By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Readers, I have had a confluence of administrivial events today, which I must deal with. So, today’s Water Cooler will be composed exclusively of bird songs and plants. Talk amongst yourselves! –lambert
Bird Song of the Day
A reader whose commment I naturally cannot find mentioned how much they liked crows. And who doesn’t like a corvid? We have done the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), but there are others…
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As Flannery O’Connor wrote: “Everything that rises must conflu.”
A more literary version of the statement; “It’s the aerosols!”
One hesitates to mention the latest reports of Dr Fauci’s public statements.
Lab origin of CV19 is now being embraced my the MSM and even Fauci is saying it is possible. Months ago I was accused of being a “conspiracy theorist” when linking to studies that suggested this was a possibility and probably the most likely scenario.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/gottlieb-says-theres-growing-circumstantial-evidence-that-covid-may-have-originated-in-a-lab.html
Yes, evolutionary biologists, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, have been talking about this for some time on their Dark Horse youtube talks. In their most recent one they suggested that the only safe way to do gain-of-function research would be if it were conducted on ships out in the middle of an ocean. In any event, I’m guessing there’s some frantic cost-benefit recalculation of such research going on. Or, if there isn’t, there certainly should be.
Interestingly, youtube’s algo suggested dark horse to me way back in March of 2020 – still not sure why, but I am very grateful, as they are an invaluable resource. No way to be sure, but I suspect they were not as heavily recommended in late 2020 given that they gave viewers plenty of reason to question the consensus. And in youtube algo land, consensus = authoritative.
When I heard about this in 2019 it was worrying
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21C3N5
Republican cuts to public health got a great leap forward during Ted’s shutdown. And they have continued at an alarming rate.
I think the problem for those of use who aren’t in the business if assessing viruses is that the dates for this leak are always post confirmed cases outside of China.
I feel like compiling a catalog of Covid cockups akin to Matt Taibbi’s “Master list of official Russia claims that proved to be bogus”.
The Water Cooler archive should prove an excellent resource for cataloging the reversals, flip-flops, u-turns, noble lies and incompetence.
I get the “If the facts change, I change my mind” line. However, this deja vu performace of “Ok, the facts were already known but it didn’t quite fit the consensus narrative at the time, and I didn’t want to dissent from the in-crowd, but now that popular opinion seems to be shifting, sure I’ll change my mind” is getting a bit much.
Trust in God and the priests is long eroded. Trust in government and politicians we need hardly discuss. Trust in journalists, is at an all time low. If scientists don’t disentangle themselves from, big pharma/oil/military and their lackey politicians they will soon find themselves next up..
With bated breath, I am waiting for trust in the military to erode.
I also am waiting with bated breath to see their status erode.
Gallup has run a survey for many institutions since 1973. Here is their survey question:
The military gets the highest scores for government institutions and Congress is at the bottom. For the year 2020, Small Business is higher rated than the military after their score jumped from 2019 to 2020.
Maybe there is some sort of a game where the worst rated government institution is able to kiss ass of the best rated?
confidence in institutions: historical trends
zaganostra: Professor Gianotti at University of Milano, a physician who specializes in dermatology, had a patient with COVID-19 on the skin, in November 2019. These two articles place COVID in the West at the same time as the report about Chinese researchers.
It may have started off as a skin infection, it seems, just one of the many bugs living on human beings. Think of hospital-resistant staph.
Links:
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/01/11/covid-una-paziente-zero-in-italia-gia-nel-novembre-del-2019-lo-studio-delluniversita-statale-di-milano/6061754/
British Journal of Dermatology:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjd.19804
We are nowhere near an answer yet, if we will ever have an answer.
I do agree with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti–so much of the lying, obfuscating, derangement syndromes, and conspiracy fantasies is coming back to bite us on our collective butts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZniDsuCX5g
DJG et al, Chris Martenson had a good video the other day. Skim to apx. 17 minute mark and watch for about 5-8 minutes. Pretty damning evidence regarding the lab leak theory. He ran lots of this down in about last March but was blackballed post haste. Le video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yn1MDIBO7M
So if it the it turns out that a consensus emerges that CV19 came from a lab, the next question for me is how can you definitively say it was an accidental?
