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More and more people are trying to quit “central” systems and moving to peer to peer systems. They want to be free of aleatory restrictions.

The driving forces behind ‘centralized systems’ seems to be our own need for security. A few people are starting to realize that security is not something you can outsource. When one is relying on another entity for its security, one is bound to have some surprises one day.

>>> “P2P bitcoin marketplace Paxful has been growing its operation in India where it has seen a significant increase in trading volume.”

news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-p2p-trading-soars-india-new-exchange-launches/

I am a fan of peer to peer, in any way we can provide it.

Bitcoin is already a peer to peer system. In itself, it encourages some more.

>>> “The data combines trading volumes at two peer-to-peer trading platforms, Localbitcoins and Paxful.”

news.bitcoin.com/peer-to-peer-bitcoin-trading-tops-95-million-as-sub-saharan-africa-records-set-all-time-high/

J’avais compris, dès ma jeunesse, que la seule vrai richesse vient de la connaissance. Avec l’âge, je comprends aussi que la connaissance est associé à la liberté.

La liberté n’est pas quelque chose qui vient de quelqu’un en particulier.

>>> “L’un des moyens de contrôler les esprits est l’information — mensonges et récits — qui est distillée dans l’esprit des citoyens : une surexposition des grands médias de la presse écrite et audiovisuelle, une corruption profonde du monde universitaire et de la recherche scientifique et, enfin et surtout, une baisse du niveau d’éducation scolaire combinée à une propagande croissante de plus en plus adaptée aux jeunes. ”

fr.sott.net/article/35861-Les-preuves-irrefutables-de-l-origine-humaine-du-Sras-Cov-2

I think she is right about it affecting everybody, even if we do not watch MSNBC or any other mainstream media for that matter.

It would affect you even if you are completely disconnected from the internet, just because of the social pressures generated by the consensus.

 

>> “You may not watch MSNBC but just know that this problem still affects you, too. All the commercial networks function the same – and no doubt that content seeps into your social media feed, one way or the other.”

www.sott.net/article/439230-We-are-a-cancer-and-there-is-no-cure-MSNBC-producer-Ariana-Pekary-on-why-shes-quitting-network-broadcast-news

We do not know a lot about the functioning of our own brains. it may seem that we do, but we don’t. We need to get away from ‘sponsored’ science if we want a chance of approaching some real knowledge one day.

>> “…then discovered that he had a disease called corticobasal syndrome, which kills off brain cells.
Then, numbers began to look strange to RFS.”

www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/mysterious-case-man-who-can-read-letters-not-numbers-exposes-complex-roots

I love this. I find myself completely in sync with this view. I do think the natural way of life is to know your place in the food chain.

I do believe that the human being is not supposed to eat insects all the time.

>>> “Look out, Beyond Meat — a new competitor has emerged in the market of turning vegetables into a food that tastes just like meat.”

www.sott.net/article/439120-Innovative-new-process-Plants-can-be-converted-into-meat-by-feeding-them-to-cows

Definitely something strange with the banning of hydroxychloroquine.

I will remember this banning for a long, long time. It feels more like an abuse of power, to me. I hope we will know all about it, in the future.

Here, we seem to approach the truth.

>>> “One possible explanation is this FDA rule. An emergency medical medicines/vaccines authorization is not possible if there are approved alternatives.”

www.sott.net/article/439098-The-disturbing-push-to-discredit-HCQ

A good thing they can’t grow bigger. I caught a pike once, around 18 inches and it was the most fun I had fishing. That includes catching tuna in the Mexican Pacific.

>> “Muskies, the largest member of the pike family, are a species of fish that are sought after by many anglers and can grow over 50 inches long. “

www.sott.net/article/439090-Winnipeg-woman-injured-in-extremely-unusual-Ontario-fish-attack-It-pulled-me-under

I do think that crypto-currencies are a better safeguard than gold.

Of course, in a Mad Max world, the internet will not be functioning but, I think that gold will also be useless in that environment.

What will be of value in a Mad Max world? Food and the means to get it.

>>> “A few hundred thousand dollars worth of gold held by a single individual isn’t not as easy as say storing $300,000 worth of BTC.”

news.bitcoin.com/as-gold-touches-new-highs-investors-face-storage-issues-market-dilution-threat-of-seizures/

There are studies and then some interpretations. These interpretations might not be true and real.

According to a few other studies, human being is supposed to wake up every 4-6 hours.  At some point, it was normal for a person to wake up in the middle of the night and go to his neighbors and play cards or something.

Waking up for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep until the morning is supposed to be normal.  There was even a name for the second sleep it was called “Dorveille“. Google it.

When left to themselves without any pressure of any kind, human beings will revert back to that sleep pattern.

How do you measure success? For me, success has nothing to do with money or fame it has to do with happiness, the lack of care of suffering. In other words, the less you care about suffering the more you are happy.

That is my definition of happiness. In their study, there are using their own definition, which is more aligned with the consensus.

>>> “As you might guess, it’s better for the brain to sleep for a shorter number of uninterrupted hours than a longer number of fitful ones.”

www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/11/13/the-sleep-habits-of-highly-successful-people-infographic/#55de88f06d7f

Plants are the most efficient solar energy converter. Their efficiency is near 100%.

It would seem to me that the smart thing to do would not be to try to copy them but to use them.

>>> “It appears that the photosynthesis machinery evolved not for maximum efficiency but rather for an optimally smooth and reliable output.”

www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/

Another problem with extensive agriculture.

Bees are declining because they have to eat our ‘managed’ plants. Why not just let go of everything? Would that be so bad? Maybe the wildlife would autoregulate in the most optimized way.

When we are fishing in the wild oceans, we are exercising less control over nature. Sometimes, we might be overfishing but only because there is a market for it. That market can’t be sustained for long.

When I am not hungry and my fridge is full, I can’t buy more fish. My own security feeling should be in thinking that the ocean is plentiful and not that my fridge is full.

I think we should not try to submit nature to our will. We should try to live with it.

>>> “Pollination by wild and managed insects is critical for most crops, including those providing essential micronutrients, and is essential for food security,…”

www.sott.net/article/439010-Decline-of-bees-other-pollinators-threatens-US-crop-yields

Finally a light at the end of the tunnel.

We will probably end up using hydroxychloroquine and the politicians who blocked it will just say “oops, sorry, we didn’t know” and we will accept that as normal.

>>> “”As a result of the feedback received by the medical and patient community and at the request of Gov. DeWine, the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy has withdrawn proposed rule 4729:5-5-21 of the Administrative Code,” reads a Thursday statement from the board. “

www.sott.net/article/438992-Ohio-withdraws-ban-on-Hydroxychloroquine-Fauci-accused-of-misinformation-campaign

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