principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--Coincidence? CDC Launched Big Recruitment Program in Nov 2019

The Center for Disease Control posted a job listing for a Public Health Advisor in the Quarantine Program in all major U.S. cities in November of 2019 , at least a month before the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak .
The job listing is for positions in Dallas , El Paso , Houston , Seattle , Anchorage , Los Angeles , San Diego , San Francisco , Miami , Atlanta , Honolulu , Chicago , Boston , Detroit , Minneapolis , Newark , New York , Philadelphia , and San Juan .
All cities currently dealing with coronavirus fears in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Job ID HHS-CDC-D3-20-10640010 Location Dallas , Texas , El Paso , Texas , Houston , Texas , Seattle , Washington , Anchorage , Alaska , Los Angeles , California , San Diego , California , San Francisco , California , Miami , Florida , Atlanta , Georgia , Honolulu , Hawaii , Chicago , Illinois , Boston , Massachusetts , Detroit , Michigan , Minneapolis , Minnesota , Newark , New Jersey , New York , New York , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , San Juan Department : Department of Health And Human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Prevention Job Announcement Number : HHS-CDC-D3-20-10640010 SALARY RANGE : $ 51440.0 to $ 93077.0/Per Year OPEN PERIOD : 2019-11-15 to 2020-05-15 SERIES & GRADE : GS–9/11

Coincidence? CDC Launched Big Recruitment Program in Nov 2019
Written by Gabriel Keane
The Center for Disease Control posted a job listing for a Public Health Advisor in the Quarantine Program in all major U.S. cities in November of 2019, at least a month before the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak.
The job listing is for positions in Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Seattle, Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta, Honolulu, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and San Juan.
The job description reads,
“Serves as a project representative for a program responsible for preventing the importation and spread of communicable diseases.”
All cities currently dealing with coronavirus fears in the U.S. are listed on the job application.
Via cdc.gov:
Public Health Advisor (Quarantine Program)
Job ID HHS-CDC-D3-20-10640010 Location Dallas, Texas, El Paso, Texas, Houston, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Anchorage, Alaska, Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Francisco, California, Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Honolulu, Hawaii, Chicago, Illinois, Boston, Massachusetts, Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Newark, New Jersey, New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Juan
Department: Department of Health And Human Services
Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Job Announcement Number: HHS-CDC-D3-20-10640010
SALARY RANGE: $51440.0 to $93077.0/Per Year
OPEN PERIOD: 2019-11-15 to 2020-05-15
SERIES & GRADE: GS–9/11
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principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--Scotland’s Real Corona Virus Crisis

Scotland’s Real Corona Virus Crisis

The SARS-CoV2 virus has swept it ’ s way across the world from its humble nascence in Wuhan at the beginning of the year .
It was advertised as the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse incarnate .
Professor Ferguson prophesied millions of deaths from the ‘ novel ’ virus .
No world saving vaccines could be developed in time to save humanity from imminent destruction .
What was then proposed was essentially the end of civilisation as we know it .
Project ‘ Lockdown ’ was conceived on the basis of 15,000 lines of undocumented computer code by a man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occasions .
No longer is homo sapiens ‘ πολιτικὸν ζῷον ’ .
Social interaction is now ‘ social distancing ’ .
The inalienable right to walk the earth has been supplanted by a diktat to ‘ stay in your house ’ , if indeed you have one to stay in .
Democracy has been cancelled until further notice .
Please pay by card ‘ if you can ’ .
You may need an ‘ immunity passport ’ to travel .
Presumably anywhere outside your house .
And of course , we have yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enemy that can only be undertaken by the leaders of the free world .
I do find it odd that just five nations have experienced the brunt of the fatalities in this brutal fight .
What sickens me most is the exhortations to ‘ Protect our NHS ’ .
Watch the telly for twenty minutes and see the number of appeals to give money , which you can ’ t earn because your are stuck in your house , to the NHS .
Bang a pot or draw a rainbow and stick in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job they are doing to protect us from this evil virus thingy .
It has never been made plain exactly what the NHS needed protection from unless you count cuts to funding over the last 10 years .
To be blunt .
Protecting the NHS is a government problem and it should not have to rely on charity from the public .
I am sure that you have heard all this before .
But I wonder sometimes what the difference is between herd immunity and well , just herding .
The ‘ lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long after it has gone .
Was it the right approach ?
So what do the numbers say ?
On the 10th of May..
I live in Scotland .
It ’ s a small country with a population of 5.5 million or so .
I write about Scotland in particular , not because I don ’ t care about the rest of the world , but because when I step out of the door that is where I am .
The age demographics for Scotland are represented in the chart below : As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quickly the older you get .
As we all know by now , the virus has a greater Case fatality with increasing age .
Charts are great .
But to help you make sense of it , here are the numbers : The Scottish Government figures for all deaths in 2020 is 24,960 The Scottish average deaths for the first 4 months is 20,655 .
The Scottish Government figures for deaths in April 2020 is 7,403 The Scottish average deaths in April is 4,586 A bit of children ’ s arithmetic gives a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) of 2,817 which we could attribute to COVID19 .
The Scottish Government figure is 2,795 for COVID19 deaths .
I think we can agree that the numbers closely match .
The standard deviation for historical total deaths for the period January to April is 1,273 .
The Scottish Government figure for Non-COVID19 deaths in 2020 is 22,165 .
Roughly 1 SD away from the average of 20,655 .
The following chart shows all deaths recorded in Scotland in 2020 .
The proportion of COVID19 related deaths are shown in blue .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you get , the greater the chance you have of dying .
As I say graphs are fine , but let ’ s look at the numbers .
They tell a more complete story .
Over 90 % of COVID19 related deaths are in the age range 65 plus .
41 % were in the over 85 years age group .
Now there ’ s a surprise .
75 % of all COVID19 related deaths are in the +75 years age group .
Out of the total of 2,795 deaths , 2,097 have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and above !
4,997,455 Scots have been locked down by Government diktat with almost ZERO probability of dying from the disease .
Even in the susceptible age groups , you have less than 0.5 % chance of dying from the disease based on population totals .
Critics may say that if it wasn ’ t for the ‘ lockdown ’ then more people would have died .
Look again at the numbers .
1,195 of the 2,795 deaths were in Care Homes .
43 % !
!
That leaves 1,600 poor people who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ wild ’ .
Mostly people older than 65 .
The Abject Failure of the Scottish Government Lockdown Policy The ‘ corona virus crisis ’ in Scotland is exemplified by the following graph showing deaths in care homes .
Even the most imbecilic nincompoop could see that on week 13 of 2020 something was going seriously wrong in Care Homes throughout Scotland .
The number of deaths had risen from the previous week by some 181 ( the Mean of weeks 1 through 12 was 282 per week ) Here are the numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real ‘ corona crisis ’ in Scotland is firstly in the Care Homes for the elderly .
Secondly , it is in the care of the elderly who are not in Care Homes .
There is not a shred of evidence in the numbers to warrant a ‘ lockdown ’ of the whole of Scottish society or for the absolute carnage this will cause to the Scottish economy for years to come .
My Government has failed utterly and completely to understand what has and is happening to the elderly in our society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just sheer pig headedness , implemented policies which have not helped those most vulnerable to a ‘ virus ’ outbreak .
In fact , looking at the number of Non-COVID19 deaths in care homes , there was a quantum leap from an average of ~282 to 393 in week 13 .
It is only from today ( 10th May ) that Sturgeon has ordered the military ( of all organisations ) to set up testing stations for care home residents and workers .
2,000 staff are to be hired to carry out the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if it was the ‘ lockdown ’ policy which contributed to this .
Millions have been spent and Billions will be lost in the ‘ fight ’ against a virus that has managed to shorten the life span of the over 75 age group by a few years .
2,079 people .
Professor Ferguson must shoulder most of the blame for the outrageous over reaction by our Government .
Without a total lockdown , he prophesied 500,000 deaths in the UK based on the virus having an R0 of 2.4 .
Remarkably , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all came to nought , Governments listened to him .
Ferguson ’ s report was the fox in the chicken coop .
Politicians became the headless chickens .
Money and resources were directed to where they would not be needed .
The NHS Louisa Jordan ‘ field ’ hospital at the SEC in Glasgow rushed to completion that may well be waiting for it ’ s first patient , is a prime example .
Similar follies were created in England .
