Russell Brand on the `Alleged' Covid cover up (Better known as the lab leak hypothesis).

It's very easy to get caught up in the mele surrounding Covid. It's politicized, has been used as a lever (is being used as a lever, politically and socially and probably many other ways too). On all sides there is culpability, clearly, America outsourced looking at Bat viruses to China. China took the money and ultimately did a shoddy job. 4.5million people have died and that represents a lot of eggs on a lot of faces. No one wants the bill for that in the courts, and no one wants to put the CCP over its knee and spank it with some artillery, in spite of its overt aggression elsewhere.

Like the virus itself, containment of hostilities is the current game. So now we find ourselves in the position that it's actually not in any official person's interest to get to the bottom of things and apportion blame. I don't want to say `we are where we are', but I'd be an idiot not to say it. All we the people can do is let those in control know that the system they use to hold secrets resembles a colander and the truth will out. That truth may be denied by the arbiters of powers, however, if you apply Occam's razor, all the evidence suggests The Wuhan Institute of Virology, made a mistake, the local CCP then went on to compound and confound that mistake (probably for fear of the party rather than the response of the wider world, paradoxically). 

Conveniently now, attention has been dragged kicking and screaming away from Covid to Afghanistan, where I rather suspect the next level of proxy war will be battled out online. Covid will fall off a cliff unless an actual `virulent' variant emerges. And thanks to the mainstream media's perverse handling of the CCP's misinformation as truth because `Orange Man Bad'. They too have so much egg on their face, it's far better to sweep `cause' under the blanket, and find a new crisis to see us through to Autumn, in the hope that vaccination ends Covids dominance of the headlines.

 Russell Brand on the `alleged' Covid cover up.

Obesity research

Another fascinating article. I keep a fairly close eye on this sort of material. Obviously, obesity is a massive issue (no pun intended) for individuals and healthcare systems. With the recent focus on gut flora and fauna deficiencies, it seems that the contention that obesity is the product of a sedentary lifestyle and greed may be far wide of the mark. 

Moreover, there is early-stage research that suggests poor or deficient `good' gut flora may be allowing the proliferation of bad gut flora, which may, in turn, be releasing neuro-chemicals into obese peoples bodies, that make those people ingest things that feed the bad gut flora. 

The consequence of this is that a person gets obese, and may not have any real control over the process because they are being driven by a parasitic third system.

I will try and find the article and post a link to it. 

Neuro-immune-interactions-deep-fat

Nuclear Fusion

I'm not going to wibble on about nuclear fusion, I'm just posting a link to an article published on Phy.org yesterday regarding the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US achieving ignition at their facility. 

In summary, Ignition is the fusion state, at which point the fusion becomes self-sustaining and potentially outputs more energy than is input. This is a big deal, read the article to find out more follow the link below.

Phys.org article about nuclear FUSION ignition.

Lately.

Aside from the post below, all I have done for the last four or five months is write, read, fill in forms and do housework.

I have over a hundred thousand words in one novel, and close to twelve thousand in another. This is why blogging has fallen by the wayside in the main. It’s not that I don’t want to write for the blog, after all, there is so much to talk about at the moment personally and in the wider world. The issue is time, eyestrain, and the ability to concentrate.

I shall leave this post at this point here and try to elaborate some more later. The one thing I will announce is that I have a new desk chair. This is will hopefully assist with writing novels, blog posts, etc, but will also allow me to make some Metal Earth models I’ve had for close to two years gathering dust.

Afghanistan and the Taliban's return (what should the west do now?).

Should the west, UK, Europe, Canada, US, Australia open the doors to all Afghans that want to leave Afghanistan? (and other oppressive nations)? Thus, rather than allowing those people to fall to resentment and misery under oppressive regimes, just drain their home nations blood by non-violent means.

Let Darwin do the rest, after all, what with a preference for male heirs, and minimising education, these medieval cultures are on the slow road to self eradication anyway.

An Afghan nurse, plumber, architect, shopkeeper, estate agent, banker is an asset, but not if they are not allowed to leave their home without a chaperone. It's a waste to leave these people to the Taliban.

I get the sleeping terrorist worry. But, there are going to be two likely outcomes from the Taliban takeover. Mass refugees leaving, living wasted existences on borders elsewhere, or subtle unreported massacres.
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I'd love to be wrong. I'd love for the Taliban to bring stability and peace to the region after what must be close to four decades of strife since the Russian invasion, never mind the decades of internal strife prior to that.
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This is one of those opportunities if it can be framed right. Uplift all those who want out and drop them into free societies, where they can have their cultural identity in the mix of all other cultures, and prevent the likely genocide which will ensue if the Taliban are true to form. 

The Taliban will have their Ideological Utopia, and they will invariably murder their way to it. Why not for the first time in umpteen decades, defuse it? Just rescue those that don't want to be treated no better than farmyard animals. And leave the new Afghanistan to the ideologues.
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Yes, there could be a counter-insurgency, and if people want to stay and fight, crack on. But those that don't want to fight, and just want to live a life, have kids, hobbies, friends, whatever. Just pick them up and demonstrate why the western way is better in spite of its faults. And give the miserable religious Luddites their land to fuck up as they will. And when their infrastructure has crumbled, their intelligentsia has left and all the weapons they looted at this time are worn out, they can look on the wider decadent world, and how well it's doing and contemplate rethinking their thinking.
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The alternative if we get involved again is decades more war, trying to repatriate people back to their native lands from shitty camps in `nowhere and no prospect' land. And all the while there could be genius being lost or wasted through living hand to mouth. 

Just the existence of refugees at this juncture of history demonstrate how far we have yet to climb on the civilisation ladder.

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

The Taliban