Looks like Rand Paul is making good on his promise to start fighting the airplane mask mandate: https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/65cfb29a-195e-4b44-91fb-9e855ad51e03/e08f4b1c-77e2-4b95-8463-7a3a94d364ac
TL;DL: He's going to introduce legislation for it this week.
Recommended reading: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds MacKay, 1851. One of the best books ever written. Goes through several historical examples of society losing its collective mind. Interesting fact is that the Salem Witch trials were the tip of the iceberg vs what was going on in Europe.
https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/1463740514
Hey, I just read the awesome book A Storm of Witchcraft which does an absolutely amazing job of exploring/analyzing not just the characters and events of the trials, but the whole sociopolitical/economic/spiritual milieu of the colonies during the Witch Hunts. The ergot poisoning theory really doesn't hold up. Turns out humans don't need fungus to act bonkers, quite unfortunately. The outbreaks had many characteristics of a mass psychogenic illlness, which is honestly a pretty bizarre and not very well understood thing.
Here he is saying "look at the data", not stating any data at all, and quickly pivoting to the number of people who have died. He's a hack and a quack.
I saw a video interview of a doctor where he described the antibodies that develop after having caught and recovered from covid as, “…..complete, robust, and permanent….” Link below.
My 80 yr old father had what we thought was covid in January 2020, before this thing got hyped up by gvts and media. A full year later, he was tested for covid antibodies and showed positive. Proof that the whole “antibodies only last three months” narrative is BS.
So I say yes, those who’ve recovered from covid should be afforded the same privileges.
https://rumble.com/vhp7y5-full-interview-world-renowned-doctor-blows-lid-off-of-covid-vaccine.html
My fiance and I wrote this book and put it on Amazon to help people be healthier with normal ways like literally just washing your hands and noone has bought it because I haven't put the time in to do any decent marketing but it was a really fun way to turn a few bucks out of this nightmare and at least try to find an opportunity inside of the obstacle
>Paul Mason is a freelance journalist, writer and film-maker. His book How to Stop Fascism is published in August 2021.
So he's seems to be a delusional Marxist, that believes any non-lefist authoritarian regime is Fascist.
But he is also an acclaimed author, that has published many books ...
>Paul's books cover a wide range of subjects, from whether the Romans ate crisps to how to build the world's best skatepark, but he writes mostly about sport. Whether you are interested in swimming, cycling, snowboarding, surfing or another sport, Paul has probably written something that will inspire you to get out and give it a try.
My pick from him is The Poo-niverse >The Poo-niverse is a your one-stop for excrement information, from poo-eating worm toilets to poisonous poos, from poo particles on toothbrushes to crucial post-poo hand-hygiene tips. Find out about exploding poo in history, where it goes after you flush, which creatures' poos are used to make tea, coffee and cheese, how much of your food is grown using poo - and much, much more. There's a whole world where science meets sanitation: are you brave enough to dive in?
And that book perfectly frames this article
Seems the Guardian is dredging the gutter now
Mass hysterias happen. “Men go mad in herds, and only regain their sanity one by one.”
I heard this dipshit, and Peter Hotez on Joe Rogan before. They are both a couple of vaccine shill propagandists. Especially Hotez.
Osterholm does have the occasional truth nugget though.
https://odysee.com/@DissidentOwl:0/Michael-Osterholm---Masks-June-12-2020:d
Right...If you're doing video instruction, why not just hire one instructor, pre-record all the lessons and perfect the curriculum?
That eliminates tech issues, schedules, miscommunication in the materials, and then all they have to do is pay a few people to moderate the courses and answer questions. And you save millions, if not billions by firing all the teachers in the country (yay for staying safe!)
Essentially udemy.com
Look, if we want to offer a new type of education that's set up like this? Sure, that's fine. But give people a choice, don't force millions of children, and subsequently families into this against their will. Many universities already offer online degrees and they're built for this type of instruction. Not some shoehorned platform that depends on a private corporation (zoom) to provide the future of nationwide education. Like, what if zoom, skype, ring central, etc didn't exist? Would they build their own platforms? Doubt it...
Apparently, Amazon is refusing to sell Alex Berenson’s booklet on Covid and the lockdowns.
Edit: May have been auto-rejected. But still not published yet.
2nd Edit: It is now published.
Klaus Schwab even wrote a book about it. They also have a YouTube channel promoting their ideas.
