The Weekly Watch
COVID and Control
We're being controlled, threatened with a COVID club. It provides excellent cover for outright economic thievery (transferring unbelievable wealth upward), the demolition of the few decaying social services including the post office, the increasing corruption of our elections, and more corporate control, coups, and war. I can't help but be fascinated with the nature of this virus and its reverberating effects on our society. This pandemic has revealed US incompetence on so many levels. Perhaps the people are prepared to reset the system. All the protests suggest some awareness. I hope we will find our way to the garden...some have. But of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Let's start with the progression of the pandemic. Last week I lamented the start of the school year, and featured the story of a student suspended for posting a photo of the crowded unsafe conditions at the school. The additional spread of COVID among students has indeed played out in Georgia.
More than 60 new student COVID infections in Cherokee County schools this week, 1,000+ in quarantine. The numbers were released in the district's Friday update. According to the list of cases, there were 66 new student positive tests this week, nine teachers and four staff, a total of 79. The first week saw 20 positive student tests, seven teachers and one staff, for 28.
There is some backlash and even calls for a general strike...
A growing movement is now underway of teachers, students and parents against the effort to reopen schools amidst the expanding coronavirus pandemic.
Over the past month, more than 300,000 educators and parents in the US have joined Facebook groups opposed to the back-to-school campaign. There have been protests and demonstrations in Mississippi, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Alabama and many other states. On Monday, protests were held in dozens of cities throughout the country.
For this movement to succeed, it must be developed into a nationwide struggle, uniting educators with all sections of the working class in a general strike movement against the homicidal policy of the ruling elites.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/pers-a05.html
When we look at the US at large, cases are increasing at a decreasing rate...
... and deaths rates may be in decline. In part because it is younger folks getting infected, and improved treatments.
How the American oligarchy profited on death...
The United States set two milestones on Wednesday: 1,503 people died from COVID-19, the highest level in three months, and the S&P 500 stock index reached its highest mid-day level ever.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/14/pers-a14.html
And after over 100 days with no new cases, New Zealand has a new outbreak. This is difficult to contain.
John suggests it may have come in with frozen meat or perhaps from animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-zWFnfhYI&t=4m40s (4 min)
He also explores the low death rate in Africa (other than South Africa).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQcS-UWBq4Q
Below his clips he always post links to the articles he discusses...like this one:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/pandemic-appears-have-spared-afr...
Here he discusses possible reasons Africa is being spared the deaths in other places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-zWFnfhYI&t=38m (5 min)
I suggested metabolic health as a possible immunity strategy last week. John also implies diet as a possible explanation.
Ivor Cummings explores if we are in a "Second Wave" - Or Not? With UK ICU Specialist Dr. Ron Daniels to Helps us to Understand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BHZCYAAsY (31 min)
They compare cases with death and conclude the increasing testing explains the rise in cases. ICU admissions are dropping and perhaps the spread is a good thing to build herd immunity.
Is it possible to eliminate this disease?
Vladimir Putin’s announcement Tuesday that Russia has officially approved a COVID-19 vaccine has intensified the global conflict between national powers and pharmaceutical giants to be the first to mass produce and market a vaccine for the deadly virus.
It has also underscored the perverse and destructive subordination of medical science and technology to the financial and geopolitical interests of rival cliques of nationally-based capitalists. The conflict, particularly between the ruling elites in United States on the one side and their counterparts in Russia and China on the other, to control the production and distribution of a vaccine is an immense obstacle to the rational and efficient development of a life-saving drug in the midst of an international public health catastrophe.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/13/vacc-a13.html
There is a new mask that can help prevent you from getting this virus that cost about $12.50 each. https://n95maskco.com/collections/n95-masks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cVsWBfupE (10 min)
Just like a regular N95, such as this one that we use in the hospital, made by the company 3M, this mask will filter out particles as small as 0.3 microns. It’s also listed on the CDC’s website of NIOSH-Approved N95 Respirators. It’s also FDA approved. So what sets this mask apart from a regular N95 mask? Several things, actually. For one, it's much more comfortable to wear. You’ve probably seen pictures of health care workers with marks and lines and even bruising on their faces as a result of wearing N95s. And from my personal experience, they’re just not comfortable, especially for more than an hour or two of use. The company also claims that it can “inactivate up to 99.9% of particles within minutes,” So not only trapping viruses and bacteria but destroying them too.
