November 20, 2020

That Frosty Global Warming

Timothy Birdnow

Global Warming is freezing cold!

Multiple Cold Records Fell in California on Monday

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Anti-Masking Petition

Warner Todd Huston

Doctors and 630,000 Citizens Sign International Anti-Lockdown Proclamation

Tim adds:

Don't forget the Barrington Declaration which argued that we are on the wrong track with all of this.

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Inflating School Numbers of Covid

Ellen Birdnow Durnbaugh

This is from the Francis Howell School District's website (I just happened to stumble on it looking something up for a client at work). I was also listening to a press conference yesterday, mostly talking about the Covid vaccine, but during which the head of the CDC stated several times that schools should NOT be shutting down, that months of research show that k-12 schools are not vectors of transmission, and actually said that school is one of the safest place, Covid wise, for students AND teachers. So, why is the St. Charles County health department deliberating inflating the "school related transmission" numbers??? Why scare people more than necessary?

Alerts
New STATEMENT ON SCHOOL-RELATED COVID DATA

The St. Charles County Department of Public Health published new data today regarding COVID-19 cases linked to school attendance and school facilities. This data differs from that previously reported by the Francis Howell School District. Here’s why: The health department data includes close contacts exposed directly through a school setting, AND all other cases involving students or staff members, regardless of where transmission occurred. If there is reported or suspected transmission among two individuals who are connected with the District in some capacity, it will show as transmission in the health department’s data – even if the individuals are linked in other ways outside of school. For example, a sleepover that leads to the spread of COVID from one student to another would show up in the health department’s count, but not in ours. Likewise, transmission between two siblings who both attend FHSD schools would be reported as a "school-linked transmission” on the health department dashboard, but we would not count that as school spread. When contract tracing, we have kept a close eye on reported transmission within the school setting so we can better understand the impact of school attendance on our COVID numbers. We do follow cases where the reported transmission occurred outside of school (and include these cases in our weekly dashboard updates) but we do not include them when reporting how much spread we have seen in our buildings. We know that conflicting information from multiple entities can create confusion and distrust. We hope that this statement helps to clarify the ways in which our data differs from the county’s data.



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More Jackboots

Warner Todd Huston

Top California Democrat Wants Trump Voters Put in Re-Education Camps

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The Iron Boot in the Face

Warner Todd Huston

D.C. Jackboots Arrest Students for Writing ‘Black Pre-Born Lives Matter’ in Chalk Outside Planned Parenthood

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The Right to Live

Timothy Birdnow

Here is a good essay about the fundamental rights of Man and how we have the right to catch a disease if we wish to risk it. It asks the question; why is the right to protection from Covid trump the right to live life?

From the essay:

People have the right not to be exposed to an infectious disease but that has to be balanced against the right of others to be exposed if they so choose, be it out of a death wish or, more likely, a desire not to allow a low-risk event to ruin their cherished lives.

Whose rights should prevail in this case? Until March of this year, there was universal agreement that the rights of those who are not proven to be infectious trump those who want to play it safe. That made sense because those who fear death more than a lifeless life can join Joe Biden in the basement, no coercion required.

Suddenly, though, many governments flip-flopped and claimed, without any public discussion or accountability for the results, that the rights of those who seek not to be exposed to the virus trump the rights of those willing to risk exposure. Many were suddenly forced to be the keeper of everyone else, like it or not.

You know, this thing was 180* different during the AIDS epidemic. Back then there was an enormous push to not have contact tracing or quarantining of infected individuals (which is why it spread so fast).We were told this was about basic civil rights. I would point out that there is a phenomenon known as "bug chasing" in which gay people actually SEEK to become infected with HIV, and nobody ever suggested that they didn't have the right to do so. (And all of us pay for it with higher insurance rates and the like.) Speaking of which, Obamacare and other quasi-socialised medical insurance schemes stress the "pre-existing condition" angle, saying that should be no bar to receiving health care, and that included bug chasers who wanted to get sick to prove their fealty to the homosexual lifestyle. But now it's all flipped on it's head with Covid. Now you don't have a right to even go out if you aren't proven to NOT be sick; it's a case of guilty until proven innocent. And the mainstream media (and sadly the American People) don't see the contradiction, or ignore it at any rate.

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The Right to Mobility

Timothy Birdnow

I wrote this for Enter Stage Right years ago. It is even more relevant now that Britain is going to ban internal combustion vehicles.

