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Papers Please!: Un-Liberation Tech - Stasi Papers Regimes Rollout re Coronavirus
by grarpamp 01 May '20

01 May '20

Relavant videos below... https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/03/23/in-a-pandemic-freedom-is-the-first-c… We’ve seen before — notably after September 11, 2001 — how a crisis can result in damage to rights and freedoms that persists long after the initial cause of public panic. Some advocates for restrictions on individuals and our movements and activities will exploit any crisis to ratchet the mechanisms of surveillance and control tighter. Other officials, including many who mean well but are too traumatized to recognize the long-term consequences of their short-term actions, will advocate “temporary” restrictions on individual rights and freedoms that almost inevitably become permanent. We don’t yet know what the cost in lost lives of the coronavirus pandemic will be. But we can already see the outlines of some of its potential cost in lost civil liberties. Earlier in the pandemic, we reminded our readers of the risks of abuse of overbroad quarantine powers. But that’s only one aspect of the problem. The basic methodology of control of travel and movement is that compulsory identification of travelers enables surveillance (tracking and logging) of travel and movement histories, and control of future movements based on individuals’ identities and the histories and other databases of personal information linked to those identities. Already, changes to policies and practices related to (1) identification, (2) surveillance, and (3) control of travelers have all been proposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic: Read More https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/14/dare-county-wants-to-see-your-papers/ Dare County, North Carolina, has established checkpoints on all roads crossing the county borders, at which travelers must show their papers to enter the county. A Federal lawsuit has been filed, seeking to have this enjoined as unconstitutional (at least as applied to the named plaintiffs). But as discussed below, the lawsuit barely scratches the surface of the issues this raises. Why is Dare County doing this? What’s wrong with this ID requirement? https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/29/no-cellphone-not-at-address-on-your-… The press release threatens that anyone who arrives without a working cellphone, charged, with service and coverage in the arrival area at the airport, will be arrested: An airport representative will collect the two forms and begin verifying their information. First, they will call their mobile phone number to confirm it rings right in front of them. If it does not ring, the person may have listed inaccurate information and is asked to verify the number. If the person refuses to provide a phone number that can be answered on the spot, law enforcement is contacted and they are subject to citation and arrest. https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/06/airline-passenger-data-and-covid-19/ https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/04/20/covid-19-the-real-id-act-and-id-to-f… https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/04/04/tsa-plans-to-put-new-lying-signs-in-… The supposed basis for the government’s demands for airlines to collect and pass on more information about travelers has shifted from “security” to “health.” But what’s happening is just another chapter in a long-running story. Understanding that story requires a deep dive into twenty years of history of airline and government collaboration and conflict over collection and use of data about travelers. Here’s some of the factual and historical context that the Times overlooked: https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/03/30/known-traveler-digital-identity-ktdi/ KTDI is a “surveillance-by-design” vision for tracking and control of travelers more dystopian than anything we have seen before. KTDI would use a blockchain-based distributed ledger to bind together, through an app on a traveler’s mobile device, all of the following data: Biometrics (initially facial images, possibly also fingerprints, etc.) Government-issued ID credentials (passport number, etc.) Travel history including logs of border crossings, hotel stays, and possibly also car rentals and/or other events Purchase logs and possibly bank account information and/or other financial and transaction records Pre-crime predictive “risk assessment” and profiling scores generated at each “intervention” point before and during each trip or transaction Videos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQistTMRf-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5DBUK1K8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ltvDU8iEwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8JzSpUumY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLWJyDGzt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2WhogYEJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN4q2swvab8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qHLflTNTIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJwXL7vx5Q4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlsqBK3-vhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS13kFWQIYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAd99oq526M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RbzBF2DvjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEo5l4BMdJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vIGWfBX0A

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NSA Shills List Of Insecure Conference Tools
by grarpamp 01 May '20

01 May '20

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Apr/24/2002288652/-1/-1/0/CSI-SELECTING-AND-… Not a single fully opensource nontracking nonsharing noncollecting e2e encrypted decentral p2p app on the list. Seems someone doesn't want you communicating privately. If you can't run opensource code privately with no one else involved but your peers on your own infra, you can't trust it... yet another example people failing to take sage, propping the junk govcorpware... https://gizmodo.com/zoom-accused-of-misrepresenting-security-measures-in-ne… Consider... #OpenSource on #OpenHW from #OpenFabs All of which you support with #Cryptocurrency Create full circle ecosystem, deprecate the rest.

