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Thursday, August 18, 2022

2022-08-18

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Economic and Market Fare:

China Unexpectedly Cuts Rates As Terrible Econ Data Confirms "Alarming" Slowdown, Yields Plunge


Authers: China Surprise Data Could Spell R-e-c-e-s-s-i-o-n
The devil in the details leaves the central bank no choice but to ease. Markets should expect bad news if the crisis grows worse.




The GDPNow estimate for third quarter of 2022 dipped again today. Looking ahead expect much more weakness, led by housing and durable goods.


Why is US Jobs Data Not Adding Up?






Half a century after the 1970s’ stagflation, economies are contracting as prices rise again. “Surging energy and food prices heighten the risk of a prolonged period of global stagflation.”

.......... Lessons not learned
Supply-side cost-push inflation is very different from the demand-pull variety. Without evidence, inflation ‘hawks’ insist that not acting urgently will be costlier later.

This may happen if surging demand is the main cause of inflation, especially if higher costs are easily passed on to consumers. However, episodes of dangerously accelerating inflation are very rare.

Acting too quickly against supply-shock inflation can be unwise. The 1970s’ energy crises sparked greater interest in energy efficiency. But higher interest rates in the 1980s deterred needed investments, even to reverse declining or stagnating productivity growth.

Raising interest rates also accelerated recessions. But similar commodity price rises before the 1970s’ and imminent stagflation episodes – involving energy and food respectively – obscure major differences.

For instance, ‘wage indexing’ – linking wage increases to price rises – enhanced the 1970s’ inflation spiral. But labour market deregulation since the 1980s has largely ended such indexation. 

The IMF acknowledges globalization, ‘offshoring’ and labour-saving technical change have weakened unionization and workers’ bargaining power. With both elements of the 1970s’ wage-price spirals now insignificant, inflation is more likely to decline once supply bottlenecks ease.

But the wage-price spiral has also been replaced by a profit-price swirl. Reforms since the 1980s have also enhanced large corporations’ market power. Greater corporate discretion and reduced employees’ strength have thus increased profit shares, even during the pandemic. .....



Quotes of the Week:



Oliver: Gold shares have skidded sharply in recent months: the GDXJ gold miners ETF and HUI Gold Bugs index both fell 41% from mid-April to mid-June. The TSX/S&P500 Global Gold Index of larger miners fell 39%. Gold shares have rebounded by roughly 15% in the past three weeks as gold seems finally to have found a bottom. Myrmikan maintains that gold shares remain efficient (and now cheap) vehicles to guard against the collapse of the central banks’ monetary experiments and to hedge against the global chaos being fomented by the ebbing power of the American empire.


Mac: We've now seen the exact same profiteering take place across EVERY major industry since the pandemic. In each case, temporary supply chain interruptions deplete inventories and lead to a spike in demand. Followed by higher prices and expanded profit margins. And then it all collapses. No one says anything. Economists fear a wage-price spiral when what they should really fear is the wholesale collapse of the middle class. Buried by profiteering in every direction. 



Charts: 
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Bubble Fare:

********** Hussman: The Structural Drivers of Investment Returns

After more than 40 years of work in the financial markets, studying all the data I could get my hands on, I’ve found it to be universally true that those who argue “history doesn’t matter” have never actually studied history.

While the value-conscious, historically-informed, full-cycle discipline that emerged from that research helped to admirably navigate decades of market cycles prior to the Federal Reserve’s deranged foray into zero-interest rate policy, I’ll note right up front that the stupidest thing I’ve ever done was to rely on historical “limits” to stupidity. Easy money does nothing to support the market when investor psychology is risk-averse, as investors should recall from the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 collapses, but it’s a remarkable amplifier of speculation if investors have psychologically ruled out the possibility of price losses – getting a yield greater than zero becomes the only thing that matters. Faced with zero interest rates, yield-seeking investors continued speculating past every historically-reliable “limit.”

We’ve adapted in recent years, becoming content to align our outlook with prevailing market conditions – mainly valuations and market internals, which are our best gauge of speculative versus risk-averse investor psychology – without assuming “limits” to either. When investors are inclined to speculate, they tend to be indiscriminate about it. I constructed our gauge of market internals in 1998, with minor adaptations since, to measure the “uniformity” of market action across thousands of individual stocks, industries, sectors, and security-types, including debt securities of varying creditworthiness. Internals remain unfavorable here, valuations remain historically extreme, and interest rates are no longer at zero, but we’ll still defer our bearish outlook if uniform market internals indicate that investors have taken the speculative bit back in their teeth. ...



(not just) for the ESG crowd:


.......... “We call on materials scientists, engineers and funding agencies to prioritise the research and development of electrodes based on abundant elements,” maintains Yushin.

“Otherwise, the roll-out of electric cars will stall within a decade.”




Greens also want energy price cap rolled back to last autumn’s level, part-funded by taxes on rich people



Other Fare:

yes, the system is rigged, but you're in it all the same

My brother once told me that he was glad that the Smiths wrote “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” because it saved everyone else who has ever lived from having to write it; we all know exactly how it feels. Which I found to be profound. I feel somewhat similarly about this excellent piece by Clare Coffey on how complaining about capitalism doesn’t absolve you of your responsibility to get through life - she wrote it so that the rest of us don’t have to.

