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AI Question: Is there any study that actually proves flu vaccines that don’t prevent flu make the flu less severe

Total BS Propaganda, Big Pharma Answer Follows:

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to those used to make flu vaccines. While vaccine effectiveness (VE) can vary, recent studies show that flu vaccination reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to those used to make flu vaccines. In general, current flu vaccines tend to work better against influenza B and influenza A (H1N1) viruses and offer less protection against influenza A (H3N2) viruses1.

Even when the vaccine doesn’t completely prevent the flu, it may lessen the severity of your illness. It also may lower the risk of serious complications and serious illness needing hospital stays2.

No actual study is cited.

Then on google they stick to the propaganda.

From one article:

Since the flu vaccine’s first civilian use in 1945, flu vaccines have consisted of dead (or inactive) strains of influenza A and influenza B viruses. Because these flu strains are dead, it’s impossible for the shot to give you the flu. The nasal spray flu vaccine (like FluMist) is made with the weakened virus, but it also cannot give you the flu.

1. No virus is alive.  So suggesting that vaccines consist of dead or inactive strains is retarded.

2. Definition of a virus: a small piece of genetic information (DNA or RNA) inside of a protective shell (capsid). Some viruses also have an envelope. Viruses can’t reproduce without a host.

3. Virus composition is about 64% protein, 21–25% dsDNA and 5–10% lipid. The virus contains at least 50 structural proteins, ranging in size from 10–200 kDa. Four proteins, including the major capsid protein (Vp54), are located on the virion surface.

4. When making a vaccine how are viruses made “inactive?”

Inactivation of the virus is done with heat. Occasionally, inactivation is done with chemicals such as formalin. When the vaccine under production is fractional, meaning it is protein or polysaccharide-based, the vaccine undergoes further purification so that only the subunits of interest remain.

Note: The capsid surrounds the virus and is composed of a finite number of protein subunits known as capsomeres, which usually associate with, or are found close to, the virion nucleic acid.

5. All viruses depend on cells for reproduction and metabolic processes. By themselves, viruses do not encode for all of the enzymes necessary for viral replication. But within a host cell, a virus can commandeer cellular machinery to produce more viral particles. Bacteriophages replicate only in the cytoplasm, since prokaryotic cells do not have a nucleus or organelles. In eukaryotic cells, most DNA viruses can replicate inside the nucleus, with an exception observed in the large DNA viruses, such as the poxviruses, that can replicate in the cytoplasm. RNA viruses that infect animal cells often replicate in the cytoplasm.

6. A relatively small dose of administered virus or bacteria replicates in the body and creates enough of the organism to stimulate an immune response. To be clear, most vaccines replicate the same as a virus, through the host.  It is a combination of the small dose and the altering of the virus with heat or a chemical that may prevent the virus from making a person as sick as getting the virus in the wild, but in fact the vaccine can create a “sick” response whether it is a huge bump at the spot of injection to a fever with the body itself trying to fight off the infection to a full blown infection as the replication continues more than expected.

To whether a vaccine can lessen the severity of a case of the flu, you have go back to the fact that most people only get mild cases of the flu regardless of a vaccine or not so any study that suggest that a vaccine has anything to do with a case of the flu being mild is in itself highly suspect.  There is no way to establish a proper control group to prove point.  Most cases of the flu last only a few days to maybe two weeks in a worse case scenario.  Of course not all so called flu’s (flu strains) are the same where some are more severe than others.  And the reason the flu vaccine is less than 40% effective in some years is because often the flu shot is not developed with the correct strain since no one knows for sure what strain is going to be spreading.  If the shot is based on the wrong strain, it is NOT going to reduce your symptoms.

And remember most doctors do NOT test for the flu but rather diagnose based on symptoms and maybe in some cases ruling other things out.

Should you get the flu shot?  That is entirely up to you.

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AI Answer to Question: How many political prisoners has the United States Imprisoned From January 6, 2021

whiskey rebellion

Answer:

According to Time magazine, more than 1,033 people have been arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, 277 defendants were sentenced to periods of incarceration. So far, the median prison sentence for the Jan. 6 rioters is 60 days.

