By Ajit Varki: Why Men Are Destroying the Planet (Planet: Critical Interview)

Fate

Rational thought wasn’t wrong—
The reptilian brain was too strong;
We just couldn’t solve
How to better evolve,
And that’s why we’re saying “so long.”

http://benjaminthedonkey-limericksofdoom.blogspot.com/2023/03/fate.html

It’s been quiet at un-Denial the last few days.

Are y’all?
1) sick of my repetitive BS
2) busy prepping
3) stressed like me

The Canadian Prepper can be overly dramatic since he makes a living by selling doom clicks but he also has a calm intelligent side that shows through in this excellent discussion on the failing financial system. He’s pretty good for a young man.

Denninger today links GMO food risks with covid….

“Should the results of the genetically engineered virus give us concern about genetically modifying seeds/food?”

The clear answer is yes, for the following reasons:

Everyone involved lied about the SARS-CoV2 origins. Ecohealth got caught lying quite early on when DRASTIC was exposed; DARPA turned down their requested program to engineer and test modified coronaviruses in Chinese caves, and among the slams in that refusal was the fact that the population of the nation in question were effectively not being asked for their consent. That Ecohealth arrogated to itself the right to test a genetically-modified organism on someone else’s soil without the informed consent of the people residing there was sufficient grounds to destroy the organization and jail every single person involved. DARPA has no authority to do that, but our DOJ does and didn’t. The deception did not stop there; Fauci claimed that NIH wasn’t actually funding said research when it was, and we now know he was lying. He didn’t go to jail for that either, did he? That the virus was clearly engineered was known very early on because it contained a patented sequence and, in addition, had another sequence in it that never occurs in nature. The latter is routinely used by virus labs for this exact reason; if you put a virus through some process (e.g. through a cell line) and that sequence comes out the other end you know what you did worked because it can’t occur naturally. That this was present in SARS-CoV2 was known within weeks of its alleged “arrival” in the US.

Everyone involved lied about when Covid was first “out” in the population. This was known too. When it first arrived in Washington State and NY, along with the outbreak in Italy, we knew that the strain in NY was not the same as the one on the west coast; it was instead essentially the same as that in Italy. We also knew at that point from the mutational rate it had to be in the wild no later than roughly the end of September of 2019. I posted on this at the time and we later proved this was correct because analysis of blood donated during the first week of December of 2019 detected antibodies specific to SARS-CoV2 which, at the time (there were no jabs of course) could have only occurred if the person who donated the blood had become previously infected and survived.

There were plenty of additional lies but those are enough.

He then goes on to discuss GMO food risks that have not been adequately investigated.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248342

Dowd who is mRNA aware but not overshoot aware says the M2 money supply has contracted and this has only occurred 4 times in the past, the last being 1930.

He says don’t panic, the banking system will collapse into the 6 big banks. I say, what makes you think the big 6 are sound?

He has an interesting observation about the 2008 GFC. Wall Street did not take over the government, rather the government took over Wall Street.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/nlA9sMykfTv6/

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick today….

When people ask me, what has gone wrong with medical research my reply is usually. ‘Money’. When they ask me what else, I reply, ‘More money’. Yes, but what else? ‘Even more money’. Yes but…

The end result of replacing science with money has been a terrible distortion of research. Followed by distortion of clinical guidelines, followed by people taking medications that very often do more harm than good. Followed by people dying – early.

Why do I believe that medicines may now be doing more harm than good? The honest answer is that I can’t know for sure, because nothing is absolutely certain in this life.

However, what I do know is that the US has by far the greatest healthcare expenditure in the world. $4,300,000,000,000.00 per year (four point three trillion dollars, or $12,914 per person). Yet, life expectancy in the US is around five years lower than in any comparable country. Lower than in Poland, for example, which spends just over $1,000 dollars per year.

In the US there are certainly more and more, and more and more drugs. Polypharmacy is now the norm. If all these medications were truly as wonderful as they were supposed to be, life expectancy should be going up. At the very worst, there would be stasis, i.e., no improvement.

