I have thought of this quote from C S Lewis quite a few times over the last two years: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
They are doing us a favour. You won't like this - and I am sure you will disagree -but this is a real plan:
ULTIMATE EXTINCTION PLAN (UEP)
1. Every country on the planet is on board with the Injections. Even Sweden. When have all countries aligned on any issue? Never.
2. Not a single MSM outlet is interviewing any of the expert dissenters – Yeadon, Bridle, Montagnier, Bossche etc… and the mainstream social media platforms are blocking them.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.
Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5 million barrels per day (mb/d) according to Europe’s International Energy Agency (IEA 2018 p45). The U.S. Energy Information Agency shows global peak crude oil production at a later date in 2018 at 82.9 mb/d (EIA 2020) because they included tight oil, oil sands, and deep-sea oil. Though it will take several years of lower oil production to be sure the peak occurred. Regardless, world production has been on a plateau since 2005.
What’s saved the world from oil decline was unconventional tight “fracked” oil, which accounted for 63% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 83% of global oil growth from 2009 to 2019. So it’s a big deal if we’ve reached the peak of fracked oil, because that is also the peak of both conventional and unconventional oil and the decline of all oil in the future.
SEE PAGE 59 - THE PERFECT STORM : The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
Oil Gluts – do NOT indicate we have found more oil. We just pumped what’s left too fast.
Summary In 2019 a second Perfect Storm was approaching – the central banks had been doing ‘whatever it takes’ for over a decade…. Essentially nothing was off the table --- throw the kitchen sink at pushing GFC2.0 into the future. In 2019 the guns were blazing but the beast was no longer held at bay…
What do you do when you are burning far more oil than you discover --- and your efforts to offset the impact of expensive to produce oil push you to the edge of the cliff? You can accept your fate and allow the beast to shove you into the abyss…. Or you can take the ‘nuclear option’ and shut down as much of the economy as possible, preserve remaining oil and pump in trillions of dollars of life support to keep the system feebly alive.
Punchline: The problem global leaders face is that if you unleash the nuclear option without some sort of cover, the sheeple and the markets would be thrown into a panic and you risk blowing things up prematurely. So you need a reason for putting the global economy on ice --- one that does not spook the masses – one that is big enough to justify such epic amounts of stimulus and extreme policies --- and one that allows you to explain ‘this is just temporary – once this is gone --- we will get back to normal’
A pandemic is the perfect cover.
End Game – Covid was foisted on us as cover for the response to peak oil (if we don’t slow the burn oil prices go through the roof and we collapse) but it is also being used to convince billions to be Injected. The Injection is meant to cause extremely deadly variants similar to Marek’s .. only worse because we are deploying into a pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous.
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease.
The Vaccines and Boosters will Result in a Catastrophic Outcome - From a scientific viewpoint it is, therefore, difficult to understand how booster immunizations using vaccines which are not evolution-proof could prevent a highly mutable virus from escaping neutralizing anti-S Abs while driving the pandemic in a catastrophic direction, both in Israel and worldwide. How can the WHO stand by and watch as this additional experiment unfolds, soon to be followed by other countries? https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination-catastrophe/
If you have a large pool of hosts that all have the same fixation, then you have a large number of individual labs in which to have such a mutation occur. You have far more hosts in which to have random chances occur, all selecting for a mutation that attacks one specific weakness and that weakness is in most of the population, so once it’s out, there is no stopping it. And if this fixation prevents the hosts from developing strong new immunities based on these novel pathogens, this becomes iterative. you get wave after wave of pandemics until you wipe out the susceptible population. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/homogenizing-herd-level-antigenic
The reason for this is that 8B people need cheap energy to live. They would starve without it. And 8B people without food would result in epic starvation, violence, rape and cannibalism. Industrial civilization ends soon after peak oil. Unfortunately we also have 4000 spent fuel ponds that will boil off and release toxic substances for centuries. These facilities cannot be controlled with computers and energy. So even the few remaining hunters and gatherer tribes will die as they consume these toxins in the food, air and water.
Also note – when BAU collapses the PTB will not be insulated from the violence or starvation – or the spent fuel ponds. They will be scapegoated and targeted by violent hordes. There system of power collapses with BAU so their protectors abandon them (or worse – turn on them). They have chosen to go down with the ship rather than be skinned alive by angry mobs who will be blaming them for the fact that their families are starving.
Most people disagree.... because most people cannot accept that the people who run the world would want to exterminate all humans.
Then there are those who believe the theory of Peak Oil is nonsense - that it's abiotic...
We also have a very large group who are not concerned about oil because we are soon going to live in a utopian world of EVs and renewable energy.
If you do agree then I congratulate you - you are in a very tiny minority who is able to grasp the nature of what is happening - and is not driven to despair (hopefully) but this realization
Do you think that’s the case for all of them? I feel like there’s some leading the charge that that would apply to, but that there’s a fair amount of folks who have been propagandized into that camp
It's the way power always moves. It finds an authentic movement and coopts it. From there it either defangs it and integrates it into its own power or it pushes it to the extreme to cause division and social discord causing the pendulum to switch with great momentum while power amasses on the other side. This is how power uses both sides to achieve its goal.
What is happening is those pushing for progressive reforms have been coopted. Since they felt marginalized before, they accept the push without any consideration and become radicalized. If we simply see them as radicals and don't see the process, it happens to us as the pendulum swings the other way leading to greater and greater extremes until civil war seems the only option.
Bullseye. We all have so much in common. We eat the same things, shop in the same places, buy the same goods, etc. Yet when it comes to politics and the information we consume, many have been led astray. Therefore we fracture even though we need the same things to survive and prosper.
yup. i've said a thousand times; 90% of the people agree on 90% of the policy, but the elite use the 10% we disagree on to make us seem like enemies.
"the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed" -Lincoln (attributed)
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." -Washington
Why would the propagandized followers continue the torment if they weren't true believers? There has been plenty of evidence against their position -- the truth is out there. They ignore it. These 'fair amount of folks' would be happy to throw stones at us or see us in camps or in prison (uncharged after a year).
I think they’re true believers because they’ve been propagandized, if they’re even exposed to the truth they scoff at it, because their’s is a pseudo religious dogma. The folks promulgating the narrative are the malevolent force that actually knows better, they just don’t care
I don't think their intent is to destroy us, their intent is to get what they want at all costs, which results in the same outcome. The difference is important because the former makes you look belligerent and easily dismissed as mere opposition, whereas the latter adequately describes the reality for which many can easily agree.
In doing so you play into the hands of the extreme minority (both sides) that wags the rational majority forcing them to self-censor for fear of being called the other by their own party. I've been watching this exact thing play out for years leading to greater and greater extremism. The devil is always in the details.
Don't be belligerent, critically think. But at the same time, don't cast your pearls upon swine. Fight as the battle dictates, but don't drink your own koolaid.
I have this quote hung on my office wall. It very accurately summarizes extent to which our culture has deteriorated. Our lords and masters long since classed all of the great unwashed as "infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals", and are treating us accordingly.
The sad part is? A huge percentage of Those that truly need to read and comprehend the quote would never get past the first couple lines ( TL;DR) and if it were read To them,they have little enough faculties to parse it and correlate it to this current reality.
A departed friend of mine always quipped, "The Nazis kill you for their own good, but the Communists kill you for your own good!!" Sums it up quite nicely, for me.
