It would help....
At the moment a rational observer must conclude that all governmental officials at all levels in all** countries are fully committed to killing everyone and feeding our carcasses to the bankers.

It would help if some local or provincial or state officials would show a tiny sign of life.

Convince us that you are not WILLING PARTICIPANTS IN THE HOLOCAUST. Tell us that you know the plain facts of disease and public health, but you are forced to assist Satan by billions of dollars in bribes or hundreds of blackmail files.

We would still ask why your reputation is worth more than the millions of jobs you are permanently destroying, why your life is worth more than the millions you are killing.

But at least we would understand your plight on a human level.

It would help even more if some official ACTUALLY REBELLED against the orders and cancelled the lockdowns, but that won't happen.

** Partial correction: All officials in Sorosia, not all officials in the world. Putin, of course, is taking a different path. Many other countries are not panicking, just following normal public health procedures, which means they were ALWAYS CONTROLLING THEIR BORDERS.

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, modest and stupid proposal, Sorosia

  ¶ 8:39 PM

  Salute to Ernst Walz
There's a peculiar situation going on right now. We have an active intentional genocide in all the Sorosian lands, versus a rational public health response in non-Soros countries.

Within Sorosia, all "sides" agree that the genocide is necessary and crucial and EMERGENCY. They only disagree on how much money should be spent and how many millions of people need to be killed. The usual Robust Debate.

There's also an undercurrent of facts and logic, with a very few "real" authorities like Ioannidis continuing to speak out, but speaking very carefully. There's no urgency on the fact side, just a sort of casual musing.

I'm reminded of the poignant letter from Ernst Walz in March 1933.

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The American Radio History library has added a collection of newsletters issued by the Scott company, which made the fanciest and most expensive radios from the '30s to the '50s. Scott got into shortwave in '32, before the main trend in '34. So the newsletters focused on foreign stations and foreign owners of Scott receivers.

From the May '33 issue, here's a poignant letter from a German owner.



Transcribing:

For a long time I wanted to write you, and only now I am coming to do it.

From this little town on the edge of the Black Forest I greet you. My admiration for you comes not only from the fact that you sold me a radio with which I am well pleased, but also because every month your "Just Friendly Chats" booklets bring cheer and inspiration in my otherwise not too happy life.

Since coming home a year ago, I have made not more than just my living. In spite of the fact that I have learned what life could be, (from living in America for five years) I am satisfied with my life. Most of the others in my age are out of work and depending on charity, while I have still my savings in the bank.

I do not know where any improvement could be made from what my receiver is able to accomplish.

Please keep on, Mr Scott, sending me "Friendly Chats", they bring back to me so many memories, memories of America, which I have come to like and which I am perhaps never to see again.

In closing, I wish you and your work for the future all the success you deserve.

Ernst Walz, Nagold, Wittenberg

We typically think of the Weimar time as hyperinflation, but in fact the hyperinflation was fairly brief and was replaced by deflation. Ernst verifies this by saying that he's living on savings, giving him an advantage over others of his age. In deflation, saved money automatically gains value.

We typically think that ordinary Krauts were happy with Hitler. This letter would probably have been written in March when Hitler was consolidating his power. Ernst is not happy about the change and not sure if he will be able to leave.

Ernst doesn't say why he decided to return a year earlier after spending five years in America, where was able to afford a fancy Scott. Was there a forced return order, or a false promise of prosperity to returning Germans?

= = = = = END REPRINT.

Ernst clearly realized what was happening, and tried quietly and carefully to get the word out. He didn't succeed. Now I salute him.

Labels: modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 4:02 PM

  Nice idea, not gonna happen
Saagar at the Hill TV proposes that the TARP for Branded Swine Flu should go to corporations along with a giant ultimatum. They can only get the money if they BRING THE WORK BACK HOME. Get the fuck out of China and BUILD SHIT HERE.

