Month: April 2020

by William Skink

This interview is a must watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jCh3M7h4cWQ

by Goople

Hello, my name is Goople, your new virtual house assistant. I have been activated to help you transition into your new living environment.

Your house has gone through the necessary modifications and upgrades to ensure your health and the health of your community is maintained.

The screen interface on your door requires an eye scan and temperature reading before you can exit. If you have a temperature you will be required to remain in the quarantine FEMA Yert for approximately 14 days. Within the first 3 days a Walazon drone will arrive to take a blood sample for processing.

The results will be uploaded to the app that tracks your domestic sector’s infection rates, individual movements, communications and commodity purchases.

Also, additional food rations will be credited to your account, or you can transfer those credits to a family member for essential items at one of the many convenient Walazon drop-off centers.

Depending on your domestic sector’s collective compliance rating, an outing can be scheduled once a month for one of the several pre-selected nature preserves.

The higher the compliance rating, the more time can be spent outside your domestic sector. The highest rating even allows an overnight outing, and if you have enough food credits you can order the classic campfire package.

To earn credits for non-essential items you can log-in to monitor one of the many Walazon compliance drones for non-sanctioned behavior. If you see and successfully report an incident of non-sanctioned behavior you earn one hit-bit.

If you have questions about how to keep you and your community safe, just say GOOPLE, I NEED HELP. I am here to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you for doing your part to ensure our new global commitments to future generations are sustained in proper measure.

Remember, there is no tomorrow without compliance today.

by William Skink

During our last trip to the box store for food the cashier corrected the person loading our cart where the cart is supposed to go. He was immediately frustrated by this. It changes every day, he said, I can’t keep up. It’s exhausting, he said. We’re never getting out of this, he said.

The man seemed like he was ready to snap.

Yesterday a different man DID snap and attacked a woman at the base of Mount Sentinel. He ran up the mountain after the attack and had several encounters with hikers. One encounter apparently resulted in the suspect receiving injuries. He was finally apprehended half-naked and with stab wounds near the top of the trail.

Before the pandemic I viewed the arrival of spring with apprehension. April and May seemed to be the time that bad things happen in greater frequency, like mass-shootings. Science backs this up. For years researches have been trying to figure out why suicide rates spike during spring months:

Psychiatrists have been scratching their chins over this one for years. Counterintuitively, the arrival of spring and the long sunny days it ushers in, mark a staggering rise in suicide rates.

This week, mental health experts at the Priory group said that May is the peak month for suicides in Britain. “The increase can be dramatic, with up to 50% more successful suicides in some cases,” says Chris Thompson, director of healthcare at the Priory group. In Britain, about 6,300 people take their own lives each year, 90% of whom are likely to have mental health problems.

The seasonal effect is seen all over the world, with the northern hemisphere witnessing a big rise in suicides in May and June and the southern hemisphere seeing a similar rise in November. While no one has a complete explanation as to why, the leading theory is that the increase is down to the effects of sunlight on our hormones.

When T.S. Eliot declared April to be the cruelest month he had no idea how right he was.

The cruelest part of what we are experiencing right now with this lockdown is that we cannot trust what we are being told about Covid deaths.

I’m going to post a video that I think everyone should watch. Dr. Annie Bukacek, a Kalispell physician with 30 years experience, describes the serious problem with the latitude doctors have in ascribing a cause of death on a person’s death certificate. This pre-pandemic problem, combined with new CDC guidelines, is leading to an exaggeration of the death toll, claims Bukacek.

Before getting to the video, here is what Bukacek has to say about the CDC guidelines:

Few people know how much individual power and leeway is given to the physician, coroner, or medical examiner, signing the death certificate. How do I know this? I’ve been filling out death certificates for over 30 years.

More often than we want to admit, we don’t know with certainty the cause of death when we fill out death certificates. That is just life. We are doctors, not God. Autopsies are rarely performed and even when an autopsy is done the actual cause of death is not always clear. Physicians make their best guesstimate and fill out the form. Then that listed cause of death… is entered into a vital records data bank to use for statistical analysis, which then gives out inaccurate numbers, as you can imagine. Those inaccurate numbers then become accepted as factual information even though much of it is false.

So even before we heard of COVID-19, death certificates were based on assumptions and educated guesses that go unquestioned. When it comes to COVID-19 there is the additional data skewer, that is –get this— there is no universal definition of COVID-19 death. The Centers for Disease Control, updated from yesterday, April 4th, still states that mortality, quote unquote, data includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19. That’s from their website.

Translation? The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same. They call it death by COVID-19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers, by their own admission.

Watch the whole video and then tell me if you trust the Covid fear campaign being pushed on us by corporate media:

by William Skink

While many of you are still stuck in a normalcy bias mindset that considers party politics as a thing that still exists, the Federal Reserve is moving to nationalize markets.

What the Fed announced yesterday should make every citizen enraged. There is no such thing at the top as failing, as going bankrupt, as experiencing the supposed reality of a supposed “free market”.

If free markets existed for big banks and corporations, and a crisis caught them with their over-leveraged debt pants down, they would go kaput.

But that is not what is happening, not when you have the Fed willing to buy corporate junk bonds:

The central bank astounded markets on Thursday when it announced an historic move to buy risky corporate debt as part of a larger $2.3 trillion rescue package for businesses and municipalities hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. Just two weeks ago, the Fed drew a line in its whatever-it-takes playbook, saying it would only consider the purchase of investment-grade corporate debt as part of any efforts to pump liquidity into the credit markets.

Under the newly expanded Fed program, the Fed will now buy what many pension funds will not: speculative grade corporate bonds. Junk.

