On the “green agenda” topic, I recall that back in the 80s there was a big stooshie about the ozone layer collapsing. Julian Lennon even wrote a song about it! (“Salt water wells in my eyes”, he mewled and even at the time I thought that was maudlin pap.) And the big villain of the piece was the aerosol can... and then, in a short period of time, all those aerosol cans started to appear with “ozone friendly” stickers which prompted me to think, “Well that was amazingly quick of them to get that problem sorted out!”
Furthermore, I recall having a go at this health food lark and buying up products from e.g. Paul Newman’s line of fabulous beans or whatever .... and I had to spend the next 24 hours on the toilet – at which point I realised that, if you were to get the “benefit” of this health kick, then you would have to adapt to these kind of foodstuffs. But I just bailed out.
And then in more recent times I took my son to one of those health and environment garden centre places at which point I made the interesting discovery that all this produce – which was spun in terms of saving resources and being economical – cost a fortune! I also noted that the clientele were all affluent hippy types.
Re: Syria, it now seems that the assault on Gaza was the first step in a much bigger project. Ominous indeed. That Russia may have made some deal to “throw Assad under the bus” also has sinister reverberations. These tweets from Vanessa Beeley give a frightening insight as to the actual situation in Syria:
Didn’t Louis Proyect have some kind of pathological resentment towards Assad with all that talk about the “Baathist Amen Corner”?
The Western “Left” that cannot bring itself to support movements against imperialism confirms a feeling I have long had – that in a nominal democracy it is the “dissident” side that actually legitimises the imperialist order. It is this “oppositional” presence that ironically embodies the system it supposedly opposes – just as it was the “Leftist” support given to the draconian covid regulations which “justified” these regulations in the eyes of the general public.
That last part of your comment about the western left is so good I would like to quote you in an article I’ll be working on soon. Is that okay with you?
The U.S. congressional report on COVID, declaring that a lab-leaked virus was the likely cause of the pandemic is the get-out-of-jail-free card for the powers that orchestrated the pandemic and the protocols, as they can now claim that overreach was a justified response. Moreover, it sets the scene for future pandemics. An example is the claim of bird flu that enables governments to destroy a large percentage of the meat market. There is no scientific evidence that a novel virus existed in 2020 outside of the computer lab (labeled as M908947.2).
Zero proof of an actual virus extracted from a human or any other living being. Nothing but metagenomic transcripts, in siilco "genomes" assembled from numerous short genetic segments extracted either directly from a person's fluid discharges or such discharges added to cell culture, antibiotics, nutrients such as bovine fetal serum and/or the like and then assembled into numerous models of potential "genomes," out of which one is selected based upon similarity to a previously assembled computer model of a "genome." This is a huge part of the fraud, but never mind that.
The PCR test is fraudulent and cannot detect an infection. All it does is make copies of something lacking provenance. Without the "test" there would be no pandemic. Every positive test was labeled a case and every case was reported daily to support the narrative. Even perfectly well people were encouraged to get tested because the idea of "asymptomatic spread" went viral and supported the narrative used to close down the world and transfer trillions to those who profited.
This is similar to the funding of studies and reports supporting manmade CO2 as the cause of climate change and many of the trends based on "doctor's findings" that George mentioned.
Real food grown organically without dangerous pesticides is healthier than the alternative and better for the soil. The argument I have seen for organics being more expensive is that yields are less for obvious reasons. Then again, if people buy locally grown organics the cost would be less because the price of gas and transportation maintenance would not be a cost factor. As for Paul Newman-labeled products, I think Newman franchised his name like Trump did with many hotel chains.
When did the Western left and oppositional forces illegally become targets of the CIA, which was not supposed to operate on home soil? Maybe right after WWII but I think ops like CHAOS and MK-ULTRA were formed in 1960 to confuse people with propaganda and misinformation on all levels. This is done more quickly with AI and the internet. It's not surprising that the Left has been fooled into going against the interests of the group it professes to support...and their own interests.
I noted that Proyect was trashing Assad in the same way the mainstream media was. Bit of a giveaway. Thus he fitted in perfectly with this phony “Left”.
Just a quick note to add to the Light Emitting Diode (LED) discussion. There are so many light fixtures sold now with built-in LEDs--when the bulb(s) wear out, you have to throw the entire fixture or lamp away! How stupid and irresponsible are disposable fixtures and lamps?
But regarding what you said about how harsh the LED white light is and how people don't like the LEDs, the qualities of light emitted by an LED bulb, in terms of what is pleasing to the eye, are a function of what is called the color temperature of the LED. Most LEDs sold, especially most of those found built into fixtures, start at color temperature 3000 kelvin, which they call "warm white," -- but it is not warm enough! It's unpleasant and I wouldn't want it in my home or to have to work under those lights all day. Some LEDs are made super bright and are very harsh, like 6000k. These are used industrially, where fluorescent bulbs have been formerly employed. However, for yourselves, if you search for and utilize 2700k LED bulbs, you will get a truly softer, warmer, pleasing color; it's not bad at all.