Here is my article from 2008:

When the Bill of Rights was introduced to the U.S. Constitution, an argument erupted over the need for amendments specifically enumerating the rights of Americans. The Constitution states quite plainly that any powers not expressly granted to the United States government are reserved to the States and the People. In short, there should have been no need to enumerate rights; they were granted not by men but by God, after all, and the Constitution made it plain that America's central government was to be seriously circumscribed.

But many feared the power of this new, stronger union and the ''elastic clause'' (Article I, Sec. VIII) granting the power to do what was ''necessary and proper'' for the welfare of that union, and so the first ten amendments were introduced to guarantee the freedom of the citizenry. One freedom that never made it into the Constitution was so basic, it probably never occurred to the Founders that there was a need for a formal inclusion; the right to mobility.

Just as the right to own property was not included because it was seen as self-evident, the right to move about is one of the roots of liberty, something absolutely unabridgeable in a free society and likewise self-evident. A number of the individual States incorporated this fundamental right into their constitutions, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled early on in Corfield v. Coryell (1823) and in a series of subsequent rulings (Paul v. Virginia, Ward v. Maryland, U.S. v Harris, etc.) the right to travel was a fundamental thing, although it was not specifically within the jurisdiction of the United States government; after all, those rights were reserved to the States and the People.

Then we must consider this:

"Personal liberty largely consists of the Right to locomotion to go where and when one pleases only so far restrained as the Rights of others may make it necessary for the welfare of all other Citizens. The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horsedrawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but the common Right which he has under his Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Under this Constitutional guarantee one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another's Rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct." - American Jurisprudence 1st, Constitutional Law, Section 329, p. 1135.



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The Eyes Have It! Or Get It

Timothy Birdnow

And fingernails torn out in slow motion...

'Eyes will be plucked out' if west continues to criticize China, says Chinese ambassador

China has expressed sharp disapproval towards Five Eyes countries (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) after China moved to impose new rules that would disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong.

After criticism from the Five Eyes, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman warned that "eyes" would be "plucked out" if the countries weren't "careful" in how they conducted themselves.

"The Chinese never make trouble and are never afraid of anything," said Zhao Lijian told journalists in Beijing. "It does not matter if they had five or 10 eyes," he added.

The criticism came after China expelled pro-democracy lawmakers from Hong Kong's legislature, according to BBC. In response, Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers all resigned, meaning that there was not a single dissenting voice in the Hong Kong's government for the first time since 1997.

"We urge the Chinese central authorities to re-consider their actions against Hong Kong’s elected legislature and immediately reinstate the Legislative Council members,” wrote foreign ministers from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States in a statement, according to Reuters.

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The Case

This from E. Calvin Beisner:

You who dislike the implications of this, I urge you, I adjure you, to put your preferences aside and simply consider the EVIDENCE. "Test all things, hold fast what is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

Trump Legal: Giuliani and Powell Lay Out Latest Voter Cheating and Irregularities

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The Myth Covid-19 Doesn't Discriminate

James Doogue

Ours government's will learn they can only continue a lie for so long.

Apart from New South Wales, where they have an adult in charge, Australian State premiers have lost all credibility on Covid-19. Only the willfully ignorant don't know that only the frail elderly, and medically vulnerable need to fear Covid-19.

Stop telling us this disease doesn't discriminate. It absolutely does!

Sure we've seen the rare youngish, healthy looking 'survivor' describe how they went to hell and back. Often they have underlying respiratory issues such as asthma, or drug use or smoking damage. There's very little evidence of actual young, healthy people dying of Covid-19. Read the medical literature!

Sometimes young people who die are found to have Covid-19. But that's not the same.

There was the case of a 19 year old in the US who had a negative Covid-19 test two days before collapsing with cardiac arrest. He was found to have myocarditis -- an inflammation of the heart muscle. He went into a coma and spent four weeks in multiple hospitals. While in hospital he tested positive for Covid-19 before he passed away. His death was included as a Covid-19 death with no direct evidence Covid-19 caused the death. Yet that's how it was reported, to scare other teenagers.

In Australia we've had similar cases. In May Australia's youngest Covid-19 death was reported as a 30 year old Queensland man. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-27/coronavirus-testing-queensland-death-dies/12287058

The man's partner found him 'unresponsive' and he died shortly after. He was tested positive for Covid-19 in the hospital. He had apparently been suffering 'symptoms' for a while. His partner was also suffering 'symptoms' and was isolated. She later tested negative for Covid-19. His case was used as a cautionary tale for all young Australians.

