The aquifers in Minnesota, the land of ten thousand lakes, are so polluted with nitrates and chemicals like gender-bending Atrazine, they don't recommend even showering in it. Corn and soybeans are more sacred than water here, I think instead of water a lot of people are 70% corn and soybeans.
I assume that is part of the plan, so you have to buy bottled water or filters. GDP, see. Water is like pollinators, essential to human existence. I think that is part of the plan too, to keep people from caring about the things that matter most. Separated from what is important they can sell us anything.
It is. But in the city lot I held for 22 years I planted twenty fruit trees and 200 species of plants and fungi, I built a big pond for the birds to bathe in and drink from, I grew a lot of vegetables. I intend to expand the concept on 80 acres where there is a one acre spring fed pond.
A lot of people did not like my city lot when I started turning the entire thing into a diverse micro-ecosystem, but a lot of kids in the neighborhood grew up eating the berries that grew along the sidewalk, and by the time I left a lot of people stopped by and told me how much they appreciated it.
This is my old blogspot. It is not organized very well and the search engine is next to worthless, but there are many posts on the garden and greenhouse, and some of the battles I fought with the city gov about it.
Nice big garden, which is a lot of upkeep. People get used to seeing it, which normalizes it for them, which is a service to them, because their mind may go to it some day, when they are in need of a plan. Kitchen gardening is a remarkably good plan most of the time.
Many of the most northern lakes are doing much better than lakes in Ag country or the cities. My favorite place in the world is the Boundary Waters Wilderness. Many lakes there I would drink from the lake without filters, though not close to shore. Southern lakes are choked with algae, Eurasian milfoil etc from excess runoff. Some lakes have toxic algae blooms. Nitrates and chemicals settle into the aquifers though, where rural people have wells. I might stray into hyperbole but the waters are in much worse shape than when I was young, despite that we are often told we have some of the most stringent environmental laws in the country.
I spent the entire paddling season there solo in 2002. I have spent probably 300 nights in a tent there since 2000. I was recently there for a planned 8 day run, but I brought my 11yr old nephew for his first trip, he wasn't ready and we paddled in and then out the next day.
I'm looking at the EWG database for various zip codes in MN. I don't see anything about not showering in it ... but they clearly recommend reverse osmosis filters to get rid of the scary stuff.
I've never heard it as a public service announcement, but that is what my new neighbors in central Minnesota tell me. I am looking more into it, am going to have the water tested and call some people.
I think most of us feel like there is not much we can do. City folk often blame farmers but Ag economics are dictated in Washington and Wall Street, and city lakes are frankly in worse shape than in corn country. Water comes out of the tap, electricity comes out of the socket, most people don't think much beyond that. All I can say is, I have done everything with the land I have lived on to build healthy soil and expand biodiversity for birds and pollinators.
I am an organic/biodynamic gardener but when I talk to people about soil desertification because of the use of chemical fertilizers, I have a feeling that I am talking to a brick wall, sadly.
More people understand the concept than twenty years ago, but it is still not a lot of people. That is not very resilient, I don't think, but what are you going to do but keep gardening? I have long figured, most people don't care about this now, but I have the feeling after food shortages become the real deal, a lot more people are going to want and need to know, and suddenly we expert gardeners might go from hardly noticed to the most useful people around.
I had a little house in the Minnehaha neighborhood in Minneapolis, I sold in June. I'm currently in Minneapolis helping my sister with some remodeling. But I will be moving to Alexandria soon to live with my aging parents part time, the rest of the time in a trailer on 80 acres 30 minutes north of Alexandria.
Good thing they didn't have a digital currency tied to a social credit score in the lorax, to limit the number of bottles you could buy, depending on how obedient you have been.
I find it interesting that this article in 'The Guardian' (where else?) makes no mention of the creaking Victorian public water infrastructure in Britain that loses millions of gallons of this life sustaining liquid every year through leakage. It conveniently overlooks the fact that , this summer, raw sewage is being discharged into the seas surrounding these islands. This is because the cartel of water companies that controls our water supply has persistently failed to invest in the infrastructure, in order to 'minimise operating costs'.
Such investments - in the unlikely event of ever being carried out - would eat into the rocketing profits that said water companies make. Meanwhile, we the plebeian inhabitants of these islands are faced with water taxes (called water rates) that are increasing exponentially. We are being taxed for the necessity of water, but have no say in how our taxes are spent. Somehow, the year 1776 springs to mind, I don't know why.
I'll shut up now and enjoy my breakfast of bugs (I particularly like eating Klaus the Cockroach), washed down with a cup of grey waste water that now has been 'improved' with mandatory fluoridation. (The second-greatest achievement of our former Secretary of State for 'Health' Sajit Jab it). Then, I shall take a dip in the raw sewage that now laps the shores this once Sceptred Isle. I never knew how globalisation could be so good for the planet and for my health!
"but what are we going to do, eat insects and drink sewage water?"
And in the Amazon some tribes eat forest tarantulas. They are GIANT insects. The Indians know how to burn all the poisonous spines off. The announcer claimed it tasted like crab. The Indian eating the tarantula with its juices dribbling down his chin grinned in triumph. "God has sent this tarantula to us to prevent us from starving in times of drought. We are so fortunate. We call him the blessed one." (I made up that last sentence about "the blessed one.") But otherwise this tale is pretty much as I described. I wondered how I could be so disgusted--and this aboriginal elderly man so happy. "You will own nothing--and you will be happy." WE ARE SO SPOILED. I'm trying to practice being happy eating bugs. This was a challenge on "Fear Factor" a TV show I used to enjoy where one of the challenges was how many disgusting things you could eat. You were disqualified if you vomited.
