The Dose - 2-5-2022
A few articles of interest.
Food for thought: going beyond ‘survival’ in Vietnam
A restaurateur who weathered the postwar trade embargo has found ways to benefit from ‘Lockdown 2.0’
Maybe because I now own a mini-empire of restaurants and a hotel, largely made possible by Western visitors, this Lockdown 2.0 might be expected to feel more painful, but it does not. It may well be more painful for those on the outside.The reason has a lot to do with the differences between us. In the East, we believe in seasons and balance. We are humble and scrappy, always preparing for the next test. If you disagree, tell me: How many Western businesses could survive without customers for two years, as we have?
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Developing myself through the arts is a beautiful journey and the best way to get to know myself. I believe that exploring these latent skills or abilities can help in every aspect of my life, including my business, of course.It is also about finding balance, which is a core Eastern value. The artistic side of us provides the yin component and our work, our career, provides the yang. Everything I do outside of work helps me in my work.
Rather than dwell on the negative aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, or race to get back to the old normal, as we have seen happen in the West, I have used my time to reflect and look inwards. Ultimately I hope to emerge from this situation as a better, and possibly more successful and fulfilled, person.
An opportunity to provide input while the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is considering Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Pfizer's mRNA vaccine for children 6 months to 4 years old.
This could lead to some interesting twist and turns.
The Heads of State positively assess the effective interaction between Russia and China in the bilateral and multilateral formats focusing on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, protection of life and health of the population of the two countries and the peoples of the world. They will further increase cooperation in the development and manufacture of vaccines against the new coronavirus infection, as well as medical drugs for its treatment, and enhance collaboration in public health and modern medicine. The sides plan to strengthen coordination on epidemiological measures to ensure strong protection of health, safety and order in contacts between citizens of the two countries. The sides have commended the work of the competent authorities and regions of the two countries on implementing quarantine measures in the border areas and ensuring the stable operation of the border crossing points, and intend to consider establishing a joint mechanism for epidemic control and prevention in the border areas to jointly plan anti-epidemic measures to be taken at the border checkpoints, share information, build infrastructure and improve the efficiency of customs clearance of goods.
The sides emphasize that ascertaining the origin of the new coronavirus infection is a matter of science. Research on this topic must be based on global knowledge, and that requires cooperation among scientists from all over the world. The sides oppose politicization of this issue. The Russian side welcomes the work carried out jointly by China and WHO to identify the source of the new coronavirus infection and supports the China – WHO joint report on the matter. The sides call on the global community to jointly promote a serious scientific approach to the study of the coronavirus origin.
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The sides reaffirm their belief that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is an essential pillar of international peace and security. Russia and China underscore their determination to preserve the credibility and effectiveness of the Convention.The sides affirm the need to fully respect and further strengthen the BWC, including by institutionalizing it, strengthening its mechanisms, and adopting a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism, as well as through regular consultation and cooperation in addressing any issues related to the implementation of the Convention.
The sides emphasize that domestic and foreign bioweapons activities by the United States and its allies raise serious concerns and questions for the international community regarding their compliance with the BWC. The sides share the view that such activities pose a serious threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and China and are detrimental to the security of the respective regions. The sides call on the U.S. and its allies to act in an open, transparent, and responsible manner by properly reporting on their military biological activities conducted overseas and on their national territory, and by supporting the resumption of negotiations on a legally binding BWC Protocol with an effective verification mechanism.
How a decades-old database became a hugely profitable dossier on the health of 270 million Americans
To most Americans, the name MarketScan means nothing. But most Americans mean everything to MarketScan.
As a repository of sensitive patient information, the company’s databases churn silently behind the scenes of their medical care, scooping up their most guarded secrets: the diseases they have, the drugs they’re taking, the places their bodies are broken that they haven’t told anyone but their doctor. The family of databases that make up MarketScan now include the records of a stunning 270 million Americans, or 82% of the population.
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The financial trajectory of MarketScan was perhaps unimaginable in 1981, when a former insurance executive named Ernie Ludy founded the company. His idea was to simply collect patients’ data and parcel it out to big companies that were seeking to control costs by getting a more granular view of their employees’ health care use. The biggest companies were looking for savings from the data, not new ways to make money.