It's not a conspiracy theory, but they obviously need to fail and likely will because it's too crazy and there's too many who will fight back. They're talking about a "cyber pandemic" next. Absolute psychopaths.
> Likewise the (pre-Covid) book talking about Fauci as the Bernie Madoff of science is a good one.
Please! Tell me more: title, author, anything.
(edit) never mind - that is the actual title, almost!
He's just following in Dad's footsteps.
NOTE: Cuomo 1 was voted out of office several months later. Here's hoping Andy's memoir is a similar omen.
My son wore this one last year and it doesn't bother him. Doesn't look see through which wouldn't work at school, but fairly breathable. He's 12 and big though, not sure if it would fit little kids.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088C1WVNQ?psc=1&ref=ppx\_yo2\_dt\_b\_product\_details
https://rumble.com/vlfp37-literal-mask-expert-opens-a-can-on-school-board.html?fbclid=IwAR3yWYlwrdyZAcvQ38mYva2Ggd1R1e5OrGyD2k3vM26O131K0MpXD2BCXtk
this is the best video I have for arguing against masks. This woman is a legend and needs her voice heard.
This guy's the only good Canadian politician I've seen. At least as good as a politician can be anyway.
Queen of the millennials here (I'm 38). My thoughts:
1) Millennials and younger in general emphasize following the rules and operating within defined parameters. Remember when some 'inspirational speaker' would ask "Who here plans to go to college?" and literally every kid would raise their hand? Like, come on, not everyone will, or should, go to college but we were fed propaganda that this was the ONLY path we should take.
2) Intense focus on "safety-ism" as defined in The Coddling of the American Mind: "safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns".
3) It seems like millennials and younger put more value on social cohesion and conflict avoidance. So rather than question whether masks work (safety!) and if lockdowns are the answer (if we just do this, we'll be ok!), they are compliant and believe that if everyone does what they are told, everything will be fine.
I just watched this very good documentary; it highlights a lot of the things that you and I already know, but it also provides insight and context about what is happening. It's two hours.... I planned to only skip around a bit but I did watch all of it. I'd like to share it with people, perhaps you'd like to as well.
Just an idea, but you could look into a language learning site (for example, https://www.tandem.net/) where you get to video chat with different people. It may help break up the isolation you feel. Stay strong. 🫂
Well, it's truly an ancient tactic... more cases than you could possibly count. Machiavelli wrote about it, and the founders of the USA did a LOT of debating about it, and how to deal with having constitutional rights during emergencies, mostly with Rome as their historical reference.
Marx argued that communist revolutions were all basically to be justified as "emergency powers" to establish dictatorship "of the proletariat" (of course, this always just establishes a normal dictator).
Found this with a quick search, lists a lot of examples starting with Rome becoming a dictatorship, all the way up through Lincoln in the USA, and more.
History is chock full of "emergency dictators" and "emergency powers" and "emergency laws" that are sold as being temporary, but last for decades, centuries, or forever (like the US Income Tax, for example).
Professional caliber PPE is now widely available for a few bucks apiece. It's not March 2020 anymore. The days of everyone cutting up T shirts for masks and hoping for the best are over. The vulnerable can protect themselves if they wish.
For those like me who have seen this name thrown around, but never bother to investigate.
"The role of season in the epidemiology of influenza" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2134066
https://www.amazon.com/Transmission-Epidemic-Influenza-R-Hope-Simpson/dp/148992387X
Most of what Simpson wrote is also relevant today WRT to the "novel coronavirus."
This is pretty wild. This age group does not seem to statistically have a problem with covid. Has everyone seen the video where Pfizer scientists say natural immunity is better?
https://rumble.com/vnckyh-project-veritas-secretly-films-pfizer-scientists.html
Rand asking valid questions on why people keeping attempting to ignore natural immunity/science;
My favorite tweet of the pandemic was from el gato malo (who sadly got kicked off of Twitter for his purely factual tweets, but is back on Gab): "Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that no society can survive social media."
I keep watching videos like this to keep my morale up. We don't have these protests and marches (at least none that I aware of) in my province, but what happens in Ontario and Quebec especially will make the biggest difference anyway, so it's good to see the resistance in those provinces.
That one has been taken down.
Here is is on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/vfhwtj-ron-desantis-roundtable-youtube-doesnt-want-you-to-see.html
It's time to flash an OS that doesn't have Google like GrapheneOS or some other open source android OS. (Apple is also bad, but no idea what you could replace their OS with.
