Against Veganism and Sugar Too By Mrs Vera West

     Here is an update on recent studies dealing with the issues of veganism (indirectly) and sugar, regarding cardio-vascular health. Vegan protein according to recent research has its limits. And sugar …well …they don’t call it white poison for nothing. Sorry sugar industry, but there will always be plenty of people consuming the sweet grains.
  https://www.studyfinds.org/study-for-older-adults-soy-wheat-protein-cant-compare-to-animal-protein/

“For older adults trying to build or maintain some muscle, all proteins are not equal. That’s the main finding of a new study from The Physiological Society that analyzed the gram-for-gram benefits of animal and plant proteins. Derivatives from animals, such as milk, cheese, and meat, may be among the first food items that come to mind when one thinks of protein. But, over the past decade or so, veganism has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity. More people are choosing to forgo animal-based foods due to health, environmental or animal-rights related concerns. There’s no question that a vegan lifestyle carries numerous benefits. But the jury is still very much out regarding a vegan diet’s impact on muscle maintenance and growth among older adults. So, the study’s authors decided to investigate. Now, it’s universally agreed upon by doctors that the main driver of muscle loss as we age is a decrease in muscle proteins being built with amino acids. Of course, amino acids come from the protein we ingest, and then form while exercising.

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From a Logical Point of View By Chris Knight

     As a failed philosophy/logic student, I retain a small amount of what I was supposed to learn, but compared to the Left, I am a logical giant. Consider for example these paradoxes of leftism:
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-07-13-all-logic-matters.html

•    “Everyone on the Left is absolutely terrified about catching Covid-19, but they all want open borders because they think illegal immigrants are all disease free.
•    Everybody on the Left believes Donald Trump is a Russian asset and also a White Supremacist, but they’ve never shown any proof of any of that anywhere, anytime.
•    Everyone on the Left wants the government to take away all guns from “criminals” and make everyone register all their weapons, but nobody on the Left ever looks back at history (not even a month ago) to see how that plan turns into a communist dictatorship nearly overnight.
•    Everybody on the Left believes that all Whites, except for them, hate Blacks, and that they must stand up for Black people’s rights, but doesn’t that mean they believe that Blacks are weak and can’t stand up for themselves? That’s just demeaning. There are 40 million Blacks in America right now. Do you really believe they need a few White people to “save” them from the “White Supremacist” President, after they just had a Black President for long 8 years who made their lives much, much worse?
•    Everybody supporting BLM is supposedly trying to help Black people have better lives and be treated fairly (as the name implies), but most protesters and rioters are absolutely destroying Black-owned businesses, Black police officer’s careers who did nothing wrong, and even killing Black people on the streets. Why? They’re all too blind and dumb to even research their own “claimed” boogeyman enemies (because they barely exist). Again, no logic.
•    Everyone on the Left believes that “same sex” marriage is amazing and is real, but then why don’t they believe that biological sex is real? Think about that one really well for a second here. How can “same sex” marriage exist if biological sex isn’t real? Ask a Lefty that and they will erupt in your face with completely illogical, extreme voraciousness, as if you just punched their gay friend in the face for no reason.
•    Everybody on the Left believes that feminism and LGBT philosophy co-exist, but how can that be, if “women” aren’t real?”

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Covid-19 Cooked Up in a Lab By Brian Simpson

     Here is the latest case that Covid-19, the New World Order virus, was cooked up in a lab. This case is made by two virologists:
  https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-case-is-building-that-covid-19-had-a-lab-origin/

“But one other troubling possibility must be dispensed with. It follows from the fact that the epicentre city, Wuhan (pop. 11 million), happens to be the global epicentre of bat coronavirus research (e.g. Hu et al., 2017).
Prompted by this proximity, various researchers and news media, prominently the Washington Post, and with much more data Newsweek, have drawn up a prima facie case that a laboratory origin is a strong possibility (Zhan et al., 2020; Piplani et al., 2020). That is, one of the two labs in Wuhan that has worked on coronaviruses accidentally let a natural virus escape; or, the lab was genetically engineering (or otherwise manipulating) a Sars-CoV-2-like virus which then escaped. Unfortunately, in the US at least, the question of the pandemic’s origin has become a political football; either an opportunity for Sinophobia or a partisan “blame game“. But the potential of a catastrophic lab release is not a game and systemic problems of competence and opacity are certainly not limited to China (Lipsitch, 2018). The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is currently constructing a new and expanded national Bio and Agro-defense facility in Manhattan, Kansas. DHS has estimated that the 50-year risk (defined as having an economic impact of $9-50 billion) of a release from its lab at 70%. When a National Research Council committee inspected these DHS estimates they concluded “The committee finds that the risks and costs could well be significantly higher than that“.

