tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50586737649270612852024-02-01T21:13:35.915-08:00El Blog of Der JimDer Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-56941058761744129942023-01-20T20:15:00.002-08:002023-12-08T05:33:37.770-08:00Forgiveness In the Wake of Pandemic Madness: a Few Facets, Layers and Levels<p> Forgiveness is a multi-faceted, multi-level issue. IMO, what it LITERALLY means is to get to a point from which you can once again GIVE to the person from whom you presumably were withholding something (good will, maybe? something you have that they actually do need?). For-give-ness is FOR being able to GIVE again, although that's merely the literal sense.</p><div><br /></div><div>But Rogan's point is well taken: if we had never happened to be exposed to non-Pharma points of view, many of us might have joined in on the madness. In my case, if I had never gone to a deeply analytical grad school, I may not have ever been able to punch through that glass ceiling of ignorance & denial.--and I only decided to further my education because I happened to take one class--<i>one--in my final semester </i>that challenged my world view and left me wanting more. So...forgiveness is an invitation to some humility and gratitude--a <i>there, but for the grace of God, go I</i> sort of thing. </div><div><br /></div><div>And, speaking of humility, I suspect most of us rarely, if ever, say the words, "You were right; I was wrong". I try to say it once a month; it's good for my character.</div><div><br /></div><div>In some cases-- most?--when I need to forgive another, it is true that my own dysfunction played a part in the drama, and helped bring harm upon myself AND the other. Turns out I'm just that dysfunctional. They may be unwilling to address their part, but I can make amends for my part. It's funny, but having made amends for my part makes me better able to forgive them for their part--whether they themselves make amends, apologize, or not. Something about that humility, again. It also clears my vision of lingering guilt and shame, so I can see the harm I might cause--and that others might. Christian scripture says, to paraphrase, "Don't condemn the sliver in your neighbor's eye until you take the log out of your own!". Point well taken. But what it implies, without saying so outright, is that, once your own log is out, you'll start seeing others' slivers and logs for what they are.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Does for-give-ness mean any thing more than giving, humility, gratitude and clarity? What it certainly DOESN'T mean is a return to naiveté and passivity, or allowing the other's harmful behavior to continue (assuming it's in our power to do something about it). Should we 'forgive' a pedophile, and in so doing allow them back into our lives when that would mean giving them access to children? Obviously not. We should advertise their perversion, if that will protect children, notwithstanding it might frustrate them and hurt their feelings. Should we forgive Pharma, then fall for the next round of fearmongering and wallet-scouring? Nay. </div><div> </div><div>Forgiveness, should you choose to pursue it, doesn't mean sticking your head back in the sand. It doesn't mean you need to stop protecting those who need protected. <i>Au contraire</i>, if forgiveness is serving its vision-clearing function, then it should make us <i>more</i> likely to effectively protect self and others. Lack of anger in the face of harmful behavior is not normal or healthy, but a certain type and volume of anger may actually impede protectiveness, by creating a kind of static. For instance, we might guzzle a fear-anger cocktail for so long that we get literally tired of it, and perhaps uncomfortable with others' reactions to such a cocktail. So we might "let it go"...without ever having clearly thought things through. Or the cocktail may simply interfere with the calmheadedness that is required to respond in an inspired, decisive fashion.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>It's an open question whether forgiving the unrepentant means TRUSTING them. Their very unrepentance implies that trust them you cannot, at least for the time being. It's charitable--assuming you actually are 100% right and good and they actually are 100% wrong and bad--to hold out hope that they might come around--not giving up on them might even encourage them to do so. But this is the charity of saints, which, as a flawed human, I may or may not be able to emulate. It may even do more harm than good to try. But as Rogan notes, if we do not at least attempt to forgive, and rebuild burnt bridges somehow (having to eat at least some of our own crow, I suspect), then we will be stuck in this binary, mutually antagonistic, tribal holding pattern indefinitely--as the Montagues and the Capulets were, leading to Romeo and Juliet, both young and both dead in a mausoleum. Or worse.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Many are confused between optimism and naiveté, passivity and
service--this is by design. The propaganda systems, and acquiescence to
them, has been the water we swim in for many long generations.
Information needed to challenge the message and motives of the powerful
is withheld or twisted, very deliberately, forming a universal, historical and cultural narrative--our mythology, if you will. The resultant peer pressure
is huge--and who among us hasn't caved? Will we cast the first stone, or won't we?<br /></div></div><div> </div><div>Another facet to discuss about forgiveness (but not nearly the last) is that it cannot be forced. Forced is fake--and who wants to give or get fake forgiveness? It's a PROCESS, and you or I may be unable to simply will it to happen if the habit of unforgiveness runs too deep. It is my own belief that, taken as an end in itself, the drive to forgive leads invariably to the fake version. If, instead, we turn our efforts to HEALING THE HARM within ourselves, to the point where the hurt has abated--then forgiveness, of a sort, follows as a necessary result. In a word: If they can't hurt us anymore (because we have healed), then we won't be so angry and judgemental towards them, no matter what they keep doing or not doing. To take just one example, if the harm is in feeling inferior, then work on NOT feeling inferior!..Even if they came to you on bended knee, confessing all and begging forgiveness--you would still need to do that work, most likely, or the stinging aftertaste of inferiority would remain.</div><div><br /></div><div>Remember, too: those who practice unforgiveness with others may, at the same time, be practicing unforgiveness against themselves. Judgementalism towards others, and judgementalism towards self, are the same exact action--just turned in a different direction. Do you BELIEVE in punishment, as a principle...really?</div><div><br /></div><div>Like I said, multifacted, multileveled.<br /></div><div><br /></div>One last: it's a choice. The pursuit of forgiveness brings pros and cons like any other choice. The path of unforgiveness--who knows?--might lead to insight that forgiveness itself would have missed. Just as with taking a vaccine, you do the cost-benefit analysis, and choose accordingly--and everyone has the right to evaluate the results of their choice--just as in good science--and perhaps change their mind.Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-72825721179807610592022-10-28T12:28:00.002-07:002022-10-28T12:28:19.148-07:00TRANSCRIPT: Jeffrey Sachs on COVID origins, the Grayzone interview<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]-->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morj-3rdWwM&ab_channel=TheGrayzone
</p><p class="MsoNormal">well you Professor Jeffrey Sachs you are the chair of
lancet's covid-19 commission and recently in Spain you commented that you
believed that the that covid-19 or SARS Kobe 2 originated due to blunders of
U.S biotech I wonder if you could expand on that and discuss the role of the
Eco Health Alliance which was a channel for usaid and Pentagon DARPA funding to
the Wan Institutes of virology which remains a key culprit in the origins of covid
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: yep basically the virus SARS Cove too that causes
covid-19 disease is a cervical virus a bat virus that is also called a
sars-like virus because it's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the same
sub genus as the virus that caused the SARS outbreak in 2003-2004. but there's
a piece of the Genome of this virus that makes it really infectious and that is
called the cleavage site that sits on the spike protein that we all learned
about and that allows the spike protein to be cleaved or divided and thereby
enter human cells much more easily SARS does not have this kind of cleavage
site SARS-CoV2 is the only virus of this bat family cervical virus family or sars-like
virus family that has a proteolytic cleavage site and the specific cleavage
site is called the furin cleavage site and it's four amino acids that make this
thing so infectious that it became a global disaster with 18 million deaths the
operative question is where did that come from given that it is the only <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if you're in cleavage site in this family or
sub-genus of viruses well they didn't tell us at NIH but we found out through
leaks and lawsuits and all the rest and by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because insiders knew about this that one of
the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>projects of NIH funding was to
insert furin cleavage sites into sars-like viruses they thought that was a good
idea to make construct viruses that would be more dangerous </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">why </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: not sure but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one possible reason is for making vaccines
against dangerous SARS like viruses or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>potential
use of this class of virus as a bio Warfare we don't know we just don't know
but what we do know is that there was dangerous research underway and we also
know that when this virus first showed up in Wan and people said whoa what is
this and the virologist looked at this in the NIH group National Institutes of
Health Group out of Fauci's shop they said whoa look at that if you're in cleavage
site what is that doing there and how did that get there and on <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">February 1st 2020 there was a
secret call it's not secret anymore because of Freedom of Information Act but
there was a call where a group of virologists said whoa 80/20 just came out of
a lab another one said I can't even think of how nature could have done this
one another said 50/50</span>. now four days later NIH oversees a draft paper
that says definitely natural and I call that definitely weird and people should
go to the website of the US right to know which has done a terrific job in
these lawsuits and Emily Kopp a fantastic investigative reporter has laid out
this remarkable week where inside they say natural and a few days later they
I'm sorry inside they say lab and a few days later they say natural not that
they learned anything over those three days but they decided to tell us a
narrative this is how government works it creates stories it doesn't search for
the truth that doesn't aim for the truth that doesn't tell the truth it creates
stories and for weird understandable reasons that Noam Chomsky and others have
talked about for decades the big media go along with these stories but they're
very dangerous because these are stories this is not real investigation or or
reality so let me say clearly we don't know exactly where this virus came from
but whoa there is a lot of weird stuff and a lot of bad behavior by NIH and
very interestingly the head of the Centers for Disease Control <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">in 2020 Bob Redfield said inside
hey this really could have come out of a Lab and what did Fauci do he cut him
out of all the process</span> and so he played the bureaucratic heavy and out
came a narrative and the head of CDC with a lot of expertise in this area was
completely shut out because he said you know there's another side to this story
we need to look at it so what the Lancet commission concluded because we don't have
the lab notebooks we don't have the lab records but what we can see is there is
a pathway by which this could have come out of the laboratory for sure there's
absolutely nothing even remotely close to definitive that it came out of the marketplace
that's been much talked about there's so many holes and flaws and gaps in that
story that it it's nothing close to being definitive and perhaps is just a
place where sick people went and sneezed on on cages and because of what's
called ascertainment bias that's where they looked in the in the beginning
because they thought maybe they thought or they decided that maybe it came from
the marketplace but the point is we have two viable hypotheses and we need to
know and one of the reasons we don't know about the lab is that the U.S
government Fauci shop has not told us the truth about what they were doing what
the risks are what they thought and how this group made these early decisions and
because we don't know we also don't know what else is going on what other
research is still going on what other dangerous stuff is going on probably I
don't know I shouldn't say probably I don't know but what I do know is nobody
knows <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>except the inside of the inside
and that is not a that's not a safe situation for this world </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">well presumably <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">Anthony Fauci knows <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we know <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that after 9/11 his <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>National Institute for allergic and infectious
diseases NIAD received billions from or under the watch of none other than Dick
Cheney to conduct what we're seen as biodefense programs but would you have
just acknowledged could also be bio Warfare programs</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>yeah and but
either way what is what is not evident to a lot of people is that <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">Fauci's shop is the biodefense
shop of the US government it's it's where the defense dollars go and you know
maybe make this virus</span> but they don't want us to know what's going on and
that's—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">let's drill this down <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in April 2020 promoted a nature magazine
article which claimed that covid originated from nature and through FOIA
requests the public learned that Fauci was involved in at least corresponding
and collaborating with the virologists who put together that article <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he he probably was involved in the creation of
that article itself and this was a cheneyesque act it was like Cheney trying to
sell the Iraq War so the question here is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what what role do you think Fauci played not
only in the cover-up but possibly in the origins of covid-19 and to what extent
can he be held accountable </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: first of all that article is an awful article it's
it's called the proximal origins of SARS-Cov2 it appeared in nature medicine in
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 2020 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and when I read it the first time I said oh okay
this is natural you know they explain it and when I went back after I you know
began to get what was going on because I didn't get it at the beginning… the
most remarkable thing in that paper it it just makes your eyes bulge in the
moment they say it couldn't have come out of a lab because after all this is
this new virus is unlike any previously reported virus is is the line in there
then the footnote to that which is footnote 20 is to a 2014 paper—what a joke!
they're talking about an outbreak in 2020 and they say it couldn't have been
from the lab and they cite a 2014 Authority for that most crucial claim?! and
if this were in the least an honest paper the scientists would have said we
don't know because we haven't seen the lab books we don't know what the
research was, but this is not an honest paper; it was a designed narrative now
what really happened we don't know except that there was a lot of dangerous research
funded by the U.S government including NIAID and they were quite gung-ho on
this gain of function work and the technology to make a SARS-CoV2 virus was
pretty plain and we have very clever <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bioengineers in the United States that charted
this out <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">in a 2017 proposal
to the defense department page 10 says we have 180 previously more than 180
previously unreported viral strains and on page 11 it says we're going to look
for proteolytic Cleavage sites and where they don't exist we're going to insert
them and you say holy hell you are thanks for telling us except they didn't tell
us that had to be leaked from inside the US government for us to know about
that</span> so they charted out the handbook of how to make SARS-CoV2 and then
with the straight face they just ignored that the whole time even till now
these same scientists that reached the conclusion in March 2020 couldn't have
come out from a lab now they're told well there were more than 180 previously
unreported strands that comes out do they change their mind do they say oh we
didn't know about that no they just carry on straight face this is not science this
is a concocted narrative what it means I don't know but it needs an investigation
which is what I've been calling for </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and and on that investigation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sam husseini who's a friend of the gray Zone
veteran researcher on U.S bioweapons helped publicize and expose the role of
the US NGO Eco Health Alliance as a channel for USAID funding for gain of
function research and we know that Eco Health Alliance was helping to direct
the research at the Wan Institute to virology<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dazek when you appointed him to chair the task force you ran for Lance
it was already on the World Health Organization commission he signed and
organized the letter dismissing the lab origin as a conspiracy theory he
obviously had a conflict of interest because of the funding of the Wan
Institute severology even though he ridiculously denied there was a conflict
there <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so I wonder if you could talk a little
bit more about the role of Eco Health Alliance and how Peter Daszak wound up
under your watch as the chair of the task force didn't just waste a lot of time
and who who initially put him forward to chair the task force </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: it's a very simple story <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in early 2020 I believed the natural <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hypothesis because that's what the scientists
were saying and I didn't have any reason to question that and I didn't know
about the research that was going on and then I was asked to chair the Lance in
commission and I thought well who's the guy that knows about zoonotic spillovers
who knows about what's going on with the viruses so I asked dashing no one no
one put them forward there was no ulterior thing there was just my naivete <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in that first six months so I asked him to
organize this thing then I learned he's not telling me the truth and he thinks
and it my own eyes opening up and being briefed by a number of scientists and
being guided: “Jeff look at this understand this this is how this works this is
the research that was underway” you know <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">I had a two-year crash course in virology that was quite
wonderful with a lot of very generous scientists helping me to understand this</span>
but what I did know and I know a lot about government because I've worked with
a lot of governments over the last 40 years I knew that there was lying going
on and the more I looked into it the more the lies and so that's after at one
point I said to Daszak “show me your project documents” he said, “I can't” I
said, “what do you mean you can't?! you're you're on a commission that's a transparent
commission to get to the bottom of this you show them to me.”..”I can't, my
lawyers say I can't”… “oh your lawyers say you can't well you can't be on the
commission anymore” okay so that was the first step then the rest of the
scientists all attacked me <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you know
you're <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attacking science and so forth
then the next Freedom of Information Act lawsuit dropped the next piece and
then I found out the one that was attacking me the most for dismissing dashing
was a co-investigator with dashik so I saw I wasn't getting it </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">who is that? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: that's Jerry Kirsch at Boston University <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>somebody I was friends with for a long time
but he went after me and then I find out you know he's <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">they're all one way or another not letting on and
it's by the way it's not a big group it's a pretty small group but it's the inside
group they have the inside track on NIH</span> it's a small group that has talked
to each other since the beginning it's a small group that was assembled to write
this stuff and it was pretty unpleasant <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
I saw that you know this is not this isn't about science this is about transparency
this is about finding out what's really going on <span data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor="" data-darkreader-inline-bgimage="" style="--darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #999900; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: none; background: yellow;">NIH you know in the lawsuits releases redacted documents meaning
blanked out of one of them is the 2020 review of its research on these viruses
and it's 290 blank pages and then they want trust from us come on if you want
trust from us show us the document not blank pages</span> so this is why we
need an independent investigation </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">let me ask a related follow-up taking this back to Ukraine
as we wrap we've seen these allegations or rumors of U.S biological weapons
Labs that speculation was fueled earlier this year when Victoria Newlin was
asked about it by Marco Rubio but didn't give a direct answer: “does Ukraine
have chemical or biological weapons”…Newland: “ Ukraine has a biological
research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops
Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of”… do you think there's any Merit
to these rumors or allegations that the U.S has been involved in a biological
weapons program inside of Ukraine </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: Merit, that we need to find out we have a system of
government which in principle if you're in seventh grade civics or at least
when I was 50 years ago or it was more than 50 years ago we learned that there
were congressional committees that would oversee the behavior of the executive
branch that's what we need right now I don't know the answer to this but I know
we need oversight and what I know for sure is we have not had transparency on
these key issues and sad to say really since 1947 with the National Security
Act and the creation of the CIA our government when it comes to issues like
this operates in secrecy we say that we're a democracy but the public doesn't
know we're not told when I was young a long time ago the New York Times
actually used to do investigative reporting you'd be surprised <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they didn't believe what Johnson was saying
and Nixon was was saying about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about Vietnam
and they were right and there was the Pentagon papers and there was Watergate
and when I grew up it was normal that a reporter on the New York Times would
actually look into something now it's like a different world. and so the
impunity from the mass media is absolutely stunning that's why you know what
we're talking about and what you're doing is so important because we're not
getting it from the sources that are, quote “the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the authoritative sources”; what we're getting
is the government line well it's Aaron and I Aaron and I grew up in the Judith
Miller era maybe yeah there you go it's incredible it's the opposite yeah I
grew up in the Seymour Hirsch era, yes where I love these reporters and you
know and their idea was bust these government officials for lying to us and
they don't have that view right now well </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">now we're a conspiracy theorists if we follow inside hersh's
footsteps </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: oh I I was attacked that way today yet again by
colleagues you know colleagues and it's just they don't understand <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean many people probably really don't understand
what this consistent <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>narrative creation
lying falsehoods misdirection really is when it comes to all of these sensitive
issues and these issues are life and death issues for us </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">well it's remarkable that more peop more of your colleagues
it just seems remarkable to me that more of your colleagues don't speak out
more and they did seem to be more outspoken at least within liberal circles
during the bush era when the Iraq War started to go bad but now it seems that
they've all adopted this mentality in favor of endless escalation I don't know
if you can speak to that </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sachs: I don't know you know I'm not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean I'm I vote Democratic but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I I don't feel that we're functional as a
democracy and and the last two democratic presidents launched a lot of wars and
engaged in a lot of secret operations and I don't like it at all. and I think
our foreign policy has basically been run by the neocons for 30 years, and
Victoria Newland seems to be in every Administration. and so to my mind I don't
like this partisan game well this is on our side you know Fauci's our guy we
can't attack him and so on come on it's not these are not partisan issues these
are issues about life and death that we need to know about and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a lot of people still have a kind of partisan
mentality that if the Democrats are in don't attack you know you're be you're
part of the team but I don't feel that this is the right approach </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jeffrey Sachs, director of the center for sustainable
development at Columbia University president of the UN sustainable development
Solutions Network and served as chair of the Lancet covid-19 commission Jeffrey
thank you so much for your time and insight yeah great to be with you thanks a
lot thank you thanks for what you guys are doing English (auto-generated) </p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, welcome to today's talk it's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thursday the 24th of june (2021). Now the best
meta analysis so far on the efficacy of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ivermectin has been published so we're going
to look at that now. I know looking at these studies aren't for everyone it's
it's a bit scientific and it kind of journal reading stuff so i'm going to give
you the the the headlines and the or the bottom line really on this. Now now
this study shows that I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>vermectin probably
reduces deaths by 62% and possibly reduces
transmission by 86 percent, and you notice i said <i>probably </i>reduces deaths by 62
and <i>possibly</i> reduces transmission by 86—so that's the result from this meta analysis
which we're now going to look at in detail. And i'd love you to to stay it is
pretty interesting actually. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now this is the publication here just came out on
the 17th of june so it's a few days old now <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Ivermectin for the prevention and treatment
of covid19 infection” we see the authors there and Tess Lawrie of course we've
had the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enjoyment of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>interviewing twice on this channel and during
that time Tess did give us a lot of this information that's in this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before it was published. But the big
difference now it's published <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it's in this
it's in this journal the american journal of therapeutics and and it's peer
reviewed so this is peer reviewed and this is particularly important because a
meta-analysis as you know is looking at the results from many different trials
combining those reanalyzing that data and reinterpreting that data and that is
intrinsically quite a complicated thing to do, so you need good quality peer
review to make sure that this technique that this methodology was correctly
followed. And given it has been published i think we can asses that it was
correctly followed. It certainly looks good to me in fact parts of it are
beyond me actually but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i think i've
worked out most of it and we'll go through it now so “ivermectin for the
prevention treatment of covered 19 infection a systematic review meta-analysis and
trial sequential analysis to inform clinical guidelines”…so <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>background to this now the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the anti-parasitic agent ivermectin with
antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties has now been tested in numerous
clinical trials so here they're clearly saying that it's got antiviral and
anti-inflammatory properties, the question is to what degree are they
efficacious? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now 2018 application for
ivermectin used for scabies gives a direct cost of $2.90 for 112 milligram
tablets—i mean this is an incredibly cheap drug. It's off license, it's generic,
it can be manufactured in huge amounts in india—remarkably low cost. So if it did
work it would be really good because it's a very very cheap <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intervention low-cost therapeutic, because
that's particularly useful in countries where they've got very limited resources.
Now most trials were registered self-funded and undertaken by clinicians, so
these are not trials done by large pharmaceutical organizations they're not
trials done by governments, they're trials mostly done by the actual clinicians
the doctors and their assistants who were actually working in the field. And
very often they've done this research as well as their day job, so they were
largely self-funded by the clinicians themselves rather than officially
sponsored. Now we this is we assess this is the team <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the meta analysis “efficacy of ivor
mectin treatment in reducing mortality and chemo prophylaxis as a prevention of
covid19 and preventing cross-infection spread of infection”… now data sources
that they used in this up to the 25th of april 2021…now this is quite important
because recently there's been some international studies which indicate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>possible to probable preventative effects in
mexico, peru, a couple other places i can't remember from around india of
course, but from from around the world that indicates <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>possible to probable prophylactic effects in
terms of preventing people contracting covid 19 in the first place , but you've
got to have a cut off somewhere, and this one was on april the 25<sup>th</sup>.
Because this is a complex analysis to calculate and indeed to write up so the
team these are direct quotes in italics <i>system sifted four studies extracted
data and assessed risks of bias meta-analysis were conducted and certainty of
evidence was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assessed.</i> That's what
they do now <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we're gonna look at what
they did in a minute but just interesting to note here they use what's called
the grade approach and the grade approach here is on the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this is on the cochrane training site and it's
the grade approach so let's look at what this is: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so that's the cochrane training site there
that's a good article in bmj on the grade approach grading of recommendations
assessment development and evaluations the grade approach. Now i obviously knew
about this but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when you look at this
there's actually whole training packages and textbook sort of things on it so
it's a whole field in its own right actually so <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the serious students plenty there on that
on that cochrane review training site. Needless to say we're not going into it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but the point to notice is it's it's this
method is reproducible and transparent framework for grading certainty and
evidence. So how sure are we that the evidence is giving evidence for what it
says it's doing? This is about validity the degree to which something does what
it says it does. So if it says beans on the tin and you open the tin and it's
got peas inside that's a non-valid claim isn't it? But if it says beans on the
tin you open the tin that's what you get you get beans and that's a valid claim.
It really is as simple as that, but of course there's degrees of validity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in these meta analyses. 100 organizations
officially endorsed grade and as we saw the cochrane the main uk one <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>uses that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>methodology. Now, what this does it it is
reproducible, now it's not saying it's completely objective, it's not a
mechanical process, it's not—there is subjective assessment in it, but the
subjective assessment is carried out by people with a lot of research analysis
experience and the peer reviewers in this case will have carried out their own grade
analysis. One would like to think and come up with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the same conclusions, otherwise it wouldn't be
a proper peer review. So basically grade has four levels of certainty of
evidence how sure are we what is our certainty and it can either be very low
low moderate or high so very low level of certainty, low level of certainty, moderate
level of certainty, or high level of certainty—that's what this grade thing
does now things that would decrease confidence making things either sort of go
down from moderate to low to very low risk of bias. In the study, imprecision
in the studies, inconsistency in the studies, indirectness (that something
isn't actually assessing what it's supposed to assess)—and publication bias (things
that are published and indeed not published), that's the hardest one to assess,
so that would tend to put things down into lower categories. But increasing
confidence is a very large magnitude of effect, so if lots of people survived
in one group, and lots of people died in another group, for example, clear dose
response gradient, so the more of the good thing the the more the better effect.
And the third criteria there is residual confounding is likely to decrease
rather than increase the magnitude of the effect. So anything that gets in the
way, that clutters up the result is likely to decrease rather than increase the
magnitude of effect. Of course if you've looked at previous videos on there
you'll recognize these from the austin bradford hill criteria, so it's not
entirely new, but it's been revamped and and updated so that's kind of what
they're doing. So recognize methodology that can be analyzed and reproduced by
others’ data sources: 25 randomized controlled trials, number of patients in in
the studies collectively 3,406 participants, right. Ivermectin reduced risk of
death compared with no ivermectin. Now the meta-analysis here was 15 trials that
contained the mortality data and in these 15 trials there was a total of 2,438
patients, and the average risk ratio was 0.3, in other words 62% reduction in
deaths. If you were given the ivermectin your chances of dying were 0.38, 62%
reduction in the probability of dying. So that is kind of the headline figure
that we gave at the start, and it's it's it's quite a reasonable figure. Now
the level of certainty here is moderate certainty evidence. So that's the
second highest or third lowest level of evidence depending on how you look at
it, so if that's the lowest second, third, fourth, there you go. So that's
where it is, it's at the moderate level of certainty. Now when we talked to tess
about this, actually we did, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i was quite
impressed with the fact that she was very conservative. She wasn't making assumptions
about how valid her data was, or how certain she was, and it appears the peer
reviewers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>agree with that. So moderate
certainty evidence, a bit disappointing to be quite honest if i'm being honest.
I am disappointed that it wasn't high level, but of course we know that these were
mostly based on small-scale studies carried out by the clinicians themselves, self-funded,
and of course clinicians are good at clinical work they are not necessarily
absolutely brilliant at organizing clinical trials. It's not really their day
job. But because there is no big pharmaceutical companies or governments involved
in this, this is what we've got. So it's not surprising really, that's kind of where
we ended up. So we can have moderate certainty that this is an accurate
reduction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in deaths of 62 percent, the
average risk ratio 0.38. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now i'm not going to go into these, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to tell you the truth i don't fully understand
them, but these are other ways of assessing the validity of that data other
than the grade so the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dersimonian-laird
method and the biggerstaff-tweedy method, so basically it checked out, in other
words what <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the team authors are saying
here as well as using grade they triangulated the grade results—grading of recommendations
assessment development and development and evaluations—they triangulated those
with other methodologies and they got the same, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at least the same direction of results. So so
that's good, they've used different methodologies, and tell you what, if you
actually look through this paper, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it
really is it really is quite a a detailed impressive piece of work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it's a very detailed study with lots of
fairly precise methodological information in it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so that was that result: 62 percent protection.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So ivermectin versus no ivermectin in hospitalized patients:
the ivermectin group, the total mortality was 2.3 percent, the patients died;
the no-ivermectin group, 7.8% of the patients died in hospital. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we see quite a nice bit of clear water
between those two figures, really indicating the likely, with moderate certainty,
likelihood that ivermectin is being <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>efficacious.
So the 62% protection, 2.3; versus 7.8.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, moving on to ivermectinus prophylaxis, which we've
recently seen for example in india, peru , mexico. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did we look at study in chile as well? We
looked at a few studies about this, and it does look remarkably promising from
population-based data, but we're only going from what is three trials analyzed
by the trial authors. In this one, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the average
reduction in transmission was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>86 percent
in prophylaxis reducing covid 19 infection, but this was low-certainty evidence.
Now the reason it was low certainty evidence— of course, it wasn't <i>very</i>
low, it was <i>low</i>—is due to study-design limitations, and “few included trials”.
