John Nugent

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[sarah guo @saranormous]

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[John Nugent @nugecom]

You didn't see this coming...
"The terrifying reality of wi-fi sensing."
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[John Nugent @nugecom]

@Handre Here's a monthly "tax receipt" for the average UK household (2022). It compares how the gov spends your tax contribution to how you spend what's left. Useful? Only if citizens can publicly feedback: Increase | Decrease | Maintain | Stop.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Ludwig von Mises's most enduring contribution to economics is the calculation problem. Socialism fails, he argued, because a central planner without market prices cannot calculate. Strip away prices and you lose the only valid measure for weighing one use of labor or a commodity against another. The planner is left to guess.

Friedrich Hayek, his protégé, took the point further. A price, Hayek showed, is not merely an accounting figure. It is how a society gathers the knowledge scattered across millions of minds assessing billions of data points. Price is total knowledge, aggregated into a single number.

The vaccine era — the years since the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act — exposes a failure neither man foresaw. Let’s call it the calculation problem under regulatory and epistemic capture. Socialism abolished the price outright. Capture in a mixed market economy is subtler: it leaves a price standing and corrupts it from within until it is worse than meaningless.

Mandates, government purchasing, and insurance rules guarantee sales no matter what the product actually does. School-entry laws force sales upon captive customers (e.g. children who want to go to school). Liability protection removes the price that disciplines a defective product — the damages a court would otherwise make the manufacturer pay. The buyer is compelled and the producer is protected so no meaningful price can form.

Making matters worse, price aggregates what buyers believe about the thing they buy, however regulatory and epistemic capture distort those beliefs. The FDA launders bad data on behalf of the manufacturers and declares the product “safe and effective.” Social media platforms erase the testimony of the injured. Academic journals censor scholars who dissent. Universities blacklist professors who challenge the conventional narrative. So society’s dispersed knowledge about the product and its defects never gets properly communicated or aggregated.

Creating a market for vaccines again would require removing all mandates, repealing liability protection, rescinding insurance rules, and ending government purchasing programs. However creating a MEANINGFUL price (that communicates the risks and benefits of the product to society) would also require stopping regulatory capture and epistemic capture (i.e. control of the journals and universities by Big Pharma).

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

I wrote the full essay on how the Church encoded theology into the structure of European cities

Every street, every building, every procession route: https://t.co/0wXq0XrfhG

[John Nugent @nugecom]

Removing Codex 5.3 from ChatGPT Plus subscriptions (forcing 5.4 usage) is an overnight effective price increase of 50% 😬 from @OpenAI.

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

The concert hall was invented by a Catholic priest

Philip Neri opened a room above a church in Rome in 1564

He brought in musicians, served food, let anyone in off the street

The Pope's theologians investigated him three times for being too informal

He was acquitted each time
He called it the Oratorio

Handel named his Messiah after it

The Church invented secular culture and then got blamed for suppressing it

[John Nugent @nugecom]

The business model behind the UK's unwanted 20 mph speed limit. https://t.co/2Pe9hDKLdN

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The number everyone's throwing around about UK's speech arrests per year - 12,000 - is just for the Communications Act 2003.

UK police recorded at least 600,000 offences under statutes that would be unconstitutional in the United States.

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

Bill Gates and others somehow planned out the COVID pandemic years in advance.

Dr. Peter McCullough reveals this shocking information.

“There were 36 pandemic preparedness planning events for this pandemic.”

“They go back to about 2004.”

“In 2017, the Gates Foundation and Johns Hopkins… held a roundtable exercise.”

“The title of the program is The SPARS Pandemic: A Coronavirus Pandemic That’s Going to Hit in 2025.”

“It said there’s going to be a theoretical coronavirus… and it’s going to come out of China.”

“It said the solution will be a vaccine.”

“They said we’re even going to get the President of the United States to promote the vaccine.”

“Then in November of 2019… they held Event 201.”

“At that one they said for sure it’s going to be a coronavirus, and it’s going to come from China.”

“The conclusion was… the only solution will be global vaccination.”

@P_McCulloughMD

[John Nugent @nugecom]

@GoodwinMJ @laworfiction UK General Election 2024

Registered to vote: 80% [100%]
Voter turnout: 60% [48%]
Voted Labour: 34% [16%]
Support policies*: 5% [1%]
* YouGov, Jul 24

99% of UK adults did NOT support Labour's policies.

[John Nugent @nugecom]

@StephenCMeyer ... when is it coming to London UK or available online?

[Brady Shearer @BradyShearer]

Church has been one of the most important 'third places' in society for centuries - a space to gather outside home and work.

Social media can be a weekly reminder of that sacred community for your scattered people.

Post the gatherings. Real humans in a room together. That's an antidote to an algorithm feeding everyone their own lonely personalized feed.

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

The university system was invented by the Catholic Church

Bologna (1088), Paris (1150), Oxford (1167)... all founded under papal charter

Professors needed Church approval to teach
Curricula were built on Aristotelian logic filtered through St. Thomas Aquinas

The modern secular university didn't 'liberate' itself from the Church; it inherited a fully-functioning, legally-protected, logic-driven machine and simply removed the Cross on the letterhead

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Labour have looked at an oil shock, had a little think, and decided the correct response is to MAKE YOUR ELECTRICITY MORE EXPENSIVE.

As a form of protest.

Against oil.

Are you fucking hearing this!?

Britain. Island. Made. Of. Fucking. Coal. Floating on a bathtub of North Sea gas, ringed by one of the most developed offshore basins on the entire bloody planet that - in many instances we share with the Norwegians - and that we buy from the Norwegians at a sodding premium, and once upon a time we were the Ozempic of civil nuclear, the thing everyone in the world wanted a prescription for.

