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Thursday, October 27, 2022

2022-10-27

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Economic and Market Fare:

Munchau: When the unsustainable ends
The US, China, Germany, the UK and Russia have one thing in common: they all need a new economic model.

There was a time, not too long ago, when every country had their place in the world economy. China and Germany would run large external manufacturing surpluses. The US used its exorbitant privilege to absorb those surpluses. Russia was the reliable purveyor of oil and gas, or so we thought. I would not call this arrangement stable, but it experienced a period of pseudo-stability, from the 1990s until the pandemic.

What has changed with Brexit, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine is that this model has broken down. This has, interestingly, been the case for everyone. The UK is where that breakdown is most obvious. ....

So everybody needs a new economic model. This is not about macroeconomic policy. This is about what you specialise in as a country. ......



..... In light of the furious debates over debt sustainability since 2008, one might have expected more discussion of the extraordinary windfall (to tax payers) delivered by a surge in nominal GDP - a surge in the denominator of the debt/gdp ratio, or, in other words, a real devaluation of the public debt.

... Back in 2019 many of us would have cheered ecstatically at the prospect of such an acceleration in nominal GDP growth, promising, as it does, to bring down the debt/GDP ratio. Clearly rapid real growth would be preferable. But inflation too serves to reduce the ratio. Indeed, as experience since 1945 has shown, the best way to undramatically liquidate an unmanageable debt burden is to modestly elevate the rate of inflation. Though higher inflation for longer is now what many are predicting, they say it like it is a bad thing.

If a conversation about the balance sheet effects of the current inflation - both the costs and the benefits - has been going on somewhere and I have missed it, please let me know.

Instead, what has taken center stage is a feverish debate about the cost of living, price controls, the risk of Gilets Jaunes style protests. This is not by itself surprising. For far too many people, the cost of living crisis is acutely real. What is striking however is how seemingly disparate or even opposed strands of politics and policy debate have converged around what amounts to an anti-inflation consensus. If you frame inflation as a problem of the cost of living, it seems, there really is no alternative but to end inflation by all means necessary.

................ The IMF find that apart from a few very unusual incidents, which they discuss at some length, there is, in fact, remarkably little systematic evidence that periods of rising inflation, rising nominal wages and falling real wages - our current situation - tend to develop into sustained spirals of wages and prices.

........... I want simply to register this remarkable convergence of analyses around the conclusion that there is no alternative to stopping inflation as quickly as possible. And to ask, in a Keynesian spirit, whether that is really persuasive.

As far as balance sheet effects are concerned there are good reasons for thinking that the more time we take in getting inflation back down to 2 percent, the better. If we live in a world of debt, a sharp spike in interest rates is very dangerous indeed. On the other hand, a sustained period of modestly elevated inflation is exactly what the doctor ordered. Why else did many of the best and the brightest in macro policy once advocate an inflation target of 4 percent or more. That is now easily within our grasp. Why spurn the opportunity?

.......... But adopt this macroeconomic anti-inflation stance only if you judge that it is not actually in the interests of a broader social balance to allow modest rates of inflation to continue for a while until it has redressed dangerous debt overhangs.

This, or something like it, would be a “functional finance”, left-Keynesian response to our current predicament. Has it any chance of being realized? I don’t think it does. ........



... as the following breakdown shows:
  • Personal Consumption: 0.97% of the bottom line number, down from 1.38% and the lowest since 2019.
  • Fixed Investment subtracted -0.89% from the GDP, in line with last month's -0.92% as corporations continue to retrench ahead of the recession
  • The change in private inventories shrank for the 3rd quarter, this time shrinking GDP by -0.70%
  • On the positive side net exports rose by 2.77% courtesy of a 1.63% increase in exports and a decline in imports which contributed another 1.14% to the GDP print. As noted above, this alone was enough to explain the entire gain in Q3 GDP, and is a function of US support of the European war economy as the US exports record amount of commodities (oil and gas) as well as weapons to Europe.
  • Finally, government consumption - which was and remains an oxymoron - added 0.42% to the bottom line GDP.

  • Taiwan’s industrial output index lost 4.8 per cent last month compared to a year earlier following 31 months of year-on-year growth
  • Production in South Korea and Singapore has also eased due to weak consumer demand caused by the war in Ukraine, high inflation and fallout from China’s zero-Covid policy


***** Every: The Preparations To "Buy All The Things" Are Taking Place

Inflation Dragon? Blame Canada!

Imagine you are Jay Powell. You come into the Fed being called the new ‘Tall Paul’. You then preside over the worst inflation since Tall Paul. So, you decide you have to do what Tall Paul did after all. All the other central banks agree: off you all go into battle against the Inflation Dragon and its evil army - except the BOJ, which nailed itself to the ground years ago.

Markets throw all manner of things, and expletives, at the charge led by the Fed’s 75bp strides: but as the inflation-fighters are united, they have strength in numbers.