Coffey’s piece is elegant and pitched at exactly the right register, which is to say simultaneously harsh and sympathetic. She’s critiquing a kind of complaint that’s become inescapable among savvy 21st century Americans: “capitalism is so bad, so how can you expect me to deal with Basic Adult Responsibility X? How can you judge me for being lazy, venal, or selfish, when I labor every day under the weight of our wicked system?” But as Coffey suggests, recognizing the fact that the system is rigged does not mean that all of our problems are the fault of the system, or that we wouldn’t have to face those or similar problems in another system. And recognizing that capitalism and meritocracy are fickle and arbitrary edifices that are frequently and erroneously described as fair doesn’t allow you to simply stop working within them. ...

... People are smart and talented and work hard every day and never make it, while the idiot sons of privilege thrive and thrive and thrive. The question is, what’s the right thing to do in light of this information? Too many people seem to have concluded that the only thing to do is to devolve deeper and deeper into bitterness. That’s a great way to set yourself up for an unhappy life, and more importantly, it’s annoying for all the rest of us. We’re trapped in it too.

... The simple fact of the matter is this: you are embedded in a system in which you do not control your own destiny, yet you must work to achieve better outcomes rather than worse regardless. Adult life, very often, consists of recognizing that you can’t control what happens next, and then setting about to try and control it anyway. ...


Locklin: The dropout

....... Successful founders and VCs are often psychopaths. I think they’re used to working with psychopaths. Fake it until you make it is a reasonable thing to do with software. I’m pretty sure Oracle didn’t have anything on its first sale (which was to the CIA, a psychopath heavy organization), so if you’re used to software, it seems sensible to invest in some wild eyed kid with an idea. For the world of innovative products made out of matter, this is false. Academics are useless in most software development; I can only think of a few places where even being able to read Knuth tier academic stuff from the 70s is useful. Not so in biochemistry. 

...... One of the things which struck me after watching this; if Theranos had found some revenue stream to keep them alive in 2019, they probably would have “succeeded.” Essentially all of the “cures” for the covid problem were baloney. Biomedical research companies jumped the shark in 2020: they realized by bribing enough politicians and media outlets, they could sell any sort of “science juice” -with redditors gleefully St Vitus dancing along with it. Even a miserable fraudulent slave-pit like Theranos should have been able to manufacture some bullshit test strips, or some expensive cod-solution such as Pfizer blessed us with, ginned up with fraudulent statistics and buoyed by FDA and CDC malfeasance. Nobody would have noticed; Holmes would have been praised as a savior by the entire establishment, and everyone would have forgotten about their blood testing machines in the ensuing hysteria.

Anyway this docu-drama is a fun thing to waste time on for those who are interested in Silly Con Valley culture and its follies. People who have been in the trenches will find a lot of familiar guidestones. Many successful software businesses were/are as dysfunctional and shady as this and run by the types of cretins portrayed here. Buyer beware if you come across one dealing with matter.




Official data have fooled us more than once into regarding COVID-19 as a rich-country pandemic



From the Abstract: “Neurological symptoms are among the most prevalent of the extrapulmonary complications of COVID-19, affecting more than 30% of patients. In this study, we provide evidence that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is found in the human brain, where it infects astrocytes and to a lesser extent, neurons….. Our data support the model in which SARS-CoV-2 reaches the brain, infects astrocytes, and consequently, leads to neuronal death or dysfunction. These deregulated processes could contribute to the structural and functional alterations seen in the brains of COVID-19 patients.”


Where Salman Rushdie defied those who would silence him, today too many fear causing offence




Other QOTW:

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Contrarian Perspectives

Extra [i.e. Controversial] Fare:

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Regular Corporatocracy / Unsustainability Fare:

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” – Saul Bellow
..... The topic of whether there is ‘committed warming’ in global climate from past emissions due to the inertia of the Earth’s systems is one recent example of this tendency of some experts towards establishment-friendly interpretations of available science. Because it works at a nerdy level of climate science, in the past year it has sometimes been presented by scientists in ways that fit the new establishment narrative on climate, without any challenge from journalists. Looking more closely at this ‘committed warming’ issue within climatology helps reveal to us how scientific communication may now be politicised, so that public opinion can be manipulated to protect power. .....


Climate change has pitted humanity against nature


The archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.



..... This stuff appears to be me to be baked in. It would require much more radical restriction of CO2 and other climate change gasses than we are doing or likely to do to stop it, and there’s some reason to believe we may be at the point where processes are now self-reinforcing, as with methane release from permafrost and swamps and the Amazon becoming a net emitter of carbon rather than a sink. As these new sources emit, they cause climate change no longer directly driven by our current actions and in doing so cause more emissions and that loop will come to drive more and more change.

That’s the situation. If we keep deaths to a billion people, that would be an extraordinarily good result, because these processes will also drive political change, including vast amounts of violence and waves of refugees which make the puny European refugee crisis look like a pygmy.

Welcome to the future. It’s here, and it’s going to get much, much worse.



In 2021, global carbon dioxide emissions reached 36.3 billion tons, the highest volume ever recorded. This year, the number of international refugees will cross 30 million, also the highest figure ever. As sea levels and temperatures rise and geopolitical tensions flare, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that humanity is veering towards systemic breakdown. ...


Why a simpler future is not a regression

... Freedom from capitalism could lead to freedom for communities and freedom to explore the myriad manifestations of human existence. Citizens become trapped within economic and political systems because they are neutered of their very capacity to look after themselves and each other; producing our own fuel—food—could be the most effective strategy to regain our freedom. 

Why wouldn’t we want to be free from economic instability? Why wouldn’t we want to be independent of a callous and corrupt government? Why not choose to be free from a dependence on a globalised system which financialises human rights to extort the most vulnerable? Why wouldn’t we all want to be free from the limitations of the modern world which perpetuate an existential crisis? 

