Investigating COVID-19's Origins, Crypto as 2008 Redux? Orban and American Right Wingers, France's Crumbling New Left Coalition NUPES, Terry Davis and TempleOS
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France pretends to be independent but in the end always does whatever the "Anglo Saxons" want. Compare Macron's outburts against Woke American influence on French education in 2021 to who he appointed as the Minister of Education in 2022.
Always good to read Taibbi re: finance. Not being much of a gambler I have never had the slightest interest in the stock market or Bitcoin. I have never regretted it.
Your initial description of Jeffry Sachs passes the view that he was interested or at least a cause of the Russia disaster during the 90s.
At least in this interview with Tyler Cowen in 2015 he gives his view of the matter -- long story short, Sachs assumed that the US was going to help Russia like they helped Poland, but US establishment made sure that Russia should suffer. i.e. they made sure his economic recommendations where not applied in Russia as they where in Poland.
Seeing the way both of these narratives are intensely policed (the image in my head is a moat filled w intersectional sharks), it becomes clear what the Global Corporate State gained when it tied the knot with the New Left: access to its proprietary superweapon, the Bigotry Accusation.
Think the origins of Covid should be properly investigated? That it sounds fishy that there's a biolab in the same city as the first outbreak? Racist! is the unanimous response of every corporate media outlet in the Anglosphere. So, a lab leak is racist but blaming it on the Chinese taste for freshly fried pangolin isn't? Of course that makes no sense but it's hard to make sense when your job depends on the opposite, and it becomes less likely anyone else questions the narrative when the harbor of discourse has already been mined with taboos and threats of being smeared as a bigot.
And Victor Orban believes that the first purpose of government is to protect the rights, families and futures of his citizens? That people aren't enthusiastic about being displaced in their own countries? Racist fascist Hitler! All the Good People know that the purpose of government is encouraging capital flows, porous borders, labor arbitrage, mass migration, and turning over your country and all its resources to the benevolent hand of global capital. Only a Nazi thinks a country should be run for the benefit of its citizens!
The Narrative Police armed with their holsters full of Bigotry Accusations are like 21st-century Pinkerton guards for our corporate globalist overlords. It was a wise investment!
Peter Daszak has been tweet gloating about the super important bat-borne corona virus research going on at Wuhan for the past two years, in the name of vaccination of course.
I still can't decide if he's incredibly stupid, evil, so sure of his position not to GAF, or some combination of all three.
Though, hilariously, when I searched his name in brave to check the spelling the second listing is
"Peter Daszak Eco-Fascist Who Orchestrated Global Pandemic"
Honestly, you’re so good at examining topics from a unique and historical perspective. Please consider using these skills to scrutinize the roots of the presently ubiquitous use of the adjective “false” in previously ordinary sentence structure. I’m guessing NY Times and Trump; but when and how it has metastasized; that’ll be worth a re subscription for sure! Thanks and all the best, Ken
I always liked the lab theory ie: Covid and I agree with you that despite agreeing with the man's call for a real investigation of it the source is such that you start looking in all the dark corners for some ulterior motives waiting in the wings. If he's sincere I wonder if some of the other creatures of his ilk have stopped taking his calls over it.
Some thoughts on the Salman Rushdie situation. I am a lot less outraged by it than I would have been a few years ago. Rushdie is a political liberal. He may or not be supportive of the current woke version but he is clearly rooted in the liberal tradition and has never been a friend of the right.
The newer progressives don't care for Rushdie. In fact they probably dislike him for offending "brown" Muslims. The older liberals of Rushdie's cohort are the only ones truly outraged. But its their philosophy which knocked down all the old societal conservative norms that led to the current situation! It reminds me of that old John Cleese 4chan post that I think you posted a while ago.
Same thing with Charlie Hebdo. At the time I was angry, but then I realized that they have said truly reprehensible things about Christianity. So sorry I don't care about a publication that insults my religion.
Islam, "Rushdie liberalism", Woke liberalism. None of these are friends of my religion. So I would be stupid to support any of them.
I've seen the clips of Terry Davis and had no idea he was a programmer, I had assumed he was a comedian!
As for Taibbi's piece, it's meh. I don't really know what his point is, other than crypto is an unregulated market and a few congress critters have made money off it. I've seen the horror stories about Luna/Terra/UST. People going from millionaires to jumping off buildings after the two days Luna
tanked. Awful stuff. But I'm not sure how you regulate it, even if the roaches in D.C. had an interest or the knowledge to do so. Crypto is a global market fueled by people that live to circumvent and mock authority, attempts at regulation like the state of New York's "Bit-license" have been an abject failure. All the regulations on the books does not even stop Congress from insider trading on stocks! What regulation could possibly stop the far more fluid crypto markets?