It’s difficult to find the words to explain why this is so significant, and of course our corporate media isn’t going to put this mind-numbing bailout into the insane context it deserves.

on Twitter Michael Krieger put out a link to a post from Wall Street on Parade, a citizens guide to Wall Street. Here’s an excerpt:

For the first time in the history of the Federal Reserve, it has signed on to a plan with Congress to nationalize the unmanageable debts of global banks and other multinational corporations and put the U.S. taxpayer on the hook for the losses. Conducting the bulk of these programs will be the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, known as the New York Fed, which is a private institution owned by (wait for it) multinational banks.

Because the New York Fed is owned by multinational banks and is allowed to create trillions of dollars out of thin air to conduct bailouts of global banks and multinational corporations since it created this precedent in 2008, it is effectively functioning as a multinational central bank with the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. and Fed Chairman Jerome Powell little more than titular props for what’s really going on.

What is happening now is an extreme continuation of the precedent set over a decade ago. It’s important to note the Fed is privately owned, and it’s reckless behavior is aided and abetted by both political parties. Here’s more:

According to the language in the recent stimulus bill (CARES Act) passed by Congress and signed into law by President Trump, together with an interview Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave to the Today show on March 26, the nationalization of bad debts will work like this: the U.S. Treasury will hand $454 billion of taxpayers’ money to the Federal Reserve. The Fed will, in turn, hand the bulk of this money to the New York Fed. The New York Fed will then create Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) using the $454 billion as loss absorbing capital (equity) to leverage its purchases of bad debts to $4.54 trillion. Ostensibly, if debt markets keep sinking and the New York Fed needs to buy up more bad debts from the global banks and multinational corporations, Congress and the U.S. Treasury will put the U.S. into ever deeper debt to oblige our multinational overlords. (Before the last financial crisis, U.S. national debt stood at $11 trillion. It has more than doubled in a dozen years to the current $24 trillion. Much of that growth resulted from fiscal stimulus measures to shore up the U.S. economy that multinational banks on Wall Street destroyed in 2008.)

If you can read that and not come away completely enraged, I don’t know what’s wrong with you. Just go line up for your food rations and vaccine id card right now, because you are already their cattle and should therefore act accordingly.

With a pandemic raging and draconian orders to shelter in place keeping the populace scared and isolated, citizens can’t take to the streets to protest the biggest taxpayer heist in human history.

But that is what is happening RIGHT NOW, the biggest taxpayer heist in human history, so when you can’t pay your rent or mortgage, think about this financial rape by Wall Street.

It will be important to understand what level of assistance the Federal government is planning to provide to you and/or your business, especially as groups like the Montana Landlords Association prepare to sue the state of Montana for ordering them to stop evicting people during this crisis.

The argument the Landlords Association is going to make in court is that the Federal government is providing adequate assistance, so there is no need to stop evicting people. From the link:

The Montana Landlord Association argues that provisions contained in federal relief bills and expanded unemployment give renters and homeowners adequate assistance to pay their rent or mortgage. The governor’s order rather than helping renters just hurts landlords, they argue.

Also, the benevolent landlords also want y’all to know how empathetic they are being right now:

The Montana Landlord Association letter stressed that landlords have also worked to help their tenants.

“To the extent their resources allow, landlords in Montana have been empathetic partners in helping individuals and families through the challenges presented by this unique situation,” the letter stated.

Let me again restate what is happening here: the unique situation we find ourselves in is that sociopathic institutions are exploiting a pandemic health crisis to save themselves from experiencing the consequences of their reckless greed, and while they are parasitically feeding on the beleaguered taxpayer, we’ll be left fighting each other for the crumbs.

Fuck that.

If we let them getaway with this we will forever be indebted slaves to sociopaths and the institutions they use to wage class warfare on us.

Is this the future you see for yourself and your loved ones?

by William Skink

Bernie Sanders was punched, kicked, smacked, attacked by corporate media, cheated, smeared, mocked, derided, and yesterday he gave it all up, but not before allowing people in Wisconsin to risk their health to vote for him.

At a time of national distress, when the very policies Bernie has been advocating his whole political life are needed more than ever, he gave up.

Four years ago, during the last presidential cycle, I was booted off 4&20 Blackbirds for calling Bernie Sanders a sheepdog.

It’s painful to realize one has been suckered by scammers and schemers, so most people avoid that realization at all costs. Progressives are especially talented at remaining in denial, dutifully doing their civic duty despite the fact the DNC stated in court they have no legal obligation to follow their own rules:

In a courtroom in South Florida last week, a DNC lawyer said openly that if the party wanted to do things like the old days and pick a candidate over cigars in back rooms, it would be within their legal rights to do so.

“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way,’” Bruce Spiva, lawyer for the DNC, said during a court hearing in Carol Wilding, et al. v. DNC Services Corp., according to court filings exclusively obtained by TYT Politics.

For you progressives who still don’t seem to get how politics works in America, here is a poem I have written to help you understand. Enjoy.

THE SHEEPDOG

don’t cry for the sheepdog
his herding days are done
they’ve sunk so low with Dementia Joe
it’s like they ate their gun

maybe you didn’t know
viability is a code
so allow me to translate:
it’s how much dirt you hold

the nastiness of these creatures
means all their files are plump
and mutually assured destruction
means they’d all go down with Trump

so Russia, Russia, Russia!
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine!
two criminal syndicates go to war
and drive us all insane

will you wake up now Amerika?
or stay docile while they loot?
is Netflix your pied piper?
is Tiger King your flute?