...... The whole problem with the modern world that we live in today is that, in a world of abundance, we have so little choice because of extractive capitalism, because resources are directed towards the few. Keeping your head above water demands so much energy and requires so much sacrifice, in a sense, which then drives the culture of consumerism and consumption: the one choice we have is what to spend our money on; which brand to pledge allegiance; which destination to visit. We make choices as consumers because our choices as citizens are denied us. 

Saying to people that other options exist, there are other ways of organising as long as you can feed yourself, is desperately empowering. I repeat, the financialisation of human rights traps people within economic and political systems. Once we can figure out how to protect and provide for one another’s rights then the whole world opens itself up to possibility—freedom to.

Surely, there would be more art, more music, more literature, more joy. And lots of hard work, but work which does not alienate the labourer from the products of his efforts, but rewards the citizen with fruits. 


New Global Research e-Book

We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved (documented in ‘Gates to a Global Empire‘ by Navdanya International), whether through buying up huge tracts of farmland, promoting a much-heralded (but failed) ‘green revolution’ for Africa, pushing biosynthetic food and genetic engineering technologies or more generally facilitating the aims of the mega agri-food corporations.

Of course, the billionaire interests behind this try to portray what they are doing as some kind of humanitarian endeavour – saving the planet with ‘climate-friendly solutions’, ‘helping farmers’ or ‘feeding the world’. In the cold light of day, however, what they are really doing is repackaging and greenwashing the dispossessive strategies of imperialism.

The following text sets out some key current trends affecting food and agriculture and begins by looking at the Gates Foundation’s promotion of a failing model of industrial, (GMO) chemical-intensive agriculture and the deleterious impacts it has on indigenous farming and farmers, human health, rural communities, agroecological systems and the environment.

Alternatives to this model are then discussed which focus on organic agriculture and specifically agroecology. However, there are barriers to implementing these solutions, not least the influence of global agri-capital in the form of agritech and agribusiness conglomerates which have captured key institutions.

The discussion then moves on to focus on the situation in India because that country’s ongoing agrarian crisis and the farmers’ struggle encapsulates what is at stake for the world.

Finally, it is argued that the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ is being used as cover to manage a crisis of capitalism and the restructuring of much of the global economy, including food and agriculture.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter I. Toxic Agriculture – From the Gates Foundation to the Green Revolution
  • Chapter II. Genetic Engineering – Value Capture and Market Dependency
  • Chapter III. Agroecology – Localisation and Food Sovereignty
  • Chapter IV. Distorting Development – Corporate Capture and Imperialist Intent
  • Chapter V. The Farmers’ Struggle in India – The Farm Laws and a Neoliberal Death Knell
  • Chapter VI. Colonial Deindustrialisation – Predation and Inequality
  • Chapter VII. Neoliberal Playbook – Economic Terrorism and Smashing Farmers’ Heads
  • Chapter VIII. The New Normal – Crisis of Capitalism and Dystopian Reset
  • Chapter IX. Post-COVID Dystopia – Hand of God and the New World Order


COVID Fare:

I've continued to come across too much excellent COVID-related content (with contrarian evidence-based points-of-view!!) to link to it all
Read everything by eugyppius; el gato malo; Mathew Crawford; Steve Kirsch; Jessica Rose!
Paul Alexander, Berenson, Chudov, Lyons-Weiler, Toby Rogers are also go-to mainstays; a list to which I have added Andreas Oehler, Joey Smalley (aka Metatron) and, Julius Ruechel; Denninger worth staying on top of too for his insights, and especially his colorful language; and Norman Fenton; Marc Girardot; plus Walter Chesnut (on twitter); new additions: Sheldon Yakiwchuk and Aaron Kheriarty; I will of course continue to post links to key Peter McCullough material, and Geert Vanden Bossche, and Robert Malone, and Martin Kulldorff, and Jay Bhattacharya, and Sucharit Bhakdi, and Pierre Kory, and Harvey Risch, and Michael Yeadon, and John Ioannidis, and Paul Marik, and Tess Lawrie, and Zelenko, and Dolores Cahill, and [local prof] Byram Bridle, and Ryan Cole, and…
but going forward, my linking to material by those mainstays mentioned above will be reduced to key excerpts and/or essential posts

Is the spike protein also an epigenetic factor?

............................. A brilliantly frightening and frighteningly brilliant paper was published in October, 2021 in the journal Viruses entitled “SARS-CoV-2 Spike Impairs DNA Damage Repair and Inhibits V(D)J Recombination In Vitro”20. When you read it, and you should read it, you will learn something very disturbing: the authors found that the spike protein was abundant in the nuclei of study cells. The nucleus is where most DNA repair occurs. They found that spike protein significantly suppressed both homologous recombination (HR) and non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) repair mechanisms. These are essential components to DNA repair and proper functioning in adaptive immunity (T and B cells). But even more scary, they found that the spike protein directly affects DNA repair in the nucleus by interfering with double-stranded DNA break (DSB) repair. .....


Comirnaty is a ghost shot.

....... Four emergency use authorization shots (and counting) later, It has became very clear, despite shoddy academic papers to the contrary, that the mRNA drug does not work, is particularly risky for young men, and is not in any way, shape, or form a vaccine by its traditional definition. But at the time of the FDA approval, “fully vaccinated” meant just two shots, and the government rubber stamp measure was weaponized to convince Americans to get the shot. “Safe and Effective,” and now, “FDA approved.”

