September 22, 2021
The Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Treasury, and the Tax Policy Center have all documented that the poorest 20% of households pay an average federal tax rate of about 0%, as compared to 12% for middle-income households, 24% for the top 20%, and 30% for the richest 1%. Unlike the tax rates often cited by politicians and journalists, these figures account for nearly all forms of income and all federal taxes, including hidden taxes. According to the latest raw numbers, the poorest 20% of households paid an average of $0 in federal taxes in 2018, as compared to $9,900 for middle-income households, $78,600 for the top 20%, and $602,900 for the richest 1%.
Hat tip: Chester McAteer
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Kamala Harris posted about Global Warming. Heavenward Heels Harris had this to say:
Extreme heat affects millions of workers, including farm, construction, and factory workers. It also disproportionately threatens the lives of our children, seniors, low-income communities, and communities of color. This response will include U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Homeland Security, & U.S. Department of Agriculture working together to reduce heat-related illness, protect public health, and support the economy.
Chester McAteer had retorts:
Of course, the narrative doesn't really fit the Paleoclimatolog
Think about this for just a moment, at the end of 2017 researchers discovered that the island of Zhokhov, in the high Arctic was forested with a species of birch trees just 9000 years ago until about 4000 years ago when the climate became so cold that nothing grew on the island. Not only that but the now uninhabitable island was inhabited by humans who enjoyed temperatures at least 6°C hotter than current temperatures in the high Arctic. An interesting point is that the humans hunted Polar Bears, Seals and Walrus in an Arctic that was almost free of sea ice for most of the year. Oh, the poor polar bears! They have been around for an estimated 1.7 million years and survived every climate whether warm or cold. Does that raise any questions in your mind given the current ideas about global warming?
Temperatures peaked between 7800 and 8000 BC years ago, the period is known as the Holocene Optimal because temperatures were ideal for all plant life, animal and sea life, but since the peak temperatures they have been falling to the point that our temperatures today are closer to those during the period immediately after the end of the last ice age than to those of the peak during the Holocene Maximum.
From the peak temperatures of the Holocene Optimal they dropped to the Minoan Warming Period, then cooler to the Roman Warming Period. During the Roman Warming temperatures were high enough for the Romans to import ancient Mediterranean wine grape vines and cultivate them in the northern part of Britain, not only that but there is evidence that Mediterranean wine grape vines were cultivated in Scandinavia and Northern Russia. That's impossible in today's cold temperatures.
After the Roman Warming Period came the Medieval Warming Period, it was so warm during that time the Vikings colonized Greenland and thrived, importing ancient European Barley, they grew fruit trees, many of the roots can be found in Viking graves and warm weather vegetables until once again it became too cold and they starved. Few realize that most of the Glaciers were gone or greatly reduced during the Holocene Optimal until they began to greatly advance during the Little Ice Age.
Another thing to think about is two years ago researchers found another of the 8 USAF planes that made an emergency landing on Greenland during WWII in 1942, it was buried under 340 feet of snowpack ice. There was also one found in 1995 under 268 feet of snowpack ice, prior to that one was found in 1988 under 240 feet of snowpack ice. Now think about the fact that in the last 77 years, during the period we are told has been one of the greatest warming of the climate, 340 feet of snowpack ice has accumulated over Greenland. Absolutely none of this had to do with the Trace gas CO2 which, throughout the geological record, has always tracked temperature increases, not led them.
Antarctica, for instance, contains most of the world's ice, if it didn't put on one more inch of ice each year, it would take 250,000 years for it to be ice free. But it accumulates far more ice than it loses each year.
Greenland did indeed lose a lot of ice last year, in fact it loses a great deal of ice every year and has for thousands of years. The Denmark Ice Tracker reports that while Greenland lost 500 gigatons it gained far more than it lost, as it does every year. Even at that rate, if it lost that much without ever gaining more ice it's been estimated that it would take 12,000 years for it to be ice free. Plus, Greenland, like the Arctic and Antarctica have, it's been recently discovered, massive sub-glacial and submarine volcanic and thermal vent activity contributing to ice loss.
For the fifth year in a row, Greenland's largest Glacier, Jakobshavan Glacier, which was once the fastest retreating Glacier in the world, is now rapidly advancing. The Russian glacier Vavilov, once growing 60 feet a year is now growing 82 feet a day. New Zealand reports that all 58 of their Glaciers are now growing.
