I have been waiting for the climate change maniacs to declare war upon lawns. Lawns are so European, even British, bringing to mind an English country garden. The Left just has to attack them. While NASA has argued that lawns are a good urban carbon sink, absorbing large amounts of carbon, the counter is that lawns require resources such as mowers, fertilizer and weedicides, and each of these has a carbon footprint. Sure, everything does including human flatulence from eating World Economic Forum bugs. The argument below tries to show that having cows on farms can be much more ecologically sound than lawns, which is no doubt true. But, what should people in urban areas have if not lawns? Growing vegetables would be subject to the same argument, and maybe even less of a carbon sink. Of course, I oppose the whole carbon nonsense, but let us run with it for the sake of argument.

I have no doubt that there is an alternative approach to lawns which does not involve these costs. Like mowing them with hand pushers, and organic methods of weed control, like using vinegar, or just pulling the weeds up by hand.

A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Climate, has made the case that the global warming hypothesis is challenged by an examination of the location of temperature measuring stations. It was found that most of these are in urban areas, giving rise to a heat island effect. If the measurement of temperature changes was using rural stations only, the extent of global warming changes from 0.89 degrees (C) per century to only 0.55 degrees per century. This alone would refute the climate emergency narrative that is being used to eliminate fossil fuels and farming in the West.

Thus, this is an important piece of evidence for our side. The issue about the accuracy of the thermometers measuring temperature in urban areas has often been raised as an objection to the global warming hypothesis. The counter is usually that there are so many stations, that any errors will get averaged out. That strikes me a bogus, as the error will apply to each station in an urban area, with all of them being inaccurate, so there is no averaging process that will work satisfactorily. An average of bogus data, is just averaged bogus data.

We from New Zealand recall the former prime minister Jacinda Ardern crowing about how civil liberties must be restricted in a time of Covid. She is still working on restricting free speech as her new day job after leaving the NZ parliament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iridvM_spg

But, while as PM, she was proclaiming all of this, New Zealand Ministry of Health granted vaccine exemptions to hundreds among its key staff. According to a Freedom of Information request: “From 13 November 2021 to 26 September 2022, a total of 478 applications for Significant Service Disruption exemption (SSD) were received. 103 applications were granted, covering approximately 11,005 workers. Please note that it is not possible to provide the exact number of workers that were covered by SSDs. This is because it was possible for an organisation to submit an application to cover more than one worker.”

The Hamas attack upon Israel has significance beyond the Middle East. Across the world, migrants, including asylum seekers, have been taking to the streets to celebrate the deaths, rapes and torture. It is one thing to have a political objection, quite another to support sheer barbarism. Toddlers are being kept in dog cages by Hamas for example. Readers would be psychologically soiled seeing some of the other horrors now on social media, many inflicted upon young women. That is not the way of the warrior; if the attack was a man-to-man thing against the Defense Forces, well, that is war. But, the attacks upon the innocent are terrorism. How can babies defend themselves?

The street celebrations show that multiculturalism is just about white liberals permitting their country to become dominated by the tribalism of the diverse. And, true to form, as documented in the extract below, the Left is generally supportive of Hamas’s attack.

The Greens and environmentalists used to love whales, especially gay whales, but in the US, whales are being allowed to be zapped out of their cetacean brains by the noises of marine wind turbines. No Greenpeace boats to disrupt the turbines, a new sacred icon of the environmentalists. And on land, the turbines are threatening hundreds of thousands of bats. These creatures, who feast on fruit, then fly around spreading rabies, and in Australia, Australian bat lyssavirus, which is closely related to rabies, are being shredded by the giant flying swords of the wind turbines. You would have thought that such creatures, would be something the Left would want to save, but, here you go.

Where is Batman when you need him!

One of the questions which is of vital importance in the Voice referendum, but which has only recently been given the attention it deserves by academic only so far, is if the referendum succeeds, what effects does this have upon the federalist structure? The prime minister is falsely saying that the changes are only symbolic, but he also from the other side of his mouth proclaims that it would be a brave parliament that in any way did not follow the recommendations of the Voice, making it a third chamber of parliament. So, he is inconsistent, indicating that something is up.

A research paper in law, by Nicholas Aroney, The University of Queensland - T.C. Beirne School of Law; Emory University - Center for the Study of Law and Religion, and Peter Congdon, “The Voice Referendum and the Federal Division of Powers: A New Head of Commonwealth Legislative Power to Implement the Voice’s Representations?” suggests what is up.

