As I reported yesterday, my phone and Internet went out for most of the day, leaving me without enough time to post anything but the news feed last evening. Then today — Wednesday — I went to the retinal specialist’s office to get a periodic injection in my left eye to treat wet macular degeneration. When I got home (a little worse for the wear and tear) I discovered that the phone and Internet had gone out again during my absence.
So I ate dinner and watched DVDs gleaned from Dymphna’s collection (I’m not much of a DVD person, but she has left me a few). Right after I finished watching a movie, the Internet came back on, although the phone is still out.
So here we are. It’s almost midnight, and I haven’t even begun to look at the email. My eye is still sore, and I can see the dancing bubble, as usual. I’ve approved the backlog of comments, but this post is all that I’ll put up before tomorrow (Thursday) — when I’ll be even further behind.
If the Internet stays on, I’ll try to start catching up. And if the phone comes back on, I’ll call the @#%^&!@?$#! phone company and demand a credit for all these hours that I’ve been without service.
I’m sick of this [solid waste].
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Re: wet macula degeneration.
In my case the ‘dancing bubble’
(injection fluid) (26 times, i will remember)
disappears after one or twu minutes!
After 20-30 minutes (last time, monday) my vision almost disappeared,
came back after havubg slept for some 5-6 hours – usually after an hour it feels as if there was gravel in the eye, but that’s gone after sleeping those 5-6 hours. Sight is now down to some 4 %.
The question is:
will I go blind before I die – or will I die before I go blind?
This exposition to justify my asking you for the name of your injection fluid for the sake of comparison. I have forgotten the name of my own, but will go for an examination next Tuesday.
Mine is called Avastin.
The bubble usually lasts for 6-8 hours. My eye stays sore until I have had a good night’s sleep.
The treatment seems to be effective — my condition has largely stabilized. My vision is poor, but I don’t think I’ll go blind.
I’ve been getting these injections for more than ten years. I’ve probably had more than 50 of them by now.
Listen and be amazed!
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Yes, I was injected with that once or twice, but only because a charitable organization paid the costs. It’s hideously expensive, and not covered by Medicare.
Is this superior to Avastin? Does it last longer between intervals or temporarily restore more vision?
None of them restore any vision. They simply inhibit the growth of new blood vessels (neovascularization), which is what causes wet macular degeneration.
I asked the retinologist if Eyelea was better, and he said he didn’t think it was significantly different. So I didn’t worry about it when I had to go back to Avastin.
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quoted from snaphanen.dk
Unreported by Danish media: Zelensky cancels democratic elections, US spies on Zelensky and depleted uranium explodes in Ukraine.
Not a peep about this in the Danish media. When the British delivered depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine a few weeks ago, it was not without a certain amount of pride.
Putin warned at the same time that he would not sit passively on his hands, and yesterday several Ukrainian arms depots were hit in the head with a load of the hypersonic Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missiles.
You can find the news in foreign MSM, but in Denmark there is total silence about what kind of atomic bomb-like explosion we can see on video today. Not on You Tube, but on Rumble, which by the way is under attack.
A huge “mushroom” explosion in Khmelnytskyi revives claims of “depleted uranium” and after a missile attack by the RF armed forces, an increased radiation background is recorded in Khmelnytskyi. The Americans used munitions in Iraq with terrible effects on the population. What British politicians were so proud of is not easy to realise.
There are other things that the Danish population should not know. It turns out that the Americans have been spying on Zelensky and that he has so far cancelled democratic elections. This according to an interview in the Washington Post, which removed parts of the interview when Zelensky became furious. More importantly, about a man “who fights for democracy and the rule of law”.