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Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review By John Hardie, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC

     A revealing archived article published on October 18, 2016!!!

  https://web.archive.org/web/20200509053953/https:/www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/

PETER HITCHENS: We've all turned from normal humans into muzzled masochists

     Full Article: https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/07/peter-hitchens-weve-all-turned-from-normal-humans-into-muzzled-masochists.html

     When this madness began, I behaved as if a new and fanatical religion was spreading among us. Be polite and tolerant, I thought. It may be crazy and damaging but in time it will go away. Now it is clear that a new faith, based on fear of the invisible and quite immune to reason, has all but taken over the country. And it turns out to be one of those faiths that doesn't have much tolerance for those who don't share it. My guess is that about 85 per cent of the population now worship it and will continue to do so. The rest of us are, as each day goes by, a persecuted minority, forced to go along with beliefs we do not hold. Its evangelists will not leave you and me alone, but constantly seek to force us to join. This is why I make such a fuss about the demand to make us all wear muzzles. This is not about health. There is simply not enough evidence to compel us to do so. It is an attempt to force submission on Covid unbelievers. That is why it spreads, despite the absence of any good case for it. In a creepy development, one of the most powerful scientific papers arguing against it, Why Face Masks Don't Work: A Revealing Review, last week suddenly vanished from its usual place on the internet (I still have a copy and you may read it here

Here Comes the Next New World Order Bug! By James Reed

     Get ready, here it comes again, bigger and “better’:
  https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-deadly-unknown-pneumonia-sweeps-across-kazakhstan-higher-fatality-than-covid-19-warns-chinese-embassy-2831670
  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/asia/china-SARS-pneumonialike.html?auth=login-facebook
  https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/asia/kazakhstan-pneumonia-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

“Authorities in Kazakhstan have denied a report published by Chinese officials that the country is experiencing an outbreak of "unknown pneumonia" potentially deadlier than the novel coronavirus. On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan issued a warning to citizens living in the Central Asian country that the pneumonia had killed more than 1,700 people. "Kazakhstani Health Department and other agencies are conducting comparative research and have not defined the nature of the pneumonia virus," the statement said. New cases of the unidentified pneumonia have been increasing significantly since mid-June across the country, said the embassy, adding that in some places, authorities are reporting hundreds of new cases a day. In a statement on Friday, the Kazakhstan health ministry acknowledged the presence of "viral pneumonias of unspecified etiology," but denied that the outbreak was new or unknown. "In response to these reports, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan officially declares that this information does not correspond to reality," the statement read. It added the "unspecified" pneumonia classification followed World Health Organization guidelines "for the registration of pneumonia when the coronavirus infection is diagnosed clinically or epidemiologically but is not confirmed by laboratory testing."

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Exercise Your Bowels! By Mrs Vera West

     I imagine that extreme anxiety and stress that goes with journalism, keeps the bowels of the boys active. But, if heavy red meat is clogging you up, it needs to be considered that bowel health is as important as anything else. Plenty of water and fibre is a good first step, but exercise can also loosen you up. You will find yourself les edgy with clean bowels. I know it is unpleasant to talk about,  but so is constipation. Think of me as your mum.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-07-12-reduce-your-colorectal-cancer-risk-with-60-minutes-of-exercise.html

“A recent study in the British Journal of Cancer revealed that people with at least 60 minutes of physical activity from adolescence could potentially reduce their risk for colorectal cancer by more than a third. The report, led by researchers from the University of Sao Paolo, is the first to analyze the direct link between physical activity during adolescence and the risk of developing adenomas later in life.

