The Importance of Good Hygiene

2023 Eliza Donavan

A few years ago, I was in the business of computer repair, among other things. I did tech support over the phone, which usually took the patience of a saint, and an extreme exercise in empathy. There were four recollections that stand out in my memory, and I would like to share those. As I am writing this, 2023 is coming to a close, and this is usually the time for retrospection and sharing cherished experiences. I don’t have many of those, and the painful ones usually predominate.

But here are a few that are the exceptions…

Years ago before the advent of the optical mouse, there were these rubber balls that were used inside a mouse, which would move optical encoders on the inside and roll around. There was a residue that would build up on the rollers, and would have to be cleaned with a cotton swab or something similar. It was a regular thing, and it would be usually a month before they got gunked up again and would have to be cleaned. I called it the monthly, and some got the joke, while others did not.

One of the things I educated the computer users on was good maintenance, or computer hygiene. Basically keeping things clean like filters for fans, making sure keyboards didn’t get peanut butter and jelly gluing them down and the like, as that would require taking the keys off and carefully getting the sticky stuff out of the keyboard if possible. There was one instance where I attempted to explain how to clean the older type mouse, and it either was totally lost in translation, or something went horribly wrong. You can decide which one.

It went like this:

The customer sat down in the chair by the repair bench and I had his computer cleaned up. I’ll designate who is who by E for me and C for client. He was a younger guy in his 20’s and was picking up the computer for his girlfriend.

C: So it’s all good to go?

E: Sure. But there are some things I need to talk to you about first.

C: Like what?

E: Well, there are some things that need cleaning for them to work well, and you can do that yourself.

C: Like what?

E: (Sigh). This might be a little difficult, but there are these balls, you know the ones on the inside, and they need to be cleaned.

C: (Shifting around uneasily in chair) Oh. Don’t you think this is getting kind of personal? What does this have to do with…

E: It has everything to do with your equipment. These balls can get sticky if they’re not cleaned. Maybe you’re not aware of that.

C: Uh...yeah. (looking around nervously). I guess so. How did you know that?

E: Well, people ask me to clean their equipment, and that is a part of it. It’s very tedious.

C: You have to clean their balls?

E: Certainly. And sometimes removing sticky stuff from other places.

C: (Almost falls off chair, mouth gaping open). I didn’t know you did that.

E: Of course. Things don’t work well unless you keep them clean. I use rubbing alcohol.

C: Rubbing alcohol? Not soap and water?

E: Gosh no. Alcohol works best. Don’t use acetone. It can cause the balls to melt.

C: Really? I didn’t know that…

E: Oh yes. It’s very important what you use to clean them. I use a cotton swab to get in the right places.

C: Not a washrag?

E: Oh no, you want to get into the crevices so things move right afterwards. That’s important too.

C: Uh huh. I guess so. (Eyes wide and blushing)

E: But don’t use oil. It makes things slide around too much.

C: I think my girlfriend uses something else. I’m not sure.

E: Well, I need to talk to her too. It’s about her equipment too after all.

C: Uh… yeah. I guess so.

E: There is an online guide about this, so I can send that to her and she can share it with you if you like.

C: Well, I would rather read it myself. It’s personal after all.

E: OK. I’ll send it to you. Let me know if there is anything else I can do later, and that’s about it!

End of conversation.

The other incident, if you could call it that, was a secretary that called me with a case of uncontrollable giggling, and asked me to come to the office of a nearby machine shop. “You won’t believe it. Bring whatever cleaning stuff you need. We have a new girl here, and she is...(giggles) kind of (giggles) unfamiliar with computers.”

I was puzzled, but packed up what I needed and went over. I configured a Mac LC earlier to run some of their CNC machines, which reminded me of a chihuahua trying to tow a tractor trailer. It was way under powered, but seemed to work so far.

When I got to the office, I was ushered inside. “She’s still at lunch, so we have to be quick about it, but I wanted you to see this. We already took pictures.” I walked over to the computer and saw white stripes painted on the screen of the monitor. “Oh, you..have..GOT..to..be..kidding..me!” There was a little white bottle of whiteout next to the keyboard, and some small flakes that had already dropped off the screen.

“She printed it out and didn’t understand why it didn’t work...” She said. She was laughing so hard tears were rolling down the corners of her eyes. “You can fix that right? I thought of just washing the screen, but you were still in town.”

“Sure. I brought some alcohol, and it’ll be a few minutes. I think your newbie needs computer 101 lessons. Who hired her?”

She rolled her eyes. “Friend of the boss. You know how that goes.”

“Just let her know she can’t use the stapler on the screen either.” That brought a whole new wave of laughter. “Don’t worry, I don’t think she’ll be here too much longer.”

Actually, the shop wasn’t around too much longer either. They closed up weeks later. My client list was shrinking all the time. After 9/11 the economy was on a greased bobsled to hell, and people grumbled about it, but didn’t know how to fix it. It became a matter of survival, diversifying your skill sets just to pay for rising utility, taxes and food costs.

Then there was Ken. Ken was pretty bright most of the time, and other times...well...what could I say? He called me up and said his tower would not boot, so I told him to unplug the power cord and bring it in.