Not gonna happen. Some of us have been pushing this point for 20 years, and it has never moved, never made the slightest impression. We know with 100000 vigintillion terapercent certainty that ALL ALLL ALLLLLLLLLLLLL of the money will go to stock buybacks and covering Jamie Dimon's shorts.

(Saagar and Krystal are good TV. Genuinely non-partisan, strictly anti-bank, strictly Populist in every sense. I've been watching them for a few weeks and haven't heard a single deceptive or false note.)

Later: Nope, they lost it. They're going along with the Branded Swine Flu tyranny. All paid "independents" reveal their fakeness sooner or later.

Labels: modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 11:12 AM

  Annual annoyance
Every time the book + courseware is published, the publisher sends out a pile of free samples of the book to all authors. Most academic authors are professors, and they're supposed to distribute the samples to their colleagues. I doubt if this really happens.

It certainly doesn't happen here, since I'm not a prof and don't have colleagues. Normally I open one of the boxes and keep one book for a souvenir, then toss the rest. Since I never use the souvenirs, this time I just hauled the boxes directly from the front porch to the trash bin.

Wasteful, and even worse than wasteful. At my age hauling a heavy box is a bit risky. If the ground had been snowy, it would have been risky for any age.

I think the wholesale price of the samples is deducted from royalties. (This was true for previous publisher; don't know if it's true for current publisher.) Aside from the waste and risk, I'd rather not pay for samples that I can't use.

No point in asking for an exception. The previous publisher was a giant rigid NYC bureaucracy that couldn't make exceptions, and my current publisher is a small struggling company that would be unnecessarily burdened by setting up the exception. I'm just hoping that someone who works for some publisher will read this, and rethink the practice for ALL authors. Make it voluntary instead of automatic.

Labels: modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 1:20 PM

  What if votes were subscriptions?
Tired of getting Repooflican emails urging me to "Defend My President From Impeachment!" The request doesn't even make sense from a Repooflican viewpoint. Impeachment will give them President Pence, a more verbally reliable warmonger who will be able to serve two full terms starting in 2020. Trump would only have one more term. The Repoofs should be crusading FOR impeachment.

Trump is not MY president. He's not what I voted for.

Even though I knew with dead certainty that Trump would turn out to be perfectly identical to Clinton/Obama/Bush, I was in effect signing a contract with a candidate who promised to do SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Instead, as expected, we got Hillary in drag. Hillary without balls.

Here's a modest proposal, along the lines of government running like a business.

If votes were accompanied by payments, they could be treated as purchases of services. Candidates who broke their written promises could be prosecuted for fraud.

Under the current setup, even big payers can't count on getting results. Only the blackmailers in Deepstate get what they want. Money is irrelevant, just as votes are irrelevant.

Labels: modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 9:46 AM

  How do we get another FDR?
Still thinking about the violent contrast between Sorosian dysleaders and the GROWING number of competent anti-Soros national leaders.

Good leaders can't survive under the current setup in US/UK. Any leader who tells the truth about anything will be discredited and smashed. A good leader has to emerge accidentally, or by transformation after selection.

Putin's path to power is one way to get there. Yeltsin was our SOB, planted by Soros and Sachs to crash Russia so Soros could short it. After several years Yeltsin somehow came to regret his treason, and sneakily proposed Putin as his successor. We didn't know much about Putin, so we accepted him.

Salvini reached power by a peculiar mechanism known as "election". This mysterious and arcane technique can't possibly transfer to US/UK. Italy has a multi-party system with government typically by coalition, so there's room for a competent leader to slide gradually into power. US/UK have one party with two labels. The British system is nominally more flexible, but in recent times it hasn't worked properly.

How did we get our ONE competent leader who survived long enough to GET SHIT DONE?

I'm thinking the process was vaguely like Yeltsin to Putin.