NASA reported as far back as 2015 that the ice gain in Antarctica is also far more than the ice loss.
Since a low ice extent in the Arctic in 2012, NASAs MODIS has shown enormous ice extent for the last 5 years, so the evidence is very different than seems to be publicized.
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Isaac Asimov is often considered the father of robotics.
More precisely, Dr. Asimov took a pre-existing concept - of artificial people designed to do work - and fleshed it out so we could have an idea of how it would work.
Asimov wrote dozens of robot stories. His 1983 novel "The Robots of Dawn" featured the humaniform robot R. Daneel Olivaw and his human detective partner Elijah Bailey. Remember that title; it will serve you later in this tale.
The original concept of robots goes back to a 1924 play entitled "Rossum's Universal Robots". In it an oppressed class of artificial men rise up in a glorious communist revolution against their evil capitalist masters. It was an allegory for socialist revolution. The author - Karel Capek - wrote a morality play, not a science story or vision of the future.
(The word robot is of Slavic derivation and means worker. In Russian to work is to Robat. Robateli are workers po-Russkie.)
He was borrowing from older stories, most notably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which was the story of a robot made from dead body parts. Shelley herself was borrowing from the old legend of the Golem.
Always these stories discuss the morality of doing such a thing, and are not really interested in the creature itself as a human invention.
Asimov changed all that; he thought of robots first and foremost as tools (at least in the early days) and tried to look at them as engineered devices.
So, what would an engineer put into a mechanical man? There would be three primary objectives 1.safety 2.service 3.quality and warranty.
Safety would be tantamount; it would be disastrous to have such a machine go wild and kill people. So there is an absolute safety system in place. This was the First Law of Robotics (a term coined by Asimov). A robot could not harm a human being or allow one to be harmed through inaction. The second, service, said a robot had to obey orders given it unless it conflicted with the first law. And the third law said a robot had to protect it's existence and safety provided it did not conflict with the first two.
Asimov wrote a series of delightful tales around robot psychology; robots trying to fulfill these functions in a chaotic universe.
And in the Universe of New York City Police detective Elijah Bailey one very unique android - humanoid robot - would lead to a partnership that would change the fate of the galaxy.
See, fifty worlds around the Earth's solar system were settled with the use of robots. The societies that grew on these "spacer" worlds competed with the teeming masses of Earth, which had rejected robots for economic reasons (took too many jobs) and the creep-out factor. Bailey would lead the settlement of new worlds by humans without robots. And it would be the robots, becoming humanlike enough to understand, who would aid Bailey in ending the spacer way of life and eliminating the machines.
So what does this have to do with us?
Yesterday I was in the local Schnucks grocery store (a local chain here in St. Louis) to stock up. I hadn't been to the store in quite a while and the cupboard was bare. I've been avoiding going to the store because the local grocery chains all have mask mandates, and frankly with my heart condition I can't get enough air wearing those things.
At any rate I was at the end of one aisle and simply had to lift my mask. I was sucking for air and felt faint, as though I may pass out. I lifted the mask and suckled joyously on the sweet oxygen of the fresh, God-given air when a, well, I don't know how to describe it, but it was a robot, came zipping up to me.
It stood about four and a half feet tall. It looked like a sign, except it moved with a quiet electronic zip.
It whizzed right up to me, stopped, seemed to "look" at me in a rather scolding fashion, then wheeled to the right down the aisle.
What in the world?
I needed some canned fruit and blast if that mechanical monstrosity didn't go right to the canned fruit section. It stopped there, blocking me from the shelf. It began to move in a way suggesting it was looking over the goods.
Each time I tried to get at the cans it moved to block me. I was getting quite lathered up about it; the presumptuous pinhead kept moving to block my access. I now understood why Dr. Smith was always insulting the robot on Lost in Space; it was quite intolerable! I was threatening to fistfight it at the last.
(I know Cathy; only I would get in a fight with a robot at the grocery store!)
I got up close to eat (preparing to strangle the electronic idiot) and got close enough to read a sign on it which said it was an inventory robot.
Inventory robot!
When I was younger I worked at a grocery store and worked up to lead co-manager. I did my share of inventory. Also, there were companies that came in to help with inventory on occasion. Now they had a machine to do it.
That meant a lot of human jobs lost. And this thing apparently didn't need to be supervised in any way; it knew how to find the shelves and how to count them. Oh, and how to annoy customers, but that won't stop progress in this modern era where customers are akin to spare parts.