I know, the customs are so different in different cultures. I remember reading about Chuckchis (an indigenous nation living in the North of Russia), and how (at least according to the book I was reading), the kids would pick the worms out a slain animal's wound, and just eat them like candy. Assuming this is what actually happened, to me it feels completely disgusting but that is why we are all different, and it's a good thing.
The point is free will... and the people trying to shame us into austerity are NOT practicing it. And have no wisdom. And are liars and not qualified to preach at anyone about anything at all, unless they are teaching at a liars' bootcamp.
My anthropology professor was trained to respect all culture. She described the most awful practices--usually involving making females suffer. Such as the bound feet of Chinese women. Or there was another tribe. They cut off one finger joint of females when a member of their family died. The older females were often using mainly their thumbs. I was so angry and outraged. I was in music school as a flutist. I NEED all my fingers. I HATE this custom. I will save at least one female baby and raise her so she keeps her fingers and has free will. NOPE. Nobody in her tribe will marry her. They think she is not one of them and doesn't deserve to be accepted. The fear of losing acceptance will force you to do almost anything. I think I will go out and get vaccinated tomorrow. (So far coercion hasn't yet reached me since I'm almost 80. I hope I die before the digital wallets take all my money away.
Thanks. I recently purchased this book from Amazon: "The case against the sexual revolution." by Louse Perry. I think the author was interviewed on youtube. She said that the ability to have sex without too much fear of conception has "liberated" females to have the same attitude to sex as males. We females can now screw without commitment, have sex as a series of one night stands, feel no compulsion to get married or to maintain a stable monogamous relationship. But many women are not comfortable treating their bodies in this way. However, the young women now are pressured into having sex earlier than they might prefer in order to attract and keep a boy friend. This is viewed as freedom. But it's not really freedom for all when ONE ACTION becomes the standard of the community. Earlier many males were frustrated by the sexual standards. I guess someone will always be frustrated. But free will is not always possible.
Free will is not always free will. This is so sad. This is a principle that deserves exploration. I remember in Gian Carlo Minotti's opera, The Consul. The freedom fighter, John Sorel, surrenders himself at the end to the secret police so that he can be executed as a terrorist and traitor to his country. They will brand him a terrorist and make an example of him. He is doing it to save his wife, Magda, and his son. Because if he flees the country, he knows they will execute his family instead. So he gives himself up. They ask him to confess. "Are you coming with us of your own free will." "Yes," he replies. "I'm coming with you of my own FREE WILL." His emphasis lets us know what he is not allowed to say to the public. "I am being coerced by tyrants in order to protect my family. I HATE IT." Little does he know that his baby already died of starvation. And his wife has just finished committing suicide to save him so he won't have to sacrifice himself and can flee the country so at least one of them gets out alive. Nobody gets out alive if you sacrifice yourself without making sure the authorities have your best interests at heart (they don't)
There is a book I really like, completely different from the one you mentioned but it addresses what you are talking about from a perspective of a tradition of a small community in Africa. To my senses, it is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read!! it's called "The Spirit of Intimacy," by Sobonfu Some, who was a wonderfully wise woman, and who sadly passed away a few years ago.
It’s all about the sacred and because this is disappearing there is technocracy , the mechanics of love, sex you name it, and my experience tells me we should start again with basics the physical, leading to if it can have it’s natural way into intimate feelings and who now’s into the sacred, god.
Living not into a western nor American culture, I’m still learning everyday and more and more unlearning, to come back to what life is all about, a sacred life. Not to find anymore in the US nor Europe.
Free will doesn't mean that you can do anything. Jordan Peterson makes this point in his lectures. Because our society is so wealthy, those of us born in 1940 and later may believe that we deserve health, we deserve food, we deserve a stable income. Peterson makes the claim that the powerful will ALWAYS try to grab more than their fair share and argue that it is fair. We shouldn't be gas lit. Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal outcome. Equal outcome, he argues, means taking things away from people so everyone will be forced to live at the same low level. But the elites are NOT playing fair. They are using their wealth and power to KEEP the expensive lifestyles that they prefer while taking more and more from the rest. But a lot of people like to feel that we can adjust to the coming global shortages WITHOUT anyone making any sacrifices but the upper 1% upper 5% upper 10% upper 30%? I think it may no longer be possible for every Western citizen to live in relative wealth--while the developing world subsidizes our lifestyle with their austerity.
Diana, thank you for speaking your mind! I have opinions (a lot of them, both philosophical and non-philosophical) but it would require a whole "War and Peace" to respond adequately, and I need to come up with a shorter version. :)) I'll try to find the right words and respond.. :)
I think when we speak together the results will become "our mind." Everyone assumes that we each have a separate belief. And when they don't agree, maybe I'm somehow hurting you or offending you. I just felt depressed at the idea of "free will." But what did you mean by that? And what did I think you meant? And what did I mean? Somehow, my association to "free" is "you can do anything." And in my experience it isn't true. I can't even be free in my own apartment! Since I don't have enough energy to accomplish all that I would like to do in one day. Ah that uncooked dinner. But you are FREE Diana! You can cook whatever you want! Yes, if only I had the energy. You know this post MADE me subscribe I loved it so much. I consider myself happily enslaved by your substack which I now adore.
I have a male friend who constantly criticizes me. GET TO THE POINT! he urges. But why must we always get to the point? If we wander around we may find new points. YES but I'm BUSY. I must finish (reading, listening, fixing) ASAP. He has urged me to keep my emails down to 4 lines. Thus I defy him. But please tell me your secret for writing a shorter version. And I hope you don't feel that I would object to War and Peace--or even require you to respond adequately. By "adequately" did you mean "good enough to convince me"? I know very little philosophy. I wish I knew more. I went to Juillard music school and then graduated from Columbia University Graduate Faculties with a degree in sociology. All the standard college curriculum is missing from my brain. But I could play you some great flute music. You can convince me or teach me with even an "inadequate" post. Perhaps just the beginning of "war and peace" as a teaser?
