2022·01·01 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

Happy New Year!

I’ll wear both the pessimist and optimist hats.

Pessimist first.

Remember how we thought 2021 couldn’t get worse and got disabused of that idea in only six days?

(Yeah well we sort of stepped into that burning bag of bearded dragon poo.)

A friend of mine, who could be a bit of a wiseass at times (and pessimism was part of his schtick), would tell me something sometimes when I was a bit bummed out about something that had just happened.

And it bears remembering, especially with the usurpatious vacuum skull still in the White House:

“It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”

OK, on the optimist side. OK, this is cautious optimism, rather than full frontal unicorns and rainbows optimism, but here it is:

I think both the pessimist side and the optimist side can agree this will be a very eventful year. But if things actually work well in November, even a horrific year might contain the seeds of a reversal of fortune.

Let’s go back to 1979. Carter. Malaise. Soviets surging all over the world. 50 Americans held hostage by a bunch of neolithic barbarians.

The man, I think, might actually have meant well. (I was more certain of that a few years ago than I am today.) But he was not competent in that job.

But then, irony of ironies, there was this song. If you do NOT like 1970s/1980s Swedish popular music, skip the next video. Otherwise, the gratuitous fireworks display ends at 57 seconds and the music starts shortly thereafter.

Happy New Year, by ABBA (1979)

Note the video is set in 1979 New Year’s eve and they actually ask what it will be like in 1989/90.

Quite a bit different, thanks to Ronaldus Magnus! We went from Jimmy Carter Malaise to seven years of economic growth and The Wall coming down! Unimaginable in 1979!

But, we did have to get through the highest misery index ever in 1980, first.

And we have to get through 2022. Which will likely make 1980 look like child’s play. Let’s just hope it doesn’t make 2021 look like child’s play, too.

The Chinese Should Think Before Wiping Us Out As Sometimes They Need Us To Solve Their Problems For Them

Okay you knuckledragging ChiComs trying to take us down…here’s a history lesson for you.

For millennia, you had to suffer from this:

Yep. Steppe Nomads. They laid waste to your country, burned, raped and pillaged (but not in that order–they’re smarter than you are) for century after century.

You know who figured out how to take them on and win? The Russians.

Not you, the Russians. And it took them less than two centuries. And Oh By The Way they were among the most backward cultures in Europe at the time.

You couldn’t invent an alphabet, you couldn’t take care of barbarians on horseback, and you think you can take this board down?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! We’re laughing at you, you knuckledragging dehumanized communists…worshipers of a mass-murderer who killed sixty million people!

I mean, you still think Communism is a good idea even after having lived through it!

By my reckoning that makes you orders of magnitude more stupid than AOC, and that takes serious effort.

His Fraudulency

Joe Biteme, properly styled His Fraudulency, continues to infest the White House, and hopium is still being dispensed even as our military appears to have joined the political establishment in knuckling under to the fraud.

All realistic hope lies in the audits, and perhaps the Lindell lawsuit (that will depend on how honestly the system responds to the suit).

One can hope that all is not as it seems.

I’d love to feast on that crow.

“No Chemicals”

A detailed analysis of the contents of His Fraudulency’s skull was performed.

Absolutely no chemicals found!

(That one’s for you, Gail!)

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Political Science In Summation

It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).

James Webb Space Telescope Update

JWST deployed both booms on the 31st. The first one took quite a long time because some of the sensors that were supposed to show the cover unfurled weren’t working right.

So here’s what it looks like now.

Over the course of the weekend the sheets will be separated and tensioned, at which point the sun shield will be fully functional and the JWST should really start to cool off (though they have been heating things up to ensure they will deploy properly). -370 F is the goal temperature though it will take weeks to get there.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

(Paper) Spot Prices

Last week:

Gold $1810.20
Silver $22.96
Platinum $981.00
Palladium $2036.00
Rhodium $14,975.00

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.

Gold $1830.80
Silver $23.40
Platinum $973.00
Palladium $1995
Rhodium $15,300

Now THIS is a little more like it!!!

Let’s see if “they” manage to push it down again. Palladium actually went down sixty bucks Friday, it was over 2000 bucks earlier.

More On Time

(Please note, this is not titled “Moron Time.” We’ve had quite enough moron time, thankyouverymuch.)

[And speaking of morons, I somehow posted the original of this on January 1 of last year…I thought I had checked that but it did somehow goof up the time of day and I had to fix that…it probably took that opportunity to “correct” my year.]

Happy New Year!!!

It’s New Year’s Day. It’s an arbitrarily picked day, based (somewhat) on Ancient Roman (and Pre-Christian) practice. And a suitable day for more information on our calendar.

The Year

Last time I told the story of Julius Caesar’s reform of 45 BCE, and how it ended the practice of entire intercalary months–months added every now and again to keep the calendar roughly lined up with the seasons. This had had to be done because months were true to their origin back then, matching the phases of the moon. But 12 of these “moonths” didn’t make up a year, not really, and thirteen of them was too much. The Jewish calendar has the same issue; they have to add entire months fairly often.

Julius Caesar made the twelve months longer, and set things up to add a leap day every four years to account for the fractional day over 365 in the tropical year. It wasn’t quite right; I told that story last year.

But that calendar has come directly down to us with only the minor adjustment made originally in 1582 by order of Pope Gregory XIII, and eventually adopted by Protestant and Orthodox countries, and it’s pretty much either official worldwide, or well known.

The months and days of the month set by Julius Caesar seem set almost in concrete; only one lasting change has been made to them in the last two thousand years (even if that change wasn’t done at the same time everywhere).

But the numbering of the years–and even the choice of when the year should begin–has changed a lot.

When Caesar was in charge, the calendar year was generally identified by who was consul at the time, which makes modern historians’ lives a bit of a pain, but we do have a fairly detailed list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_consuls and they can generally figure things out.

That list starts in 509 BC because that is when, according to tradition, the last of the seven Roman kings was overthrown and the Roman Republic was established. And the emperors (starting with Octavian/Augustus) kept the office around but they were the real power.

The Romans, however, did sometimes think in terms of something called Ab Urbe Condita, essentially since the founding of the city of Rome, and that was in 753 BCE. Therefore AUC 753 was 1 BCE, and AUC 754 was 1 CE. Were we still using that numbering, 2022 would be AUC 2775.

[Note, by the way, there was no year Zero. 1 BCE was followed directly by 1 CE. Which makes “how many years between” arithmetic a bit hazardous when computing between dates either side of that line. Astronomers, who sometimes have to “backtrack” such things, do use a zero year, then negative numbers, so their year 0 is 1 BCE, -1 is 2 BCE, etc. Archaeologists tend to use “Before Present” but “Present” turns out to be roughly 1950–they fell prey to institutionalizing a “present” by accident (they probably didn’t expect to use “BP” forever) in exactly the same way that “modern” no longer means “modern” because people named a specific time the modern period and we have moved past it, so we sometimes find ourselves using strange terms like “post modern” that shouldn’t be meaningful without a time machine.]

Early Christians actually did not use AD dating. The AD dating schema was first put forward by Dionysius Exiguus in 525. Before that the most commonly used schema was the Diocletian Era used in an old Easter table; he (understandably) didn’t want to commemorate Diocletian, who had instituted the last and worst persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. (The Diocletian era was, in any case, mostly used in the East.)

The year that is now known as AD 1 (or 1 CE), was almost certainly not the birth year of Jesus. Matthew indicates it was in the time of King Herod (Mt 2:1), who kicked the bucket in 4 BCE. Luke indicates that the census requiring Mary and Joseph to go to Bethlehem occurred while Quirinius was governor of Syria (Lk 2:2) though he talks about other early events happening under Herod. Quirinius became governor in 6 CE. Absent some major historical discovery these two times don’t even overlap; neither includes 1 CE. But it’s certainly close to the right year. Whether it’s close enough for non government work is, I suppose, moot. We’re not likely to change our year numbers right now.

Which is not to say that it hasn’t happened.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Byzantine Empire used “Anno Mundi,” year of the world. By attempting to fix Year One to be the year of creation, they sidestepped all issues with negative numbers, missing zero years, and so on. So they got hold of their Bibles, laid out a chronology, and fixed creation at 5509 years before Jesus was born. However, they did not at first agree with Exiguus’s dating of when Jesus was born. Their year 1 A.M. is September 1, 5509 BCE through August 31, 5508 BCE. Note their year began (and within the church organization still does begin) on September 1. September 1, of 2021 (i.e., last September) began the year 7530 A.M.

By the way, it’s technically not quite kosher to give a date like that, because the calendar didn’t exist yet on that date–if anything the prior mess of a Roman Republican calendar should be used–if anyone can figure out how it would have worked that year. So they’ll often qualify things by referring to the proleptic Julian calendar; i.e., they extend the Julian calendar back to that date. (In this particular case, remember that it’s not our current Gregorian calendar.)

