Nowadays, some boats fly out of the ocean. And they fly faster than the first planes did, a bit more than a century ago. Foils located below the boats lift them out of the water, and that, in turn reduce friction considerably. Water is one thousand times denser than air. Kinetic energy is ½ mvv, so the energy imparted by an underwater foil, creating lift, will do so with a much smaller surface than a wing [1]. A drastic problem, though, is UFOs. Flying boats go really fast, they can cruise at twenty meters per second (seventy feet). When they encounter an Unidentified Floating Object, it doesn’t work too well. This problem should be fixed for a variety of reasons, from moral to technological, to economic, to, one should say, spiritual.
Technological progress is important: it is the essence of humanity and gave birth to it through a process of artificially natural self-selection. In particular present humanity, with 7.8 billion individuals, using the technologies it had to use to get to its present situation, has put spaceship Earth on an unsustainable course.
There are two ways out of this: either a spectacular regression, through war, famine and collapse, or a spectacular progress into new technologies which will make our integration with the biosphere sustainable again.
Around the World Record Holder: 40 days, 23 hours and 30 minutes. In 2017 [2]. It is presently equipped in 2020 with new foils which enables it to stand more outside of the ocean, just skim the water, and went already half way around the world in less than 20 days
The first around the world sailing record for circumnavigation of the world was the Basque Juan Sebastián Elcano and the remaining members of Ferdinand Magellan‘s crew who completed their journey in 1522…. After nearly three years of navigation (and only one ship left out of five; 35 circumnavigators survived out of an initial 270… Let it not be said that the global world we now enjoy was obtained cheaply. And as far as “colonialism” is concerned… Magellan died because it took part in a local war in the Philippines; the main aim of Magellan’s expedition was to prove one could circumnavigate, and thus obtain spices such as pepper and cloves from the Maluku Islands more cheaply…)
Sailing while flying from and out of water could be a technology of the future even for the most massive transport of goods and people. The technology uses computers, because electronics is faster than neurology. High flying kites dragging a boat could help too…
Trading goods is a global, essential activity that creates much of the world’s pollution as it is, and it is therefore essential to reduce said pollution, without killing trading (We trade your brawn against our brains!)
Some have whined that boats going at 25 meters per second through the ocean could collide with sea mammals, and fast sailing was, therefore, an unethical activity. Actually the problem of UFOs, unidentified Floating Objects is dramatic for flying sail boats. In the present Vendee Globe, several boats were damaged by impacts with UFOs, and had to hobble into port (not necessarily from damage to just the foils: the boats go so fast that they can be damaged anywhere). In early November a catamaran hit a UFO in the Atlantic, and capsized, killing the pilot (others below deck survived). Many of these UFOs are… containers dropped from giant cargo ships.
The impact on and with sea mammals could probably be reduced precisely because the foils make noise, from cavitation, the formation of bubbles, and should warn sea creatures. Maybe studies could be made to generate a clearer warning, or maybe collisions are mostly with man-made oceanic debris, and that, per se, should be an important object of study leading to diminution thereof. A French company is making devices which scan the sea ahead of the boats. Flying maxi trimarans have also to steer around icebergs (from satellite data), and growlers…(by looking out!)
Other ships collide with sea creatures, but nobody cares as the ships are too large to be affected by the collisions. Hence the high speed collisions of flying maxi-trimarans with UFOs attract attention to this problem, which has been so far ignored. Efforts to avoid collisions, necessary for the maxi flying trimarans, and other flying boats, could then lead to reducing collisions and pollutants in the high seas, both laudable objectives. Thus sailboat flying is morally correct.
So let’s celebrate the efforts to fly on boats around the world in less than 40 days! Such efforts are not just technological and even scientific prowess, but also economic and moral prowess!
Meanwhile Elon Musk’s SpaceX flew its astounding Spaceship, SN8, eight of the name. It landed hard, from low pressure in the “header tank”… and exploded, but the test was nevertheless wildly successful. It demonstrated all sorts of capabilities, including aerosurfaces precision control and the ability to flip the huge vehicle upright just before landing. All this is key to the possibility to use rocketry in all sorts of ways, including going around the world in less than an hour… And we will take off from Mars, after fueling there, because it is apparently possible to make oxygen and methane on the Red Planet, from large quantities of briny water, therein. Why to go there? Will whine the losers… Why to go anywhere?
Some will whine that all these technological prowess, from SpaceX or French flying sailboats, is fundamentally inhuman. Far from it. It is those who condemn technological prowess as both exploit and solution, who have understood nothing to human nature, and are fundamentally inhuman.
Patrice Ayme
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[1] Why planes fly is not very clear(!) There are many effects to consider. Same thing for boats, thus flying boats have many types of foils/wings.
My own guess is that what is most important is the deflection of energy, in which direction the 1/2mvv can be sent. That explains why under water foils can be so small: if just the Bernoulli Principle applied, foils would have to be as large as 1/1,000 as wings. Besides, the Bernoulli Principle, long considered, I think erroneously, as the main reason why the wings of planes provide lift, does not, cannot apply to sailboat foils; because water is not compressible… (Or, at least, not significantly so!) ,
Actually the world record holder for going around the world, IDEC Sport, a pretty old boat from 2006, established its record in 2017. Then IDEC was fitted with new, more advanced foils, and immediately beat the record of Tea Route, Hong Kong to London. With its new foils, the main part of IDEC just skims on top of the water, it does not outright lift out of the water as more recent boats do. But that is obviously enough to reduce friction considerably. IDEC can cover more than a thousand miles in 24 hours.
No improved technology, no progress… What those who don’t want to go back to the Moon forget…
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[2] This boat changed names, not just technologies, a few times, as its (French) sponsors changed. It was known initially as Groupama 3, and had been made for a particular skipper, frank Cammas.
After two abortive attempts ending in 2008 and 2009, Groupama 3 finally took the Jules Verne Trophy in 2010 with a time of 48 days, 7 hours 44 minutes and 52 seconds.Ten years after her record-breaking Transatlantic dash, and now named Idec Sport, the boat again holds the Jules Verne Trophy after Francis Joyon and his crew took her non-stop around the world in 40 days 23 hours, 30 minutes and 30 seconds.
Furry on the Internet among the hateful lemmings because I pointed at the PUBLIC MASQUERADE as the main cause of the worsening of the pandemic in Europe and the USA. Believing masks was a panacea has fostered up an aggressive ignorance so great, that effective anti-COVID measures were forsaken: distanciation, filtration, ventilation, UV disinfection… while mask wearing encouraged bathing in infected air with masks, the best way to catch the virus… in part because mask exhibitionism fosters unwarranted overconfidence turning masks into COVID emitters, in all too many cases. Yes, as has been shown in many scientific articles, some masks can augment dissemination by up to 5 times relative to no mask. That was one the claims I reported, and people found it outrageous. But, I didn’t do the research myself, I was just quoting. Now haters are enraged against me, and call me unscientific for quoting peer reviewed publications, in journals such as Nature… just because they can’t read the whole thing… let alone understand it. All they know is what Doctor Fauci allegedly said, like all their forebears knew was what Jesus the crucified allegedly said… lemmings do best, when all enraged.
“for the homemade cotton masks, the measured particle emission rate either remained unchanged (DL-T) or increased by as much as 492% (SL-T) compared to no mask for all of the expiratory activities. “
Here is another good one, same article:
“Our work does raise the possibility, however, that virus-contaminated masks could release aerosolized fomites into the air by shedding fiber particulates from the mask fabric.“
What is going on? The Nature article explains:
“For jaw movement, the particle emission rates for homemade paper and cloth masks were an order of magnitude larger than that of no mask (Fig. 2d). These observations, along with our results from manual mask rubbing experiments (Fig. 5), provide strong evidence of substantial shedding of non-expiratory micron-scale particulates from friable cellulosic fibers of the paper and cloth masks owing to mechanical action40.“
Now what I did personally, in Patrice Ayme’s own essay, which brought up the fury of nasty idiots, was to make a few simple computations and observations, comparing and thinking about HEPA filters, KN95 masks (supposedly most efficient), and the size of the virus, and its ability to stay suspended in the air apparently indefinitely (as CDC published Tulane university research showed). This personal thinking and computing made clear how the mask masquerade augmented the pandemic. Masks are useless outdoors, and also indoors (if NOT used by medical personnel, in medical settings: fresh, clean, non shedding masks, etc.) I added to this broader philosophical remarks pertaining to the sad state in which collective thinking has decayed, and why.
The lack of education enforced by plutocracy (contemplate the closed public schools, while California private schools, in person, remain open) brought the result of a citizenry incapable of reading. All they know is hatred. And obeying orders from their masters, expressing themselves through the media, the plutocratically owned media. We saw this before, in Sixth Century Constantinople.