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China’s Covid Cover up By James Reed

     Slowly bits and pieces are coming out, quite unlike 9/11, because a lot of the new material is from the mainstream press, like this one:
  https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-virologist-coronavirus-cover-up-flee-hong-kong-whistleblower

“Hours before she boarded an April 28 Cathay Pacific flight to the United States, the respected doctor who specialized in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School of Public Health had plotted her escape, packing her bag and sneaking past the censors and video cameras on campus. She had her passport and her purse and was about to leave all of her loved ones behind. If she was caught, she knew she could be thrown in jail -- or, worse, rendered one of the "disappeared." Yan told Fox News in an exclusive interview that she believes the Chinese government knew about the novel coronavirus well before it claimed it did. She says her supervisors, renowned as some of the top experts in the field, also ignored research she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she believes could have saved lives. She adds that they likely had an obligation to tell the world, given their status as a World Health Organization reference laboratory specializing in influenza viruses and pandemics, especially as the virus began spreading in the early days of 2020. Yan, now in hiding, claims the government in the country where she was born is trying to shred her reputation and accuses government goons of choreographing a cyber-attack against her in hopes of keeping her quiet. Yan believes her life is in danger. She fears she can never go back to her home and lives with the hard truth that she’ll likely never see her friends or family there again.”

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Texas County Confirms Major Inflation of COVID Counts Lab results no longer even required to determine cases and deaths By Mark Anderson

Lab results no longer even required to determine cases and deaths

     A May 18, 2020 meeting of the Commissioners’ Court of Collin County, which is located just northeast of Dallas, Texas, revealed unmistakably solid proof that Covid-19 “case” numbers, as well as “death” numbers, are being vastly inflated. The Court—a legislative body under Texas law—met for a regularly scheduled meeting that day and received an overview of the new Covid-19 case and death definitions from County Health Epidemiology Official Aisha Souri. The new guidelines she cited came from the Texas Department of State Health Services; thus, all 254 Texas counties would have received the same information—an important thing to keep in mind considering that Texas, Florida and Arizona, among other states, lately have been called the hottest of the so-called “hotspots” where Covid 19 cases allegedly have made a strong resurgence.

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A Spoonful of Cinnamon Makes the Medicine Go Down … By Mrs Vera West

     I did not know before reading this, how good for you simple cinnamon is, the stuff not impregnated with sugar, just pure and natural, organic if possible:
  https://healthprep.com/fitness-nutrition/ways-cinnamon-benefits-health/?utm_source=subscribers&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=ways-cinnamon-benefits-health&utm_content=2020-07-05&utm_term=19

“In 2003, the journal Diabetes Care described a study in which researchers gave different amounts of cinnamon to diabetes patients, while a control group was given a placebo. After forty days, the researchers found the patients who had been consuming cinnamon had lower glucose, triglycerides, and low-density lipoprotein (bad) cholesterol. By contrast, the cinnamon had no to little effect on patients high-density lipoprotein (good) cholesterol. The researchers concluded adding cinnamon to the diets of patients with type 2 diabetes would reduce risk factors linked to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Ten years later, the Annals of Family Medicine described a study in which researchers reviewed several different medical trials. They found cinnamon actually increased participants high-density lipoprotein cholesterol while reducing their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, glucose, and triglycerides. In 2014, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine described an analysis of various studies of cinnamon’s medical benefits. The scientists found cinnamon, in addition to reducing low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and glucose, could also lower blood pressure by reducing constriction of the blood vessels. All of these effects can cut down the risk of heart disease.”

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WHO Comes Clean on China Corona Mania By Brian Simpson

     It is all coming out now, how China never reported the Covid-19 pandemic:
  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/04/who-quietly-admits-chinese-communist-party-never-reported-coronavirus-outbreak/

“The World Health Organization (WHO) quietly updated a timeline this week to reflect that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never reported its discovery of the coronavirus to the WHO and that the global health agency had to learn about it by itself, despite the WHO’s praise of Chinese transparency. An old WHO timeline of the virus, published on its website, stated:

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Is Vitamin C the Answer? By Mrs Vera West

     We have all long believed that vitamin C is enormously beneficial, but evidence has continued to accumulate over the years since the days of Linus Pauling with the point of view now is that vitamin C is even more important for health.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-07-07-real-cause-of-heart-attacks-vitamin-c-deficiency.html

“Vitamin C deficiency is linked to a higher risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a recent review. Published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, the article also suggests that vitamin C may help regulate blood pressure, reduce arterial stiffness and decrease the amount of cholesterol in the blood.

