A new poll conducted by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, found tht a majority of Americans reject the idea that gender can be different from sex at birth, a core premise of the gender agenda, as we call it. For American adults, 57 percent believed that gender was determined by sex at birth, against 43 percent who thought that, as with the trans ideology, gender could differ from one’s sex at birth. And, the majority of respondents, between 62 and 66 percent, believed that males who identify as transgender girls and women should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.

While these are figures of a numerical majority, notice that there is a large minority who support the present trans ideology, something which would have been unheard of even a decade or so again. It will be interesting to see what happens with these numbers over the next few years.

US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru believes that it is a good thing that artificial intelligence will replace 80 percent of jobs in the near future. “I don’t think it’s a threat. I think it’s a benefit. People can find better things to do with their life than work for a living… Pretty much every job involving paperwork should be automatable.

“The problem I see is in the interim period, when AIs are obsoleting one human job after another… I don’t know how (to) solve all the social issues.”

Germany is a test case for the next big refugee push in The Camp of the Saints Great Replacement. The West supposedly caused climate change, and infinite harm to the Third World, most of whom would not be alive anyway without Western technology and industry. But, no matter. Those affected by climate change will, in Germany as a first cab off the rank test case, be open to join the refugee club. According to UN and other globalist estimates, this number will be around 1.2 billion by 2050, and increasing, so that the entire Third World will be moving to the West, if the globalist get their way. That will collapse the West anyway, so that everyone will be equal in the rubble and ruins of modernity. Maybe, just maybe, we may see some spirit of resistance once reality bites.

https://www.zurich.com/en/media/magazine/2022/there-could-be-1-2-billion-climate-refugees-by-2050-here-s-what-you-need-to-know#:~:text=Here's%20what%20you%20need%20to%20know,-Climate%20change%20%7C%20Article

As part of my coverage of health issues hereat the Alor.org blog, I have written about the youth mental health crisis. This was going on before Covid, but Covid intensified it. While the crisis is real, there is also another point of view, expressed by an anonymous academic below, that a culture of incentives has evolved around mental disabilities, and psychological problems such as anxiety. It is possible to get all matter of concessions at university, for example, if one falls into this camp of the “disabled.” The unpopular point is made that there is now an incentive for having a mental health crisis, thus inflating the numbers of the genuinely ill.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/09/the-truth-about-generation-snowflake-is-even-worse-than-we-feared/

There could be a storm that Joe Biden may not escape, as Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) are claiming that an internal FBI document contains evidence of a “criminal scheme” in which Biden was involved in, exchanging money for policy decisions when he was vice president. This is based upon legally protected and highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures, they have said. “The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national. The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself,” said Comer.

It will be interesting to see where this goes, if the file suddenly disappears, or has already been sent to oblivion.

Professor Peter Singer came to fame for his advocacy of animal rights in the 1970s, with his book Animal Liberation (1975), which was an early argument for veganism. He has supported a radical redistribution of wealth from the West to the  Third world, as put in his essay,  "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", published in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1972. He also has pursued topical issues such as IVF and reproductive technologies. He goes down the, what is now standard liberal line, extending the “liberationist” position of the 1960s Western cultural revolution movements. He tended to argue from a simplistic utilitarian position, that the right are the acts that maximise the greatest good for the greatness number. But, he also holds that animals with sentience have rights. How it all fits together I do not know, for all utilitarian positions enable rights to be trumped by over-riding utility.

Anyway, his next big thing is to give civil rights to conscious robots. Of course, human foetuses do not have a right to life, for the utilitarian interests of the mother wanting an abortion, trump them, and they are not the sort of things to have rights. It is unclear why conscious computers should be given moral concern, by his own logic. If the foetus does not have rights by virtue of existence, then why should consciousness be a morally relevant quality? Isn’t this just a form of discrimination and bias?

It is already here; the Digital Currency Monetary Authority (DCMA) launched its international central bank digital currency on April 10, which will operate like other forms of digital moneys.  This is purely a creation of the international financers, and many governments.  The DCMA is self-described on its website as “a world leader in the advocacy of digital currency and monetary policy innovations for governments and central banks.  Membership within the DCMA consists of sovereign states, central banks, commercial and retail banks, and other financial institutions.” And, its mission is to “is to enable trade globalization through the monetary integration of international payments and settlements while strengthening national economies [sic] monetary sovereignty.  The first wave of cryptographic cash was designed for public untrusted networks.  The DMCA reimagines the next wave of cryptographic innovations engineered for adoption by central banks, retail and commercial banks, Fintech, governments, and cryptocurrency exchanges.” The aim is for international trade to operate using this currency, for efficiency, of course. At that point, the move to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) will be enforced by the state, and the war against cash will intensify.

