Posted On: Wednesday - July 13th 2022 6:12PM MST
In Topics: China Orwellian Stupidity iEspionage
One of the Instapundit bloggers linked me to a Zerohedge post on what you see above. This is the first time I've linked to Zerohedge in a long while, my caring about the state of your computer, tablet, or phone being the reason. However, the page is not going nuts for me, so you could check out Chinese Bank Run Turns Violent After Angry Crowd Storms Bank of China Branch Over Frozen Deposits.
It's not like Peak Stupidity hasn't been writing about this for the last 5 years. There are so many posts stating "Cash is King" that I don't have time to link to 'em. (You can use the Economics topic key to find them.) The Chinese used to live this mantra, going back only 15 years at the most.
Well, yeah, America's economy is in bad, bad shape, so why highlight some banking problems in China? Good question. Well, the Chinese are screwed more than Americans in some ways, as, whatever they might think of the regime they live under, they can't opt out as easily as Americans can (if they'd get their asses in gear!). The use of smart "phones"* for making payments has gone big-time. We've documented that and other policies of control of the Chinese population, due to some Mandate straight outta Hell in our 2-part Dashed high hopes for China - Part 1 and Part 2. This was written based on personal experience**.
The Book of Revelation touches on the payment stuff, as we all know and can see is going on over in China right now. However, a Chinaman with all the other CCP-required apps may experience even more control than that. The last part of the ZH article says:
More than 1,000 depositors from across the country had planned to gather in Zhengzhou last month to try to withdraw their money but they were unable to when their COVID-19 health codes, which determine if one can travel, switched to a "no travel" status.You gotta give 'em credit where credit is due. If you're gonna go Big Brother, use all the electronic technology you have. You need to think outside of the 1984 box. Using the new health scores, cause, PANDEMIC!, to keep people from even getting to protests about Big-Banking matters is genius.
Not only can you not get ahold of your hard-earned money, but you can't go complain about not being able to get ahold of your hard-earned money because now you're sick! I know, you don't feel sick, but your phone says you're sick, so you're officially sick. Stay home and monitor your phone, Citizen.
Do you see why Americans are in somewhat better shape under the "leadership" of the evil and stupid rather than the evil and smart? Hmmmmm? Idiocracy v 1984 - tough call.
PS: Zhengzhou is the capital of the province of Henan (means "south of the river", and that'd be the Huang He, or Yellow River. There are over 12 million people in Zhengzhou. It's good to be
* Why do we bother calling them phones anymore? I use them to make phone calls, but for others, that phone icon is just another "app".
** One can read more information on the truly Orwellian, scare-the-bejusus-outta-ya' stuff from a book by a guy named Kai Strittmatter called We Have Been Harmonized. Peak Stupidity has a 4-part review on that book, it so happens: Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- and Part 4.
Comments:
Adam Smith
Saturday - July 16th 2022 9:20AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Hail,
“This is (it goes without saying) going to happen even more when there is a system in place that hands out status-points, and offers such a status-payoff, to defectors from a certain enemy group. It is just going to be a lot easier to get "takers" among involved women than involved men.”
“When the relationship(s) turned sour, and further when the whole thing looked no longer fun or feeding her ego, and further still when the whole thing got really heavy with state suppression starting with the Charlottesville events, Samantha immediately abandoned her supposed beliefs and turned on people she was supposedly deeply connected to.”
https://heavy.com/entertainment/samantha-froelich-now/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/unite-the-right-witness-violent-plans-testimony
I think you've summed up Miss Froelich pretty well, Mr. Hail. She doesn't really have her own ideas or principals. No real moral compass. She's an attention seeker. I'd imagine she's happy about being a very minor celebrity. Probably doesn't bother her that she was an informant in a show trial.
Here's a transcript of her video deposition in Sines v Kessler...
https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-kessler-rush-transcript-day-6-willis-testimony-froelich-deposition/
https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-kessler-rush-transcript-day-7-froelich-deposition-heimbach-testimony/
Thank you for your general observations and comment section chatter.
I hope you have a great weekend!
☮
“This is (it goes without saying) going to happen even more when there is a system in place that hands out status-points, and offers such a status-payoff, to defectors from a certain enemy group. It is just going to be a lot easier to get "takers" among involved women than involved men.”
“When the relationship(s) turned sour, and further when the whole thing looked no longer fun or feeding her ego, and further still when the whole thing got really heavy with state suppression starting with the Charlottesville events, Samantha immediately abandoned her supposed beliefs and turned on people she was supposedly deeply connected to.”
https://heavy.com/entertainment/samantha-froelich-now/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/unite-the-right-witness-violent-plans-testimony
I think you've summed up Miss Froelich pretty well, Mr. Hail. She doesn't really have her own ideas or principals. No real moral compass. She's an attention seeker. I'd imagine she's happy about being a very minor celebrity. Probably doesn't bother her that she was an informant in a show trial.