Their was panic and fear that the NHS would not be able @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients on death ’ s doorstep .
Not enough ventilators .
Not enough face-masks .
Not enough test kits .
In the end there hasn ’ t been enough patients !
The Main Stream Media hyped the situation out of all proportion .
Never have I seen so many many flies swarming around one small pot of faeces .
Yet still our ‘ leaders ’ wade about aimlessly in a crisis of their own making .
Like Ian Blackford continually repeating the same inane mantra .
‘ Stay at home .
Protect our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ heroes ’ still have a job to go to and a wage packet to look forward to .
Let ’ s see what happens in May and June .
As Hegel said , ‘ The owl of Minerva spreads it ’ s wings only with the falling of dusk .
All the data used for this quick analysis can be found at : Data was ‘ munged ’ in Python and Libre Calc was used for the tables and charts .
About the author : Graeme McMillan graduated with Honours from Edinburgh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) then gained further qualifications in Business Analysis , Project management , Statistics and Programming .
He has had a long career in the UK mining industry in mine planning , geological modelling and computer systems management and programming .
He then moved to the metals and minerals sector developing simulation modelling of materials handling ( scrap , slag , semi-finished and finished products ) as well as financial modelling of large mining and steel plant projects .
Latterly , he ran his company ’ s Middle East and North African division .
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Scotland’s Real Corona Virus Crisis
Written by Graeme McMillan
The SARS-CoV2 virus has swept it’s way across the world from its humble nascence in Wuhan at the beginning of the year. It was advertised as the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse incarnate.
Professor Ferguson prophesied millions of deaths from the ‘novel’ virus. No world saving vaccines could be developed in time to save humanity from imminent destruction.
What was then proposed was essentially the end of civilisation as we know it.
Project ‘Lockdown’ was conceived on the basis of 15,000 lines of undocumented computer code by a man who has cried wolf on many previous occasions.
No longer is homo sapiens ‘πολιτικὸν ζῷον’. Social interaction is now ‘social distancing’. The inalienable right to walk the earth has been supplanted by a diktat to ‘stay in your house’, if indeed you have one to stay in.
Democracy has been cancelled until further notice. Please pay by card ‘if you can’. You may need an ‘immunity passport’ to travel. Presumably anywhere outside your house.
And of course, we have yet another ‘fight’ against an unseen enemy that can only be undertaken by the leaders of the free world.
I do find it odd that just five nations have experienced the brunt of the fatalities in this brutal fight.
What sickens me most is the exhortations to ‘Protect our NHS’.
Watch the telly for twenty minutes and see the number of appeals to give money, which you can’t earn because your are stuck in your house, to the NHS. Bang a pot or draw a rainbow and stick in your window to celebrate how great a job they are doing to protect us from this evil virus thingy.
It has never been made plain exactly what the NHS needed protection from unless you count cuts to funding over the last 10 years. To be blunt. Protecting the NHS is a government problem and it should not have to rely on charity from the public.
I am sure that you have heard all this before. But I wonder sometimes what the difference is between herd immunity and well, just herding.
The ‘lockdown’ policy will continue to affect people long after it has gone. Was it the right approach?
So what do the numbers say?
On the 10th of May..
“SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford tweeted: “What @BorisJohnson announced tonight applies in England. It does not apply in the devolved nations where all three nations will continue with the central message of stay home to support the NHS and to save lives.” ”
I live in Scotland. It’s a small country with a population of 5.5 million or so. I write about Scotland in particular, not because I don’t care about the rest of the world, but because when I step out of the door that is where I am.
The age demographics for Scotland are represented in the chart below:
As you would suspect, population falls off quickly the older you get. As we all know by now, the virus has a greater Case fatality with increasing age.
Charts are great. But to help you make sense of it, here are the numbers:
The Scottish Government figures for all deaths in 2020 is 24,960
The Scottish average deaths for the first 4 months is 20,655.
The Scottish Government figures for deaths in April 2020 is 7,403
The Scottish average deaths in April is 4,586
A bit of children’s arithmetic gives a ball park figure (7,403 – 4,586) of 2,817 which we could attribute to COVID19. The Scottish Government figure is 2,795 for COVID19 deaths.
I think we can agree that the numbers closely match. The standard deviation for historical total deaths for the period January to April is 1,273. The Scottish Government figure for Non-COVID19 deaths in 2020 is 22,165. Roughly 1 SD away from the average of 20,655.
The following chart shows all deaths recorded in Scotland in 2020. The proportion of COVID19 related deaths are shown in blue. To state the blindingly obvious. The older you get, the greater the chance you have of dying.
As I say graphs are fine, but let’s look at the numbers. They tell a more complete story.
Over 90{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of COVID19 related deaths are in the age range 65 plus. 41{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} were in the over 85 years age group. Now there’s a surprise.
75{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of all COVID19 related deaths are in the +75 years age group.
Out of the total of 2,795 deaths, 2,097 have been in an age group of 75 and above!
4,997,455 Scots have been locked down by Government diktat with almost ZERO probability of dying from the disease.
Even in the susceptible age groups, you have less than 0.5{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} chance of dying from the disease based on population totals.
Critics may say that if it wasn’t for the ‘lockdown’ then more people would have died.
Look again at the numbers. 1,195 of the 2,795 deaths were in Care Homes. 43{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117}!!
That leaves 1,600 poor people who have died from the virus in the ‘wild’. Mostly people older than 65.
The Abject Failure of the Scottish Government Lockdown Policy
The ‘corona virus crisis’ in Scotland is exemplified by the following graph showing deaths in care homes.
Even the most imbecilic nincompoop could see that on week 13 of 2020 something was going seriously wrong in Care Homes throughout Scotland.
The number of deaths had risen from the previous week by some 181 (the Mean of weeks 1 through 12 was 282 per week)
Here are the numbers for those that are interested:
The real ‘corona crisis’ in Scotland is firstly in the Care Homes for the elderly.
Secondly, it is in the care of the elderly who are not in Care Homes.
There is not a shred of evidence in the numbers to warrant a ‘lockdown’ of the whole of Scottish society or for the absolute carnage this will cause to the Scottish economy for years to come.
My Government has failed utterly and completely to understand what has and is happening to the elderly in our society and has through stupidity, fear or just sheer pig headedness, implemented policies which have not helped those most vulnerable to a ‘virus’ outbreak.
In fact, looking at the number of Non-COVID19 deaths in care homes, there was a quantum leap from an average of ~282 to 393 in week 13. It is only from today (10th May) that Sturgeon has ordered the military (of all organisations) to set up testing stations for care home residents and workers. 2,000 staff are to be hired to carry out the tests.
The question must be asked if it was the ‘lockdown’ policy which contributed to this.
Millions have been spent and Billions will be lost in the ‘fight’ against a virus that has managed to shorten the life span of the over 75 age group by a few years. 2,079 people.
What went wrong?
Professor Ferguson must shoulder most of the blame for the outrageous over reaction by our Government. Without a total lockdown, he prophesied 500,000 deaths in the UK based on the virus having an R0 of 2.4.
Remarkably, given his record of dire predictions which all came to nought, Governments listened to him.
Ferguson’s report was the fox in the chicken coop. Politicians became the headless chickens.
Money and resources were directed to where they would not be needed. The NHS Louisa Jordan ‘field’ hospital at the SEC in Glasgow rushed to completion that may well be waiting for it’s first patient, is a prime example. Similar follies were created in England.
Their was panic and fear that the NHS would not be able to cope with a rush of critical patients on death’s doorstep. Not enough ventilators. Not enough face-masks. Not enough test kits. In the end there hasn’t been enough patients!
The Main Stream Media hyped the situation out of all proportion. Never have I seen so many many flies swarming around one small pot of faeces.
Yet still our ‘leaders’ wade about aimlessly in a crisis of their own making. Like Ian Blackford continually repeating the same inane mantra. ‘Stay at home. Protect our NHS’. At least our NHS ‘heroes’ still have a job to go to and a wage packet to look forward to.
Let’s see what happens in May and June. As Hegel said, ‘The owl of Minerva spreads it’s wings only with the falling of dusk.
All the data used for this quick analysis can be found at:
The National Records of Scotland
Statistics.gov.scot
Data was ‘munged’ in Python and Libre Calc was used for the tables and charts.
