Open Thread 2021-020
News & views ...
Posted by b on March 10, 2021 at 17:21 UTC | Permalink
next page »This seemingly side story illustrate the Biden paradox.
The USA can only prevail above present challenges (understand : China, Russia and the likes) with its allies. Hence the end of the unipolar self intersted forcefully enforced hegemony, and welcome to alliances, multilateralism and common markets in the name of a global good.
But USA' society is so fractured that Biden's team walks a tightrope and must deliver fast, or it will get punished in the next electoral round in 2 years. This calls for quick success, which can only be obtained through usual hard self interest against everyone else.
Posted by: Saracen's head | Mar 10 2021 18:01 utc | 2
Not peer-reviewed yet, but pretty much conclusive:
Like I've been saying: I appreciate the effort for heightening conscience about the dangers of Vitamin D deficiency in the northern hemisphere, but that's it.
The working class should not fall for these New Age pseudo-science being touted by ex-hippie petty bourgeois from the USA. Stay at home, press your local government to keep paying your wages while the lockdown stays up, save your life and your family members'.
Mercouris on Biden in Afghanistan (video).
Biden's Looming Afghan Debacle: Worst Since Fall of Saigon
Posted by: Ash Naz | Mar 10 2021 18:26 utc | 4
Those curious about how the poor relations between Russia and the Outlaw Empire affect International Space Station operations and crewing will want to read this from TASS. As with political relations, there's a lot of future uncertainty between NASA and Roscosmos.
a most disturbing review of the government response to pharma demands that the government force those it governs to pay for and take the pharma offered vaccines. Basically I see it as a declaration of war against human rights
Texas is fighting back, they have removed the requirement of a mask.. and where I live, people have signs in heir front years which read "f**k the Vaccines".
Posted by: snake | Mar 10 2021 18:35 utc | 6
a most disturbing review of the government response to pharma demands that the government force those it governs to pay for and take the pharma offered vaccines. Basically I see it as a declaration of war against human rights
Texas is fighting back, they have removed the requirement of a mask.. and where I live, people have signs in heir front years which read "f**k the Vaccines".
Posted by: snake | Mar 10 2021 18:35 utc | 7
EU official’s accusation of China aims to cover own vaccination failure: experts
The name of the clown for this week is Charles Michel, whose official job is "European Council President".
re: #1
Thanks you for some actual news. Hard top come by these days
Posted by: c | Mar 10 2021 19:06 utc | 9
Posted by: vk | Mar 10 2021 18:20 utc | 3
Let's wait until the we see the actual peer reviewed studies, and who conducted them precisely, and how they were in fact conducted. There have been enough BS studies coming out of the West for us not to trust anything like this until properly confirmed.
When you get a link to the actual studies, let us know.
Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Mar 10 2021 19:09 utc | 10
Interesting read by F William Engdahl
It’s no secret that Bill Gates and the advocates of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 are also devout promoters of human eugenics, the “thinning of the Human Herd” as Britain’s misanthropic Prince Philip once put it. Some such as Joachim Schnellnhuber, climate adviser to the Pope, openly welcome a human population below one billion as “sustainable.” Now serious research is emerging that one of the most effective reducers of the human population is being spread by so-called “modern scientific agriculture” through the select use of toxic agrochemicals, pesticides deemed safe which are anything but safe.
Will Mankind Be Extinct In a Few Years?
Posted by: Down South | Mar 10 2021 19:09 utc | 11
Censorship Kills: The Shunning of a COVID Therapeutic
by Dr. Pierre Kory
March 10, 2021
Doctors fighting COVID-19 should be supported by their profession and their government, not suppressed. Yet today physicians are smothered under a wave of censorship. With coronavirus variants and vaccine hesitancy threatening a prolonged pandemic, the National Institutes of Health and the broader U.S. medical establishment should free doctors to treat this terrible disease with effective medicines.
Check out
Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance
FLCCC Twitter
THE VIRUS and THE PARASITE
Some of you are missing the drama that has become CENTRAL today ... the demise of the capitalist Western paradigm which the many other examples cited frequently by the MoA community now revolve around ... that is, the showdown between the corona virus and the parasite of financialisation.
Time to Catch Up!
see Trial Site News and FLCCC
There is a new report on Xinjiang that's been hailed by CNN, Guardian, Vox etc as the "first independent/non-governmental report" that confirms the genocide narrative.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22311356/china-uyghur-birthrate-sterilization-genocide
But the report is from Newline Institute, a previously unheard (?) of think tank. Moreover, it's funded by a university (Fairfax University of America) that has just 150 students and in many ways looks like a diploma mill. From Wikipedia: "In March 2019, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia threatened to revoke VIU's license to operate in the Commonwealth of Virginia after an audit found rampant grade inflation and severe deficiencies in the academic rigor of VIU's online courses.[8]".
Posted by: Porpoise | Mar 10 2021 19:43 utc | 14
A game of cat and mouse has been going on today with the Russian telecom regulator announcing a slow down on all mobile platforms of Twitter, plus half the cable ones. The US publicly announced, no need to feel any compunction about it, that Russian sites are to be targeted. So after Roskomnadzor announced the Twitter slow down some government sites were temporarily unavailable. The liberal media: technical inability. Official media, no relation between incidents, some fire in a data center somewhere in France was the culprit. The debate is ongoing. Plus, contact line in Donbas is getting hot, rumors of a big escalation since the shooting never stopped, Frank Zappa came to my mind. Good that someone is daring the monopolist censors, an ongoing battle with sides clearly defined.
Posted by: Paco | Mar 10 2021 19:49 utc | 15
Wow!! In the first 4 minutes of their program, Max and Stacey RIP the Outlaw US Empire's business class for essentially being leeches or as Max rants: "Narcissistic Kleptomaniacs!... I steal every single moment of every single day as that's my job." That's perhaps the best, most truthful (inconvenient truth as Max says) rant I've heard from him.
Post rant, the Citibank report suggesting that bitcoin will be the new currency for global trade within the next seven years is discussed followed by an interview with Feeding the Dragon author Chris Fenton. A very worthwhile and enjoyable 25 minutes of your time.
@vk
The working class should not fall for these New Age pseudo-science being touted by ex-hippie petty bourgeois from the USA. Stay at home, press your local government to keep paying your wages while the lockdown stays up, save your life and your family members'.
WORKING class or
STAYING AT HOME AFFRAID HERD?
Save my life is: let me free. No more useless lockdown, mask, social distancing and pseudo-science Government.
Posted by: Bernard F. | Mar 10 2021 19:54 utc | 17
Paco @15--
Thanks for your input on that issue, or should we call it "soft war?"
