Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was questioned today about why he would wait to take a place in line for a COVID-19 vaccination. When answering the question the Florida governor had the best response: “When it’s my turn, I will be vaccinated. Granted I am an elected official, but whoop-dee-do, at the end of the day let’s focus where the risk is”…
Florida Governor DeSantis and South Dakota Governor Krisi Noem are the best two governors in the nation right now. Both focused on common-sense mitigation efforts within their states; both focused on freedom and economic liberty; and both showing strong leadership amid a nation now filled with totalitarian dictators.
Well done.
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Guess which one of these politicians the establishment GOP will attempt to ram down the throat of Republican voters in the next presidential election….
I’ll eat a rice cake if I’m wrong…. but I guaran-damn-tee you the professional political class will work overtime to try and push decepticon favorite Nikki Haley. Bookmark it.
Each day, we’re bombarded (I’d say ad nauseam) with reports and news of more COVID-19 “cases,” whatever that term means.
You’d think that this term would be well defined, here, there and everywhere. I wish you luck in finding a standard, generally accepted definition of it. If you succeed, please let me know.
But, don’t despair, there’s a cure for it. Big Pharma is “on the case.”
Some Definitions of “Cases”
First, let’s see how Wikipedia defines it: Searching Wikipedia for the definition of “case,” at (accessed on Dec. 29, 2020, 6:21 pm EST) in this context. I could not find any reference to COVID-19, or any other medical meaning of the term “case” – none at all!
The CDC (U.S. Centers for Decease Control and Prevention); again just searching for a definition of the term “case” provides only such for Listeriosis: No mention of COVID-19—none at all.
Undeterred, further checking found a CDC definition, dating back to April, 2020, answering my quest. There, it states, under the Headlines (also accessed on Dec. 29, 2020) as follows :
”Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), 2020 Interim Case Definition, Approved April 5, 2020”:
Most interesting, at least in my mind is that “evidence of pneumonia”—by this definition alone—now qualifies as a clinical evidence of COVID-19 “infection.”
Clearly, several decades ago now, I must already have had contracted “COVID-19” already. At that time I felt pretty lousy and went to see our GP physician whose diagnosis of my condition was “pneumonia.” His advice then was: “Rest up and drink lots of fluids and in a few days you’ll be fine again.”
Indeed, having plenty of prescribed fluids on hand and following the good doctorcs advice, after a few days of rest I was eager and ready to go back to work.
And I had just thought of it then as a “case” of the common seasonal flu!
That truly begs the question:
What differentiates the “common flu” from “COVID-19?”
As far as I can reckon, the answer to that question is hard to come by.
Both the “flu” and COVID-19,” diagnosed via the unspecific “PCR” (polymerase-chain-reaction test), appear to test for similar or, perhaps even identical, biological fragments in one’s body.
The Wrong Pandemic
What’s of interesting significance in that regard is also a recent report in the journal Nature that states, inter alia,
“In May [2020], at the tail end of the first wave of COVID-19 deaths in many nations, and when some of the strictest lockdowns were in place, health workers noted an abrupt and early halt to the 2019–20 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere.”
Of course, such trivia is not welcome by the purveyors of the many millions of vaccine doses against this novel covidian type of the coronavirus variety. Nor is it welcome by progress-minded folks at the World Health Organization and their prime disciples (Drs. Tedros, Fauci, Tam, etc.), nor by the movers and shakers (attendance by invitation only) at the World Economic Forum, nor the pharmaceutical giants which may reap great profits from their vaccine products, nor from government entities that may have the best in mind but are, nevertheless, just turning into fear-mongering ping-pong balls of the afore-mentioned.
For another opinion along this line of thought, A. Firstenberg summarized that in a recent post with the title “The Wrong Pandemic.”
With that in mind, please accept my Best Wishes for You and Yours for 2021!
For this old geologist the change from carbon causing cooling to causing global warming with no change in its place in the periodic table has been fascinating
Atweet from the National Weather Service in Miami: “Brrr! Much colder temps expected for Christmas. Falling iguanas are possible”.
On Christmas Day, the Associated Press reported: “With unexpectedly cold weather in the forecast and pandemic-related curfews. Florida is about to have a Christmas unlike any other in recent memory, and it may involve falling iguanas.”
It seems that the lizards which are cold-blooded like to sleep in trees. But when it gets unusually cold their body temperature drops enough, they go sort of dormant. And in losing their grip fall from the branches. Without warning, which was part of the weather alert that temps could be the lowest in some 21 years.
