So here it is, 8:15 am and the Stock Market is up almost 500 points on the GDP numbers, up 2.6. In the fine print is the fact it is up because of Oil/Gas and Weapons exports. Kind of like the Chinese numbers based on all the empty cities they built.
We all know that inflation is really above 8.5 % too, but they don’t factor in Food and Energy (not sure about housing costs).
They lie to us.
Elon Musk is reportedly considering cutting 75% of the workforce at Twitter when his purchase is complete and he takes over this Friday.
In response, some Twitter employees have published and sent him an open letter listing their “Demands”*
” Staff, Elon Musk, and Board of Directors:
We, the undersigned Twitter workers, believe the public conversation is in jeopardy.
Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 75% of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation. A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation.
Twitter has significant effects on societies and communities across the globe. As we speak, Twitter is helping to uplift independent journalism in Ukraine and Iran, as well as powering social movements around the world.
A threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter’s future. These threats have an impact on us as workers and demonstrate a fundamental disconnect with the realities of operating Twitter. They threaten our livelihoods, access to essential healthcare, and the ability for visa holders to stay in the country they work in. We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter.
We, the workers at Twitter, will not be intimidated. We recommit to supporting the communities, organizations, and businesses who rely on Twitter. We will not stop serving the public conversation.
We call on Twitter management and Elon Musk to cease these negligent layoff threats. As workers, we deserve concrete commitments so we can continue to preserve the integrity of our platform.
We demand of current and future leadership:
Respect: We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.
Safety: We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. We also demand safety for workers on visas, who will be forced to leave the country they work in if they are laid off.
Protection: We demand Elon Musk explicitly commit to preserve our benefits, those both listed in the merger agreement and not (e.g. remote work). We demand leadership to establish and ensure fair severance policies for all workers before and after any change in ownership.
Dignity: We demand transparent, prompt and thoughtful communication around our working conditions. We demand to be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.
Sincerely,
Twitter workers”
Below is a link to a video showing the wide array of benefits/pampering that are currently being lavished on the coddled young people who work there. **
The average annual salary at Twitter is reported to be $150,000.
Talk about a lot of fat that can and should be cut!
Try, try to understand…
There’s an election in just under two weeks…
And as the party of “resistance”, what else do they have?
Try, try to understand…
Barry, I do understand and that is the problem.
Comment on Twitter people. What a bunch of entitled Twits. If the sale agreement included the continuation of free food I wonder if it stipulates what kind of free food. Bugs and Hotdogs on the menu in the future.
Sorry, it looks like the second video I linked to, filmed by a new hire and showing the lavish benefits for Twitter employees–gourmet meals, specialty coffee, yoga and meditation rooms, game rooms, lounge chairs on the roof to get some sun, etc. , etc. has now–surprise, surprise–disappeared, and now this Twitter thread is just fighting over this issue, back and forth.
Hotdogs?
You ARE an optimist(!)
(Well, maybe of the soy, etc., variety…)
In any event, grasshoppers/locusts are said to be super nutritious…and a real treat in East Africa and the Middle East (well, for some, at least.)
Gotta watch out for that nicotine, though, I would think…
New York’s Voter Matrix: An Alternate Structure Within Voter Rolls
Hundreds of Thousands of Cloned Voter Records
One expert said he saw this occur in the Middle East. He said the purpose was to “control elections. I never expected to see it in America.”
The Matrix found within New York’s voter rolls closes the loop started with ballot trafficking.” For trafficked ballots to have any effect, they must be counted. To prevent an overcount, the vote count must match the voter count. To do that, phantom registrations are needed.
We know from research conducted by NYCA that large numbers of phantom voters are present in the voter rolls. The only piece missing from this puzzle is a way to clandestinely access the phantom voter records.
The Voter Matrix can solve that problem. It creates a hidden structure within the ID numbers. That structure can be accessed by an external app that understands the Matrix. It uses the repositioned numbers to determine which can be safely interacted with (phantoms) and which cannot (legitimate records). This is what NYCA has found. Anyone with access to the voter rolls can see it.
Is this real? Does it exist in other voter databases? It allows fake ballots to be counted invisibly. I have not seen it debunked, but it is also not getting the coverage it would seem to deserve.
Perhaps this job applicant is representative of twitter employees.
…as Victor D. Hanson, describing the rather symmetrical—if diametrically opposed—evolutions of both parties, points out the extraordinary contradictions (AKA hypocrasies)…and hits another one out of the park…
“The switcheroos of the two parties”— https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/hanson102722.php3
(That is, if one truly wishes to understand what’s going on in the US…on the macro level…)
H/T Powerline blog.
A rabbi’s take on the transgender craze and worth reading.
It would be excellent if the new self-described Chief Twit fired all those excess employees. Twitter users could then actually say what they want to. Some of it would be offensive, and sensible people could ignore it.
