Tom,
Back in 1990 or so (time has a way of mixing things up), the advertising industry were trying to come up with different ways to sell to Gen X. Seems being subjected to thousands of hours of commercials and other ad made us immune to it.

Gen X also made pop culture so the garbage today they put out is repulse to us and the entertainment industry is paying a stiff price for that. "Without respect we reject." But Generation Y only knows reality shows and other nonsense for the most part. They seem to be easily duped into believe things. Not sure about Gen Z though.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop."

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

I was going to write a story about installing a computer chip in people's brains to control them. I figured there was a few of those out there already, so I passed.

Over the years lots of people claimed there's no way to brainwash people to control them. Of cause there is. The most common is propaganda which we are subjected to by the media right now which is mainly Progressive Socialism nonsense. Dirtballs are always looking for ways to control people and unfortuntionily I know a few of them. Seems it's never going to stop until they can just jam a eletroid up your as' and fry your brain that way.

Here's some new and exciting developments from the world of brain f'ckery.

The ‘Talented’ Harvard Scholar, Charles Lieber

STEVEN W. MOSHER

Professor Charles Lieber’s arrest on Jan. 28 made headlines on all the major U.S. media. After all, he was not only a Harvard professor, he was a world-class researcher in nanotechnology, working on highly sensitive research projects for the U.S. government.

The FBI complaint alleges that he had been secretly participating in China’s “Thousand Talents Plan” since 2011, paid some $600,000 a year, plus expenses, to open and operate a lab at the Wuhan University of Technology (yes, that Wuhan).

We know that China contracts with U.S. experts in this way in order to steal their research and gain commercial and military advantages over the United States. In fact, more than 7,000 U.S. scientists and other experts have been recruited in this way over the past decade, according to a Senate report made public last Nov. 18. But few were as well compensated as Lieber.

What was it about Lieber’s research that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was willing to pay millions for? I’ve looked up some of his research in nanotechnology, and was startled by what I found.

To begin with, the two-timing professor was doing cutting-edge research in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology— which is science, engineering, and technology conducted at a molecular or even atomic scale—is key to several of the 11 areas identified in the “Made in China 2025” plan to dominate the hightechnology high ground of the future. Robotics, IT, and medical devices, for example, would all clearly benefit from nanotechnology.

But there’s more to it than that. Over the past decade and a half, Lieber has been working to develop nanoelectronics- enabled cellular tools to record and modulate neuronal activity in the brain. Lieber called his early work in using nanowires to connect neurons “revolutionary.” He suggested that it can be used to record and influence brain activity and “opens the possibility for hybrid circuits that couple the strengths of digital nanoelectronic and biological computing components.”

That is exactly what he went on to do with his new Chinese colleagues from the Wuhan University of Technology over the past decade: integrate electronics in a minimally invasive manner within the central nervous system. Over the years, they have injected “macroporous electronics” by syringe into chosen regions of the brain. They have proven that these “injectable electronics” can be integrated with the brain and continue to function for at least a year.

Nanotechnology is key to several of the 11 areas identified in the ‘Made in China 2025’ plan to dominate the high-technology high ground of the future.

In other words, Lieber and the Chinese researchers he was training were implanting microchips in the brains of lab animals to monitor and affect their behavior.

All of the research that Lieber has been involved with has involved rats and mice, not humans. But given the lack of ethical controls on research in communist China, one wonders if in the nanotechnology lab that he set up, parallel research is being done on humans there, or soon will be.

Are you beginning to see why the Chinese regime would pay a great deal of money for the privilege of, shall we say, picking Charles Lieber’s brain?

After all, it was the CCP which, back in the 1930s, invented what has become known as “brainwashing.” This is a literal translation of the Chinese term, xi nau, or “wash brain.”

I still recall the anguish in a former political prisoner’s voice as he described being brainwashed by Communist Party officials.

“They mess with your mind until you have no opinions whatsoever,” he said.

Once your will to resist has been ground away, reality is defined not by your senses, or by your intellect, but by the Party. You have no opinions either, except those that the Party wants you to have.

