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Antique palmistry trade sign
The grave of Joan Wytte, white witch
“The Wild Swans” by Arnaldo Mirasol
The business elite enjoy Davos not for the preaching they hear from Schwab or from celebrities like Bono, Elton John, and Sharon Stone, but for the unique opportunity it provides for networking and deal making. The idea that they should give authority back to governments, reform labor relations, and put the needs of the environment before the need for profit will happen…in a pig’s eye.
After all, why should they change in the ways that Schwab says stakeholder capitalism requires? And why should anyone think capitalism needs to be saved from itself? This is not the Great Depression. There was no Black Tuesday and no execs dropped from the fifteenth floor, worthless stock certificates fluttering behind.
On the contrary, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased during the pandemic, and the wealthiest among us saw their riches greatly increase. According to a study by 24/7 Wall St., the net worth of America’s 614 billionaires grew by a collective $931 billion during the first seven months of the pandemic. Big Tech execs have especially profited. For example, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s personal wealth grew by $7.8 billion (a 298 percent increase). Obviously, things are good for the billionaire class.
So the question becomes, since the pandemic has been profitable for the wealthy, why would they want to change anything? They have hated the New Deal for eighty years, and they have been buying up politicians to chip away at it, beginning with Ronald Reagan’s attacks on big government and the welfare state. What makes anyone think that capitalism is going to do an about-face after the past forty years of clawing back New Deal concessions? Why would they do that willingly, especially now? That being the case, well might we wonder just how much climate change and social unrest they will tolerate before they change their ways. My suspicion is that they’ll tolerate a lot, especially if stock markets continue to tell them that everything’s jake. They have no motive for following Schwab and every profit motive for not following him.
Wolf guarding Edmund’s head, from John Lydgate’s Metrical Lives of Sts. Edmund and Fremund. England, 1434-39
GUYS THIS IS AMAZING
SERIOUSLY
6000 YEARS
STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS
STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW
STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME
STORIES
Queen of Horns, from The Cloisters Playing Cards, ca. 1475–80, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters
The Cloisters Collection, 1983 Size: 5 3/16 × 2 ¾ in. (13.2 × 7 cm) Medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/475527
“The Bad Luck Gang"
artist: kAt Philbin
Supportive references from the literature
Topic 1: Natural antibodies (B-1A cells, sIgM, natural Abs & innate immunity to CoV and Covid-19)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202830/
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30135-8
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02139/full
doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.02139
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41385-020-00359-2
doi : https://doi.org/10.1038/s41385-020-00359-2
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5526850/
doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00872
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.595535/full
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.595535
https://journals.lww.com/shockjournal/fulltext/2020/11000/therapeutic_potential_of_b_1a_cells_in_covid_19.2.aspx
doi: https://10.1097/SHK.0000000000001610
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.01309/full
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2020.01309
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23692567/
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12137
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20948548/
doi : https://doi.org/10.1038/nri2849
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1939455120303793
doi : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.waojou.2020.100476
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00483/full
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2019.00483
Topic 2 :
- Role of natural Abs and NK cells in asymptomatic carriers
- Substantial transmission by asymptomatically infected subjects ; protection of asymptomatic carriers not due to Abs
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.18.20248447v1
doi : https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.18.20248447
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33391280/
doi : https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2020.610300
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7608887/
doi : https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241536
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-021-00525-3
topic 3 :
Natural Abs facilitate MHC class I-restricted antigen presentation
Conserved, CoV-associated cell surface-expressed MHC cl. I peptides
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm933
doi: https://10.1038/nm933
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19439480/
doi : https://10.1128/JVI.00079-09
topic 4 :
Abs may bind to Sars-CoV-2 without neutralizing the virus/ preventing infection
https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2021/february/antibodies-to-common-cold-coronaviruses-do-not-protect-against-sars-cov2
Topic 5 :
Natural and vaccine-induced immune escape
Unifying the Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/303/5656/327.long
doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1090727
Emergence of immune escape at dominant SARS-CoV-2 killer T-cell epitope
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.21259010v1
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.21.21259010
The emergence and ongoing convergent evolution of the N501Y lineages coincides with a major global shift in the SARS-CoV-2 selective landscape https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33688681/
Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0250780
SARS-CoV-2 variants, spike mutations and immune escape https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00573-0.pdf
Vaccination and the dynamics of immune evasion https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17210532/
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00226-9?