Which kind of jibes rather neatly—eerily? (comically?)—with the emanations from this particular Swiss Miss(fit):
“WEF Calls for ‘Interventions’ in Free Speech to ‘Improve Safety’ “…(for the sake of the children—OUR children—of course!)— https://slaynews.com/news/wef-calls-interventions-free-speech-improve-safety/
I tell ya’ if Covid doesn’t kill us we’re all gonna die of laughter…
…though if that worries you, this might well be the antidote:
“COVID-19 and the Psychology of Totalitarianism;
“The transition from democracy to totalitarian technocracy is not an elite conspiracy, but the process of a whole society succumbing to a new dominant ideology”— https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/psychology-of-totalitarianism
Disclaimer (FWIW): I personally am more inclined to believe that it IS an “elite conspiracy”…
Every time you think the NeverTrump chatterati may have hit bottom, they prove you wrong.
Here are two western vloggers on China who I’ve mentioned here before–Serpentza and Laowhy76–about how the Communist Chinese government tries to use/pay Internet “influencers” to be their agents in influence/propaganda operations aimed at us here in the West.*
So be aware that a lot of things you see about China from various western Internet posters/vloggers covering China may, in fact, be paid Chinese propaganda, designed to portray China, the Chinese Communist Party, and it’s actions in the best possible light and conversly the U.S. in the worst possible light.
Just because matt dowd screwed maria shriver (shirley) he thinks he can do the same to us.
As for max boot whay happened to him
Did those Twitter employees who sent that list of “demands” to Elon actually sign it? Those who support that memo must feel they are not within the 25% who will be retained. If nothing else those signing it will give Mr. Musk a starting point for his lay-off list.
RE: Twitter
Found it again!
Here’s the video of some of the working conditions/benefits for Twitter employees.*
Hard to remember, but one of the places I worked at long ago had a break/lunch room that consisted of a small room with a couple of beat up tables, a coffee machine that sometimes worked, and that was it, and you brought the lunch you packed at home and had a place to sit down and eat it, not this.
Fwiw Every version of Cleo was……..a knee bender. I did like the redhead the most.
P.S.–Bet these Twitter employees had a whole host of other costly benefits, including first rate health–prescription, doctor visit, hospital coverage, dental, eyeglass, hearing aid, and mental health–coverage, generous paid maternity and sick leave, great life insurance, tuition assistance, stock option plus 401K plans with Twitter matching and then doubling your contribution, etc., etc.
So, yeah, I’m pretty sure that they’ve had a real sweet deal that has cost and is costing Twitter a fortune.
Cleopatra was a ptolemy they didnt marry into the local tribes
Speaking of historical recreations, Stanford just made a 3D recreation of Joseph of New Testament fame:
That essay by Rabbi Barclay is very well argued. Thank you for sharing it!
Let’s hope more folks empowered with counseling teens learn from his approach.
When Elon is solidly in place and making changes, expect many to change their attitude in a hurry.
Some closeted normals who legitimately feared being canceled for not following the crazy leftists, and some crazy leftists who waste no time sucking up to the new boss.
And, Cleo looks way better with makeup and decent hair style.
Respect: We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.
–Twitter employees, “Demands”
That’s sure not the Silicon Valley I worked in.
I always loved the term, “headcount.” Made me feel warm and comfy. But that was the way it worked.
Interesting video on Cleopatra, thank you. Of course, Cleopatra is one of those historical figures who is so surrounded by centuries of legends and myths (plus contemporary bootlicking and vicious gossip) that determining the actual facts of her life is very difficult. One detail that I read somewhere (I have not bothered to research this so take it with a grain of salt) is that Cleopatra VII was the first of her dynasty to learn to speak Egyptian. Of course, as she was the last Ptolemy she was the only member of her dynasty to do so. Odd, given that in modern popular culture she is regarded as a quintessential Egyptian figure.
her Cleo was certainly a beauty
An article I found of interest on mRNA injections injuries and excess death rates:
The video’s reference to Cleopatra’s “aquiline” nose reminded me of Pascal’s seventeenth-century observation on the role that random personal features or traits play in shaping historical events: Le nez de Cléopâtre : s’il eût été plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait changé. (“Cleopatra’s nose: if it had been shorter, the entire course of history [literally, the entire face of the world] would have been different.”
The arab world and even the late medieval one gave cleopatra more props than plularch lets say
Lee:
I am requesting that you stop linking to that blog. You keep doing it, and I have checked out quite a few of the articles there that you have linked and they have been deeply flawed. It takes a long time to check them out, but I do not trust that source and don’t want to spend more time on it.
Well they completely demoneticized the site oddly all the putfits that downplayed the vaccine risk and overemphasized the therapeuric aspects specially for youts have not been subject is there a problem with the actual studies design?
