Patriarchy Has A Kill Switch, And We Already Know What It Is

By Ajax The Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on The Chalice and the Flame blog, 2023 version)

(Original version of this article from 2020 can be found here)

Author Yuri Zavorotny wrote a great article four years ago for Medium, in which he articulates something that we all intuitively know (but often don't want to say out loud) about the patriarchy and how to end it.  After first establishing that patriarchy is inherently evil (and thus cannot be redeemed), he then goes on about what holds it all together.  This thing that holds the entire construct all together is its sine qua non and thus is it's own Achilles' heel, and that thing is control of female sexuality, and the primary tool used to control that is slut-shaming.  That is, the shaming of Women for expressing their sexuality in the way they choose.  And thus the "kill switch" is to put an end to this utterly toxic and outmoded practice of slut-shaming.

Wait, what?  There is still slut-shaming in 2023?  Absolutely.  It has diminished somewhat since the (largely male-defined) "sexual revolution" half a century ago, to be sure, but it is still there. The double standard still exists, and it has in fact become more of a double bind in which Women are expected to be "sexy" (as defined by males) but not sexual by their own definition.  And ending it is thus the unfinished business of both feminism and the real sexual revolution for Women.

(That's not the only double bind here, there is also the historical one in which Women are expected to both obey men as well as be the "gatekeepers" of sex, with no way to opt out of either contradictory requirement.)

As Yuri Zavorotny himself says:

So here is our kill switch: we stop telling women when, where and with whom she is allowed to get involved romantically. Her body, her choice. And she is perfectly capable of making it a responsible choice, thank you very much.

And lest anyone misunderstand his words, read too much into it, or try to put words in his mouth:

NOTE: This is not to suggest that anyone should change their own behavior. We do whatever we are comfortable with. That, of course, includes staying monogamous, still a perfectly valid choice. But it can not be justified as a moral choice anymore -- rather, it is a personal preference.

Female sexuality (or more accurately, female-defined sexuality) is an extremely powerful force to be reckoned with, which is why the patriarchy has gone out of its way to suppress it (and/or supplant it with male-defined sexuality).  As I have noted before, the suppression of Women's sexuality was not entirely about maintaining control over the male bloodline (though that was originally a major part of it), but more generally about power and control over Women directly, as well as over other men indirectly via artificial scarcity.  Let that sink in for a moment. 

In a similar vein, patriarchy's favorite brainchild, capitalism, needs scarcity (whether real or artificial) to function.  That is how the oligarchs control the serfs.  And the kill switch of capitalism is thus to give it the one thing it cannot surivive--abundance.  The analogy should be apparent now.

Ending slut-shaming will not end patriarchy overnight, of course, but is nonetheless necessary for it to end sooner rather than later.  And if we wait until we return to full-blown Matriarchy before liberating Women's sexuality, we will never be ready, as Women's sexual liberation is a key step on the path to Matriarchy.  That is, if we make the perfect the enemy of the good, we ultimately end up with neither.

Furthermore, as I have noted in another article, any attempt at a reactionary "sexual counterrevolution" is of course doomed to backfire and ultimately fail to benefit Women on balance.

One thing needs to be clear.  As hard as we fight for the right to say "yes" to sex, we must also fight twice as hard for the right to say "NO" as well.  The LAST thing we want is for sex of any kind to be perceived as mandatory, so enthusiastic and mutual consent must be a precondition for all sexual acts, period. And that is true for both Women and men, by the way.  Also, we must be careful not to fall in the trap of the "reverse double standard" that has become in vogue in some circles these days (Oprah and Dr. Phil, I'm looking at YOU!), in which men are the ones vilified for their sexuality while Women are ignored (if not celebrated) for doing the same exact things.  Doing so is a sure path to a sort of "reverse patriarchy", not the Matriarchy proper that we should be aiming for.  The same goes for a "reverse double bind" as well.

Put simply:  Women should have the absolute right to be as sexual--or not--as they themselves want to be, without the need for justification or apology to anyone, period.

So what are we waiting for?  Kill Switch Engage!  Let the planetary healing begin!