The outstanding climate site WUWT recently ran a list of over 100 climate alarms. These range from dire warnings about another ice age—from using too much fossil fuels—to global warming. For the same reason.
Fear of The World Frying
“The lowest winter temperatures are likely to increase in Northern Europe…The duration of the snow season is very likely to shorten and snow depth is likely to decrease.” – IPCC Climate Change, 2007.
“All simulations show the trend of less snowfall will continue into the future. And winter sports will no longer be possible.” – Liebnitz Institute for Oceanography, February 17, 2005.
However, this winter seems to be generating some concerning news stories – about too much snow. And even one about too much cold in Brazil.
“More Record Lows in Brazil” – Coutiniho, November 7, 2020.
“Snow Chaos – Record Snowfall Causes Mayhem in Austria” – Today, RTZ.Lu, December 9, 2020.
“Delhi, Weather: IMD Records Coldest October in 58 Years” – The Quint, October 31, 2020.
“Record Snowfall in New York State” – WGRZ.com, December 26, 2020.
“Texas Snowfall Almost As Far South As Austin” – NBC, Dallas-Fort Worth, December 28, 2020.
Fear of Another Ice Age
“The world has been chilling sharply…At twice what it would take to put us in an ice Age.” – Earth Day 1970, Kenneth Watt, Ecologist.
“Discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to ten years, could be sufficient to trigger an Ice Age.” – Washington Post, July 9, 1971.
Now, just where did the Washington Post sensationalism come from?
From a paper published by NASA physicists Rasool and Schneider in 1971:
“For aerosols, however, the net effect of increases in density is to reduce the surface temperature of the Earth. If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease over the whole globe is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age.”
In other articles at the time, “aerosols” mainly meant carbon particulates emitted by burning fossil fuels. Indeed, an article published by “New Scientist” in December 2003 quoted James Hansen on increasing amounts of particulate carbon in the atmosphere causing global warming.
Hansen, the “father” of global warming hysteria, was quoted: “It causes a strong warming effect”.
For this old geologist the change from carbon causing cooling to causing global warming with no change in its place in the periodic table has been fascinating.
But to go with the mandated fad, global warming due to whatever reason could eventually diminish fears about falling iguanas.
The newest and biggest wind project to date in Australia is to undergo major repairs after faults were found in its commissioning process. Wind turbines at the Coppers Gap wind farm in Australia had to be repaired or replaced before they were even put into service. (1)
The blades of one of the 123 turbines will have to be replaced entirely, while GE Catcon is also going to replace ‘generators’- referring to the equipment in the nacelle at the top of the wind tower —in a further 50 turbines.
The issues at Coppers Gap add to a terrible run of problems for some of Australia’s largest wind farms, including the delays to the commissioning of the 336MW Dundonnell wind farm, and the fall of a blade from one of its turbines that stopped all production for several days.
Other major wind farms are also taking much longer to be completed than originally expected. Coopers Gap has been running about one year behind its original schedule. 1
Further, the 420MW Macarthur wind farm delivered a relatively low capacity factor of just 26 percent last year.
This kind of story is common in many wind farms, and is further proof that they are nothing but horrendously expensive virtue signaling white elephants, reports Andy Rowlands.
Solar Panels on Households
In Australia, as many as a quarter of solar panels pose a high or severe ‘electrical safety’ risk. Since there are two million households with solar panels, that’s half a million homes sitting under a live problem. 2
A national audit revealed that between 21 and 26 percent of small-scale rooftop solar installations inspected every year since 2011 had been found to have faulty wiring and unsecured panels. Some posed a ‘severe risk’ where wiring was exposed. This required units to be shut down immediately and remediated. A total of 35 licensed installation contractors have been warned they face the possibility of suspension.
Australian massive daily spikes and collapses in wind and solar power output
Then there are hailstorms. As Joanne Nova reports, here’s a problem coal fired plants don’t need to worry about. “Sydney’s recent ‘catastrophic’ hailstorm resulted in a damage bill said to top $125 million. How much of that damage is to rooftop Solar PV? The last massive hail storm in Sydney was in 1999- but there were hardy any solar panels then.” 3
Before anyone blames climate change, stories about hail the size of eggs have fallen in Sydney in 1929 and other places in 1934. Perhaps building 2 million solar panels on a continent with hail the size of tea cups was not such a good idea.
