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Posted by M. C. on June 8, 2022
As Americans face record gas prices and inflation, President Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to produce more “green” energy alternatives like solar and batteries. Will this do the trick? Also today, CDC tries to push masks for monkeypox and Poland tells its citizens to gather sticks if they get cold or hungry as energy prices soar.
A monkeypox variant that spreads airborne! Must be a US bio-weapons lab leak. Wasn’t the US a net oil exporter just a few short years ago?
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
Stop paying for Microsoft Office every year! Microsoft has an option that allows you to buy office if you really want it and there are a bunch of options out there that you should be looking at instead!
Libre works for me.
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
The formula shortage is due in large part to past and present government promises of “costless” benefits.
Like any purveyors of fiction, those who promise benefits without costs must maintain that fiction even in the face of failure. Rather than be revealed as incompetent or liars, they simply devise new promises. Today’s new promises come in the form of a government airlift of miniscule volumes of baby formula set to artificial fanfare.
https://mises.org/wire/bastiat-predicted-baby-formula-crisis-170-years-it-happened
The current baby formula shortage in the United States is a pressing crisis, and many in the media have been rushing to explain how such a thing could have happened. But on close analysis, it appears to share the same root as virtually every other crisis experienced in the modern world: a government promised benefits without costs.
Our political leaders either fail to understand or outright ignore the basic, unavoidable limitation on government action, that no government benefit comes without a cost. As French writer and politician Frédéric Bastiat wrote in his 1848 essay, Government:
Thus, the public has two hopes, and Government makes two promises—many benefits and no taxes. Hopes and promises that, being contradictory, can never be realized.
Now, is not this the cause of all our revolutions? For between the Government, which lavishes promises which it is impossible to perform, and the public, which has conceived hopes which can never be realized, two classes of men interpose—the ambitious and the Utopians. It is circumstances which give these their cue. It is enough if these vassals of popularity cry out to the people—”The authorities are deceiving you; if we were in their place, we would load you with benefits and exempt you from taxes.”
The current baby formula shortage is one more example of government promises running into the contradictory reality of their own hidden costs.
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/desantisig?e=fa1aba8cd8
The lockdowners and mandaters have tried two strategies to explain away Florida’s health outcomes over the past couple of years.
(1) They’ve tried to claim that Florida has actually done very badly. It’s been hard to make this stick, though. People can see with their own eyes that there aren’t piles of corpses on the side of the road in Miami or Orlando.
Also, even if Florida were doing slightly worse than some other places, it should still be doing much, much worse after ignoring the entire public health establishment’s dire warnings.
And then people point out that you can’t compare Florida to California on raw numbers, because that’s apples and oranges. Covid is worse on people who are older, obese, or diabetic.
Correct for those population characteristics and there’s no difference between Florida’s outcomes and those of California.
(2) So some of them decided to abandon this approach and instead to claim that Florida must be fudging its numbers.
Stop and think about what an admission that is. Anyone arguing like this is essentially saying: if what we believe about “mitigation” strategies is true, Florida cannot possibly be doing this well. Therefore, the only explanation has to be that the numbers are fake. It isn’t that our Covid religion is wrong. It’s that Florida is deceiving us.
That’s a dangerous road to take. If Florida’s numbers can be shown to be accurate, where does that leave these people?
Well, the Inspector General just completed a full investigation of the claim and found nothing to support it.
Such a claim had been advanced by an employee named Rebekah Jones, and indeed I examined her allegations in an episode of the Tom Woods Show some time ago.
The lockdowners wanted and needed her story to be true.
But after interviewing a dozen people involved in Covid tracking in Florida, including Jones’s own superiors, no basis for the story could be found.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Some said she had told them she was pressured to alter Covid case and death counts, but her allegations didn’t make sense to them, not least because she didn’t have access to the raw data to do so. Ms. Jones, a geographer by training who previously worked on hurricane tracking systems, merely assisted with the Covid data’s online dashboard.”
With this story buried, what is left for those who can’t bring themselves to believe that Florida did well without Fauci?
My best guess is that they’ll be talking a lot less about Florida now.
And yet isn’t it funny: those people have absolutely no problem spreading their discredited ideas. They never have to wonder whether they should make that YouTube video or post that podcast episode. They get a free pass.
But those of us who can point to actual data and the real experiences of real places in the world? We have to sit in anticipation of the “disinformation” hammer.
Sometimes our people have been removed from entire platforms, as you well know, despite doing nothing wrong.
The same thing has happened to my friends at Revealed Films, who have done excellent documentaries on innocent topics like winemaking, but also controversial and forbidden topics like Covid.
They’ve had every outlet you can think of closed off to them, simply because they featured the wrong people.
(They’ve featured me, too, but I promise I wasn’t responsible!)
But they keep doing great work, and they keep managing to get around the censors.
Tomorrow is the world premiere of their Money 2022 docuseries — which features normal people, rather than the lizard creatures who rule us.
You can watch the whole series for free if you register in advance. After that, they start charging for it.