But what they did find clearly favored ivermectin used to bring about
improvement in patients’ condition and prevent deterioration, that was another
thing the trial or the meta-analyses authors concluded.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adverse events, rare among treatment trials, evidence of no
difference was assessed at low certainty. In other words, they couldn't really
tell from the data they had <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they
couldn't really give a definitive answer to the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>severe adverse events, how different they were
between the two groups. But again, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other
studies, and we know ivermectin's been used extensively for parasitic
infections which we've looked at, but this is only looking at what this is looking
at, so evidence of no difference was assessed as low certainty, so they
couldn't say for sure there was no difference, which is is the honest opinion,
now the conclusions from the study authors now put these all in inverted commas
because i think it's quite important to to get them right these are all direct quotes
“moderate certainty evidence finds that large reduction in covered 19 deaths
are possible using ivermectin”. Okay so that's one conclusion. Using ivermectin
early in the clinical course may reduce nbers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>progressing to severe disease. Certainly
consistent with what dr nair was doing in india when we interviewed praveen now
a few weeks ago. “the apparent safety and low cost suggests that ivermectin is
likely to have a significant impact on the sars coronavirus 2 pandemic globally”
is the conclusion of the study authors. So that's that it's not as convincing
as we would like, but largely due to the limitations and the clinician-run nature
of the trials, but the team clearly the meta-analysis team clearly feel that they
have collected enough evidence to indicate efficacy and clinical use. Now of
course i'm not prescribing anything, this is purely for educational purposes. Read
the paper yourself and see what it says but that that was what they say the
apparent safety with low cost suggests that ivermectin is likely to have a
significant impact on this highest coronavius 2 pandemic globally. And it would
certainly have been good if we did have an effective prophylactic agent because
that could have curtailed things things like the delta variant couldn't it? Because
the vaccines don't work straight away whereas the the idea is that a therapeutic
would work within probably within oh i don't know within a few hours anyway
within a few hours.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let's just
compare this with other agencies at the moment for balance. Now <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this is from the national institutes of health
from the united states of course and they have their statement here any<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>national institutes of health <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>covered 19 treatment guidelines and fairly
well known now they say there is insufficient data for covid-19 guideline pane,l
to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin is their conclusion. Now,
of course we know that the world health organization has come out against ivermectin
except in clinical trials, whereas national institutes of health in the states
has kept this neutral response, and that has been their position since february
i think yeah 11th of february, that's been their position since then. So direct
quote “there's insufficient data to recommend either or against the use of ivermectin
for the treatment of covidd 19. Okay, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>now the reason that they give for this that they
can't be more definitive, is the sample size of most of the trials were small. Okay,
some were a few hundred, but yeah, we accept that point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“various doses and schedules of ivermectin
were used”—well, of course, this was done by different clinicians around the
world. Some of the randomized controlled trials were open-label, in other words,
there could be placebo effects. They weren't all double-blind, which of course
is a legitimate critique. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patients
receiving various <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>concomitant, potentially
confounding, medications such as doxycycline, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin,
zinc and corticosteroids, so these could have confused the picture, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meaning that it's hard to say whether it was these
or the synergistic or the inhibitory effects of these with ivermectin that gave
the results. So they are saying they are <i>confounding</i>, casting
uncertainty on the dependent variable which is the potential efficacy on the
severity of covid 19 in the study. Participants were not always well described.
Okay, again, fair critique and the study outcome measures were not always
clearly defined, again, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>now, had these
trials been done by a large pharmaceutical group who are used to doing this, or
had that been done by government <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with
large sponsorship, then these probably wouldn't have occurred, but again this
is largely clinician-led research, so again these limitations aren't surprising.
But it is frustrating that this definitive answer is just that little bit out
of reach, although this 62% efficacy is probably the best thing we've got so
far. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that was the national institutes
of health on that one.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, the sort of definitive guide for these things in the uk
is the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cochrane library: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“trusted evidence, informed decisions are
better health” is their motto. So <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ivermectin
for preventing & treatment of covid 19,” this was written on april 2021. Now,
what they've written here is a very detailed proposal for the study, not the study
itself. Now, this proposal for the study is probably the best proposal i have ever
read for a meta-analysis. It really is quite excellent. So it's got ivermectin…
people that are doing it, objectives… “this is a protocol for a cochrane review
intervention, the objectives are as follows”. But this is what they plan to do,
so description of the condition which is very well and concisely done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Description of the ivermectin which was well
done… how the intervention might work, all well done. But it's all saying what
they plan to do, so the objective is to assess the efficacy and safety of ivermectin,
and compar it to standard care placebo or any other proven intervention. Again,
we will include randomized control trials, so it's not done yet. So this was
back in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>april and this is the cochrane
institute, which is like the new uk national flagship, so you've got to—i mean,
they've given themselves a very complicated job, but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you would have thought given the evidence that
we appear to have they might have given this a slightly higher priority. But
let me show you the state of play: so cochran reviews on this subject, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>zero. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cochrane protocols, that's what we've just
looked at one, so they've got the protocol which is good. They're aware of 112 trials.
They've written no editorials, no special collections, and no clinical answers.
In other words, that is completely useless at the moment, which is a bit
surprising, as i've said. So the evidence from this meta-analysis, again, i
would reinstate release date demands, some form of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>response from dr fauci or chris whitley,
because there's sufficient evidence there to merit a response, even if it's to
say this trial's rubbish, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forget it, and
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we're not going down that route. But as
we've said before the silence is deafening. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So they there you go. I must say i've been looking forward
to this matter of analysis for a long time and i'm a bit disappointed, but having
having read it i can understand why <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
result is more limited and less definitive than we would like. So there we go,
that is my understanding of the ivermectin situation at the moment: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>62% probable reduction in death with moderate
certainty evidence; and with low certainty evidence <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>86% protection against <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spread and effectiveness as a prophylactic
agent, and that's basically the best we've got at the moment. But this is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by far the best meta-analysis so far that i'm
aware of so that really is our current definitive state of knowledge on this subject.
Remember that was educational purposes only, don't take any medicines based on
what i say. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's always a difficult
subject, but more to come on this, and that there are other trials ongoing and
planned. And i'm hoping that quite a few countries like india mexico chile peru
are going to start writing up definitive papers on their population level
studies, which of course involve millions of people and the effect particularly
on prophylaxis. So we look forward to more definitive answers in the future, so
on that slightly frustrating. End. Thank you for watching this video.</p>
<p></p>Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-68198800889873274722022-02-13T08:24:00.002-08:002022-02-13T08:24:36.341-08:00Transcript: Michael Parenti re a battle of the bands: Chomsky & the Cherrypickers vs the Conspiracy Theorists!<p><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are
even some on the <i>left</i>, like Noam Chomsky
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Alexander Coburn, who argue that
this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whole interest in the assassination
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>comes from a Kennedy revival, a Camelot <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>yearning, the yearning for lost messiah. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm giving quotes these are quotes right <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from Chomsky, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coburn and Chomsky and others. They <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>challenged the notion that Kennedy was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>assassinated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for intending to withdraw from Vietnam <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or undo the CIA or the cold war. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things could not have led to his <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>downfall because they were not true. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kennedy was a cold-warrior, a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>counter-insurgent who wanted a military <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>withdrawal from Vietnam only with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>victory. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have
argued similarly, in my book <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Democracy
For the Few</i>, that, in fact, indeed, Kennedy was a cold warrior and a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>counterinsurgent <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and that he should not be romanticized <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as a progressive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chomsky Coburn and others claim that the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>change of administration that came with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JFK's assassination had no large scale <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>effect on policy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not even on tactics. In other words if <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kennedy had lived he likely would have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fabricated a Tonkin gulf <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>casus belli,</i> he would have introduced <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ground troops in a massive land war <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as Lyndon Johnson did. He would have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>engaged in the merciless b-52 carpet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bombings <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam as Richard <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nixon did. He would have risked <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>destroying <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his own electoral base proving himself a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mass murderer as bad as Nixon. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chomsky and Coburn
don't tell us how <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they know that. All we
know <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the one surviving Kennedy, Robert
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kennedy in fact went a different way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became an anti-war critic, he opposed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the war, he broke with the Johnson <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>administration <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and he said that his brother's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>administration, his administration had <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>committed terrible mistakes. The evidence <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we do have in fact is that <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">John Kennedy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>observed Cambodian neutrality <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and negotiated a ceasefire and coalition <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>government in Laos, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which the CIA refused to honor. They <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>preferred to back a right-wing faction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that continued the war</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <br /></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chomsky says
much about troop withdrawal and all that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but he says very little about troop <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>escalation, other than to offer Roger <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hillman’s speculation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Kennedy might well have introduced <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S.
troops ground troops in south <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vietnam. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe so, maybe not. In fact, the same <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hillman noted in the new York times not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>long ago--and Chomsky doesn't note it--that <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">in 1963 Kennedy was the only
person <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in his administration <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who opposed the introduction of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ground
troops. He was the only thing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>preventing
an escalation of the war.</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forget
the question of withdrawal not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>withdrawal
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he was a barrier in that sense. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Whether or
not there are certain left <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>analysts who
think <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kennedy was or wasn't a
progressive or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>liberal and thinks that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the CIA had no reason to kill him or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other people had no reason to be <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dissatisfied him, the fact is do <i>they</i>
see it that way? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know entrenched
interests are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>notorious for not seeing
the world the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>same way <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that left analysts do [audience laughs]. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> In 1963 people in right-wing circles, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>including elements in various <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intelligence organizations did not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believe that Kennedy could be trusted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the nation's future.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some months ago on a San Francisco talk <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>show <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">I heard a guy come on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>uh it was on KGO</span>, and he said—“I’ve
never <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said this before, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never said it, it's the first time I’m <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying it--but <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">I worked for army <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intelligence
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and, uh, in 1963, I was in Japan, and ...the
accepted word around then was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Kennedy
would be killed because he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was messing
too much with the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intelligence community.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when word came of his death, we were
all I could hear were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>delighted comments
like ‘We got the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bastard!</span>’” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Well, <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">JFK's enemies</span> saw
something was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what they saw was
something different <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from what <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chomsky and Coburn have seen: they <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">fixed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on Kennedy’s refusal to provide air <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>coverage the Bay of Pigs, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his refusal to go in with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. forces, his <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unwillingness to launch another invasion <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Cuba, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his no-invasion guarantee to Khrushchev <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on Cuba, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his atmospheric test ban treaty with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moscow, his American University speech <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>calling for a re-examination <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of our cold war attitudes toward the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>soviet union, his unwillingness to send <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ground forces <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in a massive form into Vietnam, his <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>anti-trust suit against General Electric, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his fight with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. steel over price <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>increases, his challenge to the Federal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reserve Board, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his warm reception at labor conventions, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his call for racial equality and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>responsiveness <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to civil rights leaders (reluctant <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>responsiveness), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his talk of moving forward in a new <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>frontier.</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Erwin Knoll,
the progressive, says that he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>admits he
has no idea who killed Kennedy <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but this
doesn't keep him from asserting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that the
Oliver Stone film was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>manipulative and
that Stone provided <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>false answers! How
do you know that, Erwin, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if you have no
idea who killed Kennedy? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> And the
remarkable thing about <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">Erwin
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knoll and Noam Chomsky <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Alexander Coburn</span> is they <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">don't know <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a damn thing about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the criticisms and investigation that's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been made</span>. We've said this again and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>again <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
the rebuttals in the exchange in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nation:
every almost every one of them <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">Alexander Coburn</span> doesn't know anything <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about this case. He <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">doesn't know <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>anything about Lee Harvey Oswald</span>,
really <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>doesn't know. Just <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">some of the questions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I brought up, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they don't know any and they never deny <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it</span>. They never say anything, they go on
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with their with their patronizing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>comments--well <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chomsky patronization and condescension, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coburn with vitriol and venom. </span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> They go on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attacking those who supposedly are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>idealizing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kennedy. Irwin Knoll shows he's flexible, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>though: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he says he allows that <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">the Warren <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Commission</span>
did a hasty, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slipshod job of
investigation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I disagree: the
commission <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">did a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>brilliant job of investigation</span>. It sat for
51 long sessions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">over a period of several months</span>, much <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>longer than most major investigations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">compiled 26 volumes of testimony and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evidence</span>. It had the investigative <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>resources of <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">the FBI and CIA at its command</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from being hasty and slipshod, it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">painstakingly crafted theories <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that
moved toward its foreordained <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conclusion:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Oswald was the assassin</span>. It
framed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an argument <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and moved unfailingly to fulfill that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>argument. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">failed to call witnesses</span> who saw <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>something different from what it wanted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to hear, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who saw, <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">who not only heard but who saw, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people on the grassy knoll <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shooting</span>. It failed to call them, it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">ignored or reinterpreted what little <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conflicting testimony that did creep <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into its proceedings</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">All this took deliberate effort, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was carefully crafted, painstakingly</span>.
<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">A <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hasty, slipshod investigation would show <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>traces of randomness in its errors, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some would go this way some would go <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that way, but the commission's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>distortions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>consistently move in the same direction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in pursuit of a prefigured hypothesis</span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The gullible
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. public that Erwin Knoll <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talks about (Knoll condemns Oliver Stone for
playing on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the gullibility <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the American people)--see he's not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gullible, he's cool; he doesn't fall for this,
he's so cool he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>didn't even go see the
movie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. public <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has not bought the official explanation, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">78 percent say they believe there was a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conspiracy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and both Chomsky and Coburn, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coburn in the nation Chomsky in z <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>magazine, and again in the letter in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>exchange with me, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>both of them dismissed that fact and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>point out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the same identical analog: they point out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
fact, over 70% of people also believe <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
miracles, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so what does that prove?</span>
<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">And what does <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that got to do with the question at hand? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That people can have a stupid opinion <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about one thing doesn't mean they're <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stupid about everything; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in fact Chomsky and Coburn are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>themselves evidence of that.</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any case, the comparison is between <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two different things, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">they're comparing the public's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gullibility
about miracles with the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>public's
unwillingness to be gullible <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about the
official lineup of being fed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and shoved
in their faces for 30 years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's not
gullibility at all</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[applause]. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Coburn and Noam Chomsky <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have told us that we must not reduce <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>great developments in history to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conspiracy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for then we lose sight of institution, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>class, and other systemic factors of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American capitalism. I don't need them to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tell me about systemic factors in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American capitalism; I use a structural <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>analysis in all my writings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But investigating the JFK conspiracy, we <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are not looking for an escape from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>something unpleasant and difficult--that's
psychiatrist Noam Chomsky <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>speaking. But
we're hitting upon the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nature of state <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>power in what is supposed to be a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>democracy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conspiracy is not something that's in contradistinction
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to structural analysis, it is part of it.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> These guys will use conspiracy, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they will use legitimacy, they will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>finance elections, they will use <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>publicity campaigns, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they will set up liberal-ish <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>organizations, they will set up <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>alternative trade union movements, they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will use assassins and death squads...they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will use every single conceivable thing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this was one of the things they used <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when they had someone who was giving <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>them trouble, when they had someone who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was standing in their path, because he <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was a little too bright and too shiny. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> When they had an agenda to save <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Southeast Asia from communism, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they would kill one of their own and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is a tremendous revelation--it was a
startling revelation to the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American
public, to make them realize <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what kind
of a gangster government and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>national
security state we really have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in this
country and what it does around <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
world.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span>Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-1388565281198893482022-01-08T12:16:00.003-08:002022-01-08T13:50:28.513-08:00Dr. Aseem Malhotra (cardiologist) on Heart Attacks & Strokes Resulting From Vaccines (video transcript)<p class="MsoNormal">[partially paraphrased and slightly abridged] </p><p class="MsoNormal">video at: https://twitter.com/i/status/1464257207122472966<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">"A researcher, a whistleblower if you like, from a very
prestigious British cardiology department contacted me to say that the
researchers in this department had found from imaging studies, linked to the
vaccine, inflammation around the coronary arteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal">They had a meeting, and these researchers at
the moment have decided they’re not going to publish their findings because
they are concerned about losing research money from the drug industry.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Add to <u>this</u> information Steven Gundry’s paper in circulation (<a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712</a>)—and
also anecdotal evidence (colleagues telling me that younger and younger people
are coming in with heart attacks).</p><p class="MsoNormal">..Since July, there’s been almost 10K increase
in excess non-COVID deaths, and a significant proportion of those from circulatory
illness (heart attack and stroke).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
been a 30% increase in people dying at home, and often these are because of
cardiac arrest.</p><p class="MsoNormal">(We need more research and)...It’s high time to put an end to the mandates."</p><p class="MsoNormal">COMMENTS from El Blog of Der Jim: Put together all the "departments", firms, and agencies that are similarly deep-sixing any data that threatens their pharma money--and you have a lot of hidden damage + a lot of unequivocally good press for pharma.<br /></p>
Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-65597679359259195402021-12-10T14:44:00.003-08:002021-12-10T14:44:38.084-08:00Ideas on the Epstein Horribleness, and Conspiracies of Probability<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">In response to the belief that elites “probably” did NOT conspire
to have Jeffrey Epstein murdered (because we don't have hard 'evidence'). <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All those elites that Epstein could have fingered (so to
speak)--what do you suppose they were up to, as the star witness against them
lay locked in prison?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You suppose they were just hoping he might
off himself, or some psycho prisoner might murder him, and, other than hoping,
took no action?...If that seems as doubtful to you as it does to me, what
actions do you suppose they took (and are taking now)? <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The central fact of elite conspiracies is the lack of
evidence--BECAUSE THEY CAN AND DO GET RID OF IT--but a preponderance of motive
and means, and circumstantial evidence--and a history of nefarious damage
control by similar entities--check, check, CHECK!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are red flags that should lead to a thorough
and independent investigation, assuming one were politically possible, and presumably turn
up more hard evidence despite conspirators’ efforts to the contrary. True conspirators are banking on our disbelief/apathy, which is based on the lack of evidence that they themselves have engineered.<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> But the court of public opinion isn't a court of law—and it can’t
be in an age when many of the more influential wrongdoers fail to even be
indicted (and many principled heros <i>are</i> indicted, and imprisoned).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, in the poltical realm, so
much ends up "confidential" or "classified"—and yet we need
to vote for one possibly dirty candidate or another, and choose our other political activities wisely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hopefully, any killers, rapists and
obstructors of justice will be thrown in the can or on the chair--but, right
here, right now, what we, the public, are trying to do is ascertain PROBABLE
truth, using whatever info we can get our hands on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, this is the inverse of a court of
law, in which the reasonable POSSIBILITY of untruth means full acquittal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The point of figuring out what PROBABLY went
down in a given situation is to direct our political muscle accordingly (which,
thank god, does not require convictions or acquittals)--and to figure out who
we need to protect ourselves from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is very different from legal conviction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OJ might get off in court, but we might still dissuade our daughter from marrying him--you see?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Conversely, another person—say, Steven Donziger—may seem to have been railroaded unjustly
into a prison term—but maybe we decide, based on the conclusion that the
conviction was corrupt, to contribute to that person's cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe we thereafter decide to support
politically those who came to his aid, and work against those who did not.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> And this it is good that we can make decisions not subject
to the stringency and innocent-until-proven-guilty bias of a court of law (or its
possible corruption!), because probability is all we may ever get, given the
fact that <i>conspirators cover their trail and have the power to do so</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We'll NEVER have the full body of evidence to
consider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, in the final analysis,
making all of our decisions based on shrewdly calculated PROBABILITY is one (albeit
rudimentary) definition of wisdom—if not of U.S.-Constitutional jurisprudence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> To circle back to the violent death of Jeffery Epstein, we
have at least a partial list of powerful people who associated with the man,
and may have availed themselves of his stable of underage sex slaves or otherwise profited from it—and subsequently
had him killed to protect themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill
Clinton is on that list, so is Bill Gates and many others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given human nature, especially the ways and
means of the wealthy and powerful, this scenario is quite plausible...You can't say it isn't <i>plausible</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither does it strain credulity that these
powerful people have been using their resources to wriggle out of legal consequences,
as Epstein himself did--up until the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They may even manipulate the media to come out smelling like benevolent
victims (and it is always <i>possible</i> that this is true).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And so we will never have “proof” of their exact role in this horrid
exploitation, only probabilities, however solid or flimsy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, based on our statistical
perceptions (our research, our knowledge of history and logic...), we can vote, we can engage in activism, we can talk and reason with each other—in
short, we can do whatever we can to bring the <i>probably</i>, allegedly, plausibly guilty <i>down</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Was there a noticeably high number of “sudden and unexpected”
deaths in sports and pro sports before mid-2021? No health official can (or
they will not) explain a possible surge in serious heart issues since mRNA
vaccinations began. According to the probably blackmailed and bribed media and
politicians, these are unfortunate coincidences - although already 13-year-olds
are falling over on the field, struck down with heart trouble--and even dead.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ARTICLES WRITTEN, AND SOME STATS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to start this report with the arguments from
the other side, because it is always important to hear all sides. We would also
like to recommend this principle to the mainstream press, even if there are no
major revenues to be tapped into thereby. In 2016, the French sports
magazine Futura Santé complained of “numerous” heart-related deaths in football,
which affected 2 in 100,000 athletes per year in France at that time - a total
of 1,000 to 1,500 people. The New Statesman reported that 12 young people die of sudden cardiac arrest while running--every week; the article was
published in England in November 2018. In February 2019, the Austrian newspaper
derStandard asked why cardiac deaths are “so common” in sports.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In contrast, for example, there is an article in the German news
outlet WAZ (“West German Universal Times”) from June 13, 2021. A cardiologist
stated there that sudden cardiac death rarely occurs in sports. Now, how is
that, when there are no reliable statistics for comparison? But in Wikipedia
there are lists of athletes who died during the game. This list goes back to
1889, and at first glance is extensive, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but in the end it turns out that only 5-8 such
deaths were recorded even in "disaster years". Many of these concern
heart problems. The question is therefore difficult to answer without official
and complete statistics: Are currently more people really dying “suddenly and
unexpectedly” in sports, especially when it affects professionals and top
athletes? And is it because of the vaccination, as many critical thinkers suspect?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OVER 75 KNOWN CASES IN THE LAST 5 MONTHS</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have compiled a list of the known cases over the past few
months. It is most likely incomplete. It includes many dead - and some who developed
severe heart problems but fortunately survived. Note: The youngest on the list
was only 13 years old, and many entries concern people under 20 years of age. the
gut feeling, from the great amount of evidence, is that 2021 has seen a surge
in these cases. But why are the authorities not interested, why are there
always excuses instead of rigorous investigations and precise autopsies? It may
be that all of these people passed out dead or seriously ill on the field for
“normal” reasons. But we certainly don't know - and that amounts to criminal
negligence on the part of the powers-that-be, to whom we pay billions in taxes
yearly in order to have a good health system and safe, well tested medication. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> We took a long time for this research, selecting each case
individually. We are not claiming that all of these people
fell ill and died because of the vaccination, nor that there is a proven link to
the vaccinations. The dates listed mostly correspond to the day of the report
and do not have to coincide with the date of the event. It is notable that the
links we researched lead mostly to articles that are hidden behind a payment
barrier and can therefore be read by relatively few people. Conicidence? Feel
free to inform us about further cases or errors: Redaktion@report24.news</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the list of horrors, starting in June 2021 (mid-May
for Kyle Warner, the first athlete listed, only) --when the mass-vaccination
campaign was in full swing, and everyone who had blindly trusted the system had
already gotten their second shot. <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5.15.21, USA, 29 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kyle Warner, pro mountain biker, is seriously disabled with
pericarditis, myocarditis, reactive arthritis, and POTS after a COVID vaccine, ending
his career, and is diagnosed with severe adverse vaccine reaction </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6.4.21, Italy, 29 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Italy: The 29-year-old ex-professional Giuseppe Perrino
collapses in a charity game for his dead brother and dies.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6.7.21, Germany 38 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The table tennis professional Michael Schneider dies
suddenly and unexpectedly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6.12.21, Denmark, 29 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The footballer Christian Eriksen collapses lifeless during a
European Championship game - he can be revived, but needs a pacemaker for the
rest of his life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6.22.21, Hungary, 18 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Footballer Viktor Marcell Hegedüs died warming up for
training in Hungary.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">07.14.21, the Netherlands, age 31</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Speed skating Olympic champion Kjelt Nuis seriously ill
after vaccination, with heart problems in hospital.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">07/16/21, Egypt</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Footballer Imad Bayumi died during a friendly match in
Egypt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">July 22nd, ‘21, Germany, 36 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On July 22nd, SV Olympia Schlanstedt and Germania from
Kroppenstedt met. During the game Schlanstedts player Nicky Dalibor collapsed
and had to be reanimated on the field.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">07.23.21, Germany, 27 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tim B. from SV Hamberge (Schleswig-Holstein) collapses after
returning from a soccer tournament and dies.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">07/24/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A player from TuS Hoberge-Uerentrup (Bielefeld) collapses on
the pitch with cardiac arrest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">07.31.21, Netherlands, age 19</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 19-year-old handball player Whitnée Abriska died of
cardiac arrest just before an airline flight.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.02.21, Belgium, 18 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rune Coghe (18) from Eendracht Hoglede (Belgium) suffers
heart attack during game</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 2nd, ‘21, Austria, 18 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chronicle: 18-year-old unnamed player in Burgenland
(Austria) collapses on the field and can be saved thanks to the use of a
helicopter.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08/06/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">District league player of the SpVgg. Oelde II has to be
revived by his opponent.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.14.21, Belgium, 37 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The only 37-year-old former French professional footballer
Franck Berrier died of several heart attacks while playing tennis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08/15/21 Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Goalkeeping coach of SV Niederpöring suffers heart attack
after training.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08/16/21 France 24 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bordeaux pro Samuel Kalu collapses with cardiac arrest
during a Ligue 1 game</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.18.21, Belgium, 25 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Belgian soccer player Jente Van Genechten (25) suffers
cardiac arrest in the early stages of a cup game.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.21.21, Turkey, 31 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fabrice N’Sakala (31) from Besiktas Istanbul collapses on
the field without interference from the opponent and has to be taken to the
hospital</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.22.21, Italy, 29 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pedro Obiang from Italian first division club Sassuolo
Calcio after Covid vaccination with myocarditis in hospital.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.22.21, Venezuela, age 30</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Venezuelan national marathon champion Alexaida Guedez dies
of a heart attack during a 5,000 meter run.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08.24.21, Luxembourg, age 29</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">José dos Reis, a Red Black Pfaffenthal (Luxembourg) player,
collapses on the field and has to be resuscitated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">08/29/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the C-League Dillenburg (Central Hesse) a player from
Hirzenhain collapses, the game is canceled.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.05.21, France, 16 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Diego Ferchaud (16 years old) from ASPTT Caen suffers
cardiac arrest in a U-18 league match in Saint-Lô.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/06/21, Austria</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ASV Baden player (Lower Austria) collapses on the field and
has to be reanimated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.06.21, Italy, 16 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">16-year-old unnamed soccer player in Bergamo suffers cardiac