Gotta make a comment about Chris Fenton: He really needs to learn some US History and discover the nature of Neoliberalism if he ever hopes to mount a "patriotic based" challenge to what he sees as a "threat" from China. What he fails to see is the threat to the USA is from within, and he actually enumerates some of the problems but doesn't seem to see the big picture.
In France they are now starting to sell the idea that children will also have to be vaccinated against covid, because you see, otherwise it would make some pockets of unvaxed and that would help the variants to develop...
Replacing natural herd immunity by an artificial one: the dream of Big Pharma comes true.
And all that to protect the middle-aged voters against the unemployed youth.
Posted by: Mina | Mar 10 2021 20:22 utc | 19
Well, that is how most vaccines are currently used. They are given to very young children to protect them as early as possible from the disease in question. Seems to have worked pretty well. So this is a welcome development.
Posted by: Jim6-Pack | Mar 10 2021 20:34 utc | 20
#3
Follow the link, read the study. Very short read, go ahead and read it. Pure trash.
Other studies out today going after zinc and Vitamin C. Coordinated propaganda.
Posted by: oldhippie | Mar 10 2021 20:43 utc | 22
i see so much of my own journey and struggle in this saga i hope poor Meghan can afford the therapy she needs! Maybe we can all walk that royal journey of suffering and healing and reconciliation together, with Oprah's favorite therapist, Dr Phil? Recovery is every step, Meghan, every public, openly-confessed Netflix-worthy step.
i'm updating Lou Reed's "heroin" for the fentanyl age. fortunately they are both tri-syllabic words, so it's not so hard, but not much rhymes with fentanyl.
Posted by: jason | Mar 10 2021 20:45 utc | 23
'Two public health battles are being waged right now. The first of course is against the coronavirus. The second has its sights on a broad and amorphous target called "medical misinformation." This campaign aims, to control what people read, see and know ...'
The War on 'Misinformation' claims two victims. Truth. And the Right to Treatment
Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Trial Site News
March 1, 2021
Censorship Kills: The Shunning of a COVID Therapeutic
by Dr. Pierre Kory
RealClear Politics
March 10, 2021
The Virus and the Parasite ......
Posted by: Hemiola | Mar 10 2021 20:56 utc | 24
vk @ 3; Thanks for the info, a bit more of what's up never hurts.
I continue to believe that the better your overall health is, the less you're impacted by Covid-19. IMO, it impacts certain racial groups more because they continue to be the bulk of the working poor. And as such, eat mostly the food they can afford, which is fast food, that is total crap, loaded with sugar, and empty carbs.
The masking, plus distancing, IMO, also help. For those who want to make a political statement about not doing either, knock yourselves out.
Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 10 2021 20:58 utc | 25
Posted by: vk | Mar 10 2021 18:20 utc | 3
"The working class should not fall for these New Age pseudo-science being touted by ex-hippie petty bourgeois from the USA".
The working class? Is that who you represent? You've been watching too many Caleb Maupin videos. Its oh so easy to be a theoretical Marxist.
FYI there are esteemed health professionals all over the world recommending Vitamin C, Zinc and Vitamin D to help prevent infection. This is not new to covid and is not happening only in the US. Communist China uses such remedies alongside Traditional Chinese medicine. Is just that people such as yourself don't know this and don't care to find out.
People are being sucked into a bubble where they believe that everything originates with the US CIA. Even hippies LOL I've been noticing that lately thee is an increase in people wanting to cancel every kind of grass roots endeavour with "oh its just a CIA psy-op"
That's such lazy thinking vk. You'll need to do better than splutter "because CIA and Hippies".
Anyway what did hippies ever do to you?
Natural medicine and observational science as opposed to the fraud of so called "peer reviewed" aka you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours", has existed since before Ancient Greece and there have been so called "hippies" and revolutionaries of every type in every era as well.
Long before the American Empire or the CIA was even dreamed of.
I can safely predict that your "peer" reviewed studies will be based on miniscule doses of Vitamin D compared to what natural health experts are recommending for effacacy. You won't be aware of this unless you take the time to find out from the experts who actually look after human beings as opposed to tapping uninformed opinions on a keyboard.
Posted by: K | Mar 10 2021 21:02 utc | 26
Euro puppets attack RT media
https://www.dw.com/en/german-russian-relations-flare-up-over-state-run-tv-channel/a-56789631
People born in slavery can not imagine anything else than a US ruled world. Its like those animals refusing to leave a cage when the door gets opened.
They are too afraid of the outside world, which is so strange and disorderly, compared to the "order" of the cage, where they were raised. They do not know anything else.
You may also called it a european battered wife syndrome. They cower in fear in the presence of the Hegemon, and make excuses for him.
Posted by: Passer by | Mar 10 2021 21:03 utc | 27
Blue Dotterel @ 10
No need to wait. Plenty of studies posted at FLCCC. The mechanism by which D supports immune function and acts as anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant are old and well known. And Vit D is so extremely safe there is no reason to hesitate.
Interesting that the resident hippie puncher effectively shills for Pfizer, Gilead, Big Pharma. And supports official state propaganda
Posted by: oldhippie | Mar 10 2021 21:12 utc | 28
snake @ 7; Texas has already shown the world through their latest energy SNAFU, what their decision making IQ is. Their latest decision to "open up", will either work, or not. Reality will decide the "good", or "bad" of their latest choice.
Posted by: vetinLA | Mar 10 2021 21:12 utc | 29
"#3
Follow the link, read the study. Very short read, go ahead and read it. Pure trash.
Other studies out today going after zinc and Vitamin C. Coordinated propaganda. Posted by: oldhippie | Mar 10 2021 20:43 utc | 22" I already saw it. If general good health is a central factor in having few virus symptoms then vitamin is a well established factor in northern latitudes. We will see meta studies cited soon enough. VK was very sloppy there.
Posted by: David G Horsman | Mar 10 2021 21:25 utc | 30
@vk #16
Fenton is smoking crack.
Bitcoin has plunged 20%, twice already in 2021.
I've described many times what is going on - and it has nothing to do with Bitcoin as currency, as store of value etc.
The btc reflexive Ponzi has a way to go, IMO, but this has nothing to do with any of the above mythological characteristics - it is entirely a function of inflows.
China has been predictive in many ways - their early treatment of MSM and the internet is now the model which many nations are building to. Even the US is now talking about how dangerous the internet is.
And China explicitly blocked bitcoin as a currency - it can have no links with the RMB in any way in that nation.
Posted by: c1ue | Mar 10 2021 21:34 utc | 32
The guy's right about hippies. I grew up on a place called the Farm in the U$A. Not a political bone in their emaciated bodies. They still talk like they are the oldest commune today even though they ceased being a collective in 1980. Just a long haired subdivision of people who do nothing but smoke pot everyday.