However, as was seen in Nigeria, which was at test case for this experiment, the government tried to enforce its CBDC by restricting cash. The result was social chaos, and massive resistance, leading almost to anarchy. Thus, the government had to back track, but it is still on the agenda.

As readers know, I am a critic of the universities and a radical one at that, seeing them as irreparably flawed and suitable only for closing down, to be replaced by alternative decentralised training and education schools. Now it seems, students, at least in the US, are voting with their feet, and turning to technical education over useless university degrees. I fully support this trend, and in fact years ago predicted that the wokeness, which was called political correctness back in the day, would lead to the implosion of the universities. As these institutions are the nest of communists and anti-nation propaganda, we should welcome their withering away. I would prefer a collapse and a more sudden demise though.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-05-colleges-universities-woke-students-picking-technical-school.html

A new book by Heather MacDonald, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, has caught my attention in a review, not that I have money to buy books and review them. The thesis is not a new one, that the cult of diversity, as embodied in the position of Critical Race theory, will destroy civilisation. Seeing everything through the prism of whites being evil, and that Western civilisation is intrinsically flawed is highly dangerous when this position becomes a major cultural force in the education system, pushed by Left wing academics and teachers, which it has. Our Voice referendum is showing this, as the true colours of the radical Yes side, red, is being shown. We are told tht there is no alternative to a Yes, and that Australia will fall as the international community stones us. No, after letting off a bit of wind, all of them will get back to their own oppressions.

Jonathan Haidt and Eric Schmidt have set out another case for extreme caution about the rapid advances in general intelligence AI. They advance four reasons of concern, which can be summarised under one: that general AI will make social media even more toxic, especially for children:

1) AI-enhanced social media will wash ever-larger torrents of garbage into our public conversation.

N. Alexander, writing at the Off-guardian.org, far superior material in my opinion to the Leftist, The Guardian, has given a thoughtful discussion of the philosophy and ethics of AI-based mind-reading. He makes the case that there is no real socially advantageous reason for this technology, even for paralysed people as there is already surgery-free interfaces, as was used by Professor Stephen Hawking. Alexander gives a long and detailed argument along those lines, that these technological developments are not in the interests of the ordinary people, that there are few crumbs tht will fall from the table of the elite technocrats. What is being done is to push these developments, usually funded by the long-suffering taxpayers, which will deliver social control that will be of sci fi dystopian levels.

Now we know; trans women can get prostate cancer, just like men. There you go. And, it makes sense too, as  people, born as males, were born with prostates, and if not removed, cancer is always possible. And if trans men can have babies, we should not be surprised. We should not be surprised about anything anymore.

I have assembled material here from mainstream health sources, indicating that the Covid vax’s effectiveness, assuming it is effective at all, after 30 days was a mere 53 percent. It then dropped to 9 percent after 9 months. The mainstream medical technocrats are not phased and see this as a good reason for endless jabs. But, really, it contradicts the original narrative, given by the likes of Dr Fauci and Joe Biden, of the effectiveness of the vaccines in the first place. No other disease requires endless booster shots, so something must be wrong, especially given natural immunity gives a more robust and comprehensive response to the various strains of the great Covid family.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-degrades-to-9-after-nine-months-65b26f59

Historian Henry Reynolds has written a piece in The Australian detailing the dire consequences of a No vote. Yep, no matter how flawed the question in the referendum is, and whatever technical objections one has to changing the constitution, a No vote is unconscionable. The Yes people will be forced to “return to the streets with campaigns of direct action.” What exactly does that mean – would it be like the Saint George Floyd business? Don’t know. And, as well the globalists in New York will not be supportive of such colonialism.  “Australia will find itself in the situation it experienced in the middle years of the 20th century when our diplomats had to struggle continually to rebut attacks about the White Australia policy and the treatment of Indigenous people.” Oh no, communist China will take time out from organ harvesting on an industrial scale to criticise us: https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/analysis-killing-prisoners-for-transplants-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china/#:~:text=China%20is%20the%20only%20country,known%20as%20forced%20organ%20harvesting.