This new KN95 Respokare mask has 4 layers, and the innermost layer is built of soft materials to ensure comfort during periods of long-wear, and is also water-resistant, which is also nice. On top of that are 3 more layers, that serve to not only trap fine particles, but one of the layers contains copper and zinc ions which serve to destruct viruses and bacteria. Also, the outermost layer has an acidic coating, creating a low pH environment, which helps to destroy viral and bacterial proteins.
I continue to think a simple home spit test is the best strategy. Here's a great 5 minute explanation from one of the scientist who helped develop the test.
More details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKM4MIrfr4k (23 min)
Antibody tests are misleading because of T cell immunity. Here's an excellent lesson on the different ways we fight off this virus and why so many people are asymptomatic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i536vS3z3e8&t=1m45s
Chris doubles down on his X,Y,Z hypothesis of herd immunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRwlxZ-BTaY (28 min)
He also had a great clip on the failure of the media to help people in a pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qehoi4BUA (44 min)
Corbett thinks TPTB are using the pandemic for a "Great Reset"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lh-HGcXE1Q (18 min)
Max Blumenthal spoke about media manipulation and suppression this week. Excellent discussion of wikipedia and twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7minj7mJqQk (40 min)
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-found...
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/10/twitter-us-state-media-ads-voa-persian/
Caity warns...How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/08/15/how-we-could-wind-up-banned-from...
I've always seen media as key to reform. People are being misled about much more than just COVID. How can folks make an informed decision? Russia continues to be blamed for the 2016 election outcome.
Jimmy and Aaron discuss the continuing russiagate saga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74jrqI6a-rw (29 min)
Danny Sjursen explains "The Russians Are(n’t) Coming!"
The first-place War Wizards rely on two go-to moves to maintain militarism:
1. Invent or Exaggerate a “new” Russian threat (anywhere and everywhere).
2. Plant, time, or twist a “new” media story evincing Trump’s collusion, favoritism, or blindspot for Vladimir Putin.
https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/07/30/the-russians-arent...
I Was Wrong: Congress Isn’t Cowardly; It’s Evil! Blocking withdrawal from a hopeless Afghan War opposed even by its veterans, counts as criminally heinous – and par for the congressional course. https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/08/03/i-was-wrong-congre...
Danny spoke with Chris this week...
The truth about war with Danny Sjursen, combat veteran and West Point graduate.
Journalist and filmmaker John Pilger discusses the Coronavirus pandemic and it’s damage to the U.K., the scandal of some of the most vulnerable patients being thrown out of hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in the tens of thousands of excess deaths, ongoing privatisation of the NHS and the the continuous deterioration of the NHS before the pandemic, Matt Hancock’s performance as Health Secretary, the ongoing persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, new charges against him, the efforts to extradite him to the US and the silence of mainstream journalists on his persecution. Finally, John Pilger discusses the rising tensions between the US and its allies and China, ongoing Cold War dynamics with Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia, the hypocrisy of Western foreign policy against China, the Hong Kong National Security Law, the US military encirclement of China and how China is entering a ‘state of siege’, rising tension with Australia and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqla0O8t1Sw (28 min)
Yesterday’s hearing in London made clear, if any further proof was needed, that the prosecution of Julian Assange is a shameful and degrading show trial, intended to railroad an innocent man to prison or death for revealing the crimes of US imperialism.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/15/pers-a15.html
This election cycle seems very similar to the 2016 race to me with media constantly talking about Bye-done's lead. We'll see. Can we believe the results? Greg Palast has been making the circuit discussing election fraud. Here he is with Max and Stacy -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1I023qRrWM (25 min)
Trump Says Gutting the Post Office ‘Means You Can’t Have Universal Mail-In Voting’
The president says the quiet part out loud when it comes to attacking mail-in voting
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-postal-service...
Consider how effective our representatives are... Jimmy discusses the current congressional vacation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAEe7epD51w (13 min)
There's a new "back to the land" movement afoot. Chris, an aspiring new farmer, spoke with regenerative farmer Joel Salatin this week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZXPFvsCXI
So many young folks have developed an interest. Josh talks with three young interns at the Raleigh Urban Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-Vj4z4s_c (14 min)
Urbanites have been fleeing the city and buying up property in rural America during the pandemic. https://modernfarmer.com/2020/07/back-to-the-land/
As I said earlier, the more things change, the more they stay the same...
