American foreign policy and the future of Afghanistan

Two takes from Instapundit to underscore just how unserious American foreign policy under the Democrats is. First this:

And then this.

I am not sure that we have any business dictating our values to anyone else, any more than they have a right to dictate their values to us. There are plenty of “rights” for women in Afghanistan, they’re just not the same rights women have in the West.

Come back in fifty years and see which way cultural trends are shifting. This is famously a photo taken in Afghanistan in the 1960s.

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Compare and contrast.

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The word “progress” is a very loaded term. I wonder how many favours American foreign policy has vested on your average Afghani citizen.

A short-term perspective on the long-term effects of vaxxination

The title is Long-Term Damage from COVID Vaccination but the thing is we have only a very short-term perspective so far. Long-term it is likely to be even worse. But so far we have this:

  • COVID-19 vaccines are capable of causing damage in a number of different ways. Disturbingly, all these different mechanisms of harm have synergistic effects when it comes to dysregulating your innate and adaptive immune systems and activating latent viruses
  • The worst symptoms of COVID-19 are created by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and that is the very thing gene-based COVID vaccines are instructing your body to make
  • While the natural spike protein is bad, the spike protein your body produces in response to the vaccine is even worse, as the synthetic RNA has been manipulated in such a way as to create a very robust and unnatural spike protein
  • The spike protein is toxic in and of itself, and has the ability to induce vascular, heart and neurological damage
  • The COVID-19 vaccine disables the Type I interferon pathway, which explains why vaccinated patients are reporting herpes and shingles infection following COVID-19 vaccination

Still there is this to take into consideration.

The Spike Protein Is the Bioweapon

As noted by Mikovits, we now know that the worst symptoms of COVID-19 are created by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, and that is the very thing these gene-based vaccines are instructing your body to make. But it’s far worse, as the vaccines do not cause your body to make the same spike protein as SARS-CoV-2 but one that has been genetically modified, making it far more toxic. So, it’s no wonder things are going wrong.

“The SARS-CoV-2 infection never was what they said it was,” Mikovits says. “There was no infection asymptomatically. It’s a monkey virus coming out of a monkey cell line and that’s the problem, but the spike protein is clearly [causing] the disease. 

So, you just injected the envelope of HIV … a syncytin gammaretrovirus envelope, and a SARS S2 receptor binding domain. That’s not a vaccine. It is the disease-causing agent. It’s a bioweapon. So now your cells are all producing that bioweapon and you’re going to take out the innate immunity, NK [natural killer] cells and dendritic cells …

You’re going to disrupt your white blood cells, your immune response. You’re going to turn on an anti-inflammatory cytokine signature in every cell of your body. It exhausts your NK cells’ ability to determine infected cells. It’s the nightmare we predicted.”

About these things you and I know nothing, but these biomedical experts do. That is why such debates should go on before they start injecting people other than in very carefully controlled and monitored experiments.

About the long-term no one knows a thing, at least not yet. And there is even more along these same lines at the link.

The joke’s on us

The whole world is laughing at us and for good reason. Daniel Andrews is now world famous, as an idiot. Up till now only we knew it. Now everyone knows it.

More here. Much more. The heading for what is a quite long article with much more than just Tucker Carlson. From The Daily Mail. 

US firebrand TV host SLAMS Daniel Andrews for his ‘martial law’ Covid lockdown and accuses him of treating Aussies like PEASANTS with bizarre ban on removing masks to drink booze

Feeling lucky, punk?

Let’s toss a fair coin. Odds of heads or tails, 50-50. OK. so let’s now bet on the outcome.

$1 – $5 – $10 – $50 – $100 – $1000 – $5000 – $20,000. Your health. Your life.

Still 50-50, right? On the chance of a head or tail perhaps, but that’s not where it ends. Quite a difference in the sense of risk depending on what’s at stake, on what you might lose. It’s very different to think you might lose $1 against possibly losing $20,000, or even your life. So let’s have a closer look at these politicians and public servants asking you to risk your life where they personally have nothing to lose. The text is from: The FDA Must Not Hastily Grant Final Approval for the Covid-19 Vaccine and this is the opening para:

The Biden Administration, elected Democrat politicians, government bureaucrats, the education establishment, and clueless corporate management are hellbent on imposing Covid-19 vaccine mandates. These mandates could potentially apply to everyone over the age of 12. The FDA, at the urging of Biden Administration, is on the cusp of granting final approval for the mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna) vaccines in an unprecedented and abbreviated period of time, thus, providing the legal basis for the mandates to be imposed and enforced.