Investment Disappearing
Australian massive daily spikes and collapses in wind and solar power output have resulted in new rules about grid access for intermittent wind and solar and, much to the horror of the wind and solar industries, government is actually enforcing them. 4
Dozens of proposed wind farms and large-scale solar projects have been shelved, simply because they can’t be guaranteed of ever being able to deliver a single watt into the grid.
To their credit, it appears that investors are none too keen to hand over their cash to build projects which will never earn a dollar.
Summary
What about the canary in the coal mine? This is destined to hit California in spades as the insane legislature has made solar panels required for all new construction starting in 2020. Other states probably have similar plans. Will any learn from Australia’s experience. Want to make a bet?
References
Andy Rowlands, “Major problems with Australian wind turbines,” principia-scientific.com, November 18, 2020
Joanne Nova, “Deadly: a quarter of all solar panels pose high or severe risk,” joannenova.com.au,December 20, 2018
Joanne Nova, “Sydney hail storm: just how hail proof are those solar panels?”, joannenov.com.au, December 22, 2020
“Totally choked: Australian wind power investment suffers massive collapse,” stopthesethings.com, August 30, 2020
It seems to me that if a country has Malaria problems it apparently also has a very low number of Covid19 cases. I think the explanation is Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine which are used as a prophylactic. Can any such link be found in all your statistics?
Thank you very much for your postings. Your blog makes the world more transparent.
Best greetings and very high regards
U
REPLY: I have never seen any disease be turned into a political weapon as this COVID-19. Simply because Trump said to use it then everyone says it suddenly does not work. If Trump came out and said sunlight is the cure, CNN, New York Times, and Washington Post would tell people to move underground that sunlight is lethal.
Here is the CDC’s own page which states that for Malaria, use Chloroquine. The death toll out of 69 million people in Thailand was 60. Ofm but Chloroquine does not work and you will die? I really can’t wait for the day when the people start dragging their journalists out of their offices and put them on trial for using this virus to impose climate change and Communism 3.0. They are destroying our way of life and they think they can destroy the economy and build it back better in a year. It took more than 200 years to create the industrial revolution and technology boom. None of that was directed by any government.
People starved in Russia because they seized all property and then bureaucrats, with no experience, were to direct when to plant and where to plant crops from a central office. T^hey killed 7 million Ukrainians. This is what you get with the centralized government no matter what form they profess it to be – democracy, republic, authoritarian, dictatorial, or totalitarian.
When Fauci staged him pretending to get the vaccine, it was in his left arm. When he was interviewed about it, he said his arm was a little sore as with all vaccines and touched his right arm – not his left. He has been caught lying about the herd immunity. Why anyone believes anything that comes from any official is beyond me. NOTHING they tell the public is ever the truth! He claimed to take the Maderna vaccine, which 80% of the people report significant side effects which he claims is nothing because he never took it!
I have warned that there is a legal precedent for mandatory vaccinations which dates back to a 1905 Supreme Court case Jacobson v. Massachusetts after a smallpox outbreak in Massachusetts. But this vaccine is like nothing before. It is not the typical vaccine built on the virus. This is a RNA vaccine never before used. In any state that is going to make it mandatory, you should pack your bags and leave. This virus has a better than 99% survival rate. We need to see what happens to these people taking the vaccine and that will take one year in my opinion to see what it is really going to do.
Let’s see if Norah O’Donnell of Seattle CBS retains her job for asking Gates a real question are the vaccines safe. CNN would never ask such a question! Anyone who waves his hands around like that I would never believe. The Imperial College which started the lockdowns on the recommendations of their bogus model by Neill Ferguson is in bed with Schwab’s World Economic Forum. Gates is the #1 supporter of the WHO. Absolutely everyone involved in this pandemic is connected to Schwab and Gates.
Vaccinating the entire world is IMPOSSIBLE and at best vaccines are only 60% effective according to the CDC, which Bill Gates also controls thanks to Fauci. We cannot even trust the FDA because nobody will investigate Bill Gates and look into his control of the FDA, which he also openly works with. So they are not trustworthy after rushing this vaccine out with no real independent testing. Who the hell ever allowed government agencies to accept money from private people and then pretend they are independent should be in prison for life.
It’s real and no longer a ‘conspiracy theory.’ The Swamp is composed of both elected and unelected decision makers, military men, bureaucrats, and mega billionaires who make decisions that directly impact our lives.
