Month: July 2020

Here we go again with this chloroquine thing. There is something very fishy hanging around with that drug.

Why is it so important that everybody wants to intervene between me and my doctor???

Is it so complicated to let my doctor and me decide what is good for me?

There is something wrong with our institutions when they are allowed to protect us against our will.

>>> “The move comes shortly after a video by America’s Frontline Doctors was removed from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.”

www.sott.net/article/438952-Ohio-Pharmacy-Board-banning-hydroxychloroquine-as-COVID-19-treatment

This quoted text is a wrong interpretation in my opinion. It is driven by the consensus that plants are good for the human being. They are not that good. Actually, most plants are poisonous and for a good reason, that is their only way to avoid being eaten. Animals can always run, not the plants. We got accustomed to some of the poisons, so that is why we can eat some of the plants. We can also eat plants when they DO want us to propagate their seeds by giving us fruits. Needless to say, they never intend for us to eat the seeds themselves. Those are their babies and they want to protect them. So most seed-based nutrition will only get you in trouble.

Talking about total fasting against partial plant-based fasting, I am just using common sense here. When a human is fasting, the only thing the body can use as fuel is its own fat. In fasting, we are burning 100% fat.
How does that compare to a low carbohydrates diet????

I have read somewhere, (google it…) that cancer cells can only ‘eat’ glucose, so if you only eat fat, you are effectively starving the cancer cells.
I think vitamin C addition is a bonus.

Coincidentally, I have been fasting twice this week for 36 hours each, and I use a lot of “Stur” water enhancer. That product has 0 calories. It is sweetened with Stevia leaves and has 100% vitamin C daily value per dose.

I consider fasting beneficial for general health following a very common-sense hypothesis. Since we have been around hunting and gathering for a lot longer (from a few hundred thousand years to a few million years) than we have used agriculture (the earlier evidence is around 9000 years), it is easy to see that we have adapted our bodies to be starving once in a while. So, starving is part of our normal pattern of nourishment. I think.

The article is still worth reading for its basic research.

>> “The researchers said that while fasting remains a challenging option for cancer patients, a safer, more feasible option is a low-calorie, plant-based diet that causes cells to respond as if the body were fasting.”

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512151941.htm

This is worth reading in its entirety. It is about how countries (read politicians) will fight to get their COVID remedy to be accepted widely. Now I understand the reason behind blaming others to ‘steal’ vaccine secrets. If your vaccine doesn’t work, you can always blame the others.

I still believe that people that try to benefit from the COVID crisis should be punished severely.
When will we be free of those?

Any ‘solution’ should be universally available, free, fully tested, fully open with no secret ingredients, and nonintrusive. Of course, it will not be any of these.

>>> “it should be objectively recognized that this epidemiological situation has already been politicized and is being resultantly instrumentalized for grand strategic purposes.”

www.sott.net/article/438642-The-vaccine-race-is-the-next-phase-of-the-COVID-World-Order

Maybe a bear spray would have saved his life. Black bears do not engage humans very often. Up until recently, there were no reports of Black bears attacking humans in Canada. In our current time, we even have y coyotes attacks.

The bear must have had a reason to attack, like protecting his territory against this blueberries ‘thief’…

The police must also have had good reasons to kill the bear, maybe he was behaving strangely, maybe he had rabies. He might have had some blood on his face. Who knows.

I lived in northern Canada for 8 years in the wilderness and I would not have gone out in the woods without some kind of protection and not just a pocket knife.

Bear spray is about the only thing legal in Canada where you can’t even possess regular pepper spray. You have to sign for it in specialized stores, but it is proven to be the best protection against bears, even better than firearms (google that).

>>> “Police, in a release issued on Tuesday, say they killed a black bear located in the vicinity of the body of the man, who left home Monday morning and was in the vicinity of Tuzyk Road off Highway 105. ”

www.sott.net/article/438571#commentnotice

 

You may also learn more about bear safety, here:

https://outsidehow.com/bear-safety-guide.html

 

This crisis is revealing ourselves again. We are witnessing most of the bad things about our society and its systems. Maybe we have a chance here to be correcting some of these bad things.

>>> “We are facing the greatest assault on our civil liberties in our lifetimes. The virus is real, but the government reaction is political and totalitarian.”

www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/22/big-holes-in-the-covid-spike-narrative/

We can all see that it is coming in one form or another. We will be forced to have a vaccine somehow in the near future.