Sky News is reporting that people do not like the Voice, whether they come from the Liberal or Labor camps. I was at the community centre reading the article extract below, and a debate erupted between a young white guy, a Yes supporter, and an Indian woman, supporting No. He raised the racism objection which she smashed, saying, I am not white, and he caved in immediately.  And, she raised the fundamental issue discussed below, that there are so many uncertainties with the Yes change to the constitution, that even if one supported a type of Voice, or a treaty, as Mundane does, this is the wrong way to do it. Ok, I can live with that, for the next week. Everyone, of all politics and hues, needs to vote No! to knock this over!

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/labor-voters-against-the-voice-referendum-in-large-numbers/ar-AA1hydAY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=099c7e988f3c4bfcb3aade77cb6f3e51&ei=15

To: The Prime Minister, Hon. Anthony Albanese Dear Prime Minister,

You, more than most, would be aware the times are out of joint. To a frightening degree, they resemble those of the mid-1930s. At that time a programme was launched by the ABC called “Is democracy doomed?” in which Sir Robert Menzies participated. His starting point was this: as a system of government, it was extremely young; in the full political sense it had been current for not more than a few generations. And it was fragile. To keep it in good health required eternal vigilance.

Both former prime ministers, John Howard and Tony Abbott, have said that the Northern Territory is a failed state. That is about as bad as it gets, putting the Northern Territory in the African camp. Remote communities are not getting even basic services, such as adequate education for indigenous children, and both doubt whether the Voice could in principle solve these problems. Both liberals rightly have stated the Voice changes to the constitution would put racial separatism into the constitution, which would be highly divisive. Further, whatever proposals are canvassed for helping remote communities, nothing will be seen for some years, while urgent action is needed now. And, that is the problem with having a centralised body such as the Voice. The Yes side, has to some degree recognised this, but instead as seeing their proposal as fundamentally flawed, have doubled down, wanting masses of regional Voices. It will only multiple problems, increase expenses, and go nowhere except, make a group of elites, even more well paid.

I have been out in Melbourne campaigning for the No side of the referendum. In the past I campaigned for anti-immigration groups and the going was often hard. But, this time I am seeing that most people do not even understand the basics of  Yes. About an hour ago I spoke to a woman who is Black from America, who said that she was voting Yes, because she was Black and thus naturally had to vote for Aboriginal people. I told her that I respected her tribalism, but she should consider that the leaders of the No side are Aboriginal too. She was amazed and did not believe me, so she checked the Fair website and saw Senator Price. At that point she was open to debate, and finally admitted that there were so many uncertainties, and things she was not told, that she would have to vote No. This was someone who supported reparations in America for Black, and Black Lives matter! Below is a good summary of the same argument that people can print off this week, memorise and use to convince the unconverted.

Under conditions of uncertainty, and unreliable information, the correct decision is to minimise regret, and a No vote does that even if one supported some aspects of the Voice. I have seen this week people undecided be converted, and I am not a genius or expert debater. Talk to everyone you meet now and put the basic case: we don’t know, so vote No!

Paul Craig Roberts comments upon the Nobel Prize for medicine being given to two mRNA Covid vax researchers. He does not discuss the priority issue, that Dr Robert Malone has a claim to be included in the Prize, if it is legitimate. But, the basic issue here is that the Nobel Committee has ignored the vast evidence of adverse effects from the Covid mRNA vax. This is now a topic that is going mainstream, so no more is it a conspiracy.

Below is some ground-breaking news, that challenges the line proposed by the trans lobby, that gender-aligning surgery and hormones are necessary for health. But a Danish study of trans people found: “Trans women [i.e., men] taking [female] hormones are up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease, a new study has found. Researchers found that trans women [i.e., men] – people born male who identify as women – taking gender-affirming hormones are almost twice as likely to suffer from any cardiovascular disease as men.”

So, the conclusion, at least for hormone replacement issues, needs to be made, that these interventions have harms that could lead to death. If so, doesn’t this refute the social construction view that sex categories are just social constructions? I think so.

First mainstream anthropology, under the influence of Franz Boas, came to reject the concept of race as having explanatory power. Some decades latter the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA), have now cancelled sex as well: “There is no single biological standard by which all humans can be reliably sorted into a binary male/female sex classification,” it reads. "On the contrary, anthropologists and others have long shown sex and gender to be historically and geographically contextual, deeply entangled, and dynamically mutable categories." Well, what is a social construction is sociology and anthropology, pseudosciences at best.

The idea here is that sex and gender are not binary, but pure social constructions. These are the same body of arguments used against race, and as these arguments against sex can be shown to be flawed, the arguments against race also fail.

In one of the few free posts, the Epoch times.com, has done an excellent coverage of the issue of the alleged fibrous clots being seen in cadavers ready for embalming. The simple summary is that some embalmers in the US are seeing the clots, others are not. Who to believe? Well, it could be that not everyone vaccinated with the Covid mRNA goo develops the clots. Perhaps it requires multiple shots? We simply do not know, as things are still at the observational level, and properly constructed scientific studies are now needed. At least this issue, once on he fringe of Covid vax criticism, is getting some discussion.