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As one of the first to understand the power of aggregated health data, his optimism for disruptive change is now colliding with discomfort over the way consumers are losing control over their own information and the ability to benefit — and not be harmed — by its use.Since he founded MarketScan, sources and uses of data have changed dramatically. Google, Facebook and Twitter were formed, creating impossibly deep wells of ancillary demographic and health information from internet searches, geolocation tracking, and unguarded social media posts. Medical data mining companies have made a business of scraping the details of consumers’ daily lives into medical dossiers that, if combined with MarketScan’s de-identified information, could be used to re-identify the individuals within its databases.
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From there, Medstat inked deals with Medicare, several state Medicaid plans, hundreds of hospitals, and two dozen commercial insurers all clamoring for the company’s insights. By late 1994, 1,400 clients were supplying Ludy’s company with data on patients’ medical encounters and costs. The company could see one of every two hospitalizations in the United States and had compiled several years of data on tens of millions of patients.Not a single one of those patients had directly consented to their data being shared with Medstat.
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“There are very few protections for individuals for health data that are de-identified,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady, a lawyer and bioethics professor at the University of Michigan. The de-identification of the data means it is no longer protected under HIPAA or other federal regulations surrounding the use of health information.Those rules apply only to the health entities that initially collected the data, not the commercial companies that compile and re-deploy it in search of profit. That hands-off approach means technology companies that in recent years have amassed the largest stockpiles of highly sensitive health data, such as IBM, Google and data aggregators such as Verana Health, Datavant, and IQVIA, face the fewest restrictions on its use.
The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto January 22, 2022 The American Prospect
In a surreal new lawsuit, New York nursing home owners say they make nearly a billion dollars a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients.
Last spring, disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law a simple but sweeping reform that would have required nursing homes to spend a majority of their revenue on patient care. Specifically, the law required nursing home operators to spend 70 percent of their (near-exclusively government-supplied) revenues on qualified patient care–related expenses, more than half of which needed to be patient-facing staffers like nurses, nursing assistants, and nutritionists.
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But while health care workers are acutely aware of the extent to which that understaffing is a man-made phenomenon promulgated by the greed of the bosses, politicians continue to speak of it as some sort of act of God, with governors from New York to Nebraska declaring their care worker shortages states of emergency, deploying the National Guard to serve as nursing assistants at gruesome death-trap facilities whose owners have been sued for wage theft, and subsidizing travel nurses for politically connected hospitals.Late on New Year’s Eve, Cuomo’s successor Kathy Hochul made the most significant intervention, abruptly postponing enforcement of New York’s safe staffing law, reasoning somewhat paradoxically that the state’s health care staffing shortage was simply too severe to start enforcing the law to clamp down on health care staffing shortages. Instead, Hochul a few days later unveiled a $10 billion plan apparently designed to achieve the same outcome by spending $4 billion in state funds subsidizing care worker salaries to “bolster our bone-tired health care workforce.”
WHAT HOCHUL NEGLECTED TO MENTION was the extraordinary 133-page lawsuit that 334 of New York’s nursing homes had just filed in federal court against the state’s health commissioner, demanding the safe staffing law be struck down on constitutional grounds. The nursing homes allege that the law constitutes an “unconstitutional taking of Plaintiffs’ private property for a public purpose.”
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The suit represents a wild departure from the nursing home industry’s historical party line that it is egregiously underfunded and barely able to break even. Since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid gave birth to the modern American nursing home industry, owners have argued year after year that the government simply does not provide them with sufficient funds to employ enough staffers to adequately care for their residents, while critics have responded that the funds would be plenty sufficient if owners did not insist on siphoning away such a lavish portion of said funds for themselves. The quantifiable truth of the matter has been obscured by the cocoons of esoteric accounting bullshit that generally swaddle most for-profit nursing homes.Now in the New York complaint, ownership is unabashedly arguing that abusing workers and patients to extract windfall profits from public programs is its constitutionally protected right.
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"We are humble and scrappy,
always preparing for the next test". That's a nice article from the Asia Times. Thanks for the dose and OT soe. I'm reading through the rest bit by bit today. The weather this week in central TX has been cold and icy. It's soup weather. On the menu today is lentil soup with some root veggies thrown in and Indian spices. I'll see what else I can find in the cupboard. Hope all is well with you and your critters on the farm.
Big News on GoFundme
See you all later on with News about Week Two of Trucker Convoy
NYCVG
GiveSendGo now collecting funds for Freedom Convoy 2022
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
They have already collected approximately $1 million (5%) out of a goal of $16 million. Unfortunately their server has now been overwhelmed and it is difficult to log on to donate. I imagine they will update this in the near future. It is being run by the same people who did the GoFundMe. Many are writing that they will never use GoFundMe again in the future.