Reminds me of a story. A king lived in a castle on a hill and was loved by the people. One day their well gets contaminated and all the people go mad. Soon they start attacking their king saying he has lost his mind. Distraught, he comes to town to find out what the problem is, drinks from the well, goes mad and then all the people rejoice that he regained his sanity. Dan Milman, Way of a Peaceful Warrior.
I was going to add "oh my gosh, that concentration of CO2 in one place raised the global temperature of the planet by a full degree in one night!" but two things stopped me: (1) I am not at all sure folks on that twitter feed would get it, and (2) I don't do Twitter ;-).
I once watched a bio-chemist friend try to explain the difference between CO and CO2 to a true believer. He had better luck explaining it to the wall. The attempt came after the true believer reacted to a statement (by me) that there are real, toxic pollutants out there and CO2 is not one one of them. She professed "people die every day from CO2 poisoning!". Enter futile attempt by chemist....who ended with "CO can cause brain damage and apparently you have had the experience!".
Your friend needs to write a book. Personally, I give up. A few years ago, yes, years, the Stella Natura people came right out and released a bomb. They said, hey folks, we were wrong about carbon, carbon is not a problem. Carbon is actually the backbone of life on Earth. They are a worldwide group of cutting-edge biodynamic farmers and educators - Steiner people who have started several "villages" that give great meaningful jobs and lives to the handicapped. Their award-winning, world-renowned planting calendars follow Steiner principles and include excellent essays. This particular essay rocked the organic/biodynamic world community - for about five minutes. Then most everyone got back on board the Climate Change Express. Whatever is said loudest and longest is usually listened to. So disheartening.
There are many dissenting voices, but they are censored and silenced, just as with covid. I think the covid insanity - the lockdowns, etc. - was just the warmup. The real punishment - the permanent enslavement - is on its way, and will be in the name of climate change.
In deed. A survey of literature shows the the "dissenting voices" were really the mainstream majority a decade and a half back. You can see the breadth and diversity of literature contract steadily. Any objective look at the history shows a couple things: (1) the "science" of CO2 as driver of climate is very thin with nearly all the literature citations leading back to a single simulation model, and (2) rigorous analysis of the foundation assumptions has been suppressed.
When something can not be questioned, it is not science. A wise man once said to see who seeks to rule over you look at who can not be questioned. Actually I think the man made global warming was the trial run or warm up, and 2020-22 was escalation of the basic method. There are stark similarities and the solutions strikingly similar.
Whenever I hear someone complain about Global Warming due to increased CO2 levels I respond that the answer is simple, Plant More Trees. Stop the deforestation of the planet, and problem solved. They look at me like I'm nuts.
If you want to really annoy those folks point out that forest re-growth such as the forestry industry has perfected over the last 2 centuries consumes much more CO2 than old growth (static) forests.
Brilliant, per usual. I can't pay for a subscription right now, as my hubby is on leave w/o pay for refusing the mRNA shots. I shared on Twitter though - let's see if I get put in "jail."
I forced myself to read the SFGate article about people who are vaxxed and boosted getting covid over and over. Dying. Turns out, it's - you guessed it - the fault of the unvaxxed, plus that wily virus that just keeps evolving and getting worse, and we would totally whup it if it weren't for those selfish, crazy, BAD anti-vax people! I loved the line "deniers are saying it's actually from the vaccines, not covid." The whole article put me in a very strange mental fugue. A taste of their insanity? I had to jump in the shower, quick.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It has become the foundation for true belief.
Conversation over dinner at my dads years ago:
Rabbi: is it possible to believe in the divine and in science?
Me: Yes it is. The two are in no way in conflict.
Rabbi: you do you explain the story of creation in 6 days?
Astrophysicist: Well, since before that the earth did not exist, clearly "a day" was not defined in reference to the rotation of the earth which did not yet exist. What was a day to the creator? Could have been 5 billions years by our reference frame?
Rabbi: got me there.
Me: Science can not exist without faith. Every theory of the origin of the universe begins with a miracle.
Astrophysicist: Explain
Me: we begin with an unexplained event. It must have happened. We apply rules. Rules in which we have faith. We arrive at a theory. What do you call an unexplained event that we must accept? Axioms. How are Axioms different from miracles?
Rabbi: the delivery method!
Astrophysicist: So the big bang is like the instant creation began (miracle) and mathematics is the Torah and Mitzvah of science.
Me and the Rabbi: Exacty
Anyone who contends that faith in G** denies science, or that science denies existence of a divine, understands neither. They are equally blind and ignorant.
Wow. Can I come to dinner at your house? Like, when the Rabbi is there? I make a mean noodle kugel. Seriously, when I tell people that Einstein was a deeply religious man they refuse to believe it. But give the purge enough time and there will no longer be evidence to support this. I think that at the core of covid fear and hysteria is the lack of God in people's lives. I don't remember who said it - "To grow old without God is a tragedy". I might be paraphrasing here, but the gist of it is true for me, and I think it goes beyond the "growing old" part, in these wicked times.
I'm not either, Bandit, I just love to cook Jewish food, and happen to know more Yiddish than most of my Jewish friends. Past life? When my sister converted, the Rabbi met our mother and said, "Well, it's pretty clear to me, you're all Jewish, you just didn't know it." I wish.
😂🤣 I was told the same thing by a former boss, who is Jewish! I said a couple of Yiddish words different times in front of him. They were just words my Mother's family used. No big deal. They brought surprised looks from him. Other than "potato pancakes" my Mom made, I don't think I've ever had Jewish food. I hate to cook. `\_(•_•)_/`
You don't need to be Jewish (but as mom used to say, "it doesn't hurt"). You don't need to be a scientist either. But it helps if you can keep an open mind and think quickly!
My dad spent 30 years at a famous university (what we all referred to as the FU ;-) working with mostly physicists and chemists. So the mix of guests was always interesting. My son learned of the paradox of Heisenberg's Cat by the time he was in grade school - I remember a second grade teacher asking me "who is Heisenberg and what does he have against cats?". My dad used to debate atheism with his old friend who was a Rabbi (with dad taking the role of atheism advocate). One night my son (maybe 7?) was discussing the declaration of independence and references to the divine creator therein with the Rabbi, and Rabbi asked "so if you do not believe in god, what does the "bestowed by their creator" mean? Who is the ultimate authority? After a moments thought my son answered "MOM!". No one could argue with that!
God by definition is omnipotent so it is above all. Omnipotent entity can not be refuted by imperfect entities (humans).
Also in my opinion God should be impossible to be proved and any omnipotent power should hide themselves without proof from humans. Why? Because otherwise people would stop living their lives and would wait for the God to save them by miracle so God has to "hide" by definition.
Also worth to read the thoughts of René Descartes:
An imperfect living creature should not be able to imagine a creation perfect like God. If it can it means someone put this thought there: God.
Surely the list of things we must ignore is not yet so extreme as to justify questioning the politics :-). Our leaders are pure and just and would not do us harm.
"That terrible long haul covid is making all these athletes just drop, causing unexpected death, miscarriages, it goes on..." That is what is being claimed, in the face of the vaccine disaster. And no matter what statistics you show them, no matter what authority speaks out and tells the true story, no matter how clearly the lies are being exposed, you will never, ever get these brainwashed zombies to believe anything else. It would cost them too much.
It is rather amazing in the extremes of denial required to maintain loyalty.
It is a pattern I've observed growing for decades. Something bad happens (real or fabricated). Something must be done. The thing done (which usually entails removing individual liberties) does not yield the desired outcome. This is explained as we didn't do it enough so obviously we need to do more. Less than 100% compliance with whatever it is becomes a matter of public health and safety and thus lack of compliance can no longer be tolerated.