About the author: Graeme McMillan graduated with Honours from Edinburgh University (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) then gained further qualifications in Business Analysis, Project management, Statistics and Programming. He has had a long career in the UK mining industry in mine planning, geological modelling and computer systems management and programming. He then moved to the metals and minerals sector developing simulation modelling of materials handling (scrap, slag, semi-finished and finished products) as well as financial modelling of large mining and steel plant projects. Latterly, he ran his company’s Middle East and North African division. Graeme is now retired.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--Wind, Solar And Biofuel Energy Are Devastating Planet Earth

Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I ’ d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me .
But mirabile dictu , his new film , Planet of the Humans , is as devastating an indictment of wind , solar , and biofuel energy as anything I have ever written .
The documentary reflects Moore ’ s willingness to reexamine the environmentalist doctrine .
It ’ s soon obvious why more rabid greens tried to have the “ dangerous film ” banned .
Indeed , Films for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took Planet off its website , but then put it back up .
The film is also on YouTube .
Would-be censors included Josh Fox , whose Gasland film Irish journalists Phelim McAleer and Anne McElhinney totally eviscerated with their FrackNation documentary ; Michael Mann , whose hockey stick global temperature graph was demolished by Canadian analysts Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre , and many others ; and Stanford professor Mark Jacobson , who just got slapped with a potential $ 1-million penalty ( in legal fees ) for bringing a SLAPP ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defamation lawsuit against a mathematician who criticized Jacobson ’ s renewable energy claims .
These critics and their allies are rarely willing to discuss any climate or energy issues that they view as “ settled science , ” much less engage in full-throated debate with “ deniers ” or allow former colleagues to stray from the catechism of climate cataclysm and renewable energy salvation .
They prefer lawsuits .
But they sense the Planet documentary could be Fort Sumter in a green civil war , and they ’ re terrified .
Their main @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , is correct but irrelevant .
The film ’ s key point is the same as my own : wind , solar and biofuel energy are not clean , green , renewable , or sustainable , and they are horrifically destructive to vital ecological values .
The censors believe admitting that is sacrilegious .
Director-narrator Jeff Gibbs never talks to coal , oil , or natural gas advocates – or to “ renewable ” energy and “ man-made climate crisis ” skeptics .
Instead , he interviews fellow environmentalists who are justifiably aghast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ projects are doing to scenic areas , wildlife habitats , rare and endangered species , and millions of acres of forests , deserts , and grasslands .
He peeks backstage to expose bogus claims that solar panels actually provided the electricity for a solar promotion concert .
After speaking with “ renewable ” advocates in Lansing , Michigan , and learning that the Chevy Volt they ’ re so excited about is actually recharged by a coal-fired generating plant , Gibbs visits a nearby football-field-sized solar farm .
It can power 50 ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Powering all of Lansing ( not including the Michigan State University campus ) would require 15 square miles of panels – plus wind turbines and a huge array of batteries ( or a coal or gas power plant ) for nights and cloudy days .
The crew films one of those turbines being erected outside of town .
Each one is comprised of nearly 5,000,000 pounds of concrete , steel , aluminum , copper , plastic , cobalt , rare earth , fiberglass , and other materials .
Every step in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , installation , maintenance , and ( 20 years later ) removal process requires fossil fuels .
It bears repeating : wind and sun are renewable and sustainable ; harnessing them for energy to benefit mankind absolutely is not .
( Go to 36:50 for a fast-paced mining tutorial on where all these “ clean , green ” technologies really come from . )
Then they ’ re off to Vermont , where a wooded mountaintop is being removed to install still more wind turbines .
Removing mountaintops to access coal , bad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , good ?
An aerial shot features 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors sprawling across six square miles of former Mojave Desert habitat – with the giant Ivanpah “ solar ” power plant in the center .
The system gets warmed up each morning by natural gas-powered heaters so that it can generate a little electricity by sundown .
This “ environmentally benign ” solar facility now sits where 500-year-old yuccas and Joshua trees once grew .
“ Outdated ” footage shows them being totally shredded to destroy any evidence they ever existed .
Gibbs and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corn , water , fertilizer , and fossil fuels required to create this “ clean , green , renewable ” gasoline substitute , which emits lots of carbon dioxide when burned .
Even worse is the total devastation of entire forests – clear cut , chopped into chips , maybe pelletized , and shipped hundreds or even thousands of miles … to be burned in place of coal or natural gas to generate the electricity that makes modern homes , factories , hospitals , living standards , and life spans possible .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leave a denuded forest and “ biomass ” power plant area in Vermont – or be arrested .
Haunting images of a bewildered indigenous native in Brazil and a terrified , mud-covered orangutan in Indonesia attest to the destruction wrought in the name of saving Earth from climate change .
You ’ re left to wonder how many acres of corn , sugarcane , or canola it took for Richard Branson to fly one biofuel-powered jet to mainland Europe .
How many it would take to produce the 96 billion gallons of oil-based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
How many decades it will take to replace the millions of acres of slow-growth forest that are incinerated each year as a “ carbon neutral ” alternative to coal .
“ Is it possible for machines made by industrial civilization to save us from industrial civilization ?
” the producers wonder .
“ Renewable ” energy systems last only 15-20 years , and then must be torn down and replaced , using more non-renewable resources , “ if there ’ s enough planet left , ” they say .
“ We ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Maybe we ’ d be “ better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place , ” than doing this .
Indeed .
But bear in mind , the devastation that so deeply concerns Moore and Gibbs is happening in a world that is still some 85 % dependent on oil , natural gas and coal , 4 % on nuclear and 7 % on hydroelectric .
Imagine what our planet would look like if we went 100 % ( pseudo ) renewable under various Green New Deals : millions of wind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billions of batteries , thousands of biofuel plantations and denuded forests , thousands of new and expanded mines , and more .
But where some see the devastation , others see opportunity .
Or as Arnold Schwarzenegger says in the film , where some see the Mojave Desert as miles and miles of emptiness , he sees a vast “ gold mine.
” Al Gore sees endless millions in profits , a lovely seaside mansion , and cushy private jets .
Koch Industries sees bigger solar and biofuel empires .
The Sierra Club @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in more millions off climate doom and renewable salvation , while 350.org founder Bill McKibben can ’ t seem to remember that the Rockefeller Brothers and other fat-cat foundations gave him millions of dollars , too .
But Moore and Gibbs aren ’ t indicting free-market capitalism .
They ’ re indicting government-mandated and subsidized crony corporatist opportunism .
And the solution they ultimately proffer isn ’ t recognizing that climate change has been “ real ” since Earth began ; that humans and fossil fuels play only minimal roles amid the powerful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interglacial periods , Medieval Warm Periods and Little Ice Ages ; or that modern nuclear power plants generate abundant CO2-free electricity .
Instead , they propose that we humans must “ get ourselves under control.
” This means not just slashing our living standards ( may we all have “ carbon footprints ” as small as Al Gore ’ s ) and “ de-developing ” and “ deindustrializing ” the United States and Europe , while simultaneously dictating to still impoverished nations how much they will be “ permitted ” to develop , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John Holdren ’ s totalitarian instincts .
It also means having far fewer humans on this glorious planet .
( How exactly that is to be achieved they don ’ t say , though several twentieth-century dictators offer ideas . )
This is where Planet of the Humans takes a troubling , wrongheaded , neo-Malthusian turn .
But these final minutes should be viewed attentively , to understand what still motivates far too many “ environmentalists , ” who too often get lionized or even canonized for their devotion to Mother Earth – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ billions left in unimaginable poverty , malnutrition , and energy deprivation , and millions dying long before they should .
Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs have done us a great service in exposing the environmental degradation from pseudo-renewable energy .
Now they just need to reexamine neo-Malthusian doctrines as well .
Paul Driessen is a senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ( www.CFACT.org ) and author of Eco-Imperialism : Green Power , Black Death , and other books and articles on energy , environment , climate , and human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
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Wind, Solar And Biofuel Energy Are Devastating Planet Earth
Written by Paul Driessen
Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree with me.
But mirabile dictu, his new film, Planet of the Humans, is as devastating an indictment of wind, solar, and biofuel energy as anything I have ever written.
The documentary reflects Moore’s willingness to reexamine the environmentalist doctrine. It’s soon obvious why more rabid greens tried to have the “dangerous film” banned.
Indeed, Films for Action initially caved to the pressure and took Planet off its website, but then put it back up. The film is also on YouTube.