So that’s what he did...literally.

I saw him walking up the driveway carrying a plastic bag. I was taken aback about it, but watched him come up, like watching a slow motion train wreck in progress. He came to the door. “Here it is...” He handed me the bag. I looked inside. It was the power cord. “Where’s the tower? Is it in the car?”

“Uh..no. You told me to bring the power cord.” This was the ‘palm-on-the-forehead’ moment of the decade.

“OK. I can test the cord, but you have to bring in the computer unless you want me to go to your place, and I know it’s 30 minutes away.” He gave me a deer in the headlights look and I tested the power cord. It was fine. I put it back in the bag. “Bring the computer next time, WITH the cord.” I didn’t charge him, and he left with an odd look on his face.

Later, I get a phone call from Ken. “Darndest thing. I plugged the power cord in and it booted right up. Must not have been in all the way for the socket in the tower.” (That reminded me of the time I was doing tech support for the local internet provider, and most of the time we told the people to unplug the modem and plug it back in again. Most of the time that fixed the problem.)

Then there was the “Cold Boot.” A friend of mine was a programmer and penetration tester on the side, so I thought she knew the terminology. A cold boot was startup from shutdown, and a warm boot was a restart. She had some problems with what seemed like memory allocation not getting released from the apps, so you either do a warm boot, which works most of the time, but if things get stubborn, then you shut it down (cold boot), wait a few minutes, and then re-start it, letting the capacitors discharge from the power supply.

It sounded like a cold boot option was the best bet. “Just give it a cold boot, and if that doesn’t do it, bring it in and I’ll do a RAM test, unless you want to do it there.”

“Sure thing. Thanks!”

So I thought that was that. Then she is walking up the driveway with the tower. I put it on the table, and looked around to the side. There was a shoe print on the side of the computer, with a noticeable dent in it.

My jaw dropped with a what the hell look on my face. “What is that?” I pointed at the print. “You do know what I was asking, right?”

She laughed. “I’m not that bad. Sure. But with everything turning to shit lately, I got frustrated.” She shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t care about the dent, but if anything is salvageable, let me know.” I tested the RAM, and one bank was bad, and she needed a lot more for what she was doing, so an upgrade was in order. All went well, and I got the dent out of the side.

“OK Suzie, it’s all set to go. Do you want me to clean off the print on the side, or use some clear spray varnish over it to preserve the print for posterity?” She laughed, and said she would decide later and pick it up for now. I think she actually did do the varnish, as someone told me about the print later.

With all the stories circulating on the Internet about weird and unbelievable things that people do to their computers, I thought these recollections would possibly bring a smile to your face. If it did, great. I’m sure we will be hearing funny AI stories at some point if the scenario doesn’t go all Terminator on us. I hear stories about Alexa all the time, and perhaps that will be another article later.

Oh, and when the optical mouse came out, it took all the fun away, didn’t it?

A friend of mine told me about the time her mom called Gateway support about her new computer not turning on. The Tech told her to check the plugs to make sure they were secure, which she did, but when she turned the power button on, as he advised, nothing happened. He asked if the unit was plugged into the wall. Yes, she replied, so he again told her to press the power button. She did and nothing happened. Baffled, he asked her, “Ma’am, which button are pressing to turn the unit on” She replied, “you know, the one on the monitor.” My friend says she laughed until tears ran down her face.

The Transgender Hegelian Dialectic
copyright 2022 Elizabeth Donavan

In the past, those criminal cabals calling themselves governments, responsible for the deaths of over 100 million people in the 20th century alone, chose to victimize certain populations in order to deflect attention from their own crimes. This has been successful for the most part due to the lack of intelligence and feeble willpower of the general population.

I am not singling out the American people. Absolutely not! After all, these con artists have been responsible for the deaths in several continents including Mao’s China, Lenin and Stalin’s Russia, as well as Hitler’s Germany. It is simple, you single out a population that you consider sub-human, and make them responsible for all the ills of society, deflecting blame from those really responsible, mainly the criminals posing as governments. One of the main tactics is to single out a minority group, and make it look like they are to blame for all the ills of society. In Hitler’s Germany, it was the Jews. In Lenin’s Russia, it was anyone that did not agree with them, in China, it was the Uighurs, who are being systematically exterminated.

In Orwell’s 1984, they would have Hate Week, to deflect the disgust that the people had for Big Brother and the government.

Remember this: It is always a deflection from the perpetrators.

Look there, not here. It’s not us, we’re here to protect you. That is what the government cabal says. Then there are the apologists-- “Well I would never do that...” Well of course you wouldn’t, but they would. Their machinations are about deflection and obscuration, hiding behind the lies of their own construction. Over the millenia, this has always happened, and it was up to the individual man and woman to see beyond those lies, and uncover the motives.

So what happened?

This time, the cabal learned from their mistakes. They medicated and poisoned their own population, reducing their cognitive abilities. But their tactics never changed. If it works, why would you? Of course, this is their weakness and downfall for the small fraction that have kept their faculties alive and alert. Students of history, and historians to their shame, have known this. So how does this work?