Nina’s security detail is a Meta headset so she can continue to live in her own misinformation bubble and ignore reality. Her previous think tank was funded by Meta so she is completely plugged into the matrix.
She and Whitmer and Hochul are all stamped out of the same cloning machine. Just look at their pictures side by side. Destroying that machine should be at the top of everyone's agenda...
No. I thought about mentioning him (I always think of him when I think of the song), but hey, this was Nina's day, I didn't want to rain on her parade!
It will appear that sometimes I cannot "like" a comment, but I found that if I hit the refresh button and come back to the comment it actually did "take" the like.
Ooooo, tiki torches! Nat Turner as staged by Mel Brookes. Bring those! That's surreal enough even for me. Great idea, I'll bring the mai tais and rumaki!! Par-TAY!!!
Good girl. Levity aside, got my Mossberg and my Smith and Wesson at the ready. My knives are sharp and my powder is dry. Mom was deep into genealogy. My family came over on the fourth boat after the Mayflower. An ancestor of mine in Maryland (then part of the Colonies), one Dinah Nuthouse, took over her husband's printing office when he died. She was illiterate but told her typesetter what to write. She was arrested and fined for sedition, printing pamphlets and tracts against the king. Later we had some gggggg-grandfathers and uncles fight in the Revolution. Had people on both sides in the War Between the States. I cherish the stories of my patriotic roots, and hear their voices calling me to action.
Ooooh. You come from a long line of rabble rousers. 👍🏻👍🏻 I’ve only been part of the roused rabble since Covid. But at least I’m here. The first nice Sunday my hubby is going to teach me how to use our supply. I did once years ago but need a refresher. I already have a FOID card. Love your history. Some of us learn from history. Too bad and tragic so many don’t. 💪
I'm beginning to believe they are all actors and clowns under the big top, meant to distract us, while the circus owners do their dirty deeds to finish us off.
Perhaps but not very good (probably why they needed a gig?). Seems we're being presented a long string of pretty faces who can't seem to string together complete sentences. Most employed actors can read a script.
lack of skills comes with job description. read somewhere AOC got her job by auditing to play a congresswoman. same with trump and zelensky - train as actors first and so on. as to perks nothing new.
The 'fact check' on that was hilarious. It explained that while it WAS true that AOC responded to a casting call, it wasn't a big deal because that organization does stuff like that all the time.
The “Brains Behind AOC” video correctly states that Ocasio-Cortez was recruited by the Justice Democrats to run for office. However, this fact is presented in the video as if it were an unprecedented act of political malfeasance. In reality, it is quite common for Political Action Committees (PACs) to recruit candidates for office. The Justice Democrats made no attempt to hide this effort and openly discuss their recruitment process on their website and in videos published to their public YouTube page:
High school drama teachers, God I love 'em, I'm a theatre person myself, but I gotta tell you, they are about the most manipulative people ever. And, don't forget, Zelensky played the piano with his genitalia. Hard to take the man seriously, after seeing that.
Well, to be fair about all those nations entirely controlled by Communists--they all had a long history of conditioning for it. The Chinese had had no problem with mutilating girls' feet for a fashion; the Russians had been mesmerized by a Church of extraordinary pageantry and mysticism; Vietnam and Laos had long histories of filial obedience.
We shoulda held on to our national character of uncouthness. That was our secret power...
The american way of combining being loud, brash obnoxious braggarts with at the same time being moral solidaric and politely caring was always one of your major draws, yes.
You'll need to water the root of that tree again, I think.
Or learn to think european: obedience when the Argus' eye of power is on you, and do whatever you want when it's not, don't set yourself in opposition to the state but do your thing in such a way the state profits more from co-opting or ignoring you than squashing you, and live free wherever the state is not.
Think of it as Jeeves & Wooster: the state, who is nominally in charge, is Bertie Wooster (aunt Agatha can be the state's owners), but the one who gets things done is the people/you: the valet Jeeves.
It's important to remember that we were settled by criminals, transportees too young to fight back; adherents of every crazy breakaway Christian sect; people without an inheritance to keep them in their home countries; people fleeing civil wars who otherwise might have wanted to stay at home.
Add to that about 1 500 000 swedes from between mid-1800s to the 1920s. Workers, farmers, loggers and such.
It got so bad, that our politicians and businessleaders back then realised that they had to undertake real reform, or they would be left without a people at all. To quote from the 1907 governement study on the issue as to why so many left Sweden: "...necessitates that we absorb and remould the true good out of America".
What they meant was the freedom of worship or from worship, free enterprise and trade, freedom to travel and settle and so on. Then World War One rolled in, the US tightened its migration policy afterwards (quotas if I remember my course in US history?), and our politicians could happily roll back most of the reforms.
When middle-aged to older swedes talk approvingly about the US, it's the US that disappeared during the sixties. The US that for reasons both noble and not went to war against fascism.
And it's notable that those Swedish immigrants became the strength of the liberal Midwestern states that avoided extreme insularity (think of the German farming communities with highly-rigid interpretations of Christian virtue) and developed a genuinely inoffensive preservation of their cultural values (very gently mocked in the character of Rose Nyland in "The Golden Girls."
Hard working, dilligent, dutiful but not greedy or avaricious nor miserly are all things I have been brought up with. It's a delicate balance which doesn't really work in today's world, it more and more resembling the bastard offspring from a torpid tryst between Ayn Rand and Gordon Gecko.
On that unhappy thought, I'm off to bed - it's past midnight here.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" Thomas Jefferson. That tree, Rikard? It's past due. But I do like your Bertie and Jeeves analogy. That might work for some, and for a time.
Wars no longer need to be bloody. Everyone's lazy now. Just moving bank accts. to credit unions; not using mobile phones for anything except urgent communications--the sky would crack.
Indeed it is! For some reason, I've always envisioned it as a great oak, or an ash tree (Yggdrasil, no doubt).
Probably because in the Bronze Age here, bad chiefs would be hung and bled from oaks to please the gods, it being believed that a good chief brought good times, and bad times meant the chief was going bad, just like wood will.
While not exactly due process, there is wisdom in there.
There are still pockets of shining, patriotic uncouth, flyover states filled with deplorables. And guns. We cannot, we must not let them disarm us as citizens. We can see it throughout history - the first thing They do is take them away...
I confess to you with great shame as a born and raised but, now no longer, Noo Yawkuh, I felt great scorn and no sense of commonality with those flyover states. Culture is powerful, and the US is a place of micro-cultures forged into one nation, and federalism is both genius and detriment. There are many areas I would not feel comfortable settling in for these cultural reasons. But oh boy do I have new appreciation for their strengths.
Born and raised in Bluer-than-blue Hawaii, I felt that scorn for years. Then I moved to Big Turtle Island and did some traveling, got to experience with my own eyes what America in all of her varied richness was about. My eyes were opened and my ignorant bigoted mouth got shut. Recently my sister, the elitist artist, had to actually drive through Iowa (horrors!). She was doing her usual nasty putdowns about how uneducated and uncultured the Midwest was (she could tell this just from driving through it in her car). I had to speak my piece. Uneducated, really? The highest academic ratings in the country (where California once was, 40 years ago, before the Dems flushed it down the toilet), that Iowa? Some of the best colleges in the land? The home of first-in-the-nation caucuses, that Iowa? I hope I gave her something to think about while she enjoyed all that bacon. She will never acknowledge that her scorn is always reserved for red/purple states. It's that simple.
"it elevates precisely the wrong people to prominence and entrusts them with power that even an idealized beneficent philosopher king could not and should not wield."