I am certain the Australian media is not following the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, as the US media is not. Kennedy, is as we have covered, the leading vaccine critic world-wide I would estimate, and an old school Leftist, but one who is not anti-capitalism, but open to free market solutions. That, one may think, would make him open borders. However, this is not so. He has begun campaigning against the open southern border of his fellow Democrats, which he sees is creating enormous social and security problems. “Right now we have chaos at the border,” according to Kennedy. “Human trafficking, criminality, intolerable stress on border states like Texas. It is a humanitarian nightmare.” Thus, he has the interesting position of being a liberal, but seeking to seal the open southern border. It is going to be interesting to see the Democrat candidates debates.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-blasts-open-borders-not-anti-immigrant-to-oppose-illegal-immigration/

It is a measure of how far down the drain science has gone,  that a paper defending the quality of merit, that scientific theses should be judged based upon the quality of argument and evidence, gets rejected by all the mainstream journals it was submitted  to. It was eventually accepted in a journal set up to combat this, Journal of Controversial Ideas. The authors contrasted traditional scientific methodology with the postmodern response, which they argue is making rapid advances through universities and research: “In contrast, identity­-based ideologies seek to replace these core liberal principles, essential for scientific and technological advances, with principles derived from postmodernism and Critical Social Justice…which assert that modern science is ‘racist,’ ‘patriarchal,’ and ‘colonial,’ and a tool of oppression rather than a tool to promote human flourishing and global common good.”

On the subject of viruses, in the news of late once more, there is also perhaps the most deadly virus of all, the mind virus of Leftism and  woke. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has warned that this virus, a creation of the globalist Left, is nation-destroying, as surely as a nuclear strike, attacking the core life blood of societies. “I report to you that we are all under attack, in Europe as well as in America. I must also report to you that the attack is not economic. We are dealing with a biological weapon,” said Orbán. “The nation is the great invention of the West. It is the heart of the free world, but it is also the Achilles heel of the Western world. If the nations evaporate, disintegrate, rust away, the possibility of free life will be lost and the West will fall. People without a homeland can never be free, they can only be landless pawns of the global elite.”

But there is hope, Orbán argued in his speech, as the country of Hungary has fought against the Left mind-virus, and defeated it, even though the likes of George Soros have lined up to sink him. And, the grab bag of Leftist’s agendas has been defeated, all that we lament about here. So, there is hope, it has been shown that the globalists can be beaten, but it will require strong resistance.  

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to impress, taking on issues that Trump will not tackle, such as Big Pharma and its role in the Covid plandemic, the need for justice for the vaccine injured, and open borders, which as a Democrat, he opposes. It is old school stuff indeed. And he is a sharp critic of the Ukraine War, and the US involvement, seeing it as being a potentially bigger disaster than other US disasters from the Vietnam War, to Afghanistan. Only, the previous wars involving blasting civilian populations to smithereens; now with a nuclear armed Russia as the adversary, the neo cons may have bitten off much more than they can chew, and could well choke the planet on it, in a nuclear mushroom cloud.

An increasing number of conservatives have come to see modern progressivism, liberalism, or as we call it, globalism, as pathological, or psychotic. That is a philosophical conclusion, based upon the ultimately socially destructive nature of such policies, as the road to hell is paved with “good” intentions. But, the mental illness metaphor goes deeper, for surveys have indicated that conservatives, compared to liberals, are happier, and find greater meaning in their lives, and this holds across countries. It also holds historically, as far back as such surveys were conducted.

This is interesting, and requires an interpretation. It seems that Covid plandemic tyrants are making a retreat from what they are on record as saying, including Dr Fauci, Justin Trudeau, but not Bill Gates, who is holding the line. Thus, Dr Fauci has recently said that he never pushed lockdowns, even though he issued the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines that imposed the lockdowns. It is like a mob boss saying that he was not responsible for what some underling did. What is happening is that the likes of these technocrats are putting in place a plan to deal with a possible, but unlikely Republican president such as DeSantis, who may well go after them. Certainly Robert Kennedy Jr. would, as president be well equipped to tackle the likes of Dr Fauci, having written the main critique of him, The Real Anthony Fauci (Skyhorse, 2021).

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-05-fauci-trudeau-covid-tyrants-backtrack-crimes-humanity.html