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Obama’s particularly poisonous Admiral and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis has proposed deploying alliance forces in the Black Sea and having them attack Russian warships if they attempt to target ships streaming into or out of Ukrainian ports.
- he makes this AFTER knowing the ports became inoperable with grain facilities obliterated
- he makes this as the vindictive grandson of Greeks purged from Smyrna, Turkey – looks to get Turks and Russians to kill each other
- In his “retirement” he focuses on “teaching” at Harvard, Tufts, Yale, Georgetown et al on these topics: the Arctic, the role of women in international relations, synthetic biology and its impact on foreign affairs, cyber, and the role of online media and social networks in public diplomacy.
We can get a sense of his plans for the hapless Turks, being deftly prepositioned like the Poles, in his own words:
In his 2008 book, Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command, Stavridis wrote:“In the early 1920s, my grandfather, a short, stocky Greek schoolteacher named Dimitrios Stavridis, was expelled from Turkey as part of ‘ethnic cleansing’ (read pogrom) directed against Greeks living in the remains of the Ottoman Empire. He barely escaped with his life in a small boat crossing the Aegean Sea to Athens and thence to Ellis Island. His brother was not so lucky and was killed by the Turks as part of the violence directed at the Greek minority.
A NATO exercise off the coast of modern Turkey was the “most amazing historical irony [he] could imagine,” and prompted Stavridis to write of his grandfather: “His grandson, who speaks barely a few words of Greek, returns in command of a billion-dollar destroyer to the very city—Smyrna, now called İzmir—from which he sailed in a refugee craft all those years ago.”[34]”
There are too many vested rabid war-hounds and psychos pushing War Inc… even in the face of guaranteed futility, they foam and advance. What will Russia need to do to move Spike back into his distant kennel??
“Corbett on Rockefeller speaks…” Exactly. This is what I was getting at. As with elementary education controlled by Carnegie and other foundations following the prudent Prussian design to regiment the entire society into obedient worker-drones and warrior-drones, so it was for medicine.
And like a start-gun going off, all these trusts and foundations did this legwork to craft the society that exists today around ww1 – many key medical orgs and academies and medical curricula criteria were established and legislated into mandatory state credentialing back then around the same time too. Prussian totalan krieg taught them to control all — even elite classes and the desirable tastes so as to not get in the way of the total war effort.
I was lucky. I was in a more humane generalist field. I really felt for the surgical guys, who drew the short end of the stick during training. And I came in at a time onerous duty hours were being limited to a max of 120 hrs/ weeks.. even so I was on call 2-3 nights per week in first year with two 36 continuous hrs weekly.
These 36 hours in a row typically began with 8 hours of outpatient clinic (or hospital rotation), then overnight hospital ER triaging/admitting our patients as well as following admitted inpatient wards during their overnight needs, and with last 4 hours or so in another clinic the next morning (!!) Would you want to be treated by anyone on his 33rd continuous hour in a life and death moment?!!! It is a brutal and brutalizing system, designed by British madmen.
I do appreciate timetables and the need to instill discipline and rote habit, necessary for the novice and which occurs with repetition and time.. the safest medical care is at the hands of practiced practitioners going through the muscle memory of “the usual care.” Contrary to accepted public wisdom, you do not want “the best care” — that can more often lead to mistakes and complications by the self-conscious; a guy doing the same thing he’s done for 10,000 other patients is much safer. And “idle hands are the devil’s workshop.”
But this was different. I was disturbed at the whole during training and even more so during reflection with the passage of time. Docs were undergoing an initiation of sorts, an involuntary trauma-based one as during covid with its lockdowns, masking, lack of human contact such as no hand-shaking, social distancing, working from home, even avoiding outdoors beaches and playgrounds for kids, the least at-risk age-group (!!).
This type of damage continues on looong after the trauma is removed, like a dormant yet weakening cancer. Every day in my town I see poor folks still driving alone or walking outdoors with a mask. This was never seen before 2020… folks became broken and damaged in terrible ways.
For example, among the consequences even for ostensibly intelligent and all-knowing docs is a curious lack of self-reliance and blind adherence to official guidelines. When one is habitually worn out and forced to make life & death decisions, one clings to authoritative algorithms — proffered by the CDC, FDA, specialty academies and boards, etc… imprinted during the traumatic process. One becomes like a fastidious chemist or cook — treating the numbers and odds rather than the complete unique human in front of you. And focused on acute care rather than comprehensive prevention with a judicious eye capable of zooming in and out from the here-and-now to the wider view. To be fair, sub-specializing furthered this latter process; each focuses on his narrow point of care.