Also in existence are The Rockefeller, Clinton, Obama, and Gates foundations, which provide money, resources, and influence to sway citizens in favor of globalist goals. Then there are outfits such as the Tavistock and Pirbright institutes that push goals of control. Davos, the UN, the Bilderberg Group, and the CFR meet regularly and set goals that are unencumbered by something as quaint as voting. Yes, the Deep State Swamp exists. It is deep, vast, powerful, and very wealthy.
We know The Swamp and their operatives consider themselves above the law. They got away with an attempted coup against our president. They are shielded by over-paid, propaganda-spewing media giants who masquerade as leading journalists.
Silicon Valley can also be considered part of the Deep State. We did not elect Zuckerburg or Dorsey, but they think they can control our free speech. In 2020 they shamelessly censored Trump supporters, while supporting Biden by suppressing Hunter’s laptop scandal. Google makes sure controversial queries are directed toward information that they want you to believe. If you are searching for something that counters Google’s ‘official’ narrative, you probably won’t find it. You might find links that state what you’re looking for has been ‘debunked’ when it hasn’t been.
The Deep State Swamp overflows with corruption. They control much of our legal system, thanks to George Soros spending a fortune to buy out prosecutors and judges at all levels. The Swamp feels free to commit crimes at will and without fear of prosecution because our legal system is also corrupt. Sidney Powell exposed this very clearly in her book, “Licensed to Lie.” Only those who oppose the Deep State get prosecuted.
They Swamp dwellers are contemptuous of us Constitution-believing patriots. They see us as ignorant peasants—their tax slaves who must obey their laws and mandates. If we don’t obey we face fees, fines, and fire from their police forces. The Swamp’s politicians steal money from us and waste it on pork in order to get kickbacks. We pay for their crimes while they continuously strip us of our liberties. They want to control what we can say. They say our family gatherings are illegal. They want our guns. They want us to take dangerous vaccinations—by force if necessary. They think they are our royalty. We’re supposed to shut up and do as we’re told. “Wear that mask!” “Don’t go to church!” “Unlawful assembly!” “Keep your small business shut down—you aren’t necessary!”
They only care about themselves and protecting their own power. Many Americans already knew this—that’s why we elected Trump in the first place. In 2020, Trump won again—this time by a landslide. The Swamp didn’t care. They flipped the votes over to their ‘big man,’ Joe Biden, and brazenly stole the election.
The evidence for their crime is massive, but The Swamp doesn’t care. Their gaslighting media whores repeatedly say there is no evidence.
For years the Deep State has been slowly turning up the temperature on us citizen frogs. In 2020 the dials were suddenly all thrown on high. They pushed socialism. They supported and funded riots in the streets. They wanted our American history erased. Statues were pulled down. They rolled out a pandemic to separate us, mask us, silence, and impoverish us ahead of their outrageous theft of a presidential election.
2021 is nearly upon us. Time is running out. The criminal Deep State Swamp, aided by China, won’t allow Trump to get justice. Will their election coup stand? Will patriots in the military come to the president’s aid if he declares martial law? That remains to be seen.
The “‘Crats” are leading a coup against our government—Democrats, bureaucrats, Techno-crats, and billionaire-aristocrats. They think they can censor, bully, and steal their way into power, and run the United States just like the oligarchs in Russia and China’s CCP. What they fail to realize is that the people of the United States have freedom baked into our DNA which can’t be bullied by riots, a pandemic panic or political correctness intimidation, even after 30 years of “education reform” and a media that doesn’t report news, but instead manufactures propaganda.
What happens if we lose our democratic freedoms to the new oligarchs? One of the great things about our Republic is that if you don’t like the living conditions in one state, you can move to another. Where can you move to and still be an American if there are no free states left?
We’ve all seen the damage done in the formerly great state of California by one-party domination. It has led to massive increases in poverty, unemployment, crime, homelessness and disease. Those who can afford it are moving out of the state faster than U-Haul can keep up with. In fact, the price to rent a truck from L.A. to Phoenix is over ten times higher than the same truck going from Phoenix, to L.A.
Most Americans have figured out that our most cherished right—the power of the vote—is being stolen from us by the ‘Crats with the help of the ten corrupt inner cities and their Democrat bosses. Do Americans really support one-party rule?
Looking at the supposed November 3rd election “results,” the media claim that 74 million Americans voted for President Trump. Of the 81 million “votes” allocated to Biden, 44% of voters (or 36 million) say they were voting against Trump, but not the real man, just his media portrayal. Anyone can be made into a villain with four years of constant lies and baseless accusations.