It looks like GiveSendGo is under a DDOS attack
if this is true it's gotta be the Russians, amirite?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gofundme-steals-9-million-canadas-fr...
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
People are rightly pissed off with GoFundMe
People from both the left and right, the vaxxed and unvaxxed, the workers and the employers are joining forces against the vaccine mandates. They want to take back their personal autonomy from the coercive state.
GiveSendGo
appears to be working, and I'm getting ready to contribute
EDIT: I tried signing up and an error page popped up. TPTB are controlling
all opposition to what they want w/enablers all over SV
https://www.rt.com/news/548395-freedom-convoy-fundrasier-platform/
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Current from GiveSendGo
It appears to be working normal now. The rate of donations is considerably higher than with GoFundMe (people got really pissed of with them kowtowing to the f*cking PTB).
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
Goal : USD $16,000,000
12% Raised : USD $2,069,807 (CAD $2,641,373)
Heard from a YT live streamer...
last night in Ottawa that the government booked all the hotel rooms in the city center to keep people from being there over the weekend. He said his reservation was canceled. Ain't that grand using the peoples tax money to insure their voices are not heard.
Big party last night. Really the whole gathering is like a big party.
Turdeau would be wise to relent rather than hold his unpopular stance. He could claim in light of evidence and advice from scientists, the mandates are no longer needed as Canada follows the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Lithuania, and France in lifting the mandates. Even Israel has eliminated their "green pass". Bet his ego is too large to back down and be sensible.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Russell Brand
is very good here. Spread far and wide.
The media is preparing us for the Offshoring of all those Jobs
The poluticians and corporate media are preparing us for the OUTSOURCING of all those trucking and nursing and many other jobs. You know, the ones that you (unless you are retired) and all your neighbors depend on to eat. Do they care? Sure they care. They frame it as because US workers are too expensive.. we want too much for the current wages to be "sustainable" Why are they not "sustainable"? Because they are higher than in the LDC countries so those countries companies have an unfair advantage. So they created the WTO which requires that all corporations be treated equally
Even the ones that exist in totally deregulated environments should have the right to use their cheapest workers here so they can be incredibly successful by paying workers into their bank accounts overseas.. even if the worker is here. Thats whats behind this huge scheme. Eventually. Thats their long term goal. The fact that foreign companies operating in the US currently are supposed to pay a "legal US wage" is irrelevant because 1. Its impossible for US agencies to know how much they pay because they pay the workers into their regular home bank accounts in foreign banks.
So now they are on their honor system. In order to get the US visa, they have to enumerate what they intend to pay and if the pay is less than the legal US wage for the area then they reject the visa. But once the worker is here its difficult at best to verify thats what they are paying according to USCIS. Also, foreign firms that rely on this business model are adept at paying less by all sorts of means. They nickel and dime them for all sorts of charges and rents with the result that the actual pay they make is much lower. Also they are always on salary which means they can make them work much longer hours, sometimes 60 hours or more a week. Also they in effect live on the job as the employer houses them, often charging them exorbitant rents. (granted the areas where these workers often rent have some of the highest rents in the country, making it even harder for US workers to compete with them)
Thats the case for dozens of job categories which are supposed to be globalized because of OUR GATS commitments. GATS undermines working people and is a dagger intended to destroy middle class wages all around the world. Its adirty deal between the corrupt South oligarchs and the rich countries oligarchs in places like the US, UK/Canzug countries, the EU, India and so on. The richest people in the labor exporting countries are the ones who get the profits and the workers are often paid the very lowest wages possible. Or less. Wage fraud is as common as visa fraud with these deals. The fraud is commonly known and acknowledged. But this jugernaut whose intent is to destroy the futures of millions of working people is still going foward. Is this what we the people want? Clearly, no its not, but that doesnt matter. It basically shreds the social contract that emerged out of the US civil rights movement. Is it over? Is there no longer an expectation of future improvements for the Black community, women, and other long mistreated groups?
It certainly seems as if this new global dirty deal is intended to replace it with a new deal that in a very real sense compensates the rich with the jobs, intended for the poorest countries biggest corporations.. so they can make exploitative profits off of them. Affirmative action laws may even have become illegal under trade law, anything that stands in the way of this global "restructuring" is forbidden. Even minimum wage laws may become trade barriers and forbidden if they have the effect of reducing trade in services. Even if their intent is not discriminatory, if the foreign companies fail for any reason to make the killing they are expected to make then that US law may be challenged and have to be abolished or the US may face huge sanctions.