"You can lean on me brother, I can see you've carried too long..." This lyric is something we can all relate to. Sometimes life gets to be too much or too hard and we need somewhere positive to put our troubles so we can move on. Music is one of best places to put your problems and lay down your burdens, and when you hear Luke Winslow-King, Vasti Jackson, Dr. John, and Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi sing these words you know everything is going to be alright.
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Thanks, Lookout
In case that blizzard of links wasn't enough for people here are a few more.
One from Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology from Yale's School of Public Health - arguing for the adoption of early HCQ treatment for those at high risk.
And noted virologist William Hatfill advocating, well - pretty much the same thing and calling out the blatantly biased and factually wrong coverage of the issue by the Washington Post in particular and MSM more generally.
And moving seamlessly into censorship and cancel culture territory - huge censorship against doctors publicly advocating HCQ - news conference censored, whole long-established Youtube channels deplatformed, the ISP hosting the American Frontline Doctors website took their entire site down and Dr.Simone Gold - one of the principal organizers summarily fired from her job, presumably for daring to speak out.
So much for the marketplace of ideas, I guess.
Bonus track:
Louie Gohmert makes full recovery from COVID-19
Cheers,
BR
India now recommending ivermectin over HCQ
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3873223/posts
Here in the states it seems to be about generating profit instead of healing folks.
Thanks for the links and the visit!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
de nada
Don't know that many medical, bioscience people here but one of the few that I do know
(recently retired plant genetics prof) told me he though Invermectin was the
best thing going...
Not sure if you saw this from Brit Dentists
Sounds encouraging.
Povidone iodine gargle and mouthwash.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-020-1794-1
Kill the buggers within 15 seconds.
Iodine as a mouthwash sounds easy...
Interesting link QMS.
Evidently it is an effective gum disease control as well.
https://www.curezone.org/forums/am.asp?i=1274301
Hope all is well in your corner. Rocking along fine here in the holler.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The Russians are(n't) coming ...
Aside from thanking you for all your links you put together and reading through some of them slowly, I was reminded what I found collected and archived by my mother (1919 - 2005) about her anchestors and family as well as that of my father, which covered times back into the 1750 (couldn't believe my eyes when I detected that)
I can't even believe how she pulled all that information toegether, I think with the help of the one lifelong secretary (from 1949 on) til my father's death (1918-1997) and other friends of my father, who worked in the family company. Apparently many of those elderlies wrote down their life stories and reflect on what had happened. The same way I start to reflect on my own, which ... makes me sweat. But what I just wanted to say ...before the terrible heat melts my brain...
For some the Russians were coming at a certain period of their lives, for others they didn't or were welcomed as saviors and new hope. The whole picture is a very elaborate puzzle of why some feared the Russians and others not.
It also explains somewhat why the next generation never took the anti-communist propaganda very serious and did not feel threatend by the Sowjet Union, and others believed in the propaganda (mostly the elderly Nazi enthusiasts) Some of them lived in Eastern Germany, many of them were in Russian or French POW camps, many lost family members somewhere in Rumania or Russia or todays Poland, some worked for the Americans. So, to say it in other words, it's not black and white, it's a gray zone puzzle, which, if you get into it, is more colorful and enlightened to read and detect than anything else (for me at least)
So I have read how they (civilian women all of them with their husbands or SO somewhere missing and at unknonw locations during war times) fled (by foot) from incoming Russian troops and then ran away from Poland towards the west to avoid being shot by Russians. Just to continue in the next exhausting sentences how they ended up somewhere on the more western part of Germany, where they were bombarded by the Americans and they ran away from those. I think one of my aunts went through several Eastern European countries always fleeing (in order to understand her story I need old maps from Eastern European countries back in thoste days) So, why would someone believe, any of the civilian little women' would care which bombs would kill them, as long as they saw a way to run and survive somehow?
The Russians came, the Americans came, they both helped to defeat 'das Tausendjährige Reich". Thank God. They both bombed as much as they could and it is for those, who happened to be targetted pretty irrelevant, if it were Russian bombs or American bombs and who were coming in from the East or the West or the North...
