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abundant anecdotes, some humorous, on fear and more, from a Westerner in China - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

First, some warm fuzzies, Soul cookies, good deeds, may they sprout :) https://www.zerohedge.com/health/not-all-americans-are-fighting-over-toilet… For some possible insights into human fear reactions ("actions"), journeys of lock down in China, or just a somewhat enjoyable bunch of anecdotes whilst you sip on a Corona with Lyme twist, if you are bored or just want to read something mildly amusing for 15 minutes.. Locked-Down: An American Caught In China During The COVID-19-Crisis Speaks Out https://kunstler.com/other-stuff/essays/guest-post-lockdown-an-american-in-… https://www.zerohedge.com/health/locked-down-american-caught-china-during-c… [tongue firmly in cheek] .. "*Disclaimer: in my case, what I have believed all along is objectively true." Bankrupt shale company trolls their bank :) : Bankrupt Oil Company Trolls Its Banks, Says They May Fail Too https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bankrupt-oil-company-trolls-its-banks-say… .. In its latest annual report filed late on Wednesday, Bloomberg uncovered that among EP’s list of risk factors the company also included the future of its debtor-in-possession loan which is EP’s primary source of cash, and - in an a delightful case of suicidal snark, the company wondered if that might be cut off, along with funds that would enable it to exit bankruptcy, if its banks were themselves to fail. .. "Although we believe that the banks participating in the DIP and Exit Facilities have adequate capital and resources, we can provide no assurance that all of those banks will continue to operate as going concerns in the future, or continue to participate in the facility." .. Even more amusing, this mini soap opera is taking place as EP tries to put together a new plan to exit from Chapter 11 after creditors Apollo Global Management and Elliott Management backed away from a court-approved plan that would have cut more than $3 billion of debt from its balance sheet; a plan that would need the blessing of its current bank syndicate whose appreciation for such "suicidal snark" may be overestimated. And American consumers are "urged" to keep their money in their banks, for real-ski (this is not a comedy article, though the facts may contain inherent, albeit unintended, humour): "It's Safe!" - FDIC Urges Americans To Keep Their Money In The Banks https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/fdic-urges-americans-keep-their-… https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/fdic-asks-americans-to-keep-their-money… Yesterday the Chair of the FDIC released an astonishing video asking Americans to keep their money in the bank. Accompanied by soft piano music playing in the background, the official said: “Your money is safe at the banks. The last thing you should be doing is pulling your money out of the banks thinking it’s going to be safer somewhere else.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdjzIaEDTnw Amazing. I was half expecting her to waive her hand and say, “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…” As I’ve written before, there’s $250 TRILLION worth of debt in the world right now: student debt, housing debt, credit card debt, government debt, corporate debt, etc. And let’s be honest, some of that debt is simply not going to be paid. Millions of people have already lost their jobs. Millions more (like the 10 million waiters and bartenders across America) are barely earning anything right now because their businesses are closed. A lot of those folks have no emergency savings to fall back on during times of crisis, so they’re going to be forced to choose: pay the rent, or buy food. The government has already suspended evictions and foreclosures, which is a green light for people to stop paying the rent or mortgage. ... Actually NOT fake news, this is real - Marvel franchise introduces 2 new superheros, literally "Snowflake" and "Safespace"! They're black of course (actually brown): Marvel Introduces Superheros "Snowflake" & "Safespace" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/marvel-introduces-superheros-snowflake-… https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/marvel-introduces-superheros-snowflake-… .. (Snowflake is non-binary and uses pronouns they/them/their.) Snowflake creates icy throwing stars, while Safespace has more defensive powers. Both use “violence to combat bullying,” according to the author. They must also be antifa members if they respond to words and dissenting opinions with violence. https://www.cbr.com/new-warriors-snowflake-marvel-first-non-binary-hero/

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Re: The Wuhan Flu can't be a bioweapon
by Ryan Carboni 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

There is an extraordinary paradox in early media reports of the Wuhan Flu, the Chinese weren't overreacting, the West shouldn't overreact, hazmat avatars are racist.... There is the potential for some basis to investigate a possible large scale pro-Chinese, pro-virus network of individuals within the West... and ensure that they are employed is positions that won't cause public harm.

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The Wuhan Flu can't be a bioweapon
by Ryan Carboni 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

The Wuhan Flu can't be a bioweapon, it would be too absurd and stupid for anyone to weaponize a contagious disease when warfare itself is a dissolution of borders where nothing can be contained and everyone can potentially be impacted equally. As a private citizen, I think it absurd that Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei, can't be mentioned when their own fellow Chinese in Jiangxi distrust the Hubei police in regulating the flow of people between provinces. To quote Thomas Jefferson: "To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature." I do not think that leadership involves much ability, it is mostly cutting checks and telling people to do the obvious. I do believe in free speech, wherever, including in the bedrooms, but ill-mannered statements on certain topics should be a disqualifier for being in certain positions of trust, or at least require checks against potentially harmful decisions. It is unclear why genuine and valid criticisms of authority has become so scarce. I seriously hate you all, but not in that way, and hope everyone can mutually respect each other.