Our technology is reaching that point. We are starting to build robots of a kind similar to those foreseen by Asimov.
And like Asimov's robots these apparently had the beginnings of the three laws, or at least the machine knew not to run me over, and kept moving when I tried to get past it. It was that savvy.
Or, who knows; maybe it really DID want to scold me for having my mask off?
At any rate, I wish this encounter had happened in the dishwashing liquid aisle; then it would truly have been the Robots of Dawn.
How long before the cashiers are replaced? The butchers? The produce guys?
It's a matter of time.
There was a science fiction story I read many years ago (and I don't remember the title or author) about a world where you received a great honor by being selected to work for a day. Nobody worked and everyone wanted to. They had all they needed but were unfulfilled because the machines did it all. How long before we reach that point?
Probably never, but robotics does mean fewer and fewer jobs are going to be available and most likely people will just work part-time. Most people can't function that way. They needs something to fill their time. (I don't, but then you see what I do to fill MY time.) And idle hands are the Devil's playthings. I would argue the Black Lives Matter movement and Antifa and the rest of the unrestful activism is in no small part a coefficient of the rise of leisure time. Americans (and others in the West) have too much time on their hands and nothing to give their lives fulfillment. So they invent grievances to make it feel they are suffering like their parents did. They seek out causes - no matter how fatuous - to make them feel they are "making a difference". It certainly is why the Global Warming issue gets any traction; young people like Greta Thurnberg are desperate to find meaning for their empty lives.
Robotics will only accelerate that process.
Asimov saw this. He argued the "spacer" societies would decay and crumble and eventually disappear as the citizens of those societies would lose the grit and determination needed to survive. Like hothouse flowers they would wither under adversity. Life with robots would be too easy for them.
I think Asimov was right.
I think this mechanical moron I encountered was just the beginning of the rise of the machines. But how do you turn down free workers? Ones who need no pay, no sleep, no benefits, no decent working conditions?
The robots of dawn may be the dusk for our civilization.
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September 21, 2021
An employee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has presented video recordings to Project Veritas of colleagues privately voicing alarm about the safety of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines, alleging a cover-up of "evil at the highest level."
Jodi O'Malley, a registered nurse at the HHS-run Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Arizona, told Project Veritas CEO James O'Keefe in a video featuring the recordings that she's seen dozens of people with adverse reactions to the vaccines come to the facility, but the cases are not being reported.
"You have the FDA, you have the CDC, that are both supposed to be protecting us, but they are under the government, and everything that we've done so far is unscientific," she said.
O'Keefe asked the nurse if she is afraid her employer, the federal government, will retaliate.
"Yeah," she replied. "I'm a federal employee. What other federal employees do you see coming out?"
O'Keefe followed: "But you put your faith in God."
"Amen," she replied. "At the end of the day, it's about your health, and you can never get that back – and about your freedom, and about living in a peaceful society, and I'm like, 'no.' No. This is the hill that I will die on."
She acknowledged that with a 12-year-old child at home to care for, among other things, there is much to lose, "but you know, what kind of person would I be if I knew all of this – this is evil."
Yikes! This is scary, and there's absolutely no reason to question O'Malley's honesty. The rest of the story is here: https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/evil-highest-level-hhs-whistleblower-claims-massive-cover-vaccine-risks/On Tuesday, the acting CEO of the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Holly Elliott, responded to the Project Veritas report, acknowledging that "some of the information contained in this video is distressing."
"We take all complaints seriously and will investigate," she said.
O'Malley recorded another nurse on hidden camera saying most incidents aren't being reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, known as VAERS, because physicians complain it takes too much time.
She also recorded emergency room physician Dr. Maria Gonzales wondering aloud why HHS won't take into account the natural immunity that comes from infection.
"The problem in here is that they are not doing the studies," Gonzales said to O'Malley. "People that had [COVID-19] and the people that have been vaccinated – they're not doing any antibody testing. Everybody is quiet with that. Why?"
O'Malley told Gonzales of a 30-year-old man who came to the center with congestive heart failure after receiving a second shot.
"He's probably got myocarditis!" Gonzales said. "All this is bull----. Now probably myocarditis due to the vaccine."
The physician added that "they are not going to blame the vaccine."
Gonzales said doctors are violating the requirement to report adverse events and, instead, "want to shove it under the mat."