The Hegelian Dialectic consists of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Or problem, reaction, solution. But normally when this is forced, it goes a bit further: Problem, reaction, solution, OVERREACTION. That last one is the pendulum pushed way over to the extreme. It gets the job done for the cabal. This last one always results in something that no one ever suspected would happen. It is the most extreme outer limit of probability. But it happens every time. This is what results in mass psychosis and holocausts. It may not look like that in the beginning, but it happens.

But the cabal had a problem. It couldn’t use the Jews, as they still had the last holocaust of the Third Reich in their memory. It couldn’t use the blacks, as they still had the racism of Jim Crowe and the Civil War in recent history. Maybe not a recent memory, but enough to see beyond a recently constructed lie.

What to do...what to do…

But there is one sub group that is ripe for the picking. They seem to have an unease among the population. That is the transgenders. But where did they come from? Mostly from the environmental estrogens that poisoned the population that the cabal produced. So they created the situation, even though they would not admit it. Remember they are experts at deflection. Put their attention on their front pocket while you lift their wallet out of the back pocket. Girls are going though their first menses years earlier than they should, and that has also affected their psyches. In some cases, too much testosterone is produced from aromatase caused from an overabundance of estrogen-like chemical compounds. These girls are malformed, with larger clitorises and shallower vaginal tracts. Right now that percentage is on a frightening increase. Airport X-ray scanners single them out, and they are sexually abused by women groping them when all they wanted is to see their families. This is an outrage! But it would take thousands of dollars to fix their condition, and they know that. These women may not ever know a successful pregnancy, as their wombs are malformed as well. Fuck the transgender shit, this is what is what they don’t want you to know.

They suffer in silence. They think their lovers don’t like them because their tracts are shallow. They fear that they cannot have a family. They’re right. They will never be able to have a full term pregnancy or have a baby in their arms, suckling at their breast. You have no idea what this does to a woman. But they are never heard.

Instead, what we see are shills that do man in the street interviews about what is a woman. This is an insult to those that are stuck in between. The anger is tangible. The deflection creates more anger. At some point, there will be a break, a fracture. How many are there like this? It was estimated at one point that it was in the 1980’s one in 5000, and then one in 2500 in the 2000’s. And then one in 1250 in 2020. Do we see a trend here? Absolutely! The transgender deflection keeps this truth away from those that can do something about this, and now the medical community has lost all legitimacy after C19. Yes, the surgery would cost more than the average woman can afford, but they would be lumped into the transgender community, and that is the point. It deflects again.

But where is all this going? What is the end game?

Margaret Atwood had the answer. She did The Handmaid’s Tale, and it was a vision of a Theocracy that was created by a cabal after a revolution in the US. Yes, it was predictive programming, and the horror was so bad, I could not force myself to watch the later episodes. It’s that bad. Remember the last part of this is over-reaction. So promoting a trans agenda results in not only going back to a theocratic past that existed in the early 20th century, but way beyond that into centuries past, where women were properties of men, and did not have an existence outside his home. Or bank accounts. This is where it’s going.

I am serious about this. I can see this happening. This is where they want this transgender agenda to end with, a knee-jerk reaction that results in trans concentration camps for those that do not comply, and a small population of fertile females that are slaves to the cabal for breeding purposes. Most of the women are already infertile due to either birth deformities or the “shot”, that damaged their reproductive systems. This is pretty much a given. Another movie along the same line is “Children of Men”, that shows what happens during a fertility crisis that was created. More predictive programming.  

So that is where they want us to go. How do we de-rail this train?

One, arrest those responsible. I am serious about this one. There seems to be an amnesia about arresting the cabal. Why is that? Well, one reason is that most, if not all, of the “police” on the planet are listed in Dun and Bradstreet as “revenue collection agents.” No joke, check it out for yourself. So our cops are tax collectors. No wonder nothing is happening.

Think the military will do it? Well, the military is not the military either. They’re mercenaries in the employ of the corporate cabal. They’re in it up to their eyeballs. They might as well go in front of a mirror and say “You're under arrest!” LOL!

We need to collectively wake up and create a parallel system to deal with this crap. We can’t use their courthouses that are private club houses for the BAR (another private corporation). It will not work. A parallel system can have common or natural law courts that will deputize those that will be sent out to arrest those criminals that are to be tried in a real court instead of the fake ones we have now. They will have agents of the court, such as those in pre-1871 US, before it became a service corporation, to do this.

Those that thought they could count on the police realized that the criminals, pedos, and human traffickers are protected, and they would do nothing. The lawyers do nothing as well. The judges are nothing more than corporate agents in black dresses (Nice dress judgie, better take it in…). Once the parallel system is in place, then real justice can take place. Not before. We need our own cops, our own court house and judges. In common law, the judge is nothing more than a referee to make sure the process takes place without error. The jury does everything. No lawyers, just those that are arrested that are interviewed by the jury themselves. It is totally different from this twisted system that was created by the psychopaths that run everything. See the works by Lysander Spooner on this one. Adventures in Legal Land is another source to start with. Spooner was a judge in pre-civil war America, and he saw first hand the corruption of the system. “Let’s Abolish Government” is a good one. By the way, anarchy is not what you think, and neither is the word “government”. An-archos means without rulers, and govern-ment, heh heh, that one is really rich. “Govern” means control, and “ment” means mind. So government means mind control. So those worshiping government, the statists, are for mind control, and not for self rule or an-archos. This is how far they have gone to twist the meanings of everything.