Additionally, the Biden Administration leveraged this fraudulent FDA approved status to pressure private companies into coercing their employees to take the shot, Of course, they did not actually have access to an FDA approved shot. However, the campaign succeeded with flying colors, as millions of Americans were forced to take the shot under duress, as they couldn’t afford to be rendered unemployed by the biomedical security state. 

The American government engaged in a pharmaceutical sales campaign, based on polling data, to trick its own citizens into taking a shot that they thought was FDA approved. However, everyone in America was being injected with — and continue to take — the legally distinct emergency use authorization (EUA) version of the shot. The FDA approved Comirnaty shot has never become available to the American public in the United States.

In the months following the initial FDA approval, Pfizer continued to make new excuses for why it was not rolling out the FDA approved version of the mRNA injection. The pharmaceutical company seemed to be playing what amounted to a shell game. ....



Why does the Pfizer CEO want to tell people that four shots of a purported “vaccine” from his/her/zir/their own company are so ineffective that he/she/ze/they needs to take an emergency use authorized medicine designed to prevent obese elderly unvaccinated people from being killed by COVID-19? He/she/ze/they got four shots and nonetheless faced an “emergency” situation requiring an experimental drug? The big questions…. First, why wasn’t Dr. Bourla (a veterinarian so he/she/ze/they knows a lot about ivermectin!) smart enough to never take a COVID-19 test that could call into question his/her/zir/their company’s product? Second, assuming that such a test was somehow unavoidable, why disclose the reason for taking a week off? Why not simply say “I prefer not to work for the next five days?” Or “I have read so much about opioid addiction that I need to stay home and consume Pfizer’s own opioid for a week”?


Scientific evidence shows significant increase of reinfections due to vaccination

An incredible find from Arkmedic’s Telegram: a JAMA-published study that shows that the number of reinfections increases with every vaccine dose received! The more vaccines, the more reinfections, just as predicted by us.

....... Another interesting find from the article is that reinfections disproportionately affect younger people 18-29 years old and are generally worse in under-50 people:



....... We are killing an awful lot of people, but world leaders are looking the other way and saying nothing while all of us watch the high number of death reports in the media of people who died “unexpectedly” and hear no explanation from the medical community or the CDC.

We are supposed to trust that they have things well in hand, even though they won’t appear on camera in front of anyone who doesn’t have scripted, pre-approved questions.

The vaccine is never mentioned in any of these unexplained death reports.

Yet people all over the world have noticed that these unexpected deaths are ONLY happening to the vaccinated. Hmmmm…. I wonder why?

The CDC will not require medical examiners to do the proper tests to make the association. They could easily do that. But they won’t. That tells you everything you need to know about the corruption.

So it will be an unexplained rise in unexplained deaths due to unknown causes because nobody in the mainstream media is ever going to admit they were wrong and ask a few unscripted questions. ...



...... I’d say the pivot is about two and a half years too late, but truth be told it’s more like 12 to 18 months too late. After all, I was one of the original voices that raised significant alarm about Covid from January 2020 all the way through early summer 2020, when no one else was paying attention to it. My main reasons for being alarmist about it, at first, were: ...

...... Then, as the government-led herd has a tendency to do, everybody overreacted in glaringly inefficient and overzealous ways, and we far overshot the mark to deal with Covid, and the objective reality of what the virus meant for us in our daily lives, in any reasonable fashion.

......... I had high hopes for the holidays in 2021, feeling like things were inevitably returning to normal as objective truths and reason regarding Covid sunk in deeper with anybody who had a couple of brain cells to rub together.

It was about this same time that mRNA inventor Dr. Robert Malone, M.D. and Dr. Peter McCullough both took to the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and offered up some much needed, iconoclastic points of view on the virus.

Heading into 2022, I was convinced that the media was going to be forced to shift its narrative on Covid.

....... The second lesson is also a great one to behold, especially in light of the Rube Goldberg-style caper that the rocket surgeons at the Federal Reserve are currently in the midst of executing: the government is usually late, usually overshoots the mark, and then fails to correct and re-align itself accordingly.

...... The final lesson we can learn from this 180 degree about face by the CDC is that it' is okay to ask questions - even moreso when the narrative is being dictated by unilateral entities or overwhelming groupthink.



Nurses who witnessed “brutal” hospital COVID-19 treatment protocols kill patients paint a bleak picture of what is taking place in state and federally funded health care systems.

“They’re horrific, and they’re all in lockstep,” Staci Kay, a nurse practitioner with the North Carolina Physicians for Freedom who left the hospital system to start her own early treatment private practice, told The Epoch Times. “They will not consider protocols outside of what’s given to them by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the NIH (National Institute of Health). And nobody is asking why.” ...



.... The history of these changes is critical to understand because often if you can recognize when a debilitating condition emerged, you can identify the root cause of it (which is often an environmental toxin) and develop an effective treatment protocol for it.  Unfortunately, in most cases, this does not happen because the causes of a pervasive illness in society is often something people in power have a financial stake in keeping on the market, or because so much money is made from treating the disease that there are strong financial pressures to have it remain “unsolvable.”

..... Conversely, I can only begin to imagine what the practice of medicine will be like for future doctors who have not yet begun their clinical rotations by the time the spike protein vaccines were on the market and hence will be led to believe the diseases they are seeing now is how things always have been.

