principiascientificinternational--2020-10-26--A Real Crisis Looms In Alarmist Climate Science

As my co-authors of the ground breaking books ‘ Slaying the Sky Dragon ’ and ‘ The Sky Dragon Slayers : Victory Lap ‘ predicted ( images above ) , it was only a matter of time before even government climate scientists would see that the greenhouse gas theory was wrong : carbon dioxide is NOT the climate ’ s control knob .
In his latest article , DAVID WOJICK , PH.D. explains how this junk science ‘ theory ’ is unraveling before our eyes : Climate science is dominated by alarmists addicted to the idea that increasing carbon dioxide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much warming is thus the central scientific question .
This question has been surprisingly difficult to answer despite 40 years of research , costing tens of billions of dollars .
Now the issue is exploding because two different answers are emerging , one harmlessly low and the other dangerously high .
This divergence is a crisis for the alarmist community .
How they handle it remains to be seen .
What follows is a slightly technical explanation of the situation .
The issue centers on a benchmark estimate of the impact of increasing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called the “ equilibrium climate sensitivity ” or ECS .
The basic question is what will the global average temperature be when the CO2 level is double the supposedly original level of 280 ppm ?
That is , what will it be when we hit 560 ppm .
However , since it may take the climate system some time to adjust to this new high level , the question is what the temperature will be when the system equilibrates to this doubling , which may be some time after we hit 560 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ so ECS is not the new high temperature .
It is the number of degrees C higher than the original temperature that this new high temperature will be .
So if the new high temperature is , say , 2.2 degrees C higher , then ECS = 2.2 degrees .
Technically , ECS is often an abstraction , something that only happens in climate models , but model ECS is taken as an important estimate of real ECS .
In the models , ECS is often estimated by simply doubling the CO2 instantaneously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ centuries .
With that said , I can now explain the emerging crisis .
For many decades the accepted model estimates of ECS have ranged from 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C. Different models give different values , but the acceptable range has not changed .
That the range is so big has been a policy problem .
Warming as little as 1.5 degrees might be harmless , while 4.5 might be dangerous .
But the ECS range has been stubbornly persistent , refusing to narrow to a specific value .
Now , suddenly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
ECS has exploded !
It is not that it is higher , or lower — it is both .
Two new lines of research have diverged sharply on the estimated value of ECS .
The first line of research takes a new approach called observational ECS .
The idea is that since the CO2 level is almost halfway to doubling we should be able to derive ECS empirically from the observed relationship between CO2 increase and temperature increase .
There have been a number of observational studies and many are getting ECS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harmless indeed .
Values of 1.2 and 1.3 are common .
But at the same time , there has been a new wave of modeling studies and these are getting ECS values way above 4.5 , which would be truly dangerous .
Here values of 5.2 and 5.3 are to be found .
Note that the modeling community is divided over accepting these new hot model numbers .
After all , they imply that the modeling done over the last forty years or so has been wrong , including a lot of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old range .
The upshot of all this is that the science of ECS is in shambles .
Given that ECS addresses the core science of climate alarmism , this is truly a crisis .
Has the modeling been wrong for 40 years ?
Is it wrong now ?
What about observation , which is supposed to rule in science ?
The scientific method says observation trumps theoretical modeling .
This is also a policy crisis .
If we have no idea how sensitive the climate system will be to increasing CO2 levels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ climate change policy .
If the observation values are right then there simply is no climate emergency .
How will this huge new uncertainty play out ?
Fortunately , we will get at least a glimpse fairly soon .
The latest IPCC assessment report ( AR6 ) is presently under review and should be out in the next year or so .
This report is supposed to review the state of climate change science , albeit from an alarmist point of view .
How the IPCC handles the exploding ECS range will be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least .
They may choose to ignore it because it has to hurt alarmism .
They may simply drop mention of the ECS altogether , it now being very inconvenient .
But this glaring omission will be easy to call out .
Or they may only acknowledge the hot higher values , which favor alarmism .
Here they risk making modeling look stupid ( which it is ) .
Plus this omission of critical evidence will also be easy to call out .
With the ECS range exploding the IPCC is caught between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place .
So is alarmism .
Stay tuned .
About the author : John O ’ Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder ( with Dr Tim Ball ) of Principia Scientific International ( PSI ) .
John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert , Michael ‘ hockey stick ’ Mann in the ‘ science trial of the century ‘ .
O ’ Sullivan is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘ Slayers ’ group of scientists in 2010 who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book .
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Written by John O'Sullivan
As my co-authors of the ground breaking books ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon’ and ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘ predicted (images above), it was only a matter of time before even government climate scientists would see that the greenhouse gas theory was wrong: carbon dioxide is NOT the climate’s control knob.
In his latest article, DAVID WOJICK, PH.D. explains how this junk science ‘theory’ is unraveling before our eyes:
Climate science is dominated by alarmists addicted to the idea that increasing carbon dioxide will cause dangerous global warming. How much warming is thus the central scientific question.
This question has been surprisingly difficult to answer despite 40 years of research, costing tens of billions of dollars.
Now the issue is exploding because two different answers are emerging, one harmlessly low and the other dangerously high. This divergence is a crisis for the alarmist community. How they handle it remains to be seen.
What follows is a slightly technical explanation of the situation.
The issue centers on a benchmark estimate of the impact of increasing CO2 on global temperature. This is called the “equilibrium climate sensitivity” or ECS.
The basic question is what will the global average temperature be when the CO2 level is double the supposedly original level of 280 ppm? That is, what will it be when we hit 560 ppm.
However, since it may take the climate system some time to adjust to this new high level, the question is what the temperature will be when the system equilibrates to this doubling, which may be some time after we hit 560.
Also, this is about sensitivity, so ECS is not the new high temperature. It is the number of degrees C higher than the original temperature that this new high temperature will be.
So if the new high temperature is, say, 2.2 degrees C higher, then ECS = 2.2 degrees.
Technically, ECS is often an abstraction, something that only happens in climate models, but model ECS is taken as an important estimate of real ECS.
In the models, ECS is often estimated by simply doubling the CO2 instantaneously, whereas in reality, this takes centuries.
With that said, I can now explain the emerging crisis.
For many decades the accepted model estimates of ECS have ranged from 1.5 to 4.5 degrees C. Different models give different values, but the acceptable range has not changed.
That the range is so big has been a policy problem. Warming as little as 1.5 degrees might be harmless, while 4.5 might be dangerous. But the ECS range has been stubbornly persistent, refusing to narrow to a specific value.
Now, suddenly, there is a huge new problem. ECS has exploded! It is not that it is higher, or lower — it is both. Two new lines of research have diverged sharply on the estimated value of ECS.
The first line of research takes a new approach called observational ECS. The idea is that since the CO2 level is almost halfway to doubling we should be able to derive ECS empirically from the observed relationship between CO2 increase and temperature increase.
There have been a number of observational studies and many are getting ECS values well below 1.5, which are harmless indeed. Values of 1.2 and 1.3 are common.
But at the same time, there has been a new wave of modeling studies and these are getting ECS values way above 4.5, which would be truly dangerous. Here values of 5.2 and 5.3 are to be found.
Note that the modeling community is divided over accepting these new hot model numbers. After all, they imply that the modeling done over the last forty years or so has been wrong, including a lot of the recent modeling which is still within the old range.
The upshot of all this is that the science of ECS is in shambles. Given that ECS addresses the core science of climate alarmism, this is truly a crisis.
Has the modeling been wrong for 40 years? Is it wrong now? What about observation, which is supposed to rule in science? The scientific method says observation trumps theoretical modeling.
This is also a policy crisis. If we have no idea how sensitive the climate system will be to increasing CO2 levels then we have no basis for making climate change policy. If the observation values are right then there simply is no climate emergency.
How will this huge new uncertainty play out? Fortunately, we will get at least a glimpse fairly soon. The latest IPCC assessment report (AR6) is presently under review and should be out in the next year or so.