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Militia, law, impressment, guns, history
by grarpamp 01 May '20

01 May '20

> such implicit arguments have frequently been cited by (mostly > liberal?) debaters, and much of the clueless populace, lacking any sort of > legal education, accepts them without apparent question.) The Anti-Gun crowd generally avoids quoting, analyzing and debating law and its historical context and reasons. This is because it simply does not support their Anti-Gun position. And because sidestepping needing to voice or contend with such things makes their agenda easier. It's also relavant that most of them have never spent an afternoon or year learning the sport, defense, hunting, law, comparative statistics, etc. Let alone been exposed to or explored larger free thought subjects such as... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_secession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism > Now, a state might hypothetically have a LAW requiring a militia > member to respond to a call. But that law would not necessarily > be Constitutional These sorts of "laws", including "mandatory service", taxes, etc are all immoral and against natural law... forcing somone to take an action, slavery, whatever you want others to do, them having done nothing to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment Took till 1995 for even the UN to begin to understand that conscription and impressment are wrong.

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Chinese Covid-19 strains, study released - mutations -- [gilmay97@gmail.com: South China Morning Post]
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

This an interesting virus, 'at's fer surely! ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:11:39 +1000 Subject: South China Morning Post *Coronavirus’s* ability to mutate has been vastly underestimated, and mutations affect deadliness of strains, Chinese study finds By Stephen Chen April 21, 2020 A team led by Professor Li Lanjuan has studied how the novel coronavirus mutates and possible implications for the pandemic. Photo: EPA-EFE A new study by one of China’s top scientists has found the ability of the new coronavirus <https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus> to mutate has been vastly underestimated and different strains may account for different impacts of the disease in various parts of the world. Professor Li Lanjuan and her colleagues from Zhejiang University found within a small pool of patients many mutations not previously reported. These mutations included changes so rare that scientists had never considered they might occur. They also confirmed for the first time with laboratory evidence that certain mutations could create strains deadlier <https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3079879/chinas-initial-coro…> than others. “Sars-CoV-2 has acquired mutations capable of substantially changing its pathogenicity,” Li and her collaborators wrote in a non-peer reviewed paper released on preprint service medRxiv.org on Sunday. Li’s study provided the first hard evidence that mutation could affect how severely the virus caused disease or damage in its host. Li took an unusual approach to investigate the virus mutation. She analysed the viral strains isolated from 11 randomly chosen Covid-19 patients from Hangzhou in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and then tested how efficiently they could infect and kill cells. The deadliest mutations in the Zhejiang patients had also been found in most patients across Europe, while the milder strains were the predominant varieties found in parts of the United States, such as Washington state, according to their paper. A separate study had found that New York strains had been imported from Europe. The death rate in New York was similar to that in many European countries, if not worse. But the weaker mutation did not mean a lower risk for everybody, according to Li’s study. In Zhejiang, two patients in their 30s and 50s who contracted the weaker strain became severely ill. Although both survived in the end, the elder patient needed treatment in an intensive care unit. This finding could shed light on differences in regional mortality. The pandemic’s infection and death rates vary from one country to another, and many explanations have been proposed. Genetic scientists had noticed that the dominant strains in different geographic regions were inherently different. Some researchers suspected the varying mortality rates could, in part, be caused by mutations but they had no direct proof. The issue was further complicated because survival rates depended on many factors, such as age, underlying health conditions or even blood type. In hospitals, Covid-19 has been treated as one disease and patients have received the same treatment regardless of the strain they have. Li and her colleagues suggested that defining mutations in a region might determine actions to fight the virus. “Drug and vaccine development, while urgent, need to take the impact of these accumulating mutations … into account to avoid potential pitfalls,” they said. Li was the first scientist to propose the Wuhan lockdown, <https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3078189/build-coronavirus-l…> according to state media reports. The government followed her advice and in late January, the city of more than 11 million residents was shut down overnight. The sample size in this most recent