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Comments from Rasa Von Werder:

Wowie, Zowie, this is great.  It brings to mind re my own mission.  Think.  If I truly am a Woman of God like I say, what do I come to bring that no other God-Messenger has delivered?  Think - Buddha, Jesus, the prophets, all the great Saints of all religions.  They brought truth - all of them - they brought holiness, they brought healing, they brought salvation in all sorts of forms.  But what did I bring that is UNIQUELY MINE & not theirs & none of them brought?  SEX.  I am not a Woman of God IN SPITE of my adult trade work & sexuality, but rather, my SEXUALITY is part & parcel of my MISSION.  I bring the package of God Power & inside it is my blatant or inherent sexuality, the work & the fact that I have admitted to having sex with lots of men, before & after my 30 years of celibacy.  It is PART OF MY MESSAGE & the unique & unusual part of my ministry, which I alone, in all of history, as a Woman of God, brought forth.  And WHY did God choose me & send me for this mission, equipped with a beautiful body to show the world?  To take the stigma off sex for women, to liberate & empower women by removing that sex is a sin for them.  And yes, this KILLS Patriarchy!  Hurrah! 

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By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

WHY THE WHO PANDEMIC TREATY NEEDS SERIOUS REVISION BEFORE IT CAN BE SIGNED 

The current draft of the WHO pandemic treaty is very close to being signed by President Biden.  And while the "fact checkers" vociferously deny that the treaty will sign over America's hard-won national sovereignty to the WHO in the event of a future global health emergency, there is still good reason to refuse to sign it until serious revisions are made.  

First, the constitutionally questionable practice of it possibly even going into effect without the Senate's "advice and consent" (as is typically required to ratify international treaties), let alone the utterly specious notion that treaties can even supersede the Constitution itself, is enough to give anyone a severe case of the heebie-jeebies, or at least any serious student of history that gives a crap about the Constitution.  That alone is bad enough. 

But the most important problem of all, is what the treaty, by omission, does NOT require of its signatories.  The following is what we believe any such treaty absolutely MUST require explicitly, in light of the past three years of authoritarianism:

To be prohibited in any circumstances:

• All lockdowns, in theory or practice, must be strictly prohibited. 
• All mask mandates outside of a healthcare setting must be strictly prohibited.
• All forced business closures must be strictly prohibited unless fully compensated by, and entirely at the expense of, whatever government imposed such closures.
• All forced school closures lasting more than ten (10) consecutive school days must be strictly prohibited. 
• All vaccine mandates, passports or coercion, in theory or practice, must be strictly prohibited for any vaccine that 1) has been on the market for less than ten (10) years and/or 2) has not been conclusively proven to be truly safe and effective.
• Launching or marketing any sort of vaccine, or anything that identifies as such, without the proper safety and effectiveness testing and/or without following GMP, shall be strictly prohibited. 
• Any attempt to censor alternative viewpoints shall be strictly prohibited. 
• Any attempt to officially deny or censor a known effective treatment or prophylaxis shall be strictly prohibited. 
• Any attempt to abolish cash shall be strictly prohibited. 
• Social credit scoring shall be strictly prohibited. 

To be strongly discouraged overall:

• Blanket mask mandates in healthcare settings shall be strongly discouraged. 
• School closures of any kind shall be strongly discouraged.
• Business closures of any kind shall be strongly discouraged. 
• Vaccine mandates, passports, or coercion of any kind shall be strongly discouraged regardless of the vaccine or how supposedly safe it is.
• Mandatory quarantine of exposed individuals without symptoms shall be strongly discouraged for any disease for which the body of research evidence does not support (i.e. influenza and coronaviruses).
• Gathering restrictions or any other restrictions on freedom of association shall be strongly discouraged. 
• Travel bans and restrictions shall be strongly discouraged. 
• Mass testing with PCR shall be strongly discouraged in most circumstances. 
• Central bank digital currency (CBDC) shall be strongly discouraged (and shall be prohibited if it replaces cash entirely).
• Digital ID shall be strongly discouraged. 

To be encouraged:

• Informed consent
• Bodily autonomy 
• Human rights
• Civil rights and liberties 
• Free speech
• Public health (as it was originally founded)
• Early treatment and prophylaxis 
• Nutrition 
• Holistic view of health
• National sovereignty 

Definitions:

• "Lockdown" shall be defined as any mandatory "stay home", "shelter in place", or equivalent order lasting more than 24 consecutive hours, for all or part of the population, for any reason.  Any nighttime curfew order lasting more than three (3) consecutive nights would also meet this definition as well.  These must be off the table.
• "Mask mandate" shall be defined as any attempt to force or coerce anyone to cover all or any part of one's face for the purposes of disease control, or any penalties for not complying for same.
• "Vaccine mandate" shall be defined as any attempt to force or coerce any person to receive anything that identifies as a vaccine.
• "Vaccine passport" shall be defined as any identifier bestowed on a person that gives certain privileges conditional on having received anything that identifies as a vaccine.
• All other definitions have their usual meaning, and apply in theory or practice.

That should be the FLOOR for any such treaty, as even that may be too much leeway. Then, and ONLY then, should the USA agree to any WHO pandemic treaty.