This report is supposed to review the state of climate change science, albeit from an alarmist point of view.
How the IPCC handles the exploding ECS range will be interesting to see, at the very least. They may choose to ignore it because it has to hurt alarmism.
They may simply drop mention of the ECS altogether, it now being very inconvenient. But this glaring omission will be easy to call out.
Or they may only acknowledge the hot higher values, which favor alarmism. Here they risk making modeling look stupid (which it is). Plus this omission of critical evidence will also be easy to call out.
With the ECS range exploding the IPCC is caught between a hot rock and a cold hard place. So is alarmism. Stay tuned.
Read more at CFACT
About the author: John O’Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder (with Dr Tim Ball) of Principia Scientific International (PSI). John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann in the ‘science trial of the century‘. O’Sullivan is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘Slayers’ group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world’s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-26--Climate Change Is Helping End World Hunger

At the top of search results today for “ climate change , ” Google News is promoting an article claiming climate change is causing world hunger .
However , data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) clearly show global crop production and food stocks have increased significantly and steadily during recent years and decades as the Earth modestly warms .
The Google-promoted article , published by InkStick Media , is titled “ Climate Change Is Hampering Our Ability to Combat World Hunger.
” The article claims there has been an increase in world hunger since 2014 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change .
The author quotes Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson saying the world needs to “ make peace with nature.
” Unless we do so , the author warns , “ Today , without a global effort we will certainly lose the battle for survival.
” Even if it were true that there has an increase in world hunger since 2014 , the blame would be on political instability and corrupt centralized governments in Third World countries , not crop production or climate change .
The FAO ’ s recent “ Cereal Supply and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crop production and cereal stocks have steadily increased since 2014 , and have increased dramatically since 2010 ( See the figure below ) .
Cereal grains include the Big Three food staples of corn , wheat , and rice , as well as some similar crops .
Corn ( maize ) , rice , and wheat by comprising 66 percent of global human food consumption .
Also , just 15 crops provide 90 percent of humanity ’ s food energy intake .
Cereal grains make up nine of those 15 crops .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grain production set new records seven of the past 10 years .
Looking ahead , the online agriculture news service World-Grain.com recently published a story , “ IGC projects record output for corn , wheat , and soybeans , ” highlighting the International Grains Council ’ s findings that it expects global yields of corn , rice , soybeans , and wheat to set new records again in 2020 , despite the pandemic .
Global warming lengthens growing seasons , reduces frost events , and makes more land suitable for crop production .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ fertilizer for plant life .
These factors combined have resulted in the largest decline in hunger , malnutrition , and starvation in human history .
Although 700 million people worldwide still suffer from persistent hunger , the United Nations reports the number of hungry people has declined by two billion people since 1990 .
To the extent hunger has increased some over the past few years , poor infrastructure , political corruption , internal conflicts , and war – not long-term human-caused climate change – is to blame .
As much as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equate climate change with crop failures and hunger , the fact is global crop yields set new records virtually every year in response to beneficial ongoing warming .
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Climate Change Is Helping End World Hunger
Written by H Sterling Burnett
At the top of search results today for “climate change,” Google News is promoting an article claiming climate change is causing world hunger.
However, data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) clearly show global crop production and food stocks have increased significantly and steadily during recent years and decades as the Earth modestly warms.
Climate change is helping end world hunger, not making world hunger worse.
The Google-promoted article, published by InkStick Media, is titled “Climate Change Is Hampering Our Ability to Combat World Hunger.”
The article claims there has been an increase in world hunger since 2014, the article blames this human-caused climate change.
The author quotes Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson saying the world needs to “make peace with nature.” Unless we do so, the author warns, “Today, without a global effort we will certainly lose the battle for survival.”
Even if it were true that there has an increase in world hunger since 2014, the blame would be on political instability and corrupt centralized governments in Third World countries, not crop production or climate change.
The FAO’s recent “Cereal Supply and Demand Brief” clearly shows both cereal crop production and cereal stocks have steadily increased since 2014, and have increased dramatically since 2010 (See the figure below).
Cereal grains include the Big Three food staples of corn, wheat, and rice, as well as some similar crops. Corn (maize), rice, and wheat by comprising 66 percent of global human food consumption.
Also, just 15 crops provide 90 percent of humanity’s food energy intake. Cereal grains make up nine of those 15 crops. As shown above, the FAO reports cereal grain production set new records seven of the past 10 years.
Looking ahead, the online agriculture news service World-Grain.com recently published a story, “IGC projects record output for corn, wheat, and soybeans,” highlighting the International Grains Council’s findings that it expects global yields of corn, rice, soybeans, and wheat to set new records again in 2020, despite the pandemic.
Global warming lengthens growing seasons, reduces frost events, and makes more land suitable for crop production.
Also, carbon dioxide is an aerial fertilizer for plant life. These factors combined have resulted in the largest decline in hunger, malnutrition, and starvation in human history.
Although 700 million people worldwide still suffer from persistent hunger, the United Nations reports the number of hungry people has declined by two billion people since 1990.
To the extent hunger has increased some over the past few years, poor infrastructure, political corruption, internal conflicts, and war – not long-term human-caused climate change – is to blame.
As much as the media and climate alarmists may try to equate climate change with crop failures and hunger, the fact is global crop yields set new records virtually every year in response to beneficial ongoing warming.
Read more at Climate Realism
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-26--Are You Thinking This Whole Pandemic Really is a Conspiracy?

We ’ ve had pandemics before during my lifetime .
I cast my mind back to the 2009 swine flu outbreak .
There was an initial flurry of panic ; of media scaremongering , and yes , some deaths .
But scientists quickly classified the foreign-imported pathogen as a new strain of flu and got to work making a vaccine .
Life went on as normal .
Covid-19 was obviously proving to be a lot more virulent than swine flu , but even early on it was clear that the virus was sparing the vast majority of the population .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffered symptoms similar to a mild cold , or none at all .
Bemused , as the Government set about building Nightingale hospitals that would hardly be used and Britain ’ s vibrant cities turned into ghost towns , I kept thinking to myself , ‘ when are they going to tell us what ’ s really going on ?
’ I was waiting for a revelation that never came .
Months went by and millions of tests were performed , revealing with increasing certainty that here was a virus with a very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vary but the survival rate for Covid-19 is thought to be somewhere above 99 per cent , and maybe as high as 99.8 per cent .
The average age of someone who dies from coronavirus is 82.4 , which , by the way , is nearly identical to the average life expectancy in Britain ( 81.1 ) .
Surely it is people in this segment of society we should be focusing on protecting , I thought , as schools closed and businesses went bust up and down the country .
It looked vaguely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and shops reopened , and when most of Europe opened its borders to international travel , but this break from the tyranny of lockdown was short-lived .
Between mid-June and mid-September – even as we socialised , holidayed , and swapped germs to our heart ’ s content – influenza and pneumonia contributed to more weekly deaths than Covid-19 .
Sweden , one of the only countries on Earth that refused to lock down , had by this point proved beyond reasonable doubt that its tactic had broadly worked ; even with such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collapsed into the sort of apocalyptic health crisis predicted by the likes of Neil Ferguson .
Confoundingly , the British government continues to paint a picture of a virus that scares its citizens into an ongoing state of paranoid submission .
Its chief scientific advisors almost appear to take relish in spouting doomsday predictions that never materialize ( 50,000 daily cases by mid-October , warned Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty last month – the real number was less than half that ) .
This dogged fixation on case numbers would make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knew that lots of cases led to lots of deaths .
They don ’ t .
In the first week of October , there were 91,013 cases of coronavirus reported in England and Wales , and 343 Covid-related deaths .
That same week a total of 9,954 people died from various causes .
Of those , just 4.4 per cent of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19 .
Our policy on international travel is just as nonsensical , even to the layman .
Let ’ s put aside the evidence that hardly any coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foreign travel , but are overwhelmingly being transmitted within households .