arrest</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.06.21, Belgium, 27 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Belgian amateur soccer player Jens De Smet (27) from
Maldegem suffers a heart attack during the game and dies in hospital.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.06.21, Italy, 13 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13-year-old soccer player from the Janus Nova club from
Saccolongo (Italy) collapses on the field with cardiac arrest</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.07.21, Great Britain, age 17</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17 year old soccer player Dylan Rich dies of a double heart
attack during a game in England.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.09.21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Player from the Birati Club Münster collapses of cardiac
arrest in a regional league game against FC Nordkirchen. Game is canceled</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/10/21, Germany, 24 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lucas Surek (24) from BFC Chemie Leipzig comes down with
myocarditis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11.09.21, France, 49 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ain / France: Frédéric Lartillot succumbs to a heart attack
after a friendly game in the locker room</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/11/21, Italy, 45 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrea Astolfi, sports director of Calcio Orsago (Italy)
suffers a heart attack from sudden and severe diffuse cardiac inflammation (fulminant
myocarditis) after returning from training and dies at the age of 45 without
any previous illness</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11.09.21, Denmark, 22 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Abou Ali (22) collapses with cardiac arrest during a
two-tier game in Denmark</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11.09.21, Netherlands, 19 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><img alt="A person smiling in front of a bush
Description automatically generated with low confidence" height="58" src="file:///C:/Users/Jim/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg" width="97" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The ice hockey player Sebastiaan Bos passed away suddenly
and unexpectedly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/12/21, Austria, 40 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A half marathon runner collapsed during the race and died a
little later.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/13/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anil Usta from VfB Schwelm (Ennepetal) collapses on the
field with heart problems</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.13.21, France 33 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dimitri Liénard from FC Strasbourg collapses in a Ligue 1
game with heart problems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.14.21, USA 37 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ex-NFL pro Parys Haralson dies suddenly and unexpectedly at
the age of 37.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/18/21, Germany 25 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kingsley Coman (25) from FC Bayern Munich had a heart
operation after an arrhythmia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.18.21, Canada 25 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Canadian university football player Francis Perron passed
away shortly after a match.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.19.21, France 19 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">19-year-old soccer player from FC Nantes suffers cardiac
arrest during training</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/19/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Volleyball trainer Dirk Splisteser from SG Traktor Divitz
collapses dead on the sidelines</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/21/21, Augsburg</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Assistant referee of a Kreisliga Augsburg game in
Emersacker, collapses with heart problems</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/21/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the World Cup qualification match for women between
Germany and Serbia in Chemnitz, the English linesman Helen Byrne had to be
carried off the pitch with heart problems</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/27/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Game abandoned due to cardiac arrest of the referee in a
game of Lauber SV (Donauwörth district)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.27.21, Italy, 20 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Young rider suffers a heart attack at the end of a
tournament.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/28/21, Germany, 17 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17-year-old soccer player of the JSG Hoher Hagen has to be
resuscitated in Hannoversch Münden during the game</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.28.21, Italy, 53 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">53-year-old football coach Antonello Campus collapses while
training with his youth team in Sicily</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09.28.21, USA, 16 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Twice vaccinated teenager collapses playing soccer and dies
soon after.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/29/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Team leader Dietmar Gladow from Thalheim (Bitterfeld)
suffers a fatal heart attack before the game</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">9/29/21, USA</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A high school football player collapsed during practice and
died in the hospital.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">09/30/21, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A player collapsed in the A 2 regional league game between
SV Hoßkirch and TSV Sigmaringendorf. He suffered cardiac arrest and had to be
resuscitated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.01.21, Germany, 15 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Young goalkeeper Bruno Stein from FC An der Fahner Höhe in
Gräfentonna, Thuringia, died at the age of 15.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">October 3, 21, Austria, 64 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ex-goalkeeper coach and most recently talent scout Ernst
Scherr suddenly and unexpectedly died.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.04.21, Germany, 42 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alexander Siegfried from VfB Moschendorf suddenly and
unexpectedly collapsed and died.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.07.21, Italy, 17 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A 17-year-old athlete from Colverde breaks down with cardiac
arrest while training.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.08.21, France, 49 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SC Massay player suffers a fatal heart attack during the
game.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.09.21, Mexico</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The caddy Alberto Olguin collapses dead on the golf course
after a heart attack. It is said to be the second death of its kind within a
short period of time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.09.21, England, age 29</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shrewsbury professional striker Ryan Bowman has to be
treated for extreme heart problems with a defibrillator after half an hour of
play.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.10.21, Italy, 18 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Football player suddenly faints on the pitch, is reanimated
by fellow players.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.10.21, France, 40 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After warming up, a Saint-James player suffers a heart
attack.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.10.21, Italy, 59 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A long-distance runner from Biella dies of heart failure
during a race.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10/10/2021, Germany</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the game between Wacker Mecklenbeck and Fortuna
Freudenberg in the women's Westphalia league, a player collapsed shortly before
match’s end.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10/12/21 Germany, 25 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">HC TuRa Bergkamen goalkeeper Lukas Bommer dies suddenly and
unexpectedly.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.13.21, Mexico, 16 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The student Hector Manuel Mendoza dies of a heart attack
while training.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.14.21, Brazil, 18 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The young professional footballer Fellipe de Jesus Moreira,
with no history of heart issues, had to be resuscitated twice after double
heart attack, and is fighting for his life.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.14.21, Italy, 27 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The multiple cycling champion Gianni Moscon has to undergo
surgery because of severe cardiac arrhythmias.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.14.21, Italy, 53 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">An AH footballer suffers a heart attack while training.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.15.21, USA, 14 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The 14-year-old soccer player Ava Azzopardi collapsed on the
pitch and is now fighting for her life in an artificial coma.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.16.21, France, 54 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AH player Christophe Ramassamy died of a heart attack during
a match.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.17.21, France, 41 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A soccer player collapsed on the field and died, apparently
of cardiac arrest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.27.21, Austria, 26 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ghanaian Raphael Dwamena collapsed with severe heart
problems. He was wearing a defibrillator before the incident.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.28.21, Germany, 48 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hertha BSC co-trainer Selim Levent dies suddenly and
unexpectedly while on vacation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.28.21, USA, 12 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><img alt="A close-up of a person smiling
Description automatically generated with medium confidence" height="56" src="file:///C:/Users/Jim/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.jpg" width="99" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12-year-old Jayson Kidd collapsed while training basketball
and later died.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10.30.21, Spain, 33 years old</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Striker Kun Agüero from FC Barcelona had to be replaced in a
game due to heart problems. He is now in the hospital for examinations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Many of the cases mentioned are due to the research by the
Telegram group “Telegram Impftod”: <a href="https://t.me/corona_impftod">https://t.me/corona_impftod</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a group on Telegram with almost 60,000
participants, where victims of vaccination side effects exchange ideas. The
community was brought into being by the committed activist Martin Rutter:
https://t.me/Impfschaden_D_AUT_CH werden.</p>
Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-53906991132376417582021-11-09T13:16:00.002-08:002021-11-10T04:09:24.185-08:00Geert Vanden Bossche On Natural Immunity's Destruction by COVID Viral Overexposure and Vaccination, a highlighted transcript of an interview in which he details the mechanisms by which immunity is gained and lost
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">SARS-cov2 came to our countries and initially the vast majority of all
healthy people were simply protected although they were so to say immunologically
naive so how can that be so? This is</span> just <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">explained by innate immunity which is a factor</span> an
element <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">that has been completely
completely neglected</span> ignored whatsoever <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in this pandemic and which is now leading to enormous confusion</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have children that can be infected right
now <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">children
non-vaccinated children are even an important source of infection</span>
there's no doubt about this and so you have a vaccine that can obviously
according to data i've seen essentially data published by public health england
that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">vaccination can
reduce the infectivity rate in in children</span> so on top some children get
the disease really and if you can prevent the disease protect people from the
disease elderly people and also <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>adults
etc why wouldn't you vaccinate <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
children and even young children so that is the is the main question is that people
are saying that the children are a source of infection for the elderly and
putting them at risk plus the children can have risk as well of getting an
infection and so therefore it seems almost counterintuitive of course you
should want to vaccinate them yeah so again i mean there is so many questions that
we can ask and where we don't have the answers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i mean this has been my major field or my major
focus is not to leave any stone unturned and try to understand what's going on because
and i i'll give you a simple example we know we know that this vaccine cannot
prevent infection cannot protect against infection and then when you look for
example at the data public health england you see that there is a tremendous impact
i'm saying tremendous impact of vaccinating children on the infectivity rate come
on how can that be see there is plenty of things that cannot be explained by
just taking into account the acquired immunity and what we know about what the
vaccines do inducing neutralizing antibodies and we know they don't protect
against infection and that was also the reason why now the criteria have
already been changed or the benchmark it's no longer you know herd immunity preventing
transmission it's no longer even protecting just against disease it's not
protecting against severe disease and guess what you vaccinate children you
have a tremendous impact on infectivity so that already tells me something is wrong
so something else is that of course children <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">at the beginning of the pandemic for a year or even
longer especially children they were completely unaffected most of them were
not even shedding the virus let alone getting getting the the illness so while
all of a sudden now children are getting infected and and and get ill</span> so
what has changed i can tell you what has changed the major change is that we
have by <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">by doing the mass vaccination
we have been fostering we have been promoting the propagation of more infectious
variants</span> so that is to say of course the infectious variants existed
already the more infectious but it's very clear that since we have been doing
the mass vaccination since we implemented mass vaccination campaigns in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you know a substantial um to a substantial
extent that the propagation of <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">more infectious variants <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has
been promoted and has been accelerated</span> so this already tells me well
maybe we should see whether <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">there
is a link</span> somewhere <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">between
the higher rate of infectiousness</span> so i always call this the infectious pressure
in the population <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">and abnormalities
that we are observing right now so that all of a sudden</span> in combination
with <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the vaccine you can
tremendously reduce infectivity rate in in in children</span> because <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">if you just look at the infectivity
rate you say okay if the vaccine has an effect we need to vaccinate them nobody
thi<u style="text-underline: words;">nk</u>s on about the long-term effect of
this</span> and nobody really knows what this is going to cause in children <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in</span> terms of i would say <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">immune mediated effects</span>
so we are intervening in the immune system do we simply thi<u style="text-underline: words;">nk</u> that the immune system in those young people in those children will
react in exactly the same way as in adults or older people we know that if you
vaccinate somebody where is a young individual or an older individual or an
adult you will always get acquired antibodies you will get these vaccinal antibodies
no problem that is of course always exceptions people who react as well to the
vaccine so in terms of the vaccinal antibodies we have a kind of homologous <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>population when we vaccinate but what in terms
of innate immunity obviously when it's not a homologous population because yeah
so when you't say innate immunity gert are you saying i'm just trying to help
the if they listen to understand this you are saying the natural baseline
immune system producing antibodies and using natural killer cells to fight any
kind of infection it's almost as like a broad army it that's what you mean when
you say indian community and it's it's very logical <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>philip i mean we talk about the virus right
and we want to kill this virus it's we want to eliminate this virus we want to neutralize
this virus that is that is the purpose right so then <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">what we need to thi<u style="text-underline: words;">nk</u>
about in terms of immunology is</span> what i call effectors immune effectors
immune effectors are for example antibodies and 1) <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">antibodies can potentially neutralize the virus, and
2) affect our T-cells that can for example kill virus infected cells</span> we
have both compartments represented in the acquired immunity branch so to say
which we know very well that is the one we vaccinologists know very very well
the antibodies and the T-cells for example <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">but</span> people forget that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">within the compartment of the innate immunity</span>
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">you also have</span> this
humeral effectors so the antibodies namely <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate antibodies and you also have innate cells that
can kill virus infected cells</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">which are for example the natural killer cells</span> so these are the guys
that we like to talk to when we want to kill a virus or when we want to
diminish the infection etc we need effectors that can either neutralize free
circulating virus or that can kill cells that harbor a virus that obviously has
entered into the into the cells and <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we have both compartments the humeral antibody and the cellular</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">[and both can be both specific
and innate]</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well for the
innate immunity as for the acquired immunity so this is already to say that have
you heard during this whole you know pandemic a lot about natural killer cells
have you heard a lot about innate immunity etc innate antibodies and i'm just
saying this is you know an incredibly important this is our first line of
defense when we talk about innate immunity people come with cytokines and all
this kind of stuff i call this innate messengers they are messengers a cytokine
is not capable in its own right of neutralizing a virus or killing a virus
infected cell right this is all we know vaccinologists about innate immunity
because we know that these <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">cytokines
etc</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">act as</span> a
kind of <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">adjuvant</span>
and that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we need</span>
this adjuvantation <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">to</span>
really have a full fledge <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">to
induce a full-fledged acquired immune response but the most important elements
and cornerstones of the innate immunity are the innate antibodies and the
natural killer cells</span> and by the way these are the effectors that have saved
you know almost all people at least all people who were in good health when the
pandemic came in it was yeah because people were immunologically naive and we
know that those <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the people
who were vulnerable were those who with a weakened innate immune system</span>
we know that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">underlying
diseases</span> for the older you you get unfortunately the higher the likelihood
that you have to deal with underlying diseases and with with the number of you
know <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">comorbidities</span>
etc so these were the people and there is a relationship it's all it's all published
relationship between your health status and the quality of your innate immunity
so even you you get older and you get underlying diseases etc etc <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">your health deteriorates so does
your innate immune system</span> these are typically the people who were
vulnerable so why didn't we already learn from the very beginning from the very
beginning where we didn't see this in healthy people that innate immunity was
really the key the key factor that was you know controlling the pandemic at the
very beginning so are we too short term in our approach to this pandemic is it
that i'm trying to understand why therefore we're seeing some of the responses
that we've seen across the world is it that we're trying too hard to just stop
the pandemic and we're not taking the time to thi<u style="text-underline: words;">nk</u>
and to plan and to look at the longer term consequences of our actions well personally
and i thi<u style="text-underline: words;">nk</u> i have said this before um in
the mind of vaccinologists and people who are interested in using vaccines for public
health in our mind it's like okay <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we use a vaccine to control an infection and we have been doing this
very very successfully and we haven't been caring that much about being in a
pandemic or or not we haven't been caring that much about vaccinating you know
like whole populations entire population across all ages this is something we
have in fact not done before and we have not taken those factors into account so
that means that we have been using vaccines now during a pandemic just the way
we would use them outside of a pandemic</span> where you would vaccinate people
make sure they have nice titers of antibodies and then they are protected of
course <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against against disease which is
fine we thought that the fact that we do this during a pandemic and that we massively
vaccinate people not just like <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">normally with a vaccine you have the childhood vaccines you have the
adult vaccines you have the adolescent vaccines</span> this is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">each time</span> a target group <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">one target group that you vaccinate</span>
there's <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">none of these
vaccines is used in fact for mass vaccination</span> we thought this was all
not important a vaccine is a vaccine and the effect of the vaccine when it
induces antibodies is well it will at least protect against the disease and
that will stay so that will remain so <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">not taking into account that the dynamic of the pandemic leads
to changes in the virus more infectious variants that become more dominant and
that it leads also to changes in the immune pressure that the population exerts
these situations are very very different from the immune response in a certain
cohort during clinical trial</span> for example and where you have of course
you're not necessarily in in a pandemic so we have simply been extrapolating to
a situation which is however so different <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">and not been taking into account the evolutionary
dynamics and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the versatility of the
immune response and and also the evolutionary capacity of the virus</span> i'm
going to bring up an image here that you shared with me and i want you to try and
as simply as you can explain what this is about um this is where we're looking
at children and you are concerned about the innate immune response in
comparison to the spite protein response of those children in a normal
infection so this is an unvaccinated child is that about right yeah and this is
always the case actually before we come to a complex situation of vaccinating a
child and why am i saying is this a complex situation because <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the child obviously has very good
and very strong innate immunity and now all of a sudden we we will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also provide it with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>acquired immunity so that is a complex
situation</span> before we do this we we we need to start out with things that are
as simple as possible so right at the beginning <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we'll start out with</span> a situation where we are
dealing with in fact not necessarily a child but it could be a child <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but anyway <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">a person who is not vaccinated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but who is in a pandemic</span> right so it's
it's a case of the non-vaccinated being exposed to a pandemic we first need to understand
what is happening before we can then move on and see what happens to a person
who is in an identical situation but who gets vaccinated right yeah so this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>scheme was just meant to illustrate that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">innate immunity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has</span> a so
to say <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">a threshold where
it can protect</span> so i told already that people who have weak health underlying
diseases comorbidities that their innate immune response is weakened and that
therefore they will not be able to contain the virus so but if they do for
example at the beginning of the pandemic the children already healthy person they
are capable of eliminating the virus and that is due most likely there is a
number of papers that very strongly suggest that this is the case <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">through innate antibodies</span>
and the innate antibodies as i said <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">they can neutralize the virus</span> and that has been very well described
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">but if they don't
neutralize the virus they can still facilitate the entry into cells that can
present it to to the “natural killer” cells</span> this is this is i'm not going
to go into the detail but <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the
way the natural antibodies facilitate the presentation to “natural killer”
cells is of course different from a situation where acquired [post-vaccine?] Antibodies
facilitate virus entry into antigen presenting cells to then be presented to
the T-cells</span> for example <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">it is similar but you have different effectors</span> so what i'm
saying is that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">either the innate
antibodies they can neutralize right away the virus</span> these are typically <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">for example the children who at
the beginning of the pandemic got exposed to the virus weren't even shedding
the virus was neutralized right away or you can have people with you know less high
titers of innate antibodies the virus which will get in but the “natural killer”
cells will kick in very very fast and they will eliminate the virus also these people
are still part of what we call the asymptomatically infected people</span> and so
they don't really infect symptoms because the virus is eliminated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very fast so that is the threshold when saying
where you have steady life in unity[??] <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">So now</span> what is happening is that um if for example
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">you have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>anti-spike antibodies not from the vaccine</span>
but why would a person <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">why
would a person<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have anti-spike antibodies</span>
whereas this person has not even gotten the disease i was just saying these people
have innate antibodies for example following an asymptomatic infection so <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">they didn't get a disease</span>
how then can they get to the to these antibodies well this can happen <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">because people who got
asymptomatically infected did not neutralize the virus right away but they got-cells
infected that were afterwards eliminated by “natural killer” cells</span> they
have <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">at least immune
system has at least for a short time seen the virus it entered into the cells
it was very eliminated very fast so the immune response that you will see is
short-lived it's not a fully mature response and it does not induce B memory cells
but it doesn't use antibodies against the spike protein and if somebody is
having this antibodies they last for about six to eight weeks</span> all this
has been documented these antibodies <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">they can compete with the innate antibodies</span> and i've been describing
in a number of articles how this competition works in fact <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">they have both affinity for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SARS-cov2 for the viral particles they
interact in another way with each other and hence they compete for binding to
that particle</span> they compete so now you can imagine, you're a healthy
person right? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">You got an asymptomatic infection so you are for some
time you will be sitting on this short-lived antibodies, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>these anti-spike antibodies, and if these
antibodies can now suppress your innate antibodies (the innate antibodies are
not destroyed it's just like they are bypassed because the anti-spike antibodies
they bind strongly enough to the SARS-cov2 particle that the innate antibodies
have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>barely a chance to bind</span>--they
are not necessarily completely outcompeted; they can bind to some extent but
they don't fully bind to it) <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">so</span>
if that if if <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">now</span>
you imagine that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">these [anti-spike?]
Antibodies</span> nor <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">which
normally last for six to eight weeks</span> that this person who is sitting on
these antibodies get <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">continuously</span>
in <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">contact</span> with
with <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the virus which is
the case right now with young people</span> for example you know people are having
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">contact</span> this virus
is so highly infectious <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">this
delta variant</span> that the likelihood that people get in contact with the
virus <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">over and over</span>
again becomes very high so <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in
other words your short-lived spike antibodies have no chance or have barely any
chance to decline and they can they can to some extent [out]compete </span><s>with</s><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;"> your innate antibodies</span>
and what happens and what what is this doing therefore <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>philip your <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if you if you like <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>please show the slide again yeah so what is
happening that's what i put at the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at
the bottom of this slide so obviously when <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and this is the situation number one <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i put the one say to the arrow where <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the level of</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">protection</span> that is
afforded or that is provided sorry that is provided <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">by your innate antibodies has come down</span> to
the level of np1 it has come down so it is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in other words no longer inducing sterilizing immunity</span>
because it is underneath the threshold <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">but it can still bind to the virus</span> and what does
this do well <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">this has an
important <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>effect</span> in a sense that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">this will enable training of
your innate immunity</span> so in fact the <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">innate antibodies that have a very broad spectrum that
can cover all kinds of different SARS-cov2 variants and even corona viruses</span>
so they have this broad spectrum they were all of a sudden was their affinity no
longer strong enough to bind to the virus in a way that it could completely
eliminated it as i was saying you're underneath the threshold no longer
sterilizing immunity so that is it it seems it is like the viru the <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate immune system</span> would
try to improve in fact the strength of binding of these innate antibodies to
still <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">remain polyreactive</span>
to still remain very very broad and that is the training that is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">training</span> that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">means</span> that when <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate immune response</span>
has been to some extent suppressed by the anti-spike antibodies it will react
in a way because it has recognized the antigen of course <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate antibodies</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">have seen the virus</span> it
will react <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in a way that
it improves its binding to this SARS-cov2 particle</span> and the way this
occurs is by stimulation by activation i should say <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">by activation of pre-existing</span> so they exist
as you know <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">from birth</span>
from pre-existing <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">B memory
cells that secrete igm antibodies*s polyreactive antibodies</span> so in this
way in fact you have two things first of all <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate immune system does a kind of upgrade</span>
because it has now it will <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">now
produce antibodies</span> that are recognized <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">with</span> somewhat <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">a higher affinity</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the SARS-cov2</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">and that is an interesting situation because the igm antibodies*s
that are secreted by the plasma cells that are generated by this igm antibodies*
secreting B memory cells they are still polyreactive</span> they are still
capable <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">which is important
for a young child at the beginning of its life to still recognize a diversified
spectrum of different pathogens</span> so this is a marvelous thing this is a
marvelous thing that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the immune</span>
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">system</span> does it <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">learns to train its</span>
immune cells its <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">innate
immune cells so that it can now better cope with this invading pathogen without
compromising its broad spectrum</span> that it will still maintain <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">to also fight other pathogens</span>
by exactly the same way of innate immunity so let me understand then so what
you're saying is that even in children because say the delta variant is so much
more infectious they are being continuously exposed to the virus they are
getting continual spikes of their s protein and this is suppressing their
innate immune system so that seems to be pushing the narrative even further
that these children should therefore benefit from vaccination that's what i
would get from that it is that a correct interpretation well no it is not but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we we cannot since these things are
unfortunately relatively complex we can really not afford to skip <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to to skip some steps so to to your point
first to your first point philip when these children their innate immunity is
suppressed okay so but to the extent that is not completely outcompeted the
innate antibodies will still recognize the virus and will get trained and this
is a memory draining can you imagine the value of this this is something that
is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">still polyreactive [but
nevertheless] has memory</span> right so but you could say and this is of
course true that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">if the
innate immunity now gets suppressed too much, if the innate antibodies can no
longer even bind to the virus because the anti-spike protein antibodies bind so
strongly that the innate antibodies are completely out competed, then of course
the virus breaks, in fact, through the innate immunity and the child will get
ill</span>. Will will get a disease but this is also another misunderstanding i
would say by all of us first of all <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the likelihood that that happens will depend on the status of the
innate immune status of the child for example pandemic flu pandemic 1918 young
soldiers 16 years old 70 years old etc were fighting in the trenches you know you
can imagine the situation the conditions very bad innate immunity the the virus
had no problem to immediately break through that innate immunity and to make
this the soldiers these young people ill</span> right if we look <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">right now the children that get
the disease and certainly you know severe disease are rather rare our children
right now are in much better health much better nutrition</span> all you know i
mean <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">especially in our
western countries</span> of course they have you know very good health status
in general so it's much more difficult for the virus to break through that health
status so that is one lesson first of all can your child if it is not
vaccinated can it get ill of course it can what is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the likelihood that [children] will get severe
disease is very very very low</span> and we should really make a difference
between severe disease and and disease <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">it's not abnormal to get ill because remember if these
children then recover they get a disease they may maybe be in bed for a few
days i don't know not necessarily but they will then develop lifelong immunity
acquired immunity</span> that is very very clear and of course if their innate
immune status is severely depressed and this could also be due to genetic deficiencies
or or underlying diseases then that is of course a different situation then
these children will get dealing with could even get <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>get a severe disease but we have to bear in mind
that a normal situation where <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">a child in good health can deal with it and either develops
asymptomatic infection and has the benefit of training its innate immune system
while still being able to tackle a number of other pathogens</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">that is a very favorable situation
i would say almost a worst [BEST?!] Case scenario</span> the child get a
disease okay then it will when it recovers acquire also quite broad protective
immunity through acquired <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>acquired
antibodies so you have your common situation so you can't be saying therefore
to just let the children get covet 19. That would seem as though that's too
high a risk isn't it for the children even though they have a small risk some
could get seriously ill and some could die why not just protect them with vaccinations
well right now you know this is this is paradoxical paradoxically enough <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">children right now have never
been better protected against disease</span> than now that is very very strange
so how can we explain this and again now i have to come to the point that if
this were due to innate immunity so far i've been talking about innate immunity
if a child has sufficient innate immunity <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">as innate immunity is sterilizing</span> it will
eliminate a virus it will fight infection and because it does that automatically
the child must be protected against disease so with sterilizing immunity innate
immunity protection against infection goes hand in hand with protection against
disease in order to get a disease you first need to get infected so what we see
right now is that we see children that are protected against disease look at
the public health <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>public health england data the children</span>
the class <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">under the age of
18 there is almost no disease so this young children now develop almost no
disease</span> however however they are <s>all but</s> [in no way?] Protected against
infection; <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">on the contrary,
these unvaccinated children are now a major source of infection</span> but <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">this <s>is</s> already should</span>
already <s>ring a bell</s> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">[sound
a warning]</span> so what is going on here <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">because</span> these children <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">it cannot be the innate immunity</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">because</span> protecting you know
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">you can only be protected
against disease provided you are protected against infection when it comes to innate
immunity</span> here the situation is different and why does this why is this
the case? So on one hand side you could say well the likelihood and frankly
speaking i don't think that the major driver right now to even think of
vaccinating children and i'm talking especially <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in countries like the us like the uk like even belgium is
i mean in all countries that have high vaccination rates and where the delta
variant is is is really propagating at at very high speed and in in high
quantities<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in these countries you will
see that that the children you know are extremely well protected</span> against
the disease <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">so i don't think
that the major driver in these countries to get the children vaccinated is to
protect them from the disease but it is essentially to prevent them from
spreading the virus</span> but that is something that is not understood because
didn't we say all the time that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the virus does not—adapted [to?] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vaccine does not protect against infection
and that it does not protect against transmission</span> and <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">on the other hand we see now in children</span>
a tremendous effect of <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the
vaccine</span> to <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">protect
against the infection: the infection rates in the vaccinated children they are
incredibly low</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">compared
to the infection rates in the non-vaccinated children</span>. <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">So none of this makes sense unless
unless you bring in the combination of the innate immunity and the acquired
immunity. As i was saying, if the children are continuously in contact with the
virus more and more they will mount anti-spike antibodies, short-lived
anti-spike antibodies that can completely out-compete the innate immune
antibodies. So what would that mean? No protection</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">whatsoever, because innate
immunity is outcompeted? No, you will still have protection because now the
anti-spike protein the anti-spike antibodies at a high level will bind so
strongly to the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SARS-cov2 particles that
it is not capable of preventing the infection, but it can prevent the disease
in its own right</span>. So the pre the protection that these children are now
enjoying against the disease comes--and i'm talking about non-vaccinated children--comes
from the short-lived anti-spike antibodies that are now continuously present
that have no chance even to decline and that completely outcompete the innate
antibodies. So <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">this is</span>
something which is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">a very strange
situation</span> a very strange situation and already illustrates that if you
would stratify and you would take it per age group well <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">normally with a pandemic you see that the disease
rate is following the infection [rate];</span> etc <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">here it is completely disconnected: these
unvaccinated young children are protected better than ever against the disease but
they are a very important source of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
infectivity</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">And so what therefore is the
solution, Geert? Because as you can say you've highlighted the the very strange
circumstance where yes the vaccine does protect the children you know. And and what
what do parents do do they </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Well, we need to take it one step
further now we are going to vaccinate the children right after all these other
steps that we are going to vaccinate the children we have already learned that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">anti-spike antibodies that
strongly bind to the virus can completely out compete innate immunity even in
children</span> even in children <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">who are not vaccinated but continuously exposed to the virus</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the short-lived anti-spike antibodies
can bind strongly enough to the virus to out-compete innate immunity and to
provide protection against disease</span> so now <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">if you add one layer</span> you add one layer <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">where you are now going to
vaccinate these children and induce [vaccinal] antibodies that bind even much
stronger than the short-lived [innate] antibodies that children acquire
following asymptomatic infection, then for sure you're going to completely out
compete the innate antibodies</span> that is that is one thing and um the other
thing is that these vaccinal antibodies will now strongly bind to the virus but
they will no <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">longer this
combination will of course no longer allow training of the innate immune system
of the child</span> so the training of the innate immune system of a child is <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">so important because it's going
to protect them at an early age to numerous other pathogens</span> and <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">these igm antibodies*s have a
broad spectrum if you prevent this training what you are going to do first of
all with the children that are not vaccinated but that are continuously exposed
to the virus and develop this</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">high titer of short-lived antibodies they their innate immune responses
is is suppressed</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">and
t</span>he virus will continuously <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">they will continuously encounter
the virus so it will still it can still induce training but the training will
be very very limited to the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SARS-cov2</span>
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">antigen</span> because
that is the antigen that it is the innate immune system that is in the process
of being trained is seeing all the time <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">so that means that even the non-vaccinated children right
now because of the high infectious pressure are more and more concentrating even
with regard to their trained immunity on the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SARS-cov2 and have not enough leeway to fight
other pathogens that they would normally easily deal with at that young age</span>.