study was remarkably small. Other studies tracking the virus mutation usually involved hundreds, or even thousands, of strains. Li’s team detected more than 30 mutations. Among them 19 mutations – or about 60 per cent – were new. They found some of these mutations could lead to functional changes in the virus’ spike protein, a unique structure over the viral envelope enabling the coronavirus to bind with human cells. Computer simulation predicted that these mutations would increase its infectivity. To verify the theory, Li and colleagues infected cells with strains carrying different mutations. The most aggressive strains could generate 270 times as much viral load as the weakest type. These strains also killed the cells the fastest. It was an unexpected result from fewer than a dozen patients, “indicating that the true diversity of the viral strains is still largely underappreciated,” Li wrote in the paper. Professor Li Lanjuan is a leading Chinese epidemiologist. Photo: Xinhua The mutations were genes different from the earliest strain isolated in Wuhan, where the virus was first detected in late December last year. The coronavirus changes at an average speed of about one mutation per month. By Monday, more than 10,000 strains had been sequenced by scientists around the globe, containing more than 4,300 mutations, according to the China National Centre for Bioinformation. Most of these samples, though, were sequenced by a standard approach that could generate a result quickly. The genes were read just once, for instance, and there was room for mistakes. Li’s team used a more sophisticated method known as ultra-deep sequencing. Each building block of the virus genome was read more than 100 times, allowing the researchers to see changes that could have been overlooked by the conventional approach. The researchers also found three consecutive changes – known as tri-nucleotide mutations – in a 60-year-old patient, which was a rare event. Usually the genes mutated at one site at a time. This patient spent more than 50 days in hospital, much longer than other Covid-19 patients, and even his faeces were infectious with living viral strains. “Investigating the functional impact of this tri-nucleotide mutation would be highly interesting,” Li and colleagues said in the paper. Professor Zhang Xuegong, head of the bioinformatics division at the National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, said ultra-deep sequencing could be an effective strategy to track the virus’ mutation. “It can produce some useful information,” he said. But this approach could be much more time consuming and costly. It was unlikely to be applied to all samples. “Our understanding of the virus remains quite shallow,” Zhang said. Questions such as where the virus came from, why it could kill some healthy young people while generating no detectable symptoms in many others still left scientists scratching their heads. “If there is a discovery that overturns the prevailing perception, don’t be surprised.” ----- End forwarded message -----

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Australia: Original Hominins
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

There is much to discover in our collective ancient history. For starters, the 'modern, Indian' Australian aborigines are certainly not the first inhabitants of Australia, not by far. Also, what's the bet Ezekiel's sky chariot(s) technology is still in existence and probably far advanced from old testament days? Average humans seek or vehemently assume simplistic, black and white answers to everything. Life is not always so simple - seek and discover the answers you desire. ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:24:02 +1000 Subject: Original Hominins Editor The Australian letters(a)theaustralian.com.au Dear Editor You state (Editorial 29/4) the ”…… indigenous people had arrive here 60,000 years earlier”. Indigenous = originating or occurring naturally in a particular place. With respect where did you get your science-based figures from? We refer to the study of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Their DNA study shows a significant migration from southern India about 4,230 years ago or 141 generation back and brought the Dingo. Further studies show those calling themselves indigenous are in fact migrants from India, an easy proof is checking their DNA — Ernie Dingo from a long ‘indigenous’ lineage his DNA showed he’s Indian. When the Indians arrived, they found few inhabitants and wiped out most of them in various ways including dominating food sources. There is irrefutable evidence of numerous races here many millennia before the Indians, giant Java man, Homo erectus subspecies who lived unknown in the desert until forced out by the unliveable drought in 1962, the Pinubus who had never seen a white man. The gracile Mungo Man died out 50,000 years ago, the robust Kow Swamp Neanderthals died out 12,000 years ago, several unusual species skulls have been recently found indicating other very ancient races. An endocast skull was found in volcanic ash at Bega, government geologists dated the ash at about 7 million years. Further studies into our original Hominins will be of great interest and sort out a lot of myths wrongly accepted as fact. No accurate time frame can be given for the original inhabitants until further studies are concluded, but they certainly were not the later Indian migrants. Sincerely ----- End forwarded message -----