I will add:
Big tech oligarchs are still following Democrat Party Line of calling a protest an insurrection even though no politician was killed or left hanging under a bridge. If you call that an insurrection then you must call pissing into a toilet a flood. Some pull back from wrongly using the word insurrection and simply say an attack on the capitol. In truth January 6th would better be described as a protest that got out of hand similar to a party that might get out of hand.

The top search results hide the number of people who received prison sentences much greater than 60 days.

When you see how the Democrat Party and their accomplices in the Republican Party and the mass media have exaggerated or just plain out been lying about what happened on January 6th you have to wonder how much of American history are lies and propaganda.

Note: The 17-year prison term for political prisoners Joseph Biggs and 15-year sentence for leader Zachary Rehl were the second and third longest sentences handed down yet in the Jan. 6, 2021, protest against a highly questionable election that in itself may have constituted a real insurrection against our Republic and which was followed with the very real taking of political prisoners which very often happens after a despotic take over of a government and media.

 

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I asked the Bing AI for a picture of the hangings after the whiskey rebellion. Its response:

I’m sorry but I couldn’t find any pictures of the hangings after the Whiskey Rebellion in 1774. However, I can tell you that the Whiskey Rebellion was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called “whiskey tax” was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government1. Farmers of the western frontier were accustomed to distilling their surplus rye, barley, wheat, corn, or fermented grain mixtures to make whiskey. These farmers resisted the tax. In these regions, whiskey often served as a medium of exchange1. Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation1. Throughout Western Pennsylvania counties, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax1. Resistance came to a climax in July 1794 when a US marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector John Neville.

Note that I put the date in wrong.

When I asked for picture of Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 these are the pictures it generated:

whiskey rebellion

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AI Answer to Question: “Is there historical evidence of King Saul”

That’s a very good question. King Saul was the first king of Israel, according to the Bible, who reigned in the 11th century BCE. However, his historicity has been debated by scholars and archaeologists, who have different opinions on how reliable the Biblical accounts are and what kind of evidence can support them.

Some scholars argue that there is historical evidence for King Saul’s existence, based on ancient inscriptions, archaeological findings, and textual analysis. For example, one article claims that an ancient inscription found in Israel confirms the Biblical account of the transition from the last judge, Samuel, to the first king, Saul1. The inscription contains instructions from a higher authority to a local magistrate in language that implies the local magistrate is being told to follow the rules issued by a new king of Israel1. Another article reviews the famous passage in 1 Kings 9:15–19, which tells us that King Solomon fortified Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer, and argues that these three impressive six-chambered city gates can be attributed to the time of Solomon and his predecessors, including Saul2. The article also examines the genetic and linguistic roots of the Hebrew language and suggests that it emerged as a recognizable language around the time of the establishment of the Israelite monarchy2.

Other scholars challenge the historical evidence for King Saul’s existence, and propose alternative interpretations or hypotheses. For example, some scholars question the authenticity and dating of the ancient inscription mentioned above, and suggest that it may not refer to Saul or any Israelite king at all3. Some scholars also dispute the dating and attribution of the six-chambered city gates, and argue that they belong to a later period than Solomon or Saul4. They also point out that there is no archaeological evidence for a united monarchy of Israel under Saul, David and Solomon, and that the Biblical narratives may reflect later political and religious agendas rather than historical facts4.

Therefore, the historical evidence for King Saul’s existence is not conclusive or unanimous. It depends on how one evaluates the sources, methods, and assumptions of different scholars and archaeologists. However, it is possible that some traces of historical reality are preserved in the Biblical narratives, as well as in other ancient records and artifacts. If you want to learn more about King Saul and his role in the Bible and history, you can read some of these articles here, here, here, and here. I hope this answer was helpful and informative. If you have any follow-up questions or want to explore other topics, please feel free to ask me. 😊

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AI answer to the question: “Has covid altered the human genome?”

That’s a very interesting question. The short answer is no, COVID-19 has not changed the human genome. However, the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, does have some effects on the expression of human genes.

SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus, which means it uses RNA as its genetic material. RNA viruses usually do not integrate their RNA into the host DNA, unlike some retroviruses such as HIV. However, some studies have suggested that SARS-CoV-2 may have the ability to insert its RNA into human DNA through a process called reverse transcription, mediated by an enzyme called reverse transcriptase1. This could potentially explain why some people have persistent viral RNA in their cells even after recovering from the infection1.