I see two branches forming—one is absolute slavery, and the other freedom. Nothing in between.

It’s all or nothing at this point.

Which will you choose? 

 

Sweat Equity, What Does it Mean?

Eliza Donavan

“Sweat Equity” has been a term used through the years to equate labor and contributed resources rather than monetary ones. Those wanting to support a particular project or charity fall into these categories:

1) The Working Professional:

This category works a lot, perhaps too much, and has money but no time. They might like to contribute their experience, but simply haven’t got the time to do so. Their time is worth money, and that time that they spend at their profession is translated into monetary resources. This category is very careful about how and where they contribute, as they are usually living pretty close to the edge of their finances, despite their working hours. Their focus is on the checking or banking account, and anticipating any kind of drain on their resources, such as a health crisis. This is their main worry. They are interested in the improvement of the society that they are in, but within their financial limits.

2) The Entrepeneur:

This one is interested in a piece of the pie. They are primarily promoters, and salesmen. They may not have any technical expertise, but know how to extract resources and money from others. They are somewhat predatory, but some do have a conscience, and those realize that posterity will judge their actions, so they should leave a legacy behind. Not having a professional skillset to speak of, they rely on others to accomplish this. This category does not understand “sweat equity” and will give a few dollars or euros and expect a complete project at the end, in an unrealistically short period of time. Some of those in this category are New Agers, which makes matters worse, as they have an even more feeble grasp on reality. In this category, a serious look will have to be made to balance the effort to explain to them the scope of the project and ROI and the amount they are willing to contribute. This category comes by money easily, but they also squander it before it can be put into a creative channel. They cannot do any long-range planning, and will contribute on impulse, at the moment. Ask them tomorrow and they will not remember you. This one is very difficult.

3) Consultants & Part Time Professionals:

This category probably has a shop that they work in, and understand what it takes to put things together. They have free time, but value the monies that they finally were paid by their customers and clients. Their pocketbooks may be tighter than The Working Professional, but they want to see the project succeed. This category are those that know what it takes from concept to a finished product, such as a chair, working engine, etc. and want to contribute their expertise rather than money. However, if the project is beyond the scope of their resources, they understand that and will find a way to obtain resources, situations and locations to accomplish the goal. This category knows how much their labor is worth, and how difficult it is to get paid, and will want to contribute their labor and knowledge instead. This is fine, as they are like having someone working with you on the project, and they find satisfaction in doing all they can.

This is the key: emotional investment. If you are doing the CAD drawing, or machining/printing parts, or doing something to see the completion of the project, that involvement puts pressure into seeing it finished and working. Holding something tangible is far different from just an idea in your head. The more that are involved in pushing the project forward, the faster it will be moving, like any massive object in the real world.

4) Unemployed Professionals, or Retired:

This category has no money to speak of, but enormous amounts of time. For those that are retired, there is a desire to work on a project instead of vegetating in front of a television set. I have seen this many times, including a friend that began a newspaper in his 70’s despite those telling him he was too old to do so. This is their “swan song”, a last project to contribute their decades of knowledge in before leaving this world. They want the project to be something to remember them by, and will dedicate all they can to see it completed. Being older, they will work at their own pace, knowing their limitations. These individuals are a gold mine of detailed know-how, and their sweat equity is desired above all, as they can not only troubleshoot projects and see hidden flaws unseen to others, but will be able to shorten development time with that knowledge.

With those being said, there is also the matter of what the “equity” part of the “sweat equity” means. This will vary from individual to individual. Here is an example in dollars per hour:

Editor: $25-30

Draftsman: $30

Machinist: $30-40

Carpenter: $50

Electronic consultant: $50

Engineering consultant: $100

Law consultant: $120

So we see that in sweat equity, different professions will contribute different amounts of time. If I do an hour of CAD work, that is equal to contributing 30 dollars. If I do enormous amounts of number crunching and computer time in Engineering, then that hour is worth 100 dollars. The gray area comes in something like business plans, as it can be done by an editor at $30 per hour, or a legal version at four times that rate, at $120. So we have to be aware of what everyone’s time is worth in the contribution process. Also, there is less of an emotional investment in giving money than rolling up one’s sleeves and making the parts. That has a euro or dollar value depending on their field of expertise, and also has an unseen or visceral quality that connects one to the project.

So we have three different kinds of involvement:

1) Money

2) Labor/resources

3) Emotional

Conclusion

As I mentioned earlier, it will be less of a connection in funding a project and being at a distance than buying parts from a Ferreteria or Ebay, taking them to the shop to help assemble things. The sense of accomplishment is not there when there is no hands-on involvement. An analogy is giving someone money to attend a university and congratulating them on graduating, versus actually attending the courses and passing the tests. This is what is meant by an unseen visceral connection. The same thing is seen when we view a mountain climber on a video versus personally climbing that mountain.

