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THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Month: September 2023
SUNDAY FUNNIES
San Francisco Records More Than A Dozen Suspected Overdose Deaths In One Day
Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times,
Videos from San Francisco posted on social media Aug. 30 show morgue vans loading bodies amid scenes of widespread addiction, with people folded up and contorted in unnatural positions in what many describe as dystopian settings on the streets of downtown.
Posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, repeatedly shared by locals indicated that as many as 18 overdose deaths took place in San Francisco throughout the day, but a spokesperson for the chief medical examiner’s office told The Epoch Times by email Aug. 31 that 13 deaths occurred and are currently under investigation.
“Today, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner initiated examinations on 13 cases received within the past twenty-four hours,” the spokesperson wrote.
“The case and manner of death for these decedents remain under review.”
No toxicology results are yet available, and the examiner’s office had no further comment.
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Could Pfizer Vaccine Weaken Kids’ Immunity?
Guest Post by
Researchers in Australia looking for signs that vaccination against COVID-19 might protect against other infectious diseases found just the opposite. One month after getting Pfizer’s vaccine, children experienced a sharp decline in immune proteins, or cytokines, according to a study in Frontiers in Immunology.
Children in Australia who took the Pfizer BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine experienced significant drops in levels of immune proteins, or cytokines, according to a study appearing in Frontiers in Immunology.
Does that mean these children developed vaccine-acquired immune deficiency, or VAIDS, after they received the shots, as some reports speculated?
Not necessarily.
Dozens of cytokines participate in immunity, and many promote unhealthy or dangerous inflammation. To our knowledge, the 27-cytokine panel the researchers used to measure immune function was not validated to diagnose either immune deficiency or inflammation. It provides hints or clues but is not confirmatory.
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Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Guest Post by Edward Curtin
“But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2. They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5.
Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.” Mind-forged manacles are popular because freedom from the laws of nature, while desired, is feared. It suggests that liberty is a fundamental existential truth.
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The Metaphysical as a Rational Option
Guest Post by Todd Hayen
One thing I believe my bent toward metaphysics has prepared me for is when something that falls into the realm of the “unseen” then becomes “seen,” I don’t freak out. The material world, or the material view of the world, has been rather stable for quite some time. Or at least it has seemed to be stable. If the majority of the people who occupy the physical world believe it to be stable, and believe it to follow material laws, then the world will probably calm down and present itself in that manner.
All the dragons, devils, demons, fairies, angels, elves, ghosts, spirits, and apparitions, will slither away into their hiding places and rarely, if ever, be seen by non-believers.
A World Running On Empty: The Decline Of Fossil Fuel Supply
Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,
- Analysis of 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy data shows constrained global supplies of fossil fuels like oil, coal, and natural gas, particularly in inter-regional trading.
- Constraints in supply are affecting energy prices, making them highly variable and less affordable for consumers, thereby affecting the global economy, including industries like manufacturing.
- The cost-intensive infrastructure needed for long-distance natural gas exports is becoming increasingly unsustainable, posing risks to both investors and consumers.
For many years, there has been a theory that imports of oil would become a problem before there was an overall shortage of fossil fuels. In fact, when I look at the data, it seems to be clear that oil imports are already constrained.
Figure 1. Interregional trade of fossil fuels based on data of the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy by the Energy Institute.
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The Petro-Dollar’s Shaky Future, How the Biden Administration has Alienated One of Our Crucial Allies
In late 1973 a deal was struck between the US and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that changed the future of both nations and the U.S. dollar for the next 50 years. The importance of the deal has been downplayed, and the Biden administration’s near destruction of this deal has almost been outright ignored. However, I have had a front row seat to the sentiment changes I am writing about, and I recommend that the reader consider this political game a concerning matter for the long-term stability of the U.S. dollar. In summary, it appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is open for new alliances outside of the US that would have never been considered before this time.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY – The Stars and Stripes flies in battle for the first time – 1777
The American flag is flown in battle for the first time, during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware. Patriot General William Maxwell ordered the stars and stripes banner raised as a detachment of his infantry and cavalry met an advance guard of British and Hessian troops. The rebels were defeated and forced to retreat to General George Washington’s main force near Brandywine Creek in Pennsylvania. Continue reading “THIS DAY IN HISTORY – The Stars and Stripes flies in battle for the first time – 1777”
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US Special Operations Command Will Deploy Argus AI Program to Scour Social Media for Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation, National Security Authority to Protect U.S. Internet from “Pain Points”
Guest Post by Sundance
Annnd… Here we go. If you have not read the background {Go Deep}, you will not have the appropriate context to absorb the latest revelation about how the Dept of Defense will now conduct online monitoring operations, using enhanced AI to protect the U.S. internet from “disinformation” under the auspices of national security.
Gee, who would have predicted that U.S. internet operations would suddenly have a totally new set of enhanced AI guardians at the gateways? 👀
Read Carefully – Eyes Wide Open:
The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has contracted New York-based Accrete AI to deploy software that detects “real time” disinformation threats on social media.
Challenge: Can You Spot The Trans Person In Each Of These 9 Photos?
TRANS. WOMEN. ARE. WOMEN.
Since trans women are completely the same as regular women in every way, it can be difficult to spot them in a crowd! Can you do it?
We compiled 9 photos of some of the most beautiful trans women in the world to see if you can spot the difference. Good luck — most people will fail this challenge!
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One of these lovely female runners is trans! Who can tell, though?
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A Couple of Interesting Absences
Guest Post by Eric Peters
It’s sometimes possible to know a lot by what they’re not telling you – as for example about what’s happening in France.
And Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeev.
There is little to no “news” about either in the “mainstream” press; i.e., the corporate-owned press; i.e., the press that is controlled by an interlocking nexus of fewer than six corporations.
It was once the case that large American cities had about that many independent newspapers. The latter in honorable italics to differentiate it from the “media,” which “reports” that which it is told to “report” by those who own it, as in Brought to You by PPfizer.
America’s Propped-Up Economy Is on Its Last Legs
From Peter Reagan at Birch Gold Group
If there ever was an “uh-oh” moment for the U.S. economy, it’s coming very soon.
The consumer spending spree that powered the economy since the pandemic panic is coming to an end.
At the beginning of the pandemic panic, American households hunkered down, slashed spending and deposited their stimmie checks.
Ever since, thanks to a combination of high inflation and “revenge spending,” consumer spending exploded to what Wolf Richter calls “drunken sailors partying hard” levels.
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Jimmy Buffett, ‘Margaritaville’ Singer, Dead at 76
Personal Note: Growing up in SE Florida in the 60’s & 70’s, I really liked the island sound of Jimmy Buffett. I collected a lot of his music at the time. However, likes so many actors, singers & musicians of our day, he felt the need to espouse his leftists beliefs in later years. I wanted to say to him and all the others to “shut up and sing!”
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Jimmy Buffett, the musician and mogul whose easy-breezy hit “Margaritaville” became a way of life for legions of devoted Parrotheads, has died. He was 76.
The singer-songwriter, whose new album Equal Strain on All Parts was due to be released later this year, died with his family and friends around him, a statement posted on his social media and website on Saturday confirmed.
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