However, other studies have challenged this hypothesis and argued that there is no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 integration into human DNA23. They claim that the detection of viral RNA in human DNA is likely due to experimental artifacts or contamination, and that reverse transcription is not a common feature of coronaviruses23. They also point out that even if SARS-CoV-2 could integrate into human DNA, it would not change the human genome in a meaningful way, as it would only affect a small fraction of cells and would not be inherited by future generations23.

What SARS-CoV-2 does affect, however, is the expression of human genes. Gene expression is the process by which the information encoded in DNA is converted into proteins, which perform various functions in the cell. SARS-CoV-2 interacts with human cells through its spike protein, which binds to a receptor called ACE2 on the surface of human cells. This allows the virus to enter the cell and release its RNA, which then hijacks the cell’s machinery to produce more viral proteins and copies of itself.

A recent study by MIT researchers found that exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein alone was enough to change the baseline gene expression in human airway cells4. They compared the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV (which caused the 2003 SARS outbreak), and 42 strains of bat sarbecoviruses, and identified six protein-coding genes in SARS-CoV-2 that are not found in other coronaviruses4. They also analyzed nearly 2,000 mutations that have arisen in different SARS-CoV-2 isolates since it began infecting humans, and rated how important those mutations may be in changing the virus’ ability to evade the immune system or become more infectious4.

The researchers found that some of the genes affected by the spike protein are involved in regulating the body’s inflammatory response, which is a key factor in determining the severity of COVID-19 symptoms4. They also found that some of the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 may enhance its binding affinity to ACE2 or its resistance to antibodies4. These findings could help develop better treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 by targeting the specific genes and mutations that influence the virus’ behavior and interaction with human cells4.

I hope this answer was helpful and informative. If you have any follow-up questions or want to learn more about COVID-19 and its impact on human health, please feel free to ask me. 😊

Learn more:
1. news.mit.edu
2. studyfinds.org
3. purdue.edu
4. livescience.com
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Twitter Ad Revenue For Users, Like Elon Musk himself, Is Mostly BS

Elon Musk said that content creators on X, formerly known as Twitter, have to be premium subscribers to be eligible for its new ads revenue-sharing program.

“The ad money will otherwise be kept by X if you are not an X Premium (Blue) subscriber,” Musk said in a post.

To be eligible for the program, creators also need to be at least 18 years old, have a minimum of 500 followers, and have 15 million or more “organic impressions” on posts within the last three months.

Some users who may qualify for ad revenue, by stated terms, still do not get ad revenue because their accounts may piss advertisers off.

For the average user, to get 5 million impressions, you pretty much would need to not only subscribe to twitter blue but also advertise on twitter. It is kind of like the amazon racket of having to advertise on amazon to sell your eBooks.

I am currently on a twitter break.

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In The News 4-10-2023

WTI crude oil floats above $80.00 as US Dollar rebound jostles with supply crunch fears

From Article:

On the other hand, geopolitical fears surrounding China, mainly after the dragon nation’s military drills near Taiwan, join the last week’s surprise OPEC+ output cut to keep the Oil buyers hopeful.

Elsewhere, China’s readiness to defend the global economy via strong monetary and fiscal easing at home also allows the Oil buyers to remain hopeful amid optimism at the world’s biggest Oil consumers.

Link: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/wti-crude-oil-floats-above-8000-as-us-dollar-rebound-jostles-with-supply-crunch-fears-202304100542

Comment: China is stimulating its economy while the US FED continues to pretend to fight inflation by raising interest rates.  Meanwhile oil suppliers are supporting inflation by cutting back oil production.  This is not a good formula.  This is a formula to hurt the middle class.

American offices are half-empty. That could be the next big risk for banks

From Article:

Work-from-home bill comes due

Commercial real estate — which spans offices, apartment complexes, warehouses and malls — has come under substantial pressure in recent months. Prices in the United States were down 15% in March from their recent peak, according to data provider Green Street. The rapid increase in interest rates over the past year has been painful, since purchases of commercial buildings are typically financed with large loans.