THREE NUTRIENTS. THREE TABLETS.  THREE LOST YEARS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVERTED.

We have noted this before, but we will again.

From the ever-insightful Dr. Steve Kirsch's recent Substack article, in a nutshell:

"Special mention for the fact that the entire pandemic was completely unnecessary. 3 supplements work better than vaccines and are safe and cheap. All the lockdowns, masking, vaccines, mandates, social distancing, etc. were all unnecessary. And even though this is now known, nobody will pay attention since it will make them look bad.

"Uptake of vitamin C, vitamin D and zinc were significantly associated with the reduced risk of infection and severity of COVID-19 (OR: 0.006 (95% CI: 0.03–0.11) (p = 0.004)) and (OR: 0.03 (95% CI: 0.01–0.22) (p = 0.005))... this study was conducted before the start of mass vaccination against COVID-19 in Bangladesh."

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/23/5029

That's over 150x decreased risk just from taking these 3 dirt-cheap supplements that everyone has known to be safe + effective for decades! And it was all pre-vax, it was for the original Wuhan strain that was most dangerous!"

Read that again, and again, and again and let it sink in.  Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc.  Those three things alone would have largely defanged and declawed this overall already relatively humdrum virus to begin with, which was basically a classic super-flu at worst, and never an existential threat.

And especially for Vitamin D, but the others too, this was confirmed time and again.  And again and again.

Oh, and one of the other thing that we at the TSAP have long advocated, the humble xylitol nasal spray, has also been confirmed yet again as prophylaxis.

It gets even worse still for the powers that be, apparently, when one also notes that the standard of care for patients with post-viral pneumonia was abruptly changed worldwide, at or before the beginning of the pandemic.  And not for the better, either. The change was to no longer give antibiotics for pneumonia if Covid was thought to be the cause, even though it was very likely that many if not most of such deaths were from secondary bacterial infections.  And antibiotics would have been given had they not been inexplicably removed from the protocols, and thus deliberately withheld from patients for political reasons.  A good chunk of excess deaths could thus easily be attributed to that alone.  

Just #3tablets of azithromycin or doxycycline would often have been enough to save their lives.

And don't forget to read the eye-opening Spartacus Letter if you haven't already.

In other words, all of the lockdowns, closures, masks, jabs, and NPIs were basically in vain.  Not that these things would have ever really had any hope or redeeming quality in the first place, of course. 

Three nutrients.  Three tablets.  Three lost years that we will never get back, that could have all been averted, to say nothing of all of the gargantuan excess deaths that resulted.  How will they ever live this down?  And will future generations ever forgive us?

WHY NATTOKINASE SHOULD BE A HOUSEHOLD BUZZWORD NOW

The ever-insightful Dr. Peter McCullough has recently pointed out a way to detox from the jabs.  An enzyme supplement called Nattokinase, from fermented soybeans, can apparently dissolve the toxic spike protein, and also thins the blood as well to reduce the dangerous clotting that the jabs are famous for.  He discusses all of this on his recent Substack post here.

So that looks like another good way to detox from the jabs.  We already knew for a while now that N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is also good as well, in that it cleaves the disulfide linkage in the spike protein.  And zeolites and Vitamin C have been recommended by others as well, and resveratrol and fisetin, and also pine needle tea and omega-3 fatty acids.

Of course, the number one best way to avoid the toxic consequences of the jabs is to not get any (more) jabs in the first place.  In other words, nip it in the bud.  DUH!  But failing that, all hope is still not lost.

For more damage control for those who got jabbed, see here as well.

DISCLAIMER:  The above should not be considered medical advice, so be sure to consult a nutritionally-informed physician before beginning any supplement program.

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By Ajax The Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

THE VERDICT IS IN:  FREEDOM WINS!

We had already noted that Sweden was thoroughly vindicated for eschewing lockdowns, masks, and overall stringency during the pandemic.  Just like Belarus, Nicaragua, Tanzania, and even Brazil did similar to or better than their stricter neighbors in terms of cumulative all cause deaths as well.  

"But America is different!" the lockdown zealots speciously claim.  We are somehow too affluent, too spoiled, too poor, too unequal, too racist, too diverse, too multicultural, too fractured, too lazy, too workaholic, too unhealthy, too coddled, too independent, too dependent, too immature, too precocious, too low-trust, too credulous, too individualistic, too herd mentality, too smart for our own good, too stupid, too educated, too uneducated, too fragile, too many problems already, too (insert favorite adjective here, the more contradictory the better) to be able to even compare ourselves to other countries, let alone copy even in part what the world's few remaining free countries did without disastrous consequences resulting.  Or something. 