Would-be censors included Josh Fox, whose Gasland film Irish journalists Phelim McAleer and Anne McElhinney totally eviscerated with their FrackNation documentary; Michael Mann, whose hockey stick global temperature graph was demolished by Canadian analysts Ross McKitrick and Steve McIntyre, and many others; and Stanford professor Mark Jacobson, who just got slapped with a potential $1-million penalty (in legal fees) for bringing a SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) and defamation lawsuit against a mathematician who criticized Jacobson’s renewable energy claims.
These critics and their allies are rarely willing to discuss any climate or energy issues that they view as “settled science,” much less engage in full-throated debate with “deniers” or allow former colleagues to stray from the catechism of climate cataclysm and renewable energy salvation.
They prefer lawsuits. But they sense the Planet documentary could be Fort Sumter in a green civil war, and they’re terrified.
Their main complaint, that some footage is outdated, is correct but irrelevant. The film’s key point is the same as my own: wind, solar and biofuel energy are not clean, green, renewable, or sustainable, and they are horrifically destructive to vital ecological values. The censors believe admitting that is sacrilegious.
Director-narrator Jeff Gibbs never talks to coal, oil, or natural gas advocates – or to “renewable” energy and “man-made climate crisis” skeptics.
Instead, he interviews fellow environmentalists who are justifiably aghast at what wind, solar and biofuel projects are doing to scenic areas, wildlife habitats, rare and endangered species, and millions of acres of forests, deserts, and grasslands.
He peeks backstage to expose bogus claims that solar panels actually provided the electricity for a solar promotion concert.
After speaking with “renewable” advocates in Lansing, Michigan, and learning that the Chevy Volt they’re so excited about is actually recharged by a coal-fired generating plant, Gibbs visits a nearby football-field-sized solar farm.
It can power 50 (!) homes at peak solar intensity. Powering all of Lansing (not including the Michigan State University campus) would require 15 square miles of panels – plus wind turbines and a huge array of batteries (or a coal or gas power plant) for nights and cloudy days.
The crew films one of those turbines being erected outside of town. Each one is comprised of nearly 5,000,000 pounds of concrete, steel, aluminum, copper, plastic, cobalt, rare earth, fiberglass, and other materials.
Every step in the mining, processing, manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance, and (20 years later) removal process requires fossil fuels.
It bears repeating: wind and sun are renewable and sustainable; harnessing them for energy to benefit mankind absolutely is not. (Go to 36:50 for a fast-paced mining tutorial on where all these “clean, green” technologies really come from.)
Then they’re off to Vermont, where a wooded mountaintop is being removed to install still more wind turbines. Removing mountaintops to access coal, bad; to erect huge bird-killing wind turbines, good?
An aerial shot features 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors sprawling across six square miles of former Mojave Desert habitat – with the giant Ivanpah “solar” power plant in the center.
The system gets warmed up each morning by natural gas-powered heaters so that it can generate a little electricity by sundown.
This “environmentally benign” solar facility now sits where 500-year-old yuccas and Joshua trees once grew. “Outdated” footage shows them being totally shredded to destroy any evidence they ever existed.
Gibbs and Moore next discuss ethanol – and the corn, water, fertilizer, and fossil fuels required to create this “clean, green, renewable” gasoline substitute, which emits lots of carbon dioxide when burned.
Even worse is the total devastation of entire forests – clear cut, chopped into chips, maybe pelletized, and shipped hundreds or even thousands of miles … to be burned in place of coal or natural gas to generate the electricity that makes modern homes, factories, hospitals, living standards, and life spans possible.
The crew gets “five seconds” to leave a denuded forest and “biomass” power plant area in Vermont – or be arrested.
Haunting images of a bewildered indigenous native in Brazil and a terrified, mud-covered orangutan in Indonesia attest to the destruction wrought in the name of saving Earth from climate change.
You’re left to wonder how many acres of corn, sugarcane, or canola it took for Richard Branson to fly one biofuel-powered jet to mainland Europe.
How many it would take to produce the 96 billion gallons of oil-based fuel the airline industry consumed in 2019.
How many decades it will take to replace the millions of acres of slow-growth forest that are incinerated each year as a “carbon neutral” alternative to coal.
“Is it possible for machines made by industrial civilization to save us from industrial civilization?” the producers wonder.
“Renewable” energy systems last only 15-20 years, and then must be torn down and replaced, using more non-renewable resources, “if there’s enough planet left,” they say. “We’re basically being fed a lie.”
Maybe we’d be “better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place,” than doing this.
Indeed. But bear in mind, the devastation that so deeply concerns Moore and Gibbs is happening in a world that is still some 85{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} dependent on oil, natural gas and coal, 4{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} on nuclear and 7{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} on hydroelectric.
Imagine what our planet would look like if we went 100{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} (pseudo)renewable under various Green New Deals: millions of wind turbines, billions of solar panels, billions of batteries, thousands of biofuel plantations and denuded forests, thousands of new and expanded mines, and more.
But where some see the devastation, others see opportunity. Or as Arnold Schwarzenegger says in the film, where some see the Mojave Desert as miles and miles of emptiness, he sees a vast “gold mine.”
Al Gore sees endless millions in profits, a lovely seaside mansion, and cushy private jets. Koch Industries sees bigger solar and biofuel empires.
The Sierra Club and Union of Concerned Scientists envision raking in more millions off climate doom and renewable salvation, while 350.org founder Bill McKibben can’t seem to remember that the Rockefeller Brothers and other fat-cat foundations gave him millions of dollars, too.
But Moore and Gibbs aren’t indicting free-market capitalism. They’re indicting government-mandated and subsidized crony corporatist opportunism.
And the solution they ultimately proffer isn’t recognizing that climate change has been “real” since Earth began; that humans and fossil fuels play only minimal roles amid the powerful natural forces that brought glacial epochs and interglacial periods, Medieval Warm Periods and Little Ice Ages; or that modern nuclear power plants generate abundant CO2-free electricity.
Instead, they propose that we humans must “get ourselves under control.”
This means not just slashing our living standards (may we all have “carbon footprints” as small as Al Gore’s) and “de-developing” and “deindustrializing” the United States and Europe, while simultaneously dictating to still impoverished nations how much they will be “permitted” to develop, in accordance with former Obama science advisor John Holdren’s totalitarian instincts.
It also means having far fewer humans on this glorious planet. (How exactly that is to be achieved they don’t say, though several twentieth-century dictators offer ideas.)
This is where Planet of the Humans takes a troubling, wrongheaded, neo-Malthusian turn.
But these final minutes should be viewed attentively, to understand what still motivates far too many “environmentalists,” who too often get lionized or even canonized for their devotion to Mother Earth – even if the price is measured in billions left in unimaginable poverty, malnutrition, and energy deprivation, and millions dying long before they should.
Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs have done us a great service in exposing the environmental degradation from pseudo-renewable energy. Now they just need to reexamine neo-Malthusian doctrines as well.
Paul Driessen is a senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, and other books and articles on energy, environment, climate, and human rights issues.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--Beware the Coming COVID-19 ‘Compulsory Vaccine’ Gambit

We don ’ t need Rahm Emanuel to tell us a crisis shouldn ’ t go to waste .
It ’ s a strategy that probably got off the ground a hundred thousand years ago .
The other half of it is , create the crisis to begin with .
Then don ’ t waste it .
The Bill Gates plan involves a mother of all vaccines for COVID , mandated across the globe , before the lockdowns end .
That ’ s his psychopathic wet dream .
Then , coming in behind that , his lackey , the World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liars at the CDC , will add— “ we must mandate EVERY vaccine… ” To pull off a mandated global vaccine for eight billion people takes a manufactured crisis .
Fake virus plus real lockdown is the crisis .
You don ’ t think that one up overnight .
You plan .
You drill , and you organize .
You put all your ducks in a row .
You prepare , in order to become Stalin and Mao .
Then somebody has to break the ice .
In this case , it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overnight in three cities .
Moving quickly to a hundred million .
“ If the Chinese did it , we can do it , too .
We must.
” Then follow up with a dire prediction .
Where will that come from ?
Drive people back into their homes .
Put them out of work .
Shut down businesses .
Wreck economies .
NOW , hold out the carrot .
The vaccine .
Note : A new COVID vaccine could be used to alter the genetic makeup of humans .
That ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet unlicensed ) DNA technology does .
It ’ s a form of gene therapy , now in clinical trials—and , officially , one of the “ competing candidates ” for a COVID vaccine .
The New York Times , 3/10/15 , “ Protection Without a Vaccine.
” It describes a frontier of research .
Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “ protect against disease , ” while changing the genetic makeup of humans .
This is not science fiction : “ By delivering synthetic genes into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monkeys , the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.
” “ ’ The sky ’ s the limit , ’ said Michael Farzan , an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.
” “ The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer , or I.G.T .
— is underway , and several new ones are planned.
” [ That was five years ago . ]
“ I.G.T .
is altogether different from traditional vaccination .
It is instead a form of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions .
The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue , usually muscle.
” Here is the punchline : Read that again : “ the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient ’ s own DNA.
” Alteration of the human genetic makeup .
Permanent alteration .
The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion : Yes , some people might be leery .
If they have two or three working brain cells .
Even if we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ epidemic caused by a virus , the official case numbers—as I ’ ve described in a recent article—do NOT warrant nearly as much concern as annual official flu numbers .
And , of course , NO lockdowns faintly resembling what we have now have ever been recommended , much less enforced , for flu .
And there is no mandated global flu vaccine .
Therefore , a planet-wide , mandated COVID vaccine , as a get-out-of-jail-card , is absurd .
The freedom to reject the vaccine MUST be protected .
The actual conspiracy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conspiracy , must also be rejected .
About the author : Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections , THE MATRIX REVEALED , EXIT FROM THE MATRIX , and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX , Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California .
He maintains a consulting practice for private clients , the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power .
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Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics , health , logic , and creative power to audiences around the world .
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Beware the Coming COVID-19 ‘Compulsory Vaccine’ Gambit
Written by Jon Rappoport
We don’t need Rahm Emanuel to tell us a crisis shouldn’t go to waste. It’s a strategy that probably got off the ground a hundred thousand years ago. The other half of it is, create the crisis to begin with. Then don’t waste it.
The Bill Gates plan involves a mother of all vaccines for COVID, mandated across the globe, before the lockdowns end. That’s his psychopathic wet dream. Then, coming in behind that, his lackey, the World Health Organization, along with the professional liars at the CDC, will add—“we must mandate EVERY vaccine…”
To pull off a mandated global vaccine for eight billion people takes a manufactured crisis.
Fake virus plus real lockdown is the crisis.
You don’t think that one up overnight. You plan. You drill, and you organize. You put all your ducks in a row. You prepare, in order to become Stalin and Mao.
Then somebody has to break the ice.
In this case, it was the Chinese regime—locking down 50 million people overnight in three cities. Moving quickly to a hundred million.
“If the Chinese did it, we can do it, too. We must.”
Then follow up with a dire prediction. Where will that come from?
“Let’s dust off that broken-down hack, Neil Ferguson. He’ll give us what we want. He always does. Tell him to slap together one of his computer models. You know, predictions of lots of deaths up the road. Half a million in the UK, a couple of million in the US. Fauci will salute it like money.”
Then LOCKDOWN.
Drive people back into their homes. Put them out of work. Shut down businesses. Wreck economies.
NOW, hold out the carrot. The vaccine.
Note: A new COVID vaccine could be used to alter the genetic makeup of humans. That’s exactly what the emerging (and as yet unlicensed) DNA technology does. It’s a form of gene therapy, now in clinical trials—and, officially, one of the “competing candidates” for a COVID vaccine.
The New York Times, 3/10/15, “Protection Without a Vaccine.” It describes a frontier of research. Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “protect against disease,” while changing the genetic makeup of humans. This is not science fiction:
“By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the [experimental] monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.” “’The sky’s the limit,’ said Michael Farzan, an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.” “The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer, or I.G.T. — is underway, and several new ones are planned.” [That was five years ago.] “I.G.T. is altogether different from traditional vaccination. It is instead a form of gene therapy. Scientists isolate the genes that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions. The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue, usually muscle.”
Here is the punchline:
“The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.”
Read that again: “the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA.” Alteration of the human genetic makeup. Permanent alteration.
The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion:
“Still, Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA, even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.”
Yes, some people might be leery. If they have two or three working brain cells.
Even if we (falsely) assume this is an epidemic caused by a virus, the official case numbers—as I’ve described in a recent article—do NOT warrant nearly as much concern as annual official flu numbers.
And, of course, NO lockdowns faintly resembling what we have now have ever been recommended, much less enforced, for flu.
And there is no mandated global flu vaccine.
Therefore, a planet-wide, mandated COVID vaccine, as a get-out-of-jail-card, is absurd.
The freedom to reject the vaccine MUST be protected.
The actual conspiracy theorists—Gates, WHO, CDC—who invented the conspiracy, must also be rejected.
SOURCES:
* https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/protection-without-a-vaccine.html
* https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/05/05/covid-the-numbers-game-the-fraud-and-the-final-answer/
* https://medcitynews.com/2020/04/gsk-sanofi-huddle-to-develop-covid-19-recombinant-dna-vaccine/
* https://www.technologynetworks.com/biopharma/product-news/phase-1-us-trial-of-covid-19-dna-vaccine-enrollment-complete-334373
About the author: Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--Bold New Theory Offered for Source of Tunguska Blast

Bold New Theory Offered for Source of Tunguska Blast An intriguing new theory has been offered for what caused the legendary 1908 Tunguska event .
Scientists studying the strange incident , in which a mysterious blast of some kind flattened a whopping 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in Siberia , have long suspected that it was caused by a meteor striking the Earth .
However , a recently published paper reportedly calls that hypothesis into question and , instead , put forward a rather fantastic alternative explanation .
Siberian scientists studying the case argue that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a sizeable iron asteroid entering the Earth ’ s atmosphere , skimming the planet , and then shooting back out into space .
The bold idea was based on mathematical models which explored different scenarios wherein asteroids of varying size , composition , and trajectory interacted with the Earth .
Through this process , researchers were able to rule out an icy ball and a rocky object as the culprits for the blast and , in turn , determined that it was most likely an iron asteroid .
The model which best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the iron interloper was approximately 320 to 650 feet in diameter and zipped across 1,800 miles of the Earth ’ s atmosphere before exiting back into space .
This brief moment , researchers say , would generate the force seen on the ground in Tunguska and explain why there is no crater that can be connected with the event .
The scientists behind the paper also noted that the theory accounts for “ optical effects associated with a strong dustiness of high layers of the atmosphere over Europe , which caused a bright @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL , legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
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Bold New Theory Offered for Source of Tunguska Blast
Written by Tim Binnall
An intriguing new theory has been offered for what caused the legendary 1908 Tunguska event. Scientists studying the strange incident, in which a mysterious blast of some kind flattened a whopping 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles in Siberia, have long suspected that it was caused by a meteor striking the Earth.
However, a recently published paper reportedly calls that hypothesis into question and, instead, put forward a rather fantastic alternative explanation.
Siberian scientists studying the case argue that the Tunguska event was actually the result of a sizeable iron asteroid entering the Earth’s atmosphere, skimming the planet, and then shooting back out into space.
The bold idea was based on mathematical models which explored different scenarios wherein asteroids of varying size, composition, and trajectory interacted with the Earth. Through this process, researchers were able to rule out an icy ball and a rocky object as the culprits for the blast and, in turn, determined that it was most likely an iron asteroid.
The model which best matched what occurred in 1908 indicated that the iron interloper was approximately 320 to 650 feet in diameter and zipped across 1,800 miles of the Earth’s atmosphere before exiting back into space.
This brief moment, researchers say, would generate the force seen on the ground in Tunguska and explain why there is no crater that can be connected with the event. The scientists behind the paper also noted that the theory accounts for “optical effects associated with a strong dustiness of high layers of the atmosphere over Europe, which caused a bright glow of the night sky.”
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principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--How Big Pharma Invents Epidemics to Make Billions at Our Expense

Robert F Kennedy Jr. the son of assassinated Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy is a key critic of the push for vaccinations and Bill Gates for his role in the COVID-19 pandemic .
Kennedy endorses the book : ‘ Virus Mania : How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics , Making Billion-Dollar Profits At Our Expense ’ ( 2007 ) , which is a good primer on the subject .
A daily scan through the newspapers and TV news gives the impression that the entire world is constantly invaded by new and horrible virus epidemics .