Here's a transcript of her video deposition in Sines v Kessler...
https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-kessler-rush-transcript-day-6-willis-testimony-froelich-deposition/
https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/sines-v-kessler-rush-transcript-day-7-froelich-deposition-heimbach-testimony/
Thank you for your general observations and comment section chatter.
I hope you have a great weekend!
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Adam Smith
Saturday - July 16th 2022 8:49AM MST
PS: Good morning, Robert,
"expiration dates are for pussies"...
"Most of what is known about drug expiration dates comes from a study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration at the request of the military. With a large and expensive stockpile of drugs, the military faced tossing out and replacing its drugs every few years. What they found from the study is 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiration-dates-do-they-mean-anything
Vintage Quaaludes are very hard to find, dare I say unobtainable. Here's an article from 1984 explaining how even then they were almost impossible to find...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/06/08/dramatic-drop-reported-in-illegal-quaalude-sales/d4470446-24e6-4431-9aae-87bdad422a53/
And like fine wine or a Basquiat the value of vintage Quaaludes will only increase over time.
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/jean-michel-basquiat-most-expensive-works-1234585981/
https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-2.13.22-PM.png
Seriously though, I think the $1300 per pill price is a joke about how cops over-inflate the street value of the drugs they seize, especially when reporting it to the media. I also noticed how the quantity keeps shrinking every time the bag of Quaaludes passes though another set of hands while in police custody. The joke works because it's true to life. Cops steal drugs all the time, often to use themselves or to sell for a quick profit.
Cheers to a Happy Saturday!
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"expiration dates are for pussies"...
"Most of what is known about drug expiration dates comes from a study conducted by the Food and Drug Administration at the request of the military. With a large and expensive stockpile of drugs, the military faced tossing out and replacing its drugs every few years. What they found from the study is 90% of more than 100 drugs, both prescription and over-the-counter, were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiration-dates-do-they-mean-anything
Vintage Quaaludes are very hard to find, dare I say unobtainable. Here's an article from 1984 explaining how even then they were almost impossible to find...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/06/08/dramatic-drop-reported-in-illegal-quaalude-sales/d4470446-24e6-4431-9aae-87bdad422a53/
And like fine wine or a Basquiat the value of vintage Quaaludes will only increase over time.
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/jean-michel-basquiat-most-expensive-works-1234585981/
https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Screen-Shot-2020-04-06-at-2.13.22-PM.png
Seriously though, I think the $1300 per pill price is a joke about how cops over-inflate the street value of the drugs they seize, especially when reporting it to the media. I also noticed how the quantity keeps shrinking every time the bag of Quaaludes passes though another set of hands while in police custody. The joke works because it's true to life. Cops steal drugs all the time, often to use themselves or to sell for a quick profit.
Cheers to a Happy Saturday!
☮
Moderator
Saturday - July 16th 2022 7:40AM MST
PS: Haha, Robert, I've done the very same! To myself, even. I never kept up with the Qualludes and such, except via the movie line in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and then that "Wolf of Wall Street" scene.
40 years may degrade their effect, but I've told my doctor regarding other medicine "expiration dates are for pussies".
40 years may degrade their effect, but I've told my doctor regarding other medicine "expiration dates are for pussies".
Robert
Friday - July 15th 2022 7:02PM MST
PS: OK, I should have said forty-something year old pills. This is what I get for commenting on someone else's innumeracy.
Hail
Friday - July 15th 2022 7:00PM MST
PS
On "Web of Make Believe - Episode 3 - I'm Not a Nazi,"
I look forward to your post/response/review, Mr. Moderator, if one appears.
One initial reaction, after watching it via Adam Smith's link (https://tinyurl.com/ycku3uw6), is this:
Women are not actually interested in politics. Women are not actually interested in ideas, or "ideas as such," though they will happily glide along spouting off ideas or idea-like phrases if it gains them positive attention.
To be a little more charitable, let's say they are interested in ideas only secondarily. Their real interest is relationships. If a relationship turns sour, women will tend to abandon their political ideas as if they never mattered. It (can) happen in a way that, if a standard-issue MAN did it, one might reasonably presume that the man had had a mental breakdown of some kind, had 'snapped,' something like that. It would be extreme for males. It seems common, or even nearly standard (!), for women.
This is (it goes without saying) going to happen even more when there is a system in place that hands out status-points, and offers such a status-payoff, to defectors from a certain enemy group. It is just going to be a lot easier to get "takers" among involved women than involved men.
I don't know if I am expressing this well. It is a delicate area to step into anyway, but take it for what it is, comment-section chatter.
__________
The above is a general observation and certainly not limited to radical-dissident political milieus. The general point is distilled by the radical-dissident-political milieu in a way that makes it very easy to see, though.