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Met a liberal who regaled me on how she was a socially conscious vegan who drives an electric car and said SHE was saving the earth. I asked her if she was a fan of pesticides, chemicals, coal, and rare earth metals poisoning the land. She said "of course not." And I said well, the batteries and motors in your electric car are made of all sorts of dangerous chemicals and rare earth elements. Your vegan food is raised on pesticides and fertilizers. And the electric for your car is made by that dirty coal you say you hate. So.... what are you REALLY doing to "save the earth"?
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Below is the ‘excess mortality’ in Sweden since 2017 according to EUROMOMO. If you look closely you will see they’ve been at or near baseline for almost all of 2021. I wonder how many people around the world are aware of that.
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If you wondered about the recent rash of "hate crimes", here's my local paper under the headline "Hate Crimes More Than Double".
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"In Petaluma, for example, a U.S. Postal Service employee saw a toy
monkey hung by a rope on a tree in front of a home on June 26, and
police were asked to investigate.
After speaking with the homeowner, police learned that the toy animal was an ode to a spider monkey that was a family pet. He had not realized the monkey he intended as a decoration was interpreted as a racist symbol, the homeowner told The Petaluma Argus Courier.
The case was classified as a hate crime, though officers ultimately determined the monkey was only an ornament, Petaluma Police Lt. Tim Lyons said.
In a similar case earlier that month, officers responded to a report of
a noose hanging on a tree near Civic Center Drive in Rohnert Park. Upon
investigation, police determined the rope, which was actually tied in a
fixed knot, was a swing used by neighborhood children.
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Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating NASCAR garage pulls with loops in them, but they seem to have lost Hunter's laptop ...
Democrats doing their nasty work, spreading racism and hatred while ignoring real crimes.
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Germany is going dark.
The Germans have broken a record again. Drastically increased wholesale prices and expensive emission rights are driving electricity prices in Germany to ever new record levels. In addition, of course, there are also high taxes and levies for renewable energies and the network charges, which we have already listed in our article "This is why we have the most expensive electricity in the worldâ€.
A new addition is the annually increasing CO2 tax on electricity generated from fossil fuels, which is one of the reasons why the electricity price has reached a new record.
Germany already has the highest electricity price in the world
Germany has the highest electricity price in an international comparison. However, a new peak was reached in August, higher than ever before. According to a current analysis by the comparison portal Verivox, one kilowatt hour of electricity now costs an average of 30.4 cents for private households.
Wholesale prices responsible for higher electricity prices
The wholesale prices for electricity rose significantly in 2021 and are therefore the main reason for the current rise in electricity prices. In January the average price on the EEX electricity exchange was 45.29 euros per megawatt hour and had already risen to 50.81 euros by July. This corresponds to a price increase of around 12 percent. The electricity providers are now passing the price increase on to the end consumer.
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In a recent conversation with a Facebook friend named Katie Tracey I was reminded of something the Federal government did to American citizens. During Prohibition they purposely put poisons into commercial alcohol so people couldn't drink it.
They did that knowing people WOULD drink it and die - or go blind. A primary cause of blindness during the '20's and '30's was caused by poisoned alcohol. (BTW, poor technique by moonshiners was not to blame; the human body can tolerate some methanol, and failing to throw out the first batch of methanol-filled distillate was not the cause; it makes you sick maybe but rarely is lethal.)
The point is our government was willing to kill people for the "noble experiment".
There was also the infamous "Tuskegee Experiment" where the government conducted a study on unwitting black people suffering from syphilis. Instead of treating them they told them they had "bad blood" and allowed the disease to run it's course so they could carefully study how it progressed.
They let those people suffer and die.
There were a host of others. Here is a list of ten such:
1.Tuskegee Syphilis Study
2. Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study
3.Navy-Sponsored Beef Blood Transfusions
4.Plutonium Testing
5.WWII Mustard Gas Experiments
6.Operation Midnight Climax
7. Operation Sea-Spray
8.Operation Big Buzz
9.Willowbrook Experiments
10. Measles Vaccine Experiment
And these are the ones we know about; how many more more have remained hidden?
The point is the U.S. government is more than willing to experiment on her own citizens.
So now we are assured that the vaccine Covid 19 is completely safe and we must all take it.
Just like the measles vaccines in the experiment, right?
And in fact "Gain of Function" experiments were illegal here so our government simply outsourced them to China. Fauci - who was the guy in charge - lied about it for months to us. We now know that the Covid virus was a splice of Covid 2 and the HIV virus.
But we are assured the vaccine is safe and effective!