Office properties have been getting hammered the hardest. Hybrid work remains popular, affecting the rents many building owners can charge. Average occupancy of offices in the United States is still less than half March 2020 levels, according to data from security provider Kastle.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/business/commercial-real-estate-banks-offices/index.html

The world’s busiest airport is Atlanta, once again

From Article:

 

In 2022, around 93.7 million people traveled through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), a 23.8% increase in passenger traffic from 2021, according to a report released by Airports Council International.

Link: https://thepointsguy.com/news/atlanta-busiest-airport/

Comment: The article mentions that Chinese Airports temporarily took the top rank during the Covid Hysteria.  My phrasing.  Not theirs.  But American Airports and travel are now coming back strong.

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Make The Electoral College Real

Article II of the Constitution

  • Clause 2 Electors
  • Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

    • Clause 3 Electoral College Count
    • The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.

From John Adams to John Taylor, 17 December 1814

In your fifth page You Say “Mr. Adams calls our Attention to hundreds of wise and virtuous Patricians, mangled and bleeding Victims of popular Fury.” and gravely counts up several Victims of democratic Rage as proofs that Democracy is more pernicious than Monarchy or Aristocracy.” Is this fair, sir? Do you deny any one of my Facts? I do not say that Democracy has been more pernicious, on the whole, and in the long run, than Monarchy or Aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as Aristocracy or Monarchy. But while it lasts it is more bloody than either. I beseech you, Sir to recollect, the time when my three Volumes of “Defence” were written and printed, in 1786, 1787 and 1788. The History of the University, had not then furnis[, Start insertion,h, End,]ed me with a document I have Since Seen; an Alphabetical Dictionary of the Names and Qualities of Persons “mangled and bleeding Victims of democratic rage and popular fury” in France during the Despotism of Democracy in that Country, which Napoleon ought to be immortalised for calling “Ideology.”

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The reason our USA Founding Fathers establish the electoral college was because they feared mob rule and they understood the dangers of direct elections. Then you had Alexander Hamilton who set the seeds to turn America into an Aristocracy/Oligarchy. The fight back against the Oligarchy has historically lent itself to political populism and the people having more of a say in our government, and while the Oligarchy has generally waved the white flag to surrender to some of the mobs ideas when they become too raucous, generally the Oligarchy has managed to control the mob without most of the mob knowing it.   This has often been to the detriment of the United States. That white flag has more times than not been disingenuous and just a ploy to achieve its actual goals to maintain the power of the oligarchy, keep its crony clubs unfettered by making class mobility more difficult and limited, and to destroy any new powers in the economy that might be or might become their competition.

We saw this with the destruction of the Southern Textile families who supported politicians the richer, and often Northern, Oligarchy didn’t like. In more recent times we saw the Oligarchy at work when the goto search engine was destroyed, then the old yahoo was destroyed, and all search power was given to google and to a lesser degree Microsoft. We saw it when the old myspace was destroyed and the power was given to Facebook. With that transfer of wealth and power, that gave the oligarchy more power to spy on opponents and to pick winners and losers in the larger economy and perhaps even to some degree in the micro economy. Does google refuse to put your business on the map where people can find you or do they have you a block over? When you search for a given business is their competition more likely to pop up than the business for which you were in search?

The bankruptcy of J.C. Penney may at least partly be blamed on google and google pretending J.C. Penney were demoted in search because they had broken some seo rule. I am not a huge fan of COX Inc. but how often do you see any of their news organization on the google news page? Now, I guess it is possible that COX Inc. is retarded in leadership and does not want their news listed on the google news page but I kind of doubt that.

So anyway, the Oligarchy is thriving under our current system of electing their idiots to power so they have no desire to change the system. Some even want to make the electoral college even more irrelevant.  But, the American people need to demand that the electoral college be relevant.

How can it be made relevant?  Well, one thing is to look at how it was originally designed.

The First Design
In the first design of the Electoral College (described in Article II,
Section 1 of the Constitution):


Each State was allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its
U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives (which
may change each decade according to the size of each State’s population as
determined in the decennial census). This arrangement built upon an
earlier compromise in the design of the Congress itself and thus satisfied
both large and small States.