What we are supposed to do in the current circumstances is a darn good question, and this series seeks to answer it.
Please click here to register for free:
http://www.tomwoods.com/moneyseries
Tom Woods
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
Forty-five per cent of the 270 pregnant mothers reported adverse clinical events, and more than 60 per cent of these events were rated as serious. These are facts which Pfizer withheld from the public until ordered to release them by a US judge.
By Guy Hatchard
The Conservative Woman
The writer is in New Zealand
WE ARE becoming more aware of gagging orders affecting reporting of adverse effects following Covid vaccination. Apparently hospital administrators are keen to avoid any publicity that might suggest increased incidence of cardiac events and other vaccine side effects. Their motivations for this are unclear, but we have previously noted a lack of NZ data for specific conditions. I have received a number of anecdotal reports from hospital staff and patients around the country concerning high rates of hospitalisation and death attributable to vaccine injury.
Whilst scare stories of serious Covid infection outcomes are given wide publicity, silencing of hospital staff effectively hides the prevalence of adverse effects from the public. This prevents the public from reaching informed conclusions about the relative safety of Covid vaccination.
A UK coroner’s court recently found that a 26-year-old graduate who died from a blot clot in his brain following an AstraZeneca injection was given incorrect and out-of-date information about the risks – a situation we face in NZ every day where saturation advertising claims safety and efficacy contrary to available data.
Women are being denied informed consent by gagging orders on health professionals and the deliberate withholding of data. In March a paper called Patient Betrayal: The Corruption of Healthcare, Informed Consent and the Physician-Patient Relationship found ‘a significant risk associated with Covid vaccination among women of reproductive age and during pregnancy’.
It also reported that in September 2021 the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG) had threatened their 22,000-plus constituents with disciplinary action, including revocation of licences and certifications if they questioned the safety of the Covid ‘vaccination’. This gagging order occurred in the absence of reliable data indicating safety for pregnant or menstruating women. Such discussions are also deleted from social media platforms.
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
Every time I post about this clown, I resolve that it’s the last time. Even beyond his deepening Corona mania and clear signs of mental illness, he’s just such an obvious loser – a mediocrity who spent years on the fringes of his own party as an eccentric back-bencher, known primarily for his fear of salt.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-permanent-pandemic?s=r
By Eugyppius
Eugyppius: A Plague Chronicle
A Twitter friend highlights this bizarre moment from a speech Karl Lauterbach gave on 3 June to a convention for private insurers in Berlin:
We’re going to have a special situation [in the Fall]; we also expect a strong influenza wave and many RSV infections. This has to do with the fact that immunity has declined in recent years because the containment measures have also protected against these other infections, so an immunity deficit has built up there, and this immunity deficit is now significant for the wave we’re coming up to. So we’re dealing with a new wave of Covid, and we’re dealing with a wave of influenza, and we’re dealing with RSV. You might say RSV primarily affects children – well, if you have this substantial deficit in immunity, then RSV is also dangerous for older people. We have to deal with that too. We also have to protect those who have autoimmune problems, and these autoimmune problems mean that the vaccination works, but it doesn’t work so well, and for that we need special vaccination strategies, we need special protection strategies …
Every time I post about this clown, I resolve that it’s the last time. Even beyond his deepening Corona mania and clear signs of mental illness, he’s just such an obvious loser – a mediocrity who spent years on the fringes of his own party as an eccentric back-bencher, known primarily for his fear of salt. He came to prominence very much like Eric Feigl-Ding, as a pseudo-epidemiologist on Twitter, where he relentlessly inflated the risk of SARS-2, denied elementary properties of the human immune system and serially misinterpreted even very simple studies.
He’s only worth quoting for two reasons. The lesser of them, is the fact that he’s not-so-subtly helping Moderna with the marketing for their three-in-one combined RSV, Corona and influenza vaccine, which is now in development. Henceforth, the Virus That We Have To Fear In The Fall will always be whatever virus the pharmaecutical companies are hoping to vaccinate against.
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
NATO has chosen to launch war games near Russia’s border precisely when the US and UK are sending longer range multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine and when the Russian president has warned that any rockets hitting Russia would incur a big response. What’s the game here? Bigger war? Also today: Read-out from the big RPI conference on Saturday and more…
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Posted by M. C. on June 7, 2022
In this compilation, we are showcasing clips from Dr. Peterson being interviewed about his latest book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. These excerpts from @Tim Ferriss, @Tom Bilyeu, and @The Rubin Report served as a great platform for Dr. Peterson to extrapolate on the thoughts behind the companion volume to 12 Rules for Life: an Antidote to Chaos. Please enjoy.
29:30 Left liberals abhor “order” and why
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Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2022
My guess is that for years to come, we’re going to see a serious devolution of civilization everywhere. The world has become top-heavy with the fruits of civilization. Hundreds of millions rely on those fruits, with no clue about how they came about. Meanwhile, the roots of the tree that produced them are rotting.
by Doug Casey
International Man: Nations in decline often experience cultural degeneracy. We saw that in the Roman Empire and Weimar Germany, for example.
