Debt Rattle February 16 2022

 

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  • #101595
    Dora
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    Tucker.

    #101596
    jpbrichta
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    I had a question about Japan. As far as I know, the government switched to using ivermectin during Delta and I recall that helped with early treatment. However, during Omicron, their cases went way up and their deaths followed a similar trajectory (looking at Worldometer for stats). Are they no longer using an ivermectin protocol? Just wondering, I don’t have any recent on the ground information.

    #101597
    Doc Robinson
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    A nugget that Dr. D posted yesterday:
    “we comment to keep our sanity.”

    Under this umbrella, commenters can comment as a way to contribute, a way to connect and interact, a way of meeting some human needs.

    While the commenter benefits from the comment, ideally the readers would benefit as well (learning something they appreciate, or getting some enjoyment, etc.) Sometimes the benefit to the reader is not so apparent, and a comment seems too self-serving.

    Egos gonna ego, of course, but beyond a certain point, it’s off-putting. A couple theoretical examples: Commenting under the premise of trying to help others understand, while putting them down in the process (boosting the ego). Talking about oneself in a way which looks down on others in comparison (boosting the ego).

    #101598
    D Benton Smith
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    And now, back to the clamor !! (this is going to be a VERY good day.)

    First up :

    It should be clear by now to everyone paying even the slightest attention that the bad guys are playing by a set of “rules” that everyone else has always thought were pure hyper imaginary fiction, the province of cheap fiction and paranoia. The rules list is incredibly short:

    1. Acquire power by doing absolutely anything that you want, in absolutely any way that you choose.
    2. Retain power by swearing blood allegiance to those who are more powerful.
    3. Protect that self-organizing hierarchy with deceit, theft, terror, murder, and secrecy .
    4. When commanded to do anything by those more elevated in the hierarchy, comply immediately, without hesitation or question . . . upon pain of death.

    The idiotic simplicity of evil.

    The lynch-pins of their effectiveness are fear, secrecy, and YOUR honor (they count on you playing fair, honoring promises, trying (at least) to be truthful, and naively assuming that everyone else does too.)

    Their Achilles heel is that truth is literally immutable, literally eternal and LITERALLY sacred.

    The bad guys can only and forever spiral downward in every way that really means anything important, whereas the good guys can (by cleaving to Truth) spiral upward (albeit difficult and supremely uncomfortable to do so.)

    In closing I want to remind everyone that when truths are brought back to light they are at first seen to be very surprising, even startling. There will be both joy and some dismay. Sometimes the reemergence of long suppressed truths will shake your core understanding of what is “Reality” (chuckle). Just brace yourselves for surprises, that’s all. Brace yourselves.

    #101600
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DocRobinson That is both very well said, and very useful because (like so many others here) I resemble your remark. All that I can say in my own defense is that I do make an earnest and sincere effort to behave and to be worth the bother of putting up with my shortcomings.

    #101601

    andrew

    #101603
    absolute galore
    Participant

    Re Prince Andrew: I will say some of the internet humor posted here, along with TAE homegrown, is definitely funny. Funny is good. Everybody funny, now you funny too

    #101604
    Doc Robinson
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    @ WES

    Here’s how I add images from my computer/device to a comment at TAE.

    1.  Go to this site:
    https://postimages.org/

    2.  Click on “Choose images”

    3. Find the image you want from the list of files now being shown on your computer/device, and double click it to send it to Postimage.

    4. A new page will appear at Postimage (saying “Upload completed!”) with a “Link”, a “Direct Link”, a “Markdown”, etc.

    5. Copy the URL for the “Direct Link” (it’s the one ending in .jpg) and use it for your comment at TAE.

    6. At the comment box for TAE, click on IMG and then paste the copied URL into the box where it asks “Enter the URL of the image”.

    #101605
    willem
    Participant

    @Germ: Thanks for the link to the draft CA bill. How are you finding out about these? This is the second CA bill in the last few days that I had not heard about. I live in CA and certainly would like to know if there is an easy way to keep track of this stuff.

    FWIW, I have posted comments to the author on each of the two bills (opposing them) and also sent a personal message to my assemblyman, one of the few conservatives in the state assembly.