I have two articles at the blog today, back-to-back, on the issue of supposed fibrous clots found in the veins of dead vaccinated people, and micro-clots. This was once regarded as a fringe conspiracy theory even among the Covid vax critics, but is now getting more attention, as there are a growing number of reports from embalmers seeing this phenomenon. Dr Mercola takes a more theoretical approach, saying that the micro-clots would explain many of the Covid vax injuries that are observed.

Micro-clotting is different from the fibrous clotting, but it could be that the same processes setting up micro-clotting also generate the large-scale fibrous clots in the end. And, end it is, as is detailed in another article, these clots are characteristically found in the dead.

The new argument being pushed against meat production, following in from the climate change nonsense, which has been hammered by critics, is that meat production sets humanity up for pandemics. The main proponents of this argument base their claims on Covid-19 supposedly emerging as a species jumping bug from the Wuhan wet markets.

That hypothesis is now not the leading one, and the lab leak hypothesis has taken the key spot. Yet, let’s run with it. Certainly, the less than hygienic conditions of farming and markets in Asia do raise the chances of pandemic spread. But this is not an argument against meat production, any more than road accidents on poor roads is an argument against driving cars. It means that the markets and farming in Asia has to be improved.

The horrendous attack of Israel by Hamas  a few days ago shocked the world with its level of savagery. On social media there are videos that stun one’s senses; terrorists collecting women for raping putting them on motor bikes, and pickup trucks, corpses littered everywhere; truly graphic martial. Naturally, Israel moves to fight a war.

While much will need to be said about this, the issue behind the human deaths, torture and misery is: where did the Hamas get the thousands of missiles that were shot?  The debate has canvassed ideas, such that much of the weapons have come from Iran, and the Biden administration gave the Iran regime $ 6 billion dollars, so expect more of this. And, there are sites saying that arms have been given to Hamas from the Ukraine, which given the level of corruption in that state, would not be surprising if true.

While health authorities in Australia have been crowing about how many supposed lives the tyrannical lockdowns saved, with the state of Victoria having the longest lockdown in the world, longer than even communist China, the UK Health Security Agency, recently released a report showing that at least for the UK, the evidence for non-vaccine methods for controlling Covid transmission was poor. That includes lockdowns, social distancing and face masks. The report examined 151 studies by a type of meta-analysis, with these studies overall finding that there is a lack of strong evidence for the effectiveness of measures such as lockdowns, preventing Covid transmission. Yes, small business and people’s livings were destroyed on no basis at all. There is a stark lesson here about trusting the medical profession, Big Pharma, and certainly the lying government.

Of course, the sacred vax was not examined, and outside of Big Pharma sales pitch, the historical evidence of most vaccinated people getting Covid numerous times, well refutes the idea that the Covid vaxxes in any way stopped transmission. While the UK study was made in preparation for the next pandemic, there seems to be little sound methods left in the public health tool kit.

The Bob Livingston alerts come by email, there is not an easy to find website. In his most recent email, he details the plans of the globalist to destroy America, and by implication the rest of the West, through destruction of the middle class. As he quotes from American Compass, a conservative think tank, it is becoming impossible for the middle class to survive: “"While the typical man working full-time in 1985 could support a family on 40 weeks of income and then still have income from roughly 20% of the year left to cover other expenses and save, a comparable man working full-time in 2022 would work the whole year and still come up ten weeks short. This is not the prosperity that was promised, or that economists try to claim has been delivered."

The destruction of he family has been on the agenda at least since the 1960s and with social disintegrations, drug abuse and other mass degeneracy traditional society faces its greatest existential threat.

Many conservatives have found the philospical insights of Austrian scholar Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D., (1861-1925), on education and agriculture, most illuminating. Steiner may be best known for his outstanding contribution to education with Waldorf or Steiner education. Based upon his philosophy of the person, the aim is to present a holistic approach to develop the individuality and creativity of each student,  to encourage the physical, behavioural, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual aspects of the student. Teaching focuses upon imagination and creativity. This is a long way from what I experienced as a teacher in Australian high schools with most of the time being spent on riot control in a white board jungle.

Steiner also had a holistic philosophy of agriculture, biodynamic farming, and readers may have sampled this in the delicious Paris Creek Farm yoghurt. This is the best yoghurt I have ever tasted. The idea of Steiner was to adopt a spiritual-ethical-ecological approach to agriculture, with biodynamic farming not only embracing organic farming, but being self-sustaining, anticipating he permaculture movement of creating a farm ecosystem. So far, so good.