In other words, the CCP has long been engaged

in a kind of crude kind of mind control, and perhaps saw in Lieber’s work an opportunity to take “brainwashing” to the next level.

We aren’t yet at the point where a chip can be implanted in someone’s brain to read their thoughts, or affect their behavior. But even the possibility must be tantalizing to a political party bent on total control. It isn’t hard to imagine even a primitive version of Lieber’s devices serving as a kind of mental taser, capable of lashing people into submission remotely.

Lieber faces up to five years in prison for selling his U.S. taxpayer-funded research to China on the cheap. If convicted, he will have plenty of time to reflect on the consequences of handing over to a one-party dictatorship the ability to invade people’s very minds.

Steven W. Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order.”

Figs.

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

LEONARDO DA VINCI

https://youtu.be/Khh2qONCihk
Quigley Down Under

https://youtu.be/okJs1N6eaPA
Cherry 2000

That reminded me of the banks virtue signaling about going "Woke". Was some time back I read that. If you don't know, the progressives push their socialistic system as the standard communism with fascism run businesses. They take control of HR and get people fired or cancelled. Canciled is when they make it so you can't work and other things that drives some people to commit suicide.

Them in the world banking system is bad news because they can mess with our bank accounts.

Tom, Humanism is the religion of Socialism. Socailism as a governing system incompuses culture, religion and politics. And I know reading books on zoology makes your brain numb and eyes feel like they want to bleed (at least in my case), you'll find out that animals do use sex plus food as we do mony. It's not as defined a barderring system as ours. It's also more of a convenience too when used by animals.

There isn't a government system on this planet that is a capitalistic one. Capitalism is just a measurement of Goods and Services. It's only a tool we use. Capitalism would just be a different form of Feudalism where we'd have Robber Baron/Baronesses instead of Lords/Ladies. Yes, there is a section of the world's population who are trying to bring about a Capital World Government. Not just the various other groups wanting Socialism, Fundalism etc.

It comes down to corruption, greed, mismanagement and so on. Others who we vote in to do the jobs of running government or are appointed get sticky finger or other things which costs everyone who pays any kind of taxes more. So, it's capitalisms at it's best and worst. You get people who fix thing and others who break things constantly.

The Readers’ Turn

Coronavirus War: Friends and Foes

We are in a long-term, slow-motion war—an unconventional war with two amorphous sides: those who want to take down America and those who want to preserve it. The war is now being waged using a virus. The pro-America side in this war wants to fully arm and shield our troops with the weapon of choice—hydroxychloroquine, zinc, azithromycin. Although war preparations—like the Maginot Line—can be outdated or ill-conceived, in this case it appears the weapons are correct and the war can be decisively won with them.

Unfortunately, our unidentified enemy is undermining our antiviral army by withholding effective weapons and battle armor.

Most blatantly, the Democrat governor of Nevada just outlawed these very drugs that proved nearly 100 percent effective in France, in New York City, in India and China and elsewhere. Then, the Democrat governor of Michigan followed suit, threatening doctors who would dare prescribe these medications. As the Italians found out the hard way, not protecting front-line troops—EMTs and first-line hospital staff—results in rapid community spread and hospitals being overrun. But U.S. boards of pharmacy are today threatening physicians who take a prophylactic dose of hydroxychloroquine (two pills a week) to prevent themselves from getting sick and spreading the disease to their patients.

No U.S. military forces ever entered jungle areas without chloroquine for malaria protection. But our pharmacy boards restrict our doctors and nurses from taking it now.

The real foes are unlikely to be bureaucrats or politicians; they are most likely ideological pawns or paid agents (who nevertheless deserve punishment for their actions). Nonetheless, for years, these intermediaries have consistently and quietly undermined our viral defense structure: The FDA, to which our Congress granted unconstitutional power, made the development of all new laboratory tests subject to their approval (which takes years).

President Trump, acting like the commanding general we need, simply overruled the FDA. But the delay in testing is still hampering our “intelligence gathering” ability, and therefore our ability to anticipate and send help to areas of active conflict—i.e., viral community transmission.

