mardi 31 mars 2020

Idaho Gov. Signs 2 Anti-Trans laws

Sounds like he or his administration are going to face some court fines, and possibly more:

Quote:

The Republican governor approved legislation that prohibits transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates, and another that bans transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports.

The birth certificate measure ignores a 2018 federal court ruling that a past law barring transgender people from making the birth certificate changes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The judge scrapped the ban and warned against new rules. The Idaho attorney general's office, which didn't appeal the ruling, said it could cost $1 million if the state had to defend the ban again and lost.
The federal court already warned them so this is probably not going to go over very well. Basically the basis is that it's not fair to female athletics if trans-women get to compete. The others would face a disadvantage. The US Justice Department is supporting a separate lawsuit that's pretty comparable:

Quote:

Meanwhile, the families of three female high school runners have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block transgender athletes in Connecticut from participating in girls' sports.

On March 24, the U.S. Justice Department came out in support of the lawsuit, arguing that the state's inclusive policy violates the federal Title IX law allowing girls equal educational and athletic opportunities.


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DC threatening jailtime ove travel bans, states releasing Prisoners

The leftie overthrown and transition to the American Commintern has begun. Thanks Lefties..


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Piss Up A Moon House

Yeah, if you want to build a house on the moon you can just piss one up...


Moon bases could be built using astronaut urine

Quote:

Originally Posted by CNN
When NASA astronauts return to the moon in 2024, they'll need a lunar base that allows them to stay on the surface. And the astronauts may build their base using something readily available: their urine...

...materials found on the moon, or those that the astronauts would already have with them, are key to the agency's sustainable approach. Previous studies of possible building material for lunar bases relied on materials that would have to be brought to the moon.

As part of a new study, researchers investigated what would happen if moon dust, known as regolith, was mixed with a component of human urine called urea to create a kind of concrete that can be 3D-printed to build a structure fit for human habitation. The study published last week in the Journal of Cleaner Production.

"To make the geopolymer concrete that will be used on the moon, the idea is to use what is there: regolith, or loose material from the moon's surface and the water from the ice present in some areas," said Ramón Pamies, study author and a professor at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena in Spain.

But the researchers wanted to limit the amount of water used, since that will be needed for the astronauts and life support systems.

"With this study we have seen that a waste product, such as the urine of the personnel who occupy the moon bases, could also be used," he said. "The two main components of this body fluid are water and urea, a molecule that allows the hydrogen bonds to be broken and, therefore, reduces the viscosities [thickness] of many aqueous mixtures."

The researchers decided to test if urea could be used as a plasticizer in the concrete, which can soften the mixture to make it more pliable before the concrete hardens...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/world...scn/index.html

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Majority/Minority Projection - NPR

I was cruising on the way home yesterday, listening to NPR and this interesting tidbit came on. Admittedly I didn't get to listen to the whole thing, I am now, but I read through the transcript previously. It's basically a breakdown of how the census has changed to identify minorities, how those minorities view themselves, and how people feel the data plays a role for them. It's hosted by Ailsa Chang, a noted investigative journalist. A few things I found interesting:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ailsa
Since the very first U.S. Census in 1790, the government has changed its definitions of racial categories more than 10 times. This week, NPR's Invisibilia podcast looks at the shifting boundaries around race and the continuing challenge over who belongs in which racial box

The first part really deals with a social experiment that worked with how white people feel about the "shrinking majority" of white people:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yowei Shaw, Byline
It was 2015, and [Richard] Alba, a sociology professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, had written about Census Bureau projections, forecasting that the U.S. population would no longer have a white majority by midcentury.

This was extremely interesting to me:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yowei Shaw, Byline
White people might even be redefining whiteness. Abascal recently conducted a study in which whites were presented with photos of various Latinos. And she found that when told about future white decline, whites were less likely to classify the faces as white, compared to those who hadn't heard about the projections

It then goes on to discuss how white people might not have as much of a shrinking majority but rather people identify as more than one ethnicity now. They speak with a woman:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shaw
Take the case of Hannah Liu and her brother Allen, who have a white Jewish mom and a Taiwanese immigrant dad. Today, at 25, Hannah identifies as mixed race, Asian American and definitely not white, though she says people are sometimes surprised.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hannah Liu
I also have told people that I identify as a person of color. And they've said no, you aren't.

Anyway, it says it's about an 8 minute listen. I read it in much less than that, but it does have some pauses, sound bites, music, etc. I don't know I have much to discuss, I just found it interesting whenever people discuss changing demographics.


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COVID-19 and crime related events.

Van Gogh painting stolen from museum shuttered by Covid-19 pandemic

Vincent Van Gogh's "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring" was stolen from the Singer Laren Museum just outside of Amsterdam. The museum has been closed since March 13 due to the outbreak.

The 1884 oil painting from the renowned Dutch artist, which as one loan from the Groninger Museum, was reportedly taken overnight and been added to Interpol's list of stolen artwork.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/va...cli/index.html


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Which businesses/sectors are profiting from Covis-19?

This thread was prompted by a conversation with a daughter about her job. She said income has increased and her job is rock solid. She works for a company involved in regulating the energy sector (with a great emphasis on safety) and is classified as an emergency service.

Okay, with dominoes falling over everywhere, which sectors are doing well (my observations are from an Australian perspective of course)?

Supermarkets? Probably, but I’m not certain.

Pharmacies? Without doubt.

Streaming Services? Again, without doubt.

Food and other delivery services? Pretty good bet.

Unilever? The world’s biggest producer of hand sanitiser is no doubt rubbing their hands (sorry).

Computer gaming? Pretty certain.

Robotics? Over the longer term, but I doubt now.

This is all off the top of my head (as is almost everything I post), but what do you think? Which businesses would be doing well at the moment?


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lundi 30 mars 2020

Yelp creating GoFundMe pages on behalf of 100's of businesses without informing them

There's currently a growing outcry against business review site Yelp. Citing hardships due to Coronavirus, Yelp has been busy creating GoFundMe pages in the names of possibly thousands of small local businesses, soliciting donations from the public without the names businesses' knowledge or involvement.

Reached via a link on Yelp's review page for each business, the GoFundMe page claims that concerned customers can donate money, allegedly to help the business cover costs or employee pay during the economic downturn; Yelp claims that it will match the dollar amount of public donations, "in the form of waived advertising fees, free products, and services". However not only has neither Yelp nor GoFundMe been asking permission from the businesses in whose name the pages were opened; they haven't informed the businesses that those pages even exist or that any donations were being received, the onus apparently being on the businesses themselves to somehow magically discover their GoFundMe page's existence and go through the process of "claiming" the donations. The entire scheme is frankly unconscionable; imagine a bank, or a restaurant, or a gas station having a big glass jar labeled "donations for disabled veterans", and then simply keeping and sitting on that money, "holding onto it" for the day when a disabled veteran happens to walk into the gas station and happens to ask to borrow money.

Some businesses who have discovered that GFM pages were opened in their name have described a complicated and unnecessarily long process to get the page removed.


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Massive Gravity Theory

A theory I have not heard of until this popped up on the YT channel "Seeker. In a nutshell this theory proposes the graviton has mass and because it does would account for "Dark Energy"... .

Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Gravity... Here's Why https://youtu.be/iHh_d45GY10


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Covid-19, the Territory Anomaly

This is something that's been bugging me for some time, and the subject keeps getting lost in the general thread, so I'm posting separately to try to get some help figuring out what's going on.

There are four glaring examples of places that should be knee-deep in corpses, but aren't.

Japan, Australia, Canada & Hawaii.

Japan has had the schools closed, while Australia & Hawaii have not. All three have had far weaker social distancing/shutdown rules than almost all other territories. (I'm excluding SK, HK & Singapore, as they acted differently from the start.)

All of Hawaii, Australia & Japan are massive destinations for Chinese tourists - which is unquestionably how everywhere else has been infected, and in the case of Japan, were very early starters in the infection stakes. Canada has the same massive Chinese diaspora that led to them getting hit by SARS.

The populations of the four couldn't be more diverse, although Aussie & Canada are pretty similar. Japan & Hawaii's numbers should look like NYC, while Aussie & Canada should look more like USA, yet none of that is happening.

The infection rates in all those countries aren't rising as fast, the disease has an infinitely lower mortality rate and they are not being as badly impacted as over 100 other nations.

Canada could be a result of superior testing and tracing as in Germany & South Korea, but that's not the case for Australia, Japan & Hawaii. Aussie is testing now, but they lagged behind for ages and even let a load of infected passengers off a cruise ship, following Japan's lead, but no explosion of cases.