Why are all workers being demonized? To make it easier to do away with the shrinking pool of decent paying jobs, which is the intent.
We're supposed to see COVID their way, as an emergency that's depriving the capitalists of the full value of their investments. In other words, its all about the owners.
Work people are supposed to be interchangeable, easily replaceable, parts - cogs in their respective machines. Nameless worker bees. The property of their employers.
But now they want a "living wage" when wages have always been about supply and demand. People starving to death because their jobs dont pay enough to eat, is a protected starvation as its "natural" in trade law. Its natural for poor people to have their child die from lack of a drug that costs 5 cents to make but which a drug company wants to charge $500 a pill for. They can charge whatever they want, whatever the market will bear. Thats what our country stands for now.
The US madia and the poluticians have been hiding the trade deals that aggressively outsource and offshore millions of our jobs. Pulling the rugs out from underneath working people. Dont they have some legal responsibility to support the corporations of this country, no matter what the people vote?
The jurisdiction over trade in services now belongs to the WTO. The US has one vote in the WTO and we always argue what our corporations want. Look aty how aggressively we argue for high drug prices.
This is the 21st century, not the 20th. If you want a vote become a country, join the WTO and get one. (Just because the workers from the desperately poor "Least developed" 3rd world countries, while at home, make an average of just two dollars a day, shouldn't mean that the last 200 years of hard won gains for workers should be rolled back!
Is it possible that money, the huge profits that are made byreselling those workers labor for almost as much as the US workers their firms replace, literally "trillions of dollars that are currently being thrown on the sidewalk" by US firms paying over high wages as a top US think tank puts it. is why this all is being hidden. (See "Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?" which argues that US firms are needlessly paying wages that are far higher than the market says they could get away with paying. Resulting in losses to the entire global economy of trillions of dollars a year. Read it! I have a folder with dozens of papers arguing that its inefficient to pay living wages to workers in the countries that do it. Note that this kind of obsession with efficiency is almost a cult now, a cult thats is obsessed with tearing down the world we grew up with that wants to replace it with what former WTO DG Micheal Moore called a Disinfecting fire of competition. Likewise they frame price limits on drugs - indeed all regulation of drug pricing in Europe in the terms used by oncology, as a cancer that must be excised - done away with.
Face that, to ignore it is dangerous. All the gains from science are being stolen to pad the incomes of the ultrarich. It should be noted that the huge explosion in computer form related business activity, the change without which the global economy would have shrunk dramatically over the last few decades is entire due to something the corporations hate and want to steal, the availability of high quality free and open source software, which is basically a gift to everybody. Like the insulin patent., It was given to the people of the world to use, but not sell.
Out government now seems to be actively opposing FOSS. The engine of economic growth of the last three decades. Why? Perhaps it makes it too easy for the poor to get ahead simply by hard work and their own efforts.
This is insanity. Its also a war thats being conducted against all of us for the rich and them alone. To help them up by pushing all of the rest of us down.
As many European countries pull back, Trudick and Canada
appear to be doubling down.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2022/02/debt-rattle-february-5-2022/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/04/attorney-representi...
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And I'll agree with Musk on this
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Sadly I think the video message
goes along with the pre-crime article I posted. It looks like Trudeau is going to roll over people’s rights with force and the support of cops who I believe swear an oath to uphold the laws. We’ve seen it here for far too long, but it got worse under Obama and Trump and then shitlibs looked the other way when Biden locked up the People’s house in DC. Unless cops pull their heads out of their arses and start standing with the people…. Same goes for the military. But then that’s why Biden is culling those who refuse to get jabbed isn’t it? Damn, what a bleak picture being exposed.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Covid was just the excuse to use the mRNA crap
Whitney has been writing about other reasons to use this new type of vaccine such as for transhumance and connections to more nefarious things. I don’t have an opinion on it one way or another, but will keep an open mind about it. I’ve read that big pharma will use it for many other shots including children’s vaccines and the flu shot. Yeah still not taking it. Here she writes about what Biden’s cancer treatment stuff is about. Hint: it’s not really about curing cancer.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/this-biden-pr...
Followed this link from her article. As we know there was ample warning about possible mayhem at the 1/6 capital event, but nothing was done about. No additional security was even considered and we know the results. A new domestic terrorism bill was waiting in the wings to be implemented just like the patriot act was waiting for 9/11. Both target Americans. This guy was arrested for what he wrote. Not did. Just wrote. Pre-crime has come to the USA.
https://reason.com/2021/02/16/fbi-arrests-activist-daniel-baker-over-pos...