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">If you vaccinate the
children, you are pushing this one step further because now you are not going
to allow any training at all</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate immune system is very strongly and i would say almost
durably suppressed</span> by durably every single time that this child is going
to encounter the delta variant which is circulating all the time it will get it
will get its antibodies boosted it's acquired antibodies boosted and the
suppression will be continued so now i'm in a situation where <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the innate immunity is continuously
suppressed while the virus is continuously attacking this child</span> why yeah
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">because</span> we know
that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the vaccinal
antibodies cannot limit or cannot prevent spread and transmission of the virus</span>
so it gets continuously continuously confronted with the virus the innate the acquired
immunity cannot do anything about this because <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the antibodies cannot prevent infection the innate immune
system cannot be [broadly] trained</span>, because in its you know <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>immune cells have been outcompeted and then
what we get and this is typically what we see </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">In naive children when they get confronted with a
pathogen they will secrete naive antibodies</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">So that means <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we have no trained immunity so
the memory cells forget about them [individual pathogens?]; they have not been
activated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the naive igm antibodies*
secreting B cells they will now secrete more and more antibodies and those
antibodies they can recognize self-like motifs. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">*</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto;"> igm antibodies secreted by B cells participate in both
neutralization and clearance of pathogens in addition to initiating
inflammatory reactions against pathogens through the complement pathway.</span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">(you have to imagine what is the purpose of these innate antibodies</span>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">An important purpose of the </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">Innate antibodies is to eliminate self-like components that
resemble self proteins or self glycans**</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">**</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto;"> Glycans are </span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">chain-like structures that are composed of single sugar
molecules (monosaccharides) linked together by chemical bonds</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. ... The sugar chain structures commonly called glycans are
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">, to remove them</span> the freezer to remove them <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">because if they get recognized
by the normal B and T cells then you get autoimmunity</span> so you have to
imagine <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we are re renewing
ourselves all the time etc and and that leads of course to apoptosis--cells die
and there is debris, degraded proteins or degraded structures they are no
longer identical to self but they are self-like well these antibodies these
naive antibodies are capable of recognizing the cell of like structures to
eliminate them because if they would become more foreign they could be recognized
by T-cells by B cells</span> etc so this is a very very important function so
as i was saying <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">in the
vaccinated children, no training, the acquired (vaccine-induced) antibodies cannot
do anything, but i have frequent and repeated encounter with the pathogen, and
so what these naive cells do is that they will simply secrete more self-like antibodies
and because the concentrations become very high the self like antibodies can
now start to recognize self structures, and very seriously, <i>very</i>
seriously, i am convinced, </span><u>i'm <i>convinced,</i> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">that immunizing young children for
that very reason will lead to a tsunami of autoimmune diseases</span></u> [AND
THEY WILL ALSO BE VULNERABLE TO NON-COVID DISEASES?!?!] <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">And</span> the benefit that they will get from the
vaccine is no better than the benefit anybody else will get from the vaccine—namely,
when immune escape occurs (and that is already going on), the <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">virus will completely escape
from the neutralizing antibodies and whether this is an adult, an elderly
[person], or a child, they will not be protected.</span> But on the other hand
we have been vaccinated vaccinating children that you know for the time being
there is no problem they barely get any disease and if we would simply imagine <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">if we would simply diminish the infectious
pressure it would diminish it then we would no longer out-compete innate
antibodies at most the anti-spike antibodies could compete with them but not
out-compete them and that would stimulate training of their innate immune
response</span> and that is what we need so it's as simple as that <u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we cannot we should not under no
condition vaccinate any child</span></u> the what <u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we need to</span> do is</u> to <u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">lower the infectious pressure
and therefore i'm really calling for a mass administration of an antiviral</span>
</u>i'm not going to pronounce any names that you know could be censored or whatever
but <u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">a chemoprophylaxis
an antiviral for six weeks or eight weeks that can diminish the infectious pressure</span></u>
<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the child</span> can
perfectly deal with it i have explained it <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">maybe</span> it <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">can get mild disease but then it develops anyway lifelong
acquired immunity or it deals with it in a completely asymptomatic way and trains
its immunity</span>--training <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">means that next time around the memory is there to attack <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to attack the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SARS-cov2 virus</span> <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">and on top it still preserves its broad spectrum
of effectivity against a number of other pathogens which is which is crucial which
is critical for a young child</span> of course right because it's not it's
still so naive you see these things are complex and simply not factoring in or
not bringing into the equation the innate immunity leads to very short-sighted but
completely dangerous and harmful decisions of vaccinating <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">young children</span> that <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">can be</span> pro <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">completely and broadly [protected]
against all variants</span> against all variants protected <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">thanks to their innate immunity provided</span>
provided <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we don't put it
under tremendous [infectious] pressure like the vaccines are doing and like
repeated exposure to infectious variants is doing</span>. So let's diminish
this infectious pressure and there is no problem <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">we will get back to the situation like at the beginning
of the pandemic with low infectious pressure</span> where there was no child (<span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">of course we we talked to the
children wear masks and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and and you know
we we also involved them in the lockdowns etc which was a complete nonsense in
order to train your innate immune system you need to get in contact with with
the pathogens and normally this is a very nice equilibrium that from time to
time will lead to disease very extremely rarely to severe disease and only in
children that have really problems and underlying problems but otherwise it
leads to mild disease consequence lifelong acquired immunity or asymptomatic
affection consequence training of your innate immunity and a broad broadly
diversified immune defense that is maintained against other pathogens</span>) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">But phillip <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">i'm completely aware about</span> you know <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">long-term side effects</span>
and you will <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">never</span>
hear me saying <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">use an
antiviral in a completely prophylactic way or for a long time</span> remember i
was talking about this anti-spike antibodies that have that remain that can be
detected for about six to eight weeks <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">if you if you tell people to stay at home for like six to
eight weeks in an ideal world then these antibodies can decline and in the
meantime in the mean so when they decline that means that their capacity their
capacity to sterilize the virus when they encounter it it's completely restored</span>
remember it's no longer suppressed it's completely restored and <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">during that time you use an antiviral</span>
that can suppress the infectious pressure <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">that can diminish the infectious pressure in the population
then you can get all these people back you know and socialize and have contact all
they will do because they got their sterilizing capacity restored they will
further diminish the infectious pressure</span> right and <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">that is exactly what happened when
boris johnson in july lifted the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lockdown measures people had you know been
staying away from social contacts etc for for a certain time the antibodies declined
from those who were not vaccinated their antibodies declined and then they got
back into society and they were the guys who brought down the infectious
pressure without any antivirals used massively their in their own right brought
down the infectious pressure within two weeks in a very spectacular way you
should look at what happened with the case rates in the uk you know the the
world in data <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in july after july 21st i
think that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the measures were lifted
there was a spectacular decrease</span> so you cannot afford this when the
infectious pressure is too high bring it down and then you restore the sterilizing
capacity of the unvaccinated people thanks to their innate immunity and then we
have a situation that we get back to a situation like at the beginning of the pandemic
so people are underestimating the the the consequences of the high infectious pressure
i tell you according to my humble opinion it's <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%; mso-highlight: yellow;">the single most critical problem that we have how do we get
rid of this high infectious pressure that is causing you know that is indirectly
leading to immune escape and that is eroding basically the innate immune system
of the youngsters and and and the children so that they can not they cannot
build <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trained immunity</span>. </p>
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<![endif]-->Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-85793576478606980192021-10-10T08:59:00.003-07:002021-12-10T20:50:35.263-08:00Of Rats and Cats, and Men--and Plague. And Memes.<p> </p><p> First, the meme:<br /></p><p><img alt="Cats, Devil, and Black: Superstitions about black cats
helped spread the Black Death.
In the middle ages, people associated
cats with witches and thought
the Devil could turn into a
black cat. Masses of cats were
killed, and the uncontrolled
rodent population increased
the spread of plague-infected
fleas.
Superstitions http://t.co/TfNEig89PW" src="https://pics.me.me/superstitions-about-black-cats-helped-spread-the-black-death-in-24904873.png" /> <br /></p><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_q0"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> <br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">...about when any good Catholic would take one for the team and die of plague in order to rid the world of Satan on paws....</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The Beaubonic Plague, aka the Black Death, killed off fully 60% of Europe's population. No word on how many cats and cat owners were slaughtered.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Then there's this little fact check by Dr. Michael Fox, Animal Doctor and cat hater/nature lover:</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">"While rats and cats were blamed for the plague and killed in the Middle Ages, the disease mainly spread person to person via fleas and lice. But cats can transmit plague to humans by biting or scratching them. People can also be exposed to the illness through direct contact with an infected cat’s draining lymph node material. An infected cat may also carry fleas that can transmit plague to humans by biting them. If a cat has the pneumonia-causing form of plague, it can easily be spread to humans through the air. Owners and veterinarians are at risk of contracting plague when dealing with an infected cat."</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">....Which begs the question of whether scads of cats roaming the city streets of Europe would have lowered the rodent population sufficiently to low the flea population sufficiently to lower the plague-bacteria population sufficiently to have lowered mortality in humans. Ahem. <br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Or would people have simply continued exchanging their own cozy fleas and lice, with no need for that human-flea-and-lice population to have been replenished by the rats' (or cats') fleas and lice? <br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">...Which is an illustration, people, of how the myth-plus-fact-check cycle does not necessarily lead to conclusive truths. My relatively uneducated guess would be that a rat population explosion would only have made matters worse--though people possibly had closer contact with the cats? Even so, I imagine "direct contact with an infected cat’s draining lymph node materia", as well as bitings and scratchings from cats, were relatively rare--as, in the old days, cats were not nearly so often beloved house pets as they were work animals on farms and around homes to keep rodent pests down--or they were simply feral. They certainly never SAW THE VET! </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">You see what I mean? Real life is murkier than a meme. How many times do I need to "imagine" and "guess" here? How am I to balance, exactly, pro- considerations with con- ones on this issue? Trust the experts? And if the experts disagree?<br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">...Doing a casual google to explain the END of the Black Death, I find a theory, trending now, that voluntary quarantining did the trick. But I also find the fact that deadly pandemics kill off their hosts--and thereby extinguish themselves--being cited as the death-blow to the Death. Obviously, populations thinned via the elimination of 6 of every 10 persons, leaving the Death with fewer-and-farther-between targets. But which theory explains its disappearance the best?<br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">To take another angle, the Plague shocked Europe into the Dark Ages, a time when the populace retreated into relatively isolated villages, an unintentional sort of quarantine making the exchange of pathogens, on a continental and even provincial level, certainly less efficient. This isolation occurred to the point where Europe's forests, which the previously thriving civilization had decimated, as thriving civilizations do, rebounded to once again cover the earth and screen off the sky. These historical facts would seem to support the idea of the Plague's own deadliness playing a part in killing it off. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">On the other hand, historical reports of successful quarantine practices in Black-Plague Europe reveal that, despite the confusion which Satan and the Pope wrought upon them about the cause of the pandemic, and despite having no idea what that the infective agent, <i>Yersinia pestis</i> (or any bacterium or virus for that matter) even existed, Plague-era Europeans got hip to the fact that the disease was <i>contagious</i>. So, they invented quaranting--but was that enough to contribute, lastingly, to <i>Y. pestis</i>'s demise? Discuss.<br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Some maverick historians, cutting against the grain of consensus, even dispute the seemingly solid rat-carrier theory, limiting the bacterium's transport to humans to the <i>human</i>-infesting flea known as <i>Pulex irritans. </i>Consensus says they needed the rodent vector to reach pandemic proportions, but consensus has said a lot of things in the history of scholarship. Consensus once adamantly (as in adamantium) held that dinosaurs were lounging, cold-blooded lizards rather than massive, active, warm-blooded avians.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><br /><i></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">But it seems obvious that <span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><i>Pulex irritans </i>would merely irritate, whereas </span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><i>Y. pestis </i>would induce pestilence, plague--I mean, <i>look at their names</i>.</span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><i> </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">...And so we swirly on down the rabbit hole, factoring in cats and rats and elephants, and perhaps a unicorn or two, and god (but not Pope Gregory) knows what else. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The fact is, in unraveling the truth of any issue, we are trying to do nothing less than form a cohesive, overall 3-D model that contains all the significant moving parts in their realistic balance. The trick is to have fun with that. It <i>is</i> doable, in many cases--as is juggling, a very similar exercise.<br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I could write a whole piece, I imagine, about why the cut-and-dried, one-sided truth of memes is so comforting and so popular (so <i>viral</i>, if you will)--but I think it boils down to how much time and effort it takes to weigh and balance the overall truth of many claims. It takes <span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">training and practice and access to good info. It takes, not just thinking, which is hard enough--but critical thinking, the kind of thinking that challenges every thought as it comes up, like an annoying nephew who's always asking <i>why, why, WHY?!</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><i> </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">It might just taking the reading of (a) book(s) on critical thinking, and--<i>gulp!</i>--taking notes.<i> </i>For a start.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><i>I</i> say the Black Plague was caused by pissed-off nature fairies, and the spell was broken when Pope Gregory IX boned the Queen of Italy in the middle of St. Peter's Square.<br /></div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-5470372533561766742019-01-15T09:18:00.001-08:002019-01-15T09:27:09.755-08:00Weight Cutting + PED's: Going Darkside on MMA<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jordan Parson, the first documented MMA fighter to have suffered with <span class="module__title__link">chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or trauma-induced chronic brain injury. He died in a hit and run that he may very well have been able to dodge had his brain not been compromised by this debilitating condition. Only thanks to his premature death, which allowed an autopsy of his brain, was the first diagnosis of CTE in an MMA fighter able to be made.</span></td></tr>
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All right, let's go dark. If weight cutting is potentially so horrible
for the fighters, then whom does it benefit? Why do they keep this shit
going? As the Weasle (a well regarded MMA analyst) has observed, main events get cancelled thanks to this
shit. Fighters go to the hospital. It looks bad. Fans are
disappointed.<br />
<br />
Obviously, it does benefit jacked fighters like
Tibau, who can compete against smaller-framed, less muscular ones.
Cyborg probably couldn't compete at all without weight cuts; she's too
big and no other female is big enough to match her in natural weight.
But this is a form of cheating, in my opinion.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdTAbyhM4wrXymcbusWMd49-9T8PPXSAXKTAtnen_PBv8lYQawtXz-yfBawtWo2PppMCCna7HzEqtnLLJvSUYuKSy7Jeu4x1OELKlPkhKLNNv2XvaQIfSOA96jn4nQWfuEzilBr4wZ6c/s1600/tibau_full.weight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdTAbyhM4wrXymcbusWMd49-9T8PPXSAXKTAtnen_PBv8lYQawtXz-yfBawtWo2PppMCCna7HzEqtnLLJvSUYuKSy7Jeu4x1OELKlPkhKLNNv2XvaQIfSOA96jn4nQWfuEzilBr4wZ6c/s640/tibau_full.weight.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gleison Tibau after re-hydrating</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtJaE3SHkALmCrKepZrjYvrJEVvGKW0r9kR2WLOSCorTc5FSqQP-VNAjxTwHEGKc5JRbkymA5_hZ6nlQ25m5e6zMBkQTPct8WuiQ-cPcHZ8HB3MbezrGR60JpDUG6P04xU1yMmp8bSEM/s1600/Tibau_weight.cut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtJaE3SHkALmCrKepZrjYvrJEVvGKW0r9kR2WLOSCorTc5FSqQP-VNAjxTwHEGKc5JRbkymA5_hZ6nlQ25m5e6zMBkQTPct8WuiQ-cPcHZ8HB3MbezrGR60JpDUG6P04xU1yMmp8bSEM/s640/Tibau_weight.cut.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tibau after weight-cut, before rehydrating</td></tr>
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Why would
fighting organizations want people to cheat, or to be more physically
vulnerable? To go slightly dark, it does give them more flexibility as
to who fights whom. They can shuffle a fighter up or down and create
the so-called "superfights," at the cost of their fighters' health.
Dillashaw goes down to fight Cejudo, Till and Ferguson fight well below
their natural weights. <br />
<br />
To go darker, though, it makes a
knockout more likely--and fans like knockouts. They love them! Fight
organizations want their fighters to "finish" other fighters. This is
mentioned as a plus for a fighter--"He's FINISHED four out of five of
his last fights!". <br />
<br />
With the weight cutting, chances are at
least one of those fighters is going to be vulnerable to damage and loss
of consciousness. Knockout fights are more exciting fights. <br />
<br />
The
least exciting fights, for the casual fan, are technical ground-game
fights that go back and forth between evenly matched grapplers. The
casuals like technical striking matches better, but if one fighter gets
KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT, then all the bet-t-t-ter, right? <br />
<br />
The most
exciting fight I've seen this year, the one where everybody at the bar
jumped up and howled with excitement, was when Cyborg got KTFO by
Nunes--and it was certainly after another one of Cyborg's ridiculous
weight cuts (but I wasn't thinking about that at the time).<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihee03iJhmb2aHYCzc2xGCQDu5lClVvDUGLEdBu_uQ4ir64Spsn2JIjhH9L0PsSj4NQ2ApA36j0z339uuGzWIjgi6OkkAiKN2N6a7nm3lP4ecEA0oyj4uFrCuvsrrc7P8FrJlXfHxW47Q/s1600/Cris-Cyborg-weight-cut-towel.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="730" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihee03iJhmb2aHYCzc2xGCQDu5lClVvDUGLEdBu_uQ4ir64Spsn2JIjhH9L0PsSj4NQ2ApA36j0z339uuGzWIjgi6OkkAiKN2N6a7nm3lP4ecEA0oyj4uFrCuvsrrc7P8FrJlXfHxW47Q/s400/Cris-Cyborg-weight-cut-towel.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris Cyborg during weight cut</td></tr>
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As a
side note, the UFC is castrating USADA because, now that the UFC is
stable and legit, what the fans will want to see more of is fighters
with super-hero bods and a greater ability to finish their opponent.
The ability to take a shot does not go up as much as the ability to give
one, so knockouts will be more frequent, so will higher profits, so
will CTE....The way harm and profits rise together is just fucking
beautiful , ain't it? <br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQ3kX-w67jmD4L-G_AvlhTJ0qg7q_Mm_L3JPfwI2DFslp7UFTDhzy-m4C3OaVokVha4Ml3nterRQ0g5rYgd862kAIKVwC02DIfwdW40t-E7mzLyk9sirZoxWkBSVRHnqSClXFpHfr-eg/s1600/Jones_muscles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQ3kX-w67jmD4L-G_AvlhTJ0qg7q_Mm_L3JPfwI2DFslp7UFTDhzy-m4C3OaVokVha4Ml3nterRQ0g5rYgd862kAIKVwC02DIfwdW40t-E7mzLyk9sirZoxWkBSVRHnqSClXFpHfr-eg/s400/Jones_muscles.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Superstar Jon Jones' physique became much more muscular after taking PED's.</td></tr>
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I think the horrors of brain damage and
fight-related injury should be tracked on into the future. How many
fighters end up with CTE, addiction, or other debilitating conditions
directly related to the damage incurred by fighting while dehydrated
against 'roided-up monsters? How does MMA legend Matt Hughes find himself
straddling the railroad tracks in his pickup just when the train is
barreling through? Was he spaced-out due to brain issues, or drunk as a
way of coping with them? To be absolutely sure, we have to wait until they actually die, as Jordan Parsons did, and donate their brains. But there are plenty of cognitive tests and brain scans that can be done in the meantime.<br />
<br />
The consequences of allowing weight
cuts AND having weak PDE-policing? Forget about it. Simply more
knockouts, which is most of what the casual fan, with little knowledge
of technique beyond the immediately sensational, can appreciate most.
So don't look for either to go away anytime soon. Thanks to all that,
it's only a matter of time before CTE diagnoses (the first MMA fighter diagnosed with CTE was Jordan Parson in 2016) become commonplace and somebody dies in the octagon, and you
are going to see fleets of helicopter moms prohibiting their kids from
participating in the sport, or any martial arts from that point on.
It'll be basketball all the way.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbrtqgPmIcX3UauV2nersaaQ1YkEekmzbSD49RmCeHCLmx3iKC4gZJ2IcRQIVSASrusBpqKyoS8LKHlEUqlB8TnK0WMz9jhSvmHmeeZPaTcmKbtK_7kveY8O6Jogfk-PpVbNZyyEfLxQ/s1600/Wesgarth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="534" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbrtqgPmIcX3UauV2nersaaQ1YkEekmzbSD49RmCeHCLmx3iKC4gZJ2IcRQIVSASrusBpqKyoS8LKHlEUqlB8TnK0WMz9jhSvmHmeeZPaTcmKbtK_7kveY8O6Jogfk-PpVbNZyyEfLxQ/s320/Wesgarth.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scott Wesgarth, a British boxer who died after <i>winning </i>a fight in Feb. 2018</td></tr>
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What would happen if
all organizations policed PED's well and banned weight cutting by doing
weigh-ins that took into account hydration levels? You will see many
fewer injuries and cancellations thereof. You would see more evenly
matched fighters and fights much more often--and even-steven fights are
better, more exciting ones, to me. In my book, nothing is more boring
and pathetic than a mismatch. You would see smarter and more technical
fights, thanks to fully hydrated brains--also much more worth watching,
IMO (as a side benefit, you would see even more detailed breakdown vids
by the Weasle). Fights would probably last longer, and there would be more decisions. Fighters would have
to work more on their striking accuracy, crafty feints and
combinations, correct body positioning, and training to maximize
striking power in order to get knockouts, instead of relying on the
dehydration of their opponents and sly micro-dosing of steroids.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frankie Edgar (on right) is a very quick, technical fighter who does not cut weight. He fights larger fighters who do weight-cut, but usually wins based in his speed and skillfulness and abililty to take a strike without being knocked out. His record is 23 wins, 6 losses</td></tr>
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And with a little education of the public, I'm sure they will learn to appreciate that way of fighting more.<br />
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Further reading/watching:<br />
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Rolling Stone article on CTE and sports<br />
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-sports/ali-cte-and-parkinsons-confronting-sports-head-injuries-beyond-football-107318/<br />
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The Weasle on the dangers of weight cutting (video)<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDfwdX86j8Y <br />
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It's not that Merck, Inc. employees could come and shit in a syringe, and pump it into you, and never be sued. But it's close.<br />
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Meet the men who managed to make vaccine manufacturers legally
completely free from liability for any harm done by vaccines, ever.
Ronaly Reagan in 1986. Evidently Reagan had his reservations, on
grounds of resisting the expansion of governmental purview, but Vice
president Bush, Commerce Secretary Malcom Baldridge and Dr. Otis R.
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BTW, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from
the Supreme Court's ruling that this corporate protectionism was OK.
You can assume that corporate-whore crotch scum like Brett Kavanaugh
would never dissent against such a monopoly-friendly ruling.<br />
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That's right, no matter many harmful ingredients they have included or
will include, no matter how they might overload infants and pregnant
women and other people susceptible to adverse reactions with
immunoreactive agents and toxic heavy metals the effects of which have
never been studied long-term, no matter how they might step up the
vaccine schedule in order to increase their bloating profits, or use
those profits to influence the 'science' of vaccination side effects, no
matter how much they ignore the science that does say serious
side-effects occur and certain people should be red-flagged as
high-risk, no matter how the actual experience of certain people
contradicts the CDC's assurances of vaccine safety--you cannot, under
any circumstances, sue a vaccine manufacturer. They are simply,
legally, never at fault.<br />
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Now, you may disagree with me and say
that, up 'til now, vaccines have been shown to be perfectly safe for the
vast majority. Compelling challenges to this point of view exist, but
for the sake of argument, let's agree with that. Nevertheless, no one
knows if people will still be safe getting three times as many vaccines
as previous generations, because it's simply never been done before.
