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Faraday bags in the age of covid

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The Age of Covid has spawned a number of new items for the thinking man. Many of them are now aware of the real possibility of a systemic collapse staring us in the face in near time.

This group includes people who have taken the covid vaccine, as well as those that have not taken it and refuse to take it even if they lose their jobs and are willing to go to prison instead of take an injection into their body against their will. Both these groups now understand that a collapse is round the corner.

People who came to this realisation and wish to protect themselves, not from covid, but from this impending collapse, are beginning to get organised in small groups, away from the limelight.

These people are forming localised survival cells. I have been invited to three such cell meetings within driving distance from my home. They congregate once a week and not necessarily on weekends. I found it a bit difficult to attend three different cell meetings each week so have dropped one and am still attending two. Each group comprises of different people. Some are primarily elder ly people, mostly white local Canadians and immigrants from Europe or Australia, myself being a sort of exception.

Other groups are mostly younger, totally mixed, ethnically, culturally, linguistically and on religious affiliation or agnosticism. Here too I am sort of an exception, being 71+ in age.

All these groups want me to join and help them teach a few essential skills that they believe I have developed over the years – i.e. how to grow food, how to sprout food, and how to preserve perishable food without refrigeration.

These survival cells share a lot of important skills available to the members. I might be able to access a doctor who would visit me if needed under this systemic collapse where hospitals might close door or refuse service to the those without a vaccine passport. Some might be able to repair your car or the roof of your house, free of charge, when money no more has any value and normal day to day activities become very difficult to conduct.

One thing that has emerge among the byproducts in this age of covid – is a Faraday bag. This is a container, either metallic but more commonly of fabric, which is sprayed or woven with silver, gold or copper and will block all electromagnetic signals either entering or leaving it. It comes in all shapes and sizes, but the most popular one is where it is large enough for your hand phone and small enough to still fit in your pocket or you hand bag. We attend these meetings with the phone in such a bag, if we cannot leave it back home.

Why ? So that google or any surveillance app in the phone cannot silently track our movement or record out talks. This is part of the same protection system which prevents the folks from disclosing existence of identity of the cells or their members.

Neighbours will do you in

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It was the day before yesterday, on the 14th of December, that I decided to put on record my view that – under the covid based mass hypnosis, hysteria and mortal fear, the public is being programmed, incrementally, to hate us, the unvaccinated, so much, that the day is coming soon when the government will not have to send their police to grab us – out neighbours will beat us to death or burn us out of our homes.

This is the nightmare that faces us, in Canada and everywhere. But this will not happen everywhere at the same time. Some people will be influenced by propaganda sooner than others. In these countries and regions, the doomsday will arrive earlier. In other nations, later. But the ultimate destination remains the same, for everybody.

Unfortunately, in my assessment, this witch hunt against the few remaining skeptics of the official narrative, will be the first, but not the last target of public cruelty against its own people, even the very people that are risking their lives to protect what remains of their society, their democracy and the freedom of people. These vaccine skeptics are merely the first group, who appear to be a minor inconvenience in the path of global control of public opinion. I see this coming.

But ultimately, the global human society is being subverted to live under a single group of dictators, under which all national governments will function as collaborating local warlords.

In many ways, the current thin sliver of population, perhaps one in every thousand, all across the world, face a future a thousand fold more stark and cruel than what the Jews faced  in the 1930s and 40’s while Germany was under the However, this time around, extermination of the vaccine skeptics is not the final solution, but merely a tiny initial step to an unprecedentedly hazardous journey. The end result remains unpredictable, but extremely threatening, with no resemblance to anything anywhere on earth.

 

My video on Rumble, explaining my prediction

So, here are a small faction of the society, the tiny minority, that refuse to follow the order about covid and especially its voluntary vaccine. The vaccine itself is voluntary, meaning we have legal rights to either agree to take this injection, or decline to take it. Also, voluntary means that we assume all the risk if we are damaged by the vaccine or otherwise inconvenienced, or if we find that the vaccine does not give us the protection from infection that we thought it should. We cannot sue the vaccine maker, the doctor or nurse, the healthcare system or our governments for any damage or hardship we might face as a consequence of having taken the vaccine. Our relatives will not have the right to seek legal compensation should we die through adverse reaction of any of these injections. Why not” Because we voluntarily agreed to take the shot without an coercion, assuming full responsibility of any consequence. Strangely, or perhaps predictably, this voluntary vaccine has not been made indirectly mandatory. You either agree to take the injection at your own rick, or you will be prevented from leading a normal life. You shall be restricted, barred, prevented from moving freely, congregating with other people, and essentially be jailed in your own home for the rest of your life.

