been left to the American-born there would be less than 200 million now, most likely, a much more desirable number, especially if you live in the over-crowded big cities.
It was a ruling class decision to change the Farm Bill’s focus from protecting small farmers to “Get big or get out”, (which led not only to a massive loss of farmland to Big Ag but also the obesity we see today).
It was a ruling class decision to stop building for use and start building for speculation. We didn’t have homelessness or McMansions before the 80s.
None of this was our choice, imo, we just adapted. And they expect us to adapt to the New Normal and I have no doubt that the survivors will adapt.
The control system they are installing will make sure of that.
Ah yes, Earl Butz. The man leading the “get big or get out” charge; think I disliked him more than Nixon and that was no small accomplishment.
So many small farmers bankrupted. Farms that created what once were far more local and regional food networks, sucked up by Big Ag to grow more wheat, corn and soy, and make the endless increasing array of crappy food in the supermarket.
We may see shortages of meats and produce, but the junk food still keeps showing up on the local store shelves. Even the Frito Lay plant strikes a few weeks back did not result in empty Dorito shelves. 🙁
While some did continue to conserve resources and do more with less, in 1980 Americans elected Ronald Reagan by a large margin. That indicated the majority wanted to leave the 1970s in the rear view mirror, and return to cheap gas, endless Happy Motoring, and more suburbs. What farmland didn’t get bought by Big Ag got turned into housing subdivisions and more damn strip malls with nary a walkable neighborhood in sight.
Did Americans know that is what they were electing?
Or were they psy opsed by the media into obsessing about the Iran hostages (Good evening, this is day 200 of the Hostage Crisis) and tired of the inflation?
Did anyone vote for waste, recession and homelessness? Did anyone know that they would be stepping over bodies on the street and they would gain 200 pounds? Did they really want the unions destroyed and immigrants brought in to work at formerly unionized jobs like meat packing (year long Hormel strike), truck driving, construction and farm work? And then to add insult to injury, be told that ”Americans won’t do those jobs”.
I think that the popularity of the Farm Aid attempt to save small farmers shows us that Americans were not exactly happy about the consequences of voting for the Evil Reagan (as I have called him since the 80s).
I remember my father saying in the late 80s “This is getting to be a mean, mean country”. And he was not the only one to notice. George HW ran on a “Kinder, gentler” platform.
I think a lot of Americans didn’t like watching their country disintegrate and be stripped of its industry and unions.
Well said, Paula.
“I have often wondered where we would be if we had stayed the course started in 1970s toward energy efficiency and reducing resource demand.” — tully
Essentially, not much would have changed because of Jevons paradox.
Humans have, long ago, come to expect and rely upon a certain level of fossil fuel use for their entire personal lifestyle “needs”. Add to that the exponential rise of fossil fuel use, since those 70s, among the developing world.
Power-down will only “work” when resources just aren’t there any more.
@mitchellc
“nukes”
Jay Hanson often expressed his belief that the whole thing would end in nuclear holocaust. It never did seem very plausible to me. He was bright and this one point always puzzled me.
…just a random aside
~toktomi~
Wow, I just learned that Hanson died in 2019 in a car accident. RIP.
He disappeared in the aughts, saying, in his last message on his site, that there was nothing more to be said about — in his view — our hopeless predicament.
great guy. still think the die-off concept remained a downer for him, psychologically, at some level. i’m not sure it needs to have that effect, necessarily.
What is the root of Jim’s and the group’s ire? That the future with scarcity as the dictating basis should have been met with some type of informed general consensus?
It is obvious that the solution to resource limits will not be cured by mutual consensus. What it’s coming down to is a future ruled by tyranny versus a future of last man standing. The latter is nature’s way. Nukes for me please. I’d rather be a victim of those than live in a global plantation.
i dont fantasize that a complete, successful dissemenation of accurate information about overpopulation and energy-scarcity to the global public would create mutual consensus or any global peaceful solutions. of course not. but it would create healthy battle-lines and define the territory of the future more accurately. it would promote healthier and more local solutions. i think it would be more comparatively peaceful than an environment of ignorance…would create push for healthier outcomes in the midst of the turmoil.
Someone yesterday linked to a tweet which quoted some talking head telling us that the shortages will continue until they have 100% compliance.
But Jim is apparently quoting from somewhere else about onerous regulations.
Truckers already kill far more than their share of people in cars sharing the road. What will happen when they take away the limits on hours driving and the recovery time, in the name of easing ”burdensome regulations”?
I’m guessing more gruesome deaths, spun like the covid ones, to push for driverless trucks.
They could switch to trains, but that would be too logical.
FYI, trains already are having capacity problems because of infrastructure limitations.
Yea, who thought turning RR right-of-ways into bike paths was a great idea? Not an accident!
Agreed. And when my son moved to a very congested neighborhood in Chicago, there were still train tracks, unused, on his city street.
They used to deliver by rail even there.
We have some unused tracks by my house they are talking about converting to a bike trail, ffs.
Largely unused bike and snowmobile paths that don’t generate 1% of the economic output delivered by the trains.
Think of it as dynamic, not static. If the need exists, those RR right-of-way bike paths will be returned to rail lines rather quick.
It is a cost effective way of moving people and goods, not in any way close to the major expense per mile to build and maintain an Interstate highway. All that expense is before factoring in the cost of vehicles and their fuel.
Yep. Deliberate. Just like GM buying up interurban railway lines in the early 20th century and then dismantling them and ripping up the tracks so people would have to use automobiles to get around.
Yeah the tweet I posted showed a CNN segment or something with Pete Buttigieg’s assistant trying to blame the shortages on the unvaxxed. It was idiotic.
Was that you? Thank you.
Here it is:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1449860710268276737
It actually made me laugh out loud. Who believes this shit?
The people in cars share some responsibility for their demise. The process of getting a drivers license is a joke. It is much too easy. Most of the driving public aren’t competent behind the wheel. Truckers usually have more training and experience, but you have a lot of truckers on the road today who can’t speak English, therefore can’t read road signs and such, plus you always have a few assholes and you can’t fix stupid. The railroads are totally unable to handle all freight deliveries for what should be obvious reasons, so I won’t waste time explaining it. The technology for autonomous trucks isn’t even close to being possible yet. Neither of your suggestions to lessen traffic deaths, driverless trucks or trains, express any logical thinking.
Another one down, age 29, from VACCINE INJURY:
https://twitter.com/ke11ybender/status/1449769031020388353
How will we be able to prove the ones that die 2 months or 2 years after getting vaxxed?
The waters are muddied on purpose.
i (unvaxxed) just had a mystery virus. over in 3 days. my once-vaxxed gf has something too. she strugglin.
so many myocarditis anecdotes. i have one too. i’m convinced its very significantly underreported.
I had a patient once who got viral myocarditis. It turned her into an invalid for three weeks, bedridden. She recovered, how far I do not know as she was discharged.
I have a friend who got a viral pericarditis. They had to crack her chest and remove the pericardium–she’s always asked by docs if she had open heart surgery due to the zipper scar. She further was a bedridden invalid for over two years and only by sheer force of will was she able to rehabilitate (feeding/dressing herself included) and go on to have a career and a life. And she was in her late 20s or early 30s when this happened. So yeah, viral heart problems can be horrific.
I had some bug 1.5 weeks ago, over in 2 days. Weird! No idea what it was, but I wasn’t overly concerned. Just drank a lot of tea.
You are right on this, Mary. The real judgement will pass on the vaccines depending on what happens up to two years in the future.
If the predictions of some come true, it will just add onto all the other apocalyptic prediction happening now.
Future mRNA therapies will be halted by public demand.
So far, it seems that the reaction to the technology is acute, people reacting short term to the jab. If the long term prediction are true, I expect an increasing death rate from inflammatory diseases as time goes on.