Today, in the US, we see increasing signs of cultural degeneracy in Hollywood, advertisements, academia, science, corporations, politics, and other areas of life.
What is your take?
Doug Casey: There have been a number of major turning points throughout history. Rome in the third century was one of them. It was a period of economic, political, and military chaos, aggravated by the social chaos accompanying the rise of Christianity. These things set the stage for the complete collapse of the old civilization in the West with the barbarian invasions after Adrianople in 378.
The Renaissance changed the nature of life in Western Europe starting in the 15th century, as did the Enlightenment in the 18th century. And, most important, in many ways, the Industrial Revolution overturned the pre-existing economic order starting in the early 19th century.
Whenever the public was in a frenzy about something or other, my friend Herman Kahn (look him up) liked to quip, “There are only two important things that have happened since the dawn of history—and this isn’t one of them.” He was referring to the Agricultural Revolution around 5000 years ago and the Industrial Revolution. It’s good to keep things in perspective…
Of course, there have been plenty of bloody episodes, great discoveries, and breathtaking inventions along the way. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, WW I, WW II, the collapse of the USSR, and the rise of China are among them. But in the great sweep of history, they’re really just footnotes. It bears emphasis, though, that almost everything of any importance that has happened in the last 500 years has been about or because of Western Civilization.
They all had various effects, but none of them really attacked the basis of Western civilization itself. Psychopaths like Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao were, even in their heydays, really just jackals barking at a lion.
But then things started changing in the 1960s. The 60s were fun at the time, but from a cultural viewpoint, they turned out to be an overture to the collapse of Western Civ. You may recall the motto of many college students at demonstrations was, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has to go.”
They were yahoos, of course, but it’s actually happening now, 60 years later. Thomas Cole’s superb series of five paintings, “The Course of Empire,” done about 200 years ago, says it all.
The thing to remember is that Western civilization is built on a certain set of values and virtues that have given the world something unique in history. Before the rise of Western Civ, people everywhere in the world survived by piling sticks and stones on top of one another and grubbing for roots and berries, freezing in the winter and starving in the spring, expecting an early and likely violent death.
Western Civ changed the very nature of life. It is, in fact, the only civilization worth talking about. China may have given the world Taoism, martial arts, and General Tso’s Chicken. India developed yoga, and curries are tasty. But on the whole, Ayn Rand was right when she said East minus West equals zero.
We’re now undergoing our own Great Cultural Revolution. It’s much more serious than what the Chinese attempted in the ’60s. Why?
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Posted by M. C. on June 6, 2022
The type of scenario that Europol’s De Bolle is now alarmed about has already played out in Syria, as has long been documented, given that twin CIA and Pentagon programs to arm so-called “moderate rebels” resulted in an array of weapons, including TOW anti-tank missiles, going straight to Syrian al-Qaeda, ISIS, and all terror groups in between.
BY TYLER DURDEN
In a weekend German media interview the head of the European police agency Europol has issued a dire warning about the huge amount of weapons being pumped from the West into Ukraine.
Europol Director Catherine De Bolle told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that the flood of weapons on the Ukraine-Russia battlefield could end up in the hands of criminal groups for years to come. “At some point the war will be over. We want to avoid a situation like the one that followed the war in the Balkans 30 years ago,” she said to the publication in reference to conflicts in the wake of Yugoslavia’s collapse.
“The weapons from this war are still being used by criminal groups today,” De Bolle emphasized in speaking of Balkan conflicts, and what’s looking to be a similar situation emerging in Ukraine.
“The situation is highly dynamic and fragmented and we’re receiving different figures from our European partners,” De Bolle said. She stressed that in response her agency is seeking to “find a way in which we will deal with the situation after a possible end to the war.” She described that this will involve Europol “assembling an international task force that will address this issue.”
The Ukraine conflict has attracted a reported tens of thousands of foreign volunteers after the government in Kiev established a foreign legion. This has also included American and British military veterans and mercenaries. On this, she explained as cited in Deutsche Welle:
People traveling to Ukraine have different experiences and ideologies. But she said that even those who become disillusioned by the violence they witness there will be under observation.
Russia, for its part, has long highlighted far-right and neo-Nazi groups and the danger of arming them. Azov Battalion in particular had been on the front lines in what is now Russian-controlled Mariupol, and is believed to be a main Ukrainian fighting force in Donbass.
The Kremlin has especially complained about Stinger missiles from the US flooding the Ukrainian battlefield. Stingers don’t only pose a severe threat to military aircraft, but to civilian aviation as well.
The type of scenario that Europol’s De Bolle is now alarmed about has already played out in Syria, as has long been documented, given that twin CIA and Pentagon programs to arm so-called “moderate rebels” resulted in an array of weapons, including TOW anti-tank missiles, going straight to Syrian al-Qaeda, ISIS, and all terror groups in between.
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