Of course, in this country, twelve US states (nearly a quarter of all states) basically eschewed lockdowns as well, most famously South Dakota, and several additional states were either much less stringent than the national average and/or only locked down briefly before opening up and lifting restrictions fairly quickly, most famously Florida, Georgia, and Texas.

And yet, now a new 50-state study finds that among US states and DC, less stringent states were not significantly different from more stringent ones in terms of health outcomes, but they did do significantly better on economic outcomes and education outcomes as well as overall outcomes.  For example, when adjusted for age and pre-existing conditions, Florida and California (with polar opposite policies) ended up being within error bounds of each other and the national average in terms of death rates.  And as we have noted earlier, this was not the only American study that arrived at similar (if not even more damning) conclusions either, namely that lockdowns and related restrictions were essentially all pain and no gain.  Thus it looks like freedom wins hands down, both in the USA as well as abroad. 

Let America be America again!

UPDATE:  Yet another international study found that not only were lockdowns, overall stringency, and jabs associated with higher death rates, but also HCQ and IVM were associated with lower death rates, just as the late Dr. Vladimir Zev Zelenko famously predicted back in 2020.  In a world of Lysenkos, be a Zelenko.

ARE THEY ALREADY TELEGRAPHING THE NEXT PLANDEMIC?

You know the Covid pandemic is effectively over (i.e. now endemic) when the fearmongering MSM is already moving on to the next (theoretical) pandemic....or is that plandemic?

In recent days, there have been several articles in the MSM about bird flu (H5N1 avian influenza, to be precise) now seemingly infecting mammals as well as birds, and how this may some day soon result in it jumping to humans and perhaps causing a pandemic.  There was recently an outbreak at a mink farm (remind me again why we are still "farming" minks in 2023?) in which there was likely mink to mink transmission, which has some scientists nervous now.  There have been some wild mammals catching it sporadically, such as otters and foxes, but those were most likely isolated instances in which they caught it from wild birds, which many wild mammals eat.

H5N1 bird flu appears to have originated decades ago on poultry farms, particularly in China, from where it eventually spread to wild birds.  The conditions there are often quite deplorable, and provide the perfect petri dish for incubating viruses.  There are many strains, and the deadliest strain appears to have a 50% fatality rate* when humans (rarely) catch it from the infected birds they work with.  Of course, even if it does at some point make the jump to human to human transmission, that does not necessarily mean it will retain its lethality, nor does it mean it will become contagious enough to cause a pandemic.

Of course, the oligarchs and their lackeys  may very well make it happen with "gain of function" (i.e. gain of lethality and/or contagion) research for the next plandemic.  We don't always know for sure what they are up to, but if it does become the next plandemic, remember that they telegraphed the idea well in advance, as they usually tend to do.

And whether it is natural origin, lab origin, accidental, deliberately, or hoax, keep the following things in mind about any respiratory virus pandemic:

1. Lockdowns don't work
2. Masks don't work
3. Most NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions), including but not limited to school closures, don't work for very long or very well at all
4. "Flatten the curve" usually does NOT reduce the number of cases or deaths in the long run, and merely drags them out for longer by delaying the inevitable 
5. The best time to prepare hospitals is always yesterday. "Clearing the decks" by cancelling "non-essential" procedures for prolonged periods is an absolute last resort, and doing it when there is no immediate local need for it does far more harm than good
6. ALL workers are essential workers
7. Panic always backfires.  Keep calm and carry on.
8. Vaccines nearly always come far too late and/or take far too long to work
9. Hastily-made vaccines of any type are generally a risky proposition
10. Novel experimental mRNA or other gene therapy "vaccines" are particularly risky, and are unlikely to have a NET favorable effect, when adverse effects are taken into account
11. "Leaky" vaccines (i.e. every single flu and Covid vaccine to date) do NOT stop transmission of the virus, have ZERO justification to mandate or coerce people to get them, and over-vaccinating a population with those can in fact backfire mightily 
12. Early antiviral treatment and prophylaxis are the best bet.  Repurposing generics makes far more sense than waiting for a new and patented "miracle cure" from Big Pharma while the bodies pile up
13. Don't forget to take your vitamins, especially Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc. And also Thiamine and Niacin.
14. Ventilate, ventilate, ventilate indoor air
15. Slopes are MUCH slipperier than they appear
16. Never surrender your right to be with the people you love.  Like, ever.
17. Once you give up your civil rights, even temporarily, it is VERY hard if not impossible to get them back.  Power concedes NOTHING without a fight!

Every single one of the above truths was ultimately learned the hard way.  And God willing, may we never have to learn the hard way again.  Like, ever.