Except almost immediately the RBA decides that while it is absolutely alongside the Fed, it suddenly needs to do up its shoelaces and then go at a 25bp pace. While down on one knee pretending to be doing so, it sneaks out a property magazine hidden inside its shirt and starts drooling over it while shouting, “Right behind you, mate!”

Markets take this as a Fed pivot ahead. They price for an easing cycle, effectively strengthening the inflation foes on the other side via lower borrowing costs, higher commodity costs, and helping to arm the Inflation Dragon’s army by buying them ‘all the things’.

Powell responds by running further ahead, like Aragorn in the final battle of The Lord of the Rings. The RBNZ is right alongside him, like the Hobbits in the same. Markets get the message.

Then the BOE starts stabbing its own government in the back because it doesn’t like how badly-designed its armor is (being full of fiscal holes). It won’t be able to catch up with the front line inflation fighters, perhaps - but the PM is dead, long live the PM, so top hole!

Markets take this as a Fed pivot ahead again.

The Fed keeps running, and the others say they are still with it. Markets get the message again.

Then the BOC decide while it is right with the Fed, eh?, and all aboot policy tightening, eh?, it also needs to run at 50bp, not 75bp, and maybe 25bp next. (Because the property magazine it has stuffed up its shirt might fall out.)

Markets are again aggressively pricing for a Fed pivot. The dollar has been smacked this week; 10-year Treasury yields have tumbled back to around 4%, and equities leaped before virtual tech firm earnings met actual reality; but the preparations to ‘buy all the things’ are still taking place.

Apart from the RBNZ and the red-mist ECB, climbing up from an underground bunker, so still far behind --and seen going 75bp today-- Powell is now way out in front in this battle.

If the Fed is forced to go 50bp next week “because Canada”, we are in Pivot-ville, population: Powell, as far as markets will be concerned. Buy pictures of monkeys in sunglasses. Buy pictures of Powell in sunglasses. Buy pictures of monkeys in sunglasses laughing at Powell in sunglasses. Also buy shotguns and duct tape, metaphorically. Nouriel ‘Dr Doom’ Roubini is predicting exactly that: a pivot, and an inflationary implosion in the US dollar.

We will still get a recession… 

... (keep reading at link)



......................... Retailers have nearly all of the products they need in their distribution networks for the holidays (and then some), which means that there won’t be a lot of freight demand as we head into the last two months of the year.

In recent quarters, retailers have talked about how much inventory they are carrying. This holiday season, they will be focused on burning that inventory down – potentially through aggressive discounting and promotions. 

As firms get more nervous about the broader economy heading into 2023, there is little incentive to replenish bloated inventories. This is bad news for most freight companies as they will find far fewer load opportunities. 

While the timing of when the freight recession started will be hotly debated, carriers from the weakest spot participants to the best run are starting to realize that peak will be very weak. 

To borrow a phrase from Mish Shedlock, author of the macro-economics blog, Mishtalk, whether we are in a recession or headed for one, the question is moot.



Charts: 
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Bubble Fare:






(not just) for the ESG crowd:

Scientists warn world ‘is heading in wrong direction’ amid rise in nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane



Executive summary
The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown is published as the world confronts profound and concurrent systemic shocks. Countries and health systems continue to contend with the health, social, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a persistent fossil fuel overdependence has pushed the world into global energy and cost-of-living crises. As these crises unfold, climate change escalates unabated. Its worsening impacts are increasingly affecting the foundations of human health and wellbeing, exacerbating the vulnerability of the world's populations to concurrent health threats.
During 2021 and 2022, extreme weather events caused devastation across every continent, adding further pressure to health services already grappling with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Floods in Australia, Brazil, China, western Europe, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa, and South Sudan caused thousands of deaths, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and caused billions of dollars in economic losses. Wildfires caused devastation in Canada, the USA, Greece, Algeria, Italy, Spain, and Türkiye, and record temperatures were recorded in many countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Italy, Oman, Türkiye, Pakistan, and the UK. .............

Health at the mercy of fossil fuels
The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in which countries agreed to prevent dangerous anthropogenic climate change and its deleterious effects on human health and welfare. However, little meaningful action has since followed. The carbon intensity of the global energy system has decreased by less than 1% since the UNFCCC was established, and global electricity generation is still dominated by fossil fuels, with renewable energy contributing to only 8·2% of the global total (indicator 3.1). Simultaneously, the total energy demand has risen by 59%, increasing energy-related emissions to a historical high in 2021. .........