(Russia switched from this calendar to a January 1 start of the New Year in 1700 CE; they also began to use the AD numbering at that time…but they were still on the Julian Calendar so they were off from the Gregorian calendar by 11 days, then 12 days in the 1800s, then 13 days during the 1900s before and during the ‘October’ Revolution–which happened in November by the Gregorian calendar. The commies switched in 1918, trying to shed the past–they even considered switching Russian to the Latin alphabet.)

You may think that 5509 BCE sounds wrong. It certainly does disagree with the usual Bible-based dating used by many churches here in the United States, which is based on Archbishop Ussher’s (1581-1626) chronology which fixes creation at about 6 PM, on the 22nd of October, 4004 BCE (by the proleptic Julian calendar). This is the chronology most often used by fundamentalists in the US.

That’s a difference of over 1500 years. It’s really difficult to construct an unambiguous chronology from the Old Testament.

I alluded to some disagreement over what date the year started; Russia used September 1 until 1700, one of Peter the Great’s many reforms, the Eastern Orthodox church still uses it internally, but that wasn’t the only difference between past practice and today’s practice. Up until 1752, England (and her colonies, which would include US (as in U.S.) at the time) was on the old Julian calendar; until that time, March 25 was the start of the new year. Not even the beginning of a month! March 24, 1751 was followed the next day by March 25, 1752. In September of that year, things were set to the current January 1 practice; also September 2, 1752 was followed by September 14, 1752; England dropped 11 days there to get in sync with the Gregorian calendar and would follow it from then forward.

If George Washington had had a birth certificate, it would have read 11 February, 1731 (Julian date); unlike many he changed his birthday to 22 February, in other words following the Gregorian calendar, and the year is now given as 1732 to be consistent with a January 1 start-of-year.

There was confusion as to which European gets the credit for ‘discovering’ South America for similar reasons of confusion between countries who didn’t start the year at the same time.

And nothing would astonish me more than to hear that’s a complete list.

What day to call the New Year, is fundamentally an arbitrary decision. But a date has to be chosen and abided by, and today is that date. So get used to writing and typing 2022.

Julian Dates

“Julian Date” means two distinct things. Usually, it’s just a day number within the year. February 3rd, for instance is Julian date 34. It runs all the way up to 365 or 366.

But there’s a different Julian Date used by astronomers. A 365.25 day year is awkward to deal with sometimes, so they’ll sometimes compute the time between two events in number of days. A “day” they can get a handle on; it’s 86,400 seconds and a second is quite thoroughly defined. So they’ll (for instance) compute the period of a planet in days.

Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) proposed a scheme where days would be sequentially numbered from a start time, then continue counting upward forever. This became the Julian date, named after his father Julius Scaliger. He first suggested it in 1583.

Scaliger chose the day January 1, 4713 BCE as his start date. It was satisfactorily far back in time that negative numbers wouldn’t be referenced often. Why that particular year? It was a leap year, the first year of a solar cycle of 28 years, the first year of a lunar cycle of 19 years, and the first year of an indiction cycle of 15 years. The solar cycle is simply the repeat period of the Julian calendar, the lunar cycle was named such because the moon would undergo the same phases on the same days, every 19 years, and the indiction cycle was an ancient Roman period at the beginning of which taxes would be reassessed. These cycles could be run backward in time, and 4713 BC was the most recent year when all three cycles were in their first year. (Being a leap year was implicit in being the start year of a solar cycle.)

This is, by the way, according to the proleptic Julian calendar, not the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Astronomers still number their days this way. Their day starts at noon (logical, because that way an overnight period, when they’d be observing, didn’t have a day break in it), so noon, January 1, 4713 BCE was the start of Julian Day 0. (In the Gregorian calendar, this would have been November 24, 4714 BCE.) Scaliger wasn’t familiar with time zones, but the modern definition of this specifies Universal Time (essentially the time at Greenwich without Daylight Saving Time; it’s seven hours ahead of Mountain Standard Time).

And if my arithmetic is right, this post will go “live” on 2459580, almost three quarters of the way into that date; so at 7 AM ET, it will be 2459581. TIme of day is handled as a decimal fraction, so midnight UTC is Julian day [whatever it is].5.

In another common usage, we use a “modified Julian date” that starts at midnight, UT (not noon) and drops the 2,400,000 in front and just goes with 59581. So the Modified Julian Date is the Julian Date minus 2,400,000.5. This will work for another century or so then we’ll have to either restart it at 0 or just start dealing with six digit numbers. It’s handy for computers that might not have the precision to show a seven digit number with multiple digits of precision after the decimal point; we save two digits that way. (This is less of an issue today, with 64 bit computers, than it was with 32 bit computers.)

The following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day gives a lot more information including a way to compute the Julian day for any “regular” date.

Holocene Dating

As an aside, someone came up with an idea called the “Holocene Epoch.” The idea was to simply add ten thousand to all years, so that this would be 12,022. 1 CE becomes 10,001, and 1 BCE becomes 10,000. The idea is not to try to find the beginning of the world, but at least all of human history, almost back to the first buildings that survive, would at least have a positive year number attached to it. And 10,000 BCE is very nearly the start of the present geological epoch, the Holocene, roughly corresponding to the end of the last glaciation, hence the name “Holocene.” (That epoch actually began [best estimate] 11,650 years “Before Present” which makes it 11,722 years ago right now, not 12022 years ago. A three hundred year glitch.)

Yeah, that won’t ever happen.

Leap Weeks?

And on a very different topic. File this one under “won’t ever freaking happen” but I include it because you might find it amusing.

Because, as I’ve pointed out, the shape of our calendar–the configuration and sizes of months–has only undergone one slight adjustment in the last 2000 years. I don’t take this seriously–but I find it amusing.

Many are unhappy with the fact that each year “looks” different. January 1 starts on a different day of the week from one year to the next, that of course throws every other date off as well as compared to the first year. Normally, it’s a one day shift, but if a leap day is in between, it’s two days. It sets up a cycle where you can safely use a calendar that’s 28 (or 56) years old, if you want…but don’t go back past 1900 with this. The real cycle is a 400 year cycle before the pattern repeats.

That’s kind of annoying, in some cases it’s really annoying, but we live with it. However some people have suggested reforming the calendar so it won’t happen. But it’s a bit of a challenge, especially now that there’s an ISO scheme that numbers the weeks within the year; this has to adapt to those weeks that straddle years.

And this is because 365 does not divide by 7, there’s a remainder of 1.

Many would-be reformers say this can be handled quite easily: simply have one day (two in a leap year) that do not have a day of the week assigned to them.

OK, I imagine many readers of this would go find the pitchforks and torches (OK, firearms) if this were adopted, because of course it’d throw your church services off; the Sabbath would either have to move around the week, or it wouldn’t be a seven day metronome any more. (It rather messes with the fourth commandment.)

And you’d have a lot of company from both Jews and Muslims.

So it’s not going to happen.

But someone did come up with an interesting alternative. Get rid of leap day. Have leap week. Start January on (say) Monday. The year ends on a Sunday, 364 (yes FOUR) days later. Very soon, though, in order to align with the seasons, you add an entire week at the end of December (371 days), so that way the next year is lined back up with the seasons, but the year still starts on a Monday. The advantage is that the calendar is the same from year to year (an extra week can go at the end of December with an asterisk next to it), and churches, synagogues and mosques would not be disrupted.

This is the Hanke/Henry calendar. It also changes the lengths of some months so that each quarter is 91 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanke%E2%80%93Henry_Permanent_Calendar

http://hankehenryontime.com/html/qanda.html

OK, it’s at least somewhat clever and thinking-out-of-the-box. But these guys also advocate for everyone on earth using Universal time (i.e., Greenwich time) and that, I think, is ridiculous. It would solve nothing because it will still be midnight in some places while it’s 3PM in others. Worse, the sun would rise here in Colorado at 2PM in December. Almost everywhere on Earth, things would be about that ridiculous. And it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem of having to worry about someone else’s time zone, It just changes it to having to know how out of whack their clocks are compared to yours. You’d still have to wonder whether someone was up when making a long distance call, and you wouldn’t be able to look at the time where they were for a clue. [As far as time of day goes, our situation today is pretty optimal. For applications where time synchronization between continents is needed, we have UTC. For everything else our clocks match the time of day pretty well…or only fairly well during daylight saving time.]

The rule for computing leap years actually depends, crazily, on what day of the week the (presumably abandoned) Gregorian calendar begins.

It’s one of those “interesting idea, but no way” types of things, just like the Holocene Era is.

The Day

Enough about years, but there’s a bit more to add about days.

Last week, I posted a graph called “the equation of time.” This one:

The Equation of Time.

It’s the difference between what you sundial says, and what your watch says. (And that assumes you have your watch set to mean solar time for your longitude, which since the advent of time zones, is generally not true. But let’s say you live at precisely 75, 90, 105, or 120 W longitude (or any other longitude that divides by 50). That’s nearly true for me, I live at a bit above 104 W longitude.)