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CNET: Snowden warns government surveillance amid COVID-19 could be long lasting
by jim bell 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

CNET: Snowden warns government surveillance amid COVID-19 could be long lasting. https://www.cnet.com/news/snowden-warns-government-surveillance-amid-covid-…

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opportunities/ plan of action, for Trump
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Never let a good crisis go to waste, and with Trump's nationalist and patriotic agenda at issue, a common sense 5 point action plan: 1. Reinstitute the generals Obama sacked (modulo those willing, of course). 2. Investigate actions to date of those appointed by Obama. 3. "COVID-19 inspired" Martial Law on the US/Mexico border - guarantee re-election :D 4. Extradite all foreigners with criminal records - further guarantee re-election 5. What to do about the sky-high US dollar? PRIME opportunity to urgently re-industrialize the USA - with a sky high US dollar, NOW is the time to purchase (/structurally motivate/ incentivize) an abundance of manufacturing and industrial equipment from nations producing such items (e.g. Germany, Russia). Also, with the Aussie dollar around record lows, now's a great time for the USA to stock up on Aussie raw materials and do economic deals with your actually literal greatest ally! And then at some time in the future when the AUD is again strong, it'll be our turn to re-industrialize. "How can this possibly be useful?" asks the anarchist. Well,: - we are presently in a regime of socialist corporatist governments; a "politically viable" (i.e. in the minds of sufficient numbers of people) alternative is (sadly) not presently apparent - nationalism is better than globalism - entanglement with China is unwise, to extremely unwise https://listverse.com/2017/03/10/10-pieces-of-propaganda-that-reveal-how-ch… https://listverse.com/2018/06/18/10-ways-life-will-change-if-china-becomes-… https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/how-did-china-become-a-global-superp…

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sci study: the flu shot ("vaccination") increases risk of coronavirus by 36% - avoid the flu shot - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Take notice, "lame stream media" recommendations to get a flu shot (NYT) or in the (near?) future to get a coronavirus "vaccination" shot, may be exactly the thing to NOT do. (Your circumstances may vary, I am not a doctor, if pain persists, see your doctor.) A scientific study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31607599 says: .. Vaccine derived virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus.” .. Examining non-influenza viruses specifically, the odds of both coronavirus and human metapneumovirus in vaccinated individuals were significantly higher when compared to unvaccinated individuals (OR = 1.36 and 1.51, respectively)” In other words, the flu shot is known to INCREASE your risk of contracting coronavirus by 36% (and increases risk of pneumonia by over 50%).

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Dysfunctional Decision-making
by Ryan Carboni 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Every society is run by an increasingly small number of cynical decision-makers. Barring a change of circumstance where cynicism is discouraged, their actions and plans are ultimately rewarded, and more power is accrued to them. Success begets success. Secrecy and immorality is incompatible with a free society, a free press is necessary to provide the necessary information for which society's members can decide the direction society may go. However if the response to a given event is to claim that it isn't happening, this constrains the freedom of action by which society's leaders can devote resources to an issue. Furthermore, it is the interests of cynical decision-makers in the accrual of power to alter society so that various leaders are cowardly and so unlikely to take an unprecedented action. Organizations that operate in accordance to inertia can be easily predicted and deviations from a course can be noticed and responded to accordingly. This is paradoxically incompatible with long-term stability, the people who desire access to the levers of power do not disappear, and if they did, cynical decision-makers do not make up a majority of society's members, they themselves are constrained from making public decisions or actions that would in it self be threatening and lead to a reaction by society's leaders to effect their removal out of a desire for self-preservation (unless it was sufficiently clear that ambition was not synonymous with hazard). Thus even the response to threats to a political order is constrained by perceptions, and this in turn constrains the allocation of resources to respond. The press, if dedicated to preserving the current political order, cannot describe a threat to the political order in terms that would allow for the threat to expand in support beyond society itself is willing to provide in responding to it. Every lock has play. The only lock that cannot be picked is one that cannot be opened.

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From Fox News - Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Venezuela President Maduro wanted by DOJ for drug trafficking, Barr announces https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelan-president-maduro-drug-trafficking-… Jim Bell's comment:Has the Federal Govt set up a system to allow a person to anonymously supply information, and anonymously receive a reward, and yet (later) show the public that everyone was treated fairly?(As per my AP idea...)

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SciTechDaily: 5 Weeks Instead of 50 Years: Neural Networks Optimize Search for New Materials
by jim bell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

SciTechDaily: 5 Weeks Instead of 50 Years: Neural Networks Optimize Search for New Materials. https://scitechdaily.com/5-weeks-instead-of-50-years-neural-networks-optimi…

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Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down
by Georgi Guninski 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down. Only few months downtime for Wuhan.

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