And that given Covid-19 has already settled itself in every country on the planet , this manic opening and closing of drawbridges is surely futile .

We’ve had pandemics before during my lifetime. I cast my mind back to the 2009 swine flu outbreak.
There was an initial flurry of panic; of media scaremongering, and yes, some deaths. But scientists quickly classified the foreign-imported pathogen as a new strain of flu and got to work making a vaccine. Life went on as normal.
Covid-19 was obviously proving to be a lot more virulent than swine flu, but even early on it was clear that the virus was sparing the vast majority of the population.
Those I knew who caught it either suffered symptoms similar to a mild cold, or none at all. Bemused, as the Government set about building Nightingale hospitals that would hardly be used and Britain’s vibrant cities turned into ghost towns, I kept thinking to myself, ‘when are they going to tell us what’s really going on?’
I was waiting for a revelation that never came. Months went by and millions of tests were performed, revealing with increasing certainty that here was a virus with a very low death rate indeed. Exact approximations vary but the survival rate for Covid-19 is thought to be somewhere above 99 per cent, and maybe as high as 99.8 per cent.
The average age of someone who dies from coronavirus is 82.4, which, by the way, is nearly identical to the average life expectancy in Britain (81.1). Surely it is people in this segment of society we should be focusing on protecting, I thought, as schools closed and businesses went bust up and down the country.
It looked vaguely promising in July when restaurants, hotels and shops reopened, and when most of Europe opened its borders to international travel, but this break from the tyranny of lockdown was short-lived.
Between mid-June and mid-September – even as we socialised, holidayed, and swapped germs to our heart’s content – influenza and pneumonia contributed to more weekly deaths than Covid-19 . Sweden, one of the only countries on Earth that refused to lock down, had by this point proved beyond reasonable doubt that its tactic had broadly worked; even with such little intervention, the nation had not collapsed into the sort of apocalyptic health crisis predicted by the likes of Neil Ferguson.
Confoundingly, the British government continues to paint a picture of a virus that scares its citizens into an ongoing state of paranoid submission. Its chief scientific advisors almost appear to take relish in spouting doomsday predictions that never materialize (50,000 daily cases by mid-October, warned Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty last month – the real number was less than half that).
This dogged fixation on case numbers would make sense, of course, if we knew that lots of cases led to lots of deaths. They don’t. In the first week of October, there were 91,013 cases of coronavirus reported in England and Wales, and 343 Covid-related deaths. That same week a total of 9,954 people died from various causes. Of those, just 4.4 per cent of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.
Our policy on international travel is just as nonsensical, even to the layman. Let’s put aside the evidence that hardly any coronavirus cases are even being traced back to foreign travel, but are overwhelmingly being transmitted within households. And that given Covid-19 has already settled itself in every country on the planet, this manic opening and closing of drawbridges is surely futile.


principiascientificinternational--2020-10-26--Fear Secures Obedience in COVID-19 War

Fear Secures Obedience in COVID-19 War

A famous quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt is “ The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
” He understood that fear is ultimately what strips us of our human rights and drives a society into totalitarianism , and that the only way to circumvent such a fate is to bravely resist fear .
Today , one of the biggest threats ( or so we ’ re told ) is a global pandemic .
Today , we also have something no previous tyrant has had , namely the technology to track , trace , control and manipulate individuals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surrounded by electronics and wireless devices that harvest every imaginable data point about your personal life .
Digital currency stands at the ready to complete the net of tyranny .
I ’ ve written many articles reviewing the scientific evidence supporting the claim that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory creation .
Whether the pathogen was released accidentally or on purpose is probably less important than establishing the truth of its origin .
The reason I say that is because intent would be hard to prove , while the fact that we ’ re still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as long as we continue dangerous gain-of-function research , the end result can only be more of the same .
More outbreaks .
More pandemics .
More fear .
Increased control .
More restrictions .
Fewer freedoms .
If we want to dismantle the bioterrorism threat narrative , we have to address the research that makes this threat a possibility in the first place .
The video above features independent journalist Whitney Webb , who provides an overview of the research she ’ s amassed in the course of writing articles on bioterrorism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ article1 “ Engineering Contagion : UPMC , Corona-Thrax and ‘ The Darkest Winter ” delves into how the biodefense industrial complex are already working on a turbo-charged form of anthrax .
Documents obtained via FOIA reveals anthrax , an already deadly pathogen , is being genetically manipulated to express the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein , the part of the virus that allows it to gain access into human cells .
This clearly has little to do with staying a step ahead of nature , seeing how bacteria are not likely to mix with and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left to their own devices .
I encourage you to watch the video and/or read her article if you ’ re interested in this topic .
As noted by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich2 — co-founder of the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee3,4 that is preparing the biggest class-action lawsuit in history5,6,7,8 — scientists , lawyers , medical professionals and academics are increasingly recognizing that the deliberate fear-mongering that has kept the COVID-19 pandemic alive well past its expiration date threatens to replace democracy with “ fascist totalitarian models ” of government .
Fortunately , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ starting to realize that they must speak out , before it ’ s too late .
Case in point , a Journal of Law and the Biosciences paper9 by Stephen Thompson and Eric C. Ip , both from the University of Hong Kong , titled “ COVID-19 Emergency Measures and the Impending Authoritarian Pandemic , ” which reads , in part : Over the past several years , the threat of bioterrorism and viruses in general have been highlighted as one of the most serious threats to mankind .
Bill Gates , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has been priming the public to fear the emergence of deadly diseases for years .
In 2015 , he warned his TED Talk audience that the next big threat to humanity would be “ a highly infectious virus ” that “ we are not ready for , ” 10 and in 2017 he predicted tens of millions could be killed by bioweapons.11 Of course , Gates also co-hosted the October 2019 pandemic preparedness simulation known as Event 201 , along with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would happen 10 weeks later , when COVID-19 appeared .
This scripted tabletop exercise included everything we now see playing out in the real world , from PPE shortages , lockdowns and removal of civil liberties to mandated vaccination campaigns , riots , economic turmoil and the breakdown of social cohesion .
They even got the type of virus right : a “ novel coronavirus.
” The detailed working paper13 “ Bioterrorism and Biocrimes : The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900 , ” originally published in 1998 and revised in 2001 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on record .
Considering that paper is now nearly 20 years old , that list is likely to be even longer today .
This list may even include SARS-CoV-2 , if we are to believe Francis Boyle , who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 , and others .
Another medical professional who is now speaking openly about the COVID-19 pandemic being a brazen power-grab by the technocratic elite is Dr. Lee Merritt , an orthopedic spinal surgeon with a medical practice in Logan , Iowa.14 August 16 , 2020 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Disaster Preparedness15 convention in Las Vegas , Nevada , featured in “ How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible , ” in which she dissected the many fear-inducing lies we ’ ve been told about this pandemic .
When you look at the actual data and statistics available , and compare them to what we ’ re being told by government officials and the media , it becomes evident that there ’ s a gulf between the two .
The data tells us SARS-CoV-2 is not the existential threat it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in turn begs the question : “ Why do they want us to live in fear ?
Surely , there must be a reason for it.
” Of course there is , and it has nothing to do with making sure you and your family remain healthy and safe from infection .
The big picture emerging seems to point in one direction , and that is the implementation of a long-standing plan to usher in and permanently establish a technocratic society .
In summary , technocracy16,17 is an economic ideology built around totalitarian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is someone who exercises power over you on the basis of their knowledge .
As an economic system , technocracy is resource-based .
Under this system , companies are told what resources they ’ re allowed to use , when , and for what , and consumers are told what to buy .
The technocratic system also requires social engineering , which relies on massive data collection and the use of artificial intelligence .
Technocrats have silently and relentlessly pushed this agenda forward ever since the 1930s , and signs of its implementation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few short months , we ’ ve been dramatically shifted from a state of freedom to a state of totalitarianism , and the way that was done was through social engineering , which of course involves psychological manipulation .