Nothing makes sense - different climates, different populations, different genetics, different demographics...

It seems to me the answer - if there is one - might be quite important.

Any suggestions?


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As she champions Illegal Immigrants, is AOC a threat to National Security?

With the pandemic here, this would be the time for her to shift priorities and think about defending the Homeland first. You'd think.


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Medicine, ethics and law: What are doctors supposed to do?

I think this is a timely subject to discuss but it originally sprung out of the “Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill” thread. I posed the argument: “Ethics requires doctors/clinicians to follow the law.” I think that’s pretty obvious and uncontroversial.

A good example of this is what’s going on now with many doctors writing scrips for chloroquine, etc/azithromycin for themselves/family/friends/ patients -not because they have an autoimmune disorder or a positive Covid-19 diagnosis, but “just in case.” This has caused a shortage. I think that’s unethical and now many States have started clamping down on this with new emergency rules prohibiting the practice. Doctors/Pharmacists should comply with the law even if they don’t agree with it.

The counter argument has been, in a nutshell, that a doctor can “override” laws that they find unethical/harmful and that doctors should use individual clinical judgement to make ethical decisions even if it’s against a law/ethical rule they see as unjust. Others can correct me if I’ve misstated the basic position.

Abortion is cited as an example: if abortion was made illegal today, it would be ethical for docs to keep on doing them because the law itself would be unethical.

I think doctors overriding the law is dangerous and that ethics requires them to comply with the law, even against their own clinical judgement. In the case of a total abortion ban, they would be putting patients and their licenses at risk: patients would have a harder time getting safe abortions and treatments for complications that arise; doctors would be less likely to send patients with complications to hospitals because they don’t want to risk their licenses. If they lose their licenses, we have a doctor shortage problem. I am NOT arguing that such a law is good. I am arguing that the medical community’s duty is to follow the law and fight/lobby against unjust laws that affect patient care.

So what say you? What is a clinician’s duty in regards to ethics and the law.


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The Alex Salmond trial

I'm just going to leave this here, although maybe it really does belong in the Conspiracy Theories subforum. (Craig Murray is not someone I like, but there seems no doubt that he is bang on the money with this. Multiple people have confirmed most of it, he is just the one who has put it all in one place.)

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archi.../03/jaccuse-2/

Quote:

A 22 person team from Police Scotland worked for over a year identifying and interviewing almost 400 hoped-for complainants and witnesses against Alex Salmond. This resulted in nil charges and nil witnesses. Nil. The accusations in court were all fabricated and presented on a government platter to the police by a two prong process. The first prong was the civil service witch hunt presided over by Leslie Evans and already condemned by Scotland’s highest civil court as “unlawful, unfair and tainted by apparent bias”. The second prong was the internal SNP process orchestrated by a group at the very top in SNP HQ and the First Minister’s Private Office. A key figure in the latter was directly accused in court by Alex Salmond himself of having encouraged a significant number of the accusers to fabricate incidents.

The only accusations Police Scotland could take forward were given to them by this process. Their long and expensive trawl outside the tiny closed group of accusers revealed nothing. Let me say that again. Police Scotland’s long and expensive trawl outside the tiny closed group of accusers revealed nothing at all. [....]

What the police did get was eye witness evidence that several of the allegations they had been handed by the closed group were fabricated. Two eye witnesses, for example, appeared in court who had been within six feet of the alleged buttock grab during a Stirling Castle photocall. Both had been watching the photo being taken. Both testified nothing had happened. The police had that evidence. But they ignored it. [....]

They discovered the actual Edinburgh airport “incident” was that Alex Salmond had made a rather excruciating pun about “killer heels” when the footwear of a female member of staff had set off the security scanner gate. This had been reported as a sexist comment in the context of a much wider dispute about staff conditions. That is it. “Killer heels”. A joke. [....]

I can say that I know the identities of five of the complainants, although I can't of course publish them here. I can say that when the identities are known, as they inevitably will be, there will be enormous political fall-out.

I'm just curious to see what people here will say about all this.


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dimanche 29 mars 2020

Covid-19 Evictions and Foreclosures

Here in America many or most places are disallowing evictions and foreclosures until May 31st. But this will have to be extended until further notice to prevent an epic catastrophe.

The rents and mortgages are being deferred until May 31st - after that you will get an invoice from your landlord or bank for all past due rent and mortgage payments. Many thousands or millions of people will not be able to pay this. What is going to happen?

Our government has approved a $2 trillion economic stimulus plan, but each individual is only going to get $1,200. That isn't going to be nearly enough. So many people are going to need far more than that to prevent widespread homelessness. I feel that another much larger stimulus plan will be necessary this summer.

I guess we could discuss this and maybe how I am exaggerating the situation or maybe it could be even worse than that. I just don't see how massive homelessness can be prevented unless someone or something else pays the rent or mortgage.


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Famous people with Covid-19

As far as the big picture goes, famous people are still just people. I mean we have forum members who have been under quarantine, people with relatives who are sick, all that.

And it is only going to get worse. The stories of our forum members stories are no less significant that the famous people we've all never met nor interacted with.

But somehow, sometimes, hearing about this or that famous person suffering helps to focus things a bit. Maybe because it is someone who we like - a singer or actor whose work we admire, or a famous person who has a reputation for just being very nice despite all the wealth and fame.

Or, conversely, perhaps it a famous person who has been in denial about things, or who has used their wealth and influence to get tested when such tests are very hard to come by for us common folk.

Anyway, it is of interest, so why not have a thread about it.

My starter: John Prine. He's a country singer, been around forever but I only recently discovered him. He'll likely not survive, as he has already survived cancer twice and only has one lung now.

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Swiss doctor on COVID-19

I found this page claiming that threat form COVID-19 is greatly overstated and extreme measures unnecessary.

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

Is there any substance to it? I checked other articles and whole site looks like typical conspiracy theorist hole.


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Capitalism and Its Beneficiaries, Rich People, Are the Spreaders of Coronavirus

In Denmark, it was quite obvious from the very beginning where the virus came from and how it got here. All you needed to do was combine a couple of statistics:
1) The first people infected with the virus had been to Austria or Italy, the vast majority had been skiing in Austria.
2) The age group with the most people tested positive: 40-49 (that's still the case!).
3) The three areas with the most people tested positive for coronavirus are 1) Gentofte, 2) Rudersdal and 3) Frederiksberg, Copenhagen - areas with above-average incomes. (I live in Frederiksberg.)

The three age groups with most hospitalizations, however, are 1) 80+, 2) 70-79, and 3) 60-69, i.e. not the people who typically go skiing in the Alps. (However, a few in their 60s did!)

And when you look at the rest of the world, a similar pattern emerges:
Eastern Australia's coronavirus hotspots revealed: map shows affluent Sydney suburbs hard hit (The Guardian, March 27, 2020)
Party Zero: How a Soirée in Connecticut Became a ‘Super Spreader’ (NYT, March 23, 2020)
Westport, Connecticut, Is the Latest Fraught Meeting Point of Coronavirus and Wealth (Vanity Fair, March 24, 2020)

The Australians probably didn't go skiing in the Alps, but apart from that it seems to be similar to the other cases.

An excellent CNN article describes how business considerations (the tourist trade) helped spread the virus from Austria to Northern Europe:

Quote:

Despite an official warning from the Icelandic government on March 4 that a group of its nationals had contracted coronavirus in Ischgl, Austrian authorities allowed ski tourism -- and the partying that goes with it -- to continue for another nine days before fully quarantining the resort on March 13. Bars in Ischgl were closed on March 10.
Even after a bartender tested positive for the virus, the medical authority of Tyrol -- where ski tourism is one of the biggest economic drivers -- reiterated in a press release on March 8 that there was "no reason to worry."
How an Austrian ski resort helped coronavirus spread across Europe (CNN, March 24, 2020)
Americans may consider how Florida welcomed spring breakers for similar reasons.

In Denmark, we also have idiots who claim that immigrants brought the virus into the country, but they didn't. The areas of Denmark with the lowest number of people infected with the virus are typically the areas with the most immigrants. And immigrants don't go skiing in the Alps. They visit their countries of origin. (Not a single case in Denmark is directly related to China.)

It might be tempting for some Danes to call it the Austrian virus or the virus from Tyrol, but that's not really the point: Austria as such didn't spread the virus to the rest of Europe. Business considerations did! And affluent tourists were the carriers of the capitalist virus.