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Covid-19 and Race Realism By Brian Simpson

     I like Vdare.com, as much as I dislike American Renaissance, but I must admit that the later has got better. Have they read my critiques? Who knows? Would they care? Anyway, the issue of Covid-19 having a racial basis is fascinating, and when I first read it, even though people would call me a racist (anyone white writing about race is, they say, so why argue on that point, about a silly word?), I was somewhat sceptical, but the latest piece by Lance Welton, really socks it out of the ball park. Say, has any Aussie footballer ever kicked a football out of the stadium, onto the road outside?
  https://vdare.com/articles/covid-19-another-genetic-factor-emerges-race-deniers-furious

“The new study—“Racial/Ethnic Variation in Nasal Gene Expression of Transmembrane Serine Protease 2 (TMPRSS2)”—was published in the prestigious journal on September 10th and was carried out by three researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York [Supinda Bunyavanich; Chantal Grant, MD; and Alfin Vicencio]. It sets out to make sense of why African-Americans suffer a death rate from Covid-19 that is around three times their proportion of the U.S. population. The researchers tested a sample of 305 people in their local hospital system, the sample being 8.2% Asian, 15.4% Black, 26.6% Latino, 9.5% mixed race/ethnicity, and 40.3% White. Their key finding: the expression of the Transmembrane serine protease 2 (shortened to TMPRSS2) was significantly higher among black individuals than it was in Asian, Latino, mixed race/ethnicity, or white individuals. Why is this important? Covid-19 enters the body via contact with its airways, such as the tissues in the nose. If the TMPRSS2 gene is present in its strong form, then the body will produce high levels of the enzyme. This enzyme, present in the body’s tissues, means that the virus is better able to enter the tissues and so spread throughout the body, potentially killing the host. If the host has a high expression of TMPRSS2 in its nasal tissues, then, write the authors, “this activates the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and cleaves the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor to which the virus binds, enabling SARS-CoV-2 to enter the body” and also more easily spread. According to the research, blacks expressed TMPRSS2 at a higher rate than Asians. Asians expressed it more than Latinos, Latinos had a higher expression than Mixed race people and these, in turn, had a higher expression than whites.

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Microplastics; How Could Something So Good, Be So Cruel? By James Reed

     I love all of the products of our affluent society, and wish I had a social dividend so I could spend the money wisely buying more consumer junk, especially things made of plastic, which excites me, to no end. And yet Mrs Vera West tells me that my love of plastic is making me spastic, that microplastics are cutting my organs up, blowing up what remains of my immune system, and horrors like that. Here are some articles, but I am too plastic-bigoted to read them:
  https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/microplastic-fragments-pollution-ocean-atmosphere-immune-system-health-damage-346087
  https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/2018/03/how-damaging-is-breathing-in-microplastics/
  https://geographical.co.uk/people/development/item/3422-microplastic-human-cells
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/fb-5474125/WHAT-MICROPLASTICS-HUMAN-BODY-END-UP.html

     Bah! Cancer, things like that … I don’t care. I care even less about slimy sea life choking on plastic, because it’s survival of the fittest in the sea. And if sea creatures are not happy living in an ocean of plastic, well they can go back to where they came from! Plastic is our way of life, and is not negotiable, as this somewhat dated, but great anti-environment book by Dennis Avery, Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic (2000), detailed.

Quantum 666 Mark of the Vaccination Beastie By James Reed

     All my apocalyptic technophobe fears are coming alarmingly true, as the mark of the beast written about in the Bible, and taught to me by fanatical Sunday school teachers, bless them and their leather straps with studs, is coming. And it is all due to the vaccine conspiracy. Well, I did not anticipate that, but that is why I am at the bottom of the great wheelie bin of history, and unquestionably the worst journalist here, although better than Uncle Len, who is so deeply in lockdown that nobody hears from him anymore.
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-09-17-quantum-dot-tattoos-bill-gates-invisibly-embedded-coronavirus-vaccines.html

“Those who line up to get injected with Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines this fall can expect to have their entire vaccination history permanently stored on some government server somewhere, thanks to the invisible quantum dot tattoos that Bill Gates is ensuring will be quietly embedded within them. A special dye containing nanocrystal quantum dots has reportedly been funded by Gates for inclusion into the jabs, emitting near-infrared light that can be detected using a specially equipped smartphone. These quantum dots can supposedly persist for five years under the skin, which presumably has to be replaced with a new injection for another five years of stored vaccination history. Developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with Gates funding, these new tattoos silently store people’s health records without them even knowing it, a “Mark of the Beast” type of technological system that aligns with key provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka “Obamacare.” “This technology could enable the rapid and anonymous detection of patient vaccination history to ensure that every child is vaccinated,” stated Kevin McHugh, a former MIT postdoc who now works as an assistant professor of biotechnology at Rice University in Houston. A new study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine explains how the technology utilizes copper to make the medical records “on-patient,” meaning inside their bodies and still readable by scanning devices that can detect near-infrared spectrum light.