What kind of fools do they take us for?
If you choose to get the vaccine (I got it) and choose to believe the CDC which has lied to us on several occasions that is your right. But to insist anyone who thinks it wise to not put your life and health in the hands of people who have shown callous disregard for the lives and health of so many Americans is somehow a kook is reprehensible and foolish. There is a bad track record here.
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Here is the laugh of the day:
Biden pledges to get border 'under control' amid new migrant crisis in Del Rio
Closing the barn door after the whole herd has gotten out. Why does he need to get control of a situation that was under control until he showed up? He WANTED it out of control.
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RACING TO BE VENEZUELA...
40 Years ago, when debt was well under ONE trillion, many predicted,
(including myself) that the U.S. would enter an death spiral if we did
not stop borrowing/
20 short years ago Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South
America - before a massive expansion of 'human' infrastructure.
The Federal Reserve is 'creating' about $3 Billion per MONTH and Congress can no longer inflate their way out of this problem. Even more amazing, Dems are inviting in and willing to pay for a flood of new refugees; 200,000 per month.
Remember this historical lesson as Dems in Congress call to add $3.5 trillion to our debt - an amount GREATER than the TOTAL budgets of over 95% of the world's other countries.
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On Facebook I eviscerate a halfwit.
Mike McCready, explaining why he hates Donald Trump, stated:
I'll take it upon myself to break up the echo-chamber-ness of it. Instead of inspiring us forward with a vision for the country, like Reagan did (despite the MAGA slogan), Trump tapped into the grievances of Americans who have felt shafted for many years. Grievance politics has always had its place and I know there are a lot of people who rightfully feel shafted. But he also easily (and I think wrongfully) convinced a lot of low-information
I reply:
"I get my news from US and foreign western sources who have no political agenda in their US political coverage"
Who pray tell is that?
There are no unbiased American sources at all and few in Europe. I notice you don't say who you listen to - that's because we would probably howl with laughter at claims they are unbiased. We do not have journalism any longer and haven't had it for a long time. It has been dying since Walter Cronkite (the man who declared the Vietnam War lost after the Tet Offensive - something the Vietcong openly admit was a disaster for THEM.)
"I hear so many in the MAGA crowd who do not understand how the world works " Hardy har, har har! You are the people who think men can put on panty hose and become women, or that the terrorists just need a big hug because they are mad we are so mean. It is people such as yourself who think a cloth mask will stop a virus, or that a single molecule added to every ten thousand molecules of air is going to doom us all, but WE don't understand how the world works?!
more...
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September 20, 2021
The Inescapable Facts Are:
- When used as a prophylaxis Ivermectin has an efficacy of 86%. Better than many vaccines.
- When used early after diagnosis Ivermectin treatment will reduce hospitalisations by 70%
- When given to a seriously ill Covid-19 patient death will be reduced by more than 40%.
- Ivermectin is incredibly cheap and readily available and very effective in preventing and treating Covid-19 in conjunction with recommended treatment protocols.
- Dozens of countries covering billions of people have authorised Ivermectin for use in fighting Covid-19.
https://www.biznews.com/health/2021/07/29/ivermectin-treatment
So why did the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration TGA, last week forbid GP's from prescribing Ivermectin for Covid-19 patients?
Follow the Money!
On the 31st of March 2021, the WHO recommended against the use of Ivermectin for COVID treatment, citing safety and lack of large RCT proof.
The question of why the WHO would do this is difficult to answer, only if you ignore the importance of the legality of the EUA, and the time tested advice, of following the money. The WHO, a once noble organisation funded by the worlds countries, now receives less than 20% of its budget from member states. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the second biggest sponsor after the USA. The GAVI Alliance, a private/public organisation promoting vaccines, was founded by Gates, and now pushing for vaccine passports, are the 4th biggest sponsor to WHO. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, served on the GAVI board for several years. The WHO, in 2021 changed the definition of "herd immunityâ€, to occurring only when the global population has been vaccinated.
The WHO has either made serious mistakes in their analysis or deliberately undermined Ivermectin and other early treatment drugs, in favour of vaccinating the world. Obviously this is a huge windfall for vaccine manufacturers.
Twenty countries are using Ivermectin to treat Covid-19. They include Mexico, Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Nigeria, and Egypt. In South Africa doctors are allowed to prescribe Ivermectin, but it is not being rolled out everywhere and in hospitals and clinics. [Since this article, many more countries have added Ivermectin to treatment and prevention plans. Meanwhile in Australian, the TGA has now directed GP's not to prescribe Ivermectin for Covid-19.]