    #101606
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    abs: “So…. lovey-dovey.”

    #101607
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    If I had to nominate a poster child for Voice of Calm Reason at TAE, it would be Doc Rob.

    Doc to Doc

    #101608
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    willem: “This is the second CA bill in the last few days that I had not heard about.”

    Other than waiting for a news article (or social media) to alert you about a bill, you could check the bills yourself at the CA.GOV site. This example shows 13 bills with the keyword “misinformation”. At least a couple of them are related to Covid.

    https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billSearchClient.xhtml?session_year=20212022&keyword=%22misinformation%22&house=Both&author=All&lawCode=All

    #101609
    Germ
    Participant

    🤡🤡🤡 Boost, Baby, Boost!! 🤡🤡🤡

    🤡🤡🤡

    #101610
    Germ
    Participant

    Jump, little monkey, jump!

    Jump higher …

    #101611
    Germ
    Participant

    “An opportunity has arisen for multiple Caseworker posts within the Vaccine Damage Payment Team, part of our Primary Care Services Directorate.”

    https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/917036734

    #101612
    Germ
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    #101613
    Germ
    Participant

    Fidelity enters crypto space with Europe’s cheapest bitcoin ETP:

    https://etfstream.com/news/fidelity-enters-crypto-space-with-europe-s-cheapest-bitcoin-etp/

    “The Fidelity Physical Bitcoin” – physical? 🤡🤡🤡 Safe and effective!

    #101614
    Germ
    Participant

    Germany – https://verimi.de/en/ Digital iD, vaxx status, banking, sign documents, payments etc. etc.

    You’ll love using it.
    It will make life so much easier.

    🤣🤣🤣 Until they “turn you off” for not getting your 5th booster when told to. 🤡🤣🤡

    #101615
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Truck Convoy protestors were preparing dinner at the end of another long day of world wide video interviews when their barbecue was interrupted by a frantic CBC Breaking News special broadcast announcing in hair-on-fire breathless hysteria that Trudeau had just ordered special forces paratroopers to descend on the convoy from the sky with guns blazing.
    The trucker standing at the barby asked the group if they thought the burgers were ready to flip or if they maybe needed a few more seconds on this side before turning.

    #101616
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    What do ya think, investors, time maybe to short everything Canadian except maple syrup and illegal whiskey?

    #101617
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    This just in ! Justin Trudeau has been found ! During a routine colonoscopy, Canada’s perennially absent Premiere was located cowering in the upper regions of his own poopchute. Specialists are now debating possible ways of dealing with this unprecedented intestinal emergency. Proposed opitions under consideration include oral laxatives, chemical enemas, and a cork.

    #101618
    those darned kids
    Participant

    #101619
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Not Leonardo da Vinci but decidedly a Great Master:

    Curly vs Oyster Stew

    #101620
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    DBS: I believe it’s called a Cephalanalectomy.

    GOod thing he has socialized medicine. Those things cost a fortune.

    #101621
    boscohorowitz
    Participant
    #101622
    zerosum
    Participant

    Illusion gone!
    We can no longer pretend that we riffraff are ignorant and stupid and will always say, Yes sir. How high.

    #101623
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I do believe DBS is right: we are entering the place where TPTB remove the Velvet Glove from The Claw… which is nasty but rusty and no match for ten gazillion Bic Mac wrappers.

    The banal idiocy of evil indeed.

    #101624
    Noirette
    Participant

    On West has been destroyed without a shot fired (at top post)

    Russia request Security Guarantees. NATO creeping forward to the R. borders is no longer tolerated.

    Russia will do much to avoid war (imho), at some point the pokes to the Bear have to be reacted to, partly due to Russian Public Opinion.

    The “W” responds confusedly.

    NATO proffers garbled aggressive nonsense (Stoltenberg, soon to be ‘removed’), the US perhaps more measured. US-uk hypes the long standing trope, suddenly alarmingly hyped, Russia Will, Yes! invade Ukaine.

    Russia and the Ukraine both deny this. (Ok, Zelensky asked for solid info, or proof.)

    Everyone knows it won’t happen.

    France, Germany, lamely attempt to reconcile conflicting policy agendas. They try to obey the US and suck up to Russia at the same time, they are putting off the hard call, everyone wants to save their skin. (“I did my best”..)