To cap it off, I now see how the rest f the population, including our neighbours – the same people I shared by neighbourhood with for the last twenty years, are being programmed to hate us because we have not been vaccinated. They are being taught to believe that we are endangering their lives and the lives of their children, pushing them into the danger of getting covid, although they are themselves vaccinated, simply because we refuse to do so.

I see a future where our neighbours will not just hate us, but will actually engage in driving us out of our homes and off our neighbourhood, by beating us, burning our homes, or even shooting us dead if need be, in a frenzy of public killing, because we are perceived to be a threat to our neighbours for refusing to vaccinate ourselves.

We are slated to become Jesus Christ, or Joan of Arc, because of our beliefs and the drummed up notion that our reasoning and decision on covid vaccine based on our judgment. More importantly, we must be killed because we are offering to show the light, and the truth, to what we think are misguided good people under influence of powerful shadow groups that have taken control of all avenues of communication and got an iron grip on manufacturing and guiding of public opinion.

I hope my perception is wrong, and that people will learn to love instead of hate each other, that people will stop destroying society from within. However, if I am right, I prefer to place my views on record. In case I too am martyred, at least my words might survive this new age holocaust.

However, I am also convinced that extermination or silencing of dissent about the vaccine is by no means the final solution – but merely the first tentative step towards an end that as way more frightening than Dante’s inferno.

I have described by views on the video as attached. But I intend to write it here as well …so wait till my blog is completed. ….

Meanwhile you are free to leave your comments below. I understand this is a controversial topic and many may hate me for jotting these words down. However, truth as I see it from my perspective is what I am writing about, as long as that part of the free speech is not yet muzzled.

Visionary naturopath cures 60,000 covid patients without charge in India

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I have said it before and will say it here again – India is showing various paths out of this covid induced engineered nightmare that is without a parallel anywhere else on earth. And yet, this story is largely unknown in the west, and even among the westernised Indian diaspora, in India and abroad, who are still glued to controlled media, lying politicians, and state propaganda.
Clearly, there is a crying need for the rest of the world, to learn from India how you can fight off covid without the need to call 911 and how you can be a much better doctor for your own health than all the certified professionals that seem to keep you buried under a mountain of never ending medicines, procedures and vaccines.
Dr. Biswaroop Roychoudhury is an engineer and a naturopathic nutritionist with a doctorate in diabetes. He has established online course for ordinary people to be trained to treat covid and many other ailments naturopathically. His army of thus trained paramedics have gone out and treated over 60,000 covid patients, curing all of them without fail, without medication and without charge. Show me another country that has anything comparable.
In this 27 minute interview, Dr. Roychoudhury shows how you too can be a covid expert doctor for yourself, reject the injection pushing medical mafia and our governments that have gone into a nexus with this mafia and turned rogue to destroy human society as we knew it till 2019.
His web site is the source for all the topics described by Dr. Roychoudhury including the free book that you can read to teach yourself how you can be your own doctor against covid.
 
Sub-link for the books: https://biswaroop.com/free_e_book/

Hummingbirds from my window

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I distinctly remember when I first saw a hummingbird outside of a zoo. I was in Jamaica, visiting on a freighter ship where I worked as an engineer. I could barely distinguish it’s details since it was so small and fidgety, moving from flower to flower at the entrance to someone’s house. I had known about them, but was not expecting them, when a local resident pointed it out to me. It was gone in a few seconds, suddenly shooting off like a bullet. I so wished it had stuck around for a little longer. Those days, I only had an instamatic point and shoot camera, not suited to take pictures of birds that small under it was sitting on your hand. The the experience of seeing it for the first time, never left me.

I had of course seen a somewhat similar bird of my own birthplace – the old world sunbirds. They are perhaps not directly and closely related to the new world hummingbirds, but the old world sunbirds, flowerpeckers and spider hunters sort of evolved to similar shape and size in a process known as convergent evolution. Distantly related creatures, when adapting to identical lifestyle, often evolves to similar shape and size. This is how whales, dolphins and porpoises, which are mammals and were once four legged land dwellers, begin to look like fish, which internally some of them still hold the bones of vestigial hind legs, while for some others the legs have turned into flippers or paddles.

