Hello friends. A lot of stuff today, so let’s get going. Meat on the Menu in 1899 I meant to put this up on Thanksgiving, but forgot about it then. But it’s still holiday feasting time, so apropos. Below is a copy of the Thanksgiving menu for the Plaza Hotel in 1899. Prices are in cents. Take a look at how much meat is on the menu versus plant foods. This isn’t just because it’s Thanksgiving, it’s because, unlike fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat was always available. It was always plentiful on menus year round.
I always think it’s pretty amazing when the people testifying give answers just like a politician does when they’re asked a question that puts them in a precarious situation before an election. Ben Shapiro has been on the warpath, visiting universities, and asking that donors pull their funding and business owners start hiring outside of college graduates since they are coming out of college worse then when they went in.
In regards to kidney stones, I got two out of the blue after being on an animal based diet for about two years which led me down the rabbit hole of Oxalates which are now driving me absolutely insane. This is what happens when you think juicing plants and then blending them will make you Superman. When you eat gigantic salads and reward yourself with some dark chocolate covered almonds for years and somehow survive until you give your body the signal that it’s okay to start dumping these toxins. I’m just trying to survive at the moment and wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy, except maybe Bill Gates and his cronies;-).
I read Turchin’s book and although I agree that his model describes well what we are living (and 40 years of asset bubble that you didn’t even mentioned), I am reminded of “humans are suckers for god stories”, and with Briggs “model that describes well but doesn’t predict is BS”. Really can’t put history and science in one sentence. But as you said it was eye opener and excellent read, with lots of after thinking. Thanks for this one Doc
Another keeper, Mike - one I want to send to about fifty people. First question though is- on that delightful menu (where I noticed that sweetbreads were the most expensive bits of protein) what on earth is Cape Cods? Coming from the Cape, I feel I should know - perhaps it's just bits of cod - but I couldn't find anything about it anywhere. The rest of The Arrow is just stunning - I too am thoroughly enjoying (or perhaps "appreciating" - you're right) Turchin's book; I'm gobsmacked (but not surprised) by the info from Childer's report (another writer to check out); relieved - having recently gone carnivore - at the conclusion of protein causing kidney damage and loved the picture of the Kidney Care center . . . but I just couldn't watch (again) the video of the elite presidents trying to squirm around the question of college codes of honor. For a compelling take on that, check out Dark Horse podcast #202. Food for thought, which Bret actually makes quite funny.
Just a little confused over Matt and Bill Briggs - same guy? You've mentioned a Briggs 5 times - in fact your first mention of him is in relation to models - so I instantly thought of William Briggs - but nowhere on the internet is he found as Matt. Just my little confusion; perhaps others are confused too. (for what it's worth, since you mentioned him, I'm now following him - he writes great posts!)
For the rest:
at the tope of the article
at the top
a lot of ingredients listed that you have no idea what are listed in the label
that you have no idea of, that are listed? or - that you have no idea of what they are, are listed
becomes less severe after some time on diet.
after some time on that diet
a ketogenic diet is terrific of damping inflammation.
The need to create more elite jobs would explain all the DEI/Woke nonsense; I guess you could call it luxury belief inflation. I think once the number of sinecures exceeds the productive capacity of the economy to support them then the end is inevitable.
I believe that the key "take-away" from the last 3 years (actually the last 110 - starting with Wilson's inauguration in '13) is that the "Western" elites have become not only increasingly incompetent (due to the debasement of formal education generally) but also increasingly malevolent (as a result of the general spread of the "Politics of Envy" throughout the elite population). We now face a "terminal" socio-politico-economic "state of affairs" that will only resolve in either establishment by the elites of their desired totalitarian polity or general revolution, not necessarily "peaceful". These possible denouements of the current Fourth Turning are imminent.
Thanks for posting about that Telegraph article Mike. When I read it the other day I was surprised that it had reported the "glitch" but said "no adverse effects were generated" - I thought there might be looming problems.
Quote from Childers SS "The ‘vaccine’ creates stochastic proteins one third of the time. In one-third of cells, not people, like the Telegraph again mis-reported. There are trillions of mRNA packages in each shot. So — unless I’m missing something — what the study is saying, without actually saying it, is that this is happening inside every single jab recipient."
So is it in ALL recipients or like you pointed out from paper in about 25-30%?
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I was a bit insomniac last night and because it’s a good read I reread some your PP1 book; good that you pointed to the pro Keto paper. I need to do that lean mass estimate again. I had not thought about it before but I note you mention the NHS from time to time and I wondered if there was a special edition for the UK. The other item that struck me was the mention of vascular smooth muscle increasing with high insulin. I assume prostate tissue is influenced in the same way. This indicates (maybe obvious) that we have not evolved to deal with chronic high insulin, this is a new terrain for our physiology.
I picked up the paper on ribosomal frameshifting from Igor Chudov a few days ago. The Telegraph “nonsensical and harmless protein” is just not proven. The modified uridine version mRNA is making junk for months. We don’t know that all will be harmless but in any case it’s like junk of a type you have never seen before appearing in your house hour after hour that then has to be cleared. If this happens in the brain or other critical organs harmful should be the default assumption. I think it’s a secret part of the Great Reset to speed up human evolution (joke?).