.... One area where this illusion of knowledge is easier to recognize are for the “syndromes,” diseases whose symptoms are listed in English and then followed by “syndrome.“  Whenever you dig into syndromes, you will often discover there is a clearly identifiable cause for the syndrome, but since the cause is a politically touchy subject, rather than describing the disease as a consequence of that cause, it is simply labeled as a nebulous “syndrome” (sometimes this also occurs with other ambiguously named diseases such as a “disorder”).

The syndromes and disorders are particularly frustrating because as described in the previous section they often suddenly emerge out of nowhere, have a clear cause at the time, and despite this, the medical field is never able to determine what triggered their sudden emergence. ......

When reviewing the syndromes in the next section, it is extremely important to remember that diseases caused by exposure to a toxin tend to distribute along a bell curve (with most patient’s symptoms regressing to the mean), so for each severe injury you see, there are often also many more subtle injuries that are harder to link to the causative agent.  This principle was why I was so concerned regarding the large number of fatal adverse responses to COVID vaccination I came across at the start of the roll out, I was not surprised by the 10% increase in disability within the population that followed the campaign and why I suspect significantly more problems will emerge in the future.

....................... As stated earlier in this article, vaccinations can cause sudden death, but typically, this side effect is rare, and the majority of injuries will be less overt.  For this reason, it is correct to say that sudden deaths are equivalent to the tip of an iceberg, and far more issues can be found beneath the surface.  

............ Before long, reports began emerging of a variety semi-celebrities dying not long after vaccination, a large increase in news reports of individuals “dying suddenly“ and an unprecedented rate of heart attacks or deaths in young athletes on the field.  Although there were a variety of critical safety signals that were missed, the fact that these deaths were dismissed, and the vaccination program was allowed to proceed indicated to me that governments around the world were fully aware of the dangers of vaccines and consider them to be acceptable collateral damage for the goal they were working towards.

Throughout my life, I have witnessed many different campaigns be conducted for the purpose of convincing the public to do something harmful so that people in power can benefit at the public’s expense.  This background allowed me to recognize that somethings completely different from a typical propaganda campaign was happening with the entire COVID vaccine campaign and let me to suspect something very bad could happen with the vaccines.  Despite this, I am still shocked by the wave of deaths I (and many of my you) began observing and the large increases in the death rate found throughout population level datasets.

.................... Like many of the syndromes listed earlier in this article, I suspect we are gradually transitioning through the following steps with SADS:

1. Attempts to obscure the phenomena are occurring.
2. Attempts to provide ridiculous alternative explanations of the phenomena are put forward.
3. Attempts to normalize the phenomena as that something that has always been, had no specific trigger or cause and instead arose from a composite of risk factors.
4. The previous are successful and almost no memory exists of the world before the phenomena.
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In the first two parts of this sequence of posts (1, 2), I’ve outlined the background of the Great Reset, Klaus Schwab’s dreary rehash of the last half century or so of fix-the-world schemes, and used the creation and destruction of the Georgia Guidestones as a lens through which to see how those schemes have so reliably run face first into the brick wall of reality.  In this third part of the sequence I want to put those phenomena in a broader context.

My regular readers will not be surprised to hear that there are historical parallels for the situation we’re in, in which a complex society is managed by a caste of privileged intellectuals convinced that their mastery of abstract notions makes them uniquely qualified to run the world. That’s a common state of affairs at a certain point in the history of civilizations.  My regular readers won’t be surprised, either, to learn that quite often the point in question is roughly where the first half of the time-honored phrase “decline and fall” gives way to the second half.

Something of the sort happens tolerably often when a clerisy ends up in control of a society.  A clerisy?  Why, yes. For those of my readers who aren’t familiar with the further shores of English vocabulary, a clerisy is a group of people whose claim to privilege is that they’re better educated and therefore, at least in theory, smarter than the rest of us.  ......

....... Human beings are not as creative as they like to think.  In particular, they like to make the same mistakes over and over again.  The more innovative they think they’re being, the more certain you can be that they’re rehashing a mistake that was already gray with the dust of centuries when Confucius was a little boy perched on his mother’s knees. .....

..... I’ve come to believe that we may be fairly close to the point at which the current managerial clerisy in the Western industrial world will fall from power.   The fall of a clerisy, like that of any other self-selecting and self-promoting institution, usually follows on some pratfall sufficiently disastrous, preventable, and obviously self-inflicted that afterwards, no one can seriously believe in the pretensions of the people who claim to know it all. We’ve had quite a number of such pratfalls recently—how many recent official policies can you think of offhand that have actually achieved the goals their promoters claimed they would achieve?—but the great-great-grandmother of them all is unfolding right in front of us at present.

Yes, I’m talking about the Covid vaccines. .....

.... If you’d like to do a deeper dive into the data, this page links to more than 1250 peer reviewed studies in scientific journals documenting harmful or fatal side effects from the coronavirus vaccines.  (If you want to follow the science, that’s one way to start.) No, they’re not all rare—here’s a recent study that found heart damage in nearly a third of patients injected with Covid vaccine. You can find heartbreaking stories of people who’ve been crippled by Covid vaccine side effects here, among many other places; one thing that nearly all the accounts include is that the victims faced systematic gaslighting from a medical industry that, as usual these days, puts its profits and its reputation ahead of the health and safety of mere patients. 

So much for “safe.” The “effective” side of the slogan hasn’t aged any better. Most people have noticed by now that it’s the people who took the vaccines, not the people who refused it, who are getting Covid over and over again. ...