*NOTE:  The bandied-about 50% fatality rate is the case fatality rate (CFR) for the tiny number of known human cases caught from birds over the years, based on the most pathogenic strains of H5N1.  The infection fatality rate (IFR), however, remains unknown and could perhaps be as much as tenfold lower.  But even then, that would put it at "only" two to three times deadlier than the infamous 1918 pandemic flu.  Of course, if it ever, God forbid, becomes contagious enough to sustain human to human transmission with an R value greater than 1, the CFR and IFR may very well drop further.  But as we have seen with Covid, if the R value is high enough, it does not really need to have a very high IFR or CFR to get a considerably "high score" in terms of total deaths.  SARS-2 was a much less deadly virus than the original SARS-1, but more contagious and much more subtle and thus much harder to contain, so the former had a much higher death toll than the latter, which was too "hot" and thus very easily contained.  And MERS ("camel flu") was an even deadlier coronavirus still in terms of IFR and CFR, rivaling or exceeding bird flu, but fortunately it was not very contagious among humans, so it was a flash in the pan.

STOP OR PREVENT TINNITUS!

 

STOP OR PREVENT TINNITUS!

They gave 17 remedies for tinnitus, & it works in the most awful of cases, much worse than mine, where this guy went so insane from it he was pounding the wall & they had to take him to the psyche ward.  And he did the research in this video, to create the remedy.  I know it's a commercial, so all of that I take with a grain of salt.  But yet, I think it's true.

He said that tinnitus is not in the ear, it's in the brain.  An experiment they did in 1950 on DEAF PEOPLE who had tinnitus.  They cut the nerve that is directly to the ear but they still had it!  It's a different nerve, IN THE BRAIN not the ear.  I told my friends that - It feels like my brain, not my ear!

He says he worked in secret with a doc who worked for the military.  They solved it but would not give it to the public.  Because it would hurt the pharma industry.  But he gave him the remedies secretly & as I said, there's a list of 17 vitamins - many I never heard of - plus ASPARAGUS.

I will here list the vitamins & herbs I have on hand, plus asparagus you can get easily.  Here they are.  On top will be two of the vits Pete urged me to take for eyestrain!:

Vitamins A & all the B's - niacin - zinc - L-tyrosine, {I have these already}

Herbs:  Maca, ginger, ashwagandha {I have these already & will take them daily to heal any damage caused by the tinnitus & prevent future occurrences}

There are other herbs I will write about later, most I never heard of.  Must do research where to get them.  Will check on Swanson {Fargo, ND} & Pacific Botanicals {Oregon}.

It seems tinnitus is from the COCHLEAR nerve, not the ear.  You can look this up.

Here is the video - I can't figure how to upload this technically but this is the best I can do.  It's called: 

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Emma Fletcher, Ph.D., Healthy Guru

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(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

CASE CLOSED:  MASKS DON'T WORK

A major new gold standard Cochrane review study has come to a conclusion that only the utterly brainwashed would consider at all shocking at this point:  masks don't really work to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.  Never did, and never will.  Not even the vaunted N95.  Handwashing is likely modestly effective, but masks are basically a joke overall, and not a very funny one either.

This concurs with over a century of research that came out overwhelmingly in support of the anti-mask side of the debate.  In fact, by 1919 it was practically settled science that these devices aren't anywhere near what they were cracked up to be, a consensus which prevailed until March 2020.  Then the pandemic narrative took over and turned the science upside down for nearly three years straight, while any studies were to the contrary were systematically file-drawered for far longer than those supporting the narrative.  And now the entire pandemic narrative has collapsed faster than formerly healthy young athletes on the field after being jabbed.

We recently noted how the ever-insightful Ian Miller has so thoroughly debunked, deboned, sliced, diced, and julienned the pro-mask arguments, and laid waste to their utterly scorched remains for good.  And be sure check out the excellent Fargo study from Josh Stevenson et al. about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet, with the very least biases or confounding.  Spoiler alert:  masks STILL don't work.  Not for kids, not for adults, not for no one.

Oh, and let's not forget the dreaded Foegen Effect as well.  And other harms as well, see here.  That literally makes masks WORSE than useless.  Jettison them!

To the anti-mask side:  you are now hereby overwhelmingly vindicated, and really always have been in fact.  You have literally passed the biggest functional IQ test in all of modern history.  To the pro-mask side:  we are still waiting for you to apologize.  Yesterday.  And to those who switched jerseys anytime after February 2022 (that is, only when it became socially acceptable to do so), you are fooling no one.

