tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62781154415578805682024-03-18T16:29:18.625-07:00Inverted Alchemy: An Integral EconomyWealth and the metrics used to measure it have become increasingly devoid of the dimensionality intrinsic to humanity. Welcome to the discussion of a new vision and an alternative Ancient Future of Wealth.David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.comBlogger420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-91315836348576668052023-12-31T11:45:00.000-08:002023-12-31T12:07:51.687-08:00Setting Sights on 2024 with Gratitude<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">In the Fall
of 1803, the color-blind Quaker John Dalton proposed that nature could be understood
through the “simplicity rule” that gave us our modern “atomic” model of
reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proposing the distinction of elements
based on relative weights, his work preceded the later-century Russian dream
that gave us Dimitri Mendeleev’s Periodic Table in 1869.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While “science” has dogmatically embraced the
work of these 19<sup>th</sup> century natural philosophers, both of them arrived
at their finest contributions through inspiration – not arduous
experimentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p><br /> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">2023 was a
year haunted by the ghosts of these two obscure figures of history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dalton’s atomization has become the social
engineering model of choice reducing the complexity of society into contrived
dualism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Pro” and “Anti” have served to
render thought and consideration anathema to nuanced humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With vapid chronicity, those who seek to
peddle their animus rely on tired memes in an effort to conscript the reflexive
atrophied hordes into Pavlovian-frenzied conspiracies seeking the valence of
those who have anemic discernment exsanguinated by the anonymized keyboards
from which their vigilantism can spew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are, in a word, a world divided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But not by substance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, we
are actively BEING divided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhyCyEczt-evXC4oPTJp41LunH91mPOrZ1UVuXJxP0gGLOJClpzItLAopnyY5BPdE7NBk26IR3lDTqZTCxk17FUTBEyIV0YpmHmCOURL49x1vPZ95CKq5RuykkchSLIKaVGqpwlZG5pz7eRAz511I0MKnq1334E1sjfjav9AfhaVpOLvGW_-uRSl0gkyE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="151" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhyCyEczt-evXC4oPTJp41LunH91mPOrZ1UVuXJxP0gGLOJClpzItLAopnyY5BPdE7NBk26IR3lDTqZTCxk17FUTBEyIV0YpmHmCOURL49x1vPZ95CKq5RuykkchSLIKaVGqpwlZG5pz7eRAz511I0MKnq1334E1sjfjav9AfhaVpOLvGW_-uRSl0gkyE=w185-h320" width="185" /></a></div>So, in this
final communication of 2023, it is my desire, as it is each year, to reflect on
the Litany of the Saints who, despite this maelstrom of division, have stood to
build a more connected humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as
in each year, I recite those who have had greatest impact in my life, each one
I mention represents a throng of others who embody attributes that have made
this year one that advanced the cause of humanity in my direct experience.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">David Lopez
left an indelible mark on this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Through his fraternity and generosity, my life was enriched in every
dimension.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His passion for distributing
the important public messages I had to share amplified the great contributions
of Mikki Willis, the late Dr. Zev Zelenko, and countless others expanding the
reach of conversations with Seth Holehouse, Tommy Robinson, Russell Brand, and
the appearances at the EU Parliament (organized by the ICS) and the UK
Parliament (at the invitation of John Bowe and MP Andrew Bridgen).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His brother Daniel recalibrated my social
media reach on X and other platforms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
business, he facilitated the invaluable connection to global luminaries like
Robbie Lavia, Ahmed Bin Sulayem, John Eleoterio, Tom Williams, Ernie Lee, Xavier
Adsera, and many more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Above all, David
stood shoulder-to-shoulder in every moment of the year affording me what few in
life ever experience – fidelity above and beyond duty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. Maria
Hubmer-Mogg and Malue Montclairre served to step into a role that once was
occupied by my dear late sister Theresa Arek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These women – along with the likes of Marla Maples, Linda Swain, Dr.
Crisanna Shackelford – placed the importance of informing the public above
their personal reputation and interest and showed a relentless commitment to
advance the betterment of humanity in the face of relentless opposition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through their work and the support of Lilly
Defina, several of my public presentations reached over half the world’s
population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while detractors have attempted
to attack my character or credential, not one has succeeded in undermining the
reach of incontrovertible facts or our relentless commitment to their faithful
representation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">For another
year, my colleagues and investors at M•CAM International, Purple Bridge Funds,
Activate Clean Energy LLC, and RASA Energy Inc. have honored me with the confidence
to lead these organizations through challenging economic times and end the year
with each organization at its strongest, best capitalized, and most globally impactful
position in each companies’ respective life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In contrast to the saccharin-fueled ‘leadership’ aspirations sold by
commercial industry, I’ve done my best to enshrine </span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">the values of accountability and integrity befitting
leadership bestowed, not sought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
values, enshrined in the <b><i>Cyropaedia</i></b> by Xenophon are echoed in the
soon to be released book, <b><i><span style="background: white;">Bringing the
Right Arm Back: a Journey in </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sufi</span></em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> Corporate </span><em style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Leadership</span></em></i></b></span><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, by my dear friend and colleague Dr. Moustapha
Sarhank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The community of
alumni and friends of Kim and my Fully Live and Breathing Enterprise workshops
have continued to enrich our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After last year’s inaugural 12 Senses workshop in Boulder Colorado
(there are still a few spots left for the one upcoming in two weeks at <a href="https://fullylive.world/12senses/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://fullylive.world/12senses/</span></a>) we were able to see
hundreds of people engaging their lives more fully and become greater contributors
to a better humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These efforts
concluded this year with Kim and my one-day event at the Church of Glad Tidings
in Yuba City California where we discussed ways in which we could take more
responsibility for the lives we experience and make a greater positive impact
in the world around us (<a href="https://churchofgladtidings.com/wheres-this-world-going-fund-raiser"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">https://churchofgladtidings.com/wheres-this-world-going-fund-raiser</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">This year, our
family grew with the birth of our first granddaughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids have been a source of considerable
joy with new beginnings – from first steps to university – punctuating the
year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">It is fitting to
end this message with the acknowledgement of Kim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is incomprehensible to see the chasm that
has been placed in the way of men and women finding a path to genuine harmony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From callous societal tropes and cliché maxims
to genuine animosity and derision, the enmity sown in our earliest myths and
stories has ensured that most people never find the capacity for unfettered
union and the possibilities thereof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
this year, I’ve been honored to strive with Kim to see our pure, undefiled
essence emerge so that we, man and woman, can contemplate and experience an
unconstrained humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year has not
been a luxurious repose in the garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has involved delving into some of the darkest corners of our lives
and removing that which does not serve our highest and best essence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, intrepid to the core (also read,
stubborn), we have persisted and have emerged in the closing days of this year,
more aligned in purpose, more united in vision, and more convinced that the
greater song of humanity is yet unsung.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And hand-in-hand, we enter 2024 rejuvenated in the promise of that which
is possible when Light shines in the darkness and we chose connection rather
than distinction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">x<o:p></o:p></span></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-28129473065579557192023-05-09T13:57:00.002-07:002023-05-09T16:11:54.502-07:00 Oh, Those Gullible Christians…If Only They Knew<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><b><i>Warning: This post contains triggers, offensive
observations, and identifies as neutral (even tho it isn’t)</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every now and then I read the writings and postings of those
with whom I share little in common so that I can observe the world through
alternative lenses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having been raised
in a family in which “truth” was curated from a myopic, willfully occluded pious
religious perspective – one that selectively curates passages from the Bible as
“truth” while rationalizing out all others as irrelevant to the “times” – my
impulse is, in part, a calibration on my own perspective and its derivative
understandings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In point of fact, I
don’t know that I’ve ever met anyone who celebrates “truth” who doesn’t
conflate the term with a perspective entirely coherent to their own at the
expense of all others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Truth, after all,
is a weapon derived from the tyranny of hierarchy and its wielding is merely a
feeble attempt to silence perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like “laws” of physics or nature, their reification only precludes a
genuine observation of the ever-unfolding evidence of infinitely orthogonal
perspective limited only by dogma – both explicit and implicit.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br />A few days ago, I found myself reading a <b><i>New York
Times</i></b> op-ed (“Tucker Carlson’s Dark and Malign Influence Over the Christian
Right”, by David French, May 7, 2023) railing against Tucker Carlson’s
influence on what are classified by the author to be conservative, evangelical
Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Common to the critiques of
former President Trump, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and others, allegations of
misogyny, bigotry, and classism were strewn about with the publicly recorded
facts and rumor-based innuendo from former colleagues, leaked e-mails and the
like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be abundantly clear, I do not endorse
or ignore the public record which includes moments I find ranging from
reprehensible to sophomorically crude. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Given
my lack of familiarity with Mr. Carlson, I am in no position to comment on
veracity of the matters of private or collegial character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can listen to Mr. Carlson’s content and –
common to virtually everyone I’ve heard in any media – find some content
interesting and some distasteful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But a closer examination of the op-ed was the implication of
the diminution of the class of society labeled as the Christian Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The underlying message was one of faux
consternation about the malleability and hypocrisy of the ‘religious right’ in
America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, while I have much to say
about this topic in general, it was the moral superiority subtext that drew my
attention.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The article was shared (and ‘liked’) in many of the
communities who actively promoted the medical countermeasures (MCM) deployed
during the social sabotage marketed as COVID-19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Setting aside that ALL of the public
purveyors (media, governmental, and marketing prostitution) of the MCM have now
been forced by the evidence to disavow statements regarding masking, school
closures, safety and efficacy of experimental therapies, etc. (what a moral
observer might classify as a “LIE”); and setting aside the March 2023
publication “<i>Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis
after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination” </i>published in <b><i>Clin Res Caridiol</i></b>
which clearly evidenced <b><u>death</u></b> from the MCM (what a moral observer
might classify as statistically justifiable “MURDER”); we are invited to find
Mr. Carlson’s message unacceptable while paying no attention to the degree to
which religion – from Mormon to Muslim from Pope to Pastor – was used to coerce
the public into taking actions that, in the fulness of time have been shown to
be objectively false and deadly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Be assured that this matter cuts closely to the bone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve lost family, relationships, and all
manner of benefit for asking for accountability and transparency <b><i>equivalently
applied</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not asked for
agreement – just consistency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to date,
I’ve not met a single person prepared to rise to that standard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While offering no evidence to refute a single
statement I have made in public or private over the past 3 years, I’m merely
canceled and ignored by those who once celebrated my uncommon perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve lived every day of my life under the specter of dogma
and its evil twins “right” and “shame”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
it is with a bit of irony that I found myself agreeing with the author of the
op-ed in a rather fundamental way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Insofar as the critique was on the idolatry of selective hypocrisy –
where stated values can be suspended for the “greater good” – I find myself in
vigorous agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is where
the article – if seen for its commentary value – has a great deal to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would that we, as a society, examine the
degree to which religion has served as the syringe through which the opioid of
suppressing inquiry is delivered to the masses!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Would that we hold those in influence and power accountable to our
highest standards rather that “locker-room” trash talk!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All fair points.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But, my dear <b><i>New York Times </i></b>reader…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Before we cast aspersions on the gullible religious right,
how about we engage in a dialog that includes enough self-reflection such as it
might inspire a bit of objectivity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where is the coverage on media suppression of now commonly accepted
facts that were classified BY THE <b><i>New York Times</i></b> as mis- or
disinformation just months ago?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where is
the effort to purge “Fact Checking” that was clearly false and misleading so
that besmirched reputations can be cleared?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where is the author’s consternation in the FACT that we know have a
proliferation of speech suppression bills and laws that suggest that
questioning the narrative of authority is “domestic terrorism” while the very
institutions seeking defense have been indicted by their own evidence as having
lied to the public?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As recently as a few days ago, my statement that mRNA
injections were classified as “experimental gene therapy” by the FDA in April
2020 was “fact-checked” as “false”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This, despite the fact that I am <b><i>reciting the exact statements
made by Moderna and BioNTech in their SEC Filings of April and June of 2020.<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by
the FDA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike certain gene therapies
that irreversibly alter cell DNA and could act as a source of side effects,
mRNA-based medicines are designed not to irreversibly change cell DNA; however side
effects observed in gene therapy could negatively impact the perception of mRNA
medicines despite the differences in mechanisms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The number and design of clinical trials and
preclinical studies required for approval of these types of medicines have not
been established…”<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvdsUKCdqqhBGzmTVhMQESSzNZmWvQ-GOAA9AEhZXbSGQA3r9vVHAOKveKeyt2mFDfGgRr-qvsKCYss93KnY12B0WgAhaodF6YOrDbYRGYxhL3HuhCYBtlvD9Be9UpWxOQidrW83cyA_Ywd7VHdD2Ti50DIwmIkQiIPHStRc87X_ZpiHZK7mvnEnMG/s680/SECFile.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvdsUKCdqqhBGzmTVhMQESSzNZmWvQ-GOAA9AEhZXbSGQA3r9vVHAOKveKeyt2mFDfGgRr-qvsKCYss93KnY12B0WgAhaodF6YOrDbYRGYxhL3HuhCYBtlvD9Be9UpWxOQidrW83cyA_Ywd7VHdD2Ti50DIwmIkQiIPHStRc87X_ZpiHZK7mvnEnMG/w400-h400/SECFile.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">You think?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Apparently, the enlightened religious elite – those who
celebrate Mr. French’s version of morality – take solace in the presumption
that statistically estimated “lifesaving” triumphs over <b><u>AUTOPSY</u></b> based
evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, the Good Shepherd
always plays the law of numbers, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He stays with the 99 while leaving the 1 lost sheep to the wolves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If COVID-19 taught us anything it should that dogmatic
belief, once again, has proven deadly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
the early falsified models of “pandemic” to the carnage wrought by the containment
and MCM, we have seen humanity sacrificed on the altar of statistics and, lo,
no ram was in the thicket to save us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The blade killed the children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
let’s cut the crap!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let him without a
retracted statistic cast the first stone.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">…and looking up, he saw no one standing there.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Neither do I accuse thee.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">x<o:p></o:p></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-82129063222258982712023-03-02T10:45:00.000-08:002023-03-02T10:45:19.437-08:00Eruditio et Religio and the Great Asbury Revival<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSQdG-xL-6v7cQo3lxyxqMm4nr5H8vqTZibZPTuFdqS-1xEiGz2ZDl-k1f7Rl1nrtFBbvqMv-w9FiMwldyNQcHWjon30-d_vc2ix5xf5Lzex7eDU5CSGGLjWeJlhVIPXK1RbRBs1qH_kciE0203mL7IEczAzZI1VBvnhO6uCfV5WAeaueYJs6i4mi/s625/asbury.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="619" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLSQdG-xL-6v7cQo3lxyxqMm4nr5H8vqTZibZPTuFdqS-1xEiGz2ZDl-k1f7Rl1nrtFBbvqMv-w9FiMwldyNQcHWjon30-d_vc2ix5xf5Lzex7eDU5CSGGLjWeJlhVIPXK1RbRBs1qH_kciE0203mL7IEczAzZI1VBvnhO6uCfV5WAeaueYJs6i4mi/w198-h200/asbury.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><br />There are over 40 references in the Bible to the idea
that <b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">repentance</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> – the capacity to see error and not only turn from it
but also make restitution for harm – is prerequisite for </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">forgiveness</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">February’s nearly two-week revival at Asbury University
in Kentucky concluded just days before the release of Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle’s
film </span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Jesus Revolution</i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’m
NOT saying that these events were associated or exploited by Lionsgate but I’m
simply asking a question.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On August 19, 2021, Asbury University announced their
return-to-campus policy on COVID-19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the President’s note to the community, he recited the CDC’s lie that
vaccination would somehow make the campus community safer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="background: white; color: #363636; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Recent data tells us
hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 are primarily concentrated among
non-vaccinated individuals. Moreover, while there are “breakthrough cases”
(vaccinated individuals who contract COVID-19), hospitalization rates are
strikingly low (.0004 as of July 26) and sickness is generally experienced as
less severe. Therefore, the proportion of vaccinated individuals in our
community will matter.</span>”<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Students were encouraged to upload their vaccination
cards or participate in a campus-sponsored vaccine clinic at the commencement
of the school year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mask wearing was,
according to him, “Godly Wisdom” and led to his unfortunate mask mandates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was February 3, 1970, when another major “revival”
broke loose on Asbury’s campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure
someone out there has an Aquarian metaphor for this symmetry!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming on the heels of the charismatic
movement, the “Jesus Movement” was a major influence for the events portrayed in
the <b><i>Jesus Revolution</i></b> film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A close examination of the financial statements of Asbury
University reveals that, during COVID, the University was paid $4,448,000 by
the Federal Government for its participation in the COVID PPP socialist
incentive program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while this sum pales
in comparison to the Catholic Diocese of Covington’s $10 million, it still
presents a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s a university
who adopted Duke University’s motto, “Eruditio et Religio”, who hid behind “Godly
wisdom” to promote masking and injections and who, for two weeks, hosted a “revival”
celebrated around the world and…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…at NO POINT did the University use that national and
international spotlight to REPENT of its COVID complicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I started out by stating that I’m not saying the revival
and the film’s release had anything to do with each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am simply asking the same question I asked
regarding Event 201 and Dustin Moskovitz’s funding of the Johns Hopkins, Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, and World Economic Forum event in October 2019
which foreshadowed the “pandemic”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
the fruit of a thing doesn’t match the thing, is it possible that the tree is
not what you think it is?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I will freely admit that I’m a casualty of the 1970s “revival”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lonnie Frisbee and Chuck Smith along with
their Southern California adherents had profound effects on my life (or lack
thereof).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I want to point out that
if we’re not willing to apply the same discernment on the institution we call
the church that we apply to the World Economic Forum, is there a chance that we
may be Blinded By the light… that isn’t Light?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">X<o:p></o:p></span></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-85999475577306960602022-12-31T10:44:00.001-08:002022-12-31T10:44:36.722-08:00Santa’s Soot – Time to Sweep the Chimney of 2022<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To avoid confusion, the environmentally
‘woke’ Vatican adds<span style="background: white; color: #101010;"> potassium
perchlorate (a thyroid disruptor), anthracene (coal tar – a greenhouse no-no),
and sulphur</span> (a breathing irritant) to conclave smoke to signify that a
pope has not yet been chosen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently,
like their other health-conscious recommendations on genetic modification of
humans, Pope Benedict’s commitment to equivocate on morality is the will of “God’s
Vicar on Earth”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, hey, whether it
was the Hitler Youth membership, the reallocation of predator priests, or the
will of Fauci, the church has long served the Constantinian master in whose
image and likeness it was formed in the 4<sup>th</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup>
century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And what should we expect from
a religion who allowed a mass-murdering Roman to define the heart and will of
the Prince of Peace?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #101010; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #101010; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Thankfully, we won't have smoke on January 5, 2023 from another post-modern conclave. Cardinal
</span><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Joseph
Aloisius Ratzinger</span> (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) died on this last day of
2022 and it wouldn’t surprise me to see his veneration debate begin not longer
after his body is interred in St. Peter’s Basilica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Vatican already announced the decision on
burial location was so that his remains could be “greeted by the faithful.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which got me thinking, as I sat to write my
last communication of 2022:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are “the
faithful”?<br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And at the risk of boring you, allow me a
generous quote from my book <b><i>Lizards Eat Butterflies: An Antidote To The
Self-Help Addiction</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Faith</i></b><i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Defined as “trust or confidence in someone or something,” faith requires
the assumption that your own existence, perception and experience is inadequate
and must rely on an ‘other’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For faith
to flourish, inadequacy and lack of confidence must be manufactured through the
art of intimidation or seduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who
are the someones and what are the somethings that are supposed to be that in
which we place our confidence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
where it gets really crazy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re told
to place faith in people who first must tell a story that you don’t completely
understand and then ask you to accept its importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“They” – the gods, the aliens, the all-powerful Other,
parents, politicians, teachers, clergy, associates – know something; tell you
part of their story (usually the part that requires you to feel inadequate at
some level); and, then ask you to place trust and confidence in their ability
to look after you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re not enough and
you <b>need</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do you need?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, that’s unclear when faith is introduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, these stories begin with
inaccessible stories, myths and legends all placed in a ‘before’ which makes it
perfectly clear that you – usually when you’re young – could have no chance in
verifying any piece of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
delivered – in recited story, song, or language – questioning is overtly or
covertly prohibited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by the time
you’re old enough to really think for yourself, your entire lexicon is
delivered to you by those who seek your faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Clever, isn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone creates
the illusion into which you need to fit; forces you to accept that perspective
as the ‘right’ one, and then asks you to place your faith in them or their
worldview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The net effect – <b><u>you
surrogate your identity to another</u></b></i>.</p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2022 was a year that indicted nearly
all “faith”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were told to place our “trust”
(a cunning corollary to faith) in “science” – a social seduction only available
in a world where every Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, the masses are told to
ignore reality for an accepted cosmological and eschatological narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because if we were capable of critical thought,
we would recognize that an intervention reportedly capable of blocking the infection
by, or transmission of, a disease that doesn’t do either is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
meant to destroy the flock…of sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
from the womb, we’ve been hypnotized with the Nicaean-style propaganda that
exterminated thought in favor of ‘faith’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We would no more recognize our prophets today if they walked amongst us
than those among whom they actually walked when incarnate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLMKVIO4DkLhrQ216jB9gz7m-FR5jU0QQOrICvrr5guoINUt38uJEEM1-AWv4RJMDeh6mImNarMi2P8lHP_LUDvutoCZyhh9iewZXy5FLqo4BsUoFGlNqFU0JbSRtTMoiLqSmxk5-xAWSfoR1q-XE3207Dk5B26PsC2Orhjon62pLrX5LH1HIBBzjU/s362/StMartin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="270" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLMKVIO4DkLhrQ216jB9gz7m-FR5jU0QQOrICvrr5guoINUt38uJEEM1-AWv4RJMDeh6mImNarMi2P8lHP_LUDvutoCZyhh9iewZXy5FLqo4BsUoFGlNqFU0JbSRtTMoiLqSmxk5-xAWSfoR1q-XE3207Dk5B26PsC2Orhjon62pLrX5LH1HIBBzjU/w149-h200/StMartin.jpg" width="149" /></a></div>So, on this last communication of
2022, I thought I’d take a diversion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually,
I try to recount my litany of the saints of the year past – those who greatly
impacted my life for whom I have extraordinary gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year, borrowing from Integral
Accounting, I will instead highlight attributes worthy of veneration and those
in whom I’ve seen these incarnated. Because, like St. Martin, it's not what you say you believe, it's not what you allege to be your doctrine; rather, it's what you do with your cloak when you see someone in need on the side of the road that matters. And, unlike the late pope, doing the RIGHT thing means violating the incumbent rules, damn the consequences, because it's the right thing to do. The people I celebrate know what's right and seek to do it!<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Commodity – the Nature of Matter and
Energy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While my life’s closest connections to
the stewards of lands are inextricably bound to Papua New Guinea and my dear friends
Theresa Arek (Amruqa), the Daveona family (Bougainville), and Pana Wiya
(Village Growers), my focus this year has been quite different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working together with Dr. William Wismann, James