And you sure as hell cannot say that a $24-billion industry isn't ever
going to be corrupted by its search for profits into offering, and then
covering up, a seriously harmful vaccine schedule. That's a reckless
level of naivete.<br />
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You know what happens if someone IS injured
by a vaccine? There is a governmentally sponsored (and thereby
taxpayer-funded) entity that hears cases and makes awards to 1 out of 3
complainants. Vaccine manufacturers themselves never pay a cent,
because, in the U.S., that would be legally impossible. We pay for it,
not the people who have profited from it. <br />
When this law was
drafted, there was very little money to be made in vaccines; the profit
margin was horrible. In the 32 years since, they have become a cash
cow. I think it's time to dump this law and make them responsible for
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(It came upon a midnight) Clearly, Christmas Eve belongs, somehow, within the Twelve Days of Christmas, even though neither it nor even Christmas Day itself are, technically. Because Christmas Eve is the night when the magic of Christmas is stirring, gestating, breaking its water. It's the night when the shamanic demi-God represented by Santa Claus miraculously comes to every child in the world's home on the same night using flying reindeer, and some sort of cornucopia magic to fit billions of presents into, like, 3 sacks--not to mention fitting his fat rear end down the often disused and narrow modern chimney.<br />
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By Christmas Eve, the Christmas tree is up and decorated--in my family home, my parents held a huge "tree trimming party" some days before [the ring of voices, drinks in adults' hands, cigarette smoke creating a fine mist, and the tree, little by little, being strung with lights, hung with ornaments, and draped with that "icicle" tinsel over each little branch of the twelve-foot-tall douglas fir...]. It was semi-magical, really, that the tree got itself trimmed even while in the middle of a bunch of people partying and yakking. You can go on about talking animals and whatnot in all those Christmas tales and TV specials, which almost always take place in the time before Christmas, and that will, too, will add a touch of the magical anticipation of Christmas Eve.<br />
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At first I was puzzled about what sorts of songs to put on my playlist for this day, because, although there are a few songs with "Christmas Eve" explicitly in the title, they aren't many, and they're all sung by Justin Bieber. So, I chose any song that focuses mainly on the time before Christmas ("They know that Santa's on his way...", or on Santa Claus ("...Is Coming to Town"), or things that we deal with before the actual day of Christmas (like Christmas trees, O Tannenbaum). I found some real gems, like Korsakov's orchestral suite titled "Christmas Eve" and based on the short story of that same name by the Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol (available at your local public library? I tried in vain to find a free on-line copy), The Cajun Night Before Christmas, the Ella Fitzgeral version of<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" by MsCatreona 5 years ago 3 minutes, 21 seconds 22,312 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear""> "It Came upon a Midnight Clear," which actually made me weep, and the musical comedy piece "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" by Cheech and Chong (which I'd never heard before), and a crazy vid featuring Bob Dylan of "Must Be Santa". </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" by MsCatreona 5 years ago 3 minutes, 21 seconds 22,312 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear""><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" by MsCatreona 5 years ago 3 minutes, 21 seconds 22,312 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear"">Enjoy the playlist on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdartdqjh56C-o-JycMVVu4wetdRQ0b9k --but, above all, enjoy your Christmas Eve!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" by MsCatreona 5 years ago 3 minutes, 21 seconds 22,312 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear""><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" by MsCatreona 5 years ago 3 minutes, 21 seconds 22,312 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear"">PLAYLIST, SONGS:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span aria-label="Rimsky-Korsakov - Christmas Eve: Orchestral Suite (1895) by musicanth 7 years ago 29 minutes 314,044 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="Rimsky-Korsakov - Christmas Eve: Orchestral Suite (1895)">
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Cajun Night Before Christmas - Tee Jules</span><span aria-label="The Nutcracker Suite (Full Album) - Tchaikovsky by Music Escape 4 years ago 1 hour, 3 minutes 2,783,758 views" class="style-scope ytd-playlist-video-renderer" id="video-title" title="The Nutcracker Suite (Full Album) - Tchaikovsky"> </span></span></span></span></h3>
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Ella Fitzgerald: "It Came upon a Midnight Clear"
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Santa Claus and his Old Lady
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I am Santa Claus
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Re-opening the 9/11 wound is crucial, although there are even many
progressives (even Caitlin Johnstone) who dismiss the value of unstitching it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet it sheds a lot of light on the exact
character of those currently holding power in the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If people could see that the powers that be
would go so far as to destroy American property on American soil, kill
thousands of its own citizens, and blame in on Al-Qaeda or Bin-Laden in order to profit from war, then
maybe we could drop our illusions about their good intentions and see the road
to hell they have set us all on. It is a road of endless war, and environmental collapse, for the sake of making a few people obscenely rich. It really is that stupid, and ruthless, and greedy.</div>
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I'll say it: 9/11 was an inside job and a false flag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a shit-ton of evidence that it was (explore the web site https://www.ae911truth.org) ,
but, I will limit it to 4 salient elements:<br />
<br />
1) The attacks' use as false justification for the invasion of Iraq <br />
2) The physics-defying explanations of all three towers' collapses and other related phenomena <br />
3) A comparison to general traits of other, established false-flag operations<br />
4) What Bush and friends conveniently gained from it all <br />
<br />
...Let me say in addition that EACH ONE of these is a
deal breaker for the idea that it was purely an outside job.</div>
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1) The 9/11 narrative quickly quickly dovetailed with the false WMD narrative that
drove the Iraq war, almost as if it was meant to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole WMD
accusation was baseless, and, IMO, a shameless lie to allow American oil
companies to control the previously nationalized Iraqui oil (which they now
actually do; Americans have stolen the Iraquis oil, and now control it).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The false WMD narrative went hand-in-hand with the one about 9/11, and you have to consider that this was not a coincidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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2) The other main piece of evidence, just as yuge (or yuger) as the Bushes' tainted motives, is simply the speed and
neatness with which all THREE buildings went down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three collapses resembled very closely
only one phenomenon: controlled demolition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>came up with the
"pancaking" sound byte in order to "explain" the collapse
of the two main towers, which was already horseshit, but it didn't even apply
to Tower 7, which was constructed differently, A, and was not hit by any plane, B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Tower 7, we were supposed to believe that burning office furniture
was enough to take a steel-skeletoned structure down to the ground, neat as a
pin, at freefall speed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No jet fuel,
even.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some have proposed
that Tower 7 had a "crack" in it (and I have heard other theories)
but a crack could never explain the free fall speed nor the neatly falling into its
own foundation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cracks are cracks, and
not controlled demolitions. In fact, each collapse has two things in common: one, they met none of the criteria for fire-driven collapse; and, two, they met every criteria for controlled demolitions. Every. One. </div>
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So, all you have to do is watch the footage of each tower's
falling--3 steel-framed towers tumbling to the ground at freefall speed in one
day, when that had never, ever happened before, is right there simply beyond
believing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each one fell straight into its foundation, furthermore, despite suffering damage which was decidedly asymmetrical. Just <u>one</u> of them would
be crazy impossible, let alone three.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let alone Building 7, which didn't even get hit by any plane. <br />
<br />
To be truly suspicious, that's all you have to see; but somehow, huge numbers of people have witnessed
what went down and entertain explanations that
simply defy physics.<br />
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But don't take just my word for it; listen to the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, at https://www.ae911truth.org/ </div>
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The other piece that goes along with the unnatural collapses is that they got the wreckage out of there so fast!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cleared a crime scene before it could be
adequately investigated, and disposed of evidence, loading all that steel and
rubble onto boats <u>to Japan</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To a land far, far away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing says “something’s fishy
here” like flushing the evidence, folks. Furthermore,
nothing displays an intimidating power like pulling off such a flagrant cover-up in front of God
and everybody.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Yet another piece is the pulverization of the concrete,
which would never happen, even if "pancaking" were a thing (the
pancaking sound byte may have worked even better by conjuring images of pancake
flour everywhere? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are people really that
simple-minded?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the aforementioned architects and engineers, only explosive charges
pulverize concrete like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, burning
steel continued to glow in the rubble pile long after the collapses--a
characteristic, besides the pulverization, of thermite explosives used, again, <i>in controlled demolitions</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consistent with this trend, people on the scene were reporting explosions
just prior to the collapses, and the explosions themselves are actually visible
in the footage as plumes of dust ejecting horizontally from the sides of the
towers as they completely crumble to the ground into their own footprints. Well--what about that?</div>
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Obviously, Tower 7 was supposed to have been struck by a
plane as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something went wrong with
that, it crashed elsewhere, or something, but they decided to blow up the intended tower anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even though that was extremely difficult to explain, they counted on the
numbness and shock to sell a naked emperor as fully clothed to the public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, it worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of people are unaware that Tower 7 went
down at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others have never stopped to consider the preposterous idea that office fires can throw down a steel structure. One witness, Barry Jennings, Deputy Director of Emergency Services Department for the NY City Housing Authority, whose version of events directly contradicted the party line, was disappeared--<i>has</i> disappeared, I mean. Ahem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe he’s in Japan, with the rest of the evidence. No one knows.</div>
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4) Applying the "cui bono" principle--"for
whose benefit?", we see that the Bush-Rockefeller banks and
Military-Industrial-Oil-Banking complex got pretty much all of their wish list
met as a result of 9/11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, they had
motive, and a lot of it, and evident willingness to outright lie.<br />
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At the very least that
the Bush Administration, and the interests it was representing, would resort to
falsehoods to get the backing of the American people for a dirty and baseless,
but very profitable war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[BTW, I am far from singling out
the Bushes as people willing to do such things--others, both Republican and
Democrat (I'm talking to you, Clinton-Bidens!), have sung along with this tune].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So they would certainly not balk at lying about something that would have made
them look even more greedy, <i>plus</i> psycho- and sociopathic: blowing up the World Trade Towers for money.</div>
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In conclusion, had the towers suffered from merely a couple
of plane collisions, they would not have fallen at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if we were to enter the fantasy world in which
fireproofed structural steel melts to pudding at the
temperature of burning jet fuel, if they HAD fallen, they would have done so
much more unevenly, and partially, and slowly. Chunks would have toppled to one side
or the other and a large number of floors not collapsed at all, but remained
sticking up, in uneven fashion from their foundations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There would have been no significant pulverization of concrete, but
rather some crumbling as a result of the concrete's twisting and pulling
apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There certainly would not have
been huge clouds of dust barreling down the streets of Manhattan like sandstorms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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One can only think that the plan all along was to create
something much more catastrophic than three smoking holes in three towers; the
idea was to create a real, live cataclysm, claiming many more lives and doing
much more damage, and causing more zombied-out trauma on the part of the news
viewing public (which could then be manipulated into agreeing to almost any
form of retaliation).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two or three
smoking holes in two or three towers, caused by airplane impact, and a few hundreds dead, would have
been horrible and shocking enough, but MUCH less dramatic than what we got, and less likely to cancel out the critical
thinking skills of an entire population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, as was claimed, but you’ll notice that
the Iraq War has killed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>half a million people,
anyway, and made a choice few very rich.</div>
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The collapse which is slow, partial, relatively dustless, or
indeed nonexistent is much more plausible for three towers supported by
interconnected steel beams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
suppose you can make anything look plausible with a schematic, and an animated
graphic of how the towers were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">supposed </i>to
have fallen, and some ‘expert’ testimony on the trusted mainstream news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Throw in the horrible feeling that almost anyone would get
from believing that our own government and corporations could do such a thing
to their own population; throw in the fact that those responsible control the
media and could thereby exclude most challenges to the official story; throw in
that, if they were willing and able to kill thousands of people in
cold blood as a means to beat the war drum and line their own pockets, that they
would surely not blink at killing any credible witnesses who came forward. Plus which, I imagine that any witnesses who were truly in the know would be well aware of their danger should they come forward. Throw all that in, and any ‘conspiracy’ interpretation is very, very hard to sell; because such witnesses as there are remain inside the fog of the public's blissful ignorance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Not only that, but the powers that be, despite their obvious combinations of motive, means, and scrupulousness, have done a superb job of making so-called 'conspiracy theorists' look like loony losers. I have to admit it's a brilliant reversal, on their part, because We The People have watched three steel-skeletoned towers miraculously fall into their own
footprints--"It was just like a movie!" was the insightless refrain--and yet anyone who, reasonably, cries foul is part of the tinfoil-hat brigade, end of story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Or, they just get blank looks and a "next topic, please". All this despite the fact a conspiracy is just what it sounds like: it involves <i>cons</i> and it involves <i>piracy</i>--and you're going to tell me that those two things never happen in combination at the highest levels? Bitch, <i>please</i>.* </span></div>
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This is a government which, along with its corporate clients, is cold, and sociopathic, and addicted to wealth and power. The two in combination work much more like a mafia than anything democratically designed to further the well being of all citizens everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who wants to look THAT reality in the eye?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m afraid that that’s exactly what the
evidence points to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Bushes and their
oil and war-machine cronies benefitted very directly from all this. Even despite a mind-numbing level of media passivity, Bush and friends have been exposed as very
willing to lie and barely bat an eye as scads of civilians are murdered for their own profit. They had motive, they had
access (Dubya’s COUSIN—hello?!<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">—</i><i>was in charge
of security for the Twin Towers at the time</i>), it's all fishy as hell, and their official story adds up to exactly bullshit.</div>
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False flag ops--manufactured crises designed to mobilize public opinion behind typically brutal and often unnecessary (but very profitable power grabs, to some) military actions--are a matter of record.<br />
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THIS is a very informative "op"-ed from the website Anti Media, along with a handy profile detailing what false ops look like https://theantimedia.com/5-confirmed-false-flag-operations/ It notes:<br />
<br />
<i>The false flag phenomenon is distinctively modern and used as an
ideological weapon to control populations with the fear of a
manufactured enemy. They are used in ostensibly democratic systems where
people believe they have inalienable rights. Such democratic
systems—primarily the United States, Israel, and Great Britain—must
shock people into sociopolitical and geopolitical consent and, as such,
require sophisticated modern propaganda systems and advanced covert
operations teams with highly proficient skills.</i><br />
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In other words, your right to vote combined with your humanity threatens the preemptive shutdown of wealthy and powerful elite's cash-cow war plans, on behalf of all those innocent civilians who will be blown to bits along the way. <i> </i>So they have to put on a bit of military theater in order to get you, the voter, on board. And nice media helps! GOLLUM!<br />
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<i></i>
(Just for fun, let's apply Anti Media's <b>Warning Signs of a False Flag Operation</b> to that fateful day in September<b>: </b><br />
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<i>~There is an immediate comprehensive narrative, including a convenient culprit.</i>--Al Qada, Osama Bin Laden--<i>check!</i><br />
<br />
<i><i>~</i>The mainstream media immediately proffer a narrative that completely
explains the event** and encourages citizens to tie their intellectual
understanding of the tragedy to the emotions they experience.</i>--Despite a very limp investigation in which much of the evidence was deliberately deep-sixed, the media pretty much bought the Al Qada-Bin Laden line, and hammered on it from the beginning.--<i>check!</i><br />
<br />
<i><i>~</i>There are often legislative, ideological and sociopolitical power plays
waiting in the wings, which the government can immediately implement.</i>--The Patriot Act, ahem--<i>check!</i><br />
<br />
<i><i>~The official narrative has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages for the governing body.</i></i>--besides that which is covered below in this blog, Afghanistan. Surveillance of the citizenry. Other suspensions of civil liberties. Huge profits--all<i> CHECK!</i><br />
<br />
<i>~<i>The narrative behind the attack serves to leverage emotions like
fear, as well as patriotism, in order to manufacture consent around a
previously controversial issue.</i></i>--see below--<i>check</i>.<i> </i><br />
<br />
<i>~<i>Military training drills and police drills occur on the day of and
very near the attack itself, causing confusion to obscure eye witness
testimony and allowing orchestrators to plant both patsies,
disinformation and backup operatives</i>.</i>--The NORAD drills of 9/11, which do not account for the lack of military presence to protect the Twin Towers at all, but did provide a convenient excuse for what looked like, at the very least, extreme incompetence by the U.S.A.F. and our Commander-In-Chief--<i>check!</i><br />
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Der Jim adds this: <i>The event acts as a major distraction from embarrassing evidence of heinous corruption, and boost sitting politicians' popularity</i>--The 2.3 TRILLION$ of dollars which had just previously been reported by Donald Rumsfeld as "missing"--that is, spent without having been accounted for--from the Pentagon's budget.--The so-called terrorist plane, supposedly piloted by an amateur terrorist, which did an expert hairpin turn to reach its target, the Pentagon itself, also miraculously nailed the offices where evidence of this extreme defrauding of the taxpayer had resided. Not only that, but George W. Bush's approval numbers soared to 91% after 9/11--<i>check!</i> <i>check!</i> <i>check!</i><br />
<br />
<br />
And this: <i>Key witnesses who might contradict the official narrative (in)conveniently die</i>--remember Barry Jennings? He did not live to be able to give the lie to the final NIST report on the collapse of World Trade Center 7. Also, the circumstances around his demise were very suspiciously stanky--<i>check.</i><br />
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To sum up: <i>check, check, check, CHECK, check, check, check-check, check!!!!!!!!! </i><br />
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<br />
The U.S. has been, confimed and documented, complicit in 5 false ops: the
so-called Gulf of Tonkin Incident (actually an empty non-incident) that
kicked off the entire Vietnam war (obviously, it was very successful despite being a total deception), as well as Operations Gladio and
Ajax, COINTELPRO, and the Lavon Affair. Other conspiracies could be named that were not false-ops, such as <span class="module__title__link">Project MKUltra, a loving CIA investigation into the possibilities of brainwashing, with plenty of mind-fucked victims. MKUltra is a matter of record, and demonstrates the ruthlessness with which the governmental-corporate alliance bodies can implement its agendas.</span> <br />
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According to the evidence, they went much further than gunboat theater or mind control of a few individuals on 9/11, much further than simply looking the other way while the enemy approached. This time, through meticulously planned violence and deceit, they ripped away thousands of American lives on American soil, in the process emotionally wounding the loved ones of the slain, and traumatizing many more common citizens who repeatedly watched the repeatedly played footage and repeated repeated repeated commentary of that day, in a haze of zombified numbness. In that collective state of shock, the American public could be sold just about any bill of goods that promised some sort of redress for the harm done. Said "bill" was the Iraq War, which was just waiting in the wings to happen well before 9/11.<br />
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The chilling conclusion: the U.S. mafia is getting even bolder and more brutal.<br />
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The stakes were high: Bush and cronies
were set to make billions and
billions of U.S. dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of the munitions and aviation industries. You think the Bushes have no friends in those industries? Think of the billions in U.$. gold spent on fossil fuel--a Bush family investment--alone. Think of mercenary contractors that would be hired to fight in Iraq like Blackwater, an organization with "long ties to the White House and prominent Republicans, including Ken Starr" https://www.salon.com/2007/10/02/blackwater_bush/)....We’re talking yachts,
and expensive cars for the whole family and family friends, and private jets, and even greater
influence on the political system than they already had—even more power, more
freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Do people think that the rich
and powerful would just say no to all that because it involved the deaths of 2500
relatively unimportant Americans?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many more than that had already died in
wars for oil when 9/11 happened.<br />
<br />
And the deaths of those Americans allowed them an unprecedented level of control--hello, 'Homeland Security'! Hello, control of Iraqi oil and big, bad bully status in the Middle East! Hello, privatized mercenary armies far from the reach of democratic protest! They were going to just say YES to all of the above, like a kid in a candy store.<br />
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I'll tell you this: I wasn't there, so I can't say for sure. Due to dumped evidence and silenced witnesses, no one outside of the cons-piracy may ever know. But 9/11 was a win-win-win-win-WIN for the Bush oil dynasty and everyone with which it had dealings.<br />
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Think about it.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">*For
more thoughts on cons-piracy, I have an entire blog entry on the
subject, "The No-Conspiracies Theory" at
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5058673764927061285#editor/target=post;postID=2413465687927295832;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname</span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">**And before a proper investigation. The narrative was constructed and
accepted long before even the sham investigation compiled with egregious
bias by the so-called '9/11 Commision'--Der Jim</span><br />
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Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-62473385953384961602017-08-05T22:30:00.005-07:002021-09-21T15:11:19.418-07:00“Do you believe in miracles?”<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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...I've heard that yes, faith can move mountains--but bring
a shovel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Better yet, says the King of the Mountains: turn them back
into molehills, first</div>
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(then use a broom).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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The Real Me says that the world turns amazing with our true
natures as the engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I don't know if I believe in miracles, but I do believe in
Einstein, </div>
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so of course I believe in miracles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Einstein is the Bomb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Then there are those things that nobody can explain </div>
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without positing an intelligence way beyond<br />
what we give
even ourselves credit for, </div>
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be it a theoretically existing Lawkeeper of Science, </div>
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made accessible by the scientific method, </div>
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or the theoretically existing LawBREAKER of Science, </div>
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made accessible by prayer. </div>
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<br /></div>
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If geologists were also poets, they would see that the
heart, </div>
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and only the heart, </div>
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is capable of injecting miracles into solid rock </div>
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--after all the heart is a kind of large, self loading, </div>
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four-chambered hypodermic electromagnetic love syringe--<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Non, Monsieur Pasteur?</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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And another thing: miracles appear only where they are
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">miracles don't happen in Eden, before Death (and the ban on nudist colonies) intervened.</span><br />
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--It's the same idea as the Virgin Mary's appearing in massacre-torn
Yugoslavia, </div>
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or a guy with hip half eaten by cancer growing it back after
a dip in the Holy Spring:</div>
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The guy with good hips isn't going to get a spontaneous hip
replacement;<br />
Mary does not materialize in the royal palace, where contentment reigns.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">In Heaven, actually, where miracles are the norm,</div>
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they're up there praying for non-miracles</div>
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--to relieve the boredom that they're never, ever dying of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And only if their boredom really requires relief by some
extraordinary means </div>
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do they receive--with a gasp--the odd non-miracle<br />
--Say, an archangel stubs its pinky toe on a cloud, <i>and it does not heal right away!</i></div><div class="MsoNormal">("Look, I'm <i>bleeding!</i>")<i> <br /></i></div>
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<br />
</div>
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Still, in spite of their urges and pleas for exciting access<br />
to the dull processes of
normal physics, </div>
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the Heavenly Host Itself's prayers for the novelty of non-novelty<i> may not be heard</i>, </div>
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lest odd non-miracles become too commonplace, </div>
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and thereby unappreciated,<br />
and so, some do not even believe that they are real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The needy/worthy angels who do witness a non-miracle </div>
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feel themselves very lucky<br />
--but many other seraphs and cherubs, <i>alas</i>, <br />
think of
them as wing-nuts,<br />
and laugh at them in chorus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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So, yes, I believe in miracles,<br />
and I believe in
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when miracles get too boring. </div>
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Bring them on!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Plus, I also believe in<br />
the miracle of the mundane, </div>
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which is only so if you don’t observe it very closely:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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the complexity and harmony of microbiology, <br />
to name but one example,</div>
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features timing in which a godzillion microoperations
fluctuate and coordinate! </div>
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This ought to be enough to wow the most cocksure
anti-intellectual </div>
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[if only he hadn’t felt the icy steel of derision of </div>
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self-righteous science snobs and nasty-ass nerds; </div>
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if only he use his muscle-truck (and truck-nuts)<br />
to climb the white
tower just once; </div>
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if only he understood that, in so doing,<br />
he is literally taking a dive into
the living cell (begotten, not made) <br />
where, true, he can NOT choose the music </div>
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—but <i>man</i>, can those organelles and biomolecules dance!<br />
(like to everyone in New York doing a tango line dance,<br />
and no one bum missing a single step)].</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Faith in miracles, and non-miracles, and the miraculous
mundane:</div>
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these three mean that I</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
—and you, who agree with me—</div>
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have three times as much faith as most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Oh, ye of faith times three!</div>
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You might just be able to appreciate this moment, </div>
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this one here,<br />
right now.<br />
<br />
<br /></div>
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Will kids find their own way if we cut them kids loose in a
world of packaged crap? </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It's a nice thought:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let
our children wander alone into today's world of nutritionally diluted, toxin-rich food,
and they will find their own way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we
just let them alone, they will spontaneously "eat healthy".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For some kids, this works better than for others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They grow up discriminating between foods
that enhance their well being, and those that don't, and tend towards the
former.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I want to trust them
completely, to have faith in their little internal compasses, to believe they
will moderate themselves and seek out healthful foods no matter what is
generally available. Even so, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">laissez
faire </i>approach ignores the addictiveness and ubiquity of certain foods and
personalities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It minimizes, I believe,
the health disaster which is the modern food system as well as the benefits of
avoiding artificial chemicals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It's the WAY you try to influence your child that
matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do it by modeling
healthful eating with love and patience, then you don't lay a guilty shame trip
on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you share your own bad
choices in real time, and their consequences, you move out of the position of
absolute authority and into that of a fellow human trying to find his way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The adults' taking this stance means the
child has less to react against.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I should mention that shame and guilt trips on the part of
parents are to be avoided as rigorously as monosodium glutamate or chemically
altered meat laden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But let's not
confuse mental and emotional clarity with passive acceptance of the most FUBAR
food system the world has ever seen, in terms of overall and long-term health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to be loving, we have to actively
oppose it.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Ourselves, we don't absolutely restrict our son or force him
to drink healthy nauseating food that he doesn't like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is allowed a small "treat" on
special occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my son tells me
he ate something not so good, I ask him how he feels, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He often will volunteer the information of
his own free will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes, he will
even connect a tantrum with earlier consumption of a carb-heavy food. </div>
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<br /></div>
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...My own parents did not lay any kind of trip on me about
food (my mom hid the granola, but that was only to make it last longer), but I
really wish they had made carbs much less available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went through my childhood spaced out from
eating too much sugar (and starch—which is just sugar in a different
form).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that matter, I went through
much of my adulthood spaced out from eating high-carb, 'healthy' food, which
did not jive at all with my metabolism—Half a loaf of whole wheat bread spread
with half a bunch of whole organic bananas and organic butter, anyone? Half of
my life was a non-stop roller coaster of rocketing/crashing blood sugar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was bingeing on the hair of the dog,
thinking it was a plate of golden noodles.</div>
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<br /></div>
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If I had been exposed to the idea that protein food and
vegetables were my most fortifying foods, and/or if my parents had simply
supplied me with those foods three meals a day, I would not have been in such a
fog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But "energy" food is
addictive and cheap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What to buy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do the children decide?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And do you not tell your kids about things
like insulin resistance and carcinogenic pesticides, for fear of laying a 'trip'
on them or seeming too rigid or uptight?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
There is always a level of "control" that parents
exercise—that is, choices offered, decisions made, education supplied (not to
be confused with shaming or browbeating).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I guess I would call it "influence".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have witnessed many families uninformed
about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nutritional value, who therefore could
not have dreamed of oppressively lecturing about it, and yet their children
invariably tend toward high-octane, low nutrition foods (white bread, mac 'n'
cheese, candy, pop, etc.), even when presented with other choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More often than not, those children<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>resist more healthful foods, when it's
left up to them, because those foods would not give them the addictive hit and
over-the-top flavor of processed foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And without some kind of intervention, they will most likely continue to
do so all the way through adulthood and a relatively earlier death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Many processed foods these days are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">designed </i>to be addictive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
creation of these foods involves extensive taste-tests focusing on flavor,
texture, aftertaste, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any chemical
that enhances any one of these factors, if legal (and lots of them are),
becomes part of the recipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
children who are reasonably balanced in their metabolism from the get-go—that
is, children whose metabolisms are better adapted to a modern diet unnaturally
high in starches and sugars—perhaps the issue is more psychological:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if unpressured, they will spontaneously make better
choices in the main.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for others,
whose metabolisms more closely resemble those of our ancestors, who ate lots of
protein and 2 lbs. of low-starch veggies daily, and to whom even whole fruits
were available only seasonably, eating modern 'foods' will be an addictive,
unhealthful experience—a vicious, cycling roller coaster which they won't
willingly leave behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I think of the bears of Yellowstone National Park:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in spite of being in an entirely natural
setting, in spite of the noxious effect of junk food on them and the
availability of good, whole food all around them—they chose to go dumpster
diving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They ate our garbage,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which was available to them in the form of
accessible dumps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one was lecturing
them about nutrition, it wasn't peer pressure, they weren't rebelling against
anybody at all—they were simply responding to the addictiveness of our sugary,
white-flour-based foodstuffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only
intervention taken at all to rehabilitate the bears, who were becoming
unhealthy, was to make our garbage inaccessible to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No longer having recourse to junk food, they
began to hunt and gather full time again, preying on elk and digging roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also went back to bingeing on nutritious
berries—in order to gain weight meant only to be lost as it feeds them through
hibernation.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Everywhere you go, at parties and play dates and school,
etc., people, even strangers, will offer sugar to your child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should you just stand by and let the kid
decide?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you know that it will be
quite tasty for your child even as any long-term effects go unnoticed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>your child has a peanut allergy, but likes peanuts, would you stand by
and watch while he ate as many handfuls as he wanted in the interest of his
freedom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would it be any better to let
one's child eat his own, slowly manifesting premature death, the cause of which
will forever be obscure given the sheer weight and number of possible factors
present in the foods you are allowing, and of which he has no knowledge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Think about all of the unnatural chemicals present in
factory-farmed meats: 1) antibiotics, 2) the bacteria themselves, which the
antibiotics are meant to counter, present in huge numbers in any building
crammed with livestock and their excrement, 3) growth hormone, 4) herbicides
(sprayed on the fields where the feed is grown), 5) pesticides (ditto) and 6)
artificial fertilizers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sinister six.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one knows exactly what long-term effects
they have individually, much less as a combination 1-2-3-4-5-6 punch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And your child won't taste them, even if the food
on their plate is not slathered with sugary barbeque sauce.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Food choices can be life-threatening in the short or long
run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are in the middle of a cancer
epidemic, a 40+% lifetime cancer rate in the general population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FORTY PERCENT!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you believe that agricultural chemicals
are a cancer risk, do you let your child decide whether to eat the non-organic
(but still tasty) food offered at his friend's house?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if he feels "left out" and sad
when others eat foods that are not immediately toxic, but very probably are in
the long-term, chronic sense?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you
abusing and confusing him by discouraging those foods?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Definitely, if done in punitive fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it's not the boundary itself that you
draw, in this case, but the punitiveness which would be abusive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given the surety of <u>some</u> negative
long-term consequence(s) from eating factory food, perhaps allowing them to eat
it, to participate in the culturally-sanctioned sacrament of communally
ingesting an array of risky chemicals, is more confusing and damaging in the
long run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It's a sticky situation—what do you say to a fellow parent
who offers such food to your own child?—Is it organic?—No.—Well, I don't want
my kid to get cancer….It's the truth, but downright insulting to say to someone
gracious enough to offer to feed your kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So you plead moderation, and foster your own child's awareness instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way of letting the children themselves
decide every time sidesteps all that, in the process sidestepping the stress of
conflict, but I am not sure that such a parent is not out of the frying pan and
into the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pay now or pay later,
anyone?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We cannot actually control our children, but we can create
an environment in which making healthful long-term choices is more comfortable and
natural.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally, Mother Nature
created a bounty and variety of whole, organic foods for us to eat, and their
presence—not to mention the absence of addictive, health-eroding foods—plus our
hunger, encouraged us to eat them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
such a context, there were few bad-vs.-good choices for children to sort out,
aside from the glaring exception of poisonous plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in that regard, I am quite sure that the
parents of those times did not teach their children about poison hemlock or
certain mushrooms by allowing them to decide for themselves whether to eat it, because
a dead child would be no wiser for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Presumably,
as naturalistic societies still do, they gave them information, they modeled
avoidance, they actively prevented children too small to understand from eating
their death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A pure environment is not at all the case today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less healthful, inorganic, processed,
visually attractive, sensually appealing and artificially tasty foods are
literally the order of the day and nearly impossible to avoid entirely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For typical country- and city-dwellers alike,
the world which offered nothing but whole organic foods growing in deep,
undisturbed soil is history, or rather pre-history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our only recourse, if we are to participate
in the larger culture of schools and ballgames at all, is to make the home
environment as pristine as ecosystems of yore, nutritionally speaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, we inform our children of the
"new" poisonous foods in a matter-of-fact, non-controlling, and
non-punishing way, so that they can hear us—and hopefully their own internal
reactions to those foods—clearly.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Having said all that and being human, I don't think my
little family has gone about this perfectly, but we've done pretty well….So,
what's in the fridge?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organic
everything, basically: fresh veggies and fruit, goat yoghurt, home-fermented sauerkraut
(which has yet to receive our son's stamp of approval), diluted fruit juice,
nuts, eggs, some condiments (including my wife's homemade spicy mustard).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the freezer, local, mostly-organic meats, frozen
fruits (much of which we picked ourselves) and veggies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No ice cream, although on the boy's birthday
it's a tradition to have Grandpa come and make some homemade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the cupboard we have some whole-grain
products: oatmeal, granola, buckwheat flour, and such.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We usually present our boy with healthier versions of junk
food, made of whole, organic ingredients in our home, following Michael
Pollen's precept that, if you're going to eat treats, let it be whole-food and
homemade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raw peanut butter, coconut
oil, carob powder, stevia and fresh/frozen fruit, mixed and left in the freezer
for a bit, makes "frozen fudge".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A bowl of yoghurt with frozen berries qualifies easily as dessert, as
does the old standby—an apple. The fact that there is no ice cream in the
freeze means no I-scream, you-scream, we-all-scream going on—and in the case of
our natural desserts, no suffering by comparison.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In a calm, loving environment which satisfies their hunger
with whole, organic foods, children have the best chance to be clear-headed
enough in the first place to balance wants and needs, and consider the
information supplied to them without undue rebellion.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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TWELFTH NIGHT, AND WHERE HAVE ALL THE PARTIES GONE?<br />
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Twelfth Night is a bit confusing, as far as the chronology of events is concerned. Since the Eleventh is the Feast of the Magii, and the Twelfth is the Feast of the Magii's visiting the baby Jesus, when did they actually arrive and see Him? As the story goes, the baby was born, the Hebrew infants were massacred, Jesus was circumcized, the Wise Men got directions from Herod, after which they finally visited the Boy King and blew off King Herod, who'd asked them to return to him and tell him where he could murder the--er, <i>visit</i> the Messiah. But, really, it's a rough timeline, the order of which different regions and denominations disagree on, intermingled with older, Pagan traditions and New Year celebrations, and such.<br />
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The point is, it's all a party. Exept for the horrid slaughter of the innocents, and the martyrdom of Stephen, only good stuff is being celebrated, here. Even these events had their silver linings--the Little Lord Jesus escaped Herod the Great, and martyrdom is genuinely considered to be a great thing (if not the best), being a one-way ticket to Seventh Heaven for the martyr themself, and an inspiration to us all to not compromise our principles. Plus, the Sun/Son is returning, the end of Winter's death and chill is nigh, so let the parties roll (!), is the general idea. <br />
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As for the particulars of Twelfth Night, I can tell you what happens in
Spain and other places in the present day: January 6th is when the kids get
their Christmas presents, not Christmas Day, and they are brought by the Three
Kings, not by the roly-poly Man In Red (if you know your marketing history, he
is both roly-poly, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> red, because
he drinks Coca Cola).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Spanish</span> kids know all
of the “Wise Kings’” names and faces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The children fill their shoes with straw and leave them out for the
Kings’ camels, exactly the way the Old Norse would leave straw out for
Sleipnir, Odin The All-Father’s flying eight-legged horse, or the way we leave
cookies and milk for Santa Claus and his flying eight reindeer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in some other places, the Spanish make an
Epiphany cake, into which they bake a small figure or plastic toy, or a
bean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever gets the piece with the
bean/toy is declared King, and gets to preside over the festivities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In merry Old England, the King/Queen had the
honor of leading all attending the Twelfth Night party in songs and games.<br />
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At some Mexican friends' house yesterday, they served a "Baby Jesus" cake. Nevermind that the eponymous plastic figure was whiter than a Viking's bottom and looked like an extraterrestrial, and that the hostess had placed one in every piece (negating the whole "king of the party" idea), it was a touching inclusion into their party and culture. Anyway, there are those who believe Jesus looked like a northern European, blue-eyed boy, and other who think he was an alien, so....there. Ethnic variants aside, the point, again, is--it's a party.<br />
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In Spain today, controversy has ensued over the recent
inclusion of Santa Claus <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Papá Noel)</i>
in their pantheon, as evidenced by an article forwarded to me by a native
Spaniard urging his nation to reject the Man With The Bag and retain the Three
Kings as the bringers of gifts and bearers of Spanish culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shall see how that turns out; it depends whether the Spanish have it in them to fight off the sugary, caffeinated spectre of Coca-Cola (they are coffee drinkers, so there is hope).<br />
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I’m glad I don’t live in Bulgaria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, they throw a crucifix into an icy cold
river, and the first one to fish it out receives a special blessing (and good
health for the family, they say).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
even if you avoid volunteering<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for polar
diving, you might be one of the men dancing in the same freezing waters to
inaugurate the “crucifix ritual”...If you'll notice, though, everyone in that icy waterway below is <i>smiling</i>.<br />
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In the British Isles of yore, Twelfth Night parties are when
people pulled out all the stops for one last, grand hurrah….That is, after they
had disposed of all the Christmas decorations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wreaths and holly garlands, the mistletoe were consigned to the fire—any
holly spine left unburnt would turn into a goblin!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonfires are also a thing--because how else were you going to burn all that green?<br />
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In echo of British celebrations, two hours from Denver, in a park in Eagle, Colorado, they hold a huge bonfire to burn all their Christmas trees, along with free ice skating and hot chocolate. <br />
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According to an English newspaper, the Daily Mirror,
it was a folk belief that spirits lived in the holly and greenery used
to decorate for Christmas. The festive season provided shelter for the
spirits, but they needed to be released when the season was over. If the
custom wasn't followed, it was believed to cause agricultural problems
in the spring (similar to <i>not</i> Wassailing).<br />
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During the subsequent festivities, “All the
world are Kings and Queens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody is
somebody else; and learns at once to laugh at, and to tolerate, characters
different from his own by enacting them—all conspires to throw a giddy splendour
over the last night of the season.”<br />
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Sounds great, doesn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jolly old England!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it still? How jolly is the U.S., in comparison? Well, have you
read Barbara Ehrenreich’s book about the history of communal celebration
(<i>Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy</i>)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You must!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The gist of this book: through the history of our ‘civilization,’ the
amount of time devoted to revelry has been whittled down to a sliver, and the
nature of our carousing has been toned way down as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People used to, as Eddie Murphy sang “party
all the time”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read somewhere that the
Romans had 175 festival days a year—a bit like our weekends and holidays, but
with more punch, and dancing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At one time, even churches lacked bolted-down benches and doubled as party halls, with dancing and singing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This was in the days before the joke: “Why don’t Christians have sex
standing up?—Because it might lead to dancing.”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You couldn’t have gotten a laugh with that
one before the Puritans—because, before the bloody Puritans, nobody had thought to prohibit dancing yet (or Christmas. The Puritans banned Christmas!). Full-throated merriment was still OK in God’s eyes.<br />
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But societies' pampered and paranoid elites progressively banned such revels, because as the rich become richer the poor get poorer, revels turn to riots, and heads will roll. So--no more parties in the church! Bolt down the benches, and you are like a kindergarten teacher who has successfully arranged her room like a maze to minimize overly spirited tikes' room for sprinting--exept, in the church, what you have removed is the celebrations that formerly rang out in that space. You have made church a solemn and sober affair that many would eventually and instinctively avoid. I suspect this is how atheists were born--and why the guillotine was invented.<br />
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The elites have been so successful at curbing revels in churches that I cannot even google an image of a church with chairs pushed aside so as to hold a party in it. This, even though I have successfully browsed to images such as Twelfth Night celebrations in Eagle, Colorado--?? </div>
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I guess my point is, in this case as in many others, I’m all
for turning back the clock and extending our celebrations, making them merrier
and more meaningful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why I love
the Twelve Days of Christmas (really fourteen counting Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day—and you have to).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if
I don’t have a bunch of Old English friends with which to carry on for these
two weeks, they do give me more chance to reflect, and they have given me at
least more opportunities to celebrate with my American friends and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope in the future they give me even
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s else, I hope that you,
reader, faithful and tireless (which you certainly are, if you have read all my
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Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time</div>
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Andrew Rayel - Epiphany (Extended Mix)</div>
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Epiphany- Staind Unplugged</div>
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bare: A Pop Opera - Epiphany</div>
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Mark Petrie - Epiphany</div>
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Tinush - Epiphany</div>
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Visionate - Epiphany (Original Mix)</div>
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The Ocean - Epiphany</div>
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DAY ELEVEN : EVE OF EPIPHANY/FESTIVAL OF THE THREE KINGS</div>
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(Celebrate the Magi, Herod, the slaughtered innocents, and the Baby Jesus
in you!)<br />
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The Eleventh Day of Christmas celebrates the Magi, the “Three”
Kings/Wise Men/Astrologers who gave gifts to the baby Jesus. For this reason, the 11th Day carries the additional title of "Little Christmas" (but, as we will see, in some countries IT is the Big Christmas, or at least Big Christmas Eve).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite our
mathematical certainty about the 3 Magi, even to the point of assigning a name to each, the number of these…<i>persons</i> is not clarified
in the gospels, only the number of gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nevertheless, legend fills in the blanks where myth leaves off, and we
assume one gift per Wise Man--therefore, 3 Wise Men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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So then there were three, their secret identities revealed in
this way: Caspar, a Turk,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is old,
normally with a white beard, and gives the gold. Melchior is middle-aged,
giving frankincense from his native Arabia, and Balthazar is a young man with
myrrh from Yemen, although beginning in the 1100’s the Yemeni has been replaced
by a dark-skinned Ethiopian (because black lives mattered!).</div>
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Long story short, Herod tried to get the Three to give the
Baby Jesus up to him, but a dream warned them off, and Herod then massacred
everyone’s newborns <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after the Magi had
skipped town</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even so, the poor
babes’ fate is traditionally commemorated on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Third</i>
Day, Childermass, December 28th, when it could have been no earlier than Jan.