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It’s good to be King

Rama X is self isolating in Germany with only 20 concubines, traveling there out of boredom.

Are royals like him really necessary in this day and age? Were they ever that necessary at all?

Do we have any citizens of Thailand on board here at ISF? Would love to hear your opinion, royal or prole.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...&ICID=ref_fark


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WWII vs Covid-19

My wife asked me yesterday what our late parents would have thought about the current crisis. My response was that they would have said “we got through the war, this is a piece of cake”.

Now for the sake of argument I will exclude the suffering of people in Europe and much of Asia who experienced years of invasion, bombings and unimaginable horror.

So what about North and South America, Southern Africa and Oceania which experienced war hardship and saw their best and brightest shipped away to war, but weren’t invaded or bombed in major ways? Yes, there was rationing, existential anxiety and concern for those fighting in war. But they still had work, sport, community activities, restaurants and pubs.

So on balance, in the absence of war on the doorstep, I think our parents would have been wrong. People today are doing it harder.

I’m not certain at all of my opinion so would welcome debate.


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samedi 28 mars 2020

Trump has linked withholding aid from states whose governors criticise him

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-hi...t-i-dont-call/

Quote:

“What more specifically do you want the Governor of Washington…” Karl started to ask.

“All I want them to do — very simple — I want them to be appreciative. I don’t want them to say things that aren’t true. I want them to be appreciative,” the president said.

[...]

At one point the president even went so far as to say he would personally not call governors who aren’t being more appreciative:

Quote:

“These are people that should be appreciated. He calls all the governors. I tell him, I mean, I’m a different type of person. I say Mike, ‘Don’t call the governor of Washington. You’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan, it doesn’t make any difference what happens’… You know what I say? If they don’t treat you right, I don’t call. He’s a different type of person. He’ll call quietly anyway. Okay? But he’s done a great job. He should be appreciated for the job he’s done.”



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Trump tells reporters he's considering a quarantine of NY, NJ, and Connecticut

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...uggle-11965026
Quote:

US President Donald Trump has said he is considering imposing a quarantine on New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

If it went ahead, the lockdown would see more than 21 million people confined to their homes.

Speaking at the White House he told reporters he would rather not impose the restrictions but that he may need to.

He said: "Some people would like to see New York quarantined because it's a hot spot - New York, New Jersey, maybe one or two other places... certain parts of Connecticut quarantined. I'm thinking about that right now."

He went on: "We might not have to do it but there is a possibility that sometime today we'll do a quarantine, short term, two weeks for New York, probably New Jersey, certain parts of Connecticut."

And he added: "Because they're having problems down in Florida - a lot of New York going down. We don't want that."


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9 days after invoking it, Trump has finally used the Defence Production Act

https://news.yahoo.com/in-reversal-t...l?guccounter=1

Quote:

President Trump on Friday ended nine days of equivocating over whether to deploy the Defense Production Act, announcing that he would use his presidential powers under the legislation to compel General Motors to produce ventilators for the U.S. medical system.

The White House released a statement by Trump saying he had signed a memorandum instructing the Department of Health and Human Services to “use any and all authority available under the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to accept, perform, and prioritize Federal contracts for ventilators.”

In invoking the act, Trump blamed GM for the delays.

“Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course,” Trump said. “GM was wasting time. Today’s action will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives.”


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Stimulus package includes tax breaks for real estate developers

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/b...-stimulus.html

Quote:

The federal government’s planned $2 trillion economic rescue package includes financial aid for individuals and industries that are struggling to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

It also includes a potential bonanza for America’s richest real estate investors.

Senate Republicans inserted an easy-to-overlook provision on page 203 of the 880-page bill that would permit wealthy investors to use losses generated by real estate to minimize their taxes on profits from things like investments in the stock market. The estimated cost of the change over 10 years is $170 billion.

Under the existing tax code, when real estate investors generate losses from gradually writing down the value of their properties, a process known as depreciation, they can use some of those losses to offset other taxes. The result is that people can enjoy big tax breaks stemming from only-on-paper losses, even if they enjoy big cash profits in the real world.

But the use of those losses was limited by the 2017 tax-cut package. The losses could be used only to shelter the first $500,000 of a married couple’s nonbusiness income, such as capital gains from investments. Any leftover losses got rolled over to future years.

The new stimulus bill lifts that restriction for three years — this year, and two retroactive years — a boon for couples with more than $500,000 in annual capital gains or income from sources other than their business. That group comprises the top 1 percent of taxpayers, according to Internal Revenue Service data.


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vendredi 27 mars 2020

COVID-19 Numbers, Canada vs. The US

I'm (mostly) copying a post I just made on Facebook here, because I'd like to see what you lot think.

*****

So, 12 days ago, I posted about the exponential nature of the numbers associated with this pandemic:

https://www.macleans.ca/society/heal...WGSSnz2gMXO6Ow

At the time, I estimated the doubling time in Canada was about every 4 days, and so we'd have to wait 8 to 12 days to see if our efforts were having any effect. Well, there's good news and bad, folks.

The good news is, we can absolutely see a change in the Canadian numbers! You can see the graphs here:

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...ountry/canada/

They break it down into total cases, new cases, and deaths. In all three instances, you can see that the exponential curve has flattened out. We're still seeing new cases every day, but the number of new cases is roughly the same each day - the rate is not accelerating, which is really good news, compared to what we were seeing 12 days ago. Go Team Canada, Great Work!

The bad news comes when you compare the Canadian numbers to the US numbers. See the same data for the US here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

All three of those curves are still exponential. All Three. That is a critical observation, because it means the increasing number of new cases likely isn't just a matter of the US testing more people now. The number of deaths would likely be independent of the number of tests, and it is following the same type of curve. This tells me that the US efforts are not having the same effect as the Canadian efforts.

And since we're right next to them on this continent, that's probably not good news for us. At this point I don't want to try to predict exactly where this is going to go, because now it's outside the realm of science and math. Now it's down to people, and how they react, and I've given up trying to figure out what some of the people in charge down there are thinking. But if I were a betting man (and I am), I'd put my money on things getting a lot worse before they get better.

Hang on fellow Canucks, it's going to be a bumpy ride, despite all our best efforts.

*****


Comments?


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Checkpoint Charlie comes to the Panhandle

The Florida governor has authorized checkpoints on travelers attempting to enter the state from Louisiana. Such travelers will have to self quarantine for 2 weeks. It’s getting stranger here. So far my county has no known positives.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wkr...panhandle/amp/


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American teen dies of covid-19; allegedly refused treatment due to lack of insurance

https://gizmodo.com/teen-who-died-of...use-1842520539

Quote:

A 17-year-old boy in Los Angeles County who became the first teen believed to have died from complications with covid-19 in the U.S. was denied treatment at an urgent care clinic because he didn’t have health insurance, according to R. Rex Parris, the mayor of Lancaster, California. Roughly 27.5 million Americans—8.5 percent of the population—don’t have health insurance based on the latest government figures.

“He didn’t have insurance, so they did not treat him,” Parris said in a video posted to YouTube. The staff at the urgent care facility told the teen to try the emergency room at Antelope Valley (AV) Hospital, a public hospital in the area, according to the mayor.

“En route to AV Hospital, he went into cardiac arrest, when he got to AV hospital they were able to revive him and keep him alive for about six hours,” Parris said. “But by the time he got there, it was too late.”
I don't know if this fits better here or in the US politics section.


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Retirement savings

How are your’s holding up?

I must admit I paid no interest to mine during the GFC, but not so now.

Australia has a compulsory employer paid superannuation system where there is currently a 9.5% payment of annual salary into your fund. The average return over the past 10 years has been about 7%, and last year 15%.

I still have enough to retire, but.....

This year will be a train wreck. I moved my superannuation investments into cash, but have seen a 8% loss before the move happened. So I will hopefully avoid further losses, realising I have locked in a loss, but will move back into a more positive investment strategy when the market recovers.

So a couple of questions. Has my move to cash been wise? And how are your investments holding out?


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jeudi 26 mars 2020

Trump is at it again, threatens to pull broadcast licenses over virus ad

https://time.com/5810960/anti-trump-...us-ad-lawsuit/

Will no one rid us of this treasounous usurper?


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What Are Trump Supporters Saying about Covid-19?

I've lost my access to most right wing media.

I don't go to the gym anymore, so I don't see TV news. I never watch it at home. No Fox, to see stupid directly, and no CNN, to see them quote the right wing.

I used to listen to the radio yappers, but only in my car. I don't drive anywhere any more. My commute consists of going from my bedroom to the makeshift office I've set up in my family room.