That will be the next logical question though, and if it is ever reached, you know you’ll be pillared for even thinking/suggesting it and it will invariably be lost in obfuscation, speculation, over hyping by the Alex Jones types and get lost in the murky recesses of history as other concerns move to the fore.
Look around. Who could possibly benefit by a deliberate release of a brand new virus? That would be insanity. I doubt you could find a researcher who would do such a thing. I am not so sure about some of the geniuses in government in the nation of your choice.
If an accidental release; show me the evidence, not the speculation, not the theories, not the if-this-then-perhaps. Viruses evolve quickly, as we are noticing with all the variants. Were I a virologist, I might be leaning toward the lab accident, lab sloppiness school of thought.
I hope it is not so because the uproar will energize the China-is-evil-or-at-least-not-very-nice pack to go baying down the trail of whatever their version of the “narrative” might be. That is dangerous. We have people in places of influence and power who think not unkindly of war in general and display a fondness for the shiny new versions of nuclear weapons.
I do not share their point of view.
Look around. Who could possibly benefit by a deliberate release of a brand new virus?
Producers of programmable vaccines, for one…
and wall st never let a crisis go to waste,
and people who think the poor and old need to die because SS and medicare threaten the foundations of society…and…, well bezos of course, and all the PMC who can have servants deliver their barest whim at a moments notice, and….
But none of those you mention would have released a virus from a lab in China or is China just the convenient scapegoat in this scenario.
John, “the China-is-evil-or-at-least-not-very-nice pack” approach doesn’t work well because the lab in Wuhan, or at least these specific, gain of function experiments, were funded by Americans: Peter Daszak, Fauchi, Echo Health Alliance, etc. Who knows why they were doing this in Wuhan. Perhaps cheap labor? Far from prying eyes? Qui sais?
How…incredibly convenient.
Just like those aluminum tubes and mysterious trips to Niger, like Curveball and his breathless tales of mobile WMD labs.
“Fauci be nimble, Fauci be quick……”
I stole that from Lambert…however, in all seriousness, Fauci is a very slippery character indeed, and has done/is doing real damage, I believe. I do hope someone will do an incisive biography of him someday, to memorialize his lifetime record.
Rooks play a major role in Susan Cooper’s children’s book series “the Dark is Rising.” I originally read them along with my daughter years ago. I still re-read them from time to time, especially when I need to escape. Here is an excerpt, which I found online (https://humanities614.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dark_is_rising.pdf).
Excerpt from Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
It was then, without warning, that the fear came. The first wave caught him as he was crossing the room his bed. It halted him stock-still in the middle of the room, the howl of the wind outside filling his ears. The snow lashed against the window. Will was suddenly deadly cold, yet tingling all over. He was so frightened that he could not move a finger. In a flash of memory he saw again the lowering sky over the spinney, dark with rooks, the big black birds wheeling and circling overhead. Then that was gone, and he saw only the tramp’s terrified face and heard his scream as he ran. For a moment, then, there was only a dreadful darkness in his mind, a sense of looking into a great black pit. Then the high howl of the wind died, and he was released.
He stood shaking, looking wildly round the room. Nothing was wrong. Everything was just as usual. The trouble, he told himself, came from thinking. It would be all right if only he could stop thinking and go to sleep. He pulled off his dressing gown, climbed into bed, and lay there looking up at the skylight in the slanting roof. It was covered grey with snow.
He switched off the small bedside lamp, and the night swallowed the room. There was no hint of light even when his eyes had grown accustomed to the dark. Time to sleep. Go on, go to sleep. But although he turned on his side, pulled the blankets up to his chin, and lay there relaxed, contemplating the cheerful fact that it would be his birthday when he woke up, nothing happened. It was no good. Something was wrong.