I share my opinions with this guy. I do not mind wearing a mask to go shopping for a few weeks but I would not like to be forced to have a vaccine. I would rather take my chances of catching the disease and build my own natural immunity. Isn’t that nature’s way?

Some people think that we can control these kinds of things but we can’t. It is just an illusion of control that we reached sometimes and sooner or later we find that we made things worse.

>>> “I’m afraid the company that receives the approval may be the one with the best political connections, not the best and safest vaccine. Considering the number of post-market drug recalls and withdrawals in the past few years, the US’ Food and Drug Administration doesn’t have the best track record on vetting the research. “

www.sott.net/article/438510-Vaccine-for-thee-but-not-for-me-Heres-why-rushed-shots-shouldnt-be-trusted

Science has become more something about a consensus that anything else. “Do not disturb the status quo”, seems to be the word. We should have learned by now that most advances in science were done by ignoring the main current and going in unexplored directions. All people should be encouraged somehow to explore new directions. At the very least we should have some social structure to prevent denying that exploration, like these archeologists ‘ignoring’ the work of others.

Exploring is something to do when you have time on your hand as if we ever implement the Universal Basic Income after we have reached the coming social singularity point. That point where robots take over the world by doing everything we don’t want to do.

>>> “…although expertly excavated and analysed, are commonly disputed or simply ignored by most archaeologists…”

www.sott.net/article/438529-Peopling-of-the-Americas-may-have-begun-more-than-33000-years-ago

This doesn’t make sense to me. Isn’t all COVID research suppose to be public in the interest of the whole planet. I find it strange that a country would have unique information about that virus and not share it. It would be in their own interest. I mean if the virus spreads in one country it would affect the other one as well. Unless that research has something that one country would be ashamed about revealing. It is also possible that some entity intends to profit from that virus. In that case, that should be also punishable.

I understand that they might be spying and they may have stolen other information. If they get caught, it is fair game to get punished. On all sides. Why add the COVID dimension to it?

>> “More recently, the prosecutors accused the hackers of targeting the networks of over a dozen U.S. companies in Maryland, Massachusetts and California developing vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. “

www.sott.net/article/438542-US-charges-two-Chinese-spies-for-a-global-hacking-campaign-that-targeted-COVID-19-research

You never know who you are dealing with. It would be nice to have something that would tell you when a person has a history of violence. In the meantime, situational awareness should be our primary line of defense against these people.

>>> “The sheriff revealed that Tony Wiggins already has 230 felony criminal charges in his arrest history, going back to the age of 12, and has served two sentences in state prison.”

www.sott.net/article/438525-Pure-evil-Trio-arrested-over-cold-blooded-murder-of-fishing-group-in-Florida

You should probably check with them before sending bitcoins to an unknown destination for any reasons.

>>> “With the rapid rise in the number of bitcoin scams, there are easy ways to check if a bitcoin address has been reported as being used by scammers,…”

news.bitcoin.com/how-to-check-bitcoin-address-scam/

It is still a mystery to me, how the access to this treatment has been limited almost everywhere. This drug is cheap, so it should be easy to produce.

With all the money we spent in reaction to COVID, why didn’t we boosted the production of this treatment?

>>> “Liberals have interfered with public access to this medication for COVID-19 through the old-fashioned route of requiring a prescription and then having a pharmacist fill or reject the prescription. ”

www.sott.net/article/438346-Hydroxychloroquine-should-be-available-over-the-counter

I do not mind wearing a mask in a public area.  I do think COVID is real even if the propaganda around it may not be.  I am not prepared to accept a forced vaccine.  I simply do not trust “scientific” enterprises enough for that.  If they really know what they are doing why we haven’t got an efficient vaccine for the common cold or the flu?  Why are we still fighting cancer?

If you really have control over cancer and everything else then maybe I will trust you more about your vaccine.

What I found revolting is that we were prevented to use treatments that worked.  Forget about those pseudo “scientific” proof.  If I am dying, I should be allowed to try anything to survive.

>> “To quote Dr. Vladimir Zelenko of New York:
“COVID is very real. But if we treat it early and the right way, it’s nothing to fear. I saw early use of zinc, hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin result in an over 99% survival rate in my COVID patients. Don’t let professional scaremongers dictate the narrative.” “

www.sott.net/article/438294-A-scientific-look-at-the-mask-fallacy-and-why-we-re-told-to-wear-them

Yes, the one thing we know for sure is that we know nothing for sure. We should practice in doubting everything, sometimes, even ourselves.

