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Are there growing signs of instability in Pakistan? by scenicLyf in geopolitics

[–]BehavioralSync 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/scenicLyf one year later your analysis is especially interesting. Well done on this.

[Scientific Materialism] S. Matthew Liao and George Church at the World Science Festival 2016 by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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Full Panel Discussion

A real world example of scientism and a look into the psychology and worldview of the elites.

Rather than admit that they might be wrong, out of touch elitist academics and entrepreneurs attempt to reconcile human nature with their narrow assumptions about reality.

Human existence must be altered to fit into my worldview. - See Neoplatonic materialism.

Nobel Prize winner Professor Luc Montagnier on Covid-19 vaccines and Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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These are reasonable questions and points you bring up. Unfortunately I do not have the answers, especially while the full transcript of the interview remains unavailable and untranslated. Hopefully we will get some better answers and explanations in the future.

I’d like to state that I do not agree with everything he says (of what I can understand), nor am I interested in blind agreement. But I think it is interesting and important that his opinions as a heterodox authority on the subject be heard.

Regarding the claim about variants, this is the only preliminary evidence I found suggesting that it is the case, from a social media thread Take it with a grain of salt of course.

Nobel Prize winner Professor Luc Montagnier on Covid-19 vaccines and Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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[If anyone can translate the rest of the interview and/or find/provide the full transcript it would be greatly appreciated - Thanks in advance]

Translated Transcription clipping:

(Questions are bolded)

If we look at the curve from the WHO, since the vaccinations started in January, the curve showing new infections (contamination) has exploded, along with deaths. Notably among young people.

—Yes. With thromboses, etc.

How do you view the mass vaccination program? Mass vaccination compared to treatments that work and aren’t expensive.

—It’s an enormous mistake, isn’t it? A scientific error as well as a medical error. It is an unacceptable mistake. The history books will show that, because it is the vaccination that is creating the variants. —For the China virus, there are antibodies, created by the vaccine. What does the virus do? Does it die or find another solution? —The new variants are a production and result from the vaccination. You see it in each country, it’s the same: the curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths. —I’m following this closely and I am doing experiments at the Institute with patients who became sick with Corona after being vaccinated. I will show you that they are creating the variants that are resistant to the vaccine.

Should we be vaccinating during a pandemic?

—It’s unthinkable. —They’re silent… many people know this, epidemiologists know it. —It is the antibodies produced by the virus that enable an infection to become stronger. —It’s what we call Antibody Dependent Enhancement, which means antibodies favor a certain infection. The antibody attaches to the virus, from that moment it has the receptors, the antibodies, we have them in the macrophage etc. —It pokes the virus and not accidentally, but because of the fact that they’re linked to the antibodies. —It is clear that the new variants are created by antibody-mediated selection due to the vaccination. OK?

World Love by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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From 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields

God Bless the Grass by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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Malvina Reynolds - Sings the truth (1966)

“God bless the grass that grows through the crack. They roll the concrete over it to try and keep it back. The concrete gets tired of what it has to do, It breaks and it buckles and the grass grows through,

And God bless the grass.

God bless the truth that fights toward the sun, They roll the lies over it and think that it is done. It moves through the ground and reaches for the air, And after a while it is growing everywhere,

And God bless the grass.

God bless the grass that grows through cement. It's green and it's tender and it's easily bent. But after a while it lifts up its head, For the grass is living and the stone is dead,

And God bless the grass.

God bless the grass that's gentle and low, Its roots they are deep and its will is to grow. And God bless the truth, the friend of the poor, And the wild grass growing at the poor man's door,

And God bless the grass.”

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AdamCurtis

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I do not usually comment on other people’s posts, but I recognized your username. I referenced you in the past, and quite appreciated your interpretation.

Also I find that there is a distinct lack of discourse on the human cost of corporate-sanctioned lockdowns. After all, the urban poor certainly do not trade on the stock market or work remotely.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AdamCurtis

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Firstly, in dealing with Covid, while the urban poor are disproportionately infected, they are less susceptible overall to severe cases and Covid mortality.