In my home state, West Bengal of India, the sunbirds were called Moutushi (মৌটুসি). Like hummingbirds, it makes tiny nests hardly four inches or so wide, and lays marble sized tiny eggs and raises a few chicks. But unlike the hummingbirds with their straight beak, the sunbirds usually have a downward curved beak. The sunbirds are, on average, just a tad larger than the hummingbirds, and although expert flyers and some have been noted to hover motionless in the air while drinking flower nectars, they usually will perch while doing so, whereas hummingbirds at the ultimate flyers in aerial acrobatics. They can not only hover motionless in the air, but can fly vertically up, or down. They can fly sideways left or right, and even backward – something that no other bird, or even man made helicopters can do as of today.

 

Hummingbirds are birds of the Americas, found from Alaska down to Tierra Del Fuego. But their greatest concentration and variety are to be found in the tropical belt in south America.

Here in British Columbia, Canada, I have seen only two kinds of hummingbirds. One is more prominent and found more often than the other. This is a migratory species – the Rufous Hummingbird. It lives south of the border in USA, but ventures up north into Canada in the summer, feeds on the local flowers, makes nests, lays eggs and raises young, before heading back south for the colder months.

The other, is the only resident hummingbird of the land – Anna’s hummingbird. They are similar is size and appearance and are greenish on their back with iridescent colouring and beautiful georgette on the throats of the males. People can and do mix one up with the other. But the best way to distinguish one from the other is that the Rufous usually has brick coloured feathers on its sides while the Anna’s has no rufous colour anywhere on it, and the male has some white around the eyes.

I see a rufous hummingbird perhaps five or six times as often as I see an Anna’s. They come to our backyard, not just for the flowers or the feeders, but also for the insects. Hummingbirds, as well as sunbirds and their relative the spider hunters – will take flying insects too.

This year, out backyard is being visited by both kinds of hummingbirds and often. And some of the males are still chasing partners. And thus, I could see a glorious male looking around for a female and advertising itself on a thin branch of my plum tree. On occasion, I even got the pair, male and female on the same branch.

Contrary to the normal angle of observation, where the photographer is on the ground and the bird is above him, here the roles were reversed. I was at my window on the top floor, say the 3rd floor above ground. The bird was on a branch a floor below me, and I was watching it almost vertically down.

Also, I was wearing a baseball cap with a bit of a red marking on it in front. On occasion, the female, which was constantly moving around searching out the flowers and the feeders, and drinking from them occasionally, came close to check if that red thing on my cap was a flower. It would come to almost a food from me, while I was leaning out of the window, and hover there, intently watching that mark on my cap, before deciding it was not a flower. It would be still and hover for a second or two before flying off. It was too close for me to focus on it and take a picture, since I had a long lens on me which would not focus on anything close.

But, on the other hand, I got some great shots including normal and slow speed videos of the birds.

 

In a way, my day was made.

The Wuhan Lab

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The Wuhan Lab
A book by Jesse Morrell

I received a note from a scientist friend from USA, who got it from Dr Jean Claude Perez biomathematician, collaborator of Prof. Montagnier, Nobel laureate of medecine who discovered the HIV. The author provided the PDF copy of the book to these people, for circulation. Apparently, it was reportedly available on Amazon, but was eventually banned and removed by them. Therefore, the author sent the PDF copy to the scientists for free circulation among interested people. As with all of this kind of information, they urge everyone to read partially but always good to be more informed.

In the 700 page book, the authors listed 36 reasons why the best explanation is a laboratory origin for the pandemic. One of those reasons, which may be a major reason, is the HIV inserts.

Since it has been banned on Amazon, the author wishes to have it shared free with anyone you think might be interested.

I got a PDF copy of the book for circulation. zit has been upload it here for free download by anybody, and will share the link.

Let it be said, that according to me, the origin of the virus, while significant, does not take away the fact that it is still a relatively  lame virus not too different than seasonal flu of other years, and something to be mortally afraid about. This manufactured fear is being used it to subvert planetary governance an freedom. My focus remains on that.

A word of caution received by the US scientists about this book :

A reminder to search for the truth and weigh the evidence with an open mind.  It is a serious situation when the world economy is shredded and many lives lost unnecessarily.  Treason might be involved in the politics.