She wasnt unattractive obviously but she had charisma and knowledge and wit which attracted both caesar and mark anthony
miguel cervantes:
This is the problem with the blog posts that Lee has posted links to from that site (and there have been many) that I have laboriously checked out so far – the posts there that I’ve checked have misrepresented what the studies actually found. And sometimes it’s hard to find the studies themselves. I wouldn’t mind a couple of links here and there of that sort, but Lee has made it a practice to link to this sort of thing very often.
At some point I may write a post on the subject. But I have no interest in checking out link after link to post after post there, because so far that site has lost credibility with me and it takes hours to check each link out. The actual research articles are usually long and complex. In the case of the link in this particular thread, it is to a YouTube video that does not even list the study in the written description. I would have to watch the entire video to find out if the speaker gives the link to the study, and that’s more time spent, perhaps to no avail. The study should be listed in the written description – the speaker has no trouble putting in links to all HIS websites. I looked up the speaker, who is an oncologist – not a heart doctor, not an infectious disease expert.
I’m tired of wasting my time on this. So far it has been a waste of time. As I said, I don’t mind a few links – I can’t check out everything people post here. But if someone posts link after link after link on a certain subject and I have found the reasoning bogus when I check out some of them, I don’t want those links to keep happening here with that sort of frequency.
The financial tech authorities who seized power at the height of the outbreak have really lost most authority so we are left to varying degrees of samizdat outlaw media we see how the white house directef the proscription of berenson of the great barrington signers and most anybody who didnt fit into the narrative
How many studies have been published on myocarditis and other vaccine risks the ones conducted abroad thats two years of research from israel uk india and everywhere in between
The authorities rely on what reliable data for their recommendations
The demonetized wattsup they proscribed revolver from transmission while the same tired corporate press sound the eloi klaxon
miguel cervantes:
I have written a ton of posts analyzing COVID and COVID studies from the start of the pandemic. I have never been a COVID alarmist, and I have never marched in lockstep with the officials. Nor have I been a vaccine alarmist, and the vast majority of the anti-vaccine blog posts or articles I’ve read have been by people who misrepresent and/or misunderstand the evidence.
I have written about a couple of the myocarditis/cardiomyopathy and vaccine studies here as well as here.
In medical research, there’s just about always disagreement and contradictory results as well. But so far I’ve seen nothing that justifies the widespread anti-vaccine posts that are often linked here by some commenters.
My suspicions are raised by these heavy handed measures against not only toby young (who is a iconoclast who consequently doesnt make many friends) and anthony watts and darren beattie to cite three examples
Hopefully elons capture of twitter will open up all avenues of inquiry
Progressive Dem Dr Vinay Prasad with political advice for Dems, re: Covid policy.
And the way they have issued blanket liability waivers to pfizer and moderna makes one very suspicious (in a world where everything else is subject to lawfare)
miguel cervantes:
If they hadn’t done that, no vaccine would have come out for 5 years or so.
It is good to be skeptical and withhold judgment, but it is also good to be very fair about examining the evidence. I believe that so far I have struck a good balance. If I change my mind on something in the future, I’ll say so.
I was one who had utterly dismissed robert f kennedy jr for his extreme vaccine skepticiam which is still probably unwarranted but the practices and patterns which vaccine distribution underwritten by gates and fauci among others makes one take a second look
Oh. Just now reading the comments about vaccines above.
neo, it’s true that I’m a “Nuremberg 2.0” guy on the topic. But hopefully the Dr Prasad vid will be within your approval zone.
He has impeccable credentials.
He approves of Covid vaccines in some situations.
The well known Dr John Campbell has transitioned from pro vaxx to full throated Covid Dissident.
Dr Prasad is imo making the same journey. He hasn’t reached the endpoint yet, though.
JimNorCal:
I certainly agree that Biden should fire his COVID advisors – which of course wouldn’t happen.
And although I didn’t listen to the video you linked (too long), I did skim an article by that same doctor on the subject at Substack, and I agree with much of it and some of it includes points I’ve already made in posts on this blog.
Glad you’re tracking Dr Prasad somewhat.
He’s a rarity: a Prog who is intellectually honest. Quite scrupulously so.
Consider keeping him bookmarked.
Like Greenwald, Weiss, Gabbard, Taiibi he will exert outsize influence due to his audience and political standing … obviously a topic central to this blog.
The image of Joan of Arc has been idealized to the point that Ingrid Bergman, who was Bogart’s great lost love in “Casablanca,” played Joan in a Hollywood biopic.
As I recall, the most credible information has Joan as rather plain. Which wouldn’t surprise me. The majority of women are not beautiful, by definition.
But how did a plain teenage peasant girl rise to command the French armies in battle against the British?
I still can’t make sense of that story.
They gave him two book contracts of course all this chaff had an effect doctors were loath to provide effective treatment and many died
Id say its more tuskegee experiment 2*
Indifference to treatment measures
Mila jovavich also had the role against its charisma personality which cant be perfectly conveyef on film
Sort of a variation on the vlasov group (soviet officers who worked for the nazis)
miguel cervantes:
It bears zero resemblance to the Tuskeegee experiment.
