WTF, I was trying to figure out what the book was, to make sure the pink wasn't just something printed on the book, and unrelated to the supposed blood. I was searching for "pomegranate book", because that's a pomegranate on the front in the picture, and I found this:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/377496.A_Garden_of_Pomegranates
Firstly, the authors name, then the picture... and then scroll down and read about the author; he was the personal secretary of Alastair Crowley. What a strange coincidence, finding this.
Does anybody happen to know what the book in the OP pic is?
UPDATE
Check this shit out; read the description:
https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/pomegranate_a-global-history/
What the fuck, I feel like I stumbled into some real shit here.
UPDATE
The rabbit hole goes deeper:
https://www.afghanwarblog.com/2014/01/book-pomegranate-peace.html
This situation wouldn't happen, if I owned the home. We rented out our house years ago, via some property management company (big mistake). I dropped by while in town, unannounced, because our neighbor said "your renters seem a little shady". The crack head opened the door and the smell of cigarette smoke billowed out, and there was part of a transmission on the kitchen counter. I had those fuckers out of there by 10pm that night and their shit was in boxes out front the next morning. People who let assholes take it to the courts willingly give their real rights up to their overlords; same type of faggots who would turn in their guns (if they owned any) when the tyrants decided to make them illegal. If those fuckers hadn't gotten out that night, I would have taken it to another level.
I don't know. I'm only illustrating the point that a move, especially one catalyzed by a short term event (COVID lockdowns / fear of long term lockdowns), which is quickly reversed, doesn't have the market-correcting effects that a larger, protracted crash, like 2008, does.
The other thing worth mentioning is that the S&P crashed 58% traumatize in the 2008 crash, while the 2020 move only took the S&P down 36% and for a short period.
Another thing worth noting is that the 1987 crash was actually pretty similar to the 2006 crash, in the sense that it was more of a sudden technical trading disaster, as opposed to a protracted downturn in the markets. In fact, when you look back at a chart (below) from 1975 to the present era, 1987 is just a little blip on the radar.
What are your thoughts on a big (2008 or worse) market crash coming? I feel like everyone is still FOMO, and it's a matter of weeks (or less) before a big crash in equity values, with high unemployment numbers and a lot of insolvency to follow. I don't understand why nobody seems to think it can happen again.
Fun fact: almost all SSL certs are now provided by the same signing authority, which means any party who gains access to said authority's secret key can pretend to be any website they want to, by simply inserting themselves anywhere in the network between you and that site.
This also means that same party could act as an SSL terminating reverse proxy for any site, including this. If that was happening, neither you, nor the site's owner, would know, but every interaction between us and the site would go directly through this man-in-the-middle.
What did I say I knew (hint: I only said what I don't know)?
Don't be immature; you've got a real human who is willing to engage in conversation, despite seeing your bickering here and there (e.g., with the impaler). I'm not judging you for taking the shots. I'm engaging you in real conversation, so if you're here to chat for real (vs trolling), then say what you want to say.
Underrated comment.
The COVID era ruined human society. It reduced our interconnected existence to a paranoid and disjointed mess of wild animals in clothes.
To u/GynaNumbaZero's point about empathy, I think a lot of people permanently lost control of their inner voice. I think the inner voice is affected by stress and adrenaline. I think there are a lot more "zombies" without the privilege of an in-control prefrontal cortex, now.
I think you care. You're just angry, and rightly so. The lemmings showed their true colors, and a lot of them were disgusting. Don't let yourself hate or wish ill on others, though, because it prevents you from understanding the truth; the truth about them, yourself, your feelings, who the real enemy is, etc.
I only know what I know. I don't know what the end goal is, or whether one side or the other will be killed, or if it's just another ineffective "vaccine". But, fuck anyone trying to force us to take some bullshit "medicine" that will do god knows what to our bodies. I do believe there's a possibility that the shots are introducing something that can be used or activated later. That'd be some nightmare shit.
