The Joe Rogan Experience (Afghanistan and US Intervention Policies).

In this video, Joe Rogan posits a TinFoil Hat conspiracy theory. I have commented as below.

I think as tinfoil hat conspiracies your one is weak (no disrespect intended). I would argue a more tinfoil hat conspiracy would be that the US has left Afghanistan, and left vast hoards of weapons behind deliberately to arm the Taliban in the hope that they travel to western China to demonstrate their displeasure at the CCP's treatment of Uyghurs.

It seems insane from this distance that the Taliban would consider the US a greater threat to Islam than the CCP. As a thought experiment, drop Israel out of the US/Middle-East equation and then look at the US/Middle-East relationships. Where are the pinch points between the US and the greater Muslim world? Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and yet the greater Muslim world is far larger than that, extending as it does into the Indian Ocean and South Pacific region. I don't think I'm wrong in saying that the US trades with almost all countries that are predominantly Islamic globally (If not by political systems, just as an over-arching religious denomination).

Why then would the Taliban see the US as their main enemy, when right on Afghanistan's border lies the CCP's territory (I don't want to say China explicitly because clearly, the people aren't necessarily the party), and the CCP, is by dint of `alleged' forced sterilisation of Uyghur women (amongst other measures) effectively removing an entire generations ability to reproduce. That is exactly how species become extinct, that is eugenics and genocide.

The conspiracy then is: Allow the Taliban to have advanced weaponry, and nudge them in the direction of the CCP's territory in hope that the CCP gets caught up with cross border insurgency, and is stymied by the kind of terrorism that the US and Europe have suffered for decades.

PS: Love the show.

Joe Rogan (Afghanistan and US Intervention Policies) 

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.