Other Fare:

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

.......... The Economicist ascendancy helped identify priorities and impose order on the expanding postwar federal government, injecting a welcome dose of rigor. But it also encouraged a retreat from activist government, one that started to firm up under President Jimmy Carter and then snowballed under President Ronald Reagan. The Economism of Republican administrations, influenced by “freshwater” economists like the University of Chicago’s Milton Friedman, was much more conservative than the Economism of Democratic administrations, influenced by “saltwater” economists like the Brookings Institution’s Charles Schultze. But both schools were conservative in their preference for market solutions, their bias against “command and control” regulation, and their distrust of the sort of bold government experimentation that characterized the New Deal. After the 2008 housing crash, Economism lost much of its luster in the academic world, and under President Joe Biden we may be seeing tentative signs (in, for example, this year’s Inflation Reduction Act) that congressional Democrats feel less beholden to Economicist dogma. But to make a clean break, Democrats need to understand how Economism conquered Washington, and how the reduction of noneconomic policy choices to mathematical models and formulas wreaked havoc on many efforts to address the country’s most urgent problems.


"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

...... Freedom to choose a better way comes from taking responsibility for our thoughts and actions, but doesn’t mean judging and condemning ourselves. It means becoming aware of the story our ego has made to justify our behavior. We take our ego for granted. Our ego wants us to believe we are our thoughts; but that is not who we are. The more we place ourselves in the observer seat, the faster we move beyond current disturbing thoughts, emotions, and mistaken actions.

Put another way, the key is to practice shifting our attention beyond our habitual stream of thinking.  .....



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Contrarian Perspectives

Extra [i.e. Controversial] Fare:

*** denotes well-worth reading in full at source (even if excerpted extensively here)


Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”


Regular Fare:

30 Democratic House members grew and un-grew spines in record time, in a slapstick fiasco predicted almost to the last word

.... In this context, could anything look worse than this week’s scurrying-roach routine? If you were actively trying to convince the public you didn’t stand for anything, you couldn’t dream up something more devastating than what the CPC members just did to themselves, and their institution.


the jokers are just getting worse. and maybe there is a reason.

.... truly, these people would lose to a chicken at checkers. but what if this is a feature and not a bug?

............. consider:

if you were such an organization and you want a puppet leader who will do as told because they are totally malleable and would never roll over on you because they cannot even remember who told them to do what, wouldn’t you be out stumping for fetterman?

is it really an accident that people of severe mental impairment keep being put up for office and protected through the process through what can only be described as media and political collusion?



RIP Fare:

Verso is extremely sad to announce the death of our friend and comrade Mike Davis, the pioneering historian of the US working class and fierce critic of the economic, political, and military apparatuses of the US state machine and the brutalities of empires in general.

from August:
His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated



Unsustainability Fare:


...... You can see here how Homo Sapiens invades the Amazon rain forest like a kind of invasive slime mold.

It’s not hard to understand how this happens. You can either eat plants, or you can feed plants to cattle and end up with four grams of protein for every 100 grams of protein you feed to the cattle. There are seven billion of us, you all collectively decided that you don’t care about the simple principle that it’s going to require chopping down the forests if you want to eat beef instead of plants.

........... Again, this isn’t happening because we don’t have the technologies available that we need. No, it’s happening because we have to make some big lifestyle changes that you’re unwilling to make. You don’t want to eat shellfish instead of meat, you don’t want to sell your car and travel by bicycle and public transport and you don’t want to stop flying around the world. As a consequence, I get to watch as the last wild animals go extinct and the planet becomes uninhabitable and eventually billions of people die in wars, pandemics and famines.

.... And so in this sense I’m annoyed by all the climate protests I see: They’re not violent enough. Imagine there’s a train full of people going to Auschwitz and some guy dressed up like a woman tries to block the train by standing in front of it and singing: “hey ho hey hop, the Holocaust has got to stop!” That’s what climate change activism amounts to. 

...... And do me a favor, save me the effort of giving you an IP ban. Don’t pretend to be so innocent that you don’t understand that shoving billions of animals into concentration camps and feeding them soybeans imported from Brazil changes our atmosphere and that changing our atmosphere is dangerous. I was that innocent until I was 19 or so. I spent years looking for some hole in the theory. It doesn’t exist. There is no hole, this is really happening and you’re leaving today’s young people to watch it unfold with no way to reverse it after you’re dead. No wonder they’re suicidal. You people should have had the bare minimum empathy for others by not having children, as you have no intention to keep this planet habitable.

And so I’ll make it simple. Instead of pouring some tomato soup over a glass plate, do me a favor: Bring a can of deodorant and a lighter. If you’re going to protest, do it by burning those paintings to ashes.



Endemic 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 [almost?] everything by eugyppius; el gato malo; Mathew Crawford; Steve Kirsch; Jessica Rose!
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); later additions: Sheldon Yakiwchuk & Charles Rixey & Aaron Kheriarty; and newest additions Meryl Nass and the awesome Radagast; and Spartacus is on substack now!!; 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 Dolores Cahill, and [local prof] Byram Bridle, and Ryan Cole, and... of course Heather Heying and Charles Eisenstein often bring their insight and wisdom to the topic as well... and if Heying's substack isn't enough, she joins her husband Bret Weinstein at their DarkHorse podcast ....
but, in any case, check out those sources directly as I will my linking to material by those mainstays mentioned above will be reduced to key excerpts and/or essential posts


Emergency Use Authorization will end. What then?