Almost like bat sh*t crazy Mary Poppins wanna-be finding universal truth with her Ouija board.
The guy with the CO2 meter is a hero in his own mind—he goes out into the unwashed masses, risking his very existence, to let them know that his science says they are endangered (thus proving their stupidity for being there). Saviors aren’t born, they’re self-made.
Interesting. OSHA standard is that over an 8 hour shift acceptable levels of CO2 should AVERAGE 5000ppm. Human tolerance for CO2 is pretty broad. Typically outdoors its 400ppm (thank you chlorophyll). But remember that CO2 in the deranged mind of the nuerocrats is air pollution. So the 2200 on the meter as an instant read is well inside of reasonable tolerance. This is the worst kind of hucksterism. The illusion of specificity, the illusion of danger.
The OSHA standard assumes 8 hr per day and 40 hrs per week for a healthy worker. That being said, ASHRAE recommends 1000 ppm for healthy indoor air quality and that’s the upper limit most HVAC Mechanical Engineers are shooting for during their design. 2200 is actually pretty lousy and should be better. Not hazardous, but not the sign of a well operating system. It’s is probably not bringing in as much fresh outdoor air to account for the large number of people in the space.
Nonetheless, I'm sure that facility meets all the government codes (except maybe a few where the inspector was paid to look the other way), and I'm sure it has all the right occupancy permits and so forth, and the local officials were checking regularly to make sure that 'everything was in order...' as the Nazis used to say.
Doesn't it make you feel comfortable to know they are all looking out for you? (Maybe about as comfortable as we all feel now, knowing that the FDA, CDC, NIAID etc. are looking out for us.... NOT!!!)
I know about the ASHRAE standard. Glad you brought that up. Also agree that the mechnical system is some combination of old/failing/poorly designed/needs maintenance, if the Sensor is correct. The truth is, this isn't about danger, its about comfort.
For what its worth. The FDA has a fact sheet called the Carbon Dioxide Health Hazard Information Sheet.
Not defending ding-a-ling but I think the point he was trying to make was that high CO2 is evidence of poor ventilation, ergo it had Covid super-spreader potential. But who knows, he's an all-purpose charlatan and maybe he was claiming the CO2 was poisonous.
Regardless, people have a choice to get on with their lives or remain paralyzed in fear. The latter are a miserable lot but some people just enjoy pathological behavior.
I agree with you that the poster of the original assumes as fact a connection between Covid spread and higher levels of CO2. Thanks to the AGW doctrines, the simple mention of CO2 charges the measurement with extra emotional weight. I am pretty skeptical that there is more than a simple correlation if one even exists. Correlation does not imply causation, and I know you are not saying that.
I wonder if the relative humidity that his sensor shows is a better indicator for the likelihood of a superspreader event, since I hear that the virus rides on water molecules. It would be interesting to find out.
Neurocracy is a coinage that perfectly characterizes the leadership we have been under for some time. I remember decades ago when I first heard the term "safety nazis"; can't remember who thought that one up. The point about drama students running the world is pretty apt too, especially for us Canadians.
I have thought of this quote from C S Lewis quite a few times over the last two years: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
Today’s “moral busybodies” have no conscience, nor do they “torment us for our own good.” The evil psychopaths are determined to destroy us.
I believe that too, Susan
They are doing us a favour. You won't like this - and I am sure you will disagree -but this is a real plan:
ULTIMATE EXTINCTION PLAN (UEP)
1. Every country on the planet is on board with the Injections. Even Sweden. When have all countries aligned on any issue? Never.
2. Not a single MSM outlet is interviewing any of the expert dissenters – Yeadon, Bridle, Montagnier, Bossche etc… and the mainstream social media platforms are blocking them.
Why?
Conventional Oil peaked in 2005 http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/C-Cdec141.png
Shale in 2018.
According to Rystad, the current resource replacement ratio for conventional resources is only 16 percent. Only 1 barrel out of every 6 consumed is being replaced with new resources
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Biggest-Oil-Gas-Discoveries-Of-2019.html
Shale binge has spoiled US reserves, top investor warns Financial Times.
Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5 million barrels per day (mb/d) according to Europe’s International Energy Agency (IEA 2018 p45). The U.S. Energy Information Agency shows global peak crude oil production at a later date in 2018 at 82.9 mb/d (EIA 2020) because they included tight oil, oil sands, and deep-sea oil. Though it will take several years of lower oil production to be sure the peak occurred. Regardless, world production has been on a plateau since 2005.
What’s saved the world from oil decline was unconventional tight “fracked” oil, which accounted for 63% of total U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 83% of global oil growth from 2009 to 2019. So it’s a big deal if we’ve reached the peak of fracked oil, because that is also the peak of both conventional and unconventional oil and the decline of all oil in the future.
Some key points from this Financial Times article: https://energyskeptic.com/2021/the-end-of-fracked-shale-oil/
Shale boss says US has passed peak oil | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/320d09cb-8f51-4103-87d7-0dd164e1fd25
Our fossil fuel energy predicament, including why the correct story is rarely told https://ourfiniteworld.com/2021/11/10/our-fossil-fuel-energy-predicament-including-why-the-correct-story-is-rarely-told/
SEE PAGE 59 - THE PERFECT STORM : The economy is a surplus energy equation, not a monetary one, and growth in output (and in the global population) since the Industrial Revolution has resulted from the harnessing of ever-greater quantities of energy. But the critical relationship between energy production and the energy cost of extraction is now deteriorating so rapidly that the economy as we have known it for more than two centuries is beginning to unravel https://ftalphaville-cdn.ft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Perfect-Storm-LR.pdf
“The global economy was facing the worst collapse since the second world war as coronavirus began to strike in March, well before the height of the crisis, according to the latest Brookings-FT tracking index. “The index comes as the IMF prepares to hold virtual spring meetings this week, when it will release forecasts showing the deepest contraction for the global economy since the 1930s great depression. https://www.ft.com/content/9ac5eb8e-4167-4a54-9b39-dab48c29ac6c
Collapse Imminent: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-self-fulfilling-prophecy-systemic-collapse-and-pandemic-simulation/
The Illusion of Stability, the Inevitability of Collapse http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-illusion-of-stability-inevitability.html
Fed is sharply increasing the amount of help it is providing to the financial system https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/fed-repo-overnight-operations-level-to-increase-to-120-billion.html Banks did not trust each other - similar situation when Lehman collapsed
Oil Gluts – do NOT indicate we have found more oil. We just pumped what’s left too fast.
Summary In 2019 a second Perfect Storm was approaching – the central banks had been doing ‘whatever it takes’ for over a decade…. Essentially nothing was off the table --- throw the kitchen sink at pushing GFC2.0 into the future. In 2019 the guns were blazing but the beast was no longer held at bay…
What do you do when you are burning far more oil than you discover --- and your efforts to offset the impact of expensive to produce oil push you to the edge of the cliff? You can accept your fate and allow the beast to shove you into the abyss…. Or you can take the ‘nuclear option’ and shut down as much of the economy as possible, preserve remaining oil and pump in trillions of dollars of life support to keep the system feebly alive.
Punchline: The problem global leaders face is that if you unleash the nuclear option without some sort of cover, the sheeple and the markets would be thrown into a panic and you risk blowing things up prematurely. So you need a reason for putting the global economy on ice --- one that does not spook the masses – one that is big enough to justify such epic amounts of stimulus and extreme policies --- and one that allows you to explain ‘this is just temporary – once this is gone --- we will get back to normal’
A pandemic is the perfect cover.