Neurodocs warning bears notice however, how will we know if MDs do not report most of the deaths, or if the government is suppressing the reports.
The big potential threat of this whole Covid, pneumonia, flu, whatever is the unknown. Unknown breeds fear, which breeds dependency, which breeds Leftists.
Get jabbed, do not get jabbed, it is up to the individual. The future will bring what it does, no one knows for sure.
“The big potential threat of this whole Covid, pneumonia, flu, whatever is the unknown. Unknown breeds fear, which breeds dependency, which breeds Leftists.”
right on
The only way we know is by word of mouth in the internet age. Facebook took down a group that had hundreds of thousands of people in it, talking about their experiences and those of family and friends
There was that TV station that put out a call for people to talk about their horrible virus experiences and instead thousands of people talked about their horrible vax reactions.
And day after day we see personal stories of death and disability, none of it catalogued or even acknowledged by TPTB.
They aren’t tracking reactions of the jabbed, except by VAERS, which is onerous to use, so underused.
Then the talking heads like Sanjay Gupta assure us that we can’t go by VAERS (the ONLY tracking system there is) because pranksters are fond of making up stories and spending hours reporting them (on the site that threatens legal action for false reports).
In a nation of 323 million it takes a lot of deaths for people to start noticing, but social media makes it easier.
Hence, the calls for increased censorship.
Another great point. They have a national gauge for the number of vaxxed (Mayo Clinic) and they have the government-run page where hospitals report bed usage, but we don’t have any for vaccine reactions and deaths?
Of course it’s on purpose. They can send a text message to the entire country – so they can create a country-wide database for reporting.
But they don’t. And we know why.
Get jabbed, do not get jabbed, it is up to the individual. The future will bring what it does, no one knows for sure.
JAZ, if they put up a billboard Right on the Capital Bldg that read:
We mean you harm!
you’d be like:
“Well, sure, that could be … there is no way to know for certain. Maybe.”
“Future mRNA therapies will be halted by public demand.”
Once you need a vaxx passport to be allowed to eat, I’m not sure ‘public demand’ is really going to be a thing.
GA. Are you facing any discrimination for refusing to take a booster shot? Or is that still in their planned dystopian future?
hm
I haven’t been offered the booster yet, as I had my second dose in May, so presumably it will be offered next month.
But I have declined to get a ‘covid pass’, which I was offered by phone message a while ago, on the basis of the first two.
I was just doing an online grocery shop half an hour ago – each time I do it I wonder how much longer I will even be able to order food online. I think the rest of this year will probably be OK, but next year, who knows?
Of course my husband will do his own thing, since I can’t persuade him of what’s going on, so I don’t know what will happen. I will feel a hypocrite if I’m eating food he’s buying, with the help of a pass, but I can’t see him refusing one, unless I can get him to realise getting the booster is a bad idea. I send him a link about something to do with it every other day or so, which he presumably ignores. It doesn’t end well if I talk about it in person, so I mostly don’t, apart from grunting at the TV when he’s watching the news!
By coincidence, the Scottish vaxx pass came into effect today, but it’s only for large gatherings and suchlike, so doesn’t affect me. Obviously I expect that to be thin edge of the wedge, since Sturgeon is a vaxx pusher. I read today that 45% or so of children between 12 and 15 are vaccinated here, compared to 15% in England, because in England it’s all being done at school, whereas here they can go to a vaxx centre. I was shocked – I had no idea they had vaxxed so many youngsters.
It’s only a matter of (very little) time until they get my grandson (9). His father is all for it – *science* and all that. He’s vaxxed, but my daughter isn’t, mostly because of me bending her ear, but she has one risk factor for covid, so I don’t know if she’ll hold out, especially if they make it mandatory at her nursery. My other daughter is planning to get it. It’s mentally exhausting worrying about them all.
I should say the *mandatory* vaxx pass came in today (for big events) – the pass itself has been around for a while for travelling and whatever else people use them for.
Alba: He is your husband and will support you. If that means buying the food, why would that be a problem? You would do it for him if he was disabled I assume.
If there really are food shortages in Britain this winter, I could imagine some kind of rationing which denies rations to vaccine resistors. Of course, there are always ways around such things if you have money, family, and friends.
But I am continually amazed by how quickly things have gone full tilt totalitarian – over a flu bug which can be easily treated. Covid is a shallow excuse for instituting the kind of horrid dystopia the globalists have wanted for a long time.
Previously, vaccines were taken off the market if there were dozens of deaths. We’re looking at many thousands of confirmed vaccine deaths, probably tens of thousands so far. Yet TPTB push the death serum even harder. Would a benevolent government do that?.
We’re called nut job conspiracy theorists. But I think only a brainwashed zombie can look at the big picture and say it all makes sense.
Jarek
I don’t doubt for a minute that he will support me. I’d rather he weren’t going to be complicit in the system and that we were facing whatever is coming together.
When I brought the subject up again the other night (mostly I leave it to emailed messages with links in them, and that keeps it from affecting the rest of our life), he told me I should read up on ADHD and get medication. Yes, really.
I told him he was a kick in the pants away from the soviet psychiatrists who put dissidents in asylums, and he should be ashamed of himself.
The psychology of this stuff isn’t always as simple as people think. I totally get that he’s engaged in groupthink with his colleagues, but I suspect part of him knows what I’m saying could be true and he’s just afraid to go there, hence never actually listening to the interviews I’ve sent him. He genuinely thinks it’s conspiracy theories. So did I, not that long ago, so I have to bear that in mind.
I totally agree with you hm (as you know I actually agreed with you on quite a lot of things even before this!).
I don’t see the unvaxxed being refused rations this winter in the UK. I know we are going full tilt totalitarian, but there are nuances according to countries. For instance, people have never, to any extent, worn masks outside, as has been instituted in some parts of the world. I think the PTB here know the national character and are careful not to get too ridiculous in case they cross a line where the disingenuousness just gets too obvious to too many people.
We don’t have the same level of polarisation between people here that you do in the US. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing. Good, in that you don’t generally see the hysteria you get in the US, with vaxxed people yelling at the unvaxxed that they’re killing people. Bad, in that there’s perhaps too much homogeneity in just getting on with what government mandates, in the belief that it will help us ‘get back to normal’.
I think that we’re all headed in the same direction, since it’s being engineered globally, but some are on the high speed train and others on the one that stops at all the stations on the way. I do wonder how the leadership in the Scandi countries manages to avoid pressure to conform – do they just not have the WEF plants that seem to be found elsewhere? Or are they less financially dependent on, say, Blackrock and therefore don’t have to bend to their rules?
Anyway, I’m going to spend the next 90 minutes catching up on yesterday’s UK Column news! Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays …
Doctors and researchers who ask questions and attempt to present evidence are being intimidated and, in this case, dismissed.
https://spectatorworld.com/topic/byram-bridle-suppression-scientific-debate/
It’s hard to believe this is happening sometimes but these are strange times we’re living in.
I don’t want to ever again hear about how uniquely morally defective the German people were in not doing more to oppose Hitler. We are now faced with maybe one tenth that level of governmental brutality and violence. Yet we cave in and do as we are ordered.
As we can see now, opposing a government is no easy task & with a constant barrage of propaganda, many people go along out of ignorance & fear. There’s a reason the January 6th protestors are being treated as harshly as possible—nothing is more chilling than seeing what’s in store for you if you cross them.
We need to keep the trucks already built in top condition, so they run for as long as possible. What we do not need, is a graveyard of 4 year old trucks and new trucks having to be built to replace them all.
Think of the metal, the rubber, plastic, and the energy needed to build a new truck.
Used cars or trucks for usage and price supports for the new vehicles. It also acknowledges that in our society, different levels of income require different levels of cost. This idea is just another indication of Leftist insanity.