Purpura, Jeremy Davey, Steve Byle, Coby Crawford, Denise Grigsby, Bob Kendall
and Tony Buda and our amazing technical team we’ve embarked on a solution to
one of energy’s biggest public challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Honored to see similar efforts undertaken by MAD Energy, Phoenix, and
others, we’re working to bring practical solutions to the nonsense of ‘environmental
sensibility’ and put credibility into the façade marketed as ESG.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Custom & Culture – the nature of
our interactions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">From Dr. Zev Zelenko’s virtual address
this spring to my many invitations, Dave and Cheryl Bryan and the Church of
Glad Tidings community have been my first experience of a church actually living
its values and during this year, have been a constant source of encouragement
and fellowship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courageous communicators
and thought-leaders like Mikki Willis, Del Bigtree, Pete Evans, Dr. Peter McCullough,
Shack, Stew Peters, Dr. Jane Ruby, Clay Clark, JP Sears, Tim White, Dr. Lori
Cardellino, Natalia Rose, Brad Cummings, Seth Holehouse, Russell Brand, Leila
Centner, Norbert Schwarzer, Troy von Brauke, and many others have demonstrated
the endangered art of engaging in thoughtful communication without resorting to
the diminution of their friends or foes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Knowledge – the transmissivity of
wisdom and perspective<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As many of you know, this year, enabled
by a generous friend’s donation, Kim and I launched the Federal lawsuit on the
CMS Mandate in Utah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working with the amazing
team of Dr. Devan Griner, George Wentz and his legal team (the team that got
facemasks off airplanes!), Stan Graham, and John Hewlett, we achieved a beachhead
in the fight against medical tyranny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Working with many of the people listed above, hundreds of millions of
people around the world heard information that no major media outlet would
disseminate and, thankfully, informed by that, the reckless criminal pharmaceutical
empire is seeing its flagship agenda sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Working with global-reaching partners like David Lopez, Foster Coulson
and the Liberty team we’ve been able to propagate messages far more effectively
using the very tools that the incumbency sought to corrupt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most recently, many of the relationships set in
motion by my dear friend, brother and colleague Dr. Moustapha Sarhank have
re-emerged after over a decade of latency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Money – the temporary storage of value<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Managing the Purple Bridge funds and
our related investments through 2022 has been a lesson in fiscal stewardship in
the face of market and central bank tomfoolery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The M•CAM team continues to perform at a world-class level and our
commitment to transparency is all the more relevant in the face of the recent
Democratic Party-enabled FTX debacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
full faith and confidence in monetary systems has been rapidly eroding to
irrelevance making room for the alumni of our <i>Integral Accounting Asset
Management </i>course to soar into relevance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Technology – the enablement of
consensus experience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr. Bill Wismann and I have enjoyed
another remarkable year of engineering success and together with our
best-in-class technical team, have achieved many breakthroughs in materials and
their core behaviors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My work on nuclear
orthogonal∞valence is rapidly altering the understanding of atomic and molecular
structures along with radically altering the fallacy of DNA-based genetics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2023, public examples of this transformation
will be in commercial use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kim’s
continued encouragement on disseminating our information on diverse modalities has
connected us to the world – a community that continues to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well-being – the system engaging at
its optimum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One cannot reflect on the past year
without celebrating the contributions of Frank, Debbie, Angel, Keith, Amanda,
Carla, Tim and the host of <b><i>Fully Live</i></b> alumni that have enriched
our lives in immeasurable ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In each meeting,
conference, or gathering, knowing that we are connected as friends across the
country and around the world is one of life’s greatest gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ever-present assurance that we’re connected
is the most valuable resonant chord around which the symphony of life is
played.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amanda Gore and the Gratitude Group
who, without fail, illumines each of my days are of inestimable value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My amazing children have given me the
opportunity to see that my role in generations is in transition and the world
that is to come is one that will be dynamic, amazing, and unrecognizable!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And above all, my life, my love and my breath
– the sunrise that blesses each morning and the last taper to extinguish in the
night, I’m grateful that Kim and I have found coherence in this our Sabbatical
year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The years of plenty are upon us,
my love and my reverence for you grows with each passing day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">These, my dear friends, are those who
stand among the throngs of good people who stand together against all the
hordes of darkness that amassed in 2022 as the beacons of light and goodwill to
all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us build even greater signal
fires in 2023 and warm the earth with more goodness!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.songfinch.com/stories/a6198aa9-b2cf-47f8-8bc0-fbc941111e53?utm_source=automail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=song-shipped&utm_content=song-shipped-cta">https://www.songfinch.com/stories/a6198aa9-b2cf-47f8-8bc0-fbc941111e53?utm_source=automail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=song-shipped&utm_content=song-shipped-cta</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">x<o:p></o:p></span></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-63462749923592562252021-12-31T09:28:00.002-08:002021-12-31T09:36:34.709-08:00Eis ignosce inquit, Nam non sciunt quid eos facere – 2021 Benediction<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Forgive their actions in ignorance, for they know not what
they do!</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> These words, reportedly
stated by Jesus during the heinous act of Roman soldiers driving nails through
his hands and feet, seem to be fitting as a benediction for 2021. Countless physicians, nurses, and pharmacists,
using their own sharp objects, have participated in the greatest mass hypnosis
harm perpetrated on humanity in recorded history. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Never before have ‘healers’ engaged in an orchestrated act of
domestic terrorism at the scale seen in 2021.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now, with the passing of the year of murder and injury under the fig
leaf excuse of “public health”, we see that my warning in 2020 has come
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While marketing an experimental gene
therapy as a technology to prevent infection and transmission of a contrived ‘disease’,
we’ve witnessed the death and harm to humans sacrificed on the altar of pseudo-science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of this writing on the last day of 2021, nearly
731,432 people in the U.S. have been killed (9,765) or harmed by industrial pharmaceutical
companies acting under the organized crime regime of Dr. Anthony Fauci.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in a nuance lost by EVERY fact-checking
organization, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and the PREP
Act’s Countermeasures Injury </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Compensation Program (CICP) (repeatedly stated to be ‘unreliable’ by the
promoters of the injections) is required to be accurate by the 1986 statute and
implied under the 2005 Act, respectively. <b><i>If these not accurate, the
immunity shield protecting manufacturers is rendered moot!<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Quite
possibly, one of the greatest ironies of the plandemic has been the
emasculation of the institution of religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once the “moral” guide for social values standing against scientific
eugenics, we’ve seen the church pay the price for the 30 pieces of silver the State
offered in exchange for abject fealty to fear and terror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With shuttered doors and silenced prophetic
voices, we’ve seen the evisceration of morality with the embrace of gene
therapy and its coming progeny, CRISPR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What was morally reprehensible when sheep were cloned in 1996 has now
been embraced by the lambs at the slaughter!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">With the
advent of 2022, we stand on precipice of a world in which the mutant hybrid
will seek to crush the organic wild type.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mao’s <i>Cultural Revolution</i> (1966-1976) was merely a caricature of
the Global Reset tyranny unleashed across the globe today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To date, not one elected official, not one law
enforcement agency, and not one activist organization has stood in the face of
the <b>criminal conspiracy </b>that continues to persist without opposition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I’ve met with thousands of people who
are aghast in the face of what is happening, to date, very few have stepped forward
to assist in bringing the real perpetrators to justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But it is
THOSE who have that are my gratitude for the year past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Most timely,
I’m grateful to my friend and colleague George Wentz, who, on this New Years
Eve, for the FIRST TIME in any legal proceeding, filed an <i>amicus </i>brief
with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he DID NOT cede the linguistic stipulation
of “vaccines” when referring to the Spike Protein bioweapon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Filing on behalf of America’s Frontline Doctors
in opposition to the horrific and misleading 6<sup>th</sup> Circuit OSHA ruling,
our collaboration represents the first submission to any U.S. court in which we
do not fall for the World Health Organization’s February 11, 2020 trap in which
ALL of humanity has been ensnared!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am
grateful, in this year past, for Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) who has been
willing to give a voice to those who are harmed by the bioweapon sold as a
medical countermeasure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am
grateful for Utah Senators Stuart Adams and Kirk Cullimore who have been
willing to be educated on the criminal conspiracy upon the recommendation of
Stanford Graham and John Hewlett. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am grateful
for Frank Priebe, Debbie Torrance, Amanda Jackson, Tim and Carla White, Denise
Grigsby, Jean Derderian, and the <b><i>Fully Live</i></b> alumni who have been
relentless in their sharing of vital content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am
grateful for the alternative media platforms and people like Stew Peters, Dr.
Jane Ruby, Lara Logan, Ben Swann, The Highwire, Mikki Willis and the Elevate Team,
Don Neuen and Donna Fiducia, Clay Clark, Pete Santilli, Cal Calahan, Kyle
Kingsbury, Denby Jane, Pat Armisted, Pete Evans, Emily Moyer, Dani Katz, James
Howard Kunstler, Bryan Ardis, Seth Holhouse, Patrick Gentempo, Jeff Hays,
Sherri Tenpenny, Christiane Northrup, Bryan Ingram, HRTX, and countless others
who have taken the time to educate their audiences on the crimes being
committed and the actions we can take.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m grateful
to James Purpura and the <b><i>Activate Humanity</i></b> community for their
relentless commitment to engage in civil discourse at a time when controversy
and bellicosity is the norm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m grateful
for the endless encouragement from my dear friends Bob Kendall, Amanda Gore,
and the <b><i>Living Abundantly </i></b>family and Dave Bryan's beautiful community at Church of Glad Tidings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I am
grateful to my beautiful kids who serve as constant inspiration for the
generations to come and for the tangible expression of that which is
unfolding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And, as I
take my intrepid leap into the coming of 2022, I’m grateful for my wife Kim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the journey of life with me is not one
for the faint of heart, that she has stood resolute in the face of the
adversity that has been directed my way for my outspoken positions is a tribute
her indomitable spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And in a bit
of fun, I’m grateful to those who, unable to find fault with my words spoken in
truth, have decided to assassinate my character by their fantasies about
symbols and imagery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they seek to
decipher ‘meaning’ behind my corporate logo, my totems and graphics, they miss
the fact that symbols are those things that remind us to consider that which is
the unseen essence within.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, for
everyone who is motivated to look for hidden meanings, I offer this symbol of
the passing year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s see if we can guess
it’s meaning! Hint: it may have something to do with the opening of this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have fun!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-3HXaQF3IKfIB1P47ymdCFJQv7VGRtoBktASGwlNmCb_Ue6ids4xsVJ7kVVS6zc3G667rB1KuZXTrXZccO6KcdTAj3AA8Cal9ZvZzNzCmsAbgQUVl30Ffb5Ou9Gy4BkEgthSZmC-4aDi-8zm0Q2hz_8FjpZ7rhm-p_l1nvB2RGXpkuTiM3XsLmyjn=s932" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="932" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-3HXaQF3IKfIB1P47ymdCFJQv7VGRtoBktASGwlNmCb_Ue6ids4xsVJ7kVVS6zc3G667rB1KuZXTrXZccO6KcdTAj3AA8Cal9ZvZzNzCmsAbgQUVl30Ffb5Ou9Gy4BkEgthSZmC-4aDi-8zm0Q2hz_8FjpZ7rhm-p_l1nvB2RGXpkuTiM3XsLmyjn=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">x<o:p></o:p></span></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-65156385683127061892021-11-27T10:42:00.002-08:002021-11-27T10:42:39.056-08:00Keeping Thanksgiving…every day of the year<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiop3NzKllffVsmFqvLEWzEaz2W08h8xZfuVElMnPBGbDkddfoe_hqopwGf-kCNh7XTN77XcDv_U7LZ745iK7YzrOPO8aFfivwwqg8hq1kFWb5R-LckUNlMS-31LWXi9ICr0edUboqRJQU/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="800" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiop3NzKllffVsmFqvLEWzEaz2W08h8xZfuVElMnPBGbDkddfoe_hqopwGf-kCNh7XTN77XcDv_U7LZ745iK7YzrOPO8aFfivwwqg8hq1kFWb5R-LckUNlMS-31LWXi9ICr0edUboqRJQU/w146-h174/image.png" width="146" /></a></div>My ancestor David Martin died November 10, 1784, in what is now
Lancaster County Pennsylvania.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born into
conflict of church and state in the inhospitable city of Zurich in 1691, at the
age of 26 he was to see his father lost to 15 years in prison for standing against
state tyranny as an outspoken critic of state propaganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never knowing whether he would see his father
again, he took a one-way trip to Pennsylvania and carved the Martin family name
into American history – the son of a heretic.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />In discussions around our dining room table in the early 1970s, I
recall my father’s moral conflict with then-Governor Ronald Reagan’s
requirement that all teachers in colleges and universities in California sign a
loyalty oath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For centuries, the faith
of our family prohibited the pledging of oaths based on the mandate attributed
to Jesus in Matthew 5:34, “</span><i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's
throne</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While countless others had wiggled their way
around this by taking the court-authorized bypass of “affirming” testimony, I
recall my father (in consultation with my illustrious maternal grandfather William
Parsons) wrestling with the recognition that these had the same effect under
the law and therefore didn’t pass moral muster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we left California to return to the Martin enclave in Pennsylvania,
one of the reasons for our migration across the country was my father’s unwillingness
to swear fealty to a government mandate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2e0DJJlh2QI6mdkq3wusqp1eXxR6u5SD1eepSqhGVcI4NyX0GS4VSN1qJv3-t7mdDy3OEtov2fSo2hQncYGmzQAVsEeX89r2V0pVy20Mtfx3XTQ6HUa4HumLzKkmAtv-Cjdc7uPlEhmE/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="330" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2e0DJJlh2QI6mdkq3wusqp1eXxR6u5SD1eepSqhGVcI4NyX0GS4VSN1qJv3-t7mdDy3OEtov2fSo2hQncYGmzQAVsEeX89r2V0pVy20Mtfx3XTQ6HUa4HumLzKkmAtv-Cjdc7uPlEhmE/w223-h148/image.png" width="223" /></a></div><br />While certainly
not a 15-year prison term Trachselwald Castle in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland,
I watched my father – the same man who went to peace marches in protest of the
Vietnam War; the same man who welcomed drug-addicted college students into our
home; the same man who would bring strangers to Thanksgiving dinners – extinguish
his predilections to being the heretic under the weight of conformity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is with great irony that the same
faith that refused to let their babies be baptized by the Lutheran and Catholic
churches now rushes to roll up their sleeves for the bioweapon promoted by the
State!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 1,667 years of Martins who
stood against imperial tyranny, we now find our familial tradition acquiescing to
fear at long last…ALMOST.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">Like all
generations that came before, it is not the masses – be they family, community,
faith, or tribe – who steel their resolve against the inertial force of
imperialists of land, mind, or soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While being named for the god of war (Mars), the vast majority of our clan
have sought the pastural existence of tilling the earth, procreating, bordering
on gluttony, and returning to the fertile ground from which the next year’s
crop will emerge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In every generation, there
have been the heretics (and the almost heretics) who have taken a ‘road less
traveled by’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have tasted death, exile,
destitution, and loss but have found within themselves the indomitable essence
that infuses their spirit in the face of opposition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while most never tasted acclaim, they
have all advanced the cause of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">As I heard the
voices of small children call the invocation of Thanksgiving morning this year
(the 1- and 5-year-old children of our guests), I reflected on the purity of
this Thanksgiving morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I awoke in
the loving embrace of my beautiful wife, who like the intrepid few who know the
endless presence of fully living, crossed a sea to be with me in Virginia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prepared a feast bounteously enriched by the
kindness of one of our Fully Live alumni and his organic farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The house warmed with the fragrance of
steaming food and flowing drinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">And in each
moment, I recognized that only one thing was lacking this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting at the table with fellowship abuzz, I
realized that missing from this Thanksgiving was the pretense of maintaining
illusions of family and ‘friends’ that share nothing of common values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized that being true to my celebration
of Thanksgiving means to be in coherence with those past, present and future
who embrace the perfection of each moment and are willing to stand in the full
light of truth regardless of its popularity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was, in its truest sense, THANKFUL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">This year, my
thanks are overflowing:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">To the Church
of Glad Tidings and its pastors Dave and Cheryl Bryan and Christo Hartman’s
introduction to them;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">To the alumni
of the Fully Live workshops;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">To the global
community of Butterfly of the Week and Activate Humanity;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">To Mikki
Willis, his family and team for their tireless fellowship;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">To the tireless
kaleidoscope of friends across the globe who enliven my life; and,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">To the remanent
of family that values love over conformity…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">I give thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #001320;">x<o:p></o:p></span></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-84975772020091083872021-07-04T09:37:00.001-07:002021-07-04T09:37:42.713-07:00 Sweet Land of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing<p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><b><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The condition
upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance”<o:p></o:p></span></b></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">John Philpot Curran, July 10, 1790<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On September 30, 1727, David Martin walked off
the ship Molly with a heavy heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 36-year-old
had witnessed the death and sea burial of his wife Anna during the crossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His father, Christian Martin, was still in
prison in Europe having been jailed for his faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Making his way from Philadelphia to East Earl
Township, he commenced farming the 370 acre plot he acquired from the family of
William Penn for the sum of 57 pounds, 7 shillings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1748, reunited with his father in Pennsylvania,
it was written of them, “With him was also their father, still living, an old
man of 79 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially the old man and
his son David loving toward us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGgR_u-KVpB1KcRJ2ifvTNoPlYBCCLxHeMsphXBUF3jE3F6op0541wRzyZKhvXBdrgN1XyIM3AQXXy2AIgOpIqnO0lgy57DF0IjB44YULSxEm82OHTGg1zJAOKb4bUFSGwVr-L0z8A3c/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="739" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQGgR_u-KVpB1KcRJ2ifvTNoPlYBCCLxHeMsphXBUF3jE3F6op0541wRzyZKhvXBdrgN1XyIM3AQXXy2AIgOpIqnO0lgy57DF0IjB44YULSxEm82OHTGg1zJAOKb4bUFSGwVr-L0z8A3c/" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Born in Bern, Switzerland around 1691, David
knew a life of persecution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born into
the heretical tradition of the Mennonites, he would enter the unfortunate
designation of being a “Poor Palatine” – a term given to the Swiss German
religious outcast migrants from the region of southwestern Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Precisely how he and 300 people made it to
Rotterdam, Holland to get to John Hodgeson’s ship is not clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s reasonable to expect that the trip
through war infested, Catholic / Lutheran conflict filled lands was not an easy
exercise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, there’s the matter
of crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the late summer months – not the best
time to travel!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, albeit bittersweet,
I’m certain that the planks on the dock in Philadelphia offered the percussion
of a song of liberty that ignited considerable relief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m deeply grateful for the meticulous records
I have of my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the stories
of David’s father bringing a German scythe to the “new world” so that he could
help his sons harvest the abundant wheat that grew along the Blue Ball
Run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the records of my family’s
friend writing to George Washington pleading for clemency for my ancestors who
provided food to British soldiers with their reference to the Biblical mandate,
“If thine enemy hungers, feed him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I’m
grateful to Amos Hoover, Raymond and Elizabeth Martin and countless others who preserved
the relics of our family so that I could hold them today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On this July 4<sup>th</sup>, 2021, I find it
fascinating that a nation celebrates “Independence” when the previous 20 months
have completely indicted the dereliction thereof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This land, defined by the mercantile
patronage of industry, is more enslaved today than it was in 1776.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we had a monarch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have CEOs and their anonymous funders
who tax far more than the fruits of our lands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we had philosopher statesmen who were articulate, learned, and
capable of debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have
Twitter-feed censorship curated by men who crafted utilities solely designed to
indenture and addict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After 245 years,
we’re less capable to consider Liberty than when migrants boarded ships in Europe
to begin life in America.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How few of us actually read the Declaration’s
most critical and sober section?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the
forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce
them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.</span>”<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Living, as we are, under an alleged State of Emergency
that has persisted for 18 months, with neither evidence nor criteria for an
exit, it is manifestly evident that, even granting the presence of the scourge
of plague that gave rise to the present condition, we no longer maintain the illusion
thereof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notwithstanding the evidence,
we find ourselves subjected to “abuses and usurpations” and efforts to reduce
society under “absolute Despotism”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
recently, and without a single piece of evidence, we’ve been advised that the
healthy pose a risk of mutagenicity that the acquiescent do not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In point of fact, a January 28, 2021 article
stated that, though the efficacy of gene therapy interventions “is not strictly
proven, most… researchers believe,” that S-protein intervention works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HOWEVER, in this study, they report concern
that variants may in fact arise from the very technology being used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776039">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776039</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On this day, we celebrate the acquiescence of
47.8% of the population to kneel at the macabre mass served by Presidential and
Papal Bull$#1+.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, in the spirit of
this Land of Liberty, the song that should be growing across the land is not
the celebration of the monarchs and tyrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather it is the song of the 51.2% - the song of We The People – who,
while coerced, threatened, and belittled, will not offer quarter to the enemy
that is FEAR, COERCION, and DESPOTISM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, on this July 4<sup>th</sup>, find a link
to the song from Broadway’s <b><i>Les Miserables</i></b> and play it loudly…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do you hear the people sing?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Singing the songs of angry men?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It is the music of the people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who will not be slaves again!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When the beating of your heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Echoes the beating of the drums <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is a life about to start<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When tomorrow comes!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">x<o:p></o:p></span></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-57152635962385637282021-03-02T07:47:00.002-08:002021-03-02T08:21:12.595-08:00TRUTH DECAY...Where's the Fluoride? <p><b><i>When a Journalism Lecturer Sells Out To Facebook... oh, I mean RAND Corporation</i></b></p><p><b><i>Written in response to Lead Stories' Dean Miller's relentless attack on facts by seeking confirmation bias for propaganda (reference below).</i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwxDLalSxeBj8u6KmT0vjFfUP_0oMPpFLy9z12rayQoEk__XnlzS1xS1-O-SN3CzkAPM0Wby0R8DkpOd2CtP0F25W61uGEm9ShysN4UDCDxF9yg2Ci2z2-ZEDwiHknb38ixoW2bYlX0w/s720/24491_379870353186_193189_n_379870353186.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwxDLalSxeBj8u6KmT0vjFfUP_0oMPpFLy9z12rayQoEk__XnlzS1xS1-O-SN3CzkAPM0Wby0R8DkpOd2CtP0F25W61uGEm9ShysN4UDCDxF9yg2Ci2z2-ZEDwiHknb38ixoW2bYlX0w/s320/24491_379870353186_193189_n_379870353186.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><b><i><br /></i></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Dean,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The epistemological trap in which you find yourself is
instructive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the human level, I am deeply
sympathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the social consequence
level, far less so given the destructive and divisive power of the self-appointed,
compensated, purveyors of “facts”.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->You allege to favor “experts in COVID”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As COVID is a set of clinical symptoms that
have been organized for just over a year, you cannot help but see the paradox
in your criteria for expertise. No one could be an “expert” in a thing that has
been characterized for less than a year with no causal evidence linking virus
and disease to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have not made any published effort to
reference <b><i>either scientific perspective</i></b> of the highly controversial
Gain of Function Moratorium or the researchers that raised genuine concerns
about what was being done with NIAID’s funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology
and UNC Chapel Hill amplification of coronavirus pathogenicity from 2015
forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->When the White House sent me to Tehran in 2005
for the <i>International Congress on Bioethics </i>based on my deep involvement
in supplying technical and intelligence data on the counter-proliferation of
biological agents (called into first public service in 2001 with the anthrax
investigation), I was fascinated on what I met upon my return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <b><i>New York Times</i></b> and other
media outlets wanted to ask me about nuclear weapons!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I did meet with the Atomic Energy
Organization of Iran (AEOI) leadership and engaged in several technical
interactions, the media was officially disinterested in bioweapons as the story
line was nuclear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year later, when I
was asked to review the anthrax program at Jawaharal Nehru University, the “anthrax”
story was politically too hot to handle so it was largely ignored by the U.S.