LOL. You seem like a passionate thinker, nuois. I'd like to learn more from you. I only just started listening to JP so I haven't yet been offended by him. I guess you mean listen all I want but don't pay attention. I don't know you very well so I can't automatically assume I must give up my free will and obey everything you say. I sometimes do that (like with my mother). But wouldn't you rather argue with me and CONVINCE me about things? Isn't that more fun? I'd really like to know what triggers you. I will confess I think JP thinks vaccines are ok. I had a desire to strangle him which I throttled. I also told myself I could convince him later about his wrong beliefs. I used to get triggered over every little (little?) vaccine death and uncaring authorities. Good luck with that. The authorities have their own agenda and it is unaffected by scientific facts (from which they protect us with their censorship) So just knowing we are RIGHT is not enough to affect them.
While I personally am not drawn to Peterson (what he says mostly makes sense, not all but a lot of it... at least to the extent I checked it out which was not extensive... but it didn't strike me as novel or revolutionary. Plus, I think that he has (had?) an addiction problem? I obviously wish him well, and things happen, but I subjectively prefer thoughts that originate from a person himself, as opposed to chemical assistants.
That said, there are ways to express disagreements without being condescending! :) We are all talking here like human beings, and can agree or disagree all day. On my end, by default I assume that everyone I am talking to here is intelligent and sincere. And we come from different backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and so on... but with respectful demeanor and sincerity, even disagreement can be enjoyable! Not so much when we jump at each other over talking points...
Nuois, you seem to have quite a personality! How dd you come about my Substack? I am curious. And by the way, I could care less about the opinion of Peterson (this way or the other) but respecting people on this page is important under all circumstances! Talking down at others based on disagreements says more of the person talking than the person being criticized. It's just not productive to do that. Anyone could be right or wrong on any of the issues but respect and gracious treatment of others are more important than the talking points, in my book.
I really love this rant. I'm playing it over and it's wonderful. It's the best cursing ever without the F-bomb. Ratnazis is good, too. There was a man in the subway I saw yesterday cursing at the top of his lungs shouting motherf*r over and over and punching the air. (Our NY subways are filled with such people) He was the best motivational speaker ever because our whole subway car instantly gave him our attention. You are also in the running. But I vote for you because more creative, more intelligent, and less repetitious. You are definitely not a moron.
Thanks nuois. jp doesn't spend much time on vaccines Thank God! I can't entirely ignore him because his ideas about work and religion and ethics have been so inspirational to me. It's so funny. He goes along with vaccine policy--but totally DEFIES Canada law forcing use of transgender pronouns. If he ever learned the truth about vaccines (which we all will--just a matter of time) he would also defy vaccination. HA wishful thinking maybe. Like my boyfriend is going to stop drinking (the koolaid) and really pay attention to me.
Well I liked him a lot because he talked a lot about ethics. He said it was ethical to buckle down and work. I love the work ethic. I'm so tired now from Chronic Fatigue, I often think of giving up. But JP motivated me to keep trying. Plus I used to attend evangelical protestant churches, so I loved his lectures about the meaning of the old testament. I like to analyze myths and see how they might fit modern life. And, FINALLY, JP reminisced about his marriage and how he met his wife. He has known her since childhood. He really admired the spunky way she would argue with him. That made me feel much less defensive about arguing with people. I found it romantic. Now tell me why you dislike him? I think a lot of people dislike him. Please give your reasons. He does seem a bit "wounded" or "vulnerable" and I like that because I have a somewhat pessimistic approach to life myself.
I wanted to give you a heart Nuols but substack refused to give it for some stupid @#$ reason. We are probably listening to different jp youtube videos, so it's like the blind men and the elephant. Plus I have a defect of only hearing what I want to hear. My mother told me this is one of my major flaws! But nuols it does matter if I think he's "nice" and he's actually promoting something very bad. Did you say earlier that he believes in climate change? I think climate change is going to be used by authorities to oppress us since they can't seem to lock down because of covid--maybe they can lockdown to save the planet from climate change? I agree with you that his voice could be better, but I think his face is fine. :)
You know what I liked especially that made me think? Jesus praises the meek in the New Testament--for they shall inherit the earth. Peterson is troubled by that sentence because he wonders how wimps can become so powerful. But he looks up the translation. Meek has the meaning of "Sheathed sword." His interpretation is that you should contain your power and not immediately lash out. But that when you do draw your sword it will be with controlled power. You will not just start swinging out and attacking everybody with childish rage. I am a very very meek female. Jordan urges us to be monsters. If we believe something, just as I think you do, nuois, he wants us to embrace our capacity for ugliness. Do you call me a danger to society because I'm unvaccinated! Yes indeed! And I intend to stay that way. I am "meek", but I have drawn my sword. And nuois is right beside me, too! We shall not let CDC, WHO, Fauci pass with their government lies!
Those grubs are actually clean and high protein sustenance...'conditioning' teaches us westerners that bugs are disgusting...none the less even if I needed or wanted to overcome the disgust implanted into my brain...I most definitely resent ANYONE telling me what to eat, especially any old man, or any billionaire owning far too much farmland, invested heavily in vaccine programs and now investing in fake (insect based?) meats and GM veggies, animals and (he wishes as do a few others) also humans.
By fixing do you mean stopping the leaks? Or do you mean cleaning the water? Because once the leaked water hits the sewage or some other toxic substance it is dirty again.
No. No one tells me what to do anymore. Especially not in relation to my health. Sorry governments and corporations you've blown it. I will NEVER trust you ever again.
Yeah but they always tell us what to do. I FEAR that if I end up in the hospital unconscious, the hospital will be motivated (incentivized) to vaccinate me. under the "implied consent" ruling. I was thinking, "nobody tells me what to do," but evidently they can. Or at least they can force us to do what we don't want to do.