Never had a reason to look into it.) An open source OS will make you more private, but your carrier will still know where you are. But at least you're not having Google's contract tracing that's going to be baked into the OS so you can't opt out forced on you.
It's true that when your phone is off it isn't really off and that airplane mode won't protect you. You could put it in a Faraday bag or leave it at home.
The large social media sites are garbage, but the Fediverse is where it's at. There are numerous projects in this vein, but Mastodon/Activity Pub standard has taken off more than most. It is like Twitter, but allows one to run your own server more like email (you can communicate with people that are not on your same email/ Mastodon service provider).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
They have a list of public servers you can join here:
Or, you can run your own server (if you can run a basic RoR setup), or you can opt for a managed server of your own control. There are several managed Mastodon hosts, which I will not single out for promotion.
I run my own Mastodon instance (~200 people) that is largely about whitewater in the Rockies, but obviously the topics vary widely as that topic is only relevant 4 months of the year.
Oh yeah, you could wear face shields instead of masks in most places. Some waiters even had these funny plastic masks that sat about an inch from their nose and mouth.
It’s a good thing aerosols only travel straight. /s
Relevant to this announcement but I think also required reading for everyone: Who Owns the CDC?. And if anyone is too reverent to authority to accept such an argument from anyone other than an authority, here's someone who was editor of the New England Journal of Medicine - one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world - making the same argument 17 years ago: The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
According to Viral, by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, starting on page 151, Dr Anthony Fauci was part of a group, including Britain's Sir Patrick Vallance, and US healthcare chief Dr Peter Daszak, which FOI requests by US Right To Know unearthed, privately admitted that Covid-19 could have come from a lab, but published letters denying it.
The letters denied conflict of interest, but Daszak was up to his neck in "gain of function" research with Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci used confusion about what the term means to tell Senator Rand Paul that he doesn't know what he's talking about, rather than clearly explaining that it can mean either adding new characteristics to a virus, or "improving" on existing ones, such as transmissability. If the Americans had collaborated with the Chinese to experiment with either, this could have created a more harmful virus, which could have escaped from the Wuhan lab, so they had every interest in denying it. Fauci claimed that Rand's tough questions have led to death threats,
This is just one of the ways Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been discredited. The Guardian just carries on like none of this matters, or it doesn't believe it, despite the evidence, because the critics aren't inside the woke elite echo chamber.
Here you go:
COVID-19: The Great Reset written by Klaus Schwab
https://www.amazon.com/COVID-19-Great-Reset-Klaus-Schwab/dp/2940631123/
It's hard to imagine Austin Powers would be so timely & relevant in this context:
And don't for get the NYT, CNN, The Guardian, NPR, and Vice... they're clearly being paid off by somebody, most likely George Soros.
You're noticing a very real social trend that's the subject of the book <em>The Coddling of the American Mind</em>. Well worth a read.
This is yet another study following earlier studies claiming plandemic sceptics were selfish narcissists will to put others at risk.
Oddly, they don't really want to highlight the alternative. The Milram experiment was replicated over a dozen times. irl, the phenomena was documented in Ordinary Men" The numerical break-down puts refusniks at or below 10%.
Be proud of your fringe minority status. Depression is a reasonable response to witnessing the unfolding of evil.
> Wasn't it just recently found that antidepressant don't do what it was thought that they did?
The media widely reported on this finding recently, but we've known about it for a while. For instance, the Harvard psychologist Irving Kirsch wrote The Emperor's New Drug: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth in 2009, after publishing a scholarly article a few years prior that antidepressants only work due to the complex placebo response. He pointed out that antidepressants "worked" in about a third of patients who took them, regardless of whether those drugs increased, decreased, or did not affect serotonin, and that switching a nonresponding patient from one drug to another showed that same one-third "improvement."
The book is a great, morbidly fascinating read, and the whole antidepressant thing is a farce that has gone on for decades. Our medical establishments are virtually entirely corrupt, and we have every right not to trust what they want us to throw into our bodies.
If anyone is interested in Birx’s doing so the White House, read Dr. Scott Atlas’ book. A Plague Upon Our House.
I wondered if he was exaggerating her behavior because of how poorly he was treated, but from the excerpts of her book that I’ve read, she basically backs up his book.