.... Nobody knows for sure why it is that people injected with the experimental genetic therapies marketed as “Covid vaccines” end up more vulnerable to Covid than the unvaccinated. The reason nobody knows is that the necessary testing wasn’t done. There have been other vaccines against coronaviruses developed in recent decades; none of them got through long term trials because the side effects were so bad. There have been other mRNA products developed, too; none of them got through long term trials either, for the same reason.  Pfizer, Moderna, et al. evaded that problem with the Covid vaccines by simply not doing long-term testing at all ....

..... If you want people to trust science, it would be helpful if the people who claim to speak for science didn’t tell so many lies. If you’d like to follow the science, here’s an article from the British Medical Journal—one of the world’s most reputable medical periodicals—talking in brutal detail about the way that “evidence-based medicine” has become a front for corporate profiteering, institutional corruption, and wholly avoidable injury and death.  ....

... The predicament faced by the clerisy of the modern industrial world is that its members staked nearly all that was left of their tattered reputations on that “safe and effective” label. From Joe Biden on down, governments, scientists, and the media insisted that the vaccines would keep people from catching or transmitting Covid-19.  Yes, they were wrong, but that’s not the crucial point. The crucial point is that they made that false claim in absolute terms, vilified and censored anybody who disagreed with them, tried to push the vaccines on everyone via dubiously legal mandates, and are still doing their level best to suppress information that shows that they were wrong.

Imagine, by contrast, an alternative timeline in which governments, scientists, and the media responded to the emergence of Covid-19 in a less dictatorial and more honest manner. ...



Tweets & Quotes of the Week:

Laderoute: What I find remarkable about the posted video on Dr. Mercola’s website is that Dr. Fauci was quoted as saying the ‘the vaccinated are a dead end’. I don’t think more true words were ever spoken by Dr. Fauci since the pandemic started, although clearly this comment was taken out of context and not what he intended.


Kory: So many laypeople now understand that high-impact medical journals reject positive studies of generic drugs and vitamins & only publish manipulated studies that suit Pharma. Most docs have no idea of the lies supporting their pills/jabs & how many patients now refuse to see them.



Toby1: We won the scientific debate so they cancelled it. So I have to live in exile, for the rest of my life, for the sin of [*checks notes*] opposing genocide and supporting science, logic, and reason? It's hard to overstate how profoundly weird that is. The people in Exileville are the best people. But the bourgeois’ rejection of all that it is good and right and true is strange to the point of being incomprehensible.

& Toby2: Tribalism: I massively, massively, massively underestimated the role of tribalism in knowledge. The tribe sets the parameters for what can be debated and the lenses through which data are understood. The metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology of the tribe are based on the economic interests of the tribe.

& Toby3: Good Germans everywhere: The most disappointing part of the pandemic is not the actions of the pharmaceutical industry. They are predators, always have been, poisoning-for-profit is what they do. The most disappointing part of the pandemic is that the vast majority of mainstream society would rather participate in self-inflicted genocide than risk thinking for themselves. We will eventually defeat Pharma. But the bougie collaborators, I don't know how they will ever be rehabilitated.

Toby4: These people are all in. Is little Billie playing with dolls? Is little Susie playing with Tonka Trucks? ‘Time to schedule the surgery!’ according to Boston Children’s Hospital: .. How do these people not see how completely regressive, cruel, and patriarchal their actions are? Surgically castrating children who are on the spectrum is not the politically winning flex that the left seems to think it is.



We live in a society that normalizes every dysfunction and criminalizes critical thinking.

Everything old is new again:
Pfizer is just the East India Company all over again — in a more technologically advanced world. A large corporation that uses the power of the state to advance its profit goals.

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Empire gonna empire.

Psychopaths gonna psychopath.

The state is gonna do whatever capital orders them to do.

There is nothing new under the sun.


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Anecdotal Fare:



In memory of those who 'died suddenly' in Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Israel, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Russia, August 9-August 17





Pushback Fare:

the reflexivity of the overton window

the CDC failed on virtually every measurable metric of covid response.
  • they promoted the pseudoscience of lockdowns and masking trotting out study after study with cherry picked or outright fraudulent parameters.
  • they made up ideas like “6 foot distancing” that lacked any basis whatsoever
  • they failed to recognize or admit to airborne and aerosol transmission
  • they pushed over-sensitive and irrelevant testing and fruitless and impossible contact tracing
  • they claimed vaccines would stop spread
  • they claimed vaccines would be 100% effective vs hospitalization and death
  • they pushed 2 doses and done as the “path to get your life back” then 3, then 4, then booster forever all on the basis of shoddy science.
  • and they systematically refused to do their appointed job of monitoring the adverse events of the vaccines.
  • they destroyed schools and businesses and drove the US economy and society into a ditch.
  • they made the lives of american children into a misery and cost them years of education and development despite their never having been at material risk.
  • they vilified and attacked the sane and accurate folks like jay and martin and sunetra and the great barrington declaration which was, quite literally, just a simple and uncontroversial elucidation of 100 years of evidence based epidemiology.
and now they have finally come full circle and tried to slide into adopting the practices that the actual adults in the room had been advising all along. 

it took the CDC years to finally be pummeled into arriving at the place the great barrington declaration started back in fall 2020. 

this absolute panoply of total, tragic, and willful failure has become way too big to miss.

this agency is either so outlandishly incompetent or so desperately politicized and corrupt as to pose grave threat to the american people especially and specifically because it was allowed to dictate to them (either directly or by informing the choices of those who did) and perhaps most of all because people trusted them. ...


el gato malo: elevating that which you try to hide
streisand in the gears of the propaganda machine.