Oh yeah, there's always violence. That's something the state is legally permitted - think police and military. Resist how you can. That's all one can do.
We have to join together in resistance. One by one they can easily ignore us or pick us off. Tessa and other journalists are doing a good job of keeping our spirits up so we don't succumb to mainstream media scapegoating us. We see here we are supported. Now we must encourage each other to refuse vaccines, refuse masks, support lawsuits, truckers, RESIST RESIST in any way possible.
These lords, knights and honours holders never seem to take the opportunity to criticise the grateful recipients of six-figure salaries; the senior servants of the shit / slop / slurry private companies knocking each other outa the way to bring us large helpings of the brown stuff 🙄
Water in London has been drunk seven times before. Water from the Thames is treated goes to upstream communities then goes through wastewater treatment (WWT) and back to the river. A downstream town repeats the process etc. Neither drinking water treatment (DWT) nor WWT remove refractory chemicals such as pharmaceuticals. Estrogen from the pill goes through and accumulates. Girls in London start having periods at single digit ages. Many compounds are endocrine disrupters ( sex change chemicals). WWT and must be upgraded to remove these chemicals, which also have synergistic affects. The same is true along the Mississippi and around the world.
So the drought disaster will be “fixed” if Britons start drinking sewage “water”, I call it dehumanizing (just like the compulsory public education system). By the way, farmer Bill Gates and the Monsanto bosses eat only organic and drink spring water, just for the record.
I don’t know what water he drinks and not sure about foods but wouldnt be at all surprised if he takes in fast foods as much as organic, but I am sure Bill Gates loves Diet Pepsi. It’s easy to make broad claims about these characters but sometimes its very simple: if he drinks such soft drinks, of course he doesnt grasp how there could be issues with ingesting glyphosate-laced foods. We want him to be a super smart villain. I think he’s mostly just a guy who has benefitted enormously from tech and aggressive capitalism and sees both as the primary way to solve problems.
Fabreze has recently loaded the television airwaves with commercials for its new deoderant spray to be used on fabric. The ads show the spray in use after people sit on padded furniture (who hasn't had a house guest for whom that seemed warranted?), dogs urinate on carpets, and, perhaps, mom folds her sewage-fresh laundry.
One of the major factors (MUCH more than vaccines) in improving public health and reducing infant mortality, was clean drinking water and sanitary sewers.
So let's fix that.
When are they going to call for increased population density and fewer regulations concerning food purity?
The real problem in Kansas is glyphosate pollution from Roundup, a herbicide in wide use here. The city water is a disaster. As for the reddish discoloration, it's probably rust, you find that in places with hard water, too. It reduces the working life of pipes and equipment such as water heaters. The only way to get rid of it is to flush the corrupt and incompetent governments which allow it down the sewers...
Indigenous people always relieved themselves downstream and drank water upstream. My city water has waste treatment plant and releases water downstream after treatment. The thing I don’t like is all the medications can’t be removed so I’m taking a blend of pharmaceuticals when I get my tap water. I use a water distiller. Only drawback is the natural minerals that humans have traditionally gotten by water running over rocks.
The funny thing is, nothing is perfect, but my husband, a retired doctor, for years wanted us to experiment with drinking filtered rainwater. So he got a huge barrel to collect the rainwater and then we bought a Big Berkey water filter. We drank filtered rainwater for years. I'm still here & don't have any illnesses from the rainwater. These idiots imagine they can forbid things, but humanity has always done an end run around tyrants. Davos will be no different.
The Berkey Filter is good!! According to their selling message, it would even filter our dirty pond water and make is safe to drink. Whether it's true, I don't know. And whether any filter filters nanoparticles from geoengineering components, I don't know, either. But it's a good filter!! So good for you....
True - we didn't take nanoparticles into account, because the amoral insanity of legitimizing gain-of-function research and the Internet of Bodies hadn't yet happened, and were not being discussed then, so a simple filter might not work - but my bet is that Nature Bats Last. Also, I believe we are heading toward an energy-restricted future, so many of the best laid plans of the insane will be shown to be technically impossible - even without sabotage & subversion against their plans.
Oh, nano-sized substances are a part of the geoengineering efforts... we are breathing it. And it's probably everywhere by now. And time will tell what happens with their plans.... but it's insanity as far as environmental toxicity in so many ways....
The economic system which supports our lives makes wastes that are toxic, and uses up things which are not replaceable in our lives, like aquifers. It seems that we need to find our own work-arounds when we can. The "solution" the owners have been working out seems to be getting rid of lots of us.
The aquifers in Minnesota, the land of ten thousand lakes, are so polluted with nitrates and chemicals like gender-bending Atrazine, they don't recommend even showering in it. Corn and soybeans are more sacred than water here, I think instead of water a lot of people are 70% corn and soybeans.
I assume that is part of the plan, so you have to buy bottled water or filters. GDP, see. Water is like pollinators, essential to human existence. I think that is part of the plan too, to keep people from caring about the things that matter most. Separated from what is important they can sell us anything.
This is so, so sad. So much abuse!!
It is. But in the city lot I held for 22 years I planted twenty fruit trees and 200 species of plants and fungi, I built a big pond for the birds to bathe in and drink from, I grew a lot of vegetables. I intend to expand the concept on 80 acres where there is a one acre spring fed pond.
A lot of people did not like my city lot when I started turning the entire thing into a diverse micro-ecosystem, but a lot of kids in the neighborhood grew up eating the berries that grew along the sidewalk, and by the time I left a lot of people stopped by and told me how much they appreciated it.
Is there any link to your lot-story?
http://offthegridmpls.blogspot.com/2011/07/garden-tour.html
This is my old blogspot. It is not organized very well and the search engine is next to worthless, but there are many posts on the garden and greenhouse, and some of the battles I fought with the city gov about it.