I came to understand this somewhat slowly, and I think too belatedly, in life. It would have served me better to have known it, say, the day I turned 18 or 20. The lesson is, the men and the women you find who end up in any organization, formal or informal, are motivated by very different things. Maybe this insight comes a lot more intuitively or obviously to others, but it took some need for experience to get me there. (It is said that no one likes to work for a female boss, and I think this is one part of it.)
I noticed it first in an academic context, and later in working life. Most women in these environments, I now realize, are not really there because of true interest in ideas, interest in doing good work. They are not there for the sake of knowledge-advancement, or achievement, or glory, or Truth.
If you observe the way they think and talk, if you observe what they're interested in, and what degree of moral seriousness they bring to something, it's not there, or its tempered by these layers of other things. For any relatively young woman, it's the desire to be thought attractive, cute or pretty or some related value to that, and to be popular, one of the 'in' people, this being the kernel of all "office politics."
Very many women in high positions turn out to be, dare I say, "faking" deep interest in the topic they are supposedly highly skilled in, even credentialed in, or seeking experience and credential in. Why are they seeking credential or experience? It's not because they're truly interested--if you pay attention you see it. When I first started to "see it," it morally offended me, I think because I sensed it would inevitably represent a cheapening of all creative endeavor or knowledge-based endeavor. I think see already see the fruits of this.
A lot of women get involved in any endeavor because they are seeking whatever their milieu's equivalent of the old "M-R-S degree," the thing they used to talk about as the motivation for women attending college ("Mrs." degree, a soon-to-be-rich-successful husband). This ends up being a mix of instinct and what society tells them to.
The protagonist and eternal-victim of the documentary, Samantha, brings all these thoughts to mind. She all but says straight-out that her motivation was dating and relationships, romantic pair-bonding relationships with men, and she obviously was happy to bask in all the attention she got. When the relationship(s) turned sour, and further when the whole thing looked no longer fun or feeding her ego, and further still when the whole thing got really heavy with state suppression starting with the Charlottesville events, Samantha immediately abandoned her supposed beliefs and turned on people she was supposedly deeply connected to.
On "Web of Make Believe - Episode 3 - I'm Not a Nazi,"
I look forward to your post/response/review, Mr. Moderator, if one appears.
One initial reaction, after watching it via Adam Smith's link (https://tinyurl.com/ycku3uw6), is this:
Women are not actually interested in politics. Women are not actually interested in ideas, or "ideas as such," though they will happily glide along spouting off ideas or idea-like phrases if it gains them positive attention.
To be a little more charitable, let's say they are interested in ideas only secondarily. Their real interest is relationships. If a relationship turns sour, women will tend to abandon their political ideas as if they never mattered. It (can) happen in a way that, if a standard-issue MAN did it, one might reasonably presume that the man had had a mental breakdown of some kind, had 'snapped,' something like that. It would be extreme for males. It seems common, or even nearly standard (!), for women.
This is (it goes without saying) going to happen even more when there is a system in place that hands out status-points, and offers such a status-payoff, to defectors from a certain enemy group. It is just going to be a lot easier to get "takers" among involved women than involved men.
I don't know if I am expressing this well. It is a delicate area to step into anyway, but take it for what it is, comment-section chatter.
__________
The above is a general observation and certainly not limited to radical-dissident political milieus. The general point is distilled by the radical-dissident-political milieu in a way that makes it very easy to see, though.
I came to understand this somewhat slowly, and I think too belatedly, in life. It would have served me better to have known it, say, the day I turned 18 or 20. The lesson is, the men and the women you find who end up in any organization, formal or informal, are motivated by very different things. Maybe this insight comes a lot more intuitively or obviously to others, but it took some need for experience to get me there. (It is said that no one likes to work for a female boss, and I think this is one part of it.)
I noticed it first in an academic context, and later in working life. Most women in these environments, I now realize, are not really there because of true interest in ideas, interest in doing good work. They are not there for the sake of knowledge-advancement, or achievement, or glory, or Truth.
If you observe the way they think and talk, if you observe what they're interested in, and what degree of moral seriousness they bring to something, it's not there, or its tempered by these layers of other things. For any relatively young woman, it's the desire to be thought attractive, cute or pretty or some related value to that, and to be popular, one of the 'in' people, this being the kernel of all "office politics."
Very many women in high positions turn out to be, dare I say, "faking" deep interest in the topic they are supposedly highly skilled in, even credentialed in, or seeking experience and credential in. Why are they seeking credential or experience? It's not because they're truly interested--if you pay attention you see it. When I first started to "see it," it morally offended me, I think because I sensed it would inevitably represent a cheapening of all creative endeavor or knowledge-based endeavor. I think see already see the fruits of this.