According to Jackie Stone, a doctor in Zimbabwe, since January – when Ivermectin began to be used – it has cut COVID hospital admissions and deaths over 70%.
"The death rate rose sharply in January and peaked on the 25th at 70 deaths per day. Official authorisation for the use of Ivermectin was granted on 26th January. Just one month later, on 26th February, the COVID death rate had fallen to zeroâ€.
A meta-analysis gold standard review of 24 randomised trials conducted in 15 countries among more than 3400 people worldwide of clinical trials – just released by the BIRD group in the UK – showed that deaths are dramatically reduced when Ivermectin is administered. Published in the American Journal of Therapeutics the most rigorous statistical standards were applied by world-leading biostatistician, Mr Andrew Bryant, and medical doctor and researcher Dr Tess Lawrie. The results concluded that Ivermectin has an over 70% success in preventing deaths in hospitalised patients.
Mexico City authorities created a home-treatment-kit, including Ivermectin, for its 22 million-strong population in December 2020 and cut hospitalisations by over 70%.
Those Indian states that adopted Ivermectin policies saw their cases fall far more than 80%; Uttar Pradesh – down 98% [37,944 to 596], Uttarakhand – down 97% [9642 to 287] and Goa – down 90% [4195 to 423]. Delhi saw a 99% drop [28,395 to 238].
The bottom line is that Ivermectin works, and it works extraordinarily well. You do not need to be a scientist to understand these numbers, as they are self-evident.
If South Africa had a policy of testing and treating – as does Mexico City, which has emptied its hospitals since they implemented it, does – and of using Ivermectin for prevention for health workers and those not vaccinated – we could end the effects of the pandemic here.
Besides cutting hospitalisations and deaths Ivermectin can also be used as a preventative. In Argentina, 788 health workers took Ivermectin weekly and 407 did not. After ten weeks, 58% of those not taking Ivermectin had become sick – but not one of those who took it became sick.
Dr Tess Lawrie, one of the meta-analysis authors, in an interview with Dr. Mobeen speculated that the WHO and other regulatory agencies – which up to recently have had good reputations – may have been influenced by the lobbying of the pharmaceutical industry which is one of their chief sources of funding and which offers employment opportunities to the personnel who work in these agencies. The Emergency Use Authorisation of vaccines in the US and EU required that there was no alternative treatment available. If Ivermectin had been approved it would have been a problem to authorise the vaccines without proper trials.
The pharmaceutical industry will earn billions of dollars from vaccines and from expensive patented treatments that gives them an incentive to shape the narrative about Ivermectin to their own purposes.
The WHO currently have no advice or recommendation’s for early treatment apart from recommending against self-medication. If you don’t heal in the first week, when symptoms are generally mild, by the time you have to go to the hospital with breathing problems, your chances of dying have increased significantly. The use of Ivermectin and other repurposed drugs, could prevent that. As its safer than paracetamol, it should be available over the counter. As is happening in Mexico City and some states in India, anyone testing positive or feeling sick should take it, and give it to those they are in close contact with. It may be possible, if you want to attend a large social event or travel in a plane, that you take a pill, four hours before, and you will have significant protection for a few days. Lockdowns could end.
Ivermectin has been used in humans for 35 years and over 4 billion doses have been administered. Merck, the original patent holder, donated 3.7 billion doses to developing countries. 2015 the two individuals who developed Ivermectin were awarded a Nobel Prize for medicine. While known primarily as an anti-parasitic, Ivermectin has powerful anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. Its safety is documented at doses twenty times the normal. Only 19 deaths are known and side-affects are generally mild and short. As a comparison, approximately 450 US citizens die from paracetamol every year.
Merck’s patent on Ivermectin expired in 1996 and they produce less than 5% of global supply. In 2020 they were asked to assist in Nigerian and Japanese trials but declined both. In 2021 Merck released a statement claiming that Ivermectin was not an effective treatment against Covid-19 and bizarrely claimed, "A concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies†of the a drug they donated to be distributed in mass rollouts, by primary care workers, in mass campaigns, to millions in developing countries. The media reported the Merck statement as a blinding truth without looking at the conflict of interests when days later, Merck received $356m from the US government to develop an investigational therapeutic. The WHO even quoted Merck, as evidence, that it didn’t work, in their recommendation against the use of Ivermectin. It’s a dangerous world when corporate marketing determines public health policy. Global vaccine rollout, to everyone, is the policy.