Censoring and propaganda are but two strategies that shape and mold a population .
Psychiatry professor Albert Biderman ’ s “ chart of coercion ” 18,19 also includes the following methods , all of which can be clearly related to the COVID-19 response : The Trampling of Privacy and Human Rights The technocracy ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invasive , privacy-shredding tracking and tracing programs that have been rolled out around the world , and the repeated warning that unless every man , woman and child gets vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 , life will never go back to normal .
The truth is , the technocrats have no intention of ever letting us go back to normal .
The plan is to alter society permanently .
Part of that alteration is the removal of civil liberties and human rights , and it is now happening at breakneck speed .
As reported by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 , Twitter post,20 real-world experience suggests mobile phone carriers , including AT & T and Verizon , are already providing data to state governments for quarantines and contact tracing purposes without your knowledge or consent , even though we ’ ve been told track and trace apps would be voluntary .
We ’ re also being bombarded with news reports telling us to prepare to roll up our sleeves and get vaccinated as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available — or else .
An October 1 , 2020 , article21 in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bemoans a poll that found only 49 % of Americans plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it comes out .
The answer , the article suggests , is to make it mandatory for all .
Written by lawyers at Stanford Law School and other health policy experts , the article outlines what the authors claim are “ six substantive criteria ” that would support the first vaccine ever to be mandated for adults , outside of the flu vaccine for health care workers .
Recognizing that it ’ s the individual states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would do the mandating , the authors also review measures that states would need to implement in order to pull off a mandate .
“ State mandates should not be structured as compulsory vaccination ( absolute requirements ) ; instead , noncompliance should incur a penalty , ” the authors say , adding that this penalty should be “ substantive , ” in the form of employment suspension or stay-at-home orders .
If refusing a vaccine results in you being denied an income and forced into house arrest , then it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s as compulsory as it gets .
Along with Gates , Dr. Anthony Fauci has also been priming the public consciousness throughout the pandemic by warning that , without a vaccine , we ’ ll never be able to go back to normal.22 All this talk is about forced vaccination , despite the complete lack of assurance that any of the vaccine candidates are safe .
Emerging evidence actually suggests the novel mRNA vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 could be a public health disaster in the making .
An October 1 , 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of five participants in Moderna ’ s and Pfizer ’ s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials .
One of the participants in Pfizer ’ s vaccine trial “ woke up with chills , shaking so hard he cracked a tooth after taking the second dose , ” CNBC reports.24 A Moderna trial participant said he had a low-grade fever and felt “ under the weather ” for several days after his first shot .
Eight hours after his second shot he was “ bed-bound with a fever of over 101 , shakes , chills , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He said the pain in his arm , where he received the shot , felt like a ‘ goose egg on my shoulder.
’ He hardly slept that night , recording that his temperature was higher than 100 degrees for five hours.
” 25 Two others reported similar side effects , and a third warned you would need to take a day off after the second shot .
CNBC also noted that “ as companies progressed through clinical trials , several vaccine makers abandoned their highest doses following reports of more severe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee26,27 are not the only ones calling the COVID-19 pandemic out as a fraud and cover-up of a more nefarious agenda .
In the video above , Vladimir Kvachkov , a former colonel of Russian military intelligence , calls COVID-19 a false pandemic , planned and implemented with the goal of gaining totalitarian control over the world population .
It started with 9/11 , Kvachkov says , and the coronavirus is the next step to continue the power grab .
Comparing it to a military exercise , Kvachkov says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world ’ s population to 1 billion “ ordinary ” people and just 100 million of those in control — with the ordinary people being there to serve the 100 million .
In short , he says , the “ artificially created ” and “ purposely spread ” coronavirus has four dimensions .
The first is religion and population reduction ; the second is to establish political control over humanity ; the third is to deflate the world economy ; and the fourth is to eliminate geo-economic competition .
I ’ ll end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Court Judge Lord Sumption , who in a March 30 , 2020 , interview28 with The Post warned that COVID-19 rules are paving the way for despotism — the exercise of absolute power in a cruel and oppressive manner .
It is time to ask ourselves some very pressing questions .
Is it reasonable to expect government to eliminate ALL infection and ALL death ?
They ’ ve proven they can not , yet we keep relinquishing more and more freedoms and liberties because they claim doing so will keep everyone safer .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ but a lie nonetheless .
Remember , they sold us on the business shutdowns and home quarantining by saying we just need to flatten the curve of infection to avoid hospital overcrowding .
Now , hospitals are near-empty and deaths are so low they ’ re not even reported anymore .
Yet lockdowns remain in many areas and some — Australia being a prime example — have reached shocking new heights .
Sooner or later everyone must decide which is more important : Personal liberty or false security ?
The good news is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writing on the wall ; they ’ re starting to see we ’ ve been “ had , ” and are starting to choose liberty over brutal totalitarianism in the name of public health .
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Fear Secures Obedience in COVID-19 War
Written by Dr. Joseph Mercola
A famous quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt is “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He understood that fear is ultimately what strips us of our human rights and drives a society into totalitarianism, and that the only way to circumvent such a fate is to bravely resist fear. Today, one of the biggest threats (or so we’re told) is a global pandemic.
Today, we also have something no previous tyrant has had, namely the technology to track, trace, control and manipulate individuals wherever they are. Most people are surrounded by electronics and wireless devices that harvest every imaginable data point about your personal life. Digital currency stands at the ready to complete the net of tyranny.
Engineering Contagion
I’ve written many articles reviewing the scientific evidence supporting the claim that SARS-CoV-2 is a laboratory creation. Whether the pathogen was released accidentally or on purpose is probably less important than establishing the truth of its origin.
The reason I say that is because intent would be hard to prove, while the fact that we’re still engineering bioweapons is unquestionable — and, as long as we continue dangerous gain-of-function research, the end result can only be more of the same. More outbreaks. More pandemics. More fear. Increased control. More restrictions. Fewer freedoms.
Hysteria is infectious. We are working ourselves up into a lather in which we exaggerate the threat and stop asking ourselves whether the cure may be worse than the disease. ~ Lord Sumption, Supreme Court Judge
If we want to dismantle the bioterrorism threat narrative, we have to address the research that makes this threat a possibility in the first place. The video above features independent journalist Whitney Webb, who provides an overview of the research she’s amassed in the course of writing articles on bioterrorism.
Her September 25, 2020, article1 “Engineering Contagion: UPMC, Corona-Thrax and ‘The Darkest Winter” delves into how the biodefense industrial complex are already working on a turbo-charged form of anthrax.
Documents obtained via FOIA reveals anthrax, an already deadly pathogen, is being genetically manipulated to express the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the part of the virus that allows it to gain access into human cells. This clearly has little to do with staying a step ahead of nature, seeing how bacteria are not likely to mix with and take on characteristics of a virus if left to their own devices. I encourage you to watch the video and/or read her article if you’re interested in this topic.
Democracy Under Threat
As noted by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich2 — co-founder of the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee3,4 that is preparing the biggest class-action lawsuit in history5,6,7,8 — scientists, lawyers, medical professionals and academics are increasingly recognizing that the deliberate fear-mongering that has kept the COVID-19 pandemic alive well past its expiration date threatens to replace democracy with “fascist totalitarian models” of government.
Fortunately, more and more of them are now starting to realize that they must speak out, before it’s too late. Case in point, a Journal of Law and the Biosciences paper9 by Stephen Thompson and Eric C. Ip, both from the University of Hong Kong, titled “COVID-19 Emergency Measures and the Impending Authoritarian Pandemic,” which reads, in part:
“This Article demonstrates — with diverse examples drawn from across the world — there are unmistakable regressions into authoritarianism in governmental efforts to contain the virus. Despite the unprecedented nature of this challenge, there is no sound justification for systemic erosion of rights-protective democratic ideals and institutions beyond that which is strictly demanded by the exigencies of the pandemic.