A lot of women get involved in any endeavor because they are seeking whatever their milieu's equivalent of the old "M-R-S degree," the thing they used to talk about as the motivation for women attending college ("Mrs." degree, a soon-to-be-rich-successful husband). This ends up being a mix of instinct and what society tells them to.
The protagonist and eternal-victim of the documentary, Samantha, brings all these thoughts to mind. She all but says straight-out that her motivation was dating and relationships, romantic pair-bonding relationships with men, and she obviously was happy to bask in all the attention she got. When the relationship(s) turned sour, and further when the whole thing looked no longer fun or feeding her ego, and further still when the whole thing got really heavy with state suppression starting with the Charlottesville events, Samantha immediately abandoned her supposed beliefs and turned on people she was supposedly deeply connected to.
Robert
Friday - July 15th 2022 6:58PM MST
PS:
"The current street value of the 1,500 Quallude pills is in the range of $2,000,000 USD," said Senior Agent Tom Hensley of the FBI.
Ignoring the fact that twenty-something year old pills have presumably expired --- Is this another example of PeakStupidity innumeracy, or am I missing something? Are they collectable antiques now?
"The current street value of the 1,500 Quallude pills is in the range of $2,000,000 USD," said Senior Agent Tom Hensley of the FBI.
Ignoring the fact that twenty-something year old pills have presumably expired --- Is this another example of PeakStupidity innumeracy, or am I missing something? Are they collectable antiques now?
Moderator
Friday - July 15th 2022 4:15PM MST
PS: I don't kid here, I am very excited about seeing the video. Thank you so much, Adam. Mr. Hail I imagine I would want to write about it. Oh, and thank you for the new China info. I haven't checked with my source in a while. I am told North Korea has had a pretty mellow PanicFest, putting most of the rest of the world to shame.
Hail
Friday - July 15th 2022 10:05AM MST
PS
Moderator wrote: "on 'Web of Make Believe, Episode 3, I'm Not a Nazi'. Yes, maybe Adam Smith will come through. (I don't have Netflix or any of that.)"
Adam Smith delivers. If Peak Stupidity find time to watch this, as an analysis of propaganda, and picks this up as a post, I may have more to say in comments there,
From a review of 'Web of Make Believe--Episode 3--I'm Not a Nazi':
"This is a fascinating, terrifying account of how vulnerable people are exploited and drawn into the evil of fascism," via people like Steve Sailer.
Steve Sailer is one of those who "draw" people into "fascism," not alone but one of an ensemble of Youtubers and podcasters working various angles, but all dedicated to the Endgoal winning converts,---including from the ranks of vulnerable or unstable politically-Blueish women like the show's hero,---to Fascism.
Sailerite Fascism; like 1933, but this time with lots on golf-architecture.
Moderator wrote: "on 'Web of Make Believe, Episode 3, I'm Not a Nazi'. Yes, maybe Adam Smith will come through. (I don't have Netflix or any of that.)"
Adam Smith delivers. If Peak Stupidity find time to watch this, as an analysis of propaganda, and picks this up as a post, I may have more to say in comments there,
From a review of 'Web of Make Believe--Episode 3--I'm Not a Nazi':
"This is a fascinating, terrifying account of how vulnerable people are exploited and drawn into the evil of fascism," via people like Steve Sailer.
Steve Sailer is one of those who "draw" people into "fascism," not alone but one of an ensemble of Youtubers and podcasters working various angles, but all dedicated to the Endgoal winning converts,---including from the ranks of vulnerable or unstable politically-Blueish women like the show's hero,---to Fascism.
Sailerite Fascism; like 1933, but this time with lots on golf-architecture.
Hail
Friday - July 15th 2022 9:33AM MST
PS
Adam Smith does it again! ("Coming through for the good guys since circa-1776.")
Thank you for your efforts and sharing your skill in such things.
Adam Smith does it again! ("Coming through for the good guys since circa-1776.")
Thank you for your efforts and sharing your skill in such things.
Adam Smith
Friday - July 15th 2022 9:21AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Hail, Mr. Moderator,
Web.of.Make.Believe.S01E03 .mp4
https://tinyurl.com/ycku3uw6
Mrs. Smith started watching this on NetFlix last week. My ears perked up when I heard them mention Steve Sailer. Mr. Sailer's segment starts a little after the 21 minute mark. I haven't watched the whole thing yet.
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Web.of.Make.Believe.S01E03 .mp4
https://tinyurl.com/ycku3uw6
Mrs. Smith started watching this on NetFlix last week. My ears perked up when I heard them mention Steve Sailer. Mr. Sailer's segment starts a little after the 21 minute mark. I haven't watched the whole thing yet.
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Adam Smith
Friday - July 15th 2022 9:15AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, gentlemen,
“I didn't even remember the time capsule business (was it really there or not?) until Mr. Smith (I believe) brought that up.”