Because your watch is designed to move at a constant rate–whether it actually does so is another matter, and back in the day of mechanical watches there was some correlation between the cost of the watch and how well it did so. But the sundial directly registers the sun…which doesn’t move at a constant rate. So the watch (hopefully) moves at an “average” of the sun’s rate, “mean Solar time.”

[Nowadays even a crappy watch often gets corrected by listening to the “atomic clock” but watch out when that fails…I’ve known two “this is an atomic watch” braggarts to be off the correct time by minutes; but my 1996-purchased Citizen Navihawk keeps plugging away, sometimes even after the computer in it resets.]

The differences are due to two factors: the ecliptic is inclined to the celestial equator, and Earth’s orbit about the sun is elliptical. That elliptical orbit results in the earth travelling faster closer to the sun (Kepler’s second law), which means when the earth is closer to the sun, it has to rotate further to bring the sun to the meridian, more than 24 hours since the last time the sun crossed the meridian.

If noon-to-noon is more than twenty four hours, then, if you’re using a good watch and are monitoring a sundial, you will see it. The watch will be faster (compared to the sundial) the next day as compared to today, because it will get to noon faster than the sun’s shadow will.

In other words, you’re at a time of the year when that squiggly red line is sloping upward, the watch is becoming faster and faster.

As it happens Earth is closest to the sun on about January 6, and the line is really steep there.

During the weeks before and after that time, the time of sunset is changing. You’d expect it to be earliest on December 21, because that is after all the shortest daytime of the year because its the solstice.

But it’s actually earliest a week before that. Check any “sunrise and sunset” table. It doesn’t matter for where, honestly, since you’re looking for the earliest sunset, but the effect is much easier to see the further north the table is for. (And of course this flip-flops in the Southern hemisphere).

So if you’re thinking (like Aubergine said on Sunday) that you’re already “feeling” longer days by the solstice on the 21st, you’re not quite right, but the sun is already setting later by the 21st–the random chart I grabbed showed a two minute difference. (Sunrise is also later but basically forgotten by sunset. In fact sunrise will continue to come later and later all the way through the end of the month and possibly beyond…the chart stops there.)

Another way to visualize this…as well as something else…is a figure called the analemma.

The Analemma (this one computed for London).

Unlike the previous figure, the horizontal axis/direction shows how far ahead or back of the sundial a watch would be. And this time the vertical axis usually shows how far the sun is north or south of the celestial equator, its declintion. (But in this case it shows how far above the southern horizon in London, though it does show the equator line, labeled φ). So an analemma gives you two pieces of information graphically, but you have to hunt for the date you want on the figure 8.

This has a real meaning. People with a lot of patience and attention to detail will sometimes photograph the sun at the same time each day (or every couple of weeks), from the same spot with the camera pointed precisely the same way each day, and you can see it forming a figure 8 in the sky.

[I had to download from Wikipoo, edit (and shrink), save as a jpg, and upload. Taking one for the team…]

It’s an almost perfect figure 8. If aphelion, the closest approach to the sun, actually fell on the winter solstice, it probably would be. This will happen sometime in the future: the equinoxes and solstices, after all, are moving along Earth’s orbit and if I understand right, we’re heading towards that situation. Give it about a thousand years.

For some reason that graph up above really exaggerated the horizontal direction. The photo, by contrast might look familiar to you as that figure eight that gets printed over the southeastern Pacific ocean on some globes. (There is almost no dry land there so it’s a safe place to print things like that.) Well, now you know what it’s for!

I decided to see what would happen with other configurations. The easiest way to do that is to look up the analemmas for other planets in our solar system, where aphelion is nowhere near a solstice or equinox.

Mars has a very similar axial tilt to that of Earth. Its orbit is more elliptical, though, and so we have:

And in fact here are analemmas and equations of time for all of the other planets, and Pluto. Figure 8s are fairly common it turns out, but just as common is some sort of lopsided quasi-egg-like shape. Saturn appears to be a figure 8 with a very small northern loop.

Well, that’s all for this week. Now I am really going to have to think hard about what to do for next week, other than, of course a JWST update.

Obligatory PSAs and Reminders

China is Lower than Whale Shit

Remember Hong Kong!!!

Whoever ends up in the cell next to his, tell him I said “Hi.”

中国是个混蛋 !!!
Zhōngguò shì gè hùndàn !!!
China is asshoe !!!

China is in the White House

Since Wednesday, January 20 at Noon EST, the bought-and-paid for His Fraudulency Joseph Biden has been in the White House. It’s as good as having China in the Oval Office.

Joe Biden is Asshoe

China is in the White House, because Joe Biden is in the White House, and Joe Biden is identically equal to China. China is Asshoe. Therefore, Joe Biden is Asshoe.

But of course the much more important thing to realize:

Joe Biden Didn’t Win

乔*拜登没赢 !!!
Qiáo Bài dēng méi yíng !!!
Joe Biden didn’t win !!!

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para59r

Okay, this worked. Was worried there was leap year or some such but sees we have arrived at our proper destination.

cthulhu

Maybe you did, and it got autodatecumbered…..

cthulhu

If a blue police box starts materializing there, please let us know before you step inside.

cthulhu

Ever driven a DeLorean? I have. Take the police box.

cthulhu

The DeLoreans were powered by an engine developed as a joint venture between Peugeot, Renault, and Volvo. It was a 2.85L six-cylinder engine that produced 130 hp.

My Honda is powered by an F22B1 2.2L four-cylinder engine that produces 145 hp.

Besides being gutless, that long sloping windshield is a pain. Check any photos where you can see the steering wheel inside, and there’s only about six vertical inches between the top of the steering wheel and the interior trim. You feel like you have the visibility of a tank — and, BTW, the view out the sides and back aren’t notably better.

My CEO bought one in a private sale, and I got to drive it about 20 miles from the transaction spot to his driveway (I think he liked to think of me as expendable). Despite being very cool on the outside, I became very disenchanted with the gutless, uncomfortable ride with lousy visibility.

This example had an automatic transmission, and was about as far from a “sports car” as might be imagined. You “command” a sports car, and it squeals and revs and gnashes and gives you everything it has. With this DeLorean, you’d “suggest” an action, and it might think about doing it on its own time….and if you were lucky, you could see it.

Gail Combs

My dodge truck has a 6 cylinder, 5.9 liter 12-valve diesel with a turbo and direct injection. It is 160 hp with a torque, of 400 lb.-ft. It is quite capable of accelerating up a hill while towing a trailer full of livestock…. And if tuned correctly by Jim Jessup (with no cops around) can really beat feet when not towing.

Unfortunately the cops hung around his shop… So he had to tune the engine to be a slug. Well sort of.

  :wpds_wink:    :wpds_cool: 

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Gail Combs

My trucks are a 1992 and a 1993. Someone who recommended buying a Cummins dodge said she would show at a grounds in NJ where you had to come out onto the 4 lane going up a steep hill. Her dodge was the only vehicle hauling a horse trailer that could accelerate up that hill. She left the fords and chevys in the dust.

I have a gas 1/2 ton too (1987) and when it comes to hauling it is a WIMP!

Gail Combs

I have them and I did haul them around with my dodge for a while.
  :wpds_cool: 

cthulhu

I think there’s some symbolism here…..strange things will happen in 2022, and this group will find clever ways to deal with them and just keep going.

para59r

Then it doesn’t count. Makes it the last Fuck Up of Last Year and now were free and clear!
But like many celestial events it could be seen in different time zones.

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Gail Combs

Nice save.

cthulhu

Tsk, tsk — don’t be so hard on yourself. Maybe it’s just the first time you get screwed by WordPiss in the new year (and our WordPiss instance is in 2022 already….).

cthulhu

A very Happy New Year to you, Steve…….and Darwin, too!

scott467

And neither does Darwin 👍😁

Sylvia Avery

Happy New Year Steve!

CMinTN

Happy New Year Steve and everyone else as well!

cthulhu

Copied from THE CONDEMNED THREAD —

I’m bummed that the French Revolutionary Calendar got passed-over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar

We’re currently in the month Nivôse, which is the fourth month — so nowhere near New Year’s Day. Today would be about the 11th or 12th.

It should be noted that the French Revolutionary Calendar is the only one that I know of that names a month after a kitchen appliance manufacturer.

para59r

Also on the Condemned thread was Linda’s apparent capture of either or the blue box and or the DeLorean thing from which she on a hunch zipped back to Jan 2021 to see if she could find Steve’s post. Which she did, then she zipped back to December 31st of 2021 while we anxiously were waiting our conveyance to 1 Jan 2022. and let us know we had to go back a year. Some how Zoe had already found Steve’s post and was waiting for us there with Pizza.

But now comes the serious question. If Linda had not had her hunch and access to assorted time travel devices, from which to leave the necessary bread crumbs to follow, would Steve have figured out where he put his post?

scott467

“If Linda had not had her hunch and access to assorted time travel devices, from which to leave the necessary bread crumbs to follow, would Steve have figured out where he put his post?”

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The link to it showed up in my email box at 5:36pm (just checked) on 12-31-21.

