Trigger warnings, a popular device of the woke Left, alert readers to potentially troubling material in some content. Do such warnings help, troubled Leftists? A study, “A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Trigger Warnings, Content Warnings, and Content Notes,” by Victoria M. E. Bridgland, Payton J. Jones & Benjamin W. Bellet, Flinders University, Harvard University, has examined the empirical psychological literature on this question, and has concluded that such warnings don’t do as advertised. “We present the results of a meta-analysis of all empirical studies on the effects of these warnings. Overall, we found that warnings have no effect on affective responses to negative material nor on educational outcomes (i.e., comprehension). However, warnings reliably increase anticipatory affect. Findings on avoidance were mixed, suggesting either that warnings have no effect on engagement with material, or that they increase engagement with negative material under specific circumstances.” Thus, trigger warnings are in a way, self-undermining.

US comedian from the Left, Bill Mahar, has waded in on this topic, saying that trigger warnings are a sign of national weakness, and are like wearing masks on one’s mind. Well put; nice post-Covid mandate metaphor.

James P. Pinkerton, writing at Breitbart.com, has discovered that the agenda behind environmentalism in the West, is profits for “Green” capitalism, or those corporations jumping on the wagon. It could not be in anyway based upon reasoned argument, however flawed, since in the West, the climate change fanatics are going after gas stoves, while China is undergoing a massive program of building coal power station construction, which might be seen as super-gas stoves, in a way.

Over 100,000 text messages have been leaked to the Sunday Telegraph, from former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock, and the newspaper has been publishing the most revealing. For example, there is an exchange between Hancock and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, where Case suggested in January 2021 that “fear” would be a “vital” factor in ensuring UK citizens’ compliance with the Covid mandates. Hancock agreed and wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” to ensure compliance. It reminded me of all the AIDS grim reaper advertisements (being in Oz at the time), that scared the life out of children, only this time, meaner. It is all a bit ironic, since Hancock resigned after breaching social distancing rules. Those who live by Covid …

Here is something that I have never thought of before; that people with dreadlocks, as some Blacks have, will have problems getting a normal equestrian helmet to fit. The New York Times did a big piece on this, saying, racism, racism, everywhere. But really, they are barking up the wrong gummy tree, as the issue is about the mass of the hair, and some whites have dreadlocks too, but the vast majority of people do not, whatever colour and flavour. As well, the hair mass problem will be an issue for bike helmets, and in general most safety helmets, for the hair challenged. So, it is another excuse to cry racism, and illogical as always.

How times change. Back in 19678 Paul Ehrlich published a best-selling doomster book, The Population Bomb, which predicted a global crash of population based upon shortage of food resources. That dire prediction, was short-circuited by the Green Revolution. Still, the idea that people are the problem was taken up in another form by Leftist environmentalists to follow in the next decades. There, environmentalism merged with Leftist cultural ideology to see the West, and in particular white people, as the ecological problem, and this is now a key part of Critical Race Theory, served up thick in the US education system, but also here in Australia. Get ready for its practical application in the coming Voice referendum. You know, guilt and all that.

The blog has covered the question of the enormous corruption in the Ukraine, and the question of where all the billions are going. But, the real problem now, as Tucker Carlson has said, is Zelensky himself. He seems quite prepared for World War III to start, to preserve his turf, even though the Ukraine will be the first place to go under.  But, unless there is endless support of the Ukraine, Zelensky sees the sons and daughters of NATO countries, dying in the war against Russia. That sentiment is good reason to call it quits on the Ukraine and negotiate a peace settlement, but the US Democrats will have nothing to do with that, being even more war crazy than Zelensky.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/zelensky_warns_skeptical_americans_if_they_do_not_change_their_opinion_they_can_expect_to_send_their_sons_and_daughters_to_die_for_ukraine.html

In these dark times of the Great Replacement, it is good for a few sunbeams of hope. One possible development is for both the Left and Right to merge on the question of immigration limitation. In Denmark, an election is on the horizon, and the front-runners are the Social Democrats, led by Mette Frederiksen, who is likely to become the next prime minister. What she, and her party has done is to merge Leftist economics, with Right wing opposition to immigration. “For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes,” she recently wrote. Her policies go far beyond what Trump dreamed about, but did nothing to achieve: “include a law allowing jewellery to be stripped from refugees, a burqa and niqab ban, mandatory handshakes irrespective of religious sentiment at citizenship ceremonies, and a plan to house criminal asylum seekers on an island used for researching contagious animal diseases. In February, she backed what the DPP has branded a “paradigm shift” – a push to make repatriation, rather than integration, the goal of asylum policy.”

I am not one to like Left wing economic policy, but the Nordic countries love it, and that is not going to change any time soon, so if I was voting, I would bite my lip and vote for her. Getting immigration under control must be the West’s first priority; dealing with Leftism will need to be further down the list.