End Game – Covid was foisted on us as cover for the response to peak oil (if we don’t slow the burn oil prices go through the roof and we collapse) but it is also being used to convince billions to be Injected. The Injection is meant to cause extremely deadly variants similar to Marek’s .. only worse because we are deploying into a pandemic https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous.
“Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants.” https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/videos-and-interviews/international-vaccine-expert-geert-vanden-bossche-speaks-up-again
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease.
Imperfect vaccines can make a virus more prevalent and more deadly. some questions on covid vaccines and their policy implications. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/leaky-vaccines-super-spreads-and?s=w
The Vaccines and Boosters will Result in a Catastrophic Outcome - From a scientific viewpoint it is, therefore, difficult to understand how booster immunizations using vaccines which are not evolution-proof could prevent a highly mutable virus from escaping neutralizing anti-S Abs while driving the pandemic in a catastrophic direction, both in Israel and worldwide. How can the WHO stand by and watch as this additional experiment unfolds, soon to be followed by other countries? https://thehighwire.com/videos/vaccine-expert-warns-of-covid-vaccination-catastrophe/
The Vaccines ARE causing Mass Death https://metatron.substack.com/p/covid-requiem-aeternam?s=r
If you have a large pool of hosts that all have the same fixation, then you have a large number of individual labs in which to have such a mutation occur. You have far more hosts in which to have random chances occur, all selecting for a mutation that attacks one specific weakness and that weakness is in most of the population, so once it’s out, there is no stopping it. And if this fixation prevents the hosts from developing strong new immunities based on these novel pathogens, this becomes iterative. you get wave after wave of pandemics until you wipe out the susceptible population. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/homogenizing-herd-level-antigenic
The reason for this is that 8B people need cheap energy to live. They would starve without it. And 8B people without food would result in epic starvation, violence, rape and cannibalism. Industrial civilization ends soon after peak oil. Unfortunately we also have 4000 spent fuel ponds that will boil off and release toxic substances for centuries. These facilities cannot be controlled with computers and energy. So even the few remaining hunters and gatherer tribes will die as they consume these toxins in the food, air and water.
The PTB understand all of this and that is WHY every leader is on board with the Injections. There is NO way out of this --- so they have decided to mitigate the suffering as much as possible by putting us down and here is the mechanism https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/why-the-ongoing-mass-vaccination-experiment-drives-a-rapid-evolutionary-response-of-sars-cov-2.
Also note – when BAU collapses the PTB will not be insulated from the violence or starvation – or the spent fuel ponds. They will be scapegoated and targeted by violent hordes. There system of power collapses with BAU so their protectors abandon them (or worse – turn on them). They have chosen to go down with the ship rather than be skinned alive by angry mobs who will be blaming them for the fact that their families are starving.
What makes you think I’d disagree?
Most people disagree.... because most people cannot accept that the people who run the world would want to exterminate all humans.
Then there are those who believe the theory of Peak Oil is nonsense - that it's abiotic...
We also have a very large group who are not concerned about oil because we are soon going to live in a utopian world of EVs and renewable energy.
If you do agree then I congratulate you - you are in a very tiny minority who is able to grasp the nature of what is happening - and is not driven to despair (hopefully) but this realization
Do you think that’s the case for all of them? I feel like there’s some leading the charge that that would apply to, but that there’s a fair amount of folks who have been propagandized into that camp
It's the way power always moves. It finds an authentic movement and coopts it. From there it either defangs it and integrates it into its own power or it pushes it to the extreme to cause division and social discord causing the pendulum to switch with great momentum while power amasses on the other side. This is how power uses both sides to achieve its goal.
What is happening is those pushing for progressive reforms have been coopted. Since they felt marginalized before, they accept the push without any consideration and become radicalized. If we simply see them as radicals and don't see the process, it happens to us as the pendulum swings the other way leading to greater and greater extremes until civil war seems the only option.
Bullseye. We all have so much in common. We eat the same things, shop in the same places, buy the same goods, etc. Yet when it comes to politics and the information we consume, many have been led astray. Therefore we fracture even though we need the same things to survive and prosper.
yup. i've said a thousand times; 90% of the people agree on 90% of the policy, but the elite use the 10% we disagree on to make us seem like enemies.
"the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed" -Lincoln (attributed)
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." -Washington
Why would the propagandized followers continue the torment if they weren't true believers? There has been plenty of evidence against their position -- the truth is out there. They ignore it. These 'fair amount of folks' would be happy to throw stones at us or see us in camps or in prison (uncharged after a year).
I think they’re true believers because they’ve been propagandized, if they’re even exposed to the truth they scoff at it, because their’s is a pseudo religious dogma. The folks promulgating the narrative are the malevolent force that actually knows better, they just don’t care
I don't think their intent is to destroy us, their intent is to get what they want at all costs, which results in the same outcome. The difference is important because the former makes you look belligerent and easily dismissed as mere opposition, whereas the latter adequately describes the reality for which many can easily agree.
W/ respect, don’t understand your distinction @ all. “Destroy” is “destroy”
In doing so you play into the hands of the extreme minority (both sides) that wags the rational majority forcing them to self-censor for fear of being called the other by their own party. I've been watching this exact thing play out for years leading to greater and greater extremism. The devil is always in the details.
Don't be belligerent, critically think. But at the same time, don't cast your pearls upon swine. Fight as the battle dictates, but don't drink your own koolaid.
I have this quote hung on my office wall. It very accurately summarizes extent to which our culture has deteriorated. Our lords and masters long since classed all of the great unwashed as "infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals", and are treating us accordingly.
The sad part is? A huge percentage of Those that truly need to read and comprehend the quote would never get past the first couple lines ( TL;DR) and if it were read To them,they have little enough faculties to parse it and correlate it to this current reality.
A departed friend of mine always quipped, "The Nazis kill you for their own good, but the Communists kill you for your own good!!" Sums it up quite nicely, for me.
I’ve thought about this often too. Thanks for bringing it up
Great quote! Do you have the full citation?
C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1948)
Thank you!
I'm a big fan of Lewis, but the idea of "robber barons" is little more than leftist mythology to justify the regulatory state.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/07/thomas-woods/beware-unfettered-capitalism/
“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’”
―St. Anthony the Great
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
~ Mark Twain
I should’ve known you’d come up with some additional gems, King of Quotes!
Even St. Anthony would not have foreseen the special form of mandatory madness enforced by the neurocracy in marriage to the parhocracy.
Reminds me of a story. A king lived in a castle on a hill and was loved by the people. One day their well gets contaminated and all the people go mad. Soon they start attacking their king saying he has lost his mind. Distraught, he comes to town to find out what the problem is, drinks from the well, goes mad and then all the people rejoice that he regained his sanity. Dan Milman, Way of a Peaceful Warrior.
Those deemed mad have complained about this for eons; perhaps now the rest of us can understand what they have been forced to endure….
I think we've already passed that critical mass.
There wasn't nearly enough CO2 in that hall last night.
Lol —wins Best Comment.
I was going to add "oh my gosh, that concentration of CO2 in one place raised the global temperature of the planet by a full degree in one night!" but two things stopped me: (1) I am not at all sure folks on that twitter feed would get it, and (2) I don't do Twitter ;-).
Oh TIOK, I think you’d do great on Twotter. I’d love to see that comment there.
CO would have been better.
Still far lower than the Cambrian Explosion...
They punish themselves. Imagine a dinner where your tablemate brings a CO2 meter.