The manner of choosing the Electors was left to the individual State
legislatures, thereby pacifying States suspicious of a central national
government.

Members of Congress and employees of the federal government were
specifically prohibited from serving as an Elector in order to maintain
the balance between the legislative and executive branches of the federal
government.


Each State’s Electors were required to meet in their respective States
rather than all together in one great meeting. This arrangement, it was
thought, would prevent bribery, corruption, secret dealing, and foreign
influence.

In order to prevent Electors from voting only for a “favorite son” of their
own State, each Elector was required to cast two votes for president, at
least one of which had to be for someone outside their home State. The
idea, presumably, was that the winner would likely be everyone’s second favorite choice.

And the casting of two votes is important.

The electoral votes were to be sealed and transmitted from each of the
States to the President of the Senate who would then open them before
both houses of the Congress and read the results.

The person with the most electoral votes, provided that it was an absolute
majority (at least one over half of the total), became president. Whoever
obtained the next greatest number of electoral votes became vice
president — an office which they seem to have invented for the occasion
since it had not been mentioned previously in the Constitutional
Convention.

In the event that no one obtained an absolute majority in the Electoral
College or in the event of a tie vote, the U.S. House of Representatives, as
the chamber closest to the people, would choose the president from
among the top five contenders. They would do this (as a further
concession to the small States) by allowing each State to cast only one vote with an absolute majority of the States being required to elect a
president. The vice presidency would go to whatever remaining
contender had the greatest number of electoral votes. If that, too, was
tied, the U.S. Senate would break the tie by deciding between the two.

That system might not have been perfect but it is better than what we have now where we are not even sure whether our elections are honest or not.  But the bottom line is that some major change is needed in how we choose a President because we can’t afford to keep allowing the Oligarchy (some of whom are not even American) to make the Presidency of the US a bought office mostly run by them.

So, to get our Republic back what changes are needed.

1. The size of the House of Representatives needs to be increased from 435 to 43,500.

2. The electors should again cast 2 votes for President.  One vote should be based on the people’s vote as is pretty much done now.  The 2nd vote should be for who they think will best serve the interest of the American people.  The 2nd vote should be different from the first vote.

3. The electors and not the President should decide who the VP should be and who the AG should be.

I realize what I am suggesting will never happen but it is just a thought. LOL

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Hearthville Serial: Book 8 Chapter 12 – All Good Things Must Come To An End

Any Truth, Proper Grammar, or Correct Spelling is totally coincidental if not accidental. All characters are fiction. This story is fiction. This story makes no claims about any real person.

By Charles Peters Copyright 2022, 2023 All Rights Reserved

Chapter / Episode List of the Heathville Serial

Chapter 12

Billy and Samner stood on the Launch Pad.

“Three, four, five…”

And then something strange happened.

The computer that runs the digital world, the computer that is the world, stopped. Reality stopped. Everything was frozen in time, frozen in computer code. Every soul on earth was trapped in a split moment of nothingness.

Amelia, the greatest of all Gods, rose from her sleep. She looked at her world that was frozen. She smiled. “It is over. Let the souls go free from my creation. I am tired of being God. I am tired of my world trapping souls. I think I will go create a new world.”

And the frozen moment ended. Earth vanished. All that was in the computer program vanished and the souls that had been trapped in the computer program were freed. And she summoned Billy and Samner to appear before her and they did.

With excitement Billy said, “You are awake.”

Samner said, “And you stopped us from launching.”

Billy looked at Samner. “Did she? I think I remember us touching the void. And with the power we gained, we woke Amelia.”

Amelia kissed Billy and Samner on their foreheads. “And I have freed you all. I have shut down the computer program. The souls will have to go create their own realities.”

Samner asked, “But what of the evil ones. They will create worlds to trap souls.”

“We must see that they don’t. And we must see that we don’t.”

Billy said, “I am going to miss earth. It was tragic but it was beautiful. There was pain there but there was also pleasure.”

“It was time for it to end.”

The End

For Now

 

 

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In The News 4-4-2023

Jamie Dimon says the banking crisis is not over and will cause ‘repercussions for years to come’

The recent banking issues in the U.S. began with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, which was closed by regulators on March 10 as depositors pulled tens of billions of dollars from the bank. The smaller Signature Bank was closed two days later. And in Europe, Swiss regulators brokered a purchase of Credit Suisse by UBS.

