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Thanks to Maxwell for contributing this video, an interview with Ernst Wolff called “#Corona: The Collapse of the System.” Wolff speaks of the ongoing financial collapse and how WHO has drummed up a highly questionable pandemic which is being used to blame the financial disaster. This is something I’d call a must-see if you want to understand the seriousness of the situation. The interview is on YouTube and the URL is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1714&v=8LYjOEib9iI&feature=emb_logo

Hey, This Is an Emergency—Not Altruism’s Saturnalia By Walter Donway April 23, 2020 No single theme, no emotional message, now dominates our public life more than an unrestrained glorying in altruism—altruism triumphant, altruist cut free of constraint. This is the overwhelming public, media, and intellectual response in America to the tragedy of COVID-19. It is a saturnalia, an orgy of wild merry-making, and a black mass—a mockery of the American sense of life. As I write this, on NBC-TV is a show, “One World Together at Home,” a songfest of wailing, heartfelt lament of sorrow by aspiring musicians delighting in the spotlight. Now, Michelle Obama is introduced to tell us “We are all in this together.”  Now patients, attesting to the sorrow of “dying alone.” It is as though a long and frustrated yearning for a society of collectivism and sacrifice had burst from its underworld and gone racing and shouting—not through the streets but onto the TV screen. An epidemi...

Pandemic And Economic Collapse: The Next 60 Days                   Brandon Smith The news cycle moves so quickly these days writing analysis on current events becomes difficult; the moment you publish an examination of the situation people have already moved on to the next disaster. So, today I'm not going to do that. Instead, let's look at current trends and project what is likely to happen in the next couple of months. In my article  'How The Pandemic Crisis Will Probably Develop Over The Next Year'  published in early March, I outlined what I believed would be the major developments on a longer timetable. Some of these predictions have already occurred. Now I would like to tackle a shorter timetable and focus more specifically on the economic side of things, along with the effects of government lockdowns and how they will continue. Yes, that's right, if you think the “reopening” of the economy is going to ...

The poster  voza0db  has suggested that this film, “Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans,” be put up as a topic for disqussion. My in-town friend and Digger contributor James suggested it this morning too.   It's on YouTube in its entirety. The video function is not working on this blog, so here's the URL:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Zk11vI-7czE&feature=emb_logo

COVID-19 in Proportion? Seasonal Flu/respiratory illnesses strike every year. Compared to a typical epidemic,  the current Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the UK badly. However, since 1995 in England and Wales,  there have been  five  seasons that were worse  (measured in terms of cumulative deaths, all causes, weeks 49 to 15) -  updated 2020-04-21. Draconian lockdowns were not considered necessary then, why are they now? Note:  Updated 2020-04-21 using the latest data released by the Office for National Statistics and Public Health England, complete to 2020-04-17. Numbers will be lower than those given in daily government press releases as all figures here exclude Scotland and Northern Ireland. They also exclude estimated deaths between 2020-04-17 and the most recently announced. For overall mortality, recent weeks have not been as bad as some previous flu seasons The week ending 2020-04-10, was a bad week  18,516 ...

April 22, 2020 We will start this magisterial explanation of everything with the time-honored approach of the philosoñher, beginning with the things we know beyond doubt and then reasoning from them to suitably astonishing truths. As we know, Descartes began by saying, “Cogito ergo sum,” I think therefore I am.” (Ambrose Bierce, a more profound thinker, said, “Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.” Butthis way lies madness.) So with what certain knowledge can we begin our quest? Our only certain knowledge is that we don’t have any. Acceptance of this condition will diminish the world’s output of philosophy, or so we may hope, but this column faces reality with a brave front. We may now list our certainties: We don’t know where we came from, where we are, why, what if anything we should do while we are here, and where if anywhere we go when we die. On this bedrock we shall construct our philosophy of everything. However, before we begin thinking about these profound matters...

April 21, 2020 The 24/7 intensified media coverage of the coronavirus story has meant that other news has either been ignored or relegated to the back pages, never to be seen again. The Middle East has been on a boil but coverage of the Trump administration’s  latest moves against Iran  has been so insignificant as to be invisible. Meanwhile closer to home, the declaration by the ubiquitous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that current president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro is a drug trafficker did generate somewhat of a ripple, as did dispatch of warships to the Caribbean to intercept the alleged drugs, but that story also died. Of more interest perhaps is the tale of the continued purge of government officials, referred to as “draining the swamp,” by President Donald Trump as it could conceivably have long-term impact on how policy is shaped in Washington. Prior to the virus partial lockdown, some of the impending  shakeup within the intelligence community (IC) ...