October 16, 2021
I Must Be Allowed To Refuse, Without Judgement, Anything That Has Death Listed As A Possible Side Effect Or Reaction.
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A little over forty years ago, Soviet dissident and literary giant Aleksander Solzhenitsyn delivered a thunderbolt of a commencement address at Harvard University.
Survivor of the Soviet GULAG, a fierce opponent of communism, Solzhenitsyn stunned his elite audience as he took aim at the disastrous social and worldview trends happening in the West.
He bemoaned that Western societies had given "destructive and irresponsible freedom . . . boundless space.†By which he meant license, what Chuck Colson called freedom without virtue. Then he went after the Western appetite for "decadent art.†Finally, he argued, no healthy society or culture lacks great statesmen.
Solzhenitsyn was prophetic. But sad to say, the West has largely ignored his voice. Irresponsible freedom? Check. Decadence? Check. Now go through your mental checklist and see how many great statesmen or stateswomen you can name these days.
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Biden Leading Country to Soviet-Like Economy as #EmptyShelvesJoe Trends on Social Media
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A new study published in Nature Scientific Reports by researchers at the Danish National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that the Sun’s activity in screening cosmic rays affects clouds and, ultimately, the Earth’s energy budget with concomitant climatic effects.
Eruptions on the Sun screen the Earth from galactic cosmic rays – energetic particles raining down on our planet from exploded stars. "The Sun carries out fantastic natural experiments that allow us to test our ideas about cosmic ray effects on the atmosphere,†professor Henrik Svensmark, lead author of the study told the GWPF.
Solar explosions produce magnetised gas that sweeps past the Earth reducing the cosmic ray flux reaching us. These events are called Forbush decreases taking their name from the American physicist Scott E. Forbush, who first noticed them more than 80 years ago. They lead to a temporarily lower production of small aerosols – molecular clusters in the air – that normally grow to seed the water droplets of low-level clouds. This, in turn, reduces the cloud cover which is known to affect climate.
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Well, well, well...
Smokers are less likely to get COVID: French researchers explore whether nicotine might prevent transmission
After a half century of demonizing tobacco, we now learn it will save you from Covid.
From the article:
The claims were made using results from a school of 700 teachers and pupils and their families in a section of France with high levels of COVID-19. Only about 7 percent of smokers were infected while the rate among non-smokers was 400 percent higher. Obviously that’s not an endorsement of smoking, smoking kills. It is, like alcohol, a known carcinogen. The benefit, the authors say, is derived from the nicotine, not the cigarettes. Smoking kills people, but nicotine does not.(1)
Yet nicotine is great for warding off some pests in nature. A modern class of targeted pesticides called neonicotinoids revolutionized agriculture by protecting plants from pests when they are most vulnerable and without mass spraying, and nicotine is common and affordable. The authors believe that the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) means that nicotine may act to protect it from attack by SARS-CoV-2.
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Did any of these people consider bringing DDT back? A simple solution that just doesn't pay Big Tech.
From gene drives to insecticide nets, here’s how biotechnology is confronting the malaria epidemic
Mosquitoes and the malaria parasite have survived as long as they have by constantly adapting to new conditions.
Now, growing drug and insecticide resistance in the Greater Mekong Subregion and Sub-Saharan Africa threatens to weaken our current tools for prevention and treatment.
Some potentially game-changing innovations have emerged in recent years. With further development, these could (once again) transform the fight against malaria.
For example, the Innovative Vector Control Consortium’s New Nets Projectis currently piloting mosquito nets treated with novel insecticide combinations to combat resistance throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Medicines for Malaria Venture is bringing together leading pharmaceutical companies to speed up the drug development process.
And researchers at Target Malariaare conducting trials of gene drives to reduce or eliminate Anopheles mosquitos’ malaria-carrying capacity at the species level.
While there is still a long way to go, it is worth noting that these advances would have been unimaginable not long ago.
Moreover, the rapid development of vaccines against COVID-19 has strengthened the case for increased investment in innovation to tackle other deadly diseases.
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It is official. The High Court ruled on Wednesday that Peter Ridd was legally fired for 18 counts of serious misconduct – and he is proud of every one of them! So Dr Peter Ridd writes in today's The Australian:
"The ruling raised two major weaknesses that exist in university work agreements. The first is the power of confidentiality (secrecy) provisions to silence academics for talking about unlawful actions by their university that curtail academic freedom. I know other examples where an academic, right now, is having their academic freedom curtailed but they cannot openly mention it for fear their university can lawfully fire them.
Secrecy, together with spying on communications, is an incredibly powerful tool in the hands of any authoritarian organisation, whether it be the Stasi or an Australian university. It silences dissent, isolates the victim and establishes where the power lies – with the university. The academic is crushed.
The other issue is that the High Court ruled that only topics inside an academic’s "area of academic competence†are covered by academic freedom. This may seem reasonable at first, but in my case this meant I was not allowed to say: "In my view our whole university system pretends to value free debate, but in fact it crushes it whenever the ‘wrong’ ideas are spoken. They are truly an (sic) Orwellian in nature.â€
I wonder what area of expertise an academic would need to make a comment like that. Irrespective of the strict legalities of the matter, perhaps all academics should have a right to say this. I can picture Orwell smiling, especially as James Cook University found this comment by trawling through all my emails.