In 2017, the FDA outlawed— without clear justification, and without input from the nations’ medical practitioners—an effective defensive weapon: IV vitamin C. [This treatment] has been used for years against viral infections, dating from the 1930s, and is currently being used successfully in China, Korea, and finally in NYC (in spite of the FDA’s prohibition).

In the same way that our conventional military forces have been diverted from defense to social engineering, humanitarian missions, and fighting

“terror,” so, too, the CDC was diverted from its prime directive of “disease control’’ to become a pusher of “preventive” vaccinations.

In the days of smallpox, the CDC actually had troops and prepositioned supplies to deploy at a moment’s notice to eradicate epidemics. It is tempting to think the CDC just got greedy—they hold over 50 patents for vaccines, and their senior administrators routinely take lucrative jobs with Big Pharma.

But are we to believe that all the smart, well-paid scientists at the CDC were not aware of “viral interference” and other immune problems resulting from influenza vaccine? During the 2017–2018 flu season, the DOD conducted a study of over 6,000 military and dependents.

Data revealed that taking a seasonal influenza vaccine made young, healthy people 36 percent more likely to contract a coronavirus. This study was published on Jan.

10, 2020—in plenty of time for the CDC to realize the significance [in regards to] the current pandemic. But the CDC continued to push this vaccine program well into March 2020.

Even now, Veterans Affairs has on their website the dangerous recommendation to get a flu shot. Additionally, for over a decade, the CDC abused its “advisory” role to mandate all hospital personnel take the flu vaccine every year. Essentially, the CDC’s vaccine program made the very people fighting coronavirus more likely to contract it.

While all this was going on, biolabs all over the world, including the Bill Gatesfunded Pirbright Institute in America, were researching “novel coronaviruses” and doing “gain of function” genesplicing research to create the type of deadly virus we face today. Gates, in league with Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum, and others, staged a pandemic war game in NYC in October 2019, “coincidentally” using as their proposed pathogen, a “novel coronavirus.” One of the big conclusions from the exercise, dubbed “Event 201,” was the need for internet censorship—because different opinions cannot be allowed to mislead the public during such a disease outbreak. Fortunately, this pandemic was too fast for Silicon Valley-style censorship.

It was not huge pharmaceutical research firms but frontline doctors from all over the world sharing information on the internet who developed and rapidly deployed successful treatments against the virus.

These doctors would have been censored had the participants at Event 201 prevailed.

False medical disinformation has been used by the CDC and news media to confuse the playing field and downplay the threat—thereby making the nation’s response slow and disorganized. Leading the propaganda was the talking point, “Don’t worry about this, the seasonal flu is worse.” By graphing virus deaths, I knew in January this

virus was orders of magnitude worse than flu—but the smart guys who are paid to understand these things at the CDC did not? Really? The surgeon general of the United States repeated this “flu is worse” agitprop, even in March, sounding like “Bagdad Bob,” the Iraqi information minister under Saddam Hussein, who famously denied the presence of American tanks in Baghdad—as they were rolling down the street behind him.

The most effective method in warfare is barring the enemy at the gates. Hong Kong closed its border with China on Jan. 28.

Russia closed its border with China on Jan. 30 and at this time has recorded only four deaths from the virus. The call by President Trump to close the borders—an act which would have had a huge difference if done immediately—was met with the predictable cacophony of shrill media and Democrat open-border voices. Consequently, we still are importing cases—and the import is felt in even rural areas like mine where all the breakouts stem from air travel to infected areas. We are still not guarding our gates while we are fighting in the streets. No war is easily won this way.

Watching Trump, I am reminded of the ridicule and derision Winston Churchill received from the British public when he tried to warn them of the danger of Hitler.

He was called a warmonger, denied office, and smeared by the news. The British upper class mocked Churchill right until German bombs were falling on their heads—then he was elected to lead. Trump has undone the FDA testing stranglehold, stood up to ridicule by suggesting the correct medicine, ignored Anthony Fauci’s desire for more study, overrode FDA guidelines, and released military chloroquine/ hydroxychloroquine to New York City and elsewhere. Faced with mounting casualties, the Democrat establishment in New York City broke with their party, stopped listening to the FDA (who hadn’t yet approved the drugs that work) and proceeded to save lives. Good for them. I am hopeful that we will win.