Yeah, check out "performative allyship".
As to where their memes/policies came from, the book by the director of the Wellcome Trust, Jeremy Farrar, documents their development from the inside -- he was one of the ones creating them. Truly eye-opening -- he documents several "conspiracy!" theories as being, well, not just correct but actually understated. It's quite the mind-bender to see him actually documenting the meetings and agreements and times and dates and so on. No idea what he was thinking, to publish this.
Interesting review of her book and how she admits (proudly) of deceiving the Trump administration to get her way.
Surprisingly, Birx was the main person responsible for lockdown policy, not Fauci. If you haven't yet read Scott Atlas's book ("A Plague Upon Our House"), I cannot recommend it enough. It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes retelling of his time in the White House and how utterly buffoonish Fauci, Birx, and Redfield were.
If you haven't yet read Scott Atlas's book ("A Plague Upon Our House"), I cannot recommend it enough. It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes retelling of his time in the White House and how utterly buffoonish Fauci, Birx, and Redfield were (even I was surprised).
And if you don't want to read the whole book, you can read this lengthy article of his that broadly covers the main scientific basis for his viewpoints.
No surprise, this Opinion piece is all bullshit.
>The herd immunity idea advanced by Dr. Atlas and others called for protecting the most vulnerable, primarily the elderly, but allowing the virus to spread through the rest of the population to create natural immunity.
That's not "herd immunity" - that's focused protection. Same as the Great Barrington Declaration.
>He also was against face masks, writing to other White House aides on Oct. 4, “In fact, there is vanishingly little hard evidence that masks actually work to block transmission of the virus.”
The Opinion's rebuttal to this? Literally just this sentence: "Masks did work." That's it!
If you haven't yet read Scott Atlas's book ("A Plague Upon Our House"), I cannot recommend it enough. It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes retelling of his time in the White House and how utterly buffoonish Fauci, Birx, and Redfield were (even I was surprised).
And if you don't want to read the whole book, you can read this lengthy article of his that broadly covers the main scientific basis for his viewpoints.
Similar to the 5 questions to from How to Lie with Statistics:
Quick summary from someone online in case anyone is interested.
Can you enforce the phone restrictions yourself? I just had an idea, get one of those clear door hanging shoe things and have each student put their phone in it as soon as they enter the class, and if they refuse they go to the office.
He LOVES talking about population control...hes a shrewd businessman, not a benevolent father - Check out this documentary to realllyyyy see him at his best
https://ipfs.io/ipns/QmNqHuSVuufkBKK1LHtoUmKETobZriC1o5uoiXSoLX2i3K/gates/
This is the Amazon Kindle version! Audiobook is free, though...
Insanely triggering... suicide is discussed...
>Where the question resides is why are so many parents willing to put their children down hard. Like being way too harsh with your child for no apparent reason.
They don't even realize they're doing it. I came from a house of mental/psychological abuse and I've looked into this a lot and talked with my therapist about it. Abuse tends to be generational as they (the abused) don't know any different and don't realize it's wrong.
Being abused, in any way small or large, can also change ones DNA, all 23 chromosomes. You are no longer the same person and that could be why it's generational and the abuser continues the pattern of abuse.
It can cause one to have physical representations of their "issues" from the abuse, such as cancer, disease, consistent colds, etc. And dealing with chronic pain or illness can cause even more mental health issues. That could be another reason why this continues to be generational.
If you are interested in learning more, check out the book Childhood Disrupted . My therapist reccomended it to me and it explains so much. I never knew how horrible low key mental/psychological abuse could be for someone. It opened my eyes to why I was how I was until I started working on my mental health.
If you are interested in an in-depth answer to your question, I'd recommend reading "Crisis and Leviathan" by Robert Higgs. The short answer is that the state is not concerned with the health of the economy or culture but exploits crises in order to consolidate its own power and authority.
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Leviathan-Critical-Government-Institute/dp/019505900X
Not just hurricanes either, but severe large thunderstorms in general can do this...which I didn’t know...there are pictures in this...
Ah Walter Lippmann. A classic! Very relevant in certain ways to the age of disinformation. I believe it's on Gutenberg and on Librevox:
Have some patience??? Seriously??? A year and a half to think about it, and he doesn't have an answer for natural immunity. Plenty of other scientists do though. Jeez man.
Oh, here is 'look at the data without citing the data' Fauci exposing his partisanship. You will likely turn a blind eye to that too.