Whatever you may currently think about the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, it is a fact that more than 5.41 billion people worldwide have received a dose of some type of COVID-19 vaccine, equal to about 70.5 percent of the world population.  In the United States as of October 17, 2022, 494.74 million “initial protocol doses” of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine have been administered, together with 138.16 million “booster” doses. 265.59 million US residents have received at least one dose, and 226.59 million have completed the initial vaccination protocol (see this link), out of a total population of 335.49 million (67.5%). In terms of the logistics of development, manufacturing and deployment of a novel injectable biologic product, this is undeniably a major achievement. Of the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine doses administered in the United States as of October 19, 2022, 375.64 million were manufactured by Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech, and 237.61 doses by Moderna, for a total of 613.25 million mRNA vaccine doses administered.  In the European Union, the corresponding numbers are 641.89M doses of Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech and 153.16M doses of Moderna for an EU total of 795.05M mRNA vaccine doses, and a grand total of 1 Billion, 408.3 million doses of mRNA vaccines in these two regions. All this involves a novel technology, product and large scale manufacturing process which was created, passed non-clinical and clinical development and was massively manufactured, distributed and globally deployed in less than three years.

At a meeting of the Special Committee of the European Union Parliament held on 11 October 2022 to discuss the findings regarding COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations for the future, a Pfizer executive confirmed that the vaccine had never been tested for its ability to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus before being put on the market. Data emerging since the introduction of the vaccine indicates that it is in fact unable to do so, thereby refuting the claim that the COVID-19 Passports provide any guarantee of protection.  In other words, although governments throughout the world employed a wide range of propaganda and censorship methods to promote these products as both safe and effective at stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection, there were no studies performed prior to this distribution which even tested how well the products would prevent the spread of COVID-19 disease.  It is not an exaggeration to state that this massive deployment has been the largest clinical experiment performed on human beings in the history of the world. 

All of the mRNA vaccine doses administered in the United States (to both citizens and military personnel) have been provided under “Emergency Use Authorization” (EUA), which is to say that although the FDA has licensed the Pfizer/Bio-N-Tech and Moderna vaccines for some age cohorts, the firms have elected to not manufacture, distribute, or market these licensed products in the United States.  The reason for this is not clear, but appears to relate to both liability issues as well as conditions placed by the FDA involving additional clinical studies, safety monitoring (pharmacovigilance)  and product disclosures once the products begin to be marketed.

From the standpoint of the vaccine manufacturers, EUA is a preferred pathway for marketing their products.  A single purchaser (the US Government) provides complete liability indemnification, a guaranteed market with very little oversight, and manages both the distribution and marketing.  In the case of all unlicensed products, the manufacturers are prohibited from marketing them, but under EUA the US Government has been doing this for them, and has been acting in coordination with corporate media, social media, and large technology firms to suppress any discussion of risks or limitations of the products.  From the standpoint of the vaccine manufacturers, this is all profit and no risk; a perfect business model.  Why would they ever want to consider taking up the burden of actually producing and marketing the licensed version of these products? ..........

.............. To my eyes, what we have seen is more appropriately classified as “willful ignorance”.

Based on my review of the scientific data, it is my opinion that the random and uncontrolled insertion of pseudouridine into the manufactured “mRNA”-like molecules creates a population of polymers which may resemble natural mRNA, but which have a variety of properties which are clinically relevant. These characteristics and activities may account for many of the unusual effects, unusual stability, and striking adverse events associated with this new class of vaccines. These molecules are not natural mRNA, and they do not behave like natural mRNA. 

The question that most troubles and perplexes me at this point is why the biological consequences of these modifications and associated clinical adverse effects were not thoroughly investigated before widespread administration of random pseudouridine-incorporating “mRNA”-like molecules to a global population. 

Biology, and particularly molecular biology, is highly complex and interrelated.  Change one thing over here, and it is really hard to predict what might happen over there. That is why one must do rigorously controlled non-clinical and clinical research. Once again, it appears to me that the hubris of “elite” high status scientists, physicians and governmental “public health” bureaucrats has overcome common sense, well established regulatory norms have been disregarded, and patients have unnecessarily suffered as a consequence.  These products do not use natural mRNA, and referring to them as mRNA vaccines is misleading.  I recommend that, in the future, these products which employ a synthetic unnatural polymer which is not natural mRNA, should be designated using a different term, such as Ψ-mRNA genetic medicines.



............. It would have been nice to have some form of vaccine against this virus, to administer to elderly at high risk of succumbing to it, but it should be obvious that these new high-tech vaccines that we did receive were never a proper solution for anyone. Now the whole Western population is stuck with a highly homogeneous immune response against this virus that facilitates damage to the immune system. The Chinese seem to realize the failure of these vaccines, hence why they’re still not letting the mRNA shots into their country.