 

Link to the pdf file, to read or to download

 

 

Bernie Sanders, the teflon candidate

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I used to be, four, five years ago, a Bernie fan. I stopped after being offended by his capitulation to Hillary. Then I began to see tell tale signs of his character, and eventually came to my own conclusion, that Bernie is a teflon candidate, who will attempt to wriggle out of every challenge by greasing his comments and behaviour. He is not genuine.

I am fully aware that most of the so called liberal, progressive and left of centre folks support the Democratic Party and also Bernie Sanders. Even Donald Trump himself seems to lament how the establishment Democrats are working to kill Bernie’s nomination unfairly.

So, writing a critic of Bernie was not going to be popular. Nonetheless, I post what is my analysis – and not post what is popular. For the same reason, me blaming todays false liberals (pseudo-liberal is a good adjective) has not been a popular move. I have lost some fair weather friends through a process of polarisation. That too is part of life, I understand.

But I am a thinking person and not a rubber stamp. I am not here to get popular, since I do not aim to live off other people’s hard work, like most politicians do including Bernie Sanders.

Like Jim Hightower wrote – swim against the current. Even dead fish can go with the flow. And I am not a dead fish, with all due respect to the fish family. They are successful animals, cold blooded, and can be of various skeletal types – jawless, cartilaginous or bony fishes, most of whom sleep with eyes open as most lack eyelids.

But, back to Hightower, I am not a dead fish, and I do post my views and support them with the logic that bolsters my views, which are always flexible and will change if better information or introspection turns me to another direction.

The term “teflon politician” is not my invention. It has been around, and is lately being attached to Bernie. I find the term usable here, so am borrowing it.

A friend who was a Bernie supporter has recently said on social media, that the reason Bernie ended up supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 election was that going against Hillary and in favour of Trump would have been political suicide.

Well, well – that comment started a chain of thoughts in my mind. I contemplated it over the next several hours, went to sleep on it, and while preparing some free range Cornish hen carcass along with some root vegetables for my wife to cook into a stew, I thought about it some more, and decided I should come out with a post about Bernie being a teflon politician that would not be good for USA. He would be popular among the lefties, just like Obama was. But he would be just as disastrous for USA and the world.

Political suicide ?

Bernie is supposed to have avoided this political suicide, by not going against Hillary and for Trump. If this is true, then, in my thinking – Bernie would even support the very devil, just to keep his political future alive. USA can go to hell.

But hang on. Bernie did not need to support Trump. He could stand as an independent candidate and worked to splinter the Democratic Party as well as Hillary by taking voters away from them. Even if that resulted in Trump winning, it would have likely forced the Democrats to clean up their act and stop rigging the convention.

Most importantly, Bernie stabbed his own support base and voters, by supporting Hillary Clinton. This to me proves, voters are a mere temporary necessity for Bernie. He is essentially here for himself, and not for the voters and nor for the nation.

Consider in contrast – the case of Tulsi Gabbard. She resigned her high ranking chair in the Democratic Party early on, in order to support Bernie Sanders and go against the nomination of Hillary Clinton. She committed the same “political suicide” that my friend was talking about. Contrary to Bernie, Tulsi was willing to face potential political suicide, in order to support what she felt was the best for the nation.

See the contrast? Well, I do not suppose people would see the contrast, because many folks have hard wired views and would ignore evidence that do not tally with those views.

His rubbish comments about Russia is an exasperating example of how he has been, or became, a teflon politician. His duplicity with regard to Russia meddling in US elections is beyond dishonest. USA has a million times more funds and arsenals to interfere in other nations elections. USA has a million fold more solid examples of not only interfering, but actually toppling legitimate elected governments in endless list of countries. Post Soviet Russia has done none of that, and Bernie Sanders, the two faced liar – gives in to the propaganda, and blasts Russia – just to steal your vote.

If he had an ounce of honesty, he should have pledged that, as a president, he would stop once and for all, any and all US meddling in other nations elections, governments and policies. I am flabbergasted that Bernie Sanders fans fall for this kind of dishonest double talk.

Bernie Sanders voted in the senate, to uphold the impeachment because he though Trump abused his power but Joe Biden and his son did not. Without going into the details, that logic itself absolutely stinks. I have sufficient reason to believe that Bernie Sanders voted against Trump in the impeachment travesty, only because he wanted to enhance his own political future, and disregarded all other consequences including the fact that this act is not going to be forgotten nor forgiven, by the right of centre, Republican leaning voter base, and the fact that the impeachment was a sham act. There are dozens of real cases for which Trump could be impeached, but then in all those cases, many more Democrats too would fall prey.