And he’s not a radical Trump supporter. Oh no he’s a radical leftist… just like censorship doesn’t stop with those you don’t like….
It’s going to be interesting to see what comes from the stuff Whitney is saying. I’m just sad that I won’t be dead yet before it happens. A lot of this was planned during Trump, but Biden picked up the ball on it even before he was elected. Further proof there is only one party in America. It’s not the party for the people.
I’d be interested to hear others thoughts if they read this.
Alex Berenson has some excellent questions about what happens going forward now that the mRNA vaccines have not only failed spectacularly, but have now set up long term health consequences for many. Really worth a look.
ETA excerpt from the article on cancer. As you can see it has nothing to do with curing it, but a way to surveil and monitor people’s thoughts and health conditions. Minority Report territory. Yippee.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
From the 2nd article
Weird that Matt Gaetz wasn’t arrested for what he said though isn’t it?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
If they really care about our wellbeing
wouldn't giving all americans M4A at a minimum be the answer. In reality I want the same exact healthcare the 546 and their families in DC get, no co-pay, no denial of service, and most likely the best healthcare one can get.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Police will most likely employ undercover cops
as Agent Provocateurs to damage property and attempt to incite violence like they did during the G20 protests (the police lost a $24 million lawsuit in that case). Canadian cops have a well known history of doing these kind of illegal actions to squelch peaceful and legal protests all across the country.
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There has been NO Violence. NO Fires. You MF propagandists.
NYCVG
Medical Information Bureau
Thanks soe. HackerNews had some comments on that Ten Year Old IBM database article, which is where I heard of MIB Group. Here is the link pasta:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30188843
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I am certifiable, so I worked in FinTech and once got an IBM Tivoli Administrator Certificate. There was high demand for adminstering Tivolois back then. lol Then I learned some Nazi history and what's your Hollerith number? It's your SSN of course. Of course! Welcome to our new MIB overlords!
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Stasi much? Let's go!
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Tell HN: Salary data is for sale | Hacker News
The corp.'s were exempt, and now they are not. No reverse transactions allowed, sorry! I couldn't function in this fucked up system if I wanted to, to be honest. But I still want to! Isn't that weird? brain wash
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I remember when nobody went to jail and nothing got better after Equifax was hacked, so I guess China has
myeveryone's Social Credit Score now too.Peace and Love
the moody blues - legend of a mind (timothy leary's dead)
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Canadian Freedom Charter suspended says Ottawa police chief
Also, is anybody else being prevented by Google Translate from translating certain documents, like some of the stories previously linked here from Canada?
I think, but am not entirely sure that that term refers to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_2_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Right...
If this is true its really a horrible thing. I think the global grab is a reaction to declining profits throughout the world in the 20th century as "modern" standards of how business treats labor had propagated. The globalization of the world is claimed to be "necessary" to restore profits which they claim have vanished due to increases in wages and costs, due to things like minimum wage laws and environmental regulation (for example, to prevent cancer)
Its a reaction by the core forces of capital attempting to restore the "rights" they had in the past, I think it really has little if anything to do with Corona virus because many of the actions being taken dont make sense, scientifically.
Also, its not a "right" to ignore science on safety changes that have been needed if ignoiring science results in the deaths of working people. Cost benefit analysis that based themselves on wages, which assign values to human lives based on artificially lowered wages are not an appropriate way to set monetary values for human lives. Under that kind of analysis, the unemployed, retired people and children's lives are worthless. Have no value and are not deserving of protection if it costs corporations money.
This is a good argument for universal graduate level education, especially because much of the scientific literature needs a decent level of numeracy to understand fully.
They are trying to roll back public higher education globally, making people unemployable as most decent jobs require a college level of numeracy especially statistics.
Then they can claim that lack of numeracy required them to contract out math-requiring jobs to overseas firms. It enslaves us to this outsourcing.
This is dangerous to our national security because some of those countries are nuclear nations that never committed to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Pact.
If you are outside of the US youcan buy all of that information
For around $2 on anybody. @eyo @eyo
Next time you are on vacation and have Internet, just for fun, do a search on data providers of various kinds. You will be amazed at the stff you can buy. FRrom US companies, as long as you are not in the US.