Cuomo refused to use Trump’s Hospital ship. The most interesting question is this: would he do it again, knowing it killed 10,000, but helped win the presidential election? I don’t know. I can’t guess. Maybe I could, if I read enough. But is a life spent reading about garbage people all day long, worth living? Meanwhile Cuomo joked to Dr, Fauci that he, Cuomo, and he, Fauci, were the modern De Niro and Al Pacino… Famous for fictionally killing many in gangster movies. Many who look at the situation critically, like yours truly, will not amused, because it is easy to make a case that idiotic orders or advice from Cuomo and Fauci killed thousands.
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“Maybe we enlist you [Fauci], do it with you, we’ll do an ad telling New Yorkers it’s safe to take the vaccine, to, you know put us together, we’re like the modern day De Niro and Pacino. You can be which one ever, whichever you want. You can be the De Niro or Pacino. Fauci and Cuomo,” Cuomo said.
Compare with what is serious and spectacular: Operation Warp Speed officials said to reporters in late November that around 6.4 million Pfizer RNA vaccine doses are going to be sent to states and territories by the middle of December if by then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants authorization. Meanwhile the husband of Democratic Congresswoman Omar, the famous headscarf wearing Muslim, received $500,000 in COVID stimulus money. More than 100 law firms received loans ranging from $1 million to $10 million. Including Boies Schiller Flexner, the high-priced law firm run by David Boies, which received between $5 million and $10 million. Seven top law firms, with partners making several million dollars a year, got more than ten million each in stimulus money. I have said this earlier, including one of this multimillionaire lawyers joking to me:”it’s free money!” It’s the new pork. The New York Times concentrates on other things, thus enabling it some more.
New Pork Times Latest:
Meanwhile the New York Times ran a rabid article: “Death Came for the Dakotas“. General ideas: those savages wear no masks, and do not socially distance (I am a strong proponent of social distancing: I have seen friends only outside with a wind, at a distance, since last January, and stop breathing when I pass people, until obviously fresh air is disponible…) It helped the NYT thinking that the governors there are republicans, a species the NYT loves to hate officially… while being not so secretly, somewhat to the right of the Trump crowd, in socio-economic engineering, Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and US imperialism… the Trump hating acting as a cover for the latter, and partly explaining it…)
Well… Based on the New York Times coronavirus case count, the current deaths per capita are:
133/100K in North Dakota
123/100K in South Dakota
177/100K in New York state
288/100K in New York City
Understanding that the virus is airborne, and that masks do not stop enough airborne viruses, in most confined air situations, would have prevented this.
The death rate in NYC is greater than double that in the Dakotas. For the “horror story” the New York Times say is happening in those plain states, they still are much better off than the New Pork Times‘ own backyard.
New York City was hit earlier so a deadlier outbreak was inevitable, it had nothing to do with an incompetent mayor and an incompetent governor? China, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea were hit even earlier. Taiwan has seven dead from COVID, that’s it. South Korea was hit before NYC and its death rate is around 1/100,000.
It would be interesting to read in the New Pork Times an article explaining why NYC’s death rate is over 250 times greater than that of Seoul, a larger metropolis. Or why Cuomo, the mafioso looking governor of New York State, refused to use the Mercy, and preferred to send thousands of seniors to their death. Even better: why is Cuomo lauded? Is it, because, like Obama, he did the opposite of what he claimed to have done? Part of the essence of the god of Evil, Pluto, is that it can make itself invisible. So Obama was a naked supporter of fossil fuels, and is still celebrated as a tremendous ecologist… Although he yanked to zero hydrogen research on day one of his presidency (Obama saw no such urgency with the minimum wage… Actually he did not change it during his presidency, leaving it at eight dollars an hour. Obama can earn 100,000 times that, in an hour, so superior is he to the common animals…)
If one wants to understand the pathologies that made America’s affair with the coronavirus so deadly, one should ponder what so many “Democrats” and other authorities did (not just Trump and the incompetent CDC). Visit New York City, read the New Pork Times, with a critical mind… And then understand Obamacare in detail, and its practical effect on getting healthcare, and the for-profit US healthcare industry. Hint: advanced countries do not confuse healthcare and health profiteering…
And that Grammy Award to Cuomo? Those who gave it to him knew all too well Cuomo killed 10,000 seniors rather than using the Trump ship. This is precisely why they offered him the award, to be able to turn around and snap: “Cuomo got a Grammy for his coronavirus action, he is a hero and martyr!” Yes, a Grammy, for turning the death of 10,000 into an hilarious performance… making the captive audience of the New Pork applaud… their own demise.
Abstract: Masks were mandated everywhere in countries were the pandemic got subsequently out of control: what could have gone wrong? Well what if masks, instead of reducing the pandemic, augmented it? “Anti-scientific” scream hysterical lemmings without any scientific education, nor any attempt at any reasoning whatsoever! One would indeed expect anti-scientific lemmings to read no scientific literature whatsoever. But so-called “experts”? Scientific studies have shown that masks can quintuple (multiply by five) virus transmission (and the reason is increasingly understood).
More broadly, the mask craze has led a naïve public to assume it was protected when it was not, and thus incited the public to engage in legal, yet very dangerous activities, where the virus gets in the air, floats around, and penetrate masks. The public would not have otherwise engaged in these activities, if the public had realized that the virus was floating around, and just used its common sense… instead of being hypnotized by masksfostered by an elite of greedy, power crazed exploiterswith various biased interests that it is urgent to expose… for health, political, moral and philosophical reasons!
The Western elite, as it is, by enacting ineffectual, counterproductive, or even iniquitous laws, such as mask laws, or closing public schools, while keeping private schools open, is responsible for the COVID massacre, and should be criminally charged: there are advanced countries with few, or basically no COVID cases or deaths. Hint: no masks in Australia.
Philosophically speaking, the deadly mask craze is an example of intellectual fascism: an idea from authority, right or wrong, is adopted, because it is the law. A famous example of laws against civilization were racist laws of the Twentieth Century, such as forbidding “colored” persons in the front of the bus. Indeed, what if the law is criminal? Where is the possibility of conscientious objection?
Practically, and in the most pragmatic way, I am saying that, when one goes into confined, non-HEPA filtered air with strangers, one is NOT protected from the coronavirus, mask or no mask, and whether others or oneself wear them, or not.
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WHATEVER THE CRAZE, TO UNDERSTAND IT, ASK: WHO PROFITS?
Mandatory public wearing of masks to fight COVID has been an obvious failure. People were ordered to wear masks, and the pandemic exploded. I will show it was not an accident: the scientific reasons why masks by the public in public are an abject public failure are now well established, and were obvious all along… That evidence was overridden by biased, power-hungry authorities, and the willingness of the sheeple to obey lies coming from its masters. (Whereas social distanciation does work.)
If mask wearing is such an abject failure, why were people required to wear masks? Was it to make the pandemic worse? Yes, of course, that’s how billionaires were made faster than they would have been made otherwise, and how “democrats” won an election, and how “elected representatives” gave the world the impression they cared, and did something about it.
Politicians tell us: “science” says to wear masks. OK, masks did work pretty well, at least for doctors, during the Black Plague of 1348 CE, and, indeed, masks work in medical settings, then, or now. However, science does not say that wearing masks is of public benefit, when worn by the public. Just the opposite. Right, as I said, masks work in medical settings, at an average 70% efficiency.
This sort of outfit used to make us laugh, but now, not anymore. In 1348 CE, the Personal Protection Equipment, as shown above, were made in Europe. Now they are made in China. The beak, by the way, protected against contact with patients and was laden with plants toxic to the plague bacillus. Notice that during the Black Death, no aristocrat seems to have died from the Plague: they knew how to implement social distanciation. However, French ex-president Valery Giscard D’Estaing just died from COVID… Among many other famous person who died from it. The Black Death (probably Yersinia Pestis, from Alexandre Yersin, a French doctor of the Pasteur Institute who identified it at huge personal risk, in Hong-Kong… From a small hut, as the British had blocked his access to hospitals. Yersin was on a French government mission to identify the nature of the plague.
Masks are effective in medical settings, but doctors know how to use masks, they have been trained. And the medical masks are ultra-clean, so clean they can use electrostatic attraction to imprison small particles (that’s how they are so effective). Medical masks are not covered with dry COVID bursting in clouds of viruses…
Mass epidemiological studies have been conducted on public mask wearing in Denmark and the Netherlands. Verdict: masks are of no measurable efficiency when used by the public, in public. Worse, the Danish study article points out to adverse mental health consequences for children. The article wonders: “Will mandatory mask usage be scaled back in light of these results?“
The establishment has vested interests in pursuing the mask’s mythology, so it counter-attacked.
