James Doogue

In 2022, there were 144,650 deaths that occurred by 30 September and were registered by 30 November, which is 19,986 (16.0%) more than the historical average.

Here are some suggestions by the medical scientific community:

- Because of Covid-19 policies and regulations, or because people were made to be fearfull of Covid-19, diagnosis of cancers and heart diseases which would have been treatable have been missed.

- Covid-19 vaccinations have caused medical complications including flare-up of previously controlled cancers or immune diseases, and have caused damage to heart, arterial, renal and respiratory systems.

- Covid-19 has caused damage to heart, arterial, renal and respiratory systems which only become apparent after recovering from Covid-19.

It would be nice if we had health authorities who were interested in investigating this rather than working out ways they can compel healthy individuals to subject them or their healthy children to an emergency approved vaccine and boosters which has no long term trial data.

Provisional Mortality Statistics, Jan - Sep 2022
abs.gov.au

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'Since it needs to be said: who you want to have sex with is not "your identity" '

Jordan Peterson

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Here is a rundown on some of the more egregious inflation rates from the consumer price index.

* lettuce 24.9 percent
* margarine: 43.8 percent
* butter: 31.4 percent
* flour: 23.4 percent
* salad dressing: 18.3 percent
* hot dogs: 18.2 percent
* frozen vegetables 16.4 percent
* crackers and bread: 16.0 percent
* olives, pickles, relishes: 15.8 percent
* soups: 15.7 percent
* roasted coffee: 15.5 percent
* sauces and gravies: 15.2 percent
* ice cream: 15.0 percent
* rice: 13.8 percent
* fresh whole chicken: 13.3 percent
* potatoes: 12.9 percent
* milk: 12.5 percent
* baby food: 10.7 percent

Even man's best friend hasn't been spared from inflated meal costs, with pet food costs advancing 15.2 percent over the previous 12 months.

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McCarthy is off to a good start; he's kicking Omar, Schiff, and Swalwell off their committee assignments:

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Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck passed away from bacterial meningitis. The former Yardbirds guitarist (also from the Yardbirds were Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page) passed away January 10 at the age of 78.

Beck also founded the Jeff Beck Group, which launched the career of Rod Stewart.

His family tweeted:

On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck’s passing. After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family ask for privacy while they process this tremendous loss. pic.twitter.com/4dvt5aGzlv

— Jeff Beck (@jeffbeckmusic) January 11, 2023

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Joe Biden had classified documents in his garage in his Delaware home.

Classified documents actually pertaining to national security, from around the time Joe Biden is known to have been blackmailing Ukraine over the public prosecutor investigating his son’s firm for corruption.

FASCINATING. pic.twitter.com/kPggiEZGIr

— Raheem J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) January 10, 2023

DOOCY: "Classified materials next to your Corvette?! What were you thinking?"

BIDEN: "My Corvette's in a locked garage so it's not like it's sitting on the street."

DOOCY: "So the material was in a locked garage?"

BIDEN: "Yes— as well as my Corvette."

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 12, 2023

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2023/01/teachers-want-to-re-educate-boys-brainwashed-by-manospheres-andrew-tate.html

Teachers in the United Kingdom are upset. Many of their young adolescent boy students, rebelling against feminism, are listening to the Manosphere’s Andrew Tate and are espousing his hyper-masculine views. These teachers say the lads are being "brainwashed” and find this most troubling, which is understandable.

They no doubt feel that’s their job.

Teachers in the United Kingdom are upset. Many of their young adolescent boy students, rebelling against feminism, are listening to the Manosphere’s Andrew Tate and are espousing his hyper-masculine views. These teachers say the lads are being "brainwashed” and find this most troubling, which is understandable.

They no doubt feel that’s their job.

Tim adds:

I rather doubt Tate has "hypermasculine views" though. Probably pretty much like all people had thirty years ago.

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Joe Biden is on record saying that the pandemic is over. So why did he extend the state of emergency yet again?

I'll tell you why; it allows the protocols put in place by the Democrats to remain in force. That means mail-in ballots, drop boxes,  and the other tools they used to steal the last two elections. As long as the state of emergency is in place the Democrats have great discretion in bending the rules wherever they are in power. It has nothing to do with the public health.

They've pulled this before. We are currently in a state of emergency over the Great Depression, for instance, which granted the Federal government broad powers over banking and economic matters.

This is about nothing but power.

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The President of Mexico thanked Biden for not building the border wall and called for amnesty for illegal aliens.

From El Zoro news:

President Biden said "we cannot wall ourselves off from shared problems" following a meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Tuesday.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday praised President Biden for being the first U.S. leader "in a very long time" that has not built any additional wallat the U.S.-Mexico border, while also pushing for an amnesty for Mexican illegal immigrants -- just as the Biden administration is scrambling to put the brakes on a two-year long migrant crisis.

"You are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built even one meter of wall," Lopez Obrador told Biden at the North American Leaders' Summit in Mexico City. . "And we thank you for that, sir, although some might not like it, although the conservatives don’t like it."