And I would wager that much of what you think you know about the Tuskeegee experiment is untrue. See this and also see this.
huxley said, “But how did a plain teenage peasant girl rise to command the French armies in battle against the British?”
Point of historical accuracy here: in 1431, the cross-Channel enemy of France was the kingdom of England; “Britain” did not exist before 1707, the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
As for teenage “girl”: the usual suspects would advise you to try to keep up– Joan is an example of the “divinity of trans people.” Just this year, there was a play titled I, Joan put on at the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. You got it– the drama “portrays Joan as trans and non-binary as a central theme of the plot. Both the playwright (Charlie Josephine), and the actor playing Joan (Isobel Thom) also identify as non-binary.” Needless to say, the Grauniad loved the play: . . . the mass fury hurled at this production has only shown it to be all the more essential. And as for the cries of historical inaccuracy? Well, the decision to make Joan non-binary has parachuted the tale into current times. Beginning with a monologue on the divinity of trans people, Josephine’s script is as much protest as play. Driven by a God characterised as a deep, internal instinct rather than a deific force, this Joan urges us to follow our own authentic truths.
It is a joyous few hours . . . . Brightly dressed chorus members are lifted from the crowd and up on to the stage for rousing, marching, dance breaks. An onstage band makes each scene feel like we’re preparing for revolution. Together, this company is one of jubilant power. . . . Josephine has written a refined lesson in the trans experience: the horrors of having to explain your being, the sense of misplacement, but with beauty and wonder too.
@ huxley > “But how did a plain teenage peasant girl rise to command the French armies in battle against the British?”
I did a rather deep study of Joan of Arc about 20 years ago; I’ll try and dig up the references for you, but long story short: she was divinely inspired and directed, and the French who followed her believed that to be true.
YMMV, but I was convinced.
@ PA Cat > “Cleopatra’s nose: if it had been shorter, the entire course of history [literally, the entire face of the world] would have been different.”
Pascal’s comment is a running gag in the French comic book “Asterix and Cleopatra.”
Apparently, there are two movies, but I don’t know if they kept the joke.
“Asterix and Cleopatra has been adapted for film twice: first as an animated 1968 film entitled Asterix and Cleopatra, and then as a live-action 2002 film called Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.”
The older film is available on Youtube.
This may have already been posted–if so, I apologize.
Epidemiologist Vinay Prashad–no semi fascist he– gives a fabulous summary of all the non-science based Covid policies that have been instituted by people “who aren’t very smart” and the huge harms resulting from them.
He also gives a good take on what myocardiitis is, and why it is a most serious “side effect,” and why its appearance in young men should have immediately caused them to re-evaluate the shots (as had always been the case, before Covid.)
As it ends, it’s clear he is seeing the Red Tsunami about to come–the ONLY upside I find in the CDCs adding experimental mRNA injections to the childhood vax schedule–even the “wealthy white woke women” are being red pilled by that.
(maybe that and violent crime? There’s no way to ignore food and gas prices either.)
He calls for ALL Covid advisors and policy makers to go, based on the harms they have caused, and the lies they told–and continue to tell.
This video may be as close to an opening statement at a Nuremberg 2.0 trial we’ll ever get.
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So here it is, 8:15 am and the Stock Market is up almost 500 points on the GDP numbers, up 2.6. In the fine print is the fact it is up because of Oil/Gas and Weapons exports. Kind of like the Chinese numbers based on all the empty cities they built.
We all know that inflation is really above 8.5 % too, but they don’t factor in Food and Energy (not sure about housing costs).
They lie to us.
Elon Musk is reportedly considering cutting 75% of the workforce at Twitter when his purchase is complete and he takes over this Friday.
In response, some Twitter employees have published and sent him an open letter listing their “Demands”*
” Staff, Elon Musk, and Board of Directors:
We, the undersigned Twitter workers, believe the public conversation is in jeopardy.
Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 75% of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation. A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation.
Twitter has significant effects on societies and communities across the globe. As we speak, Twitter is helping to uplift independent journalism in Ukraine and Iran, as well as powering social movements around the world.
A threat to workers at Twitter is a threat to Twitter’s future. These threats have an impact on us as workers and demonstrate a fundamental disconnect with the realities of operating Twitter. They threaten our livelihoods, access to essential healthcare, and the ability for visa holders to stay in the country they work in. We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter.
We, the workers at Twitter, will not be intimidated. We recommit to supporting the communities, organizations, and businesses who rely on Twitter. We will not stop serving the public conversation.
We call on Twitter management and Elon Musk to cease these negligent layoff threats. As workers, we deserve concrete commitments so we can continue to preserve the integrity of our platform.
We demand of current and future leadership:
Respect: We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.
