Monthly Archives: August 2021

Donkeys led by donkeys

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How Effective are the Vaccines? is the question asked by David Solway. His full answer is at the link, but here is how he beings.

Despite the steady drumbeat from the media, government agencies, Big Pharma and the established medical bureaucracies attesting to the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines, those who remain skeptical of their trustworthiness advance a range of countervailing arguments.

  1. The vaccines are really panaceas, essentially unreliable, innocuous or even useless.
  2. Favorable trial results are statistically manipulated. The Pfizer math is shifty and the “per protocol” method is frankly disingenuous, constituting a violation of bioethics laws.
  3. The vaccines are potentially harmful, yielding dangerous side-effects, aka “adverse reactions,” that are routinely underreported in passive, voluntary sites like VAERS in the U.S. and Yellow Card in the U.K.
  4. Liability immunity: the PREP Act and the EUA (Emergency Use Authorization)) ensure that neither Big Pharma nor the FDA can be sued in the event that the vaccines cause harm, thus creating reasonable suspicion.
  5. The pharmaceutical giants are profiting enormously from the marketing of their product—Pfizer alone projects earnings of $33.5 billion—and rank high in lobbying and advertising budgeting, giving them decisive leverage over politicians and media outlets to enforce the party line.
  6. Major criminal settlement payments totaling in the billions levied against Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson for withholding risks and for dodgy marketing practices are a deeply troubling circumstance.
  7. Since the vaccines are experimental substances still lacking FDA approval, have not been tested for the appropriate minimum of five years or more, and are in reality a form of gene therapy, their long-term effects are unknown.

Each of the seven are massive concerns but I have highlighted the final one because it really is the most problematic. We may be in the midst of a major effort to re-educate the public about how little anyone can trust our governments. The communal outcomes from inoculating these vaxxines may come far too late in the story, but may yet be the greatest catastrophe of all. As noted in the article.

According to reports, COVID cases among the vaccinated are skyrocketing in various countries around the world. Iceland, for example, is 90 per cent fully vaccinated, yet it continues to set new daily case records. The vast majority of Gibraltar’s population is fully vaccinated; notwithstanding, cases are soaring and continue to rise. Sourcing The Washington Post, Deseret News writes that Israel, the poster child for a national vaccination program, has seen a significant rise in cases, again among the vaccinated. “Among adults, about 85 percent have been vaccinated which means that Israel’s vaccinated is five times larger than its unvaccinated community.” The jab seems to be dysfunctional.

It is more than possible that at this stage your life is threatened much more by the vaxxines that it is by Covid, but this you may not find out until 3-5 years have passed. We are donkeys led by donkeys.

We are in the hands of monsters

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These pharmaceutical companies are the scum of the earth: Israeli scientist says COVID-19 could be treated for under $1/day. And the sub-head:

Double-blind study shows ivermectin reduces disease’s duration and infectiousness • FDA and WHO caution against its use.

They would prefer to earn mega-amounts of money rather than save lives. The experimental vaxxines can only be used if there are no alternatives. There are alternaitves:

The study appeared on the MedRxiv health-research sharing site. It has not yet been peer reviewed.
Schwartz said other similar studies – though not all of them conducted to the same double-blind and placebo standards as his – also showed a favorable impact of ivermectin treatment.
His study did not prove ivermectin was effective as a prophylactic, meaning that it could prevent disease, he cautioned, nor did it show that it reduces the chances of hospitalization. However, other studies have shown such evidence, he added.
For example, the study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Therapeutics highlighted that “a review by the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance summarized findings from 27 studies on the effects of ivermectin for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 infection, concluding that ivermectin ‘demonstrates a strong signal of therapeutic efficacy’ against COVID-19.”
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It is safe, it has been shown to save lives in lots of situations, there has now been a clinical study to show the same, but it has not been “peer reviewed”. We are in the hands of monsters.
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Fear, public opinion and the corona virus

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The video, if you click to view, is just as this says: How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees. 