Who benefits? It is a harsh and often career-long regimentation that has been instilled, of shaping fearful, diffident “healers” who do not think outside the box. This paradigm benefits neither the patient, physician nor the wider society deprived of essential public health and primary care. And imho, this is beyond just feeding the Medical Cartel and Big Pharma. It is about larger control, no? Medical care, like US foreign policy, has unaccountable forces behind the scenes driving it, to same catastrophic ends…
Docs largely had their authority and true wherewithal stripped, before they even got out of the gate, and ceased to have the courage to be communal leaders.. Docs were neutered and entire societies harmed, so sad…. And so, no one is available as a father figure, as a leader, as a source of inspiration and good. Nihilism and darkness prevails, filling the vacuum. This is how to take a civilization down
PS – the equivalent take-down of lawyers paced that of the medical practitioners.. remember Atticus Finch, Perry Mason, etc…?? Idealism lost, replaced by blood-suckers. And we arrived today at a “Justice Dep” which openly shields the Biden crime family
Re: “I much prefer being just a hand.” Me too. Less grief with less effort for a more productive and satisfying work environment. You get to do a job to your satisfaction, conscientiously, knowing you didn’t harm another human being.. Truly, it’s the dimwits in our disaster capitalism era which float to the top, no??
Re: “The diffidence Mac shows to Mr K struck me hard. He spoke as to a superior.” the good colonel is a company man. Bred and true. And has been given the medals and stature and platform to match. He knows his place and salutes his betters….. all u need to know.
The British-designed medical residency is truly inhumane and satanic. So many hours are spent onsite in the hospital, that every resident is given a small sleeping quarters. I still have PTSD when I hear a pager ring, and have refused to carry one for decades!
Residencies last an average of four years or so, depending on specialty. And keep in mind, in the USA – the track is as follows: 4 years of High School (HS), 4 of undergraduate studies, 4 of med school (MD), THEN 4+ of residency. For some surgical subspecialty residencies, such as cardiothoracic, it can be 9-12 years (!!). So up to 20 years post-HS.. And often to even qualify, they had to publish and get PhDs in advance — so many literally graduate as greybeards…
Even middling subspecialties like neurosurgery (~7 years post-MD) cauterizes a person’s life; a Joke: “the quality of the neurosurgeon is measured by # of divorces.” One of my mentors during first year wardship (in MD program, first two years are classroom and physical sciences lab didactics and last two years in hospital training) was deep into his own residency in vascular surgery and recommended we DO NOT enter that specialty track given work hours alone (!). I think he was determined to finish it himself not for the imminent $500k/yr but he had already spent 13-14 years post-HS. It was too late to back out and hefty bills awaited. He was a superb and humane physician too.
All this informs why medicine steadily lost the smartest minds – who sped into finance and get rich quick ponzi schemes. The money was not seen to be worth the terms of labor… all this deliberate IMHO, to desensitize each generation’s new docs so they do not care too much. The sheer workload makes them cynical and turns some antisocial.
Many get so used to the crazy work hours, thinking it is normal, not having understanding of history, human nature and bodily/mind/spiritual needs — that they continue working ridiculous hours. For example, in Emergency Med, they work average 12-hr shifts, about 4 days in a row/wk for about 2-3 weeks, a week off, then same 12-hr/4-shifts but at night. This wrecks havoc on sleep patterns, social life, life satisfaction itself. Even for those who love it… Their average career length is 9 years due to this madness (!!) Imagine all the pain, 12 years post-HS, for 9 years! The more intelligent get out early and transition to another specialty or enter academic medicine with more support, with research interests spreading out the pain. The entire Medical Cartel is geared to making docs so tired they are non-thinking zombies, killing themselves even as they work on palliative care on equally disturbed patients.