Because they insisted on giving these failed vaccines to everyone, not just the elderly, we’re now stuck with this highly homogeneous immune response in our population for decades to come. .......



I’m really tired of discussing SARS-COV-2, I try to think more about other things, but I feel kind of forced to address this study, as it illustrates what me and others have been warning about for so long. They looked at people who had gotten three doses of science-juice and now received either a regular booster, or a new fun bivalent booster. Well, guess what they found? I’ll walk you through the study: ......

................ In other words, these findings are validated by a previous study that looked at the BA.1 booster, rather than the BA.5 booster as in this study. No matter which booster you deploy, it doesn’t matter, as the immune system no longer manages to adjust its immune response to take the evolution of this virus into consideration.
Our findings suggest that immune imprinting by prior antigenic exposure may pose a greater challenge than currently appreciated for inducing robust immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants.
So maybe you should not have shot people up with four shots of the exact same extinct Spike protein? ...........

Note, this is the second study coming out now saying this. Here’s another study released a bit earlier, that found these same results. These authors wrote:
Boosting with a new bivalent mRNA vaccine targeting both BA.4/BA.5 and an ancestral SARS76 CoV-2 strain did not elicit a discernibly superior virus-neutralizing antibody responses compared boosting with an original monovalent vaccine. These findings may be indicative of immunological imprinting, although follow-up studies are needed to determine if the antibody responses will deviate in time, including the impact of a second bivalent booster.
So in conclusion, we can say they fixated the population’s immune response on an extinct version of the virus and now they’re left with no clear way to make it “unstuck”. .....


Arbitrary Cycle Threshold Values were known to be a problem. This reads like something I would have written. So the question is: Who is behind the fraudulent use of arbitrary Ct values?


Pressed by Rochelle Walensky, Janet Woodcock changed her position over a two-week time period.



Many of you have been treated in horrific ways by your friends and family throughout the pandemic for refusing to adopt the nonsensical or dangerous pandemic management strategies that were force-fed to us by the media. A key point I have tried to lay out here was that these strategies were known to be nonsensical from the start (they were designed to create compliance not to prevent deaths) and many approaches that would have been highly effective to save lives and prevent the economic devastation of COVID-19 were deliberately not implemented.
Note: Many broad claims are made here. Throughout this article, sources are provided for articles that provide the evidence to substantiate these claims.
The most plausible explanation for this inexcusable behavior was that oligarchs like Bill Gates chose to copy the playbook Fauci used throughout the early days of AIDS. At that time, highly effective treatments for AIDS were kept away from the public so that highly lucrative and extremely dangerous drugs could instead be forced upon a desperate population, resulting in many homosexual men being sacrificed to enrich a small number of predatory oligarchs.

In the case of COVID-19, remdesivir, a dangerous and ineffective (but highly lucrative) medication initially occupied that niche. Aided by the relentless efforts of corrupt members of the federal government, remdesivir was given a monopoly over the hospital care for COVID-19 patients. Through its abysmal failure to cure the disease, remdesivir set the stage for "emergency" vaccines to enter the market, an “emergency” that only existed because effective treatments were kept out of the hospital system thanks to remdesivir’s monopoly. .......



Anecdotal Fare:

Running Errands in the Wake of Emotional Violence, USA



Pushback Fare:


We live in a society dedicated to iatrogenocide:

• A government lab took a virus, made it more lethal, and released it (whether accidentally or on purpose) into the population.

• Government with the collusion of the private sector intentionally blocked access to effective medicines. They literally had the medicines already on hand in a national stockpile for exactly this situation and then when the moment came they went to great lengths to keep people from getting them.

• Hospitals used the wrong protocols and continue to use the wrong protocols. That tells us that the best-trained medical professionals are so blinded by ideology that they cannot transcend failed paradigms.

• The shots have negative efficacy and the worst side effect profile ever seen. Quintuple-dosed bougiecrats look like sh*te and are dropping dead left and right yet still don’t understand what is happening to them (nor do they want to understand).

• The mainstream media has lied to us every single day for the last three years. At this point they are incapable of telling the truth because their business model depends on promoting profitable lies.

• Universities and schools require young people in their care to be injected with a product that is known to cause myocarditis even though this population is not at significant risk from the bioweapon.

• All mainstream medical associations (AMA, AAP, ACOG) and public health institutions (FDA, CDC, NIH) have completely and catastrophically failed on every measure in response to the pandemic.

• We are in the midst of the largest surveillance and censorship program in human history. The California economy is thriving in large part because it provides the tools for the global surveillance police state.

• 80% of the population, including the vast majority of the supposedly “best and brightest” are incapable of logic, reason, common sense, and critical thinking. They just want to follow orders, but those orders must be malevolent otherwise there is no frisson in it for them.