Imagine being a soccer mom and logging onto Facebook and seeing your sister-in-law’s post of a Chinese man foaming at the mouth and dropping dead, with the caption “Just the flu 🙄” You keep scrolling down your timeline and see the same clip over and over, and other similar shock videos shared by neighbors, friends, and people you work with.

You’d lose your mind, and rightfully so. That’s powerful messaging and it had a major impact on the American psyche, day in and day out for two months straight.

Of course, no one is dropping on the streets now or anywhere. But the fear has not gone away, and is being stoked further along every day. 

And a bit of deeper understanding from Robert Higgs who saw all of this happening before it happened: The Political Economy of Fear. The article was originally published May 16, 2005. The article begins:

All animals experience fear—human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of its size, speed, or other attributes. Fear alerts us to dangers that threaten our well-being and sometimes our very lives. Sensing fear, we respond by running away, by hiding, or by preparing to ward off the danger.

To disregard fear is to place ourselves in possibly mortal jeopardy. Even the man who acts heroically on the battlefield, if he is honest, admits that he is scared. To tell people not to be afraid is to give them advice that they cannot take. Our evolved physiological makeup disposes us to fear all sorts of actual and potential threats, even those that exist only in our imagination.

The people who have the effrontery to rule us, who call themselves our government, understand this basic fact of human nature. They exploit it, and they cultivate it. Whether they compose a warfare state or a welfare state, they depend on it to secure popular submission, compliance with official dictates, and, on some occasions, affirmative cooperation with the state’s enterprises and adventures. Without popular fear, no government could endure more than twenty-four hours. David Hume taught that all government rests on public opinion, but that opinion, I maintain, is not the bedrock of government. Public opinion itself rests on something deeper: fear.

Those who push these scenarios must have been amazed at how well the global warming scam worked, and the consequences were not even to occur until decades had passed. So now we have the story of virtually instant viral death. It sells papers, keeps politicians on the left in government and will make slaves of us all unless it is stopped NOW.

Real wage death in the US plus inflation

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The clearest imaginable presentation between the present and the recent past: The Biden Inflation Tax, Made Clear in One Chart. And with the passage of the multi-trillion fiscal deficit it will only get much much worse. The question may also be asked why this chart is not everywhere to be found.

And to add a little detail to the story there is this. The shift down occurs just after Biden became President.

Now I know my ABC … they will always lie to me

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For details go here: Wendy Harmer leads ABC charge on spouting China’s Covid-19 lines. It’s the ABC so you know they will lie if it doesn’t support what they want you to believe.

As anyone with half a brain knows, state-run media organisations in totalitarian societies are not the best examples of objective journalism. The English-language newspaper China Daily, which is owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, is no exception. Its purpose is not to report, but to disseminate propaganda.

Witness for example a recent televised interview it did to counter reports of state-sponsored forced labour trafficking of Uyghurs from so-called re-education camps. “They also care about us at work and teach us wholeheartedly,” said a cheerful woman purporting to be a Uyghur factory worker in Xinjiang Province. A Chinese academic assures us in the same piece that “we can find out the human rights in Xinjiang is very good”.

Heaven forbid the CCP – which has championed great human rights advances such as The Cultural Revolution, The Great Leap Forward, and The Tiananmen Square Massacre – would have it otherwise….

The China Daily segment is worth watching, if only for the comedy value of the ham actors. “So you can see she (Markson) is a social butterfly in the right-wing circle,” explains journalist Meng Zhe to co-presenter Xu-Pan Yiru, who nods knowingly. “And it infiltrates the global media in a harmful way and inspires more conspiracists to follow her steps,” Yiru says of Markson’s reporting. Between them, the word “conspiracy” is used six times in a segment just under four minutes in length.

They are not trying to convince anyone. They want their useful-idiot brigade to know what lines they are supposed to spout, which you may be sure they will dutifully do, which is what the ABC will dutifully do.

 

When do you suppose we will know what is really going on with covid?

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This is interesting: The Most Educated Are Among the Most Vax Hesitant, Researchers Find.

The largest decrease in hesitancy between January and May by education group was in those with a high school education or less. Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a Ph.D.); by May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group.

There is also this to ponder: More Dangerous Side Effects Potentially Linked To mRNA Vaccines, EU Warns.