… .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facts : the existence , the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven .
The medical establishment and its loyal media acolytes claim that this evidence has been produced .
But these claims are highly suspect because modern medicine has pushed direct virus proof methods aside and uses dubious indirect tools to “ prove ” the existence of viruses such as antibody tests and the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) .
The authors of Virus Mania , journalist Torsten Engelbrecht and doctor of internal medicine Claus Köhnlein @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are , in fact , particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs .
These particles are then identified by antibody and PCR tests and interpreted as epidemic-causing viruses by doctors who have been inoculated for over 100 years by the theory that microbes are deadly and only modern medications and vaccines will protect us from virus pandemics .
The central aim of this book is to steer the discussion back to a real scientific debate and put medicine back on the path of an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will put medical experiments , clinical trials , statistics and government policies under the microscope , revealing that the people charged with protecting our health and safety have deviated from this path .
Along the way , Engelbrecht and Köhnlein will analyze all possible causes of illness such as pharmaceuticals , lifestyle drugs , pesticides , heavy metals , pollution , stress and processed ( and sometimes genetically modified ) foods .
All of these can heavily damage the body of humans and animals and even kill them .
And precisely these factors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viruses live and work .
To substantiate these claims , the authors cite dozens of highly renowned scientists , among them the Nobel laureates Kary Mullis , Barbara McClintock , Walter Gilbert , Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and microbiologist and Pulitzer Prize winner René Dubos .
The book presents approximately 1,100 pertinent scientific references , the majority of which have been published recently .
The topic of this book is of pivotal significance .
The pharmaceutical companies and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money by attacking germs and the media boosts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporting ( the coverage of the New York Times and Der Spiegel are specifically analyzed ) .
Individuals pay the highest price of all , without getting what they deserve and need most to maintain health : enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of their illnesses .
“ The first step is to give up the illusion that the primary purpose of modern medical research is to improve people ’ s health most effectively and efficiently , ” advises John Abramson of Harvard Medical School .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to maximize financial return on investment , not health.
” Virus Mania will inform you on how such an environment took root—and how to empower yourself for a healthy life .
Torsten Engelbrecht works as a freelance journalist in Hamburg .
He has written articles for publications such as Medical Hypotheses , British Medical Journal ( online ) , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and The Ecologist .
From 2000 to 2004 , he worked as business editor of the Financial Times Deutschland .
Claus Köhnlein is a medical specialist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ residency in the Oncology Department at the University of Kiel .
Since 1993 , he has worked in his own medical practice , treating Hepatitis C and AIDS patients who are skeptical of antiviral medications .

Written by John O'Sullivan
Robert F Kennedy Jr. the son of assassinated Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy is a key critic of the push for vaccinations and Bill Gates for his role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kennedy endorses the book: ‘Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics, Making Billion-Dollar Profits At Our Expense’ (2007), which is a good primer on the subject.
About the Book
A daily scan through the newspapers and TV news gives the impression that the entire world is constantly invaded by new and horrible virus epidemics. …. However, this virus mayhem ignores very basic scientific facts: the existence, the pathogenicity and the deadly effects of these agents have never been proven.
The medical establishment and its loyal media acolytes claim that this evidence has been produced. But these claims are highly suspect because modern medicine has pushed direct virus proof methods aside and uses dubious indirect tools to “prove” the existence of viruses such as antibody tests and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
The authors of Virus Mania, journalist Torsten Engelbrecht and doctor of internal medicine Claus Köhnlein, show that these alleged contagious viruses are, in fact, particles produced by the cells themselves as a consequence of certain stress factors such as drugs.
These particles are then identified by antibody and PCR tests and interpreted as epidemic-causing viruses by doctors who have been inoculated for over 100 years by the theory that microbes are deadly and only modern medications and vaccines will protect us from virus pandemics.
The central aim of this book is to steer the discussion back to a real scientific debate and put medicine back on the path of an impartial analysis of the facts. It will put medical experiments, clinical trials, statistics and government policies under the microscope, revealing that the people charged with protecting our health and safety have deviated from this path.
Along the way, Engelbrecht and Köhnlein will analyze all possible causes of illness such as pharmaceuticals, lifestyle drugs, pesticides, heavy metals, pollution, stress and processed (and sometimes genetically modified) foods. All of these can heavily damage the body of humans and animals and even kill them.
And precisely these factors typically prevail where the victims of alleged viruses live and work. To substantiate these claims, the authors cite dozens of highly renowned scientists, among them the Nobel laureates Kary Mullis, Barbara McClintock, Walter Gilbert, Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and microbiologist and Pulitzer Prize winner René Dubos. The book presents approximately 1,100 pertinent scientific references, the majority of which have been published recently.
The topic of this book is of pivotal significance. The pharmaceutical companies and top scientists rake in enormous sums of money by attacking germs and the media boosts its audience ratings and circulations with sensationalized reporting (the coverage of the New York Times and Der Spiegel are specifically analyzed). Individuals pay the highest price of all, without getting what they deserve and need most to maintain health: enlightenment about the real causes and true necessities for prevention and cure of their illnesses.
“The first step is to give up the illusion that the primary purpose of modern medical research is to improve people’s health most effectively and efficiently,”
advises John Abramson of Harvard Medical School. “The primary purpose of commercially-funded clinical research is to maximize financial return on investment, not health.”
Virus Mania will inform you on how such an environment took root—and how to empower yourself for a healthy life.
*About the Authors:
Torsten Engelbrecht works as a freelance journalist in Hamburg. He has written articles for publications such as Medical Hypotheses, British Medical Journal (online), Süddeutsche Zeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and The Ecologist. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as business editor of the Financial Times Deutschland.
Claus Köhnlein is a medical specialist of internal diseases. He completed his residency in the Oncology Department at the University of Kiel. Since 1993, he has worked in his own medical practice, treating Hepatitis C and AIDS patients who are skeptical of antiviral medications.


principiascientificinternational--2020-05-12--Pandemic Puts Spotlight On Science — But Scientists Often Lie

Pandemic Puts Spotlight On Science — But Scientists Often Lie We can beat COVID-19 — just trust the science , we ’ re told .
Trust in the scientists , we ’ re told .
And that ’ s not a paraphrase .
“ From the Editors : We Can Beat COVID-19 .
Just Trust Science , ” Wired wrote .
Well and good .
Fine and dandy .
But the fact is , scientists often lie .
Science isn ’ t always the beacon toward truth .
It ’ s not just frequently flawed ; it ’ s frequently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tossing citizens ’ civil rights into the sea and allowing medical professionals and scientists to steer the COVID-19 boat may not be the best-case scenario for a free America .
“ Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data , ” wrote Stanford News , back in late 2015 .
The story went on to report how a couple of researchers “ cracked the writing patterns of scientists who attempt to pass along falsified data , ” a finding that gave the science world a tool to “ identify falsified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discovery of the pattern is one thing ; the fact that the pattern had to be pursued in the first place is entirely another thing .
It says , not so subtly , that falsified scientific data is so prevalent that a tool to identify — and slow the creep of — the false data was actually an in-demand item .
In fact , books have been written about the prevalence of falsified science .
“ The Great Betrayal : Fraud in Science , ” is 2004 expose about the true state of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been peer-reviewed — that is , self-checked , self-policed .
It ’ s 480 pages long .
And in a terse assessment of his findings , author Horace Freeland Judson wrote , “ Their claims about science are unscientific.
” He was speaking of the scientific greats — of Gregor Mendel , of Charles Darwin , of Louis Pasteur , of Sigmund Freud .
What ’ s more , it ’ s well-known they all fudged data .
“ Freud was a lousy scientist , ” The New Yorker wrote , in 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made unsubstantiated claims ; he took credit for other people ’ s ideas .
Sometimes he lied.
” Mendel , the founder of modern genetics , “ may have falsified data , ” The Great Courses Daily reported in 2016 .
It ’ s been a lingering shadow .
From August 2016 abstract , “ Are Mendel ’ s Data Reliable ?
The Perspective of a Pea Geneticist , ” published in the Journal of Heredity : “ Based on a large number of statistical analyses as well as the review of several @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doubt that the data Mendel presented in 1866 corresponded much more closely to the predictions of his model than could be reasonably expected by chance.
” “ New Book Uncovers ‘ the Life and Lies of Charles Darwin , ’ ” Evolution News wrote in 2009 .