I do read the National Review site periodically, but those people aren't exactly Trump's base. Their commentaries on Covid 19 haven't been glowing with praise for Trump. There's some occasional half-hearted defense, and some overall philosophy, but they aren't praising Trump for his actions.

So, I see that President Trump is pretty popular right now, but I have no idea why,

What I want to see in this thread is examples of what people are saying if they actually like Mr. Trump as President, and think he's doing a heck of a job. I'm trying to grasp how this situation could exist. So, I would like people to post here examples of pro-Trump tweets, editorial excerpts, anything that you can find saying why Mr. President is really doing a bang-up job when it comes to this epidemic.

And if a few of our residents wish to share their own thoughts on the subject if they happen to think Trump is doing it well, feel free, although I can understand why they might be reluctant to do so. I think this particular place tends to be a bit hostile to Mr. Trump, or anyone who admits to supporting him.

There are two requests I will make of participants. First, please do not post the craziest of the crazy. For example, I've read examples of white supremacists saying that we should go out and start coughing on Jews and negroes, but I'm looking for things a bit more main stream. Second, try to refrain from posting things that you think Trump supporters are probably saying. Limit yourself to things they are actually saying. It's ok to say, "One guy I saw of facebook said.....", but not "Those guys will just say...…"

For the last three years, I've been following what goes on in this country and what people say about it. I know that I often interpret things differently than many here. However, in this particular case, I am utterly baffled. I'm trying to figure out what people are actually saying, and, if possible, what they are thinking.


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mercredi 25 mars 2020

Rapture Ready Index hits 184. (5 points off record high in Oct 2016)

https://www.raptureready.com/rapture-ready-index/

It is a sum of 45 factors rated 1-5.

spoiler alert: the folks who run the site do not think very much of liberals.


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Does Perpetual Outrage lead to Fake news?

Marriages being too easy, etc..... a myriad of tweaked facts and all of a sudden we're mad as hell and we're gonna get us some outrage!


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[Continuation] 2019-nCoV / Corona virus Pt 3

Mod InfoContinuation thread, usual stuff applies. Previous thread http://www.internationalskeptics.com...342493&page=67.
Posted By:Darat


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Billionaire Bezos asks for public $$$

Amazon is setting up a relief fund for the company and its workers.

The company has donated so far, $25 million.

They are asking for the public to donate money.

The company's CEO, Jeff Bezos, is worth $135 billion dollars.


Anyone see a problem here?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9422236.html


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Don't bail out the cruise industry

Quote:

Carnival Corporation is incorporated in Panama. Royal Caribbean is incorporated in Liberia. Norwegian Cruise Line is incorporated in Bermuda.
Quote:

They pay basically zero federal income tax. With all of that in mind, it shouldn’t surprise many people that these big cruise companies essentially pay no federal income tax in the US.
Don’t bail out the cruise industry

They chose to strategically incorporate in tax havens to avoid paying taxes on their profits in the US. Therefore, the US taxpayer should not be bailing out these non-taxpayers.


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mardi 24 mars 2020

Corona VIrus Party attendee gets infected...

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...fter-attending

These people should have read Poe's "Masque Of The Red Death"...

Prince Prospero's Disease Party Turned Out So Well......


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Trump gives crony corporation exclusive patent rights to potential C-virus cure

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/23/...bhgXip2xXMG-24

God forgive me for saying this but Jesus H. Tap-Dancing Chist! What the Actual FRAK?!?

Is there no end to this depraved man's venality and criminality?

Quote:

The distinction could severely limit supply of remdesivir by granting Gilead Sciences exclusive protection over the drug and complete control of its price. Other pharmaceutical firms, including India-based pharmaceutical firm Cipla, are reportedly working toward a generic form of remdesivir, but patients in the U.S. could be prevented from buying generics with lower prices now that Gilead Sciences’s drug has been designated an orphan.

Today, Gilead abruptly announced that it would no longer provide emergency access to remdesivir, telling the New York Times that “overwhelming demand” left it unable to process requests for the drug through its compassionate use program. Hours later, the FDA gave the drug orphan status. Almost immediately, Gilead’s stock price shot up. Gilead did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The White House, on behalf of Grogan, declined to comment on the record.

The special orphan designation, which can also be granted to drugs when there is little reasonable expectation that a company will recoup its research costs, was given to remdesivir despite hefty support by the government for the development of the drug.

Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir was developed with at least $79 million in U.S. government funding, according to a paper published last week by KEI. The origins of the drug came after the 2014 Ebola outbreak in western Africa, which spurred research into potential antiviral medications to control future potential pandemics. Early promising results from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease revealed that Rhesus monkeys infected with Ebola survived after undergoing an antiviral treatment using GS-5734, the compound now known as remdesivir.

The U.S. National Institute Allergies and Infectious Diseases continued providing significant taxpayer funding to subsidize the development of remdesivir. NIAID grants to Columbia University, Vanderbilt University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of Alabama subsequently found that remdesivir prevents virus replication in a range of coronaviruses in human lung cells.


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Is it too easy to get married in the US?

It seems to me that the reason that there are so many divorces are because people decide to get married in the first bloom of love before the day to day grind of living together reveals the true character of their partners.

Should we therefore require more effort to get married? Mandatory counseling, waiting periods, etc so that only those truly committed tie the knot?

Fewer marriages would mean fewer divorces. As a victim of a broken home via divorce, I see that as a good thing in general. The exception being where kids are involved. If you have a kid, you should be stuck with the relationship at least until the kids are grown and out of the house. Parents are supposed to be adults and should act like it: suck it up and deal with your marital problems LIKE adults.


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AOC confronts ICE agent shipping kids into corona-infested NYC

Is there no end to the depravity of the Immigration Gestapo? They stopped doing this (so they claim) after AOC caught them, filmed them, and this video started making the rounds.

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPoli...1417133174111/


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lundi 23 mars 2020

My Philosophy of Life

Over the past decade, I have formulated my philosophy of life. It is my guide to living well.

You may find a brief summary and link to the full 13-page document here:

http://philosofer123.wordpress.com

I am posting this in order to solicit feedback so that my document may be improved. I welcome any constructive feedback you may have.


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dimanche 22 mars 2020

On Vaccine Development and Testing

I've been thinking a little about the timeline necessary for vaccine development. From what I've managed to understand so far, the development of a vaccine can be done relatively quickly, but the testing phase takes a considerable fraction of the total time before widespread deployment is possible.

What I'm wondering is:

1. Is that testing mainly looking at safety or efficacy? Or are both equally important concerns? That is, when a vaccine is first developed are we relatively confident that it will be effective, but not confident in its safety? Or vice-versa? Or both?

2. On both of those issues, what is the degree of risk? For instance, would a newly developed but not yet tested vaccine have a 0.1% chance of adverse side-effects? 0.001%? 10%? Similarly for efficacy? What are the chances, at least based on past vaccine development data, that a newly developed vaccine won't be effective?

I think you can probably see where I'm going with this, which is that given the current situation, might it make sense to begin widespread use of a newly developed vaccine before it's been tested to the degree that we would want to test in more normal situations? The usual testing regime is based on a cost-benefit analysis in a different situation, where the benefit of deploying a vaccine early isn't all that great and we want to make sure it's as safe and effective as possible.

But the current situation will lead to a different cost-benefit analysis. I have no idea to what extent that would change policy, if at all, but it seems worthwhile to consider that old policies made in normal times about testing might need to be reassessed for the current situation.


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samedi 21 mars 2020

How are you handling Shelter in Place

School got cancelled last Friday, a week early for spring break. Restaurants got closed to all but take out and delivery on Monday night. Tuesday we got shelter in place ordered in California. A week early break for me as a teacher. Now have to file unemployment for my wife who is a waitress.
How did I spend this week, brewed a new beer on Thursday. Spent Friday and today reading the Districts proposals for remote learning. Other than that isolation has meant sitting in my garage/home brewery reading.
My wife is doing less well. She binge cleaned for 2 day and now is finding herself with nothing to do.
How are you passing the time when essentially quarantined?


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Just got told we are working from home till further notice

Upside

Get to walk the dog and sit round working in me undies.

Downside

Pain in the **** trying to get hold of people when they normally sit about 6 feet away.


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Hobby Lobby: We're staying open because Gawd!

Oh, and employees don't get paid sick leave. Tighten your belts!
Words cannot express how vile these "Christians" are.


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The coming domestic violence crisis

Some next-level pessimism. Assuming that the lockdown situations last for three plus months, which seems very likely at this point.