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.037
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.424451v1
doi : https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.28.424451
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6527/329 doi: https://10.1126/science.371.6527.329
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(21)00036-0/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00036-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00121-z
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/284
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00183-5/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00183-5
https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/6/57/eabg6461
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00468-2/fulltext?fbclid=IwAR1K_tzlvBP4_yJ95jnpsj0yBxqjClZrcEQDemR5xMA64HopMZMmSV1JkKw
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00468-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421003676?via%3Dihub
https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/515417
doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000515417
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(21)00148-1/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103355
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254882v2
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.06.21254882
topic 6 :
Mechanism of viral shedding and clearance
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30172-5/fulltext
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30172-5
topic 7 :
Dynamics of humoral anti-Covid-19 immune response and potential for reinfection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641391/
doi : https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001439
topic 8 :
Lessons learned from Smallpox vaccines and Influenza pandemic 1918
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20860482/
doi: https://10.2217/fmb.10.98
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/comparing-1918-flu-vs-coronavirus.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/compare-flu-pandemic-1918-and-covid-19-caution-180975040/
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-a-wave-of-disease-an-epidemiologist-explains-141573
topic 9:
Re-exposure to S protein in subjects previously primed by natural infection elicits cross-variant neutralizing antibodies
mRNA vaccination boosts cross-variant neutralizing antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection (Science)
topic 10:
Influenza pandemic 1918: observations and data collected from autopsy samples indicate that no new variants occurred
1918 Influenza Pandemic Caused by Highly Conserved Viruses with Two Receptor-Binding Variants
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics
Afghanistan is sitting on mineral deposits estimated to be worth $1 trillion or more—if anyone can get them out of the ground.
Old tarot cards (via)
Photograph of Stonehenge, taken from inside the circle looking through the standing stones towards the ‘Sunrise Stone’ or 'Friar’s Heel’, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Photograph of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
Godfrey Bingley, 1892
“I would light whole cities and give to mere machines all the motions of intelligence. I have given demonstrations of this discovery of mine before bodies of men of science many times. But they have found it difficult to believe me. I gave a demonstration of one experiment, which I think is the most beautiful I have ever tried. I think if I live a long life and work all the time I shall never have a more beautiful experiment than that. I had a boat without crew or captain, which I controlled merely by the force of my intelligence. I would will ‘turn,’ and it would turn, ‘go to the right,’ and it would go to the right, ‘to the left,’ it would go to the left. The beautiful thing about it was that it seem to be instinct with life, and, as a dog obeys the commands of his master, so this machine obeyed mind. And yet, it was governed simply by the electrical waves striking upon a receiver. And so which any machine.
“Why I could make an automaton in the shape of a man that could walk, move, perform all the motions of a man, except wherein the fact of it not being an organic being would make a difference. All this theory is developed from my idea that the actions of all inanimate beings are governed by impressions from outside objects received upon the eye.
“My idea is that people are simply automata, governed by the transmission of circumstances surrounding them upon the eye. This is the greatest idea of the age. The relations of nations will be affected by it. It will revolutionize thought. It may take years, but it will gradually come about. Men of science find it difficult to accept this idea. They cannot comprehend it. It is stupendous, and yet it is very simple.”
–Nikola Tesla
“Nikola Tesla Experiments In The Mountains.” Mountain Sunshine, July-August, 1899
“History is highlighted by turning points, moments of brilliance in the journey of humanity, episodes that changed civilization. These junctures often took place at times of great tragedy, during wars, famines, plagues, and revolution. Because at precisely those times, when the worst of human depravity became evident, we also witnessed the emergence of some of our greatest humanitarians, those who withstood opposition with grace and wisdom.
As steel is forged in a blast furnace, the best in humanity can only arise out of its cruelest chapters. Oskar Schindler, a Nazi, gave away all his wealth to safeguard vulnerable Jewish people out of harm’s way, away from the gas chambers. Oskar devoted his life at significant personal risk to saving others less fortunate; this is perhaps the fundamental principle of humanity.
Mohandas Gandhi raised a family as a successful lawyer in South Africa yet chose to return to India to stop genocide. He traded a life of comfort for one of fasting, nonviolent protests, and personal risk. An assassin’s bullet took his life in 1948, but not before he had spent 78 years on the planet and changed it forever. He is revered by many as the Father of India. His nonviolent protests to further social change inspired others to do the same, like Martin Luther King Jr, Robert Kennedy, and Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela paid his price of tribulation with 27 years in a prison cell, one without a bed or plumbing. He spent his days breaking rocks and his free time writing. His manuscripts were scrutinized, restricted, censored, or destroyed. Nonetheless, he smuggled out a 500-page autobiography in 1976 and led a protest movement for prison rights.
This expanded into the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Out of Mandela’s great suffering arose the principle of racial equality for South Africa, where he would ultimately be elected its first president. He remains affectionately known today as Madiba and is widely regarded as the Father of the Nation. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his nonviolent protests that proved victorious in ending the apartheid regime.