7<sup>th</sup>—if we take the Birth on the 25<sup>th</sup>, December, as gospel (For the
whole story on the Three Wise Men’s encounter with the bloodthirsty and
paranoid Herod, see my blog on the 3<sup>rd</sup> Day of Christmas—Childermass/Holy
Innocents).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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A thought experiment: let’s say that Herod represents the
“ego”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At its worst, this “egotistical” part
of the psyche is a constellation of all our entrenched habits (and the ruts
they are stuck in).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This part of self, a
sort of gatekeeper, really, has no or limited access to vast areas of the
soul-self unless it steps aside and watches the show—when the ego would rather <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">run</i> the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Humility, Zen, mystical experience, true
reverence, any new habit, or even mental peace may threaten the ego; and in
fact it by reflex thwarts any such novelties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The overblown ego thinks that it is king, and fails to realize that it
is merely a small but bossy part of the brain-self in need of the support and resources of the other 99.9% of the whole human being for its very existence.</div>
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Further, say that the Nativity represents a breakthrough of
heroic energy: a bundle of joy, the result of spiritual and psychological Stuff
which is wider, deeper, higher and more central, all at once, than anything ever
experienced before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “innocents” whom
Herod slaughtered represent ideas flowing from this new and greater way of
being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first reaction of the ego is Herod’s:
to kill off those ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stab them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slaughter them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, what’s a more likely scenario today: set
them in front of the TV, and hope they go away. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, in casting such a wide net, Herod confuses
the ideas with their Source, the all encompassing Self, with a capital “S”—who gets
away, because it is basically the unkillable center of all being.<br />
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I had always thought that “Coventry Carol,” is hauntingly
beautiful, and that the “bye, bye” part was not a literal goodbye but some
medieval word with a different meaning, or a rhythmic nonsense syllable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If only: in this song, Hebrew mothers are bidding their barely-born and
newly murdered sons adieu forever….</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lully, lullay, Thou
little tiny Child,</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bye, bye, lully,
lullay.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lullay, thou little
tiny Child,</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bye, bye, lully,
lullay.</i></div>
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…So it’s heart-rending, actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need not milk it, but it’s also quite sad
the number of divine stirrings within—intuitions or feelings of big love or
noble actions—that have been ignored in a person’s life, and whose time may
have come and gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What ideas arising
from your very core are you killing off this lovely Christmas season? Which of her baby inspirations is your Great Internal Mother grieving?—To put it
another way, if you were completely daring and secure, if you could not fail, what
would you do (or not do)? </div>
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The story says that the Source of all those anxiety
provoking promptings will not be killed, which means the ideas will keep on
coming, which means you have to engage in some compulsive behavior or other, or
they will catch up with you (‘Tis the season, traditionally, of compulsive
shopping—but why limit yourself to the last of December; or, for that matter,
to just shopping?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they do bite
you on the donkey, you will realize that you-as-ego are not a king at all, more
like the bossy clerk at a local hotel which may or may not be The Ritz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What’s more,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if you
are lucky you will realize also that this is a very good thing, that there is
more to you than the dog tricks you have learned to perform in response to the
old master, fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps you will get
that “there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy.” and you will see that the Wonder Child, the conduit of all those
inspired promptings, is constantly reborn within us where the humble meets the exalted
(where angels, for example, fly singing their hearts out over a barn full of
the sweet stink of animal manure).<br />
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To support this Birth within yourself, make a habit of doing
something every day that feeds your soul-self, your Newborn King (or Queen):
follow your Bliss; remain quiet and still (don’t just do something—sit there!);
feed yourself ideas that are hard to accept but are nevertheless true, like
“the Divine lives in me”; if you find yourself in a rut, leave it the same way
you would leave an unhealthy yet familiar relationship (kicking and screaming,
if you’re like me); give up a resentment; meditate on what unprecedented action you might take (or precedented one you might not take), and see what bubbles up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Christmas Story, and the Festival of the Kings in particular, would have us pay attention to our dreams...Didn’t dreams
protect the Divine Child’s life, not once but twice, and keep the Holy Family from
splitting up before it even got off the ground?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of what are our dreams warning us, or what in our lives are they asking
us to feed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write down your dreams,
check out a book on dream interpretation, and start figuring it out….<br />
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[Pictured: Joseph hears the angel's warning about Herod's massacre.] <br />
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<img alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Joseph%27s_Dream_in_the_Stable.jpg" height="512" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Joseph%27s_Dream_in_the_Stable.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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Last night, I had a dream about an elite Brazilian athlete (jiu-jitsu, probably) whose woman was "with child". For some reason, they intended to abort the child, and I made all kinds of plans to adopt it, instead. I thought, what a waste. The child has a great chance of being athletic and beautiful.<br />
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I puzzled over this, wrote down some possible associations, but nothing clicked until I saw an affirmation my wife had prominently displayed on the shelf over the kitchen sink:<br />
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"I am a divine creation, healthy and whole. I praise every part of my body for its intrinsic ability to heal and restore."<br />
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I realized that feeling healthy and whole and beautiful is something foreign to me. My healthy, beautiful Self might as well be in Brazil, hidden in the womb of someone I have never met and whose language I don't speak. This dream is telling me to "adopt" that language, and that attitude. The time for fear and self loathing is over. The Christ is born--or the Buddha Nature, the Atman, the capital-<i>S</i> "Self," if you prefer. The Wonder Child or the essential Self is a concept that transcends any particular religion, or even the lack thereof--or even the final frontier: one's habitual attitudes towards oneself.<br />
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The Wonder Child being born can represent almost any unrealized potential. I am fifty-three, and nothing will make me 18 again, but I can certainly do some yoga, or whatever, and feel ten years younger in an hour or two. So I will do that, and repeat the affirmation to myself today: you see, I <i>am</i>; and you, dear reader, <i>are</i> a divine creation, healthy and whole.<br />
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In naturalistic tribes, when a person gets depressed, they might be asked any of four questions:<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #b79024;">When in your life did you stop singing?</span><br />
<span style="color: #b79024;">When in your life </span><span style="color: #b79024;">did you stop dancing?</span><br />
<span style="color: #b79024;">When in your life </span><span style="color: #b79024;">did you stop being enchanted by stories (including your own life story)?</span><br />
<span style="color: #b79024;">When in your life </span><span style="color: #b79024;">did you start being uncomfortable with silence?” </span></b></i></div>
Follow the clues, if you are depressed, and buck the trend, I say.<br />
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READING LIST: “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, available
in PDF form here: <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Henry/Gift_Magi.pdf">http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Henry/Gift_Magi.pdf</a></div>
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PLAYLIST, available on YouTube here: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdartdqjh56BHFWctTEfNRfx2M5Qx6FBF">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdartdqjh56BHFWctTEfNRfx2M5Qx6FBF</a></div>
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We Three Kings Of Orient Are : Kings College, Cambridge</div>
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Barenaked Ladies - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We
Three Kings" Feat. Sarah McLachlan</div>
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James Blunt - Wisemen lyrics</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O Come, All Ye
Faithful - Pentatonix</div>
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O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) at Westminster
Abbey</div>
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My King and My God (Wise Men's Song) - Todd Koeppen</div>
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Such Wise Men! - The Glory of Christmas Musical</div>
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What Child Is This? - Martina Mcbride</div>
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Christian Rap; The Cross Movement: Wiseman (Christmas Rap,
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Peter, Paul & Mary - The Magi (The Heart Of Man's A
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Anaïs Mitchell - Song of the Magi</div>
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<br />Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-20198307723737006722017-01-05T20:14:00.002-08:002018-12-16T10:49:16.428-08:00UNCOMMON THOUGHTS ON GIFTS AND GIVING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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UNCOMMON THOUGHTS ON GIFTS AND GIVING</div>
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We can talk theologically about what the Magi’s gold,
frankencense and myrrh represent, but let’s us just talk gifts and giving now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one, what IS the “ideal” gift for a
certain person?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What gift will help lead
a person further along on this journey called life, encouraging them to come
into their own, somehow?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, I
propose, is the question. </div>
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You know what Santa Claus brought my kid a few years ago?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A pull-up bar, which is a great gift for
Asher because my monkey boy goes stir crazy all the long Winter without any
trees to climb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now, thanks to the
irrespressible urge to leap up and grab it, he’s been know to do up to 8
pull-ups, plus hanging, turning upside down, taking a tumble—all that good
stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More recently, he leaps at the
thing from a distance, grabs it with one arm and does a flying, one-armed pull-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good call by the Jolly Old Elf, but then he
himself fond of climbing up and down chimneys, isn’t he? </div>
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M. Scott Peck, may he rest in peace with a pack of
Marlbloros under his carefully embalmed and folded hands, insisted that love is
doing (or giving, I would add here) anything that helps someone grow
spiritually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would put forth the
proposition that Asher, in learning that he can grow stronger through playful
action, is growing spiritually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
finding his own way to improve at something, or rather refining an internal way
that already has existed, which is better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Find your loved ones’ “growing edge”, and gift accordingly. </div>
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I would also have you consider that giving a great gift
means being willing to INVESTIGATE the issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In so doing, one uses all the tools for coming to any other important
answer, like whom you should marry or whether you should move to Seattle and
work in a coffee house: think and write and pray about it, meditate on it, talk
it over with others, pay attention to your dreams and/or those “limbo” thoughts
you have in the morning between sleep and wakefulness, be attentive to
synchronicities wherein the Gods are trying to get your attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some would make a visit to the local astrologer,
or Madame Romani and her tarot cards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whatever: the point is to FOCUS on the Quest For the Wonderful Present,
to give it your attention, and your action….OR, you could just buy them all a
gift card to somewhere.</div>
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What would benefit your loved ones the most?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are their “immense needs of inner
space”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember that they themselves
might not want to think about that:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“…To
consider our real needs—the essential things we lack in our lives—is often too
frightening, opening up an abyss of need that calls our very existence into
question.”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gift you end up “giving”
may not be in a wrapped box, it may be simply your presence, or a party, a nice
massage, a change of scenery, a story that you memorize and tell them, an idea
whose time has come—the sky really is the limit when the gift is from the best
part of the giver to the best part of the receiver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically, gift giving time is a great one
for thinking “out of the box”.</div>
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What you are looking for, in deciding on gifts, is an
“epiphany”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use the term in the wider
sense of a sudden, striking insight, in this case a glimpse into the essence of
the person to whom you would like to give a gift (as Santa looked into Asher
and saw “Monkey!”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When life is getting
my wife down to the point where she can’t get back up, if I am in my right mind
I see that she should not even try to get up; she should stay down—and by that
I mean lying down with me massaging her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since having that epiphany once after many unsuccessful attempts to
“cheer her up,”, I know what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Works every time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve even
bought myself (I mean, her) a massage table.</div>
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The point is not just knowledge of the right gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In undergoing the systematic use of all your
personal tools for revelation, you are also uncovering the best part of
yourself—which, naturally, is the ideal part to be deciding what gifts to
provide to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who isn’t a better
person herself after meditating on and actively pursuing the gift that would
benefit another person the most?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Especially if my suspicion is true: that the very best gifts involve the
element of personal sacrifice on the part of the giver.</div>
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One thing that might be happily sacrificed is one’s own
limitations, which might well be based on one’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>relatively low opinion of oneself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been said that one can receive only
that which one can accept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you truly
believe that you get what you desereve—and deserve very little, at that, for
whatever reason—then it makes sense that subconsciously you will avoid any
greater good because, being unworthy, you would be uncomfortable with the
having of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one thing to be
frugal in the interest of humility, or the clarity that comes without the
clutter of stuff, or a concern to remain small in ecological footprint; but
it’s quite another to be constricted out of a sense of unworthiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here I should amplify the concept of “gifts”
that one might receive to include some more internal in nature:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>peace, love, faith, the ability to freely
express joy and grief, acceptance, determination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it may be that someone does not feel they
deserve or can afford a nicer house, or it may also be that they do not feel
they deserve or can afford peace of mind.</div>
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I say all this because I suspect that our own
small-mindedness, the result of seeing all through the tightened aperture of a
weak self-image or flabby imagination, cannot help but restrict as well the
quality of our Quest to find the Perfect Gift for our beloveds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember Parcifal, the naïve knight who, when
presented with the whole shabang—the wounded Fisher King, the Grail Castle, and
even the Holy Grail itself—made it all disappear even though all he had to do
was ask one little question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d failed
to ask it because someone <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(his mother, I
think) had taught him it was rude to ask questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect, as well, that the hapless Parcifal
didn’t know he was up to the task of breaking a rule, meant for small
situations, for the sake of a much greater one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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By contrast, in the fairy tale “The Devil’s Sooty Brother,”
the title character spends seven years without bathing, sweeping the ashes and
feeding the fires in hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result,
he looks awful, covered with soot and funk and shunned by others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even so, the Devil instructs him to say, if
anyone should ask his identity, “I am the devil’s sooty brother, and my king as
well!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He goes on to win the king’s
daughter and kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parcifal was all
decked out in a knight’s armored splendor, but failed thanks to seeing himself
as a sort of pawn without the right to speak; the sooty brother saw himself as
a king and ended up one rich in “gold” (symbolizing wholeness and connection to
the Divine). </div>
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So have the epiphany: you are a king, a queen—at the very
least master of yourself by divine birthright. January 6th, the Feast of the
Epiphany, can be seen as the world’s having its “sudden, striking
insight”:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>far from forsaking us, the
Divine is among us, even in us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
an epiphany for you.</div>
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Here’s an idea whose time has come: take a break from the
rat race and make a list of your own needs, and the needs of the people on your
X-mas list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one way to mind what
Lillie Tomlin said about the rat race: “Even if you win, you’re still a rat.”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, give yourself, and them, one thing from
the lists made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t stop: since
Christmas (so sayeth the clergy) should last throughout the year, make this a
habit!</div>
Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-24134656879272958322016-11-03T08:20:00.016-07:002023-12-08T12:21:44.064-08:00That Batshit Zero-Conspiracies Theory<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">If there is any conspiracy that has its jaguar claws sunk
deeply into the Western occiput, it is the ongoing, intense, society-wide promotion of a truly bizzarre and pseudo-positive idea:
that the super-rich and super-powerful somehow wield their super-influence over, frankly, every aspect of our lives <i>with
everyone’s best interest in mind</i>--or they at least they they never do anything <i>too </i>heinous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This remarkable error has us all drowned in a high tide of national naivete--or, worse, in a self-righteous tsunami of conspiracy-loon smears.</span><br />
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The conspiracy
of disinformation that I am discussing here would have us believe that, despite
the beastly huge influence their lawyers, guns, press and money have, and the profit they gain from it, and their insane insulation from criminal or civic liability; something, somewhere stops these power
brokers from crossing certain lines. Their baked-in sense of ethics keeps them from sitting down together in private, and planning to consolidate their power at others' expense, rip off large numbers of people, and even assassinate successful agitators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, conspiracy theories are wing-nut klaptrap--always and forever. In this fantasy, the powerful simply don't act like the powerful always have. Not here in the U.S.! They are, they must be, in general a lawful, ethical bunch.<br />
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Power corrupts, but the 'opposition' to power's malfeasance often amounts to no
more than a sharing of pithy social media memes, a watching of politically
correct TV, and outraged tweeting to our respective choirs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">At most, the big Kahunas of white-collar crime get off with a nominal fine--and they who can get away with murder very often will. </span>Somehow, despite our passivity as a nation
and the skyrocketing wealth (and immunity from prosecution) of a very few families and companies, despite the spiraling
lethality and invasiveness of technology, plus greater and greater incursions of Big Money into politics--all of which might logically lead to an <i>increase</i> in conspiracies--“conspiracy theory” has become a smutty slur with which few care or dare to associate themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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One branch of this conspiracy to deny conspiracies holds
that insanely powerful people rarely commit acts of terror and malfeasance in
defiance of the democratic process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
wanting to seem too naïve, supporters of the zero-conspiracy conspiracy <i>do</i> acknowledge that certain individuals commit
felonious acts, but mainly in isolation (witness our fascination with serial killers, who commit but a tiny percentage of total killings). On the other hand, that a conspiracy-minded detective would even <i>suspect</i> an organized, widespread association of business
interests and government agencies working in tandem, and in secret, to further
the ends of profit (and fuck the general welfare)--<i>that very suspicion is what's</i> <i>offensive</i>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Sounds like a very successful PR coup d'etat, to me. I'm hearing laughing all the way to someone else's bank. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">To be clear, what's offensive here is not the tendency for the powerful to get away with whatever they can, at the same time amassing the sort of power that buys immunity from prosecution--<i>it's the act of pointing this out</i>.<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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This naïveté amounts to thinking the best of those most
likely to be corrupt!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or at least we try
not to think the worst, b<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">ut a</span>s many have re-quoted, “power
corrupts,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and as the equation goes,
more power equals more corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The unquoted corollary, of course, is that the corrupt do more damage in proportion to whatever level of power they wield. Add to that the very real tendency to corrupt the people and institutions around them, making them dependent on your agendas and cash--money in politics, anyone? Pile on the idea that the more they <i>can</i> get away with, the more they <i>will</i> get away with, and you have a grim picture of corrupted, corrupting power that ought to inspire people to to adopt a very tenacious sense of skepticism (if not an itchy guillotine finger). This is the stuff that should inspire the <i>I know you're probably lying</i> reflex--and never its opposite.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Perhaps people have a certain threshold beyond which they can think no more ill of authority, or of people in general. Maybe it's just too stressful to think about the power structures in our beloved country as being more like the mafia and less like the democracy we're supposed to be so proud of. Anyway, fuck pride--we want to feel <i>safe</i>! We want to sleep at night.<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">In any case, the logical solution is to ensure that democratic power be more
evenly distributed—in other words, that our democracy be more democratic (<i>Socialism!</i> The accused will cry, while they work hard to get you living out of a refrigerator box).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
To put it more starkly, those with too much
power should have the excess removed from them, by all reasonable means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would appear to be self-evident to most,
and a principle which, on paper at least, is the very cornerstone of this
nation from the time of its bloody rebellion against the tyranny of England (<i>which was ultimately</i>, despite the nominal monarchy, <i>economic</i>). </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">So, accepting the powerful's selfish, destructive and conspiratorial tendencies means taking on the power structure, and ain't nobody got time for that. But I'm betting that nobody has time for what happens when you deny all that.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> <br />
Actually, to <i>not</i> take the overly powerful down from their pedestals is to <i>invite</i> conspiracy (because that unchallenged power grants them immunity and makes them bold), or even to see it made legal (because they have the power to author laws). In fact, due to their current legality, actual conspiracies have regressed to the point where they are no longer technically conspiracies (take, for instance, the perfectly legal, unlimited bribes of campaign contributing
corporations and lobbyists <i>a la</i> 'Citizens United'). This is perhaps a bigger issue than the existence of technically illegal conspiracies. FFS, actual secret conspiracies would be <i>progress</i> at this point. But I digress. <br /></div>
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One point of dogma among sand-sucking ostriches and positive patriots: profitmongers would never assassinate a duly elected president, or steal
votes, poison and ruin citizens’ lives, or lie to the public—or the media would
expose it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The media, which is owned by
the very corporate interests it is charged with investigating and exposing in
the event of foul play, is supposed to go ahead and tell the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth—despite the guarantee of crackdown on journalists, who would be and have been smeared, cancelled, fired, exiled and imprisoned, bombed and beheaded. To expect fair and balanced media in this anti-press environment is like
expecting the fox to replace all the chickens in your henhouse at his own expense, and then go fetch you some turkeys in payment of psychological damages…</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">Sooner expect the fox's amends than expect corporate moguls,
via the media outlets that they themselves own, fund and control, to tell on themselves and agitate
for limits on their own wealth, power and brutality. Sooner see them carrying signs that say, "PEOPLE OVER PROFITS" at a protest against themselves and organized by themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For you see in that instance
they would be accepting a pay cut—and, as word got round, be cut <i>off</i> from former
business and social connections who could not afford to be associated with such
magnanimity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They would be isolated, and exiled themselves--perhaps they'd take a bullet to the brain. Or so I imagine.<br /></span></div>
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<i>...Wait, hold on!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
unbelievable!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see them lining up,
right this very moment, to tell on themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the child molesters and incestors are there, all the closet-queer Christians, the Wall Street grifters, the genocidal war profiteers...they all want to publicly confess, recant, to change their evil ways and make reparations, to give back their ill gotten gains, spend some time in the middle or lower class, or prison. </i><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><i>Time to board the true-confession-and-financial-ruin train—All ABOOOOOOOOOOOOARD!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha!</i></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">Not hardly....The true confessions of corrupted elites, en masse, will never, ever--EVER EVER happen. We have to ferret their malfeasance out for ourselves, along the way being labeled nutjobs, tinfoil-hatters, Alex Jones devotees, Q-Anon cranks....Tell me, is Oliver Stone really any of those? Is Julian Assange?<br /></div>
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The real conspiracy is a clinging to and spreading of the shockingly
trustful idea that these people will go only so far in their malfeasance—just ‘cuz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe people feel that they paid especially close attention in
kindergarten, when they were taught everything they needed to know? Maybe it
was precisely all those lessons on mutual respect and caring that led
them to wealth and power as adults?</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Just for clarification, and as a working definition of the
obscenely rich, let’s consider them “those wealthy enough to directly affect
laws and political policy well out of proportion to their wisdom and numbers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes
without saying that such folk employ lobbyists, who in many cases actually pen legislation that becomes law (this last reality ought to trigger jaw-dropping shock, but it's legal, and so not a conspiracy--<i>which ought to trigger jaw-dropping shock</i>).</div>
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We’ve all been taught in our public schools that the system
of checks and balances, and this mighty democratic system set up by Founding Fathers who were very
