Chinese Communism With American Characteristics, Part 3

 There won't be another fighter of Trump's stature in the near future.  America's core institutions have become corrupt with Justice, sadly, the chief, followed closely by election machinations in many states.
The hope of nations now turns from the USA to China but not as you may expect.  The Chinese model of mass surveillance and control of the economy by your (corrupt) betters is ascendent in America.  My hope is now in the Chinese people, that their still-to-come revolution will be in my lifetime.

Chinese Communism With American Characteristics, Part 2.

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Chinese Communism With American Characteristics. January 8 2020 Dissent is Deplatformed in America.

 The near future is clear:  Chinese communism with American Characteristics.  Today Twitter and Google and the rest are wiping out all they hate about America.  Goodbye to freedoms.  Hello to apps and cameras reporting on all you do and write to others.  Attached are screenshots from this historic day as voices the Left despises are cancelled.

Anarchists come from the privileged not the poorest. Chesterton quote.

 

Dancing Robots

 Slow start, then freakier and better and better:  "Do You Love Me"

Longing for a Sweetheart

 The longing for a sweetheart and a darling is so great that it puts a burden on hetero friendships.  I remember what it’s like having a big puppy climb onto my lap while I was driving. It was licking my face, wriggling around, half out the window and wanted to drive too.   That’s hard to manage

.  The No-Puppy version is normal friendship.  The With-Puppy version is when the longing comes along for the ride and pops up everywhere.  

Plaque on 3700 year old teeth shows what people ate and reveal a trade network.

 The stuff they scrape off your teeth at the dentist is a petrified residue from bacteria.  In that calcareous plaque, specks of food are trapped.  Researchers at the ancient city of Megiddo in modern day Israel have examined teeth of a dozen bronze age people.  They found turmeric and bananas and soy and proof of trade out of Asia centuries, even more than a thousand years earlier than previously guessed.  Science Daily News.

I'm not glad artists and musicians are having a hard time with Covid, but...

 The New York Times reports on musicians, artists and dancers, over half of whom have no job at all now.  This is shocking but it isn't 100 percent bad news for me.  The Arts along with Academia, and Insiders-with-Power are the main support for top-down commands about masks and lock-downs for your own good and safety.  For some of them to suffer painfully the consequence of their standard bearers' decisions is good.  That will shorten the Lawmaker's learning curve and allow average people to get back to making their own choices sooner.     This link is to a sympathetic and well-researched story about those in the arts and out of work.

 

COVID Behaviour is political

 This September Gallup poll shows a sharp worry & compliance distinction between Democrats and Republicans. The sub-story is that the Democrat men and women are indistinguishable on the issues but the Republican women and men, besides being very different from Democrats, are often quite different from each other, the men expressing greater confidence and willingness to risk changes.

 

 

Tribal power not truth is what passes for MORAL nowadays. Example from Politico: Hunter Biden corruption before and after the election.

 

Puget Sound salmon deaths traced to tires, not climate change.

 Urban streams in the Puget Sound and Seattle area have Coho salmon mortalities of 50% before reaching spawning areas, notably after big rainfalls.  The easy villain was "climate change".  The surprise villain is leached tire preservative combined with ozone in urban stormwater runoff.  This was confirmed in the Los Angeles and San Francisco area too.  See University of Washington report (hat tip Alan Watts)

Picture at WU story

The detective work reported is fascinating leading to an unsuspected chemical whose general formula they figured from the salmon deaths but whose source they initially knew nothing about.

6PPD is added to extend tire life. Particles worn away from tires have a byproduct of 6PPD-quinone after reacting with ozone.  The chemical signature with 18C 22H 2N and 2O matched.

The most economical and recommended fix is to look for other tire preservatives.  Treating storm water at that level is impractical.

YouTube Chokes Opinion: Not Allowed Question: Was their fraud in key US election counts?

From a legitimate question publisher.

YouTube announced Tuesday it will take down videos questioning the integrity of the U.S. presidential election that millions of Americans, most notably President Trump, believe was stolen through numerous fraudulent actions, lawfare chicanery and computer manipulation.

From an illegitimate question publisher: 

YouTube said content “that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome” of the presidential election will be removed. ... YouTube said Wednesday it will start removing any content uploaded to its platform that contains allegations of widespread fraud or errors in the 2020 presidential election after Tuesday's so-called safe harbor deadline that essentially locked in President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

Does "Bureaucracy" Explain Washington Better Than Saying "Politicized Institutions"? "Who's the boss?" is the question.

Yes, Washington institutions are staffed by Democrat types and generally work against their current president, Donald Trump.   Richard Grenell, previously acting DNI, points to another factor in this Epoch Times interview.    Transparency is not welcome in Washington because controlling information is power and to open up is to lose power.  That explains why so many officials said publicly they had evidence the Russian Collusion story was real but under oath and away from the cameras, they said they did not.  If they wished to be transparent, the matter would have been settled in a few weeks and the initiative would be from the Executive Branch and not from their Fiefdom.   Who's the boss?  Institutions as high up as FBI, CIA, Justice have been significantly captured by inside players.  Regulatory capture.

Glaucoma fix coming soon. "Hydrogel"

 My grandmother took eyedrops every six hours for twenty years by night and by day to save her sight from glaucoma

.  Now a major fix is coming.    Glaucoma has a build up of fluid pressure inside the eye that eventually damages the optic nerve and turns you blind.  Coming soon:   A tiny injection twice a year slips some hydrogel between two outer layers of the eyeball and this hydrogel adjust to hold open a tiny channel that allows pressure to drain away.    

The aqueous humor fix has been done in animals, not people and lasted four months, not six months yet but seems like a sure thing.  Glaucoma is the main cause worldwide of irreversible blindness. 

Story at medicalxpress.com/news

Become less ignorant about the Caucasus struggle: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia.

Read over this article from Defenceindepth.co in London and adjust opinions about the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict.   The bits of news easily available helped me to the ignorant belief that I knew something of the region.    At the link you'll get a much bigger view based on Russian sources.   Another resource to follow is Mike Doran at Twitter's doranimated where you'll get an insider's view from a connected American who was in Azerbaijan during the conflict.

The key points are that Russia likes frozen conflicts in its near abroad with all parties looking to them for military peacekeepers and clout, thus keeping NATO out of the area.  It also means that Turkey is getting hit harder over in Syria as a message that it's role (with Israeli support) was unwelcome even though the outcomes are satisfactory for Russia. 

Van Morrison says:

 "I'm not telling people what to do or think", Van Morrison  says, "the government is doing a great job of that already".