Our great trading partner, and beloved icon of the Australian Left, communist China, jailed more journalists than any other country, which is quite an achievement considering that journalists would have a presumption to tread very carefully not to upset emperor of all men, Xi. Reporters without Borders ranked communist China behind only North Korea, a fellow communist buddy, for freedom of the press, meaning, no freedom of the press. But, communist China was one of the biggest exporters of propaganda. Indeed, it has most of the woke Left in the West well prepared to do its work, and even Joe Biden has been seen as a Chinese asset. So, things are going just swell for the communists. For the time. The reverse of the Cold War phrase goes through my mind: “better dead, than red.” 

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/press-group-china-biggest-global-jailer-journalists-99097434

How does one cope with dealing with the sheer amount of information that needs to be processed? Here at the blog we have a number of journalists and writers, spending hours each day to deliver content that covers much of the territory of much larger blogs like Zerohedge.com, and Natural News.com. Often, we are ahead of the curve, getting a story out before them. A one-man show would be struggling to do this, even working 24/7. But, even with a division of labour, the amount of information is still a challenge to deal with. It is suggested by A Midwesterndoctor.com, that selectivity is therefore unavoidable as shown by the “cocktail party effect,” where in a crowded room with multiple conversations, one may zero in on mention of one’s name, which seems to imply that some neurological filtering mechanism is at work. The good doc identifies the neurology of this, but there is controversy about the exact mechanism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

The common pattern behind almost everything considered at this blog, is social control by the globalist elites. The war on meat is an example of this agenda. Meat has been a vital part of human diet from the dawn of time, and if one goes by evolution, meat eating was responsible for the development of the large size of the human brain. But now, unlike anything anticipated by pre-World War II social critics like George Orwell, meat eating is being attacked on the grounds that meat has a high carbon footprint, and must therefore be banned. The closing down of Netherlands farms, for alleged nitrogen outputs, is part of this madness.

The World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty, is part of a dark web of strategies to create a one world government, using health as the main weapon, which has now been integrated with climate change, since the medical authorities now accept climate change as a global health issue. The core approach is “One Health,” defined as “an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems,” as they are “closely linked and interdependent.” As concepts are left vague and elastic, there are concerns by critics that by surrendering health autonomy to WHO, national sovereignty will disappear as well, leading to a “global takeover of everything.” It is easy to see, given he broad concept of Health adopted, that most aspects of society and the economy can be seen as “health issues,” broadly defined. Independent journalist and researcher James Roguski, sums it up: “Basically, it’s capitalism, it’s corruption, it’s an abomination from a health perspective. Let’s just throw money at pharmaceutical companies, build out the infrastructure in these nations and, if you’re making tons of products locally, you’re going to be able to convince the local government to stick them in people’s arms or shove it down their throat.

“And none of it really has shown to be of any health benefit. It’s damage to people’s health.”

It is a significant historical event, I think future historians of the Catholic faith will document; Josef Seifert, has published an open letter addressed to the cardinals of the Catholic Church. In the letter, reproduced bellow, he calls on the bishops of the Church to resist Pope Francis’  heterodox actions, “destroying the foundations of faith and morals.”

The Pope signed the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” the Abu Dhabi document, with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar. The document states that “[t]he pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings.” This, Professor Seifert argues, amounts to apostasy, the abandonment of Christian faith, as uniquely true, and acceptance of religious and cultural relativism,  and is a more serious flaw than even the Pope’s woke, globalist political proclamations over immigration. It goes to the heart of the problem of Pope Francis.

There is an interesting take given by various philosophers to the relationship between the transgender movement and transhumanism. As philosopher Max More has said: “Transhumanists want to apply technology to overcome limits imposed by our biological and genetic heritage.” “Transhumanists regard human nature not as an end in itself, not as perfect, and not as having any claim on our allegiance.”  “Rather, it is just one point along an evolutionary pathway, and we can learn to reshape our own nature in ways we deem desirable and valuable.” 

“By thoughtfully, carefully, and yet boldly applying technology to ourselves,” said More, “we can become something no longer accurately described as human – we can become posthuman.” See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xIQgBXw9-o

Dr Robert Malone, in a hard-hitting piece, has written that it is time for the US, and by implication, other nations, to exit from the World Health Organization (WHO). The first step is to not sign the pandemic treaty. WHO is a UN organisation, that has the same one world goal as the UN. As Dr Malone points out, the agency is effectively controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, as shown over the Covid plandemic, where WHO did not adequately investigate China’s role in releasing the Covid-19 virus, and acting to spread it. The WHO has faithfully done the bidding of communist China, with the lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates, pushing for the experimental mRNA vaxxes of Big Pharma being advanced for mega-corporate profits. And, those sympathetic to the CCP model of society, such as Bill Gates,  endorsed the CCP approach, seen as a shortcut to globalisation.

Dr Mercola has put together a comprehensive case that the Ukrainian War has been a disaster, and will become more of a disaster. Leaked documents have revealed that the opposing forces are in a deadlock, and thus, the war will be protracted. At the moment there is concern that a severe nuclear accident could occur at the Zaporizhzhia plant, where the surrounding area has been evacuated. It is speculated that the plant has been primed by the Russians with explosives that could be set off in a false flag if Russia loses the present battle. The battle lines are now clearly drawn, with the US and UK having already sent 97 special forces to the Ukraine, presumably in active fighting, or organising it.

The chances of a nuclear exchange increase the longer this conflict continues, since the commitment made will make it impossible for either side to back down. Certainly, Putin will see this through to the end.

We need to keep an eye on this, as we are still under the tyranny of the mainstream financial system, until, of course, the globalists are defeated, and an alternative social credit foundation is erected. The immediate concern though is the instability of the US banking system, with almost half of America’s 4,800 banks facing the possibility of collapse. And, the problem is that the fear leading to a banking collapse is highly contagious, and in the age of cyber banking, people are not needing to line up at the banks for withdrawals, facing the old-time “go slow” methods to slow them down, but deposits can be withdrawn at click of a keyboard, or touch screen of a mobile phone.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/half-america-banks-already-insolvent-133000968.html

While most Australian doctors whimped out in raising any objections at all to the Covid narrative, the excuse being that they would be barred by the medical authorities, there is some truth to this. Dr. Jeyanthi Kundhasan an anaesthetist and perioperative physician from Victoria is an example. She was sacked by one employer for merely asking for a risk assessment for the Covid shots, which seems quite a reasonable thing to do. Dr. Kunadhasan then joined the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS), a union of doctors in Australia who actively opposed mandatory Covid vaccination. She conducted various research activities and spoke at an anti-lockdown rally. And, bingo, she was under investigation, and her medical license was up for review, which continues now.

Hence there is good reason why doctors were shy in speaking up, but that does not exclude the vast majority who have been, and are, active advocates for Big Pharma.

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.