media.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The CDC and WHO announced that vaccines were the
only way out of the pandemic before it was a pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FDA stood in opposition to emergency use
authorizations of countless therapy alternatives as an emergency vaccine
authorization can only be activated if there are no treatment alternatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Moderna was founded, the scientists
associated with the company were deeply aware of RNA’s role both in protein synthesis
and in DNA transfection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their use of
the term “gene therapy” was a scientific and market distinction from being just
another vaccine “loss-leader” company (<u>https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/).</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outside of an Emergency Use Authorization for
a symptom treatment (the only primary outcome that has been measured in the
vaccine trials to date), mRNA technology has had a decade of abysmal failures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>In all of your reporting, you have not
acknowledged that NO vaccine clinical trial has ever selected as a primary outcome
a committee-determined set of two symptoms when those symptoms also are standard
adverse reactions to the intervention. </i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal
Zaks stated, “our trial will not demonstrate prevention of transmission,
because … you have to swab people twice a week for very long periods, and that
becomes operationally untenable,” citing the need for a five-to-ten times
longer trial length and even higher costs. <span style="color: #0462c1;"><a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037">https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>In short, your “expertise” does not
include persons who are vaccine clinical trial experts, coronavirus experts, or
the like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->While geopolitics make the laboratory
conversation taboo, the absence of zoonotic evidence is problematic in the face
of laboratory data showing that the most troublesome aspects – the S1 spike
protein and the ACE2 receptor interaction – are precisely what was being amplified
in labs since 2015!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While this can
clearly be coincidental and while the idiopathic pneumonia in Wuhan may be
simple lottery-odds improbability, you and others continue to ask the wrong
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With over 45,000 known
modifications of the subclade now called SARS CoV-2, the obsession with an “origin”
story flies in the face of evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
there is ample published evidenced of immunology to what we’re calling SARS
CoV-2 in Italy and France in the Fall of 2019 – long before the Wuhan “outbreak”
(<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Carrat, F. </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">et al.</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><b><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Eur. J. Epidemiol</i></b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00716-2
(2021)</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, if the Chinese data
is to be accepted, 67 blood samples from “COVID-19” symptom patients from
November and December 2019 did not have any SARS CoV-2 evidence (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00502-4#ref-CR1">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00502-4#ref-CR1</a>).</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Suggesting that Oklahoma University’s Dr. Douglas
Drevets is an expert in Moderna’s mRNA gene therapy or COVID-19 is as much a
stretch as it is to say that what you’re doing is “fact checking”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With HIV/AIDS and neuro-infection expertise,
I’m sure Dr. Drevets has great insights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That he is supported by the Gilead Foundation (a COVID-19 conflicted
party) is, once again, overlooked by fact-checkers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The quote from Dr. Drevets <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(“In the
clinical trials, patients were identified first by symptoms, and then were
tested for the presence of virus to confirm that the symptoms were caused by
the SARS-2-CoV rather than some other virus. So in the person infection comes
first then symptoms, but in the study infected people were first identified by
symptoms and then by the presence of virus.</span>”</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">) is
patently false.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of these “facts”
are anywhere in the Phase III trials for the Pfizer or Moderna studies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tragically, this is falsifiable by reading
the study protocol!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, Dean
Miller, in your “fact checking” of statements I made directly from Moderna’s OWN
publications, you promulgated a lie.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And that’s the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In over a year, not <b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a single fact</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span>about CDC’s patents, NIAID’s funding, the
5,111 proprietary rights granted around SARS Coronavirus, the Wuhan Institute
of Virology or Peter Daszak’s 2016 quote have been challenged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE EVIDENCE of an economic fraud is staring
any human in the face and “Fact Checkers” are willfully avoiding THE FACTS:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">“we need to increase
public understanding of the need for MCMs such as a pan-influenza or<b> </b></span></i><b><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">pan-coronavirus vaccine.
A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use
that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if
they see profit at the end of process</span></i></b><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">, Daszak stated</span></i></span><span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.” </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">(</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Forum on Medical and Public Health
Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and
Translation; Forum on Microbial Threats; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Board
on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious
Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and
Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National
Academies Press (US); 2016 Feb 12. 6, Developing MCMs for Coronaviruses.<span class="bkciteavail"> Available from:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK349040/)</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In response to the FALSE and MISLEADING “Fact Check”
publication by Dean Miller.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s Dean Miller’s Lead Stories smear piece:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/02/fact-check-the-moderna-pfizer-covid-jabs-are-legally-not-vaccines.html">https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/02/fact-check-the-moderna-pfizer-covid-jabs-are-legally-not-vaccines.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, and did I mention that, despite public statements about
being “self-funded”, Facebook fact-checking partner <b><i>Lead Stories</i></b>
is an organization directly endorsed by RAND Corporation <a href="https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-disinformation/search/items/lead-stories-factchecker.html">https://www.rand.org/research/projects/truth-decay/fighting-disinformation/search/items/lead-stories-factchecker.html</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">x<o:p></o:p></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-74725247918416732092020-12-31T13:45:00.000-08:002020-12-31T13:45:03.947-08:00Perfect Vision...in the rearview mirror - Ode to 2020<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5lzMH_wT64zDSWqWWA-RrlPyP_PbJjZmYxBnZrYc-2-Mgz8BL2TbQY_wKZ1P-EpDqisRaVlSPnLgB7yMQTojo2HSukbBWx7z4Yjs2c7s5kb5k9S046jo0hh-frq5T4R2v02pXxVXR4ww/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="262" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5lzMH_wT64zDSWqWWA-RrlPyP_PbJjZmYxBnZrYc-2-Mgz8BL2TbQY_wKZ1P-EpDqisRaVlSPnLgB7yMQTojo2HSukbBWx7z4Yjs2c7s5kb5k9S046jo0hh-frq5T4R2v02pXxVXR4ww/w200-h147/image.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />On this 420<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the founding of the
world’s most insidious invention – the British East India Company and with it
the Limited Liability Corporation – we find ourselves reviewing a year that has
shown exactly how the limitation of liability has unleashed more tyranny than
Queen Elizabeth I could have ever dreamed in her most ghoulish imaginations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose “mommy issues” are to be expected
when your mom is executed by your dad – King Henry VIII when you are two and a
half years of age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Virgin Queen, on
this day 420 years ago, could not have imagined that advancing the conquests
pitting Muslim, Hindu, and Christian against one another in blood-soaked savagery
for the preceding centuries into corporate adventure would land in this day
when liability-immune corporations can insinuate into the DNA of humanity a
form of conquest for which no remedy will be found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus is the passing of this year of <b><i><u>their
</u></i></b>lords two thousand and twenty.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the face of malevolence, I find myself returning to the
habit of my year-end ritual – my expression of gratitude for the Saints that
have accompanied my year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while the
forces of darkness did their level best to keep fraternity at bay with masks
and 2-meter distancing, I find that the global account of riches of human
connection are full and overflowing in this year of the bizarre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So ample are my new acquaintances that I must
break from tradition and nominate a few who represent the many as to name each
one of you would drain an ocean of ink.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the energy that animated the year, I’m grateful to the
steadfast efforts of the M·CAM team who, against all odds, persisted in the
most challenging of times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The love,
laughter and fellowship of guests around our table; the generous hospitality of
tables spread for us across the country; and, the constant sufficiency of
sustenance the body, mind, and soul lead my gratitude.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The community that has grown this year has been without
precedent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While missing my global family
cast across Papua New Guinea, Australia, Egypt, Mongolia, Europe, South Africa,
Peru and my biological family in innumerable ways, I have been enriched with teeming
hordes of amazing people who variously met us through <b><i>Future Dreaming</i></b>,
<b><i>Butterflies of the Week</i></b>, the readers of <b><i>Lizards Eat
Butterflies</i></b>, viewers of <b><i>IndoctorNation, </i></b>and <b><i>Liberty
Lockdown</i></b> and the countless interviews I’ve done with many of you
throughout the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If one were to nominate the greatest side-effect of the WHO’s
<b><i>World At Risk</i></b> September 2019 call for a scenario involving a global
respiratory pathogen release, few could have imagined the conspirators’
arrogance in suggesting that propaganda could be mistaken for knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their encore in September 2020, they had
the audacity to lead their report <b><i>A World in Disorder</i></b> with:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Never before has the world been so clearly forewarned of
the dangers of a devastating pandemic, nor previously had the knowledge,
resources and technologies to deal with such a threat. Yet, never before has
the world witnessed a pandemic of such widespread and destructive social and
economic impact.”<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m grateful that “science” and “scientists” have, in the
main, been shown to be the handmaidens of state propaganda fearing famine in
their rice bowls rather than evidencing even a modicum of integrity when
insults to science are passed off as the official narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we can eliminate influenza by making up
a new diagnosis of a disease with no documentable evidence – the sellout is
complete.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This year has demonstrated the abject failure of a monetary system
in which heads of state, governors, mayors, and unelected despots can deprive
humans of their wages with impunity!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throwing
sand in the carburetor of the engine of the economy – small business – this has
been the year that self-evidently outs the corporatocracy that defines the
world from Amazon to Facebook; from Google to Pfizer; and makes once and for
all a mockery of the lip-service politicians pay to supporting entrepreneurship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Souls sold cheaply at the ballot-box have
shown us their mettle and it is pyrite – not gold.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The fallacy of virtual, digital, and augmented society has
been laid bare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are one
electromagnetic impulse (solar or weaponized) from an annihilation of what we
describe as civilization and we’re the better for seeing that now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bomb blast in front of an AT&T store
can shut down air traffic control?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Imagine when your state-supplied stipend to live your state-sanctioned
life is delivered to you on your smart phone that tracks your every move,
moment, and memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve placed our
bets on a digital fallacy and we have been given a glimpse at precisely how
frail that is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve been told that
health is measured by a lab – not by vitality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In violation of the Federal Trade Commission’s own laws, we’ve been told
that illusions protect us from disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Far from technologically advanced, we’re now living on a virtual thread
hanging over a chasm of destruction and we’ve got time to change our relationship
to this virtual reality before the cord snaps.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m better this year because of friends old and new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the persistent gratitude of the Fully
Live community; for the fellowship of James, Steph and the Powerful U orbit;
for the global reach of Mikki Willis’ artistic genius and the entire Elevate
team; for Bob Kendall and his abiding support; for Amanda and Lorraine’s relentless
connection linking north and south; for Zach Bush and the Seraphic team; for
Del, Andrew, Cordie, Imani, Sacha, Bobby, Mary, Leland, George, Leslie, Tom, Kerry, Richard, Peter, Nicolas, and
the myriad of light workers across the globe who light the constellation of
promise for a brighter tomorrow – thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Sienna and Zach and your unfailing connection to joy and
happiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And above all, on this last
night of the end of 2020, my Queen, my love, and the Light of each morning –
Kim, I couldn’t have done this year without you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">HAPPY NEW YEAR!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">x<o:p></o:p></p>David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-39280811527545136182020-12-10T16:37:00.003-08:002020-12-10T17:45:51.299-08:00“Belief” is NOT a Medical Counter Measure<p class="MsoNormal">Through April 2020, the official recommendation by the <b><i>Journal
of the American Medical Association</i></b> was unambiguous. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Face masks should not be worn by healthy
individuals to protect themselves from acquiring respiratory infection because
there is no evidence to suggest that face masks worn by healthy individuals are
effective in preventing people from becoming ill.</span>”<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762694<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Part of that lack of evidence in fact showed that
cloth facemasks actually <u>increased</u> influenza-linked illness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In contravention to <u>established science</u>, States,
municipalities and businesses have violated the legal requirements for the
promulgation of medical counter measures during a public health emergency
stating a “belief” that face masks limit the spread of SARS CoV-2. To date, not a single study has confirmed
that a mask prevented the transmission of, or the infection by SARS CoV-2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All parties mandating the use of facemasks are not
only willfully ignoring established science but are engaging in what amounts to
a whole population clinical trial. This
conclusion is reached by the fact that facemask use and COVID-19 incidence are
being reported in scientific opinion pieces promoted by the United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover-guidance.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Social distancing of up to 6 feet has been promoted as a means of
preventing person-to-person transmission of influenza-like viruses. While one study (<i><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Werner E. Bischoff, Katrina Swett, Iris Leng,
Timothy R. Peters, Exposure to Influenza Virus Aerosols During Routine Patient
Care, </span></i><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">The Journal of Infectious
Diseases</span></em><i><span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, Volume 207, Issue 7, 1 April 2013, Pages 1037–1046, </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jis773" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; hyphens: manual !important; line-height: inherit;"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #006fb7; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jis773</span></a></span></i>) hypothesized
that infection could happen in a 6 foot range, the study explicitly states that
person-to-person transfer <u>was not tested</u> and viability of the virus at 6
feet was not even a subject of the investigation. That did not stop the misrepresentation of
the study to be used as the basis for an unverified medical counter measure of social
distancing. To date, no study has established
the efficacy of social distancing to modify the transmission of SARS
CoV-2. Public health officials have
referenced: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5907354/#CR43<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In contravention to <u>established science</u>, States,
municipalities and businesses have violated the legal requirements for the
promulgation of medical counter measures during a public health emergency
stating a “belief” that social distancing of a healthy population limits the
spread of SARS CoV-2. To date, not a
single study has confirmed that social distancing of any population prevented
the transmission of, or the infection by SARS CoV-2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 41 et seq., to
advertise that a product or service can prevent, treat, or cure human disease
unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when
appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies, substantiating that the claims
are true at the time they are made. As a
result, every party promoting the use of face masks is violating the FTC Act.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Further, under 21 CFR § 50.24 et seq., it is unlawful to
conduct medical research (even in the case of emergency) without a series of
steps taken to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->a.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Establish the research with a
duly authorized and independent institutional review board;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->b.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Secure informed consent of all
participants including a statement of risks and benefits; and,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->c.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Engage in consultation with the
community in which the study is to be conducted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All of these laws have been broken. All relevant authorities in the United States
must cease and desist the use of face masks until the matters above are
rectified.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p>
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On April 22, 2020, I provided the evidence that our current “SARS coronavirus
pandemic” and the set of symptoms branded “COVID-19” were the direct
consequence of illegal actions coordinated through the United States Department
of Health and Human Services and their primary conspiring entities – the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID” headed by Dr. Anthony
Fauci) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). My evidence and complaint was submitted to
the Office of the Inspector General on April 23, 2020 and to the U.S.