There are even apps that people can install on their smart phones that can fetch it from dozens of providers. All displayed together (the app companies take a fee) However if you are in the US you must answer all kinds of questions and then swear that you are not going to use it for determining credit, Many of the companies wont even sell it to you if their servers determine you are in the US at the time you are looking for them. (A VPN might successfully convince them you are not in the US, I dont know)
One of the biggest companies is actually run by a close associate of our former Secretary of State. A member of the globe trotting Gupta family.
This information is useful to the wealthy in sussing out their business associates.
Many other uses such as renting apartments or employment are probably okay..
If you are a landlord you want to make sure your renters are not going to fail to be able to pay rent. For example, because of COVID in the resent period. No law prevents the databases from telling their customers who's naughty or nice. (Naughty is fine as long as they have lots of money)
These apps also can provide ones voting registration info and other info of a political nature. They also have health information (if you are outside of the US, or appear to their servers to be coming from a foreign country.)
They show customers ver long lists of different data they can buy. Lots of it is redundant, people definitely want toi reduce the amount of information they consume or they will be overwhelmed with fairly useless info, like peoples relatives info. These companies collect virtually everything on everybody that they can. Even what people buy at the supermarket. What they search for online. Where they are at various times (when they see ads of various kinds) To prevent fraud.
All of this is available to people who want it for a fairly modest price. Including much information that poor people think is private.
I guess the message they are trying to send is if you are rich you can set up your life so you have privacy (by setting up shell corporations incorporated in secrecy jurisdications like Delaware)
Many of these same companies appear to offer services that will do that for you too. Its a huge business. Offshore banking is very hot right now.
We still have the right to vote and our money still has the right to be treated equally by the government and quasi government entities, even if we still have the right to regulate and be fined the equivalent of billions of dollars in sanctions if our laws are found to violate WTO rules. If we want to give that money up, we can. We can violate the financial standstill or whatever but if its something thats very costly, the likelihood is that eventually we will be brought before the Dispute Settlement Body and if we lose, we may be asked to change our non-compliant law. The scope of WTO law is very wide and trade deals liike TISA, TPP are even broader and deeper in the things they regulate, often areas that have not even been discovered yet.
Reasons given by the powerful for the taking back of power.
I had the global grab put to me this way recently..
We don't let the government take peoples property..
So that means all these things people expect cant continue, because they require the government taking peoples rights to establish and conduct business away from them by regulations. (I think he was talking about employee benefits, like health care and retirement/Social Security and environmental regulation). His argument was that such generosity was "not sustainable" and thatit was a mistake to allow it when it was fought for and won in the past. .
So he was turning it around and blaming the large scale offshoring of jobs on the demand of workers to if you employ them, to be paid a living wage and be allowed to strike, and also get some kind of social security - employment insurance. Once a business is established in a country, And does some business, even very little it seems as if its as if a right officially "vests"
Its the owners property and they also gain a property right to continue that business if its allowed even briefly. Such "ratchets" are written into trade rules also. Historically, in the past governments would often regulate in such a way that businesses claim that their business had been "expropriated" by regulatory actions. (expropriated means "taken")
Suppose a business polluted a lot, got away for it for a long time, even though people were getting cancer. and eventually a government limited or even banned some activity that enabled that kind of pollution because it was causing cancer. The business might sue that government for the tort of indirect expropriation saying that they now had a right to pollute. Even if it caused cancer. Here is a paper discussing one way this might happen in international investment laws.
But there wasnt a right to pollute before, some might argue, was there? No, although I'm not a lawyer and might be wrong, I am pretty sure that people had at least a theoretical right to sue polluters if they could prove that their injury was caused by a specific act on the part of a polluter sometimes.
Does that right still exist? It does but its often very hard if not impossible for regular people to assert it in practice. Also, treaties may make it difficult or even almost impossible to prevail for them. Even if the blame and chain of culpability of the tortfeasor seems obvious to others. And it is for reasons, Many reasons. Many many reasons, some of which are international treaties. . Unfortunately the way many laws get structures put major barriers in the way of those who might try to challenge things like employee injuries. So its arguably rare for their rights to be asserted successfully. Contrary to what many people think. For example, malpractice suits and the percentage of healthcare money spent paying them or defending doctors from them in premiums in the US are very very low, compared to the rates of iatrogenic injury. (which are high) Most people dont realize this, the propagenda machine brainwashes us very effectively into thinking the opposite is true.
Its the same for environmental regulations and heir actual costs, usually.