Safety: We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. We also demand safety for workers on visas, who will be forced to leave the country they work in if they are laid off.
Protection: We demand Elon Musk explicitly commit to preserve our benefits, those both listed in the merger agreement and not (e.g. remote work). We demand leadership to establish and ensure fair severance policies for all workers before and after any change in ownership.
Dignity: We demand transparent, prompt and thoughtful communication around our working conditions. We demand to be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.
Sincerely,
Twitter workers”
Below is a link to a video showing the wide array of benefits/pampering that are currently being lavished on the coddled young people who work there. **
The average annual salary at Twitter is reported to be $150,000.
Talk about a lot of fat that can and should be cut!
* https://time.com/6224380/elon-musk-twitter-open-letter/
** https://twitter.com/compilesandruns/status/1585385295268413440
Reading that list of demands, I’m reminded of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2kWbQqlZNI
“They lie to us.”
Try, try to understand…
There’s an election in just under two weeks…
And as the party of “resistance”, what else do they have?
Try, try to understand…
Barry, I do understand and that is the problem.
Comment on Twitter people. What a bunch of entitled Twits. If the sale agreement included the continuation of free food I wonder if it stipulates what kind of free food. Bugs and Hotdogs on the menu in the future.
Sorry, it looks like the second video I linked to, filmed by a new hire and showing the lavish benefits for Twitter employees–gourmet meals, specialty coffee, yoga and meditation rooms, game rooms, lounge chairs on the roof to get some sun, etc. , etc. has now–surprise, surprise–disappeared, and now this Twitter thread is just fighting over this issue, back and forth.
Hotdogs?
You ARE an optimist(!)
(Well, maybe of the soy, etc., variety…)
In any event, grasshoppers/locusts are said to be super nutritious…and a real treat in East Africa and the Middle East (well, for some, at least.)
Gotta watch out for that nicotine, though, I would think…
New York Voter Database Matrix
This popped up and has died, but seems to have huge implications. https://twitter.com/NYCitizensAudit/status/1559890678716547073
New York’s Voter Matrix: An Alternate Structure Within Voter Rolls
Hundreds of Thousands of Cloned Voter Records
One expert said he saw this occur in the Middle East. He said the purpose was to “control elections. I never expected to see it in America.”
The Matrix found within New York’s voter rolls closes the loop started with ballot trafficking.” For trafficked ballots to have any effect, they must be counted. To prevent an overcount, the vote count must match the voter count. To do that, phantom registrations are needed.
We know from research conducted by NYCA that large numbers of phantom voters are present in the voter rolls. The only piece missing from this puzzle is a way to clandestinely access the phantom voter records.
The Voter Matrix can solve that problem. It creates a hidden structure within the ID numbers. That structure can be accessed by an external app that understands the Matrix. It uses the repositioned numbers to determine which can be safely interacted with (phantoms) and which cannot (legitimate records). This is what NYCA has found. Anyone with access to the voter rolls can see it.
Is this real? Does it exist in other voter databases? It allows fake ballots to be counted invisibly. I have not seen it debunked, but it is also not getting the coverage it would seem to deserve.
Perhaps this job applicant is representative of twitter employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6dLQCcVm9o
This one is kinda “fun”…
“Biden and Journalists Agree: Republicans Would Deliberately ‘Crash’ the Economy”—
https://reason.com/2022/10/26/biden-and-journalists-agree-republicans-would-deliberately-crash-the-economy/?utm_medium=email
Which would explain, I suppose, why the Democrats want to crash it first!
(Well, it’s as good a reason as any…)
Meanwhile, the paper of record (in NYC, at least) continues to ask the important questions:
“How long will Democratic voters continue to allow themselves to be treated like fools?”—
https://nypost.com/2022/10/26/how-long-will-democratic-voters-continue-to-allow-themselves-to-be-treated-like-fools/
H/T Powerline blog (for both).
…as Victor D. Hanson, describing the rather symmetrical—if diametrically opposed—evolutions of both parties, points out the extraordinary contradictions (AKA hypocrasies)…and hits another one out of the park…
“The switcheroos of the two parties”—
https://jewishworldreview.com/1022/hanson102722.php3
(That is, if one truly wishes to understand what’s going on in the US…on the macro level…)
H/T Powerline blog.
A rabbi’s take on the transgender craze and worth reading.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/10/why_gender_confusion_is_increasing_and_what_can_be_done.html
It would be excellent if the new self-described Chief Twit fired all those excess employees. Twitter users could then actually say what they want to. Some of it would be offensive, and sensible people could ignore it.
And then there’s this priceless piece:
“Another Democrat Talking Head Equates Voting for Economic Issues With the End of Democracy”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/10/26/another-democrat-talking-head-equates-voting-for-economic-issues-with-the-end-of-democracy-n1640221
That’s right. If “we” continue to allow unfettered voting, unfettered democracy, unfettered thinking, unfettered freedom of speech, we will—the country will—be in grave danger of going the way of Weimar Germany into National Socialism.