Posted by: Bruce Lee Marvin Gay | Mar 10 2021 21:38 utc | 33
@ Posted by: K | Mar 10 2021 21:02 utc | 26
Except for the fact that Russia and China aren't mass using Vitamin D for COVID-19 treatment (or many of the other silver bullets propagandized by the Western internet community).
That the Western governments are deeply corrupt and want to kill the most old people they can (because it relieves the burden over their pension funds and welfare systems), but when good governments such as the CPC and maybe the Kremlin don't jump into the hype, chances are they really don't work.
IMO, Ehret is onto something with this week's article: "Nazi Healthcare Revived Across the Five Eyes: Killing Useless Eaters and Biden’s COVID Relief Bill."
Often such a tabloid-like headline would prompt me to ignore it, but we live in different times so I decided to read since I'm now entering the "useless eater" part of my life as it's seen by some very powerful people. Ehret includes this outtake toward the end of his essay to prove the historical precedent can--looks like--it's being repeated:
"Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed [WW2 Holocaust], it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in basic attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually, the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted, then finally all non-Germans. But it is important to realize that the infinitely small wedged-in lever from which this entire trend of mind received its impetus was the attitude toward the non-rehabilitatable sick." [My Emphasis]
For me having tended my Alzheimer's afflicted mom until her demise, this is rather personal since I see life as being priceless--it cannot be bought or manufactured--and how is anyone to know what level of internal life remains within someone when they can no longer communicate such a self-assessment. Up to her end, mom reacted to music, aromas, familiar voices, and other stimuli, which is to say her life force was still functioning and in no way was I going to lessen her opportunity to live another day. And yes, I'll admit it was very stressful dealing with it all; but even so after three years, I would rather be helping her live another day.
The biggest failing of the USA is its massive disregard for human life and human wellbeing, a tragedy we inherited from our British forbearers and have yet to cast-off. And to our great misfortune, that anti-life sentiment is deeply rooted in the Federal Government. Ehret exposes some of it; Max Blumenthal's article on the genocidal sadist and Biden admin member Richard Nephew documents such behavior; couple it with Native American policy; mass killing of civilians in WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Central and South America, Southwest Asia, The Balkans, Ukraine, etc., and your damn right we ought to suspect the very worst from that government. Monsters do exist.
@ Posted by: Porpoise | Mar 10 2021 19:43 utc | 14
LOL ur right, that looks like a dodgy think tank founded in 2019 by a certain Ahmed Alwani, who also happened to have served on the advisory board of US AFRICOM.
https://newlinesinstitute.org/people/ahmed-alwani/
The report contains contributions by the questionable Dr Adrian Zenz, i think MoA has also mentioned him before
That "university" had 181 students in 2019, it is literally 1 building... conveniently near Washington... i'm guessing this Alwani guy is a CIA asset or gets paid by one of their other million agencies?
Posted by: #ashtag | Mar 10 2021 22:11 utc | 36
Karlof1@35
It seems as if there is a coordinated campaign against the elderly. I see evidence of it even here. The level of callousness is appalling. I think of the Nazis when I see it and how dehumanization can happen.
Posted by: ld | Mar 10 2021 22:36 utc | 37
#ashtag #36
Thanks for that link but I ran into a bloomberg 'demanding money with menaces' blockade.
Here is an alternative:
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 22:42 utc | 38
Pfizer vaccine does not kill - coincidence is the problem.
"The European Medicines Agency said on Wednesday there was no evidence so far linking AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to illnesses in two people who received it in Austria, one of whom died 10 days after being inoculated.
"The Austrian national health authority suspended the use of a batch of the vaccine after a person who was vaccinated was diagnosed with multiple thrombosis and later died, and another was hospitalised with pulmonary embolism."
Maybe its a shamnic karma curse on the bottles?
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 22:54 utc | 39
The 1.9 Trillion "Covid Relief" bill has passed both houses of the US Congress and is on its way to signing by Biden, expected Friday.
One of the many non-Covid items in it relates directly to the funding of political campaigns, a la the Citizens United case where it was established by the Supreme Court that gobs of money given to political candidates and campaigns were a form of "free speech".
The new upper limit for the amount given to politicians by individuals, corporations, and PACs (political action committes) is established by this law as 100 million dollars.
It is my understanding that no Republican in either the house or senate voted for this law.
Posted by: naiverealist | Mar 10 2021 22:54 utc | 40
VK @ 3:
I went over to that RT.com article you linked to and picked up these juicy morsels:
"... In the first study, researchers examined a database of nearly 450,000 mostly white people of European ancestry to understand whether giving them vitamin D supplements would lower the probability of contracting Covid-19.The researchers, from 10 separate universities in Canada, Israel, Japan, Italy and the UK, looked at genetic markers that would leave people predisposed to vitamin D deficiencies. They concluded that “vitamin D supplementation as a means of protecting against worsened Covid outcomes is not supported by genetic evidence,” they wrote in the study. “Other therapeutic or preventative… avenues should be given higher priority for Covid-19 randomized controlled trials.” ..."
Well of course ... mostly white people of European ancestry are already well-adapted to living in physical environments with weak sunlight so giving them Vitamin D supplements is not going to make much difference to their chances of contracting COVID-19 or any other disease caused by viruses vulnerable to UV light.
"... In the second study debunking vitamin D’s usefulness against Covid, researchers from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece examined data on vitamin D deficiency from 24 European countries and compared it to data on Covid infections, recoveries and deaths.The researchers, who did not include data from people living in nursing homes, looked at how vitamin D deficiency rates varied across European nations and compared that data to infection rates.
They concluded that the “prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was not significantly associated with either the number of infections, recoveries or mortality rate of Covid-19” across Europe ..."
When the samples omit groups of people most likely to suffer Vitamin D deficiencies for various reasons (genetic, cultural, situational: darker skinned people living in environments where the sun rises only a couple of hours every day in winter may need Vitamin D supplementation; many of those people probably can only afford cheap food low in nutrients; they may be required by their cultures to dress modestly; folks in nursing homes may not be allowed outdoors in winter for their own safety), you have to wonder if the research was designed in such a way as to deliver pre-ordained results to discredit the use of Vitamin D supplementation.
Posted by: Jen | Mar 10 2021 22:57 utc | 41
naiverealist #40
It is my understanding that no Republican in either the house or senate voted for this law.
So there is nothing to stop the Dimratss putting forward Medicare For All and the $15 Minimum Wage bill.
They clearly will have the majority needed to win and they can simultaneously do wedge politics and win over all those Repugnant voters with a good deed for them.
What is stopping them?? Treachery exposed.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 23:13 utc | 43
I urge everyone to read and share this information of fundamental importance!