Department of Justice COVID legal team identified by U.S. Attorney General William
Barr coordinated by <span style="background: white;">U.S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of Michigan Matthew Schneider and Assistant Attorney
for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband.</span> None of the aforementioned and none of the
myriad of attorneys with whom I’ve spoken about the heinous abuse of public
trust have had the courage to stand up for We The People.</div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Having indicated that this death
knell to the U.S. economic engine driven by small businesses was the result of
a criminal conspiracy then, it was with inevitable resolve that I awaited Daniel
O’Day’s final act – his justification for charging $2,340 per patient for the
Department of Health and Human Services’ collusive priced remdesivir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He delivered the blow with brutal honesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t lie about the cost of R&D (paid
for by the U.S. taxpayer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He didn’t lie
about the laborious clinical trials (done with COMPLETE exemption from
liability courtesy of the U.S. FDA's <i>Emergency Use Authorization</i>
provided in February for SARS CoV-2 interventions).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He simply stated that, in collusion with the
compound’s inventors (the Department of Health and Human Services) the company
established a price that was considerably less than the 4-5 days of hospitalization
that their drug might, in certain random instances, reduce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His letter on June 29, 2020 is the </span><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">coup de grâce</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black;"> in the chain of evidence that began
in 2003 and ended with the Pandemic Depression of 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for your edification, the letter is referenced
here: </span><a href="https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2020/6/an-open-letter-from-daniel-oday-chairman--ceo-gilead-sciences"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2020/6/an-open-letter-from-daniel-oday-chairman--ceo-gilead-sciences</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gilead Sciences – a donor to California Governor Gavin Newsom;
California domiciled biotech; darling of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID; accused
patent thief; and so much more – has finally succeeded in doing what Dr. Fauci
and the SARS coronavirus co-conspirators never could have pulled off without
the national meltdown by State of Emergency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Under the orchestration of the dishonorable lawyer, turned lobbyist,
turned Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M Azar II, with President
Trump’s reckless confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci to willfully lie to and
terrorize the U.S. population, and with Governor Gavin Newsom insisting that
the largest economy in the country and 5<sup>th</sup> largest economy in the
world should be sacrificed on the altar of the industrial pharmaceutical industry’s
macabre obsession with fear and blood-thirsty greed, Gilead now reaps the
spoils of what was the Great American Experiment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the rest of the world watches Johns Hopkins University
data race with ever more positive bullshit tests peddled by none other than the
co-conspiring CDC (and their patented restriction on RT-PCR that did not
restrain the rest of the world but made independence impossible in the United States),
whole countries fail to match in the entire “pandemic” one day of testing in
the lands of Newsom, Northam, Wolf, and Cuomo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, as I showed in April,
when you control the means of establishing the narrative, when you report that this
virus doesn’t instill sufficient fear to justify financial aspirations for
pharmaceutical intervention, and when you restrict independent testing data
that demonstrates that SARS CoV-2 like strains have probably been circulating
long before December 2019, you get to maintain control of the narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And PROFIT from it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Never mind the fact that in over half of the patients
subjected to Dr. Fauci’s wonder drug generously offered to the world, serious
adverse events cast a shadow on whether the few days of decreased hospitalization
were worth the risk.<o:p></o:p></div>
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of Clinical Pharmacology and Prescribing, University of Edinburgh, said:</span></i></strong><i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<strong style="font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #111111; font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></strong><i><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">“The
research is interesting but doesn’t prove anything at this point: the data are
from a small and uncontrolled study. Remdesivir is currently being assessed in
large scale clinical studies, which will be critical in determining whether it
is a safe and effective treatment for COVID-19. This is not least because there
were some adverse events (60%) reported in the current study, some of them
serious (23%), including multiple organ failure, septic shock, acute kidney
injury, and hypotension.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But never mind this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lobbying
industry that put Alex Azar into his role in Trump’s administration of criminal
co-conspirators has its win.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it only
cost us our country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oh, and as of the date of this publication, NO attorney, NO
Department of Justice official, and NO judge has had the moral or ethical spine
to take this matter on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if you’re
holding your breath for Q, a Kennedy, or a savior, don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Breathlessness is a symptom of COVID-19 and
you’ll just add to the body count.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-841203543719580312020-04-22T18:33:00.003-07:002020-09-10T10:53:02.945-07:00COVID-19 Anti-Trust Argument<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Some of this information was submitted to the Office of the Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services on April 22, 2020</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Request for
Investigation - Possible Sherman Act Violation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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America</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">United States Department of Health and
Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Robert R Redfield, <i>et al</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Governors of All States Issuing
Executive Orders abridging the 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment of the Constitution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And unknown Parties<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On April 25, 2003, the United States Department of Health and
Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (hereinafter, “CDC”)
filed an application for a United States patent (Application Number <span style="background: white; color: black;">US46592703P,
subsequently issued as U.S. Patent 7,776,521 and U.S. Patent 7,220,852) entitled “</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Coronavirus isolated
from humans”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claim 3 –</span><span style="background: white; color: black;">A method of detecting a severe acute
respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in a sample…; and, Claim
4 - A kit for detecting a severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated
coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in a sample…, provided the CDC with a statutory market
exclusion right the detection of and sampling for severe acute respiratory
syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Securing this right afforded the CDC exclusive right to research,
commercially exploit, or block others from conducting activities involving
SARS-CoV. On September 24, 2018, the CDC failed to pay the required maintenance
fees on this patent and their rights expired. </span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">From April
2003 until September 2018, the CDC owned SARS-CoV, its ability to be detected
and the ability to manufacture kits for its assessment. During this 15-year
period, the effect of the grant of this right – ruled unconstitutional in 2013
by the United States Supreme Court in the case of <em>Association for Molecular
Pathology et al. v. Myriad Genetics</em> – meant that the commercial
exploitation of any research or commercial activity in the United States
involving SARS-CoV would constitute an infringement of CDC’s illegal patent.</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">It appears
that, during the period of patent enforcement and after the Supreme Court
ruling confirming that patents on genetic material was illegal, the CDC and </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases led by Anthony Fauci (hereinafter “NIAID” and "Dr Fauci", respectively) entered into
trade among States (including, but not limited to working with Ecohealth
Alliance Inc.) and with foreign nations (specifically, the Wuhan Institute of
Virology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences) through the 2014 <i>et seq</i> National
Institutes of Health Grant </span>R01AI110964<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> to exploit their patent rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It further appears that, <span style="background: white; color: black;">during the period of patent enforcement and after
the Supreme Court ruling confirming that patents on genetic material were illegal, the CDC and </span>National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (hereinafter “NIAID”) entered into trade among States (including, but
not limited to working with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and with
foreign nations (specifically, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Chinese
Academy of Sciences represented by Zheng-Li Shi) through </span>U19AI109761
(Ralph S. Baric), U19AI107810 (Ralph S. Baric), and National Natural Science
Foundation of China Award 81290341 (Zheng-Li Shi) <i>et al</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Supreme Court ruling confirming that patents on genetic material was
illegal, the CDC and </span>NIAID entered into trade among States (including, but
not limited to working with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and with
foreign nations to conduct chimeric construction of novel coronavirus material
with specific virulence properties prior to, during, and following
the determination made by the National Institutes for Health in October 17,
2014 that this work was not sufficiently understood for its biosecurity and
safety standards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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were: a) fully aware of the work being performed using their patented
technology; b) entered into explicit or implicit agreements including
licensing, or other consideration; and, c) willfully engaged one or more
foreign interests to carry forward the exploitation of their proprietary
technology when the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that such patents were illegal
and when the National Institutes of Health issued a moratorium on such
research.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The aforementioned items appear to constitute, “contract,
combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy,” as defined under
15 US Code § 1.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Under 15 U.S. Code § 1 (the
Sherman Antitrust Act) <span style="background: white; color: black;">“<i>Every
contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in
restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or
with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every person who
shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby
declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction
thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation,
or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding
10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.</i>”</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Reportedly,
in January 2018, the U.S. Embassy in China sent investigators to Wuhan
Institute of Virology and found that, </span><span style="background: white; color: #121212;">“During
interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has
a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators
needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory.” The <i>Washington
Post </i>reported that this information was contained in a cable dated 19
January 2018. Over a year later, i</span><span style="background: white; color: black;">n June 2019, the CDC conducted an inspection of Fort
Detrick’s U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
(hereinafter “USAMRIID”) and ordered it closed after alleging that their
inspection found biosafety hazards. A report in the journal <b><i>Nature</i></b>
in 2003 (423(6936): 103) reported cooperation between CDC and USAMRIID on
coronavirus research followed by considerable subsequent collaboration. The
CDC, for what appear to be the same type of concern identified in Wuhan,
elected to continue work with the Chinese government while closing the U.S. Army
facility.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reportedly, on December 31, 2019, the
Chinese government informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that a number
of cases of suspected coronavirus-associated SARS cases were being treated in
the area of Wuhan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The CDC reported the
first case of SARS-CoV like illness in the United States in January 2020 with
the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service reporting 650 clinical cases and 210
tests. Given that the suspected<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pathogen
was first implicated in official reports on December 31, 2019, one can only
conclude that CDC: a) had the mechanism and wherewithal to conduct tests to
confirm the existence of a “novel coronavirus”; or, b) did not have said
mechanism and falsely reported the information in January. It tests credulity
to suggest that the WHO or the CDC could manufacture and distribute tests for
a “novel” pathogen when their own subsequent record on development and
deployment of tests has been shown to be without reliability. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Notwithstanding, the CDC and WHO
elected to commit to a narrative of a novel coronavirus – exhibiting properties
that were anticipated in the U.S. Patent 7,618,802 issued to the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill’s Ralph Baric – and, in the absence of testing
protocols, elected to insist that SARS-CoV-2 was the pathogen responsible for
conditions that were consistent with moderate to severe acute respiratory
syndrome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">On March 4,
2020, California Governor Gavin Newsome appears to have violated the law of the
State of California by issuing Executive Order N-33-20 based on the “threat of
COVID-19” with no evidence that such threat existed as confirmed by serology or
confirmed immunologic evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Government Code sections cited in the Order (Government Code sections 8567,
8627, and 8665) require that criteria be met which do not include the “threat”
of any condition but evidence of said condition. At that time, neither the CDC
nor the WHO had sufficient testing in place to: a) confirm and isolate “a novel
coronavirus” from other coronaviruses; b) California did not have pathology
data to suggest that an epidemic was imminent; and, c) the rest of the United
States was equally incapable of making any such assessment as a result of the
aforementioned conspiring parties actions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Governor Newsome’s Executive Order, followed by numerous other similar
orders, all are based on the threat of a thing that may or may not exist.</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Around March
12, 2020, in an effort to enrich their own economic interests by way of
securing additional funding from both Federal and Foundation actors, the CDC and NIAID’s Dr Fauci elected to suspend testing and classify COVID-19 by capricious
symptom presentation alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not surprisingly,
this was necessitated by the apparent <b><i>fall in cases</i></b> that constituted
Dr. Fauci’s and others’ criteria for depriving citizens of their 1<sup>st</sup>
Amendment rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At present, the
standard according to </span>the Council of State and Territorial
Epidemiologists Interim-20-ID-01<span style="background: white; color: black;"> for COVID-19 classification is:</span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In outpatient or telehealth settings
at least two of the following symptoms: fever (measured or subjective), chills,
rigors, myalgia, headache, sore throat, new olfactory and taste disorder(s) <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">at least one of the following
symptoms: cough, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing OR Severe
respiratory illness with at least one of the following: <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• Clinical or radiographic evidence
of pneumonia, or <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">• Acute respiratory distress
syndrome (ARDS). <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AND No
alternative more likely diagnosis <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Laboratory Criteria for Reporting <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">● Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in a
clinical specimen using a molecular amplification detection test. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">● Detection of specific antigen in a
clinical specimen. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">● Detection of specific antibody in
serum, plasma, or whole blood indicative of a new or recent infection.*
*serologic methods for diagnosis are currently being defined<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After inflicting grave harm to the
citizens of the United States of America in economic hardships resulting from
their allegation of an “epidemic” or “pandemic”, the CDC and the NIAID set
forth, and the President of the United States and various Governors in the
respective States promulgated, standards for lifting conditions in violation of
the 1<sup>st</sup> Amendment to the Constitution that serve exclusively to
enrich them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both the presence of a
vaccine or treatment and, or, the development of testing – both that solely
benefit the possible conspiring parties and their co-conspirators – are set as
a condition for re-opening the country. This appears to be an unambiguous violation of the
Sherman Act and, if so, should be prosecuted immediately to the full extent of the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Additional information is available upon request.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Submitted this 22<sup>nd</sup> of April, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dr. David E. Martin – all Whistleblower Rights and
Protections Reserved</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-79725393964139053082020-04-08T16:01:00.001-07:002020-04-08T16:01:18.429-07:00Small Business Indenture Act (COVID-19 to enrich Life Insurers and Banks) of 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When the U.S. Congressional Pujo Committee investigated
the conspiracy of interlocking directorates (the fact that multiple corporate
boards were made up of the same people across multiple industries including
ones with conflicts of interest) in 1912 and 1913, they realized that, in the
decades following the Civil War, the United States had become effectively
controlled (through its monetary system) by a few life insurance and banking
interests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The mechanisms were very transparent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wages were set to be barely sufficient to motivate
persistence of labor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not surprisingly,
the knowledge of labor costs was shared by, you guessed it, directors who got
inside knowledge of each other’s businesses and could thereby control the labor
supply. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consumption was encouraged to
keep people addicted to whatever was “new” or “modern”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all of this was an elaborate scheme
concocted to enrich the life insurance industry and their capital beneficiaries
– banks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And why do I call them beneficiaries?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The principal beneficiary of the life insurance payout in the rare
instance that happens is the banks who hold unpaid debt – both consumer credit
and mortgages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To this day, have you
ever wondered why purchasing a home often involves the usurious practice of
also buying Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s because the real beneficiary of your home purchase is the: a)
bank that creates your debt asset; and, b) the insurer who seldom, if ever,
pays out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To keep it simple – here’s how the scam worked then
AND WORKS NOW!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Keep people paid just at the margin of ‘enough’ but
encourage them to live just a little beyond their means to ensure that
indebtedness was persistent and would incentivize indentured obligations;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Encourage credit - particularly in mortgages – by incentivizing
‘home ownership’ for the purpose of manufacturing debt ‘assets’ for banks;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sell life insurance to settle indebtedness in death
never telling the public how much present value was lost in meeting actuarial
obligations in death; and,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Set the maturity of life insurance to lead many people
to buy products that never would pay out in death (term policies).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In my film, <b><i>American R/evolution</i></b> (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://winderwebdesign.com/davidmartin/american-r-evolution/">https://winderwebdesign.com/davidmartin/american-r-evolution/</a>)
– a two hour history of the death denominated U.S. economy - I discuss the thinly
veiled control that life insurance has had on our country since the Civil
War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">So, as I was musing about who
might be benefiting from the charade playing out before us now and in which we
are all thought to be simpletons, I wondered how much has changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Why not,” I thought, “read House
Resolution 6312 recently introduced by Congress entitled the “</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">COVID–19
Relief for Small Businesses Act of 2020</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heralded as a landmark rescue package for the
businesses that employ an estimated 90% of America, this $350 billion out of
the $2 trillion package (yes, you should pause and think about how horrific the
mismatch ratio is), I was optimistic that I’d see the best interest of Small
Business as the leading priority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Then came the bad news.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Before payroll for small business is even mentioned,
the real beneficiaries are named.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a
look for yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The $350 billion
bailout is so that:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">banks can get their loans repaid</span></u></i></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">;
and,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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insurers can keep getting their premiums</u></i><u>.</u></span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">See for yourself!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Paying wages is the third priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Where were any of the real or fake news outlets when
they were fawning over this bill?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NOT READING IT! Your tax dollars
are being spent on yet another banking and life insurance protection racket!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="lbexsimplecap"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">2d Session</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="lbexlegisnum"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 37.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">H. R. 6312</span></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="lbexhang" style="background: white; text-indent: -24.0pt;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To
provide relief from COVID–19 for small business concerns, and for other
purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="lbexchamber"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="lbexsimplecap"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">March 19, 2020</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ms. <span class="lbexsimplecap"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Velázquez</span></span> introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Small Business<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="lbexlegistype"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 30.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A BILL</span></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="lbexhangwithmargin" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.25rem 2em; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: -24.0pt; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To provide relief from COVID–19 for small business
concerns, and for other purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="lbexindent" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1.25rem; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 24.0pt; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="lbexsectionlevelolc"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SECTION 1.</span></b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span class="lbexallcap"><b><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF
CONTENTS</span></b></span><span class="lbexsectionlevelolc"><b>.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="lbexindent" style="background: white; margin: 1.25rem; text-indent: 24.0pt; z-index: 10;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(a) <span class="lbexsectionlevelolcnuclear"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize; word-spacing: 2pt;">Short Title</span></span></span>.—This Act may be
cited as the “COVID–19 Relief for Small Businesses Act of 2020”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SEC.