Exit polls estimated that as many as 17% of these “voters” (or 14 million) say they would have supported Trump if they had known more about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the “Biden Crime Family” corruption it revealed. If you do the math, that would mean that only 31 million people actually voted for Biden, while 88 million supported Trump, and without the media lies, 36 million more would have stayed home instead of voting.
The ‘Crats are trying to hijack the richest prize of all—the United States. They include the 134 billionaires who donated to the Biden campaign.Sixty-seven of them donated more than $100,000, while 98% of tech company donations went to Biden. They are supported by the Russian oligarchs, who have just pulled off the biggest computer hack in history, and China’s CCP, who poured $400 million into Dominion Voting Systems just a few weeks before the election. China has been waging a “quiet war” on the United States for the last ten years and seeks nothing short of world domination.
But, if the greatest crime in world history is finalized on January 20th, the ‘Crats will learn they’ve bitten off more than they can chew. They can’t dominate a country with 31 million supporters over the opposition of 88 million patriots and conservatives, including a record number of blue-collar workers, Hispanics, and African-Americans.
They don’t understand that this is the one country in the world that cannot be ruled by force or intimidation. The only way they can win is if we, the American people, cooperate in our own demise, and our DNA doesn’t allow us to give in to tyrants.
Just look at what’s already happening—online Americans, who have turned a few socially inept geeks into the richest people on the planet, are scrambling to find uncensored alternatives to Facebook, Twitter and Google. Bye geeks. Being able to code doesn’t make you God.
In California, the most popular political movement is the one to recall Governor Gavin Newsom from office. Which governors are next?
Throughout the rest of the country, restaurants and small business owners are banding together to resist lockdowns, while parents are fighting back against teachers’ unions and their refusal to hold classes in person. Others are organizing to resist any attempt to make unproven Covid vaccines mandatory.
Police officers, who have been so unfairly demonized by the media, are retiring early in massive numbers. There is a nation-wide nurse shortage, and fewer doctors are willing to treat COVID patients under guidelines that restrict their treatment choices.
The poorest Americans who have been forced to remain in cities where crime is rampant and the police can’t protect them are starting to protest as well. The city of Detroit has just filed suit against Black Lives Matter.
Saturday Jericho protests in state capitals and in Washington, D.C. have steadily gained in numbers despite a complete media blackout, and another massive rally is scheduled for D.C. starting on January 6th. Their goal is to pile political pressure on state governors and legislators to decertify the obviously fraudulent elections and “stop the steal.”
To the ‘Crats who think they can bully us into submission, we ask “What will happen when the farmers who grow America’s food decide not to sell it to the ten inner cities who stole their votes? Will teamsters continue to work or decide to park their trucks? Will red states stop selling their oil and natural gas to blue states? Will the police continue to risk their lives to protect Democrat-controlled cities whose leaders call them racists?”
The elites think they can rule us in luxury from their walled estates while eating gourmet ice cream. The only way they can succeed is if we let them.
In November, all restaurants and cultural institutions such as museums, opera houses, cinemas, and events had to close. Every day demonstrations take place against these restrictions. Just 10 days before Christmas, on December 16th, Germany added more restrictions with a second strong lockdown where all schools and the retail industry had to shut down again. Food deliveries and take away are permitted. Each of Germany’s 16 provinces manages further restrictions individually. In Berlin you are allowed to only meet with people of one further household, not exceeding a total number of 5 people. Children below 12 years are excluded. You are not allowed to leave your home without necessity.
Even though these restrictions apply until January 10th, German media already states that they will be extended until February. Many Germans are put again on short-work arrangements with an estimated cost of 20 billion euros for 2020 which is covered by the federal ministry of labor and social affairs.
Deutsche Bahn records a 9-billion-euro sales loss due to Covid-19 in 2020
Germany’s 100% state-owned train company Deutsche Bahn AG is having its worst year since its foundation in 1994. DB AG owns about 600 subsidiary transportation companies. Due to travel restrictions, Deutsche Bahn AG recorded a 9-billion-euro loss this year. Starting in March, train bookings decreased to only 20%. Even during the winter holiday season, where normally all trains are packed, bookings only rose to 35%. Germany plans a financial aid of 5 billion euros, however, private competitors of DB AG feel a disadvantage as DB AG supplies its services to nearly 75 % of the market.
(reporting from Germany; Nadjeschda who took the photo on Christmas Day on the train)
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