And the plan, the actual plan these window-licking noncery-merchant ass-hats have settled on, is to phase out the domestic stuff faster during an import price spike. That’s by definition NOT an energy policy, far from it, it’s more like a sort of febrile ransom note the hostage has written to himself, in crayon, with a little smiley face at the bottom.

“Some say we’ve gone too far, too fast. We disagree.” Oh do you. Do you really.

Well, dickheads, the National Grid disagrees with you disagreeing. So do the chemicals plants you’ve already turned into wildlife sanctuaries, the steelworks you’ve FedExed to Jiangsu, and every industrial electricity bill in this country which is now running at roughly four times the American rate, which, just so we’re clear, is the economic equivalent of trying to win Formula One on a fucking Boris bike.

And the big reveal, the headline policy, the thing they’ve stuck on a placard? Cover the brownfield sites, the literal tombstones of British industry, in solar panels. Bury the corpse. Plant a windmill on the grave. Put up a little QR code linking to the Guardian. Call it a recovery. Mind bending stupidity.

Meanwhile the capacity market is paying gas plants to stand around like substitute goalkeepers on a Sunday league bench, constraint payments are running into the billions because nobody can work out how to get Scottish wind down to a Surrey kettle, and every single pound of that gets smuggled onto the standing charge because these fuckwits haven’t got the minerals to put it on the unit rate where the public would actually clock it.

“It’s time to go further.” Further? Christ alive, you brainless shitheels have already landed us with the most expensive major economy in the G7 to run a factory in, your answer to an oil shock is to accelerate the thing that made you import-dependent, and you’re announcing it on a Tuesday afternoon like it’s a fucking bake sale. This isn’t net zero. This is net zero brain cells. This is the policy equivalent of setting fire to your house to own the arsonist.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

You terminal weapons-grade cretins, the structural kneecapping you deal out to the country on a daily basis is performance art levels retarded. It’s, genuinely, tantamount to sabotage. Our enemies couldn’t dream of such damage. Mike Tapp and Blue Labour are alright, but the rest of you can get all the way in the fucking sea. 🚮

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1900, John D. Rockefeller controlled approximately 90 percent of all petroleum refining in the United States. He was, by some calculations, the richest private individual who had ever lived.

He had a problem. Scientists were discovering that compounds derived from coal tar, a petroleum byproduct, could be used as synthetic medicines. Aspirin, derived from coal tar, had been launched by Bayer in 1899. The petroleum waste stream Rockefeller had previously had to dispose of could now be sold back to the public as medicine at a markup of roughly 10,000 percent.

He had another problem. American medicine in 1900 was a competitive ecosystem of homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths, osteopaths, midwives, and traditional doctors who used food, plants, water, and lifestyle as the primary tools of healing. Approximately half of all American medical schools taught some form of natural or alternative medicine.

Rockefeller bought into the German pharmaceutical industry, eventually taking a substantial stake in IG Farben, the conglomerate that included Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst. He then commissioned a report.

The report was written by Abraham Flexner, an educator with no medical training, funded by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations, and published in 1910. It declared that natural and alternative medical schools were unscientific quackery. It recommended the closure of more than half of all American medical schools and the standardisation of the rest around medicine based on synthetic patented drugs.

Congress acted. Half of American medical schools closed within a decade. The remainder accepted Rockefeller and Carnegie funding on the condition that their curricula be reorganised around pharmaceutical treatment. Nutrition was removed. Herbal medicine was removed. Lifestyle intervention was removed. The doctor's job was redefined: diagnose the symptom, prescribe the drug.

The drugs were petroleum-derived. The petroleum was supplied by Rockefeller-controlled refineries. The medical schools were funded by Rockefeller. The journals were funded by Rockefeller. The AMA was supported by Rockefeller. The hospitals were funded by Rockefeller.

By 1925, the American medical system was a vertically integrated extension of the petroleum industry, operating under the marketing slogan that it was scientific.

This is the system that exists today.

The pharmaceutical industry generates approximately $1.5 trillion in annual revenue. The American population, 4 percent of the global total, consumes approximately 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals manufactured.

The system was not designed to make people healthy. The system was designed to manage symptoms in a way that produces lifetime customers. A healthy patient is a former customer. A managed patient, who takes the pill every day for the rest of their life, is an annuity.

The objective has always been to keep you in that profitable corridor between healthy and dead.

Long enough to keep buying. Not so well that you stop.

The doctor who advises you to fix your metabolism by changing your diet is, from the point of view of the system that trained him, a defective product. The doctor who prescribes you a statin, a metformin, an antidepressant, and a blood pressure medication for life is performing exactly as designed.

The system was designed by an oil baron who needed to sell the waste products of his refineries.

It still functions, 116 years after the Flexner Report, exactly the way he designed it.

You are the customer.

The corridor is where you live.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

3,000 colleges and universities in the U.S., zero pushed back against Covid tyranny.

1.5 million people working in higher education, maybe 50 pushed back.

Total collapse.

[John Nugent @nugecom]

Serious illness? Always do your own research and never rely soley on what doctors tell you. "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
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[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

In 1703 Leibniz wrote to a Jesuit missionary in China

He had just completed his system of binary arithmetic: every number expressible as combinations of 1 and 0

Something and nothing: being and void

He believed it was a mathematical proof of Creation

God as the 1, the void as the 0

The entire universe as what happens when unity acts on nothing

He proposed using it to convert the Chinese emperor

The binary system Leibniz built to explain God to an emperor is the same system running every computer, every phone, and every piece of software on earth

[John Nugent @nugecom]

@CatholicUnionGB https://t.co/b1licGemJm