Meditation on the Seventh Day

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TO FIND THE WAY BY WHICH THE INVENTIVENESS OF MAN SHALL BE CONSECRATED TO HIS LIFE

 

Most of what you know is simply the opinions of others.
Some of what you know is an attitude born of propaganda.

Think critically.

I've seen you do that before.
Remove your desire to be right from the equation.
Don't induce. Deduce.
Subtract low-level mistakes from high-level motives.
Look at deeds not words in order to fully understand the long term goals of those involved.

 

Dig deeper for physical evidence.
Ask harder questions. For example:
Is the sequencing of the Wuhan virus DNA different than the virus sequences in Italy and Iran?
Consider what that would mean.
For what purpose did the Council on Foreign Relations groom Tulsie Gabbard?
For what purpose did they groom Pete, Joe, Amy, Elizabeth, and Michael Bloomberg?

 

Who would have told you that big pharma is using its top-level operatives in US Intelligence and the State Department to block from the US market the advanced testing technology that ended China's coronavirus problem?

You are able to see that this science is not available to Americans, right?
Analyze that datum.

Chinese scientists developed highly efficient tests for COVID-19 that can process forty people in 130 minutes. Instead — like lab rats in the wrong control group — Americans are forced to suffer a 2 to 4-day wait for results, if they are permitted to receive one of the few crude tests that are available in the US.

Why did the US government agree to deny Americans access to fast and accurate COVID-19 tests from China?

 

How gullible must Americans be to silently swallow the news last week that hospitals will now be using construction masks available at Home Depot to protect themselves from viral infections, while the construction industry is gearing up to produce even more? These new masks are being produced for hospitals and health care workers but, as usual, there will be none produced for the American people, who must lock themselves away from each other for protection. There will be no masks for families to protect themselves if one of them develops an unexplained fever or dry cough; no masks to protect them from infection if one of them must leave home to interact with others, where he or she may be exposed to airborne viruses.

Last week, Americans were asked to look around their homes for any N-95 masks they may have and donate them to the nearest hospital. Americans are not complaining about this or even talking about it. Did they believe the government last month when they were told that using masks will harm them instead of protecting them?

Are people who would believe such a thing — because it came from the authorities in government — competent to participate in a democracy?

 

How much harm are the people willing to accept against themselves in order to block vital medical imports from China so that the price-gouging pharmaceutical corporations can regain their monopoly in the US? Instead of supporting free trade — so that US consumers can have access to cheap drugs and necessary medical supplies — the US government is helping Big Pharma exploit American consumers, while harming and killing quite a few of them in the process.

Why are these bad actors so certain they can get away with this without consequence to themselves?

Think. Weigh only verifiable physical data. Remove opinions and assumptions from the scale.

 

Countries like Italy and Israel pity the American people. They make donations of standard medical equipment and drugs to the US to help the American people weather the medical catastrophe they are being forced into. Other countries remain silent because they are also watching the US block the delivery of all medical supplies to the people begging and dying in Iran.

One hellish turn deserves another, I suppose.

Perhaps that makes this capitalist assault on our lives more fair and just.
Or, maybe the deaths of US innocents offers cover to the monsters perpetrating a crime against humanity in Iran.

 

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Not Henry Kissinger's picture

the virus itself or the plans all the nefarious Blue Meanies are making to exploit it.

Actually, I do know what's scarier, and it's not the virus.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

Cassiodorus's picture

Why did the US government agree to deny Americans access to fast and accurate COVID-19 tests from China?

What other answer did you have in mind?

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

Pluto's Republic's picture

...China has repeatedly closed its gates and locked itself away from the barbaric and uncivilized outside world.

It will do so again, one day.

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Napoleon Bonaparte was right when he said, "China is a sleeping dragon.
Let it sleep. For when China awakes again, the world will tremble."

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CB's picture

@Pluto's Republic
A different China has arisen. It is no longer the insular nation it once was. It has opened it's arms to the world in trade, education and research. Chinese citizens now comprise the largest number of global tourists.

During this period when the COVID-19 virus has been sweeping the world, China has been on the front-lines by supplying not only much needed medical equipment but also teams of trained medics and doctors.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axf1Un4B8f0]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd29vlIkTNU]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQthpQT4JL0]
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rECnvAplY]
I have seen dozens of similar videos to many other nations that have been affected by this pandemic.

BTW, China is now back to work. Chinese migrant workers are being brought back by the hundreds of thousands by special air flights, buses and rail lines. Almost all infrastructure projects are now up and running.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrTq_MQq20o]

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my eyes teared and blurred a bit.

a whooosh-worthy post, with brilliant art at the bottom. the theme is sooo bill gates-esque. esp. with the triangular the eye of sauron on amerikan folding money.

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Lookout's picture

The sheeple are victims of their allegiance to the MSM, political parties, the NYT and WaPo, and so on. Garbage in, garbage out. When I talk to work a day folks (which I'm not doing these days as I lay low in the valley), they have no earthly idea what is going on and how badly they are being screwed. I used to fire hose them with evidence of their misled conclusions, but that is not an effective strategy.

We badly need real journalists, even as we imprison those that have proven track record of being correct...especially because we are. Thanks for your voice of reason and reminder to question.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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Why did the US government agree to deny Americans access to fast and accurate COVID-19 tests from China?

was a combination of pride and greed within the Executive branch.