Nobody mentioned his obesity and long term drug use. The QLD Chief Health officer Jeannette Young said the man was believed to have been sick with symptoms for several weeks and had a "complicated" medical history.

She said it was not known how he contracted the virus but he had become the "youngest" victim in Australia.

"You then get into semantics about what was the trigger and what was the cause. Any person who dies, who is infected with COVID-19, we declare it as a COVID-19 related death," Dr Young said

An announcement by Victorian premier Mr Dan Andrews on August 14 that a man in his 20s was among the latest 14 COVID-19 victims shocked many and sparked national headlines. "We are talking about the youngest person that has died of this virus......."

That's the message the politicians pushed and the media ran with. The report in September that senior health officials thought he may have died from another cause, possibly a drug overdose, didn't get much coverage. https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/youngest-covid-19-victim-may-have-died-of-another-cause-20200909-p55tzg.html

Under federal Health Department guidelines, a death is defined for surveillance purposes as COVID-19-related if the person dies with the virus and there is no clear alternative cause of death, such as trauma.

Australia's National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System has recorded no COVID-19 related deaths for anyone aged in their 20s or below. The database shows a handful of deaths of people aged in their 30s, while the majority of those who have died have been aged 80 and over.

Covid-19 does not have a statistically significant record of killing young individuals or even healthy individuals. The government don't want to tell us this, but eventually the public will twig.

The government should stop insisting we lock everything and everyone down at every Covid-19 outbreak.

The government should provide strong guidelines for those who should self-isolate in the event of an outbreak. Everyone else should be allowed to go about their lives with sensible precautions.

But what about the Covid-19 disaster overseas? Yes you can point to growing infections and even deaths in countries overseas but:

- They aren't Australia, our situation is different.

- The countries which have been strict implementing lockdowns and mandated masks, don't seem to have performed any better than those which haven't.

- Western countries not only have a higher elderly population, but also very significant numbers across all age groups with life-style cause co-morbidity issues such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, coranory and lung disease.

- Most infections are asymptomatic or mild.

- The accuracy of both antigen and molecular type Covid-19 tests have been questioned for the number of false positives being produced.

- The literature is still telling us that only frail elderly, and medically vulnerable people need be concerned. Anyone else will have little or mild symptoms.

That doesn't mean that like with normal influenza and other viruses, you can have a bad dose, you can even suffer post Viral Syndrome where symptoms hand around for a while, but that is rare, and we can't lock down society for that as we'd be permanently locked down.

If we keep telling younger, healthy people they must lock down because Covid-19 is deadly, they will eventuallyl figure out the lie.

Then don't be surprised when they stop obeying the lock down, social distancing and mandated mask orders.

Pictures: St Kilda Beach in Melbourne, Victoria, on Thursday night.

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November 19, 2020

Big Brother will inspect your car and home

Jack Kemp

When we have self driving cars and some people want to rent them out part time, will Government say your car can't have Jesus statues, Jewish mezzuzzas (common in Israel) or dog hair in the car because it would offend other religions? I can see where Gov. Walz or Gov. Whitmer or Gov. "Gruesome" of California would just love to have this capability.

I've watched on Youtube young techie snowflakes give a "logical" argument about how Americans will get used to renting their self driving cars out during the day while they work in an office. Apparently these geeks have never heard of Covid-19. If a future flu like infection spreads across the U.S., how many people people would want total strangers driving their car and spreading germs? If you think only poor, malnourished people get Covid, I was shocked to see a news story in the spring about a man, a principal of a private Catholic girls' school, a family man in his forties, who died of Covid. His school was around a mile and a half from where I live. Other people who will remember that shocking death will be in no hurry to rent out a self drive car of theirs in 2030.

The Internet of Things means the utility co. and the government can monitor your usage. Dana Mathewson forwarded this British article to us which states, in part:

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Government mulls emergency measures that would enable networks to SWITCH OFF your electricity without warning or compensation
  • Ofgem reviewing plans to give energy networks the ability to shut down domestic electricity supplies 
  • A new sort of smart meter would need to be installed in every home in the UK

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Useless Face Coverings

This observation from Nicky Beckant:

Top pathologist Dr. Roger Hodkinson told government officials in Alberta during a zoom conference call that the current coronavirus crisis is "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.”

Hodkinson’s comments were made during a discussion involving the Community and Public Services Committee and the clip was subsequently uploaded to YouTube.

Noting that he was also an expert in virology, Hodkinson pointed out that his role as CEO of a biotech company that manufactures COVID tests means, "I might know a little bit about all this.”