Despite claims on the part of some businesses that various kinds of legal cases are growing, the actual statistics dont bear that out. The number of cases and amounts of awards are low compared to what one would expect. This is because its next to impossible for injured people to bring certain kinds of cases because of things like subrogation clauses and unfortuate aspects of ERISA (employer provided) healthcare plans law. Forexample, insurance companies medicolagel standard of care is determined by the norm of such standards which varies tremendously fro county to county. In some parts of the country, its okay for insurers to treat sick people worse than the standard of care in many poor developing countries. Because thats simply the norm, they are quite arguably getting away with murder.
A subrogation clause is different but it has a similar effect in that it reduces the ability of people to be able to afford to get justice quite substantially. By making it next to impossible to get an attorney.
A subrogation clause might put a health insurer at the head of the line in terms of winnings in any lawsuit, even if it would seem to a reasonable person that they were not the party most deserving of that money. The net effect is that a case to compensate a worker for a workplace injury might never get brought because the employee would have to poay for the case entirely out of their own pocket. And if they lost they might also have to pay the cost of their opponents lawyers too. A cost few injured workers and their families could risk. Thats the way the legal system in the US is set up. The losers often have to pay the legal costs of the winners. What this means is that the victim of a crime, if they try to assert any rights without a lawyer often lose twice, The second time is when they get dunned for the thief's legal costs he incurred defending himself from his victim's suit
This puts people at the mercy of corporations. There are other reasons too. Declining incomes put things like legal suits for damages out of the reach of potential plaintiffs because the losses are lower since they make less, so their health is numerically worth less to them. And to attorneys who would get a cut of any legal case for lost income.
It has nothing to do with COVID, in fact, the danger of things like COVID would be much reduced if the entire economy (they claim) didnt depend on millions of people constantly traveling all around the world to go places where they can be paid less than they would be if they stayed at home.
Zed
THIS is what I meant. Plus the constant editing. You asked for advice, I’ve given it.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Good question
They lied. They are still lying. Just today I read how the vaccines are totally safe. BS!
The truth is being spoken.
The vaccines are driving infections higher.
From Israel
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
It's the vaccines, if you take Israel and see what's happening
https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=33695179
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
"Immune Erosion"
now we have heard it all.
NYCVG
And hear I thought it was the beginning of
Lookout's WW
"Immune Erosion"
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Duper’s delight
Watch the first video and you see Gates obviously expressing it. What is it?
Duper's Delight
Interesting. See article for what I’ve left out cuz of fair use.
It came from this article:
You can read it if interested. It’s an interesting topic.
Thread:
There are 4 more.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Is Johnson speaking out about this?
This is damning information from the military. Information on vaccine injuries is being changed and hidden from the public.
From 1.2 million diseases in the military in the previous 5 years to 22 million now. That’s hard evidence of harm being done. But I don’t know what Johnson is doing with the information he’s hearing. Bueller?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Do you mean the post immediately above yours above?
Thanks.
I was tryng to explain in part why the nursing home operators might have considered it a "right" of theirs to extract astonomical profits from nursing homes. It boils don to the US's efforts to convince foreign investors that the US is the safest place for their investments by various means.
For an informative discussion of the contrast two kinds of points of view in play here, The kind that gives corporations constitutional rights that eclipse policy and voters and the kind that does not internationally, I hope people read the discussion of the factual background in the Achmea case between a Dutch insurance company and the government of the Slovak Republic. Start here at around Page 12 of this PDF. Notice the two parties differences in what they consider to be appropriate, moral behavior given the circumstance.
https://www.italaw.com/sites/default/files/case-documents/italaw3207.pdf
The US business is based on a for-profit paradigm. That means that they do to some extent have a right to make a profit. One based on the Constitution. How much? It may be left up to us to decide how much. I am not a lawyer, and I dont know. It seems to be a big struggle of our age, and its being driven by the vast inequalities that are being driven by the rise in labor-saving technologies in part. EU jurist Markus Krajewski has written at length about this problem of "universal service guarantees" I would do a search on his name, and read what he has written on this. Achmea (the case) which was eventually resolved, sidestepped the issue completely. So those who wanted to see some outcome supporting voters side of the issue and governments rights to de-privatize healthcare and other former public utilities (how the EU treats them) were disappointed it seems to me..
IS there any obligation for healthcare to be affordable? There may not be at this time in the US. It seems we here (our government) generally oppose such rules, Honestly, I don't know. I think the evidence leans more to there not being such a right presently. There could be one if we created one. (But we would have to buy it back, by compensating other countriues for their alleged "loss" Of course it helps to have money in the world of capital and it has to. If you have money and spent it but still could not get the care that others who were spending as much as you got, for some reason, that might be something you could challenge and win. We have to remember that disputes in forums like trade courts (like the AChmea case) are implicit recognitions of this new right they assert to control even the most important kinds of policy usurping the right of the people to vote for or against it. Thats a big taking of an important right away from us and a putting of it where we don't even exist, let alone can win.