Posted by: JB | Mar 10 2021 23:16 utc | 44
Not peer-reviewed yet, but pretty much conclusive:
Two separate studies debunk theory that vitamin D supplements offer greater protection against Covid-19
Like I've been saying: I appreciate the effort for heightening conscience about the dangers of Vitamin D deficiency in the northern hemisphere, but that's it.
I looked into them..... They prove nothing!!!
In no way do they compare those given Vit-D to those without.
In no way do they correlate Vit-D blood levels to COVID severity.
Instead, one goes off the reservation into genetic issues, none of which it correlates to anything relevant.
The other goes off the deep end into comparing Vit-D levels on a nationally averaged basis to infection rates...
Both did not reference much better designed studies, including those from Germany, which show significant reductions in COVID mortality in patients given sufficient supplementation with Vit-D.
This is crap!!
INDY
Posted by: Dr. George W Oprisko | Mar 10 2021 23:24 utc | 45
Posted by: Porpoise | Mar 10 2021 19:43 utc | 14
Posted by: #ashtag | Mar 10 2021 22:11 utc | 36
The report contains contributions by the questionable Dr Adrian Zenz, i think MoA has also mentioned him before
Not only that, the bugger is listed as a member of the "Newlines Team".
https://newlinesinstitute.org/people/adrian-zenz/
Posted by: farm ecologist | Mar 10 2021 23:29 utc | 46
@ Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 22:54 utc | 39
Your linked article is about the AstraZeneca vaccine (chimpanzee adenovirus), not the Pfizer and Moderna ones (mRNA). Completely different cases.
Posted by: Porpoise | Mar 10 2021 19:43 utc | 14
This 'Think Tank' is in fact a front for the International Institute of Islamic Thought an islamist neo-conservative organization in the US, linked to Egypt’s Muslim brotherhood, who’s members have pleaded guilty to sponsoring terrorism.
The director of the Newlines institute, Ahmed Alwani just happens to be the Vice President of this organization. He also served as an advisor to the U.S Africa command.
In 2006, a scholar of this group, Sami Al-Arian, pleaded guilty to “aiding terrorism” and was given a five year prison sentence.
The Washington Post at that time described the group as “the nation’s largest terrorism-financing investigation,” and stated it was linked to a number of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates.
Yet now, the mainstream media seem to be absolutely content for Newlines, which is a effectively front for IIIT, to spread propaganda on Xinjiang ...
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 10 2021 23:34 utc | 48
oldhippie #22
Dr. George W Oprisko #45
Both did not reference much better designed studies, including those from Germany, which show significant reductions in COVID mortality in patients given sufficient supplementation with Vit-D.This is crap!!
Pure trash!
Thank you both for examining the entrails of this voodoo chicken that vk has thrown on the table.
Go straight to jail vk, do not pass go, do not collect your payment. Your antics are raising the background noise to disconcerting levels.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 10 2021 23:37 utc | 49
ld@37
The Swedish Finance Minister, two years ago, told a business meeting that his country's biggest problem was its "meat mountain'- his delightful way of referring to those Swedes who have retired, live on pensions, no longer work and tend to make more demands per capita on medical services than they did when young. It was not surprising when Sweden through caution to the winds last year and watched as Covid tore through old people's homes like a prairie fire.
Also about two years who I posted a link here to a story about a Hospital in Liverpool (UK) where the death rate among elderly patients had risen as the availability of bedside glasses of water had declined.
For some people Covid was indeed, as Tony Blair's old college roommate and Justice Minister in his war criminal cabinet, Lord Falconer put it "the gift that keeps on giving."
On another matter this links to an article in Sidecar on Plan Biden in which the champion of democracy plans to recreate in Central America the triumphs of Plan Colombia-for which the ex-Senator is now claiming credit.
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/smarter-empire
Posted by: bevin | Mar 10 2021 23:47 utc | 50
for "through" please read "threw". It makes a bit more sense!
Posted by: bevin | Mar 10 2021 23:50 utc | 51
Uncle T @ #43
"So there is nothing to stop the Dimratss putting forward Medicare For All and the $15 Minimum Wage bill."
Exactly, except for one reason, they don't want to.
Posted by: naiverealist | Mar 10 2021 23:51 utc | 52
It's been around for awhile, UnHerd:
"UnHerd aims to do two things: to push back against the herd mentality with new and bold thinking, and to provide a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people and places."
I happened upon it via Alastair Crooke's referencing the essays of one of its writer/editors, Aris Roussinos, from whom I can suggest three essays, the first two cited by Crooke, "Twilight of the American Empire" and "The Irresistible Rise of the Civilization State", and one that describes the damage the Neoliberal Parasite's done to the UK and USA, "The Ideology that Broke Britain". He's written many essays, and his partners have also produced a trove of which I've read none. There's a reason Crooke cited the first two which you'll discover when reading them.
did I hear uncle Tungsten @ 39 correctly> the Pfizer vaccine does not kill <=because it genetically alters existing cellular and system systems. it that what you are saying?
I have not heard explained the rationale and reasoning for the particular RNA sequence in the so called vaccines. nor have I seen the first study to suggest that anyone knows what the vaccine RNA sequence does metabolic ally.. which cells does it genetically alter and what is the effective genetic results of those metabolic or structural alterations. How does the total content (every atom, molecule) of the vaccine injection work; once inside of the injected body, with regard to all organs, systems and cells in the body, I have not seen evidence the vaccine works and no mention of the substances in which it is dissolved or contained. further there are so many vaccines or versions of the vaccine there is no one vaccine?
the vaccination disinformation war
Posted by: snake | Mar 11 2021 0:02 utc | 54
@jason #23 re: fentanyl rhymes
I'm in a bit of a dark mood, so why not...
Pill Swill Spill Kill Jill Bill Windowsill Krill Still Will Nil Dill Gardasil Secanol (abstractly)
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 0:10 utc | 55
@10, 3
FWIW Real-time database and meta analysis of 327 COVID-19 studies. I ran across it while looking for something else: https://c19early.com/
Posted by: UnionHorse | Mar 11 2021 0:11 utc | 56
Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 10 2021 19:52 utc | 16
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Posted by: JB | Mar 10 2021 23:16 utc | 44
I encourage each of you to watch/read the other's links. Max and Stacey make an explicit case that US banks and corporations are disencentivized to innovate and modernize payment systems and that as a result the USA is at least 10 years behind in the development of faster, decentralized blockchains (of which BTC is not one).
JB's link furthers the case that Western corporations have turned to a new model in order to continue extracting profit and it involves integrating with governments (and central banks) to basically create and maintain monopolies (including on currency and payments, although not explicitly mentioned).