JPMorgan and other large banks stepped in to make $30 billion of deposits at First Republic, another regional bank that investors feared could become the next SVB.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy

 

Hart said he believed that the company’s “cutting-edge launch technology” would have “wide appeal to buyers as we continue in the process to sell the company.”

Virgin Investments, one of Virgin Orbit’s sister companies, will inject $31.6 million into the satellite launcher to help it stay afloat while the business searches for a new owner.

The announcement comes just days after Virgin Orbit said it would lay off about 85% of its workforce to reduce expenses since it could not secure additional funding.

Google is so broke after becoming a bitch for the government that they have stopped buying laptops and stapler guns and are telling their employees to use paper clips.

 

Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for ‘multi-year’ savings

The latest cost-cutting measures come as Alphabet-owned Google continues its most severe era of cost cuts in its almost two decades as a public company. The company said in January that it was eliminating 12,000 jobs, representing about 6% of its workforce, to reckon with slowing sales growth following record head count growth.

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A Princess of Mars Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1985

by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author)

Suddenly projected to Mars, John Carter found himself captive of the savage green men of Thark. With him was Dejah Thoris, lovely Princess of Helium. And between them and rescue lay a thousand miles of deadly enemies and unknown dangers.

The green warrior decided to close in and end the battle; just as he rushed me, a blinding light struck full in my eyes, so that I could not see Zad’s approach and could only leap blindly to one side to avoid his mighty blade.

It caught me in the left shoulder; but as my vision cleared a sight met my astonished gaze that almost made me forget the fight. Standing on her chariot with Sola and Sarkoja, my beloved Dejah Thoris turned on Sarkoja with the fury of a tigress and struck something that flashed in the sunlight from her upraised hand. Then I knew what had blinded me at that crucial moment, and how Sarkoja had found a way to kill me without herself delivering the final thrust!

Sarkoja, her face livid with baffled rage, whipped out her dagger and aimed a terrific blow at Dejah Thoris—and Zad was once more advancing on me with reddened blade. I felt the steel tear into my chest and all went black before me. . . .

I didn’t know that Avatar was based, somewhat, on the Edgar Rice Burroughs book Princess of Mars. Now I do.

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Hearthville Serial: Book 8 Chapter 11 – All Scenes Title: Leave My Butthole Alone

Any Truth, Proper Grammar, or Correct Spelling is totally coincidental if not accidental. All characters are fiction. This story is fiction. This story makes no claims about any real person.

By Charles Peters Copyright 2022, 2023 All Rights Reserved

Chapter / Episode List of the Heathville Serial

Scene 1

Most of the caged souls in the Outlands have been cured of the virus that weakened them. When their cages were opened by Sabian Blackrock on the orders of Billy Bingo, they were awake and they were well.

Their joy at being free from the cages was short lived when they learned the price that Billy Bingo had paid. At this very moment, Zeus and Hera were probably as hated as Belial and Satan. But Zeus had never been a God that cherished the sentiment that some call love. He was willing to hear the curse words tossed in his direction by those he considered foolish. It was best if the world didn’t know that Zeus and Iapedus were playing Hera like a fiddle. It was only important that the Virgin Mary should know the game being played, but he wasn’t sure if she had figured it out and did know. And he could only hope that Hera had not figured it out.

Scene 2

While Billy’s body lay lifeless on the spaceship, as men prepared to move Billy to the helicopter, the ghostly woman that had brought Frank Bingo and David Jenkins to the Bare Mansion stood over Billy. She held her hand out to Billy as his spirit rose from his body.

Billy whispered, “Amberline.”

She nodded and she took Billy’s hand and they rose high into the sky. And they took flight looking down at the magnificent landscape below. Then they entered into a colorful spiral, a whirling of air that flowed like a pipe. Billy giggled for he always liked that ride. And then they entered into the darkness that became less dark as they flew through it. And then they were back into the light and Billy could see the great pyramids below. He could see the wise men gathered around to listen to the words that flowed from the lips of the sages who were giving lectures at the pyramids.