I've been a longtime DuckDuckGo user. I still find the search results to be more tailored to my keywords than Google, though lately I've been sensing that certain topics and keywords are becoming omitted. I'm given to think that's inadvertently a result of its web crawler being aggregated from other engines. My current work around is to also use the Brave Search.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/
>2021-08-31
>This month the Australian government has passed a sweeping surveillance bill, worse than any similar legislation in any other five eye country.
>The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2020 gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) three new powers for dealing with online crime:
>Data disruption warrant: gives the police the ability to "disrupt data" by modifying, copying, adding, or deleting it.
>Network activity warrant: allows the police to collect intelligence from devices or networks that are used, or likely to be used, by those subject to the warrant
>Account takeover warrant: allows the police to take control of an online account (e.g. social media) for the purposes of gathering information for an investigation.
>The two Australian law enforcement bodies AFP and ACIC will soon have the power to modify, add, copy, or delete your data should you become a suspect in the investigation of a serious crime.
My favorite tweet of the pandemic was from el gato malo (who sadly got kicked off of Twitter for his purely factual tweets, but is back on Gab): "Maybe the answer to the Fermi paradox is that no society can survive social media."
>One of the common themes is the failure of technocrats of various stripes to contend with reality, despite their attempts to model it and nearly limitless power to do what they think best.
Communists tried for many decades to put every transaction (like every supermarket purchase) in a computer and try to plan the entire production and price system. In Chile, during the Allende government, there were many Chilean people with experience on the IBM who tried to do it.
Angelino here: I'm not wearing a mask when going into businesses anymore but I will put one on if the business asks me and I have to be there (such as work purposes or picking up a meal I already paid for). Fine. But I heavily implore people to just buy mesh masks that are blatantly useless so you can at least make a statement by doing so.
My usual response to a non-employee that gets upset at me not wearing a mask, such as in the elevator at work, is usually a very short "if you are still afraid then stay home".
>Humanity should throw in the towel and stop breeding
That just made me laugh out loud with delight. I like your misanthropy. I'm giving away review copies of my latest work - PM me if you're interested.
From February. It's baffling why Australian politicians didn't seem to take into account summer. Australia was listening to Norman Swan and Prof. Peter Collignon who have proven to be wrong.
Hi Dr. Kulldorff,
What are your thoughts about Dr. Mike Yeadon (ex-Pfizer exec)?
I recently listened to him on a podcast after having followed him for much of the pandemic. He seems to believe that the experimental mRNA vaccine response is misguided, and that the (seemingly) impending rollout of vaccine passports is being done for (perhaps) a nefarious intent.
Thoughts?
The BBC hosts this video but you need to sign in and it's only available in the UK. Prof Sunetra Gupta is always worth watching.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mn7j/question-time-2020-17092020
'Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Oldham. Panellists include business and industry minister Nadhim Zahawi, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth, co-founder of Phones4U John Caudwell, bestselling novelist Nicci Gerrard and Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.'
It's an actual debate with people talking over each other and all!
Peertube is also an option, but it's technology and not a "site." It relies on webtorrents, so really only an option for home web connections. It can also be supplemented with a CDN that makes content available for people on mobile networks.
Cloudflare was trying to offer some CDN solution for a would-be youtube competitor, but I've not seen much about it for years.
Great read. Lockdowns is a Chinese attack on the world
Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1957083786/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_AA8EFCW06DMY9TVP53B8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Work on yourself and don't let the bastards grind you down. Excercize has been scientifically proven over and over again to drastically reduce anxiety and depression. This book might help: https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Hurt-Me-Master-Your/dp/1544512287
If that’s the definition you’re running with, then why are you consistently deleting anything and everything that so much as mentions the Great Reset?
Klaus Schwab has literally written an entire book called “<em>Covid-19: The Great Reset.</em>”. His organization, the World Economic Forum, has openly and publicly declared that by 2030, we will [own nothing and have no privacy, and be happy about it](https://archive.md/81EV7
You said it yourself: if it’s open and notorious, it is by definition not a conspiracy. So why is it that moderators will delete any mention of The Great Reset on sight?
Sadly, yep. It’s a nightmare, right?? I’m trying to keep up with the openings and closures of various countries: https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions. Good on you for finding a viable way to fly the coop! I hope you’ll enjoy it to the fullest for those of us trapped at home. 🙏
Until Dec 2 there was no difference in the rules between the two lockdowns other than schools being open. On Dec 2 they allowed more shops (and churches) to open, essentially. So yeah weird take.