Hundreds of protesters who were arrested by New York City police are set to get $ 21,500 each. The protests occurred after the death of George Floyd. Now I can see the political imbalance here, that January 6 protesters are still rotting in jail facing torture and abuse, and Covid protesters were treated with violence too by police, there has been no parallel justice for them. Still, even though these primarily Leftists are contrary to my politics, their claims are most likely justified, since the police boxed them in then laid into them with batons, completely as unjustified as was done to the Covid lockdown protesters. On this one point I can see the problem with the police here in America, but this culture is obsessed with the police and military which is not aiding drastically needed reform. Australia, I think, has a healthier scepticism about the boys and girls in blue, or paramilitary black.

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/03/new-york-will-pay-millions-to-protesters-violently-corralled-by-police/

Canada is the place to be if one is “transitioning.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has rejigged the Public Service Health Care Plan so that federal employees can access up to $75,000 of taxpayer loot for transgender surgery, including such mundane things as voice feminisation and breast augmentation. And, given anti-discrimination ideology, the money would also go to people going the other way, from “women,” whatever that now means, to “men,” whatever that now means. But since it is all a social construction, I don’t see why something physical like surgery is needed, since one can just wave a wand of sociology all over it, and bingo, socially constructed gender categories. Oh, but no $ 75,000. I guess that is important.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-to-fund-75k-of-trans-surgeries-for-each-federal-employee/?utm_source=daily-canada-2023-03-02&utm_medium=email

We have written extensively about the global depopulation agenda of the globalist elites, dealing with both the Covid plandemic and climate change. And, great minds think alike, as George Christensen gives essentially the same take. The interest here, is that what we have said is being proposed by others. And, George is not the only one writing about this depopulation agenda today:

https://markusmutscheller.substack.com/p/where-does-critical-thinking-stop

Covid vax critic, Steve Kirsch has asked health authorities across the world to make vaccine/death data available. He is usually ignored, but when governments respond, it is proclaimed that they are just too busy, and under-resourced to dig out the requested information. One wonders what they are doing with all the time on their hands? Oh, oppressing us, I suppose! It is a common complaint. But, really the main reason is, that they simply do not want to hand out any ammunition for critics.

https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox/id/AAQkADIyN2Q4NGYyLTM3OWEtNDQzMS04ODAyLWYxZjRlNjM2ZTRhMQAQAJKkBG%2BSIlNOjEV05xc4z2Q%3D

Ford Motor Company has filed a US patent for the technology to allow autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles which could potentially repossess themselves if their owners miss lease or loan payments! This presupposes fully self-driving cars, with a “mind” of their own, but that is rapidly coming, certainly with advances in AI. The demon cars will disable air conditioning, radio, GPS, and cruise control to irritate the driver, if a payment is missed. Or, like the standard electric car, I suppose the vehicle could simply self-destruct, like the tapes, and then USB reader, in the old Mission Impossible TV show. Just joking, I think.

I imagine it will be one more reason not to have a car.

First, it is a task to find out how much money has been thrown at the Ukraine; $ 112 billion from the US alone in 2022 is a starting figure, let alone billions more to come after Joe Biden’s visit, and untold billions from the rest of the West. So, it is a legitimate question as to where all this money has gone. Life Site News.com has an article by Frank Wright, running to ground the enormous corruption and money laundering that has occurred. Indeed, the scams have been so great that scores of Ukrainian officials who had been tickling the till, have been removed from office. But the bigger fish have swum on. Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov was voted by the Ukrainian parliament to be removed from office, but the case against him has now “disappeared.” And Zelensky, it seems, has shut down the anti-corruption drive. So, only the small fish were caught.

That is all interesting, but the key question is why the West is going all-out to defend the most corrupt country in Europe? The idea that Putin will move on the rest of Europe, is possible, but is hardly prevented by expending all resources on the Ukraine, which could be solved in 24 hours as Trump said. The present US rulers definitely have something to hide, and want remaining hidden in that land.

While Elon Musk is somewhat celebrated among conservatives and the Dissent Right, for bringing back some degree of free speech to Twitter, one needs to look at his entire agenda, which is transhumanism, the replacement of humans, and is fully technocratic. Point in case is his latest news piece, saying that his future AI humanoid robots will one day outnumber humans. Taken literally that means billions of the things. The effects of AI upon human employment now are a concern, but humanoid robots are explicitly designed to replace humans. If so, then what happens to all of those workers who are displaced, and replaced? The globalist elites generally consider anyone other than their class as useless eaters, so the temptation for releasing a really deadly super-virus, may become irresistible.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/02/elon-musk-predicts-teslas-ai-powered-humanoid-robots-will-outnumber-humans/

Here is one sadder example of the internal rot within the mainstream church. A Catholic priest invites a Muslim muezzin (chanter) into the church to chant is "the way of the Lord." This happened in 2020, at St. Patrick's parish in the County Mayo town of Ballyhaunis, which does have a mosque whether the Muslim person could go. The idea here is presumably based upon synodality, which according to The Holy See's International Theological Commission, is  "the specific modus vivendi et operandi of the Church, the People of God, which reveals and gives substance to her being as communion when all her members journey together, gather in assembly and take an active part in her evangelising mission". Synodality also "refers to the involvement and participation of the whole People of God in the life and mission of the Church". As well the Church's Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity notes that the term synodality "[b]roadly [...] refers to the active participation of all the faithful in the life and mission of the Church". Nothing here would justify giving preaching space to people of non-Christian religions. Why this occurs, is the same reason why traditional institutions are being undermined everywhere; the Great Replacement, not only of people, but cultures.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/adventures-in-heresy/

