The Democrats are in an interesting time. In 2016 their defeat prompted them to turn outwards, blaming Russia, the FBI, the media, fascism, etc., rather than inwards to see what they did wrong. Let's see if they repeat that process.
Very good, all I would say is the Father of the Covid Vaxxes is president of the USA, all that warp speed rollout. The big elephant in the room is was ex-Wall Street man Ed Dowd correct in his data crunching from insurance actuaries? The finding being a lot of people were dying or sick at the time of the jabs rollout ... And excess deaths appear to still be going on. Correlation perhaps, but it was discussed in Britain with the 1922 committee, Graham Brady, he listened, then concluded by saying the issue was above his pay grade.
I don't know the truth myself... But if the vaxxes were a monumental disaster born of panic ... Or if something nefarious went on... Well, both ways round I'd be wary of Mr Trump.
I suspect the powers that be in general want the Covid Vaxxes forgotten about. And no doubt this is the case with Trump.
I too do not know the truth but I hope that people never stop asking questions without descending into the more absurd reaches of conspiracy theory. The story of that uncertain nature that most worries me at the moment is the Lucy Letby case which is exposing just how dysfunctional our national administrative and justice structures are and raise the distinct possibility of someone being the victim of a witch hunt. The second cause of concern has not happened yet ... certain people need a Pearl Harbour to mobilise us poor suckers into war. The people they want to go to war with refuse to oblige with a stupidity. The temptation to create a 'Pearl Harbou'r (which, after all, we saw done in the Gulf of Tonkin incident and in regard to Iraqi WMD) must be considerable amongst desperate psychopaths. We must all be on our guard. The first is a particularly British issue but the second is on Trump's watch. We should be wary not of him so much as those around him and with influence on him.
The vaxxes remain a mystery, as does the whole scenario. I remember back in the early 1990s reading a book by an economist saying that Western governments would be unable to meet their liabilities by around 2020, maybe a little before - pensions, benefits, care costs, all of that. I didn't think much about that at the time; come 2020 I wondered... after all, imagine the public outcry if governments said, "Sorry about that, you might have paid in, but we've spent it." You'd get societal breakdown and possibly "popularist" despots getting elected.
In 2020 we saw in the US Remdesivir and ventilators being used to treat the elderly diagnosed with covid... in some cases the diagnoses appeared somewhat suspect. In Britain we had Matt Hancock ordering in large amounts the British version of Remdesivir (forgotten what that's called). Same story, care homes and so on.
Were we looking at balancing the books? And the lockdowns to put brakes on economies?
Then we had all the behavioral psychology to engender fear... perfect experiment if you were considering totalitarianism.
But why? There's the idea of Singularity - which I'd change somewhat from Kurzweil... and will note scientist and SF writer Vernor Vinge's version of Singularity is more interesting... But I'd see it as hyper novelty (after Terence McKenn's theory) where we are in utter complexity... where nothing is true... and control and ordered bureaucracy is close to impossible. So how do you extract taxes, how do you keep order, how do the top level financiers keep their wealth and power?
Totalitarianism and technocracy starts to look very attractive. Plus global governance is the only tenable solution.
But I would drop in Bertrand Russell. Many of his ideas seemed valid, at least at the time. We could add H.G. Wells and numerous others. But perhaps not global governance in the hands and ideologies of the World Economic Forum.
All that said, it's possible the globalist elites made their move too early with the covid gambit... if indeed this model of what happened has legs.
Yes, you're right, it's clear we'll have to see a "Pearl Harbour"... I'm pretty much looking out for it. I may be wrong, but seems like the West needs to secure Ukraine for raw materials, such as Lithium... e-cars, Mr Musk, etc.
Curiously, Mr Putin, Sergey Lavrov and co appear to be the most sane, not to mention dignified and precise in their arguments... and appeared to find compelling evidence of interesting bio-labs in Ukraine... oh and then we had the Fort Detrick shutdown in 2019, and numerous people saying how sick they were with some bug or other... including a pal of mine in Canada.
Anyway, I will look into the Lucy Letby case, I didn't really take that one in.
One thing I noticed is Jacob Rees Mogg here on SS is getting quite deep into territory we haven't seen politicians get into - talking of globalist elites, who, he makes clear, aren't "lizard men"... so that's interesting.
In the end, it's all bewildering... and that in itself suggests something greater... as in technology having taken us into something like the Singularity... and it demands some kind of evolution as a species... could well be merging with the machine and AI... all ways round it won't be pretty, at least until we get through this phase. So it's very precarious.