One of the best advice was given me by what I suspect was a bipolar air force generalist – an Irish catholic with good intentions, if a little batshit crazy. He’d travelled all over the US and abroad and noted most US docs were as debt-trapped as the rest. Many started spending WAY outta line during residency – they were docs now and deserved the best, no?? Imagine spending like crazy on $30k/yr for 4- 12 years, on top of $2-500k school loans, and $2-300k new home…. most take 30+ years to dig out. Why most did not blink and gave the killshots on command in 2021-2022…
Even after residency, many let egos get to their heads and overspent… million dollar homes above their means, latest luxury cars and bling, living paycheck-to-paycheck even though hauling $3-500k/yr! And many married to other docs too. The sheer madness of the entire society. This was one of his most useful charts for keeping a balance in life:
A friend’s father, a shrink, who’d entered medicine in 60-70s, complained he was earning far less while still seeing more patients. So medicare/medicaid was legislating them to death, as much of reimbursement ran through them and they set the insurance payments industry standards too.
Some docs spent 1-3 hours post-office hours on charts alone, after 8-10 hours seeing 28-40 patients (!!) trying to keep up with filing requirements both legally to cover their behind in a litigation-happy environment as well as reimbursement hoops needing satisfying with every single patient. Such an unhealthy and unhappy environment!!
NB: all this served to wipe out single practitioners, the honest independent backbone of primary care in the USA. Often the leaders of small-town Americana. They could not keep up with lawfare requirements and keep personal time. They pulled their shingles and joined multi-practitioner, or multi-specialty teams, and even these were becoming untenable due to billing requirements and workload. So they joined hospitals and huge private corporations. And became voiceless cogs in the iron wheel, earning paychecks and told what to prescribe and which algorithm to follow…
This is why as soon as I completed my residency, I got the hell outta dodge.
Even abroad this inhuman system followed, as the US/Brit system is most widely adopted worldwide. So I entered into academic medicine. It pays less, but following academic cycles you can take several months off per year, less onerous work hours even during the 9-10 months/yr (typically clinic is only one day/wk, the rest teaching & research). And particular bonus for me, as was in a history-teaching track in undergrad — I love teaching.
The entire western paradigm, crafted with satanic exactitude by the Brits, is dying on every level. Do you understand why the French youth, busy torching the entire nation, have the most sense?? When it gets this bad, it must be brought down. Only on the other side of the ashes is there hope….
Here’s the Brit adage:
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”Dull is blandly said to be “boring.” It appears a pun. Like a sharp knife blunted, the intrinsically razor sharp human mind has been neutered. Submitted. A satanic mockery, no? The second part, made into a rhyme, makes this explicit:
“All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.”Perhaps the second part also applies to the crafting of the ideal leisure class, one that is putty in elite decider hands. The current functionaries of NGOs abroad who are what Michael Hudson aptly termed, “talent scouts for traitors.”
Stanley Kubrick had a field day with this in his masterpiece “The Shining (1980).” This was a very deep movie. I hate horror, and didn’t initially like it, but came to appreciate its layers, more apparent with each viewing. It is 7 movies or so in one really: on the psychopathy of Anglo elites; genocide of native Americans; the abuse of gold in the world economy; pedophilia; the moon landings; incest; nature of madness, etc… He had moved from New York to England in 1961. He apparently realized he had moved from the Big Satan to the Really Big Satan.
Anyway, he used that saying of Jack to drive home several plots. On madness. Was it a reveal too of the essence of feudalism by the cruel and calculating Brits — to work a man to death — not only to maximize profit, but the Eugenicists did it to cull and weed out those who couldn’t hang in the inhuman system.
It even affected the upper middle class: resident-doctors in the US as recently as 20 years ago had finally received limitation of their weekly duty hours to 120 hours/ week (!!!) Do the math. Imagine their workload and duty hours before this, when it was merely reduced to a maximum of 17 hrs/day….
We joked amongst ourselves it was the last form of slave labor in USA. Even with those hours, and largely carrying the workload of hospitals, residents back then averaged some $30-35,000/annum (!!) And US medicine had inherited this brutal system from Pax Britannica in 19th century. Does it help explain why most western docs were perfunctory, cold, somewhat antisocial, and content to treat symptoms rather than the whole person? They were invariably too tired and punching in the clock, like a factory hand.
Father noted two facts several decades ago that shocked: (1) some of the dumbest humans he had ever known were docs in the West. They worked hard, but lacked imagination or ability to think outside the box. Maybe he didn’t factor in the workload and how many came to hate humanity too. They were essentially zombies, and by design.