More I think about all this, more I get convinced that I was wrong four years ago to think Bernie Sanders was the best candidate to lead USA. He is just a slippery guy with some charm, not unlike Barak Obama and in many ways, not unlike Hillary Clinton either. All in all, he is one more candidate that promises to be worse than previous presidents on a continual downward slide.

Bernie voted for all the wrong things, despite talking to the public in a way you would think otherwise.

His refusal to come clean on pardoning Julian Assange is, in my view, the deal breaker here, the last straw on the overloaded camel.

And then there is this shameful stand of supporting forced vaccination on people, to toe the line for big pharma and ensuring the citizens get sicker and sicker !!

He is an example of a teflon Candidate. And I am not surprised that the pseudo-liberals cannot see through all this. That is why they are pseudo-liberals.

In my second book, which is in the making, I am contemplating including these long posts as sub-chapters, explaining why the world gets to be as shitty as it is. Bernie is not at fault here. Neither are Trump, Obama or Hillary.

At fault are the citizens of the world. They suck. Its all related to that dead-fish thing.

The story behind CFIA testing food for glyphosate

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There is more to a story than what goes around. I have seen enough part truths and veiled truths about how CFIA test results ended on my table, that resulted in writing of the book “Poison Foods of North America”.

The story going around is that the Canadian Government might have tested foods for glyphosate merely because WHO made a declaration that glyphosate was a probably human carcinogen. This is not true. Canada does not have the reputation of being that concerned about food safety. Had that not been the case, Canada would not be the producer of the most toxic foods of all, along with the US.

The story started long before WHO declared carcinogenicity of glyphosate. First, it started with me getting acquainted with scientists such as Anthony Samsel, Stephanie Seneff, Don Huber and Thierry Vrain, and being convinced that I should pay a lot more attention to the ravages of glyphosate and stop being fixated at GMO along. I needed to understand that Roundup Ready GM crops were first invented in order to sell more glyphosate, and that glyphosate was far and away the most sold biocide on earth and it was far more dangerous than DDT that was banned back in the 1960s. It was then that I got the first jolt. I had completed touring Canada with Thierry Vrain in 2014. It started with me getting fed up with the anti-GMO groups that refused to join hands with me to start asking questions to the government and to force them to a) disclose hitherto hidden safety documents and to b) start finding ways to test food for glyphosate.

MP Atamanenko

It took me a few hundred calls to the Canadian labs to eventually discover that Canada not only never tested food for glyphosate, which was being used in Canadian agriculture for more than 40 years, but that there was not a single registered lab in Canada that would test food for glyphosate. A very small number of labs tested glyphosate at the time, but only in samples of soil and water. Nothing else.

Sure, they could test food if needed. But they had to devise protocol for same, get accredited and spend a lot of money to set up new sections in their lab, where new instruments would be used, without contaminating sections where soil and water were tested for glyphosate. All this costs money. Since the Government and the medical system was not asking for testing of foods for glyphosate, there was no market for it. Tony Mitra asking for a handful of samples was not a reasonable market indication.

It was then that I started writing to the Government, starting with the Health Ministry under the then Harper Government, to do something so that labs start testing foods for glyphosate – the most used herbicide in Canada. My efforts caught the attention of MP Alex Atamanenko, who called me up from Ottawa and asked for a copy of my letter to the health minister Ms Rona Ambrose. He took that letter, added his own cover letter and demanded that Ms Ambrose responds to my letter and makes a statement on why Canada has no lab that would test glyphosate in food and why the government was not testing the most used herbicide in Canadian agriculture.

That, more than WHO declaring glyphosate as a probable carcinogen, got the government to start testing glyphosate in all foods. Had the Government really been concerned about cancer risk, then it would have done an honest job of analyzing the results and discovering that Canada produces the most toxic foods on the planet along with the US, and would have done something to arrest the toxic avalanche. But Canada did not take any of the corrective measure. Instead, to hide the fact that Canadian foods were more toxic than other countries, it mixed all results, took an average, which was much lower than Canadian figures and make a blank and dishonest declaration in April 2016, that CFIA has done the tests and found foods to be quite alright.

Anyhow, here is my 22 minute rant on the issue.

 

Glyphosate, the endocrine killer

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This is my second attempt at flyer or hand bill making, covering another aspect of glyphosate – as an endocrine disruptor. This one is not easy to explain in vernacular language. There are no local words for some of the terminology. Also the mechanism of endocrine system is a bit complex. But I have done the best I could.