After wars, those who commit crimes against humanity have traditionally been put on trial.

When it is over, let us not forget these enemy actions, which will by then have caused many of our “Thin White Line” and many civilians to needlessly die in this unconventional but deadly war.

The effete sophisticates of Hollywood and the media who once fawned over Trump, now don’t like him. They make fun of his brashness and his colorful, informal way of communication—they literally call him a warmonger. But war has a way of realigning forces, getting rid of desktop ineffective commanders, and promoting people “high society” wouldn’t invite for dinner in peacetime.

LEE HIEB, MD ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Yes, only a fool believes praying can stop a bullet. You need to wear body armor or not be in the path of it.

Don't think on it to much. Just do what needs to be done. You get stuck in a quagmire and never have anything in the end otherwise.

I visit my parents almost every day. I go shopping with my mom too. They're going to be 82 this year and probably won't survive if they catch this virus. My dad just had a stroke in December and a heart attack the year before. Mom had kemo 4 years ago which wrecked her immune system. So I empathize with you.

You can't allow yourself to lose faith because Hope comes from it.

There's the rub, now isn't it? I've been noticing that lots of people from the progressive left are trying to use this opportunity to completely destroy all other religious belief. They claim they have no religion. But in reality it's socialism or what's called "Humanism" or some other thing.

My perspective is slightly different then others. What holds us together is a bond of trust. Of cause this must be destroyed at all costs. It's perfectly fine for the leftists to release murdering rapists into the general population to have them cause haveck. Having people congregate in a responsible way (using protection such as a neckerchief over you nose and mouth) can't be aloud because it will reinforce trust.

You can't give anyone the benefit of a doubt because everyone is stupid and untrustworthy. Being religious is any way shape or form instantly makes you blinded by a cult like mentality and should be scorned.

Majority of the world stopped using iceboxes in the 1950s.

Just get a mat and cover the spot. The wood's not damaged and you clean the mold...

Give a child a game. They have one game to play.
Give a child a deck of cards. They have games to play for the rest of their life.

That's my suggestion. Buy them a pack of playing cards and a rule book for card games. You normally can find decent ones fairly cheap.

I bought a stack of comics off Indiegogo that I'm going to send my sister. She was going to visit last month before the spread of Covid-19 in New Jersey happen. So, her grandkids and great grandkids will have something to do for awhile. Probably going to add more stuff in the box as well.

My mom's advice to me when she thought I was going to marry Margaret back in my early 20s was, "You treat children with love and kindness. But first you have to get their attention."

Of cause she told me a story about a farmer having problems with his mule. The salution was to smack the mule between the eyes with a piece of 2by4.

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

ALBERT EINSTEIN

https://youtu.be/-CuyLbC2TZo

A Collection of Sea Shanties (vocal only)

https://youtu.be/tybdRuWbWsg

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest

There's many different personalities out there. Generally speaking you want a man who isn't wishy-washy or a pansy-boy. Those types aren't reliable. The other types are full of themselves or selfish. Those types tend to be abusive.

Having coffee or lunch is a good idea for meeting. Diners, parks, cafe and so on. Relaxed places allows for more comfortable conversations. You should not bring it up until between 45-90 minutes after you're both relaxed and connecting in a personable way. This is similar for men as well. But the older we get things are more on the woman then the man to innessiate such matters.

You can bring up the subject about, "Moore and more women are losing interest in sex in their 20s and 30s. 80% of the time it's due to mental or emotional trauma, I think." Then you can gauge his reaction and let him respond if he choses. "With men it's the opposite. 80% of the time it's a physical problem. I don't have any of these problems. Do you?"

Of cause that's just an example which can be modified to the situation. You can also search articles and studies online. Reading up on these subjects will allow you to talk about them more in depth if he knows about such things.

If he's good to go, I'm pretty sure you can handle your business. If he's no longer interested in sex or has E.D. then wait until you both leave and tell him, "I'm looking for an intimate relationship. Sex will cause a problem between us. So, I hope you find someone." Shake his hand and depart.