    The invasion of Ukr. by Russia was set for today (16 Feb.).

    I’m cooking dinner for 7 ppl, all is quiet on the NEWS, maybe it has been delayed? 🙂

    #101625
    zerosum
    Participant

    I’M the boss …
    . “You are undermining democracy my power.

    Demonstrators demonstrating against the illegal demonstrators will not be affected by the Emergency Act.

    #101626
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I’ve quoted this before, but still: “Democracy is chaos with ballet urns.”

    It takes a democracy to craft such insidious and secret evil, I tend to believe. You get your Vlad the impalers and Xerxes here and there, but it seems to take a democracy to really get the long-game evil going.

    By democracy, I don’t mean ‘everyone votes’ or even ‘elites vote’ (as in Greece) but any government that claims to rest on the will and approval of the people and provides a sufficiently beguiling method for sustaining this illusion. (‘Long live the king!’ comes to mind.)

    All forms of government are equally brutal overall, I believe, but it seems to take a ‘democracy’ to craft evil governance that is almost genetically endurant. Rome, for example. However, the rate of change these days is so fast that what took 13-14 centuries to completely collapse (Rome/Byzantium) now takes only a few. (Not that the classic 250-ish year cycle of empires doesn’t obtain within that domain, but empires tend to recycle into other empires forming an arc of empires that nonetheless has a clear beginning and end.)

    I.can’t.get.this.Huffy.to.work. Some Chinese knockoff shit.

    BTW, I ain’t through fighting. Is the above clear and pertinent enough to satisfy V. Arnold, the man shouting at the top of his lungs, WILL EVERYONE STOP SHOUTING!!! amid a party’s standard chit-chat somewhat louder just from the number of talkers, which is what a party is supposed to be), or Bill7, who tar-brushes most anyone who he disagrees with or doesn’t like as some alien body double agent provocateur, or anyone else who thinks that I should Post Their Way: ‘Why can’t you be more like me/us?'<>’Cuz I don’t wanna be like that, ‘k?’

    ***

    Biden Insists Russian Invasion “Distinctly Possible” Despite Troop Demobilization

    ‘But we’ll fix ’em,’ said Biden today in a carefully worded teleprompt scrolling across his face mask like a marquee. ‘We’ll hire soldiers, put gas in their tanks, buy new treads, and.. and — what was the 4th thing? Move the ducks? My eyes aren’t what they used to be, hheh-heh.’

    tbg

    #101627
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I’ve quoted this before, but still: “Democracy is chaos with ballet urns.”

    It takes a democracy to craft such insidious and secret evil, I tend to believe. You get your Vlad the impalers and Xerxes here and there, but it seems to take a democracy to really get the long-game evil going.

    By democracy, I don’t mean ‘everyone votes’ or even ‘elites vote’ (as in Greece) but any government that claims to rest on the will and approval of the people and provides a sufficiently beguiling method for sustaining this illusion. (‘Long live the king!’ comes to mind.)

    All forms of government are equally brutal overall, I believe, but it seems to take a ‘democracy’ to craft evil governance that is almost genetically endurant. Rome, for example. However, the rate of change these days is so fast that what took 13-14 centuries to completely collapse (Rome/Byzantium) now takes only a few. (Not that the classic 250-ish year cycle of empires doesn’t obtain within that domain, but empires tend to recycle into other empires forming an arc of empires that nonetheless has a clear beginning and end.)

    I.can’t.get.this.Huffy.to.work. Some Chinese knockoff shit.

    BTW, I ain’t through fighting. Is the above clear and pertinent enough to satisfy V. Arnold, the man shouting at the top of his lungs, WILL EVERYONE STOP SHOUTING!!! amid a party’s standard chit-chat somewhat louder just from the number of talkers, which is what a party is supposed to be, or Bill7, who tar-brushes most anyone who he disagrees with or doesn’t like as some alien body double agent provocateur, or anyone else who thinks that I should Post Their Way: ‘Why can’t you be more like me/us?'<>’Cuz I don’t wanna be like that, ‘k?’