I once watched a bio-chemist friend try to explain the difference between CO and CO2 to a true believer. He had better luck explaining it to the wall. The attempt came after the true believer reacted to a statement (by me) that there are real, toxic pollutants out there and CO2 is not one one of them. She professed "people die every day from CO2 poisoning!". Enter futile attempt by chemist....who ended with "CO can cause brain damage and apparently you have had the experience!".
Your friend needs to write a book. Personally, I give up. A few years ago, yes, years, the Stella Natura people came right out and released a bomb. They said, hey folks, we were wrong about carbon, carbon is not a problem. Carbon is actually the backbone of life on Earth. They are a worldwide group of cutting-edge biodynamic farmers and educators - Steiner people who have started several "villages" that give great meaningful jobs and lives to the handicapped. Their award-winning, world-renowned planting calendars follow Steiner principles and include excellent essays. This particular essay rocked the organic/biodynamic world community - for about five minutes. Then most everyone got back on board the Climate Change Express. Whatever is said loudest and longest is usually listened to. So disheartening.
It is a very true and very sad state of affairs. Morons rule the world.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, go into administration/politics.
And administration and politics attracts those who can't stand to see other people do things. That is not new!
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Exactly. Bureaucracy = power in the hands of idiots.
Not necessarily idiots, but the unaccountable. Power without consequences is what corrupts.
One despairs..Once the consensus of climate scientists decided that CO2 was a pollutant, the chains of reason.were slipped.
There are many dissenting voices, but they are censored and silenced, just as with covid. I think the covid insanity - the lockdowns, etc. - was just the warmup. The real punishment - the permanent enslavement - is on its way, and will be in the name of climate change.
In deed. A survey of literature shows the the "dissenting voices" were really the mainstream majority a decade and a half back. You can see the breadth and diversity of literature contract steadily. Any objective look at the history shows a couple things: (1) the "science" of CO2 as driver of climate is very thin with nearly all the literature citations leading back to a single simulation model, and (2) rigorous analysis of the foundation assumptions has been suppressed.
When something can not be questioned, it is not science. A wise man once said to see who seeks to rule over you look at who can not be questioned. Actually I think the man made global warming was the trial run or warm up, and 2020-22 was escalation of the basic method. There are stark similarities and the solutions strikingly similar.
Whenever I hear someone complain about Global Warming due to increased CO2 levels I respond that the answer is simple, Plant More Trees. Stop the deforestation of the planet, and problem solved. They look at me like I'm nuts.
If you want to really annoy those folks point out that forest re-growth such as the forestry industry has perfected over the last 2 centuries consumes much more CO2 than old growth (static) forests.
Then stand clear of the exploding heads...
That's a valid reason to wear a mask :-). (preferably full-face shield).
LOL!
I'm imagining how I could torment them. These people beg for it.
Anyone that warped should have stayed home. That he managed to remain long enough to get a reading says much about his table companions.
Brilliant, per usual. I can't pay for a subscription right now, as my hubby is on leave w/o pay for refusing the mRNA shots. I shared on Twitter though - let's see if I get put in "jail."
Thank you to the "gifter." 😻Hope I can pay it forward someday.
Oh, that is awesome.
If you do ask Elon to bail you out :-)
Another tennis player Van de Zandshculp had to retire in the final in Munich this morning due to chest pains. Crazy times y’all
I forced myself to read the SFGate article about people who are vaxxed and boosted getting covid over and over. Dying. Turns out, it's - you guessed it - the fault of the unvaxxed, plus that wily virus that just keeps evolving and getting worse, and we would totally whup it if it weren't for those selfish, crazy, BAD anti-vax people! I loved the line "deniers are saying it's actually from the vaccines, not covid." The whole article put me in a very strange mental fugue. A taste of their insanity? I had to jump in the shower, quick.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It has become the foundation for true belief.
Conversation over dinner at my dads years ago:
Rabbi: is it possible to believe in the divine and in science?
Me: Yes it is. The two are in no way in conflict.
Rabbi: you do you explain the story of creation in 6 days?
Astrophysicist: Well, since before that the earth did not exist, clearly "a day" was not defined in reference to the rotation of the earth which did not yet exist. What was a day to the creator? Could have been 5 billions years by our reference frame?
Rabbi: got me there.
Me: Science can not exist without faith. Every theory of the origin of the universe begins with a miracle.
Astrophysicist: Explain
Me: we begin with an unexplained event. It must have happened. We apply rules. Rules in which we have faith. We arrive at a theory. What do you call an unexplained event that we must accept? Axioms. How are Axioms different from miracles?
Rabbi: the delivery method!
Astrophysicist: So the big bang is like the instant creation began (miracle) and mathematics is the Torah and Mitzvah of science.
Me and the Rabbi: Exacty
Anyone who contends that faith in G** denies science, or that science denies existence of a divine, understands neither. They are equally blind and ignorant.
Wow. Can I come to dinner at your house? Like, when the Rabbi is there? I make a mean noodle kugel. Seriously, when I tell people that Einstein was a deeply religious man they refuse to believe it. But give the purge enough time and there will no longer be evidence to support this. I think that at the core of covid fear and hysteria is the lack of God in people's lives. I don't remember who said it - "To grow old without God is a tragedy". I might be paraphrasing here, but the gist of it is true for me, and I think it goes beyond the "growing old" part, in these wicked times.
Can I come to dinner at your house with Keahi? It sounds like a fascinating time. I'm not Jewish, is that ok?
I'm not either, Bandit, I just love to cook Jewish food, and happen to know more Yiddish than most of my Jewish friends. Past life? When my sister converted, the Rabbi met our mother and said, "Well, it's pretty clear to me, you're all Jewish, you just didn't know it." I wish.
That sounds exactly like something my mother would have said!
😂🤣 I was told the same thing by a former boss, who is Jewish! I said a couple of Yiddish words different times in front of him. They were just words my Mother's family used. No big deal. They brought surprised looks from him. Other than "potato pancakes" my Mom made, I don't think I've ever had Jewish food. I hate to cook. `\_(•_•)_/`
You don't need to be Jewish (but as mom used to say, "it doesn't hurt"). You don't need to be a scientist either. But it helps if you can keep an open mind and think quickly!
My dad spent 30 years at a famous university (what we all referred to as the FU ;-) working with mostly physicists and chemists. So the mix of guests was always interesting. My son learned of the paradox of Heisenberg's Cat by the time he was in grade school - I remember a second grade teacher asking me "who is Heisenberg and what does he have against cats?". My dad used to debate atheism with his old friend who was a Rabbi (with dad taking the role of atheism advocate). One night my son (maybe 7?) was discussing the declaration of independence and references to the divine creator therein with the Rabbi, and Rabbi asked "so if you do not believe in god, what does the "bestowed by their creator" mean? Who is the ultimate authority? After a moments thought my son answered "MOM!". No one could argue with that!
Well, I was a low level scientist for 32 years. Chemistry and Biology.
That is beautiful. Close to my theory, but far ahead.
Debating about science vs God is meaningless.
God by definition is omnipotent so it is above all. Omnipotent entity can not be refuted by imperfect entities (humans).
Also in my opinion God should be impossible to be proved and any omnipotent power should hide themselves without proof from humans. Why? Because otherwise people would stop living their lives and would wait for the God to save them by miracle so God has to "hide" by definition.
Also worth to read the thoughts of René Descartes:
An imperfect living creature should not be able to imagine a creation perfect like God. If it can it means someone put this thought there: God.
