On the other hand, gold coinage and jewelry could skyrocket in value. Forgeries have always been possible (as in nearly everything of value) but the kind of industrial-scale fraud discussed above isn't likely with coinage and other small gold items; also, it is easy to detect.
We'll see.
Linus Pauling's last interview on Vitamin C:
PETER BARRY CHOWKA: Dr. Pauling, could you summarize the role that vitamin C plays in human health and its importance to the health of the nation as a whole?
LINUS PAULING, PhD: Vitamin C – ascorbic acid or sodium ascorbate or calcium ascorbate – is involved in a great number of biochemical reactions in the human body. Two of its major interactions are in potentiating the immune system and aiding the synthesis of the protein collagen, which is a very important substance that holds together the human body. Collagen strengthens the blood vessels, the skin, the muscles and the bones. You can’t make collagen without using up vitamin C.
Neither Ivermectin nor anything else I know of produces a full cure 100% of the time. (I've seen some of the studies on IVM and cancer; none I've read show anything like 100% efficacy). Life, like the universe itself, is basically statistical. (Is it safe to drive your car? Depends on your definition of "safe.")
A lot of OTC (over the counter) supplements, foods, drugs, and methods produce better and safer results than what the medical industry pushes on patients. Eating right, avoiding poisons (alcohol, tobacco, needless chemical exposure, etc), exercising, and taking a good handful of well-chosen supplements can prevent most illness and can (in many cases) cure a good many illnesses. Many rarely-used (by the medical industry) drugs and supplements offer the same or better rates of success for patients than Big Pharma's patented chemicals, with the bonus of side-benefits instead of harmful or even deadly side-effects.
I believe this, rather than "miracle drugs" with 100% cure rates, is what Q was referring to. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, of course.
Glad to hear you've been recovering. Here's another excellent supplement for arthritis -- SAMe. My SiL had arthritis ~ 30 years ago and was told by her doc that she just wouldn't be able to use her hands in two or three years; the drugs being prescribed at that time were very bad for the liver and didn't really do anything except kill the pain. She started on 800mg of SAMe daily and her hands got better and she can still use them without pain.
Like glucosamine, chondroitin, and MSM, SAMe actually heals the joints and unlike Rx drugs it has side-benefits instead of dangerous side effects. SAMe is protective of the liver and in larger doses is as good as or better than SSRIs for lifting depression. SAMe is something your body makes already; just not enough as we get older or if you have trouble making it (for reasons of diet, genetics, or whatever).
My wife and I get ours at Life Extension (SAMe, 400mg, 60 tablets). Not cheap: Currently $45 / qty 4. For joint and liver health, 400 to 800mg are typical recommendations. For depression, 1200mg is what I've seen recommended.
Take with co-factors vitamins B12, B6, and folic acid.
I have no connection with LEF except as a long-time customer.
I'd consider also adding NAC, an inexpensive ($6.75/bottle) supplement that does good things for your whole body.
IDK if Fuqua is involved at all in the Shooter TV Series -- his name didn't show up in the few places I checked -- but he directed the excellent film. I've not seen the series -- and I'm not really a fan of Ryan Phillipe -- but the movie, as I said, is excellent and Mark Wahlberg and the rest of the cast are terrific.
One caveat: It's violent and grim at the start; you spend a lot of time watching soldiers getting betrayed and killed and then seeing Chris Pratt's character dealing with the aftermath. I had to shut it down because it was just making me feel miserable. I'll start it up again in a few days; the later parts of the movie are top-notch by all accounts and I really enjoy Antoine Fuqua's work (Shooter, for instance).
There's a little arrow at top left of screen, just to the right of the Search and Reset areas. Set it to Down arrow and you'll be reading from #1 on down to the latest post (currently 4958).
Great questions, and there are millions of similar ones about thousands of players large and small in this drama. I doubt we'll ever get answers for many of them.
I feel the same way about Cruz -- he is too often on the wrong side of things.
It gives me chills too, fren.
our founders weren't the first to have these ideas and ideals
Absolutely true, and some people outside of Europe were actually LIVING those ideals instead of just talking about them. American colonists learned a great deal about freedom -- real freedom, not just tyranny with loose chains -- from Indian tribes. Despite the lack of "modern amenities" of the time, some colonists dropped out of Western Civilization to live with one of the tribes simply for the freedom that life in a tribe offered. (No, not all tribes were the same in this regard).
Imagine living in a society where, when the Chief wanted to start a war, you could tell him to fuck off right to his face, refuse to participate, and walk away unmolested. Yes, THAT kind of freedom. It started waking people up, just hearing about such things. Without our exposure to the free Indian tribes and some of their wise men who detailed theory and practice of freedom to interested Whites, we might never have produced the Declaration and freed ourselves from Britain with a Revolution.
It's an interesting subject. For more, see The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The American Declaration of Independence electrified people around the world.
The Declaration inflamed the hopes and dreams of millions who had NEVER thought that actually fighting back against tyranny was possible. The Declaration called out the tyrants and listed many of their crimes, and said in plain language that:
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
NO tyrant wants THOSE ideas let out of the bag, yet the Americans had done so, and backed their words up with a serious shooting-war Revolution against the most powerful nation on Earth.
Revolutions were nothing new, but the impact of this one was different . . . and, for many, almost sacred. A few months prior to the Declaration, Thomas Paine had published Common Sense, which included the assertion that "We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
From the Thomas Paine Society --"Paine's Common Sense made an irrefutable argument for separation from England and described the revolution as not only achievable but inevitable. Throughout the colonies letters to newspapers quoted Paine's words. 'Nothing else is talked of,' wrote Bostonian Andrew Elliot to a friend in London, '...I know not what can be done by Great Britain to prevent it.'
Paine described the compassionate yearning that powered world-wide interest in the Declaration with a searingly heart-felt passage:
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her.—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
If the Great Awakening is anything, it is a continuation and expansion of the American Revolution and of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence, which have always been meant (if not always so described) as a project to free Mankind as a whole.
But Koffler then makes this prescient prediction: “Putin, feeling cornered or acting as though he is cornered, is predictable. He will more likely than not surprise the West with another hostile act like the taking of Crimea during the next two years.” Which makes you wonder who in the DIA wanted to get rid of her and why.
As I've said before, war spawns Black Swans. The fog of war gives rise to lack of communication, misunderstandings, accidents and mistakes, misperceived intentions, the replacement of higher level critical thinking with the “fight or flight” response, patriotism/nationalism/tribalism, the desire by leaders to appear tough, bloodlust and revenge, barbarism, war crimes and genocide, etc. No one can predict how badly all of this could turn out or how quickly it could go South, especially not our Commander-in-Chief, who may have dementia. As Koffler writes, “Once a direct military confrontation between the U.S. and Russia has begun or is about to begin...Russian doctrine envisions the possibility of initiating strikes on the U.S. homeland.” If this doesn't make you want to get prepared ASAP, I don't know what would.
He sounds solid, at least on that one issue, but I don't know anything else about him. I'm not in his district, either.
Oregon will never become politically sane again until in-person, one-day voting with a solid ID becomes law, and that means the 100% mail-in voting scheme Oregon has suffered under for twenty years must get trashed for a start.
Article 4, Section 4 of the constitution requires the federal government to ensure a republican form of government to citizens in every state -- i.e., government officials elected by the citizenry, which would mean NOT chosen in secret by some cabal and then fraudulently declared the winners.
republic | rəˈpəblik |
noun
a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
White Hats: I hope that's on the agenda.
That's a nice theory.