Instead, despite these trillions of dollars being spent, life expectancy has been falling. It was falling before Covid, and the downward trend has continued. Perhaps most telling is that Covid had a catastrophic impact on life expectancy in the US. Not simply due to Covid deaths, but from everything else as well. You spend $4,300,000,000,000.00 a year and what do you get? A system so rotten that it falls apart in a strong wind.

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2023/03/17/broken-science-initiative/

Political light is beginning to shine on the international conspiracy between scientists.

The monetary deflation the pessimists have been worried about appears to have started.

It’s fascinating that even the pessimists can’t bring themselves to use the word “depression”.

Limits to growth and depression are taboo terms probably thanks to MORT.

Wow. This is a must watch. The west has lost its mind.

Legendary investigative journalist and Committee Defender of Liberty award winner Sy Hersh has unveiled convincing evidence of President Joe Biden’s ordering the explosions of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 Russian gas pipelines. The September 2022 explosions diminish the reliance of Western European economies on Russia and corresponding reluctance to oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The incident brings the United States closer to war with Russia.

Presidential lying has a rich history. President James K. Polk lied about an American soldier killed on American soil by the Mexican military to deceive Congress and the American people into supporting the Mexican-American War. President William McKinley misrepresented the cause of the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in 1998 to enlist Congress and the American people behind the Spanish-American War. President Woodrow Wilson lied about munitions on the Lusitania to build congressional and public support for United States entry into World War I. President Franklin Roosevelt lied about the USS Greer attacks on Nazi submarines in the Atlantic to assemble congressional and public support for United States entry into World War II. President Harry Truman lied about the Korean War being a “police action”. President Dwight Eisenhower lied about Gary Powers and the U-2 spying on the Soviet Union. President Lydon Johnson lied about a second torpedo attack in the Gulf of Tonkin to obtain the Gulf of Tonkin resolution begetting the Vietnam War. President Richard Nixon lied about the secret bombing of Cambodia. President George W. Bush lied about WMD in Iraq to enlist congressional and public support for initiating war against Iraq in 2003.

President Joe Biden follows the examples of his predecessors in denying Sy Hersh’s J’Accuse. Who has the greater credibility?

Must be wonderful to work in a profession where you can screw up over and over with no consequences.

The covid story is getting darker. It’s making me crazy.

Excellent discussion on SVB.

On today’s episode of The Macro Trading Floor, Alfonso & Andreas walk through the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. On a historic week where we saw the collapse of the largest bank since 2008, we walk through the dynamics throughout 2020 – 2023 that caused SVB to fail, what risks lie ahead and if we should expect spillovers into the broader banking system. To hear all this and more, you’ll have to tune in!

God damn there’s a lot of smart people analyzing covid from different perspectives to demonstrate how evil/corrupt/stupid our health care professionals are.

How come I never ever have stumbled on a single essay by a super-smart person making the case that our health care system is competent, cares about health, and did a good job?

Today Endurance (who’s also a Ukraine expert – see previous post) does a fresh and insightful analysis by comparing those regions with 100% vaccination rates with those that had no vaccination.

https://endurancea71.substack.com/p/canaries-in-the-coalmine

Canaries in the Coalmine

We have departed from the commonsensical long ago and are floating in a sea of obfuscation, so here’s a challenge; let’s practice our critical thinking and bring some clarity to proceedings. Let’s assume, for the sake of this little thought experiment, that we believe that there was a genuine natural pandemic. Let’s ignore the evidence that shows that the US Department of Defense awarded a contract for Covid 19 research in December 2019, one month before it was detected and three months before the disease was even named.(1) Let’s also ignore all the incriminating patents filed by Moderna et al years before the ‘pandemic’ struck.(2)

Let us look away from the evidence that shows that Fauci funneled millions of dollars of taxpayer money to the Wuhan lab – for coronavirus research.(3) Let’s just pretend that there was a genuine outbreak of an infectious disease and that, initially, the deaths purportedly caused by said disease in China and then northern Italy spooked the politicians. And let’s just ask a sensible question – what would they have done if they had the general public’s interests at heart? Given the fact that it was clear from the outset that it was the old and infirm who were most at risk.