QED

UPDATE:  Some may pedantically point out that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", therefore "no one can really say" that masks don't work.  True, you cannot (definitively) prove a negative.  But given the totality of the research and real-world evidence, it would be slothful induction (if not magical thinking as well) to still believe that masks have any sort of net benefit at all. If they did have a net benefit, it would have been self-evident long ago.  We need to see the forest for the trees.

"But...but...they worked in Japan!" See here for a good debunking of that myth as well.

And in case the pro-masker zealots pathetically trot out the fatally flawed Boston school mask study in desperation, rest assured that Ian Miller has successfully laid waste to that one as well.  And so has the ever-insightful Emily Burns, as well as Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, one of the authors of the Fargo study. 

AND THE VERY BEST COVID (AND FLU) "VACCINE" IS....VITAMIN D!

According to a new meta-analysis of gold standard randomized controlled trials (RCTs), Vitamin D cuts the risk of death from Covid in HALF (51%) and reduces the risk of ICU admission by nearly three-fourths (72%).  This is quite impressive, and as we know, certainly works way better than what any of the Covid jabs out there have to offer (beyond the first few weeks or months or so, after which jab efficacy turns negative), not to mention without all of those nasty side effects like fever, chills, blood clots, stroke, heart attack, sudden death, and runny nose.

(Note that it also seems to outperform the seasonal flu vaccines as well, which are even weaker and leakier.)

So why isn't this front page news?  Scratch that, why wasn't it front page news at the very beginning of the pandemic, as I'm sure there were some studies being conducted, and the benefits of Vitamin D were already well-known for the common cold and flu, giving it further biological plausibility.  We know exactly why:  1) there is no profit in Vitamin D or any other vitamins or nutrients, and 2) the powers that be had a pandemic narrative to maintain, for power and control.  A narrative that they were apparently willing to sacrifice literally millions of lives worldwide to maintain, including over a million Americans.

In fact, as we previously noted in an earlier article, a Bangladesh study found that just three nutrients (Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and Zinc) would have been enough to reduce significant case and death rates to below-pandemic levels, thus defanging the pandemic while allowing natural herd immunity to develop.  No lockdowns, masks, antisocial distancing, NPIs, or jabs needed.  Let that sink in for a moment. 

And that's BEFORE we get into the widespread censorship of HCQ, Ivermectin, budesonide inhalers, and stuff like that which had plenty of evidence in its favor.  Ditto for antibiotics like azithromycin and doxycycline for secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was responsible for an unknown (but likely very high) percentage of "Covid" pneumonia deaths.

And let's not forget turmeric, resveratrol, fisetin, quercetin, NAC, thiamine, and niacin as well.  And also nasal sprays like Xlear, and mouthwashes as well.  All of which either censored or pooh-poohed.

How will the purveyors of the official narrative ever live this down?

P.S.  Don't forget the complementary Vitamin K2 along with the Vitamin D3 as well.

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(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

INFLATION IS DEAD, LONG LIVE DEFLATION!

If you did a double-take reading that headline, you're not alone.  As strange as it may sound, inflation has already been beaten for the most part, and now the underlying trend has shifted in the opposite direction.  First, the second derivative of price level (with respect to time) has turned negative many months ago, then the first derivative turned negative on a monthly basis more recently in December.  Inflation has apparently peaked in June 2022.  And consumer demand has been falling for many months now as well.  While we had two consecutive quarters of real GDP growth following two consecutive quarters of real GDP shrinking, we are still not out of the woods for a potential recession in 2023 either.  There is always a lag before the actual effects of monetary policy kicks in, usually at least two quarters, sometimes as long as four quarters.

The M2 money supply literally shrank for the first time since 1960 as well in 2022, albeit following an unprecedentedly high growth rate in 2020-2021.  Usually a shrinking money supply does NOT bode very well for the economy.  And that is a result of both fiscal and monetary tightening in 2022.

And while the labor market remains "tight", there is no real "wage-price spiral", and never was in recent years, since while wages rose, they rose less quickly than prices did overall.  Thus, no spiral happened. 

And while China's reopening will stoke pent-up demand for goods and services globally, which is inflationary, that same reopening will un-snarl any remaining snarls in the global supply chains, which is disinflationary, especially now that their "exit wave" of the virus has finally peaked and fallen.

After all, as we have noted before, the REAL root cause of the recent inflationary episode was the repeated and protracted global supply chain disruptions caused by the lockdowns and shutdowns, which of course greatly shrank supply of many goods and services.  And the unprecedented levels of money printing to paper over the predictable consequences, which (upon reopening in the West) stoked demand for goods and services at the same time that supply remained reduced, was like gasoline on the fire, worsening the supply-demand mismatch.  Of course, without printing all that money, and/or without eventually reopening, there would have been a full-blown Greatest Depression, and the architects of the lockdowns and shutdowns would have all been sent to the guillotine within a matter of weeks.