All of this is the perfect case for investing in and using Cardano ADA, the best, fastest and completely de-centralized blockchain and cryptocurrency. Seriously, Max and Stacey make direct arguments in favor of such a crypto but they apparently aren't aware of Cardano/ADA yet. ADA is not only de-centralized, but it's lightning quick (i.e. actually useful for transactions rather than hoarding like BTC) and it's extremely energy efficient (being that it's a proof of stake rather than proof of work, there is no "mining" which consumes vast amounts of energy).
Myself, I recently went through the rigors of creating a Daedalus wallet and purchased a couple thousand ADA just for a long term investment and I encourage others to look into it if you're seeing a future where we might need to be able to trade without the controls and surveillance of the big central banks.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 0:19 utc | 57
A layman's guide to the differences btwn proof of stake (POS) and proof of work (POW) cryptocurrencies.
https://blockchain-media.org/en/proof-of-stake-protiv-proof-of-work-chto-luchshe/
Some further information on environmental/energy impact of POS vs. POW.
https://medium.com/luniehq/why-is-proof-of-stake-better-for-the-environment-8ac074721930
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 0:21 utc | 58
ld @37 & bevin @50--
Thanks for your reply and input, respectively. When we look at monsters like Richard Nephew and Pompeo and the fact that they've been allowed to exert power, we know that the incrementalism described in the excerpt I provided @35 is very much in play already within the Neoliberal world--non-performing stocks and companies get sold or liquidated so the same should be done with non-performing humans. That IMO is Genocide cloaked as euthanasia and is the exact opposite of the doctrine promoted by Putin and Xi where elders are to be venerated and helped to enjoy life as long as possible. IMO, any nation having a policy aimed at killing off a portion of its already existing population is an outlaw nation that must have those promoting and implementing such a policy tried for genocide, the nation occupied and its populous reeducated to destroy any notions of having any such policy, and then allowed to regain its sovereignty after two generations (40 years). Of course, the Outlaw US Empire well qualifies for that status, as does the UK, Sweden, and other Neoliberal nations. Unfortunately, such discipline is unlikely to happen.
JB @44--
Thanks for that link. That's what Hudson's describing as the privatization of public institutions.
_K_C_ @57--
Thanks for that info. We just need get 100,000,000 more educated and fired-up in both the EU and USA.
About that Newlines Institute, if you look at their About pages and check their collaborators' list, you'll see scumbag jihadi propagandists like Hassan Hassan and Charles Lister. Yes, that Charles Lister that was so ridiculously blatant in his Syrian propaganda.
That entire thing is trash deserving a dumpster fire.
Posted by: Clueless Joe | Mar 11 2021 0:52 utc | 61
The following is from he last essay I linked to @53:
"A recent academic paper [Link at Original] by the political scientists Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri lays out, in forensic detail, how Britain’s record-setting death rate from Covid derives from the failures of what they term the 'neoliberal regulatory state,' whereby both Conservative and Labour governments have retreated from active 'government' in favour of hands-off, vaguely-directed 'governance'. This has, they explain, resulted in 'the deliberate reduction of popular expectations of public authority; the outsourcing of responsibility to technocratic, private and quasi-autonomous actors, weakening lines of control and accountability; and the hollowing-out of state capacities and authority to the benefit of frequently inept large-scale corporations.'”
In other words, privatized government.
snake #54
did I hear uncle Tungsten @ 39 correctly> the Pfizer vaccine does not kill <=because it genetically alters existing cellular and system systems. it that what you are saying?
My apologies snake, it was my drole sarcasm. Pfizer and any mRNA formula is not on my wish list.I wouldn't use it on a rat. I got it wrong in that post as well but its within my one percent error range so I am back to drinking ;)
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 1:13 utc | 63
@jason#24 and Dr Yueh @65
Over all words that gall, I am appalled that fentanol could so spoil word-recall in ya'll
Posted by: defaultcitizen | Mar 11 2021 1:31 utc | 64
karlof1 #16
Wow!! In the first 4 minutes of their program, Max and Stacey RIP the Outlaw US Empire's business class for essentially being leeches or as Max rants: "Narcissistic Kleptomaniacs!... I steal every single moment of every single day as that's my job." That's perhaps the best, most truthful (inconvenient truth as Max says) rant I've heard from him.Post rant, the Citibank report suggesting that bitcoin will be the new currency for global trade within the next seven years is discussed followed by an interview with Feeding the Dragon author Chris Fenton. A very worthwhile and enjoyable 25 minutes of your time.
Thank you for the link to Max and Stacey show. I was gobsmacked that the USA banks have so underinvested in basic technology that they take SIX DAYS to process a simple payment/transfer. In my world it is within ONE MINUTE !
But on to Chris Fenton at 25:00 he raves about how do we unite America to go after China and asks all those twitterati to let him know. Where does Max find these people, he must look under a lot of rocks. But I enjoyed hearing the limited perspective and political analysis that has hamstrung Fenton's capacity to see that socialism and central planning are the answer. Fenton seems to think that the problem is the undue focus of the market on short term investments. No Mr Fenton its the structure of the economy, it is geared to immediate profit taking and to the disadvantage of anyone else that is the economy. Fenton fails to grasp that in China the economy is a shared thing that is run for everyone's benefit whereas in the USA it is run for the benefit of the elite.
Nationalise the economy for all and rebuild the shared system - that is the answer. But that won't happen and so there won't be any 'going after China', there will be following behind China but increasing the distance as the elite add so much friction to the USA wheels that the bearings seize up. Fenton won't clearly articulate the need for revolutionary change and I suspect if he did, he would be canceled.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 1:53 utc | 65
Vitamin D3 is one of the four fat soluble vitamins (A, D3, E, and K2). These are the most hazard prone vitamins since they tend to build up in body tissues, especially fat tissues, rather that be eliminated relatively quickly, as the water soluble vitamins are. However, D3 is considered the safest of them all, as it causes very little actual dysfunction if it becomes overabundant in the body. One does not simply start taking D3 upon being diagnosed with the Covid virus, as it will do almost nothing. This is because it will be rapidly taken up by the body's fatty tissues before it becomes significantly available to other cells that would use it to beneficially modulate immune system pathways. Rather obviously, the more fat one bears, the more troublesome this becomes. Obesity and age are by far the most important risk factors for Covid mortality.
The only way to overcome this is to pre-load D3 weeks to months before it is needed, in order to saturate the fat cells, thus making the D3 available to the immune system cells. I have been taking 5,000 IU of D3 daily for several months. Of course, I am not a health practitioner, so this is not medical advice.
_K_C_ #58
A layman's guide to the differences btwn proof of stake (POS) and proof of work (POW) cryptocurrencies.and
Some further information on environmental/energy impact of POS vs. POW.
I just read a wall of weasel words. There was no layman's guide to anything other than a cluster of knotted up words setting up logical oddities, defining nothing and intriguing me to 'trust' the writer was telling some truth and not beguiling me to blindly accept an unverifiable proposition.