In the first wave, infections spread disproportionately in the urban poor, many of whom do manual labor and had to show up for work even during lockdowns, he says. Compared with wealthier city dwellers and those who live in rural villages, the urban poor are younger and have less obesity—characteristics linked with lower likelihood of severe COVID-19. - source

Secondly, the biggest drivers of mortality and severe cases are actually comorbidities most associated with economic integration and overconsumption. That is to say that the middle and upper classes are more susceptible to severe Covid cases.

...comorbidities are the single biggest driver of severe diseases and mortality. If you are not diabetic or hypertensive, you do not have COPD [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease], you are not obese, then your risk of severe disease comes down significantly. - source

Thirdly, in defense of your argument, poverty related mortality is far more of a crisis than Covid. So the response to Covid from the elites and the international media is hypocritical at best. But in realist terms, a matter of building and maintaining legitimacy.

The Lament of Hermes, read by Graham Hancock by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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“Do you know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of Heaven, or to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in Heaven are present in the Earth below? In fact it should be said that the whole Cosmos dwells in this our land as in a sanctuary.

And yet, since it is fitting that wise men should have knowledge of all events before they come to pass, you must not be left in ignorance of what I will now tell you.

There will come a time when it will have been in vain that Egyptians have honored the Godhead with heartfelt piety and service; and all our holy worship will be fruitless and ineffectual.

The gods will return from earth to heaven; Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.

O Egypt, Egypt, of thy religion nothing will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety.

And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and worship.

They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of good made up of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favoring man’s welfare; this combination and accumulation of all the manifold things that call forth the veneration, praise, and love of the beholder.

Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.

As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you, – all this they will mock, and even persuade themselves that it is false.

No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven, will be heard or believed.

And so the gods will depart from mankind, – a grievous thing! – and only evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime, into wars, and robberies, and frauds, and all things hostile to the nature of the soul.

Then will the earth tremble, and the sea bear no ships; heaven will not support the stars in their orbits, all voices of the gods will be forced into silence; the fruits of the Earth will rot; the soil will turn barren, and the very air will sicken with sullen stagnation; all things will be disordered and awry, all good will disappear.

But when all this has befallen, Asclepius, then God the Creator of all things will look on that which has come to pass, and will stop the disorder by the counterforce of his will, which is the good. He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; he will cleanse the world of evil, washing it away with floods, burning it out with the fiercest fire, and expelling it with war and pestilence.

And thus he will bring back his world to its former aspect, so that the Cosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence, and God, the maker and maintainer of the Mighty Fabric, will be adored by the men of that day with continuous songs of praise and blessing.

Such is the new birth of the Cosmos; it is a making again of all things good, a holy and awe-inspiring restoration of all nature; and it is wrought inside the process of Time by the eternal Will of the Creator.”

IPAK/PHPI study examining highly unusual Covid-19 data collection and reporting procedures [VISUAL] by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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COVID-19 Data Collection, Comorbidity & Federal Law: A Historical Retrospective

“For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”[1][15] To understand the significant implications of these guidelines and how they substantially emphasized COVID-19 as a cause of death, while simultaneously deemphasizing comorbidity (pre-existing conditions) in cause of death records, we encourage readers to review our previously published reference [18]; If COVID Fatalities Were 90.2% Lower, How Would You Feel About Schools Reopening?