2. <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">BUSINESS STABILIZATION DIRECT
LOAN PROGRAM</span>.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(a) <span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">In General</span>.—The Administrator of the
Small Business Administration shall carry out a program to make loans directly
to eligible borrowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(b) <span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Eligible Borrower Defined</span>.—In this
section, the term “eligible borrower” means a person who—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(1) is a small
business concern as defined under section 3 of the Small Business Act (<a href="http://uscode.house.gov/quicksearch/get.plx?title=15&section=632"><span style="color: #3366cc;">15 U.S.C. 632</span></a>); and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(2) is located in a
State or territory of the United States with a confirmed or presumed positive
case of COVID–19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(c) <span style="font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 1.0pt;">Use Of Funds</span>.—In addition to the use of
proceeds currently permitted under section 7(a) of the Small Business Act (<a href="http://uscode.house.gov/quicksearch/get.plx?title=15&section=636"><span style="color: #3366cc;">15 U.S.C. 636(a)</span></a>), loans made under this
section may be used for the following purposes:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(1) To make <b><i>periodic
payments of principal and interest</i></b>, for a period not to exceed 12
months, on a loan or a loan guarantee made to an eligible borrower that meets
the eligibility standards of such section 7(a).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(2) To provide
benefits to employees of the eligible borrower, <b><i>including group life
insurance</i></b>, disability insurance, sick leave, annual leave, educational
benefits, paid family leave, or retirement benefits (including a pension plan
or IRA).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(3) To pay wages to
employees of the eligible borrower, and related State and Federal payroll
taxes, except that loan proceeds may not be used to pay amounts under a
garnishment order issued by an agency of a State or Federal Government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">People, this is NOT acceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With the Fed making trillions available for bank liquidity, with small
business preserved so that they can keep paying loans and life insurance – when
will the complicity of this end?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since I recently learned that footnotes are not accessed by most
readers, here’s some information that you might like to see from the industry
that needs your taxpayer bailout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-life-insurance">https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-life-insurance</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a good look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These unfortunate firms reported:</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<i><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<i><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“2018 net income
after taxes for the life/annuity insurance industry fell 10.0 percent to $37.9
billion, from $42.1 billion in 2017. Net income before capital gains fell 15.8
percent in 2018, and a net realized capital gains loss of $4.7 billion
contributed to lower net income. Premiums and annuity considerations rose
slightly in 2018, up 1.3 percent from 2017, as annuity premiums and deposits
fell 6.1 percent. Expenses grew by 10.8 percent in 2018 following a drop in
2017. Capital and surplus rose to $400.0 billion in 2018</span>.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While
you watch governors and Presidents around the world breathlessly recite death
counts from the scourge that besets us that is credited with 10% of the <b><i>normal
pneumonia deaths reported during the same period</i></b>; when you see that <b><i>the
only data supporting social-distancing are computer models that were off by an
order of magnitude just one week ago;</i></b> and when, god-forbid, you look at
the Center for Responsive Politics data that shows that <b><i>one lobbying firm</i></b>
(and only one of their lobbyists) is engaged by 55 clients including most of
the major life insurers, bio-tech pharmaceutical companies, and non-profits that
include CDC Foundation partners, don’t think for a moment that the branding of
COVID-19 is for your health’s sake!</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be
informed:</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-91645674129386780282020-03-27T12:47:00.003-07:002020-03-27T12:47:51.068-07:00Wrong Diagnosis = Wrong Cure... it's not COVID-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I’m writing this from the vantage point of the U.S. medical
services industry (please note, I’m not falling for the “healthcare” BS). I’m sick and tired of the constant drumbeat
of sob stories about ventilators, gowns, and facemasks. Too few hospital beds. Scarcity running amok!</div>
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Now mind you, I’m by no means suggesting that hardworking doctors,
nurses, EMTs, and staff within the medical field are in fact facing
disproportionate burdens courtesy of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and that some of
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But this is not <b><i>because of a virus</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is part of a complex medical supply
industry problem that seeks to maximize billable dollars (and, as a result,
profits) while failing to consider preparation for health crises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Medical professionals are suffering from an
industrial model that seeks to supply high margin products for maximum profit –
not for health of patient or staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is made worse by the reality that, in the U.S., nearly 1/3 of all expenditures
are directed to hospitals<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6278115441557880568#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> –
the very location <i>least equipped to </i>respond to large scale infections.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In one of the few moments that I agree with President Donald
Trump, he’s absolutely correct in calling for restraint on Governor Andrew
Cuomo’s insistence on needing “30,000” ventilators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Governors Cuomo and California’s Gavin
Newsome have both blindly led the country in recklessly relying upon (and then
failing to adjust to the retraction of) UK’s Imperial College Professor Neil Ferguson’s
2006 influenza model published in <b><i>Nature<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6278115441557880568#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></i></b>
which set in motion panic-inducing estimates of morbidity and mortality that
were baseless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the assumptions
on Ferguson’s model have been validated in any transmissible disease and have
been categorically disproven in his computer simulation of Pandemic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There are too many points for me to make in this post but I
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First, if you’re serious about the plight of the medical
staff, stop blaming the virus for material shortages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With price gouging collusion between
suppliers, hospitals, and, most egregiously health insurance companies, there
are insufficient supplies in this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MBAs from America’s leading institutions advocate for <i>just-in-time</i>
manufacturing, logistics, procurement, and use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Guess what!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THEY GOT IT WRONG.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Just-in-time</i> got wobbly when Chinese
factories shut down in January but none of them got the hint that maybe, a national
stockpile of masks, gowns, and gloves would be prudent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Motley Fool published a summary of the top health insurance
companies in 2019<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6278115441557880568#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> –
remember, before the “crisis”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These charities
racked up $454 billion with a ‘medical cost ratio’ of 84%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And hospitals – you know, the ones who can’t
buy masks and gloves – they have seen their profits soar over 27% since 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you hear about failures to have beds,
ventilators, masks, and gowns, ask yourself if any of HCA’s record-breaking
revenue could have been directed to preparedness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In America, we’ve built a system where we have placed inordinate
reliance on hospitals as points of care and, while ludicrously profitable with
health insurance and medical supply industry collusion, our short term, <i>just-in-time</i>
business models have enriched investors and bitten us in our collective
respiratory tracts (in this case).<o:p></o:p></div>
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At no point will you hear Governors nor the President point
out that it was the business model of medical service delivery – <b><i>not the
virus</i></b> – that rendered us impotent with the patient onslaught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if public officials and medical
professionals had thoughtfully critiqued the bullshit science of Imperial
College, they wouldn’t have had the run on hospitals that – are you ready for
this – overrun hospitals!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll tell
you I told you so down the road but, here goes… We won’t fix our broken
for-profit medical cabal in the wake of SARS-CoV-2 – we’ll make it less
effective… and more profitable to the speculators who prey on a populace that
stays indoors, eats crap, and goes to the ER when their diseases alarm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Second, watch out for this…<o:p></o:p></div>
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In a few weeks, we’ll start slapping ourselves on our
collective backs with the ridiculous narrative that “social distancing”
worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pandemic model was wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was wrong when it was promoted, the
interventions were draconian and ill informed, the economic devastation is
lasting, and we’ll be told that we suffered for the common good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>Like every other forecast apocalypse, we are using
simplistic models of complexity to identify problems, and then, when the sky
doesn’t fall, we take credit for that which had nothing to do with our
reflexive behavior.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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I’ve been an outspoken critic of predictive mathematical
modeling for my entire professional life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s flawed in its teaching, implementation, and interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tragically, we’ve associated math with
intelligence but I heartily commend your reading of my diatribes on the
eugenics-inspired “intelligence” obsession that we have in our society.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6278115441557880568#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suffice it to say that we use numbers – large
or precise (and in some cases both) – to bamboozle the public into thinking
that someone checked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tragically, no one
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re not near an apex of disease –
we’re just getting more people tested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>New York’s 23,000 hospital beds are not laden with COVID-19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, less than 10% are currently
conscripted to the coronavirus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
while there’s no question that this SARS outbreak has tragically cost the lives
and livelihoods of many, the thousands of mortalities have not equivalently
mattered when it’s other all-cause mortalities at stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what we’ve done as a society to destroy
livelihoods of the present workforce and the unaccounted disruption to the
education of generation is incalculable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’ve just trained a billion school-aged children that <b><i>fear</i></b>
justifies <b><i>panic</i></b> which results in <b><i>social distancing</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you really think a generation addicted to
iPhones, SnapChat, and TikTok needed to learn that lesson more?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a world where our most complex challenges
require natural intelligence – the capacity to discern reality and adapt within
it – we’ve relied on eugenics <b><i>artificial intelligence</i></b> which seeks
to simplify complexity into binary code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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This won’t be the last time politicians and their patrons
decide to pull this stunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This may be
the last time that it occurs without them also disrupting the electronic communications
grid which will simply reify our acquiescence to their power… unless we choose
a different path.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some of you remember school<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lessons on the Scientific Method –
you know, the catechism that replaced the anachronism called religion, myth and
belief! In it, we were told that, to access ‘truth’, we needed to:</div>
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Step 1<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Construct
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Step 2<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Formulate
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Data and Test the Hypothesis;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Step 6<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Communicate
the Conclusions for Critique or Consumption.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While we’ve enjoyed the low grade fever of ‘climate change’
expertise masquerading under the guise of ‘science’ for years, the recent
coronavirus alleged pandemic is the latest in a monotonous hypnotic drone of faux
crises that demonstrate our abject failure to comply with our <b><i>own
illusion</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while real
economic and social harm is being orchestrated by police-state interventions
under the broad reaching guise of ‘public health’, what we know is that we don’t
know enough to place this in the hands of ‘scientists’ <b><i>based on their and our own
contempt for the basis of the scientific method.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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We’ve jumped from Step 1 to Steps 5 and 6 with abject
contempt for that which we state to adjudicate ‘science’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while I’m deeply sympathetic to the hundreds
of thousands of health care workers, public health agencies, and others who are
activated to support the charade, at some point, we have to call bullshit on
this farce.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Step 1 – Our theory:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Novel
Virus…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">SARS-CoV-2</span>
is not “a virus” at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this, I mean
that virologist Christian Drosten’s genetic sequencing of the virus taken from
a German who was infected in Italy and published on February 28, 2020, showed
that there were numerous ‘mutations’ “not seen in early sequences from China.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6483/1176"><span style="color: blue;">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6483/1176</span></a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Laura Gillim-Ross and her colleagues at
Diagnostic Hybrids, Inc (Athens, OH) first patented a SARS-cornoavirus detection
technology on <b><i>November 3, 2003</i></b>, they made explicit reference to
the fact that the SARS-CoV had numerous variants (U.S. Patent 7,129,042).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of you not prone to counting, this
patent on a diagnostic kit was filed <b><i>17 years ago</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now owned by Quidel (Nasdaq: QDEL), the data disclosed
on their patent filings make it abundantly clear that SARS-CoV defies novelty
by constantly and substantially mutating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The consensus from the over 100 gene sequences taken from real patients
shows that there are several strains of the current ‘outbreak’ proving that the
suggestion that we’ve got novelty is an illusion at best.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Step 2 – Formulate a hypothesis:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the Wuhan (a foreign) Virus<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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While there’s every reason to assume – based on the sketchy
reporting and misleading media – that the severity of this coronavirus
expression tragically took a massive toll on the Hubei Province in China (the
full extent of which we will never know), one cannot pinpoint a source in an environment
in which testing is not performed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do
not know how many cases of fatal severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus have
been undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as we have not been testing for it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That China – albeit, too late – admitted to
having the problem doesn’t confer upon it a point of origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That it was isolated is based on
observational testing – something that the rest of the world has not been prone
to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli is
to be commended for studying bats and bat guano laden caves thereby isolating
numerous variants of coronavirus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She
should also be heeded as she has warned of many more that haven’t made the
human jump…yet!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And let’s be clear –
bats appear to be a rather compelling indicator of coronavirus load (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356540/"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356540/</span></a>)
<b><i>so obviously we should pre-emptively cancel American baseball…forever!</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Step 3 – Collect data and test the hypothesis</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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And this is where we have indicted our complete contempt for
the very science we revere!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re <b><i>not
collecting data</i></b> in part because, in the 17 years since the tests have
been patented, we just haven’t given a shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That was until the affluent, cruise-ship-going, senior citizens upon
whom the incumbent power structure depends started getting sick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then, all hell breaks loose…almost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We still aren’t testing a population in a sufficient
manner to calculate an infection rate, morbidity rate, or mortality rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>Yet foolish politicians are collapsing
markets, crushing small businesses, disrupting education, cancelling normal activities
without a shred of evidence that we know what we’re accomplishing.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best news is, that when we find out that
this was a fire drill for mass media fueled sociological modeling of fear based
control, social media, the media, and politicians will have a perfect model of
the propagation of insanity so they can use it again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i>The data that is being collected is YOU!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your fears, your behavior, your willingness
to be herded into the sheep abattoir! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think I’m wrong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well here’s a challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find a single evidence-based argument that
includes a challenge to the three first steps in the scientific method being
used to base ANY RECOMMENDATION coming from ANY GOVERNMENT!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are none!</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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You are not going to get the coronavirus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Statistically speaking, regardless of any pandemic
model, I’m correct.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now YOU might be the
outlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since we don’t know that
which is knowable, it’s far more likely that this is nothing more than a check
on the degree to which our behavior has been hybridized into social media
fueled madness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that, my friends, is
a virus that has infected far too many.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">So, wash your hands. If you've got a bug, rest and take care of yourself away from others. And if you have bats around, STOP petting them!</span></div>
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-82267110780410411332020-03-12T09:44:00.001-07:002020-03-12T09:46:09.069-07:00Emergence of the Fusion Economy - The 10-Years-Hence speech from 2007!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Emergence of the Fusion Economy<br />
Dr. David E. Martin, CEO, M·CAM Inc.<br />
<i>Fellow, Batten Institute, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia</i><br />
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<i>Abstract: From the birth of modern treasury-based economies in the 15th century until today, global power and wealth have been centered around, and measured by, manipulation of supply and demand. Seeds and land generate traded crops. Extracted minerals are refined into weapons, tools, machines, and infrastructure. Complex materials using proprietary formulae generate technology. Knowledge guilds create data and information to share with selected networks. However, the systems and metrics developed over the past half millennium have strained – many, to the breaking point. Global financial and knowledge fulcrum are being transported by economies and cultures that have been excluded from the seats of power at the world’s table since the “Age of Enlightenment”. Beginning with a modern-day parable of a Jesuit-trained Egyptian Muslim, Dr. Martin will explore the applications of the new levers upon which the world finds itself being moved and discuss the implications of Archimedes’ paradigm in the Next Ten Years.</i><br />
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Standing here before you today and embarking on an exploration into the paroxysm upon whose precipice we now stand, there is delightful convergence in knowing that today’s lecture is being given at a Catholic University – the University of Notre Dame – which owes its founding charter to a Methodist State Senator in 1844. In great ecumenical symmetry, my first interactions with Notre Dame came during the lauded tenure of past President Theodore Hesburgh whose speeches and writings inspired me, by lineage a Mennonite, while I was a student at a neighboring institution, Goshen College, just down the road in Elkhart County. At the outset, I will invoke his all too infamous, yet so temporally relevant admonition in 1969 calling for the repudiation of those who would substitute “force for rational persuasion.” Nearly 40 years later, these words continue to motivate me as their content – irrespective the debate on the context in which they were expressed – serve as a clarion call for the emergence of greater understanding and informed public discourse.<br />
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We will begin our journey in Dubai. On the first day of my first trip to the Emirates, I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Moustapha Sarhank, a Jesuit trained Muslim from Cairo. He knew that I was an opportunistic American businessman exploiting a social network for my own gain. I knew he was a mercenary deal maker who had access to the untapped wealth of the region. Within the first five minutes of our interactions at his suite in the Intercontinental Hotel I knew that he could never understand motivation beyond self-serving materialism. He knew that I was contentious, arrogant, and condescending.<br />
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Neither of us knew the other at all. And then, in a moment of hostility, one of us mentioned the words “honor” and “integrity”. Thankfully, neither one of us knows who redeemed the train-wreck of our first interaction. Setting aside the stated purpose of our meeting, we began talking about faith, family, and a vision for the future and, in less time than it took for us to find animosity, we found a brotherhood sealed that Fall when he invited me to celebrate the Fast of Ramadan – permanently binding our fraternity. Many of the insights that I share with you today are not mine alone but those that have emerged from the conversations we’ve shared and, to that end, I share this podium with my friend and brother, Moustapha. And while much of my message can be misheard as a prophecy of doom, I challenge each of you to sit long and talk much over these observations so that you can find the optimism that perpetuates my life.<br />
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We live in an era defined by Ignorance Arbitrage. By this, I mean that all of our implicit social constructs rely on the selective “knowledge consensus” among authorized network members. We explicitly communicate within archetypes constrained by presuppositions of awareness that may, or may not, be encoded for others to understand in part or in whole. As long as equilibrium, or the appearance thereof, is preserved, we’re comfortable. However, when the preponderance of evidence no longer sustains our contrived realism, we despair over our impending obsolescence.<br />
Let’s review our modern credo of manifest destiny.<br />
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We begin with a resolute recitation of <b>Doctrine of Conquest</b>.<br />
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Following World War II, a victor’s conundrum emerged. You will recall that in 1945, the Soviet Union was our military ally together with Britain, France, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia. You will also recall that our enemies included Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Four short years later, we were in the Cold War. From 1949 to 1989 the global economy was shaped by the dichotomies of the specter of Communism vs. the supremacy of Capitalism in a neat East vs. West model. It is worth noting that Socialism was largely ignored (albeit frequently invoked as Communism’s evil cousin) despite its important contributions in Europe, India, and other “lesser developed countries”. The West embraced materialism at every level to overtly display social and economic supremacy and constantly contrasted it to the despondency of those living under the iron fist of “the others”. When the Soviets, in 1957, successfully launched the highly relevant technology – a satellite – the United States’ response was to put a man on the moon! We, the country founded on conquest, reclaimed supremacy by conquest of a large dusty rock as though we didn’t have enough dusty rocks on earth. While I would not suggest that our Space Race didn’t have unintended benefits, it’s comical that modern communication rides on the back of the “losers” of the Cold War. In short, to confirm our myth of our own divine right, we engaged in a conquest of an inert object. To the victor goes the re-writing of history.<br />
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From Conquest, our Catechism teaches the <b>Doctrine of Colonization</b>. In the 1980’s, the steel of our cars and guns and the copper of our electronics conveniences provided little solace when Japan out invented the United States in a number of critical technologies – challenging a doctrine of intellectual supremacy that was significantly built on the backs of the German engineers relocated to the United States after the end of World War II. After all, the MacArthurian utopia was supposed to cooperate with our global economic policy but something had gone terribly wrong. Japan learned from the excesses of the industrial West during the 1970’s and started beating us at every turn. You will recall our response in the 1980’s was:<br />
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• Slashing domestic industrial manufacturing to “build competitiveness” thereby un-employing 2.8 million Americans;<br />
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• Doubling of Foreign Direct Investment into the U.S. nearly making up for the job cuts in American businesses by employing Americans in foreign owned enterprises;<br />
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• Pumping billions of dollars into state-sponsored research kicked off by the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 in which the following doctrine was elucidated. “It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to ensure the full use of the results of the Nation's Federal investment in research and development. To this end the Federal Government shall strive where appropriate to transfer federally owned or originated technology to State and local governments and to the private sector… including plans for securing intellectual property rights in laboratory innovations with commercial promise and plans for managing such innovations so as to benefit the competitiveness of United States industry.”<br />
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• Malcolm Baldrige, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, architected the “Trade War” doctrine as a matter of national economic response to Japan – a policy strikingly similar to that deployed today against the Chinese;<br />
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• The Capitalist Victor of the Cold War minted the oxymoronic phrase “unfair competition” to level against any country that happened to outperform U.S. economic execution.<br />
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Colonization, under the moniker of “Free Trade”, means that U.S. and European policy reserves the right to define “Free” and “Fair” and the litmus test to apply to measure the relative pH of the system is how the behavior of others impacts U.S. and European industry.<br />
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When fully bloomed, we achieve the transcendence of the <b>Doctrine of Eminent Domain</b>. In this final incarnate step, we see the emergence of the unholy trinity of creator, purveyor, and manipulator. If we say that we create all things that are innovative and valuable, and we convince others that they want and must have the things we create and allege to be innovative and valuable, and finally, if we actively insist that only that which we say is valuable can achieve value, we have achieved bliss. When white collar jobs followed the blue collar exodus to India,Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, China, and Thailand, the American people were reassured by policy makers and the media that all was fine because, after all, all the innovations come from America. The assumption followed, therefore, that as long as we created all that is new and valuable, the rest of the world would “need” us.<br />
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However, this assessment never fully calculated the fact that, since 1987, the majority of foreign students being educated in the programs created under the 1980 – 1983 national research competitiveness programs came from Taiwan, China, India, and South Korea. By 1994, the U.S. Department of Education reported that over 50% of all doctoral degrees awarded in computer science and engineering were awarded to foreign students. A subtly in that report (published in 1996) was the observation that while Taiwanese and Indian students were more biased towards computer science and engineering, students from the People’s Republic of China were more focused on the natural sciences. One early indicator of pending transformation can be drawn from this statistic – namely that the PRC has millions of basic scientists from whom the next new “new thing” is likely to emerge as their training has not merely prepared them to out-engineer and optimize but to understand the basics of discovery. Just because we educated masters and doctoral students doesn’t mean that they all returned to their home countries with a permanent sense of loyalty to their academic progenitors. The assumption that eminent domain applies to the landscape of the mind, while a wistful aspiration, has not held true in the past and will not hold this time. The Stevenson-Wydler Act inadvertently has educated and enabled the GDP growth of others while we preside over a flat or decreasing GDP on our shores. Since we’ve educated the world, we should be cooperating with it rather than vilifying those whose intellects we’ve shared.<br />
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Those who would be optimists may retreat to the final high ground which insures our global supremacy – our economy. After all, we have the most recognized currency on the planet, we have the most liquidity in our markets and, since 2001, we poured that liquidity, in record amounts, into financial products that the rest of the world doesn’t always fully appreciate or, in some cases, in which they are precluded from participation. It’s important to note that the growth of hedge funds, derivatives markets, and related financial instruments has out-paced all other investment structures and products. In 1987, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association reported less than $1 trillion in interest rate and cross-currency swaps. By 2006, that number has grown to over $250 trillion including credit default swaps and equity derivatives.<br />
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This number, while staggering, should be clearly understood by the average consumer as acceptable as, according to Allen Greenspan in May of 2003 he provided the following reassurance stating that, “derivatives market participants seem keenly aware of the counterparty credit risks associated with derivatives and take various measures to mitigate those risks.” Isn’t it reassuring to know that the largest financial instrument class in the world exists under the rigor and discipline implied in the preceding comment? Isn’t it ironic that the world’s cumulative GDP in 2004 was estimated by the World Bank to be 1/6 of that number at a meager $40.2 trillion?<br />
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Well, folks, while we were walking through this wonderful illusion, a series of clearly identifiable factors began to warm the seas into what promises to be the economic El Niño that bodes for a transformational 10 years hence.<br />
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• In 2006, one third of all international IPO’s were from China with proceeds growth of 87% in a single year.<br />
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• The total proceeds from global IPO’s has not yet returned to 1998 levels though the average deal size has grown by almost 20%. The companies that are raising money are hardly at the innovative edge of future technology and business models – credit cards, airplanes, real estate, hotels, and car rental to be precise - concerning the top 5 grossing deals in 2006. It is troublesome to be reminded that one of the common reasons for the slowdown in IPO deals is the requirement for compliance under Sarbanes Oxley – an unwanted burden of accountability and oversight which leads me to my observations about the future.<br />