How much more will an electric, automated truck going to cost?
You’ll need to take out a 30 year mortgage to buy those EV POSs. Rivian starts at $73,000 and you need to purchase an additional $15,000 subscription just to charge it up.
I was reading that the average weekly pay is about $500 per week in the US. You have to wonder, who do they expect to buy those goddam things?
New GM Electric Humnmer, base price: $130,000.
Range is about 270 miles in perfect conditions.
I can’t understand these Expeditionary EVs, i.e. Rivian, Hummer, Range Rover and so on. You drive out into the middle of nowhere, then what? You’re f#kked. What they’ll be good for is soccer moms in Greenwich, Ct dropping off Buff and Tiffany at private academy, headed over to Starbucks for a latte, then on to the Yoga Studio.
Marlin, xhe, XxHim
great point. we could make simple-repair cars that last 50 years if we tried, ration their distribution and usage.
but no, we’re making $75,000 electro-space-age jetson mobiles with 5 year lifespans and passing all costs to the already stretched thin consumer, and their mortgaged offspring
That’s marketing
It is building for the future. A future with WAY less people. Those left will either be rich and buying a Tesla or worker bees transported however instructed.
The same people planning the Green New Deal are the same ones behind planned obsolescence. So this ought to be interesting.
30 % of a cars cost are meeting the various government regulations
In approximately 1974, when I lived in a house in a college town, the neighbor next door was gabbing with us one day and said he worked for a car company. Said they knew how to make cars that would last 20 years, but no one would do it because they’d tap out the market too fast. So they build them to break down, he said. He meant American cars. Since I wasn’t in the market for a car, I never investigated this further, but I never forgot it.
When I was shopping for a car in 2003, I got a Honda because the salesman told me it was fuel-efficient and if I took care of it, it would last 20 years. I was sold! Still have it and it runs just fine. Oh, he also told me that I’d be surprised how few people cared about fuel efficiency when they came in to look for a vehicle.
Planned obsolescence. I heard a story about a guy who ran a service shop for an American auto dealership. He said that one day in the early 70’s, a rep from the auto manufacturer came in and told him that their shop was about to get much busier because the company’s new policy was planned obsolescence. Not sure if it’s true, but it seems possible! Moreso than the 200 mpg carburetor story: there’s only so much energy in fuel; diesel more than gasoline, gasoline more than ethanol. Now a plug-in Prius can get 200 mpg if it uses the electric charge for some large percentage of miles traveled…
Thanks for the corroborating story, daytrip!
Barry – We have a 2000 Ford F-250 4×4, for hauling & towing. My hubby just keeps fixing it. However, he is all about maintenance, which is essential to keep the old beast going. It’s probably considered a classic now.
I’ve got a 1999 Ram 1500. Engine runs like a top. The ride’s a bit choppy but is much better with 2,000 ibs of crusher run in the back. My d-t-d driver is 2013 Camry with 210,000,
The wife persists in buying new ones.
We don’t talk about it.
I have a 1994 Ram that I use for hauling.
It runs very rough. Have to keep my foot on the gas while I brake to keep it from stalling. That means that I have to use my left foot on the clutch to put it in neutral, quickly move it to the brake and put my right foot on the gas. My left foot is my clutch foot, but if you use your clutch moves on the brake you end up stopping really, really fast, so it takes some getting used to.
But they say it takes 7 years of driving a vehicle to make up for the energy used in manufacturing a new one, so if people were really concerned about the environment, they would push conserving cars and trucks, not replacing them.
Dr. Robert Malone has an interesting review of Bobby Jr.’s new book on Anthony Fauci.
Here is a small sample. I get the distinct impression that Dr. Malone disapproves of Dr. Fauci:
“The personal opinion and bias of Dr. Fauci has been repeatedly substituted for evidence-based medicine, and we are all living with the consequences. But beyond this mundane incompetence, what this book clearly documents are the deeper forces and systemic, pervasive governmental corruption, which have led us to this point. Not since the reign of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, have we seen such empire building by a corrupt, longstanding federal employee who is long past retirement age. Dr. Fauci’s apparent need to bolster a fragile ego has led to the almost complete systemic corruption of not only US HHS, but the entire world public health system.”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Real-Anthony-Fauci/Robert-F-Kennedy/Children-s-Health-Defense/9781510766808
He’s as good a candidate for the Antichrist as any…
Oh snap. I can understand why these doctors and scientists would utterly detest that POS Fauxi.
I don’t know how many of you have read the classic The Caine Mutiny by Wouk but reading this post, I thought of Captain Queeg, the insecure, manipulative egoist who blamed any problems on everyone else and had an answer to justify all his mistakes.
RFK has been marginalized himself for asking questions about routine vaccinations for children but he was the one who fought to get mercury out of children’s vaccines. All his critics fail to mention that.
@JHK
Mesmerizing, ain’t it?
We, well a few of us at any rate, beginning a couple of decades back, flipped all the puzzle pieces face up, examined, examined, examined, and put enough of them together to be able to see a pattern, to be able to make out the picture of what was most likely to be.
There was speculation galore, banter, and prognostication to go ’round.
The details, now come to mesmerize, escaped nearly everyone. There was always the ever present, ever speculated, “fast collapse or slow collapse?”.
So, this is how the implosion of industrial human society is done?
– a thousand times slower than I ever imagined with intricate details so precise that I can but marvel.
It’s real, I feel and have long time felt.
Nobody is out there and it’s a long way to save the human race.
Psychopaths may own the place.
But their genes are busted, crushed, and they too will be flushed.
It’s a long way to save what’s good of the human race.
Long live the stone age and precious Neanderthal genes.
~toktomi~
I get depressed thinking about all those George Floyd action figures waiting in containers off the California coast… Nope. No Christmas this year!
LOL, George Floyd action figures, with optional handguns and fentanyl.
Hahahaha, comes with a side of his porn flicks.
That’s SAINT George Floyd action figure, to you!
Wind it up and it falls face first onto your floor. Take it back with the receipt for exchange, and they’ll accuse you of strangling it. And it comes with no warranty.
For an extra $5 you can get an optional counterfeit $20.
Let the counterfeit bills dry out before you try to pass them, tho. St. George failed to do that, which was what set off the chain of events that led to his ODing.
Well I hope the sailors at least open the container doors so that the figures can get a breath of fresh California air.
The new gold plated statue looks almost like the robot Gort, the from the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
Is the living statue alluded to the Book of Revelations?
The woman in the movie looked like my Mother as a young woman. She asked Klaatu, What can he do? He’s just a robot.
Klaatu replied, Gort could destroy the world.
“A little transportation problem” sez the bartender…
Amid the calls to action reaching above like an ethereal skyhook (see RINGWORLD ENGINEERS), deplorable me is back to refresh recollection of Abraham Lincoln’s vision of railway net binding the Union Of States. He read Daniel 4 V-15…
That should say it all, except we are a railway ignorant generation in a country ashamed of excesses of Railroad barons… We have trunk line railroads today in no small part owing to need to transport containers of Chinese made stuff coast to coast, running in unit trains. Coal was a rail mainstay until recently.
For those not able or inclined to effect life-saving kitchen gardens, please examine the “Rails To Trails” footprint in your locale and determine ex-rail corridor suitable for transporting agricultural produce. Millions of former truck operators shall be the backbone & independent railway barons of America’s decades of rebuilding.
Food Distribution. As the trucks diminish in numbers, rebuilding dormant rail corridor for maintaining movement of essential victuals becomes an existential requisite. Mass movement of “Land Bridge”
unit trains must shift to the complex rail matrix operation seen prior to WWII. America was a “Lending Not A Borrowing Nation” then!