"There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians, it’s outrageous, this is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public,” said Hodkinson.

The doctor said that nothing could be done to stop the spread of the virus besides protecting older more vulnerable people and that the whole situation represented "politics playing medicine, and that’s a very dangerous game.”

https://summit.news/2020/11/18/top-pathologist-claims-coronavirus-is-the-greatest-hoax-ever-perpetrated-on-an-unsuspecting-public/

https://youtu.be/uEo3rnU12jw

Tim Adds:

I've been saying this all along. Look at how people who work with Ebola approach it. A tiny cloth Burkha isn't going to stop a virus (in fact, the Arab world is often a cesspool of viral infections despite women wearing face coverings.) The purpose of the mask is psychologicial not medical.

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Innocents Don't Act Like This

This from Willis Eschenbach:

Things moving fast. In Detroit, the two Election Commissioners first refused to certify the results. Then a few hours later, after their families and children were threatened, they agreed to certify the results.

Now, they have gone back to their original positions, and have filed affidavits detailing the threats that forced them to change their vote.

Democrats keep claiming the elections are wonderful, and at the same time Democrats are fighting tooth and nail, gutter fighting, underhanded fighting, threatening families, anything to prevent a transparent audit of the voting trail.

Republicans want a simple thing—count every legal vote, and discard every improper vote. Not sure why that should be so hard for Democrats to get behind. Anyone who truly thinks the election was without fraud should welcome any and all verification, investigation, auditing, and recounts ... but Democrats don't want any of those.

And where are the Democrat leaders speaking out against the threats, coercion, and bullying used to get the Commissioners to change their votes?

At this point, our election is the laughingstock of the world, just as I and the President and anyone with half a brain predicted when the mass mailing of ballots was instituted.

Sigh ...

Democrats keep claiming the election was fair and square ... if they believed that they'd be challenging people to audit and observe.

Instead we see the opposite, every possible action to impede auditing and observation.

Do the math, folks. Innocent people don't act like that.

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The Plagues of Egypt Visited on Tim

Timothy Birdnow

Boy, when it rains it pours!

First, my eye surgery is still in limbo, having been postponed several times and now, with the upswing in Wuhan Virus, it may be postponed into the indefinite. I want to just get this thing over; my wife Cathy had several eye surgeries this year and I just want these endless eye goughings over. I feel like I'm living in a Three Stooges movie.

Our house has been invaded by mice. All kinds of mice. Big ones, small ones, brown ones, gray ones. I've seen several different "races" of the filthy little boogers. I'm starting to feel like the guy in Willard. They bolt across the room, they scratch under the furniture, they get into papers. They only thing they DON'T seem to do is eat the poison I kindly provide for these little love children. And I haven't found their point of access, so they can just keep coming. I may have to hire a professional exterminator.

I had to get Cathy's car fixed last week, and inspected this. I had to replace my truck windshield, and IT needs to be inspected but I can't find the paperwork.

The heat just went out; had to use an oil space heater last night. It was pretty chilly. That doesn't bother me; the mice probably found it that way too!  It's good enough for them!

I just had to get the sewer open a week or two back and THAT is still a mess in the basement.

And I still have to get the IRS straightened out; I just received the form I needed from the Healthcare Marketplace.

This is going to  be one glum Holiday season. But then 2020 has been a year that has just stunk like an overfull outhouse on a hot summer's day. We can't get past this year fast enough!



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GOP Sweep

Warner Todd Huston

‘Experts’ Claimed 27 House Races were ‘Toss-ups.’ But GOP Won Them All

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Covid False Positives and Facet checking

James Doogue

I rate this fact-check as 'Mostly False'. And 'fact-checkers' as biased as their mainstream media, and Big Tech masters.

Elon Musk took four rapid antigen Covid-19 tests. He got two positive results, and two negative results. He considered himself asymptomatic, but admitted he had 'common cold' symptems. He tweeted that there was something 'bogus' going on.

Claim:
"Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for COVID four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse."

The Twitter fact-checkers flagged the tweet as 'Mostly False' here: https:// www.newswise.com /factcheck/ elon-musk-s-clai m-that-covid-te sting-is-bogus- is-not-accurate / ?article_id=7419 19

1. The 'fact-checkers' didn't disprove Elon Musk claim that 'somethinh 'bogus' was going on with the rapid (antigen) Covid-19 test.

They didn't disprove the fact he had 4 sample tests using approved testing kits administered by the same skilled person in the same way. Of this 4 tests, two returned a positive result, and two a negative result.