Chinese data might not be deemed particularly reliable, but the average age of the alleged victims in Italy was 78; not only were they old, they also suffered from an average of four co-morbidities and lived in care facilities.(4)(5) Government should have taken this data under advisement and, as an initial response, taken steps to warn these populations and mitigate the risk. Not with mandates, but with compassion. Government should then have delved deeper because, on the face of it, China and northern Italy seem to be strange bedfellows. So the next question should have been this – we understand that this virus is said to have originated in China; why would its next port of call be northern Italy?

Had governments performed this basic task, they would have discovered a possible explanation. Italy (along with others) had introduced a new ‘super vaccine’ for influenza in September 2019. It had been developed using a new technique that stimulated a much greater immune response than previously, which would also have resulted in a longer period of depressed immune response post-jab.(6) As we know, nursing home residents have the honor of being the primary victims of influenza vaccines every year. Connecting those particular dots oughtn’t to have presented too much of a challenge, even to bureaucrats.

Government should have taken these data and combined them with a risk/reward analysis of the various options available. Had they done so, they would have swiftly learned that the medical profession had ready-made solutions, chief among them ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. They were already prescribing these drugs off-label, as they had proved effective on the first SARS go-around in the early 2000s.(7) Remember, this is back when doctors were still allowed to diagnose patients themselves.

By this point in proceedings, even a politician wholly unversed in virology would have come to the following conclusions; firstly, that the elderly and infirm were most at risk and, secondly, that early treatment options were readily available and should, therefore, be obtained and dispersed as widely as possible. It would also be sensible to issue an advisory that emphasized which groups were most at risk.

And so, despite man’s propensity for drama, salvation was most definitely at hand. The storm could have stayed in its tea cup. As time passed, more data would be available and tweaks to public policy may have needed to be made. It should be stressed – this is Janet and John stuff. What an ethical politician would definitely not have done is the following:

a) Shut down the economy and lock down the population.

b) Mandate mask wearing, social distancing and exhaustive testing with a device that was never intended as a primary diagnostic tool and which had been programmed to give a false positive rate of 97%.(8)

c) Actively campaign to trash working remedies while rushing an unproven, experimental gene therapy through clinical trials instead.(9)(10)(11)

d) Brainwash the population (via government sponsored propaganda) and create an entirely false narrative that serves to harm them, whether through ‘vaccination’ or ostracization.(12)(13)(14)

And yet, that is exactly what happened in country after country, in lock-step. That narrative is currently collapsing and those at most risk of exposure are struggling to morph it into another narrative that won’t be true either. Huge dollops of falsehoods have been lathered over every aspect of the ‘pandemic’ and the ‘vaccines’; so much so, that it’s often difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff, particularly when it comes to assessing the true effects of the jabs. We can’t even be sure of some of the most basic facts, such as how many people have truly been ‘vaccinated’ and how many have actually died of the disease, as opposed to other ‘vaccine’ related injuries. Calculating the proportion of such injuries, for instance, becomes problematic if one cannot be sure that governments are telling the truth about the percentage of the population that is jabbed.

Similarly, sudden upticks in other diseases cannot be definitively attributed to the deleterious effects of the ‘vaccine’ – often, the vaccination status of the victim is unknown. One can usefully speculate but it is, after all, in the best interests of those who pushed the jab to suppress any information that may implicate them in bad actions, committed wittingly or otherwise. About the only measure we may still be able to rely on is excess mortality and even that is really a rough and ready statistic that can be used to link ‘vaccine’ rollout and extras deaths temporally, but which is still vulnerable to being fudged by the ‘correlation does not equate to causation’ crowd. Additionally, as we shall see, the reporting of excess mortality can simply be terminated when the numbers start raising questions that cannot be satisfactorily answered.