It is my desire that this clarifies the concept of sweat equity, if at least a bit. If not let me know.

Eliza

The One-Two Punch

Copyright 2020 Elizabeth Donavan

It’s been a while since I wrote for the blog. It takes more than a few minutes here and there to collect thoughts into a coherent whole, and put it down on whatever media one uses—be it paper, napkins, typing on a Smith Corona, or computer. Time is an element, as well as state of mind. If one has time, but is dead tired, then what comes out becomes a non-coherent ramble. I have seen this far too often in other writers, and I can see that they push themselves to write something before they fall asleep.

This is written in mid-day, and I took, or perhaps stole, time to do this. It’s important.

What has earth shaking import to do this? I am in Europe in March 2020, and witnessing the panic over the so-called corona virus. Some are making jokes about it, and others are freaking out in a panic and barricading themselves indoors. Yet others are saying that it will never affect them, and are going on their business as if it’s not out there. A more effective and mature approach is to acknowledge that it is out there, and what it can do. It’s like the same conscious approach one would have to a swarm of bees or wild animal.

The scientist in me wants to know what it is. So research is done in this vein (no pun intended, or maybe it is) and odd little snippets of facts are discovered. What follows is what filters through my skill set and knowledge base.

What do we know about this thing?

1) It has an odd set of properties as far as infection—it sometimes acts like a bacterium, and other times like a virus. Normal viruses do not do this.

2) It is both airborne, like a virus, and seems to hibernate in spore forms like a bacillus can do.

3) It seems to have two different periods of expiration outside the body, one short, like viruses, and another longer like a bacillus.

4) It gives some colds, and others pneumonia symptoms. In others it causes organ failure.

So what does this dual nature indicate? Two entities.

In November of last year, I felt compelled to read the book “The White Plague” by Frank Herbert. It was a chilling account of a man that took his revenge on the IRA by genetically engineering a plague by putting a virus inside of a bacteria that would be the delivery system. The bacteria was pneumococcal, one that normally causes pneumonia. The virus was inside the bacterium.

The reason it was so chilling to me was that it felt like I wasn’t the only one reading this, and someone else was doing this as well. Perhaps they were. It looks like this might have been the inspiration for whoever put this thing together. My background in biology and biochem, as well as health care made me take notice of this, and it looked far too plausible to merely dismiss as science fiction. Herbert back in 1983 talked to someone who knew about these things, and perhaps they shelved it at that time, much to our benefit.

But someone took it farther, and did it.

So let’s look at what we might be dealing with:

1) A bacterium normally associated with pneumonia, with one or quite possibly two viruses inside it, like a bus with many seats, bacteria are big and roomy, and have space for more than one virus.

Let’s go one step further. We know that this thing mutates like crazy. We, meaning those in the field of biology, know that if one places two viruses inside the same bacterium, it can conjugate the genetic material producing a hybrid of the two. So if one puts a rhino virus along with the corona virus inside the carrier, it then creates a third entity, with both properties.

Here’s what this does: If the immune system “sees” the bacterial infection, it places the priority on that instead of the virus, and when it tries to take care of the mutated versions, it places the body into a cytokine storm, and a lethal fever results. Also, the disease affecting the heart is important, as endocarditis is bacterial and not viral. That is a dead giveaway that this thing has a dual nature. The bacterial infections in the organs are not secondary, they are primary from the carrier. In “The White Plague” it was mentioned that antibiotics made it worse. Why is that? Antibiotics dissolve the cell wall of the bacterium carrying the viral components, and release them. So treating the bacterial infection begins the viral infection. This was also mentioned about the “covid-19”, as patients are getting re-infected after getting over the initial infection. If you already have antibodies circulating, it should not be a problem. So something goes into hiding, and comes back. How does it do that?

Bacteria can go into a spore form with a coating similar to the carapace of insects, which fools the immune system. Inside the spore the viruses hide away, including the mutated versions. When the bacteria “wake up” the viruses can be released if the patients are still on antibiotics, and the viral infection pops up. So we have a one-two punch.

Now, this can be horribly difficult to make a vaccine for. One would have to administer the antiviral vaccines first, and then afterwards treat the bacterial form. These would be in reverse of the delivery system. We want the immune system to recognize the viral forms before the carriers are destroyed that hide them to prevent the cytokine storm that would follow otherwise.

What else would we see? The bacterial would feed off of sugars, so we want to keep the glucose levels from going too high. Diabetics would be a high risk group, and hypoglycemics in a low one. Those that are sugar junkies, or consume processed foods loaded with sugars would also put themselves in a high risk for infection. Bacterial carriers would also like a low pH, so junk food junkies are in high risk, as are coffee drinkers and anything that would acidify the blood. Anything that would increase the porosity of the cell membranes would be bad as well. Leaky gut would be bad news, and a high risk as well.

Now for good news, at least for naturopaths: There are many essential oils that are bactericidal as well as viricidal, which is exactly what we would need. I don’t need to go into the application of these, as they already know that. They also know about colloidal silver as well. Treating the secondary infections can still be successful, and the patients will have to be quarantined during treatment. For the Rife practitioners: Treating the viral component first before the bacterial component would be needed. The viral component will need to be neutralized before they are released by “popping” the bacteria. More of a broad spectrum would be needed for broadcasting, as there are a large mutation population among the viral components. Ozone would be effective, as well as large density negative ion generators.