GrammyInD

I got it, too.

para59r

This must be how Zoe was there waiting for us?
An old email from 1 Jan 2021 magically showed up in her Email box.
And you and Scott got one too. I wonder if set off alarm bells in all the agencies that watch us from Peking to DC?

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GrammyInD

I actually didn’t notice the date. Just thought it was funny that it arrived so early and that there were no comments. Could have shouted “First!” but it was just after midnight here so I went to bed instead of reading it and didn’t notice the confusion till several hours later.

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cthulhu

If you use an app to calculate your proleptic Julian calendar dates, and it abruptly stops working……is it having an e-proleptic seizure?

Gail Combs

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kalbokalbs

Happy New Year folks. 🙂

Pfizer strikes again…

FTA

Surprise: FDA Warns That Pfizer’s Experimental Covid Pills Cause Life-Threatening Reactions When Used with Many Common Medications
Pfizer’s antiviral oral drug Paxlovid that was developed as an early treatment for Covid-19 can cause severe or life-threatening effects if it is taken in tandem with other common medications including some anticoagulants, anti-depressants, and cholesterol-lowering drugs that are used widely across the US, according to a warning from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).  

There are six pages of warnings with this drug.

More at the link.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/surprise-fda-warns-pfizers-experimental-covid-pills-cause-life-threatening-reactions-used-many-common-medications/

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para59r

It’s wild. Thinks I was writing as you were posting. Lots of problems here, but it looks like the meth heads and fentanyl junkies are definitely on the list of first to go. Or will it be the people that gave this emergency use authorization?

Deplorable Patriot

Anti-coagulants includes people with artificial heart valves, etc.

Anti-hyperintensives is obvious.

They’re killing off the already sick, and people with comorbidities.

Gail Combs

Sure looks like it.

Gotta get rid of all those people on Social Security and using up the Medicare $$$ that the Criminals in DC ALREADY STOLE.

Isn’t it amazing they are always whining about Social Security running out of $$$ BUT there is PLENTY of money to sent around the world….

United Nations — Over 11 million
Foreign Aid — $49 billion in 2016
World Bank — HMMMmmm I can no longer find that number.
IMF — the United States is the largest cumulative contributor at $155 billion 

NATO — $717 billion defense budget. The 29-country alliance REQUIRES every member-state to spend at least 2% percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defense each year.

Interesting that the $717 billion is reduced to $397 billion on the treasury Dept pie chart.

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As the global economy shuts down, the U.S. Federal Reserve has begun sending billions of dollars to central banks all over the world. Last month, it opened up 14 “swap lines” to nations such as Australia, Japan, Mexico, and Norway. A “swap line” is like an emergency pipeline of dollars to countries that need them. The dollars are “swapped,” i.e., traded for the other country’s currency. The Fed has also started allowing around 170 foreign central banks that hold U.S. Treasury bonds to temporarily exchange them for dollars.

Sending billions of dollars abroad in the middle of a historic economic crisis might seem crazy: As America’s economy crumbles, why are we moving our precious dollars *out* of the country?…

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/04/21/839374663/why-is-the-fed-sending-billions-of-dollars-all-over-the-world

Since 2000 about 95 percent of U.N. member states that receive U.S. assistance have voted against the United States most of the time in the U.N. General Assembly on non-consensus votes. 

Remember that is TAX PAYER DOLLARS WEALTH since as G Edward griffin said the Fed has a Check Book but NO MONEY in the account. The money just magically appears out of thin air and the debt is hung around the neck of Americans.

This is what happened in 2008 too. It is why the Fed WOULD NOT TELL CONGRESS (Ron Paul) WHERE THE MONEY WAS GOING. And of course Congress then bailed out the ‘US Banks’ with Tax payer indebtedness.

The Federal Reserve’s Covert Bailout of Europe
And more on that EU bailout:

Audit of the Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trillion in Secret Bailouts : REDDIT

Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion ($868,000,000,000)

Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000)

Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000)

UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000)

Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000)

Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000)

BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000)….

If you include the Euro swaps the bailout is supposed to be at least three times that. Scary.

[Gerald O’Driscoll: The Federal Reserve’s Covert Bailout of Europe – WSJ]

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204464404577118682763082876

And speaking of US tax payers supporting everyone and his brother EXCEPT OUR VETS & SENIORS….

World Bank Donors Approve Release Of USD 280 Million For Afghanistan’s Humanitarian Needs
WORLD BANK & IMF MONEY LAUNDERING explained By G Edward Griffin

 ….In case you have missed a few of the more memorable games, I’d like to review them for you. Penn Central Railroad was bailed out in 1970. That was a good year because Lockheed Corporation was bailed out the same year. Commonwealth Bank of Detroit was bailed in 1972; New York City in 1975; Chrysler in 1978; First Pennsylvania Bank in 1980; Continental Illinois, the largest of the banks so far, in 1982. And look at all of these third world countries which cannot pay their interest payments. They are paying their interest payments and you’re doing it for them because the Federal Reserve System creates the money that we send to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and then they give it to those countries so that they can pay the interest to the banks. Maybe you’ve missed that little trail but that’s how it works….

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

And they said Ivermectin – which pretty much interacts with NOTHING – was dangerous.

Good grief. Even antihistamines are in better shape on interactions than this new stuff.

scott467

“Surprise: FDA Warns That Pfizer’s Experimental Covid Pills Cause Life-Threatening Reactions When Used with Many Common Medications”

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Ivermectin: not broke

HCQ: not broke

scott467

“There are six pages of warnings with this drug.”

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Six pages that have been released to the public.

It will take a FOIA request to get the other 994 pages.

TradeBait2

At which time they will deny your request and seal the information from public view for 75 years.

Aubergine

Fluticasone, which I use daily, and which has been studied as beneficial for treating covid, is on the list. Along with budesonide, and common antidepressants.

They are trying (again) to kill people.

Gingersmom2009

Literally, the FIRST thing I thought after reading this. Another trap.

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Gail Combs

Does a GREAT JOB of killing off the ‘Useless Eaters’

Aubergine

Agreed.

kalbokalbs

Well, they are consistent AND effective. Effective for the uninformed that is..

Trying to kill people.

Gotta cull out the useless eaters.

Aubergine

Isn’t that the truth?

para59r

Here’s a semi serious consideration posted by GWP on the new Pfizer drug Paxlovid which is the cruddy knock off of Ivermectin.

Apparently there are 6 pages of adverse drug interactions (in the link) some of which are with pretty common drugs taken by many, so suggests this be read. (Notes that Ivermectin didn’t have a 1/3rd of this problem and none of the interactions were with common drugs, which begs the question of why Paxlovid got the nod?)

Anyway focuses on what it says about Fentanyl under Clinical Comments: Careful monitoring of therapeutic and adverse effects (including potential fatal respiratory depression) is recommended when fentanyl is taken concomitantly administered with Paxlovid.

So anyway, is guessing folks abusing fentanyl are getting set up for a very serious fall here since they are not the type to be going to a doctor for advice I’d think.

Oh the link.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/surprise-fda-warns-pfizers-experimental-covid-pills-cause-life-threatening-reactions-used-many-common-medications/

Also notes this, which I think has been talked about here.

In addition to the potentially dangerous drug combinations, the agency does not recommend that individuals with kidney or liver disease take the new drug because it could also cause complications.

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Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

There is NO WAY I am gonna touch this stuff.

Aubergine

I’d sooner drink Drano.

Gail Combs

HMMMmmmm

Draino
Acute oral toxicity : LD50 > 5000 mg/kg or 0.005 kg/kg

The average American woman 20 years old and up weighs 170.6 pounds or 77.4 kilos so the LD50 would be 0.387 kilo or 0.8 pounds.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

I can not find the SDS or the LD50 (AND YOU KNOW THEY HAVE THAT INFO…)

Paxlovid

Generic Name: nirmatrelvir and ritonavir

Dosage Form: tablets, co-packaged for oral use

Dosage information

Take 2 pink tablets of nirmatrelvir with 1 white tablet of ritonavir by mouth 2 times each day (in the morning and in the evening) for 5 days. For each dose, take all 3 tablets at the same time….

– Dosage: 300 mg nirmatrelvir (two 150 mg tablets) with 100 mg ritonavir (one 100 mg tablet), 

So that is 400 mg in one dose or 800 mg in a day. Going with 400 mg and using the Research gate therapeutic is 10% or less of the LD50 that gives you 40 mg as the LD50 or 0.00009 pounds.

So if you dilute that Draino with lots of water 😋 it probably IS a LOT SAFER that that DARN DRUG!!

  :wpds_lol: 

(I will not swear my math is correct but it was fun.)
……
From Research Gate:
How can we use the LD50 values for calculations of Prescription Drug Event?
Answer from:
Director of Clinical Biochemistry Research Center

18th Apr, 2016

Brian Hanley ……………………………………………LINK

There is no such formula relationship with LD50. There is a rule of thumb that a safe upper limit for an acute dose is 10% of LD50. This is not always true, since some substances have a wide variance. But for most therapeutic compounds it is.