The grim statistics indicate that in the US, there is something of a mass exodus of people abandoning Christianity, known as “nonverts.” Indeed, according to the Pew Research Center, Christians will be a minority of Americans by 2070 if current trends continue. This is initially shocking to Christian Americans like me, as we mechanically think of America as a Christian country. But, look at Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2021 43.9 percent of the population were Christians and no religion, 38.9 percent. There has been a steady decline in the number of people claiming to be Christians, falling from a high of 96 percent in 1911.

Thus, the trend of secularisation is widespread and deep seated. It is certainly one of the things the Left, inspired by the fierce atheism of communist Marx, has relentless pursued. But, unlike many issues we face, on this one I think that this needs to be left in God’s hand. Certainly, He is not going to see His Church destroyed. And at the end of the day, just looking around at out modern Sodom and Gomorrah: Genesis 19: 1-28, we can expect a Judgment.

The mainstream media headlines outside of South Africa go along the lines of South Africa being on the precipice of collapse, and facing civil war, in the context of the blackouts. I am not sure that civil war adequately describes the chaos of what things are like when the power goes out, but the US has seen some aspects of this, as crime surges, and the looters come out in force. Police cannot cope, or do not want to cope, and I imagine that when things get to the collapse stage, of total grid failure, if police do not have their wages, they will be looting as well. The US and Australia has advised its citizens in South Africa to stock up on food and water to last several days, but I think more than that is needed. While there is speculation on YouTube about what social collapse will be like, South Africa under the ANC is a living illustration of what to expect under an extreme Leftist regime, one which is doing everything the World Economic Forum and UN wants, and more.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1740247/south-africa-verge-collapse-civil-war-threat-looms-blackout-fears

According to a preprint study, “COVID-19 Vaccines: The Impact on Pregnancy Outcomes and Menstrual Function,” by James Thorp et al., the Covid vaxxes are, compared to other vaccines, such as the influenza vaccines, associated with a significant increase in adverse events for women and human fertility. These include, but are not limited, to menstrual abnormalities, miscarriage, foetal chromosomal abnormalities, foetal malformation, foetal cystic hygroma, foetal cardiac disorders, foetal arrhythmias, foetal cardiac arrest, foetal vascular malfunction, foetal growth abnormalities, foetal abnormal surveillance, foetal placental thrombosis, low amniotic fluid, preeclampsia, premature delivery, preterm premature rupture of membrane, foetal death/stillbirth, and premature baby death.  Getting down to numbers, the Covid-19 mRNA vaxxes produce a 57-fold increase in miscarriages, a 38-fold increase in still birth rates, and a 1200-fold increase in menstrual abnormalities, based on data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database. Nothing like this has ever been observed from any other vaccine, and the extent of injuries is more wide-reaching.

The really big, unanswered question is about the longer-term effects upon human fertility, especially upon unborn female foetuses. Humanity has not faced an issue that could be as grave as this.

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202209.0430/v2

Steve Kirsch explains that there is an interesting court test case, where in a family with an unvaxxed child, the father does not want to vaccinate, but the mother does. While one would in the recent past have expected that the court would have taken judicial notice of the pro-vax opinions of the Covid health establishment, this has not occurred, fortunately for the father, and the child. The case is therefore set to be heard on its merits, which will involve assessment of the Covid vax injuries issues. Kirsch is optimistic and thinks that the father will win. That may be so, it all depends upon the jurisdiction now. From what I have seen from afar looking at places like Victoria, Australia, I would not give the father much of a chance there. I mean to say, a woman who is unvaxxed for medical reasons can be denied a heart transplant!

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/when-parents-disagree-about-vaccination

Professor Norman Fenton, of Queen Mary University of London, is a professor of mathematics and computer science. He has been a sharp critic of many of the statistical errors, or deceptions, made by the Covid elite during the plandemic. And, he has not been cancelled yet, which is a good thing. Hence, he is able to wade in on the issue of the safety of the Covid vax during pregnancy.

Professor Fenton makes the point that there is no need at all for women to get the vax at all during pregnancy, as statistically, risks are minimal. And, Pfizer itself had supplied enough information by June 2021 for regulators to know that pregnant women should not be vaccinated. He details methodological flaws in studies that allegedly showed that the vaxxes were safe, these using pregnant women in the later stages of pregnancy.  Pfizer’s own trial showed that there was statistically significant harm to pregnant women in the early stages, especially a problem of stillbirths. That issue is dramatically illustrated by stillbirths in highly vaccinated places like Singapore, covered in another article at the blog.