The Mayo clinic rolled out to great noise and fury a study demonstrating the efficiency of masks, to prevent… COVID transmission between… inanimate objects covered with “masks”. Mayo used two (2) micron sized droplets carrying the virus… Two microns, that’s around 2,000 times bigger than the COVID virus… Very “scientific”…
Mayo claimed a 99% interception rate… In other words, masks don’t stop all two (2) micron droplets, just 99% of them. If one is in COVID AIR, 1% COVID air will saturate one’s airways in minutes… with COVID.
Besides, N95 masks are called that way, because they intercept only 95% (and only above .3 micron, nearly three times the diameter of SARS 2). SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can remain infective in aerosol for up to 16 hours according to a Tulane study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Actually there was “no detectable biological half-life” after 16 hours, meaning no decay, in appearance or the capacity to replicate. So infected people, mask or no mask, can come into a room and fill it up with suspended SARS-CoV-2. The researchers found that the virus can survive in the air much longer than other related coronaviruses, such as SARS 1, or MERS.
The corrupts at the plutocratic “Associated Press” “fact check” that the masks are effective, with speculation and twisted logic speculating that Coronaviruses are attached to giant droplets, a bit like flying bathtubs of water, and it is well known that masks stop all and any water droplets (what happens when masks are drenched with all these droplets?)
People noticed that masks do not stop wildfire or cigarette smoke. Associated Press, the association of plutocratic media, Associated Plutocrats, quotes Dr. Jonathan Parsons, a pulmonologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center who said. “Respiratory droplets are much larger than the harmful materials in the wildfire smoke.” Parsons is speculating that the coronavirus is in the droplets, and ONLY in the droplets. But what Parsons is imagining, there is experimental evidence against. Yes, OK, maybe, the coronavirus is, initially in droplets. Then what happens when those droplets are deposited and now the virus is on a fomite, or becomes airborne, thanks to the mask? Oops, it would seem that the authorities from the elite did not think of this highly likely scenario?
Common sense says this: cigarette smoke is between .1 micron and one micron. The SARS-COV2 virus is .125 micron at most so? So if you smell smoke through your mask, you can smell the coronavirus. The ANTI-IDEA that coronaviruses always come within a flying bathtub attached is NOT scientific. Because it is unproven as a direct fact. It is also contradicted by the most powerful of all facts: the explosion of the pandemic in the many countries which give enormous fines if one does not wear the stupid masks.
Studies which flaunt the efficiency of masks, if and only if they fit superbly, self-contradict: what if they don’t fit superbly? Would you smell the cigarette smoke/coronavirus? Not just this, but, once again, stopping 99% of the virus is not good enough, just as stopping 99% of the bullets when there is one billion bullets is not good enough.
Let’s do the math. One virus per one million cubic microns is one virus for every cube of size 1/10 millimeter on the side. Visualize this as the equivalent of one single virus the size of a cube of one millimeter on each side in a larger cube of one meter on the side: assuredly not a very high density, 1/1,000,000,000,000. There are 10^12 viruses per cubic meter at that density. That’s 10^9 viruses per liter. If one breathe six liter of air per minute, this means one would be exposed to exactly six billion coronaviruses per minute!!!
Thus, at a viral density of 1/1,000,000,000,000, if the stupid mask, fitting perfectly, stops 99% of the viruses, that means if the stupid mask is five times more efficient than a N95 mask fitting perfectly, one would still breathe 60 million coronaviruses per minute. This computation is obviously too hard for the average politician and voters to understand in any sense. Instead of thinking, they search for an authority to obey. Another factor is that, on the exterior surface of the mask, droplets containing the virus will be deposed… and then evaporate fully, or in part. The result is that the mask will then turn into a virus dissemination machine after having reduced the size of the virion carriers, making them more transmissible. Indeed, the more reduced, the more those virion carriers will elude masks found in the way. The smallest smoke particles are virus size, and they go through. Enthusiastically. That is the difference with HEPA filters… Which are very efficient at this sort of size, from Brownian motion, and do, indeed, stop smoke (I have used them very efficiently against thick smoke from massive forest fires… a forest fire smoke to which was added the smoke of entire towns burned to a crisp…)
Only HEPA filters stop two micron droplets, or particles around a tenth of a micron, with more than 99.97% efficiency.
HEPA filters have a MINIMUM particle collective efficiency of 99.97% for particles of 0.3 µm diameter or more. Paradoxically, HEPA filters are more efficient for even smaller size, due to electrostatic effects and increased dominance of Brownian motion on small particle trajectories. A HEPA filter typically lasts three to five years, depending on hours of operation, cleanliness of the room, and type of work being performed.
SARS-CoV2 is one tenth of a micron across. Instead the Mayo-mayonnaise Clinic pretends disingenuously that it is .2 microns across (id est ten times more voluminous). The SARS 2 viral transmission is airborne.
The Mayo propaganda is equivalent to me going out in the rain with an umbrella, observing the umbrella stops the rain, and then claiming umbrella wearing is effective against COVID. A parody of science for mental retards knowing no physics. Basically, SARS-CoV2 is a gas. SARS-CoV2 is not made of little water canon balls spewed as if from a waterfall… as most of the medical establishment elite has been keen of representing it… while watching, mesmerized, their biotech stocks going airborne to heavens, just as well, making them wealthier everyday.
And the price of the public masquerade is high, because the arrogant elite has acted accordingly, brandishing masks, and using the ineffective masking of the population as a way to avoid taking effective measures against the transmission of COVID.
In the USA, the mask masquerade was a strategy to win the election: the absence of systematic mask hysteria from Trump was used as a main argument and symbol to pretend that Trump was not fighting the pandemic effectively. Never mind that Trump was saving the world with the vaccines of Operation Warp Speed: hatred knows no bound, especially when organized by plutocrats.
Research and logic show that physical distancing is universally effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, while social bubbles and masks are more situation-dependent. Masks work at 70% in medical settings, 0% in public settings, overall.
In high transmission settings (parties, choirs, restaurant kitchens, crowded offices, nightclubs, gyms, protests and bars) masks make no difference, because the air is full of virus, BEYOND THE SATURATION POINT. Masks may half the transmission rate, of even reduce the transmission rate to just 1% as Mayo-mayonnaise claims, but that doesn’t affect the transmission probability, because it is already sky high (and so on the number of infections).. This has been amply documented in various scientific papers, some published in Science and Nature.
So why does the elite insist on wearing masks as a panacea? Would it have to do with being invested in biotech stocks? Many billionaires were created from the spectacular rise of biotech stocks. Now I am not against this, not at all. Simply, though, people of the elite should be forced, by law, to declare their investments, whenever they mass publicize their opinions, directly, or indirectly..
Make no mistake: I sometimes wear masks… And since February, I have used the trick of not breathing when I pass people (I have a background in deep sea diving, apnea). The critique here was against masks as panacea. Far from it, it’s probably the opposite!
It’s my morality and habit to disagree with interlocutors, just to create a debate… And I find that pleasurable. Debates feed hearts and minds. No debate, no humanity, no truth, no power, only subjugation.
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Two million years ago there were at least a dozen homini species, in East Africa alone (and there were other species in Eurasia, at the very least). Hate exterminated all of them, but for one lineage. So, arguably, we are a product of hatred. Hatred is underneath, even when not fully visible, it motivates deeply, and explains a lot of otherwise apparently unexplainable behaviors… Some of them akin to sawing what our civilization rests on. An example is the fact democratic politicians weaponized the pandemic to vanquish Donald Trump. To do this, they, and their propaganda machine, brandished a lot of lies, including that masks worked, and “Trump vaccines” did not.
This sort of erosion of credibility, replacing it my faith (in hatred!), is a dangerous strategy. So is the adoption of the color mentality, when color is seen as determining everything (Black Lips Matter!) Be careful when we saw through the branch on which we sit, that of meta-civilized behavior… I literally heard a sixth grade teacher teach that he would not listen to presidential debates, because they would certainly drive him insane.
From the very beginning of the pandemic, masks were viewed as ineffectual, or even dangerous protection. What worked was social distanciation, and when that failed, testing, tracing, isolation of contacts… (And probably HCQ and the like which were systematically used in countries which limited the outbreaks; HCQ is very efficient against SARS 1, and several other coronaviruses). Masks returned because, like Islamist or monkish coverings, they imparted the idea that something morally correct was done. All they did was to make a bad situation, worse… Instead of sending billions of dollars of orders to HEPA filter companies…
The Mask Masquerade has been unmasked as a masked massacre. Amen. Irrationality has a price.