• There is no political left in the U.S. anymore. In its place is a burned out smoldering crater. The political menu consists of two choices: fascists or theocrats.

• The midterm elections offer the opportunity to punish the people who did this to us. But only about 20 leaders in the party that is about to take power understand any of the above. The GOP response to the iatrogenocide is likely to be tax cuts and they won’t understand why that is insufficient.

• Few people in the rebel alliance actually want to run the government. We keep asking other people to understand our issue rather than just seizing power ourselves.

What would you add to this list?



COVID Conspiracy Fare:

This isn't going to end well.

mRNA Vaccines: Fact Versus Fiction.

My purpose is not to overwhelm you with all of the various clips, newspaper clippings, scientific journal articles, et cetera, et cetera, but rather to help you to comprehend the technology and why it's being pushed and how it's being pushed. I'm going to present this as being focused on comprehension, not politics.

.....    Looking at understanding the RNA technology as a way to start to make sense out of what we've all experienced. Paul has just given you another lens that through which you can view what has occurred. There are many others. He, for instance, just barely touched on the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization, the collusion with the UN, et cetera. He hasn't really talked about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiatives. There is so many different ways that we can understand and begin to process what we've experienced over the last two and a half years. I speak about those various ways in different forums. But this one, I'm just going to focus on the RNA tech. It's enough to handle that in the time we have here.

......................   I'm convinced we have been doing most of the engineering up until this point, and the stuff that is going to come out in Bobby's (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) next book is going to blow your circuits in terms of what we have done in Georgia and Ukraine. We'll park that. These things are being done. The problem is that once they're let loose, which we've all experienced over the last three years, it's almost three years now really. It's the end of September, the data shows that the beginning of the outbreak was at least September of 2019, if not earlier. We've got three years of experience now in what this means.

            Once those things are let loose, they can sweep the world. The technology is now advanced to the point where pathogens can be engineered so they're relatively specific for different ethnic groups based on their genetics. Pathogens can be engineered. I can tell you my friends, or what used to be my buddies at DTRA, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Chem Bio Division, are extremely acutely aware that agents can be engineered to target ethnic groups. That's the battlefield. That's the real environment we're in. ........

The truth is that DARPA, which is the operational development arm, basically the CIA, fell in love with the RNA technology over a decade ago. They decided to capitalize it and force it into the market space. For instance, they're the ones that have capitalized through In-Q-Tel, their investment arm, the new RNA manufacturing facilities up in Canada. This is a CIA program. There's no ambiguity here. I'm not telling state secrets.

            The technology was basically pulled out of the trash can, because it had been suppressed by Merck after I developed it over 30 years ago. Then it was advanced very aggressively by DARPA. DARPA funded and basically built Moderna. They're continuing to push all this. They're pushing it through the government. What you're seeing is the power of the intelligence community and the new bio-defense industrial complex ...........

Finally, at the beginning of this year, with this paper published in January, a group from Stanford University asked the questions. How long is the RNA there? How long is the protein, spike protein being made? How much spike protein is being made? Fundamental questions that should have been known at the very beginning. But the FDA did not force the pharmaceutical companies to do those tests because they justified it. They did a little hand waving. They said, "These are not gene therapy products. These are vaccine products." Now that's a lie, a convenient lie, but that's what they did and that allowed them to justify only applying the vaccine safety checklist at the FDA rather than also applying the gene therapy checklist. This is why when I first started talking about this and I said, "This is gene therapy." I got so much blow back from all the fact checkers in the press, et cetera, is because they could not allow the narrative to come out that this is actually a gene therapy product applied for vaccine purposes. But we know that the manufacturers knew that to be the case because they had said so in their SEC filings before all this happened years ago, okay? So this is another one of the little slights of hand that was used. .........


Why it still stands, and what it would take to disprove it.



Back to Non-Pandemic Fare:

War Fare:

The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer the U.S. comes to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.

I have covered enough wars to know that once you open that Pandora’s box, the many evils that pour out are beyond anyone’s control. War accelerates the whirlwind of industrial killing. The longer any war continues, the closer and closer each side comes to self-annihilation. Unless it is stopped, the proxy war between Russia and the U.S. in Ukraine all but guarantees direct confrontation with Russia and, with it, the very real possibility of nuclear war.

U.S. President Joe Biden, who doesn’t always seem to be quite sure where he is or what he is supposed to be saying, is being propped up in the I-am-a-bigger-man-than-you contest with Russian President Vladimir Putin by a coterie of rabid warmongers who have orchestrated over 20 years of military fiascos. They are salivating at the prospect of taking on Russia, and then, if there is any habitation left on the globe, China.

Trapped in the polarizing mindset of the Cold War — where any effort to de-escalate conflicts through diplomacy is considered appeasement, a perfidious Munich moment — they smugly push the human species closer and closer toward obliteration. ....