(The Russia-Ukraine war clearly didn't help, as both the war and the sanctions created artificial scarcity of oil and gas, but the general inflationary pressures were of course already there before the war began.)

Honestly, had the entire world simply "adopted the flu strategy" from the start of the pandemic, the supply chain disruptions and other economic effects would really not have been any worse than the 1957-1958 or 1968-1969 flu pandemics.  (Yes, you read that right:  we literally had WOODSTOCK in the middle of a pandemic!)  And while some fiscal and monetary stimulus would probably have been necessary, it would have been only a fraction of what was done.

It's not like the FERAL Reserve can actually do anything about supply chains anyway.  Hiking interest rates and/or shrinking the money supply can obviously quash demand, of course, but does absolutely zilch about the underlying cause of the inflation, which turned out to be largely transitory.

Thus, all signs strongly imply that the FERAL Reserve needs to stand down and stop QT and stop hiking interest rates, and start cutting them yesterday.  Seriously.  But given their tendency to overcorrect, they probably will do so in that regard.  And given how deflation is more harmful than inflation, they need to answer the "clue phone" before it's too late!

And Congress may even need to get a new round of stimulus checks ready as well, since they may be needed sooner rather than later to cure an incipient deflationary spiral.  And of course, they need to stop playing "chicken" with the debt ceiling yesterday!

UPDATE:  And now that the FERAL Reserve raised rates yet again, the above applies a fortiori now.

DON'T DO "THE VOLCKER" AGAIN!

As the FERAL Reserve is still committed to raising interest rates no matter the cost, even if it means deliberately engineering a recession, in an attempt to quash the worst inflation in 40 years, we would like to warn them as follows:

Stand. Down. NOW.  And prepare to reverse course a full 180 degrees, and soon.  Especially since the latest figures show that prices actually FELL slightly in December.  And with a looming recession all but certain now, they should be CUTTING rates now.

And the same goes for their Quantitative Tightening (QT) as well, which of course amplifies the effect of raising interest rates by literally sucking money out of the economy, thus shrinking the money supply.  And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that, since there is exponentially more debt in the overall economy in 2022 compared with 1982, even a fairly modest increase in interest rates can have a much larger adverse effect now compared to back then.

Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman, (in)famously raised interest rates as high as 20% in the early 1980s, and it technically "worked" to quash inflation.  But it came at a terrible price:  not only a pair of really bad recessions with millions of jobs lost, but the resulting damage also inflicted serious sequelae upon the broader working class that persist to this day as well, both in the USA as well as abroad.  The first time, one could say it was naive at best.  Doing "The Volcker" a second time, however, would be downright stupid, if not utterly malicious, narcissistic, and even sadistic.

And the USA was actually one of the luckier countries.  Canada, for example, set interest rates even higher still, and kept them higher for longer than the USA, and they got even higher and more persistent unemployment as result, and inflation persisted longer as well.  It was a complete lose-lose proposition for them.  So don't do it again!

As the old adage goes, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.  And this particular tool is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, or burning down the house to roast a pig.  And worse, it is fundamentally the wrong tool for the job.  Most inflations, including this one especially, are caused by shortages of goods and services.  The only real cure is to solve the shortages, something higher interest rates simply cannot do no matter HOW high they are (at best it reduces demand and squeezes "inflationary psychology" out the system, and at worst it simply exacerbates the "cost-push" side of inflation when kept too high for too long).

And Rodger Malcolm Mitchell notes that governments can easily solve shortages by purchasing at a premium whatever goods or services happen to be in short supply, which incentives production, and then re-selling them (or giving them away) at a loss.  Higher interest rates do absolutely zilch for that.

Of course, we would not have gotten into this situation had our "leaders" not imposed  lockdowns in a futile attempt to control an airborne respiratory virus, and then tried to paper over the inevitable and predictable consequences by printing ludicrous and unprecedented amounts of money that overwhelmingly went toward further enriching the already ultra-rich.  Had we instead adopted the time-tested "flu strategy" from the get-go, with or without a more moderate stimulus package for We the People, we would not have gotten in this predicament in the first place.  Yes, there may have been some leftover problems in the bond markets and especially the repo market from 2019, and the virus would have been somewhat disruptive to the economy, (like the 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics), but nothing even in the same league as what happened with lockdowns.  And from what we have learned the hard way, death rates would have been about the same or even lower.