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https://i.ibb.co/6vQ9YsN/Time-Capsule.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/bHZgqx1/Saturday-Night-Fever.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/x7X6Sxx/Peterbilt.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/qNpQHPX/Playboy.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/gRQhsKJ/Qualludes.jpg
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Mystery Intensifies as Georgia Guidestones Time Capsule Opened by Elbert Officials- (Elberton, Ga)
Today officials with the Elbert County Historical Society, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation exhumed and opened the Georgia Guidestones Time Capsule.
"Now that the Guidestones have been destroyed, we felt it was appropriate to open the time capsule buried at the base of the monument," said Charles Smith, President of the Elbert County Historical Society. "We hoped its contents would help shed light on the builders of the monument."
Unfortunately the time capsule, which was buried early in 1980, did little to answer questions about the orgins of the Guidestones.
"The time capsule only held four items," explained Sheriff Melvin Andrews. "A single eight track tape of 'Saturday Night Fever', a Peterbilt emblem, a October 1979 Playboy magazine signed by Burt Reynolds, and a bag containing 1,734 Quallude pills."
"We really don't know what to make of this assemblage of items," said Charles Smith. "It will take weeks to determine the common thread that runs through these items."
"The current street value of the 1,500 Quallude pills is in the range of $2,000,000 USD," said Senior Agent Tom Hensley of the FBI.
"The Sheriff's Office has allowed the historical society to maintain control of the magazine, tape, and Peterbilt emblem but, the 1,300 Quallude pills will be placed in our evidence locker in Gainesville," said Mary Alexander with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Sheriff Melvin Andrews added, "After testing, the GBI plans to release the 1,000 pills back to the Sheriff's Office, where they will be destroyed."
The public is being encouraged to submit any theories regarding the time capsule items to the Elbert County Historical Society, Elberton, Ga. Please email: chamber@elbertga.com
(Northeast Georgian Online)(July 7, 2022)
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“I didn't even remember the time capsule business (was it really there or not?) until Mr. Smith (I believe) brought that up.”
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https://i.ibb.co/6vQ9YsN/Time-Capsule.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/bHZgqx1/Saturday-Night-Fever.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/x7X6Sxx/Peterbilt.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/qNpQHPX/Playboy.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/gRQhsKJ/Qualludes.jpg
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Mystery Intensifies as Georgia Guidestones Time Capsule Opened by Elbert Officials- (Elberton, Ga)
Today officials with the Elbert County Historical Society, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Federal Bureau of Investigation exhumed and opened the Georgia Guidestones Time Capsule.
"Now that the Guidestones have been destroyed, we felt it was appropriate to open the time capsule buried at the base of the monument," said Charles Smith, President of the Elbert County Historical Society. "We hoped its contents would help shed light on the builders of the monument."
Unfortunately the time capsule, which was buried early in 1980, did little to answer questions about the orgins of the Guidestones.
"The time capsule only held four items," explained Sheriff Melvin Andrews. "A single eight track tape of 'Saturday Night Fever', a Peterbilt emblem, a October 1979 Playboy magazine signed by Burt Reynolds, and a bag containing 1,734 Quallude pills."
"We really don't know what to make of this assemblage of items," said Charles Smith. "It will take weeks to determine the common thread that runs through these items."
"The current street value of the 1,500 Quallude pills is in the range of $2,000,000 USD," said Senior Agent Tom Hensley of the FBI.
"The Sheriff's Office has allowed the historical society to maintain control of the magazine, tape, and Peterbilt emblem but, the 1,300 Quallude pills will be placed in our evidence locker in Gainesville," said Mary Alexander with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Sheriff Melvin Andrews added, "After testing, the GBI plans to release the 1,000 pills back to the Sheriff's Office, where they will be destroyed."
The public is being encouraged to submit any theories regarding the time capsule items to the Elbert County Historical Society, Elberton, Ga. Please email: chamber@elbertga.com
(Northeast Georgian Online)(July 7, 2022)
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Hail
Friday - July 15th 2022 9:00AM MST
PS
On Sri Lanka
The most interesting thing about coverage is the US media reported neutrally, often lightheartedly, or even somewhat positively on the storming of the parliament buildings and presidential residence.
This was the coverage, in case you missed it:
Grinning protestors pose for group pictures inside the presidential compound; righteous indignation is mixed with a politicized festival-like atmosphere; the overflowing energy level comes from hard times and controversy boiling over but, hey, it happens!; Oh, what's that, some have broken into the presidential swimming pool! They're having dip, how cute; Oh, there are others grinning while using presidential compound's exercise equipment; well, well, what can you say but "a good time was had by all!"
The irony is that the Election Integrity protestors, whose demonstration at the U.S. Captiol in Jan 2021 could well have been given such a treatment, and even deserved such more than the Sri Lankan protest. The mood of the day itself, among the Election Integrity protestors and many observers, WAS basically more like that, but the narrative-weavers began their work in the coming 24 hours.