STV “Comprehensive Rail Atlas Of North America” is a handy collection of regional railway maps. AI Trucking is on the absolute opposite end: cutting edge cargo transport, except AI is inherently vulnerable to real world threats foreign & Domestic.
JHK is aware of past inputs, and can enable contact for more comprehensive Executive Summary as these proceedings move closer to critical.
Let me say I thoroughly have enjoyed seeing JHK becoming somehow even more direct and inviting (embracing?) controversy in his wording and analysis of the current state of the world, particularly over the last year…a rather tall order in itself, considering that has always kind of been his thing.
Some may complain about new topics being harped on that used to be left unsaid or “not on topic”. I say let it all out and keep up the good work, sir. I, for one, very much approve.
Let the hologram and the overlords take it square in the face.
I have enjoyed that, too. Of course I’m fairly new up here, so I’m not sure what Jim was like before.
You are? Doesn’t sound like it. I’ve been here on and off at least 10 years maybe more I have to go check. I was somewhat mesmerized, ok, awestruck, by this strange word “Clusterfuck.” I thought this upstate guy is not like me. Better read him. 🙂
But you never read “The Long Emergency” it would seem….
Here are some good ones from the past.
Juked By Medicine:”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/juked_by_medicine/
A combined article on his hip replacement ordeal.
https://kunstler.com/other-stuff/my-hip-replacement-a-medical-comedy/
Be warned, the above is just damn painful to read. Funny, but painful. Can’t imagine poor JHK going through all that.
Actually, that was the first replacement; there was a second. On the same hip.
Post below starts out about computerized phone systems, but gets his hip surgery about a third of the way down
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the_afta_act_of_2012/#more-‘
He has a whole lot of reasons to be wary of our health care system in general.. I disagree with his take on the covid vaxx in terms of the alleged long term risks. But I certainly agree with no mandates and no vax passports.
All good. Observations/posts immediately after the real estate blowout in late 2008 were also really good. But for some reason archives are all coming up 404 – not found
Glad as hell I dodged the hip replacement scam. I was actually all down for it, but the surgeons said no. Still have the pain, but I can live with that. By the way, surgeons are some real assholes. A more arrogant bunch you will never meet.
Mine are fine but who knows what the future could bring? Maybe I should have them replaced just in case.
AI bots will perform all (near) future surgery. And they’ll wear N95 masks while massaging your heart.
Dis, I get what’s called imt. It’s covered by medical up here. The doc puts a few needles in my hip and spine area for under 10 seconds, releasing all the compensating stress in the joint and increases range of motion immediately. Then the trick is just not the do the brutal labour that causes the joint stress in the first place, whether that be jogging, pushing broom or carrying heavy stuff.
I was reading CFN ages ago–I remember JHK writing about his hip replacement. The resident troll then was a poster called Dangerbird. Anyone here now from those days?
Praneh, reading the comments, spotted Beantown Bill, and two names that are no longer active but sounded like BackRowHeckler and StElmosFire. Vlad is the current Jarek, I think.
tully, none of those ring a bell from the distant past for me. I’ve been trying to remember other posters’ handles, but they escape me now. BtB, BRH, stelmosfire–if you’re reading this–how long have you folks been on CFN?
Pranah, I have been here since 2011 at which time I was using the name Rippedthunder, My first post that I can find was:
It is now 11:11 1/1/11
Happy New Year and new decade! I truly hope things improve in the next ten years. I have doubts,however.
I was a lurker who read but never commented for over 10 years. But now I do enjoy posting here. I’ve followed JHK since about 2008, if memory serves me correctly. Really enjoyed his podcasts talking about all manner of things. I’ve read 5 or 6 of his books too.
Okay, stelmosfire. I wonder if I read any of your comments back then? 🙂 I’ve been around maybe 15 years. TLE was one of the many books I read back then relating to Peak Oil. I’ve purged most of them, but kept TLE. Always wanted to meet Jim and get it autographed. Maybe some day!
Those pesky hip-replacements…when MaryQ could have cured him with supplements & exercise. What a pity she arrived so recently.
Most male lions get kicked out and go their own way. But these young lion brother stayed together – and become unstoppable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9iPJT8PE2s
Imagine if you and your five friends had stayed together, instead of letting jobs and wives get in your way. You could have conquered as well – and had these other things in abundance later.
“Imagine if you and your five friends had stayed together, instead of letting jobs and wives get in your way. You could have conquered as well – and had these other things in abundance later.
Jar,
And I expect that the sex would be great….
Fuel prices up
Semiconductor shortages and demand
More work from home, less need for car
Vehicle prices up
More demand for EV’s.
More subscription based plans for POV’s just around the corner
You will own less and be happy
Build back Brandon
One thing I do know … fear is the new world order.
“… federal rules combined with California Air Resource Board regulations are destroying the trucking industry…”
Time to go back to mules and burros. United States 2025 is United States 1825. Back to the future… without the optimism from back then that things will get better.
But reportedly there is now an oat shortage. So, we better train these beasts to feast on pizza slices made with high-fructose glob in the dough and imitation tomato flavoring for the topping along with lab-grown fake meat slices. Yum, yum. Get these beasts of burden used to ‘people food’ that doesn’t require anything real to make like people already eat.
“Let us count the ways that America is committing suicide by Democratic Party policy… Do you think economic collapse will make any of this better?”
There is a basic conflict in overall intentions here. We the People want things to get better. They the ‘Woked-Up Plantation Owners That Hide In Darkness Who Lust To Rule The World’ want things to get worse. Much worse. Makes for one hell of a tug-of-war. And this one is for all the marbles.
And has ever… in the history of politics… a political party so degenerated and degraded itself and turned so stench rotten as the DemoSocialMarxists? Just proves the rule that when one does not properly tend to the garden, the weeds will fully take over. America, land of shortages, sickness juices, burros, and weeds.
Canadian data shows there have been 194 adverse-event reports in total where someone wound up dying following a COVID-19 vaccination — out of a whopping 55 million doses that have been administered in the country to date.
Seventy-four of those deaths were unlikely caused by the vaccine, 70 could not be assessed due to “insufficient information,” while 44 remain under investigation.
As for myocarditis, a condition involving inflammation of the heart muscle, it typically impacts younger males, and is now being linked to mRNA-based vaccines like those made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
One study from Israel published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed a slight increased risk of myocarditis after vaccination — but the researchers stressed that COVID-19 is more likely to cause the condition than the shot.
Other early studies, including a not-yet-peer-reviewed preprint paper published on Thursday, are also showing that people typically experience a smooth recovery and prompt cardiac-function improvement if they do develop myocarditis post-vaccination.
LOL. Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Omigod, no shit.
I wonder what system Canada has in place for monitoring the results of 55 million shots given.
It sounds inadequate, whatever it is.
I think the tell tale sign of bullshit is the assurance that myocarditis is No Big Deal. You’ll be shipshape in a few days!
How do people fall for this?
garbage, all of that
hey tekapo
LOL
Piece of work, this guy.
Stressing that a good percentage of those deaths are “probably not vaccine related”, yet ignoring that the CDC admits 94% of deaths listed as covid deaths are likely not from covid itself, but 2 or more comorbidities.
Denial, indeed.
Stick it, Tek.
Once you’ve had myocarditis, you’re in big trouble. Damaged heart muscle and lining doesn’t repair, troll.
I think the navy surgeon whistleblower predicted a third of the myocarditis victims dying of a heart attack within 5 years.
And so many myocarditis victims are teenagers or in their early 20s. I can’t imagine the pain the victims and parents are going through.
SF: I’m a tutor and when I went along to work with one of my favourite students, I saw the tell-tale sticking plaster on the upper left arm. And she was already complaining of headaches and nausea during the lesson. This is a crime against humanity.