Taibbi also short-changes some of the innovations happening within crypto, but I've already gone on long enough here.
Off topic a bit, but the rise and fall of Three Arrows Capital would make a great read. They were one of the big crypto investment firms that got destroyed when Luna tanked crypto markets.
P.S. No one should trust either Brian Armstrong(Coinbase) or especially Sam Bankman-Fried(FTX).
Two great and very sharable passages: the one on the ruination of journalism in some western lands, and the one on Viktor Orban's sanity when applied to 2022 Hungary.
Sachs was indeed an architect, consciously or otherwise (no difference) in Russia's hellscape in the 1990s and I give him no credit for being so late in his current commentary.
An excellent and definitive book was written by Australian journalist Sharri Markson in 2021, "What Really Happend in Wuhan". She has 350 pages of careful research, interviews with virologists, politicians, bureaucrats, etc, tracing the Wuhan lab scientists, the foreign collaborators, the fate of Chinese whistleblowers, the WHO obfuscation. Overwhelming circumstantial evidence shows it was made in the Wuhan lab and poor procedure led to a leak. China's wilful blocking of a real investigation makes them guilty in my view.
But the real kicker is that while the CCP locked down the Wuhan region internally they did not prevent travel outside China. You could not travel from Wuhan to Beijing but many thousands could travel to the factories of northern Italy and other places. It sure smells like an opportunistically weaponised biological outbreak.
Nic - I highly recommend the latest Lex Fridman interview with ex-CIA spy Andrew Bustamante. During the first part of the interview, Andrew gives it to him straight regarding his assessment and predictions for the Russia-Ukraine war and predicts that Russia will win by the end of the year. Lex, who has Ukrainian-Jewish heritage, seemed upset but actually handled it quite professionally. Very interesting.
Hit the like button and use the share button to share this across social media. Leave a comment if the mood strikes you (be nice!), and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already done so.
I am getting a lot of positive feedback for the HIV/AIDS series, especially privately through email, and notably from individuals somewhat put off by the subject at first but who have since come around.
If you are on Twitter, please follow @FistedFoucault (https://twitter.com/FistedFoucault) which is run by two volunteers who are subscribers here.
Good combination of “outside the box” thinkers and thinking.
Jeff Sachs is in full Ian Malcolm mode and I am here for it.
Hopefully the movie will get produced before Jeff Goldblum gets too old.
France pretends to be independent but in the end always does whatever the "Anglo Saxons" want. Compare Macron's outburts against Woke American influence on French education in 2021 to who he appointed as the Minister of Education in 2022.
Always good to read Taibbi re: finance. Not being much of a gambler I have never had the slightest interest in the stock market or Bitcoin. I have never regretted it.
Your initial description of Jeffry Sachs passes the view that he was interested or at least a cause of the Russia disaster during the 90s.
At least in this interview with Tyler Cowen in 2015 he gives his view of the matter -- long story short, Sachs assumed that the US was going to help Russia like they helped Poland, but US establishment made sure that Russia should suffer. i.e. they made sure his economic recommendations where not applied in Russia as they where in Poland.
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jeffrey-sachs/
listen min 30:20s to 45:30s
So my view of J. Sachs is that he is naïve but overall well intended.
In re the Covid and Orban stories:
Seeing the way both of these narratives are intensely policed (the image in my head is a moat filled w intersectional sharks), it becomes clear what the Global Corporate State gained when it tied the knot with the New Left: access to its proprietary superweapon, the Bigotry Accusation.
Think the origins of Covid should be properly investigated? That it sounds fishy that there's a biolab in the same city as the first outbreak? Racist! is the unanimous response of every corporate media outlet in the Anglosphere. So, a lab leak is racist but blaming it on the Chinese taste for freshly fried pangolin isn't? Of course that makes no sense but it's hard to make sense when your job depends on the opposite, and it becomes less likely anyone else questions the narrative when the harbor of discourse has already been mined with taboos and threats of being smeared as a bigot.
And Victor Orban believes that the first purpose of government is to protect the rights, families and futures of his citizens? That people aren't enthusiastic about being displaced in their own countries? Racist fascist Hitler! All the Good People know that the purpose of government is encouraging capital flows, porous borders, labor arbitrage, mass migration, and turning over your country and all its resources to the benevolent hand of global capital. Only a Nazi thinks a country should be run for the benefit of its citizens!
