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David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He moonlights as an Internet gadfly offering commentary on culture, politics, finance, and technology, He publishes a massive Year in Review essay every Christmas season and it’s available at Chris Martenson’s Peak Prosperity Website. It’s a humdinger. In this chat, we reference the Christmas battlefield hiatus over in Ukraine — but we recorded this before the Jan 2 missile attack on a Russian barracks in Donbas that killed many Russian soldiers. Hope we don’t nuked for that.
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russia preparing huge massive response to Donbas bombing..huge
Always a jopurney worth undertaking, you and Dave. Thanks. And Happy New Year.
I would like to join a group or participate in a march opposing this insanity but can’t find anything helpful even on the internet.
I would like to join a group or participate in a march opposing this insanity but can’t find anything helpful even on the internet. Q
I would like everybody to grow food and learn a new skill that does not require electricity to utilize. Oh and make friends with their neighbors.
David Collum always has a thought-provoking perspective. Comments on cobalt spot on. Jimbo knows how to wind him up and let him go. It’s a wonder Cornell has allowed him to stick around…tenure, I suppose.
Yes, so many dangers. Traversing this material world is a razor’s edge and death can come at any moment. To make matters worse, we all have the 4 built-in defects.
One defect is we are subject to illusion, which makes us very persuadable, nudgable, easy to trigger fear in. Then we have the defect of having imperfect senses. How do we gather information? Through our senses, but our senses are imperfect, which means any information gathering is going to be imperfect. Next we are prone to commit mistakes, which can really add to the mayhem. Finally, we have a propensity to cheat, and I’ve seen friggin’ penguins cheat their neighbors.
When you combine these 4 built-in defects with the 8 elements (earth, fire, water, air, ether, mind, intelligence, and false ego) and the 3 material modes of nature (goodness, passion and ignorance), and the insatiable desire for profit, adoration and distinction….., well …. then …… you get……
Clusterfuck Nation!
Happy 2023 Everyone, May the Force be forever in our favor!!
David, You are wise to reject the entire vaccine narrative. Because of that “in stone” narrative, TPTB were able to pull off this terrible hoax. The only randomized, placebo controlled, peer reviewed study done comparing unvaxxed kids to vaxxed kids showed the absolutely horrendous health outcomes for vaxxed kids, and it was promptly retracted after a short publication period. The study was done by Dr. Paul from Oregon and a reputable colleague. Dr. Paul works for the CHD.
Would you rather have the measles or a seizure disorder? Would you rather have the chicken pox or asthma? Would you rather the mumps or developmental delays? Our children are suffering multiple and chronic health epidemics simultaneously. But guess what?
SADS is the new SIDS and child mortality rates dropped in 2020 when so many parents delayed the pediatrician visits….
My take on climate change: we’re gonna get climate change but not because of Co2, rather because of the sun and our weakening magnetosphere. Our magnetic force field is thinning and the holes in it are getting bigger. The poles are moving right along, so much so, that airports had to recently re-configure GPS coordinates.
Storms will get worse, lightening will become quite dangerous. In fact, I believe there was a recent discovery of a new kind of lightening or two. Earthquakes and volcanos will increase. So will health problems. Lots of peer reviewed studies on health issues triggered by solar activity and the less force field, the more solar weather gets through.
I follow Ben Davidson of SuspiciousObservers. Not sure how to take him sometimes, he’s a serious person, a little over confident and exudes testosterone (which we’re in short supply of these days), but the science makes sense to me. Not my favorite area of science, am trying to catch up.
For sure there is an existential threat from the Sun; if it burps hard enough and/or spurts out large multiple, long burps in our direction, our way of life is over in an instant. Every abc agency with a budget has produced a report on what would happen to the US if an EMP or CME or PME (proton mass ejection) hit us. However, it’s not if but when we get hit from the sun, it’s cyclical. Our current foreign policy isn’t working in our favor either, when it comes to an EMP threat.
This is what we prep for, a grid down. For Christmas this year, I bought get home bags for my adult children – so they can get home more easily if they get stuck 10s of miles from home. The kids say they’ll indulge me and keep it in their cars. We have a hand pump for water, some small orchards and several gardens. We have a big family, with strong (unvaxxed) adult grandchildren and close ties to the neighbors. Many of us have sown seeds of goodwill over decades in this area. We can grow food year round here in Florida and we have acquired quite a bit of gardening infrastructure.
I have somewhat of a boarding house situation in my empty nest home and that started about 2 years post 2008 crash. All the kids live close by. Several other people of our fledgling community live close by on small carbon footprints by choice – along with the high cost of living.
I don’t fear a grid down as much as I fear being a refugee.
I’m amazed that David hasn’t been terminated by Cornell for wrongthink. His ultra-woke colleagues must spit at him as he walks by.