Nice big garden, which is a lot of upkeep. People get used to seeing it, which normalizes it for them, which is a service to them, because their mind may go to it some day, when they are in need of a plan. Kitchen gardening is a remarkably good plan most of the time.
I found this on your blog:
https://williamhunterduncan.substack.com/p/introduction
This is an urban garden scheme also on July 4th: https://www.johndayblog.com/2016/07/liberty-garden-central-texas-climate.html
Brilliant!
Have you been to the lakes? I was there about 20 years ago, pristine was inadequate as a descriptor. Incredible area. I hope this is just hyperbole.
Many of the most northern lakes are doing much better than lakes in Ag country or the cities. My favorite place in the world is the Boundary Waters Wilderness. Many lakes there I would drink from the lake without filters, though not close to shore. Southern lakes are choked with algae, Eurasian milfoil etc from excess runoff. Some lakes have toxic algae blooms. Nitrates and chemicals settle into the aquifers though, where rural people have wells. I might stray into hyperbole but the waters are in much worse shape than when I was young, despite that we are often told we have some of the most stringent environmental laws in the country.
As Bill (Willian H) mentions, the Boundary Waters Wilderness is a paradise on Earth, live there even for a week and something changes in you forever.
I spent the entire paddling season there solo in 2002. I have spent probably 300 nights in a tent there since 2000. I was recently there for a planned 8 day run, but I brought my 11yr old nephew for his first trip, he wasn't ready and we paddled in and then out the next day.
I'm looking at the EWG database for various zip codes in MN. I don't see anything about not showering in it ... but they clearly recommend reverse osmosis filters to get rid of the scary stuff.
I've never heard it as a public service announcement, but that is what my new neighbors in central Minnesota tell me. I am looking more into it, am going to have the water tested and call some people.
Bill, I am in Minnesota and your comment saddens me, people know but do nothing!
I think most of us feel like there is not much we can do. City folk often blame farmers but Ag economics are dictated in Washington and Wall Street, and city lakes are frankly in worse shape than in corn country. Water comes out of the tap, electricity comes out of the socket, most people don't think much beyond that. All I can say is, I have done everything with the land I have lived on to build healthy soil and expand biodiversity for birds and pollinators.
I am an organic/biodynamic gardener but when I talk to people about soil desertification because of the use of chemical fertilizers, I have a feeling that I am talking to a brick wall, sadly.
More people understand the concept than twenty years ago, but it is still not a lot of people. That is not very resilient, I don't think, but what are you going to do but keep gardening? I have long figured, most people don't care about this now, but I have the feeling after food shortages become the real deal, a lot more people are going to want and need to know, and suddenly we expert gardeners might go from hardly noticed to the most useful people around.
I am in Woodbury and garden in Afton and Stillwater (both rental), where are you?
I had a little house in the Minnehaha neighborhood in Minneapolis, I sold in June. I'm currently in Minneapolis helping my sister with some remodeling. But I will be moving to Alexandria soon to live with my aging parents part time, the rest of the time in a trailer on 80 acres 30 minutes north of Alexandria.
Yup control f everything...just what control freaks cum sociopaths need to make them feel safe.
Cool-Cola a and Pepsi do that (plastic bottles) and sell “fresh” water. How little people know that drinking this “water” poison their bodies!
Good thing they didn't have a digital currency tied to a social credit score in the lorax, to limit the number of bottles you could buy, depending on how obedient you have been.
That is why I am leaving the city.
and in the end, you’ll just do it.” <==Isn't that the Nike slogan?
You have a point there!!
I find it interesting that this article in 'The Guardian' (where else?) makes no mention of the creaking Victorian public water infrastructure in Britain that loses millions of gallons of this life sustaining liquid every year through leakage. It conveniently overlooks the fact that , this summer, raw sewage is being discharged into the seas surrounding these islands. This is because the cartel of water companies that controls our water supply has persistently failed to invest in the infrastructure, in order to 'minimise operating costs'.
Such investments - in the unlikely event of ever being carried out - would eat into the rocketing profits that said water companies make. Meanwhile, we the plebeian inhabitants of these islands are faced with water taxes (called water rates) that are increasing exponentially. We are being taxed for the necessity of water, but have no say in how our taxes are spent. Somehow, the year 1776 springs to mind, I don't know why.
I'll shut up now and enjoy my breakfast of bugs (I particularly like eating Klaus the Cockroach), washed down with a cup of grey waste water that now has been 'improved' with mandatory fluoridation. (The second-greatest achievement of our former Secretary of State for 'Health' Sajit Jab it). Then, I shall take a dip in the raw sewage that now laps the shores this once Sceptred Isle. I never knew how globalisation could be so good for the planet and for my health!
"but what are we going to do, eat insects and drink sewage water?"
And in the Amazon some tribes eat forest tarantulas. They are GIANT insects. The Indians know how to burn all the poisonous spines off. The announcer claimed it tasted like crab. The Indian eating the tarantula with its juices dribbling down his chin grinned in triumph. "God has sent this tarantula to us to prevent us from starving in times of drought. We are so fortunate. We call him the blessed one." (I made up that last sentence about "the blessed one.") But otherwise this tale is pretty much as I described. I wondered how I could be so disgusted--and this aboriginal elderly man so happy. "You will own nothing--and you will be happy." WE ARE SO SPOILED. I'm trying to practice being happy eating bugs. This was a challenge on "Fear Factor" a TV show I used to enjoy where one of the challenges was how many disgusting things you could eat. You were disqualified if you vomited.
Dogs love toilet water, too. WOOF WOOF.
I know, the customs are so different in different cultures. I remember reading about Chuckchis (an indigenous nation living in the North of Russia), and how (at least according to the book I was reading), the kids would pick the worms out a slain animal's wound, and just eat them like candy. Assuming this is what actually happened, to me it feels completely disgusting but that is why we are all different, and it's a good thing.