Patrice Ayme
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Note on some of the scientific background: Here is a recent Science article:
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2Kimberly A. Prather1,*, Linsey C. Marr2,*, Robert T. Schooley3, Melissa A. McDiarmid4, Mary E. Wilson5,6, Donald K. Milton7See all authors and affiliationsScience 16 Oct 2020:Vol. 370, Issue 6514, pp. 303-304DOI: 10.1126/science.abf0521ArticleInfo & MetricseLettersPDF
There is overwhelming evidence that inhalation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) represents a major transmission route for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is an urgent need to harmonize discussions about modes of virus transmission across disciplines to ensure the most effective control strategies and provide clear and consistent guidance to the public. To do so, we must clarify the terminology to distinguish between aerosols and droplets using a size threshold of 100 µm, not the historical 5 µm (1). This size more effectively separates their aerodynamic behavior, ability to be inhaled, and efficacy of interventions.Viruses in droplets (larger than 100 µm) typically fall to the ground in seconds within 2 m of the source and can be sprayed like tiny cannonballs onto nearby individuals. Because of their limited travel range, physical distancing reduces exposure to these droplets. Viruses in aerosols (smaller than 100 µm) can remain suspended in the air for many seconds to hours, like smoke, and be inhaled. They are highly concentrated near an infected person, so they can infect people most easily in close proximity. But aerosols containing infectious virus (2) can also travel more than 2 m and accumulate in poorly ventilated indoor air, leading to superspreading events (3). Individuals with COVID-19, many of whom have no symptoms, release thousands of virus-laden aerosols and far fewer droplets when breathing and talking (4–6). Thus, one is far more likely to inhale aerosols than be sprayed by a droplet (7), and so the balance of attention must be shifted to protecting against airborne transmission. In addition to existing mandates of mask-wearing, social distancing, and hygiene efforts, we urge public health officials to add clear guidance about the importance of moving activities outdoors,improving indoor air using ventilation and filtration, and improving protection for high-risk workers (8).”
VENTILATION and FILTRATION. That’s Ultra Violet and HEPA FILTERS. Get it?
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Aside from transmitting COVID more than no mask at all, in more way than one, could it be that masks will cause MASK LUNG?
Here is Nature again, same article:
“The higher particle emission rate for jaw movement than for breathing is an indication of greater frictional shedding of the paper towel and cotton masks during jaw movement compared to breathing, at least as tested here. Likewise, the difference in the size distributions of mask rubbing and with-mask expiratory activities is likely due to the vigorous frictional force applied by hand on the masks. Regardless of the larger particles (> 5 µm), rubbing mask fabrics generates a considerable number of particles in the range of 0.3–5 µm similar to that observed for the expiratory activities. This finding corroborates the interpretation that some proportion of the particulates observed during expiration were particulates aerosolized from the masks themselves.“
What of all those fibers getting in the lungs, would not they cause… fibrosis of the lungs, in the long run?
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The extracts found below from the very long and thorough Nature article on masks reveal a dramatic result; often the usage of masks in NON medical conditions INCREASES DRAMATICALLY the emissions of particles! Nature, with Science, are the world’s top scientific journals.
…[some] studies… indicate a strong potential for masks to help reduce transmission of respiratory illnesses. To date, however, none have investigated the effectiveness of masks across a range of expiratory activities, and limited consideration has been given to different mask types. Furthermore, no studies to date have considered the masks themselves as potential sources of aerosol particles. It is well established that fibrous cellulosic materials, like cotton and paper, can release large quantities of micron-scale particles (i.e., dust) into the air39,40,41,42. Traditionally, these particles have not been considered a potential concern for respiratory viral diseases like influenza or now COVID-19, since these diseases have been thought to be transmitted via expiratory particles emitted directly from the respiratory tract of infected individuals43. Early work in the 1940s indicated, however, that infectious influenza virus could be collected from the air after vigorously shaking a contaminated blanket44. Despite this finding, over the next 70 years little attention focused on the possibility of respiratory virus transmission via environmental dust; one exception was a study by Khare and Marr, who investigated a theoretical model for resuspension of contaminated dust from a floor by walking45. Most recently, work by Asadi et al. with influenza virus experimentally established that “aerosolized fomites,” non-respiratory particles aerosolized from virus-contaminated surfaces such as animal fur or paper tissues, can also carry influenza virus and infect susceptible animals46. This observation raises the possibility that masks or other personal protective equipment (PPE), which have a higher likelihood of becoming contaminated with virus, might serve as sources of aerosolized fomites. Indeed, recent work by Liu et al. demonstrated that some of the highest counts of airborne SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19) occurred in hospital rooms where health care workers doffed their PPE, suggesting that virus was potentially being aerosolized from virus-contaminated clothing or PPE, or resuspended from virus-contaminated dust on the floor47. It remains unknown what role aerosolized fomites play in transmission of infectious respiratory disease between humans, and it is unclear whether certain types of masks are simultaneously effective at blocking emission of respiratory particles while minimizing emission of non-expiratory (cellulosic) particles….
….Surprisingly, wearing an unwashed single layer t-shirt (U-SL-T) mask while breathing yielded a significant increase in measured particle emission rates compared to no mask, increasing to a median of 0.61 particles/s. The rates for some participants (F1 and F4) exceeded 1 particle/s, representing a 384% increase from the median no-mask value.
…. Discussion
Our results clearly indicate that wearing surgical masks or unvented KN95 respirators reduce the outward particle emission rates by 90% and 74% on average during speaking and coughing, respectively, compared to wearing no mask. However, for the homemade cotton masks, the measured particle emission rate either remained unchanged (DL-T) or increased by as much as 492% (SL-T) compared to no mask for all of the expiratory activities. For jaw movement, the particle emission rates for homemade paper and cloth masks were an order of magnitude larger than that of no mask (Fig. 2d). These observations, along with our results from manual mask rubbing experiments (Fig. 5), provide strong evidence of substantial shedding of non-expiratory micron-scale particulates from friable cellulosic fibers of the paper and cloth masks owing to mechanical action40. The higher particle emission rate for jaw movement than for breathing is an indication of greater frictional shedding of the paper towel and cotton masks during jaw movement compared to breathing, at least as tested here. Likewise, the difference in the size distributions of mask rubbing and with-mask expiratory activities is likely due to the vigorous frictional force applied by hand on the masks. Regardless of the larger particles (> 5 µm), rubbing mask fabrics generates a considerable number of particles in the range of 0.3–5 µm similar to that observed for the expiratory activities. This finding corroborates the interpretation that some proportion of the particulates observed during expiration were particulates aerosolized from the masks themselves.
…Our results showed that the root mean square amplitude of speech, as measured externally when participants wore any type of mask, equaled or exceeded that of the no-mask condition (Figure S1a), suggesting that participants were indeed talking louder with the mask. Although an increase in the intensity of the speech signal when wearing masks would result in greater output of particles in these conditions48, the difference in the intensity of speech across the different conditions was not very large (Figure S1a). As a result, this mechanism alone cannot explain the increased particle output in some of the masked conditions.
… The substantial particle shedding by the cloth masks confounds determination of the cloth mask efficacy for reducing outward emission of particles produced from the expiratory activity. Measured material filtration efficiencies vary widely for different cloth materials 32,34,35,63. The influence of particle shedding on such determinations has not been previously considered….
… That the masks shed fibers from mechanical stimulation indicates care must be taken when removing and cleaning (for reusable masks) potentially contaminated masks so as to not dislodge deposited micro-organisms.
… emission reduction due to surgical masks was greater than the corresponding reduction due to KN95 respirators, although this difference was only significant for coughing (p < 0.05). That the surgical masks appear to provide slightly greater reduction than the KN95 respirators is perhaps surprising, as KN95s are commonly thought of as providing more protection than surgical masks for inhalation. Both surgical masks and KN95 respirators typically have high material filtration efficiencies (> 95%)63, although the quality of surgical masks can vary substantially64. The fit of surgical and KN95 respirators differs substantially.
… Our work does raise the possibility, however, that virus-contaminated masks could release aerosolized fomites into the air by shedding fiber particulates from the mask fabric. Since mask efficacy experiments are typically only conducted with fresh, not used, masks, future work assessing emission of viable pathogens should consider this possibility in more detail.“
This is exactly what is happening, and one of the two reasons why the pandemic took a much more dramatic turn in the second wave (with masks) than the first (without masks). The other main reason being that a mask, KN95, which stops 95% of relative large particles, larger than the virus, especially when electrostatically discharged, will not stop enough virions in a SARS-CoV2 laden confined air.