    ***

    Biden Insists Russian Invasion “Distinctly Possible” Despite Troop Demobilization

    ‘But we’ll fix ’em,’ said Biden today in a carefully worded teleprompt scrolling across his face mask like a marquee. ‘We’ll hire soldiers, put gas in their tanks, buy new treads, and.. and — what was the 4th thing? Move the ducks? My eyes aren’t what they used to be, heh-heh.’

    tbg

    &*(

    On Being a Single Free Person

    #101628
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Editing is always a bitch. Talk about body doubles… who’s the hacker who posted a double post in my name? Speak up! Anyway, it’s the second post that is the edited final version.

    #101629
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    So, fwiw, technical tip: when the spambots block you from editing, what you do is, log out BEFORE editing the post, then log back in. Logging out after editing, then logging back in, will usually get your edit posted (sometimes requiring you add some nonsense text so the bots don’t say you’ve already posted that), but seems to produce double posts.

    Knowledge is Power:

    cfl

    #101630
    John Day
    Participant

    @Absolute Galore: I could not readily comprehend your encrypted message.

    @US State Dept. I think Russia is going to respect Syria’s borders and continue the US to do so as well.
    Just a word to the wise. I’m pretty sure this happening twice in the same day is a form of communication.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-russian-jets-dangerous-intercept-incident-over-syria

    #101631
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    There’s something about this that speaks to me of our current situation, but my brain won’t articulate it. It’s amusing by itself as exotic trivia:

    According to the “most reliable sources”, Vlad’s army of about 2,000 was cornered and destroyed by a Turkish-Basarab force of 4,000 near Snagov.[129] The exact circumstances of his death are unclear. The Austrian chronicler Jacob Unrest stated that a disguised Turkish assassin murdered Vlad in his camp. In contrast, Russian statesman Fyodor Kuritsyn –who interviewed Vlad’s family after his demise– reported that the voivode was mistaken for a Turk by his own troops during battle, causing them to attack and kill him. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally commented this account by noting that Vlad had often disguised himself as a Turkish soldier as part of military ruses.[129] According to Leonardo Botta, the Milanese ambassador to Buda, the Ottomans cut Vlad’s corpse into pieces.[128][127] Bonfini wrote that Vlad’s head was sent to Mehmed II;[130] it was eventually placed on a high stake in Constantinople.[127] Local peasant traditions maintain that what was left of Vlad’s corpse was later discovered in the marshes of Snagov by monks from the nearby monastery.[131]

    #101632
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The reason that Trudeau is petulantly screaming louder and louder , to lesser and lesser effect, is NOT simply because he is a clinically insane twit (although both are true).

    He is throwing the absurd tantrums because he is being ordered to. He has no option to hesitate or refuse (unless, “Do what I say or I’ll kill you” , is some kind of real option.)

    If I were Mr. Lace Panties (shudder) then I too would be sweating bullets and hiding in a snow cave, because his bosses are casually willing to stage his assassination as a pretext for REAL martial law. If their AI generated war gamed program shows that to be more likely to achieve their stated goal, then they will order it done with the same aplomb as ordering up their next gin & tonic.

    The thing to do now is change the parameters by opening a second front that makes Trudeau irrelevant. For example : were the Canadian government and/or its intelligence services MATERIALLY involved in the stuff that Durham is revealing ? If so, then that changes things quite a bit. And given our two countries long history such a possibility is more probable than not. For Hillary to do that kind of shit is simple treason. Small potatoes in terms of world affairs. But if Trudy’s gang were deeply involved , then that’s a different kettle of fish. THAT, my fellow conspiracy theorists, would be an act of WAR.

    Consider:

    All roads lead back to British Intelligence, City of London/Wall Street and the British Crown. Further, the last time I checked, Canada is very very much an OFFICIALLY & SWORN LEGALLY SUBSERVIENT extension of both the British Crown AND British Intelligence AND City of London.

    That’s not small taters at all.

    #101633
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #101634
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Dr. Malone is tearing down the curtain in a way rarely seen. Running time about 20 minutes, Here is the link :

    #101635
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #101636
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    Bloomsburg:

    I don’t see anybody leaving. Hmm…looks like BBG found a paid actor who really needs a Hollywood role.

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