As an excitable deracinated functionless intellectual I found that a very interesting and provocative piece. Here's what I wrote on FB earlier:
'Emerging from Covid to find West is entering an era of febrile and dangerous techno-feudal oligarchy, a manic Accelerationism, to borrow a term from philosopher Nick Land. Trump may have his dream-park of USA 1954 Trumpland and the born-again new-cons of Project 2025 may have their vision of red-hat Rapture but the fusion of libertarian economics and the impact of AI technologies on work and identity may create a maelstrom of social upheaval which might up-end all Trump's rhetoric. Trump is not Faust. He is a very old devil chewing on his own tail. Commiseration to my American friends. You are entering a danger zone, and we are not far behind you. Now I'm going to put on my pointy Nostradamus hat. Musk will run for POTUS in 2028.' In other words, I don't think DT really grasps the potential for upheaval - for ordinary people - in the new world order. Perhaps Vance will get a grip on it, who knows? it's been pointed out to me that Musk can't run for POTUS because of his SA birth but he is already lurking everywhere, the new Cardinal Wolsey.
It was referred to by one friend as 'tough love' :-) There is an interesting power struggle going on in Washington as we write between the disruptors (who I think are necessary to snap the spine of a bankrupt system) and the old guard (about whom I do not hesitate to use the word 'evil' as in 'Lovecraftian black void') who are clearly backed by Tel Aviv and London. Whoever wins the struggle for Defense and State will set the tone for the next four years (if we survive that long). These darker forces remind of those classic Hollywood horrors of the 1970s where Satan as Antichrist becomes President although, in this case, it is not Donald but dark Mephistophelian forces returning from Hell to reclaim their Kingdom. The struggle over the next two or three months is positively Manichean but things could not carry on as they were - Harris, Starmer, Scholz, Macron, Von Der Leyen ... this self-evidently represents a catalogue of ineptitude and failure. The sooner that this catalogue is discarded, the sooner we can create something worthwhile and good out of the ashes (I hope not literally, of course). Bluntly, liberals and centrists had it coming. The old elites need root and branch replacing whether Clintons, Obamas or Bushes. Courage, mon brave! Good will triumph in the end.
Amen! Say it again: "This is not only not 'fascism' but potentially it is a liberation, allowing people to be who they are rather than be defined by the expectations and demands of ideology..."
An excellent read, not to be found elsewhere, Tim...
A good, bracing commentary, Tim.
The Democrats are in an interesting time. In 2016 their defeat prompted them to turn outwards, blaming Russia, the FBI, the media, fascism, etc., rather than inwards to see what they did wrong. Let's see if they repeat that process.
Very good, all I would say is the Father of the Covid Vaxxes is president of the USA, all that warp speed rollout. The big elephant in the room is was ex-Wall Street man Ed Dowd correct in his data crunching from insurance actuaries? The finding being a lot of people were dying or sick at the time of the jabs rollout ... And excess deaths appear to still be going on. Correlation perhaps, but it was discussed in Britain with the 1922 committee, Graham Brady, he listened, then concluded by saying the issue was above his pay grade.
I don't know the truth myself... But if the vaxxes were a monumental disaster born of panic ... Or if something nefarious went on... Well, both ways round I'd be wary of Mr Trump.
I suspect the powers that be in general want the Covid Vaxxes forgotten about. And no doubt this is the case with Trump.
I too do not know the truth but I hope that people never stop asking questions without descending into the more absurd reaches of conspiracy theory. The story of that uncertain nature that most worries me at the moment is the Lucy Letby case which is exposing just how dysfunctional our national administrative and justice structures are and raise the distinct possibility of someone being the victim of a witch hunt. The second cause of concern has not happened yet ... certain people need a Pearl Harbour to mobilise us poor suckers into war. The people they want to go to war with refuse to oblige with a stupidity. The temptation to create a 'Pearl Harbou'r (which, after all, we saw done in the Gulf of Tonkin incident and in regard to Iraqi WMD) must be considerable amongst desperate psychopaths. We must all be on our guard. The first is a particularly British issue but the second is on Trump's watch. We should be wary not of him so much as those around him and with influence on him.
The vaxxes remain a mystery, as does the whole scenario. I remember back in the early 1990s reading a book by an economist saying that Western governments would be unable to meet their liabilities by around 2020, maybe a little before - pensions, benefits, care costs, all of that. I didn't think much about that at the time; come 2020 I wondered... after all, imagine the public outcry if governments said, "Sorry about that, you might have paid in, but we've spent it." You'd get societal breakdown and possibly "popularist" despots getting elected.