OK, now for the disclaimer: This does not constitute medical advice, so there. These are theories that have to be proven, and I would love to be right, but also have to realize that it might not be the case.

(Middle finger going up for those who made the virus, and promoting bio-warfare).

The Golden Compass, Suppressed by Design

I watched the Golden compass, a movie that was made 11 years ago in 2007, and was intrigued by the blue plasma globes that ran all their carriages, airships, etc. The story line, for those who haven’t seen the movie, is about a man who at first is said to be the uncle of a little girl that catches the interest of a governing body called the Magisterium, that has the aim to destroy all free will in that alternative reality, and seeks to bridge universes to do that to all realities. This is kind of a kinder, gentler evil empire unlike the one in Star Wars, but still an evil empire when it really comes down to it. There are other things going on, like experimenting on children (AKA MK Ultra on this side), and trying to kill the man who is trying to make the bridge between the universes. He wants to learn from them, and the Magisterium wants to conquer and control them….big difference!

The little girl, Lyra Belacqua, has the golden compass that has what they were calling dust swirling inside of it. The “dust” interpenetrates universes, and in M theory two things do that: virtual particles and gravity. This is really heavy stuff for a children’s movie, not pun intended, but I couldn’t have simplified it and made it as understandable as Philip Pullman did. One of the weirder aspects of the movie are the animal companions that represent the soul, and is in Wiccan a familiar. Each person has one, and without it one not only loses their soul, but their free will as well, and that is what the alternate reality doctor Mengelas are working on. Sound familiar? Actually, it makes you wonder if the Magisterium is another name for the Illuminati on this end, changing the names to protect the guilty.

The “official” story for not completing the trilogy was interference from the Catholic church, which makes no sense, as they blasted several other movies and artists, and that didn’t make any difference, the most notable one being The Matrix trilogy. However, let’s detail the items that could derail and censor the project:

1. A world running on free energy. That’s a big no no, and has killed a lot of motion picture projects, and put the rest into obscurity with negative reviews, which this one also had. Has no one thought of the reviewers getting paid off? Really? Don’t believe the rot inside Rotten Tomatoes. Another movie that was suppressed, but was actually made a trilogy of, is called “Atlas Shrugged.” Why is this? It features an atmospheric electricity generator, which is free energy, and inventors that bail out of society to form their own breakaway community. Check it out. Last I checked, it was still available online.
2. A Magisterium, that is pretty much a governing body that decides what is right for humanity, but is internally corrupt, and metastasized into something that instead of protecting them, controls them quite rigidly. Deja Vu anyone?
3. Child experimentation in mind control, supported by the Magisterium above. They explain that missing children are lab rats for the Magisterium. If they came right out and claimed that in real life in this universe, no one would believe it. But removing this to a different universe and alternate reality somehow allows it to be believable. This is a common usage of storytellers through the ages to reach the masses, right down to the lowest common denominator.

So with all these reasons, it was the perfect storm to induce an apoplectic fit into the controllers, and turn public opinion against a good movie. To be sure, there have been movies that showed how public opinion is engineered, most notably “Wag the Dog”, that came out in 1997, before the Iraq war, and even though this was released within the 10 years of the event horizon of public amnesia, that war still happened even though it showed in painful detail how a war was manufactured to divert attention from real issues.

So is there any hope? Sure there is. We each need to exercise our option of free will, and use a filter of our own common sense. There are so many out there that have abdicated their free will, and allowed all that wisdom buried deep within their soul to become forgotten. It’s time to dig that up and become connected with all that you are and can become. Don’t let that spark go out, and instead fan the flame.

Yes, it takes an effort of will, and no one said it would be easy. It never is. Western civilization is not geared toward personal development. It is geared to controlling and chaining down individual will. It was always like that, and we have to open our eyes and recognize that fact. Once that is done, we can make a new concensus version of reality that allows for, and encourages individual creativity.

We can be our own golden compass.

Life Will Find a Way

I saw the video “Where Do You Draw the Line”, about the destruction of the Amazon River basin and forest by the oil companies, and it caused me to do a long introspection. They were destroying the lungs of of the planet for 8 days worth of the world’s consumption of oil. 8 days, and it would take decades to undo the damage, if not centuries.

So, we have pollution of the forest, which contains the most ecological diversity of the whole planet, and in which new species are not only being discovered, but are EVOLVING. Yes, I meant that: evolving. They are appearing and filling niches that are left by species that are going extinct. Life does that—filling in the gaps, like a machine that grows a new gear that has broken and fallen apart. It has an innate intelligence.