A Wuhan-inspired all-or-nothing approach to viral containment sets a dangerous precedent for future pandemics and disasters, with the global copycat response indicating an impending ‘pandemic’ of a different sort, that of authoritarianization.
With a gratuitous toll being inflicted on democracy, civil liberties, fundamental freedoms, healthcare ethics, and human dignity, this has the potential to unleash humanitarian crises no less devastating than COVID-19 in the long run.”
Bioterrorism Narrative Used to Fuel Fear
Over the past several years, the threat of bioterrorism and viruses in general have been highlighted as one of the most serious threats to mankind. Bill Gates, who invests in and profits from pandemic vaccines, has been priming the public to fear the emergence of deadly diseases for years.
In 2015, he warned his TED Talk audience that the next big threat to humanity would be “a highly infectious virus” that “we are not ready for,”10 and in 2017 he predicted tens of millions could be killed by bioweapons.11
“The next epidemic could originate on the computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus … or a super contagious and deadly strain of the flu,” Gates said at the time.12
Of course, Gates also co-hosted the October 2019 pandemic preparedness simulation known as Event 201, along with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum. The event eerily predicted what would happen 10 weeks later, when COVID-19 appeared.
This scripted tabletop exercise included everything we now see playing out in the real world, from PPE shortages, lockdowns and removal of civil liberties to mandated vaccination campaigns, riots, economic turmoil and the breakdown of social cohesion. They even got the type of virus right: a “novel coronavirus.”
The detailed working paper13 “Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900,” originally published in 1998 and revised in 2001, reviews some 270 suspected biowarfare incidents on record.
Considering that paper is now nearly 20 years old, that list is likely to be even longer today. This list may even include SARS-CoV-2, if we are to believe Francis Boyle, who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, and others.
Technocracy Rising
Another medical professional who is now speaking openly about the COVID-19 pandemic being a brazen power-grab by the technocratic elite is Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic spinal surgeon with a medical practice in Logan, Iowa.14
August 16, 2020, she delivered a speech at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness15 convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured in “How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible,” in which she dissected the many fear-inducing lies we’ve been told about this pandemic.
When you look at the actual data and statistics available, and compare them to what we’re being told by government officials and the media, it becomes evident that there’s a gulf between the two. The data tells us SARS-CoV-2 is not the existential threat it’s been made out to be. That in turn begs the question: “Why do they want us to live in fear? Surely, there must be a reason for it.”
Of course there is, and it has nothing to do with making sure you and your family remain healthy and safe from infection. The big picture emerging seems to point in one direction, and that is the implementation of a long-standing plan to usher in and permanently establish a technocratic society.
In summary, technocracy16,17 is an economic ideology built around totalitarian rule by unelected leaders. A technocrat is someone who exercises power over you on the basis of their knowledge. As an economic system, technocracy is resource-based. Under this system, companies are told what resources they’re allowed to use, when, and for what, and consumers are told what to buy.
Social Engineering Is in Full Swing
The technocratic system also requires social engineering, which relies on massive data collection and the use of artificial intelligence. Technocrats have silently and relentlessly pushed this agenda forward ever since the 1930s, and signs of its implementation are becoming increasingly visible.
In a few short months, we’ve been dramatically shifted from a state of freedom to a state of totalitarianism, and the way that was done was through social engineering, which of course involves psychological manipulation.
Censoring and propaganda are but two strategies that shape and mold a population. Psychiatry professor Albert Biderman’s “chart of coercion”18,19 also includes the following methods, all of which can be clearly related to the COVID-19 response:
Isolation techniques — Quarantines, social distancing, isolation from loved ones and solitary confinement Monopolization of perception — Monopolizing the 24/7 news cycle, censoring dissenting views and creating barren environments by closing bars, gyms and restaurants Degradation techniques — Berating, shaming people (or even physically attacking) those who refuse to wear masks or social distance, or generally choose freedom over fear Induced debility — Being forced to stay at home and not be able to exercise or socialize Threats — Threatening with the removal of your children, prolonged quarantine, closing of your business, fines for noncompliance with mask and social distancing rules, forced vaccination and so on Demonstrating omnipotence/omniscience — Shutting down the whole world, claiming scientific and medical authority Enforcing trivial demands — Examples include family members being forced to stand 6 feet apart at the bank even though they arrived together in the same car, having to wear a mask when you walk into a restaurant, even though you can remove it as soon as you sit down, or having to wear a mask when walking alone on the beach Occasional indulgence — Reopening some stores and restaurants but only at a certain capacity, for example. Part of the coercion plan is that indulgences are always taken away again, though, and they’re already saying we may have to shut down the world again this fall
The Trampling of Privacy and Human Rights
The technocracy’s fingerprints are also evident in the invasive, privacy-shredding tracking and tracing programs that have been rolled out around the world, and the repeated warning that unless every man, woman and child gets vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, life will never go back to normal.
The truth is, the technocrats have no intention of ever letting us go back to normal. The plan is to alter society permanently. Part of that alteration is the removal of civil liberties and human rights, and it is now happening at breakneck speed.
As reported by Alex Berenson in a September 30, 2020, Twitter post,20 real-world experience suggests mobile phone carriers, including AT&T and Verizon, are already providing data to state governments for quarantines and contact tracing purposes without your knowledge or consent, even though we’ve been told track and trace apps would be voluntary.
We’re also being bombarded with news reports telling us to prepare to roll up our sleeves and get vaccinated as soon as a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available — or else.
An October 1, 2020, article21 in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine bemoans a poll that found only 49% of Americans plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it comes out. The answer, the article suggests, is to make it mandatory for all.
Written by lawyers at Stanford Law School and other health policy experts, the article outlines what the authors claim are “six substantive criteria” that would support the first vaccine ever to be mandated for adults, outside of the flu vaccine for health care workers.
Recognizing that it’s the individual states, not the federal government, that would do the mandating, the authors also review measures that states would need to implement in order to pull off a mandate.
“State mandates should not be structured as compulsory vaccination (absolute requirements); instead, noncompliance should incur a penalty,” the authors say, adding that this penalty should be “substantive,” in the form of employment suspension or stay-at-home orders. If refusing a vaccine results in you being denied an income and forced into house arrest, then it’s not really voluntary, is it? It’s as compulsory as it gets.
Along with Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci has also been priming the public consciousness throughout the pandemic by warning that, without a vaccine, we’ll never be able to go back to normal.22 All this talk is about forced vaccination, despite the complete lack of assurance that any of the vaccine candidates are safe.
Emerging evidence actually suggests the novel mRNA vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 could be a public health disaster in the making. An October 1, 2020, report23 by CNBC reviews the experiences of five participants in Moderna’s and Pfizer’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials. One of the participants in Pfizer’s vaccine trial “woke up with chills, shaking so hard he cracked a tooth after taking the second dose,” CNBC reports.24
A Moderna trial participant said he had a low-grade fever and felt “under the weather” for several days after his first shot. Eight hours after his second shot he was “bed-bound with a fever of over 101, shakes, chills, a pounding headache and shortness of breath. He said the pain in his arm, where he received the shot, felt like a ‘goose egg on my shoulder.’ He hardly slept that night, recording that his temperature was higher than 100 degrees for five hours.”25
Two others reported similar side effects, and a third warned you would need to take a day off after the second shot. CNBC also noted that “as companies progressed through clinical trials, several vaccine makers abandoned their highest doses following reports of more severe reactions.”
Russian Intelligence: COVID-19 Is a ‘False Pandemic’
The legal eagles of the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee26,27 are not the only ones calling the COVID-19 pandemic out as a fraud and cover-up of a more nefarious agenda.
In the video above, Vladimir Kvachkov, a former colonel of Russian military intelligence, calls COVID-19 a false pandemic, planned and implemented with the goal of gaining totalitarian control over the world population. It started with 9/11, Kvachkov says, and the coronavirus is the next step to continue the power grab.