Musk's claimed was not disproved and cannot be rated as 'Mostly False', it should be rated as TRUE.

2. Instead the 'fact-checkers' did a 'switch' by simply saying the antigen testing (testing for antibodies), is not as accurate as real-time polymerase chain reaction, (RT-PCR) testing. But the FDA specifically don't advise not to accept positive rapid antigen test results.

In fact the FDA say, (as shown by the fact-checkers):

'Positive results are usually highly accurate, but false positives can happen, especially in areas where very few people have the virus. Negative results may need to be confirmed with a molecular test.'

The FDA say positive results are highly accurate. They only say negative results may need to be confirmed with a molecular test.

3. Contrary to the 'fact-checkers' claims, RT-PCR tests are known for false positives. In fact. 29 September Lancet paper titled, 'False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs', provided this statement.

'To summarise, false-positive COVID-19 swab test results might be increasingly likely in the current epidemiological climate in the UK, with substantial consequences at the personal, health system, and societal levels (panel).'

4. There are plenty of examples of proven false positive tests from RT-PCR Covid-19 tests. In Scotland for example.

'When seven staff at a Scottish football club tested positive for coronavirus, alarm bells went off. But really alarming was when six of those results turned out to be wrong. Such inaccurate tests are exaggerating the problem.'

'So, even if the test is very accurate indeed, we could easily end up with four positive tests from people who really do have the virus and 10 false positives from people who don't.'
https:// www.msn.com/ en-in/ entertainment/ other/ due-to-faulty-rt -pcr-kit-chiran jeevi-tested-co vid-19-positive -now-clarifies- result-was-fals e/ar-BB1aYUpY

And here: This research paper published in May, 'False positives in reverse transcription PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2'

'Findings: Review of external quality assessments revealed false positive rates of 0-16.7%, with an interquartile range of 0.8-4.0%. Such rates would have large impacts on test data when prevalence is low. Inclusion of such rates significantly alters four published analyses of population prevalence and asymptomatic ratio. Interpretation: The high false discovery rate that results, when prevalence is low, from false positive rates typical of RT-PCR assays of RNA viruses raises questions about the usefulness of mass testing; and indicates that across a broad range of likely prevalences, positive test results are more likely to be wrong than are negative results, contrary to public health advice about SARS-CoV-2 testing.'
https:// www.researchgate .net/ publication/ 341091306_False_ positives_in_re verse_transcrip tion_PCR_testin g_for_SARS-CoV- 2

And here we have from the Centre of Evidenced Based medicine a research paper asking 'PCR positives: what do they mean?' September 17, 2020.

The researchers concluded there is no correlation between RT-PCR positive infection 'cases' , and Covid-19 deaths. Highly suggesting there are a large number of false positive RT-PCR test results, and they show research papers which explain why this happens.
https:// www.cebm.net/ covid-19/ pcr-positives-wh at-do-they-mean /

I could go on, but the point should be clear, Facebook and other 'fact-checkers' get the result which fits their desired narrative, not the facts. They are simply part of the obvious left wing bias of most mainstream media and Big Tech's social media and search engines, as much of the material I have presented does not appear in the first ten or more search results. Very few people go past the first 5 results.

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Covid Porn

Warner Todd Huston

Most of the network shows that started up this month have been pure COVID hysteria porn. Nearly every one of them portrayed hospitals all over run with hundreds of deaths all in the same few days. But in reality there are no hospitals ANYWHERE in the nation that were overwhelmed, even during the worst of the COVID hospitalization

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The Sea People

Andrei Piriutko discusses the dreaded "Sea People", the Bronze Age equivalent of Vikings who helped destroy the civilization of that time.

"...the unruly Sherden whom no one had ever known how to combat, they came boldly sailing in their warships from the midst of the sea, none being able to withstand them...”
Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC)

The Sherden ("Shardana” or "Sherdanu”) are one of ethnic groups of the Sea Peoples from the eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd millennium BC. On reliefs, they are shown carrying round shields and spears, dirks or swords. In some cases, they are shown wearing corselets and kilts, but their key distinguishing feature is a horned helmet, which, in all cases but three, features a circular accouterment at the crest.

The earliest known mention of Shardana is thought to the Pharaoh Amenhotep III or Akhenaten in the 14th century BC. Though they have been referred to as sea raiders and mercenaries, who were prepared to offer their services to local employers, these texts do not provide any evidence of that association, and they shed no light on what the function of these "Å¡irdannu-peopl e" was at the time.