Yesterday I was (partly) running on one of my preferred trails above magnificent lake Tahoe. The trail was icy in part. In the central section above the water itself, I met four young, standard couples, composed of a human female and a human male. They were all masked. Imagine the scene: an extremely steep forest with large trees, the blue lake expanse to the east, ten kilometers wide at that point, the first road miles away, and each of these separated couples, wearing masks. As if they were wearing masks with each other all the time. What were they defending themselves from? The pristine wilderness?
Icy Trail, Magnificent Views, Potential Very Big Drop, Rubicon Trail Lake Tahoe, 11/28/2020
Each couple was in great difficulty: dressed like tourists with standard winter footing, they were on an icy path, less than two feet wide, above a deadly drop-off, up to two hundred feet, or more, straight down to the lake. Their shoes had not much grip on the ice, they were tottering on the verge of death. Fortunately it was rather warm and the brooks were flowing with water (instead of being solid steep ice). I ran past them as they squealed in vain. No doubt they all voted for Biden because Trump was “not scientific”.
Wearing masks is “scientific”, if ordered by those young people leaders, the well-heeded elite of crooks full of biotech stocks. Leaders with a grip so strong on the weak minds of young people, that here they were, displaying total, squared idiocy on a dangerous trail. Squared idiocy because it was the multiplication of the mask idiocy by the footwear idiocy. Their probability of dying from COVID basically zero, their probability of tumbling to their death abysmally high.
On such a dangerous trail, in winter, one should wear crampons. I am used to masked idiots asking free minds wearing no mask to “cover-up” in the complete wilderness, from five meters away in the wind, and then delighted when they switch to the grossest insults when one does not obey their blatant idiocy.
Here the idiots couldn’t talk: their teeth were chattering from the horror of eminent death, their eyes coming out of their skulls, death was a slip away. As I passed them, I admonished them with refined cruelty: ”You are wearing useless mask. Masks will not save your lives, because you do not wear crampons, you should not be on this trail!”
Displaying such a level of idiocy is a great danger for humanity. In Northern California, chances are that many of these young people are among those steering the world, completely ignorant types who decide what is true and what is false, for the whole world, following like throngs of maniacal lemmings. In truth, such Silicon types are completely fake themselves, and, on this trail, it was obvious, even to their clueless selves. The main problem with them tumbling to their death was the trail would thereafter be closed… Not that this would stop me, closed trails actually attract me, but such a beautiful place should not be closed to the world.
According to polls, Biden was elected by young people coming in droves to vote for him, as if he were their savior. Visualize this: a veteran ultra major US politician, in ultimate power for half a century, a major Neocon, saving the world from the one who brutally took out US troops from all sorts of countries, and directed the production of three working COVID vaccine in ten months.
It makes sense: remember, they are ignorant of most things, just full of silicon, hopefully, they have no idea that Biden was one of the main authors of the greatest crime against humanity of the Twentieth Century, the invasion of Iraq; more than three million dead and counting. Less hopefully they know Biden attacked Iraq but it is of no consequence to them: all they care about is themselves and their peers.
The problem with all too many young people is that they believe 100% all the propaganda the Global Deep Plutocracy inflicts on them. Actually they do not view it as infliction, or the subjugation it is, but as a liberation, and a pretext to impose themselves upon others.
For all too many people, nowadays legit “source” means certified Global Deep Plutocratic outlet: CNN (Ted Turner), NYT (same family since 19C), Washington Post (Bezos/Amazon), Reuters (nearly for two centuries property of Reuters family), AP (a consortium of plutocratic media), Factcheck.Org. I happened to have a (once friendly) relationship with (one of) the main plutocratic financiers of Factcheck.Org, a hereditary plutocratic crook, who took very badly my exposition of his corruption to someone else… who immediately violated professional secrecy he was bound to, and reveal to the Factcheck plutocrat that I knew what he had invested in (something horrible).
Many of the arrogant parrots out there evoke “science”. They have often no notion of “science” or even culture: computer programming is no more science than ordering one’s room is science. Zuckerberg and Gates did one year of college. Jack Dorsey from Twitter started his fortune with criminal hacking. Now he poses as paragon of monkish like morality, complete with deranged appearance.
Science does not say masks work in all and any cases. Science says the efficiency of masks in a medical setting is 70%. In a public setting, 0%, scientific studies have shown. Yes, that was a zero.
Why should it be different? The virus is aerosol, carried by droplets one tenth of a micron across…HEPA filters and UV stop it. Masks do not. All countries which went into a mask frenzy saw a tremendous flare-up, because the uneducated thought they were protected, when actually they were not. I try very hard NOT to wear a mask, but even harder to avoid places with potentially airborne virus.
So why are so many of the youth so idiotic? Because the Global Deep Plutocracy wanted it so. In California public schools are shuttered; teaching is less than 12 hours a week, half of it about Great Leader Iraqus Maximus Biden, why Bad Lives Splatter should follow him and his Kamelat.
Obviously public education has failed, as intended by the hereditary elite. Because it is hereditary: Zuck went to the number one private school in the USA.and then Harvard, Gates, similar story, with the dad top lawyer in his state, and the mom an IBM director. Failure for the people, success for the elite. The dumber the population, the more exploitative the elite. An infernal spiral down to civilizational collapse.
But you know what, now some of the wise know how this works, and that that’s why it may not work again.
And all too often opinions rest on facts which are not fully justified.
Nietzsche argued that truth is impossible—there can only be perspective and interpretation, driven by a person’s interests or ‘will to power’. Against [empiricism], which halts at [observable] phenomena— “No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations” (Will to Power § 481). The doctrine that there are no facts, only interpretations, Nietzsche sometimes calls ‘perspectivism‘.
Picture is of Yosemite Valley, looking towards Half Dome (not visible from mist). “Three Brothers” formation front and left, “Sentinel” back right, Yosemite Falls Buttress to the left background, and Washington Column can be guessed behind it. I climbed on Three Brothers many times. Two parts where I used to climb spectacularly collapsed. Over my climbing career, no less than five (5) places where I climbed collapsed, including the place where I did a spectacular first ascent, fast and free after nearly getting killed in an avalanche. 2,500 feet of buttress gone, causing a Richter III earthquake…
I go further than Nietzsche. Economy of Thought (ET), not just Will to Power (WP) is a major driver of human behavior. In a sense ET is the opposite of WP. WP asks for energy, ET reduces the demand for energy. One expands and attacks, the other shrinks and conserve (energy).
Hopefully Biden (and Pelosi) have enough self-knowledge, and general knowledge to realize that, in light of history, they are war criminals and criminals against humanity… A deeper truth will, hopefully, be preferred by the perpetrators to the asinine chorus of the sycophants…
Hopefully, then, they will try to redeem themselves, and will try to enact policies that make them look better in the fullness of time. A fundamental drive of “Populism” is to unleash the animal instincts of the general population (not just those of the oligarchs). This empowerment of all now means .more direct democracy, more debate, and unleashing mental creativity. That will require to rollback the destruction of the Patent System which favored well-financed monopolies.
Nominating Yellen Secretary of the Treasury is a step in the right direction (Trump had her, and came to regret her, after he didn’t renew her). Excluding the career Neocon, dictators promoting, war fostering, hereditary plutocrat Susan Rice, was another step in the right direction. There were more discrete steps, also in the positive direction, as when Biden (I saw it live) said rejoining the Paris Climate Accord would be “subject to negotiations”… As are “many other things”.
Indeed. The climate Paris accord was a terrible thing for those ecologically minded: it was a blank check for the most major polluters to keep on polluting… While getting a rent from the most advanced nations, which as usual, get accused of… being most advanced and too democratic?
The WHO was another disaster. Faced with a pandemic, it refused to launch an inquiry on what Taiwan knew. Taiwan took measures against COVID 19… in 2019! COVID 19, Taiwan 19. The WHO then insisted that a ban on international travel was uncalled for… While China had already blocked, weeks earlier, all internal travel, and especially inside the city of Wuhan (total lock down), or within Hubei province. The US paid to the WHO something like ten times what China paid. Still China made the rules… and the virus!
How do I know Biden and Pelosi may want to redeem themselves? Well, Biden said so about the Crime Bill of 1994, the “New Jim Crow”… the author of which he was. he confessed, in one of the two debates, that it was an error (which the entire Senate committed he insisted… Actually 97 Senators, not 100… And the fact remains that he wrote it, all by himself!)
It’s a hop and a skip away from admitting the same about foreign policy, and Iraq in particular (he and his Foreign Sec has confessed only to bad “execution” so far).
Pelosi’s unhinged anti-Trumpism was not just from her being a member of the political plutocratic class: she used any single occasion to proclaim herself a good person and even a good Catholic. She is not the thief she looks like, making a fortune from politics, and the accomplice of Bush in the matter of Iraq (which she compounded by refusing to impeach Bush on Iraq in 2006, when she headed the US Congress!)