Will tossed uneasily. He had never known a feeling like this before. It was growing worse every minute. As if some huge weight were pushing at his mind, threatening,trying to take him over, turn him into something he didn’t want to be. That’s it, he thought: make me into someone else. But that’s stupid. Who’d want to? And make me into what? Something creaked outside the half-open door, and he jumped. Then it creaked again, and he knew what it was: a certain floorboard that often talked to itself at night, with a sound so familiar that usually he never noticed it at all. In spite of himself, he still lay listening. A different kind of creak came from further away, in the other attic, and he twitched again, jerking so that the blanket rubbed against his chin. You’re just jumpy, he said to himself; you’re remembering this afternoon, but really there isn’t much to remember. He tried to think of the tramp as someone unremarkable, just an ordinary man with a dirty overcoat and worn-out boots; but instead all he could see once more was the vicious diving of the rooks. “The Walker is abroad….” Another strange crackling noise came, this time above his head in the ceiling, and the wind whined suddenly loud, and Will sat bolt upright in bed and reached in panic for the lamp.
The room was at once a cosy cave of yellow light, and he lay back in shame, feeling stupid. Frightened of the dark, he thought: how awful. Just like a baby. Stephen would never have been frightened of the dark, up here. Look, there’s the bookcase and the table, the two chairs and the window seat; look, there are the six little square-riggers of the mobile hanging from the ceiling, and their shadows sailing over there on the wall. Everything’s ordinary. Go to sleep.
He switched off the light again, and instantly everything was even worse than before. The fear jumped at him for the third time like a great animal that had been waiting to spring. Will lay terrified, shaking, feeling himself shake, and yet unable to move. He felt he must be going mad. Outside, the wind moaned, paused, rose into a sudden howl, and there was a noise, a muffled scraping thump, against the skylight in the ceiling of his room. And then in a dreadful furious moment, horror seized him like a nightmare made real; there came a wrenching crash, with the howling of the wind suddenly much louder and closer, and a great blast of cold; and the Feeling came hurtling against him with such force of dread that it flung him cowering away.
Will shrieked. He only knew it afterwards; he was far too deep in fear to hear the sound of his own voice. For an appalling pitch-black moment he lay scarcely conscious, lost somewhere out of the world, out in black space. And then there were quick footsteps up the stairs outside his door, and a voice calling in concern, and blessed light warming the room and bringing him back into life again.
I first encountered The Dark is Rising as an adult reading it with my son; maybe it hadn’t yet been written when I was young. I still remember the eerie quality that set it apart from the rest of the fantasy series. As a child I read a Scottish fable, Princess and the Goblin, that struck me in the same way, leaving me with a lingering disquiet…I don’t believe I ever reread it!
You are referring to George Macdonald
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald
Inspirer of Lewis, Tolkien and many others.
Since we are talking about spooky dark stuff today, has anyone ever heard of the Black Hat Man? I have seen references to him in movies (not verbal, just showing the silhouette) and this excerpt kind of reminded me of it.
Always happy to find others who have discovered Cooper’s gem.
(Do not, not, not waste time on the one film adaptation. And if you have encountered that terrible waste do not judge the books by it. At least no one has screwed it up again, unlike A Wrinkle in Time.)
Anthropologist Laura Nader on the Lost Art of the Letter
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/anthropologist-laura-nader-on-the-lost-art-of-the-letter/
A nice book report and interview with Ralph’s sister. She looks just like him unfortunately.
How kind of you to include your opinion of her looks
Comment on Ralph’s sister:
Why is the last sentence (or last word) published here?
You make a great link, and then all you have to say is a comment on a woman’s looks??? Why are you on this site?
Because it was funny, or at least meant to be. Perhaps a comma after “him”would have signaled more clearly that it was a joke about Ralph. Actually she looks good for 90-something.
Even if you meant she was gorgeous it’s condescending and patronizing, and then you went there in your second comment. “Good for 90-something.”
SMDH
Tough room.
You meant to say it’s unfortunate because they are easily confused.
Thank you for the link. I miss letter writing. I’m just fortunate to have a great collection of family letters including those of my parents when they were serving in Europe in WWII.
…and both Naders do look much alike!