What you are talking about is similar to the concept of Maximum Allowable Daily Level (MADL), which is legally defined in California as the NOEL/1,000. MADL, and PDE are based on NOEL (No Observable Effect Level) or LOEL (Lowest Observable Effect Level) values. Then, you take some fraction of that. One needs to keep in mind that rats and mice tend to have significantly higher NOEL and LOEL values than humans. Rabbits are a better experimental animal for NOEL and LOEL.

Also, the PDE for a drug excipient, for instance, needs to be calculated based on reasonable total exposure.

So, for methanol, the NOEL in rabbits is 2000mg/kg-day. The standard 58 kg human female would have a NOEL of 116,000 mg/day. MADL is the NOEL divided by 1,000. So, that would be 116 mg/day orally.

But for pharmaceutical use, an oral PDE of 30 mg/day of ethanol for the 58 kg woman is generally used. That’s about 1/4 the MADL…..

Aubergine

You are so smart! You blow me away!

And you cracked me up with the Drano.

Gail Combs

I hope Wolfie or Steve check my math. That would be a fun Meme to put out if the math is correct.

Aubergine

It would!

mollypitcher5

To me it seems surreal that it’s become common (shoulder shrug common) that people are”taking” fentanyl. Nobody should be taking fentanyl. Nobody would be taking fentanyl if the govt wasn’t china’s bitch

barkerjim

They use it in hospitals.

mollypitcher5

Right. It’s purpose to be used in controlled use with oversight has been co-opted by china manufacturing, exporting to drug cartels…..we know the rest of the story

cthulhu

Somebody jumped the gun by a minute with some loud ones. But I’m hearing a bunch of people at various ranges who have more accurate chronometers.

slowcreekno

Happy New Year

I’d hate having to have my birthday on the same weekday every year, so just from that I would not support any scheme that tries to synchronize weekdays to date-of-year.

It is interesting to note that the 7-day week appears to have been the most consistent part of time reckoning througout. Whenever the years and months have been deemed to begin or change, the 7 day sequence has been going on regardless. Like Kipling’s «Gods of the Copybook headings»-level consistency.

And when using the sequential Julian Day-numbers, dividing by 7 and looking at the remainder will tell which day of the week it is. This will be 0 on Mondays, 1 on Tuesdays and so on.

So today is 2022-01-01, at noon UTC of which the JD 2459581 begins, and 2459581 / 7 = 351368, with remainder 5. So that indicates this is a Saturday. Or conversely, since we know that it is Saturday, the arithmetic is correct.

cthulhu

More comments on odd time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

cthulhu

If you’re still clinging to 32-bits, January 2038 is not going to go well for you…..

slowcreekno

Indeed. I have some small 32-bit units here, that I’ve tested the year-2038 rollover and while they will still work as far as networking and gpios and suchlike, their perceived clock-time at which this is all happening has become rather anachronistic.

Other than that, there might still be a number of 32-bit Raspberry Pi units still in operation in 2038 and who knows… unless some fix involving making the time_t type 64-bit has been completed by then.-

cthulhu

You can run 64-bit on the Pi 4 and Pi 3…..and I think the Pi 2. I never owned any Original Gangsta Pi 1’s. Almost all of my Pi’s run 64-bit, where I’d assume they’d deal with time being 64 bits gracefully…..where I wouldn’t bet on this being the case for any 32-bit OS’s.

slowcreekno

Yes, Pi 3 and Pi 4 runs 64-bits fine. The time_t is 64 bits on those, so any «year-2038»-style rollover will be far enough into the future for anyone to need to care. As for earlier models, some of the Pi 2 can run 64-bit (version 1.2, but not the earlier versions). Likewise, the new Pi Zero 2 model appears to be 64-bit capable. But anything older, all the Pi 1 and Pi Zero variants only have 32-bit processors.

Now, how many of these will still actually be running in 2038 is anyone’s guess. Even if the computer itself is still running, will there still be SD-cards for them? So far, I’ve seen no failures of the Pi computers themselves apart from externally inflicted damage, but I’ve had to replace several SD-cards that have gone bad.

cthulhu

It’s a reaction against the rapid development of computer hardware and software we’ve experienced over the last 50 years.

IIRC, the Apollo missions collected huge amounts of data. If stored in tape racks in their original reel-to-reel tape format, it would fill a football field. Something like 80% of it cannot be read using equipment available today.

Someone could graduate today with a degree in ECE and not be able to discuss the relative merits of the Intel 8080, the Motorola 6502, and the Zilog Z80.

You will note that nobody GAF as to whether Windows or MacOS will support 32-bit. Linux, however, is the lingua franca that allows all those old peripherals and datasets and antique motherboards to continue speaking and telling their tales. If someone is going to extract that data off those Apollo reel-to-reel tapes, it will be some kludged system running Linux.

If anyone asked me about buying a 32-bit system today, I’d tell ’em they were crazy and should only get (and run) new 64-bit gear. That is not, however, because everyone should only get (and run) 64-bit gear……it’s because the people running 32-bit won’t ask.

When all the 32-bit distros fade away, it will be that much more difficult to mine the past for its wisdom.

Sylvia Avery

All the best to each of you QTreepers! I remain stubbornly optimistic. Let’s make 2022 a good one!

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cthulhu

Let’s polish and sharpen that shovel so that 2022 can be a good year for good people, and a not-so-good year for not-so-good people….

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Agreed.

If they try to deny Social Security to seniors who don’t get the jab, I suspect there will be MUCH shovel-sharpening. 😉

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244651

Sylvia Avery

Yeah, that is not going to go over well. At all. Happy New Year, Wolfie!

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Happy New Year! 2022. WOW. We’re THERE.

Gail Combs

As I said on the last post,

The AVERAGE Age of the American farmer is OVER 50 (57) The number of ‘ producers is 3.4 million’ and their anger has been simmering since OH!Bummer shoved the Food Un-Safe Act down our throats.

You DO NOT WANT TO PISS OFF THOSE GOOD OLD BOYS. Remember they all hunt too….

…and those 70 year olds? I, a little old lady over 70, can still pick up and move a 50# sack of grain or bale of hay. 40 lbs is EASY for me. Not only that I can OUT WALK many many teenagers and certainly out work them.
….

I have been paying attention for the last 25 years and ‘taking the temperature’ PEOPLE ARE CLUED IN and the anger is building. That is why the FIB CREATED the OATH KEEPERS and such, to keep an eye on that anger and use it for false flags.

I do not think it worked because most of these dudes are VERY SUSPICIOUS and are now going to be even more so.

Aubergine

I can outwork most teens, too. I wear out my kids and grandkids in the summer gardening.

Sylvia Avery

If shoveling turns out to be necessary, I’m ready. Happy New Year, coothie!

cthulhu

Where are my manners? Happy New Year, dear Sylvia of the Singing Shining Shovel! And please extend a Happy New Year to our cherished friends at Marica’s!

pgroup2

Are you the blonde?

Sylvia Avery

Not me, I’m a brunette. But hear they have more fun. 😁😁😁😁 Happy New Year!

TheseTruths
holly

New York says it will prioritize non-White people in distributing low supply of COVID-19 treatments

“Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19,” the memo reads.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-prioritize-non-white-people-low-supply-of-covid-19-treatments

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scott467

Do white people get separate water fountains too, so we don’t contaminate anybody because of our race?

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cthulhu

Maybe we should sit in a special section on public transport…..

kalbokalbs

DEFUND public transport.

Deplorable Patriot

Why? Not everyone can afford to purchase a vehicle, and they need a way to get to their jobs.

Truth be told, public transport needs seed money to get started and then pays for itself. Once the mask thing is done, I will go back to using it.

kalbokalbs

Fully understand all the above.

That said, I am fed up with this end run AGAINST PRIVATE cars. Get the masses to live in big cities. Agenda 2030.

Can’t afford private transportation, pay MORE for public transportation.

Public transport supports GREENIE narrative.

Zero reason my tax dollars should support other folks transit.

Have not seen public transportation pay for itself.

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Deplorable Patriot

From riding public transportation. Like I said, when the mask thing goes away, I’ll go back to it. It’s cheaper than paying for parking.

When I worked downtown, a parking spot in the building was $150/mo. In the public garage across the street, $80 if I got there before a certain time. A monthly transit pass, both bus and rail unlimited, was $64 including game nights downtown. It’s more than that now, I know, but in the end it was a savings.

barkerjim

They seem to subsidize no matter how many riders, so why not take advantage, as long as you feel safe! I would not take any in the Chicago area.

holly

NY State is 55% white and NY City 34%. NYS has a very generous and accessible Medicaid system. I call BS on the “systemic health and social inequalities”.

No antibodies for you white people.