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• The “strength” of the U.S. economy is measured with metrics which systematically under report: unemployment and under-employment; the consumer contribution to the economy that is increasingly representing new debt (much of which has been supported by hyper-inflation in perceived real estate value); national entitlement programs including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, together with the grossly overlooked actual financial position of the FDIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their attendant solvency risks which are nowhere to be found in Federal fiscal transparency; and, the actual contribution and double counting of Federal underwriting of government spending on both consumable products and services as well as the perpetual abuse of the in-process research and experimentation tax credit which is supposed to finance our future GDP.<br />
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• Industrial stalwarts such as General Motors, General Electric’s plastics division, pharmaceutical giants, and consumer electronics increasingly see global competition catching and surpassing them with little or no option than to option off their futures.<br />
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• James Wilsdon’s critique of the British investment in science, and the underlying presumption that this is linked to what I refer to as Gross Innovative Output in the November 3, 2006 Financial Times, in which he illuminated an industrialist paradigm at the public policy level which has become unmoored. The notion that investing in laboratories, academia, and industrial research and experimentation will somehow positively correlate to the next new thing may have worked in a more industrial society. However, in a world where proprietary value – that which protects goods or services from commoditization and minimal profitability – is increasingly based on knowledge franchises, this public policy and financial prioritization is outmoded.<br />
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• According to the FDIC, the total of past due and nonaccrual assets in 2006 were predominantly (82%) in real estate-secured and consumer credit (51% and 31%, respectively). A closer look reveals that a potential double exposure exists driving the remarkable increase in these statistics from 2004 to 2006 of over 20%. Leading the increase in non-performing obligations were debts for the 1-4 family residential real estate sector and the credit card debt non-performing sector which are tracking each other very closely supporting the concern that the seven consecutive quarters of negative savings in the U.S. is impacting not only wealth accretion but is also beginning to adversely impact long-term credit rating foundations.<br />
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• One of the largest financial innovations of 2005 and 2006 was the creation of the sukuk – an Islamic finance product originated in the Gulf States and subscribed from Indonesia to Germany. This novel finance vehicle, in two year’s time, raised close to 10% of the global total financing proceeds compared to all funds raised through IPO’s in the traditional markets. While the rest of the world was learning about, and investing in Shari’ a-compliant investments, U.S. policymakers were protesting port security provided by one of our allies who floated a sukuk offering.<br />
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In short, our love affair with our domestic ever-expanding consumption without transparency and accountability has resulted in a financial and social bankruptcy the import of which has not been lost on the rest of the world.<br />
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I would propose that the disintegration of 2007 actually has its roots in the Napoleonic conquests – a notable component of which we celebrate in bicentennial this year. Our present situation has haunting similarity to conditions that existed in Europe when, in 1807, Napoleon promulgated the Swamp Decree. To fund his burgeoning ambition for hegemony, Napoleon needed to fund far-flung military campaigns and so he innovated a taxation system that birthed the modern intangible asset economy – in short, he created a national economy built not on tangible productivity but rather on what could, in theory, be made productive by municipal fiat. Explicitly, the Swamp Decree took the C.E. 800 Holy Roman Empire property valuation paradigm in which property was valued and taxed based on its alleged productivity and improved upon it by imputing the value land would have if it was drained. In short, the value wasn’t there but, by extrapolation, if the State determined that it could be valuable, it was deemed so.<br />
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This creative – some would argue, rather sinister – approach to valuation was the birth of the modern economic optionality. More importantly, transactional imputed value was not the exchange of value between a willing buyer and seller but was superseded by the whim of the realm for the calculation of taxation whereby the State could fund its affairs and excesses.<br />
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Eight short years later, another dynastic emergence vaulted onto the then-known-world stage. The Rothschild family, in 1815, took control of the Bank of England in what amounted to one of the all time most creative derivatives deals surrounding interests in the East India Trading Company and some fascinating timed trading following the Battle of Waterloo. Having amassed control of much of Europe’s financial power by the 1830’s, notable members of the family were said to have boasted that they cared not what puppet monarch sits upon the throne of England as he who controls the money controls England and they controlled the Central Bank. The dissociation of the sovereign from the monetary authority, unthinkable before, created a vacuum filled on both sides of the Atlantic by a few very influential families who, in some instances, hold sway to this day. Despite the convulsions of two World Wars in the following century, linkages between the monetary authority and the mercantile industrial complex were such that, while nation-state fortunes rose and fell, the financial players rode out the storms with relative ease.<br />
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At the end of World War II, we found ourselves setting the stage for this present penultimate act.<br />
Again, we are a nation at war. As enemies have evolved from territorially defined states, to ideologies, to the modern euphemism of “terror”, we know that vast armies of those who feel marginalized, compromised, or disenfranchised now operate in cells ranging from Idaho and Oklahoma City to London, to Beirut, to Bali. All christen their causes invoking a divine impetus. However it is important to note that Chaucer’s adage that “Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop” enjoys a corollary – perceptions of disempowerment foster ideological (and religious) extremism. While I would not simplify present geopolitics into a sound-bite, <b><i>I would argue that the strain of perceptions of global economic imbalance may very well be the catalyst that finally collapses the foundation</i></b>. With the President’s call this week for increased funding for the war with a concomitant reduction in domestic spending priorities, it is clear that the economic forecast for GDP growth over the next 5 years will rely on Americans who have less financial resilience than at any time in the past 70 years and on companies increasingly unable to adapt to the global transformations in economic powers save those directly supporting the military infrastructure. We are at a tipping point.<br />
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The Silk Road is coming back. For over two thousand years, stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Sea of Japan, southward through the Indian Ocean, the Silk Road was the nexus for the emergence of knowledge transfer and international trade networks which rival, in diversity and value, modern conventions. While the U.S. and Western Europe prosecute military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Silk Road is emerging as a literal and figurative power reminiscent of its earlier glory. It was after all, on this network, that one of the most compelling technology transfers was facilitated. Between C.E. 300 and 1168, Chinese and Muslims developed and applied the core technology for potassium nitrate, arguably one of the most explosive technologies that has shaped two millennia of human endeavors.<br />
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To set the context, it is helpful to picture the Silk Road Economic Block in the following way. Starting in Alexandria, Egypt and terminating in Beijing, China, draw your latitude line angling from N30° to N40°. Then look south of that line to the Equator. This region holds close to ½ of the world’s population; is home to most of the world’s religious and cultural progenitors; enjoys unprecedented GDP growth forecast to represent over 20% of the world’s GDP in the next ten years; and, is actively building cross-border economic cooperation at the corporate and national level. The strength of the Silk Road Economic Block poses a number of compelling arguments for a global shift in power within 10 years hence.<br />
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First, the U.S. dollar. In 2006, 47% of the U.S. Treasury securities were held by foreign interests while the U.S. Monetary Authority retained 17.8%. The Federal Reserve estimates that two thirds of U.S. currency is held outside the country amounting to over $700 billion. While the U.S. dollar represents 47% of the world’s official foreign exchange reserves, it is helpful to consider that with that exposure comes certain risks. In June 2005, the Bank for International Settlements warned that countries would need to act “together” to deal with the burgeoning U.S. trade deficit and went so far as to suggest that the U.S. should consider cutting expenditures and raising taxes. Failure to address this issue could lead, they suggested, to disorderly decline of the dollar and trigger significant global market perturbations. As we all know, the appetite for this medicine has not yet created the impetus for change.<br />
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As we see our country slip in its influence on the foreign policy front, we cannot ignore a maelstrom of our own creation. While we’ve leveraged our nation in our pursuit of energy consumption, insatiable material acquisition, and protection of our way of living, we’ve actually mortgaged our economic fulcrum in shaping global policy. When China elects to build energy alliances with Iran, paid for in U.S. dollars and financed on U.S. Treasuries, precisely what leverage have we retained. Given the fact that U.S. consumption has provided vast wealth to those in the Middle East and Asia who now are cast as “emerging threats” to our national security and “sponsors” of terror, what incentive have we provided to engage in constructive dialogue?<br />
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Increasingly, innovations of global consequence are emerging from the Silk Road Economic Block. In Singapore, Malaysia and China, biofuel technology is being funded and deployed. In China, near-zero emission transportation and municipal systems are being developed. In Iran, low-fire glass ceramics are being developed to safely dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste. In India and Iran, transgenic tomato plants are being developed to produce vaccines for biological warfare agents. In Singapore, a global surprise anticipation center is being built to fundamentally change national and international policy from reactionary to proactive and anticipatory. In Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, novel energy and water municipal systems are years, if not decades, more advanced than the municipal systems in much of the U.S. and Europe. Islamic financial products – based on fundamental ethical requirements for transparency and risk-sharing – are attracting capital market participation for funds that have never been liquid in the global economy. National treasuries are adopting policies for foreign direct investment within the Block realizing that economic gain is inextricably linked to domestic and regional security. In short, the region is emerging the “Fusion Economy”.<br />
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Why Fusion? First, because it accurately describes at the physical sciences level the imperative driving the emerging reality. In the fusion reaction, the application of an external nuclear force overcomes the naked repulsive electrostatic force that keeps nuclei repelled. When one nucleon is added to a nucleus, it attracts others and, by doing so, adds mass while emitting energy. What’s coming? The Fusion Economy.<br />
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Highly divergent, one could argue polar, forces exist in the cultures of the Silk Road Economic Block. Nowhere are the divides between wealth and poverty; progress vs. preservation; theism and modernism more brightly illuminated. Nowhere is there a more concentrated aggregation of wealth denominated in U.S. dollars. Nowhere are markets so entirely dependent on the consumption of energy, goods, and services demanded by, but out-sourced from, the West. However, in spite of these conditions, a single catalyzing event (triggered by war on an economic or corporeal level) could serve to unite those who appear so woefully segregated. Who would have imagined that Chinese restaurants would become commonplace in Tehran? Who could imagine that China could evolve an intellectual property regime that would actually begin successfully invalidating presumptive monopolies that other nations feared to challenge? Could it be possible that ½ the world could create a self-sustaining resiliency that would be denominated on a non-U.S. treasury / currency platform?<br />
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Could a new paradigm integrating compulsory, ethical innovation licensing be paid for in “virtual value units” that entitle the bearer to water or energy rather than a call option on a Central Bank? Is it possible that we’ve actually placed in motion sufficient antipathy to forge Atheist, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim alliances that embrace more common values than the Anglo-Saxon values we seek to purvey?<br />
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Ten years hence, Chinese won’t be buying IBM computer businesses – they will be engineering nanotechnology autonomous appliances. While we debate how to deal with global warming in the U.S., New Delhi and Cairo may very well fund emission free public transport. While our aging population finds itself under increasing financial burden to pay for medicine, Abu Dhabi Organics may be feeding the Gulf States medicament plants engineered at that National Research Center for Genetics and Bioengineering. And, yes, my dear friends in the Kashmir may finally have the traditional herb compound that grows back my hair.<br />
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Today, we can choose the path that allows us to participate with those for whom we’ve had exclusionary practices for years. We can begin to unwind the pejorative archetypes defining those like us as developed and those unlike us as aspirants. We can participate in the financial accountability of ethical investing. We can enter into dialogue with those we’re sure seek to do us harm. Can we sit and objectively listen to former President Khatami quote the great Persian poet Sa’di’s words, “With devotion I will take that poison as the cure has been created by the Almighty,” and understand that this riddle contains not only the key to understanding those we find so foreign but a gentle echo of the admonition from the very Bank for International Settlements with whom no Silk Road voice conferred? We have before us the paradox left by our Greek progenitors – to choose an Odyessian or Orphean destiny for the sirens are singing. I choose the sweeter sound.<br />
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-61358648616646804672020-01-24T07:52:00.000-08:002020-01-24T07:52:14.557-08:00Celebrate Monotonous Goodness - From Amanda Gore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
An amazing blog written by my dear friend Amanda Gore - worth the read!<br />
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-63896300770274643032020-01-22T13:51:00.001-08:002020-01-22T15:12:32.970-08:00Tensegrity: How do we divide equity?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When we met several months ago, I did my best to
introduce what I refer to as the “Breathing Enterprise” business model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the name implies, this process seeks to
insure that our efforts carefully consider each element of a healthy and
organic process that is aligned with how life quite literally happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Informed by the way the living cell unlocks
the power of sunlight from glucose, the Breathing Enterprise model is both
prescriptive and diagnostic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can use
it as a template and it serves equally as a means to diagnose how an effort is
not running as it could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And before we get
caught up in dividing the baby, let’s make sure we’re super clear on what we
have locked in and what we have ignored.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s start with the key elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within the model, there are 6 domains of
value which require equivalent attention and stewardship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These have to do with the <b>Alchemy</b> of
how we transform effort to value; how we make <b>Apparent</b> our organization
of effort into a reproducible product or service; and, our <b>Essence</b> –
what we know and how we are known.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Any successful venture will recognize that holding these 6
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is the only way to build an organization that requires no external intervention
as all the energy required is based on the structural integrity itself.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The mistake that is made by many (dare I say, most)
organizations is to prioritize <b><i>technology and money</i></b> and leave the
other things to be relegated to ‘solvable with money’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This – by definition – is unsustainable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we place equivalent value on each of the
6 dimensions, we learn that we also see the need to reward, incentivize and compensate
in equivalent ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A ‘preferred’ return
in one dimension without preference in others means that enterprise failure is
most assured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a “financial”
investor is preferred over the personnel team or the branding manager – the
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So, before we start divvying up “equity” (a horrible abuse
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across the domains of value so as to insure appropriate and suitable value
recognition to all participants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yes,
for those of you who are doing the math, if an investor wants more than 16.7%
of a business (one-sixth of the enterprise), he or she better be accountable to
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On this last day of 2019, I found myself sitting on the
tarmac at Chicago O’Hare long after my scheduled departure time. Nearly an hour earlier, I had watched a frazzled
gate agent recite the clearly false information about delayed crew – a lie only
evidenced when, having boarded the plane, I saw the same crew that had been
there all along. Then came the de-icing
delay clearly falsifiable as I had already watched the plane being de-iced from
the comfort of gate F-20. Sitting motionless
at the gate nearly 30 minutes later, the pilot apologized for the fact the we
couldn’t push back because a de-icing form confirming that de-icing had taken
place was missing and without it, he couldn’t get ramp clearance to push
back. And then another 30 minutes of
silence before we started moving. For
this nearly 2-hour delay of United flight 4852, I mused about the fact that
several people had been comfortable reciting false statements to rationalize
what in fact was a cascade of human error.
And as I sat on the plane, I pondered the fact that for the next 90
minutes, my life was entrusted to people who had no apparent objection to
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This is an odd way of beginning my annual Litany of Saints
post for 2019.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this year has been
marked with major league dishonesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
of it we’ve all seen play out on the nightly news with caricatures of officials
clearly dismissing observable reality with false statements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others have been profligate abuses of
business agreements I’ve made throughout the year in which written and
contracted expectations have been dishonored with predictable regularity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most deeply painful have been personal
experiences in which assurances of love and relationship have been shown to be
weaponized and manipulated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, I
find that the well of gratitude that has marked many years of my life has been
deeply impacted by a drought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as is
always the case, I seek to examine this experience and see what I can learn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My life was greatly enriched by Nic Wales who demonstrated
that, regardless of the challenges I faced throughout the year, his capacity to
persistently ‘show up’ as the genuine friend and colleague was as certain as
the sunrise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During many of my most
challenging times, his first-to-the-line spirit often rallied both my spirits
and those with whom he interacted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My year culminated with an exceptionally deep appreciation
for my son Zachary who, in spite of several struggles throughout the year,
declared his intention to pursue his life’s passion resulting in his move to
California to begin his next pursuit as a golf coach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, speaking of setting lofty intentions, my
daughter Sienna concluded that her academic and athletic goals included being
exceptional and, as a Freshman at Monticello High School – her first American
school year – was a member of the varsity cheerleading squad (winning District
titles) and has been achieving near perfect marks in her classes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I observed my friend, colleague, and source of inspiration –
Amanda Gore – strive to achieve new levels of elegance and excellence in her
dynamic public speaking career and marveled at the discipline evidenced in her
relentless commitment to integrate perspectives she learned no matter how
uncomfortable that transformation may be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And above all, I witnessed Kim Martin incarnate her stated
desire to break patterns of thinking and behavior that had restricted her
living giving life to a much more dynamic and vibrant person than the woman I
met nearly 5 years ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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These – and others – earned my respect not for what they <b><i>said
</i></b>they would do, be, or manifest, but rather for the fact that they actually
<b><i>did their truth.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Which leads me to my point this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m afraid that truth – like many other
constructs – is a cognitive fallacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
me explain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are all sensitive beings
(in an apathetic sense).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this I mean
that as we transit life, we are aware of our lived experience informed by our surroundings,
our interactions, and our synthesis of stimuli.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The irony in my use of ‘apathy’ is that while we sense and perceive – <b><i>that
which we sense and perceive is selective to our conditioning, recollection, and
implicit values</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words,
the exact same experience <b><i>does not and cannot be replicated with identity
in another</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, while we seem to
obsess about “truth” as a theoretical abstraction, the truth is, <b><i>it</i></b>
never exists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by <b><i>never</i></b>
I actually mean that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s because by
the time reality is processed, it is selectively curated to form meaning,
understanding, or judgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the
passage of time, that selectivity is further narrowed to fit a narrative or
worldview.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time we’re conveying
it, thinking about it, or judging it, <b><i>IT</i></b> no longer is the lived
experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I frequently comment about the <b><i>monotonous goodness of
most of our lives</i></b> and I often get quizzical looks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most next moments are both unimpressive and
basically good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While you’ve been
reading this, your heart has beaten several hundred times and, you didn’t do
anything to conspire to make that happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are reading this sentence, your optical nerve has already processed
5,140 characters and you didn’t care about most of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While you were reading this, your computer
didn’t blow up, your house didn’t burn down, you were not tortured, and you
basically had it alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we
remember, too often, is the punctuations in the monotony, and far too often,
what focuses our obsession is that which is misfortune or challenging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But <b><i>most of most of our lives is good</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What does this have to do with “truth”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for asking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By ignoring the monotonous goodness of life
and narrating our lives through the punctuated drama of either ecstasy or
suffering, we actually lie to ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’re so obsessed with being interesting (both for good or ill) that we
curate a storyline that ignores most of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When President Trump says that he “doesn’t
recall” prostitutes, bribes, or Russian blackmail, he may be telling <b><i>his
version of his own selective recall</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Evidence, schmevidence!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can
make all the observations we want but if the selective curation of a narrative
is absolute, then everything that doesn’t fit ceases to exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evangelical Christians swear they’re pro-life
but applaud missile strikes on the <i>infidel du jour</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capitalists want persistent economic growth
but seek to maintain exclusionary rights and privileges to prevent others from
growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You name it, hypocrisy is
rampant only when you don’t share a common definition of truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which leads me to my year end gratitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am grateful this year for all those in my
life who have turned truth into a verb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Being genuine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being authentic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living coherently with their values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People who don’t need to ‘tell the truth’
because their too busy living it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
those I’ve named and to the many who are reading this and knowing of our
interactions that were characterized with these hallmarks of integrity, I honor
you this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you and here’s to
living true in 2020!<o:p></o:p></div>
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-14748575849567929582019-09-18T08:30:00.000-07:002019-09-18T08:30:27.854-07:00The Knowledge Economy and a Cross of Gold<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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cause of liberty – the cause of humanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">- William Jennings Bryan, 9 July 1896</span></i><span style="font-family: "Garamond",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Winds
of change fanned flames of controversy the year in 1899. Across the country, upheaval caused by
geopolitical and economic power realignment left Americans searching for a
standard, a basis upon which they could denominate their existence. With the industrial machine drowning out the
sound of the plow and scythe, a revolution was brewing – one that would change
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Productivity, industrial might, and cash now measured wealth, once
denominated by property ownership. The
idle holders of idle capital vilified by William Jennings Bryan at the
Democratic National Convention in 1896 were the educated industrialist elites
who, according to him, turned a deaf ear to the working masses. While all acknowledged the need to establish
a currency standard, fierce battle lines were drawn on the 11<sup>th</sup>
meridian of the Periodic Table of Elements with impressive skirmishes in the
“A” section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">In
the face of this tumultuous time, another debate was growing equally
rancorous. As the 20th century dawned a
movement was afoot to establish the infrastructure to consolidate the movement
of wealth throughout the nascent continental country. Financial panic, alleged by many to have been
instigated by proponents of a central bank, provided a stimulus to create the
Federal Reserve Bank by 1913. The
centralization of the mode of wealth and knowledge transfer, be it tangible or
intangible, has long been known to be the path to dominance. After watching the Duke of Wellington defeat
Napoleon at Waterloo, Baron Nathan Rothschild was quoted as saying, “I care not
what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which
the sun never sets. The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the
British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” While observing that, “whoever controls the
volume of money in any country is the absolute master of all industry and
commerce,” President Garfield provided the inspiration for today’s presentation
in his words spoken in 1880. “I am an
advocate for paper money, but that paper money must represent what it professes
on its face. I do not wish to hold in my
hands the printed lies of the government.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Today,
we will explore the realities of a crisis of humanity more polarizing than the
debate of gold or banking. We will probe
the enigma of the knowledge economy that has no standard – a wealth without
denomination. We will address the
challenge presented by President Garfield 120 years ago and resolve to
valiantly seek to address the problems we encounter. What is knowledge, how is it’s quality
assessed, and who controls its distribution?
Informed by the debates of yesterday, we will seek solutions for the
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Let
me begin by making the following observations.
At the turn of this century, the International Leadership Forum
estimated that the adult global literacy rate was 73%. That means that the written word was
meaningless to over 1.3 billion adults.
With many countries boasting rates of 95%, many had rates under
50%. An UNESCO report estimates that
approximately 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are working and
going to school. Fifty percent of this
group works full-time. When one
considers the numbers of people trained beyond nominal literacy, the numbers
are more poignant. Less than 40% of the
world’s population, over the course of their lifetime, can enter tertiary
educational institutions.<a href="file:///C:/Users/David%20Martin/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/Q56LVWJA/The%20Knowledge%20Economy%20and%20a%20Cross%20%20of%20Gold.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[1]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Sixty three percent of the world’s literate
population lives in economically “developed” countries with African, Central
and Southeast Asian countries disproportionately illiterate. These statistics should, in themselves, hold
considerable weight.<a href="file:///C:/Users/David%20Martin/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/Q56LVWJA/The%20Knowledge%20Economy%20and%20a%20Cross%20%20of%20Gold.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">[2]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a> However, this is not a lecture on education
of the masses. No, today, I’m concerned
with a far more complex topic that, while impacted by the numbers above, is far
more unnerving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">We find ourselves at a point in history where considerable
acclaim is cast upon those who have achieved greatness in the pursuit of
corporate goals. <b><i>Forbes</i></b>
and <b><i>Fortune</i></b> herald one after the other multi-millionaire whose
fame is built on success in entrepreneurial imperialism of one sort or
another. During the last four years of
the past decade, more millionaires and billionaires (in economic adjusted terms)
were created than in the cumulative running of all of human history. Are we really that much smarter and that much
more productive than all civilizations that preceded us? Are our institutions of higher learning
producing genius with every diploma? Do
we live in Garrison Keillor’s mythical town where, “every student is above
average?” Or is it possible that we have
built a tower of Babel?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">First
let us ask the question posed by Mr. Bryan.
In the knowledge economy, we must ask ourselves the unsettling question
of basis. In antiquity, wealth was
denominated by raw materials. Those who
had the most land, the most gold – in short, the most tangible property – were
the wealthiest. In the evolution of
economies, these basic elements were replaced by the metrics of the industrial
age. In industrial economies,
productivity, distribution, and market share served as the more abstract
surrogates for the wealth of ages gone by.
Now, in the knowledge economy, we find ourselves confronted by an
economic reality without basis. Prior to
the dot bomb, we were told that value was measured in “eye-balls” and
“stickiness”. Billions of dollars flowed
into the creation of a virtual presence that conveyed virtual information
virtually anywhere. Pause; let us
consider what virtual means. Our
faithful Webster tells us that virtual refers to a hypothetical particle whose
existence is inferred; being in essence though not formally recognized. In other words – NOT. When value is ascribed to virtual reality,
how is it denominated? More importantly,
how is one to know whether it is real or imagined? As the educator and the educated, how can we
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Revisiting President Garfield’s conundrum –
we need to know that face value is based on value or it’s a lie. Is “knowledge” the presence or absence of
literacy, the letters of degree conferred on an individual, the prestige of
institution or commercial affiliation, nationality, race, creed? Or, is knowledge something more than
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I
would suggest the <i>sine qua non</i> of knowledge economy is the need for a
gold standard. Copyright law of the
United States established that facts have neither owner nor value. The organization and presentation of facts in
various expressions have value. Our
society is filled with data; our challenge is to transform that into usable
information leading to wise deployment creating value. Yes, here’s where I appeal to the student
populous movement – educational assessment should not be based on the
recitation of facts established by U.S. law as valueless – now here comes the
part where I shamelessly pander to the faculty – but in the useful synthesis
and application of the same. Knowledge
built on rout memorization is valueless, knowledge built on application and
problem solving has value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we explore the problem of ownership.