The first certain mention of the Sherden is found in the records of Ramesses II (ruled 1279-1213 BC), who defeated them in his second year (1278 BC) when they attempted to raid Egypt's coast. The pharaoh subsequently incorporated many of these warriors into his personal guard.

Years later, other waves of Sea People, the Sherden included, were defeated by Merneptah, son of Ramesses II, and Ramesses III. An Egyptian work written around 1100 BC, the Onomasticon of Amenope, documents the presence of the Sherden in Palestine. After being defeated by Pharaoh Ramesses III, they, along with other "Sea Peoples", would be allowed to settle in that territory, subject to Egyptian rule. They may have assisted in the construction of the hybrid Egyptian warships as shipwrights or advisers on maritime technology. Michael Wood has suggested that their raids contributed greatly to the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization.
No mention of the Sherden has ever been found in Hittite, Sardinian, Sicilian, Etruscans or Greek legends or documents, suggesting that they did not originate from either sphere of influence.

"... few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before Phoenician trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: Oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later; the arrival of the Cypriot copper ingots of the Serra Ilixi type; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian nuraghes themselves at about the turn of the first millennium; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells – if this fact was not introduced [later] by the Phoenician settlers...”

Tim Adds

I wonder; are they related to the Phillistines in Canaan? The both appear about the same time.

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The Nocebo Effect

James Doogue

More proof many people testing positive to Covid-19 may not have the virus or be infectious. the 'nocebo effect' reinforces the false positive test.

In newly resurfaced video from July, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged that large numbers of positive COVID-19 cases may arise from oversensitive tests that pick up mere fragments of the virus rather than active, viable infections. Over-sensitive tests can just pick up "dead nucleotides" rather than live virus, he said.

You can search for the article with, 'Fauci warns that widely used COVID tests may pick up 'dead' virus'.

I haven't put the link her because Facebook have probably flagged it in their Covid-19 news control. They can't have people thinking they don't have Covid-19.

I wrote about this months ago. We've been quarantining people unnecessarily, and fretting about the number of infections when up to 90% of positive Covid-19 tests may effectively be false positives. People who are not infectious.

Of course more than 10% of those who test positive experience symptoms. But when Covid-19 symptoms include almost anything, it's hard for some one who has a positive Covid-19 test to not ascribe any symptoms to the virus. Fever, dry cough, tiredness, aches and pains, sore throat, headache, diarrhoea
loss of taste or smell, shortness of breath are also symptoms of a range of other illnesses not to mention stress, anxiety and depression.

Unless you can grow a live virus from a sample, which is the gold standard of virus testing, not RT- PCR tests, you don't know for sure if you are infectious.

The rapid testing kits are even more unreliable. Elon Musk recently took 4 of those tests in one day. Same kit, same nurse, short time apart and got two positive and two negative tests! You can search that too.

What I can say for sure, if you tell someone they have tested positive to a disease they think is deadly, and that they must isolate themselves from everyone and can't go anywhere for at least 2 weeks, they are very likely to develop one or more of the Covid-19 symptoms.

As they adjust to the situation, or get closer to the end of their quarantine, the symptoms will clear up.

The 'nocebo effect' is real, and causes the manifestation of physical symptoms when the patient has negative expectations. One research article that reviewed 31 studies on nocebo effects reported a wide range of symptoms that could manifest as nocebo effects including nausea, stomach pains, itching, bloating, depression, sleep problems, loss of appetite, sexual dysfunction and severe hypotension.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22833756/

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November 18, 2020

Brooklyn Diocese vs. Gov. Cuomo

Jack Kemp

Yo, I'm betting on Brooklyn to win.

Former Lt. Gov. of New York Betsy McCaughey has written a fine article entitled "The Right to Worship Even in a Pandemic" which describes Brooklyn Catholics fight back against the Governor, Il Duce Cuomo, in court.

Here are the opening paragraphs:

"New York's dictatorial governor, Andrew Cuomo, may have met his match. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is asking the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down Cuomo's Oct. 6 executive order shutting down "houses of worship " in areas of Brooklyn and Queens, while allowing "essential" businesses, like pet stores, groceries and big-box stores to stay open.

Cuomo insists he's battling COVID-19. The Diocese says Cuomo's making a value judgment that going to Target is "essential" but taking communion isn't. Truth is, for devout communicants who are already suffering social isolation during the pandemic, finding the church doors closed can be soul crushing."

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You can read the rest of the article here.

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