We will see where Biden goes. But other things have surfaced, monsters from the past, more blatantly monstrous than ever, pursuing their descent into the abyss, namely President Barack Obama coming out with striking pronouncements about how “we will have to work” with the Big Tech monopolies he himself created… to find out what truth is. Ignorant greedsters of the world unite and impose their truth on all!
Verily, the only thing these monopolistic people and their servants, who became so wealthy in a few years, by stealing minds, are qualified to find is greed, ever more of it, and outrage, ever more of it.
Not all truths are created equal. Truth about what is most significant is of most significance. But awareness of signification itself comes from significant education… itself originating from a quest for most significant values.
And this is where what is called “French Theory” (in US elite universities), aka contemporary philosophy, comes short, because it tends to denies that hierarchies of significance are of any significance, which makes no sense as denial of signification is itself of the highest significance… And this sort of nihilism makes sense in a highly plutocratic society, and is a sign of it.
The essence of “French Theory” (a US academic recipe, using French ingredients!) is that all cultures are equally significant. Lévi-Strauss got the ball rolling, 80 years ago. The view has some merits inside, like diamonds in a rock matrix. However, brandished as an absolute truth it has also been used as a bludgeon against reason and the enlightenment.
Don’t just ask what is true, ask what, or whom, would value such a “truth”.
It it this author’s view that this is not by accident: “French Theory” has been sponsored at the highest level, precisely because it had the value of being a bludgeon against reason.
In practical US politics, it means all proffered opinions are beyond reason. This meta-mood is all over the political and social spectrum. And all what’s left then, is tribalism. This is why the New York Times rejected thousands of my comments: it made a tribal, not reasonable analysis of my comments on their merits. So, when I objected to Biden-Bush (proposed, then implemented) invasion of Iraq, the NYT would not look at my reasons: I was just classified as anti-American, a Jihadist. The Guardian (in the UK) operated the same way… and to this day bans me for that reason (!)
The most significant question is what should Lévi-Strauss derived equality of superficiality be replaced by? It is simple: good arguments and facts, alternative or not, should be extracted, refurbished and used. Trump’s wall started long ago with Cesar Chavez. Chavez knew that illegal or should-not-be-legal immigration was used by the plutocrats. That argument was, and is valid. That contemporary politicians use it should not be a question of colors.
Famously, Roman politics, when the fascist empire degenerated into catholic terrorism, had become just a question of colors. Gone were the ideas and intelligent debate. God could not be put into question. It was not red versus blue but rather green versus yellow. It lasted centuries, and civilization ultimately went extinguished (Rome/Constantinople called the Franks to the rescue in the Eleventh Century twice, and then was captured in 1207 and terminally by Muslim Turks in 1453).
So what is today’s god, forcing us into colors? Well, the mind makers, academia and the Pluto owned media. Their notion of truth of the highest significance is simple: whatever serves plutocracy is true, and the rest is “conspiracy theory”. “Factchecker” organization go as far as claiming that believing that the Deep US State had anything to do with Muslim Fundamentalism is “urban legend”. To show me how true that was the financier of “Factcheck.org” confronted me and threw my own nine year old daughter out of her bilingual school. His truth spanned the world, it was stronger than mine. All what matters in a plutocratic universe. The truth? How many billions?
Real progress will consist into making locally true arguments, no matter the consequences, as long as they don’t miss most significant facts visible to them. Further progress in understanding will be achieved by the opposite process, considering precisely which value(s) participants will attach to such truth(s). So we have to use a pincer approach on truth: the truth no matter what, in conjunction with coming from the other side, the meta approach of pondering what is the matter with that truth which makes it valuable, or toxic, to the actors involved…
Either side of the pincer will have to involve the genealogies of the attending logics… Not just coincidentally reminiscent of the famous “sum over histories” of the path integral approach to Quantum Mechanics… In truth reality, and thus truth is Quantum in more ways than one…
TARP was Obama’s province, not Yellen. Yellen, Biden’s incoming Treas. Sec, long time economy prof at UC Berkeley, one of my alma mater, is decent. Obama’s policy of saving “banks” was indecent, and propelled inequality to heavens. And Obama still doesn’t get it, he is all proud to have saved the “banks”. Even Reagan & Bush didn’t do what Obama did. THEY nationalized THOUSANDS of banks. Obama nationalized NONE. https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/tarp-transfer-of-assets-to-rich-people/
GINI measures in one number inequality in a society. Clearly it augmented under Obama, and as a consequence of Obama’s policies. Obama thinks he saved the banks, and talks like it. Actually he saved the rich from their own speculation (rendered possible by Clinton’s destruction of the Banking Act Of 1933. In other words, fake democrats all of them… But Yellen is much more the real thing, a real democrat, at least, when she writes and talks… Whereas Obama, to this day, understands nothing in this subject (and that’s why he kept getting 400K for every single speech he makes to the wealthiest… Good boy Obama…
From my TARP essay, which is nearly 12 years old:
Both US propaganda and way of life were fabricated by the plutocracy to serve itself better. Those, and various plutocratic plots, need to be dismantled, starting with TARP, which is therein revealed in its full glory as the acronym for “Transferring Assets to Rich People“.
Furtherance of TARP is furtherance of the plutocratic plot that ruined the world, to enrich, and empower the few. Once the political “leaders” exit power, having used it to serve the wealthiest, they get rewarded accordingly. Now the People have started to rebel by refusing to pay mortgage (which is French for waging one’s life on it, an obviously deplorable concept). Real change can only come through massive nationalization of the financial system, and declaring most of the derivatives’ markets null and void.
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TRANSFERRING ASSETS TO THE RICH PLOT:
The economic crisis is rolling on, fostered by, and increasing inequality. It was fundamentally caused by the PLUTOCRATIC PHENOMENOM. Just as in the Late Roman empire, the Rich became so powerful, they invented and legislated for themselves ways to increase their wealth faster than the wealth of the nation(s). Not just by tax avoidance schemes [among others, the 15% maximum tax rate money manipulators pay], or exporting jobs overseas, but also by harnessing loans from (ultimately) central banks for speculation (something Clinton’s dismantlement of the Banking Act of 1933 enabled).
Obama is viewed as the icon of the so-called “left”. At least, so speak the Main Stream Media, which I call the Plutocratic Media, armed with its Plutocratically Correct speech. This is a fascinating inversion of all values. In the four years since leaving the White House, former President Barack Obama has spent his time raising and solidifying his position in the top one percent of the top one percent of Americans. Obama has raked in exorbitant amounts of money for public speaking events and made deals worth millions with multiple companies. Simply put, this is retroactive corruption.
In a revealing slip, at the height of the Great Recession, “Obama quipped that “at a certain point you’ve made enough money,” That was an inside joke: although his fortune was in excess of twenty million dollars when he entered the White House, Obama did not give his salary to charity as Trump did. Trump is not the first president to donate his salary. Former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover, both wealthy before they took office, donated all their earnings.
All what you see here is to the Obamas, a piece of the US most expensive island, Martha’s Vineyard. The mansion had been on the market for 15 million dollars. Taxpayers and losers, you worked hard, and your success is great; your great leader, the one of TARP, has been well rewarded by the owners of the world, so you did good, when you loved and admired him. The Obamas have two other mansions. Hey, they are just getting started… to give you lessons on inequality, and your systemic racism… The more the talk about your racism, the less talk about class warfare of the owners against the losers like you.
In May 2019, Obama the caramel idol of the pseudo-left was paid nearly $600,000 to speak at the EXMA conference in Bogotá, Colombia. According to the Bogotá Post, “A conversation with President Barack Obama,” addressed “influential growth strategies” in marketing and other aspects of the marketing economy. No doubt, getting the money from where it is located, namely organized crime, was a prominent concept.
Colombia is infamous for the corruption prevalent in its public sector and military, which costs officially the country $17 billion a year, equivalent to 5.3 percent of its Gross Domestic Product. Colombia exports half of the world’s cocaine and its drug cartels are the government. Corruption and drug money are what Colombia’s Inspector General called “the new cartel”.
Notice that Obama got his highest payment from the quasi-official criminals of the “new cartel”. In other words, the Global Deep Plutocracy is very grateful for Obama’s leadership: criminals of the world, unite! Obama is not just rewarded by the largest criminal organizations in the world, he insures an on-going service to them by providing them with clout, and respectability from the adoring rabble, worldwide, which celebrates the greatness of the one who got a Nobel Peace prize even before he disintegrated weddings in Yemen, and other acts of heroism in the evil dimension of the never vile enough.