There was a time when ownership was rather unambiguous. Possession was 9/10ths of the law. Land, buildings, shipping lines and trade
names were clearly defined by title. In
the knowledge economy, we are confronted with the timeless problem of
counterfeit. When he realized that
conventional warfare was not swinging in his favor, Hitler, in an effort to
decimate the United States and Great Britain economies began the process of
printing counterfeit dollars and pounds.
The French tried the same technique in Vietnam and the U.S. introduced
20 Peso notes in Cuba for the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion. Why is it that from Duke Sforz of Venice in
1470, to Napoleon, to Hitler, to Kennedy counterfeiting has been an integral
part of war? Because savvy tacticians
know that economic chaos is one of the world’s most effective weapons. Introducing counterfeit undermines all
economic systems as confidence is lost in the representation of legal tender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">So
too, in the knowledge economy, counterfeits are an untold tactical weapon. In a recent study made of United States
patents, our company found that over 35% of all current patents are
intellectual forgeries. This means that
the patent claims rights already secured by another party or already existent
in the public domain. One cannot help
being overwhelmed in Malaysia with copies of Microsoft Office being sold for $2
in the shopping malls of Jabor Bahru.
Passing off as proprietary that which is not is an unmitigated disaster
looming over our current economic system.
For the knowledge economy to have any viability, forgery detection must
be implemented. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Last
Spring, the University of Virginia gained national attention when one of its
faculty implemented a computer system to determine whether term papers
submitted by students were plagiarized or authentic. In certain sections, as many as 25% of the
papers were copied, in part or in whole from other sources – often the papers
of classmates. Is it any wonder that we
go on in life to copy the works of others in business, education, and other
walks of life when, in high school and college, we get away with intellectual
theft? I think not. However, I believe that educators and
students alike must realize that these patterned behaviors establish
foundations that lead to ruin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Many
have proposed that with the ubiquitous nature of the internet, we are becoming
a boundary-less world. Traditional
geopolitical barriers are eroding.
People are interacting with one another irrespective of time zone,
language, tradition, or status. In real
time, I collaborate with business partners overlooking Tiananmen Square, Big
Ben and Tierra del Fuego. However, in
these times of heady multinationalism, we must consider the often-overlooked
dependency that is being created in this unrestricted world wide web. Knowledge must be transferred and shared for
it to achieve its greatest impact.
However, as we see the expansion of telecommunications-facilitated
trade, we see an equally expanding malignancy of inadvertent isolationism. Geiger & Diller closes its doors while we
shop on-line. Balmer’s purchases are now
made at Talbots.com. All the while, we
lose the priceless, informal interactions with our neighbors telling us of
places, people and events that once were intrinsic to the broadening of our
minds and perspectives. We miss the
touch of the hand, the warmth of a smile and the sharing of a friend’s tear –
in our wealth, we gain poverty of soul and mind. In the midst of this efficiency, what has
the knowledge economy lost? Is the local
ISP the Rothschild of the knowledge economy?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have sacrificed human interaction. In
our global economic conquests, we have lost the innovative impact of
observation. Rather than go to places,
we visit them virtually (remember, that means we DON’T). I would like to suggest that one of the greatest
threats of the knowledge economy is that we will actually see a reduction in
global understanding. We will see, hear
and trade with only those who are wired into the web. Rather than learning from the wisdom of the
cultures that have passed before us, we will see only that which the content
providers deem appropriate and, in so doing, we will see a contraction, not an
expansion of knowledge. In short, we
will choke the inventory of innovation and inquiry in the morass of
irrelevancy. We must resist the
centralization of information and knowledge.
Efforts must be made to learn from the richness of indigenous knowledge
that may never find its way to a web browser.
We must develop multiple venues and vehicles for the exchange of
knowledge so that the trade routes are not the monopolistic empire of the few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">So today, we must heed the warnings
of history and listen to the voices of the past so that we build a legacy of
renaissance, not repression. We need to
encourage one another to add value, not volume, to the knowledge of the
ages. We must commit ourselves to
respect and value the uniqueness of the intellectual property of each member of
the human race and decry piracy of the same.
And finally, we must vigorously resist the temptation of sloth and in
its place actively participate with the global community. We must resolve to move forward the
democratization of knowledge and be relentless in our efforts to bear the standard
of substance in the face of maelstrom of virtual value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On August 22, 2019, Ambassador John Kenneth (“Ken”) Blackwell
wrote an article entitled <b><i>Congress Must Stop The Erosion Of Patent Rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>Making reference to the proposed STRONGER
Patents Act of 2019 sponsored by Steve Stivers (R-OH), Bill Foster (D-IL), Tom
Cotton (R-AR) and Chris Coons (D-DE), he argued that ‘inventors’ should enjoy
more unquestioned ‘rights’ and that the Patent Trial Appeals Board (PTAB) should
be “reined in” as they were invalidating “over 75% of patents issued by the USPTO.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ambassador Blackwell is on the wrong side of
history…again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might remember this
masonic Ohioan from his infamous role as Secretary of State of Ohio during the
controversial election of George H. W. Bush when he said of a court ruling against
his bigotry that he would rather go to jail that follow the court’s order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He must have forgotten that Masonic (he’s a
Mason) values include honor and integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But then again, he’s a Fellow of The Family Research Council – an organization
that has never let honor or integrity stand in its way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You probably don’t care about patents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I doubt you have given them a moment’s
thought today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are currently paying a tax to a broken
innovation propaganda machine to the tune of an estimated 12.6% in many of the
products and services you purchase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
its fair to say that over ½ of that tax is flowing to companies and individuals
who have defrauded the patent offices and, by extension, you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, put bluntly, you’re being robbed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the worst part of it is the U.S.
Government and its global counterparts are not only complicit – they KNOW that it’s
happening and choose to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whether it’s the PTAB, the Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, or ‘second-set-of-eyes’ patent examination – the facts are tragic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With just a second opinion, close to 70% of the
patents that are granted by the world’s patent offices are deemed invalid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine what would happen if 60-70% of the
dollars in your wallet or in your bank account were counterfeit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long would you put up with that?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ambassador Blackwell, Representative Stivers and Foster and
Senators Cotton and Coons are dead wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But its not just the STRONGER Patent Act of 2019 that’s the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the issue I addressed in last week’s
blog post regarding propaganda.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since
1981 when Japan eclipsed the United States in legitimate patent filing, the
U.S. Government’s official response was to liberalize the criteria for getting
patents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This resulted an order of
magnitude increase in patent activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Did we get smarter?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got better at stealing, lying, and plagiarizing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while it’s popular to blame the Chinese
for ‘stealing’ innovation, where were the politicians when Siemens’ and GE executives
stated that they took innovation from universities because “universities don’t
have the legal war chest to fight them,” in 1997 at RSNA?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where were the politicians and industry
associations when the (dis)Honorable Gerald J.Mossinghoff – former Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of the USPTO – told an audience in
Washington D.C. that if, “you bring me someone else’s patent and a check for
$50,000, I can get you the same patent”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Where was Congress when UPSTO Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson comfortably
stated that his job was not to ensure patent quality but rather to “get his customers
their patents.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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We’ve gone nearly 40 years making the fraudulent patent the
foundation of our “knowledge economy” illusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Foolishly, naïve countries like Singapore, Australia, the United Kingdom
and the European Union have decided that it’s better to play ball than to hold
up quality standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not surprisingly,
the weight of the World Bank, the OECD, and every national initiative to build “knowledge
economy” businesses have suffocated nascent innovation under the bloated ‘entrepreneur’
enablement interventions rather than building vibrant economies flourishing
with transformative ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tragically,
with the exception of the Kingdom of Denmark – yes, the one that won’t sell
Greenland to Donald Trump – no other country has been willing to call the bluff
underpinning the Propaganda Economy’s leading currency – the fraudulent and plagiarized
patent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now a Conservative Republican
is chiding Congress to defend the system his generation contaminated beyond repair.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It used to be that I was simply a locust eating, sackcloth-wearing
prophet when I testified in Congress at the Patent Quality Hearings in the
early 2000s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But times have
changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By measuring the quality that the
Ambassador, Congressmen, and Senators patently ignore, M·CAM has succeeded in out
performing the equity markets with our indexes and funds since 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while academicians, economists, and legal
apologists all seek to count patents in their Monopoly game while ignoring the
multiply confirmed counterfeit majority of these artifacts of manipulation –
not invention – our indexes and our funds show the value of separating the
truth from the fiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And regrettably,
if STRONGER Patents gets passed, our performance will likely improve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You don’t care.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
you pay too much for food, medicine, smartphones, appliances, cars,
voice-recognition customer service, building materials, seeds and so many other
things, you don’t know that this theft is truly OUR PROBLEM.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the ignorance born of our confusion in
believing that we’re increasing ‘knowledge’ while in reality being constrained
by curated propaganda paralyzes us in the face of the tyranny of messages like
those spouted by Ambassador Blackwell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do you care?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share this and <a href="https://www.invertedalchemy.com/2019/08/dateline-1945-knowledge-economy.html">last week’s blog post</a> in as many circles as you can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>See if someone somewhere offers a counter-message to the Ambassador’s
before Congress takes us back to the Dark Ages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>One hundred years ago, Everett Dean Martin was appointed to
serve as chairman of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures in an
effort to advance the emerging movie entertainment genre. Having spent nearly a decade of his life as the
First Congregational Church in Lombard, Illinois, he became a national evangelist
for the psychological paradox he saw unfolding with the proliferation of technology
outpacing education of citizens sufficient to keep them fully informed of how
to consume media and messages. Having
seen how the technology of late 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup>
century religion had been effectively co-opted by business, politics, and civil
society, he campaigned against those who appealed to self-serving and “ignoble”
instincts to shape public behavior, belief, actions and thought. In the wake of the demagoguery that inflamed
the horrors of World War I, he knew that, “the crowd is a state of mind,” and
the capacity for masses to fixate on delusional ideology gave near omnipotence
to the “enemies of humanity”. In his
1920 essay <b><i>The Mob Mind vs. Civil Liberty</i></b>, Martin anticipated the
“pandemonium of propaganda” that was inevitable when technology afforded
greater access to ideology than to expansive and liberal education. It is with some irony that the motion picture
board to which he was appointed would one day help fulfill his greatest fears.</div>
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<i>“Certain crowd-movements in America
today give marked evidence of this unconscious motivation. Notice how both the
radical and reactionary elements behave when, as is frequently the case with
both, the crowd-spirit comes over them. Certain radicals, who are fascinated
with the idea of the Russian Revolution, are still proclaiming sentiments of
human brotherhood, peace, and freedom, while unconsciously they are doing just
what their enemies accuse them of-playing with the welcome ideas of violence,
class war, and proletarian dictatorship. <b>And conservative crowds, while ostensibly
defending American traditions and ideals against destructive foreign influence,
are with their own hands daily desecrating many of the finest things which
America has given to the world in its struggle of more than a century for
freedom and justice</b>. Members of each crowd, while blissfully unaware of the
incompatibility of their own motives and professions, have no illusions about
those of the counter-crowd. Each crowd sees in the professions of its
antagonist convincing proof of the insincerity and hypocrisy of the other side.
To the student of social philosophy both are right and both wrong. All
propaganda is lies, and every crowd is a deceiver, but its first and worst
deception is that of itself.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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This critique, written one hundred years ago today could be
republished in 2019 with no editing and be seen as the epitaph to the century
past.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Martin died in 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He didn’t live to see the immediate fulfillment of his worst fears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The V-2 rocket, the U-boat, signal
intelligence and encryption, broadcast propaganda all unleashed the inhumane
fury that he sought do desperately to warn humanity against.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When in response to the industrial
consequence of largely German propaganda-fueled innovation the Allies realized
that they had been bested, a more malignant propaganda economy was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unable to compete with superior ideas and
innovations for the most part (save the notable atomic initiative), the
industries of Allied economies in the 1940s were dictated by espionage-acquired
intercepts and salvaged technologies – not by the ingenuity of their engineers
and scientists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From 1945 – 1959, <i>Operation
Paperclip</i> (the collection of German engineers and scientists through overt
and covert operations) did more to fuel the second half of the twentieth
century than any other single action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While telling the story of technological supremacy to reinforce the “winning”
narrative dear to the US psyche, the nation was duped into believing that
Americans were dictating the industrial technology agenda rather than scaling
and appropriating the intellect of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We weren’t defining what America needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather, we were reflexively responding to evidence of the supremacy of “others”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, the modern computer was <b><i>not </i></b>born
of U.S. or British science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>British, US,
and Australian intelligence were driven to produce countermeasures to the
superior technology that Japanese and German cypher engineers and mathematicians
invented.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I spent the past few days in Boston and Silicon Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The frequency with which I was accosted with
the term made popular by Peter Drucker fifty years ago in his book <b><i>The
Age of Discontinuity</i></b> – the “Knowledge Economy” – was deafening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point, I snapped.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We don’t live in a Knowledge Economy,” I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We have been living in the <b><i>Propaganda
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The words barely escaped my lips before I realized that this
observation has been what I’ve spent the past three decades of my life
attempting to overcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflecting on
the dire prophecies of Everett Martin, recounting the socioeconomic adoration
of Peter Drucker, I realized that since the end of the Second World War, we’ve
abdicated “knowledge” for reflexive and compulsive enterprises which serve not
the benefit of humanity in the main but rather seek to satiate the unconsidered
consumption of incremental industrial output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are told what to fear (and desire) – morbidity, mortality, economic and
egoic existential ‘threats’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we’re told
what and how to consume antidotes for manufactured “needs”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re deluded into “choosing” among indecipherable
“alternatives” (Apple vs. Android; Prescription vs. Wholistic; Industrial vs.
Organic; Green vs. Polluting) while being ignorant to the ever-narrowing aperture
delimiting unconstrained innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have over 10 million patents on less than 50,000 products.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the proliferation of “information”
curated by advertiser-fueled “technologies” without considering the inherent
influence or bias that shapes the sanctioning of messages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And against this backdrop, we hear the
cacophony of hypnotic academicians, advisors, politicians, pundits, and
industrialists celebrating “knowledge”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I recently lectured in Palo Alto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The room was filled with the venture funded
experts at the “cutting edge” of technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For three hours I described the consequence of incremental vs.
fundamental innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In simple biologic,
physiologic and chemical terms, I described how they could integrate known,
established, science to make disruptive impacts in their respective areas of
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I spoke, several individuals
frantically sought to ‘google’ the concepts, terms, and research I was
referencing commenting on how none of them were ‘trained’ to think in the
wide-ranging scope of my talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From
photosynthesis to membrane oligomerization; from Particle Swarm mathematics to
lossless encryption; from genetics to social psychology…the range was extensive…and
entirely necessary and effective.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I think we need to rethink how we think,” was the comment
articulated by one of the participants in the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Nobody is thinking like this.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I hope you don’t think like me,” I responded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I just hope you think.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Walter Powell wrote that, “the key component of the knowledge
economy is a greater reliance on intellectual capabilities than on physical
inputs or natural resources,” in <b><i>The Annual Review of Sociology </i></b>in
2004.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1969, Drucker polarized labor
into those who work with their hands or the heads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And herein lies the fallacy upon which the
propaganda is built.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For “knowledge” to enable
an economy, it cannot be the curation of the observations and recitations of
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather it must be the synthesis
of cognitive acuity, analog practice, and a fundamental curiosity born not of
consumer expedience but rather from qualitative examination of conscious
existence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, if the ‘problem’
is what you’re ‘solving’ than you’re contributing to a Propaganda Economy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because in a genuine Knowledge Economy, we’re
arranging matter and energy to optimize existence – not “solving problems” born
of myopic perspective shaped by myths, mantras, and media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Returning to Everett Martin one more time – his genuine
admonition to work towards adult education which would outpace (and hold in
check) technological development is one that bears consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The notion that by our second decade we have
acquired all the “education” we need to function in society supports the crowd
thinking against which he unsuccessfully warned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s time that we enter into continuous education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And start it by turning off your computer, your
iPhone, or your electronic device and read something written before 1945.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See if you could learn a thing or two from knowledge
before it was so economically hijacked!<o:p></o:p></div>
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You probably never heard of Michael Servetus. That’s fine because he was a heretic and was
burned at the stake atop a pile of his own books – and green wood – under the
orders of John Calvin on October 27, 1553.
And thank god for that. Because
if you describe yourself as a “Christian” today, Calvin’s accommodation of
Catholic dogma kept doctrinal coherence to the “faith” that silly Michael
sought to hold accountable to its <i>own</i>
sacred texts. The notion that the statement
in John 1:14 – “…the Word <i>was made flesh</i>,
and dwelt among us…” implied that Jesus came <i>from </i>God and was therefore not a temporal co-equal in the illusion
of the Trinity was so dangerous that the <i>thinker
had to be executed</i>. Never mind the
fact he was the first physician to correctly understand the role of the heart,
blood and lungs in keeping the human body alive. Forget his contribution to astronomy by
calculating the occultation of Mars by the Moon. He questioned a 1,200-year-old dogmatic illusion. He must die!</div>
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Newton to Aristotle and Descartes; Galileo to Pope Urban
VIII; Copernicus to Ptolemy; Alexander Winton to horses and carriages; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what
is it about “belief” that is dependent on extermination of observation</i></b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one thing to hold oppositional
perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two observers of the same
fact, pattern, occurrence or phenomenon may process the “same” observation
differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This interaction can enrich
knowledge by the plurality of perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is in stark contrast to observation held in opposition to
unquestioned (or unquestionable) dogma, consensus inertia, or “belief”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from enriching knowledge, this begets an
existential crisis and provokes the impulse to exterminate the heretic.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Over the past 25 years, I’ve been immersed in the world of
intellectual property while living here in Charlottesville Virginia – home of
Thomas Jefferson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his letter in 1813
to Isaac McPherson, Jefferson <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">famously wrote of the patent system…:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">“Inventions then cannot, in nature,
be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits
arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce
utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience
of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody.”</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The pursuit of “ideas which may produce utility” was a laudable
aspiration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jefferson never imagined
a world in which German patent reparations taken by the U.S. at the end of
World War II under Operation Paperclip would be used in the Cold War in areas ranging
from rockets and missiles, to industrial chemicals, to medicine, to physics and
mathematics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never imagined “Jack”
Mullin would reverse engineer and appropriate (steal) the ferromagnetic tape (invented
by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen in 1898 and perfected by the Third Reich in
the late 1920s) upon which the digital revolution would be born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he certainly never imagined the collusion
that President Ronald Reagan would enable – under the direction of Gerald
Mossinghoff – between the patent granting process and industries desperate to obtain
more patents faster to counter the growing innovation “threat” from Japan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collusion is a strong word but let’s examine
the facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To lubricate the fabrication
of faux “invention”, Congress authorized the United States Patent and Trademark
Office to levy “user fees” which the Office would retain if it reduced the
pendency of patents and increased its issuance of claims of invention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he certainly would have been appalled by
1985 President’s Commission On Industrial Competitiveness which suggested that
Cold War deterrent by patent number (as opposed to quality) would be the
solution to a growing competition from Asia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Into Reagan’s world came the ecclesiastical council of Bronwyn
Hall, Adam Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg working <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sub rosa</i> with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While their work was far from a secret, their
bias was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drawing data from patents issued
between 1963 to 1999, they would become to innovation econometrics what Luther
and Calvin were to the Reformation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s
their opening assumptions that are both false and the basis for generalized
error.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">They recite that: 1) patents contain detailed information about “the
innovation itself”; 2) they are sought for a monopoly incentive; and, 3)
citations are a proxy for acclaim or “importance”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Referencing the 1981 NBER work of Jerry
Hausman, Bronwyn Hall and Zvi Griliches (though ignoring the uncomfortable weak
correlations between research and development and patenting activity that they
reported), these researchers instituted an econometric doctrine of “counting” patents
as an indicator of inventive or innovative effort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From that time until the present,
academicians and economists have been blinded to the numeric glaucoma of the
1950s (did the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. have more Germans?) that begot the
qualitative blindness rendered complete in 1981 (can we build a database to
justify our desire to “out-invent” Japan by patent numbers?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For a moment, consider the published work of Deepak Somaya from
the University of Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his 2012
paper in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journal of Management</i></b> entitled “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Patent Strategy and Management: An Integrative Review and Research
Agenda”</i>, he describes the motivations for patenting far afield from
Jefferson’s market compromise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And while
the mountain of evidence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and
the Patent Trial Appeals Board continues to grow showing that granted patents
are more often than not found to be in error when challenged, neither
academicians nor economists are willing to consider that the artifact of a
patent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does not represent “invention” or “innovation”.</i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The motivations of
firms in obtaining patents provide considerable insight into the potential
strategic uses of patents. Among the many reasons for patenting described in
prior work are blocking (defensive and offensive), preventing copying, building
fences and thickets, earning licensing income, avoiding litigation by others,
use in negotiation and exchange, motivating and rewarding R&D personnel, measuring
performance, attracting investors, and building image and reputation (Blind,
Edler, Frietsch, & Schmoch, 2006; Blind et al., 2009; Cohen et al., 2000;
Cohen, Goto, Nagata, Nelson, & Walsh, 2002; Duguet & Kabla, 1998).