Here is how the lockdown is actually lighter though: people are not complying. Both individual people feeling much more confident seeing one another (I've had more social life in any week of LD 2 than in all of Spring), and offices not going remote / industry not closing (as this is not a legal requirement). I guess you could argue that the state has sort of been encouraging this by hardly enforcing the actual bans, letting its own administrations and agencies not go remote in some cases, etc. Though I suspect this is happening largely against the wishes of the highest levels of authority.
You can see it for yourself here.
We're simply not getting the truth about testing, this short piece includes the inventor of the process explaining that PCR can not be used for diagnosis like it is now being used to identify COVID-19 "cases".
We Are Being Lied To! Here Is How… https://odysee.com/@SpiroSkouras:9/We-Are-Being-Lied-To!-Here-Is-How%E2%80%A6:2
The state of Illinois like many others may have had some discrepancies and misrepresentations with the data, and the peak could have been around May 5th. Of course, I don't know who to trust at this point. The following person relied on a FOIA request to get date of death. It ended up matching the curve from the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. This means the paper's model may still roughly hold, since they should have reported the peak as occurring two weeks earlier and there's data interpolation in a state with smaller numbers. https://nitter.net/EWoodhouse7/status/1294757702464233472#m
It's excruciating. Anyone who relies on lipreading is cut off from communication that doesn't involve gestures. I finally discovered a voice-to-text app which was a game changer (otter.ai) but prior to that if I had to talk to someone at the grocery store I was asking people to write things down or playing 20 Questions and asking them to nod/shake their head.
I don't mind wearing a mask and I'm lucky that I could work at home, so I can't imagine how it must be for people who work outside the home. My family and friends and I just moved outdoors and distanced and unmasked for the duration of the pandemic to get around this (even in winter).
Consider the pope’s meeting with the first Catholic President to openly support abortion.
Consider that the many of the Americans who are being persecuted for their religious beliefs under Biden’s forced vaccine mandates are PROTESTANT evangelical Christians.
Is it really stretch to suggest that what we’re witnessing is in fact a New Age Inquisition of Protestants by Catholic Inquisitors?
https://www.amazon.com/Foxes-Book-Martyrs-Pure-Classics/dp/0882708759#customerReviews
History repeats itself, doesn’t it?
I recently published a book I believe many of you would find interesting.
I welcome your thoughts. My goal here is to inspire insight, collate the experiences so many of you have expressed in disparate ways, and give voice to the spirit of sharpened rationality which the last 2 years have called to the surface. This is not merely the time for the ascendence of stupidity and herd behavior, it is also a precious moment of clarity when it becomes possible to recognize each other in the crowd.
Want a great collection of 19th century anarchist essays in one place?
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Michael-Malice/dp/B095DVF8FJ
As Dave Smith puts it today: the state is a magia masquerading as a human rights organization.
>a demand for justice in the absence of any real crime
That is precisely the definition of moral punishment. The Christian and post-Christian moral agenda creates guilt out of innocence: Augustine was in fact at the forefront of the falsifiers who twisted the meaning of mercy. Notice that he says "weakness" does not deserve punishment, implying that strength might? Who is it who has been punished so severely in this fictional pandemic? Answer: the healthy, the strong, the independent, those who prefer to live big than die every day a little more.
I just completed a book about all this. Check it out if you so desire. And if you disagree with me: please do write back and tell me! We must keep the lines open.
>I guess those days are over. I better get used to the "new normal" in which I only work and sleep like a prisoner in a cell.
This kind of thing is heartbreaking. Please hang in there, and find a way to get out if you can. As many of us as possible need to be willing to change our lives in order to generate a real response...
My form of activism right now is the encouragement of alternative critical theory. I hesitate to promote myself this way, but rather than advertise I've decided to just write to people personally and let them know that my new book is live... The goal being to inspire the kind of good dialogue I find on this subreddit in a wider sphere.
How soon until Amazon bans COVID-skeptical books? I'm about to publish so this affects me...
Moreover, how soon until Reddit itself falls in line? How soon until this channel is shut down too? It seems impossible now, but is it?
Discovered this book while packing orders for work. Two customers ordered one. I'm curious now and contemplating ordering a copy for myself.