I have met some mighty slick operators throughout life who use these forms of dialogue to mesmerise others. I sense the same is at play here and I grant that it is clever and has baroque intensity but I won't be expecting a pot of gold at any juncture.
Good luck with that pursuit.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 2:25 utc | 67
@ uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 2:25 utc | 67 with the cryptocurrencies rant
It just came to me that the perfect term for these energy wasters is tulipbits in honor of tulip mania in the 1600's.
Tulipbits are wholly electronic instantiations of wasted energy for privately initiated/controlled ponzi schemes the perps call money
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 11 2021 2:35 utc | 68
uncle tungsten #38
The healthy 55 yo Australian health minister was admitted to hospital two days after receiveing his AZ jab. Apparently completely unrelated.
Funny how if you get ill or die after you get vaccinated with one of the COVID-19 vaccines then it isn't related to the vaccine, but to co-morbidities. If you die within 28 or more days of receiving a positive test for COVID-19 then the cause of death was COVID, even with co-morbitities.
Posted by: DeQuincey | Mar 11 2021 2:37 utc | 69
Iceland has an imminent volcanic spit in mind. Yes, they have been saying that for a month or so but the magma is building. The linked youtuber thinks it is mighty close but then that prediction has been on for a month and you can purchase merchandise there ;)
Reykjavik is fairly close to the action.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 2:38 utc | 70
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 2:25 utc | 67
So which article (there were two) are you saying was word salad or a wall of meaningless words? Perhaps the times have just left you behind? Feel free to hoard gold if you want; technology isn't for everyone and it's safer than any fiat currency in the long term. But ignore crypto at your own peril (assuming you aren't already too old to make a, say 10-15 year investment).
I think what you're really saying is that you don't understand how blockchains work and that you don't care to learn the difference between different consensus mechanisms because you have closed your mind to cryptocurrencies for some unknown reason.
But please be specific and I can help explain, or to any of the other barflies, am I just wasting my time with someone that's avowedly and ignorantly anti-crypto?
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 3:11 utc | 73
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 11 2021 2:35 utc | 68
I think the both of you aren't grasping the key differentiator here - complete decentralization and a 3rd generation blockchain/cryptocurrency (a few of them now) which are based on peer reviewed mathematics and computer science.
I gain literally less than nothing by wasting my time here trying to sell people on a Ponzi scheme. The amount of money I might make from such a small-scale pump 'n dump routine would be completely untied to anything I write here, and it would - if anything - amount to a billionth of a BTC. Those of us who are comparatively young enough to need to plan for the next 40-50 years (flying spaghetti monster willing), need to start looking outside the central banks and the permanent bubble-crash-bubble of Wall Street for our retirements, assuming we ever get to. Additionally, it will be at some point crucial to have a currency that is accepted the world over and not under the control of anyone but what the market will bear. Sure, one day the USA could decide to just outlaw all cryptos or find some way to shut down the entire Internet, but if that ever happens, trust me, the other news on that day is much, much worse.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 3:17 utc | 74
@_K_C_ #73 re: crypto-reluctancy
Folks on this board who have expressed reservations (understatement!) have expressed very good reasons for being against the concept. There's a lot of esoteric math involved that most folks don't have the training to unravel. The basic concept of 'do more math than last time' to get a new coin, and 'do all the math over again' for each transaction is a pretty blunt indicator of disastrously high energy requirements.
To be hyperbolic, would you mine yet another coin if that energy was just diverted from a hospital nursery incubator?
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 3:18 utc | 75
The basic concept of 'do more math than last time' to get a new coin, and 'do all the math over again' for each transaction is a pretty blunt indicator of disastrously high energy requirements.
That's exactly the opposite of how proof of stake works. With Bitcoin what you wrote is correct because they use proof of work - hence, all the math over again and again and again, using up tons of electricity - which, BTW, is state-sanctioned in China. Proof of stake requires almost zero computational 'energy' above and beyond a background process in Windows or Mac operating systems.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 3:25 utc | 76
Very early in the morning here anyway, and I couldn't care less if a few older folks don't want to understand or take pleasure in hoping for failure (and indeed, there are Ponzi type schemes in crypto markets), but to correct another misconception again:
To be hyperbolic, would you mine yet another coin if that energy was just diverted from a hospital nursery incubator?
I don't use or possess any Bitcoin, which has to be mined or purchased with fiat currency. I have decided to invest in and use proof of stake blockchain currencies because I think they are the future, barring some major nation-state level disruption to the market of such decentralized cryptos on a near-global basis. That or a giant meteor - which would make anything you've got saved up, including property, worthless within a very short amount of time too. Proof of stake requires NO mining. If you want an analogy, they are 'minted', which consumes almost no energy.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 3:30 utc | 77
@_K_C_ re: PoS
From the Proof of Stake wiki:
CriticismSome authors[4][non-primary source needed][5][non-primary source needed] argue that proof of stake is not an ideal option for a distributed consensus protocol. One issue that can arise is the "nothing-at-stake" problem, wherein block generators have nothing to lose by voting for multiple blockchain histories, thereby preventing consensus from being achieved. Because unlike in proof-of-work systems, there is little cost to working on several chains.[6] Some cryptocurrencies are vulnerable to Fake Stake attacks, where an attacker uses no or very little stake to crash an affected node.[7]
So, an interested party could theoretically freeze the whole currency by being a contrarian/stick-in-the-mud/malicious actor. Doesn't sound very enticing to me.
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 3:31 utc | 78
_K_C_ #75
It claims to be decentralised and cut out the middle man (banks, etc), but I was just looking at staking my modest amount of coins and was astonished that the exchange wanted 15% of my profits. The only way to avoid this is to be a delegate which requires a large amount of coins, tech assets, staff and interruption free internet - a significant investment, not exactly doable for your average hodler.
Posted by: DeQuincey | Mar 11 2021 3:39 utc | 79
Iran reiterates its position reported by fars news.
Speaking to Press TV on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday, a security official said that the only way remaining for the US to return to the JCPOA is to first remove all sanction in a verifiable manner for Iran, adding “The new US administration has failed to lift the sanctions that the former one imposed on Iran after leaving the JCPOA in May 2018.”“If the sanctions are not lifted, Iran will take further steps away from its commitments under the deal in the near future,” he further warned.
“America’s mere words and superficial measures are unacceptable to Iran,” the official said, stressing that Tehran will only accept the full removal of sanctions following verification.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 4:17 utc | 80
psychohistorian
Thank you, tulipbits sounds good to me. Bitcoin seems to be lasting a while longer. It has a mighty elaborate marketing scam going and every time I read an article it has gone deeper into the rabbit hole of labyrinthine obscurantism.
