Godwin's Law and E-Mail Lists

From Tom Woods, via e-mail, and if you're not on his list you might want to be. Each daily e-mail is selling something, but it's also sharing a (usually short) bit of snarky news commentary. I left the sales pitch in for those who may be interested in checking out the product. Those who are already on TW's mailing list may want to scroll down below the excerpt from the e-mail they've already received, and read my reply:

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On Tue, 4/30/19, Tom Woods (HappyEarner.com) wrote:

Subject: "Ron Paul: America's Most Dangerous Nazi"
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 2:39 PM

"Ron Paul: America's Most Dangerous Nazi"

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Tom Woods

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"

I replied:


"Ron Paul? What about Werner Baumann at Bayer and the corporate goons at Merck?

Seriously:

* Merck is currently sponsoring a campaign of persecution of devout Jews in New York City.

* Bayer bought out Monsanto, a US company that had earned a lot of hate even before their once trademarked product, glyphosate, went generic.

In order to market generic glyphosate, Monsanto and other companies told farmers and food processors that glyphosate was as safe as salt (a claim based on BAD misinterpretation of early studies) and could be sprayed directly on food crops before harvesting. Glyphosate soaks into many foods, like peanuts, sunflower seeds, beans, rice, corn, oats, tomatoes, strawberries, spinach, kale, apples, peaches, and other "healthy" favorites. As glyphosate-drenched foods hit the US market, cases of formerly rare food intolerance skyrocketed, creating the market for "gluten-free" foods among consumers who don't have genetic gluten intolerance--only to create more dissatisfaction as foods containing no trace of wheat gluten, or the other food sensitivity triggers, make people sicker than the alleged trigger food ever did.

Hospital emergency rooms classify immediate effects of glyphosate exposure into eight categories, lumping cognitive and emotional reactions into "miscellaneous" and ignoring glyphosate's alleged contributions to later developments like birth defects and cancer. Studies show that, across species, individual reactions vary enough that each type of reaction seems statistically rare--but the majority of all species studied show adverse reactions of some kind or other. Also, reactions mimic one another across species. Pseudo-celiac reactions (bleeding ulceration of the digestive tract) appear in mammals, birds, fish, and allegedly in insects. How it's possible to see bleeding ulcers in a bee, I don't want to know, but researchers claim they've done it.

* True celiac reactions are produced by a genetic pattern whose "strong" form is virtually limited to people of Irish descent. Celiacs are basically strong and healthy as long as we (I'm one) avoid eating wheat; before glyphosate began to be dumped on food we could look forward to long healthy lives as long as we avoided ingesting wheat products. However, glyphosate produces more intense celiac reactions than wheat itself. So, spraying glyphosate on food can reasonably be described as "Irish Genocide."

* Bayer has bought an expensive ad campaign on Twitter (and other media that aren't supposed to be "social" and "uncensored"), marketing the claim that glyphosate is safe. They now know this to be...a BIG LIE!

* And Bayer, Merck, and probably other large corporate sponsors have paid for a new version of Twitter that *systematically* cuts off communication among non-paying individual users. (It's called "quality filtering" and works by defining individuals' tweets as "low quality.") In other words, Bayer is buying CENSORSHIP to silence all opposition to its BIG LIE.

* And the home office of this corporation is...IN GERMANY!

* What kind of name is "Merck," anyway? [Yes, I know, the same kind as "Roosevelt," "Eisenhower," and "Rickenbacker"...but "By their fruits, you shall know them..."]

All they need are the uniforms--Bayer and Merck are ALREADY GOOSE-STEPPING...

More on Twitter; you'll need to go directly to the #glyphosate and #GlyphosateAwareness hashtags to find it. "Quality filtering" is theoretically fixable although it takes time (we have to exchange tweets with one another BY ONES, a chore even for me, with only about 700 Tweeps). It'll take a while and I'm using that while to share the link to the idea of building a post-Twitter network. I will be setting up an e-mail list, probably with Mailchimp; you're welcome to join. Fundraising will eventually be necessary; paywalls won't--I don't expect the campaign will take that long.

Priscilla King
"

I don't know, and won't know, exactly how many people I follow and am followed by. That's because (1) the precise count changes daily as Twitter accounts come and go, and (2) Twitter counts the two lists separately; there is some overlap. I'm not keeping count. People are following and unfollowing as I tweet to each individual Tweep to reactivate our connections.

I am watching to see recent e-friends like Iris Yang, Ellen Hawley, and Barb Taub, who are premium quality (authors of above-average books) but joined my list relatively recently, appear in my notifications before I get up through the list to tag them. That would reassure me that Twitter is recovering its sanity. I expected it to have happened a week ago, when I turned off "quality filtering." It hasn't happened, and I'm not pleased...

I e-mailed back to the Children's Health Defense fund (founded by Robert Kennedy) earlier this morning, too, and I e-mailed Senator Warner this week, because I anticipate interesting replies from those offices. People who don't rely heavily on e-mail will need to add themselves to whatever e-mail list(s) I eventually set up. I always read individually typed e-mails first, too, and have never sent out a bulk e-mail before today; I did that for clients so long ago that the existing systems are probably completely different. I've never e-mailed most of you readers, or wanted to, when Twitter (used to be) so much faster...but life is short. Twitter is forcing me to take this step.

I promise: No sharing of e-mail lists, ever. No requests for personal data online; if your screen name is not a business name you've registered as such, I don't want to know. No more than one bulk e-mail per day--my understanding is that that's all services like Mailchimp do for free anyway. No insertion of personal data into bulk e-mail to make it look like a real, personal, hand-typed message when it's not. No use of fundraising services that demand that you enter your Paypal password on their page or transfer real-world contact information online. E-mails will contain current fundraising information, such as the new Paypal address when that's restored (currently you have to send U.S. postal orders to the Boxholder, P.O. Box 322), but will never consist of fundraising appeals entire and alone. If I can't build an e-mail list that I wouldn't mind being on, myself, I'll not build one at all.

E-mails will differ from the blog, although they may eventually appear on this site or a separate one. One possibility will be "creature features"--making our e-mails fun reads by sharing facts about pretty flowers and lovable animals that are threatened by glyphosate. Subscribers will be encouraged to suggest more ideas about what they want to read. Glyphosate Awareness will remain politically bipartisan, or multipartisan, and separate from--though obviously related to--other pesticide, pollution, and health issues.

Fundraising will be necessary if we have to go to real mail, because real mail costs money. I don't expect to get rich off Glyphosate Awareness--unless, and until, we bring Bayer to heel, and Heaven speed the day!--but a decent-quality real mail campaign takes paper, postage, and also time to make mailings responsive to any replies offline people take the trouble to send us.

Also: #GlyphosateAwareness, on Twitter, is global. My activism is U.S. only. I'll continue to share information published in other countries, but will send e-mail only within the U.S. (I don't care where e-mails may be forwarded.) Foreign allies are free to send money to me if they feel like it, why not, but are encouraged to support campaigns to build Glyphosate Awareness in their own countries. This especially applies to Canadian readers, who are hereby cordially invited to drive down for weekend visits, and whose own public health services need Glyphosate Awareness, driven by local taxpayers, National Health users, etc., at least as much as ours do.