Barb Meier

Happy New Year everybody!! I just noticed the cute little lightening bolt and flame icons just above the Comment Search text box. Odd thing is, when I clicked the lightening bolt, it scrolled down and highlighted one of Sylvia’s posts that had 1 or 2 likes, bypassing one of Steve’s posts with 8 likes. So I don’t quite understand what the lightening bolt “Most Reacted Post” means. I thought it would go to the most liked post. Okay, so “Reacted” must mean the most replies to a post. Perhaps I’ll go start this New Year with a nice nap.

Barb Meier

hahaha! why yes they do! Does that seem too low? 😉

eilert

For those who want to know the reason of the naming sequence of the weekday names this is very interesting talk:

The Secret of Weekday Sequence | Nilesh Oak | #SangamTalks

para59r

Something similar going on here.
https://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/hlwc/why_seven.htm

Also note Peter Meyer note at the bottom of the page takes the concepts into a different direction when talking about Inanna’s Decent to the Underworld with seven being a sacred number and then to the seven chakras.

Valerie Curren

Thank you for this fascinating post Steve. Blessings on a Better New Year…

GA/FL
Gail Combs

And that is DESPITE a lot of us not having Spotify or what ever the heck it is.

🖕 SUCK ON THAT MR GLOBAL!!! 🖕

scott467

I just found the Rogan / Malone long (3 hour) interview, available on Bitchute now:

Dr. Robert Malone Tell All Secrets of MRNA Dangers, Deaths, CIA DARPA on Joe Rogan Episode #1757

Dora

holly

Deplorable Patriot

I have nothing against the Birkenstocks. I wish I could wear them, actually, but I don’t share her taste in men.

pgroup2

Who’s the ginger?

Deplorable Patriot

Some dude she picked up.

Gail Combs

And, here, as I was making my morning Cuppa, I was wondering why the New Year didn’t start at Winter Solstice…. Only to bring up Steve’s article to find he answered my question!

THANKS STEVE!

And have a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

The same to Wolfie and all the rest of the Treeper Crew.

PS
I loved the ‘No Chemicals found inside Bye-Done’s Skull.’
  :wpds_cool: 

Gail Combs

“….the New Year started at Spring Equinox,…”

Yes I could see that since it would more or less sync with planting time for much of the Roman Empire. At least in Europe.

Gail Combs

Rome is a hardiness zone of 9 about like South Carolina/Georgia.

https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-italy-plant-hardiness-zone-map.php

Last frost about April 1st

https://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-italy-last-frost-date-map.php

barkerjim

Happy New Year to all of you!

Deplorable Patriot

Of interest, another resignation. And this one is a biggie.

L Brands founder Leslie H. Wexner and his wife, Abigail, stepped down from the board of the retailer he created in 1963 with $5,000 he borrowed from his aunt.

L Brands founder Leslie H. Wexner and his wife, Abigail, stepped down from the board of the retailer he created in 1963 with $5,000 he borrowed from his aunt. The move followed Wexner’s decision the year before to retire as chairman and CEO of the company. The Wexners subsequently sold much of their stock in L Brands and L Brands later split into two companies, Bath & Body Works and Victoria’s Secret. Wexner’s move to step down as CEO and president came after he was criticized for his ties to child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Eyes on.

mollypitcher5

Maybe it’s because the regime is stomping out beauty and brand loyalty in favor of he-she role models and utilitarian products that “protect” consumers rather than things that smell nice and look pretty.
Those days are over.
I was reading that the latest cancel culture campaign is targeting America’s Top Model which is long past it’s prime interest. They’re grinding on even the,then, token gay judges.

Deplorable Patriot

Les Wexner is the successor to Meyer Lansky in one of the mafias. He is the next rung up the food chain from Maxwell/Epstein. This is significant in the criminal sense.

Dora

2021 Rearview Awards
.
As the days gradually begin to lengthen and 2021 has been deposited into the annals of history, the time for the annual Rearview Awards has arrived.
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https://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/fetzen-fliegen/item/5770-2021-rearview-awards

GA/FL

Oh no!

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kalbokalbs

That’s funny.

kalbokalbs

Can’t say they were rare coins. But when a little kid, we’d go down to the tracks and lay pennies on the track. Let the trains flatten our pennies. Usually got the penny back. Sometimes, no idea where the penny ended up.

Prolly Lincoln Memorial pennies. Even if Wheat (I guess they are called), no collector value.

The crap we did as kids. Got away with it, without injury usually. 🙂

GA/FL

I just put it up to tease you.

smiley2

under the cover of CHAOS…

smiley2

well…ok…Happy New Year…
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Gail Combs

That one is certainly up for the Meme of the Year Award!!!

Deplorable Patriot

And in a stunning turn of events…my old London Fog raincoat actually can still be buttoned. YEA! It’s cold and rainy here today, and I’m not wearing my down coat out in it.

Deplorable Patriot

Some good news.

Deplorable Patriot

And more good news.

pgroup2

I am quietly cheering.

singingsoul1

Happy New Year duchess

duchess01

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.

I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.

I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.

Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.

May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.

With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.

Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me. 

Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.

AMEN.

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duchess01

BE MY VOICE

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BABY LIVES MATTER

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RDS

SteveInCO
Thank you for a great New Year’s Day opener! And a Happy New Year to you!
I can’t get away from the thought that the upper part of the Webb Telescope in the image you posted (above the “translucent sheets” part of the telescope) looks like a “Sad Bear” face. Was that somebody’s idea of a joke (or a message) in the design??

singularzoe

Happy new year, fellow tree-dwellers.

singingsoul1

Happy New Year Singular

singularzoe

Happy new year to you, and blessings,Singing Soul.

singingsoul1

Thank you 🙂

RDS

And, just in case one would think that the Merck “COVID-19 magic pill”, MOLNUPIRAVIR, is any “safer” than the Pizer PAXLOVID pill, NOPE. Molnupiravir ALSO has ingredients that will MUTATE the RNA of the recipient. The “mechanism” of Molnupiravir is apparently to “overwhelm” the spike protein in the virus by slamming it with elements to MUTATE the RNA of the spike protein, thereby rendering it “useless” to further infect the patient.
Oh, by the way, Molnupiravir is contraindicated for pregnancy, for pediatric use, for people who have bone / bone marrow problems, for people who have moderate to severe hepatic impairment, and other conditions.
Paxlovid is given in conjunction with an HIV drug, RITONAVIR.
BOTH Paxlovid AND Molnupiravir ARE STILL IN CLINICAL TRIALS.

http://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-issues-advice-use-lagevrio-molnupiravir-treatment-covid-19

http://www.fda.gov/media/155054/download
(FDA fact sheet on Molnupiravir)

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04960202
(Paxlovid + Ritonavir clinical trials, ONGOING until APRIL 21, 2022)

https://clinicaltrials.goc/ct2/show/NCT04575997
(Molnupiravir clinical trials, ONGOING until MAY 5, 2022)

TradeBait2
Deplorable Patriot

Total loss? I’d call it a great victory.

Dora

WTH? Biden Regime Signs $137 Million Deal with GERMAN Company to Make COVID Test Strips — Will Start Producing in Late 2024 at the Earliest
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/wth-biden-regime-signs-137-million-deal-german-company-make-covid-test-strips-will-start-producing-late-2024-earliest/

Gail Combs

Top share holders include:

 Blackrock — 5 – 10%

Sun Life Financial — 3 – 5%

Crédit Agricole S.A — 3 – 5%

State Street Corporation — 3 – 5%

Deutsche Bank AG Group — 3 – 5%

https://www.emdgroup.com/en/investors/shares-and-bonds/shareholders.html

Deplorable Patriot

Imagine that.

Gail Combs

FOLLOW THE MONEY! In this case OUR MONEY.
  :wpds_mad: 

Cuppa Covfefe

70% of the investors are non-German… Merck can hardly be identified as a German company anymore…

Worrisome, however, is that the $137M can only be window dressing for something else, as that amount would barely cover permits and testing (envirocrap)…

GA/FL

On the Joe Rogan show, Dr. Robert Malone announced a March against the vaccine mandates.

January 23 – Washington, DC

DefeatthemandatesDC.com

Gail Combs

AND that is why D.C. mayor announces proof of vaccination requirement for indoor facilities
Mayor Muriel Bowser made the announcment December 22.
Starting Saturday, January 15, 2022, customers 12 and over will be required to show proof that they have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Come Saturday, February 15, proof of two doses will be required.

para59r

Nothing like locking all dissenting voices out indoor venues in our nations capitol.
Certainly should not be allowed to get away with this. It’s not even realistic when the vax does nothing and separate venues for separate groups would harm nothing.

Deplorable Patriot

That’s been out for a while. Just happens to be the day after the March for Life. I wonder how many people will stick around.

GA/FL

Either good or bad timing.

Deplorable Patriot

Could be great timing.

GA/FL

Dr. Malone sounds like a God-fearing man. So does Dr. McCullough. They certainly are courageous.

Barb Meier

…and the FIB cargo-panters roll into ruse action.

Aubergine

Steve! Thanks for proving (with science!) that I’m not nuts!

See, I’m not AWAKE for the sunrise, so the days really ARE longer for me by the Solstice.

Cool.