They used to have ‘ news clipping services’ back in the day before this contraption, and they would ferret the newspapers looking for particular items of interest to you, and I might have the last of the Mohecans in my mom, as not only is she a letter writer, but also a dead tree fishwrap reader who regularly sends me clippings of stuff i’d be interested in, such as old apple orchards in Wrightwood, Ca., I linked here awhile ago.
Oh my yes, another lost art. My mother’s dearest friend was a fabulous letter writer/news clipper and I’ve kept much of what she sent to my mom.
Interesting article. And, if you’ll indulge me for a moment, I’d like to share a story from the Arizona Slim file:
A few months after I graduated from college, my employer hosted a conference. The keynote speaker was none other than …
… Ralph Nader.
Since Yours Truly was the only employee with even a smidgeon of news photography experience, I was assigned to cover Nader’s press conference.
You know those Washington, DC congressional hearings with all the photographers on the floor, running their cameras to the max while the VIP testifies? Well, that was me. The photographer on the floor, and I was shooting all sorts of shots of well, Ralph Nader’s face as seen from my spot on the floor.
One of my photos was published on the cover of the organization’s magazine.
Ralph is the mahn! Incredibly smart and fast on his intellectual feet. He has a muckracker’s podcast every week: https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/
I have spoken to Ralph several times around DC in thirty years. His secret is, in his presence there is no doubt that he is actually doing what he says he is doing. A rare thing in Washington. It’s a kind of charisma. Paul Jay projects that vibe, as does Yves Smith, which is why I participate here.
I’m lichen what I’m seeing!
…
I’ll see myself out.
There is a charming Ogden Nash-type poem about lichens that have been trying to find for many years. Anybody know what that is?
He’s a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate. Critics say he was dangerously misleading on Covid [STAT News]
One of Stanford’s Four Horsemen of the COVID Apocalypse. Die Luft der Twitterfreiheit weht.
Old TV clips:
Bob Dylan – Blowing In The Wind
https://youtu.be/vWwgrjjIMXA?list=PLAbeRqyTx1rIGWY13HgPyh0VF0LdoTQFp
Joni Anderson of Saskatoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUNrZFreRx4
Tony Joe White – Willie And Laura Mae Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTAT28eUHRM
Eric Clapton – Hard Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGCxo2HLuYA
Skinny Clapton had a better voice.
Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Drive Richard Wright Underground?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cancel-culture-richard-wright/
… a review of Richard Wright’s “fully restored” version of Richard Wright’s long-lost novel The Man Who Lived Underground and the following excerpts from his recently published essay Memories of my Grandmother:
“How interesting, then, to read Wright’s own account of how he came to write the novel, and to learn there that Wright’s personal knowledge of his protagonist Fred Daniels’ condition—the condition of being falsely accused, marked with “guilt,” and subsequently “driven underground”—stemmed not from encounters with police, but from his protracted and painful experience with… the political left.
“I shall not name any names or give any dates or any facts relating to geographical locations. I can only report that I know how it feels to be accused without cause, because once in my life I was accused without cause. And when you are a member of a minority group, or maybe I should put it this way, say, a member of a minority political party and you are suddenly and violently accused of holding notions you’ve never held, of having done something you’ve never dreamed of, I can tell you that it is one of the most agonizing, devastating, blasting, and brutal experiences conceivable…
“There is really no way in which [the falsely accused] can convincingly defend himself. His shocked and outraged attitude toward the charges throws him into an emotional stew which makes him blind to what he is being accused of. Every word he utters can be used against him, for he is trying not so much to refute the charges as he is trying to fight for his status as a human being, trying to keep his worth and value in the eyes of others, just because he is innocent. The first thing an innocent man feels when he is accused is that those who know him have let him down. Because he is innocent, he does not really know the terms of the accusation. In order to deal with the charges or accusation adequately, he must wrench his mind loose from his innocent way of thinking and begin thinking cunningly and craftily, begin to think in terms that he has never dreamed of before, guilty terms.”
sardines with cold mole are pretty tasty.
this post this morning is stuck in my head
“The entire vaccine imbroglio is beginning to look suspiciously like something the Reich officials called a “Brain Buster.” That tactic was used to great effect on people being herded into the labour camps and extermination centres. One is given an impossible choice and forced to make a decision quickly. Either way, the choice is wrong and the chooser is forever after wracked by guilt, thus incapacitating them.