To my engineer’s logic, endocrine system is a sort of remote control mechanism, not too unlike the TV remote we use to flip channels. Whereas the TV remote often works wirelessly with infra-red light, or some other band of the electromagnetic spectrum, the endocrine system inside our body works wirelessly through chemical signalling. One can think of it as a chemical messaging system, whereby certain glands in our body manages to control distant organs, without the use of “wires” or our nerves.

The glands that are often associated with releasing such chemical signals are pituitary, pineal, thyroid, adrenal, pancreas, ovary (females) and testes (males).

The liquid chemicals that carry such signals are often called hormones. These hormones can be proteins, but not always. There are generally four derivatives, from amino acids, proteins, fatty acids and cholesterol.

Apart from these, there are other glands/organs that too produce chemical substances, sometimes called peptides, which also perform functions in remote parts. In fact, the placenta for pregnant women, which nurture a fetus through gestation is also considered to be a kind of a gland which does release specific chemicals to induce specific growth related steps in the fetus. Unlike the rest, a placenta is for one time use and is discarded after childbirth. When and if the woman gets pregnant again, a new placenta is formed within which the new fetus is nurtured.

The problem with glyphosate is – it throws a spanner into the endocrine works. As a result, one can have hormones released at the wrong time, or in wrong quantity or in defective condition or of inferior quality so they do not perform as intended.

Unfortunately, the medical establishment as well as the state is often tight lipped about it, due to the power and influence of the Pharma and agro industry.

The job of resisting this menace therefore, rests largely on the citizens. Good news is – many provinces in India are now, one by one, legislating restrictions on use of glyphosate. Bad news is, it is not yet happening in West Bengal. Without rising public pressure, it is not going to happen soon. This is where the citizens need to get involved.

The story of glyphosate does not end here. This is to be gradually released.
Thank you.

Books

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In the last twenty years or so, proportion of printed books I read by flipping physical pages have greatly reduced, while electronic or e-book I read from my iPad, and audiobooks I “listen to”, have dramatically increased.

There are many reasons. The first – I have always been a very heavy reader, right from my childhood. Consequently, I simply ran out of space to store all this many books, no matter how many book shelves I buy, in multiple homes spread across multiple continents where I stayed at one time or another.

The other reason is – I do not usually go for popular novels, or fiction. An overwhelmingly high number of the books I read are non-fiction, and educational I nature. Example – I have not read even one Harry Potter book, but have read around half a dozen of Charles Darwin alone. Unfortunately, there has not been munch interest in reading such books by my family members. In other words, I am the only one reading my kind of books in my home. After I have read one – it just becomes a space consuming dead weight never to be touched by a human hand again.

Ultimately such a book will likely become expensive fuel for someone’s wood burning fireplace, if one still has such a contraption.

Consequently, I have more electronically delivered books, than printed ones. They take up virtually no space. My iPad can store several hundred e-books. My computer can store thousands of e-Books and audio books. My phone too can store a hundred audio books at any time easily, and help me “listen” to them while siting along at a cafe, or having dinner by myself, or even when sitting on the potty. I have not counted how many such books I have across multiple formats and in multiple languages, but my rough guess is, it should be above 500 and less than a thousand.
This is not counting all the printed books I have bought or been presented with.

The images here are a minuscule sample of them – but a pattern can be seen here. I have spent a lot of time understanding human beings – their history, their evolution, their track record and their projected path into the near future. Part of it can be attributed to natural curiosity. Where did I come from. Where am I going. Added to that, is a near solidified belief that the planetary environment on earth is going to become major obstacles to life as usual for the living planet, and business as usual for the human society. These roadblocks or major environmental obstacles will not be of extra terrestrial origin, such as an asteroid strike. Nor will they be geologic, like massive volcanism from the earth’s core. They will be created at the surface and be a direct result of human interference.

My belief has hardened over a long period of observation of the rapidly changing world around me, and supplemented by books from on history to economy to paleoanthropology.

I no longer believe man to be God’s finest creation – first because man is not the finest but the worst creature on earth, which in turn proves the second point – that God does not exist, else He could never have made such a humongous blunder of creating humans in the first place.

Besides, the history of evolution of life has proved, time and time again, that once in a while a creature evolves with what appears to be super-competitive traits, and begins to sort of dominate the planet. But then, soon enough, the qualities that made the animal competitive begins to turn against him or his environment, and eventually, the creature goes extinct, to be replaced by another group of a wholly different model type.