Gingersmom2009

Watching the Rogan/Malone interview in sections, as it’s 3 hours. If Trump manages to pull off getting back in the chair . . . may he please have used part of his forced timeout to realize who to surround himself with. And may those people be willing to serve.

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Gail Combs

Actually I hope a lot of them will be spending time in prison at the very least.

barkerjim

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Gail Combs

Just don’t let those chemist buy it…
  :wpds_lol:   :wpds_chuckle: 

Barb Meier

Medieval artillery: for all your New Year celebration needs!

Gail Combs

DRAT posted in wrong thread.

This is a 3 hour Joe Rogan interview of Dr Peter McCullough. I have been slowly watching this Interview. It has LOTS of good info.

 However this morning I found some MAJOR BOMBS!

Remember that Bye-Done admin IS WITHHOLDING Monoclonal antibodies from Red States and New York is withholding from White people?

Listen to what Dr McCullough says @ around 1: 12 min (STOPPING early treatment)
@ 1:14 hide & go seek for Monoclonal antibodies

@ 1:16 we had already purchased 100 million doses in 2020 on order 5 million

@ 1:19 Monoclonal antibodies were AUTHORIZED BEFORE THE VACCINES!
(Remember POTUS big fanfare for them?)
….

Then he goes into the covid clot shots.

@ 1:19 VA data showed 96% of the people who took the vaccine NEVER GOT COVID.

 admin:19:30 CDC tells us a 146 million people HAVE ALREADY HAD COVID could be more like 200 million. And Can’t get 2nd time. 135 studies support that. (I think that is at least partly based on people, who 17 years ago had SARs which is only 90% similar to Cov-2, show their blood has immunity to Covid-19.)
  :wpds_arrow: 1:22 MAJOR INFO – WRONG departments (FDA & CDC) running Covid Vaccine program . — MUST LISTEN!

1:24 By January 22nd ALREADY HAD 182 deaths…. NO SAFETY REVIEW….. NO ONE TO STOP PROGRAM IN FEBRUARY!!! WHY, BECAUSE FDA & CDC HAD VESTED INTEREST!!!

1:25 After 5 deaths – Black box warning, after 50 deaths Drug is off the market
 In February he DEMANDED a Safety Review — CRICKETS

  :wpds_shock:   :wpds_mad: 

THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE #1747 – DR. PETER A. MCCULLOUGH

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GA/FL

Dr. Malone got 3 endorsements this morning.

https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1477102652588806149

https://twitter.com/PapiTrumpo/status/1477311466646740998

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kalbokalbs

Yep, IF Malone were leading the Covid response. Along with McCoullough, Kori, Merritt…

Thankfully these honest doctors have not been totally muzzled.

Imagine IF the world knew what was provided to 240+million in Uttar Pradesh, India. Covid is essentially wiped out in Uttar. Covid death flatlined.

Absolutely a mystery to me why India has NOT publicly stated what they mass distributed as a preventive AND treatment. IT WORKED, and continues to be effective.

IF Modi for PC reasons won’t release it, there must be someone of the 240+million in Uttar that KNOWS the world needs this information.

  • Reality IS, India has apparantly adopted the meds to CRUSH Covid. Worldometers, India only has ~105K active cases. Take a look at India charts from Worldometers. Absolutely stunning.

Malone has ties with India pharma initiatives AND says he can NOT get the finite details of meds used to prevent / treat Covid.

FTA

“Uttar Pradesh, as you know, has crushed Covid,” Dr. Malone said.

“Ya, can you explain what they did to do that because it’s quite fascinating,” Rogan urged.

Dr. Malone hesitated a bit, trying to determine what he could say as fact and what must be noted as speculation. He opted to leave it a question mark about what precisely they’ve done, though he speculated later in the segment. His speculation has been mostly confirmed by other sources: They’re using Ivermectin. But it was in the interaction the Biden regime in general and Joe Biden in particular had with India’s government that is shocking.

First, he explained the series of events that turned the province from being on the verge of medical collapse to essentially beating the pandemic.

“The virus was just ripping through Uttar Pradesh,” Dr. Malone said. “It has almost the same population as the United States. It’s huge, okay, dense, urban, poor, all the characteristics of a stereotype of the Indian countryside. The virus was just ripping through there causing all kinds of death and disease.

“And the decision was made out of desperation in that province to deploy early treatments as packages widely throughout the province, and it included a number of agents. The composition has not been formally disclosed. It was done in coordination with WHO and whatever was in those packages was rumored to include Ivermectin.”

(Emphasis added below)

The obvious question would be to know why the composition of the early treatment package has not been formally disclosed. As the powers-that-be like to say, we’re supposed to be “in this together.” If their efforts were so effective, why did the Indian government withhold the life-saving information and why haven’t world governments, including the United States, demanded that they reveal their secret.

The answer is that the Biden regime and the globalists who are controlling it do not want the information to come out. Instead of doing what’s necessary to save lives, they’re doing everything they can to push their universal vaccine agenda. And Joe Biden is directly involved, according to Dr. Malone.

More at the link.

https://thelibertydaily.com/dr-robert-malone-bombshell-after-meeting-with-biden-indias-modi-covered-up-uttar-pradeshs-miracle-covid-treatment/

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Gingersmom2009

Like I just said in another post. If he manages to get back in the left seat, pick the right people.

If he’s back in the seat, it makes sense that enough of the deception/evil will have been removed or neutralized as to not be in the way. After that it’s on HIM to make the right decisions, first and foremost that the closest to him be allies. Actual allies. Not someone who said something at some point that appealed to him, or threw a compliment, or was a “friend” somewhere along the line. The allies are out there — gather them up.

This event in Arizona will be a turning point. We’re in the fourth turning point right?

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EllieLA

Happy New Year, Everyone!

mollypitcher5

Dora

President Trump has announced his first rally of 2022 will be in Florence, Arizona.The rally will take place on January 15th, 2022, at 7:00 pm, at the Country Thunder Festival Grounds in Florence.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/jan-15-president-trump-announces-first-rally-2022-arizona/

GA/FL

Plus the Press Conference on January 6 – Mar A Lago.

kalbokalbs

THIS should be interesting. Hopefully entertaining at D-Rat, DOJ, FIB expense.

GA/FL

Hope he drops some bombs – lawsuits – really big stuff.

Gail Combs

Give it a few more months…

barkerjim
Gail Combs

Where are the Long Knives?

Patiently waiting to see if LEGAL METHODS (Nuremberg 2.0 among others) correct the situation.

We are after all law abiding and civilized unlike Aunty Fa. That how ever does not mean we can not learn….

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Good article. Mostly a rant by Denninger – HERE is the linked idea that is really strong.

THE ETHICAL SKEPTIC again!

LINK: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/12/30/denial-of-early-covid-19-treatment-a-crime-against-humanity/

ARCHIVE: https://archive.fo/hemSW

The key idea is that we were treated as a “control group” for the Pfizer vaccine, and doctors were made to parrot a lie – that there were no safe treatments – which there WERE in spades.

The antihistamine therapies are, IMO, what shows distinctly the dishonesty of the GATES-FUNDED VACCINE HYPNOSIS that destroyed Western medicine.

This is where science and medicine have been corrupted by these sick creeps who are running Pfizer, NIH, the media, and everything else.

Gail Combs

The French government taking HCQ from OTC to not available was the BIG CLUE this was NEVER on the up & up.

I am very much hoping an awful lot of doctors who RECOMMENDED that Clot Shot to patients WHILE RUFUSING TREATMENT end up with lawsuits up the whazoo if not criminal indictments.

Gail Combs

From my old notes when Obamacare was being passed.

Obamacare is all about removing medical care FROM the elderly.
If You Like Your Medicare, You Can Keep Your Medicare
By Jane M. Orient, M.D. (Assoc of Amer. Physicians & Surgeons)
Jan 26, 2015

…You can drop Medicare Part B, though there is a penalty for getting back in. But to drop Medicare Part A, you have to give back all the Social Security payments you ever received, as well as forgoing future payments. [MAJOR STICK to beat you into submission.]

Medicare rules are forcing many independent physicians to give up their practice, and either retire early or become employees. Physicians who do remain in practice may not accept Medicare patients, or limit the number they see. If you are a Medicare patient, the entire Medicare regime is in the examining room or hospital room with you, like it or not. You are not allowed to be free for a day. Neither is the doctor….

Medicare is also making it increasingly difficult for Medicare patients to get tests, consultations, oxygen or other home-health items, or medications prescribed by a non-Medicare doctor, sometimes even if the patient is willing to pay privately.

Why should this be?

Keep in mind that Medicare is not yours. The money you paid in all your working life is long gone. Your benefits are coming out of the wages of people like Larry, John, and Jesus, who toil at Arnold’s gas station, and all of them are having a hard time these days. Now that payroll tax receipts are less than than payouts, benefits are coming out of general tax revenues, which redeem the IOUs in the “Trust Fund.” And the ever-increasing Part B premiums pay only 25 percent of benefits. If you are on Medicare, you are a liability—to your doctor and to society. 