Combine forced staying at home for long periods and concern about financial well being and I'd guess that this pandemic will result in a massive upswing in domestic violence. The first thing I thought about when there was a ton of gun buying in the US was that there are going to be a slew of domestic shootings in about two months when the psychological effects of being stuck at home start to set in.

It is hard for the victim of domestic violence to escape in the best of times, much less when going to a shelter might expose them to a scary disease. Or people who would normally take them in are reluctant due to both health and material concerns. Or even to call the cops on a partner or parent who would likely be headed to a pandemic-ravaged jail. It would even be a manipulation tactic by an abuser. "If you call the cops I'll be sent off to die" and so on.

Without intervention, these things can spiral to where either the abuser finally kills the victim, or causes injures needing medical attention in a time when the medical system is stretched to the hilt. Or less often the victim ends up using deadly force because they feel there is no other option.

What to do about this is at best unclear. I've been generally and marginally successful at advocating for, based on public health reasons, the release of prisoners that don't present an immediate violent risk to the public. It occurs to me that making space to deal with this is another ground I should be raising in making these arguments. Sometimes that will be the only way to immediately deal with an abuse situation. Reducing incarceration rates for non-dangerous people will take some of this pressure off.

Other than that, it is probably time to start taking way more seriously issues with social isolation. Awareness, remote access to therapists, etc.

(There are obviously similar issues with those isolated alone. Suicides and various freak-outs are going to become more and more common. Isolation is a sort of torture for a reason.)


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A Better Way to Spend 1 Trillion Dollars in Response to Covid-19

So as the government prepares to throw large quantities of money in random directions in the hope that something good would come out of it, I was thinking of just how stupid that is, and what could we do instead. Here is my "If I were President, here's how I would spend a trillion dollars" thread.

It starts with unemployed people registering as general purpose labor to do whatever is needed.

Then, do the following.

(TL,DR version: Use government money to pay grocery delivery drivers and people to assist cleaning and anti-contagion issues at essential industries.)

1. Do whatever is possible to increase production of medical equipment and personal protective gear like those N95 respirator mask thingies that I had never heard of but seem important. Likewise for test kits.

Unfortunately, you can't just make those things appear, but is there any way that a bunch of people could help? I don't know. Whatever it takes, give the people making them whatever they need, for free (i.e. with tax funds) employ as many general purpose laborers as they can use to make that happens. I will call the general purpose laborers GPLs from now on.

2. Make it so people don't have to leave their house.

Where do people have to go? The grocery store. So how do you stop that? You hire GPLs as delivery drivers. Free delivery. At government expense.
That's pretty darned expensive, but let's think about this. The government is willing to hand me 1,000 dollars for nothing. How much would it cost to pick out and send some groceries to me? Fifty bucks? I would rather, instead of giving me 1000 dollars, make 20 grocery deliveries. Now I don't have to leave my house. I can't catch the virus. I can't spread the virus.
And it shouldn't cost fifty bucks anyway.

3. To facilitate that, a modern grocery store doesn't quite work. I don't want the GPLs to be searching for the 8 ounce can of Hunt's Tomato Paste instead of the 7.5 ounce store brand tomato paste.

Instead, you set up distribution centers in unused high school gymnasiums and kitchens, and they have rolling stock. You order online based on what's available. Today you have Doritios? Great. But the staples, milk, eggs, bread, are there as consistently as possible. Yes, I know you want to pick out that really good package of pork chops, but if it means not catching a disease, would you just trust the GPL? Yeah, go for it. I've worked food banks. You package what you have.

And do you know how easy it is to set up a simple web site, the kind without fancy graphics and that doesn't track user preferences, to place orders? It could literally be done by tomorrow morning.

You will also need GPLs to man phone banks to answer questions, especially from people who aren't so internet savvy, and of course people who just think they're special so they have to talk to a person instead of reading the directions.

And you work with existing, conventional, stores to provide more custom deliveries. I tried to order groceries online yesterday, but the delivery option took two days because of the crush of demand. Make GPLs available, at no cost to the stores, to perform deliveries.

4. Some industries are essential. Medical supplies. Food processors. Toilet paper factories.

Essential industries get GPLs to ensure sanitation and whatever else non-trained labor can do. Somebody's job will be to wipe down door handles every few minutes at the chicken nuggets factory. That ensures these key industries keep running.

5. In order to make this all work, you need people on the ground, lots of them, to coordinate things. Since there is no way that there can be uniform procedures set up, the local coordinators have to have a lot of power to make decisions. The guys running these ad hoc distribution centers have to have power to make decisions on how goods get there. Some will do it very badly. Regional coordinators will have to have the power to fire and replace underperforming locals.

I think this is a job for the military. I can't see anyone else being able to create a chain of command that quickly. A huge job of an army is logistics. Put that to use. There aren't enough of them to do all the work, but they can hire the GPLs.

6, There aren't enough vans available. Authorize the local administrator to rent private vehicles. In other words, you can have my minivan if you give me fifty bucks a day.

7. Now, you have people locked (metaphorically) in their homes, the virus spread drops drastically. There will still be spread amongst the GPLs and at the essential industries you kept open, but as soon as the PPE goes to the health care workers that need it, you start sending them to essential industry workers, and the GPLs who serve them. That reduces contagion at distribution centers. At some point, it gets to the point that as soon as one person gets sick, you can track all the people he's in contact with, and test them before they show symptoms.

8. Did I mention this is incredibly expensive? Fortunately, you have a trillion dollars to work with, and instead of throwing money around in random directions, you are throwing money specifically at stopping the virus spread. You are employing the unemployed. You are keeping people in their homes where they can't catch or spread the virus. The GPLs and the industries they are assisting are, of course out in the world, but they have PPE as soon as it is available, and they can adopt lower risk practices more easily than random shoppers can.

It also isn't very efficient. Lots of these GPLs are going to be people who would rather sit around watching cartoons and they will be severe slackers. Oh well. That's a challenge for the administrators.

9. Congress passes laws to limit liability so that a company working with GPLs doesn't end up getting sued when it turns out one of the drivers was drunk, or whatever else might happen.

Sounds crazy? Is it crazier than having millions of people with no jobs heading to the grocery store to stand near hundreds of others during an epidemic?

Honestly, the only challenge I see that might be insurmountable would be the payroll handling.


Or.....how would you spend 1 trillion dollars?


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The Great Pandemic of 2020 - Covid-19

There was no general thread on Covid-19, and I feel one is needed. He we can follow the pandemic as it continues to develop. Politics goes to the politics forums, and toilet paper and other shopping woes should go to the toilet paper hysteria thread.

As of right now, there are 286 799 confirmed cases worldwide, with 11 889 deaths.

That means we have passed the total number of deaths from Ebola, and it seems it has just started.

China, where the virus first appeared, seems to have the disease under control, but only managed to do so by quite draconian measures. South Korea also managed to gain control, by strict isolation.

The epicenter of the disease is now Europe, with descriptions that seem apocalyptical coming from Italy, and it's looking like Spain is soon to follow.

Even with extreme measures, the number of deaths are rising all over Europe.

We're also seeing deaths rise fast in the USA.

How long can countries be in lockdown? And how long is required? Will the economy break before then?

My fear is, and I don't think I'm alone in this, that it's just starting. It will get worse, a lot worse, before it's done. Even though the disease isn't that deadly, we only need to look to Italy to see that even with this low of a mortality rate, it can wreak havoc on any country.


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The World After Coronavirus

How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic
We asked 12 leading global thinkers for their predictions

To help us make sense of the ground shifting beneath our feet as this crisis unfolds, Foreign Policy asked 12 leading thinkers from around the world to weigh in with their predictions for the global order after the pandemic.




It's pretty early to say, but I think it's going to pull us together as a whole. Also China is going to end up number one.


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vendredi 20 mars 2020

Glad You Are Living In A Time When Religion Is Not Compulsory.

Of the many books I have read pointing out the shortcomings of Christianity, the one I found the most damning is just a history book. The book: "A History of Christianity" by Diarmaid MacCulloch tells most graphically the story of Christianity from before its beginning.

Ordinary folk just didn't have a chance to make up their own minds, about what particular brand of tosh they had to believe. As schism followed schism throughout its history, the Clergy who where true to the favoured version at the time, told them what to believe - and they had absolute power.

The fictional tale: "The Pillars Of The Earth" by Ken Follett gives an excellent picture of what it was like to live during part of this time. I thank God I didn't live in those times.:rolleyes:


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RIP Democracy in Israel.