Dinosaurs, as a group, lasted almost 160 million years on earth. It needed a massive asteroid strike to put at end to their reign.

In comparison, modern humans have been here for a mere 50 thousand years and we have cooked as well as poisoned and rotted the planet is such a short time in breathtaking speed, so much so that we ourselves have to go and will are taking most of the living world with us.

One interesting side note is – noting the control that the religious groups still exert on freedom of expression. Two hundred years after Darwin’s writings, his three books on evolution by natural selection of all creatures except humans are freely available across formats. However the one book, which applies the same logic to origin of Humans, namely the book “Descent of Man” is heavily restricted. There is no audiobook on it so far by reputed content providers, which I find incredible. You can, thankfully, still get an e-book and a printed book. You can also get chapter by chapter audio rendition of the book free of charge by the volunteer organization such as LibriVox.

But even the advertisement for the printed version is careful enough to describe the book as describing the “controversial theory of evolution”.

There is nothing controversial about evolution, in my mind. The only controversy involves the stupidity of man and the extraordinary control that bigots have on free speech in the very western society that boasts of freedom of speech.

Anyhow, this short post on books is perhaps a window to my search of my own identity. A line from a Bengali song of Tagore rings true, so I added it – my quest to understand myself is never going to end.

Farewell America ?

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I have read a few books of Chris, and used to listen to him on video in the past. I have moved away somewhat in recent months since I find him sort of vaguely repetitive. He is a radical journalist, and sounds almost like a die hard communist – not that I have any instinctive disdain about communists. I used to be left leaning for as long as I remember, but more like a social democrat than an out and out communist.

I am likely to read this book, or rather, listen to it being read to me, through this audio book. The reason is not so much that I expect to learn some great insight. I already instinctively agree, I think, to most things that the author has to say in this book.

Chris has been singularly critical of the American government, society and civilization, in many of his books, with a very penetrating and focussed point of view. However, I know that Chris, in all his wisdom, misses the point when it comes to describing the mistakes and sorrows of the American civilization.

He is more of often than not focussed only on the degeneration of the American system from within, and the complacence of its civil society.

He, however, does not appear to spend much time on the degenerative and corrosive influence that the US has exerted across the planet in the last few generations, in this age of American Empire. In this regard, Noam Chomsky has been far more aware of USA’s global negative impact, than Chris Hedges, in my view. Neither of them go far enough though – again in my view.

The reason for the current ongoing phase of planetary mass extinction and possible near future collapse of the life sustaining environment of the planet, is human endeavour. Humans have singularly been the greatest agents of death – a fact that others have realized and talked about. But if Hedges and Chomsky have come to the same conclusion – they have shied away from mentioning it.

In many ways, the American Civilization has set the tone and the music, for the rest of the world to dance to. Therefore, the later phase of the original human influenced era of planetary climate decline – the age of anthropocene, could now be termed the age of Americene, or some such – implying the culmination of the age of anthropocene where the American Civilization drives what remains of the planet – as the ultimate act of the human species – the homo sapiens sapiens.

Radical as it may appear to the non-plussed, this has been obvious for a long time to a lot of smart people. Talking about it, or writing about it – has not been that common though.

Another thing that Chris Hedges misses, is identifying the role of the immigrant, in the evil US Empire. He does not dwell much on the fact that the US in peacetime years, have killed perhaps upwards of 20 million people across the world on phoney wars including the recently coined expression – war on terror, a tactic that legitimizes toppling of democratically elected Governments that did not dance to the US tune an includes assassination of foreign heads of state with impunity.

He does not dwell on the fact that a lot of mercenaries employed by the US as their foot soldiers are actually immigrants that have not yet gotten the US passport but whose service would place citizenship on a fast track. This is more or less exactly the same tactic used by the Romans in employing mercenary killers in their vaunted Roman Legions of the past.

Also absent is the mention that the huge influx of legal immigrants, mostly highly skilled, are in essence collaborators and enablers of this evil empire, cogs in the wheel of the machinery that exploits the planet and runs it into the ground. Being recent converts, they are even less willing to criticize the hand that feeds them, and are more hypocritical  in their pretence of being liberal minded. Although both the liberals and the conservatives have been captured by the corporations, it is the so called liberals that are out and out war mongers and promoters of bombing the rest of the planet for whatever reason they could cook up. They appear in my eyes as the bigger groups of hypocrites in a hall full of hypocrites.