Some puck-style ceiling lights and other fixtures with build-in LEDs have a switch for selecting the color temperature you prefer. They usually start at 2700k, but check for that. As for screw-in bulbs, the 2700 GE Relax bulbs have the best color I've found. I use 2700k LEDs throughout my space, mostly in the form of changeable bulbs, not built ins. I am happy with them so far and I support technological developments in energy efficiency and in preservation of resources. Something like 1.6 billion people in the world don't have electricity and use candles, kerosene, and other fuel lamps.
There is a wide range of concerns that prompts research and development, investment in (capitalizing) advancements in methods and delivery of light production, communications, access to information, food, etc. Some people are thinking globally, in terms of costs of production, packaging, transportation, and in spans of decades or a century +, and in terms of many billions of people and hundreds of billions of dollars. Human social problems and concerns about well being are fraught with conundrums, dilemmas, and contradictions, damned if we do, damned if we don't. It is good for us to consider and to discuss, but no one has all the answers. I'd rather listen to crickets than eat them, but if I were starving, I might flip that script.
Thanks for the links, John. And, yes, please do get into the energy discussion. I also can't tolerate fluorescent light. The body tells us and I am in touch with my body's signals. That's how I determined that the 2700k LEDs would be okay for me. The blue light from my computer is more of a problem. I will read your links asap. Meanwhile, check this out: 2700k is better! https://www.waveformlighting.com/human-centric/are-led-lights-safe-are-they-harmful-to-your-health
The warmer toned LEDs indoors are better, not blue-white. The second piece of the short article you just sent was very useful to me. I just sent it over to the journalist with whom I spoke yesterday, who is doing an article about a proposed 375-unit development in what was a rural zone (and which the town is trying to turn into a residential zone to allow for the development, which will widen the tax base). This rural zone is part of a wildlife corridor and the development will surely take away the dark night skies that some of us cherish and that the wild creatures need. Thank you very much. I hope she publishes that bit because I'm the only one in town talking about the light pollution aspect of this development.
I live in a rural area surrounded by national forest land and over the past 15 years, light pollution has become a big issue. We do not have any housing projects YET to worry about, but big cannabis farms were an issue when they did not use blackout poly to cover their grow houses during regular dark hours. Legalization made that cottage industry unprofitable, but now people have bought up homes, cabins and even vacant land and turned to Airbnb to make money off real estate in the area, as cannabis profits went away. To protect their investments from possible burglaries, they put up street lights and keep porch lights on at night. It makes me very sad to look out across the river and the land at night and see lights dotting the mountain and then look up and see Musk's Starlink satellites competing with the actual stars, even though I admit I use Starlink for internet service. Now that Trump has sworn to release public land for housing development, we may see more big housing and mixed-use projects creeping into wildlife corridors.
I can't find anything from Aaron Mate regarding "overthrowing a brutal dictator." I did see he pushed back against others, Jill Stein and Anand Gopal being two, on social media saying things like that. Perhaps you just saw the google headlines, which are misleading? I admit I am a fan of Mate, because while he sounds very soft, he is very clear and consistent in his positions. He took a lot of heat as an "Assadist" for spearheading the exposure of the White Helmets.
but yes, he was better than many. I'm not sure, actually, though, he is very consistent. But I also think he was under enormous pressure all the time for even hinting at something like a defense of assad. But he did say, more than just whats listed above, that Assad was an authoritarian and corrupt etc.
“Proyect bashed the radical left for defending Syria (and Iraq) against US empire.”
So Proyect is on the side of the US Empire.
“Instead of defending the objects of his attack, you find a new angle to help him defame them.”
Instead of defending Syria and Iraq, I attack Proyect ... and help him defame Syria and Iraq?
The very syllables of your effort are starting to writhe against each other and I feel I might be starting to hallucinate. So I reckon I better just stop there.
On the “green agenda” topic, I recall that back in the 80s there was a big stooshie about the ozone layer collapsing. Julian Lennon even wrote a song about it! (“Salt water wells in my eyes”, he mewled and even at the time I thought that was maudlin pap.) And the big villain of the piece was the aerosol can... and then, in a short period of time, all those aerosol cans started to appear with “ozone friendly” stickers which prompted me to think, “Well that was amazingly quick of them to get that problem sorted out!”
Furthermore, I recall having a go at this health food lark and buying up products from e.g. Paul Newman’s line of fabulous beans or whatever .... and I had to spend the next 24 hours on the toilet – at which point I realised that, if you were to get the “benefit” of this health kick, then you would have to adapt to these kind of foodstuffs. But I just bailed out.