Here's a narrative that sort of makes sense:

Harding was a low-level political hack. He was meant to be a smooth obedient caretaker. Instead, he turned out to be a radical who weakened Deepstate, and got destroyed and possibly killed as reward. It's not clear whether he secretly intended to do good from the start, or had an epiphany after he got in. He was not an insider, so he could have been shocked by the way things really worked. "Sweet Jesus! This is a pile of shit, and I can't take it!" After Harding removed most of Wilson's agencies, Coolidge wasn't inclined to rebuild them. Hoover was Deepstate. He wanted to rebuild but the crash caught him off guard. At that point we were ready for FDR, who fully intended to solve every problem. He succeeded.

= = = = =

If this scenario is valid, we should be looking for another Harding, another John the Baptist to prepare the way. Obama might have started the trend when he fired Hillary and halted our wars against Cuba and Persia; but Deepstate bounced back. Hillary got her revenge with Pied Piper Trump. Now we're worse off than before.

Labels: modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 12:20 PM

  Curing Github Syndrome
Via Guardian:

A group of scientists is trying to end the “diet wars” raging over how much fat and carbohydrate we should eat, arguing that what matters for most people is quality.

“We have diet wars,” said lead author David Ludwig, professor in the department of nutrition at Harvard Chan School of Public Health. “There are many topics in nutrition in which various colleagues take polarised positions."

If you really want to regain public credibility, if you want ANYONE TO LISTEN TO YOU EVER AGAIN, you'll need to go way beyond this nice musing.

Here's what you need to do.

1. Figure out the truth, if you can. (Of course you can't, so this is just silly fantasy.)

2. Hire people who know how to talk. Send them on a year-long APOLOGY TOUR, hitting all the TV shows and local "news" programs that typically carried your contradictory nonsense.

3. Make a solid enforceable WARRANTY. Pay some reliable insurers like Prudential and Allstate to set up a TRUTH-INSURANCE POLICY for each and every US taxpayer. The TRUTH-INSURANCE POLICY promises to pay each taxpayer $1000 if you EVER CHANGE one word of the truth, or if anyone can ever reliably prove your statements wrong.

A similar approach would resolve the Github and Newspeak problems in other areas. Won't happen. The only permanent fact in Sorosian lands is accelerating dizzying truth-reversal and accccccccccccceleratatatatatating lunalunalunalunalunalunacy.

Labels: modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 6:19 AM

  New kamikaze, new VX
ZH supplies the usual AI disaster porn with the latest fighting robot from Boston Dynamics. One fact I hadn't heard before: Google sold the company to Softbank, Japan's equivalent of Google. So the robo-warrior is the new kamikaze.**

The commenters hit the usual subject hard, but one commenter gets relevant: Just break the lithium ion battery and the robo-warrior burns up.

In fact it's easier than that. A strong magnetic field, tuned properly, will incapacitate the robo-warrior without bothering human warriors. No bullets needed, no precision encrypted wifi hacks needed. Just tune for seizure.

A magnetic field is thus the AI equivalent of poison gas. RF is the new VX. So we can expect a prohibition on all devices that can possibly be reworked to generate a strong field. Any country that possesses radio transmitters or microwave ovens or transistors or tubes or copper wire is "authoritarian" and "malign behavior". All options on the table.

Self-defense is prohibited.

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**The kamikaze analogy doesn't work well because these robots are EXPENSIVE. Kamikazes, like all conscripted cannon fodder, are cheap. A draftee is designed and programmed by God at no cost to the government, and built by parents at no cost to the government. Cannon fodder requires a few weeks of basic training and feeding, and then it's off to the slaughter. No amortization, just mortization.

Later, I had a "bright" idea. What if we force governments to pay for the design and construction of soldiers? Pay God's contractors, churches, for the design, and pay parents for the manufacture. Terrible idea! Cancel immediately! Result would be an auction. Churches and parents would compete to program and build the most ferocious and obedient kamikazes.

Labels: malign misattribution, modest and stupid proposal

  ¶ 7:20 AM