In 2020 we saw in the US Remdesivir and ventilators being used to treat the elderly diagnosed with covid... in some cases the diagnoses appeared somewhat suspect. In Britain we had Matt Hancock ordering in large amounts the British version of Remdesivir (forgotten what that's called). Same story, care homes and so on.
Were we looking at balancing the books? And the lockdowns to put brakes on economies?
Then we had all the behavioral psychology to engender fear... perfect experiment if you were considering totalitarianism.
But why? There's the idea of Singularity - which I'd change somewhat from Kurzweil... and will note scientist and SF writer Vernor Vinge's version of Singularity is more interesting... But I'd see it as hyper novelty (after Terence McKenn's theory) where we are in utter complexity... where nothing is true... and control and ordered bureaucracy is close to impossible. So how do you extract taxes, how do you keep order, how do the top level financiers keep their wealth and power?
Totalitarianism and technocracy starts to look very attractive. Plus global governance is the only tenable solution.
But I would drop in Bertrand Russell. Many of his ideas seemed valid, at least at the time. We could add H.G. Wells and numerous others. But perhaps not global governance in the hands and ideologies of the World Economic Forum.
All that said, it's possible the globalist elites made their move too early with the covid gambit... if indeed this model of what happened has legs.
Yes, you're right, it's clear we'll have to see a "Pearl Harbour"... I'm pretty much looking out for it. I may be wrong, but seems like the West needs to secure Ukraine for raw materials, such as Lithium... e-cars, Mr Musk, etc.
Curiously, Mr Putin, Sergey Lavrov and co appear to be the most sane, not to mention dignified and precise in their arguments... and appeared to find compelling evidence of interesting bio-labs in Ukraine... oh and then we had the Fort Detrick shutdown in 2019, and numerous people saying how sick they were with some bug or other... including a pal of mine in Canada.
Anyway, I will look into the Lucy Letby case, I didn't really take that one in.
One thing I noticed is Jacob Rees Mogg here on SS is getting quite deep into territory we haven't seen politicians get into - talking of globalist elites, who, he makes clear, aren't "lizard men"... so that's interesting.
In the end, it's all bewildering... and that in itself suggests something greater... as in technology having taken us into something like the Singularity... and it demands some kind of evolution as a species... could well be merging with the machine and AI... all ways round it won't be pretty, at least until we get through this phase. So it's very precarious.
As an excitable deracinated functionless intellectual I found that a very interesting and provocative piece. Here's what I wrote on FB earlier:
'Emerging from Covid to find West is entering an era of febrile and dangerous techno-feudal oligarchy, a manic Accelerationism, to borrow a term from philosopher Nick Land. Trump may have his dream-park of USA 1954 Trumpland and the born-again new-cons of Project 2025 may have their vision of red-hat Rapture but the fusion of libertarian economics and the impact of AI technologies on work and identity may create a maelstrom of social upheaval which might up-end all Trump's rhetoric. Trump is not Faust. He is a very old devil chewing on his own tail. Commiseration to my American friends. You are entering a danger zone, and we are not far behind you. Now I'm going to put on my pointy Nostradamus hat. Musk will run for POTUS in 2028.' In other words, I don't think DT really grasps the potential for upheaval - for ordinary people - in the new world order. Perhaps Vance will get a grip on it, who knows? it's been pointed out to me that Musk can't run for POTUS because of his SA birth but he is already lurking everywhere, the new Cardinal Wolsey.
It was referred to by one friend as 'tough love' :-) There is an interesting power struggle going on in Washington as we write between the disruptors (who I think are necessary to snap the spine of a bankrupt system) and the old guard (about whom I do not hesitate to use the word 'evil' as in 'Lovecraftian black void') who are clearly backed by Tel Aviv and London. Whoever wins the struggle for Defense and State will set the tone for the next four years (if we survive that long). These darker forces remind of those classic Hollywood horrors of the 1970s where Satan as Antichrist becomes President although, in this case, it is not Donald but dark Mephistophelian forces returning from Hell to reclaim their Kingdom. The struggle over the next two or three months is positively Manichean but things could not carry on as they were - Harris, Starmer, Scholz, Macron, Von Der Leyen ... this self-evidently represents a catalogue of ineptitude and failure. The sooner that this catalogue is discarded, the sooner we can create something worthwhile and good out of the ashes (I hope not literally, of course). Bluntly, liberals and centrists had it coming. The old elites need root and branch replacing whether Clintons, Obamas or Bushes. Courage, mon brave! Good will triumph in the end.
Amen! Say it again: "This is not only not 'fascism' but potentially it is a liberation, allowing people to be who they are rather than be defined by the expectations and demands of ideology..."
An excellent read, not to be found elsewhere, Tim...