“It’s all a lie and needs to be considered as a global, strategic special operation,” Kvachkov says. “These are command and staff exercises of the world’s behind-the-scenes powers on controlling humanity.”
Comparing it to a military exercise, Kvachkov says the ultimate aim is to reduce the world’s population to 1 billion “ordinary” people and just 100 million of those in control — with the ordinary people being there to serve the 100 million.
In short, he says, the “artificially created” and “purposely spread” coronavirus has four dimensions. The first is religion and population reduction; the second is to establish political control over humanity; the third is to deflate the world economy; and the fourth is to eliminate geo-economic competition.
COVID-19 Rules Mark ‘Hysterical Slide Into Police State’
I’ll end this with some observations by British Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption, who in a March 30, 2020, interview28 with The Post warned that COVID-19 rules are paving the way for despotism — the exercise of absolute power in a cruel and oppressive manner.
“The real problem is that when human societies lose their freedom, it’s not usually because tyrants have taken it away. It’s usually because people willingly surrender their freedom in return for protection against some external threat. And the threat is usually a real threat but usually exaggerated.
That’s what I fear we are seeing now. The pressure on politicians has come from the public. They want action. They don’t pause to ask whether the action will work. They don’t ask themselves whether the cost will be worth paying. They want action anyway. And anyone who has studied history will recognize here the classic symptoms of collective hysteria.
Hysteria is infectious. We are working ourselves up into a lather in which we exaggerate the threat and stop asking ourselves whether the cure may be worse than the disease.”
It is time to ask ourselves some very pressing questions. Is it reasonable to expect government to eliminate ALL infection and ALL death? They’ve proven they cannot, yet we keep relinquishing more and more freedoms and liberties because they claim doing so will keep everyone safer. It’s an enticing lie, but a lie nonetheless.
Remember, they sold us on the business shutdowns and home quarantining by saying we just need to flatten the curve of infection to avoid hospital overcrowding. Now, hospitals are near-empty and deaths are so low they’re not even reported anymore. Yet lockdowns remain in many areas and some — Australia being a prime example — have reached shocking new heights.
Sooner or later everyone must decide which is more important: Personal liberty or false security? The good news is that many are starting to see the writing on the wall; they’re starting to see we’ve been “had,” and are starting to choose liberty over brutal totalitarianism in the name of public health.
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Water Discovery on Moon Means a ‘ Go ’ for New Lunar Base The findings have been published as two papers in the journal Nature Astronomy .
Her Nasa colleague Jacob Bleacher , from the agency ’ s human exploration directorate , said researchers still needed to understand the nature of the watery deposits .
This would help them determine how accessible they would be for future lunar explorers to use .
And while there have previously been signs of water on the lunar surface , these new discoveries suggest it is more abundant than previously thought .
“ It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sources on the Moon , ” said Hannah Sargeant , a planetary scientist from the Open University in Milton Keynes , told BBC News .
The US space agency has said it will send the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 to prepare for the “ next giant leap ” – human exploration of Mars as early as the 2030s .
How did scientists find this lunar water ?
The first of these new discoveries was made from an airborne infrared telescope known as Sofia .
This observatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , flies above much of Earth ’ s atmosphere , giving a largely unobstructed view of the Solar System .
In the other study , scientists looked for permanently shadowed areas – known as cold traps – where water could be captured and remain permanently .
They found these cold traps at both poles and concluded that “ approximately 40,000 kilometres squared of the lunar surface has the capacity to trap water ” .
What does this discovery mean ?
There are quite a few one-off missions to the Moon ’ s polar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years .
But in the longer term , there are plans to build a permanent habitation on the lunar surface ,

Water Discovery on Moon Means a ‘Go’ for New Lunar Base
Written by Victoria Gill
Having dropped tantalising hints days ago about an “exciting new discovery about the Moon“, the US space agency has revealed conclusive evidence of water on our only natural satellite.
This “unambiguous detection of molecular water” will boost Nasa’s hopes of establishing a lunar base. The aim is to sustain that base by tapping into the Moon’s natural resources.
The findings have been published as two papers in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Unlike previous detections of water in permanently shadowed parts of lunar craters, scientists have now detected the molecule in sunlit regions of the Moon’s surface.
Speaking during a virtual teleconference, co-author Casey Honniball, postdoctoral fellow at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said: “The amount of water is roughly equivalent to a 12-ounce bottle of water in a cubic metre of lunar soil.”
Her Nasa colleague Jacob Bleacher, from the agency’s human exploration directorate, said researchers still needed to understand the nature of the watery deposits. This would help them determine how accessible they would be for future lunar explorers to use.
And while there have previously been signs of water on the lunar surface, these new discoveries suggest it is more abundant than previously thought. “It gives us more options for potential water sources on the Moon,” said Hannah Sargeant, a planetary scientist from the Open University in Milton Keynes, told BBC News.
IMAGE COPYRIGHT VICTORIA GILL image caption Nasa has mapped the lunar surface in detail but the availability of water will guide the choice of location for a Moon base
“Where to put a Moon base is largely focused on where the water is.”
The US space agency has said it will send the first woman and next man to the lunar surface in 2024 to prepare for the “next giant leap” – human exploration of Mars as early as the 2030s.
Dr Sargeant explained that this meant developing “a more sustainable way of doing space exploration”.
“Part of that is using these local resources – especially water,” she told BBC News.
How did scientists find this lunar water?
The first of these new discoveries was made from an airborne infrared telescope known as Sofia. This observatory, on board a modified Boeing 747, flies above much of Earth’s atmosphere, giving a largely unobstructed view of the Solar System.
Using this infrared telescope, researchers picked up the “signature” colour of water molecules.
The researchers think it is stored in bubbles of lunar glass or between grains on the surface that protect it from the harsh environment.
In the other study, scientists looked for permanently shadowed areas – known as cold traps – where water could be captured and remain permanently. They found these cold traps at both poles and concluded that “approximately 40,000 kilometres squared of the lunar surface has the capacity to trap water”.
What does this discovery mean?
Dr Sargeant said this could “broaden the list of places where we might want to build a base”.
There are quite a few one-off missions to the Moon’s polar regions coming up in the next few years. But in the longer term, there are plans to build a permanent habitation on the lunar surface,
“This could have some influence. It gives us some time to do some investigation,” said the Open University researcher.
“It doesn’t give us much time because we’re already working on Moon base ideas and where we’re going to go, but it’s more promising.
“We were going to go to the Moon anyway. But this gives us more options and makes it an even more exciting place to go.”
Experts say that water-ice could form the basis of a future lunar economy, once we’ve figured out how to extract it.
It would be much cheaper to make rocket fuel on the Moon than send it from Earth. So when future lunar explorers want to return to Earth, or travel on to other destinations, they could turn the water into the hydrogen and oxygen commonly used to power space vehicles.
Re-fuelling at the Moon could therefore bring down the cost of space travel and make a lunar base more affordable. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk **** PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. Please DONATE TODAY To Help Our Non-Profit Mission To Defend The Scientific Method.
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Even as worries persist over increasing COVID-19 cases in the United States , cases of another virus — influenza — have plummeted relative to their number a year ago .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’ s FluView influenza tracker lists an influenza-positive test percentage of 0.3 % for week 42 of 2020 — a total of 33 positive tests out of 10,809 specimens .
That ’ s down sharply from 2.4 % during the same week last year .
Visits to healthcare providers for “ influenza-like illnesses ” during week 42 were also down this year from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : This week that rate was 1.2 % of all such visits , while last year it was 1.7 % .
Sharp drops in influenza have also been observed elsewhere throughout the world over the past several months .
World Health Organization global flu surveillance shows a severe dropoff in flu cases starting in early April ; whereas in past years flu cases are sustained at a steady plateau over the mid-year months — driven by the Southern Hemisphere ’ s flu season — WHO observation has cases more or less disappearing from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activity remained at lower levels than expected for this time of the year , ” the WHO wrote earlier this month , “ though increased detections were reported in some countries.