Dr. Tess Lawrie is a world-class researcher and consultant to the World Health Organization. Her biggest clients happen to be those who are involved in the suppression of repurposed drugs. She has decided to speak out in protest against the current medical establishment at considerable personal risk.
She co-founded the BIRD panel, an international group of experts dedicated to the transparent and accurate scientific research of Ivermectin. On April 24, 2021, she convened the International Ivermectin for COVID Conference, the first such symposium in the world held to focus on Ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19.
During the conference, she delivered a monumental closing address, one that will be recorded in the annals of medical history.
“They who design the trials and control the data also control the outcome. So, this system of industry-led trials needs to be put to an end. Data from ongoing and future trials of novel COVID treatments must be independently controlled and analyzed. Anything less than total transparency cannot be trusted.”
Dr. Lawrie called for reform of the method used to analyze scientific evidence.
She reported, “The story of Ivermectin has highlighted that we are at a remarkable juncture in medical history. The tools that we use to heal and our connection with our patients are being systematically undermined by relentless disinformation stemming from corporate greed. The story of Ivermectin shows that we as a public have misplaced our trust in the authorities and have underestimated the extent to which money and power corrupts.
Had Ivermectin being employed in 2020 when medical colleagues around the world first alerted the authorities to its efficacy, millions of lives could have been saved, and the pandemic with all its associated suffering and loss brought to a rapid and timely end.”
Dr. Lawrie called out the corruption of modern medicine by Big Pharma and other interests.
She went on, “Since then, hundreds of millions of people have been involved in the largest medical experiment in human history. Mass vaccination was an unproven novel therapy. Hundreds of billions will be made by Big Pharma and paid for by the public. With politicians and other nonmedical individuals dictating to us what we are allowed to prescribe to the ill, we as doctors, have been put in a position such that our ability to uphold the Hippocratic oath is under attack.
At this fateful juncture, we must therefore choose, will we continue to be held ransom by corrupt organizations, health authorities, Big Pharma, and billionaire sociopaths, or will we do our moral and professional duty to do no harm and always do the best for those in our care? The latter includes urgently reaching out to colleagues around the world to discuss which of our tried and tested safe older medicines can be used against COVID.”
Finally, Dr. Lawrie suggested that physicians form a new World Health Organization that represents the interests of the people, not corporations and billionaires, a people-centered organization.
“Never before has our role as doctors been so important because never before have we become complicit in causing so much harm.”
Dr. Albert Schweitzer would be proud. A Nobel laureate from 1952, Dr. Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize not for his work as a renowned medical missionary physician, but “for his altruism, reverence for life, and tireless humanitarian work which has helped make the idea of brotherhood between men and nations a living one.”
While Mandela and King fought for equality in human rights, Dr. Schweitzer is most remembered for his principle of the ethic of “reverence for life.”
Schweitzer wrote, “Ethics is nothing other than reverence for life. Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists of maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and to destroy, harm or hinder life is evil.”
Dr. Tess Lawrie knows that scientifically, Ivermectin saves lives. But moreover, she knows beyond any doubt that corruption has prevented Ivermectin from saving millions, caused untold suffering and horror, and a human economic toll of unimaginable proportions.
Out of this Pandemic have risen the true healers, those physicians who will be forever revered for risking their careers to save lives. When they could have remained silent and allowed the pandemic to take its course without rocking the boat, they chose to act.
Dr. George Fareed, Dr. Harvey Risch, and Dr. Peter McCullough traveled to the US Capitol and addressed the US Senate on November 19, 2020 and pleaded for the FDA and NIH to institute early outpatient treatment. They warned of the surge in deaths that would come. No answer. However, now during the current deadly second surge in India, on April 22, the Indian Council of Medical Research has just adopted Ivermectin and Budesonide for early outpatient therapy.
So why couldn’t the US have done the same and heed the advice of Fareed and others, and with the stroke of a pen in November accord Ivermectin Emergency Use Authorization? Fully 300,000 lives could have been saved.
These physicians are the pandemic humanitarians; to Dr. George Fareed, who stood up to Dr. Anthony Fauci; to Dr. Brian Tyson, who borrowed $250,000 in a personal loan to save the Imperial Valley; and to Dr. Harvey Risch, who risked his professorship at Yale to speak out; to Dr. Peter McCullough of Texas, who authored the first study on early outpatient treatment; to Dr. Pierre Kory, who put his career on the line, to Dr. Tess Lawrie, physician, humanitarian, and reformer, who is leading the path to victory over the pandemic, a beacon of hope for human rights and the conscience of medicine.”