Gee I guess all those experts with their neatly knitted ponzi caps can't be wrong.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 4:26 utc | 81
Below is a ZH link about the cyber war facet of the civilization war humanity is in.
Even though a computer security firm had a password of Solarwinds123 for years into its system, the Russians are being not only blamed for the intrusion but dying empire has leaked that it is mounting a cyber attack of Russia in "retaliation".
"Pure International Cybercrime": Putin Warns Against US 'Retaliation' For SolarWinds Hack
The shit show continues until it doesn't....
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 11 2021 4:39 utc | 83
When it comes to the Fukushima nuclear reactor it is clear that the USAi has no fear and that it is perfectly normal to dump thousands of litres of plutonium waste water into the Pacific Ocean.
Clearly the USAi has God on its side.
Here is something to consider:"Moreover, while all eyes were riveted on the Fukushima Daiichi plant, news coverage both in Japan and internationally failed to fully acknowledge the impacts of a second catastrophe at TEPCO’s (Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc) Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant.
"The shaky political consensus both in Japan, the U.S. and Western Europe is that the crisis at Fukushima has been contained.
"The realties, however, are otherwise. Fukushima 3 was leaking unconfirmed amounts of plutonium. According to Dr. Helen Caldicott, “one millionth of a gram of plutonium, if inhaled can cause cancer”.
"An opinion poll in May 2011 confirmed that more than 80 per cent of the Japanese population do not believe the government’s information regarding the nuclear crisis. (quoted in Sherwood Ross, Fukushima: Japan’s Second Nuclear Disaster, Global Research, November 10, 2011)"
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 4:41 utc | 84
I thought I'd pass on an essay by Alexander Dugin before everyone in my time zone goes to bed:
The Manifesto of Great Awakening. Against Great Reset.
It's very long, and I'm going back to finish reading it after this post. I've scanned the comments here and not seen it so hopefully this is not redundant.
Dugin traces the many centuries-long history of liberalism as the defeat of collective identity. He brings us to the current age where the penultimate identity left to destroy has been gender, and now the only collective identity remaining to destroy is that of human.
He illustrates how the Great Awakening is occurring organically against the Great Reset, and we are at the beginning of this rebellion of ordinary humans, who instinctively sense the final battle is at hand against the threat of their own extinction.
It's a massive essay, and a grand theme. I find it totally compelling. I wanted to plant it on the table for any who may be interested.
Here's one of what could be numerous key quotes from the essay:
The Great Awakening is not about elites and intellectuals, but about the people, about the masses, about people as such. It’s not about ideological analysis. It is a spontaneous reaction of the masses that have suddenly realised, like cattle before the slaughterhouse, that their fate has already been decided by their rulers and that there is no more room for people in the future. The Great Awakening is spontaneous, largely unconscious, intuitive and blind.The thesis of the Great Awakening should not be hastily loaded with ideological details, whether fundamental conservatism, traditionalism, the Marxist critique of capital, or anarchist protesting for protesting’s sake. The Great Awakening is something more organic, more spontaneous and at the same time tectonic. This is how humanity is suddenly being illuminated by the nearness of its imminent end. That is why the Great Awakening is coming from within the United States, where the Darkness is deepest. It is a cry from hell itself, from that zone where the black future has already partly arrived.
That quote was presented by Israel Shamir in his latest article at Unz. Make what you will of Shamir, and do what you will with his opening stance on Texas, but feel free to read his article, which I recommend. It covers similar ground to Dugin, but spends more time to illustrate Putin's categorical stand against the Great Reset (which proposes the death of humanity). At only 3,000 words, Shamir's article is a breeze compared to Dugin's, and if the link is allowed, here it is:
I feel that I can promise to the interested reader that one's time will not be wasted with Dugin's great thesis, which I believe truly captures the moment of time we all find ourselves in. And Shamir's article is the easy way in.
Posted by: Grieved | Mar 11 2021 4:41 utc | 85
@ uncle tungsten | Mar 11 2021 4:26 utc | 81 with follow on about bitcoin
People are being led astray by the underlying value of the blockchain technology that only scales if not permissionless. China is using permissioned blockchain technology for its cryptocurrency which we can expect to see more of, I believe.
Here is a mind test for the bitcoin folk. Would you rather have X amount of China's crypto or the same amount of bitcoin?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 11 2021 4:50 utc | 86
Warning: Wild Coincidence Theory follows...
I've been whingeing on the "Nothing Will Change" Biden thread about Mr Glib's (aka Scum Mo) Nazis bullying SBS into kicking CGTN off its daily timeslot. The banishment began a day or so after CGTN announced the Agenda for the 4th Session of the 13th National People's Congress which was scheduled to commence on Friday March 5.
Since China.gov has planned & managed to drag 100s of millions of people out of poverty, whilst also re-inventing China's Thoroughly Modern Infrastructure in only 65 years, I was mildly curious about ANYTHING CGTN had to say about the 13th NPC.
However Scum Mo's CGTN Blackout put a stop to that daydream and I couldn't help wondering, and speculating, why?
And I think I've stumbled upon a Possible Answer. A couple of days ago F24 mentioned the 13th NPC. They characterised it as an opaque backslapping session among China's secretive, self-congratulatory, dictatorial leaders, adding that we may never know what was said.
I had to laugh because it didn't make much sense for CGTN to loudly proclaim the NPC and then not talk about it. So I'm wondering if ALL of the Christian Colonial Cuntries were on board with the Scum Mo gambit? Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter what the dickless CCCs think about China.gov because they're insane with jealousy and penis envy.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Mar 11 2021 5:25 utc | 87
pychohistorian | Mar 11 2021 4:50 utc | 85
Here is a mind test for the bitcoin folk. Would you rather have X amount of China's crypto or the same amount of bitcoin?
It totally depends. My answer - because I have a specific use for crypto would be BTC. But here's why. I'd trade it immediately for a completely decentralized 3rd generation blockchain cryptocurrency like Cardano ADA, which has real-world uses and is being adopted for "smart contracts" and many other practical uses.
Further, to that above point, one can go short or long on cryptos just like with the regular stock market or for that matter, any fiat currency post-1971. It's all the same, a fucking gamble that depends on what you want from it and who will be willing to buy it from you.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 5:27 utc | 88
Posted by: blues | Mar 11 2021 4:39 utc | 82
Your hyperlink is broken - leads to a 404 error. Regardless I am 100% confident that "how to kill Bitcoin" completely ignores all the arguments I've put forth regarding the superiority of de-centralized proof-of-stake cryptos over first generation shitcoins like BTC. Screw BTC, it's for gamblers and speculators. Slightly above Dogecoin on the scale of shitcoins, but just happens to be more valuable....though by how much will probably vary greatly in the future. It's not even practical for the purposes it was originally created to serve. Try making a transaction in BTC - they take forever. Mining them consumes tons of electricity. And to make it all worse, they can be easily stolen and exchanges hacked such as what happened to Mt. Gox a few years ago, sending the value plummeting. Same cannot be said for Cardano ADA (or other more recent, more well thought out, and better executed blockchain technologies and their corresponding currencies).