Research has also shown that different firm-level strategic motives predict
characteristics of the firm’s patents as well as reactions from rival firms to
these patents (e.g., filing oppositions) (Blind et al., 2009).”</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Where is the consideration of patents representing laborious
inquiry, genius, and invention?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tragically, nowhere to be found!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
much for assumptions 1 & 2 of the catechism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not surprisingly, the third assumption that
suggests that “citation” means you’ve been celebrated for your contribution is
an error of academicians who seek tenure rather than reading patent law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the ivory towers of academic research,
citation means someone recognizes you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In contrast, in the world of patents, citation means that you are rendered
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">irrelevant </i>or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">surpassed</i> by the “state-of-the-art”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each citation <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">removes an option</i></b> by a
determination of “patentable distinction”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The more cited a patent is, the more its range of market control options
are limited!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This isn’t tenure, it’s competitive market
restriction!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is worth noting that, in
academic research, being cited doesn’t necessarily mean you’re being
celebrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good research includes the
challenging of previous work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But don’t
tell citation counters that unfortunate detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To be found – in their univariate world – is to be celebrated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not true in science; definitely not the case
in patents.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And herein lies the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To get funded research in the field of econometrics around innovation,
one seems to be compelled to turn a blind eye towards the dubious selective
relevance of NBER data; the fallacious conclusions drawn from the work of
researchers who themselves didn’t check their assumptions; and, rationalize
data to ignore the ground truth that, since 1981, patenting has been more about
the mutual assured destruction doctrine built on missile silos of expensive
litigation and costs of enforcement rather than on genuine innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder that Apple and Samsung were
fighting over who “invented” the rectangle and who controls the movement of
fingers across a screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah, poor Thomas
Jefferson!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Around 80 AD, the Roman poet Martial may have coined the
term “plagiarius” to describe the seduction and expropriation of things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 17<sup>th</sup> century, the term
became more explicitly part of literary parlance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in 1993, IBM started developing machine
intelligence to detect plagiarism in text and code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not surprisingly, the cunning use of thesaurus
and word substitution became inextricably part and parcel of patent filers in
the 1980s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more convoluted the term “could”
be, the more interpretation might be afforded to what wasn’t actually
invented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The courts concluded that a
patent applicant could be “their own lexicographer” meaning that “meaning” didn’t
“mean” what it “meant”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Against that
backdrop – to say nothing of the profit motives for granting and maintaining a
plethora of “strategic” patents in the US, Europe and Asia – is it any wonder
that we’re awash in patents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s see:
if a printer was paid to print counterfeit $20 bills, might he print many?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So too, a patent office paid to issue and
receive maintenance fees for the preservation of prolific (and dubious) patents
may have an incentive to, that’s right, issue patents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Precisely what they’ve been doing for four
decades.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But are we prepared to measure quality rather than quantity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well so far, no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While industry left the Constitutional intent
of patenting activity nearly 40 years ago by turning patents into competitive
deterrents rather than celebrations of ground-breaking invention, compliant
researchers found the existence of a data artifact in the form of patents to be
the only thing that was countable so, guess what, they counted them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2001, when I first applied machine
intelligence to the question of plagiarism in patents and reported in
Congressional testimony that up to 1/3 were possibly at risk of being merely
the product of thesaurus linguistics, did anyone take notice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Commerce Secretary Donald Evans began
the drumbeat of Chinese IP theft while ignoring the rampant domestic evidence
of innovation expropriation among competitors and within institutions (HP v
Compaq; DuPont v Monsanto; Columbia University and its transgenic mouse; etc),
did anyone ask if China was merely taking to scale abuses that were alive, well,
and celebrated in the U.S. and Europe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are
any market participants aware of the looming threat of machine intelligence applied
to patents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the simple reason that we’re still blindly reciting a counting game
while the rest of the world calls the U.S. and European bluff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh, and for the record, the Chinese aren’t “inventing”
much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re largely building jurisdictional
thickets around the hedges that G-20 countries manicured for years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2013, M·CAM started running an equity fund that measured
the difference between companies that come up with new ideas and companies that
merely expropriate the ideas of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
did this to prove the consequence of measuring what others ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2015, that effort gave rise to the
creation of the CNBC IQ100 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">powered by M·CAM.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During its publication period, the index
out-performed the S&P500 around which it was inspired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, we publish three indexes – Innovation <span style="font-family: "symbol";">a</span><sup>®</sup> United States (formerly the CNBC
IQ100), Innovation <span style="font-family: "symbol";">a</span><sup>®</sup> Global,
and the Martin Global Innovation Equity Trade War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These indexes are based on a very simple premise:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if one genuinely contributes to ideas
that build market opportunities, it is reasonable to expect that entity to ultimately
perform better than those who merely copy the work of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, as long as the Cold War mentality of
patent counting prevails, I suspect our performance will be rewarded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, if the smartest people in the room
aren’t willing to ask the tough questions on the quality of that which they
count, does counting count?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Which brings me back to the charred remains of our
heretic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tragically, Michael asked the “wrong”
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the sacred text says, “In
the beginning,” he puzzled, “doesn’t that mean ‘beginning’”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if in the beginning was the Word, and
then the Word was made flesh, doesn’t that imply sequence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if there’s sequence, doesn’t that mean
that the flesh and blood came after the Origin?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alternatively, is the text misreporting the facts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Servetus wasn’t demanding his position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was just saying that you can’t hold
literal infallibility of text and the doctrine of the Trinity with
credibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pick a story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stick with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great surge of our innovation policy was
born of the Cold War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Numeric deterrents
mattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t mind if we, as a
society, decide to redefine patents from being temporary market incentives for
genuine contributions to science and the useful arts (sorry for quoting the
Constitution there) to being mine-fields of deterrents to disrupt those who would
challenge incumbencies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I care about
is that we pick a story and stick with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When the consensus illusion stands in the way of explicit observations,
I’ve got a problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with the
emergence of “trade wars” justified by IP theft, there’s a lot <i>burning</i> at stake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Yes, I couldn’t miss the pun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d say “I’m sorry” but I’d have to be my own
lexicographer because I wouldn’t really mean “sorry”.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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David Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01775270821108542258noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6278115441557880568.post-47386345447911451092019-05-05T10:55:00.000-07:002019-05-05T10:55:07.335-07:00Optics of “Truth” – From Constantine to Einstein to FINRA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One hundred years ago this month, a group of astronomers
commenced their observational engineering in Sobral, Brazil to prepare for the
Total Eclipse of the Sun of May 29, 1919.
Sir F.W. Dyson, FRS, Professor A.S. Eddington, FRS, and Mr. C. Davidson were
intent on measuring the “Deflection of Light by the Sun’s Gravitational Field”
in an effort to confirm Professor Einstein’s 1911 General Principle of
Equivalence which would alter Newton’s “Law” of gravitation. Enlisting astronomers, scholars, politicians,
and clergy from three countries, their results, published in November of 1919,
solidified the public’s canonization of Einstein and his world view.</div>
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Sixteen hundred ninety-four years ago on May 20, Emperor
Constantine convened the ecumenical Council of Nicaea to resolve the official
story of what would become “Christianity”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a gathering of astronomers, scholars, politicians, and clergy from three countries, he sought to quash deviant narratives that would call into question
any version of “truth” other than his approved version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the Council’s task was to resolve the
three hundred-year-old questions of which version of accounts of the teachings
of Jesus and the commentary of Apostles (notably Paul who ironically had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no</i> knowledge of Jesus or his teachings
from experience) would be accepted and which were heresy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7DtNdtyLgoLRVTrE-50x7votWhy-HEWVjF4SAEN97FJO2TbAZ1Rsuk4sML_lKDqooX7W382CTKjYKbqDWQ58SlOeAKmLJGP5wSH0RCf4-ZovH9BEHCOF_bet5-x97DZPqZrHBUfJVxc/s1600/6ViewLight.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="637" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7DtNdtyLgoLRVTrE-50x7votWhy-HEWVjF4SAEN97FJO2TbAZ1Rsuk4sML_lKDqooX7W382CTKjYKbqDWQ58SlOeAKmLJGP5wSH0RCf4-ZovH9BEHCOF_bet5-x97DZPqZrHBUfJVxc/s200/6ViewLight.png" width="200" /></a>Between May 20 and May 29, 2019 I’m engaging in an effort to
shed light on an equally occult collection dogmatic beliefs – money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as I’m wont to do, I like to learn from
successful propaganda campaigns throughout time to see how perspective is codified
as “truth”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m fortunate to have been born in a family that included an
astronomer (my father) and a linguist (my mother).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I can claim no expertise approximating
either of their life-long learnings, my osmosis exposure to their worlds fueled
my inquisition of the two seminal May events listed above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without the former, we would not have our current
scientific framework and without the latter, we’d have one less reason to separate
ourselves from each other based on cosmological and metaphysical dogma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ironically, both involved the quadrangulation
of men of astronomical, political, scholarly, and ecclesiastical persuasion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While I won’t do justice to the meticulous records of both
events (which I commend to your reading), I found interesting resonance in
these two events.</div>
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<li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>A
priori</u></i><u> Singular Assumption Supremacy</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the solar eclipse experiment, scientists
postulated that during a total eclipse of the sun, the visible light from stars
near the sun would deviate in its path in a manner that would be perceptibly different
from the same light from the same stars without the solar mass influencing its
passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By observing the photographic plates of the exact same stars without the eclipsed sun and those same stars during
the eclipse, deviation of light in the X-Y coordinates “should” be
quantifiable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Council’s case, the
assumption was that hand-scribed copies of texts over a three-hundred-year
period across at least three language translations would contain an inerrant
consistency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gathered scholars would
be able, when assembled, to confirm truth by comparing all variations and
settling on the negotiated deviation which would constitute the “authentic”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In both cases affording one variable the
capacity to arbitrate all other considered and unconsidered postulates, extrapolated
consequence hung on a single argument.</li>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u>Dismissal of Dissent</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Considerable treatment is given to the optics
of the telescopes and lenses used in the solar experiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the nature of mirrors to the precision
of lenses to the photographic plates, going into the observation, the
scientists knew that their instruments would produce error.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Oxford and Principe observations demonstrated
inconsistencies in the lead up to the eclipse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Further, while care was taken to consider meteorological conditions, variations
for atmospheric differences in the upper atmosphere were unconsidered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never mind, the assumption was that, on the
day, the standard deviation of the reference would be treated as static and serve
as the basis for comparison of true deviation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Similarly at Nicaea, the known error was the notion of a unitarian divinity
(the notion that the Father and Son are co-equal in all respects).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Arian Controversy had caused a power dispute
between Alexandria and Constantinople and (I know this is going to come as a surprise)
the Roman emperor wanted his perspective to prevail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the triune nature of the godhead became
the lens through which everything was filtered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh, and if you didn’t agree, no worries, your perspective was considered….
Oh, no, you were banished and labeled heretic, excommunicated or subject to the
sword.</li>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u>Selectively Objective</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going into the solar observation, 13
candidate stars were selected for their photographic magnitude (the sufficiency
of light to expose to plates) and their proximity to the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great lengths were taken to explain the
rationale for only 7 (61%) being used to confirm the study findings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the records of the Council of Nicaea
are a bit clouded on the point, it appears that about 78% of the candidate “books
of the Bible” (which were not officially concluded in the “canon” until the
Council of Rome in 382) were considered as definitive while the remaining set
that didn’t substantiate the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a priori </i>doctrine
were excluded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><i>In short, in both cases,
only that light which confirmed the hypothesis was considered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the rest was rejected</i></b>.</li>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><u>Infallibility of Consequence</u>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the findings of the light experiment were
published in November of 1919, the consequence was the effective elevation of Einstein to detriment of Newton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
the Council of Nicaea arrived at the outcome that was pre-ordained by its convening
monarch, Rome and Constantinople were elevated and the Arians were excommunicated.</li>
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It was with great interest that I performed a few
calculations on the Principe 4” lens plates – the ones that “proved” Einstein’s
theory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One would consider that, if the
gravitational effect of the sun was to deflect light, that deflection would be equally
altered by: 1) proximity of the sun to the starlight; and, 2) the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">x-y</i> coordinate shift observed in both
right ascension (“longitude”) and declination (“latitude”).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, the calculated deflection (based
on Einstein’s theory) and the observed deflection don’t meet either of these presumptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The correlation between solar distance and
the observed change in right ascension is 0.4 while the effect in declination
is 0.36.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, even in the
instances of the selected objective, the “effect” wasn’t the reported
effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similarly, when one considers
only the over<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5,000 Greek, 10,000 Latin,
and over 9,000 other texts of the canon from 382 until Erasmus’ work in the
early 16<sup>th</sup> century including parchments, fragments, and other copies
reproduced by scribes who may or may not have had any experience with the
images of the letters they were copying, the textual agreement is somewhere
around 40% as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This statistic is derived
from a simple compound error calculation between literal translation precision,
penmanship and reproductive accuracy, to say nothing for the disputed content
between the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus which were resolved based on
dogma – not literal archaeological evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ironically “error” exceeds “consistency” in each of these examples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the masses are told of “truth” and “laws”,
it is heresy to review the inherent error in the “ground truth.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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So whether, on this Sunday, you venerate a divine composite
of mysteries, metaphors, myths, and messiahs or whether you are so “enlightened”
as to venerate mathematics, mechanics, metrics, and measurable, our collective
paradox is that the assumptions upon which both stand are exactly that –
assumptions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For the last four weeks, I’ve been in communications with
the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) about what is and is not
authorized in communications regarding some of our commercial business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those unfamiliar with FINRA, their job is
to insure that investors receive fair and complete information upon which to
make decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FINRA has copious rules upon
which they opine to attempt to certify compliance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, FINRA never has had to deal with a
business like ours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have done a
number of novel things – quantifying the effect of intangible assets (things
that are not recorded on corporate balance sheets) for banks, businesses,
governments and investors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it turns
out that while we have measured many things with a precision not afforded by
any other metric, FINRA only has room in its world for things that “fit” their
template.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their effort to achieve “compliance”,
they have mandated that we alter or eliminate historical material to make our
presence less disruptive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s right,
FINRA has explicitly sought to manipulate full, complete, and accurate information
rather than adjusting their optics to account for something that challenges the
consensus hypothesis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s worse, with
a recently completed business partnership with another not-for-profit
government recognized organization, we’ve been advised that we may not be able
to report the nature and substance of a reality that the whole world will be
able to see on a daily basis and associate it to investors’ decision-making
information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In short, FINRA’s actions – like those of Constantine, Erasmus,
James I, Eddington, Dyson and Davidson – evidence the operating definition of “truth”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They define it simply as that which <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">confirms
catechisms held by controlling consensus</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it preserves ideology and the hierarchy
dependent on manipulating the masses, it’s “true”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it challenges this status quo and disrupts
occult power and influence, it’s heresy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So what can we learn from the 4 Propaganda Pillars?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, the answer is simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Start by questioning ALL assumptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it likely that a deity would insist on the
penmanship of scribes across three languages and two millennia to convey an oral
wisdom and lived experience?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it
likely that an geocentric observation which takes into account none of the
earth’s magnetic, meteorologic, or other effects to say nothing of the unknown
kinetics in multiple dimensions that may describe light emitters both near and
far forms a universal “law”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it
likely that a government agency under the thumb of financial interests will
want independent data that competes with incumbent interests represented as
true, fair, and balanced?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, encourage dissent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Welcome those who innocently inquire together
with those in vehement opposition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Encourage
each party to come to the table with their own insights and welcome discord
that remains unresolved yet respectful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Third, acknowledge subjectivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the case of our business, we explicitly publish our methodology and
approach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re not saying it’s “right”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re simply stating our perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in our case, we’re applying that
perspective to information that is public but is unused by financial institutions
and regulators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we’re even telling
people where and how to look at something that is not commonly seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And finally, engage with arrogant
humility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I mean by this is simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What we do represents decades of research and
scholarship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The perspective we have is
based on ample consideration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore,
the views we share with the world are correctly OUR VIEW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That DOESN’T MAKE IT RIGHT!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just makes it us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who knows?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With an
approach that doesn’t require swords, cruelty, division, and harm, maybe we can
form a more profitable union!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eighteen years ago today, I was sitting at a much larger
computer terminal on New Year’s Eve frantically corresponding with a Managing
Director at Banc of America Securities in Palo Alto, California. Three hours behind me, it mattered little to
him that the first New Years of the new millennium would be spent with me negotiating
a credit agreement to provide capital to my company to cover the bank’s own
reneging on its capital and business commitment weeks earlier. After all, my midnight would pass and he’d
still have three hours before the champagne corks would be launched. And on that night, I made a promise. For as long as I ran M·CAM, my last act on
the last day of each year would be to write an homage of gratitude to those
who, in the preceding year, had made my year wonderful. I think of this the Incarnation of Gratitude
Litany.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As if to test my resolve, my morning this morning included an
invitation to be lured back to the table of re-trading against myself and my
values. The difference between now and
18 years ago is a simple one. It came in
my understanding of a moral riddle given to me in the Golden Pagoda (<i>Kinkaku-ji</i>) in Kyoto long ago. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Impassioned to convey sage wisdom into my life, an aged monk
grabbed onto my coat and motioned for me to sit beside him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Turn the bamboo for your omikuji,” he said handing me a
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I rolled the bamboo and, after a few seconds, turned it to
one side allowing a strand of wood to slip out of the hole. On the strip was a series of kanji
characters. Handing it to the monk, I
watched as he took it and melted into an expression of sheer amazement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Ah, this omikuji hasn’t been drawn before. It is very special,” he said as he shuffled
over to a wall of tiny cubby holes each containing a miniature scroll. “We’ve heard about this scroll but I’ve never
seen it. You must listen very carefully as
what I have to tell you is very important.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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A great hunter always provided food for his village. When he would enter the forest, he would find
deer, rabbits or birds, shoot them with his arrows or catch them in his snares
and bring them back to the village so that all were provisioned. In the forest, there was a line. Before that line, hunting big game was appropriate
as it could be carried back to the village without any concern of
exhaustion. Beyond the line, the hunter
should only pursue small game as dragging a deer back would require too much effort
and, as such, neither he nor the village would benefit. He and his village thrived. Then one day, he went into the forest to
hunt. Deep in the forest, he had seen
nothing. No tracks in the snow; no hide,
hair, or feather. And then, standing on
the line of demarcation he saw them: a deer and a rabbit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You know what to do,” the monk exclaimed. “You’re the great hunter.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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2018 taught me that I misunderstood hunting as a
pursuit. The reason for my struggle with
the omikuji was up until this year, I thought that the hunter had the next
move. His wit, his cunning, his aim, his
strength. But what I learned in 2018 was
that the deer and the rabbit were not prey.
They were not provision. They
were seduction into the reflexive illusion of “choice”. Was the hunter going to be trapped into
expending every last bit of energy to haul the deer back? Was the hunter going to start collecting
rabbits and birds for their portability?
Was the hunter going to be wise enough to invite either the deer or the
rabbit (and any other woodland creature, for that matter) to follow him back to
the village? Was the hunter wise enough
to turn away from the hunt and teach the village to become self-sufficient? Was the hunter thoughtful enough to realize
that he wasn’t provisioning but rather enabling dependency?<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, in keeping with my year end tradition, I honor and
celebrate my dear friends Bob Kendall and Amanda Gore who stood with me once
more as steadfast, intrepid allies in my mission. I honor Cody Lloyd for giving me a father’s joy
on January 15 of this year when he sent me a letter I will cherish for the rest
of my life in which he informed me of his abiding love and passion for my daughter
Katie. I honor my son Zachary for his
embrace of living that involved joining the team at M·CAM. I honor Nicolas Wales for his relentless pace climbing actual and metaphoric hills and inspiring the same in me. I honor Dex Wheeler, Pam Cole and Dylan
Korelich who struggled mightily across the year to help the entire team at M·CAM
thrive and achieve unimaginable successes.
I honor community that has formed around the Breathing Enterprise’s Gatherings
and the persistent value of family that they have manifest in my life. I honor my beautiful wife Kim for her
persistent, generative passion. But in
this end of 2018, I will, for the first time honor one more person. Someone who has never featured in any of my
gratitude posts over nearly 20 years. As
the sun sets on 2018, I honor my resolute passion to be the very best of
humanity! I honor my unflagging generosity
and loyalty. In short, I honor me. I’m grateful to finally sit, puzzle solved,
and watch the deer and the rabbit make THEIR next move.<o:p></o:p></div>
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