After denigrating China for many years, the Trumpeter couldn't admit that China could, quickly and effectively, rise to the occasion and be so successful in this existential battle while the US was/is literally left floundering.

The other factor, greed, was at play. The rejection of the Chinese test kits, despite WHO recommendation, was to ensure American drug companies would be the main beneficiaries of unlimited funding from Federal and State governments. The drug companies involved did not want a one shot test kit that only tested for the COVID-19 and not sold after the pandemic was over. They wanted to use this federal funding to design and manufacture test kits that could also detect different flu viruses. This was so they could capitalize on the flu market after the current viral epidemic was over. They put the interests of the American public second to their avarice.

We have seen this rapacious behavior by US drug companies before. Recall the $1.5 billion dollar Tamiflu fraud during the last epidemic.

The US has now surpassed Spain and has become #3 in confirmed cases and the daily increase in cases is an astounding 20%. This far exceeded China's rate of increase of rising infections.

Country - Confirmed - Daily Increase - Deaths - Increase - Serious

China 81,054 ↑ 46 (0.05%) 3,261 ↑ 6 (0.00%) 72,440 2,314
Italy 59,138 ↑ 5,560 (9.40%) 5,476 ↑ 651 (1.10%) 7,024 3,009
United States 30,340 ↑ 6,074 (20.01%) 389 ↑ 86 (0.28%) 186 61

I expect the US to become #1 within a week or so.

The American public will pay dearly for Trump's hubris, avarice and incompetence. The man should be tried, convicted and jailed for treason.

I recommend reading the following in it's entirety.

Coronavirus - On Western Government Failures And Possible Therapies
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China warned us early on. The WHO was informed in late December. On January 3 the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was informed by his Chinese colleagues. After China recognized that the new SARS-CoV-2 virus indeed jumped from person to person it took radical measures to get a grip on the epidemic and those measures have worked well. China has only 3,255 death in a nation of 1.4 billion people. Today all checkpoints were removed from Wuhan city and life there is slowly turning back to normal.

Other Asian nations have likewise reacted fast and effectively. It was and is the 'west' which, despite having been warned, is responding poorly to the crisis.

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@CB --

James Corbett has a ton of research, along with a dread of authoritarian governmental behavior, which he's put into his warning against allowing what he calls "Medical Martial Law." As always, he offers the option of video or audio (podcast) and lists his sources at the bottom of the post. It's 1 hour, 10 minutes long.

Episode 373 – Medical Martial Law 2020

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Lurking in the wings is Hillary, like some terrifying bat hanging by her feet in a cavern below the DNC. A bat with theropod instincts. -- Fred Reed https://tinyurl.com/vgvuhcl

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@laurel
as the machinations of those who secretly work to create a New World Order, a Superstate that has complete control, mental and physical, over it's subjects. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four if you will.

Personally, from looking at international events over the last 5-10 years, I see a multi-polar world being created to replace the current global American hegemony. My greatest fear is the the US will not cede it's perch in the Catbird Seat without a struggle.

But, the US response to the current pandemic may just break enough branches for it to fall.

As far as strong military control over populaces, they have never truly succeeded for any length of time. China has had centuries of these experiences. History has shown they all eventually failed in the end to the detriment of the leaders of the time. The same is true of Russia.

Look to the difference in governance between these three men, Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. One plays zero-sum games, two play at win-win. One is an avowed corporatist and two are renown statesman. This tells me a lot about the global future.

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For what purpose did the Council on Foreign Relations groom Tulsie Gabbard?

Operates on the assumption that Tusi was in fact "groomed" by the CFR. For those of us still in a state of shock over the recent spate of events, is there any proof, or even well-founded evidence, to support this assumption?

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Lurking in the wings is Hillary, like some terrifying bat hanging by her feet in a cavern below the DNC. A bat with theropod instincts. -- Fred Reed https://tinyurl.com/vgvuhcl

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@laurel

She has discussed her foreign policy before the Council.

Since 1921, when the Council was formed to involve the US in foreign wars, a preponderance of Presidents and Secretaries of State from both Parties are involved with the CFR.

None of this has been a secret. It is merely inconvenient.

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Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal's picture

@laurel

association with which tends to move a person immediately outside the realm of easy trust. The CFR is one of them. No Labels is another. One such association did not get in the way of my offering Tulsi some fairly significant (though not absolute) trust. Two, well, that's not good.

The truth is I have no idea what's going on with Tulsi, because if she does serve the interests some here suspect she does--why did she take down Kamala Harris? Harris was shocked. That wasn't acting. Harris is like Hillary, not a good enough actor to fake anything that effectively. And Kamala was clearly the Hillary/PNAC crowd's Chosen One. So I have no idea how that could work out. You could say it was so she could establish credibility, but taking down one's chosen candidate to establish some credibility in an agent? I don't buy it.

So, like I said, I have no idea what's going on with Tulsi.

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but then so is the eight, ninth, tenth and eleventh and twelfth day.

And then you've got all the days after that when schools are cancelled and special events are cancelled and everything else is cancelled.

People are out of work indefinitely.

The seventh day lasts forever.

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"The enemy is anybody who is going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on." Yossarian