For my aunt and my mother the Russians were coming and the fled the troops, while they were living both at the border to Poland and in Berlin. But it was a Russian who saved my mother and a group of other German women from being killed, raped and violated by other Russians. (It's not your nationality or tribe, which makes you a decent human being). I think all I am trying to say is that you have to live in person through those times and be a collateral target to know how irrelevant it is for those, who happened to be among those, who one would consider the collateral damage of wars, who it is trying to kill them.
All I know is that German beer taste good no matter with whom you drink it, Russians or Americans.
Cheers. Make beer, not wars, make dirt only, if it's good as a fertilizer. Basta.
Ва́ше здоро́вье! Prost! Cheers!
cheers indeed!
Fascinating story. I think we're going to see similar migration on levels we can't yet examine due to the climate chaos which is accelerating. I try to focus on nature, the forest, and the garden. What is coming will come.
Take care and enjoy your family and yard. Stay well.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Wow, mimi!
Thank you for sharing this. What a treasure trove you have of documented family history.
My family does structural salvage. When a house, office building, apartment complex, etc. is deemed for demolition, my family and crew head in to gut the structure of anything that can be reused. It's the opposite of those remodeling shows.
Once, while carefully removing either shiplap or knotty pine along one wall, they found a handwritten diary from the turn of the 20th century. It described, among other things, a train trip the lady who wrote it took from Houston to Chicago (iirc). It was something my mother and I found priceless, knowing how we would feel finding something so incredibly cool that one of our long departed family members had left behind. Plus, we had taken a very short historic train ride on an old train years earlier and were absolutely miserable in the sweltering heat and humidity (no air conditioning of course). So imagining a trip that lasted days, as opposed to our short two hour, round trip ride, blew our minds.
So, my mom researched and found surviving relatives based on old property deeds. She was saddened by the way they reacted. One eventually sent a courier to retrieve it. And that was that, except that Mom made a copy of it to keep for herself.
I'm so glad you not only have possession of the documentation, but that you cherish it. Cheers to you!
P.S. If you were to ever put those stories together and publish them, I'd certainly love to read the whole thing!
Wish me luck to write about it
In my dreams I write it, but when I look at how slow I am to even sort my own last fifty years of my life in photos, letters and emails, my confidence is shattered into pieces that I can ever make it to cover all their life stories (as written by themselves) in one coherent 'thing'. I am just so amazed how and about what they wrote about. It helps to get a little bit more mellow with 'the human species'.
I can't write, neiter in English, nor in German, and then I don't know for whom I would write it. Most of them are dead, the next generation doen't know the persons and the history. I have a lot of respect for people who can write and produce documentaries. It's an art and a lot of work.
I love writers here. And the documentation they deliver with their news story excerpts and their own essays.
heh ... one has to love something ... even if it's just the 99 percent of people, who all have something to say.
I find it helpful ...
to think about writing as telling stories. So much of southern conversation revolves around stories. Imagine sitting on the porch and telling a friend the story you want to tell.
My 2 cents.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
My father was 19 when he had to serve in wwII
my mother and him were 16 when they became each other's SO. My father and mother talked rarely about their lives before and during the wwII. So, one day my sister asked my mother directly of what they thought about the Hitler regime. Her answer was somewhat tortured and helpless. She said: Eh, what do you want to know, we were in love with each other and that was all that counted.
At one point I remember my father saying that they were betrayed.
So, nothing changes much. Those words could have been said today by others being forced into wars, I believe. It just is so weird to see that you could have Nazi fanx and Nazi resenters in one family at the same time.
I was friends with Jessica (Decca to friends) Mitford
A socialist brit come to America. Her family was filled with contradiction.
The sister I knew (as well as her daughter)...
The family was a mixed bag..
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29351187
I feel enriched having known Decca.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
wow, I have to study that ... thanks /nt
Amazing Mimi
Deja said it well. I agree. Thank you for sharing this.
It reminds me that I found a trove of family keepsakes in my house when I bought it, not my family, but a prior owner's. I was able to track down family members to return all the things, which included a diary of the great grandmother of the man I gave them to with entries in 1850. They were very pleased to get the large box of things I found and it was a pleasure to hand them over.
Thanks for all the articles and links you have provided
Trying to keep up and trying to understand the various ins and outs of what is the legitimate information and concerns is quite daunting. Am back in my place outside Austin and even though it is a very red area, most of the business's do require masks which I take as hopeful.