That’s right!
Absolutely priceless!!
Which kind of jibes rather neatly—eerily? (comically?)—with the emanations from this particular Swiss Miss(fit):
“WEF Calls for ‘Interventions’ in Free Speech to ‘Improve Safety’ “…(for the sake of the children—OUR children—of course!)—
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-calls-interventions-free-speech-improve-safety/
I tell ya’ if Covid doesn’t kill us we’re all gonna die of laughter…
…though if that worries you, this might well be the antidote:
“COVID-19 and the Psychology of Totalitarianism;
“The transition from democracy to totalitarian technocracy is not an elite conspiracy, but the process of a whole society succumbing to a new dominant ideology”—
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/psychology-of-totalitarianism
Disclaimer (FWIW): I personally am more inclined to believe that it IS an “elite conspiracy”…
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/10/26/another-democrat-talking-head-equates-voting-for-economic-issues-with-the-end-of-democracy-n1640221
Every time you think the NeverTrump chatterati may have hit bottom, they prove you wrong.
Here are two western vloggers on China who I’ve mentioned here before–Serpentza and Laowhy76–about how the Communist Chinese government tries to use/pay Internet “influencers” to be their agents in influence/propaganda operations aimed at us here in the West.*
So be aware that a lot of things you see about China from various western Internet posters/vloggers covering China may, in fact, be paid Chinese propaganda, designed to portray China, the Chinese Communist Party, and it’s actions in the best possible light and conversly the U.S. in the worst possible light.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ANu465zqY
Interesting
https://www.arce.org/resource/cleopatra-vii-scholar-patron-queen
When youve burned your seed corn you cant grow anything
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/10/26/cnn-expects-layoffs-and-budget-cuts-by-the-end-of-the-year-n506024
Just because matt dowd screwed maria shriver (shirley) he thinks he can do the same to us.
As for max boot whay happened to him
Did those Twitter employees who sent that list of “demands” to Elon actually sign it? Those who support that memo must feel they are not within the 25% who will be retained. If nothing else those signing it will give Mr. Musk a starting point for his lay-off list.
RE: Twitter
Found it again!
Here’s the video of some of the working conditions/benefits for Twitter employees.*
Hard to remember, but one of the places I worked at long ago had a break/lunch room that consisted of a small room with a couple of beat up tables, a coffee machine that sometimes worked, and that was it, and you brought the lunch you packed at home and had a place to sit down and eat it, not this.
* See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skmAZHNuEP0
Fwiw Every version of Cleo was……..a knee bender. I did like the redhead the most.
P.S.–Bet these Twitter employees had a whole host of other costly benefits, including first rate health–prescription, doctor visit, hospital coverage, dental, eyeglass, hearing aid, and mental health–coverage, generous paid maternity and sick leave, great life insurance, tuition assistance, stock option plus 401K plans with Twitter matching and then doubling your contribution, etc., etc.
So, yeah, I’m pretty sure that they’ve had a real sweet deal that has cost and is costing Twitter a fortune.
Cleopatra was a ptolemy they didnt marry into the local tribes
Speaking of historical recreations, Stanford just made a 3D recreation of Joseph of New Testament fame:
https://www.outkick.com/was-andre-the-giant-the-husband-of-mary-mother-of-jesus/
TommyJay,
That essay by Rabbi Barclay is very well argued. Thank you for sharing it!
Let’s hope more folks empowered with counseling teens learn from his approach.
When Elon is solidly in place and making changes, expect many to change their attitude in a hurry.
Some closeted normals who legitimately feared being canceled for not following the crazy leftists, and some crazy leftists who waste no time sucking up to the new boss.
And, Cleo looks way better with makeup and decent hair style.
Respect: We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.
–Twitter employees, “Demands”
That’s sure not the Silicon Valley I worked in.
I always loved the term, “headcount.” Made me feel warm and comfy. But that was the way it worked.
Interesting video on Cleopatra, thank you. Of course, Cleopatra is one of those historical figures who is so surrounded by centuries of legends and myths (plus contemporary bootlicking and vicious gossip) that determining the actual facts of her life is very difficult. One detail that I read somewhere (I have not bothered to research this so take it with a grain of salt) is that Cleopatra VII was the first of her dynasty to learn to speak Egyptian. Of course, as she was the last Ptolemy she was the only member of her dynasty to do so. Odd, given that in modern popular culture she is regarded as a quintessential Egyptian figure.
her Cleo was certainly a beauty
An article I found of interest on mRNA injections injuries and excess death rates:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/27/mrna-vaccines-injure-the-heart-of-all-vaccine-recipients-and-cause-myocarditis-in-up-to-1-in-27-study-finds/
The video’s reference to Cleopatra’s “aquiline” nose reminded me of Pascal’s seventeenth-century observation on the role that random personal features or traits play in shaping historical events: Le nez de Cléopâtre : s’il eût été plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait changé. (“Cleopatra’s nose: if it had been shorter, the entire course of history [literally, the entire face of the world] would have been different.”