The point is free will... and the people trying to shame us into austerity are NOT practicing it. And have no wisdom. And are liars and not qualified to preach at anyone about anything at all, unless they are teaching at a liars' bootcamp.
My anthropology professor was trained to respect all culture. She described the most awful practices--usually involving making females suffer. Such as the bound feet of Chinese women. Or there was another tribe. They cut off one finger joint of females when a member of their family died. The older females were often using mainly their thumbs. I was so angry and outraged. I was in music school as a flutist. I NEED all my fingers. I HATE this custom. I will save at least one female baby and raise her so she keeps her fingers and has free will. NOPE. Nobody in her tribe will marry her. They think she is not one of them and doesn't deserve to be accepted. The fear of losing acceptance will force you to do almost anything. I think I will go out and get vaccinated tomorrow. (So far coercion hasn't yet reached me since I'm almost 80. I hope I die before the digital wallets take all my money away.
Thanks. I recently purchased this book from Amazon: "The case against the sexual revolution." by Louse Perry. I think the author was interviewed on youtube. She said that the ability to have sex without too much fear of conception has "liberated" females to have the same attitude to sex as males. We females can now screw without commitment, have sex as a series of one night stands, feel no compulsion to get married or to maintain a stable monogamous relationship. But many women are not comfortable treating their bodies in this way. However, the young women now are pressured into having sex earlier than they might prefer in order to attract and keep a boy friend. This is viewed as freedom. But it's not really freedom for all when ONE ACTION becomes the standard of the community. Earlier many males were frustrated by the sexual standards. I guess someone will always be frustrated. But free will is not always possible.
Free will is not always free will. This is so sad. This is a principle that deserves exploration. I remember in Gian Carlo Minotti's opera, The Consul. The freedom fighter, John Sorel, surrenders himself at the end to the secret police so that he can be executed as a terrorist and traitor to his country. They will brand him a terrorist and make an example of him. He is doing it to save his wife, Magda, and his son. Because if he flees the country, he knows they will execute his family instead. So he gives himself up. They ask him to confess. "Are you coming with us of your own free will." "Yes," he replies. "I'm coming with you of my own FREE WILL." His emphasis lets us know what he is not allowed to say to the public. "I am being coerced by tyrants in order to protect my family. I HATE IT." Little does he know that his baby already died of starvation. And his wife has just finished committing suicide to save him so he won't have to sacrifice himself and can flee the country so at least one of them gets out alive. Nobody gets out alive if you sacrifice yourself without making sure the authorities have your best interests at heart (they don't)
There is a book I really like, completely different from the one you mentioned but it addresses what you are talking about from a perspective of a tradition of a small community in Africa. To my senses, it is one of the most enlightening books I have ever read!! it's called "The Spirit of Intimacy," by Sobonfu Some, who was a wonderfully wise woman, and who sadly passed away a few years ago.
Oh I will definitely look up this book. I went to Amazon and put it on my "To be purchased" list. Thanks.
Guido, the book I am talking about is of a different nature. it is different from most books I have read, so wonderful.
It’s all about the sacred and because this is disappearing there is technocracy , the mechanics of love, sex you name it, and my experience tells me we should start again with basics the physical, leading to if it can have it’s natural way into intimate feelings and who now’s into the sacred, god.
Living not into a western nor American culture, I’m still learning everyday and more and more unlearning, to come back to what life is all about, a sacred life. Not to find anymore in the US nor Europe.
Wow! How strenuous is the practice? I'm 79 and was hoping that sex was still possible for us seniors.
Of course in slow motion old timers once they get started they can’t be stopped, and before like chickens do they wet their breast, lol
Free will doesn't mean that you can do anything. Jordan Peterson makes this point in his lectures. Because our society is so wealthy, those of us born in 1940 and later may believe that we deserve health, we deserve food, we deserve a stable income. Peterson makes the claim that the powerful will ALWAYS try to grab more than their fair share and argue that it is fair. We shouldn't be gas lit. Equal opportunity doesn't mean equal outcome. Equal outcome, he argues, means taking things away from people so everyone will be forced to live at the same low level. But the elites are NOT playing fair. They are using their wealth and power to KEEP the expensive lifestyles that they prefer while taking more and more from the rest. But a lot of people like to feel that we can adjust to the coming global shortages WITHOUT anyone making any sacrifices but the upper 1% upper 5% upper 10% upper 30%? I think it may no longer be possible for every Western citizen to live in relative wealth--while the developing world subsidizes our lifestyle with their austerity.
Diana, thank you for speaking your mind! I have opinions (a lot of them, both philosophical and non-philosophical) but it would require a whole "War and Peace" to respond adequately, and I need to come up with a shorter version. :)) I'll try to find the right words and respond.. :)
I think when we speak together the results will become "our mind." Everyone assumes that we each have a separate belief. And when they don't agree, maybe I'm somehow hurting you or offending you. I just felt depressed at the idea of "free will." But what did you mean by that? And what did I think you meant? And what did I mean? Somehow, my association to "free" is "you can do anything." And in my experience it isn't true. I can't even be free in my own apartment! Since I don't have enough energy to accomplish all that I would like to do in one day. Ah that uncooked dinner. But you are FREE Diana! You can cook whatever you want! Yes, if only I had the energy. You know this post MADE me subscribe I loved it so much. I consider myself happily enslaved by your substack which I now adore.