The novel “Sophie’s Choice” is based on this policy and it’s aftermath.
This is an easy and effective way to “manage” a population.”
Incredibly trenchant
> something the Reich officials called a “Brain Buster.”
And in the original German?
I didn’t want to use a plain old Google Translate version for the term. I often try to look up a subject or phrase that I am considering using in a comment so as to reassure myself that I am using it correctly. “Brain Buster” was not quickly available on the necrotic Google. Not, at least, in the version used in the Third Reich. Google has become “funny” that way. I do remember reading about the term in a memoir about living through the “Final Solution” in Eastern Europe.
I know that this entire analogy is a violation of Godwin’s Law, but, if the jackboot fits….
Godwin’s law has been repealed after the events of Jan. 6th. According to Paul Jay the military had signaled in a newspaper oped that they were not going to support a coup, but Trump didn’t listen.
Well, there’s “the Military” and there’s “the military.”
Many coups come from the middle and junior officer corps of a nation’s military. Often, the Generals are completely “out of the loop.” As I’ve read elsewhere, soldiers take orders from colonels and generals but they follow into combat lieutenants and captains. A coup is just statescraft by other means.
Regarding vaccines/Covid I think this analysis sounds pretty spot on:
https://eand.co/this-is-why-big-pharma-doesnt-want-covid-to-end-e3a44280015f
Speaking of the vaxx: I’m beginning to side with those who are wanting to wait. Had my second dose of the Pfizer shot over a week ago and have been a lump of uselessness ever since. Has debilitating back pain that left me bedridden for two days and still am popping aspirin regularly to deal with the pain. My brain is in a constant fog, have had a voracious appetite (I normally eat very little), and am extremely tired most of the day.
I know the effects can last a while but the usual 1-2 days most experience is not my personal one. And, it takes a lot to knock me down. As someone who hasn’t had health insurance for decades I’m used to coping with pains and ailments. This is on another level and persistent. Really starting to wish I hadn’t gotten the shots and waited a while longer to find out long term effects.
Oh well. Live and learn.
I am so sorry. There is a theory that if you take the mRNA vaccines too close to having had a case (that includes asymptomatic cases), the mRNA can kick it into a Covid case or a close approximation symptom-wise. That means people should be tested before taking those vaccines, which we don’t do.
Getting the J&J shot tomorrow because getting hip replacement and going into a hospital not being vaccinated seems like too much risk.
Re: Corvids
God I love the corvids. Here is a great Youtube channel about falconry that features Fable the raven:
https://youtu.be/2d3dOam9Hg4
Apparently ravens are not pets for beginners, they are extremely intelligent, they know what they want and don’t want, and they aren’t afraid to let you know. Also, their beaks are as strong as a parrots and that’s no joke.
In other bird news, my partner and I recently moved to Brooklyn and we have a backyard of sorts. I’ve counted eight species of birds including:
1. pigeons
2. 2 pair of mourning doves
3. a clan of song sparrows
4. a harem? of house finches
5. a grey catbird
6. a cardinal, only seen once unfortunately. A neighbor said he was a regular so I fear the worst.
7. starlings
8. robins
9. I’ve spotted seagulls, crows, and what I suspect are a hunting pair of ospreys high overhead so they get an honorary mention.
I don’t feed them because that can bring one of the four squirrels (all conveniently named Merlin for ease of identification) and then you know what. I’m fine with the squirrels, don’t mind helping them out, but the rats are a deal breaker. I’ll try to help the birds out in winter though.
I have a shallow plastic tray my partner calls “The Pool” that the birds use as a bath. It became the “The Love Pool” when we witnessed two sparrows canoodling in it the other day; I’m sure to change the water a couple of times a day. Per Lambert’s advice, I have a small tray of twigs, vines, and detritus for them to use as a “Home Depot” although they don’t seem to have taken any yet. I’m considering getting some worms and putting them into the planters, for the plants and for the robins and starlings as well. The male finch fills the courtyard with his song and I watch the sparrows and finches antics in the trees with my small binoculars. Good fun!