Millions of years ago, carboniferous forests fossilized because bacteria did not know how to break down something that was newly evolved: lignin. These fossilized forests became the coal seams we see today. For centuries that carbon was naturally sequestered, and the CO2 levels dropped. During that time, bacteria evolved to break down and metabolize lignin and cellulose. These bacteria also exist in the gut of termites, and break down cellulose into sugars that they can metabolize. There have also been instances where bacterial colonization has occurred in the human gut, and fiber has been converted in the same way leading to unexplained obesity. But to get back to the case in point:

We are putting out a substance, oil, that does not have a way of being broken down easily into an ecosystem that is intelligent enough to find that way. Does this sound like a recipe for disaster? It does to me. There was a book written years ago called “Mutant 59: the Plastic Eaters.” In that book, a scientist genetically tinkers with a strain of bacteria that metabolizes plastic. Is this far fetched? Absolutely not—in fact it is prophetic. At the moment, there are several strains of bacteria that are being developed to deal with oil slicks and spills in the ocean. Some are being carefully deployed with the knowledge that once you let the genie out of the bottle, it is hard to get it back inside. There is already a fungus that eats polyethylene, and urethane used in insulation. The really big complication is that these plastics that make up a big part of our civilization are oil based, and it is a short hop from eating oil to eating plastic made from that oil. Of course, there will be countermeasures that will be used, and we are all familiar with the methods to weatherproof wood to keep it from rotting from microorganisms that can metabolize the lignin. The same will be true for the plastics.

But in the interim we will be looking at a “plastic apocalypse” that no sci fi movie has ever addressed because it is too close to reality. What will this look like? Let’s look at one possible scenario: In the Amazon basin, an oil company has been dumping crude oil into the river in reckless behavior typical to large corporations. One of the natives sees a bubbling mass in the water, and a clean spot developing. This is the oil being broken down into carbon compounds whilst hydrogen gas is liberated along with methane. It smells like rotting vegetable matter. He sees white and green spots developing on leaves that line the shore that have been splashed with oil. The oil and tar are being broken down into constituent parts, with the carbon precipitating out. A woman moves a plastic tarp that has a hole in it, and notices it is sticky to the touch.

It has begun.

The newly mutated bacterium moves with the oil, looking for food. On land, it spreads toward the source, and finds a puddle that is in the high traffic area for the workers. One of the workers steps on the puddle, and it hitches a ride to the well head. A drop falls off the boot and into the well head, and seeps downward. It then finds a perfect growth medium. It begins multiplying. They secure the well head, and let the gas flare off instead of collecting it like they should. After a while, they notice that the pressure is rising instead of falling, and the color of the flame is changing. They do not think twice about this one, and after the flare is done, begin pumping. The oil/tar seems thicker than normal, and is heated. It is either put into pipelines, or sent to the tanker trucks, where a leak splashes onto a hose for an air line. It then finds a different food source, and mutates to accommodate that medium. The driver checks his hoses, and notices a sticky residue, as if the hose were melting. He shruggs it off and sticks the rag in his back pocket that he wiped the hose off with. It then spreads to his neoprene boots and plastic parts of his truck. He then takes it to civilization, where rain washes it off onto an asphalt road, finding another growth medium to snack on. YUM! He returns to the truck hours later to find it a mess with the upholstery, steering wheel and plastic parts looking like cooked pasta drooping down and running. The soles come off his boots, and the plastic fillings in his mouth fall out leaving a weird taste.

It takes a while to spread. The oil in the tanker infects the refinery, and all the seals begin to fall apart resulting in explosions. The refinery is shut down, and by the time they realize that it is an organism doing this, it has spread to most of the planet. Melting insulation in wiring causes power outages, and plastic computer cases melt into pools of goo. All of this is in the first week of infection. Power plants are shut down, and nuke plants that are not shut down soon enough experience meltdowns. They notice that silicon based plastics are affected the least—for now anyway. It is a carbon based organism after all. Plastic piping falls apart as the organism adapts to handle toxic poly vinyl chloride, and water leaks pop up all over. National emergencies are declared, and defense computers break down resulting in not missile launches, but explosions inside the silos because of the plastics there. A moratorium on nuclear energy is declared. Conductors are wrapped up in fabric in a stopgap measure to keep things operating. Different plastics are being formulated to replace what is breaking down that are not oil based.

A month later 50% of the oil wells are infected. Oil first turns to tar, and then solidifies. Many oil wells stop producing. The only ones that are still working are beyond the temperature tolerances for the bacillus, which are becoming extremophiles and adapting to those as well. At this time things have come to a grinding halt, and after an economic collapse the world is struggling to climb back to where it was. It will take decades to recover. This is the post-oil world. To be sure, it is still being produced from waste, and stored carefully to prevent “the rot” from taking their precious supplies. But for the most part the world is forcibly shoved into alternative energy sources, and (gasp) free energy. The possible perpetrators for this are denounced and vilified, but it doesn’t bring back the dead billion. Of course, it wasn’t a lab that did this, or a mad scientist, but nature herself.

But why did this happen? Monocultures are vulnerable structures, and are just inviting disaster. Manufacturing so much based on oil, and being horribly sloppy with the management of the raw materials at the same time, is just asking for this to occur. Monocultures fail, from the potato famine in Ireland, to wheat blights in several countries. Technological diversity gives redundancy, and if one part fails, others are there to fill that niche. We should take a lesson from ecosystems on this, and the chicken farmer that has his entire livlihood wiped out by bird flu. Living systems are intelligent and self-regulating. If they see an imbalance, an organism evolves to bring that system back into balance. Sometimes that organism is not something that we would prefer to have around, and can create a lot of destruction in its wake. Sometimes it gently fills a niche, and works together with the biological wheelwork to regain balance. It is a matter of magnitude. If the pendulum has been pushed too far to one side, it has that much farther to swing before it finally reaches the center again.