What we need is a community that is 100% ‘vaccinated’. That way, the statistics (if reported truthfully) pertaining to infections, hospitalizations and excess deaths from whatever cause cannot be in dispute. These events are, therefore, all happening to the jabbed; the deliberately seeded forest of uncertainties can be largely stripped away. Fortunately, there are several examples of moderately sized territories or countries that took the bait, the hook, the line and the sinker – Gibraltar and Singapore prominent among them.

There are also some countries that serve as control samples; those with very low rates of ‘vaccination’, such as Burundi, Haiti and the DRC. In fact, there was an entire continent that gave the lie to both narratives – the ‘deadly pandemic’ and the ‘safe and effective vaccines’ – and that’s Africa. The globalists are currently doing their best to remove any evidence that demolishes the claim the jab is necessary, by kindly making it available to low income countries, but there is still some efficacy in looking at the before and after there, too.

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So, there we have it. Despite the best efforts of our elected officials and their poodles in the Fourth Estate, there is still incontrovertible evidence that the ‘vaccines’ are not worthy of the name and are, instead, effectively bioweapons. We can argue about whether they are so intentionally, but it’s clear to me that they are. The dishonesty involved in the entire scam, from an engineered ‘pandemic’, through PDC testing, lock-downs, masks and all the other nonsense is powerful circumstantial evidence and, though knowing that our paranoia is not misplaced and that they really are out to get us is useful information, the fact that so much damage has already been done is a tragedy.

Ultimately, the exact mechanism of damage is downstream from the fact that there is a clear relationship between the ‘vaccines’ and subsequent bad outcomes. The signal is repeated across the globe, in countries big and small. It’s robust and is apparent in several different modes; from controlled environments where there is a straightforward, temporal relationship (such as Gibraltar and Singapore), to booster obsessed Japan (a country that has shown us that the more jabs mean more damage inflicted), to control samples such as Haiti, Burundi, the DOC and much of Africa itself, which demonstrate that there is an absence of death and damage when ‘vaccination’ rates are low.

The ‘experts’ have been studiously avoiding both the massive grey animal in the corner and Occam’s Razor to boot and, no matter what the current state of the narrative, they will continue to do so. There will be further limited hangouts, fallback positions that have either been long prepared (the recent acknowledgement of the lab leak theory, for one) or which need to be constructed on the hoof (Midazolam Matt and the Lock-down Files, perhaps; or perhaps not). However, there will never be an admission of guilt. They will never concede that the ‘vaccine’ needed a ‘pandemic’, which they were happy to provide. They will never admit that they knew the jab was a killer, nor that that was the entire point of it. But we don’t need them to. It’s obvious.

Thanks to several commenters at OFW for reminding me of Reg Morrison, a great Australian mind in the overshoot awareness space.

Gail Zawacki, my recently deceased friend who wrote at http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/, spoke with reverence about Morrison. He was far ahead of most other intellectuals thinking about the human predicament.

Reg Morrison was sniffing around the edges of MORT long before MORT was a thing. He saw the unique and strange evolved mysticism behavior of our species as being central to our overshoot predicament. I wish Morrison and Varki had connected to discuss how mysticism is simply a manifestation of our genetic tendency to deny death and all other unpleasant realities as explained by MORT.

Here is a superb essay by Reg Morrison written 25 years ago.

https://regmorrison.edublogs.org/1999/07/19/the-case-against-us/

The case against us….

If we were to assume the role of advocate for the biosphere, we should have to concede that what evolution most requires of us now is to ignore the warnings on the current environmental package and continue to behave as we always have. Should we falter in our rate of economic and technological progress we might jeopardise the nice swift end to the human plague that is now being signalled by the soaring extinction rate and the rapid carbonisation of the atmosphere.

Armed with nothing more than sticks and stones, a little cunning, and a crucial streak of mystical madness, this extraordinary species gradually learned that by hunting in well-disciplined cooperative groups they could, with the aid of careful planning and a touch of fanaticism, bring down such formidable prey as the woolly mammoth, the sabre-toothed “tiger” and the woolly rhinoceros. No wonder our genes still display the same magic blend of mysticism, cooperation, and technological competence that carried them safely through those hazardous early years. The question then arises: If those genes saved our hard-pressed Homo erectus ancestors, might they not rescue us now in much the same fashion?