>>> “To put it succinctly, the one thing that we know about this pandemic is that we do NOT know anything about it.”

www.sott.net/article/438285-The-most-dangerous-thing-about-Coronavirus-is-the-news-about-it

This is interesting to me because I believe that p2p will be the way to the future. There will be a big fight against “centralized powers” and we should prepare for it, but I think p2p will prevail.

>>> “Privacy-oriented social media platform “Minds,” often touted as an antithesis to Facebook and Twitter, has been seeing considerable growth in the number of users,…”

news.bitcoin.com/crypto-social-network-minds-users-twitter-facebook-privacy/

I like playing chess. I won a tournament when I was 16 years old. I do not like the ego-boosting dimension of it. I forced a draw once in a tournament and I saw the father of my opponent almost crucify his son because of it.

I was playing against a young boy of about 12 and I was myself about 17. I was not accustomed to timers and the whole surrounding of high tumult was distracting me. I was losing to this boy and frankly, he was better than me. Then his father finished his own game and came by watching us play. He was jubilating over his son winning our game. I was losing but I saw a way out.

Since he was young, he was surely lacking the experience, so I aimed at a draw and hoped he wouldn’t notice. I succeeded and made a draw by “no movement possible”, in front of his father.

You should have seen the father’s face and the frowning. That discouraged me to play in tournaments forever. I also play rarely against a human beings because of the ego dimension.

When I was in my forties, I played against the son of a lady friend of mine because she asked me to teach him a little about his newly discovered passion. I played a few games and won because I do not believe it to be good teaching when you let somebody wins at any activity. After about three games, he never spoke to me again.

>> “But while the existence of a relationship between general cognitive ability and chess-skill is clear, is this simply because intelligent people are more likely to engage in the game of chess, or does engaging in chess make people smarter?”

theconversation.com/does-playing-chess-make-you-smarter-a-look-at-the-evidence-76062

I was visiting my parents in Florida one winter when I was about thirty-something and I was browsing my father’s limited book collection at the time. He used to have more books as he gifted about 6000 books to a local library once on the verge of his retirement. Even after that, he had a sizable collection at their summer camp.
I came across a title by Machiavelli “The Prince” and since I had some negative preset ‘feelings’ about this known title, I looked upon my father with an inquisitive look. He answered me. He said, oh yes, “I kept this book for you because I thought that it would ‘fit’ you perfectly”. “You can have it and keep it”.

So I did. I read the book. I read the book multiple times. To this day, it is on the top five best books on my list.

From this article, and others from her and her friends, I understand more why this book had some ‘preset’ negativity instilled in me by some fake religious culture and other means.

>>> “The Index Librorum Prohibitorum would form as a consequence of this report, and its lists of forbidden books, which were judged to be dangerous to the faith and morals of Roman Catholics, had a suspicious gravitation towards works by platonic humanists. Among the banned works would include those of Dante, Erasmus and all of Machiavelli’s books. This meant that the Aristotelians now held power in Rome.”

risingtidefoundation.net/2020/07/16/a-study-of-schillers-ghost-seer-part-i/

You may get and read the book here; www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Machiavelli+%22The+Prince%22

Dr. Mercola, also, was saying that too much iron is very bad for us and we need to bleed once in a while to stay healthy. One of the reasons he thinks that women live a longer life than men is that they bleed regularly. Life closer to nature will also present good opportunities to bleed, I suppose.

>> “We are very excited by these findings as they strongly suggest that high levels of iron in the blood reduces our healthy years of life,…”

www.sott.net/article/438219-Blood-iron-levels-are-a-possible-key-to-slowing-ageing-gene-study-shows

I associate agriculture with our current instance of society. There is no sign of this kind of society before 8000 years ago.

I do not think that human beings were ‘designed’ to eat that much plant-based food. Even the Homo Sapiens were eating mostly meat and fat for 70000 years.

Without agriculture, local and readily available edible plants are really rare. Earlier than Homo-sapiens, the Homo-erectus seem to have been eating non-agricultural products for as much as 2 million years.

I do not believe that our biochemistry could have evolved rapidly enough in 8000 years that we can rely on eating plants that much. How is it that ancient Inuits did not need vitamin C supplements to survive winters? They were eating mostly fat.