These entitlements that our non-rights may conflict with are not about people, so much as they concern state level actors (countries and their governments) and corporations and their profits and rights. We the people don't really exist at the supranational level. Thats a big problem, our lack of standing.
Hey Zed
It helps the readers to hit the reply button before replying to a post.
It also helps, when you edit a comment, to include in the body of the
text to indicate .. edited to include .. whatever or to delete some section
it makes it easier to follow the train of thought
thanks
question everything
Finally! Violence at The Truck Convoy
No, silly reader.
NOT the Truckers. Some Anti-Protest disgruntled guy in a mask.
NYCVG
Anitdote to the Hate above
NYCVG
Canadian cultural division
Why all the resentment of the common people in Ottawa?
Are thy hiding something we should know?
Is it pathological projection?
I am, but for some reason my replies almost never thread
@qms
>Submitted by QMS on Sat, 02/05/2022 - 3:45pmQMS's picture
>Hey Zed
>@zed2
>It helps the readers to hit the reply button before replying to a post.
@QMS, I do! And did just now, but it still ended up only being appended to the bottom of this page.
>It also helps, when you edit a comment, to include in the body of the
>text to indicate .. edited to include .. whatever or to delete some section
>it makes it easier to follow the train of thought
>thanks
Would somebody be willing to work with me to identify why when I try to "reply" my replies always end up at the bottom and don't thread. Maybe it will work this time. As you see I copied and pasted QMS's post to me into the text so that even if it ends up at the bottom it will be "in context".
In short for some reason its breaking.
I don't know why. I have wireshark and all sorts of text editors so I am equipped to figure this out, I just need to know what's causing the problem.
It's because...
you keep removing the parent link.
See this FAQ, it will explain it: Why is my comment not posting in the right order?
https://caucus99percent.com/faq-page#n16921
Thanks!
I've been an-asking people about that little bunch of text, but nobody told me up until now. Hopefully it will work now.
Thanks again!
Notice...
after you publish the reply that if you mouse over the parent link it will show a dialogue box of the parent link in question. You can also click the parent link and it will display in full.
Immune erosion" is probably a term for immune senescence
As people are exposed to more pathogens and immuno-reactive substances their immune system becomes exhausted.
their body becomes less and less able to mount a capable immune response when its supposed to. This is why much older people often cant fight of pathogens as well as younger people. For this reason maybe older people should be given some other anti COVID therapy, maybe a SIRT modifier like resveratrol might be better defense for them. Thats been suggested elsewhere. No drug companies should not be allowed to patent natural substances as they are trying to . The world needs to speak up lest we become enslaved by drug companies, in their quest for ever larger and more predatory profits.
Maybe they need to be less quick to give people vaccines in order to save peoples ability to mount an adequate immune response. At some point a strain of covid may emerge that kills 30% or more (like MERS) of those who get it. We need to ration vaccines so that when such a strain comes along (and it will) we can give people a vaccine thats specifically intended to stop that strain. Otherwise it may run into this problem, which is called "original antigenic sin" or "Antibody dependent enhancement" and not have any way to defend against it.
Please search on those terms on PubMed. read this article that discusses the ADE/Original antigenic sin issue in the COVID context. Its old though, from last year. There are newer articles.
The smoking gun, with shell casings and a glove that fits
I found this tweet in this article on omicron. This is the 1st of 4 articles he’s written on it. They are all interesting, but I’m not sure if they hold up or not. I’m not smart enough to. You can decide.
It seems that Paul and Johnson are the only members of congress who are interested in finding answers to where the epidemic came from. Only one though is interested in the massive harm being done to us. Why is that? There are plenty of doctors in congress. And mandatory vax isn’t just so Pfizer can be protected from lawsuits. It’s also so that there is no control group to compare to the vaxxed. Lawyers in Germany are bringing lawsuits. Where are the American ones?
Plus 2 republican attorney generals are suing GFM for stealing the money on the government’s behalf. And yet I’m seeing people saying that it’s a private company and can do what it wants. Sure just like our social media aren’t working to censor us on behalf of democrats. Hey anyone want to buy a bridge? If it’s true though we just hit V for Vendetta territory.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Posting this again since few commented on before
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
oops delete this. nt