We must never allow this to happen again.

Vaccine Choice Canada has teamed up with Canadian filmmaker Todd Harris to produce a powerful new documentary entitled Uninformed Consent.

The film is a hard-hitting, in-depth look into the Covid-19 narrative, who has been controlling it, and how the narrative has been being used in an attempt to inject an untested new technology into almost every person on the planet. 

It explores our recent loss of human rights while showcasing the devastating impact of mandates and the deeply powerful story of one man's loss.

Hear the truth from doctors and scientists unafraid to speak out against Big Pharma and the elite class who profit from these mandates. ...

Trailer #1: FORCEDVAX

Trailer #2: GETVAXXED

Trailer #3: SAFE&EFFECTIVE

To Watch the film:

Librti: https://librti.com/uninformed-consent

Children's Health Defense TV https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/premiere-uninformed-consent-a-matador-films-picture



COVID Conspiracy Fare:

A Gigantic Wave is Expected this Fall


The odd things that were reported and emphasized about her death, in the middle of the era of celebrities' causes of death no longer being discussed at all

..... One thing I need to say urgently is that this (the Anne Heche coverage) is stark proof of what we have all been saying about the bizarre timbre of “died suddenly” deaths among the famous, since 2021.

The tradition of mass media barely lowering their opera glasses when a celebrity suddenly dies, aborting the entire obsessive media conversation about how exactly, precisely, they died, is a clear tactic to deflect mass death by covid shots. It’s new.

Anne Heche’s death represents a return to old, pre-Covid traditions of mass media coverage of a celebrity death, complete with random doctors being interviewed about cause and manner of death. This contrasts sharply with the past 1.5 years of intense gaslighting by mass media and big tech, who simply ceased all interest and reporting on how a celebrity died, to avoid the black elephant. (Vaccine deaths.) ...



Back to Non-Pandemic Fare:

GeoPolitical Fare:


It should be pretty obvious that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was an attempt to seize evidence likely to be used in former President Donald Trump’s civil lawsuit in the Southern Florida Federal District Court against Hillary Clinton and associated defendants in and out of government for the defamation and racketeering operation known as RussiaGate — AND in any future criminal proceedings that might grow out of congressional investigations-to-come against officials past and present in the DOJ and FBI. The idea is to tie up all those documents in a legal dispute about declassification so they can’t be entered in any proceeding.

Over the weekend, independent journalist Paul Sperry reported that many of the same FBI officers involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid happen to be subjects of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of RussiaGate. Have some of them already been hauled into grand juries? We don’t know. But, with the Mar-a-Lago caper, it looks like the law enforcement apparatus of the federal government is seeking to suppress evidence of its own long-running criminal enterprise.

The parallel purpose of the raid was to find — or perhaps plant — documents that might be used in a scheme to disqualify Mr. Trump from running for office again. The January 6th show-trial in Congress has failed to galvanize the country’s attention, and may have foundered in its attempt to find grounds for a criminal referral against the former president that would take him off the playing field. So, now this. ...

... It all shapes up as a systematic effort to obstruct justice by the US Department of Justice. They’ve been doing it consistently since 2016 in all matters pertaining to Mr. Trump,  ...

... Former president Trump is not without resources and recourse in all this. Though the news media does not follow it, the Trump v Clinton lawsuit trial continues, and it might not go so well for Mrs. Clinton and her friends. ..


**** (for at least first 10min of 43min vid; 16-21min is quite compelling too):





The ignorance displayed in the United States under the guise of educated opinion is astonishing. ...



Something must be off with my aghastitude meter, because for the life of me I just can't get excited about the ongoing saga of the FBI raid on Donald Trump's Florida estate, in search of allegedly stolen top secret classified documents.

Rumor had it that the G-Men were tipped off by an insider that Trump was hoarding the nuclear codes. This is despite numerous mainstream media reports, when he was in the White House within physical reach of the Big Red Phone, that his alarmed minions were keeping all this info out of his reckless hands. He was apparently in the habit of flushing sensitive stuff in the toilet, anyway. And besides, if he'd really wanted to  sell the codes to the highest bidder, you'd think he would have struck a deal by now.

 The only thing we should really fear about nuclear war is the recent reckless provocations of the United States against both Russia and China. ......

..... Donald Trump should be the least of our worries. The Supreme Court, the CIA, McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, the White House are only the first concerns who come to mind.



I abhor Cheney clan, I abhor environment where this seed sprouted from. And while I also have very little respect for Trump and most of GOP, the fact that Liz Cheney asked Democrats to... register as Republicans and vote for her in primaries tells you everything you need to know about US "elite". As Larry notes:
The neo-con crowd got a much overdue mega punch in the gut on Tuesday with the electoral bludgeoning of Dick Cheney’s evil spawn, Liz. It is for moments like this that the word “chortle” was created. Chortle away. .....
... Larry then goes on to describe the "environment" which gave birth to those warmongers, war criminals and political shysters. Read the whole thing at Larry's blog. Good for people of beautiful Wyoming that they threw this, as Larry defines her, correctly, "evil spawn" out of the office. ...


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Orwellian Fare:

Not really your fight or my fight

There is a power struggle going on globally, well, a lot of power struggles in the world, because of the declining carbon-based economy, gamed by corrupt skimming, and the loss of control by the corrupt skimmers, largely the globalist faction, but the rest of them, too.

The globalists need to take the skim from trade between nations, which is what nations used to do with taxes on imports.