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Area51: S4 UFO AATIP Nimitz Fravor Lazar TTSA Physics Alien Tech
by grarpamp 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Update to earlier subject above... US Navy drops FOIA Docs with GIMBAL FLIR1 GOFAST Videos https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement… https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents Internet sharing copies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zgi6c-ttA US10144532B2 patent overview https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en Patent: US10144532B2 Application: US15/141270 Craft using an inertial mass reduction device Inventor: Salvatore Cezar Pais Current Assignee: US Secretary of Navy Abstract: A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the resonant cavity to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKKD8vPKrs Bob Lazar deleted scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcuKgG0YLsE skinwalker owner interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdB7cgAr_s Lazar reviews Navy vids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LFTOgnoRPM rick doty 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umGtDB466Jo rick doty 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuijPVsD8P0 rick doty 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TLfM5VKX3M rick doty 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGGYLp2kYk black triangles 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEGohLQYo8 black triangles 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN7mULCkY6w steve fossett by nevada triangle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7pwoNUoCk george knapp 2019 ufo megacon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjVTGQ0z3tw steve mera, barry fitzgerald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvUpkH8nJ_c richard dolan leaks 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSx0hTxVZo richard dolan leaks 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvUWvhLND5o richard dolan leaks 3 re: eric davis, thomas wilson, bass, senator briefing, jack valet, 15 page docs, soft disclosure https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwaWO9y9NZ7_UYhhoNPwqTw/videos It's [redacted]. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6i-se5IU8hRbPov5-ON1tw/videos The Nimitz Encounters https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8CdAj1rveMTjR72_LdDBpQ/videos To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science https://www.youtube.com/user/confuciusnostradamus/videos Matrix World Disclosure https://www.youtube.com/user/jeremycorbell/videos Jeremy Corbell https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnF47ixgYcCQnu7IMit3A0g/videos Mystery Wire william moore paul bennewitz robert collins - exempt from disclosure