So let’s look further at this article and what we find.

It has been determined that the mRNA vaccines cause some young adults to develop myocarditis (inflammation of the muscle of the heart) and pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue that forms a sac around the heart). A recent analysis of post Pfizer vaccine myocarditis cases at Boston Children’s Hospital revealed that 80% of the patients had “late gadolinium enhancement,” a prognostic marker which is associated with a nearly fivefold increase in the chance of future severe cardiac events.

And then there was this.

Meanwhile, researchers in Israel investigated an extraordinary surge in excess mortality among 20-49-year-olds which coincided with the rollout of the vaccination campaign. As the susceptibility to Covid-19 mortality is extremely low among adults under 50 years of age, the excess mortality could not be just a mere coincidence.

The study revealed that there has been a 30% increase in cardiac arrests and heart attacks among young adults in Israel since the beginning of the mass vaccination program. And a shocking increase of 83.6% in heart attacks among young women in the 20-29 age group. Further, the United Kingdom and Hungary, also with very high levels of vaccination, have experienced similar results.

Not risky – maybe. Or maybe not. Certainly risky for some right away. Tell me it’s a low probability outcome, but it’s not if you are betting your health or your life. Who are these people to ask anyone else to take such a monstrous risk, specially since the risk of contracting Covid is so low and the risk of dying is even lower. And what about a year from now, or five years? 

Whether to take the vaxxine is no one else’s call but each individual assessing the risks as they see them for themselves. 

 

Feeling lucky, punk?

Obviously America’s new best friends

Wearing a burqua as well. She is not just ignorant but stupid. You just have to hope there are others more clued in, and that they are the vast majority and that that majority is getting larger. But the media, plus university graduates in the Arts, are hopeless fools.

An ancient fairy tale whose message is as alive as ever in the Age of Covid

The moral: never trust Foxy Loxy, examples of which can be found everywhere. Every one of them has an agenda completely different from the one they pretend to have. Specially if some “leader” is trying to convince you that Covid requires you to pass on all of your freedoms to the government so that they can take care of you, remember Foxy Loxy. And there are Foxy Loxies everywhere.

And just in case you don’t remember: Who was Foxy Loxy?    

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Foxy Loxy is the main antagonist of the 1943 animated short Chicken Little. His motive is to simply eat all of the birds living within the gated farm yard.

This tells a story of how Disney made the film in 1943 where the moral was everything. Not a children’s movie at the time, but people have to grow up eventually. And do go to the vid below which has a brief introduction to the entire Disney version which is as up-to-date as the morning post.

Nothing changes but the names and dates.

Speaking of which, I grew up with the story known to me as Chicken Little, but my European-born wife brought up in Australia knows it under the name Henny Penny. And the Henny Penny link will add even more of its history. Quite an interesting history, but they all have one bit in common, the hysteria following the declaration that “the sky is falling”.

For Democrats foreign policy is only a domestic issue

Democrat foreign policy is designed only to secure votes from people who want to sponge off their fellow citizens but virtually never care about what is happening anywhere else in the world. What’s Afghanistan got to do with someone who is interested in higher welfare payments, other than as a diversion of money they would prefer to go to themselves. Mike Pompeo lays out the difference that a genuine foreign policy approach would have consisted of.

“Were I still the secretary of state with a commander in chief like President Trump, the Taliban would have understood that there were real costs to pay if there were plots against the United States of America from that place,” Pompeo said. “Qassem Soleimani learned that lesson, and the Taliban would have learned it as well. . . “

“. . . it’s worth noting this did not happen on our watch. We reduced our forces significantly and the Taliban didn’t advance on capitals all across Afghanistan. So it’s just a plain old fact that this is happening under the Biden administration’s leadership now almost a quarter of our way into his first term, this is not the way leaders lead, by pointing backwards.”

“We had a bad deal we inherited — the JCPOA [Iran nuclear deal]; we got out of it,” Pompeo continued. “We secured America from the risk from Iran. We inherited a horrible deal in Syria where ISIS controlled real estate the size of Great Britain. We crushed them. Every president confronts challenges. This president confronted a challenge in Afghanistan. He has utterly failed to protect the American people from this challenge.”