While Obama deplores “exploding inequality” in his speeches, the sum he got for one night stand in Bogotá is more than 10 times what the median yearly household income in the US… and 72 times the average worker’s annual income in Colombia.
Obama is rewarded by those who profited from his presidency. His speeches have been given to big Wall Street firms and big investors. Obama gave at least nine speeches to Cantor Fitzgerald, a large investment and commercial real estate firm, and other high-end corporations. Each speech has been at least $400,000… for Obama.
Obama handed the robbers and outright criminals who caused the 2008–09 financial crisis a multi-trillion-dollar bailout (eight trillions by the Fed’s own reckoning). The Obama administration oversaw the largest redistribution of wealth in history from the bottom to the top one percent, eased by mellifluous discourses to the contrary. It was obvious at the time, right from the first few days of the Obama administration, that he had become an agent of the wealthiest plutocrats in the world, and that his presidency was in their service. Individuals such as yours truly, who did so much to get Obama elected, sank in depression…
Interestingly, Obama made the wealthiest so much wealthier that it noticeably diverted economic growth away from the rest of the nation.
Under Obama, the tech monopolies in charge of “populist” surveillance were developed, while the president personally killed thousands of innocent civilians.
“In addition to monetary rewards for his service to the financial elite and military-intelligence apparatus, Obama has been lavishly feted by socialites and billionaires such as Richard Branson. Obama was Branson’s special guest in 2017 on a private island where the pair were seen kite surfing and enjoying the amenities of Branson’s exclusive resort.
Michelle Obama has also benefited after the family’s departure from the White House. The couple signed a $65 million book deal with publishing company Penguin Random House for their political memoirs. Michelle’s memoir “Becoming” was the best-selling book of 2018 with over 10 million copies sold. The pair also signed multi-year deals with Netflix and Spotify to produce content aimed at “fostering dialogue” and promoting diversity in entertainment.
Obama’s lucrative post-White House career hobnobbing with the corporate, entertainment and financial elite epitomizes the revolving door relationship between the US government and the private sector. Obama’s rewards are simply retroactive bribery for services rendered to the capitalist elite, who have welcomed him with open arms.“
This is all lunacy. That Obama has no moral compass, dignity or the presidential mien many US presidents had in the past is one thing. That most of the world’s population has been so indoctrinated in its subjugation that it cannot what’s wrong with this picture, is something else entirely. This phenomenon of mental subjugation is the most common state of humanity… The strength of Western civilization is that the spirit of subjugation did not flourish as well in the West as anywhere else in the world.
So what to do? Legislate. Presidents or their families, or high level officials and their families, anywhere in the world, should have a low bound on their income after office, say over ten years or more (the occultation period under the Roman Republic for re-election to the Consulship was, in normal times, ten years… There were exception in case of existential wars, for reasons of military leadership) Say one should limit their income to ten times (for presidents) or less (for lesser officials) or the median family income. Moreover office holders, and their families should be forbidden to get ANY money or gift from anyone, individual or corporation, who profited from a legislation they signed or helped to pass (including at the level of senators, deputies . congressmen, and aides).
In other words, I propose to pass laws annihilating the “revolving door” which enables the Global Deep Plutocracy that Biden is getting ready to revive as never before… The idea is that no one should be able to enrich themselves through public service. The reward should be the service and the power it should ephemerally provide with…
So let see this legislation: Time to see if the would-be “progressives” of the “Democratic” Party are for real…
Anybody receiving my family’s ballots could determine exactly how we voted on everything: there was no double envelope, like my HOA (Home Owner Association) has. As far as I am concerned, that makes the election fraudulent in California. Non secret voting is fraud. It is banana republican.
Grossly anti-civilizational propositions plutocrats paid hundreds of millions for, also “passed“. But how do we know votes against plutocracy were not tossed away? Remember: anti-plutocratic propositions are viewed as “populist“, just as the Trump vote is viewed as “populist”. Because there is a clear mechanism in existence to explain why they would be tossed away: in California, a particular mood reigns, full of hatred and derangement… Against anything “populist“. It is, at this point, pro-Big Monopolistic Tech. It is not just pro-Big Monopolistic Tech, but rabidly so… Because Obama the revered brown life, who matters, was rabidly pro-Big Monopolistic Tech. It is couched as anti-Trump hatred, because Trump sued Google, for monopolistic abuse, but the truth is that Big Monopolistic Tech is the core employer in Northern California, of dozens of thousands of programming lemmings.
The non-anonymity of voting was planned, it is not an accident. Here is a quote from the California government https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-registration/vote-mail: When your vote-by-mail ballot is received by your county elections official, your signature on the return envelope will be compared to the signature on your voter registration card to ensure they match. To preserve the secrecy of your ballot, the ballot will then be separated from the envelope, and then it will be tallied.
Now California voted two-third for Biden (as early as 1998 a Iraq invasion promoter). And that includes the central valley and Orange County which tend to vote Republican.
Sequoia Maple Sky: Not all is bad in California…
Where I am, Berkeley, “Democratism” is rabid. It masquerades as progressivism, but its unreasoned hatred is more in common with traditional US racism. If anything compatible with Trump is uttered, interlocutors beg you to never mention to anyone that such an utterance was heard!
It is troubling to observe individuals with TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome (I CREATED the neologism!). They have no idea what ails them. No idea that Biden is exactly like what they say Trump is like, what they claim to hate… Just Biden is WAY worse. No idea. So they end up attacking real progressives, or, even worse, basic foundations of civil society. The latter point will last, tragically. These enraged, unthinking characters are all into superficialism, just as racists are in the superficial appearance of skin. They will accuse elderly Jews to be… Nazis: hhttps://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/04/03/political-polarization-sparks-confrontation-at-starbucks-triggering-online-fury
Somebody who has determined I write from “Saint Petersburg” asked whether I hated Trump haters. Do I hate Trump haters, the ones with the plutocratically administered Trump derangement Syndrome? No, I don’t hate my patients!
Someone said they saw how I was “suckered in”. I was suckered in because my medical drugs, bought cheaply in France, were intercepted by Obama FDA, torn out, some sent back to France, half-destroyed. And now Donald really got me with his most favored nation trick for lowering the price of drugs. Make America Good Again!
But then the gullible turn up their smug faces, and say: “Associated Press, AP, and Reuters are reputable organizations!” In truth, AP and Reuters are PLUTOCRATIC MEDIA. They are literally owned by some of the world’s wealthiest persons, and THEM ONLY. Progressives who get instruction from AP and Reuters are like rabbits taught by wolves.
New York Times is controlled by the same family since the century before the one before the present one. Not quite as old as T Rex, but still pretty old and ravenous. New York Times is a “public” company… but the public has no control whatsoever… (A question of A shares versus B shares…). And those beasts are vicious: a financier of “Factcheck.Org”, heir of one of the greatest names, and lots of money, threw my daughter out of her school. His three blonde children of the superior race owning America, stayed there, the mixed race child was torn from her root, and now cannot be schooled in her native tongue.
Here they go, and they howl: we are good, we are the best (“Optimates” in Latin, the plutocratic party of the Roman Republic, which destroyed it), we are… blue. Blue in the face they are, and they hate the reds. Blue like those without oxygen, red, like the Native Americans covered in ochre earth… What do you mean “blue”, “red”? California voted for two extreme plutocratic propositions #15 and #22… As far as I am concerned, reverting more than a century of workers’ rights makes sense when one has voted for the guy who said, as a US SENATOR-chair, one had to invade Iraq… in 1998… https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/…/biden-invaded-iraq…/
So this is the point, let me repeat slowly: a reason, colossal naivety, “Democrats” voted for Biden is the same reason that enabled those same voters voted for the California Propositions the wealthiest persons in the world asked them to vote for… But there were even worse causes. Not just colossal naivety, but the propensity to vote for the same plutocratic operators… Because they share the same moods. And what mood is that? Preferring basic instincts like hatred and greed to cool analysis. California has become Democrat controlled from a mix of clientelism, greed and Big Monopolistic Tech employment… All of it empowered by an increasing lack of critical and informative education in public schools, while children of the elite go to private schools. Right now, public school children get eight hours of instruction a week, and private school children, 40 hours. Slaves and serfs don’t need much beyond read and write, masters need to outsmart them, and it will be easier if the serfs are so incredibly stupid, that they vote for their own masters…
It’s pretty funny actually, as the main supporters of “Democratism”. the plutocratic way, a beast of contradiction, will be among the victims thereof…
That was from the… New York Times [1]. My eleven year old daughter was submitted to four weeks of “voting suppression studies” a sort of hysterical propaganda to justify the dictatorship of a few “Democrats”. It is NOT AT ALL the official California sixth grade program… which focuses on ancient civilizations from the Middle Earth, India and China… More than two thousand years ago. So the little ones were told that those who were not wealthy enough could not vote, nor could some races, or women. All very good that now we can all vote… But do we? Of course not. In Berkeley-Oakland, for decades, people have been free to vote for Barbara Lee.