It is all up to us.

The Other Fork in the Road

I’m writing this after a conversation that some friends and I had about the tech that we had to live with, and especially microwave ovens. The story about that one is particularly important in understanding how things are decided for us, as opposed to our collective decision of what to use, and what to discard.

So consider just this one instance.

Once upon a time, in the 1960’s, there were two technologies. One was based on sound, and another was the child of the military industrial complex. I can remember a book called “The World of Silent Sound”, about ultrasonics, which at the time was called supersonics. In the book were photos of different applications of this new technology, from scrambling an egg inside the shell using a rotating field of sound waves, and cooking it at the same time to cleaning without the need for any soap, as it would alter the surface tension of water allowing the soil to easily wash off of the clothing. Also, since it was less harsh on the clothing, no fabric softener was needed either. There was also a photo of a whistle that was placed in the focal point of a parabolic dish. A short distance from that a hand held a paper tissue that you normally blow your nose in, and it was bursting into flame through molecular friction, similar to rubbing your hands together. A sonic oven was also discussed, which would put the food in a rotating sound field with transducers on 3 sides. It could cook food and emulsify gravies at the same time by matching it’s acoustic resonance frequency.

Things looked like they were going really well for ultrasonics. It could be used for breaking up gall stones, cooking food, cleaning...the applications looked endless. So what happened?

Raytheon happened. They had unlimited resources for microwave applications. Wheelbarrows full of money were thrown at them during the cold war, and they saw other applications for microwaves. The main one was for heating, as radar techs knew all too well what happened if they went into the microwave beam--they might get “cooked”. Actually, that used that term. So the corporate big wigs put two and two together, and made an oven that used the very same radiation that cooked and altered the tissue of the techs, giving them cancer in the process, to cook food. They seem to have conveniently left out the part about the cancer. That might affect the bottom line, after all.

OK, so how do the two systems differ? Well, sound works by molecular friction, like rubbing your hands together as mentioned previously. Microwaves, unlike the “domain rotation” nonsense that they promoted over the years, works by inducing voltages inside the food, and those voltages produce currents that literally electrocute the food through what is called ohmic heating. This is the same way that prisoners are electrocuted in the electric chair. They literally cook to death from the inside out—a very barbaric way to kill someone, but most governments are not famous for ethical considerations. I’m surprised they never tossed the prisoners into a big microwave oven—after all, it does the same thing.

But another problem is that non-ionizing radiation is not supposed to produce chemical changes. However, it’s not just non-ionizing radiation that we have to worry about. It’s more like electrochemistry, as you induce currents inside the food that cooks it. AHA! So we have electrochemical changes, similar to what happens when we blast food with ionizing radiation, or treat it with gamma rays. In that case, we have things called URPs, (no, not a belch). That stands for unique radiological products. These are chemical compounds that are not normally found in nature, and the body is unfamiliar with dealing with them, having a biological freakout moment when they see them.

And yes, those are carcinogens.

So we have two very separate technologies: one that induces chemical changes in the food, which can be tasted, and the other that heats through molecular friction. Since the time of its introduction in the 1960s, the microwave oven has had more and more evidence piling up that it is a really bad idea to use it for heating and cooking food. I remember a hot dog cooker from the 60’s that had two prongs that you stuck on either side of the hot dog, and then plugged that into the wall. It did the same thing, but somehow people never connected the two. Recently, there has been a study that showed when microwave treated water was used on plants after letting it cool down, that the plants either grew stunted or died altogether. It did something to the water. Now we know that the electron bond angles change when you subject water to ionizing or non-ionizing radiation, and that it is really bad news.

So after decades of going down the wrong fork in the road, are we doomed to follow that? No, in fact that tech is still there awaiting development. The lesson here is that once we have knowledge of which tech is life giving, and which is deadly, we can dump the stuff that is killing us and go back to the good stuff, similar to cancer survivors discovering that salads are a really good idea. Right now the only applications that most people are familiar with are ultrasonic nebulizers and jewelry cleaners. But it goes so much farther than that, and that is the road we must travel. I propose that we call the oven the “ultrawave”. Imagine having a washing machine that uses no soap—the same with dishwashers. You can do the same thing with shower heads, and have a shower with no soap that is also tuned to knock out pathogens, so you walk out of the shower clean on the inside as well as out. There already exist therapeutic baths that disintegrate gall and kidney stones. Not many people know about those because surgical intervention is far more profitable.

That is another lesson—we need to be aware of the motives of why certain technologies are used and promoted. If it is for the extraction of our personal resources, acting as a parasite, then we need to dump that practice or tech. If it is for self-empowerment, and independence, then it needs to be promoted.

It is all about consciousness, and self-empowerment. Let’s all be awake and aware!