(2) few professions were as potentially capable of being spiritual leaders in our dark age. Like Moses, who was trained in the best universities of his age, in superpower Egypt, and then received Revelation, they could combine the material and the eternal immaterial.
This also informs elite design of medical curricula, like the undergraduate, of dumbing down to blindly follow algorithms (benefiting Big Pharma), and treat symptoms, rather than to truly fly. And above all to so dangle the carrot of fabulous wealth to keep busy these natural leaders that they could not overturn the satanic paradigm.
And as we discussed above, they also did it to keep folks too tired, busy, and hand-to-mouth to not interfere with the plundering ways of their betters. Note what Crooke said about the demands of bourgeoisie after WW2:
“At the end of the two World Wars, west Europeans had sought a fairer society (the industrial society that had preceded the wars was frankly both feudal and brutal). Europeans wanted a new deal that cared for the less advantaged too. It was not socialism per se that was sought, though some plainly did want communism. Essentially, it was about re-inserting some ethical values into an amoral laissez-faire economic sphere.”The feudal West can’t have it both ways. Squeeze the very life-force, imagination, and innovation out of their dehumanized “human labor,” and compete against the larger, organized and industrial socialist states with a sense of stewardship and compassion breeding élan in a cohesive resilient society. This is why the smarter western philosophers of the early 20th century knew they were doomed and the future lay with Russia.
The miracle is their momentum of 400 years of Plunder still kept them going another 100 years. And here we are
A, in addition to the interesting cake suggested by Mr P, here are some ways we deal with severe heat (those of us unable to enjoy the exquisite weather of Kenya or Uganda 🤓🤔 — note I am NOT being cheeky, lol). Was taught a lot by Yemenis, who live in even hotter weather than you without AC (!!)
- don’t towel off after showering, lol. The evaporation cools nicely. May work best in drier climes though.. And if water is not a consideration, shower every other hour or so!
- popsicles! get several molds from dollar stores and fill every night with 90-95% mix of water and your fav fruit juice. A light fruit like grape is heavenly.. I sometimes have to fight the kids for the last one…
- go native and thumb your nose at the heat! This actually works. I get to hating the AC and turn it off. You will get used to sweating, and it is actually healthier than the artificial AC environment. I and many sleep better under the fan than under the AC, and electricity bills are more kind. Also try drinking hot tea! For many, it increases sweating and paradoxically tolerance for heat. The ambiance is no longer hell..
hot/cold can be turned on its head and be made a state of mind..
OK that will teach me to be cheeky with HT again. For once I’m speechless. I’ve met the match!
Mr P, good observation about the Jul 20 (Op Valkyrie). There are many ways to take down the madmen, short of nuclear war. If implosion is too slow, or they keep sending up canon-fodder to the Grinder, their cities can be asymmetrically “kettled” through hunger-riots. Maybe the plebs can display terrible street ornamentation.
btw, this was a plague of ancient world, and still occurs in the Global South today. Rome got to the point they distributed free rations (a sack of grain monthly) for centuries to avoid hunger-riots, so their Oligarchy could then plunder abroad undisturbed on the homefront. It appears the modern Roosky vandals are more clever their tormented germanic predecessors. No need to crash the Gates of Imperial Rome. Just crash their dinari and grain supplies, and let gravity and the plebs handle the rest. The West will become an interesting lab, concurrent with vaccine effects. I will find and share an illuminati or tarot card I saw around 2020 showing Paris burning during the Olympics, which happens to be in 2024….
Funny how you brought up the Montreax treaty. This was on my mind for months and especially in the last days. It may expire next week, as it is linked to the expiring Treaty of Sèvres and the Treaty of Lausanne, if the British have their way… Montreux appears to me a temporary concession back then to the Soviets at a point of Anglo weakness. They knew Russian lust for the Straits, and accommodated them to maintain Turk neutrality and to avoid Constantinople/Istanbul’s taking during WW2. I suspect the Sultan’s greatest, last and most fatal betrayal is in the offing. Why Russians have been keeping their powder dry to date.
I thought Hal said a few weeks ago he was expanding to new nationwide station?? So it ain’t just the rural Mormon ranches in the West listening. In a way he is doing a superb job. As hunger and impoverization will heat Eurocrazies, he raises the temperature of many decent folks against the irredeemable elites. Both regions are set on Guidelines and Hunger Games timetables by their compassionate elites.