suspicious of power, will rein in the worst excesses in case Senator Joey was busy
pooping his pants in the corner as Mrs. Schachter was explaining to the rest of the kindergarten class that "We keep the room clean not just for ourselves, but for everyone".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having missed
the lesson, Joey takes money from the petroleum industry to mint legislation that
will protect the oil barons from liability no matter how many ecosystems they
destroy with their toxic greenhouse goo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Theoretically, either the House of Reps, the Executive Branch, or the
Courts will remedy this pollution of the process and put into effect what
Senator Joey missed in Kindergarten—concern for others, be they fish, fowl, or
the people who depend on them for food or a living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We see, however, that large corporations universally get
away with their twisted perfidy, suffering, if anything, a token punishment in the
event one of our pseudo-democratic pageants of justice occurs at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pay a tiny fraction of their profits for
a cosmetic cleanup, while the rest of the cost of cleanup and remediation of other
consequences (if they are addressed at all) falls on the shoulders of the taxpayer, who will also be the ones to breathe in the fumes and contract the cancer and lose their house to the flood waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is known as <b>corporate capitalism</b> (see glossary), and such was the case with BP and its Deepwater Horizon leak from the floor of the Gulf, and has been/will be the same for many other eco-criminals (just kidding; there is no glossary). </div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">The name of the game is to maximize profits
by sidestepping measures that would protect people and ecosystems (which cost
money), minimize liability for the resulting catastrophes by pawning it off on
the public (because corporate liability would cost money), all the while keeping up a snappy
PR and a lively lobbying practice, all of which are “good investments”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Turns out they are <i>great</i> investments, really fantastic.<i> </i>The cost of a lobbyist, for instance, and
campaign donations--or even fines for fraud or damages--are a pittance compared to the profits companies can gain as
a result of a big score, an industry-friendly bit of legislation, and a get-out-of-jail-free card.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Again, this is no conspiracy, this is happening right in our faces, and is simply the way business centrally motivated by sheer profit and protected from liability plays
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this point of view, the
meetings wherein decisions to sacrifice the general welfare for the sake of
more money are not cabals of evil men, meeting in secret on Halloween Eve while they sacrifice infants to the Owl God; they are simply everyday business meetings guided by their god, the Profit Motive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, no company on earth is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">publicizing</i> either the way they
influence the laws of this country, nor the negative consequences of their
activities, nor their efforts to censor the press regarding the damage—nor the
way they leave the taxpayer holding the bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They’re not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stupid</i>, Stupid!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There is certainly a blanket policy of secrecy and spin, a
campaign to keep the citizenry from getting too alarmed about policies that are
truly anti-democratic, homocidal (poverty kills, as do CIA-blessed assassins), ecocidal (and thereby globally genocidal, since none of us 7.5 billions can live without a viable habitat).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There MUST be a conspiracy of misinformation set in motion to deny it all, as evidenced by the fact that most
people don’t even see the spin as spin—instead, they spin along with it as words like "butthurt nutjob" spew from their lips (along with some spittle).</div>
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The conspiracy-against-conspiracies uses the Straw Man
Fallacy to set up any conspiracy “theory” as born from the leg-humping,
aluminum-hat-wearing, high-all-the-time core of the lunatic fringe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, what it mocks are not the legitimate
criticisms of thoughtful people but rather highlights the ideas of the fringe of the fringe which may be along for the ride—say,
that “the Illuminati” are meeting in satanic covens in order to discuss world
domination with their Cthulu overlords from deep space (who were responsible
for creating human beings and civilization in the first place).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amidst the barrage of derision for these
seemingly ridiculous tenets, the plain fact of business meetings and what they’re
designed to do, and at what long-term cost they operate, is lost among the
chortles of those who have no wish to be lumped in with flat-earther loons who do so "want to believe". Furthermore, it is more than logical to assume that the spin-meisters managing all this narrative were the ones that have invented some of the whackier theories that have so satisfyingly muddied the waters, thereby smearing the names of many a legitimately skeptical researcher.<br /></div>
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Never mind my opinion that the obscenely rich would gladly
participate in idolatrous rites if they found it fashionable and could get a hold of
the very best and sexiest Cthulu costumes—what we are discussing here is simply
a business meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do people with money
ever get together to discuss how to make more money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hmmmmm—only all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do they ever discuss how to influence or even
negate the democratic process in order to make even more money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer, since Citizens United officially gave
corporations a legal mandate to bribe the most profit-and-power-friendly
candidate they can find, is a very public “Yes!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Case in point: they not only found a way to
get ‘Citizens United’ <i>passed</i>, but got the the ridiculous misnomer ‘Citizens
United’ to stick despite its polar distance from the reality of whose plutocratic interests the bill actually serves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The point is that what anti-conspiracy conspiracy theorists
paint as a wacky, deluded fantasy propounded by a group of losers is actually
just another godforsaken business meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And whether they paint you as a winner or a loser, business meetings
happen all the time, and just about every time they makes plans to secure
profit over and above ethical principles, if the two should conflict (and if
the latter should even be mentioned).</div>
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Now here’s a fevered delusion for you, one to challenge even
the fringiest, schizoid funky mushroom of ideas:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the fantasy that what is profitable to some also
coincidentally will bring about the greatest good for all. Despite a landslide of evidence to the contrary, this wild PR claim has been loaned the honorary title of "Trickle-Down Theory (let's call it 'TDT')," just as if it were as valid as other theories like, say, the theory that the universe is expanding, a scientific consensus supported by measurement after measurement and equation after equation. However, the TDT, as a "theory" which is ridiculous on its face (containing the absurd idea that the rich, when they get richer, will gladly allow the wealth of the entire population to swell along with their own rather than take definitive steps to consolidate their own control over said wealth). As an extreme claim, it would require extreme proof; however, the moneyed class who owns the media has, ever since it's dissemination by said media as a 'theory,' with its actions done everything it could to prove the idea wrong but with its words continued to pretend that money <i>really does trickle down</i>. <br />
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Our corporations and banks are now “too big to
fail,” and are considered "people" with the right and privilege to contribute infinite amount of money to the shills of their choice, and--coinciding with these coups d'etat with scientific precision--the gap between the über-rich and the lower classes has widened to a chasm of Grand-Canyonesque proportions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much for trickle-<i>down</i>. Even in this age when science has
been reduced to a mere chronicler of the dismantling of the biosphere, or,
worse, the object of a hate campaign for doing even as little as that, this fantasy
of how wealth trickles down should really be put in the ground and composted (along with the purveyors of the theory).</div><div class="MsoNormal">
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Mother Nature is life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She is oxygen, water, fertile soil, food—and all the rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality it is Nature that is too big to
fail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the exact extent (or greater) that She is
compromised, then sooner or later so is our quality of life—and then our lives themselves are taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, everywhere you look Nature has been,
and continues to be, replaced by things of our own construction that in the
long run make air, water, soil and food more scarce and/or more foul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look out my window, and what was once a marsh
where a man with a gun could shoot 100 ducks in one hour (that was the description found in the records from the 1800's) is now a concrete
street with asphalt patches, tar-shingle-roofed houses, and a scurry of squirrels but relatively
few trees, and a small number of songbirds (most of which are invasive species).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Continuing this process as a matter of course, we degrade our quality of
life in ways that are becoming increasingly obvious in the age of chronic and
extreme illnesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our numbers climb while
resources dwindle, with the endgame nothing less than the most hideous of mass die-offs
in our foreseeable future (perhaps progressing in somewhat less hideous stages, but
I’m taking the long view here).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And yet, every single degradation of the environment has made
(or saved) money for profit-makers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arguably,
moneymaking in our culture is the antithesis of long-term survival, to say nothing of
thriving, and not the reverse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adam
Smith’s “invisible hand” has picked our pockets, tossed our
topsoil in the rivers, and made sure that every fish in the U.S. has mercury
and antidepressants in its flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Business-as-usual
has brought us to the brink of worldwide environmental and societal collapse, and
yet to some people it sounds crazy to suggest that those in power might in some
premeditated, coordinated fashion <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conspire</i>
to enlarge their place of privilege--and along the way "kill some folks," sabotage our democracy, and cut short our long-term survival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But from Armageddon to conspiracy is really not such a leap, if you think about it.</span><br />
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This means that they sit down and figure out
in their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">business meetings</i> not only
how to “stay the course” of our extinction, but to accelerate it—because
profits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means that they also discuss
how to bribe lawmakers (or to make doing so legal), whom to kill or ruin,
and how to put a nice spin on things, as well—but no, the belief that this is how it goes is
a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conspiracy theory</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">conspiracies</i>
don’t actually happen except in the minds of outsiders who confuse<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The X-Files</i> with reality—right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The anti-conspiracy conspirators may actually accept the
fact that the George W. Bush administration completely fabricated the
accusations of Iraq’s WMD’s and Iraqi involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attack
which were the very basis for our invasion of that country, which at the very
least exposes them as lying, swindling profiteers gunning for control of Middle
Eastern oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may even accept that
the invasion has done the country few favors, trashing it on the one hand and
giving rise to a civil war on the other, which has further devastated it, plus spawned a new generation of anti-U.S. terrorists. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> <br />
But say that Bush cronies pulled off the
controlled demolition of the twin towers as a “false flag” operation in order
to muddy the public’s thinking and shove its opinion far over in their favor (and in the process raise Dubya's approval rating 50 points),
so they could invade an innocent country and get control of that oil and make a
killing on arms-and-oil sales and mercenary contracts for Blackwater, etc.—and what you
get is “I can’t believe they would do that”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This despite the fact that 3 buildings fell when only 2 planes hit--and each unprecedented steel-skeleton collapse looked just exactly like a controlled demolition.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"> <div class="MsoNormal"><img alt="https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/570/140/ae4.jpg" class="shrinkToFit" height="634" src="https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/570/140/ae4.jpg" width="635" /><br /> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">My point here is not to prove that 9/11 was an inside job; rather, it's merely to point out how <i>plausible</i> it would be for it to have been an inside job. It <i>shouldn't </i>be so plausible, <i>but it absolutely is</i>. If Bush, Inc. hadn’t gained the public’s blessing to enter Iraq, a shit-ton
of money would absolutely not have been made by certain very connected, mercenary,
oil-hungry interests--starting with his own family, the business of which has always been--what?--<i>oil</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could talk about Cheney and Haliburton, while we're at it. We are talking
about profits in the trillions for the war machine and Bush-Cheney Oil, a resounding success from
the point of view of net income for the companies in question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re talking high fives, and bonuses, and
extra homes and vacations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We're talking about people who made peace long ago with the idea of making money off of the suffering, death and gore experienced by the common soldier or citizen. So I ask you,
anti-conspiracy conspirators, what, exactly, would keep these obviously profit-obsessed people from blowing up, crushing, and burning to death thousands
of their own countrymen if the massacre meant billions of dollars in profits
for them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would Senator Joey, and CEO
Justin, and President Billy stand up for everything they learned in
kindergarten, or turn a blind eye—and take the money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You tell me.<br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal">One more time: I am not here to argue that 9/11 was an inside job. My only point here is that a conspiracy is, at the very least, a completely plausible explanation for why those 3 towers fell--and not at all a theory to be waved away with talk of aluminum hats and "someone's off his meds, ha ha!". Paranoia is thinking that evil gnomes are painting skid marks on your underwear at night, while you sleep off a bean-eating binge. To say that the super-rich will throw any ethics they ever claimed to have out the window in order to get even richer is not paranoia at all. As the Godfather said, <i>It's nothing personal: it's just business</i>. <i>Absolute power corrupts absolutely</i>, said Lord Acton, historian. <i>Follow the money</i>, said some savvy journalist, somewhere....<i><br /></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Actually, if you really want to follow the post-9/11 cash cow, here's an excellent and thorough source:</div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal">https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2021/Profits%20of%20War_Hartung_Costs%20of%20War_Sept%2013%2C%202021.pdf<br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">But I digress: another
point to emphasize with conspiracy theories: if there really IS a
conspiracy, the physical evidence will be relatively scarce--<i>by definition</i>.
And that is simply because the authorities who pull the main strings of
justice are the ones who committed the crime. They will therefore
destroy the evidence, and discredit or threaten--or even
kill--witnesses. They will sway judges. That they will generally do so expecting impunity goes
without saying, since their connections often protect them from
prosecution. They'll find a patsy, probably--you know the drill. And yet, zero-conspiracy nuts like to say, without any ado, "there's no evidence for that". Not that the desire for evidence is a bad instinct, at all--it just amounts to a sort of anti-logic: conspirators destroy evidence, and the more powerful they are the more coroners' reports stop making sense, the more DNA simply fails to turn up at a crime scene, the more defendants get off on a technicality, the more witnesses disappear off the planet. But the conclusion made, in the interest of being objective and honoring the "innocent until proven guilty" principle, is exclusively this: there is a lack of evidence indicting these elites here; therefore, there must be no conspiracy (besides which, <i>They would never do that! They couldn't get away with that...That's crazy to think that</i>, etc). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This conclusion isn't near as logical as it pretends to be, unless you assume that conspirators try but do not <i>succeed</i> in destroying evidence, or, due to their high ethical principles and fears of the efficiency of law enforcement, <i>don't even want to get rid of the evidence</i>, or they want to but are still dutifully following those lessons learned in America's kindergartens--all of which are questionable takes on the behavior of highly empowered, liability-free, dirty power brokers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As far as succeeding in round filing evidence, zero-conspiracy theorist, meet your doom: the common office shredder. Meet the toilet. Meet fire. Meet the "Delete" button on any computer, and techies well paid and well versed in making the traces disappear. Meet <i>"We know where your kid goes to school, what time he arrives and when he leaves!"</i>. Meet crooked judges that swim in the same circles as the corporate sharks.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This
does not mean that a lack of evidence is always proof of guilt--that's
taking the point too far, since <i>innocence is also, of course, marked by a
lack of evidence</i>. What it means is that a lack of evidence, in case of
an actual conspiracy, is such a given that it <i>almost could be</i> evidence--so dig further. In the case of overwhelming circumstantial evidence against powerful figures </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">who could have stymied the course of justice, </span>and
where motive is evident, a lack of physical evidence is as fishy as the shores of Lake Michigan after the alewife die-off. Even if an <i>absence</i> of evidence could not (and should not) be used in court, it
would, in an impartial system, call strongly for a deeper and more
rigorous investigation--as opposed to the abandonment of that investigation in a cascade of sniggers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The point is that a certain lack of evidence, in a true
conspiracy, does not necessarily disprove the conspiracy. It may point to, not
only a conspiracy, but a meta-conspiracy to obstruct justice by burying that crime (and certain witnesses). It
may indicate not less wrongdoing, but more. By definition. The higher up the conspiracy goes, in fact, the less dense the available hard evidence will be, but the denser the thicket of circumstantial evidence will be.</span><br />
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Again, the conspiracy is not some secret about how people
behave when profit is their ultimate motive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is no secret at all—they will pursue profit, period, or go out of
business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such is our economic system. In an age of corporate takeovers, you've got to mind your bottom line! The real conspiracy here is
that of give absurdly wealthy human beings, in a grow-exponentially-or-die system, the benefit of the doubt. The actual conspiracy is that of characterizing anyone accusing elites of coordinated efforts to
swindle the public as an automatic wing-nut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The CIA wouldn’t kill JFK, Grandpappy Bush wouldn’t profit from The
Holocaust, the Bush-Cheneys and their cronies wouldn't sacrifice 3,000 people in order to make a killing on a dirty war--<i>That's just crazy!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The conspiracy <i>I'm</i> talking about here is the one that convinces
the very people being screwed out of their (tax) money for the crude purpose of
lining a few silken pockets that, no, power does <i>not</i> corrupt, and absolute
power does <i>not</i> corrupt absolutely--BUT RATHER, people who <i>do</i> see the corrupting influence of power, to the point where they point out probable conspiracies, ARE crazy/stupid/paranoid/etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
anti-conspiracy conspiracy is brought to bear by the public itself, as its
naïveté provides free PR for even the most obscenely rich and viciously self serving, by refusing to
believe that those who are most addicted to profits ever get together to coordinate vile acts in order to secure more...profits?</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">C'mon.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">That refusal to believe that the worst can occur is what allows the worst actions to occur. And actions speak louder than thinking. To believe that </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a cold cost-benefit calculation of the monstrous desires of a few--which discounts the monstrous suffering of many--does <i>not</i> exist, or hardly ever happens outside of movies, is to show a shocking level of trust in human nature. This is even more true in the case of the very inhumane behavior that the very powerful (which is to say, the very corrupt) engage in. To believe that conspiracies cannot be coordinated among large numbers of people is to be ignorant of the power of propaganda, PR, and manipulation--and </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">professional ruin and threats thereof, and </span>murder and threats thereof. To believe that the media, and those who pay them, would never create lies both huge and heinous is to ignore who writes the media's paychecks, and why.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I am not here to advocate witch hunts. But the opposite of a witch hunt, what is that? When you refuse to prosecute, resist, or even see the evil that people actually do, what do we call that? The most descriptive phrase in the English language that we have for this is "burying your head in the sand", but that is hackneyed and euphemistic--hey, how about "shoving your own head up some rich asshole's asshole and eating what you find there, and then going around and telling everybody how good it is, and calling anyone who points out you are eating shit a lunatic"? So disgusting--and yet so much more appropriate than ostrich-based tropes. <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Far from truth-dodging displays of cowardly ignorance, our society's--any democracy's--success hinges on it's opposite: the free press's role as whistle blower, and our First-Amendment rights to expose and remedy all that is unwise or destructive. This is the cornerstone of all the other checks and balances to unbridled power. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Looking the other way </span>is what allows evil actions, and their consequences for all, to continue. Nature abhors a vacuum--but evil loves it. Evil loves to suck itself into that vacuum of denial, and to see just how much it can hollow out the space so as to expaaaaaaaaaaaaand into it further.</span><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Think about it: if you are going to reflexively shame and mock all conspiracy theories, this means
that there is no <i>need</i> for the First Amendment. We could get rid of
it, because <i>conspiracies never actually happen</i>, so there’s no need to
report on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, if George W.
Bush and cronies didn’t murder a million people in Iraq and destabilize the whole
region based on lies and in order to get control of oil and markets, aided by a
false flag/planned ignorance of a bomb plot against the Twin Towers--then
just get rid of the whole Constitution, because, evidently, we don’t need it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Nothing to see here</i>.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">As a certain someone might have said, had circumstances and personalities been radically different, "If you're not against conspiracies, you're with them!" <i>With them</i> means you're on board with secrets and lies, unchecked power, absolute corruption, environmental catastrophe, murder, war and the relative disempowerment of all of us "citizens dis-united". You're an unpaid marketer-cheerleader for corrupt and destructive 'elites' whose guiding light is, and will always be, profit at your own expense.<br /></span></div>
Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-16823849959030328352016-10-13T10:28:00.000-07:002016-10-13T10:28:58.688-07:00Conspiracies and Witch Hunts--Screw Them! <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Conspiracies happen. Witch hunts also happen. They both are part of the "shit" that happens.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Be that as it may, I think it's
abundantly clear that politicians take money from large corporations with truly toxic effects, and I wonder if you think, reader, that the
idea that politicians cater to their donors is witch hunt stuff, or
self-evident, or somewhere in between. <br /><br />It has been pointed out that, once a bonafide witch hunt gets going, it's very hard to divert the witch hunters from their brutal conviction, no matter what the evidence. Innocence is by its nature hard to prove, marked as it is by a <i>lack</i> of evidence. Plus, the human brain is hard-wired to focus more on potential threats than on all which is hunky-dory, so a sort of ingrained paranoia is our lot. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Now, I think the irrational nature of witch hunts is an idea that enjoys congenial acceptance in our society, to the point where I don't think I need to spend more time on it. But if we
are going to talk witch hunts AND conspiracies, it should be pointed out
that, in the case of actual conspiracies with high-level officials
participating, it is by definition very difficult to prove guilt. This
is because those in charge of justice are, instead of actively gathering
and evaluating evidence, industriously getting rid of it, plus silencing
witnesses, etc. THEN they can point to the lack of evidence and say,
"You can't prove anything, you're a whacko conspiracy theorist"--and, as
far as anyone can see, this is the truth. Because there is little to no
evidence. By defintion.<br /><br />A really good example is the
assassination of JFK, where the official story--one shooter, from a
certain building--completely contradicted what is plainly seen in the
Zapruder film, as well as the laws of physics. Obviously, those who
sponsored this official story were implicated, but they were
governmental officials and were thus able to get rid of evidence, and
witnesses, and discourage testimony in a way that you and I cannot.
Given the lack of corroborating evidence, the Zapruder film, though
incontrovertible, could not stand alone. So the real movers and shakers behind the blown-out brains of JFK were never apprehended, much less charged or convicted.<br /><br />A
conspiracy, by definition, leaves little evidence. In fact, a
conspicuous lack of concrete evidence in the face of significant
circumstantial elements, plus motive, may itself be evidence that justice has been corrupted. Maybe. In any case, lack of evidence is not proof of innocence in every case. <br /><br />My question is, Why don't people make
THAT point more often? When there is money to be made, and power to be
gained, but the law stands in the way, what do you think people in power
do? Back off and remain law-abiding citizens? Do the boy-scout thing,
and stick with only the one yacht? Sometimes yes, and sometimes no, is
the obvious answer. Sometimes they engage in conspiracy, and sometimes
they don't. Often enough, given human nature (especially when it wields undue power), they engage in conspiracy, and take the extra yacht. Is this in
dispute, somehow? I don't think so; the question is how common
conspiracies might be.<br /><br />I wonder why people
reflexively trot out terms like "witch hunt" in order to smear attempts
to criticize public officials with dubious ties to big business. Most U.S. politicians with strong corporate ties have a mixed record, simply because the corporate agenda and that of the average citizen and worker are often at odds. There is much they have done, as a matter of
record, which has been destructive, generally, but has helped line the
pockets of their cronies. And that seems to have been the point; at
least, if you can take campaign contrubutions as proof of favor by
corporate elites.<br /><br />And, really, this is the main
thing, the issue hiding in plain sight: politicians who make themselves
part of the corporate system are part of the problem--and it's a truly
YUGE problem--because they are not part of the solution. Politicians
who give corporations what they want--and what they want, bottom line,
is profit above all else--are participating in a very vicious cycle. In
fact, the very worst thing about our system is that, usually, you don't
HAVE to engage in conspiracy in order to create massive, irreversible destruction. If the Arctic National Refuge is desecrated by oil operations, it will all be by the book, because money has worked within the system
to change the laws to work in its favor, no matter what the
consequences. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Citizens United. TPP. NAFTA. The globally reckless
corporations are grabbing more and more power, in front of God and
everybody. Who the hell needs conspiracies?<br /><br />The
consequences of unregulated capitalism that does not make amends for its
destruction--assuming such amends were even possible--are chilling. Are
killing. Us. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Look at the fisheries of the world: 90% of the large
fish eliminated (atlantic cod and many others, essentially gone), and most of what's left is contaminated. Garbage gyres
the size of small continents spin as fish ingest broken-down pieces of plastic. Nukes are still very viable, and global
relations between nuclear powers are marked by pillaging and passing the
buck. Our topsoil is eroded, its minerals and supporting biota flushed
away into the rivers and replaced by chemicals you would never, ever
serve in a shot glass. Wild animals, both individuals and species, are
being erased from existence to make room for our destructive lifestyles
and sterile-toxic landscapes--and we have no idea at what point ecosystems go
into freefall without them. I could go on and on--but this is the sort
of shit that can NOT go on; not if we are to survive, and thrive. <br /><br />I never thought I'd say this, but fuck
conspiracies. I do think they are important, because they demonstrate the blatant disregard for justice on the part of elites.
They show that power corrupts. They show that power murders and lies.