The arab world and even the late medieval one gave cleopatra more props than plularch lets say
Lee:
I am requesting that you stop linking to that blog. You keep doing it, and I have checked out quite a few of the articles there that you have linked and they have been deeply flawed. It takes a long time to check them out, but I do not trust that source and don’t want to spend more time on it.
Well they completely demoneticized the site oddly all the putfits that downplayed the vaccine risk and overemphasized the therapeuric aspects specially for youts have not been subject is there a problem with the actual studies design?
She wasnt unattractive obviously but she had charisma and knowledge and wit which attracted both caesar and mark anthony
miguel cervantes:
This is the problem with the blog posts that Lee has posted links to from that site (and there have been many) that I have laboriously checked out so far – the posts there that I’ve checked have misrepresented what the studies actually found. And sometimes it’s hard to find the studies themselves. I wouldn’t mind a couple of links here and there of that sort, but Lee has made it a practice to link to this sort of thing very often.
At some point I may write a post on the subject. But I have no interest in checking out link after link to post after post there, because so far that site has lost credibility with me and it takes hours to check each link out. The actual research articles are usually long and complex. In the case of the link in this particular thread, it is to a YouTube video that does not even list the study in the written description. I would have to watch the entire video to find out if the speaker gives the link to the study, and that’s more time spent, perhaps to no avail. The study should be listed in the written description – the speaker has no trouble putting in links to all HIS websites. I looked up the speaker, who is an oncologist – not a heart doctor, not an infectious disease expert.
I’m tired of wasting my time on this. So far it has been a waste of time. As I said, I don’t mind a few links – I can’t check out everything people post here. But if someone posts link after link after link on a certain subject and I have found the reasoning bogus when I check out some of them, I don’t want those links to keep happening here with that sort of frequency.
The financial tech authorities who seized power at the height of the outbreak have really lost most authority so we are left to varying degrees of samizdat outlaw media we see how the white house directef the proscription of berenson of the great barrington signers and most anybody who didnt fit into the narrative
How many studies have been published on myocarditis and other vaccine risks the ones conducted abroad thats two years of research from israel uk india and everywhere in between
The authorities rely on what reliable data for their recommendations
The demonetized wattsup they proscribed revolver from transmission while the same tired corporate press sound the eloi klaxon
miguel cervantes:
I have written a ton of posts analyzing COVID and COVID studies from the start of the pandemic. I have never been a COVID alarmist, and I have never marched in lockstep with the officials. Nor have I been a vaccine alarmist, and the vast majority of the anti-vaccine blog posts or articles I’ve read have been by people who misrepresent and/or misunderstand the evidence.
I have written about a couple of the myocarditis/cardiomyopathy and vaccine studies here as well as here.
In medical research, there’s just about always disagreement and contradictory results as well. But so far I’ve seen nothing that justifies the widespread anti-vaccine posts that are often linked here by some commenters.
My suspicions are raised by these heavy handed measures against not only toby young (who is a iconoclast who consequently doesnt make many friends) and anthony watts and darren beattie to cite three examples
Hopefully elons capture of twitter will open up all avenues of inquiry
Progressive Dem Dr Vinay Prasad with political advice for Dems, re: Covid policy.
Do not miss this one, Dr V brings the heat.
https://youtu.be/R_a6IdpVbxg
And the way they have issued blanket liability waivers to pfizer and moderna makes one very suspicious (in a world where everything else is subject to lawfare)
miguel cervantes:
If they hadn’t done that, no vaccine would have come out for 5 years or so.
It is good to be skeptical and withhold judgment, but it is also good to be very fair about examining the evidence. I believe that so far I have struck a good balance. If I change my mind on something in the future, I’ll say so.
I was one who had utterly dismissed robert f kennedy jr for his extreme vaccine skepticiam which is still probably unwarranted but the practices and patterns which vaccine distribution underwritten by gates and fauci among others makes one take a second look
Oh. Just now reading the comments about vaccines above.
neo, it’s true that I’m a “Nuremberg 2.0” guy on the topic. But hopefully the Dr Prasad vid will be within your approval zone.
He has impeccable credentials.
He approves of Covid vaccines in some situations.
The well known Dr John Campbell has transitioned from pro vaxx to full throated Covid Dissident.
Dr Prasad is imo making the same journey. He hasn’t reached the endpoint yet, though.
JimNorCal:
I certainly agree that Biden should fire his COVID advisors – which of course wouldn’t happen.
And although I didn’t listen to the video you linked (too long), I did skim an article by that same doctor on the subject at Substack, and I agree with much of it and some of it includes points I’ve already made in posts on this blog.
miguel cervantes:
Also the autism anti-vaxxers. Please see this.