Opinions?
Get a clip on lanyard like these and let the mask dangle on your neck or upper chest (depending on how long you keep the cords) whenever possible.
Well, my long-awaited Ed Gein graphic novel, by Harold Schechter and Eric Powell , is finally out for UPS delivery, after being delayed from release for over a month. So there's that.
This is mine: https://www.amazon.com/Mask-Adjustable-Reusable-Pocket-Unisex-Balaclava-Bandana/dp/B08TTL533Y/. There are versions of this that are less polite but I think that being polite is better.
K9 Mask Air Filter Mask for Dogs with ‘Extreme Breathe’ PM2.5 Premium Air Filter Refills - Blue https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N8MVJ8H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_EXYNN2HYXJW3PXPXBK3K
Okay it’s not specifically for covid
> Here is my prediction: hopefully most places will hang onto whatever level of reopening they reached this summer without backtracking. I do think this is the last round of widespread hysteria this thing has in it (based on the relative drop in hysteria levels between last year and this year),
Hopefully you're right. You ever read Simon Schama's Citizens, a social history of the French revolution-? He describes "revolutionary madness", and how as late as the 1830s there were people in insane asylums throughout France, who went mad from too much "revolutionary fervor" and had to be locked up, especially after Napoleon destroyed all the great revolutionary hopes by turning France into an empire under an autocrat's rule. Maybe that's what we'll see in country after country : Everyone's back to more or less normal, but there are little enclaves here and there who never go out in public unmasked or unshielded , and without spray bottles of disinfective. that's probably the best case scenario.
Amazon's current #1 bestseller is Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History
The reviews are pretty good as well (Church of Covid and all).
https://www.amazon.com/Faucian-Bargain-Powerful-Dangerous-Bureaucrat/dp/1637581114
What could we have bought with $350B?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7456194/
According to this study, vitamin d is causally responsible for a 96% reduction in disease severity. As death only happens after severe disease, it is reasonable to presume that this causes a 96% reduction in death.
The best vaccine currently in development only has a 90% effectiveness rate, making vitamin D literally better than vaccines, at least by the data we have so far.
Amazon Canada has 260 pills for 7 dollars. A typical supplement is 1000 - 5000 IU, so let's assume we want to be very safe and take 5 pills a day. That makes this bottle good for 50 days. For 7 dollars.
To make the math easier, let's be even more sloppy and just say it's 30 days.
There's 37 million people in Canada. 37 million * 12 months in a year * 7 dollars a bottle = $3,108,000,000
Which gives me this extremely important conclusion: IF THAT STUDY IS CORRECT, Canada could have just mailed a bottle of vitamin d pills to every single citizen, once a month, for a year. This would completely end the pandemic, and cost less than 1% of what has been spent so far
Imagine writing a book on leadership though a pandemic (where did he find the time???) when you had the absolute worst outcomes during the pandemic compared to every other state in America. Over 33k deaths... This guy had time to write you all a book about managing a crisis, during the middle of the crisis... WTF is going on? Cuomo sent seniors into LTC homes to infect more seniors and that killed thousands.
If you want to buy a copy you can find it here as I'm not shittin you this is an actual book.
Chomsky certainly coined that term, but it's an old idea.
>In his 1973 book on that subject, subtitled The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, Ellul strove to show that an ethical definition of propaganda as a bad kind of communication was inadequate; his sociological definition simply described propaganda as a rapid and incessant form of communication designed to shape mass sensibilities at an unconscious level.
https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747
There may be pirate copies around, not sure.
Thanks for the open link!
His book does better justice to the thesis - there are 2 other factors to his model beyond elite overproduction
Just going to note that
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1) their contact information is posted here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.civvl.agent&hl=en_US
5342 Clark Rd #1026 Sarasota FL 34233
2)Their app is marked teen so they're going to get fucking kids involved in this.
I use Home Workout on Android and follow Full Body 7x4 challenge + Lower Body 7x4 challenge.
I paid three euros to get the ads removed which makes it more pleasant experience.
Note that in comparison to the gym exercises are much lighter since it's without equipment so you do many more reps and exercises. But do it slowly and keep tight and it does the job.
Some exercises also have suggestions to use dumbbells if you have them. Especially for legs for me it's nicer to add some extra weight (I lift my chairs).