The vaccine rollout is worth about $100bn in 2021, and there may well be annual updates to deal with new variants of COVID. The WHO answers to nobody but its’ funders. Their major funders are Big Pharma and their shareholders.
In Australia, Big Pharma are big donors to both major political party. A former federal health department secretary, Stephen Duckett, now a leading health researcher at the Grattan Institute, said the pharmaceutical industry was "extremely powerful†and exerted significant influence on government.
Last year Duckett published a report that found drug prices in Australia were significantly higher than abroad, and that Australians were paying about $500m too much each year for generics.
He said the influence of the pharmaceutical industry clearly contributed to high drug prices. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/25/pharmaceutical-industry-donates-millions-to-both-australian-political-parties?fbclid=IwAR0UX18-_I_JkwoibCcczb8SBHiGUsnGlhVTD0GPdLshNY-NOznG-tKGRKA
Throughout this pandemic have you ever hear a politician, chief health Office or medical researcher recuse themselves from public comment or decision making due to massive conflicts of interest. No you haven't. Yet Big Pharma are responsible for funding medical and pharmaceutical conferences, studies and research. They donate big bucks to all major political parties.
For all that lobbying and money, Big-Pharma expect results. The fast tracking of vaccine 'emergency' approval, and TGA officially blocking GP's from proven medication, seem to be examples of where Big Pharma have called in their favours. All in the face of crystal clear evidenc that Ivermectin could help save many lives and severe Illnesses.
The table below is from a real time meta-analysis of Ivermectin research and trials. You can read it here: https://ivmmeta.com/
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Earth performs this trick using beams of electrons. High above our planet’s poles, electrons shoot upward into space. They are accelerated and "beamed†by electric fields in Earth’s magnetosphere. Sounding rockets and satellites discovered the beams decades ago. It turns out, they can power the diffuse auroras.
Earth can Make it's Own Auroras
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Earth performs this trick using electron beams. High above our planet’s poles, they shoot upward into space, accelerated by electric fields in Earth’s magnetosphere. Sounding rockets and satellites discovered the beams decades ago. It turns out, they can power the diffuse auroras.
Electron beams travel in great
arcs through the space near Earth. As they go, they excite ripples in
the magnetosphere called Electron Cyclotron Harmonic (ECH) waves.
ECH waves, in turn, knock other electrons out of their orbits, forcing them to fall back down onto the atmosphere. This rain of secondary electrons powers the diffuse auroras.
"This is exciting,†says UCLA professor Vassilis Angelopoulos, a co-author of the papers and lead of the THEMIS-ARTEMIS mission. "We have found a totally new way that particle energy can be transferred from the Earth’s own atmosphere out to the magnetosphere and back again, creating a giant feedback loop in space.â€
Tim adds:I wonder how much heat this injects into the Earth's atmosphere? And do the current climate models take it into account?
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Ridiculous. Latin America had what was called "La Castas" which was a definition of the multiple interbreedings which established where you sat on the social order. At the top were pure blood Spaniards from Spain, followed by pure blood Spaniards born in the colonies. It went down a complex racial ladder. There was not and never was a "Hispanic" race.
The Left is simply using divide and conquer, on in this case unite so as to divide and conquer.
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Latin America has always had a strict racial categorization - far more so than the U.S. What we call "Latinos" these days are primarily mestizo and Indian laborers. They are immigrating to the U.S. because the guys on top of their pyramid in the south don't want them around. Funny; they are being driven by racism to come to America, the land the Left says is racist.
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Here it is; Justin Trudeau's plot to tax the sale of real estate.
Courtesy of Jim Church:
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https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/09/biden-tries-giving-thousands-of-americans-including-many-blacks-a-covid-death-sentence.html
The "science,†which we’re supposed to "follow,†informs that perhaps 85 percent of COVID-19 victims could have been saved if a proper treatment protocol had been officially established. Early intervention is part of this, as it has long been understood that once a coronavirus patient exhibits advanced symptoms and must be hospitalized and ventilated, survivability greatly diminishes.