Other Geopolitical Fare:

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2. A system that hates life. I am fed up with researching the ramifications and machinations of the finance-based global dictatorship, if I am completely honest. It is not a spiritually-nourishing activity; instead it sickens my soul, deeply offends my ethical aesthetics of honour, justice, truthfulness and value. Exploring and assessing the nastiness of the ruling crime gang leaves me feeling polluted and contaminated. And it keeps me trapped on the level at which they operate: I yearn to turn my back on their corrupt and shallow world and explore instead all the timeless magic of our living that so interests me.

I want to plunge into the folklore and mythology of my ancestors and yours, searching out the currents and branches and offshoots and intertwinings that have created, over many thousands of years, the richness of our common culture, paradoxically united by its infinite diversity. I want to feel and know and understand the way in which this wisdom grew slowly out of the soil and the hills and the plants and was spun and woven by our essential oneness with the natural world. I want to know what it feels like to reach, feet firmly grounded in the earth, towards the sky, the sun, the stars; informed and inspired by the wisdom of our forebears, I dream of finding the great poetry that will bring me peace in my final days.

And yet, I know full well that the time has not yet come when I can simply walk away from that other mundane work, the task of describing the detail of what has gone wrong in our contemporary society. I know full well that the system in which we are forced to live represents an existential threat to everything that inspires me. This system hates and fears the tangled roots of life, the sap of vitality and freedom that sends its green shoots soaring forth in search of authenticity and fulfilment. It hates and fears the belonging, and the knowledge of belonging, that makes us strong and proud and kind and just. It hates and fears how powerful we become when we feel the energy of the cosmos itself lighting us up from within, when our understanding and imagination pulse and glow with something which will lie forever beyond its dull comprehension. While this system still imprisons us, I will never find peace. ....



..... Europe is under the thumb of the United States, which is determined to turn allies into impoverished vassal states.  .....  The U.S. runs a protection racket not unlike that of its infamous organized criminal gangs. The state is reminiscent of characters in the movie Goodfellas, who promised partnerships with local businesses only to loot them and then set them on fire. The Biden administration is akin to a mafioso boss. European governments do nothing but grovel out of fear, which is just what the criminal gang wants. ....



....... Sadly, as we have seen in the course of the nearly eight decades after the allied victory of 1945, fascism has indeed arisen once more in a more virulent expression than anyone had imagined.

As today’s financial system careens towards an inevitable collapse not entirely different from the controlled demolition of the casino economy bubbles of 1929, geopolitical forces are again being brought into play that are also evoking once more the very real possibility of a new world war.

Instead of efforts to avoid such a disastrous nuclear confrontation by honest attempts to accept diplomatic pathways offered by Russian and Chinese statesmen, only antagonistic sabre rattling can be heard across the self-flattering corridors of Davos and NATO.

Instead of seeing efforts to remedy the annihilation of viable forms of energy, food production, and industrial capacity needed to support life among western nations, the opposite trend has been seen to occur in lockstep. Across nearly every nation caught within the NATO cage, we find only puppet leaders devoid of anything approximating substance and who appear unwilling to reverse the self-induced crisis of scarcity threatening to destroy countless lives.

Some even appear to think this age of scarcity to be a good thing.

Unipolarists and transhumanists slithering around the corridors of power proclaim time and again that today’s crisis is actually an “opportunity” in disguise.

.......... While everything outlined above are symptoms, the particular essence of fascism’s modern expression has been difficult for many to identify for a variety of reasons.

Perhaps the most important of those reasons resides in the fact that the minds of anyone too well adapted to modern academia are crippled by design. It sounds harsh, but the truth often is. .........



Orwellian Fare:

Tag 'em while they're young

Nyet.
One of the central theses of this blog is that kiddos everywhere are being actively groomed for an exciting existence of never-ending Biosecurity Terror and Permanent Sadness.

If your goal is to create a digital Panpoopticon [not a typo — Edward], focusing your energies on crushing young souls is a no-brainer. Why waste your time with cantankerous 20-somethings, Chardonnay-swilling 30-somethings, Boomers, or other Ancients? They are preoccupied with Netflix. Out with the Old, in with the New!

........................... The experiment is not over yet and the point of no return has not yet been passed. And this means that digitization can be stopped. But small groups of activists will not cope with this. Parents should unite and work together.



***** CaitOz Fare ***** :


The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to President Biden politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.

If you actually read the original letter signed by House progressives including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman and Ro Khanna, you will quickly see that it’s as innocuous and anodyne as any statement could possibly be while still containing words. It opens with effusive praise for Biden’s interventionism in Ukraine and condemns the Russian government unequivocally throughout, offering only the humble suggestion that he “pair the military and economic support the United States has provided to Ukraine with a proactive diplomatic push, redoubling efforts to seek a realistic framework for a ceasefire.” Its authors make it abundantly clear that they support making sure such diplomacy is agreeable to Ukraine at every step of the way.