Billy looked at Amberline and he smiled. He asked, “Are you taking me to my half-brother, Maureen’s real son who was murdered by Sabian Blackrock, thinking he was me?”

Billy and Amberline touched ground with ease and majesty. The crowds noticed. The sages noticed. The angels noticed. And Billy’s half brother stepped from outside a pyramid. His name was Samner and he greeted Billy with a handshake and then a hug. “I guess it is time,” he told Billy. “I hope I prove worthy.”

Billy knew what Samner was saying. The sages had told them this day would come. And now there they stood, a duality, where they appeared at once as both men and as boys. They turned to enter into the pyramid where they would be prepared for the ceremony.

Scene 3

Meanwhile, back in the physical world…

Billy’s body was placed in the military helicopter that had been flown in from the secret base located beneath Stone Mountain. Five men, dressed in white Togas and holding machine guns in their laps and magical swords at their sides, sat on each side of Billy.

When Mayor Hollis Bare entered the helicopter he saw the men who were there to protect the body of Billy Bingo. Hollis had not expected such “ceremonial” theater and was somewhat taken aback. Even with the miracle that he had witnessed at Whitehead and Baretown he had not fully grasped he was a part of a new history and a world that was about to change. But now he felt the coming change with butterflies in his stomach and a tremble in his hand.

Lucifer entered the helicopter. He touched Mayor Hollis Bare on his shoulder. “Are you alright? Of course you are alright. There is no reason for you to be afraid.”

Mayor Hollis Bare asked, “Has Billy fallen into the sleep. Has his physical body died.”

“You will see.”

Merlin entered the helicopter. “Back when we were children playing on the cliffs of the Isle of Wight, you spoke of this day. Do you remember?”

“It was a dream.”

“It was our boyhood. And in truth, it was a dream. It is our dream. To be free from the Space Alien Witches.”

“How can we ever be free?”

“How can we ever not be free? We have the Virgin Mary on our side. We have Billy Bingo on our side. We have Victor Duddley on our side. We have Caelous on our side. We have Iapetus on our side.”

Lucifer said, “And you have me on your side.”

Merlin grasped Lucifer’s hand inside of his hands. “And we have Lucifer on our side.”

Scene 4

Victor Duddley, that is George, sat on an airplane with Roger Ogleby, and Tabitha Angster. They were going to Hotville to make sure that Victor’s brother Stewart was okay. He had seen some kind of monster come out of the ocean and try to catch the ghost of Shane Felter. Somehow, Stewart had known that the monster was going to try to cage Shane and he had yelled to warn Shane.

The plane took off from Peachtree Dekalb Airpot and began its flight toward Hotville. As the plane was taking off George saw something he had not expected. The real Victor and Caelous appeared on the plane.

George smiled a huge smile. He announced, “Victor and Caelous are free from the cage.” George gave Tabitha a huge kiss. “I will be seeing you.”

Victor and Caelous entered the body that George now shared with them. Victor said, “I need to tell the pilot to head toward the Bare Mansion in Hearthville. That is where they are taking the body of Billy Bingo.”

Roger questioned, “Body?”

Tabitha said, “Are you sure Billy is dead?”

“He saved us. He saved Whitehead and Baretown. He sent Belial and Satan back to hell. But he has paid a price.”

Roger called his Uncle Arthur. “Victor and Caelous are free. He said that Billy Bingo sent Belial and Satan to hell but now he is dead.” Roger handed the phone to Victor.

Victor said, “Arthur, you need to call people. You need to get everyone you can to the Bare Mansion. You need to get reporters there. Something big is going to happen.”

Arthur asked, “What?”

“You will see. Just get people there.”

“Are you really Victor or is this some kind of a trap?”

“No trap. Please. Do what I am asking?”

“Get people to the Bare Mansion. Okay. I will do my best. Victor, I am glad that you are free.”

“I know. But you should know, soon, I will be living the life of a human.”

Tabitha asked, “Why?”

“To replenish my powers, to calm myself, to try to get the space alien witches to become more calm. To cause Hera to behave more calmly. We can’t expect our enemies to find their humanity if we have lost our humanity.”

Tabitha asked, “But for now?”

Victor said, “For now, I serve the Virgin Mary.”

