I sent this letter-to-the-editor to a newspaper:
“Take off the mask, man! The case fatality rates are .1 to .3 [percent, that is, 1-to-3 dead per 1,000 infected], according to USC [the University of Southern California study]…..USC and L.A. County Public Health came out with a study that found that there are 7,000 cases in California, but they really believe that there are anywhere from 221,000 to 442,000 people who are infected [with the Coronavirus].”
“So that is 0.1 to 0.3 [%]? So there’s a study?”
“Yeah, it just came out today. So the fatality rate is about a TENTH of what it seems to be.”
Right on John!
Agreed, and some people are getting used to it. Others are being pressed to despair and are now much more open to a kinetic war. More people are now volunteering for military service and the only way to “bring together” this completely divided country is a big, serious and dangerous war. Perhaps the virus scare is a warm up for this.
I see it starting soon and it will get ugly fast. Finally major escalations may begin with us and Iran. As that gets big there will be big decisions to be made by other countries. Namely Russia and China may ally up and declare war on us and then shit will really hit the fan. If that happens the danger to the American empire will be so great that all Americans will have to come together or else suffer a quick and embarrassing defeat. […]
Yesterday I read “Until The Eyes Shut” by Andreas Hartinger, “Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Eastern Front 1943-1945.”
I read the last three chapters first and then went to reading it from the beginning– a pincer movement. 😉 Two more chapters in the middle to go, but it is fascinating and very educational. He was born to a farming family in 1925 in Austria. Nice to see it from this perspective. I complemented that by reading with some Table Talk and volume 3 of “Adolph Hitler – Bolshevist and Zionist, WWI”, a sample I downloaded from Amazon. I’m trying to read this point of view without judgment until I am able to weigh it against much other research and soul searching. Like you said putting the ego aside, which wants to immediately scream and curse “blasphemy”! ….In particular some of the New York Times articles that Jacob Schiff was featured in. Schiff was a crafty, powerful and intelligent character, no doubt. It’s allowing me to look more at the “grand chessboard” of world politics and life.
So much learning, living and experiencing. I also paged through and read some of the 136 pages of “Adolph Hitler – Pictures from the Life of the Fuhrer”. A gorgeous reproduction of the 1936 original that I obtained from Ostara publications.
The love is strong now, however. I thank you for your spiritual reading blogs. The last one really clicked with me.
There is a type of surrender needed that you explained very well. I feel more absorbed by God now and letting the ego rest and be used by God — instead of the exhausting and self-destructive attitude of trying to make God serve the ego.
Thank you, sir. Like you said, it is certainly not easy but it is liberating and proper. Blessings and goodbye for now.
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Widespread distribution of firearm- ownership and consciousness is good for a country, in that it makes imperialists think twice: That country could, maybe would, be indigestible. (At age seventy-five, having long outgrown this chapter of puerile romanticism, I have come to think that >Empire< is truly a hateful concept.)