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Covid-1984 Controversies By Brian Simpson

     Here are today’s Coviddy madness summaries, like the lockdown killing many more people than died, even given shonky epidemiology.
  https://cubasi.cu/en/news/cure-worse-disease-study-says-uk-lockdown-linked-thousands-excess-deaths

“Thousands of Britons who suffer heart attacks and strokes are dying at home instead of seeking medical treatment, a new study has found, as new government figures show 75,000 are projected to die as a result of lockdown measures. Stay-at-home orders prompted countless people suffering from serious medical conditions to avoid hospitals, according to the study’s findings, which were published in the Heart medical journal and first reported by the Daily Mail. The paper noted that deaths from heart disease in private homes surged by 35 percent from March to July, resulting in 2,279 more fatalities on average over the past six years. However, heart and stroke deaths in hospitals dropped by around 1,400 during the same period, suggesting that some who chose to stay home would have died anyway even if they had been hospitalized. The researchers calculated that in total, there were 2,085 excess deaths in England and Wales that could be linked to heart attack and stroke sufferers who refused to seek out medical treatment. This means that between March 2 and June 30, every day 17 people died needlessly from heart attacks. The findings support government figures which underline the disastrous side-effects of the UK’s anti-coronavirus policies. A recently released report by the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) found that nearly 75,000 people could die over the next five years from non-Covid causes as a result of the lockdown. More than 30,000 of these projected deaths will be the result of undetected cancers, cancelled operations and health problems associated with economic recession. 26,000 are expected to die if people continue to avoid seeking out critical medical care. The grim predictions appear to already be playing out. According to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there were 830 excess deaths at home in one week at the start of September compared to the five-year average of deaths. The UK has registered 5,556 excess deaths at home in the past eight weeks, but only 1,117 deaths were attributed to Covid-19 in the same period, the Telegraph reported. A study published in May by the British Medical Journal found that only one-third of excess deaths seen in England and Wales can be linked to coronavirus. Since the start of the pandemic, the UK has recorded 423,000 coronavirus cases, resulting in 41,936 deaths. The country has seen a recent spike in new infections, but daily deaths have remained relatively stable.”

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Magic Bullet Vaccines By Mrs Vera West

     There are a pile of recent news items on the failure of Covid-19 vaccines. All sorts of side effects, not yet quite reducing people to living dead zombies, but bad all the same. So, expect the New World Order elites to be pressing on with the lockdown agenda, to keep the social conditioning up of the ordinary punter, making people into insects. No, not even dogs, because dogs are not treated this badly.
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-09/coronavirus-vaccine-on-hold-patient-adverse-illness-astrazeneca/12643812?fbclid=IwAR02tROHUkBVn3AWBh31YVLZXFrQxz7gLr165wJbUsp8ihKvvSsIxsHmghQ

“Late-stage trials for a leading coronavirus vaccine have been suspended after a study participant suffered a "potentially unexplained illness".

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Hey … I Must be Coviddy Crazy Too! By James Reed

     The great Gary Ablett Sr believes many of the things I do, no causal connection at all, pure coincidence, but whereas the legacy media is attacking him, I feel a sense of great relief, that a nobody like me, shares the same counter-system beliefs with a true AFL legend. God bless you son of football, the greatest Geelong footballer of all time! He is totally switched on and reaching heaps of people with the good news, especially about Jesus Christ.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ablett_Sr
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8747151/Gary-Ablett-claims-coronavirus-vaccine-change-DNA-bizarre-rant.html?fbclid=IwAR0sY7CvbZ2BNaHSLzh1YVLjbnCZnqieKCfdelWA8OFhpCLbTv2uhvFvW5Y

