The sequencing anecdote reminds me of the story of Pithecanthropus Erectus ("Jave Ape-Man"), and we have all learned how accurate that turned out to be.
Fraud is not fraud even when it is. In this case the objective is a fake virus to frighten the world into obedience. Remarkably when big names opposed to Vaccines are challenged on virus isolation they double down on the fake virus. Kirsch, Malone, Berenson, to name but three. This bridges to the entire "science" of virology. Covid judo technique may be bringing an entire area of pseudo-science down. If not, dealing it a heavy blow. The possibility also is present of bringing down the actually existing Super Capitalist order. I am a reader so I enjoy thinking of a certain monarch of Lydia in this Covid context. Now of course scholars assure us this is fable but fiction and fact mirror one another to create true myth. Croesus' uneasy relations with the Ionians obscures the larger fact that he was the last bastion of the Ionian cities against the increasing Persian power in Anatolia. He began preparing a campaign against Cyrus the Great of Persia.
Before setting out, he turned to the Delphic oracle and the oracle of Amphiaraus to inquire whether he should pursue this campaign and whether he should also seek an alliance. The oracles answered, with typical ambiguity, that if Croesus attacked the Persians, he would destroy a great empire (ἢν στρατεύηται ἐπὶ Πέρσας, μεγάλην ἀρχὴν μιν καταλύσειν[28]) – this would become one of the most famous oracular statements from Delphi.
The oracles also advised Croesus to find out which Greek state was most powerful and to ally himself with it.[29] Croesus, now feeling secure, formed an alliance with Sparta[30] in addition to those he had with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia,[31] and launched his campaign against the Persian Empire in 547 BC. (The scholar Evans in 1978 examines the conflicting dates implied in Herodotus.[6]) Croesus was intercepted near the Halys River in central Anatolia and an inconclusive battle was fought at Pteria. It was the usual practice in those days for the armies to disband for winter and Croesus did so accordingly. Cyrus did not, however, and he attacked and defeated Croesus in Thymbria and later in Sardis, eventually capturing him. It became clear that the powerful empire destroyed by the war was Croesus's own.
The sequencing anecdote reminds me of the story of Pithecanthropus Erectus ("Jave Ape-Man"), and we have all learned how accurate that turned out to be.
Fraud is not fraud even when it is. In this case the objective is a fake virus to frighten the world into obedience. Remarkably when big names opposed to Vaccines are challenged on virus isolation they double down on the fake virus. Kirsch, Malone, Berenson, to name but three. This bridges to the entire "science" of virology. Covid judo technique may be bringing an entire area of pseudo-science down. If not, dealing it a heavy blow. The possibility also is present of bringing down the actually existing Super Capitalist order. I am a reader so I enjoy thinking of a certain monarch of Lydia in this Covid context. Now of course scholars assure us this is fable but fiction and fact mirror one another to create true myth. Croesus' uneasy relations with the Ionians obscures the larger fact that he was the last bastion of the Ionian cities against the increasing Persian power in Anatolia. He began preparing a campaign against Cyrus the Great of Persia.
Before setting out, he turned to the Delphic oracle and the oracle of Amphiaraus to inquire whether he should pursue this campaign and whether he should also seek an alliance. The oracles answered, with typical ambiguity, that if Croesus attacked the Persians, he would destroy a great empire (ἢν στρατεύηται ἐπὶ Πέρσας, μεγάλην ἀρχὴν μιν καταλύσειν[28]) – this would become one of the most famous oracular statements from Delphi.
The oracles also advised Croesus to find out which Greek state was most powerful and to ally himself with it.[29] Croesus, now feeling secure, formed an alliance with Sparta[30] in addition to those he had with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia,[31] and launched his campaign against the Persian Empire in 547 BC. (The scholar Evans in 1978 examines the conflicting dates implied in Herodotus.[6]) Croesus was intercepted near the Halys River in central Anatolia and an inconclusive battle was fought at Pteria. It was the usual practice in those days for the armies to disband for winter and Croesus did so accordingly. Cyrus did not, however, and he attacked and defeated Croesus in Thymbria and later in Sardis, eventually capturing him. It became clear that the powerful empire destroyed by the war was Croesus's own.