Signed,
Justus R. Hope, MD
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Ovid. Heroides : manuscript, [ca. 1500] Illuminations by Christoforo Marjorana.
MS Typ 8
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Fjorn's Hall: A Concise Content Catalog
***Read this post if you're looking for an online source to help you learn more about Norse/Viking history and mythology.***
↟ OVERVIEW ↟
What is Fjorn’s Hall? An affordable and accessible place for anyone to learn Norse history, literature, and lore from a reliable source.
Who runs it? Me, of course! Fjorn the Skald. I have a Master's degree in History, and I'm an inclusive person (as well as an animistic pagan, of sorts).
Who learns there? Everyone is welcome in the Hall, but racism, prejudice, and other toxic ideologies are not tolerated.
What does it offer?
Raids (aka informal courses), including readable lessons, lecture videos, quizzes, and study materials.
Resources, including lore tomes (aka reference pages for Norse gods and goddesses), digital maps, and libraries.
A Podcast with weekly episodes covering material from our Raids (along with special bonus episodes).
Access to a friendly and helpful community of fellow students (as well as a place where Fjorn can answer your questions directly).
How much does it cost? A lot is actually free, but everything else can be accessed with either a $5 or $10/month subscription.
↟ CATALOG ↟
Free = blue link; $5 sub = orange; $10 sub = green
~ RAIDS ~
The 'Vikings'
The North
Setting the Stage
The Viking Age
The Vikings: Study Guides & Test
Remnants from the Void
Norse Cosmology
Gods & Goddesses
Giants, Dwarves & Elves
Healing from Gods, Magic & Runes
Healing from Herb & Hand
Herbal Remedies & Medical Books
Herbal Gardens & Monastic Medicine
Medical Miracles by Northern Saints
Famous Medieval Scandinavian Healers
Healing in the North: Study Guides & Test
Days & Time
Weeks
Months & Holidays
Years & Reckoning
Old Calendars: Study Guides & Quiz
Environment
Farmsteads
Labor
Realities & Change
Farmsteads & Agriculture: Study Guides & Test
What Are Land-Spirits?
Don't Scare Them!
Dealing with New Neighbors
Whale-Wizard vs Land-Guardians
Unleashing Their Fury in Feud
Salty Men Preach Against the Land-Spirits
Land-Spirits: Study Guides & Test
Sigvat's Journey
Redden the Hillocks
Unravelling Old Stories
Elf-Sacrifice: Study Guides & Quiz
The Medieval World of Nikulás Bergsson
Pilgrimage in the Medieval North
~ RESOURCES ~
Lore Tome: Odin
Lore Tome: Thor
Lore Tome: Loki
Lore Tome: Freyr
Lore Tome: Freyja
Lore Tome: Tyr
Map: Medieval Iceland
Map: Nikulás' Pilgrimage
Map: The People of the North
Academic Library
Digital Library
Saga Library
Public Lecture: Njal's Saga
Public Lecture: 'Viking' Love Stories
~ PODCAST ~
***New episodes weekly (every Wednesday)***
Introducing Fjorn's Hall: Skald Edition
The 'Vikings'
The People of the North, Part 1
The People of the North, Part 2
An Age of Wolves: 400-550 CE
Rising from the Ashes: 550-750 CE
Bonus 1: Notes on Viking-Age Rogaland (and More)
Kickstarting the Viking Age
Taking Raids to a New Level
Winding Down the Viking Age
Remnants from the Void
Myth in Eddic and Skaldic Poetry
NEW! Bonus 2: Notes on Viking-Age Cargo Ships
And there you have it! Fjorn's Hall is filled with lore to be learned—but what you see above is only the beginning, for new content is added to our hoard all the time, both free and exclusive! I'll be updating and reblogging this catalog from time to time, especially whenever new content has been released. I hope you won't mind!
But until next time, keep wandering.
— Fjorn the Skald
The Comet Book (1587), details, “16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously (or maybe it was a woman who endured erasure) in Flanders”. Originally named in german Kometenbuch.
Anne Romby
"The Poisoned Apple", a study by Wanda Gag for an 1938 edition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Zephyr from 'Felicia and the Plot of Pinks' in Powder and Crinoline, 1914
illustrated by Kay Nielsen
More posts for you, right here! -nicole addison
Shoreditch doorway with No 19 Covid Eau de Virus artwork
Philip de László (1869-1937) “Helen Beatrice Myfanwy Hughes” (1931) Oil on canvas
Three Mighty Ladies from Livonia, 1521, Albrecht Durer
Laziness, 1560, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Medium: engraving,paper