As for Sri Lanka. We can complain about the Corona-maniacs and idiots like Justin "Bieber" Trudeau (possibly the worst on the North American continent, easy to overlook form a U.S.-news-oriented perspective), but the unfortunate island-country of Sri Lanka was hit a lot harder. Leadership caved into the Panic, and the domestic plus global effects of the Panic and lockdowns and disruptions and travel bans hit them especially hard. The Corona-Panic caused the Sri Lanka economy to collapse.
On Sri Lanka
The most interesting thing about coverage is the US media reported neutrally, often lightheartedly, or even somewhat positively on the storming of the parliament buildings and presidential residence.
This was the coverage, in case you missed it:
Grinning protestors pose for group pictures inside the presidential compound; righteous indignation is mixed with a politicized festival-like atmosphere; the overflowing energy level comes from hard times and controversy boiling over but, hey, it happens!; Oh, what's that, some have broken into the presidential swimming pool! They're having dip, how cute; Oh, there are others grinning while using presidential compound's exercise equipment; well, well, what can you say but "a good time was had by all!"
The irony is that the Election Integrity protestors, whose demonstration at the U.S. Captiol in Jan 2021 could well have been given such a treatment, and even deserved such more than the Sri Lankan protest. The mood of the day itself, among the Election Integrity protestors and many observers, WAS basically more like that, but the narrative-weavers began their work in the coming 24 hours.
As for Sri Lanka. We can complain about the Corona-maniacs and idiots like Justin "Bieber" Trudeau (possibly the worst on the North American continent, easy to overlook form a U.S.-news-oriented perspective), but the unfortunate island-country of Sri Lanka was hit a lot harder. Leadership caved into the Panic, and the domestic plus global effects of the Panic and lockdowns and disruptions and travel bans hit them especially hard. The Corona-Panic caused the Sri Lanka economy to collapse.
Hail
Friday - July 15th 2022 8:48AM MST
PS
Is the latest Beijing vaccine mandate in public places now off?
It seems another sign of weakness of the long-in-retreat Corona-Panic coalition that the Beijing "vaccine mandate via tracking app" story got criticized and even mocked in the West, and there were some signs they might have called it off or postponed this latest rule, but no doubt it will be back. (It's China. It's what they DO.)
It seems that Western media, especially in English, are global agenda-setters, with major influence in some places outside the West proper and at least moderate influence nearly everywhere, including on China. This influence I expect to have increased in a more than linear way in the 2010s.
Nothing like this pushback would have happened as recently as January 2022 (when Canada had a system like this in place, and was still seeking to follow certain European countries in imposing major fines on the Unvaccinated). It became likely that in about April 2022 there would be mainstream criticism of China doing this "China" stuff of arbitrary and unaccountable MANDATEs to crush the little guy and force him to submit to the State or be marginalized.
Is the latest Beijing vaccine mandate in public places now off?
It seems another sign of weakness of the long-in-retreat Corona-Panic coalition that the Beijing "vaccine mandate via tracking app" story got criticized and even mocked in the West, and there were some signs they might have called it off or postponed this latest rule, but no doubt it will be back. (It's China. It's what they DO.)
It seems that Western media, especially in English, are global agenda-setters, with major influence in some places outside the West proper and at least moderate influence nearly everywhere, including on China. This influence I expect to have increased in a more than linear way in the 2010s.
Nothing like this pushback would have happened as recently as January 2022 (when Canada had a system like this in place, and was still seeking to follow certain European countries in imposing major fines on the Unvaccinated). It became likely that in about April 2022 there would be mainstream criticism of China doing this "China" stuff of arbitrary and unaccountable MANDATEs to crush the little guy and force him to submit to the State or be marginalized.
Hail
Friday - July 15th 2022 8:40AM MST
PS
In reply to the request for info on the new "Covid Vaccine app mandate" demanded in China.
It ran as a news 'wire' story July 7, with this wording:
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Beijing mandates COVID vaccines to enter some public spaces
By HUIZHONG WU
Associated Press
July 7, 2022
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they can enter some public spaces including gyms, museums and libraries, drawing concern from city residents over the sudden policy announcement and its impact on their daily lives.
The health app that shows a person's latest PCR test results has been updated to make it easier to also access their vaccination status, according to Li Ang, a spokesperson for Beijing’s municipal health commission.
The list of public places requiring vaccination does not include restaurants and offices. The mandate will go into effect on Monday (July 11)...
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In reply to the request for info on the new "Covid Vaccine app mandate" demanded in China.
It ran as a news 'wire' story July 7, with this wording:
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Beijing mandates COVID vaccines to enter some public spaces
By HUIZHONG WU
Associated Press
July 7, 2022
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Chinese capital has issued a mandate requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before they can enter some public spaces including gyms, museums and libraries, drawing concern from city residents over the sudden policy announcement and its impact on their daily lives.