” tell-tale sticking plaster on the upper left arm”
WTF you talking about? I’ve never seen that, not even in heart attack victims – EVER.
And, if true (… skeptical), that seems like a ‘tell-tale-sign’ to immediately treat the victim. Did she die?
ZrCrypDik
“sticking plaster” is a British term for what we call a “bandaid”
These things are usually put over the site of an injection to prevent infection. But feel free to remain skeptical about the use of bandaids, if you like.
Soul
I revisited the short speech by the Navy surgeon and it’s TWO thirds of the myocarditis cases she predicts will proceed to a cardiac death within 5 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPkrU23DG5A
hmuller
OK now I get it – the reply when you can no longer reply, on this forum. I swear, when I first read this, I though it was some sort of calcified rosacea/psoriasis growth. My bad – UK slang.
Sh-t.
“Long-term prognosis was usually good with a 3–5-year survival ranging from 56 to 83%, respectively. Patients with acute fulminant myocarditis, once they survive the acute illness, had an excellent long-term prognosis of 93% at 11 years, compared with 45% of the patients presenting with acute non-fulminant myocarditis.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2519249/
(Published in 2008…pre-COVIDhysteria)
People think that if they take the Vax they’re never going to die. Colin Powell has shown that that is not true. Again he leads the Way, a kind of Vaxed Moses leading the faithful into the promised land of Death.
People seem to ignore the fact these he was friggin’ eighty-four years old.
This death should historically not be a shock to anyone, regardless of exact causation.
We have lost nearly all concept of reality, at least in the social forum.
I don’t use the r word lightly, but a whole lot of people have officially gone retarded.
Agree. He also had massive comorbidities. But they still made it all about covid covid covid.
Retarded is right, he was double-vaxxed.
“COVID-19 is more likely to cause the condition than the shot.”
Yeah, that. Lots of documented cases of organ issues in the infected.
Soker – dat U ?!?
Good News!
Sec. of Transportation Pete Buttgieg is breaking maternity leave and will be headed to Glasgow for the Cop 26 Climate Change Conference in a few weeks, purportedly to advocate for EVs, including electric semi trucks.
I’m thinking there will be nice cushy job waiting for Buttpounder at Tesla or Rivian when his term in office ends.
Don’t count on it. I don’t think Elon Musk hires people to pretend they’ve given birth.
is buttigieg the softest target of all time?
You have praised your Island coworkers.
I found this at a site that is banned at fakebook,>
Ris_Eruwaedhiel says:
A friend works at a local Walmart with a largely immigrant workforce and observed that the West Indians struck her as retarded.
We are admitting retards as immigrants and imagine islands full of retards. Understandable why these nations are in state they are in.
[I add> 1 in 3 or 4 Haitians is already in USA-Canada].
observed that the West Indians struck her as retarded. – malth
============
Please! malth….. the correct term is “developmentally delayed.” 🙂
I hear Pete is GHEY, but is he tranny also? Chopping off all his bits, and ‘roiding out (silicon here-and-there)? Birthing ‘test t00b babies’ in his @$$?!?
Don’t follow him, don’t want to. But, curious minds must know!
Gas is $4.50 and up for regular in Calif. I’ve noticed Some restocking issues for certain items in the grocery stores. printed notices at each home depot register about purchase limits for propane, pvc pipes and sundry other items.
If you don’t get what is happening, Im thinking you never will. Destroy a country, culture and economy over the flu?
To what end, what purpose? Just a power trip? How is it globalized? Why no leaks? I believe everyone involved know they are serving a higher purpose.
They say it took minutes for sleepy military personnel to realize the Japanese really were attacking that Sunday morning.
That’s what’s going on here. The thinkers believe that by getting the jump on everyone that they can crush any incipient resistance.
Once more, how does it play out if the power forces fail? Care to speculate about that outcome, jim? Let me guess, we have a giant town hall and everyone comes clean. The elite confess to what they’ve been doing, and a rationale dialog ensues, with adults responding in a mature fashion.
Or, we calmly head home and start drinking … or grab a gun and begin marauding as everyone knows the jig is up and the age of law, order, rights, criminal justice and all other facets of civilization evaporate before our very eyes.
How is it globalized? Why no leaks? I believe everyone involved know they are serving a higher purpose.
Masons.
“Destroy a country, culture and economy over the flu?”
Culture? Haha – cell phone, gas guzzlin’, fast food junky culture?!?
This current supply line/chain issue has almost nothing to do with covid – it’s been going on for decades. It’s called exponential population growth, exponential consumption, exponential depletion (exponential pollution, and exponential destruction).
Besides, the worst of the economic ‘bru-ha-ha’ from covid was about 1.5 years ago, yet we’re only hearing about (and seeing???) ‘supposedly’ empty shelves now? What about the toilet paper?!…
GIMME A BREAK! My cut? The Chinks have finally realized they no longer need to sell their product to us, and we have *0* manufacturing capability now (40-50+ year old manufacturing facilities in the rust belt.)
Haha, my mother-in-law went to a High School in Pekin, Illinois, where the mascot was the Pekin Chink. Wokester PC, indeed!!!
Please pop a xanax, sir, and listen.
“Besides, the worst of the economic ‘bru-ha-ha’ from covid was about 1.5 years ago, yet we’re only hearing about (and seeing???) ‘supposedly’ empty shelves now? What about the toilet paper?!”
Huh? That’s when it started. The real fallout will be in the coming months when families begin to be booted from their homes because the parentss are not allowed to work anymore without being vaccinated, and many of those that were vaccinated still are behind a year or more on their rent/mortgages.
You are delusional. Must have a nice job, and think this is all normal..
It is not. And you know it.
The supply chain has indeed been getting to an overcomplicated state for decades. The actual breakdown is taking place now. Yet you say it has nothing to do with covid. This has clearly been done on the back of covid.
To say otherwise is laughable.
WoW, no need to ad hominem my @$$! Delusional (why)? Xanax? Try Valium. Haha, an aside – I had Valium once – back in ’87, my friend stole his mother’s prescription, and I had one pill w/ a 1/2 bottle of champagne. Mellow, but nuttin’ big – yo.
And now all those mortgages/rent payments that the Trump administration put on hold, have to be payed off in full! You’ve got a point there; that credit is due immediately.
I posit the supply chain is dwindling, because the Chinks don’t need/want to bother selling to us NE-moarz (our only leverage seems to be the CAFO hog farms, that send them 97% of ‘our’ pork [oh and the mil-ind-complex])…
No job here, retired – I went without a car for 30 years. You’d be surprised what that alone can do financially – no more $4k/yr car payments, no more $2k/yr insurance, no more $2k/yr gasohol. No cell phone either – same argument haha! (Fast food? Last time wast 15 years ago w/ my bro – subway)
Like everyone else here, I continue to be puzzled about the “long game”–as in, what is the NWO that is planned for us, and why? The future the PTB have planned for us has, of course, been explicitly stated: relocate entire population to the cities, where they will live in pods and “own nothing and be happy,” and keep them there forcibly and have no access to nature, let alone access to private land-ownership and land use.
The “why” angle of the thing is perhaps only tangentially related to energy constraints.
To the PTB, humans are nothing more than livestock. Regular livestock will produce profits from their meat, milk, and eggs. Human livestock is, potentially at least, much more valuable. They are not very tasty, but they will do all the world’s work for you–the work of producing the tasty stuff, running the systems and machinery to do it, and also prepare your food, clean your house, and fix your car. Human livestock are something like a thousand times more valuable in terms of productivity and profit than cattle, goats, pigs, or chickens. And, unlike cars and other machines, they will reproduce themselves. Your car will not produce brand new baby cars.