The new voluntary code of conduct for academic freedom, and the new legislation on academic freedom introduced by Education Minister Alan Tudge this year, although excellent in many regards, will not solve the problems revealed in this case. Both will need to be amended to have any prospect of being effective.
Before the minister might act, more fundamental problems must be answered. Is the culture of universities so rotten that it is impossible to do anything useful to reform them? Are true academic advances nowadays coming from outside the university anyway? Is university-funded research and commentary doing more harm than good?
I think it is still worth trying to reform the universities. If nothing else, the high-profile cases of misbehaving universities, around the world, have shown the public cares about these issues. It affects academics from across the political spectrum. In my case we had the Institute of Public Affairs and the National Tertiary Education Union on the same team. For that to happen, universities must be doing something spectacularly wrong. Politicians can take comfort from such alliances. It is safe to act boldly.
The dust needs to settle, and cool legal heads must turn their attention to what can be done in legislation to further protect academics. Academics must know they are well away from the cliff edge and will be protected. Satisfactory protection should be explicitly written in work agreements. We also need active policing of transgressions, and penalties against universities. The penalties must hurt. With a few notable exceptions, universities presently only pay lip-service to academic freedom.
One possibility is that university councillors, who are equivalent to the board of directors of companies, should be held personally responsible for freedom of speech transgressions. Company directors have all sorts of legal obligations that largely keep them honest. University councillors need to feel the heat.
A final question must be raised about my case. Why did JCU act so aggressively to silence me for saying there were quality assurance problems with Great Barrier Reef science institutions? This was a legal battle over a work contract, but its root cause was a debate about the reliability of science.
Maybe JCU’s extreme reaction was because I was saying something true.
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October 15, 2021
The "Great Reset" they call it.
What is that? It's a "reset" from free market capitalism to socialism and "equity" in economic matters.
This has been the goal of the international community and the ruling classes therein. They have pursued this for decades, with multiple strategic tools to achieve it. Climate change gave us such things as the Paris Accords, whose purpose is to get the West to hamstring itself financially so the developing countries can compete. Mass immigration was another tool to accomplish this. Racial quotas in hiring and affirmative action. Numerous international treaties.
In fact, the promotion of China and Chinese goods was a direct result of the so-called "free trade" movement of the nineties (which also promoted Mexico and many other third world countries). China became an economic superpower thanks to sweetheart deals, most favored nation status, and economic incentives, as well as monetary manipulation by our Federal Reserve.
All of these things have acted as "reparations" for the old colonial order.
At any rate, I find this quite interesting. When looked at in light of the globalist agenda it fits.
India is booming these days. Why?
Seems it's because of the pandemic and the horrible Biden economic policies. In other words, the globalist policies are coming to fruition.
From the article:
India has clocked record exports in the first half of FY22 at $197.89 billion and is closer than ever to achieve the $400 billion annual exports milestone by the end of the year. However, the soaring global commodity prices, including of key inputs such as oil, chemicals, metals, plastic and cotton, are largely responsible for this rise. The volume growth is not commensurate with this value growth, traders and industry watchers say. Kirtika Suneja takes a look:
RECORD EXPORTS
- $197.89 billion merchandise goods exports in Apr-Sep
- Improved global demand supports outbound shipments
That was, in my opinion, one of the goals of the world shutdown. The Davos crowd knew this is how it would play out. Poor nations couldn't afford to shut down and give everyone the year off. So they spun as the other weavers retired. And now they are booming.
Now I'm not picking on India. In fact, I prefer India to China (who is suffering as a result of the whole scamdemic) and I don't mind seeing India become a world economic power. But it is the way it happened; purely a result of bad governmental policy in the West and that bad policy was implemented with this in mind. This is just another form of redistribution of wealth by the Left.
Their arrogance is going to come back to bite them at some point. If one juggles too many balls eventually one loses control and drops them all.
And the big danger here is China. They aren't going to like the competition from India, and they aren't really under the control of the Internationalists (unlike so many other nations.) They could become quite unpleasant when things unravel.
At any rate, I believe this was what the globalists wanted, and we are witnessing the fruition of a plan they put in place decades ago.
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There’s some nagging quirks about Marco Polo, topping the list no Chinese document anywhere concerning this emissary of Kublai Khan himself. And, Marco Polo, the first Westerner to see the marvels of China, fails to mention tea, chopsticks, bound feet, Great Walls. Explorers were outrageous liars—mermaids, giants, devils, dragons, Amazons—and many historians wonder if Polo ever made it beyond Constantinople,
Las Casas himself documenting these explorers drifting in fantasy: "What a wonder to see men greatly desiring something and strongly attaching themselves to it through imagination such to create the impression that everything argues in favor of that thing."
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Here is an interesting discussion on Facebook.
Steven Chase posted the following:
Woke-ism, just like Christianity back in the days, has burrowed deeply into elite society and the institutions of state power.
Now we are locked in a culminating phase.