The health app that shows a person's latest PCR test results has been updated to make it easier to also access their vaccination status, according to Li Ang, a spokesperson for Beijing’s municipal health commission.
The list of public places requiring vaccination does not include restaurants and offices. The mandate will go into effect on Monday (July 11)...
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Moderator
Friday - July 15th 2022 6:05AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, I'd almost forgotten about your comment on "Web of Make Believe, Episode 3, I'm Not a Nazi". Yes, maybe Adam Smith will come through. (I don't have Netflix or any of that.)
Mr. Madness, do you have a link to that Oregon Kung Flu Kubuki?
Mr. Madness, do you have a link to that Oregon Kung Flu Kubuki?
Terminal Madness
Thursday - July 14th 2022 5:53PM MST
PS Sail foam is your hive slave chain and may it rest gently while you update the daily ME.
Just had a gut busting laugh reading substack about the COV-LARP kabuki in the glorious people's republic of Oregon.
All the insanity of PRC/CCP will soon be in the Chiquitastan hive borg collective.
JoJO Brandon will bring back the plandemic after the midterms with depopulation jab mandates for all comrades of the egalitarian unity or Jonestown Democracy.
These things happen when terminal Peak Stupidity is the default setting.
Just had a gut busting laugh reading substack about the COV-LARP kabuki in the glorious people's republic of Oregon.
All the insanity of PRC/CCP will soon be in the Chiquitastan hive borg collective.
JoJO Brandon will bring back the plandemic after the midterms with depopulation jab mandates for all comrades of the egalitarian unity or Jonestown Democracy.
These things happen when terminal Peak Stupidity is the default setting.
Moderator
Thursday - July 14th 2022 8:48AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, I figured the readers may be tired of hearing about those big stones our in eastern Georgia, but also I need to get my thoughts together on it more. I can be forgetful, as in, I didn't even remember the time capsule business (was it really there or not?) until Mr. Smith (I believe) brought that up. Would that be a good reason to have the backhoe out there prontomundo? (Maybe there's gold in there!)
I will take your point about a topic key for this under consideration. I really didn't do a good job at the beginning of this blog laying out a bunch that would cover almost all the topics. I also try not to get too specific. That's why I held off on a "Kung Flu Stupidity" one till I finally realized this was going to be a long-term piece of stupidity. OTOH, this one would be easy to back-fill (with a backhoe?).
I appreciate all your comments on this weird story. There could be lots more to it, but then it's not a JFK assassination, so maybe nobody else cares. Then again, maybe it'll be seen later as the first skirmish started by Nationalists or something... I'd have picked a quite different target.
I will take your point about a topic key for this under consideration. I really didn't do a good job at the beginning of this blog laying out a bunch that would cover almost all the topics. I also try not to get too specific. That's why I held off on a "Kung Flu Stupidity" one till I finally realized this was going to be a long-term piece of stupidity. OTOH, this one would be easy to back-fill (with a backhoe?).
I appreciate all your comments on this weird story. There could be lots more to it, but then it's not a JFK assassination, so maybe nobody else cares. Then again, maybe it'll be seen later as the first skirmish started by Nationalists or something... I'd have picked a quite different target.
Moderator
Thursday - July 14th 2022 8:41AM MST
PS: I just read your article, Alarmist. Thanks. BTW, that pagoda at the top? Not a typical Chinese residence, haha! (I know you know this, but what is it with the editors?)
Moderator
Thursday - July 14th 2022 8:38AM MST
PS: Mr. Hail, that vaccine passport business had ready-made excuse to be put into place I guess. Those "BIG BIG Case numbers!" in Shanghai, etc.. with the resulting LOCKDOWNS are something I haven't written about in quite a while. I'm sure the Chinese people are now ready to show vax passports as the least of their troubles. That's how it goes, ratcheting up the Totalitarianism.
Do you have any good links on this I can look at quickly?
Do you have any good links on this I can look at quickly?
Hail
Thursday - July 14th 2022 5:28AM MST
PS
...Steve Sailer news...
I hear that Steve Sailer has been featured as a racist intellectualized puppetmaster in a new documentary released this month. This title: "Web of Make Believe, Episode 3, I'm Not a Nazi."
The narration and perspective through which the audience is shown the world is through someone who "escaped the far-right movement." Steve Sailer is featured but not interviewed (otherwise he'd have informed about it via his blog). That's all I know.
@ Adam Smith, the man with the ability to find anything: Are you able to find this and link to a copy? Am thinking that the PEAK STUPIDITY editor's department may be interested in a viewing, and thereafter interested in informing Mr. Sailer, if he hasn't yet heard about his latest honor.
...Steve Sailer news...