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Re: The flip side of UBI/ Universal Basic Income - beware what you ask for - [MONEY]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Exhibit #1 : As Trump Threatens Tehran Over Censorship, Facebook's Thought-Police Censor Pro-Iran Posts https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/trump-threatens-tehran-over-censorship… https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/while-trump-warns-tehran-of-censorsh… The hypocrisy is unbelievable. In order to comply with United States sanctions on Iran, Facebook’s thought police have taken to censorship on behalf of the government. At the same time, President Donald Trump warns Iran not to use censorship. ... “These massive Big Tech corporations are Thought Police for the US government: Facebook and Instagram are removing posts expressing support for Iran’s top general Soleimani,” journalist Ben Norton tweeted. “They say it’s to comply with US sanctions, but how do posts violate sanctions? –RT https://www.rt.com/news/478044-instagram-iran-trump-censorship/ ... ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:46:06 +1100 Subject: The flip side of UBI/ Universal Basic Income - beware what you ask for - [MONEY] UBI, what could possibly go wrong? IOW, be (very) careful what you ask for ... Universal Basic Income: A Dream Come True For Despots https://www.zerohedge.com/political/universal-basic-income-dream-come-true-… ... “What do you think the potential disadvantages of the basic income would be, then?” [My neighbour] replies, “There aren’t any.” Trade-Offs Are Inescapable ... But the universal basic income seems unaffected. It’s going to cure poverty, eliminate stress, reduce crime, unleash entrepreneurship, emancipate women, save us from AI, and fight climate change. I’m not not exaggerating. I googled, and there are multiple articles claiming that, not only will the UBI save the economy from flatlining due to a lack of consumer demand by increasing consumption, but somehow also put a halt to global warming as well — contradictory as these two aims may seem. ... Trusting the World's Regimes to Do Good? Most people agree that politics is a dirty game and that political powers will inevitably be used to further the agenda of officeholders and their cronies. That said, despite being immersed in the current thinking regarding UBI for three years now, I have seen precious little worrying as to what the government — or a future government — might actually do once it has seized control over everyone’s purse strings. After all, these governments are composed of the same people who launched a permanent war in the Middle East, wasting trillions of dollars on destroying millions of lives. These governments bailed out the banks from the public purse and gave themselves raises after telling the rest of the nation we had to tighten our belts. They have robbed the young of the opportunity to own a home by sending house prices through the roof and mean to leave them a nation in ruinous debt. They continue locking away huge numbers of people for decades for victimless crimes, leaving their children to be raised single-handed. They created an oligopoly of higher education provision forcing generations into student debt that cannot be defaulted on, and healthcare systems that are so restrictive that people must pay inordinate sums to get care or are otherwise forced onto government waiting lists so long that many of their conditions are chronic or untreatable before they are seen to. Am I the only one who thinks these powers may be used for evil rather than good? China’s “Credit System” One such cautionary tale may be found in China. ... [ -------------- money quote --------------- ] Now a basic income guarantee may begin universal, but as the years wear on and it proves expensive to provide, it might be that corners have to be cut in order to ensure its continued fungibility. Hardly anyone will object to the UBI being withdrawn from criminals, for example. And then perhaps for antisocial behaviour. People may have their universal basic income docked for committing petty crimes like littering the street. A few might moan that this is the beginning of a government social engineering program, but to most people this will seem like a quite a sensible and reasonable measure. After all, we all “benefit” from the benevolence of society providing our roads and schools, and now our basic income. So if some choose to repay society in disrespect, with such vulgar behaviour as littering, throwing away the ends of cigarettes, spitting on the street, failing to remove their dog foul, or what have you, why should society continue to furnish them with the fullness of a basic income? Besides, if their basic income is docked for several months they are unlikely to repeat the crime — they will soon learn their lesson. It will save money on law enforcement, lengthy court trials, and prison sentences as well, all of which are costly. Clipping people’s basic income will soon seem the most sensible and appropriate response to many crimes and misdemeanours. People may be sanctioned for things like not sorting out their recycling. After all, the government provides garbage disposal for us, and the environment is at stake. Governments are already looking at sanctioning people for this kind of behaviour, so the step would not be much of a leap. These steps will simply be designed to acclimatize people to the idea of being “nudged” in the right direction before more radical measures are taken to use the UBI to shape their behaviour. ... In China people can have their social credit score docked for posting fake news online. We may, of course, ask, fake according to whom? After all, the Chinese government maintains that the Tienanmen Square Massacre of 1989 was “fake news” drummed up by the West to undermine the regime. Closer to home, the mainstream media was entirely complicit in selling the war on Iraq to the public, but I very much doubt we will see people being sanctioned for posting news from mainstream sources such as the BBC or MSNBC. Our leaders are above falsifying our historic records and sending embarrassing incidents down the memory hole for permanent deletion. The purse strings of the universal basic income also present a grave threat to freedom of speech. Anyone who has been following the “woke wars” on Twitter and other social media platforms will have heard of people receiving lifetime bans for tweeting things like “Men are never women.” Now whether you believe such a message is transphobic or otherwise, you may at least believe that someone has the right to tweet it, and be duly educated as to the wrongs of their action by other users. The universal basic income could easily become the new weapon to wield against those who hold unpopular opinions or those that are simply no longer politically correct. It will be first used to strike against unpopular groups such as racists, misogynists, homophobes, and bigots. Not many people will come to their defense when they lose their basic income for spreading hate. But one day you yourself may hold an unpopular opinion that is relatively benign. Maybe you will say that people shouldn’t have their basic income docked just because they say unpopular things on the internet. You will not just be slapped with a Twitter ban, you will potentially lose $1000 a month. ... The UBI will institutionalise the state as each of our patrons — and us as wards of the state. Once this relationship is established we will enter into a frightening era where the government is our provider and the UBI can easily be weaponized by our rulers to shape us into compliance. ----- End forwarded message -----