 Medicare does offer some fine new “benefits”—such as paying for “end-of-life” counseling. 

Medicare counseling, however, is not about life insurance, wills, or funeral arrangements—or about making peace with your family or God. It’s about reducing the cost of your care. The most expedient way to do that is to use “end” as a verb. 

 These days you can no longer assume that a hospital will seek to prolong your life and restore you to the health you enjoyed before you fell ill. It is much easier for the hospital if you give them permission ahead of time not to try. The purpose of the “advance directive” is to decline “life-sustaining treatments”—such as food and water.

GEE, where have we heard ending life by removing “life-sustaining treatments”—such as food and water. Oh yah, It is called the Liverpool CARE Pathway. And food and water are medical TREATMENTS??? WTF!

Kinda makes you wonder just how many elderly covid patients were starved to death and that is the real reason family was kept out of the hospital….

And the killing off of unwanted infants? All of this is in line with Fabian thinking and their method of implementing their vision of the world gradually. The idea is to make government murder of the Useless and non-compliant acceptable to the rest of the public.

MORE from my notes:

Nearly 1,200 people have starved to death in NHS hospitals because ‘nurses are too busy to feed patients’

For every patient who dies from malnutrition, four more have dehydration mentioned on their death certificate…

(wwwDOT)dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287332/Nearly-1-200-people-starved-death-NHS-hospitals-nurses-busy-feed-patients.html
And this

Four patients die thirsty or starving EVERY DAY on our hospital wards show damning new statistics

Data shows 1,316 deaths were linked to or directly caused by dehydration and malnutrition in 2010

Figures are far higher than in 2000, when 862 deaths were recorded

One hospital forced to prescribe drinking water for its patients

(wwwDOT)dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090332/Four-patients-die-thirsty-starving-EVERY-DAY-hospital-wards-damning-new-statistics.html

The telegraph reports:

the NHS comes first in Europe when it comes to the percentage of hospital patients suffering malnutrition: a whopping 58%, compared to 24% in the Netherlands and just over 30% in Denmark.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100131793/visiting-a-patient-in-a-british-hospital-then-take-them-food-and-water-just-to-be-safe/

The comments in the last article give life to the horrific conditions in the UK hospitals.

Note how the nurses are blamed and doctors are “forced to prescribe drinking water” — Yeah, right.

Then one doctor lets the cat out of the bag. The cause of death is deliberate withholding of food and water (The Liverpool Care Pathway) and not ‘neglect’ by the nurses… OOPS

Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year: Professor says doctors use ‘death pathway’ to euthenasia the elderly
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html?ICO=most_read_

Around 29 per cent of patients that die in hospital are on controversial ‘care pathway’

Then as investigative journalists dig deeper it is found that it is not the Doctors but the GOVERNMENT that is the cause of the deliberate starvation and dehydration of there citizens.

…..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9644287/NHS-millions-for-controversial-care-pathway.html
NHS millions for controversial care pathway — The majority of NHS hospitals in England are being given financial rewards for placing terminally-ill patients on a controversial “pathway” to death

TheGovernment PAYS hospitals to starve the patients to death. They also use the Liverpool Care Pathway on infants and children they deem ‘useless’ Doctors now have Saturday and Sunday off so if you are admitted on a weekend chances are you will be stuck on the Liverpool Care Pathway. Also the UK Govenment is suggesting they need to ‘Check-up” on older folk… so they can toss them in the hospital and starve them to death no doubt.
…..

Think that is bad? It gets worse.

They also called for After birth Abortions

Ethicists call for killing of newborns to be made legal
by Madeleine Teahan
posted Wednesday, 29 Feb 2012

Professors from Milan and Oxford argue that ‘foetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons’

A leading British medical journal has published an article calling for the introduction of infanticide for social and medical reasons.

The article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, entitled “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” states in its abstract: “After-birth abortion (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”

(wwwDOT)catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/02/29/ethicists-call-for-killing-of-newborns-to-be-made-legal/

And the people in the USA were told this was the healthcare system that was so much better that what we had!?!?!

Cuppa Covfefe

But it’s not free in the UK, nor is it free here in Germany and the rest of Europe. We have to be enrolled in either a Public Krankasse or a Private One, the latter being restricted to higher-income groups and public servants (figures). Monthly premiums are split between the customer and the gubminz; for the private insurance, the customer pays extra (for things like private rooms, special treatments, faster access to doctors/treatments/etc.).

Oddly enough, some things are covered under the Public KK but not under private. My son’s FM transmitter/receiver for his hearing aids (for lectures, etc.) was covered under my “proletariat plan”, but wouldn’t have been under the “Privat” plan…

One big downside in all of this is the perpetual shortage of doctors. Think Kaiser Permanente on a national scale…

TheseTruths

The part about food and water ties in perfectly with the experience I had helping an elderly patient. I was the medical power of attorney, and they put him on “palliative care” without consulting me. Palliative care included having a couple of people evaluating his case and recommending dietary guidelines to the doctor — things that I think used to be, and should be, solely under the authority of a doctor, and which the power of attorney should be consulted about if the patient is unable. Besides, just feed the patient. I think even well-meaning medical professionals are getting gradually pulled into this.

kalbokalbs

In the face of moronic omicron, Missouri ends Covid State of Emergency.

EVERY R guvner should CANCEL Covd State of Emergency Orders and Restrictions. Rather sure some have. ALL SHOULD DO SO.

  • D-Rats and Pravda News would absolutely melt down.
  • Would initiate the end of the Covid madness.

FTA

Governor Makes Bold Move to End Covid State of Emergency and Lift Other Restrictions, Media and the Left Outraged
The Republican governor of Missouri just made a bold move that will be cheered by residents and is sure to lead to media hysterics and enrage leftists across the nation.

More at the link.

https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/governor-makes-bold-move-end-covid-state-emergency-lift-restrictions-media-left-outraged

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

Good.

CATCH THE DAMN COLD.
TREAT THE DAMN COLD.
GET REAL IMMUNITY.
AND DAMN THEIR MONEY-MAKING CLOT-SHOT TO HELL.

kalbokalbs

Yup. It IS cold and flu season. Get on with NORMAL life.

GA/FL

With Tonic/Quinine cocktails, HCQ, Ivermectin, D3, Quercetin, Vitamin C – and all the rest!

Gail Combs

I have Hubby hooked on a Tonic/Quinine cocktail. 1/3 tonic water, 1/3 Orange Juice & 1/3 homemade lemonade (Splenda not sugar)

It is a lot better for him than soda. He is not fond of tea so this and milk is what he drinks.

GA/FL

I’ll try that.

Gail Combs

I can no longer drink straight lemonade. My stomach doesn’t like it. This combo gives me a nice drink that my stomach tolerates and without the caffeine in the iced green tea.

para59r

But of course and …

Personally, it may not even be all that.
You don’t have to catch the “damn cold”, just exposure is enough.
With exposure comes the fight, if your body is strong you may not even notice it to be more than a sniffle. Take the guy working in the grocery store for these past couple of years. He’s not missed a day. Has he been exposed? You betcha! Did he succumb to sickness. Nope, just some sniffles one day, fine the next a few more sniffles when a good whiff came by, but fine the next, and so on and so on, he has his immunity built up a bit at a time. Same with those using supplements? Likely. Such grants even a more modest exposure, so at best just sniffles, so more supplements, and soon scot free.

Gradual exposure or micro dosing works just fine and supplements to be especially safe leads you to immunity.

Now did you get enough immunity? Some times the virus can come in hurtful cloud.
They can over power the immunity you’ve stored up. But it’s not going to hit you near as hard and you can whack it back with more Supplements!

Now do you become dependent on supplements? Maybe. So there’s where it’s a good idea to just use a few, say twenty, or thirty percent of this and that, more if your going into enemy territory, but not so much you can’t keep a reserve to whack the damn thing back into submission and then chill out again with a modest amount of supplements and even taper it down to none at all if you know your going to be in the free and clear for a while.

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Gail Combs

Yeah, my ‘cold’ lasted all of 8 hours. Got killed off by three cups of green tea, 50 mg of zinc and a big bowl of Chicken soup — on top of all the rest of the anti-covid protocol.

Started as aches & pains, a sinus head ache, ear ache, sore throat, sneezing coughing and it is now down to a bit of a cough.

singingsoul1

Glad you are feeling better.
I slept a lot.
I had mine for 3 days just a little sinus problems but near nothing. Going to take my claritan for a week. The doctor in SA said the first stage one gets over fast and after 7 days it can get worse. So take it for a week see what happens keep taking vitamins and the green tea. I need to drink more water.

singingsoul1

What is left is little sinus problems I should have written. Sore throat is gone. Normally I would have said little cold or mild flu. I had a lot of good help from my stash.

Gail Combs

Oh, I am on the anti-covid medications but I do not normally take that much zinc or green tea in one day.

And Chicken soup is ALWAYS good for a cold.

singingsoul1