Making bombs and planes and exploding them in far off lands is the biggest and about the only real business in town, in the US. The rising tide of immigrants are the biggest enablers of this mechanism – a view that Chris Hedges fights shy of nailing in his books, as does Noam Chomsky. Criticizing the greatest reader block is bad for business.

Poisoning of the society is also not mentioned, I think, in that many words, but it does mention failure of the civil society. In many ways this is similar to the last phase of the Roman Empire., Then too the civil society was self engrossed, over complacent and oblivious to the world outside of their palaces.

However, Chris Hedges also misses the poisoning of the environment, the water, the air, the oceans, the land and the food, not to mention the medical system, with toxic chemicals and viruses masquerading as technological solutions to existing problems.

Then there are the issues of infiltrating, and spoiling, every institution created to safeguard the planet from being polluted by any single nation through hegemony. Most glaring of course is the United Nations and all the branches and twigs under it.

I do not think either Hedges or Chomsky is stupid, or ignorant of these facts. However, I understand that if you are writing a book for the express purpose of hoping to sell a lot of copies as a means of income, it does not pay to piss off your potential – liberal leaning – readership.

I understand these limitations, and do not hold a grudge against Chris Hedges or Noam Chomsky per se. They are good at what they do, even if they do not go far enough to satisfy me.

But I look at Donal Trump’s win, on apprehensions against immigrants on one side, and the disappearance of real industrial jobs on the other, and a sense of deep gloom, might have prompted folks that live far away from urban centres to vote for Trump. Urban centres are known to live within their own bubble, and are apt to see the world from their own coloured lenses, filtered and sanitised to fit their point of view, which is – they themselves are good citizens, it is only bad politicians and mad Trump, that makes America a bad country.

Another way of looking at it is – the deep state hated Donald Trump because he was a maverick and did not play ball the way a well groomed politician has been trained to play, irrespective of which side of the US political aisle he or she belonged to. Therefore, it was difficult for the system, to control Donald Trump and ensure business as usual policies could continue and progress. Trump posed a threat of toppling the apple-cart by merely being unpredictable and anti-establishment. The deep state would have to work on him overtime. To remodel him and make him heel. It is almost like breaking in a recalcitrant wild horse that does not want to have a saddle attached to its back, even less a rider sitting atop it and holding the reins. It is a horse that was likely to buck and and try to kick the rider in the teeth if it could.

It therefore paid, to have the media to stoke idea that Trump was the root of most of the problems. It helped to steer public opinion, much like a sheep dog steers sheep into the pen, into singularly hate Trump and pin all ills of mankind on him.

If the ends up with him getting fed up and doing something reckless so that he could be successfully impeached out of his chair- all the better. If not, perhaps he can be made to lose the next election. Either way, there was a chance that the horse would eventually learn to bite the bit and resign itself into being ridden.

While I do not like politicians in general, and have an extremely low opinion of anyone that has been a career politician, with very few exceptions, I did not dislike Trump quite that way. I found him to be a curiosity, and an indication that the America electoral system was entering a phase of uncharted territory. Unpredictable things are likely to happen in future more regularly than not.

I did not thing Chris Hedges would mention it though – since pointing him out as the cause of most of US’s problems is good for business, if your business is writing books aimed at the American readership.

So, the question remains – why do I read such books?

Well, these books places an anchor in my mind, first of all, that the world as I know it is truly coming to an end. Even the sixth mass extinction on its own will change the world into an unrecognizable place. But from all logic, it is not just the disappearance of living animal that is changing. Humans have greatly over-stayed the planetary welcome. It is time for most of us to go. And this century, like so many scientists are saying, is going not going to end on a business as usual track.

Books such as these are vague reminders of the greater gloom across the horizon. Instead of being depressed, one might consider all this philosophically, moving away from ourselves and watching it from far away and above, as a curious but inevitable flow of events that forever intertwine creation with destruction. Everyone comes for a brief period, plays out his or her role, and then disappears, leaving the stage for the next group.

Our time is coming to an end. Time to say good bye. Chris Hedges covers a small part of the evolving drama. Perhaps worth a read. These however, are my views by reading the sampler and editors notes. I might change my mind, or fine tune this opinion piece, after I read the book. I doubt though, that there would be any need for a major revision.

I have a notion of including these writings into chapters in the book “Lonely Road”.