Hah hah...I just loved that. Birds of a bookfeather. I would have this cute little breakfast nook but for the giant floor to ceiling bookshelves on either side with a narrow aisle between them. Thank goodness for your work including all your blog posts and talks and for Gary, or I'd be too, shall we say, Michelin-esque, to access my kitchen library!
So appreciate the Turchin summary and your thoughts. I know a man in France, now about 80 -- a retired master woodworker who grew up during World War II, living in a cold water flat on rue Princesse in Paris with toilets in the hall and pay showers down the street. He never finished high school, as he was sent off to live with grandmere in the woods, where she caught rabbits for dinner and knit him red socks. (I love the details and hope others appreciate them.) Anyway, he is just enormously well-read and a thinker who could hold his own (and then some, probably) with any Ivy league elite. Reminds me of how you describe Mr. McMahon and Mr. McKinley talking -- and PS Raised in the midwest to call people Mr. and Mrs.
Anyway, important and very worrisome part: the counter-elite snivelers lighting the Molotov cocktail to blow it all up.
"It has been the counter-elites who provoke the unhappy masses into revolt. If the everyone-else category is happy and prospering, they are not in a mood to revolt. If there is enough room in the elite class to accommodate the elite aspirants, there isn’t a problem. But when there is widespread immiseration and elite overproduction, big trouble is brewing."
Decor note: Laughed at this--knowing how this manifested in terms of book "acreage"! "necessity (and MD) have driven me to Kindle almost exclusively"
And hah hah...John Vogt below...we're lucky neither MD or Mike is quadriplegic because Mike was under the impression that stairways are bookshelves, let's just say. (And that was just for starters!)
Also, too late to vote, but "Great beyond belief." I'm so commandeered by my bookmonster I'm doing nothing else (stayed home on Thanksgiving and ate a cheeseburger to write -- have to turn in revision by end of Dec...which was supposed to be end of Aug, then September, then...you get the drill.
Anyway, I couldn't help but read this instead of looking up pharmacology crap, and I just can't believe all you put into these. The kidney stuff - just great...all of it. Sent the vaccine data fiasco to a mutual friend of Gary's and mine. I think you know who that is. He'll appreciate it. Sends me DeMasi and others not just lapping up what we're told to believe.
You're the best. Hi to your bride! (As I said on Twitter, love how you say that -- a woman who has a man who talks about her that was is a lucky woman!)
I don't want to be too judgmental about your furnishing choices, but you clearly need a bigger nightstand.
I always think it’s pretty amazing when the people testifying give answers just like a politician does when they’re asked a question that puts them in a precarious situation before an election. Ben Shapiro has been on the warpath, visiting universities, and asking that donors pull their funding and business owners start hiring outside of college graduates since they are coming out of college worse then when they went in.
In regards to kidney stones, I got two out of the blue after being on an animal based diet for about two years which led me down the rabbit hole of Oxalates which are now driving me absolutely insane. This is what happens when you think juicing plants and then blending them will make you Superman. When you eat gigantic salads and reward yourself with some dark chocolate covered almonds for years and somehow survive until you give your body the signal that it’s okay to start dumping these toxins. I’m just trying to survive at the moment and wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy, except maybe Bill Gates and his cronies;-).
I read Turchin’s book and although I agree that his model describes well what we are living (and 40 years of asset bubble that you didn’t even mentioned), I am reminded of “humans are suckers for god stories”, and with Briggs “model that describes well but doesn’t predict is BS”. Really can’t put history and science in one sentence. But as you said it was eye opener and excellent read, with lots of after thinking. Thanks for this one Doc
Another keeper, Mike - one I want to send to about fifty people. First question though is- on that delightful menu (where I noticed that sweetbreads were the most expensive bits of protein) what on earth is Cape Cods? Coming from the Cape, I feel I should know - perhaps it's just bits of cod - but I couldn't find anything about it anywhere. The rest of The Arrow is just stunning - I too am thoroughly enjoying (or perhaps "appreciating" - you're right) Turchin's book; I'm gobsmacked (but not surprised) by the info from Childer's report (another writer to check out); relieved - having recently gone carnivore - at the conclusion of protein causing kidney damage and loved the picture of the Kidney Care center . . . but I just couldn't watch (again) the video of the elite presidents trying to squirm around the question of college codes of honor. For a compelling take on that, check out Dark Horse podcast #202. Food for thought, which Bret actually makes quite funny.
Just a little confused over Matt and Bill Briggs - same guy? You've mentioned a Briggs 5 times - in fact your first mention of him is in relation to models - so I instantly thought of William Briggs - but nowhere on the internet is he found as Matt. Just my little confusion; perhaps others are confused too. (for what it's worth, since you mentioned him, I'm now following him - he writes great posts!)