As shares of MRNA-vaccine purveyors Moderna and BioNTech tumbled on Wednesday, Reuters reported that the EMA, the EU’s medicines regulator, is looking into new potential side effects from the still-experimental MRNA jabs, including suspicious skin reactions and kidney ailments.

According to Reuters, three new conditions have been reported by a small number of people after vaccination with jabs from Pfizer and Moderna. The ailments include Erythema multiforme, a form of allergic skin reaction; glomerulonephritis, or kidney inflammation; and nephrotic syndrome, a renal disorder that leads to heavy urinary protein losses. All of the cases are being studied by the EMA to determine whether the vaccines might be linked to the conditions.

Not that you can believe an official word about anything. The latest example: CDC Quietly Admits Their Florida COVID Numbers Were False.

And finally there is this: Immunologist, mRNA Pioneer Urges Health Experts to Adjust COVID-19 Policies. 

Dr. Robert Malone explained on the John Solomon Reports podcast Monday that new COVID-19 variants “are able to bypass, to a significant extent, the protection afforded by the current vaccines,” Just the News reports.

As vaccinated peoples’ immune systems try to fight off the virus, “what that’s going to do is create a setup where once we do have a fully functional viral escape mutant, there will be no barriers to it spreading rapidly through the human population and, basically, completely abrogating any benefits associated with the vaccines,” he warned. 

“What we had been told, that these vaccines are protective, they’re going to protect us, they’re going to prevent us from getting infected, they’re going to prevent us from having virus replicate in our bodies, and they’re going to prevent us from infecting other people, those are not true,” Malone said. “And there has been a variety of statements to the effect that those responsible for these effects, this viral evolution, are the unvaccinated.”

“That’s just not true,” he urged. 

Dr. Anthony Fauci has “two odd, exclusive focuses,” he continued. The first is “only focusing on antivirals when this is a hyperinflammatory disease, and we’ve got a lot of great anti-inflammatories. And the other is the focus on hospitalized, as opposed to early-onset patients, outpatients.” 

Malone, who has experienced censorship himself, said the CDC is censoring people by “using these incredibly powerful new tools to suppress any dissent or discussion.” 

“It’s bizarre,” he said. “It’s rewriting history. It’s rewriting the language in a very Orwellian way, and then applying that punitively in using authoritarian measures.” 

You can see why the more educated you are, the more hesitant you are since it may require a PhD to be able to read between the lines while keeping up with everything that is going on.

The regressive Canadian left

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It has apparently become a badge of honour on the left to be able to denounce one’s own country as having perpetrated genocidal policies on some members of its own population. Germans don’t do this because genocide is a genuine horror and you do not want anything genocidal associated with one’s own history and culture. But not in Canada. This is from: The Canadian Historical Association’s Fake ‘Consensus’ on Canadian Genocide.

Ottawa, Canada – July 1, 2021: Thousands marched in the Cancel Canada Day march which ended up with a rally on Parliament Hill. Paul McKinnon / Alamy Stock Photo

The campaign to label Canada a genocide state isn’t an isolated phenomenon, but is playing out as part of a larger effort to destroy any publicly displayed symbol of national pride. This has included a concerted effort to rename organizations, and remove or destroy statues, on the logic that their mere existence “creates an unsafe environment” for historically marginalized groups. Many of the actors demanding this purge are activists. But an unsettling number are professional historians. This includes Adele Perry at the University of Manitoba, a former president of the Canadian Historical Association. A few months ago, Perry co-authored an article linking the defence of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, with those who “serve white supremacy and protect the colonial status quo.” One of Perry’s University of Manitoba colleagues, Sean Carleton, denounces ideological opponents as being practitioners of “residential-school denialism,” a term that seems intended to put them in the same moral category as holocaust deniers.

Of course, the fact that North American university faculties are now dominated by progressive politics is widely known—having been richly documented by University of London professor Eric Kaufmann and others. But again, it is one thing to staff faculties with thinkers who are ideologically monolithic in their individual capacities, and another thing for a group of these scholars to make their bias plain in an institutional capacity, as the CHA has done. This crosses a line.