And then in more recent times I took my son to one of those health and environment garden centre places at which point I made the interesting discovery that all this produce – which was spun in terms of saving resources and being economical – cost a fortune! I also noted that the clientele were all affluent hippy types.
Re: Syria, it now seems that the assault on Gaza was the first step in a much bigger project. Ominous indeed. That Russia may have made some deal to “throw Assad under the bus” also has sinister reverberations. These tweets from Vanessa Beeley give a frightening insight as to the actual situation in Syria:
https://x.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1865730838773600586
https://x.com/VanessaBeeley/status/1865983897353289796
Didn’t Louis Proyect have some kind of pathological resentment towards Assad with all that talk about the “Baathist Amen Corner”?
The Western “Left” that cannot bring itself to support movements against imperialism confirms a feeling I have long had – that in a nominal democracy it is the “dissident” side that actually legitimises the imperialist order. It is this “oppositional” presence that ironically embodies the system it supposedly opposes – just as it was the “Leftist” support given to the draconian covid regulations which “justified” these regulations in the eyes of the general public.
That last part of your comment about the western left is so good I would like to quote you in an article I’ll be working on soon. Is that okay with you?
YES thats a very good paragraph. I was going to quote it, too
Sure. Feel free to steal. None of my stuff is under copyright!
The international Montreal Protocol on regulation of ozone (1989) included an exemption for a big emitter--an American uranium enrichment facility.
That was the "global essential laboratory and analytical use exemption" that I would bet enough money could buy.
The U.S. congressional report on COVID, declaring that a lab-leaked virus was the likely cause of the pandemic is the get-out-of-jail-free card for the powers that orchestrated the pandemic and the protocols, as they can now claim that overreach was a justified response. Moreover, it sets the scene for future pandemics. An example is the claim of bird flu that enables governments to destroy a large percentage of the meat market. There is no scientific evidence that a novel virus existed in 2020 outside of the computer lab (labeled as M908947.2).
Zero proof of an actual virus extracted from a human or any other living being. Nothing but metagenomic transcripts, in siilco "genomes" assembled from numerous short genetic segments extracted either directly from a person's fluid discharges or such discharges added to cell culture, antibiotics, nutrients such as bovine fetal serum and/or the like and then assembled into numerous models of potential "genomes," out of which one is selected based upon similarity to a previously assembled computer model of a "genome." This is a huge part of the fraud, but never mind that.
The PCR test is fraudulent and cannot detect an infection. All it does is make copies of something lacking provenance. Without the "test" there would be no pandemic. Every positive test was labeled a case and every case was reported daily to support the narrative. Even perfectly well people were encouraged to get tested because the idea of "asymptomatic spread" went viral and supported the narrative used to close down the world and transfer trillions to those who profited.
And let's not forget that peer reviewers are grossly compromised. Most doctors believe what they read in the peer-reviewed journals without reviewing the actual studies. And scientists are funded by Big Pharma to come up with desired results that profit the cartel. https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/pharma-paid-1-06-billion-to-reviewers-at-top-medical-journals/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHH_dpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfUxOkU9wrwjwmKM5OaUpsVb7sVS-7R0jsRq00Dj-BXho9BvH7xzN08oSw_aem_B0WBTxj_z6e4NAW-2dPZQA
This is similar to the funding of studies and reports supporting manmade CO2 as the cause of climate change and many of the trends based on "doctor's findings" that George mentioned.
Real food grown organically without dangerous pesticides is healthier than the alternative and better for the soil. The argument I have seen for organics being more expensive is that yields are less for obvious reasons. Then again, if people buy locally grown organics the cost would be less because the price of gas and transportation maintenance would not be a cost factor. As for Paul Newman-labeled products, I think Newman franchised his name like Trump did with many hotel chains.
When did the Western left and oppositional forces illegally become targets of the CIA, which was not supposed to operate on home soil? Maybe right after WWII but I think ops like CHAOS and MK-ULTRA were formed in 1960 to confuse people with propaganda and misinformation on all levels. This is done more quickly with AI and the internet. It's not surprising that the Left has been fooled into going against the interests of the group it professes to support...and their own interests.
I noted that Proyect was trashing Assad in the same way the mainstream media was. Bit of a giveaway. Thus he fitted in perfectly with this phony “Left”.
Just a quick note to add to the Light Emitting Diode (LED) discussion. There are so many light fixtures sold now with built-in LEDs--when the bulb(s) wear out, you have to throw the entire fixture or lamp away! How stupid and irresponsible are disposable fixtures and lamps?