Bibi has used the Corona Virus to basically disband the Knesset and seize power.
We now have a Jewish Hitler.


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Having trouble with file permissions

On Windows 10 I can easily remove the read-only bit on files located in a directory but I cannot figure out how to remove that bit from the directory itself. When I try, it appears to work but checking the properties page after trying to remove that bit, it is still there.

How can I remove the read-only bit from directories.

BTW, I have admin privileges.


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jeudi 19 mars 2020

Closing in-person restaurant dining in Atlanta Georgia

https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt-...WnaFnubs8sc6N/


The mayor of Atlanta Georgia has issued an executive order to close all bars, nightclubs, social clubs, gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, movie theaters, and arcades, exempting only those facilities that have takeout or delivery of food. I’m assuming that drive-thru can be interpreted as takeout .

Of course there are many other city suburbs of Atlanta that are not under this directive, but should they fall in line, my first thought is “where do the truckers who bring us this food eat?” Will the 18 wheeler guys be allowed to walk up to the drive-thru window?

Aside from all of the workers affected by this order, I’m sure there are other issues that haven’t gone through my mind yet.


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Nibiran matrix of apocalypse

Nibiran matrix of apocalypse.

(translation may not be accurate)

In this article, I tried to use the scientific approach as much as possible, and give an idea of the planet Nibiru and its connection with the Earth. Perhaps much of this is already known to you, and perhaps some of this is mistaken. I could write a whole book about it, but there is no time for this, as events unfold very quickly. The impending financial crisis, which will create an army of the unemployed, and large stocks of cheap oil, are components that should give an impetus to the third world war into which humanity wants to plunge.

Recently, ideas about secret organizations, shadow governments, control of the consciousness of society, conspiracies and alien creatures that feed on our energy have gained great popularity. In most cases, all these stories do not find confirmation.

The thing is that the evidence is right under our nose, but we are not able to see it, because our perception and ability to realize is limited. And only beyond the boundaries of the ordinary state of consciousness, a person can see that our world is not at all the way we perceive it.

The key point in this article is a very unusual dream, seen in early childhood, in an extremely altered state of consciousness as a result of fever. And then an attempt to compare it with objective reality, and putting concrete facts into a logical picture, will finally be convinced of the existence of what can be called the Nibiran matrix of apocalypse.

Dream

I was 8 years old. That was in the early 90's. That day there was a very severe frost and I had to go far because the transport did not go. I got sick and I started raving.

I began to see nightmares about the flood and the end of the world. I had the feeling that something terrible was threatening our world. Then I ended up in the darkness of space, far from the stars, and I saw a huge planet there. It was reminiscent of how the cities of the earth are visible from outer space and was covered with something cloudy like atmosphere or fog. This planet exuded horror, which I had never experienced in my life. Then, in a long spiral, I hit the solar system and saw a parade of planets there. When I got into the room, I started walking on it and after a while I realized that I was still sleeping.

This dream was forgotten for many years, until it began to become prophetic. At first, images from this dream began to appear in popular culture: the absolute evil from the movie “The 5th Element”, the planet Nibiru and the like. But most of all, the impression was made by a giant prominence near the Sun, of a clear rounded shape, which shown on television news as "filling the UFO in the Sun." I suggested that this is an astral parasite that can be seen in the aura of the Sun.

This was the last straw that led to an attempt to put together the most complicated puzzle of scraps of dreams, Internet fakes and rumors about the secret organizations behind all this related to aliens and occultism.

Having studied information from different fields of knowledge, comparing them with my vision, I came to the conclusion that the Earth is a farm for the production of psychic energy, the most universal energy in the universe -
power of mind.

The main resource is the power of mind.

Changes in the state of a person during prayer are most accurately recorded by modern devices. Employees of the Psychoneurological Research Institute. V.M. Bekhterev tried to record electroencephalograms (EEGs) of the praying students of the Theological Academy and Seminary. They were shocked by what they discovered. The biorhythms of the brain during prayer changed significantly, the brain began to emit mainly delta rhythms with a frequency of 2-3 Hz.
Delta-rhythm (-rhythm) or delta-wave - the EEG rhythm consists of high-amplitude (hundreds of microvolts) waves with a frequency of 1-4 Hz. It occurs both in deep natural sleep and in narcotic, as well as in coma. The delta rhythm is also observed when EEG is recorded from areas of the cortex bordering the area of ​​the traumatic focus or tumor.

Low-amplitude (20-30 μV) oscillations of this range can be recorded at rest of the EEG with some forms of stress and prolonged mental work.
It is known that there is a connection between the work of the brain and the magnetic field of the Earth, which we feel during magnetic storms. It is also known that the Earth’s field is interconnected with the magnetic fields of other bodies and the galaxy as a whole. The human biofield has a structure similar to the structure of the electromagnetic field of other cosmic bodies, and the relationship between them is two-way - changes in one field will invariably affect the other, even to a very small extent.

If we look at the example of a galaxy, we can see that the substance that forms on its outskirts gradually compacts to the middle and eventually turns into a supermassive black hole in the center, where matter turns into energy and a shot from the poles, forming an electromagnetic field, which, in turn, connecting at the equator, turns into matter.

Thus, we get a continuous process of converting matter into energy and energy into matter. A thought born in consciousness is actually a modulated electromagnetic signal generated by the brain and carrying certain information. Electromagnetic radiation and its information component do not disappear without a trace. This forms the characteristics of the common field of the Earth, the Sun and the galaxy. An electromagnetic field that carries a frequency code of information is converted into a substance, stores it, which determines the characteristics of the substance.

It follows from this that - THOUGHTS MATERIAL. And this purely physical mechanism underlies the words - “according to your faith it will be given to you”, “ask and receive”, “you are gods, only your eyes have not opened yet”.
The generation of low frequencies during religious prayers is probably due to the fact that these frequencies are associated with a depressed state of consciousness, fear of God. Fear that destroys the integrity of consciousness leads to the effect of splitting consciousness, similar to splitting an atom with subsequent release of energy.
This explains the significance of sacrifice and the production of the energy of fear, provided that this energy can be accumulated and given direction. By pre-programming a person for a specific train of thought, you can give great strength to your own thoughts, using the energy of others. In other words - forcing people to visualize what you need, you use their psychic energy to translate the desired into reality.
The main resource extracted from the bows of centuries on Earth is the power of thought.

According to all these metaphysical principles, the last part of the Bible - the apocalypse, massively visualized in the minds of people, gradually leads to its embodiment in reality. In turn, the ancient Sumerian poem “Creation of the World”, on which Zacharia Sitchin built his theory of Nibiru, is essentially an exact copy and prototype of the biblical text “Apocalypse”.

For example, this passage from a Sumerian poem describes characters similar to the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and there are many similar analogies with the apocalypse:
He put them, he used the whole four in a team:

Killer, Villain, Topcheun, Quickskok.
In the smile of their mouth their fangs are poisonous.
They know no peace; they know murder.
He set Ferocious and Onslaught to the right,
And on the left he set the Resistance - a reflection of the blows.
Horror, like a cloak, he covered.
He surrounded his head with a terrible radiance.
Vladyka came out, rushed forward,
To Tiamatu * he directed his furious path.
He put his spell in his mouth, He held
poisonous herbs in the hand.
Tiamat and Marduk went to each other, he is the wisest of the gods,
They rushed into battle, converged in battle.
Vladyka spread the network, entangled it in the network.
* Tiamat is where the Earth came from as a result of the actions described below.

Carrying out similar comparisons further, we can conclude that the Sumerian Marduk and the biblical God are one and the same character. Tiamat from the Sumerian poem can be compared to a woman dressed in the sun, described in the apocalypse. And then it turns out that according to the Sumerian version, God and the dragon are one and the same.

We can conclude that the apocalypse is an event that should happen not only in the future, but also what has already happened in the past. It is possible that the purpose of using human resources is to create attraction for the planet Nibiru. All fakes like "Nibiru is already here" also contribute to this. The thought is material, and the thought of Nibiru draws it here.

The church is an ionizer.

Hundreds of years ago, the design of churches and temples took into account physical principles similar to those used today in electrical appliances. Organ music and choral singing together with a bell, resonating with the shape of the building, create powerful vibrations at the infrasound frequency, which can cause a person to have a corresponding state and configure him to play certain brain rhythms, which will be amplified many times due to resonance with the building. Gold, copper or other metal, which domes are often covered with, is an excellent conductor and can serve as a radio screen, and the shape of the bulb resembles a satellite dish or picture tube, which allows you to collect energy from a certain area and condense it at one point, then transferring it to the sky, to God through the antenna - the cross. Naturally, the energy collected in the temple is the biocurrents of praying parishioners, energy-informational charge of prayer, and by analogy with the HAARP psychotronic system, we can assume that it is directed straight into the ionosphere, for the introduction of certain thought forms propagated in the church into the planet’s consciousness.