Barbara Jean Lee (born July 16, 1946) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 13th congressional district. Now in her 12th congressional term, Lee has served since 1998, and is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 9th district from 1998 to 2013, is based in Oakland and covers most of the northern part of Alameda County. Lee is the current whip and former co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (2005–2009).
Who does that “whip” strike?
SAN FRANCISCO — It was an intimate meal in a wood-paneled, private dining room in one of California’s most exclusive restaurants in Napa Valley, the “French Laundry”. The cost of dinner starts at $500 per person… without wine. Newsom mentor Willie Brown wrote that he heard the meal’s wine bill alone “was $12,000”. This is a restaurant where the cheapest dinner for two costs what the median US family earns in a week… Before taxes. No one around the table wore masks, not the lobbyists, not even the governor.
Democratic leaders in California have repeatedly ordered residents to be hyper vigilant amid the biggest spike in infections since the Chinese virus pandemic began.
Democratic leaders in California have flouted the state’s coronavirus orders and guidelines. Mr. Newsom and other officials stridently clamored for Californians to make sacrifices to stop the spread of the virus. Most recently beseeching them to stay home and avoid visiting family over Thanksgiving.
California lawmakers went to their traditional vacation cum conference for a week of taxpayer and lobbyist paid a luxury resort Fairmont Kea Lani in south west Maui, Hawaii. Rooms start at more than $500 per person, and up to above $1,600… Full disclosure: I have been in Maui, and I know some people who went to this luxury resort… which is way too expensive for my ethical code. I even asked pointedly why they went there, and the answer was that they liked the luxury, being provided with brand new slippers everyday. In my opinion, humanity has better things to do than new slippers for the wealthiest everyday (if nothing else it prevents investing in biotechnology).
So at the luxury resort, those who vote the laws and those who know which laws they want to pass co-mingle, thanks to the Independent Voter Project… another of these sinister plutocratic conspiracies with a misleading name… All breathing together good coronavirus air in Maui.
The Maui luxury resort extravaganza happened just as California issued explicit guidance on avoiding “nonessential travel to other states or countries.” The elitist malfeasance displayed here by the governor, legislators and lobbyists — from the California MEDICAL Association, no less — knows no limits…. and therein its charms.
Face coverings the efficacy of which, aside from hospital settings, with more sophisticated, cleaner equipment, has not been scientifically demonstrated… Feinstein obviously knows this, the inefficiency of masks, otherwise she would be wearing one, all the more as she is a “legislator”.
The juxtaposition between the strict orders to the plebs and the behavior of lawmakers does not just undercut a defining message of prudence that the state’s Democrats have sermonized throughout the crisis. It brings up a fundamental question. The sumptuous dinner at the French Laundry was hosted by a prominent California lobbyist, Jason Kinney. The chief executive for the California Medical Association and the organization’s top lobbyist were also there. 50,000 California physicians.
Fascist multimillionaire corrupt Governor Newsom eating his 20,000 dollars meal with his lobbyists and Pluto friends, complete with Californian medical association (of millionaires). No masks, no social distancing, all laws of the land. Newsom turned around and closed the California economy, a few days later, and then imposed a curfew… All of this within days of the dinner above.
Newsom on Monday described the dinner as taking place outdoors. But the photos show a table indoors with a glass sliding door that opens to a courtyard. On Wednesday a spokesman for Mr. Newsom, Nathan Click, said the governor had no further comment. Newsom admitted his sin with glee: “The spirit of what I’m preaching all the time was contradicted and I’ve got to own that,”
Governor Newsom announced on 7-17-2020 that California Public Schools would be shut down for the rest of the year. Why not? Private schools are open, in person, for the elite, everyday: let the wealthiest be the brainiest, it is safer that way! Newsom’s four children, aged 4 to 11 get superior private school instruction (as Newsom himself explained). Newsom’s kids go to Country Day, a $25,000 per year and per student. So while my daughter in public school is given eight hours of total instruction a week, much of it insisting that listening to US president Trump causes insanity… Newsom’s children learn the California curriculum… ancient civilization in the case of the sixth grade. Yes, in public school as I observe it, the California curriculum in history has been changed by the standards of the present “Democratic” Party propaganda (which is standard fascism, actually, a la Giovanni Gentile‘s definition of fascismo, a tight relationship between the state and the corporations…)
“Newsom and the first partner eschewed state public health guidelines to dine with friends at a time when the governor has asked families to scale back Thanksgiving plans,” wrote the Sacramento Bee editorial board on Friday. It added, “If the governor can eat out with friends — and if his children can attend their expensive school — why must everyone else sacrifice?”
And the answer to this is that you have got to be used to it. Indeed, why does the elite insists for the plebs to follow ridiculous rules (masks in the wilderness, say)? The juxtaposition between the strict orders to the plebs and the behavior of “Democratic” lawmakers does not just undercut their sermon throughout the pandemic. It brings up a fundamental question: What are they trying to do? Could this flaunting of privilege and disdain for the law, not be a device to mentally condition us further down our debasement?
Is it not because the elite, the Feinsteins (billionaire), the Gettys (once the world’s wealthiest family and Newsom’s telerobotic operator), the Newsoms, know it is important to train Californians to obey senseless orders as if they were dogs… So the mandatory mask wearing, the curfew and the senseless rules (don’t go on the giant beach!) are mostly to inure the plebs to obey senseless orders. It works: the California proletariat voted for Prop 22, which goes back on more than a century of workers’ rights.
Governor Newsom has been a public servant his entire life. After graduation from college, he founded the PlumpJack wine store with family friend billionaire Gordon Getty as an investor. The Getty family was long one of the world’s wealthiest. Newsom’s father was an appeal court’s justice and attorney for Getty oil. Newsom’s maternal great grandfather was a professor of medicine at Stanford University. Newsom is Californian elite, through and through. Instead of acquiring a professional degree (lawyer, doctor, etc.) Newsom leveraged his acquaintanceship with the elite. Newsom’s friendship with the California elite enabled him to be nominated to the San Francisco Board of Supervisor (and from there, mayor). Newsom was sworn in by his own father.
Being part of the elite insured contracts for Newsom’s flourishing businesses, with a personal income well above a million dollar a year, and more than 700 employees. A long article in the LA Times documented, while Newsom was lieutenant governor, the investment of Getty in ten of eleven Newsom’s businesses. Getty said he treated “Newsom as a son” (SF Chronicle).
Please also notice the immensely wealthy Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi is part of the family (Newsom’s aunt is married to Nancy Pelosi’s’ brother in law). Public education has been basically stopped. My daughter gets eight hours a week, by zoom, half of it unabashed Democratic Party propaganda, as a California public school child. Private school children are back being educated in full and in person, including Newsom’s four private school children. Is that democracy? Or plutocracy?
These distortions of reality are there to impose a new mood. That the plebs should get used to the following: the plebs has to follow orders and the law imposed on itself by the elite, and the elite is above them all. In other words, the plebs has to accept mental (economic, financial) neo-feudalism…
We have see all of this before. This is the essence of fascismo a la Gentile. Giovanni Gentile was described by Mussolini, and by himself, as “the philosopher of Fascism”. The Italian fascists promoted a tight relationship between corporations, plutocrats, governance and workers. The plutocrats came out ahead, the rest, not so much… In 2003, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Gordon Getty was the chief investor in 10 of Newsom’s 11 businesses at the time. Getty dragged in many other plutocrats to invest in Newsom’s businesses. “We’ve assembled our dream team and are ready to embark on creating Tahoe’s most distinctive resort and residences,” said Hilary Newsom, president and partner of Newsom’s PlumpJack Group.
They have assembled your dream team and are ready to embark on creating the world ready to serve them… The Global Plutocrats want us to feel they are divine. However… Si comprehendis [,] non est Deus (if you understand [something], it is not God). As Augustine of Hippo put it in Sermo 117.3.5; PL 38, 663 (Although anti-Christian globally, it does not mean I do not find inspiration in Christian thinking. The exact same idea is found in the Qur’an, spoken by Allah Himself… When Allah is asked to justify His friendliness with the devil and Djinns…)
By inverting Augustine’s idea, we get a remedy. If we understand them, they are not divine. that’s how to bring them down from their perch.
Patrice Ayme
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[1] Now that Trump is out of the way, maybe the New York Times’ Trump Derangement Syndrome is on the mend? Hope springs eternal…
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