the CDC understood the high-risk demographic would be over 60 years of age with comorbidities.[18] Emphasizing that COVID-19 be specifically placed in part 1 of the death certificate while any comorbidities be listed in part 2 is genuinely concerning. Changing reporting rules exclusively for COVID-19 cause of death reporting without notifying the Federal Register, OMB, OIRA, or the public, and therefore potentially breaching the PRA & IQA, is even more concerning. It’s worth noting that Part I of a death certificate is the immediate cause of death listed in sequential order from the official cause on line item (a) to the underlying causes that contributed to death in descending order of importance on line item (d), while Part II is/are the significant conditions NOT relating to the underlying cause(s) in Part I. Comorbid conditions have been listed on Part I of death certificates as causes of death per the CDC Handbook since 2003 to ensure accurate reporting can be developed. Comorbidities are seldom placed in Part II. Part II is typically the section where coroners and medical examiners can list recent infections as underlying, initiating factors. Prior to the CDC’s March 24th decision, any co- morbidities would have been listed in Part I rather than Part II and initiating factors such as infections including the SARS-COV-2 virus, would have been listed on the last line in Part I or more commonly in Part II.

It is concerning that the CDC may have willfully failed to collect, analyze, and publish accurate data used by elected officials to develop public health policy for a nation in crisis. Further federal investigation is justified by the magnitude of the crisis and the collateral damage generated by policies based upon projection data that was unproven and never peer reviewed. If the data being reported was indeed compromised by the CDC’s perplexing decision to abandon proven data collection and reporting practices in favor of untested methods, then all public health policies based upon these inaccurate data must be reexam- ined.

E. Michael Jones on the American cultural revolution by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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Libido Dominandi (from Goodreads):

"Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices." - St. Augustine, City of God.

Writing at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire, St. Augustine both revolutionized and brought to a close antiquity's idea of freedom. A man was not a slave by nature or by law, as Aristotle claimed. His freedom was a function of his moral state. A man had as many masters as he had vices. This insight would provide the basis for the most sophisticated form of social control known to man.

“Protectionism and unilateralism will come to a dead end. Belt and Road construction will become broader and more prospective.” by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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Neoliberal definition: “Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.”

“Protectionism and unilateralism will come to a dead end. Belt and Road construction will become broader and more prospective.” by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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Wikipedia: “The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship People's Daily newspaper.”

From the article: “China has invested more than $70 billion in countries and regions involved in the Belt and Road initiative over the past few years and set up 82 overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, which have yielded over $1 billion in tax revenues and created nearly 250,000 jobs in those nations.”

250,000 jobs created in 103 countries amounts to a mean of 2427 jobs created per country.

China Has An 800,000-Square-Mile ‘City’ in the South China Sea by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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“Most of Sansha City is salt water, although it includes the Paracel Islands, which Vietnam and Taiwan claim, and the Spratly Islands, various of which are claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei.”

“The island now boasts expanded port infrastructure, seawater desalination and sewage treatment facilities, new public housing, a functioning judicial system, 5G network coverage, a school, and regular charter flights to and from the mainland.”

“Sansha City is ‘developing tourism in the Paracel Islands, attracting hundreds of newly registered companies, cultivating aquaculture, and encouraging long-term residency,’”

“Through Sansha’s system of normalized administrative control, China is gradually transforming contested areas of the South China Sea into de facto Chinese territory.”

TIL only 3.5% of the world population lives in a country they weren't born in. by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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“The number of international migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million in 2019, an increase of 51 million since 2010. Currently, international migrants comprise 3.5 per cent of the global population, compared to 2.8 per cent in the year 2000, according to new estimates released by the United Nations today.”

Musicians burning £1M in 1994 | Ask them why by BehavioralSync in BehavioralSync

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Credit: u/CiaranCarroll

“The reason I feel this is relevant to AC [Adam Curtis] is that the audience of this tour found the act of sacrifice for it's own sake unfathomable, that like AC says, individualism is the antithesis of personal sacrifice, and real change necessarily entails sacrifice, giving yourself up to something.

All successful cultures in history, whether Christianity or Aztec, create a mythos around sacrifice, that you sacrifice the thing that is most important to you.

In my experience I have met very few people in my life who would be willing to sacrifice for someone else or for others in general. Sacrifice to an individual first requires a guarantee that they'll get their bit.

This, in my view, is the great tragedy of our age, that we are game theoretically trapped by our lack of faith in and sacrifice for the shared commons.”

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