To the left side of the political divide, there is no crisis and nothing of significance has changed. But everywhere else among the democracies there has been a reassessment of what will be needed to protect their own sovereignty. I thought this was a very on the money point, cruel as it might in reality be.

When in the future there is an assessment of the Decline and Fall of American Democracy no one will really be able to make any sense of it because it will look utterly insane, which it is.

Covid ethics-such a cute concept

From the Australian Spectator reprinted here.

What is even more concerning is that, as alerted to by the Doctors for Covid Ethics, a Freedom of Information request to the Australian drugs regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration that granted provisional approval to the Pfizer vaccine, confirms that it has never seen the study data.

In other words, the TGA never saw or requested the patient data from Pfizer and simply accepted their reporting of their study as true. This means that when the head of the TGA John Skerritt said that “the safety evidence is pretty thorough” on February 6his words would ring hollow to most Australians who have assumed, rightly or wrongly, that the TGA had actually looked at the patient data before granting any such approval. As noted by Doctors for Covid Ethics on its website, it is currently not known whether any of the major government agencies around the globe (FDA, MHRA or EMA) has independently verified, or attempted to verify, Pfizer’s data, before proceeding with provisional/emergency authorisation of Pfizer’s mRNA therapy vaccine.

For any government, either by itself or via corporate proxy, to attempt to mandate vaccines in circumstances where there has not been adequate testing and analysis of risks as well as benefits would constitute not only a violation of the principle of informed consent (which Prime Minister Scott Morrison has stated he believes in – see this press conference as an example) — but a violation of Australia’s obligations under international law with respect to medical experimentation. 

Indeed, after National Cabinet on August 6, Scott Morrison indicated that mandatory vaccination could breach privacy laws, discrimination laws, and Australia’s policy remained that vaccines should be voluntary and free. In particular, he declared: “In our country, everyone has choices and they have choices that are supported by the rule of law and simply making the point that those choices have to be exercised, are consistent with the rule of law.”

Let’s just see if these will simply be more hollow words from the hollow man.

There was then this comment by Mud Crab replying to another comment by DJ. Is he lying? What if it’s true?

DJ mentions:

“They rolled out the Moderna mRNA experimental injections at his facility, and he says:

‘I’ve seen 32 elderly people pass away immediately after taking the Moderna vaccine. None of that is being talked about on the News. It doesn’t fit their narrative.’”

Correct. The Narrative must be protected.

Here in Oz on the tga.gov.au they publish weekly reports into what the Jab is doing. They were admitting for a while that there were people who had died with a short period of receiving a jab. The numbers were increasing at 15 to 20 per week. The report then devoted an entire sentence to say (paraphrasing from memory) that “we compared these death rates to the expected seasonal death rates and since they are more or less the same then nothing to worry about”.

Australian Government report on vaccination side effects effectively says “People die all the time, get over it.”

Interestingly these weekly reports stopped listing the current totals of recent jab deaths two reports ago, only referring to them in general terms. I understand after some careful reading that these deaths are about 430 now (c.f. total number of claimed Covid deaths in Australia of roughly 950, all of which were, apparently, outside the seasonal expected death rates and therefore Very Important, apparently).

Using some very rough modelling based on the amount of Australians that have taken the Jab so far we could be looking at over 1200 deaths post jab that are all, apparently, completely normal cause hey, people die all the time, okay?

To the TGA reports ‘credit’ they do admit that at least 7 (reports are weekly, I am behind) people have died from jab related blood clot complications. Of these 6 are of people below the age of 52 and 5 are people in 30s and 40s.

When you compare those numbers to the ‘Covid Deaths’ in the same age groups here in Australia, while the numbers are fortunately still very low, there are actually slightly more Jab deaths than Covid.

The numbers are complicated by the recent death of a 33 year ‘healthy’ woman in NSW who had Covid and die… and… umm… also had a Rare Heart Condition… but totally died from Covid which is why NSW is completely justified in employed the army against it’s on civilian population now. Prior to this death (which had clearly nothing to do with her rare heart condition) there were no deaths in Australia for women under 50.

(also, Sharks kill on average 5 people per year in Australia. If you are not part of the ‘old people’ demographic in Australia you are more likely to be killed by a shark then die from/with Covid. Stats don’t lie.)

So we have nearly equal Jab related blood clot deaths to ‘Covid Deaths’ in the below 50s age group. These numbers should be taken with the understanding that only about a third of Australians have taken at least one jab and the jab roll out started with ‘old people’ and worked down.