The current growth rate of zombie technologies has led to the fact that in construction of buildings, psychic technologies of an incredibly high level, hidden from the eyes of the layman, are used very often. Even after the war, the Soviet Union began to create multi-unit residential complexes equipped with centralized water supply, electricity and radio channels.

Centralization of the communication network means that the center has a complete monopoly on the supply of energy resources and the ability to introduce the required chemical and wave characteristics into it. Particular attention can be paid to radio and telephone, which, as you know, can now be used as a means of wiretapping. Even an ordinary power supply network can carry an electromagnetic frequency that affects a person’s body or carries a modulated signal that affects a person’s subconscious. Radio and television were, to a greater extent, an analogue of modern wireless communications, since the received and relayed signal covered a large area and was able to render an effect invisible to humans, unlike light and sound on TV.

Starting from communal apartments, ways of influencing the psyche through close concentration of people were tested. After all, when people are nearby, they exert influence on each other and as a result of the resonance achieved by ideological unanimity, the strength of the vibrational frequency increases. In this case, the house begins to resonate with the “general idea” and the frequency reproduced by it spreads over the entire district. At a minimum, this may be an infrasonic oscillation at a frequency of 2 hertz, causing a depressed state in people and making them susceptible to suggestion.

Modern building

The construction of reinforced concrete buildings, begun later, made it possible to put into practice the principle of creating huge psi-generators inhabited by people. A significant concentration of people in a relatively small space allows you to focus on them a powerful radio signal without scattering, and the resonance effect tunes the entire building to a specific frequency.

The use of high density materials in the design, such as metal and concrete, provided high conductivity of vibrations, and the inertness of heavy materials allowed the use of energy storage technology when the specified frequency is stored for a long time. At the same time, concrete and metal create the effect of a radio screen, limiting the human biofield from external factors such as solar radiation and the rhythms of the biosphere, thereby forcing him to enter into resonance with the internal electromagnetic background.

“Cubism” in the architecture of apartment buildings is justified not only by the simplicity of manufacture, but also by the principles of reflection of electromagnetic waves, similar to those that are built into the radar mirror or into the great pyramids and which must be given the direction of the wave. Buildings have a rounded shape, have a more complex and efficient design, and are also designed to direct the wave.
As a result of the building’s electromagnetic waves, static electricity is generated.

The static charge accumulated on the spire of the building ionizes the air and, thus, goes into the ionosphere together with warm air, forming something like an invisible lightning falling from a lightning rod into the sky, thus working similarly to the HAARP antenna complex.

Shielding the planet.

Scientists at Imperial College London have calculated that traces of inversion from airplanes in the air simultaneously create a tangible curtain that can affect the climate of the planet. However, no one ever thought about this side of the existence of traces of inversion.

Among the patents for inventions issued in the United States and held in the public domain, there is a patent 5.003.186 issued to employees of the airline "Hughes Aircraft Company" (Los Angeles, California) David Chang and I-Fu Shingu on March 26. , 1991, entitled "Welsbach's Stratospheric Crop for Reducing Global Warming." The invention provides for the creation in the atmosphere of our planet at heights of 7-13 km of a protective layer of microparticles sprayed with airplanes using certain chemicals.

The patent proposes the use of metal oxides and refractory materials with a particle size of 10 to 100 microns and indicates that the smaller the size, the longer the particles settle on the ground. The authors argue that such particles can be in the air for up to one year. The authors suggest an original way to disperse these chemicals in the atmosphere - to add them to aviation fuel so that these microparticles are dispersed in the jet stream of burnt fuel.
In combination with space debris in orbit, which consists mainly of metal conductors, an artificial metal dome is formed around the planet - a radio screen, which further enhances the psychic energy generated by cities through resonance.

Mind control

One of the most modern ways of controlling the mind is to influence a person using a radio signal. Discoveries in the field “The property of higher organisms for distant interactions”, practically the discovery of telepathy sleeping in the human brain, the so-called sixth sense, made it possible to create methods of controlling consciousness that work on the principles of radio transmission, thereby expanding the possibilities of psychocorrection to an incredible scale.

A modern information network of mobile, satellite communications and the Internet, which has repeaters covering almost the entire globe, is an ideal tool for psi-influence, surpasses any other types of modern weapons in efficiency and turns our world into an ideal psychotronic prison from zombie slaves, fully controlled, self-reproducing robots, independently striving for this state of things.

Automation and cyberization.

The work on the creation of artificial intelligence, begun by cybernetics during the Cold War, has achieved certain results, which we can judge by the example of characters in computer games.

The most suitable example of a real-time military strategy allows you to see the capabilities of artificial intelligence based on conventional PC software for instant monitoring, responding to changing conditions of a complex virtual environment that exceeds human capabilities, and using advanced technologies. Computer technologies, for high-power orders with constant software updates and the introduction of self-learning computer technologies, allow us to synthesize automatic responses of artificial intelligence to a huge number of different factors.
Thus, the capabilities of artificial intelligence today have a huge advantage over human mental activity in the field of logical decisions and reaction speed.

It is likely that the existence or creation of remote tomography technology in the near future will allow you to scan a person’s mental processes at a distance and determine them on the basis of an existing database, as well as simulate the necessary type of thinking and automatically enter it into a person’s head, which allows you to simultaneously control a significant number of individuals without involving a large number of operators of psychotronic systems.

Thus, we get a global automated system for controlling consciousness, which tracks and corrects the mental activity of each individual person and humanity as a whole. Unconscious telepathy of people, their constant impact on each other, greatly enhances this effect.

The technologies for introducing electromechanical devices into the human body have been known for a long time, but the most widespread area of ​​this area is the mass production of man-machine complexes man-phone, man-computer, man-television. These electronic devices are not massively introduced into the human body, but closely interact with it at the wireless level, being a remote control and programming device.

Future chipization of the population with the subsequent introduction of technologies for delivering Internet data directly to the brain may be the next step after using electronic gadgets. This will lead to even tighter control of mental activity. It will be impossible for a person to independently disconnect from the information network. This will finally turn him into a radio-controlled biorobot.

Wars are a sacrifice.

The ideal option for fully and efficiently shielding the planet from the Sun and extracting psychic energy from people is the so-called nuclear winter, when as a result of a large number of nuclear explosions the clouds cover the sky for a long time. It is for the purely physical principles of planetary control, as well as for receiving magical energy FEAR that the slave-owning civilization of the Earth follows the path of artificially created financial crises, constantly unleashing conflicts, which ultimately should lead to the 3rd World War, in which robots are controlled by one center. This will establish ultimate control over the human consciousness, and will enclose it in a supertechnological matrix of consciousness, from which death is the only way out.

The ideal option is that all people gather in the evening near the TV screens in the houses of psi-generators, under an artificial dome of the sky. They will watch the news of the devastating war and in fear, generate a powerful charge of mental energy.

Control over the planet in space.

From ancient times, it was believed that the whole of world space is filled with ether - a subatomic gas-like substance from which all types of matter are formed and the entire surrounding world consists of. Theories of scientists, including the theory of gravity, were based on this statement. And even Newton initially agreed that the transfer of energy from one body to another, for example, the attraction of planets, can occur only through the medium. But later he changed his mind, and this became generally accepted thanks to his authority in the scientific community.

The first theory to explain gravity, the so-called screen theory, put forward in 1748 by Lomonosov. He suggested that the two bodies next to them were bombarded from all sides by ether particles, and due to the fact that these bodies cover each other, the pressure of the ether between them becomes less and they approach. T
Further, in 1856, the physicist Björknes put forward a pulsating theory, referring to a simple experiment in which two freely oscillating balls on water approached each other or repelled from the waves they created, depending on how they oscillated - in phase or half phase. The Englishman Cook conducted a similar experiment with cylinders simulating electrical, magnetic, and diamagnetic phenomena. The Guthrie experimenter (1870) showed experiments on the attraction and repulsion of oscillating tuning forks. In 1958, Stanyukovich conducted an experiment on the theory of the flow of Schott. The air blew into two hollow balls with many small holes. The outflow of air from the holes in the balls caused the balls to attract. All these experiments perfectly illustrated the mechanism of gravity, provided that the ether is the medium through which interactions between bodies are transmitted.