But regarding what you said about how harsh the LED white light is and how people don't like the LEDs, the qualities of light emitted by an LED bulb, in terms of what is pleasing to the eye, are a function of what is called the color temperature of the LED. Most LEDs sold, especially most of those found built into fixtures, start at color temperature 3000 kelvin, which they call "warm white," -- but it is not warm enough! It's unpleasant and I wouldn't want it in my home or to have to work under those lights all day. Some LEDs are made super bright and are very harsh, like 6000k. These are used industrially, where fluorescent bulbs have been formerly employed. However, for yourselves, if you search for and utilize 2700k LED bulbs, you will get a truly softer, warmer, pleasing color; it's not bad at all.
Some puck-style ceiling lights and other fixtures with build-in LEDs have a switch for selecting the color temperature you prefer. They usually start at 2700k, but check for that. As for screw-in bulbs, the 2700 GE Relax bulbs have the best color I've found. I use 2700k LEDs throughout my space, mostly in the form of changeable bulbs, not built ins. I am happy with them so far and I support technological developments in energy efficiency and in preservation of resources. Something like 1.6 billion people in the world don't have electricity and use candles, kerosene, and other fuel lamps.
There is a wide range of concerns that prompts research and development, investment in (capitalizing) advancements in methods and delivery of light production, communications, access to information, food, etc. Some people are thinking globally, in terms of costs of production, packaging, transportation, and in spans of decades or a century +, and in terms of many billions of people and hundreds of billions of dollars. Human social problems and concerns about well being are fraught with conundrums, dilemmas, and contradictions, damned if we do, damned if we don't. It is good for us to consider and to discuss, but no one has all the answers. I'd rather listen to crickets than eat them, but if I were starving, I might flip that script.
but we also have to have a discussion about energy and how to measure it in terms of manufacturing etc. Soon i hope.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/increase-in-led-lighting-risks-harming-human-and-animal-health the guardian no lesss
thanks Jari. My issue with LED may not be affected by strength.....im not an expert but of late Ive been digging into this. (i actually absolutely have a sensitivity to fluorescent tubes) https://consciousspaces.com/blogs/science/the-hidden-dangers-of-leds-and-the-healthiest-type-of-home-lighting
Thanks for the links, John. And, yes, please do get into the energy discussion. I also can't tolerate fluorescent light. The body tells us and I am in touch with my body's signals. That's how I determined that the 2700k LEDs would be okay for me. The blue light from my computer is more of a problem. I will read your links asap. Meanwhile, check this out: 2700k is better! https://www.waveformlighting.com/human-centric/are-led-lights-safe-are-they-harmful-to-your-health
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.7165174
The warmer toned LEDs indoors are better, not blue-white. The second piece of the short article you just sent was very useful to me. I just sent it over to the journalist with whom I spoke yesterday, who is doing an article about a proposed 375-unit development in what was a rural zone (and which the town is trying to turn into a residential zone to allow for the development, which will widen the tax base). This rural zone is part of a wildlife corridor and the development will surely take away the dark night skies that some of us cherish and that the wild creatures need. Thank you very much. I hope she publishes that bit because I'm the only one in town talking about the light pollution aspect of this development.
I live in a rural area surrounded by national forest land and over the past 15 years, light pollution has become a big issue. We do not have any housing projects YET to worry about, but big cannabis farms were an issue when they did not use blackout poly to cover their grow houses during regular dark hours. Legalization made that cottage industry unprofitable, but now people have bought up homes, cabins and even vacant land and turned to Airbnb to make money off real estate in the area, as cannabis profits went away. To protect their investments from possible burglaries, they put up street lights and keep porch lights on at night. It makes me very sad to look out across the river and the land at night and see lights dotting the mountain and then look up and see Musk's Starlink satellites competing with the actual stars, even though I admit I use Starlink for internet service. Now that Trump has sworn to release public land for housing development, we may see more big housing and mixed-use projects creeping into wildlife corridors.
I can't find anything from Aaron Mate regarding "overthrowing a brutal dictator." I did see he pushed back against others, Jill Stein and Anand Gopal being two, on social media saying things like that. Perhaps you just saw the google headlines, which are misleading? I admit I am a fan of Mate, because while he sounds very soft, he is very clear and consistent in his positions. He took a lot of heat as an "Assadist" for spearheading the exposure of the White Helmets.
https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1866580153951719815
https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1865845528375779613
but yes, he was better than many. I'm not sure, actually, though, he is very consistent. But I also think he was under enormous pressure all the time for even hinting at something like a defense of assad. But he did say, more than just whats listed above, that Assad was an authoritarian and corrupt etc.
“Proyect bashed the radical left for defending Syria (and Iraq) against US empire.”
So Proyect is on the side of the US Empire.
“Instead of defending the objects of his attack, you find a new angle to help him defame them.”
Instead of defending Syria and Iraq, I attack Proyect ... and help him defame Syria and Iraq?
The very syllables of your effort are starting to writhe against each other and I feel I might be starting to hallucinate. So I reckon I better just stop there.