So with more people possibly getting the jab and with the jab expanding into the below 50s age demograph is might be of concern to some that Jab related deaths in this younger age group are likely to increase.

AND, as it has been shown, the Jab will NOT stop you from catching Covid and is only claimed to reduce the symptoms.

Now 30 or so deaths in a population of 26 or so million may seem like a small number, but try allowing 30 people to die in ANY other context.

(and from my risk reduction training in my Day Job, the best way to reduce risk is to remove the original cause. If Jabs are known to kill people [you] can prevent those deaths by stopping the Jab. It is how we are training (repeatedly) to think in the real world.)

But yeah, The Narrative.

We needed to destroy that village in order to save it… I mean those burning buildings were there when we got there!

Seeing beyond the shadows and lies of one’s culture

Quotes found at Plato’s Cave which proclaims at the top of the page:

Seeking Truth in a World of Propaganda.

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” -Plato

These are the quotes they provide as an insight into their perspective. It’s the sort of thing I have been saying about my book, Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy. There is economic theory that those who run the economy want you to believe, which many of them may even believe themselves since these beliefs are so profitable to themselves, and then there is the way an economy actually works, which is very different. Meanwhile:

Quotes

“So in our timidity, let each of us make a choice: Whether consciously, to remain a servant of falsehood—of course, it is not out of inclination, but to feed one’s family, that one raises his children in the spirit of lies—or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect both by one’s children and contemporaries.”
– A. Solzhenitsyn
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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
– Mark Twain
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“Countless, similar stories across thousands of years of human history point to this simple conclusion: the people in charge don’t always tell the truth. Duh. Is that really a controversial statement?”
– Simon Black
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“Complaining about the existence of conspiracy theories is power-serving behavior. Instead, complain about the existence of government, corporate and financial secrecy which causes people to form speculative theories about what the powerful are up to behind that veil of opacity.
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“They concentrate all the power in these tiny little elitist circles, then say ‘You don’t get to know what we’re doing with all our power over here. Not only that, but you don’t even get to talk to each other about what we might be doing, even though it could directly affect you.’
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“How crazy is that? At the very least don’t play along with them and police each other about it on top of that.
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“It’s fine to discuss and debate the validity of individual theories (I do it all the time), but to complain about the fact that people form theories about possible conspiracies when we know for a fact that powerful people conspire is just infantile.”
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-Caitlin Johnston
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“And wouldn’t they — if they could — grab hold of anyone who tried to set them free and take them up there and kill him?”
-Socrates
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“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
-Gustav Le Bon
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
-Edward L. Bernays
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“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
-Theodore Dalrymple
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“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found.”
-Allan Bloom
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“In a country where opinion has sway, to seize upon it, is to seize upon power. As it is a rule of humanity that the upright and well-intentioned are comparatively passive, while the designing, dishonest, and selfish are the most untiring in their efforts, the danger of public opinion’s getting a false direction is four-fold, since few men think for themselves.”
-James Fenimore Cooper
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“Advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government … will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.”
-Bertrand Russell
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“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ​The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.”
-Donald James aka Dresden James
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Are camps for the unvaxxed coming next?

Now there’s a thought:

Australia builds massive quarantine CAMPS for Covid… camps for unvaxxed coming next? 

That’s from the website, Revolver.com. But at the link there is nothing about who they are going to put into the camps, other than returning travelers, or why they need so many spots for quarantine camps that won’t even be opening until next year. The suggestion is only in the headline, but it is worth thinking about. This is what you do find at the link.

Construction is under way at Melbourne’s Centre for National Resilience – the unwieldy name given to the new quarantine facility in Mickleham – with the camp set to open by the end of the year.

A community engagement session was held earlier this week on progress of the fast-tracked 1000-bed accommodation site for returning travellers, however residents were told that builders would not be delayed by any consultation process.

Earthworks have begun at an empty paddock in Melbourne’s north, which sits next to the federal government’s pet quarantine facility and is about 300 metres from homes.

This entire covid-hysteria is here for the long-term. Not cheap to build but no doubt will cover its costs with everyone who travels back from overseas forced to stay for at least two weeks.

And then there are the unvaxxinated! What are these madmen going to do with them? The modern gulag for the modern dissident.

The Victorian government has provided renders of what the new quarantine facility could look like.
The Victorian government has provided renders of what the new quarantine facility could look like.

Could look like. Doesn’t look like it’s designed for couples either.