And of especial note , given the ongoing COVID-19 debate and vaccinations , this 1993 headline from The Independent : “ Pasteur ‘ told lies about vaccines , ’ ” — specifically , about the public trial of an anthrax vaccine , and by using a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine that he had claimed to use on hundreds of dogs .
The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Chicago Tribune — these are all papers of record that have reported over the years about Pasteur ’ s record of scientific deceptions .
Those are hardly the only bad apples .
Science magazine , in a 2018 piece entitled , “ Tide of Lies , ” wrote of bone researcher Yoshihiro Sato ’ s fabricated data — “ fraud ” that was called “ one of the biggest in scientific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Health , in a 2017 piece entitled , “ Lying Politicians Is One Thing , Lying Scientists Is Another , ” wrote of “ the crappy science ” of researchers Peter Eklov and Oona Lonnstedt who reported in a 2016 paper that “ tiny particles of plastic in the ocean were harming fish , ” and that “ microscopic plastic must [ therefore ] be harmful to fish ” — findings that led them to be slapped with the peer-based “ misconduct in research ” label ; findings that the pair subsequently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ piece entitled , “ Nearly all of our medical research is wrong , ” wrote : “ Something is rotten in the state of biomedical research .
Everyone who works in the field knows this on some level .
We applaud presentations by colleagues … but we know in our hearts that the majority or even the vast majority of our research claims are false.
” Look : Do the research .
Google some headlines .
There are more , so many more examples of scientists gone wrong , scientists gone rogue , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly went to jail for making up data , ” The Washington Post wrote in 2016 .
“ Researchers Behaving Badly : Known Frauds Are ‘ the Tip of the Iceberg , ’ ” Leapsmag wrote in 2018 .
“ Take That Back : The Top Scientific Retractions of 2019 , ” Live Science wrote in 2019 .
Deceptions are part of the game .
Lies , skews , half-truths , selectively chosen data , biased conclusions , flawed interpretations , outright wildly inaccurate information — these are all part and parcel of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Because scientists are human , too .
Scientists have deadlines .
They have pressures .
They have funding goals .
They have peer competition .
They have personal agendas , political leanings , partisan purposes — spiritual blindnesses .
In short : they are not perfect .
Scientists are not perfect ; the science they present is not perfect .
And in this COVID-19 atmosphere , where scientists and researchers and medical professionals and scholars have taken over much of the control of U.S. politics and government and how American citizens are supposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s more important than ever to remember this : Scientists can be wrong , very wrong .
Moreover , scientists can lie .
And very often , as history shows , they do .
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Pandemic Puts Spotlight On Science — But Scientists Often Lie
Written by Cheryl K Chumley
We can beat COVID-19 — just trust the science, we’re told. Trust in the scientists, we’re told. And that’s not a paraphrase.
“From the Editors: We Can Beat COVID-19. Just Trust Science,” Wired wrote.
Well and good. Fine and dandy. But the fact is, scientists often lie. Science isn’t always the beacon toward truth. It’s not just frequently flawed; it’s frequently deceptive. And purposely so.
So tossing citizens’ civil rights into the sea and allowing medical professionals and scientists to steer the COVID-19 boat may not be the best-case scenario for a free America.
“Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data,” wrote Stanford News, back in late 2015.
The story went on to report how a couple of researchers “cracked the writing patterns of scientists who attempt to pass along falsified data,” a finding that gave the science world a tool to “identify falsified research before it is published.”
The discovery of the pattern is one thing; the fact that the pattern had to be pursued in the first place is entirely another thing.
It says, not so subtly, that falsified scientific data is so prevalent that a tool to identify — and slow the creep of — the false data was actually an in-demand item.
In fact, books have been written about the prevalence of falsified science.
“The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science,” is 2004 expose about the true state of science, and science that’s been peer-reviewed — that is, self-checked, self-policed. It’s 480 pages long.
And in a terse assessment of his findings, author Horace Freeland Judson wrote, “Their claims about science are unscientific.” He was speaking of the scientific greats — of Gregor Mendel, of Charles Darwin, of Louis Pasteur, of Sigmund Freud.
They all fudged data.
What’s more, it’s well-known they all fudged data.
“Freud was a lousy scientist,” The New Yorker wrote, in 2017. “He fudged data; he made unsubstantiated claims; he took credit for other people’s ideas. Sometimes he lied.”
Mendel, the founder of modern genetics, “may have falsified data,” The Great Courses Daily reported in 2016. It’s been a lingering shadow.
From August 2016 abstract, “Are Mendel’s Data Reliable? The Perspective of a Pea Geneticist,” published in the Journal of Heredity: “Based on a large number of statistical analyses as well as the review of several well-known geneticists, there can be little doubt that the data Mendel presented in 1866 corresponded much more closely to the predictions of his model than could be reasonably expected by chance.”
Moving on; Darwin.
“New Book Uncovers ‘the Life and Lies of Charles Darwin,’” Evolution News wrote in 2009.
And of especial note, given the ongoing COVID-19 debate and vaccinations, this 1993 headline from The Independent: “Pasteur ‘told lies about vaccines,’” — specifically, about the public trial of an anthrax vaccine, and by using a child as a test-case for a rabies vaccine that he had claimed to use on hundreds of dogs.
The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune — these are all papers of record that have reported over the years about Pasteur’s record of scientific deceptions.
Those are hardly the only bad apples.
Science magazine, in a 2018 piece entitled, “Tide of Lies,” wrote of bone researcher Yoshihiro Sato’s fabricated data — “fraud” that was called “one of the biggest in scientific history.”
The American Council on Science and Health, in a 2017 piece entitled, “Lying Politicians Is One Thing, Lying Scientists Is Another,” wrote of “the crappy science” of researchers Peter Eklov and Oona Lonnstedt who reported in a 2016 paper that “tiny particles of plastic in the ocean were harming fish,” and that “microscopic plastic must [therefore] be harmful to fish” — findings that led them to be slapped with the peer-based “misconduct in research” label; findings that the pair subsequently retracted.
QZ, in a 2016 piece entitled, “Nearly all of our medical research is wrong,” wrote: “Something is rotten in the state of biomedical research. Everyone who works in the field knows this on some level. We applaud presentations by colleagues … but we know in our hearts that the majority or even the vast majority of our research claims are false.”
Wow.
Look: Do the research. Google some headlines. There are more, so many more examples of scientists gone wrong, scientists gone rogue, science gone deceptive.
“This scientist nearly went to jail for making up data,” The Washington Post wrote in 2016.
“Researchers Behaving Badly: Known Frauds Are ‘the Tip of the Iceberg,’” Leapsmag wrote in 2018.
“Take That Back: The Top Scientific Retractions of 2019,” Live Science wrote in 2019.
Deceptions are part of the game.
Lies, skews, half-truths, selectively chosen data, biased conclusions, flawed interpretations, outright wildly inaccurate information — these are all part and parcel of scientists’ lives. And why? Because scientists are human, too.
Scientists have deadlines. They have pressures. They have funding goals. They have peer competition. They have personal agendas, political leanings, partisan purposes — spiritual blindnesses. In short: they are not perfect.
Scientists are not perfect; the science they present is not perfect.
And in this COVID-19 atmosphere, where scientists and researchers and medical professionals and scholars have taken over much of the control of U.S. politics and government and how American citizens are supposed to now behave and function — it’s more important than ever to remember this: Scientists can be wrong, very wrong.
Moreover, scientists can lie. And very often, as history shows, they do.
Read more at Washington Times
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Pandemic An Eerie Dress Rehearsal For The Climate Monarchy Months into the pandemic and many unknowns still cloud our understanding of the virus .
The basic parameters of its transmission rate are still contested by scientists .
Rather than shedding light , experts from prestigious institutions descend into acrimonious , politically charged , point-scoring debates .
Even the grim daily ritual of the body count is slated as either an overestimate or a grotesque underestimate .
But the biggest unknown yet is the damage the virus and attempts to control it have done to society and the economy , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wreckage , the green blob has re-emerged from an all-too-brief period of obscurity with a list of demands that will destroy any hope of recovery .
From the outset , there has been a palpable sense of green jealousy of the virus as it stole attention from the climate fearmongers .
For half a century , greens have been prognosticating the imminent collapse of society .
Yet with each new generation , deadlines to stop the destruction of the planet pass without event .