(No really, cumulative excess all-cause death rates for countries, states, and communities that largely ignored the virus, or at least eschewed lockdowns and more-restrictive NPIs, were actually within error bounds or even lower than for their much stricter neighbors or national/regional averages.)

When you try to "burn the village to save it", eventually the village will return the favor.  It is simply the law of cause and effect, also known as karma.  Sooner or later, you always reap what you sow.  And as the saying goes, hindsight is quite literally 2020.  Will the Fed answer the "clue phone"?

BONUS POINTS:  The Brownstone Institute has an excellent article discussing how the combination of lockdowns and the aftermath (forced massive supply crunch) + stimulus (massive demand boost), followed by the Russia-Ukraine war and sanctions, unleashed the worst inflation in 40 years.  You mean you can't just paper over a massive supply crunch with more demand?  And that war and sanctions are both negative-sum games in which everyone loses to one degree or another?  Gee, who woulda thunk it?

The money supply has been shrinking at a record pace in recent months, thanks to the FERAL Reserve's Quantitative Tightening.  Usually a shrinking money supply portends recession, historically speaking. 

Of course, the other elephant in the room is corporate greed.  They ultra-rich and mega-corporations are taking in record profits, so it is not simply that they are passing higher costs of doing business onto the customers.  An excess profits tax would be the best way to curtail this sort of inflation, as would a one-off wealth tax on the very richest folks, much like several countries did after WWII.  Keep in mind that Trump himself actually proposed such a wealth tax back in 1999, and not a trivial one either, so the MAGA crowd would be truly hypocritical to oppose it.

FEBRUARY UPDATE:  At this point, it looks like inflation has been largely beaten, and the more looming threat is deflation (see other article above).

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Happy New Year, everyone!

FEMALE EMPOWERMENT IS STILL OUR ONLY HOPE 

(Originally posted and re-posted on The Chalice and the Flame blog)

Just a reminder to everyone that despite current events, or rather a fortiori because of current events, we need Female Empowerment more than ever before.  While a full-blown Matriarchy is still a while away and we seem to be heading into a new dark age of totalitarian technocracy (i.e. the so-called "Great Reset"), Women must never give up and let their hard-won progress thus far be eroded any further.  After all, all oligarchies, plutocracies, kleptocracies, and technocracies (or all of the above) are patriarchal at their core.  As a man, I obviously don't have nearly all of the answers, nor do I claim to truly know the details of how to do it, but what I do know in my heart of hearts is that only Women collectively can truly halt and reverse for good the utterly dark and dystopian future to which we are otherwise headed, Goddess willing.

Granted, perhaps it is better to think in terms of "protopia" rather than utopia, but otherwise the point still stands.

Now is NOT the time to sit on one's laurels, give up hope, or make the perfect the enemy of the good in any way.   Nor is it the time to take advice from fools, charlatans, mouthpieces of the oligarchy/technocracy/ patriarchy, or an even worse category:  the vile and demonic Phyllis Schlafly types who masquerade as feminists (or even as self-proclaimed Radical Feminists) but are really patriarchal to the core or otherwise throw other Women under the bus for their own worldly gains, often disguised as concern-trolling.  A good litmus test for that latter category is how they react to the works of the author Mark Regnerus, as anyone who agrees with his poisonous words are not really feminists and do not support genuine Female Empowerment.  Which by the way, is both individual AND collective empowerment, NOT an either/or. 

Bottom line, Women need to get into as many positions of power as possible, in as many places at as many levels as possible, as quickly as possible.  Time is running out.

So go forth and make old Buckminster Fuller proud!

(See also a previous article here as well for a more detailed discussion on the ultimate kill switch to smash the patriarchy.)

2023:  THE YEAR OF RECKONING 

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

It's 2023 now, and the ever-insightful Michael P. Senger wrote an excellent article about how this should be the year of reckoning.  Reckoning for what, you ask?  Well, here is a partial list:

• Lockdowns
• Forced antisocial distancing 
• Forced school closures
• Forced business closures 
• Mask mandates 
• Jab mandates and passports 
• Jab injuries and deaths 
• "Run death is near" and other harmful snake oil
• Midazolam
• Denial of actual effective treatments and prophylaxis 
• Blatant censorship and blacklisting
• Lies, lies, and more lies
• Tyranny
• Reverse Robin Hood Economics
• Worst inflation in 40 years
• And finally, having the GALL to gaslight everyone about it

In a nutshell, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. And no, that is NOT an exaggeration at all, with the body count alone being proof positive.  The powers that be, and their sycophantic lackeys, absolutely must be held accountable, yesterday, with NO AMNESTY.

Otherwise, this will only happen again and again in the future.  Precedents have a way of sticking around.