I hear that Steve Sailer has been featured as a racist intellectualized puppetmaster in a new documentary released this month. This title: "Web of Make Believe, Episode 3, I'm Not a Nazi."
The narration and perspective through which the audience is shown the world is through someone who "escaped the far-right movement." Steve Sailer is featured but not interviewed (otherwise he'd have informed about it via his blog). That's all I know.
@ Adam Smith, the man with the ability to find anything: Are you able to find this and link to a copy? Am thinking that the PEAK STUPIDITY editor's department may be interested in a viewing, and thereafter interested in informing Mr. Sailer, if he hasn't yet heard about his latest honor.
Hail
Thursday - July 14th 2022 5:23AM MST
PS
I hope you haven't "closed the book" on, and will continue following, the Georgia Guidestones story, many developments of which in the past few years and even the few months leading up to the bombing, represent a true form of Stupidity for our time. Your commentary and reading and research into it exceeds the vast majority of what you find.
(I suggested in a previous thread you need a George Guidestones category tag to keep the running commentary easily findable and linkable in one place.)
I hope you haven't "closed the book" on, and will continue following, the Georgia Guidestones story, many developments of which in the past few years and even the few months leading up to the bombing, represent a true form of Stupidity for our time. Your commentary and reading and research into it exceeds the vast majority of what you find.
(I suggested in a previous thread you need a George Guidestones category tag to keep the running commentary easily findable and linkable in one place.)
Hail
Thursday - July 14th 2022 5:20AM MST
PS
China also recently, and suddenly, announced the now-forgotten-in-the-West "Vaccine Pass" app to enter many public places is BACK effective immediately.
China also recently, and suddenly, announced the now-forgotten-in-the-West "Vaccine Pass" app to enter many public places is BACK effective immediately.
Moderator
Thursday - July 14th 2022 5:20AM MST
PS: I'll have to read more on Ceylon (as I still enjoy calling it), Alarmist. I know it's a big story, but I haven't read anything on it myself. I think Winnie the Pooh and his crew of pooh-bears have a level of control now that has not been seen before - except by the prophet who wrote Revelation.
Thank you for the link I will check that out shortly. "Who knew that housing prices don't always go up?!" Where have I heard that one before? They don't have many avenues in which to invest that aren't either risky. Same here, unless interest rates were to go up to real natural levels.
Thank you for the link I will check that out shortly. "Who knew that housing prices don't always go up?!" Where have I heard that one before? They don't have many avenues in which to invest that aren't either risky. Same here, unless interest rates were to go up to real natural levels.
The Alarmist
Thursday - July 14th 2022 4:46AM MST
PS
Speaking of Chinese proles ...
“Chinese Home Buyers Refuse To Pay Mortgage Payments As Home Prices Decline”
source: https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/2022/07/14/chinese-home-buyers-refuse-to-pay-mortgage-payments-as-home-prices-decline/
Speaking of Chinese proles ...
“Chinese Home Buyers Refuse To Pay Mortgage Payments As Home Prices Decline”
source: https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/2022/07/14/chinese-home-buyers-refuse-to-pay-mortgage-payments-as-home-prices-decline/
The Alarmist
Thursday - July 14th 2022 4:42AM MST
PS
Sri Lanka shows what truly desperate people can accomplish when they have little to lose. Winnie knows he can’t stop 300 million starving people from stringing him up, but that doesn’t stop him from doing it a few thousand at a time.
Sri Lanka shows what truly desperate people can accomplish when they have little to lose. Winnie knows he can’t stop 300 million starving people from stringing him up, but that doesn’t stop him from doing it a few thousand at a time.
Adam Smith wrote: "She's an attention seeker. I'd imagine she's happy about being a very minor celebrity. Probably doesn't bother her that she was an informant in a show trial."
She is also not just some nobody whistleblower. The thing that led her to do it was apparently that one or more romantic relationships didn't work out.
I don't know, in searching for male/female differences in attitudes, or the way they go through life and approach things, this seems a big deal.
Men usually wouldn't do this in this way. Man gets attracted to a cause because he falls in love with a girl, becomes extremely active in that cause, the relationship fails, and the man 'snaps' and suddenly tries to do as much damage as possible to the cause associated with the woman.
I've long been interested in the work of a brilliant ex-libertarian philosopher, now head of the Natural Law Institute, and he has talked about this kind of problem lately. If interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv7xOTCG08Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDQNzFLavvs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOmzuxbwH2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og629pi4vsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kxhkt8u6z8
As for the documentary. Ut was interesting as a study in propaganda. But on reflection, it would have been "better" had it been a psychological study of this person, Samantha, and what motivates (someone like) her. That is so much more interesting than what they tried to do.
However, the way they did do it, as a morality-play that tells the viewer that any hint of white-christian ethnonationalism is something satanically evil and alarmingly dangerous, probably works well for the target audience.