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the state of it all: "bankruptcy at every level .. some of you are not even entirely sure if you are male or female" - vitamins D + C - [PEACE] and [HEALTH]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Although Western reality is simultaneously ("big word bad") nihilistic, cucked, sad, isolated, subservient and dominated (by debt at the very least), taking a simple assessment of our (inner) state is perhaps the first step. Terrified of COVID-19? Don’t Worry, Vegetables Can’t Get Respiratory Illnesses https://www.anti-empire.com/terrified-of-covid-19-dont-worry-vegetables-can… .. Everyone I know back in the US has gone full retard. People who were convinced 2 weeks ago that Trump is a Russian agent are now begging the government to control every aspect of their lives Just can’t even wrap my head around this one… .. And for all the liberal interventionists and neocons out there: Please do tell me how we need to spread democracy and “liberty” around the world, with bombs if need be, while you print up a certificate from a government website so you can leave your house. Bye, Bye Western Civilization. Sorry It Had to End This Way: A COVID-19 Sign-Off From Moscow Edward Slavsquat 1 hour ago 999 https://www.anti-empire.com/bye-bye-western-civilization-sorry-it-had-to-en… “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little safety, deserve neither and will lose both” — Ben Franklin MOSCOW – Despite the stubborn March cold, heroic young ladies in the Russian capital have already shortened (one might say improved) their skirts by at least 15 centimeters. Surely this should give us all confidence to carry on, even as the pillars of western civilization melt away like the last winter frost. What on earth happened, anyway? German state media reports that benevolent lockdowns have been imposed across the country, even while conceding that Germans have been extremely well-behaved – the alleged precondition for avoiding the indefinite suspension of basic privileges enjoyed even by their feudal ancestors. Of course, there were still a handful of outrageous acts of insubordination. Bavarian police dutifully sniffed out “isolated incidents of violations” such as “five youths celebrating a birthday party at a construction site”, and – prepare yourself – “a group of three people drinking around a bonfire.” These existential dangers to the German Volk were given “warnings” – for now. In France you need to print out a certificate from a government website to even show your face in public. Failure to produce the necessary documents permitting you to go outside results in a hefty fine. For now. Being homeless won’t exempt you from this decree, either. Because why should it? .. Fear and mindless acquiescence has gripped the western world, and there’s simply no going back. Cultural, political, spiritual and economic suicide are all around the corner. Maybe even a fun little war. (The Netherlands might be a notable exception in all this, but would you rather live in Mad Max Massachusetts or Holland? That’s a coin flip.) We will not bore you with the well-established realities of the COVID-19 “pandemic”: That according to the best available evidence, 99% of cases are minor and require no serious medical treatment of any kind. https://www.anti-empire.com/99-percent-of-covid-19-bug-cases-do-not-require… Or the criminally under-reported fact that an overwhelming percentage of coronavirus-attributed deaths occur in elderly people who were already suffering from non-trivial health issues, or that many of these reported deaths are likely not even due to the virus. Even the BBC had to quietly admit that many coronavirus victims – infirm old people – would have probably died anyway. That’s what infirm old people do best, after all. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51979654 Similarly, we can hardly be bothered to relay the huge number of fatalities, from an impressive range of seemingly benign ailments, which occur each and every year like clockwork. Did you know that 1.2 million children die annually from diarrhea? They’re brown or black and definitely poor, of course. There is simply no need for rational, data-driven analysis at this point. That ship has already sailed. Bon voyage, any semblance of reason. Just make sure you have your documents ready, in case you get boarded by the French coast guard. Myopic observers might conclude that western civilization was brought to its knees because in our current age of unapologetic self-pity and collective victimhood, it suddenly