Here's the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hotncold
We've disguised it as a general chat app to avoid having it removed from the Play Store. For now, we can just share it amongst ourselves to make sure no Karens become aware of it and ruin everything.
Peter Turchin calls this ‘elite overproduction’ in his book Ages of Discord.
Too many elites with too much time.
yes...aware of the nature of the spread. I should study the origin a little better. Someday perhaps.
skin color matters. affects sun energy / uv absorption. From that perspective - it could indeed be less deadly. Relates to COVID too....
would be curious to study the habits of non-dark skin ebola victims/ill.
Worth reading: [though I did not get too much out of it...as I already knew this]
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Color-Biological-Social-Meaning/dp/0520251539
https://www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Skin-Dvd/dp/B001B1DISI
I should watch that Skin doc again....maybe I have a torrent of it lying around, otherwise, I might just buy the DVD
What faculty want is irrelevant in most cases concerning the operations of the University. Just how universities work. If "pressure" worked, we would have functioning systems of shared governance, but we do not. There have been countless books documenting this issue. See the Fall of the Faculty for a great intro about which powers faculty had, have, and have lost vs. the Administration, under the erosion of shared governance: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Faculty-Benjamin-Ginsberg/dp/0199975434
Faculty are rarely unionized either.
Whatever views faculty hold are generally irrelevant to most Administrators. In my case, we were never engaged in an any dialogue about whether to reopen or not. We were informed. And I work at a very high-up level compared with many faculty members, as a full Professor and former Department chair.
I am not clear how this is not being effectively conveyed, but certainly with the % of adjuncts alone in any given university, outside of a handful of Ivies and SLAC's, there is limited persuasion which "faculty" can enact.
Do faculty -- who are post-tenure and thus protected -- tell administration what we think? Sometimes, but it depends on the specific governance structure: most Academic Senates or similar bodies are famously "lip service" only.
We are not K-14 or K-18 here. We have such a different system, and each university also has a different funding structure which influences things, different sizes and types of institutions, on top of different state-level mandates, and then different levels of internal coherence and shared governance.
My point: Administration call the shots in the U.S. They turn the lights on. They schedule courses. They close campuses. The reopen them. No one else has that power.
I'm copy-pasting a comment I made on a similar article by the same author:
Loved the article; lots of great information and helpful graphs.
But then I get to the end:
> About the author: J.B. Handley is the best-selling author of How to End the Autism Epidemic.
The Amazon blurb for his book says:
> In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Handley confronts and dismantles the most common lies about vaccines and autism. He then lays out, in detail, what the truth actually is: new published science links the aluminium adjuvant used in vaccines to immune activation events in the brains of infants, triggering autism; and there is a clear legal basis for the statement that vaccines cause autism, including previously undisclosed depositions of prominent autism scientists under oath...
Ugh.
Now, just because the guy is an anti-vaxxer doesn't mean he's wrong about COVID. In fact, what he wrote about COVID is pretty persuasive. And ad hominems are fallacious.
But it does give me pause.
On a more practical level, this is the kind of article I'd love to share on Facebook, but I know all my pro-lockdown friends will (understandably) zero in on this aspect of the author's c.v.
A lot of the media like to stereotype lockdown skeptics as tinfoil-hat wearing, flat-earth-believing, anti-vaxxers. I don't like the idea of giving them ammunition to support that trope.
Loved the article; lots of great information and helpful graphs.
But then I get to the end:
> About the author: J.B. Handley is the best-selling author of How to End the Autism Epidemic.
The Amazon blurb for his book says:
> In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Handley confronts and dismantles the most common lies about vaccines and autism. He then lays out, in detail, what the truth actually is: new published science links the aluminium adjuvant used in vaccines to immune activation events in the brains of infants, triggering autism; and there is a clear legal basis for the statement that vaccines cause autism, including previously undisclosed depositions of prominent autism scientists under oath...
Ugh.
Now, just because the guy is an anti-vaxxer doesn't mean he's wrong about COVID. In fact, what he wrote about COVID is pretty persuasive. And ad hominems are fallacious.
But it does give me pause.
On a more practical level, this is the kind of article I'd love to share on Facebook, but I know all my pro-lockdown friends will (understandably) zero in on this aspect of the author's c.v.
A lot of the media like to stereotype lockdown skeptics as tinfoil-hat wearing, flat-earth-believing, anti-vaxxers. I don't like the idea of giving them ammunition to support that trope.