They do this to hollow out national economies and impoverish workers and industries, not beef them up like Teddy Roosevelt did.

You can see the trajectories.

The globalists need to put on the turbo boost as the productive economies, especially food producers speed downward into oblivion.

Getting rid of most of the people slowly, in a controlled-cull, is the new quiet globalist imperative.

Save the planet and their jet fuel.

There sure is a problem with unlimited industrial growth, but turning Holland and Ireland into Sri Lanka (fertilizer-free agriculture experiment) will do what it did to Sri Lanka.

One must assume this is intentional at this point. ...


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CaitOz Fare:

China Threatens The US Empire, Not The US Itself: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

... China poses no threat to the United States of America, the country. What China poses a threat to is the US empire and the hegemonic unipolarist ambitions thereof. That’s what various government agencies are talking about when they describe China as the number one “threat”.

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Talking about China’s territorial disputes with its neighbors without talking about the US empire’s efforts to establish strategic domination of those areas is the same as lying.

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Normal person: China’s misdeeds have been greatly exaggerated by western propaganda and the US is quantifiably far more murderous and destructive.

Crazy person: Oh so you think China is a perfect communist utopia and the CCP never does anything wrong?? Why don’t you MOVE there??

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If your government is showing a clear interest in the outcome of a foreign war, and your first response isn’t to do some rigorous and intellectually honest investigation as to whether your government played a role in starting that war, then there’s something wrong with your mind.

If this is you, don’t feel bad: there’s something wrong with most people’s minds. What’s wrong with most people’s minds is that the powerful pour a vast amount of energy into manipulating them toward their advantage. This has been known about and studied for a long time.



Robert Heinlein said, “Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.” And from all the facts in evidence currently available to us, that certainly does seem to be the case. We’re destroying our biosphere and moving beyond mere flirtation with nuclear war to full-blown courtship, all to facilitate a status quo that everyone hates and which benefits hardly anybody.

We are not behaving rationally. Instead, we rationalize, or have it rationalized for us. ...

....................... And in each case the solution is the same: the expansion of consciousness. Self-destructive behavior patterns change not when we find Jesus or start applying “willpower” or any of the other fairy tales our culture has invented over the years and promulgated in countless Hollywood movies, but when we become more conscious of the way they are happening and the factors which feed into them. They change when we gain a more lucid perception of what’s going on inside us and what makes us tick. Until that happens we continue along the same behavioral trajectory, just rearranging the furniture a bit and swapping out old addictions for new ones here and there while we tell ourselves stories about why we do what we do. ...



Other Quotes of the Week:

Olsson: If that many people are so incapable of reasoned judgement, it is frightening the possibilities. Because they have an army now of hundreds of millions if not billions of people, who are susceptible to any psychological conditioning, and willing to turn on their fellow citizens.



Long Reads / Big Thoughts:

***** Radagast: Global cognitive decline

As time goes by, I’m growing increasingly convinced that the constant waves of SARS-COV-2 infections are damaging people’s brains. This is not the conclusion I would like to reach, but it’s somewhat hard to avoid, considering the available evidence. People’s brains seem to be aging prematurely. How you notice this, is in the same way as how you tend to notice it once elderly people start to develop dementia. They’re quite capable of doing the sort of things they’re used to doing, but when they’re faced with a new situation they struggle to adjust to it.

What I notice is that people in recent years don’t really seem to be adjusting their worldview to new information anymore, they increasingly react on new information based on existing information they already had. ....

........ People seem no longer able to change their minds, to deal with subtle nuances, or to think ahead in regards to how situations can be expected to change. They’re just stuck, doing what they were already doing. That’s the sort of thing you tend to see before someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

This is some of the evidence we have:
  • Brains of COVID patients look like they have Alzheimer’s.
  • cognitive decline is increased 12 months after infection, even in non-severe cases.
  • Alzheimer’s disease is increased 250% after infection.
  • Blood markers of brain damage are higher after COVID than in those who have Alzheimer’s.
  • Infection is associated with reduced IQ.
  • Blood vessels in the brains of long COVID patients are filled with microclots.
If you have all sorts of different lines of evidence pointing in the direction of this virus causing brain damage, then who am I to suggest it must all be wrong? And when you consider that basically everyone is constantly getting reinfected in the Omicron era, it’s not looking good.


****** Welsh: You Don’t Have To Be Upset

Terrible things are happening all time. Right now, as you read it, people are suffering in monstrous, awful ways. Many, many people.

That’s how it is. That’s how it has always been, and as long as there is life of the type there is on Earth, that’s the way it will be. Human and many animal bodies are built for pain and suffering, and not only are we often astoundingly cruel to each other, but accident, disease and the infirmities of old age will scourge us till we, perhaps, become homo-deus.

One of the wisest things I ever read was a 90+ year old who met their spouse to be at the gym, when they were both in their 90s, who said, “neither my (spouse) nor I spend one second worrying about anything we can’t control.”

And, if you can control something, there’s no reason to worry about that.

Bad things are happening all the time. But if you get upset about them, you aren’t helping: your being upset doesn’t make the situation better. 

What it does do is make you suffer. All you’re doing is making the world worse, for yourself. ...

..... This is a real disease in our society and it is made worse by 24/7 global coverage of bad shit. There’s always something terrible happening and you can always find something to feel terrible about. Our sympathetic mirroring of others emotions arose when we lived in small bands, it is not adapted to an internet world where we identify with people we’ve never met and never will. ...


London Sex Change Clinic For Kids Shut Down And Sued By 1000 Families




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