The Biden administration halted the Trump-era project to build construction of a wall along the southern border -- of which over 400 miles were built during the prior administration.

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Warner Todd Huston

11 Signs The Economic ‘Tipping Point’ Everyone is Worried About is Already Here

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Maurizio Morabito

One very strong indicator that people join the climate change alarmist cult (rather than develop actual concern about climate change) is the amount of time they spend trying to denounce and isolate "deniers" - that is, anyone with the mildest doubt about the world going to become a ball of cinders within a decade.

Nobody scoured the Titanic yelling at people who did not believe it was sinking.

And besides, what kind of damage could any "denier" possibly cause when the biggest failure in tackling climate change-causing emissions is Germany, despite money, technology, consensus, political will all pushing in a single direction?

If your best, biggest and richest champion fails...why waste time on the lazy, stupid minnows?

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Willis Eschenbach

Here are the ten cities in the US with the highest per capita murder rates (murders per 100,000 inhabitants).

Care to guess what they all have in common?

Yeah, I know, not a tough question. A bit of research shows that they're all Democrat-run cities.

Every. Single. One.

No surprise. Between no-bail policies, DAs refusing to charge all types of criminals, "sanctuary city" policies, releasing dangerous felons back on the street, and defunding the police, that's what you get.

Dead people.

Vote the Democrats out of power wherever you find them.

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https://www.wlbt.com/2023/01/07/analysis-second-straight-year-jacksons-homicide-rate-ranks-highest-us-among-major-cities/

Tim adds:

Democratic controlled cities? Is there any other kind these days? I can think of no city that is not under their heels.

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"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." --

Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, November 29, 1802

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This observation about the Biden scheme to ban gas stoves comes from reader Mike:

In the world of tomorrow there will be no need to cook food as it reduces the nutritional value of insects.

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Just before Christmas the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill that would take the calling of the National Guard away from politicians and give it to the Capitol Police in emergency situations at the Capitol.

From Common Sense and Wonder:

On Monday night, December 12, senatorsunanimouslypassed a measure to remove authority for calling out the National Guard from politicians like Nancy Pelosi and gave it over to the Capitol Police.

Despite heightened threat assessments by federal authorities showing problems ahead of January 6, 2021, and the Trump Administration offering National Guard help, the people who were supposed call out the Guard, the speaker and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, wanted no Guard on scene due to optics. Bowser hadbattledwith Trump over National Guard presence during the BLM/Antifa riots in the past and didn’t want the militarized look in D.C. If she needed them at all for January 6, she decided the Guard would beunarmed and relegated totraffic control.

Pelosi’s office "was heavily involved in planning and decision-making before and during the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and micromanaged the Sergeant at Arms,” according to texts and other communications that came to light after January 6.

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The cost of charging EV's keeps going up:

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Curses!  I'm not surprised though. SCOTUS is not truly a conservative body and the conservatives there will defer to the legislature, and the President:

Supreme Court denies Texas bid to protect Trump immigration rule
justthenews.com

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2023/01/transgenderisms-crisis-of-scientific-legitimacy.html

Motivated by a combination of pseudo-elite social pressure and its cancel culture — and the lure of MUSS intervention money — virtually the entire establishment is ignoring biological reality as much as any Lysenkoist ever did.

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So, after greenlighting a raid on Donald Trump's home over "classified" documents, Joe Biden has now been caught with at least 10 classified/top secret docs he took when he was Veep.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/10/us-classified-files-from-bidens-vp-tenure-found-at-think-tank

So where were the SWAT teams? Why doesn't the DOJ raid the White House?

Why are there two sets of rules?

Screwless Joe simply ignored questions about these documents when asked at a presser.

You will notice too that the documents were handed over to the National Archives days before the election but the media was conveniently silent on the subject. Now why would that be, do you suppose?

The National Archives says Biden was cooperating with them. Gee; they said that about Trump too before the jackbooted thugs invaded Mar-a-Lago and sniffed Melania's underwear.

Naturally Donald Trump was not silent on the topic:

"The amount was 54 million dollars that the Biden Think Tank received from China. That’s a lot of money. They saw the classified documents!” Mr. Trump said wrote on Truth Social.

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) claimed the college received $54.6 million in donations from China between 2014 through June 2019, including $23.1 million in 2016.

So Biden may have spilled national security secrets and there is little concern from the media or from anyone else.

The DOJ appointed an attorney to review the documents. Bet he finds nothing of interest.

But the DOJ found Trump's shopping lists and Rogaine application directions of great importance to national security.

We live in a two-tiered nation.

Anyone remember Sandy Burglar?  He stuffed classified documents down his pants and dumped them in a construction sight and nothing was done to him because he was working for the Clinton syndicate.

Biden should have hired Burger for this...

Addendum CNN is reporting that these Biden docs contained vital national security materials"

materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden's private office, source tells CNN | CNN Politics

Carlos Velazquez adds:

Not only was he a VP not constitutionall

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Here is Aristotle's Politics. It is timeless and Aristotle sounds as if he's discussing modern America.