When it comes to livestock management, maximum efficiency and profit may be achieved through CAFO systems. Historic agricultural methods like grass-fed and free-range animals are far less profitable, and if you allow your human livestock to to produce and sell food independently, then THEY will enjoy the profits and the fruits of their labors. There will be milk in their refrigerators, beef in their freezers, pork in their larders, and canned goods filling their pantries that YOU did not profit from. Plus maybe some money in their bank accounts that YOU did not get 90% of.
Hence I think (or at least wonder) if the long game is to institute a CAFO-like management of the human livestock. It is a proven model for maximizing profit–maximum production with minimal inputs.
Maybe there is little more to the “long game” than this.
And, as with livestock, only certain breeds of humans are suitable for the industrial model–and most of them are scarcely good for anything at all, for a variety of reasons. Perhaps one of the chief reasons is that some are not easily domesticated. E.g., no one has ever been able to domesticate the onager or (I think) the zebra, but the domestication of the horse has been successful. So it follows that most of the human population has to go.
CAFOs depend on corn and corn depends on fossil fuels. The US uses 9 calories of oil to make every 1 calorie of food at this point. They are not more efficient unless there is abundant oil available.
I agree that our owners are cataloging their human livestock and that there are too many of us to be of use to them in the present system.
Also, humans are said to taste like pork. That makes sense, since we are closely enough related to pigs that we used to use their insulin for human diabetics and their heart valves for human transplant.
Just wait until our overlords develop a taste for human bacon.
“Long pig bacon” has a ring to it, doesn’t it?
10,000lbs of water, 35lbs of topsoil, and 8lbs of gasoline for each 1lb of ground beef. Enjoy that gasohol burger – tastes just like clearcut!
“no one has ever been able to domesticate the onager or (I think) the zebra”
Has anyone really tried that yet? I mean, horses were domesticated in Asia 5 thousand years ago, correct? I don’t think anyone bothered going down to Africa afterwards to try, given they already had a mount (I know they brought back zoo specimens).
What strikes me as strange is the vast variety of dog breeds we have, that have literally been produced in a couple millenia. Can you image what kind of human race we could have had by now, if we had been bred for strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution, charisma, longevity, health, morality, ethics, empathy, discipline, self-control, sacrifice… Sounds like pre-Nazi eugenics – epic fail!
In the course of an average day, do you ever think about the starved, maimed and murdered children in the middle east and eurasia?
” an affront to common sense and common decency,” geezmneez, you gotta work harder than an ugly stripper to find some context for that
“We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died ‘neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.” Woody Guthrie-1948
“under the averted eyes of (the owners of) “Joe Biden” & Co…..criminal opportunists who — how shall we say — aim to blow shit up”
I’m not too concerned about the 10’s of millions of Native Americans we killed the past 300 years, and stole this land from – correct answer?!?
I was always partial to Arlo (City of New Orleans.)
I am always annoyed by the meme about how “we” stolen the Native Americans’ land. There is scarcely a square inch of land anywhere on the planet that is not occupied through displacement of earlier populations. You might as well weep and wring your hands over the Neanderthals and insist that, at the very least, we ought to give Gibralter back to them, or such of their descendants as can prove they have Neanderthal DNA.
It is implicit in such romantic effusions that the Americas should have remained unsettled by Europeans, and be a big ole nature preserve for sparse aboriginal populations.
Somebody said Roman’s stole the Etruscan’s land lol.
We took it by right of conquest – and you enjoy the fruits of the Conquest. Don’t try and weasel out of it, Ant. You should be worshiping these Conquerors, these MEN to whom you owe everything. Don’t be a moocher.
We really need to bring back ancestor worship. And dueling.
All land is occupied by right of conquest, and its occupants hold it only by force of arms. I do think you’ll catch cold trying to maintain that the conquest and occupation of territories, and their ongoing defense, was done on behalf of women. It would be hard to make an argument that the ancient Roman conquests were made on behalf of the Roman ladies. It would likewise be difficult to argue that Nevada or California were settled on behalf of the ladies, since the primary motive was gold and silver.
Western expansion in the US was primarily intended to secure territories against other nations’ potential claims upon them. There was also a very significant profit motive on the part of land speculators providing an incentive for western expansion. Nock goes so far as to say that the main motive for the Revolutionary War was Britain’s refusal to allow western expansion–which was sticking in the craw of quite a few of the Founding Fathers, many or most of whom were land speculators.
Do the men in the US seek to defend our nation and secure its borders on behalf of the ladies? Maybe some do. Do conservatives seek to uphold our national values of liberty and economic freedom on behalf of the ladies? Maybe. I’m not sure that the ladies’ interests are their chief motivation.
I would be less skeptical if I saw more evidence of men doing anything at all in the service of the ladies–or their own children. The contrary is more often the case.
Since mass rape was considered part of conquest, it is quite a stretch to say ”they did it for the ladies”.
Well said, Anthea, and Paula D.
Bullshit Ant. We (men and women) conquered this continent together. The Enemy succeed in convincing many women to think of themselves as something separate and superior. But your foremothers didn’t think like this. And yes, the benefited. As do you.
@ Jarek:
“We (men and women) conquered this continent together.”
During the Colonial period and continuing up until about 1800, there was tremendous social pressure on women to have very large families, due to the perceived urgency to populate and settle the nation “from sea to shining sea.” Probably the economic value of large families also had something to do with that, since it took a lot of hands to farm the half-section or quarter-section without modern farm machinery.
If you read Mark Twain or Nock, or even Louis L’Amour, you get a strong impression that women were held in very high esteem throughout the period of western expansion–almost to the point of veneration. Nock, who was quite a bit of a misogynist, complained that the US was “an ice-water-drinking matriarchy.”
While it is risky to generalize, since individual lives are highly variable, you also get the impression that men were men back then. Read “Blood and Treasure,” a biography of Daniel Boone. One of his many feats of courage and daring was to rescue his daughter and her two companions after they were captured by Indians–at considerable risk to himself (as with just about everything the guy did to provide for his family). He was quite a contrast to the modern male.
The book, “America’s First Daughter,” a fictional biography of Jefferson’s daughter Patsy, paints quite a different picture, of a drunken and wastrel husband. (The other daughter also seems to have drawn the short straw). Sally Hemmings’s life looks almost idyllic compared to the lives of Jefferson’s legitimate daughters.
I think my point in all these ramblings is that the excesses of modern feminism lie largely at the door of the moral failures of men.
Via Robert Malone:
More Censorship/Cancel Culture. The authors were not notified of this “Temporary Removal” action. I have never seen anything like this, ever, in my entire scientific career.
Med. publisher Elsevier removes peer-reviewed paper discussing Myocarditis reports for Covid “vaccines” in the VAERS system.
Paper quietly removed; authors not notified.
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1449142757335863297
Also, Rainer Fuellmich of the Corona Ausschuss recently remarked that based on the reams of evidence the Ausschuss has gathered, the vaccines are a “bioweapon.”
Orwell’s “who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
Last 24 hours, I’ve heard of a young guy (20s) swell up and survive after a vax and a guy actually running a vaccination program take the vax and die posthaste. Also heard of a factory that was crippled for a couple of weeks after the workers were inoculated ang had to take sick leave. All anecdotal but you know… Hmmmm.
(and)
Elsevier. I was trying to remember their name. As far as I can remember they publish (or at least did) the Lancet at the time the journal withdrew Dr Andrew Wakefield’s paper. Wakefield was struck of the register following a disgrace of a trial which was roundly condemned by an Appeals judge. I cannot remember who owns Elsevier but I am sure it is a familiar name. I wonder what really happened with that HCQ paper that was famously withdrawn, was it really fraudulent or was it simply too embarrassing for the medical estalishment seeing as the drug had killed so many after it was administered in lethal doses in the spring of last year.