My old place needs a lot of work but it is a place to get away from the big city and according to the neighbor that used to live behind us, the previous owner had a huge garden on the vacant part of my property. Been reading your articles about raised beds etc as a possible means for me to have a garden here. I do compost so am building some nutrients for my soil.
Am watering my pecan trees this week as our temps got into the 104+ plus range this week. Thanks for that song at the end. Really brightened my day. Have a good day and off to more chores!
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
I like the no dig easy strategy...
This fellow has a method that we've adapted for our use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6OBOyQ0mY (4.5 min)
We don't weed, we smoother with cardboard covered with manure, and then mulch with wheat straw. When creating a bed I sometimes lay out a thick tarp for 3-4 weeks to knock back the sod and then use a lasagna system
Good luck with your garden and trees. Oddly enough I've only had to water my new trees once so far. We've been getting regular rain this summer...that is unusual here. Well all the best and take care!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Hi JB. I've been looking into Permaculture for raised
concrete block beds. I found this recipe which seems to line up with other things I've read. I would substitute bagged dirt (not the Magic Grow stuff, just garden dirt in a bag) for the top layer.
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Raised-Permaculture-Bed/
A good way to use up fallen tree debris and cut up twigs, lawn waste, or meadow grass cuttings.
Concrete block raised beds
https://plantcaretoday.com/how-to-make-a-raised-bed-garden-using-concret...
Best luck, and may your garden grow.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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playing for change
I'd starve were it not for
the playing
some Ravi and Phil
for your listening unemployment
yes, life should be filled with play
That's our line around the house..."I'm going outside to play."
Hope all is well in your world. Thanks for the music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Zen Master’s tips for staying sane in challenging times
https://plumvillage.org/articles/a-zen-masters-tips-for-staying-sane-in-...
I would alter the last tip to listen to music (and birds).
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I watched the shadowgate movie last night
Lots to contemplate. AI robo cops. Food for thought. Did you watch it yet. What do you think?
https://youtu.be/jD46WsPnufs
Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
Hot Air Website, Twitter, Facebook
I watched it after SOE posted it
The RW view of deep state. Valid as any.
The mafia branch of government is alive and well.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
hola lo
and everyone
Thunder storm last night. A complete freak. Never happens like that. Could not figure out what the sound was at first. It is 94 here today. Another freak event. Bees are drinking water like crazy.
I was up from 2 until 5 watching that we did not get a fire in the reserve. Lightening off the coast for hours. Some fires north of here. A fire tornado up in the Lassen area.
This was the only shot I could get. Used Windy app to monitor the lightening strikes. Every time I heard thunder I would check the app because it showed where the strikes were. Three came close about 5am. Crazy.
Thanks for all the links. Especially the covid19 updates. Will check the mask out. Sounds good. I have been using n95s for appointments. Friend has a connection to buy them from a friend i China. Go figure. Small world.
Putting a swale in the back for certain. Will pm you with questions.
Take good care, all, and have a good one.
Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation
Hot Air Website, Twitter, Facebook
thunderstorms and lightening are common here
I remember one year we had a music crowd here. I think we played a dance and came back here. A big storm brewed and after folks turned in, here it came. The couple in the porch loft were city folk. They hollered down to us what should we do - jump down and break our leg or use the outside stair and be fried by lightening.
I love sitting on the porch and watching the storm roll by. Sounds like you've been having Alabama weather out on the left coast. We're having mild rainy weather here this summer. Whatta roller coaster!
take care and be well!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
That video from Med Cram
with the interview with Dr. Herrera was really informative. I now understand why the rapid daily testing
method is the best way to stem community spread of covid. The frequency of testing is what is important and paper antigen tests are the way to go.
Thanks for all the information Lookout. I will look at the rest of the links throughout the week. I always love anything about Joel Salatin and will watch those when my brain needs something fun.
Thanks also for the song at the end...so good, hadn't heard it before.
I love those playing for change videos
As you suggested this weekend music is a way to unite us, and those clips of musicians from all over the world playing together is inspiring. Here's one of my favorites from them...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UHHc7POovg]
I love playing and singing this one too.
Have a great week!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I agree
on all counts. Have a great week as well.