Remembering Ian Curtis

 Yesterday I posted a link to a Joy Division playing their song "Transmission" on a friends Facebook timeline - I described it as "The tightest performance of all time" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc

Later that day I was passing through Newtown, past the Ian Curtis memorial. I took a snapshot from the bus.

That monument has been there for most of my life, and it's one of the few monuments that have always really meant something to me. I'm always a bit stunned when people don't know who Ian Curtis was.

 

 

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

It even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both -- one of Peter Saville's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair.

The quantum leap from the earliest thrashy singles to Unknown Pleasures can be heard through every note, with Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production -- emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub -- as much a hallmark as the music itself. Songs fade in behind furtive noises of motion and activity, glass breaks with the force and clarity of doom, and minimal keyboard lines add to an air of looming disaster -- something, somehow, seems to wait or lurk beyond the edge of hearing.

But even though this is Hannett's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. Bernard Sumner redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, Peter Hook's instantly recognizable bass work was at once warm and forbidding, and Stephen Morris' drumming smacked through the speakers above all else. Ian Curtis synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect, only connect -- as "Candidate" plaintively states, "I tried to get to you/You treat me like this."

Pick any song: the nervous death dance of "She's Lost Control"; the harrowing call for release "New Dawn Fades," all four members in perfect sync; the romance in hell of "Shadowplay"; "Insight" and its nervous drive toward some sort of apocalypse. All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever.  

 

 

 

 

Fluoride Stupidity & Population Control

Sodium fluoride, a hazardous-waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum, is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anesthetics, hypnotics, psychiatric drugs, and military nerve gas. It’s historically been quite expensive to properly dispose of, until some aluminum industries with an overabundance of the stuff sold the public on the insane but highly profitable idea of selling it at a 20,000% markup, injecting it into our water supplies, and then forcing the public to DRINK it.

Fluoride is injected into our drinking water supply at approx. 1 part-per-million (ppm), but since we only drink 0.5% of the total water supply, the remaining 99.5% literally goes down the drain as a free hazardous-waste disposal for the chemical industry

Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient.

There are reports of aluminum in the brain being a causative factor in Alzheimer’s Disease, and evidence points towards fluoride’s strong affinity for aluminum and also its ability to “trick” the blood-brain barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing chemical access to brain tissue.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

 Question for today - Would you wear these sunglasses if they could guarantee to make you 0.000000001% more aerodynamic in the Tour de France, or would you be fearful that they may cause people to laugh uncontrollably and call you a numpty?

 

Winning the Fluoride Fight

James Corbett talks to Michael Connett, lead attorney for the plaintiffs’ in the #FluorideLawsuit. They discuss the history of the lawsuit, what’s at stake, and how people who are concerned about the fluoridation of the water supply can get involved in the fight against this uncontrolled medical intervention.

 

https://corbettreport.com/winning-the-fluoride-fight/

 

The council is mocking us

The joke is on the ratepayers - The Wellington city council is mocking us...

Today some workmen are doing something to the footpath over the road from us - there is one guy doing all the work, with 7 guys standing there watching, and 52 road cones - for real, I counted them!

 

 

They even have a wheelchair ramp on both sides of the road just in case, with an extra dozen road cones and a guy in charge of the two ramps!

 

Road cones are breeding and taking over the country...

 

 

 

 

WELLINGTON WAS BUSY ONCE

Old photos of Wellington always strike me with just how busy it was - now the streets seem deserted, apart from all the single lane traffic jams, with empty bike lines everywhere

Riddiford Street Newtown, Wellington 1974.

 

Cuba Street, Wellington 1960

 

Fluoridated Toothpaste – Toxic and bad for teeth too

Most toothpastes contain fluoride, supposedly to prevent tooth decay. Sadly, the majority of consumers fall for this con and poison themselves even further by applying it to their teeth.

The fluoride in toothpaste is not an organic trace mineral found in the ground. It’s an industrial waste chemical that has been deceivingly and incorrectly called “fluoride”. It is inorganic, very toxic, and more poisonous than lead.