For a fine moment of validation and clarity on this see the wondrous Jessica Rose
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/call-for-retraction-of-paper-entitled?s=r (Statistics make into a drooling troglodyte and *I* understood this completely)
Wow. And people wonder why we're so excited about Musk and Twitter. Thank you for posting and turning me on to Jessica Rose.
I never knew I had such power as an unvaxxed person!!
Oh, we all wield the power of life and death now. Lol
Purely coincidence!
Surely the list of things we must ignore is not yet so extreme as to justify questioning the politics :-). Our leaders are pure and just and would not do us harm.
And when Nana comes around that's my story :-)
Xi Jinping cares about his citizens how dare you question his lockdown policy!
"That terrible long haul covid is making all these athletes just drop, causing unexpected death, miscarriages, it goes on..." That is what is being claimed, in the face of the vaccine disaster. And no matter what statistics you show them, no matter what authority speaks out and tells the true story, no matter how clearly the lies are being exposed, you will never, ever get these brainwashed zombies to believe anything else. It would cost them too much.
It is rather amazing in the extremes of denial required to maintain loyalty.
It is a pattern I've observed growing for decades. Something bad happens (real or fabricated). Something must be done. The thing done (which usually entails removing individual liberties) does not yield the desired outcome. This is explained as we didn't do it enough so obviously we need to do more. Less than 100% compliance with whatever it is becomes a matter of public health and safety and thus lack of compliance can no longer be tolerated.
Sound familiar?
Nina’s security detail is a Meta headset so she can continue to live in her own misinformation bubble and ignore reality. Her previous think tank was funded by Meta so she is completely plugged into the matrix.
Do we know for a fact that she's human? js.
She and Whitmer and Hochul are all stamped out of the same cloning machine. Just look at their pictures side by side. Destroying that machine should be at the top of everyone's agenda...
Exactly my thoughts at first seeing her picture. Reminds me of the old Dr Demento song "Pencil Neck Geek:"
'They say these geeks are a dime a dozen...I'm lookin' for the guy who's supplyin' the dimes....'
https://genius.com/Freddie-blassie-pencil-neck-geek-lyrics
Dedicate that song to Adam Schiff. Really, can you think of anyone more fitting?
No. I thought about mentioning him (I always think of him when I think of the song), but hey, this was Nina's day, I didn't want to rain on her parade!
Nolte said re: Nina "...whose face screams first wife". ROFLMAO. Bright thought for the day - Musk has AI at the top of his watch list.
You know, deep in your heart if hearts, if "things" keep going as they are now, at some point we're gonna need a lot of pitchforks and torches...
I got the pitchfork—only a few tiki torches right now but I can fix that.
My pitch fork looks a lot like an M1911a1 :-)
me too. Garden tools a plenty.
My recent re-binge of "Vikings" has me looking at my splitting maul with a whole new respect. Valhalla awaits!!
Argh. Won't let me "like" your comment!
It will appear that sometimes I cannot "like" a comment, but I found that if I hit the refresh button and come back to the comment it actually did "take" the like.
Ooooo, tiki torches! Nat Turner as staged by Mel Brookes. Bring those! That's surreal enough even for me. Great idea, I'll bring the mai tais and rumaki!! Par-TAY!!!
We do have some firepower you have to load. 🤔
Good girl. Levity aside, got my Mossberg and my Smith and Wesson at the ready. My knives are sharp and my powder is dry. Mom was deep into genealogy. My family came over on the fourth boat after the Mayflower. An ancestor of mine in Maryland (then part of the Colonies), one Dinah Nuthouse, took over her husband's printing office when he died. She was illiterate but told her typesetter what to write. She was arrested and fined for sedition, printing pamphlets and tracts against the king. Later we had some gggggg-grandfathers and uncles fight in the Revolution. Had people on both sides in the War Between the States. I cherish the stories of my patriotic roots, and hear their voices calling me to action.
Ooooh. You come from a long line of rabble rousers. 👍🏻👍🏻 I’ve only been part of the roused rabble since Covid. But at least I’m here. The first nice Sunday my hubby is going to teach me how to use our supply. I did once years ago but need a refresher. I already have a FOID card. Love your history. Some of us learn from history. Too bad and tragic so many don’t. 💪
I talked for years about starting a women's gun club where I live (very rural, most all of us are armed). "Chicks with Clips", it rings.
And tar and feathers.
And we're running low on buses....
I've had them ready for years...
Justin trudeau was a high school drama teacher. This was his profession prior.
I'm beginning to believe they are all actors and clowns under the big top, meant to distract us, while the circus owners do their dirty deeds to finish us off.
Perhaps but not very good (probably why they needed a gig?). Seems we're being presented a long string of pretty faces who can't seem to string together complete sentences. Most employed actors can read a script.
Yes I think they literally are actors. They are not the ones directing policy- they’re just the faces and voices.
really these are irrelevant puppets. if i had to bet, they have no clue where is the whole thing going ...
puppets indeed. they have no clue, but that is because they lack skills to inquire. This job must have some seriously nice perk$
lack of skills comes with job description. read somewhere AOC got her job by auditing to play a congresswoman. same with trump and zelensky - train as actors first and so on. as to perks nothing new.
The 'fact check' on that was hilarious. It explained that while it WAS true that AOC responded to a casting call, it wasn't a big deal because that organization does stuff like that all the time.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aoc-actress-playing-lawmaker/
The “Brains Behind AOC” video correctly states that Ocasio-Cortez was recruited by the Justice Democrats to run for office. However, this fact is presented in the video as if it were an unprecedented act of political malfeasance. In reality, it is quite common for Political Action Committees (PACs) to recruit candidates for office. The Justice Democrats made no attempt to hide this effort and openly discuss their recruitment process on their website and in videos published to their public YouTube page:
dr. john showed 9 out of 10 fact checkers are former journalists, in other words licensed liars.
on more important stuff listen to this "journalist" outlining next steps by castreau ... https://twitter.com/NerdXUnicorn/status/1520777932557365248?s=20&t=01Npt8yw3-fQe_75bg4dZA
Chilling...
Trump had a real career in business before taking part in the apprentice TV show. It's not hard to research to avoid sounding nuts.
Check out the Obamas' real estate.
And Zekensky was an actor who played a comic who becomes president in a TV show.
They are laughing at us.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(TV_series)
Life imitates art.
so he's continuing but in another drama....
Wasn't even a full-time drama teacher, apparently
I know the type - sociopath to the core.
High school drama teachers, God I love 'em, I'm a theatre person myself, but I gotta tell you, they are about the most manipulative people ever. And, don't forget, Zelensky played the piano with his genitalia. Hard to take the man seriously, after seeing that.
Well, to be fair about all those nations entirely controlled by Communists--they all had a long history of conditioning for it. The Chinese had had no problem with mutilating girls' feet for a fashion; the Russians had been mesmerized by a Church of extraordinary pageantry and mysticism; Vietnam and Laos had long histories of filial obedience.
We shoulda held on to our national character of uncouthness. That was our secret power...
The american way of combining being loud, brash obnoxious braggarts with at the same time being moral solidaric and politely caring was always one of your major draws, yes.
You'll need to water the root of that tree again, I think.
Or learn to think european: obedience when the Argus' eye of power is on you, and do whatever you want when it's not, don't set yourself in opposition to the state but do your thing in such a way the state profits more from co-opting or ignoring you than squashing you, and live free wherever the state is not.
Think of it as Jeeves & Wooster: the state, who is nominally in charge, is Bertie Wooster (aunt Agatha can be the state's owners), but the one who gets things done is the people/you: the valet Jeeves.