The Narrative Police armed with their holsters full of Bigotry Accusations are like 21st-century Pinkerton guards for our corporate globalist overlords. It was a wise investment!
Peter Daszak has been tweet gloating about the super important bat-borne corona virus research going on at Wuhan for the past two years, in the name of vaccination of course.
I still can't decide if he's incredibly stupid, evil, so sure of his position not to GAF, or some combination of all three.
Though, hilariously, when I searched his name in brave to check the spelling the second listing is
"Peter Daszak Eco-Fascist Who Orchestrated Global Pandemic"
Honestly, you’re so good at examining topics from a unique and historical perspective. Please consider using these skills to scrutinize the roots of the presently ubiquitous use of the adjective “false” in previously ordinary sentence structure. I’m guessing NY Times and Trump; but when and how it has metastasized; that’ll be worth a re subscription for sure! Thanks and all the best, Ken
When cryptocurrencies are used as a speculative instrument, there's bound to be trouble.
I always liked the lab theory ie: Covid and I agree with you that despite agreeing with the man's call for a real investigation of it the source is such that you start looking in all the dark corners for some ulterior motives waiting in the wings. If he's sincere I wonder if some of the other creatures of his ilk have stopped taking his calls over it.
Some thoughts on the Salman Rushdie situation. I am a lot less outraged by it than I would have been a few years ago. Rushdie is a political liberal. He may or not be supportive of the current woke version but he is clearly rooted in the liberal tradition and has never been a friend of the right.
The newer progressives don't care for Rushdie. In fact they probably dislike him for offending "brown" Muslims. The older liberals of Rushdie's cohort are the only ones truly outraged. But its their philosophy which knocked down all the old societal conservative norms that led to the current situation! It reminds me of that old John Cleese 4chan post that I think you posted a while ago.
Same thing with Charlie Hebdo. At the time I was angry, but then I realized that they have said truly reprehensible things about Christianity. So sorry I don't care about a publication that insults my religion.
Islam, "Rushdie liberalism", Woke liberalism. None of these are friends of my religion. So I would be stupid to support any of them.
I've seen the clips of Terry Davis and had no idea he was a programmer, I had assumed he was a comedian!
As for Taibbi's piece, it's meh. I don't really know what his point is, other than crypto is an unregulated market and a few congress critters have made money off it. I've seen the horror stories about Luna/Terra/UST. People going from millionaires to jumping off buildings after the two days Luna
tanked. Awful stuff. But I'm not sure how you regulate it, even if the roaches in D.C. had an interest or the knowledge to do so. Crypto is a global market fueled by people that live to circumvent and mock authority, attempts at regulation like the state of New York's "Bit-license" have been an abject failure. All the regulations on the books does not even stop Congress from insider trading on stocks! What regulation could possibly stop the far more fluid crypto markets?
Taibbi also short-changes some of the innovations happening within crypto, but I've already gone on long enough here.
Off topic a bit, but the rise and fall of Three Arrows Capital would make a great read. They were one of the big crypto investment firms that got destroyed when Luna tanked crypto markets.
P.S. No one should trust either Brian Armstrong(Coinbase) or especially Sam Bankman-Fried(FTX).
Two great and very sharable passages: the one on the ruination of journalism in some western lands, and the one on Viktor Orban's sanity when applied to 2022 Hungary.
Sachs was indeed an architect, consciously or otherwise (no difference) in Russia's hellscape in the 1990s and I give him no credit for being so late in his current commentary.
An excellent and definitive book was written by Australian journalist Sharri Markson in 2021, "What Really Happend in Wuhan". She has 350 pages of careful research, interviews with virologists, politicians, bureaucrats, etc, tracing the Wuhan lab scientists, the foreign collaborators, the fate of Chinese whistleblowers, the WHO obfuscation. Overwhelming circumstantial evidence shows it was made in the Wuhan lab and poor procedure led to a leak. China's wilful blocking of a real investigation makes them guilty in my view.
But the real kicker is that while the CCP locked down the Wuhan region internally they did not prevent travel outside China. You could not travel from Wuhan to Beijing but many thousands could travel to the factories of northern Italy and other places. It sure smells like an opportunistically weaponised biological outbreak.
Nic - I highly recommend the latest Lex Fridman interview with ex-CIA spy Andrew Bustamante. During the first part of the interview, Andrew gives it to him straight regarding his assessment and predictions for the Russia-Ukraine war and predicts that Russia will win by the end of the year. Lex, who has Ukrainian-Jewish heritage, seemed upset but actually handled it quite professionally. Very interesting.