I have a male friend who constantly criticizes me. GET TO THE POINT! he urges. But why must we always get to the point? If we wander around we may find new points. YES but I'm BUSY. I must finish (reading, listening, fixing) ASAP. He has urged me to keep my emails down to 4 lines. Thus I defy him. But please tell me your secret for writing a shorter version. And I hope you don't feel that I would object to War and Peace--or even require you to respond adequately. By "adequately" did you mean "good enough to convince me"? I know very little philosophy. I wish I knew more. I went to Juillard music school and then graduated from Columbia University Graduate Faculties with a degree in sociology. All the standard college curriculum is missing from my brain. But I could play you some great flute music. You can convince me or teach me with even an "inadequate" post. Perhaps just the beginning of "war and peace" as a teaser?
LOL. You seem like a passionate thinker, nuois. I'd like to learn more from you. I only just started listening to JP so I haven't yet been offended by him. I guess you mean listen all I want but don't pay attention. I don't know you very well so I can't automatically assume I must give up my free will and obey everything you say. I sometimes do that (like with my mother). But wouldn't you rather argue with me and CONVINCE me about things? Isn't that more fun? I'd really like to know what triggers you. I will confess I think JP thinks vaccines are ok. I had a desire to strangle him which I throttled. I also told myself I could convince him later about his wrong beliefs. I used to get triggered over every little (little?) vaccine death and uncaring authorities. Good luck with that. The authorities have their own agenda and it is unaffected by scientific facts (from which they protect us with their censorship) So just knowing we are RIGHT is not enough to affect them.
While I personally am not drawn to Peterson (what he says mostly makes sense, not all but a lot of it... at least to the extent I checked it out which was not extensive... but it didn't strike me as novel or revolutionary. Plus, I think that he has (had?) an addiction problem? I obviously wish him well, and things happen, but I subjectively prefer thoughts that originate from a person himself, as opposed to chemical assistants.
That said, there are ways to express disagreements without being condescending! :) We are all talking here like human beings, and can agree or disagree all day. On my end, by default I assume that everyone I am talking to here is intelligent and sincere. And we come from different backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, and so on... but with respectful demeanor and sincerity, even disagreement can be enjoyable! Not so much when we jump at each other over talking points...
Nuois, you seem to have quite a personality! How dd you come about my Substack? I am curious. And by the way, I could care less about the opinion of Peterson (this way or the other) but respecting people on this page is important under all circumstances! Talking down at others based on disagreements says more of the person talking than the person being criticized. It's just not productive to do that. Anyone could be right or wrong on any of the issues but respect and gracious treatment of others are more important than the talking points, in my book.
I really love this rant. I'm playing it over and it's wonderful. It's the best cursing ever without the F-bomb. Ratnazis is good, too. There was a man in the subway I saw yesterday cursing at the top of his lungs shouting motherf*r over and over and punching the air. (Our NY subways are filled with such people) He was the best motivational speaker ever because our whole subway car instantly gave him our attention. You are also in the running. But I vote for you because more creative, more intelligent, and less repetitious. You are definitely not a moron.
Thanks nuois. jp doesn't spend much time on vaccines Thank God! I can't entirely ignore him because his ideas about work and religion and ethics have been so inspirational to me. It's so funny. He goes along with vaccine policy--but totally DEFIES Canada law forcing use of transgender pronouns. If he ever learned the truth about vaccines (which we all will--just a matter of time) he would also defy vaccination. HA wishful thinking maybe. Like my boyfriend is going to stop drinking (the koolaid) and really pay attention to me.
Well I liked him a lot because he talked a lot about ethics. He said it was ethical to buckle down and work. I love the work ethic. I'm so tired now from Chronic Fatigue, I often think of giving up. But JP motivated me to keep trying. Plus I used to attend evangelical protestant churches, so I loved his lectures about the meaning of the old testament. I like to analyze myths and see how they might fit modern life. And, FINALLY, JP reminisced about his marriage and how he met his wife. He has known her since childhood. He really admired the spunky way she would argue with him. That made me feel much less defensive about arguing with people. I found it romantic. Now tell me why you dislike him? I think a lot of people dislike him. Please give your reasons. He does seem a bit "wounded" or "vulnerable" and I like that because I have a somewhat pessimistic approach to life myself.
I wanted to give you a heart Nuols but substack refused to give it for some stupid @#$ reason. We are probably listening to different jp youtube videos, so it's like the blind men and the elephant. Plus I have a defect of only hearing what I want to hear. My mother told me this is one of my major flaws! But nuols it does matter if I think he's "nice" and he's actually promoting something very bad. Did you say earlier that he believes in climate change? I think climate change is going to be used by authorities to oppress us since they can't seem to lock down because of covid--maybe they can lockdown to save the planet from climate change? I agree with you that his voice could be better, but I think his face is fine. :)
You know what I liked especially that made me think? Jesus praises the meek in the New Testament--for they shall inherit the earth. Peterson is troubled by that sentence because he wonders how wimps can become so powerful. But he looks up the translation. Meek has the meaning of "Sheathed sword." His interpretation is that you should contain your power and not immediately lash out. But that when you do draw your sword it will be with controlled power. You will not just start swinging out and attacking everybody with childish rage. I am a very very meek female. Jordan urges us to be monsters. If we believe something, just as I think you do, nuois, he wants us to embrace our capacity for ugliness. Do you call me a danger to society because I'm unvaccinated! Yes indeed! And I intend to stay that way. I am "meek", but I have drawn my sword. And nuois is right beside me, too! We shall not let CDC, WHO, Fauci pass with their government lies!
Those grubs are actually clean and high protein sustenance...'conditioning' teaches us westerners that bugs are disgusting...none the less even if I needed or wanted to overcome the disgust implanted into my brain...I most definitely resent ANYONE telling me what to eat, especially any old man, or any billionaire owning far too much farmland, invested heavily in vaccine programs and now investing in fake (insect based?) meats and GM veggies, animals and (he wishes as do a few others) also humans.
With processed food, you could be eating insect matter and not notice it. Having a tarantula smoothie or bristly, should be your choice!