” “ In the temperate zones of the southern hemisphere , ” the organization continued , “ the influenza season remained low or below baseline .
Despite continued or even increased testing for influenza in some countries in the southern hemisphere , very few influenza detections were reported.
” COVID measures may have played a role , though country-level data complicates things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cited the still-ongoing lockdowns , mitigation measures , mask mandates and social distancing orders as possible explanations for reduced flu rates worldwide .
“ It does seem that the rates are lower , ” Phyllis Kanki , an infectious disease professor at Harvard University ’ s T.H .
Chan School of Public Health , told Just the News .
“ I think COVID mitigation measures are likely to lower levels .
Some of these mitigation measures may have been particularly effective for high-risk groups for flu , like the elderly and immunosuppressed.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point there are “ more questions than answers.
” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Scott Pauley offered similar speculation .
“ We saw flu rates drop in the Southern Hemisphere possibly due to stringent mitigation measures like social distancing and mask wearing , ” he said .
“ Indicators of flu activity dropped dramatically in the U.S. after the recognition of widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 , ” he continued , “ and remained at historically low levels over the summer months .
These declines coincide with the use of measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials have argued that the relatively novel tactics of mass quarantining , shelter-in-place orders and widespread mask usage were necessary to stop the spread of COVID-19 ; if so , it may very well follow that such measures limited the spread of influenza as well .
Yet coronavirus cases nevertheless continued to circulate in many areas with stringent lockdowns .
New York , for instance , was put under a stay-at-home order on March 22 of this year , yet the state was still recording as many as 10,800 cases in one day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ influenza may have been capable of spreading during that time as well .
Yet influenza cases were still down sharply in New York during that time : The state recorded about a 12 % positive rate for influenza tests the week the stay-at-home order went into effect , less than half the rate for the same week the year before .
By the first week of Apr .
2020 that rate had fallen to around 1.7 % ; the same week in 2019 it was nearly 20 % .
Conversely , in instances @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue stay-at-home orders , flu cases were also low .
World Health Organization flu surveillance for Sweden shows an influenza dropoff in that country similar to the rest of the world .
A similar decline was observed in South Korea , which remained largely open and avoided lockdown measures through an early sophisticated testing and quarantine system .
Jay Bhattacharya , a professor of medicine at Stanford University , is skeptical about the conventional wisdom that COVID mitigation efforts suppressed this year ’ s flu .
“ I think we can dismiss out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distancing are responsible for the decline in flu incidence this season , ” he told Just the News , while also confessing to being uncertain as to why levels were so low .
“ First , why would they work for the flu , but not for COVID ?
Second , there is randomized evidence that those interventions do not work to suppress influenza incidence.
” Bhattacharya was referring to a substantial body of evidence indicating that masks do not stop the spread of influenza .
A World Health Organization review from last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks helped to stop influenza transmission .
The public health group had reviewed 10 separate randomized , controlled trials on mask usage to come to that determination .
Another possible explanation could lie in the complex and still little-understood biological interactions between the human body , the influenza virus , and SARS-Cov-2 .
A study published last month by a team of Yale researchers examining interactivity between rhinovirus and influenza concluded that “ one respiratory virus can block infection with another through stimulation of antiviral defences in the airway mucosa.
” Such findings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be considered when designing interventions for seasonal influenza epidemics and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
” Although still something of a mystery , the low flu numbers are welcome to public health officials who have expressed grave concern that a dual COVID-19 pandemic and influenza season could wreak havoc over the course of the winter .
Whether the numbers remain low , of course , remains to be seen .
“ As the weather cools off and more people move indoors , and more schools and businesses reopen , we may see increased transmission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ What will happen this year is uncertain , ” he added , “ but we are prepared for COVID-19 and seasonal flu to circulate at the same time.
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Infectious Disease Experts See Sharp Drop in Influenza Cases
Written by Daniel Payne
Even as worries persist over increasing COVID-19 cases in the United States, cases of another virus — influenza — have plummeted relative to their number a year ago.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s FluView influenza tracker lists an influenza-positive test percentage of 0.3% for week 42 of 2020 — a total of 33 positive tests out of 10,809 specimens. That’s down sharply from 2.4% during the same week last year.
Visits to healthcare providers for “influenza-like illnesses” during week 42 were also down this year from the last, though not as sharply: This week that rate was 1.2% of all such visits, while last year it was 1.7%.
Sharp drops in influenza have also been observed elsewhere throughout the world over the past several months. World Health Organization global flu surveillance shows a severe dropoff in flu cases starting in early April; whereas in past years flu cases are sustained at a steady plateau over the mid-year months — driven by the Southern Hemisphere’s flu season — WHO observation has cases more or less disappearing from April onwards.
“Globally, influenza activity remained at lower levels than expected for this time of the year,” the WHO wrote earlier this month, “though increased detections were reported in some countries.”
“In the temperate zones of the southern hemisphere,” the organization continued, “the influenza season remained low or below baseline. Despite continued or even increased testing for influenza in some countries in the southern hemisphere, very few influenza detections were reported.”
COVID measures may have played a role, though country-level data complicates things
Some experts have, perhaps unsurprisingly, cited the still-ongoing lockdowns, mitigation measures, mask mandates and social distancing orders as possible explanations for reduced flu rates worldwide.
“It does seem that the rates are lower,” Phyllis Kanki, an infectious disease professor at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Just the News. “I think COVID mitigation measures are likely to lower levels. Some of these mitigation measures may have been particularly effective for high-risk groups for flu, like the elderly and immunosuppressed.”
Nevertheless, she acknowledged, at this point there are “more questions than answers.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Scott Pauley offered similar speculation. “We saw flu rates drop in the Southern Hemisphere possibly due to stringent mitigation measures like social distancing and mask wearing,” he said.
“Indicators of flu activity dropped dramatically in the U.S. after the recognition of widespread community transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” he continued, “and remained at historically low levels over the summer months. These declines coincide with the use of measures to prevent COVID-19 transmission.”
Public health officials have argued that the relatively novel tactics of mass quarantining, shelter-in-place orders and widespread mask usage were necessary to stop the spread of COVID-19; if so, it may very well follow that such measures limited the spread of influenza as well.
Yet coronavirus cases nevertheless continued to circulate in many areas with stringent lockdowns. New York, for instance, was put under a stay-at-home order on March 22 of this year, yet the state was still recording as many as 10,800 cases in one day over a month afterwards, suggesting that influenza may have been capable of spreading during that time as well.
Yet influenza cases were still down sharply in New York during that time: The state recorded about a 12% positive rate for influenza tests the week the stay-at-home order went into effect, less than half the rate for the same week the year before. By the first week of Apr. 2020 that rate had fallen to around 1.7%; the same week in 2019 it was nearly 20%.
Conversely, in instances where authorities did not lock down or issue stay-at-home orders, flu cases were also low. World Health Organization flu surveillance for Sweden shows an influenza dropoff in that country similar to the rest of the world. A similar decline was observed in South Korea, which remained largely open and avoided lockdown measures through an early sophisticated testing and quarantine system.
Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, is skeptical about the conventional wisdom that COVID mitigation efforts suppressed this year’s flu.
“I think we can dismiss out of hand that that masks and social distancing are responsible for the decline in flu incidence this season,” he told Just the News, while also confessing to being uncertain as to why levels were so low. “First, why would they work for the flu, but not for COVID? Second, there is randomized evidence that those interventions do not work to suppress influenza incidence.”
Bhattacharya was referring to a substantial body of evidence indicating that masks do not stop the spread of influenza. A World Health Organization review from last year found “no evidence” that masks helped to stop influenza transmission. The public health group had reviewed 10 separate randomized, controlled trials on mask usage to come to that determination.