Here are some snippets from this timeless treatise:

In considering how dissensions and poltical revolutions arise, we must first of all ascertain the beginnings and causes of them which affect constitutions generally. They may be said to be three in number; and we have now to give an outline of each. We want to know (1) what is the feeling? (2) what are the motives of those who make them? (3) whence arise political disturbances and quarrels? The universal and chief cause of this revolutionary feeling has been already mentioned; viz., the desire of equality, when men think that they are equal to others who have more than themselves; or, again, the desire of inequality and superiority, when conceiving themselves to be superior they think that they have not more but the same or less than their inferiors; pretensions which may and may not be just. Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. The motives for making them are the desire of gain and honor, or the fear of dishonor and loss; the authors of them want to divert punishment or dishonor from themselves or their friends. The causes and reasons of revolutions, whereby men are themselves affected in the way described, and about the things which I have mentioned, viewed in one way may be regarded as seven, and in another as more than seven. Two of them have been already noticed; but they act in a different manner, for men are excited against one another by the love of gain and honor- not, as in the case which I have just supposed, in order to obtain them for themselves, but at seeing others, justly or unjustly, engrossing them. Other causes are insolence, fear, excessive predominance, contempt, disproportionate increase in some part of the state; causes of another sort are election intrigues, carelessness, neglect about trifles, dissimilarity of elements.

Part III

What share insolence and avarice have in creating revolutions, and how they work, is plain enough. When the magistrates are insolent and grasping they conspire against one another and also against the constitution from which they derive their power, making their gains either at the expense of individuals or of the public. It is evident, again, what an influence honor exerts and how it is a cause of revolution. Men who are themselves dishonored and who see others obtaining honors rise in rebellion; the honor or dishonor when undeserved is unjust; and just when awarded according to merit.

[...]

Political revolutions also spring from a disproportionate increase in any part of the state. For as a body is made up of many members, and every member ought to grow in proportion, that symmetry may be preserved; but loses its nature if the foot be four cubits long and the rest of the body two spans; and, should the abnormal increase be one of quality as well as of quantity, may even take the form of another animal: even so a state has many parts, of which some one may often grow imperceptibly; for example, the number of poor in democracies and in constitutional states. And this disproportion may sometimes happen by an accident, as at Tarentum, from a defeat in which many of the notables were slain in a battle with the Iapygians just after the Persian War, the constitutional government in consequence becoming a democracy; or as was the case at Argos, where the Argives, after their army had been cut to pieces on the seventh day of the month by Cleomenes the Lacedaemonian, were compelled to admit to citizen some of their Perioeci; and at Athens, when, after frequent defeats of their infantry at the time of the Peloponnesian War, the notables were reduced in number, because the soldiers had to be taken from the roll of citizens. Revolutions arise from this cause as well, in democracies as in other forms of government, but not to so great an extent. When the rich grow numerous or properties increase, the form of government changes into an oligarchy or a government of families. Forms of government also change- sometimes even without revolution, owing to election contests, as at Heraea (where, instead of electing their magistrates, they took them by lot, because the electors were in the habit of choosing their own partisans); or owing to carelessness, when disloyal persons are allowed to find their way into the highest offices, as at Oreum, where, upon the accession of Heracleodorus to office, the oligarchy was overthrown, and changed by him into a constitutional and democratical government.

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Another cause of revolution is difference of races which do not at once acquire a common spirit; for a state is not the growth of a day, any more than it grows out of a multitude brought together by accident. Hence the reception of strangers in colonies, either at the time of their foundation or afterwards, has generally produced revolution

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Revolutions also break out when opposite parties, e.g., the rich and the people, are equally balanced, and there is little or no middle class; for, if either party were manifestly superior, the other would not risk an attack upon them. And, for this reason, those who are eminent in virtue usually do not stir up insurrections, always being a minority. Such are the beginnings and causes of the disturbances and revolutions to which every form of government is liable.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud. Force may be applied either at the time of making the revolution or afterwards. Fraud, again, is of two kinds; for (1) sometimes the citizens are deceived into acquiescing in a change of government, and afterwards they are held in subjection against their will. This was what happened in the case of the Four Hundred, who deceived the people by telling them that the king would provide money for the war against the Lacedaemonians, and, having cheated the people, still endeavored to retain the government. (2) In other cases the people are persuaded at first, and afterwards, by a repetition of the persuasion, their goodwill and allegiance are retained. The revolutions which effect constitutions generally spring from the above-mentioned causes.

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune. The expense does not take place at once, and therefore is not observed; the mind is deceived, as in the fallacy which says that 'if each part is little, then the whole is little.' this is true in one way, but not in another, for the whole and the all are not little, although they are made up of littles.

(This explains Donald Trump perfectly)

"There are two patent causes of revolutions in oligarchies: (1) First, when the oligarchs oppress the people, for then anybody is good enough to be their champion, especially if he be himself a member of the oligarchy"

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