“AFL legend Gary Ablett Sr has taken to YouTube to deliver a complex rant linking the coronavirus pandemic to 'End Times' biblical prophecies, and conspiracy theories about Freemasons and the Illuminati. The 27-minutes long video filmed in his car and posted to YouTube on Friday provided a very rare insight into the state of mind of a man who many regard as the greatest to have played the sport. Ablett, 58, who had seldom spoken publicly throughout his playing career and since, made up for lost time with an extraordinary video that linked COVID-19 to the 'new world order' and the second coming of Jesus Christ. 'It's not natural. It didn't come from bats. They're lying to us and they have been for decades,' Mr Ablett said of the virus. 'It was man made in a lab. Deliberately designed and deliberately released.' 'They don't want a cure. Why? Because they want us to take their vaccines. And their vaccines are going to kill us. They want to wipe out billions of people.' The 58-year-old says later in the video that the development of a vaccine is part of a 'trans-humanist' plot. 'These vaccines they are talking about, they want to change our DNA and there are things in them… and they are trying to link us up with artificial intelligence so we can both give and receive messages.' Ablett, who is the father of dual Brownlow Medallist Gary Ablett Jr, said the virus is 'camouflage' for globalist agendas like the introduction of a one-world currency and the banning of cash. 'They need to crash the global economy… [so that] cash will be gone and what they are trying to bring in is their global digital currency,' he said. 'A one-world money system that is going to lead to the mark of the beast.' Mr Ablett repeatedly touched on religious themes in the lengthy monologue and said the rapture - when Christians are unified with God - was 'imminent'. He also argued the Victorian Premier was being used by those who were conducting the conspiracy. 'Daniel Andrews is nothing but a puppet to a very corrupt establishment and Victoria is the test case for what they are wanting to do in the entire nation,' Mr Ablett said. 'We need to wake up and rise up and stand against this stuff and expose them for who they really are because it’s all satanic. 'The only real answer for the world at this time is to repent of your sins and give your heart to Jesus Christ.'”

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Covid Madness; What Will Future Generations Think? By Brian Simpson

     Do not sing “Happy birthday,” it will upset the evil Covid-19 spirit; control sex, that will stop the plague too! We are subjected to insane ideas, going far beyond the original establishment of a New World Order. I mean, you can control people without total regulation of even their bowel movements. That sort of over-the-top totalitarianism is open to systems burn out, and I sure hope this one crashes to the ground.
  https://www.dailysabah.com/life/science/dont-sing-happy-birthday-at-least-in-a-pandemic-swedish-research-shows

“The coronavirus pandemic has taken away a lot of our usual routines and disrupted our daily lives. And now it seems that it may be taking away some of our traditions too, especially when it comes to celebrating birthdays. According to research carried out by scientists at Lund University in August, singing the classic "happy birthday" song may be dangerous as it can spread COVID-19 exponentially quicker and further compared with talking and breathing. "Compared to talking, singing often involves continuous voicing, higher sound pressure, higher frequencies, deeper breaths, higher peak airflows and more articulated consonants," the authors wrote in the journal Aerosol Science and Technology, stressing that these factors were likely to increase exhaled emissions. Using high-speed cameras to capture aerosols and droplets emitted while singing, the scientists scrutinized many songs and found that songs that contain the letters "B" and "P," which are plosive sounds that are pronounced by stopping the airflow and putting both lips together, produced more particle emissions. Loud and consonant-rich songs were also particularly culpable. By examining 12 healthy professional and amateur singers and two with confirmed COVID-19, the researchers found that the louder and more powerful they sang, the greater the concentration of aerosols and droplets was. Especially when they sang the Swedish song "Bibbis pippi Petter," rich in saliva-producing consonants, they pushed more droplets, the researchers discovered.

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Crazy Statistics: Margarine Causes Divorces By Brian Simpson

     In academia there is something called a replication crisis in pseudo-scientific disciplines like psychology. Part of the problem must be due to the fact that these soft academics don’t have much of a mathematical grounding and just feed their garbage into the computer program R, or if they know a bit more, MATLAB, and out pops the latest piece of bs research. Much of this waste is at the level of statistical correlations, and some truly stunning statistical tricks like bootstrapping, where constant feeding and cycling of the same data somehow is supposed to generate valid results. Anyway, here are some sites that show a whole range of spurious correlations, like margarine eating and divorce rates, and that US spending on science, technology and space, correlates with suicide by hanging, strangulation and suffocation. I imagine that doing psychology also correlates with a range mental illness, but that may not be spurious.
  https://notthebee.com/article/study-shows-correlation-between-eating-margarine-and-getting-divorced
  https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-09-22-study-shows-correlation-between-margarine-getting-divorced.html
  http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

     Real science, as in physics and chemistry, does not solely rely upon statistical bs correlations, but seeks out explanatory hypotheses, that have qualities such a simplicity, coherence, and suggest experimental testing to enable spurious correlations to be replaced by causation. The psychology, let alone sociology I have seen, does not reach this basic level of scientificity, and I think it needs defunding.