No grackles? Lucky you …
My cats always appreciate the bird songs so on behalf of them I say thanks.
Yeah, we get the weirdest looks from our masters when I play the birds, and they’ve never heard from any of their songs before.
Fright of flight…
My wife does too. After one of the earliest ones she looked the window to see who was bothering a loon. She knows better now.
Another great Paul Jay discussion here:
Wilkerson – Is Israel a Strategic Asset or Liability?
theAnalysis-news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFX_3TKGJk
The only thing that can save Bitcoin at this point, is the possibility of crypto mining becoming a current event @ the Tokyo Olympics.
I bought a little BC through a mutual fund, not because I believe, but as a hedge like gold, or life insurance. Given the potential for unlimited gains, in the end times minting it might be the only rational use for electricity.
Since we are throwing out random stuff–I have been wondering how it came to be that it was “not ok” to name the original covid virus after its place of first discovery (yes, I know what Trump’s objective was)–but it is ok to call the mutations after their place of first discovery–UK, Brazil, India, etc. And not even those countries themselves seem to mind.
The social construction of reality is a funny thing……..?
So it’s morning here and the TV is yapping in the background about getting a vaccine and you have to wince. You have a bunch of bubble-heads saying they will take a jab if they can get their overseas holiday back again and now there is talk about incentives like lottery tickets and goodies like in America. They are really pushing it in the media. And of course any stories about side-effects is just so much rubbish which Geo above will be interested to learn. At least I can scroll up and relax by looking at that image of the lichen on that rock in today’s Water Cooler. The lichen doesn’t care.
I saw this posted on Twitter.
“Vox is editing it articles “debunking” the coronavirus lab leak theory. These edits aren’t being disclosed to readers,” tweeted Mike Cernovich.
United Airlines joins corporate COVID-19 vaccine push, offers bid to win year of free flights
Add this to lotteries, beer, joints, and scholarships. This is beyond weird where supposedly a life-saving vaccine needs incentives in order to incentivize/cajole people to receive it.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-announces-chance-to-win-one-year-of-free-flights-to-push-covid-19-shot-121741394.html
Odd indeed. what in the world?
Mini Zeitgeist Report.
I don’t know what web sites Phyl is ‘hanging out’ on, but she got a fundraising letter today from Rand Paul. Set him up alongside the DCCC, which pesters her frequently for funds and we have a clear example of “bipartisanship” in action. Roughly speaking, the two “opposite” wings of the American political class both bow down to Mammon.
Now, if only there was an organized, effective political organization that catered to the needs of the public.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/texas-poised-to-allow-unlicensed-carrying-of-handguns.html
exas is poised to remove one of its last gun restrictions after lawmakers approved allowing people to carry handguns without a license, and the background check and training that go with it.
The Republican-dominated Legislature approved the measure Monday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has said he will sign it despite the objections of law enforcement groups who say it would endanger the public and police.
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It takes a good man with a gun to stop a bad man with a gun, so with so many more guns in the hands of bad men, you just gotta put more guns out there to stop ’em…
Same thing just happened here in Tennessee.
Effective July 1, just in time for Independence Day!
Check out the picture of president biden at this article by the guardian. Looks like a halo around his head. I did not even read the article. The picture is priceless.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/joe-biden-israel-palestine-letter-democratic-staffers
I had a brief exchange with @GM following your piece on his CV19 comments and I speculated that Australia may be in for a bit of a bumpy ride as they approach their typical respiratory virus season – which usually starts some time in June and peaks in then and July. Very early days, but they’re already bringing in new restrictions in some States.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-victoria-update-two-likely-positive-cases-in-melbournes-north/c7cc4be2-cc0a-4e07-8ea1-15326a669832
All part of “The Hammer and the Dance” as stated in an article that came out in March of 2020-
https://tomaspueyo.medium.com/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56