Why are we doing this
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-administration-accelerates-timeline-to-send-upgraded-nukes-to-europe
The lancet is just a terrible publication with few standards yet it has been continuously involved in pushing bad data
Just like the people that keep giving michael bellesiles book contracts
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31324-6/fulltext
Glad you’re tracking Dr Prasad somewhat.
He’s a rarity: a Prog who is intellectually honest. Quite scrupulously so.
Consider keeping him bookmarked.
Like Greenwald, Weiss, Gabbard, Taiibi he will exert outsize influence due to his audience and political standing … obviously a topic central to this blog.
Meanwhile,
Russia Recruiting Afghan Special Forces Commandos, Could Be ‘Game-Changer’ for War in Ukraine: Report
The image of Joan of Arc has been idealized to the point that Ingrid Bergman, who was Bogart’s great lost love in “Casablanca,” played Joan in a Hollywood biopic.
As I recall, the most credible information has Joan as rather plain. Which wouldn’t surprise me. The majority of women are not beautiful, by definition.
But how did a plain teenage peasant girl rise to command the French armies in battle against the British?
I still can’t make sense of that story.
They gave him two book contracts of course all this chaff had an effect doctors were loath to provide effective treatment and many died
Id say its more tuskegee experiment 2*
Indifference to treatment measures
Mila jovavich also had the role against its charisma personality which cant be perfectly conveyef on film
Sort of a variation on the vlasov group (soviet officers who worked for the nazis)
miguel cervantes:
It bears zero resemblance to the Tuskeegee experiment.
And I would wager that much of what you think you know about the Tuskeegee experiment is untrue. See this and also see this.
huxley said, “But how did a plain teenage peasant girl rise to command the French armies in battle against the British?”
Point of historical accuracy here: in 1431, the cross-Channel enemy of France was the kingdom of England; “Britain” did not exist before 1707, the Act of Union between England and Scotland.
As for teenage “girl”: the usual suspects would advise you to try to keep up– Joan is an example of the “divinity of trans people.” Just this year, there was a play titled I, Joan put on at the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. You got it– the drama “portrays Joan as trans and non-binary as a central theme of the plot. Both the playwright (Charlie Josephine), and the actor playing Joan (Isobel Thom) also identify as non-binary.” Needless to say, the Grauniad loved the play: . . . the mass fury hurled at this production has only shown it to be all the more essential. And as for the cries of historical inaccuracy? Well, the decision to make Joan non-binary has parachuted the tale into current times. Beginning with a monologue on the divinity of trans people, Josephine’s script is as much protest as play. Driven by a God characterised as a deep, internal instinct rather than a deific force, this Joan urges us to follow our own authentic truths.
It is a joyous few hours . . . . Brightly dressed chorus members are lifted from the crowd and up on to the stage for rousing, marching, dance breaks. An onstage band makes each scene feel like we’re preparing for revolution. Together, this company is one of jubilant power. . . . Josephine has written a refined lesson in the trans experience: the horrors of having to explain your being, the sense of misplacement, but with beauty and wonder too.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/sep/02/i-joan-review-globe-theatre-london-non-binary
Photos of the production at the link.
@ huxley > “But how did a plain teenage peasant girl rise to command the French armies in battle against the British?”
I did a rather deep study of Joan of Arc about 20 years ago; I’ll try and dig up the references for you, but long story short: she was divinely inspired and directed, and the French who followed her believed that to be true.
YMMV, but I was convinced.
@ PA Cat > “Cleopatra’s nose: if it had been shorter, the entire course of history [literally, the entire face of the world] would have been different.”
Pascal’s comment is a running gag in the French comic book “Asterix and Cleopatra.”
Apparently, there are two movies, but I don’t know if they kept the joke.
“Asterix and Cleopatra has been adapted for film twice: first as an animated 1968 film entitled Asterix and Cleopatra, and then as a live-action 2002 film called Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.”
The older film is available on Youtube.
This may have already been posted–if so, I apologize.
Epidemiologist Vinay Prashad–no semi fascist he– gives a fabulous summary of all the non-science based Covid policies that have been instituted by people “who aren’t very smart” and the huge harms resulting from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_a6IdpVbxg
He also gives a good take on what myocardiitis is, and why it is a most serious “side effect,” and why its appearance in young men should have immediately caused them to re-evaluate the shots (as had always been the case, before Covid.)
As it ends, it’s clear he is seeing the Red Tsunami about to come–the ONLY upside I find in the CDCs adding experimental mRNA injections to the childhood vax schedule–even the “wealthy white woke women” are being red pilled by that.
(maybe that and violent crime? There’s no way to ignore food and gas prices either.)
He calls for ALL Covid advisors and policy makers to go, based on the harms they have caused, and the lies they told–and continue to tell.
This video may be as close to an opening statement at a Nuremberg 2.0 trial we’ll ever get.