LOL @ excited about bonds.
BTW, I agree about the market's inability to handle higher rates, but something tells me they've got an ace up their sleeve, perhaps primarily because every single person I talk to / read / watch says rates are goin back to zero. They always manage to do the opposite of what everyone expects.
Not to mention, in such a scenario interest rates at the banks would be negative, so everybody would be looking for somewhere to park the money where it doesn't get deleted. To be honest, if rates spike up drastically, let's say 8-9%, I would definitely consider putting half of our money into 10 year bonds.
Wow, 20 years is a long time. If inflation ramps up (e.g., temporary wage price spiral, QE, etc.), and the rate is increased to 8-10%, even temporarily, 20 year bonds will be selling at a loss, which means you could be stuck in them until maturity or until the market shifts. Keep in mind that, with sneaky tricks like QE, etc. the rates could go up in a similar time as the money supply is increasing (tho bonds will not be paying well during the QE).
Could not agree more. Everything that little greasy weasel's "daily wire" owns feels that way, and about 75% of everything else (Epic Times, etc.), also. It all feels like Operation Trust.
Speakin of "US dollars dying", etc., I did it (re: Treasury bills), secondary market, with about 35% of our cash, so far. The rest is in FDIC 4%, except some for trading. Thanks for all that info on that a few weeks back. We're getting about 5.2%, and I'll redo it in Nov when these bills mature (only gonna do short term as long as it pays reasonably well / inversion remains).
However... the sad reality / black pill is:
- the mall goes bankrupt and whatever remaining local businesses, there, and all the local employees, lose their livelihoods
- AA loses nothing
- AA lets you buy their slave-made soy clothing online
I can tell you is absolute certainty that it is not glyphosate causing direct "gluten allergy" symptoms. In other words, once you have gluten allergy, cutting out glyphosate is not going to reduce your symptoms. This is something I studied heavily for well over a decade, including diving deep into the immune system, proteomics, gut and whole body biome (long before anybody in here ever heard the word "probiotics", which didn't really enter the main stream until around 2014). I know this sounds cocky, but there are few people as well read on this topic as I am. This all stems from somebody in my family having a serious auto immune problem, which let me down a rabbit hole of research for many years.
Glyphosate is toxic waste and can contribute to the death of your gut biome, which can also lead to GI allergies, including gluten. However, the actual chemical itself does not cause symptoms akin to gluten allergy or any other allergy. Eating completely organic (not nu-"organic", which actually allows growing food directly in a liquid substrate containing glyphosate, or dousing actual food products in glyphosate after harvest) wheat, for example, can and will still lead to the same degree of gluten allergies. Also, despite the copious amounts of fake anecdotal evidence (mostly by people who think they are gluten intolerant, because they saw it on TV, but actually aren't), to suggest that ancient grains (like Einkorn) will cause less problems, the only way to prevent gluten allergy is to either burn the gluten (over 550°F), or produce enough enzymes to denature the proteins in your gut before they cross the endothelium into your bloodstream (unlikely). One can supplement protease and other enzymes to reduce the amount of protein uptake, but it's not a full solution for anyone with a serious allergy.
The primary cause of gluten allergy is taking a course of strong antibiotics, which enters your bloodstream through your endothelium in your small intestine and destroys bacteria throughout your body, which will never be regained in its original form.
There are people who experience gut symptoms from gluten who do not have what would be described as celiac disease when tested for antibodies. This is a similar kind of allergy and is also not first order causally linked to glyphosate or other chemical exposure.
To summarize, glyphosate could be the original cause of GI gluten allergy in a lot of people cut off but is not the direct cause of the symptoms on an ongoing basis - once you have it, you have it. Further, it is most likely not the cause of celiac disease (for most, the only kind of gluten allergy that really matters).
Don't get me wrong, I eat only organic food and I hate the shit out of the FDA for allowing this toxic waste into anything close to our food; but, it's important to keep it real when it comes to understanding the science behind these problems.