These protesters apparently wouldn’t have done it, whatever “it” happens to be. In this case, “it” consists of shifting the children of North American original inhabitants (is that neutral enough?) into schools far from their homes to educate them in the same ways that the “European-Canadians” (is that OK?) were educating their own children. That some of these children also died while at these schools is a tragedy, but it was not a genocide. 

The modern left may be the most repulsive people ever raised as part of Western culture. They know no history, have a dessicated morality, but they know what they like among the vast smattering of ignorance that now passed for knowledge amongst them.

Covid experts wrong again (and again)

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Why is none of this on the local news: COVID Cases Fell 40% in the UK After Restrictions Were Lifted, Proving the Experts Wrong Yet Again.

On Sunday July 18, people across the United Kingdom celebrated when the clock struck midnight. It was “freedom day.”

With 87 percent of residents at least partially vaccinated, the government was lifting its remaining restrictions. No longer would mask wearing and social distancing be mandatory in England.

“We want people to take back their freedoms as they can today,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

The Associated Press reported that for the first time in nearly 18 months, night clubs were permitted to open “and from London to Liverpool, thousands of people danced the night away at ‘Freedom Day’ parties starting at midnight.”

And what happened?

Of course, Australians seem to like being in lockdown. The harsher the better – bring on the lash. Of course, in Victoria, twenty new cases is a catastrophe and front page news. Don’t believe me? Melbourne lockdown extended as state records 20 new cases. A nation of craven fools.

Should workers be able to sue employers for enforcing vaxxination mandate?

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It’s one thing that you cannot sue pharmaceutical companies for harm created by their “experimental” vaxxines, but it is another when it comes to companies who force their employees to be vaxxinated, as here: SPC defends mandatory Covid-19 jab push.

He said it should be up to public health officials to make a call on whether compulsory vaccination of workers was needed at certain workplaces, not employers and employer groups.

SPC chief executive Robert Giles rejected the union criticism about a lack of consultation, saying it would consult on the best way to implement the decision “not in the formation of our business’s decision”.

This is insane and I hope these companies are liable to be sued if things go wrong medically with their employees following these vaxxinations which they have made a condition of employment.

Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy reviewed at the QJAE

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This is the most positive review of any book I have ever written. And aside from much else, it is the first time a review of one of my books taught me something about a book I had written that I did not know myself and was pleased to find out. I just hope the attachment will open for you so that you can read it for yourself. It is, as you might imagine, a very positive review and by someone whose judgement I trust and value.

Book Review: Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy which has been written by a true scholar himself, Per Bylund who is at the University of Oklahoma. Not sure how long that link will last but hopefully long enough for anyone who is interested to read it for themselves.

If you cannot open the link, the review can be found in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Volume 24, Number 2, pages 374-378, Summer 2021. 
 
I realise, alas, that this goes well off into and beyond the hinterland of virtually everyone else’s interest, even among economists, but what you would find between the covers of the book has been the central perspective of my academic life, my professional life, and family aside, the centre of much of my adult life as well.
 
As a reader of second-hand books and a second-hand bookshop troll since the age of eleven, I am all too sadly aware how rapidly books disappear into the past where perhaps, very occasionally, someone with a similar interest will pick the book up and perhaps even read it. There are many books on my shelves which I may have been near-on one of only a handful of others to have read in possibly a century, and even where they might have been more widely read, it is only ever so often.
 
All is vanity, but even so, there are moments like this, when I read an astonishingly accurate review of something I have put together that brings that moment of satisfaction that will last until the next time I am caught up in traffic (very likely tomorrow) or something equally annoying and distracting. But it is very rare to find that someone else has understood what you had hoped to say, and this is one of those times, for which I could not be more grateful.
 
I commend the review to you. And for those with the right kind of spirit of adventure, my suggestion is that you perhaps go out and ask your local library to buy a copy so that you, and perhaps others, can read it. 
 
A wonderful moment for me which I am pleased to be able to share with you. 
 
I will add that having read the review I have gone back to read it for myself, and even for me it is full of surprises. Highly recommended, even if I do say so myself.