To prove the existence of ether, a series of experiments was also conducted. In the very first experiments in 1881, Michelson, using an interferometer, tried to measure the speed of the ether relative to the moving Earth and received an ethereal wind from 3 to 3.5 km / s, which did not correspond to the orbital speed of the planet at a speed of 30 km / s. This result can be explained by the fact that a large amount of ether is carried away by the Earth in the same way as the atmosphere. This experiment was criticized and its result was rejected. Another fact that indicates the existence of a subatomic medium is a potential lag, as a result of which the interaction force decreases as a result of the speed discovered by Gauss in 1835. Gauss died before he could publish his discovery, and this was done by his friend years later, when the theory of relativity was already created in science. As you know, the theory of relativity assumes that energy is transferred from atom to atom instantly. Therefore, in order for the theory to work, the curvature of the space of time — the measuring system — was invented. More recently, modern scientists have made a number of discoveries that do not fit into the theory of relativity. For example, superluminal photon propagation, discovered by a group of American scientists led by Alain Aspect. There are also many other experiments confirming the existence of ether. But they are not widely publicized, or denied by official science.
For example, Tesla's officially undocumented shear wave experience.

Carrying out my own research, I came to the conclusion that the shape of the flying saucer is ideal for movement in a vibrational wave manner. About this I wrote an article "Antigravity, engine, experiments with a flying saucer."

At the current rate of growth in the construction of large cities and the controlled extraction of people from the power of thought, in the probable future it is possible to organize such a power of a controlled electromagnetic flux that weather and earthquake management seemed like a child’s game.

The global impact on the electromagnetic field of the Earth will give it such a powerful charge that it will affect the interaction of the magnetic fields of the Earth and other celestial bodies, which, in turn, can literally change the orbit of the planet.
Together with a grid of artificially created clouds and space technology - communication satellites transmitting a certain frequency and metal debris in orbit, forming a resonator, we get a technogenic civilization, all of which are aimed at achieving goals of a cosmic scale.

In other words, entering the resonance with an average Earth frequency of 7.83 Hz will simply allow you to take control of a planetary body and gain the ability to influence other planets of the solar system.

A picture of the world in the representation of special services.

The last argument in favor of the concept of sacrificial wars and their connection with the movement of the planets can serve as a telepathic contact with some of the higher forces published in the book "The picture of the world in the representation of the special services." Authors Ratnikov and Rogozin. Here is an excerpt from this contact:

“QUESTION: The development of events on this planet is predetermined or does it all depend on the will of the people representing our civilization?
ANSWER: The mechanism consists in the interaction of planets and constellations, and you, losing memory and turning into a herd of wild rams, and without this memory you need to know that there are light planets, there are dark planets and when the dark planets Uranus, Pluto and Saturn line up in one line, strengthening its influence on the Earth's magnetic force field, powerful negative disasters begin to occur on Earth. They intensify grief, intensify the negative impact, people become cruel, they turn into animals, consciousness is lost, what accumulates over the millennia from one life to another, the restraining principle is lost, and a person more and more turns into an animal. If it is an egregor, then the nation as a whole loses the level of information fields,
QUESTION: How can we reconstruct the consciousness of all the people of the planet in a positive direction?
ANSWER: You intrude on the laws of the almighty Lord God, speaking your own language, believing that you can provide him with significant assistance in solving very urgent tasks in order to change the life path of many of you living in the most diverse outskirts of the Universe.
QUESTION: And how can this be done without violating the general laws of the development of Mankind?
ANSWER: The most effective way has already been indicated to humanity, and this is a huge system of reacting celestial bodies.
For this, it is necessary to be able to transmit information to those satellite systems that Mankind has already put into orbits around the Earth, and from there, using ultra-low frequencies, envelop them around the globe to transmit the necessary information to the subconscious level of every person on planet Earth and even animals.
But you are well aware that this system can be used both for the introduction of good and for evil. In this regard, you should know that people who use these mechanisms while living on planet Earth will try to find a moral beginning to satisfy their current needs, so they clog the air with promotional drinks, vouchers, promotions and various tours.
You want to do good to people, and therefore you can use the already existing system of perceiving information from space by people in the right hemisphere of the brain and unconscious mechanisms to correct the behavior of specific people as a result of receiving information from the depths of space. To do this, you just need to have mechanisms to tune from here from the Earth to a specific generator, which are the stars of the universe surrounding you.
To do this, you must fall into the frequency of a similar generator of a powerful star, which today captures the visible spectrum of the Universe and, using these frequencies, receives feedback about the effects and effects on earthly creatures moving across your Earth - people who go to schools, go to temples, theaters that are in prison, etc. ”

As we can see, in fact, our world is zealously following these tips, trying to send as much as possible the cry of innocent children into space. And the dark planets - Uranus, Pluto and Saturn, due to their mass, can play an important role in the gravitational interaction of planet X with the solar system. Only ways that go beyond the ordinary — the collective consciousness of the Earth — can influence this situation.

Planet Nibiru

The alleged reasons for this situation are:
the most likely explanation for the existence of a highly developed civilization on a planet plowing interstellar space is the explosion of its own star. In the case of the completion of the life cycle of the luminary, the salvation of the inhabitants of its inhabited planets is a global problem and requires huge expenditures of energy and resources. With a high level of technology, it would be a very reasonable decision to turn the planet itself into a spaceship, leave the dying star system, and put it into the orbit of another star. It is possible even at the modern earthly level of technological development.

Probably, knowing the inevitable death of their star, the Nibiruans prepared themselves thoroughly, digging as deep as possible into the planet, creating a survival network of underground cities, the likeness of which is on Earth in the form of military bases. Using the technology of wave action on the electromagnetic field of the planet, they changed the frequency of its oscillations, moving the planet away from the star in advance.

To maintain and condense the artificial electromagnetic background, they surrounded the planet with a resonator made of metal conductors in space, mirrors and metal dust in orbit, and also created an artificial cloud cover, similar to our chemical traces. Such a “dome" around the planet allowed not only to reduce the frequency of oscillations of its magnetic field, but also played the role of electromagnetic protection against intense radiation from a star explosion. This shield took over the main blow, and also worked like a solar sail.
Naturally, away from the stars, life and the atmosphere on the surface of the planet are impossible, and cosmic cold contributes to the disappearance of internal heat, which requires significant resources to maintain. And so the introduction of such a planet into the orbit of any star for such a civilization is a matter of priority.

It is also likely that this planet has visited the solar system many times, and this is due to the elliptical orbit that rotates around the solar system, and the remnants of an extinct star. With acceleration, planet X will fly past the Sun each time and return. It is impossible to bring this into the orbit of the Sun at the same time, and therefore a gradual approach takes place with each turn. This is a common practice in astronautics, as when putting a spaceship into orbit of the moon.
With the addition of all the elements of the puzzle, it becomes obvious that the war of the gods described in ancient legends, the destroyed remains of megalithic structures, are the consequences of the war, as a result of which the inhabitants of Nibiru seized power on Earth. As a result of this, Atlantis sank to the bottom, many fertile territories, such as the Sahara, turned into deserts.

After this, Nibiru civilization proclaimed itself the supreme god, and people worship this God to this day, not assuming that their Lord, Sovereign and God are in fact the red horned devil Nibiru, his retinue is snakes, and the forbidden fruit, an apple that has become a prerequisite for the expulsion of people from paradise, today is replaced by the brain - psychotronic, in the production of which the APPLE corporation - a bitten apple - is the leader. Then the basic principles of masterful deception will become apparent - the trickiest lie is half-truth, and you can hide the secret by exposing it in full view.
And yet, Zakharia Sitchin claims that the frequency of the appearance of this planet with us is about once every 3600 years, and he took this information from the texts of the ancient Sumerians, who knew mathematics and astronomy very well.

An indisputable fact is that the Creation according to the Bible, the Hebrew calendar and the Sumerian texts was in 3761 BC. It is possible that year 0 is the birth of Christ, this is a new starting point after the second appearance of Nibiru. Based on this, it can be assumed that the next coming of God and the subsequent apocalypse, expected by the Christian religion, is nothing but the next arrival of the planet Nibiru. By calculating the arrival period in accordance with the reference cycles, we get that the second coming should occur around 3600 from the birth of Christ. Therefore, if such a planet exists, then now it should be at a considerable distance from the solar system, in interstelar darkness.

If you read it to the end, then remember that fear is the opposite of love, and the point of view changes reality.


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