If we are to get in sync with nature, we should avoid agriculture.

When I think about it, I find agriculture to be very arrogant. It looks like we think we can do better than nature at producing food, but we are really producing more problems and each ‘solution’ comes with its share of new problems.

I do not think that the human being was given ‘Reason’ in order to produce more food by agriculture. ‘Reason’ would certainly be handy when it comes to capturing wildlife or inventing new ways to fish.

I think ‘Reason’ does not need to justify its existence with a purpose like ensuring human existence.

I do not even think that agriculture is the most efficient way to get food. Hunting does not look that efficient either. Trapping or fishing with a net seems to be the most efficient and also the most resilient to nature’s caprices like floods, droughts, storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.

On a side note, we do not need a steady supply of food. Even today, the benefits of fasting are discovered all around. That could mean that our biochemistry is accustomed to fasting. Being hungry once in a while is not that bad after all. I have done it multiple times.

>>> “Homo erectus, a possible direct ancestor of people today, crafted a surprisingly cutting-edge tool out of a hippo’s leg bone around 1.4 million years ago, researchers say. “

www.sott.net/article/438111-1-4-million-year-old-hand-ax-crafted-from-hippo-leg-bone-adds-to-Homo-erectus-known-toolkit

The phrase “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger” comes to mind. When most scams will have been tried the crypto world will be more stable.

>> “On Wednesday afternoon, the Twitter accounts of many well-known people and companies in the crypto space started tweeting about a bitcoin giveaway. “

news.bitcoin.com/twitter-apple-joe-biden-elon-musk-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-uber-bitcoin-giveaway-scam/

We are still in cycle 24 and for how long? Nobody knows for sure. More and more people are studying this but it is still ignored by the mainstream media.
This site will explain more deeply about solar cycles and the possibility that the minimum of cycle 25 be really bad, similar to the Maunder minimum in 1645.

>>> “The cycle was noticed in 1843 by Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, though we have reliable sunspot observations running all the way back to 1610. Just recently, NOAA released an interactive tool cataloging sunspots from 1750. “

electroverse.net/noaa-releases-new-interactive-solar-cycle-tool-big-freeze-volcanic-eruption-by-the-year-2027/

The sun is the big master. It would be wrong to dismiss its effect on anything on Earth. I suspect that an outburst of the sun would have many effects on our planet and not all of those would be observable.

>>> “The new explanation, however, flips this electromagnetic cause-and-effect on its head, suggesting electromagnetic anomalies aren’t the result of earthquakes, but instead cause them.”

www.sott.net/article/438067-Powerful-eruptions-on-the-Sun-might-trigger-earthquakes-says-new-research

Articles intéressant sur certaines manifestations du monde physiques encore très méconnues. Son interprétation laisse beaucoup de place pour faire des expériences dans le futur.

Trop de choses restent inexpliquées, comme ces vaches qui s’arrêtent devant une clôture peinte même si elles n’ont jamais vues de vrais clôtures auparavant.

>>> “Comment, à partir de spores ou de graines, les plantes se développent-elles pour atteindre la forme caractéristique de leur espèce ? Comment les feuilles des fougères, des chênes et des bambous acquièrent-elles leur forme ? Ces questions sont liées à ce que les biologistes appellent la morphogenèse, la naissance de la forme (grec : morphe = forme ; genèse = naissance), l’un des grands problèmes de la biologie qui demeurent non résolus. “

fr.sott.net/article/35901-Resonance-morphique-La-memoire-de-la-Nature-a-travers-l-espace-et-le-temps

I find myself more and more in accordance with this Stoic philosophy. For me, right now, I would summarize as ‘If one does not control himself then something else will’.

>>> “There is only one thing that you are at least potentially in control of, and that is you: your will, your intentions, your self.”

I am not completely at this stage yet, but I want to be;

>>> “He doesn’t worry about what tomorrow will bring, since tomorrow is not under his control either. The Stoic philosopher is the man who has liberated himself from fear. He is not afraid of death, he is not afraid of pain, he is not afraid of other people’s dismissal of him as a fool.”

www.sott.net/article/437949-Stoicism-Materialism-and-the-Search-for-Divinity

A nice and short article that summarizes the birth of ‘modern medicine’ and how health care was hijacked by powerful peoples to suit their agenda.