became really hip to identify as an Italian octogenarian, or a bloated American diabetic. This take is far too sympathetic, even if probably true. The regrettable truth is that western civilization – please understand we’re using this term in the most general and generous way possible – was dead-on-arrival when COVID-19 came knocking. Europeans and their hapless American offspring are bored, entirely without hope and completely exhausted. You could squeeze all 320 million Americans like lemons and you’d be lucky to find yourself with a shot glass-worth of confidence or vitality. .. There is bankruptcy at every level. Nothing solid is left to fall back on. Apparently some of you are not even entirely sure if you are male or female. This is not exactly a recipe for longevity, we’re very sorry to say. ... Still in fear of the dreaded China virus? Vitamin D and vitamin C: This Is What You Can Do to Protect Yourself From the Mild Threat That Is Covid-19 Coronavirus https://www.anti-empire.com/this-is-how-you-should-protect-yourself-from-th… .. First, recognize fear-driven decision making is counterproductive. Fear increases demand for vitamin C, so be aware of that. So do viruses or any infection. Be CONCERNED, not FEARFUL. Primary antidote Recognize these viral epidemics come in winter when vitamin D levels are low. As a fatty vitamin, your liver should have 3 months of vitamin D stored, but probably doesn’t. The viruses were always there but erupt when sunshine vitamin D blood serum levels are low. SO GO OUTSIDE, MIDDAY, AND GET SOME SUNSHINE ON YOUR SKIN to produce natural vitamin D. Expose arms, legs, face. Quarantines deprive people of sunshine vitamin D. Supplement with 8000 units vitamin D3 daily (kids 2000+ units); if ill – – > take 50,000 units vitamin D3 for 3-5 days; then 8000 units daily. This is not an overdose as physicians inject 300,000 units vitamin D for wintertime storage in your liver. High-risk individuals, in particular senior adults, need to initiate self-care & utilize vitamins & trace minerals. Up to a third of hospital workers now harbor coronavirus. So, patients who face hospitalization may be re-exposed to the pathogen. .. Sore throat is usually caused by Streptococcus bacteria which is acid secreting. So alkalinity kills it — salt water gargle. .. A Harvard professor says up 70% of the global population will be infected with coronavirus within the next year. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8085175/US-hospitals-prepare-96-MI… That is actually a positive because most will naturally develop antibodies. If one were to say 70% of the world just got vaccinated against coronavirus that would be considered a major achievement but if 70% were naturally immunized against coronavirus without a needle and syringe that would be considered a dire problem. Why? Modern medicine continues to talk out of two sides of its mouth. Put another way, 70-90% of the world may develop natural antibodies against coronavirus without problematic vaccines. .. Maybe only a few hundred Americans succumb to the flu each year. With coronavirus test kits giving false positive and false negative test results, are any numbers involving infection rates accurate at all? The Centers for Disease Control claims seasonal flu in 2018-19 caused 35.5 million infections, 490,600 hospitalizations and 34,200 deaths. These numbers are very specious. Even if valid, and among all who got the flu (35.5 million, only 9 in 10,000 would die — 34,200). But the CDC mixes flu deaths in with pneumonia deaths to frighten Americans to get vaccinated. Most of those 34,200 deaths were due to pneumonia. ... [many more stats] Did we mention $1 trillion intervention over the coming 6 months, on Friday? What we NOW mean is $4 trillion, IMMEDIATELY! Mnuchin: Fed To Make $4 Trillion In Business Loans, Send $3,000 Checks To Family Of Four https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mnuchin-fed-make-4-trillion-business-lo…

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The Legacy of Math Luminary John Conway, Lost to Covid-19
by jim bell 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

https://www.wired.com/story/the-legacy-of-math-luminary-john-conway-lost-to… Jim Bell's comment:Apparently he wasn't surrounded by a sufficient number of occupied squares.

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Aircraft Carrier Captain Brett "pouty little bitch" Crazier, to be reinstated - [PEACE]
by Zigger the N.gger 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

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