Another revelation in this Washington Post article is that there will be no parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Mr Zelensky admits to doing away with elections in the interview. He claims that the constitution prohibits all elections during a state of war. After martial law ends, Zelensky believes they will hold elections.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen is in the mood for war, just like the rest of the Western world. He wants to “provide security guarantees before Ukraine joins NATO”. Apart from the fact that Ukraine as a NATO member is an extremely dangerous idea, there is a high risk of triggering Article 5 and dragging the whole of NATO into the war. “But Putin only understands the language of power,” says Fogh. On the other hand, Fogh should know that when Putin tells him where his limits are, he can be expected not to interfere too much.
Some of us have realised that the current rabid American regime wants to destroy Russia and depose Putin. If they cannot be diverted from that idea, I fear that humanity’s days are shortly numbered.
Our leaders are heading for madness. If there is a Danish politician who thinks the same, they say nothing. They let themselves be pulled around by the US/NATO, even if they have to pay billions for it. They are climbing further and further up a tree from which nuclear war is an increasingly likely outcome. And no one takes the danger seriously.
A nuclear holocaust has become like an innocent computer game. Those of us who are getting older should be happy that we have had a good and long life.
You can watch Redacted on this: Putin warned him this would happen, he wasn’t bluffing.
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What was said above about Denmark applies equally to Sweden!
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Spike in gamma radiation detected in Khmelnitsky,
Ukraine after a Russian Missile hitting the
Brittish depleted uranium grenades
https://rumble.com/v2ntmce-spike-in-gamma-radiation-detected-in-khmelnitsky-ukraine-after-a-russian-mi.html
Want to hear a conspiracy theory?
What if your internet shutdown is made by the Shadow Powers to prepare you for the day they pull the plug.
You will say: Ok, internet is down, just like the last months. Will be back in a few hours.
And then the grab team comes.
(Wasnt it like that in Matthew Brackens story “What I saw at the coup”?)
Are you sure it’s “solid waste” that’s been poured all over us?
I guess those home-remedies didn’t work for you then.
Maybe they only work when your eyes are only “fatigued” through age.
Pity.
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Lunacy i s contagious
What I Saw at the Coup (short fiction)
This is the first time in many years that I have put pen to paper for a lengthy letter, so please forgive my misspellings, poor handwriting or any other errors. I will probably do this in one go and be finished with it. I won’t need much of this new notebook. It’s a nice room, desk and chair, but really, no computer? I just wish they would stop the hammering outside. I need to focus in order to write well.
No one person could possibly expect to know the full truth about such a complex history, so near to its time. But I know what I know, saw what I saw, and heard what I heard. Now it’s time to set the record straight, at least about what transpired between some of the key players in the lead up to the recent events.
What I have heard called “the plan” began as idle office chat, nothing more. (Of course, not much chat is ever truly idle at the very highest levels of power, between senior presidential advisors.) The first time I heard it mentioned was over lunch with Dennis in the White House Mess, down in the basement next to the situation room. We were at a quiet corner table of the wood-paneled dining room, tossing ideas for the next talking points back and forth. Routine.
One of right-wing hate radio’s loudest and most poisonous voices was conducting an embarrassing public feud with our press secretary. The President had trapped himself in a seeming contradiction. The video and audio were both damning, and one must admit, very funny— if one’s goal was to make the President look and sound like a liar and a fool. The Youtube videos were getting millions of hits; the TV comics were not letting it go. We had been knocked completely off message, the optics were horrible, and our favorability ratings were collapsing at a crucial moment. (It seems like an ice-age ago when such trivialities actually mattered to me.
I said something offhandedly to Dennis. “I just wish we could get rid of those bastards, once and for all.”
He stared at me for a long time, chewing on his second BLT sandwich until the Navy steward retreated from range, and then he said, “Actually, Jacinda, there is sort of a plan for that.”
“What do you mean, ‘a plan for that’?”
He explained that it was nothing formal, and there was nothing in writing. Nor would there ever be. It was just a concept he had come up with, along with a few other trusted colleagues and advisors. An idea. They had gamed out various scenarios. We could solve our problems with molding public opinion if we removed just a few dozen key right-wing opinion makers. That was the exact word he used, “removed.” That was last spring, and I put it off as a harmless thought experiment. I didn’t hear anything more about it for several months.