For the rest:
at the tope of the article
at the top
a lot of ingredients listed that you have no idea what are listed in the label
that you have no idea of, that are listed? or - that you have no idea of what they are, are listed
becomes less severe after some time on diet.
after some time on that diet
a ketogenic diet is terrific of damping inflammation.
is terrific at damping
should you be burden with it
should you be burdened with it
Regarding the President of Penn - "AAAAAAAAND SHE'S GONE"!
The need to create more elite jobs would explain all the DEI/Woke nonsense; I guess you could call it luxury belief inflation. I think once the number of sinecures exceeds the productive capacity of the economy to support them then the end is inevitable.
I believe that the key "take-away" from the last 3 years (actually the last 110 - starting with Wilson's inauguration in '13) is that the "Western" elites have become not only increasingly incompetent (due to the debasement of formal education generally) but also increasingly malevolent (as a result of the general spread of the "Politics of Envy" throughout the elite population). We now face a "terminal" socio-politico-economic "state of affairs" that will only resolve in either establishment by the elites of their desired totalitarian polity or general revolution, not necessarily "peaceful". These possible denouements of the current Fourth Turning are imminent.
Thanks for posting about that Telegraph article Mike. When I read it the other day I was surprised that it had reported the "glitch" but said "no adverse effects were generated" - I thought there might be looming problems.
Quote from Childers SS "The ‘vaccine’ creates stochastic proteins one third of the time. In one-third of cells, not people, like the Telegraph again mis-reported. There are trillions of mRNA packages in each shot. So — unless I’m missing something — what the study is saying, without actually saying it, is that this is happening inside every single jab recipient."
So is it in ALL recipients or like you pointed out from paper in about 25-30%?
I'm a sick addict -- can't keep myself out the pages!
I was a bit insomniac last night and because it’s a good read I reread some your PP1 book; good that you pointed to the pro Keto paper. I need to do that lean mass estimate again. I had not thought about it before but I note you mention the NHS from time to time and I wondered if there was a special edition for the UK. The other item that struck me was the mention of vascular smooth muscle increasing with high insulin. I assume prostate tissue is influenced in the same way. This indicates (maybe obvious) that we have not evolved to deal with chronic high insulin, this is a new terrain for our physiology.
I picked up the paper on ribosomal frameshifting from Igor Chudov a few days ago. The Telegraph “nonsensical and harmless protein” is just not proven. The modified uridine version mRNA is making junk for months. We don’t know that all will be harmless but in any case it’s like junk of a type you have never seen before appearing in your house hour after hour that then has to be cleared. If this happens in the brain or other critical organs harmful should be the default assumption. I think it’s a secret part of the Great Reset to speed up human evolution (joke?).
Hah hah...I just loved that. Birds of a bookfeather. I would have this cute little breakfast nook but for the giant floor to ceiling bookshelves on either side with a narrow aisle between them. Thank goodness for your work including all your blog posts and talks and for Gary, or I'd be too, shall we say, Michelin-esque, to access my kitchen library!
So appreciate the Turchin summary and your thoughts. I know a man in France, now about 80 -- a retired master woodworker who grew up during World War II, living in a cold water flat on rue Princesse in Paris with toilets in the hall and pay showers down the street. He never finished high school, as he was sent off to live with grandmere in the woods, where she caught rabbits for dinner and knit him red socks. (I love the details and hope others appreciate them.) Anyway, he is just enormously well-read and a thinker who could hold his own (and then some, probably) with any Ivy league elite. Reminds me of how you describe Mr. McMahon and Mr. McKinley talking -- and PS Raised in the midwest to call people Mr. and Mrs.
Anyway, important and very worrisome part: the counter-elite snivelers lighting the Molotov cocktail to blow it all up.
"It has been the counter-elites who provoke the unhappy masses into revolt. If the everyone-else category is happy and prospering, they are not in a mood to revolt. If there is enough room in the elite class to accommodate the elite aspirants, there isn’t a problem. But when there is widespread immiseration and elite overproduction, big trouble is brewing."
Decor note: Laughed at this--knowing how this manifested in terms of book "acreage"! "necessity (and MD) have driven me to Kindle almost exclusively"
And hah hah...John Vogt below...we're lucky neither MD or Mike is quadriplegic because Mike was under the impression that stairways are bookshelves, let's just say. (And that was just for starters!)
Also, too late to vote, but "Great beyond belief." I'm so commandeered by my bookmonster I'm doing nothing else (stayed home on Thanksgiving and ate a cheeseburger to write -- have to turn in revision by end of Dec...which was supposed to be end of Aug, then September, then...you get the drill.
Anyway, I couldn't help but read this instead of looking up pharmacology crap, and I just can't believe all you put into these. The kidney stuff - just great...all of it. Sent the vaccine data fiasco to a mutual friend of Gary's and mine. I think you know who that is. He'll appreciate it. Sends me DeMasi and others not just lapping up what we're told to believe.
You're the best. Hi to your bride! (As I said on Twitter, love how you say that -- a woman who has a man who talks about her that was is a lucky woman!)
The Telegraph article is behind a paywall but free access can be found here. It's worth reading for the comments alone!
https://news.yahoo.com/more-one-four-had-mrna-171724613.html
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