Another possible explanation could lie in the complex and still little-understood biological interactions between the human body, the influenza virus, and SARS-Cov-2. A study published last month by a team of Yale researchers examining interactivity between rhinovirus and influenza concluded that “one respiratory virus can block infection with another through stimulation of antiviral defences in the airway mucosa.”
Such findings, the researchers wrote, “should be considered when designing interventions for seasonal influenza epidemics and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.”
Although still something of a mystery, the low flu numbers are welcome to public health officials who have expressed grave concern that a dual COVID-19 pandemic and influenza season could wreak havoc over the course of the winter.
Whether the numbers remain low, of course, remains to be seen. “As the weather cools off and more people move indoors, and more schools and businesses reopen, we may see increased transmission,” CDC spokesman Scott Pauley said.
“What will happen this year is uncertain,” he added, “but we are prepared for COVID-19 and seasonal flu to circulate at the same time.”
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principiascientificinternational--2020-10-26--London COVID Protests: ‘Shove Your New World Order Up Your *ss!’

London COVID Protests : ‘ Shove Your New World Order Up Your *ss !
’ As each week passes and another Saturday sees more anti-lockdown protesters take to the streets of London , the message is clear : EVERYONE must wake up to the medical and scientific tyranny befalling us .
In a Breitbart London exclusive video , protesters were seen singing : “ I would rather be a human than a slave ” , “ We are the 99 per cent ” , and “ You can shove your New World Order up your ass ” .
“ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was organised by the anti-lockdown activist group Stand Up X and was one of the largest rallies against the government ’ s coronavirus restrictions since the beginning of the lockdowns in March .
The large scale act of civil disobedience followed more restrictions being imposed on the people of Wales , Northern Ireland , and Scotland , as well as the introduction of a ‘ tier system ’ by Prime Minister Boris in England , in which local regions and cities are placed under lockdown if spikes in coronavirus cases are recorded .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ London began using tactics to split the protest into separate groups and made at least 18 arrests in Trafalgar Square and on Westminster Bridge .
One woman told Breitbart London : “ I ’ m so angry , all these police that are storming in , they ’ re going to lose their pensions .
They ’ re supposed to be protecting us , they ’ re not , this is tyranny.
” “ I can not believe in this day and age , in this time now , more than ever we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people can ’ t get together and get united for the cause , for their freedom , for everybody , then we ’ ve lost already , ” she said .
“ I don ’ t understand , if your children are not the motivation to fight for your freedom… my grandfather and my grandad did not fight in the First World War and the Second World War as snipers to not be under a fucking dictatorship , for it to happen now in 2020 , ” she added , going on to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ wake up ” .
” Full story here .
Independent scientists and medical professionals world wide are increasingly of the opinion that the evidence shows the pandemic has resulted in no more deaths than a normal to severe flu season .
Meanwhile , tens of thousands of unrecorded deaths are BECAUSE OF the lockdown measures being imposed upon the healthy .
In the UK , literally millions of cancer screening appointments have been cancelled with sufferers left to fend for themselves .
As Cancer Research UK has said , it was of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been a 75 % drop in urgent referrals by GPs of people with suspected cancer .
Contrast and compare these numbers with the very low number of official deaths attributed to COVID19 and any rational soul can see that not only is government policy utterly misdirected , it is becoming a wanton criminal act and feeds into the narrative that the hidden agenda is mass population control .
A backlog of undetected and untreated cancers will surely bring an epidemic of deaths in years to come .
Perhaps our corrupt politicians will continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and record all such deaths as due to COVID19 ?
Perhaps they are eager for bigger bonuses from their global elite paymasters for services to eugenics and Agenda21 ?
The inescapable reality is that Britain is the country with most CCTV cameras per person other than China so our corrupt politicians are like Big Brother spying on developments , but reassured to see most of the sheeple still walking around wearing those ridiculous and ineffective face diapers .
As long as so many wilfully uninformed in society tamely follow lockdown diktats premised upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of bringing about the Great Awakening libertarians are yearning to see .
Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Expose The Lies About COVID19 About the author : John O ’ Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder ( with Dr Tim Ball ) of Principia Scientific International ( PSI ) .
John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert , Michael ‘ hockey stick ’ Mann in the ‘ science trial of the century ‘ .
O ’ Sullivan is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ original ‘ Slayers ’ group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world ’ s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book .
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London COVID Protests: ‘Shove Your New World Order Up Your *ss!’
Written by John O'Sullivan
As each week passes and another Saturday sees more anti-lockdown protesters take to the streets of London, the message is clear: EVERYONE must wake up to the medical and scientific tyranny befalling us.
In a Breitbart London exclusive video, protesters were seen singing: “I would rather be a human than a slave”, “We are the 99 per cent”, and “You can shove your New World Order up your ass”.
Breitbart continues:
“The ‘Stop the New Normal’ march was organised by the anti-lockdown activist group Stand Up X and was one of the largest rallies against the government’s coronavirus restrictions since the beginning of the lockdowns in March. The large scale act of civil disobedience followed more restrictions being imposed on the people of Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, as well as the introduction of a ‘tier system’ by Prime Minister Boris in England, in which local regions and cities are placed under lockdown if spikes in coronavirus cases are recorded. At around 4 pm the police in London began using tactics to split the protest into separate groups and made at least 18 arrests in Trafalgar Square and on Westminster Bridge. One woman told Breitbart London: “I’m so angry, all these police that are storming in, they’re going to lose their pensions. They’re supposed to be protecting us, they’re not, this is tyranny.” “I cannot believe in this day and age, in this time now, more than ever we need to stand together, and if people can’t get together and get united for the cause, for their freedom, for everybody, then we’ve lost already,” she said. “I don’t understand, if your children are not the motivation to fight for your freedom… my grandfather and my grandad did not fight in the First World War and the Second World War as snipers to not be under a fucking dictatorship, for it to happen now in 2020,” she added, going on to urge the rest of the country to “wake up”.” Full story here.
Independent scientists and medical professionals world wide are increasingly of the opinion that the evidence shows the pandemic has resulted in no more deaths than a normal to severe flu season. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of unrecorded deaths are BECAUSE OF the lockdown measures being imposed upon the healthy.
In the UK, literally millions of cancer screening appointments have been cancelled with sufferers left to fend for themselves. As Cancer Research UK has said, it was of “huge concern” that there had been a 75% drop in urgent referrals by GPs of people with suspected cancer.
According to the cancer charity:
2,300 people a week are not being diagnosed through urgent referrals
400 people a week are not being diagnosed through screening
Contrast and compare these numbers with the very low number of official deaths attributed to COVID19 and any rational soul can see that not only is government policy utterly misdirected, it is becoming a wanton criminal act and feeds into the narrative that the hidden agenda is mass population control.
A backlog of undetected and untreated cancers will surely bring an epidemic of deaths in years to come. Perhaps our corrupt politicians will continue on their immoral crusade against the people and record all such deaths as due to COVID19? Perhaps they are eager for bigger bonuses from their global elite paymasters for services to eugenics and Agenda21?
The inescapable reality is that Britain is the country with most CCTV cameras per person other than China so our corrupt politicians are like Big Brother spying on developments, but reassured to see most of the sheeple still walking around wearing those ridiculous and ineffective face diapers.
As long as so many wilfully uninformed in society tamely follow lockdown diktats premised upon junk science there is little real prospect of bringing about the Great Awakening libertarians are yearning to see.
Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Expose The Lies About COVID19
About the author: John O’Sullivan John is CEO and co-founder (with Dr Tim Ball) of Principia Scientific International (PSI). John is a seasoned science writer and legal analyst who assisted Dr Ball in defeating world leading climate expert, Michael ‘hockey stick’ Mann in the ‘science trial of the century‘. O’Sullivan is credited as the visionary who formed the original ‘Slayers’ group of scientists in 2010 who then collaborated in creating the world’s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory plus their new follow-up book.
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