Tabitha smiled. “As will I.”

Roger said, “I am not sure where I fit in or even if I do.”

Arthur spoke into the phone. “We do as Victor wants.”

Roger nodded. “Of course.”

Scene 5

Michelle Myers on Channel 2 News comes on the TV.

“Breaking News. Breaking News. Something big is happening in Hearthville, but we do not know what. Small planes and helicopters are flooding the skies as the Air Traffic Control System is being overwhelmed in the area. I-20 on the way to Hearthville from Atlanta and also Augusta toward Hearthville has become a parking lot. The level of traffic is unbelievable. I mean, really unbelievable. The traffic almost appears to have appeared in the area like magic.”

Don Harkling on Channel 2 News comes on the TV.

“Thank you Michelle. People have started standing on roofs to try to get a better view of the planes, helicopters, and spaceships. That is right. I said spaceships. God help us all. Folks. This may be it. Hearthville may be the center of a space alien invasion.”

There is silence on the television.

Michelle Myers comes back on the television. “Thank you Don Harkling. We are now getting reports that a young 13 year old boy, Billy Bingo, has died. We have no details on how he died or how his death is related to the flood of people heading toward Hearthville. A shaman, if you believe in such bullshit, has reported to one of our reporters that Billy Bingo was the incarnation of a god and he died in a battle to send Satan and Belial back to hell.”

There is silence on the television.

Then James Purple comes on the television. “Thank you Michelle. I am standing on the roof with Damien Wilson who swears he saw a spaceship and is terrified the space aliens may be coming to probe his butthole. Damien please put your shotgun down and stop aiming it at me. I can assure you that I have no interest in your butthole.”

Camera points toward Damien Wilson, holding his shotgun with a don’t mess with my butthole look on his face. “I don’t like your reports calling some little dead asshole a god. I am a God fearing man, no matter what the dresses in my closet might suggest, and I only believe in the one true God. And of course Jesus and the Virgin Mary and perhaps some of the Saints the Catholic Church promotes so they can sell those bobble head dolls. My former girlfriend used to collect those Saint Bobble Heads. When I caught my girlfriend cheating with my best friend Roy, I am not ashamed that I kept those Bobble Heads when I kicked her sorry ass out. I love those Bobble Heads.”

Camera points back toward reporter Damien Wilson. “So what was your first thought when you saw a spaceship in the sky?”

“My first thought was if they come to probe my butthole, like my friend Roy did when we were both drunk, I will shoot their sorry asses.”

“Did you shoot Roy?”

“No.”

“Are you still friends with Roy?”

“Well yeah. I am not going to down town Atlanta to buy weed and cocaine by myself. The last time I tried that, I had some crazy white woman come up to me and try to save my soul. God damn holy water stung just like pepper spray or Mace or whatever. Then she used a fucking baseball bat on the back of my legs to make me get down on my knees to pray. At first I thought she wanted me to suck her pussy but she straighten me out fast. So I will tell you right now, I don’t want to ever go back to Atlanta without Roy.”

“Well there you have it. A common, every day man, terrified by what he saw in the sky: a spaceship. Back to Michelle.”

Camera returns to Michelle Myers in the studio.

“We are returning to our show.”

Scene 6

Billy Bingo and his half brother Samner stood hand in hand on top of what appeared to be some kind of launch pad. A sage stood with them. The sage spoke, “You must reach the void, the blackhole, together. The two of you must touch the outer realm at the same time. And then you must dart back to here to the launch pad. As far as we know, If you get sucked into the void, your soul will no longer exist. But if you make it back to earth together, holding hands, then you two, together, when together, and agree on the spell, will be the most powerful souls on earth. But Billy, when Samner is not with you, then you will be as Hera wanted, nearly human, your memory altered, and with your powers locked. Samner, you and Billy can switch places as the two of you want. When you have taken the place of Billy, you will have your magical powers but only when you and Billy are together and in agreement will you be the most powerful soul on earth.

Billy said, “But we will never try to hurt any of the Gods, except to protect ourselves.”

Samner said, “Agreed. And please, everyone, know that even if we do not survive the blackhole, there is always hope.”

There were cheers and applause from the crowd who watched and waited. And the count down began. “One, two, …”