Then one day after another media talking points session in the mess, Dennis said, “Remember the plan we were talking about? You know, we really could do it.”
“Are you serious?”
“The timing would have to be just right. Mainly, it would depend on external events.”
Remembering the numbers from our earlier conversation, I told him that removing a few dozen of the worst reactionaries wouldn’t change anything. Other fast-talking right wingers would just take their places. Except they would be angrier than ever.
“Not dozens.” He paused. “Around two thousand, actually.”
The new number shocked me. “That’s not possible.” “No, it’s very possible.
We’ve studied it from every angle.” Clearly, he knew more about a plan than he was letting on. Nobody was closer to the President than the two of us and his wife, and I had heard nothing from the boss, not even a hint. “You’re making this up. You’re not serious. Is it a joke, or a test? I wasn’t born yesterday.” I had to be careful. This was dangerous territory, when any spoken word could be recorded almost anywhere. Trust in a man like Dennis was a very slender reed upon which to cling.
Bracken, Matthew (2012-11-07). The Bracken Anthology (Kindle Locations 1263-1271). Steelcutter Publications. Kindle Edition.
My internet (fiber-optic; not DSL or cable) went down for nearly 3 days, last week. It took me several days to speak by phone with a knowledgable phone company technical guy, who explained to me that, only after the company had logged 17 reports of individual customer outages did the company determine that there was a bad computer board located in some utility box in the neighborhood.
Thus, your service provider may “think” that it solved your individual problem, only to learn later that other customers are also reporting problems, indicating a wider issue that needs to be tracked down and repaired, at some central location or neighborhood junction box.
In my experience, you do best by calling as a “new customer,” because you get connected to a real person faster (funny how that works), who seems more inclined to be helpful, and to go around the tech support operator, to make direct contact with better-informed technical people.
No, the Bangladeshi tech told me this was an area outage when I talked to him on Wednesday. It was never considered to be an individual outage.
I can’t call anyone unless I drive for miles to use someone else’s phone. There’s no cell coverage here, so even if I had a baby monitor, it would do me no good.
Long experience has taught me that talking to the phone company is generally fruitless. Once I find out it’s an area outage, there’s nothing for it but to hunker down and wait.
Voice is still out. When it comes back on, I intend to call and get my bill pro-rated. I’ve done that before when the outages have added up to more than 24 hours during a billing period.
Dear Baron, please consider Starlink. I recently switched from terrible Spectrum cable and have been quite pleased with the reliability of Starlink. $120 per month.
Ned, I had frequent blackouts with comcast/xfinity. I got sick of them and when I called them I could never get a human being to talk with.
I changed to Google Fiber and have no problems at all. You might check them out and see if it is available in your location.
Thank you, but I live in the middle of nowhere, and my choices are very limited. For a long time there was only dialup. Now it’s a choice between satellite and the phone company’s pseudo-DSL. I’ve tried both, and the latter is preferable.
You could try starlink? Ole Elon is on to something there, everybody is getting it where I live.
Starlink?
Yes, I’ve considered that. But it’s somewhat more expensive than what I have now. However, if the phone company continues on its present trajectory, it may be worth looking at.
I suggest to pre-order it. It’s a $100 deposit, fully refundable if you decide in the end not to go through with it. The queue is months long, I’ve been waiting for mine for 6 months now and may not get the full speed option until the end of the year…. It’s a backup, so it’s not urgent for me, but your case seem to be different….
I am curious how Starlink would fare in the event of civil disturbance.
There have been several instances of the authorities shutting off cell service to a particular area to disrupt flash mobs and protests. And governments have temporarily blocked internet access to entire countries for the same reason.
Is Starlink a potential way to end run around this kind of disruption? Or would it be just as vulnerable to shutdown by government officials?
Starlink is independent of anything government and when the government demanded access to his satellite’s, he told them to go pound sand, so?
Starlink ground stations are all around the globe.