>>> “Almost half the doctors and medical colleges in the U.S. were practicing holistic medicine, using knowledge from Europe and Native Americans.”

www.sott.net/article/437964-How-John-D-Rockefeller-founded-modern-medicine-and-killed-natural-cures

More and more people are attacked by wildlife. Is it really the case, or are we just more aware of it because of the high level of communication we have reached with the internet? It seems real but why would the wildlife be suddenly more aggressive?

>>> “It’s unusual for Australia to have five fatal shark attacks in the first six months of a year.”

www.sott.net/article/437959-15-year-old-surfer-killed-by-shark-in-New-South-Wales-Australia-5th-fatality-in-6-months

Be careful with your bitcoins. You should cross-reference any sources with more than one source. If you rely on only one other source, you might get into trouble. Also, remember the old adage about “You can’t fool an honest man”. In other words, if it’s too good to be true it’s probably not true.

>>> “The giveaway scam uses the identities of celebrities like Elon Musk or a well known exchange to lure people into sending their bitcoin, with help from Youtube advertising.”

news.bitcoin.com/youtube-helps-scammers-steal-130000-in-bitcoin-from-investors-daily-report/

He is right, of course, and so id Mr. Feynman, but the real question here is more like; Why does our current society believe in authoritarian sciences and why aren’t we questioning more about everything. It is easier, I get that, so, sometimes we should really choose a harder path.

When I was 16, I was riding a ‘trail’ motorcycle. It is a hybrid between motocross and a regular road motorcycle. In other words, it is a motocross with all the lights to go on regular roads.

I was riding on a trail road one day and I decided to switch to this other one I was seeing across a patch of dense bush. Now, I knew I could easily go on the current path and come back to it using a detour of about 5 minutes but I got intrigued by the idea of cutting through right here across this path of a young forest with a high density of small trees.

These trees were about one to two inches of diameter and were spaced at about eight to nine inches apart. Some were bending under the weight of my machine but most were not bending. I had to steer my front wheel just to pass between two trees.

Needless to say, it took me a long time to cross over. I made it through in about three hours for about a hundred and fifty feet. That was an experiment for me. It might not be very ‘scientific’ but I learned a lot about my machine and myself by crossing this dense patch of bush. Among other things, I ‘learned’ that sometimes it is more enjoyable to choose the hard path. It is just a different kind of joy.

>> “It may even be that these institutions that pretend to be about science are unscientific. The fundamental defining characteristic of science, the one that Feynman explicitly identifies, is that we do not decide whether something is true or false based on authority but rather based on experience.”

lemire.me/blog/2020/07/12/science-is-the-belief-in-the-ignorance-of-experts/

I worked for a paint company for about 10 years back in the ’80s. I know that titanium oxide was the basic ingredient for producing white paint. It was also very expensive. This discovery will help to protect structures like yacht against UV radiation that destroys most varnish and epoxy-based protection.
BTW, at that time I developed one of the first AI applications for choosing the right coating protection in most situations. The AI application was a hardcoded ‘Expert System’ which was more popular in those days than current Neural Network. The application was programmed in C, M4, and Informix among other things, and was running under SCO Xenix. We had an interface developed on Tandy Model 100 that would allow users to connect to the Expert System via modem at 300 and 1200 bauds. One of the users was even able to connect to the apps from a boat in the Arctic via satellite. Pretty good for that time.

>>> “The key ingredient in current cooling white paints is titanium oxide, which is very effective at reflecting the majority of visible and near-infrared light. One shortcoming, however, is that it absorbs ultraviolet and violet light at the same time,…”

www.sott.net/article/437934-New-super-white-paint-reflects-up-to-98-of-the-Suns-heat

Different ways of observing will lead to new discoveries. This is a good example of that.

>>> “The resulting map shows a mind-boggling bubble of material more or less centered on the southernmost point of the sky, with a great sweeping wing extending north on one side in the direction of the constellation Cetus and another stubbier arm opposite it in the direction of the constellation Apus.”

www.sott.net/article/437912-Astronomers-discover-South-Pole-Wall-a-gigantic-structure-stretching-1-4-billion-light-years-across

This illustrates the point about unnecessary Intellectual Property laws. This person is getting paid by people who like his work and there is no middle man to collect in between them.

>>>A Parisian street artist is receiving hundreds of dollars every day in bitcoin donations from his painting that speaks about “fiat and money printing.”

news.bitcoin.com/fiat-and-money-printing-street-mural-earns-500-in-bitcoin-donations-in-five-days/