One size most definitely doesn't fit all food wise...not even bug wise... as to toilet water, apparently Londoners have been drinking it for years.
or they could fix the billions of gallons of 'cleaned' water that leaks every day (eyeroll)
But how would that benefit our kindly masters? :)
By fixing do you mean stopping the leaks? Or do you mean cleaning the water? Because once the leaked water hits the sewage or some other toxic substance it is dirty again.
You can be sure that the "elites" will not be drinking sewer water and eating bugs with the rest of us.
Indeed!!
No. No one tells me what to do anymore. Especially not in relation to my health. Sorry governments and corporations you've blown it. I will NEVER trust you ever again.
Yeah but they always tell us what to do. I FEAR that if I end up in the hospital unconscious, the hospital will be motivated (incentivized) to vaccinate me. under the "implied consent" ruling. I was thinking, "nobody tells me what to do," but evidently they can. Or at least they can force us to do what we don't want to do.
Oh yeah, there's always violence. That's something the state is legally permitted - think police and military. Resist how you can. That's all one can do.
We have to join together in resistance. One by one they can easily ignore us or pick us off. Tessa and other journalists are doing a good job of keeping our spirits up so we don't succumb to mainstream media scapegoating us. We see here we are supported. Now we must encourage each other to refuse vaccines, refuse masks, support lawsuits, truckers, RESIST RESIST in any way possible.
These lords, knights and honours holders never seem to take the opportunity to criticise the grateful recipients of six-figure salaries; the senior servants of the shit / slop / slurry private companies knocking each other outa the way to bring us large helpings of the brown stuff 🙄
Water in London has been drunk seven times before. Water from the Thames is treated goes to upstream communities then goes through wastewater treatment (WWT) and back to the river. A downstream town repeats the process etc. Neither drinking water treatment (DWT) nor WWT remove refractory chemicals such as pharmaceuticals. Estrogen from the pill goes through and accumulates. Girls in London start having periods at single digit ages. Many compounds are endocrine disrupters ( sex change chemicals). WWT and must be upgraded to remove these chemicals, which also have synergistic affects. The same is true along the Mississippi and around the world.
So the drought disaster will be “fixed” if Britons start drinking sewage “water”, I call it dehumanizing (just like the compulsory public education system). By the way, farmer Bill Gates and the Monsanto bosses eat only organic and drink spring water, just for the record.
They are such liars. Such liars!!
I don’t know what water he drinks and not sure about foods but wouldnt be at all surprised if he takes in fast foods as much as organic, but I am sure Bill Gates loves Diet Pepsi. It’s easy to make broad claims about these characters but sometimes its very simple: if he drinks such soft drinks, of course he doesnt grasp how there could be issues with ingesting glyphosate-laced foods. We want him to be a super smart villain. I think he’s mostly just a guy who has benefitted enormously from tech and aggressive capitalism and sees both as the primary way to solve problems.
Fabreze has recently loaded the television airwaves with commercials for its new deoderant spray to be used on fabric. The ads show the spray in use after people sit on padded furniture (who hasn't had a house guest for whom that seemed warranted?), dogs urinate on carpets, and, perhaps, mom folds her sewage-fresh laundry.
Oh! This is perfect.
One of the major factors (MUCH more than vaccines) in improving public health and reducing infant mortality, was clean drinking water and sanitary sewers.
So let's fix that.
When are they going to call for increased population density and fewer regulations concerning food purity?
You're joking? They are trying their best to REDUCE population density by killing us off with vaccines, food shortages, toxic chemicals, etc.
What I wrote was tongue in cheek. Except the part about vaccines.
In fact, as everyone again falls ill from "vax preventable" illness, caused by poor sanitation, they can sell more vax boosters!
The real problem in Kansas is glyphosate pollution from Roundup, a herbicide in wide use here. The city water is a disaster. As for the reddish discoloration, it's probably rust, you find that in places with hard water, too. It reduces the working life of pipes and equipment such as water heaters. The only way to get rid of it is to flush the corrupt and incompetent governments which allow it down the sewers...
Indigenous people always relieved themselves downstream and drank water upstream. My city water has waste treatment plant and releases water downstream after treatment. The thing I don’t like is all the medications can’t be removed so I’m taking a blend of pharmaceuticals when I get my tap water. I use a water distiller. Only drawback is the natural minerals that humans have traditionally gotten by water running over rocks.
The funny thing is, nothing is perfect, but my husband, a retired doctor, for years wanted us to experiment with drinking filtered rainwater. So he got a huge barrel to collect the rainwater and then we bought a Big Berkey water filter. We drank filtered rainwater for years. I'm still here & don't have any illnesses from the rainwater. These idiots imagine they can forbid things, but humanity has always done an end run around tyrants. Davos will be no different.
The Berkey Filter is good!! According to their selling message, it would even filter our dirty pond water and make is safe to drink. Whether it's true, I don't know. And whether any filter filters nanoparticles from geoengineering components, I don't know, either. But it's a good filter!! So good for you....
True - we didn't take nanoparticles into account, because the amoral insanity of legitimizing gain-of-function research and the Internet of Bodies hadn't yet happened, and were not being discussed then, so a simple filter might not work - but my bet is that Nature Bats Last. Also, I believe we are heading toward an energy-restricted future, so many of the best laid plans of the insane will be shown to be technically impossible - even without sabotage & subversion against their plans.
Oh, nano-sized substances are a part of the geoengineering efforts... we are breathing it. And it's probably everywhere by now. And time will tell what happens with their plans.... but it's insanity as far as environmental toxicity in so many ways....
The economic system which supports our lives makes wastes that are toxic, and uses up things which are not replaceable in our lives, like aquifers. It seems that we need to find our own work-arounds when we can. The "solution" the owners have been working out seems to be getting rid of lots of us.
An accurate description!! And thank you for doing all you do!
Well, we do breathe other people's previously used air, not certified.