I would argue that they may, but only in the sense that they will probably save us from total extinction. Unlike the first environmental assault on our species, the present one is primarily anthropogenic and represents a biospheric backlash against our overwhelming success as a species. In anthropocentric terms this assault is directly aimed at us, and so the very best technological defences we can muster may well prove much less effective than the sticks and stones of our ancestors. This time it is human technology itself that lies at the core of the problem. It gobbles too much energy. We are thereby pitted against the full weight of the world’s biospheric machinery, and to make matters worse, the carefully tailored mythologies that used to sustain us now handicap us with misconceptions that seem sure to sink us. To our peril we cling to the following beliefs:

1) Humans have spiritual autonomy and are therefore accountable for their actions.
2) The environment is inherently stable, and will rebound if we give it half a chance.
3) Most environmental damage is the product of human ignorance, greed, and technological malpractice, and is therefore repairable.
4) Human ingenuity and technology can solve most environmental problems and repair most environmental damage, if given enough time, money, education, and political will.
5) We will survive, just as we always have, by drawing on our unique ingenuity, resourcefulness, and indomitable spirit.

By contrast, the facts are as follows:

1) We are genetically driven just like any other animal. We have no mind other than the body, and we lack behavioral choice.
2) The environment is a Chaotic system and is therefore inherently unstable and always has been. If it were not so, evolution could not have occurred. Rebound is not characteristic of the system.
3) Most environmental damage is the inevitable by-product of over-population, and is a necessary part of the plague cycle.
4) The environmental problems we now face do not have a technological solution. There is no such thing as a technological solution. All human activity—”good” and “bad”—adds to our environmental debt. The more technological the attempted solution, the greater our environmental debt (Impact = Population x Activity x Technology).
5) The plague cycle is a vital component of the evolutionary process and an essential evolutionary escape clause in the case of a fertile, high-impact species like Homo sapiens.

Handicapped as we are by such monumental misconceptions, we are likely to discover that the endgame is rigged beyond redemption.

Wolf Richter with another perspective on SVB.

It seems our financial regulators are as incompetent as our health care professionals. Is there any profession other than engineering that still knows what it’s doing?

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/11/svb-financial-had-investment-grade-credit-ratings-from-moodys-and-sp-up-to-collapse-then-ratings-got-slashed-in-one-fell-swoop-to-default/

Let me just divert your attention for a moment from the collapse of SVB Financial and what it might and might not mean for the financial system or the startup bubble or whatever, to another troubling aspect of SVB Financial that shows that no one has learned anything since the Financial Crisis, least of all the credit rating agencies.

So you know what is coming: The solid investment-grade rating on a company – SVB Financial – that then collapsed with its investment-grade rating, taking investors down with it.

On Wednesday March 8, Moody’s still had an A3 rating on SVB Financial, owner of the now defunct Silicon Valley Bank, as it was already collapsing for all to see. Four notches into investment grade – a very respectable rating!

Just to let you know that I added a couple images to the post above that I received from Dr. Varki that illustrate his idea that females may be the only hope for humankind.

I’ve been trying to think of the most compelling, succinct, and difficult to rebut argument that our leaders are lying to us about mRNA. Here’s my first attempt.

Q: What’s the most useful, easy to collect, unambiguous, and unbiasable health statistic?

A: All-cause mortality. (Because it’s hard to screw up counting dead vs. alive)

If all-cause mortality vaxed vs. unvaxed supported the claim that mRNA is safe and effective, the data would be front and center in all official covid communications.

No government in the world reports vaxed vs. unvaxed all-cause mortality.

The conclusion is obvious.

P.S. Here’s the denial spin:

Q: Why aren’t the covidiots demanding all-cause mortality data to support their views?

A: Because they don’t want to know the truth.