The third generation of Woke—true to Late Roman antecedents—must cast down the Pantheon of American Exceptionalism, of Founders and Heroes, establishing a new divine order that will wash away America’s sins of Racism, Patriarchy, and Heteronormativity.
What we are witnessing at the moment is probably the most epic culture war the planet has witnessed and Christian theology through desacralization has given birth to its potential gravedigger.
This could be either a rebirth or the end of history as we know it in a bad way. - (From Philosopher/Lawyer Alexander Von Marstall)
Tom White isn't happy about that:
Interesting that you find parallels with Woke-ism and Christianity in terms of destabilizing existing culture. You could have professed the same methodology with regard to any movement that is antithetical, but you chose Christianity, and by doing so, equated it with Woke-ism. Chistianity is likely the most significant cultural influence that Woke-ism seeks to undermine.
Steven replies:
The comments are not mine. But I think the author is on to something big. With all due respect
Tom adds:
He may be on to something in the broad sense of the dynamics necessary to undermine existing cultures. The quote does not address the merits of the cultures that Christianity sought to, and Woke-ism seeks to, sabotage. They are diametric opposites.
Steven replies:
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly.
I reply:
Ross Douthat, argued that Liberalism is a Christian heresy. https://neveryetmelted.com/2012/04/23/liberalism-only-a-christian-heresy/comment-page-1/ I concur. In fact, I would say it's more than just a Christian heresy but a Protestant one. The rise of Liberalism coinceded with the rise of Protestantism, and it uses the tactics and tools the Protestants used to successfully rebel against the Catholic Church. Modern Liberalism is in some ways Christianity without Jesus (Just as Islam is Judaism without Jews.) It is parasitic. It uses the symbols and practices of Christianity but rejects the core of it. As such it leads believers into apostacy and gives many non-believers a religion of their own. If you read Rousseau you will see it. Rousseau advocated replacing Christianity with a false god, the "collective will" and the Church with the State. Rousseau was the father of socialism. Fascists and Marxists both come from that same rotten root. In the end both come from a rejection of and usurpation of Christianity.
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Oh, but there was NO fraud in the last election! They told us so!
Two Georgia Elections Employees Fired Over Allegations of Shredding Voting Applications
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Just got to thinking about the El Niño, the event that typically occurs around Christmas but can wax or wane over a year or more.
At a 95% Confidence Level (statistically significant) the El Niño correlates with heightened seismic activity along the East Pacific Rise and the Easter Island Micro-Plate.
The Christmas timing of the El Niño is also the Winter Solstice, when the planet wobbles from Autumn to Winter. Certainly it would seem that Earth’s gyroscopic action imposes forces on the Earth’s crust.
Re: Global Warming.
Look to the oceans, look to hydrothermal vents, look to mantle plume hot spots, look to the myriad exothermic chemical reactions going on 24/7 in the Upper Mantle to produce SO2, H2S, CO2, all of the acid gases, metal sulfides, methane, and oil.
The pH of your blood must be maintained precisely between pH 7.3 to 7.4. The pH of the ocean waters is deemed to have been about 8.2 in pre-Industrial times vs. approx. 8.1 today. Ppffft. Carbonic acid from dissolved CO2 is about as weak an acid as you can find. Look to those acid gases.
Our ancient anaerobic ancestors lingered just outside the hot, deeply acidic hydrothermal vent stream. Not too acidic, not to basic. We exist because of those myriad hydrothermal vents.
Man is doing nothing to cause this fictional "climate crisisâ€. We’re just along for the bus ride.
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VAERS Summary for Covid 19 Vaccines Through 10/1/2021
But, but, but, like the vaccine is saving, like lives dude!
Bear in mind VAERS is self-reporting, so the number is probably over four times as high as these stats.
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So the data in this UK Government report basically shows that the Covid Vaccine brings about what could be technically called an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome otherwise known as AIDS. Welcome to your world.
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October 14, 2021
New York Mayor de Blasio Eliminates Founding Father Thomas Jefferson from City Hall
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Dallas Jackson observes:
Anybody?
Well, at least one attorney is calling for FEC investigations. Missouri's very own Josh Hawley.
I've been very pleased with Senator Hawley. After the way he let Missouri Governor Eric Greitens twist in the wind I suspected Mr. Hawley was going to become another Senate RINO, but he's been a lion of conservative values.
He has stood his ground on a number of issues, including his support for the President after the stolen election.
Bravo for Hawley!
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AND....
Gov't bureaucrats scratch their heads as to WHY we have inflation.
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Looks like CGI, but isn't: This morning's launch captured by a drone as it rose from the launch pad (only last for several seconds) is really amazing.
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I've been saying we reinflated the housing bubble and that big fat chicken is going to come home to roost (and crap all over our barnyard.) Well...
World at Risk of Sudden, Steep Selloffs in Stocks Housing Market, IMF Warns
The IMF warns home prices could decline by 14 per cent over next three years in a worst-case scenario in advanced economies, meaning the U.S., Canada, and in Europe and Australia.
Another Great Recession at this time could lead to a true, major worldwide depression.
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"The requirement is to purchase electric trucks which do not exist.â€
PS. Only 6% of Truckers are women.
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