This impotent nothing salad was bizarrely spun by The Washington Post as a call on Biden to “dramatically shift his strategy on the Ukraine war,” despite nothing that could be remotely construed as “dramatic” existing anywhere in the body of the text. The letter received backlash from warmongers in both parties, including from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was personally slammed by Bernie Sanders, the pope of American progressivism. Trolls and warmongers swarmed the social media notifications of every account which posted the letter ...

In a statement on the retraction of the letter, CPC chair Pramila Jayapal says she accepts responsibility for the publication of the offending act of peacemongering while in the same breath blaming its publication on her staff.

“The letter was drafted several months ago, but unfortunately was released by staff without vetting. As Chair of the Caucus, I accept responsibility for this,” Jayapal said.

“Every war ends with diplomacy, and this one will too after Ukrainian victory,” the statement reads, ignoring mainstream reports that US officials quietly believe Ukraine stands no chance at outright victory in this war. “The letter sent yesterday, although restating that basic principle, has been conflated with GOP opposition to support for the Ukrainians’ just defense of their national sovereignty. As such, it is a distraction at this time and we withdraw the letter.”

Empire critics were quick to highlight the obsequious nature of this retraction.

“For progressives, I didn’t think it could get more pathetic than voting for a disastrous proxy war that the US provoked and prolonged, handing billions to arms makers in the process. In retracting their tepid call for diplomacy and blaming staffers for it, they somehow surpassed it,” tweeted Aaron Maté.

“Certainly speaks to the insanely hawkish atmosphere in Washington that pressured the progressive caucus to withdrawal a totally reasonable, responsible and necessary call for diplomacy in a conflict that risks escalating to nuclear armageddon,” tweeted Rania Khalek.

“Imagine being elected to Congress based on promises of challenging ‘the establishment’ or whatever, then being so petrified of anger from bipartisan DC establishment mavens that you can’t even wait 24 hours before meekly retracting the only mild dissent you’ve expressed,” tweeted Glenn Greenwald. 

I don’t know what pressures were the ultimate deciding factor in the CPC’s decision to retract its feeble advocacy for a bit more diplomacy, or how much of that pressure was brought to bear behind the scenes by bigger political monsters in the Beltway swamp, but ultimately it doesn’t matter. The important take-home from this lesson, once again, is that progressive Democrats are worse than worthless at opposing the mechanisms of oligarchy and empire.

In fact if you look at their actions it’s not even really accurate to describe them as “progressive Democrats” as though they are a faction that has meaningful differences with the rest of that party. Aside from the occasional empty soundbyte about healthcare or debt forgiveness, they’re not doing anything to advance progressive agendas which make American lives better, and they’re certainly doing nothing to impede the expansion of the US war machine.

The progressive Democrat is a myth, like the good billionaire or the righteous American war. ....



Criticizing your government is propaganda.

Disagreeing with neocons is supporting fascism.

Opposing an empire is defending tyranny.

Seeking de-escalation causes escalation.

Nuclear brinkmanship is safety.

Diplomacy is appeasement.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

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Comparisons of Putin to Hitler only sound profound and relevant if you only just began paying attention to US foreign policy and are therefore unaware that literally every single US enemy is always copiously compared to Hitler. It’s like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, except there is no wolf, and the boy just keeps crying “Wolf!” over and over again, and the villagers never learn their lesson and never stop believing him. ....

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Criticizing the extensively documented western aggressions that led to this war is not the same as saying the invasion is good or that Vladimir Putin is a wonderful person. If this isn’t obvious to you, it’s because US propaganda has turned your brain into soup.

It’s absolutely insane how literally any criticism of the indisputable well-documented western provocations in Ukraine gets shouted down and raged at. You’re only allowed to say this war is completely unprovoked and began solely because Vladimir Putin is evil and hates freedom.

If discussing facts and criticizing the foreign aggressions of the most powerful government in the world is taboo, you might be ruled by tyrants and surrounded by their brainwashed human livestock. If you spend your time raging and yelling at those who advocate peace, you might just be pro-war. .....

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Fredric Jameson says it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Adyashanti says spiritual people are often more afraid of life than they are of death. These two points seem related. Armageddon feels less scary than sorting our shit out as a species.

The idea of finally turning towards each other and coming into enough intimacy to move from competition-based systems to collaboration-based ones feels more intimidating than the end of the world, so people start hoping for the end because at least that way it’ll be over with. For the same reason people who can’t imagine going on living get suicidal ideations, people who can’t imagine humanity transcending its self-destructive pattering get omnicidal ideations.

This is a major obstacle. Humans need to overcome their fear of life.



Rigger-ous Reads (on Culture Wars, Identity Politics, etc.):


.............. “Just consider all of the young children, all of the young people whose lives have been irreversibly ruined by the NHS, like other health authorities across the western world, not taking this simple, sensible, adult and pragmatic approach years ago,” Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender Race and Identity, told Sky News. 


Why you shouldn't overrate the trans issue



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