Any amount of fluoride in water exceeding 2 ppm (parts per million) would be considered unsafe. But fluoridated toothpastes have been found to contain levels of up to 7000 ppm. Even the U.S. FDA now regards fluoride in toothpaste as a potential toxic drug.

One of the most common symptoms of excess fluoride is “dental fluorosis”. You will see chalky white patches on the teeth making teeth “spotty”. Enamels can also become more porous with use of fluoridated toothpaste leading to discoloration of the teeth and pitting of the enamel.

Young children tend to apply lots toothpaste to their toothbrush, and then swallow plenty of it. (Swallowing half a tube of fluoride toothpaste in one go can be fatal)

Fluoride in the mouth is absorbed through our mucous lining and accumulates in our bodies just like fluoride that has been swallowed. The accumulated fluoride is carcinogenic and harmful to our metabolic systems. It leads to increased hip fractures, osteoporosis, arthritis and lowered brain function.

Another harmful ingredient in toothpaste is sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) – a foam building substance known to be cancer causing.

And in addition, virtually all toothpastes contain glycerine. Glycerine coats the teeth, so that they can’t remineralise to heal tooth decay

The basic requirements for remineralising teeth are:

A nutrient dense, whole food, Weston A Price type diet, including:

Bone broths & marrow
  Cod liver oil
  Butter oil, or lots of good quality butter
  Good quality animal foods
  Fermented foods
Fluoride free water

 A fluoride free, glycerine free tooth cleaner

 

MT GOX TO PAY BACK THE MISSING BITCOIN

 What nature of scam is this? The official story is that Mt. Gox was a bitcoin exchange based in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, that was launched in 2010.

It is said to have been handling over 70% of all Bitcoin (BTC) buys/sells worldwide by February 2014, when it suspended trading, closed its website and exchange service, and filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. 

It claimed that hundreds of thousands of bitcoin—back then worth around $400 million, now worth $45 billion had been stolen in an elaborate heist. It had practically no remaining funds with which to process withdrawals.

Moving on 10 years and the story is that the Mt. Gox estate is now sitting on 200,000 bitcoin that has been recovered from a “forgotten” wallet, previously assumed by the exchange to be empty, but that had not been drained by the hackers. 

A rehabilitation plan was approved by the Tokyo courts in June 2023 and the final date for customers to be repaid was set for October 31, 2024.

Like most official stories, it's unlikely that any of this is true, so I won't even get into any of that side of things. What is interesting is the effect that this upcoming mass dumping of Bitcoin is having on the market right now in July 2024. 

Not surprisingly the entire crypto market has had a big drop. I have long suspected that crypto markets are being constantly manipulated up and down by big investors like Blackrock with the goal of enabling them to buy low and sell high. 

Or, given that they know in advance when each rise or fall will be, they don't even need to do that, because they can profit on the drops as well. As they are manipulating all the rises and falls, they always know what is coming.

This entire story sounds to me about as legitimate as the moon landing, or 911, or covid. But it makes no difference, the crypto markets are getting spanked right now. 

There Are Multiple Toxins Added To NZ Tap Water

 Tap water in NZ is toxic because it contains fluoride, chlorine, aluminium (alum), and in some cases (where there are old water pipes) asbestos as well

It’s not just drinking the tap water that’s a problem – bathing and showering in it leads to fluoride and chlorine absorption too.

A good household carbon filter will take out chlorine, asbestos, and aluminium, but it will not take out fluoride. This can be done, but it requires a much more expensive filtration system (around NZ$2000-4000) to sort out your water for bathing and showering.

Reverse osmosis filters and distillers will get most of the fluoride out for drinking, but they remove the good minerals too, and this may cause other problems.

If you are unable to obtain water free from a good source, and have to buy bottled water, keep in mind that some bottled water is just tap water that’s been filtered to get rid of the chlorine taste, while some bottled spring water is good quality.

In Wellington, clean drinking water is freely available directly from the Petone Aquifer

And there is another aquifer at the Dowse Art Museum taps in Lower Hutt

For smaller amounts, and they ask customers not to take more than 2L at a time so it's not the spot for filling up a few hundred liters of bottles, there is also an artesian fountain at the Moore Wilson's store corner of Tory & College Streets Wellington.

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