This just in: it’s mostly for O.G., since he was interested:
About Jimmy Hayes, the 31 year-old ex-NHL player who died suddenly two months back, after which there was no cause of death announced: it wasn’t because of the jab(s). It was from fentanyl-laced cocaine. He’d been on opioids for a while after suffering through pain during his hockey career.
Thank you for that update, SF.
The NHL has had too many stories like his. John Kordic. Bob Probert.
Most people linger while others burn out in a burst.
RIP
I could go on all day. Feel free to add-on
“LET’S GO BRANDON” ©
Slo Joe,
Creepy joe,
Not my President,
Sleepy Joe.
Bare shelf Biden,
Stumblin’ Biden,
Not my President,
Where’s he hiden?
Hunter’s whoring,
Prices soaring,
Not my President,
Joe is snoring.
Get the Jab,
It is required,
Not my President,
Or you are fired!
Corn pop, ice cream,
Sniffing girls’ hair,
These are Joe’s dreams
In intensive care.
(Clap clap clap-clap-clap)
And rubbing their chests, and pulling them close to his crotch.
If you are going to go there, go there.
Wow, Owl.
It was an off-hand, lighthearted, whimsical spot of fun, not meant to be a comprehensive take-down. If I wanted to do that, I would’ve written a ferocious, time-and-effort essay.
I wasn’t attacking you. Joe Joe is a sexual predator and pedophile, however.
I notice that people always seem to dance around what he has done openly on camera, and I don’t get it. The sniffing is nothing. There are many video clips of him groping children.
Very good, stelmos and SF!
Saint,
Get the Jab?
I’ll take a pass,
Mandates, however
Can kiss my ass….
Unmarked planes
Landing at night
With lots of little kiddies
Biden’s house in sight?
Possible candidate for eyesore of the month. Expected completion Date: 2025.
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/10/08/frank-gehry-guggenheim-abu-dhabi-2025/?li_source=LI&li_medium=rhs_block_1
Another dose of Mr. Kunstler’s customary purple prose almost, but not quite, obscures how bogus so many of his factual claims are.
The most obvious false claim is that POTUS has directed the border patrol to not perform its duties. Uh, what? Under Title 42, U.S. Customs and Border Protection expelled 690,209 people at the southwestern border from February to August of this year:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics/title-8-and-title-42-statistics
That’s nearly 100,000 people per month. But in JHK world, anything goes and facts don’t matter, apparently. Mind you, that time period only covers what’s happened since Biden’s inauguration. Look at the complete article and you’ll see the numbers have actually increased greatly since Biden’s predecessor left office – Trump was averaging in the low 60,000s per month. Click the link if you don’t believe me; I’ll wait.
Caught up yet? That’s not all, though — disinformation abounds! This week, there’s one tech bro who couldn’t live with himself anymore and blew the whistle on one particular shop that sold fake news crap to the credulous:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/hacker-x-the-american-who-built-a-pro-trump-fake-news-empire-unmasks-himself/
Rob Willis describes his former employer NaturalNews.com as one of the Internet’s premiere content farms for manufactured bullshit. While there, he grew adept at peddling nonsense claims about chemtrails, lemons that cure cancer, and of course lots of scare-mongering about vaccines and COVID-19 – along with plenty of ads for dubious supplements, and sundry products of similar worth. These fake news stories were buttressed by the classic tactic of furnishing putative links to outside websites, all of which were operated by the same content farm – the standard circle jerk of epistemic closure that helps sell rubes on the scam.
Sadly, if you Google search this very site for ‘naturalnews’ you get at least 7 pages of hits, so clearly a lot of Kunstler’s readers have been taken in. I’m very sorry to see how many of you have been wasting your time.
Dear Dummy. Title 42. Look it up.
Apprehensions: they’re caught and released into interior
Only metric that ever matters in immigration enforcement is:
REMOVALS
What a fool
100th Avatar, I’ll be generous and assume you were too lazy to click the link before commenting. Otherwise I’d have to think you can’t read something that’s right in front of you.
The web page refers specifically to Title 42 expulsions, and takes care to define the word: “Expulsions refers to individuals encountered by USBP and OFO and expelled to the country of last transit or home country in the interest of public health under Title 42 U.S.C. 265.”
I’ve helpfully underlined the important bit and will provide further help by pointing out that expulsion and removal are synonyms. Two great tastes that taste the same together.
What a fool, indeed.
The underlining didn’t translate, it seems – oh well. You can still figure it out, I believe in you.
Imbecile. 42 was put in place by trump.
Expulsion is not at all the same as removal.
They were not adjudicated on immigration status.
But health
Temporarily
Removals require an order of removal
By an immigration judge or senior level supervisor.
You know nothing what you speak
Title 42 was an already existing provision when Trump started using it. And Biden has stepped it up from ~60K per month to ~100K per month. That’s a fact.
Your brain (and you’re not alone in this) seems incapable of processing the simple fact that these hundreds of thousands of people have been physically removed from the United States in even greater numbers than under Trump. What’s your problem? That Biden didn’t wave a dead chicken over them first, or say “Mother, may I?” Does that means they’re all still inside U.S. borders ‘in the eyes of God’ no matter their actual, you know, location?
Jesus.
You were duped
‘Cause you’re dumb.
They were not removed.
On immigration findings or adjudication.
Their illegal entry allegations never adjudicated.
Their credible fear claims never processed by USCIS or EOIR
THEY HAVE NO BAN TO SEEK ADMISSION
Unlike removals.
With removal orders.
You, like countless idiots, fell for nuanced technical language.
42 is a temporary measure only affecting %50 of encounters.
Vastly larger sums are released. Into the US.
Vastly.
Just like the dummies who think immigration arrest numbers mean anything.
They are arrested and released.
Again, only number that matters is REMOVALS.
You’re in over your head Donny – W. Sobchak
Avatar: On other days, when you’re wearing another persona or mask, you support mass immigration.
Professor MacDonald studied your group and found far more psychological complexity – and thus mental illness I would imagine due to conflicting personas. You’re almost like Bugs Bunny, at the whim of the winds blowing different hats onto his head.
Paul Krugman is another example. “You can’t have the welfare state and open borders. He’s for open borders. Lack of integration? Or integrated in a way he doesn’t care to own up to in front of the people he and the rest of the Elite intend to replace?
Not personas
Avatars
assuming
forms
Jarek
You also assume
That I have an opinion on the facts
My opinion, if one, is that someone above is rather confident in his misinterpretation of them.
Besides, it’s not mental illness
It’s artistic temperament
https://allindiaworld.com/what-is-the-artistic-temperament/
Avatar: You are owning up. Admitting you are a conscious enemy of the White American People then.
Thank you.
Janos,
No matter what mask, hat, persona you attempt to wear, you may always be counted on to run with your preconceptions and presumptions.
Steadfast.
You made up your mind and any new inputs will always confirm it.
It works for many
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Eppur,
You made a valid point which I too have noted. Nearly all Truther websites sell some form of “snake oil” to supplement income.
But it is also true they have been demonetized by your heros at YouTube and other social media for having the wrong ideology. And I would guess you think those with “bad opinions” should be vigorously censored for the good of simple truth loving people. How foul to contradict the MSM narrative. Bad,bad YouTuber!
It’s also true such people push benign and possibly useless vitamin and mineral supplements of the kind you can buy at WalMart and Amazon. This makes them rank amateurs to your globalist heros at big Pharma, feeding an opioid epidemic killing about 47,000 Americans per year. But you’re OK with that.
Not sure Eppur said he was pro big pharma. It is possible to be anti big pharma and the snake oil peddlings of Natural News, Mercola, etc. Not all herbs and supplements are benign; some are quite expensive. Taking a skeptical approach to both seems reasonable.
Tully, you aren’t taking a skeptical approach. Your posts are the same old McMedia corporate BlueAnon drivel — just like those of our returning banee above.