I will stop proselytizing about Cardano/ADA on this thread, but before anyone decides to criticize cryptocurrencies in general, please at least take the time to research and understand the VAST differences between them. BTC is currently the big newsmaker because of its value, but in 10 years it won't even be useable but for the tiniest number of real-world transactions. It's being hoarded, just like gold or any precious physical commodity in human history.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 5:32 utc | 89
Posted by: DeQuincey | Mar 11 2021 3:39 utc | 79
Finally someone brings up relevant points.
I was just looking at staking my modest amount of coins and was astonished that the exchange wanted 15% of my profits. The only way to avoid this is to be a delegate which requires a large amount of coins, tech assets, staff and interruption free internet - a significant investment, not exactly doable for your average hodler.
Exchanges need to be carefully chosen. Many of them have high transaction costs, but not all. But that applies to ANY cryptocurrency, and is not specific to POS decentralized coins like ADA. I also do not understand what you mean about the issues supposedly associated with delegation. I have my Cardano delegated and I personally know the people who are involved as well as what the cloud based (and physical) infrastructure that is entailed. The more decentralized a crypto is, the less it matters whether there is "interruption free" Internet. Of course there is an investment in the backing technology, manpower and infrastructure, but how does that differ from any fiat currency, or even global commodities markets?
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 5:39 utc | 90
@_K_C_ re: cease discussion?
Keep discussing, please! You've actually mentioned something I would consider a good use for blockchain: contracts, documents, etc. Anything with a chain of custody/participation that needs to be set-in-stone verifiable is a perfect use for this stuff. Also, some limited use as a medium of exchange is nice. It is useful for it's original intent, anonymous, iron-clad transactions among private parties, but I suppose it requires a good bit of faith there, too. Maybe countries with incompatible currencies could use it as intermediate. Try to replace the US$ with it? Not a good idea.
Horders gonna horde.
Cheers!
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 5:39 utc | 91
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 3:31 utc | 78
Note that the main claims from the POS wiki are missing citations. "some argue" is weasel wording at its finest.
Also note that the authors/contributors to the POS criticisms have either intentionally ignored Cardano/ADA and the ways it gets around these potential problems (outside the scope of a discussion here) or they just weren't aware of its existence at the time the POS entry was last updated.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 5:42 utc | 92
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 5:39 utc | 90
I've been up all night here in Spain making crypto trades so I'm very tired. Just kidding. But I have been up all night so I am running out of gas and need to start thinking about a serious adjustment to my 'vampirical' sleep schedule.
Check out the use cases page on the cardano.org site for some other interesting and useful ways that their blockchain can be used. I'm holding onto about 5,000 of them for 10 years, come what may. I purchased most at about $0.20 and I doubt they ever cross back below $2 after 2021 is over. That is precisely because people, organizations and certain governments will begin to realize the potential. I'm not doing what I consider hoarding; I just did some research and came to the conclusion that if I'm going to be able to get in on the cryptocurrency thing I had to choose one based on sound principles and real world usability. BTC is not that, and neither is Ethereum - both are slow and 'clogged' at this point, and are being hoarded for the pump 'n dump cycles that plague ANY market these days.
Posted by: _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 5:48 utc | 93
_K_C_ @90
I have my Cardano delegated and I personally know the people who are involved as well as what the cloud based (and physical) infrastructure that is entailed.
Yes, that's what crytos are good for. Me and my buddies. For the rest of us, stay away!
Yes, I have done some digging on the mechanics, but the whole concept is ridiculous.
Say what you want about central banks, but their money can actually be used daily. Pretty important for everybody.
Posted by: Jim6-Pack | Mar 11 2021 5:50 utc | 94
@_K_C_
You mentioned others were hording, didn't mean to imply I was chiding you for it! :)
The wiki is poor, agree. I only remembered to think about it because I read about this stuff in-depth a few years back, and remembered there was a reason the BTC folks went with PoW. Either way, it's a very interesting thing from a programmer's perspective, so I burrowed right in. Given some time (short supply these days), I'll try to dig up the more in-depth stuff I read. Some of it was from the Doctorow/Schneier zone, some from other sources.
G'nite!
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 6:07 utc | 95
@ _K_C_ | Mar 11 2021 5:27 utc | 87 and other comments about electronic money
Please tell me what you do when the lights go out? Your assumption that the lights never go out is delusional.
In my delusional world, permissioned blockchain is used for contracts and sovereign government(s) issued paper/plastic/metal "money" backed by some measure of energy is used as a store of value outside the electronic world and as medium of exchange for goods and services outside electronic versions.
YMMV
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 11 2021 6:11 utc | 96
--FYI--
I just discovered that Hudson and Escobar are going to have another dialog tomorrow morning at 6am PST and you can find out more and register here. The first session was excellent, so I expect this to be similar!!
@Bernard F. | Mar 10 2021 19:54 utc | 17
Exactly. Thank You. The pseudo science peddled by many here is the fake 'virus', serving as a pretext for blatant fascism. The effect administered by governments and corporations against their own citizens and employees amounts to physical and psychological terrorism and is a government sponsored war against human rights.
People in power of some form, in public office, in media or in corporations, taking part in and not speaking against such terrorism are collaborators and must face prosecution.
Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 11 2021 6:38 utc | 98
corporate takeover of global governance
Norwegian @97 what do you say to the content of the above link..
Posted by: snake | Mar 11 2021 6:47 utc | 99
@psychohistorian #95 re: power loss
To be fair, you can do this stuff on an abacus, and record it on paper. There are some problems with that: 1) To use current (safe) bitness in the numbers, it would take a really long time to mine/transact, perhaps requiring an army of abacus-weilding peasants, or 2) use smaller, unsafe numbers, vulnerable to brute-force attack.
Your idea of using it to back some other currency is interesting. I'll follow _K_C_'s suggestion to read about new variants, which I haven't done. BTC is almost to the point that only govs and MNCs (Amazon) can effectively mine. As for the others, I suspect it will go that way soon. nVidia just launched an attempt to segregate the card market, latest offering will only allow 50% performance when doing certain kinds of calcs (don't know how they determine it's a mining calc vs some other, will read about that soon also). This sounds like they will push miners to the more expensive 'compute module' units.
Posted by: Dr Wellington Yueh | Mar 11 2021 6:47 utc | 100
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Posted by: Maracatu | Mar 10 2021 17:53 utc | 1