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September 19, 2021
Go here https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/18/two-uncle-joes/ for the rest of the article. It's well worth your time and you may learn some new things, as I did.The distant eyes and slack mouth, the befuddled shuffle off the walkway, recurrent unexplained schedule gaps and public disappearances, and off-the-wall comments finally make Joe Biden a pale copy of his hero, Franklin D. Roosevelt.In wrapping up a war and realigning the world order, the first eight months of Biden as president resemble the last years of Roosevelt—except that FDR was on the cusp of victory against an avowed enemy.
The medical condition of an American president can affect the entire nation and the world for generations. Now, as then, one wonders who is really in charge of what.
FDR appeased Stalin on practically every major point leading up to the notorious Big Three Yalta summit with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945.
Biden has surpassed Roosevelt by simultaneously accommodating Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Communist China, state sponsors of terrorism like Qatar and Iran, and the global jihadist movement—in ways that will change the world for generations.
For the moment let’s not look at the actual policies, but at the conditions of the presidents themselves. Roosevelt at Yalta purposefully excluded wise visionaries like Loy Henderson and George Kennan in favor of others. As Afghanistan shows, Biden has not surrounded himself with the best and brightest.
Roosevelt had shown a certain softness toward Stalin since 1933, when he became president and recognized the Soviet Union. He rejected top diplomats’ advice that, among other things, a quid pro quo be attached to prevent the Kremlin from interfering in American internal affairs.
The president’s later extended illness would allow others to exploit that softness. In the last few years of World War II, FDR’s doctor put him on a four-hour-a-day work schedule with long vacations. Roosevelt had little time to devote to his duties as president. The issue wasn’t the paralysis that confined him to a wheelchair. It wasn’t mere overwork or loss of focus. Roosevelt’s cognition was degrading sharply. He delayed major decisions and ignored key responsibilities.
During a dinner with Churchill and Stalin at the November 1943 Tehran "Big Three†conference, Roosevelt collapsed. Stalin saw the American president’s condition firsthand.
New York Times reporter Turner Catledge recalled a March 1944 interview he had with Roosevelt. "He was sitting there with a vague, glassy-eyed expression and his mouth hanging open,†Catledge wrote years later in a 1971 memoir. "He would start talking about something, then in mid-sentence he would stop and his mouth would drop open. . . and he sat staring at me in silence.â€
Democratic Party insiders knew of FDR’s feeble condition during the 1944 campaign for a fourth term. At the Chicago convention they carefully chose a reliable running mate, dumping incumbent pro-Stalin Vice President Henry Wallace in favor of the stable Harry Truman. Roosevelt did not attend. He dithered about Truman until almost the last day, and addressed the convention by radio.
After his acceptance speech, FDR took a therapeutic five-week ocean cruise to Hawaii to confer with General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz about the war in the Pacific. MacArthur noted, "I predict that he will be dead within a year.â€
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In a Facebook discussion about Covid and how it is enumerated a commenter named John Diaz offers this:
A lot of it appears to be in how they classify vaccination status. According to the CDC, one is deemed "fully vaccinated†only 14 DAYS after they received either both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna injections or a single dose of the J&J. However, however, after three months, that person is no longer considered "fully vaccinated†unless they receive a booster shot and wait 14 days....
Also, there are many unrelated ER cases and other alternate medical procedures where the patient is tested with an rtPCR with a very high cycle threshold count that has been shown to be wildly unreliable, and the positive results, regardless of whether there are symptoms or not, are counted as a covid hospitalization
Lies, damn lies and statistics...
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The Chinese government is trying to come up with better advertising to improve its image around the world. But it already has an absolutely magnificent global propaganda machine. The problem is the product, not the marketing.
China engages in belligerent military harassment of its East Asian neighbors. It claims the territory and territorial waters of a slew of countries as its own. It makes deals with dictators of poor countries to build infrastructure that facilitates mining their natural resources while destroying their environment, employs mostly imported Chinese workers to do the construction, and drives those countries deep in debt in the process. It inflicts slave labor, imprisonment, and torture on its minority populations. It is now shutting down foreign businesses and demonizing foreigners with racist rhetoric. When Chinese citizens hold a protest, the government locks them up. China lies routinely about foreign countries. Whenever it gets called out for having enabled the Covid pandemic, it picks another country out of a hat to claim was where Covid originated from. There are 4 or 5 places by now it has claimed Covid came from. (Even though early on it blamed its own city Wuhan, which was the actual origin).
The only reliable way to sell a product is if it is something that customers appreciate.
Metaphorically speaking, what the Chinese government offers the rest of the world is rat poison marketed as baby food.
Slicker propaganda campaigns won't work.
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