But the real story is what's going on all around us, every day, the
legal stuff, and their effects on our already half-dead world. Will you
really be cheering as the likes of __________ (any politician to be found in the
corporate purse) and her donors work to kill off the other half?<br /><br />Even
some conspiracies seem, in the long term, rather insignificant compared
to the health of the planet. Chomsky notes that there was no
significant policy changes post JFK assassination, and so his murder was
no more important than that of any John Doe. He has a point, though
some dispute it. <br /><br />His <i>main</i> point is that our
energy is better spent dealing with what's happening right under our
noses, which is beyond dispute: corporations are taking over the world,
and destroying it as they go. Even if you dispute individual phenomena
like climate change, all you have to do is look around to see that we
have replaced strong, diverse virgin ecosystems that purified and
nutrified with artificial, monocultured and denuded landscapes that
toxify the environment and <i>remove</i> nutrients. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Will you tell your grandchildren that you
did nothing, that you even defended the corporations by labeling the
politicians they controlled as victims of some witch hunt? Will you tell them
you missed the forest for the trees?..."What's a forest,
grandpa?...What's a tree?"</span></span>Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-9632196572735685202016-04-26T10:21:00.002-07:002016-04-26T10:21:35.580-07:00What's Happened to My Beautiful Sky?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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"Chemtrails" vs. "Contrails"....My mind is open on this one, sometimes I think, Why wouldn't
they use chemicals to block the sun's rays so things don't get too hot down
here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's exactly what a world that
had already f'ed up the climate would do, isn't it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that so hard to believe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is the fossil fuel industry going to stop
burning the oil and coal because it’s “dirty”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That's not an option to those who have already bought the petroleum
still in the ground and traded on its value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They going to look for a band-aid to stick on the hemorrhage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether that's chemtrails or something else,
I find such a scenario very believable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Some of the pictures purporting to show tanks of chemicals
on planes do appear to be ballast tanks used for testing aircraft for their
payload weight, and some of the photos put forth by the chemtrail side do seem
to have been doctored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, just
because some photos are of ballast tanks does not mean that other planes don’t
have other kinds of tanks in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
it's doubtful that employees involved are pursuing photo shoots with actual
chemical tanks in the background--"Me, at work." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the ballast tanks prove that planes
can stow large amounts of liquid, and therefore spewing chemtrails from planes
is entirely possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My question is,
hasn't anybody ever taken a plane BEHIND one of these allegedly chemtrailing
planes to sample the chemicals therein?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since they persist for so long, that seems entirely possible to do and a
way to shed a little more light on this debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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As for the difference between the old days (my boyhood and
earlier adulthood) and the present day, it is certainly the case that many,
many more planes are in the air now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps they are also flying higher, which makes contrails more likely
to form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I understand that Britain is
considering making planes fly lower so as to avoid this ugly smeary smudgy
shite in the sky all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well,
then they’ll have more noise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does
seem to me that as a boy I HEARD planes much more than I do now, but then again
I was within a fairly short drive's distance of O'Hare then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, maybe planes were flying generally
lower at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What is without question is that the trails planes leave are
sullying the sky big time these days, whereas in the past they simply did not,
old photos of isolated plane trails notwithstanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There came a certain point in time,
relatively recently, when I started to notice this and get quite sad about it. Since
I have mostly live in the city, I am always surrounded by the uglification of the landscape by
way of unlovely structures and pavement, so I would always look to the sky for some
reassurance. I would say to myself, "Well, at least they haven't
messed that up".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would get my daily
dose of beauty by looking up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am fifty
now, and I would say that some time in the last ten to fifteen years, I have often
no longer been able to say even that much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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This past Winter and Fall were quiet in terms of plane
trails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, they are back with
a vengeance now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time we had
enough sun and a bit of warmth for me to get some vitamin D (which has been
rare), those blue patches of sky became cross-hatched with plane exhaust fumes,
all this Spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me angry and
sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me never want to get on a
plane again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me want to get a
horse.</div>
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Let’s get one date straight: most sources put “St. Distaff’s
Day” on January <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">7th</i>, after the Twelve
Days are over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This makes a lot of
sense, too, because it’s supposed to be the first day back to work after all
the Christmas festivities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But one of my
sources says that it’s the Tenth Day of Christmas, and no one says anything
else whatsoever about the Tenth Day in particular, and so for the purposes of
this blog, let the Tenth belong to the saint called "Distaff"….</div>
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…Who never existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
distaff is a stick around which fiber to be spun into thread is wound—to keep
it from getting tangled, you see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
this back-to-work Day of Christmas (or after it) is named for something women
worked with all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, as a
modifier noun, “distaff” can mean “of or pertaining to women”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">..So you have the "distaff (female)" side of the family, and the "spear (male)" side. Of course, many women dislike the term because of its association with stereotypical women's work....Anyway, b</span>ecause “Distaff Day” was one of the days of
Christmas, medieval folk started to call it “St. Distaff’s Day” as a joke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this is in fact a women’s day, except that
it commemorates, well...that they have to go back to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Nevertheless, the idea behind St. Distaff’s Day is not so
cut and dried: time to get back to work, but not time to forget the fun of the
Twelve Days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You see, before Christmas
became the orgy of gift buying and giving that it is today, adults got some
little knickknacks, maybe, but the only ones who got “presents” were very small
children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With no shopping to do, that left a lot of time open
for playing parlor games, for singing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and for laughing hard and often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So even when the women got back to their spinning, weaving and sewing
(since mothers were pretty much a one-woman sweatshop of thread, cloth and
clothing manufacture at that time), the men made a game of trying to set fire
to their hard-wrought textiles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
women, for their part, kept large buckets of icy water handy to put out
whatever flaming object was proffered—and douse the firebug as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wee—hoo!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>This is how Saint Distaff became the non-existent patron saint of practical jokes.<br />
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Mind you, this also adds St. Distaff's Day pranks to the role reversals and flour fighting and other zany, madcap revels that pop up regularly during the Twelve Days. This un-Puritanical bit of fun gets us through the long, dark, cold days, and the figure of Jesus, as I have mentioned before, is revealed to have, or at least condone, a sense of humor and fun. <br />
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...So, whenever it is you need to get back to
work after the holidays, or even if you have to work the whole way through, you poor bastard--try to bring an uncommon level of fun to your days of
toil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would discourage you from
dumping a bucket of the wet stuff over your boss (unless you really can--in which case, <i>have at it!</i>), but you can (you <i>must</i>) adapt
the principle of the thing to your circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bring a joke book to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wear a funny button or t-shirt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Do the squirting flower gag. </span>Share lots of funny memes with coworkers and
inter-networking friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pull as many
pranks as you can without getting divorced or fired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Don’t let drudgery have its monopoly without a fight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give it wit, give it humor—give it
mirth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People will wonder if you have
enlisted some chemical assistance in your battle for happiness, but so
what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep it light, keep it green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Above all, keep all Twelve Days of Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two more to go.<br />
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The distaff is associated with women, yes, but in an interesting twist also reveals the Norse All-Father God, Odin (one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel multiverse!) as the equivalent of a cross-dresser. You won't find Odin wielding a distaff in a Marvel movie, but you will find Loki mocking him, in an Icelandic saga, for using one in magickal rituals. You see, there was a brand of magic in the Old Norseland which made use of the distaff as a magical tool, sort of like a magic wand or staff or cauldron. For a male to use this kind of magick was considered distinctly unmasculine--but Odin is the kind of guy who would pursue greater wisdom, knowledge and power at any cost. <span data-offset-key="b9m02-0-0"><span data-text="true">He had already sacrificed one of his eyes, plus hung upside-down from a tree with a spear lodged in him for nine days in the pursuit of wisdom and mystical power</span></span>--Loki's taunts weren't going to stop him. In my mind, this makes Odin a patron saint of gender equality, of sorts, and balances out just a tad the relatively minor role that Norse goddesses play in the Norse myths that have survived to this day (to be fair, most of the myths we know of were recorded by a Christian monk, who may have redacted them heavily to equal the patriarchal one-sidedness of the Judeo-Christian Bible).<br />
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Why mention Odin at all in the context of the Twelve Days of Christmas? Well, because, as the All Father, he bears a resemblance to Yahweh, the father of Christ. He also is part of the source material for our contemporary legends of Santa Claus....You see, little Norse children would put their shoes outside, and fill them with hay for Odin's flying eight-legged horse Sleipnir (instead of 8 reindeer, eight legs!) as he rode the skies in mid-winter. They would get little gifts in return. Sound familiar? Odin is also pictured, often, as a man with a white beard, and, like Santa, is associated with magical gifts. And of course, Odin is associated with the cold North.<br />
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Incidentally, Loki's mocking of Odin's distaff magic may come from his own icky place inside, his own shame at an unmanly deed--as Sleipnir was Loki's own offspring, from that time when he'd had to, in order to get the gods out of a jam, change himself into a mare to lure a giant's stallion away from Asgard. He got so far into the role that he, still in mare form, gave birth to the eight-legged colt Sleipnir a while later. Even though he gave the colt as a gift to the All Father, you'd best believe he caught some hell for it during the feasting and drinking in Valhalla!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MUSICAL CHOICES https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdartdqjh56AHAVSW7w5IcX7xYU6l3lYo : </b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>"Work B***ch" by Britney Spear (zumba by The Fitness Marshall and friends);<br />
"Work" by Iggy Azalea (traducida en Español);<br />
"Manic Monday" by The Bangles;<br />
"Back To Life" by Soul II Soul;<br />
"9 to 5" by Dolly Parton
with lyrics;<br />
"I Don't Wanna Go To Work" by Lissie;<br />
"Handbags & the
Gladrags" by Rod Stewart;<br />
"Atlantic City" by Bruce Springsteen;<br />
"22 Grand
Job" by The Rakes;<br />
"Handyman Blues" by Billy Bragg;<br />
"Bang the Drum All Day" (Live) by Todd Rundgren;<br />
"Step Into My Office, Baby" by Belle & Sebastian;<br />
"When I'm Cleaning
Windows" performed by the late and great Peter Sellers on ukulele, and (original) by George
Formby;<br />
"Cleaning Windows" by Van Morrison;<br />
"Witchita Lineman" by Glen Campbell<br />
"Career Opportunities"
(sung by children with The Clash);<br />
"Career Opportunities" by The Clash;<br />
"Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat and Tears;<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Folk Music about spinning & weaving: </span></span><br />
"The Band of Shearers" by Broceliande; <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Finbar
and Eddie Furey - Dance Around The Spinning Wheel, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">The
Hand-Loom Weavers Lament - Harry Boardman, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">The Island Spinning Song (Alastair
o' the Dun) from the Forth Bridges Dance Band, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Paddy Keenan, At First Light </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">& Brian Haitz - Maid at the Spinning Wheel, The Maid at the Spinning Wheel, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Catherine Ann MacPhee - O Hi Ri Lean, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">The Doffing Mistress - Anne Briggs
cover - Traditional Folk Song, </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Rabbie Burns - Tae the weavers gin
ye gan,</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Slim Whitman - The Old Spinning Wheel
(Live), </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Phil Coulter - The Spinning Wheel, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Dixon Brothers- Weave Room Blues, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Steeleye Span - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weaver and the factory maid, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">Wee Weaver -
Steeleye Span, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 125%;">The Spinning Wheel - Eileen Donaghy</span></span></div>
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<img alt="Evergreen Forest" class="detail__media__img-highres js-detail-img js-detail-img-high" src="https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffreebigpictures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fevergreen-forest-646x433.jpg&f=1" style="display: block;" /><br />
<br />
Evergreen Day has no particular festivities
associated with it, so we are left simply celebrating those plants and trees
that keep their leaves/needles all winter long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
Now, I’m the gutter cleaner here at the Cottage On Vine, so I know damn
well that our white pine did (alas, she got sick and we removed her) drop quite a load of its needles into our gutters
every Fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even turned brown
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But of course most of them remain
to tough out the Winter, as green as green can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really does
seem like the evergreens were put here to remind us that, although it is two
weeks past Winter Solstice and the daylight hours have only grown 6 mins. 20
secs. in that time, the green of Spring is nevertheless sure to arrive sooner
or later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See—it’s (it <i>was</i>) right there, that
evergreen green, in that white pine, in my front yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woo-woo!<br />
<br />
Perhaps evergreens remind us, as well, that even Death is not as final as it seems. </div>
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Conversely, I think it’s true that, if we ever find
ourselves without any trees that stay green all winter—we’re <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">screwed</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In case this does not seem self-evident to you, let me explain:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>every organism that goes extinct leaves us
all in a more precarious position, because the Environment is a 3-D network of relationships
on up and down and between and across the parts of the food chain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, observers have noted that the
reintroduction of wolves to the Yellowstone area has strengthened the river
ecosystem by limiting the number of elk who strip the riverside vegetation bare
in the absence of predators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
wolves eat salmon and then crap this nitrogen-rich food along the river,
effectively fertilizing the plants there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This means that the riverside trees and bushes are more lush, and strong
enough to maintain intact the soil by the riverbanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The effect is great enough to actually affect
the course of the rivers: less erosion means a more meandering course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's right: the streams in Yellowstone now have take a more wayward path, thanks to the reintroduction of wolves.<br />
<br />
<img alt="https://jjraiaphoto.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/meandering-stream-yellowstone.jpg?w=450&h=563" src="https://jjraiaphoto.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/meandering-stream-yellowstone.jpg?w=450&h=563" /><br />
<br />
...To lose an organism is to lose the
relationship it had, as well, with other organisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picture a tinker-toy structure, or the game Jenga; if you keep
removing rods or connectors, the structure becomes less stable, until finally
it crashes to the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You can try to replace the spars with some pipe cleaners you had lying around (say, replacing wolves with dogs), but it's not the same; thus, it will pitch, and then collapse. </span></div>
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And I am using the word “extinct” in an inclusive sense; you
don’t get to say that a species is not “extinct” if there remains even one living
exemplar of it, or thirty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if there
were one passenger pigeon left, the bird would be extinct over all of its
former range.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this, more locally relevant
definition, I can say that cougar, elk and bison are basically extinct in
Illinois—and Kentucky, and Ohio, and Wisconsin, and Michigan, and New York, and
Pennsylvania, and…get it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They used to be everywhere!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And everywhere they used to be, and now are
not, is less strong and less fertile as a result of the loss.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx0uwLIBeirvCU_LKzATIMzpwc5pU5DLAtPYFG08NmCKSEMJdULaeyxVZhG9hcEQDYGNTSCQ2bGL9X6WFiB8xEb4RPJMPh0VP3A-pVgu1n_Xs_y2LDpKlaWN6-Bc-i3azZbYO2rpjADmg/s1600/buffalo.illinois.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx0uwLIBeirvCU_LKzATIMzpwc5pU5DLAtPYFG08NmCKSEMJdULaeyxVZhG9hcEQDYGNTSCQ2bGL9X6WFiB8xEb4RPJMPh0VP3A-pVgu1n_Xs_y2LDpKlaWN6-Bc-i3azZbYO2rpjADmg/s640/buffalo.illinois.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bison herd, recently transplanted to Illinois, part of their former range</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Before you accuse me of being Chicken Little, I was reading
about how, with more heat and less rain in California, the sequoias are having
a harder time pumping water up to their top branches, and so that race of gigantic
evergreen tree is endangered by recent climatic changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But that’s not the only evergreen tragedy looming…I quote: “the Rocky
Mountains in Canada and the United States have seen nearly 70,000 square miles
of forest — an area the size of Washington state — die since 2000.”—and this is
due to the pine bark beetle, emboldened by higher temperatures to swarm upon
and kill forests of pines in unprecedented numbers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pine bark beetle damage in a northern forest</td></tr>
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Those beetles are also one factor in the mass
die-off of the forests in the frozen North, but the central cause seems to be
warmer temperatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet we keep
puttering around in vehicles and heating our homes—hell, running our entire
society—with fuel that adds to the probable cause of those climatic changes:
greenhouse gases. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<br />
We could talk about
wildfires run amok, too, sending up in literal smoke all those trees we've planted in our guilt. I wonder how many trees had been planted by our brothers and sisters in Australia? That country seems destined to end up as one giant field of smoldering charcoal. We could mention the list of other very disturbing trends vis a vis our dying
natural world--but it’s still Christmas, and I don’t want to bum you out too
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should be informed, and
concerned—but our hope and will to act should remain…evergreen.<br />
<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New forest after fire</td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">I repeat: getting bummed out is <i>not</i> the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Celebrating our love for our evergreen
neighbors, and sharing that love with our children, is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we are lucky that there exists a really
easy story to tell to children—and I said tell, not read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any adult who knows a few tree species can
tell it from memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could call it “How
Evergreen Trees Came To Be”:</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">At the beginning of
the world, the Great Mystery had finished creating the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he wanted to give some of them a
gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he told them that, if any of
them could go seven days without falling asleep, those who did so would receive
a gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not say what the gift would
be, but the trees knew that if it came from the Great Mystery, it had to be
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the truth was that the gift
was better than anything they could have imagined themselves, but I can’t tell
you what it is yet because that’s for the end of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Well, all the trees
resolved to stay awake for all of those seven days, and all of them made it a
few days, but after 3 the maples [it’s not necessary to name different
deciduous trees here, as I have, but if you know a few you can throw them in]
started nodding off, and soon they were all asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the fourth day, even though all the trees
were trying to stay awake by constantly whispering to each other, all the elms
and ash trees fell asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the fifth,
the hackberries and mulberries and dogwoods and redbuds fell asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last to fall asleep before the deadline were
the oaks, as we can see when they hold on to many of their brown, dead leaves
through the Winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even so the oaks
are still asleep then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, after seven
days only a few trees were still awake [here name as many evergreens as you
know]: the pines, the spruces, the fir trees, the holly trees and bushes, the
yew and the juniper all remained awake.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And all received the gift
of the Great Mystery, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
delighted to find out that they would stay awake through all of Winter’s cold
and dark, staying green no matter how bitter the weather turned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would serve as reminders to the world
that the sun will always grow stronger and Spring’s green will always
return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Great Mystery told them that
people would take them into their houses and decorate them, or use them to make
wreaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They would enjoy their living
fragrance and fresh color, and it would warm their hearts when Winter
threatened<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to freeze them solid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The End.</i></div>
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…This story is an easy-peezy good bedtime story (since it is
not read, no light need be on): </div>
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1) some Mythical Figure has a contest to see which trees
could stay awake for a certain period of time; </div>
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2) all the deciduous trees fall asleep before the end; </div>
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3) all the evergreens stay awake and receive the gift of staying
green all through Winter; </div>
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4) embellish the story at any point, at will.<br />
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There is a surprising amount of evergreen musics: </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Musical Choices </b>(on
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Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058673764927061285.post-59275286428459959702015-12-30T22:00:00.000-08:002020-01-02T16:03:09.679-08:00The 8th Day of Christmas: "Snow Day"<!--[if !mso]>
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Right
to it: the Eighth Day is (was) called “Snow Day.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the term is pregnant with meaning
for schoolchildren everywhere, alas, school’s already out and we are left with
the awareness and celebration of snow, that brightening white stuff that is so
sorely missed when it’s gone, plants and leaves lie dead everywhere, and the
weather outside is frightfully dank and gray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The
fact of Central Illinois’s’s’s dreary winters led me to channel the following from the spirit world, which, strange as it may seem, is not immune to Illinois's winter blues: </div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Central Illinois Christmas Poem
of Woe<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">by Central Illinois</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Gray above,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Brown below.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">If I could, I would I'd</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Call out the sun,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">down the snow.</span></span></div>
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Snow
gets a bad rap, thanks to the inconvenience it causes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it even grinds The Machine to a
halt, and even busy people must stay home (although I suspect the Internet will
one day mean that we will all be able to work and do school completely from
home somehow, so Goodbye, snow days!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Snow
brightens things up considerably, and just the fact of this extra light has
been enough, in years past, to lift me out of a dreary funk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feeling brightened, and bemused, and
wonderstruck one fine day, post-snowfall, I wrote some more upbeat verses:</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">POOLS
AND FLAKES</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">new
powder, clean and light,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">dropped
last night,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">banks
the windward corners of </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">lawns
and beds </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">with
bright snow-shadows</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">it
rests in cracks and pocks </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">of
sidewalk and street,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">whitens
the hollows </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">in
black dirt and brown leaf</span></i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">it
pools without puddling or rippling, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">off-white
and quiet</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">until
clear sun pushes hard through the </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">wandering,
luminescent seams </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">between
the blue-gray curtain-clouds </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">that
float and morph and ponder form: </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">the
light chases all hint</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">of
shadow, shade, tint or texture</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">from
the surface of these frosty puddles,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">flashing
back to the very first white</span></i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: .7in; mso-background-themecolor: background1;">
<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">…the
deep-breath rush of gusts</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">does sky make wind or wind make sky?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">bit
by bit strips the dark tree skeletons of their skunk-stripes of white </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">a weave of interlocked
crystals, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">layered
and caked,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">It lifts the snow as flakes again</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">through
the wending light</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">—where
they all wink </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">like
tiny shards of mirror flying past—</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">revealing
the light’s invisible beams through the air.</span></i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">the
wind pushes the snowflakes along </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">from
behind, toward the East, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">but
I had never thought:</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">it’s drawing them in its wake as well</span><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">,</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">from
<i>the West</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";"><i>—Well,
it impels them, either way: </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">now
with straight-line speed, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">now
in regular curves, roller-coastering, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">riding the tension between traveling wind
</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">and
gravity's down-draw home</span></i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-left: .7in; mso-background-themecolor: background1;">
<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">each
curvaceous line of white </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">ascends
unseen slopes, cresting, diving, and again:</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">a
wave now, as in radio-, as in micro-, as in gamma- </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">matter made energy by motion?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">each
spoked and faceted, flat flake</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">—think about it!—</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">coin-flips,
cartwheels, stalls and spins</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">its
way through the rush forwards,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">as
a silver coin flops its irregular way down through water:</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">when
one angled surface or the other</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";"><i>meets
the light and</i> bats! <i>it to my eye</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">—it's
matter again, made, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">a
particle as I observe,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">destined
to, with a flea-sized sound </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">of
shattering ice, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">strike
against house or tree.</span></i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">each
flake winks at me</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">several
times in its journey</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">from
the right side of window one</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">to
the left frame-edge of window two</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">…thousands,
then, of winks—lifetimes.</span></i></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "andalus" , "serif";">I
could have missed it. </span></i></div>
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...Although
I appreciate the snow, I really wish that when it does fall the view out my front window weren’t of
houses and streets with their ugly gray slush, but of a rolling landscape,
woods and meadows, river and horizon gladdened by their frosting of white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want the postcard, not the reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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I can also appreciate snow and ice in an
existential way, as the force opposing unbridled heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heat is Yang, cold is Yin, and a cycling
balance must exist between them--or we die, either burned to ash or frozen through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a
nutshell, I’m glad Earth is not a total oven or freezer, even if it means enduring
the pendulum from Summer's sauna to Winter’s cold and drear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The
world as we know it today is the product of a succession of ice ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from
being a deadly scourge, the ice spawned a stunning diversity of large,
cold-hardy animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in North
America we had charismatic megafauna everywhere, as in the savannahs of
Africa--only much hairier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of them finally died out along
with the glaciers themselves around 12,000 years ago, leaving us only the moose
and bison here in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some</i> of the Lower
48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s more, the glaciers left
ridiculously fertile soil in their wake, and the cold, snow and ice all keep
germs, molds and tropical diseases at bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ice is nice, if you take the long view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When was the last time you thanked it, instead of just bitching about
it, or tossing salt at it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not
think I ever have given thanks to the ice before, but one gift of writing is
the way it helps you appreciate things you have never thought about much—<i>so,
hey, thank you, ice and snow and cold</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Thank
you, too, snow pants and wool socks, scarf and hat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I come in from shoveling, I am not cold
at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Au contraire, I am packed in sweaty winterwear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Once</span>, when I stripped my
upper body down to my long johns in the single-digit temps, as I stood in
the dark by the back porch light, I could see the water vapor steaming off of me as
if I were a boiling pot of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
think that, in warmer conditions, in spite of the intensity of <i>its</i> sweat production, without the cold the vaporized stuff
would be invisible!<br />
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I
will end on this note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the next time we
do get some good packing snow (this year, who knows when and if that’ll be?),
you need not limit yourself to making a traditional snowman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my best winter memories is of making a
snow ape on my front lawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pleased
with the results, yes, but the best part was losing myself (finding myself?) in
the creative act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For that time, I was
in the Zone, and no worries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s true
that some random driver later on took the trouble to ride up on my lawn and smash my
creation to bits, but I had already had my fun and bless him, I’ll bet he had
his….Another time, I made a space alien (see photo below).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A creative act is a beautiful thing, but doesn’t have to be snow
sculpture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could write a haiku about
the snow, or like my wife make a bunch of paper snowflakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unhook, I say, any concerns about the quality
of the product and become one with the Process.<br />
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Note:
I think it would be perfectly appropriate to write a scathing limerick or
bitter poetic lines about the fact that we rarely get much snow around here (Central
Illinois) anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sucks, sucks, sucks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But happy Snow Day!<br />
<br />
Here's my limerick:<br />
<br />
<i>There was once a region that sucks</i><br />
<i>Our Winter could give us two fucks</i><br />
<i>There's no goddamn snow</i><br />
<i>Only dead mud below</i><br />
--Relocate<i>, you big bunch o' schmucks!</i></div>
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MUSICAL
CHOICES: Here is my YouTube playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_kJwz0yx4&list=PLdartdqjh56DqTwei5C4KDTRzTV4NbFpj">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl_kJwz0yx4&list=PLdartdqjh56DqTwei5C4KDTRzTV4NbFpj</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman<br />
Enya -
White Is In The Winter Night<br />
Dean Martin/Ella Fitzgerald - Let it Snow!<br />
White Christmas by
Kathy Chapman<br />
Snowman-Bare Naked Ladies<br />
When the Snow Falls- A.J. Jenkins<br />
Loreena
McKennitt - Snow<br />
Snow on High Ground by Nightnoise<br />
Slowly Fall The Snowflakes
by Bill Carroll<br />
Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas<br />
<br />
Johnny's Snowman-Deanna Carter<br />
Snowfall - Tony Bennett<br />
Celtic
Christmas 3- A Raven in the Snow<br />
Celtic Christmas 3- Angels in the Snow<br />
Snowfall
Lullaby-Barbara Higbie<br />
Grey Funnel Line / Rain into Snow - William Coulter<br />
Booker
T & The Mgs Silver Bells - Winter Snow<br />
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Regarding a Christianized remake of the great Kansas tune “Portrait
(He Knew),” which Kerry Livgren of Kansas originally wrote with Albert Einstein
in mind, but later changed so that it referred to Jesus: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38RmE_O3Sw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38RmE_O3Sw</a>
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In response to this thought from commenter Brett Owen: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I love Kerry but this sounds like a really
cheesy 700 Club/ Hour of Power/TBN/Trans-Siberian-Polar Express
reinterpretation of Kansas!”</div>
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Der Jim’s response: I get the Trans-Siberian Express
reference, some of the keyboards I found to be cheesy as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I loved the guitar parts, and the vocals
are really fine, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love this guy's
voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can't help finding it
unfortunate that he changed the lyrics to make them more overtly
Christian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I have wondered for a long time what it was about modern Christians,
or Christianity, or the themes and lifeways thereof that made Christian rock
and pop so lame, so cheesy, so tiresome (just so you know I am not singling out
Christians for critical persecution, I often consider what makes my favorite not-overtly-Christian
rock bands take a dive in the latter part of their career).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically, the so-called spiritual dimension
in this case saps the music of SOUL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
is my point-of-view (I do know one Born-Again who agrees with this), and therefore
it seemed to me inevitable that Christianizing this song would not do it any
favors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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It's unfortunate that all Christians can't celebrate all of
life and leave it at that, as Livgren once celebrated Alfred Einstein, a Jew
and a physicist, a great mind, and left it at that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Einstein was (and is) an expression of The
Christ that lives and moves in all things and beings even if he did not wear
the Christian label....I really think that's part of it, is that Christians
believe that all things have to be expressed in explicitly Christian terms,
when Jesus Himself made every effort to avoid the credit--"The Father
abiding in me doeth the work" *.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They do not see that every celebration is a celebration of the Christ
Spirit that has no borders or bounds or labels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So celebrating the Jew, Einstein, and his talents and vision, without
ever overtly mention Jesus, IS celebrating Christ (I say this with every irony,
knowing that Jesus was a Jew).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By not
doing this, their lyrics, repeating endlessly that Christian
"labeling", become rather tiresome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Perhaps this lyrical restrictedness spills over into the music?<br />
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A friend of mine, who does indeed dig some modern Christian tunes, but acknowledges that finding them takes some doing, comments, "They're afraid to say the wrong thing!" The non-Christian thing.<br />
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Not just all that, but to add another layer of
irony to this picture--12 of the 25 top Christmas tunes (according to
one publication) were written in part or entirety by Jews! <i>White Christmas...The Christmas Song....Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow</i>...Jews!
And to add another layer of irony on top of THAT, Jews' proficiency at
songcraft is rooted in their marginalization from mainstream Christian
culture in Europe-there were a lot of professions that Jews were
forbidden to aspire to, but musician wasn't one of them.<br />
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If you think about it, this was not always the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christmas carols, for instance, are of course
Christian-themed, but generally are lovely, fun, and extremely varied in their
harmonies, melodies, lyrics and themes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
makes (made) them different?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Silent
Night,” “Let It Snow,” “God Bless Ye, Merry Gentlemen,” “Jingle Bells”—they all
listened to all of the legends and myths, to society, and to all of Nature, for
their inspiration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to mention that
the vocabulary of the traditional Christmas opus is much larger than that of
modern lyrics’ (which seems to have lost its thesaurus).<br />
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So my thesis is this: the Christian music which actually reaches the heights of quallity does so because it digs a
little deeper into the legendarium of the Christian (and pre-Christian) world,
as well as the natural world, giving a deeper musical and lyrical extension to
the work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Although this is perhaps not so much the case these days. More and more, we are losing everyday vocabulary related to the staggering complexity, variety and unity
of Life--we are losing touch with them, even losing them from the world itself. The fullest expression of said complexity--Nature--is disappearing
in favor of increasingly blasé, ugly technology and
infrastructure.</div>
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As another example, you could compare mainstream Christian
rock with Johnny Cash’s last album <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">American
IV: The Man Comes Around</span></i> —full of Christian messages, but also with
grit and with SOUL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great album, and
all the more remarkable given that most popular musical artists’ work declines
steadily in quality from their peak on down, with a few nasty bumps along the
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other Christian artists would do
well to study just how “The Man in Black” pulled off such a resonant swan
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I myself want to say about
that is that his scars—Johnny Cash’s scars were prayer flags, bright and dark, undulating
and snapping in the ever-fresh wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
that Jesus certainly had scars, too, that He used in a similar way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If Jesus came to redeem the dark, my good "positive" rockers, then why
avoid the darkness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some modern
Christians seem to me to emphasize the bright and shiny parts of the story—the Resurrection,
their own salvation—at the expense of the grittier (or grislier, even)
stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, Jesus was tortured to
death, blood and suffering and even despair visited him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The virginity and miracle of his birth are
emphasized, but in fact he was born not only from a virgin but from a vagina,
with water breaking, and blood, and suffering, and labor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother was viewed by her own people as being unworthy due to her pregnancy out of wedlock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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To lose these parts is not only to impoverish one’s point of
view, and constrict the well of inspiration, it is to limit the power of Spirit
to be absolutely present in the full range of human conditions—be they painful or
joyful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah</i> by Richard Bach,
he states: “The original sin is to limit The Is (this messiah's word for God).”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The main character has to witness the bloody murder of the titular
Messiah,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only later to realize that “The
Is” can’t be limited, even in this way (because God simply <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should Bach not have
included the killing in his pages?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had
he not, I argue, it would have been less varied, less interesting, less
inspired, less powerful.</div>
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Focusing in a limited way on Christian talking points has
greater consequences than just poor music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One has to note that some of the aforementioned destruction of Nature is
occurring in the name of ‘Jesus Christ’ when the 'evidence' of His favor is
taken, by sizable factions, to be the exceedingly destructive 'prosperity' of western civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a prosperity measured in dollars and
property, or GDP—and didn’t You-Know-Who warn us against blind wealth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nominal Christians can use their monetary (and
therefore ‘spiritual’) superiority as a means of denying the ecocidal, suicidal
ways and means we have of achieving our so-called 'wealth'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they do this, with the full support of
their community, they ironically prove the communist philospher Marx right when
he warned that religion (when used to deny conditions rather than improve them),
is "the opium of the people".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Meanwhile the biosphere is being dismantled, and how will we
breathe in the Spirit without enough oxygen in the air?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How will we eat and drink Spirit without pure
soil and water in the ground? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have
to wonder what happens to the music when we not only deny, but actively
destroy, the ground of our material being?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my mind it is a similar question to this one: What happens to our
family when we destroy and degrade our own mother?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It becomes ungrounded, unprotected, banal,
and fills with horrors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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...Yes, the more I think about it, the clearer it seems to
me: if Christians would stop neglecting The Mother, and embrace Her
("Honor thy father AND they mother,", the Commandment says), maybe
their lives would have more variety, more meaning, and their songs more SOUL!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe they could claim more of the wide world
for Christ, just by soaking it into their Christian hearts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go sit in the woods, Christian rockers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go out into the wilderness for 40 days or
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know Somebody Else who did that…And
then, rock out—and rock on—bless us not just with your Spirit, but with your SOUL!</div>
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<i>Our SOUL, it turns out, knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
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<i>It knows more than me or you.</i></div>
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<i>No one can see its view.</i></div>
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<i>Oh, where is it going to?</i></div>
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Let’s find out.</div>
Der Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05216406602984515827noreply@blogger.com0