In reality , the world ’ s population has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ live longer lives than ever before .
Panic about the virus achieved in days what greens have been demanding for years : grounded planes , empty roads , and a halt in economic growth .
Countless lives and livelihoods throughout the world have been destroyed – either by the virus or by the draconian policies intended to stop it .
But the anti-population campaigner , David Attenborough , has still managed to complain that human beings have it too good .
‘ Human beings have overrun the world , ’ he told the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said that living ‘ in a more modest economic way ’ should be an ‘ ambition ’ : ‘ The world is not a bowl of fruit… if we destroy it , we destroy ourselves.
’ Of course , the natural world has endured despite all the green forecasts of its demise .
But the experience of coronavirus shows that the kind of fear , panic , and mistrust ramped up by doom-laden forecasts has had severe consequences for humanity .
Fear of the virus has threatened to dissolve the essential relationships of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an instant – and on a greater scale than anything Gaia can throw at us in her angry revenge .
Greta Thunberg ’ s maxim – ‘ I want you to panic ’ – should cause environmentalists to pause and consider what they actually want for society .
But such reflection is unlikely to be forthcoming .
After all , lockdown gives greens what they have always wanted : the abolition of flight , and of travel deemed ‘ unnecessary ’ by technocrats ; and the prohibition of goods which have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this is apparently what a green utopia looks like .
Green pundits have marveled at the clean air – ignoring the boarded-up shops , bars , restaurants , and cafes that may never reopen .
They have cheered the empty blue skies , while human life is confined to the home and neighborhood .
We may have endless free time , but we have no money and no freedom to go anywhere .
Naturally , George Monbiot is delighted .
The virus of green thinking has infected political leaders and their plans for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one hesitates to make very profound , brutal choices when it ’ s a matter of saving lives , ’ French President Emmanuel Macron told the FT : ‘ It ’ s the same for climate risk.
’ Meanwhile , an unconvincing Dominic Raab , standing in for the prime minister , appeared to contradict him .
‘ There is no choice between cutting emissions and growing our economy – that ’ s a myth the UK has helped to shatter over the past decade , ’ he said in a Twitter address @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , promised Raab , was an ‘ essential element to our strategy to rebound ’ from the pandemic .
But which will it be ?
Raab ’ s green growth or Macron ’ s ‘ brutal choices ’ ?
It can not be both .
The Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat– France ’ s undemocratic climate assembly , set up by Macron to develop climate policy – has called for the strict rolling back of industrial society to be part of the post-coronavirus ‘ recovery ’ .
Its proposal even includes the abolition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what would you expect ?
No politician , anywhere , has ever been able to explain how green restraints on an economy – and hence material constraints on people , including price rises and travel restrictions – can allow , much less create , growth .
Green platitudes are nothing more than a veneer of bullshit for no-mark politicians to hide behind .
‘ We can turn the crisis of this pandemic into an opportunity to rebuild our economies differently and make them more resilient , ’ said the unelected president of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while promoting her ‘ EU Green Deal ’ .
Undemocratic technocrats everywhere – from every national and global political institution , from the UN to the town hall – are agreed on the necessity of rebuilding and redesigning economies along green lines .
But they can not answer how they will rebuild them .
Who will pay for it ?
What do we , the people , get out of it ?
And when do we get to vote on it ?
We do not get any say on it , of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , shall dictate the action .
The climate agenda rescues Macron from his deep domestic crises .
Climate change even makes Raab look like he stands for something .
And it gives the hollow European project purpose .
The green agenda is being brought forward , and the viral crisis is being rolled into the climate crisis because the pandemic has revealed the emptiness of the political class .
Not only are the elites devoid of any ideas for kickstarting economic growth — they have even run out of ideas for how to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
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Pandemic An Eerie Dress Rehearsal For The Climate Monarchy
Written by Ben Pile
Months into the pandemic and many unknowns still cloud our understanding of the virus. The basic parameters of its transmission rate are still contested by scientists.
Rather than shedding light, experts from prestigious institutions descend into acrimonious, politically charged, point-scoring debates.
Even the grim daily ritual of the body count is slated as either an overestimate or a grotesque underestimate.
But the biggest unknown yet is the damage the virus and attempts to control it have done to society and the economy, and how we will recover.
From this wreckage, the green blob has re-emerged from an all-too-brief period of obscurity with a list of demands that will destroy any hope of recovery.
From the outset, there has been a palpable sense of green jealousy of the virus as it stole attention from the climate fearmongers. For half a century, greens have been prognosticating the imminent collapse of society. Yet with each new generation, deadlines to stop the destruction of the planet pass without event.
In reality, the world’s population has become healthier and wealthier, and we live longer lives than ever before. Panic about the virus achieved in days what greens have been demanding for years: grounded planes, empty roads, and a halt in economic growth.
Countless lives and livelihoods throughout the world have been destroyed – either by the virus or by the draconian policies intended to stop it.
But the anti-population campaigner, David Attenborough, has still managed to complain that human beings have it too good. ‘Human beings have overrun the world,’ he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr.
Attenborough said that living ‘in a more modest economic way’ should be an ‘ambition’: ‘The world is not a bowl of fruit… if we destroy it, we destroy ourselves.’
Of course, the natural world has endured despite all the green forecasts of its demise. But the experience of coronavirus shows that the kind of fear, panic, and mistrust ramped up by doom-laden forecasts has had severe consequences for humanity.
Fear of the virus has threatened to dissolve the essential relationships of mutual dependence between human beings, almost in an instant – and on a greater scale than anything Gaia can throw at us in her angry revenge.
Greta Thunberg’s maxim – ‘I want you to panic’ – should cause environmentalists to pause and consider what they actually want for society.
But such reflection is unlikely to be forthcoming. After all, lockdown gives greens what they have always wanted: the abolition of flight, and of travel deemed ‘unnecessary’ by technocrats; and the prohibition of goods which have been designated ‘non-essential’.
Indeed, this is apparently what a green utopia looks like. Green pundits have marveled at the clean air – ignoring the boarded-up shops, bars, restaurants, and cafes that may never reopen.
They have cheered the empty blue skies, while human life is confined to the home and neighborhood. We may have endless free time, but we have no money and no freedom to go anywhere. Naturally, George Monbiot is delighted.
The virus of green thinking has infected political leaders and their plans for economic recovery, too.
‘No one hesitates to make very profound, brutal choices when it’s a matter of saving lives,’ French President Emmanuel Macron told the FT: ‘It’s the same for climate risk.’
Meanwhile, an unconvincing Dominic Raab, standing in for the prime minister, appeared to contradict him.
‘There is no choice between cutting emissions and growing our economy – that’s a myth the UK has helped to shatter over the past decade,’ he said in a Twitter address from 10 Downing Street.
Climate policy, promised Raab, was an ‘essential element to our strategy to rebound’ from the pandemic.
But which will it be? Raab’s green growth or Macron’s ‘brutal choices’? It cannot be both.
The Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat– France’s undemocratic climate assembly, set up by Macron to develop climate policy – has called for the strict rolling back of industrial society to be part of the post-coronavirus ‘recovery’.
Its proposal even includes the abolition of out-of-town supermarkets. But then, what would you expect?
No politician, anywhere, has ever been able to explain how green restraints on an economy – and hence material constraints on people, including price rises and travel restrictions – can allow, much less create, growth.
Green platitudes are nothing more than a veneer of bullshit for no-mark politicians to hide behind.
‘We can turn the crisis of this pandemic into an opportunity to rebuild our economies differently and make them more resilient,’ said the unelected president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, while promoting her ‘EU Green Deal’.
Undemocratic technocrats everywhere – from every national and global political institution, from the UN to the town hall – are agreed on the necessity of rebuilding and redesigning economies along green lines.
But they cannot answer how they will rebuild them. Who will pay for it? What do we, the people, get out of it? And when do we get to vote on it?
We do not get any say on it, of course. Political necessity, not democracy, shall dictate the action. The climate agenda rescues Macron from his deep domestic crises.
Climate change even makes Raab look like he stands for something. And it gives the hollow European project purpose.
The green agenda is being brought forward, and the viral crisis is being rolled into the climate crisis because the pandemic has revealed the emptiness of the political class.
Not only are the elites devoid of any ideas for kickstarting economic growth — they have even run out of ideas for how to sustain economic stagnation.
Read rest at Spiked Online
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