You have no credibility.
Tully, benign and expensive are not opposites. Look up the definition of “benign”.
Hmuller, Correct. Lousy sentence structure, so my apologies.. Meant that all supplements are not always benign, and even helpful ones can be expensive, so there is a cost to benefit ratio to consider also.
Thanks, Tully. Too often people resort to straw-man rhetoric. And hmuller, you and I likely agree on more than you would think. I’m no fan of the way pharma companies exploit, price-gouge, and monetize misery in general (think Oxycontin among other things). Why would you assume I’m a fan?
I also agree that both mainstream news media and the social media behemoths are engaging in outright censorship of legitimate news stories like Hunter Biden’s laptop, in a way that’s far more ominous than the kind of propaganda they’ve always pushed. I’m just agreeing with you from the left, that’s all.
The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and immediately opium production exploded. They were up to thousands of tons annually until recently.
As heroin production exploded, so did heroin addiction and overdoses in the USA.
Some people started noticing. I know 2 friends who had family members who OD’d on heroin in the 2000s. It’s like vaccine injuries, word of mouth starts spreading.
So then the media started blathering on about the ”opioid crisis” and the “Evil Sackler family” and “Chinese fentanyl”.
I’m guessing that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will put quite a dent into ”opioid” overdoses, and the talk about prescription opioid overdoses will also disappear.
But it is interesting how many people fall for the narrative.
Paula,
Not being pharmacologically savvy I looked up oxycontin and fentanyl. Although highly processed, both require raw material from the good old poppy plant.
I wouldn’t bet that poppy cultivation will nosedive now that NATO is out of Afghanistan. The Taliban and their new Chinese protectors could always use more money.
Well, drug running has been a feature of the CIA since before it was the CIA, when it was the OSS teamed up with the Kuomintang to run guns and drugs through Burma.
Fun fact: in 2001, when the USA invaded Afghanistan, medical workers were suddenly told that Demerol (the pain drug of choice of 99% of doctors until then) was dangerous! Very dangerous! (Like ivermectin but even more!)
So we switched to morphine. Hmmm, what is morphine made from?
Coincidence? I think not.
The. Ars Technica link above is the first story from 10/14. They published an update 10/18.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/disinformation-guru-hacker-x-names-his-employer-naturalnews-com/
Here is Robert Willis statement from his blog, also 10/18:
https://robertwillishacking.com/statement-10-18-21/
I was asked up thread not to cite FactCheck as a source for covid info. After reading these three articles, appears Natural News and any site linked to them are the ones that should not be used as sources for much of anything.
Factcheck.org has a long history of false propaganda, just like the captured media institutions owned by the same corporate criminals.
You have no credibility.
More commentary and backstory about the NaturalNews scam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fza7Ix7BtY
These guys have probably already melted away and started all-new troll farms. Milking the rubes always pays.
Don’t look now, but the British MP who was just stabbed to death chaired the hearings against mandatory jabs:
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=90410
We. are. doomed.
Oh boy, well that makes sense, doesn’t it?
And some of the good guys are quitting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54531982
I just looked up Chris Green (from the debate) to see if he was another Chris Green I knew of and came upon this.
Good news for the bullies.
Odd economic note:
The GoPro Hero 10 Black, which was released a few months ago, must be selling very slowly.
GoPro is already offering a $200 discount, free battery, dual battery charger, and 1 year subscription to their fancy new camera that shoots 5K video.
Guess we’re gonna need another stimmy!
Oh gimme gimme gimme some stimmy stimmy stimmy!
Wait till they start demanding the stimmy checks be paid back!
Trust me its coming!
The Long Emergency is upon us. The only question seems to be what is the angle of the downward slant as that dictates how long the breakdown will take. The timeframe in turn dictates the extent to which individuals and communities can adjust in an orderly manner vs disorderly.
“Do you feel all warm and fuzzy over a shot that will turn your body into a spike protein generator, considering how spike proteins behave in a human vascular system?”
The side effects you describe, that are supposedly coming to the vaxxed, sound exactly like what’s already happened to 15%-50% of covid infected people who survived – major issues with organs: brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidney, intestines… Now they’re claiming a 3-7 IQ point drop in infected covid people – lead produces something like a 2 IQ point drop, haha!!! I’ve seen no significant data on vax side effects, and it’s been almost a year now… It’s not like ‘society’ fought against the cowpox vaccine over 100 years ago, or the polio one (or the measles/mumps/etc). Yet those DO have significant side effects for a small minority.
And every breath, another species goes extinct. What clearcutting? What poisoning? What depletion? 2nd/3rd order effect issues should NOT be our focus now… Peak *EVERYTHING* happened about a decade ago (fertilizer/oil/rare earth metals/topsoil/etc) – the midwest topsoil has been diminished from 20 feet thick to barely a foot, in the last 50-70 years.
Sustainability hasn’t been a word in the human language for centuries – renewability or conservation either. I know and have heard of many people my age with 3-5 children, and 9-20 grandchildren – completely unsustainable. The ones that have no children, or maybe 1-2, tend to be those in the top 5% – you know, phat 6 figure salaries, with 8 figures in assets/savings (Idiocracy fo sho). It seems too convenient to blame it on immigrants – sure, in Tejas or Florida, it’s an issue (might explain why those 2 states are going bat-SH!-nutty w/ insanity laws). There will NEVER be talk about reducing population growth. Best case, they call it Eugenics – worst case, they call it Genocide. Gotta grow that tribe to compete. 2 billion people on the planet when my parents were born, 3 billion when I was, and 8 billion now?!?
The American (arguably global) mantra is, “me, me, me/now, now, now/more, more, more.” Guy McPherson will be rolling in his grave, soon enough I s’pose…
Sure, I’m a TOTAL skeptic (doomer?). For example, I’m not sure how the Pentagon got hit 1.5 hours after both twin towers did (Cheney stand-down orders?). Do you realize the security system they’ve had in place around DC since the late 50’s?!? Or, how the moon landing astronauts didn’t come back with severe radiation poisoning, from days outside the Van Allen belts (Iodine? Certainly not mm-thick gold mylar – do you know how thick gold has to be, to attenuate gamma radiation [you’d need 5mm thick gold just to cut incoming radiation in half]? You’d prolly want to attenuate incoming radiation by 90% or more, which would require nearly an inch thick gold casing [exponential decay’s a BYOTCH]).
I remember taking a nuclear engineering course in ’87/8, where they totally glossed over Thorium reactors [the choice was obviously Uranium, for weapons grade Plutonium production]). Neutron diffusion length! Haha, differential equations. Damped (sinusoidal) oscillatory springs. Fourier transform impulse summations.
Yeah, I got *NUTTIN* .
“the midwest topsoil has been diminished from 20 feet thick to barely a foot, in the last 50-70 years.”
Why aren’t the century old midwest farmhouses I see every day 20 feet higher than the surrounding fields, if all the top soil blew away? And where did it go? Into the rivers? Wouldn’t they be clogged up by now.
“…, how the moon landing astronauts didn’t come back with severe radiation poisoning, from days outside the Van Allen belts”
ZCD,
…and who is to say they didn’t?
I never took a course in nuclear engineering, but I once stayed at a Holiday Inn….
You should read up on the Van Allen radiation belts…
Thick Mylar, my foot. You can clearly see that they used the same kind of Mylar that people use today for those balloons they let loose to choke sea creatures.
https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/lunar-landing-nightmares-i-was-there-180971749/
If you look at photos of the lunar module, what you see is a camping tent, apparently stuck together with duct tape, on stilts made of PVC. Some portions of the lunar modue appear to be made of roofing paper. Homeless people in Philadephia would blush to inhabit such a camping tent–and would quake and pale if anyone suggested they fly anywhere in it.