It's important to remember that we were settled by criminals, transportees too young to fight back; adherents of every crazy breakaway Christian sect; people without an inheritance to keep them in their home countries; people fleeing civil wars who otherwise might have wanted to stay at home.
Makes for an odd mix fer shure.
Add to that about 1 500 000 swedes from between mid-1800s to the 1920s. Workers, farmers, loggers and such.
It got so bad, that our politicians and businessleaders back then realised that they had to undertake real reform, or they would be left without a people at all. To quote from the 1907 governement study on the issue as to why so many left Sweden: "...necessitates that we absorb and remould the true good out of America".
What they meant was the freedom of worship or from worship, free enterprise and trade, freedom to travel and settle and so on. Then World War One rolled in, the US tightened its migration policy afterwards (quotas if I remember my course in US history?), and our politicians could happily roll back most of the reforms.
When middle-aged to older swedes talk approvingly about the US, it's the US that disappeared during the sixties. The US that for reasons both noble and not went to war against fascism.
And it's notable that those Swedish immigrants became the strength of the liberal Midwestern states that avoided extreme insularity (think of the German farming communities with highly-rigid interpretations of Christian virtue) and developed a genuinely inoffensive preservation of their cultural values (very gently mocked in the character of Rose Nyland in "The Golden Girls."
Hard working, dilligent, dutiful but not greedy or avaricious nor miserly are all things I have been brought up with. It's a delicate balance which doesn't really work in today's world, it more and more resembling the bastard offspring from a torpid tryst between Ayn Rand and Gordon Gecko.
On that unhappy thought, I'm off to bed - it's past midnight here.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" Thomas Jefferson. That tree, Rikard? It's past due. But I do like your Bertie and Jeeves analogy. That might work for some, and for a time.
Wars no longer need to be bloody. Everyone's lazy now. Just moving bank accts. to credit unions; not using mobile phones for anything except urgent communications--the sky would crack.
Indeed it is! For some reason, I've always envisioned it as a great oak, or an ash tree (Yggdrasil, no doubt).
Probably because in the Bronze Age here, bad chiefs would be hung and bled from oaks to please the gods, it being believed that a good chief brought good times, and bad times meant the chief was going bad, just like wood will.
While not exactly due process, there is wisdom in there.
There are still pockets of shining, patriotic uncouth, flyover states filled with deplorables. And guns. We cannot, we must not let them disarm us as citizens. We can see it throughout history - the first thing They do is take them away...
I confess to you with great shame as a born and raised but, now no longer, Noo Yawkuh, I felt great scorn and no sense of commonality with those flyover states. Culture is powerful, and the US is a place of micro-cultures forged into one nation, and federalism is both genius and detriment. There are many areas I would not feel comfortable settling in for these cultural reasons. But oh boy do I have new appreciation for their strengths.
Born and raised in Bluer-than-blue Hawaii, I felt that scorn for years. Then I moved to Big Turtle Island and did some traveling, got to experience with my own eyes what America in all of her varied richness was about. My eyes were opened and my ignorant bigoted mouth got shut. Recently my sister, the elitist artist, had to actually drive through Iowa (horrors!). She was doing her usual nasty putdowns about how uneducated and uncultured the Midwest was (she could tell this just from driving through it in her car). I had to speak my piece. Uneducated, really? The highest academic ratings in the country (where California once was, 40 years ago, before the Dems flushed it down the toilet), that Iowa? Some of the best colleges in the land? The home of first-in-the-nation caucuses, that Iowa? I hope I gave her something to think about while she enjoyed all that bacon. She will never acknowledge that her scorn is always reserved for red/purple states. It's that simple.
Dear Nina: Ask Kamala.
Too-shay!!
"it elevates precisely the wrong people to prominence and entrusts them with power that even an idealized beneficent philosopher king could not and should not wield."
Almost like bat sh*t crazy Mary Poppins wanna-be finding universal truth with her Ouija board.
"scary poppins"?
“Neurocracy” - LOVE👏IT👏
The guy with the CO2 meter is a hero in his own mind—he goes out into the unwashed masses, risking his very existence, to let them know that his science says they are endangered (thus proving their stupidity for being there). Saviors aren’t born, they’re self-made.
Interesting. OSHA standard is that over an 8 hour shift acceptable levels of CO2 should AVERAGE 5000ppm. Human tolerance for CO2 is pretty broad. Typically outdoors its 400ppm (thank you chlorophyll). But remember that CO2 in the deranged mind of the nuerocrats is air pollution. So the 2200 on the meter as an instant read is well inside of reasonable tolerance. This is the worst kind of hucksterism. The illusion of specificity, the illusion of danger.
The OSHA standard assumes 8 hr per day and 40 hrs per week for a healthy worker. That being said, ASHRAE recommends 1000 ppm for healthy indoor air quality and that’s the upper limit most HVAC Mechanical Engineers are shooting for during their design. 2200 is actually pretty lousy and should be better. Not hazardous, but not the sign of a well operating system. It’s is probably not bringing in as much fresh outdoor air to account for the large number of people in the space.
Nonetheless, I'm sure that facility meets all the government codes (except maybe a few where the inspector was paid to look the other way), and I'm sure it has all the right occupancy permits and so forth, and the local officials were checking regularly to make sure that 'everything was in order...' as the Nazis used to say.
Doesn't it make you feel comfortable to know they are all looking out for you? (Maybe about as comfortable as we all feel now, knowing that the FDA, CDC, NIAID etc. are looking out for us.... NOT!!!)
I know about the ASHRAE standard. Glad you brought that up. Also agree that the mechnical system is some combination of old/failing/poorly designed/needs maintenance, if the Sensor is correct. The truth is, this isn't about danger, its about comfort.
For what its worth. The FDA has a fact sheet called the Carbon Dioxide Health Hazard Information Sheet.
5,000 ppm (0.5%) OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit ....
10,000 ppm (1.0%) Typically no effects....
15,000 ppm (1.5%) Mild respiratory stimulation for some people
30,000 ppm (3.0%) Moderate respiratory stimulation, increased heart rate ...
40,000 ppm (4.0%) Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH)
50,000 ppm (5.0%) Strong respiratory stimulation, dizziness, confusion...
80,000 ppm (8.0%) Dimmed sight, sweating, tremor, ....possible death
2200ppm is a more than an order of magnitude from serious danger.
Great info! Thanks
Not defending ding-a-ling but I think the point he was trying to make was that high CO2 is evidence of poor ventilation, ergo it had Covid super-spreader potential. But who knows, he's an all-purpose charlatan and maybe he was claiming the CO2 was poisonous.
Regardless, people have a choice to get on with their lives or remain paralyzed in fear. The latter are a miserable lot but some people just enjoy pathological behavior.
I agree with you that the poster of the original assumes as fact a connection between Covid spread and higher levels of CO2. Thanks to the AGW doctrines, the simple mention of CO2 charges the measurement with extra emotional weight. I am pretty skeptical that there is more than a simple correlation if one even exists. Correlation does not imply causation, and I know you are not saying that.
I wonder if the relative humidity that his sensor shows is a better indicator for the likelihood of a superspreader event, since I hear that the virus rides on water molecules. It would be interesting to find out.
Neurocracy is a coinage that perfectly characterizes the leadership we have been under for some time. I remember decades ago when I first heard the term "safety nazis"; can't remember who thought that one up. The point about drama students running the world is pretty apt too, especially for us Canadians.
A mere observation about today's reality.
the Left kind of propaganda
The left kind of like propaganda…fixed it for you!😂